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Boasting he could, because “when you’re a star, they let you do it.”

By now, everyone’s heard Donald Trump’s-so called “locker room banter” defense. And by now, everyone’s watched as some Republican politicians have jumped ship, distancing themselves from a man who talks that way about their wives and daughters, mothers, sisters and aunts.

It’s as if personally knowing a woman has finally driven home just how horrifically sexist Trump really is. Never mind that this “protect our women” attitude reeks of patriarchal patronizing.

And, never mind that there’s always been plenty of evidence to prove Trump is also horrifically racist, xenophobic and classist.

Oh, and just never mind that Trump is quite likely the least qualified major ticket candidate to ever run.

Never mind any of it, because apparently, none of this is enough as some hesitate to disavow him, even now.

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, for example, announced he’ll no longer campaign with or “defend” Trump anymore—yet he hasn’t actually withdrawn his endorsement.

What’s the point?

Oh, no need to answer, I get the point, politically speaking, but you can’t have it both ways.

You can’t have a party that builds the monster factory, creates the monster, cozies up to the monster, feeds the monster, shelters the monster—and then try to look away when the monster becomes unbearably dangerous.

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Trump vs. conscience Re “‘When we fight, we win’” by Sasha Abramsky (SN&R Feature Story, October 6): Unfortunately, some people don’t understand the urgency of stopping Trump at the polls, nor do they have a basic understanding of Politics 101. Empirical evidence suggests that third-party candidates can impact the outcomes, but you’re wasting your vote in voting for any of the third-party candidates in 2016. Bernie Sanders was the sole palatable third-party candidate with an agenda to bring fruition for those seeking justice on all fronts and he has aligned with the DNC knowing full well that the only way to affect change is to work within the framework of the existing two-party system. Realistically, any vote for a third-party candidate will not result enough electoral college votes being bestowed upon your candidate in order to be elevated to POTUS-elect. It is simply voting your conscience and ultimately results in a vote for Trump. In the event Trump wins, I hope your third-party candidates can live with their conscience of being on the wrong side of history.

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If the AHF were truly interested in protecting performers, they would have written a narrow bill focused solely on protection rather than harassment.

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Publishing people’s personal information online has been weaponized as a form of harassment and intimidation known as doxing.

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Snark attack Ambush of local Twitter smart-mouth sparks doxing debate

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It was Tuesday night, September 27, and the man who gets his thrills as a social media crank had just finished grabbing a beer with friends in Midtown and was walking back to his car when it happened: Someone beat up Snarkramento.

A social media creation with north of 1,500 Twitter followers, Snarkramento is the online veil loosely shrouding Matthew Braun, a 34-year-old state worker with a girlfriend, kids and otherwise regular existence. But Braun has an absolute knack for pissing people off with his mean tweets about the downtown arena, Mayor Kevin Johnson, local media and anything else that inspires his thumbs to dance.

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And it’s his online behavior that Braun and his girlfriend believe fueled last month’s assault, which left him with a broken nose, stitched-up lip and the wrong kind of swelled head.

“Definitely,” Braun told SN&R of the idea that he was targeted for his online sarcasm.

The real-world attack of a social media creation sparked an immediate Twitter debate about the hazards of revealing someone’s personal information online and whether Braun was even a victim of the concept, known as doxing, which has become the preferred weapon of choice for online trolls, self-styled vigilantes and anyone who

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doesn’t like a particular message—and wants to terrorize the messenger.

“It’s a way of silencing someone,” said Bruce Schneier, a computer security and privacy specialist. “It’s a nasty tactic.”

Though not a new one, according to Schneier, a fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and an advisory board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The Massachusetts-based Schneier says the practice of publishing someone’s private information is mostly used by people in power to harass and intimidate those with less of it, primarly minorities and women.

While Gamergate, in which a female video game developer was bombarded with rape and death threats in 2014, might be the most famous example of doxing, the Sacramento area has been no stranger to the concept.

And it has real consequences.

Doxing has featured in at least three ideological flashpoints this year.

For instance, after a June 26 Capitol rally that erupted in violence when demonstrators attempted to shut down a permitted gathering of white nationalists and neo-Nazi skinheads, hostilities between the two groups continued online with dueling doxing campaigns.

In May, local activist Maile Hampton was doxed after videos went viral of the 21-year-old participating in a flag burning event outside a heavily protested Donald Trump campaign stop in Oakland.

And this past January, the entire Sacramento City Council experienced doxing when individuals with possible links to the international hacking group Anonymous published the supposed

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Not all of these doxing incidents are created equally, of course.

The Trump supporters and others who took issue with the flag-burning video shared photos of Hampton at work and the address of Hampton’s mother; bombarded the biracial Muslim with racial and religious epithets; and tweeted things like, “We will find you!” and “someone needs to shoot her right between the eyes!”

Hampton, who prefers gender-neutral pronouns, said they were unnerved by the venomous onslaught.

“But more than any type of fear I just kept thinking to myself, you’re all just proving me right,” Hampton wrote SN&R in a Facebook message. “They defend free speech so much, then attack me for using it.”

Braun didn’t experience anything that severe, but an alleged statement made by his attacker has fueled speculation about whether he was doxed—or casually doxed himself.

Five days prior to the attack, Braun got into a Twitter spat that’s almost too silly to recount, but here goes: Responding to a tweet that has since been deleted, Braun, posting as Snarkramento, accused Sactown Royalty blogger Kevin Fippin of defending Mayor Kevin Johnson for punching a protester who surprised him with a coconut cream pie to the face.

Fippin replied that he was simply making fun of what had become a ridiculous media sensation, the two bickered, others jumped in (mostly on Snarkramento’s side), Fippin accused Braun of trolling him anonymously, Braun (half-jokingly) suggested they get beers, and Fippin replied by asking whether there were any spots Braun liked near the state agency building where he works.

In a separate tweet, Fippin referred to the Snarkramento persona as “Matt” after Braun tweeted that many already knew who he was.

Braun’s girlfriend accused Fippin of putting their family in danger and, after some direct messaging between the two, Fippin deleted the tweet identifying Braun’s workplace. (As of October 11, the tweet that referenced Braun’s first name remained up.)

The online feud took approximately two hours.

In the days that followed, Braun left other digital breadcrumbs to his real identity. one day before his attack, braun tweeted that he “yelled ‘more pies’ at KJ as he walked into Old Soul at 40 Acres.

He didn’t think it was funny.”

On the evening of the attack, approximately two hours before he was jumped, Braun posted a tweet that revealed he was at Fieldwork Brewing Co., along with a self-deprecating physical description of himself.

Braun told SN&R he and a few friends hung out on the Midtown taproom’s small patio, discussing K.J.’s response to the pie-thrower and his own recent Twitter duel with Fippin. Braun says the conversation was loud enough for others to hear. He also says a friend addressed him as “Snark” when saying goodbye.

Braun acknowledges his tweets, the conversation that night and his buddy’s “see ya Snark” adieu could have informed what happened later.

Braun says he left the brewery on Capitol Avenue at 18th Street around 10 p.m. and began walking back to his car, which was parked near X and 10th streets. When he got to about 14th and U streets, Braun says he attempted to pass a couple on the sidewalk in front of him by walking along the grassy island that bordered the sidewalk. The next thing he knew, Braun says, the man spun around and cold-cocked him in the head.

Braun wheeled to the ground and says he was hit at least one more time, possibly more, and that his attacker made two statements between blows.

“Hit me once, said, ‘You looking at my girl?’ Hit me again, said, ‘That one was for Kevin,’” Braun recalled. “That’s probably not exact, but it was something like that.”

Braun says he doesn’t really remember making it to his car and driving home, undressing and trying to clean up, or his girlfriend taking him to the emergency room, which occurred 1:59 a.m. September 28, according to a photo of the check-in document tweeted by his girlfriend.

“The next thing I remember, I was talking to the cops,” Braun said.

A police spokeswoman confirms officers responded that night to a reported assault of an adult male “near the 1800 block of Capitol Avenue as he was walking to his vehicle.”

No arrests have been made and Braun

expressed frustration that the security cameras from a nearby Cal Fire station were not recording at the time, according to an email from the agency’s deputy chief of law enforcement.

“It’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard in my life,” Braun said.

Days after the attack, Braun’s face remained pulped with large welts and swelling, including a left eye sealed shut and a warped lip sporting eight stitches.

The mention of an unspecified “Kevin” prompted Braun’s girlfriend to tweet that her boyfriend was attacked by a man who mentioned Fippin specifically. While that claim was later retracted, it was too late. Fippin and at least one other Kings blogger say they’ve been the victims of ongoing retaliatory doxing, mostly by anonymous followers of Braun’s.

“I think it’s horrible he was assaulted,” Fippin told SN&R. “The idea that this could happen to anyone is disgusting. But I don’t think our Twitter interaction had anything to do with it.”

Asked whether he thinks his online argument with Fippin factored into his attack, Braun says he still thinks it’s possible.

“There’s no way to really know for sure,” he said. “The circumstantial evidence definitely points to it being somehow related.”

Fippin strenuously disavows the notion, reiterating that Braun himself has never made it all that hard to figure out Snarkramento’s secret identity. And he worries that getting linked, even tangentially, to the crime will lead to more online harassment, taking what had been a minor annoyance—being portrayed online by Braun as “a Kings bro who promotes violence”—and devolving it into a massive personal disturbance.

“This is all convoluted and stupid,” Fippin added. “I shouldn’t have reacted in any way. I should’ve blocked him.”

That’s what Fippin ended up doing, and Snarkramento responded in kind.

As for the whole secret identity thing, Braun decided to drop it for this story.

Whatever spurred his attack, Braun says he’s intent on not letting it change who he really is.

“I’d rather take ownership of it all at this point,” he said. “I think most people who follow my account understand it’s satirical.” Ω

A uc davis researcher was killed in ethiopia last week after the car she was traveling in was attacked on the outskirts of the African nation’s capital, Addis Ababa.

The U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa reported that a passenger van was hit by rocks thrown by “unknown individuals” in the late afternoon that October 4. One of the passengers, a U.S. citizen, was struck by a rock and died from her injury, according to the release.

Andy Fell, a UC Davis spokesman, confirmed that Sharon gray, 30, was the U.S. citizen involved in the incident.

Gray, a post-doctoral research fellow at the university’s Brady Lab, was in the country for a meeting to discuss the next steps on a project she was involved in with the Netherlands Institute of Ecology and other charitable organizations, according to a campuswide statement from Ken Burtis, interim provost and executive vice chancellor, and Mark Winey, dean of the College of Biological Sciences.

“Even in tragedy, we hope that we all can find some comfort in the wonderful work Sharon was engaged in that will better the lives of so many around the world,” they wrote.

Several media reports attributed the attack to anti-government protesters, and the area has seen months of massive and deadly protests since November 2015. The weekend before Gray’s death, at least 55 people were killed in a stampede as protesters clashed with law enforcement during a religious festival in the same region.

A State Department spokesperson declined to comment on the details of the incident, citing respect for the privacy of Gray’s family.

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ticket to deride A program meant to bolster light-rail usage in the suburbs has drawn criticism from labor interests who say it will benefit ridesharing companies at the expense of low-income transit riders and industry workers.

The new Station link Program launched with the opening of the golden 1 center on October 5. A partnership between Sacramento Regional Transit, Uber, Lyft and Yellow Cab, Station Link offers $5 off fares to or from select light-rail stations on event dates, up to 10 trips per rider, when riders use promo code “Sacrt” through the Uber, Lyft or Curb apps.

While lauded by RT as efficient transportation consolidation in an already heavily congested area, the Sacramento Central Labor Council claimed the ride-hailing services engaged in exploitative practices.

“When a public agency is contracting with companies that have a notorious reputation of not just exploiting the workforce, but also not even recognizing that these folks are their employees, that’s an issue for us,” said SCLC Executive Director Fabrizio Sasso.

Sasso was referring to partly ongoing litigation brought against both Uber and Lyft by drivers who claim they have been unfairly misclassified as independent contractors, and want compensation for fuel and auto maintenance. In June, U.S. Northern District of California Judge Vince Chhabria approved a $27 million settlement on behalf of lyft drivers who sued to be classified as employees. RT spokeswoman Susan Bitar denied the lawsuits posed an issue for the ride-incentive program.

The program is funded through a $50,000 grant from the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District with administrative assistance from the Sacramento Area Council of Governments.

Bitar called the program a unique partnership of public and private entities. It will run until the budget is used up after 10,000 redemptions or until March 21, 2017, whichever comes first.

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The timing was coincidental, but poetic.

“When someone tells you their story and In the shadow of the Native American Health it sounds completely illogical, believe them, Center—on the same day the nation heard Donald because if we were going to make this up, we’d Trump’s recorded boasts of being famous enough make up something way better,” Campbell to get away with sexual assault—feminists of all concluded. walks gathered to shed light on the victims and Also in the gathering of about 300 were eight survivors of such crimes during Sacramento’s 37th event volunteers wearing swimsuits and underannual Take Back the Night rally. wear in a demonstration of body pride. They The statistics are stark: Every 107 seconds, came armed with felt-tipped markers and asked a sexual assault occurs in the nation, according strangers to write on their skin. to the U.S. Department of Justice National “We are out here because society tells us Crime Victimization Survey. About 400 rapes that our body has to look a certain way,” said are reported in Sacramento County each year, Take Back the Night organizer Maryanne according to California’s attorney general.

Henke, explaining the body-positivity Meanwhile, sheriff’s investigators display. “Tonight we are standing are still hunting the male suspect in our bras and underwear who is believed to have sexu“Tonight we are and our bathing suits so that ally assaulted two women we can make a statement near the Arden-Arcade standing in our bras and that our bodies are perfect neighborhood on September underwear and our bathing exactly the way that they 19 and 27. The victims’ suits so that we can are and that we are not ages are 15 and 21. going to buy into society’s While those assaults make a statement.” unreasonable and unrealistic were perpetrated by a Maryanne Henke standards.” stranger, most sexual crimes organizer, Event organizer Tina up for sentencing on the Take Back the Night rally Lemoine helped get the crowd Sacramento County District going with her topical prompts Attorney’s website occurred about the Republican presidential between neighbors, friends and candidate’s recorded boasts from 2005. blood relatives.

“When I say dump, y’all say Trump,” shouted On October 8, Barbara Campbell shared Lemoine, a member of the Brown Berets de her story of domestic violence, for which the SacrAzlatán. “Dump!” march also raised awareness. A seasoned public “Trump!” the crowd yelled back. speaker, she confessed to SN&R that she was At rally’s end, many who listened to testimonervous while delivering her speech—that she’s nials headed out to march through the streets of never shared something so personal before. downtown and Midtown Sacramento. Along sideCampbell is a Sacramento-based transwoman walks lined with bars, restaurants and boutiques, who kept her identity closeted to preserve her they shouted, “Yes means yes! No means no! professional career in the Air Force. In the early However we dress! Wherever we go!”

2000s, Campbell says she had a whirlwind Event organizer Diana Stantz offered her romance and close relationship with a woman reason for being there. who initially accepted and valued her trans iden“I am a survivor of [sexual assault] so Take tity. Later, Campbell alleges, the partner became Back the Night is just—it’s like I found my own physically abusive shortly after Campbell transpurpose here,” she said. “This is my way of ferred closer to home, from the Spangdahlem taking action and reclaiming that experience to Air Base in Germany to Beale Air Force Base in help educate others on the dynamics and prevaMarysville in August 2004. lence of sexual assault and to help ensure that The two are now separated, and Campbell other survivors know they aren’t alone.” Ω says the courts have refused to grant her

Why one black Sacramento man says he fears for his life

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It was 2:14 a.m. and I was restless, flipping through YouTube, when I came across a video titled “Police Admit To Killing Innocent Black Man.” My heart sank and my blood slowly ran cold: the headline alone was unsettling, but I already knew what to expect. In the video, posted to the The Young Turks channel, an American political commentary web series, the hosts discussed how Los Angeles police had “accidentally killed” a black man while pursuing a carjacking suspect in late July. During the incident, police had identified the man as “a second suspect,” and then shot him dead. Later, it would be revealed that he had nothing to do with the crime.

As the video ended, a sadness poured into me, and I found myself contemplating my own life and how quickly it could end by “accident.” The man who was killed, that could have been me.

In 2015, The Guardian newspaper launched The Counted, a tally of people killed by police in the United States. In 2016 alone, The Guardian reports police have killed at least 203 black people to date. That number continues to steadily rise.

And any one of those people could be me. My life is always at risk, and that’s because I’m black.

That’s frustrating. No, that’s depressing, debilitating, terrifying. Black lives have been deemed inferior, insignificant. And regardless of the innumerable protests and essays and tweets, more innocent blacks have found themselves in front of the muzzle of an officer’s gun.

As a black man, I’ve become accustomed to it, numb to it; when another killing occurs, my first reaction is, “Great, another one.” These murders have become so commonplace I expect to read more of the same headline: “Another Black Person Has Been Killed by Police For The 50,000th Time. By Accident.”

I should not be “used to” the headlines; it should not be an expectation. Yet, it is, and that fact is crippling.

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or as long as Jessica Denning can remember, the airplanes have come to drop their poison.

The 72-year-old Carmichael resident usually locks up and takes off on a two-day road trip when authorities announce they are going to spray the area with insecticide.

This summer, though, Denning stayed, as did most residents. She says she could smell the chemical for days afterward.

“We closed the windows and doors like they tell you to, but it still got in,” said Denning, the West Coast director of Moms Across America, an activist group that advocates against public exposure to toxic chemicals. “It was this awful, putrid aroma throughout the house. You couldn’t get away from it.”

That was in late June, right after the Sacramento-Yolo Mosquito and Vector Control District sprayed diluted yet extremely potent mists of an insecticide called naled over Carmichael. A similar dousing would take place a month later over 17,000 acres surrounding Woodland.

Aerial spraying is one of several routine tactics used now by California health officials as they wage chemical warfare on disease-carrying mosquitoes. West Nile virus has been a serious health concern in California since 2003. Today, the newer scare is the Zika virus, transmitted by Aedes aegypti, a mosquito species that has recently appeared in scattered points around California, and caused widespread concern that it may be linked to microcephaly, a rare neurological condition in which an infant’s head is smaller than normal.

But many people believe the use of potent insecticides in public spaces could be causing more harm than good. These chemical agents include probable carcinogens, neurotoxins and endocrine disruptors. Hundreds of independent studies show that insecticide use is causing health problems, including cancer, birth defects and developmental disorders, in humans.

From an ecological perspective, insecticide applications are almost certainly causing a host of issues. They are killing bees and other pollinators while also becoming less effective over time as the target insects build genetic resistance—a potential time bomb that will affect future generations.

However, there is also science that defends insecticides, and this is the research that seems to influence many university scientists and health officials. Indeed, those leading the battle against biting bugs in California say there’s little to fear from even the most deadly insecticides, as long as they are administered as U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulators recommend.

“The EPA’s job is to vet all these products we use and make sure they’re acceptable for use near animals and people,” said Gary Goodman, manager of Sacramento-Yolo Mosquito and Vector Control District, the agency at the front lines of the local battle against mosquitoes.

But many people and groups, like the Washington, D.C.-based industry watchdog Beyond Pesticides, contend the EPA is not to be trusted.

Denning cites history as evidence that government regulators may be misleading the public when telling Americans that poisons are safe for use.

“They said the same thing for years about Agent Orange, they said the same thing about PCBs,” she said, referring to the coolant widely used in the 1950s and 1960s until scientists learned that polychlorinated biphenyls cause cancer and other health problems, leading to a national ban in 1979. “We have such moneyed

interests in the chemical industry, and they’ve got control over the regulators.”

Other skeptics think mosquitoes and the diseases they carry are being hyped up for the financial benefit of the industry.

“The [Centers for Disease Control] is making the Zika virus out to be a major health crisis, which it isn’t,” said Julie Ostoich, a Sacramento resident outraged by the ongoing use of pesticides. “The whole industry is based on fear. They get us all worked up so that people will say, ‘OK, go ahead and spray because I’m afraid.’”

Zika hype, West Nile reality Every night in Oakdale, the mosquitoes come out in droves. To guard herself against their bites, Stacy Beason lathers herself with natural plant oils, like lemongrass, eucalyptus and citronella, which she says work as well as commercial bug sprays.

“Mosquitoes hate the smell of these oils,” she said.

But that’s almost irrelevant now for Beason.

In late July, she tested positive for West Nile disease. She is among at least five other people in her Stanislaus County town of 25,000 who

now carry the virus. Beason did not lose her life to the disease, but she lives with achy joints, chills, headaches, flu-like symptoms and, for now, little hope of a cure.

Now, as the Aedes aegypti (that’s pronounced “ee-deez Egypt-ee”) mosquito spreads across the southern United States and into southern California, grabbing headlines as it goes, Beason wants the public’s foremost attention to remain on West Nile. The virus is thriving in California and, especially, across the agricultural sprawl of the Central Valley. It lives in the blood of animals—mainly birds—and is transmitted to people via Culex tarsalis and Culex pipiens, the mosquito species that most commonly carry the virus in California.

“I know that a few Californians have had Zika, but being more afraid of Zika than West Nile doesn’t make sense,” said the 53-year-old Beason, who founded the Facebook support group West Nile Disease California. “After Zika came to the table, people put West Nile on the back burner.

People need to be talking about it, and they need to protect themselves from mosquitoes in general. I know that Zika causes problems for pregnant mothers, but West Nile will kill you.”

West Nile virus was first detected in a human in 1937 in Uganda. In the decades since, it became recognized as a deadly threat to humans. In 1999, the virus appeared in New York City—the beginning of an ongoing event that has killed at least 1,800 Americans, including more than 230 in California. The virus, asymptomatic in about four out of five people, tends to proliferate along major bird migration routes, like the Central Valley. Just last week, three people—in Rio Vista, Dixon and Vacaville—tested positive for the disease.

The Zika virus was also first detected in humans in Uganda. That was in 1952. Small outbreaks occurred almost worldwide for decades before the first large outbreaks took place this century. The latest scare has been centered in Brazil, where the virus, which is rarely fatal and often without symptoms, has infected thousands.

While Zika and its insect carrier have surged onto the radar of Californians, West Nile is still getting a lot of attention.

All summer, local agencies were dousing the Central Valley with highly diluted poison solutions that destroy mosquitoes on contact, but which are supposedly harmless to people. From June 24 to September 10, the Sacramento-Yolo vector control district dropped aerial applications of insecticides 115 times. The special department made similar drops over Arden-Arcade and Carmichael from June 22 to June 23, and July 26-27 over Woodland.

“I know that Zika causes problems for pregnant mothers, but West Nile will kill you.” stacy Beason founder, West Nile Disease California Facebook group

Goodman, the district’s manager, says West Nile virus is thriving in local rice paddies and backyard gardens. The warm winter and spring combined with some heavy rains made for optimal breeding conditions. As a result of increased mosquito numbers, West Nile virus presence has increased, he says.

But even during the drier years prior, transmission of the virus was rampant. In fact, 2015 was California’s deadliest year on record for West Nile, with 53 people killed by the virus.

Goodman’s agency regularly treats standing pools of water, like swimming pools and small ponds, with larvacides. These chemicals destroy mosquitoes at the source—by most accounts the most effective way to control the insects and far more so than bombing adult mosquitoes from the air. However, once they leave the water and take flight, there is little choice but to use adulticide sprays, according to Goodman.

To do the job, Goodman’s agency uses a variety of chemicals. Among them is a product called Trumpet EC, whose main active ingredient is the organophosphate naled. This neurotoxin kills mosquitoes and other insects midflight before biodegrading into the environment. In the disintegration process, it produces dichlorvos, believed to cause cancer. Trumpet EC also contains naphthalene, another possible carcinogen.

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UC Davis entomologist Anton Cornel, who works at the university’s Mosquito Control Research Laboratory in Parlier, Fresno County, says Californians have nothing to fear from registered chemical tactics against insects. The quantities released into the air are simply too miniscule, he says.

“The insecticides we use are approved for use,” he said. “The toxicity effects of any insecticide we use according to label are a very low threat to humans.”

Still, the local vector control district advises people to stay indoors during scheduled spray times.

“But they only email you if you sign up,” Denning pointed out, adding that in June she didn’t receive the district’s warning email before the aerial spraying.

According to Goodman, the district sends out about 14,000 emails and 2,000 texts to local residents to warn of upcoming sprayings. Denning says she has usually received these warnings just a few hours in advance.

“They do it in midafternoon the day they’re going to spray,” she said. “I’m sorry, but that is not fair notice.”

Jessica Denning, West Coast director for Moms Across America, an anti-spray activist group, worries that the government may be misleading citizens on the chemicals used in pesticides.

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Originally of African origins, Aedes aegypti has spread across much of the planet. Where its presence has been confirmed across the southern United States, near-hysteria over Zika has followed. Currently, Florida and the southeast remain in a Zika-induced panic while officials spray naled from low-flying aircraft.

In California, the odds of a major Zika outbreak are probably slim to none, even if the mosquito that carries the virus establishes itself here, according to Chris Barker, a UC Davis epidemiologist. However, Barker supports efforts to eradicate the insect simply because of its extremely irritating bites, usually delivered to the back of the legs.

“Even without the diseases, they’re pretty bad pests,” he said. “They bite humans very aggressively.”

Even though Aedes aegypti also transmits dengue fever and a virus called chikungunya, which recently caused a health scare in India, entomologist Jim Northup doesn’t think the concern merits a chemical offensive.

“There certainly is a lot of hype around how serious these diseases really are,” said Northup, a resident of Davis.

Northup says Aedes aegypti will never establish itself permanently in California because the semi-desert climate is simply not suitable for the tropical insect.

Northup studied entomology at UC Davis before conducting field trials of nonchemical mosquito control methods

in Columbia in the 1980s. His career was interrupted by Lou Gehrig’s disease, which has partially crippled him. He remains an active follower of insect and pesticide research and has done some writing of his own, including contributions to the website StopWestNileSprayingNow.org.

He warns that the effects of spraying insecticides in the air are far more damaging than the chances of being killed by a mosquito-borne virus in California.

“They say the risk of getting cancer from exposure to these insecticides is so slight it

doesn’t matter,” Northup said. “Well, I can tell you that the chances of anyone dying from a Zika infection in California are zero.

Therefore, even the slight likelihood of killing children with cancer from organophosphate exposure is far more of a risk.”

Unlike Zika, West Nile virus actually is killing people in considerable numbers. Yet the disease’s average death rate in California of about 20 people per year pales in comparison to the 400 Californians who are diagnosed with cancer every single day.

Anti-spray activists believe there is a

clear connection between such a cancer rate and the millions of pounds of pesticides used in America each year.

“Exposure to these things is cumulative,” said Ostoich, the Sacramento anti-spray activist. “Cancer rates are soaring. One in two or three people in this country will get cancer, and they’re spraying us with chemicals that cause cancer.”

It’s probably true: Beyond Pesticides has cataloged more than 700 studies that implicate pesticide use in cancer and other health issues, like birth defects, sexual dysfunction, children’s learning disorders and Parkinson’s.

UC Davis researcher Janie Shelton led a study that found children with autism were 60 percent more likely to have been exposed during their fetal stages to pesticides applied near their mothers’ homes. Her research was published in 2014 in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.

At Harvard, researcher Philippe Grandjean argued in a 2006 report in the journal The Lancet that pesticides are causing a “silent pandemic of developmental neurotoxicity.” Grandjean told SN&R in an email that, in most countries, health agencies don’t normally test pesticides for effects on brain development before approving them for use.

On the other hand, a few widely cited studies have made the case that spraying mosquitoes with poison has greater social benefits than costs.

A 2014 study from UC Davis scientists found no significant correlation between insecticide applications and disease occurrence or emergency room visits in local communities. For two years beginning in 2005, scientists with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention studied the spraying activity of the Sacramento-Yolo Mosquito and Vector Control District. Their conclusion, published in 2008: Areas that were aerially sprayed with insecticides saw West Nile human transmission rates six times lower than untreated areas.

Northup argues this study was flawed in many ways, which he detailed in a paper posted to the Stop West Nile Spraying Now website.

To Beyond Pesticides Executive Director Jay Feldman, the science does not go equally in both directions.

“The vast majority of independent studies are showing adverse effects associated with pesticide exposure,” he said. The studies that come to the opposite conclusion, he said, “are often studies that are underwritten by the chemical industry or carried out in an academic environment that are supported by industry grants.

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continued from page 17 “The industry has lobbied heavily to limit the extent to which the chemical review process imposes testing requirements,” he said. “That’s the bottom line.”

Gary Goodman, manager of Sacramento-Yolo Mosquito and Vector Control District, says the Environmental Protection Agency properly vets the safety of the pesticides it uses.

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“I would definitely not say there is equal data on both sides,” Feldman added.

Neither would Evaggelos Vallianatos.

He worked for decades in the EPA’s Office of Pesticide Programs, in Arlington, Va. Now, the Los Angeles resident and author of the memoir-exposé Poison Spring warns that the EPA is not to be blindly trusted and that many of the chemicals it approves for use are dangerous.

In an interview with SN&R, Vallianatos said the EPA’s pesticide review system is based not on its own lab testing, which was mostly phased out decades ago, but on safety data provided by the chemical manufacturers themselves.

“It’s a huge conflict of interest,” Vallianatos said.

He says the EPA has employees who review the data provided by chemical companies hoping to get a new product approved.

However, direct inspection of laboratories is rare. There are even cases, he says, in which industry labs have “made up the safety data out of thin air” in the process of getting dangerous products approved for use.

For example, Industrial Bio-Test Laboratories falsified test data for more than 20 years before being exposed by a whistleblower in 1976, according to both Vallianatos and a 1983 article in the New York Times. The lab closed shortly thereafter.

During its long and fraudulent run, Poison Spring claims the IBT lab employed a Monsanto official who helped fake data on a toxic antibacterial cleaning agent. IBT handed over the results of its “testing” to the EPA, which Vallianatos says knew about the fraud but allowed it to go on. The saga ended with criminal convictions for some of the involved, the Times reported.Vallianatos claims the agency has not changed.

He told SN&R that the amount of any given chemical that a person can safely be exposed to is almost always totally arbitrary.

“It’s based on no science,” he said. “These quantities, like three parts per million or five parts per million or whatever, are decided by the industry, maybe because at that level a person won’t die of immediate poisoning.”

Vallianatos said that such tolerance levels “only provide legal protection for farmers and the people who make the chemicals in case a person gets sick.”

That is, the EPA, according to Vallianatos, is protecting big industries, not the public.

In an email forwarded by Cathy Milbourn of the EPA’s Office of Media Relations, agency officials told SN&R that its pesticide review and approval processes are designed to guarantee the safety of the public.

The email said that “EPA employees are not present when manufacturers test their products, but registered pesticides have met rigorous testing standards to ensure they are safe for the U.S. population when used according to labeled directions.”

Pesticide proponents commonly say this—that following a pesticide’s label instructions means no one will get hurt. UC Davis’ scientists told SN&R this. Goodman also said this. A scientist with the lead mosquito control agency in Los Angeles said the exact same thing.

Anti-sprayers remain unconvinced.

“That is the refrain that we hear,” Feldman said. “But this idea that compliance with the label protects the public is a fallacy based on inaccurate assumptions.”

For example, he says, it is assumed that pesticides will only hit their target and will not drift off-site with wind. Another common assumption used by regulators, Feldman says, is that chemicals will bind tightly to organic matter, which would prevent toxins from entering water sources.

They don’t, though. Not all soil types will cling to these toxins, Feldman says.

“And lo and behold, the chemicals leach into groundwater and run off into surface waters,” he said.

Feldman says the safety testing procedures used by industry laboratories are dangerously inefficient. They don’t take into account how

chemicals may affect certain outlying demographics—like people with pre-existing health issues, very young people and the elderly.

Another problem in the testing protocol involves a given chemical’s so-called “breakdown products.” That is, many chemicals will deteriorate after they are released into the environment. As they do so, they turn into other compounds which may be more hazardous than the original chemical. However, Feldman says these breakdown products are often ignored by the EPA’s testing protocol.

In other words, a product that is noncarcinogenic may break down into another that does cause cancer—exactly the way that naled breaks down into dichlorvos.

Yet another dangerous shortcoming of the regulatory process allows the EPA to sometimes test only a product’s active ingredients but not test the final formulation—that is, the product as it will be purchased by consumers.

Feldman says these all add up to serious regulatory loopholes that, in many cases, have essentially allowed toxic chemicals to enter the market without truly being tested for safety—and that, he says, is how chemical manufacturers want it.

“i can tell you that the chances of anyone dying from a Zika infection in california are zero. therefore, even the slight likelihood of killing children with cancer from organophosphate exposure is far more of a risk.”

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In Elk Grove, the Sacramento-Yolo vector district maintains a cluster of about two dozen small ponds.

“People driving by sometimes think we’re breeding mosquitoes out there,” Goodman said. “But we aren’t. We’re breeding fish.”

Specifically, they are two species of freshwater fishes that like nothing more than to eat mosquito larvae. Colloquially referred to as mosquitofish, Gambusia affinis occurs naturally in the eastern United States and along the Gulf Coast region.

Goodman’s department is producing them by the millions as a form of mosquito control that has possibly no ecological costs at all.

The district’s staff delivers the fish to anyone who requests them and each year plants about 2 million in horse troughs, swimming pools and other residential mosquito breeding sites.

“They’re a very effective tool to use in fighting mosquitoes,” Goodman said.

The problem is, the fish only eat mosquito larvae. Once the insects leave the water, they are not only safe from mosquito fish but are a nuisance and, potentially, a threat to people.

“Once they become adults, we have to use insecticides, and we have two choices—the pyrethrins and pyrethroids, and organophosphates,” Goodman said.

Pyrethrins are a natural insecticide produced by chrysanthemum flowers.

Pyrethroids are a synthetic version of pyrethrins. However, due to high rates of use around the world, mosquitoes are developing resistance to pyrethroids. Cornel, at the UC Davis mosquito lab, says great caution must now be taken when using pyrethroids.

Ideally, he said, mosquito control agencies would “use a more potent insecticide that is more toxic.”

But Northup warns that the escalating chemical war on biting bugs is leading us in the wrong direction. He says mosquitoes will eventually develop resistance to virtually any poison that is too liberally used. Other insects, too, will either be killed off or will develop into super-bugs. For instance, he says fleas could develop significant insecticide resistance, which would put the human population at risk of a bubonic plague outbreak.

“And that’s a disease you really have to worry about, not Zika,” he said. Ω

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southern Sicily, from atop piles of stones that once made up the pillars and walls of a vast temple at Selinunte, one can look out at the soaring, intact columns of another edifice, and then, below, at the aqua blue sea. This is the razed landscape of the Punic Wars, of a time eons ago when Greek city-states and Carthaginians fought for supremacy in the western Mediterranean.

Off to the side are the more modern buildings of a fishing village, low-key structures, the colors of which are designed to blend into the arid landscape. It’s an extraordinary image, history layered upon history, all surrounded by the water that the Homeric heroes and their descendants wandered thousands of years ago.

There’s a stark, raw, beauty to this place, a little bit of Italy that is actually far closer to the shores of Tunisia than, say, to Rome or Milan.

Not too many places on earth have this concentration of history, this distillate of the human story. In Sicily, Greek, Roman, Arab, Norman architecture all jostle for one’s attention.

Before the Greeks, there were the Phoenicians. And before them, probably numerous others, now forgotten, seafaring adventurers.

Byzantine palaces, and Norman jewels such as Palermo’s wondrous 12th century Cappella Palatina, complete with intricate mosaic patterned walls and floors and arches—the stories of the Bible replicated in grand permutations of tiny, ceramic tiles— vie for attention with medieval fortress towns such as Erice, its narrow, cobbled roads, perched atop a rugged mountain aerie, lined with soaring churches, towers, monasteries and castles.

In between the monumental architecture of Erice, people still live in houses and apartments that have been inhabited for generations. There’s a specialist pastry shop founded, for fundraising purposes, by nuns hundreds of years ago. There are potters, selling the bright red-patterned wares so emblematic of this island, who operate out of shops that could well have sold the same goods to medieval clientele.

We arrived in late summer. Flying in, we passed over what looked to be a castle on a promontory jutting out into the sea.

“Look,” I called over to the kids. “A castle.” “No, the woman next to us said, laughing. “That’s a tuna factory.” A tuna factory it may have been, but its thick, turreted walls smacked of romance, antiquity and chivalry.

That a tuna factory could pass as a castle ought to have been an omen. There’s something a little bit crazy about Sicily. Our first night’s accommodation, for example, was listed as a B&B in the center of Palermo, just down the road from a sandcastle-like cathedral; but it turned out to be something more approximating an empty residential building that had been informally taken over (by whom was unclear) and converted into a cash-only hotel for travelers and businessmen.

It took us nearly an hour to finally navigate the one-way system toward the town center, our GPS device gamely trying to issue instructions fast enough to see us through the warren of

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ancient streets. When we finally got to the Palermo Cathedral, we discovered the road toward our hotel was a pedestrian-only route. And after we zigzagged around the pedestrian zone and finally found its address, it turned out to be a residential tower block, clearly not marked as a hotel, and with no one there to open the door for us.

Tired and more than a little angry, I went into a bar across the street and convinced the bartender to try to locate the man, Antonio, who apparently possessed keys to the building. The bartender knew someone in the building was running a hotel moonlighting operation, and sure enough he phoned a few people who knew a few people, hoping that someone would come and take us off of his hands. But no one came down.

When I desperately approached a lady entering the building and, in a patois of Spanish, English, French and largely made-up Italian, asked her whether this was, indeed a hotel, she, too, mentioned Antonio.

After several phone calls, Antonio finally appeared and led us up four floors to an unmarked door, behind which were two bedrooms, air conditioning units and a dubious pirated internet connection. He left us with keys, and instructions as to which unmarked room a few floors down would serve breakfast for us in the morning.

It was, quite possibly, the strangest hotel I have ever stayed in. But, at the end of the day, it was also utterly perfect: a five minute walk from a medieval square with several restaurants serving up heaping portions of Sicilian fare; six minutes from the cathedral—which we saw, that first night, all decked out in the dull halos of light from street lamps, the padlocked exterior fencing running from one magnificent stone statue to the next; and all of about 12 minutes from the exquisite Cappella Palatina.

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If Palermo is Naples-on-steroids, seedy, dilapidated and beautiful all rolled into one, Trapani, an hour’s drive to the west, is far more navigable. The port town, from which one can take ferries out to the surrounding islands, boasts a small, elegant center. It’s made up of a series of ancient cobbled streets, along which sit vast Renaissance-era churches, and terrific, very reasonably priced trattorias.

Sicily is famous for its fish dishes—swordfish, tuna, salmon farfalle and other pastas, fish couscous—and its desserts. And the restaurants didn’t disappoint. For about $60 between the four of us, we could eat until we were more than full, drink good wine and gorge on gelatos. One meal out each day; one meal in the garden at our Airbnb; fresh tomatoes, avocados, an array of hams and salami, and, of course, copious amounts of bread and olive oil. Eating is a treat in Sicily, each meal to be relaxed over and savored.

Using Trapani as a base, there is a lot to see. There are salt plains, dotted with ancient windmills, which have been vital sources of salt for close to 5,000 years. There are sprawling ruined Greek cities at Segesta, at Selinunte, and, slightly further southeast, the massive remains of the ancient city of Agrigento.

One can see, there, the remains of the 12-kilometer city walls; temples, villas, even vast, toppled stone statues of Zeus. There are wondrous little coastal villages such as Scopello, San Vito lo Capo, and Castellammare del Golfo, their roads curving up into the mountains and down again towards the sea. There are castles, fortresses, cathedrals. There are huge marble mines and there are grottos pockmarked into the cliffs in which small communities lived for thousands of years. And, of course, there are the beaches—ranging from the tiny little sand cove of Bahia Santa Margherita through to large, uninterrupted, stretches of soft, dark orange sand on the edge of the nature preserves that line the coast.

It gets very, very hot in Sicily in high summer—but, if one waits until late in the afternoon to hit the beaches, that water is powerfully refreshing, and the sun more therapeutic than cruel.

We swam each afternoon, staying on the beach late into the evening, until the sun started to sink into the horizon and the heat began to be replaced by something approximating an evening coastal breeze. We ate dinner even later and let our sense of time start to dissolve.

As a political journalist, I struggle this election season to put things in perspective. Too often I read the news and think it’s time to throw my hands up in sheer horror, but Sicily helped put it all in perspective. History is a very big canvas.

And the travails of one country at one moment in its history are, ultimately, just that: the bleatings of a single place at a single time. Somehow, that makes it all just a little bit less unfathomably grotesque. Ω

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hile some city officials continue to do a lot of hand-wringing and pie-tothe-face taking over making the city “world class,” the Sacramento International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival is making that happen simply by continuing its tradition of excellence; now in its 25th year, the festival continues to up its game with a wide range of important, acclaimed films from all over the world. It takes place from Thursday, October 13, through Sunday, October 16, at the Crest Theatre (1013 K Street) and whether you’re in it for the whole shebang or just want to catch a night or two, there’s something for every film buff, LGBTQ community member and ally out there: On Thursday at 7:30 p.m., kick things off with a screening of Political Animals, a widely acclaimed Los Angeles Film Festivalwinning documentary about four lesbian legislators—Sens. Carole Migden, Christine Kehoe and Sheila Kuehl, and Rep. Jackie Goldberg—who played a pivotal role in fighting for civil rights for the LGBTQ community.

Friday’s feature film is Major!, a documentary about Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a transgender activist who was incarcerated for her participation in the Stonewall riots; the screening begins at 7:30 p.m.

Saturday’s matinee programming starts off at 2 p.m. with Being 17, a feature film set in the French Pyrenees that follows two high school classmates as they work through their sexuality and complex relationship with one another. Alzheimer’s: A Love Story, a documentary short about two men who met 40 years ago, will follow. (Bring a tissue for this one; actually, one would be well advised to just tote around a box for the entirety of the festival.)

Then, for the Saturday evening programming kicking off at 7:30 p.m., Closet Monster is the feature; if you don’t come for the queer coming-of-age story (though you should), come for the talking hamster character voiced by Isabella Rossellini. Things heat up a bit for the late night programming that kicks off at 10 p.m. with a screening of Paris 05:59: Theo & Hugo, a feature about an intense love affair set in Paris. All-festival VIP passes are $70 and single-night tickets range from $10$15. Visit http://siglff.org for more information and to buy tickets.

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Day of the Dead Party 2016 Friday, OctOber 14 Officially speaking, the Day of the Dead is still a little ways off, but that doesn’t mean you have to wait the entire month to remember friends and family. The California Museum will unleash its new exhibit: Day of the Dead: Art of Dia de los Muertos CulTurE 2016. The grand opening party will include artists, food, cocktails and more. $5-$10; 6 p.m. at California Museum, 1020 O Street; (916) 653-7524; www.californiamuseum.org.

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Oktoberfest Grand Opening Saturday, OctOber 15 If you’ve ever lived in Lincoln for any length of time, you’re likely familiar with the legend of Beermann’s: The business opened then closed then opened again. Now this gorgeous venue will play home to a festival celebrating beer, life, BEEr and even more beer. 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. at Beermann’s Brewery, 645 Fifth Street in Lincoln; www.beermanns.net.

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Sacramento City College 100th anniversary open house Saturday, OctOber 15 Sac City College is officially a centenarian. Come celebrate the city’s oldest institute of higher learning and its role in the community with a EDuCATION car show, art, live music, a chemistry show (read: explosions!), food trucks, and the unveiling of a 25-year-old time capsule. Free; 1 to 9 p.m. at Sacramento City College, 3835 Freeport Boulevard; www.scc.losrios.edu.

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California Freethought Day 2016 Sunday, OctOber 16 That whole God thing not for you? You’re not alone. Nonbelievers—and, what the hell, believers too—should check out California’s 15th annual Freethought Day on the west steps of the State Capitol building with an afternoon of CulTurE family activities and speakers. Free; 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the California State Capitol, 1315 10th Street; http://freethoughtday.org.

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A sampling of the andouille boasted an earthy heat that that would complement any gumbo, gumbo, while the chicken-feta brought a rich creaminess offset by herbal jolts. You could eat them right out of the butcher paper, but it’s better to toss them on a pan or some briquettes first. 1050 20th Street, http://blockbutcherbar.com.

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you have to go so soon? I surely thought your reasonable prices would help you stick around. What will Sacramento do without your velvety, Velveeta-like macaroni and cheese? Or your deep-fried chocolate pie? I don’t want to think about it.

Ever since Enotria closed, this location on Del Paso Boulevard has seemed like a revolving door.

What’s next? According to the Sacramento Bee, two new concepts run by Deneb Williams are already in the works. Williams was most recently the executive chef at the Firehouse in Old Sacramento.

It’s been a tough couple of weeks for Sacramento restaurants in general. RailBridge Cellars &

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Good news: With closures also came openings. Just in time for Golden 1 Center’s opening, the Pier Lounge, Bar & Grill took over the former Zokku nightclub and brief Triple

Double space at 419 J Street. The menu hits a mix of American, Italian, Japanese and Asian-fusion dishes: seared tuna with soy ($14), a bulgogi burger with kimchi ($15), fried ribs with lemongrass ($12), arancini stuffed with mozzarella ($10), sous vide lamb chops ($24), lobster mac ’n’ cheese ($25). Truffle oil seems to be a staple ingredient.

There’s a new hot pot place in Land Park: Shabu Pub (4400 Freeport Boulevard), where you order two broths and a protein, which also comes with vegetables, udon, rice and ice cream. The vegetarian option comes in cheapest at $14.99 while the imported wagyu beef tops the list at $36. Or, you can order all-you-caneat, excluding imported wagyu, for $30.99. Throw in an extra $10 for unlimited drinks, too.

The Asian-Cajun trend came to Fair Oaks in the form of Asian N Cajun 2 (8121 Greenback Lane). The seafood boil spot also has a location in Natomas.

And Roseville got another Indian restaurant. This is Curry Paradise’s (1079 Sunrise Avenue) second location in addition to one in West Sacramento. Ω

Sometimes you just need a cocktail to-go. Enter Can Can Cocktails, from former Grange bartender Ryan Seng.

These 12-ounce canned libations ($15) made their arena debut at the opening night of the Golden 1 Center, but you can find them at Grange ($12), too. The 120 combines vodka steeped with Del Rio Botanical mint, fresh raspberries, a spritz of lemon and club soda. With label art

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They’re used medicinally in Ayurvedic traditions for stomach problems and diabetes. Some Japanese beers include include bitter melon instead of hops. Look for them at Asian markets and ask for cooking tips.

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Notable dishes: focaccia, rosemary lemonade, chocolate The pizzas here have a Neapolitan-style crust crinkle cookie which is laudably yeasty, but ours was a bit scorched and didn’t live up to the gold-standard of Masullo’s sourdough crust. The pancetta and egg ($16) version boasted thinly sliced potato and salty pancetta, but The venerated Andiamo Italian restaurant thrived couldn’t quite balance the plain ricotta and softon Folsom Boulevard for two decades. After it cooked egg. closed, the short-lived Good Eats squandered its Sacramento seems to lag in good pasta houses. good luck and folded quickly.

OBO’ offers seven classic styles, including rigatoni Since then, the seemingly ideal location had Bolognese ($10.50). The pasta arrived perfectly remained empty—until June, when the Selland al dente, judiciously sauced, with plenty of fresh, Family Restaurants group opened OBO’. After a pungent Parmesan. Does it match Adamo’s Kitchen’s long rehab of the building that balances old and new, Bolognese for depth of flavor? Not quite. they’ve enjoyed landslide business.

Still, there are so many options, in such a How have they succeeded where Good sunny, open dining space, that shortcomings Eats did not? seem minor.

Much credit surely goes to the Get the perfectly tart-sweet rosemary Selland family, which also runs Ella lemonade ($3) or order any of a number Dining Room & Bar, the Kitchen OBO’ is like of reasonably priced Italian wines— and Selland’s Market-Cafe. They most $5 or $6 a glass. the O negative know how to combine high-quality Customers from nearby medical blood type of food and a warm ambiance. The buildings seem to flock there for neighborhood was also underserved restaurants. lunch, choosing among the many by midlevel restaurants. sandwiches. Rich meatballs ($10.50), So, even with some culinary served warm on ciabatta, benefit from missteps, OBO’ makes for a lively eating fresh marinara and melty mozzarella. experience. The tiled floor and huge windows The PLT ($9.50) substitutes pancetta for evoke downtown New York eateries, while the American bacon, although it seemed sadly flabby. pizza peel chandelier brings a quirky modernist The tomatoes, conversely, were stellar examples of edge to the decor. in-season juiciness; still, the sandwich looked forlorn As with Selland’s Market, you order up front on its white plate without a hint of garnish. after perusing the wall menu and prepared food OBO’ meets another Sacramento need for highcases. Grab your own water and flatware and end desserts. Cloudlike cream puffs ($4.50 each) find a table. compete with fruit tarts ($4.25) and Italian cookies.

A dining companion remarked that OBO’ is The chocolate crinkle ($1.75) easily satisfies like the O negative blood type of restaurants: It’s chocolate cravings, while the espresso tiramisu universally appealing. Practically everyone can find ($4.50) deliciously combines coffee-soaked ladyfinsomething, including separate lists for vegetarians gers with a nontraditional pastry cream. and gluten-sensitive folks.

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On Friday, October 14, the Coffee Olympics go down at the Coffee Hangar (5411 Luce Avenue in McClellan Park). Presented by Temple Coffee Roasters, teams will compete in relay races and obstacle courses while you cheer on the sideline, accompanied by free beverages and bites. On Saturday, October 15, there’s a coffee tasting class at Chocolate Fish Coffee Roasters (4749 Folsom Boulevard) and a panel discussion on women in coffee at Shine (1400 E Street). The big party takes place that night at Antiquité Maison Privee (2114 P Street), with the final round of the latte art barista tournament, silent auction, booze and speakeasy vibes. More at http://specialtycoffeeweek.com.

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by Wilson in his early 20s. $68-$222; 8 p.m. Saturday, October 15; Sacramento Community Center Theater, 1301 L Street; www.brianwilson.com.

Blurred lines Twyla Tharp Dance With 160 dance pieces, a Tony award, 19 honorary doctorates and a MacArthur “Genius” Grant, Twyla Tharp has accomplished several lifetimes worth of achievements, and at 75, can probably still put most of us to shame on the dance floor. The lady doesn’t mess around, and this stop in Folsom is part of the 50th anniversary of her company, Twyla Tharp Dance.

A casual observer of today’s dance culture might note that fewer distinct genres exist; hip-hop draws on jazz which draws on DANCE ballet which mixes with modern, and that development can very much be traced back to Tharp, She’s been a trailblazer in crossover choreography and making ballet a malleable form that melds into pop culture. Her 1973 work Deuce Coupe was danced by the Joffrey Ballet and set to the music of the Beach Boys, for instance, and she’s spread herself all over the musical map with pieces set to Beethoven, Brahms, Bob Dylan and Billy Joel.

She’s choreographed work on the best dance companies all over the world, like the American Ballet Theatre, the Paris Opera Ballet, the Australian Ballet and the Martha Graham Dance Company.

Anniversary tour attendees will revisit decades’ worth of Tharp’s choreography performed by some of the best dancers in the country. $25-$75; 7:30 p.m. Thursday, October 20; Harris Center for the Arts, 10 College Parkway in Folsom; www.harriscenter.net.

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To Kill a Mockingbird

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6:30 p.m. thursday, 8 p.m. friday, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. saturday, 2 p.m. sunday, 6:30 p.m. Wednesday; $12-$38; sacramento theatre company, 1419 h street; (916) 443-6722; www.sactheatre.org. through october 30.

The people at the Sacramento Theatre Company seem to enjoy doing plays with book-and-movie tieins—like Harper Lee’s 1960 Pulitzer-winning novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. Teachers still assign the book; many people also recall the 1962 film version, which netted an Oscar for Gregory Peck.

STC’s current production differs from its equally sturdy 2006 version (which was directed by Philip Charles Sneed, with Carolyn Howarth as the older version of Scout) in one significant way. This new production (directed by Buddy Butler) features artistically ambidextrous performances from the popular Davis-based Americana duo Misner and Smith (who are Equity actors and professional musicians.

Sam Misner plays Atticus Finch, Megan Pearl Smith plays the older version of Scout, and they both contribute songs in various scenes. (Let’s be clear that this is a play-with-music, rather than a musical adaptation of Christopher Sergel’s script based on Lee’s novel.)

Other high points include 25-year-old Tarig Elsiddig (who’s done some shows at Celebration Arts) as the falsely accused Tom Robinson, versatile veteran Georgeann Wallace as gossipy neighbor Stephanie Crawford and 13-year-old Fiona Gillogly as the young Scout (played in some performances by Vivian White). Sean Morneau is also good as the scruffy, suspicious yahoo Bob Ewell. The familiar story yields few surprises for most in the audience, but it’s a bona fide American classic, effectively rendered here. Ω

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Director Rob Salas chose the story circle format for his production, eliminating the need for actual scenery (except the balcony, of course). All actors sit on chairs in a circle facing the audience and get up and step into gloomy pools of light when it is time for their scene. This approach works surprisingly well here.

The title characters, played by Kyle Stoner and Gabby Battista, are perfect as the impetuous young lovers who meet, fall in love, marry and die within two days. Battista has an innocence about her as she experiences her first feelings of love, and the grief she feels at the death of her cousin Tybalt (Aaron Kitchin) and her new husband’s banishment from Verona.

Stoner is a bundle of energy giving in to his feelings whether for Rosaline, to whom he gave his heart yesterday, or for the beautiful Juliet, who captures his heart today.

The mostly black leather costumes make for a show that’s visually reminiscent of West Side Story, and Sydney Schwindt’s fight choreography by is very effective.

The show’s one drawback comes via an annoying background sound designed to set the depressing mood, even throughout the intermission, and while it may appeal to the younger set, it didn’t sit well with the middle-aged audience.

—Bev SykeS

romeo and Juliet, 8 p.m. thursday, friday and saturday, 2 p.m. sunday, $15-$25, Veterans memorial theatre, 203 e. 14th street in Davis; (530) 802-0998; www.shakespearedavis.org. through october 16.

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This farcical story of a performing chimpanzee in the waning days of his career, is a winning production in both concept and execution. Playwright Nick Jones’ plot sounds incredibly ludicrous—Trevor is a showbiz chimp with a couple of bit parts under his belt who bitterly bemoans his stalled career while his human caretaker tries to deal with his angry outbursts—but the writing is clever and the cast gifted.

Director Joelle Robertson masterfully juggles many balls—keeping the ironic

tone and storyline in place with a cast that not only has an actor realistically portraying a chimp, but also with actors who talk over and around each other without really communicating. Th, F, Sa 8pm. Through 10/29. $10-$20. Big Idea Theatre, 1616 Del Paso Boulevard; (916) 960-3036; www. bigideatheatre.org. P.R.

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There are varmints, a villain and one very vain bird hanging out in The Garden of Rikki Tikki Tavi, a funny, madcap adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s classic tale of mongoose vs. cobra.

In this version that emphasizes friendship and cooperation, Rikki is a young mongoose who stumbles into the garden territory of Darzee, a rather entitled diva bird; Chuchu, a sweet but rather dim muskrat; and the dangerous Cobra Nag. This production captures the essence of exotic India through beautiful sets, costumes and music. 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday; $18-$23; B Street Theatre, 2711 B Street; (916) 443-5300; www.bstreettheatre.org.

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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.

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Denial seen here: the only faces you can make when looking at a Holocaust denier.

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How flatulently didactic is Mick Jackson’s courtroom drama-cum-biopic Denial? The opening scene features the protagonist literally teaching a class on the theme of the film. Denial covers the 1999 trial in which writer and historian Deborah Lipstadt (Rachel Weisz) defended the veracity of the Holocaust in court after egomaniacal denier David Irving (Timothy Spall) sued her for libel. Yes, it’s yet another proudly bland quasiindie drama piously intent on teaching you a lesson that you should already know.

That an alarming number people either intentionally deny or remain unintentionally unaware of the facts of the Holocaust (I recall a college roommate’s girlfriend asking me if Life is Beautiful was based on a true story) gives this 110-minute nap an unearned aura of awards season importance. Add the pseudo-timely analogues between Irving and a certain charismatically vulgar, monstrously entitled, mediamanipulating, hate-legitimizing lunatic currently running for president on the Republican ticket, and Denial almost falls ass-backward into relevance.

But like any other movie, Denial was years in the making, and didn’t just vaporize out of thin air as soon Trump started dominating the headlines. Beyond the gravity of the subject matter, though, there’s very little substance and conflict to Denial, not even enough to fill an average episode of Law & Order. Spall makes for a mesmerizing human monster as Irving, equal parts Sean Hannity and Nosferatu, but his cartoon villainy only underlines the complete lack of complexity on hand in Denial. Once the clean lines between good and evil have been written on Lipstadt’s chalkboard, there’s nowhere left to go.

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We’re on Lipstadt’s team no matter what, because the only alternative is an anti-Semitic scumbag with awful teeth. Weisz acquits herself well enough in the lead role of Lipstadt, even though she’s given little to do besides behave with obstinate obtuseness, just so her lawyers can explain and re-explain the details of the case for our benefit. Meanwhile, the audience gets abandoned without any nourishment except for moldy courtroom drama trappings and a snuggly shared sensation of righteous superiority over an obvious evil.

Neither Lipstadt nor any Holocaust survivors testified at the libel trial, allowing Irving’s own words and a litany of world-class barristers led by Tom Wilkinson and Andrew Scott to speak for her, a sacrifice Lipstadt describes as an act of “self-denial.” Maybe that attempt to forge a personal connection with the anti-Semitic show pony Irving was more nuanced in Lipstadt’s book History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier, but it’s an all-too-typical clunker in David Hare’s drab screenplay adaptation.

Denial will work for many people based on subject matter and presumed moral obligation alone, as there’s always high demand for films that reaffirm the core beliefs of their intended audiences. I prefer a film that challenges and provokes my core beliefs, and more importantly one that challenges and provokes the limitations of the cinematic form.

The only thing that Denial challenged was my ability to stay awake. Ω

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The Birth of a Nation

Just terrible. In the world where narcissistic conviction and awardsbait mummification count for everything, co-writer-director-star Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation is an all-time masterpiece; in the real world, it’s complete shit. After winning multiple awards and receiving critical raves at Sundance, Parker’s film got bought by Fox Searchlight for a record sum, only to have its carefully calculated awards season rollout hijacked by reemerging allegations that Parker and co-screenwriter Jean McGianni Celestin raped a female college student in 1999. (Parker was acquitted; Celestin was found guilty but had his sentence overturned on appeal; the accuser committed suicide in 2012.) No matter what, The Birth of a Nation was always amateurish and incompetent, a glorified student film that turns the life of slave revolt leader Nat Turner into a bluntly linear, Braveheart-tinged act of self-aggrandizement; the only difference is that now you can read rape apologia into the subtext of every scene. D.B.

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Bridget Jones’s Baby

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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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.

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Masterminds

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.

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A hired gun (Denzel Washington, all steely authority) recruits a band of cohorts to help rescue a town from the murderous robber baron who runs it (Peter Sarsgaard, making Snidely Whiplash look subtle). Little but the title remains of John Sturges’ classic 1960 western, and even less of Akira Kurosawa’s great Seven Samurai that inspired it. But there’s fun to be had, despite a ridiculous script (by Richard Wenk and Nic Pizzolatto) that wallows in self-parody. Director Antoine Fuqua and a good cast (Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D’Onofrio, Haley Bennett) make the most of things, with a grimy frontier look and cheerfully over-the-top gunplay. It works best as a deadpan spoof, probably the most we can expect from a generation of filmmakers who seem incapable of making a Western with a straight face. J.L.

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Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

An American teenager (Asa Butterfield) visits the ruins of his grandfather’s old boarding school in Wales, destroyed in 1943 by German bombs. That’s when he learns that he can traverse a time loop created by the headmistress (Eva Green) to keep the school’s unusual students alive on the same day forever.

Ransom Riggs’ novel, obviously inspired by the Harry Potter books, is a complicated challenge to film, and director Tim Burton and writer Jane Goldman grapple with it fairly well for a while, especially in a sweetly romantic thread between our hero and grandpa’s still-youthful sweetheart (Ella Purnell). But a book built around found photographs becomes a movie built around a visual effects wish list, and the story becomes even more involved and confusing on the screen than it was on the page. J.L.

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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.

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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time relearning what they call their “lost” EP. It was recorded just before Powell first moved and never got a proper release.

They uploaded it to Bandcamp in 2013, but have never played any of the songs live before.

That will change at their upcoming Harlow’s show.

“We have a lot of unfinished business,” Lynn says. “We were just finding a sound that we rock goddesses. enough said. were digging with that EP—a heavier sound.”

“We embraced our inner rock goddesses,” Powell adds.

Leave it to family.

In the Skirts’ early days, the group often Vi Mayugba thought it would be a fun idea to got lumped in with the punk scene. This was in put together a family show. Not like the Partridge part due to the fact that members had played in Family, but a show with all the different bands in punk bands like Moist, Groovie Ghoulies, the the family: her group, Destroy Boys, her dad’s, Knockoffs and No Kill I. The original version Daycare, and her mom’s, the Skirts. of the Skirts had Lynn and Powell, and three Her mom, Lynn Braden Mayugba, liked the other women. The current lineup, which includes idea and immediately made it happen. Daycare couldn’t play, but they booked Early Times, a band Farwell, guitarist Gerri White and bassist Gitti Lindner, started in 2000.

Sonny Mayugba played with at one point.

The Skirts’ sound was always more heavy rock For the Skirts, the timing was perfect. The fiveand pop than punk. By the Lost EP, it evolved piece rock band was ripe for a reunion. Back in even more, squeezing out some of the more the late ’90s until the mid-2000s, the Skirts ruled bubblegum elements.

Sacramento’s music scene. As the members “We’re all secret goths,” Lynn says. started recently practicing, something During the group’s heyday in unexpected happened: They wrote the 2000s, it achieved immense new material. popularity locally, continually “It’s like the flame is back,” “We embraced flirting with national success. An Lynn says. “I know an EP’s our inner rock executive from Maverick once coming.” flew up to see the Skirts. It got It’s not like the Skirts goddesses.” music placed in the Xbox game haven’t played in the last decade.

Wendy Powell Amped and received an invitaDrummer Wendy Powell moved drummer, the Skirts tion to audition to play a band to the east coast in 2006, and on CSI, though the part ultimately up until five years ago, the group went to another act. would get back together and play None of that compares to how the about once a year. members feel playing together now.

“We’ve always been incredibly close friends,” “We just love writing together. That was Powell says. “So even with distance and not playalways I think our happier place even more than ing, we’ve always had the tight bond.” playing live,” Farwell says. “I found some practice This reunion is different than all the other tapes recently—half of it’s all giggles. I think one-offs. Powell moved back to Sacramento in we’re more in love than ever.” Ω 2014, which means everyone lives in town except for guitarist Cory Farwell, who isn’t too far in Pacifica.

In the past, when they’d play a show, there catch the skirts at 6 p.m. saturday, october 15, at harlow’s restaurant was just enough time to rehearse, play and get & nightclub, 2708 J street. tickets are $10-$12. more at Powell on a plane to head home. Now, they’ve www.facebook.com/theskirtsrock. not only written new material, but they’ve spent Photo courtesy of Phoenix mayugba

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Hello, arena Fans started gathering outside 90 minutes before the 8 p.m. starting time, buzzing with anticipation. They posed for photos outside before glancing at Piglet, the Jeff Koons sculpture in the plaza’s center. One by one, they said “8 million dollars?!” either with a tinge of shock, anger, confusion or disgust.

Still, by the end of the night, no one was talking about Piglet. Street performers provided the beat as the enormous mass of people flooded out onto K street, still high from the show and filing into neighboring bars. The air felt a little different. Sacramento has indeed entered a new era—of major downtown concerts, at least.

Maroon 5 plays the arena next on Saturday, October 15.

Bay Area boutique fest: What will Treasure Island Music Festival be without Treasure Island?

Luckily, we don’t have to find out just yet. The 10th annual edition, taking place Saturday, October 15, and Sunday, October 16, will be its last on the island.

However, festivalgoers won’t get to marvel at fabulous views of the San Francisco skyline per usual. Thanks to a multimillion-dollar construction project, Another Planet Entertainment had to move its event to the other side of the island.

The good news? The East Bay looks pretty cool too, and for the first time, there will be free shuttle service from the West Oakland Bart station in addition to the typical spot in downtown San Francisco.

The other good news? Treasure Island’s major benefits—like the lack of overlapping sets and quality selection of rock, electronic and hip-hop acts— are still intact. And what better way to close out this decade of memories than with a sure-to-be-magical set by Icelandic band Sigur Rós?

Other lineup highlights: Rapper Ice Cube headlines on Saturday, supported by synth singer Zhu, British rockers Glass Animals and deejay Duke Dumont.

On Sunday, British producer James Blake and synth-pop duo Purity Ring perform, along with Sacramento-born chillwave act Tycho.

Two-day tickets cost $179.50 and single days cost $105. Get them at http://treasureislandfestival.com.

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That’s why I read Ask Joey every week.” LASALLE THOMPSON, RETIRED NBA PLAYER AND COACH

Good day, sir: On opening night at the Golden 1 Center, Paul McCartney asked the more than 15,000 people in the audience where they were from.

Sacramento?

Yeah, there was decent applause for Sacramento.

Not from Sacramento, “but nearby”?

Massive.

Not from anywhere near Sacramento at all?

Sizable. Arguably greater than Sacramento proper.

“Well, on behalf of the tourists board, I welcome you,” he said.

It was one moment in a nearly three-hour set that showed McCartney still rocks the charm at age 74. In between songs, he shimmied, wiggled and shook his hips to the glee of fans holding such clever signs as, “I’ll still love you in 40 years when I’m 64.”

And sure, his age showed a bit in creaky high notes and typically powerful vocal displays, but McCartney steadfastly remains a must-see legend. His set spanned his career, starting with 1958’s “In Spite of All the Danger,” from his pre-Beatles days, to 2015’s “FourFiveSeconds,” his collaboration with Rihanna and Kanye West. In between, he kept the Beatles hits coming: “A Hard Day’s Night” felt like a particularly joyous way to kick off the arena; “Blackbird” saw him rise toward those in the nosebleeds; “Let it Be” brought at least one nearby man to tears, and certainly he wasn’t alone; and “Something” was sung in painful, stark beauty as a tribute to George Harrison.

The only oddity was McCartney’s electro-pop song “Temporary Secretary” from 1980, which felt terribly outdated. The blue blazer looks great on McCartney, but not any attempts to be edgy. Ditto the slinky woman dancing sexily on the screen behind him for one song.

Much better—and more touching—were the old photos of McCartney and the Beatles during particularly heartfelt songs. Golden 1 Center certainly has the capacity to deliver some spectacles in the future: McCartney brought a light show at times worthy of a rave as well as stunningly loud pyrotechnics. More importantly, the sound quality is a big upgrade over Arco Arena.

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Sacramento’s Ghoul School is a musical grab bag of lo-fi, dream pop and indie rock.

Natalia Yanni’s sweet and delicate vocals coast between fluid guitar melodies, bright percussion and warm bass lines whether she’s singing about “Chinese Food” or “Whatever,” both of which are tracks off the band’s self-titled EP released in August. Comprised of Yanni, lO-FI INDIE Andy Tate on guitar, Zack Wheaton on drums, and Candice Krystle on bass, the band aims to create “a specific sound that soothes the ear holes of even the roughest and toughest punkerino kids in the world.” 3520 Stockton Boulevard, www.facebook.com/ghoulschool916.

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It took about a dozen years for SFJazz Collective, an all-star jazz octet known for its innovation and egalitarian format, to get around to covering Miles Davis. The awardwinning San Francisco-based group JAZZ renews itself annually by producing eight new original works and eight new arrangements of tunes by jazz greats; this year it’s Miles. What may seem like a small group format certainly contains a large collection of jazz talent. The transformative ensemble has also changed players over the years, bringing new influences and talents into the mix. 1 Shields Avenue in Davis, www.sfjazz.org/sfjazzcollective.

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The Scottish duo that taught all of us the meaning of “haver” and the importance of walking 500 miles for the things we love comes to Harlow’s this Monday. That’s right, the Proclaimers continue the American leg of their seven-month world tour with a stop in Sacramento. Famous for their 1988 megahit “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles),” Craig and Charlie Reid appear to have an entire collection of energetic folk-rock, including ROCK their 2015 album, Let’s Hear it for the Dogs. Concertgoers can expect heaps of the infectious vitality and thick accents that first endeared the Proclaimers to the world some 30 years ago. 2708 J Street, www.proclaimers.co.uk.

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There was a magical time in musical history when men dressed in glam costumes and killed it with the ladies more than any folk, hip-hop or classical artist could. Stryper was and still is a rare hybrid of Christian rock and heavy metal, donning themed yellow-and-black stage garb, operatic vocals and more guitar CHRISTIAn GLAM ROCk solos than you’d ever need. Expect to hear the entire To Hell With The Devil record as well as some sweet, honey-drenched glam ditties. It’s gonna get mighty hot in the Lord’s house.

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The origin story of the Foreign Exchange amounts to “international duo forms on hip-hop message board.” It was 14 years ago that a Dutch producer linked up with a North Carolina rapper.

HIP-HOP/R&B Since the days of trading MP3s over the internet, Nicolay recognized that his group with rapper-singer Phonte of Little Brother required a move stateside in 2008, prior to the release of Leave It All Behind. It’s produced a staggering body of work under the Foreign Exchange name—six albums, to be exact. The Foreign Exchange is still touring off the strength of 2015’s Tales from the Land of Milk and Honey. 2708 J Street, www.theforeignexchangemusic.com.

As a core “fam” member of the uberensemble Snarky Puppy, trumpeter Mike “Maz” Maher has played with many famed musicians (Snoop Dogg and Justin Timberlake, to do some name dropping) and crossed many genres of music (jazz, funk, global, eclectic, improvisational); it makes sense he would want to carve out a little something something for himself. His band, Maz, debuted its first EP JAzz FUSIOn in 2012, and a new album comes out in October this year. His silkysmooth vocals take center stage with funky, jazzy songs that groove and pop. 2708 J Street, www.facebook.com/mazsongs.

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According to my analysis of the astrological situation, you will be on the receiving end of more invitations, inquiries, and allurements than usual.

The percentage of these that might be worth responding to will also be higher than normal.

Not all of them will be obvious, however. So be extra vigilant.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The ancient Greek

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And yet he relied on his dreams for crucial information. He was initiated into the esoteric mysteries of love by the prophetess Diotima, and had an intimate relationship with a daimonion, a divine spirit. I propose that we make Socrates your patron saint for the next three weeks.

Without abandoning your reliance on logic, make a playful effort to draw helpful clues from nonrational sources, too. (P.S. Socrates drew oracular revelations from sneezes. Please consider that outlandish possibility yourself. Be alert, too, for the secret meanings of coughs, burps, grunts, mumbles and yawns.)

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The Helper

Experiment, Part One: Close your eyes and imagine that you are in the company of a kind, attentive helper—a person, animal, ancestral spirit or angel that you either know well or haven’t met yet. Spend at least five minutes visualizing a scene in which this ally aids you in fulfilling a particular goal. The Helper Experiment, Part Two: Repeat this exercise every day for the next seven days. Each time, visualize your helper making your life better in some specific way. Now here’s my prediction: Carrying out The Helper Experiment will attract actual support into your real life.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): New rules: (1) It’s

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): It’s swing-swirl-spiral time, Leo. It’s ripple-sway-flutter time and flow-gushgyrate time and jive-jiggle-juggle time. So I trust you will not indulge in fruitless yearnings for unswerving progress and rock-solid evidence. If your path is not twisty and tricky, it’s probably the wrong path. If your heart isn’t teased and tickled into shedding its dependable formulas, it might be an overly hard heart. Be an improvisational curiosity-seeker. Be a principled player of unpredictable games.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Some English-speaking astronomers use the humorous slang term “meteor-wrong.” It refers to a rock that is at first thought to have fallen from the heavens as a meteorite (“meteor-right”), but that is ultimately proved to be of terrestrial origin. I suspect there may currently be the metaphorical equivalent of a meteor-wrong in your life. The source of some new arrival or fresh influence is not what it had initially seemed. But that doesn’t have to be a problem. On the contrary. Once you have identified the true nature of the new arrival or fresh influence, it’s likely to be useful and interesting.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Most of us can’t tickle

ourselves. Since we have conscious control of our fingers, we know we can stop any time. Without the element of uncertainty, our squirm reflex doesn’t kick in. But I’m wondering if you might get a temporary exemption from this rule in the coming weeks. I say this because the astrological omens suggest you will have an extraordinary capacity to surprise yourself. Novel impulses will be rising up in you on a regular basis. Unpredictability and spontaneity will be your specialties.

Have fun doing what you don’t usually do!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): During the final 10

weeks of 2016, your physical and mental health will flourish in direct proportion to how much outworn and unnecessary stuff you flush out of your life between now and October 25. Here are some suggested tasks: (1) Perform a homemade ritual that will enable you to magically shed at least half of your guilt, remorse and regret.

(2) Put on a festive party hat, gather up all the clutter and junk from your home, and drop it off at a thrift store or the dump. (3) Take a vow that you will do everything in your power to kick your attachment to an influence that’s no damn good for you. (4) Scream nonsense curses at the night sky for as long as it takes to purge your sadness and anger about pain that no longer matters.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): A Buddhist

monk named Matthieu Ricard had his brain scanned while he meditated. The experiment revealed that the positive emotions whirling around in his gray matter were super-abundant. Various publications thereafter dubbed him “the happiest person in the world.” Since he’s neither egotistical nor fond of the media’s simplistic sound bites, he’s not happy about that title. I hope you won’t have a similar reaction when I predict that you Sagittarians will be the happiest tribe of the zodiac during the next two weeks. For best results, I suggest you cultivate Ricard’s definitions of happiness: “altruism and compassion, inner freedom (so that you are not the slave of your own thoughts), senses of serenity and fulfillment, resilience, as well as a clear and stable mind that does not distort reality too much.”

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Now is a perfect

moment to launch or refine a project that will generate truth, beauty and justice. Amazingly enough, now is also an excellent time to launch or refine a long-term master plan that will make you healthy, wealthy and wise. Is this a coincidence?

Not at all. The astrological omens suggest that your drive to be of noble service dovetails well with your drive for personal success. For the foreseeable future, unselfish goals are wellaligned with selfish goals.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Has your world

become at least 20 percent larger since September 1? Has your generosity grown to near-heroic proportions? Have your eyes beheld healing sights that were previously invisible to you?

Have you lost at least two of your excuses for tolerating scrawny expectations? Are you awash in the desire to grant forgiveness and amnesty?

If you can’t answer yes to at least two of those questions, Aquarius, it means you’re not fully in harmony with your best possible destiny. So get to work! Attune yourself to the cosmic tendencies! And if you are indeed reaping the benefits I mentioned, congratulations—and prepare for even further expansions and liberations.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Some astrologers

dwell on your tribe’s phobias. They assume that you Pisceans are perversely drawn to fear; that you are addicted to the strong feelings it generates. In an effort to correct this distorted view, and in accordance with current astrological omens, I hereby declare the coming weeks to be a Golden Age for Your Trust in Life. It will be prime time to exult in everything that evokes your joy and excitement. I suggest you make a list of these glories, and keep adding new items to the list every day. Here’s another way to celebrate the Golden Age: Discover and explore previously unknown sources of joy and excitement.

You can call Rob Brezsny for your Expanded Weekly Horoscope: (900) 950-7700. $1.99 per minute. Must be 18+. Touchtone phone required. Customer service (612) 373-9785. And don’t forget to check out Rob’s website at www.realastrology.com.

PHOTO BY LAURAN WORTHY

Milling about Paper makes up books, shoots out of printers and is sent through the mail as letters, bills, sales fliers, and voting guides. Most folks don’t think much about how it’s made, but there are some who like to get their hands wet and perhaps a bit mucky to make their own paper. Enter Jillian Bruschera and Maxum Bruschera, the sibling force behind The Mobile Mill. Originating from Jillian’s thesis project, it has traveled across the United States and into Bosnia. She’s has taught students aged 2 to 90 while using the mill, while Maxum is the behind-the-scenes guy who quit his job to fly to Chicago and produce the video for the Indiegogo campaign, as well as working to fabricate the traveling mill.

plants and we’ve got paper scraps. We use mostly paper scraps.

Maxum: Existing paper products.

Jillian: Yes. Post-consumer paper waste.

Pretty much anything we get our hands on.

Maxum: Junk mail. Cardboard boxes you get.

Jillian: Daily remnants of human consumption. I’m happy making paper from straight-up egg cartons or whatever I have laying around. What I really love about paper making … is this experimental mad science of it all.

Why handmade paper?

Jillian: I am a little scavenger.

Maxum: I like to work with a lot of metal scraps and I’ll find them hiking up in the mountains, old nails and things like that. It’s kind of like I’m a magnet for that kind of stuff or something.

Jillian: I hit a point this year when I was traveling a lot on the road with this project, I actually spent money to mail myself trash.

Jillian: The notion of making handmade paper in the context of The Mobile Mill isn’t even about the paper. I mean, it is, but it’s about teaching people or passing along the knowledge of how to use these tools of a craft that’s been around since 106 A.D. Paper is so familiar but people have very little idea of what it’s made of or how it’s made. And that’s like most things around us. We’re having machines, and computers specifically, do so much of the labor for us.

Maxum: You see people take the mold and deckle and dip it into the pulp and press a sheet of paper and immediately their imagination is sparked and they start asking all sorts of questions and their energy starts getting kicked up and everything so there’s like a transformation you see happen when somebody can engage in a process.

Where do you find your materials?

Jillian: When I was in Chicago, I’d go in the alley behind the apartment I lived in and at school and there’s my material.

So are you scavengers?

You mailed trash?

Jillian: Go to the U.S. Post Office, get a flat rate box, and then just fill it with all this weird road junk and things I thought Max could use for welding projects. Things that would work for paper-making, things for book-making, whatever. I just spent $30 to send trash across the country to myself and what is it doing? It’s still sitting in my garage in a box.

What do you use for pulp?

Can you put the nails and metal found objects into a sheet of paper?

Jillian: You can use anything that’s cellulose-based, so the way that I break it down is we’ve got fabrics, we’ve got

Jillian: Yeah. It would be a process—you’d call it an inclusion or an embedding process. I love working with nails and

screws. There’s a cool rust that can kind of happen.

What is the strangest thing you’ve ever embedded?

Maxum: There was a project I assisted Jill with. She was beating down pulp and making bricks, and we built this big brick wall out of paper, essentially. She had been embedding all of these old electronic remotes and cassettes and things like that. It’s wild because once the brick dries, you know, these things are actually, they become part of the brick. They’re active.

They’re alive. There are things coming in and out and it takes it to a whole new level of interest.

A paper brick wall?

Maxum: It was just a big façade, and it was beautiful because every brick was different, made out of either cardboard or a mix of 20 different recycled papers. If you get up close and really take a look, you might be lucky to catch a piece of text or a chunk of something that wasn’t beat down all the way.

Can people go home and do this on their own?

Jillian: Yes, we like to offer some DIY instructions. We are also working now on the next chapter of The Mobile Mill, exploring the idea of developing tools. We are producing right now a limited first-run edition of 30 kits. We call them the papermaker’s packs, which actually is the first prototype I built to travel abroad with the Mobile Mill idea. Ω

Learn more about DIY paper-making at www.facebook.com/MobileMill.

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