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How has immigration affected your life?

Ke yon Mitchell medical student

I work in various studentrun clinics and I’m also in resource-limited health care facilities and a lot of the time people are afraid. We get a lot of fear from people not wanting to be deported. So they limit the information they give us sometimes, which is frustrating.

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I work with international students so I definitely have developed a high sense of empathy for them and what they have to go through just to get to the United States. When they get here they’ve already jumped through all these hurdles.

It’s hard to stay in one place sometimes. I always want to move but then I really long to belong somewhere and end up just wondering: Where am I from? Where do I belong? … All of my history is inaccessible. ... Identity just feels stripped away because of the need to migrate.

JAl Al hAddAd civil servant

Immigration is the reason I’m here. My parents are from Jordan. … They settled in San Francisco and learned how to speak English and had babies and then we moved to Auburn. … I felt like I belonged as a kid, less so as an adult.

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I don’t think it’s affected me directly as much as I see that there are workers that will do jobs that people here in America straight up won’t do. So I would say for that I’m grateful to have those people here because we need that job done.

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n February, Elizabeth Morales’ monthly rent was $630 for a one-bedroom, onebathroom apartment in south Sacramento. In May, her rent increased to $1,002 for the same apartment, plus utilities — a 59 percent increase in three months. And the rent hike had nothing to do with home improvements. Morales and her neighbors regularly complain of cockroaches and bedbugs, black mold, worn out carpets and appliances that don’t work — complaints that have gone unaddressed for years. Teresa Nolasco, who lives in the complex with her 8-year-old son, has repeatedly complained about black mold in her apartment. Through an interpreter, she says management tells her the same thing every time: Open your windows and clean it with bleach. She’s scrubbed and bleached her walls so much they’re worn down to sheet rock. Maria Godinez is concerned about safety, claiming management has failed to address security concerns in the complex. As a single mother of three who works two jobs, she can’t afford the upcoming rent increase nor a deposit on an apartment elsewhere. All three claim that retaliation is rampant — towed cars, eviction notices and threats to call immigration enforcement — against residents who complain or ask for repairs. They, and several other residents, have turned to the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) for help. Funded in part by The California Endowment’s Building Healthy Communities initiative, ACCE is part of the statewide coalition

Housing Now!, which is working to develop and strengthen tenant protections, and secure funding for affordable housing programs. ACCE works mainly with low-income tenants, many of whom are immigrant families who don’t know how to assert their legal rights or are afraid that their legal status will work against them if they do. Together with Legal Services of Northern California, ACCE hosts a free monthly tenants’ rights legal clinic where tenants can understand the protections they’re entitled to, the process of eviction, of requesting repairs and how to deal with landlords who may retaliate against them for exercising those rights.

“We’re not asking for the moon, We’re asking for something that’s just fair.” Jovana Fajardo, Director, Sacramento chapter of the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment

“We see a lot of tenants not stand up for themselves because they don’t feel empowered or they feel scared because of the new Trump administration,” says Jovana Fajardo, director of the Sacramento ACCE chapter. “We’re hoping they get informed more than anything and that they’re empowered to stand up, to request fair rent, to request fair repairs. We’re not asking for the moon, we’re asking for

maria godinez, left, and Elizabeth morales attend a tenant’s rights legal clinic hosted by the alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment. Photo by anne Stokes

something that’s just fair. A lot of these tenants are already paying high rent and they’re not living in safe or healthy housing units.” Free tenant rights legal clinics are held at the Fruitridge Community Collaborative, 4625 44th St., room 11, on the second Thursday of every month at 5:30 p.m.Visit www.acceaction.org or call 916-288-8829 for more information.

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

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Essays touched her soul Re “Teenage dreams” (Feature story, May 11): Thank you, SN&R, for publishing these brilliant essays. I have never written to SN&R before, but now am compelled to say thank you to these individuals whose writing has touched my soul. Whatever these 10 individuals endeavor or aspire to be, I hope they will never forget they have a gift. The power of the pen can reach so many and change the world. Bless you all and keep writing. Show the world the power of yourself and your perspective. I now have renewed hope for our future.

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Gut-wrenching? No way Re “Teenage dreams” (Feature story, May 11): Though I appreciate these essays, the opening to this section is absurd. I have taught for over 14 years with students of varying backgrounds and circumstances. In all that time, I

can guarantee that 99.9 percent of students are unaffected by the “gut-wrenching news: Police brutality. Mass bombings in Syria. The rise to the White House of a man accused of sexual harassment and worse.” Most teens do not suffer from any of those issues, and police brutality is a microscopic issue compared to what truly affects

a huge proportion of teens: no fathers at home. If nothing else, it’s evident in the winning student’s essay as she writes about living with her mother. Have you noticed how few of the winning essays are written by males? Perhaps you might look at another ignored issue in America: the failure of males to live up to their academic potential. In the most recent study of GPA at my school, I found that in all grade levels the girls outperformed the boys. On average, the top 100 GPAs were 68 percent female; on the other end, the bottom 100 GPAs were 64 percent male. Let’s not overdramatize the “gut-wrenching news” these kids are supposedly facing. The essays are well written. No need to reduce their quality with such a maudlin and inaccurate preface to their works. Last, what exactly is “brave” about entering an essay in a competition? They volunteered to do so and are receiving

accolades in the form of publication and praise from the SN&R and no doubt their peers. False or inaccurate compliments are an insult to intelligent students. Scott Trainor Fairfield

‘Total fake news’ Re “It’s Obama’s fault,” by Bill Bixbe (Letters, May 11): Bill Bixbe says the MediCal federal subsidy “ends after a few years,” after which “Medi-Cal expansion rested solely on the state.” This is total fake news. Specifically, while the federal government pays 100 percent of the cost of Medicaid expansion for 2014 through 2016, that share falls to 95 percent in 2017, 94 percent in 2018, 93 percent in 2019 and levels off at 90 percent for 2020 and beyond. Joseph Bruno Carmichael

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Renters strike back: Statewide nonprofit, DSA launch rent control campaign in Sacramento Sacramento’s affordable housing trust fund is a bust

Apartment association’s dropped lawsuits offer hope to Sacramento’s nascent rent control campaign

Michael Rizo looks out the window as he sits on a couch inside the Anti Recidivism Coalition’s Sacramento office. Rizo mentors children facing the same challenges he did as a youth caught up in the juvenile justice system. PHOTO BY Gavin McinTYre

Children in debt Sacramento County to stop charging kids for getting locked up by Matt KraMer

that he accumulated after turning 18, while his grandmother owes the same county $2,500 from when he was a minor. But this vortex of incarceration and debt for children sucked into the juvenile-justice system will soon change in the county that levies higher fees than any other. The Sacramento County Board of

Raised in a low-income, single-parent home in West Sacramento, Michael Rizo always felt the odds were stacked against him. His mother struggled with drug addiction, and his father walked out when he was 3 years old. At age 11, Rizo went to juvenile hall for the first time following a burglary arrest. But rather than being scared straight, as Rizo tells it, he found himself encouraged to go further down the wrong path. “Everybody in [juvenile hall] was praising me because I was the youngest one there,” Rizo said. “[That] gave me the motivation that I wanted, though not positive motivation. … I was unaware 8

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of what I was getting myself into.” Rizo recalls being incarcerated in Sacramento’s Youth Detention Facility for a day or two before being released. When he got out, he says, he became immersed in a culture of violence, drugs and theft. Rizo involved himself with gangs, got into multiple fights and burglarized houses for prescription painkillers that he turned around and sold at school. He cycled in and out of incarceration on a regular basis for the next 10 years. Now 21, Rizo has been a free man for the past 11 months. He has a daughter and works as an intern for the Sacramento chapter of the

Anti-Recidivism Coalition—a statewide support and advocacy network intent on steering youth out of the criminaljustice system. But for all his efforts to turn his life around, Rizo and his grandmother, who adopted him at age 3, are saddled with debt. These debts were accumulated through juvenile-justice fees—the label for costs levied on parents and young adults to pay for their drug tests, ankle monitors, legal representation and incarceration. Rizo has owed money to both Sacramento and Yolo counties over the years. Currently, he said, he owes Yolo County $10,000 in juvenile-justice fees

Supervisors moved last month to end juvenile-justice fees—and write off those already levied but not paid— effective July 1. The April 11 vote occurred during the consent portion of the board’s agenda, meaning there was no discussion, no fanfare for a striking policy shift that will be far reaching. Under state law, counties are given license to levy fees “to recoup reasonable costs from parents whose children are housed in a juvenile detention center, and from parents whose children are on probation and subject to supervision, electronic monitoring and drug testing,” a Probation Department report states.

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Judge dread Supposedly, the state limits the fees to only those who can afford them, but that rarely plays out in reality. The problem is that these fees disproportionately affect the poor, and may in fact feed into increased recidivism, according to the same report: “Since most of the youth in the juvenile justice system come from economically disadvantaged families, a very small portion of the fees is collected. … Indeed, juvenile fees are considered doubtful from the start and not booked into the county’s financial system. Over time, most fees are written-off.” The report was unclear on what standards the Department of Revenue Recovery uses to assess a family’s ability to pay, and repeated messages left at the department were not returned. According to the report, the juvenilejustice fees collected from youth and their families last fiscal year amounted to $385,000, which went into the county’s general fund. The county expects to take a financial hit of about the same amount when the fees are eliminated. But that represents only what’s collected. As of February 28 of this year, the Department of Revenue Recovery report states that $23.2 million in fees went uncollected over the life of the policy. The amount is so high, in part, because of what Sacramento County charges the parents of children it locks up. According to the Berkeley Law Policy Advocacy Clinic, Sacramento County levies the heaviest juvenilejustice fees in the state. The clinic estimated that fees in Sacramento County, for an average probation sentence, came to approximately $5,640 per person. The next most expensive average was $2,150 for San Diego County, followed by Kern County at $1,850. In 2005, Sacramento County supervisors approved resolution 20051490, which authorized the Probation Department to increase some of the fees imposed on parents. The decision created new monthly fees in three categories that were previously free—$725 per month for electronic monitoring, $206 for juvenile supervision and $20 for drug testing. The daily fee for being incarcerated at the Youth Detention Facility also rose, from $12 a day to $18.40 per day. Tim Kline, who serves on the Berkeley Law Policy Advocacy Clinic, said many counties boosted their lockup prices around the same time. “A lot of

their families get back on track,” Seale said. “Saddling the family with debt could, in fact, lead to worse outcomes rather than better ones.” At the state level, Sens. Holly Mitchell and Ricardo Lara introduced Senate Bill 190, which would eliminate the financial obligation on parents and greatly curb fees levied against those sacramento isn’t the first county to forgo 21 and under. The bill will come to the juvenile fees. According to Kline, San Senate Appropriations Committee for Francisco never collected the fees, and a vote later this month, according to a several other counties stopped spokeswoman from Mitchell’s levying the fees after office, though no specific reviewing their impacts. date has been set. Kline said the Rizo would like dominoes really to see the juvenile“It just keeps stacking started falling after justice cottage the Los Angeles industry permaand stacking and Times investinently killed. stacking.” gated its county’s Aside from the juvenile-justice financial burden, Michael Rizo fees in 2008. The he said the fees intern, Anti-Recidivism Coalition, county soon ended have had a negaSacramento chapter the practice. More tive impact on his recently, Alameda, family. “It weighed Contra Costa and hard on me because I Santa Clara counties felt like I was taking … stopped charging families of from my siblings,” Rizo said. kids in legal trouble within the past “It just tore me apart.” year. Between juvenile hall and a home Though Sacramento’s move to cease life where he felt the constant financial collecting fees isn’t unprecedented, burden he was putting on his family, Kline said the fact that the Probation Rizo said he felt trapped. After a Department, the Public Defender’s sentencing hearing at 13, Rizo recalled, Office and the Department of Revenue his grandmother visited him in jail and Recovery were the ones to push for asked him how she was supposed to pay abolishing the fees was unique. for everything. “Sacramento is the only county we “The visit ended right there because know of where the ... proposal to end we just argued,” Rizo said. “We weren’t the fees came from the offices that these talking about the time I had to do, we funds are supposed to support,” Kline just argued about the money. She didn’t said. “I think they deserve a lot of credit come to visit me for awhile after that. for acknowledging the harm these fees It was upsetting, because we had a bad cause families, and also acting to stop relationship after that.” those harms.” Today, Rizo’s mother is drug free Steve Garrett of the Public with a stable job and caring for his Defender’s Office said the financial siblings. As for Rizo, he’s working to strain on families was a significant pay off the fees he still owes and advoreason why the departments lobbied cating for the kids who remind him of to end the practice. “The concern was himself back in the day. that it might be unduly affecting the “Most of the kids [in the system] children’s lives, and the county decided right now, their parents aren’t wealthy. in view of that they didn’t want to Their parents don’t have enough money [continue to] do it,” Garrett said. “It to even buy them a T-shirt, to buy them was a political decision and made for some clothes, to actually provide food the benefit of the community that the for them and stuff like that,” he said. county serves.” “Some of them come from single-parent Chief Probation Officer Lee Seale households. How do you expect a single agreed, adding that the county’s priority parent to pay [these fees]? It just keeps is to curb recidivism. Juvenile-justice stacking and stacking and stacking. The fees, he said, often work against that juvenile system shouldn’t keep locking goal. “The impetus is to help youth and you up.” Ω

counties during the recession increased the amount of these fees because they weren’t getting as much tax revenue and they were looking for any way to bring in more money,” Kline said. “And they didn’t study what these fees really were, and they didn’t realize these fees would put a huge burden on the families.”

Sacramento Superior Court Judge Robert M. Twiss finally dished his own slice of the drama pie May 15, forcefully chiding defendant Sean Thompson in open court and seemingly flip-flopping on his own on-the-record remarks about the criminal nature of splattering someone with a dessert dish. Twiss’ head-scratching soliloquy came after an irrevocably hung jury stalled over felony charges that Thompson assaulted former Mayor Kevin Johnson with a coconut cream pie last fall. On Tuesday, one of Thompson’s attorneys told SN&R that if the Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office retries the case, the defense will seek to bar twiss from judging the second trial. Twiss’ dressing-down of Thompson from the bench capped a weeklong trial in which prosecutor Anthony Ortiz attempted to convict the activist of felony assault on a public official for pie-ing Johnson in September 2016. Ortiz pressed his case without calling any police officers—or the victim—to the stand. That didn’t sit well with some jurors, who deadlocked in deliberations for two days. After a mistrial was declared Monday, one of Thompson’s attorneys, Jeff Mendelman, filed a motion seeking to have the assault charge lowered to a misdemeanor at the judge’s discretion. During opening motions in the trial, Twiss himself had called the case “a simple misdemeanor battery—that’s what it is. He put a pie in someone’s face. It’s being charged as a felony because of who the victim is, and I get that.” Mendelman alluded to the judge’s remarks while making his motion to have the charge lowered, but soon found it was a very different twiss now sitting on the bench. “This has always been a felony,” Twiss decreed. “It was never a misdemeanor.” Twiss went on to suggest that Thompson is a troublemaker who had never worked a day in his life outside of his military service. Asked to respond to Twiss’ seeming change in tone, Mendelman said the judge’s comments were beyond perplexing. “I had even mentioned in my motion that the court had said this was misdemeanor conduct,” Mendelman observed. “And then the judge went on a long diatribe about Mr. Thompson. … It was a little weird, the comments he made.” (Scott Thomas Anderson)

rent Patrol A coalition of groups building support for rent control in sacramento received good news last week, learning that the California Apartment Association is dropping both its legal battles against similar measures already passed in Richmond and Mountain View. The Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, or ACCE, was a pivotal player in getting rent control passed in Richmond in 2015 and is now taking a lead role in the campaign to bring rent stability to the capital city. The California Apartment Association reportedly spent more than $200,000 fighting rent control in richmond alone, while simultaneously waging a campaign against it in mountain View. When the voting public in both cities opted to limit the profits landlords can make amid California’s affordable housing crisis, the CAA took both municipalities to court.

and the Caa has been losing ever since. The group recently posted a message to members on its official website saying it was suspending its challenges to the measures. That statement read, in part, “In recent months, judges in both Santa Clara and Contra Costa counties ruled against CAA’s motions for preliminary injunctions that would have halted enforcement of [both rent control measures], respectively. … After analyzing these decisions and the judicial climate moving forward, CAA decided to re-evaluate its legal strategy.” (STA)

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Left to right, Fred Kindel, Mike Stickley, Betsy Weiland, Roger Buthcer, Stacie Sherman and John Combs, members of the Hinkle Creek Working Group, are trying to save a nature area in Folsom from being turned into a road. Photo by Kris hooKs

Sharpening the ax Folsom’s plan to chop down trees in nature park sparks ire by Scott thomaS anderSon

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Outdoor enthusiasts are fuming at Folsom again, this time over a plan to destroy nearly 80 trees in a wooded hideaway that offers a rare escape from the plaster deluge of suburbia. City officials claim that tearing a 12-foot road across the Hinkle Creek Nature Area is necessary to maintain a sewer line for two dozen houses. A community group engaged in its own factfinding mission calls that stance absurd and is offering an alternative plan it says costs less while avoiding hill terracing and tree destruction. Now, the group’s members are wondering if the Folsom City Council can be open-minded about independent research, or if it will fire up the chain saws based on its staff’s recommendations. Given that four of those council members voted to allow developers to build future tract homes across 3,600 acres of open space—despite objections from

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leading environmental groups—some residents aren’t holding out much hope for Hinkle Creek’s tree line. History itself has made Folsom leaders keenly aware of the need to monitor local sewage arteries. In January 2000, the city’s main sewage pump spilled 700,000 gallons of raw waste into the American River. The Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board leveled nearly three-quarters of a million dollars in fines at Folsom. Lately, the city’s gravity sewer pipeline in the Lower American River Canyon has been experiencing maintenance issues, including at least two sewage overflows near Hinkle Creek, a waterway that also flows into the American River. The pipe itself runs partly under the Hinkle Creek Nature Area, with a handful of manholes to access it scattered throughout the woods. Folsom officials hired the Rancho Cordova-based firm Quincy Engineering

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to evaluate the situation. Quincy, in turn, recommended in 2015 that the city construct a roadway directly through the nature park, one wide enough for largescale Vactor trucks—or pumping stations on wheels—to access the manholes in the forest. According to a report from the Folsom city arborist, the road will destroy or critically impact 77 trees, mostly live oaks, and affect the health of an additional 175 trees. For Folsom resident Stacie Sherman, who’s worried about the future of Hinkle Creek, the stakes are even higher. Sherman told SN&R that her examination of Folsom’s arborist report suggests city officials aren’t counting gray pine trees in their damage assessment. “Folsom’s tree policy doesn’t recognize the gray pine as being a valuable tree to the city,” Sherman said. “But gray pines are what the American bald eagle has

been nesting in nearby at Lake Natoma. I think if you asked most people who live in Folsom if they like having gray pines and bald eagles, they’d say, ‘Yes.’ But the city’s policy doesn’t support that.” According to Folsom’s 2016-17 fiscal year budget, the cost of the road project would be $2,596,765. Given the Hinkle Creek Nature Area’s popularity with runners, hikers and families, a group of Folsom residents, including Sherman, have been searching for an alternative way to protect the creek from sewer overflows without killing trees. Its members have now consulted a number of sewage professionals and generated a plan that employs industry-standard debris baskets and low-orbiting manhole cameras to fix pipe blockages that Vactor trucks can’t reach. Retired tech executive John Combs, an active leader in the group’s research, said this alternative would cost Folsom taxpayers only a small fraction of the $2.6 million proposal that kills trees. But, Combs added, city staff is still asking the council to vote on approval of its road. Officials have said the vote will be on June 13. “We’ve vetted our proposal with experts and we know it can be done,” Combs stressed. “With the council getting closer to a vote, we can’t get any response back from the city. None at all.” But the group has gotten plenty of response from residents. A petition it’s circulated has already grabbed more than 1,000 signatures to protect Hinkle Creek’s trees. Folsom City Manager Evert Palmer didn’t return SN&R’s calls for comment by press time. But Palmer won’t have the final say. The Folsom City Council will. Combs said that, so far, only Councilmen Roger Gaylord and Ernie Sheldon have met with his group, separately, to hear their concerns. Council members Kerri Howell, Andy Morin and Steve Miklos are transmitting the same level of radio silence as city staff. Howell, Morin and Miklos also voted to allow mass development in Folsom’s controversial “south of 50 project,” despite concerns from the Sacramento Environmental Council that papering hundreds of acres of open space with tract homes would affect the region’s smog, traffic, hawks and water supplies. As City Hall’s silence on Hinkle Creek continues, a vote on the road gets closer, prompting greater concern for those who love the nature area. “I’ve been absolutely stunned by how unresponsive the city is,” Combs said. “It’s been mind-numbing to me.” Ω

Count down Behind the little-known program that exposed Sacramento’s homeless lie by Raheem F. hosseini

Bob Erlenbusch was in a meeting on hunger when a number drastically expanded the work ahead. Erlenbusch is executive director of the Sacramento Regional Coalition for Homelessness. Among its projects, the coalition has published annual homeless mortality reports and started up a bureau of formerly homeless speakers to go around shredding the stereotypes that allow politicians to ignore their humanity. One of the biggest misunderstandings about Sacramento County’s homeless population is that there are fewer than 2,700 of them on a given night. That’s according to a biennial point-in-time survey that was conducted during one evening in January 2015. Yes, that’s how communities count their homeless populations—by dispatching volunteers to tally people and families who are either escaping the winter rains or are hiding from what they believe to be police raids and Child Protective Services sweeps. Erlenbusch is among the many activists who always knew the federally mandated counts underestimated the size of any community’s homeless population. But he never had proof. Then, a couple of weeks ago, a county official told his group that a unique food assistance program had exponentially more homeless people signed up for it than supposedly existed. SN&R confirmed the numbers. As recently as March, 13,362 homeless people in Sacramento County were enrolled in a Calfresh program that allows them to use their monthly food benefits at participating restaurants. Erlenbusch remembered being stunned by the figure. “It just underscores that we have a really significant homeless crisis in our county,” he said. Initially, county officials sought to downplay the higher number as less representative of Sacramento’s homeless population than the much smaller pointin-time estimate.

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Ann Edwards, director of the county’s Department of Human Assistance, said it was important to note that the Calfresh program also counted those who stayed in someone else’s residence for a period of 90 days or less. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, which requires the point-in-time counts, doesn’t include that category in its definition of homelessness. Some local politicians say it doesn’t matter. Though he hadn’t heard the figure prior to being contacted by SN&R, Supervisor Don Nottoli said it reflected what political leaders like him are up against. “It speaks to the challenge that lies ahead for the county,” he said. “This points to the fragility of their economic circumstances, and that a lot of folks could be one or two paychecks away.” Nottoli’s colleague, Supervisor Patrick Kennedy, agreed, saying the asterisk should be applied to the pointin-time figure, not the Calfresh one. “Personally I think the larger number is actually more reflective,” Kennedy said. It may also be an undercount. Speaking of the 13,000-plus figure, Erlenbusch remarked, “Those are just the homeless people who know about the Restaurant Meals Program” offered through Calfresh. Like other areas, Sacramento County suffers from low Calfresh enrollment rates that leave tens of millions of dollars of aid untapped by those who are eligible to receive it. And many homeless people receive Supplemental Security Income, which makes them ineligible for Calfresh assistance, said Joan Burke, director of advocacy at Sacramento Loaves & Fishes. “It makes that figure even more sobering,” Burke said. And it means that Sacramento is likely still just scratching the surface. Ω An extended version of this story is available at www.newsreview.com/sacramento.

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carpets and more. Now they are leftover Americans purchase and take a lot of prescription drugs. prescription drugs. Americans also have And they are getting pushback from a lot of prescription drugs left over that the pharmaceutical companies, which, go unused. These leftover drugs need to despite making huge profits year after be disposed of properly. They will cause environmental damage if they are flushed year, want the general public to pay the cost of disposing of their products. down the toilet. They can be abused Back in 2012, when Alameda County by family members and friends. These passed a pioneering ordinance requiring drugs can cause accidental poisoning of pharmaceutical companies to fund a children, older adults and pets. They also local take-back program, Big Pharma can be an easy target for burglars who lobbied to squash this groundbreaking want to cash in on their street value. program. The case went all the way to Although it is hard to estimate the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, just how many leftover prescription but Alameda County won. And now drugs are sitting in medicine cabinets, other California counties such as Marin, when the federal Drug Enforcement Santa Clara, San Francisco and Administration held its annual Santa Barbara have voted to National Prescription Drug start their own take-back Take-Back Day earlier People drove programs. this month, people Some critics argue drove down to their down to their that the state, and not local police stations local police stations the counties, should and turned in 447 and turned in 447 oversee the pharmatons of unwanted ceutical take-back prescription drugs. tons of unwanted program. The state In other countries, prescription drugs. could set consistent such as in Canada guidelines and thereby and Europe, the avoid the confusion of pharmaceutical companies having different regulations fund a take-back program in different counties. that enables people to return But the notion that our donationtheir unwanted drugs and sharps to the hungry state legislators might produce a pharmacy. These programs provide a well-thought-out program over the objecsafe and inexpensive way to dispose of tions of Big Pharma is not in the realm of leftover drugs as well as needles that are political possibility. What is possible is used to inject medicines such as insulin. for individual counties like Sacramento Having manufacturers pay for the to learn from the example of other disposal of the waste products they counties how best to develop an effective produce is a fundamental goal of program. Storing unused or unwanted the California Product Stewardship medications in medicine cabinets is a Council, which has worked with our recipe for disaster. Flushing them down N&R Publications division on multiple the toilet is bad for the environment. publications advocating for these goals. Sacramento County needs a producerThe council, led by Heidi Sanborn, funded prescription drug take-back has played a key role in supporting program. Proper disposal, funded by the groundbreaking legislation and reguladrug companies, will help protect both tion requiring producers to share in the people and the environment. Lives are at responsibility for managing hazardous stake. Ω products at end-of-life. This legislation has helped to transform the waste management process Jeff vonKaenel is the president, CEO and majority for many products, such as batteries, owner of the News & Review. paint, fluorescent lights, mattresses,

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Scientists in Greenland are keeping tabs on the unsettling pace at which the ice sheet is melting.

slow-moving emergency is lapping at California’s shores—climate-driven sea-level rise that experts now predict could elevate the water in coastal areas up to 10 feet in just 70 years, gobbling up beachfront and overwhelming low-lying cities. The speed with which polar ice is melting and glacier shelves are cracking off indicates to some scientists that once-unthinkable outer-range projections of sea rise may turn out to be too conservative. A knee-buckling new state-commissioned report warns that if nothing changes, California’s coastal waters will rise at a rate 30 to 40 times faster than in the last century. The potential result: crippled economies, compromised public safety, submerged infrastructure and a forced retreat from our iconic Pacific coast. No state has done more than California to curb greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change and sea-level rise. But experts say that even if carbon reductions continue, residual warming of the ocean will continue unchecked, breeding surges that will impact the state’s coast and Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Last month the U.S. Geological Survey estimated that, without concerted intervention, as much as 67 percent of Southern California’s beaches could be lost to rising seas by the end of the century. The grim outlook is mirrored in the latest report, which was presented April 26 for adoption by the state’s Ocean Protection Council. Its sea-level rise projections will assist state agencies and local governments with planning. No stretch of the state’s 3,400 miles of coast, bays, inlets and islands will be spared. Addressing sea-level rise will cost a staggering amount of public and private money and will particularly impact the poor and vulnerable. The problem becomes more urgent with much of California’s wealth huddled along the coast, supporting an ocean-dependent $44 billion economy. In the end, state and local officials may come to the gut-wrenching conclusion that some coastal land simply should be abandoned. “We’re not doing well at all,” said Democratic Assemblyman Mark Stone, chairman of the Select Committee on Coastal Protection and Access to Natural Resources. “We have yet to really start to answer the hard questions and make policy—saying, ‘No, we are not

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This article was written for CalMatters, a nonpartisan media venture explaining California politics.

going to put public money here.’ Eventually we should get to the point that we are not going to do any public investment in those places any more.” Most scientists tread lightly in the policy realm, providing the information for others to craft into regulations. Not Bill Patzert, who has for years sounded the alarm about rising oceans. “It’s not an existential threat. It’s real. It’s gonna happen,” said Patzert, a climatologist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “Here’s the bigger issue: If you’re in the tunnel and you see the train coming at you, what do you do? Do you race towards it or do you back out? It’s just common sense. It’s just common sense. As a society, why aren’t we doing that?”

WAtChING thE ICE MELt From deep in the hive of large brains at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, set hard against the San Gabriel Mountains, an intense group of scientists from Caltech and NASA are harnessing satellites that for decades have been peering into space and are now directing their gaze to earth. The researchers—with advanced degrees in physics, mathematics and oceanography—are engaged in what many consider to be the critical research of our time. They are watching ice melt. Sitting alone in a cubicle, bathed in the glow of a computer screen or staring down the barrel of a telescope, can be a balm for scientists. Concerning themselves with one finite slice of a planet-wide catastrophe allows them to compartmentalize and disengage from the entire sobering picture. But even professional detachment fails against the unfolding horror show depicted in the cold display of satellite imagery. “We are in the process of watching the ice sheet in Greenland disappear,” said the lab’s oceanographer, Josh Willis, who leads a team studying Greenland. “This is the first time humans have been able to measure it. The last time it was shrinking at this rate was tens of thousands of years ago.” The diminishment of Greenland’s ice mass has been accelerating alarmingly, losing a trillion tons in the last

four years. The rapid melting is getting the attention of scientists because locked away in the Greenland ice sheet is the possibility to raise global sea levels by 24 feet. The Antarctic holds 187 feet of potential ice melt. Polar ice loss on that scale would have unfathomable consequences for continued life on earth. Willis uses satellites to measure the warmth of the waters around Greenland. Because he has a sense of humor, his project is known to all as OMG: Oceans Melting Greenland. (He preferred calling it Water Temperature Fjords, but couldn’t get the acronym past government sensibilities.) “As scientists, we’re witnessing these huge events, and it’s telling us how the Earth is changing,” Willis said. “Of course, I’m also a citizen, I live on this planet, and it is worrying that it’s happening. It’s sometimes profoundly shocking to wake up and realize we’re reshaping our entire planet.”

A consensus of scientific research makes catastrophic projections that, in the worst case, will be reality by the end of this century: • International airports in San

Francisco and Oakland will face flooding, rendering them unusable.

• Housing perched on fast-eroding coastal bluffs in Pacifica and elsewhere will continue to crash into the sea.

• Malibu’s Broad Beach will

dwindle into a seldom-seen slice of sand, its name an oxymoron.

• Flooding in the Delta will over-

thE SCIENCE OF SEA RISE Understanding the threat of sea-level rise in California depends to some extent on where you are standing: Boots in the dust of the Central Valley and you might curse the lateness of a rail shipment held up by flooding at the port of Oakland; bare feet in the sand at Huntington Beach and you may have to consider relocating your family, your home and all your possessions. Some simple math: Every inch of sea-level rise equates to an 8- to 10-foot loss of beach. So, using the conservative projection of a 4-foot rise, and the lowerend 8-foot-per inch formula, that equates to 384 feet of coastal beach loss in the next 70 years. The 10-foot-rise scenario, which scientists peg as the new worst-case, would cause a land loss of 800 feet—the length of two-and-a-half football fields. The sea will not rise the same amount in every place; scientists say each discrete elevation is dependent on factors such as the shape of the sea floor and the slope of the landfall. Considering the scope of this coming catastrophe, it does not appear to be front-of-mind to many in the state. But that doesn’t mean it’s gone unstudied.

whelm rivers and strain levees critical to California’s water supply.

• Power plants, nuclear waste sites and other sensitive waterside sites need to be fortified or lost.

• Roads, bridges and railways

along the coast from Mendocino to San Diego will be abandoned and relocated inland.

• San Francisco’s Embarcadero

and low-lying cities such as Huntington Beach will flood more frequently and more severely.

• More than 42,000 homes in

California will be under water—not merely flooded, but with seawater over roofs.

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“CALIFORNIA SUBMERGED” continued from page 15 California has a peerless capacity to turn over problems until they are smooth and shiny. Understanding comes first, with action often a distant and expensive second. A tour through recent scientific analyses: A 2009 report on sea-level rise commissioned by the state paints worst-case scenarios that are the stuff of disaster movies: a half-million Californians at risk of flooding and more than $100 billion worth of infrastructure. More than two dozen coastal power plants flooded, along with hundreds of hazardous waste facilities, as well as schools, hospitals, police stations, ports and major airports. A 2012 report prepared for the California Energy Commission focused just on the San Francisco Bay and its 1,000 miles of shoreline, concluding: “Rising sea levels will overwhelm the existing protection structures, putting the 140,000 people currently living in vulnerable areas at increased risk.” The authors cautioned that their findings did not reflect worst-case scenarios. And, if no action is taken to address the vulnerabilities, the risk projections should be considered “substantially low.” The California Assembly weighed in with a report in 2014, and the next year the Senate chimed in with its own review, amping it up a bit: “With current projections, rising seas combined with a 100-year flood event would close over 2,000 miles of roadway, the Oakland and San Francisco airports, and the Port of Oakland.” The sobering fact of those state-of-the-art reports, recent though they are, is that they are already out of date and not nearly comprehensive enough in describing the scope of what currently

faces California. Nor remotely scary enough. What scientists are observing now is, they say, a rapid and steep change that, even as it unfolds over comparatively long periods of time, is nonetheless occurring at a breathtaking pace.

Rising seas already are claiming some coastal regions, including this stretch in the Bay Area.

Scientists warn that intensified El Nino events, coupled with higher seas, will bring about unprecedented flooding. What civil engineers refer to as nuisance flooding—overwhelmed storm sewers and street flooding—is already more common. King tides are getting worse. Commuting times, the ability of first-responders to get to an accident scene and the transportation of goods by road will be severely compromised, researchers say. That risk, too, can be observed at its point Sea-level rise is caused primarily of origin. The National Oceanic and by two factors related to global Atmospheric Administration mainwarming: the expansion of tains tide gauges that bob and float seawater as it heats up in U.S. waters, sentinels sending and the added water As much out a stream of data measuring volume from melting current sea levels. The inforice. Researchers as 67 percent mation feeds tidal forecasts focused on glacial used by surfers and mariners, of Southern melt in Greenland and is also monitored by and Antarctica see the California’s beaches emergency services. process as an actionThe tide and currents map could be lost to rising packed cataclysm is both colorful and alarming. marked by heaving seas by the end of The maps depict the North ice shelves collapsing American continent ringed into the sea and sheets of the century. by arrows pointing straight up, decaying ice sloughing off denoting trending rising sea levels, the end of a continent. like pickets defending the coast. The power unleashed by It turns out the coast is all but that tide of ice is awesome to defenseless. contemplate. Water has always been Brett Sanders, a civil and environmental engione of the most destructive and transformative neer at UC Irvine, is using a grant from the National forces in nature. With warmer waters creating more Science Foundation to help inform communities energy that incubates more powerful storms, some along the California and northern Mexican coast see a near future in which seas assault our coast about the risk of rising waters. Most people are more frequently and with greater force. Exhibit thrilled that they’ve managed to fulfill a dream of A: California’s past winter, when repeated storms living near the beach, Sanders said, and are unaware lashed the state, resulting in a preliminary price tag of what they should do to protect themselves. of $569 million and a federal disaster declaration.

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Pacifica has seen drastic erosion and stands to be greatly affected by rising seas.

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“We have done a bad job of mapping flood risk. It’s awful,” Sanders said.

FISh SwIMMING IN thE DEN Zillow, the website that calculates residential real estate values, recently took its maps of coastal property and overlaid NOAA’s sea-level projections. Using what are now thought to be conservative projections, the company estimated 2 million coastal homes in the United States would be underwater by the end of the century. Not as in being upside-down on a mortgage, but as in fish swimming through the den. The total value of those homes? Nearly $1 trillion; in California, $49 billion. Zillow’s chief economist, Svenja Gudell, said she was surprised that when the company shared its information with mayors or city planners, officials saw it as an event that would take place far in the future. “For some of these places the time horizon is not 100 years, it’s happening now,” she said. “It’s not as top of mind as it should be or you would like it to be. People are underinsured when it comes to flood insurance. The system is broken.” Gudell said that her research showed that homeowners living in high-risk areas are not getting market cues—real estate values in beach areas destroyed by Hurricane Sandy are now higher than before the superstorm that played out on national television in the fall of 2012. “We were not able to explain that rationally,” Gudell said. “We will see in the future, if you are on a cliff and that cliff is further eroding and if you put a piece of property on that land, it won’t be safe anymore. For now, the benefit of living in these homes clearly outweighs the current and future cost of living there.” Which leaves us with the National Flood Insurance Program, a troubled and debt-ridden program operated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The flood insurance covers millions of Americans living in flood zones, based on maps that are decades out of date. The program is currently $24 billion in debt and requires reauthorization from Congress. Critics of the federal insurance say the rates don’t reflect current risks, leaving taxpayers on the hook for someone else’s folly. Democratic state Sen. Henry Stern represents a coastal district that includes Malibu and a string of state beaches. A lifelong surfer, he understands the attraction. “It’s so alluring,” he said of living by the beach. “But my whole thing is to make the market tell the truth about it. We know where sea level rise is going to happen. What I don’t want to happen is for all of us to bear the bill afterwards.”

Even with the horrific projections scientists have repeatedly shared about public health and safety associated with rising seas, it might be the economic cost that spurs action. A 2016 paper published in the journal Nature estimated the annual global cost for sea-level rise adaptation measures at about $421 billion per year. The authors of the study argue that the figure doesn’t take into account population growth and clustering around coasts. By the year 2100, the report warns, the price tag for mass relocations could exceed $14 trillion. Given California’s coastal population clusters—75 percent of the state’s residents live in a coastal county—the figure here will be enormous.

No stretch of the state’s 3,400 miles of coast, bays, inlets and islands will be spared. Addressing seal-level rise will cost a staggering amount of public and private money and will particularly impact the poor and vulnerable.

ASkING thE hARD qUEStIONS The Ocean Protection Council receiving the new science report is a state agency whose mission, as its name implies, is to look after the welfare of California’s piece of the Pacific Ocean. It’s an almost laughably large responsibility, and one that the members approach thoughtfully. The report places the scientific findings at the forefront, said Liz Whiteman, the science and strategy director for the Ocean Science Trust, which was a partner in the study. That means the analysis does not entertain the question of whether climate change is altering the behavior of the

Pacific. Nor does it belabor stale arguments about how weather has always changed. It is, rather, an unsparing document that presents the best projections about the range of sea rise, and, for the first time, assigns a probability and risk to those numbers. “California is in a great place for being willing to call the hard question and not shying away,” Whiteman said. “There is no doubt that there is some scary information contained in a report looking at sea-level rise and our future.” Dan Cayan, one of seven scientists who contributed to the newest report, is a researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, investigating how climate affects changes in oceans. Viewed from his office window in La Jolla, the Pacific Ocean appears benign and soothing. But a glimpse into the updated information he’s assembling paints a different, darker picture. New data and more sophisticated modeling, he said, coupled with more extreme climate warming, “is going to be pushing the amount of sea-level rise above what was thought to be reasonable.” Comparing previous projections to current ones, he said, is no longer useful. “We’re actually off this scale,” he said. Cayan pulls out the 2012 report from the National Research Council, which is the basis for California’s current sea-level-rise assumptions and the predicate for the state’s coastal policies. The midrange of its projections envisions about 3 feet of rise by 2100. Then he carefully takes out a sheet with the new data. Cayan points at the elaborate graphs to the updated midrange projection—8½ feet. Cayan and his colleagues shrug off questions about how to apply their science—that’s the job of the politicians. But the report does counsel state officials to consider the worst-case scenario in their deliberations, and cautions: “Waiting for scientific certainty is neither a safe nor a prudent option.” So what now? California planners and policymakers will pore over the latest report. Their deliberations will result, at some point, in “updated guidance,” to use the parlance of the bureaucracy. The final document will help local officials incorporate the sea-level rise projections into their future plans for building and safety, in some cases altering zoning and building codes. Meanwhile, Greenland’s summer ice melt season begins, and the 2-mile-deep ice sheet that was created in the last Ice Age continues to shrink. Researchers drilling ice cores have been astounded to find more and more streams of water rushing below the sheet—a river of water scything through ice. The proliferation of these “melt streams” is leading scientists to consider that the loss of Greenland’s ice may be set on an unstoppable trajectory. No longer a matter of if, but only of when. Ω

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The experimental pop artist Temple K. Kirk went from crying on stage to owning her identity and style by AAron CArnes

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hen Temple K. Kirk hits the stage at The Press Club, she’s armed with a mic stand, which she holds like Steven Tyler of rock band Aerosmith. The club’s PA system starts to blare hyper synthy, off-kilter new wave beats from her iPod. “This is the feel-good hit of the summer—or the trigger warning of the summer,” she says. “It’s about destroying the patriarchy.” Her voice, when she sings, sounds somewhere between Half Japanese’s eccentric Jad Fair, a stream-of-conscious hip-hop performer and an ’80s radio pop starlet. In other words, entirely unique. If destroying the patriarchy is a trigger warning for anyone, it’s not the people in this room who are here for a Sac LadyFest fundraiser. The crowd of roughly 50 folks—a mishmash of people from the trans and radical queer community, punk rock feminists, and cis allies—cheer for her wildly. While Kirk, herself trans and radically queer, has been playing music since the early ‘90s, it’s only this past year that she’s been actively and consistently playing shows, enjoying herself on stage and building a fan base. “Everything has been a love fest this time around. I guess I finally caught up to the times, or the times have finally caught up to me, where I can do what I want to do, and it’s authentic to me, and the world appreciates it,” she says. This past year’s string of live shows has been unusual for her. The decade prior she’d barely stepped on stage. Before that, she had battled serious stage

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courage to perform fright and anxiety. She tells me of an aborted set in 2004 that she’s still a little embarrassed about: The backing tracks from her CD started skipping, and she started to cry, kicked over amps and left the venue. She’s been able to handle little failures and disappointments now, she tells me, because she has a lot of support in her life: her wife, her poly family, her friends in the trans community and her day job at the Gender Health Center (“working at a radical queer inclusive organization that values me even though I am eccentric and I bring certain things to the table and have holes in the table, too”). Prior to joining the Gender Health Center, she had no connection to a Sacramento trans community—she didn’t even know one existed. People in her life perceived her as a guy in a dress, she says, like Klinger from M*A*S*H. The moment she entered the Gender Health Center, everyone there affirmed her identity as a woman. Through their support, her identity has evolved. She now identifies as a nonbinary femme. And they have her back.

mutual support system When I visit Kirk at the Gender Health Center, I see that in a lot of ways it’s she who acts as the support system for so many other folks. Kirk runs Danelle’s Place, a drop-in crisis center for trans people or any person in need. Immediately upon entering, a woman named Jasmine says, “Temple is my favorite person.” Later, a trans man named Adrian Smith, a volunteer at Danelle’s, says he’s dealt with lots of frustrations with hospitals regarding his polycystic ovarian syndrome. Kirk has been an advocate for him. “Temple’s been amazing,” he says. “Without the Gender Health Center and just the support that I’ve gotten from everybody, I would not be here today. When I first came to the Gender Health Center, I was suicidal.” Kirk works to help people get back on their feet and back to their lives. Her drop-in center has inadvertently evolved to give people in the local trans community a space to simply eat, nap or chat where they won’t be judged, treated weirdly or presented as some kind of novelty. It’s a necessary resource for a people who face a lot of discrimination from a society that often denies their very identities. Kirk has a stressful job, and it’s obvious that the musician rocks at it. Her capacity for empathy is high. She does her absolute best to make sure everyone—drop-ins, volunteers, fellow staff—is taken care of. “For quite a while I was thinking I wasn’t good at this job,” she tells me. “The more I talked to my therapist, they’re like, ‘Temple, you have a very intense position here. And you’re helping community members deal with

discrimination, sad stories, a lot of misfortune, and you betting that there would be seven train wrecks today? If have to come back and do it the next day.’ It’s intense,” you were betting, you might be the winner of the train Kirk says. “It’s very rewarding.” wreck bet.” Kirk recalls the first time she set foot in the Gender Dolores Warren, a fellow Sacramento trans artist, Health Center. She had heard about the place and heard about the successful gig and asked if they wanted in immediately. She showed up and would open for her musical project, Dolores offered to volunteer, and by the end of 5000, at the Fox & Goose. Warren apprecithe day, she was behind the desk helpated Kirk’s mixture of weird music, ing out. personal expression and knack for “I got dressed up in my politics. femmey best; I looked straight “Temple Kirk is an intense out of an ’80s J.C. Penney’s person and thinker, well-spoken, catalog,” Kirk says. “If I’m witty and a lightning-fast wordgoing to dress business, I’m smith, which lends itself well going to dress business like for her musical expressions,” I wanted to dress business as Warren says. “Although a a little kid and stealing my true social-justice warrior, she mom’s clothes and wishing I also expresses trippy sideways was a woman.” musical grooves with that same A month later, her boyfriend intense spark. Really quite a Temple K. Kirk John Wiggins (DJ Polly remarkable person.” Experimental pop artist Parallax) insisted he and Kirk After her gig at Fox & Goose, start a band together, which became the Katmonkeys were invited to play Katmonkeys. She hadn’t played much the Sac LadyFest campout in Placerville. music but was willing to give it a go. Her Wiggins couldn’t make it, so Kirk did a mental health had been low for the previous solo set—her first since the aborted set 12 years couple of years, but working at the Gender Health earlier. Pretty soon, she was part of a music scene. Center and receiving therapy there had helped her. By the Playing live music has been fun and liberating for Kirk spring of 2014, she had developed the confidence to write this time around. Since her first foray into performing, and record her own music again. audiences have shifted their attitudes toward performers In the ’90s, she’d played in several bands, though who play with backing tracks instead of full bands. often with cis men, whom she had to pretend not to be “No one’s going to bitch at me for not being a real offended by when they made sexist and homophobic musician anymore. That’s so last century,” Kirk says. “In comments. Then, in 2007, she started the band The Pilots gay clubs, you can get up there and lip sync your diva Dared Me To Die! with “a group of queers and eccenass to backing tracks and everyone’s down. I get so much trics,” she says, who were also terrified of performing courage from drag queens. If they can tour gay clubs with on stage. In their nearly five-year run, they played live a lip sync act, I can bring my little iPod act and do my only twice. Normally, they’d get together at Kirk’s place thing.” to write and record music. Some of the recordings were Kirk isn’t exactly sure what’s in store for her and her quite intense. music. The Katmonkeys recently broke up this past April, “There was a lot of trauma in that group to process. but the future looks bright for Kirk and her solo music. When people got shitfaced and into their medical canna“I probably wouldn’t feel empowered enough to put bis or their bourbon, it would pour out,” she says. “We myself out on the stage like that if it wasn’t for Gender had a lot of joy.” Health Center,” Kirk says. “It’s sort of a second life on my teenage dreams of being a punk rock star. I’m just going to go with it.” Ω

“No one’s going to bitch at me for not being a real musician anymore. That’s so last century.”

owning the imperfections

Katmonkeys’ first show kicked off Kirk’s active year. In April 2016, the Gender Health Center threw a Big Queer Bazaar, a swap meet where the Katmonkeys played. It went really well, or rather Kirk had fun despite making several mistakes. When they messed up, she’d own it: “Everyone, that was train wreck No. 7. Were you

Check out Temple K. Kirk at 9 p.m. Saturday, May 20, at Fox & Goose Public House, 1001 R Street. Tickets are $5. Learn more at www.soundcloud.com/temple-kirk.

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On a warm spring day in 1971, a group of black students held a barbecue on the UC Davis quad to take a celebratory stand against culturally Festival exclusionary ideologies. Fast-forward to 2017, and this spirit continues in the form of the 46th annual Black Family Day, presented by the campus Cross Cultural Center. Expect festive, family fun. No cover; noon at UC Davis, 1 Shields Avenue in Davis; http://ccc.ucdavis.edu.

—JAnelle BiTkeR

Busking Day 2017 SATURDAY, MAY 20 Are buskers—street musicians—illegal in Sacramento? Not even city officials or police officers seem to know. But that doesn’t seem to stop them from harassing sidewalk strummers and kicking MUsiC them off the curb. Join ZFG Promotions on J, K and L streets in Midtown this Saturday as local musicians show what kind of flavor, flair and life a little bit of live music can bring to the central city. Free; 2-5 p.m. on J, K and L streets; www.facebook.com/zfgpromotions.

—DAve keMpA

U.s. air Guitar Championships FRiDAY, MAY 20 If you’ve never been to an air guitar competition, you’re really missing out on the finer things in life. We’re not talking about a bunch of goofs doing silly rock poses. The Sacramento qualifier filters down to the top three finishers of the semifinals through rounds of 60-second performances. The CUltUre winners of this competition will go on to the nationals. $10; 9 p.m. at Starlite Lounge, 1517 21st Street; http://usairguitar.com.

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acramento Pride doesn’t take place until June, but area celebrations are already getting started. Here are a few events taking place this week focused on the local LGBTQIA community and its allies: The biggest of the lot is Davis Pride on Sunday, May 21, in Central Park (401 C Street in Davis). It kicks off at 9 a.m. with a run for equality and segues into a free, family-friendly festival at 11 a.m. Presented by the Davis Phoenix Coalition, the festival features games, a food court and zones geared toward kids, as well as a stage hosting live performances all day long. Find the full schedule at http://davispride.org. More than 600 Sacramentans are expected to descend onto

intergalactic expo Sacramento State University’s ballroom (6000 J Street) for the ninth annual Q-Prom, a party for LGBTQIA and friends ages 13-20. Organized by the Sacramento LGBT Community Center, this year’s dance carries the theme, “Out Of This World.” In other words, space-themed attire is encouraged. It starts at 7 p.m. on Saturday, May 20, and tickets include snacks, desserts and beverages, in addition to a safe space to groove. Grab $15 tickets at the door or buy them for $10 online at https://tinyurl.com/ sacramentoqprom. That same evening at 7:30 p.m., history in the Making will screen at the Guild Theater (2828 35th Street). The documentary follows a

grassroots organization’s quest for marriage equality, from Proposition 8 in California all the way to 2015’s historic Supreme Court decision. After the screening, stick around for a discussion with filmmaker Fred Anguera. Get your $15 tickets at http://hitm17.brownpaper tickets.com. The monthly Fridays are a Drag show at Badlands (2003 K Street) also lands on this week. Always a raucous good time with an indescribable amount of glitter and sequins, this particular evening also features a very special guest: Trinity Taylor, who is currently killing it on ruPaul’s Drag race. Things get started at 8 p.m. Friday, May 19. More details at www.sacbadlands.com.

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SUnDAY, MAY 21 Star Wars fans and space-loving mongers, unite! The annual Intergalactic Expo is back. Expect lots of your favorite characters on hand as well as a bevy of cool toys and trinkets. Who Convention knows what kind of Doctor Who or Star Trek goodie you’ll find. $10-$20; 10 a.m., at West Sacramento Community Center, 1075 West Capitol Avenue, in West Sacramento; http://westsacscifi.wixsite.com/westsacscifi.

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turner sparks WeDneSDAY, MAY 24 El Dorado Hills native Turner Sparks is still trying to understand what it means to be an American. From 2004 to 2016, he lived in China, mixing comedy and ice cream trucks. Today he lives in New York and co-hosts a podcast called Lost in CoMeDy America, in which he tries to make sense of this crazy country. All that, and he has a razorsharp wit. $15; 8 p.m. at Punch Line Sacramento, 2100 Arden Way; www.turnersparks.com.

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by John Flynn Rev your kitchens: Off The Grid Markets has returned for a second season at The Barn (985 Riverfront Street in West Sacramento), the curvy, indoor-outdoor venue in West Sacramento. Each week from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m., the venue will host more than a dozen food trucks, including Flavor Face (American comfort), Latin Flame (Mexican) and the delightfully named Who is Hungry? (Hungarian). “We want people to be aware that there are things happening in West Sacramento,” said Off the Grid spokesperson Joshua Jimenez. Weekly, Off the Grid will announce its rotating food truck

lineup, which will occasionally include trucks from San Francisco, on its Facebook page. At the inaugural event on May 13, visitors watched fire dancers while sipping on craft cocktails from Rye on the Road and beers from Drake’s Brewing Co., which will establish a permanent residency at The Barn later this year. To prepare, Drake’s will host “Meet the Brewers” events every second Saturday, starting on June 10. Guests explored the river while moseying along a newly renovated pier. And, learning from last year, organizers provided them with increased shade from canvas sails

Finnegan again: On May 3, John Finnegan announced on Facebook that Finnegan’s Public House (3751 Stockton Boulevard) was closing. He had even posted it for sale on Craigslist for $50,000 with a cryptic comment: “Family issues force sale.” But by May 8, Finnegan provided an update: “There are investors interested in keeping Finnegan’s open!!!!” Due to a “perfect storm of sorts”—Finnegan wrote in a Facebook message that he can’t yet comment on exactly what has happened or will—the restaurant has a fighting chance of reopening. “For the record I did everything humanly possible to keep FPH open. If I could tell you the story it would make Crime and Punishment look like a lighthearted comedy. And this may not be the final chapter.” Ω

The new Selland’s Market Cafe opened recently near Land Park, enlivening the west end of Broadway. While it’s nice to have more options for wine by the glass, they also offer interesting nonalcoholic drinks. I plan to sip lots of their vanilla-mint sweet tea ($3) this summer. Based on a lightly fruity decaf berry tea, it’s not tannic in the way of some iced teas. Fresh mint and a hint of vanilla round out the refreshing combo. If you really like that flavor, try the vanilla lemonade ($3), which is abundant with vanilla seeds. 915 Broadway, www.sellands.com.

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Whiskey-drenched tarts Cherries They seem a little early yet, but look for cherries now and over the next month. If you like traditional cherry pie, seek out tart cherries; for a new treat, use sweet cherries instead. They pair well with nuts, so scatter almond crumble or walnut streusel on top. Taste-test blushing Rainier cherries or white Queen Anne’s vs. standard Bings and deep red Brooks. Cherries also make excellent jam, with or without a little liqueur to perk them up—they preserve well, pitted and covered in whiskey. No need to eat those weird maraschinos any more.

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Bike-thru rodeo Davis’s Street Food Rodeo is among the most lit up of all regional food truck gatherings, literally. On Friday, May 19, if you ride your bike to their free valet, you’ll get front and back lights, reflectors, a bell and a 50-point inspection—all for free because May is Bike Month. I don’t know if you’ve heard, but they like bikes in Davis. From 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. in Westlake Plaza (1260 Lake Boulevard), visitors can check out a beer garden put on by Drake’s Brewing Co. as well as 13 food trucks including Smokers Wild BBQ, Local Kine Hawaiian Shave Ice and Ma Sarap Food Truck, which serves Filipino favorites like lumpia, adobo bowls and fried chicken skins. There will be live music by the Chinese Community Church ukulele and hula ensembles, the Steve Kotarek Band and finally, Boca do Rio, which claims to play Brazilian space funk, which sounds out of this world! … What? I’m supposed to just leave that joke on the table?

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An artist’s rendition of theater of the future.

B Street Theatre rises in Midtown learn more about the B street theatre at https://bstreettheatre.org.

After more than a decade of preparation, the walls are rising at the B Street Theatre’s new Midtown home at 27th Street and Capitol Avenue, and the project is finally looking like a building. The new 40,000-square-foot project will ultimately cost nearly $30 million to build, and it will have two performance spaces, with 365 seats and 250 seats respectively—more than doubling the original location’s audience capacity. The theater company is also updating its union contract with Actors’ Equity to reflect this growth. The new stages will have features that B Street has lacked until now: trap space (allowing actors to “pop up”), fly space (which allows scenery to “fly down”) and wing space (on the sides). “It will give us the opportunity to do different kinds of plays,” said Buck Busfield, B Street’s producing artistic director. “For years, we’ve had to chuck some good scripts because we didn’t have the right space to do them. Now, we will be able to pick some of these scripts.” The company will also host some live music and dance events. “We want it to be a home for all the arts,” Busfield said. But, the director also stressed, B Street’s orientation won’t change. “We are still going to be an actor-driven, storydriven company; we will never do a play just to wow people with technical stuff,” he said. Like all outdoor projects, B Street’s construction was delayed by the recent long winter rains. They now plan to open the new venue in February 2018.

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Two to grow on Two community theater groups are preparing new venues in West Sacramento. Runaway Stage Productions and Green Valley Theatre Company are both in the process of building bigger venues that promise significant artistic growth. Runaway Stage Productions, a nonprofit that’s fond of musicals, is converting a 22,000-squarefoot building on the River Road into a 250-seat theater with a proscenium stage, scene shop, costume shop, dressing rooms and lobby space. Runaway Stage has raised $300,000 toward building improvements, and is now raising money for lighting and sound gear. “Finally we will have all our operations under one roof,” said Bob Baxter, president and producing director of Runaway Stage. Founded 20 years ago, Runaway Stage will not mount any new shows until the West Sac venue is finished in order to focus on the move. Meanwhile, the decade-old Green Valley Theater Company is converting a 5,000-square-foot building on West Capitol Avenue into a black box theater with approximately 100 seats, according to artistic director Christopher Cook. Fundraising is ongoing, and the theater will continue mounting shows this summer at its current V Street venue in Sacramento. The company plans to open its new theater in time for its signature Halloween production, The Rocky Horror Show. —Jeff Hudson

learn more about runaway stage Productions at www.runawaystage.com. learn more about Green Valley theatre company at https://greenvalleytheatre.com.

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Grand Hotel

The Grand Hotel was Berlin’s most posh, exclusive hotel where “people come and people go and nothing ever happens.” Set in 1928, the story follows several of the hotel residents, their secrets and their relationships.

F, Sa 8pm, Su 7pm. Through 5/28. $18. Green Valley

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With its title, you know that this modern adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s classic play The Seagull is going to be irreverent and

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quirky. And it is. Posner’s existential play about Chekhov’s existential play is funny, biting and a bit cynical while generously incorporating “fuck” throughout the dialogue in the form of nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. However, the surprise is how much we are emotionally drawn into its plot and characters even when the theater’s “fourth wall” is constantly being broken—with actors addressing the audience with reminders that we are seeing a play, that these wounded souls are mere thespians. Th 7pm, F 8pm, Sa 2pm, W 7pm. Through 6/4. $28-$40. Capital Stage, 2215 J Street; (916) 995-5464; http://capstage.org. P.R.

Actresses Stephanie Altholz, Amy Kelly and Tara Sissom wrote and star in this original comedy about three friends on a girls camping trip to scatter the ashes of the mother of one of the trio. Dave Pierini directs. Th, F 8pm; Sa 5pm

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.

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Whether you can follow Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant will depend on whether you’ve seen Prometheus, to which it’s a sequel. The odds of that are better if you live somewhere besides the United States; Prometheus made two-thirds of its $403 million in foreign markets. In the interest of full disclosure, I’ll fess up: I missed out on Prometheus back in 2012, and I can’t say I ever felt the poorer for it until seeing Alien: Covenant sent me scampering to the previous movie’s plot summary on Wikipedia so I could figure out what the hell was going on in this one. Sometime in the early 22nd century, the colony ship Covenant is on its way to a distant planet with colonists and crew in suspended animation, while a lone android named Walter (Michael Fassbender) and a computer named Mother (voiced by Lorelei King) run the ship. A disastrous ion storm rouses the crew, but too late for the captain, who burns to death in his pod. This elevates the executive officer, Oram (Billy Crudup), to command, a circumstance that appears not to sit well with some of the crew. (Oram makes reference to the fact that he’s “a man of faith” as being the cause of this, but that thread is dropped almost as soon as it’s mentioned.) When a mysterious transmission is intercepted from a nearby Earth-like planet, Oram makes a controversial decision: Fearing that the storm damage will keep the ship from reaching its original destination, he diverts to this new planet. It’s a decision he will, of course, regret.

by Jim Lane

Alien: Covenant, like Prometheus before it, is in fact a prequel to Scott’s 1979 breakthrough movie Alien, and if you’ve seen that one, or any of its sequels in the last 38 years, you can guess where things are going. Whatever happens, we know this is not going to end well. We can name the actors in the cast—besides Fassbender and Crudup, we’ve got Katherine Waterston, Danny McBride, Carmen Ejogo, Jussie Smollett and Callie Hernandez, among others—but it hardly matters. This being the Alien universe, we know going in that we can pretty much kiss everybody goodbye the minute they hit the screen. Every time a crew member bends over one of those weird throbbing eggs, it’s the equivalent of a don’t-go-into-that-dark-roomyou-idiot moment from less pretentious horror flicks. And this being a sequel to Prometheus, there are hints of that movie’s themes about human origins—but in John Logan, Dante Harper, Jack Paglen and Michael Green’s script, the hints are so oblique that they tend to get lost in the shuffle of Scott’s otherworldly atmospherics and all the mini-monster chest-hatchings. Giving credit where it’s due, Alien: Covenant is stylish enough. And if you’ve spent the last five years anxiously wondering where Prometheus was headed, then this is the movie for you. If not, feel free to skip it; unlike most of the Covenant’s crew, you’ll survive. Ω

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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.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul

Wimpy Greg Heffley (Jason Drucker), his harried parents (Alicia Silverstone, Tom Everett Scott), garage-rocker big brother (Charlie Wright) and the family infant set off on a cross-country road trip. The Law of Diminishing Returns kicks in big time on this franchise based on Jeff Kinney’s books, even though Kinney himself provides the script. It’s been five years since the last installment, and the cast that made the first three worth watching have either outgrown their roles or moved on: Zachary Gordon, now 19, is replaced by the charmless Drucker, while Rachael Harris and Steve Zahn give way to Silverstone and Scott, who look like they know they’ve seen better days. Jokes are lame, David Bowers’ direction is tired and the handful of stickfigure animation scenes are cleverer than the live-action. J.L.

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

The motley crew of space buccaneers from the 2014 original are back: Peter Quill, the half-alien leader of the pack (Chris Pratt); green-skinned Gamora (Zoe Saldana); Drax, the hulking comic relief (Dave Bautista); and the wisecracking varmint Rocket (voiced by Bradley Cooper), all on the run because of Rocket’s incurable kleptomania. Writerdirector James Gunn inserts a new wrinkle in the form of Quill’s long-lost father Ego (Kurt Russell) and his servant Mantis (wonderful newcomer Pom Klementieff)—but the family reunion comes with ulterior motives. It’s all a barrel of fun, as delicious as a bag of meltin-your-mouth cotton candy—albeit just as insubstantial, temporary, and lacking in any real nutrition. As in the first movie, Gunn spices up the soundtrack with a killer playlist of ’80s pop tunes. J.L.

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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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The Lovers

Writer-director Azazel Jacobs (Momma’s Man; Terri) delivers this mostly smart, mostly snappy, deeply romantic anti-romance about a philandering married couple rediscovering their spark. Michael (Tracy Letts) and Mary (Debra Winger) are deep into the “passionless roommates” phase of their union, each secretly canoodling with a needy younger partner (Melora Walters and Aiden Gillen, respectively), and each secretly preparing to call the marriage quits. But as their illicit sex partners begin to feel more like domestic obligations, Michael and Mary find a new thrill—sneaking around with each other. Jacobs uses the juxtaposition between his colorless style and composer Mandy Hoffman’s insistently swooning score to great effect, and he’s blessed with strong performances in the lead roles. (It’s great to see a showcase role for the always underused Winger.) Unfortunately, the pace frequently lags, and the final third gets especially gummy; overall, The Lovers feels too much like an overextended short. D.B.

King Arthur: Legend of the Sword

There’s precious little trace of the Arthurian Legend in this loud, brainless farrago from director Guy Ritchie (who also co-wrote with Joby Harold, Lionel Wigram and David Dobkin). There’s a guy named Arthur (Charlie Hunnam), working in a whorehouse in Londinium (aka London) after his uncle Vortigern (Jude Law) kills his parents (Eric Bana, Poppy Delevigne) and steals his throne; a sword in a stone; a Percival (Craig McGinlay); a Bedivere (an incongruous Djimon Hounsou); and way down the cast list, a Merlin. But don’t look for Guinevere, Lancelot or the Holy Grail. Instead, Ritchie gives us a weird mashup of Hamlet, a Warcraft video game, and one of his old Cockney crime comedies. There are also bits of Macbeth thrown in—especially the part about being full of sound and fury signifying nothing. J.L.

A Quiet Passion

Get pumped to loiter over the sumptuous anti-sumptuousness of Terence Davies’ A Quiet Passion, a meticulous yet ethereal biopic of 19th century poet Emily Dickinson, played to the hilt by Cynthia Nixon. After the Sex and the City veteran’s powerful and possessed turn here and a paint-peeling supporting performance in 2015’s underseen James White, it’s time to acknowledge that Nixon is doing world-class work. Austere and episodic in a manner that should be familiar to Davies acolytes, especially the few who saw his recent Sunset Song, A Quiet Passion luxuriates in the language and manners of a bygone era while also recognizing the restrictions of those times, especially as they relate to women. It’s exquisite and intense, although just a little too rigid and bloodless to get enthusiastic about, and it’s hard to shake the thought that Mike Leigh’s Mr. Turner did this sort of impressionistic biopic better. D.B.

Snatched

When her boyfriend dumps her just before their big South American vacation, a young woman (Amy Schumer) drags her timid mother (Goldie Hawn) along, having no other friends to invite. Long story short, absolutely everything goes wrong, and they wind up abducted and lost in the trackless equatorial jungle. Katie Dippold’s episodic script is a bit of a mess, but at least it’s funny—pretty funny most of the time and very funny some of the time. Schumer and Hawn make a great team, their comic chops meshing nicely (a sequel looks all but assured). Jonathan Levine directs at a merry clip, and the supporting cast doesn’t hurt: Ike Barinholtz as Schumer’s slacker brother; Wanda Sykes and a mute, unrecognizable Joan Cusack as fellow vacationers; and a hilarious Christopher Meloni as a wannabe Indiana Jones. J.L.

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The Wall

Compact, blunt and borderline exploitative, Doug Liman’s lean military thriller The Wall largely plays like a Max Fischer stage adaptation of American Sniper. Aaron Taylor-Johnson and John Cena play American soldiers in “post-war” Iraq sent to the middle of nowhere to investigate the murders of a group of civilian contractors and security workers. Soon enough, Taylor-Johnson is dodging bullets behind a crumbling stone wall, taunted by the unseen gunman over his radio while a mortally wounded Cena slowly bleeds out in the crosshairs. At a fat-free, mostly real-time 81 minutes, The Wall never becomes boring—it’s the sort of punchy, self-contained, midsized genre picture that they truly don’t make anymore. With a more dynamic actor in the lead role, The Wall might have even had an opportunity to bust through the low ceiling of expectations established in the opening scenes, but Taylor-Johnson is strictly serviceable, and so is the film. D.B.

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These robots have never seen swings before.

Bad news: The robots are coming for your kids. Good news: They’re goofy as hell and command you to dance. Jason Adair and Scott Namanny—known on stage as the ukulele-strumming Jason 2.0 and drumbanging ScottBot—comprise Musical Robot, a local musical duo that gets kids of all ages on their feet with raucous tunes like “Robot and You Know It” and “Boom Chugga.” “When we got the amount of goofing off to a high-enough percentage, we knew we finally did it right,” Adair said. Whether they’re pretending to be every manner of fauna or waking up ScottBot from a nap (“Wake Up Robot!”), kids and occasionally adults in the audience are as much a part of the show as the performers. After shows, the duo often receive compliments for teaching kids about nutrition and exercise. Unlike Mr. Rogers, the lessons that slip in are an afterthought. “We never sit down and say, ‘What’s a lesson we can convey?’” Namanny said. “It’s just us trying to get kids moving.” As any parent who’s slid the duo’s CD into a minivan stereo can tell you, Musical Robot’s sound harkens to the lighthearted irreverence and reliable pop hooks found in a Talking Heads or Donovan song. Between and during their hits, there’s always a Smothers Brothers-esque patter between the two. “… And then I stop and think,” Namanny begins. “Oh wait. You don’t want to do that,” Adair says. “Why not?”

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Tuesday May 23rd | 8pm | $5 | 21+ The Torch Club, 904 15th St

“Because that’s when you get ideas.” Keeping the show unpredictable, “like the original Sesame Street,” is crucial if kids are going to remain captivated. At a show in Wyoming, Adair performed acrobatics on a stack of chairs. At another show, he spent 10 minutes trying to jump into a pair of shoes. “It was kids watching a grown man just failing and failing,” Adair said. “And they couldn’t get enough of it.” On one occasion, Namanny was punched in the face by a kid, but the show went on. “It’s all vaudeville, and we’re both naturally gracious people,” Namanny said. “I was happy he was there, to be honest.” Musical Robot’s biggest break came in 2015, when pop-up book legend David A. Carter worked one of their songs into If You’re A Robot and You Know It. The book is a storytime mainstay for librarians from here to Denver, and has nabbed countless gigs for the duo. And as shows line up, their fan base grows, like 5-year-old Grace Smith and her mom Margy, who listen to Musical Robots’ two albums Wake Up Robot and Flyabout on heavy rotation. “I listen to them almost every day,” Grace said. “I want to invite them to my birthday party.” This summer will be Musical Robot’s busiest, with a bustling tour schedule and plans to publish a children’s ukulele how-to, You Can Uke, which will be lousy with robots and sheet music for their most popular songs. Still, creating an environment for positive chaos is the prime objective for Adair and Namanny. “We’re just trying to have fun, trying to teach fun,” Adair said. “And dancing. Always be working on your dance moves.”

Namanny was punched in the face by a kid, but the show went on.

you don’t need to be a kid to groove to the sweet beats of musical Robot at the sacramento Children’s museum on thursday, may 20. show starts at 10 a.m. learn more at https://musicalrobotlovesyou.wordpress.com.

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Antiques you can strum Good old gear: Stone Vintage Music

Boutique held its grand opening Friday, sporting a retro vibe that’s out with the new and in with the old. The R Street music shop, located a few doors down from Ace of Spades, showcased not only arcane guitars and amps ready to demo, but also live bands with scaled-back armory to fit the narrow stage in the shop’s back corner. Sacramento’s Petaluma opened with an intimate acoustic set, and you could imagine how the boutique’s stage might be perfect for their planned monthly open-mics in the future. The next two bands played throwback sounds, Mondo Deco with light ’70s garage rock and Death Party at the Beach with emotional, ’80s surf pop. You could find co-owner Brendan Stone running around the crowded store, working the register, talking gear with visiting musicians and troubleshooting an authentic, 1950s jukebox near the entrance. Stone, whose love for things bygone is apparent in his blues-rock band Blue Oaks, filled the place with authentic machines and products from the past. Some of the retro amenities: an old gumball machine that spits out guitar picks for a quarter, a hulking metal

dispensary that offers strings, and a real 1950s black-and-white tube television to accompany a 50-yearold black leather couch. Stone said he wants to eventually play old The Ed Sullivan Show and The Twilight Zone episodes on the tube. As for what the store offers, there was a lot on display in the small space, a mix of new and vintage gear. Stone meticulously curates the stock, from hand-crafted guitar pedals made in the United States to classic and rare pre-1980s guitar models. It felt like a museum exhibit, except you could play and purchase the artifacts. It’s one dream come true for Stone and his partner, Johnny Casino. Two months ago, the two banked on creating the townie music store Sacramento didn’t have. They lucked out on the R Street space, and the potential is obvious. Stone said he’s working on increasing the lot of gear: He wants to house preshow acoustic gigs and meet-and-greets with touring acts performing at Ace of Spades. Both envision the boutique as an all-ages communal space for musicians and music lovers in Sacramento.

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Sacramento Bicycle Kitchen, a riotous honky-tonk old-school country concert—punctuated by the sound of passing trains—drew a packed crowd for Second Saturday. With delicious beer from Bike Dog Brewing Co., the show on March 13 featured local bands Loose Engines and The Bear Flag Trio, with a middle set by Oakland natives Crying Time. The enthusiastic crowd danced under bicycle tires in the small garage shop space, and the open patio filled up with the Saturday crowd—a mix of Second Saturday browsers and Amgen cyclists coming together to enjoy a high-energy show. Leading off the night was The Bear Flag Trio, a three-piece playing old hillbilly music with an almost rockabilly sound. Kathleen Harvey led the group on a four-string tenor guitar. One of the band members acknowledged Harvey’s birthday weekend with a small cake and a lit candle, kicking off a happy birthday song along with the crowd. Crying Time played next, with plenty of dancing to their Americana ‘70s-inspired country pop songs. The band’s fiddle got most of the audience moving. Next up, Loose Engines took the stage to headline, delivering a raucous performance to a still fully crowded venue, taking the show well past its advertised 10 p.m. finish time. Not that anyone seemed to mind. Though punctuated by occasional train sounds, the country and Tex-Mex band played on. They delivered an extraordinary show featuring up-tempo foot-tappers and harmonious mournful original songs like “California Diesel,” belying the woes of travel and lost love. Grub Mitchell, founder, guitarist and lead singer of the band, walked out into the crowd while playing, keeping the energy high. “This is my favorite place to watch a show,” Mitchell said. Clearly, at least on Saturday night, Mitchell had made it the crowd’s favorite place to watch a show, too. —Matt KraMer

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They’re getting the band back together. Baltimore five-piece Ruiner is on tour for the first time since its HARDCORE initial breakup in 2010. The band first reunited for the annual This is Hardcore Fest in Pennsylvania last summer. Between that unexpected comeback and a few more East Coast appearances, Ruiner now hits four California cities with its driving punk beats, dynamic guitars and lyrical aggression. Strange Ways, VVomen, Human/Nature and the Cutthroats join the lineup. 3512 Stockton Boulevard, www.facebook.com/youruiner.

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Riotmaker describes its new EP as “an amazing blend of reggae, rock and sex!” We’re not so sure about the last, but the local five-piece has proven its skills already, blending feel-good reggae and California-vibing rock into something effortlessly high-energy and fun. Celebrate the release of The Fire with the crew, which is notably fronted by Jeffry Valerio, the former leader of Shakedown, one of the city’s most popular, now defunct reggae bands. And yes, REggAE/ROCK Riotmaker’s name is indeed a reference to the song by Tech N9ne. 8704 La Riviera Road, www.riotmakermusic.com.

KSFM Radio has moved its yearly music festival to Woodland. Last year’s festival ended in tragedy after a man was fatally assaulted. This year is headlined by Ludacris, the Atlanta rapper turned Fast & HIp-HOp Furious franchise movie star. With 17 years of undeniable hits dating back to “Southern Hospitality” and “Area Codes,” Ludacris is sure to keep the vibes positive once “Saturday (Oooh! Oooh!)” hits those festival speakers. Supporting Ludacris is Lil Uzi Vert and Post Malone, two auto-tuning sensations riding successful singles. It’s a leaner, youth-friendly lineup that should encourage positivity. 1250 Gum Avenue, http://ksfm.cbslocal.com.

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phono SeleCT ReCoRdS, 4 p.m., no CoveR Phono Select Records celebrates its new location and its appreciation for the store’s loyal audiophiles with Phono Funday. Pizza Supreme Being with its wood-fired pies and a raffle giving away music-related prizes all join a diverse group of live performances. From the heavy, garage-rock tunes of the Krebtones (pictured), to rock ’n’ roll trio Trinidad Silva and the Eastern-experimental vibes of Swimming in Bengal, VARIOUS this event’s lineup reflects the wide array of genres the store continues to carry. What’s more, Phono Select’s new digs has a lot more room for records to hit the shelves, by the thousands. 2475 Fruitridge Road, www.phonoselect.com.

—Blake gilleSpie

—STeph RodRiguez

2708 J Street Sacramento, CA 916.441.4693 www.harlows.com COMING SOON 5/18 6PM $15ADV

5/21 5:30PM $15ADV

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05/28 Protoje 05/30 Freddy Gibbs (A TRIBUTE TO NEIL YOUNG AND CRAZY HORSE) 06/01 Jah9 06/02 Hot Club of Cowtown 06/02 Dave Alvin and Phil Alvin 5/23 6PM $10 06/03 Mount Kimbie 06/06 Scott Stapp of Creed 06/07 DJ Premier & the Badder Band DESTROY BOYS, PREGNANT 06/08 Raheem Devaughn & Wes Felton 06/09 Death Party at the Beach 06/10-11 Joan Osborne sings the songs of Bob Dylan 06/14 Front Country 5/24 5:30PM $15ADV 06/15 Joshua James 06/16 Joel the Band 06/16 Dead Prez 06/17 Raven Felix 06/20 Raekwon 5/25-26 9PM $35ADV 06/23 !!! (Chk Chk Chk) 06/24 The Weight Band 06/30 Felice Lazae

TRIBE OF THE RED HORSE

KIDD DOXX (ALL AGES)

5/18 10PM $20ADV

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5/19 6PM $17ADV

MAXO KREAM

HOBO JOHNSON & THE LOVEMAKERS

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(ALL AGES)

5/20 8PM $15ADV

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2708 J Street www.momosacramento.com 5/21 • 9pm

world goth day 5/26 • 6pm • $7adv

so much light

jordan moore, devin wright

5/28 • 6:30pm • $10

comedy burger featuring ngaio Bealum 6/3 • 6pm • $7adv

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poor majesty 6/24 • 6pm • $7adv

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sacramento’s favorite djs every fri & sat at 10pm

For booking inquiries, email Robert@momosacramento.com

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CAfe ColoniAl, 8 p.m., $7

Is it possible to write rockin’ surf-pop tunes that also double as headphoneswearing, put-you-to-sleep lullabies for your post-work evening? The answer is an emphatic yes. I’m thinking of locals Animals in the Attic, whose fivePSycH-PoP song EP pretty much sums it up: Half-Asleep Surf. These are great ultra-catchy psych-garage rock songs that you can vibe out to, right alongside your chilliest of chill-wave bands. Highly recommended that you not drive to these songs. They could lull you into a peaceful space of mind that would likely result in a car accident. 1400 E Street, Suite A; www.facebook .com/animalsintheatticmusic.

—AAron CArneS

Blue lAmp, 8 p.m., $10

Armed with chunky guitar riffs, solid drumming and intelligent lyrics, indie rockers Mallard add their name to the catalog of capable bands that lay down INdIe simple yet brightly colored tunes that also pack an emotional punch with additional listens. Melodies often doubled up and sung in unison only up the ante on how many catchy rock hooks one band can have whilst remaining pleasing to ear, mind and heartstrings. Mallard also manages to allow moments of tasteful experimental deviation, just enough to add a little flavor to the pot. This show is their tape release. 3520 Stockton Boulevard, www.facebook.com/ mallardtheband.

CreSt theAtre, 7:30 p.m., $30-$45

PowerFlex 5 is a celebrity mashup consisting of four guys known for different accomplishments, like tattoo artistry, guitar tech-ery and skateboard-ery. When you put them all together, you get a bluesy, rock ’n’ roll, power-pop, pop-punk conglomeration that is the perfect soundtrack to skate the pool to. Speaking of which, PowerFlex 5 traveled all the way from SoCal to party with the N-Men for their summer session. So, grab your board and join the skate session beforehand. Then, head BlUeS Rock over to the Blue Lamp to finish the night with some good old-fashioned rock ’n’ roll. 1400 Alhambra Boulevard, www.powerflex.bandcamp.com.

—Amy Bee

The word “hapa” in Hawaiian culture translates to “half.” The Hapa group— Barry Flanagan and Radasha Ho ’ohuli and guests—exemplify their namesake with one member from New Jersey and one from Hawaii. For those who’ve never been to a Hawaiian show, a Hapa gathering could be a great way to start the HAwAIIIAN tradition. With multiple albums to choose from, the group knows how to fill up a night without having to rely solely on a new release. Already a sensation in the States and abroad, the Hapa group will deliver a night you should never forget. 1013 K Street, http://hapa.com.

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Sunday Tea Dance & Beer Bust, 4pm, no cover

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SHOTGUN SAWYER, JACOB PAUL AND THE HEARTBEAT and more, 9pm, $10

Karaoke, 8pm, no cover

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CROP DUSTERS, 7pm, call for cover

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MASTER PIPER CHELSEA, 6:30pm, ONE EYED RILEY, 7pm, call for cover

Trivia Night, 6pm, M, no cover

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NA’AN STOP, HONEY B AND THE CULTIVATION, 9pm, $5

BE BRAVE BOLD ROBOT, TEMPLE K. KIRK, HAMMERHEAD, POOR SCENE, $5

Pub Quiz, 7pm, Tu, no cover; All Vinyl Wednesdays, 8pm, W, no cover

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TYLER RICH, 7pm, $15

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POWER PLAY, 9pm, $5

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1603 J St., (916) 476-5076

5681 lonetRee blvd., RocKlin, (916) 626-6366

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Salty Saturday, 9pm, no cover

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RED’s BLUES TRIO, 9:30pm, no cover

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Open Mic, 8pm, no cover

Artist Reception jazz exhibit by Jack Alvarez, 5pm, no cover

Poetry Unplugged, 8pm, $2

midTown Barfly

TRIBE OF THE RED HORSE (Neil Young & Crazy Horse cover band), 7pm, $15 - $18

Open Mic Comedy, 7:30pm, Tu, no cover; Stab! Live Comedy Podcast, 8pm, W, $5

Salsa & Bachata, 8:30pm, $8

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BRIGHT FACES, THE REGULARS, DANNY MORRIS & more, 9pm, $5

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Epic Brewing Co. Pint & Flight, 6pm, no cover

JAX HAMMER, 8pm, call for cover

UNCOMMON GROUND, 8:30pm, $5

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GOOD OL’ BOYZ, 9:30pm, no cover

GROOVE THANG, 10pm, call for cover

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HARLIS SWEETWATER, 3pm, $10

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Karaoke, 9pm, no cover; Two Steps Down, 9pm, no cover

Country Dancing, 9pm, $5 - $10; Karaoke, 9pm, $5 - $10

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West coast swing dancing lessons, 7pm, Tu, $5

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X TRIO, 5pm, no cover; HECTOR ACHONDO BAND, 9pm, $6

ZOLA MOON BAND, 5:30pm, no cover; NIKKI J. CRAWFORD, 9pm, $10

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Sammies Showcase w/ JESSICA MALONE, HANNAH JANE KILE, 4pm, $5

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your guardian animal ally might be the turtle, crab, seahorse or manta ray. But in the next three weeks, it’s the cockroach. This unfairly maligned creature is legendary for its power to thrive in virtually any environment, and I think you will have a similar resourcefulness. Like the cockroach, you will do more than merely cope with awkward adventures and complicated transitions; you will flourish. One caution: It’s possible that your adaptability may bother people who are less flexible and enterprising than you. To keep that from being a problem, be empathetic as you help them adapt. (P.S. Your temporary animal ally is exceptionally well-groomed. Cockroaches clean themselves as much as cats do.)

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): While shopping at a

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Leonardo da Vinci wrote a bestiary, an odd little book in which he drew moral conclusions from the behavior of animals. One of his descriptions will be useful for you to contemplate in the near future. It was centered on what he called the “wild ass,” which we might refer to as an undomesticated donkey. Leonardo

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): My friend Allie

works as a matchmaker. She has an instinctive skill at reading the potential chemistry between people. One of her key strategies is to urge her clients to write mission statements. “What would your ideal marriage look like?” she asks them. Once they have clarified what they want, the process of finding a mate seems to become easier and more fun. In accordance with the astrological omens, Scorpio, I suggest you try this exercise—even if you are already in a committed relationship. It’s an excellent time to get very specific about the inspired togetherness you’re willing to work hard to create.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In ancient

Greek myth, Tiresias was a prophet who could draw useful revelations by interpreting the singing of birds. Spirits of the dead helped him devise his prognostications, too. He was in constant demand for revelations about the future. But his greatest claim to fame was the fact that a goddess magically transformed him into a woman for seven years. After that, he could speak with authority about how both genders experienced the world. This enhanced his wisdom immeasurably, adding to his oracular power. Are you interested in a less drastic but highly educational lesson, Sagittarius? Would you like to see life from a very different perspective from the one you’re accustomed to? It’s available to you if you want it.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “You remind

me of the parts of myself that I will never have a chance to meet,” writes poet Mariah GordonDyke, addressing a lover. Have you ever felt like saying that to a beloved ally, Capricorn? If so, I have good news: You now have an opportunity to meet and greet parts of yourself that have previously been hidden from you—aspects of your deep soul that up until now you may only have caught glimpses of. Celebrate this homecoming!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I predict that

you won’t be bitten by a dog or embarrassed by a stain or pounced on by a lawyer. Nor will you lose your keys or get yelled at by a friend or oversleep for a big appointment. On the contrary! I think you’ll be wise to expect the best. The following events are quite possible: You may be complimented by a person who’s in a position to help you. You could be invited into a place that had previously been off-limits. While eavesdropping, you might pick up a useful clue, and while daydreaming you could recover an important memory you’d lost. Good luck like this is even more likely to sweep into your life if you work on ripening the most immature part of your personality.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Time out. It’s inter-

mission. Give yourself permission to be spacious and slow. Then, when you’re sweetly empty—this may take a few days—seek out experiences that appeal primarily to your wild and tender heart as opposed to your wild and jumpy mind. Just forget about the theories you believe in and the ideas you regard as central to your philosophy of life. Instead, work on developing brisk new approaches to your relationship with your feelings. Like what? Become more conscious of them, for example. Express gratitude for what they teach you. Boost your trust for their power to reveal what your mind sometimes hides from you.

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Life on Mars? Domina Stamas has a question for her ninth-grade science students at Sac High: How would you make Mars a sustainable living space for humans? It’s a tall order, but with a wild payoff. When the school year ends, her kids will be presenting their best models to the NASA scientists working to get an American on the red planet by the 2030s. It’s not your everyday biology unit. But, then, Stamas isn’t your everyday teacher.

I don’t have a lot of astronauts in my contact list. How did you end up working with NASA? Facebook. Social media. I just got super-stoked, and I said, “Oh my gosh, my VP said that I could do this project. I’m so excited I’m going to be teaching my students about [Mars].” And a friend of mine said, “Hey, I have a cousin who works for NASA, and I think he’s on the Mars project.” And I was like, “Sweet.” So she said, “Let me get you in touch with him.” … So then he friend-requested me on Facebook. Next thing I know, I’m talking to eight different astrobiologists from NASA all over the country.

What is it about Mars or about space that appeals to kids so much? What is the appeal to anybody? It’s just the unknown, it’s like sci-fi. You can’t touch it. Is it real, is it not? They’ve learned about planets since kindergarten, and now we’ve got the opportunity to go to one, so it makes it real. And then when they start to learn that maybe we can go there. … It’s kind of cool, when I first introduced this to them last term, almost all of them were like, “That’s the stupidest idea ever! That’s so stupid!” But now, when you have these conversations with them, they’re just so open to the idea. They’re making it personal, they’re building something around the concept, and they’re making it about them because they’re creating their own plan on how they would live and survive on Mars. I don’t think it’s a kid interest—I think it’s a human interest.

Hit me with a cool Mars fact. Well, they believe that Mars once was Earth-like at one point. There is some evidence, and they are exploring that evidence right now. They believe that there was no magnetic field [on the planet] and the atmosphere blew away through solar radiation. And so the cool thing is, here is a planet that was probably very similar to ours, and because it didn’t have a magnetic field like ours does, it couldn’t sustain those solar winds.

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You make women in STEM a priority. How do you think we can get more women into the sciences? I think inspiration. What I do in my class, I have groups that are named by scientist. So I have a mixture. I have Mae Jemison—she was the first African-American woman in space. And then I have Marie Daly—she was the first African-American chemist. So I have their team names named after scientists, and I have their pictures up on the wall, because I believe that if people are seeing people doing what they’re doing, then that’s where the inspiration comes from.

You can see yourself in someone that looks like you. Yes. And, of course, opening those doors, and encouraging, and not shutting those doors down. I know those doors were shut down on me in elementary school.

That’s great that you’re opening them for your students. I hope so! That would be cool if one of my students ended up a scientist.

What’s your least favorite planet? Mercury. It’s just too hot. It’s little. And it goes around the sun way too fast—it’s just like 88 days.

Talk to me a little bit about how evolution and coevolution tie into research on creating a living space on Mars.

so they kind of rely on each other. So when Earth[’s atmosphere] changes, life changes, and there’s evidence to support that. When Earth started to cool down, the water vapors started to accumulate, and then we had liquid. And then we had all these little tiny organisms starting to form, and they were photosynthetic. So we didn’t have complex organisms like plants. But these little photosynthetic organisms started to release oxygen into the air, and these living things literally changed our planet. Once all that oxygen started going into the atmosphere, it paved the way for other, more complex organisms to move out of the water.

So you talk to them about making Mars a habitable place by using Earth as a model. Yes. There’s no way for us to understand Mars unless we understand what’s going on on our own planet. One of the things they have to learn about is growing food, so what they did in the beginning of all this, they actually created a greenhouse and they grew their own food and they planted in the garden. My thing is, how are you going to come up with a plan on growing food on Mars, if you don’t know how to grow food on Earth? Ω

Coevolution is when two things change and they kind of evolve at the same time,

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