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Pre-election, SN&R’s editorial team discussed how we wanted to cover the presidential inauguration. Maybe, we thought, we’d solicit “Letters to Hillary Clinton”—thoughts and advice for this country’s first female president.

Post-election, we considered the same idea but, eventually, couldn’t muster the enthusiasm. Not that we don’t have plenty to say to the incoming president but, rather, because he’s clearly not interested.

So, instead of trying to talk to Trump, we decided to take action.

Think of this week’s feature as your starter pack survival guide. Writer Sasha Abramsky kicks off the section with a call to action in California (See “Reject and resist,” page 12). We’re fortunate to live in such a progressive state, Abramsky notes, writing “we must stand unified and uncompromising in our opposition.”

Elsewhere, artist Liv Moe offers tips on navigating the political fray (page 14), writer Amanda Branham has put together a useful guide to supporting feminist causes (page 16), SN&R associate editor Raheem F. Hosseini has crafted a killer protest playlist (page 17) and SN&R columnist Ngaio Bealum has some very helpful information on using weed to survive the next four years (page 15).

Basically, we’re here to serve.

There’s Trump-related coverage throughout the entire issue, too, with stories on immigration, the electoral college and the environment. And, in our weekly Streetalk feature (page 4), we asked people to share advice with the new president. Trump may not care, but it’s enlightening nonetheless to read their thoughts.

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Alison AdAms stay-at-home mom

He should think about his decisions and how he will answer to God and the people that elected him.

He is trying to prove a point that no matter how he offends somebody, it’s his right to do it; however, he is an elected official and there is a standard just like any professional.

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He needs to humble himself. ... I feel like he needs to have more heart. Other than that I really can’t speak too much about him because we haven’t given him a chance.

He is a smart businessman.

I hope he gives the American people more jobs … especially those struggling to get ahead.

To be more open-minded to individuals and see what their individual struggles are.

Everybody here in America is an American, it doesn’t matter what color skin they have. As long as they are being honest and a good person and hard-working, they don’t need to be discriminated against.

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To look at what has been going down with Medicaid and Medicare and Social Security and leave it alone.

Get the hell out of Russia. Building a wall around Mexico is just a bunch of shit. We already have a fence and border patrol. Why do we have to spend millions of dollars on a wall?

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Learn how to have compassion. The way he treats other people makes me think he doesn’t know what is truly going on in the world. I think he sees what he wants to see. I think compassion is learned by putting yourself in others’ shoes and see what others have been through.

Please do not do any of the things you have promised to do. Repealing the Affordable Care Act is going to hurt a lot of people. It is mindboggling in the first place that Donald Trump won. A joke sometimes. You have to root for him because rooting against him now is rooting against us.

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Breaking the rules Re “Defending the double-dip” by Scott Thomas Anderson (SN&R News, January 12): It is interesting that the author highlights that neither citizen groups Eye on Sacramento and Sacramento Taxpayers Association members approached the podium. However, most notably absent was anyone from the governor’s office. Steinberg and the city council voted in open defiance of the governor’s “double-dipping” rule. Where was a representative of the governor’s administration?

It appears that the governor’s cronies can defy rules. Given that, I would expect all levels of government, in any locale of the state, can defy the governor. His rules no longer mean anything.

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informed with the truth. Thank you! I would like to comment about sanctuary cities. I believe this is disgraceful and right next to treason. What can I do to try to get rid of this concept/title?

The new administration (which

scares me as well as my family) has made it well known that they intend to hold up funding to cities that have this distinction, so that is another very good reason to shed this title and attitude.

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A violent cycle Re “The world is changing” by Jeff vonKaenel (SN&R Feature Story, January 5): I object to the deportation of people who have committed serious crimes, and all intelligent people should as well, because that’s what got us into the current crisis. The crush of unaccompanied minors fleeing Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala is due to the gang terror that gives those countries the highest murder rates in the world. Their gang problems arose when President Clinton made mass deportations of the

children of Salvadoran refugees who had gotten caught up in LA gangs. Once these youths arrived in a country they were unfamiliar with, they began recruiting there.

In fact, it was President Reagan who was responsible for the plight of the Salvadoran refugees in the first place because of his support for the death squad government there. Once the Salvadorans reached the U.S., they were denied refugee status because of that support, and thus had to scrape by in the shadows while their kids fell through the cracks. A sensible policy would be to rehabilitate people who commit serious crimes, whether immigrant or the more violent native-born population. Pushing a problem out of sight rather than solving it only causes it to fester.

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Jennifer Wood leads the local chapter of the Citizens’ Climate Lobby, which believes common ground can be found between conservationists and a jobstouting new administraion.

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Planet Trump California’s environmental community prepares for the frightening enigma that is the next president

by John Flynn

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

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In his free time, environmental scientist Dana Nuccitelli teaches audiences how to respond to an uncle who claims “galactic cosmic rays” are what really cause climate change.

In talks given around the state, Nuccitelli translates peer-reviewed findings into everyday language to dispel myths and connect to skeptics. There are plenty of them these days, including the soon-to-be most powerful man in the free world.

In the fifth-warmest November ever recorded, Americans elected Donald Trump—a man who has said “nobody

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really knows” if climate change is happening.

Nuccitelli acknowledges that even some believers think that climate change will “happen in the future to somebody else.” But he stresses that it’s happening right now, to everyone.

In California, climate change stretched the drought, inflamed wildfires and diminished the snowpack, which refills state reservoirs. Offshore, the warming of the planet raises sea levels, ups the odds of extreme weather phenomena like El Niño and makes the ocean more acidic,

threatening coral reefs and the bottom of the food chain, which holds up the entire marine ecosystem.

As Trump remakes the White House, scientists fear a clash between their findings and the new president’s policies regarding a massive infrastructure project, the extraction of fossil fuels from national lands and the transition (or lack thereof) toward more renewable forms of energy.

Nuccitelli, who also blogs for The Guardian, notes that some scientists, like UC Davis’ Nick Santos, have begun

transferring government data to private servers to prevent potential tampering or muzzling by the incoming administration.

It’s happened before.

Following a 2006 investigation, NASA’s inspector general concluded President George W. Bush’s administration had “reduced, marginalized or mischaracterized climate change science made available to the general public.”

Earl Withycombe, a California Air Resources Board engineer and member of the Environmental Council of Sacramento, or ECOS, adds that President Trump’s ability to command media attention will suck up time that could be devoted to the coverage of climate findings. “As those stories get crowded out, public support for climate protection may diminish,” he said.

It’s already happening.

According to a paper co-written by Nuccitelli, 97 percent of scientists agree climate change is happening and human beings cause it. Yet, according to a Pew Research Center poll, only 27 percent of Americans believe that such a consensus exists, and less than half believe humans are responsible for climate change.

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Warren’s big shift “Facts by themselves aren’t enough,” Nuccitelli told SN&R. “If a fact conflicts with an ideological belief, people will just reject the fact and look for information that supports their belief. It’s a tough question: If facts aren’t enough, then what is it going to take?”

When it comes to national policy, trump has been short on details, but big on vague promises.

During the campaign, he repeatedly vowed to fund a national infrastructure bill costing up to $1 trillion, including support for pipelines and coal shipping. Trump proposes to fund this mostly by offering tax breaks to large business for the operation of “toll road”-type projects, where they could steadily recoup their investments.

Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg’s chief of staff, Mike McKeever, sees this idea as insufficient.

“With [expanding public] transit or maintaining roads or fixing patchy sewer lines or leaky roofs in school buildings, there’s no revenue stream that comes with that,” said McKeever, a former regional planner with an emphasis on smart growth and sustainability. “And so, it’s hard to figure out how giving tax breaks is going to do much good in those areas, all of which are pretty important to us.”

After the half-cent sales tax proposed by Measure B narrowly failed, McKeever says the mayor’s office has only embarked on preliminary conversations for raising money for public transit—a financial obligation that he says has been increasingly left to local governments to figure out.

But the city needs federal approval for projects like the 4.2-mile streetcar line proposed to connect to West Sacramento over the Tower Bridge. The $200 million project would seek half of its funding from the federal level, funding that Trump’s administration has to approve.

“If the federal transit funds get cut, we’re in a world of hurt,” McKeever said.

Trump has also insinuated he would open up federal lands for excavation. In California, that makes 45.8 percent of the state vulnerable. Should Trump target these lands, Laurie Litman of 350 Sacramento, which backs local initiatives to reduce greenhouse gases, says that her group and others, like ECOS and the Citizens’ Climate Lobby, will be ready to aid legal action against the new administration.

At the state level, the Legislature just retained former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s law firm for $25,000 a month for assistance if and when conflicts arise between state and federal policies. Gov.

Jerry Brown has also flung himself into incentivizing a shift toward renewable the limelight against Trump by pledging to energy sources like solar and wind, which “launch our own damn satellite” to collect employed 769,000 Americans in 2015. climate data, while also urging President These sources are rapidly becoming costBarack Obama to do what he can in his competitive with fossil fuels, which directly final days in office. employ roughly 2 million, especially with But some Californians hesitate to anoint companies like Tesla working on cheaper Brown the state’s savior and contend batteries to store that energy.

California squandered some opportunities to Both Nuccitelli and Wood think that protect the environmental high ground.

Republican members of Congress could The Sierra Club opposes Brown’s pet be swayed by the massive potential for project, the twin tunnels, fearing a disrupjobs, as the solar industry grew 12 times tion of the Delta’s ecosystem, which faster than the rest of the economy in could spawn unpredictable 2015. And besides, China has ripple effects. pledged to invest over $360 Plus, there’s frackbillion into wind, hydro, “If the federal ing—injecting highsolar and nuclear power pressure wastewater programs by 2020 to transit funds get into subterranean generate half of their cut, we’re in a world of rocks to loosen gas new electricity—which hurt.” and oil reserves— could pump Trump’s which Trump competitive juices.

Mike McKeever supports and Brown “Clean energy chief of staff to has done little to curb. creates a lot of jobs,” Mayor Darrell Steinberg A fracking well in said Jim Lerner, an engiAliso Canyon recently neer and another member of hosted the biggest natural gas CCL. “I think Trump is going spill in state history. Lasting from to find out about this and say, ‘You October 23, 2015, to February 18, 2016, it know, I don’t think they should be No. 1. I dumped an estimated 97,000 tons of meththink we should be No. 1.’” ane into the atmosphere. Aliso Canyon’s But ultimately, Trump remains an carbon footprint is considered larger than enigma. Quintessentially, he threatened the Deepwater Horizon spill. to pull out of the international Paris Which is to say that, even in stable Agreement, but also pledged to listen to times, environmental progress is a relative businesses, 630 of which signed a letter concept. But with a wild card in the Oval opposing that action.

Office? All hands on deck.

“The future is much more unpredictable than I have seen in most of my lifetime,” some environmentalists want trump to said Withycombe, the 70-year-old engineer. know that saving the world and making a Withycombe points to a divide in the buck aren’t mutually exclusive. country. He supports efforts to resist Trump, Jennifer Wood, Sacramento chapter but believes they don’t address what spurred leader of the Citizens’ Climate Lobby, his election. Only 32 percent of Trump argues that companies have failed to factor voters listed the environment as “very the costly side effects of fossil fuels into important” to them. their pricing. So the CCL has pushed federal “Unless we change the economic legislation for a revenue-neutral carbon structure to make sure that citizens have a fee and dividend, which would fine carbon minimally adequate safety net, we’re going emissions, then return that money to citizens to continue to see these sorts of electoral equally in the form of rebate checks—a revolts and continued levels of anxiety measure that would provide the most relief among many citizens that something is to the working and middle classes. vitally wrong,” he said. “Something that the California’s Legislature approved a country is not willing to fix.” resolution recommending such a measure Lerner agreed. Speaking to SN&R by to the federal government. The House of phone, shortly after playing with his two Representatives recently formed the bipar18-month-old grandchildren, Lerner recalled tisan Climate Solutions Caucus. And even a reunion days earlier at MIT, where he Trump’s prospective nominee for secretary found that five in 10 of his fraternity brothof state, Rex Tillerson, taxed carbon while ers—lawyers, doctors and Ph.D.s in engiCEO of ExxonMobil. neering—didn’t believe in climate change The tax would hit carbon as soon as it because “their tribe tells them it’s not real.” entered the marketplace, making all forms He wondered what that meant for the future of fossil fuel consumption more expensive, of the infants he had held in his arms. Ω

Mayor Darrell Steinberg campaigned on rolling up his sleeves to help Sacramento’s homeless, but it’s the controversial representative from district 2 who just suggested doing what the Right to Rest movement has advocated for two years. councilman allen Warren said last week that recent travels have made him realize that even third-world countries are more compassionate to the unhomed than California’s capital city, where sleeping outdoors is illegal. However, when Warren asked the city manager’s team to look into lifting sacramento’s so-called anticamping ordinance, he was met with countersuggestions from the mayor and deafening silence from the rest of the council.

Warren’s January 10 comments came on the heels of Steinberg reiterating that City Hall is working to create a one-step entry portal for homeless services, as well as a long-term housing strategy.

But Warren made it clear that the best plans for the future don’t eliminate danger and suffering in the present.

Warren added that administrators recently told him they have more than 100 homeless students attending Grant Union High School in his district. More disturbing, Warren added, were statistics that advocates obtained from the coroner showing 705 homeless people died in Sacramento County between 2002 and 2015.

Homelessness activist James “Faygo” Clark told the council that a patchwork approach won’t alleviate fear and stress for most on the streets.

Despite Steinberg’s reluctance, Warren continued to ask staff for a report on options for lifting the camping ordinance. “I don’t see any objective rationale for us maintaining a policy that’s not working,” Warren said. (Scott Thomas Anderson)

fOur (year) alarm Using nonstop sound and sleep deprivation to torment prisoners is banned by the United Nations Convention Against Torture, but RegionalSan apparently missed that memo for years, as numerous nearby residents claim the sewage plant allowed an unbroken siren to wail at their homes in intervals—sometimes for up to five days at a time.

For the residents of McNamara Way in south Sacramento, the only thing more worrying than the constant noise was an obvious question: Why was a siren repeatedly sounding at the Sacramento Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant?

County officials said this week that there was never an environmental threat and that the elusive ghost alarm has now been permanently deactivated.

Located on Laguna Station Road, roughly a mile-and-a-half from McNamara Way, RegionalSan is a massive operation at the south edge of the city of Sacramento, near Elk Grove and east of the Sacramento River, pumping sewage from as far as Folsom.

Resident Jim Higgenbotham said issues with the plant’s siren began in 2012.

Resident Dennis Christen said that, in addition to ruining his street’s tranquility, the siren prompted a more nagging question.

“It’s a sewage plant,” Christen pointed out, “and alarms tend to go off because something is wrong.”

County spokeswoman Sharon Nichols Sargeant told SN&R that the alarm never indicated sewage problems that would affect residents.

According to Sargeant, the problem only came to the county’s attention late last week, when the plant’s senior engineer met with a homeowners’ association. “The alarm has been completely disconnected now,” Sargeant said. “For the moment, we’ll be using a silent, blue flashing light—at least until we can figure out a better way.” (Scott Thomas Anderson)

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waiting on its rolls—remains uncertain.

For Sacramento County’s undocumented resi“We don’t know the exact impact until the dents, life is increasingly uncertain. With an incomnew administration is sworn in and we see what ing federal administration headed by President-elect the Affordable Care Act will look like, or not look Donald Trump, who has vowed to defund so-called like, in the future,” Trejo said. “But covering 3,000 “sanctuary cities” and jump-start mass deportation, undocumented adults has allowed us to save money one threat that has so far flown under the radar in terms of how many people we’re seeing in the is what might happen to Sacramento County’s emergency room, because we’re able to provide recently revived health care program for undocuthem with primary care.” mented immigrants.

Though not formally a source of funding for The county decided to defund services for Healthy Partners, Obamacare allows the county to undocumented immigrants during the height of the reallocate money saved through reduced emergency recession in 2009, dropping coverage provided by room costs to keep the program thriving. (The the County Medically Indigent Services Program program doesn’t cover seniors because to save $2.8 million. Those savings were their insurance costs were deemed too lost to increased emergency room expensive. Undocumented children visits and other costs associated had been getting patchwork care with the dropped health coverage, though other programs; in May, advocates say.

Obamacare state lawmakers made them In June 2015, the is indirectly eligible for Medi-Cal services Sacramento County Board of funding the county’s through the state’s insurance Supervisors voted to reinstate exchange, Covered California.) health coverage after feedback immigrant health UC Davis law professor Kevin from community health care care program.

Johnson, dean of Chicana/o studproviders and advocates, accordies at the university, explained that ing to Samantha Mott, a spokessuch funding could face a dire threat woman for the Department of Health from Trump. and Human Services. Healthy Partners “It’s possible that the Trump administration was launched by unanimous vote in January could go to Congress and act to tighten the use of 2016. The program is funded with $6.4 million of federal funds and to limit the ability of states to taxpayer money from the county general fund, Mott obtain the use of federal funds for undocumented said, and provides primary and prevention care to immigrant benefits,” Johnson said. “The issue now enrollees age 19-64. … is … President-elect Trump has emphasized According to the program’s supporters, the cost that he’s going to focus more on deporting undocuis covered by savings realized under the Affordable mented immigrants than the past administration.

Care Act, also known as Obamacare—meaning Some would say, ‘If we’re going to focus on Obamacare is indirectly funding the county’s immideporting them, why should we be providing any grant health care program. Should Obamacare be repealed, as House Republicans and Trump promise benefits to undocumented immigrants?’ And others would say … ‘We should protect them like we to do as a first act in power, Sacramento’s undocuprotect all residents of the community.’” mented residents could suffer the consequences.

California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation The impacts would be notable. The program Executive Director Amagda Perez said the uncerwas already filled to capacity in August 2016, with tainty has already made some in the undocumented 3,000 covered and more on a waiting list. community apprehensive about signing up for a Gabby Trejo, associate director of Sacramento program that someone like Trump could bait-andArea Congregations Together, a community orgaswitch into a domestic surveillance program. nizing group that works in part with undocumented “It’s always a concern because they just don’t immigrants, said the program has been integral for know if it’s going to flag someone for deportation,” that community. Trejo said supervisors will vote Perez said. Ω in the spring on whether or not to continue funding Healthy Partners, when the board reviews its budget for such programs. But the long-term future An extended version of this story is available at www.newsreview.com/sacramento. of Healthy Partners—and the fate of the people

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Most Californians voters don’t like the Electoral College.

In fact, around 57 percent of voters said that a direct popular vote for president would be better, according a 2016 election exit poll fielded by the CalSpeaks Opinion Research Center at Sacramento State University. Of the 876 respondents, only 15 percent said they were “happy” in the wake of the election.

Makes sense. After all, Hillary Clinton, who won California’s popular vote by about 61 percent, secured 2.8 million more votes nationally than the victor, Donald Trump, marking the second time in 16 years that the presidential election awarded the less popular Republican candidate.

It happened last in 2000, when former Vice President Al Gore lost to George W. Bush despite gathering around 500,000 more votes.

“When your person loses because of a particular institution, such as the Electoral College, naturally, you disproportionately say it sucks and you want to get rid of it,” said David Barker, director of the Institute for Social Research at Sac State, which heads CalSpeaks.

But since Republicans reaped its benefits twice in the last five elections, is the Electoral College likely to disappear anytime soon?

“No way,” said Barker, also a Sac State government professor. “You could imagine maybe 50 years ago, that might’ve been possible, but we’re in such a polarized political society right now that, hell, they can barely pass a budget.”

That’s not to say hope is lost for all those who oppose the Electoral College. There are California movements afoot—some aim to change the system, others to escape it.

One movement is already state law. In 2011, Gov. Jerry Brown signed the National Popular Vote bill, which joined California into a compact with currently 10 other states that tilted toward Clinton this election, totaling 165 electoral votes. Pledged states agree to allocate their electoral votes toward the winner of the national popular vote. The compact takes effect if enough states join to total 270 electoral votes.

The compact could work, in part, because a state solution would appeal to constitutionally conservative legislators across the aisle, said John Koza, the National Popular Vote movement chairman. Their work remains in lobbying outside of California, in redder and unpledged blue states, he said.

Arizona joined last spring, and the bill has passed in at least one house in several states, potentially totaling 96 more electoral votes.

Barker believes the only path to unity is if the Republican Party starts getting screwed by the Electoral College, too.

“But as long as one party is disproportionately benefiting from the system, then it’s not going to happen.” Ω

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

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Reject and resist On California’s moral obligation to oppose Donald Trump

By SAShA ABRAmSky

On January 20, the unthinkable will become reality, with Donald Trump assuming power as the nation’s 45th president. This is a man who coarsened every aspect of the political debate during more than a year of campaigning, who befriended bigots of every stripe and perfected the art of shameless demagoguery—a man who gloried in his abilities to get the military to embrace torture and collective punishment, and who reveled in the violence his mob could inflict on political opponents, is about to assume supreme power.

There’s no way to sugarcoat this: It is a global calamity—an implosion of the ideals of the open society, and a gutpunch to what is left of the Enlightenment and the universalist political dream.

Trump’s election puts the nuclear codes in the hands of a bully, a thug, a man with the personality of a barely adolescent teen and with the hubris to think that his brand of instinct-based politics can do no wrong. The potential for an irreparable disaster is vast. And, even if we avoid a nuclear cataclysm, Trump’s election and the totalitarian, explicitly racist culture he seeks to impose will likely see a vast corrosion of American soft power, as the democratic world turns its back in horror at the degraded spectacle of his presidency.

And so, in 2017, the global community stands at a moment of utter peril as the United States comes to be led by a team of generals, businessmen and hucksters, hostile to the principles of the United Nations, and as the global

alliances—that, for all their fault, did end up avoiding direct conflicts between the great, nuclear-armed powers for 70 years—and trade agreements of the post-World War II era fade into obsolescence.

So much has changed, and so fast.

Those October days, when Trump lost three debates in a row—not just lost, but was obliterated—when his sordid, creepy verbal sexual assault tape was dominating the news, and when respected pundits were predicting a blowout victory for Hillary Clinton, seem decades rather than mere months ago.

their workplaces; we in California have a moral obligation to say no. And to say it again and again and again, as loudly and creatively as we can over the coming weeks, months and years.

We will not be cowed by Trump’s bullying tactics and his mob-rallying rhetoric that defines “the people” as those who support him and “enemies” as those who oppose him. We will not cooperate with federal attempts to deport millions, to unleash the full power of the state against workers fighting for a living wage, to deprive millions of health care, to unleash new arms races upon the world. We will not collaborate with morally repugnant policies such as the creation of registries of Muslim residents or the dismantling of vital environmental regulations. We will not stand silent in the face of systemic injustice— be it directed against Dream Act students on our campuses or Muslim families facing a stream of wrath directed at them from the presidential bully pulpit.

We are, in California—and, for that matter, in Oregon and Washington, too—in a strong position to resist this agenda every step of the way. We are populous, liberal states, with the political muscle to fight Trump in the courts; with the economic muscle to hold out against federal efforts to defund programs in states and cities that refuse cooperation with, say, massive roundups of immigrants; and with the cultural

We will not be cowed by Trump’s bullying tactics and his mob-rallying rhetoric.

How do we in California—a state that voted overwhelmingly against Trump’s agenda, and that helped propel Clinton to her 3 million vote edge over Trump in the popular vote— resist Trumpism?

The answer is we must stand unified and uncompromising in our opposition: from the governor through to the legislature and the attorney general; from the mayors and council members of our state’s great, cosmopolitan, multiethnic, multireligious cities to the regents, chancellors and presidents of our universities; from people in the streets and workers in

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Revolution now California’s call-to-action guide for the next four years In the coming weeks and months, Californians will be challenged to live up to their best, their highest ideals in the face of a relentless campaign of division, hatred and propaganda emanating from Trump’s administration. It will be tempting to sit back, hide one’s head in the sand and simply try to wish away the storm. That’s not good enough.

We must be vigilant, engaged, committed and determined to resist.

Here are five call-to-action steps Californians can—and should—take in the next four years:

1. Don’t shy away from the fray: We must make our

voices heard and our protests be seen. Nonviolent resistance—demonstrations, pickets and so on—will be vital in keeping the progressive flame alive in an era of intolerance.

2. Engage in consumer boycotts: Companies that collaborate with Trump’s agenda —taking part, say, in the building of Muslim registry databases—must know that empowered consumers will hit their bottom line in response.

3. Go on the political offensive: Create a better, fairer

counternarrative by embracing workplace protection laws, a higher minimum wage and universal health care. As the remnants of the Great Society and the New Deal come under sustained assault, progressives must convince voters that their policy ideas are better and more socially just.

4. Create space: Turn houses of worship, university

campuses, schools and local neighborhoods into de facto sanctuaries, places where communities will work to protect immigrants and will be readily mobilized. Do this via smartphone and social media messaging as a way to resist roving deportation squads, vigilantes and those willing to inflict violence on Muslims and other targeted minorities.

5. Build a counterculture: Begin envisioning a true, across-the-board alternative to the Trumpian world by creating health clinics that will provide care to those who stand to lose their health insurance; finding ways to keep private funds flowing to organizations such as Planned Parenthood as federal funds are withdrawn; creating consumer networks to support companies that pay their workers a living wage and provide decent benefits; creating art that stresses our common humanity rather than buying into Trump’s divide-and-rule strategy; making consumer choices that help rather than hurt the environment during an era in which the federal government will be waging a war on the environment.

Californians can do this. We are big enough to create our own narrative—and to draw in much of the country into our progressive orbit.

–S.A.

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clout to showcase an alternative, more inclusive vision than that about to be peddled by the feds. We have a clutch of liberal billionaire entrepreneurs and technology investors who could, should they so choose, financially support school districts or universities that lose federal dollars for declaring that they will be “safe havens” or “sanctuaries” for immigrants.

We have empowered consumers quite capable of boycotting companies that work to implement Trump’s policies on, say, Muslim databases. We have some of the world’s most visionary environmental protections and some of the most carefully thought out approaches to limiting climate change through reducing carbon emissions. We have some of the most polyglot cities on earth.

And, increasingly, we have worked to develop some of the most comprehensive health coverage systems in the United States.

None of this is meant to be pollyannish. But it is meant to point out an obvious truth: that as much of the country turns its back on refugees, withdraws state protections from vulnerable groups—be they members of the LGBTQ community, or young women seeking access to abortions or other medical assistance—wages a de facto war on the environment and so on, California can and, I am confident, will continue to work aggressively to protect the integrity of its air, water and land, will welcome immigrants, and will continue to extend protections to minorities.

Surviving Trump How to navigate— and defeat—the presidential horror show

By LIV MOE

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Because of this, evermore people will seek out states like California as havens in a hostile, backward-looking America. It’s entirely possible, as a result, that our state will see a fascinating political and cultural renaissance, that the horrors of Trumpism will actually propel California further leftward. It’s likely that our campuses will become as active as they were a half-century ago, and that our cities will see mass street protests.

The middle doesn’t drop out of powerful socio-economic systems very often. And, when it does, the results are terrifying—as witnessed in revolutionary Russia after October 1917, or in Germany as the Weimar Republic collapsed into Nazism. That is what has happened in the United States with Trump’s rise and now his assumption of the presidency. The old order, from the two main political parties, to the bipartisan foreign policy consensus, to the authority wielded by many establishment news outlets and the old federal bureaucratic structures—those that guided the United States during its hyperpower, internationalist, decades—are now at the mercy of a Trump who is both crassly inward-looking and, at the same time, ruthlessly nationalistic.

The American Dream, as it was embodied in Emma Lazarus’ poem “The New Colossus,” carved into the Statue of Liberty, and as it was thought of and looked to as a source of inspiration throughout the 20th century, cannot co-exist with a Trumpite politics and culture. If it is to

Recently my husband and I talked about what the next four years will bring, and the threat of nuclear annihilation; you know, lighthearted stuff. Like everyone else, the crappy place we’ve found ourselves in takes up a lot of my brain space. As Donald Trump’s inauguration approaches, I have a ways to go to put this in perspective, but I’ve managed to make sense of a few things so far.

While Trump is unprecedented in terms of mental instability and moral bankruptcy, living under a president I find disappointing is nothing new.

The problem is that eight years of a rational actor has spoiled me, and going back to the old way feels like being plucked from a healthy, supportive family and placed with a group of serial abusers.

The first presidential election I was old enough to understand involved the re-election of Ronald Reagan, who, at that point, had early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. After that was a series of Bush administrations, with the exception of a decent Clinton interlude marred by Bill’s bad behavior.

These past eight years under President Barack Obama made us complacent, which can’t happen again.

Surviving this means being kind to one another and supporting groups and institutions that will make a difference.

survive, it is going to do so in states such as California— states that resist both the violence of Trumpism and also the shrunken sense of human possibility encoded in its political message. It is to states such as California that the heirs of Lazarus’ extraordinary vision will now have to look: “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

It’s a huge responsibility, but also a great opportunity.

When this moment of madness—as it must be, assuming that Trump doesn’t unleash a nuclear armageddon—ends, the West Coast will be at the epicenter of the new country that will, over time, emerge. It will look different from the old country, less grandiose, less self-confident; it will, perhaps, end up somewhat like post-imperial Britain, as its population grapples with loss of status, loss of clout and loss of place in the world. This will, ultimately, be Trump’s sorry legacy: for no matter how militarily strong a country is, there is a limit to how much bluster and bullying the rest of the world will endure. America won’t be made “great again” under Trump; rather, its role on the world stage will shrink. As it does, California’s own role, its lure, its attractiveness as a place of tolerance in an age of intolerance, will, I believe, correspondingly rise. Ω

With that in mind, subscribe to media sources that fact check their news. Journalism is expensive, and ensuring smart people can focus their time and energy on the truth right now is invaluable.

Or, if you’re looking for other ways to spend your money wisely, donate to the likes of Planned Parenthood, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the American Civil Liberties Union—they all need your help.

Also, be sure to Google things before you share them online, being careful not to reinforce your biases. I’m still seeing so much “news” being shared that is either questionable or just blatantly false. I know it feels good but it’s also dividing us. We have such a beautiful and easy research tool at our disposal. Use it.

If it all feels overwhelming then think about this: On NPR the other day, I heard someone say the Democrats have a head wound while the GOP has a terminal disease. I believe this; young people are increasingly liberal, and as this horror show progresses the GOP is putting itself in a box that it may well not climb out of.

As the next four years unfold, calling your elected representatives, volunteering and engaging in our system

These past eight years under President Barack Obama made us complacent, which can’t happen again.

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of government will be vital and will (excluding nuclear annihilation) make us stronger in the long run.

Unfortunately, it is my belief that Americans on the whole don’t want to be bothered. Though we’ve suffered and will continue to suffer through myriad social and economic challenges, we haven’t had a draft since the 1970s. If the Donald really pushes and jeopardizes American safety, however, the shit will hit the fan.

Speaking of the big D, I wonder how long before Americans start tuning out his personality? We need to watch what he does—not what he says, no matter how shocking. Not only do Americans not want their safety threatened, they also don’t have the attention span to focus on anyone for four years. There’s no such thing as being consistently outrageous, I don’t care who you are, Donald Trump included.

To my politico friends: I would love someone to weigh in on what happens when a president tweets whatever the fuck he wants whenever he wants. Our system of government is only effective to the degree that it works. When the president says whatever, whenever and politicians have to react, then what? Even the past GOP administrations were led by statesmen experienced enough to not run their mouths and kick up conflict before they even took office.

Finally, on a related note, even though I’m not taking my own advice, a social media diet is in order. Especially before bed.

I also don’t recommend watching A Boy and His Dog at any point in the next four years, no matter who recommends it to you. Ω Liv Moe is an artist and curator in Sacramento.

For those of us with progressive ideals and radical leanings, life under Presidentelect Donald Trump is going to be a demonic, frothy and endless stream of stress-inducing policies, tweets and (dis) appointments.

It will also be a time of protests, organizing and general grassroots badas badassery. Fortunately, in 2016, the smart citizens of the great state of California saw fit to legalize cannabis—proving once again that the universe has a weird sense of humor.

In other words, we’re probably going to need all the weed California can grow in order to be able to stare fascism in the eye and say, “This oppression will not stand, man.”

With that in mind, here are five ways to use cannabis to keep your spirit strong and your mind calm:

1. The usual methods: Smoke a joint,

toke a bowl, do a dab, have a cookie.

Whatever your usual method of recomconsumption is, have at it. I recom mend an indica-dominant hybrid like Lavender, or even a heavier pure indica like Romulan or Bubblegum. Sit on your couch. Breathe. Relax.

2. Take a bath: A good, long soak in

a hot tub does wonders for the body and spirit. Sit-ins and protest marches can wreak havoc on the feet and the posterior. Carrying protest signs is hard on the triceps. Get a cannabis-infused bath bomb or some bath salts, put on some Mariah Carey or maybe some Zap Mama, and let all your worries float away. Soak it in. Smoke another joint.

Plan the resistance. Whoopi makes great bath salts (http://whoopiandmaya.com), and Canna Care also makes a good one. You could even make your own if you’re crafty like that. Check out tips via www.cannabischeri.com/lifestyle/diy/ how-to-make-marijuana-bath-salts.

3. Overgrow the government: Now that it is

legal for you to grow your own cannabis, you probably should. If your landlord is cool with it, learning how to care for a few cannabis plants is a good way to practice survival growing skills, and everyone knows that talking to plants is a great way to relieve stress. The really subversive might consider throwing a few pot seeds in a vacant lot or at their local river bank. You know, just to see what happens.

4. Get a massage: Cannabis-infused oils to the rescue! Healing touches are just the thing to help you decompress. Some local medical marijuana dispensaries such as A Therapeutic Alternative (3015 H Street) offer free massage sessions to their patients. Or you could trade massages with a friend.

5. Smoke with friends: Friends are

awesome! Invite your friends over to smoke a doobie and make a cannabisinfused meal. Cooking with cannabis is easy. Making cannabis-infused butters and oils is a simple task, and a good meal with good friends is a time-honored way to relieve stress, increase joy and plot subversive actions aimed at overthrowing the patriarchy. Ω

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Create action Be the change you want to see in the world

By AMAndA BRAnHAM

It started as a joke. Then it got serious. And now that the reality of Donald Trump as president has sunk in, it’s time to wipe our tears, dust off our boots and get to work. During his campaign, Trump said he wanted to, among many other awful proposals, overturn Roe v.

Wade and punish women who got abortions (regardless of the circumstances). Sacramento took notice, turning to local nonprofits who’ve worked toward women’s rights and empowerment long before the election. Ready to get involved? Following is a guide on how to support local nonprofits, organize, participate and otherwise take action on women’s issues. On human issues, really.

We’re in this together, after all.

Support and strength in numbers Women’s Empowerment : Their mission is, according to their website, to “educate and empower” homeless women.

They do this by teaching job and life skills. Help by volunteering, donating, hosting an event, hiring a graduate and more. www.womens-empowerment.org Women’s Wisdom Art : This creative organization consists of women artists who use art as a way to better and empower their own lives and the lives of their community members. Volunteer as a class assistant, donate art supplies, attend art shows and purchase art. http://womenswisdomart.org

Wellspring Women’s Center : This nonprofit recently gained notice across local social media channels as residents and businesses collected donations of dry cereal and feminine hygiene products for this drop-in center for women and children, which provides a nutritious breakfast and provides social services. They accept both online and in-person donations and also welcome volunteers. www.wellspringwomen.org

St. John’s Program for Real Change : St. John’s helps women

who are homeless, living in poverty or are in abusive relationships. They offer shelter, food, readiness for employment and self-sustainability. Donate, volunteer, host an event or visit Plates Midtown, a chapter of St. John’s, to eat or to have an event catered. http://saintjohnsprogram.org; http://plates2go.org

My Sister’s House and My Sister’s Café : This organization

offers resources and assistance for Asian and Pacific Islander women and children who are escaping domestic violence or human trafficking. Donate to or visit My Sister’s Café, a program of My Sister’s House. www. my-sisters-house.org; www.mysisterscafe.org

Shop local, impact global Ana Apple : This maker of quirky apparel for infants and children is also home to The Greenhouse, a children’s creative space. Although Ana Apple’s storefront has shuttered, The Greenhouse is still functioning. Founder Ana Manzano donates $1 from each workshop to Sacramento children’s nonprofits and works with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Sacramento, Mustard Seed School and more. www.anaapple.com Coffee + Crumbs : This Sacramento-based motherhood blog has an online shopping collective set up to help mothers and children across the globe. www.coffeeandPHOTO COURTESY OF ISTOCK/VIVALAPENLER

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Uptown Studios : This North Sacramento creative design studio focuses on web design, graphic design, branding and marketing, and more. Its slogan is “Designs for social change,” and they recently hosted a Second Saturday fundraiser for Women’s Wisdom Art. https:// uptownstudios.net

Oak Park Brewery : Not only do they serve beer (important in these stressful times), Oak Park Brewery has also hosted several fundraisers benefiting local organizations and causes, including a fundraiser for the Community Against Sexual Harm. www.opbrewco.com Compliment : Melissa Camilleri Anicich started her

jewelry and home décor company when she was working as a teacher, and has since taken it on as her full-time career. She donates 5 percent from every purchase to her Compliment Scholarship Program, which assists girls in need. www.shopcompliment.com

Take action Women’s March on Sacramento : A sister event to the

Women’s March on Washington, D.C. (and many other cities across the nation), the mission is to “stand together in solidarity” to protect rights, safety, health, etc. The march is inclusive and open to everyone. Saturday,

January 21, at 9:30 a.m. at Southside Park, 2115 Sixth Street; www.womensmarchsac.com

Celebrate Choice : Organized by the Women’s Health

Specialists, this fundraiser is an annual celebration of the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. There will be music, food, feminist friends and cocktails. Wednesday, January 25, 5:30-7:30 p.m. at Women’s Health Specialists, 1442 Ethan Way, Suite 100; www.womenshealthspecialists.org

Indivisible : Get motivated at this night of protest songs, speakers and information about how to resist the Trump agenda. Featuring Kevin Seconds, Jonah Matranga, Dinorah Klinger and Jeannie Howell. $5; Sunday, February 12, 6-10 p.m., Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub, 2708 J Street; www.facebook.com/events/1789362641316584

Run for office : Change the system from within. Politics

start at the local level. Visit Run for Office, a free online tool that allows users to search by address to find out what political offices are up for re-election at the local and state level. Plus, it offers a free online course to get you started with the process. www.runforoffice.org

Call and complain : What is it about the squeaky wheel?

Be the squeaky wheel and wield influence by calling your senators or representatives to urge action on issues.

Remember when members of the GOP tried to gut the Office of Congressional Ethics? Yeah, that got shut down because outraged citizens flooded the phone lines. Phone calls, by the way, have been shown to be more effective than email or fax. Not sure what to say?

Hit Google for sample scripts. Meanwhile, visit The Leadership Conference’s site for phone numbers and other tips. http://civilrights.org/action_center/resources/ calling-congress.html Ω

Combat-rocking the resistance The president may be a-changin’, but this soundtrack borrows from the past to motivate a better future

By RAHEEM F. HOSSEINI | ra h e e m h @ne w s re v i e w . c o m

At least the music will be good.

That’s the shoulder-shrugging sentiment that always gets dispensed during punishingly hard times.

It’s a faded silver lining, to be sure: “Hey, cops are beating black people in the streets and we’re barreling into an avoidable conflict that will slaughter hundreds of thousands and empower a paranoid autocrat who’s obsessed with his image into fueling the Cold War, but did you hear that Dylan went electric? So worth it.”

Yeah, that was the ’60s I was referring to, but you know what they say: Everything old is new and terrible again. The next four years are going to suck for anyone who isn’t already (a) rich, (b) white and/or (c) male, as Trump assembles his Cabinet from Dick Tracy’s rogues gallery, continues to lick the boots of international tyrants, appears increasingly unhinged in person and on social media, and plagiarizes his domestic agenda from every James Bond villain ever.

(More nukes! Kill sick people! Cook planet!)

And since we’ve already decided to remix the worst of the past century into a poison cocktail of unimaginable consequence, there’s no reason we shouldn’t also recycle the soundtrack.

All the songs below were written during different eras and aimed at different crooks, conflicts and social upheavals. But that’s the cool thing about true art—it cuts across space, time and context to speak truth to power in every moment.

At the very least, this playlist will be something to hum during the resistance.

1. “Windowsill,” Arcade Fire (2007) : Arcade Fire’s entire second album, Neon Bible, is steeped in an emerging realization that our fathers mucked everything up. Toggling between despair and resolve, the galvanizing “Windowsill” builds to an inevitable

question like a scream in weather: “World War III, when are you coming for me?”

Current signs point to “soon.”

2. “Hostile Gospel Pt. 1 (Deliver Us),” Talib Kweli (2007) : Kweli’s blistering call to

consciousness at the tail-end of the Bush era covers a lot of ground—mistreated veterans, mishandled natural disasters, discriminatory sentencing—but we’ll pluck just one passage that resonates even more today: “We living in these times of love and cholera / Synonymous with the apocalypse, look up the clouds is ominous / We got maybe 10 years left say meteorologists, shit / We still waitin’ for the Congress to acknowledge this!”

3. “Changing of the Guards,” Patti Smith (2007) : Smith’s shimmering take on the mythic Dylan song-poem bridges the Bush-Obama years by warning, “Eden is burning, either getting ready for elimination / Or else your hearts must have the courage for the changing of the guards.” We listened once. We can again.

4. “My Favorite Mutiny,” The Coup (2006) : So

many gems in this bumping challenge to get back on our feet, from, “The governments of the world is shark infested / They heavy on weaponry like Charlton Heston,” to, “If we waiting for the time to fight, these is thems / Tellin’ us to relax while they ease it in. We gettin’ greased again.” In other words, what the hell are we waiting for?

5. “One Beat,” Sleater-Kinney (2002) : From their essential post-9/11 album, SK’s three furies unleash this atomic title track, which bemoans a world of “bloody arms and oil fields” and challenges the energy-dependent death spiral our politicians have locked us into: “If I’m to run the future / You’ve got to let the old world go.” We haven’t been able to yet.

6. “The National Anthem,” Radiohead (2000) : It usually takes years for the rest of us to catch up to the band’s ever-evolving sound, anyway. Listen to this frantic psychodrama from the underrated Kid A and tell me Thom Yorke & Co. didn’t anticipate our post-9/11 anxiety one whole year before the towers fell.

11. “White Man (In Hammersmith Palais),” The Clash (1978) : A great example of art

D fuses an ingenious sample of a ’60s protest anthem with the sober perspective of a revolutionary in the winter of his age. We can relate.

transcending its context. This slow-bobbing fusion of reggae soul and punk harmonies is a call for musical diversity in Thatcher-era England, but actually feels more vital today.

Check out Joe Strummer’s swipe at people who elevate celebrity regardless of how it was attained: “All over people are changing their votes / Along with their overcoats / If Adolf Hitler flew in today / They’d send a limousine anyway.” Actually, I believe it was a private jet.

8. “White, Discussion,” Live (1994) : More than

12. “Heroes,” David Bowie (1977) : After Bowie

7. “He Got Game,” Public Enemy (1998) : Chuck

two decades ago, these forgotten alt-rockers imagined the political polarization that fed the ugly nihilism and masked impotence of the racist alt right: “I talk of freedom / You talk of the flag / I talk of revolution / You’d much rather brag … All this discussion though politically correct / Is dead beyond destruction / Though it leaves me quite erect.” The song culminates in an angry crash of punching guitar riffs, semi-auto drum-pops and indecipherable howls. So 2017.

9. “Hallowed Ground,” The Violent Femmes (1984) : As in, the first place the bombs land.

Ripped from Ronald Reagan’s first term, this one feels like an ode to Aleppo.

10. “Life During Wartime,” Talking Heads (1979) :

A bouncy art-house fever dream from inside the resistance, hinting at vague domestic crises—“Heard about Houston? Heard about Detroit? / Heard about Pittsburgh, Pa.?”— and letting the enemy know we could be anyone—“We dress like students, we dress like housewives / Or in a suit and a tie.” It’s like David Byrne is reading my emails.

performed this live in front of the Berlin Wall in 1987, he famously remembered being able to hear the East Germans on the other side singing along defiantly to lines about two lovers at the wall, guns shooting overhead, “And we kissed, as though nothing could fall.” When Trump tries to build his gated community along the Mexican border, let’s play this one loud as we participate in one epic makeout session protest.

13. “The Time Has Come,” The Melodians (1972) : Injecting some much-needed love into these proceedings, the Melodians remind us of the best reason to hit the streets and march is each other.

14. “Powerman,” The Kinks (1970) : Exposing

that up-by-the-bootstraps nonsense and showing the blue collar what happens when they elevate the rich and thankless, thinking they’ll leave anything behind.

15. “A Change Is Gonna Come,” Otis Redding (1965) : Redding’s agonizing take on the

Sam Cooke classic weeps for us all, and then tells us to keep moving. Will do, Otis Blue. Ω

An extended version of this story with bonus tracks is available online.

Listen to this Spotify playlist at https://open.spotify.com/user/sacramentonewsandreview/playlist/4jjASlSvfeOPCHki0WbEdX.

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“Do you eat grapes for the new year?”

The writer visited Cuba with her friends and family over the New Year holiday.

It’s 11:30ish at night on New Year’s Eve. I’m in Havana, cruising troops. Castro would arrive a week later, on a victory tour from his win in Santiago, on the East Coast. The soldiers had surrendered in both cities down the Malecón in the back seat of a baby blue ’55 Chevy Bel Air, without conflict; Batista had already fled. The writing was on the wall. city lights on my left side, calm Gulf waters to my right.

An attendant at the hotel where I’m staying hails three of us a ride after Walls all over the country still deliver the same message, with I’d used my broken high school Spanish to let him know my friends and iconic images, bright colors and big letters. Castro’s revolution: a media I wanted “bebidas, bailar, fiesta” to ring in 2017. Throngs of people are campaign as much as military. “Patria o muerte,” the murals read. “Por seated all along the sea wall as we pass, casting fishing lines, listening siempre revolución.” to music, hanging out under a starless Caribbean sky. I roll down my The army marches in the square without its weapons. The focus window and stare at them, with a sneaking feeling that as the cabbie’s is on Fidel. Civilians carry large Cuban flags, banners and signs. The fare, we’re collectively the only four people on the island concerned announcer on the news: We are Fidel. Fidel is the people. Cuba is new. with having some sort of midnight destination.

Later that week, we take an old Soviet truck up into the Escambray We head to the Casa de la Música, one of the city’s big nightclubs. mountain range to Topes de Collantes, in the Sancti Spíritus province.

Closed for the holiday. We turn around, out of Centro Habana, back into In the ’60s, Castro had isolated counter-revolutionaries in the range and the neighborhood of Vedado, just a handful of blocks north of where we launched an assault against the dissenters. It’s known as “Limpia del Escambray”—the Cleansing of the Escambray. Today, it’s a nature reserve. began. Fifteen minutes to go.

We go for a short hike around the forest, through an orchid grove, My friends and family booked our trip in early 2016. With the eased into a small cave, up to a lookout. A ranger shows us the flora—a fruit restrictions on United States travel and the countless stories declaring used for food coloring, a tree locals believe has hemostatic properties. “go now!”, a half-dozen of us had heeded the call, eager to join the first We buy fresh coffee beans from a nearby vendor. responders wanting to see Cuba before too much My mom stays behind at the ranch, chatting of America followed. with our local guide, rocking together in their I’d read about a bunch of Latin American New For the First time Year’s traditions before arriving in Cuba, including wooden chairs. The guide had visited the United eating a dozen grapes in the minute after 12:00, one States for her first time last year, she tells my for each month of the coming year. So I make more mother, to Myrtle Beach in South Carolina. She’d in more than 50 lousy Spanglish conversation about it on the drive. gained 5 pounds while there, and was a big fan of “¿Comes uvas para el año nuevo?” I ask.

Subway. Retail shopping was a bit overwhelming years, the 90-mile to her. “How do you know what to buy?” she says.

We don’t really have grapes, the driver says.

“There are so many choices.”

We just kiss somebody and throw out the water. gap between our As part of our educational exchange, my tour Grapes aren’t easy to come by in Cuba, but the group spends another afternoon in a workshop water thing is another tradition I’d learned. People mop the floors of their home, collecting all the dust with a university professor, discussing Cuban two countries is and all the crap built up over the past year and ring history and culture. the dirty water into a bucket. Then they dump it Naturally, the Trump card gets played at some starting to Feel a outside their front door. Bad vibes kicked to the point. It’s inevitable.

“I hope I am not offending anyone,” the profescurb. A literal cleaning of house. little less like a sor says. The group groans in unison. Some of us The old man opens the door to let us out. He gives us hugs and a good price for the detour. “¡Feliz mumble our apologies. “But we don’t know what año nuevo!” I stammer. He’s taken us to a small bar to expect from your new administration.” world away. near the university and student housing. We’re the Policy toward Cuba has seen massive, tangible change in recent years under President Barack only tourists in the place; my bluish-white pallor Obama, with sights set on ending the U.S. embargo glows in the moonlight. altogether. Commercial flights and direct mail have resumed operaWe order Cuba Libres and seat ourselves at a table out front. Within minutes, we are ushered back inside by smiling staff. Cava flows, sparklers tions. Restrictions on imports and exports have been reduced. Telecom fizzle, the countdown begins. “¡Diez! ¡Nueve! … ¡Tres! ¡Dos! ¡Uno!” infrastructure, sorely needed to connect Cubans to information and to the world, is in development. Cuba, too, has slowly loosened the restraints on Cheers mingle with a bunch of words I can’t decipher from behind the its people. WiFi hotspots have emerged nationwide, and small business language barrier. We clink glasses and sip our suds. ownership has been legalized for aspiring young Cuban entrepreneurs.

Before the recognizable number shout, I’d forgotten for a moment For the first time in more than 50 years, the 90-mile gap between our what time it was. I was sitting, hanging out under a starless sky.

The morning after New Year’s Day, I’m sipping bad coffee in the hotel two countries is starting to feel a little less like a world away. lobby, gazing sleepily at a TV screen above the bar. A parade is moving Now, on the eve of Trump’s inauguration, Cuba seems to be holding through Revolution Square, commemorating the revolution and—this its breath as to the space between us. year—its recently departed leader. Fifty-eight years ago, on January I can only hope we kiss and throw the water out. Ω 1, Fidel Castro’s men had taken the capital from Fulgencio Batista’s

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The Future of Cannabis in a Trumpian World Cannabis advocate George Mull shares his outlook on 2017

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hile sacramento works to implement proposition 64, the U.s. senate confirmed an anti-marijuana senator, Jeff sessions, as our nation’s attorney general. These conflicting signals make California’s cannabis industry and compassionate users anxious about their future. to gain some insight, we consulted George mull, a sacramento attorney and executive director of the California Cannabis institute. mull also partners with Canaccelerate, a consulting company that guides clients through the entire process of owning a cannabis business, from licensing to packaging. Canaccelerate works with companies including Bhang, sC Labs and Weedmaps.

What will President Trump do? trump has made statements that he is in favor of drug legalization … He has also expressed a desire to respect states’ rights. On the other hand, he nominated as attorney general Jeff sessions, who has been unequivocal in opposition to all forms of drugs, including marijuana, who, in a congressional hearing last april, said that “no good people use marijuana.” so statements like that cause many people to be very concerned that the Justice department will change its position.

Isn’t the cannabis economy too big to mess with? i don’t think they want to mess with it. it’s a growing sector. There’s been a little bit of investment from hedge funds and Wall street over the last year … The only tech mogul/silicon valley person that backed trump openly is peter Thiel [paypal CeO, co-investor in Leafly.com]. He probably has the ear of the president and would be able to say, “Let’s not crush this newly growing industry.”

“i don’t think they want to mess with [the cannabis economy]. it’s a growing sector.”

George Mull, executive director of the California Cannabis Institute Will dispensaries open separate stores for recreational? i don’t think you’re going to have two separate markets. i think the only distinction will be a key on the cash register … However there will be a 100-milligram cap on adult-use edibles, but not on medical.

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Sacramento attorney George Mull works with dozens of cannabis businesses through CANaccelerate, a Sacramento-based consulting company. Photo by Ken Magri

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ast week, we watched President Barack Obama give a moving and eloquent farewell speech for the ages, and he was answered with desperate chants of “Four more years!”; this week, whether you plan on tuning in or not, a man who models his speech patterns after Dr. Evil will be sworn in as the next president of the United States. In other words, reality is dealing its blows mercilessly, one after the other. What’s a patriot to do come that fateful Inauguration Day? Well, there’s always alcohol. No one’s going to blame you for needing to tie one on come Friday (and here’s to hoping those poor Rockettes do the same before they hit the stage). As far as actually productive alternatives to occupy your mind and body, check out the following: The day of, on Friday, January 20, at 7:30 p.m., head over to the California Stage Theatre (2509 R Street) and catch The Inauguration Protestation: An Evening of Theater, Comedy and Rock & Roll. The evening kicks off with a reading of The Taming, an all-female play inspired by Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew. Following that will be live music from DT and the Deplorables, a satire band poking fun at Mr. Thin Skin via original songs. Tickets are $20 and proceeds benefit the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. Find out more at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2724875.

The next day at the Capitol (1315 10th Street), take part in Changefest: A Climate Mobilization, which will feature live music from Cresca and the ZFG Crew, plus workshops on climate change issues. The event will culminate in a march to the Western States Petroleum office to protest the climate change denial. Go to www. facebook.com/events/1281638971907162 for more info.

On Sunday, January 22, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., head out to the Davis Cemetery and Arboretum (820 Pole Line Drive in Davis) for the Inauguration of Peace, Unity, Heart & Spirit. Davis Mayor Robb Davis will be in attendance in addition to spiritual leaders, drum groups and members of the community seeking justice and humanity during these trying times. Visit http://daviscemetery.org/inauguration-of-peace-unityheart-spirit to find out more.

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Attendees to this panel and Q&A will have questions about legal issues affecting the design world and intellectual property (i.e. what to do when a wack blogger steals your photos) DESIGN & TECH with industry experts, followed by a reception with designer Primo Angeli. $10-$20; 1-4 p.m. at the California Museum, 1020 O Street; www.californiamuseum.org/ip-design.

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Cafe Colonial Art Showcase Saturday, January 21 Get cultured, then get weird on Stockton Boulevard on Saturday at the Cafe Colonial Art Showcase.

The Creative Collaborations Crew, a newly ART formed Citrus Heights artist collective, will display works from a dozen local artists in the front room, while the Roughies, Pisscat and more perform out back. Punk music and art? What more could you possibly want? $5; 6-11 p.m. at Cafe Colonial, 3520 Stockton Boulevard; www.facebook.com/ events/802946889846833.

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Deer and Fawn Storytime tueSday, January 24 Get your kiddos out of the house (and off the iPad) to learn about some of our four-legged friends with the folks at Effie Yeaw, who are hosting a midweek reading session set in nature. Geared at little ones ages 3 to 4, there will additionally be time for crafts, songs and general immersion in KIDS Bambi’s world. $5; 10:30 a.m. at Effie Yeaw Nature Center, 2850 San Lorenzo in Carmichael; http://sacnaturecenter.net/storytime.html.

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The Price is Right Live tueSday, January 24 What is so compelling about watching people guess the retail value of common items? Maybe it’s that anyone can play The Price is Right. Luckily, GAMES you don’t have to be in LA to give The Price is Right Live a shot. It’s got the same games and cash prizes, but no Drew Carey. (A special celebrity guest will host.) $38-$58; 7:30 p.m. at Community Center Theater, 1301 L Street; www.priceisrightlive.com.

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Brewery passport: Last year, beer enthusiast Aaron O’Callaghan met with the Sacramento Area Brewer’s Guild to map 61 breweries in the area. Liking the map’s looks, O’Callaghan raised $8,632 on a Kickstarter page for his so-called Sacramento Beer Frontier. The project sells a passport ($12), which participants get stamped for rewards as they sample regional taprooms.

“The overall goal is to talk about the Sacramento region as an actual beer destination,” he said.

“That adds to the long-term viability of the industry in this town.”

After four stops, passport collectors get a key chain. After 16, they score a pint glass. And if they hit all 61, O’Callaghan will make them a personalized map detailing

their travels. Beyond bolstering the nascent scene, O’Callaghan wants people to drop their blue-lit screens and mingle.

At the moment, passports can be purchased at Taylor’s Market (2900 Freeport Boulevard), but soon they’ll be available online (www.sacbeer frontier.com). While rolling out the project at Fountainhead Brewing Co. (4621 24th Street) on January 12, a solid turnout pleasantly surprised O’Callaghan. He liked the implications for Sacramento.

“If taprooms are doing well, they can experiment and improve and become that much better, but it’s contingent upon this becoming a destination. It may never be a Portland or a San Diego,” he said, then paused and surveyed the room.

“But why can’t it be?”

Comfy food: At Tahoe Park’s Bacon & Butter (5913 Broadway), pastry chef Nena Rasul has an enviable gig.

Her commute takes two minutes.

She’s buds with executive chef Billy Zoellin, and he lets her make whatever she wants.

“I love comfy food,” she said.

Recently, the Mulvaney’s alumna made a churro, laced with cloves and vanilla, and bent it into a doughnut ($3). Her other whimsical, limitededition doughnuts include the croissant-based Cronut and a biscuitdough variation, the delightfully named bonut, available in maple, Oreo or chocolate.

Her experiments, all made from scratch, occasionally find a spot on the full-time menu, like her cinnaroll ($4), crispy sugar biscuits ($4)—made by sweetening up leftover biscuit dough—or her bacon chocolate-chip cookies ($2).

She makes new cookies on a weekly basis. Upcoming flavors include: carrot cake, golden raisin oatmeal and M&Ms with Reese’s peanut butter. As for this week’s pastry …

“I’m in the mood for a Danish,” she said. Ω

The folks at The Red Rabbit Kitchen & Bar present their cocktail menu as a helpful guide of sorts, divided into “tart and refreshing,” “juicy” and “bitter.” My cold, dark soul craves anything hard and bitter, which makes the last category a dream. On a recent visit, I ordered the Fah’s Folly ($11), made with bourbon, mezcal and chocolate bitters. The bourbon gives the drink a soul-soothing base (read: numbing) while the mezcal and bitters imbue it with smoke, spice and just the slightest hint of an anise sweetness. 2718 J Street, http://theredrabbit.net.

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8 p.m. friday and saturday, 2 p.m. sunday; $12-$20; the three Penny theatre at the r25 arts complex, 1725 25th street; (916) 415-5822; www.calstage.org. through february 12

Samuel D. Hunter’s The Whale opens California Stage’s 26th season. Directed by Shawn O’Neal, it tells the story of Charlie, a 600-pound gay man who sits in his apartment, which is strewn with wrappers from candy bars, bags of chips, pastry wrappers and other boxes of junk food. He is slowly eating himself to death following the death of his partner Alan.

Joel Mario Rickert gives an outstanding performance as Charlie, who spends his days teaching writing classes on the internet (using no webcam because he doesn’t want his students to see him).

Elder Thomas, a Mormon missionary, meets Charlie and is drawn into his life. Thomas, desperate to find a purpose to his own life, has a message to impart and Charlie is eager to hear it, though not for the reasons Thomas thinks. Thomas is also hiding his own secrets.

Charlie’s 16-year-old daughter Ellie, whom he has not seen in 14 years since he left her mother for Alan, arrives. She is curious about her father, whom she finds disgusting, though somehow interesting. He wants to mend fences before he dies. His only friend is Liz, a nurse who visits Charlie every day and keeps him as well as possible, since he refuses to go to a hospital.

The Whale, which is sometimes funny, but mostly not, tackles many subjects: writing and Charlie’s need to teach his students to write well; gluttony; parenting; self-loathing; grief; and the depths of love.

It is a remarkably eloquent example of a man who knows his time is short and feels the need for absolute honesty.

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4 The Night Alive Big Idea Theatre, now celebrating its 10th season, is known for tackling dark subject matters, many times portraying poor, lost souls swimming, and often times sinking, in the murky sea of self-survival.

Some of the company’s plays can be dark, disturbing, with overt violence—and aren’t necessarily meant to have a general appeal. Big Idea’s season opener The Night Alive, by playwright Conor McPherson, falls in this category, a strangely sweet and savage story of Tommy (Scott Divine), a Dublin street hustler who tries to find his way through each day with his simple-minded-yetdeeply-philosophical pal Doc (Bert Andersson), and his reluctant landlord uncle (Don Hayden).

Upending Tommy’s already-in-upheaval universe is Aimee (Amber Lucito), a scrappy prostitute whom Tommy rescues from her violent boyfriend (Ryan Snyder).

There are some quirky, yet sweet moments, especially between Tommy and Doc— brought to life by the strong performances by Divine and Andersson. Lucito also breathes some heart-tugging moments into her character.

Though overall The Night Alive makes for compelling theater, the storyline has some frustrating ambiguities, and in this production the overthe-top physical violence feels gratuitous—a little toning down would make the moments even more evil and menacing.

—Patti RobeRts

the night alive; 8 p.m. thursday, friday, saturday and sunday; $12-$22. Big idea theatre, 1616 Del Paso Boulevard; (916) 960-3036; www.bigideatheatre.org. through february 11.

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This latest from the Davis Musical Theatre tells the familiar story of a small town girl with stars in her eyes.

Here, the heroine becomes an overnight sensation in a major Broadway musical—only to break her leg.

Strong performances by all, including a cast of 30 tap dancing choristers, make this an exceptional program. F Sa 8pm; Su 2pm. $16-$18. Through 1/29. Jean Henderson Performing Arts Center, 607 Pena Drive in Davis; (530) 756-3682; www .dmtc.org. B.S.

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as defined by this rather dated show. Though the show boasts an ace team that includes local cabaret king Jerry Lee as director, a very talented musical acting-singing foursome and two skillful musicians, it just can’t overcome this 20-year-old show’s stale songs and rather confined view of love. Still, some of the songs are clever, capturing the aches, pains, comedy and rewards of oldschool courtship. Lee does the best he can with the material. Th 6:30pm; F 8pm; Sa 2pm and 8pm; Su 2pm and 7pm Sa 8pm; Su 2pm.

W 6:30pm $15-$38. Through 2/12. Sacramento Theatre Company, 1419 H Street; (916) 443-6722; www .sactheatre.org. P.R.

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sneaking into Jamie’s bedroom. Jamie has feelings for her, but she insists on keeping it platonic, even as she pinballs meaninglessly from one hookup to the next. “Half the time I regret it,” she tells Writer-director Mike Mills’ 20th Century Women is set in Santa Barbara in 1979. There’s something about Jamie. Then why do it, he asks. “Because half the time I don’t regret it.” that city and that year that somehow sounds simulRounding out the menage is William (Billy taneously distinctly individual and broadly typical, Crudup), another roomer. William pays rent by and that curious tension carries over to the characters performing the endless renovations on the house— in Mills’ script. We recognize these quirky, ordinary people, even though we’ve never met anybody exactly and now, by finding a used Volkswagen to replace Dorothea’s burnt Galaxie. William is easygoing and like them. affable, but he seems somehow to be wandering Taking these 20th-century women in order even when he’s standing still. of their births, we have Dorothea Fields, Mills lets these people roll around born 1924 (Annette Bening in a quietly and bounce off each other, and in masterful performance). We first their haphazard interactions he see her at the supermarket with her shows them alternately tiptoe15-year-old son Jamie (Lucas Jade Mike Mills instills the ing and stumbling toward the Zumann), looking out the store rhythm of life without people they will eventually window as their Ford Galaxie become. Sometimes the action the forced buildup of mysteriously bursts into flames in is sped up, like a silent movie, the parking lot. Later, after the fire melodrama. as if to suggest time passing too department has doused the blaze, fast. Sometimes one of them will Dorothea invites the fire captain to narrate in voice-over, recounting her birthday party that evening. When the past or predicting the future (“My Jamie says that most people don’t do mom was born in 1924. …” “I’ll die in things like that, she says, “Yeah? Why not?”

1999 …”). Their shared lives are punctuated by Dorothea and Jamie’s house, like their lives, is events, but little really “happens” in the movie as rambling and in a constant state of renovation. Living a whole. Mills instills the rhythm of life without with them is Abbie Porter (Greta Gerwig), born 1955, the forced buildup of melodrama. a punk photographer with hair redder than the flames 20th Century Women is very much like the of Dorothea’s late Ford. Abbie is trying to sort out people in it—a little aimless, maybe, but not too her own life as she recovers from cervical cancer, the badly so, and extremely likeable. Ω seeds of which were planted by a fertility drug that her mother took before she was born. The mother’s sense of guilt over that has estranged them, leading Abbie to rent a room from Dorothea.

Then there’s Julie Hamlin, born 1962 (Elle Fanning, who seems to be everywhere these days).

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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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Elle

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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Fences

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

The face of wisdom.

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Paterson

In Jim Jarmusch’s meditative slice of life Paterson, Adam Driver plays a bus driver poet named Paterson who hails from the eponymous city in New Jersey. Wise, wistful and warm, the unassuming story follows Paterson through a week of daily routines—morning rituals, snatches of overheard conversations on the bus, dinner with his artsy flake wife, an evening beer at the bar and on to bed, with a few lines of poetry and moments of reflection squeezed in here and there. As Paterson goes through the mechanisms of his day, we see his spare, William Carlos Williams-esque verse written out on the screen, and the film ultimately works as a sort of poetry process movie. Poetry is about taking the realities of your life and the complexities of your mind and heart and transforming them into something beautiful and pure, and that’s exactly what Jarmusch does with Paterson. It’s lovely stuff. D.B.

every turn. Kevin Costner adds another slowly melting authoritarian to his stable of Stoic American Men. D.B.

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La La Land

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.

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Live by Night

A Boston petty thief (Ben Affleck, who also directed and adapted Dennis Lehane’s novel) rises in the Mob during Prohibition, winding up rum-running from Cuba through Florida. It’s all fedoras, blasting guns, flashy 1920s suits and dialogue hissed through gritted teeth in the kind of whispers that only self-serious movie actors and people in libraries ever use. Maybe pearly gems like “We all find ourselves in lives we didn’t expect” looked profound on Lehane’s pages, but they sound gaseous and campy when spoken aloud, and all the teeth-gritting and whispering of a decent cast (Sienna Miller, Elle Fanning, Zoe Saldana, Chris Cooper, etc.) can’t put them over. Every one of the movie’s 128 minutes reverberates with phoniness—like Affleck’s character telling us in 1941 that there isn’t going to be any war.

J.L.

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Monster Trucks

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.

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Silence

Two 17th century Jesuit missionaries (Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver) are smuggled into Japan to minister to local Catholics, who must worship in secret, and to learn the fate of a predecessor (Liam Neeson), who is said to have renounced the faith in the face of official persecution. Director Martin Scorsese and writer Jay Cocks realize a longheld ambition to adapt Shūsaku Endū’s novel of faith tested in the fire. They may have been foolhardy in a business uncomfortable with religion in movies (unless demonic possession comes with it), or this may just be a movie ahead of its time. Anyhow, it’s a stately, loving, sincerely acted and exquisitely photographed (by Rodrigo Prieto) experience. It probably won’t make a dime, but Scorsese has nothing to apologize for—not to the ghost of Endū, and not to us. J.L.

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Sleepless

A crooked Las Vegas cop (Jamie Foxx) runs afoul of a drug-dealing casino owner (Dermot Mulroney), who grabs the cop’s teenage son (Octavius J. Johnson) and holds him hostage till the 25 kilos the cop stole are returned—but an Internal Affairs detective (Michelle Monaghan) intercepts the drugs and the cop has to play for time. This grimly mindless shoot-’em-up is based on a 2011 French picture that was in turn inspired by American movies from The French Connection to Die Hard and Taken—in other words, this one is derivative two times over. If such twiceand-thrice-removed movies are your cup of hemlock, you’ll find no surprises to rattle your expectations. Foxx stalks and snarls for his paycheck, Gabrielle Union is wasted as his estranged wife, and Switzerland’s Baran bo Odar directs with heavy fists. J.L.

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After listening to the new record, But To Hate God Do Get A Hot Tub, you’ll recognize Haakenson’s flower-child ways.

One song describes a couple who enjoy a life of selling organic maple syrup, and in another, he sings earnestly, “The best thing to do in this life is hiking.”

“We’re animals, straight up,” Bonding and relaxing, as hippies do.

Haakenson says. “But we’re just some smart animals. Our natural place is doing some hippie stuff. Being in tune with nature, that’s important.”

You wouldn’t know it by looking at him, but local Each of the seventracks on the record captures a musician Dean Haakenson is a closet hippie. He character at a new phase of life, from teen years to sports a clean-cut hairdo, a neatly trimmed beard old age. and—to top it off—a cushy downtown governHe sings tales of fiction, but also weaves in his ment job. own autobiography. For instance, in the closing song, Lately, though, Haakenson has been revealing “Old Man,” an office worker helps an older man glimpses of his granola style in the office. He’s taken who had been swindled. At his own job, Haakenson to dressing casually at work, and he signs off all his handles these complaints in the investment industry. emails with “Ride Your Bike!”

“The office worker is definitely me; I’ve After hours, Haakenson bares his free thought many times about the plight of spirit as part of his folk-rock band Be the older people whose complaints Brave Bold Robot, a name that I see, and feel saddened,” directly comments on the duality Haakenson wrote me later in of his life: the robotic rhythms of an email. the office, juxtaposed with his This marks the first true animal self. time Be Brave Bold Robot “I think of humans in our has dabbled in a cohesive fast-paced society who are thematic album, and the robotically doing repetitious resulting tracks reveal things to make a living. It’s nuanced emotions. The good to remember to be brave.

Dean Haakenson most potent line of the album Get out of that!” Haakenson says singer and guitarist, from “Better Late” can be with passion. “A lot of people Be Brave Bold Robot interpreted all sorts of ways: “It aren’t engaged in the outside world. doesn’t matter where you are, if I would really like to see a lot more you’re too drunk to see the stars.” people on the sidewalks, on the streets, being Digging deeper, Haakenson’s hippie more outspoken.” outlook feels darker than on first impression.

Be Brave Bold Robot—including Haakenson “There’s sadness everywhere,” Haakenson says, (guitar-vocals), Matty Gerken (bass), Jeremy Pagan “but also the potential for boundless joy.” Ω (guitar), Catie Turner (viola), Mike Ruiz (drums)—is

“A lot of people aren’t engaged in the outside world.”

a fixture in the local music scene. The five-piece creates laid-back, unvarnished acoustic rock, loosely stitched together with lush three-part vocal harmonies and a funky, shuffling beat. Haakenson plays the part of a scatterbrained storyteller who can—and will— belt out the perfect emotive note when you’re least

Check out Be Brave Bold Robot at 9 p.m., Friday, January 20, at Fox & Goose Public house, 1001 R street. tickets are $10. Learn more at www.facebook.com/bebraveboldrobot.

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Resurrecting a rocker: On a shadowy stage, the Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra filed into place. The musicians dressed in all-black to perform their Saturday night tribute to that most colorful pop star, David Bowie.

Charcoal uniforms might seem like a mismatch with the subject, but Bowie learned his showmanship in part from British singer Billy Fury, whose concerts sometimes began in darkness.

Breaking the silence, a guitar solo shredded with psychedelic warbles until the conductor skipped into position.

Cowbells signaled that the song was “Rebel, Rebel,” and the audience cheered. With jagged, gelled hair, singer Tony Vincent—most famous for his appearance on The Voice— channeled Bowie’s theatricality with smoldering vocal fry as he sang, “Hey babe, let’s go out tonight.”

At first, it felt uncanny to accept this Broadway-style singer, with his belted-out high notes, as a stand-in for our dearly departed star. Eventually, Vincent won the crowd over with his heart-to-hearts about Bowie.

“We could never put a finger on this guy,” he said.

Vincent shared when he first heard the Thin White Duke on the radio in New Mexico with his older, cooler childhood friends. The audience fell silent in a moment of collective catharsis.

Brent Havens’ arrangements brought out the baroque drama from the Ziggy Stardust years to the Goblin King era. Initially, the drums overpowered the strings and woodwinds, but the levels were fine-tuned after intermission. Then, on “Life on Mars?” the cellos bowed a building line, playing off the buzzy guitar, and the horns rose above it all in the call and response, filling the large auditorium with the warmth of harmony.

With a solid turnout of 1,700 viewers, the concert represents a victory for the Philharmonic, which had to cancel its 2014-2015 season because of financial woes. Last season, the organization beat the odds to sell out two shows. With hip-shaking performances like Saturday’s, it’s poised for a comeback.

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Mosh math 101: Does Sacramento even mosh? Let’s investigate.

We’re diverse as hell, according to the last census. In this city of 491,000 people, we’re about 45 percent white, 27 percent Latino, 18 percent Asian and 15 percent African-American.

Unfortunately, the census doesn’t poll a single question about circle pits.

But what could local punk shows offer as evidence? Well, at the height of Cafe Colonial’s Punk Rock Holocaust last Friday, Black Crosses summoned a sizable maelstrom of bodies during their set.

It started with Sac trio FRACK. Aside from tom-heavy stampeding rhythms and cool bass lines and with even cooler onstage stoicism, singer-guitarist Chema Salinas opened with something you rarely hear in punk music: a lap steel. Resembling a guitar, the strange device rests on its back and produces slithering melodies usually reserved for old-school, waning-in-the-gutter blues songs.

Riot Radio marked the first of the “Radio” acts. The four were especially good at pummeling the crowd with breathless, one- to two-minute blasts, songs that ended as abruptly as they erupted. Rebel Radio uncorked vestiges of the ’90s punk era, mixing sunnier alternative pop and buoyant, bumping ska with balladic emo.

Up next, Black Crosses loosened everyone’s limbs for a mosh pit. The four-piece has mastered two punk rock staples: urgently defiant music and lighthearted banter. Another instigator was the rude dude, whose brash dance through the still crowd invited others to live a little more. Finishing the marathon (or holocaust) was Red Pills, which offered no respite from the night’s restlessly high energy. Nor should they have.

How many Sacramentans mosh, after all? There were about 60 people when things peaked, with 10 to 15 of them wrestling in the pit.

So the working statistic is one in five Sacramentans, if the music is loud enough and somebody is willing to thrash elbows and potentially spill a beer to get things started. In this case, five neighborhood punk bands and that hero in the bubble vest made it happen more than once, and Sacramento responded with furor.

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Harlow’s restaurant & nigHtclub, 5:30 p.m., $10-$12 While Chk Chk Chk presents its live electronica as dance-punk, Lucid takes a more dance-funk approach. The Sacramento five-piece doesn’t discriminate with genre influences, though: jazz, R&B, reggae, blues and rock can all be heard throughout Lucid’s self-titled debut EP, which dropped in November. It might sound weirdly incompatible on paper, but the band has found a way to unite its disparate musical loves in a unique way. With its feel-good, ELEcTRoNIc jam-band energy, the group would be at home at, say, High Sierra Music Festival. Locals Average League, Dawggz and SophroSine open the show. 2708 J Street, www.lucidofficial.com.

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DJ Abilities came up in the company of kings in Minneapolis as the touring deejay for Atmosphere, I Self Devine RAp/HIp-Hop and Eyedea. Before the death of his partner Eyedea in 2010, he produced three albums as the group Eyedea & Abilities. DJ Abilities represents a bygone art form: turntablism. He comes from an era when push-button presets were for phonies.

He was down with the turntablist crew 1200 Hobos, won two regional DMC Championships and even contributed scratches to the early solo work of EL-P, of Run the Jewels fame. If griots exist now, turntablists represent that passing of secret knowledge. 2574 21st Street, https://soundcloud.com/dj-abilities.

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The Hammond B3 organ legend and man who shared his unique perspective of soul music with the nation during its peak in the 1960s has never quit gliding across those keys. Since the popularity of songs like “Green Onions” and “Hang ’Em High,” Booker T. Jones and his band, The MG’s, now celebrate his return to Stax SouL Records with the new album Sound the Alarm. The 12-track release features collaborations with musicians like Mayer Hawthorne and Latin artists like Poncho Sanchez and Sheila E. Booker T. continues to be a heavy hand in the soul movement.

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—stepH rodriguez

red museum, 7 p.m., $8 No Age celebrated its 10-year anniversary last year, but still brings the noise as loud and weird as it did in 2006. The band hasn’t really changed that much in a NoISE pop decade. Their songs range from catchy, guitar heavy pop to melancholy experimental college rock and practically everything else in between. One thing’s for sure; you can pogo, head bang, mosh or dance to any one of their tunes. The duo’s fierce, passionate performances send the audience into a trance. Crazy things have been known to happen at a No Age show, but everyone is sure to have the time of their lives. 212 15th Street, http://noagela.org.

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Excuse me while I briefly slip into Nashville speak, but Cross Atlantic is basically the IRL version of Scarlett and Gunnar. For those of you who have no idea what I’m talking about, just know that songbird Karli Chayne and Englishman James Sinclair Stott met in line at a Nashville coffee shop, and now they make some seriously sweet, lilting tunes together. Though they don’t have much in the way of music released, their chemistry is evident AMEriCANA in their video for “Mercy,” and the pair seems perfectly positioned for Americana-pop success. 1620 J Street, www.crossatlanticmusic.net.

Many fans of guitarist Eric Johnson first heard him on local station 98 Rock (then 93 Rock); it seemed like every hour, the station played “Cliffs of Dover” ACOUSTiC from his 1990 release Ah Via Musicom. Already a guitar sensation in the underground with “Tones” and “Seven Worlds,” Johnson has built up a formidable fanbase through a stream of solid records and touring. At this particular show, he’ll be featuring works for piano and acoustic guitar rather than bringing his normal touring band. Come see this six-string sensation in a different kind of setting.1013 K Street, Sacramento, www.ericjohnson.com.

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In an interview with PopMatters, Dustin Lovelis said his song “Idiot” is about how he’s “resistant to change.” Yet, the whole reason he ever wrote a solo album was that he got tired of the monotony of touring with his band The Fling. His debut PSyCH-POP album is an amalgam of all his ’60s rock influences (think the Beatles and the Beach Boys) but reassembled with the precision of an art restorer who’s had a bit much to drink. His fans will enjoy the nonstop references, as well as his harmonious yet trashy sensibility. 2030 P Street, www.facebook.com/dustinlovelis.

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Big Mondays happy hour all night, M; Karaoke, Tu; Trapicana W

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EDM & karaoke, 9pm M, no cover; Latin night, 9pm Tu, no cover

Sunday Mass, 2pm, no cover

Heavy, 10pm M, no cover; Tussle, 10pm Tu, no cover; Good stuff, 10pm W, no cover

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Welcome to the most

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Please read between the lines: (1) Navigate the ocean that roars within the seashell. (2) Carry the key, even if the lock has been temporarily lost. (3) Search through the deepest shadows for the bright light that cast them. (4) Delve into the unfathomable in wordless awe of the inexplicable.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): What exactly would a

bolt of lightning taste like? I mean, if you could somehow manage to roll it around in your mouth without having to endure the white-hot shock.

There’s a booze manufacturer that claims to provide this sensation. The company known as Oddka has created “Electricity Vodka,” hard liquor with an extra fizzy jolt. But if any sign of the zodiac could safely approximate eating a streak of lightning without the help of Electricity Vodka, it would be you Leos. These days you have a special talent for absorbing and enjoying and integrating fiery inspiration.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Eighteenth-century

painter Joshua Reynolds said that a “disposition to abstractions, to generalizing and classification, is the great glory of the human mind.” To that lofty sentiment, his fellow artist William Blake responded, “To generalize is to be an idiot; to particularize is the alone distinction of merit.”

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Getting bogged down in details at the expense of the big picture—missing the forest for the trees—is a potential pitfall that you can and should avoid.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Czech writer Bohumil

Hrabal penned the novel Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age. It consists of one sentence. But it’s a long, rambling sentence—117 pages’ worth.

It streams from the mouth of the narrator, who is an older man bent on telling all the big stories of his life. If there were ever to come a time when you, too, would have cosmic permission and a poetic license to deliver a one-sentence, 117-page soliloquy, Libra, it would be in the coming weeks. Reveal your truths! Break through your inhibitions! Celebrate your epic tales! (P.S. Show this horoscope to the people you’d like as your listeners.)

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): When Pluto was dis-

covered in 1930, astronomers called it the ninth planet. But 76 years later, they changed their mind. In accordance with shifting definitions, they demoted Pluto to the status of a mere “dwarf planet.” But in recent years, two renowned astronomers at Caltech have found convincing evidence for a new ninth planet. Konstantin Batygin and Michael E. Brown are tracking an object that is much larger than Earth. Its orbit is so far beyond Neptune’s that it takes 15,000 years to circle the sun. As yet it doesn’t have an official name, but Batygin and Brown informally refer to it as “Phattie.” I bring this to your attention, Scorpio, because I suspect that you, too, are on the verge of locating a monumental new addition to your universe.

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

and potato are both nightshades, a family of flowering plants. Taking advantage of this commonality, botanists have used the technique of grafting to produce a pomato plant. Its roots yield potatoes, while its vines grow cherry tomatoes.

Now would be a good time for you to experiment with a metaphorically similar creation, Sagittarius. Can you think of how you might generate two useful influences from a single source?

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Some guy I don’t

know keeps sending me emails about great job opportunities he thinks I’d like to apply for: a technical writer for a solar energy company, for example, and a social media intern for a business that offers travel programs. His messages are not spam. The gigs are legitimate. And yet I’m not in the least interested. I already have several jobs I enjoy, like writing these horoscopes. I suspect that you, too, may receive worthy but ultimately irrelevant invitations in the coming days, Capricorn. My advice: If you remain faithful to your true needs and desires, more apropos offers will eventually flow your way.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The word

“naysayer” describes a person who’s addicted to expressing negativity. A “yeasayer,” on the other hand, is a person who is prone to expressing optimism. According to my assessment of the astrological omens, you can and should be a creative yeasayer in the coming days—both for the sake of your own well-being and that of everyone whose life you touch. For inspiration, study Upton Sinclair’s passage about Beethoven: He was “the defier of fate, the great yea-sayer.” His music is “like the wind running over a meadow of flowers, superlative happiness infinitely multiplied.”

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): If I’m feeling prosaic, I might refer to a group of flamingos as a flock.

But one of the more colorful and equally correct terms is a “flamboyance” of flamingos. Similarly, a bunch of pretty insects with clubbed antennae and big fluttery wings may be called a kaleidoscope of butterflies. The collective noun for zebras can be a dazzle, for pheasants a bouquet, for larks an exaltation and for finches a charm.

In accordance with current astrological omens, I’m borrowing these nouns to describe members of your tribe. A flamboyance or kaleidoscope of Pisceans? Yes! A dazzle or bouquet or exaltation or charm of Pisceans? Yes! All of the above.

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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The other side of the party Sacramento’s yoga-sphere is an alternate universe. Sweat is currency, each studio is a tribe, and every day is segmented into class schedules. In this world, Aaron Duncan is the outsider. A 6-foot-plus Chicago native with a thing for basketball and the Roots, Duncan left his family and moved to Sacramento a decade ago. When Duncan started teaching at Zuda Yoga, his hip-hop roots soon found their way into his classes. Rap and pigeon pose mix about as often as Tupac and Biggie, but hip-hop is in Duncan’s nature. Even his Starbucks orders sound like a freestyle rap. Now, Duncan’s Friday night classes are a landmark of Sacramento yoga. At 10 p.m., when the bars start buzzing, Duncan begins teaching students with a curated mix of underground rap, The Roots and (of course) some Drake.

How did you end up in Sacramento?

I grew up in Chicago, the youngest of six kids with parents who’ve been married 40 years. But a friend offered me a job and an opportunity to come to Sacramento. I was about 30 and I wasn’t sure of my direction, so I thought, “Why not give it a shot?”

Why did you start doing yoga?

I was playing in a basketball league and I ruptured my Achilles tendon. Then some friends brought me to yoga and I was hooked. … At the beginning, I did it to differentiate myself from just going to the club. I would still do that [clubbing] like Thursday through Sunday, but then Monday through Wednesday I was trying to get some yoga to sweat it all out. I’ve always wanted that other side to the party.

What made you stick with it?

chicken tender they like. In order to get this hip-hop, you also got to feed with this yoga. Especially ages 13-19. It’s going to help their sports, their mental health, their work in school. Knowing how to diffuse when they’re angry.

It made me view the world differently.

Understanding that everything is not exactly what it appears to be, and that you got an ego that you got to check in with. It makes you more aware of the little things. When I was like 36 and didn’t know what direction I was going in with life, I saw people who went through yoga teacher training and it seemed like they had more discipline. I thought, “I need more discipline and I’m too old for the military.” So I did a teacher training at Zuda. One statement in training stuck with me forever: Your yoga class should mirror who you are.

Has anyone told you that what mixing rap and yoga is wrong?

People say it’s just a fad. You can have your beef, but at the end of the day, it’s just yoga. Whether the music makes you want to shake a tail feather is up to you. If you feel like it’s Friday night and you should be dancing, then you dance in your pose.

It’s still just yoga.

Is that where the hip-hop comes in?

I’ve always been a fan of hip-hop. … I’d heard of studios in LA and Australia that do all hiphop. I thought I needed to find out what they do, but I don’t got money to just go down to LA to take some yoga. Then my friend was like, “Man, why would you go to Australia just to learn hip-hop yoga?” It came back to me: The class should mirror who you are. So I started freestyling in class.

Have you ever performed on stage?

We used to go to a place in Chicago called Subterranean that’s like 8 Mile. Hip-Hop is not just the music. It’s the way I talk, the way I walk, the way I was raised. Hip-hop yoga at 10 p.m. on Friday night is not just a job.

Any plans to make it even bigger?

My dream is for hip-hop yoga to bridge the gap. For those who think yoga is too slow or they can’t bend or twist. I really want to do it with youth. Hip-hop yoga in schools could expose the youth to yoga.

It’s like giving them vegetables with the

What’s your favorite style of music?

I’m underground. When I first started the class I was trying to introduce people to underground. Now I intermix everything, but I don’t pick stuff just because it’s Drake. Every week I make a new playlist. I have hundreds on my Spotify.

Favorite artists?

Oh man, I don’t know. The Roots. But sometimes G-Eazy, Erykah Badu, Common, Kanye West … people don’t like him, but I don’t know him, like, personally, so I don’t get into any of that. I like DJ Drez and RJD2.

I don’t own hip-hop, I don’t own yoga. Only thing I can do is give it to you Aaron style.

Like that song “Gangnam Style,” I just give it to you “Aaron Style.” Ω Learn more about Aaron Duncan’s yoga classes at http://zudayoga.com.

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