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Saving Lives — In and Out of the Pool

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n a recent Thursday afternoon, the sun blazed down on a small group of teens as they laughed and swam. But this was no typical summer day at the pool.

These teens are the fi rst to receive lifeguard certification training through the new Youth Detention Facility Lifeguard Program — a partnership between the YMCA of Superior California (the Y) and the Sacramento County Probation Department. The class is funded through The California Endowment’s Building Healthy Communities initiative to promote community health in south Sacramento.

To participate, youth from the detention facility must be at least 15 years old and pass a swimming test. They’ll spend 26 hours in training — 13 hours in class, 13 in the pool.

Once they pass a fi nal test, they’ll earn an American Red Cross lifeguard certification — giving them skills for employment at community pools once they are released.

The detention facility’s pool, where the training takes place, is surrounded by high walls — but the scene is not bleak. During a recent training, the youth learned techniques including ways to safely enter the water and recover a victim. Then they put the lessons to practice, working in pairs to rescue one another.

Aquatics Director Patrick Maridon teaches the class, which he says gives the teens a greater

sense of purpose and reduces the likelihood that they will re-offend.

“It’s really a position they can take pride in,” Maridon says. “They’re going to be in a position where they get to help others, save others, and interact with the community.”

“IT’S REALLY A POSITION THEY CAN TAKE PRIDE IN.” Patrick Maridon, aquatics director, YMCA of Superior California

The program also aims to address a serious disparity. In Sacramento and nationwide, African-American children die from accidental drowning in swimming pools at disproportionate rates. A study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that between 1999 and 2010, black children ages 5 to 19 died at a rate 5.5 times greater than their white counterparts.

Isaih, a 17-year-old at the facility, is on his way toward earning his certification.

An eager student in the classroom and an enthusiastic one in the pool, he says he wants

Patrick Maridon. aquatics director at the YMCA of Superior California, teaches lifeguard certification classes at the Youth Detention Facility in Sacramento.

Photo by Anne Stokes

a life free of crime when he gets out. With no legitimate work experience under his belt, this certification could give him the second chance he’s looking for.

“I just want to change my life,” he says. “I want to get an actual job, make something of myself.”

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

Health Happens in Neighborhoods. Health Happens in Schools.

Health Happens with Prevention.

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

If you are interested in hiring a certified lifeguard who went through the Youth Detention Facility Lifeguard Program, contact Ray Lozada at 875-0291.

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Beyond the book This semester marks the first time in years that I’m not teaching a college class. While it’s nice to get a break from lesson planning and grading, life also seems a little bit emptier.

Initially, I struggled in school. Classes seemed meaningless—set apart from the “real world.” Then I enrolled in a challenging philosophy class with an instructor who encouraged—no, demanded—critical thinking. Next came the history of women and mass media class in which we discussed the likes of trailblazing reporters and the plight of a young girl’s fate in the classic horror film trope.

Some of the best lessons I received came via classroom discussions, not textbooks, and school became something of a haven—a place to take intellectual risks and push myself.

That, in turn, inspired me to teach.

This week, SN&R goes back to school (see page 14) to study up on college culture. With recent academic dust-ups (between faculty and students, faculty and the administration, etc.) and pushes for trigger warnings and so-called safe spaces, are college campuses still an environment for the kind of education that goes beyond a book?

As a teacher, I’ve found that the best classes don’t pay slavish devotion to a textbook, but rather are built on conversation and ideas.

Modern classrooms comprise a diverse population of ages, ethnicities and viewpoints. This, in turn, can make for an exciting environment.

There should be respect and decorum, but college isn’t the place for coddling.

It’s the place to challenge intellect and comfort zones. If students can’t handle that in a classroom, they’ll have trouble in the so-called “real world,” too.

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They built the railroads, highways, ships, so and so on.

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Nearly 80 percent of sexual assault claims brought to the attention of UC Davis administrators last year went nowhere, an SN&R analysis shows.

ILLUSTRATION BY SN&R STAFF

Keeping rape quiet UC Davis, Sacramento State resolve majority of sexual assault claims internally—by dismissing them

by Kris HooKs

An extended version of this story is available at www.newsreview. com/sacramento.

Inside of a Sacramento Superior Court holding cell, Christian Hirtzel stood with head bowed in an orange jumpsuit. Behind him, his victims and their families filled the courtroom’s rows, waiting for the judge’s ruling—waiting for this chapter of their lives to conclude.

A onetime theater arts student at American River College, Hirtzel was arrested January 22, following a yearlong investigation by the Los Rios Police Department into allegations that he extorted at least nine women, some of whom he once dated, into sending him nude photos under threats and intimidation during a period that spanned approximately

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two years. On August 2, the 21-year-old was sentenced to four years and eight months in state prison. When he gets out, Hirtzel will have to register as a sex offender for life. In his ruling, Judge Michael Bowman said Hirtzel’s crimes showed a “high degree of callousness” and “planted so many unseen scars.”

The stiff sentence, for a former college student who preyed upon his peers, is the exception that proves the rule.

According to newly available data obtained from the Sacramento area’s two universities, most college-related sexual assault allegations are rarely investigated by law enforcement and infrequently result

in penalties for the accused.

While recent state legislation aims to change this, some are questioning whether the policies are crafted well enough. In the meantime, technology has created new opportunities for young people to be victimized.

In May, the Brookings Institution, a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, D.C., released staggering numbers about “sextortion” cases like the one above. Of the 78 cases the institute examined, at least 1,397 victims were identified, 71 percent of whom were minors.

Much like the Hirtzel case, 14 percent of the cases included a mix of minors and

adults. Also like Hirtzel, many of the defendants were college students who used social media or hacked computers to infiltrate their victims’ personal lives.

The most glaring finding was a familiar one, however. Like other sex crimes, sextortion perpetrators saw major disparities in criminal sentences. According to the study, some were prosecuted as child pornography cases, resulting in the stiffest sentences. Others, however, were prosecuted as extortion, stalking and even simple hacking.

Those disparities continue at both Sacramento State and UC Davis, according to figures obtained by SN&R. In 2014, SN&R examined how seriously UC Davis investigated sexual assault claims. (See “Does UC Davis have a rape problem?” by Janelle Bitker, SN&R Feature, October 14, 2014.)

From 2011 to 2013, the university recorded an unprecedented 66 claims of sexual assault and rape on campus, landing the university atop the state’s rankings for reported sex crimes, according to the Washington Post, which gathered annual

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During that same period, Sacramento State recorded 12 reports of sexual assault and rape.

Statistically, not much has changed.

The most recent Clery data for UC Davis showed 13 reported sexual assaults and rapes in 2014, fifth highest in the state. (There were also 10 reports of fondling, incest or statutory rape that year.)

Additionally, UCD recorded 29 reports of domestic violence (when the suspect and victim live together), dating violence (violence during courtship) and stalking that year.

At Sac State, reported sexual assaults increased from one in 2013 to five in 2014, Clery data showed. The local campus also saw 10 reports of domestic violence, dating violence and stalking in 2014.

But Clery data isn’t the only statistical source for college sexual crimes, and may actually underestimate the scope of the problem. While many sexual crimes go unreported, a large number are taken straight to the schools, through university police, which can prompt a criminal investigation, or to the campuses’ Title IX offices, which rarely do.

Each option has its merits, but both are far from perfect, according to UC Davis spokesman Andy Fells. “Students can talk to the police and try to go to trial,” Fell explained. “However, getting a conviction can be difficult, because you’re trying to convince a jury that a suspect is guilty.”

Reporting a sexual assault to the university rarely ends in a criminal trial, either.

Rather, these alleged assaults are resolved internally, by the university’s Office of Student Support and Judicial Affairs, with most complaints going nowhere.

UCD’s Title IX Office received 88 reports of sexual violence between July 2014 and June 2015. Eighteen were referred to judicial affairs for disciplinary action.

The other 70 complaints were either deemed unfounded or weren’t proven to be a violation of campus policy.

Sac State’s Title IX Office received 29 reports of a sexual crime during the same 12-month span. Only 15 resulted in discipline against the accused.

The reason for the great discrepancy is simple. According to Fell, Clery data only accounts for offenses on campus and property controlled by the campus, whereas Title IX data includes reports off campus, too.

Fell said neither report accurately depicts the extent of what’s happening at the university, and others across the country.

“It’s a complicated question as to which [data] better reflects the actual number of offenses,” Fells wrote in a follow-up email.

“Bottom line, we do know that sexual assaults are under-reported.”

For schools like UC Davis and Sac State, which have more than 35,000 and 26,000 students, respectively, experts say it’s better when more sexual assaults are reported.

Sac State Title IX Coordinator William Bishop told SN&R that the university hopes people err on the side of caution when it comes to reporting sexual crimes. “We would rather have people report something that is wrong and let us decide if it’s inaccurate, than have someone not report an incident at all,” Bishop explained.

Still, according to the data, penalties for alleged college sex crimes are rare. And when they do come, they’re relatively light.

UC Davis dismissed seven students or employees from the university, suspended seven and ordered one other to probation after a formal investigation. Three other cases resulted in no penalties.

At Sac State, 15 students or employees received discipline—suspension, dismissal, probation or a combination of the three.

Meanwhile, some lawmakers are pushing for more consistent penalties for sex offenders. in June, California lawmakers introduced a bill that would ensure anyone convicted of rape receives a mandatory prison sentence.

The effort followed the June 2 sentencing of Brock Turner, a Stanford swimmer charged with sexually assaulting an unconscious woman.

Ultimately, the judge in the case, Aaron Persky, sentenced Turner to just six months.

He served only half the time, leaving jail September 2.

Lawmakers have since introduced multiple bills intended to close the loopholes that allowed for Brock’s lesser sentence.

For instance, Assembly Bill 2888 and AB 29 would impose mandatory sentences as well as render any perpetrator convicted of raping an unconscious person ineligible for time served or a reduced sentenced because of “good behavior.” On August 29, the state Assembly approved AB 2888.

Critics, however, have some issues with the new proposal.

“We’ve seen this before,” said Natasha Minsker, a spokeswoman with the American Civil Liberties Union.

“Lawmakers react to big stories and sentences like the Turner case, but they don’t think of the consequences.”

Minsker says AB 2888’s insistence on

mandatory minimum sentencing won’t punish the Brock Turners of the world so much as penalize poor people of color who can’t afford Turner’s private attorneys.

The ACLU hasn’t taken an official stance on AB 29. But the proposed legislation could still run into trouble.

The bill would require those convicted of raping an unconscious person to serve their full sentences, without the possibility of release for good behavior. That’s in indirect conflict with Proposition 57, an initiative Gov. Jerry Brown placed on the November ballot, which would classify those convicted of raping an unconscious person or spouse as “nonviolent” offenders.

Still another bill, AB 701, which was approved August 24 by the state Assembly, would classify all forms of nonconsensual sex as rape. The ACLU opposed an earlier version of this bill before it was amended.

The bill would essentially align the state’s definition of rape with the FBI’s: “penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person without the consent of the victim.”

Both AB 701 and AB 2888 await approval from Brown, who has until September 30 to sign or veto them.

Yet Minsker believes these new bills, especially AB 2888 and AB 29, still lack the focus they need to have a real impact.

As he waited to hear his sentence last month in Department 61, seven months after his arrest—and after pleading no contest to various charges, including sexual extortion and possession of child pornography (two victims were minors at the time)—two of Hirtzel’s victims stood up to speak. Both women, holding back tears, told of how Hirtzel’s crimes affected them. One woman revealed that she had been manipulated and blackmailed into feeding Hirtzel’s sexual appetite for nude photos for years.

The man she said she once dated in middle school “owned” her, blackmailing her into sending nude photos after their breakup by threatening to publicize the ones she sent during their relationship.

Eventually, she said, the extortion went from requesting more nude photos to demanding sex. Reading text messages from “Jeremy Wallace,” one of Hirtzel’s alleged pseudonyms, she said she felt trapped, with one message promising to “destroy your family if you rat on me.”

After the judge rapped his gavel, Hirtzel could only muster a groan as he learned of his fate. Ω

The man who became a doxing target following a June 26 clash between neo-nazis and protesters in which he was believed to play a violent role remained in an El Dorado County jail cell Tuesday, nearly three weeks after his arrest on domestic violence charges.

Derik Ryan Punneo, 26, of Patterson, is being held at the placerville jail on one misdemeanor charge of domestic battery and on what’s called a flash incarceration hold, for violating the conditions of his release, according to the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office’s website. His bail stands at $27,500 for the battery charge, the website shows.

Punneo was arrested August 24 in the El Dorado Hills subdivision where his girlfriend resides, said El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Lt. Jim Byers.

Byers said the female victim called authorities and alleged Punneo had accosted her. “Her injuries were consistent with her story,” said Byers, who described the battery as minor and Punneo’s arrest as routine. Punneo and the victim were in “a dating relationship,” Byers said.

Punneo, an admitted skinhead, was convicted in San Joaquin County in 2009 of participating in a criminal street gang and resisting arrest, according to online court records. A little more than two months ago, he attended the Capitol rally organized by the Traditionalist Worker Party, a self-described political party favored by white nationalists and neo-Nazis. The rally turned violent when demonstrators turned out to protest the advertised recruitment effort, which the California Highway Patrol had permitted. At least 10 people were injured, including five who were stabbed.

A photograph of Punneo holding a knife at the rally quickly spread through social media.

No arrests have been made and the investigation into the masscasualty affair remains ongoing, a CHP spokeswoman told SN&R on Tuesday.

Punneo and girlfriend Manda Boone briefly became associated with a local “Blue lives Matter” effort last month, when two Sacramento television stations featured their role in a campaign to honor law enforcement by tying blue ribbons in Folsom and El Dorado Hills. (Raheem F. Hosseini)

artless and heartless Bad news: thieves broke into the panama art factory in the early hours of August 31 and made off with approximately $15,000 worth of equipment.

The art hub, located at 4421 24th Street just east of Hollywood Park, has become a bustling arts center in the last year. In addition to hosting artists’ studios, it’s also home to classes, exhibits and shows.

The stolen inventory list is long: Cameras and lenses, tools, musical equipment and much more.

The center’s current studio artist list includes Shaun Burner, Kitty Gerwig, Mathew Glaisyer, Stephen Hayhurst, Melissa Uroff Millner, Miguel Paz, Alonzo Sanchez, Janelle Sonoda, Glenn Takai, Leslie Thompson, Daniel Trejo and Delisse Vargas.

The space is not insured against theft so its artists have launched a GofundMe campaign to help raise money to replace the stolen goods. The goal is $10,000 and all donations will directly benefit the artists.

The fund had raised more than $3,505 from 91 people as of Tuesday afternoon.

There will also be an open studios tour from noon to 7 p.m., September 10 and 11. Admission is free but donations are welcome.

(Rachel Leibrock)

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revealed that it was a male council member who Regular Sacramento residents aren’t the only expressed the opinion that he was receiving a ones complaining about getting priced out of the part-time salary for full-time work, and hinted at capital by the falling dominoes of arena developthe need for a raise. ment. At least one city council member thinks “I had a discussion a few months ago with he can barely afford a “nice, middle-class” life, one of the members of the council … and his too—though it’s unclear who he is. contention was that [council members] have to The issue came to light at the August have some other source of income to have a nice, 29 meeting of the council’s Compensation middle-class style of living,” Posner recalled.

Commission, which granted a $2,500-a-year “He thought you would get better governance if salary increase to Mayor Kevin Johnson and the council could devote themselves full-time to an annual $1,300 raise to his eight council their duties, and that would only happen if the colleagues. salary was commensurate.”

Sacramento already boasts one of the highest Posner declined to identify the council compensated elected bodies among comparable, member, though he acknowledged his pronoun or “benchmark,” cities, though there is a large choice revealed that it wasn’t Angelique Ashby, disparity between what the mayor makes the only woman on the council. compared to council members.

According to the U.S. Census According to a city staff report, Bureau, the city’s median houseprior to last week’s vote, council hold income was $50,013 in members earned $65,772 2014 dollars. annually, with $6,000 in In Sacramento, elected allowances, which put them “I give my council salary officials get the same at a higher rate of pay than away. I don’t do this paycheck regardless of how counterparts in six of eight spotty their attendance is at benchmark cities deemed for profit.” meetings. This year, Johnson similar to Sacramento.

Allen Warren was a no-show at 16 council Only council members in council member, District 2 meetings and left early during San Jose and Austin, Texas, 16 more, the Sacramento Bee made more. The mayor, reported last week. meanwhile, earned $125,218 a An SN&R examination of year plus $9,200 in annual allowpublic attendance records shows ances, second only to Long Beach Johnson’s penchant for mid-meeting on the benchmark list.

“We’re kind of on the high end of the mayor’s evaporation was nearly matched by District 2 Councilman Allen Warren, who’s ducked out salary,” said commissioner Howard Posner. of 12 council meetings this year and was absent Later, he appeared to rethink those comments, from another four. That gives Warren twice telling fellow commissioners, “I don’t want the as many duck-outs as the next-worst offender, mayor to think we’re singling him out.”

District 6 Councilman Steven Hansen.

The other benchmark cities include Stockton, In a previous interview, Warren claimed Riverside, Aurora, Colo., Kansas City, Mo., and he donated his city council pay to charity. “I Cincinnati, Ohio. give my council salary away. I don’t do this for Asked by commissioner Evelyn Chin how profit,” Warren told SN&R earlier this summer. increasing elected officials’ salaries would “I donate money to kids going to college, I give impact the city budget, Assistant City Manager to this program or that program.”

Howard Chan indicated it wouldn’t be that big SN&R couldn’t independently verify the of a deal. claim. But, if true, local charities should expect a “We certainty aren’t facing the deficit we bigger lump of change next year. Ω faced in years past,” Chan noted.

Not one member of the public addressed the commission last Monday. At the meeting, Posner

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After graduating college, it felt like I had two career moves—pursue an unpaid internship or attend graduate school prematurely without a taste of the work world. I found a different path.

For two years, I dedicated my life to social service in Sacramento through AmeriCorps VISTA, a national work program that recruits new college graduates or people with at least three years of work experience. VISTAs toil in the nonprofit sector, in the form of volunteer recruitment, grant writing, fundraising or program development. For our work, we are paid what would be considered a poverty wage and earn a $5,775 Segal Educational Award after a year of service. I earned $980 a month and was encouraged to seek out food stamps. The idea is to embed us in poverty conditions at the same time we’re plunging into the lives of those combating the daily injustices of poverty.

I’m still tallying the lessons.

While many serve as VISTAs on their home turf, I traveled 2,563 miles from my hometown of Buffalo, N.Y., to Sacramento. At the onset, my career objectives were unclear, but AmeriCorps was a surefire way to escape a barista job that was leaving me overly caffeinated and frappucino-ed out.

As a VISTA, I settled into the 40-hour workweek—spilling coffee on thrift store-sourced office wear while taking in the great expanse of human diversity, experience, love and sorrow along the way.

My first assignment was with Sacramento Steps Forward—often branded the city’s solution to homelessness. SSF distributes federal funding to other nonprofits focused on homeless services, relief and affordable housing.

I interviewed guests of the Winter Sanctuary, the seasonal emergency relief shelter that SSF operates, and quickly grasped the misery of homelessness and the volatility of shelter life.

Later, I transferred to Wellspring Women’s Center, an oasis of hope in the city’s rapidly changing Oak Park neighborhood. Wellspring embraced me, as it does everyone who walks through its doors. It became my family—the kind of magical one you dream up as a child, untainted by hereditary scars or expectations. At Wellspring, I became intimate with the issues of homelessness, mental illness and motherhood. I interviewed nearly 90 guests, staff and volunteers who were brave enough to let me document their life stories on my blog, “Tales from the Heart of Wellspring Women’s Center,” which shed light on the center’s mission of healing through a prescription of love, acceptance and support. I marveled at the resilience of many coping daily with unbelievable adversity.

More recently, I served an assignment with United Way’s summer lunch program for children often faced with food insecurity while school is out. I served lunch at Mutual Housing at River Garden, a low-income housing complex in North Natomas that offered a new dimension of my adopted home and its immigrant experience, with Russian, Afghani, Hispanic, Iranian and Indian families forging an American dream.

Aromas of saffron, curry, cilantro and fried chicken graced the housing complex, which featured a community garden and harvest of fresh vegetables.

In hindsight, volunteer service provided a genuine world education that you can’t find in a classroom; ample writing fodder for my post-AmeriCorps endeavor, pursuing a master’s degree in nonfiction writing at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, far-flung from my home away from home; and an invaluable lesson from the heart of Sacramento. Ω

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Academic fights, trigger warnings and safe spaces: SN&R goes back to school to study the college culture war

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oogle doesn’t remember Sacramento State professor Maury Wiseman helping a former drug addict turn his life around through college courses. Nor does it remember Chiitaanibah Johnson hosting open-mics at Antelope’s library to encourage confidence and creativity in others. The main thing Google does remember about Wiseman and Johnson is a single day in September 2015, when their paths crossed inside a Sac State classroom in an encounter that invited the world to cast them as poster children in a heated debate about the future of academics.

The scene was an American history class. The topic was the collision between indigenous peoples and explorers to the New World.

Wiseman made a point about not liking the term “genocide” to describe the mass die-off of Native Americans that followed arriving Spanish galleons, because he felt the explorers didn’t have the organized intent documented in other historic genocides. Johnson, a Navaho-descended college sophomore at the time, countered that what happened to the devastated

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people was genocide.

Wiseman was posing the kind of analytically provocative question professors ask. Johnson was doing what bright, engaged students are known to do, leveling a well-reasoned counterargument.

By all accounts, however, it was not a pleasant exchange. Nor was it unusual. Yet within days of their minutes-long interaction, the two were subjects of the kind of internet fame few want, with some voices branding Wiseman a racist while others labeled Johnson a disrupter.

The professor and the student— the former declined comment and the latter couldn’t be reached— became unknowing combatants in a culture war set within the halls of academia, one that questions if efforts to be culturally sensitive are limiting the intellectual freedom of both students and instructors.

It’s a prompt worthy of a post-graduate seminar: Are college campuses still the venue for intelligent, forceful and sometimes uncomfortable debate?

Professor Michele FossSnowden has a unique perspective on the topic. She’s a 10-year

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veteran of Sac State’s communications department and understands the pressures her fellow instructors are under. She’s also a woman of color with a recognized expertise in how race and ethnicity are portrayed in the media. After another summer of politicallycharged events both here and around the nation, Foss-Snowden says she is even more certain that painful dialogues—surrounding race and justice, class and privilege, our ever-evolving conceptions of both gender and history—will filter back into the lecture halls as students return to class this month.

That’s as it should be. What’s emerged in the past few years, especially, say some scholars, is the power that social media has to whip up a frenzy, without always differentiating between bad teachers and good ones striking discordant notes.

“It feels like we’re at the point right before something boils over,” Foss-Snowden said. “It’s like you can see the bubbles rising to the surface and everyone is just holding their breath.”

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Wiseman remains teaching at the university, but the question lingers whether he crossed a line that day in September. (In declining to be interviewed, Wiseman noted he’s still receiving an array of media inquiries almost a year after his classroom debate with Johnson.)

Foss-Snowden found herself sympathetic to her colleague’s plight. “When you take the huge responsibility of being in front of a group and saying, ‘Listen to me,’ people can forget that you’re just a human being, too,” she said. “It’s not possible to divorce ourselves from some feelings and opinions we have … And sometimes, when we’re talking, we can step on a landmine.”

In other words, the laboratory of ideas is a combustible environment.

Following last fall’s dust-up at Sac State, then-new-President Robert Nelsen strove to calm the upset. That month, the campus held a breakfast celebration and blessing honoring Native American Day, with speaker Connie ReitmanSolas of the Inter-Tribal Council of California Inc. Nelsen also

Michele Foss-Snowden professor of communications, Sacramento State

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the professors she’s met have had much to say about how social media has tipped the scales of power to the overly sensitive.

“At almost every college I go to now, I’m told by faculty that they feel genuinely fearful about teaching because of issues like this,” Dreger told SN&R. “What’s happened is the dark side of empowerment. Students used to feel like they had to shut up and listen to anything a professor said, which wasn’t good, but now we have the opposite, and what we’re seeing is some students think it’s logical to stand up and have confrontation about anything that makes them even a little uncomfortable. It’s a minority of students, but they’re powerful because of social media … It’s what psychologists call ‘virtue display,’ meaning you try to prove your own virtue by lashing out at others, even if those others actually have the same or similar values. It’s dangerous.”

While Dreger knows dozens of examples of professors falling under administrative sexual harassment investigations for writing mainstream satire, assigning ancient texts in class or even

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A trigger warning involves an instructor cautioning students every time a potentially offensive topic is about to arise, thus allowing them time to leave the room. Safe spaces refer to an emerging trend on campuses to create designated areas where students are “safe” from being mentally or emotionally challenged.

In a letter to new arrivals, Dean of Students John Ellison emphasized the University of Chicago provides absolutely no areas for students to “retreat from ideas and perspectives at odds with their own.”

So how common are trigger warnings and intellectual safe spaces on America’s college campuses in 2016? Extremely, says Alice Dreger, a bioethicist and former professor at Northwestern University who specializes in censorship issues. Dreger famously resigned her own faculty position after Northwestern’s administration blocked a scholarly article she was trying to help publish on the sexual recovery of a man with paralysis.

She’s spent the last year touring universities across the United States giving talks about sensitivity run amok in higher learning. And

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promised more panels and forums to discuss American Indian issues.

He wrote that he hoped they would “help facilitate difficult but constructive conversations about controversial subjects without violating academic freedom or the welfare of our students.”

There was reason to take quick action.

Since 2013, student-driven campaigns have forced at least seven university professors in the United States and United Kingdom to resign over comments made in class or in their writing. These cases mostly involved a few people getting offended before attracting droves of Twitter and Facebook users to push for termination.

Given that six of those professors resigned over sharing opinions, the trend has experts wondering if America’s fortresses of free thought are being shelled into mediocrity.

The topic went viral again two weeks ago, when the University of Chicago made headlines for telling incoming freshmen not to expect so-called “trigger warnings” in class or “intellectual safe spaces” on campus.

It feels like we‘re at the point right before something boils over.”

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joking about their own marriages, Dean Murakami, president of the Los Rios Teachers Federation, says it’s important to remember that the overall safeguards exist for a reason.

“Students do have a right to not to be in a hostile classroom,” Murakami pointed out. “There are hot-button topics that come up in class around ethnicity or the LGBT community and students can get pretty sensitive … It’s our job to figure out how to approach those topics without offending people, but still teach the class correctly.”

Murakami and his fellow instructors have witnessed the effects of someone on campus deciding to literally say anything: In 2015, Los Rios student trustee Cameron Weaver, then-attending America River College, gave an interview expressing skepticism on whether the Holocaust really happened.

Weaver could not be reached for comment, but the reactions from Sacramento’s Jewish community—some of whom cited scores of photographs, film reels, German records and first-hand accounts to enlighten Weaver—catapulted a failed effort to recall the trustee into the national media. The story broke just a week after the feud over Native American genocide at Sac State.

Foss-Snowden wasn’t surprised to see the coverage, especially around the Wiseman-Johnson clash over genocide, which she thinks touched on various exposed nerves.

“That story blew up the way it did because there were things people needed to talk about,” Foss-Snowden said. “On one side, there were communities that felt underrepresented, and they thought this young woman took a stand for how they were feeling. On the other side, there was an equally powerful and important push for that academic space to be open for the professor, and for an understanding that he’s a regular person.”

Regular people or not, professors can inadvertently cause harm with a lesson plan, says UC Davis student-activist Becca Payne.

“As a survivor of sexual assault in college, I have PTSD, and if I’m in a class and there is going to be graphic discussion of rape or arguing over rape politics on campus—or if they’re showing a video about it—I think it’s important to warn people because I know how it affects me,” Payne said. “It is crucial to have those conversations in class, but for some people, depending on what they’re going through, it can be harmful.”

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which could constantly disrupt serious, free-flowing dialogues.

“I frequently make my students a little uncomfortable,” she said, “because discomfort leads to change and growth.”

Davis shruggeD Ayn Rand has been called many things, from prophet of individualistic pursuit to an amphetamine-driven antichrist against compassion. One thing she hasn’t been called is a figure that UC Davis embraces within its signature brand.

That’s the lesson students with the Ayn Rand Society at UC Davis learned two years ago after getting slapped with a cease-and-desist order by the school’s administration.

The notice was sent by UCD’s Center for Student Involvement. It informed the Rand devotees that by using the school’s name, they were guilty of trademark infringement. The center then demanded they change or delete their Facebook page.

According to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, or FIRE, the students ignored the directive and were subsequently alerted their club’s “good standing” status had been revoked. The penalty came with real consequences: The ARS was suddenly banned from borrowing meeting rooms on campus or applying for any grants. The punishment also saw the group swept right off UC Davis’ student organization search page.

The club reached out to FIRE, which in turn had its attorney Ari Cohn send a letter to UCD arguing the students’ First Amendment rights were violated.

Ultimately, the director for UC Davis’ Center for Student Involvement, Anne Reynolds Myler, sent her own message to the Rand society saying she’d reviewed the situation and agreed its members did nothing wrong. The club was back in good standing.

Cohn told SN&R that concerns over UC Davis’ brand likely played a role in the fracas, along with its administrators failing to consult their own attorneys.

“It’s pretty settled legally that student organizations are speaking for themselves and not for the universities,” Cohn said.

“School groups do have the right to be able to identify what school they’re at.”

Other FIRE members, like writer Susan Kurth, have expressed growing concerns that the corporate climates in university administrations are causing leaders to act like marketing directors rather than guardians of intellectual liberty. And the fountainhead of resentment over the Rand incident wasn’t the first time concerns about the UC Davis brand caused a First Amendment showdown.

And this one didn’t involve students.

BraND MaNageMeNT In 2013, a panel of faculty members issued a report trying to end a controversy over whether Dr. Michael Wilkes had been harassed by UCD officials for sharing his honest opinion as a top medical researcher for the college.

Wilkes’ problems go back to UC Davis preparing to host a health fair in 2010.

The medical department and its co-sponsors had created advertisements with the slogan, “prostate cancer defense begins at 40,” suggesting that all men should undergo a standard prostatespecific antigen, or PSA, test at that age.

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What‘s happened is the dark side of empowerment. students used to feel like they had to shut up and listen to anything a professor said, which wasn‘t good, but now we have the opposite.”

Alice Dreger former professor, Northwestern University

Wilkes, the UC Davis Medical System’s director of global health, is an internal medicine specialist and expert in prostate cancer. He disagreed with the advertisement and said so, telling his superiors that, while waves of PSA tests make physicians lots of cash, the claim that they are necessary at 40 is far from evidence-based and might actually be harmful to some men.

Wilkes then took to the pages of the San Francisco Chronicle, co-authoring an opinion piece in which he wondered if the college’s commitment to the ad was really “more about money.”

According to an investigation by the UCD Academic Senate’s Committee on Academic Freedom & Responsibility, within

weeks of publishing his thoughts, Wilkes learned administrators were threatening to take away three of his special appointments with the university. The academic senate concluded in 2012 that Wilkes had been the victim of retaliation. The next year, a panel of UCD staff members selected by then-Vice Chancellor Ralph Hexter came to the opposite conclusion, prompting a public blasting from FIRE. Wilkes declined to be interviewed by SN&R, but the co-author of the Chronicle op-ed that landed him in so much trouble, Dr. Jerome Hoffman of UCLA, reflected on how special interest groups can send a chilling message to researchers via funding ties to the institutions that employ them.

“I think we were very careful with what we said in the op-ed,” Hoffman said.

“Ours was a piece about a program that was happening at UC Davis that had the potential to be profitable, but was being billed in a way that left us thinking maybe this wasn’t the best thing for men’s health. I think Michael acted honorably, but it seemed to me there was a strident effort to punish him. … The effects on him would have been draconian if he hadn’t fought back.”

Hoffman points out that the issue is far bigger than UC Davis.

Too often, Hoffman says, a researcher discovers a relationship between X and Y in their work, only to find out their own university has a funding connection to a special interest group with a stake in preventing the findings from going public.

“Science can only advance, grow and learn when it can attempt to find the truth, regardless of what that truth is,” Hoffman said. “When you have a profit-driven academia, intellectual freedom and issues with conflicts of interests go hand and hand. When money is the driving force behind the whole enterprise, it tremendously distorts the quality of the science and puts incredible pressure on researchers who are trying to take a different path.”

For experts like Dreger, professors in the sciences and humanities are essentially up against the same threats.

“The current economic model that sees students as customers, and faculty as sales persons, and donors as shareholders, are causing them to clamp down on anything controversial, because it disrupts that financial flow,” Dreger said. “It’s causing some instructors to just give up and teach in the most bland fashion possible.

“And it’s bigger than that,” she added.

“In universities, the duty of inquiry is a moral duty.” Ω

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Most Sacramento State students can‘t graduate on time, but does that make the school a dropout factory?

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C Davis student Sofia Molodanof is racing against the experience of California’s college student body. Working toward an English degree with a double minor in sociology and communications, the 20-year-old expects to graduate within four years.

These days, she would be the exception.

The vast majority of California’s college students—including the majority of Sacramento State undergrads—do not graduate on time.

Two-thirds of college students fail to graduate within six years of enrolling at 74 percent of the state’s public schools and 60 percent of its private institutions, according to separate reports by Third Way, a self-described “centrist think tank.”

The rates are so bad at Sac State that university President Robert Nelsen has said they “suck.”

Under K-12 guidelines, colleges like his would be labeled “dropout factories.”

“Higher education is a marketplace. and right now, it is completely broken.”

Tamara Hiler senior policy adviser for education, Third Way

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Students who sign on will be offered discounted classes for summer and winter sessions.

Beyond this, Smart Planner and Platinum Analytics digitally streamline scheduling and Dragna claims these systems have already found 10,000 extra seats for next year’s students.

Fifth-year civil engineering student Austin Young says these changes are overdue. Though he earned priority registration, he claims that up to “50 people get turned away” from introductory courses. He has seen friends only be able to secure one or two classes in a semester and noted that there should be better financial literacy training for students taking out loans.

“A lot of the money goes to just whatever they want,” he said. “I can’t tell you how many hoverboards were bought.”

Meanwhile, Third Way says that students with less than $10,000 in student loan debt are the most likely to default, indicating that they likely dropped out before graduating and are now worse off than if they hadn’t started college in the first place.

(Third Way didn’t study for-profit schools because they felt these colleges already had a poor reputation. Case in point: California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris recently won a $1.1 billion lawsuit against for-profit Corinthian Colleges to repay defrauded students.)

In the future, Third Way’s Hiler hopes students armed with the reports’ information won’t apply to low-performing schools. She wants colleges to be responsible financially when students default on their loans. And if schools fail to improve, she proposes the federal government should deny them Pell Grants or student loans, a financial death blow.

But the worst-performing schools tend to take the most Pell Grant students. To combat this, she proposes that Pell recipients make up at least one-fifth of each school’s enrollees. And just like K-12 schools with lower-income student bodies, further funding could go to schools with higher Pell proportions, provided they use the money effectively.

In 2017, Congress will likely reauthorize the Higher Education Act, a bill that structures federal funding to colleges. And, after decades without regulation based on results, Hiler desires some accountability.

“Schools should have an opportunity to improve,” she said. “But the problem is that there are no incentives for schools to change their behavior. There’s no carrot or stick. Higher education is a marketplace. And right now, it is completely broken.” Ω

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At both public and private institutions, roughly 20 percent of students can’t start paying down student loans within three years after leaving school, either via dropout or graduation, the Third Way reports say. And six years after enrolling, more than a third can’t find jobs that pay above $25,000 a year—the expected wage for high school graduates.

Using the Department of Education’s College Scorecard, Third Way found no correlation between the price paid to attend college and the quality of education one received. Its two reports—one for private colleges, one covering public institutions—did show top-performing universities shied away from taking Pell Grant students who come from low- to middle-income households and receive federal funding based on need and merit.

The colleges can do this because they receive equal Pell money whether “they have 20 Pell students on their campus or 20,000,” said Tamara Hiler, co-author of both reports and Third Way’s senior policy adviser for education.

She stressed the importance of a college degree for better employment, but wants to expose colleges that fail to provide the outcomes they promise. Some might blame the Scorecard’s ugly stats on lazy or unqualified students, but Hiler pooh-poohs that claim. “[Colleges] are telling students that if you apply to this school, we’re going to provide you support and resources to finish,” she said. “I don’t know a single student who enrolls in a four-year college thinking they won’t end up with a bachelor’s degree.”

The UC system proved to be a rare exception to the low graduation trend. In Third Way’s rankings, UC Davis came 17th, boasting rates of 81 percent six-year graduation, 91 percent loan repayment and 70 percent placement in jobs annually making above $25,000, six years after enrollment.

According to U.S. News & World Reports, 55 percent of its students graduate in four years. These are all comparatively good figures.

Forty-two percent of UCD students receive Pell Grant funding, three ticks higher than the national average.

Molodonaf is one of those students. An incoming junior, she expects to graduate on time, believing that to be part of the campus “culture.” And then, she plans to head to law school, debt free.

Director of the UC Davis Internship and Career Center, Marcie Kirk Holland, claims nearly 80 percent of students participate in internships, 20 points higher than the national average.

Combined with focused curriculum, these internships push students through school to their preferred post-grad job.

“You can sit through upper division chemistry if you know that’s going to be part of what you need to do [as] a food inspector,” she said as an example.

Conversely, Sac State’s newly appointed “graduation czar,” Jim Dragna, said his college has a “cultural problem” that feeds into graduation rates of 9 percent after four years and 42 percent after six.

Dragna claims many students take fewer than 15 units for fear of becoming overwhelmed. But to graduate within four years, students must have at least 15-unit schedules per semester or they fall behind and get hung up on prerequisites. Among CSUS students that graduated in 2016, only 12 percent had done so in four years.

A “Finish in Four” program hopes to alter the culture. The program prompted nearly 70 percent of first-year students to pledge they would take 15 units during their first semester.

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Joey gets that we’re all just flesh bags stumbling around in this life. She reminds us with clarity and compassion that we can try to be better, that we can learn from our mistakes and seek a simpler, more loving way.

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Why I skIpped college

For one revolutionary, activism has been the antidote to the prospect of an oppressive, costly higher education system

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ttending college was never a dream of mine.

I grew up in an extremely racist suburb called Roseville. Until the age of 18, I was heavily internalized, meaning I didn’t think of myself as black simply because I didn’t fit certain stereotypes about how black people are “supposed” to act. I saw people of color as criminals and tried my hardest to adapt to European standards of beauty.

It wasn’t until I had a friend really explain how racism works systematically that I began to gain consciousness of the system as a whole and my part in it.

Take formal education.

From a very young age, children of color are thrown into an oppressive educational system where we are taught false histories that reinforce Eurocentric narratives of white superiority. We are constantly told directly and indirectly that we are stupid, thugs, will amount to nothing, etc. We are not taught. Instead, we are managed and often funneled into the school-to-prison pipeline.

Why in the world would I choose to continue that brand of institutional learning, and at great financial cost, no less?

Instead, I entered the activism movement and began educating myself about the world by allying myself with those who are treated most poorly by it.

I marched against deportations in Sacramento County. That same summer, I also opposed the genocidal war in Gaza; stood in solidarity with the protesters in Ferguson, Mo., demanding justice for Mike Brown; and demanded a $15 minimum wage for all workers.

From very early in my coming into consciousness, I dedicated my life to the revolutionary struggle. From the second I knew about socialism, I knew that I didn’t want to attend college just to have a job and to be rich, but to learn on my own and from the communist party I’m in.

College, through my lens, is exploitative. From early in our lives, it’s pushed down our throats. We are told that, “If you don’t go to college, you’ll be flipping burgers.” But if going to college is supposed to be the answer to our problems, why are so many graduated students now unemployed and carrying huge amounts of student debt?

Student debt is something that barely existed 40 years ago. Tuition at both the University of California and California State University systems was in the triple digits for many students in the 1970s and 80s, compared to the thousands students are forced to pay now.

Being around students on a daily basis—I used to live on the UC Davis campus in a leftist co-op and participated in many student-led movements—I am always hearing about higher fees and larger class sizes, lack of faculty diversity and bloated salaries for administrators.

It is the administration that has profited from tuition raises. Instead of working for the best interests of all, corrupt administrators constantly look for new ways to line their own pockets. The privatization of higher education has put college even further out of reach for people like myself.

If going to college is supposed to be the answer to our problems, why are so many graduated students now unemployed and carrying huge amounts of student debt?

As for me, I have a job that I enjoy, which is working at a deli. But I know that my main job, my main focus, is the revolution.

It is always hard taking the route that goes against the status quo. But you must struggle to reach liberation. I will struggle as long as capitalism is in place, and I will struggle to tear it down in the same breath.

Learning about how to change this society through my books and my real experiences gives me a type of passion that I could never get in a classroom. Ω

Maile Hampton is a self-educated, working-class revolutionary Marxist who resides in Davis.

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Oak Park rapper Mozzy tops Spotify’s list of “Most Distinctive Artists in Sacramento.”

how data factors into sacramento’s shows and taste

PHOTO BY DARIN BRADFORD

Music by the nuMbers

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line of teenagers wraps the 28th Street block leading to the doorstep of Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub at 5 p.m. for an early, all-ages rap show. The claustrophobic smoking patio of Ace of Spades looks like an unregulated herding pen filled with heshers and black leather. Material from the Starlite Lounge ceiling cascades onto the downstairs pool table—downstairs, it’s a brightly lit rockabilly lounge, upstairs, a packed-house metal show.

These are just some of the signs of a thriving music scene.

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foremost. And yet, data—ticket sales, streaming data and other forms—is playing an increasingly significant role in sussing out Sacramento’s identity as far as what locals listen to and what shows they attend.

In this age of data-driven listicles, two recent pieces help tell the story of Sacramento’s music scene: a Noisey article, “How Metal Is Your City?”, and a Spotify list, “Sacramento’s Top 10 Most Distinctive Artists,” which calibrated the most listened-to artists in our region versus the rest of the world.

Two factors stand out: we’re hella metal and we prefer our rap regional.

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“these fans are very loyal, and this is a community. it’s not about one song. it’s about the lifestyle and culture.”

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Vice, Sacramento ranks 33 of 100 cities in the country with 243 documented metal bands. Justin Isaacks, of Shuffle Six promotions and bar and entertainment manager at Highwater, says that traditionally it’s a lot of death metal and thrash metal here. The death metal is mostly a suburban sound, while downtown is more punk. But the most popular shows that draw all walks of metalheads are the doom metal shows.

Isaacks booked post-punk and metal in venues like Press Club and Midtown Barfly before Starlite Lounge became this year’s unofficial metal sanctuary. He looks to Metallica playing Tower Records’ parking lot in the ’90s and Slayer playing Memorial Auditorium in 1998 as indications of the lingering, and immense metal crowd.

“I think it’s always been here bubbling up under the surface,” Isaacks says. “The ’90s was a heyday in Sac and those people never left.”

But don’t begin to think Sacramento is a onedimensional town, strictly hailing Satan.

Spotify’s “Most Distinctive Artists in Sacramento” list analyzed our listening habits, removing artists that are unanimously popular worldwide and teased it down to the top 10 streaming artists that only Sacramentans played. Atop the list was Oak Park’s Mozzy followed by nine other Sacramento and Northern California-based rappers like Philthy Rich, Nef the Pharaoh and Iamsu!.

“Sacramento is really into hip-hop and that’s undeniable from this list,” Spotify editor Eliot Van Buskirk says.

Van Buskirk stresses that we also listen to Adele, Beyoncé and Drake much like the rest of the world.

But, our support for regional rap is unique data. Fornati Kumeh of ENT Legends agrees. He carved his niche as a talent buyer with rising talent in hip-hop and R&B. Before Kumeh founded his own company, he tested the waters by booking Oakland’s Young L of the Pack at a community center. He’s also booked many of the artists on the Spotify list.

“Sacramento is undercover a big hip-hop city,” he says.

If a chart-topping rapper graces the stage in Sacramento, chances are Kumeh booked it. Recently, he brought two artists selected from XXL magazine’s Freshman Class of 2016 issue, which selects the next generation of significant rap artists. This included Lil Yachty and Lil Uzi Vert, who Kumeh booked at Harlow’s and Ace of Spades, respectively. Both shows sold out.

But Kumeh and Isaacks agree, along with every talent buyer in town, that Sacramento’s handicap is the absence of a midsize 1,000-to-3,000 person venue. It’s the reason booking agents overlook this city for larger, more popular acts.

Still, ticket sales data proves we’re a worthwhile market. Maybe we’re not paying close attention, but booking agents in New York and promoters in the Bay Area are aware of the hard data. These numbers produced one of our biggest music festivals and shapes various efforts to embed a hip-hop festival here.

Bay Area promoters don’t like Sacramento’s thriving scenes. They count on our dollar. Isaacks knew he was

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on to something when he began getting calls claiming his shows violated radius clauses. A typical radius clause includes noncompeting shows for 60 days within 60 miles of the contract. Sacramento is 88 miles from San Francisco.

“San Francisco and the Bay Area depends on Sacramento for ticket sales,” Isaacks says. “They wouldn’t even have to work for our dollar.”

He says he overpaid guarantees, knowing a large band in a small venue like Press Club or Starlite would require sold-out sales to recoup. He was also selling Sacramento on the idea that an intimate show was a better experience than driving to San Francisco to see them in a larger setting.

“Once the agents saw the numbers of the shows and the enthusiasm, the roles reversed,” he says. “We started getting contact from the agents. They saw Sacramento as a worthwhile market for small-club shows.”

Isaacks booked Eyehategod, for example, at Midtown Barfly in 2014. He says the last time they played Sacramento was likely on tour with White Zombie and Pantera in the 1990s. When Kumeh wanted to bring a young Kendrick Lamar to town in 2011, he reached out to the Sunrise Events Center in Rancho Cordova: a beige, one-story building on a corporate avenue of warehouses. Not exactly the cultural epicenter of greater Sacramento.

“I remember passing out fliers for Kendrick and nobody knew who he was,” Kumeh said.

Now, it might require Golden 1 Center for Lamar, one of the most popular artists in the world, to return.

In 2011, it was tough getting people in the building for a Kendrick Lamar show in Rancho Cordova. These days he’d likely sell out the new Golden 1 Center.

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How a scene becomes a festival A thriving scene also looks like 17,000 strong in Discovery Park dressed in all black, a sea of longhairs in synchronized headbanging. It’s a megapit resembling a medieval battlefield of battered bodies. Talk to any talent buyer in Sacramento, they’ll point to Aftershock Festival as an indication of the region’s metal population. Since its inaugural year in 2012, Aftershock has swelled in size and increasingly molded its lineup in favor of the metalhead demographic. Founder Danny Wimmer isn’t even from Sacramento. His company Danny Wimmer Presents is Los Angeles-based. He observed the ticket sales data and placed Aftershock in our lap.

“I’ve been looking at this market for years,” Wimmer wrote in an email. “These fans are very loyal, and this is a community. It’s not about one song. It’s about the lifestyle and culture. The fans are committed through an artist’s career, unlike many other genres, where it’s only about the song.”

Isaacks looks at this year’s lineup and its diversity and sees an adaptation to the scene. “I think the rep Sacramento had was more radio-rock kind of metal,” he says. “It was a bad stereotype of that kind of metalhead.

The thinking man’s metalhead, that person is here, too.

You can tell whoever is in charge of booking Aftershock has seen that is a market they want to get.”

Kumeh believes Sacramento is prepared for a hip-hop festival. That’s already been proven true, actually: KSFM’s 102.5 Live festival has been held for three years at Discovery Park. In May, it drew 17,000 people—2,000 over the permit limit—with headliners such as Tyga, Fat Joe, Remy Ma, Desiigner, and E-40.

It’s telling data of a desire for hip-hop.

Now Aftershock’s success has Kumeh thinking bigger.

“What hip-hop artist can you really put on City of Trees to make it flow well?” he asks rhetorically. “It takes somebody to create a new lane. Maybe it’s in my hands or someone else’s hands to create a new event that showcases hip-hop. It would let everyone know in and around Sacramento that we can … be successful.”

It might be #HOF Day on September 24. Robbie Metcalf of Hall of Fame, an events and entertainment company, partnered with Kumeh to make this year’s day party bigger than last year. Metcalf is hesitant to brand #HOF Day as strictly a hip-hop event, but Kumah securing famed hip-hop producer Young Metro as headliner sends a loud message. #HOF Day’s first two years only capped between 2,000 and 3,000 people. Metcalf is aiming for 6,000 this year.

What has Wimmer of Aftershock learned about Sacramento in the five years of booking the city’s most successful festival? He says the ticket sales, merch sales and fans on social media all cried out for a heavy festival.

“But not only that,” he says. “The data was telling us they wanted more of it, too.” Ω

PHOTO BY Jørund Føreland Pedersen/WIKICOMMOns

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SEPTEMBER PickS By Shoka

From your sweetest nightmares They are unsettling and attractive. Elisabeth Higgins O’Connor’s work is contradictory, pulling reactions from both the viewer’s warm-and-fuzzy and worst-childhood-nightmare emotional reservoirs. Her sculptures have a comforting familiarity as cartoonish creatures made of old doilies, afghans and twine, reminiscent of memories at Grandma’s house—but SculPture they are in a state of unravel, sometimes intimidatingly hunched over, towering taller than Shaquille O’Neal. They are practically breathing. It’s magically terrifying.

Higgins O’Connor has said Francisco Goya’s crosshatching and the aesthetics of favelas and shantytowns are major influences on how she layers these monumental amounts of discarded fibers to build her beasts. Her work has presence in a space—the sculptures’ eyes follow the viewer and seem to slowly pursue him or her around the room. To be in the same space with this Sacramento-based artist’s creatures makes the viewer feel—and often it’s the chills.

Feel her work (not literally, though) in (This is Not a) Love Song along with Mathew Zefeldt’s Windows at Verge Center for the Arts through October 16.

Where: Verge Center for the Arts, 625 S Street; (916) 448-2985; www.vergeart.com.

Opening reception: September 8, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Second Saturday reception: September 10, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Through October 16.

Artist talk: September 29, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Hours: Wednesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Sunday, noon to 5 p.m.

“Wanna do right, but not right now” by Elisabeth Higgins O’Connor; umber, knit afghans, bath rugs, mattress covers, blankets, bedsheets, blankets, doilies, cardboard, packing straps, paint, paper, drywall screws, pins, acrylic matte medium, twine; 2014.

“I could have sworn I heard something” by Jared Konopitski, acrylic on canvas, 2016.

Julian, Steve and the polar bear Julian Faulkner is back with new work for a show at Artspace1616, and if anyone is wondering if his illustrative paintings are still dizzyingly detailed, vibrant and playful with a story to tell, indeed, they are. In “Steve Wanders Away From the Tour and Spots a Bear,” our hero finds himself out of one of several little love boats, which are navigating through icy waters, and atop an iceberg instead. And on the next floating piece of ice is a polar bear. Faulkner’s narrative brings up issues of PAintingS climate change and the effects humans have on the environment, including consumption, pollution and migration.

Also showing in with Faulkner is Mick Sheldon of Sacramento and Anne Veraldi of San Francisco.

“Steve Wanders Away From the Tour and Spots a Bear” by Julian Faulkner, oil on canvas, 2016.

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Where: Artspace1616, 1616 Del Paso Boulevard; (916) 849-1127; www.facebook.com/artspace1616.

Second Saturday reception: September 10, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Through October 1.

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

Mayors of cute and creepy Put on a pair of 3-D glasses and meet the mayors of Chromaville, Jared Konopitski and Super Ugly, in their Studio 10 show. Both Sacramento artists have vivid palettes and illusPAintingS trative, lowbrow narrative styles, which are “filled with the inhabitants of Chromaville.” They call their paintings cute and creepy—and are, apparently, in three dimensions. The 3-D specs will be provided by the mayors for proper viewing of their “world of the weird and wonderful.”

Where: Studio 10, 1021 R Street (inside Arthouse, upstairs); www.facebook.com/JKLMNterprises.

Second Saturday reception: September 10, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Hours: First Friday of the month, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.; Second Saturday, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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10 THE INSIDEOUT 210tSt., www.the-insideout.org

11 INTEGRATE SACRAMENTO 2220 J St., (916) 541-4294, http://integrateservices sacramento.blogspot.com

12 THE IRON MONKEY TATTOO STUDIO AND FINE ART GALLERY 1723 I St., (916) 476-5701, www.facebook.com/ theironmonkeytattooandartgallery

Midtown 1 ART OF TOYS 1126 18th St., (916) 446-0673, www.artoftoys.com

2 ART STUDIOS 1727 I St., behind Easy on I; (916) 444-2233

3 ARTFOX GALLERY 2213 N St., Ste. B; (916) 835-1718; www.artfox.us

4 B. SAKATA GARO 923 20th St., (916) 447-4276, www.bsakatagaro.com

5 CAPITAL ARTWORKS 1215 21st St., Ste. B; (916) 207-3787; www.capital-artworks.com

6 CUFFS 2523 J St., (916) 443-2881, www.shopcuffs.com

7 ELLIOTT FOUTS GALLERY 1831 P St., (916) 446-1786, www.efgallery.com

13 KENNEDY GALLERY 1931 L St., (916) 716-7050, www.kennedygallerysac.com

14 LITTLE RELICS 908 21st St., (916) 716-2319, www.littlerelics.com

15 MIDTOWN FRAMING & GALLERY 1005 22nd St., (916) 447-7558, www.midtownframing.com

16 MY STUDIO 2325 J St., (916) 476-4121, www. mystudiosacramento.com

17 RED DOT GALLERY 2231 J St., Ste. 101; www. reddotgalleryonj.com

18 SACRAMENTO ART COMPLEX 2110 K St., Ste. 4; (916) 476-5500; www.sacramentoartcomplex.com

19 SACRAMENTO GAY & LESBIAN CENTER 1927 L St., (916) 442-0185, http://saccenter.org

21 SPARROW GALLERY 2418 K St., (916) 382-4894, www.sparrowgallery. squarespace.com

22 TIM COLLOM GALLERY 915 20th St., (916) 247-8048, www.timcollomgallery.com

23 UNION HALL GALLERY 2126 K St.,

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36 WAL PUBLIC MARKET 1108 R St.,

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24 THE URBAN HIVE 1931 H St., (916) 585-4483, www.theurbanhive.com

25 VIEWPOINT PHOTOGRAPHIC ART CENTER 2015 J St., (916) 441-2341, www.viewpointgallery.org

26 WKI 2 STUDIO GALLERY 1614 K St., Ste. 2; (916) 955-6986; www.weskosimages.com

downtown/old Sac 27 ARTHOUSE ON R 1021 R St., second floor; (916) 455-4988; www.arthouseonr.com

28 ARTISTS’ COLLABORATIVE GALLERY 129 K St., (916) 444-7125, www.artcollab.com

29 AXIS GALLERY 625 S St., (916) 443-9900, www.axisgallery.org

30 CROCKER ART MUSEUM 216 O St., (916) 808-7000, www.crockerartmuseum.org

31 E STREET GALLERY AND STUDIOS 1115 E St., (916) 505-7264

32 LATINO CENTER OF ART AND CULTURE 2700 Front St., (916) 446-5133, www.lrpg.org

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37 ARCHIVAL FRAMING 3223 Folsom Blvd., (916) 923-6204, www.archivalframe.com

38 CAPITAL PUBLIC RADIO 7055 Folsom Blvd., (916) 278-8900, www.capradio.org

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VII DEL PASO WORKS BUILDING GALLERIES 1001 Del Paso Blvd.

VIII GALLERY 625 625 Court St. in Woodland, (530) 406-4844, www.yoloarts.org

39 CAPITOL FOLK GALLERY 887 57th St.,

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40 FE GALLERY & IRON ART STUDIO 1100 65th St., (916) 456-4455, www.fegallery.com

41 GALLERY 14 3960 60th St., (916) 456-1058, www.gallery14.net

42 JAYJAY 5520 Elvas Ave., (916) 453-2999, www.jayjayart.com

43 WHITE BUFFALO GALLERY 3671 J St., (916) 752-3014, www.white-buffalo-gallery.com

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X PANAMA ART FACTORY 4421 24th Street, http://panamaartfactory.com

XI PATRIS STUDIO AND FINE ART GALLERY 3460 Second Ave., (916) 397-8958, www.artist-patris.com.

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mid the sundry bummers  of growing up and moving  past your schooling years,  not getting a new Lisa  Frank Trapper Keeper each fall is  probably tops. Another drawback?  Getting smarter and learning new  stuff is entirely up to you (ugh!). But  then there’s the perk of that whole  autonomy thing that comes with  adulthood, which means that when it  comes to expanding your know-how,  you can pick whatever tickles your  fancy. Here are a few options to  bone up on whatever subject you like  this week: Writers looking to get published  (in other words, all of you): the  Sacramento writing workshop is taking  place on Friday, September 9, at the  Courtyard Sacramento Midtown  (4422 Y Street) from 9:30 a.m. to  5 p.m. Attendees will get access  to classes and advice on navigating the publishing scene, as well as  opportunities to pitch agents and  editors. Writer’s Digest Books editor  Chuck Sambuchino will be leading the  charge. Tickets are $149-$247 and  can be purchased by emailing writingdayworkshops@gmail.com. Visit  https://sacramentowriting  workshop.com for more info.  People who feel flower  arrangements are puzzlingly expensive (in other  words, all of us): Learn  about a growing plan for  cut flowers and different  methods of arrangement at  the Flower Arranging for the home

on Saturday, September 10, at 9:30  a.m. at the Schoolhouse at Soil Born  Farms American River Ranch (2140  Chase Drive in Rancho Cordova).  Visit www.brownpapertickets.com/ event/2558368 to register or call  (916) 868-6399.

For you extra ambitious pupils  out there, there’s the Meaning of Life workshop on Tuesday, September 13, at  7 p.m. at the Holistic Light House (401  Vernon Street, Unit B, in Roseville). Life  coach Tammy Adams will attempt to  teach you what’s up with your self,  love, career, health and more. Might  as well? Admission is $50. Find out  more at http://asktammyadams.com.

Finally: Get deep into the local  art scene with Verge Center for the  Arts’ 11th annual Sac open Studios.  Spread over two weekends— September 10-11 and September  11-17—you can participate in selfguided tours of a bunch of artists’  studios and exhibitions. Start  by attending the launch party on  Thursday, September 8, for the preview exhibition that runs through  September 29 at Verge Center for  the Arts (625 S Street). Amid drinks,  food and artist-mingling, you’ll be  able to figure out which spots you  want to hit up and plan the upcoming weeks accordingly. Visit http:// vergeart.com/sac-open-studios/ guide to take a peek at the guide and  find out more.

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Sac Comedy Fest FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, THROUGH SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 Turn your giggle box up to 11 for  the sixth annual Sac Comedy Fest.  Friday night kicks things off with  a mash-up where stand-up meets  sketch meets improv. Saturday  straightens things out with the  stand-up showcase  CoMeDY staring a dozen jokesters  ready to make you laugh. Sunday  closes the fest with Improve Fight  Club where teams compete in a mini  improv tournament. Who will win?  $20-$40; 8 p.m. at the Sacramento  Comedy Spot, 1050 20th Street,  Suite 130; www.saccomedyfest.com.

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Illuminance: A Festival of Light SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 In the midst of an ever-changing  cityscape, pay homage to the area  that was once a thrivFeStIVAL ing Japantown with a  procession of drums, fire, dance and  light as the community reflects on  Japanese culture and spirituality.  Not unlike a Hayao Miyazaki Spirited  Away procession, this gathering will  light up the sky and pay homage to  the city’s cultural history. Free;   2 p.m. to 10 p.m. at 1002 Second Street  in Old Sacramento; www.facebook. com/events/1763745197191677.

—EDDIE JORGENSEN

Princeology SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 Prince’s music is loved by people  from all walks of life, and since his  death earlier this year, many have  rediscovered what a remarkable  genius he was. Come celebrate  Prince’s legacy this  MUSIC Saturday with DJ Fryeday  spinning his music on vinyl. There will  also be some Prince’s music videos  to check out and plenty of Prince  memorabilia on display. $25; 7:30 p.m.  at Crest Theatre, 1013 K Street;   www.crestsacramento.com.

—AARON CARNES

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The Retrograde Art Collective hosts  its sophomore salon this Saturday,  wherein artists, writers and musicians will perform around the theme  of redshift—the phenomenon that  proves all galaxies in our expanding  universe are moving away from one  another. Sound lonely? Or  ArtS cool? Good. Let’s get together and explore solitude and darkness  and never quite reaching the stars  for which we’re reaching. $10; 8 p.m.  at the Red Museum, 212 15th Street;  www.retrogradecollective.org.

Fifteen local restaurants will put  their best patty forward as Pangaea  defends its 2015 title. A judging  panel will crown the champion, but  attendees will get to try ‘em all and  deem one of them the peoFooD ple’s choice. Plus, there will  be beer, wine, live music and sweets,  all to benefit the Crohn’s & Colitis  Foundation of America. Stretch that  stomach for a good cause, in other  words. $70; 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. at Cesar  Chavez Plaza, 910 I Street;   http://sacburgerbattle.com.

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By Janelle Bitker Chinese food, fried chicken and more: The next school year at UC Davis is about to start, which means new Davis restaurants have been scrambling to open as soon as possible.

Among them: Hong Kong Cafe (2151 Cowell Boulevard, Suite C), a cha chaan teng serving an eclectic mix of Hong Kong-style dishes.

There are those baked meats over rice or spaghetti, covered in sauces ($8.50-$10.50), including ox tongue; instant noodle soup with Spam ($7.75); and condensed milk spread on toast ($3).

Among the internationally influenced offerings: Indonesian fried rice ($9.25), Hainanese chicken with rice ($8.95), Malaysian-style chow fun ($10.95), Thai-style chicken wings ($7) and Russian borscht ($3.50).

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The Organic Coup (130 G Street) also recently opened in the former Vampire Penguin space.

The fast food chain stands out for its use of entirely organic ingredients and extremely short menu: fried chicken, available in sandwich, wrap or salad form.

A new hot pot restaurant opened in August and then closed for further remodeling, but it should return any day now.

Boiling Pot (630 G Street) is located in the former Monticello Seasonal Cuisine space, which now looks very sleek and modern.

The menu is pretty simple, with a few Asian desserts, milk teas and sides. Instead, the focus is on 10 preset hot pot combinations, most of which cost $14.99 at dinner.

The house special, for example,

includes cabbage, fermented tofu, pork, enoki mushroom, fish cake, meatball, clam, quail egg, pork blood and preserved vegetables.

There’s also Meow Gee (2880 Fifth Street, Suite 140), a boba shop that opened earlier this summer. Most importantly, it’s cat-themed, with the most adorable image of a little cat holding tea stamped onto each cup. The menu is smaller than most bubble tea shops, with roughly 20 variations on milk tea as well as a few topped with crema. Instead of the usual array of fried snacks, Meow Gee serves two types of noodle soup ($8.50-$8.75).

And let’s not forget Ike’s Love & Sandwiches (212 F Street) of San Francisco fame finally opened a couple of months ago. This location serves about 20 meaty sandwiches and 15 vegetarian ones, including two Davis exclusives: Yolo ($7.97) holds pastrami and ham, and Room 107 ($8.98) has fried chicken.

Both feature American cheese and “Aggie sauce.” Ω

Fieldwork might be best known for its impossibly juicy, not-hoppy Northeast IPAs, but the Berkeley-based brewery crafts a mean sour, too. The Petit Verdot Grand Gose ($7) offers complexity as well as easy drinkability. The flavor profile is largely shaped around its eponymous French grape, with slight tobacco notes and a full-bodied, jammy finish. Still, it’s a gose, which means the fruity flavors are balanced by a refreshing tartness. 1805 Capitol Avenue, www.facebook.com/ FieldworkBrewingSacramento.

—Janelle Bitker

Ninja seeds Pomegranates If you watch American Ninja Warrior, you’ve likely seen the commercials for pomegranate juice. It really is full of antioxidants, including vitamin C, to boost you through cold season.

Getting that juice isn’t so easy, though, when you want it fresh. You have to work hard to harvest the hundreds of ruby-red seeds from the leathery fruits. Wear gloves or risk staining your hands! Sprinkle the arils over salads and yogurt for an astringent burst of flavor, or scatter them on an ice cream sundae for a gorgeous garnish. They may not make you a ninja warrior, but your immune system will thank you.

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Whoever invented Indian pizza deserves a hug.

Several pizzerias in Sacramento offer chicken tikka masala on top of a standard pie—no, the crust isn’t naan, sorry—and I’m not sure when the fusion concept really became a thing, though we can likely trace it locally back to 1st Choice Pizza & Curry’s opening in Elk Grove in 2013.

Still, it’s rare to find a full-scale Indian restaurant that also serves pizza—not to mention, a really good Indian restaurant, where you will have a top-notch meal with or without pizza.

At Sahej India Grill, which opened roughly six months ago, the chicken is succulent, the vegetables crisp, the cheese gooey and the crust remarkably light, soft and greaseless while remaining sturdy. Where Sahej beats most pizzerias is, unsurprisingly, the curry sauce itself: slightly sweet, comforting and nuanced. A 12-inch pie goes for $15.99.

Is the pizza a gimmick to get folks in the door?

Maybe, but Sahej seems to have no trouble with that at lunch. The enormous restaurant—elaborately decorated with red, white and blue drapery—gets packed with groups enjoying Sahej’s $9.99 buffet.

The spread is impressive, with multiple vegetarian and meaty curry options, various chutneys, dessert and more unusual South Indian offerings, like idli or dosas on the weekends. Even under heat lamps, none of the meats were overcooked and the pakora stayed nice and crisp.

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That’s why Sahej is adding a dinner buffet for $14.99—pizza included—within a month. Standard dinner service hasn’t quite caught on in the same way. Perhaps blame the location, tucked away in a nondescript West Sacramento shopping center with little foot traffic.

Too bad, because the quality at this familyrun operation rises quickly if you’re willing to pay for it. At the buffet, the butter chicken’s curry sauce was tasty but thin. Ordered à la carte ($12.99), it felt velvety and luxurious with bold, complex spiciness ordered at the medium level.

Servers warn the spicy is too spicy for most, but it probably depends on the dish. The lamb saag ($13.99) at medium left my mouth tingling—and craving more of the rich, deeply savory spinach curry so thick you could happily eat it by itself.

But the baigan bhartha ($11.99), also ordered at medium, while earthy, smoky and delicious enough to convert eggplant haters, didn’t deliver any fiery heat.

The prices are slightly higher than most Indian restaurants in the area, but most dishes come with basmati rice, and servers will happily bring out more if you finish the initial serving. Of course, you’ll also want to order some naan ($1.99), which you can also get with a variety of thin fillings for a couple of bucks extra.

Owner Sukhvir Singh will probably bring out your food. He’s warm and extremely polite—like everyone who works at Sahej—and clearly takes pride in the restaurant’s creations. It probably doesn’t hurt that his dad is the chef.

One of Singh’s favorite dishes is the goat biryani ($13.99), a light and airy heap of aromatic basmati, flavored with cumin and saffron, and a generous amount of braised, tender meat. Chopped nuts add textural contrast and the cucumber yogurt sauce on the side helps the flavors pop. It’s still unusual to find goat in local Indian restaurants, but Sahej offers it in several preparations and even in its buffet—and yes, the goat stayed tender under heat lamps as well. Ω

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Sip on hurricanes while you dance to live New Orleans-style brass bands or zydeco, then contemplate your next move. The best plan might be to grab a group—anyone, really—and split a catfish po’boy, muffaletta, jambalaya, alligator on a fluffy biscuit, hush puppies and every other thing you can get your paws on. Tickets cost $15 per day at the door, or get two for $15 online in advance, and they don’t include food or drinks. More at www.louisianasue.com.

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there comes a time when anger and grief have to burst forth. Director Michael Stevenson adroitly syncs the action to the pace of the kitchen: full-speed chaotic rushes punctuated by quieter down times. The remaining cast—Willem Long and Eduardo A. Esqueda as cooks Carlos and Miguel, respectively; Kirk Blackinton as clueless restaurant owner Michael; Cole Winslow as busboy and food-runner Jack; and Kelley Ogden as no-nonsense immigration investigator Kim—is uniformly excellent. Ω

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How to Use a Knife

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7 p.m. thursday, 8 p.m. friday, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. saturday, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. sunday; $23-$40. capital stage, 2215 J street; (916) 995-5464; www.capstage.org. through october 2.

Here’s a tip: Do not Google the play How to Use a Knife. Instead of finding information on this particular piece of work, you’ll instead dig up details on safe kitchen procedures, how to play mumbletypeg—oh, and some pretty disturbing stuff about knife play as an erotic exercise. Don’t go there.

The play How To Use a Knife is about none of that—not even the safety in the kitchen stuff, really. Playwright Will Snider’s production is set entirely within the kitchen of a Wall Street restaurant but it isn’t really about food service—it’s all about secrets and lies.

A chef, two hilariously trash-talking line cooks and a curiously quiet dishwasher all have things to hide and good reasons not to reveal them.

Chief secret keepers are Chef George (a perfectly cast Harry Harris, looking as dissolute as the character he plays) and dishwasher Steve (Adrian Roberts, bringing mystery to the man who asks for instruction on knife use but seems to have an excellent grasp of it already). George and Steve share painful secrets they swear not to reveal, but

Capital Stage 12th season, dubbed “Love +War” kicked off last month with How to Use a Knife.

Written by Will Snyder and directed by Michael Stevenson, it runs through October 2. The play centers on a Wall Street kitchen and its myriad, colorful characters.

Michael Stevenson, the theater’s producing artistic director, promises that the entirety of the theater’s 2016-17 run will feature “beautifully crafted stories that will excite and challenge, and ultimately take your breath away.”

It’s got thought-provoking topics, intense dramas and hilarious comedies, too.

On October 15, Tracy Lett’s August: Osage County opens. Letts won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama for this complex and layered play about a troubled Oklahoma family.

To close the year, Capital Stage’s brings back a holiday favorite, The Santaland Diaries. It’s based on the true story of writer David Sedaris’ brief stint as an elf at Macy’s during the holiday season. It opens December 7.

2017 launches with promising start on January 25 with Betrayal, directed by actress-director Janis Stevens. The Harold Pinter play documents the affair of Emma and Jerry and the little lies which contributed to its ending.

In March, Capital Stage co-founder Jonathan Williams will direct Guards at the Taj, a play set at the newly completed Taj Mahal opens March 15.

On May 3, the theater will stage Aaron Posner’s Stupid F*cking Bird, an irreverent, funny remix of Chekhov’s The Seagull.

Finally, the season ends June 21 with Bad Jews, a family drama by Joshua Harmon.

—Bev SykeS

learn more about capital stage’s 2016-17 season by visiting www.capstage.org or by calling (916) 995-5464.

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B Street Theatre regular David Pierini serves as storyteller, stand-up comic (and emcee) of this one-man show about a young man’s relationship with his depressed mother.

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A Grand Night for Singing

Any night is a good night for the music of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, especially when the tunes are presented as lovingly and well as they are in this Fair Oaks Theatre Festival production.

Deane Calvin proves herself to be an excellent chanteuse interpreter of these tunes. The remainder of the

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cast—Joe Hart, Jonathan Blum, Zane Boyer, Corey Winfield, Brittni Proffitt and Leann Frazier—acquits themselves nicely, too. F, Sa, Su 8pm. Through 9/18. $12-$18. Fair Oaks Theatre Festival, Veterans Memorial Amphitheatre, 7991 California Avenue in Fair Oaks. (916) 966-3686; www. fairoakstheatrefestival. com. J.C.

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The Last Lifeboat

The drama set on the ill-fated Titanic focuses on the ship’s builder, J. Bruce Ismay.

Amidst the catastrophe, he takes an empty seat on a lifeboat (1,500 others perished)—and then is vilified as a coward, because he didn’t “go down with the ship.” The play poses the intriguing moral question: What would you do in the same situation? F, Sa 8pm.

Through 9/10. $12-$54. Main Street Theatre Works, 1127 N. Main Street in Jackson. www.mstw.org. J.H.

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The Wild Life “These glasses would be more helpful if i could read.”

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It will probably take you, say, six minutes to read this review. That is approximately 30 seconds longer than The Wild Life will stay in your memory after you leave the theater.

The brilliant idea behind The Wild Life, its “concept” (it has no screenplay credit, and for good reason), is to tell the story of Daniel Defoe’s The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe from the point of view of the animals that Crusoe encounters when he’s marooned on that desert island. The idea isn’t new; Walt Disney did it in 1950, telling the tale of Cinderella as seen through the eyes of the mice who get transformed into the horses for her pumpkin coach.

The difference is that what Disney gave us was, in fact, Cinderella, while what directors Ben Stassen and Vincent Kesteloot have thrown together isn’t Robinson Crusoe. It’s not much of anything, really. The model here isn’t Defoe or Disney, it’s Ice Age and Madagascar and Rio—disposable, forgettable, emptycalorie gummy bear movies that make a killing at the box office for one opening weekend simply because there are hundreds of millions of parents out there who can’t think of anything else to do with their kids on a Saturday afternoon.

So what have we this time? We’ve got a parrot named Mak who tells the story in flashback to a couple of rats on the pirate ship that rescues Crusoe.

He tells them about life on the island before Crusoe came, where Mak lived with a kingfisher named Kiki, a tapir named Rosie, a goat named Scrubbers, a chameleon named Carmelo, a porcupine named

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Epi, and a God-only-knows-what named Pango.

The animals love their lazy life, but Mak longs to see the great world beyond the horizon. When Crusoe shows up, Mak sees the human as his ticket out.

When the pirates show up sometime later (long enough for Crusoe to have grown a beard), they bring with them two evil cats who plot to take over the island.

The Wild Life isn’t terrible; the animation is slick, and for what it is, it’s passable enough. But “what it is” is the problem. This Belgian-French co-production, dubbed simultaneously into French, German and English (sometimes the characters seem to be speaking English and sometimes they don’t), is utterly, doggedly, defiantly undistinguished. You can’t even play spot-the-celebrity-voice because there aren’t any.

Even on the Internet Movie Database, voices are credited several times. Take the voice Americans hear as Kiki the kingfisher, for example—is it Melanie Hinze, Lindsay Torrance (real name Marieve Herington) or Alexandra Jiménez? Does it matter? Does anyone besides their mothers care?

If the kids insist and you’ve got the money to burn … well, why not? Since you won’t remember, you can even go again next week and it’ll be new all over again.

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This is another Bechdel test-failing, steak-and-eggs genre picture from Starred Up director David Mackenzie, with another lean and hard-boiled script from Sicario screenwriter Taylor Sheridan. Chris Pine and Ben Foster star as West Texas bank robber brothers, the former a lifelong straight arrow trying to pay off a debt, the latter a loose cannon career criminal. Jeff Bridges is the gruff Texas ranger on their trail, a grizzled widower on the verge of retirement, all too eager to stave off his inevitable appointment with the rocking chair. All of the performances are strong, with Bridges especially nailing a tailormade part, but it’s hard to shake the feeling that this is essentially No Country for Old Men without the existential poetry. Hollywood used to turn out solidly constructed, midsized genre films like this by the score, but now they’re so rare that Hell or High Water practically seems like a unicorn. D.B.

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Kubo and the Two Strings

Laika CEO Travis Knight makes his feature directing debut with Kubo and the Two Strings, an ambitious stop-motion fantasy adventure about a would-be storyteller repressed by a “cold, hard, perfect” father figure. This is where it should be noted that Laika is owned by Travis’ father Phil, a co-founder of Nike and one of the richest men in the country.

I’m not sure how to apply that information, which pretty much sums up everything good but not great about Kubo. It feels like the film could (or should) be deeply personal, but it’s also a nonspecific tangle of cultural and thematic threads, with too much clutter and not enough urgency. The whole of Kubo ends up less satisfying than the sum of its set pieces … but what jaw-dropping set pieces! Kubo takes your breath away every few minutes, even as it keeps dropping more rules, back stories, explanations and stories within stories into the mix. D.B.

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Mechanic: Resurrection

Expert hit man Arthur Bishop (Jason Statham), who specializes in making his killings look like accidents, is forced out of retirement when his girlfriend (Jessica Alba) is kidnapped by an old adversary (Sam Hazeldine) who wants three underworld competitors dead. The script by Philip Shelby, Tony Mosher, Rachel Long and Brian Pittman is clumsy and far-fetched, the direction by Dennis Gansel uninspired, but somehow the movie manages to be a guilty pleasure. As Statham demonstrated with his hilarious turn in the Melissa McCarthy gem Spy, there’s something about his humorlessness that is itself amusing. Plus, the elaborate Rube Goldberg contraptions he uses to carry out his contracts are oddly satisfying. Tommy Lee Jones and Michelle Yeoh add big-name cameos. J.L.

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Writer-director Jonathan Jakubowicz unreels the story of Panamanian boxer Roberto Durán (Edgar Ramírez) and his personal and professional relationship with veteran trainer Ray Arcel (Robert De Niro). The template Jakubowicz is working from is obviously Martin Scorsese’s Raging Bull (underlined by De Niro’s presence), but neither Jakubowicz’s story nor his filmmaking technique has that kind of power; the movie subsides into a pattern of rise-andfall-and-rise-again familiar from countless boxing movies from Body and Soul to Rocky and beyond. Still, it’s well-mounted and well-acted by a cast that includes Rubén Blades as Durán’s manager, Usher Raymond IV as Sugar Ray Leonard, John Turturro as a shadowy Mafia figure and Ana de Armas as Durán’s wife (making the most of a spotty and underwritten role). J.L.

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A “risk management consultant” (Kate Mara) arrives at a scientific lab to evaluate her company’s latest secret experiment: an organism generated from artificial

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The Light Between Oceans

In the 1920s, at a desolate spot on the rockbound Australian coast, a lighthouse keeper (Michael Fassbender) and his wife (Alicia Vikander), after two miscarriages, find a dead man and a crying baby washed ashore in a rowboat. They decide to raise the child as their own—until the husband meets the baby’s mother (Rachel Weisz). Arthouse darling Derek Cianfrance goes mainstream, writing and directing an adaptation of M.L. Stedman’s bestselling novel, with splendid results. The movie is superbly acted by the three stars and a largely unfamiliar (except for Jack Thompson and Bryan Brown) supporting cast. Cianfrance’s approach is calm and unhurried without being plodding or turgid, taking time to observe the telling detail and the emotions roiling behind the characters’ eyes. A deeply affecting movie. J.L.

DNA that, in only five years, has developed to the point where it looks for all the world like an 18-year-old woman (Anya Taylor-Joy)—but one as volatile and unpredictable as nitroglycerin.

The movie has a good cast—Rose Leslie, Toby Jones, Michelle Yeoh, Paul Giamatti—though Mara and Taylor-Joy have the most to do and make the strongest impressions. There’s a sleek and sterile look to it that makes it cold and slightly repellent, but it holds our interest, albeit without building much suspense. Director Luke Scott telegraphs the climactic twist in Seth W. Owen’s script so clearly that we almost ignore it, thinking it’s just a red herring. J.L.

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Morris from America

This low-key gem from writer-director Chad Hartigan arrives just in time to redeem an entire summer’s worth of crass and mindless destruction at the multiplex. Teenage actor Markees Christmas stars as Morris Gentry, an aspiring rapper and typically hormonal 13 year-old boy who moves to Germany with his ex-footballer father Curtis (a revelatory Craig Robinson) following the death of his mother. As Curtis tells Morris, they’re “the only two brothers in Heidelberg,” and the usual pitfalls of pubescence are magnified by Morris’ outsider status in the culture and with the language. Morris from America isn’t shy about rolling around in genre tropes—it manages to be a fish-out-of-water story, a coming-of-age story and a slice-of-life all at once—but it rarely comes across as false or forced. Credit Hartigan for transcending the potential highconcept fuzziness of the premise by keeping the film grounded in authentic moments of adolescent angst and longing. D.B.

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Southside with You

Tika Sumpter and Parker Sawyers play young Michelle Robinson and Barack Obama in this slight but sweet offering from first-time writer-director Richard Tanne. The film follows the future FLOTUS and POTUS on their first date in the summer of 1989, although Michelle is adamant from the beginning that it’s not a “date,” fearful that dating an entrylevel associate at her law firm could be viewed as “tacky.” Over the course of a day, the chain-smoking Barack gradually wears down Michelle’s resistance, with each giving the other a glimpse into their inner fears and de-

sires, as well as a vision of the towering people they would become. They go to an art gallery, they have a picnic in the park, they get ice cream, Barack gives a speech in a church—it’s so respectful I could barely keep my eyes open, but first-rate performances from Sumpter and Sawyers pulled me through. D.B.

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Suicide Squad

At this point, even the most die-hard comic book movie apologists would have to admit that the superhero genre is stuck in a rut. The genre demands reinvention, but for all of the chest-beating swagger and style of David Ayer’s Suicide Squad, the needle hardly even flinches. A screenwriter turned director who excels at stories of violent group dynamics (Fury; Sabotage), Ayer probably squeezes the most disreputable fun into this PG-13 film as he was allowed. Yet all of the symptoms of the disease are still present: a surplus of origin stories, supervillains with nebulous motivations, and a choppy plot forced to serve too many masters.

Suicide Squad spreads so thin that it only makes time for one layer of character development, even for the characters we actually come to care about. There is so much universe-building and overexplaining that the movie frequently forgets to have any fun. D.B.

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War Dogs

In the early days of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, two 20-something slackers, Efraim Diveroli (Jonah Hill) and David Packouz (Miles Teller) hustle their way into the international arms business, making hundredmillion-dollar deals between bong hits and lines of coke. Todd Phillips’ direction is typically jerky and unsubtle, but his script (co-written with Steven Chin and Jason Smilovic, from Guy Lawson’s Rolling Stone article and subsequent book) follows the facts of Diveroli and Packouz’s true story fairly closely. And that’s enough—the mind-boggling chutzpah of these two sleazeballs (plus Hill and Teller’s strong performances) keep us watching in fascination. Packouz (who plays a bit part) comes off as more sympathetic, suggesting that he cooperated with the filmmakers more than Diveroli did. J.L.

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“Part of our style is not really knowing how to play,” Mayo says.

“Even if I tried my absolute hardest to rip off a band, I couldn’t.”

They enlisted bassist Jordan Trucano and drummer Adam Jennings, which helped not only refine their riffs and assemble actual songs, but the four clicked.

The songs have an exciting vibe that sounds like four people all riffing off one another.

This is what happens when you get drunk and jam.

Even the writing is a group project.

“We all help each other write parts because all of us can pretty much play everything,” Mayo says.

These past couple of years have been quite a The debut record, Fun Colors, was released in roller coaster ride for local quartet Little Tents. The May of 2015. It’s a short and sweet collection of eclectic punk rock band quickly developed a lot seven tunes, most of which date back to their earliof buzz around town, scored some excellent gigs, est practices. The record is fun, fast and scattered released a killer record and even wrote material for musically, but the lyrics deal with a lot of struggles, a second. trials and tribulations that Mayo, Motzer and But it may be a while before that new album sees Trucano were going through, which they sang—and the light of day. This upcoming show on Friday, screamed—cathartically.

September 9, at Blue Lamp will be the group’s final When they uploaded the album to Bandcamp, for the foreseeable future. Guitarist and vocalist without putting much effort into promoting it, Lys Mayo is moving to Georgia for a work they were shocked it got more than 100 opportunity. streams within the first 24 hours.

“I haven’t even left yet, and I am “Even now, I’ll go to Bandcamp already looking forward to coming and see that people are still listen“Part of our back,” Mayo says. “Sacramento is ing to it, which is kind of weird,” my home, and while I really need style is not really Motzer says. “Usually when a to get out of this place for a few knowing how to play.” band puts out a record it’s like, years, I know ultimately I will ‘Cool check it out,’ then you settle down here.”

Lys Mayo forget about it. But people are Still, she acknowledges nothing singer and guitarist, still checking it out.” is certain. The group discussed Little Tents After the release of Fun trying to record the new album before Colors, attention for the group only she left, but finally decided that doing so increased. It got some of its best gigs would be rushing things. in the past year, including a spot in 2016’s A few years earlier, Mayo wouldn’t have Concert in the Park series. even imagined discussing recording an album of “Audrey and I were both going through a pretty songs she wrote on guitar and sang on. Up until dark time in our lives, and that’s what the record was Little Tents, she had only ever been the drummer born out of,” Mayo says. “This band allowed me to in bands—same with fellow singer and guitarist really get out of my head and express things that I Audrey Motzer. Ω Prior to official band formation, Mayo and Motzer haven’t been able to in the past.” would get together, get drunk and jam on their guitars. They bonded over their drumming histories and felt comfortable exploring their new instruments and singing abilities together. There was no real intention behind the music they were playing, but

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spotlight in the corner of Blue Lamp, a man wearing a unicorn mask bobbed his head along with his stick horse. Occasionally, they exchanged glances. Meanwhile, a handful of people wearing plaid pajama pants shyly danced along to the rap stylings of Hobo Johnson onstage.

These were the surreal surroundings of Cosmic Cantina, an evening (with PJs encouraged) organized by the indie-electro self-proclaimed “unicorn princess,” SpaceWalker. Two dozen people drank in the lounge on a sleepy Thursday night—it was like

an Edward Hopper scene bedazzled with the random humor of the internet age.

Despite the slim school-night audience, Hobo Johnson and his band delivered a performance worthy of a bigger stage. Lead man Frank Lopes’ self-deprecating rap lyrics and casual vocal fry compelled listeners to stop and think more than dance. “Good luck to my future wives and their future lives without me—you guys will do great. I’m sure that I’ve prepared you for every guy you’ll date and every guy you’ll marry and … every guy you’ll hate!” In a genre known for its machismo and self-hyping, it was refreshing—even charming—to hear the rapper trash talk himself.

Despite Lopes’ unconfident airs, his band performed with skilled musicianship. A shirtless electric guitarist wearing a thick, gold spiral chain played a mean slide guitar that explored the upper registers with ease. “Jimi Hendrix!” shouted an audience member wearing an old baseball cap. (Earlier, the same man had requested a classic rock song by helpfully singing “Bam, bam, bam, bam …” Lopes said, good-naturedly, “You’re at the wrong show right now.”) Meanwhile, SpaceWalker kept spirits high by dancing through the crowd with her blinking, rainbow hair extensions and Guitar Hero pajama pants.

When So Much Light took the stage, the atmosphere became like a funky church congregation. Videos showing the inside of a cathedral played out on a projector behind local one-manband Damien Verrett, who recently signed with ANTI- Records. His crystalline falsetto rang out over the booming 808 machine and the tsk-tsk of upper synth beats.

“This is only the second time I’ve played this song in front of humans,” he said in the middle of his set. Then, Verrett performed a song stripped bare of his usual loop pedal and synths. Instead, it was only his fluttering vibrato and soulful guitar playing—a sweet lullaby to a PJ-clad audience. The unicorn man continued head-bobbing, and it felt like part of the collective dream.

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40-or-so in attendance at Cafe Colonial last Thursday, it was clear that Hatchet Job stole the show.

Featuring members of sadly defunct acts Pounded Clown, Los Huevos, Filibuster, Scenes From The Struggle and more, this was one for the Sacramento band history books. Also on the bill was Government Flu from Poland along with Sacramento’s Cross Class and Bad Outlets.

Led by Ed Hunter (guitar and vocals), Hatchet Job ripped through a raucous, upbeat set that recalled early Clash, British reggae and oi! punk rock.

And while the frontman struggled to coerce concertgoers to move closer to the stage, there was no shortage of approval and head nods.

Some of the group’s quirkiest numbers included “Fryolator Man,” “Kidney Stone” and the oddly-yetappropriately titled “Disremember,” which proved the quartet was comfortable playing cut time and straightforward grooves.

Drummer C.B. laid down some awkward grooves and played traditional style—loose grip like the jazz greats—in one hand and straight on the other with great effect, while bassist Alan Fulatone provided the low-end rumble. Guitarist Bill Econome filled in the dead spots with cool, simplistic lead licks rather than applying speed and nonsensical notes. A snare drum broke mid-set, but that didn’t stop highlights such as “Torture Drone” and the shuffling rhythms of “Mack The Knife.”

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Red Lion WoodLake HoteL, 8 p.m., $35-$89 Will there ever be another song that’s a better fit for staring mournfully out the window, pretending to be the star of a music video, than “Wicked Games”? I have my doubts. Fans whose knowledge spans beyond that oft-covered track and “Baby Did a Bad, Bad Thing” may already know that this concert is a momentous one, but for the SOFT ROCK rest of you out there: Isaak is on tour in support of his first album in six years, First Comes the Night.

An expansive record that came from time spent in Nashville, fans new and old will find much to enjoy with the charismatic singer songwriter’s latest effort. 500 Leisure Lane, www.chrisisaak.com.

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Hot Flash Heat Wave is what would happen if a young, tongue-in-cheek Weezer spent its nights in a garage and its days ROCK on the beach. Now based in San Francisco, the group returns to the valley this weekend. This four-man band of highschool buddies hit the scene in 2015 when its catchy surf-rock “Gutter Girl” single made waves in indie circles. Since releasing its debut album Neapolitan in September 2015 and a four-track vinyl Love Crimes this summer, Hot Flash Heat Wave continues its rise in the Bay Area music scene with laidback glee. 1901 10th Street, https://hotflash heatwave.bandcamp.com.

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OK Echo just might be a performance art-pop group. The songs are catchy, but they are really weird. Take bizarre jazz chords, mix it with Talking Heads grooves and smooth it over with some ’70s AM radio breezy pop vocals. It’s actually stranger than that.

There’s footage of the group playing inside of an art installation. Something tells me this isn’t the first time members have ART-POP melded with their background as part of their performance. The group is still relatively new, the brainchild of San Franciscan Andrew Boylan. His live ensemble breathes funky life into the rhythms, and brings beauty with the vocal harmonies.

1400 E Street, Suite A; www.okecho.net.

Much of the time, the 21-and-under music crowd is excluded from venues for a variety of reasons like booze and late-night hours (or because they don’t own fake ALT-ROCK IDs). But this summer there’s a solution: The UnderRAGE Music Festival is an all-day event that features bands all under 21 years old. Hosted by the alternative rock band URD-OM (pictured), the festival brings together myriad genres with more than just age in common, but also a passion for music. Performances include pop-rock three-piece Simpl3Jack, reggae rock band Nothin’ Special, metalheads Fortress Unified from Manteca and more. 3520 Stockton Boulevard, www.facebook.com/urdom.

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Harlow’s restaurant & nigHtclub, 7:30 p.m., $7 It’s been two years since J. Sirus’ Varsity Blues album. The Sacramento-by-way-ofGalt rapper is breaking the silence with the release of the Another Friday EP. He’s kept the forthcoming record under lock and key until the release party—no streams Rap or singles. That said, J. Sirus’ back catalog that includes 2013’s Smallville and 2012’s Mister JetPack illustrates four years of steadily improving work. Varsity Blues was the breakout, and with so much work in his wake, J. Sirus won’t regress to the junior varsity or serve up a sophomore slump. 2708 J Street, www.facebook.com/OfficialJSirus.

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Harlow’s restaurant & nigHtclub, 8 p.m., $15-$18 Chuck Ragan has been playing music for almost 30 years, as varied as his post-punk band Hot Water Music in the ’90s to his current formation as the traveling singersongwriter known for wearing his heart on his sleeve. His signature raspy voice and traditional American song compositions make for some feel good rock ’n’ roll. There ROCk are no tricks here—no sarcasm or morbid existentialism masquerading as droll dance music. Ragan is about earnest love songs and unabashedly uplifting lyrics coupled with rootsy, working-man’s rock.

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—Lil Uzi Verde The federal part. Sorry, dude. Cannabis is still a Schedule I drug, therefore, any medical cannabis user is an “illegal drug user,” according to the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms. It is against the law to knowingly sell a gun to someone that uses federally illegal drugs. This is a drag for cannabis-using gun enthusiasts, but no problem for drunks. Booze isn’t illegal. Plus, we all know that drunk people are extremely responsible gun owners.

This is one of those things that can be fixed by removing cannabis from the list of controlled substances. Cannabis users shouldn’t have to give up their constitutional right to bear arms just because they like a little weed. A few years ago, the Oregon Supreme Court ruled that medical cannabis users had the right to purchase guns and to obtain concealed carry permits, but a new ruling from the Ninth Circuit supersedes the Oregon court’s decision.

The thing is, the federal background database does not include any information on whether or not someone is a medical cannabis user, If you didn’t but the form the feds have you fill out before bring any weed, you buy a gun will ask if you are a user of illegal drugs. I mean, you could lie, but lying you can’t talk to the feds is a serious offense. The legal any shit. repercussions from such a purchase could be significant. If the feds come after you and you have guns at your grow site, they would be able to add a “gun enhancement” charge, which could add years to your sentence if you are found guilty.

The federal government is going to have to come to grips with the fact that cannabis legalization is pretty much unstoppable right now. Federal law is going to have to adjust to this new reality and stop discriminating against law-abiding cannabis users.

How do you handle it when someone packs a bowl of schwag when you’re used to chronic? Also, I don’t smoke tobacco, so should I say no to the blunt when it gets passed to me?

—Ed. T. Kett Eh, smoke the weed and says thanks. We are very spoiled in California. We forget that most states don’t have cannabis dispensaries and delivery services. If someone offers you some schwag, it probably won’t kill you to take a puff or two. Perhaps you can offer them some of your fantastically delicious cannabis. If you didn’t bring any weed, you can’t talk any shit. If you did bring some weed, maybe you can offer to match a bowl and smoke the betterflavored pot as a nice dessert. And as to blunts: Don’t give in to peer pressure. If you say something like “No, thank you. I don’t smoke tobacco,” while you pass the blunt to someone else, no one will care, as long as you pass the blunt. Just because you don’t smoke it doesn’t mean you can’t touch it. Don’t eff up the rotation. Ω Ngaio Bealum is a Sacramento comedian, activist and marijuana expert.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In accordance with

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Profane time happens when you’re engulfed in the daily grind. Swarmed by a relentless flurry of immediate concerns, you are held hostage by the chatter of your monkey mind. Being in sacred time attunes you to the relaxing hum of eternity.

It enables you to be in intimate contact with your soul’s deeper agenda, and affords you extra power to transform yourself in harmony with your noble desires and beautiful intentions.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): About 1.7 million years ago, our human ancestors began using primitive hand axes made from rocks. This technology remained in use for over 60,000 generations before anyone invented more sophisticated tools and implements. Science writer Marcus Chown refers to this period as “the million years of boredom.” Its slow pace contrasts sharply with technology’s brisk evolution in the last 140 years.

In 1880, there were no cars, planes, electric lights, telephones, TVs or internet. I surmise that you’re leaving your own phase of relatively slow progress, Gemini. In the coming months, I expect your transformations will progress with increasing speed—starting soon.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Prediction No. 1: You

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Prediction No. 2: You will tickle the attention of interesting people who could ultimately provide you with clues you will need to thrive in 2017. Prediction No. 3: You will discover secrets of how to articulate complicated feelings and subtle ideas that have been locked inside you. Prediction No. 4: You’ll begin a vibrant conversation that will continue to evolve for a long time.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You know you have a

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Here’s an edited version of the message I’ve been sending: “Cultivate your tenacity, darling.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Is “Big Bang” the

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The last few weeks

have been fraught with rich plot twists, naked dates with destiny and fertile turning points. I expect there will be further intrigue in the near future. In light of the likelihood that the sweetand-sour, confusing-and-revelatory drama will continue, I encourage you to keep your levels of relaxed intensity turned up high. More than I’ve seen in a long time, you have the magic and the opportunity to transform what needs to be transformed.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In the coming days, you will have more than your usual access to help and guidance. Divine interventions are possible. Special dispensations and charmed coincidences, too. If you don’t believe in fairy dust, magic beans and lucky potions, maybe you should set that prejudice aside for a while.

Subtle miracles are more likely to bestow their gifts if your reasonable theories don’t get in the way. Here’s an additional tip: Don’t get greedy.

Use the openings you’re offered with humility and gratitude.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): When my

daughter Zoe was growing up, I wanted her to be familiar with the origins of ordinary stuff that she benefited from. That’s why I took her to small farms where she could observe the growth and harvest of organic food crops. We visited manufacturing facilities where cars, furniture, toys and kitchen sinks were built. She saw bootmakers creating boots and professional musicians producing songs in recording studios. And much more. I would love it if you would give yourself comparable experiences in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. It’s an excellent time to commune with the sources of things that nurture you and make your life better.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Unless you

were brought up by a herd of feral donkeys, the coming weeks will be an excellent time to embark on your second childhood. Unless you’re allergic to new ideas, the foreseeable future will bring you strokes of curious luck that inspire you to change and change and change your mind. And unless you are addicted to your same old stale comforts, life will offer you chances to explore frontiers that could expose you to thrilling new comforts.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): These days,

my dear, your eccentric beauty is even more unkempt than usual. I like it. It entertains and charms me. And as for your idiosyncratic intelligence: That, too, is messier and cuter and even more interesting than ever before. I’m inclined to encourage you to milk this unruly streak for all its potential. Maybe it will provoke you to experiment in situations where you’ve been too accepting of the stagnant status quo. And perhaps it will embolden you to look for love and money in more of the right places.

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PHOTO BY JON HERMISON

Hot wheels A few dozen bicyclists gather at Suzie Burger. As they wait for sundown, an assortment of fixies, cruisers, mountain bikes and more crowd the popular burger joint. The pack rides through the grid, bookended by strange vehicles with large handlebars and lights, blasting old-school R&B and soul, their riders sporting vests with logos. Meet the riders of Contagious Wheels, a Sacramentobased bike club, and their leader, Carl Crump. For $25 a month, you too can become a member of this quirky club.

SN&R chatted with Crump to talk about the club’s beginnings, the labor that goes into his custom creations and whether his glowing bikes are the natural enemies of the brew bikes.

How did Contagious Wheels get started?

I had an old bike frame in the garage, and I kept looking at it every day. I said, “Man, what I’ma do with this bike?” It was an allchrome bike. And then one day I said, “Man, let me fix this bike up.” And I started fixing it up, and all of a sudden everybody starting saying, “Oh, that’s a nice bike!” So I start doing other stuff to it, making it unique. And then, after that, my other buddy came and said, “Man, Carl, you got something going.” … I said, “You know what, I’ma start a bike club.” We was putting, like, big ol’ ape hanger handle bars on it, rims, chrome fenders, pumps, lights—the lights was the most exciting thing of the bike.

I’ve seen a glowing trike around downtown before.

Yeah. See, there, you see the lights going. … We started that, actually. Nobody—when we first done it, I didn’t see no one have any lights. It was—we started, our club. Actually, it was me and Rich [Jones]—you know, me

and the vice president, started that. You know, we came up there to a bike event that they give—you know they have a Second Saturday at Suzie Burger, and we—that’s the first time we showed off our lights, and they said … “Where you guys get them from?”

Back in 2012?

We got it, like, later on in 2012. I seen them, I said, “Rich, we need to get these and make it happen. We can hook them up to batteries, and then put them in a box, and do this.” Me and him, we do all the bikes—we build them, too. All our bikes our custom. We buy the frame and fix them up from there.

How much does it cost to build?

It depends what you want. The bikes can go up as high as $3,000, like mine’s and [Rich’s].

We got the two more expensive bikes around. Just our music is over $1,000, just our music.

Say someone steals one of these bikes.

Yeah, they wouldn’t be able to. [laughs] Once they get on it, they wouldn’t be able to ride it.

Yeah, you got to really be used to the bikes.

And plus, once we have them we put them up in the garage and lock it. … You know, it’s like stealing one of them Tour de France bikes. …

You try to sell it to one of them shops, they say, “Hey, you guys got this from so-and-so.

This bike is—they looking for this.”

Talk to me about these lights.

The lights kill everything. There was a group of Harley Davidson, real motorcycle bikes on the side of the street, parked in Old Sacramento. We came up. We was about—I’d say we was probably about 17 deep that time, and parked our bikes like them, except across from them. We turned on the lights and played a little music; these guys said, “Hey.” They was coming to us and said, “You guys got it going on. You know

what, you guys too much for us—we gotta go. You guys taking the whole show.” … They congratulated me and Rich and said, “Man, you guys, that is real nice, man. You guys get more action than us.” I said, “Yeah.” But they left and we had a ball that day—all kinds of people came over.

Any run-ins with the police?

They’ve been nice to us. Other people, they have hard times with the cops. Man, but with us, they just say, “Hey, just keep it down a little.” See, and then it got to do with the music you play. They don’t like that hard rap. The cops’ll really get on you more than anything. See, we usually do old school.

They’re real cool. They say, “Hey, I love it, but just a little bit, just give it a little bit.”

Do you guys see the brew bikes as competition?

No competition. Yeah, they came to us for ideas. You know the one where the one guy is in it, and then he has, like, two [riders] in the back? Not the big one—he talked to us, too—but the main guy that talked to us is the one. We talked to him in Old Sac one day, he had the two people in the back, and he be riding it. He came to us and we talked to him for about half an hour. Talking about, “Man, how can I get music and lights like that?”

Next thing we know, we see him again, his whole thing is lit up. Man, he done it up—it looks way nicer now, he gets more attention.

They used to make fun of us. That was the whole—I said, “Richard, don’t worry about it. They gonna make fun of us right now, but watch how many people wanna join.” Ω

Learn more about Carl Crump and Contagious Wheels at www.facebook.com/carl.crump.716.

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