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30 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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I don’t think any should be abolished. Amendments could be modernized … there could be a clause. When the motive is fear and anger, that concerns me. It feels terrorizing or threatening when there are these individuals who say, “I have a right to wear a very large gun into a family restaurant.”
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I don’t think it should be. I do think that semi-automatic weapons should be outlawed. I don’t think children should be having BB guns that look like the real thing. If it was used for protection or for hunting I look at it one way but when people are killing people I look at it a different way.
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I have conflicted feelings. On the one hand I believe people have the right to defend themselves. But I also believe that … the more guns we have in society, more dangerous consequences on an accident level could happen. I think it should be clarified. It would allow people to not have the arguments we have been having.
I don’t. I have been a longtime gun owner. It can not only serve to protect your household but also it keeps your neighborhood safe. There is a fear [of guns], I think fear keeps you safe. I am still fearful of having to use my firearm. I feel comfortable that my neighbors own guns assuming they are law-abiding citizens.
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On tHe man accused Of tHROwing a Pie at K.J.—and getting PuncHed in RetuRn: I think they both should be arrested. You can’t go around slamming pies into people’s faces and you can’t beat a guy to a bloody pulp in self defense either.
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JuDith ChunCo v ia Fa c e b o o k I’m no big fan of his honor the mayor, but throwing a pie is rude and is assault. He (the thrower) deserved what he got.
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Hit and gun Cops who fatally shot Joseph Mann seemingly tried to run him over first, video reveals by Raheem F. hosseini
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The two veteran officers who pumped Joseph Mann with 14 bullets seemingly tried to hit the mentally distressed black man with their patrol vehicle—twice— before gunning him down on a north Sacramento sidewalk this past July, SN&R has confirmed. Officers John C. Tennis and Randy R. Lozoya occupied the marked sedan whose dashcam recorded it accelerating southwest on Del Paso Boulevard in what appeared to be an attempt to strike Mann, according to an analysis of multiple videos obtained last week. While police have declined to answer specific questions about the Mann case | 09.29.16
due to pending litigation, the videos seem to contradict the department’s initial statement that its officers resorted to lethal force only after de-escalation tactics failed. The in-car dashcam recording was one of four videos that the Sacramento Police Department released last week under pressure from the public and elected officials. Yet, while the contents of the videos have been out for just over a week now, the revelations about Tennis and Lozoya’s actions haven’t been reported until now. After twice narrowly missing Mann, their patrol car stops and the doors open. Tennis and Lozoya briefly jog into the
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frame, arms extended. Moments later, a barrage of gunfire—18 shots in all—can be heard, followed by moaning. Mann was later pronounced dead at a hospital. Both officers are named as defendants in a federal lawsuit filed last month against the city by Mann’s relatives. During a September 21 press conference, held near the scene of the shooting, Robert Mann said the videos prove officers overreacted and that there was time to resolve the situation with his younger brother still breathing. “[The police] lied flat-out to me,” Robert said. “They told me my brother was aggressive, my brother was
threatening police officers and he was coming at them. And that they had no time to make any decision other than to shoot my brother.” Along with audio recordings of two 911 calls and an earlier cellphone video recorded by a bystander, the footage released last week creates a mosaic of Mann’s final moments and show the troubled 50-year-old did not appear to pose an imminent threat to police or the public when Tennis and Lozoya opened fire. Instead, the footage shows the veteran officers appearing to hasten a violent confrontation almost from the moment they arrive on scene. “They just shot this man,” said John C. Burris, the Mann family’s attorney. “You can’t force a confrontation, shoot your way out of it and claim you were justified.” Police were responding that morning to reports of an armed subject behaving erratically outside of an apartment complex on Lochbrae Road. According to audio recordings released last week, at least one caller claimed seeing a gun in
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caP aNd degrade Mann’s waistband. A second caller said she only saw a knife, but heard from her neighbor that Mann possessed a firearm. “I didn’t see the gun,” the caller told the dispatcher. No gun would be found, and Burris believes that responding officers were quickly able to dispel the rumor of one. “They really didn’t act like they thought he had a gun,” the attorney contended. Indeed, two different sets of dashcam footage reveal starkly different approaches to an unfolding situation. The officers who first arrived on scene seemed to display patience and restraint, slowly following Mann in their vehicle as they repeatedly ordered him to drop his pocket knife and surrender. The officers even maneuvered to avoid striking Mann after he threw a bottle at their vehicle, with one officer telling Mann through the loud speaker at one point, “Sir, we don’t want to hurt you. Drop the knife.” Statistics provided by the department show that its officers do, in fact, know how to deescalate potentially volatile situations. At a September 20 press conference, retiring police Chief Sam Somers Jr. said less than 1 percent of the approximately 14,000 arrests his officers effected last year involved any type of force. In an email, department spokesman Sgt. Bryce Heinlein said the success rate was even better, at less than 1 percent of approximately 15,000 arrests, but cautioned against making specific comparisons. “I can tell you that we deal with despondent and armed subjects that don’t resolve with deaths on just about a daily basis,” Heinlein wrote. As for using a car as a police weapon, Heinlein said officers and recruits “discuss different types of force options” to deadly force encounters, “from the tools they carry to the vehicle they are driving.” Although both 911 callers told dispatchers they believed Mann was experiencing mental illness, it’s unclear whether that information was communicated to officers. Somers dodged the question last week, telling reporters that 911 callers don’t have the ability to assess someone’s mental health. He also declined to say if that information could have led to a different outcome. “If we’d known that for sure, I can’t say what our approach would have been,” he said. after watching mann run at, and then pass by, a responding patrol SUV near the corner of Del Paso Boulevard and Dale Avenue, Lozoya can be heard on the video saying, “Fuck, fuck this guy.”
Their car rushes toward Mann. Though he hadn’t closely watched “I’m gonna hit him,” Tennis tells his the Tennis-Lozoya dashcam, Burris partner. agreed. “This was a flat-out comply “OK, go for it, go for it,” Lozoya says. or die scenario,” he said at last week’s Dashcam video shows their vehicle press conference. “That is the part that bending into the crosswalk toward Mann is most disturbing, because the tape … and lunging forward. Mann barely escapes only confirms what we believed had getting hit, darting through the crosswalk happened—that Mr. Mann was not a threat at Del Paso Boulevard and Dale Avenue. to police officers.” The patrol sedan then lurches to a stop Mary Walsh Allmond believes the facing an iron-rod gate along Dale Avenue. same thing. “Watch out, Randy,” Tennis says before She says she was sitting in the front reversing. car of a stopped light-rail train when she The car backs up, points its nose witnessed Mann die several feet away. at Mann, now standing on the She first noticed Mann walking sidewalk, and accelerates up the middle of the street. again. Mann sprints across “I thought that’s why Del Paso Boulevard we stopped,” she told to avoid getting hit SN&R. again. His momentum From her seat, carries him across the Walsh Allmond had median divider, where a good view through John C. Burris a female bystander the front window. Mann family’s attorney stands, and out of the She says she watched dashcam’s frame. Mann cross toward the The car halts. The sidewalk, where he broke dashcam recording picks up into a jog, then stopped and one of the officer’s voices. turned around. That was when “We’ll get him,” the officer tells his she noticed police and got the feeling partner. “We’ll get him.” something bigger was happening. A bird’s-eye surveillance video “I had a direct line on him,” she said. obtained from the Stoney Inn picks up “I could hear the cops, or someone, the action from there, showing Mann’s screaming stop. He stopped, and he turned final moments on a tree-shaded sidewalk around. And when he turned around, he outside the saloon. looked over at the train. And when he Having just seemingly escaped being looked over at the train, they shot him. hit by the cop car, Mann crosses back “I saw his face,” she added. “He looked toward the sidewalk and jogs along a bewildered.” string of closed storefronts on Del Paso Walsh Allmond says she was Boulevard. Two officers on foot cross interviewed three times that day over the the street toward him, closing the gap. course of several hours, first by uniformed Noticing them, Mann points his left arm officers at the scene and finally by a detecand stops running. There’s a small knife tive in the probation office across the street in that hand, but the two officers are about from where the shooting occurred. 15 feet away, standing in the road. Mann SN&R was unable to independently gestures again. As he lifts the hand one verify that police considered her an eyewitmore time, he doubles over suddenly and ness, but Burris says his office has been in lurches back, crumpling to the ground as touch with Walsh Allmond and found her the two cops fire their guns and close the to be credible. distance. She says she feared police retaliation “Roll him over, get him handcuffed,” for coming forward, but couldn’t get the an officer can be heard saying in one of the images of Mann’s death out of her head. dashcam recordings. “Come on, they can’t keep doing this,” McGeorge School of Law professor she said. “That’s what’s really, really Mike Vitiello found the surveillance video bothering me.” “startling.” Either way, Vitiello had a prediction: “There may be a try-able issue on The city will settle its lawsuit with the whether they believed he had a gun,” Mann family—and the officers will the policing and criminal law expert told escape criminal charges. “But that’s like SN&R. “It has to be a realistic threat, and telling you the sun’s going to rise tomora person who has a knife and isn’t moving row,” he said. Ω toward them doesn’t present an immediate threat.” Kris Hooks contributed to this report.
“They just shot this man.”
Amidst Gov. Jerry Brown signing a flurry of legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the California Environmental Justice Alliance released a September 14 report highlighting a dirty secret: The state’s landmark reduction program, cap and trade, has possibly made things worse in disadvantaged communities. Entitled “A Preliminary Environmental Equity Assessment of California’s Cap-and-Trade Program,” CEJA’s report notes that while emissions have dropped since 2001, many industries have actually increased their emissions in California since cap and trade’s debut in 2013. This is because, until Brown’s September 8 approval of Assembly Bill 197, high-pollutant companies could offset their California emissions by purchasing out-of-state credits. The report also notes that in areas within 2.5 miles of greenhouse gas-emitting facilities, 66 percent of residents are people of color and 41 percent earn no more than twice the poverty level. For Katie Valenzuela Garcia, who serves on the California Air Resources Board’s Environmental Justice Advisory Committee, the report validated concerns she’s had. “What this report did is basically call arb out and say, ‘Not only does your data show this, but it shows it at a more extreme measure than any of us could have ever imagined,’” said Valenzuela Garcia, who also consults for CEJA, a statewide grassroots advocacy group, but didn’t work on this report. In Sacramento, Valenzuela Garcia sees high-polluting facilities “overwhelmingly located in communities of color,” noting a power plant on 47th Avenue and a truck depot operating out of the former Campbell Soup factory on Franklin Boulevard. The state might be catching on to the problem. Valenzuela Garcia said that one of its new pieces of legislation, AB 197, requires the ARB to focus on direct emission reductions. (Graham Womack)
Fraud squad Real estate fraud cost local residents at least $12.7 million last fiscal year, according to the Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office, which has yet to successfully prosecute anyone for these crimes. That was the gist from a report that county supervisors filed away on Tuesday, which conveys how complex and time-consuming real estate fraud investigations can be, and offered a peek into the unit that pursues them. The report comes from the DA office’s Real Estate Fraud Unit, which had 31 active cases at the time of its September 1 letter to the county. According to the report, the unit’s 18th, the DA’s office has been responsible for tracking real estate fraud in the county since July 2010. Its unit employs seven staff members, who processed 141 inquiries and calls to its hotline during the fiscal year that ended June 30. The fraud unit opened 60 investigations, but closed nearly half due to insufficient evidence. There were also 22 prosecutions carried over from the previous year, three of which did result in convictions for four defendants. One of the convicted defendants was Lonnie Schmidt, whom prosecutors say convinced desperate homeowners facing foreclosure to sign up for a fake mortgage relief program. Instead, Schmidt gained control over his victims’ properties, using them as collateral for personal loans or attempting to sell them himself. Schmidt’s crimes took course between 2009 and 2013, resulting in 40,000 pages of discovery and a five-month trial, the report states. After which, he was sentenced to 30 years in state prison. (Raheem F. Hosseini)
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Alleged pie-thrower Sean Thompson, center, was joined in court by his attorneys Jeffrey Mendelman (left) and Claire White. PHOTO BY EVAN DURAN
Punch and pie From Occupy to Ferguson: Sean Thompson’s history of activism
by Nick Miller
What motivated Sean Thompson last week to allegedly buy a coconut cream pie from Safeway, weasel into a private farmto-fork dinner event in Oak Park and throw it at Mayor Kevin Johnson’s face? Maybe there are answers in an event that happened five years ago, when Sacramento police arrested Thompson for a different reason: camping in Cesar Chavez Plaza. It was just after midnight on October 7, 2011. Thompson and 18 other men and women lay on their backs at the southwest entrance of the park. They were surrounded by a potent show of local law enforcement including: cops on horseback, dozens of police vehicles and multiple patrol wagons, and more than 70 officers in riot gear-style clothing. Thompson and his fellow Occupy Sacramento activists were arrested and cited for remaining in the park past 11 p.m., a.k.a. “camping.” Thompson himself would be arrested three times during these Occupy protests.
Also that fall, Thompson and his Occupy pals regularly filled city council chambers on Tuesday nights. At one meeting, instead of speaking during his allotted time, the future pie-thrower came to the podium, stood silent and turned his back on the mayor for two minutes. Three years later Thompson was at Arden Fair mall on Black Friday—but he wasn’t shopping for deals. He was out front, with dozens of protesters, speaking out against racial injustice and police use-of-force in Ferguson, Mo. And he was arrested that afternoon, for blocking an intersection. “An officer picked [him] up from behind and slammed him down in the pavement in the middle of the street,” explained attorney Claire White, who is representing Thompson. All in all, local law enforcement has arrested Thompson nine times for protesting. Charges were dropped in each instance. Perhaps, however, the pie idea had nothing to do with those arrests. Maybe he
bought the pie because of: his own experience as a homeless veteran on the streets of Sacramento, or his involvement in the “right-to-rest” protests earlier this year out front of City Hall. Activist James “Faygo” Clark co-organized that protest, and told SN&R that Thompson would show up to support and protest, or donate food and assistance. But after months of actions, the city still is not any closer to approving a safeground homeless camp or repealing the anti-camping ordinance. And Clark said activists like Thompson “are frustrated, because for years we have nonviolently protested, and pleaded with city council to address the concerns of the people.” He said that they were “essentially ignored” by city leaders. Thompson agreed. He told media last week that he felt all his work didn’t have an impact. And that Johnson had “to do better to represent the people.” In fact, that’s what he told the mayor in the seconds after he pied him, according to his attorney.
White also told SN&R that, after the pie hit the mayor on Sept. 21, there was a brief pause. And then Johnson tackled the 32-yearold, pinned him to the ground and sat on him, and threw “six, seven, eight” punches with “a closed fist,” White said. Thompson left the scene with a shiner on his left eye, and “very severe bruising all through his torso, on his front and his back,” White said. He received double-digit stitches at a local hospital before being booked on a felony charge of assaulting a public official and a misdemeanor charge of battery on school property. SN&R spoke to six people who witnessed the incident but would not discuss it for attribution. One said that the mayor hit Thompson “repeatedly.” Pictures released by Sacramento Magazine don’t show a bloody scene, but one witness said that you could see blood spread across Thompson’s face. And local fighter Urijah Faber told a local TV station that Thompson appeared “bloodied up.” The mayor’s chief of staff, Crystal Strait, described her boss’ response as self-defense, and has told other reporters that Thompson’s action was a shocking “assault” on Johnson. A Sacramento police spokesperson did confirm in the hours after the event that “the mayor did strike the suspect after he was assaulted.” Police also questioned Johnson after the assault, but his statement and a full police report is not yet available. Thompson’s attorney says that the mayor should be held accountable for his attack on Thompson. “If it had been anyone else, they’d had been arrested on assault and battery,” White argued. She also said that Thompson, who didn’t enter a plea at his September 27 arraignment, will soon file a civil suit against the mayor, seeking monetary compensation for medical costs, lost work time and damages. Meanwhile, Johnson has yet to announce whether he will participate in the prosecution of Thompson on the felony charge. If he doesn’t, the case likely will be dropped, according to a local attorney who spoke on the condition of anonymity. This expert also thinks that the mayor will likely have to pay out and settle with Thompson. Either way, there may be another showdown between Johnson and Thompson soon: The pie-thrower plans to speak at upcoming city council meetings. But will Johnson, what with his infrequent attendance, show up? Ω Matt Kramer contributed to this report.
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Rent to groan Sacramento startup lets landlords rate their tenants by Blake Gillespie
Being named Comstock’s startup of the month began as a victory lap for Renter Inc., a Land Park-based company that allows landlords to rate their tenants online. But more than a week after the web-only article went live September 6, Twitter users debated a question the business magazine didn’t pose: Doesn’t Renter Inc. make it easier for landlords to dodge antidiscrimination policies? “I can’t fully get my head around all the reasons this is a bad idea - Hsg rights, consumer protection, privacy?” wrote a Twitter user identified as Shamus Roller, who also happens to be the executive director of Housing California, a statewide affordable housing advocacy organization. Leave it to the internet to turn a business puff piece into a serious exploration of tenant rights. Billed as “Carfax for landlords,” Renter Inc. lets landlords rate their past tenants and research prospective ones in a database. Founder Vitaliy Merkulov says the service replaces an antiquated system of requesting rental history via fax. But will his website also make it easier for landlords to discriminate against potential renters based on race, gender or other factors? The California Department of Fair Employment and Housing recorded 5,096 such complaints last year. The Communications Decency Act is also important to consider, according to McGeorge law school professor Michael Mireles, an expert on landlord-tenant law. Mireles says the CDA allows interactive computer service providers like Renters Inc. to shift the legal risk onto their users by placing certain language in their terms of service, which the company does. Merkulov insists he doesn’t want anyone sued. “If this website is not going to work and it’s going to be a website with a lot of discrimination, landlords won’t use it,” he said. “It’s in our best interest to make sure it’s as fair as possible.” In the meantime, who speaks for the tenant? In 2014, the county pulled the plug on the Regional Human Rights/Fair Housing Commission, which mediated disputes between landlords and tenants for half a century before local governments decided they could no longer fund its existence. There’s still Legal Services of Northern California, which specializes in fighting for tenants’ rights and preserving low-income housing. Sarah Steinheimer, of LSNC’s Regional Council for Housing, was unaware of Renter Inc. But she pointed to positive reforms from the passage of Assembly Bill 2819, which ensures that all records of a tenant’s eviction remain private unless a landlord prevails within 60 days of suing to evict. While AB 2819 protects people from being wrongfully blacklisted, Steinheimer said Renter Inc. “could become a step back in comparison.” Ω An extended version of this story is available at www.newsreview.com/sacramento
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Getting away often provides perspective. This is the motivation behind the 18th annual Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce study mission, which included 80 business and government representatives. We put the Twin Cities under a microscope for four days this September. Minneapolis and St. Paul may seem very different from Sacramento and its neighboring cities. But they have much in common. They have similar population sizes. Both house a state capital. We are building a basketball arena, and they built a controversial billion dollar football stadium with a sizable public contribution. Purple is the color of both the Kings and the Minnesota Vikings. They had Prince and we ‌ well, there was only one Prince. But there are also big differences. Sacramento’s economy is dominated by state jobs. Minneapolis’ economy is dominated by its 17 homegrown Fortune 500 companies, including Target, 3M and General Mills. Minnesota has better-funded government services along with significantly higher taxes. And Minnesota is more than 80 percent white, while California is much more diverse, at 40 percent. In deciding which cities to study, the Chamber chooses cities which face similar issues as Sacramento. One year we visited New Orleans, which, like us, has flood control problems. We’ve traveled to Seattle to see how they successfully developed their economy with a strong private-public focus. We’ve learned about Chicago’s strong mayor. Visiting Minneapolis on the opening week of the city’s new downtown U.S. Bank Stadium, riding its recently expanded metro system and seeing how two large neighboring cities with a history of conflict are now working together provided perspective on key issues that we face here at home. With enthusiastic fans, and more importantly with a treasure chest of Fortune 500 companies with tens of
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Mexico City’s historic central square, or zócalo, Jose Adan Garcia Canales was busy balancing a small pipe organ on a wooden peg. He turned its crank, and the instrument let out a shrill tune reminiscent of circus music. Garcia’s partner strolled amid the shoppers, tourists and vendors with a hat in hand, asking for change. The organillero, or organ-grinder, is one of many in the capital’s massive unofficial economy. He’s a man of the people, with his fingers on the pulse of the city, and that’s why I asked him about one of the most pressing issues in Mexico today: Donald Trump. What does the everyday Mexican think of “the wall,” or Trump’s plan to send the millions of undocumented immigrants from Mexico living in the United States back to Mexico, among so many other contentious proposals? Garcia’s response was to the point: “They’re very radical,” he said in Spanish. “I don’t like them.” In the weeks leading up to July’s Republican National Convention, I interviewed a number of Mexico City residents—from teachers to musicians to fellow journalists—about Trump, and whether the demagogic candidate had changed their perception of America. Responses varied. While the organillero didn’t believe Trump would win the election, some predicted Trump would take it all in November. Others hinted at a conspiracy between Trump and Mexico’s president, Enrique Peña Nieto. A few bluntly compared Trump to Adolf Hitler. And some likened his campaign to a stunt, instead of an honest attempt to win the White House. Lots of people described the man with the darkest of humor: His campaign is a joke, but not a funny one. One common theme emerged from all of these interviews: Trump has to go. Or, in Spanish: ¡Fuera Trump!
Clockwise from top left: Mexico residents Isaías Jaime Ignacio Cruz, Ali Gua Gua, Federico Campbell Peña, Brillyl Sanchez and Jose Luis Diaz Calderón discussed GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump.
‘He’s like a clown’ Fabiola Valdez Gutierrez, interpreter Fabiola Valdez Guierrez is a Spanish-English interpreter—but her message for Trump needs no translation: He will never build “the wall.” She actually believes that, if he were in fact elected and did try to push the wall, a litigious private sector on both sides of the border would stop his plans in the courts. “Mexican companies have American partners that would likely lose money, as well, and I cannot see the federal government trying to solve all the possible lawsuits that will be surfacing” because of the wall, she explained. Valdez understands issues north and south of the border. She works remotely for a company based in Monterey, Calif., with clients in the United States and other English-speaking countries. She also has family in America and, in 2003, spent a summer in Texas and Arizona. So, for her, the border is personal. Valdez was cynical when it came to Trump and his bombastic style. “He presents himself as a great business success, but a lot of reporters have caught him lying,” she explained. She thinks his No. 1 motivation is to further his Trump brand with scandals and constant media attention. “[But] his message is so full of ignorance that it is a joke to think that his proposals are serious,” she said. Is there anything new about Trump’s brand of bigotry? Valdez doesn’t thinks so, calling it a byproduct of “a racist America that is still
palpable and very alive, present in a lot of cities.” The only surprise is that’s he’s a legitimate major-party candidate, she said—one supported by extremists who “won’t recognize the multiculturalism in their own country,” and who want “to go back to an America that never existed.” For Valdez, that’s why Trump’s popularity is ultimately scary: It validates the idea that “racists think they have the right to impose their world view on the rest of the population, and ultimately the world.” Despite her concern about Trump and his supporters, she said that his vision is basically a punchline in Mexico. “He is like a clown,” she explained. “Nobody has real concerns or fears about him becoming president. At least not in my social circle.”
‘ We are Poland and Trump is Germany’ Federico Campbell Peña, journalist A TV journalist who works for Canal Once, or the “Mexican PBS,” Federico Campbell Peña has followed Trump’s campaign from day one. And he is certain that Trump, whom he calls a “unique species,” will win. That’s a disconcerting prognostication from a man who also recently wrote a self-published
book, Stop Trump: Una cronología abreviada, or an “abridged chronology.” But Campbell doesn’t want Trump to move in to the White House; his hope with the book is to inspire Mexican leadership to develop a plan to deal with the possibility of a Trump presidency. The writer partially attributes Trump’s appeal in America to the scandals that have beset Hillary Clinton. But he also believes that global instability is setting the table for a Trump presidency. “ISIS is helping Mr. Trump,” he explained. If Trump becomes president, Campbell predicts that he would immediately enact a series of “publicity policies,” such as building the border wall, to prove his might. Another demonstration of power Campbell expects in Trump’s hypothetical first year is the cessation of diplomatic relations between Mexico and America—as crazy as that sounds. “We are not going to have ambassador[s] in D.C. and in Mexico City,” he predicted. But Campbell does not believe Mexico will fork over the billions of dollars needed to erect Trump’s notorious wall. He does, however, expect a truly massive deportation effort, although not of every undocumented immigrant, as Trump has promised. According to Campbell, that would be physically impossible. “But he is going to deport more people than Obama.” If that happens, he says the U.S. economy could collapse, due to the sudden removal of a large percentage of its labor force and consumer base. And the situation would be equally as dire
on the receiving end. “Mexico cannot receive a lot of migrants,” he said. And with the loss of remittances from Mexicans that had been living in the states, the Mexican economy could fold, too. In an interesting twist, Campbell said conspiracy theories about Trump abound. “A taxi [driver] told me that Peña Nieto has just been with Donald Trump,” he said, implying that the two are somehow in cahoots. He explained that many Mexicans share an inherent distrust of mainstream news outlets, because of their close ties to government. But it’s also possible that conspiracy theories are simply a means for those who feel disempowered to make some kind of sense of Trump’s madness. Speaking of which: How does it feel to be Mexican and hear Trump’s vitriolic message? Campbell was blunt: “We feel as [though we are] Polish in 1938, when Adolf Hitler reached power in Germany. … We are Poland and Trump is Germany.”
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“¡ F u e r A T r u m p ! ” continued from page 17 the heart of Mexico City, where she lives. Gua Gua—a globetrotting musician prominent in the Latin American punk scene — is perhaps best known as part of the Kumbia Queers, an allfemale outfit whose members hail from Mexico and Argentina. She views Trump’s popularity in America as a byproduct of a strong strain of cultural intolerance in the country. “In the United States, [people are] more aggressive when you’re different,” she observed. “And I think Trump is representing these people who think all the problems are because of immigration.” But she also realizes that the U.S. economy sucks for a lot of people. “United States citizens are very scared about the economy,” she said. In turn, they’re drawn to Trump’s quasi-populist message and purported business acumen. Although she believes Trump will ultimately lose the election, Gua Gua admitted it’s still frightening that his ideas carried him to the nomination. “The easiest way is hate,” she said. And she also wanted to share a warning for Trump supporters in America: White people will soon be outnumbered. She dismissed Trump’s claim that the Mexican government uses the United States as a “release valve” for its own domestic poverty. Instead, she said, common people are often faced with an impossible situation. “If you’re a young guy, in a small town in the middle of Mexico, you have, like, two choices, or three: You’re a peasant and you starve [to] death, or you become a policeman, [or] te vuelves narco [or you traffic drugs], or you go to the states.” Amazingly, she keeps a sense of humor about Trump. During our chat, she joked about his “piggy face,” and how metal bands might find him the perfect target for their derision were he elected. And, in the end, she likened his candidacy to dystopian farce with a musical twist: “For me, it’s like a comic, no? It’s like Jello Biafra’s worst nightmare.”
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Mexican government would in fact go along with his plans. “Mexico belongs to the United States,” he said. He pointed out that it has been this way since the Mexican-American War, when the U.S. Army occupied Mexico City and flew the Stars and Stripes over the very square where he runs his kiosk. That’s why Contreras believes that Mexico might bend to pressure and pay for a border wall—even though his country would have to borrow money from the World Bank, International Monetary Fund or possibly America itself to make it happen. If that occurred, that Mexico would carry the debt for generations. “Mexico is not in a position to refuse the United States.”
“ Trump is representing these people who think all the problems are because of immigration.” Ali Gua Gua musician and deejay
Cuauhtli Contreras, shop owner On most days, you’ll find Cuauhtli Contreras at his kiosk in Mexico City’s zócalo, where he sells papers and magazines, bottled drinks and loose cigarettes. He’s a man of the news—so you might be surprised, then, that he sympathizes with Trump. “He’s defending his country. No one sees it that way, but it’s true,” Contreras argued. Nonetheless, he believes Trump will lose, because his vitriol disassociates so many voters. “If you’re not blonde and tall, you’re opposed to Trump,” he explained in Spanish. For Contreras, Trump isn’t directly threatening Mexico. His message is not about Mexicans. “His whole campaign of hate is against Mexicans in the United States,” he explained. Contreras’ views also stand out because, he said, if Trump were to win, he thinks the
‘ Se sabe que no va a ganar’ Brillyl Sanchez, customer service Brillyl Sanchez sat in a Quaker-run hostel and community center in central Mexico City, where he sometimes practices English with expats and hostel guests. Sanchez, who is gay, admitted that the current groundswell of global reactionary conservatism, including Trump’s overwhelming popularity, feels not only regressive, but also dangerous. “I hope that he doesn’t win,” he said. “It’s the first time that I’ve heard a candidate who talks like this, so openly, about problems … without making a sound judgment about the causes.”
Sanchez brought up the “taco bowl” episode: Earlier this year on Cinco de Mayo, Trump tweeted a picture of himself at his desk with a sad-looking tortilla shell—a classic example of Americanized “Mexican” food—and the caption “I love Hispanics!” “It’s very weird,” Sanchez lamented. “It’s a comedy.” Sanchez thinks the motive for Trump’s slapdash campaign is obvious: “I think that Donald Trump only wants to draw attention.” He sees Trump’s extremism as a sideshow. “Se sabe que no va a ganar,” or in English: It’s known that he is not going to win. Sanchez speculated that instead, the entire campaign is about creating a high profile to earn more cash. “His finances aren’t so good right now and he needs more publicity.” But Sanchez said that, as a gay man, Trump’s response to incidents such as the June nightclub shooting in Orlando was wildly irresponsible and disrespectful. “I think that was, like, very misguided,” he told me. “Who’s he helping, really?”
‘ What would the United States gain from being constantly at war?’ Isaías Jaime Ignacio Cruz, teacher on strike The ongoing teachers strike in Mexico City is a mass protest against national educational reforms that would hardly cause U.S. citizens to bat an eye. But critics say President Peña Nieto’s proposals have more to do with privatization than actually improving schools. And his government has tried to enforce its will against protesters with violent police crackdowns. To that end, teacher Isaías Jaime Ignacio Cruz sees similarities between Trump’s rhetoric and the reality in Mexico. “[H]ere too, our government has already become very right-wing,” he explained. “It has become more discriminatory, and it’s affecting its own population.” A teacher from Oaxaca, Ignacio has been part of the teacher occupation in Mexico City since 2013. He said that what makes Trump worse than most is that “he is a person who discriminates too much and that, in fact, he is racist toward certain groups.” Ignacio predicted that the U.S. economy would collapse if undocumented immigrants were prevented from entering the country or sent back to Latin America. “They have jobs that Americans cannot or will not do,” he said, adding that U.S. business owners ultimately benefit from undocumented immigration, since those without legal status will often work for less money. He wondered what supporters think they will gain from Trump’s belligerent policy.
“We’ve already seen [his] intentions to begin cutting ties with all of the developing nations,” he said. “What would the [United States] gain from being constantly at war?”
‘God help us!’ Jose Luis Diaz Calderón, university professor Jose Luis Diaz Calderón described Trump frankly: “Nosotros la vemos como si fuera algo muy parecido a Hitler.” Translated: “We see it as something very much like Hitler.” But the professor at Instituto Politécnico Nacional, a public university with several campuses in Mexico City, also thinks that Trump’s bark will be louder than his bite if he’s actually elected president. “It’s understood that, in a campaign, [Trump] can say a thousand things [in order] to win votes,” he explained. But if Trump wanted to pursue a hard line with Mexico, his influence would be limited by pre-existing agreements between the two governments, the counterweight of the U.S. Congress and state laws along the border. Diaz also believes that Mexico’s significance as a leading country in Latin America would temper some of Trump’s more extreme proposals. “We say that, in terms of Latin America, Mexico represents the big brother for the majority of countries, with the exception more recently of Brazil, Chile or Argentina,” the professor explained. He pointed out that Mexico has been the United States’ partner for 150 years. This means that, according to Diaz, the country is an essential intermediary between the United States and other Latin American nations. In other words, Trump would need Mexico. Mexico also has deep economic ties to the United States. Not only do U.S.-based firms use cheap Mexican labor, but Mexico, with roughly 120 million residents, represents an important consumer market (think “Mexican Coke”). But Diaz also reminded me that most voters in Latin America admire U.S. elections as clean and free from repression or corruption. At the same time, he thinks that, in the United States, Latino voters are undervalued as a complementary bloc to white voters, and that their interests are too often overlooked. Trump’s pandering to the concerns of an ever-insecure, mostly conservative base support Diaz’s view. And that’s the rub in Mexico: “For us, the worst thing is that there’s a mass [of people] that support the proposals of Donald Trump,” he said. “Today, if you ask any Mexican they’ll say, ‘God willing, Hillary Clinton will win.’” Interestingly, this anti-Trump sentiment is shared across the political aisle in Mexico, from supporters of the conservative Peña Nieto to those who sympathize with the striking teachers. They’re all saying it: “‘God help us if Donald Trump wins!’” Ω
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They may have a new band name, but nearly a decade into their musical partnership, Rituals of Mine’s Terra Lopez (left) and Dani Fernandez’s solid teamwork hasn’t changed.
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erra Lopez and Dani Fernandez stepped foot onto the arena-sized Fresno stage on a blazing July day. It was Rituals of Mine’s first show opening for Deftones, and their first time playing to such a massive crowd. After years of house parties and nightclubs, it felt amazing and surreal. “We had never been in front of this many people before,” Lopez remembered one recent September afternoon as she and Lopez sat outside a Midtown coffee shop. “It was nerve-wracking.” “I almost felt like I didn’t know how to be big enough on stage,” Fernandez says. “I felt so tiny.” They didn’t just figure out what to do with the space, they commanded it, winning over new fans with soulful, heavy beats; trippy melodies and emotion-laden vocals.
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And it wasn’t just one show. Repeatedly during the tour, Rituals of Mine got called back to the stage for an encore— a rarity for an opening band. It was a sweet coda to a painful chapter that embodied some of the lowest of lows: Death, broken promises and shattered dreams. For some, the life-challenging events that led up to that Fresno show might have signaled the end. For the two friends, however, it invited a rebirth, one that resulted in a major label record deal, a new name and the same steadfast commitment to making music together. The band’s new album drops Friday, September 30, with a release party at Harlow’s Nightclub & Restaurant. It’s a been a long journey here, Lopez says, one in which she’s had faith, however blind. The band formerly known as Sister Crayon formed nearly a decade ago in Sacramento. Lopez already had the name and thought of it as an alter ego of sorts, a front for the “super-shy” musician. She recorded under the name and even released an album with a Chicago label. Then she and Fernandez met through friends and instantly connected. Over the years, band members have
come and gone, but the pair has remained constant. They even lived together once, sharing not just a bedroom but an Ikea circle bed. “We literally split the bed, so we each had a half,” Lopez says. They both relocated to Oakland and kept with music and plans even after Lopez eventually moved to Los Angeles for a spell. Over time, they survived breakups, departed band members and endless shows. Now it’s just the two of them and, sometimes, Adam Pierce, who’s performed with the band recently during live shows. “We just got to the point where we stuck it out together,” Fernandez says. “It was like, ‘We’re going to do this, this is something we believe in 100 percent.’” That philosophy helped when a collaboration ended up going south. In 2014, the band had traveled to St. Augustine, Florida, to record its second full-length album. They followed that up with some studio time with Omar Rodríguez-López of The Mars Volta and At the Drive-In. After, they were excited to release the album, Devoted, through Rodríguez-López’s label.
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The thrill, however, eventually gave way to heartbreak They could have left the record behind, but Lopez says, when the record didn’t get the push the band believed it “it almost felt like a breakup and we wanted the chance for a deserved. clean slate, a chance to release the record.” “There were so many promises … minimal expectaThey went into the studio to tinker with some of the tions that weren’t met,” Lopez says now. “It was complete songs and had the album mastered by industry veteran Tom devastation.” Coyne (Beyoncé, Adele, etc.). “Like our hearts were ripped out of our chest,” The resulting album marks a subtle but key departure Fernandez says. from previous recordings. Ths music is still pretty deep and It felt like defeat, a soul-crushing moment, artistically intense. Now, Lopez’s voice is clearer, decidedly front and speaking. center, a beacon of beauty, despair and hope. Things got worse, however, when just a few months Fernandez’ beats are more prominent, too, they give the later in September 2015, Lopez’s father committed suicide. music its spine, grounding the songs even as they let them Six months later, in February of this year, her best friend soar. Overall, the production is tighter, glossier, slick but drowned. never artificial. All those losses challenged them on many levels but The album also marks another shift. Lopez says she was determined to continue. Music wasn’t Lopez and Fernandez had long wanted to ditch the just music—it was therapy. It was life. Sister Crayon moniker—it was, after all, just a “silly name” They soldiered on. Lopez had attached to a project she never thought would go “There were times I had to put on that false face and say, beyond her bedroom. ‘We’re going to make this happen,’” Lopez says. “Even when The two agonized for two weeks before landing on in the back of my mind, I was like ‘Oh, my God, how?’ Rituals of Mine. The bandmates continued writing songs and The name comes from a lyric off Devoted and, playing shows. Along the way, they enlisted Fernandez says, “totally resonates with what Shawn Carrano to be their manager. The we do.” Sacramento native had heard about “How we perform and the writing the band via friends and, just a process—it’s a ritual for [us],” she says. few months before their album’s Reaction was, not surprisingly, release, offered to represent mixed. Fans have been intensely them. Sister Crayon wasn’t loyal over the years, sharing bandgetting the label attention it inspired artwork and traveling deserved or needed, he said. hundreds of miles to catch a show. Lopez and Fernandez initially Still, Lopez says, their musical demurred—they had a label at tribe mostly gets it. the time, after all—but when “There are so many people Dani FernanDez it became clear the support who don’t even know who Sister rituals of Mine wasn’t there, they reconsidered Crayon is—or was—so for us this and asked Carrano if he was still was a chance to attain something interested. new,” she says. Carrano, who’d moved to Los They just completed a tour with the Angeles, was definitely still game. Album Leaf, and in October they’ll hit the “I saw a bigger picture for this band,” road with Tricky. Carrano says. “I see things like Deftones “It’s a dream to be able to work with someone tours and festivals. They’re a Coachella band, a who helped create trip-hop,” Lopez says. Lollapalooza band.” Then, it’s back to songwriting, back to the studio, back The band’s music, he adds, is “timeless.” to two friends making music any and every way they know As it turned out, Carrano’s neighbor in Los Angeles how. No matter what. was Samantha Maloney, vice president of A&R for Warner Rituals of Mine is more than a band, Lopez and Bros. She asked Carrano to pass along some music. Fernandez say. It’s more than just friendship. Sister Crayon instantly intrigued. “Even with your best friend, there’s still some separaMaloney first with Lopez and the two hit it off. tion, but with [Dani] and I we’re not only just friends, we’re Eventually she sat down with the pair and then finally also family,” Lopez says. caught them live. The relationship is inconceivably strong, she says. “The show solidified why I wanted to be in business Music, shows, close quarters, circle beds, loss and with them, not even in the sense of making money, but in heartbreak. the business of being attached to these two really promising “You know more about me than I’d even like you to artists,” Maloney says. know,” she says, looking at Fernandez. She’s laughing, but The band’s deft genre-hopping across alternative rock, also serious. “But, also because we’ve been friends for so alternative hip-hop and electronica is key, she says. long and toured together and been in a band and lived in Maloney took the music to Warner Bros. and soon the rooms together—it is very much a family bond at this point, band had a deal. Lopez still remembers finding out they’d undeniably. People ask if we’re sisters and I just say yes. been signed. Because yes, we are.” Ω “I called Dani and I was shaking and she started crying,” she says now. “It was the surreal, weirdest feeling.” Over the course of the next few months, the band Catch Rituals of Mine at 8 p.m. Friday, September 30, at Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub, 2708 J Street. Tickets are $15. Learn more at www.ritualsofmine.com. reworked Devoted.
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Let’s talk about food climate change. food waste. Obesity. Hunger. The food system faces serious challenges—the topic of which drew more than 450 future-minded folks to Sacramento last week for the first annual farm tank, a two-day food and agriculture summit and spawn of the national organization Food Tank. “We have to have some uncomfortable conversations to move forward,” said Food Tank President Danielle Nierenberg. Yup. Those definitely happened. Nierenberg, a vegan, looked positively crestfallen when five animal rights activists stormed the stage during a sustainable protein panel, chanting, “Animals do not want to die.” She also moved to shut down a string of intense questions targeting John Purcell, a vice president at monsanto, who looked remarkably comfortable in the hot seat. Maybe it was his breezy, yellow Hawaiian shirt? During her opening speech, Nierenberg acknowledged the summit drew some controversy early on. Critics weren’t pleased that Monsanto had a seat at the table, and some also spoke out against Driscoll’s presence. farmworkers are still urging a ban of Driscoll’s, stating they only earn $6 per day picking berries. Vegan activists also demanded plant-based proteins be taken seriously, prompting Farm Tank to add a speaker from the Humane Society at the last minute. Regardless, the event sold out, and a live stream reached more than 6,000 viewers. Of course, there was some Sacramento boosting as well, with the “America’s Farm-to-Fork Capital” title in full use. That also meant plenty of local speakers, including Mary Kimball of the center for land-Based learning, Blake Young of the Sacramento food Bank and Michael Passmore of passmore ranch. Keith Knopf of Raley’s spoke to his stores’ commitment to supporting local and urban farmers. “Nearly 100 percent of our produce is local,” he said, which immediately brought to mind the recent opinion piece in The Sacramento Bee by Michelle Basso Reynolds and Steven Maviglio. The pair questioned the integrity of the farmto-fork movement, specifically citing an instance inside a grocery store where asparagus from Mexico was deemed “local.” Sure enough, Knopf admitted that Raley’s stocks out-of-season produce from wherever. There will always be bananas, and they will never come from Sacramento. Coincidentally, the Farm Tank dinner served out-of-season asparagus, presumably from Mexico. The most captivating discussions wove in social justice and immigration issues, given the majority of farmworkers in the United States are foreign-born and undocumented. Keynote speaker Saru Jayaraman, co-founder of Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, delivered a passionate reality check about wages in food service. She said restaurants represent the fastest-growing, largest sector of the economy, and yet they provide some of the lowest-paying jobs. This is less of a factor in California, one of few states that mandate servers receive minimum wage in addition to tips. Still, Farm Tank was about much more than California. “You can’t have a sustainable food system without sustainable wages for the 20 milllion people who touch our food,” Jayaraman said.
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The Los Rios Writers: Four Magazines, Four Stories FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 This town has a damn impressive writing scene. See for yourself this Friday, when four writers published in four Los Rios Community Colleges LITERATURE literary journals read their fiction. Stories on Stage (Sacramento) presents John Adkisson, Bojana Anglin, Rachel Gardner and Molly Stuart. $5-$10; 7 p.m. at Verge Center for the Arts, 650 S Street; http://storiesonstagesacramento.com.
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Big Crush Harvest Festival 2016 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, AND SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2 It’s harvest season in Amador County and many of the area’s wineries have banded together to show off their varietals as well as their estates. Visit Bella Grace Vineyards, Sera Fina Cellars, Rancho Victoria, Sobon Estate, Legendre Cellars and more. WINE Food and drink will be served, along with a bevy of live music to fill your senses. $10-$45, start times and locations vary, http://amadorwine.com/ event/big-crush-harvest festival.
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Every year, Empire’s Comics hosts a one-day convention spotlighting women artists, authors and creators. It might be small for a convention, but it is by no means lacking in fun. Dozens of guests spend the day with attendees, talking about CULTURE their experiences. Empire’s usually has a sale on stock during the mini-con, too. Free; 11 a.m. at Empire’s Comics Vault, 1120 Fulton Avenue, Suite K; (916) 482-8779); www.empirescomics.com.
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with people with disabilities. Though participation in the walk is free, attendees are encouraged to put together teams that fundraise for the event. There will be live music, face painting, games and speeches from individuals who have benefited from the Canine Companions program. The event kicks off at 9 a.m. at Southside Park (2115 Sixth Street); visit http://support.cci.org for more information. Later, head over to the Whiskers & Wine event from 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Sacramento County Animal Shelter (3839 Bradshaw Road) for an evening of live music, dinner, local beer and wine and hanging out with all the cute furry buddies in need of a good forever home.
Teaching Everyone Animals Matter, a.k.a. TEAM, is hosting and benefitting from the event, and tickets are $60-$75. Find out more at http:// scotch-mob.com/team_ww_event. Alternatively, from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Saturday as well, the Pit
Bull Charity Art Show: Peace, Love and Pit Bulls is taking place at the Brickhouse Gallery (2837 36th Street). There will be local art for purchase, plus food and drinks to benefit Chako Pit Bull Rescue, a nonprofit dedicated to this misunderstood and too-often-abandoned breed. Tickets are $10-$12 and can be purchased at www.meetup.com/ pitbulls/events/230910292.
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1 Charlotte’s Web has been banned in the United States. So has Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax, and even Anne Frank’s Diary of a Young Girl. Banned Book Week, now happening through October 1, is for everyBookS one. Come fight censorship and learn about great books that at one point threatened someone in power. Free; 2 p.m. at Franklin Community Library, 10055 Franklin High Road in Elk Grove; (916) 254-2920; www.saclibrary.org/Locations/Franklin.
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Dan Savage’s HUMP Film Festival SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1 A Venn diagram of porn and reality doesn’t have much in that middle overlap section. But that’s not so for this film festival founded by LGBTQ and political activist Dan Savage. This collection of porn FILM is sometimes sexy, sometimes funny and sometimes indescribable. $20; 7:30 p.m. at the Crest Theatre, 1013 K Street; http://humpfilmfest.com.
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Irish-ish reuben, MAlt & MAsh Despite being billed as an Irish pub, Malt & Mash’s food menu isn’t really Irish—unless you count Guinness beer-battered things as central to the cuisine. Still, Malt & Mash’s eclectic, comfortfood-meets-straight-upbar-grub appeals in both a sober and I’m-drunkplease-get-grease-in-me kind of way. For example, the Reuben ($13) is stuffed with house-smoked pastrami, Swiss cheese, Russian dressing and, for a twist, kimchi. The flavors are huge, though the rye can’t hold up to all the drippings. In other words, scarf it down. 715 K Street, www.maltmash.com.
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Deluge of food news: I have an overwhelming amount of stuff for you today. Ready? Lots of places opened within the past few weeks: Chando’s Tacos in West Sacramento (2530 Boatman Avenue); Malt & Mash (715 K Street), the trendy, semi-Irish pub near the arena with eclectic bar food; Mesa Mercado (6241 Fair Oaks Boulevard in Carmichael), the long-awaited Milagro Centre restaurant by Ernesto Delgado, owner of Tequila Museo Mayahuel; and Anh Hong (4800 Florin Road, Suite A), part of a small, family-owned chain that started in Vietnam and specializes in a $16, seven-course beef dinner. Of course, there’s more. Old Sacramento’s Ten22 turned a space next door into District (1022
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Second Street), a coffee and wine bar. District uses Old Soul Co. beans and serves grab-and-go lunch items, pastries, dessert and cheese plates. There’s also Wildwood Kitchen & Bar (556 Pavilions Lane), an upscale American restaurant from the same owners of Bistro 33. It’s a big, ambitious space, with live music and entertainment planned for the patio, according to the Sacramento Business Journal. It holds a tandoor oven for naan, though there aren’t other Indian influences on the menu. Think corn agnolotti with queso fresco and chili ($14.95); rotisserie chicken with whiskey peppercorn sauce ($22.95); and grilled rib eye with a horseradish popover ($34.95). Two breweries opened: Big
Stump Brewing Co. (1716 L Street) and Big Sexy Brewing Co. (5861 88th Street, Suite 800). Big Sexy boasts a large indoor and outdoor space. Big Stump notably diversifies Midtown’s brewery game, and it’s pouring its California State Fair award-winning hefeweizen. Sampino’s Towne Foods (1607 F Street) started serving dinner every Friday and Saturday night. If you’ve ever craved Sampino’s meatball sub after 5 p.m., now is your chance, along with trying their pastas, risottos and other Italian fare that you didn’t even know you wanted. Two of Sacramento’s most popular fancy spots launched lunch service: Empress Tavern (1013 K Street) and Saddle Rock (1801 L Street). Considering the chefs recently worked together, I find this to be quite the fun coincidence. Saddle Rock also just started weekend brunch. And, finally, Cornflower Creamery (1013 L Street) closed, preserving the idea that this location is really tough. The owner is looking for another space with more traffic. Ω
Wheel Lemonade owner Robert Cao’s motto is simple: “Wheel Lemonade. Real Ingredients.” He’s not kidding. His lychee basil lemonade ($5) starts with freshpicked lychee sourced from local farmers and his own, homegrown basil leaves. Mixed into Wheel’s base lemonade, you get a sweet-and-tart drink, perfect for mixing into cocktails. But first, you’ll have to find him—Wheel regularly sets up at the Midtown Farmers Market and the North Natomas Farmers Market, and, with about 20 different flavors, each week’s selection is different. You may get lucky and find the mint ginger, blueberry lavender or guava strawberry flavors. http://wheellemonade.com.
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All in the fruit family Kiwi berries Kiwi fruits, those fuzzy ovoids, grow well in California, so you’ll find loads of them at markets in early fall. Their little cousins kiwi berries like cooler weather, so they do well in more northern areas of the state. You may see these fuzzless fruits labeled as kiwi grapes or hardy kiwis. They can be eaten peel and all, and pack high quantities of vitamin C and potassium. Kiwi berries keep best in the refrigerator, but taste best at room temperature, soft and even slightly wrinkled, eaten by the handful.
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request it milder. In this case, the bones shattered, leaving dangerously sharp shards to pick out. We tried to order plain rice, but instead got chicken sindhi biryani ($10.99). It showed a Pakistani 1900 Canterbury Road, (916) 333-1186 influence, made with semi-dried unpitted apricots. Intriguingly, it consisted of very long-grain white www.facebook.com/havelirestaurantandbanquet rice and a floral undertone, with chunks of bone-in Dinner for one: $15 - $20 chicken but few vegetables. Good for: traditional Punjabi and Pakistani food An in-person visit revealed a voluminous, someNotable dishes: goat karahi, daal fry, onion kulcha what confusing menu. One side lists many specials like brain masala ($11.99) and chef’s choice tawa fish ($12.99), only available Friday through Sunday. The other includes more familiar à la carte dishes and When India and Pakistan divided, the Punjab region oddments, like Greek salad, and “Western Haveli” ended up straddling the border. Culinary traditions choices, such as veggie burgers with fries. remain similar on both sides, though, despite the The Greek salad ($7.99) tasted quite fresh, and political separation. served as the one nonspicy vegetable dish we found, Sacramento has plenty of Indian restaurants— and a nice counterpoint to most of the menu. True many replete with northern Punjabi dishes—but to Punjab cuisine, many items contain lots of cream, Pakistani places are less common. Haveli Restaurant ghee and meat. The dishes come from a culture of in Woodlake, however, represents both countries. manual labor that required extra calories, so richness Open since late May in the same complex as is the norm. the Canterbury Village assisted living facility, the Both chicken tikka masala and butter chicken renovated conference center often seems empty ($9.99 each) comprised somewhat scarce boneless unless the banquet rooms are in use. At times, chicken pieces in creamy sauces. The tikka masala you get the feeling you’re a bit out of place. seemed more like Kathmandu Kitchen’s Several mannequins in Pakistani salwars chicken makhani, with a tomato-tinged heighten the experience. sauce, while the butter chicken felt less As for the food, we had two very unctuous than other versions. True to Punjab different experiences. The confusing Breads here rank high, if pricey. cuisine, many menu situation may be why: A Plain naan ($1.50 per round) and items contain lots video of a menu on its Facebook garlic naan ($2.50 per round) page lists dishes no longer available. arrived steaming after a bake in of cream, ghee and We ordered to-go using that guide, a tandoor oven. The onion kulcha meat. but ended up getting unexpected ($2.99 per round) revealed neatly substitutions with no explanation. diced onion through a latticework of An order of vegetable samosas ($3.99) lightly browned dough. arrived as anticipated, with two flaky triangles The few vegetarian entrees include aloo filled with potatoes and peas. Flatter than most palak ($8.99), a stew of zingy spinach with a couple versions, they had a smooth filling well-dosed with of potatoes, and a rotating dal fry ($8.99), made one chilies. day with yellow peas and tangles of caramelized The pickled goat curry we ordered came as onion in a sea of spiced butter. goat karahi ($12.99), delicious but expensive for The staff at Haveli, while friendly, seem less a pint container with no rice or bread, as is the prepared for Western customers. The food isn’t standard here. described clearly enough to avoid surprises, and Chicken cholay ($9.99) had lots of serrano chiles, several phone exchanges we had led to confusion. If fragrant cilantro and a rich, gingery sauce. Many you persevere, though, Haveli offers a unique oppordishes here come with bones in the classic manner, tunity to try different versions of Indian restaurant and the spice level can be quite high unless you favorites and less-commonly offered dishes. Ω
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By Shoka The first pre-fall equinox chill has already made tank-topped Sacramentans reach for their cardigans. But the forecast says we’re still facing plenty of 90 degree days in the near future, so it’s prime time for the last frozen-treat binge-eating session of the season. Awesomely, more and more frozen-treat shops are offering vegan scoops, such as the Good Scoop (130 G Street, Suite A in Davis), which has sorbets made by Tara’s Organic Ice Cream of Berkeley. The Good Scoop posts
its daily flavors on its Facebook page—chamomile, chocolate agave and coconut berry are a few recent concoctions. However, if anyone prefers to be industrious yet kinda lazy, the no-churn mango ice cream recipe from iFoodreal is ridiculously easy: Blend a 14-ounce can of fullfat coconut milk, 3-4 cups of frozen mango chunks and a quarter cup of maple syrup. Put in a container and freeze it for three hours. Either way, enjoy the last frozen licks of summer before winter freezes us.
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In August, the Buddhist Church of Sacramento’s Japanese Food & Culture Bazaar drew thousands of people with the promise of succulent teriyaki chicken. As such, the line was frighteningly long during logical eating hours. If you, like me, freaked out and went for the shortest line instead, now is the time for redemption. Legendary, home-style teriyaki chicken can be yours! The Sacramento Nichiren Buddhist Church’s annual Japanese Fall Food Sale is here, and before Saturday, October 1, you can preorder all the teriyaki chicken ($7), udon ($5), curry rice ($5.50), bento boxes ($10), teriyaki beef sandwiches ($5) and spam musubi ($4) that you desire for pickup on Saturday, October 8. Yes, that means the lines will be shorter and you won’t risk waiting around for something that’s about to sell out. If you’re dreaming of tempura shrimp, though, you’ll have to wait until next year’s bazaar. Place your orders at http://sacramentonichirenchurch.org /food/index.php.
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“There is no limit on the hunger for power,” Pulitzer Prize winner David Mamet wrote in a 2008 New York Times article he penned on the subject of his 1988 play, Speed-the-Plow. This biting satire on the movie industry, now at the B Street Theatre under the direction of Jerry Montoya, plays into the appetite Americans have to see how things work behind the scenes. The title refers to a phrase in a 15th-century work song, “God Speed the Plough,” a prayer for prosperity and productivity. As the play begins, Charlie Fox (Kurt Johnson) is bringing a script to recently promoted studio executive Bobby Gould (Dave Pierini). It is a prison picture with lots of violence and a big name Hollywood star wants to make the film with them. The enthusiasm of the two men builds to almost orgasmic proportions as they envision the fame and fortune it will bring to the two of them. All they need is the OK from the studio head, who won’t be back until tomorrow, but Bobby assures Charlie it’s as good as done. The initially befuddled temp, Karen (Stephanie
Death of a Salesman feels as timely today as it did when Arthur Miller wrote his Pulitzer-Prize-winning play in 1949. Yes, some of the references are dated, such as the job of a traveling salesman or the dutiful housewife trying to placate a husband and sons. But the concept of the American Dream deferred, where the main character Willy Loman feels that life has unfairly passed him by and rewarded the undeserved, leaving him bitter and angry, are ideas that still resonate—especially in this election cycle. With this production, Ed Claudio, founder of The Actor’s Workshop of Sacramento, seems to be fulfilling a dream of his own: staging and starring once again in his all-time favorite play. It’s a wise choice—Claudio is captivating as he embodies Willy, bringing pathos, sadness and fatigue to the role, capturing Willy as a man who has dreamed of the perfect life attained by hard work, charm and perseverance, but one that’s also swimming in a sea of self-delusion. On stage, Claudio surrounds himself with a solid supporting cast, especially Laura Luke as his weary, worried wife, Matt Fairall as his stalled-in-life son Biff and Kevin Frame as the peacemaking son Happy. Director Eason Donner keeps the lengthy play’s pace tight, and the actions and emotions in check, while the lighting, tiered-set and costumes capture both the era and sliding despair of Willy Loman. —Patti RobeRts Death of a salesman, 8 p.m. friday and saturday, 2 p.m. sunday, $18-$20. the actor’s Workshop of sacramento, california stage theater, 1721 25th street, $18-$20. (916) 501-6104, www.actinsac.com. through october 16.
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Star search Luigi Pirandello’s play Six Characters in Search of an Author has been controversial since its debut in 1921. This is theater within the theater as six characters who are born for the stage but are never given a play to perform crash a rehearsal of another play and demand a story be created for them. Peter Mohrmann directs. 8 p.m. Friday, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday. $10-$15; Art Court Theater in the Performing Arts Center, Sacramento City College, 3835 Freeport Boulevard; www.citytheatre.net.
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BP. Kurt Russell provides sturdy support as the gruffly noble rig manager Jimmy Harrell, while Kate Hudson serves the underdeveloped part of Mike’s wife Felicia Williams well enough. From last week’s ungainly biopic Snowden, which Thankfully, the de rigueur family stuff is played played like a PowerPoint presentation about its own with a relatively light touch, and Berg is more protagonist, we come to Peter Berg’s Deepwater concerned with building old-fashioned tension Horizon, an exciting and emotionally resonant action by any means necessary than with lingering on movie that still honors the heroism and sacrifice of functional characters. its real-life subjects. The former film tells and tells There’s a scene near the beginning where and tells how you to think and feel, while the latter Wahlberg’s Mike boards the Deepwater Horizon film shows you a visceral, man-made horror with singing The O’Jays’ classic “For the Love of such power and grace and guts that your emotional Money,” and as the song briefly gets passed resistance gets overwhelmed. around the rig from man to man, there’s a fleetOf course, the shock is that the sleepy Snowden ing impression that the film could burst into comes from verified auteur Oliver Stone, while an all-out musical. That would have been the electrifying Deepwater Horizon is inappropriate within the context, but directed by the guy who made Battleship Deepwater Horizon unfurls with such and Hancock (to be fair, I never saw It’s one effortless grace and immediacy, Berg’s fact-based 2013 film Lone even as it shifts into a full-blown of the most Survivor). Deepwater Horizon was disaster movie, that it was at least riveting and also co-written by Matthew Michael momentarily plausible. Carnahan, who previously collabosubstantial Since Deepwater Horizon rated with Berg on 2007’s The focuses on the experience of being blockbusters of Kingdom, a risible, issues-oriented aboard the oil rig as it transformed the year. action drama starring Jamie Foxx and into a shrapnel-spitting inferno, the Jennifer Garner. devastating after-effects of the exploIn other words, Deepwater Horizon sion (more than 200 million gallons of oil wasn’t exactly on the top of anyone’s mental gushed into the Gulf of Mexico) get relegated queue, but it’s one of the most riveting and substanto an end-credits footnote. But thoughtful and tial blockbusters of the year so far, sitting right penetrating films about the environmental below Michael Bay’s 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers impacts of the spill already exist, in the form of of Benghazi. (Buried lede: Cinema is dead.) Berg documentaries like The Big Fix and The Great manages to serve a diverse set of masters here, Invisible. Instead of telling us something that paying tribute to the facts without betraying his we already know, Berg shows us something that duties as an entertainer, and laying the blame on we’ve never seen. Ω money-grubbing executives (mostly personified by an ooze-dripping John Malkovich) without turning the film into a seminar. Mark Wahlberg stars as Mike Williams, a worker on the Deepwater Horizon, an offshore oil rig that Poor Fair Good Very excellent exploded in 2010 due to lax safety oversight by Good
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Romantically challenged Bridget (Renée Zellweger) turns 43 still single and neurotic—then, after two one-night stands, finds herself pregnant and wondering who the father is: love of her life Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) or American billionaire entrepreneur Jack Quant (Patrick Dempsey)? The third Bridget Jones movie in 15 years has a shopworn premise, written by Helen Fielding (Bridget’s creator), Dan Mazer and Emma Thompson (who also plays Bridget’s doctor and gets most of the best lines). It has the air of a class reunion with some of the alumni (Gemma Jones and Jim Broadbent as Bridget’s parents, Shirley Henderson and Sally Phillips) included for old times’ sake and given little to do under Sharon Maguire’s meandering direction. Zellweger saves the day, even when she’s just going through the motions. J.L.
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Dark Horse
Documentarian Louise Osmond retraces the underdog career of the British racehorse Dream Alliance, which enjoyed an entirely creditable racing career 2004-2012, despite unexceptional genes and the fact that it was sponsored by a consortium of workingclass neighbors in a depressed Welsh mining town. Osmond mixes talking-head interviews with the Dream’s owners and hometown fans (a warmly down-to-earth bunch of folks), archival news footage, home video and discreet re-enactments to weave a heartwarming and crowd-pleasing story. The interviewees are the main attraction, especially breeder Jan Vokes and her husband Daisy (a nickname), but a surprisingly vivid presence is Dream Alliance himself, who comes off as a scrappy animal with a gamely competitive spirit and a lot of horse sense (no pun intended). J.L.
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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.
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This is another Bechdel test-failing, steak-and-eggs genre picture from Starred Up director David Mackenzie, with another lean and hard-boiled script from Sicario screenwriter Taylor Sheridan. Chris Pine and Ben Foster star as West Texas bank robber brothers, the former a lifelong straight arrow trying to pay off a debt, the latter a loose cannon career criminal. Jeff Bridges is the gruff Texas ranger on their trail, a grizzled widower on the verge of retirement, all too eager to stave off his inevitable appointment with the rocking chair. All of the performances are strong, with Bridges especially nailing a 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.
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In a grubby Australian Outback village in 1951, an outcast (Kate Winslet) returns to live with her half-mad mother (Judy Davis); she’s now a stunningly stylish clothes horse, and her fashion sense begins transforming the dowdy frumps of the town—but they haven’t forgotten the scandal that drove her away, and they still revile her as “the murderer.” Director Jocelyn Moorhouse and co-writer P.J. Hogan adapt Rosalie Ham’s novel, a quirky blend of murder mystery, revenge tragedy, black comedy and stinging social satire (with unacknowledged traces of Friedrich Dürenmatt’s The Visit). Moorhouse overdoes the quirk factor a tad, and there’s a bummer of a development in the last act, but a clever plot and good performances (including Liam Hemsworth and Hugo Weaving) keep us engrossed in all the eccentricity. J.L.
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The Light Between Oceans
In the 1920s, at a desolate spot on the rockbound Australian coast, a lighthouse keeper (Michael Fassbender) and his wife (Alicia Vikander), after two miscarriages, find a dead man and a crying baby washed ashore in a rowboat. They decide to raise the child as their own—until the husband meets the baby’s mother (Rachel Weisz). Arthouse darling Derek Cianfrance goes mainstream, writing and directing an adaptation of M.L. Stedman’s bestselling novel, with splendid results. The movie is superbly acted by the three stars and a largely unfamiliar (except for Jack Thompson and Bryan Brown) supporting cast. Cianfrance’s approach is calm and unhurried without being plodding or turgid, taking time to observe the telling detail and the emotions roiling behind the characters’ eyes. A deeply affecting movie. J.L.
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The Magnificent Seven
A hired gun (Denzel Washington, all steely authority) recruits a band of cohorts to help rescue a town from the murderous robber baron who runs it (Peter Sarsgaard, making Snidely Whiplash look subtle). Little but the title remains of John Sturges’ classic 1960 western, and even less of Akira Kurosawa’s great Seven Samurai that inspired it. But there’s fun to be had, despite a ridiculous script (by Richard Wenk and Nic Pizzolatto) that wallows in self-parody. Director Antoine Fuqua and a good cast (Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D’Onofrio, Haley Bennett) make the most of things, with a grimy frontier look and cheerfully over-the-top gunplay. It works best as a deadpan spoof, probably the most we can expect from a generation of filmmakers who seem incapable of making a Western with a straight face. J.L.
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Snowden
Oliver Stone directs and co-writes (along with The Homesman screenwriter Kieran Fitzgerald) this paint-by-numbers, Wikipedia-page biopic of NSA whistleblower/ traitor Edward Snowden. Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars as Snowden, flashing back through his life story while killing time in a Hong Kong hotel room with Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras. Shailene Woodley co-stars as Snowden’s longtime girlfriend Lindsay Mills, Rhys Ifans plays an overbearing boss and Nicolas Cage cameos
as a sympathetic mentor, but they’re all just one-note sounding boards. If you had any hope that the hot-button recentness of the subject matter would rouse Stone out of a two-decade stupor, forget it—Snowden is one of Stone’s most numbingly prosaic films, a predictably constructed and overly strident message movie. It often plays more like a simpering advocacy documentary than a dramatic film, with Gordon-Levitt and Woodley coming off like beautiful and doe-eyed re-enactors. Citizenfour exists, so skip this silliness. D.B.
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The storks of the world have forsaken their age-old mission of delivering babies, delivering packages instead—until an undelivered infant, now full-grown (and voiced by Katie Crown) reactivates the baby track, dragging her stork overseer (Andy Samberg) along for the ride. The boss stork (Kelsey Grammer) flies off in hot pursuit to stop them, a married couple (Ty Burrell, Jennifer Aniston) and their son (Anton Starkman) prepare for the new arrival, the baby and our heroes are kidnapped by wolves … say what? Nicholas Stoller’s script isn’t a story so much as a succession of bizarre non sequitur gags, jammed together helter-skelter and hammered at us with the maniacal zeal of a stand-up comic on a six-day coke binge. In 3-D. Doug Sweetland co-directs with Stoller, and the result is harmlessly exhausting. J.L.
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.
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A Capital Affair Sacramento celebrates the Golden State’s craft beer culture by kAte gonzAles
Thousands of people gathered for The California Craft Beer Summit and Beer Festival Sept. 8-10.
Photos by Anne stokes
There’s no party quite like a craft brewers’ party.
"What makes a great beer?"
Asked at The California Craft Beer Summit and Beer Festival
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n Sept. 10, thousands of craft beer lovers filled downtown’s Capitol Mall to taste hundreds of porters, sours, IPAs, Pilsners and other diverse beers from across the state. The California Craft Beer Summit and Beer Festival, the three-day event that culminated with the Summit Beer Fest, drew more than 6,000 attendees. They weren’t there just to drink, but to learn about different aspects of the craft through educational brewers panels. The event was hosted by the California Craft Brewers Association, a trade association that represents the state’s craft breweries — a market that is growing in California and nationwide. Between sips of the variety of delicious beers, we asked brewers and attendees about their beer preferences and got a sampling of their thoughts.
“To me, a great beer has to be fresh and it has to have good ingredients to be fresh, and I prefer the darker beers. I like a little ‘umph’ to my beers.” Alonzo Wilson Brewer
“First of all it has to be tasty — not watery. It has to be rich in flavor, also in smell. … I look for amber tones, which are medium/dark tones, all the way to a dark stout. I like those, especially in the fall.” VAlerie roberts Project manager
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“That you can drink three of them. … I make beer that people accidentally drink three of.” Alex tWeet Owner and head brewer at Fieldwork Brewing Co.
“A beer that you know is good but doesn’t require you to know why it’s good while you’re drinking it.” Henry nguyen Co-owner and brewer at Monkish Brewing Co.
“Flavor. … If it tastes good to you that’s what you should go for. Everyone has a different taste.” Kelly CAVeney Tasting room manager at Cellarmaker Brewing Co.
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Amber DeLaRosa unleashes waves of powerful feelings with her band Flourish by Janelle Bitker
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“I knew in my head we could make them big,” she says, laughing. Her bandmates? Not so easily convinced. But now it’s tough to imagine the songs on Flourish’s debut EP, Everyone I Love, stripped down. They’re massive, moving cascades of sound: emotional crescendos, unbridled angst and drums like a nervous heartbeat. Throughout, DeLaRosa’s distinctive, powerful voice carries the torch—you don’t know where it’s going, but you never want to stop following it. amber Delarosa, looking away. She hits painfully beautiful falsettos, then wobbles like she’s trying with all her might not to fall apart. Something typically rare has become somewhat Everyone I Love came out just shy of a year ago, standard for Amber DeLaRosa: new fans approach and Flourish has collaboratively written lots of new her after shows and repeat DeLaRosa’s lyrics. material since then. With this new batch, which It’s not because of any confusing messages or will likely make up the band’s first full-length, obscure metaphors. If anything, DeLaRosa, the DeLaRosa moves away from feelings of anger and singer-songwriter for alternative band Flourish, spells more into a subdued, melancholy state. On Friday, out brutally plain truths. Her unfiltered emotions September 30, at Naked Lounge, the group will build her songs, which wrestle with the darkest times release two singles, “Sink” and “Buildings,” songs in her life. She sings about surviving sexual abuse, born out of a time of transition that don’t quite fit feeling neglected growing up and having parents with with the rest of its work. Despite being recorded mental disorders. Even her love songs contain the acoustically, they carry heft, washing over you and shadow of these experiences. leaving you heavier than before. “As I’m getting older, I’m starting to That time of transition is just subsidprocess it and use it a lot for my art,” ing, actually. About a year ago, the 22-year-old says, referring to her DeLaRosa quit her corporate rocky childhood. “I feel lucky to job. She enrolled in classes at now be able to sing about them.” Sacramento City College— “It’s cathartic to Girls, in particular, tend to find something she thought was be able to heal with her after shows and express how never in her cards. She also people.” they relate to her struggles, she started nannying, enjoying says. They share in solidarity. the flexibility as well as the Amber DeLaRosa “It’s cathartic to be able to heal daily reminders of her own singer-songwriter, Flourish with people in that way,” DeLaRosa childhood and how much she’s says. “You feel less alone.” grown. She thinks all the change DeLaRosa grew up in Citrus has positively manifested itself in Heights, constantly clutching the guitar her both Flourish’s music and the band’s absent father left behind. She started writing steadily building momentum. songs in middle school and still goes through the “I think for a lot of my life, my happiness was same process: something hits her, she grabs her really out of my hands,” DeLaRosa says. “At some guitar, she weeps, she sings. point, I had to realize it was within my reach to At age 18, she moved to Sacramento, frequented change my situation and become happy.” Ω the open-mic circuit and formed Flourish in 2014 with core members and fellow guitarists Anthony Gomez and Pat Hills. catch flourish at 8:30 p.m. friday, september 30, at naked Lounge,1111 In the Flourish’s beginning, the group was tasked h street. Passing time, forget it and Pastel Dream are also on the bill. with making DeLaRosa’s prewritten solo stuff work tickets cost $5. More at www.facebook.com/flourishtheband. as a full band. Photo courtesy of Xing Liu
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The musicians and artists brought to HOF Day were nothing short of spectacular. Local performers like J. Sirus, Chuuwee, C Plus and Zyah Belle— who will be moving to Los Angeles in October—showed up and showed off for the city and made everyone remember what true love for music looks and sounds like. Artists who weren’t from the area, like oriJanus and NiceGuyXVinny from the label Soulection, gave life to the night.
—Taylor Desmangles
Can’t argue with free: Sure, you could journey down to San Francisco and suffer an apocalyptic parking situation and claustrophobic crowds to attend Hardly Strictly Bluegrass this weekend—or you could stay here, and ride your bike to a comparatively teeny-tiny fest with a similar spirit and price tag. In other words, free and noncommercial. Sac PorchFest transforms porches into stages and sidewalks into standing room. Midtown becomes the venue. Public space is for all. Last year’s inaugural festival saw a wildly enthusiastic crowd stick it out all afternoon, roaming from house to house to catch acts. This year’s lineup features nine mostly folk acts, with some standouts like the beloved Be Brave Bold Robot; Flourish, as featured in this week’s music article on page 38; singersongwriter Justin Farren; experimental, electro-soul one-man-band So Much Light; and an ensemble from the Sacramento Philharmonic. Catch them all from 2 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Saturday, October 1, around I and 21st streets. More at www.sacporchfest.com. —Janelle BiTker jan el l e b @ne w s re v i e w . c o m
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profile last year with its first annual #HOF Day, featuring Soosh*e!, Jurts and members of the HBK Gang. This year’s #HOF Day was by far the biggest event yet, with more than 20 performers, more than 10 deejays and a headlining set by celebrity producer Metro Boomin. The Riverwalk in West Sacramento was reserved for an advertised estimate of 10,000 attendees. Although the 10 acres of land provided a gorgeous view of Sacramento’s most recognized structures—the Delta King, the Ziggurat, the Tower Bridge—the two stages and vendor booths were so close that they looked like they were kissing each other. That was most likely strategic planning to keep every section of the event looking full and busy, regardless of how many people were actually there. As always, Sacramento’s worldrenowned performance painter David Garibaldi gave an amazing show. His live painting at the main stage was epic. As he threw colors and mixtures onto the canvas, his strokes matched the beats of the background music. Watching an artist at work always provides a sense of calm, but Garibaldi hypnotizes with his talent. After keeping the audience guessing, he unveiled his final product to be a
Before Metro Boomin came on, all-access pass holders were forced to stay outside of the backstage areas. The backup of partygoers caused a large, hazardous crowd to form right next to the main stage. For about an hour, Metro’s team didn’t want him coming out in all of that chaos and held him even longer. Luckily, the HOF Day crew was able to smooth things out. Once Metro finally emerged, and dropped his famous tag line, “If young Metro don’t trust ya,” the crowd went wild. The eclectic light show complimented each of his top produced songs like “Jumpman,” featuring Drake and Future, “Tuesday,” featuring ILoveMakonnen and Drake, and “Blow a Bag,” featuring Future. To witness that much raw talent, community love and waves of positivity leading up to a groundbreaking set by Metro Boomin compensated for any other pitfalls.
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Hip-hop for the win: As #HOF Day approached, every flier, post on social media or photo caption read the same thing: “#HOF Day: A party so big, they call it a festival.” HOF, which stands for “Hall Of Fame,” aims to create an atmosphere of creativity, fun and the urge to party hard. The HOF crew, which includes Marcus Parker, Tony Christian, Robbie Metcalf and Damian Lynch, have been throwing
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NorCal NoiseFest is the longest-running noise-experimental festival out there. It’s still going strong in its 20th year. Outsider artists like Mia Zabekla, Humanfluidrot and Skrunt Skrunt come from far-flung NoIsE places to show off their unique, eccentric talents. Regional noisemakers like Instagon, Uberkunst and Big City Orchestra make a point to play almost every year. This three-day event is jam-packed with creative sound art that explores the dichotomy between music and noise. There’s bound to be something for anyone looking for what’s happening out in the weirder musical wilderness. 1414 16th Street, www.norcalnoisefest.com.
BLue Lamp, 8 p.m., $10-$12
As native activists and allies unite to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota, a Canadian deejay collective known as A Tribe Called Red is using its electronic music to combat the lingering effects of colonialism. Comprised of three deejays from Ontario’s indigenous reservations, the group is uniting all walks of native folk under a loose collective of activists and artists known as Halluci Nation. It’s an inclusiveness movement that rallies around like-mindedElECTRoNIC ness rather than skin tone or tribe. The record We Are the Halluci Nation combines North American music with the glitch-step of EDM and trap music. 2574 21st Street, http://atribecalledred.com.
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oLd ironsides, 9 p.m., $5
A SN&R writer once called Frank Jordan “easily one of the most unforgettable bands this city has produced.” Whoa. That was back in 2004. Frank Jordan formed in the early ’90s. Fast-forward to 2016, and frequenters of the local music scene too young to remember Frank Jordan have their INdIE RoCk first opportunity in three years to be blown away by its elegant, shimmering rock songs, full of textures and influences from the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s. The group isn’t making any new music, but you could check out frontman Mike Visser’s main project, Imaginary Tricks. 1400 Alhambra Boulevard, www.facebook.com/frankjordanmusic.
50-Watt Heavy’s first gig was six years ago during the annual Dead Rock Stars Halloween Show at Old Ironsides. Since then, the laid-back rock group wrote and recorded its self-titled EP and continues to perform in just about every venue throughout Sacramento. With influences like Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Wilco and the Replacements, 50-Watt Heavy performs upbeat, hard-hitting music that RoCk incorporates moments of altcountry and rock ’n’ roll. Joseph Kojima Gray’s full-bodied vocal range pairs well with layers of groovy keys, steady percussion and catchy guitar. 1901 10th Street, https://50wattheavy.bandcamp.com.
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Grass Valley residents take pride in their annual Celtic Festival set amongst luscious scenery, featuring some amazing, natural acoustics. Kansas City’s the Elders will be playing both days to share WORLD MUSIC much of its rock-infused catalog, including its seventh studio record titled Story Road. For the uninitiated, expect a high-energy show steeped in rich Celtic tradition without feeling dated or derivative. The annual Celtic Festival also offers much more, including even more musical choices, countless vendors, local dance ensembles and myriad opportunities to join in on the fun. 11228 McCourtney Road in Grass Valley, www.eldersmusic.com.
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Dave Rawlings Machine rolls into Sacramento on Monday evening following a weekend appearance at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival. Gillian Welch and her musical partner, David Rawlings, have been bringing disciplined yet spontaneous musicianship and artful performances to devoted audiences for more than 20 years. From their perfectly matched voices to the tasteful interplay between Welch’s rhythmic BLUEGRASS strumming and Rawlings tasteful lead lines, they deliver compositions steeped in numerous country and folk traditions, but far from old-timey music. 1013 K Street, www.daverawlingsmachine.com.
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The Golden 1 Center is finally open to the public after much ballyhoo from downtown residents and, of course, Kevin Johnson’s many opponents. Only time will tell if the new POP arena will turn around a flailing basketball team and coerce many new, cuttingedge acts to the area. Paul McCartney (of that little group the Beatles) is coming for two special nights. There are still many seats left, and for those who weren’t able to catch his set at the former Arco Arena many years ago, expect a whirlwind, all-encompassing set replete with hits. 500 David J Stern Walk, www.paulmccartney.com.
Any house deejay worth their weight in gold knows that the line separating future-funk dance jams and ’80s nostalgia is a thin one at best. Up-and-coming French house deejay Zimmer wears this credo on his sleeve. There’ll be times you’ll ask yourself if you’re listening to the closing credits of Beverly Hills Cop or if it’s ELECTRONIC some spacey sci-fi track from a euphoric alien world of empaths. It’s feel-good dance music for sure—perfect to dance to just as the sun is setting, or maybe early in the morning when it’s rising. 2003 K Street, www.facebook.com/zimmermusic.
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Thursday Comedy Open Mic, 7:30pm, call for cover
BLUE LAMP
1400 Alhambra, (916) 455-3400
DUSTY BROWN, THA FRUITBAT, HOMO ERECTUS; 8pm, $10
FRANK JORDAN, PINNACLES, HATCHET JOB; 8pm, $10
DAISY SPOT, THE PROLES, PETS; 8pm, $10
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MISTAH FAB, 7pm, $20-$25
KURT TRAVIS, STRAWBERRY GIRLS; 6:30pm, $12-$14
HIGHLY SUSPECT, 6:30pm, $16-$18
101 Main St., Roseville; (916) 774-0505
9426 Greenback Ln., Orangevale; (916) 988-9247
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Sunday Tea Dance and Beer Bust, 4pm, call for cover
Good vibes, 10pm, call for cover
HANDMADE MOMENTS, call for time and
235 Commercial St., Nevada City; (530) 265-0116 cover
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JACKSON BROWNE, 8pm, Sold Out
JERRY DOUGLAS BAND, 7:30pm W, $37-$42
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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4007 Taylor Rd., Loomis; (916) 652-4007
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YOUNG AND RECKLESS, MILES, MEDINA; call for time and cover
KHALASIC, JULIAN PIERCE; call for time and cover
FACES
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
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BANJO BONES, 8pm, no cover
HANS & THE HOT MESS, BEYOND URANIUM; 9pm, $5
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Westcoast poker league, 6:30pm, no cover
Late night R&B, 9:30pm, call for cover
1603 J St., (916) 476-5076
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Karaoke happy hour, 7pm, no cover
1001 R St., (916) 443-8825
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DEVILS OF LOUDON, 8PM M, $5; Soccer mom’s night out, 8pm W, $15-$20 TWIZTID, 6:30pm Tu, $20-$22; PALISADES, 6pm W, $12
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OpenR&B neo soul &open mic, 9:30pm, call for cover
Old school r&b and hip hop, 9pm, $10
Jazz jam with Reggie Graham, 6:30, call for cover
mic night, 7:30pm M, no cover; Pub quiz, 7pm Tu, no cover Open-mic night, M, call for cover
Jazz jam with Reggie Graham, 5pm, no cover
INNERSOUL, 9pm, $5
ROUGE, 9pm, $5
RITUALS OF MINE, THE LIQUE, JAMES CAVERN; 7pm, $15
ELIZABETH COOK, 3pm, $15-$18; PETTY THEFT, 9pm, $15-$18
Trivia night, 7pm Tu; Bingo, 1pm W; Paint night, 6:30pm W, $25 MONTANA OF 300, 6:30pm, $18-$23
BRANCHES, 7pm M, $14; MARCHFOURTH!, 8pm Tu, $15-$20
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DJ Deleo, 10pm, no cover; Record club, 10pm, no cover
Top 40, 10pm, no cover
Heavy mondays, 10pm M, no cover; Tussle, 10pm Tu, no cover; Swish, 10pm
HIGHWATER
80s new wave/post punk, 10pm, no cover
DJ Deleo, 10pm, no cover
Joseph One, 10pm, no cover; Ignorant, 10pm, no cover
Heavy, 10pm M, no cover; Tussle, 10pm,Tu, no cover; Good stuff, 10pm W
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Patients Can Fall Prey to Fake 420 Doctors The lowdown on how to obtain a legit recommendation by Ken Magri
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The internet is littered with cautionary tales involving patients who visit a dispensary only to be told their medical marijuana recommendation is phony. Two reported scams involve physician assistants writing out recommendations without the physician being present and creating fake recommendation operations by stealing an unsuspecting doctor’s board certification number. How can cannabis patients know their doctor is legit? They can go to www.mbc.ca.gov, a state-run verification site, and type in the doctor’s name. Patients should remember that doctors don’t write official prescriptions for cannabis because the federal government lists it as a Schedule I drug. What the public popularly calls “prescriptions” are actually “recommendations,” which California law says must be written by “a physician” who is board certified and currently practicing. “That is the fundamental document that the Compassionate Use Act relies upon,” said Mitchell Abdallah of the Abdallah Law Group. “Without a [valid recommendation] nobody can do anything, so it’s vitally important that you seek out a reputable doctor that has a current license.” To verify a recommendation, dispensaries often use third-party, online services like CannabisVerifications.com. “If you tried to do it yourself, you would have someone on-call seven days a week,” said David, an administrator at Golden State MD. Nevertheless, many verifications are still done by telephone.
“Without a [valid recommendation] nobody can do anything, so it’s vitally important that you seek out a reputable doctor that has a current license.” Mitchell Abdallah, Abdallah Law Group
you see online who conduct examinations in less than a minute. While this practice may be legal, it won’t be once the Medical Marijuana Regulation and Safety Act fully goes into effect in 2018. That law states that medical enforcement priorities will include “repeated acts of clearly excessive recommending of cannabis for medical purposes,or repeated acts of recommending without a good faith prior exam.” So what can you expect valid cannabis recommendations to look like? They are written out on the physician’s stationary, and include the doctor’s medical license number and signature, and a patient verification number. The photo ID you provide will be attached and photo-copied. Some recommendations include an embossed stamp in the corner to further validate the document. As long as your doctor is legit, all you need are the original recommendation letter and that same photo ID. Once a dispensary verifies the recommendation, your photo ID alone is enough for future visits.
Vincent Austin, one of the managers who verifies recommendations at Horizon Collective, said that verifying recommendations from a patient’s personal physician are trickier because that doctor may be unavailable for calls. In the long run he thinks it’s better to go through a separate cannabis doctor because they are easier for dispensaries to contact.
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FOR THE WEEk OF SEPTEMBER 29, 2016 ARIES (March 21-April 19): What’s the difference
between a love warrior and a love worrier? Love warriors work diligently to keep enhancing their empathy, compassion, and emotional intelligence. Love worriers fret so much about not getting the love they want that they neglect to develop their intimacy skills. Love warriors are always vigilant for how their own ignorance may be sabotaging togetherness, while love worriers dwell on how their partner’s ignorance is sabotaging togetherness. Love warriors stay focused on their relationship’s highest goals, while love worriers are preoccupied with every little relationship glitch. I bring this to your attention, Aries, because the next seven weeks will be an excellent time to become less of a love worrier and more of a love warrior.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): How will you deal
with a provocative opportunity to reinvent and reinvigorate your approach to work? My guess is that if you ignore this challenge, it will devolve into an obstruction. If you embrace it, on the other hand, you will be led to unforeseen improvements in the way you earn money and structure your daily routine. Here’s the paradox: Being open to seemingly impractical considerations will ultimately turn out to be quite practical.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Is it possible that
you’re on the verge of reclaiming some of the innocent wisdom you had as a child? Judging from the current astrological omens, I suspect it is. If all goes well, you will soon be gifted with a long glimpse of your true destiny—a close replica of the vision that bloomed in you at a tender age. And this will, in turn, enable you to actually see magic unicorns and play with mischievous fairies and eat clouds that dip down close to the earth. And not only that: Having a holy vision of your original self will make you even smarter than you already are. For example, you could get insights about how to express previously inexpressible parts of yourself. You might discover secrets about how to attract more of the love you have always felt deprived of.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): I’m not asking you
to tell me about the places and situations where you feel safe and fragile and timid. I want to know about where you feel safe and strong and bold. Are there sanctuaries that nurture your audacious wisdom? Are there natural sites that tease out your primal willpower and help you clarify your goals? Go to those power spots. Allow them to exalt you with their transformative blessings. Pray and sing and dance there. And maybe find a new oasis to excite and incite you, as well. Your creative savvy will bloom in November if you nurture yourself now with this magic.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): One of your old reliable
formulas may temporarily be useless or even deceptive. An ally could be withholding an important detail from you. Your favorite psychological crutch is in disrepair, and your go-to excuse is no longer viable. And yet I think you’re going to be just fine, Leo. Plan B will probably work better than Plan A. Secondary sources and substitutes should provide you with all the leverage you need. And I bet you will finally capitalize on an advantage that you have previously neglected. For best results, be vigilant for unexpected help.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Attention! Warning!
One of your signature fears is losing its chokehold on your imagination. If this trend continues, its power to scare you may diminish more than 70 percent by November 1. And then what will you do? How can you continue to plug away at your goals if you don’t have worry and angst and dread to motivate you? I suppose you could shop around for a replacement fear—a new prod to keep you on the true and righteous path. But you might also want to consider an alternative: the possibility of drawing more of the energy you need by feeding your lust for life
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Thank you for all the
entertainment you’ve provided in the past 12 months, Libra. Since shortly before your birthday in 2015, you have taken lively and gallant actions to rewrite history. You have banished a pesky demon and repaired a hole in your soul. You’ve educated the most immature part of yourself and
nurtured the most neglected part of yourself. To my joyful shock, you have even worked to transform a dysfunctional romantic habit that in previous years had subtly undermined your ability to get the kind of intimacy you seek. What’s next? Here’s my guess: an unprecedented exemption from the demands of the past.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Are you able to
expand while you are contracting, and vice versa? Can you shed mediocre comforts and also open your imagination to gifts that await you at the frontier? Is it possible to be skeptical toward ideas that shrink your world and people who waste your time, even as you cultivate optimism and innocence about the interesting challenges ahead of you? Here’s what I think, Scorpio: Yes, you can. At least for right now, you are more flexible and multifaceted than you might imagine.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You
Sagittarians are famous for filling your cups so full they’re in danger of spilling over. Sometimes the rest of us find this kind of cute. On other occasions, we don’t enjoy getting wine splashed on our shoes. But I suspect that in the coming weeks, the consequences of your tendency to overflow will be mostly benign—perhaps even downright beneficial. So I suggest you experiment with the pleasures of surging and gushing. Have fun as you escape your niches and transcend your containers. Give yourself permission to seek adventures that might be too extravagant for polite company. Now here’s a helpful reminder from your fellow Sagittarian, poet Emily Dickinson: “You cannot fold a flood and put it in a drawer.”
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I believe that
during the coming weeks you will have an extra amount of freedom from fate. The daily grind won’t be able to grind you down. The influences that typically tend to sap your joie de vivre will leave you in peace. Are you ready to take full advantage of this special dispensation? Please say, “Yes, yes, a thousand times yes!” Be alert for opportunities to rise above the lowest common denominators. Be aggressive about rejecting the trivial questions that trap everyone in low expectations. Here are my predictions: Your willpower will consistently trump your conditioning. You won’t have to play by the old rules, but will instead have extra sovereignty to invent the future.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): According to
my analysis of the astrological omens, you can expect an unlikely coincidence or two in the coming days. You should also be alert for helpfully prophetic dreams, clear telepathic messages and pokes from tricky informers. In fact, I suspect that useful hints and clues will be swirling in extra abundance, sometimes in the form of direct communications from reliable sources, but on occasion as mysterious signals from strange angels.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You know that inner
work you’ve been doing with such diligence? I’m referring to those psycho-spiritual transformations you have been attending to in the dark … the challenging but oddly gratifying negotiations you’ve been carrying on with your secret self … the steady, strong future you’ve been struggling to forge out of the chaos? Well, I foresee you making a big breakthrough in the coming weeks. The progress you’ve been earning, which up until now has been mostly invisible to others, will finally be seen and appreciated. The vows you uttered so long ago will, at last, yield at least some of the tangible results you’ve pined for.
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Yes, and … David Loret de Mola, better known by his stage name AndYes, is manifesting his vision within the Sacramento music and arts scene as a member of the hip-hop collective Zero Forbidden Goals. The Sacramento-based poet and improviser extraordinaire has been teaching spoken word, improv and healthy expression in California and abroad for more than six years. On September 22, he releases his first spoken word album, When The Bomb Drops—which has been a year and a half in the making. SN&R was able to sit down with AndYes over coffee and discuss his new project, learning about self-love and how to be a passionate beam of light in spite of depression.
How did you come up with the name “AndYes?” “AndYes” comes from an improv term called, “Yes, and” which is the basic philosophy of improv. Basically, you make me an “offer”—something that grows the scene—and then I build a comment and I hand it back to you. It’s this mutual agreement between us that we are going to build this universe together with its own rules and definitions. So, it’s inspired by that. It’s AndYes because I’m not making things up when I’m on stage … I have everything prewritten and pre-scripted. It’s just me presenting myself.
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Self-love is a hell of a concept that was introduced to me about three years ago. No one taught me about it when I was growing up. It’s not something they teach in schools, although they should! I wasn’t even asked “How do you love yourself” until I was 26. I had no concept of what that even meant. I spread a lot of myself out to the world
and that was good and all, but then I found myself getting torn up on the inside because I didn’t take care of myself. I suffer from deep depression and, to this day, have to remind myself of why I do what I do. It’s been a three-year journey so far and I’m still learning what it means to love myself, and respect myself and allow people into my life who feed into that mindset.
What would you say to someone who is trying to deal with depression in healthy ways? The most important thing you can do is to learn your signs. The thing with depression is everyone thinks it’s just sadness but it’s not. It’s depression of all systems. Break things down into little steps: roll over, put one foot on the ground, then the next. Be patient with yourself. Celebrate small joys and remember that not every day has to be your greatest achievement.
How open are kids to learning about poetry? Working with kids is way easier than with adults. There’s a lot less set in in terms of their personality and in terms of their beliefs. I don’t have to fight through as much. It’s cool working with kids because their imagination is untethered and they’ll go to the weirdest places and not judge it. They just roll with it. When I work with adults, I kind of have to break through this layer of bullshit.
What’s going through your mind when you’re improvising a poem? I’m like an animal: I get my stimulus input and then that triggers a reaction. It’s not so much that I’m thinking about what I’m going to do next, I’m listening to my partner and figuring out how I can build from what they’re saying. I really try to stay in that moment.
I see you’re wearing a mask right now. Tell me more about that. I got it about two years ago. It’s real leather, handcrafted design, and when I saw it, it sparked me. I wear it during the first couple of minutes of each show because I get nervous and I don’t keep really good track of what my face looks like. So typically at the start, I’ll have my mask on but when I get to my “Alien” poem I find my confidence and a reason to lift it off.
Why are you releasing your new project now? It’s a collection of poems I’ve done throughout my life. I’ve been wanting to make a spoken word album for about a year and a half now and I’ve been waiting for the perfect opportunity to come about. Joining ZFG was really that push because everyone is doing so many amazing things in that group. It made me step my game up a little bit, so I decided to finally do it. It talks about my Cuban culture, my struggle with depression and many other life experiences.
What does Zero Forbidden Goals mean to you? I love the name because “Yes, and” is the core of it. It means you can build anything you choose to put together. It means whatever you create with an open mind, that is how much you are limited. If you close yourself off, that is your limit. If you never want to leave your house, you’ll never leave. If you want to see the world, you’ll begin to travel. Simple as that. Ω
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