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Re “Neighborhood Watch” (Feature, July 13): Great article! I found the piece informative and very helpful. The larger details about the “Fruitridge Finger” make a good case for bringing the area into our city. One point you brought up, and one I’ve been wondering about after attending city and county meetings, is this: How can both entities have jurisdiction over something like our parks and not collaborate their budgets to reflect a well-rounded plan to address homeless encampments and vagrant activity?

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Re “Hand to God,” by Patti Roberts (Stage, June 15): No one left during the showing we attended. I was shocked to read that some did opt to leave without giving the play a chance. Those able to see beyond the surface were rewarded with thoughtful, provocative meditations on the nature of religion and psychological damage. Shock has always been a vital tool of satire and I pity those who close their minds to the full range of cultural commentary. An imperfect litmus test for whether you’re open-minded enough to enjoy it: your opinion of South Park. JessiCa hull sa c ra m e nt o

I am a Sacramento resident concerned about this year’s State Fair horse racing program. Due to the extreme temperatures we’ve had this year, I am gravely concerned about the horses being forced to run in 95 degree or higher temperatures. The temperatures this weekend are predicted to be above 100 degrees. The horses could be subject to heat exhaustion, collapse and worse. England and Australia have extreme-temperature policies in place for horse racing. UC Davis veterinarians recently posted a heat advisory regarding horses. If the race organizers, State Fair organizers and CEOs wouldn’t subject their own dogs to forced racing during midafternoon 100-plus degree weather, then neither should horses be forced to race in the heat.

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In a photo from 2013, carpet towers more than 15 feet high over L&D Landfill in Sacramento, after Carpet Collectors in Rocklin went bankrupt. The company failed to meet the state’s requirements for tracking the carpet it recycled just a few years after new regulations went into effect, attracting companies looking to turn a profit in a new industry. Photo courtesy of the sacramento county environmental management DePartment

Swept under the rug After forming California’s carpet recycling program, industry prevents it from spreading nationwide by Michael Mott

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Men in hard hats picked through the piles of padding and tattered carpet, stacking the cleanest rolls on pallets. In Sacramento County, discarded carpets end up at the Florin Perkins Public Disposal Site, a dusty waste transfer station off of Jackson Highway where just 3 percent of the county’s thousands of pounds of used carpet is collected for recycling annually. The rest goes to landfills. Most of the material made from oil and plastic takes hundreds of years to degrade—if at all—and is the fourth-largest greenhouse gas emitter of any landfill product.

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It wasn’t supposed to be this way. Seven years ago, California wanted to put a dent in the massive footprint carpet waste leaves in landfills. Lawmakers crafted the first regulations in the nation for carpet manufacturers to manage their products from sale to reuse. But the carpet industry didn’t lay down easily. It managed to keep the recycling goals low and passed on the fees to its consumers. More recently, an industry organization began preventing small carpet manufacturers and recycling companies in need of financial assistance from

advocating for similar programs in states other than California. The result? California’s one-of-a-kind carpet recycling program is controlled by the industry and in no danger of spreading to other states. Earlier this month, Heidi Sanborn, director of the California Product Stewardship Council and the National Stewardship Action Council, told lawmakers that the state’s efforts to reduce carpet waste needs work. “Our goal isn’t to dismiss the efforts already made to increase carpet recycling,” Sanborn said at a state

Senate Environmental Quality Committee hearing. “However, it is important to note that the stewardship plans implemented have failed to achieve meaningful results.” Even with low recycling goals in this state, the industry-led Carpet America Recovery Effort, or CARE, failed to meet them three years in a row, blaming global economic forces for making recycled products less attractive while CARE struggled to forge a new recycling industry. Now, the organization faces a $3.25 million fine from California’s lead recycling agency, CalRecycle, for not meeting the agency’s goal of “continuous and meaningful improvement.” Filing an accusation document in March, CalRecycle alleged that CARE’s inability to meet state targets were “at least negligent and may have been knowing and intentional.” It may also be what happens when an industry is allowed to regulate itself. In 2010, Speaker John Perez crafted Assembly Bill 2398, the first carpet stewardship bill in the world. Under a Republican governor with veto power,

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third disgrAce crafters knew they needed to cater to industry interests to bring the program on board, creating a visible fee, like bottles and cans. “We knew whatever we came up with, we would be able to get past the Assembly and the Senate. But we needed something the industry would support in order to get the governor on board,” said Los Angeles Fiber President Ron Greitzer, a CARE board member who said the legislation saved his recycling business. The result: The industry was tasked with diverting 16 percent of its carpet waste by 2016. To accomplish this, the industry passed on a 5-cent-per-yard recycling fee to its consumers, later increasing it to 25 cents. CARE was chosen to administer the program, improve carpet recyclability and markets for recycled materials. “They wanted to control the money and not have a government program do that, which can get out of control,” Greitzer explained. “It ended up being somewhat watered down, but it was also the first step of having an industry be held accountable for its own waste. I take great pride in the work we’ve done since then.” CalRecycle took the opposite view in issuing its 11-page accusation finding, accusing CARE of being slow to adjust to market fluctuations despite its earlier recommendations and for not putting enough drop-off locations in counties across the state, creating recycling shortfalls in large population centers like Los Angeles, San Diego—and Sacramento. “You need to have a facility willing to put in the effort of separating carpet, rolling it up and sticking it in a trailer. It’s labor intensive,” said Doug Kobold, waste management program manager for the county. “In Sacramento, it’s not worth it for us—it’s cheaper for us to bury it than expend the labor to get it rolled up and in a trailer and increase our potential for workman’s comp. Not worth our risk.” CARE pays subcontractors to collect and sort the fiber, pad, backing and other carpet waste, then connects them with entrepreneurs to use in new products, like CLEAR Carpet Recycling in Lincoln. That plant is growing fast, adding up to 40 jobs this year to turn materials into paver stones or other products. Since CARE was founded nationally in 2002, it has diverted 4.6 billion pounds of carpet from landfills, equivalent to 22,000 cars’ worth of annual emissions. But it isn’t achieving the goals set by the state, and it’s stymied efforts to expand regulations nationally. CARE was supposed to improve its diversion rate by 1 percent annually until

hitting the 16 percent target last year. that CARE not use consumer fees to fund Instead, CARE’s recycling rate was 12.2 carpet makers’ lawsuits against the state, percent in 2013, 12.1 percent in 2014 and 10 pay off penalties or pay for carpet incinerapercent in 2015, according to CalRecycle. tion. CalRecycle’s accusation against CARE Only 11 percent of carpet waste was also includes the stipulation that, if the fines recycled last year, 5 percent below state are levied, they should not be paid for on targets. CARE finally breached the 16 taxpayers’ dime. percent threshold earlier this year. Industry representatives have expressed CARE Director Bob Peoples said the desire to allow CARE to use consumer it was difficult for his group to make fees to defend themselves against lawsuits recycled products cost-competitive in for not meeting the goals that the consumer the global marketplace when China also fees were created for in the first place. brought on three plants to manufacture a At the state Senate Environmental main component of carpet, lowering Quality Committee hearing this month, demand for CARE’s recycled Gene Erbin represented Shaw carpeting. Industries, the world’s largest “No one’s going to buy floor covering manufacturer. For now, our product, which is He had one question: dirty, when you can buy Would the bill’s prohibiCalifornia is the a product that is pure tion on consumer fee use only state with a and virgin at a lower apply retroactively? formal recycling price,” Peoples said. “Whenever this bill “We hit our 2016 target becomes law, that should program for this year. You could be when the clock starts,” carpeting. argue we were 90 days Assemblyman Kansen late; but sorry, given what Chu clarified. we were dealing with, that’s For now, California is the pretty good.” only state with a formal recycling Meanwhile, Peoples declined to program for carpeting. Nationally, 3.5 comment on a national program that billion pounds of carpet end up in landfills requires silence to get subsidy money. every year, enough to carpet San Francisco CalRecycle’s proposed fine references five times. One percent is recycled. the Voluntary Stewardship Program that Peoples said that CARE is working CARE administers in other states. The weekly with CalRecycle to fix the issues program offers subsidies to recycling and has increased the fee to where it may companies, but only if they agree not to impact carpet sales. support legislation that would create similar This August, CARE and CalRecycle stewardship regulations in other states. If will undergo a mandatory mediation process these cash-strapped companies do voice for the pending fines. If mediation fails, a their support for recycling efforts, they have judge will determine next steps. to return the money. “We do not control everything that When asked about the policy, Peoples happens in marketplaces. Oil prices said it would be inappropriate for him to collapsed and most of the materials we comment on it. But Greitzer, the longestmake are tied to the price of oil and natural serving CARE board member, claimed the gas,” added Peoples, who called the fines program is a goodwill effort to bring more “unreasonable and unwarranted.” carpet recycling in areas where there isn’t a Yet, while statewide recycling efforts stewardship program. “We ask if we do this floundered, CalRecycle said that CARE for you, don’t stab us in the back and do administered a similar program that kept things against us,” Greitzer reasoned. recyclers in other states from supporting regulations like California’s. While the purchased silence prevents At the July 7 committee hearing, California’s carpet recycling program from Sanborn, who is sponsoring AB 1158 and crossing borders, state lawmakers here are contributed to the prior law, told lawmakers trying to bolster the regulations they do product stewards “just want a working have in place. program.” AB 1158 would set a higher recycling “Our goal is to improve California’s goal of 24 percent by 2020, and bring in recycling program to reach our recycling an advisory group made up of recyclers, goals and reduce greenhouse gas emislocal government, environmentalists and sions while creating jobs,” Sanborn said. legislators to balance out the industry“We don’t think 1 percent is adequate or heavy CARE. meaningful.” Ω The bill would also specifically require

Just days after two area mosques were vandalized last month, the local chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations was also targeted, SN&R learned this week. The incident happened June 28. According to Basim Elkarra, executive director of CAIR-Sacramento Valley, his organization received a FedEx package. When CAIR employees opened it, they found a sealed plastic food container omitting a strange odor. They cracked it to discover a Quran stuffed in pork lard. “Sacramento police came out and took the package, because we didn’t know exactly what was in there,” Elkarra said. “They took it to get fingerprints.” Elkarra later learned that the sender had scrawled menacing and hateful messages inside the actual pages of the Quran, too. CAIR officials said a FedEx tracking number indicates the package was sent from Missouri City, Texas. The region’s CAIR office recently moved to rented office space in SN&R headquarters, a fact it hadn’t publicized but is stated on its website. The FedEx package initially went to CAIR’s old office before getting forwarded to its new address. The incident followed two still-unsolved anti-islamic crimes in the Sacramento region on June 24. The first incident occurred at the Masjid Annur Islamic Center in South Sacramento and involved burning bacon being handcuffed to a cyclone fence. Later that day, a Quran was found torn to pieces at the Islamic Center of Davis, which had also experienced hate crimes the year before. Sacramento County sheriff’s Sgt. Tony Turnbull told SN&R that all hate crimes directed at houses of worship in the region are monitored by the FBI and Regional Terror Threat Assessment Center. “It’s disappointing that people have so much hate,” Elkarra said. “We’re more upset they’re wasting food than anything. We rather them give it to the less fortunate.” (Scott Thomas Anderson)

groWing our oWn Mayor Darrell Steinberg’s ambitious plan to get hundreds of sacramento teens paid internships is underway just weeks after the city’s budget was finalized. The funds came partly from a $12.8 million budget surplus city leaders identified this year. Dubbed the thousand strong initiative, the program has enough backing from Sacramento Employment and Training Agency, the county Office of Education and JB Morgan Chase that Steinberg’s staff already has 1,400 high school students in the application process—and nearly 400 are already in training. Nonprofits like Hawk Institute and Crossroads were among the 30 community groups that assisted in reaching out to youths with an opportunity to “get paid for real work experience,” said Erica Kashiri, the city’s director of workforce development. Regional Transit is also offering free bus passes to the selected teens. “We did not start from scratch,” Kashiri said. “It is the city coming together in a big way.” According to Kashiri, the most sought-after internships were in the medical field and entertainment business. Computer science and engineering workplaces also generated interest. From prepping food at Mulvaney’s B&L and brewing lattes at Starbucks, to working around the Sacramento Fire Department and experts at Corolla Engineering, Kashiri said the program is already on its way to growing the region’s future talent pool. “They are putting the money back into the real world pocket,” Kashiri said of the participating companies, adding that the glut of unpaid internships in the local market isn’t a realistic option for many teens. “That cuts off a whole group of people—not all students can work for free.” (Kate Paloy)

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Jim Landberg, president of Local 146 Sacramento County California Employees SHRA, says a public housing agency fired him from his maintenance position after he started a union investigation into its practices. Photo by Scott thomAS AnderSon

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Weeks after a Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency employee claimed she was terminated for whistleblowing, another longtime agency employee is stepping forward with the same accusation. In June, Laura Cedidla said that SHRA, which controls all public housing in the city and county, fired her for reporting safety threats to tenants and employees. Cedidla shared her concerns with the Sacramento County grand jury, the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration and her union, Local 146 Sacramento County California Employees SHRA. Now, Jim Landberg, president of Local 146 and a former maintenance specialist for SHRA, says he was fired for launching a union investigation into Cedidla’s claims. Testimony about conditions at SHRA

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properties was expected two weeks ago in a civil case involving Cedidla. The agency filed a restraining order against Cedidla in March and started a termination process. Cedidla was scheduled to testify against SHRA management in a July 7 court hearing. She showed up to the courthouse with numerous tenants and former employees, only to watch SHRA’s attorneys get the hearing rescheduled for October. Prior to the restraining order, union president Landberg was among the various officials learning of Cedidla’s claims. Landberg told SN&R that Cedidla was worried the SHRA’s managers might delete alleged evidence of their wrongdoing stored in her work email. Cedidla began forwarding those emails to Landberg, who saved them temporarily on a private email server.

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The problem is that Landberg was also an SHRA employee, and three of the emails that Cedidla forwarded reportedly included documents that had what SHRA defines as residents’ “personal information.” Landberg charges that after he started a union investigation into Cedidla’s allegations in February, SHRA terminated his position on the grounds that he violated a tenant privacy policy. He says SHRA maintenance workers such as himself were never trained or advised on that policy. SHRA Executive Director LaShelle Dozier said she’s barred by county policy from discussing Cedidla or Landberg’s allegations. Landberg says he’s sure SHRA’s management is thankful for that rule. “The employees who work at SHRA truly work in a terrorized environment,” Landberg

said. “And I’m evidence of that. If you call them out, they move to fire you. I’d been a union member for 13 years before I worked for SHRA, and I have never seen anything like this.” In a June interview with SN&R, Dozier said she strives to foster a safe and professional environment in her agency, emphasizing an open-door policy. Meanwhile, a number of residents in SHRA’s public housing complexes in Del Paso Heights, North Sacramento and Rio Linda say they have witnessed frequent assaults, thefts, drug dealing and prostitution on the properties. Since SN&R’s report on the troubles (read “Houses of ill repair,” News, June 15, 2017), residents of two more SHRA complexes in Midtown and downtown have come forward to report similar issues. Gina Hall was one of the early tenants to speak publicly about the problems. According to SHRA hearing transcripts obtained by SN&R, Hall is now being evicted from her apartment on the grounds that she too often called law enforcement, firefighters and Child Protective Services to the Rio Linda complex. That story rings true for SHRA tenant Janis Fox, who claims she was just reprimanded by SHRA mangers for photographing assaults and drug dealing around her complex on 38th Street. The warning notice SHRA sent Fox does indeed cite her recording neighbors as a potential cause for eviction, though it couches the issue as disturbing the peace. “I understand why the majority of people stay in their apartments and don’t come out,” Fox said. “It’s because they don’t want to get an eviction notice for standing up for themselves.” Dozier said she’s barred by law from discussing issues that would explain why Hall is being evicted and Fox is receiving warning letters. Not all SHRA tenants are unhappy with the agency. Staajabu, who lives at the complex on Redwood Avenue, says she thinks SHRA is being unfairly branded. “People have complaints all the time because there are a lot of people here,” observed Staajabu, who has one legal name. “I’ve never heard anyone say their complaints haven’t been addressed. … We have meetings for resident association, and SHRA managers and supervisors always attend them. I can go and tell them anything and they’ll take care of it.” Such commendations offer little comfort to Hall, who’s worried that if free legal services don’t come through she’ll be homeless in a matter of weeks. “It’s a nightmare,” Hall said. “I keep thinking I’m eventually going to wake up.” Ω

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own efforts at risk, and nullifying and marginalizing Paul Smith, the self-described president of a other activism efforts.” group he still calls the Indivisible Citizens of In an email to SN&R, the currently unemployed California’s Fourth Congressional District, hasn’t Smith wrote that he hopes to turn his efforts told his 12,000-plus Facebook followers that the into “gainful employment.” Since 10 of the 12 national Indivisible organization revoked the members of the leadership team abandoned Smith, group’s registration weeks ago. The “About” the ICA-04 page has posted a link to Calderon’s page on his website, www.indivisibleca04.com, ActBlue donation page three times. Calderon, a still claims that the group represents “more than co-founder of ICA-04, was asked by the board 10,000 activists from 40 local Indivisible groups, to leave when she declared as a congressional Democratic clubs, and other activist organizations.” candidate. But Smith said she returned after his Smith still claims a connection with the popular go-it-alone leadership style prompted the resignaIndivisible Guide, which was created by former tion of the rest of the team. congressional staffers and supports nearly 6,000 The June 10 Roseville event attracted progresgrassroots groups that “resist Trump’s agenda.” sive groups to organize a counter-demonstration The fact is, Indivisible excommunicated against a march they felt demonized the Islamic Smith last month, after he goaded the alt-right faith. Smith initially supported those efforts, and threatened to report leftist protesters to but alienated organizers by demanding the police before a counterdemonstraanyone associated with the day’s tion to the March Against Sharia “unity rally,” which he unilaterin Roseville on June 10. ally declared, had to dress in “We determined that white and hand out flowers Smith’s actions did not or else “stay home.” In a embody progressive values,” Facebook post, he threatened Helen Kalla, an Indivisible to report those who didn’t Guide spokeswoman, wrote protest in his preferred in an email. “Mr. Smith has fashion to the police. reached out to us about being Jamier Sale He also infuriated leftists reinstated and at the moment organizer, Sacramento with other Facebook posts we have no plans to do that.” chapter of ANSWER accusing them of encouraging But Smith, a former marketer violence by inviting antifa while, in for Apple, didn’t bother telling that a separate post, he asked the group Bay to his ICA-04 group’s followers. He Area Alt Right whether “we can count on didn’t reveal it to this reporter working on a you to fight if antifa shows up.” Smith deleted the profile three weeks ago, and the resulting article latter comment and has since apologized. (Read, “Indivisible, under Paul,” News, July 6, Longtime activist Jamier Sale, with the 2017) paints Smith as the leader of an Indivisible Sacramento chapter of the Act Now to Stop War chapter that was already defunct. and End Racism Coalition, or ANSWER, organized Contacted this week, Smith told SN&R in an last month’s counterdemonstration along with email that he didn’t acknowledge ICA-04 getting several other groups. dropped, in part, because it’s “a bummer.” “He really put some people’s lives in danger,” But to former board members of ICA-04—who Sale told SN&R. “I would have been justified in have since reformed into the officially registered taking the tone that he’s describing as an attack. But CD4 Indivisible Network—Smith’s lack of I didn’t. I talked to him with the respect that I give transparency provides further proof that he’s more everyone and he basically ran away.” interested in promoting himself rather than political In his email, Smith wrote that he is “toying with causes. the idea of rebranding” his group. He signed off as “Ultimately, Paul Smith’s efforts to brand and “President & Founder” of “Indivisible CA-04.” Ω market ICA-04 as a means of profit, and to create a platform to elect [Roza Calderon], were not in alignment with the goals of the rest of the board,” An extended version of this story is available at read a statement from the re-formed group. “His www.newsreview.com/sacramento. independent actions were increasingly putting our

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When Anakin enters adulthood, his story “Life course theory” is the idea that your health culminates as one might expect. He distrusts the trajectory is impacted by previous generations, people in his support system (Jedi) and begins societal inequities, your physical and social envispending time with corrupting influences (Sith ronments, and your life experiences over time Lord Sidious). He marries Padme, but their and at critical moments in your development. relationship has intimate partner violence and This concept helps explain the disproportionate an unintended pregnancy (Luke and Leia). He black infant and child mortality rates observed in eventually succumbs to the Dark Side, is severely Sacramento County. I’m a Star Wars fan. When I burned and is exposed to toxins when the Death began teaching life course theory, I realized that Star explodes. And, while there are 40 years the story of Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader is a of jokes about Darth Vader perfect metaphor for the lives having asthma, given his early of many boys from disadvanlife conditions and chemical taged communities. exposures, asthma or chronic Anakin is born a slave, obstructive pulmonary disorder which gives us some insight are plausible and likely. into his early life experiences. Life expectancy is one The impact of slavery on of the core measurements of the family structure also public health progress, so the may explain why his father most telling factor of Anakin/ is absent. As he progresses Darth Vader’s life story is through adolescence, he is how prematurely it ended. In taken from his mother at 10 Episode 1, Anakin is 9 years to become trained as a Jedi. old. By Episode 4, he’s 41. The Being separated from his remaining two films happen mother at such a young age is Dr. Flojaune G. Cofer is an epidemiologist in rapid succession, so he is a trauma for him that maniand the director of state policy and research 44 and 45, respectively. This fests itself throughout his life. for Public Health Advocates in Davis. tells us that the decrepit man Thus far, his life has more risk PHoto Courtesy oF PubliC HeAltH ADvoCAtes revealed at the end of Episode 6 factors than protective ones. is only 45 years old. For referWhen he is selected to ence, that’s 17 years younger receive a Jedi education, he is than Denzel Washington and 11 years younger freed from slavery (an obvious benefit). Research than George Clooney. suggests that a quality education in a supportive The most alarming thing about Anakin’s environment increases the likelihood of avoiding progression to Darth Vader and eventual demise incarceration while establishing healthy friendships, strong career prospects and income. Anakin also has is revealed in how the story is told. We often meet people in Episode 4 of their lives. We a trusted adult relationship with Obi-Wan Kenobi, treat them as villains and demonize them. We which is critical for positive youth development. analyze their behavior with no context. We Unfortunately, he’s exposed to the violence of the have no idea what happened in the first three Clone Wars and, because of his separation from episodes of their lives. We don’t recognize why his mother, he experiences increased symptoms they struggled with the Dark Side or where of trauma: heightened arousal and fear of loss. our systems extinguished their light. Instead of The traumas he experienced are known as adverse asking, “What’s wrong with you?” we should ask childhood experiences, or ACEs, and they increase “What happened to you?” The answer would be the risk for poor behavioral and health outcomes in far more illuminating. adulthood. In fiction, there is nostalgia in resurrecting The Jedi had initial reservations about training familiar characters for a new generation. In real Anakin, which is explained in the films as a struglife, we must intervene early for our real-world gle between the dark and light sides of the Force; Anakins to prevent retelling a story so universal in reality, they were observing trauma symptoms that it even shows up in fiction. Ω that worsen when children move through spaces that are not trauma-informed.

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While the United States and California are on the same continent, the Trump and Brown administrations are on different planets when it comes to environmental policy. One planet is inhabited by large corporations whose profits are threatened by government regulations. The other planet is populated with people. On Planet Trump, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Energy Department are being handed over to industry polluters. Meanwhile, on Planet California, the state is fining carpet manufacturers for failing to comply with California’s product stewardship program. (See “Swept under the rug,” page 8.) On other continents, including Europe, product stewardship programs that make manufacturers responsible for their waste products are common and effective. Not surprisingly, if manufacturers pay the cost of recycling their products, they will design their products to reduce recycling costs. Here in California, the major driving force behind the concept of manufacturer responsibility is the California Product Stewardship Council, led by longtime Executive Director Heidi Sanborn. With four staff people in a small office on 21st Street, Sanborn has put together a selfdescribed “network of local governments, nongovernment organizations, businesses and individuals supporting policies and projects where producers share in the responsibility for managing problem products at end of life.” Our company has produced numerous publications for CPSC, so I know Sanborn, CPSC Board Chair Doug Kobold and many other members of her network. Their efforts have pushed various California agencies, such as Cal Recycle, to take on the carpet, paint, pharmaceutical, mattress and other billion-dollar industries. For example: California’s worn-out carpets are a major contributor to the Golden State’s landfills. The cost of maintaining the landfills is paid by California taxpayers.

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In 2010, the state worked out an agreement with the carpet industry to run a stewardship recycling program, Carpet America Recovery Effort, that would be monitored by the state. The carpet industry would develop its own plan to meet the goals. Sounds good, right? But the carpet industry feared that if the plan was successful in California it would spread throughout the country. So they determined to screw it up. They added a ridiculously low fee to carpet sales—5 cents per square yard— to be paid by consumers. (This fee has recently been raised to 25 cents—still not enough.) Because the fee was so low, the money available to pay for the program was paltry, and the subcontractors hired to pick up the carpet and recycle it frequently just collected it and let it pile up. The carpet industry didn’t monitor the program and much of the collected carpet was never recycled. It ended up in our landfills. The carpet industry did not come close to reaching its goals. In recent years, the percentage of carpet being recycled actually went down. The carpet industry never operated in good faith; they sabotaged their own program, they failed to monitor their subcontractors, and clearly they had no interest in being responsible corporate partners. But thanks to the California Product Stewardship Council keeping the spotlight on these issues, CalRecycle is levying fines on the carpet industry and will require them to revamp their program. This is one example of why the California Product Stewardship Council’s work is so important. We are extremely fortunate to have this dedicated, passionate group of public servants working on our behalf. I am proud to live on Planet California. Ω

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From left to right, Anthony “The Handsome Devil” Rivera, Virgil Flynn III and Joe Salopek, The Boogieman Joe DeSoul, are living the semipro wresting dream.

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It's an unseasonably chilly April afternoon inside a former Catholic school's gymnasium, where approximately 300 people are clamoring for the next insane thing to happen during Supreme Pro Wrestling's 17th anniversary show. The local wrestling outfit, which is run by Sir Samurai (a.k.a. Joshua Littell), hasn't disappointed. Now, during an appropriately advertised "extreme title match," two folding chairs rigged with crude stabbing instruments stand facing each other in the center of the ring. One has thumbtacks glued to its seat; the other has plastic Army men jutting from it. Pretzeling his arms around Sir Samurai's upper thighs, Jeckles the Jester (Joseph Rodriguez) hoists Littell up by the waist and power-bombs him onto the metallic bed of thorns, eliciting both gasps and cheers from the crowd, a good portion of which consists of children. Welcome to Sacramento’s independent wrestling circuit, where the stunts are bananas, the blood is real and the performers are wage slaves risking health and savings for an unlikely dream. “Wrestling is where we get away from the crap of the real world,” explained Littel, a 44-year-old restaurant server who took over SPW in 2009. Escape is one thing. Success is another. Many of the enthusiastic players in this unhinged performance-sport hold at least a shred of hope that they will make it to the center ring of professional wrestling. But the road to the big time of World Wrestling Entertainment is a tortuous one. The WWE is a global media empire with its own cable channel and a penchant for cranking out crossover celebrities like Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson and John Cena. But it’s relatively sanitized compared to the semipro underground version, where men (and some women) with much less training attempt more dangerous feats. Sacramento’s wrestle maniacs make the rounds in borrowed backyards, shared gyms and rented community halls. They work ordinary jobs at restaurants and warehouses, then spend the weekends punishing themselves for strangers’ amusement. The pay is lousy, the injuries are frequent and the odds of making it are steeper than those of pulling off a successful leapfrog body guillotine. So why do they keep returning to the sweatand-blood-dampened canvasses of the ring? “Wrestling is something I’ve always loved and something I’ve been doing my whole life,” said Virgil Flynn III, one of Sacramento’s more successful wrestling products. The 31-year-old father of two performs under his given name and once auditioned for the WWE. But can he, Littell and their thrill-seeking brethren ever take Sacramento’s wrestling scene beyond a niche following? They’ll succeed or bleed trying. With thumbtacks still sticking out of his pulped back, Littell climbs out of the ring to

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make way for the next act. The real show is just starting.

School of really hard knockS Standing in the center of a massive showroom in what used to be a used car dealership in south Sacramento, Flynn is teaching one of the most fundamental aspects of wrestling—throwing a convincing punch. Flynn’s pupil has been making the mistake of emulating what he sees on TV every week, jutting his fist out while stomping onto the mat to fake the sound of impact. But the phony blow isn’t what Flynn is looking for. The form is wrong. The drama is limp. The pain isn’t real. And the pain has to be real. “Turn the key on your punches,” Flynn said while demonstrating the action, twisting his wrist as he makes impact with another student’s stomach. The student feigns an exaggerated reaction, practicing what wrestlers call “selling,” making the exercise a two-way training session. “Once you got it, pull it out,” Flynn continued, snapping his fist back to reload. “You want to portray real life, and that desperation of a fight.” Flynn learned those lessons early. Growing up in North Carolina, Flynn drove his mom crazy wrestling with his five brothers. But it wasn’t until the family moved to Sacramento in December 2001 that Flynn actually considered getting into the bodyslamming act. The way Flynn remembers it, his stepbrother was getting ready to perform in a play at the Colonial Theater the following spring when he

saw something curious and gave Flynn a call. “He was like, ‘There’s a couple of guys there training,’” Flynn recalled. “’You’re the biggest wrestling fan I fucking know. You need to go talk to these guys.’” Flynn was only 16, but the phone call prompted him to briefly enroll in Supreme Pro Wrestling’s school. (This was back when SPW was still offering training classes.) Flynn quickly discovered he couldn’t afford the fees, but he didn’t want to quit altogether. So instead, he detoured into the dangerous underground circuit of backyard wrestling, where self-taught amateurs propel themselves at each other in makeshift rings and bash each other with all sorts of improvised weapons for the delight of small crowds and public access TV notoriety. Flynn eventually left the backyards and completed SPW’s wrestling school, finding roster spots in midtier companies like Global Force Wrestling, acquired last month by Anthem Wrestling Exhibitions LLC, which also bought the WWE’s closest competitor, IMPACT Wrestling, in January. So far, those boardroom machinations haven’t changed life on the ground for contract players like Flynn. “I don’t make a lifechanging amount of money off this. It’s not one of those situations,” he said. “But at the end of the day, I am making enough to pay bills here and there.” Other journeymen describe a similar hustle. “When you start, it’s literally a hot dog and a handshake,” said The Big F’in Deal Karl Fredericks. “You lose money, for sure. It’s three days on the road and I make 60 bucks, so you do the math.” Most of the people in the game hold down day jobs as regular people. The 26-year-old

Fredericks works as a merchandiser at a Reno sporting goods store. Littell works at Applebee’s. Flynn is the operations manager of a recycling center, where he’s gotten two of his other wrestling buddies jobs. He also has an entrepreneurial spirit that has made it slightly easier to break even while fakebreaking bones. Three nights a week, across the street from Luther Burbank High School, Flynn runs what’s thought to be the only wrestling school in Sacramento. Lit up like a beacon on a boulevard specked with gas stations, fast-food restaurants and orange-glow street lamps, the defunct showroom looks like it was deserted in haste. Financing offices and desks cluttered with car brochures surround an enormous ring, where a red tarp covers about an inch of padding on top of dark, wooden planks. The ropes are especially unforgiving, made of metal cables wrapped in a stiff casing of plastic and tape, inspiring war stories from the participants hurled against them. Flynn’s school has been in this space since June, though he’s planning to relocate to a space on Watt Avenue. For a nonrefundable deposit of $200 and then $100 a month, students learn the basics. Equal parts side job and all-consuming passion project, the school splits the showroom with a break-dancing crew that provides a vibrant hip-hop soundtrack for the night’s lessons. As always, Flynn and his training partners— Joe Salopek, who wrestles as The Boogieman Joe DeSoul, and Anthony Rivera, a.k.a. The Handsome Devil—are preaching the importance of conditioning and safety. The three 31-yearolds diligently run their pupils through the same

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routines, again and again. Punch, bump, slam. Each action is broken down, each step repeated until the results are satisfactory. “You want to keep [your opponent’s] head safe, but also their tailbone,” Rivera counseled as two students practiced dropping each other onto the mat. “You don’t want to slam somebody on their butt. All the pressure needs to happen on the upper back.” Finally, the smallest one in Flynn’s class, a 16-year-old high school student named Dilpreet Aujla, is able to slam the largest man in the class with seeming ease. In reality, it’s a two-man effort, with the larger man whirling his body around as Aujla gracefully drops him onto his back, detonating a sound that drowns out the hip-hop beats. Aujla, who wrestles under his given name like Flynn, is driven to each 8 p.m. class by his father. “Like every parent, they worry about me getting hurt,” he said. “My mom even tells me to quit and pick up another sport. But she knows this is really what I want to do, so she still has my back. They’ve been to every one of my shows.”

Seeing StarS The earliest form of what is now known as professional wrestling—larger-than-life characters, scripted outcomes, real stunts—can be traced to the traveling carnivals at the turn of the 20th century, when a big-tent “champion” would challenge visiting locals to try to

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Clockwise from top left: 1. Around 300 people, including a bunch of pumped-up kids, attended the Supreme Pro Wrestling 17th Anniversary Show in early spring. 2. JJ King knows most people think semipro wrestlers are nuts, and he’s OK with that. 3. Anthony Rivera, The Handsome Devil, strikes a dead-man pose during a match. 4. Joe Salopek, The Boogieman Joe DeSoul, makes his entrance. 5. Marcus “Flying Lion” Lewis looks into the future and sees a career in the WWE. 6 Rocketboy rocks out prior to his tag-team match.

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“WRESTLE MANIACS” continued from page 19 a bad guy, and there’s a winner and a loser at the end.” Behind the scenes, it’s sometimes hard to tell the difference.

'Light at the end of the tunneL' In a tiled gymnasium that typically hosts more quinceañeras than sporting events, a vastly different coming-of-age ceremony is taking place: Supreme Pro Wrestling is hosting its 17th anniversary extravaganza, a four-hour marathon for its most ardent fans—and the local wrestling league’s biggest event of the year. This is the work of Littell, a self-described late bloomer who didn’t wrestle his first match until he was 30, but has since traveled the United States and Canada as Sir Samurai. “I didn’t think it was possible for a guy like me to become a professional wrestler so it wasn’t even something I fantasized about,” he said. “We’re lucky,” Littell added. “We’re literally just a group of guys who work at Costco and Applebee’s and other places who dream of doing this—and here we are doing it.” In the ensuing eight years since Littell took control of Supreme Pro Wrestling, his business has gone from drawing few paying customers, forcing him to pay wrestlers using his own rent money, to a break-even operation with 3,100 followers on Facebook. SPW no longer runs a wrestling school as it did in years past, but Littel keeps the monthly shows—a mix of old-school, hardcore and lucha libre influences—going, making just enough money to rent venues and make sure each wrestler gets his or, much less frequently, her $20 cut. The paltry payout isn’t what draws guys like Rivera, DeSoul or Fredericks, who lives in Reno, back into the ring. “This is my life. This is what I’m trying to do,” Fredericks said. “I am a wrestler. I am the BFD and this Karl Fredericks is everything I want to be.” The local scene has shown tentative signs of expansion. Aside from Supreme Pro Wrestling, local shows are also put on by Total Wrestling Federation Inc., which started on a Tracy front lawn in 1998 before relocating to Sacramento two years later. And then there’s the Oaklandbased wrestling outfit Hoodslam, which recently began dipping its more adult-oriented toe in Sacramento. (It most recently hosted a local show July 17 at District 30.) That means there are more opportunities to showcase local talent, but can anyone reach the big time? The odds are tough, says WWE superstar Allegra. “A lot of times, when you go to the local shows—and this isn’t a knock on anybody—a lot of guys aren’t in shape,” Allegra said. “Guys just don’t look like athletes or superstars, and just don’t carry themselves like the guys do on WWE.” There’s some truth to that. The local performers come in all shapes and sizes. Many

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are older than 30 and not quite as veiny or orange as their varsity idols. Littell has no delusions about reaching the big time. On the wrong side of 40 with more gray in his ponytail than brown, the single Sir Samurai is content to wait tables by day and spend his nights doing anything for a crowd-roar. “On a good weekend, I come out ahead if I sold some shirts and some 8-by-10s, but I do it for love—for these experiences and stories,” Littell said. “I’m not doing it for money. I want to go to as many different places and wrestle as many different people as possible. Basically, I’m collecting experiences.” He and Flynn have something in common there. “I’ve seen the light at the end of the tunnel and I don’t think WWE is going to be a realistic option for me,” Flynn said matter-of-factly. “I’ve had my chance. If something happens, that’s good. But until then, I’m not going to sit around and hold my breath.” In the meantime, guys like Flynn and Littell still want to put on one hell of a show.

Ladder-day saints A few hours into the anniversary event, the stakes are high—literally. Two weathered championship belts hang on piping far above a wrestling ring in the middle of the gym. This is what’s called a “Tables, Ladders and Chairs” match, a gimmick copped straight from the big leagues. The object is simple: First tag team to unlock the belts suspended over the ring wins the match. But the setup is preposterously complicated, with four tag-teams—eight wrestlers total—racing to retrieve one of two ladders stashed at opposite corners of the gymnasium while beating each other with folding chairs and plywood tables. (Fun fact: Audience members often bring their own tools of torture for the wrestlers to use, including fluorescent light

bulbs and a spool of barbed wire so new it still has price tags on it.) As sunlight pokes through open windows onto a capacity crowd dining on boiled hot dogs on cold buns, Flynn makes his entrance through a curtain to the tune of Nelly’s 2002 track “Pimp Juice.” Dressed in purple pants with yellow trim and a black shirt that reads, “I See You Hatin But It Ain’t Nothing to Me,” he somehow looks much larger than his humble stature. The polite, patient trainer is gone. Flynn, playing the “heel” (wrestling jargon for “villain”), goads the crowd and attacks his opponents like a wrecking ball from the sound of the first bell. Early on in the chaotic (and theoretically scripted) melee, two combatants steal the crowd’s attention. Daniel Torch—the other half of Flynn’s championship tag-team Salt N Pimpin—is clambering up one of the ladders, placed 20 feet from the ring directly under a basketball hoop, in an attempt to evade The Black Cat Joey Smoak, of The Rejects tag team. But Smoak is hot on his enemy’s trail. As Torch runs out of rungs to scale, the wrestler wraps his fingers around the nicked-up orange basketball rim above him. Big mistake. Smoak twists his body around and pokes his head between Torch’s legs, grabs him by the waist and chucks him onto a pile of waiting wrestlers positioned on the ground. Bodies spill everywhere. As Torch rolls around in both pretend and real agony, a crowd of nearly 300 loses its collective mind. Shouts of “Holy shit!” and “This is awesome!”—the wrestling equivalent of a standing ovation—pierce the roars. Later, an aerial stunt goes semiwrong when one half of the famed Fatu Brothers, part of a wrestling dynasty with cousins in the WWE, injures himself landing on a plywood board outside the ring. Jacob Fatu had stretched Mustafa Saed on the board, coiled in barbed wire, and reentered the ring, where the big man

The Black Cat Joey Smoak, left, drops Daniel Torch off a ladder during a tag-team match for the title during the Supreme Pro Wrestling 17th Anniversary Show Sunday, April 23.

took a running, front-flip leap over the ropes. As planned, Saed moved off the board at the last second and Jacob crashed down on his back. But the table didn’t break as planned and Jacob slid down a length of steel barbs. But the Fatu Brothers would get their revenge. Finally, after 10 more minutes of the wrestlers pounding each other in agonizing fashion, a ladder has been placed in center ring, directly under the black and silver belts suspended overhead. Flynn makes a valiant attempt to climb the ladder and claim the titles, only to be thwarted by Smoak, who tosses him to the mat. As the action spills outside the ring, Flynn, crumpled in a heap, climbs onto the corner post and somersaults off the buckle into a heap of bodies. Seizing the moment, Jacob slides back into the ring and races up the ladder. Seeing this, Flynn springs into action, scrambling up the other side. But before he can get far, the other Fatu brother, Journey, slides underneath Flynn and clamps him onto his meaty shoulders for a backward Samoan drop from wrestling royalty. Journey then holds Flynn down as he stretches his arm in desperation, watching as Jacob unbuckles the belts and claims victory. One day later, his tag-team duo having been deposed as the reigning champs, Flynn is still riding the adrenaline high. “That night was about making sure when those guys grabbed those titles, that crowd went ape shit,” he reflected inside the showroom where he trains the next generation of hopefuls. “You’ve got to make your opponent look like King Kong—and that night they looked like King Kong.” Then, with the break-dancing crew’s soundtrack bumping loudly in the background, Flynn reentered the ring to show his students how to fall down—and get back up again. Ω

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A rattling rhythm fills the air—the industrial punch of cork compressions and vibrating glass that jangles like loose teeth. Passersby look around for the commotion. Hidden in an alley off 29th Street, a Willy Wonka-like truck is pumping wine through massive hoses, firing it with nitrogen, hitting it with filtered gas and then jetting it into glistening green bottles. 22 | SN&R | 07.20.17

The gears and hydraulics move like clockwork. Robotic hands tag each vintage on the conveyor with a label. Near the truck’s front, a small puddle of mourvèdre is shining on sun-blanched pavement. At the back of the truck, cases of wine are roaring down a set of rollers. Colleen Sullivan pauses to watch the ordered spectacle. Then she grabs shrink wrap and begins racing around a mound of cases on a pallet. She loops five times, the chalkboard screech of elasticity growing louder. When her co-workers glance back, she just smiles. This is the life of a city-centered winemaker: It’s Midtown dreams and back-alley bottling. It’s not the kind of vino vignette the area’s known for. Sullivan is out to change all that. She may be one of the region’s youngest barrel masters, but

her free-range ability to work with grape farmers from any appellation offers true liberation around a 4,000-year-old art form. With her fan base on the rise, she’s become Sacramento’s new face of urban winemaking. Sullivan works as the chief viticulturist at Revolution Wines, a winery at S and 29th streets that shares its patio with the original Temple Coffee. The business was started in 2005 by Joe and Gina Genshlea, who moved it into Midtown two years later. The couple saw potential in this quiet, tree-lined pocket, and these days the addition of the Sacramento Natural Foods Co-Op and Pushkin’s Bakery has made the corner a culinary microhub. It offers locally roasted coffee, locally grown food and locally baked pastries. And,

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thanks to Revolution, chenin blanc, culled the first locally made from grapes in nearby wine since before Clarksburg along the Prohibition. Delta. In 2014, Wine “Everything Spectator’s Harvey around us is small Steiman mentioned businesses,” this chenin blanc as Sullivan observes, one of the top white “and we’ve been wines in the nation growing together as for pairing with colleen sullivan Sacramento grows.” oysters. The chenin That kind of neighchief viticulturist, Revolution Wines blanc is currently sold borhood synergy is what out, though Sullivan is Sullivan was looking for working on a new vintage. when she moved back to her “Clarksburg is one of the hometown after college in 2011. best spots in the world for growShe started working in Revolution’s ing chenin blanc,” she observes. tasting room, immersing herself in what But whether Sullivan is using charits winemaker Craig Haarmeyer was creating. donnay grapes from Lodi or roussanne grapes Sullivan eventually began apprenticing for him, from Placer, she and the Genshlea family keep an experience that taught her just how innovatheir focus on highlighting top California tive a Sacramento-based operation could be. soil near the capital. Napa, Sonoma and Paso Most California wineries are located in Robles grapes don’t make an appearance here, designated appellations. A winemaker on and they don’t need to. a specific trail is under pressure to use as “We want to showcase our region as much as many estate grapes and nearby vineyards as possible,” Sullivan says. “Amador is basically possible. Hence, a vino virtuoso in Amador our backyard and Clarksburg is just down the County has the soil gods with her when making road. We want to show off what we have from zinfandel and barbera, but could struggle if vineyards that are mainly within an hour drive.” trying to produce a cabernet sauvignon. Sacramento’s first winery since the A winemaker in the Anderson Jazz Age may have space for Valley can conjure pinot barreling and fermentation, noir with a punch, but risks but not for a full bottling challenges when attempting plant. That’s where Harry tempranillo. Hakala’s Mobile Wine Revolution’s aim is to Line comes into play. On this find grapes for each varietal it’s making at the scorching summer morning, the crew on Hakala’s appellation with the best fruit for that style. From truck works with Revolution’s own staff to convert there, the magic happens in its cavernous Midtown vats of vino into bottles for the tasting room. barreling room. Hakala’s state-of-the-art vehicle can crank out 350 A year-and-a-half ago, Haarmeyer departed cases in an hour. If he pushes its gears to ludicrous Revolution, and Sullivan was promoted to its new speed, the truck can launch 4,000 cases in a day. head winemaker. She still uses grape farmers whose “It was all my mom,” Hakala says, carefully land ranges from Calaveras to the outskirts of Elk working the controls. “She came up with this idea Grove, and she’s enjoying every minute of it. back in 1978. There are probably 40 different “We work closely with the growers, and that trucks working in the industry now, but we were allows us to do what we want,” Sullivan says. the very first, back when my mom had the idea.” So far, the approach has paid off, especially Tales like that are the reason Sullivan finds so with Sullivan’s zinfandel. Made from Amador much inspiration in the region’s wine scene: from County’s Aparicio Vineyard, the wine is memoGold Country to the Delta, vineyard legacies are rable for its warm raspberry base simmering with still built around small families. Merging her own clove reflections and tingling traces of tobacco. skill set with those back stories are the challenge— Like all good zins, it has a vibrant kick. and reward—that drive her. Another hit for Sullivan is Revolution’s “I just love the story that a wine can tell,” Albarino, a rare white Spanish varietal made from Sullivan says. “And I get to meet so many people grapes in north Yolo’s Dunnigan Hills. Light who have been part of the business for generations. and elegant, its soft apple essence offers hints of For me, it’s so cool to be part of the pride that buttermilk riding under cool hues of vanilla. Its they’re passing on.” Ω profile is the talk of the tasting room. Revolution makes more than 15 red and white varietals, but its most famous bottle to date is the

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Starting the conversation We live in a society that forces certain voices to scream over others to be noticed. It isn’t fair or just, but that’s how it is. On Saturday, July 15, I was among a crowd yelling “Ain’t I a woman?!” from Crocker Park to the steps of the Capitol. Hundreds of men, women and children gathered to make a statement: That women—specifically black women—will not be a doormat or steppingstone for anyone. Black women have continually been left out or pushed out of pertinent conversations in this country. Whether it be microaggressions or blatant disrespect, there are countless daily factors that make our voices feel unheard. To fight against that, the “Ain’t I a Woman” march and rally, hosted by the Sacramento nonprofit Black Women United, was about empowering black women with a platform to fight for our civil rights. Marching and rallying with such a large group of black women in my city was a feeling I will never forget. It felt like a home within my home. Growing up as a black woman in the world, sometimes you feel forgotten or passed by. But seeing all of the beautiful Elaine Brown shades of brown and evformer leader, Black eryone singing, crying and Panther laughing without a trace of fear gave me hope and courage. The BWU put on an event so inclusive to women from all walks of life that it created a vibration of sisterhood. Rows of signs lined the stage, and they were all pictures of powerful women of color: activists Angela Davis and Marsha P. Johnson, politician Maxine Waters and suffragist Sojourner Truth—who originally delivered the “Ain’t I a woman?” speech. I had to get my selfie in with the sign of my girl Angela Davis, of course! Poet Porsche Nicole Kelly performed a powerful spoken-word piece about the struggles that young black women face, and ended it by exclaiming the beauty that comes through surmounting those hurdles. “Pretty brown neck with chains, the world adorns it. … Beautiful flower, long pretty stem. Black girl no hard rock, black girl GEM.” I don’t usually attend rallies and marches because I feel like the action steps afterward are rarely discussed. But as we left the Capitol we were all given homework to encourage 10 of our community members to vote in local elections. We were also handed contact information for multiple assembly members, resources to use in case of family health emergencies and a list of ways to speak out against injustices in a professional setting. Headlining speaker and former leader of the Black Panther Party, Elaine Brown, said it best: “Nobody is coming to get us, but we don’t need anybody but each other. We need the power of our legendary love.”

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blood cubes were probably the reason I twice got the question, “Have you had bún bò Hue before?” But Pho City’s lemon-grass tart version is balanced and mild. The tender slices of beef shank are succulent and rimmed in fat, and the plate of accompanying fresh herbs and veggies (dia rau song) looked crisply perfect. Tricolor piles of red and green cabbage and shredded banana blossom soaked up the lip-smacking broth. The kitchen killed it again with the dia rau song for the bánh xèo ($7.95), a rice flour crepe served with perilla and fish mint (diep ca), an herb you almost never see in Sacramento. Too bad the crepe itself was mushy in the middle and overfilled with watery bean sprouts. Bánh xèo seems to be a very hard dish to perfect. I peeped around the dining room for a reminder of how to approach the bánh xèo, and copied fellow diners in grabbing a lettuce leaf, stocking it with herbs and pickled veggies, and then adding a hefty piece of crepe. The lack of perfection in the crepe didn’t stop me from relishing these little hand rolls after a dunk in the funky-sweet fish sauce. Similarly, a Chinesestyle chicken wing platter ($8.75) piled with sautéed garlic and jalapeños benefited from that same hit of fish sauce to up the fatty-crunchy-sweetsour profile. These were addictive and best shared with a larger party. The pork-stuffed egg rolls topping the grilled pork and vermicelli salad dish (Bún thit nuong cha giò, $9) appeared to be identical to the hot ’n’ crispy delights I used to order at the old Pho Saigon. The grilled pork had an assertively smoky flavor that coated the fluffy noodles and shredded lettuce in this refreshing, perfect-for-summer dish. Yes, Pho City is open for lunch and dinner in case you can’t wrap your mind around pho for breakfast—or maybe you grew up eating it for breakfast every day and want to hold onto your secret. At Pho City, the secret is already out. Ω

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Leonard Bernstein, along with lyricists Betty Comden and Adolph Green, wrote two salutes to the city of New York. In 1944 it was On the Town (staged recently at Music Circus), and in 1953 it was Wonderful Town, currently part of the summer music festival staged by the Davis Shakespeare Ensemble. Dennis Beasley, who made such an impression last season with Bells are Ringing, directs. The musical is based on the stories of Ruth McKenney and was first produced as the play My Sister Eileen by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov. It tells the story of the Sherwood sisters Ruth (Gia Battista) and Eileen (sister Gabby Battista), who have left their childhood home in Ohio and come to New York for all of the opportunities they feel it offers. Ruth is an aspiring writer, while Eileen wants to break into show business. They soon learn that life in the Big Apple is not quite what they expected. The Battistas are absolutely wonderful in their roles, and their homesick duet “Ohio,” is as smooth as velvet. Both women also get their own chance to shine in a solo number, particularly Gia in the fun “Conga,” in a nightclub with a bunch of Brazilian sailors. But this is a show with an all-star cast, including Kevin Caravalho, Ian Hopps, Brian Bohlender, Kyle Stoner and J.R. Yancher, among others, many of whom play more than one role. Choreography is by Katie Peters and includes Irish jigs, swing and the aforementioned conga. Music is provided by the onstage sevenmember orchestra, under the direction of David Taylor-Gomes.

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An actor’s ambition If his name seems familiar, it’s because actor Ian Hopps has been appearing in shows all over town of late. He’s in both of the Davis Shakespeare Festival’s summer shows, and in the past year, he’s also appeared in roles with Capital Stage, Big Idea Theatre and the Sacramento Theater Company. His journey here followed a traditional path— mostly. The 20-something actor grew up in the Los Angeles area, and studied theater at San Francisco State, where he got to know the organizers of Davis Shakespeare. After completing his degree in 2013, Hopps returned to Los Angeles and lived with his mother. Eventually, he looked north again. “I saw that in Davis and Sacramento, there was a community of theater people that support each other, and I decided to move up here,” Hopps says. Soon, he started landing roles at Davis Shakespeare and the Sacramento Theatre Company. When he’s not acting Hopps supports his theater habit with a part-time restaurant job, and busking with an accordion—he bought one off Craigslist for $150, and taught himself to play. During his time in Sacramento, Hopps has grown as an actor, developing skills in musical theater and stage combat. And he has ambitions to push himself even further. “I’d like to do a show at the B Street Theatre. I’d like to help Davis Shakespeare continue to grow. I want to get an Actors’ Equity card,” Hopps says. The ultimate role, he adds, would be playing the title role in Richard III, Shakespeare’s dark history play about a schemer who murders anyone who stands between himself and the throne. Whatever the path, Hopps adds that he’s happy in his adopted city. “I want to make Sacramento a home base, and branch out and work [in other cities, too].” —Jeff Hudson

Now playiNg An Act of God

This play from The Daily Show writer David Javerbaum is thoughtfully funny, though still tackling issues and material with pointed humor that more pious folk may frown upon. The show is basically a monologue by the Almighty, who comes out to address the audience about various subjects, including proposed new commandments, an explanation on what really happened during his seven-day creation mania, clarifying the Adam, Noah and Abraham stories, and commenting on contemporary issues. Nick Cearley plays God. Th,

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The Three Musketeers

This recent adaptation by American playwright Ken Ludwig is a fun, fastmoving adventure-comedy. In this version, D’Artagnan shares the stage with a plucky younger sister (who also wields a sword), adding girl power, and the exaggerated villains are entertaining. Swords clash throughout, disaster is narrowly averted (again and again), and the Musketeers are as handsome as matinee idols in this Davis Shakespeare Festival production. Alternates in repertory with the musical Wonderful Town. Th, F, Sa 8 8

8/6. Davis Shakespeare Festival at Davis Veterans Memorial Theatre, 203 E. 14th Street in Davis; (530) 802-0998; www.shake spearedavis.org. J.H.

Under Milk Wood

Dylan Thomas’ 1954 radio “play for voices” reveals the lives of residents of a fictional town in a way that emphasizes our shared humanity. It’s also funny—very funny— and satirical. A talented cast of nine portrays three dozen characters in a play that has the cadences and rhythms of the Welsh language and the soul of a poet. F, Sa 7pm Through 7/22. $10. The Forgotten Theatre Company, at Thistle Dew Dessert Theatre, 1901 P Street; (916) 457-6286; www.thistledewtheatre .blogspot.com. J.C.

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Dunkirk When you fashion a jacket from sandbags, you learn too late how itchy it is.

by Daniel Barnes

While the rescuers stream toward the billow of black smoke on the horizon, German planes easily pick off the men and machines at Dunkirk. In 20 years of filmmaking, Christopher Nolan has Nolan does himself a favor with his own terse ascended from indie unknown to the crown prince script, largely laying off the blockhead exposition of PG-13 darkness. Stars still matter in the age of the and instead crafting a fingernail-obliterating cinema never-ending franchise, but Nolan remains one of experience. Dunkirk relentlessly rubbernecks our few brand-name directors, a behind-the-camera from the beach to the sea to the air, but Nolan presence who can be counted on to sell tickets. To his undermines any potential monotony by gently fragcredit, it’s a responsibility that Nolan takes very, very menting and overlapping the timelines. The film is seriously; to his discredit, what doesn’t he take very, viscerally immersive without feeling exploitative, very seriously? Over the last decade, especially, Nolan and there are even a few quiet moments of visual has become low-hanging fruit for mockery—his poetry stashed amid the luxury lounger-rattling heaviness, his humorlessness, his ponderousexplosions, a rarity for a director who tends ness, his duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duhto thrive in an environment of laboratoryduh-BWAAAAMP-ness. controlled violence and chaos. Viscerally But just when the diminishing As ever, Nolan mostly fumbles his returns of The Dark Knight franchise immersive attempts at warmth, and after largely and the philosophical emptiness of avoiding awards-grubbing moments without feeling Interstellar seemed to cement his in Dunkirk, the last few minutes play exploitative. irrelevance, along comes Dunkirk to a little too much like an acceptance remind us what Nolan does so well. speech. An unfortunate side effect of Nolan is a master of escalating and Nolan’s shimmy into the mainstream are sustaining tension across multiple dramatic the obligatory rays of hope that now pollute planes, and the outwardly simple yet slightly frachis pitch-black paranoia and moral gray zones. His tured structure of Dunkirk affords him the ideal canvas weighty and enveloping seriousness, while often to practice his art. You’re stuck in Nolan’s grasp within risible when applied to caped crusaders or Matthew minutes, and he only keeps squeezing tighter, the McConaughey, is at least believable—I buy Nolan pinprick tension growing more unbearable, with the the grim misanthropist a lot more than I buy Nolan phony dramatic crescendos kept to a relative minimum. the moist-eyed patriot. Dunkirk breaks the infamous 1940 evacuation of Thankfully, false moments are few and far several hundred thousand stranded Allied troops into between in Dunkirk, a film that almost manages to three narrative shards: one view from the beach, as make Christopher Nolan great again. Ω baby-faced soldiers (Fionn Whitehead and Damien Bonnard) scheme to escape certain death by any means necessary; one view from the sea, as a civilian boat skippered by Mark Rylance sails across the channel; and one view from the sky, as two fighter pilots (Tom Poor Fair Good Very excellent Hardy and Jack Lowden) provide scrappy air support. Good

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The Beguiled

Sofia Coppola writes and directs this lovingly mounted yet strangely feeble adaptation of Thomas Cullinan’s novel, which was previously brought to the screen by director Don Siegel in 1971. That version benefited from the inherent tension of a masculine pulp auteur like Siegel shepherding a sexually charged Civil War-era costume drama, but this take on The Beguiled is exactly the sort of disaffected fashion show that we’ve come to expect from Coppola. Nicole Kidman stars as a repressed headmistress waiting out the war in the Virginia wilderness with a handful of girls, among them Kirsten Dunst and Elle Fanning. The discovery of a severely injured but charismatically manipulative Union soldier (Colin Farrell) upends their quiet lives, as his very presence seems to spur a sexual awakening in the women. Coppola surgically removes everything potentially “problematic” (i.e., interesting) about the material, then shoots what’s left through ten thousand layers of gauze. D.B.

The Big Sick

If you’re a stand-up comedian in a movie, it’s only a matter of time before you’re suffering a sad, unfunny, baggagespewing nervous breakdown on stage. In Michael Showalter’s The Big Sick, the comedian on the brink is Kumail Nanjiani, playing himself as a Pakistan-born man torn between worlds. Kumail’s traditional family tries to push him into an arranged marriage, but he instead dates strong-willed white therapist Emily (Zoe Kazan) on the sly, before his surplus of secrets pulls them apart as well. The entire situation becomes exponentially complicated when Emily goes into a coma. There is a lot to like about The Big Sick, especially the charismatic performances of Nanjiani and Kazan, who are given sturdy support by Holly Hunter and Ray Romano. But at 119 minutes long, it may be too much of a good thing—I have rarely been so aggravated by such a funny and heartwarming film. D.B.

Despicable Me 3

This franchise ran out of steam years ago, but it’s making too much money to stop, so everybody’s giving it another go. Villain-turned-hero Gru (voiced by Steve Carell) finds his long-lost brother (also Carell); his wife Lucy (Kristen Wiig) tries to bond with his foster daughters, one of whom flounces off on a unicorn hunt; and a supervillain arises in the form of 1980s child star Balthazar Bratt (Trey Parker), grown-up and evil. The story is all over the place—to the point where there’s really no story at all. Well, the animation is smooth and gleaming, and Gru’s pill-shaped Minions (whom many find inexplicably adorable) are back in force. Fans will believe they’ve gotten their money’s worth. Interestingly, bad guy Bratt’s chief weapon is bubble gum, which makes a fitting metaphor for the whole movie. J.L.

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The getaway driver for a bank-robbing gang (Ansel Elgort) wants out, especially after he meets a pretty waitress (Lily James)—but his boss (Kevin Spacey) doesn’t believe in early retirement. Writerdirector Edgar Wright’s movie shifts gears as deftly as its hero—from rock ’n’ roll derby to profane comedy to goo-goo-eyes romance and back, and all set to a pounding soundtrack of the pop tunes streaming from Baby’s iPod. Wright glosses over some plot points in the interest of getting on with things, but the car chases are the point, and they’re terrific. This steering-wheel prodigy drives the way Gene Kelly used to dance—thrusting, twisting, lunging—and Wright and editors Jonathan Amos and Paul Machliss assemble these roaring ballets accordingly. Not that it matters, but the performances are good too. J.L.

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A teenage girl (Joey King), unpopular in school and still scarred by her mother’s suicide 10 years before, finds a mysterious Chinese music box that promises to grant seven wishes—not noticing that for each wish there’s a “blood price” to be paid. So she makes a few frivolous, half-joking wishes; the first one kills her dog, then the box upgrades to offing humans in the usual parade of Rube Goldberg deathtraps. (Nobody ever just drops dead of a heart attack in movies like this.) Performances are earnest (Ryan Phillippe plays King’s father, Sherilyn Fenn a friendly neighbor; the rest are hungry unknowns), but nobody can keep the proceedings from becoming unintentionally hilarious. Written by Barbara Marshall and directed by John R. Leonetti—both efficiently but without distinction. J.L.

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The life of Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis (Sally Hawkins), who worked in obscure poverty, stooped and gnarled by childhood arthritis, until fame found her a few years before she died in 1970. Hawkins is the best reason to see this sluggish, pinched, claustrophobic little biopic; whenever it threatens to grow dreary, which it does often, the spunky light in her eyes draws us back. Otherwise the movie rings false; Sherry White’s script is uneven and unconvincing, Aisling Walsh’s direction plods as doggedly as Maud painting one of her pictures, and Ethan Hawke as Maud’s husband Everett is so foul-tempered and abusive that he makes Maud look like a dimwitted masochist—thus undercutting the movie’s message of two outcasts redeemed by love. Guy Godfree’s starkly beautiful cinematography is another plus. J.L.

Okja

Premiering on Netflix and receiving a limited theatrical release, the entertaining Okja offers more high-energy genre subversion from South Korean writer-director Bong Joon Ho (Snowpierecer; The Host), who this time uses a Spielberg-ian children’s fantasy template to bluntly satirize issues related to animal rights, environmental destruction and corporate greed. Snowpiercer supporting player Tilda Swinton gets a co-producer credit here, and a plum part as the CEO of a Monsanto-like conglomerate, but its Jake Gyllenhaal who delivers the biggest, broadest deal-breaker of a comedic performance, squawking like a strangled clown and flapping about in cargo shorts and black crew socks. Okja offers a lot of the same elements that made Snowpiercer so successful, but it misses that film’s irrefutable narrative progression, especially in an out-of-control second half. The film finally lands on an incredibly beautiful final shot, albeit one that feels divorced from the previous hour of tonal and thematic chaos. D.B.

Transformers: The Last Knight

Once the psycho wunderkind who gave up some of his salary to buy an extra explosion for Bad Boys, and the most aggressive cinematic purveyor of “the cuck stops here” machismo ever since, 52-year-old Michael Bay

might be softening with age. The central conflict in Transformers: The Last Knight involves refugee aliens immigrating to Earth from a violent homeland, and Bay seems to side with the besieged immigrants rather than the travel ban crowd. There are multiple heroic female characters with little drooling objectification, a vaguely eco-friendly message about coming together to “heal the planet” and if that’s not enough, count a French-accented Transformer among the Autobot good guys. Bay tones down the rhetoric, but not the bombast. At a certain point, I simply surrendered to The Last Knight. I don’t think I had a choice. The film had me surrounded, and I just wanted to see my family again. D.B.

War for the Planet of the Apes

The rebooted Planet of the Apes franchise continues with War for the Planet of the Apes, a fitting final wedge in the trilogy, although there are apparently already plans for a sequel. Like the previous entry Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, War was directed by Matt Reeves, who delivers a technically immaculate but ultimately grim and heartless entertainment. The action picks up two years after Dawn, with the increasingly humanlike apes keeping a tenuous peace, while the infected remains of humanity struggle for survival. A mysterious mercenary named Colonel McCullough (Woody Harrelson) accidentally assassinates the son of ape leader Caesar (motion-captured Andy Serkis), sending the simmering simian on a quest for revenge. The special effects are amazing, and the long takes and measured pace give War the flavor of an old-school impossible-mission epic, but there’s something sociopathic about the way the film portrays the eradication of humanity as heroic. D.B.

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song’s popularity is that it, unlike all his other songs, is (relatively) happy. “I have no idea why I can’t write a happy song. It’s something I can’t do,” Thompson says. The song, which is quite catchy, imagines the main character with the girl he loves inside a psychedelic rainforest. They celebrate how they are different from everyone else (“We’re the hippies of the world”), explore the planet and find happiness together. “It still has the Münechild Moonchildren are just like us. elements, just that it has a different vibe,” Thompson says. “I’m trying to make more songs like ‘Amazon Hippie,’ and that same energy. It might take a while, but I’m still Earth is destroyed due to a large irreversible working on it.” catastrophe. An alien named Münechild, who’d been The new album is nothing like “Amazon living on Earth for years, is transported away to a Hippie.” In fact, it has an even drearier sound new planet moments before Earth’s destruction. He’s than Thompson’s earlier work. The guitars, drum not sure how, or why, he’s sent away. All he knows machines, other instruments and vocals are all bathed is that he’s on a strange new planet trying to find his in reverb and other oddball effects. Struggling with place in this very weird world. a label for the music, he’s currently running with This is the backdrop for the new EP Native something a friend suggested: Ocean-Grunge. Land, by indie artist Münechild (real name Isaiah To enter this head space, Thompson likes Thompson), released on June 19. It’s a gloomy, to work alone, which creates a very reverb-soaked indie-rock record. The solitary ambiance in his songs. concept is high, but at its core, it’s a “If you’re working with a relatable, albeit dark, record about producer or engineer, you want growing up and trying to adjust as to be polite, not rush their an adult. process. If you’re alone, “Hopefully the ideas everything is in your will make sense to people,” hands. I find it easier,” Thompson says. Thompson says. The character name and With all these releases, artist moniker Münechild is Thompson is reluctant to say Thompson’s childhood nickMünechild that he’s released an album name, acquired from some graffiti indie artist yet. He’s waiting, still experithat said “I am the Moonchild.” menting and developing, and he By creating these worlds and hopes to come out on the scene with characters, Thompson can express parts a debut record for the world. He hopes, of his own life and identity that he struggles to like his character, that people will just get where he’s articulate otherwise. coming from. “There’s some things I can’t put into words some“That’s all I want to do with my music, is times,” Thompson says. “I can only do it artistically, trying to find common ground with other people,” through music.” Thompson says. Ω So far, Thompson has released six EPs, including Native Land, along with some stand-alone singles. His most popular song, “Amazon Hippie,” from his second EP Casino, has gotten a surprising 130,000 listens on his Soundcloud page—well above any of his other songs. The only explanation he has for the Learn more at https://soundcloud.com/munechild_ncr. photo courtesy of IsaIah thompson

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7:30pm, $25-$30. Harris Center, 10 College Parkway in Folsom.

IAMSU!: Rapper and co-founder of Bay Area hip-hop record label The Heartbreak Kids Gang. 7am, $27. Ace Of Spades, 1417 R St.

WEDNESDAY, 7/26 TrEVOr HALL: Reggae, rock singersongwriter. Performing with Olympia alternative rock artist Ethan Tucker. 7pm, $22. Ace Of Spades, 1417 R St.

THE LETTErMEN: Famed Las Vegas pop vocal trio. 8am, $29-$45. Cache Creek, 14455 State Highway 16 in Brooks.

FESTIVALS

LIONEL rICHIE & MArIAH CArEY: Two multiplatinum, multiple Grammy Award-winning music icons. 7pm, $72.72-$149.57. Golden 1 Center, 500 David J Stern Walk.

SOHINI SANGEET ACADEMY PrESENTS THE SEVEN SOUNDS BAND: A night of soulful

Bollywood songs. 6pm, $10-$25. Memorial Auditorium, 1515 J St.

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Sac prog rock quartet Write or Die will headline Sac Ladyfest’s second night Saturday.

Girls to the front

SWAMP WITCH: Sludge, doom rock show. Performing with Body Void, Defecrator, Chrome Ghost and Cura Cochino. 8pm, $7. On the Y, 670 Fulton Ave.

TESLA: Hometown heavy metal band. 7pm,

SUNDAY, 7/23

THE LETTErMEN: See Saturday event

description. 4pm, $29-$45. Cache Creek, 14455 State Highway 16 in Brooks.

THURSDAY, 7/20 CASEY DONAHEW: Texas country pop star.

7pm, $16-18. Goldfield Trading Post, 1630

J St.

KILL PArIS: Electronic dance music show

with a Los-Angeles future funk DJ. 10pm, no cover. District 30, 1022 K St.

SANDY CrESSMAN: Jazz meets Brazilian and Portuguese music at The Crocker Art Museum. During intermission, attendees can peruse the art galleries, grab dinner or drinks at the cafe or listen to Jazz Chats with Carolyne Swayze and special guests. 6:30pm, $8-$24. Crocker Art Museum, 216 O St.

STONE SONGWrITEr SHOWCASE: Biweekly Open-Mic held at a new vintage music store on R Street, a few doors down from Ace of Spades. Acoustic sets. Spoken word poetry. 7pm, no cover. Stone Vintage Music Boutique, 1409 R St., Suite 103.

FRIDAY, 7/21 AN ATOMIC WHIrL: Hardcore show with a noise band from Japan. Performing with Saliva Tribe, TSA, Hawai’Fi and XTom HanX. 6:30pm, $10. Cafe Colonial, 3520 Stockton Blvd.

CONCErTS IN THE PArK: Last show in the free downtown summer concert series. Funk and rock this week. Performers include Joy and Madness, Mikey LP & The Krooks and Ideateam, with disc jockey Joseph One. Beer and food vendors onsite. 5pm,

no cover. Cesar Chavez Plaza, 9th and J streets.

MYKAL rOSE: Jamaican music legend performing at Swabbies’ third Friday reggae show. 6pm. Swabbies On The River, 5871 Garden Highway.

THE SWOrD: Texas stoner rockers. Performing with alternative indie band Big Jesus. 8:30pm, $25. Harlow’s, 2708 J St.

SATURDAY, 7/22 30 SECOND BAND: Punk show. Performing with the Polyorchids, Abolitionist and Frack. 8pm, $7-$8. The Colony, 3512 Stockton Blvd.

rOMAYNE WHEELEr: Concert and lifetime homage to a world-renowned pianist. Includes a video and Q&A from Wheeler.

SAC LADYFEST: See “Girls to the front”

on this page. 6pm. $15-$20. The Red Museum, 212 15th St.

SATURDAY, 7/22 GLOBAL LOCAL MErCADO: Annual market with artisan goods, food and music by neighborhood and international vendors.

Noon, no cover. Sol Collective, 2574 21st St.

SACrAMENTO WHISKEY, WINE & SPIrITS FESTIVAL: Live music, food and drink at

THE PSYCHEDELIC FUrS: ’80s post-punk from the UK. Performing with Robyn Hitchcock.

8pm, $32-$67. Veterans Memorial

Auditorium, 255 South Auburn St. in Grass Valley.

VVOMEN: Alternative punk show and record release for the Marysville band. Performing with Heartsounds, Bastards of Young and Western Settings. 8pm, $10. Blue Lamp, 1400 Alhambra Blvd.

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Renaissance fair for kids with arts and crafts tables, strolling minstrels, face painters, a bridge-guarding troll, faeries, a witch, medieval fencing and more. 9am, noon. $3. Pioneer Park, 421 Nimrod St. in Nevada City.

on this page. 6pm. $15-$20. The Red Museum, 212 15th St.

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soul duo. Performing with ’80s British pop rockers Tears For Fears. 7pm, $30-$120. Golden 1 Center, 500 David J Stern Walk.

authentic in an accepting space. Some of the performers include Stockton rockers Monster Treasure, local pop propagandist Temple K. Kirk and SF post-punk band Sirena Victima. This year, proceeds benefit the Sacramento Gender Health Center. 212 15th Street, www.facebook. com/sacladyfest.

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SAC LADYFEST: See “Girls to the front”

$37.95-$179.95. Thunder Valley Casino

DArYL HALL & JOHN OATES: Famed ’70s pop-

RED MUSEUM, 7 P.M., $15-$20 Sac Ladyfest, an annual feminist music festival made for everyone, returns for its third year Friday. Fourteen bands, a market for books and all-size, all-gender clothing, art activities MUSIC FEST and zine-crafting will make Friday and Saturday night at Red Museum an ideal time and place to get

and early 2000s pop and hip-hop artists. Performers include Baby Bash, Adina Howard, Lighter Shade of Brown and more. 3pm, $29.50-$65. Weber Point Events Center, 221 North Center St. in Stockton.

FRIDAY, 7/21

this annual fest. Wear white. 6pm. $40$100. The Park, 1116 15th St.

SACrATOMATO WEEK & FESTIVAL: An eclectic group of Sutter District eateries and watering holes will celebrate Sacramento’s signature commodity: the tomato. Creative menu options, drink specials and more. Stroll through the Sutter District all week long. Visit the local restaurants, bars and nightclubs to order and enjoy tomato-themed edibles and beverages. On Saturday, a festival will be held on the grounds outside of Sutter’s Fort State Historic Park and will serve as a finale to the week, offering chef demonstrations, hands-on children’s activities and live music. 4pm, no cover. Sutter District, 2701 L St.

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COLIN HAY: Solo show for the frontman of the Australian new wave band Men at Work. 7:30pm, $30-$45. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.

THURSDAY, 7/20

JArED & THE MILL: Southwestern indie rock band. Performing with disco rockabilly duo Kolars. 8pm, $12-$15. Harlow’s, 2708 J St.

LIFE IN 24 FrAMES: Sac melancholic indie rock band. Performing with The Life And Times and Skylis. 7:30pm, $10. Goldfield Trading Post, 1630 J St.

LIL PUMP: Miami mumble rapper. 7pm, $29. Ace Of Spades, 1417 R St.

BrEWErY DINNEr WITH NEW GLOrY CrAFT BrEWErY: Charred chopped kale salad with cumin ranch dressing, banh mi-style tacos, chocolate chili brownies and more, all paired with beer. 6:30pm, $55-$65. Community Learning Center & Cooking School, 2820 R St.

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rOBErT CrAY AT HArrIS CENTEr: Famed blues, American roots guitarist and singer. Performing with local blues man Michael Ray. 7:30pm, $35-$55. Harris Center, 10 College Parkway in Folsom.

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FridaY, 7/21 calendar listings continued from page 37 $25. Nevada County Fairgrounds, 11228 McCourtney Road in Grass Valley.

satUrdaY, 7/22 tHe QollQa farm dinner series - summer: Local oils, pastas, preserves, cheeses, meats and produce create a seven course meal. Beer from New Helvetia Brewing. 6pm, $44. Kingbird Farms, 8869 Orr Road in Galt.

taste of east sacramento: Annual food fest with over 40 local vendors, including Sactown Union Brewery, PizzaRev and the Sacramento Natural Foods Co-Op. 6pm, $60-$70. Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, 616 Alhambra Blvd.

bigger city of New York. Also part of the Davis Shakespeare Festival . through 8/5. $25. 203 East 14th St. in Davis.

b street & brews at the museum CALIFORNIA STATE RAILROAD MUSEUM, 6 P.M., $15-$25

sUndaY, 7/23 fiftH annual cHili cooK-off: Over 10 chili cooking champs will be out at Track 7 Brewing Company’s Curtis Park taproom with with their favorite secret recipe. Taste chili and cast your vote. Both meat and vegetarian options will be available. Lots of beers on tap. People’s Choice trophies will be awarded to one meat chili and one vegetarian chili that receive the most votes, and a Brewer’s Choice trophy will be awarded to the chili that the Track 7 picks as their favorite. noon. no cover. Track 7 Brewing Company, 3747 West Pacific Ave., Suite F.

tHUrsdaY, 7/20 movie nigHt: agnÈs varda in california: A showing of two films by the renowned French documentary fimmaker: Black Panthers (1968), a short where Varda turns her camera on an Oakland demonstration against the imprisonment of activist and Black Panthers co-founder Huey P. Newton, and Mur Murs (1980), a documentary that explores Los Angeles murals. 7pm. $5-$7. Verge Center for the Arts, 625 S St.

FridaY, 7/21 aKira: Showing of the classic Japanese anime dystopia film. 7:30pm. $8-$10. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.

lunafest roseville: A travelling short film

comedy spot: Press Start! Short form improv with an eight-bit twist. An interactive experience. Audience members guide their favorite performers through multiple levels of original improv games. Help players advance through new styles of improv into a final “Boss Battle” where musical mayhem awaits in a final showdown to best the GameMaster. 10:30pm friday, 7/21. $5. 1050 20th St., Suite 130.

laugHs unlimited comedy club: Say It Loud Comedy Show presented by Michael Calvin Jr.. Ellis Rodriguez (Comedy Central, Kevin Hart’s Hart of The City) headlines. 8pm thursday, 7/20. $20. ; Mark Christopher Lawrence. Performing with Diego Curiel. through 7/23. $20. 1207 Front St.

puncH line: Clayton English. Played Peanut on Tyler Perry’s House of Payne and was featured on Last Comic Standing. through 7/23. $15-$20. 2100 Arden Way, Suite 225.

Quarry parK: Comedy Under the Stars. Outdoor comedy with D. Tyler and Stephen B. 7pm thursday, 7/21. $10-$15. 4000 Rocklin Road in Rocklin.

tommy t’s comedy club: Ngaio Bealum. Local comic, activist and News & Review pot columnist. through 7/22. $20-$30. 12401 Folsom Blvd. in Rancho Cordova.

festival by, for and about women. 6pm, 8pm. $20-$23. The Falls Event Center, 240 Conference Center Drive in Roseville.

satUrdaY, 7/22 ligHt & noir film festival: One-night festival featuring screenings of Double Indemnity (1944) and Sunset Boulevard (1950), plus a Q&A with the “Czar of Noir” Eddie Muller, founder and president of the Film Noir Foundation and host of Turner Classic Movies’ Noir Alley. Coincides with the California Museum exhibit (See Museums category). 5pm. $10-$25. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.

comedY b street tHeatre: B Street & Brews at the Museum. See spotlight above.

7/21. $15-$25. 2711 B St.

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blacKtop comedy: Lit Up Script-ish Comedy. Improv with literature. The Lit Up cast reads the first page of a local author’s book and the rest is up to them. 7pm saturday, 7/22. $5-$10. 3101 Sunset Blvd. Suite 6A in Rocklin.

on staGe 24tH street tHeater: Cooking With the Calamari Sisters. Two over-the-top plussize Italian sisters from Brooklyn are stars of their very own fictional cable cooking show. through 8/26. $45-$65. 2791

24th st.

auburn placer performing arts center at tHe state tHeatre: Guys and Dolls. A musical set in the 1940s. Follows Nathan Detroit, who turns to fellow gambler Sky Masterson for the cash to float the biggest craps game in town. When the dolls get involved, especially a straitlaced missionary named Sarah Brown, the term “high stakes” applies to both love and money. through 8/5. $10. 985 Lincoln Way in Auburn.

b street tHeatre: Hand to God. A multi award-winning comedy that features a hand puppet possessed by the devil. through 7/23. $9-$39. 2711 B St.

california musical tHeatre: 9 to 5. A comedy about friendship and revenge

in the office place, based on the 1980 movie. through 7/30. $45-$89. 1510 J Street.

capital stage: Bad Jews. The night after their grandfather’s funeral, three cousins engage in a battle royale over their precious family heirloom. through 7/23. $28-$38. 2215 J St.

downtown tHeatre: Annie. The story of a plucky orphan adopted by a wealthy businessman. through 7/23. $15-$20. 1035 Texas St. in Fairfield.

nevada tHeatre: Chicago. Set in the 1920s, Chicago tells the story of Roxie Hart, a chorus girl who murders her lover. Desperate to avoid a conviction, Roxie dupes the public, the media and her rival cellmate, Velma Kelly, by hiring Chicago’s slickest criminal lawyer to transform her crime into a barrage of sensational headlines. through 8/3. $20-$38. 401 Broad St. in Nevada City.

sidetraX: Jezebelle’s Army Burlesque Revue. A night of drag, burlesque, spoken word and more. 7pm wednesday, 7/26.

$5. 2007 K St.

sutter street tHeatre: Harvey. See spotlight on bottom right corner of this page. through 8/13. $15-$23. 44 Main St. in Sutter Creek.

tHe acting company: Wizard of Oz. A

at the bottom of page 41. through 7/31. no

cover. 3835 Freeport Blvd.

william a. carroll ampitHeatre: The

A night of improvised sketch comedy by B Street Theatre actors, with beer from Hoppy and Track 7 brewing companies, Chando’s Tacos and a PHoto coUrtesY oF B street tHeatre comedy backdrop of fullscale locomotives. The set of short scenes are interspersed with railroad history in ways that should make you laugh while you learn. 125 I Street, www.californiarailroad.museum.

Kondos gallery, sacramento city college: Matrix Revisited. See spotlight

Comedy of Errors. This Shakespeare play tells the story of two sets of identical twins that were accidentally separated at birth. Part of the Sacramento Shakespeare Festival. through 7/29. $15$18; All’s Well That Ends Well. Another one of Shakespeare’s twisty journeys of love and lust. Also part of the Sacramento Shakespeare Festival. through 7/30. $15$18. 3901 Land Park Drive.

luna’s cafe & Juice bar: Sit N’ Spin Poetry Slam. The Sac Unified Poetry Slam is held every third Friday at Luna’s Cafe. The Open-Mic spoken word poetry show costs $5 to perform, free to watch. It’s competitive. The winner gets the whole pot. 8pm friday, 7/21. no cover. 1414 16th St.

smud art gallery: Matrix Revisited. See spotlight at the bottom of page 41. through 9/11. no cover. 6301 S St.

sacramento fine arts center: Magnum

art

Opus XXVII. A collection of masterworks by artists across the country, and all for sale. Featured are paintings, drawings, sculpture and more. 11am. through 7/23. no cover. 5330B Gibbons Dr. in Carmichael.

aXis gallery: #Resist. Politically charged mixed art exhibit inspired by the election and the popular hashtag. noon. through

7/30. 625 S St.

verge center for tHe arts: The

california museum: Art & Advocacy.

Brightsiders. An exhibition that brings together paintings and sculptures from eighteen artists based in Los Angeles, inspired by the city. 11am. through 8/10. no cover. 625 S St.

An exhibit of original works by developmentally disabled artists across California. It marks the 40th anniversary of the Lanterman Act (AB 846), the 1977 law giving developmentally disabled Californians the right to services and supports they need to live independently. 10am. through 9/17. $9. 1020 O St.

wareHouse artist lofts: Creativity and

crocKer art museum: Turn The Page The First Ten Years of Hi-Fructose. A collection of 51 contemporary art pieces featured in the first decade of the lowbrow art magazine. 10am. through 9/17. $5-$10; Guest Lecture by David Pagel. Art critic and frequent Los Angeles Times contributor David Pagel will discuss the artwork of Raimonds Staprans in honor of the exhibition Full Spectrum: Paintings by Raimonds Staprans. . 2pm saturday, 7/22. $6-$12. 216 O St.

JayJay: Loved to Death & Creatures of the Fire. Loved to Death is the late sculptor Maria Alquilar’s body of work, left behind since her death in 2014 at age 86. Creatures from the Fire serves up a menagerie of wildlife in this exhibition of Mariscal’s recent ceramic sculpture. 11am. through 7/29. no cover. 5524 B Elvas Avenue.

JoHn natsoulas gallery: 16th Annual California Landscape Exhibition and Reception. Reception for an exhibit displaying paintings that capture the state’s most scenic vistas. The exhibit is open thru August 26. 7pm saturday, 7/22. no cover. 521 1st St. in Davis.

Madness. Installation artist Sunya Whitelight and M5 Arts co-founder Clay Nutting talk art and entrepeneurship. Part of a monthly arts discussion and Q&A series held at the WAL. 5:30pm thursday, 7/20. no cover. 1108 R St.

mUseUms california museum: 10th Annual California Hall of Fame Artifact Exhibit. A collection of artifacts, which include: Harrison Ford’s Indiana Jones costume from Raiders of the Lost Ark, George Takei’s Hikaru Sulu costume from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Isabel Allende’s Presidential Medal of Freedom for Literature awarded by President Barack Obama in 2014 and more. 10am. through 9/10. $9; Light & Noir: Exiles & Émigrés in Hollywood, 1933-1950. Highlights the history of émigrés in the American film industry who fled Europe as refugees of Nazi persecution and their legacy in American cinema and culture. Rare artifacts and memorabilia from 16 iconic

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Kansas farm girl’s quest to find a wizard

who can send her back home. through 8/12. $13-$18. 815 B St. in Yuba City.

tHeatre in tHe HeigHts: Love’s Labour’s Lost. One of Shakespeare’s most flamboyantly intellectual comedies. Follows King Ferdinand of Navarre and his three feckless friends, who take an oath to immerse themselves in their studies, swearing off contact with women for three years. through 8/6. $15. 8215 Auburn Blvd., Suite G in Citrus Heights.

veteran’s memorial ampHitHeatre: Reefer Madness. A musical comedy adaptation of the 1936 anti marijuana propaganda film. through 7/23. $12-$18. 7991 California Avenue in Fair Oaks.

veterans memorial center tHeater: The Three Musketeers. A newer adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ novel, chockfull of humor and sword fights. Part of the Davis Shakespeare Festival. through 8/4. $25; Wonderful Town. Ruth and Eileen, two sisters from Ohio, embark on a risky adventure to make it big in the even

satUrdaY, 7/22 Harvey SUTTER STREET THEATRE, 8 P.M., $15-$23

Harvey is a Pulitzer-winning comedy about man’s best friend: a 6-foot-tall rabbit who nobody else can see. Well, Elwood P. Dowd’s best friend. Dowd isn’t shy onstage about introducing Harvey to everybody he meets, a quirk that eventually convinces his sister Veta PHoto coUrtesY oF rUdY meYers PHotoGraPHY Louise and daughter Myrtle Mae to craft a plot to get him committed. The play runs through August 13. 717 Sutter Street in Folsom, www.sutterstreettheatre.com.

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satUrdaY, 7/22 Calendar listings Continued from page 39 films, including Sunset Boulevard and Double Indemnity. through 10/15. $9; Patient No More: People with Disabilities Securing Civil Rights. Chronicles the lives and legacies of the California activists who launched the American disability rights movement. through 11/15. $9. 1020 O St.

California state arCHives: California Memoirs The William M. McCarthy Photograph Collection. William and Grace McCarthy, native Californians born in the late 19th century, pursued their passion for both photography and travel for many years. The end result is a collection of nearly 3,000 photographs mounted in eleven albums that provide rare pictorial documentation of the couple’s early20th century travels through California and beyond. 9:30am. through 8/31. no cover. 1020 O St., Fourth Floor.

best of California brewfest MILLER LITE RACETRACK GRANDSTAND AT CAL EXPO, 3 P.M., $35-$50

saCramento History museum: A Secret History of American River People. An exhibit of photos, artifacts and narratives that showcase the past river travels of Santa Cruz Artist Wes Modes on his homemade houseboat as he meticulously documented the people he met along the way. 10am. through 7/30. $5-$8. 101 I St.

A taste test of the top 10 brews named at the California State Fair’s Commercial beer tasting Beer Competition. Some of the winners ready for you to PHoto bY istockPHoto/HYrma sample: Seacoast Pilsner (a lager by Coronado Brewing Co. in Rancho Cordova, rated Best Standard American Beer), Artifexica, (pale lager, Artifex Brewing Co. in San Clemente, rated Best International Lager) and Summer is Coming (Helles Bock, Loma Brewing Co. in Los Gatos, rated best Pale Malty European Lager). 1600 Exposition Boulevard, www.castatefair.org.

tHUrsdaY, 7/20 tHe bee booK Club presents linda Castillo: Originally from Ohio where her Amish thrillers are set, Linda Castillo knew from an early age that she wanted to be a writer. She penned her first novel at the age of thirteen. Castillo has published thirty books for three New York publishing houses and has won numerous industry awards. Her new book, Down a Dark Road, follows an Amish prison escapee who was given a life sentence for murdering his wife. Castillo will give a presentation, answer questions and sign books. 6pm, $10-$25. The Sacramento Bee, 2100 Q St.

farmyard follies: Hang out with animals from the Great American Petting Zoo. Goats, sheep, llamas and the infamous spotted donkey, Fiona-No-No. every day,

starting at 2pm.

good CHarlotte:

’90s alternative rock band. 8pm, $20-$32. Golden 1 Stage.

live tHorougHbred Horse raCing: Horse racing in the style of the Kentucky Derby. every thursday thru sunday, starting at 1:45pm. Miller Lite Racetrack Grandstand.

horses and riders, like The Lone Ranger and Silver. Features mares from movies and television, including the stunt horses used in The Walking Dead. performs daily, 7:30pm. Horse Arena.

FridaY, 7/21 sister sledge: ’70s disco, funk and R&B trio. 8pm, $12-$24. Golden 1 Stage.

satUrdaY, 7/22 best of California brewfest: See spotlight above. 8pm, $35-$50. Miller Lite Racetrack Grandstand.

smasH moutH: American rock band big for

songs like “All Star.” 8pm, $15-$22. Golden 1 Stage.

mondaY, 7/24 avid reader booK Club: tHe distanCe between us by reyna grande: The Avid Reader Book Club meets every fourth Monday at 7:30 p.m. (unless there is a holiday) in The Avid Reader to discuss a new book selection. There is no fee to join and no list to sign up. 7:30am, no cover. Avid Reader, 617 Second St. in Davis.

state Fair tHe blaCKsmitH eXperienCe:

sPorts & oUtdoors FridaY, 7/21 goruCK tougH CHallenge: Ten to 12 hours. 15 to 20 miles. A team trek with 20 to 30 pounds of weight on your back. Bring a backpack, water, headlamp with extra batteries and a photo I.D. 9pm, $95. Glenn Hall Park, 5415 Sandburg Drive.

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tHUrsdaY, 7/20

eXtreme summer Jam: Two-day paint ball Watch

iron turned into works of art. every day, starting at 1pm. Kaiser Permanente Farm.

California fine art: Visual art exhibit with around 180 paintings, sculptures and more by artists across the state. every day, open all day. Expo Center, Building 7.

beer yoga: Earn a Sunday beer with a yoga

tournament. Register teams online. 3pm, $120-$375. Capital Edge Paintball League, 9391 Florid Road.

fourtH saturday ride: Monthly group bike

ride downtown. 4pm, no cover. Parking lot under freeway, 19th and W St.

goruCK ligHt CHallenge: Four to five hours. Seven to 10 miles. A team trek with 10 to 20 pounds of weight on your back. Bring a backpack, water and a photo I.D. 2pm, $70. Glenn Hall Park, 5415 Sandburg Drive.

saC City rollers game 9: Roller derby. SCR Capitol Punishers take on the SCDG Sacrificers, and the SCR Folsom Prison Bruisers battle the SCDG Disciples. 6pm, $6-$15. The Rink, 2900 Bradshaw Road in Rancho Cordova.

sUndaY, 7/23 2017 moKelumne river benefit raft trips: A guided raft trip down a special five-and-a-half-mile section of the Mokelumne. 4pm, $75. Mokelumne River Electra-Middle Bar Run, Electra Road in Jackson.

eXtreme summer Jam: See Saturday event

description. 3pm, $120-$375. Capital Edge Paintball League, 9391 Florid Road.

luCHa libre pro wrestling: Mexican

masked wrestling. 3pm, $10-$15. Salon Misco Eclectic, 3801 Florin Road.

saCramento republiC fC vs. seattle sounders 2: 8pm, $20.56-$71.96. Bonney Field, 1600 Exposition Blvd.

tUesdaY, 7/25 saCramento river Cats vs. round roCK eXpress: 7:05pm, $10-$40. Raley Field, 400 Ball Park Drive.

wednesdaY, 7/26 surfin’ wednesdays: Surf with the Watersports Farm crew, or just tag along for the ride. Coaching available. All skill levels and ages welcome. 6pm, $20. The Watersports Farm, 1776 Marcum Road in Nicolaus.

take action

class first. 11am, $20. Big Stump Brew Co., 1716 L St.

beginning HarmoniCa: Learn basic playing techniques, maintenance and pro tips. 2pm, $15. Library of MusicLandria, 2181 6th Ave.

try roller derby: Learn the fundamentals

classes

of skating and roller derby strategy, safety and rules. Skates and gear provided. No previous experience required. 10am, no cover. Sacred City Warehouse, 1501 North C St.

tHUrsdaY, 7/20 badassery 101: A Spiritual Life Center

tUesdaY, 7/25

workshop based on the best-selling book “You Are A Badass” by Jen Sincero. Learn about meditation, gratitude and forgiveness. noon, $97. Spiritual Life Center, 2201 Park Towne Circle.

beginning tango Classes: Learn the fundamentals of Argentine Tango: the embrace, the posture and moving with a partner in simple steps. 6:30pm, $15-$50. Tango by the River, 128 J St.

mediCare worKsHop: Learn enrollment dates, required processes, price comparisons and more. 2pm, no cover. Atria Senior Center, 2426 Garfield Avenue in Carmichael.

figure drawing at verge: A nude model will be present at each session. Verge provides all basic drawing materials. 6pm, $10-$15. Verge Center for the Arts, 625 S St.

satUrdaY, 7/22

tHe Healing patH series: A free series of

intro to dirt prairie City: Learn the

tHe “mane” event: Hollywood Horses and riders: See tributes of famous film

books

sUndaY, 7/23

saC aCtivist sCHool: long live tHe Cuban revolution!: The Party for Socialism and Liberation will hold a public forum celebrating the beginning of the Cuban Revolution. Learn more about Cuba’s history and socialism. 7pm. Sol Collective, 2574 21st St.

California state railroad museum: A World on Wheels. Five vintage automobiles are on display at the Railroad Museum, highlighting how innovative train technology and design paved the way for the emergence of the automobile. 10am. through 9/4. 111 I St.

wednesdaY, 7/26

fundamentals of offroading. 9am, $200$375. Prairie City OHV, 13300 White Rock Road in Rancho Cordova.

introduCtion to permaCulture and forest design: Create your own self-sufficient Garden of Eden in your yard. Discover a system that designs productive ecosystems and consumes its own waste. 1pm, $25. Soil Born Farms American River Ranch, 2140 Chase Drive in Rancho Cordova.

bereavement workshops. Each meeting is approximately one hour in length. Local professionals will contribute their expertise, and each week has a different topic. Week’s one through five are held in Rodda Hall South, classroom 176. 4pm, no cover. Sacramento City College, 3835 Freeport Blvd.

tHrU 9/11

matrix revisited KONDOS GALLERY, RUSS SOLOMON GALLERY & SMUD ART GALLERY, NO COVER

In 1977, the Sacramento arts scene, along with the rest of the world, was dominated by the work of male artists. In response, a group of women formed the Matrix Workshop of Women Artists, offering classes, art art shows and a mutual support group that grew to 100 members by the 1990s. The collective disbanded about 25 years ago, and they’re holding three reunion exhibits showcasing Matrix artists, two at the Kondos (on display through July 31) and Russ Solomon (through September 23) galleries on the Sacramento City College campus and the other at the SMUD Gallery in the lobby of its S Street cus- PHoto coUrtesY oF barbara milman tomer service center (through September 11). An open reception is being held for the Kondos exhibit July 20 at 12:30 p.m. A separate reception at Russ Solomon Gallery will screen a documentary on Matrix at 5 p.m. the same day, with portraits of the featured artists on display. Kondos and Russ Solomon galleries, 3835 Freeport Boulevard. SMUD Art Gallery: Customer Service Center Lobby, 6301 S Street.

tHUrsdaY, 7/20 dump trump rally and marCH: Anti-Trump event marking the President’s first six months in office. 6pm. Robert T. Matsui Federal Court House, 501 I St.

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The acousTic den cafe

10271 fairway drive, (916) 412-8739

Badlands

2003 K St., (916) 448-8790

thUrSday 07/20

friday 07/21

SatUrday 07/22

SUnday 07/23

Monday-wedneSday 7/24-7/26

Of The Heart Band, 7pm, call for cover

Justin Farren, Linsday White, 7pm, call for cover

The Iola Rose Band, 7pm, call for cover

Ukulele Jam & Singalong, 11am, call for cover

Open-Mic night, 6:30pm, W, no cover

#Turntup Thursdays College Night, 8pm, no cover

Fridays are a Drag w/ Raven from Ru Paul’s Drag Race, 8pm, call for cover

Spectacular Saturdays, all night, call for cover

Industry Sundays, 8pm, no cover

Half-off Mondays, 8pm, M, no cover; Trapicana, 11pm, W, no cover

Jason Angrove, 9:30pm, no cover

Second Time Around: Allman Brothers Tribute & more, 9:30pm, no cover

Urban Waste, Wastewalker, Since We Were Kids, 8:30pm, call for cover

80 West presents Young Mezzy, 8:30pm, call for cover

Face the Horizon, St. Ashbury, Occupy The Trees, The Spotless Mind, 8pm, $10

Perfect Score, Common Grounds, Tides of Tomorrow, Average League, 8pm, $10

Bar 101

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

Blue lamp

1400 alhaMbra blvd., (916) 455-3400

Atombomb, Beerlords, Straight Thru, 9pm, call for cover

The Boardwalk

9426 GreenbacK ln., oranGevale, (916) 455-3400

Photo coUrteSy of MarcUS aKre/tcM.bUZZ

The Psychedelic Furs

Two Peace, 9pm, $5

Clay Dogs, Transistor Radio, 9pm, $5

counTry cluB saloon

The Vandoliers, 7pm, $5

Matt Rainey & The Dippin’ Sauce, 9pm, no cover

Another Brick: Pink Floyd Tribute Band, 8pm, $5

disTillery

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

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

faces

Dragon, 10pm, $10

Absolut Fridays & Western Line Dancing, 7pm, no cover

White Party w/ DJ Hector Fonsceca, no cover before 11pm if wearing white

Sunday Funday Pool Parties, 3pm, call for cover

Every Damn Monday, 7pm, M, no cover; Noche Latina, 9pm, Tu, call for cover

faTher paddy’s irish puBlic house

Andrew Little, 6pm, no cover

Side-Wheeler String Band, 7pm, no cover Jane Thompson Trio, 7pm, no cover

The fig Tree

Jion & Jojo Thursdays, 7:30pm, no cover

2107 l St., (916) 443-8815 2000 K St., (916) 448-7798

222 vernon St., roSeville, (916) 771-7010

fox & goose

Triple 7’s, Sly Park, 9pm, $5

1001 r St., (916) 443-8825

Birthday Bonanza w/ Diva Kings, Loose Engines, 9pm, $5

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

The golden Bear

Backbar Saturdays w/ Mike Diamond, My Cousin VInny, 10pm, call for cover

goldfield Trading posT

Casey Donahew, 7pm, $16-$18

Sandy Cressman

halfTime Bar & grill

Karaoke Happy Hour, 7pm, no cover

Live DJ/Karaoke, 9pm, call for cover

Rash (Rush tribute band), 9pm, $7

6:30pm Thursday, $8-$14. Crocker Art Museum Jazz

harlow’s

Thunder Cover, 7pm, no cover

The Sword, Big Jesus, 8:30pm, $25

Old School Party - ’80s and ’90s Dance Party, 9pm, no cover

1630 J St., (916) 476-5076

5681 lonetree blvd., rocKlin, (916) 626-6366 2708 J St., (916) 441-4693

highwaTer

2708 J Street Sacramento, CA 916.441.4693 www.harlows.com 7/20 7PM

Thunder Cover

7/25 6:30PM $12ADV

Jared & The MiLL KoARS

7/26 6PM $25ADV

The iguanaS

7/21 8:30PM $25

The Sword

(NeW oRLeANS)

BIG JeSUS

7/27 7PM $20ADV

FLaMin’ groovieS

MATT HoLLyWooD AND THe BAD FeeLINGS 7/23 5:30PM $20ADV

PaTriCk Landeza

7/28 5:30PM $12ADV

nighT MoveS

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Daryll Hall & John Oates, Tears For Fears, 7pm, $30-$81.90 Bear Quiz, 8pm, W, no cover Life in 24 Frames, The Life and Times, Skylis, 7:30pm, Tu, $10

On The Low, 8pm, no cover; Loveless, 10pm, no cover

1910 Q St., (916) 706-2465

Trivia Night, 7pm, M, no cover Julia & the Tightrope Walkers, 7:30pm, W, no cover

Lionel Ritchie, Mariah Carey, 7pm, $19.95-$496.50

2326 K St., (916) 441-2242

Ping Pong Tournament, M, call for time & cover; Karaoke, Tu, call for time & cover

Open-Mic, 7:30pm, no cover

golden 1 cenTer

500 david J Stern walK, (916) 701-5400

Demonsmoke, Endless Yawn, No Room In Hell, 8pm, W, call for cover

Karaoke, call for time & cover

235 coMMercial St., nevada city, (530) 265-0116

435 Main St., woodland, (530) 668-1044

Photo coUrteSy of crocKer art MUSeUM

VVomen, Heartsounds, Western Settings, Bastards of Young, 8pm, $10

cooper’s ale works

4007 taylor road, looMiS, (916)652-4007

with Robyn Hitchcock 8pm Sunday, $30-$65. Veteran’s Memorial Ampitheatre Grass Valley Post-Punk

Trivia & Pint Night, 6:30pm, M, no cover; Open-Mic, 7:30pm, W, no cover

Coming Soon 07/29 Pallbearer 07/30 Delta Rae 08/01 In the Valley Below 08/03 New Breed Brass Band 08/04-05 Steelin’ Dan 08/09 Coastlands 08/11 Sonny Landreth 08/12 Heartless 08/16 Jocelyn & Chris Arndt 08/17 Tyrone Wells 08/18 Joy & Madness 08/19 The Alarm 08/22 See How They Run 08/25 Swingin’ Utters 08/26 The Greg Golden Band 08/27 Talking Dreads 09/01 Com Truise 09/02 Parsonfield 09/04 George Kahumoku Jr. 09/05 Gangstagrass 09/08 Jethro Tull’s Martin Barre Band

Trivia, 7pm, Tu, no cover; Bingo, 1pm, W, $10 Patrick Landeza (Hawaiian slack key guitarist), 5:30pm, $20-$25

Salty Saturday & Top 40’s Dance Party, 9pm, no cover

2708 J Street www.momosacramento.com

8/9 7pm

FallOut kinGs

heresay, feNd lows 8/13 6pm $15adv Night of ukulele with

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FOR THE WEEk OF JULy 20, 2017 ARIES (March 21-April 19): The Greek word

philokalia is translated as the “love of the beautiful, the exalted, the excellent.” I propose that we make it your keyword for the next three weeks— the theme you keep at the forefront of your awareness everywhere you go. But think a while before you say yes to my invitation. To commit yourself to being so relentlessly in quest of the sublime would be a demanding job. Are you truly prepared to adjust to the poignant sweetness that might stream into your life as a result?

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): It’s a favorable time

to strengthen your fundamentals and stabilize your foundation. I invite you to devote your finest intelligence and grittiest determination to this project. How? Draw deeply from your roots. Tap into the mother lode of inspiration that never fails you. Nurture the web of life that nurtures you. The cosmos will offer you lots of help and inspiration whenever you attend to these practical and sacred matters. Best-case scenario: You will bolster your personal power for many months to come.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Two talking porcu-

pines are enjoying an erotic tryst in a cactus garden. It’s a prickly experience, but that’s how they like it. “I always get horny when things get thorny,” says one. Meanwhile, in the rose garden next door, two unicorns wearing crowns of thorns snuggle and nuzzle as they receive acupuncture from a swarm of helpful hornets. One of the unicorns murmurs, “This is the sharpest pleasure I’ve ever known.” Now here’s the moral of these far-out fables, Gemini: Are you ready to gamble on a cagey and exuberant ramble through the brambles? Are you curious about the healing that might become available if you explore the edgy frontiers of gusto?

CANCER (June 21-July 22): I predict that four

weeks from now you will be enjoying a modest but hearty feeling of accomplishment—on one condition: You must not get diverted by the temptation to achieve trivial successes. In other words, I hope you focus on one or two big projects, not lots of small ones. What do I mean by “big projects”? How about these: taming your fears; delivering a delicate message that frees you from an onerous burden; clarifying your relationship with work; and improving your ability to have the money you need.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Spain’s most revered

mystic poet was St. John of the Cross, who lived from 1542 to 1591. He went through a hard time at age 35, when he was kidnapped by a rival religious sect and imprisoned in a cramped cell. Now and then he was provided with scraps of bread and dried fish, but he almost starved to death. After 10 months, he managed to escape and make his way to a convent that gave him sanctuary. For his first meal, the nuns served him warm pears with cinnamon. I reckon that you’ll soon be celebrating your own version of a jailbreak, Leo. It’ll be less drastic and more metaphorical than St. John’s, but still a notable accomplishment. To celebrate, I invite you to enjoy a ritual meal of warm pears with cinnamon.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “I’m very attracted to things that I can’t define,” says Belgian fashion designer Raf Simons. I’d love for you to adopt that attitude, Virgo. You’re entering the Season of Generous Mystery. It will be a time when you can generate good fortune for yourself by being eager to get your expectations overturned and your mind blown. Transformative opportunities will coalesce as you simmer in the influence of enigmas and anomalies. Meditate on the advice of the poet Rainer Maria Rilke: “I want to beg you to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves.”

(4) “My joy comes as much from doing my beautiful best as from pleasing other people.”

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The world will never

fully know or appreciate the nature of your heroic journey. Even the people who love you the most will only ever understand a portion of your epic quest to become your best self. That’s why it’s important for you to be generous in giving yourself credit for all you have accomplished up until now and will accomplish in the future. Take time to marvel at the majesty and miracle of the life you have created for yourself. Celebrate the struggles you’ve weathered and the liberations you’ve initiated. Shout “Glory hallelujah!” as you acknowledge your persistence and resourcefulness. The coming weeks will be an especially favorable time to do this tricky but fun work.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I suspect

you may have druglike effects on people in the coming weeks. Which drugs? At various times, your impact could resemble cognac, magic mushrooms, and ecstasy—or sometimes all three simultaneously. What will you do with all that power to kill pain and alter moods and expand minds? Here’s one possibility: Get people excited about what you’re excited about, and call on them to help you bring your dreams to a higher stage of development. Here’s another: Round up the support you need to transform any status quo that’s boring or unproductive.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Everything

that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” So said psychologist Carl Jung. What the hell did that meddling, self-important know-it-all mean by that? Oops. Sorry to sound annoyed. My cranky reaction may mean I’m defensive about the possibility that I’m sometimes a bit preachy myself. Maybe I don’t like an authority figure wagging his finger in my face because I’m suspicious of my own tendency to do that. Hmmm. Should I therefore refrain from giving you the advice I’d planned to? I guess not. Listen carefully, Capricorn: Monitor the people and situations that irritate you. They’ll serve as mirrors. They’ll show you unripe aspects of yourself that may need adjustment or healing.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): A source of tough

and tender inspiration seems to be losing some of its signature potency. It has served you well. It has given you many gifts, some difficult and some full of grace. But now I think you will benefit from transforming your relationship with its influence. As you might imagine, this pivotal moment will be best navigated with a clean, fresh, open attitude. That’s why you’ll be wise to thoroughly wash your own brain—not begrudgingly, but with gleeful determination. For even better results, wash your heart, too.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): A “power animal”

is a creature selected as a symbolic ally by a person who hopes to imitate or resonate with its strengths. The salmon or hare might be a good choice if you’re seeking to stimulate your fertility, for example. If you aspire to cultivate elegant wildness, you might choose an eagle or horse. For your use in the coming months, I propose a variation on this theme: the “power fruit.” From now until at least May 2018, your power fruit should be the ripe strawberry. Why? Because this will be a time when you’ll be naturally sweet, not artificially so; when you will be juicy, but not dripping all over everything; when you will be compact and concentrated, not bloated and bursting at the seams; and when you should be plucked by hand, never mechanically.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I’ve compiled a list of

four mantras for you to draw strength from. They’re designed to put you in the proper alignment to take maximum advantage of current cosmic rhythms. For the next three weeks, say them periodically throughout the day. (1) “I want to give the gifts I like to give rather than the gifts I’m supposed to give.” (2) “If I can’t do things with excellence and integrity, I won’t do them at all.” (3) “I intend to run on the fuel of my own deepest zeal, not on the fuel of someone else’s passions.”

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Textbook humanity Dale Allender’s home was built by a Japanese internment survivor. It hosted the Black Lives Matter Sacramento Freedom School reception. It’s also where Sacramento State professors, high school teachers, legislative aides and activists crafted the state’s—likely the country’s—first high school ethnic studies textbook. That process began after a Sacramento City Unified School District survey found students were concerned about interethnic student violence and an education that lacked cultural relevance. Allender, a Sac State assistant professor, co-edited the textbook with the university’s Asian American studies program director, Gregory E. Mark. Our Stories in Our Voices weaves together rich local histories from perspectives of people of color. In the wake of police shootings, a divisive election and ongoing racist violence, Allender hopes more schools join in: “If it can happen here, maybe it can happen elsewhere,” he said.

When did you first learn about ethnic studies? In elementary school. A nonprofit gave me a child’s dictionary of mythology. I went to 12 different schools and would always go into the libraries and look for more mythology. I began to see Greek mythology, and if I was lucky, Native American, but I kept wondering where mine were. I didn’t find it until I took black lit classes in college.

Why is ethnic studies important? The brain works by going from the familiar to the unfamiliar. … Hearing stories of what people have done—for survival, for thriving, for cultural sustenance—it should inspire folks to understand that they don’t have to live in a colonial structure, whatever their background. They can form coalitions. … Let’s give folks the narratives, information and activities to deconstruct and reconstruct their world. That’s really what we’re doing.

Does ethnic studies change with privilege? We’re talking about empathy. There’s a biological basis for that. Another neuroscience principle is Neural Darwinism. If you don’t use it, you lose it. Unless you really work with those neurons and that mindset, you have limited capacity. One goal of ethnic studies is a sense of indigeneity. That everyone has a sense that, “I come from somewhere.” You should also have a sense of understanding hegemony: That what we

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experience isn’t the natural order of things; it’s human-constructed with power and purpose toward an exploitative end. The next sense is decolonization—that people have done things by themselves and worked with others to change that. That’s how we structure the book: Knowing who I am, knowing where I’m from, knowing where I am and knowing where I’m going.

What might be surprising to people who don’t know Sacramento’s ethnic histories? There’s a chapter in the book on redlining, right here in this community. It talks about neighborhoods, covenants, individuals, companies and laws, and is called “No Utopia,” written by Damany Fischer. He connected me with Billy X, an assistant to [Black Panther leader] Huey P. Newton who lives here with one of the four Black Panther archives. People also don’t know about Black Panther history in Sacramento. They marched on the Capitol, yes, but there were also strong community and literacy programs. People might not know about the trials and murders, when a police officer was shot in Oak Park and the Panthers were blamed. They were eventually exonerated. … Other chapters talk about Japanese farming and Chinese railroad workers forming alliances with United Farm Workers. People might not know, in general, about the richness of California’s Native American peoples. These folks are still around and can reach back a generation or two to family who knew these stories.

What happens if we don’t become more empathetic? Repeated experiences change the brain. We are seeing the effects of that. I don’t think we were about to overcome racism, but we were moving to a different place. … If we don’t do things to heighten empathy and strengthen our students’ and communities’ sense of self and self-worth … we can go way back. It’s scary, what could happen. In this era, we have to be doing it differently. The increase of violent interpersonal attacks … I feel like we took a sharp right. And you can correlate the timing with the increase in social media hate speech. That’s why we need clear and critical information about diverse ethnic communities, coming from the point of view of those communities, that is evidentiary-based.

How will the book change going forward? They wanted more stories about interracial, mixed folk. There are two chapters already: One, a social science-y piece, and the other a personal narrative by Tony Tinker. I liked her narrative a lot: She talks about being a little girl in this neighborhood and talks about names of streets, neighborhoods and schools, through a black-white lens. But they wanted more. A number of African-American female students and Latino students said they were glad to have their stories told. Several white students expressed a sense that they were glad to learn more stuff. Some white students asked, “Where am I in this?” I don’t think we’ve done enough of that in this book. Ω

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