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Like many, I was devastated by the news out of Oakland this weekend.

Dozens confirmed dead after a massive fire at an artist’s live-work warehouse.

I didn’t know anyone, personally, but there were friends of friends— people whose communities overlapped with mine. Artists and creative spirits looking for a place to experience music and ideas, company and good conversation.

Oakland’s heartbreak is our heartbreak, too.

So many of us have been a part of such scenes—Sacramento has been home to similar spaces over the years. It’s home to them now.

I’ve been to shows and art exhibits and poetry readings at these places, I’ve stood shoulder to shoulder with old friends, admired the creativity of strangers and hugged new friends at the end of the night. Watching scenes from the rubble on TV, I couldn’t help but think, “That could have been me—that could have been someone I know.”

This heartbreak hits so close to home, geographically, personally, creatively and spiritually. It also raises myriad questions about affordable creative hubs and housing, safety and liability, city and business culpability.

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The family opening gifts on Christmas morning.

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Contacting, or getting in touch with old friends.

Getting in touch with people we haven’t seen for years, but that we keep in contact through Christmas cards and letters and the occasional visit. That is something that makes me very happy.

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Always getting together with family, wherever they are; whether it is here in Sacramento, Florida or wherever. ... We do a lot of singing. Sometimes we sing Christmas carols. Sometimes I sing in the choir as well.

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Yes, we are Re “Use it or lose it” by Rachel Leibrock (SN&R Editor’s Note, December 1): It is unquestionably apparent that your magazine has been anti-Trump from the very beginning of his presidential campaign. Now I read that you are calling him out on his opinion of what he thinks the consequences should be for people who burn the American flag.

You rush in to defend flag burners under the First Amendment, yet you neglect to mention Trump’s opinion about the consequences for such a disgraceful act are also under that same First Amendment, which is freedom of speech. If you want to seem at least a smidgen unbiased, at least report both sides of the story.

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by Ron Lowe (SN&R Letters, November 23): Mr. Lowe states he will never accept “the lying, cheating and dishonesty that has

become a way of life for the Republican Party.” Remember during the last Trump-Hillary debate, when Trump refused to say he’d accept the results of the election if he lost? Hillary called Trump’s statement “horrifying.” Everything the

Democrats warned might happen on the Republican side is now happening on the Democratic side—the “not my president” protests allegedly funded by Hillary supporter billionaire George Soros, fear-mongering, and calls for the electoral college to change the results. Tell me again how the two parties are not two sides of the same rotten political coin.

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Because, chemtrails Re “The dying tree” by Graham Womack (SN&R News, December 1): If the trees die, we die! It’s not just the drought and bark beetles that are taking our trees.

Let’s start making the connection between climate engineering and this so-called tree die-off.

Also known as geoengineering, this is the modification of the earth’s atmosphere with the

supplementation of compounds and chemicals, ostensibly as a means of favorably influencing the climate. One of the most significant means of climate engineering is the high-altitude spraying of aerosol compounds into the earth’s atmosphere, most notably aluminum, barium and other heavy metals. These compounds eventually end up on the ground and in the water, causing changes in soil pH and composition, and generally poisoning the earth below.

Sickness almost always visits communities within one to three days after the spraying has taken place. Whole ecosystems are collapsing and our rapidly dying trees are the most visible harbinger of what is unfolding. Let’s tell folks the truth about these “chemtrails” appearing over Sacramento more days than not.

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Councilman Allen Warren says the city should consider an indefinite moratorium on doing business with Wells Fargo—months before he is expected to face the bank in court over a personal debt worth millions.

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After more than a decade of fending off lawsuits from the financial institutions who loaned his development company money, North Sacramento Councilman Allen Warren is leading the charge against one of his biggest creditors: Wells Fargo Bank.

And questions about whether Warren is motivated by his civic duty or a personal vendetta against the bank that is suing him for more than $2.5 million have gone unasked by his council colleagues and city officials.

It’s not like Wells Fargo has many defenders these days.

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In September, the San Francisco-based bank was forced to admit its employees had opened more than 2 million bogus deposit and credit card accounts in customers’ names without their knowledge or consent. The widespread fraud has been blamed on a corporate culture that squeezed employees to reach unrealistic sales goals at almost any cost, and has already resulted in a $185 million civil penalty against the bank, an epic congressional scolding from Sen. Elizabeth Warren and the departure of Wells Fargo CEO and Chairman John Stumpf, who

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jumped ship in October without his $41 million golden parachute in stock and salary. Today, the bank is facing defections from numerous state and local governments threatening to pull their assets in a metastasizing loss of faith.

At an October 13 Sacramento City Council meeting, City Treasurer John Colville revealed the city was already in the process of divesting approximately $28 million of its assets from Wells Fargo for at least a year, and possibly longer. The elected official driving this campaign was none other than Warren, whose Del Paso

Heights development firm has been sued numerous times by Wells Fargo over the years. The largest of those lawsuits may be heading toward a $2 million judgment in March of next year, SN&R has learned, making for interesting timing during an unprecedented national moment.

Like President-elect Donald Trump, whose byzantine financial interests have groped their tentacles around the White House, Warren is a developer-politician with a trail of property holdings, unpaid debt and still-active lawsuits involving some of the very neighborhoods he represents as a two-term council member.

And while the public may not have much sympathy for a tainted banking institution like Wells Fargo, Warren might have found an opportune time to exert political pressure on the bank—months before both sides are scheduled to appear before a judge regarding Warren’s outstanding debt.

In a phone interview, Warren drew a parallel between his personal legal problems with the bank and the revelations about its operating practices. “I first brought some of these issues to light … maybe four or five years ago … and now

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WaitinG Game I think all this stuff is starting to come out,” he told SN&R. But his push to suspend the city’s financial relationship reveals how professional disputes can shape public policy—and how policy can then reverberate back in those very disputes.

The counter-lawsuit was just a sideshow to the main event. In August 2011, Wells Fargo filed a breach-of-contract lawsuit against Warren for allegedly failing to pay back $1.8 million he borrowed in two separate loans five years earlier. The case has dragged on for years, but a decision may be on the horizon. the relationship between Warren and On August 19, Wells Fargo, National Wells wasn’t always toxic.

Association, filed a motion requesting a As the founder and president of New $2,054,048.85 summary judgment in its Faze Development Inc., headquartered in favor. In an emailed statement, a bank Del Paso Heights, Warren had already built spokeswoman said the amount represented some residential subdivisions with both the unpaid principal and interlending help from the bank est on the decade-old loans. by the mid-2000s, when The Sacramento Superior his boutique company Court has tentatively “If they were began to expand into scheduled to hear the willing to treat retail a midsize firm of 40 matter on March 16, employees and 25 to 2017. investors that way, who 30 different holding When factorknows what they were companies, according in the unpaid doing with their institutional ing to court arbitraattorney fees and tion documents. other costs, the bank side?”

In that era, before is asking the court John Colville the housing market to order Warren to Sacramento City Treasurer cratered, Warren was pay out more than $2.5 a prolific borrower and million—a request that will Wells a willing lender. likely expand before the hearAccording to a review of ing, the spokeswoman said.

Sacramento County court documents, Wells “WF’s attorney’s fees are increasing Fargo initiated at least five legal actions with litigation activity in the case and, against Warren or his companies since therefore, the amount we will request will 2010. As SN&R previously reported, a be higher,” wrote Julie Campbell, vice Sacramento Superior Court judge ordered president of corporate communications for Warren to pay nearly $300,000 in outstandthe bank’s Northern and Central California ing personal credit card debt and interest regions. to Wells Fargo in 2012. And in June of last Neither side is saying the city’s divestyear, a judge ordered Warren and four of his ment process is connected to the lawsuit business entities to pay the bank more than over Warren’s debt, but it does create inter$516,000 in attorneys’ fees and other legal esting leverage: Could Wells Fargo decide costs after an arbitration panel dismissed it’s less expensive to forgive a $2.5 million Warren’s countersuit against Wells. loan than it is to lose the city’s business?

Warren was seeking nearly $1.4 million And could Warren advise easing the politiin damages for what he argued was bad cal sanctions if his company gets a break? financial advice relating to a $1 million “Questions like this point to the need investment his company made in a tax for an independent ethics commission, shelter company back in 2005. Warren tried enforcing an improved city ethics code, to argue that a Wells Fargo financial adviser which would be able to advise, clear or misled him into thinking he could pull his investigate based on the facts in each case,” money out of the company, called DCT, said Gavin Baker, the open government months earlier than he was able, and that program manager at California Common the delay proved catastrophic, prompting Cause, a nonpartisan grassroots organiza“a cascade of events that caused millions of tion focused on government transparency. dollars in damages to New Faze,” an April “These reforms, which the city council has 2015 arbitration ruling states. endorsed in concept but has not yet enacted, While arbitrators concluded that Warren would let voters rest assured that there is a did lose nearly $200,000 in the deal, they cop on the beat.” determined that he was largely to blame.

Asked if he saw Wells Fargo’s current Calling him a “sophisticated investor,” troubles as a vindication for his own claims, arbitrators held Warren responsible after Warren demurred, saying that was a matter he admitted signing a 100-page agreement to be decided by the legal system and the he never read because, he testified, it was court of public opinion. “incomprehensible.”

“You’ve got to draw your own conclusions,” Warren said. “I think the facts speak for themselves. I think it’s evident that there were a lot of things going on there. I think it’ll be sorted out in another year, maybe two. It might take longer depending on how the bank responds. I’m just fortunate that I was in a position to be able to fight back and bring it to light.” bring it to light he did.

Former City Manager John Shirey explained during the October 13 meeting that he had been “asked by one of the [council] members to expound … on what it is that the city is doing in response to Wells Fargo’s activities.” That brought up City Treasurer Colville, who disclosed that he’d begun the process of suspending and selling off the city’s stocks and approximately $28 million worth of bonds previously held by Wells Fargo, during an impromptu public session that hadn’t been advertised on the council’s agenda.

At the meeting, Councilwoman Angelique Ashby lauded Warren for his leadership in working with Colville to do “the responsible thing on behalf of the city of Sacramento.”

And Warren was outspoken in his approval, deriding the bank for a “corrupt” corporate culture and implying that a oneyear separation may not be harsh enough.

“I think we should be mindful of companies coming in [that] spread a little money around to get back in [good] graces … and then after a couple years they fall back into the same patterns,” Warren said at the meeting, referring to Wells Fargo’s potential attempts to rebrand its image.

Asked if Warren’s advocacy on this issue constituted a conflict of interest, Campbell declined comment.

From a legal standpoint, City Attorney James Sanchez said there was no such conflict since the council wasn’t asked to vote on anything.

“In terms of any conflicts, without having any action by the council, there really isn’t anything to talk about,” he told SN&R. “There can be no conflict when the council is not involved in the decision. That was something the [city] manager and the treasurer had done.”

As for Wells Fargo’s stated separation between its business and retail banking, that provided no reassurance to Colville.

“We [don’t] want to be involved or own stock or own bonds in a company that was fraudulent,” he told the council in October.

“If they were willing to treat retail investors that way, who knows what they were doing with their institutional side?” Ω

A police reform advocacy group says Sacramento officials still haven’t provided basic statistics regarding traffic stops in predominately black and latino neighborhoods six months after it requested them.

The outstanding request from the Law Enforcement Accountability Directive, or LEAD, came to light during an emotional November 27 city council meeting. While elected officials did approve a number of changes to Sacramento’s embattled police oversight commission, the call-log numbers around traffic stops still had not been released, despite LEAD asking for them in a letter in July.

At least two politicians put the blame on recently departed City Manager John Shirey. mayor kevin Johnson assured Owen that newly appointed interim City Manager Howard Chan would provide the statistics that Shirey, who retired the week before, had not. “I just want to make it clear that it was our previous city manager who did not follow up on that item,” Johnson remarked. “But Howard is going to get you that data.” councilwoman angelique ashby expressed her own concern about the lack of responsiveness. “On the traffic stop data that was requested by LEAD and not provided by our previous city manager, do we have something we can give to them in relatively short order?”

Ashby asked Chan.

“I’m going to have to follow up with our police department,” Chan replied. “I’m unaware.”

Other new measures included making the police oversight commission entirely civilian and having it report directly to the city council instead of city manager. Council members also enacted a directive requiring the Sacramento Police Department to release all video evidence within 30 days of a controversial incident. The policy allows for the police chief to obtain a waiver from council members in cases where it can be argued that releasing video evidence severely compromises an investigation.

Members of LEAD, Sacramento Area Congregations Together and local chapters of the ACLU and Black Lives Matter all criticized the council’s new policies as not going far enough to create a truly independent oversight commission. (Scott Thomas Anderson)

off-DUty remarkS Two weeks ago, SN&R came across a post from a Facebook user named Don Martin that suggested using “illegal immigrants” as “target practice.” The user’s name and photos matched those of a fire engineer who has worked for the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District for 25 years.

On December 2, the district confirmed to Sn&r that these posts were made by “an employee of the district while off duty.”

In an email, SMFD Acting Deputy Chief of Administration Brian Shannon said, “We have taken action consistent with our policies and within state and federal laws protecting the Constitutional speech rights of public employees.”

Citing worker confidentiality rights, Shannon declined to elaborate what those actions were.

In Brandenburg v. Ohio, the U.S. Supreme court protected speech that advocates violence so long as it isn’t “directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and [isn’t] likely to incite or produce such action.” Several cases have protected public employees from termination for their political beliefs.

Don Martin’s Facebook page was disabled as of last week.

“The public can be assured that Metro Fire does not condone statements which may be perceived as threatening or discriminatory toward anybody, especially members of the public we serve,” Shannon added. (John Flynn)

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There are 30,232 special education students Supple teaches students with moderate disabilienrolled in Sacramento County school districts, ties at Sutter Middle School. When she applied for according to the California Department of the position 15 years ago, she had five other offers.

Education. The dearth of instructors to teach them Today, she can’t wait to leave. “I dream almost is part of a national trend blamed on high burnout every day of getting out,” said Supple, who plans to and fewer credentialed professionals in the hiring teach five more years, until her own children are out pool. And parents say it’s the students who rely on of school. consistent classroom attention who stand to lose.

According to the special education personnel One class at Folsom High School was without coalition, nearly 12.3 percent of special education a full-time special education teacher two months teachers leave the profession within five years. into the new school year. The array of substitutes Supple has lasted longer than most, but the mentally brought in to fill the gap until a permanent replacetaxing profession has exacted a toll. ment was hired left Kelly Supple’s son “I think I do a good job, but, there is anxious. The 14-year-old has moderate an extent to what I can do,” she told autism and is nonverbal.

SN&R. “I do take anti-anxiety Supple, a credentialed special pills daily. I’ve been on pills education teacher herself, said “I dream almost for depression. I’ve had to that when her son becomes every day of getting go through many things to nervous, he acts out by manage the stress related to unraveling the threads of his out.” my work.” knee socks. Sometimes, she Kelly Supple Though her students are said, he would arrive home special education teacher, parent the heart of her work, they are from school with his pickedof special-education student also the least of her worries. at socks unwound down to his Supple, who once dreamed ankles. of a career spent crafting creative Supple said the Folsomlesson plans, said her time is Cordova Unified School District dominated by required paperwork. She is eventually lured a special education responsible for assessing, drafting and coordinating teacher with three years of experience to her son’s individualized education plans, or IEPs, for 25 to 30 school by offering a $10,000 signing bonus. students.

But a nationwide staffing shortage persists.

And there are the occasional student altercations Fifty-one percent of all school districts and 90 that need to be investigated, reported and sorted out. percent of high-poverty school districts struggle to These tasks are balanced—or not—while teaching attract qualified and credentialed special education students lesson plans tailored to their specific needs. teachers to fill these slots, according to the National Supple said that she is dismayed by the lack Coalition on Personnel Shortages in Special of support for her plight at the district level—and Education and Related Services. her dissatisfaction aligns with national statistics One other district, meanwhile, has expanded the showing that special education teachers often lack search beyond these shores. professional support and work in isolation.

Sacramento City Unified School District has “I basically feel like I am teaching the same recruited 13 special education teachers from the thing every year because I have no time to put into Philippines with the help of Avenida International a lesson plan,” she said. Ω Consultants Inc., a teacher recruitment agency that also secured an apartment complex for all of the teachers to live in. The Filipino teachers are on contract to work for one year.

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Labor and human rights activist Michael Israel was remembered during a December 4 vigil in Sacramento as a selfless, fearless engine for change. Israel was killed last week while volunteering to fight ISIS alongside a Kurdish militia in northern Syria.

Israel, 27, was on his second trip in two years to fight with the men and women of YPG International, or the Kurdish People’s Protection Unit, a leftist Kurdish resistance force defending the territory of Rojava from Islamic State fighters. In the early morning hours of November 29, YPG International announced on social media that Israel, along with a German volunteer named Anton Leschek, had been killed on the front lines.

Israel grew up 50 minutes east of Sacramento in Amador County. For more than seven years, he was involved in major protests around the capital, with a passion for workers’ rights, health care reform and social justice initiatives. He was a constant presence in Northern California’s Occupy movement, taking part in demonstrations from Cesar Chavez Plaza to rural Sonora in Tuolumne County. He was also active with Sacramento’s Industrial Workers of the World.

Friends said that his reason for volunteering to fight in Syria was to guard a free, independent Kurdish socialist movement in Rojava under constant threat from ISIS. SN&R had been in contact with Israel through a messaging service while he was fighting with YPG. Though the internet connection was spotty and sporadic for Israel, he had agreed to sit down for an interview about the conditions on the ground in Syria upon returning home. On August 20, Israel told SN&R he expected to be back in the United States around late January.

During Sunday’s vigil, held at Organize Sacramento’s office on Broadway, scores of friends and activists remembered Israel as a friendly young man driven by his convictions.

“He was an amazing guy,” said retired labor organizer Jimmy Laughton. “If he was alive right now, he wouldn’t even be here tonight, he’d be in North Dakota, standing alongside the Sioux.

Mike never stood still—he had the fire in him.”

Several members of Sacramento’s Kurdish community attended the vigil to pay their respects for Israel’s sacrifice.

David Roddy, one of Israel’s closest friends, told the mourners it’s a sacrifice some journalists failed to comprehend.

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The Democrats lost the presidency.

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As a newspaper publisher, I meet many people who are running for office. Usually, they are fairly accomplished people with a betterthan-average understanding of government.

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Can teen boxing prodigy Dylan Cayuga make good on the promise of fallen fighter Richard Duran?

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ylan Cayuga’s knuckles crack the focus mitts, batting his trainer’s padded palms like a rifle volley that terrorizes the air. He jabs one, pivots and throws a cross at the other. It’s the sound of shock batons—a whip and a snapped window.

The reverberations echo in Caballero NorCal Boxing Club on Stockton Boulevard. The winter sun glints through the gym’s roll-up doors as an audience enjoys the final matches of an amateur boxing event.

Cayuga and his coach Shawn Porghavami finish with the mitts. The crowd knows what comes next: Cayuga, who just turned 17, is about to fight 27-year-old Ricardo Mancilla. Each combatant hits the scale at 134 pounds, though Mancilla’s poundage is built on him in visible biceps, triceps and deltoids. His brawny frame stands in contrast to that of the lean high schooler.

Cayuga glances at his opponent before climbing through the ropes. “He’s just human, same as me,” he says to himself. That’s the mindset behind why Cayuga has arrived today with a record of nine wins and one loss—the one defeat a controversial judges’ decision in San Francisco the week before. Now, Cayuga is determined to get back into the winning column by pushing his record to 10-and-1. The teenager just has to go through Mancilla to do it, just has to survive the man who’s now stretching and flexing a tatted, rocksolid torso powering the incoming punches when the action starts.

The longtime boxing aficionados watching Cayuga know there’s more than his own professional aspirations riding on those slim shoulders: His fighting style, his relentless workouts, the philosophy behind his mental approach, are all tied to the late guru of the gloves Richard “Bam Bam” Duran. Dead now five years, Duran remains the Greek tragedy of Sacramento boxing, an Olympian hopeful and two-time world title contender whose future was altered by a deadly bar fight in 2000.

Duran’s determination to find meaning in one senseless blur of violence was cut short when he died of a sudden stroke at the age of 44. Cayuga may be chasing his own passion and future in the ring, but for those who remember what Duran was, and might have been, the heights this prodigy soars to could validate Duran’s final quest for redemption. It’s an unspoken question half-haunting Lord’s Gym: Can Cayuga’s fists punch up a new ending for Bam Bam with a shot at the Golden Gloves? As far as the teen is concerned, the answer starts tonight.

ROuND 1: THE quIET kID Cabellero’s November 12 fight schedule is well underway as Cayuga checks his gloves and Mancilla idles with a cold calmness across the ring. When the referee calls each man to the center, Cayuga drills a deadened stare into the eyes looking back at him. He does not blink.

It starts with a jab—light, fast and snapping. Cayuga’s quickness is evident. He goes directly at Mancilla and, after landing the first punch, closes the distance with a double-left knuckle rap against the other’s cheek. And he keeps attacking. He fires a fast right hook into Mancilla’s ribs. The stronger boxer tries to counter but the teenager is already out of reach.

Now Cayuga lands a right cross. Mancilla retaliates with an uppercut. Cayuga’s jab stays on target and the two are suddenly tangled. When the referee breaks them, Mancilla is hit with another missile near his chin.

Behind the ropes, Porghavami watches his fighter remain on offense. He knows fans who have never seen Cayuga before probably won’t be able to peg his personality.

“Dylan is actually a quiet kid, even a little soft-spoken,” Porghavami says. “He’s a good kid, and I think he really feels at home with the guys in our gym. Everyone there knows that he’s got heart for days.”

Cayuga may not be talkative, but he has no problem describing what he loves about boxing. For the junior at Roseville’s Adelante Continuation School, strapping on the gloves is a way of constant self-challenge. He says he likes pushing his body. He gets energized by the pelting pops of mitt work. He especially enjoys touring Sacramento’s boxing clubs to spar with new people, dealing in real time with whatever unexpected arsenal or skill set he’s practicing against.

Cayuga says he’s addicted to mastering his nerves before a fight, as well as the internal surge from having his arm raised up as the winner. He’s not shy anymore about announcing his plans.

“I’m trying to get as far as I can in this sport,” he says.

And to do that, at this moment, Cayuga has to keep the pressure on. Mancilla wraps him up in another hug. The third time the referee separates them, Cayuga punishes Mancilla with a swift, four-punch flurry to his sternum capped by a left hook. It’s a boxing combination reminiscent of one of Duran’s best televised moments in the ring, a flash that came during his first shot at the junior-featherweight title in 1993.

After competing in the Olympic trials and winning a staggering 111 amateur fights, Duran went pro and, by the age of 26, was granted his initial championship match. Fighting out of

Midtown Sacramento’s Washington Neighborhood Center, he was an undefeated professional that night with a record of 26-0. He was also ranked the No. 2 fighter in the world in his weight class. On that evening in April 1993, Duran walked into Sacramento’s Arco Arena to battle for glory against the only man he’d ever lost an amateur bout to, Kennedy McKinney, of Memphis, Tenn.

Back then, the Capital City’s boxing fans were electrified as Duran stalked McKinney around the ring, flustering him with lightning jabs and roller skate footwork, waging an up-close war while still keeping beyond the champ’s 4-inch reach advantage. Halfway through the first round, Duran exploded on McKinney, battering him with a concrete left to the face, hitting him with a hook down low and finishing the onslaught with a wide, right punch to the champ’s ribs. The Sacramento fans erupted in applause.

“Richard had a style, and an unbelievable run as an amateur, and then there he was, fighting for the title,” recalls former Sacramento boxer Shawn Holmes, one of Duran’s teammates under the hard-charging coach Don Conley. “It was such an exciting time for everyone at our gym.”

Those memories are still alive in the church basement of Lord’s Gym in Roseville where Cayuga trains every night.

While the new fighter is sparring, sweating and hitting the mitts, he can see a wall full of photographs: Duran surrounded by trophies as a teenager; Duran in his Olympic trial warmups in 1984; Duran posing next to boxing legend Sugar Ray Leonard.

It’s motivation. And Cayuga shows that motivation now by ending the first round against Mancilla strong, completely ducking a tight roundhouse as the bell rings.

ROuND 2: ROll WITH THE puNCHES The spectators at Caballero’s want to see what Cayuga does next. The aroma of carnitas sizzling on a propane grill drifts in through the roll-up door as a neighborhood family serves tacos and meat-slathered nachos to the audience. Children play outside in the business park’s corridors while their parents chat around the ring. Boxers who have already finished their bouts lazily unwrap their hands over duffel bags.

Cayuga waits for the bell. Four gym mates shout encouragement from the front. No members of Cayuga’s family are here tonight, but the teenagers who constantly share with him the risk and punishment of the ring make sure he feels the presence of a second family. That’s almost always what his cheering section looks like.

It’s peer support a 17-year-old can feel. He knows he’s

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“People want me to focus on school and everything, but boxing is just totally different.

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not alone. He may just be a kid who works at a car wash and loves watching YouTube videos of Muhammad Ali, Andre Ward and Roy Jones Jr., but he says he’s always experienced support from his gym while learning “the sweet science” of the knuckles.

“Coach checks in with me and makes sure everything is going good, you know, home life and stuff, and usually it is,” Cayuga says.

Cayuga hears the bell and makes a beeline for Mancilla.

The more powerful of the two looks for an opening, but Cayuga is already stopping him with steady punches.

Mancilla starts diving in at Cayuga’s waist to pin his arms down, while simultaneously throwing punches at the side of the younger boxer’s ribs or skull.

The awkward back-and-forth continues for the next minute, Cayuga landing rapid face-shots and Mancilla grabbing him around the center to hammer away at the inside. But Porghavami has told his fighter to anticipate this.

And so, late in the second, after the ref breaks them apart, Cayuga clips Mancilla’s eye with a jab. The teen then turns with flawless side-to-side footwork and bombs his adversary with a left hook to the midsection before jabbing up high and rocking Mancilla’s head with perfect left-right assault.

Mancilla attempts to counter only for Cayuga to duck his hook with the artistry judges love to see. This defensive display is what Cayuga has been training for in that obscure church basement, that ring illuminated by caged garage lights near concentration bags anchored with buckets of cement and heavy bags dangling on chains from exposed iron beams. The rough-edged fighting zone has

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taught Cayuga to dip, tuck and roll his shoulders when the punches are coming.

While equipment at Lord’s Gym isn’t new or state of the art, neither was the equipment at Conley’s Washington Neighborhood Center, which launched champions like Loreto Garza and figures like Duran.

“You don’t need a bunch of shiny gear or fancy stuff,” Porghavami tells his students. “You just need to be willing to work and have that hunger inside.”

Cayuga looks hungry enough now in the ring, growing more aggressive as he lands a flying right cross to Mancilla’s head. A cocktail of cheers and moans reverberates through the gym. “Niiiice!” one fan yells from the front.

“Beautiful shot, blue!” another calls out.

Cayuga and Porghavami are adhering to a basic strategy with boxing judges— control the middle of the fight. In an amateur bout, that means make a show like this in the second round.

For Richard Duran, in Arco Arena on that night back in April of 1993, it meant holding the line in the sixth round.

But early in the match McKinney made a cut above Duran’s left eye by way of a walloping jab. Halfway through the sixth, Duran’s eye was spilling blood and creating a challenge for the team in his corner. Duran pressed on, landing classic combinations on the champ, continuing to hurt him inside and out. Yet the cut kept breaking open. Duran fought through blood dripping onto his cornea. In the final round the commentators had Duran and McKinney nearly even on the score cards, but Duran kept getting hit with the champ’s long,

leaning jab. He took punch after punch around the cut above his eye. Duran slowed, and then slowed more, until the fight ended with his head lowered and McKinney still holding a belt.

One year later, the International Boxing Federation gave Duran his second shot at the super-bantamweight title when they cleared him to fight champion Tracy Harris Patterson. The match took place in in Reno, Nev., and Duran again found himself on the losing end of a decision.

Duran’s loss to Patterson started a running line with boxing commentators that, at age 28, he was physically spent from the years of dominating as an amateur. The rap was that 112 amateur fights and 30 professional battles had cost too much.

Duran retired in 1994, but he hadn’t seen anything like the bottom yet. Though he sometimes volunteered at the Washington Neighborhood Center, rumors of out-of-control drinking began to follow him. It was also whispered he was starting to get into fistfights outside of the ring. Duran had already felt the brunt of a well-publicized DUI arrest before his title match with McKinney, and several years and a failed career later, some boxers and trainers in the Capital City were worried.

On the other hand, he was still the Bam Bam everybody loved: still the joker who lived for surprising people with pranks; still the gym rat who played air guitar and blasted hard rock while other boxers were sparring; still the engaging life of the party who seemed to have a best friend in every major city from Colorado to the West Coast. At age

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36, Duran started talking about getting serious with coaching. His new dream was to train a champion. People were rooting for his success. Duran’s supportive attitude and friendly nature made it hard not to. So, it came as a shock to many when Bam Bam was arrested for murder in the summer of 2000.

According to statements made at the time by the Sacramento Police Department, Duran had been hanging out that evening at Jose’s Hideaway on Northgate Boulevard.

During the early morning hours, a brawl broke out in the front parking lot between several men. Police said 36-yearold Artemio Cabrera attempted to separate those involved and ended up in a showdown with Duran. Some of Duran’s friends, on the other hand, claim Cabrera “jumped” the boxer. Either way, up against a professional fighter’s weaponized knuckles, Cabrera went down. He never got back up.

A few days later, hearing that homicide detectives were looking for him, Duran turned himself in.

The news quickly made headlines in Sacramento. Duran’s main sparring partner at the Washington Neighborhood Center, former pro Miguel Pantoja, remembers how talk of the bloodshed was circulating through the boxing world.

“I think more than anything, most of the people who spoke about it felt sorry for [Duran],” Pantoja recalls. “We knew he was going to do time, and be away from his family, and this would be going down on his record as a felony.”

Duran eventually pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and was sentenced to a year in prison.

Duran’s sister, Tracy Madrid, says the brief time he spent behind bars marked a turning point.

“I would say he was different after he left prison,” Madrid observes. “I think he wanted more for his family, more for his little girls, and I know he wanted to prove that people can make a positive change in their lives.”

Duran’s turnaround created a program that later opened a world of possibilities for Cayuga.

ROuND 3: THE cONTENDER The contest between Cayuga and Mancilla is minutes away from being decided. They wait in their corners for the final round. Mancilla sits on his bench, taking deep breaths.

Cayuga remains standing, rocking on his heels. Some in the audience think Mancilla’s only hope to win is leveraging his upper body strength for a knockout. After all, this is boxing: It could be done with a single, well-timed uppercut to the teenager’s chin.

Mancilla pressures Cayuga into the ropes, searching for an opening. Yet before the stronger man can launch a blow, Cayuga slips a line-drive punch through his defense to connect with his face. Mancilla jumps in, trying to wrap

Cayuga up again: He’s stopped by a machine gun combo of punches firing on his chest. Despite these direct hits, Mancilla makes his move, punching the side of Cayuga’s head with a bruising left hook.

But it’s not a knockout.

Mancilla returns to trying to clench. Cayuga is circling and quickly slams his opponent’s face with another left-right cadence. Cayuga appears to be fighting with as much energy as he had in the first round. The moment crystallizes why people around Northern California’s boxing scene have noticed that the 17-year-old’s steady, controlled aggression—it comes from lungs that never seem to run out of air.

“The wind in his chest is unbelievable,” Porghavami observes. “Dylan started boxing in amazing shape, because he’d trained for marathons in high school. But the system we have in our gym, and the huge emphasis we put on cardio conditioning, allowed him to reach another level. He has the stamina now to always be on the attack, round after round.

And a lot of the training system comes directly from Duran.”

The future coach also learned some humility from Duran.

“He was pretty quiet, and never talked about his professional career,” Porghavami says. “Most people there didn’t know he’d been a contender.”

Unless they sparred him. James Dorris, currently the International Boxing Association cruiserweight and supercruiserweight champion for Badge Vs. Badge police boxing as well as heavyweight champion for Battle of the Badges police boxing, started his career training with Duran at Lord’s Gym. “Even though guys were younger than him, they’d be sparring him and couldn’t hit him at all,” Dorris remembers.

“I’d be sparring him and I’d throw some five or six-punch combination, and then I’d realize, ‘I don’t think I touched him even once.’”

One of Duran’s main students at Lord’s Gym, boxer Mario Monarrez, began winning amateur fights around California and Nevada. Duran set his sights on taking Monarrez to the pros. But in the spring of 2011, Holmes and Monarrez both noticed Duran wasn’t looking well. He mentioned serious issues with his blood pressure.

“The medication they gave him made him really drowsy, and sometimes if he took it, he’d end up missing a couple days at the gym,” Monarrez says. “The gym was his life. He wanted to be there every day, no matter what; and so he didn’t like taking the medicine.”

On April 26, 2011, Duran died of a massive stroke. Local boxers and coaches were stunned. Sacramento’s former boxing champion Tony “The Tiger” Lopez told reporters Duran was “a warrior in and out of the ring” and a man whose real legacy was helping “keep kids off the streets.”

The loss hit Monarrez especially hard. “Bam Bam was more than a coach,” he says, “it was like losing a second father.”

Cayuga is part of a program Afraid the impact Duran that the late Richard “Bam was having with young people Bam” Duran founded to train young boxing hopefuls. would die with him, Holmes volunteered to keep the Bam PHOTO BY KARLOS Rene AYALA Bam Boxing program alive.

Two years ago, Holmes helped one of his top students— Porghavami was 18 when he first met Duran. Roseville’s Porghavami—take over as the main coach.

Abundant Life Church had asked Duran if he’d start a “We didn’t want to see Richard’s style and method and boxing program as a form of youth outreach. Duran was mission get changed by someone,” Porghavami says. struggling financially, but the ability to make a positive Cayuga walked into the gym soon after. Holmes and impact was a chance he wouldn’t pass up. The boxing Porghavami saw the kid’s raw talent immediately. The more club at Lord’s Gym soon became his driving passion. they trained Cayuga, the more they gauged what they call Duran didn’t own a car and rode his bike 16 miles in both a natural fearlessness and a rare ability to follow a game directions every day, pedaling from his home in Del Paso plan during an actual fight. They also spotted an important Heights to the Lord’s Gym in downtown Roseville. personal quality in Cayuga.

Bam Bam’s teammate from the Conley days, Holmes, “On top of his amazing conditioning, his technique and agreed to be an assistant coach. Holmes says Duran was his ability to soak up boxing lessons like a sponge, Dylan intent on using his talents and life experience in a way is also just really nice,” Holmes says. “No matter how well that would give troubled young men and women a posihe’s doing, he’s someone who can check his ego at the door, tive outlet. Porghavami felt the vibe right away.

“I did boxing as a way to stay out of trouble and get away from some bad habits,” Porghavami recalls. “The take on boxing at the Lord’s Gym got me out of a rough patch, and I fell in love with it.” continued on page 19

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which is important to what we’ve been trying to teach all of the young people who come through.”

But ego and confidence are different forces, and now, in the final minute of the third round, Cayuga needs the latter. He slips out of one of Mancilla’s hugs to land a jab before stepping left and cross-drilling his opponent’s face with a right hand. It’s just what Porghavami wants to see. He wants Cayuga to hear their plan inside his head, to execute the in-and-out footwork laced with punches they discussed: Left, step, right. Left, step, right. Left, step, right.

Mancilla tries to grab Cayuga one more time, but the teen shimmies sideways and drives a right cross straight into his kisser. “Ah-ha-oooh!” a spectator hollers out. Dull tapping on wood indicates the final seconds of the round. Cayuga makes sure the judges see he lands the parting shot.

When Cayuga yanks his headgear off, it’s the first moment he’s smiling. For an instant he no longer looks like a young Marine recruit heading into a war zone—just for a second, he looks like a regular teen on top of the world. The judges make it official: Cayuga now has 10 wins to his one loss.

If he stays on this track, fighting for Golden Gloves or getting invited to Olympic trials could be within reach. For Cayuga, this feeling swelling under the ribs could not come any other way.

“Boxing is what I love to do: It’s the main thing I think about now,” he says. “People want me to focus on school and everything, but boxing is just totally different. It’s what I want to spend all my time on.”

And it’s this endless thirst for the thrill that links Cayuga to the spirit of the man who started his club’s program—a nexus where the shadow of Bam Bam recedes to a point of illumination. Maybe people like Duran’s sister are the only outsiders who understand what makes a contender tick.

“Richard once told me that he couldn’t breath without boxing,” Tracy Madrid says, fighting back tears.

Whether or not Cayuga becomes the kind of professional boxer Duran dreamed of training, he and the late fighter already share a knowledge of that rare high that comes dancing on the line of grace and chaos. The rush is so strong that, right now, Cayuga isn’t even envisioning any other career outside of the ring. He wants more of that high. He knows it can only be found in boxing. And he’s aware Duran found it first.

“I’ve heard a lot about what Duran did, not just as a pro, but as an amateur, which is where I am right now,” Cayuga says. “I’m trying to live up to what he did, and be the best fighter I can be.” Ω

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wo years after his father’s funeral, Scott Ferreter gathered four of his most trusted collaborators. At midnight, they entered St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, where all was dark and quiet. They recorded the sacred ambient noise of the empty cathedral because it reminded him of the church where the funeral was held, and his father’s name was Paul.

“I want you to think about not playing this song,” Ferreter told the musicians, “but imagine the environment in which this song would be born.”

A soundtrack for grief

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Then, voices and guitar loops broke the silence.

Sounds built on top of each other, and the musicians used whatever instruments they could find. Buddy Hale, also of the local band Separate Spines, screamed like an animal. Elliot Mende drummed on a tulip.

So began one of the many recording sessions for Ferreter’s album See You in the Morning Light, which he describes as “a soundtrack for the grieving process.”

It gets released Tuesday, December 13, at the very same church, St. Paul’s.

Over four years, Ferreter collaborated with 22 musicians in a project he dubbed Deep Pools. The stormy songs resonate with field recordings from all over the country, including thunder and “nasty little bug sounds,” in a deliberate order that follows the seasons of Ferreter’s mourning. The atmospheric noises are a nod to one of his dad’s sayings, distributed at the funeral on bookmarks: “There’s no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.”

Ferreter has applied his father’s words to the making of the album. The way he sees it, to overcome a difficult time, you have to find the beauty in it.

“I wanted to make music gentle enough and rich enough to invite people to do that with themselves,” he says.

On the album, he openly sobs, his voice wobbles— unvarnished and unafraid. Ferreter carefully orchestrated every heartfelt imperfection to make an ethereal road map toward acceptance. Violins emerge from the sounds of a forest, and softly sliding guitars and Americana whistling set a comforting backdrop for homecoming.

“This was such a huge undertaking,” Ferreter admits.

The album was recorded in seven different studios, and each song has an average of 60 to 70 tracks, estimates David Lipps, co-producer and sound engineer. They’re layered to create an ecosystem of emotion.

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“It was a tribute to his father who had died, so we just wanted to get it right,” Lipps says.

For two months, Ferreter and Lipps worked on mixing the album full-time. Lipps had just quit his job, so he was able to dive into the task head first.

“I still decided to do it for free because I love Scott and his music,” Lipps says. “He is definitely somebody I want to be like. He’s enlightened, loving, bold, engaging, inspiring, thoughtful, funny.”

Between mixing sessions, they would talk about the meaning of life and love, as Ferreter was just getting together with his new sweetheart.

“He didn’t have much money either, but he basically fed me the entire time,” Lipps says.

Over time, Ferreter realized that replaying the songs didn’t diminish the strength of their medicine. In fact, the repetition was a crucial part of healing.

“I have all of those past versions of me that are like, ‘It’s okay to feel despondent or scared or brokenhearted,’” Ferreter says. “Then I get to play that over and over. It is a way for me to remember the insights I’ve come to.”

The making of the record reflected Ferreter’s lifestyle as he was creating it. When he traveled and met new musicians, many of them joined the making of the album, snowballing into a larger and larger vision. When he played a show in Davis, he hit it off with Nathalie Mvondo, who had an hourglass-shaped drum from her family’s African village. “There was such a collective sense of purpose between the two of us that I had her play the talking drum [on the album],” he says.

Luck became like a 23rd member of the band. He hoped to collaborate with Suzanne Ciani, his father’s cousin, who is one of the first musicians to ever use a synthesizer. He emailed her, got no response and gave up. But when Ferreter went to visit his friend in Bolinas, where Ciani lives, they happened to go to an art gallery opening and he realized that every black-and-white photograph was from the collection of Suzanne Ciani.

Sure enough, she was sitting right there.

Later on, in a sort of interview, Ciani asked him why he played music. Ferreter felt like the reasonable answer would have been that it was a hobby, and he planned to make his living by other means. But he didn’t have a reasonable response.

“The honest answer I gave was that I felt like I needed to do this [full-time], and it’s about figuring out the specifics of how,” he remembers. “And something shifted in the way we related to each other.”

She signed on once she realized how serious he was about his music career.

Before, Ferreter was the frontman of the now-retired Sacramento band Cove. As Deep Pools, Ferreter found his strength as the art director of an album, tapping the right people at the right time.

“What was really sweet is, I now see, I allowed people to do what they do best,” he says. “I brought them in to do their thing.”

The album pulses with humanity, and Ferreter carries it with him on stage.

“At my best shows, I put myself before the crowd and sacrifice myself, show my biggest struggles and shadows— the part of me I want to hide—and put that in a musical

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context, where it all comes out looking inviting,” he says.

“For me, music is a collective awakening.”

On the eve of Donald Trump’s presidency, Ferreter feels a renewed sense of purpose toward that awakening.

“My intention is to make a space for people to live inside their faults, live inside them and realize how beautiful they are as people in spite of those things,” he says. “I want to use my voice to make it compelling to be vulnerable, in the way people need to be, to change their behavior and tap into their deeper humanity.”

Now that he’s completed his heavy opus, Ferreter hopes to form a new band and compose songs on a timeline faster than, say, four years. He finally feels emotionally in sync with the seasons. After the election, he’s solidly in autumn—a feeling of “stark spaciousness” in anticipation of the worst of winter.

“My grief right now doesn’t feel like it’s about my father,” he says. “That’s where I can take my own advice and get back to work finding out what’s beautiful about it.” Ω

Catch Scott Ferreter as Deep Pools at 7 p.m., Tuesday, December 13, at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 1430 J Street. Tickets cost $11, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. More at www.facebook.com/scottferreter.

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Black lights matter It was a typically glittery, flashy time at Badlands—with a paradoxical twist.

“It’s kind of interesting that we’re having an AA meeting at a bar,” remarked Miss Taryn’ Thru-U, the evening’s emcee.

Every third Friday of the month, Badlands hosts a “fridays are a drag” show full of beautiful queens. But the most recent edition doubled as “Big Gurl Birthday Bash,” a celebration of promotions manager Ronnie Scharffer’s 41st birthday and 30 days of sobriety. The irony of

celebrating one’s abstinence from drugs and alcohol at a gay nightclub was not lost on any of the performers.

Sacramento native Mahlae Balenciaga took the stage next dressed as Storm from X-Men. After an electric performance of Bonnie Tyler’s “Holding Out for a Hero,” she echoed the emcee’s sentiments and encouraged audience members to buy another drink in order to make up for the financial hit the bar was taking now that Scharffer was drinking juice.

“You have to drink extra so we can keep the lights on,” Balenciaga said. “Black lights matter!”

The show’s humor continued in that vein through the end of the night with jokes about race, gender and, of course, sex. After her first dance number, Ginger Minj, a RuPaul’s Drag Race alum, thanked the audience for the applause before letting everyone know this certainly wasn’t the first time she’d “gotten the clap” from the entire room.

She meant, in more scientific terms, gonorrhea.

The crowd at Badlands hit every note that night: the 60-year-old Asian man wearing glasses and a windbreaker quietly sitting at a VIP table; the flamboyantly gay black dudes who seemed to have their own dance numbers prepared for every song; the lesbian with a pixie cut wearing overalls and a visor. All were welcomed and roasted evenly for their haircuts and fashion sense. In this Trumpian world, Badlands remains an important safe space—perhaps more vital now than ever before.

Of course, most performers took a moment to tease the audience per usual, and for this special show, also poke fun at the birthday boy. But overall, the spirit of the evening felt lighthearted, peppered with messages of body positivity and queer pride. Minj’s performance of “Baby Got Back” was amplified by her motto, “Why pinch an inch when you can grab a slab?” Meanwhile, crowd favorite Latrice Royale galvanized the audience to “make lemonade out of this bullshit” presidential election and vowed to keep fighting for queer rights.

Ultimately, these were the most magical moments of the evening. Though every witticism was punctuated by a dance number and a flourish of sequins, it was the off-color humor and atmosphere of support and appreciation that made Badlands feel like a rare gem in the sea of drunken bros and obnoxious hipsters flooding the other bars of Midtown that night. Let it always be so.

All were welcomed and roasted evenly for their haircuts and fashion sense.

—Hillary Knouse

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december picks by shoka

Community thinking We can complain about huge corporations running mom-and-pop shops out of business and trampling the rights of individuals, and we can download the Boycott Trump app to stop lining the pockets of an alleged child rapist who generalized an entire group of people as rapists, but we can everyTHIng engage in solutions like building communities and supporting our local economies.

The Sacramento Visual Arts Collaborative is setting that kind of example with its Big Show of Small Treasures 2016, a coming together of 11 Sac art venues showing unintimidating-sized artwork (12 inches by 12 inches max), just in time for holiday giftgiving. So, buying from Artistic Edge Gallery instead of Macy’s, for instance, doesn’t just support a small business and an artist who live in our community and will spend their dollars here, but it’s like giving a gift to the artist as well. Big Show of Small Treasures is on December 10-11, and venues include Arthouse, Artistic Edge Gallery, Brickhouse Art Gallery, DaDas Art Gallery Boutique, ITSA Studio, Little Relics, MicroARTCollection, Patris Studio Gallery, Red Dot Gallery, Sparrow Gallery, and Tim Collom Gallery. See www.facebook.com/SacVAC for more info.

Where: Various venues; see www.facebook.com/SacVAC. Second Saturday reception: December 10; see individual gallery websites for reception times.

“Pork Chop” by Bill Reed, oil (at Artistic Edge Gallery).

Instinctual energy

“Angels in Paradise” by Susan Tonkin Riegel.

Trusting an instinct and not overthinking every color choice, every brushstroke and every shape is part of why Susan Tonkin Riegel admires the way children make art. The Sacramentoarea artist employs that kind of instinctual energy in her mixedmedia work, which often include numbers, MIxed MedIa symbols, words and simple figurative forms with layers of materials—paint, sewed thread, encaustic, cardboard—to create a peepholes into the artist’s dreaming life.

The 2013 de Young Museum artist-in-residence has been showing her creative output regionally, nationally and internationally—China, France, Mexico, Sweden, among other places—since the 1980s, and this month, she shows new works closer to home at Artspace 1616.

Some others who will also be exhibiting at 1616 are ceramicist Linda S. Fitz Gibbon, photographer Richard Gilles, painter David Hollowell, mixed-media artist Tomas Nakada, painter Kim Scott and printmaker Mick Sheldon.

Where: Artspace 1616, 1616 Del Paso Boulevard; (916) 849-1127;

www.facebook.com/artspace1616.

Second Saturday reception: December 10, 6 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

Through December 31.

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Time to see Viewpoint Photographic Art Center has a tradition of ending the calendar year with a themed juried show, and this year, influenced by its PHoTograPHy 25th anniversary, it’s about time.

Really, it’s called Twelve: It’s About Time and the show is a mix of more than 70 artists from around the country; check it out through January 7, 2017.

Where: Viewpoint Photographic Art Center, 2015 J Street; (916) 441-2341; www.viewpointgallery.org.

Second Saturday reception: December 10, 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.

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Elegant Vegan Holiday Thursday, december 8 Chef Adam G. Lovelace hosts this two-and-ahalf-hour class sure to inspire vegans and the vegan-curious alike so you can impress your FOOD holiday guests and save feathered and furry friends while you’re at it. The menu is quite varied and includes carrot soup, a specialty salad, coconut mousse and a couple of other surprises. A glass of wine is included for those 21 and over. $40-$49; 6 p.m. at Sacramento Food Co-op, 2820 R Street; www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2592364.

—eddie Jorgensen

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erhaps it is the case that you’re already over hearing “Santa Baby” playing simultaneously on nine different radio stations when you’re in the car; perhaps it is the case that you think eggnog tastes like Satan’s nasal mucus, or you think candy canes are the most garbage candy of all time. Whatever the case may be, when the holidays become too holidayish and you start to feel that urge to give a noogie to the next grown man you see wearing a reindeer antler headband, consider the following escapes into pop culture, (mostly) Rudolph-free: First up, on Thursday, December 8 from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., gather to celebrate this thing called life with Art Mix: Immortal at the Crocker Art Museum (216 O Street). This year was a grade-A jerkwad in terms of taking away some of the all-time musical greats; this shindig will celebrate Prince and Bowie (and maybe DJ Epik will throw in a little Leonard Cohen, too?).

Wear your best purple velvet or Ziggy Stardust getup, get ready to do some karaoke, dance, drink and catch a screening of Prince’s under the Cherry Moon.

Tickets are $10; visit www.crockerartmuseum.org/ event/1183/2016-12-08 for more info.

Does the post-election world have you feeling like you’re living in the Upside Down? Join your fellow exiles at the Stranger things Art tribute Show on Friday, December 9, from 8 p.m. to 11:55 p.m. at Outlet Coworking (2110 K Street). More than 50 artists from the area and overseas will have their Stranger Things-themed work on display and complimentary wine will be served. Admission is free; check out www.facebook.com/events/1086814734765405 for more details.

And while we can’t promise this will be completely holiday-cheesiness-free considering it’s called throwback Holiday Jam, a concert featuring Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Juvenile, Ginuwine, En Vogue, Blackstreet and more can’t be anything but a damn good time, and it’s difficult to imagine how they could sneak in “Away in the Manger.” The concert starts at 8 p.m. on Saturday, December 10, at the Golden 1 Center (547 L Street) and tickets are $30.50-$75. Visit www.golden1center.com/events/detail/v101-throwback-holiday-jam for tickets.

—deena drewis

Floradora captures one night 25 years ago on a small street in Fresno where one of the most influential hardcore bands from Washington, D.C., Fugazi, performed for only $5. After, there by Frack! and Cassette Idols will perform. Donations are FILM encouraged and will go toward Planned Parenthood. No cover; 8 p.m. at Cafe Colonial, 3520 Stockton Boulevard; www.facebook.com/ events/1928118724082397.

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Holiday Magic at the Sacramento Zoo saTurday, december 10 Lions, leopards and lemurs get to join in the holiday festivities, too. Visit various habitats to see your favorite beasts open presents. The CuLturE Zoofari Market will also be open with special discounts for members. Bring a nonperishable food item to get $1 off admission. $7.75-$11.75; 10 a.m. at the Sacramento Zoo, 3930 W. Land Park Drive; (916) 808-5888; www.saczoo.org/holidaymagic.

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Write for rights saTurday, december 10 This Saturday, Amnesty International’s Sacramento chapter asks that you spend the afternoon at Luna’s Cafe writing letters on behalf of human rights defenders, prisoners of conACtIVISM science and others in danger of suffering human rights violations. They’ll provide the pens and paper—just bring your drive for social justice.

Free; 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Luna’s Cafe & Juice Bar, 1414 16th Street; www.amnestysacramento.org.

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Sacramento Holly Jolly Crawl saTurday, december 10 There’s a reason the holiday egg nog is supposed to be spiked—’tis the season to kick back a few.

Anyone looking to spend an evening of Christmasthemed drinking in various Midtown bars BOOZE should sign up for the Sacramento Holly Jolly Crawl. $10-$20; 4 p.m. at various locations; (916) 426-9676; www.xososports.com.

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Cold-weather dinner heirlooM bean and vegetable souP, MagPie cafe Winter is still a few weeks away but temperatures have finally dipped enough (at least by wimpy California standards) to make me crave a piping hot bowl of hearty soup. And, aside from laboring over a homemade pot, there’s no better one to enjoy than Magpie Cafe’s heirloom bean and vegetable ($9 for a bowl, $6 for a cup). Rich and hearty, this vegan soup is chock-full of toothsome veggies and beans. The bonus here, though, is miso, which gives the broth texture and a deep, delicious umami bite. Paired with Magpie’s simple green salad ($6.50), this soup makes for a lovely and light coldweather dinner. 1601 16th Street, www.magpiecafe.com.

—rachel leibrock

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by Janelle Bitker No bagels, no life: The upcoming Jewish deli on K Street will be named Solomon’s Delicatessen, after Tower Records founder Russ Solomon.

The deli comes from Sheila Wolfe, Lydia Inghram and Jami Goldstene, who co-chair the annual Jewish Food Faire. Joined

by Hot Italian founder Andrea Lepore and the Red Rabbit team of Sonny Mayugba, John Bays and Matt Nurge, they’re aiming for a September 22, 2017, opening date.

The location at 730 K Street will actually occupy a space that once belonged to Tower Records. As such, the two-story business will function as a community destination for both deli goods like smoked fish, bialys and matzo ball soup as well as live music.

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And the slogan “No bagels, no life” echoes Tower’s old motto.

“After all my life, I end up named after a bagel,” Solomon said, laughing and surrounded by pastrami sandwiches, latkes and black and white cookies.

Wolfe said the deli will be open for breakfast, brunch, lunch, dinner and “late-night noshing,” and will offer a mix of products sourced locally and from afar. In other words, “real bagels—not just big doughy things,” she said.

Wolfe also acknowledged folks in the suburbs who might not be able to easily access the downtown deli.

“We’re just going to make this our flagship location,” she said, specifically mentioning goals of one day expanded to Folsom, Carmichael and even the Tahoe area.

Makeover: After a brief period of

construction, Grange Restaurant (916 J Street) debuted a new look last week designed by Whitney Johnson, who also worked on aesthetically-pleasing spots like Kru, Bottle & Barlow and Shady Lady Saloon.

The changes aren’t so dramatic that the restaurant no longer looks like Grange. Rather, it’s a brighter, more contemporary and less stuffy version of itself. The dark wood has been swapped out for maple, with a long, wraparound bar looking out onto the streets. New burnt orange booths add comfort and style, along with new lighting, artwork, flooring and a second level of dining.

Crawfish mecca: The Boiling Crab opened its downtown location at the old Assembly Music Hall (1000 K Street) earlier this week. The small, Asian-Cajun chain is well-known for crawfish, crab and other shellfish boiled with zesty seasoning, but this location will also offer newer items such as catfish and gumbo—plus micheladas and margaritas for pregaming events at the arena. Ω

Australians have some interesting slang—mozzies for mosquitoes immediately comes to mind—but did you know that their word for syrah is shiraz, and that it’s one of the country’s most important varietals? The Wishing Tree 2012 Shiraz ($5), made with fruit sourced from south Australia’s Adelaide Hills, is an enjoyable (and economical) representative of its home down under. Blackberry, licorice and cracked pepper aromas bring flavors of currants, dark cherries and anise with medium tannins. 1700 Capitol Avenue, www.worldwinehq.com/ estate/wishing-tree.

—dave keMPa

Green nuts Pistachios It’s the end of pistachio season, so grab some of the distinctively green nuts now. Nutty California grows the most pistachios in the country. Skip the dyed red shells—although they are particularly seasonal for Christmas—and look for natural tan shells. You may even be able to find some of the unusual pink pistachios now appearing in markets. They add lovely color accents to food, but a slightly sweet flavor as well. For a dramatic garnish, seek out bright green pistachio butter to spread on crackers with cheese.

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Soup’s up Slow Food Sacramento’s annual potluck theme, “Stone Soup: Back to the Earth,” means everyone gets to be integral to the final meal. It seems fitting for Terra Madre Day, Slow Food International’s anniversary, which encourages small gatherings around the world in honor of local eating, sustainable food practices and togetherness. For the local edition at 6 p.m. on Saturday, December 10, at the Sacramento Natural Food Co-op’s upstairs cooking school (2820 R Street), bring an item to add to the pot: lentils, raw vegetables, whole grains, fresh herbs, stock.

Chef Brenda Ruiz will then stew it together for all to enjoy. The potluck also functions as Slow Food Sacramento’s annual general meeting. While members will elect board members and such, it’s a prime opportunity to learn more about Slow Food from folks such as Ed Roehr of Magpie Cafe. It’s free to attend, but you must RSVP online. More at http://slowfoodsacramento.com.

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—Janelle bitker

The unusual kefta tagine reminds you of Italian comfort food.

Give the gift of rescue

by Shoka It’s been a rough year for so many people around the world, but 2016 can still have a happy ending. Just watch Called to Rescue, a film about adorable farm animals being saved. These are the lucky ones who were spared from being part of the 9 billion lives annually sent to slaughter. The film features 15 animal sanctuaries from across the United States, including Animal Place in Grass Valley, Blackberry Creek Farm Animal Sanctuary in Colfax and Harvest Home Sanctuary in Stockton. Called doesn’t

Since Maalouf’s Taste of Lebanon closed last year, the local Middle Eastern options have seemed ho-hum. While some fast-casual spots serve excellent food, few restaurants offer a communal atmosphere as appealing as Maalouf’s.

Enter Kasbah, the hookah lounge and bar next door to Tapa the World, which has suddenly reemerged as an oasis of great flavors and interesting ambiance. After 10 years as employees, Tanya Azar and Debbie Chang officially took over in June with a renewed focus on food.

Azar also serves as executive chef, bringing experience from her family’s restaurant in Bethlehem. While still skewing toward small plates, she’s added a sense of contemporary freshness often missing from Middle Eastern restaurants.

A good example is the crispy, spicy chickpeas ($3) served during happy hour, which is 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. daily.

Nuggets of puckery preserved lemon mingle with the chickpeas, which are lightly battered and fried, accompanied by fresh spinach and a dusting of tart ground sumac. It’s simple but unique.

Harissa chili chicken wings ($9) are another great happy hour deal at $4—and the gooey, fiery sauce makes them ideal with drinks. A dip in garlic aioli relieves the palate a bit.

Our server recommended the Chi Chi al Fuego ($10.50), bearing the best recipe title ever. It arrives dramatically, the Spanish cheese sizzling on a hot plate flamed with brandy and extinguished with lemon juice. Smear the gooey cheese and sweet membrillo paste onto pita and don’t forget some of the crunchy, broiled exterior.

While every Middle Eastern restaurant serves hummus, the Kasbah version ($3) has a particularly good, fruity olive oil pooled in the center as well as that lemony sumac sprinkled around. We needed extra pita to eat it all, but at only 50 cents, it’s worth it to scoop up every last creamy bit.

It may seem a bit unusual to serve alcohol with these dishes, but Kasbah is still a bar—and a very good one at that. We loved the floral, citrusy sangria (a steal at $4), while the habibi ($9) muddles rum aged in whiskey barrels with orange. Turkish and Lebanese wines and a wide selection of araks are fun and appropriate partners for the food.

Kasbah also hits the mark with atmosphere, providing belly dancing shows on Thursdays and an array of shisha flavors for the hookahs outside.

Pillow-topped banquettes, tapestries and small brass tables define the interior. A soundtrack of Pan-Mediterranean music quietly serves as background encouragement to join the party.

Azar offers flavor-packed large plates, too.

Housemade falafel patties on the side of the balanced fattoush salad ($10) reveal an herb-flecked, moist interior that begs for a dunk in the creamy lebne. Kasbah also prepares one of the richest versions I’ve ever had of harira ($6.50), a traditional vegan soup. Long-cooked tomatoes and lentils benefit from crunchy, fried sweet onions on top.

Similarly, the unusual kefta tagine ($14.50) reminds you of Italian comfort food.

Tender lamb and beef meatballs and a complex tomatocilantro stew make you feel like there’s a Moroccan mother behind the stove.

The best entree I had, though, was the lamb kebobs ($17.50), with two hefty lamb-and-onion skewers seasoned with ras al hanout and coated with pomegranate honey. They’re lightly charred and the heady lamb combines well with garlicky sauteed spinach and coriander-flecked sweet potatoes.

Thoughtful desserts include walnut baklava ($4), a chunkier and less sticky version than usual, and banana beignets ($7), battered bananas served with unexciting vanilla ice cream but a knockout butterscotch sauce.

Sometimes great things come from unexpected places. Kasbah’s new owners have really succeeded in remaking a somewhat forgotten bar into a dining destination. Ω

use graphic, shocking images of the cruelties of the farming industry, but shows how the animals and their human caretakers thrive together, shining a light on their connection.

It’s joy and affection from both sides of the relationship, and that’s welcome hope. The film makes a great gift for anyone, vegan or not.

Or organize a screening for the community (contact the filmmakers via www.calledtorescuefilm.com), and spread the love.

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Unearth your best fringe, leather and lace, belladonnas: The high priestess of rock ’n’ roll is on her way. After a long bout of touring with Fleetwood Mac, the powerhouse is striking out on her own. As Nicks told The New York Times when the tour was announced earlier this year: “I am the boss. My solo career is probably the reason Fleetwood Mac is still together in 2016, because I was always happy to leave Fleetwood Mac, and I was always happy to come back, too.”

This stop is part of the 24 Karat Gold Tour in support of her eighth solo album by the same name.

Released in 2014, the MUSIC album features songs written as far back as 1969 and a cover of a Vanessa Carlton song (random, yes, but it was a favorite of Nicks’ late mother).

For the faithful, it’s worth noting that Nicks may need you now more than ever; a vocal Hillary Clinton supporter, she had previously joked about calling up the Dixie Chicks and Billy Corgan for a rousing, in-yourface rendition of “Landslide” after Hilz defeated Trump. Sigh.

On a brighter note: Opening up on the 24 Karat Gold Tour is none other than the Pretenders, yet another legendary rock band fronted by a badass frontwoman. In other words, this is a potentially worldaltering occasion for the young lady in your life who might only know the opening notes of “Edge of Seventeen” as the opening notes of “Bootylicious” by Destiny’s Child. 7 p.m., Tuesday, December 13. $16.25$146.50. Golden 1 Center, 500 David J. Stern Walk. www.stevienicksofficial.com.

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A Christmas Carol

Wicked good

by Bev SykeS

Greg Alexander plays a sly Scrooge in Buck Busfield’s comic adaptation of the Charles Dickens tale. Challenging his ghosts and tempting his fate, this Scrooge finds redemption in a most unorthodox way.

Director Dave Pierini puts a marvelous ensemble through fast-paced action and plenty of costume changes. Th, F 8pm, Sa 5 pm

Cinderella

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7 p.m. thursday and friday, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. saturday, 2 p.m. sunday, 7 p.m. Wednesday; $20-$40. sacramento theatre company, 1419 h street; (916) 443-6722; www.sactheatre.org. through January 1.

The wicked stepmother and her girls are tormenting poor Cinderella again, as Sacramento Theatre Company brings back this old favorite fairy tale to delight audiences. Directed by Michael Laun, with story and lyrics by Kate Hawley and music by local composer Gregg Coffin, this version is staged as a British pantomime—a style done traditionally at the holidays and one that dates back more than 300 years.

Laun’s take on pantomimes incorporate song, dance, buffoonery, slapstick, cross-dressing, in-jokes, topical references, mild innuendo and audience participation.

As such, STC hits every nail on the head with this production.

With the brilliant Michael RJ Campbell reprising his role as wicked stepmother Mrs. BaddenRotten, and a cast of irresistible characters led by the worst stepsisters ever (deliciously over-the-top performances by Emily Serdahl and Brandi Lacy) and a quirky Good Fairy (Miranda D. Lawson), this is sure to be a hit with audiences.

The prince (Sam C. Jones) is charming and Cinderella (a role shared by Emily O’Flaherty and Madeline Perez) is irresistible. Throughout, they’re surrounded by a host of minor characters including a tap dancing bear and a herd of Rockettes-like sheep.

There are lots of opportunities for audience participation in yelling commands, waving arms, answering questions and, especially fun for the kids, the chance to try on a glass slipper as the Prince runs through the audience looking for his lost love.

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4 The Wind in the Willows When river creatures get together, mild mayhem and peaceful pastoral parties are sure to break out. At least that’s what happens in The Wind in the Willows, the classic children’s tales of the unlikely friendships between a mole, a toad, a rat, an otter, a badger and other small animals living along the banks of an English countryside river.

In City Theatre’s current production of The Wind in the Willows: Saving Mr. Toad, director Luther Hanson adapts the story of the madcap hijinks of Mr. Toad who dares to embrace the newfangled technology of motor cars. Hanson adds colorful early-1900-era costumes, creative mobile sets that include an impressive vintage automobile and train, original music, a live musical trio and fun performances from an enthusiastic cast.

The tale starts off at a slow pace, as the narrator (Tony Brisson) spins the story of Mole (a wonderfully animated Meghan Cazadio), his friends and their mild adventures. But, thankfully, it picks up as the show goes along, and soon we’re on Mr. Toad’s wild ride that include a bit of auto racing and auto theft. Jonathan Plon perfectly captures Mr. Toad’s preening, boasting, crazy antics, which allows the children in the audience to see the errors of Toad’s ways while also cheering on the misbehavin’ amphibian.

—Patti RobeRts

the Wind in the Willows: saving mr. toad; 8 p.m. friday and saturday, 2 p.m. sunday; $10-$18. sacramento city Performing arts center, 3835 freeport Boulevard; (916) 558-2174; www.citytheatre.net. through December 10.

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I Ought to be in Pictures

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. Th 6:30pm, F

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The play itself, however, could be better. Th, F and Sa 8pm. Through 12/17. $12$18. Big Idea Theatre, 1616 Del Paso Boulevard; (916) 960-3036; www.bigideath eatre.org. J.C.

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Robin and his merry men swing through the Sherwood Forest, fighting the evil Sheriff of Nottingham in this delightful one-act play from the B Street Theatre. The show, which features five talented B Street regulars performing multiple roles, is recommended for all ages. Sa, Su 1

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The 39 Steps

Alfred Hitchcock’s 1935 spy movie gets a madcap comic interpretation in this adaptation

by Patrick Barlow. A cast of four wildly talented actors—Ian Hopps, Stephanie Hodson, Scott Divine and Zachary Scovel—play more than 100 characters,

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Gift exchange The “G” in But Don’t Sing the G Word stands for gifts in this compact new musical comedy by Celebration Arts artistic director James Wheatley. The show is set in a town where Christmas gifts have been banned—but of course, that kind of pledge tends to fall by the wayside, both in real life and in holiday shows. 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday, 2 p.m. Sunday; $10-$15. Celebration Arts, 4469 D Street; (916) 455-2787; www.celebrationarts.net.

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Montiel and cinematographer Shelly Johnson (The Expendables 2) favor a drab, washed-out color palette for the post-apocalyptic scenes, and a slightly less drab, slightly less washed-out color Shia LeBeouf was an omnipresent nuisance on movie palette for the pre-apocalyptic scenes. LeBeouf screens throughout the 2000s, the relentlessly mugging works his tail off, although too often he seems human face of the Transformers franchise and a key abandoned and unchecked by the director, while contributor to the cinematic stain known as Indiana Mara and Oldman offer sturdy, professional-grade Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. But give support. Unfortunately, the style of Man Down is the guy some credit: he went cold turkey from franchise dreck ever since 2011’s Transformers: Dark of the wan and indecisive, and the scenes are meandering and shapeless, with only the puzzle box structure Moon, and started taking more risks by working with of the story left to hold the viewer’s interest. interesting directors like Lars von Trier, John We get snippets of information about Hillcoat, David Ayer and Andrea Arnold. the reasons that America has turned The performances and the films are into a literal scorched earth, with gradually getting better (I would even vague suggestions of terrorist say that LeBeouf was downright retaliation, deadly viruses, weapgood in Arnold’s almost-great ons of mass destruction and American Honey), but they Unlike a fine wine, more. Montiel teases out a twist can’t all be winners. Man Down Man Down did not that most viewers will figure premiered at the Venice Film out pretty early in the film, and improve with age.

Festival in September 2015, then largely botches the reveal. where it was greeted with largely Without digging into spoilers, negative reviews, and the film only it’s fair to say that the film’s premiered in theaters last Friday. depiction of PTSD does a disservice Unlike a fine wine, Man Down did not to the reality that veterans face. improve with age, although it’s at least I’m a firm believer in the power of as curiously flawed and pseudo-ambitious as “disreputable” films and genres to capture a more most of the December releases currently getting touted uncomfortable truth than the high-minded awardsas awards contenders. grubbers would ever even attempt, but this is Man Down director and co-writer Dito Montiel pretty shameless. Of course, that doesn’t stop Man was an early LeBeouf adopter, casting the actor as a young version of himself in his 2005 autobiographical Down from closing with a solemn list of statistics about PTSD and veteran suicide, as though its effort A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints. Here, heart was in the right place all along. Ω LeBeouf plays Gabriel Drummer, a troubled veteran searching for his child in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, with his best friend and battle buddy Devin (Jai Courtney) fighting by his side. Meanwhile, the film continuously flashes back to Gabriel’s prewar life with his wife (Kate Mara) and child, as well as to wartime sessions with an army therapist (Gary Poor Fair Good Very excellent Good Oldman) who keeps referencing an “incident.”

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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

BY DANIEL BARNES & JIM LANE

During World War II, on a covert operation in Casablanca, a Canadian military intelligence officer (Brad Pitt) and a French Resistance fighter (Marion Cotillard) fall in love and later marry back in London— then suspicions arise that she’s a German spy.

Crisply written by Steven Knight and slickly directed by Robert Zemeckis, the movie rashly invites an obvious comparison, but there’s only one Casablanca. Still, this solemn, romantic melodrama bears up under the comparison surprisingly well; Pitt and Cotillard have classic movie-star chemistry, and the picture, for all its state-of-the-art CGI, deftly evokes the look and style of 1940s wartime movie-making, with everything ending exactly as it should.

Jared Harris, Simon McBurney, Lizzy Caplan and Matthew Goode round out the rather sparse supporting cast. J.L.

In 1926 New York, young wizard Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) arrives with a suitcase full of the magical creatures he will later catalog in one of Harry Potter’s textbooks—but first he has to round up the ones that have escaped, creating havoc and straining relations between the wizard and nonwizard communities. J.K. Rowling, already rich beyond the dreams of avarice, tries her hand at screenwriting, but alas, she’s not very good at it: Her story is absurdly convoluted, and worse, direction is by the mediocre David Yates, who encourages his actors to mutter their lines in barely audible whispers (Redmayne is the worst offender; we don’t catch half the creature names he mumbles). This is reportedly the first of five movies. Well, Rowling’s audience is hard to alienate, but we’ll just see about that. J.L.

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Incarnate

A scientist who can enter the minds of people who are demonically possessed (Aaron Eckhart) takes on the case of an 11-year-old boy (David Mazouz) possessed by the same demon who killed the scientist’s wife and son. Written by Ronnie Christensen and directed by Brad Peyton, it’s Inception meets The Exorcist, and the best thing you can say for this routine scare-’em-up is that the final result isn’t as idiotic as the premise sounds.

Not quite. But it’s silly enough, with science and religion tag-teaming Christensen’s mumbojumbo dialogue. It’s a mystery why Eckhart signed on for this junk—but an actor’s got to eat, and they can’t all be Sully or Bleed for This.

With an optimism that’s almost touching, in its way, Peyton and Christensen set up the ending as if they think they’ll be making a sequel. J.L.

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Loving

Even if all you ever want from a film is moral affirmation and a basketful of the warm-fuzzies, writer-director Jeff Nichols’ mildewed biopic Loving is still a fusty and unengrossing watch. Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga star as Richard and Mildred Loving, a real-life Virginia interracial couple who married in D.C., but were arrested at home and forced to leave the state in 1958. The ACLU picked up their case in the 1960s, taking it all the way to the Supreme Court in a landmark case that effectively eliminated anti-miscegenation laws in the United States. Nichols works hard to make Richard and Mildred as banal and devoid of personality as possible, but for all of the film’s drowsy respectfulness, the script is still loaded with clunker lines. (“Is there anything you’d like me to say to them … and by them, I mean the Supreme Court justices of the United States?”) D.B.

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The Eagle Huntress

Otto Bell makes his feature directing debut with this girl power documentary narrated by Daisy Ridley. The film follows Aisholpan Nurgaiv, a 13 year-old Kazakh girl who becomes the first female eagle hunter in her family’s storied history, training a golden eagle to respond to her commands for the purpose of hunting foxes and competing in cultural festivals. Robert Flaherty’s 1922 film Nanook of the North is generally credited with creating the documentary form, even though much of the footage was staged for the cameras. In other words, there’s a long tradition of making stuff up in documentaries, so while The Eagle Huntress satisfies in the style of a Disney adventure movie, and it’s thrilling to watch the applecheeked Aisholpan wield her majestic bird and beat all the snooty male jerks, the pat story arcs, predictable character beats, slick action scenes and suspiciously westernized language definitely raise some eyebrows. D.B.

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Manchester by the Sea

The long and tortured birth of Kenneth Lonergan’s 2011 masterwork Margaret would have been enough to destroy the directorial ambitions of weaker men, so the fact that Manchester by the Sea exists at all is a minor miracle. And while it’s not quite the same scorched-earth triumph, Manchester by the Sea possesses a lot of the same novel-like textures and soul-gutting performances that made Margaret so powerful and compelling. Casey Affleck stars as Lee Chandler, an unhappy handyman still licking the wounds of an unspoken past tragedy when he receives the news that his brother has died. That leaves Lee to care for his hot-headed teenage nephew Patrick (Lucas Hedges), a task for which he appears woefully ill-equipped. Affleck gives the sort of crumpled, seething, fully lived-in performance that De Niro and Pacino gave in their primes, and he gets strong support from Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler and Gretchen Mol. D.B.

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Moana

A princess of ancient Polynesia (voiced by newcomer Auli’i Cravalho) answers the mystical call of the ocean, venturing beyond the safety of her island lagoon to seek help from the demigod Maui (Dwayne Johnson) in correcting the imbalance of nature that threatens to destroy her world. With four directors and eight writers credited, this may be a case of too many cooks; the story is paper-thin and uncompelling, but serviceable enough as a framework for some breathtaking animation. It’s a two-character show, and the stars deliver the goods with irresistible charm (not surprising from Johnson, and 16-year-old Cravalho may be a real find). Songs by LinManuel Miranda, Mark Mancina and Opetaia Foa’i are catchy while they last but quickly forgotten. So is the movie itself, but it goes down smoothly enough. J.L.

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Nocturnal Animals

Tom Ford made his name as a fashion designer and creative director for Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent, so when he released his 2009 directorial debut A Single Man, it was hard to tell if Ford was a cinematic devotee or a dilettante. It didn’t help that the film was eminently tasteful and immaculately appointed, as much designed as directed, the sort of bloodless actors’ showcase created to court awards voters. Seven years later, Ford delivers his follow-up film Nocturnal Animals, and it finally feels like he means business. The storytelling is both more refined and more brutishly personal, and the film strikes a balance between inscrutability and accessibility, between Lynch-ian art horror and Deliverance-like exploitation. A Single Man was the work of a talented tourist; this is the work of a true filmmaker. Amy Adams stars as Susan Morrow, an art gallery owner whose life has become a series of false surfaces. D.B.

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Rules Don’t Apply

A virginal 1950s starlet (Lily Collins) and her driver (Alden Ehrenreich) chastely bond while working for the reclusive tycoon Howard Hughes (Warren Beatty, who also directs and co-wrote the script with Bo Goldman). After a 15-year absence from movies, Beatty finally fulfills a 30-plus-year ambition to play Hughes, but he seems to have let the project simmer too long; it’s a mess.

Beautifully photographed (by Caleb Deschanel), gorgeously designed (Jeannine Oppewall) and conscientiously acted, but still a mess. Among the actors conscientiously striving to put meat on the bones of the limp, sketchy script—besides the highly appealing Collins, Ehrenreich and Beatty—are Annette Bening, Martin Sheen, Alec Baldwin, Candice Bergen, Matthew Broderick, Paul Sorvino, Ed Harris, Oliver Platt and Steve Coogan. J.L.

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by CVLT Nation, a site dedicated to DIY metal culture.

Wilhoit, a guitarist in the Stockton- and Sacramento-based band, is far away from that summer, but he still carries a fatalistic attitude. His personal mantra is “Trans Lumine Sub Gratia,” a Latin phrase translating to “beyond the light, beneath the Lookin villainous, friends. grace.” It’s tattooed across his chest, and it’s the name of the band’s upcoming six-song EP, the first three tracks to be released alongside a Starlite Lounge show on As a kid, Matthew Woods Wilhoit hoped to become Thursday, December 8. a supervillain like Alice Cooper.

“I feel like it summed up how I feel, how I His music dreams started in elementary school, identify as a whole,” Wilhoit said. “Being beyond flipping through a magazine and seeing Cooper clad any sort of hope. Not being interested in receiving it in black leather and taming a boa constrictor. A kid or being redeemed.” who watched popular classmates treat others poorly, As with Bloodhounds, production is underway and himself being tortured by cruel babysitters and at Sacramento’s Earthtone Studios. Early mixings their families, he was attracted to Cooper’s sorcery. show a sound palette that remains vintage, but pulls The magic of a melody. The ability to conjure up from a later epoch in heavy metal: the 1980s. A riff in something in people. the EP’s title track gallops like an Iron Maiden tune, But 17 years later, Wilhoit lost hope. In December and new singer Justin Helvete’s voice carries hints of 2013, he left Bog Oak, a doom metal project that had Maiden’s first vocalist, Paul Di’Anno. record contracts waiting.

“There’ll still be those slow, mighty Walled up in his Stockton home during riffs,” Wilhoit said of the EP as a the summer of 2015, he only spoke to whole. “There’ll still be that melanfamily and friends. He fell into a deep “I felt like I was a choly, but it will be weighted depression. Above all, he stopped by some straight-to-the-jugular writing music. failure, like I was a ragers.”

“I was afraid to,” Wilhoit said. has-been.”

In July, the band dropped “I felt like I was a failure, like I the “Worship of” in favor of was a has-been. I didn’t have any Matthew Woods Wilhoit just “Keres,” now that it sports a inspiration to pick up the guitar.” guitarist, Keres permanent five-piece lineup, with It took an old friend to jump-start bassist Robert Lander, guitarist Mike Wilhoit. Trevor William Church, now Riot and drummer Ryan Fernandes. a drummer in Fresno-based Beastmaker, No longer could they just be apostles demanded that Wilhoit start a band and write of the Greek monster Keres, whose “sustenance three songs, one song per day within the next 72 was the misery and death of others,” Wilhoit said. hours. Church would write the drums and help kick Instead, they could take a chance at doing the villainy things off, and then return to Beastmaker. for once.

In just an hour, Wilhoit wrote and recorded “I was looking at it from a philosophical the first song in his garage and sent it off, thinking standpoint,” he said. “Us not being the people Church was just being hyperbolic. He wasn’t. who were worshiping the subject, but instead “The next day, by 3 p.m., he was like, ‘Where’s transforming into it.” Ω my fucking song?’” Wilhoit said.

The three songs formed Worship of Keres’ first EP, Bloodhounds for Oblivion, a muscular, droneCheck out Keres at 8 p.m. thursday, December 8, at Starlite Lounge, tempo doom suite released in February. Reviews 1517 21st Street. tickets are $10. Learn more at www.facebook.com/ WorshipofKeres. were featured in a global slew of underground blogs.

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last Saturday night—artists, activists and music-lovers alike squeezed into every nook and poured out onto the sidewalk, bundled up and waiting for an opening. The organizer was Lee Bob Watson of Lee Bob & the Truth and former Sacramento band Jackpot. Just days earlier, he had returned home from Standing Rock, where he says he witnessed gatherings nothing short of inspiring.

At Luna’s, he collected donations for the Oceti Sakowin Camp, the gathering of tribes fighting the Dakota Access Pipeline, while a mix of local and visiting—and some Native American—artists graced the stage: Kevin and Allyson Seconds, Gabriel Nelson of Bellygunner and Mariee Sioux among them. By the end of the night, he had raised more than $1,000.

Watson also recently released a free, new album, Solidarity w/ Standing Rock, featuring songs by himself and three Native American artists, Marca Cassity, Goodshield Aguilar and Brianna Lea Pruett, the local singer-songwriter who died last year. It’s an eclectic, powerful collection, rich with traditional rhythms, chanting, spoken word, dancing flutes and soulful Americana.

The musicians seek no donations for downloading the album but request support for the cause instead. Of course, now we all know that the Army denied the pipeline’s construction, but it’s still possible the Trump administration could reverse that decision.

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Backpackers unite: Hardcore indie rap fans got a glimpse of their Elvis this past Thursday at a sold-out Harlow’s show, and opener Homeboy Sandman didn’t hold back on the hype.

“It’s like being in the house with Mozart,” he said. “It’s like being in the house with Stevie Wonder. That’s what it’s like being in the house with Aesop Rock.”

That might have seemed overthe-top to outsiders, but to Aesop fans it was a statement of fact.

Much of the crowd was a mirror reflection of Aesop, who looked like Entourage’s Turtle, but skinnier and more stoned. In other words, it was a sea of beards and oversized baseball caps with awkward swagger.

On the music end, Aesop delivered exactly what his fans wanted: surreal beats with counter-mainstream verses. “It’s about to get real artsy craftsy in this motherfucker,” Aesop said halfway through the set before going into “Homemade Mummy.” It was a fitting description, though the comment easily applied to any of his songs.

The stage setup was particularly “artsy craftsy,” with the deejay booth surrounded by fake trees, fake deer and a Christmas-y, flowery display sprinkled everywhere. Aesop and his hype man Rob Sonic roamed the stage, spitting verses. Aesop was the suave emcee of the two, slinking around in near slow motion, while Sonic came off more as an abrasive cab driver.

The biggest applause came near the end, when Aesop’s deejay, DJ Zone, played the beat for “No Regrets,” a track from Aesop’s 2001 album Labor Days. It’s a song about a girl named Lucy that didn’t talk much but devoted her life to art.

This is the kind of left-field hip-hop content that’s made Aesop a god among men to his followers.

He followed up “No Regrets” with more “old shit,” as he put it, including “Daylight,” Night Light” and “None Shall Pass.”

For the encore, Homeboy Sandman joined Aesop on stage, his manic style a nice counterbalance to Aesop’s low-key vibe. They closed with “Oatmeal Cookies,” a performance that definitely pleased even those who stayed past their bedtime to catch the entire show.

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Harlow’s restaurant & nigHtclub, 7 p.m., $25 Geoff Muldaur delivered some of his best work joining forces with other musicians— namely Paul Butterfield, Maria Muldaur and Amos Garrett in the ’70s—but the most important and longest collaboration began with Jim Kweskin in the mid-’60s when their formative group Jim Kweskin Jug Band fused folk, jazz and blues into their ACCOUSTIC own brand of acoustic music.

Kweskin and Muldaur began playing together again in 2012. The duo revisited their roots with the recently released record Penny’s Farm. 2708 J Street, www.geoffmuldaur.com.

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Andrew Clinco is the low-key drummer of post-rock band Marriages and dark-wave group Black Mare. He is also the otherworldly character Deb Demure, DREAM-pOp leader of Drab Majesty. Clinco would prefer you not think of Demure as male or female, or even human. Not a difficult task as Demure looks like a cross between Marcel Marceau, Aladdin Sane-era Bowie and a psychedelic alien life form. Drab Majesty plays some of the most interesting, vibrant shoegaze-dream-pop music around.

The straight-forward, catchy vibes contrast in the surrealist way possible with his bizarro character. 1517 21st Street, www.facebook.com/drabmajesty.

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“She drinks the guys in her band under the table,” one reviewer says about Carly DuHain, the lead singer and guitar player of local band Drop Dead Red. This may or may not be true, but it doesn’t matter much after you take a listen to the kind of from-the-gut music she makes.

ROCK DuHain is a strong singer with a voice reminiscent of Janis Joplin, belting out fragility and heart-wrenching pain in a way that says she’s owning it, and everything that goes with it, for better or worse. The band’s pop-tinged blues-rock riffs are dressing. 1901 10th Street, www.facebook.com/dropdeadredmusic.

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The eclectic Afrofunk Experience comes to Sacramento this Saturday to play the Torch Club. Self-described as “an AFROFUNK ambrosial mix of musical interpretations influenced by the African diaspora,” this approachable group delivers with an amalgam of afrobeat, funk, jazz, reggae, world fusion and, hell, everything in between.

Originally performing behind frontman Sila Mutungi, Afrofunk Experience has kept going strong since he went solo in 2010. From the cheeky, funk-centric “Mad Money Woes” to the groovy, melancholic “Istanbul,” expect to an earful of favorites from the group’s 2012 album, Never Be the Same. 904 15th Street, www.afrofunkexperience.com.

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Sol Collective needs help purchasing its building so future generations of young creatives of color won’t have to worry about displacement. Who better to raise funds than the artists who have directly benefited from being part of the Sol community?

HiP-HOP All proceeds from The SOLution will go toward Sol Collective’s crowdfunding campaign, and the lineup is stacked with local talent: James Cavern, DLRN, Dre-T (pictured), Soosh*e!, the Philharmonik. Expect soulful, intelligent and heartfelt sounds from underrepresented voices—exactly the sort of music Sol Collective fosters, and precisely what Sacramento needs to keep supporting.

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For the uninitiated, English-based rock act the Pretenders has been driven by the voice of singer-songwriter and frontwoman Chrissie Hynde, the band’s only constant since forming in 1978. If songs like “Brass in Pocket” or “Message of Love” have never come up on your Pandora or Spotify station, make a new station with this band included immediately; Hynde’s ROCK unique voice and penchant for writing soulful rock ’n’ roll are a thing to behold.

The Pretenders are presently on tour in support of its recent album Alone and are opening for some up-and-comer named Stevie Nicks. 500 David J Stern Walk, www. thepretenders.com.

—Janelle Bitker

In 1989, Big Daddy Kane rapped two-and-ahalf minutes of incendiary bars over a weeping horn loop provided by producer Marley Marl. It began “rough, rugged HiP-HOP and real, you’re on stand still,” and ended with an homage to Nina Simone.

This was Kane’s version of “Young Gifted and Black,” an unapologetic celebration of his skin tone. While Big Daddy Kane is mostly celebrated for his smooth operator delivery, his braggadocio and even his performance, understated is his social consciousness.

Think back to “Stop Shammin’,” “Children R The Future” and “Dance With The Devil.” 2708 J Street, www.officialbigdaddykane.com.

—Blake GilleSpie

Blue lamp, 8 p.m., $10 or toy donation ’Tis the season for the Hip-Hop Helps Annual Toy Drive, with performances by Mr. P Chill (pictured), Poor (Tribe of Levi), Ms. Vybe and more. Attendees feeling the holiday spirit can either pay a $10 door cover or bring a new, unwrapped HiP-HOP toy to gain entrance. For the past nine years, event organizer Mr. P Chill and the hip-hop community have joined forces to benefit the Stanford Settlement Neighborhood Center. Last year, two bins chock-full of toys were donated to the children of the organization. 1400 Alhambra Boulevard, www.stanfordsettlement.org.

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FOR THE WEEk OF DECEMBER 8, 2016 ARIES (March 21-April 19): Normally I cheer you

on when you devote single-minded attention to pressing concerns, even if you become a bit obsessive. But right now, in accordance with astrological omens, I invite you to run wild and free as you sample lavish variety. It’s prime time to survey a spectrum of spicy, shiny and feisty possibilities … to entertain a host of ticklish riddles rather than to insist on prosaic answers. You have been authorized by the cosmos to fabricate your own temporary religion of playing around and messing around and fooling around.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Taurus poet

Adrienne Rich described “an honorable human relationship” as “one in which two people have the right to use the word ‘love.’” How is that right earned? How is such a bond nurtured? Rich said it was “often terrifying to both persons involved,” because it’s “a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.” I bring this to your attention, Taurus, because you’re in a favorable phase to become an even more honorable lover, friend and ally than you already are. To take advantage of the opportunity, explore this question: How can you supercharge and purify your ability to speak and hear the truth?

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In Goethe’s play

Faust, the hero bemoans his lack of inner unity.

Two different souls live within him, he says, and they don’t cooperate. Even worse, they each try to rule him without consulting the other. I’m guessing you’ve experienced a more manageable version of that split during the course of your life.

Lately, though, it may have grown more intense and divisive. If that’s true, I think it’s a good sign. It portends the possibility that healing is in the works … that energy is building for a novel synthesis. To help make it happen, identify and celebrate what your two sides have in common.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The poet Dick Allen

described Zen Buddhism as being “so filled with paradoxes that it jumps through hoops that aren’t even there.” I’m tempted to apply this description to the way you’ve been living your life recently. While I can see how it may have entertained you to engage in such glamorous intrigue, I’m hoping you will stop. There is no longer anything to be gained by the complicated hocus-pocus. But it’s fine for you to jump through actual hoops if doing so yields concrete benefits.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): For decades, numerous

self-help authors have claimed that humans use 10 percent or less of their brain’s potential. But the truth is that our gray matter is far more active than that. The scientific evidence is now abundant. (See a summary here: http://tinyurl .com/mindmyths.) I hope this helps spur you to destroy any limited assumptions you might have about your own brainpower, Leo. According to my astrological analysis, you could and should become significantly smarter in the next nine months—and wiser, too!

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Born under the sign

of Virgo, Mary Oliver is America’s best-selling poet. She wasn’t an overnight sensation, but she did win a Pulitzer Prize when she was 49. “What I loved in the beginning, I think, was mostly myself,” she confesses in one poem. “Never mind that I had to, since somebody had to. That was many years ago.” I bet that even at her current age of 81, Oliver is still refining and deepening her selflove. Neither she nor you will ever be finished with this grand and grueling project. Luckily for you both, now is a time when Virgos can and should make plucky progress in the ongoing work. (P.S. And this is an essential practice if you want to keep refining and deepening your love for others.)

the potential to germinate a few choice seeds that could ultimately yield enormous, enduring results. Choose well!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Five of my Scorpio

acquaintances and 17 of my Scorpio readers have let me know that they’re actively seeking to make new alliances and strengthen their existing alliances. Does this mean that Scorpios everywhere are engaged in similar quests? I hope so. I would love to see you expand your network of like-minded souls. I would love for you to be ardent about recruiting more help and support. Happily, the current astrological omens favor such efforts. Hot tip: For best results, be receptive, inviting and forthright.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “The awe-

some splendor of the universe is much easier to deal with if you think of it as a series of small chunks,” wrote novelist Terry Pratchett. That’s true enough, but I’ll add a caveat: Now and then the trickle of small chunks of awesome splendor gives way to a surge of really big chunks. According to my astrological analysis, that’s either already happening for you, or else is about to happen. Can you handle it? I’m sure you’ve noticed that some people are unskilled at welcoming such glory; they prefer to keep their lives tidy and tiny. They may even get stressed out by their good fortune. I trust you’re not one of these fainthearted souls. I hope you will summon the grace you’ll need to make spirited use of the onslaught of magnificence.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In his book The

Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, John Koenig coins words to describe previously unnamed feelings. I suspect you may have experienced a few of them recently. One is “monachopsis,” defined as “the subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place.” Then there’s “altschmerz,” meaning “weariness with the same old issues you’ve always had.” Another obscure sorrow you might recognize is “nodus tollens,” or “the realization that the plot of your life doesn’t make sense anymore.” Now I’ll tell you two of Koenig’s more uplifting terms, which I bet you’ll feel as you claw your way free of the morass. First, there’s “liberosis”: caring less about unimportant things; relaxing your grip so you can hold your life loosely and playfully. Second, there’s “flashover,” that moment when conversations become “real and alive, which occurs when a spark of trust shorts out the delicate circuits you keep insulated under layers of irony.”

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In 1983, two

Australian blokes launched a quest to tip a drink at every pub in Melbourne. Thirty-two years later, Mick Stevens and Stuart MacArthur finally accomplished their goal when they sipped beers at The Clyde. It was the 476th establishment on their list. The coming weeks will be a highly favorable time to plan an epic adventure of your own, Aquarius. I hope and pray, though, that you will make it more sacred and meaningful than Stevens’ and MacArthur’s trivial mission.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): For three seasons

of the year—spring, summer, and fall—a certain weasel species has brown fur. During that time, it’s known as a stoat. When winter arrives, the creature’s coat turns to white. Its name changes, too. We call it an ermine. The next spring, it once again becomes a stoat. Given the nature of the astrological omens, Pisces, I think it would make poetic sense for you to borrow this strategy.

What would you like your nickname to be during the next three months? Here are a few suggestions: Sweet Sorcerer; Secret Freedom-Seeker; Lost-and-Found Specialist; Mystery Maker; Resurrector.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Most high-quality suits worn by men are made from the wool of merino sheep raised in Australia. So says Nicholas Antongiavanni in his book The Suit: A Machiavellian Approach to Men’s Style. There are now more than 100 million members of this breed, but they are all descendants of just two rams and four ewes from 18th-century Spain. How did that happen? It’s a long story. (Read about it here: http://tinyurl.com/merinosheep.) For the oracular purposes of this horoscope, I’ll simply say that in the next nine months you’ll also have

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Queen of the bean For Rina Paguaga, coffee is life. Her father started multiple coffee farms in Nicaragua—and his father had a farm before that. She grew up running around coffee plantations, helping out with harvests and cupping fresh brews. In 2011, she moved to Sacramento and realized there was a new way she could help her family’s farm from afar: create direct relationships with local coffee roasters. At 7:30 p.m. on a recent weeknight, Paguaga sipped a cappuccino at Old Soul Co., shared her family’s story and explained the plight of coffee farmers.

So, coffee doesn’t keep you up at night?

No, it does not. (Laughs.) I grew up drinking coffee.

When did you start?

I see my nephew now who is 4 years old, and he loves to drink it. You know tea rituals? In Nicaragua, we have a 2 or 3 p.m. coffee, where you sit down and have your coffee with pastries or a cookie. My nephew wants to be part of it. … I look at him and I think, “Yeah, I used to do that.”

How would you describe your role in the coffee industry?

I started in coffee more as part of being a family producer, but I think I really started to appreciate my role in coffee when I moved here to the United States because I became more of a consumer of coffee.

Part of the thing that really got me into the thing I’m doing now is I’d tell people, “Oh yeah, my family grows coffee in Nicaragua.”

And they’d say, “Where can I get your coffee?” At that point, I was like, “Oh, I don’t know. I have no idea where our coffee is.” … My role is really about traceability and connecting the dots between what we do in Nicaragua—what my family has been doing for generations—to what we’re doing here right now, sitting down at a coffee shop.

Is your family making more money now that you have these relationships?

We are definitely able to get more money than the regular seed market, which is really not sustainable—you can barely cover your costs as a coffee producer.

There are so many things farmers have to deal with. Global warming does exist. There are pests you have to treat. The commodity price doesn’t cover all of the costs. Most farmers are just living day to day. For us, because we are making these direct relationships and they value what we’re doing,

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and thankfully our coffee is really great quality, we are able to get some money.

I’ve heard coffee farmers only get paid once per year. Is that true?

It’s very true. … Your harvest usually lasts three months. So after that, you sell it, usually to an importer, and the importer pays you. That’s your paycheck, once a year. Then you need to make that last, because the farm doesn’t go dormant. You need to work on the soil, give it nutrients, cut all the weeds. The minute the coffee fruit produces a flower, nine months later the fruit is going to come, so you need to nurture it. It’s cost, cost, cost. And you don’t know what you’re going to need. I always say, Mother Nature is really the one who dictates what happens.

How is your family adapting to climate change?

La roya, the rust disease, is a great example of how global warming is working.

It’s not that it didn’t exist—it did, in the lower elevations. Our farm is the highest one on the mountain, it’s about 5,000-6,000 feet high. Because it’s getting warmer, the higher [la roya] is. Now the pests that only used to be in the lower, warmer elevations are reaching high elevations. So, we realized coffee trees can last a really, really long time, but we have many older trees that were not as resistant to the disease.

So we do pruning … making sure they’re well-fed. It’s like building up their immune system.

How big is your family?

We are five siblings: four sisters and my brother is the youngest. My brother and I are the ones involved in coffee. My sisters

all have different things. My nephew in Miami—I have 10 nephews and nieces— started his own roastery. … My brother has a 4-year-old son and we’re hoping he will also follow.

Given global warming, are younger generations in coffee families starting to think, “Maybe I don’t want to do this?”

Every generation tries to improve for the next generation. Traditionally, coffee has been handed down from generation to generation, and this is the time where there’s really a question mark. Is the younger gen really going to want to do this? It’s a lot of work. With global warming, even more work. It’s even more unpredictable. A lot of farmers don’t really know if everything they’ve been working for is going to get passed down. My dad is 92 and he really built the coffee business. His dad had a farm but back in the day, you had a family farm, it wasn’t really a business. It was great until everything was taken away from him [because of civil war]. He’s had to start from scratch three times. I see that and he’s worked so hard, given us so many opportunities. It’s really painful to see— everything he’s worked so hard for, it might go away. Ω

Find the Paguaga family’s coffee at Old Soul Co. (multiple locations), Insight Coffee Roasters (multiple locations), Identity Coffees (1430 28th Street) and Origin Coffee & Tea (2168 Sunset Boulevard, Suite 105, in Rocklin).

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