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Jekyll & Hyde Maybe people are starting to get wise to Donald Trump, to see that he’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in one body. Dr. Jekyll shows up when the president wants to seem “presidential”—as when he spoke before Congress—and Mr. Hyde appears when Trump is under fire and wants to change the subject. That’s when he’s likely to toss out a whopper or do something provocative to divert the media’s and the public’s attention.

He is, as many have noted, a master of distraction. And he continues to misbehave because, so far at least, he’s gotten away with it.

Most recently, as everybody knows, he charged, without a scintilla of evidence, that President Barack Obama illegally wiretapped Trump Tower. Is the president delusional or just crazy like a fox? Either way, it’s obvious he was trying to distract us from the muck his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, is floundering in.

What’s also clear is that he’s successfully drawing our attention from the dramatic changes he and his fellow Republicans in Congress are making as they “deconstruct the administrative state,” to use Steve Bannon’s inimitable phrasing. The latest iteration of Trump’s ban on Muslims is just one of those distractions.

So far, bills introduced in the House would kill the EPA (HR 861) and the Department of Education (HR 899), repeal a rule protecting wildlife (HJR 69), repeal Obamacare (HR 370), defund Planned Parenthood (HR 354), criminalize abortion (HR 147), establish a national schools voucher program (HR 610), and institute a national right-towork (anti-union) policy (HR 785).

Think about that. And don’t let Mr. Hyde’s tomfoolery distract you from what is really going on.

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Taking control Re “Sanctuary in Sacramento?” by Raheem Hosseini (SN&R News, February 23): The county sheriff should not be able to hand people over to ICE without the approval of the district attorney. Law enforcement needs to follow the rule of law.

As usual, Republicans are “local control” hypocrites. Their “support” for local control is really about their control—of everyone else’s bodies. If they really want to arrest immigration itself, they will have to end their war on drugs and other imperialist behavior south of the border that makes life there more dangerous than maybe dying in the desert.

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Points of light Re “A sleeping giant,” by Robert Speer (SN&R Editor’s Note, February 23): During the evacuation I was worrying about my nonfunctioning sump pump, but when I looked at my paltry

issues when placed against those uprooted by a mandatory evacuation, I, too, was humbled and ashamed. But my own neglect at replacing my sump pump due to “non-need” and “expense” is the same rationale that DWR used in not following the 2005 reports.

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by Raheem Hosseini (SN&R News, February 23): There was a time when I didn’t feel the need to lock the doors of my home. But times have changed, so now I feel the need to use locks for protecting my family and possessions.

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From left, Christopher B. Nachtra, Maggie Rupp and Jonathon Harris are among the four professional dancers who signed an email criticizing the Sacramento Ballet’s board of directors.

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Reached by phone, Cunningham said he and Binda were unable to comment on the transition under the terms of their contract. But it’s not just the dancers who have complained about the board’s practices.

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The Sacramento Ballet’s board of directors is facing scrutiny over its decision to replace the company’s two long-standing artistic directors next year, publicly exposing contention over the ballet’s future leadership.

Despite an order threatening “disciplinary action” for any ballet employees who speak to the media, four company dancers blasted the board via email over their opting not to renew the contracts of co-directors Ron Cunningham and Carinne Binda beyond the 2017-18 season, a decisions the board publicly announced in January.

The dancers also accused the board of mismanaging the company, questioning its ability to decide what’s best for the ballet.

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dancer and daughter of Binda and Cunningham, who are married. “This career is our life, and when we’ve expressed ourselves in the past, it felt like it fell on deaf ears. Our only recourse at this point is reaching out to the community.”

Among their list of grievances, the dancers complained that the board had financially neglected the artistic side of the company over the last three years, including when it abruptly canceled the last three weeks of the 2014-15 season and laid off dancers on short notice.

The following season, the dancers contend, they were overworked by a doubling of the number of shows after the board mandated a season of smallerbudget productions showcased in their rehearsal space, rather than larger shows in the Sacramento Community Center Theater. The dancers allege that the

decision, along with the board’s slashing of the marketing budget that year, halved their subscribers.

The board also hired new administrative staff while around half of the company’s 26 dancers face near-poverty level wages—around $16,000 yearly. The dancers complained that the board had not delivered on a $250,000 campaign to improve ballet facilities, including dressing and physical-therapy rooms at the ballet’s rehearsal space since May 2015, the E. Claire Raley Studios for the Performing Arts, better known as Clara.

The men’s dressing room, for example, is often dampened with dirty water from backlogged pipes.

“Sometimes we don’t feel like we’re taken seriously, like this isn’t a real job,” said Maggie Rupp, a company dancer.

“It doesn’t feel like they understand what we do or what we need.”

a reckoning on the ballet board after it failed to file annual reports properly between 2012 and 2014 or pay registration fees during two of those years to the state’s Registrar of Charitable Trusts, threatening to suspend the organization’s charitable status in June 2015.

On January 27 this year, the attorney general agreed to stay the suspension on condition that the board pay $2,000 of its $10,000 in penalty fees by March 1 and disclose the results of an independent audit of its 2015 finances, among other requirements. The auditor concluded that it wasn’t aware of any theft, embezzlement, diversion or misuse of the ballet’s assets, and the stayed suspension remains for three years.

The situation won’t affect the ballet’s tenancy at the Clara, or its ability to receive public grant funding, city officials said.

David Temblador, a board member since 2014, said that the mistakes were signs of the company’s financial house being in disrepair. The ballet’s budget

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16 season, the marketing “You can see how much budget has increased they adore what’s being and Temblador said produced. How it his colleagues want affects the commuto shift money nity. You can see back to the stage, it: They’re not addressing ready.” the dancers’ A succession concerns with plan had been salaries and discussed for renovations, as long as five once their years, Temblador Maggie Rupp administrative said. Under an dancer, Sacramento Ballet house is in order. agreement signed “We were a mess by the board and organizationally, and their directors last so the last couple of years, July, a newly selected we’ve put a heightened focus artistic director would shadow on making sure the admin stuff is of the Cunningham and Binda for their 30th and caliber of the artistic side,” Temblador final season, and they would thereafter be said. “Having those staff people is spendnamed artistic directors emeritus. ing on the artistic side. It doesn’t look like But in a January letter to the editor in it to the outside world, and it’s because The Sacramento Bee, Cunningham and it’s not cool.”

Binda declared that they were not ready But the central disagreement centers to leave. on Cunningham and Binda, who are Temblador wouldn’t comment on slated to leave their posts despite the whether the couple willingly agreed to the displeasure of many dancers, donors and stipulations they signed on, but he said ballet friends. he hoped they would still be involved in the selection of their replacement, the Sacramento Ballet was founded in which is already underway. He also 1954 by Barbara and Deane Crockett. hoped the ballet could continue to use Crockett served as the first artistic direcCunningham’s works. tor until 1986. Cunningham succeeded her Nancy Garton, the board’s current in 1988, Binda joined him the following president, was quoted in The Bee as year, and the two became co-artistic saying she wanted to establish “Sac Ballet directors in 1991.

2.0,” noting that succession was part of a Today, Cunningham is also the resinew vision. The dancers alleged that the dent choreographer, and Binda serves as board has been unclear about what that the ballet mistress, the dancers’ primary vision entails. trainer and director of the ballet school, Temblador said that the decision which teaches around 400 students. wasn’t about downsizing (the board is The two have been pivotal in growhiring only one director) or the couple’s ing the ballet’s education and outreach artistic vision. He said a succession programs, as well as establishing it plan was necessary for the 63-year-old as a nationally recognized company. company.

Cunningham’s works have become “[Barbara Crockett] was there for 32 synonymous with the Sacramento Ballet, years, and we’ve been very fortunate to including his annual rendition of The have Ron and Carinne lead it now going Nutcracker, which uniquely employs 500 on 30 years,” Temblador said. “As an children in its ensemble. organization, we have to be realistic about

“It doesn’t feel like they understand what we do or what we need.”

the following 30 years and what that looks like.”

And the board’s vision for Sac Ballet 2.0? Increasing its budget and ticket sales, and consequently growing the artistic side.

“We want to grow our ticket sales from 40,000 to 60,000,” Temblador said. “We want to grow our budget from $2.6 million to $4 million. If we’re able to do those things, I absolutely hope that we can turn this company from a part-time professional ballet … to a full-time dance company.”

But that will be hard to do if patrons like Kathy Payne are any indication. payne, a donor and former board president, said that she, like many other donors, will

be reluctant to continue funding the ballet in light of the change. The majority of the ballet’s grants come from individual donations.

“With the way the transition is going, it’s going to be more wait-and-see,” Payne said. “[The board is] going to need Ron’s blessing [on the succession], there’s no question.”

Several donors are unhappy, protesting not only the succession plan, but also the board’s lack of transparency.

They include Eileen McCauley, a midlevel donor and ballet patron since the 1990s. McCauley said that she may pull her $3,000 in annual funding for the dance school’s Thomas E. McCauley Scholarship/Next Generation Fund if Binda is not involved with the school.

Around 780 ballet supporters have also voiced disagreement online through a Change.org petition titled “Save Sacramento Ballet.” The petition was started by Diane Cypher, an artistic director at Santa Cruz Ballet Theatre and a former Sacramento Ballet dancer.

Cypher hopes the public outcry will reverse the board’s decision and that Cunningham and Binda will remain at the ballet. “It’s time to celebrate their accomplishments as opposed to showing them the door,” Cypher said.

Temblador said he was disheartened by the backlash. He said that succession talks are naturally uncomfortable but necessary, and that he hopes the next season will still be a celebration of the couple.

“The arts are like a family,” Temblador said. “Sometimes your family argues, but hopefully, at the end of the argument, everybody moves on and we’re all the better for it.”

Whatever the outcome, the contention isn’t helping the company, Payne said.

“The ballet can’t be successful if there’s this kind of publicity and animosity.” Ω

Concerns about potentially tainted drinking water at the Rio Cosumnes Correctional Center in Elk Grove prompted federal authorities to relocate more than 130 immigration detainees from the Sacramento County jail over the weekend.

County officials say a routine environmental inspection of the jail’s small water system uncovered elevated levels of lead and copper in some of the aging facility’s pipes. The unsafe levels of lead were detected at 16 out of 20 sites tested primarily between January 25 and February 1. Troubling levels of copper were found in six of the 20 sites.

State and federal environmental standards consider anything above 0.015 milligrams of lead per liter worthy of action. The standard is 1.3 milligrams per liter for copper.

The highest levels of lead—1.8 milligrams per liter—were discovered inside the bathroom of the Roger Bauman Facility, where RCCC routinely houses federal immigration detainees awaiting deportation proceedings. Tests also found 10 milligrams per liter of copper in the water at RBF, more than seven times the standard.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials transported 134 detainees to other ICE facilities on March 3 and 4, according to an email from ICE spokesman James Schwab. Most of the detainees were shuttled to a detention facility in Adelanto, east of Los Angeles, in a move billed as temporary as the county works to replace the affected pipes.

Since 2000, the sheriff’s department has rented out jail space to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, averaging about $6 million a year for its sublet.

Still, this wasn’t the first time ICE discovered shoddy housing conditions for detainees at RCCC. Inspectors cited a number of deficiencies during four visits in 2015, causing ICE to suspend its housing contract for approximately three months that year.

In announcing the elevated lead and copper levels in RCCC’s water, county officials made no mention of the impact to federal immigration detainees. (Raheem F. Hosseini)

HomeleSS Hero A quick-thinking bystander with a knife saved a suicidal man’s life last week.

The situation unfolded early in the morning of March 1, according to an incident summary from the Sacramento Police Department. Shortly past midnight that Wednesday, a homeless man reportedly came across a male subject who was preparing to leap off the guy West Bridge with a rope around his neck.

The 87-foot-high pedestrian bridge spans the American River, connecting the Sacramento State University campus to the Campus Commons development near the 900 block of University Avenue.

Police say the witness happened to be in the area when he saw the man preparing to jump from a height of about 30 to 40 feet, and attempted to talk him out of it, but was unsuccessful.

When the man jumped, the police summary says, the witness rushed to the rail of the bridge, “produced a knife, and cut the subject down.”

The man fell to the ground below, suffering only minor injuries, police say. The witness then escorted him back to the top of the bridge where personnel from the Sacramento Fire Department had been summoned. The man was transported to a local hospital, police say. As for the good Samaritan, police spokesman Sgt. Bryce Heinlein said officers listed him as a transient with no additional contact information.

Asked how the man survived the fall without greater injury to his neck, Heinlein couldn’t say. “Fate, I guess,” he said. (RFH)

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Below-ground pools On March 1, staff suggested funding For the first time in California history, government Sacramento County’s GSA through Zone 13, a regulation is being applied to the pools of water water agency and property tax zone in the southhiding underground. eastern county that brings in $2.2 million a year Between 1920 and 2013, Californians drained an for flood control, water supply management and estimated 41 trillion gallons of groundwater, or 441 conservation. Supervisors were hoping to use the billion gallons annually, from beneath the Central existing Zone 13 revenues for future groundwater Valley, the largest aquifer in the state. That pace sustainability efforts in those unmanaged areas increased dramatically during the five-year drought: to prevent state intervention. But staff said the Up to 1.96 trillion gallons were pumped per year, money collected wouldn’t be enough, with future when frantic farmers and ranchers tapped the earth studies, outreach and administrative costs to bear. to make up for what no longer fell from the sky.

Supervisors will reconvene on April 11 to The U.S. Geological Survey considers decide what unmanaged areas could fall under the groundwater supplies similar to savings accounts. county GSA. If the county creates its GSA, it will If they’re not replenished, the environmental risks also be able to charge groundwater extractors and are broad, causing dry wells and, eventually, soil users, a group that encompasses utilities, water collapse, which result in sinkholes and dropping districts, cities and, ultimately, taxpayers. valley floors. Depleted groundwater supplies The process has sparked local also starve out ecosystems by reducing interests to grapple for control stream flows. over Sacramento County’s Historically, the state has “What it really valuable water aquifers. regulated rivers, lakes and would do is make an The South American reservoirs, but it didn’t regusubbasin, which is fully late groundwater until 2014, end-run around the contained in Sacramento when legislators enacted Sustainable Groundwater County and extends from the State Groundwater Management Act.” Folsom through Elk Grove, Management Act. has seen three overlapping Now, Sac County and Hanspeter Walter GSA applications. Those other governments are attorney, Sloughhouse Resource overlaps must be addressed racing to form groundwater Conservation District prior to the state’s June 30 sustainability agencies, or deadline, and the Sacramento GSAs, by a state-mandated Central Groundwater Authority has deadline of June 30. If local GSAs attempted to do so by putting forth an aren’t formed by then, the state water “alternative plan” that would allow it to control the board can intervene in the name of keeping territory, based on the argument that it’s managed aquifers from falling further, and force counties the subbasin responsibly for the past decade. to recover costs for developing monitoring The Sloughhouse Resource Conservation plans, performing studies and requiring data District, which is behind one of the competing reporting.

GSA applications, sued the groundwater authority There are three main subbasins beneath over its continued management of the subbasin. the county, named the North American, South The Sloughhouse district’s attorney, Hanspeter American and Cosumnes subbasins.

Walter, criticized the groundwater authority’s The North American subbasin is bounded by the American River on the south and extends into plan last week.

“What it really would do is make an Sutter and Placer counties, which are expected end-run around the Sustainable Groundwater to put in their own GSA applications for their Management Act,” Walter told supervisors. “This portions of the subbasin. The Sacramento would set in stone old management procedures Groundwater Authority manages the portion and assumptions and not trigger the new SGMA inside Sacramento County and already collects provisions.” Ω $600,000 annually for its work. Future money could be spent to build groundwater recharge facilities, develop a groundwater sustainability This story was made possible by a grant from Tower Cafe. plan and more.

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Hoping to head off the next lethal-force controversy, Sacramento County sheriff’s cadets are now getting expanded training in how to defuse crises.

The county board of supervisors approved the sheriff’s department’s request to fund two-and-a-half years of crisis intervention training, a program begun in February 2014, said sheriff’s spokesman Sgt. Tony Turnbull. But a new component now requires completion of a 24-hour course as a requisite for graduation from the sheriff’s training academy, rather than the eight hours previously demanded. The first class to complete this requirement will graduate in April.

The $31,540 retroactive agreement went into effect January 1 and extends through April 30, 2019. The training, offered regionally to all local law enforcement agencies, includes 24 eight-hour awareness courses—covering crisis intervention techniques and verbal deescalation skills—and five 24-hour comprehensive courses, according to the supervisors’ agenda report.

Though participation in the overall program has been voluntary, Turnbull said in an email that the sheriff’s department has required all deputies and sergeants to attend the eight-hour course, and that at least two personnel on each shift undergo expanded course training. Beyond those mandated guidelines, deputies are offered the extended course at their own discretion and based on staffing availability.

An uptick in service calls involving subjects who may have mental-health issues factored into the expanded academy requirement, Turnbull said.

The crisis intervention training program was conceived in 2013, the year before it was launched, when the county sheriff’s and health and human services departments, as well as police agencies in Citrus Heights, Elk Grove, Folsom and Galt, identified the need for the training in a countywide assessment, the agenda report states.

Local agencies are hoping continued training will eventually decrease the number of volatile situations ending in violence.

Officers achieved two peaceful resolutions on February 15, when Sacramento police and fire personnel rescued a man who jumped into the Sacramento River and became stranded on a log. Described as “possibly armed with a knife” in an online police summary, the rescued man was transported for a medical evaluation.

That same day, officers struggled with an erratic subject armed with a large knife, but the incident ended without serious injury or death. The man was safely taken into custody and arrested on parole violation and weapons charges.

Whether additional training will make these encounters the norm is inherently difficult to measure, noted Rick Braziel, the county’s inspector general. “In real life you never truly know what your training prevented,” he said. Ω

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Collateral contraceptives If feds strip Planned Parenthood’s funding, California would be especially hard hit

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A small brown paper bag in her hand, Julie walked out of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Roseville with a new supply of birth control. It didn’t matter that she didn’t have health insurance.

“It’s awesome to have Planned Parenthood,” said Julie, who did not wish to give her last name for privacy reasons. “To go to a regular health clinic like this would have cost $100, which would make you think twice about having to go.”

It’s the kind of clinic that President Donald Trump and conservative Republicans in Congress hope to cut off from receiving any federal funds.

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abortions except in cases of rape, incest or to save the mother’s life. But this effort seeks to block federal funds from paying for any other kind of health care by providers who also perform abortions.

If they succeed, the impact would be particularly strong in California—a state where legislators over the years have interpreted federal laws and rules in ways that have allowed more federal dollars to flow to Planned Parenthood clinics. Roughly half of the federal funding that Planned Parenthood receives nationwide now goes, mostly via Medicaid reimbursements, to cover health care and family planning services for mostly low-income Californians.

And ironically, Planned Parenthood officials say if they were to lose all their federal funding, their California abortion clinics would remain open—those already are funded by private sources and by state reimbursements for poorer patients. Instead, what would be at risk are all the nonsurgical sites that provide other medical and contraception services.

The state’s progressive state policies, put in place 30 years ago under Republican Gov. Pete Wilson, created a friendly environment for Planned Parenthood to expand and offer family planning services to low-income men and women above the federal poverty level. That’s in stark contrast to states such as Texas and Mississippi, which

unsuccessfully sought to ban their state Medicaid health care programs for the poor from channeling any money to health care providers that perform abortions.

As a result, today Planned Parenthood is one of California’s major health care providers, operating 115 clinics that serve 850,000 mostly low-income patients a year who rely on Medicaid (in California, Medi-Cal) for health care. That’s nearly a third of the 2.5 million patients who visit Planned Parenthood clinics nationwide for basic health care and family planning services.

“Planned Parenthood is a major safety-net provider at a time of increased health care demand,” said Sara Rosenbaum, a professor of health law and policy at George Washington University. “In a state like California with more Planned Parenthoods, the reliance would be that much greater.”

The Republican-controlled Congress, bolstered by Trump’s election, is eyeing several strategies to stop the flow of federal funding to Planned Parenthood.

That money—roughly $500 million a year nationwide, through Medicaid reimbursements, Title X family

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Planned Parenthood. They did so after Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards met with Democratic senators at their annual policy retreat in Sacramento.

Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, D-Lakewood, proclaimed: “California stands with Planned Parenthood because Planned Parenthood stands with California.”

But his sentiment was not unanimous.

Several Republicans spoke out against the resolutions, with state Sen. Mike Morrell, R-Rancho Cucamonga, saying he could not support an organization that provides abortions.

“I have no war against women,” he said.

“But I also do not have a war against babies created in the image of God.” With a Democrat-controlled state Legislature, California Planned Parenthood is hopeful it could ask lawmakers to backfill any federal shortfall. However, Medicaid funding is already strapped in the state, where a record one in three Californians are receiving Medi-Cal. Given the potential for other federal cuts in health funding that the state might also be asked to compensate for, it’s unclear whether the state would be able to make up the difference.

So Planned Parenthood is drafting contingency plans.

“We are looking at scenario planning.

These are all very difficult decisions,” Kneer said. “Closing any location is the last thing we want to do.”

One option is to more aggressively fundraise, but Kneer said private donations can’t possibly make up what they would lose. She also raised the question of whether private funds should be required to pay for a government reimbursement that other organizations receive.

Even if Trump receives and signs legislation to strip Planned Parenthood of all its federal funding, Planned Parenthood could still challenge in court whether such a restriction is constitutional.

In the last few years, federal courts across the country have denied other states’ efforts to block Planned Parenthood as an eligible provider of taxpayer-funded health, ruling that such moves violated the First Amendment right of free speech and free association to choose a medical provider, and the right of a clinic to provide abortion services under the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment, said Julie Cantor, an adjunct professor at UCLA who teaches a law class on reproductive medical ethics.

“The government’s behavior has to comport with the Constitution,” Cantor said. Ω

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planning money and grants—pays for Such an 11th-hour move by an outgoservices such as cancer screening, breast ing president, Republicans argued during exams, birth control, prenatal care and the floor debate, was an affront to states’ treating sexually transmitted diseases. rights.

Although Trump has frequently “I know that vulnerable women seeking acknowledged that Planned Parenthood true comprehensive care deserve better helps millions of women, he also has said than abortion-centric facilities like Planned he would support congressional efforts to Parenthood,” said Rep. Diane Black, ban funding.

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“I would defund it because of the aborThe resolution is now awaiting a tion factor,” he said at the February vote in the Senate where California 2016 GOP presidential debate.

Democratic Sen. Dianne “I would defund it, Feinstein is working to because I’m pro-life.” defeat it. It would A draft House have no effect on GOP bill obtained California, given

by Politico would that it is not “The irony here is that eliminate all among the states they are going to put in place federal funding that have tried more barriers for women to gain to Planned to limit those Parenthood Title X dollars. contraception, and that will lead to as part of a Nonetheless, more abortions.” repeal of the she noted Affordable that Planned Kathy Kneer Care Act. While Parenthood president and CEO, California Planned Parenthood that provision is provides the only likely to clear the Title X family House, its fate is planning services in uncertain in the Senate, 13 California counties, where several moderate and that any effort to strip Republicans could side with federal funding would take a toll pro-choice Democrats. in other states and leave “huge numbers But if the effort were to prevail, of women across the country [with] no place California Planned Parenthood would lose to go for essential health services.” $260 million a year in federal funds— approximately 80 percent of its operating Trump on the campaign trail vowed to budget. Unless it found a way to replenish defund Planned Parenthood. He then that money elsewhere, the organization appointed Secretary of Health and Human warns that it might have to close its 82 Services Tom Price, a former Republican California sites furnishing basic health care congressman from Georgia who has and family planning services to mostly supported cutting off taxpayer money to low-income patients.

Planned Parenthood.

Meanwhile, its remaining 33 surgical Both men have suggested the federal abortion sites—which don’t get federal government could reallocate taxpayer funding—would remain open, said Kathy dollars to community health centers. But Kneer, president and CEO of California many experts and health care advocates Planned Parenthood. say those health centers cannot absorb the “The irony here is that they are going significant number of patients who now to put in place more barriers for women rely on Planned Parenthood. to gain contraception, and that will lead to “Any policies that eliminate or diminmore abortions—and by the way, all the ish Planned Parenthood’s role would abortion sites will stay open,” Kneer said. put untenable stress on remaining health Last month the House voted to reverse centers,” said Ben Avey, spokesman for an Obama administration regulation that CaliforniaHealth + Advocates, which requires states and local governments to represents the state’s community clinics distribute family planning funds to health and health centers. “They are really a vital centers even if they perform abortions. part of the state’s health network.”

President Barack Obama issued the rule That concern was echoed in January in his final days in office after more than when the Democratic-controlled California a dozen conservative states directed those Legislature approved resolutions opposfunds only to community health care centers. ing any congressional efforts to defund

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On Saturday morning, Republican Rep. Tom McClintock and Democratic Rep. Doris Matsui were busy. They were busy being members of Congress in the time of Trump. McClintock was at a town hall meeting at El Dorado Hills High School, facing more than 1,700 people—the vast majority of whom were upset about recent changes in immigration policy and proposed changes to the Affordable Care Act. Meanwhile, Matsui was in West Sacramento holding a “Don’t Agonize, Organize” meeting with 100 activists, brainstorming ways to save the ACA. The previous week, Matsui held an official town hall meeting at Sutter Middle School to discuss the same subject. On that day, she met with around 600 people, most of whom asked her to work to save the ACA. The West Sacramento forum was a political event sponsored by the Matsui for Congress organization. It was moderated by West Sacramento Mayor Christopher Cabaldon, who pointed out the key role that Matsui played in the creation of the ACA when Democrats had the majority in Congress. And now Matsui sits on the U.S. House Subcommittee on Health. In normal times, she would be playing a key role in crafting changes to the ACA. But the House Republicans are working in secret. Until this week, the Democrats had not even seen, let alone been able to comment on, the proposed bill to change or repeal the ACA. Matsui expects that the Republicans will try to jam the bill through in the next few weeks without input or even adequate hearings.

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he mourners carry banners of his face—long, glossy posters that accentuate his laughing blue eyes and big, mischievous grin. His hand is striking a peace sign, even as he wears the dusty camouflage fatigues of a Kurdish militia fighter.

A 737 pushes out of the clouds as friends of Michael Israel wait at the San Francisco International Airport. They know somewhere beyond the tarmacs his body is being unloaded. A few keep glancing at the banners: There’s so much to read into his expression. For the gray-haired peaceniks huddling in their sweatshirts, that youthful face is proof the counterculture had strong, new blood. To Sacramento’s Wobblies, Brown Berets and Occupy resisters, it is a face that embodies physical action more than keyboard activism. And to the large group of Kurdish immigrants mustering in the lot, it is the face of an adopted son martyred in the name of a country that doesn’t exist.

The hearse finally comes into view. The coffin inside has traveled 7,000 miles to get here. It was hauled by van through the blistered hills of Syria as villagers saluted it from the roadside. It was wrapped in Kurdish flags as it passed along barbed wire that went twisting through sand ahead of Iraqi checkpoints. It rested in the metallic tunnel of an airliner cargo hold as it flew over a sea and then an ocean. Now the mourners see that it’s real. Some are scarcely breathing.

Others choke on their tears.

For an instance, sheer relief to have him home puts all questions aside, but, of course, the questions are never far away.

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across the nation for peace? Is this the protester who stood smiling in a downpour on behalf of teachers’ pensions before he was old enough to buy a beer? Is this the labor crusader tossed into a paddy wagon with hands zip-tied behind his back for standing with minimum wage earners? Is this the suit-wearing union representative who made conference rooms his battleground as he negotiated for the working class?

For nearly a decade, the man in that coffin had been on a journey. But how did that journey end with him holding a machine gun and staring down the most feared terrorists on earth?

T wo of us Ashley Casale pulls her rental car into the funeral procession seconds before the hearse drifts off. Her flight from New York was delayed, forcing her to scramble with her 5-year-old son in tow. It’s taken weeks for Casale to accept this moment is happening; but now that it is, she refuses to miss it.

Casale sees a line of vehicles decorated with Israel’s face. At least he’s smiling. She doesn’t like most of the photographs taken of him in the Middle East: Flashes of her friend wearing tactical gear and holding an assault rifle don’t fit her own memories.

There is, however, one picture to emerge from Syria that lifts her spirits. It’s Israel standing beside two young Kurdish boys on bicycles, all three smiling as they hold up peace signs. Despite Israel’s worn combat uniform and the mortar-shattered huts in the background, the photo captures his coy, unassuming grin the way it looked when Casale first encountered it in 2007.

In those days Casale was a college freshman in Connecticut who was looking for a way to protest the war in Iraq. She and a group of activists had dreamed up the idea to march for peace across the entire Lower 48. Yet, the closer the date got, the more it looked as if Casale would be going it alone.

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but none of them ended up coming with me,” Red pac ifisT Casale recalls. “The only one brave enough Now, as the funeral procession moves onto to do it was Mike, someone I didn’t even U.S. Route 101, Casale prepares to hear what know until that moment.”

Israel’s friends will be saying about the last Israel was a thin, mop-haired 18-yeareight years of his life. And maybe she’ll find old who’d grown up on a farm in Jackson, some of the missing puzzle pieces to how the an hour east of Sacramento. To this day, gentle, anti-war kid she knew became part Casale’s not sure how the California boy of one of the most first heard about her effective fighting plans. She knows forces against ISIS only that he was in Syria. with her every step “At the time of of the way. our march, Mike The months that was more committed followed survive to peace,” she says. for Casale now in “He was a pacifist. old photographs He would even steal and seared mental selective service images: The two of registration cards them throwing a pair out of post offices of beaten-in shoes we were going by.” over the limbs of a One man who shoe tree in Nevada; understands Israel’s episodes of walking evolution is David 40 miles between Roddy. Israel and towns under the Roddy grew up DaviD RoDDy rising mountains together in Amador friend of Colorado; the County, one of the morning a smirking most politically Israel let a Nebraska conservative regions farmer wake Casale in California. up by pouring water The older the boys got, the more they on her face. From feeding starving dogs to saw things differently. The county’s wandering through apple orchards, it’s a boom-and-bust economies of gold mining journey Casale came to cherish as she grew and lumber mills had mainly busted, leavinto adulthood. ing its cities and towns overwhelmed by “Some of the older veterans in those poverty, alcoholism and meth addiction. small towns assumed we were making a During a river rafting trip in the eighth statement against their military service,” grade, Israel overcame his lifelong shyness Casale remembers. “Mike could turn those to start discussing social issues with conversations around so quickly. He made Roddy. It was the start of an unbreakable them realize we weren’t against them. It bond—two ideological loners adrift in a was his sense of humor. It was the ease he community hostile to the equality fight had talking to them about beliefs we all had they were hungering to start. in common.”

By high school, Israel and Roddy Casale and Israel walked into were reading about the World War I-era Washington, D.C., on September 11, 2007. labor leaders who’d suffered a bloodletting to make union wages a reality.

“we were searching for ways communities could control their futures and not live in the kind of fear that we saw growing up.”

What drove one of Sacramento’s best-known activists to enlist in the Kurdish revolution?

Their imaginations soaked in the figures of songwriter Joe Hill, executed in Utah on trumped-up murder charges, or Frank Little, lynched in Montana for organizing mine workers, or Big Bill Haywood, who led a fierce resistance against strikebreaking thugs.

“They were like characters out of the West,” Roddy recalls. “Mike and I both saw a lot of poverty growing up in the hills. We started looking for different mechanisms from the past that people used to make their lives better. We were searching for ways communities could control their futures and not live in the kind of fear that we saw growing up.”

Eventually Roddy and other friends of Israel moved to Sacramento for college.

Though Israel practically lived at Roddy’s house, he seemed constantly drawn back to the backwoods bonfires and honky-tonk bars of the Gold Country. These days, Roddy isn’t surprised by Casale’s stories of his friend getting flag-waving veterans from the Rust Belt to shake hands.

“We had this joke that if anyone could turn the red counties the other red, it was Mike,” Roddy says. “He had a deep affinity for rural, working-class people. Mike could articulate a radical view of the world in a way that didn’t go against the basic values of the people living around him.”

Stree t fight Dusk falls on the Bay. The funeral procession’s string of headlights circuits into the freeway’s wider illumination as Andee Sunderland waits for what’s ahead. The Sacramento activist met Israel, fittingly enough, on May Day of 2013, when he attempted to throw a laborers’ celebration in his stubbornly anti-union hometown.

“It was kind of a miserable failure,” Sunderland offers with a smile. “But you could see how hard he was trying.”

Israel had been living on the frontlines of Occupy Sacramento. In the face of

corporate crime obliterating retirements and paralyzing the economy, crowds of demonstrators took to the streets on a scale that hadn’t been witnessed in two generations. It seemed like the moment Roddy and Israel had been waiting for.

“Mike saw Occupy as something hopeful,” Roddy observes. “It was looking for light in a world that could otherwise be very depressing.”

Sacramento City Hall wasn’t seeing that light. Then-Mayor Kevin Johnson supported police in pressing a confrontation with Occupy in October 2011. Israel was one of the 33 people arrested for refusing to leave Cesar Chavez Plaza. One of his friends in a wheelchair was even taken into custody. An effort from the city attorney to bury Occupy protesters in mounting court dates eventually took a toll.

“Once Occupy was brutally repressed by the police, there wasn’t a new movement that was cropping up that made any progress,” Sunderland says of Israel’s frustration.

Soldiering through the disenchantment, Israel helped Sunderland, Roddy and others build the Sacramento chapter of Democratic Socialists of America. During late-night barbecues, Sunderland got used to Israel’s playfulness—how he coaxed people into wrestling him or swung backyard-boxing gloves to the sound of toppling beer bottles.

Another person who cherished Israel’s upbeat energy was Jaki Montañez, who met him through online video games. One evening the two were texting and Montañez mentioned how depressed she was that her then-boyfriend was living in Utah. She was quickly shocked to find that, without saying a word, Israel had bought her a $300 train ticket to Utah.

“All he said to me was, ‘Just pay it forward,’” she recalls. “We wanted to reimburse him, but he didn’t even want us to talk about it. He just said, ‘Go enjoy yourself.’

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Friends and family of Michael Israel decorate their vehicles with pictures of his face as the funeral procession waits for his body to arrive at the San Francisco International Airport January 11.

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A leading advocate of the proposed youth department is Councilman Jay Schenirer, who contends the city neglects its young.

“We should value our young people” by ensuring all are provided opportunities to succeed, Schenirer said recently.

For every $30 spent on police and fire services from the city’s general fund, only about $1 is spent to support youth programs, including recreational activities and after-school tutoring, he said.

He has called for an infrastructure to better deliver youth services — many were reduced during the recession — along with the metrics to measure success. The new department may eventually oversee Mayor Darrell Steinberg’s endeavor to provide paid year-round internships for at least half of the city’s high school seniors.

That plan currently has $1.9 million in state/city start-up funds, enough for around 1,500 interns, with more monies being sought.

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Thao campaigned for Measures Y and G, which would have generated new taxes to fund local youth services. Both were narrowly rejected by voters last year, much to the dismay of Thao, who championed both through the local chapter of the East Bay Asian Youth Center.

Besides matching a $950,000 state grant for internships, the City Council requested a youth department blueprint for discussion on April 18. The template will be crafted by a multisector team led by Claudia Jasin, a consultant working for the city.

Shaping a new governmental department is a first for Jasin, a Harvard-educated youth development expert.

From left, Youth Development Expert Claudia Jasin, Luther Burbank Senior Cheng Thao and Councilmember Jay Schenirer. Thao recently spoke during a City Council meeting in favor of creating a new youth services department, an idea supported by Schenirer. Photo by Edgar Sanchez

“I’m going to rely on a lot of expertise inside and outside of City Hall to make this happen,” said Jasin, whose position was recently funded by a grant from The California Endowment.

The city hasn’t created a new department since the 1993-94 fiscal year, when Neighborhood Services opened. Schenirer expressed confidence the youth department (its exact name to be determined) can open July 1.

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“a death in syria” continued from page 15 It was the most selfless thing anyone had It was a rare proposition for a 25-year-old.

Israel worked hard at the job. He was ever done for me.”

Montañez began hanging out with Israel on a mission to be a strong voice for union and realized the gesture wasn’t a one-off. employees. And then, four months in, he When she was in bed for weeks with laryngiunexpectedly quit. One person who wasn’t tis she suddenly found a giant lavender plant surprised was Sunderland, who knew Israel on her porch, followed by a text from Israel was coming to view SEIU as overly strucexplaining how to use its petals to make a tured and too self-serving.

Wilinsky also agrees the job wasn’t tea for her throat. On another occasion, she a great fit for someone as hard-charging mentioned that her mom was feeling down as Israel. on Mother’s Day, prompting Israel to send “I think Mike felt like he woke up in a the matriarch a big bouquet of flowers.

“He did so many things like that,” bureaucratic experiment where someone Montañez says. keeps turning the heat up on a frog until it boils, without it ever knowing what was Friends like Montañez and Sunderland happening,” Wilinisky reflects. “What he were the first to notice a growing restlessness in Israel. At the height of Sacramento’s found out about that job is that progress is Occupy movement, he’d become friends extremely slow—and it’s a pretty faceless with an older woman experiencing homeapproach to reform.” lessness. When she died on the streets, it was a gnawing revelation.

“One night Mike was driving home Last fLight to and he started seeing her appear to him,” Rojava Sunderland remembers. “He’d always Holding a grenade in his hand, Israel seemed kind of haunted to me. … I think approached the darkened doorway. Hours during Occupy he was really affected by before, he’d left some pebbles balanced over the terrible things going on in the world.” a piece of sheet metal as a makeshift motion For Israel, the decimation of America’s detector near the bottom of the stairs. working class was among those disturbHe and other members of his unit were ing realities. When he and Roddy learned on a rooftop, waiting to ambush ISIS fighters sawmill workers in Jackson were on strike, who might cross below in the night. The they volunteered for the picket line. Union last thing they wanted organizer Jimmy was for one of the Laughton was so jihadis to sneak up on impressed by Israel’s their group. Looking tactical thinking out at Syria’s evening around labor initiatives shadows, they had that, in early 2013, he suddenly heard the drafted him into a terrible spit of pebbles more intense melee. sliding on metal. Who Workers for the county was coming up the of Amador were stairs? considering a vote to Very likely, Israel decertify their union. thought, the same kind In a county where of men who’d left few jobs pay a livable Steve WilinSky that children’s room wage, much was on retired union organizer for him to find near the line. Laughton the Euphrates, with and longtime union its cradle smeared in representative Steve dried blood and its Wilinksy asked Israel floor strewn with clumps of hair clinging to reach out to the younger employees. to putrid flesh.

They soon saw the makings of a brilliant Israel took another step with the grenade, organizer. his friend following with an AK-47. His “Mike wasn’t just trying to get the workheart pounded inside his chest. And then ers to vote a certain way,” Wilinsky says. it emerged from the blackness—a tiny, “What he really cared about was rebuilding orphaned kitten. a union that was worth their support.”

If only every night could have ended The county workers decided not to decerthat way. tify, which led to the Service Employees Now, a group of Kurdish men lift International Union offering Israel a fullIsrael’s coffin from the hearse as shadows time position as a representative. Good pay. turn through a business park in Lodi. More Excellent benefits. Lifetime employment.

“What he really cared about was rebuilding a union that was worth their support.”

syRian KuRds’ fight foR fReedom: a timeLine Spring 2004 Kurdish youth in Syria take part in protests for selfdetermination in the northeastern city of Qamishli. The YPG, or People’s Protection Unit, is soon formed by leftist Kurds to defend protesters and activists.

Summer 2011 Civil war erupts in Syria in the wake of the Arab Spring.

Summer 2012 Fierce fighting across the country compels Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad’s security forces to withdraw from Kurdish-majority areas, including Rojava.

Spring 2014 Kurds living in Rojava declare themselves independent and establish a new direct-participation government based on wealth equality, gender equality and environmental protection. The YPG is its defense force.

Fall 2014 to Spring 2015 YPG protects Rojava from attacks by the Islamic State, defeating the jihadis and forcing them out of Kobani Canton.

Summer 2015 Michael Israel arrives in Rojava to join the YPG as it fights ISIS militants in different parts of the region. At least 100 volunteers from the United States, Britain, Ireland, Germany, France and other nations do the same.

Winter 2015 Israel returns to California and begins spending time with its Kurdish residents at their center in the Bay Area.

Summer 2016 Israel returns to fight with the YPG in Rojava against ISIS factions holding out in the region.

Winter 2016 Israel and German YPG volunteer Anton Neshek are killed by Turkish air force pilots north of Raqqa, Syria, after the warplanes reportedly targeted Syrian Kurds.

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“a death in syria” continued from page 17 than 50 men, women and children from their ISIS are mired in a multifront war for their community look on in silence. independence, as well as for the quickly fleeting hope of all of Syria.

Montañez watches this scene, one that she wouldn’t have envisioned in 2015, when By the time Israel’s family and friends Israel called her and asked to meet. discovered he’d joined the Kurdish YPG, or People’s Protection Unit, to defend Rojava, “He said, ‘I have to tell you something really important,’” she recalls, “‘It’s going to he was already in the thick of the fighting. change my life.’” Montanez sat in disbelief Israel later described what he’d walked as Israel revealed he was leaving for Syria, into in a correspondence with Amador where upward of 500,000 people have been County writer Eric Winslow. killed and millions have been displaced by a “I’ve seen old Kurdish men put on 6-year-old civil war between an oppressive uniforms and pick up rifles because their Assad regime and a fragmented constellachildren had been killed,” Israel wrote. “I’ve known Arab fighters in the YPG who had tion of rebel groups. He ultimately talked scars on their backs from being whipped, his stunned friend into driving him to the airport. She was the only person he told. or have had fingers cut off, from when When Roddy figured it out, the whole ISIS conquered their villages. … I’ve seen frightening picture came into focus. entire villages and city neighborhoods left as rubble—the mass grave of the young In 2012 Israel met Delmer Berg, one of the last living survivors of the Abraham women of a village who were executed for Lincoln Brigade, a refusing to become the brides of ISIS fighters.” volunteer force of Americans that fought In the middle of the in the Spanish Civil smoke and blood, Israel War. For Israel, meetdecided the dream of ing Berg brought a Rojava was real. He was legacy of resistance to especially impressed by life. Later, when Berg the region’s women, passed away, Israel who’d formed their expressed his feelings own fighting unit to in a social media post. battle alongside the “RIP Del,” Israel YPG. The YPJ has wrote. “You are history. liberated numerous You are legend.” female slaves of ISIS. Jaki Montañez Decades later, On an evening in Friend international fighting mid-November 2015, forces like the Abraham Roddy was hostLincoln Brigade had ing a celebration in come back in fashion in the chaos of Syria’s Sacramento for the anniversary of Joe Hill’s civil war. A group of long-repressed Kurds death when Israel suddenly appeared.

“Everybody just rushed up to hug him,” in Rojava started a new community based Roddy says. “He’d disappeared for some on treating men and women as equals and sharing wealth among all people. For leftists, time on the front, and there was a lot of the news was sharply tempered by knowing worry that he had died.” the community was under threat from the Israel didn’t talk much about the mineIslamic State. New international brigades fields he’d run through, or the IED victims were being formed to protect Rojava. And with missing arms and legs, or putting rotten not just from ISIS, which approached the bread in his mouth when he hadn’t eaten for chaos in Syria as an opportunity to erect their days. His memories of Rojava focused on distorted version of a caliphate. According the hospitality of its people, the “amazing” and “ferocious” armed women who refused to the German humanitarian group Cadus, which has provided aid in the Kurdishto be possessions, the amber glow of its governed parts of northern Syria, the area sunsets over the desert, drinking tea while watching scorpions, spiders and mantises has been tattered by Syrian and Russian air fight under his flashlight. forces, as well as the Turkish government to the north, which fears an independent “After he came back, anytime he referred Kurdish state. to the Kurds, it was as ‘us,’” Montañez In the past two years, Cadus says says. “I think maybe he’d found a sense those competing interests have deliberof belonging.” ately shelled hospitals and blocked entry Israel began spending time at the of humanitarian aid, which means the California Kurdish Community Center Kurdish militias that U.S. forces regard near San Francisco. He was asked to be as some of the most capable in combating an honored speaker at one of its cultural

Michael Israel and Ashley Casale during their 2007 march for peace. The two crossed the entire country, mostly by themselves.

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“after he came back, anytime he referred to the Kurds, it was as ‘us.’”

What Was the abraham Linc oLn briga de?

In 1936, 3,000 American leftists volunteered to fight for the democratically elected government of Spain, which was under attack by a fascist army supported by Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. With the Western powers staying neutral, Spain’s capital found support from idealists from the United States and Europe who were willing to die to defend its socialist mandate.

They were dubbed the International Brigades. The American division was the Abraham Lincoln unit. The fascists proved victorious, but the battles the international brigades took part in lived on with glory in leftist culture.

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“The only thing Mike knew how to do was to try to do everything.”

Michael Israel, center rear, with David Roddy to his right and Andee Sunderland to his left.

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Michael Israel saw the Occupy Sacramento movement as a chance for change and was one of 33 people arrested in October 2011 for refusing to leave one of its peaceful protests.

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festivals. Holding a microphone, he tried to put his feelings about Rojava into words.

“I’m not a great speaker,” he managed. “I’m not sure what to say, but it was a powerful experience.”

What was that experience? Israel’s writings suggest that in this corner of Syria he’d found a people lacking the luxury and comfort of the modern world, who were seizing on freedom to rebuild their society from the ground up. It was the best chance he’d ever seen for basic fairness and human dignity.

And then there was Israel’s own country.

He’d returned home in time to see Donald Trump take control of the Republican Party on a platform that was against everything he believed in. In March 2016, Israel learned that a planning commissioner in Calaveras County, near where he’d grown up, had called Mexican immigrants “an invasive species.” Israel appeared in front of the Calaveras County Board of Supervisors the following week for public comment.

“When I speak to my friends [in Rojava], they say, ‘Surely your community in America is not going to tolerate that,’” Israel told the supervisors. “For me, coming home the last few months, this is shameful.”

By June, white separatists were holding a political demonstration at the state Capitol.

Israel showed up to counterprotest, looking on stone-faced as skinheads clashed with the crowd, sending seven people to the hospital with stab wounds.

Two months later, Israel asked Sunderland for a ride to the airport. She felt her heart drop in her stomach. Panicked, she called Roddy, who rushed over to see his friend. Israel had made up his mind.

Several weeks later, Israel had an internet connection in Rojava and left a post on Facebook. He offered a photo of saffron grass and granite rocks running down a mount, rolling through thin cypresses and olive trees to the edge of mud huts under a gleaming sky.

“Someday my wish will be granted and I’ll join a village like this,” Israel wrote, “and spend my days chasing sheep across Syria’s hills with my sheep-chasing stick and a tea kettle.”

And then came the silence.

On the last week of November, Montañez was scrolling through Facebook and noticed a photograph of Israel with a long message written in Kurdish. She could barely breath.

She didn’t bother translating it. She just sank to the floor.

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Michael Israel, left, in the middle of a war zone in Syria, embraces a fellow volunteer for the People’s Protection Unit.

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By that evening, Roddy, Sunderland and a handful of Israel’s friends were sitting in a Midtown bar, hammering shots of whiskey as they cried at their table.

Casale, on the other side of the country, kept trying to tell herself it was someone else lying in the rubble.

In the coming days, the story slowly emerged from YPG reports. Turkish fighter jets continued to target not only ISIS militants in northern Syria, but also the very Kurdish units who were beating them back. Israel, along with a German YPG volunteer, was killed in an airstrike. A Voice of America story classified Israel as “an extremist.” The 24-hour news cycle began referring to him as “an anarchist” rather than a democratic socialist. Journalists from national newspapers commented that his death seemed “random.”

Within days the story faded altogether.

Few in the media attempted to write the simplest truth about Israel—that he believed in a better world, and that the further his own country gave into cynicism and indifference, the further he walked into a crucible of violence where he could keep his own hope alive.

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Those who loved him keep asking themselves why no one tells that story. The more they settle on an answer, the more they wonder what it says about the rest of us.

“David and I used to worry a lot about how much Mike was extending himself to people who were struggling—it always seemed like he never got enough sleep,” Sunderland observes. “When he came back from Rojava the first time, it seemed like he had a clarity of purpose, but it also didn’t seem like he was really back.”

Montañez has similar flashbacks from her own final conversations with Israel. “I believe there was just an inner rage inside him that our country wasn’t doing anything,” she says. “The only thing Mike knew how to do was to try to do everything.”

Today, when Roddy is asked what America looked like to Israel on the hour he walked away from it, the answer is strangled off by unexpected tears. “I think,” he begins, fighting through a breath. “I think things I’m not going to say.” A few seconds later, he adds, “I think in Rojava Mike saw the kind of future he could be content to die in.

I know it’s weird, because it’s the bloodiest civil war on Earth, but that’s where he finally found peace.” ❑

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or the last 27 years, interior designer Catherine Reon has luxuriated in hot springs and cultural bathhouses from Austria to Calistoga—taking a break from the ritual only while she was pregnant. So when business owner Cori Martinez commissioned an interior designer for Asha Urban Baths, Reon took the lead, drawing the blueprints for the ideal space to practice her favorite hobby.

“It’s just an incredible way to get completely centered and relaxed,” said Reon, co-owner of CRKW Studio. “To me, it’s a requirement of sanity. Taking nine months off of soaking two times was a big deal.”

Admittedly, spending hours in warm water can seem a bit kooky. Asha fits into a nationwide wellness trend: Businesses like yoga studios or meditation retreats purport to increase mindfulness and soothe stress, an

ailment as vague as it is recurring—and, therefore, profitable. Soaking may also feel a bit ineffective or self-indulgent as a solution, considering the fresh crop of horrors scrolling through our screens everyday.

But Martinez said she opened the bathhouse because she believes the ancient practice uniquely combats modern pressures. She first started soaking in college with a friend at a three-story health club where the two used only the sauna, steam room, cold pool and jacuzzi.

Now, she’s recreated that experience in a reclaimed brick building and offers access for only $25 per visit.

In our political climate, the demand for de-stressing and self-care has been notably high. After opening in November, Asha attracted 400 new guests in its first month. They doled out dozens of gift certificates during the holidays, established a core base of regulars and welcomed 450 additional guests in January.

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notes that the plunge reboots the parasympathetic nervous system, responsible for unconscious or “rest-and-digest” activities.

Asha is Sacramento’s addition to the bathhouse scene that’s popped up recently in trendy cities like Seattle and Portland, but has existed in New York and San Francisco for decades. By blending cultural influences, mandating swimsuits and banning PDA, Martinez has crafted an Mindfulness has become more integral to health now that entirely new model that bucks some underlying misconhumans are tethered to “these mini-computers that are ceptions about bathhouses. beeping every few minutes,” McMahon said. She said that “We are not a gay sex club,” she said with a laugh. the constant interruptions from messages, social media Asha’s model is distinctly American. The exposed and second-by-second news trigger our nervous systems’ brick and wooden beams cultivate a reclaimed warehouse flight-or-fight response, keeping us on unnecessarily high vibe similar to Sacramento’s hipper spots to eat and alert throughout the day. drink. And that’s how Martinez wants her customers to “We go into sensory overload,” she said. “It’s too much see Asha—not as some super-luxurious bi-yearly treat, for the system. Just like with the computer, you have to but as a meeting place that’s recharge it, reboot it. If you cost-comparable to purchasing use it too much, there’s going a couple of rounds. to be burnout.”

Culturally, she wants On the day-to-day to balance a few styles. level, McMahon feels Borrowing from the Kabuki “people have forgotten Springs & Spa in San how to relax.” Workers Francisco, her warm pool log long, hard hours, then forsakes jets for calm waters, take breaks by checking but she allows quiet conversasocial media, which only tions as opposed to the maintains the feeling Kabuki’s code of silence. of being on high alert “In Japanese tradition you and produces unhealthy tend to be very, very quiet,” results. Perhaps the most she said. “Whereas in Russian extreme case is blogger culture, you can be playing Andrew Sullivan, who chess or having business quit media after getting meetings. In Korean culture, four bronchial infections your whole family could be in a year, partially due to there and kids could be running spending his life online, around. We’re trying to find a updating his blog every middle ground.” half-hour, all day, every Like all bathhouses, day, for nearly a decade. there’s a ritual. Guests “We as a busy society Dr. Marla McMahon change into swim trunks in don’t stop and just Psychologist locker rooms, rinse body oils breathe,” she said. “Asha off with a shower and choose is great for that.” Inside either the sauna or the steam the bathhouse and beyond, room. Then they take another McMahon recommends a free method: Take three to shower to rinse off the sweat, dip in the colder-than-itfive minutes every hour to notice your breath. sounds 58-degree pool and finish with a soak in the still, At Asha, to keep things relatively affordable, Martinez warm waters. They can repeat and mix-and-match as doesn’t offer plush white robes, ritzy lotions or other pricey much as they like. accessories. Guests must bring their own suits and are Each step reinforces the others. The hot rooms help encouraged to bring their own towels, and that’s all they guests sweat out toxins, the warm pool soothes aches and need to soothe themselves at the baths. encourages relaxation, and the cold pool improves circula“It’s about indulging in the simplicity,” she said. “It’s tion, reduces muscle inflammation and sends a jolt through down-to-earth.” the entire sensory system.

Martinez echoes Dr. McMahon’s calls for unplugging, “If all you do is the hot stuff, you can leave a little adding that relaxation doesn’t need to be about binging lethargic or drained,” Martinez said. “But adding the on cheap pleasures or medicating with prescriptions, element of the cold plunge is going to balance out the alcohol or other drugs. If we can disconnect from the overall experience, so you leave enlivened, but still calm.” unnatural postures and states-of-minds encouraged by the Reon, who has a Japanese soaking tub in her home, digital age, then perhaps all we need to reboot is a little prefers warmth, calling herself a “turkey” when it comes time, space and water. to cold-plunging. She can count the amount of times she’s “Maybe one day we will evolve to sit in a desk all day,” done it on one hand. But Dr. Marla McMahon, a psycholoshe said. “But we haven’t … yet.” Ω gist, instructor of yoga and meditation and Asha frequenter,

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You can soak and steam at Asha Urban Baths (2415 27th Street) from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday. Call ahead if you roll deep with five people or more: (916) 837-3290.

The right to play John Downs is no stranger to busking in Sacramento. From 2005 to 2011, he and a group of friends performed as The Hellouts, a rogue bluegrass band that would pop up on sidewalks, restaurants or in bars—“basically any place with a patio we could sneak the contra bass into,” Downs says. The Hellouts got away with their sneak-attack performances by taking advantage of a little known city code loophole allowing for “incidental music.” If the music wasn’t advertised beforehand, The Hellouts could legally play just about anywhere without a permit—though it’s not always that simple.

Around 30 people gathered in the Warehouse Artists Lofts community room last Wednesday for an ad hoc committee meeting on busking led by David Sobon, a commissioner with the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Council. The goal: to help the city create guidelines for busking based on artists’ suggestions and concerns. Sobon revealed: “There is no busking ordinance in Sacramento.” That means buskers aren’t shut down in Sacramento purely for the act of performing, but because of a whole list of city code restrictions that seem to disallow just about everything a busker would wish to do.

Frank Lopes was one of many who spoke up about their troubles while busking Christina Marie in Sacramento. A professional Capitol Indie Collective musician who performs under the name Hobo Johnson, he’d been shut down for performing on K Street without receiving any adequate explanation, he says.

Lopes may have gotten the boot because K Street has its own set of public-space usage rules that likewise apply to many pedestrian malls in the city, said Dion Dwyer, the director of community services for the Downtown Sacramento Partnership. In high-foot-traffic areas, buskers are often not allowed to perform because they’re considered impediments, despite being in the very zones that the city wants to instill with a vibrant sense of urban life.

Sacramento’s barriers to busking are problematically cultural, said Christina Marie of Capitol Indie Collective.

The city is famous for shutting down early, “and then the attitude is, ‘Get off my sidewalk,’” she says. Dwyer agreed, saying Sacramento should look at cities like Austin that are leaders in live music. There, noise complaints can’t be made until midnight. In Sacramento, anyone can make a report at any time for noises even quieter than ambient traffic sounds.

Recommendations from this meeting and others are being used to help shape the city’s policy going forward. The next public discussion will be held at 6 p.m. Monday, March 13, at E. Claire Raley Studios for the Performing Arts (2420 N Street) to take further questions and comments on Sacramento’s busking future.

At the end of last week’s event, many attendees expressed concern that the city would be adding regulations for buskers rather than breaking down the barriers that are already in place. Instead, transparency regarding what is and isn’t allowed would help to create the vibrancy that the city wants to foster—and that artists are eager to supply.

“The attitude is ‘get off my sidewalk.’”

—Julianna Boggs

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“We Three” by Adam Wever-Glen, oil on panel.

All of those things at once Sometimes they are exquisitely rendered portraits, and sometimes they are cartoonish with doodles on top. And sometimes Adam Wever-Glen’s paintings are all of those things on one canvas.

The Sacramento artist mixes his refined figurative work with electric squiggles and smiley faces plastered on clouds or masks; childlike flat-perspective houses and luscious, swirling, classic Wayne Thiebaud-style impasto in his body of work currently up at WAL Public Market Gallery. Wever-Glen may be PAintingS exploring different techniques and styles, but the outcome is reliably intriguing and well-executed.

He shows with Bekah Wilson Smith’s mixed media works, which explore personal and collective memories in relation to capitalism, in Temporary Destinations.

Where: WAL Public Market Gallery,1104 R Street; http://walpublicmarket.com.

Hours: Monday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Through May 3.

“American Women” by Sara Friedlander, mixed media photography.

Your grandma’s an immigrant March is National Women’s History Month, and Viewpoint Photographic Art Center curated this month’s show of women to coincide with it. But the timeliness of the subject of immigration in Sara Friedlander’s Birds of Im/Migration—well, that’s always been relevant. The spotlight on immigration right now is PHotogrAPHY brighter than it has been for a while, and as a country, we have a long history of discriminating the group du jour. Friedlander’s work, however, mixes photographs of women from the early 1900s with her own landscape photography and paint for a three-dimensional display to honor those women who left everything behind to build a better life—I think that’s called the American spirit.

Also showing in the gallery this month are works by Jan Cordova Manzi and Kendall Isotalo.

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

Second Saturday reception: March 4, 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Through March 11.

Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, noon to 5 p.m.

Cellophane, cellphone If one is too engrossed at looking at the smartphone in the palm of their hand as they walk by the house on the corner of 21st and I streets, they might have missed life imitating art imitating life. The current installation by Melody Molina and Travis Bethmann at the InsideOut—the alternative window-display art space of the antique three-story residence inStAllAtion in Midtown known as the Flop Haus—consists of three human figures made of transparent plastic, two of which are hollow and have faces that are fused to the glowing distraction of their phones. The third middle figure, which has wires bursting from its head and body and a glowing red heart, looks directly at the viewer with one hand raised to the glass to make human connection and break free of the addictive grip of technology. “Just look at any group of people sitting silently next to each other, completely absorbed into their phones and disregarding the very presence of anyone else,” Molina said. But you’re going to have to look up away from your phone to notice.

Where: The InsideOut, 21st and I streets; www.the-insideout.org.

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

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

13 LITTLE RELICS 908 21st St.,

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

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

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

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

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

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

7 ELLIOTT FOUTS GALLERY 1831 P St.,

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

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

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

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

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

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

19 SPARROW GALLERY 2418 K St., (916) 382-4894, www.sparrowgallery. squarespace.com

(916) 247-8048, www.timcollomgallery.com

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

22 University Art 2601 J St., www.universityart.com

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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s another Second Saturday approaches, you may be reading up on the latest exhibits, mapping out your walk or just planning to go to whichever gallery stocks the best free snacks. For a change of pace, here’s an idea: Instead of just looking at art this week, why not try your hand at actually creating something as well?

On Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Verge Center for the Arts (625 S Street) hosts its Clay Drop-in Studio, where you can learn the basics of sculpting and pottery. It costs $15 for members and $25 for nonmembers for the initial 10 pounds of clay, plus extra for glazing and firing. And on this particular Saturday, March 11, Verge will also host a tie-Dye for Adults class from 2 p.m. to

4 p.m. Twist and dye the supplied white T-shirts, socks and scarves into a hippie’s dream while old cartoons play in the background. The nostalgic afternoon costs $15 for members and $25 for nonmembers. Check out the rest of Verge’s events at www.vergeart.com.

Hacker Lab’s calendar is full of cool classes, some of which are geared toward beginners. On Tuesday, March 14, there are two such classes from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Rocklin location (4415 Granite Drive): Basic Sewing 101 and intro to 3-D Printing and rapid Prototyping. Both cost $40, but you should check out all of your options at http://hackerlab.org.

Looking ahead: From Thursday, March 16, through Saturday, March 18, the Quilt, Craft

& Sewing Festival takes over Cal Expo (1600 Exposition Boulevard). In addition to exhibits from loads of needle art supply companies, seminars and hands-on workshops offer the chance to take home whatever you make.

Last year’s expo included classes on Japanese braiding and embellishing fabric postcards, for example. A $10 ticket gets you access to all three days. More at http://quiltcraftsew.com.

And if you’re creatively shy, there’s always Paint nite, the informal painting classes held multiple nights a week in bars. (Read: Booze gets the artistic juices flowing.) Instructions and supplies will run you $45. For the full schedule, visit www.paintnite.com.

—JAnelle BiTkeR

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ArtMix: Vintage Swank THURSDAY, MARCH 9 With cellist Unwoman, a local cabaret troupe and circus performers, this edition of ArtMix promises to be a wild night. If you loved ArtMix: Vaudeville, definitely check out this party, as it’s also co-proPArty duced by the same fine folks at TUBE Magazine. Per usual, come early and take advantage of happy hour from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. to fully relish in the sights and sounds. $10; 5 p.m. at the Crocker Art Museum, 216 O Street; www.crockerart.org.

—JAnelle BiTkeR

Soirée Cinéma: Les noces de papier FRiDAY, MARCH 10 Join the Sacramento French Alliance for an evening of film, food and Francophiles. You don’t have to speak the language to enjoy this romantic comedy: Love is a universal language. Oh, and it’s subtitled in English. Be sure to contact the alliance first CuLture to ensure seating will be available. Free; 7 p.m. at Alliance Française de Sacramento, 2420 N Street; www.afsacramento.org.

—loRY Gil

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Fun is the name of the game at this festive marathon. Unlike other grueling marathons that can span up to 50 kilometers, this gathering is only 4 and is sure MArAthon to leave smiles on all competitors’ faces. Come dressed in clothes you can afford to ditch afterward as you’ll be blasted with random colors at several different stations along the course. $65; 9 a.m., at Gibson Ranch Park, 8556 Gibson Ranch Road in Elverta; www .thecolorvibe.com/sacramento.php.

—eDDie JoRGenSen

Local mother and daughter poetry team Staajabu and Dr. V.S. Chochezi have co-authored seven poetry anthologies as well as several spoken-word CDs. Their latest book, Caledonia’s Daughters, is about “interplanetary black women in the future.” At the launch, they’ll read poems and stories from the book, and speak on different topics related to publishing. Free; 3 p.m.

LiterAture at the GOS Art Gallery Studio, 1825 Del Paso Boulevard, Suite 2; www.straightoutscribes.com.

—AARon CARneS

WeDneSDAY, MARCH 15 The only parasites most of us hear about at the local pub are exes. Not so this week. Grab a cold one with Sac Science Distilled this Wednesday and chat with Dr. Lauren Camp and Hung Doan of UC Davis, experts SCienCe in the wonderful world of plant and animal parasites. Maybe we’ll all finally learn what the hell a nematode is. Free; 6 p.m. at Streets Pub & Grub, 1804 J Street; www .facebook.com/sacsciencedistilled.

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Grow up ADult VegAn grilleD cheese, pushkin’s restAurAnt Some like to complain that adulting is hard, but unless we’re talking death, life insurance or taxes, it’s actually pretty fun.

Proof: Pushkin’s Restaurant’s Adult Vegan Grilled Cheese sandwich ($11). Served on thick wedges of glutenfree bread, this decidedly grown-up sandwich is piled high with spinach, rich and spicy pesto, tomato and a buttery cashew cheese. Paired with a small side of zingy tomato soup, it makes for a filling, sophisticated lunch. 1813 Capitol Avenue; http://pushkinskitchen.com.

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Miguel Hinojosa just purchased the craft beer bar Alley Katz, renamed it the Bunker Bar & Grill (2019 O Street) and gave it an interior makeover to honor fellow service members. His tribute goes beyond what’s hanging on the walls. At the grand opening on March 3, he partnered with the charity Go Give 2 Live to raise money for veterans’ PTSD treatments.

Hinojosa spruced up the bar with flags, uniforms and regalia that honor not only the four branches of the military, but also firefighters and police officers. After his service, Hinojosa himself became a police officer in Stockton before retiring and bringing those skills to the hospitality industry.

His journey into the nightlife biz started while on tours of duty

in Panama and Okinawa, Japan.

Hinojosa used to spend his downtime in local bars and grills, when he dreamed about running his own.

One day, he asked a bartender if they had anything new. He got served his first IPA. “My first reaction was, ‘Oh, my God, this is horrible,’” he said. “Now, I’ve developed a taste for hops.”

Hinojosa plans to use the Bunker’s 60 spouts in the back room to pour strictly local beers, which, considering the proliferation of Sacramento-area breweries, he figures he’ll have “no problem” keeping stocked.

He will add wings, a couple of “ginormous” burgers and a chipotle-chicken pasta to the menu.

Besides that, things should remain relatively the same. He’ll still serve craft beer from its stocked fridge and 80 taps.

Going forward, Hinojosa plans to offer a roughly 20 percent discount to all service members.

Debut slice: To celebrate the opening of a new location in the Milagro Centre (6241 Fair Oaks Boulevard in Carmichael), Fish Face Poke Bar founder and chef Billy Ngo filleted an 80-pound tuna on March 1 to demonstrate the knife skills that provide the raw fish for the restaurant’s poke and salads.

Restaurant manager Paul Rodriguez said the speedy chef broke the fish down in “like five minutes.”

Farm-to-beach: Local pear and cherry farm Steamboat Acres will use parts of its 10-acre vegetable garden to provide for its new restaurant, Steamboat Landing (12414 State Highway 160) in Courtland, which will open in April.

The Landing will be housed in a renovated building where a same-named establishment went out of business 20 years ago.

The seasonal menu will include sandwiches, rotisserie chicken and Kansas City-style barbecue. Guests will have access to Steamboat Acres’ private beach (with a $5 entry fee) and 200-foot boat dock. Ω

Those stalking the Grocery Outlet wine aisle this week will be glad to find a bold Aussie shiraz. The Street Cred 2013 McLaren Vale Shiraz ($5) hails from south Australia’s Kangarilla Road winery. A deep garnet red, this wine packs aromas of jammy blackberry, blackcurrant and hints of vanilla bean. Dark cherry flavors and hints of licorice bring forth medium tannins that take a lingering ride on the palate. This daring red from Down Under will pair well with a drunken round of juicy Aussie beef burgers. 1700 Capitol Avenue, www.kangarillaroad.com.au

—DAVe keMpA

Spring spears AspArAgus It may still be full-on winter elsewhere, but here in Northern California, it’s spring. You can tell because the first local asparagus of the season is in the markets.

They’re the thinnest of tender stalks right now, just perfect for a brief kiss of heat and some lemon and butter.

Asparagus is native to the Mediterranean, so it’s no wonder the plant enjoys our similar climate. While you’ll find mostly green spears locally, there may be some purple and white varieties on offer. The white are simply deprived of light, giving them a more delicate flavor.

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Beyond your bubble Mediterranean Bakery and Cuisine

cinnamon and shaped into little footballs. Fried to a deep brown, they ooze meaty juices. Temper their richness with the slivers of pickles and onions served alongside the dish.

1547 Fulton Avenue, (916) 333-5788 The falafel ($2.69 for six pieces) also show the Dinner for one: $5 - $10 kitchen’s skill. Without any of the dryness or nubby Good for: Mediterranean baked goods, Lebanese food bits that mar some versions, these are exceptional.

Notable dishes: shawarma, kibbeh, baba ganoush They come with a light tahini dip and more of those slivered pickles.

A variety of inexpensive breads are made in house. Manakish za’atar ($1.39) and lahmajoun ($1.89) look like mini-pizzas, with a thick layer of Most of us tend to live in a bubble. Whether we fragrant za’atar for the former—made of fresh thyme, mean to or not, we find our comfort zones and don’t sesame seeds, lemony sumac and olive oil. stray far from them. That’s especially true for food.

Ground spiced meat tops the lahmajoun, but it’s But step outside of your go-to meals, and you best eaten while it’s hot. The flavor suffered as the expose yourself to a multitude of new flavors bread cooled. and cultures. My life is vastly richer for the many The cheese pies ($1.89 each) also impressed. immigrants who bring their culinary traditions to Topped with sheep’s milk cheese mixed with mint, it Sacramento. made for a distinctive flavor combination.

So I’m surprised I’d never found the Shawarma is one of the best items on offer and Mediterranean Bakery grocery store before now. It’s very popular. Mediterranean Bakery sells about been in Arden-Arcade for 18 years, an indispens80 pounds by mid-afternoon, and then another 40 able trove of Middle Eastern ingredients. In pounds at night.

October 2015, they opened a restaurant in The juicy beef shawarma sandwich the spot next door. ($5.99) comes on diamond-shaped The brightly lit space consists samoon bread flecked with sesame mostly of a kitchen with large ovens seeds. Stuffed with meat, onions, Support the and shawarma spits. Order at the pickles, tomatoes and tahini, it’s a counter from the ever-changing melting pot that is completely satisfying meal. large-screen menu above.

You can also order the Sacramento.

For starters, the silken hummus shawarma meat as a platter with rice ($2.99) and baba ganoush ($3.49) ($9.99) and by the pound. are both liberally garnished with green Mediterranean Bakery offers three olive oil and ground sumac. They come kinds of jewel-toned fresh juice drinks with thick wedges of freshly baked bread daily ($2.99). It often has a Lebanese-style and look fairly similar. But taste them and the lemonade with mint and serves an enjoyable sweet smokiness of the roasted eggplant clearly indicates date and rosewater combination called jallab and a the baba ganoush. strikingly red blood orangeade.

The hummus features less acid and palateMiddle Eastern desserts require a solid sweet clearing garlic than many versions, making it good tooth, and there are always several types available at on everything, but it primarily serves as a great the restaurant. One of the best was a small semolina complement to the side of pickles and olives ($2.49). cake called basbouseh ($0.75) that was soaked with You’ll also want to dip stuffed grape leaves sugar syrup and served warm. ($2.99 for 10 pieces) in the hummus. Their lemony We sampled several nut and phyllo tidbits, like rice filling remains moist without being oily and the pistachio-laded balourieh ($2.49) and a divinely bursts with fresh dill flavor. gooey baklava ($1.49) as well.

Abundant herbs also perfume the freshly made Unfortunately, the strip-mall restaurant feels Mediterranean salad ($3.49). While the winter stark, overly bright and not conducive to lingertomatoes clearly weren’t ideal, diced cucumber and ing. But it’s the menu that beckons. Eating at copious amounts of oregano and mint made for a Mediterranean Bakery and Cuisine offers the opporrefreshing combination. tunity to immerse yourself in another culture, albeit One of the real stars here is the kibbeh ($10.99 briefly. Go for the expertly prepared food, but return for six pieces), a rare treat. Bulgur wheat surrounds to support the melting pot that is Sacramento. Simply ground beef and lamb, flavored with a touch of step outside your bubble. Ω

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Center (2150 Allston Way). Tickets are free for students with an ID and $15-$25 for nonmatriculated peeps. The second opportunity is on Sunday, March 12, when one of the Conscious Eating speakers, Sandra Higgins of Eden Farmed Animal Sanctuary in Ireland, comes to El Papagayo (5804 Marconi Avenue in Carmichael) for a 5:30 p.m. dinner, followed by a talk at the Carmichael Library (5605 Marconi Avenue) at 7:30 p.m. Sounds like a weekend filled with plenty of food for thought and belly.

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Hell no: tHe Forgotten Power oF tHe vietnam PeaCe movement The late Tom Hayden has an answer for conservative attempts to recast the United States, involvement in Vietnam as a patriotic and Book worthy exercise, and it comes straight from his own history as an anti-war activist. Hell No: The Forgotten Power of the Vietnam Peace Movement (Yale University Press, $32) is part memoir, part history and part warning. The memoir portion has some regrets for things like protesters waving Viet Cong flags, as well as his own observation, during a postwar visit to Vietnam, of the same shops and chains that proliferate in America. He asks, “Why kill, maim and uproot millions of Vietnamese if the outcome was a consumer wonderland approved by the country’s still-undefeated Communist Party?” That is a very, very good question.

—kel munger

Frozen, boozy fun tHe CraFt Creamery Beer ice cream sounds like a silly gimmick, but plop a scoop of vanilla into a stout and you’ll start to understand where Jesse Sahlin was coming from when he launched the Craft Creamery last year. For Sacramento Beer Week, he collaborated with local breweries to churn out the likes of red-ale-salted caramel and imperial stout-chocolate ice creams. Try them—along with their matching brews—Thursday, March 9, at New Glory Craft Brewery (8251 Alpine Avenue); Friday, March 10, at New Helvetia FooD Brewing Co. (1730 Broadway); and Saturday, March 11, at Sactown Union Brewery (1210 66th Street, Unit B). For those more into plated desserts, check out New Glory’s event, which features downright elegant options such as pavlova layered with lemony ale-infused custard and ice cream, and orange caramel profiteroles filled with orange IPA ice cream. More at www.thecraftcreamery.com.

—Janelle Bitker

Typical St. Patrick’s Day celebrations aren’t exactly everyone’s idea of fun. Children chase and pinch each other over not wearing the “right” color to school.

You can’t go into a bar without passing a group of shouting bros.

And green beer, really?

What we all actually want to Pets do is chill out at home with a pint and our dogs. Tina Chen intuits this hidden desire. Via her business Clive & Bacon, she’s unveiled about a dozen adorable, St. Patrick’s Day-themed bandanas for your best friend. They festively proclaim things like “drinking buddy,” “Irish you were bacon” and “Lucky mutha fluffa,” and some can be custommade with your pup’s name. In Chen’s words: “Dogs are like family, and just like dressing up babies in sunglasses and headbands, bandanas are a great way to show your dog’s personality!”

Of course, there are year-round options as well, featuring fun prints, emojis and daring declarations of “Besties” status. Most bandanas are about $19, which might seem steep, but Chen makes them all by hand in Sacramento. There’s also a line of sharp bow ties and petfocused apparel for humans.

Chen started Clive & Bacon in 2015.

Her dog and the official Clive & Bacon model (pictured) is actually named Peanut, not Bacon. She has quite the Instagram following at @thenuttydoodle. Check out Clive & Bacon’s products online at www.cliveandbacon.com.

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The Tempest

A crocodile made of flags

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Matt K. Miller stars as Prospero in this lavish production of Shakespeare’s tale of political rivalry, budding young love—and magic. The language can be dense and complicated but lyrical and hypnotic, too. Th 6:30pm;

F 8pm; Sa 2pm and 8pm; Su 2pm; W 6:30pm. Through 3/19. $26-$35. Main Stage at Sacramento Theatre Company, 1419 H Street; (916) 443-6722; www.sactheatre. org. J.C.

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Peter and the Starcatcher

Young expats Zack and Abby seem to have created an ideal life— they’re a newly married young couple living in an old apartment in Paris. But from the opening scene of this play, when Abby returns home unexpectedly and finds Zack enjoying sketchy websites, you know there’s more beneath their carefully constructed surface. Directors Jouni Kirjola and Jamie Kale skillfully steer a solid four-person cast: Zachary Scovel as

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8 p.m. friday and saturday, 7 p.m. sunday; $18. Green Valley theatre company at the Grange Performing arts center, 3823 V street; www.greenvalleytheatre.com. through march 26.

The creative and imaginative staging, sets, music, costumes and cast performances of Green Valley Theatre Company’s production of Peter and the Starcatcher magically transport the audience into the enchanted world of Peter Pan, Wendy and the Lost Boys.

This Tony-winning musical gives Peter Pan a fun, whimsical back story, with inventive interpretations of the familiar characters and storylines, including why Peter Pan flies, how Wendy (renamed Molly in this story) became a feisty young lady and caretaker of the Lost Boys, how Captain Hook (renamed Black Stache) lost his hand, and how Neverland came to be.

The basic story is fun, mostly aimed at an adult audience, but the real charm of this musical is in the staging—the dozen talented cast members not only portray a number of characters, but also act as rotating narrators, background chorus members, scene shifters and actual stage props. Toy boats become embattled pirate ships, plain ropes and ladders become mirrors, boxing rings and ship corridors, and flashlights and dangling flags become a giant, menacing crocodile.

The cast works in beautiful unison, with standouts in the lead roles: Kyle C. Burrow (Peter), Ariel Ryan (Molly Aster), Victoria Timoteo (Smee) and Kevin Caravalho (Black Stache). And kudos to director Christopher Cook and his whole production team. A couple of small tweaks would make the production even more powerful: dialing down a bit on the heavy accents so the lyrics can be understood and a smidgeon on the overall campiness of the character Black Stache. Ω

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Concussed: Four Days in 4 the Dark Jack Gallagher is, first and foremost, a storyteller who can tell a sad story or a funny one and keep audiences enthralled. Concussed: Four Days in the Dark, now playing at the B Street Theatre, is funny and touching—and always entertaining.

This show’s premise derives from a concussion the comedian suffered after riding his bike when he collided with a car and hit his head.

After, Gallagher went three days with what seemed like minor symptoms before he realized things were not right. The doctor diagnosed traumatic brain injury and sent him home to lie in a darkened room for four days with no computer, no books, no TV and no music. Instead, he was instructed to allow his brain time to heal.

Out of this experience came a stream of reflections on life, love, growing older, and parenting, all told in a manner that will have you laughing one minute and wiping away tears the next. It’s a fabulous 90 minutes, performed by a consummate storyteller who knows how to work a theater in the round. Throughout the show, he kept the entire room focused on his words, never allowing anyone to see his back for more than a few seconds.

—Bev SykeS

concussed: four Days in the Dark; 8 p.m. thursday and friday, 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. saturday, 2 p.m. sunday, 6:30 p.m. tuesday, 2 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Wednesday; $25-$38. B street theatre, 2711 B street; (916) 443-5300; www.bstreettheatre.org. through april 16.

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Zack, the patient husband to an emotionally fragile wife; Nina Dramer as Abby, the needy-and-naive spouse; and Vernon Lewis and Sarina Krastev as the Parisian landlords who are dragged into the slowly escalating drama of the American couple. Th, F, Sa 8pm. Through 3/26. $12-$22.

Big Idea Theatre, 1616 Del Paso Boulevard; (916) 9603036; www.bigideatheatre. org. P.R.

This family-oriented show provides an energetic overview of the building of the Central Pacific railroad in the late 1800s, with an emphasis on laying rails from Sacramento through the Sierra. The script complements what kids usually see during a visit to the California Railroad History Museum in Old Sacramento and the action is presented in a snappy vaudeville style. The catchy music by Noah Agruss and the resourceful performance by big Rick Kleber are highlights. Sa, Su 1 pm and 4pm. Through 4/2. $18-$23. B Street Theatre, 2711 B Street; (916) 443-5300, www .bstreettheatre.org. J.H.

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Diary of Anne Frank

Making her dramatic debut, young Rachel Trauner does an excellent job bringing to life the Jewish girl whose diary became one of the best known books in the world. The story of a persecuted group hiding to prevent arrest and deportation hits a timely chord. F, Sa, 7:30pm; Su 2pm, Through 3/19. $12-$25. Woodland Opera House, 340 Second Street in Woodland; (530) 666-9617; www.woodlandoperahouse .org. B.S.

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Killer comedy Monty Navarro has everything: a loving wife, a mistress and he’s heir (OK, a distant heir) to a family fortune. And therein lies the problem. All that stands in the way of inheriting that wealth (and making his mistress very happy) is a line of eight relatives ahead of him. What to do? The answer is in the title of the latest Broadway Series show now at the Community Center Theater: A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder. It won the 2014 Tony Award for Best Musical. 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.

Thursday, March 9; 8 p.m. Friday, March 10, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday, March 11; 2 p.m. Sunday, March 12; $25-$100.

Through March 12. Community Center Theater, 1301 L Street; (916) 557-1999; www.californiamusicaltheatre.com.

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Surprises seldom come more pleasant than Table 19.

If you’ve had it up to here with wedding comedies— Wedding Crashers, The Wedding Singer, Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, etc.—here’s the movie for you. It takes all the overworked clichés of that overdone genre and turns them decisively on their heads. Every time you think you know where things are headed, the movie throws you a curve that, unexpected as it is, makes perfect sense. It has its own story arc that plays on our expectations, and it serves up a surprise every five minutes.

Anna Kendrick plays Eloise, who once upon a time was the bride’s maid of honor. Then her boyfriend Teddy (Wyatt Russell), the bride’s brother, dumped her via text two months before the wedding, and Eloise, to avoid awkwardness, withdrew as maid of honor in favor of Teddy’s new girlfriend (Amanda Crew).

We first see Eloise as she waffles over how to RSVP to the wedding she helped plan. She finally decides to go, just to prove to herself that she’s over Teddy, and she finds herself seated at the dreaded Table 19. Since she helped plan the seating arrangements, she knows what that means: This is the table “for people who didn’t have the good sense to RSVP regrets—but not before ordering something nice off the registry.”

Others at the table are Bina and Jerry Kepp (Lisa Kudrow, Craig Robinson), a squabbling married couple who were invited only because they run a diner and the bride’s father owns a chain of them; Jo Flanagan (June Squibb), the forgotten nanny of the bride and best man; Rezno Eckberg (Tony Revolori),

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whose connection to either bride or groom is never clear, but whose mother (the unseen Margo Martindale, her voice heard only on Rezno’s cell phone, hectoring him on) figured he’d have a better chance finding a girl here than at his junior prom; and Walter Thimple (Stephen Merchant), who is clearly unwelcome—the bride’s father barks at him, “What are you doing here? I thought they wouldn’t let you travel out of state.”

Meanwhile, Teddy is similarly belligerent toward Eloise, certain she’s only there to make a scene and ruin the big day for everyone. And Eloise meets a handsome stranger who claims his name is Huck (Thomas Coquerel); he catches her staring at Teddy and admonishes her, “You shouldn’t look at someone that long unless they’re looking back.” After one dance, Eloise plants a long kiss on Huck; is it just to get to Teddy, or is something really happening here?

Written and directed by Jeffrey Blitz (from a story by Jay and Mark Duplass), Table 19 has a lurching sweetness that could seem off-putting or amateurish. For that matter, maybe it is—but in the present context it neatly suits this gangling gaggle of nuptial misfits. The movie makes us feel like the exiles at that table: We may squirm through some awkward moments, but in the end we’re really glad we came. Ω

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Bitter Harvest

TV movie veteran George Mendeluk directs this would-be epic set during the Holodomor, a largely unknown genocidal famine that occurred in Ukraine between the world wars, as Stalin deliberately starved the country to death. Unfortunately, the stiff performances, slipshod production values and overall incompetence hardly serve the gravity of the real-life events. It seems like Mendeluk and his writer Richard Bachynsky Hoover were striving for something sweeping and old-fashioned, but the end result is claustrophobic and comically out-of-touch. The supporting cast mixes abashed slummers like Barry Peppers and Terence Stamp with equally abashed no-names, and as the wishy-washy protagonist who learns to love the saber, 30-something “adolescent” Max Irons gives a performance that can only be described as bad. Although there have been three previous films with the same title, this Bitter Harvest is an original story based on real-life events, so at least no beloved source materials were blasphemed. D.B.

Get Out

It was only a matter of time before the Black Lives Matter movement got its own horror movie. Several documentaries last year tied Black Lives Matter into a larger examination of the American civil rights movement, but no genre provides anxietyexorcising catharsis quite like horror. By their very outlaw nature, horror films can go places other films would never dare—that’s why it’s a shame that most of them never go anywhere at all. Writer-director Jordan Peele’s Get Out, though, is a smart and stylish sociological horror movie with a healthy helping of What We Do in the Shadows-level belly laughs. Daniel Kaluuya stars as Chris, a young black man going to meet his white girlfriend’s family for the first time and realizing right away that something is dangerously amiss. Making his directorial debut, Peele manages to continually pique our interest, even when we know where the story is heading. D.B.

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The Great Wall

Two medieval European mercenaries (Matt Damon, Pedro Pascal), in China to steal the secret of gunpowder, find themselves prisoners caught up in a war with strange velociraptor-like creatures that attack China every 60 years. Director Zhang Yimou, the darling of art-house cinemas the world over, tries his hand at a fantasy adventure epic and achieves only low camp, albeit with his customary eye for brilliant color and striking tableaux. As the presence of Yimou and a cluster of Chinese stars (led by Tian Jing as a female general) demonstrate, the movie is a blatant attempt to suck up to Chinese audiences, with a take-the-money-and-run script by a six-man tag team of American writers struggling to disguise the fact that this is just a cheesy monster movie tarted up in imperial Chinese drag. J.L.

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Before I Fall

A high-school girl (Zoey Deutch) is killed in an auto accident with her three besties (Halston Sage, Cynthy Wu, Medalion Rahimi), then wakes up to find herself living the last day of her life again—and again and again and again. Ry Russo-Young directs Maria Maggenti’s script (from Lauren Oliver’s young adult novel), and if it sounds familiar, it is: It’s Groundhog Day with teen angst and mean-girl snark instead of comedy. It’s not an advantageous trade, and the movie’s construction and editing are a shade haphazard (the cause of the accident is kept obscure longer than it should be). Still, there are compensations—an attractive cast, crisp cinematography (Michael Fimognari) and a nice pop music soundtrack. If nothing else, the movie will be worth it if it finally makes a star of Deutch; she’s overdue. J.L.

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“Screw work, karaoke starts now.”

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Toni Erdmann

She has only made three films in 15 years, but after 2009’s Everyone Else and this nearly indescribable gem, it’s clear that no one is making films quite like German director Maren Ade. Peter Simonischeck stars as Winfried, the incorrigible-doesn’t-even-begin-to-describe-it father to the comparatively uptight Ines (Sandra Hüller), a businesswoman who seems to barely tolerate her father’s grating hijinks, even as she realizes they’ve molded her into a closet outrageous imp. When Winfried can’t seem to catch his daughter’s attention, he arrives unannounced for an uncomfortably extended visit, eventually “transforming” into a shabby-looking tycoon named Toni Erdmann in order to teach her a lesson. With its surprisingly swift 162-minute run time, Toni Erdmann is so loaded with show-stopping sequences and contradictory tones that it’s hard to know where to start, but I doubt anyone will ever listen to “The Greatest Love of All” again without thinking of this film. D.B.

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I Am Not Your Negro

Based on James Baldwin’s unfinished manuscript for Remember This House, a proposed book about the civil rights struggle that focused on Medgar Evers, Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, I Am Not Your Negro tells a decades-old story that carries a disturbing relevance. In that respect, it’s a lot like Jason Osder’s clear-eyed 2013 scorcher Let the Fire Burn, but in a formal respect the film piggybacks on the in-their-own-words documentary trend made popular by movies like Amy and Janis: Little Girl Blue. Directed by Raoul Peck (Lumumba) and narrated by Samuel L. Jackson (every film made in the last quarter-century), this deeply personal docu-bio is a thoroughly engrossing, powerful and necessary film. At the risk of losing all credibility, I will even use the dreaded “I” word, and declare that this is one of the most “important” films you will have the opportunity to see this year. D.B.

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Kong: Skull Island

In 1973, as the Vietnam War winds down, a party of soldiers and scientists goes off to explore an uncharted Pacific island—but the military leader (Samuel L. Jackson) doesn’t know that the civilian leader (John Goodman) is hunting for monsters, including the legendary ape Kong. Put King Kong out of your mind; this is neither sequel nor remake, but a whole new approach to the premise, with passing nods to Heart of Darkness, Jurassic Park, Moby Dick, and a host of other classic and pop culture touchstones. And somehow it all works; there’s the right blend of excitement and humor in the script (by Dan Gilroy, Max Borenstein, Derek Connolly and John Gatins) and Jordan VogtRoberts’ lickety-split direction keeps us on the edge of our seats. Tom Hiddleston and Brie Larson make appealing romantic leads. J.L.

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of mutants to their evil will—are forced to help a fugitive mutant child (Dafne Keen) flee to safety. The gloomiest and grisliest of the X-Men franchise is expertly crafted in detail but overlong, dreary and dispiriting as a whole.

Rated a hard R for its Grand Guignol violence, in which every decent person meets a bloody and horrible end, the movie has an ugly edge: Keen looks about ten years old, and putting her through these paces amounts to a distasteful kind of kiddie porn. Written and directed by James Mangold as if he’s bored to death with the series—a feeling it’s easy to share. J.L.

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The Shack

A grieving father (Sam Worthington) gets a cryptic note signed “Papa”—the nickname his devout wife (Radha Mitchell) uses for God—inviting him to the remote shack where his missing daughter was presumably murdered. There he meets nothing less than the Holy Trinity: the Father (Octavia Spencer), the Son (Avraham Aviv Alush) and the Holy Spirit (Sumire), who try gently to urge him back to faith. Giving full credit for sincerity and better-than-average production values for a faith-based film, this one nevertheless falls short, thanks to the plodding direction of Stuart Hazeldine, who also lets Worthington engage in the kind of mumbling whisper that some actors mistake for intensity. As the Supreme Being, Spencer and (in a later male incarnation) Graham Greene preserve a surprising amount of dignity. J.L.

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as concrete are transported to Baja California when Priscila cries her lyrics in Spanish. She even lets out a grito Mexicano, a howl traditionally heard in Mexican ranchera music.

The EP’s final track, “Funebre Amor,” or “Funeral Love,” is an 11-minute ballad written by the band’s current members, including the Hoffmans, Andy Laughlin (drums), Jim Willig (guitar) and Biaggio D’Anna (bass).

The song begins hollow and a bird in the hand is better than squatting on a cactus bush. gloomy, with a clean harmony ripping into a tired, incapacitated, blues-riff death march told in Priscila’s raspy Spanish. It ends with a medieval hymn of acoustic After decades of drought, there’s a flood of doom guitars and light maraca—how accepting death bands in Sacramento today. gracefully might sound.

The modern fever for tortoise-tempo sludge rock Cura Cochino’s morbid lyrical stories, including benefits folks like Kenny Hoffman, who plays guitar fantasies of self-dissection and animals taking bloody in Cura Cochino. But he also finds it annoying. revenge on humans for their abuses, are colored Doom used to be unacceptable in the underground,

by Priscila’s working life at the “grim reaper’s and now it’s as common as a Misfits T-shirt, which Wal-Mart.” She’s a death industry worker of many he was also irritated to find on the discount racks at trades, performing autopsies, embalming and body Target recently. removals at crime scenes.

“It’s like these days, grandma knows it,” “If somebody jumps off a bridge, she goes Hoffman said. “She probably listens to and grabs that hamburger meat off the Graveyard and Pentagram.” concrete,” Kenny said.

Hoffman and his wife, Priscila, Hoffman released the EP “If you’re who sings in Cura Cochino, wanted last August on his local label, into this kind to assemble a doom band in the Buriedinhell Records, which vein of Black Sabbath since of music, there’s he founded at 19. He wants to the late 1990s, but back then, do a vinyl release on another definitely going to be most local musicians preferred small label soon. some dips in shreddier music, like grindcore Despite the scene’s and death metal. They cycled the road.” present love, it’s still difficult through members with little hope to find record distribution for Kenny Hoffman of recruiting folks who could bear the music, which Hoffman’s guitarist, Cura Cochino to downtune their guitars to hell and accepted, and even appreciated. play at a wretchedly patient pace. His Doom’s not for everyone, anyway. sister and brother-in-law briefly joined “If you’re into this kind of music, before opting out overnight, and friends from there’s definitely going to be some dips in the other bands couldn’t survive more than a month. road,” Hoffman said. “But the dips are the best Hoffman noticed more attention around 2009, part. That’s where you find out where people stand, when the band got its first full lineup. Now, dives whether they’re really into it for the right reasons, or like Starlite Lounge and Cafe Colonial often if they’re just trying to fit in at the moment.” Ω showcase doom acts on weeknights. The music is less unpopular, but Cura Cochino, Spanish for “dirty priest,” manages to buoy above the tar sea with its style of doom en español.

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Psychedelic EDM: It was a hometown extravaganza for Hippie Sabotage.

The crowd erupted when brothers Kevin and Jeff Saurer took the stage at Ace of Spades. It’s no wonder—the duo has been making waves in the EDM scene all over the country. On March 2, they waxed nostalgic about their days growing up in Sacramento, and the crowd ate it up.

So high was the enthusiasm, the brothers prolonged their spoken intro for several minutes before playing a note of music. Kevin wandered in the audience, passing a joint around to eager fans while Jeff hyped up the show from the stage: “If you’ve never been to one of our shows—I like dancing, I like screaming, I like jumping …”

Once they started, so did the colorful beaming lights and crazy video monitors, which played chaotic video jump-cuts and spiraling neon shapes. I’d never considered the connection between ’60s underground subcultures and modern-day electronic dance music. But seeing Hippie Sabotage with tie-dye shirts, dazzling flashing colors, gleeful drug use and overall reckless abandon, it was clear that the line between the eras was much thinner than I’d previously realized.

The brothers have been making beats for more than a decade. In the early days they produced for rappers over at Sound Cap Audio right here in Sacramento. They’ve since enjoyed success on the Billboard charts with their original songs.

The audience, largely under 25, thrived on the inherent chaos of the show. Jeff and Kevin were more like carnival barkers than band members, hopping around, spraying water on the crowd and periodically stirring them into a frenzy, repeating: “I don’t give a fuck, I don’t give a fuck, I don’t give a fuck …”

They closed the evening by once again connecting to the ’60s with a song called “Bob Dylan.” They invited the crowd to fill the stage.

Every person on stage sang along to the chorus, and I wondered how much they knew about the man whose name they chanted. Certainly they were feeling his spirit.

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Touch of gray: Tommy Stinson was 13 when he started playing bass in the Replacements. Or maybe he was 12. It doesn’t really matter—that was a million years ago. After decades that have included drunken performances, time with Guns N’ Roses and a recent ’Mats reunion, Stinson is back on the road with his own band.

Bash & Pop played Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub on Friday and, though attendance was disappointing, enthusiasm was high, both in the crowd and onstage. Even with his age-weathered face, Stinson is still wiry and boyish. Now 50, the musician led the four-piece through a tight set that included selections from Bash & Pop’s new album, Anything Could Happen, as well as its 1993 record Friday Night Is Killing Me. There was also a slew of covers.

“We’re gonna try a couple of things tonight, because we wanna,” Stinson told the crowd before launching into loose takes on “The Kids Are Alright” and “Midnight Rambler” (the shortest version of the Rolling Stones jam ever, one observer noted). Throughout, Stinson swigged whiskey (bussed in from the crowd) and made rock ’n’ roll small talk. “We might be getting the hell out of town tonight because our hotel is really sketch,” he said, leaving those in attendance to puzzle over whether he meant the really sketch place on Alhambra Boulevard or in Midtown. Turns out it was neither, but rather a really sketch place on the outskirts of town.

After, Stinson sold merch as a mohawked guy from one of the opening bands tried to score coke from someone, anyone. No one obliged. “It’s not the ’90s,” someone noted dryly. “Yeah, well I’m not 90,” he shot back, sourly.

Finally, Stinson, tired from shilling records and posing for photos, had had enough. “You’ve got to get me out of here,” he told a cohort.

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Starlite lounge, 8 p.m., $18-$22 Miss Conducting From the Grave? Every Sacramento tech-death junkie does. But thankfully, guitarist John Abernathy has moved on to form Wastewalker, featuring members, current TECHnICAl dEATH and past, of other allstar local bands such as Alterbeast, Sepsis and Journal. This new band rips, tears and sounds simultaneously clean as heaven and dirty as hell. Wastewalker helps open up an insane bill, featuring Tombs, Rivers of Nihil, Ringworm and Darkest Hour. Might want to get those tickets in advance. 1517 21st Street, https://wastewalker.bandcamp.com.

—anthony Siino

naked lounge, 8 p.m., $5 Cory Barringer doesn’t know if he’s a musician or a comedian. Oh wait! That’s because he’s good at both. On Friday, he’s combining these talents into a single, epic one-man-show. Through the process of putting this together, he’s discovered that he digs into the same dark crevices creatively for songs and jokes. This show will focus on commitment and religion. He’ll IndIE bounce between solo acoustic tunes and spoken bits seamlessly. 1111 H Street, www.highanxietyvarietyshow.com.

—aaron CarneS

red muSeum, 8 p.m., $10

aCe of SpadeS, 6 p.m., $27

As if they were plucked straight out of a Quentin Tarantino film, Portland’s Roselit Bone combines western style with dark, ambient psychedelia. The eight WESTERn member-strong troupe uses its bold trumpet section combined with the classic twang of pedal steel guitar and the delicate sounds of flute to transport listeners back to the dusty, ol’ West. The band’s latest release is a 7-inch split with the band Jenny Don’t & the Spurs titled Dreamless Sleep.

The title track showcases vocalist-guitarist Joshua McCaslin’s crooning style and lyrics that shine light into the darker side of the human mind. 212 15th Street, www.roselitbone.com.

—Steph rodriguez

Metal Blade Records has been exposing the world to the heaviest and darkest music since the early ’80s, and it celebrates its 35th anniversary this year. The label has discovered some of the most influential metal bands of the United States, METAl if not the world. Bands like Slayer, Mercyful Fate and Gwar can thank Metal Blade for launching their careers. You can celebrate all things brutal this Saturday night with some of the label’s biggest names, including Whitechapel, Goatwhore, Cattle Decapitation and Allegaeon. Get ready to bang your head to the blasting beats and shredding riffs of the dark lords of rock. 1417 R Street, www.metalblade.com/us/tours.

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Harlow’s restaurant & nigHtclub, 4:30 p.m. $15 Isaiah Rashad embodies a new American dream. The college dropout lived on friends’ couches, worked fast-food and recorded songs obsessively in his free hours. He put that music on Soundcloud, and by 2014 he’d signed to Top Dawg Entertainment, home of Kendrik Lamar and Schoolboy Q, and released his debut Clivia Demo. That HIP-HoP record disguised as a demo debuted at number 40 on the Billboard Top 200. Raised in Tennessee, Rashad’s drawl meshes with the California inflections he’s picked up. The result is a bluesy delivery that binds history to his tales of poverty, anxiety and transcendence. 2708 J Street, https://soundcloud.com/isaiah_rashad.

—blake gillespie

mondavi center, 8 p.m., $12.50-$55

Harlow’s restaurant & nigHt club, 8 p.m., $8

Grammy award-winning jazz vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant is reviving the rich and theatrical elements of the timeless genre at 27 years old. In fact, her voice JAZZ retreats to older and familiar forms with a warmth that’s influenced by legendary singer-songwriters like Bessie Smith and Ella Fitzgerald. Her debut album, WomanChild, pays homage to songs from the 1920s and ’40s heard in Salvant’s rendition of Smith’s “Baby Have Pity on Me,” but it’s Salvant’s original song “Deep Dark Blue” that showcases her vocal complexity where she sings deep, husky lows and also soft, playful highs. 1 Shields Avenue in Davis, www.cecilemclorinsalvant.com.

A lot of neo-soul these days pits a crooner over electronic beats—and, frankly, it seems to lack in the soul department. Not so with Madi Sipes & the Painted Blue, the young San Francisco outfit led by Placerville native Sipes. Her soft, sultry voice guides the trio’s jazzy, dreamy instrumentals that both feel firmly rooted in ’90s R&B and like a window into the genre’s future. If that sounds familiar, you might NEo-SoUL have caught the Painted Blue at last year’s Sammies show. Since then, the group has been working on its debut full-length, After Hours, which should drop later this year. 2708 J Street, www.facebook.com/madisipesmusic.

—stepH rodriguez

starlite lounge, 8 p.m., $10-$12 Texas rock trio Mothership shouts “Rock ’n’ roll is here to stay” in the song “City Nights.” It’s not the kind of line you’d expect to hear from a band that formed in 2010, or at least with the kind of sincerity that Mothership has shouting it.

RoCk That’s because they’re hardcore ’70s lovers: long hair, ripped jeans, mutton chops and all. The kind of songs these guys play is right on par with such amped-up heavy blues-rock bands as ZZ Top, Molly Hatchet and Black Sabbath. 1517 21st Street, http://mothershipusa.com/.

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Tipsy Thursdays, 9pm, no cover

Fabulous and Gay Fridays: High Energy Dance Videos, 9pm, no cover

Saturday Boom: High Energy Dance Videos, 9pm, no cover

Sin Sunday, 8pm, no cover

Mad Mondays, 9pm M, no cover; Latin Video Flair Wii Bowling, 7pm Tu

ZACH WATERS BAND, call for time and cover

STEPHEN YERKEY, call for time and cover

Bar 101

101 Main St., RoSeville, (916) 774-0505

Blue lamp

MAC MALL, 8:30pm, $20

CONSCIOUS CORNER FEATURING LEE Open Mic with Chris Twomey, 9pm M, TAFARI & THE UPLIFTMENT, 6pm, $12-$15 no cover

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THE GARCIA PROJECT, 8pm, $24-$27

THE GOOD ‘OL PERSONS, 8pm, $22-$24

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Cooper’s ale Works

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SIRUS B POSSE, call for time, $5

Country CluB saloon

DJ Menace, 9pm no cover

ASHLEY BARRON, 9pm, call for cover

235 CoMMeRCial St., nevada City, (530) 265-0116 2007 tayloR Rd., looMiS, (916) 652-4007

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Flirt Fridays Deejay Dancing, 9pm, no cover

1016 K St., (916) 737-5770

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DJ Dancing, 9pm, $3

Papi T.Dance, 5pm; Downtown Divas, 7pm, Queer Idol, 9pm M, no cover; Latin Night, no cover; Dragalicious, 9pm, $5 9pm Tu, $5; DJ Alazzawi, 9pm W, $3

Hip-Hop, Top 40, 9pm, $5 - $10

DJ David, 10:30pm, $8

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KYLE TUTTLE, 9pm

KEVIN & ALLYSON SECONDS, NATALIE CORTEZ, and JOE KOJIMA GRAY, 9pm, $5

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GROOVE THANG, 9pm, $5

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Open-Mic, 7:30pm M, no cover; Pub Quiz, 7pm Tu, no cover

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JOHN 5 & THE CREATURES, 8pm, $20-$25

THIS CHARMING BAND, JUST LIKE HEAVEN CATIE CURTIS, 7pm, $20-$25; MIDNIGHT (A Tribute To The Cure) , 10pm, $12-$15 PLAYERS, 10pm, $12-$15

Pure Bathing Culture, 8pm W, $10-$12

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No Chill, 10pm, no cover

Rhythm Section, 10pm, no cover

Heavy, 10pm M, no cover; Tussle, 10pm Tu, no cover; Only The Good Stuff, 10pm W, no cover

THE INSIDE STORY, 9:30pm, no cover;

SACTOWN PLAYBOYS, 9:30pm, no cover

2708 J St., (916) 441-4693 1910 Q St., (916) 706-2465

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luna’s Cafe & JuiCe Bar 1414 16th St., (916) 441-3931

Joe Montoya’s Unplugged Feat. Charron, 8pm, no cover

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Nebraska Mondays, 7:30pm M, $5 - $20; Drug Stories, 8pm W, no cover

BOB CHEEVERS, 8pm, $10-$12

JACLYN WEILAND, THE PALSY BELLS; 8:30pm, $5

GNARBOOTS, HOBO JOHNSON, EUGENE UGLY; 8:30pm, $5

RUBY JANE FRADKIN, THE CLEARWINGS; 8:30pm W, $5

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3/9 $20 ADV 7PM

JOHN 5 & THE CREATURES 3/11 $12 ADV 9:30PM

MIDNIGHT PLAYERS 3/10 $12 ADV 9PM

THIS CHARMING BAND

3/12

ISAIAH RASHAD (soLD out)

Just Like HeAVen (A tribute to tHe Cure)

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50 WATT HEAVY, THE MUTINEERS; 9pm, $7

WHAT ROUGH BEAST, MAD QUEEN; 9pm, $6

HEATH WILLIAMSON, 5:30pm M, no cover; Karaoke, 9pm Tu, no cover

On the Y

Open Mic, 8pm, no cover

ALL OF THEM WITCHES, 7pm, $10

Karaoke, 9pm M, no cover; Karaoke, 9pm Tu, no cover

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JOHNNY MOJO, 9pm, call for cover

TAMRA GODEY 1:30pm, call for cover

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CHEESEBALLS, 10pm, $10

JEREMY NORRIS, 10pm, $10

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MISHKA SHUBALY, SEX HOGS, 8pm, call for cover; CTRL.ALT.DEFEAT, 9pm, $3

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BUMPTET, 9pm, no cover

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Sunday Night Dancy Party with DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9pm, no cover STRQ, 9pm, no cover

ELEMENT BRASS BAND, 9pm, no cover

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DARKEST HOUR, RINGWORM, TOMBS; 7:30pm, $18-$22

ATRIARCH, ALTAR DE FEY MODERN MAN; 8pm, $10

SPARKS ACROSS DARKNESS, TIP VISCIOUS; 8pm, $8

1320 Del PASo BlvD., (916) 927-6023 904 15th St., (916) 443-2797

X TRIO, 5pm, no cover; HOT CITY JAZZ, 9pm, $5

LOOSE ENGINES, 5:30pm, no cover; COFFIS BROTHERS, IAN MOORE; 9pm, $12

IRIDIUM, RESURRECTION OF RUIN; 8pm M, call for cover

8pm Sunday, $10 The Colony Punk

Sac Activist School: Art & Activism, 6pm W, no cover NOOTHGRUSH, CURA COCHINO; 8pm, $12-$15

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Total Chaos

EMILY KOLLARS, 9pm, no cover

Oh Yeah! Short Center Art Show, 5pm, no cover

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THIRD STONE BLUE, 5:30pm, no cover

Country Dance Party, 8pm, no cover

Barbecue and Blues Jam, 7:30pm Tu, no cover; Open-Mic, 5pm Tu, no cover

BLUES JAM, 4pm, no cover; FRONT THE BAND, 8pm, no cover

BILL MYLAR, 5:30pm Tu, no cover; MUD FOLK, 8pm Tu, $5

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The Noise Presents Metal Blade’s 35th Anniversary Tour W/ Whitechapel; 6pm, $24-$27

COMMON KINGS, 7pm, $22-$27

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SOCIAL DISTORTION, 7pm Tu, $.40

Darkest Hour

Cafe Colonial Game Night, 6pm Tu, no cover

7:30pm Thursday, $18-$22 Starlite Lounge Metal

TOTAL CHAOS, SLUTZVILLE; 8pm, $10

ELECTRIC SNORKEL, DINGO WEASEL; 8pm, $7

CHRISTIAN DEWILD BAND, THE WORKING MAN’S BLUES BAND; 8pm, $6

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FOR THE WEEK OF MARCH 9, 2017 ARIES (March 21-April 19): As soon as you can,

sneak away to a private place where you can be alone—preferably to a comfy sanctuary where you can indulge in eccentric behavior without being seen or heard or judged. When you get there, launch into an extended session of moaning and complaining. I mean do it out loud. Wail and whine and whisper about everything that’s making you sad and puzzled and crazy. For best results, leap into the air and wave your arms. Whirl around in erratic figure-eights while drooling and messing up your hair. Breathe extra deeply. And all the while, let your pungent emotions and poignant fantasies flow freely through your wild heart.

Keep on going until you find the relief that lies on the other side.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “I’ve always

belonged to what isn’t where I am and to what I could never be,” wrote Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935). That was his prerogative, of course. Or maybe it was a fervent desire of his, and it came true. I bring his perspective to your attention, Taurus, because I believe your mandate is just the opposite, at least for the next few weeks: You must belong to what is where you are. You must belong to what you will always be.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Nothing is ever as

simple as it may seem. The bad times always harbor opportunities. The good times inevitably have a caveat. According to my astrological analysis, you’ll prove the latter truth in the coming weeks.

On one hand, you will be closer than you’ve been in many moons to your ultimate sources of meaning and motivation. On the other hand, you sure as hell had better take advantage of this good fortune. You can’t afford to be shy about claiming the rewards and accepting the responsibilities that come with the opportunities.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Seek intimacy with

experiences that are dewy and slippery and succulent. Make sure you get more than your fair share of swirling feelings and flowing sensations, cascading streams and misty rain, arousing drinks and sumptuous sauces, warm baths and purifying saunas, skin moisturizers and lustrous massages, the milk of human kindness and the buttery release of deep sex—and maybe even a sensational do-it-yourself baptism that frees you from at least some of your regrets. Don’t stay thirsty, my undulating friend. Quench your need to be very, very wet. Gush and spill. Be gushed and spilled on.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Would you like to live to

the age of 99? If so, experiences and realizations that arrive in the coming weeks could be important in that project. A window to longevity will open, giving you a chance to gather clues about actions you can take and meditations you can do to remain vital for 10 decades. I hope you’re not too much of a serious, know-it-all adult to benefit from this opportunity. If you’d like to be deeply receptive to the secrets of a long life, you must be able to see with innocent, curious eyes.

Playfulness is not just a winsome quality in this quest; it’s an essential asset.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You’re ripe. You’re

delectable. Your intelligence is especially sexy.

I think it’s time to unveil the premium version of your urge to merge. To prepare, let’s review a few flirtation strategies. The eyebrow flash is a good place to start. A subtle, flicking lick of your lips is a fine follow-up. Try tilting your neck to the side ever-so-coyly. If there are signs of reciprocation from the other party, smooth your hair or pat your clothes. Fondle nearby objects like a wine glass or your keys. And this is very important: Listen raptly to the person you’re wooing.

P.S. If you already have a steady partner, use these techniques as part of a crafty plan to draw him or her into deeper levels of affection.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Let’s talk about a

compassionate version of robbery. The thieves who practice this art don’t steal valuable things you love. Rather, they pilfer stuff you don’t actually need but are reluctant to let go of. For example, the spirit of a beloved ancestor may sweep into your nightmare and carry off a delicious poison that has been damaging you in ways you’ve become comfortable with. A bandit angel

might sneak into your imagination and burglarize the debilitating beliefs and psychological crutches you cling to as if they were bars of gold. Are you interested in benefiting from this service? Ask and you shall receive.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Evolved Scorpios

don’t fantasize about bad things happening to their competitors and adversaries. They don’t seethe with smoldering desires to torment anyone who fails to give them what they want.

They may, however, experience urges to achieve total, cunning, dazzling, merciless victory over those who won’t acknowledge them as golden gods or golden goddesses. But even then, they don’t indulge in the deeply counterproductive emotion of hatred. Instead, they sublimate their ferocity into a drive to keep honing their talents. After all, that game plan is the best way to accomplish something even better than mere revenge: success in fulfilling their dreams. Please keep these thoughts close to your heart in the coming weeks.

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

art of music is the greatest treasure in the world,” wrote Martin Luther (1483-1546), a revolutionary who helped break the stranglehold of the Catholic Church on the European imagination.

I bring this up, Sagittarius, because you’re entering a phase when you need the kind of uprising that’s best incited by music. So I invite you to gather the tunes that have inspired you over the years, and also go hunting for a fresh batch. Then listen intently, curiously, and creatively as you feed your intention to initiate constructive mutation. Its time to overthrow anything about your status quo that is jaded, lazy, sterile or apathetic.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Either you

learn to live with paradox and ambiguity or you’ll be 6 years old for the rest of your life,” says author Anne Lamott. How are you doing with that lesson, Capricorn? Still learning? If you would like to get even more advanced teachings about paradox and ambiguity—as well as conundrums, incongruity and anomalies—there will be plenty of chances in the coming weeks. Be glad!

Remember the words of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Niels Bohr: “How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.”

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Lichen is a hardy

form of life that by some estimates covers 6 percent of the earth’s surface. It thrives in arctic tundra and rainforests, on tree bark and rock surfaces, on walls and toxic slag heaps, from sea level to alpine environments. The secret of its success is symbiosis. Fungi and algae band together (or sometimes fungi and bacteria) to create a blended entity; two very dissimilar organisms forge an intricate relationship that comprises a third organism. I propose that you regard lichen as your spirit ally in the coming weeks, Aquarius. You’re primed for some sterling symbioses.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): If you normally wear

Kind of a big dill Kilo, a snaggletoothed chihuahua rescued from the streets of Oakland, now has a second life as the Instagram star @macaroni.and.chi. Kilo has an uncanny talent for balancing food on his nose—pickles, popcorn chicken, pomegranate seeds, you name it—and his human pairs every snapshot with punny captions.

“You’re all that and dim sum!” reads a post of Kilo with a dumpling on his head like a doughy newsboy cap. Mariko Pillitteri, the amateur chef who adopted Kilo 10 years ago, says she sees a lot of sadness as an emergency surgery vet, and cooking with her two cuddly chihuahuas is a pick-me-up. Between posting for Kilo’s 3,200-plus followers, Pillitteri told SN&R about training Kilo, his favorite foods and how she came up with the name @macaroni.and.chi.

Mariko Pillitteri tees up corn on her dog Kilo’s famous face.

How did you get Kilo?

I was volunteering at the Berkeley East Bay Humane Society as an undergrad. At the time, I really wanted to have my own dog. But I have to be honest, I was not a little dog person. I was not a chihuahua person at all. But Kilo came in—he was terrified—and for some reason he locked on to me. We were checking him in and he leapt onto my shoulder. People sometimes say a rescue dog chose them. I feel like he did that, and I’m so glad he did. I don’t know why he ended up on the streets of Oakland, but he was sick and malnourished when he came in. Animal control had picked him up, and he needed a big surgery. Then the shelter allowed me to foster him, so he became my first foster failure.

How old is Kilo? He looks tiny.

adornments and accessories and fine disguises, I invite you not to do so for the next two weeks.

Instead, try out an unembellished, what-you-seeis-what-you-get approach to your appearance.

If, on the other hand, you don’t normally wear adornments and accessories and fine disguises, I encourage you to embrace such possibilities in a spirit of fun and enthusiasm. Now you may inquire: How can these contradictory suggestions both apply to the Pisces tribe? The answer: There’s a more sweeping mandate behind it all, namely: to tinker and experiment with the ways you present yourself … to play around with strategies for translating your inner depths into outer expression.

When I got him, the exams said 6 months to a year. He’s about 10 years old this year.

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What made you start Instagramming him as @macaroni.and.chi?

How did you train him to balance food, like short ribs, on his nose?

I was like, “I am not going to be one of those people that has a little barky chihuahua that’s untrained and gets away with everything.” I started training him and he is really food-motivated, obviously. He knows all sorts of tricks, like play dead, dance and roll over. And obviously he can balance things on his head.

Last year, I was helping my friends out with their nonprofit for horses. They wanted to increase exposure, and Instagram is a great way to create some hype, so I only started an account to like and comment on their

PHOTO BY JAREd GiARRussO

pictures. Obviously, it was just going to be pictures of my dog. I always send pictures to my friends of Kilo balancing things on his head. I sent a picture to one of my best friends of him with a noodle on his nose, and she said: ‘macaroni and chi!’

Every caption is so punny. How do you come up with them all?

of has an iron stomach. On New Year’s Day, we gave him his own tiny bowl of ozoni, which is a Japanese good-luck soup.

As a vet, we say that less than 10 percent of a pet’s diet should come from extraneous treats. I guess my Instagram is pretty hypocritical.

What’s his favorite food?

It’s pretty dorky. I’ve always been really into wordplay. Recently my dad found all these comic books and pictures I’d drawn as a kid.

One thing was a booklet of little pictures I’d drawn with puns. I must’ve been, like, 10.

Chicken. And what’s weird is that he likes salad. He will crunch on lettuce; he likes carrots. But anything with meat is, of course, golden.

Like an analog Instagram.

We’ll go to outdoor seating areas, but he mostly just sits in my lap. Believe it or not, he’s actually really a shy, nervous dog.

He’s come out of his shell a lot in the past 10 years. But a lot of our pictures [that are geotagged at local restaurants] are if we get leftovers and bring them home.

And it was all animal stuff.

What comes first? The food or the pun?

I love to cook and I love to eat. I snap a photo with something edible and on my way to work the pun pops into my head. I actually have zero problems thinking of puns, it’s kind of terrible. I was talking to one of the techs at work about pozole and hominy, and suddenly I was like, “hominy chihuahuas does it take to eat a bowl of pozole?” Then I had to make pozole so I could do it for @macaroni.and.chi.

Does Kilo actually eat all those things?

No. I try not to post foods that aren’t dog safe, like chocolate on his head, but he’s good enough not to grab food from me.

Most of the time he doesn’t eat the food.

He’s doing it for dog treats. Every once in a while, he does get people food. He kind

Does he like going out to eat?

Is he ever recognized in public?

Not yet, probably because there are so many little, fawn-colored chihuahuas out there. Maybe if he walked around with steak on his head.

Any plans for making the @macaroni.and.chi brand bigger?

I did put some of his pictures on little canvases to hang in the house. Maybe someday there will be things like that, but no plans to capitalize on it yet. I’m more interested in spreading the word that you can find wonderful dogs at shelters. But we do joke that one day Kilo will support us. Ω

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