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Trump and the truth I don’t blame President Trump for calling his 100th day in office a “ridiculous” marker created by the “fake news” media. He knows it gives them an excuse to tote up his multitudinous falsehoods, flip-flops and failures. The Washington Post, for example, sicced its fact-checking team on Trump to find out how many times he’d made false or misleading claims during those 100 days. The total came to 488, or an average of 4.9 claims a day. On four days he lodged 20 or more false claims. In fairness, I should note that on 10 days he made no false claims. Then again, he was playing golf on six of them. This unprecedented spewing of untruths culminated on Saturday, the 100th day. Interviewed by Face the Nation host John Dickerson, the president was asked whether he stood by his debunked charge that President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower during the 2016 election. “I don’t stand by anything,” Trump responded. “I just—you can take it any way you want. … I have my own opinions. You can have your own opinions.” In Trump’s world, apparently, facts and opinions have equal weight. Then, two days later, while being interviewed by the Washington Examiner’s Salena Zito, the president made the bizarre comment that “people don’t ask … why there was the Civil War. … Why could that one not have been worked out?” People don’t ask why there was a Civil War? You could fill a library with all the books written about it. And why couldn’t it be worked out? In a word: slavery. Let’s face it: Our president is a mendacious ignoramus who makes up his own reality.

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Earlier this semester, actually. I had some, how do I say this, inappropriate creative writing. I sent it to my history professor instead of an essay. I went in to class the next morning and told her not to open it. I don’t know if she ever did. It has never come up.

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Yes. I hit send too quickly [when] I’m not done with the email. I need to take my time in the “to” box, I need to leave that blank. A lot of the time I am not done and somehow I click “send.” I have learned to wait to fill the box of whom I am sending it to.

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I was emailing a teacher who hadn’t put up our grades for our transcripts yet. I was frustrated because I had to send them off to Sac State. It read like: “Dude, when are these coming out. It has been like a month …” Then I thought that I shouldn’t send this. It was purely by accident. In person is better.

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A couple of times. I could be just typing something that I know I am not really going to send to that person. I am just putting my thoughts out there, and instead of hitting space bar, I accidentally hit send. Oh no! It was supposed to be my what if.

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I wanted to make up a homework assignment I didn’t do. I wanted to ask the professor nicely. I wanted an extension, because something came up. That was a lie. I only got my introduction done, “Good afternoon,” and the question. I just straight up asked for it. It was embarrassing.

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C Davis Medical Center has failed its institutional mission by denying primary care to Sacramento County’s 442,000 MediCal patients, State Sen. Richard Pan charged recently.

“Many patients have … complicated medical conditions that frequently require hospitalization and the kind of highly specialized care that is often only available at UC Davis Health,” Casey said.

“The mission of our health system is to take care of everyone in our community, including, and most particularly, the disadvantaged,” the Sacramento Democrat and pediatrician said.

He said UC Davis Health has four managed Medi-Cal contracts. “Where Medi-Cal enrollees go for care — whether it’s primary or specialty care — depends on where the health plan, not UC Davis, decides to direct its enrollees,” he said.

But since January 2015, when UCD ended its last Medi-Cal-managed care plan, only Medi-Cal patients arriving in the emergency room have been treated at the Med Center, Pan said. Hospitals are mandated to treat all ER patients by law, regardless of insurance. “Unfortunately, (UCD) has failed the community by not accepting health care coverage provided by the state … to (poor) people,” he said at a press conference hosted by the Health Equity Action Team, or HEAT, a coalition pressuring UC Davis to fully reinstate primary care for the underprivileged. HEAT is a coalition that consists of grantees of The California Endowment and other interested partners. UCD spokesman Charles Casey said the Medical Center, a public hospital, is “providing its fair share of care for Medi-Cal patients.” “It’s the Medical Center’s largest single group of patients,” he said, pointing out that about 37 percent of the Med Center’s admissions in 2016 were Medi-Cal patients. He added that contrary to HEAT’s assertions, the Med Center isn’t turning away Medi-Cal patients with serious medical conditions.

“THE MISSION OF OUR HEALTH SYSTEM IS TO TAKE CARE OF EVERYONE IN OUR COMMUNITY, INCLUDING, AND MOST PARTICULARLY, THE DISADVANTAGED.”

State Sen. Richard Pan speaks at an April 17 media event calling on UC Davis Medical Center to resume talks on accepting Medi-Cal patients for primary care. Photo by Anne Stokes

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February 2016, according to Kim Williams, a HEAT organizer. UCD seems uninterested in follow-up talks, she says.

Many Medi-Cal recipients who live near the Medical Center had to switch primary care doctors to other local hospitals, but, lacking transportation, some have a hard time getting to those institutions, HEAT ofﬁcials said.

Senator Pan, a former UC Davis faculty member, said it pained him to criticize an institution he loves. He called on UCD to resume the talks.

Efforts to work with UCD to fully restore primary care to Medi-Care patients have stalled, HEAT ofﬁcials said. The only meeting between UCD ofﬁcials and HEAT occurred in

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The ’hood isn’t destiny Re: “A gangster’s life,” by Raheem Hosseini (News, April 20) As a mother who frequented the Oak Park area as a youngster, due to going to school in the area and having friends in the area, I wouldn’t want to be classified as a gang member just for frequenting the area! My children and I lived in Oak Park for several years, and a lot of their friends also frequented the area and still do! However, that does not mean that they are gang members even if their friends are! I’ve also lived in the south area, Glen Elders, the east area and the north, and again that doesn’t mean that my children belonged to any of their gangs!

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Yep, we’re selfrighteous Re: “Righteous veganism,” by Tom Stephens (Letters, April 13) Vegans/vegetarians do not have “religious” beliefs.

Self-righteousness is appropriate because we have something called “morals” and something called “compassion” for living beings, who have as much right to good lives (if not more, because they are innocent

victims) as selfish, disgusting humans. Tom Stephens should be forced to spend a day in a slaughterhouse. Amy JAckson sa c ra m e nt o

A landlord’s lament Re: “The push for rent control: Why now?” by Nick Miller (Feature sidebar, April 13) I have been a landlord since 1975 managing my own smaller investment properties. I take care of my properties, and if there is a complaint about anything, I respond immediately. I have never raised rents in my over 40 years of management except a small raise when people moved out. One thing is very clear: Renters of today (1) do not know how to clean; and (2) have no idea about basic issues like plumbing. etc. I have to give most tenants a course on how to take care of things. It is

rather exhausting. Rent control will not work, and it will make landlords like me quit. It is hard enough the way it is. nAncy cornelius s a c ra me nto

‘An impeachable offense’ Consider the most explosive news to come along in recent history—that the FBI has commenced an investigation of Trump aides to find out whether they colluded with Russian agents to throw the 2016 presidential election to Donald Trump. Russia’s interference is a direct attack on American democracy. If Trump’s aides were involved, that’s treason. If Trump knew about it and did nothing, that’s an impeachable offense.

On A deAd bicYclisT: I wouldn’t go so far as to question the victim’s sanity for bicycling against traffic with no lights on Marconi avenue. Marconi has bicycle facilities on it, and it is a very direct East/West route in northern Sacramento. It makes sense that a person who is powering themselves across town on a bicycle would choose to use Marconi Ave, because this route would offer quicker travel times with the shortest amount of pedaling. My guess is that because the bicyclist didn’t have lights, they chose to ride against traffic, for safety reasons.

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On April 28, Sacramento County rangers and probationers cleared a homeless encampment along the creek. The operation occurred three days after the Sacramento City Council delayed a vote on a proposed safe ground for homeless residents. Photo by Scott thomaS anderSon

Rousted once again As politicians fiddle, Sacramento County’s homeless population is revealed to be much bigger than previously estimated by Scott thomaS anderSon and raheem F. hoSSeini

The Bobcat’s scoop shovel crashed into a line of camping gear, litter churning as a gnarled pretzel of aluminum poles and bike frames was hoisted high against the breeze. “You better move your tent or they gonna take it,” a probationer on the work crew called out, sauntering along the top of the levee in his sagging pants and neon-orange vest. A man and woman labored to yank their tent stakes from the ground. Having cut up a plastic shelter 30 feet from them, the Bobcat rumbled straight for their camp. The couple managed to pry the rods out, but couldn’t slip the collapsible poles from the canvas before the backhoe moved in. Grabbing the tent from opposite sides and lifting it like a wind sail, 8 | SN&R | 05.04.17

they tripped across the bike path down through the weeds on the far bank. For now, their meager home was spared. Many others weren’t. Every makeshift shelter and lean-to facing Steelhead Creek’s side of the levee was destroyed. Every tent and pile of belongings hurried several strides over the bike trail was spared. For Sacramento County’s homeless residents, this seemingly arbitrary game of cat and mouse is getting old. Ramona Jasper watched her friends dash by with armloads of stuff. She lowered her head. “I’m so tired of this life,” she said, the tears welling up. “I’m just so tired.” It’s a life that afflicts thousands more than the public has been led to believe,

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SN&R has learned. According to figures obtained by this newspaper, Sacramento County had 13,362 homeless people enrolled in a special food-assistance program this past March that allows them to use their CalFresh benefits at participating restaurants. The new figure is more than five times higher than the 2,659 county residents who were said to have experienced homelessness on any given night in 2015. The smaller number comes from a federally required point-in-time count that occurs on a single winter night every other January, when volunteers armed with clipboards venture out to try to approximate the scale of the suffering. These PIT counts are widely believed

to underestimate the actual number of homeless residents, but they’re performed because the results determine how much money each community receives from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Besides, homelessness advocates and service providers had never had the hard data to prove the counts were off. Now, they do. “I never believed the point-intime count—I don’t think anybody believed it was accurate,” said Bob Erlenbusch, executive director of the Sacramento Regional Coalition to End Homelessness. “It always undercounted families and it always undercounted youth. But I didn’t think it undercounted adults by a factor of four. That was just really stunning to me.” “This helps define the scale of the crisis,” Erlenbusch added. It’s a crisis that has forced city and county leaders to confront a safety net that has allowed so many to fall through it. With politicians on both sides refusing to rescind local laws that make sleeping outdoors a crime, some elected officials are fighting uphill battles to secure land where homeless residents can lodge and access services without fear of arrest or lost possessions. But the process has been slowed by a game of political calculus. In the

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water, sanitation, storage facilities and counseling services. Most of all, they would have the peace of mind in knowing they wouldn’t face mornings like this. the backhoe’s tank tracks rolled toward Warren has stressed the project could another camp. Down the levee bank, give individuals the stability to get back perched against a graffiti-laced fence on their feet. A similar proposal is in the under loops of razor wire, Mary Buck early stages at the county level, which kept close to the wavering flames that Supervisor Patrick Kennedy called cracked in her fire pit. “critical.” Two days ago, the rangers issued a Yet, just three days before Sacramento warning to everyone in the area. Buck County park rangers and the Probation followed it by moving her camp down the Department’s work crew cleared a long hill, out of the danger zone. line of camps, the Sacramento City She’s been homeless for a decade, Council again delayed voting on staying mainly near the city’s the triage community for the waterways after her mothsecond time since March. er’s death threw her into Jasper looked down a spiral. Glancing up the levee bank, at the camps being staring at her own destroyed, she tent. The sound of said she didn’t the Bobcat shovel blame residents scraping gravel who might have grew louder. This complained about has been Jasper’s the clutter along existence for Anthony Moss the trail. She’s more than a year. homeless Sacramento County also quick to note There’s no safety resident she doesn’t think the here—and still no rangers take pleasure sanctuary to go to. in destroying people’s warren looked confident behind the makeshift homes. For Buck, it’s dais as his field representative, Daniel just the way things are. Savala, took the podium, flanked by local Asked what will happen to the people architect Karen West and Steve Watters living riverside after the dust clears, of First Step Communities. The council Buck had a quick response. “Some will stay and just go back on the other side of member’s team had been advised the previous month to return with a more the creek when they’re done,” she said. in-depth view of what its proposed triage County rangers launched this cleanup community would look like. On April 25, action based on a combination of public they were ready to deliver. complaints and concerns about the However, shortly into the presentaenvironmental damage the camps are tion, Mayor Darrell Steinberg demanded doing to Sacramento’s creeks and rivers, said Chief Ranger Michael Doane. “These they speed things along to get to public comment. The mayor, who earlier are part of our normal operations to clean proposed allowing churches to shelter up the parkway system,” he told SN&R. homeless people year-round, was soon “And we were getting a lot of resident chastised by residents for being rude. complaints around the amount of trash.” Nevertheless, in the brief time they Aided by the wind, the operation itself disseminated trash and debris into the creek. had, Warren’s staff, along with West and Watters, were able to paint a detailed According to Doane, the reason the picture of what they hoped to do in rangers allowed homeless campers to move their belongings across the bike trail Johnston Park. The current proposal involves a fenced-in, 120-day facility with and leave it there is because that effort community rules, constant staffing and showed they really wanted to keep their expert case workers. Under the proposal, stuff. People who weren’t around didn’t Watters’ nonprofit would operate it. get that opportunity, he acknowledged. The project would cost, at most, And it’s still not legal for homeless $285,000 to house 100 people, though people to camp on the other side of the Warren stressed the price tag would trail. They just borrowed a little time. be lower after assistance from local Jasper and her partner, Anthony Moss, churches, nonprofits and philanthropists are among the homeless campers who have eagerly awaited news of Councilman factored in. He added that nonprofit outfits as far away as Utah were pledging Allen Warren’s proposed triage commusupport for the triage community. nity, a barracks-style encampment where “This has the ability to bring a lot those on the streets would have running

“Where do people go at this moment?”

of people together, across cultures and religions, to really show what this city can do,” Warren said. Steinberg continued to express reservations, though he had a direct message for Watters: “Your involvement gives me some comfort that this could actually be something other than the stereotype that we all fear.” The mayor didn’t elaborate. Instead, Steinberg suggested the council could not responsibly support the project until a number of safety concerns had been addressed, including how the site would provide potable water, access to emergency responders, an adequate number of fire extinguishers and a policy on nonflammable tents. In the past, Steinberg has expressed more enthusiasm for his plan to reallocate public housing resources over the next two years. Referring to the PIT count estimate of less than 2,700 homeless residents, Steinberg has told audiences his plan would make a significant dent in Sacramento’s homelessness crisis. But that is no longer true. Sacramento is one of eight counties participating in CalFresh’s Restaurant Meals Program. The program allows Calfresh recipients to use their EBT cards at participating restaurants, but only those who are either homeless, disabled or over the age of 60 qualify. The fact that this relatively new and little-known program had more than 13,000 homeless participants in March suggested a new baseline, said Shahera Hyatt, director of the California Youth Homeless Project. “This number is representative only of the people willing and able to jump through the bureaucratic hoops necessary to receive nutrition assistance,” Hyatt wrote in an email. “This is especially difficult for folks without a consistent mailing address.” As for Warren’s planned sanctuary, his staff will need to come back with yet more revisions. “I was fully prepared to take a vote tonight,” Warren confessed at last week’s meeting. Three days later, Moss was like the can that was kicked down the road. He rolled up his sleeves, preparing to drag the tent he and Jasper occupied somewhere—anywhere—out of the path of the backhoe. “I knew this was coming and I just couldn’t get any sleep last night,” Moss said. “They keep doing things like this, and there’s just no rest out here. I know they keep talking about this thing at Johnston Park, but what about right now? Where do people go at this moment?” Ω

After two years of court appearances and the changing of a state law, Sacramento activist maile hampton will not stand trial for obstructing a peace officer, a misdemeanor charge that stemmed from touching another protestor’s arm for three seconds. Hampton accepted a plea deal earlier this month that lowered the misdemeanor crime to a simple traffic infraction of failing to comply with a lawful order from a peace officer. Online court records show Hampton was sentenced to community service and informal probation. Hampton’s arrest came during a Black Lives Matter protest in January 2015. Seeing a fellow protestor get grabbed by a police officer, Hampton briefly took his other forearm. A video of the incident shows Hampton never touched the officer. According to Hampton’s attorney Linda Parisi, the grabbed protestor was never arrested. Hampton was arrested the next day at home. The case made national headlines because the Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office initially charged Hampton with a felony allegation of “lynching.” Outrage over Hampton’s case eventually led California lawmakers to alter the statute. Meanwhile, in court, Parisi attacked the lynching charge, and the DA’s office eventually refiled Hampton’s case as misdemeanor obstruction. In January, an SN&R analysis of court records between 2014 and 2016 determined that Sacramento prosecutors were nearly three times more likely to take defendants to trial on a misdemeanor charge of obstructing a peace officer than their counterparts in Alameda, the county most demographically similar to Sacramento. Cres Vellucci of the National Lawyers Guild told SN&R that Hampton’s plea deal shouldn’t be taken as a sign that local prosecutors are going to stop charging activists with crimes. “The idea appears to be to really discourage people from being out there,” Vellucci observed. “Even if the charges are thrown out later, it’s a form of intimidation through the system.” Indeed, four people were cited and released for trespassing on April 28, when more than a dozen people associated with Black Lives Matter Sacramento occupied City Hall to protest the commendation of police officers involved in the April 2016 shooting death of Dazion Flenaugh. (Scott Thomas Anderson)

food cluSter-truck Spanish-speaking food vendors posted near Southside Park had their carts confiscated and their products trashed last week by city and county officials. The April 23 episode unfolded outside the Our Lady of Guadalupe Church and kicked up a storm on social media, where a cellphone video viewed more than 46,000 times showed burly men in flak vests and dark sunglasses rousting the unlicensed operators. The raid was conducted by city code enforcement personnel, county park rangers and officials with the county’s Environmental Management Department. The video, recorded by Fatima Garcia, shows city and county workers loading ice chests, a standing barbecue, propane tank and other materials into a flatbed truck as rangers post up near the curb. In the video, a man in a vest labeled “Code Enforcement” explains the reasoning behind the raid to individuals asking them to stop. Members of the labor council told SN&R they would be protesting the action at Tuesday’s meeting of the Sacramento City Council, which occurred past deadline. (Raheem F. Hosseini)

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Shauna Heckert, left, Women’s Health Specialists’ executive director, and Eileen Schnitger, right, its public policy director, reminiscence over a group photo displaying their first Sacramento location on J Street, which opened in 1987. Photo by Mozes zarate

Trump gropes repro rights Closure of Sacramento women’s clinic foreshadows lost abortion access by Mozes zarate

Not a single picketer occupied the sidewalks outside Women’s Health Specialists on its final afternoon. Inside the North Sacramento building, two rows of empty chairs outnumbered a husband in the waiting room an hour before closing time. After 30 years of providing comprehensive medical care to women (and even some men), the nonprofit clinic shuttered its Ethan Way branch and two nearby satellites for good on April 28. For those on either side of the abortion divide, the quiet wilting of a major reproductive health clinic in the heart of progressive California foreshadows how a constitutional right dies—with a whimper instead of a bang. “It’s not a good day for women in this county,” reflected Shauna Heckert, executive director of Women’s Health Specialists of California. 10 | SN&R | 05.04.17

In the past seven years, publicly funded women’s health clinics have been under an unrelenting siege, as an increasingly pro-life Congress re-litigates the national abortion debate. The conflict may reach its climax under the Trump administration through ongoing attempts to dismantle the Affordable Care Act and strip federal money from comprehensive women’s health centers that also conduct abortions. The threats from D.C. still loom, but the Sacramento clinic closed for an unexpected reason: California politics. Heckert said that the clinic closed due to low reimbursement rates under MediCal managed care health plans, which bill private insurers instead of the government directly for services. “Most of our clients are at or below the poverty level, so they rely on the Medi-Cal program or assisted programs, and the reimbursement is inadequate,”

Heckert said. “[And] because it’s a privatized system—and we have health plans that we are billing instead of going directly to the state—our payments are getting lost in the system and we either don’t get paid at all, or we get paid too little and too late.” Medical providers have complained in the past about low Medi-Cal reimbursements in general, and that revenue gap grew as the number of recipients soared under the Affordable Care Act. Today, Heckert said 80 percent of Women’s Health’s clients are covered by Medi-Cal. In January, Gov. Jerry Brown outlined a state budget proposal that included drawing revenue from the Proposition 56 tobacco tax increase to grow Medi-Cal. Medical groups contend instead that the new money should be used to improve reimbursement rates, which Women’s Health supports. A final budget plan is

due in June. The Sacramento locations couldn’t wait that long. Last year, around 80 percent of Women’s Health’s revenue came from Medi-Cal and Family PACT, a 90:10 federal-state funding split for uninsured patients. None of this money pays for abortions, which represent a small percentage of the clinic’s services. But that hasn’t mattered to Republicans. The latest GOP advance came in April, when the House of Representatives reversed an Obama-era rule that prevented states from cutting Title X federal family planning grants from clinics that perform abortions. If dismantling the ACA rolls back the number of Medi-Cal patients, or the federal government cuts off access to Medi-Cal reimbursements in particular, clinics could be starved of their resources. “It’s only going to get worse,” Heckert predicted. “[We’re] hoping we’ll be able to survive. If Trump comes in and does what he would like to do, we are in grave danger.” Heckert’s organization will continue to operate in Grass Valley, Redding and Chico, where its first location was founded in 1975. In the meantime, clients are being redirected to other clinics, including nearby Planned Parenthood locations. Approximately 10,000 annual patient visits were made to Women’s Health’s Sacramento locations, Heckert said. Seventeen employees were also laid off. Some are celebrating the loss of the Sacramento clinics. For six and a half years, Wynette Sills stood on the sidewalk weekly alongside other pro-life activists to picket and intercept women entering the Ethan Way clinic. The director of Californians for Life, Sills said her sidewalk ministry will now shift to other Sacramento abortion providers that are smaller and more vulnerable to government funding shifts. “We’re grateful that it closed,” Sills said. “And we’re hoping other abortion businesses will follow.” In the boardroom of Women’s Health, a large photo depicts a victory some 20 years past, when staff fended off protesters attempting to block the entrance of the original J Street location. To Heckert, last week’s closure is a loss of critical turf. “Most of the work we do is political,” Heckert said. “We’ve been firebombed five times. … We have our leases getting canceled. … Doctors get death threats. We have protestors out in front that follow us home and monitor our every activity. There’s nothing normal about this work. And we started, one, so that women have this kind of health care, and two, we wanted women to control their health care. … Not their agenda. Her agenda.” Ω

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Founder Jenny Williamson has continued to For those on a philanthropic kick after getting aggressively fundraise on behalf of her organizatheir tax returns, Sacramento’s fourth annual Big tion, even as she’s also defaulted on numerous Day of Giving offers an online telethon of sorts, promises to reopen her so-called “Courage House” with more than 600 local charities vying to break by self-imposed deadlines. last year’s record generosity in a mere 24 hours. In its most recent online newsletter, Courage The online giving challenge has raised more Worldwide blamed the delays on new state regulathan $16 million for the three-county Sacramento tions that are phasing out funding for group homes region since its inception, including tens of thouin favor of short-term residential treatment facilities, sands for one organization that’s disinvited from which have different licensing requirements. participating this year. Even with its NorCal home remaining dark, the Courage Worldwide Inc. was bounced from embattled nonprofit announced its intent to expand this year’s Big Day list months after its Northern California residential facility for female sex traffick- services to adult victims of sex trafficking. In the meantime, the organization has racked ing victims came under state licensing and media up another violation regarding its care of underscrutiny. But the once-revered charity collected age girls. On January 27, the Community Care more than $57,000 since 2014 through past Big Licensing Division of the state Department of Day fundraisers, The Sacramento Bee reported. Social Services cited Courage Worldwide Which raises the question: Just how good with a Type B deficiency for failing are Big Day gatekeepers at weeding to notify it of at least two law out charities that don’t operate as enforcement visits last year. advertised? Tully stressed that Courage Very, says Shirlee Tully, The process is Worldwide was the only chief marketing and developsupposed to cull charity removed from this ment officer of Giving Edge, nonprofits whose spending year’s Big Day event, but a Sacramento area nonprofit noted that some charities information source. doesn’t always line up drop out during the applica“Our job is to make with their lofty mission tion process or are disqualisure profiles accurately statements. fied if they are unable to meet represent what they do,” Tully requirements. told SN&R. “[With Courage Approximately 30 percent Worldwide], there were too many of all Big Day donations are from inconsistencies about what they are first-timers, Tully noted. To assuage actually delivering and there was a lack their concerns, Big Day allows donors to compare of response from them about fixing those, so we charities on its website, which features summaries, pulled it.” financial records and more. Tully pointed out that a Giving Edge vetted and approved the more than charity’s larger overhead spending isn’t an inherent 600 local charities that are participating in today’s red flag, as some nonprofit business models, like Big Day, an initiative created by the Sacramento WEAVE’s retail stores, can lead to what seem to be Region Community Foundation. In addition, Tully disproportionately high expense-to-revenue ratios. says the charities have undergone an extensive year Today’s goal is to exceed the $7.1 million that of training and have made two years of financial was raised for 570 charities last year, though that records available on their online profiles. That amount should come with an asterisk. A systemprocess is supposed to cull nonprofits whose spendwide server crash froze donations last year and ing doesn’t always line up with their lofty mission forced Big Day organizers to extend the deadline by statements. another 16 hours to hit their goal. In Courage Worldwide’s case, a host of Courage Worldwide’s April 27 newsletter state licensing violations forced its board to acknowledged it “will NOT be included in the close the six-bed group home for sexually Sacramento Big Day of Giving,” then referred users trafficked girls last summer, a month after last to a link where they could make online donations. year’s Big Day event. Courage Worldwide Its May 5 golf tournament in Roseville was asking didn’t reveal that status until after the media $175 a head. Ω came calling.

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I am writing this column on Saturday afternoon, on an airplane flying to Washington, D.C. This weekend, there are 360 Sacramentans making their way to the 47th annual Sacramento Metro Chamber Cap-to-Cap. While I have taken numerous Cap-to-Cap trips before, this year I will be landing in a very different D.C. The point of Cap-to-Cap is to tell Sacramento’s story to federal officials. In the months before the trip, people from our six-county region divided themselves into 12 policy teams focusing on issues “important to economic growth and quality of life” for our growing and diverse region. The teams are composed of business leaders, elected officials, nonprofit staff, employees of government agencies, college administrators, Republicans, Democrats, independents and young people as well as some old folks like me. The teams discuss and argue and eventually agree upon a few critical things that the federal government could and should do to make Sacramento a better place. There are requests for more funding of key needs such as housing, education and infrastructure repair. There is a request for regulatory reform to speed “the maintenance and repair of existing public infrastructure” such as the Oroville Dam spillway repairs. This list of priorities is an extraordinary document, and the process of arriving at agreement was remarkably nonpartisan. It was democracy at its finest—concerned citizens, working together with government officials, to improve their community. In a few hours, I will be landing in our nation’s capital, where democracy is not functioning at its finest. In the previous week, the president released a one-page tax plan. This plan was clearly not well thought out, and the departments that would oversee its implementation had not 14 | SN&R | 05.04.17

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hen the skeletal remains of Army 101st Airborne Pfc. Shadow McClaine were found in late January, it ended a months-long search of the rugged Tennessee-Kentucky mountains for the Yuba City native. The discovery also ended the hope of family members who had joined the effort to locate the missing 25-year-old in the area surrounding Fort Campbell, where she’d served her country. A little more than a week later, loved ones were joined by military and law enforcement personnel in uniform to greet her flag-draped casket in the darkness of a winter morning at the Sacramento International Airport. The respect she was shown in death was ironic in a way, said McClaine’s mother, London Wegrzyn, speaking at the airport to local news stations. “[T]hem finally giving her the respect she deserves, it’s just a little too late, but I love it,” she said. Wegrzyn is convinced McClaine was killed by her ex-husband, Sgt. Jamal Williams-McCray, and Spc. Charles Robinson, an accomplice. Military prosecutors believe this as well, though a cause of death has not yet been determined. Nearly two months after McClaine went missing, the Army’s main investigative body, the Criminal Investigation Command, arrested both men. They’ve since been charged under the Uniform Code of Military Justice with kidnapping, conspiracy and premeditated murder. Williams-McCray later was also charged with rape, aggravated assault and obstruction of justice. McClaine’s death underscores concerns about the U.S. military’s commitment to protecting female soldiers from their male counterparts and the epidemic of military sexual trauma, or MST. That’s the term used by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to describe psychological trauma that “resulted from a physical assault of a sexual nature, battery of a sexual nature, or sexual harassment which occurred while the veteran was serving on active duty or active duty for training.” Wegrzyn, who lives in Yuba City, said the Army and personnel at Fort Campbell, which straddles the TennesseeKentucky border, failed to protect her daughter, and she and other relatives lay much of the blame for McClaine’s death on her commanding officers. Just over a year before she went missing, McClaine had accused Williams-McCray of rape,

Shadow McClaine was willing to give her life for her country but ended up giving it to a murderer. Photos courtesy of London Wegrzyn via facebook

and while she was in desperate need of these officers’ help, they turned their backs on her. Wegrzyn is now determined to “go after the Army” because she believes leadership at Fort Campbell—from McClaine’s commanding officers all the way to the base’s generals—could have prevented her daughter’s death. “Several people from her command knew the dynamics of her relationship with her ex-husband, yet none helped her,” she said. “She told them she was in fear for her life. They instead told her she wasn’t fit to be in the Army. She will get justice, and I will not stop until this never happens again.”

Pleas unanswered Preliminary hearings for both suspects were held in military court in April. According to a press release from the 101st Airborne Division, prosecutor Maj. Rebecca Farrell argued Williams-McCray was physically violent and sexually assaulted McClaine during their marriage. She charged that Williams-McCray killed McClaine because he wanted to take a military assignment in South Korea but couldn’t because the sexual-assault allegation remained unresolved. Thus far, evidence in the case is circumstantial but compelling. The prosecutor said Robinson’s wife told investigators she overheard her husband and Williams-McCray talking about the highway exit in Tennessee near where McClaine’s body was discovered. She also said her husband washed his truck—including its bed, with bleach—not long after McClaine went missing. DNA tests on hair and blood reportedly found in the vehicle are pending. Military defense attorneys for the suspects told the court the investigation is not complete and there isn’t enough evidence for the case to go to a court-martial—the military court where armed-forces members are tried. Both suspects are being held at a local jail and could face the death penalty. McClaine’s parents and other family members were present at the hearings and remain convinced the Army failed her after she’d reported the alleged assault. Wegrzyn says her daughter told commanding officers multiple times that she feared for her life and wanted to be transferred off base, but that those pleas went unanswered, as both she and Williams-McCray remained stationed at Fort Campbell. It was revealed during the preliminary hearings that McClaine had at one point recanted the rape accusation, but that she’d subsequently told her commanding officers she’d done so because Williams-McCray had intimidated her.

According to online posts by McClaine, the intimidation escalated. She wrote on Facebook that she was “always looking over [her] shoulder” and alleging her brake lines had been cut. Wegrzyn said when her daughter told her about the incident, she urged her to again ask for a transfer off the base. But McClaine’s request was again refused. “Commanding officers took the ex-husband’s side,” Wegrzyn told SN&R. “She was viewed as the aggressor because of her ex-husband’s narcissistic ways of trying to destroy her life. The Army looked the other way, and he succeeded.”

a f l aw e d s t r u c t u r e McClaine entered the service when she was barely out of her teens. The draw for women her age includes the steady pay, college tuition assistance programs and the opportunity to learn valuable skills. But the military is far different from any entry-level civilian job or college. Enlisted women often become the center of attention of their male counterparts, who outnumber them 10 to 1. According to a 2014 RAND Corp. study, roughly a third of women in military service experience some gender-based discrimination and harassment. One female veteran told the online publication Cracked, “All of the females were considered either ‘sluts’ or ‘lesbians.’” But, unlike the civilian workplace, there’s no civil recourse. Lindsey Sin, deputy secretary for Women Veterans Affairs at the California Department of Veterans Affairs, known as CalVet, in Sacramento, promotes military service while also supporting and serving California’s women veterans, the second largest population in the nation, behind Texas. Some are MST survivors suffering from post-traumatic-stress disorder. Sin says her time in the Navy was a “fantastic experience” that launched her career serving veterans. She faced challenges, which

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she wouldn’t elaborate on, but she wants to make it clear she does “not want to mischaracterize that every woman [who] goes into the military experiences a huge amount of harassment and assault.” Sin’s job requires a balancing act. “We walk a fine line between encouraging women to serve in the military and highlighting that military service is something very positive, and also understanding that systemic change or cultural change also has to happen in the military,” Sin told SN&R. “There is a reality that it doesn’t go well for everybody, and that doesn’t excuse what goes on in the military by a long shot,” she continued. “[My job is] to balance the fact that we want to see women serving in the military, because that’s truly how we change an organization for the better, while also recognizing the military is not in any way perfect, and in fact criminal activities can happen within it.” Sin’s office has researched MST by surveying California veterans, resulting in an outreach and lobbying effort to raise awareness and pass veteran-friendly legislation, such as Assembly Bill 1509, a 2014 law that developed a program assisting vets, including those who have suffered from MST, with the transition to civilian life. “Many women I speak to don’t regret their military service,” she said. “They are devastated and profoundly affected, unfortunately, by something such as an assault that may have happened to them, but they still, for the most part, are very proud to have served in the military.”

I n t e r n a l a f fa I r s The subject of MST hit the mainstream in 2013 with the release of a Pentagon study based on a confidential survey of 108,000 active-duty members. The study estimated that 26,000 military personnel had been sexually assaulted the previous year—although only 3,374 were reported. In response to the revelation, then-President Barack Obama called for the military to take a zero-tolerance stance: “If we find out somebody’s engaging in this stuff, they’ve got to be held accountable, prosecuted, stripped of their positions, court-martialed, fired, dishonorably discharged. Period.” In 2014, a study released by the Pentagon revealed just over 5,000 cases of sexual assault were reported in 2013, 50 percent more than in the previous year. That increase was attributed to improved reporting protocols. Meanwhile, according to a CalVet study also released in 2014, 73 percent of respondents experienced sexual harassment and 40 percent said they’d been victims of sexual assault while on active duty. Pentagon officials attribute the discrepancy between the estimated number of assaults and the number of those reported to a fear of retaliation. Indeed, those who do file a report may face what many MST victims refer to as “the second assault.” Bullying, demotions and ostracism were well-documented by Human Rights Watch in a series of studies released in 2015 and 2016, including one titled “Embattled: Retaliation Against Sexual Assault Survivors in the U.S. Military.” CalVet reports that 60 percent of its veterans who had reported sexual assault or harassment also reported retaliation. MST victims and advocates say a more telling statistic from the Pentagon regarding MST is this: In 2015, the military received more than 6,000 reports of sexual assault. But only 250 of these reports (4 percent) led to a conviction. Further controversy surrounding MST relates to the fact that, under military law, the commanding officer decides whether an alleged assailant faces a courtmartial. Moreover, that superior has the authority to overturn a military jury’s verdict. In the male-dominated service, female MST victims say, the military’s unwritten code of “brotherhood” exerts heavy influence on whether the accused will ever face judgment. Members of Congress have tried to move decisions on sexual-assault prosecution to experienced military prosecutors—rather than leaving them to commanding officers, as is customary—but the Senate voted down bipartisan legislation on that front in 2014.

aW O l , O r m I s s I n g ? McClaine, who had served in Afghanistan and South Korea and at the time of her death worked as an air traffic controller at Fort Campbell, went missing in her fourth year of enlistment. She was last heard from when she texted her mother on September 2, a Friday and the start of Labor Day weekend. She failed to report for duty the following Monday morning. Eleven days later, her abandoned car was found in a parking lot in Nashville, about 70 miles from the base. Prior to joining the Army, McClaine was a happy and loving young adult, her family insists. Pictures of her as a vibrant child, teen and 20-something fill a Facebook page titled “Justice for Shadow McClaine.” The Yuba City native had a passion for photography and wanted to return home to California when her service ended. She was scheduled to leave the military last October. After McClaine’s disappearance, her family held two candlelight vigils near Fort Campbell. They were shocked when they recognized no one from her chain of command at either. Officials there have been tight-lipped about McClaine’s killing. In response to inquiries for this story, Lt. Col. Chevelle Thomas, from the 101st Airborne’s Division of Public Affairs at the base, issued this statement to SN&R: “The circumstances leading up to and surrounding Private McClaine’s death remain part of an active and ongoing investigation and no final actions have been taken.” Thomas noted that McClaine’s commanding officers, following her accusation of rape against Williams-McCray, did contact a Fort Campbell sexual-assault response coordinator, which led to an investigation. However, Williams-McCray wasn’t charged with rape until after McClaine’s body was discovered.

A sign protesting the Army’s failure to find Shadow McClaine. photos courtesy of London Wegrzyn via facebook

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Swirling rumorS Despite the military’s culture of masculinity and ultradiscipline, some women seek a sense of belonging from male soldiers. McClaine’s family says she wed Williams-McCray on impulse. The couple’s marriage did not last a year. They remained in close proximity following their separation in 2015. Seeing each other on a daily basis reportedly resulted in a fallout of jealousy and revenge. Both of them filed protective orders against each other as their loathing played out on controversial websites such as Shesahomewrecker.com and Liarscheatersrus.com. Army investigators and local law enforcement outside the base say that McClaine made up multiple fake identities to get back at her ex-husband for his alleged infidelities. In fact, military and local police were so convinced her harassment had crossed a line that McClaine was arrested last summer for stalking, criminal impersonation and contempt of court. She was scheduled to appear in court on September 6, according to local law enforcement court documents. But she never showed. She’d gone missing days earlier and initially was considered AWOL, as publicly stated at the time by Master Sgt. Kevin Doheny, spokesman for the 101st Airborne Division. McClaine’s family says designating her AWOL didn’t afford her a massive search by the Army. However, Thomas says McClaine’s chain of command, based on the information known at the time, were correct when they reported her as AWOL. “The AWOL designation did not interfere with conducting a thorough search,” Thomas insisted. “The command, however, cannot take steps to protect AWOL soldiers because their location is not known.” The family questions how thorough a search was actually conducted. It wasn’t until a month later, on October 8, that uniformed Army soldiers told them the Army had changed McClaine’s status from AWOL to missing. Why and when exactly her chain of command decided she was possibly in trouble and not AWOL may or may not come out during a murder trial. The family thinks Fort Campbell officials assumed McClaine went AWOL based on her recent arrest. After all, there were rumors on base suggesting she’d fabricated the story about her severed brakes, which she had posted about on her Facebook page, complete with pictures. Thomas says the Army investigated McClaine’s report that someone had tampered with her vehicle. She was never charged with filing a false police report. McClaine’s loved ones fume at the accusations that she was a liar and a stalker. They say her ex-husband and his friends, through fake online profiles, deliberately created the appearance that she was stalking him and other women near Fort Campbell. They also believe his strategy was an attempt to cast doubt on her allegation of rape. His lies convinced police to wrongly arrest McClaine, says the family. Her own words back this up. “I got arrested for allegedly ‘stalking’ a woman I have never met in person,” McClaine wrote online just before she reported her brake lines had been cut. “I have only had very brief email correspondence with the alleged victim, and two weeks prior, she called my work to complain that I was going to her work and threatening her. I have not been to that restaurant in over a year and have spent every moment of my time the last two months with my [new] boyfriend. They are trying to make me out to be a crazy stalker when I am not.”

no eScape After repeated unanswered texts to her daughter during that fateful Labor Day weekend, McClaine’s mother knew something was terribly wrong. Wegrzyn flew to Kentucky, where she urged her daughter’s commanding officers at Fort Campbell to determine that she was missing.

“I went there to find my daughter and get answers by being in the Army’s face,” Wegrzyn said. But she couldn’t convince McClaine’s chain of command that her daughter was in trouble. So, she turned to Army Criminal Investigation Command investigators stationed at Fort Campbell. In many ways, CID is the FBI of the Army. Its mission is to investigate all serious felony crimes committed by Army personnel. Wegrzyn, who had access to her daughter’s bank and phone records, says when she showed CID investigators there had been no activity for either, they took McClaine’s disappearance far more seriously than her chain of command had done. “CID has been the only ones [in the Army] that helped us,” she said. Outside of the Army, the National Veteran Search and Recovery Program, a nonprofit made up of veteran, first responder and enlisted volunteers, organized a search for McClaine and issued a “Missing Warrior Alert,” which the group says is akin to an Amber Alert. One of McClaine’s biggest champions besides her loved ones is MST survivor Colleen Bushnell, a retired Air Force veteran and noncommissioned officer who worked closely with McClaine’s family during the months she was missing. Bushnell does not get paid for her activism, but in the MST survivor community she’s a firebrand. Raped twice by commanding officers in two consecutive years over a decade ago, Bushnell sought justice but faced the “second assault” of retaliation. When her enlistment ended, she suffered from PTSD, became homeless and lost custody of her children. Bushnell, who now lives in Phoenix, has become an advocate for female soldiers and their families when they are victimized. She rallied McClaine’s family and demanded Fort Campbell list the young woman as missing and not AWOL. She sent letters to Fort Campbell leadership, but she was met with silence. Bushnell’s own time in the Air Force in many ways mirrored McClaine’s in the Army. Bushnell was an early 20-something when she enlisted. She met a fellow airman and married in a hurry, and then she endured a messy divorce. “I trusted and trusted this man,” said Bushnell, who also, incidentally, shares a birthday with McClaine. “I did what McClaine did, very similar. I was very naïve, and that trusting nature inspired me to serve my country. It drove me to serve. Had I known what the military was truly like, I wouldn’t have. “My instinct about McClaine is that she was a good girl, a bookworm. She barely dated in high school. … She decided in her early 20s to strike out on her own and joined the military on a whim. She was not prepared to meet a guy who had street smarts and was not pure of heart. This guy didn’t mean his vows. He was out for himself. He wanted sex and fun. But with her trusting nature, he thought he could have both worlds.” Bushnell thinks McClaine felt so strongly about her vows she fought back. “She started trying to track down what he had really done to her,” she said. “Would I track down the woman my husband cheated with? No. But she was only 25 years old, and these kids are different with the internet. The mistake I think McClaine made was not realizing the danger she put herself in by fighting back so openly. “But this girl had no psychiatric history, no criminal history. And all of a sudden she’s a stalking, manipulating, brake-cutting histrionic problem?” In one of her unanswered letters to Fort Campbell, Bushnell asked officials to provide a victim’s counsel to the family, independent of the military. That didn’t happen. Bushnell’s personal goal is for the military to someday establish an independent special-victims entity at all major U.S. military installations. McClaine was assigned a special victim’s counsel after the alleged rape, but her attorneys were military personnel. “If there was a special-victims unit on base, an independent one, McClaine and her mom could have turned to them for help,” she said. “McClaine’s case is precisely why we need to take the reporting, investigation, adjudication, prosecution and sentencing of criminals out of the hands of the local unit commanders and into the hands of trained law enforcement and legal professionals. This is a prime example of a situation where her death could have been prevented had outside experts taken over the situation.” Perhaps it is McClaine, in another online post, who said it best about her predicament within the military—a place and a culture she seemingly could not escape. “I really wish the legal system would actually work like it is supposed to.” Ω

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Festival on Watch the third (and possibly final) First Street in West May 6-7 at River Walk Park, 651 Second early bird and $20 Sacramento. One-day tickets are $15 for $50 for VIP. In or $35 costs pass nd at the gate; a weeke , food trucks addition to dozens of local artists and bands more at and vendors will add to the activity. Learn www.firstfestivalsacramento.com.

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Southside Park on June 18, 2016, the weather could not have been better: mid-70 degrees, sunny. Producer Danielle Vincent had rounded up 42 local bands to play two days’ worth of jams for the second year of First Festival. The first year, she had sold 1,500 tickets. But on that Saturday, Vincent drove a golf cart around the three stages, and she wept. “I have this joke that if I were to ever start a record label or something, it would be called Weeping Golf Cart,” Vincent said. “People would get in the passenger seat and would be like, ‘It’s OK.’ I would just be like”—she imitated ugly-crying with an “oh-oh-oh-oh.” “Luckily, there weren’t very many people around to see me.” That year, First Festival sold only 500 tickets. The letdown has served as a lesson to the Sacramento music scene. Online commenters told Vincent that the event was too expensive, not diverse enough, not well-publicized. They concluded that Sacramento wasn’t ready to pay $60 for a full-weekend pass to see only local bands without national followings. Vincent’s public embarrassment unearthed hard questions: Is an all-local music festival possible here? Does Sacramento even care about its homegrown musicians? Vincent took it all in. But before she faced the criticism, she slept in the park the night of Sunday, June 19, on top of the tables and bar stools that vendors couldn’t retrieve until Monday. Then, she picked herself up from the grass, the dirt, the failure—like Scarlett O’Hara at the end of Gone with the Wind—and committed to do better this year. Now, the third First Festival is scheduled May 6-7, and Vincent says it’s the last shot she’s giving it. Sacramento had better show up or else.

She’S So lucky On a recent gloomy spring day, Vincent traced the length of her sizable to-do list with her periwinkle nail polish. She carried an abnormally long notebook with a cat sticker on the cover to accommodate her hurried jottings of tasks. Wearing a blonde updo, she confessed that one of her role models is Britney Spears. The pop icon’s messy public breakdowns have taught Vincent a crucial lesson: “It’s OK to have certain stumbling blocks in life, and we can come out the other side clean and clear,” she said. Like the diva in question, Vincent wasn’t always this put together. She struggled to show up to community college. Then, a proverbial to-do list saved her when she decided to take just two classes and finish them. “The more little goals I set like that, the more I started to believe I could actually do anything.” She credits her ability to finish small goals with another life change: opening a boutique for three years called The Firefly Exchange to encourage Sacramentans to shop local—much like her current mission to get them to listen local. To promote her store, she and a friend, Ashley Rastad, came up with an idea for a festival with vendor booths that happened to spotlight local bands. First Festival was born. “I wish I could say that it came out of this intense passion for the Sacramento music scene,” she said. “But it really turned into that. … When you start to meet artists and

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musicians who put their passion on display, then you realize a major event like that—it’s not something local bands have access to.” In 2015, the year of the first First Festival, 18 bands played, including favorites like A Mile Till Dawn and Drop Dead Red. Vincent and her husband invested a solid chunk of their life savings into the event and managed to break even. “It really made me feel empowered that Sacramento really wanted something like this and that there was only one way to go—and that was up,” she said. Tickets for the one-day festival cost a mere $15 ahead of time and $20 at the gate. Attendees gushed about how good of a deal it was for the number of bands they saw. “That was a lesson I had to learn,” she said. “Just because you get feedback that the price is low doesn’t mean it’s a good choice to raise it.”

Till The world endS Spoiler alert: It was not a good choice to raise ticket prices. Vincent and her husband spent around $40,000 on the 2016 event and lost about $20,000 in the end. “It just bombed,” she admitted. “Bands played to empty stages.” At the end of the weekend, Vincent had to tell the workers dismantling the stages that she wouldn’t be able to pay them that night, and she said she was terrified to do it. “It was like the heaviest lead ball in my stomach—just disbelief, disappointment, confusion, frustration, fear.” She worked out a payment plan with the stage rental company and other vendors. (So far, she’s paid back about half of the total owed on the event, and the same stage company is working at this year’s festival.) Vincent’s academic pursuits steeled her spirits. She was finishing up her undergraduate degree in philosophy at Sacramento State and winning awards for her research. Shortly after First Festival, the turnaround student was invited to speak at Pacific University in Portland, Ore. Meanwhile, she held onto her conviction that First Festival could pull ahead. Many musicians have stuck by her side. Seth Borges of alt-rock band Surviving the Era has played all the years, including this one. “She’s got a lot of drive and a lot of faith that Sacramento can be bigger for music than what it is,” he said. This year, Vincent armed herself with an ironclad to-do list, everything down to painting the foam cutouts for the three stages to look like an octopus, a seagull, a lighthouse. They swallowed up her living room. Thirty-nine local bands are slated to play, including the nationally recognized act Oleander. To make the event visually enticing, she’s put Laura Marie Anthony, founder of the organization Artists of Sacramento, in charge of exhibiting more than 40 local artists. Anthony signed on with Vincent because she felt they were kindred spirits. “We both really care about follow-through,” Anthony said. “Danielle is an attractive blond woman—young woman—who has a very kind voice, but when she asserts herself as much as anyone else would, sometimes that is a surprise to people. She really inspires me being a woman in kind of a male-dominated industry.” Their shared goals come down to showing what Sacramento’s got. In a landscape of outdoor festivals that book nonlocal acts, such as Concerts in the Park and TBD

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Fest—which has been named in a lawsuit for nonpayment of vendors and musicians—First Festival is a “rare bird,” Anthony says. “We are showing how strong Sacramento is as a creative community and how much talent we have,” she said. “That’s the kind of thing that gives me goosebumps just talking about it.” To make sure the endangered species survives, Vincent has absorbed those tough lessons from last year. Ticket prices are back down and more hip-hop acts fill out the lineup. And now, she has a hype squad. Several billboards are plastered around town and a street team has been hanging posters. The crew includes musicians who are pumped to get the word out about one of their first outdoor festivals. When hip-hop artist Kennedy Wrose gave his niece a tour of Sac State, he dusted the campus with First Festival posters and postcards. He’s noticed that the other musicians are backing up Vincent’s vision, too. “I just see a lot more artists, more than I’ve seen for any concert or anything I’ve done, really just get engaged in wanting to like—‘OK, how can we make this event dope and how can we make this cool and how can we make this one of the greatest festivals Sacramento sees this year,’” he said. The future of First Festival hangs in the balance. If it does well, Vincent will continue organizing the annual shindig on top of pursuing her master’s in philosophy at UC Davis. If not, she’ll let it fade away. Regardless, she thinks the drama has helped Sacramento to take a look at itself and ask: How do we as a city want to support local music? Will we? “In the end, if Sacramento doesn’t want First Festival, I’m willing to accept that,” she said. “And this will be the year that says it.” The work is almost done. Countless to-do bullets have been crossed off. Only Sacramento can answer what happens next. Ω

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Dr. Strangelove screening THURSDAY, MAY 4 Crocker Art Museum’s annual Summer Film Series kicks off with Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Film Bomb. Local film historian Jacob Greenberg will guide you through some next-level thinking in this classic satire as well as the next three films in the monthly series. Museum members can purchase an $18 pass to attend all four screenings. $6-$18; 6:30 p.m. at Crocker Art Museum, 216 O Street; www.crockerart.org.

—JAnelle BiTkeR

California Solar Regatta FRiDAY, MAY 5, AnD SATURDAY, MAY 6 Celebrate solar energy by cheering on local students as they race solar-powered boats they designed and built themselves. While the kids compete, you can enjoy the beautiful outdoor activities of the Rancho Seco Lake. The young engineers EnviRonmEnt have a chance to win in a variety of races—all in the name of solar energy. Free; 9 a.m. at Rancho Seco Recreational Area, 14960 Twin Cities Road in Herald; https://smud.org/solar-regatta.

—loRY Gil

Walk a mile in Her Shoes SATURDAY, MAY 6 Local nonprofit WEAVE has put together a fun event for men to help put an end to violence against women. The idea is that this is not just a women’s battle, but also the duty of men in our community. Participating men will wear high heels FUnDRAiSER and walk a mile, raising money for services in the process. $45-$50; 11:30 a.m. at Capitol Mall Greens, 1300 Seventh Street; www.weaveinc.org.

—AARon CARneS

ay 4 means many things to many people. It’s the day Margaret Thatcher became prime minister of the United Kingdom, for instance. Me? I’ll always remember it as the first day I ever got really drunk. It’s also the Big Day of Giving, the online push to get folks to donate to Sacramento-area charities. And, perhaps even more important—to nerds around the world, at least— it’s Star Wars Day. This unofficial holiday will see Star Wars fans band together, argue about whether The Force Awakens was really all that, and repeatedly say to each other, “May the Fourth be with you.” Here are a few ways to celebrate in the region: Swing by Empire’s Comics Vault (1120 Fulton Avenue, Suite K) for an all-day may the Fourth party, with Star Wars movies playing nonstop on the shop’s sweet 65-inch screen. Empire will dish out free popcorn and also put all Star Wars merchandise on sale. More at www.empirescomics.com. If you want to reenact your favorite fight scene, head to Fremont Park (1515 Q Street) for an epic lightsaber battle. All ages are welcome to gather

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three Billy Goats Gruff around 8 p.m. for this free, bring-your-own-saber event, which drew about 1,000 people last year. At 9 p.m., everyone will have to pick a side—good vs. evil, duh—and then the showdown begins. For more details, visit www.facebook.com/newmindspace. For a more-talking, less-fighting sort of battle, consider the Star Wars-themed pub quiz at Sactown Union Brewery (1210 66th Street, Unit B). Show up at 7 p.m. and expect to be grilled on episodes IV through VII along with Rogue One and a little expanded universe-related material. Teams are limited to six players, admission costs $5 per person and the winners get cool cash. Register your team at http://bit.ly/ThemeQuizReg. Spotlight Ballroom (2534 Industrial Boulevard, Suite 150, in West Sacramento) is hosting a Star Wars-themed West Coast swing dancing party, which starts with a quick, beginner-friendly lesson at 7:15 p.m. Open dancing starts at 8 p.m., followed by a raffle at 10 p.m., plus cookies all night long. Entrance costs $8 plus an extra $4 for the lesson. More at www.facebook.com/SpotlightBallroom.

—JAnelle BiTkeR

SATURDAY, MAY 6, AnD SUnDAY, MAY 7 It’s puppet show time at Fairtytale Town, and what better story than the Three Billy Goats Gruff to lead off this weekend? The children’s theater is super cheap with admission that includes the tHEAtER story of The Tortoise and the Hare. If you’ve never seen a production by the Puppet Art Theatre Company, now’s your chance. $1-$2; various times at Fairytale Town, 3901 Land Park Drive; www.fairytaletown.org/events.

—eDDie JoRGenSen

music theory Workshop SUnDAY, MAY 7 So many of us love music but don’t understand the mechanics behind it. That could change at MusicLandria, where Honyock lead singer and guitarist Mason Hoffman is teaching an introductory workshop on music theory. Explore standard musical notation, scales and intervals, ear training mUSiC and common chord progressions. $15 donation; 2 p.m. at Library of MusicLandria, 2181 Sixth Avenue; http://musiclandria.com.

—DAve keMpA

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Put an egg on it cAnnAvAro, Hot itAliAn I’m a sucker for topping almost any dish with an egg—the runnier the yolk the better—and pizza is no exception. There are plenty of local places that offer the option, but lately I’ve been obsessed with Hot Italian’s Cannavaro pie ($13)—we’re talking ordering-it-weekly obsessed. Here, the restaurant’s signature fresh and chewy crust is topped with just three ingredients: mozzarella, tomato sauce and fresh basil. Add an egg for just $3 and what was once a simple dish is elevated into something ridiculously tasty—and obsession-worthy. 1627 16th Street, www.hotitalian.net.

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Double switch: Six months after Joe Marty’s Bar & Grille (1500 Broadway) reopened in December 2015, Michael Sampino started calling the owners twice a month every month until they sold it to him. But when he took over in January, he found the customer service and food quality was “completely lacking” and that some employees engaged in “unethical practices” such as over pouring and under charging for drinks, Sampino said. (The former owner, Devon Atlee, called this Sampino’s “opinion”—one he didn’t share. “I tell myself very strongly that nothing like that happened,” Atlee said.) 26

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“So I shut down,” Sampino said. “It had to be cleaned, reorganized and remodeled. I fired 34 people, interviewed 196, hired [47], retrained them in 14 days and reopened. New menu. New image. I learned: Don’t half-ass anything.” Sampino, of Sampino’s Towne Foods (1607 F Street), wanted Joe Marty’s for two reasons: to become “a staple of Land Park” and to cater to the customers who, over his Midtown market’s 12 years of operation, complained about not being able to have his family’s Italian cooking for dinner. On the revamped menu, Sampino highlighted the chicken Parmesan,

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meatball sandwich and homemade ravioli in portions he said he’s “hardly ever seen a person finish.” One of those family-style-sized entrees—plus soup, salad and garlic bread—will run you about $17. “We’re making what my grandmother, my grandfather, my father and my wife’s family have been putting on their tables for generations,” he said. “They’re all things I proudly put my name behind.” But he won’t put his name behind Joe Marty’s famous broasted chicken. Put your pitchforks down. He’s got a good reason. He’d have to buy brine from the Broaster Co., pay it royalties and “on top of it, everybody who used to make the broasted chicken is dead,” he added. “So we 86’d the broasted chicken.” Now, Joe Marty’s will operate closer to how it did just after Sacramento gave the spot to its namesake, the legendary baseball player. When Marty ran the place, he partnered with El Chico, a pizza shop run by a local Italian family. “So we’re essentially creating the same concept he wanted,” Sampino said. “And I’m honored to be in Joe Marty’s.” Ω

A while back I watched a woman pull five bottles of La Hormiga Roja 2015 Garnacha ($5) from the Grocery Outlet wine aisle, saying she always buys in bulk when it’s in stock. I had to try it. A deep red approaching purple, this Spanish wine is packed with red fruits—strawberry and red cherry aromas lead to flavors of ripe raspberry and blackberry. A bit of air and time yield a fun, earthy funk, but this one may be a bit sweet for me. Pair on a clear weekend day with quiche and a light salad. 1700 Capitol Avenue, http://misaimports.com/ la-hormiga-roja-2015.html.

—DAve keMpA

Just a touch Spring onionS The delicate fruits and lettuces just appearing now in markets call for a gentler hand with seasoning. Don’t drown out their flavors with a hammering of strong alliums; look for spring onions and garlic to complement them instead. Now is the time to find green garlic, too, which can be used raw or barely cooked with freshly shucked peas and the first tender asparagus. Ramps, which are wild leeks, may be a bit stronger, but they’re wonderful grilled alongside meats and strewn across thin-crust pizzas with ham and asiago cheese.

—Ann MArtin rolke

Light side of the Fourth In its four years of existence, the Big Day of Giving has raised over $16 million for Sacramento area nonprofits. This year, it falls on Star Wars Day, May the Fourth (be with you). So in the spirit of celebrating both, Oak Park Brewing Co. (3514 Broadway) will be hosting the Star Paws Yappy Hour. At the double-pun event, guests can sip on more than a dozen beers, including their award-winners ($6 normally, but $1 off from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.): the Citra IPA, the Coconut Coffee Porter and the Belgian Bliss Monk’s Brown Ale—all brewed in house by Dave Estis and Tom Karvonen. Each beer sold will result in a $1 donation to the local SPCA. There will be a raffle, as well as several adoptable pups that you can bring home or introduce to your own dog. Costumes are encouraged, so slot those Yoda ears on your pooch before you get generously tipsy. Learn more at www.sspca.org/yappy-hour.

—John Flynn

Body-building cookie by Shoka Most protein bars are essentially candy bars fortified with nutrients, full of sugar and often covered in chocolate. What about protein cookies? Well, they are basically cookies that taste like a scoop of protein powder was dumped into the batter, like The Complete Cookie by Lenny & Larry’s. The Southern California company has been around since the 1990s, and wanted an alternative to guzzling protein shakes for pumping up muscle volume. So it concocted these vegan palm-sized cookies in

staple and seasonal flavors—chocolate chip, snickerdoodle, peanut butter, birthday cake, lemon poppy seed, among others—with 16 grams of protein per cookie. Comparatively, they are similar in cost and size to vegan cookies made by Alternative Baking Co. The Complete Cookie is sold by the box at www.lennylarry.com and individually at an array of retailers, including nutrition stores (GNC), grocery stores (Whole Foods), big-box stores (Target) and gas station convenience stores (7-Eleven, AM/PM, Circle K).

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7:30 p.m. friday and saturday, 2 p.m. sunday; $16.50-$24. falcon’s eye theatre, harris center for the arts, 10 college Parkway in folsom; (916) 608-6888; www.harriscenter.net. through May 14.

Poor Cyrano knows noses. Likewise, he knows that while size matters, in noses bigly is not better. The French master swordsman who has a masterful penchant for poetry also has a protruding proboscis that enters the room five minutes before he does— or so he jokes before someone else provides the inevitable punchline. In Falcon’s Eye Theatre’s impressive production of Cyrano, this recent adaptation by Michael Hollinger and Aaron Posner of the classic tale of Cyrano de Bergerac not only provides a mostwelcome dose of humor while changing up the opening scenes, they also do a nose job that trims and reshapes the original. However, the basic storyline stays the same—the swashbuckling hero Cyrano’s unrequited love of Roxane lyrically expressed through a younger, handsomer suitor. Though not a musical, this memorable production sings throughout—from the gifted cast to the spot-on staging, mingling the talents of seasoned professionals with budding Folsom Lake theater students. There isn’t a misstep in the casting. The main cast members all bring their A-game in sharp, witty and heartaching performances. Combined with the ace acting under the steady hand of director David Harris is the theater’s consistently strong production skills. The lighting and sound bring battle scenes alive, and beautiful costumes add color to the simple set of tiered marble steps.

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At the play’s end, as with any Cyrano production, you still don’t really believe that the characters of Cyrano would be so patient or that Roxane could be so dense, but the journey is so captivating, you don’t care. Ω

3 The Music Man

Fewer than 76 trombones march into the Art Court Theater when City Theatre presents the Meredith Willson classic The Music Man. The large theater in the Performing Arts Center of Sacramento City College is a perfect venue for this cast of more than 30 characters, allowing for energetic choreography by Brent Bianchini. The horde of younger children are as disciplined as the adults. Mike Sicilia leads the cast as Harold Hill, the con man out to sell kids’ bands while distracting the town librarian, Marian Paroo (Carley Neill Vann). While Sicilia is suitably charismatic as the fasttalking Hill, the show is definitely worth seeing if only for Vann, who is magnificent. Director Christine Nicholson has made some interesting casting choices and script revisions. For one thing, the role of Hill’s old buddy Marcellus Washburn is now played by Christi Van Eyken and known as Marcella. While she is fine, it’s not as believable as when the role is played by an older man. But these changes aside, this is a fun production with familiar music that seems to always be an audience favorite. —Bev SykeS the Music Man; 8 p.m. friday and saturday, 2 p.m. sunday; $10$15. art court theater at city college, 3835 freeport Boulevard; (916) 558-2228; www.citytheatre.net. through May 14.

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The Seagull

Ever see this 1896 Chekhov classic staged outdoors at twilight? Beneath a rising full moon? In a tranquil, grassy cemetery? That’s what the Art Theater of Davis does in this unusual show. The script involves well-heeled Russians whiling away a summer holiday at a rural estate. This traditional production is thoughtfully staged on a shoestring budget, and embodies Chekhov’s unique ability to combine comic social banter and inward desperation in the same play. Sa, Su, M, T 7pm. Through 5/9. Free, donations accepted. Davis Cemetery, 820 Pole Line Road in Davis. http://arttheater.org. J.H.

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and 9pm; Su 2pm; Tu 6:30pm; W 2 and 6:30pm. Through 6/4.

$33-$38. B Street Theatre, 2711 B Street; (916) 4435300; www.bstreettheatre. org. J.C.

The White Snake

Community Asian Theatre of the Sierra connects with this witty, wise retelling of an ancient Chinese fable, replete with live music, costumes and gorgeous, eye-appealing visuals. Worth going out of your way to see. 7pm Th, 8pm F, Sa, 2pm Su. through 5/6. $15-$25. Nevada Theatre, 401 Broad Street in Nevada City; http://catsweb.org. J.H.

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It is wonderfully appropriate that this new American musical is presented just walking distance from Sutter’s Fort, the final destination of the ill-fated Donner party. With music by Eric Rockwell, and book and lyrics by Margaret Rose, it’s directed by Michael Laun and Rose and makes for a beautiful show with an outstanding cast. The music is stunning, with anthemic songs mixed with

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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, make no mistake, is a barrel of fun. It’s marred—if that isn’t too strong a word—only by the suspicion that the fun won’t last long once we leave the theater. Maybe that’s writerdirector James Gunn’s plan—a ploy to encourage repeat business, bringing fans back to see it over and over again, to revisit the thrill, the way tourists line up in the Disney parks to ride Star Tours time after time. If that was the idea, Gunn might have been smarter to make the movie 20 or 30 minutes shorter and leave us wanting more; after 2 hours and 18 minutes, once we’ve sat through all the teaser scenes crammed into the credits, we’re ready for Gunn to wind things up and let us all go home. The afterglow may not carry all the way to our cars, but it shines brightly while it lasts. All of the Guardians from the 2014 original are back, being smart actors who know a steady job when they see one: Chris Pratt as Peter Quill, the half-alien leader of the pack; Zoe Saldana as Gamora, the green-skinned trainedassassin-turned-ally; Dave Bautista as Drax, the hulking comic relief; and Bradley Cooper as the voice of the varmint Rocket, swapping wisecracks with Drax. Even Vin Diesel’s tree-creature Groot, sacrificed the first time around, returns, in the form of an adorable (if slightly dim) little sapling, literally a chip off the old block. Gunn throws some newbies into the mix, beginning in a 1980 prologue featuring the 29-year-old Kurt

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Russell (through the same CGI magic that gave us Peter Cushing in Rogue One). Russell returns later (his present age but still looking great) as Ego, Quill’s biological father, hunting up his offspring for a family reunion (and providing one of the movie’s few quiet pleasures as dad and son play catch with a ball of light). Ego’s name should be a tipoff that the old man has ulterior motives—but let’s not arouse the Spoiler Police by going there. Gunn’s nicest touch—and sufficient reason to look forward to Vol. 3 in a couple of years—is Mantis (Pom Klementieff), a humanoid “empath” with (as the name suggests) insect features and a sweetly seductive, openhearted guilelessness. Praying mantises are said to bring luck; this one certainly does to Guardians. With a little more luck, the hitherto unknown Klementieff of Quebec may parlay the role into real stardom. Once the prologue is over and we’re in space again, events and creatures assail us with dizzying speed. But not to worry, Gunn’s plot is clearer and more straightforward this time around, underscoring heartwarming themes of friendship and family and set to yet another killer soundtrack of ’80s pop oldies. (Buy the soundtrack!) On my way out of the theater I bought a bag of cotton candy—zero nutrition, and I was still hungry, but it tasted great even as it melted in my mouth. Somehow it seemed appropriate. Ω

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When a young woman (Emma Watson) lands an entry-level position at the world’s greatest computer company (think Apple raised to the power of 100 and multiplied by Google-cubed), she thinks she’s waltzed into her dream job. At first she’s bemused by the company’s omnipresent eyes and ears, but after a meeting with the affable CEO (Tom Hanks), she volunteers to be monitored online every waking moment—to the mounting dismay of her parents (Glenne Headly, Bill Paxton) and best friends (Karen Gillan, Ellar Coltrane). The script by director James Ponsoldt and Dave Eggers (from Eggers’ novel) seems to be missing key scenes; certainly a subplot involving the company’s reclusive cofounder (John Boyega) seems truncated. Watson doesn’t quite manage her character’s seesaw changes, but she’s as appealing as ever. J.L.

Colossal

Spanish writer-director Nacho Vigalondo (Timecrimes; Open Windows) delivers this rom-com gimmick flick, a film that wins points for theoretical uniqueness and not much else. Colossal concerns a party-hardy screw-up named Gloria (Anne Hathaway), an out-of-work writer who returns to her childhood hometown following a breakup with her British boyfriend (Dan Stevens), only to find that her reappearance is connected to a series of giant monster and robot attacks in Seoul, South Korea. Fair enough, that’s a new one by me, Pacific Rim meets 13 Going on 30 and all that, but a thumbprint, pitch-room premise is hardly an excuse for all of Vigolando’s slack storytelling and trite symbolism (Gloria is an alcoholic, which makes her a monster, you see …). Still, Hathaway hasn’t been this likably liberated since Rachel Getting Married; with a lesser actress in the lead, this film is probably unbearable, but Hathaway somehow gets us to care. D.B.

How to Be a Latin Lover

Going into Ken Marino’s sluggish and slow-witted How to Be a Latin Lover, I assumed that I could sit through literally any film that prominently featured the beautiful and charismatic Salma Hayek. After making it through two full hours of this affable but almost entirely joke-free comedy, I am 100 percent certain. An attempt to simultaneously Americanize and re-create Mexican comedian Eugenio Derbez’s 2013 crossover hit Instructions Not Included, How to Be a Latin Lover seems to follow a similar formula of lowestbrow comedy and rank sentimentalism, and it plays like it was purloined from Adam Sandler’s reject pile. Derbez stars as Maximo, a gigolo entering middle age, recently deposed from the lap of luxury to make way for a younger model (Michael Cera, one of many American comic actors making cameos here) and desperately searching for his next sugar mama. Hayek, bless her heart, costars as Maximo’s uptight sister Sara. D.B.

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Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent

Although hardly a household name today, decades ago Jeremiah Tower essentially invented California cuisine in the kitchen at Chez Panisse, becoming a “celebrity chef” years before that was even a thing. So it’s a shame that Lydia Tenaglia’s Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent, rather than displaying that same sort of innovation, commits every cardinal sin of hack documentary filmmaking. Obsequious talking heads dispensing factually dubious generalities, stock footage layered with cheap sound effects, chintzy reenactments, ruthless credit-hogging and shot after shot of Tower staring blankly out of a car window while interviewees talk about how he’s mysterious and unknowable. Above all, the film perpetuates the Boomer belief that they invented literally everything, even concepts like food and sex that have sustained human life

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The Dinner

Suddenly an indie staple, Richard Gere headlines the ensemble cast of Oren Moverman’s The Dinner, playing a slick politician and older brother to Steve Coogan’s psychologically bothered black sheep. Coogan and his eternally patient wife (Laura Linney) grudgingly accept an invitation to dine with Gere and his much younger second wife (Rebecca Hall), but the lavish meal is just an excuse to air grievances about a disturbing incident involving the brothers’ teenage sons. Moverman is an accomplished screenwriter (he contributed to Jesus’ Son, I’m Not There and Love & Mercy, among others), and he draws more flavors than you might expect out of these uninspiring ingredients, but his direction of The Dinner is annoyingly fussy. The action is organized by title cards that read “Appetizer” and “Main Course,” but the film is much more interesting in its amuse-bouche diversions, including a surreal and emotional trip to the battlefield at Gettysburg. D.B.

for tens of thousands of years. The Last Magnificent only springs to life in the final third, when it drops the generalities and chronicles Tower’s disastrous comeback at Tavern on the Green. D.B.

Sleight

A young Los Angeles magician (Jacob Latimore) helps support himself and his kid sister (Storm Reid) by performing tricks and passing the hat on street corners, and by selling cocaine on the side; when he gets in over his head and incurs the wrath of his mad-dog boss (Dulé Hill), he has to draw on his sleight of hand to try to work his way free. Sluggish direction by J.D. Dillard and a thin script (by him and Alex Theurer) that goes from unlikely to implausible to preposterous are partially offset by sincere performances all around—especially by Hill as a smiling snake in the grass. Seychelle Gabriel as a romantic match for Latimore, Sasheer Zamata as a friendly neighbor and Carmen Esposito as a bar owner all do decent work in underwritten characters that don’t seem all that essential to the action. J.L.

Their Finest

News to no one, but there is a major nostalgia problem at the movies. And the art house theater, once a bulwark against Hollywood myopia and vapidity, in all but a handful of American cities exclusively delivers the same sort of pandering and auburn-tinged fixes as the big-budget junkyards. The latest simpering nonsense is Lone Scherfig’s Their Finest, two hours of buttery drivel smothered in rancid nostalgia. Based on a novel by Lissa Evans, the film tells the story of fledgling writer Catrin (Gemma Arterton), who teams with and falls for her male superior Tom (Sam Claflin) on a government-sponsored propaganda picture. Adrift in the dross, two lifelines: Bill Nighy, playing a fading and egomaniacal actor as only he could; and the liquid steel of Arterton, an actress so outrageously beautiful she rarely gets credit for her fine acting. They rise above the nostalgic muck, but when will we? D.B.

Unforgettable

When a woman (Rosario Dawson) moves in with her fiancé (Geoff Stults), she unwittingly steps into the crosshairs of the man’s passive-aggressive, mentally unstable ex-wife (Katherine Heigl). The script, by Christina Hodson and David Johnson, is strictly boilerplate madwoman-on-the-warpath stuff, populated by stick figures standing in for characters, long on melodrama and short on dramatic logic. Even the title makes no sense—but then, Basic Instinct, Fatal Attraction and Hell Hath No Fury were already taken. Denise Di Novi’s direction is dutiful but flat, without style or suspense. She is more to be pitied than censured; Hitchcock himself couldn’t have pulled off this schlock. The cast—including Isabella Kai Rice as Stults and Heigl’s daughter and Cheryl Ladd as Heigl’s ice-queen mother—flounders. J.L.

Your Name.

At first glance, the plot of Makoto Shinkai’s Your Name. seems like a bodyswitch comedy concocted for the lowest-rung Wayans siblings: a small-town girl and a big-city boy suddenly find themselves switching bodies, meddling in each other’s lives and gradually falling in love. But the result is more like a Studio Ghibli version of an emotionally loaded, apocalyptically metaphysical mindfuck like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind or Donnie Darko. Your Name. is Shinkai’s fifth feature film, based on his novel of the same name, and although only 44 years old, Shinkai has also been active in the worlds of commercials, short films, video games and manga. Given that prolific output, it’s stunning that he could produce something filled with so much honesty and integrity. It’s the rare work of art that can base an extraordinarily powerful moment of emotional catharsis on compulsive boob-squeezing, but that’s the miracle of this movie. D.B.

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“The pantomime is someone that’s quiet and just observes, and speaks with actions more than words. Often they show sorrow,” KaiLord says. The beats on Sunset Valley are low-key, sunny and with a tinge of gospel music. Suicide Note, on the other hand, has densely packed loops, with a much higher production value and a darker, more surreal quality. Opening track “Legend of Icarus” expresses his fear that in pursuit of his dreams he might A true warrior has the inner peace to bow. fail. Another track, “Sinners and Saints,” has him trying to reconcile all the darkness in the world, suggesting that it might always exist no matter what we do. “I’m riding through the ghetto like the shooters “Although I’m not happy with the evil that goes don’t exist.” on, it’s like, you have to take the good with the bad,” This line from local emcee KaiLord’s last projKaiLord says. ect, Sunset Valley, is the perfect demonstration of Who he is and what he struggles with is more his upbeat realism. Throughout the EP, the emcee than just the trials and tribulations he overcame in his juxtaposes the dark realities of his childhood childhood. neighborhood, Del Paso Heights, with relentless “You can live in the same neighborhood as someoptimism. one and have a totally different experience of the The next album, Suicide Note, which he plans to exact same events,” KaiLord says. “I just drop on May 23, might seem out of left field. took the world a little bit differently.” It’s a heavy record, dealing with his interSuicide Note was originally nal sorrow as well as global problems slated for a May 1 release but he feels helpless to change. got pushed back as some last“It’s not to say that the Sunset minute tracks are being added. Valley persona was fake; it was Instead, he says he’ll soon just me on a good day,” KaiLord release a different project, says. “I wasn’t so comfortable a collaboration with ZoeyB outing everything before. I feel called Kidz Shouldn’t Play in like I’m cheating people if I the Streets. don’t give them my full range of “It’s a lot more fun. It’s my emotions.” braggadocious a little bit. KaiLord Sunset Valley, he says, was It took me out of my comfort emcee dedicated to his parents. The title zone,” KaiLord says. references his dad, an old-school Queens It seems weird that he would be rapper named MC Sun Tzu, who moved to releasing a dark album and a fun album the West Coast prior to his son’s birth. Incidentally, around the same time, but KaiLord doesn’t stay in the KaiLord isn’t just a rap moniker. His full name is darkness for too long. He’s an eternal optimist. KaiLord Jamasan Low, which in Chinese translates “It’s always about progressing through things,” he into “valiant warrior who walks with the understandsays regarding Suicide Note. “Even if I do feel down ing of God.” (“Shoutout to my dad for giving me about something, I’m not going to let that keep me such a cool name,” KaiLord says.) down forever.” Ω Suicide Note has a certain amount of shock value. Photo courtesy of KaiLord

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“Shoutout to my dad for giving me such a cool name.”

And there are times when KaiLord takes it to an extreme level. But mostly the album is just deep. The original title of the album was The Ballad of the Last Pantomime; he decided it was too wordy.

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House show surprise Coming to a house near you: In an alleyway near Seventh and I streets, a young man holding a clipboard stood in front of a backdoor and checked in attendees. Down a small set of stairs, the sound of chatter grew louder and louder. A hundred or so musicseekers had gathered in an intimate basement to witness the first Sofar Sounds Sacramento show. On its website, Sofar Sounds describes itself as a global movement with 340 participating cities that aims to bring “the magic back to live music.” The for-profit company has received criticism for taking a cut of the pay from artists at house shows, which are normally grassroots. But the local Sofar Sounds organizers said they are excited to diversify the company’s shows to include more hip-hop and non-singer-songwriter acts. Teams of volunteers in each city book musicians in unconventional spaces like basements or living rooms. After paying $15 per ticket, the audience has no idea who will perform until the show starts. On Friday night, the makeshift stage sat empty before singersongwriters Andrew Castro and Xochitl opened the show with two duets about love and heartache. Castro finished out his five-song set lightly tapping his acoustic guitar to make beats that were looped and layered with catchy harmonies and fluid guitar work. Next was another local musician, by the name of I Am Strikes, who performed heartfelt songs accompanied by her electric guitar. The lineup came to a close with two hip-hop performances from Tavis Landry accompanied by a live band and a guest performance by Igwe Aka. The evening seemed to be a sneak peek of artists performing at the upcoming First Festival, which also showcases local talent. What’s more, First Festival organizer Danielle Vincent was in the crowd, and she gave away two weekend passes to the festival for everyone in the audience who stuck around. Sofar Sac organizers later called it a true Oprah moment. —Steph RodRiguez

Resurfacing yet again: Saturday’s show at Sophia’s Thai Kitchen was a return out of hibernation in two ways. The Davis restaurant presented its first porch show of 2017 following a dormant winter, and local musician Julie Baenziger of Sea of Bees ended her nearly two-year hiatus from music, opening for Michigan-based spirit rock duo Breathe Owl Breathe. “It’s good to be back,” Baenziger said, before giving her cat-stickered acoustic a few strums and heading straight into an old tune. To someone like me who had never previously heard Sea of Bees, Baenziger’s voice was immediately arresting. It felt rare; soft-spoken and infantile, earnestly dynamic and charming, quirked with whistles and pretend wind blows with her breath. Some of the songs had been practiced only recently, and she occasionally halted the song to rediscover it, traveling along her guitar chords and lyrical memory to build into the original ideas. This wasn’t a bad thing at all. The audience was there for the ride; it made for some impressive beats, and watching her find her way felt like part of the story. Breathe Owl Breathe followed with what felt like a vacation from everything. Steady rhythms, soft organ keys, light guitar strumming and nonintrusive, whimsical vocals created a mental beach house for an hour. The singalong portions felt like guided meditations, and the whole set kept a light heart: One song involved a character trying to get into a wet suit. “We have records downstairs,” lead singer Micah Middaugh said, and then randomly, “But don’t look under the stairs.” Following her set, Baenziger talked about the past two years. After her 2015 album, Build a Boat to the Sun, she had felt empty, couldn’t write new music, had been living on the road and eventually got a day job. Yet again, she feels ready to return to music in full, and she hopes to put out another EP soon. In a way, the show was an opportunity for Baenziger to test herself among old friends, who were scattered in the crowd. “I just wanted to see how it was, if I could do it,” she said. “It’s in there.” —MozeS zaRate

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The dynamic duo of Andrew Taggart and Alex Pall will grace Sacramento’s newest arena this Thursday as part of their Memories…Do Not Open tour. If you listen to pop radio, it’s more than likely POP you’ve heard their infectious hits like “Don’t Let Me Down” or the No. 1 charting single, “Closer.” And while the duo only formed in 2012, their climb up the ranks of pop radio has been nothing short of aweinspiring. With only two extended plays and their latest full-length, it would seem they’re just getting started. 500 David J Stern Walk, www.2lin.cc/memories.

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D.R.I. created its hard-hitting, crossover thrash sound that also dips into genres like metal and hardcore back in the early ’80s. Throughout its three-decade career, D.R.I. performed with the Dead Kennedys and survived lineup changes. Still, two original members remain, vocalist Kurt Brecht and guitarist Spike Cassidy and with seven fulllength albums behind them and a THRASH new EP released last June titled But Wait...There’s More!, D.R.I. continues to bring its crossover thrash-style of music to new generations. 1417 R Street, www.dirtyrottenimbeciles.com.

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It’s always a good time when Rituals of Mine, formerly known as Sister Crayon, performs in the duo’s ElECTROnICA hometown. It’s even better when thousands can attend the show for free. Yep, Concerts in the Park season has arrived, and it’s difficult to think of a more prime and badass act to headline opening night. No matter how much you might normally try to avoid Concerts in the Park, what with the crowds and the bros and long lines for beer, it will definitely be worthwhile for Rituals of Mine’s gorgeous, soulful and goosebumps-inducing electronica and always-powerful live performance. 910 I Street, www.ritualsofmine.com.

It’s hard to believe the Enlows have been around for 18 years, and they’ve been tried-and-true through thick and thin. You could say their sound hasn’t really changed in nearly two decades, but that’s not entirely true. The rebellious youngsters of the turn of the century have turned into grizzled grownups. Their style is PUnk still oozing with pop punk, but the rough edges and scrappy sound make you want to raise your beer and cheer instead of cry into it when you’re alone late at night. You can pogo with them this Friday alongside local rockers Cassette Idols and Oakland-based punks Year of the Fist. 3512 Stockton Boulevard, http://enlows.com.

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While everyone’s busy talking about neosoul and future-funk, Leela James keeps it old school. Her smoky, gritty voice brings to mind the ’60s and ’70s legends: Tina Turner, Aretha Franklin, Mavis Staples. Her laidback grooves have a bit of gospel, low-key funk and plenty of classic soul. But this isn’t a retro soul revue. Her style and production keep things modern, even while she maintains the spirit of soul music’s SoUL yesteryear. Her music is full of love, passion and positive vibes. She embraces the good things in life while condemning things like sexism and materialism. 1013 K Street, www.leelajames.com.

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Singer-songwriter Ursula Lynn’s soulfully sad Americana ballads are pensive little tunes; stark and unadorned melodies played out with only the strumming AmERICANA of a guitar and the exposed smoldering-sweet sound of Lynn’s charming voice. In her best song, “Girlhood,” Lynn finally finds perspective within the tempest and plaintively sings, “Honey, I’ve gotten real good at pretending / And keeping the ugly inside / Learned to laugh at the jokes, and to trail behind / Because a woman is better when she’s a beautiful lie.” 3512 Stockton Boulevard, www.ursulalynn.bandcamp.com.

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Sacto Storytellers combine reggae, roots and ska musicians to create its upbeat music that’s sure to get audiences groovin’, and this Sunday it’s all for a good cause. This show is raising money for NorCal AIDS Cycle, an organization that supports other regional entities that aim to end the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Bonus REGGAE performances from Recorded Freedom and Slaymantha will keep crowds moving and $1 raffle tickets will be on sale for prizes like adult toys from Autonomous Love, spa gift certificates and T-shirts. 2030 P Street, www.facebook.com/ sactostorytellers.

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Becoming a household name requires stepping out of the shadows. Norwegian producer Cashmere Cat released a series of instrumental EPs through cult UK label Lucky Me, but it was his production on Kanye West’s “Wolves” that garnered the ELECTRoNIC attention. Cashmere Cat is also responsible for Ludacris’ “Party Girls,” Charli XCX’s “Break The Rules” and Tinashe’s “All Hands On Deck.” The impressive run stimulated the momentum towards his full length debut 9, which features Selena Gomez and The Weeknd. Consider this the last time Cashmere Cat plays a venue smaller than an arena. 2708 J Street, http://cashmerecat .com

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FOR THE WEEk OF MAy 4, 2017 ARIES (March 21-April 19): Beware of feeling

sorry for sharks that yell for help. Beware of trusting coyotes that act like sheep and sheep that act like coyotes. Beware of nibbling food from jars whose contents are different from what their labels suggest. But wait! “Beware” is not my only message for you. I have these additional announcements: Welcome interlopers if they’re humble and look you in the eyes. Learn all you can from predators and pretenders without imitating them. Take advantage of any change that’s set in motion by agitators who shake up the status quo, even if you don’t like them.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): When poet Wislawa

Szymborska delivered her speech for winning the Nobel Prize, she said that “whatever else we might think of this world—it is astonishing.” She added that for a poet, there really is no such thing as the “ordinary world,” “ordinary life” and “the ordinary course of events.” In fact, “nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it. And above all, not a single existence, not anyone’s existence in this world.” I offer you her thoughts, Taurus, because I believe that in the next two weeks you will have an extraordinary potential to feel and act on these truths. You are hereby granted a license to be astonished on a regular basis.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Would you consider

enrolling in my Self-Pity Seminar? If so, you would learn that obsessing on self-pity is a means to an end, not a morass to get lost in. You would feel sorry for yourself for brief, intense periods so that you could feel proud and brave the rest of the time. For a given period—let’s say three days—you would indulge and indulge and indulge in self-pity until you entirely exhausted that emotion. Then you’d be free to engage in an orgy of self-healing, self-nurturing and self-celebration. Ready to get started? Ruminate about the ways that people don’t fully appreciate you.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): In a typical conversa-

tion, most of us utter too many “uhs,” “likes,” “I means” and “you knows.” I mean, I’m sure that … uh … you’ll agree that, like, what’s the purpose of, you know, all that pointless noise? But I have some good news to deliver about your personal use of language in the coming weeks, Cancerian. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you’ll have the potential to dramatically lower your reliance on needless filler. But wait, there’s more: Clear thinking and precise speech just might be your superpowers. As a result, your powers of persuasion should intensify. Your ability to advocate for your favorite causes may zoom.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In 1668, England named

John Dryden its first poet laureate. His literary influence was so monumental that the era in which he published was known as the Age of Dryden. Twentieth-century poetry great T. S. Eliot said he was “the ancestor of nearly all that is best in the poetry of the 18th century.” Curiously, Dryden had a low opinion of Shakespeare. “Scarcely intelligible,” he called the Bard, adding, “His whole style is so pestered with figurative expressions that it is as affected as it is coarse.” I foresee a comparable clash of titans in your sphere, Leo. Two major influences may fight it out for supremacy. One embodiment of beauty may be in competition with another. One powerful and persuasive force could oppose another. What will your role be? Mediator? Judge? Neutral observer? Whatever it is, be cagey.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Just this once, and for

a limited time only, you have cosmic clearance to load up on sugary treats, leave an empty beer can in the woods, watch stupid TV shows and act uncool in front of the Beautiful People. Why? Because being totally well-behaved and perfectly composed and strictly pure would compromise your mental health more than being naughty. Besides, if you want to figure out what you are on the road to becoming, you will need to know more about what you’re not.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In addition to fashion

tips, advice for the brokenhearted, midlife-crisis support, and career counseling, I sometimes provide you with more mystical help. Like now. So if you need nuts-and-bolts guidance, I hope

you’ll have the sense to read a more down-toearth horoscope. What I want to tell you is that the metaphor of resurrection is your featured theme. You should assume that it’s somehow the answer to every question. Rejoice in the knowledge that although a part of you has died, it will be reborn in a fresh guise.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Are you ready for

the genie’s favors? Don’t rub the magic lamp unless you are.” That’s the message I saw on an Instagram meme. I immediately thought of you. The truth is that up until recently, you have not been fully prepared for the useful but demanding gifts the genie could offer you. You haven’t had the self-mastery necessary to use the gifts as they’re meant to be used, and therefore they were a bit dangerous to you. But that situation has changed. Although you may still not be fully primed, you’re as ready as you can be. That’s why I say: Rub the magic lamp!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You may

have heard the exhortation “Follow your bliss!”, which was popularized by mythologist Joseph Campbell. After studying the archetypal stories of many cultures throughout history, he concluded that it was the most important principle driving the success of most heroes. Here’s another way to say it: Identify the job or activity that deeply excites you, and find a way to make it the center of your life. In his later years, Campbell worried that too many people had misinterpreted “Follow your bliss” to mean “Do what comes easily.” That’s all wrong, he said. Anything worth doing takes work and struggle. “Maybe I should have said, ‘Follow your blisters,’” he laughed. I bring this up, Sagittarius, because you are now in an intense “Follow your blisters” phase of following your bliss.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The versatile

artist Melvin Van Peebles has enjoyed working as a filmmaker, screenwriter, actor, composer and novelist. One of his more recent efforts was a collaboration with the experimental band The Heliocentrics. Together they created a science-fiction-themed spoken-word poetry album titled The Last Transmission. Peebles told NPR, “I haven’t had so much fun with clothes on in years.” If I’m reading the planetary omens correctly Capricorn, you’re either experiencing that level of fun, or will soon be doing so.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In what ways do

you most resemble your mother? Now is a good time to take inventory. Once you identify any momlike qualities that tend to limit your freedom or lead you away from your dreams, devise a plan to transform them. You may never be able to defuse them entirely, but there’s a lot you can do to minimize the mischief they cause. Be calm but calculating in setting your intention, Aquarius! P.S. In the course of your inventory, you may also find there are ways you are like your mother that are of great value to you. Is there anything you could do to more fully develop their potential?

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “We are what we

imagine,” writes Piscean author N. Scott Momaday. “Our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves. Our best destiny is to imagine who and what we are. The greatest tragedy that can befall us is to go unimagined.” Let’s make this passage your inspirational keynote for the coming weeks. It’s a perfect time to realize how much power you have to create yourself through the intelligent and purposeful use of your vivid imagination. (P.S. Here’s a further tip, this time from Cher: “All of us invent ourselves. Some of us just have more imagination than others.”)

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Seeing beyond Orlee Stewart, 27, is a Sacramentobased artist and self-described witch, priestess and exorcist. Stewart moved to Sacramento from Toronto, Canada, in 2014, after meeting her husband—a native Californian— through a mutual interest in art and the occult. Stewart works primarily through a paint medium, using oils and brushes to bring visions she says she obtains through occult scrying using the traditional techniques of Western magick. Stewart’s subjects have a unique style, and feature depictions of demons from medieval occult literature such as the Goetia, as well as depictions of archangels, tarot and abstract ethereal beings she draws from the depths of her own mind. A member of the Society for Art of Imagination and art group Collective 777, Stewart’s has seen her work featured in galleries alongside H.R. Giger and Alex Grey. Most recently, her art was featured in the book Lucifer: Light of the Aeon.

What role does magick play in your painting process? Magick is my greatest source of inspiration for painting. It has allowed me to train myself to be able to see beyond ordinary reality. Through the techniques that I’ve practiced I’ve been able to work on the ability to have visions. Through having those visions, I’m able to pull images of creatures and places that don’t exist in a world that we can normally see, and things that I try to evoke that are not things I’ve ever seen before. That all comes from the great deep and the great unknown.

Do you feel like the occult and painting naturally go together? Absolutely. I think magick is a form of art. It’s like any other kind of artistic skill you can work on and develop and make stronger. I think that they do go hand in hand because every aspect of magick that comes to my mind involves some sort of artistic merit—be it the beauty of the tone of a vibration, or the grace of moving an object from one place to another on your altar, all those things are like a dance, or some form of artistic expression. Even things like drumming in ceremonies and things like that, that’s art.

Do you feel like people value art? I think people think they value art. But in a lot of cases they don’t realize how much art is being taken for granted.

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Do you feel that social media has cheapened art?

Do you have a favorite demon? I definitely have a favorite demon. It’s such a hard choice to make, but just in terms of the amount I’ve worked with this demon I will have to call him my favorite. That demon is Seere. He is pretty cool. He moves things from place to place across the earth in the twinkling of an eye, he can help you find buried treasure … he always comes through with the things that we work on together.

I actually don’t. I feel it’s helped art become more accessible to a lot of people. I think that myself and a lot of other artists rely heavily on social media to survive nowadays. But there’s this aspect of it that can become kind of soulless when the image is taken out of context and people’s signatures are cropped out and people just use it for their banner, instead of appreciating art for its greater purpose in its full form as the artist intended.

What was it like being featured alongside H.R. Giger and Alex Grey?

What’s the strangest commission you’ve received? The strangest commission that I ever did was a … portrait of [a] demon. I [was commissioned] to do it for someone as part of a magical ritual that they were doing. Basically I had to conjure the demon using its evocation prayer and get an image portrait of this demon and paint him. This is a demon from the Goetia … I evoked a demon using this grimoire and painted a portrait of him. The demon, apparently, was in love with the recipient of the painting. The person who commissioned it … was mailing it to her. The demon asked (the commissioner) to paint this girl a portrait of himself and send it to her. The two of them had evoked him together in the past and she had given him some gift and he had fallen for her.

It was the greatest and most surreal moment of my life. The whole time I was there … I could barely comprehend the immensity of how important that moment was.

What’s your favorite subject to paint? My favorite subjects … are ethereal forms because they don’t really have a stable form. That’s something that’s kind of hard to capture. That’s one of the things that spirit scrying really helps with, because you try to see things that the eye can’t normally see. Painting those types of creatures helps me to understand more about what’s going on in other realities and dimensions around us. Ω Find Orlee Stewart’s art and upcoming shows at www.motherofabominations.com.

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