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“We Need to fight harder.”

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As of now, everyone is coming to the streets. We can only hope for the best as of now. I feel like a lot of minorities didn’t take it upon themselves to vote [in the presidential election]. A lot of young people don’t see the voting as effective. We have to be more vocal. We need to fight harder.

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Now that Congress, the House and the president are all unified, I can only hope that our government is more efficient. The rest of us need to stop giving into what preconceived notions we have of what this man is going to do, and have an open mind and give him an opportunity to lead.

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That’s a really hard question. I’d say, just, I don’t know. Live everyday like it’s a new day. Try to help each other as much as we can. We have to respect him now that he’s our president, but also … I don’t know. It’s so hard.

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We can’t give up the fight. It’s an opportunity for us to learn what the president does exactly, what power he has. We’ll learn the hard way, if we have to. He’s not even a natural politician. Imagine what this guy with no experience can do. After that, we have to keep moving forward.

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We need to educate ourselves as to how we can get involved. Even though Trump won, and that wasn’t my first, second, third or any pick, but good policies got passed and good politicians were elected, like Kamala Harris. The Latino population needs to realize we have power in numbers.

This is our opportunity to organize with each other, not with the political parties that have failed ... us. This is the end of the system. It is time to take care of each other and build our world together. It’s time to protect each other, to end police violence, and the anti-immigrant, anti-woman, anti-trans state we live in.

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acramento may be the farm-to-fork capital, but we also have residents who are less worried about where a chicken was raised and more worried about putting dinner on the table at all. “Some of the families we serve have no recognition of the moniker ‘farm-to-fork,’” says Brenda Ruiz, a local chef and the president of the Sacramento Food Policy Council. “They say, ‘All I know is I can’t make it through the month.’” The council was founded a year ago to highlight and improve food issues in our area. It is funded in part through a grant from The California Endowment’s Building Healthy Communities initiative. “We want a food system that is fair and sustainable, and economically prosperous — that’s the sweet spot,” says the council’s secretary, Paul Towers, who is also the organizing director and policy advocate for Pesticide Action Network North America. “Farm-to-fork has brought renewed attention to local farmers and the value in local food, but there is still unfairness up and down the food chain: small scale farmers of color, food servers, families that don’t have access to fresh and healthy foods. It can be perceived as an elite conversation, but we all need to eat.” One project the council has taken an interest in: Sacramento City Unified School District’s long-planned central kitchen. “Voters approved bond money in 2012,” says Ruiz. “But we have

yet to see it be built.” As the largest school district in our region, the district supplies meals to 74 schools. Rather than modernizing and enlarging all the school kitchens, the idea of a central one — where fresh, local food could be prepared — made more sense. “The Central Kitchen would create opportunities for farmers that don’t have markets,” Towers says. “It would also get fresh food into public schools —where many students rely on a school lunch as the only or the most significant meal of the day.”

“We Want a food system that is fair & sustainable, & economically prosperous.”

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in their general plans), wage and workplace fairness for all food system workers, and a soda tax.

The council also recently held a School Food Forum, a one-day conference that brought together teachers, food professionals, parents and policy makers.

“We’re well-positioned to bring missing elements of social justice to the food movement, as both a local discussion and at the state level,” Towers says.

Other issues on the council’s radar: better management of food waste (for compost or fuel), SB 1000 (which would require cities and counties to address environmental justice

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

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

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Who’s to blame? Re “Go higher” by Rachel Leibrock (SN&R Editor’s Note, November 10): How did Donald Trump, who promoted violence at his rallies and whose offensive and hateful rhetoric offended and divided many, defeat Hillary Clinton? The fact that many voters did not trust Clinton and FBI Director James Comey’s decision to make two announcements related to her email server in the last couple of weeks of the election cost her heavily. Of course, there were a host of other reasons why her potential supporters dwindled. One of these was her decision to call Trump supporters “deplorable.” The anti-police rhetoric heard across the country during Black Lives Matter protests did not help. What needs to happen now is for Obama, Clinton, Sanders, entertainers and athletes to call for calm. I ask Trump, Pence and Ryan to call on those that are expressing hateful rhetoric to cease. Leaders from both sides need to be sincere in their efforts.

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Congrats, America! Fastforward using Trump’s platform and have a drink! I’ll pour you a mix of Kool-Aid with the sludge-filled water, thanks to

the Trump-dismantled Clean Water Act, and hand it over the wall to you. Surely, the Russian vodka will make it taste better as you patriotically grope your underpaid female coworkers who have no maternity leave, and watch on TV the coverage of police killing more unarmed black citizens and hate groups burning and bombing mosques, churches and temples. The good news is that your kids will live with you forever, since Trump dismantled the Department of Education and college is unattainable due to your rough finances. But you can vote again. Oh wait, his party may have added more poll taxes (Voter ID laws) to ensure you’re a citizen and your ID fell out of your pocket when you were waving goodbye to your son as he is drafted into a war you didn’t want after Trump nuked someone. Cheers! Steph Baker Sacramento

Schadenfreude Re “Felonious bunk” by Scott Thomas Anderson (SN&R News, November 10): The lesson here, children, is that, while funny, Three Stooges slapstick is nonetheless violence, by definition. It is also a cruel, schadenfreude kind of twisted jolly. Some find actual tear-inducing hilarity in a good, classic Stooges formal dinner pie fight, myself included. But it takes a special kind of stooge to defend physical violence, funny as it could have been, against a public official. One suspects that the man you call “Pie Guy” has a plethora of reasons for his plight and actions. I imagine that they run the usual diagnosis route, perhaps having to do with his military service. That he is where he is, as he is, is a disgrace. Not his disgrace, ours.

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Several hundred protesters representing just about every demographic turned out Sunday in Sacramento to peacefully protest last week’s election of Donald J. Trump. Unlike other large-scale demonstrations across the country, the local event, which detoured to block Interstate 80 East, attracted little police intervention and was met mostly with support, even from motorists whose paths were blocked.

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Hundreds protest election of Donald Trump throughout Sacramento by Raheem F. hosseini

This is probably not what Donald J. Trump meant by uniting the country. Several days of local protests against the president-elect culminated Sunday with Sacramento’s most energized showing yet, when hundreds of demonstrators briefly clogged the on-ramp to Interstate 80 during their march from McClatchy Park to Sutter’s Fort. The November 13 rally drew an estimated 800 people and followed days of widespread and unprecedented protests both in Sacramento and beyond, as much of the nation recoiled at the election of a real estate mogul who demonized, among others, women, immigrants and minorities on his path to claim America’s highest office.

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Trump has already followed through on early divisive comments by committing to deport up to three million immigrants and roll back Wall Street regulations, as well as by stocking his transition team and cabinet with a climate change denier and a white nationalist. In a statement released the morning of Sunday’s local protest, organizer Mackenzie Wilson had this to say about Trump, who edged out Democrat Hillary Clinton thanks to the electoral college but lost the popular vote: “The leader of the ‘free world’ is also the poster child for everything that’s wrong with it. He can be called ignorant, a misogynist, a racist, an elitist, a perpetuator of white supremacy and

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so much more. The solution is educate, agitate and mobilize. We fix it by building a movement that demands something different than what we have been given. Donald Trump is not my president, but he is the catalyst for the start of our revolution.” At press time, more than 950 Facebook users expressed interest or committed to attending another antiTrump rally set for Friday at the state Capitol. Local organizers are also planning a Sacramento womens’ march to coincide with the January 21 postinauguration Million Woman March in Washington, D.C. Ω

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A new report on domestic violence fatalities showed that not enough friends and neighbors are reaching out when they see trouble brewing. The Sacramento County Domestic Violence Coordinating Council presented its annual report to elected supervisors on November 1. According to Assistant Chief Deputy District Attorney Paul Durenberger, who presented the report, the nine cases were selected, in part, because they had already undergone judiciary review. While the homicides showed no corollary to race, socioeconomic status or a particular demographic, there was one unifying factor in nearly all of them: Friends and family members were aware of the victims’ situations. WEAVE CEO Beth Hassett said she found this very concerning. “One of things that was particularly disheartening about this year’s death review team report is that, in almost all of the cases, friends and family and co-workers knew what was going on but nobody knew what to do,” Hassett said. Both Hassett and Durenberger said the fear of reprisal can keep people in abusive relationships longer—and for legitimate reasons. “The most likely time for a … lethal incident is when the victim makes the conscious decision to leave the relationship,” Durenberger said. “Victims are actually making choices that are based on real fear, and they’re educated choices. … There’s not just an easy out, especially if you have children.” One of the options that Sacramento County is offering comes in the form of the newly established Family Justice center. Since its doors opened July 11, the facility has assisted more than 500 people, according to Joyce Bilyeu, the center’s director of client services. The center aims to be a one-stop-shop “for victims of domestic violence, human trafficking, sexual assault and child abuse,” its website states. The center offers temporary restraining orders, safe housing resources and victims advocacy. Bilyeu emphasized the importance of acting early to prevent long-term danger. “Most abusive relationships don’t start out with that physical abuse,” Bilyeu said. “It does escalate over time.” (Matt Kramer)

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A government watchdog group has threatened to sue the city of Sacramento after councilman Jay Schenirer requested to see a list of its members and donors. Paul Nicholas Boylan, an attorney representing Eye on Sacramento, said that Schenirer’s demands stemmed from a desire to retaliate against the group’s criticisms of City Hall, according to a November 13 letter to the council member. Boylan wrote that asking a private nonprofit to upend the confidentiality of its members and donors was unlawful and violated their free speech rights. The letter asserted that EOS wouldn’t release the lists, and warned that it would sue if any backlash from the city came of it. Boylan also threatened legal action if the city did not respond to a public records request asking for proof that the same demands were made to any other nonprofit in the past. Assistant City Attorney Matt Ruyak told SN&R on Monday that the city would respond. Schenirer’s chief of staff, Joseph Devlin, told SN&R the city wouldn’t press EoS further for the lists. He also said that, to his knowledge, no previous request for donor or member lists from nonprofits had ever been made in the past. Additionally, Devlin called EOS’ response “disproportionate” to what he characterized as an innocent request for context from Schenirer. (Mozes Zarate)

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With Donald Trump’s electoral college victory, for the second time in 16 years we’ve seen the country handed over to a far-right government, not because of the will of the people but because of quirks in the system that privilege smaller, more rural, more white states over larger, more diverse, more urban states. We know the consequences that followed George W. Bush’s rise to the presidency in 2000. And now, in 2016, with another incoming administration voted for by fewer people than those who voted for the defeated Democratic candidate, we have a fairly good idea of what’s coming our way again: a vastly authoritarian, racially and religiously bigoted project, a grab-bag of corporate tax giveaways, a dismantling of environmental regulations, a gross, crude, gloating disrespect for the rule of law and for the very concepts of universal human rights. Yes, we in the majority who voted against this insane project have every right to be angry; for all of our futures, our dignity, our sense of right and wrong, our safety and the safety of our children growing up in a world—much of which has been declared to be the enemy by Donald Trump. America is a great dream—rarely lived up to, but for centuries aspired to. It is the dream of the Enlightenment. And now it’s a dream that is, before our eyes, fragmenting, with the election of a reality TV star who glories in the language and the actions of violence, who revels in the image of the neofascist strong man, who turns crowds into mobs, and who lies and mocks and ridicules his way to power. How do we remain any sort of a cultural or political or moral standard for the world when the KKK celebrates following a result in which its members now feel that, after eight years in which the presidency was held by an African-American, the country has been reclaimed for whites? School students in Detroit chanted, “Build that wall” at crying Latino students. Vile racist graffiti referring to Trump’s victory has been reported in Philadelphia, Durham and many other cities. Trump will take power and within hours will have set about vandalizing President Barack Obama’s legacy: consciously trashing all of his signature accomplishments—from healthcare reform through to climate change accords and domestic environmental regulations; from progressive tax changes through to criminal justice reforms. The intent of this will be

less about specific policy changes and more about erasing all durable achievements carved into the American policy landscape by the country’s first African-American leader. Trump and his supporters will make every effort possible to render Obama’s long-term legacy so insignificant that, for all intents and purposes, they will have scrubbed him from the national story. The response of the majority of Americans who did not vote for Trump, who do not support this racial narrative and who do not believe in a race-based vision of 21st century America has to be “No.” Not in our name. Never in our name. We won’t live in that reimagined America. I, for one, know where I live. I live in California. And it is part of a bigger place, a gorgeous polyglot country that stretches from the Mexican border in the south, to the Canadian border in the north. It contains cities, such as Sacramento, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle, as ethnically, culturally and spiritually diverse as any on earth. It boasts many of the best universities in the world. It hosts the world’s pre-eminent technology hubs. It is an innovative place that is continually reinventing itself. And it is a place that welcomes immigrants into its heart. It is also a region that proudly embraces peoples, cuisines, languages, religions from across the globe. Its politicians and electorates have enacted some of the most progressive environmental policies on earth; they have made a good-faith effort to put universal healthcare into place; they have raised the minimum wage, moved to end the insane drug wars, invested in early education programs, in public transit systems, in nutritional programs for the poor. The American Dream may have been spat on by the Trumpian brigades but in the long run the people—not just white and not just conservative, but all people, from all backgrounds—will bend that arc of history back towards progress and justice, fairness and human dignity. We will win because our vision is bigger and better than the narrow one about to be inflicted on the world. Ω

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- 2,016 high times, careFullY Yes, weed is now legal in California, but consider this a 420-friendly reminder that while Proposition 64’s passing made marijuana’s legalization “immediate” this isn’t unregulated legalization. Do not blow smoke in a cop’s face. In fact, don’t smoke weed on the street at all. Prop. 64 is a 21-and-over privilege that remains recreational in a private residence. Also don’t dab and drive. That’s also illegal and there will be sobriety check points. Retail locations for recreational use aren’t scheduled to open until 2018.

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PrescriPtive Failure what happened with Proposition 61? It looks like Big Pharma’s $106 million spent on convincing Californians to keep prescription drug prices unregulated mattered more than slapping a giant caricature of Senator Bernie Sanders on the Yes on 61 website. The supporters raised more than $16 million with major funding by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation and California Nurses Association PAC, but only spent $9.2 million of it. That’s small change compared to Big Pharma’s expenditure and commercials that claimed less than 12 percent of Californians would benefit.

- 61 Push-uP record Forty minutes, 555 pushups: The new world record for pushups that Fiona Castleton set on Friday’s taping of Good Day Sacramento. The resident’s effort included in the Book of Alternative Records—an incredible feat considering Castleton was diagnosed with scoliosis as a child.

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SAVE THE EARTH Global warming, greenhouse emissions and Donald Trump— addressing climate-change’s planetwide crisis

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f President-elect Donald Trump actually believes all the warnings he issued during the election about the threats of immigration, he should be talking about ways to slow global warming as well. Rising sea level, caused by the melting of the Antarctic and Greenland ice caps, will probably displace tens of millions of people in the decades ahead, and many may come to North America as refugees. Climate change will cause a suite of other problems for future generations to tackle, and it’s arguably the most pressing issue of our time. A year ago December, world leaders gathered in Paris to discuss strategies for curbing greenhouse gas emissions, and scientists at every corner of the globe continue to confirm that humans are facing a crisis. However, climate change is being nearly ignored by American politicians and lawmakers. It was not discussed in depth at all during this past election cycle’s televised presidential debates. And, when climate change does break the surface of public discussion, it polarizes Americans like almost no other political issue. Some conservatives, including Trump, still deny there’s even a problem. “We are in this bizarre political state in which most of the Republican Party still thinks it has to pretend that climate change is not real,” said Jonathan F.P. Rose, a New York City developer and author of The Well-Tempered City, which explores in part how low-cost green development can mitigate the impacts of rising global temperatures and changing weather patterns.

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Rose says progress cannot be made in drafting effective climate strategies until national leaders agree there’s an issue. “We have such strong scientific evidence,” he said. “We can disagree on how we’re going to solve the problems, but I would hope we could move toward an agreement on the basic facts.” That such a serious planetwide crisis has become a divide across the American political battlefield “is a tragedy” to Peter Kalmus, an earth scientist with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Caltech in Pasadena, who agreed to be interviewed for this story on his own behalf (not on behalf of NASA, JPL or Caltech). Kalmus warns that climate change is happening whether politicians want to talk about it or not. “CO2 molecules and infrared photons don’t give a crap about politics, whether you’re liberal or conservative, Republican or Democrat or anything else,” Kalmus said. Slowing climate change will be essential, since adapting to all its impacts may be impossible. Governments must strive for greater resource efficiency, shift to renewable energy and transition from conventional to more sustainable agricultural practices. America’s leaders must also implement a carbon pricing system, climate activists say, that places a financial burden on fossil fuel producers and reduces greenhouse gas emissions. But there may be little to zero hope that such a system will be installed at the federal level as Trump prepares to move into the White House. Trump has actually threatened to reverse any

commitments the United States agreed to in Paris. According to widely circulating reports, Trump has even selected a wellknown skeptic of climate change, Myron Ebell, to head his U.S. Environmental Protection Agency transition team. Ebell is the director of the Center for Energy and Environment at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Steve Valk, communications director for the Citizens’ Climate Lobby, says the results of the presidential election come as a discouraging setback in the campaign to slow emissions and global warming. “There’s no doubt that the steep hill we’ve been climbing just became a sheer cliff,” he said. “But cliffs are scalable.” Valk says the American public must demand that Congress implement carbon pricing. He says the government is not likely to face and attack climate change unless voters force them to. “The solution is going to have to come from the people,” he said. “Our politicians have shown that they’re just not ready to implement a solution on their own.”

Af TER PARI S There is no question the Earth is warming rapidly, and already this upward temperature trend is having impacts. It is disrupting agriculture. Glacial water sources are vanishing. Storms and droughts are becoming more severe. Altered winds and ocean currents are impacting marine ecosystems. So is ocean

acidification, another outcome of carbon dioxide emissions. The sea is rising and eventually will swamp large coastal regions and islands. As many as 200 million people could be displaced by 2050. For several years in a row now, each year has been warmer than any year prior in recorded temperature records, and by 2100 it may be too hot for people to permanently live in the Persian Gulf. World leaders and climate activists made groundbreaking progress toward slowing these effects at the Paris climate conference. Here, leaders from 195 countries drafted a plan of action to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions and steer the planet off its predicted course of warming. The pact, which addresses energy, transportation, industries and agriculture—and which asks leaders to regularly upgrade their climate policies—is intended to keep the planet from warming by 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit between pre-industrial years and the end of this century. Scientists have forecasted that an average global increase of 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit will have devastating consequences for humanity. The United States pledged to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 26 percent from 2005 levels eric toensmeier within a decade. China, Japan senior fellow, Project Drawdown and nations of the European Union made similar promises. More recently, almost 200 nations agreed to phase out hydrofluorocarbons, extremely potent but short-lived greenhouse gases emitted by refrigerators and air conditioners, and reduce the emissions from the shipping and aviation industries. But in the wake of such promising international progress, and as 2016 draws to a close as the third record-warm year in a row, many climate activists are disconcerted both by United States leaders’ recent silence on the issue and by the outcome of the presidential election. Mark Sabbatini, editor of the newspaper Icepeople in Svalbard, Norway, believes shortsighted political scheming has pushed climate change action to the back burner. He wants to see politicians start listening to scientists. “But industry folks donate money and scientists get shoved aside in the interest of profits and re-election,” said Sabbatini, who recently had to evacuate his apartment as unprecedented temperatures thawed out the entire region’s permafrost, threatening to collapse buildings. Short-term goals and immediate financial concerns distract leaders from making meaningful policy advances on climate. “In Congress, they look two years ahead,” Sabbatini said. “In the Senate, they look six years ahead. In the White House, they look four years ahead.” The 300 nationwide chapters of the Citizens’ Climate Lobby are calling on local governments and chambers of commerce across America to voice support for a revenue-neutral carbon fee. The hope is that leaders in Congress will hear the demands of the people. This carbon fee would impose a charge on producers of oil, natural gas and coal. As a direct result, all products and services that depend on or directly utilize those fossil fuels would cost more for consumers, who would be incentivized to buy less. Food shipped in from far away would cost more than locally grown alternatives. Gas for heating, electricity generated by oil and coal, and driving a car would become more expensive.

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A cAll To AcTion Six things leaders must prioritize to address climate change It’s been nearly a year since global leaders convened for the U.N. climate talks in Paris, it’s time for real-world solutions. Following are six things we must do to slow climate change. Impose a prIce on carbon

This could occur in several ways. The revenueneutral carbon fee has a great backbone of advocacy support. It would charge fossil fuel producers at the first point of sale, and the revenue would be distributed among the public. Prices of goods and services dependent on fossil fuels would go up, while people who buy less of those products and therefore contribute less to climate change would come out ahead. The revenue-neutral system’s one flaw, by some opinions, is that it doesn’t provide government with a new source of revenue for funding social systems that promote renewable energy, sustainable agriculture and other climatefocused measures. A cap-and-trade system, on the other hand, would fund public agencies while creating incentive for industries to pollute less. Republicans, however, tend to oppose cap and trade because it acts much like a tax on businesses that they argue will depress the economy. carbon farmIng

Agriculture has been one of the greatest overall emitters of atmospheric carbon. Now, agriculture must play a role in reversing the damage done to the planet—and it’s theoretically a simple task: When plants grow, they draw carbon into their own mass and into the soil. All that a farmer needs to do is keep that carbon there. By planting long-standing trees and perennial row crops, farmers and other land managers have the power to sequester a great deal of the carbon dioxide that otherwise would have been emitted into the atmosphere. In the process of slowing climate change, soils will become richer and healthier, with more natural productivity and greater water retention properties than depleted soils. redesIgn our cItIes

Urban areas are responsible for more than half of America’s carbon footprint, by some estimates. The role of cities in driving climate change can be largely offset by turning linear material and waste streams—like water inputs—into circular loops that recycle precious resources. Jonathan

F. P. Rose, author of The Well-Tempered City, says 98 percent of material resources that enter a city leave again, mostly as waste, within six months. Improving the energy efficiency of buildings would be one very significant way to reduce a city’s carbon footprint. Upgrading transit systems and making streets more compatible with zeroemission transportation, like walking and riding a bicycle, would also cut emissions. shIft to renewable energy

This is a big one that has to be tackled, and it will mean fighting the powerful petroleum lobby. Generating electricity currently produces 30 percent of our greenhouse gas emissions, the single largest source by sector in the country, according to the United States Environmental Protection Agency. However, Donald Trump has promised to revive the American coal industry and tap into domestic reserves of natural gas and oil—quite the opposite of developing renewable energy technology. strIve for low- to zeroemIssIon transportatIon

Driving your car—one of the most symbolic expressions of American freedom—contributes significantly to climate change. Transport accounts for 26 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, says the EPA. More than half of this total comes from private vehicles. Airplanes, ships and trains produce most of the rest. Against the will of the petroleum industry, national leaders must continue pressing for more efficient vehicles, as well as electric ones powered by clean electricity. make homes more effIcIent

A single pilot light produces about a half ton of carbon dioxide per year, according to Peter Kalmus, author of the forthcoming book Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution. That is just one example of how households contribute to climate change. According to the EPA, commercial and residential spaces produce 12 percent of the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions. In his book, Kalmus discusses how and why he took simple but meaningful action that reduced his carbon dioxide emissions from about 20 tons per year to just two. —Alastair Bland 11.17.16 | SN&R | 15

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Prominent scientists testify for the first time before U.S. Congress about dangers of global warming. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) forms to gather and assess evidence.

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The Third IPCC reports that global warming will likely cause unprecedented sea level rise, extreme weather events and grave consequences for humanity. A few months into the next year comes a dramatic collapse of the Larsen B Ice Shelf in Antarctica.

Hurricane Katrina hits the Gulf Coast. This and other severe weather events spur debate over impact of global warming. U.N. parties continue negotiations toward global carbon reductions.

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“Bicycling would become more attractive, and so would electric cars and home appliances that use less energy,” said Kalmus, an advocate of the revenue-neutral carbon fee. Promoting this fee system is essentially the Citizens’ Climate Lobby’s entire focus. “This would be the most important step we take toward addressing climate change,” Valk said. By the carbon fee system, the revenue from fossil fuel producers would be evenly distributed by the collecting agencies among the public, perhaps via a tax credit. Recycling the dividends back into society would make it a fair system, Valk explains, since poorer people, who tend to use less energy than wealthier people to begin with and are therefore less to blame for climate change, would come out ahead. The system would also place a tariff on incoming goods from nations without a carbon fee. This would keep American industries from moving overseas and maybe even prompt other nations to set their own price on carbon. But there’s a problem with the revenueneutral carbon fee, according to other climate activists: It doesn’t support social programs that may be aimed at reducing society’s carbon footprint.

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“It will put no money into programs that serve disadvantaged communities who, for example, might not be able to afford weatherizing their home and lowering their energy bill, or afford an electric vehicle or a solar panel,” said Renata Brillinger, executive director of the California Climate and Agriculture Network. “It doesn’t give anything to public schools for making the buildings more energy efficient, and it wouldn’t give any money to farmers’ incentive programs for soil building.” Brillinger’s organization is advocating for farmers to adopt practices that actively draw carbon out of the atmosphere, like planting trees and maintaining ground cover to prevent erosion. Funding, she says, is needed to support such farmers, who may go through transitional periods of reduced yields and increased costs. California’s cap-and-trade system sets up an ample revenue stream for this purpose that a revenue-neutral system does not, according to Brillinger. But Valk says establishing a carbon pricing system must take into account the notorious reluctance of conservatives in Congress. “You aren’t going to get a single Republican in Congress to support legislation unless it’s revenue-neutral,” he said. “Any policy is useless if you can’t pass it in Congress.”

S Equ ESTE Ring THE fARm In Washington, D.C., the nation’s leaders continue tussling over popular issues like immigration, taxes, healthcare, abortion, guns and foreign affairs. Climate change activists wish they would be thinking more about soil. That’s because stopping greenhouse gas emissions alone will not stop climate change. The carbon dioxide emitted through centuries of industrial activity will continue to drive warming unless it is removed from the air and put somewhere. “There are only three places carbon can go,” Brillinger said. “It can go into the atmosphere, where we don’t want it, into the ocean, where we also don’t want it because it causes acidification, or into soil and woody plants where we do want it. Carbon is the backbone of all forests and is a critical nutrient of soil.” But most of the Earth’s soil carbon has been lost to the atmosphere, causing a spike in atmospheric carbon. In the 1700s, the Earth’s atmosphere contained less than 280 parts per million of carbon dioxide, according to scientists. Now, we are at more than 400 and counting. Climate experts generally agree that the atmospheric carbon level must be

reduced to 350 or less if we are to keep at bay the most disastrous possible impacts of warming. This is why farmers and the soil they work will be so important in mitigating climate change. By employing certain practices and abandoning other ones, farmers and ranchers can turn acreage into valuable carbon sinks—a general agricultural approach often referred to as “carbon farming.” Conventional agriculture practices tend to emit carbon dioxide. Regular tilling of the soil, for example, causes soil carbon to bond with oxygen and float away as carbon dioxide. Tilling also causes erosion, as do deforestation and overgrazing. With erosion, soil carbon enters waterways, creating carbonic acid—the direct culprit of ocean acidification. Researchers have estimated that unsustainable farming practices have caused as much as 80 percent of the world’s soil carbon to turn into carbon dioxide. By carbon farming, those who produce the world’s food can simultaneously turn their land into precious carbon sinks. The basic tenets of carbon farming include growing trees as windbreaks and focusing on perennial crops, like fruit trees and certain specialty grain varieties, which demand less tilling and disturbance of the soil.

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Eric Toensmeier, a senior fellow with the climate advocacy group Project Drawdown and the author of The Carbon Farming Solution, says many other countries are far ahead of the United States in both recognizing the importance of soil as a place to store carbon and funding programs that help conventional farmers shift toward carbon farming practices. France, for instance, initiated a sophisticated program in 2011 that calls for increasing soil carbon worldwide by 0.4 percent every year. Healthy soil can contain 10 percent carbon or more, and France’s program has the potential over time to decelerate the increase in atmospheric carbon levels. Toensmeier is optimistic about the progress being made in the United States, too. The U.S. Department of Agriculture funds programs that support environmentally friendly farming practices that protect watersheds or enhance wildlife habitat, largely through planting perennial grasses and trees. “And it turns out a lot of the practices they’re paying farmers to do to protect water quality or slow erosion also happen to sequester carbon,” Toensmeier said. He says it appears obvious that the federal government is establishing a system by which they will eventually pay farmers directly to sequester carbon. Such a direct faceoff with

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Many experts warn that global warming is arriving at a faster, more dangerous pace than expected. Meanwhile, the United Nations Framework Climate Change Conference talks in Copenhagen, held in the midst of global recession, fail to negotiate binding emissions agreements.

UNFCCC meets in Durban, South Africa, and parties agree to work on a new and universal agreement involving all countries, not just wealthy ones, to join in combating global warming. This accord is to be negotiated in Paris.

Mean global temperature at warmest in thousands of years; concentration of carbon in the atmosphere reaches 397 parts per million, highest it's been in millennia. Scientists and politicians become bolder in connecting increased extreme weather events and climate change.

climate change, however, may be a few years away still. Climate activists may even need to wait until 2021. “First we need a president who acknowledges that climate change exists,” Toensmeier said.

NATioNAl poliTic S AN d c iT y RE foRm Climate reform advocates still talk about Bernie Sanders’ fiery attack on fracking as a source of global warming in the May primary debate with Hillary Clinton. “If we don’t get our act together, this planet could be 5 to 10 degrees warmer by the end of this century,” Sanders said then. “Cataclysmic problems for this planet. This is a national crisis.” Sanders was not exaggerating. The Earth has already warmed by 1.7 degrees Fahrenheit since 1880, and it’s getting hotter. Even with the advances made in Paris, the world remains on track to be 6.1 degrees Fahrenheit warmer by 2100 than it was in pre-industrial times, according to a United Nations emissions report released in early November. The authors of another paper published in January in the journal Nature predicted temperatures will rise as much as 10 degrees Fahrenheit.

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Global rallies are held in 2,000 locations across the world demanding urgent action on climate change. Hundreds of thousands of people gather and continue a call for action.

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In an unexpected political breakthrough, China and the United States, which together produce nearly half of global carbon dioxide emissions, jointly announce future reduction plans.

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Pope Francis The world’s releases governments unprecedented convene in Paris papal encyclical where they agree wherein he calls upon and sign a for urgent action unified, global on climate accord and to put change. Two more architecture in populous place to save countries—Brazil humanity from and India—make the worst pre-Paris outcomes of commitments to climate change. decrease emissions.

In light of the scientific consensus, conservatives’ denial of climate change looks childish at best and dangerous at worst. In low-lying Florida, so vulnerable to the rising sea, an unofficial policy from its Republican leadership has effectively muzzled state employees from even mentioning “climate change” and “global warming” in official reports and communications. Republican Sen. Ted Cruz suggested NASA focus its research less on climate change and more on space exploration, according to The Christian Science Monitor. Most frightening of all, maybe, is the incoming American president’s stance on the matter: Trump said in a 2012 tweet that global warming is a Chinese hoax. In January 2014, during a brief spell of cold weather, he asked via Twitter, “Is our country still spending money on the GLOBAL WARMING HOAX?” While most of the rest of the world remains poised to advance emissions reductions goals, Trump is aiming in a different direction. The Trump-Pence website vows to “unleash America’s $50 trillion in untapped shale, oil, and natural gas reserves, plus hundreds of years in clean coal reserves.” His webpage concerning energy goals only mentions reducing emissions once, and it makes no mention of climate change or renewable energy.

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Nearly 200 nations, including the United States, reach a global deal to phase out hydrofluorocarbons, the strong, but short-lived greenhouse gases emitted by refrigerators and air conditioners, as well as reduce emissions from the shipping and aviation industries. The reduction is slated to start in 2019.

While meaningful action at the federal level is probably years away, at the local level, progress is coming—even in communities led by Republicans, according to Rose. That, he says, is because local politicians face a level of accountability from which national leaders are often shielded. “At the city level, mayors have to deliver real results,” Rose said. “They have to protect their residents and make wise investments on behalf of their residents. The residents see what they’re doing and hold them accountable.” Restructuring and modifying our cities, which are responsible for about half of America’s carbon footprint, “will be critical toward dealing with climate change,” Rose said. “On the coast we’ll have sea-level rise,” he said. “Inland, we’ll have flooding and heat waves. Heat waves cause more deaths than hurricanes.” Simply integrating nature into city infrastructure is a very low-cost but effective means for countering the changes that are coming, Rose says. Many cities, for example, are planting thousands of street trees. Trees draw in atmospheric carbon as they grow

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and, through shade and evaporative cooling effects, can significantly reduce surface temperatures by as much as 6 degrees Fahrenheit in some circumstances, Rose says. Laws and policies that take aim at reduced emissions targets can be very efficient tools for generating change across entire communities. However, Kalmus believes it’s important that individuals, too, reduce their own emissions through voluntary behavior changes, rather than simply waiting for change to come from leaders and lawmakers. “If you care about climate change, it will make you happier,” he said. “It makes you feel like you’re pioneering a new way to live. For others, you’re the person who is showing the path and making them realize it’s not as crazy as it seems.” Kalmus, who lives in Altadena, Calif., with his wife and two sons, has radically overhauled his lifestyle to reduce his carbon footprint. Since 2010 he has cut his own emissions by a factor of 10—from 20 tons per year to just 2, by his own estimates. This personal transformation is the subject of his forthcoming book, Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution, due out in 2017. Kalmus rides a bike most places, eats mostly locally grown food, raises some of it in his own yard, has stopped eating meat and—one of the most important changes—has all but quit flying places. He hopes to serve as a model and help spark a transition to an economy that does not depend on constant growth, as ours currently does. One day, he believes, it will be socially unacceptable to burn fossil fuel, just as it’s become shunned to waste water in drought-dried California. The oil industry will eventually become obsolete. “We need to transition to an economy that doesn’t depend on unending growth,” Kalmus said. Unless we slow our carbon emissions and our population growth now, depletion of resources, he warns, will catch up with us. “We need to shift to a steady-state economy and a steady-state population,” he said. “Fossil-fueled civilization cannot continue forever.” Though Americans will soon have as president a man who is essentially advocating for climate change, Valk, at the Citizens’ Climate Lobby, expects time—and warming—to shift voter perspectives. “As more and more people are personally affected by climate change, like those recently flooded out in Louisiana and North Carolina, people of all political persuasions will see that acting on climate change is not a matter of partisan preferences, but a matter of survival,” he said. Ω

The highest mountains in the West run northto-south through the Mediterranean latitudes and just 150 miles from the Pacific Ocean—a remarkable stroke of geologic luck that has made California one of the richest ecological and agricultural regions on the continent. These mountains accumulate deep snow in the winter, which in turn feeds cold rivers that flow through the hot, dry months. But the unique conditions that California’s native fish, its farms and its cities depend on are acutely threatened by climate change. In 2015, virtually no snow fell in the Sierra Nevada. Droughts occur naturally, but research indicates the current drought in the American West has been made worse by climate change and that future droughts will be exacerbated by the warming planet. A 2015 paper published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters calculated that climate change has made California’s current drought as much as 27 percent worse than it would otherwise have been. In 2015, Stanford researchers, led by associate professor of earth sciences Noah Diffenbaugh, predicted that extremely hot years in California will increasingly overlap with dry spells in the future. Greenhouse gases, the scientists reported, are pushing this trend. Diffenbaugh explained to The New York Times that, even if precipitation remains ample, warmer winters in the future will mean less water stored away as snow—historically the most important reservoir in the state. As water supplies shrink, the human population is booming. By 2050, the agencies that manage and distribute California’s water will be answering to the needs of roughly 60 million people as well as the state’s enormous agriculture industry. Current squabbles over California’s water will escalate into blistering fights, and native salmon —once the main protein source for the West Coast’s indigenous people—will probably vanish in the fray as the Sacramento and San Joaquin river system is tapped to the max for human needs. Other native fishes, too, like green sturgeon, will almost certainly dwindle or disappear.

The atmospheric buildup of greenhouse gases will manifest in other ways, too. Disruption of ocean currents could reduce the upwelling of cold bottom water so critical for California’s coastal ecosystem. California’s shoreline will erode as sea level rises, threatening coastal real estate, roads and public space. In 2009, the Pacific Institute released a report predicting that a 100-year flood combined with a 5-foot rise in sea level could cause more than $100 billion in damage, most of it in the Bay Area. Californians are as much to blame for climate change as nearly any other comparable economy. In 2013, California generated 350 million metric tons of carbon dioxide pollution—more than every other state except Texas, which emitted more than 600 million. Most of California’s emissions came from burning petroleum, and more than half could be linked directly to transportation—mostly private vehicles. Globally, the United States’ 324 million residents generate more carbon dioxide from fossil fuels than every other nation but China. Even all the nations of the European Union emit just 60 percent as much CO2 as Americans do in spite of outnumbering Americans by almost 200 million. California has responded to the alarms of climate researchers with aggressive emissions goals. Assembly Bill 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, called for reducing greenhouse gas emissions rates to 1990 levels by 2020. More recently, the California Assembly passed Senate Bill 32, which extends some of the targets of AB32 to 2030, at which point the new law requires California to be emitting 40 percent less greenhouse gases than it was in 1990. These goals will likely prompt shifts to renewable energy and sustainable agriculture, a carbon fee, more walking and cycling in place of driving, and adoption of clean energy. If other governments follow suit, rates of global warming could be slowed or stopped. If business continues as usual, though, Californians will reap what we sow. —Alastair Bland 11.17.16 | SN&R | 19

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here’s nowhere quite like Sacramento, because let’s face it—Sacramento is home. Home to late-night music venues that support the likes of local punk, garage-rock bands and more. It’s where sports teams like the Kings, the River Cats and the Republic FC hang their uniforms. And this town really supports its teams whether it’s at a bar at 7 a.m. for an early soccer match or from the nosebleed section with no cup holders—fans are devoted. And, thanks to its Mediterraneanstyle climate, Sacramentans can always eat seasonally with yearround leafy greens, summer’s sweet berries and fall’s abundance of apples and gourds. Indeed, our love for the region is experienced in many ways, and for some, it’s a feeling to be expressed in a permanent fashion—by dedicating an entire tattoo as an homage to the 916. From the more soft, watercolorinspired ink that plays with negative space to the vivid lines and shades of traditional-style tattoo work, SN&R spoke to four men and women who share a common love for the region through these playful depictions that truly are for keeps.

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FOREVER Why four local men and women inked their 916 love with tattoos STORY bY STeph ROdRiguez | PHOTOGRAPHY bY SHOKA

MAP Of HER HEART As an aquatic ecotoxicologist, Charlene Derheim spends a lot of time testing live organisms and observing marine and stormwaters in a Fairfield laboratory. But, beneath her lab coat, Derheim reps her home away from petri dishes and microscopes in the form of a Sacramento-centric tattoo that permanently decorates her entire upper right arm. “I’ve been all over the world and I love California and Sacramento,” she says. “I love the weather. I love the people. I love that there’s such diversity here. I just love all the commotion that comes with living here.” Local artist Jocelyn McGregor at Old Republic Tattoo Co. helped Derheim design her watercolor-inspired homage to both California and Sacramento, a city she’s called home for more than a decade. Inked with earthy greens, burnt orange hues and soft yellow tones, the shape of California is complemented with a bare heart where Sacramento is located. “Most of my adult life has been spent in Sacramento and that’s kind of really where I grew into the person that I am now,” Derheim says. “One of my life’s milestones at this point in my life is here and that’s something that I will always remember and cherish wherever I go. I might not always live in Sacramento, but a part of me will always be here.”

LivE iN THE MOMENT, ALWAYS When she’s not singing with her nine-piece reggae group the Scratch Outs, Shannan Robertson is soaking up the quiet scenery along the Sacramento River in her kayak.

She’s a homegrown songbird who says music keeps her grounded and also introduced her to a world of artistic company who she deems as lifelong family. Fifteen years ago, Robertson was willing to lend her arm in the name of art to friend and local tattoo artist, Ezra McCabe, now owner of Black Gold Tattoo, to help build his portfolio. Then, things turned serious. On September 11, 2001, when news broke that the Twin Towers had been attacked, McCabe knocked on her apartment door with the idea to combine two rivers within a heart, wrapped in a banner that read “Sacto.” “He was pounding on my door,” she recalls. “I was sound asleep and was like, ‘What’s going on?” And he [said], ‘There’s crazy shit going on. They’re attacking New York City, so if Shannan we’re going to die, we’re going to die giving you your Sacto tattoo.’” Over the years, Robertson’s tattoo has been joined by others, but it still shines as the centerpiece amid the pink and blue roses and the sturdy anchor that also grace her arm. She still looks at it and thinks about that day long ago. “It reminds me to live in the moment and to appreciate what I have now,”

Robertson says. “The cruelest joke life plays on us is tricking us into thinking we have more time.”

‘TiREd Of THiS TOWN AGAiN’ Born and raised in Sacramento, Jesse Alford spends a lot of time on his bicycle zipping through downtown’s gridlocked traffic as a bike messenger. Alford says he sees his city from a different perspective on two wheels and although he admits he wishes he’d spent more time in other cities, he stays for his friends, family and also because his job allows him to keep doing what he loves: riding his bicycle. Alford wears his love for Sacramento not on his sleeve, but on his calf. Ten years ago, he decided to let his friend and local artist Big Robertson Chuck (Relentless Tattoo) blast his leg with a colorful rendition of California’s state Capitol accompanied by a traditional-style horseshoe and a Tom Petty lyric, “tired of this town again,” inked by Jenn Ponci. “I felt myself coming down with the 916-sickness and I thought it would be a cure,” he jokes before adding, “The Tom Petty quote right above is a testimonial to people that get stuck here and never leave.”

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See oFF MENU Shannan Robertson, who got her Sacramentocentric tattoo on 9/11, says it serves as both a reminder of the city she loves and to “appreciate” everything she has.

DiE-hARD iNk For Angelo Merrifield, there’s nothing more iconic in Sacramento than the Tower Bridge and his favorite basketball team, the Kings. So, he thought, why not combine the two for an epic River City-inspired tattoo? “I’m a huge Kings fan, like die-hard, and I try to go to as many games as possible. It’s a big representation of the city, so that’s a big reason why I put it in there.” The tattoo, designed by Jesse Mitchell at Royal Peacock Tattoo Parlor, features a Japanese rising sun bursting through puffy blue clouds with its vivid red and orange tinge as it shines down on the Tower Bridge. The waters below the local monument range from sea foam green to lighter shades of blue with waves crashing against the crest of the Kings’ purple and silver logo, an homage to everything Sacramento. “I wanted the Tower Bridge because it’s so recognizable and a lot of people would know that,” Merrifield says. “I love my city and it’s where I’m from.” Ω

Jesse Alford’s Tom Petty lyric pays homage to the bike messenger’s complicated relationship with the River City.

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Contemporary art’s new home As I entered a gallery, I was greeted by a ceramic toilet with towering boobs sprouting from its water tank. Nearby, a urinal with footprints, more boobs and a vagina for a drain. I couldn’t keep from smiling. The founder of the funk figurative ceramics movement, Robert Arneson, took potty humor to new heights by referencing Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain, art history’s most famous urinal. Arneson celebrated the human body in all of its grossness and glory. Just before the public opening of the new Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at UC Davis (254 Old Davis Road), I explored the rebellious roots of the college’s art faculty on display in the opening exhibit “Out Our Way.” The museum—the largest in the area that specializes in contemporary art—swells from the earth with a roof textured like the nearby patchwork fields. “Our architecture calls attention to the specialness of the valley,” said Rachel Teagle, the founding director, inside the museum on Thursday. “Our highest aspiration is to have this place become home to mavericks today. We need a place for real discussion of the critical issues of our day.” For the ribbon-cutting ceremony, an enormous and colorful ribbon draped across the canopy. Its foam chain links—decorated by students and residents throughout the region—made the museum’s intentions clear: Everyone is welcome to play here. The galleries are free of charge and open to the public. It was heartening to see commitment toward the common good on the eve of Donald Trump’s America. Not only that, but the exhibit “Out Our Way” shows what agrarian America could look like in a better world— not close-minded, but community-minded. Teagle says the exhibit revives the “spirit of defiant provincialism” that flourished within the UC Davis art faculty in the 1960s. Away from the dictates of the New York art scene, Central Valley artists didn’t entertain dreams of making big sales, so they had the creative latitude to be really fucking weird. They supported that strangeness in one another by bartering for each other’s art pieces. Besides Arneson’s grotesque latrines, other founding faculty member shared their playfulness. In the same exhibit, I found a multimedia piece of a vomiting bulldog by William T. Wiley, who once called the art department too “square.” Diner pies and a dessert carousel were on display, painstakingly painted by Wayne Thiebaud, who predated and influenced the pop art movement. Ruth Horsting sculpted nightmarish wisps of trees or bodies out of metal, which was a “man’s medium” at the time. Down the hallway, Pia Camil’s participatory installation “A Pot for a Latch” displays tchotchkes in a room layered with metal grids. The random stuff transformed from ordinary to enchanting as I peered through the many rows. In a nod to the Native American ceremonial potlatch, Camil asks visitors to swap a personal object with the items on display on specific days. In this way, the museum kicks off with an invitation for exchange from anyone. As our days become more uncertain, I hope it remains an open forum for students and the public to get playful, weird and real.

Everyone is welcome to play here.

—Rebecca Huval

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This class will take place at the Michael’s in Elk Grove (7611 Laguna Boulevard) and the fee is $25. Visit https://classes.michaels.com /onlineclasses to find out more. Then, get buzzed while celebrating the annual fruity, youthful batch of red wine from France at La Fête du Beaujolais Nouveau on Saturday, November 9, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Silverado Building Materials & Nursery Design Center (5250 South Watt Avenue ste. 200) on behalf of Alliance Française. There will be Beaujolais to taste, bien sur, but also hors d’oeurves, live music, a silent auction and a raffle. Tickets are $45-$60 and can be purchased at www.afsacramento.org. Also on Saturday, learn to make your own whimsical centerpiece in the Felt Flower Centerpiece

ssuming we’re not in the midst of a full-blown apocalypse by the time this reaches you, chances are you’re in dire need of some post-election rejuvenation and/or a way to decompress before having to spar with batty Uncle Steve at the Thanksgiving dinner table next week over the fact that we’ve made a reality TV star the most powerful man in the world. Here are a number of options to help you mellow out (or at least achieve some semblance of making it through this month): On Friday, November 18, from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., recognize that Granny got it right when it comes to the relaxing repetitiveness of knitting; this knitting for Beginners class will walk you through making a cowl scarf or braided headband.

workshop from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at the Greenhouse Sacramento (114 K Street) with crafting superstar Erin Garcia of Feed the Fish Co. The cost is $45 and parent-child, grandparent-child, sibling, couples and friends are encouraged to participate together; find out more at www.anaapple.com. Before the big feast (and, depending on your family, potential big family blowout), find some Zen at the thanksgiving Morning Slow Flow Yoga at the Yoga Seed Collective (1400 E Street) from 10:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. The cost is $20 and attendees will focus on moving with intention and gratitude. Visit www.theyogaseed.org to find out more.

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oaxaca Collective Project Pop-Up Shop Friday, November 18, aNd Saturday, November 19 We all talked about moving to Mexico if Trump won the presidency, but of course none of us have CULtUre the gall to do it. That doesn’t mean we can’t still enjoy some beautiful crafts from south of the border. Visit Sol Collective for the Oaxaca Pop-Up Shop and pick up some handmade artisan goods. Free; 5 p.m. at Sol Collective, 2574 21st Street; www.solcollective.org.

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So you’ve got your Chemex or AeroPress or French press, but somehow the coffee you make at home doesn’t stack up to the barista’s brew. Find out all the minutiae of achieving that perfect cup at this class that will cover water temperature, water-to-bean CoFFee ratio, grind settings and more. $25; 10 a.m. at Temple Coffee Roasters, 2825 S Street; http://store .templecoffee.com/service.

Didn’t get your fill with the full-blown French film festival earlier this year? This daylong event features a handful of French films as well as FILM Q&A sessions that are sure to remind you that French class you took in high school was really worth it. Come partake in some cinema and enjoy coffee and pastries with fellow cinephiles. $12-$40; 11:15 a.m. at the Crest Theater, 1013 K Street; www .sacramentofrenchfilmfestival.org.

Sutter’s Fort was built before there was such a thing as indoor lighting. This week, the fort will go back to its roots by going dark. A guide will take you into various rooms to let you listen in on what life was like in the 1840s. When you’ve finished, you can help yourself to a hot beverage and a piece of pie. $17; 6:30 p.m. hIStorY at Sutter’s Fort, 2701 L Street; (916) 445-4422; www.parks .ca.gov/Events/Details/7530.

Don’t underestimate the fun of a well-written sentence. Doug Rice and Jordan Okumura will read. Rice ponders on the philosophical and hallucinatory imagery. Okumura just published her LIteratUre first novel, Gaijin, which bridges reality, mythology and nostalgia for family. Free; 7:30 p.m. at Sacramento Poetry Center, 1719 25th Street; (916) 278-5435; www.sacramentopoetrycenter.org.

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Bunanza Pork Buns, laM kwong deli & Market Gazing skyward, clouds can morph into previously unseen shapes and forms. Rest your eye on a cumulus cloud and it can easily come to resemble a steamed pork bun. Luckily, Lam Kwong Deli and Market crafts heavenly steamed and baked buns for those of us with our head in the clouds dreaming of dim sum. The steamed bun (75 cents) echoes a white rose with a blossoming head if it were bursting forth with pork. The bigger bun is baked ($1.15), and often sells out. Both buns contain a nebula of delicate and subtle sweetness. Reach for a bun, reach for the sky. 2031 12th Street, (916) 443-8805.

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a new ice cream destination. Devil May Care Ice Cream & Frozen Treats is now open at 332 Third Street in West Sacramento, just down the street from Raley Field. The small, unassuming spot comes from Jess Milbourn, the local chef who used to run the well-regarded, now-shuttered West Sacramento restaurant the Eatery. Currently, the clean, retro spot opens Wednesday through Saturday. There isn’t any seating inside, but there’s a charming parklet out front, ideal for slowly savoring one of Milbourn’s creations—vanilla, chocolate, eggnog, pumpkin pie 24

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and a vegan piña colada sorbet were among the first round, starting at $3.50. The ultra-creamy, dense consistency says it all: This is a simple but superior scoop. Already, customers can add sodas and shrubs from Burly Beverages to their scoops to make interesting floats, such as the Festive Bostin, with egg nog ice cream and ginger beer. And soon, Milbourn plans to add popsicles, ice cream sandwiches and other frozen novelties to the mix. Fusion on the rise: Rancho Cordova just got a fast-casual, Asian-fusion spot. Cali Bowl Teriyaki (10673

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Coloma Road) serves a mix of Japanese- and Korean-style meats—chicken katsu, salmon teriyaki, bulgogi—in a few different presentations, including the everpopular bento box, which comes with tempura, rice, salad and miso soup. In addition to a few appetizers and specialties—Japanese fried tofu, bimbimbap, ramen—all meals cost $7-$9. And The Sacramento Bee reported last week that a popular Bay Area Asian-fusion concept, KoJa Kitchen, will join the 700 block of K Street in late 2017. KoJa will be the first outsider on the otherwise locally-owned block— joining the owners of Kru, Red Rabbit Kitchen & Bar and Insight Coffee Roasters—though KoJa’s owner does have personal ties to Sacramento. This will be the second KoJa Kitchen in the area, with another location in the works in Rocklin. What started as a food truck has turned into an empire built around its popular burger-esque sandwiches that swaps grilled rice patties for buns and Korean-style meat fillings. Ω

I love to make fun of pumpkin spice latte (#PSL!) consumers as much as the next person, which is why my last visit at Nido pained me. The pumpkin chai tea latte ($5.97) sounded so wonderful but OMG I can’t even also like an embarrassingly classic stuff-white??? women-like situation. But I refuse to feel guilty #PCTL because Nido uses real pumpkin puree, creating a feel-good velvety consistency. The housemade chai, cinnamon and nutmeg really make the drink feel prime for holiday consumption—let’s just not make #PCTL a thing. 1409 R Street, Suite 102; http://hellonido.com.

—Janelle Bitker

Eat happiness Buddha’s hand Everyone could use a little more zen right now. Find some at the farmers market with bright yellow Buddha’s Hand citrus. These oddly tentacled fruits are the source of candied citron, which finds its way into countless holiday fruitcakes and cookies. Despite being almost only peel, the rind isn’t as bitter as other yellow citrus and perfumes a room with freshness. Use it to infuse vodka for a lemony liqueur or grate some into rice dishes. In China, it is a symbol of happiness and good fortune; turns out you can buy happiness after all.

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Chili chill-off With these increasingly cool nights, few things sound better than a hot, hearty bowl of stew. Or two. Or three. At the West Sac Chili CookOff, enjoy unlimited samples of chili prepared by local chefs, including those from de Vere’s Irish Pub, Dos Coyotes Border Cafe, the Porch Restaurant & Bar, Sail Inn Grotto & Bar and Fahrenheit 250 BBQ. You’ll also get a first taste of an upcoming West Sacramento restaurant, Smokey Fro’s. Given the wide range of cooking styles present—Southern, Irish, Mexican and more—you can expect flavors far beyond your run-of-the-mill chili. Formerly known as the Holy Cross Chili Cook-Off, the event is now in its fourth year and doubles as a fundraiser for the Holy Cross Academy. It takes place at 6 p.m. Saturday, November 19, at Raley Field (400 Ball Park Drive in West Sacramento). Grab $30 tickets at www.westsacchili.com.

Indian, island-style By Janelle BiTker

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HHH 7208 Florin Mall Drive, (916) 538-6812 www.tandoorigrillsac.com Dinner for one: $7-$13 Good for: Fijian-style Indian food Notable dishes: goat palak, chef’s chicken, junglee murgi

—Janelle Bitker

After placing my order, a woman emerges from the kitchen. “Have you had this dish before?” “No,” I reply. With a look of concern, she issues a warning: “The meat is very tender.” The dish in question is junglee murga, a Fijianstyle curry. When I requested it, a different server asked if I wanted junglee murgi or murga—a male or female chicken. I had no idea, but she thought the female meat was more tender. Then came the warning. Can chicken ever be too tender? Here at Tandoori Grill, a four-month-old restaurant in south Sacramento, the chicken is, indeed, tender. Perhaps a better warning would have been that the hacked-up, bone-in chicken included gelatinous cartilage, slippery skin and shards of bone as tiny as a grain of rice. In other words, there was a lot of gum puncturing and spitting. I didn’t mind too much, but it does seem like something deserving of caution—unlike my requests for high spice levels, which drew much worry from our server but never made me sweat. Let’s rewind a bit: Tandoori Grill specializes in Fijian cuisine, but not the taro, coconut, cassava and fresh fish you might immediately think of from the island. In the 1800s, Britain sent tens of thousands of Indians to Fiji to work as indentured servants. After the system ended in 1916, many Indians stayed and even more traveled to join them. Today, just shy of 40 percent of Fiji’s population is ethnically Indian. That

means many Indian curries are household favorites, adapted to what’s available in the region. Tandoori Grill’s menu is stocked with Indian standards and a few less familiar items. On one visit, I asked a server which dishes are Fijian, and she rattled off most of the meat curries, noting that the chef is from Fiji. When I asked her what made them Fijian or how they tasted different from their traditional Indian counterparts, she had trouble answering. They’re just different. Even after tasting many of the dishes, I’m having trouble as well. Some curries, like the junglee murgi ($7.99) and duck curry ($10.99), feel more thin, oily and dominated by cumin. I preferred the chef’s chicken ($8.49), with moist, bone-in dark meat bathed in a thick and slightly tangy gravy bolstered by tomatoes. It didn’t taste quite like any other Indian dish I’ve had before. Goat is common in Fiji, and the chef prepares it beautifully: moist and juicy bits of meat cling to their bones in the goat palak ($7.99), with a spinach curry that feels lighter and less creamy than at most local Indian restaurants. One eyebrow-raiser on the menu is chicken chop suey ($7.99), a popular dish in Fiji that arrives exactly how you would expect it at an Americanized Chinese restaurant—which, consumed in between bites of strong Indian flavors from the rest of the menu, is somewhat startling. But Tandoori Grill executes the basics well, whether it’s shaahi paneer’s ($6.99) velvety, tomato-based cream sauce or the spicy potato filling in the stretchy aloo paratha ($2.99), a whole-wheat bread. Over three visits, the drab but spacious restaurant remained largely empty—to-go lunches seem most popular. It’s understandable given the lackluster atmosphere, where upholstered chairs often wear mystery stains and CNN keeps you company. And the lunch deals are excellent: an individual portion of an entree, rice, naan and salad for the same cost of one dish at dinner. Next time, I’ll see if the male chicken is actually more tender. Ω

Moist and juicy bits of meat cling to their bones.

Colfax vegan dine and dash By Shoka I would have been remiss if I didn’t pull off of Interstate 80 in Colfax to have lunch at Dine N Dash Pub & Grill to see if any diners slipped out without paying. The name is intended to refer to dining expediency rather than thievery, but still. Located at 1516 South Canyon Way, it’s a spacious, country-chic diner with a large covered outdoor patio—and there are three vegan items on the menu: the Malibu Vegan Burger, Malibu Vegan Tacos and Veggie

Tacos. Kitchen manager Eric Nava said they were added two years ago to accommodate the owner’s friend’s vegan kids. And of the rotating daily soups, the black bean soup is safe for herbivores, and the kitchen can veganize orders on request. As for the eatery’s name, Nava said he once witnessed a tipsy bachelor party on the patio jump over the railing to flee, but the designated driver laughed, “I already paid!”

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Sacramento author Lois Ann Abraham’s debut novel Tina Goes to Heaven (Ad Lumen Press, $16.95) makes for a good postelection escapist Reading read. It’s also a sharp, thoughtful take on self-sufficiency, survival and emotional grit. Here, protagonist Tina Martin takes on a life of crime—robbery, to be exact—as as a way to break free from her life as a prostitute. This act of rebellion lands her at a fishing camp in the Sierra Nevada, forcing her to rely upon instinct. The premise might sound a bit like the plot of an Old West film— and Tina is a modern, Western hero of sorts—but there’s nothing oldtimey or contrived about her story. Abraham, who teaches English at American River College, is also the author of the 2014 short story collection Circus Girl and Other Stories, and once again her writing is fast-paced, funny and straightforward. Tina does not make for an easy character— she’s complicated, raw and sometimes tough to figure out. Abraham will read from Tina Goes to Heaven this Thursday at Time Tested Books. (Future readings are also on the calendar: 2 p.m. Saturday, December 3, at the Arden Dimick branch of the Sacramento Public Library, and 6 p.m. Tuesday, December 13, at its Carmichael branch.) Free; 7 p.m. Thursday, November 17 at Time Tested Books, 1114 21st Street; www.timetestedbooks.net.

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7 p.m. thursday and friday, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. saturday. $12-$17. Wright hall, one shield avenue in Davis; (530) 752-2471; http://theatredance.ucdavis.edu. through November 19.

It was certainly not planned that UC Davis would be presenting Eurepides’ 415 A.D. play Trojan Women at the end of the most contentious election in the recent history of this country, but its themes of misogyny, racism and xenophobia certainly seem timely and all too familiar. The play was Euripides’ response to the atrocities committed by the Greeks during the Peloponnesian War. This 1993 version, written by Brendan Kennelly and directed here by Kirsten Brandt, reminds us that what we do has consequences and that how we treat others reflects on who we are as people. While earlier versions of this play showed the Trojan women as passive victims of their circumstances, Kennelly brings a 20th-century feminist twist to the story. Despite total humiliation, the women keep their dignity, knowing they will be the moral and emotional victors in the continuing war with men. It defines the nature of the courage of women. This particular production has a marvelous cast, headed by Danika Sudik as Hecuba, the Queen of Troy. She gives an amazingly intense performance, as do Rose Kim as daughter Cassandra and Kelly Tappan as her anguished daughter-in-law Andromache. The women do not entirely get a whitewash because of their plight. Their verbal attacks on Helen (Jennifer Vega) lead one to contrast how women treat women whom they judge harshly versus how men treat women.

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4 A Christmas Carol Buck Busfield’s adaptation of the holiday chestnut A Christmas Carol is a dickens of a story, but not a Charles Dickens of a story. Busfield has crafted a very meta musing, a play that doesn’t pretend to be anything other than a play—and a snarky one, at that. Scrooge (Greg Alexander, a great comic actor) begins by announcing that, yes, this is another edition of that annual “feel good” holiday fare, but he’s plenty tired of it. Miserable, miserly old man, three spirits (“which are not the same as the three ghosts,” he notes), the three ghosts, the redemption … well, you know the story. But in Busfield’s version, you don’t know the story. No, this one takes on a hallucinatory aspect as people and places appear out of order and dreams become reality. Or do they? Director Dave Pierini goes full wackadoodle on the story, embracing every comic element from slapstick falls to slamming-door farce. An ensemble of four (John Lamb, Amy Kelly, Kurt Johnson and Tara Sissom) portrays a multitude of characters. —Jim Carnes

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Runaway Stage closes out its tenure at 24th Street Theatre with an imaginative and altogether entertaining version of this Andrew Lloyd Webber classic. Still plagued by the theater’s uncooperative sound system, the show manages to put forth some very good voices, including Carolyn Watling as Grizzabella (“Memory”), Roger

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In one of Neil Simon’s lesser-known comedies, daughter Libby arrives unexpectedly looking for the father who left her family 16 years before. Father Herb is a writer and Libby wants him to use his nonexistent connections to get her into the movies. Excellent acting, particularly by Kate Brugger as Libby, makes this a superb production.

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ramento Theatre Company, 1419 H Street. (916) 4436722; www.sactheatre .org. B.S.

You Can’t Take it With You

Falcon’s Eye Theatre at Folsom Lake College reaches into the way-back time machine to stage this 1936 Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman. The play, first introduced to a nation mired in the Great Depression, celebrates the idea of embracing your interests and passions rather than being dragged down by the drudgery of an office job or societal expectations. The talented cast captures madcap hijinks and goofy dialogue. F, Sa 7:30pm, Su 2pm. Through 11/20. $12-$18. Falcon’s Eye Theatre at Folsom Lake College, 10 College Parkway in Folsom; (916) 608-6888; www.falconseye theatre.com. P.R.

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Certainly good This powerful production of Doubt: A Parable leaves the audience with just that—doubt. Which is just how the skillful playwright John Patrick Shanley designed the story, constructed as two renditions of an incident told by a charismatic priest who charms young boys and by the suspicious school principal, Sister Aloysius. The power lies in the story’s ambiguity and shifting perspectives. The show boasts complex, intense and spot-on performances by the talented EMH Productions cast under the sharpeyed, skilled direction of Anthony D’Juan. Its artistic set design is stellar as well. 8 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday. $20. EMH Productions at The William J. Geery Theatre, 2130 L Street; www.emhpros.weebly.com.

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disclose the “secret” of Grindelwald’s portrayer, but five seconds on the IMDb will spill the beans.) In league with Redmayne’s Newt are the Goldstein sisters, disgraced Auror Tina (Katherine Waterston) and telepathic Queenie (Alison Sudol), and the No-Mag (that’s Yank talk for “Muggle”) Jacob Kowalski (Dan Fogler), who unwittingly sets off a crisis in the wizard universe. None of these actors make much impression, though they’re conscientious enough. The problem is Rowling’s murky and borderlineincomprehensible writing—exacerbated by the direction of the spectacularly mediocre David Yates, who added so little to the last four Potter movies (and made the series’ one real stinker, H.P. and the Half-Blood Prince). Yates encourages his actors to mutter their lines in inaudible whispers. The worst offender is Redmayne, who diffidently mumbles his lines into his shirt collar, with hardly one intelligible word in 10—a fatal flaw when you’re describing such beasts as Bowtruckles, Chizpurfles and Occamies. (I quote from Rowling’s book; I couldn’t begin to guess which ones Redmayne names.) This is supposed to be the first of a fivepicture series. Never underestimate the devotion of Rowling’s (and Harry’s) fans, I guess, but personally, I’m not looking forward to the second one. And I’ll be surprised if the third even gets made. Ω

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The magnetic and sensual Sonia Braga stars as a retired music critic, breast cancer survivor and longtime widow in Aquarius, the latest film from Neighboring Sounds director Kleber Mendonça Filho. Braga’s fiercely independent Clara lives alone in a Brazilian apartment building slated for renovation, the lone tenant stubbornly holding out after her neighbors surrendered to gentrification years ago. There’s very little in the way of traditional narrative beats here, as Filho is more interested in getting lost in the album grooves of Clara’s life than getting tied up in artificial story threads. Filho and Braga create a fully rounded portrait of a strong, proud, complex woman trying to live life on her terms. Braga steals the show, but the filmmaking is quietly brilliant—a sequence where Clara recalls a previous encounter with a male prostitute as something both erotic and potentially dangerous teaches a master class in compact visual storytelling. D.B.

Doctor Strange

A brilliant, egotistical surgeon (Benedict Cumberbatch) seeks healing for his hands, ruined in an auto accident; he finds himself plunged into a realm of magic, martial arts and the struggle to protect the world from the forces of darkness. The Marvel Comics superhero gets a handsome showcase, written by Jon Spaihts, C. Robert Cargill and director Scott Derricksen (from the Stan Lee-Steve Ditko original). Much of it takes place in the “Mirror Dimension,” an eye-popping universe that M.C. Escher might have imagined if he’d worked with CGI. That, plus a strong story and stronger cast (Tilda Swinton, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rachel McAdams, Mads Mikkelsen) makes this a winner. Let’s see if they can keep it up; these Marvel origin stories usually work best, before the sequels settle into flashy but humdrum action. J.L.

Inferno

Symbologist Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) wakes up in a Florence hospital with a head wound and amnesia—and plagued by terrifying visions of cataclysmic death and destruction. It’s all par for the course for Langdon, of course, forever grappling with some insanely complicated puzzle in Dan Brown’s series of novels. This one involves an environmentalist-wacko billionaire (Ben Foster) who commits suicide after setting in motion a plot to exterminate half of humanity, and the usual globe-trotting race against time. Brown’s shallow bag of tricks is getting more outlandish even as his plot twists grow less and less surprising, but writer David Koepp, director Ron Howard and the European locations keep us amused. As Langdon’s ER doctor, Felicity Jones makes an appealing sidekick; too bad she won’t be back. J.L.

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When alien spacecraft suddenly appear all over the world, a linguist (Amy Adams) and a physicist (Jeremy Renner) are recruited to try to communicate with the visitors to find out why they came and what they want. Immersing herself in the aliens’ written language, the linguist finds her perception of the nature of time itself undergoing profound changes. The trailers seem to promise a variation on Independence Day, but readers of Ted Chiang’s “Story of Your Life” can relax: writer Eric Heisserer and director Denis Villeneuve have presented a master class in how to film an unfilmable story. They take major liberties with the letter of Chiang’s award-winning tale, but they stay absolutely faithful to its time-and-mind-bending spirit. The result is a genuine sci-fi thinkpiece, challenging and exhilarating. J.L.

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Every five years or so, Tom Cruise turns out another Mission: Impossible film, which reminds us why he’s a movie star, and why movie stars matter. Now two deep into movie adaptations of the Lee Child book series about an ex-soldier turned peripatetic amateur dick, the Jack Reacher franchise is becoming the anti-Mission: Impossible for Cruise—both movies are serviceable but forgettable, and they only remind us that star power has its limits. Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation director Christopher McQuarrie helmed the first Jack Reacher film, but Edward Zwick (Glory) takes over here. An awkward fit for the genre, Zwick is more at home with awards-grubbing message pictures, and compared to McQuarrie, his approach to the material is less gritty and more traditional. The resulting film is a little less distinctive and a little more digestible than McQuarrie’s grim take—Zwick gets the job done, but it’s thankless work. D.B.

Moonlight

Writer-director Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight follows a bullied, painfully shy, gay African-American male named Chiron from tortured boyhood through tortured adolescence and on to tortured young adulthood. The story is divided into three chapters, and each one is titled with one of the protagonist’s various identities—the belittled “Little” as a child, the tentatively self-realizing Chiron as a teenager, and the self-denying criminal “Black” as an adult—to symbolize the various personae he tries on for size throughout his life. The film is short on subtle symbolism but overflowing with empathy and beauty and grace. It’s hard to single out a performance for praise in the film’s terrific ensemble cast, but Mahershala Ali casts an enormous shadow over the film, even though he only appears in the first third. It’s only Jenkins’ second feature, but Moonlight feels more like a hard-earned career-capper rather than the career-igniter that it should become. D.B.

Train to Busan

The South Korean zombie apocalypse action drama Train of Busan poses an interesting question: What if World War Z was a good film? Animation director Sang-ho Yeon makes his live-action feature debut with this hybrid of 28 Days Later, Snowpiercer and Dawn of the Dead, although the film’s imagination and intensity are indebted to the anything-goes aesthetic of cartoons and comic books. As a “douche” fund manager grudgingly accompanies his neglected daughter on a train ride to visit his ex-wife, a chemical leak causes an outbreak of rampaging, flesh-eating, undead monsters, forcing the survivors to band together as the world rushing around them hurtles toward its bloody end. There’s nothing original in the content, and the band of survivors contains every zombie-apocalypse movie archetype imaginable (the pregnant couple, the saucer-eyed child, the bureaucrat coward, etc.), but it’s such a fun, fast, tightly crafted genre film that you could care less. D.B.

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and beats. This is not backwoods breakfast fodder. “Real, old-school country will never die,” Rich says. “But evolution is going to continue. I plan to stretch the boundaries. Nothing sucks more than falling into a bracket of what you can and can’t sound like.” The new tracks from Rich’s upcoming, yet-to-be-named album promise country music 2.0, with more in-your-face energy and post-production than we’ve heard from the California native since he the northern California singer comes back home. moved to Nashville last year. His sophomore album, due out next spring, will be a decided break from last summer’s Valerie, which was nearly all acoustic. Our country is at a crossroads right now. So is The change is a natural byproduct of Rich’s move country music. In this maelstrom, you’d be forgiven to Nashville and the relative fame that came with that. for not caring about the latter. But that is a mistake. “Three years living in L.A. and I never got to Country singer Tyler Rich has a motto for play an actual show, just background music for tackling uncertainty: If the situation looks dire, go cash,” Rich says. forward and give it all your energy anyway. One trip to Nashville convinced him to The Yuba City native found his motto at one move and just weeks later he drove east, painfully unglamorous performance in parked the moving van in downtown rural Oregon. His agent booked a gig Nashville and went straight to a that sounds like every musician’s neon-lit country bar. nightmare: playing for campers “Nothing sucks It’s been uphill on the eating breakfast at a backwoods charts since then. Rich hit more than falling into a music festival. No. 5 on the iTunes country “We had just driven nine bracket of what you can charts and No. 39 on the Top hours from my grandma’s house and can’t sound like.” 40. Now, Rich has a media in California,” Rich says. “In our manager, a tour with Dustin minds, it was going to be torture.” Tyler Rich Lynch under his belt and is In a ballsy move, Rich hit the country singer in talks with producers for his stage with his most energetic and next album. format-busting set. “I got to finally play L.A.,” he Following the show, he expected a says. “The first time back, I did three painful obligatory meet-and-greet. Instead, shows in two days and they all sold out.” an hour-long line greeted the band. At the end, one When Rich plays Sacramento this weekend, it’s septuagenarian Vietnam vet waited ominously, a prodigal return of sorts. “[Sacramento] was in a wearing a jacket decorated with military badges growing phase when I left,” he says. And so was he: and a scowl. “I left before pursuing anything as a solo artist.” “He looked pissed off the entire time,” Rich says. Debuting his new country sound is a risky attempt “Then he shook my hand and explained to me why it to win both stalwart genre denizens and metal was one of his favorite shows ever. He said he hadn’t converts. Inevitably, there will be scowls. Rich promseen that much energy at a country show maybe ever. ises to live by his motto and play like it’s the Country “Now I go out and play like there are a thousand Music Awards anyway. Ω people in the crowd,” Rich says. Rich is part of the emerging, next generation country wave, which, bolstered by the success of catch tyler rich at 8 p.m. friday, November 18, and saturday, November chart-toppers like Sam Hunt and Dustin Lynch, is 19, at Goldfield trading Post, 1630 J street. tickets are $10. launching country music into a new phase: fewer More at http://tylerrichmusic.com. acoustic riffs and dusty boots, more amplification Photo courtesy of tyler rich

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rock with traces of the Doors, Joy Division and misery. Between sets, folks could check out an awesome art display by Zac Nelson, who co-owns Zeal Kombucha in Sacramento. The art sculptures and paintings were made with the pellicles they use at the factory. The results are these paintings that look like three-dimensional bacterial growths, and sculptures that are of—well, that’s the best part. You weren’t always sure what you were looking at. Finally, Drug Apts. The group’s set bordered on unpredictable. In one song, piercing vocal screeches sunk into a seconds-long purgatory of uncomfortable silence, then into an alarm clock of drum tantrums

and a rapturous mess of curdled guitar and bass tones. Old-school punk mixed with rock ’n’ roll is one way of describing its sound. Disturbingly alive is another. The EP was released digitally and on vinyl on November 4,

but check out Drug Apts. live. The energy on display feels rare. Just remember to move if you’re standing at the front, or face the maracas. —Mozes zarate

Made in Japan: Two of Japan’s best prog-rock bands, Lite and Mouse on the Keys, played Harlow’s last week. And it was loud. The guy in front of me wore large headphones to block out some sound. When he asked his girlfriend if she wanted a beer, he literally had to write “beer?” on his phone and show it to her. Yeah, that loud, but what did you expect with Japanese instrumental math rock? Lite played the longer set of the two. The band’s sound was closer to a traditional prog-rock sound, heavy on guitars. The bassist carried songs with his perky, driving lines. There was an element of jazz permeating throughout every math chop the group played, almost like hyperjazz, with just a hint of funk. The most interesting moments were when the group steered away from the standard formula. There was some circus music and world beat influences. The closer was a Stranger Thingsworthy sci-fi jam that brought the house down. Lite had been in town a few times in the past, but this was Mouse on the Keys first show in Sacramento. The band demonstrated a lot of similar influences: math rock, jazz, synthy outer space sounds, but it was all mixed into a much more low-key, down-tempo groove. It was like a ’70s sitcom soundtrack mixed with the music from Donnie Darko. In other words, really eerie. The band consisted of three guys, all facing one another: one drummer and two keyboardists. The members had a lighting rig projected onto their faces and the backdrop behind them. The dancing patterns constantly changed: everything from zeros, spiraling cubes to twinkling lights. It was magical to watch—anyone that wasn’t floored by the end of the night wasn’t paying attention. —aaron Carnes

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Huntington Beach’s purveyors of gangsta-styled punk rock return to their favorite haunt in the suburbs for yet another night of debauchery. Don’t be fooled by the massive amount of vaping and weed references; this is one group HIP-HOP PUNK that knows how to craft clever, groove-laden songs. Since releasing its fantastic self-titled record back in 1997, singer Jared (real name Paulo Sergio Gomes) has rotated many talented members into the band, including current members Major Trauma (drums), Gregzilla (guitars) and Kid Bass (bass). 9426 Greenback Lane in Orangevale, www.hedperocks.com.

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Arena-size riffs in a 150-capacity room is a recipe for tinnitus. Nashville’s Diarrhea Planet finally have the most apropos name in modern music. The six-piece make the sort of rock ’n’ roll that goes well with beer showers, tire-burning donuts in an empty parking lot and drinking whiskey in a cornfield. This is the music that dudes who hang brass testicles from their F-150 should be jamming. The latest record, Turn To Gold, finds Diarrhea Planet ROCK ’N’ ROll trying on a dynamic maturity, but gimme 2011 Diarrhea Planet, that “Ghost With a Boner” Diarrhea Planet. 1400 Alhambra Boulevard, http://diarrheaplanet.com.

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Take even a cursory listen to the local indie getup Cold Eskimo’s 2012 debut record Glass Beach and you get the impression that the illusive four-piece might make big things happen in spite of itself; shows are few and far between and it’s been a long four years since the album drop. These complaints are, of course, selfish; I wish the band INDIE would play way more shows and make way more music, but if time and space are what it requires, let’s take what we can get. But definitely check out its brand of indie pop: sweet and hip without floating unrestrainedly into tweeness. 1001 R Street, www.facebook.com/ColdEskimo.

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Perhaps you’re familiar with “Coma Cat,” Tensnake’s 2010 hit? The disco-pop track catapulted the German producer from the underground circuit to internaDaNCE tional fame—but don’t count on hearing it live. Tensnake is now on tour supporting his new EP, Freunchen, which feels like a revival of his pre-cat days: ’80s-tinged, feel-good, wanna-dance disco and deep house unafraid of subdued moments. It’s his second release of the year, and the two-song Desire sounds in sync, abandoning the pop constructs and vocals of his major label debut, 2014’s Glow. Welcome Tensnake back to the seedy clubs of the world. 1119 21st Street, www.tensnake.com.

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“Fea” is Spanish for “ugly.” It’s also an acronym for “fuck ‘em all.” OK, so maybe that one’s made up by the band Fea. But you might believe it’s the real PUNk definition once you hear the ferocity in the band’s music. The four-piece is certainly playing off this double meaning; the members are Latina and sing lyrics in English and Spanish. This is pure feminist punk rock. The band’s song “Mujer Moderna” is an anti-rape-culture anthem waiting to take the world by storm. It’s got verses in both languages, helping twice as many young girls to take up arms and help smash the patriarchy. 3520 Stockton Boulevard, www.fea210.com.

One thing that we can all agree on about our nation’s current political path: We might be on the doorstep of a punk-rock renaissance. So let’s celebrate the inevitable with a healthy dose of estrogen this Saturday as the all-woman Ramones tribute band the Hormones takes over Starlite Lounge. This Oakland-based PUNk group markets itself on its website as both hard-hitting and ass-kicking—the “true Ramones experience with curves!” Given the state of our nation, who doesn’t want to see four bad-ass women perform “The KKK Took My Baby Away,” “Blitzkrieg Bop” and “I Wanna Be Sedated?” 1517 21st Street, www.hormonesband.com.

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by Willie Clark

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FOR THE WEEk OF NOVEMBER 17, 2016 ARIES (March 21-April 19): There is a 97 percent

chance that you will NOT engage in the following activities within the next 30 days: naked skydiving, tightrope walking between two skyscrapers, getting drunk on a mountaintop, taking ayahuasca with Peruvian shamans in a remote rural hut, or dancing ecstatically in a muddy pit of snakes. However, I suspect that you will be involved in almost equally exotic exploits—although less risky ones—that will require you to summon more pluck and improvisational skill than you knew you had.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The Onion, my

favorite news source, reported that “It’s perfectly natural for people to fantasize about sandwiches other than the one currently in their hands.” You shouldn’t feel shame, the article said, if you’re enjoying a hoagie but suddenly feel an inexplicable yearning for a BLT or pastrami on rye. While I appreciate this reassuring counsel, I don’t think it applies to you in the coming weeks. In my opinion, you have a sacred duty to be unwaveringly faithful, both in your imagination and your actual behavior—as much for your own sake as for others’. I advise you to cultivate an up-to-date affection for and commitment to what you actually have, and not indulge in obsessive fantasies about “what ifs.”

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I hesitate to deliver

the contents of this horoscope without a disclaimer. Unless you are an extremely ethical person with a vivid streak of empathy, you might be prone to abuse the information I’m about to present. So please ignore it unless you can responsibly employ the concepts of benevolent mischief and tricky blessings and cathartic shenanigans. Ready? Here’s your oracle: Now is a favorable time for grayer truths, wilder leaps of the imagination, more useful bullshit, funnier enigmas and more outlandish stories seasoned with crazy wisdom.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Kavachi is an under-

water volcano in the southwest Pacific Ocean. It erupts periodically, and in general makes the surrounding water so hot and acidic that human divers must avoid it. And yet some hardy species live there, including crabs, jellyfish, stingrays and sharks. What adaptations and strategies enable them to thrive in such an extreme environment? Scientists don’t know. I’m going to draw a comparison between you and the resourceful creatures living near Kavachi. In the coming weeks, I bet you’ll flourish in circumstances that normal people might find daunting.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Seventeenth-century

British people used the now-obsolete word “firkytoodle.” It meant “cuddling and snuggling accompanied by leisurely experiments in smooching, fondling, licking and sweet dirty talk.” The coming weeks will be prime time for you to carry out extensive experiments in this activity. But here’s an interesting question: Will the near future also be a favorable phase for record levels of orgasmic release? The answer: maybe, but if and only if you pursue firkytoodle as an end in itself; if and only if you relish the teasing and playing as if they were ultimate rewards, and don’t relegate them to being merely preliminary acts for pleasures that are supposedly bigger and better. P.S. These same principles apply not just to your intimate connections, but to everything else in your life as well. Enjoying the journey is as important as reaching a destination.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Here’s an experiment

worth trying: Reach back into the past to find a remedy for what’s bugging you now. In other words, seek out on an old, perhaps even partially forgotten influence to resolve a current dilemma that has resisted your efforts to master it. This is one time when it may make good sense to temporarily resurrect a lost dream. You could energize your future by drawing inspiration from possibilities that might have been but never were.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): By the time he died at

the age of 87 in 1983, free thinker Buckminster Fuller had licensed his inventions to more than 100 companies. But along the way, he often had to be patient as he waited for the world to be ready for his visionary creations. He was ahead of his time, dreaming up things that would be

needed before anyone knew they’d be needed. I encourage you to be like him in the coming weeks, Libra. Try to anticipate the future. Generate possibilities that people are not yet ripe to accept, but will eventually be ready to embrace.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Does the word

“revolution” have any useful meaning? Or has it been invoked by so many fanatics with such melodramatic agendas that it has lost its value? In accordance with your astrological omens, I suggest we give it another chance. I think it deserves a cozy spot in your life during the next few months. As for what exactly that entails, let’s call on author Rebecca Solnit for inspiration. She says, “I still think the [real] revolution is to make the world safe for poetry, meandering, for the frail and vulnerable, the rare and obscure, the impractical and local and small.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “We all

have ghosts inside us, and it’s better when they speak than when they don’t,” wrote author Siri Hustvedt. The good news, Sagittarius, is that in recent weeks your personal ghosts have been discoursing at length. They have offered their interpretation of your life’s central mysteries and have provided twists on old stories you thought you had all figured out. The bad news is that they don’t seem to want to shut up. Also, less than 25 percent of what they have been asserting is actually true or useful. But here’s the fantastic news: Those ghosts have delivered everything you need to know for now, and will obey if you tell them to take an extended vacation.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In the film

Bruce Almighty, Morgan Freeman plays the role of God, and Capricorn actor Jim Carrey is a frustrated reporter named Bruce Nolan. After Nolan bemoans his rocky fate and blames it on God’s ineptitude, the Supreme Being reaches out by phone. (His number is (716) 776-2323.) A series of conversations and negotiations ensues, leading Nolan on roller-coaster adventures that ultimately result in a mostly happy ending. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you Capricorns will have an unusually high chance of making fruitful contact with a Higher Power or Illuminating Source in the coming weeks. I doubt that (716) 776-2323 is the right contact information. But if you trust your intuition, I bet you’ll make the connection.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Some spiders are

both construction workers and artists. The webs they spin are not just strong and functional, but also feature decorative elements called “stabilimenta.” These may be as simple as zigzags or as complex as spiral whorls. Biologists say the stabilimenta draw prey to specific locations, help the spider hide and render the overall stability of the web more robust. As you enter the webbuilding phase of your cycle, Aquarius, I suggest that you include your own version of attractive stabilimenta. Your purpose, of course, is not to catch prey, but to bolster your network and invigorate your support system. Be artful as well as practical. (Thanks to Mother Nature Network’s Jaymi Heimbuch for info on stabilimenta.)

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “Aren’t there parts

of ourselves that are just better left unfed?” asked Piscean author David Foster Wallace. I propose that we make that one of your two keynotes during the next four weeks. Here’s a second keynote: As you become more and more skilled at not fueling the parts of yourself that are better left unfed, you will have a growing knack for identifying the parts of yourself that should be well-fed. Feed them with care and artistry!

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 COURTESY OF BRIAN GRUBER

War’s toll Brian Gruber’s become a world traveler. An ex-Sacramentan formerly involved in local media, Gruber recently published WAR: The Afterparty, a Kickstarter-funded book chronicling his travels across countries—including Cambodia, Iraq and Guatemala—where the United States has used military force. Gruber is currently living in Thailand, but SN&R caught up with him over the phone during one of his visits back to the area to talk about the book, his travels and the importance of clean bathrooms.

How did the book come about? Well, my birthday is August 4. And on my birthday in 2014 I noticed that was the 50th anniversary of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, where President [Lyndon B.] Johnson went on American television live, that evening, in 1964, and told the American public that the USS Maddox was attacked by … patrol boats. That actually never happened. It was a blip on the radar. So, we escalated the war and 58,000 Americans, 2 million Vietnamese were dead with no positive outcome for anyone. At the same time, ISIS jihadis were marauding across Northern Iraq, after we went there supposedly to bring freedom and democracy and prosperity. So, I wondered, do we achieve or fulfill the mission of these military interventions? And what are the real human, international costs on both sides?

What was it like actually seeing the results of the U.S. military interventions? What I was after and what I got in the book was getting a fresh narrative. You know, when you live in the United States you just are surrounded by a certain parameter, certain range of view points, certain information. And when you go to these places, the people who were there and experienced it first hand, or saw the aftereffects, have a very different point of view, and a more personal, visceral point of view. … And also I saw that the range of death and destruction and destabilization is far greater than what we’re told.

Was it hard getting people to open up and talk to you? Yeah, that was the big unknown; why would people talk to me? Would they talk to me, particularly in places like Afghanistan and Iraq. And what I experienced was, first of all, I was never seriously in harm’s way. No one ever sought to hurt me. And at first people are suspicious or curious, but after two minutes, if they come to believe that I really am who I say I am, that I am an independent American, who’s curious and wants to hear their story, then people open up and they do extraordinary things for you, particularly in those counties, countries like Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Guatemala.

How did you go about investigating?

What’s missing from American perspectives?

Years ago, I was a marketing director for Sacramento cable, and if we had a cable system somewhere that was never performing or meeting its goals we’d go out and do an audit and find out what was wrong and why they were not achieving their goals. And I thought it might be interesting to do a citizen audit and strap on a backpack and travel around the world.

What happened here is we get very ginned up about bombing Iran or intervening in the Syrian civil war or overthrowing Gaddafi in Libya, and we don’t then look back and try to see what were the effects, and to try to get the real narratives of the people who were there to find out what their experience was, and what the effect on their economy and on their political stability and things like

unexploded ordnance, which Americans mostly don’t know about. It will take 300 years to clear all the unexploded bombs from Southeast Asia, because at the time 30 percent of the B52 bomb payloads ... 30 percent of those bombs never exploded. And so kids and farmers are killed by the thousands still, and maimed.

How has this experience shaped your own political ideas? Yeah, I think especially during this election season, when Ted Cruz during the Republican debate says, “Let’s see if we can make the sand glow in the Middle East.” Well, we tried carpet bombing in Laos and Cambodia, we dropped more bombs on those countries, which we were not at war with, than on Japan during all of World War II. And in Cambodia, 50,000 people died and it became a major recruiting strategy for the Khmer Rouge, who then took over Cambodia and caused that terrible genocide there. … You start to realize that we’re dealing with other people’s lives.

What do you miss most from Sacramento? Great bathrooms. You know, I’ve learned to, and actually enjoyed, a wide arrange of different kinds of lodging … but my bottom line is a decent, clean, functioning bathroom. And the things we absolutely take for granted, you go into a restaurant or someone’s house and there’s marble countertops or just little amenities or things in bathrooms that you would never see in those countries such that when you do come back you appreciate a great shower, a well-functioning toilet, toilet paper and a proper sink. Ω

Find the book and more at www.wartheafterparty.com.

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