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33 Our Mission: To publish great newspapers that are successful and enduring. To create a quality work environment that encourages employees to grow professionally while respecting personal welfare. To have a positive impact on our communities and make them better places to live. Editor Rachel Leibrock Associate Editor Raheem F. Hosseini Arts & Culture Editor Janelle Bitker Assistant Editor Anthony Siino Editorial Services Coordinator Karlos Rene Ayala Staff Reporter Scott Thomas Anderson Contributors Daniel Barnes, Ngaio Bealum, Alastair Bland, Rob Brezsny, Aaron Carnes, Jim Carnes, Willie Clark, Deena Drewis, Joey Garcia, Cosmo Garvin, Blake Gillespie, Lovelle Harris, Jeff Hudson, Dave Kempa, Jim Lane, Kel Munger, Kate Paloy, Patti Roberts, Ann Martin Rolke, Shoka, Bev Sykes, Graham Womack Editorial Intern Jeremy Winslow

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Winter’s worry This morning I awoke to a chill. With this first snap of autumn, I donned a jacket in anticipation of fleetingly cooler temps. Eventually, we’ll settle into a brisk fall, and then winter. It’s my favorite time, but for others it makes for worry and hardship. A reader’s email in my inbox today, for example, gave me pause: “I am going to be homeless in a few days and I need some help … Can you let me know if they allowed tent city. I need a place to sleep.” The reader, who wished to remain anonymous, was asking about progress on a proposed city-sanctioned homeless encampment. The proposal came after homeless advocate Mark Merin toured Seattle’s tent city in March. Later, he urged Sacramento’s City Council to approve a permit for his own such encampment on land he owns downtown. The request came five years after Mayor Kevin Johnson promised to explore the idea of a tent city—and dedicate more services to the homeless. Initially, council seemed interested in learning more about the request. Then, perhaps not surprisingly, it backed off it. City Councilman Steve Hansen, whose district would house the proposed site, told The Sacramento Bee, “I anticipate the residents who are already heavily impacted by the homeless folks in that neighborhood will be significantly opposed to this.” Those residents will also enjoy warmth and shelter. As Seattle has demonstrated, there are ways to help the homeless without significantly burdening those who live nearby. It’s time for council to revisit Merin’s proposal. If not a tent city, then something else progressive, efficient and humane. Time is running out.

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Unconscious racism by physicians may be contributing to the disparities in HIV care for gay and bisexual men of color.

AIDS’ racism problem In Sacramento and nationwide, HIV continues to plague gay and bisexual men of color by D. Antoinette thompson AnD RAheem F. hosseini

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Every day, Pedro (not his real name) takes a dose of Atripla, an anti-viral drug that suppresses the human immunodeficiency virus that’s coursed through his bloodstream for more than a decade. He rarely experiences the side effects he says all HIV medications have, like fatigue and aches, sweating and nausea, and disorientation. Overall, he says he feels good, healthy, lucky. A 62-year-old Latino man who asked not to be identified, Pedro has lived with HIV since a 2001 diagnosis. And, in both Sacramento and across the nation, he’s a sign of how much has changed—and | 09.15.16

how much remains the same. As HIV infection rates continue to decline for white men who have sex with other men, the number of gay and bisexual men of color with or at risk for HIV is now epidemic in scope, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A CDC report issued earlier this year estimates that one quarter of all Hispanic men and half of all African-American men having sex with men in the United States will be diagnosed with HIV during their lifetimes. In Sacramento County, bleak disparities also persist. According to local data, new HIV cases more than doubled between

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2006 and the end of 2013 for Hispanics. Similarly, newly diagnosed AIDS cases doubled for blacks over that same period. Even as the health prognosis improves for those who have contracted the virus, it continues to overwhelm gay and bisexual men of color. There are numerous reasons for this, but the chasmic disparity haunts a compassionate battle that’s well into its fourth decade. “The social determinants of health such as poverty, discrimination and stigma are fueling the epidemic of HIV and other STDs among gay men of color,” AIDS Healthcare Foundation President Michael Weinstein said in

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a statement. “Until a ‘for us, by us’ approach that empowers these men themselves is adopted these terrible numbers will persist.” Before he was diagnosed, Pedro experienced the worst of the AIDS panic, during the late 1980s and early ‘90s, when he says he provided local home care to 37 people infected with HIV. “Some of them were friends,” he said. “They were all taking AZT [an antiretroviral medication] and they all died.” The effectiveness of new anti-viral drugs, including the one he takes, reminds him what it was like to be HIV positive when the disease was not well understood and medications were difficult to obtain and less effective. He thought those dark days were over. In 2013, the last year for which data was

available, Sacramento County recorded 132 new HIV diagnoses, of which black and Latino residents accounted for 71, more than half. (The state’s public health open data portal says that Sacramento County actually recorded 168 new HIV cases that year.)

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partnerships with community-based organizations that target high-risk populations. Yet those groups are few and far between.

lower than whites. The only ethnic group with lower treatment and suppression rates than African-Americans was American Indian/Alaska Native. Since 1999, the federal government clarmundo Sullivan is the executive has funneled grant money into a program director of Golden Rule Services, the only that’s supposed to deal with such disparities local HIV/AIDs outreach and education head-on. Last fiscal year, $52.2 million organization that primarily serves people was awarded through the Minority AIDS of color. Initiative to aid “racial and ethnic minorities Golden Rule conducts outreach and who bear a disproportionate burden of HIV education activities at its Florin Road office disease,” according to the U.S. Department and at local venues where people of color of Health and Human Services. are likely to congregate socially. And yet, a 2013 audit by the U.S. According to Sullivan, providGovernment Accountability ing HIV testing and inforOffice found that much mation at places like of the initiative money concerts, churches and is spent on redundant bars permits at-risk services already Local African-American populations to be provided through core tested in low-stress HIV/AIDS funding. deaths from HIV/AIDS environments. AHF President reached a six-year high Social settings Weinstein in 2012. can also appeal complained that the to populations initiative money “has that may be more largely gone unspent or distrustful of medical been granted to organizaproviders, according to tions that do not have the multiple studies, including cultural competence to reach a 2013 one on medical mistrust these men.” among HIV-infected African-Americans, Another barrier to seeking HIV testing published in the Journal of Psychology and care in communities of color is the and Behavioral Science. stigma associated with being perceived of as But Golden Rule is just one outfit, gay or bisexual, Packey noted. and Sullivan says he’s witnessed firstSome studies, including a 2013 hand the persistence of racial disparities one on stigma and racial and ethnic in local HIV outreach. HIV disparities published in American According to Sullivan, many gay and Psychologist, indicate that, culturally, bisexual men of color navigate multiple there’s a disconnect between sexual stigmas in their daily lives, including behavior and sexual identify that leads race and class discrimination, internalmany gay or bisexual men of color to ized homophobia, poverty, lack of lead closeted lives. education, disproportionate contact with Thomas (not his real name) used to the criminal justice system and limited be one of those men. A Sacramento resiemployment opportunities. dent in his 50s, Thomas, who does not He says poverty can translate to have HIV, describes himself as a black a lack of transportation, for instance, man first, and as gay second. But he which makes it more difficult to obtain didn’t always acknowledge the second prevention or treatment services. part. Before he came out, there was a And that makes a difference, Pedro period when he struggled to square his says. “Even getting off your medicasexuality with his religious beliefs. tion for a few days you can become “[There’s] homophobia in black re-exposed to different HIV strains,” he churches,” he said. “Nobody wants to be explained. ostracized by the only community that Sometimes it means getting no care recognizes you.” at all. In Pedro’s case, embracing his health According to an Office of Aids status may have improved his access to review of HIV medical care in the state, post-diagnosis care. African-Americans who were diagnosed “The critical piece is accepting your with HIV and alive at the end of 2014 diagnosis,” he said. “Unfortunately, the were only 67 percent likely to obtain cultural stigma for men of color, and treatment and only 49 percent likely to Hispanic men, is a barrier to seeking a suppress the virus, 13 percentage points diagnosis and/or treatment.” Ω

One of the accomplishments councilman Allen Warren touted on his road to a decisive June reelection is no longer coming to pass. According to the Sacramento Business Journal, the Petrovich Development Co. has reneged on a plan to bring a grocery outlet to a fresh-food desert in Warren’s district after the developer got into yet another dispute with the city. “Citing uncertainty over city fees for the project, developer Paul Petrovich said he’s dropping plans for a 15,000-square-foot grocery store in North Sacramento,” the Business Journal reported August 22. Petrovich complained to the Business Journal that city inspection fees were being run up on his plans to lease the 1.25-acre lot to Grocery Outlet Inc. During his reelection campaign, Warren claimed he engineered the incoming Grocery Outlet through a few well-placed phone calls. Petrovich confirmed the accuracy of the Business Journal story, but declined to answer additional questions when contacted by SN&R. “I have never been treated fairly by SN&R and I therefore have no comment,” Petrovich wrote in an email. “It never does me any good and anything I say is turned against my efforts.” Petrovich is in a legal battle with the city over another one of his projects, a planned housing development in the Curtis Park neighborhood, which has stalled over residents’ opposition to a proposed fueling center. Petrovich has said the fueling center is necessary to attract a Safeway grocery store to the project’s envisioned commercial center, but the city council refused to grant him a conditional use permit to build it. Before suing the city in February, Petrovich worried some residents by floating the idea of bringing a discount grocery chain—like Grocery Outlet—to the neighborhood instead. But what is anathema to one Sacramento neighborhood is highly desired in another. “Our entire community just desperately needs a grocery market,” said North Sacramento resident Rob Kerth, who represented District 2 on the city council before Warren. “And if it’s not going to go there, we’re not going to get it.” (Raheem F. Hosseini)

don’t Fence Soccer in? As development of the long-dormant railyards finally takes shape, a security measure intended to enclose a proposed stadium has divided city officials and the local soccer club that hopes to enter the major leagues. Sacramento Republic FC, which currently plays at Bonney Field as a member of the United Soccer League, wants to use the planned stadium to become a major league Soccer team. It’s discussed putting a temporary chain-link fence on the west exterior side of the facility on game days for security purposes. But city officials aren’t fond of the idea. “Staff has got issues with a portable chain-link fence surrounding this beautiful facility,” Bruce Monighan, urban design manager for the city, told the city’s planning and design commission on September 8. Outer fences aren’t necessarily commonplace for stadiums. Raley Field for the Sacramento River Cats, for instance, allows anyone to walk to its entrance gates, though it only allows ticket-holders inside the stadium. Jeff Dorso, an attorney representing Sac Republic, said chain-link fences may become more commonplace. “It’s not presently a requirement for MLS, but you’re seeing a lot of sports leagues making that a requirement,” he told the commission. The team will also have an inner, “secured perimeter” directly around the stadium. The fence could be decided in the coming weeks. (Graham Womack)

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Flame war Sacramento city officials and firefighters’ union spar over media coverage by Scott thomaS anderSon

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with battling blazes. He added that early- to The end of summer hasn’t cooled debate about mid-afternoon is when the largest emergency call the future of the Sacramento Fire Department, volume happens, though SFD has equal levels of or stopped public officials from blasting media staffing 24 hours a day. outlets as they try to extinguish questions about “This speaks volumes about where we’re at as response times. a fire department,” Shirey told council members. In June, SN&R reported that the city firefight“We’re really in a different business than when we ers’ union, Sacramento Area Firefighters Local started a long time ago, and we need to make sure 522, was blocking efforts by city management we’re evolving with the times.” to dig out of a financial hole by using more In its June 2 post, Local 522 defended dualsingle-role paramedics on its ambulances rather role firefighters by saying that the department than more costly, dual-trained firefighters. (See responded to more than 2,500 fire calls last year. “Fighting for double duty,” by Patrick Groves, Still, the schism between frontline firefighters June 2, 2016.) The article drew sharp criticism on and department brass may grow. the union’s official Facebook page, which claimed To address response times—as well as how in a June 2 post that SN&R didn’t understand mentally ill patients are handled and the city’s what firefighters “need to be able to do their job.” projected $36 million budget deficit in On September 6, it was City Manager 2019—fire Chief Walt White said he’s John Shirey’s turn to complain about been working with CityGate on local media coverage of the developing a proposed master fire department as he decried plan for the department, which television reporters at CBS is due to be unveiled at the 13 and News10 for what he “So the story was put out city’s Budget and Audit implied was an inability to Committee in October. understand a recent consulthat we’re somehow failing. When asked by tant’s report on firefighting That’s not true.” Councilman Jeff Harris response times. if union leaders had been Shirey’s chiding arrived City Manager John Shirey included in developing on the heels of a new the master plan, White said analysis by the public safety they absolutely had been, consulting firm CityGate which prompted Councilwoman Associates, which recently Angelique Ashby to challenge his determined, among other things, that testimony. Sacramento firefighters respond to emer“I don’t believe that the men and women of gencies slightly behind the national gold standard the fire department believe they’ve had a seat for urban areas. But that doesn’t mean they’re at the table,” Ashby told the chief. “So, while I slow, Shirey said during a city council meeting would love to believe that we don’t need to direct last week. [the chief to include the union], I’m asking for “These are standards that are not indicative of you to make sure that what you’ve said to council national averages,” he explained. “They’re stanmember Harris is true—that [Local 522] actually dards that many fire departments struggle to meet. do feel they’ve been a part of the process.” So the story was put out that we’re somehow Ashby made a motion to require White to failing. That’s not true.” include Local 522 in the planning stages. While In criticizing the “miss-impressions” spread by other council members advised White to keep a TV coverage, Shirey went on to say that the real dialogue going with the union, no one seconded story of CityGate’s analysis is that SFD is overAshby’s motion to force him to do anything staffed with dual-trained firefighter-paramedics, specific. As previously reported by SN&R, Ashby which the union disputes. has received more than $284,000 in campaign The consultant’s review of call logs indicates donations from Local 522. Ω that 91 percent of SFD’s calls for service involve medical emergencies, and 7 percent are requests for hospital transports—meaning 98 percent Web extra: An extended version of this story is available online at of the department’s calls have nothing to do www.newsreview.com/sacramento.

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A final ruling with potentially significant implications for out-of-hospital birthing practices in California was postponed this month in a Sacramento courtroom. Sacramento midwife Ruth Cummings is battling the California Board of Registered Nursing, which formally accused her in May 2013 of failing to recognize a pregnant client was experiencing early labor pains during a 2010 phone conversation. Three days after that conversation, the client experienced a stillbirth at an emergency room. (See “Midwives under attack,” by Brooke Purves, August 6, 2015.) The BRN accused Cummings of gross negligence and unprofessional conduct. In November 2014, an administrative law judge placed the state-certified nurse-midwife on three years of medical probation, according to court documents. Cummings, who runs The Birth Center, Sacramento’s only midwife-operated birth facility unaffiliated with any hospitals or medical groups, appealed the administrative ruling in Sacramento Superior Court in May of last year. Two months later, a judge stayed Cummings’ probation until her case was resolved. Now, a ruling is almost at hand. At a September 2 hearing, Judge Timothy Frawley held off on delivering a same-day verdict. Though Cummings was not available for comment due to the pending petition, Susan Fischer Wilhelm, Ph.D., whose baby was delivered by Cummings and who has since testified in her favor, said she felt positive about the court proceedings. “It’s not clear what will happen at this point, [but] I walked out of the courtroom feeling celebratory,” Wilhelm said. “Regardless of what the judge rules, the proceedings Friday were very favorable towards my midwife.” Aside from Wilhelm, 86 people, many of them past clients, have filed court declarations in support of Cummings. A spokeswoman for the California Department of Consumer Affairs, which oversees the BRN, declined comment due to the pending nature of the case. A ruling has the potential to end the ongoing litigation against Cummings, which Wilhelm said would provide enormous relief for out-of-hospital midwives. If the BRN prevails, however, The Birth Center would almost certainly close. Wilhelm says that would send a chilling message to midwives, who are already in short supply around the state. Cummings’ case isn’t without precedent. Last summer, a San Francisco County judge granted a similar appeal to certified nurse-midwife Yelena M. Kolodji, whom the BRN alleged had “failed to have proper physician supervision” during her home-birth practice. In a court order accompanying his May 2015 ruling, Judge Richard B. Ulmer Jr. wrote that the BRN had “acted in an arbitrary and capricious manner.” Cummings’ court battle is particularly poignant for advocates of out-of-hospital midwifery, as recent support for such practices has faced bureaucratic opposition. Cummings’ attorney expects a decision within weeks. Ω

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waving the paper high above her head and greeting everyone who passes by. “Good morning guys,” Bartley calls out. “Would you like to make a donation to a homeless nonprofit?” Some lawmakers pass without making eye contact. Bartley can name others who regularly shake her hand. There are days when she feels angry, watching people with means stroll by without sharing. But for the most part, she says, the Capitol workforce is a generous bunch. Bartley says she was addicted to methamphetamine for many years and weathered abusive relationships. A stern warning from a judge prompted her to get sober. She raised five children, working at minimum-wage jobs. Two of her daughters are now drug addicts who live on the streets. She looks for them in abandoned houses some afternoons when she’s done selling newspapers. Bartley says she’s been diagnosed with PhoTo BY STEVE YEATER bipolar disorder but shuns medication because it makes her feel weird. She carries receipts from her rent payments in her backpack, eagerly showing them to people who give her donations. She wants them to know she doesn’t spend their How one former homeless woman tries to bridge the state Capitol’s money on drugs. divide between power and poverty “She has a work ethic that won’t quit,” said John Lovell, a lobbyist for law by LaureL rosenhaLL enforcement groups who gives Bartley money and buys her ham sandwiches. “She is out here rain or shine.” On a recent morning, Bartley had the concept of being hungry.” approach that combines more housing with collected $17 by 10:30 a.m. That was after The Capitol dome looms over downtown Across the sprawling county of additional outreach, case management and Sacramento, a magnet for money and she spent $1 on a Pepsi for a homeless Sacramento, roughly 950 people have no mental health services. power. Shiny-shoed politicians and man she frequently takes care of. He’s shelter on a typical night. On the streets Bartley thinks she can help. Until last well-dressed lobbyists hustle toward the a regular presence around the Capitol; surrounding the Capitol, local officials year, she was homeless, bouncing among building where billion-dollar decisions are outreach workers say they have tried to counted 62 people sleeping in March— shelters, cheap motel rooms and a tent after help him but can’t break through a fog of made. Nearby shops sell fine cigars and almost double the number they counted losing her job at a mini-mart in 2011. Now custom suits. A bar serves $16 martinis. mental illness. two years earlier. she makes enough money most months But the streets that surround this The summer sun was baking the sideIt is heartbreaking evidence of a selling Homeward to pay the $400 regal building also are home to some of walk as the man approached Bartley longstanding problem in many cities across monthly rent at a Sacramento Sacramento’s most destitute residents, on her corner. She went into a California, a state home to more than onetrailer park. many suffering from mental illness or drug market and came out with fifth of all homeless people nationwide. “I worry every day addiction in addition to extreme poverty. the soda. Inside the marble-floored Capitol, lawmak- about being homeless It’s not uncommon to see them rifling “Here, baby,” she said. “I worry every ers recently passed, and Gov. Jerry Brown again,” she said, pointthrough trash cans, shouting incoherently “Have a blessed day.” day about being signed, a $2 billion bond to build housing ing to a broken tooth or sleeping barefoot in the shade on the Bartley said she began for homeless people who are mentally ill. and the deep lines on Capitol’s manicured grounds. homeless again.” sharing food with the The proposal was partly crafted her face as testimony Bridging these two worlds is Debbie man after she saw him Debbie Bartley by Darrell Steinberg, the former state to life on the streets. Bartley, a 55-year-old grandmother who eating from a garbage can. Senate leader recently elected mayor of Bartley buys the stands across the street selling Homeward, Now she picks up a bag papers from the nonprofit a newspaper produced by homeless people. Sacramento. He hopes it will help local lunch for him from a nearby governments statewide. publisher for 10 cents apiece She chats with the political staffers and charity or gives him leftovers “It would be folly to say we can and sells them for a minimum lobbyists who give her a few dollars as she collects from lunchtime events on end homelessness and get everybody donation of $1. Each weekday morning, they pass by. Then she buys food for the Capitol grounds. off the streets. But we must make it she sweeps her graying hair into a bun, people who sleep on these streets. “There is no reason for anybody in this better,” he said. rides the bus downtown at 7 o’clock, “I can’t feed the world, but I would if I world to eat out of a garbage can,” Bartley As mayor, Steinberg is promising an then spends hours on a busy street corner, could,” Bartley said. “Because I understand said. “There is too much money here.” Ω

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We can probably all agree that Sacramento needs more housing and less traffic. We need to preserve our farmland and we need cleaner air. These goals cannot become a reality if we continue to build homes far away from jobs. Suburban housing developments only make traffic and air quality worse. Our community’s needs cannot be met with sprawl. The solution is obvious. We need to build more infill housing and we need to build less of the housing that adds to long commutes and extends urban boundaries. And we will need to add more public transportation. We need more McKinley Villages. The controversial McKinley Village project nestles up to the Capital City Freeway on one side and East Sacramento on the other. When complete, it will transform an ugly piece of land into 336 homes. But the people living in these homes will drive or ride their bikes through East Sacramento neighborhoods to get to Midtown or downtown. According to traffic engineers’ estimates, we will see 350 extra cars during commute hours. Infill development will almost always increase local traffic, at the same time as it decreases commuter traffic on our freeways. This anticipated increase in local traffic, among other concerns, led to lawsuit after lawsuit, delaying and adding significant costs to the McKinley Village project. But now the model homes are ready. They are beautiful, ranging in size from 2,000 to 3,200 square feet and between $350,000 and $900,000 in price. Built on much smaller lots than older East Sacramento homes, McKinley Village homes will cost roughly $300 per square foot compared to $400 per square foot elsewhere in East Sacramento. And what McKinley Village residents lose in yard space they gain in a spacious clubhouse, designed by

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Why Proposition 64 and efforts to legalize marijuana in California could face voter defeat

owntown Oakland on a sunny, bright June day, and the air outside the Marriott City Center hotel is fragrant with, ahem, opportunity. Inside a massive banquet hall, thousands of besuited pot industry people pack the seats, aisles and walls to hear Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom deliver the 11 a.m. keynote. Newsom—the highest ranking official in California to ever embrace the cannabis users rights movement— didn’t just come to honor the National Cannabis Industry Association before him. He came to give it a cold shower. Proposition 64—the Adult Use of Marijuana Act—has many supporters, but also detractors, even among medical marijuana activists. Progressives worldwide might be ebullient at the idea of a certain win for legalization this November 8, but, “It’s not a done deal by any stretch of the imagination. If any of you think this thing is done in California you couldn’t be more wrong,” Newsom said by way of opening. You could hear a bud drop. The former San Francisco mayor is the father of four, founder of the boutique winery PlumpJack and his wife is against legalization, he told the crowd.

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Failure is an option California will not legalize marijuana in the 2016 general election—unless voters plan on actually doing something about it. Overconfidence has become public enemy No. 1 for cannabis law reform, experts say. Prop. 64 would legalize 1 ounce in public for adults 21 and over, and the personal growing of six plants. It licenses and regulates the commercial cannabis trade and is supported by perhaps 61 percent of voters, according to a mid-August poll from Probolsky Research.

But Prop. 64 is underfunded and vulnerable in California—a massive, diverse state of 39 million people, far more than in the population of the largest legalization state so far, Washington, which has 7 million. While 61 percent in support sounds nice, it’s somewhat soft support. And the opposition has potentially millions of dollars to drag down those numbers by scaring voters with boogeymen like weed advertising to kids, pot brownie poisonings, increased road deaths and diminished life ambitions. “My belief is it’s not going to pass,” said Roger Morgan, director of the Coalition for a Drug Free California and No on 64 leader during a July 24 Q&A session at the San Francisco Commonwealth Club. “We fought this battle four years ago with Prop. 19.” Morgan notes that 83 percent of California cities and counties already ban medical pot cultivation. Sacramento is the perfect example of the issue’s challenges. The city is a shining beacon of safe access in city limits, surrounded by quintessential suburban bans on sometimes the cultivation of a single plant, with city and county officials sometimes differing radically on solutions. Morgan said he is trying to access $50 million in federal anti-drug funding to spread his message to parents and teachers that “the human brain is permanently damaged” by marijuana, he said. “We don’t grow any other crops that basically poison people,” he said. “I think it’s insanity.” Morgan and No on 64 also will get billions of dollars more in free institutional support from certain unions, law enforcement groups and U.S. Sen. Dianne

Feinstein, as well as coverage from news outlets. Combined with other electoral factors, the ballot measure could easily fail. And, if Prop. 64 fails, it will be a terrible setback for social justice, Newsom notes. “If it is defeated it will set back this movement in California for years and years, and it will set back the movement for regulated adult use across this country for years and years. Do not take California for granted,” Newsom said at that Oakland gathering. Steve Fox, a veteran reformer at the Marijuana Policy Project in Washington, D.C., agrees. “If California loses, but we win a few other states, that would probably be considered mostly a disaster,” he said. It will certainly be a disaster for the next crop of cannabis prisoners and their families. Newsom points out that cannabis prohibition in California leads to roughly 20,000 arrests each year, according to the most recent data from California NORML. Those arrests are mostly black and brown young men, who we all pay to imprison, make more dangerous and less employable. Likewise, pot arrests are a leading driver of America’s mass incarceration epidemic, according to 2012 numbers from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, creating a climate of automatic criminality for what amounts to a personal health decision. “It’s a war on the poor and it’s a war on folks of color and it’s got to end,” Newsom said. “And the only way you end it is by going to the most destructive and the most ineffective part of that war, and that’s the war on cannabis.”

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He’s fought the gay marriage wars and he’s in the trenches on gun rights, and yet the lieutenant governor is worried about weed’s chances. “We’re trailing the rest of the nation in terms of public opinion on legalization,” he said. “Remember— it was just a few years ago voters rejected legalization. Remember —they passed [gay marriage ban] Prop. 8 in California not that long ago. “So don’t just think that this is a universal state, and pluralism is our middle name,” he added. “Progressive values have gotten mostly Democrats in statewide office, none of whom support legalization—publicly.” Newsom compared working pot legalization to gun control, noting how gun control efforts have been vastly more grassroots this year. Later in the day, locals and Coloradans alike sat dazed, digesting the news while sipping beers in nearby bars. “I had no idea it was this close,” one of them tells me.

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“I was a few years old when California had 20,000 people in prison. It wasn’t that long ago. 1977,” Newsom said. “In 2007, we had 173,000 in our California prison system.” Defeat would also mean a disaster for the state’s economy. Each year California also loses about $1 billion in tax revenue on its robust and popular cannabis trade, and wastes tens of millions of dollars in adjudication. We can’t measure the incalculable losses from prohibition-related job firings, family breakups and life course derailment. And prohibition hasn’t worked, public health experts conclude. Kids have always had high access to marijuana and about half of Americans have tried it, the RAND Drug Policy Research Center reports. Newsom seems genuinely haunted by political inaction on the issue. “There’s a billboard on the 405 freeway in L.A.—one of the most congested freeways in the U.S.—that says, ‘You’re Not Stuck In Traffic.’ You get 100 yards closer in 20 minutes, and in small letters underneath in parentheses it says, ‘You Are Traffic.’ “I don’t want to be that guy. I don’t want to be on a panel with ex-politicians talking about what I coulda shoulda done,” he said. “It’s lack of courage and lack of conviction, and all the while, real people suffer. If you sit by and you do nothing—you’ve done everything. By abdicating any responsibility for the world we live in. “So this has happened on my watch. This has happened on your watch,” he said. In the crowd at the Marriott, the heads nod.

RefoRm, suppoRt and the tRump effect There are three things that keep one of America’s leading cannabis law reformers, Marijuana Policy Project director Rob Kampia, up at night: Nevada, Arizona and Donald Trump. It’s later that Tuesday in Oakland at the Marriott, after Newsom’s cold shower. We’re in a hard-to-find side room packed with politicos, and the hard facts keep coming: Kampia rattles off that currently all nine legalization campaigns nationwide are underfunded. Prop. 64 has reported $11 million in campaign fundraising, which sounds like a lot, until you note that it has cost about a buck a voter to win legalization so far. By and large, advocacy groups and wealthy philanthropists have chipped in to Prop. 64, while the industry and consumers have barely contributed. “California polling is good, but we can’t take anything for granted,” Kampia tells the crowd. “California has a history of real money being raised for the opposition side. The last several election cycles—for marijuana legalization or criminal justice reform—did see various wealthy interests opposing reform.”

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“If [Proposition 64] is defeated it will set back this movement in California for years and years.”

California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom told attendees at this summer’s National Cannabis Industry Association gathering that passing Proposition 64 isn’t “a done deal.”

That includes former gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, some native American tribes and “always the police establishment and prison guards union,” he said. “The owner of the San Diego Chargers opposed us in 1996.” Over in Nevada, legalization is threatened by Florida casino magnate and Republican superdonor Sheldon Adelson. Adelson used his fortune to deny Floridians medical marijuana in 2014. He also bought a Las Vegas newspaper that subsequently switched from supporting legalization to opposing it. Marijuana Policy Project is planning muscular ad buys in Nevada and Arizona to immunize voters to an Adelsonfunded scare campaign. The same type of fear campaign could be coming to California. “There is going to be money for the opposition. We just don’t know how much. Please don’t be complacent in California,” Kampia said.

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The No on 64 campaign has reported raising just $185,000 so far, part of a $2 million war chest to fight legalization nationwide. A large infusion from one wealthy Republican donor could sink Prop. 64, said anti-legalization leader Kevin Sabet at Smart Approaches to Marijuana. “I think it’s vulnerable given how spread thin the legalization movement is nationwide,” he said. The “no” side has to raise a fraction of the money of the “yes” side to run advertising that peels off just enough swing voters to ensure a defeat, experts note. “If the opponents raise 25 percent of the funds that the pro side has, I would put it at 80 percent chance of going down,” Sabet said. According to a No on 64 poll conducted by SmithJohnson Research in August, support for the initiative drops from 61 percent to 40 percent after voters read one negative argument about TV advertising. National forces are at work in the election, too. Kampia explained how a President Trump would likely lead to an Attorney General Chris Christie, who would tear up the federal cease-fire on state-legal pot and send the industry back into the shadows. Christie publicly opposes medical and adult-use legalization. Even the mere presence of Trump on the ballot promises to distort the pot legalization vote, watchers say. On one hand, Trump promises to drive out progressive voters and depress core conservative turnout, which should be good for weed. But Trump’s racist, xenophobic stance on immigration has galvanized California’s vast ranks of Latinos, who are going to turn out in droves to vote against mass deportations and the building of a border wall. And those older Latino voters are among legalization’s biggest foes. There are other challenges, too. Proposition 64 is 30,000 words long, for example. As such, it’s become something of a Rorschach inkblot psychological test for voters. In those dozens of technical pages—which mention the word “tax” 127 times and the word “punish” 32—some voters see whatever it is they want to see.

Some see a statewide tax bonanza with an estimated $1 billion in annual revenue. Others see a ploy by multinational corporate conglomerates to take over legal weed, even though Prop. 64—and federal prohibition—keeps big business out. Some see in Prop. 64 a trap that will actually lead to more pot arrests, not less. It’s because they’re not lawyers and they misread the text, or paranoia or both. Prop. 64 contains unprecedented rollbacks of the drug war, fully legalizing the most common pot activities and decreasing penalties for related marijuana crimes that remain illegal. If there’s one thing balancing all this uncertainty, it’s that for the first time ever in California a legalization bid has been pretested with voters, and is being run by team of professional campaign operatives day to day. In 2015, Newsom led an ACLU Blue Ribbon Commission through months of public and private hearings with all sides before drafting the initiative’s language. The Yes on Prop. 64 campaign is being run out of veteran consultant Gale Kaufman’s office in Sacramento, with high-powered spokesperson lobbyist Jason Kinney. “I don’t think we’re overreaching,” said initiative proponent and former Fish and Game Commissioner Michael Sutton, during the Commonwealth club debate. “We’ve done our homework.”

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A voter’s guide to the Adult Use of Marijuana Act • Legalizes marijuana under state law, for use by adults 21 or older: 1 ounce of flower in public (4 grams of hash), six plants in private. • Decreases a host of related marijuana penalties. • Designates state agencies to license and regulate marijuana industry. • Imposes state excise tax of 15 percent on retail sales of marijuana and state cultivation taxes on marijuana of $9.25 per ounce of flowers and $2.75 per ounce of leaves. • Exempts medical marijuana from some taxation. • Establishes packaging, labeling, advertising and marketing standards and restrictions for marijuana products. • Prohibits marketing and advertising marijuana directly to minors. • Allows local regulation and taxation of marijuana. • Authorizes re-sentencing and destruction of records for prior marijuana convictions. —D.D.

on both sides of the issue. Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa also ran a voter registration campaign at their latest series of California shows. But confounding Yes on 64 will still be 80 years of cultural inertia and propaganda and fear. No on 64 groups are saying—largely without basis—that the ballot measure would result in an uptick in accidents and crime: more highway fatalities, and more impaired driving; it would allow marijuana growing near schools and parks and would erode local control, increase black market and drug cartel activity, allow marijuana smoking advertisements to be aired and would hurt underprivileged neighborhoods. What, if any of this, is actually based on truth? In fact, highway fatalities are down in Colorado, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Prop. 64’s language also reinforces local control and numerous studies, including one from the RAND Drug Policy Research Center, have shown that legal cannabis pushes out illicit markets. Federal Communications Commission

regulations bar pot ads on TV and radio, and Prop. 64 would also earmark tens of millions per year for the precise neighborhoods impacted by the current drug war. But none of that is taken into account by opponents such as Roger Morgan, the No on 64 leader. “It all starts with marijuana,” he said, invoking the discredited gateway theory. “About 99 percent of people went who went on to other drugs started with marijuana. If you want to stop the opiate problem you got to go back and stop the marijuana problem. “What is being sold today as medical marijuana is a far cry from what was available five thousand years ago.” His litany of marijuana complaints is lengthy. “There’s a tremendous link between marijuana use and schizophrenia. Mental illness will ruin your life,” Morgan said. “[Pot] also causes mutations to sperm and chromosomal abnormalities.” Morgan’s solution calls for a return to the past. “I think we need to renew our vows to America,” he said. “I don’t think you can say ‘[The war on drugs] has been a failure.’ I think it’s a failure of leadership.”

StonerS againSt legalization There are two final troubling things about Prop. 64’s prospects. The first one is turning out the youth vote, in an election where each presidential candidate has the lowest favorability ratings since record-keeping began. This mass of young voters often thinks legalization is a done deal, and that they don’t have to show up in November, operatives say. For example, rapper Wiz Khalifa—who supports Prop. 64 and lives in Los Angeles—told me in a recent interview for Cannabis Now Magazine that he wouldn’t be voting for legalization this year. He thinks it’s inevitable. Khalifa’s not the only one who may let apathy decide marijuana’s future in California. If Prop. 64 is close, it could come down to college students who forget to register in their new town, or people who miss the registration deadline or skip voting day. Lastly, there’s the proposition’s weakness among some die-hard influential cannabis insiders and industry. So far, the most notable anti-legalization rally held in the state didn’t occur in some rural suburb, and it wasn’t led by police and school moms and pastors. The rally happened in Santa Cruz on July 30, led by a smattering of the movement’s own, including medical marijuana Prop. 215 figure Dennis Peron. For a variety of reasons, many hardcore marijuana law reformers are actively campaigning against Prop. 64. It’s partially sour grapes. Almost a dozen other initiatives failed to make the ballot, after support coalesced around what’s now called the Adult Use of Marijuana Act. Some activists dislike the 1 ounce and six plant limits, and incorrectly think AUMA touches Prop. 215 rights.

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The optics of legalization look a lot better than in 2010. Six years ago with the failed Prop. 19—which lost 46 percent to 54—the face of the campaign was an Oakland pot college chancellor Richard Lee—a paralyzed former rock show roadie in a wheelchair, afront a gaggle of reformers. In a presidential off-year where the youth vote stayed home, and the funding never materialized, Prop. 19 failed after Attorney General Eric Holder flew into Los Angeles and promised a federal crackdown. This year, the initiative is backed by the second in command of the entire state, with the support of the California Medical Association, the California Democratic Party and the California NAACP. Prop. 19 failed to carry California’s pot-growing counties. This year, Prop. 64 is also endorsed in the industry by the likes of The Emerald Cup’s Tim Blake, and Harborside Health Center’s Steve DeAngelo, as well as the California Cannabis Industry Association and national NORML. And at the front are the official proponents—including Michael Sutton, and former CMA board member and physician Donald Lyman. In a July interview, Sutton was bullish on Prop. 64. “It’s probably going to be a landslide as these things go,” he said. Yes on 64 won’t need $22 million to win, he added. “I don’t think it’s going to have to get that high. It’s comparatively well-funded and that’s important.” Sutton said voters can expect to see more Yes on 64 advertising on TV, radio and print and more arguments

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ThE MONEy ANd ThE MArIjUANA Legalization could mean big bucks for California • Proposition 64 would create a 15 percent retail cannabis sales tax and a $9.25-an-ounce bud tax as well as a $2.75-an-ounce leaf tax that could raise more than $1 billion per year in tax revenue, according to the California Secretary of State legislative analysis. In turn, that revenue would be spent on the following:

Field of cannabis dreams: Some marijuana reformers oppose Prop. 64, citing worries over the ballot measure’s wording, as well as taxes and regulation.

But the most ardent stoners against legalization tend to be motivated by sheer self-interest. “I’m sorry, I’m going to vote no. I’m against legalization,” one lifelong grower in Grass Valley told me during an August radio call-in segment on KQED’s Forum. He explained he was afraid about what taxes and regulations will do to his livelihood. And many share his concerns. About half of the members of the California Growers Association are opposed to legalization, said director Hezekiah Allen. California Cannabis Industry Association director Nate Bradley said plenty in his group would prefer to not pay taxes or follow regulations, if possible. “The initiative is not perfect. God knows it’s not perfect,” Newsom said. “It’s extraordinary that we even got one initiative on the ballot. One of smartest things we did is, we drafted initiative language that allows us to make fixes

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Prohibition hasn’t worked, public health experts conclude. Kids have always had high access to marijuana, and about half of Americans have tried it. without going back to the voters. We will make fixes. We will adjust.” That precise legal flexibility triggers cynics’ fears about a post-legalization takeover. Also dragging down the vote is that plenty in this camp—and around the world—think California has already legalized marijuana. When you can get your medical card at Amoeba Records on Haight Street and order buds to the street corner in 15 minutes using Eaze on your smartphone, it can feel pretty legal.

But, of course, it’s not: 155,000 Californians were arrested for pot between 2010 and 2014, said Ellen Flenniken, managing director for development at the Drug Policy Alliance and Prop. 64. “Marijuana is not legal in this state yet, so debunk that myth,” she said. “California is not going to be easy.” Ω

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Outside of that gorgeous mansion on a late summer afternoon, Scott Ostrander is showing off his new digs: 1.5 acres of farm and garden land; a pristine kitchen with five handpicked chefs; a barn that morphs from wedding reception venue to fine dining room; and a salt water pool, a quick jaunt away from a cigar-smoking lounge that overlooks budding melon flowers. Those elements make up Park Winters, and it’s like a chef’s dream—or working vacation— boasting an idyllic environment as well as complete creative freedom. “There’s never a bad day out here,” Ostrander says. “We have issues from time to time like any restaurant, but at the end of the day, you can go to the farm and pick your own stuff. There’s no other place you can do that around here other than Napa.” Sacramento-based Ostrander joined Park Winters less than a year ago. At the time, it was just a luxury inn and wedding venue, but owners Rafael Galiano and John Martin wanted folks to be able to enjoy the space and dine without needing to book a room or get invited to a private event. They recruited

Ostrander to create a dining destination worthy of a Michelin star— even though, being in Yolo County, it’s unlikely Michelin judges would ever pay a visit. The result is the truest form of a farm-to-fork restaurant in the Sacramento region. A recent menu—$125 for five courses plus extras—was sourced 90 percent from Yolo County, with 70 percent of that directly from Park Winters. Ostrander says the remaining items are staples like sugar and salt, or products he hasn’t been able to find locally just yet. Still, some dishes on the monthly changing menu are already 100 percent local. Ostrander recalls an exceedingly elaborate, 40-component crudité, where cooks hunkered down in the garden for two hours to find the right fennel blossoms, malabar spinach pods and chamomile fronds. “They had to be perfect,” Ostrander says. “I couldn’t take a bent frond—it had to be a nice frond. It had to be young, it had to be tender—it had to have all these different traits.” Even when he isn’t wearing freshly pressed chef’s whites, but instead sipping watered down iced coffee from a to-go soup container in a sweaty T-shirt, Ostrander is as serious about attention to detail as you’d expect from an elite chef. He says he’s always been a food nerd—passionate, curious, dedicated

and full of questions—but his career goals took a step further about five years ago. After about a decade of working primarily at Randy Paragary restaurants, Ostrander found himself slinging tacos and burgers at the Red Rabbit Kitchen & Bar and freaking out about it. He craved a challenge. “I didn’t know what to do in Sacramento,” he says, noting he was nearing age 30. “I didn’t want to stay at Red Rabbit, doing bar food at a craft cocktail bar. I needed to keep learning—I needed to do something.” He decided to sell his house and backpack through Europe, staging at various fine dining restaurants along the way. But he was already anxious about what he’d do when he returned to the states, so he sent out resumes to world-famous restaurants such as Thomas Keller’s French Laundry, Daniel Boulud’s Daniel and David Chang’s Momofuku. Four days later, he heard back from Alinea, a three Michelin-star hub of modernist cuisine and molecular gastronomy led by Grant Achatz. Ostrander flew to Chicago for a try-out—two grueling, 18-hour days in the kitchen—and immediately got offered a spot as chef de partie. For six months, Ostrander relished in the feverishly paced, demanding, militaristic energy. He admired the discipline, the commitment. “Every single person is giving

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110 percent and every single person wants to succeed no matter what. It’s inspiring,” he says. Alinea solidified Ostrander’s fine dining goals, but he couldn’t take Chicago’s bitingly cold winters. He left after six months. Still, while he had been at Alinea, there was one thing that bothered him. Although the chefs strove to find the best ingredients possible, there wasn’t much connection to where those ingredients came from. California produce came from a California box, which arrived after an order of driftwood from Malaysia. “It was destination on a world level, and I was so California farmto-fork,” he says. After a stint in Yountville, Ostrander returned to Sacramento and the Paragary family. He led Esquire Grill for three years before reopening the company’s flagship restaurant, Paragary’s. Ostrander says he pitched the idea of Michelinquality, detail-oriented food in a French brasserie setting—and that Paragary approved—but that ultimately isn’t what came out of the cramped Midtown kitchen. “The original image and concept of the restaurant was changing, and it was changing into something I didn’t sign on for,” he says. Serendipitously, Park Winters

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was looking for a new chef and kitchen team. After a 12-hour day of talking visions and dreams, Ostrander signed the paperwork and his Paragary’s crew of Paul DiPierro, David Dein and Taylor Lovelace quickly followed at the end of 2015. Now, Ostrander is creating the food he wants to create—and not only that, he actually cooks, unlike many fine dining executive chefs who design the dishes and then walk away. “We want to touch every plate, we want to be involved and we want everyone dining here to actually taste our food that we’re personally cooking,” he says. “I think that’s special. You don’t get that from Thomas Keller, you don’t get that from Grant Achatz.” And what do you get from the mind and hands of Ostrander? Works of high-concept, visual and edible art. Consider the current dessert, inspired by the corn stalks that surround Park Winters as well as—on a more playful note—caramel corn from the State Fair. Ostrander poaches corn silk in simple syrup, frying and frothing the result so it looks like a bird’s nest. That gets topped with an “egg,” a quenelle of salted caramel

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ice cream. Then, he juices corn kernels to get a starchy corn milk, which gets blended with vanilla and whipped cream for a sauce. Garnishes include confit blueberries, micro cilantro and—in a surprise twist—traditional caramel corn. “It pays homage to caramel corn … and we’re using corn all the way through,” he says. That’s sort of Ostrander’s thing. How many techniques and parts of the same ingredient can he use to bring out new flavors? With the corn dessert, for example, he also burned the husks to create a corn ash, which he’ll use in a future dish. But not every effort is a success. Ostrander is still new at leading a team at this level of cooking. Park Winters as a restaurant is still very new. And all the while, Ostrander still needs to plan weddings and occasionally wake up at 6 a.m. to prepare breakfast for inn guests. “You’ve gotta remember we’re very amateur,” he says. “Amateur might even be too nice of a word to describe what we’re doing here.” He cites the garden itself, currently a somewhat barren patch— summer’s basil is long gone, but fall’s plants haven’t come in yet—that he hopes will soon be full of herbs in beautifully manicured aisles, like the tourist-friendly gardens at the French Laundry or the Restaurant at Meadowood. Park Winters hired an official scott ostrander farm manager ch e f , p a r k W in te r s earlier this summer to help take planning and maintenance off of Ostrander and the kitchen crew. On the farm, he points to a row of lettuces, dry and bolted from the summer heat— as it turns out, June is not the time to plant lettuce in Yolo County. “I would call this an experimentation, and a failed one at that,” he says, chomping on some salvageable red romaine. “But we did learn.” Ω

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Beer Summit festival gets dank I’ve been to beer festivals in such far-flung locations as Copenhagen, Tokyo and—ahem, scenic San Pedro, Calif. The california craft beer Summit’s festival on capitol mall, which just finished its second year, ranks up there with the very best. That’s not because of the amount of “ticker” beers— special releases that fanatics want to tick off their life list—and certainly not the food—a sad and small selection of food trucks—but because of the sheer size and the laser focus on only california beers. Roughly 160 breweries participated, from Six Rivers Brewery in McKinleyville, which hugs the coast near Arcata, all the way down to the 11 breweries that represented San Diego. At 3 p.m., I entered to the cheerful sounds of a small brass band and was issued a tiny, Karl Strauss-branded taster cup; this fest dispenses entirely with annoying tickets and takes the risky step of letting attendees have as many beers as they want. The entire Capitol Mall was shut down for blocks. Brewery tents were organized by region, with Sac reserving pride of place by being closest to the entrance, then on to Northern California, midstate and Southern California tents residing closest to the Tower Bridge. Right away I saw that mraz brewing co. of el Dorado Hills had the longest line; whether it was for one of its well-regarded barrel aged sours or their triple IPA of 10 percent ABV, I knew not. Instead, I headed for line-less Moonraker Brewing Co. in Auburn, which has gotten some good buzz. Though the Dank Plank forced me to say the loathed word “dank,” it was a lightly juicy, pleasant IPA, thin on the mouthfeel. Some hoppy standouts included a vibrant and juicy Amalgamator IPA from Beachwood BBQ and Brewing in Long Beach and Orderville, a dank—there’s that word again—Mosaic hops bomb from burgeoning behemoth Modern Times. Modern Times was also pouring its Fruitlands Gose, in this case adulterated with passion fruit and guava. The young man pouring had this take on the fruit trend: “Millenials have a different flavor profile, and fruit is the gateway. … A lot of them are wine and spirits drinkers moving into beer.” Or, people just like fruity, sweet shit. By 6 p.m. I had sampled more than 20 beers, accidentally traipsed through a few cornhole games, quizzed a dude about his “Don’t Drink Beer, Tick The Brews” T-shirt (an obscure mash-up of a Run the Jewels reference and a cri de coeur from someone who was banned from beer advocate). Then, I blearily noted that the line for the french fry food truck looked to be about an hour long. even the raley’s food truck had a line at this point. Let that sink in. The crowds bode well for the planning of a third annual summit and festival next year, since the somewhat sparse attendance in 2015 had me a bit worried it would be a oneoff, but hopefully next year the food will be up to par with the world-class brews.

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, AnD SUnDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 restaurant-week for a full list of restaurants. On Friday, September 16, Legends of wine, one of the marquee events of the program, takes place on the west steps of the Capitol (1300 10th Street). Local food-scene staples Darrell Corti and chef David Berkeley will curate a wine list comprised of regional varietals and pair them with cheeses and other small bites. Tickets are $65 and the event runs from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.; attendees must be 21 or older. Visit www. farmtofork.com/events/legendsof-wine to find out more. The big celebration with the Farm-to-Fork Festival goes down on Saturday, September 24, at Capitol Mall from Third to Ninth streets. Attendees will get to sample food from restaurants, breweries, wineries and farms specifically showcasing the local bounty, plus there will be live-cooking demonstrations and a headlining set by the Wallflowers. Attendance is free and the festivities run from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Visit www. farmtofork.com/events/farmtofork festival to find out more.

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Pagans and non-Pagans alike join forces with vendors, life music, kids activities, rituals and food. Canned food and cash donations will be accepted for the Sacramento Food Bank and Front Street Animal Shelter. Free; 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on FESTIVAL Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday at Fair Oaks VFW Post, 8990 Kruitof Way in Fair Oaks; http://sacpaganpride.wixsite.com/sacpaganpride.

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Red Cup Classic Mud Volleyball SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 Like volleyball? Wanna get dirty? Then roll up to Sacramento’s first ever Red Cup Classic Mud Volleyball Tournament. Co-ed teams of 6-10 players will compete in water-filled beach GAMES volleyball courts. Expect deejays, food and drink vendors, and drunken lawn games like cornhole. $10 for spectators, $300-$325 for teams; noon at Uncle Ray’s Pumpkin Patch, 5610 Garden Highway; www.redcupclassic.com/sacramento.

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Tracy Morgan THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 In 2014, Tracy Morgan survived a horrible car crash. His doctors thought he’d never perform again. His recovery went better than expected, and he’s been performing Picking Up the Pieces all over the country. Expect that Tracy Morgan brand of humor: honest, brash and outlandish—but he’ll also touch on his recovery in hilarious and heartbreaking COMEDY detail. $45-$65; 7:30 p.m. at Crest Theatre, 1013 K Street; (916) 476-3356; www.tracymorgan.net.

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Each order costs $6.50. Though the eating experience isn’t dramatically different than standard ice cream, the rolled version definitely looks cooler on Instagram. Movement: Kru’s move to East Sacramento is officially happening—like, right now. The J Street location is now closed, making way for the Jungle Bird to replace it. The Jungle Bird comes from the same owners of Tank House BBQ & Bar and will specialize in old-school tiki drinks as well as Hawaiian-inspired eats. Anyway, Kru’s move to 3135 Folsom Boulevard means much more space for Billy Ngo and his team—the J Street kitchen was notoriously tiny—as well as diners. Ngo has said that Kru’s menu and general culinary direction won’t change much. The biggest difference will be the addition of a full bar, managed by Chris Tucker of Hook & Ladder Manufacturing Co. Expect classic cocktails, beer and wine in addition to Japanese sake and shochu when it opens in October. Ω

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each, the larger soft tacos at $3.50 are the better deal since one or two provide enough food for a meal. They come on doubled tortillas with a mountain of meat, that smooth guacamole and 7894 Florin Road, (916) 428-4066 finely minced onion. Dinner for one: $5 - $10 The carnitas arrived shredded and moist, while Good for: 24-hour service, masterful meats the pollo asada showed appealing flecks of herbs. Notable dishes: adobada burrito, posole We found the carne asada the least interesting, but only in comparison to the other choices. You need less salsa and sour cream than at other restaurants, since the meats uniformly avoid dryness. After vacationing on the east coast this summer, You can also get your tacos fried as taquitos I returned with an intense craving for tacos. Taco ($3.50 for three) with cheese and meat. They’re Bell doesn’t even register as Mexican when you’re good examples of their kind, without too much used to culinary legends like Chando’s. grease, but fairly unexceptional. I also realized that, for me, tacos require meat. Another example of the Bravos meat-centricity The vegetarian taco at La Venadita makes an is the posole ($8.99/quart). It’s available every excellent attempt at Cal-Mex cuisine, but when I day and seems more like a stew than soup, with want a classic street taco, only meat will do. half of the bowl comprising moist tangles of pork. Bravos Tacos on Florin Road, occupying a The rich, red broth shows hours of slow cooking barely disguised former McDonald’s, filled that in its layered flavor. With cabbage, onion, herbs, need resoundingly. Open since January, the taquespices and three tostadas, one order easily feeds ria manages to knock out a variety of succulent, two people. well-spiced proteins in an overwhelming The downsides to Bravos temper is its number of dishes—and it joins only a mastery of meats. While the interior few other places in the region servshows bright paint and care with ing 24 hours a day. décor, it’s still a former fast-food Don’t go for vegetarian choices The rich, red broth joint with locked bathrooms. like fries and quesadillas, though. On our visits, the only server shows hours of slow The kitchen mastery seems to be took counter orders and drive-in cooking in its layered focused on meat alone. Choose requests while also delivering wisely, and Bravos is worthy of flavor. food and drinks to tables. When destination dining. it was slow—oddly, on a Friday One of the most revelatory things night—this was fine, but when more we tried was the adobada burrito than eight customers needed help, ($6.50). Ordered à la carte, it’s pure meat, service lagged considerably. guacamole and pico de gallo. The cold guacaHo-hum dishes like cheese fries ($3.25) and mole puree chills one side of the burrito, while the a kids bean and cheese burrito ($4 with drink), steaming spiced meat heats the other for an oddly barely registered on the meh scale. There’s no beer appealing dichotomy. It’s similar to Chando’s on hand, although the aguas fresca packed flavor. style of burrito, with its lack of rice and beans, but As one of my pet peeves, the incredibly flimsy goes a step further by forgoing lettuce as well. napkins irritated me. For a place with such juicy The term “adobada” often gets confused with meats, Bravos would surely save money and trees “al pastor,” which is traditionally spit-roasted with more absorbent paper goods. rather than oven-roasted. Bravos’ version boasts Nevertheless, the adobada and posole rank as sweetness from fruit juice, plus caramelized bits some of the best I’ve had anywhere and deserve from the well-seared exterior. Mixed with pico, more attention—just overlook the litter-strewn the meat has an intense, addictive quality to it. parking lot and less-worthy menu items. Ω The tacos make ideal meat transporters, too. While you can order mini street tacos for $2.75

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MAgiCkMeeks on etsy Wear your wanderlust around your neck with pieces from local jewelry maker and artist Marvick Garcia-Ortiz. His Etsy shop, MagickMeeks, peddles handcrafted jewelry in the form of pressed-flower pendants set against a photo he took JeWeLrY of the Sacramento River; “mini ocean bottle necklaces” that contain Hawaiian sand, shells and water; and lava-rock pendants with Mexican fire opal set inside. They’re perfect for a quick hit for the Sacramento proud and world traveler alike. The shop also sells prints of Garcia-Ortiz’s digital artwork; because of the handcrafted nature of the items, supplies are limited, so act quick if you’re looking to don a mini ocean around your neck anytime soon. www.etsy.com/shop/MagickMeeks.

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All the things known AnD strAnge things Novelist Teju Cole has also developed a following as a critic of art and photography. In Known and Strange Things (Random House, $17) Cole’s first work of nonfiction, there are 50 short critical essays on practically everything, but always focused on the relationship of ideas, history and art to the present place and time. The writing is also always aware of the relationship of blackness to a white culture. Divided into sections Book titled “Reading Things,” “Seeing Things,” “Being Here” and “Epilogue,” each essay contains Cole’s trademark poetic insights, the kind of thinking about the past and its relationship to the here and now that has garnered him an ever-growing following. In one, he writes, “The black body comes prejudged, and as a result it is placed in needless jeopardy,” and we know that simple truth has been with us always, but we still lean forward to see what he’s going to tell us next.

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Season eight of Art in the TwentyFirst Century makes its PBS debut this week but feel free to get out of the house and watch it among friends, strangers and other art experts at Verge Center for the Arts this Friday, September 16. The show is hosted by actress Claire Danes and, for the first time, the series episodes SCreening don’t focus on a particular theme but rather a city with 16 artists in four locations. The purpose: To show how each artist interacts with his or her culture. Episode one opens with Chicago, featured artists include Theaster Gates, a sculptor who works in clay and tar to make a statement about urban development. There’s also photographer and videographer Barbara Kasten who uses stationary objects (paper, Plexigrass, wire, etc.) challenge perceptions. The episode also features Chris Ware—the comic book artist famed for his New Yorker covers and graphic novels such as Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth—and Nick Cave, whose “soundsuits” (pictured above) use fashion and sculpture to examine race, gender and class. Cave’s soundsuits were initially inspired by the 1991 Rodney King beating and over the years have come to incorporate both static exhibitions and live, choreographed performances. Free; 7 p.m. at Verge Center for the Arts, 625 S Street; www.vergeart.org.

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Then, in February it’s The Tempest, considered by many to be Shakespeare’s greatest romance, with Matt K. Miller as Prospero. It opens February 22 and runs through March 19. Next up is The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams’ iconic drama with Janis Steven as Amanda Wingfield. It runs March 22 through April 30. Finally, on April 9, there’s The Donner Party, a musical commissioned and developed by STC about that ill-fated pioneering party. It runs through May 14. Ω

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Sacramento Theatre Company season preview Learn more about the Sacramento Theatre Company’s 2016-17 season by visiting www.sactheatre.org.

Previews begin September 28 for To Kill a Mockingbird, the opening production in the Sacramento Theatre Company’s 2016-17 season, “Trials, Travels and Triumphs.” That may seem like a long time to wait, but really it’s not. STC, in partnership with the Sacramento Public Library will present a free sneak peek this Sunday, September 18, at the Central Library (828 I Street). There will be live music, several scenes from the play, plus a discussion of Harper Lee’s 1960 novel about a black man falsely accused of murder, the white lawyer who defends him and his spunky, heroic daughter Scout. The classic play officially opens October 1 and runs through October 30. Sam Misner stars as Atticus Finch and Megan Smith plays the grown-up Scout, who narrates the drama. Other plays in the six-show season include I Ought to Be in Pictures, a Neil Simon comedy; it runs November 2 through December 11. The new year will kick off January 4 with I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, the second-longest running off-Broadway musical. It runs through February 12.

The Davis Musical Theatre Company opened its 32nd season with Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, the classic tale wherein an odd girl meets a prince who is under a curse and they learn to love each other, despite the shortcomings of both, proving that love triumphs over all. Rachael Sherman-Shockley is perfect as Belle, combining spunk with tenderness. This is not a saccharine heroine, but one who stands up for herself and earns the respect of the monster she does not realize is royalty. Coury Murdock is scary as the prince turned into a beast for refusing to help a witch. The spell can only be broken if he learns how to love … and if someone will love him in return. There are funny moments as his staff (all of whom are slowly turning into inanimate objects as part of the curse) try to teach him how to woo a woman. The real monster of the piece is Gaston (Travis Nagler), the bully determined to make Belle his bride, whether she wants to marry him or not. Fortunately, he gets his comeuppance. His partner, LeFou (Tomas Eredia) adds a real spark to the production. Jan Isaacson’s choreography is sprightly and often show stopping, particularly in the case of the mug-clanking ensemble number set in the local tavern. Sets, while not as opulent as one would hope for, are nonetheless massive and attractive and Jean Henderson’s costumes are particularly beautiful. —Bev sykes

Beauty and the Beast, 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday. $9-$18. Davis Musical Theatre Company, 607 Pena Drive, Suite 10, in Davis; (530) 756-3682; www.dmtc.org. Through October 2.

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. He responds by creating a list of “brilliant things” to highlight the brighter side of life. This subject matter notwithstanding, this is a frequently funny and (on the whole) uplifting monologue, with some audience participation thrown in. Th, F

8pm; Sa 5pm and 9pm; Su 2pm; Tu 6:30pm; W 2pm and 6:30pm; Through 9/18. $23-$35.

2711 B Street; (916) 443-5300; www.bstreettheatre.org. J.H.

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.

How to Use a Knife

Set in the chaotic kitchen of a Wall Street restaurant, this Michael Stevenson-directed play is all about secrets and lies. The chef, two hilariously trash-talking line cooks and a curiously quiet dishwasher all have things to hide and good reasons not to reveal them. Th 7pm,

F 8pm, S 2pm and 8pm, Su 2pm, W, 7pm. Through 10/2.

$23-$40. Capital Stage, 2215 J Street. (916) 995-5464, www.capstage.org. J.C.

Satchmo at the Waldorf

In this Terry Teachout production a curtain is pulled back to

reveal Louis Armstrong as a complex character who traveled a tough road through poverty, discrimination, segregation, the music business, mobs and ultimately acceptance, though even that was marked with controversy. Actor Jahi Kearse embodies Armstrong, and takes us along Satchmo’s journey that started as a son of a prostitute in New Orleans through a five-decade musical career that. The talented Kearse gives a memorable one-man, three-character show—portraying not only Armstrong, but two men in the musician’s life he had complicated relations with—his white music producer Joe Glaser, who had dubious business tactics, and Miles Davis, who was both a friend and a critic.

Th 2pm and 7pm, F 7pm, Sa 8pm, Su, Tu, W 1pm. Through 9/17. $26-$38. B Street Theatre, 2727 B Street; (916) 443-5300; www. bstreettheatre.org. P.R.

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Rough fields Audiences best know Dan Fagan from his acting—in Of Kites and Kings at Sacramento Theatre Company and Macbeth at Capital Stage, among others. He had the title role in A Tiger Without Mercy about boxer Jack Dempsey, which he also wrote. EMH Productions gives Fagan’s second play, These Lonesome Roads, its world premiere Friday. It’s about the life of a roughneck oil field worker, a job with which Fagan says he has personal knowledge. 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday; $15. Ooley Theatre, 2007 28th Street; (916) 214-6255; http://emhpros.weebly.com.

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The Hollars is a disarmingly modest movie, and if it’s a bit more modest than we would like, it compensates by being just as disarming as we need it to be. Writer Jim Strouse dresses up the clichés of dysfunctional-family indie comedy-dramas for one more promenade around the floor, and director John Krasinski and a cast of welcome faces step lively through their paces and provide enjoyable company. Krasinski also plays John Hollar, a small-town transplant to New York and aspiring graphic novelist working in a clerical cubicle and waffling about whether he’s really ready to marry his pregnant girlfriend Becca (Anna Kendrick). It’s the central role but no star turn, not in a movie that’s this much of an ensemble effort. John gets word that his mother Sally (Margo Martindale) has had a seizure while curling her hair that morning, and it looks like she has an advanced brain tumor. Rushing to her hospital bedside back in Ohio, he joins his father Don (Richard Jenkins), a local heating-and-plumbing contractor teetering on the brink of bankruptcy and, now, emotional collapse; and older brother Ron (Sharlto Copley), divorced for several years and an emotional basket case himself, living in Mom and Dad’s basement, unemployed and sorry for how his life is turning out. The movie’s tight little cast is rounded out by Randall Park as Sally’s doctor, Ashley Dyke as Ron’s ex-wife Stacey, Josh Groban as Stacey’s

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new boyfriend Dan, Mary Kay Place as Don’s sister Pam—and last but not least, Charlie Day as Sally’s nurse Jason, a high school classmate of John’s with a pugnaciously jealous streak because he’s now married to John’s old girlfriend Gwen (Mary Elizabeth Winstead). There are so few surprises in Strouse’s script that it’s best not to know too much about how these characters mix and mingle as Mother Hollar prepares for her surgery at the end of the week; even to hint too strongly is to make developments sound more like clichés than they play; Strouse is always giving his dialogue odd little quirks and tics that keep it veering away from triteness into something more fresh and unexpected. Krasinski’s direction is a good match. He handles the material gently, as if he knows how delicate the balance is. His camera tends to stand back from the actors at a discreet distance, until with equal discretion he knows when to step in—and he steps, never swoops—to shows us a significant detail or let us eavesdrop on a whisper in someone’s ear. There are nits to pick. I could wish Mary Kay Place and Mary Elizabeth Winstead were given more to do, but that’s showbiz. The Hollars is no towering drama blazing new trails in the art of film. It’s just a nice, decent little movie about essentially nice, decent people. Ω

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Don’t Think Twice

This sophomore feature from writer-director Mike Birbiglia finds the actor-comedian on familiar ground, playing the unheralded leader of an improv comedy troupe. Birbiglia’s overgrown adolescent Miles has a long history of watching his students pass him by, and lives in the shadow of an SNL-style sketch show called Weekend Live. His entire troupe of whiny and marginally talented 30-somethings (a group that includes Keegan Michael-Key and Gillian Jacobs) yearns for success, but when one of their ranks gets plucked out and groomed for stardom, the remaining members are forced to take stock of their lives. All of the details involving the world of improv comedy—the backstage rituals, the live-wire performances, the mixture of onstage trust and backstage jealousy—all seem very authentic and even semi-autobiographical, and yet the machinations of the script couldn’t feel more contrived. It’s just affable enough to survive a disastrous last 10 minutes. D.B.

Hell or High Water

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 tailor-made 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.

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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The Disappointments Room

After her razor-sharp, show-stopping turn earlier this year in Love & Friendship, Kate Beckinsale is back to sleepwalking through a shoddy genre film. I would say that this marks the end of the short-lived Beckinsale-aissance, but D.J. Caruso’s The Disappointments Room was actually filmed in 2014 and delayed for two years when Relativity Media went bankrupt, so it’s up to next year’s Underworld: Blood Wars to officially kill her momentum. Beckinsale plays Dana, a psychologically iffy New York architect who moves to the country with her family to recover from an unspoken tragedy, only to find that their new home is stuffed to the rafters with haunted house clichés and ham-fisted horror movie callbacks. The script is credited to Caruso and Wentworth Miller (Stoker), and while it deserves credit for mixing some gothic surrealism in with the jump scares, all of the film’s ambitions get betrayed by the perfunctory execution. D.B.

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Sully

Director Clint Eastwood and writer Todd Komarnicki recount 2009’s “Miracle on the Hudson,” when US Airways pilots Chesley Sullenberger (Tom Hanks) and Jeffrey Skiles (Aaron Eckhart) landed their crippled plane on the Hudson River minutes after takeoff, saving the lives of all 155 on board. The result is one superb piece of filmmaking, so uniformly fine that it’s hard to single out any part of the mix. Eastwood’s sure hand earns him the third Oscar he’ll probably never get, while Eckhart and (especially) Hanks all but disappear into their characters. My own money’s on Komarnicki’s tense and literate script, a work of near-genius that concentrates less on the incident than the NTSB investigation, where it looks as if Sullenberger and Skiles are being set up as scapegoats for the loss of an expensive plane. J.L.

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.

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 fishout-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 high-concept fuzziness of the premise by keeping the film grounded in authentic moments of adolescent angst and longing. D.B.

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 entry-

level 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 desires, 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.

When the Bough Breaks

The Wild Life

A childless couple (Morris Chestnut, Regina Hall), desperate after repeated failures, agrees to hire a surrogate mother (Jaz Sinclair), a young woman so warm and sweet that she seems too good to be true—and, in the way of so many movies like this, it turns out that she is. The movie boasts strong performances by Chestnut and Hall (both of whom are always welcome), a decent sugar-and-spice-and-everything-nasty turn by the relatively new Sinclair, a sturdy supporting cast (Romany Malco, Michael K. Williams, Theo Rossi, Glenn Morshower) and a nice professional gloss courtesy of cinematographer David Moxness. Ultimately, though, all are undone by the tiresome familiarity of Jack Olsen’s predictable script and Jon Cassar’s limp direction, both of which telegraph every “twist” several minutes in advance. J.L.

The story of Robinson Crusoe—or something like it—as seen by the animals on his desert island. Directors Ben Stassen and Vincent Kesteloot probably thought they had a brilliantly original concept, but Walt Disney used it 56 years ago in Cinderella—and Disney they ain’t. Cinderella was a classic; this one is utterly, doggedly, defiantly undistinguished, designed only to play for a big opening weekend, cashing in on those millions of parents out there with nothing better to do with their kids on a Saturday afternoon. It’s like a meal of gummy bears: disposable and forgettable, marked for a prompt and well-deserved oblivion. You can’t even play spot-the-celebrity-voice because there aren’t any, just a soundtrack crammed with anonymous hopefuls whom only their mothers will recognize or care about. J.L.

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“We want to keep a sound that people are grooving to and we want everybody feeling that vibe when they come to see us,” Bliven says. “Our sound expresses the soul and we’re able to put that mood into the music with very melodic tunes and harmonies.” Even the more melancholytoned “Stingray Face,” with its howling guitar intro from Reece Espinosa, is laced with upbeat rhythms that transformed the lyrical laments of Campos into an allout, hip-shaking dance party at a Spotted: the Bottom Feeders in their natural habitat. recent Cafe Colonial performance. The venue was packed with dancers of varied ages. During the chorus, Campos’ falsetto-style vocals revealed memories where he Members of Sacramento’s surf-pop band the once felt ignored or unappreciated by someone from Bottom Feeders write music reminiscent of a ’60s his past. beach party, or a high school dance where “Come “When I write songs, I express what I’m feeling On, Let’s Go” by Ritchie Valens was the absolute and if someone else feels that, too, then that’s cool jam. The four-piece group intertwines moments because I want people to be able to have something of doo-wop, soul, garage- and surf-rock to create to make life a little easier,” Campos says of his songs with hip-swaying melodies and upbeat, catchy songwriting process. vocals that evoke feelings of what singer and guitar“Everyone wishes they had a soundtrack to ist Noah Campos describes as “the-lover-done-metheir life like a movie, and Noah’s been writing wrong kind of music.” his soundtrack for the last year or so,” “I’ve always been a fan of older sounds Espinosa adds. and they’re danceable. We want to get The Cafe Colonial show in the whole room moving and feeling August was one of the band’s last good,” Campos says, citing his love scheduled gigs before taking “We want to keep a of oldies like Brenton Wood, older a break to write and record R&B and soul from the late ’50s sound that people are its debut full-length, due for to early ’60s. grooving to.” a March 2017 release. Then The Bottom Feeders formed again, what better way to relive Benjamin Bliven last November, releasing their an endless summer of music drummer, the Bottom Feeders debut EP, Boozin’ ’n’ Crusin’ in than with one more exception? August. The group also filmed The Bottom Feeders are surprise a music video for the garage-rock guests at a Naked Lounge show on revival tune, “Salty Song,” directed by Friday, September 16. Pedro Diaz for the Sacramento Film & Music Meanwhile, band members all agree they Festival’s Sac Music Seen showcase last week. plan to not over think the upcoming album and just The guys kept busy all summer long, performlet it happen to capture the genuine sound their fans ing at local cafes, punk-rock venues and even on a seem to gravitate toward. creaky, wooden stage outside the snack bar of the “I try to get people to have fun and jump around West Wind Sacramento 6 Drive-In. and fill people with the urge to move,” Espinosa says. That warm, July evening became the perfect “It’s not hard to listen to. It’s not confusing. It’s just setting for the Bottom Feeders’ modern take on fun and easy to dance to.” Ω old-school sounds. The band performed surf-rock Photo BY LAURAN WoRthY

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Vitamins and Flowers at the end of the month. The local headlining slot went to Cemetery Sun. The band, which specializes in dark, melodic hooks, recently signed with Lava/Republic Records and expects to release an EP before the year is out. City of Trees certainly seems headed in the right direction, though there were some minor complaints this year. The VIP section took up a disproportionate amount of the main stage viewing area. And the sound

could be heard clearly out on Alta Arden Expressway during the headlining sets—a potentially major factor for the festival’s future since noise complaints were the main reason Cal Expo ceased as a music venue years ago. Still, based on the crowd response and the logistical improvements, City of Trees seems primed for its third try to be the charm.

—Paul Piazza Tour party: Green Day is going

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on a national tour soon to support its upcoming record Revolution Radio. Who cares? We do, because Sacramento’s indie punk duo Dog Party will be opening up most of the shows—10, to be exact. Though the tour doesn’t come through Sacramento, you can catch them at the UC Theatre in Berkeley on Thursday, October 20—if you can find a ticket, that is. The nearly $80 tickets are already sold out.

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The crowd consisted of a mix of generations—some fans were close to the age of Weezer vocalist Rivers Cuomo (46) but they were vastly outnumbered by millennials, teens and even a contingent of those under 10 who had come out with their parents. The shriek level reached a crescendo anytime Panic vocalist Brendon Urie danced near the edge of the stage. A few kids openly wept in joy. This energy level was nearly matched by the head-shaking crowd during the Struts’ retro glam rock set. Phantogram also received an excellent response as vocalistkeyboardist Sarah Barthel floated around the stage during the band’s trippy, electronica presentation. Weezer, which looked a little out of place at Aftershock Festival a couple of years ago, played an

outstanding set as the sun went down. Frontman Cuomo, who can often be pretty stationary while performing, roamed the stage with bandmates and even strolled out to the sound booth to rock at one point. The inclusion of local bands in what was simply called the Sacramento tent gave a great homegrown flair to the event. Bands like Arden Park Roots, Joy and Madness and Trophii all played solid sets that were well-received. The latter duo, comprised of Lindsey Pavao and Richie Smith, is expected to finally

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A venue can be everything: At first glance, last year’s inaugural 94.7 City of Trees festival had all the potential in the world to be stellar. It featured a solid lineup of hit-making bands, a large venue and a crowd eager to party—topped with a headlining set by hometown heros Cake. But there were some pretty large oversights: the water refill station ran dry midway through the hot day and the traffic flow heading in and out of Gibson Ranch was nothing short of horrendous. The water problem was eventually remedied, but after Cake finished, those who had stayed for the entire set had to wait up to two-and-a-half hours to exit the dark, pothole-filled parking lot. This year, the organizers wisely moved the venue to Bonney Field, where there was abundant, well-lit parking; multiple points of entry instead of Gibson Ranch’s single road; and an unceasing water flow. It took less than 10 minutes to get in and out of the venue each way. And the music was solid on all three stages—bumped up from last year’s two. Panic! at the Disco closed the show at roughly 10 p.m. with a highenergy set that had thousands dancing on the venue’s soccer pitch. The soft, well-manicured field felt so good that many pairs of shoes were discarded throughout the set. Fans seemed to revel in Panic’s catchy sound, twisting and spinning and

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Bat Guano Fest 6

The Frights

Cafe Colonial, 7 p.m., $6

Molly Ringwald

thiRd SpaCe aRt ColleCtive, 8 p.m., $10-$13

Bat Guano Fest 6 is Sacramento’s annual, two-day punk-rock showcase, and it celebrates yet another year in local music since its launch in 2011. Day one of the fest PUNK kicks off with six bands that includes the Shell Corporation, Dead Dads (pictured), the Community, Bloodtype Negative, Frack! and Bad Outlets. Festival organizer Ken Doose handpicks the lineup each year and plans the events to ring in his birthday with all the best in Sacramento punk rock. The party continues the following night with six more bands like the Strange Party, Mad Judy, Creepy Little Legs and more. 3520 Stockton Boulevard, www.facebook.com/batguanofest.

—Steph RodRiguez

San Diego-based band the Frights are full of capricious, infectious energy. Their songs are short, but not necessarily straightforward. What starts out as surf punk or doo-wopabilly is often interrupted with electronic digressions that make what is familiar suddenly interesting and fresh. Frontman Mikey Carnevale’s vocals are SURF-PUNK full of twists and turns. From boyish sneers to sweet nothings to purposefully off-key trail-offs, Carnevale’s melodic showmanship is engaging, and his genuinely pleasant voice belies what might otherwise be misjudged as nothing more than another garage band. 946 Olive Drive in Davis, www.thefrights.com.

It’s a little eerie hearing Molly Ringwald cover Simple Minds’ “Don’t You (Forget About Me).” Is she actually begging us to remember that the Roseville native was the it girl of the ’80s? Now creepin’ JAZZ toward 50, the star of Pretty in Pink and 16 Candles is leading a new life as a jazz singer. She’s not exactly a powerhouse or smokey seductress, but Ringwald definitely adds flair to American standards—and that iconic track from The Breakfast Club. For this homecoming show, she’ll be joined by her father and co-founder of the Sacramento Traditional Jazz Society, Bob Ringwald. 4000 Rocklin Road in Rocklin, www.iammollyringwald.com.

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—Janelle BitkeR

aCe of SpadeS, 7 p.m., $35-$40 Has a trombone ever looked cooler than in the hands of Trombone Shorty? In addition to being a force of his own at the head of his backing band Orleans Avenue, the New Orleans native has worked with the likes of the Zac Brown Band, CeeLo Green, Rod Stewart, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and Robert Randolph. The multi-instruJAZZ mentalist brings a fresh, contemporary take to his music, blending hip-hop, jazz, rock and R&B to form something distinctive and impossible to resist on the dance floor. 1417 R Street, www.tromboneshorty.com.

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Sacramento Philharmonic

Saint Motel

California Bear Gang

Harlow’s restaurant & nigHtclub, 10 p.m., $25-$30

bonney Field, 7 p.m., $34.95-$84.95

On April 15, 2016, Ricky Martin Lloyd Walters was granted U.S. citizenship after a 23-year legal battle. Known around the world as the rapper Slick Rick, Walters pushed the art form with his detailed storytelling rhymes and his debonair speakingRAP/HiP-HoP flow that derives from his dual U.S. and U.K. citizenship. Now that Slick Rick is legal, he’s back on the road to perform his classic material without the paranoia of G-men coming for him. His liberation reflects his 1991 sophomore release The Ruler’s Back. This is a chance to see a living legend who remains a true original. 2708 J Street, www.ricktheruler.net.

—blake gillespie

ace oF spades, 7 p.m., $24-$57

Led Zeppelin set the bar exceedingly high with its self-titled release in 1969. And while the band didn’t officially explode until Led Zeppelin IV, die-hard fans across the globe already knew what a nasty brew of blues, rock and folk fare these four lads were capable of concocting. This event pairs the music with the Sacramento Philharmonic in what could be the audio CLASSiC RoCK equivalent of nirvana to Zeppelin fans. Sure, classical may put some folks to sleep and others into a deep coma, but rest assured, this ensemble features some uber-talented players. 1600 Exposition Boulevard, www.sacphilopera.org.

blue lamp, 8 p.m., $10-$15

Missing summer already? Buzzy Los Angeles-based four-piece Saint Motel has got you covered with zippy, upbeat, melodic indie rock in tracks like “My iNDiE RoCK Type” and “Cold Cold Man.” It’s a little bit Franz Ferdinand, a little bit the Neighbourhood, and even a little bit ska at times, channeling those palm-tree vibes of So Cal. Every ticket purchase comes with a digital download of their forthcoming album SaintMotelevision, which drops on October 21. JR JR, formerly known as the KCRW darlings Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., is also on the bill, as is Weathers, another L.A. indie-rock band. 1417 R Street, www.saintmotel.com.

California Bear Gang has the classic sound of Sacramento hip-hop. Though the group has only been around since 2010, the trio— RobRoy, Mc2, and Masyah—spit verses over laid-back West Coast beats that are straight out of ’90s Cali. It mixes in difHiP-HoP ferent flows, hooks and lyrical styles. There’s a lot of hometown pride in the music. Sacramento gets tons of shout outs, and the videos’ locales should all be recognizable to locals. Lyrically, it’s all about weed, women and keeping it gangsta—perfect for kicking back and vibing out. 1400 Alhambra Boulevard, www.beargang.biz.

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BROTHA LYNCH HUNG, MASYAH, SIYEED; 9pm, $20-$25

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KINGS KALEIDOSCOPE, CITIZEN & SAINTS; 7pm, $20-$25

LAYZIE BONE; 7pm, $20-$25

1400 Alhambra, (916) 455-3400 9426 Greenback Ln., Orangevale; (916) 988-9247

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314 W. Main St., Grass Valley; (530) 274-8384

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THE MILK CARTON KIDS, LANEY JONES; 8pm, $32-$37

COUNTRY CLUB SALOON

4007 Taylor Rd., Loomis; (916) 652-4007

Big Mondays happy hour all night, M; Karaoke, Tu; Trapicana W Trivia, 6:30pm M; Open-mic, 7:30pm W, no cover

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San Francisco comedy competition; 8pm, $24-$27

ART GARFUNKEL; 8pm, $42-$77

ARIEL JEAN, 6pm, call for cover; KENNY FRYE, 9pm, call for cover

CURDUROY BOYS, 9pm, call for cover

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2000 K St., (916) 448-7798

Everything Happens dancing and karaoke, 9pm, call for cover

Absolute Fridays dance party, 9pm, $5-$10

Party Time dance party with Sequin Sarudays drag show, 9:30pm, $5-$12

FOX & GOOSE

THE MIKE JUSTIS BAND, 8pm, no cover

MR. P CHILL, PESO 131, MR. HOOPER, MS. VYBE; 9pm, $5

HIGH LOW JACK AND THE CHEESEBURGER BOYS; 9pm, $5

Open-mic night, 7:30pm M, no cover; Pub quiz, 7pm Tu, no cover

WILL HOGE, 8pm, $14

Open-mic night, M, call for cover

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Thursday Comedy Open Mic, 7:30pm, call for cover

1001 R St., (916) 443-8825

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Westcoast poker league, 6:30pm, no cover

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Karaoke happy hour, 7pm, no cover

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5681 Lonetree Blvd., Rocklin; (916) 626-6366

Late night R&B, 9:30pm, call for cover

R&B neo soul &open mic, 9:30pm, call for cover

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HIT PARADE, 9pm, $5

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Top 40, 10pm, no cover

2708 J St., (916) 441-4693

Sunday Mass with heated pool, drag show, 2pm, no cover

EDM and karaoke, 9pm M, no cover; Latin night, 9pm Tu, $5

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Nebraska Mondays, 7:30pm M, $10; Open Mic Comedy, 8pm Tu, no cover

1414 16th St., (916) 441-3931

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CURTIS RIELLEY, SEE SPOT PLAY; 8:30pm, $5

LOS BOTTOM FEEDERS, THE WHITE LIGHTERS; 8:30pm, $5

VINNIE GUIDERA AND THE DEAD BIRDS, THE BRANKAS; 8pm, $5

OLD IRONSIDES

Acoustic jam, 8pm, no cover

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Lipstick, 9pm, $5

1901 10th St., (916) 442-3504

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Open-mic stand-up comedy and karaoke, 8pm, no cover

670 Fulton Ave., (916) 487-3731

MANZANITA, GLASS HOUSE; 8:30pm W, $5 Karaoke, 9pm Tu, no cover; Open-mic, 9pm W, no cover

Saturday night karaoke, 8pm, no cover

Open 8-ball pool tournament, 7:30pm, $5

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Live band karaoke, 8pm Tu, call for cover

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140 Harrison Ave., Auburn; (530) 885-5093

TERRA FERNO, CALIFORNIA RIOT ACT; 8pm, call for cover

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BLACKOUT BETTEY, 10pm, $10

ADAM MCDONALD BAND, 10pm, $10

STEVE FREUND, 3pm, $10

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Pop 40 with DJ Larry, 9pm, no cover before 10pm

Sunday Night Dance Party, 9pm, call for cover

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FOR THE WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 15, 2016 ARIES (March 21-April 19): What should you

do if your allies get bogged down by excess caution or lazy procrastination? Here’s what I advise: Don’t confront them or berate them. Instead, cheerfully do what must be done without their help. And what action should you take if mediocrity begins to creep into collaborative projects? Try this: Figure out how to restore excellence, and cheerfully make it happen. And how should you proceed if the world around you seems to have fallen prey to fear-induced apathy or courage-shrinking numbness? My suggestion: Cheerfully kick the world’s butt—with gentle but firm good humor.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): For the foreseeable

future, your main duty is to be in love. Rowdily and innocently in love. Meticulously and shrewdly in love. In love with whom or what? Everyone and everything—or at least with as much of everyone and everything as you can manage. I realize this is a breathtaking assignment that will require you to push beyond some of your limitations and conjure up almost superhuman levels of generosity. But that’s exactly what the cosmic omens suggest is necessary if you want to break through to the next major chapter of your life story.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): What do you hope

to be when you are all grown up, Gemini? An irresistible charmer who is beloved by many and owned by none? A master multitasker who’s paid well for the art of never being bored? A versatile virtuoso who is skilled at brokering truces and making matches and tinkering with unique blends? The coming weeks will be a favorable time to entertain fantasies like these—to dream about your future success and happiness. You are likely to generate good fortune for yourself as you brainstorm and play with the pleasurable possibilities. I invite you to be as creative as you dare.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Dear Soul Doctor: I

have been trying my best to bodysurf the flood of feelings that swept me away a few weeks ago. So far I haven’t drowned! That’s good news, right? But I don’t know how much longer I can stay afloat. It’s hard to maintain so much concentration. The power and volume of the surge doesn’t seem to be abating. Are there any signs that I won’t have to do this forever? Will I eventually reach dry land? —Careening Crab.” Dear Careening: Five or six more days, at the most: You won’t have to hold out longer than that. During this last stretch, see if you can enjoy the ride more. Reimagine your journey as a rambunctious adventure rather than a harrowing ordeal. And remember to feel grateful: Not many people have your capacity to feel so deeply.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): If there can be such a thing

as a triumphant loss, you will achieve it sometime soon. If anyone can slink in through the back door but make it look like a grand entrance, it’s you. I am in awe of your potential to achieve auspicious reversals and medicinal redefinitions. Plain old simple justice may not be available, but I bet you’ll be able to conjure up some unruly justice that’s just as valuable. To assist you in your cagey maneuvers, I offer this advice: Don’t let your prowess make you overconfident, and always look for ways to use your so-called liabilities to your advantage.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Caution: You may soon

be exposed to outbreaks of peace, intelligence and mutual admiration. Sweet satisfactions might erupt unexpectedly. Rousing connections could become almost routine, and useful revelations may proliferate. Are you prepared to fully accept this surge of grace? Or will you be suspicious of the chance to feel soulfully successful? I hope you can find a way to at least temporarily adopt an almost comically expansive optimism. That might be a good way to ensure you’re not blindsided by delight.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Brainwashing” is a

word with negative connotations. It refers to an intensive indoctrination that scours away a person’s convictions and replaces them with a new set of rigid beliefs. But I’d like to propose an alternative definition for your use in the coming days. According to my astrological analysis, you now have an extraordinary power to thoroughly

wash your own brain—thereby flushing away toxic thoughts and trashy attitudes that might have collected there. I invite you to have maximum fun as you make your inner landscape clean and sparkly.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): My astrological

divinations suggest that a lightning storm is headed your way, metaphorically speaking. But it shouldn’t inconvenience you much—unless you do the equivalent of getting drunk, stumbling out into the wasteland and screaming curses toward heaven. (I don’t recommend that.) For best results, consider this advice: Take shelter from the storm, preferably in your favorite sanctuary. Treat yourself to more silence and serenity than you usually do. Meditate with the relaxed ferocity of a Zen monk high on Sublime Emptiness. Got all that? Now here’s the best part: Compose a playfully edgy message to God, telling Her about all the situations you want Her to help you transform during the next 12 months.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Novelist Tom

Robbins said this about my work: “I’ve seen the future of American literature and its name is Rob Brezsny.” Oscar-winning actress Marisa Tomei testified, “Rob Brezsny gets my nomination for best prophet in a starring role. He’s a script doctor for the soul.” Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Jason Mraz declared, “Rob Brezsny writes everybody’s favorite astrology column. I dig him for his powerful yet playful insights, his poetry and his humor.” Are you fed up with my boasts yet, Sagittarius? I will spare you from further displays of egomania under one condition: You have to brag about yourself a lot in the coming days—and not just with understated little chirps and peeps. Your expressions of self-appreciation must be lush, flamboyant, exultant, witty and sincere.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): By normal

standards, your progress should be vigorous in the coming weeks. You may score a new privilege, increase your influence or forge a connection that boosts your ability to attract desirable resources. But accomplishments like those will be secondary to an even more crucial benchmark: Will you understand yourself better? Will you cultivate a more robust awareness of your strengths and weaknesses, your needs and your duties? Will you get clear about what you have to learn and what you have to jettison?

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I’m confident that

you would never try to sneak through customs with cocaine-laced goat meat or a hundred live tarantulas or some equally prohibited contraband. Please use similar caution as you gear up for your rite of passage or metaphorical border crossing. Your intentions should be pure and your conscience clear. Any baggage you take with you should be free of nonsense and delusions. To ensure the best possible outcome, arm yourself with the highest version of brave love that you can imagine.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Should you be

worried if you have fantasies of seducing a deity, angel or superhero? Will it be weird if some night soon you dream of an erotic rendezvous with a mermaid, satyr or centaur? I say no. In fact, I’d regard events like these as healthy signs. They would suggest that you’re ready to tap into mythic and majestic yearnings that have been buried deep in your psyche. They might mean your imagination wants to steer you toward experiences that will energize the smart animal within you. And this would be in accordance with the most exalted cosmic tendencies. Try saying this affirmation: “I am brilliantly primal. I am wildly wise. I am divinely surprising.”

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#DIYFS Sacramento’s professional cyclocross champion, Emily Kachorek, recently returned from Yanqing, China, where she competed for the 2016 Qiansen Trophy and won the Elite Women’s title. This is Kachorek’s first Union Cycliste Internationale win, but she’s been hitting the multiterrain cyclocross race tracks—which incorporate everything from mud grass, hurdles and more—since 2011. Kachorek pedals hard to represent the United States and her team, Squid Bikes, named for the Tahoe Park company that she co-founded. When she’s not taking home first-place wins, Kachorek works as a driving force behind the West Sacramento Cyclocross Grand Prix, which invites more than 400 die-hard athletes to compete each year. Kachorek sat down with SN&R over beers and dished on her sweet tooth, her company and her training methods for the season.

You hold a master’s in conservation biology. How did you cross into cycling? I restarted with the cycling team at Sacramento State when I was there and I was offered some pro contracts in 2011 when I was finishing up graduate school. I had my master’s degree and I had this opportunity, so I just kind of jumped on it. I’ve been enjoying it ever since and one thing has led to another in terms of racing and now owning a bike company as well.

Tell me about Squid Bikes. When we started the company, we noticed most bikes looked relatively similar. They all have the logo on the down tube and they tend to be white, black, red or blue in general. When we started Squid Bikes, the premise was we wanted the bikes to look like surfboards and skateboards rather than traditional bikes. I’m originally from San Diego and grew up surfing, so I felt like it reflects my roots. The whole deal is we want the bike to be yours. It’s your bike; it should look like what you want it to look like. So, you buy the bike completely raw and you do whatever you want with it.

So, customers pretty much paint a blank canvas? We wanted to put our creative mark on the sport that we love and we’re all collectively really proud of. What people have grabbed onto is what we call “The Rattlecan” and we use the hashtag #DIYFS; do it your fucking self. (Laughs.) So, the whole deal is you buy the bike completely raw and you do whatever you want with it. So most people spray paint it, some people use paint pens or some people even just leave

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it completely raw. Most people have their own ideas and that’s exactly what we want.

Where do you source the frames? They’re made right over in Rancho Cordova by a brand called Ventana Mountain Bikes and he’s been building under that name since ’88. He’s arguably one of the best aluminum welders in the United States. It’s our own geometry, so it’s our own bike, nobody else has that bike. But, he sources the bikes for us.

Go-to guilty pleasure food? In general, my diet is really good because that’s part of my lifestyle is I like eating healthy, but I definitely have a sweet tooth for ice cream. So, I’ll go for like a decadent chocolate-chocolate chip, or chocolate fudge, or chocolate peanut butter. I love going to the gelato place, Divine.

What is it about riding in the dirt or mud that keeps you active in cyclocross? Riding in dirt, it’s such a three-dimensional environment. You have rocks and angles on the trail and dirt that will or won’t move, so it’s really interesting. It’s a very dynamic environment and plus, you’re just outside in nature. You can ride in beautiful places on a road bike, no doubt. But, being out in the woods in the dirt, no matter what, you’re more in nature and I really like that.

What do you enjoy more about cyclocross versus road cycling? The sport for me is kind of like an onion. Every year, I peel away new layers and

start learning more and more about it. When I first went from racing road to focusing on cylcocross, I expected it to be a dirt time trial, which is start and finish and see how fast you can go the whole time. But, it’s way more complex than that. Cyclocross has a lot of turning and how you’re able to work your way through that is really important to how you do and where you save your energy. I really appreciate that aspect of it and every time, without exception, you learn something.

What’s your training routine like? There’s certain periods of the year where I’ll focus on longer, slower miles with the idea of it, like, building your engine. As you get closer to the season, you ramp up the intensity. So, early in the year, I’ll ride my bike easy up and down the bike trail and go to Karen’s [in Folsom] to get scones and hang out. As it gets closer to the season starting, I spend a lot of time riding in the dirt, riding in the grass and in the mud. Specifically for cyclocross, too, in terms of getting off the bike and back on and running up stairs, I’ll practice that as well. You can lose seconds and that all adds up and you’re doing it a lot. Ω

see emily Kachorek race at this year’s West sacramento cyclocross Grand Prix on at 9 a.m. on saturday, september 17, at the river Walk Park, 651 second West street in West sacramento. Learn more at www.wscxgp.com.

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