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36 27 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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Death, answers and videotape It’s been three months since Joseph Mann was killed near SN&R’s offices. Neighbors had called 911 to report an armed black man, acting “erratically.” What happened next remains in question, but ultimately, police fired their guns. Struck 14 times, Mann died. The police claimed justification: He had a knife; he might have had a gun. In the weeks after, the victim’s family pushed for details. Mann was mentally ill and they had a right to know how police interacted with him, his family said. Unsatisfied, the family called press conferences and filed a wrongful death lawsuit. Questions continued until a reporter for The Sacramento Bee obtained storefront surveillance footage. Soon after, the police finally released its dashcam video, and local reporters jumped to analyze it all. Kris Hooks, an SN&R freelancer, was the first to note it appeared that two officers tried to hit Mann with their patrol car. The paper’s Associate Editor Raheem F. Hosseini followed up with additional reporting and analysis. Joseph Mann’s case is finally getting the widespread attention it deserves. Shortly after The Bee and SN&R published stories, national media including the Washington Post and BuzzFeed followed suit. With continued coverage, Mann’s family may finally get its answers. Thank the videos for that—and the hard work of local reporters. Without dogged journalism, Joseph Mann’s story may have gone largely unchecked, a tragic footnote in ongoing stories about how police deal with both black men and those who are mentally ill. That would be a real crime.

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hen Anastasia Thanpaeng’s classmates in the Health and Medical Sciences track at Hiram W. Johnson High School ﬁrst heard about Y-PLAN, the junior says there was a chorus of grumbling. Students were initially skeptical because, “Nobody really listened to students or our voices. They just wanted to hear what adults said,” Thanpaeng says. In Y-PLAN, or Youth – Plan, Learn, Act, Now, students choose a problem, are matched up with a civic organization, then conduct research and surveys that are presented to local leaders and policy makers. With the help of local nonproﬁt WALKSacramento, students divided into groups and explored the urban environment around their school, documenting areas needing improvement or attention. The Health and Medical Sciences track, Y-PLAN and WALKSacramento are all supported by funding from The California Endowment, which supports community health programs in South Sacramento. Thanpaeng’s group honed in on a regularly used bus stop on 65th Expressway and Lemon Hill Avenue. The sign was hidden behind overgrown bushes and there was no place for students to sit while waiting for the bus to arrive. “They are all scattered and they aren’t talking to each other,” Thanpaeng explains, emphasizing how a bench would encourage the students to congregate. Her group conducted surveys of students, administrators and community members and

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They presented this data and other research to district staff, community members, fellow students and teachers, recommending that two benches be installed, one on each side of the street. Then summer hit and Y-PLAN was put on pause until school started again in September. But not for Thanpaeng. She forged on, continuing to work with WALKSacramento and reaching out directly to Regional Transit. By September, the two benches were ﬁnally installed and the overgrown shrubbery cut back, revealing the bus stop sign. The success of Thanpaeng’s group has made it clear to her

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been lodged is invalid because, as published photos of the incident demonstrate, Thompson had his back to Mayor Johnson when Mayor Johnson attacked him. Accordingly, I most appreciate the voice you gave to the fact that revenge is not a legal right. I have posted many comments in The Sacramento Bee criticizing Thompson for his assault on Johnson and criticizing Johnson for the inappropriateness of his repeated punching of Thompson. I have been appalled at the overwhelming number of commenters that have sided with Johnson’s thug-like behavior, citing their belief that we have a right to administer payback. It has been disappointing to realize how prevalent the thug mentality seems to be in our culture, based on those comments. Ted Ternes Sacramento

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Some days, “Alyce” and “Justin” get off work, eat dinner and shoot a porno in the comfort of their home, an hour north of Sacramento. It started as a lark. For three years, the romantically-linked photographers took intimate pictures together and uploaded them to Tumblr. Last year, they decided to make their first adult film, which they shot and edited themselves, and then uploaded to the internet. Two dozen erotic flicks later, the pair has earned a little more than two grand. But cash or fame isn’t their motivation. Fun is.

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“It can be a major confidence booster,” said Justin, who, like Alyce, uses a pseudonym to maintain privacy. “It’s a funny feeling, it’s almost like having a secret identity as a superhero in a way. You walk around during the day and nobody knows what you do.” Those good times may end if a majority of California voters approve Proposition 60 in November. Sponsored by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, the bill would strictly enforce an existing federal regulation that all adult performers wear condoms and file permits before filming sex scenes. AHF President Michael Weinstein claims the initiative

is necessary to protect adult performers’ health, but many opponents have questioned his real motives. Meanwhile, at least 1,500 adult performers have protested that the proposition would drown them in slut-shaming civil lawsuits that expose their identities and bankrupt mom-and-pop erotica producers like Alyce and Justin. “It could ruin my life,” Alyce said. Only performers with a financial stake in their movies would be liable, and only after self-styled condom cops exhausted an official complaint process. But there are more do-it-yourself pornographers than ever, thanks to the YouTube-ization of the internet, say adult entertainment experts.

“Even if you thought that condoms were the best way to keep us safe, you’re basically reducing one risk and creating another because of the lawsuits,” said Chanel Preston, chairwoman of the Adult Performer Advocacy Committee, which is opposed to the measure. In other words, Prop. 60 may sound like a compassionate measure aimed at protecting a marginalized work force, but the very people who make up that work force say it’s a stealth attack on their livelihood and safety. So who’s shooting straight? Condoms have technically been required by law in adult films since 1992, but any cursory watcher of pornography knows rubbers are as elusive as believable dialogue. Because workplace saftey regulators are too busy tackling more perilous violations, the adult entertainment industry largely self-regulates. Performers get tested for STDs every 14 days and must have a documented bill of clean health to perform in a film. Many use pre-exposure prophylaxis that have a 92 percent effective rate in preventing HIV transmission, according to

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In other words, an already marginalized industry gets pushed even further to the fringes. “If Prop. 60 were to pass … I guarantee it will affect significantly more performers than just solely producers,” said APAC’s Preston, “by a landslide.” Essentially, the internet allows anyone with access to a webcam to become their own DIY adult studio. Like the sordid side of a YouTube star. Like Alyce and Justin. The couple shoots and edits their own films, taking out jumbled lines and moments when Alyce makes a “really, really odd face at the wrong time,” she said. Both of their families support their side hustle, they say. And the STD-free pair only perform with each other. (Their biggest health scare came during a 113-degree day when Justin says he nearly suffered a heatstroke midscene). Some of their customers on pay-perview clip sites have written them scripts and others have told them that their couple-nextdoor scenes give them more confidence in their own love-making sessions. “I would say that we’re both the average-looking person that you’d be standing next to in the grocery store,” Justin said. The bill is expected to cost the state more than $1 million in extra enforcement and several million in tax revenue, as adult film performers and producers have considered leaving the state. Taylor welcomes that prospect. “If you want to be a business in California, and you don’t want to obey the law, then please move,” he said. “Take that threat and take it to some other state.” TAHF is the sole financial backer of the “Yes” campaign. So far, it has spent more than $2 million, more than eight times the opposition. When asked if the united front of opposition bothered his campaign, Taylor simply said, “No.” For their part, Alyce and Justin see Prop. 60 as a Trojan horse, sold as protection but stowing a morality agenda that endangers small-timers like themselves, who don’t pose a public health risk and aren’t making enough money to weather lawsuits. “It’s scary for us little guys,” Justin said. “We could have a government agency come crashing down on us for doing something that we love, and is fun, and gives a couple people an escape from their daily lives. If [Weinstein] really cared, he could have used that money to open free testing facilities.” Ω

As distressing revelations stack up about the July 11 morning that Joseph mann lost his life, the question being pressed by his family and others is whether the two officers who shot the mentally ill black man 14 times will face criminal charges. If history is any indication, the answer is no. Local use of force prosecutions are extremely rare, with only two examples in the past 35 years. In 1992, the Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office won an involuntary manslaughter conviction against a federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agent over the accidental shooting death of another agent. Four years earlier, a correctional officer was acquitted in the nonfatal shooting a Folsom Prison inmate. But outside of those two exceptions, the DA’s office has a long history of rubber-stamping officer-involved shootings and other deadly uses of force. The DA cleared peace officers of wrongdoing in 18 cases last year. Which may be why the Mann family’s attorney appealed to a higher power. A day after SN&R broke the news that officers John C. Tennis and Randy R. Lozoya attempted to ram mann with their police cruiser twice before seemingly fatally shooting him, civil rights attorney John L. Burris formally requested that the U.S. Department of Justice launch a criminal probe into what he described as “an unwarranted and pre-meditated execution” in a September 30 letter. While Mann family’s wrongful death lawsuit against the city of Sacramento marches toward a December hearing, local city officials say they aren’t waiting. “The video and audio that we’ve heard has been disturbing,” said Councilman Larry Carr, who introduced a use of force proposal he expects to bring to the full council in November. “We’re moving at what I call all deliberate speed.” The DA’s office released a statement saying it was still conducting its review. (Raheem F. Hosseini)

seLLing soL For more than six years, Sol Collective has served as a safe haven for artists in Sacramento to showcase their talents. Now, a potential sale of the building that houses it threatens that legacy, but a crowdsourced fundraising effort just might save the venue and cement its future. The organization has raised half of the $100,000 it needs to put a down payment on the building at 2574 21st Street, near Broadway. As of Tuesday, 56 donors had chipped in an additional $3,611 through the website Generosity.com. According to Estella Sanchez, Sol Collective’s founder and executive director, the efforts have been successful enough that they’ve begun the process of purchasing the building, entering escrow with the current ownership. The purchase would be welcome news for nearby businesses. “We would love to see them stay,” said Darlene Solden, manager of Free Will Upscale Thrift & Boutique, a nonprofit thrift store directly next to Sol Collective. “Their customers are so nice to us; they bring life to the block.” Along with securing the deed to the building, Sanchez said the organization would look to renovate the space with the monies raised as well. Sanchez says planning for the future was paramount as investors have scooped up nearby properties and begun the process of gentrifying the Midtown and Oak Park neighborhoods. “In the next 10 years, 20 years, the younger generation will have a much more difficult time planting roots in the city so, for us, we wanted to make sure we planted these roots now.” (Bansky Gonzalez)

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The fact that these meetings are taking place Cautious optimism permeated the crowded at all is a game-changer for an industry plagued Citrus Heights Community Center last month, as by the inherent difficulties of operating in a legal representatives from the state’s newly established gray zone, according to Patrick Rohde of Emerald Bureau of Medical Cannabis Regulation sought Environments LLC, Cannabis Industry Compliance advice on how to get into the medical marijuana Solutions, based in Long Beach. business. “This has been probably the most positive interMore than 200 people attended the second of six action with the government that our industry has pre-regulatory meetings held throughout California had in a very long time,” Rohde said at the forum. on September 20. The impetus for these rotating A recurring concern last month related to the forums is the Medical Cannabis Regulation and act’s requirement that licensees not only obtain a Safety Act, which is charting new legal territory for state license, but local permission as well, which a substance the federal government still considers is notoriously inconsistent from jurisdiction to illegal. The act is being rolled out over two years, jurisdiction, even within Sacramento County. as locally approved collectives and cooperatives are For instance, cultivation of any kind is prohibphased out in favor of a model similar to the one ited in Folsom and Galt. Dispensaries are prohibited that regulates the commercial sale of alcohol and in Rancho Cordova, but indoor cultivation is tobacco. permitted in single-family homes for The state Board of Equalization people who can afford costly fees, will begin accepting applications with a full prohibition on outdoor for medical cannabis resale “We’re going to cultivation. licenses on January 1, 2018; Back in February, the city though to sell medical cannahave a disparity of of Sacramento approved the bis, license holders will also patients that are not cultivation of commercial have to obtain local governgoing to [get] access to medical cannabis inside ment approval. of buildings up to 22,000 (The act has no bearing our medicines.” square feet, and private on Proposition 64’s recreRich Miller cultivation in structures up ational cannabis model.) patient program specialist, to 400 square feet, as long as As part of the act, the Therapeutic Alternative these buildings weren’t located state Department of Food and near parks and schools. Agriculture will implement an “We’re going to have a disparity electronic identification system, of patients that are not going to [get] beginning with a tag attached to each access to our medicines,” predicted Rich Miller cannabis plant at cultivation sites. This track-andtrace program will be implemented to address safety of Sacramento’s Therapeutic Alternative. “We did this at the state level, but it’s also important that the concerns with pesticides, confirmation of origin of the plant and to oversee every step in between, from state get involved on the local level so that … we can have the same access across the street for every harvest to patient. patient.” Though no single entity has yet been awarded If the state regulations don’t address this patcha government contract to run a track-and-trace work, the black market will only grow, said Lynette system, SICPA, a security company with prior Davies of Canna Care in Sacramento. experience in the tobacco regulation market, began “Overregulation actually kills a good busia pilot track-and-trace program in Humboldt ness,” Davies said. “If you’re going to regulate an County. SICPA currently works with 15 operators entire industry and not help open dispensaries in in the medical cannabis industry and is seeking to communities, what are you going to do with the expand. Alexander Spelman, SICPA’s vice presiproduct? Are they fostering an illegal market, a dent of business development, said the program is black market? Or are they going to help us open up crucial for taxing and regulating cannabis products. communities that don’t have dispensaries?” Ω “Essentially you are tracking something to identify where it is in the supply chain,” Spelman An extended version of this story is available at said. “And you are tracing it, to identify where it www.newsreview.com/sacramento. has been in the supply chain.”

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Sacramento County health officials are cracking down on pop-up booth restaurants around town for the first time, telling owners that they can no longer operate inside the cafes, bars and other businesses that have regularly hosted them. The Roaming Spoon and Purple Pig Eats were among several pop-ups contacted earlier last month by the Environmental Management Department. The message: Pop-ups that serve dishes inside shops that don’t carry the required permits for vending food are not allowed under California’s Retail Food Code, supervising environmental specialist Zarha Ruiz explained in an email. Aaron Anderson and Allison Matney, who founded Purple Pig Eats about a year ago, weren’t happy to receive the news. They have two weddings to cater in October, imminent food festivals and, now that pop-ups are prohibited, not much else. “It sucks,” Anderson said. “The pop-ups were pretty much my steady paycheck. Catering jobs are great, but they’re few and far between.” Anderson and Matney said they’ve invested some $10,000 in the business since they’ve started. The innovative dining trend has flourished nationally over the years, particularly in big cities like San Francisco and Portland, Ore. Pop-ups typically operate in a makeshift style, sometimes under tents set up in the patio of a business, or inside with folding tables sprawled out for guests. Their costs of operation are significantly lower compared to food trucks, carts and restaurants. Syl Mislang founded The Roaming Spoon, one of the first pop-ups in Sacramento, three years ago. There are at least 10 in town now, she estimated, and they are—or at least were—increasing. But not anymore. The county hasn’t punished any of the pop-ups yet, though various “administrative actions” can be taken if they continue, Ruiz said. For now, they’ve been “providing education” to both the pop-ups and their hosts. As it stands, pop-up owners have few options. They could use a “temporary food facility” permit, which would only allow them set up at approved community events like farmers markets. Matney and Anderson started a Change.org petition calling on local, regional and state representatives to create a permit specifically for the pop-up model. As of October 4, the petition garnered 250 signatures. “If we’re following all of the same guidelines to sell food [that the county has] laid out for us, then give us an option to be able to do this,” Matney said. Ruiz said her department was aware of the petition and would continue to adhere to state laws. “Any future or current business owner is welcome to come and speak with one of our specialists to execute their vision, within the law,” Ruiz said. Ω

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From left to right, Tom steyer, Charles Munger Jr. and sean Parker are three of the state’s biggest donors this election season.

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California has more billionaires than any other state, and an abundance of direct democracy. Those two facts intersect during election season, when spending by wealthy donors helps determine which initiatives make it on the ballot, and how many TV commercials and mailers campaigns can buy. Here’s a look at three high-rollers influencing California’s statewide ballot this November.

Tom STeyer The San Francisco billionaire—who exited the hedge-fund world a few years ago to devote himself to Democratic politics and environmental causes—is now the biggest individual super-PAC donor in the nation. He’s put $38 million into a committee running ads against Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and working to register new voters in battleground states. Even though deep-blue California isn’t a swing state, Steyer is digging deep here too. He’s spent $1.6 million so far on a major drive to register new voters, largely young adults and people of color, Steyer called their lack of participation a “threat to democracy.” He appears prominently in TV ads urging people to vote—fueling speculation

that he plans to run for governor in two years. Steyer said he’ll make that call after the election. Until then, he’s concentrating on the upcoming ballot. “It is really important that California become more progressive,” he said. In a state with a long list of liberal ballot measures, Steyer and his political organization, NextGen Climate group, are boosting some of the most progressive causes. So far, he has given $1 million to Proposition 56, which would hike cigarette taxes by $2 a pack to fund the Medi-Cal health plan for the poor, and $50,000 to Prop. 67, which would ban plastic shopping bags. He also recently endorsed Prop. 62 to repeal the death penalty; his aide said a financial contribution is forthcoming. NextGen even gave $61,000 to a campaign opposing money in politics. Prop. 59 asks voters if they want elected officials to take steps to repeal Citizens United, the U.S. Supreme Court decision that allowed unions and corporations to spend unlimited sums on political campaigns. Steyer said he looks for ballot measures that represent contests between ordinary Californians and major corporations trying to preserve their bottom line. Though health care interests have donated roughly $17 million to support the tobacco tax,

cigarette companies have poured almost $56 million into opposing it, while plastic bag manufacturers have given $6.1 million to defeat the bag ban. He frames his support for repealing Citizens United in similar terms, saying the Supreme Court’s ruling created a “David and Goliath situation” in American politics. Even as the nation’s largest super-PAC donor, Steyer identifies more with David. He calls his own political spending “a counterweight to what we see as an overwhelming amount of money representing corporate interests.”

CharleS munger Jr. A physicist who lives in Palo Alto, Munger is California’s biggest Republican donor and the son of a corporate billionaire. In addition to funding GOP candidates, Munger has a long history of supporting ballot measures that have gradually altered the state’s political landscape by chipping away at power held by Democrats and their allies in organized labor. He contributed to past measures that created a neutral body to redraw legislative and congressional districts, and paved the way for the state’s open primary system. This year, Munger has poured $7.9 million into Prop. 54. It goes after the

Legislature’s practice of writing and passing some bills at the last minute, without giving the public much chance to weigh in. The measure would require that all bills be published at least 72 hours before a vote. “No one citizen benefits from transparency so much that they would take the Legislature on over this, but everyone will benefit considerably,” Munger said. Prop. 54 is endorsed by several chambers of commerce and groups that promote open government. “Our democracy is stronger the more we have more people participating,” said supporter Helen Hutchison, president of the League of Women Voters of California, adding that the measure is not partisan. But Munger is the sole financial donor to Prop. 54, prompting critics to say that the measure is not about philanthropy but about evening the political playing field for Republicans and their business allies. With Democrats holding a solid majority in the Legislature, last-minute maneuvers typically pass despite Republican objections. Munger says he’s “under no illusions” that his idea would face any less resistance if he were pushing a transparency measure in a Republican-dominated state. “Whoever thinks they control the government never really wants a transparent government if they have an agenda that would best be moved by keeping the public ignorant.”

Sean Parker One of California’s marquee tech moguls is dropping big money into two California ballot measures. Sean Parker, the billionaire founder of Napster and first president of Facebook, has contributed $400,000 to Prop. 63, a gun-control measure, and $3.8 million to support Prop. 64, which would legalize recreational marijuana. Both initiatives are backed by Democratic Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, who was a guest at Parker’s 2013 wedding—a lavish Big Sur bash that infuriated environmentalists because it involved building a dance floor and other construction near an ancient redwood forest. Parker has given Newsom more than $56,000 for his 2018 run for governor. Parker did not respond to an interview request. Prop. 64 spokesman Jason Kinney said in a statement that Parker supports making marijuana use legal for adults as “an important cause for social justice.” Ω

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customer has 6.15 financial products Wells Fargo has had a rough couple of per household. That’s nearly four times weeks. The bank will pay $185 the industry average, according to Los million in fines and settlements for Angeles Times. having its employees set up 2 million I believe these extra financial prodfalse accounts—checking, savings and ucts were designed for Wells Fargo’s credit card accounts. benefit, not its customers. In order to This led to congressional hearings obtain so many extra accounts, Wells which, to put it mildly, did not go well Fargo gave unrealistic sales quotas to for Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf. In its hourly employees. These employees, fact, the poor fellow will have to give making an average of $12.40 an hour, back $41 million of his compensation. had to make their quotas or be fired. To No need to send him a food basket, meet quota, they had to convince enough though. Over the last 10 years, he’s been customers to sign up for credit cards, paid $192 million. savings accounts, checking accounts, Predictably, Stumpf threw his overdraft protection and other products. employees under the bus, telling the To meet quota, they cheated. Wall Street Journal, “The 1 percent that According to LA Times, did it wrong, who we fired, which broke this story, to terminated, in no way meet quotas, “employees reflects our culture nor have opened unneeded reflects the great work accounts for customthe other vast majorThe end result of ers, ordered credit ity of the people do. all its misdeeds is cards without … That’s a false that Wells Fargo is one customers’ permisnarrative.” sion and forged And just as of the most profitable client signatures predictably, his American banks. on paperwork.” For tone-deaf comments these actions, they did not go over very could avoid being fired, well. The stagecoach and also receive bonuses went off the road into a and often promotions.” ditch. He should have just If and when the customers taken credit for teaching so many young complained, the bank would say it was a people a key lesson—one that will help mistake and correct it. But many customthem succeed for their rest of their life: ers just didn’t notice, and kept paying Crime pays, and financial crime pays the fees. really well. For most crimes like burglary, It has certainly worked for Wells mugging or shoplifting, one faces real Fargo. Wells Fargo’s rap sheet includes risks—both physical risk and possible fines and settlements for manipulating jail time. By comparison, financial debit card purchases to maximize crimes seem attractive. You can dress in overdraft fees, municipal bond rigging, nicer clothes—no ski masks needed. It a $175 million settlement for discriminaappears no one will serve any jail time. tion charges against African-American and Hispanic borrowers, numerous settle- Wells Fargo’s fine is less than 1 percent of this year’s profit. ments related to foreclosures during the Daytime work without heavy lifting. housing crisis; the list goes on and on. And if you do it right, big rewards. Ω The end result of all its misdeeds is that Wells Fargo is one of the most profitable American banks. The institution made more than $20 billion in profit Jeff vonKaenel is the president, CEO and majority last year. Much of the extra profitability owner of the News & Review. comes from the fact that its average 14 | SN&R | 10.06.16

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Soured deal Citing a series of obligations gone unfulfilled by the developer, Whole Foods opted out of its midtown location on 21st and L streets last week. week. The grocery chain was supposed to occupy the the 41,000-square-foot ground level of a six-story six-story apartment complex with construction scheduled to begin in late 2017. No word on where you’ll you’ll shop for your organic, gluten-free water now.

- 41,000 no juStice, no Saint A 6-foot-3 inch, 650-pound statue of gandhi unveiled in Davis’ Central Park is not receiving an undivided welcome. Approximately 75 protestors picketed the monument’s unveiling on on Nations’ Sunday, which also marked the United Nations’ Gandhi’s International Day of Non-Violence and Gandhi’s 147th birthday. The protestors rallied behind the less-than-saintly side of the beacon of justice, with signs accusing Ghandi of, among other things, racism, genocide and rape. The protests come after the Davis City Council overlooked the issue in August, deeming it noncontroversial and outvoting Mayor Rob Davis and Vice Mayor Brett Lee, both of whom who sought a “pause” to discuss the issue with dissenters.

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Sipping hazard The Golden 1 Center made its unofficial debut last week with myriad media events. One interesting tidbit gleaned from all the requisite hoopla was that seats in the building’s upper level come sans cup holders. Sorry, peasants, but it seems the “state-of-the-art” facility’s designers deemed this one basic amenity to be a “tripping hazard.” Because an extralarge Kings commemorative cup that’s been filled to the brim with Dr. Pepper and left to sit on the floor of your row is most definitely not a problem.

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game oFF On Sunday, the NBA announced the suspension of Sacramento Kings point guard darren collison. Collison, arrested in May on a misdemeanor for domestic battery, will be suspended eight games without pay to start the season. That might seem light given the charges, but the suspension will cost Collison $380,324 in lost salary.

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a queStionable compariSon In a keynote speech to Pollstar Live, Kings owner Vivek Ranadivé called the Golden 1 Center the “coliseum of the 21st century.” The speech was designed to woo the 800 in attendance, mostly comprised of concert promoters, booking agents and event managers from around the country. But c’mon, Vivek, there’s got to be a better comparison than “it’s like the place that publicly tortured Christians and fed them to lions.” Please, no Slamson 3.0 from the city zoo.

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Around Sacramento, activists galvanize to push key issues—and beat Donald Trump

11 a.m. on September 12, a hot, latesummer day, and several hundred union organizers and economic justice advocates have arrived at the north steps of the state Capitol to stage a Unity Rally against intolerance, economic injustice and racial division. At the height of the rally, they’ll number 500. Some carry banners reading “Child Care Teachers Fighting for $15.” Others wear purple SEIU T-shirts to proclaim allegiance with the Service Employees International Union; still others red “union now” shirts. Several hold placards stating “McDonald’s Low Wages are a Matter of Life and Death,” a reference to Myrna de los Santos, a 49-year-old McDonald’s worker in Kansas City who, lacking health insurance, had recently died of untreated diabetes. In dozens of state capitals around the country, similar rallies were held that day as an opening salvo in a series of national protests to highlight the gaping divides in American society. Midway through the event, several organizers peeled off and headed up to Gov. Jerry Brown’s office. Brown had, that day, already signed two key pieces of legislation into effect: one that protects the domestic workers’ bill of rights, and one extending overtime pay protections to farmworkers. Now, Unity coordinators wanted to present him with what they called a “moral declaration,” a set of policy goals that protestors all around the country were handing in to governors and state legislators. These goals included a $15-an-hour living wage—which California has already begun moving toward—as well as protecting the right to organize into unions; increased investments in affordable housing, and bulked-up protections against evictions; tuition-free public higher education; guaranteed universal health care access; and a slew of criminal justice reforms. “When we fight, we win,” Fabrizio Sasso, head

of the Sacramento Central Labor Council, told the crowd. “Sí, se puede,” the crowd, many of whose members were Spanish-speaking, responded. With the event winding down, those left on the capitol’s steps participated in a call-and-response closing chant: “It is our duty to fight for our freedom,” an organizer shouted into a megaphone. “It is our duty to fight for our freedom,” the crowd answered back. “It is our duty to win. It is our duty to love and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.” As politics have heated up over the last year, and as the scale of progressive protest has ramped up in response to the threats facing the polity—be it disenfranchisement laws in North Carolina and police brutality or Donald Trump’s grotesque and inflammatory race-and-religion-baiting—this is a chant heard at protests around the country in recent months. Similar sentiments will likely be expressed with increasing urgency as the election nears; in Sacramento, as around the nation, people of good conscience are raising their voices against what Trump represents—to make clear that his bigotry is not ours.

a clear and preSent danger Sacramento’s Unity Rally came out of North Carolina’s Moral Mondays movement, which came to national attention over the past couple of years through protesting many of the far-right policies implemented by that state’s tea-party dominated state legislature. The Moral Mondays protests are classic civil rights-style activism, combining stirring oratory with nonviolent civil disobedience. Now, with the country as a whole at a crossroads, facing an election in which the Republican Party has nominated a presidential candidate who approvingly retweets Benito Mussolini quotes and can’t bring himself to fully denounce support from a one-time Ku Klux Klan grand wizard, and with a rising tide of racial and religious bigotry among a large part of the

electorate, organizers have decided to broaden their work. While speakers at Sacramento’s Unity rally didn’t specifically mention the election, the themes they repeatedly touched on—economic justice, racial inclusion, diversity—are clearly of vital import in the weeks leading up to November 8. “We have to recognize wrong when wrong is done, and call it out,” says Pastor Les Simmons, of the South Sacramento Christian Center, on Stockton Boulevard. Simmons is sitting in one of the center’s conference rooms, a trim man in jeans, a T-shirt emblazoned with a logo reading “community not violence.” The weekend before the Unity Rally, Simmons and many other local faith leaders, working as a part of a group called Area Congregations Together, were involved in an intensive voter registration drive, based, he explains, “on our faith tradition of love, respect, dignity for all life.” ACT has also launched a series of local efforts to focus attention on the dangers of racism, on the need to reform the criminal justice system and on the importance of improving police-community relations. How we vote come November will determine how we, as a society, deal with these huge problems, he says. “This election is pivotal,” Simmons says. Make no mistake, this presidential election is like no other election in American history. In Donald Trump we see the quintessential demagogue—a manipulator of emotion; an alchemist with the seemingly effortless power to turn a crowd into a mob; a purveyor of bigotry and of conspiracy theories; a man who knows the raw, seductive power of violent imagery, be it through his fetishization of torture or his hinting at taking up arms against his political opponents. No American demagogue has climbed so high; none, at least since Joe McCarthy more than 60 years ago, has posed such a clear and present danger to democratic, enlightenment values. Nationally, as this man of hate has taken over the Republican Party, there’s been a response from across the political spectrum with activists protesting Trumpism, that ungodly hodgepodge of

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Immigrant rights advocates joined other activists as part of a nationwide Unity Rally on September 12 at the state Capitol. They’re part of a growing local movement pushing for social change and, ultimately, the defeat of Donald Trump at the ballot box.

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hatreds, fears, insults and authoritarian “solutions” to complex problems. Since spring, there have been large demonstrations in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, the Bay Area, Phoenix and many other cities. In New York, in April, many thousands of protestors, brought onto the streets by a broad coalition of activist organizations, lined 42nd Street across from the Grand Hyatt Hotel, where the state’s GOP was hosting Trump. They carried placards depicting Trump, a red “no” slash through the center, and the words “No Fucking Fascist.” They called out his racism and denounced his anti-immigrant message. They slammed the businessman for, among other things, his Muslim and Mexican bashing; for his misogyny; for his stated longing during the primary season, in front of an array of Southern crowds, for the good old days when protestors would be roughed up to the point that they had to be removed from political gatherings on stretchers. In many cities, Trump rallies have been met by sizable protests. During these events, protestors have been beaten, Maced and otherwise brutalized by Trump’s supporters. Sacramento, to date, hasn’t seen thousands marching in protest, although there were some demonstrators present when the presidential candidate spoke at Sacramento’s airport in June shortly before the California primary, including members of the local chapter of Black Lives Matter, who, recalls BLM organizer Tanya

Faison, were accosted by shouting, jeering, spitting Trump supporters and told to “go get a high school diploma.” But the lack of large-scale anti-Trump rallies doesn’t mean that, in its own, somewhat quieter way, the region hasn’t generated its fair share of activities meant to highlight the toxicity of Trump’s language and policy proposals, and also create counternarratives around economic and social justice. Over the last year, more locals have come to realize that something deeply unsavory has been let loose on the political system. And, in the low-key way that is one of Sacramento’s traits, its citizens have crafted their responses. “My background has always been policy, making government work more effectively,” says Jeannine English, a Sacramento resident, and one-time national head of the AARP. But Trump seems uninterested in policy and systemic change, English adds, and ultimately, his boorish behavior and bullying may be his undoing. “We have a candidate who has no respect of people who really understand policy, he’s one of those candidates who sparks fear,” she says. “Instead of bringing people together and solving problems, he’s done the opposite.” Increasingly, those concerned with social justice in Sacramento have concluded that election passivity isn’t a viable moral option. This is, after all, a city that saw a violent neo-Nazi rally on the steps of the capitol in late June, where

fascist skinheads and anti-Nazi anarchists brawled and several people ended up hospitalized after being stabbed and beaten with sticks and concrete blocks. As a result, Sacramento knows firsthand—as does Anaheim, which saw a violent KKK rally, and many other locales around the country that have witnessed an uptick in white supremacist actions since Trump announced his candidacy— the dark powers unleashed when a candidate for a mainstream party gives a nod and a wink to extremist organizations and ideas.

Strength in numberS Around Sacramento, large numbers of individuals and groups are focusing on Trump, and on ways of building opposition to him at the ballot box. From now until the election, the local labor council, for example, is sending out numerous organizers to Reno, since Nevada is a key swing state, to register people to vote and to canvas households on political issues. Others, bound by 501(c)(3) restrictions, the IRS tax designation that gives organizations nonprofit, charity status but prohibits them from overtly endorsing or opposing individual candidates, are instead focused on creating counternarratives to the kind of racist and Islamophobic rhetoric that Trump has moved center-stage. “Locally, we do have a counternarrative to Trump, but it’s issues-based” says Lynn

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Basim Elkarra, of the local chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations, worries about a Trump presidency: “We have to vote, to make sure that people who respect diversity win.”

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Barker-Baskin, who works with the Sacramento Jewish Federation and the social justice group Bend the Arc. “Prior to Trump’s rising, the issue of racial justice became huge to the community after Trayvon [Martin]. The ability to organize became possible. We had the juice.” Focusing more on issues than elections, whether it be the economic justice motif of the Fight for 15 campaign, or the broader social justice themes of the Moral Mondays Revival, these organizers nevertheless find themselves on the front line of a political battle uglier and more impassioned than any in decades. “I worry each day of my life about my children’s children’s future,” says one of the Unity Rally organizers, the Rev. Ken Chambers, whose church in Oakland helped catalyze the local Moral Mondays movement. “There’s so much work that has to be done in the nation as a whole, to take the message from Martin Luther King 50 years ago and make it real. The message is equality. We’ve come a long way, but got a long way to go.” Over the past year, BLM organizers have protested police violence in town, in particular the October 2015 killing by sheriff’s deputies in Carmichael of 36-year-old Adrian Ludd following a traffic stop and standoff between Ludd and deputies; as well as the July 11 fatal police shooting of Joseph Mann, a mentally ill black man, in north Sacramento and a rash of deaths inside county jails. The group also organized protests against an Elk Grove gun shop that displayed the Confederate 18 | SN&R | 10.06.16

flag in the aftermath of the racially-motivated killing of African-American churchgoers in South Carolina in June 2015. More recently, a local chapter of Showing Up for Racial Justice, a national group mainly made up of white anti-racist organizers, convened an inaugural meeting in August at Belle Cooledge Public Library in south Land Park, which more than 100 people attended. While SURJ in Sacramento does not have a specifically anti-Trump focus, nationally its members have been instrumental in some of the bigger demonstrations against the candidate. Immigrants rights groups have also become more vocal, speaking up in defense of the DREAM Act and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, pushing for implementation of its sister-policy, Deferred Action for Parents of Americans, and encouraging those who can to apply for citizenship and vote in the upcoming elections. Meanwhile, on university campuses, organizers are working on teach-ins in the weeks leading up to the election. Trump is, says Jeannine English’s husband Howard Dickstein, a one-time professor and a lawyer with a long career representing California’s Native American community, “a danger to the Republic and the constitution and our international standing —because of his incredible ignorance and simplicity, and his use of volatile terms that bring out the most reactionary elements.” Both English and Dickstein have been using their large social networks to reach out to people to explain what is at stake.

“I felt a duty to speak out whenever I could,” Dickstein says of the last few months. “I kept thinking how critical I’ve been of Germans living through the Nazi era, the ‘good Germans’ who were quiet and said very little to stop the rise of fascism. I saw this as analogous.”

‘IT’s HavING HumaNITy oN THE ForEFroNT’ Among local Muslim organizations, in particular, an awareness is growing that this is a peculiarly dangerous moment. A few months ago, a Muslim woman was walking outside of an area Wal-Mart when a man tried to run her over with his car, recalls Basim Elkarra of the local chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. While there does not seems to be a police report on this incident, such events are occurring more frequently than in the past: Late last year a pre-med student at the University of Cincinnati was targeted by a man who tried to run her over. In Oklahoma, a man recently killed his Lebanese Christian neighbor, mistaking him for a Muslim. In San Leandro, in July, the media reported on a woman in a hijab being pelted with eggs. And last December, a mosque in southern California was set afire, one of roughly 50 mosques nationwide to have been attacked over the past few years. And, routinely, with Trump running a campaign that demonizes

an entire religion, local Muslim parents report to CAIR that their children are being bullied in school. In response, CAIR has begun holding public safety trainings, in which police officers speak with members of the community about how to deal with such attacks. The group has also encouraged members of the community to get involved in the political process, from talking in community forums to voting on Election Day. “Parents are having to have talks with their children,” says Elkarra. “Children are asking, ‘Why is [Trump] saying these mean things? Why doesn’t he want Muslims to come here?’ We have to vote, to make sure that people who respect diversity win.” CAIR, in conjunction with an array of other ACT-coordinated faith-based groups, will be participating in large voter registration drives over the coming months. During Ramadan, CAIR organizers fanned out to mosques around the Central Valley, talking about the importance of voting. A subcommittee of ACT, Live Free, is set to launch a social media drive to challenge white supremacy and to push for a more inclusive vision of community. All of these efforts, however focused on a singular element or cause, add up to something bigger, something poised to enact real change. “Organizers are going to be put [to] their finest moment right now,” Simmons, of the South Sacramento Christian Center, says. “To be able to engage their communities for an awakening to base their vote on the moral obligation of love and respect. With America as a free place for everybody, an open place for everybody, a democracy.” Elkarra agrees. He says he’s been cheered by the fact that, in addition to local religious leaders standing up against bigotry, many local political figures have made their opposition to race-andreligion-baiting rhetoric clear as day. On May 18, for instance, three weeks before the California primary, as Trump was marching toward the Republican Party’s presidential nomination, Sen. Richard Pan coordinated an event at the Railroad Museum to decry Trump’s inflammatory language. It was 2016’s Day of Inclusion, a date progressive groups have long celebrated as a way to celebrate the state’s diversity and to highlight the injustice of the Chinese Exclusion Act. And a day with particular resonance given Trump’s flirtation with the idea of internment as a tactic in the fight against ISIS, and his pledge not only to keep Guantanamo Bay open but to dramatically expand the number of prisoners held there. “With the rise of Mr. Trump and his rhetoric,” Pan told SN&R, “we decided we should make this a broader conversation, especially when he was calling for the barring of Muslims from entering the United States, and with people saying the internment of Japanese-Americans in World War II was justified.” CAIR participated in the event, as did the Japanese-American Citizens League and the local chapter of the Jewish Federation.

“We wanted to remind people,” Pan says, “that this kind of rhetoric leads to injustice and terrible things.” Trump’s unempathetic language toward Syrian refugees, for example, has parallels to the dehumanizing language used to bar shiploads of German-Jewish refugees from entry into the country in the run-up to war more than threequarters of a century ago. Other senators have held press conferences denouncing Trump’s statements on Mexican immigrants. Some have called for investors to divest from Trump’s businesses as a response to his racially charged statements. Speaking out against Trump and his rhetoric is key, Pan adds. “Reminding people that this is not what our country is about; these are not our values—this goes beyond the usual Democrat-Republican thing.” Certainly it goes beyond politics as usual. Elkarra tries to put on a brave face when asked what he thinks will happen if Trump becomes the next president, but he’s clearly rattled by the prospect. “We’ll continue seeing an uptick in violence against minority communities throughout the nation,” he predicts. “It’s not that it scares me. The question is how do we challenge that?” Regarding the perils of the moment, longtime Republican and one-time Reagan White House staffer Doug Elmets agrees.

will coddle tyrants and alienate allies. I shudder to think where he would lead our nation.” In the days following his speech, Elmets says he was bombarded by furious tweets and emails from Trump supporters—more than 1,500 by his count. He was taunted by promises of extreme violence against him, and his wife and daughter were also threatened. He was called a progressive prick, a communist, a friend of ISIS. Each irate message, each overheated reaction, only made him more certain in his views. Trump had unleashed something terrifying, he believed, and was empowering the very worst forces in the country. “They are going to lose their dignity,” he says of fellow Republicans, some of them his longtime friends, who reluctantly endorsed their party’s nominee. “How do they look at their grandkids? How will history judge them for supporting a xenophobic racist who represents the underbelly of America?” Over the coming months, Elmets intends to push this message, to urge people to think of “country over party” when they go to the polls in November. Meanwhile, the issues for the Rev. Chambers, one of the Unity Rally organizers, are clear—and both embody and go beyond Trump. “It’s moral value, it’s having humanity on the forefront,” he argues. “Working together. We’re

After June’s Nazi rally, Sacramento knows firsthand the dark powers unleashed when a candidate for a mainstream party gives a nod and a wink to extremist organizations and ideas. Elmets, a longtime Sacramento resident who runs a public relations firm out of the U.S. Bank tower on the Capitol Mall, watched in horror throughout the spring as his party was taken over by Trumpites. Finally, he’d had enough. In late July, he flew out to the Democrats’ convention in Philadelphia, and on prime time, the same evening that Hillary Clinton gave her acceptance speech, he endorsed the Democrat for president of the United States. It was a biting piece of oratory. Standing in front of the thousands of conventioneers, Elmets laid into the GOP nominee. “President Reagan famously said ‘tear down this wall,’” he reminded his audience —referring to Reagan’s challenge to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to remove the Berlin Wall as a symbol of a divided Europe. “Trump says, ‘build that wall.’” Elmets then said. The billionaire politician was, he argued, “a petulant, dangerously unbalanced reality star who

putting out a message. … Being realistic, the election is a grand opportunity to focus attention on [issues]. We’re going to address love, togetherness. ‘Different’ does not mean ‘deficient.’” In the year 2016, such a sentiment ought to be a given. After all, we like to think that our history has, embedded in it, an arc of justice, a march toward progress on such issues. And yet, in 2016, astoundingly a candidate is making a viable bid for the presidency on a platform that panders to the crudest, most nativist forms of ethnic tribalism and supremacist ideology. “When you have David Duke [ex-Klan leader] saying he hopes to ride Trump’s coattails into the U.S. Senate, that sums up the state of the Republican Party and politics in America,” says Elmets. “It’s more than party. This is the heart and soul of our country. He will be the embodiment of the worst that America has to offer.” Ω

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Survival mode Writer Alice Anderson’s neW poetry collection chronicles trAumAtic injury, hurricAne KAtrinA And self-preservAtion By Kel munGer

o one expected Sacramento poet Alice Anderson to do so well, not after all she’s been through. First, there was the storm. Anderson and her children lived in Ocean Beach, Miss. when Hurricane Katrina made landfall there in 2005. They drove away one day and returned a few days later. What they found back home was devastating. “Everything is obliterated,” she said. “The town is gone, the kids’ school is a disaster. In some places all that was left was the trees and they were so tangled in blankets and curtains and strips of insulation. The enormity of it was overwhelming.” They stayed, for a while. But months later, she just wanted to get out. So back to Sacramento they came, where Anderson had lived as a teenager and young adult. “I’m following this circuitous path from one delta to another,” she said. They settled in. Found solid ground. And then in 2009, Anderson suffered a traumatic brain injury after a fall. At that point, partially paralyzed on her left side and suffering from aphasia, most people would have understood if she’d stopped writing. But that’s not how Anderson does things. Now, seven years later, her newest collection of poetry, The Watermark (Eyewear Publishing, $14.50) is just out, and her memoir, Some Bright Morning I’ll Fly Away, is forthcoming from St. Martin’s Press next spring. The Watermark is nothing short of visceral, with poems about Hurricane Katrina, loss of all kinds, grief, change and what can only be described as the resilience of a prize fighter after what seemed like a ceaseless march of fists. The book opens with “The Water” and “The Quiet,” two poems in which the facets of the hurricane are personified as women. First, the storm surge and the avalanche of water that follows the wind, as Anderson writes, “She is all stirred up and been drinking since dawn.” We know that kind of woman. “She is death and desire, one. / She is death and desire, both.” Then, “The Quiet,” the deadly silence that follows the storm; “She is the water’s little sister, not quite as / pretty, but three times as stubborn with something to prove.” And as readers move through the collection, it becomes apparent that Anderson is writing from that most human of places, which is the human body.

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Anderson said that, while the hurricane informs many of these poems, writing from the body “came from somewhere else.” “That came from me recovering from brain injury,” she said. “Once I learned how to talk again, and write again, and read deeply again, after that there was no room for pleasant metaphors, for pretty little trinkets.” When she started writing again, she forced herself to write through the blank spots that come with aphasia.

“once i learned how to talk again, and write again, and read deeply again, after that there was no room for pleasant metaphors.”

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“In every sentence, in every line, there were three or four “x”s in place of the word I wanted,” she said. “It would be, ‘I drove across x to get to Pascagoula,’ and then I would have to go back and Google ‘the thing that stretches over water between two pieces of land.’ Oh, bridge, it’s a bridge! Talk about painstaking.” But it came, slowly, in poems and in the memoir. The title poem, “The Watermark,” is set sometime after the hurricane. The speaker in the poem is busy handing out granola bars and bottled water to people displaced by the storm, and she notices a little girl wearing what was once a lovely communion dress, her Social Security number scrawled in Sharpie across her forearm. “And on her dress: a / meridian, smack dab across the middle of her sunken chest / right where her frenzied swimming heart nearly / drowned, but was baptized by fire instead, / a spare but / graced rebirth.” Such a mark, symbolic or otherwise, Anderson said, is something we all have; accordingly she wrote her way to safer, drier ground. “It might not be from the storm surge, but we’re all walking around with our own watermark, whether it be our wounds or our emotional injuries, and the question is always, ‘How do you survive? How do you stay above Ω that watermark?’” Catch Alice Anderson’s book release party and reading for The Watermark at 7 p.m. Wednesday, October 19. Sacramento Poetry Center, 1719 25th Street.

Alice Anderson’s new book of poetry documents her experiences with Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

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Required fall reading Ten books for cooler weaTher With nearly as many new books on shelves as there are leaves falling from trees, here are 10 of the season’s more interesting new releases.

Rabih Alameddine’s The Angel of History (Grove Atlantic, $26) is set in a waiting room in a San Francisco psych ward. As Jacob, a gay Arab American poet, awaits admission, Satan engages Death, saints and angels in dialogue.

Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives by Gary Younge (Nation Books, $25.99) reports the deaths of 10 children and teens by guns on a single Saturday in 2013. Incredible journalism on a major topic.

The Explosion Chronicles by Yan Lianke (Grove Press, $26) is the Chinese novelist’s version of the village of Macondo: Lianke studies the city named Explosion, following the path of the Kong family’s determination to create an emperor, using a style he calls “mythorealism” to create a satire of ambition.

Derek Palacio’s debut, The Mortifications (Tim Duggan Books, $27), is the story of the Encarnacións, a mother, daughter and son, who came to the United States via the 1980s Mariel Boatlift, while the father remained in Cuba. The book is emotionally fraught with sweeping scope.

Wonder where Ayn Rand’s idea of combining bad fiction and bad philosophy came from? Find out October 6 with How Bad Writing Destroyed the World: Ayn Rand and the Literary Origins of the Financial Crisis by Adam Weiner (Bloomsbury Academic, $19.95).

Margaret Atwood takes on The Tempest in Hag-Seed, out October 11 (Hogarth, $25). Atwood gives us the actor Felix Phillips, exiled from his prominent theater company and teaching drama in a prison.

Truevine: Two Brothers, A Kidnapping, and a Mother’s Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South by Beth Macy, out October 18 (Little, Brown and Co., $28) is the story of George and Willie Muse, albino African-American children kidnapped and displayed as circus freaks.

John Edgar Wideman examines the lives behind the lynching that launched the civil rights movement in Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File (Scribner, $25). The book, out November 15, is the forgotten tragedy of Emmett Till’s father, who was executed by the Army in 1945 for rape and murder and whose case was used in defense of his son’s murderers.

French graphic novelist Nicolas Otero tackles the Nirvana frontman’s biography from the perspective of Boddah, Cobain’s invisible childhood friend in a new book out November 22. Who Killed Kurt Cobain? The Story of Boddah (IDW Publishing, $24.99) shows Cobain’s genius and decline in a way that takes the blame off Courtney Love and fame, and puts it squarely on depression and addiction.

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Two years ago, we all wanted to bring them home. Nigerian novelist Helon Habila’s brilliant reporting, The Chibok Girls: The Boko Haram Kidnappings and Islamist Militancy in Nigeria (Columbia Global Reports, $12.99) brings us up to date December 5. Depicting the anguish of the parents, the ineffectual government response, the rise of Boko Haram, and the short attention span of the international community, this book is required reading. —K.M.

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Dr. West, Dr. Chekhov and us After casually asking a member of the student body, I was granted permission to ask one question. I would be allowed a minute or two is what the student representative said as I was ushered into a hall situated somewhere between the Hinde Auditorium and the University Union Ballroom at Sac State, where dr. Cornel west was scheduled to present a lecture last week. Stepping into the hall, I witnessed one of america’s most brilliant public intellectuals speaking privately to his mother. After they embraced, West motioned that I sit next to him. Shoulder-to-shoulder, he appeared just as he frequently does, and as he often says, “coffin-ready:” black suit, white dress shirt, necktie, cufflinks, Afro, beard and an impossiblywide smile with a charismatic void between his central incisors. My question was a selfish one: Having a deep appreciation of the Russian realist Anton Chekhov, which of his stories does West favor? “‘Misery’ … ‘In [the] Ravine,’” he replied. I’m familiar with those two particularly tragic examinations of human suffering, but I said something inelegant and unimportant as I left the hall with a grain of understanding as to the possible debt West’s thought may owe to the work of Chekhov. In a nutshell: The Chekhov West enjoys centers around themes of human blindness in struggles of despair, both that of others and that of ourselves. Shortly after some introductory formalities at about 7:30 p.m., West began his lecture. Immediately, I found Chekhov (among many others) present in his oration; West delivered a message of hope comfortably couched in the trauma of Truth: the trauma that racism is an intimate event that touches and deforms the lives of people of color; that to be born in america is to be born into a racist tradition, one that creates the social tightrope that W.E.B. Dubois termed double consciousness; the trauma that as a culture we hold a distracting view of cash designating success and failure and instilling in us an ugly indifference to the suffering of others. This was 15 minutes in and West filled every second of the hourlong lecture with the articulation of his thought. As if in one kaleidoscopic breath, West recited axioms from Socrates, made etymological claims on the origin of the word human, linked birth to funk music, reminded us that “C.R.e.a.M.” is indeed the state of things, that love conquers all but is “commodified” and “hollow” today; that people are the democracy, not those that have been elected, and that we, the people, are merely here to remedy our persistent mistakes; that a drought in dialogue in a democracy foreshadows its chaos. West’s lecture asked we cultivate courage, compassion, vulnerability and self-criticism in order to be transformed by difficult and necessary conversations in an attempt to conquer hatred, improve democracy and reintroduce love. west advocated we die. Not once, as we are biologically wont to do, but time and time again—to die philosophically—to shed ignorance by embracing our despair and our disillusionment. Chekhov’s protagonists are stuck in time, yearning for what West hopes to inspire: that the world would listen, it would love and it would be human.

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october picks by shoka

Welcome to the family Art runs in the blood of the Amrhein family, because Axis Gallery member and curator of its October show Phil Amrhein enlistGrouP SHoW ed not only his brother but also his son for Triad. The family is from Sacramento, but brother Joe Amrhein and son Justin Amhrein are practicing artists living in New York City now, the former also a longtime gallery owner. The work from the three kin are distinct, but feel related, going from the enlarged, monochromatic crowded text of Joe’s pieces and zooming out to the tiny, crowded, blueprint-like, nearly monochromatic watercolors of Justin, and then zooming in to the macro level to the fuzzy, abstract, also nearly monochromatic paintings of Phil. Attend the reception on Second Saturday, and you may just be joining a family reunion. Welcome to the family! “Jade Vine” by Justin Amrhein, graphite and watercolor on paper, 2014.

Where: Axis Gallery, 625 S Street;

(916) 833-1293; www.axisgallery.org.

Second Saturday reception: October 8, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Through October 30.

Hours: Friday through Sunday, noon to 5 p.m.;

and by appointment.

“Hey Cats” by Mark Emerson, polymer on linen, 2016.

15-year revamp

Sweet baby Jesus Cabbage Patch and other legendary tales

JayJay committed the building equivalent of a digital reboot by remodeling what was previously its storage-space-turned-exhibition-space called The Annex into its main exhibition space. The aim for a light and airy versatile room coincides with the gallery’s 15th anniversary—the gallery invited 38 of its artists for a massive GrouP SHoW group show, Reboot. Just a handful of the artists on the roster are Julia Couzens, Michael Cutlip, Roger Berry, Mark Emerson, Ellen Van Fleet, Anne Gregory, Koo Kyung Sook, Michaele LeCompte, Annell Livingston, Robert Ortbal, Terry Peterson, Roger Vail, David Wetzl and Eleanor Wood. JayJay christened the space with a reception on September 15, but the exhibition remains up until October 29.

Is that baby Jesus a Cabbage Patch Kid reaching for Mary’s arms? Why, yes, yes, it is. Expect a wide range of interpretations of iconic imagery from fables, fairy tales, folktales, legends and myths in Fe Gallery’s show called, well, Fables, Fairy Tales, Folktales, Legends, and Myths. The inclusive title encompasses the more than 50 works from local and national artists, including Katrin Auch from the Bay Area, with her digitally composited photograph of a heavenly female Icarus, gracefully plummeting toward the sea in a blink of white feathers and long brown hair in a painterly vignette. There will be frog princes (Traci Owens), dragons (Alison GrouP SHoW Ye), wolves (Jennifer Clements), fairies (Micah Halverson), Robert Johnson and the devil’s shadow at the crossroads (Sarah Hedlund), as well as the elegant, dramatic chiaroscuro black-and-white self-portrait photographs by New Jersey’s Sharon Covert. By design, this is a legendary show.

Where: JayJay, 5524 B Elvas Avenue; (916) 453-2999; www.artsy.net/jayjay.

Where: Fe Gallery, 1100 65th Street; (916) 456-4455; www.fegallery.com.

Hours: Wednesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Through

Second Saturday reception: October 8, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Hours: Wednesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. “Down the Rabbit Hole” by Sharon Covert, photograph.

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

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

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

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

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December 4. Visit http://womens wisdomart.org to find out more. The next evening from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. is the last solo show of the year at WAL Public Market (1104 R Street) with the Diana Dich Art Opening. Dich started experimenting with wire sculpture at the age of 15 and you can still check out her early work on MySpace (yeah, that MySpace) at https://myspace. com/chidanart. While her previous work has often been playful and cartoon-inspired, her present exhibit includes a series of female faces that reflect Dich’s trauma from abuse and depression. The exhibit will run through November 2; find out more at www. facebook.com/events/540588446131210. On Saturday, October 8, the 37th Annual Take Back the Night event will be happening at the Sacramento Native American

Health Center (2020 J Street) from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. The rally is dedicated to taking action against gender-based and sexual violence and will feature speakers, performance art, live music and information on resources available to the community. The event is open to the public and attendance is free; visit www.sactakebackthenight.org for more information. And then on Wednesday, October 12, acclaimed singer-songwriter and outspoken feminist Ani DiFranco will take the stage at the Crest Theatre (1013 K Street) for a concert, the premise of which is “Vote, dammit!” Tickets to catch this multitalented, multifaceted artist run $35-$50. More info can be found at www.righteousbabe.com.

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Come catch the next Kathryn Bigelow or Martin Scorsese at the 20th annual Tower of Youth film festival showcasing films created and judged FILM by the region’s budding cinephiles. Tower of Youth has archived more than 1,500 films to promote digital literacy, and alumni have gone on to pursue studies and careers in film. Free; 8:30 a.m.-10 p.m. at Crest Theatre, 1013 K Street; www.towerofyouth.org.

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BPS October Ride: The Riding Dead Friday, OctOber 7 Get out your latex wounds and fake blood because it’s that time of the year again, and BikeParty Sacramento is hosting another ride through town with a zombie theme. Decorate your BIKES bike and body in the bloodiest garb you can find and take a slow ride through town. Free; 7 p.m. at 28th and B Skate Park, 20 28th Street; www.facebook.com/events/545394402312854.

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ArtMix: Dance Macabre thursday, OctOber 13 Mexican culture gets it: Death is something to be woven into the fabric of our society—celebrated, even—not hidden away so no one can talk about it. This month’s ArtMix isn’t exactly Day of the Dead; it’s weirder. Local schlockmeisters Trash Film Orgy will screen some of its delightfully campy films PARTY and host fun, live performances. $10; 5 p.m. at Crocker Art Museum, 216 O Street; (916) 808-1182; www.crockerartmuseum.org.

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Tacos over burgers: Goldfield Trading Post (1630 J Street) recently ditched its food menu—mostly burgers, sandwiches and other grub appropriate for a country bar—in favor of tacos, mulitas and burritos from Elk Grove’s Flako’s Takos. The offerings are a bit slimmer at Goldfield compared to Flako’s flagship, but its most unusual items are present: the mariachi taco ($3), with baconwrapped shrimp, and quesapizzas ($13), giant quesadillas topped with parmesan. Fancy: El Dorado Hill’s Sienna

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Mondo Visions Local filmmaker Jason Rudy will premiere his 11th film on October 13. Let that sink in a moment. Eleven films! Even Quentin Tarantino hasn’t made that many. But then again, Tarantino’s high budget ’70s camp homage is not the kind of filmmaking Rudy does. His idols are guys like Roger Corman and Russ Meyer, who, back in the day, churned out delightfully fun B movies. Film It’s surprising he isn’t more well-known around town. Over the years he’s made some excellent films, weaving through the various ’60s and ’70s drive-in film genres with grace and precision. His Mondo Sacramento films—tributes to the ’70s Mondo craze (a sort of predecessor to reality TV) tell some of Sacramento’s most bizarre truecrime stories in the campiest way possible. The latest, Mondo Visions, is in the style of a “nudie-cutie,” a style of exploitation film from the ’60s that had plenty of nudity—for no apparent logical reason other than to have nudity. Meyer was the master of this genre. Rudy’s Mondo Visions should please Meyer fans. Or just fans of naked ladies. This particular movie was inspired specifically by Meyer’s classic Mondo Topless. The event will include a screening of Rudy’s short film Simone: Le Femmes Demon. $10, 7 p.m. Thursday, October 13; Public House Theater, 5440 14th Avenue; (916) 662-7262; www.publichousetheater.net.

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5 Six Characters in Search of an Author It begins like an episode of The Twilight Zone: An ordinary play rehearsal is interrupted by the appearance of mysterious interlopers—six characters born for the stage but never given a play to perform. Thus does Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello begin his nearly century-old metatheatrical masterpiece that speaks to the power of imagination and the reality vs. unreality of theater. Audiences see characters take life on stage, but what if such characters truly live? And what about those characters created by a playwright but abandoned without a story? Do they have a life, too? Yes, says the father (Mark Cornfield) of the family of stage crashers who demand that the mystified rehearsal director (Adrienne Sher, who also adapted the script) write a story for them— give them the life they’ve been denied. This is a thought-provoking, challenging drama, and the large cast (a mix of community actors and student performers) creates a natural environment of theatrical egos, impatience and inquisitiveness. Peter Mohrmann directs with sure control and perfect timing, embracing the absurdist play’s imagination and satire. —Jim Carnes

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This Pulitzer-Prize winning play feels as timely today as it did when Arthur Miller wrote it in 1949. Yes, some of the references are dated, but the concept of the American Dream deferred, where the main character Willy Loman, played here by Actor’s Workshop founder Ed Claudio, 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. F, Sa 8pm, Su 2 pm. Through 10/16. $18-$20. The Actor’s Workshop of Sacramento, California Stage Theater, 1721 25th Street, $18-$20. (916) 501-6104, www.actinsac. com. P.R.

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Welsh island, where Abe’s old school was destroyed, with no survivors, by German bombs on September 3, 1943. Jake roams the school’s ruins one day, then the next he discovers his own peculiarity: not only can he see the invisible (and quite real) monsters his grandfather fought, but he can enter the time loop created by the old school’s headmistress, Miss Peregrine (Eva Green)—the time loop where it remains forever 1943 and the children are alive, never aging. To them, grandpa Abe has only just left, and they welcome Jake as his spitting image—especially Emma (Ella Purnell), the levitating girl and Abe’s long-ago sweetheart, who transfers her affections haltingly to Jake. This sweet little cross-time romance should have been the heart of the movie, and even as it is, Butterfield and Purnell make the most of it. But this glimmering narrative thread gets lost in Riggs’ convoluted plot, which he concocted to fit an assortment of odd photographs he collected here and there, and in the even more confused and befuddling plot of the movie, which Goldman and Burton concocted to fit the wish list of their CGI artists. By the end, confusion is almost total. Is it 1943 or 2016? Is Abe Portman alive or dead? Is the story over or just starting? Who cares? Ω

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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.

Deepwater Horizon

Director Peter Berg manages to serve a diverse set of masters with Deepwater Horizon, paying tribute to the facts without betraying his duties as an entertainer, and laying the blame on money-grubbing oil 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 offshore rig that exploded in 2010 due to lax safety oversight by 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. Since Deepwater Horizon focuses on the terrifyingly immersive experience of being aboard the oil rig as it transformed into a shrapnelspitting inferno, the devastating environmental impacts of the explosion get relegated to an end-credits footnote. Instead of telling us something that we already know, Berg shows us something that we’ve never seen. D.B.

The Dressmaker

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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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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A band of dimwits (Zach Galifianakis, Owen Wilson, Kristen Wiig) steal $17 million from the Loomis Fargo armored car company. It takes the cops about 45 seconds to zero in on them, and they begin falling out among themselves; one of them (Galifianakis) skips off to Mexico, while another (Wilson) sends a hired killer (Jason Sudeikis) to get rid of him. Based on a real 1997 robbery whose culprits were almost this dumb, the movie is coarsely amusing, even as it leaves the impression that the people who made it (writers Chris Bowman, Hubbel Palmer and Emily Spivey; director Jared Hess) aren’t all that much smarter than the people it’s about. Hess deploys the same sneering derision he brought to Napoleon Dynamite; only Wiig eludes his heavy hand long enough to turn in a sensitive and sympathetic performance. J.L.

(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.

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.

Queen of Katwe

Another dreadfully well-intentioned, insipidly inspirational sports movie from Disney, only this time the great Indian American filmmaker Mira Nair gets sucked into the whirlpool of treacle. Newcomer Madina Nalwanga stars as Phiona Mutesi, a real-life Ugandan teenager who rose out of the slums of Katwe to become a highly touted chess prodigy. David Oyelowo plays Phiona’s twinklyeyed coach and Lupita Nyong’o plays her long-suffering mother, and they both ham it up without mercy. Insanely overlong for a film almost utterly devoid of conflict and original ideas, Queen of Katwe is adapted from the Tim Crothers book The Queen of Katwe: A Story

of Life, Chess, and One Extraordinary Girl’s Dream of Becoming a Grandmaster, a title that spoils every scrap of plot that exists. The film is so moistly noble and lifeless that it could be a museum installation—it makes you feel like a monster just for hating it. D.B.

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.

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Terra Lopez and Dani Fernandez have returned home—just in time to celebrate their major label debut, Devoted. It was an emotion-filled evening for the duo formerly known as Sister Crayon. Singer Lopez didn’t talk much, but when she did it was little snippets, like, “It’s good to be back home.” “This year has been crazy,” she said. “There’s been lots of ups and downs. Being onstage centers us.” At a half-filled Harlow’s, Rituals of Mine opened with a low-key screening of its new video for “Ride or Die.” The screens stayed onstage as Lopez, Fernandez and live drummer Adam Pierce started performing, and the visuals converted to colorful, spiraling psychedelic imagery. Lopez’s connection to the audience was palpable. She slinked around the stage like an emceemeets-’90s-alt-rocker, making intense eye contact with any member of the audience in her line of sight, giving her heart to anyone willing to take it. She was a living example of the strength in owning your vulnerability. The cathartic performance made it clear: Lopez and Fernandez had a rough last year. Lopez told the longtime fans in the crowd that no one made them change their name. After losing her father and her best friend, it “didn’t seem right to go on as Sister Crayon.” She added that they could still play pre-Devoted Sister Crayon songs, though, and did so for their encore. It was a great hometown show, despite a late start and opener the Lique playing too long of a set given the night’s schedule. Local James Cavern delivered a great soulful performance. Rasar, the formerSacramentan who fronts the Lique, gave Rituals of Mine a tonguein-cheek tribute with a rendition of “Walk into My Office,” which pokes fun at the vampiric nature of the record industry.

deeper into a symbiosis of R&B and electronica that’s been at play since the formation of the group. It was quite possibly its most-realized body of work, the truest expression of Terra Lopez and Dani Fernandez. Alas, it went critically disregarded among other botches in promotion. What we get with the re-release via Warner Bros. Records is something muscular that cannot break no matter where it is heard—including a formidable future in arenas. Tom Coyne handles the remastering. His resume includes Adele, Beyoncé, the Weeknd and Taylor Swift. He’s the reason the hits hit. He brings maximalism to Devoted, namely in the singles “Devoted” and “Ride or Die.” The embellishments might feel subtle, but the robust reworks intensify Lopez’s rapturous wails. There’s simply more oomph, more gravitas to her declaration of devotion. As for “Ride or Die” the low end is dynamic and ominous. Originally mastered by Daddy Kev, a key figure in LA’s Low End Theory events, that low-end preeminence is never taken for granted. Coyne’s simply tapped into a deeper potency of Devoted that justifies the shedding of an old, kiddish name for one that reads with intensity. How much money is Warner Bros. willing to throw into the promotion of Rituals of Mine? Are they smart enough to sell “Ride or Die”—unquestionably anthemic for all ages—or will Lopez’s hushed raps over brooding, ambient synths be mishandled, again? Nothing on this record is inexhaustibly as nihilist and depraved as the Weeknd’s “I Can’t Feel My Face” (also mastered by Coyne), but that’s never going to be part of Rituals of Mines’ identity. “I Wanna Show You Violence” doesn’t quite have the naked balladry of, say, Adele’s “Someone Like You.” It’s more funereal, but that should not make it any more difficult to sell. Devoted remains a sea change, now more than ever, for Lopez and Fernandez. But the work can’t stop at feeding the record Muscle Milk, now is when a major label must prove its salt.

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Focused Feedback Phase, Taurus—prime time to solicit insight about how you’re doing. Here are four suggestions to get you started. (1) Ask a person who loves and respects you to speak the compassionate truth about what’s most important for you to learn. (2) Consult a trustworthy adviser who can help motivate you to do the crucial thing you’ve been postponing. (3) Have an imaginary conversation with the person you were a year ago. Encourage the Old You to be honest about how the New You could summon more excellence in pursuing your essential goals. (4) Say this prayer to your favorite tree or animal or meadow: “Show me what I need to do in order to feel more joy.”

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Many of my readers

regard me as being exceptionally creative. Over the years, they have sent countless emails praising me for my original approach to problemsolving and art-making. But I suspect that I wasn’t born with a greater talent for creativity than anyone else. I’ve simply placed a high value on developing it, and have worked harder to access it than most people. With that in mind, I invite you to tap more deeply into your own mother lode of innovative, imaginative energy. The cosmic trends favor it. Your hormones are nudging you in that direction. What projects could use a jolt of primal brilliance? What areas of your life need a boost of ingenuity?

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you. Love longs for you to give everything you have and receive everything you need. Love is conspiring to bring you beautiful truths and poignant teases, sweet dispensations and confounding mysteries, exacting blessings and riddles that will take your entire life to solve. But here are some crucial questions: Are you truly ready for such intense engagement? Are you willing to do what’s necessary to live at a higher and deeper level? Would you know how to work with such extravagant treasure and wild responsibility? The coming weeks will be prime time to explore the answers to these questions. I’m not sure what your answers will be.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Each of us contains a mul-

tiplicity of selves. You may often feel like there’s just one of you rumbling around inside your psyche, but it’s closer to the truth to say that you’re a community of various characters whose agendas sometimes overlap and sometimes conflict. For example, the needy part of you that craves love isn’t always on the same wavelength as the ambitious part of you that seeks power. That’s why it’s a good idea to periodically organize summit meetings where all of your selves can gather and negotiate. Now is one of those times: a favorable moment to foster harmony among your inner voices and to mobilize them to work together in service of common goals.

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foot mountain in Colorado. It’s not a simple task to trek to the top. Unless you’re well-trained, you might experience altitude sickness. Wicked thunderstorms are a regular occurrence during the summer. Snow falls year-round. But back in 1929, an adventurer named Bill Williams decided the task of hiking to the summit wasn’t tough enough. He sought a more demanding challenge. Wearing kneepads, he spent 21 days crawling along as he used his nose to push a peanut all the way up. I advise you to avoid making him your role model in the coming weeks, Virgo. Just climb the mountain. Don’t try to push a peanut up there with your nose, too.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “It isn’t normal to

know what we want,” said psychologist Abraham Maslow. “It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.” He wasn’t referring to the question of what you want for dinner or the new shoes you plan to buy. He was talking about big, long-term yearnings: what you hope to be when you grow up, the qualities you look for in your best allies, the feelings you’d love to feel in abundance every day of your life. Now here’s the good news, Libra: The next 10 months should bring you the best chance ever to figure out exactly what you want the most. And it all starts now.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Practitioners of

the Ayurvedic medical tradition tout the healing power of regular self-massage. Creativity expert Julia Cameron recommends that you periodically go out on dates with yourself. Taoist author Mantak Chia advises you to visualize sending smiles and good wishes to your kidneys, lungs, liver, heart and other organs. He says that these acts of kindness bolster your vigor. The coming weeks will be an especially favorable time to attend to measures like these, Scorpio. I hope you will also be imaginative as you give yourself extra gifts and compliments and praise.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The coming

weeks will be one of the best times ever for wrestling with God or tussling with Fate or grappling with karma. Why do I say that? Because you’re likely to emerge triumphant! That’s right, you lucky, plucky contender. More than I’ve seen in a long time, you have the potential to draw on the crafty power and unruly wisdom and resilient compassion you would need to be an unambiguous winner. A winner of what? You tell me. What dilemma would you most like to resolve? What test would you most like to ace? At what game would you most like to be victorious? Now is the time.

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ing and sweating as you struggle to preserve and maintain the gains of the past? Or are you smooth and cagey as you maneuver your way toward the rewards of the future? I’m rooting for you to put the emphasis on the second option. Paradoxically, that will be the best way to accomplish the first option. It will also ensure that your motivations are primarily rooted in love and enthusiasm rather than worry and stress. And that will enable you to succeed at the second option.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Do you believe

that you are mostly just a product of social conditioning and your genetic makeup? Or are you willing to entertain a different hypothesis: that you are a primal force of nature on an unpredictable journey? That you are capable of rising above your apparent limitations and expressing aspects of yourself that might have been unimaginable when you were younger? I believe the coming weeks will be a favorable time to play around with this vision. Your knack for transcendence is peaking. So are your powers to escape the past and exceed limited expectations.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In one of your

nightly dreams, Robin Hood may team up with Peter Pan to steal unused treasure from a greedy monster—and then turn the booty over to you. Or maybe you’ll meet a talking hedgehog and singing fox who will cast a spell to heal and revive one of your wounded fantasies. It’s also conceivable that you will recover a magic seed that had been lost or forgotten, and attract the help of a fairy godmother or godfather to help you ripen it.

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Yes, they were being tried as adults. It was murder, and the jury came back with, both defendants, first-degree murder convictions, and so the judge didn’t really have any discretion. It’s life without the possibility of parole for those two. And I thought, ‘Man, they’re 18 and they’re never, ever going to get out of prison.’”

Do you remember what the reaction was like? As soon as I said “guilty of first-degree murder,” it was just an outburst. Sobbing from the parents and siblings, and it was just very emotional.

How do you prepare yourself for that moment? What I would do is say, “OK, I’m not going to look at anybody. I’m not going to look at the jury, I’m not going to look at the defendant. I’m just going to stand up and read these documents like I would read the charging document at the beginning of the trial.” I know how important it is and everybody’s looking, but I needed to do that for myself, to be able to get through it.

I think that you are to a certain extent because how could you not be? … We hear terrible things that happen to people. You have to hear children recount terrible things that happened to them, so it’s a very emotional process. You try to disassociate yourself as much as you can, but you’re still human.

Any other surprises to your job? Well, the evidence I think is a big thing. … We literally have to suit up, like hazmat suit up, because we’re dealing with bloodborne pathogens, we’re dealing with bodily fluids. The police out in the street just literally throw it in a paper bag. They put it in a

paper bag, they mark it and then, when the case is ready to go to trial, an investigator walks them over to the court. And so it’s the courtroom clerk that has to confirm that everything they say they’re giving to you, they have. … You’re literally finding out as you’re pulling evidence out what it is. You haven’t really heard anything about the case yet. … You go out to the courtroom, put some brown, like, butcher paper out on a table and then you start going through those bags, one by one. You have to suit up, especially if you know it’s a sex assault case or murder, and then you’re just unpacking. And it’s not until you pull out the dress that the victim was wearing that you even know what you’re getting. That’s always the most difficult thing.

That sounds nerve-wracking. A national one I did as a courtroom clerk was the Richard Hirschfield case. That was nerve-wracking in a different way. It was also a death penalty case, and with a death penalty case, you have to square everything. Everything’s much harder. … The courtroom was packed because it was a cold case. The two young folks who were murdered, their families were there. … We couldn’t even fit everybody in … so we had to set up a whole other courtroom for overflow. … In that case, when the initial verdicts came in for guilt or innocence, a 48 Hours producer came up to me and said, “We want to mic you for the verdict.” And I thought, “I don’t even want to read these verdicts, and now you want to mic me?” (Laughs.) Ω

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