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Reality bites I was scrolling through Twitter on January 2 when I came across a tweet from a writer I follow: “Just quietly unfollowing everyone on FB posting memes about how self-care will solve all of the world’s problems,” Kate Harding wrote. “We’ll be inaugurating a dictator in 18 days, but I’m sure a pedicure will make all the difference in your readiness to resist.”

I sat there in my pajamas for a second and stared at my bare toes, just recently painted a dark cherry red, feeling mildly guilty.

And then the moment passed. Nope, forget that. No guilt at all. Self-care isn’t selfish, it’s essential.

SN&R’s editorial team first started discussing its annual Vice Guide before the election. Then, we joked, we’d go with an “escapism” theme should Trump be elected. The idea being, naturally, that we’d all want to crawl in a hole and hide away for four years.

You know, ha ha.

The theme took on new meaning after November 8, of course. Now, more than ever, we felt as though we’d been tasked with a crucial mission as journalists: Watchdogs, truthseekers, activists.

It’s an important cause but one that’s emotionally exhausting as well.

And that’s where self-care and our Vice Guide come in. This year’s package (See “A guide to vice and escapism,” page 12) has insights and tips on how to really get away from it all, at least temporarily.

Whatever your poison—drinking, binge-watching, resolution-busting foods—we’re giving readers (and ourselves) the OK to tune out and escape reality every now and again.

Not only will such self-care make us stronger, our very sanity likely depends on it.

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My favorite form of escapism would have to be music, because the sound really calms me and I don’t think as much, and I’m a very big overthinker.

Lately I’ve been listening to Childish Gambino’s new album, but I like all types of music. I don’t really have a preference.

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I get on my bike, get on the bike trail and just get away from everybody. I like to go north, and just keep going.

The last time was about a month ago, it was pretty fun. I was by myself and enjoyed it. It was sunny. I like to listen to rap, but I also like jazz.

I like to read the Bible and listen to Christian music.

It takes my mind out of the world and into heaven, because most of the stuff you experience out on the street is a bunch of baloney. Last Thursday I was down at the Vagabond hotel, listening to Jimmy Swaggart singing; I like his singing.

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Build the arts Re “The world is changing” by Jeff vonKaenel (SN&R Feature Story, January 5): One has to be confident that Mr. Steinberg will be a better mayor than his predecessor. It was encouraging that he brought up the arts, but I hope we will gain more than live music at light-rail stops. I just got back from Baltimore, which boasts of having three arts districts, one of which includes a “musicians only” version of our WAL and from which almost every Baltimore alt band has emerged from in the last 10 or so years. Build more artists live-work spaces and they will come create and sell art, pay taxes, help keep downtown alive and put Sacramento back on the art map. Build only an “entertainment district” and they will come for a couple of hours, buy expensive food and drinks, get a parking ticket, think to themselves “What’s the big deal?” and then go back to the ’burbs.

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Faith, lost Re “Activism on trial” by Scott Thomas Anderson (SN&R News, December 29): My nightmare experience

with Sacramento’s court system feels far from over. The District Attorney whose “hands are tied” will not budge on my misdemeanor charges, trying to subject a hard working mother

with no prior record to 90 days jail time. Again, the judge feels this is extreme. I can never forget how unprofessional the two officers I met that night were. I still can’t forget the look the officer gave me when he heard me tell the nurse my HIV status. The way the courts and jail have manipulated an ill man and knowingly exposed other inmates to infectious blood; the way they show no common decency nor respect for their fellow man is deplorable. I have lost more faith in humanity living and working in Sacramento than in Baltimore.

It is due to the legal system, the people among us whose job it is to protect and serve. I pray for those who have found them self afflicted by the corruption.

Jennifer Ondechek Sacramento

Tasteless, heartless Re “Lion” by Daniel Barnes (SN&R Film, December 22): I have been a fan of offbeat/indie/ “small” movies for decades. Taste, I know, is in the eyes and ears of the beholder when it comes to movies; I realize that. Daniel Barnes panned Lion. I have spoken to a dozen people, diverse in their backgrounds, who have also seen the film.

Unequivocally, everyone loved this movie. I put it into the top 10 of all time in my movie life experiences. Nicole Kidman gave an Oscar-worthy performance. The only conclusion I can draw from this is that Mr. Barnes is a heartless, vacuous Trump supporter with no soul.

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Economists expect legalized marijuana will be a multibillion-dollar behemoth for California, but can everyone cash in?

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High expectations Marijuana legalization draws get-rich-quick prospectors to California’s other green industry

by Bansky Gonzalez

An extended version of this story is available at www.newsreview .com/sacramento.

Downtown & Vine sits in the shadows of the Esquire IMAX Theatre on K street—a nondescript, hole-in-the-wall restaurant and wine bar where, on a quiet Thursday in November, in a side room, nearly 40 people, mostly women, met up to discuss a unifying topic: marijuana.

For nearly two hours—as a one-manband strummed music in the dining area in the next room—a three-woman panel discussed the health benefits of marijuana for veterans and the various organizations in place to help provide that medicine.

The eclectic audience soaked up the

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information in between sips of wine and nibbles of assorted appetizers spread out on shiny platters.

Monthly meetings like this are the signature of Women Grow, a nationwide networking organization interested in “cultivating cannabis entrepreneurs,” according to its marketing material.

This is the new reality. In California, which became the seventh state to legalize recreational marijuana on November 8, cannabis promises a green rush for aspiring entrepreneurs and government financiers looking to fatten their budgets. But the

state has gotten too high on get-rich-quick bubbles before.

As marijuana expands its legal reach and becomes more normalized, can it sustain all the salivating expectations regarding its economic prospects, or does everything that blooms eventually die?

The state will begin handing out licenses to sell recreational marijuana on January 1, 2018.

A study last year from the University of the Pacific predicted the new marijuana industry could create $4.2 billion in annual

output in the Sacramento area as well as $1.4 billion in labor income, figures that would represent almost 2 percent of the region’s gross economic output. UOP also estimated a huge local demand in excess of 41.6 million grams in 2018—90 percent of which the city could end up supplying.

Depending on how lenient or restrictive local regulations are, the UOP study believes cannabis cultivation in Sacramento could be comparable to the $600 million wine grape cultivation industry in the Sonoma Valley.

State coffers will benefit from Prop.

64’s passage as well. Sales of marijuana products will come with a 15 percent tax for purchasers, and cultivation carries its own set of taxes of $9.25 per ounce for flowers and $2.75 per ounce for leaves.

The nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office estimates the state could eventually net somewhere in the “range from the high hundreds of millions of dollars to over $1 billion annually” from the taxes. It’s also expected the state will save “tens of millions of dollars annually” due to declining marijuana-related arrests, incarceration and related police activity.

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But getting into the business won’t be a cinch.

Prop. 64 states that potential retailers will require state licenses, and local governments can require licensing as well. The city of Sacramento has begun hammering out regulations for the local industry—covering everything from cash handling procedures, transportation, insurance, background checks and odor control to figuring out safe extraction methods for ever-popular cannabis oil. The city also has a provision that allows it to dispense local licenses before state ones are available in 2018.

It’s that exact quandary—state vs. city licensing—that Melissa Sanchez, founding attorney of the Harvest Law Group, a law firm that specializes in marijuana cultivation and production business practices, believes will be the primary issue to consider for potential investors and opportunists looking to get into the industry. “Most—I would say all—municipalities will require you to have some sort of local license to operate,” Sanchez said, echoing the developments already underway at City Hall.

In California, licensing is regulated by business size, so the costlier it is to run an operation, the pricier the licensing will be.

Marijuana businesses will also have to deal with the inability to bank in Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.-insured banks as marijuana is still illegal on the federal level, thus making banks serving marijuana businesses open to possible seizure under federal law.

“You’ll basically need to lie about what you do,” said Yoni Ofir, co-founder and creator of LEAF, an appliance that allows users to grow their own cannabis. “They can’t get bank accounts. They can’t get credit card processing. They can’t get the tax write-offs that you need to survive as a business.” licensing complications and warnings from industry vets won’t stop the funds from flowing. And plenty of the money made in the so-called green rush will actually be made by those who don’t rush to the green. One way around the banking hurdles, for instance, is to stray away from operating a so-called “touching the plant” business.

“We need bookkeepers. We need accountants. We need people to help with your human resources, with your marketing,

with your design,” Sanchez said. is thinking this is an easy way to make The best route for potential entrepremoney,” Ofir said. “What they’ll learn is, neurs may be to enter the weed business’ it’s a highly competitive market that is ancillary markets, in other words. currently a limited sized market.”

Some people are already making money And the newbies are the ones most in the side market. likely the lose their shirts, he predicts.

Robert Calkin, the self-proclaimed “As a wholesaler you’re going to get “cannabis warrior,” holds seminars through- stuck because there’s going to be so many out the state where he teaches would-be people growing that the price for wholesale weed entrepreneurs the ins and outs of the will go down,” Ofir added. “People are business for $349 for their first session. He going to cut each other’s throats just to get agrees that the ancillary jobs can be where into the dispensaries.” more cautious entrepreneurs cash in.

Yet not everybody believes the “A lot of people come to weed business will be difficult that conclusion and say ‘I to crack. don’t feel comfortable “I don’t think Prop. 64 “People are working directly with will hold us or newcomgoing to cut each the weed,’” Calkin ers back, because the said. “‘I’d rather just cannabis community is other’s throats sell insurance. Or be so strong,” said Noah just to get into the an electrician and “Mickey Tiltz” Perez, dispensaries.” serve in that way.’” spokesman for Friendly Or security.

Wellness Center, a Yoni Ofir Stockton native mobile dispensary co-founder, LEAF Jerry Zuniga founded and delivery service in Tactical Patients, a Sacramento. While he nonprofit organization that acknowledged the logistics of provides veterans with food, becoming a licensed retailer can be hygiene kits, free clothing and, of course, complicated, Perez believed that, “with the Prop. 215-friendly medicinal marijuana. right lawyers and the right paperwork,” the “It can be anything from flower to process could be easy. capsules, to creams, to liquid drops, to Instead, Perez thinks the most difficult edibles to even shampoos and creams for part of a post-Prop. 64 California will your dog,” Zuniga said of the typical dosage be meeting the expectations of cannabis he hands out to veterans each month. “Not consumers with refined palates. every veteran that comes to the meetings “The only hiccup for us was supply and chooses to participate in the Prop. 215 medi- demand for the connoisseurs, because they cal cannabis program, so not every veteran go crazy for the good stuff,” he said. “That gets a medical cannabis bag from us. The good stuff goes quick.” medical cannabis is a bonus.”

As the state continues on into the future As his organization expands, Zuniga and of marijuana and its usage—both for his partners have set up two 2,500-squaremedicinal and recreational purposes—there feet facilities in Nevada to grow and are plenty of people looking to embrace cultivate marijuana for veterans. weed, and the money made from it, into “We’re establishing a security team the fabric of American culture, like beer of just vets,” Zuniga said of the facilities. ads during football or circles of co-workers “It’s all nonlethal and it’s just like we sharing a cigarette break at work. do overseas. … We do that with simple “I think Women Grow is a great examescalation-of-force rules, simple phase lines, ple of an organization that attracts people some lights and intercoms and even after of all different sorts of backgrounds,” said all that if they continue to come we lock Sanchez, who serves as the chair of the ourselves down and call the cops.”

Sacramento chapter of the organization.

So, in essence, Zuniga—a Marine Corps “We wind up with people that go one veteran himself—and weed have supplied time and see how normal it is, and they’ll 10 veterans with jobs so, as he put it a come back and bring their mom, or their couple months ago, “they can get cash for grandma.” the holidays.”

But that won’t happen again. On January While Zuniga and others have their early 5, the local chapter abruptly announced it success stories, people like Ofir foresee a was folding due to “unforeseen and unforsaturation point that could lead California’s tunate events” brought on by a restructuring weed industry into a bust, similar to the dot- of the national organization. com and housing bubbles of the past.

Consider it the first casualty of the “Everyone is looking at it, everyone green rush. Ω

Social media flexed its pulpit power over the weekend, prompting local officials to take action after separate Facebook threads condemned sacramento’s slack response to protecting homeless residents from extreme weather.

On Monday night, city and county officials announced the pool house inside of the city’s Southside Park would open the following evening as a “weather refuge” to anyone needing shelter from the worst of the storms battering the region this week.

The move was a corrective to the political flat-footedness that greeted the weather system without any sort of plan in place to shield the most vulnerable from its fury.

To recap, officials have been on alert for a reputed stormof-the-decade scenario that’s been spewing rain and fattening tributaries since Friday. City, county and state agencies issued numerous alerts about the system and where housed residents could pick up sandbags and other supplies. But there was no protocol in place to address the increased shelter needs the storms created for those experiencing homelessness, many of whom camp along river banks to avoid arrest by authorities (because sleeping outdoors is still illegal in sacramento).

What shelters are in place had filled up, while the city and county had recently closed the pilot warming center they co-operate at Southside Park, because overnight temperatures technically breached 40 degrees Fahrenheit thanks to the inclement weather.

Among those to directly petition their elected representatives for help on the shade-throwing, election-steering, kitten-videosharing social media platform were activists Tamie Dramer and Paula Lomazzi, who, in separate threads, tagged downtown Councilman Steve Hansen, in whose district the warming center is located.

Lomazzi, director of the Sacramento Homeless Organizing Committee, felt the Facebook activism drew a quick political response. “But there should have been a policy already in place for extreme or dangerous weather conditions,” she added in an email.

(Raheem F. Hosseini)

DefenDinG The Double-Dip How much does it cost Sacramento leaders to recruit top talent?

Too much, according to two fiscally-minded groups that last week challenged a proposal to hire the mayor’s new chief of staff and the interim city manager’s new assistant.

Appearing at his first city council meeting since 1998, Mayor Darrell Steinberg vigorously defended the selections and came out on top with an 8-0 vote for the plan last Thursday.

Eye on Sacramento’s objections revolved around its own estimates that—due to the candidates being retired annuitants—incoming Chief of Staff Mike McKeever would make roughly $248,400 a year and Assistant City Manager Jerry Way nearly $400,000 annually between their city pay and existing CalPERS pensions.

McKeever was recently the executive director of the sacramento Area council of Governments. He oversaw joint infrastructure, land use and housing strategies across six counties and 21 incorporated cities. Steinberg continues to stress that his top priorities coming into office are mustering resources for homelessness and mental illness, and pushing back against the city’s affordable housing crisis.

No representatives from EOS or Sacramento Taxpayers Association approached the podium to take him up on that challenge.

There was also no public comment on the hiring of Way, though Eye on Sacramento had raised very specific concerns about it in their letter. Way, the former director of public works, recruited nowInterim City Manager Howard Chan. (Scott Thomas Anderson)

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Lawsuit charges Sacramento made ‘secret’ deal with Casino Royale

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The suit’s claims go back to May 24, 2016, The owners of two Sacramento card rooms are when the city council voted to have a McGeorge trying to block Casino Royale from transferring hearing examiner determine the question of reinits gaming license to Steve Ayers over claims stating the license. The task was later assigned to that city officials ignored council members McGeorge hearing examiner Andrew Walker. and the public in restoring the license to good But the city attorney’s office now acknowledges standing. that no open hearing took place. Instead, Walker The charges emerged in a lawsuit that also and Assistant City Attorney Matthew Ruyak signed alleges Casino Royale majority owner James an agreement to restore the license on June 3.

Kouretas, the subject of previous state investigaPark and Rosa’s lawsuit blasts that decision as tions and license suspensions, submitted “false unfair to stakeholders and others who weren’t able information” to the city in order to unload his to speak about the ways Casino Royale’s dust-ups gambling failure onto a new owner. impacted the industry. “The relatively small City officials told SN&R they followed the number of card rooms in the city, and the secret proper procedures for restoring the troubled card nature by which the city settled its dispute with room’s license.

Casino Royale, made it unlikely that any other Casino Royale has been dealing out controcitizens or members of the public would versies in Sacramento since 2013, though challenge the conduct issues in this it showed its worse hand when a petition,” the lawsuit states. state investigation determined In other words, without an it failed to pay its winners open hearing, no one could tens of thousands of dollars, raise questions about whether triggering the suspension of Casino Royale’s bad busiits state gaming license in ness practices merited the 2014 and its city gaming city downgrading from four license in 2015. card rooms to three.

Soon after, minority Ruyak said that, while owner Will Blanas sued Matthew Ruyak the city council did set a Kouretas for alleged fraud. assistant city attorney target date for the hearing, he Last April, despite the and his fellow city attorneys pending fraud allegations, weren’t bound by that slot on the the California Gambling calender. Additionally, he argued Commission reinstated Casino that the hearing was never meant to be an Royale’s state license. That same arena for parties like Clark and Rosa to chime in. month, Sacramento Finance Director Brad “It’s not a public hearing, it’s just a hearing Wasson informed the city council that Kouretas that involves the direct parties,” Ruyak explained. and Blanas wanted their city license back.

“In theory, the public could show up to it, but Initially, Casino Royale had announced they’d have no legal right to participate.” plans to move to its third location in three Repeated phone calls and emails to McGeorge years, this time planting itself in the Little School of Law went unanswered.

Saigon Plaza in south Sacramento. Yet, once As for Ayers’ plans to open a sleek card room the city reinstated the card room’s license, it in the Elks Tower, it’s unclear how the current filed a new application to sell that license to lawsuit affects that dynamic.

Ayers, a longtime businessman unveiling his “You can’t get a city gaming permit without own vision for a card room and bar inside the first having a state gaming license, but the state historic Elks Tower. usually doesn’t want to issue those without A joint lawsuit filed by John Park, owner of having an idea what’s happening in the city,” Parkwest Casino Lotus card room, and Clark Ruyak observed. “So we have a chicken-and-theRosa, owner of Capitol Casino card room, now egg scenario.” Ω alleges that city staff and a hearing examiner at McGeorge School of Law were negligent in their duties when restoring Casino Royale’s city An extended version of this story is available at www.newsreview.com/sacramento. license to good standing.

“We have a chicken-and-theegg scenario.”

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Hop in the ol’ DeLorean, it’s time to pretend that you were former Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson. Some of your employees were on city payroll. Others, well, who knows how they got paid—one of your private groups or nonprofits probably cut the checks. Anyway, all these workers were using both private Gmail and city-issued addresses. Who could keep track?!

Enter SN&R: Between the years of 2008 and 2016, former watchdog columnist Cosmo Garvin filed dozens of routine California Public Records Act requests as part of his investigative journalism pursuits.

In 2015, though, Johnson sued SN&R over one of Garvin’s requests. This litigation belied logic; journalists have a protected right to ask for public records. But Johnson was in a bind: He claimed hundreds of private emails sent to (pro bono) attorneys were stuck on the city’s public server, so he sued to stop their release.

Nearly two years later, SN&R prevailed: The mayor had tried to keep 475 records secret, but the court ruled that only 56 emails were, in fact, privileged. The case was a critical victory for freedom of the press. Yet SN&R’s win was bittersweet: The legal tab amounted to $112,000!

Sacramento Superior Court Judge Christopher E. Krueger denied SN&R’s motion to recoup the $112,000. The nut of his legal argument is that this paper and Johnson “were both partially successful in meaningful ways” in the case, as he wrote in a ruling dated December 15, 2016.

His assessment isn’t untrue: Of the 475 records in dispute, Johnson did successfully petition for 56 to remain secret. But even Krueger himself wrote that “SN&R, quite obviously, achieved many (but not all) of its litigation objectives in a meaningful way,” including debunking Johnson’s claim that hundreds of documents should remain secret. And, as he also wrote, SN&R “obtained the release of records that otherwise might have been withheld from the public”—a significant triumph as the records reveal Johnson’s use of city staff and others to perform works for his nonprofit groups.

At the very least, the judge should have prorated a reimbursement of fees: SN&R prevailed with 88 percent of the records in question, so it should recover a commensurate sum ($98,560) from Johnson.

Instead, the judge’s ruling establishes an alarming precedent.

Can elected officials now indiscriminately mix public and private business, without accountability to the public? Is it now an option to just litigate, and pile on the legal fees, until they’re silenced?

Thomas Jefferson once wrote that he’d prefer a world of “newspapers without government,” in lieu of the antithesis.

But with the election of Donald Trump, and rulings such as Krueger’s, we someday soon may not have a choice. Ω

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Powerhouse Science Center, riverfront It also makes no sense to development, and, last but not have homeless people using least, he proposes building emergency rooms and 2,000 housing units with staying in the hospital supportive services to Steinberg’s when the HMOs that help end homelessness provide healthcare in the Sacramento vision is through MediCal could region. Wow. government at is better provide services Steinberg’s vision is finest. to people in supportive government at is finest. housing.

Visionary. Brilliant. If To solve these problems, a third of what he hopes we will need a regional effort to do actually happens, he for which surrounding cities, hospiwill successfully transform the tals, health insurance companies and law Sacramento region. I am excited about the incredible energy he brings to the job. enforcement all come together to help end homelessness.

We have to remember, though, that This is a tall order. Cities like while the mayor of Sacramento has a Roseville and Folsom will need to wonderful bully pulpit to proclaim a significantly increase their efforts to vision, he will have very little power or money to implement it. The city budget’s aid supportive housing. We will need to overcome neighborhood resistance discretionary money goes mainly to to having any supportive housing near the police and fire departments. There their homes. I’d also hope that business is certainly not enough revenue to owners who are impacted daily by the accomplish Steinberg’s goal of building homeless population could pitch in to 2,000 units of supportive housing. I support Steinberg’s plan. haven’t seen estimates, but I estimate Our community spends enough that at $100,000 per unit, it would cost money to build these units. But we are $200 million. While it could be paid over spending that money in the wrong places. time, that’s still a big number. And then Building 2,000 units of supportive houswe need to pay for supportive services ing would be a wonderful present for as well.

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The policy wasn’t created in a vacuum—post-Christmas mall fights have become a weird thing—but identity-based security measures are a problematic response. Maybe Friedman should spend some of his downtown arena cut on his neglected mall.

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All the drunken, gluttonous and lazy tips for a better 2017

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nother New Year, another set of selfimprovement resolutions?

Sure, you could go the self-improvement route but, seriously, do you really want to? We all just survived the crazy, hectic holidays. And the election. Ugh, the election.

Excuse me while I get back into my pajamas, draw the shades and cue up a Fixer Upper marathon.

Symbolically, January is about hitting the reset button, so to speak, and adopting habits that are healthier (less sugar and alcohol, more yoga and running) and smarter (saving money, strengthening relationships, reading a book).

But, sometimes, you just gotta skip the symbolic pretenses and escape reality for a while. Besides, 2017, more than ever, could prove to be a year worth sitting out.

In that spirit, this year SN&R’s annual Vice Guide focuses on escapism—be it through gorge-worthy foods and buzz-inducing drinks, a mind-numbing TV-fest, bong hit or flotation therapy session.

Whatever your desire, we’re here with advice on how to eat, drink, get stoned and otherwise ditch reality.

Stuff yourSelf with an eScape to the land of milk and honey

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lose your eyes. Do you smell that? Cilantro.

Lemongrass. The unmistakable funk of fish sauce. What do you hear? The hard slap of baguettes against a counter. Ceramic tea cups sliding across tablecloth. Conversations in Vietnamese, Cantonese, Mandarin, Tagalog.

You’re in Sacramento, just 15 minutes outside downtown. But it feels further away, and that’s the point. This is the land of milk and honey—tea, that is.

Boba shops are everywhere. There are too many pho joints to possibly try. It’s the perfect neighborhood to spend all day eating, overeating and forgetting about what ails you in the default world. Here’s SN&R’s recommended itinerary for the ultimate Little Saigon binge fest. Bring cash.

9 a.m.

Pegasus Bakery & Cafe Get your morning started at this cute little bakery stocked with buns, cakes, egg tarts and Japanese-style crepes. Most pastries lean sweet, but if you’re craving savory, look for ones stuffed with hot dogs or Spam. If you want to start your day with an outrageous dessert, try the “egg puff taco,” a Hong Kong-style spherical waffle folded around ice cream, fruit and whipped cream. 6825 Stockton Boulevard, Suite 265; (916) 662-7733.

10 a.m.

Pho Anh Dao There is no consensus for Sacramento’s best pho place, but you might as well follow the chefs to this old-school spot where there are no menus and the wait times are legendary. Get there right when the place opens at 10 a.m. to increase your chance of speedy service, but even then, prepare to settle in and relax.

Pro tip: When you order the popular chicken version, pho ga, you can request all white or dark meat. 6830 Stockton Boulevard, Suite 165; (916) 428-2826.

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Asian Pearl Now you’re ready for dim sum, right? If you come on a Sunday, expect a wait at Asian Pearl, the best dim sum spot in the neighborhood. Flag down carts full of

enticing dumplings, buns and other small plates. But don’t get too full—you still have a long day ahead.

6821 Stockton Boulevard, Suite 165; (916) 391-8881.

2 p.m.

Duc Huong Sandwiches You need a break. How about some caffeine?

Vietnamese iced coffee, strong and sweetened with condensed milk, is sure to the do the trick. And while you’re here, you might as well grab a sandwich, too.

Duc Huong makes arguably the best banh mi in the city, largely due to its superior, freshly baked and crusty bread. 6825 Stockton Boulevard, Suite; (916) 428-1188.

3 p.m.

Thanh Son Hien Khanh You need another break? OK, fine. Mosey into this small shop beloved by the Vietnamese community for its fine soy products: fresh soy milk, soybean pudding and fresh and fried tofu. There’s also an excellent variety of che, Vietnamese desserts based on sweetened beans. 6749 Stockton Boulevard, (916) 391-6751.

5:30 p.m.

Quan Nemh Ninh Hoa No trip to Little Saigon would be complete without a stop at this institution. The house special, nem nuong cuon spring rolls, hit every possibly desired note: fatty, funky, sweet and tangy with a blast of herbaceous freshness. 6450 Stockton Boulevard, (916) 428-3748.

7 p.m.

Sixteen Degrees Fahrenheit Ice cream sounds like the perfect light dessert to soothe your bursting belly. Here, it’s made-to-order and rolled up, a trend with roots in Southeast Asia.

The result is an aesthetically pleasing sundae with a bit more chew than traditional scooped ice cream, plus toppings such as mochi, fresh fruit and cookies. 6905 Stockton Boulevard, Suite 240; (916) 917-5578.

8:30 p.m.

Firehouse Crawfish Second dinner is calling. Head over to this AsianCajun wonderland for hands-on, bib-wearing fun.

Firehouse Crawfish is sort of like a locally owned version of the Boiling Crab, where you order spicy, boiled seafood by the pound. Garlic noodles makes for an ideal pairing. 6519 Savings Place, Suite 205; (916) 429-9084.

10:30 p.m.

i-Tea

Time to wind down with some bubble tea. There are a number of options, but this relative newcomer to Sacramento, which started in Taiwan before expanding to the Bay Area, stays open until midnight on the weekends. The teas are freshly brewed and can be loaded up with tapioca pearls, pudding and flavored jellies. For a change of the pace, the mango sago—a drinkable version of the popular Hong Kong-style dessert—is exceptionally refreshing. 6461 Stockton Boulevard, Suite 4; (916) 706-2614.

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go big (and bloody) or go home Why you should order that giant slab of rare meat

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t’s called the tomahawk, a 44-ounce slab prep offered a 100 percent shield from E. coli, it of rib-eye steak so massive and marbled might be worth it. Unfortunately, in some notable it’s wheeled out cases, consumers chowing to customers on down on that type of patty a pushcart. With a steer still contracted the bacterial The Tomahawk bone jutting from it like an infection. ax handle, the tomahawk So, what’s the takeaway? escapes The escapes the kitchen in a A foodie is at some risk of E. steamy hiss of popping beef coli no matter what red meat kiTchen in a bubbles and garlic-flecked they scarf down, but you can comets of juice. To the skip the mystery mixing and sTeamy hiss of health-minded eater, this ammonia-dousing by just special offering from the ordering a big, solid-beef, Buckhorn Steakhouse in pure-cut steak rather than a popping beef Winters is akin to slowburger. motion suicide. (Technically While you’re at it, make it bubbles and speaking, it can be ordered as rare as possible. Rare steak as a “dinner for two” on has more vitamins, nutrients garlic-flicked Tuesdays and Fridays.) But and healthy enzymes than the for those in touch with the nearly tasteless medium-well comeTs of juice. half-feral, Paleolithic side of beef abominations some their DNA, the only way the cooks will acquiesce to. picture could be more beautiAnyone who’s grown up ful would be a tomahawk in a ranching community know there are cooked rare enough to a few levels of ordering rare for make the first slice into maximum juiciness: There’s it reminiscent of a scene justifiably dangerous; there’s from American Horror make everyone at the Story. table uncomfortable; The debate continues and there’s my personal on whether or not red favorite—“right off meat is harmful. Some the hoof.” experts claim it’s nutriA good rule of tious. Others cite studies thumb for ordering a linking it to illnesses. shockingly rare steak This confusion has led is to avoid doing so at people to think biting chain restaurants. The into the relatively small Sacramento region lacks in amount of red meat independent, old-fashioned, contained in a hamburger slightly beyond their time is less risky than cutting steakhouses, but Manderes into a bulbous porterhouse in Folsom, the Waterboy in steak or a bacon-wrapped Midtown and, most notably, the filet mignon. A New York Times Buckhorn Steakhouse, are solid options investigation in 2009, however, revealed for a tasty bloodbath. The Buckhorn is that a huge amount of hamburger patties owned by veteran butcher John Pickerel, circulating through the United States are who makes sure his rugged saloon uses made of “slaughterhouse trimmings and the quality cuts, aged up to 60 days and still a mash-like product” that is “treated with chopped with a band saw. ammonia” with hopes of fighting E. coli.

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GivinG up the Ghost

by Joey Garcia

Joey Garcia’s guide to making that relationship escape smarter, not harder

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confession: I once ghosted a poet I met on Match.com.

Ghosting, or disappearing—poof!—without a word after several dates, or even while in a committed relationship, is as common as breaking up by text. Giving someone the silent treatment is frequently traceable to a fear of confrontation or conflict. But I drifted for a different reason.

My first date with the poet was at a hookah bar. When I arrived he was seated on a fabric-covered bench inside a semiprivate booth, floor cushions stacked near his feet. I wasn’t willing to spend the hour staring up at him, so I dragged a small stool from another booth and tried to keep my bum from sliding off as we chatted.

The conversation was fascinating, so despite the strange seating arrangement, I agreed to a second date the next week. He proposed a tango lesson. At the dance studio, as the poet walked across the room to place his hipster hat on a table for safekeeping, the instructor told everyone to partner up. The poet smiled at the woman closest to him and took her hand. During the next 20 minutes, the poet and I shared one brief dance. The instructor encouraged everyone to change partners frequently. A few people refused; my date was not among them. So I locked eyes with various sweaty or heavily cologned men with whom I executed the eight-count. Mumbling heartfelt apologies for my clumsiness, I snuck peeks at the wall clock. I wasn’t having any fun.

During the course of the evening my mind rolled back to my Catholic elementary school. Dance classes were mandatory and those awkward hours often felt like penance. But when the poet originally suggested a dance date, I had imagined laughing together as we

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tangoed. Instead, I had small talk with strangers who mashed my toes or grew angry at my incompetence on the dance floor.

As I counted tango steps (slow-slow-quick-quick-slow) with yet another dance partner, I suddenly remembered that I was an adult with a home full of books to read and a Labrador Retriever to play with.

Cue the Mission: Impossible theme music here.

The instructor called us into a half-circle near a mirror-lined wall to demonstrate a new technique. Standing at the back of the room, I met my gaze in the mirror. Warmth and compassion reflected back at me. I watched my head turn and spied the open door. Before I realized I was leaving, I had escaped.

A short time later, as I was slipping into bed with a novel, my phone blew up with calls and texts. “Just let me know if you’re all right,” the poet pleaded in serial messages. I tapped my phone’s airplane mode and opened my book. I never responded. I recall thinking at the time that his concern seemed odd since he barely spoke to me during the date. I assumed a lack of connection and was happy to end the dance. After all, it takes two to—well, you know.

In 2015, several years after our tango date, the poet contacted me through a social media site, chatting me up, inviting me for cocktails. No, I didn’t go. But I did realize that ghosting someone haunts that person. I had never done it to anyone before the poet and I will never do it again. It would have been kinder to simply text him back that night to say I wasn’t having fun and had headed home.

GhostinG isn’t the only way of avoidinG connection, confrontation or conflict with dates. here are three other behaviors that spook sinGles: Unghosting Texting the person you previously ghosted just to say something random, like: “I had a kale Caesar salad last night. Thought of you.

Your fav, right?” Re-engagement tends to get the recipient’s hopes up, but unghosting is not meant to signify renewed interest. It just helps the ghost feel better about having ghosted you.

Mooning This has nothing to do with exposing one’s bum. Mooning refers to the iPhone’s “Do Not Disturb” feature, represented by a halfmoon symbol. It turns off notifica-

tions so you can choose to silence everyone or just an individual. If an ex blows up your phone, you can moon that person without them knowing. The iPhone’s moon feature was intended to keep us present while we’re engaged in events that require our undivided attention. But it’s frequently used as protection against exes who drunk-text Grumpy Cat memes, or worse.

Benching Mostly motivated by FOMO (fear of missing out), benching is the practice of leaving someone on your romantic roster without giving them playing time. You occasion-

ally exchange flirtatious texts that include vague plans to hang out but never actually get together.

That’s because some people prefer to keep the bench deep while continuing to play the field.

Ghosting, unghosting, mooning and benching are methods of skipping opportunities to learn the skill of gracefully saying no. The ease of connecting—or disconnecting—online makes the digital demise of a relationship seem painless. But as I discovered, the person who has been ghosted can be haunted by a vanishing act, sometimes for years.

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In the spirit Drink your troubles away with these local boozy retreats Sacramento is freezing these days (by West Coast standards, anyway), and we’re also staring down a political ice age. You shouldn’t have to face this chilling reality nonstop, however.

After a day of fighting the good fight, reward yourself with a boozy escape to paradise. Wash away drab surroundings with a sugary drink, a tropical umbrella and a license for lushness. Here are four recommended watering holes in Sacramento where you can fly away in spirit—by guzzling spirits:

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Better living through Binging Curl on the couch and gorge on these smart screen options by daniel barnes

The word “binge” means indulging to excess; it’s classically associated with eating and in a more contemporary fashion, also associated with watching TV—a lot of it. in fact, it almost always gets phrased in the pejorative.

But why does binge-watching have to be a bad word? After all, aren’t intensive athletic programs like SoulCycle just a form of bingeexercising? And you’re not a nincompoop for binge-reading the novels of William Faulkner.

Binge-watching King of Queens may not provide much cultural or intellectual nourishment, but there are all sorts of ways you can spend the entire weekend on your couch and still feel good about it.

Out 1 Jacques Rivette originally divided his 13-hour opus Out 1, a series of diversions loosely centered on French acting troupes, into eight contiguous “episodes.” When the restored 1971 film hit Netflix last year, the streaming service literalized this narrative device by carving the film into eight bingeable pieces. Out 1 might feel like work compared to the eagerness of Western cinema, but try to force down a couple of episodes of French vegetables in between mainlining full seasons of Charmed.

O.J.: Made in aMerica One of the most riveting cinematic events of 2016 was technically an eight-hour, fiveepisode television show. Ezra Edelman’s O.J.: Made in America originally aired on ESPN, but was also released to theaters in order to qualify for year-end movie awards. Now available on Hulu Plus, it offers one of the most complex portraits of race, class and celebrity in America ever put on screen. Divided back into episodes here, the rich detail and irresistible pull of O.J.: Made in America has arguably found its ideal home in the binge-watching world.

the new YOrker Presents An audiovisual analogue of the exquisitely tasteful name-dropper The New Yorker with documentaries, short films, animation, poetry and more formed into a full season of weekly episodes. The first season, available on Amazon Prime, includes work from acclaimed directors such as Alex

Gibney, Steve James, Jonathan Demme, Eugene Jarecki and Dawn Porter, and appearances from Paul Giamatti, Courtney Barnett and Alan Cumming.

the criteriOn cOllectiOn Created by Turner Classic Movies in collaboration with The Criterion Collection, the upstart FilmStruck (www. filmstruck.com) is the answer for those unimpressed by the offerings on Netflix and Amazon. It’s the sole streaming home of The Criterion Collection, which the site has formed into ready-made binge-fests in categories such as “Circus Acts” (including La Strada and Freaks) and “Existentialism in Film” (including Le Samourai and Seconds).

Mini-filM festivals On MuBi and fandOr MUBI (www.mubi.com) offers 30 films at a time, with a new one added daily, so there is always something new and unusual.

The selection is all over the map, but they tend to program around themes; currently they’re showing several Marcel Pagnol movie adaptations, including dueling 1961 and 2013 versions of Fanny. If you want a wider selection than the MUBI model allows, check out the foreign and independent-minded Fandor (www.fandor. com), which programs mini-film festivals such as its “Directed by Women” series, featuring works from Agnès Varda, Kelly Reichardt and Maren Ade.

Behind a neon parrot sign lies a portal into a tropical dream. The Jungle Bird restaurant and bar just opened this past October, and the decor sets the scene for a tropical jaunt. Banana-leaf wallpaper, towering totem poles and a thatched-roof bar provide a fitting backdrop for tiki cocktails in their own funky glasses.

(Check out the macaw mug and the enormous $100 bucket of alcohol in the shape of a swan.) To retreat to an imaginary island resort, try the smoothly blended and creamy piña colada ($7), served in a cute ceramic coconut. 2516 J Street; (916) 476-3280.

Cast off that Cold funk Get away to the Mexico City of the mind at Azul Mexican Food & Tequila Bar, with its punchy-colored artwork that will lift drinkers out of any winter funk. The Paloma Picante ($8.50) snaps you to attention with a bite of serrano pepper, balanced out with sharp tequila silver and real raspberries. The rim is lined with Tajín seasoning (a mix of chile peppers, lime and salt) for an extra sparkle of flavor. It hits all pleasure centers: spicy, salty, sweet and alcohol. When you can’t afford a plane ticket, this is an alternative getaway vehicle. 1050 20th Street; (916) 447-4040.

hella Chill east baY Local artist Irubiel Moreno painted an ode to greenery on the wall of Fieldwork Brewing Co., which opened locally last year.

The mural transports beer lovers to the urban lushness of the East Bay, where the craft brewery is headquartered. The wooden draft menu uses hiker symbols to show beer styles, echoing its Berkeley-esque dedication to the outdoors. Try King Citra ($7) for a double IPA that surprises with its hella chill smoothness. If you feel more comfortable in the middle of the hoppy spectrum, Pulp ($6) fuses a pleasant acidity of citrus with a light touch of bitterness. Get a sample at $2 to $4 per beer to discover a hyphy craft brew. 1805 Capitol Avenue; (916) 329-8367.

summer in wine CountrY Arden-Arcade might seem like an unlikely escape from all that is Sacramento, but inside the Insight Coffee Roasters at the Pavilions Shopping Center, you’ll find the flavors of Sonoma. Bailarín Cellars offers tastings of six wines for $10 (which, bonus, can count toward a bottle purchase), from Friday to Sunday, 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. It’s the Sonoma-based company’s only tasting room because the owners live in Sacramento. Pull up a bar stool and try unpretentious varietals made by a group of wine enthusiasts turned vintners. Crisp and bright, the 2012 Keefer Ranch Chardonnay ($36 a bottle) was aged in steel, not oak, giving it a clean finish. After a few sips, you’ll feel like you’re in summertime wine country. 566 Pavilions Lane; (916) 905-7904.

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HEALTHY S A C R A M E N T O

Urban Agriculture Can Provide Health and Wealth in ‘Food Deserts’

BY A N N E S TO K E S

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alifornia is the country’s largest agricultural producer. However, within this agricultural powerhouse, communities exist where healthy and affordable food options are hard to come by.

Katie Valenzuela Garcia comes from one of these so-called “food deserts” — Oildale, a town just north of Bakersfield. Like the name suggests, oil springs from the soil there, more so than fruits and vegetables. Growing up, she remembers more fast food restaurants and convenience stores near her home and school than grocery stores.

Today, Valenzuela Garcia is a coordinator with the Sacramento Urban Agriculture Coalition, a partner of The California Endowment’s Building Healthy Communities initiatve. The organization advocates for urban agriculturefriendly policies, economic development and community involvement.

Currently, the coalition is reviewing a proposed urban agriculture ordinance in Sacramento County that would provide regulatory framework allowing residents to grow and sell produce in private, community and market gardens. As of now, such activity is restricted based on property zoning. The ordinance — which is set to be heard by the County Board of Supervisors on Jan. 24 — is

similar to the one that’s been successfully implemented in the city since 2015.

“If we could use all the vacant spaces for food production, that could shift communities’ health and well-being and general quality of life,” Valenzuela Garcia says.

“IF WE COULD USE ALL THE VACANT SPACES FOR FOOD PRODUCTION, THAT COULD SHIFT COMMUNITIES’ HEALTH AND WELLBEING AND GENERAL QUALITY OF LIFE.” Katie Valenzuela Garcia Coordinator, Sacramento Urban Agriculture Coalition

Inadequate nutrition has been linked to conditions like obesity, diabetes and heart disease. Urban farming can improve nutrition by making healthy foods affordable and

available. According to the Community Food Security Coalition, local fresh produce can have twice the amount of vitamins and nutrients than industrial agricultural products that have traveled long distances to reach supermarket shelves.

Repurposing vacant lots into green spaces benefit surrounding communities. Valenzuela Garcia says she’s seen gardens transform blight into hubs of neighborhood involvement.

“Having people out working on a community space like a garden [can] help decrease the amount of code violations and decrease the amount of time they have to spend solving community problems with police,” she says.

Growing and selling produce and food products provides entrepreneurship and job training opportunities as well. Valenzuela Garcia urges people to think more than local when it comes to their groceries — think hyper-local!

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

“If you have a farm near you … purchase from them,” she says. “Those small purchases really make a difference for the farmers in this region.”

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

Health Happens in Neighborhoods. Health Happens in Schools.

Health Happens with Prevention.

To find out how to support urban agriculture near you, visit www.sacurbanag.org.

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Katie Valenzuela Garcia, coordinator with the Sacramento Urban Agriculture Coalition, advocates for urban agriculture opportunities as solutions to food deserts.

Photo by Anne Stokes

www.SacBHC.org

I was completely disconnected from place, from time, from anything that we consider significant.

Drown your angst

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Try flotation therapy, contemplate the futility of everything

by Anthony Siino • anthonys @ n ew s r ev i ew . com

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hate the world, openly and without regret. I would leave it, but I recognize that before I do that, there’s a lot of good work that I can do to lessen the acute suffering we all endure. In the meantime, my favorite self-indulgence is that of solitude, of self-removal.

There’s a place in Oak Park called Capitol Floats where you can spend $65 to spend an hour in a salt-water tank, totally alone and totally adrift in a soft, silent space perfect for midwater meditation. (If we weren’t here explicitly to talk about escapism, I’d focus a bit more on how many Oak Park residents can’t afford such a luxurious retreat.) They call it flotation therapy, and it’s just about as simple as it sounds: salt water, closed-off tub, a jab at attaining momentary serenity.

When I visited Capitol Floats, I felt that I should go as hard as possible in my first attempt at sensory deprivation. I was given an hour in a small room with a shower

and a door to my own little float chamber, which glows with a soft, blue light while gentle, twinkling ambient music makes you wonder where they hide all the wind chimes. I took a cold shower and then entered the chamber, closed the door and made the outside world disappear.

Inside the pod, I quickly took to shutting off the lights and the music. I’d heard stories about what happens to people in sensory deprivation chambers—hallucinations, strange and unnerving experiences—and I didn’t want anything to get in the way of my digging directly to the core of my stripped psyche.

With no lights and no sound, I was left in total darkness. No clothes or other objects for nervous hands to handle like worry stones, no noises to occupy thoughts, no sights to give a sense of place. The only smell a stink of salt, the only touch a slowly dying ripple in the water and an occasional bump against a

sidewall. A blackout, more total and pure than most can know, one that leaves you feeling as if you’re alone in an infinite landscape of negative space.

My first thoughts were sadly predictable. “Huh. So, this is it. I’m here. I’m floating. Doing the thing I wanted to do.

What do I do now? Meditate? Do you even know how to meditate?” The disease of self-awareness takes a long time to heal, and let loose in a setting devoid of detail, my mind whirled with a need to generate an endless series of observations on my experience.

Once my addled thoughts learned that they had space to breathe and time to express themselves, I found myself thinking less and less, a calmness overtaking the normally agitated and exaggerated nature of my usual mental chatter. Ideas for songs, stories and poems wandered in and out of my head, completely formed and without my input.

I lack discipline, however, and often found myself snapping from mental relaxation back into my patterns of extreme self-awareness, and with that awareness came a pulsing desire to figure out how much time I had left in the tank. The woman who guided me in said that the lights would turn on five minutes before I needed to exit and that music with a percussive beat would come on, giving me time to mentally readjust myself before stumbling back into a state of constant overstimulation.

The more I thought about the time between the present moment and the eventual exit from the chamber, the more I realized that I had no way at all of knowing when that could be. I was completely disconnected from place, from time, from anything that we consider significant—and it felt alien, perfectly distinct and honest in revealing how little any of this matters.

Soon after releasing myself from the tyranny of time, the light clicked on; no warning, no fade-in, ripping me from an hour of infinite nothing and immediately dumping me into a clinical, claustrophobia-inducing little tub lit in an ominous blue. I jumped up and fumbled to leave the chamber as soon as possible, quivering with shock. I can’t rightly put into words how deeply affecting that transition was, aside from that I had trouble putting together sentences for a few hours after.

As I sat in a stupor in the post-float relaxation room, shivering and sipping on herbal tea and fussing around with the art supplies that litter the space, I considered what happened to me. I sat there with nothing to do and came out profoundly affected, both in how languidly my thoughts were unfurling now and in how disturbed I felt by my sudden return to reality. Everything inside was a little more quiet.

And the next day, everything went back to the gratingly loud normal.

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JANUARY picks bY shokA

Don’t call it a comeback Any moment now, stereograms—those abstract images that produce a 3-D image when stared at—will make their comeback alongside other ’90s phenomena, like flannel babydoll dresses and the Pokémon craze. Leisel Whitlock’s series Sacrifice Zones harkens to those MIxeD MeDIa abstracted images, made up of penetrating, discernible, tiny, vivid parts. The viewer’s eye searches within the overlapping blue circles and black diamonds for a horizon or an outline of a man—and sometimes is rewarded with one.

Whitlock, a Bay Area-based artist, explores perception and distance with this mixed-media series, and she defines sacrifice zones as places harmed by environmental damage or economic and social disinvestment, which happens to be an area that we had a lot to reflect on in the ‘90s and still do today. Don’t call it a comeback.

Where: Arthouse Gallery & Studios, 1021 R Street; http://arthouseonr.com.

Second Saturday reception: January 14, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Through February 3.

Closing reception: Friday, February 3, 6 p.m. to

7 p.m.

Hours: Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

“Sacrifice Zones” by Leisel Whitlock, mixed media, 2016.

Fair elections It’s nice to know that the members of Axis Gallery were each able to elect an artist to show in the gallery this month.

However, as of press time, Group SHoW SN&R has not been able to determine whether any of the artists were picked under the influence of the Russian government.

Anyway, expect to see a wide range of styles. Axis member Dixie Laws chose a sculpture by Northern California multimedia artist Joanna Kidd, and Janice Nakashima picked Bay Area sculptor Douglas Holmes. As of press time, SN&R has not been able to determine whether any of the artworks are of a shirtless Vladimir Putin riding a horse.

Where: Axis Gallery, 625 S Street; www.axisgallery.org.

“Lisa” by Joanna Kidd, ceramic.

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Imperfect just the way you are Wabi-sabi is the Japanese concept of being able to recognize the beauty in what may otherwise be considered flaws. There’s been many a Disney movie, after-school special and pop song Group SHoW reminding us that what makes us different makes us beautiful, so that shouldn’t be a big, asymmetrical pill to swallow, but a little reminder now and then is helpful, and B. Sakata Garo’s January exhibit, Wabi Sabi, show heavy hitters who are perfectly imperfect.

The lineup includes Robert Arneson, Robert Brady, Maija Peeples-Bright, Stephen De Staebler, Stephen Kaltenbach, John Mason, Danae Mattes, Jim Melchert, Sandra Shannonhouse and Richard Shaw.

“Head Lamp” by Robert Arneson; bronze, wood, lightbulb; 1992.

Where: B. Sakata Garo, 923 20th Street; (916) 447-4276; www.bsakatagaro.com.

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11 THE IRON MONKEY TATTOO STUDIO AND FINE ART GALLERY 1723 I St., (916) 476-5701, www.facebook.com/ theironmonkeytattooandartgallery

12 KENNEDY GALLERY 1931 L St., (916) 716-7050, www.kennedygallerysac.com

13 LITTLE RELICS 908 21st St.,

Midtown 1 ART OF TOYS 1126 18th St., (916) 446-0673, www.artoftoys.com

2 ART STUDIOS 1727 I St., behind Easy on I; (916) 444-2233

3 ARTFOX GALLERY 2213 N St., Ste. B; (916) 835-1718; www.artfox.us

4 B. SAKATA GARO 923 20th St., (916) 447-4276, www.bsakatagaro.com

5 CAPITAL ARTWORKS 1215 21st St., Ste. B; (916) 207-3787; www.capital-artworks.com

6 CUFFS 2523 J St., (916) 443-2881, www.shopcuffs.com

7 ELLIOTT FOUTS GALLERY 1831 P St., (916) 446-1786, www.efgallery.com

(916) 716-2319, www.littlerelics.com

14 MIDTOWN FRAMING & GALLERY 1005 22nd St., (916) 447-7558, www.midtownframing.com

15 MY STUDIO 2325 J St., (916) 476-4121, www.mystudiosacramento.com

16 RED DOT GALLERY 2231 J St., Ste. 101; www.reddotgalleryonj.com

17 SACRAMENTO ART COMPLEX 2110 K St., Ste. 4; (916) 476-5500; www.sacramentoartcomplex.com

18 SACRAMENTO GAY & LESBIAN CENTER 1927 L St., (916) 442-0185, http://saccenter.org

19 SHIMO CENTER FOR THE ARTS 2117 28th St., (916) 706-1162, www.shimogallery.com

(916) 382-4894, www.sparrowgallery. squarespace.com

21 TIM COLLOM GALLERY 915 20th St., (916) 247-8048, www.timcollomgallery.com

22 UNION HALL GALLERY 2126 K St., (916) 448-2452

23 THE URBAN HIVE 1931 H St., (916) 585-4483, www.theurbanhive.com

24 VIEWPOINT PHOTOGRAPHIC ART CENTER 2015 J St., (916) 441-2341, www.viewpointgallery.org

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

downtown/old Sac 26 ARTHOUSE ON R 1021 R St., second floor; (916) 455-4988; www.arthouseonr.com

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

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

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

30 E STREET GALLERY AND STUDIOS 1115 E St., (916) 505-7264

31 LATINO CENTER OF ART AND CULTURE 2700 Front St., (916) 446-5133, www.lrpg.org

32 NIDO 1409 R St., Ste. 102; (916) 668-7594; www.hellonido.com

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34 VERGE CENTER FOR THE ARTS 625 S St.,

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36 ARCHIVAL FRAMING 3223 Folsom Blvd., (916) 923-6204, www.archivalframe.com

37 CAPITAL PUBLIC RADIO 7055 Folsom Blvd., (916) 278-8900, www.capradio.org

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VIII GALLERY 625 625 Court St. in Woodland, (530) 406-4844, www.yoloarts.org

38 CAPITOL FOLK GALLERY 887 57th St.,

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39 FE GALLERY & IRON ART STUDIO 1100 65th St., (916) 456-4455, www.fegallery.com

40 GALLERY 14 3960 60th St., (916) 456-1058, www.gallery14.net

(916) 476-5500, www.gallery2110.com

X PANAMA ART FACTORY 4421 24th St., http://panamaartfactory.com

XI PATRIS STUDIO AND FINE ART GALLERY 3460 Second Ave., (916) 397-8958, www.artist-patris.com.

41 JAYJAY 5520 Elvas Ave., (916) 453-2999, www.jayjayart.com

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II ARTSPACE1616 1616 Del Paso Blvd., (916) 849-1127, www.facebook.com/artspace1616

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FOR thE WEEK OF JANUARY 12

University of Beer Thursday, January 12, Through sunday, January 15 In celebration of its fourth year, the University of Beer invites you to brush up on your brews, or, as they put it, “the undisputed king of intelligent conversation.” Beers foreign, domestic and local will be in attendance. Free; noon to BEER midnight Thursday and Sunday, and noon to 2 a.m. Friday and Saturday at University of Beer, 615 Third Street in Davis; https://uobdavis.com.

—EddiE JorgEnsEn

We Buy White Albums

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Crank up the Creativity

your 2017 resolution to stop spending so much time on social media and actually start creating stuff? (Of course it was; you’re the reader of an alternative news weekly). Ride that intention straight into the local creative community this week, which is chock-full of resources to kick-start your creative side: On the morning of Friday, January 13, join Melody Stone, the host of the Capitol Public Radio series “Roadside Distractions,” for Creative Mornings at Clara Midtown (1425 24th Street) wherein attendees will sit down with a cup of coffee and listen to Stone talk about creativity, network with other folks in the community, and come away inspired. Attendance is free, but RSVPs are strongly recommended. Find out more at https://creativemornings.com/ talks/melody-stone-321.

The next day, also at Clara, join the dancers of the Sacramento Ballet as they rethink the concept of movement and what it means to create it with the Creative Process. There are two halfhour sessions starting at 4 and 4:30 p.m. and admission is free. More info can be found at www.sacballet.org/events/ january-2nd-saturday-creative-process.

Later that night, catch the Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera pay tribute to the late, great legend David Bowie with a rock symphony. “Changes,” “Rebel Rebel,” “Space Oddity,” “Fame” and nearly 20 other classics are on the bill, and they’re bound to do Ziggy proud. Tickets are $18-$68 at the show starts at 8 p.m. at the Community Center Theater (1301 L Street). Visit http://sacphilopera.org/2016-17-pops-series for more info.

Lastly, in the wake of the tragic Oakland warehouse fire, local artists and members of the community will be coming together to discuss how to ensure that the physical spaces in which artists create and gather are safe at the Summit for Artistic Infrastructure and Safety. Join forces with the community and help come up with ways to raise revenue and gain access to vital resources. The event will be hosted by the Capitol Indie Collective and takes place from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at Clara on Saturday, January 14. Visit www.facebook .com/events/1824456477791728 to RSVP.

saTurday, January 14 Chances are, you have a copy of the 1968 self-titled Beatles album, also known as the “white album.”

Chances are, someone else you know has a ARt copy, too. Well, artist Rutherford Chang wants it. The Verge will be turned into a sort of record store starting January 14. Visitors can view Chang’s collection, each a unique piece of art in itself. Free; 6 p.m. at the Verge Center for the Arts, 625 S Street; www.vergeart.com.

—Lory giL

Miranda Sings Live sunday, January 15 Exorcise your inner, overconfident pop star with this live show from YouTube and Netflix star Colleen Ballinger, who portrays Miranda Sings, an overconfident (and terrible) aspiring pop COMEDY star. Miranda Sings has been a hit with the younger set, but her whacky, clumsy, absurd getup is nothing if not amusing for the uninitiated, too. $39.50-$75; 8 p.m. at Community Center Theater, 1301 L Street; www.mirandasings.com.

—dEEna drEwis

School is Out: Martin Luther King Day Monday, January 16 In honor of the great Martin Luther King Jr., don’t let your kids plop in front of the TV all day; have them pay an homage to Dr. King’s legacy by writing down their dreams for their world, their community and their own future. They’ll cut ARt these cards out to make “dream mobiles.” $10; 11 a.m. at Verge Center for the Arts, 625 S Street; www.vergeart.com.

—aaron CarnEs

William Ishmael wEdnEsday, January 18 We’ve all had those thoughts of quitting the 9-to-5 doldrum gigs, but how many of us actually follow through? William Ishmael of M5 Arts did, for one. Hear his inspiring story on how he left his career in engineering and urban LECtURE planning to focus on art. $5-$12; 1:15 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. at Crocker Art Museum, 216 O Street; www.crockerartmuseum.org.

—dEEna drEwis

—davE KEMpa

ILLUSTRATION BY BRIAN BRENEMAN

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IllustratIons by serene lusano

Sugar and salt Carmazzi Caramel Corn I grew up eating caramel corn on summery beach boardwalks, but it’s just as good when it’s cold out. I especially love the buttery, salty stuff from the Carmazzi company. They make theirs in Sacramento from an old family recipe. It’s surprisingly good with coffee or beer and comes in convenient zip-top bags, including a 4.5 ounce option ($3.95). Not that I ever have leftovers. Find it online at http://carmazzicaramelcorn.com or locally at Taylor’s Market (2900 Freeport Boulevard) and other small shops.

—ann martin rolKe

Uncommon cure Hot toddy, SHady lady Saloon IllustratIon by Mark stIvers

More beer

by John Flynn

New Brew: Insight Coffee Roasters just got a liquor license for its Southside Park location (1901 Eighth Street), which means it will sell fresh drafts of its collaboration beers with Bike Dog Brewery.

So far, they’ve got two. There’s a stout, to which Insight contributes its cold brew, giving the heavy beer an accent of the mellow flavor cultivated by that gentler method.

Then, there’s an IPA made with ground Rwandan beans, which have earthy, herbaceous and stone fruit notes to complement the hoppy style. The collaborations offer an alternative to the Ruhstaller mashups made with beans by Old Soul and Camellia Coffee Roaster—the Sauce and the Kenyan, respectively.

Insight also just opened its fifth location in the Milagro Centre

(6241 Fair Oaks Boulevard in Carmichael), though the most likely candidate to pour beers next will be its 16th and P streets spot. How do the brews taste?

“I don’t know, I don’t drink,” said Insight’s Mike Drake before quickly adding that the customer’s response to both beers has been effusively positive.

Ramen alert: As of SN&R’s

print deadline, Hook & Ladder Manufacturing Co. (1630 S Street) had plans to roll out a custom-made ramen cart for the first time January 10, serving up a hot bowl alongside a Sapporo beer for $10. The red, mobile cooking station, christened “Dot,” will become a regular fixture at the Midtown restaurant as executive chef Matt Masera predicts he

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and chef de cuisine Noah Mansfield will use it to branch out into tacos or dumplings in the future.

“On nights that we want to get our rocks off, we’ll pull her out, post on social media and pop up inside of our own restaurant,” Masera said. “We can use this for so many avenues of fun culinary stuff.”

The idea came about when upscale Japanese whisky company Suntory rented out Hook & Ladder for an event, requesting Japanese street food. This spurred the creative juices of Chris Tucker, the restaurant’s beverage director, who also happens to be an accomplished handyman.

After taking some requests from Masera and Mansfield, Tucker crafted the versatile cart, inserting cutting board space as well as heating and cooling features, making it ideal for whipping up quick dishes.

For the 10th, Mansfield said he planned on serving two ramens: a spicy vegetarian version and another that featured Kalbi short rib, grilled broccolini and butter made from wood sorrel, a tangy, lemony herb that punched up the flavor of the light shio broth. Ω

Is everybody getting a cold right now or is it just me?

Getting sick’s a real pain, mostly because it gets in the way of my drinking schedule. Then again, supposedly whiskey’s a remedy for this sort of thing, and a good hot toddy is an ideal way to soothe a sore throat. Shady Lady puts together a solid hot toddy ($10) with a slice of lemon, a curl of orange peel with cloves, a cinnamon stick and honey to complement the bourbon I so desperately crave. Pick one up on a cold, rainy night and see how much good it does for you. 1409 R Street, http://shadyladybar.com.

—antHony Siino

A new jam Kumquat Years ago, there was a bike racer known as Kumquat del Fuego. It always seemed like a good name for a jam, too. Now’s the time to try, since kumquat trees are laden with their olive-sized fruits. Thinly slice ripe kumquats and mix in some rings of red chile as they cook. The mini citrus are especially easy to eat because you don’t even need to peel them. The skin is the sweetest part. Set them out alone for snacks or chop and mix them with oil, garlic and fresh herbs for a quick relish.

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Prix fixe dining for all It’s back. Every year, a slew of restaurants create three-course menus for $35 for a very special 10-day period, this year starting January 12: Dine Downtown Restaurant Week. It’s a prime time to check out some of the city’s fancier restaurants that you normally can’t afford or try a spot you don’t know much about. And it’s a boon for the restaurants, too, which normally suffer a slow period shortly after the New Year—something about resolutions or whatever—and hope to lure in future repeat diners. More than 30 spots are participating this year, including reliable participants like Biba, Ella Dining Room & Bar, Empress Tavern, Grange Restaurant & Bar and the Firehouse. Other interesting options include Brasserie Capitale, Kasbah, Plan B Cafe and Skool on K. For a full list of restaurants and sample menus, visit https://godowntownsac.com.

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By Shoka In the ongoing game of musical chairs in Midtown restaurants, last month, vegan-friendly Pushkin’s Restaurant found a seat at 1813 Capitol Avenue, and vegan eatery Garden to Grill at 2315 K Street lost its. At Pushkin’s Bakery (1820 29th Street), all offerings are gluten- and dairy-free, and the owners eventually expanded its short all-vegan sandwich menu to include meat. The new Pushkin’s brunch restaurant has dishes with meat, cheese and eggs and vegan versions

There’s perhaps nothing more American than hot dogs. And, in our enterprising nation, there is, perhaps, nothing more American than experimenting with the tried and true to come up with something even better.

So it’s surprising that we haven’t seen more variations on hot dogs. Sausages—like those at LowBrau—have gained ground, but hot dogs remain ho-hum holders of ketchup and mustard.

It took an immigrant family from Vietnam to buck tradition and offer wildly international flavor combos with Umai Savory Hot Dogs. The Tran family began with a food cart in San Jose more than 20 years ago.

Now they’re headquartered in Roseville and Umai stores have opened in Natomas, Roseville and the Arden area recently, with more expected this year.

But prepare to be overwhelmed: Umai offers more than 20 standard choices, plus a slew of options for customizing.

We started with the Honolulu Bang Bang ($5), a Polish sausage piled with pineapple, red onion, bacon bits and a teriyaki hoisin sauce. The hot dog snapped with freshness under its load of salty-sweet condiments. The crispy bacon added a welcome crunch.

Another Asian-themed version is Thai Thunder ($5), with a turkey hot dog, sweet chili sauce, sriracha-pickled vegetables, peanut sauce and chili flakes. It delivered just enough spice. All those sauces may seem like overkill, but they balance well, even though they drip everywhere.

Which bring us to a major issue with Umai. They have terrible napkins. Actually, they’re just brown paper towels on a wall dispenser. This is a place that cries out for wet wipes.

Equally messy, but tasty, is the Houston Honcho ($5), with bean chili, barbecue sauce, bacon and

cheddar on an all-beef dog. It’s not that unusual, but a good choice for the less adventurous.

All of Umai’s hot dogs are custom-made for the restaurant with no fillers or additives and they’re gluten free. They also offer four vegetarian sausages, including Italian and smoked apple versions. Plus, there are gluten-free buns. Umai is seriously inclusive. You can add or delete any of the sauces and toppings, or sub one hot dog type for another, as you like.

If you’re eating hot dogs, you need carbs alongside. Diners can choose one of 10 French fry toppings such as nori, truffle or kimchi. We sampled the furikake fries ($3), which perked up with the salty seaweed sprinkled on top. The shoestring fries can get cold quickly, though.

Other side dishes include tori (chicken) wings and poku (pork) riblets. A five-piece hoisin barbecue poku ($6) had plenty of sticky, umami-rich sauce and meaty bites, but required reams of those useless napkins.

You can also get noodles, a thicker and flatter cut that’s also customized for Umai to match their thicker sauces. The spicy Thai peanut ($5) noodles weren’t too sweet, but the sauce seemed scanty, leaving the noodles somewhat dry.

All of Umai’s sauces come from family recipes that are made in the restaurants. You can ask for a sauce switch on any dog or noodle, or add them as desired.

There’s even a nod to burger eaters, with four choices. The Merican ($7) turned out to be pretty good for an under-$10 burger, with a flavorful brioche bun. The quarter-pound of meat gets an umami glaze, American cheese and the usual ’Merican toppings, plus a house sauce.

Oh, and there are lots and lots of macro- and microbrews displayed on a wall-mounted shelf. Or, try a Ramune cream soda ($3) in vanilla or butterscotch. Unless you want sugar shock, though, don’t add one of the optional fruit syrups.

Desserts skew super-sweet, too, with a fried banana dog and waffles on a stick among them. The Sugoi waffles run $2 each with a sauce, but taste more like underdone pancakes.

Umai (“yummy” in Japanese) is all about choice, whether it’s one of the multitude dreamed up for you or the flavor marriage of your own invention. They’ve got the hot dog quality dialed in, while other menu items can be hit or miss. Ω

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Here we are at mid-January, which means one of two things: You are living up to your New Year’s resolutions like a saint, or you have sinned against the best version of your 2017 self already.

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KEEP IT LOCAL This may be the simplest resolution to keep: sip local.

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TRY NEW THINGS It’s easy to get stuck in the same old patterns — and beer is no exception.

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GET YOUR EXERCISE Beer and exercise don’t have to be mutually exclusive. Try a day on the Sacramento Brew Bike — pedaling your way through Midtown taprooms with friends. Make reservations at sacbrewbike.com.

If you’re lookin’ to get sweaty, sign up for one of the region’s beer runs. The Badass Beer Run, scheduled for April in Placerville, is a 5K or a 1K run. Cross the finish line and get that beer you earned! Register at badassbeerrun.com.

Blood, Sweat and Beers is a trail run in the American River Canyon held each summer. Whether you opt for the short or long course, you’ll be rewarded for running in the July heat with a cool beer. Registration opens Jan. 16 at bloodsweatbeers.com.

PUT YOURSELF OUT THERE There is no shortage of events — local and national — where you can immerse yourself in the beer scene.

The Raley Field Brewfest, scheduled for May 12, features more than 50 breweries each year. Sac Beer Week is another great opportunity to step onto the scene, scheduled for March 2-12 this year.

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Book Don’t expect an easy answer from these two academics, who instead give us the history of how we went from pathologizing race (running away from slave masters was a mental illness called drapetomania; even Jewish psychoanalysts once believed Jews were more prone to neuroticism and hysteria) to pathologizing racists. While some of us might call that progress, Gilman and Thomas take a much less partisan approach; instead, they focus on the concepts of interiority, hatred and the crowd mentality.

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Third Wheels WiTh Cory and JaClyn No one likes being the third wheel on a date. Or as a roommate.

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The next show happens January 14 at the Sacramento Comedy Spot.

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It’s the interview that’s likely to get strange: Barringer and Weiand ask about their love life, relationship with their parents, what kind of porn they watch, etc.

The whole thing works because of Barringer and Weiand’s own sharp humor and chemistry.$5; 10:30 p.m. at Sacramento Comedy Spot, 1050 20th Street; www.saccomedyspot.com.

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I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change is a Broadway musical that debuted in 1996 using songs to tell story arcs of typical couples’ relationships from dating to widowhood—well, “typical” as defined by this rather dated show.

Though the Sacramento Theatre Company has pulled together an ace team to present this musical that includes local cabaret king Jerry Lee as director and a very talented musical acting-singing, it just can’t overcome this 20-year-old show’s rather confined view of love.

That’s not to say that some of the songs aren’t clever; they do capture the aches, pains, comedy and rewards of old-school courtship, marriage, parenthood and widowhood. But overall, the show’s stereotypical examples of relationships provide a narrow perspective that many will find feel hard to relate to by neglecting anyone who does not fit neatly in this show’s rigid societal pockets such as the unmarried (other than the portrayed sad-sack singles), gay, childless, older or any ethnic or economic diversity.

Director Lee, does the best he can with the material. He has rounded up a wonder cast: Melinda Parrett, who has graced local stages, and Sacramento newbies Jake Mahler, David Crane, and Jennifer Morrison (a standout in a cast of standouts).

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It’s shows like 42nd Street, now at the Davis Musical Theater Company, under direction of John Ewing, which still have young kids flocking to Hollywood or Broadway, certain that they will be the one who will steps from obscurity into the spotlight to become the next overnight sensation.

The plot is hokey and predictable and, sadly, DMTC does not have the budget to give this show the glitzy set that it deserves, but it’s the performances that make this production a standout nonetheless. As Peggy Sawyer, the girl from Allentown, Penn., who arrives in New York with a big smile and bigger dreams, Ernestine Balisi could not be better.

Likewise DMTC veteran Wendy Carey stands out as the Ethel Merman-like diva Dorothy Brock, once the toast of Broadway, but now aging and not quite up to the starring role but still demanding diva treatment.

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Ben Affleck’s new movie is Live by Night, which he wrote (from Dennis Lehane’s novel), directed and stars in. It traces the career of Joe Coughlin (Affleck) from small-time Boston crook to the most successful Prohibition rum-runner in Florida. If you exclude the studio logos and the credits, every one of the movie’s 128 minutes reverberates with phoniness.

Here’s an example from the very last scene (spoiler-free). Coughlin sits in a movie theater watching a newsreel of Adolf Hitler and his goose-stepping legions. “Some little guy in Germany,” he tells us in voiceover, “was gettin’ people all excited. But they weren’t gonna go to war over him. No percentage in it.” Then the feature starts—a B-Western—and at the bottom of the screen it says, “Copyright MCMXLI.” That’s 1941—by which time the war Couglin says ain’t gonna happen had been raging for nearly two years. Affleck could have looked it up. Even Wikipedia gets it right.

Long before that, Live by Night has given your eye-rolling muscles a fine workout. Affleck’s antihero engages in an affair with Emma Gould (Sienna Miller), the mistress of Irish mob boss Albert White (Robert Glenister). White’s gangland rival Maso Pescatore (Remo Girone) finds out and threatens to spill the beans unless Joe agrees to kill White. Joe refuses, Maso spills and Joe gets beaten to a pulp.

He’s saved from death only because his father Tom (Brendan Gleeson), a high-ranking cop, arrests Joe for a bank robbery in which three cops were killed.

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Daddy Tom blackmails the DA into letting Joe plead to a lesser charge. Joe gets out in three years and goes to work for Pescatore, winding up in Tampa overseeing that rum-running business.

There he meets and falls for Graciela Suarez (Zoe Saldana), the sister of his Cuban molasses connection. (The supposedly life-changing Graciela actually gets little screen time, possibly to avoid overtaxing Saldana’s Cuban accent.)

In case you’ve lost count, we’re up to Gangster Movie Cliché No. 2,543. And I haven’t even mentioned the Florida sheriff (Chris Cooper) or his ex-hooker-former-junkieevangelist daughter (Elle Fanning).

Affleck’s dialogue bristles with lines that may have looked profound as all get-out on Lehane’s pages but sound gaseous and campy when spoken aloud: “What you put out into this world will always come back to you. But it never comes back how you predict.”

“Powerful men don’t have to be cruel.” “We all find ourselves in lives we didn’t expect.” “I realized to be free in this life, breaking the rules meant nothing. You had to be strong enough to make your own.”

These and other pearly gems are spoken in the kind of urgent whispers that only self-serious movie actors and people in libraries ever use.

That’s probably just as well; otherwise they’d sound like they were coming from one of those motivational speakers you see on PBS. Ω

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A Monster Calls

This awkward combination of CGI fantasy spectacle and indie therapy drama was adapted by Patrick Ness from his own award-winning young adult novel, and directed by J.A. Bayona, who previously merged special effects and tragedy in The Impossible.

Ferocious young actor Lewis MacDougall plays Conor, a boy filled with terror and rage at the impending death of his terminally ill mother (Felicity Jones), plagued with nightmares and unable to deal with bullies at school and an imperious grandmother (Sigourney Weaver) at home. One night, an ancient yew tree near the house comes to life, taking a monstrous humanoid form and informing Conor that he will visit him several times in the coming weeks to deliver healing parables relevant to his life.

Ancient trees, am I right? You just never know.

Liam Neeson provides the voice of the monster, because otherwise the fabric of the universe would rip to shreds. D.B.

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Collateral Beauty

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Fences

When a grieving father (Will Smith) remains almost catatonic two years after his daughter’s death, his friends and business partners (Edward Norton, Kate Winslet, Michael Peña) resort to desperate measures. To say more would be spoiling things (the movie’s trailer is a masterpiece of misdirection). Suffice to say this would-be tearjerker from writer Alan Loeb and director David Frankel is too slick and pat by half; its symmetrical smoothness is its own worst enemy. Heartstrings resist such clearly calculated tugging; good tearjerkers tend to be a bit more messy. Still, it’s a divertingenough anecdote, well-acted by an aristocratic cast: Keira Knightley, Helen Mirren, Jacob Latimore and Naomie Harris are also along. The most interesting performance is a cameo by Ann Dowd as an unorthodox private eye. J.L.

Fences is the third feature directed by Denzel Washington, and it feels like those two earlier, minor efforts were mere warmups for eventually tackling something as prestigious as August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Washington hardly rewrites the book on cinema, but the filmmaking is fluid and patient and tasteful-in-a-good-way, and the images captured by cinematographer Charlotte Bruus Christensen convey a modern American mythology without resorting to sepia-toned shtick. The acting here is uniformly good … and such generous portions! None of the scenery chewers go home hungry. Washington and co-star Viola Davis starred together in the Tony-winning 2010 revival of the play, so their chemistry is easy and unquestionable. Denzel reaches for the rafters for his performance, but it’s still a treat to watch him in tour-deforce mode. Davis is practically incapable of sounding a false note—she only seems to get more real and honest the closer the script forces her towards cliché. D.B.

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Hidden Figures

If Quentin Tarantino really only has two movies left, I pray that at least one of them stars Janelle Monáe. In Theodore Melfi’s moldy but watchable Hidden Figures, the music star and fledgling actress Monáe (she also played a memorable role in Moonlight) comes off like a cross between Tarantino muses Pam Grier and Uma Thurman, all sizzling attitude and soul fire in a part that feels barely conceived. Monáe, Taraji P. Henson and Octavia Spencer play NASA employees who each face their own racially charged work conflicts, all in the shadow of a space race in which Henson’s math genius Katherine Johnson plays a crucial role. The three leads are all good, especially when they’re onscreen together (which is unfortunately not that often), but the film is nobly maple-glazed, timid and perfunctory at every turn. Kevin Costner adds another slowly melting authoritarian to his stable of Stoic American Men. D.B.

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Paul Verhoeven is a masterful satirist because he’s also kind of a terrible satirist. Elle is a borderline schizophrenic satire, and instead of hectoring and finger-wagging from a safe distance, Verhoeven identifies with the damned and demented. That discomforting point-of-view was enough to sully Verhoeven’s reputation among pearl-clutching establishment critics during his heyday, but subsequent waves of young and outsider critics helped restore the faith. The only fear was that his acclaim might not overlap with his relevance, but lo and behold, Elle is the most Verhoeven-y thing you could want: perverse, funny, disturbing and insane. It’s the work of a master operating at the height of his powers, a devastating and insidiously dense piece, with a stunner of a lead performance from Isabelle Huppert as a woman who forms a strange relationship with her rapist.

Huppert is practically incapable of falseness, the perfect star for a film obsessed with ugly truths. D.B.

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A coffee-shop barista and aspiring actress (Emma Stone) and a frustrated jazz pianist (Ryan Gosling) meet, fall in love and struggle against the dream-killing city of Los Angeles, even as their careers pull them in opposite directions. Writer-director Damien Chazelle’s movie begins as an exuberant musical comedy (with clever songs by Justin Hurwitz, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul) and ends as a bittersweet reflection on what might have been. The transition isn’t always smooth; the movie sags in the center as the songs grow sparse. But there are virtues, too—chiefly the proven screen chemistry between Stone and Gosling. (Their songand-dance chops aren’t half-bad, either.) Linus Sandgren’s luscious cinematography is another plus, along with a pervading sweetness imparted

by Chazelle’s affectionate direction. J.L.

Australian director Garth Davis makes his feature debut with this drastically uneven biopic of Saroo Brierley, an Indian-born man who was tragically separated from his family as a child, only reconnecting with his roots after an exhaustive, years-long internet search. The first half of Lion, which follows young Saroo as he boards an empty train that tragically whisks him thousands of miles away, tracking his nightmarish experiences alone on the streets of Calcutta, is rote but riveting stuff. Unfortunately, nearly the entire second half is devoted to the adult Saroo’s obsessive scouring of the internet for his real family, and the net effect is an hour straight of Dev Patel playing with Google Earth, while Nicole Kidman goes awards-slumming in an awful wig as Saroo’s adoptive Australian mother. Davis and screenwriter Luke Davies aggressively strum the heartstrings, but the film falters as it focuses more on product placement than people. D.B.

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Passengers

Two North Dakota teenagers (Lucas Till, Jane Levy) meet an octopus-like creature from deep under the Earth’s surface; it was ejected from its home by the drilling of a rapacious oil company, and now the company wants to dispose of it before the EPA finds out. This clumsy little E.T. for the NASCAR set has seen its release repeatedly delayed for nearly two years, and it shows tell-tale signs of desperate tinkering. It didn’t help; gaps and holes abound, suggesting scenes that were cut or never filmed—maybe even never written (by Derek Connolly, Matthew Robinson, Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger, who took the money and ran). There’s a cute monster, even cuter 20-something “high school kids,” and stone-evil petro-villains; maybe that’ll be enough. Chris Wedge’s direction is as sloppy as the script. J.L.

In the far-flung future, on a spaceship carrying 5,000 colonists to a distant planet, two passengers (Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt) are rousted out of their hibernation pods with 90 years to go till they reach their destination—and their early rising may be a symptom of some catastrophic malfunction. Director Morten Tyldum and writer Jon Spaihts have come up with a real crackerjack science-fiction movie, gleamingly gorgeous to look at (kudos to Rodrigo Prieto’s cinematography and production designer Guy Hendrix Dyas), suspenseful, intelligent and emotionally engaging—a movie with a head, a heart and two of the most beautiful faces in movies. It’s a two-character movie, albeit with nice support from Michael Sheen as an android bartender and Laurence Fishburne as—but no, mustn’t spoil everything. J.L.

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The band members figured they could use their performances as a form of activism, standing up for a group that Guidera felt was at risk under the new administraDon’t fence them in. tion: women. Guidera pointed out Trump’s lewd comments, including those in a leaked Access Hollywood tape which he later chalked up to “locker room talk,” and Vinnie Guidera sat at Old Ironsides with a friend and Vice President-elect Mike Pence’s record of seeking five or six other strangers, eyeing a muted television to curtail abortion rights, as a couple of examples. set at the bar. It was election night, and for patrons at “I figured that it was a good time for a gesture, Old I, the first stage of grief. just to say that we’re still conscious of the people Perhaps, they decided, some kind of solace who are going to be underrepresented for the next could be found at Simon’s Bar & Cafe blocks four years,” Guidera says. away. Guidera heard their TVs had the sound on. It They came up with the idea of a benefit show, turned out to be the celebratory chatter of Fox News with 100 percent of the proceeds going to Planned anchors, and the Simon’s crowd wasn’t so glum Parenthood. about Trump’s inevitable victory.

The show, slated for Saturday, January 14, “The first thing that came up emotionally was will be held a week out from Trump’s anger,” Guidera remembers of that night. inauguration in Washington D.C. “And then there’s this sort of shock and While the Dead Birds will headdisappointment in your peers.” line, Guidera made sure to bill The emotions were familiar. female-fronted bands, including The band figured In 2008, when Guidera was old Sacramento acts Ghoul School, enough to vote in his first election, they could use their Mallard and Emma Simpson, Californians simultaneously opted performances as a who is also the co-founder of for Barack Obama and “Yes” Girls Rock Sacramento, a local form of activism. to Proposition 8, which barred music education program. same-sex marriage in the state. That “There are a lot of really outcome, much like this year’s election, talented female artists in blindsided him.

Sacramento,” Guidera says. “And the “It was great to see the country whole point of this show is to display that take such a huge step forward by electing an they’re as valued in our community as anyone else.”

African-American president,” Guidera says. “But in Guidera says he doesn’t see the new administraCalifornia, it was equally devastating to see voters tion changing its tune. strip a minority group of their rights.”

“I don’t think anyone’s going to change the The election results were naturally all he and his world with a benefit show at a coffee shop, but I band, Vinnie Guidera & the Dead Birds, could talk don’t think that’s a deterrent for anyone to do what about over group texts in the days that followed. they can to help,” he says. Ω And while the Sacramento trio, made up of Guidera (guitar and vocals), Ian McDonald (drums) and Kevin Hayes (bass) are all lighthearted human See Vinnie Guidera & the Dead birds at 8 p.m. Saturday, January 14, at beings offstage, and are not political at all in their the naked lounge, 1111 h Street. the cover is $5. More details at www.facebook.com/vinnieguideramusic. music, they also know how to mourn productively.

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Though if it was actually Prohibition-era, no one in Station 1 dressed the part, besides the staff. The waitresses all wore short black dresses. The bartenders wore suspenders, and stylish razor-thin ties. Martinis were served in copper glasses, and cocktails were mixed with what looked like a large novelty match. The best little detail was the old, weathered 7-Up crates that held the condiments and fruit.

The drinks were a little steep for my blood: I paid $8 for a 16-ounce Sculpin IPA and cocktails were priced at $11. Overall, though, it was a fun vibe, and a great place to hear live music. It’s busy, too. The parking lot was so full I had to park two blocks away.

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Station to station: The 1940s Washington Firehouse in West Sacramento recently got a makeover (317 Third Street in West Sacramento). A new Burgers and Brew outlet just opened on the lower level, and on weekends, Station 1, a hip new club, plays lively jazz upstairs. Upon entering, reminders

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of the building’s history greet you, including a large fire truck on the front patio and the glow of fire burning from the top of the patio wall—I’m guessing that wasn’t part of the original building.

Inside, the old timey decor makes an impression. “It’s a speakeasy bar!” I heard one girl in her 20s yell upon first entering the club. Her voice was barely audible thanks to a solid performance by Jay DeWald and Jazz Artistry, who played sounds inspired by ’50s West Coast cool jazz, a calmer version of the frenetic bebop style.

The five-piece ensemble featured a piano, sax, trumpet, upright bass and drums. Occasionally, the versatile sax player switched to a flute, which kicked the tunes up a notch.

The show attracted an unlikely audience: Young, dressed-up 20-somethings chattered beside 60-something folks—the latter jazz fans, I presume, as they were the ones primarily paying attention to the band, snapping their fingers in time.

Live music is only scheduled for Friday and Saturday nights and the club is open from 7:30 p.m. to midnight, leaving a short window of time to get your jazz on. If the fliers on the wall are to be believed, Station 1 has hosted some impressive shows:

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Stormy weather: It was a lil‘ wet last weekend. But last Friday, before the really bad weather hit, rapper Lil Wet was dousing the bump-andgrind crowd at Blue Lamp with a storm of lyrics fierce enough to make the Beyhive stomp.

Wet is an Oakland-based rapper who stands barely over 5 feet tall.

Her big hair is wider than her waist and her lips are a well-glossed fuchsia. Dressed in all black except for a monstrous Louis Vuitton belt buckle, which is gold, she’d almost disappear on a dark club stage.

But Wet labels herself a poet, and like most in that trade, the words that come out of her are a tempest you wouldn’t expect based on first impressions.

“Niggas brought them lil‘ 22s to a chopper fight … slingin’ shots through your headrest … these shots hit yo ass, eat yo body like lunch,” she raps in her first hit, “Problems.”

“I fell in love with poetry in elementary school,” Wet explained earlier in the night over a tuxedo mocha before sound check.

Previously, she worked as a newspaper journalist in San Francisco before taking the leap to launch a rap career five years ago.

“I write about what I see on an everyday basis,” she said now.

“Wet could be up there with Nicki Minaj,” said her soon-tobe producer Rob Ford, of the Sacramento-based Black Market Records. His goal is a gig a month for 2017, starting with another locally in February, then the Bay Area and hopefully Atlanta by 2018.

Sacramento has always shown the artist a lot of love. Here, Wet is a lightning rod of sorts for a crowd ready to push boundaries. She smiled sweetly and then jabbed hard at the male- and country-dominated scene we have here.

“You can’t sleep on me,” she said.

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The Pine Street Ramblers released its first full-length album, Hazy Shade of Gold, in May 2016, with a dozen tracks that highlight its Americana, folk and old-timey country sound. The closing track on the album, “High Tail Alabama,” showcases the wide array of string instruments used to create such high-energy music, including mandolin, fiddle, banjo, upright bass and pedal steel guitar. The Auburn band is known for its rowdy live AMERICANA performances, so it’s no surprise to learn its musical influences include greats like Townes Van Zandt, Willie Nelson and the Stanley Brothers. 904 15th Street, http://pinestreetramblers.com.

To introduce Butterscotch by saying she was a finalist in 2007 on America’s Got Talent is to undersell how talented she really R&B is (no disrespect to the puppet guy, Terry Fator, who won that year). The lady’s a one-woman symphony, beat boxing her percussion while playing guitar or piano and singing like a gosh darn songbird. If the powers that be were trying to initially push Butterscotch in the direction of commercial R&B, Scotch Tape, a recent series of EPs, showcases a move toward the more avantgarde, which suits her better. This promises to be a rare, highly intimate show; don’t miss this wildly talented artist. 521 First Street in Davis, www.butterscotchmusic.com.

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Violinist Itzhak Perlman is back again to grace area residents with his elegant interpretations of both popular and lesserknown pieces. On this special night, he’ll be playing works by Beethoven, Schumann, Stravinsky and Vivaldi to name but a few. He will be accompanied by Sri Lankan pianist Rohan Da Silva, who has performed live with Perlman previously to ClASSICAl great effect. Although bound by crutches or his mobile scooter—Perlman contracted polio at a young age—he remains very much an active, dynamic performer, and the contemporary classical fan would be remiss to sit this one out. 1 Shields Avenue in Davis, www.itzhakperlman.com.

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Eli and the Sound Cult has been suspiciously quiet—or dead, depending on how you look at it—since mid-2015. Elijah Jenkins has been busy, though, first debuting his darker electronic project Waste Money and, RoCk now, Cities You Wish You Were From.

The latter takes a considerable leap from Jenkins’ previous work—no more pop, no more synth. With Tyler Downie on drums, Cities You Wish You Were From—a playful stab at Sacramento—is a rock ’n’ roll duo with a bluesy, gritty edge. Fans of Jenkins’ distinct vocal style, though, won’t be disappointed. 1901 10th Street, www.facebook .com/citiesyouwishyouwerefrom.

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Harlow’s restaurant & nigHtclub, 7:30 p.m., $20-$25 Is it true that prog rock is mostly enjoyed by music nerds? Well, yeah. But there are a few prog bands that jump the line in the sand to delight a wider array of fans, especially if they add a streak of experimental flair and oddly entrancing stage presences into the mix. Watching Stick Men work its craft is nothing short of thrilling. Armed with a Touch guitar, a Chapman Stick and an acoustic drum set supplemented with ProG-roCk electronic percussion, these men fill the room with thick, juicy jams that entice and excite. 2708 J Street, www.facebook.com/stickmenofficial.

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Would you want to sit down over coffee and have an intimate conversation with the members of Cardboard Swords? Well, you can achieve the same result at their show.

EMo The four-piece from Grand Rapids, Mich., basically pour their hearts out in every song. It’s almost like listening to a one-onone confession or reading a diary entry from the band, the difference being that the songs are crafted together with a lot of thought, polish and precision. Musically, these guys jump around (driving punk, moody indie-folk, bits of pop). Make sure to grab a coffee on the way and soak it all in. 3520 Stockton Boulevard, www.thecardboardswords.com.

—aaron carnes

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It’s always a party when a Hardly Art band comes to town. Last year’s Protomartyr and Chastity Belt show comes to mind.

This time it’s Gazebos, a mainstay in the Seattle scene that got brought up to the indie league. Led by singer Shannon Perry, a tattoo artist by trade, Gazebos’ 2016 record Die Alone was not GArAGE roCk the nihilistic bummer the title suggests. It waltzed, swayed, and raged with a vintage R&B tenor that once permeated early rock ’n’ roll. Gazebos are greasy romantics, written in the doowop of Grease’s “There Are Worse Things I Could Do.” 1400 Alhambra Boulevard, https://soundcloud.com/gazebos-1.

If you’re into any of that popular metallized hardcore stuff like Nails, Trap Them or Full of Hell, you owe a good chunk of your adoration to Swedish death metal and the buzzsaw tone of the Boss HM-2 pedal. That means that you better be there DEATH METAl to pay your respects when Entombed A.D. stops by, which is a kinda-new version of what used to be Entombed, one of the most significant old-school death bands out there. Oh yeah, and they’re bringing Full of Hell with them. So, no excuses. 1517 21st Street, www.facebook.com/EntombedAD.

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They can’t do that, can they?

—Renton A. Domicile Dammit. Unfortunately, it would seem as if your landlord is well within their rights to tell you not to use cannabis on their property.

Someone with common sense might think that with cannabis possession being legal these days, no one should be able to tell you that you can’t keep weed in your house, but there are no protections for pot smokers.

I asked the esteemed lawyer James Anthony, cannabis activist and expert on cannabis and property law, if landlords could prohibit cannabis possession and he said, “Why not? They can already say ‘No dogs, no waterbeds, no booze, no cigarettes and no parties.’

Unless there’s a state law otherwise. But I don’t think either [the Medical Marijuana Regulation and Safety Act] or Prop. 64 protects pot smokers at work or in There are the rental market. Our work is not yet done. Step no protections by step.”

So there you have it. Your landlord can indeed for pot require that you refrain from having cannabis in smokers. your house or apartment. What are your options?

You could always move. Or you could remember that this clause is another one of those things that is easy to enact, but hard to enforce. Your landlord can’t just barge into your place looking for evidence of pot use. Cannabis use is probably easier to hide than that little, yappy dog or that old, smelly cat that your neighbor sneaked into the building last year. Get some dryer sheets and stuff them into a cardboard tube. Exhale your smoke through the tube and instead of complaining about you being an evil, smelly stoner, your neighbors will thank you because your place always smells like fresh laundry. Good luck.

Any new laws coming down the pike?

—Ahn Topofvit There are currently four marijuana related bills floating around the legislature: Assembly Bill 6 (Tom Lackey, D-Palmdale) and Senate Bill 65 (Jerry Hill, D-San Mateo) both deal with driving under the influence, while AB 64 (Rob Bonta, D-Oakland) and AB 76 (Ed Chau, D-Monterey Park) tackle cannabis advertising regulations.

These bills are all brand new, and not much movement has happened yet. IMHO, AB 6 is one to watch. This bill “would authorize an officer to use a preliminary oral fluid screening test that indicates the presence or concentration of a drug or controlled substance as a further investigatory tool in order to establish reasonable cause.” In plain English: They want to test your spit to see if you are too stoned to drive, Never mind that these tests have proved to be unreliable and there is no established threshold to prove marijuana impairment. I will keep an eye on it and let you know what’s up. Be careful out there. Ω Ngaio Bealum is a Sacramento comedian, activist and marijuana expert.

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FOR THE WEEK OF JANUARy 12, 2017 ARIES (March 21-April 19): In Norse mythology,

Yggdrasil is a huge, holy tree that links all of the nine worlds to each other. Perched on its uppermost branch is an eagle with a hawk sitting on its head. Far below, living near the roots, is a dragon. The hawk and eagle stay in touch with the dragon via Ratatoskr, a talkative squirrel that runs back and forth between the heights and the depths. Alas, Ratatoskr traffics solely in insults.

That’s the only kind of message the birds and the dragon ever have for each other. In accordance with the astrological omens, Aries, I suggest you act like a far more benevolent version of Ratatoskr in the coming weeks. Be a feisty communicator who roams far and wide to spread uplifting gossip and energizing news.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You have a divine

mandate to love bigger and stronger and truer than ever before. It’s high time to freely give the gifts you sometimes hold back from those you care for. It’s high time to take full ownership of neglected treasures so you can share them with your worthy allies. It’s high time to madly cultivate the generosity of spirit that will enable you to more easily receive the blessings that can and should be yours. Be a brave, softhearted warrior of love!

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I love and respect

Tinker Bell, Kermit the Frog, Shrek, Wonder Woman, SpongeBob SquarePants, Snow White, Road Runner, and Calvin and Hobbes. They have provided me with much knowledge and inspiration. Given the current astrological omens, I suspect that you, too, can benefit from cultivating your relationships with characters like them.

It’s also a favorable time for you to commune with the spirits of Harriet Tubman, Leonardo da Vinci, Marie Curie or any other historical figures who inspire you. I suggest you have dreamlike conversations with your most interesting ancestors, as well. Are you still in touch with your imaginary friends from childhood? If not, renew acquaintances.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “I never wish to be

easily defined,” wrote Cancerian author Franz Kafka. “I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something fluid and nonperceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.” Do you ever have that experience? I do. I’m a Crab like you, and I think it’s common among members of our tribe.

For me, it feels liberating. It’s a way to escape people’s expectations of me and enjoy the independence of living in my fantasies. But I plan to do it a lot less in 2017, and I advise you to do the same. We should work hard at coming all the way down to earth. We will thrive by floating less and being better grounded; by being less fuzzy and more solid; by not being so inscrutable, but rather more knowable.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Here’s my declaration: “I

hereby forgive, completely and permanently, all motorists who have ever irked me with their rude and bad driving. I also forgive, totally and forever, all tech support people who have insulted me, stonewalled me or given me wrong information as I sought help from them on the phone. I furthermore forgive, utterly and finally, all family members and dear friends who have hurt my feelings.” Now would be a fantastic time for you to do what I just did, Leo: Drop grudges, let go of unimportant outrage, and issue a blanket amnesty. Start with the easier stuff—the complaints against strangers and acquaintances—and work your way up to the allies you cherish.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): There are some

authors who both annoy me and intrigue me.

Even though I feel allergic to the uncomfortable ideas they espouse, I’m also fascinated by their unique provocations. As I read their words, I’m half-irritated at their grating declarations, and yet greedy for more. I disagree with much of what they say, but feel grudgingly grateful for the novel perspectives they prod me to discover.

(Nobel Prize-winner Elias Canetti is one such author.) In accordance with the current astrological rhythms, Virgo, I invite you to seek out similar influences—for your own good!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Now would be an

excellent time to add new beauty to your home.

Are there works of art or buoyant plants or curious symbols that would lift your mood?

Would you consider hiring a feng shui consultant to rearrange the furniture and accessories so as to enhance the energetic flow? Can you entice visits from compelling souls whose wisdom and wit would light up the place? Tweak your imagination so it reveals tricks about how to boost your levels of domestic bliss.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In 2017, you will have

unprecedented opportunities to reimagine, revise and reinvent the story of your life. You’ll be able to forge new understandings about your co-stars and reinterpret the meanings of crucial plot twists that happened once upon a time. Now check out these insights from author Mark Doty: “The past is not static, or ever truly complete; as we age we see from new positions, shifting angles. A therapist friend of mine likes to use the metaphor of the kind of spiral stair that winds up inside a lighthouse. As one moves up that stair, the core at the center doesn’t change, but one continually sees it from another vantage point; if the past is a core of who we are, then our movement in time always brings us into a new relation to that core.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The Tao Te

Ching is a poetically philosophical text written by a Chinese sage more than two millennia ago.

Numerous authors have translated it into modern languages. I’ve borrowed from their work to craft a horoscope that is precisely suitable for you in the coming weeks. Here’s your high-class fortune cookie oracle: Smooth your edges, untangle your knots, sweeten your openings, balance your extremes, relax your mysteries, soften your glare, forgive your doubts, love your breathing, harmonize your longings and marvel at the sunny dust.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I recently

discovered Tree of Jesse, a painting by renowned 20th-century artist Marc Chagall. I wanted to get a copy to hang on my wall. But as I scoured the internet, I couldn’t find a single business that sells prints of it. Thankfully, I did locate an artist in Vietnam who said he could paint an exact replica. I ordered it, and was pleased with my new objet d’art. It was virtually identical to Chagall’s original. I suggest you meditate on taking a metaphorically similar approach, Capricorn.

Now is a time when substitutes may work as well as what they replace.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “It is often safer

to be in chains than to be free,” wrote Franz Kafka. That fact is worthy of your consideration in the coming weeks, Aquarius. You can avoid all risks by remaining trapped inside the comfort that is protecting you. Or you can take a gamble on escaping, and hope that the new opportunities you attract will compensate you for the sacrifice it entails. I’m not here to tell you what to do. I simply want you to know what the stakes are.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “All pleasures are

in the last analysis imaginary, and whoever has the best imagination enjoys the most pleasure.”

So said 19th-century German novelist Theodor Fontane, and now I’m passing his observation on to you. Why? Because by my astrological estimates, you Pisceans will have exceptional imaginations in 2017—more fertile, fervent, and freedom-loving than ever before. Therefore, your capacity to drum up pleasure will also be at an all-time high. There is a catch, however. Your imagination, like everyone else’s, is sometimes prone to churning out superstitious fears. To take maximum advantage of its bliss-inducing potential, you will have to be firm about steering it in positive directions.

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

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Fire spin with me Kristy Fortes is a lot of things; a fire spinner, a woman of color, a state worker, a flow artist, a member of a huge Mexican-American family and maybe even a trailblazer of sorts.

She is also unequivocally joyful. As she locked her bike up outside Revolution Wines, she was wrapped in a winter coat and knit scarf, tempting the phrase “bundle of joy.” Though she is decidedly less bundled when she dances with Julie Arenz and Shiree Rezendes of the Sacramento performance group Infinite Spin, her joy de vivre only swells in the presence of a hula hoop. Over a glass of chenin blanc, she told us why.

Infinite Spin is comprised of three distinctly different girls. How do you fit together as performers?

I bring a certain untamed, unchoreographed dance and flow. And then Julie is like the brains of the operation. She taught me how to count and she knows how to block people and choreograph. She was a band major in high school so she has all of this intricate knowledge of how to make everything look really good and how to make things flow and give us variation in our choreography.

And Shiree is just the epitome of grace. She brings this beauty. She’ll take moves that will just flow out of me and she’ll make them big and beautiful and make them more like a performance move and something that will appeal to the audience and make them feel.

What do you wish the public knew about fire spinning?

[It’s] really hard for us to continue doing what we’re doing and to share this love without being compensated because it takes a lot of time to choreograph this stuff. It takes a lot of money to buy fuel to dip all this stuff. It takes a whole team of

people behind us to help us with [safety] and help us with carrying things around.

And it takes paying for props. So I think in general as an artist it takes people understanding why we’re asking for compensation.

want that. I wouldn’t want anybody to feel isolated in that because I felt it and I don’t want anyone else to have to go through that isolation alone. So it’s like, maybe it’s not a valid concern to have but we still have it anyway so maybe it is worth discussing because we have it.

Speaking of props, what’s your favorite prop to date?

Our favorite and kind of like the biggest, most meaningful prop [Lee Snow] made for us was the fire wings which were made for Burning Man. And they are giant, 12-foot wingspan fire wings. There are four sets in existence.

It seems like fire spinners tend to be predominantly white and you’re a woman of color. How has that been for you?

I think the worst part is that internally there’s a lot of anxieties or insecurities.

So if I’m in a place that is either new to me or I’m surrounded by very talented spinners, like I am all the time, I just kind of question things sometimes, like, “Oh, I’m the only person of color here. Why is that? Do I belong here? Does anyone else notice? Are they not going to accept me?” … Sometimes when I get those insecurities I feel like it’s not valid to feel that way because my struggles aren’t any worse than anybody else’s struggles. Maybe they’re different and maybe a white person never has to worry about feeling like the only white person in the room but that’s not like a huge challenge. Sometimes I wonder, “Is this really a valid thing to think about or discuss?”

What conclusions have you come to around that?

I love that the diversity in this group is really changing and you know if anybody of color ever felt unwelcome I wouldn’t

Are there specific ways in which your heritage has shaped your spinning?

I have a different style of dancing that comes from being Latin American and listening to a lot of salsas and cumbias and Mexican music growing up. There aren’t a lot of people that naturally dance the way I do.

Have you made any connections with other people of color in the fire spinning community?

The first time I saw Deaja, Girl on Fire, dance I fell head-over-heels in love with her. I was like, “She dances like me!” I just connected so hard with her. … She included me in a lot of things and I just felt like if somebody of her status—she’s such an amazing performer and well-known in the community—welcomed me in I felt like maybe I do belong here and like if she can do it I can do it. So it was really cool to have her as an inspiring role model and now friend, somebody who I perform alongside with who appreciates my talent and my uniqueness. Having somebody of color to get you jump-started in this community is really helpful and if I could be that for somebody else, I would be happier than I am now, which is going to be hard because I’m super-happy. Ω

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