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A chief’s challenge Reporter Scott Thomas Anderson was well equipped to write the profile of incoming Sacramento Police Chief Daniel Hahn that you’ll find in these pages. (See “The good cop,” page 15.) While Hahn was on an ambitious mission to overhaul the Roseville Police Department, Anderson worked as a reporter for the local paper. He witnessed the events described here up close, and had the opportunity to get a read on Hahn, who says that job taught him what it means to be chief.

In an in-depth interview with Anderson last week, Hahn told a story that reveals the ways growing up in Sacramento’s Oak Park neighborhood forged in him a kind of stoic determination. Talking about his 23 years on the force in his hometown, he tells how he came to understand police work as something that holds everyone involved accountable.

Hahn returns to an agency and a city in crisis. At its heart is an inescapable fact: In Sacramento, as in most of the nation, African-Americans find themselves confronted by hostile forces, centuries old, that do violence to their communities.

Some months ago I attended a screening of the Oscar-nominated documentary 13th, which tells the 200-plus-year history that led to the criminalization and massimprisonment of America’s black population. It is a powerful call to action. The screening was sponsored by the American Leadership Forum, an organization that brings together business and community leaders to encourage relationship, diversity and service. Daniel Hahn is a senior fellow with ALF. There are many reasons to believe Chief Hahn will succeed here, and more reasons to hope he can.

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I think they are. Obviously you’re on a bull that doesn’t want you to ride it, so it’s obvious to the eye that the animal doesn’t want you on it. I think it is cruel when they do calf roping as part of the rodeo.

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I don’t think so. First of all, it’s an old tradition; I’ve been to a couple of them and it doesn’t seem to bother them. I wouldn’t like to have myself, being a man, handled that way; and I don’t think the cows like it very much; but I think that’s just the American way.

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Rodeos can be a form of animal cruelty, and I think, more often than not, it is because of the poor living conditions for the bulls.

In my personal opinion, it needs more reform in terms of making sure the bulls are well taken care of—making sure that the riders are well insured, too.

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I would say yes, in a sense, because of the conditions they are kept in and then they are prodded and forced to perform for entertainment.

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I don’t necessarily care for rodeos because I don’t like animals having to run out and have someone put a rope around their neck in order for them to have some entertainment. … Riding horses with dignity and respect is the only way that I’m interested in entertainment or being entertained.

Yes … animals are bred solely for the purpose of salesmanship and competition, and they don’t have any say in the matter; if they did, we’d have some sort of technology that can ask an animal the question, “Do you want to compete” and the animal says, “Yes, I do,” then so on and so forth.

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Re “Unfair tax system fuels housing crisis” by Jeff vonKaenel (Greenlight, July 27): Seems like we need another ballot initiative to remove commercial properties from Proposition 13 protections. We could also include a clause requiring a dedicated tax on bedrooms that nobody is living and sleeping in.

Would the Chambers of Commerce be whining again about high taxes in California, and their members threatening to leave the state? Fine.

If they all sold out and left that would make it a buyers’ market which would leave more of the economy for those Californians who are loyal.

But, as usual, the real problem is lack of political will, not just in legislatures and city councils and boards of supervisors, but among those who already have theirs.

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Come live with me Re “Panama finale” by Rachel Leibrock (News, July 27): No joke, I’m not looking

for a roommate, but I have a little extra space and live in the urban core. If you can contribute something to the household, and it is obvious

you are working, or making something for the good of something, I”m happy to help one of these individuals. Feel free to message me.

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of his actions. He disrespected a Muslim-led demonstration against anti-Muslim hate, then has the audacity to play the victim when he gets called out for his BS?!

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The nonindivisible one Re “I am not a crook” (Letters, July 27): Paul Smith is doing himself no favors by writing this letter.

Threatening to turn leftists in to police, then instigating violence from the alt-right was bad enough, add to it his dishonest attempts to defend his actions and the being dishonest with the media and you’ve got someone acting like the very people he claims to be against. Trying to continue using the Indivisible name after having his chapter’s permission revoked shows his total disregard, and lack of understanding of the severity

Star Wars & peace Re “Anakins of Sacramento”

by By Flojaune G. Cofer (Essay, July 20) Watch the Clone Wars Series—there are episodes that show that Anakin being born a slave affected him. Anakin never even tells Ashoka. Also Luke was never a slave and lost his parent figures as a young adult, while Anakin, between Episode 1 and 2, is known for missing his mother and trying to have a father-son relationship, which Obi-wan does not want. Heck, the Jedi originally didn’t want Anakin

to join because he was too old and attached to his mother.

Showing how joining the Order for him was disruptive.

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After six months where the Republicans have had control of the House, Senate, and presidency, they finally passed their first major piece of legislation. They passed a bill to sanction Russia for helping get Trump elected. It will be interesting to see if Trump signs it. What a bizarre world we live in.

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A Planned Parenthood street party in downtown Sacramento rallies support amid fears of federal funding cuts.

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Guerrilla hacktics

circumvent the legislative barriers keeping women from their right to choose.

As abortion rights weaken, local pro-choice activists switch to a grassroots offensive

by Mozes zarate

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

Two nights before the Affordable Care Act survived a watered-down repeal, about 100 Sacramentans, including Mayor Darrell Steinberg, partied with Planned Parenthood on a blocked-off street downtown. Huddled between 10th and K streets, the glow-in-the-dark, pinked-out fest saw testimony from a Planned Parenthood patient, spoken-word poetry and soulful sounds by The Philharmonik and beatbox queen Butterscotch.

Despite the unforeseen victory two days later, the night was meant to energize a teetering resistance movement that is

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supported by a majority of Americans and yet is losing massive legislative, executive and judicial ground.

Northern California hasn’t been spared when it comes to publicly subsidized health care organizations that provide abortions among many other services.

Planned Parenthood’s regional clinic network, Mar Monte, closed three Bay Area facilities in June. In Sacramento, the local branch of the grassroots clinic Women’s Health Specialists shuttered in April. Both organizations cited challenges with reimbursements under the state’s

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Medicaid program, Medi-Cal. On the national front, seven years of Republican gerrymandering have stolen political ground in midterm elections. A spike in anti-choice bills, particularly in the South and Midwest, has made it more difficult for women to access abortions or other contraceptive care.

As the pro-choice movement finds a powerful friend in President Donald Trump, reproductive rights activists are mixing up their game plan, implementing scrappy guerrilla tactics to spread their message, combat misinformation and

Last April, Shireen Whitaker and Emily Loen first got wind that, when it comes to their fight for reproductive rights, “the picket line is moving online,” Loen said.

Anti-abortion hacktivists targeted the National Network of Abortion Funds, breaching its email server and using it to send propaganda to donors in NNAF’s Bowl-A-Thon, one of its biggest annual fundraisers. The cyberattack forced the network to shut down its website temporarily, disrupting its attempt to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars to help women who can’t afford abortions. The fundraiser went ahead, but the two pro-choice activists were now convinced that pro-life interests weren’t resting on their laurels.

“It proved that the anti-abortion movement was going after access in any way it could,” Loen said. “We needed to be more creative in our solutions. And we wanted to protect people who were doing this work in the first place.”

Loen and Whitaker are gaining traction as pro-choice activists who focus their

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ShockEd, awEd work in the online space. Former employees at Women’s Health Specialists, the two garnered some national press for their Abortion Access Hackathon, which drew some 200 people from the tech, legal and social media fields to create web apps and digital tools to support organizations, further access for patients and disrupt the disrupters.

“I really think we can help channel tech into combating the anti-abortion movement, even if I don’t exactly know how we’re going to do that yet,” Whitaker said.

The first hackathon gathered around 20 people last October. Its March sequel benefited from the “Trump bump,” Loen said, referring to the sudden interest in reproductive rights activism since the president’s election, attracting around 600 applications.

Though most of the apps and ideas are still in the development stages, the fruits of both hackathons are intriguing.

One web app, called Vetit, would make it easier to screen potential volunteers for undercover pro-lifers who want to infiltrate clinics and events like the hackathon. Other ideas involved creating tools to help NNAF field access requests. Another idea applied the GoFundMe model to raising money for abortions. Rhetorical Uterus is an app idea that would help pro-choicers get their talking points straight when arguing with a pro-life family member. “See It. Share It. Shut It down.” is a Facebook page that crowdsources online harassment reporting.

Whitaker says she experienced some of that herself as a clinic escort for Women’s Health Specialists. “I always joked that it was like Mean Girls because they would pick on me quite a bit,” Whitaker said. “I would be out there by myself a lot and they would post pictures saying that I was a loner. And these women are grandma age, so it was a little weird.”

In 2015, The National Abortion Federation reported 25,000 instances of online threats and hate speech over the course of six weeks, speculating that the number could be as high as 100,000 with enhanced tracking.

Violent threats and cyberbullying are one thing, but what about polite-yetdangerous misinformation? The second focus of the pair’s activism is in calling out “crisis pregnancy” centers, which have been known to lure pregnant women and lobby them against having an abortion. The centers greatly outnumber independent clinics that provide abortions in the country.

Partnered with more than 40 pro-choice organizations nationally, Loen and Whitaker’s online campaign

#ExposeFakeClinics, which launched last didn’t know,” Winstead said. month, encourages people to find a center While Lady Parts Justice arms viewon the site’s map, call it to inquire about ers with facts, the National Network of services, write a review on Yelp, Google+ Abortions is trying to end the enduring or Facebook, and share the reviews on stigma over abortion by sharing true stories. social media.

Last year, the umbrella network of nonprof“We’re hoping that by crowdsourcing its formed “We Testify,” a campaign to truth, we’ll cut through the bullshit of these reshape perceptions about abortion through CPCs and put it out to the general public,” personal stories from people ranging in Loen said of crisis pregnancy centers. a variety of racial, socioeconomic and One of those CPCs is the Sac Valley geographic backgrounds. A recent study Pregnancy Clinic, which did not respond found just as much is possible. Researchers to an SN&R request for comment before at UC San Francisco concluded that deadline. “coming out” about an abortion experience Loen and Whitaker are planning a can improve attitudes toward it. third hackathon. Registration is open for But there are more barriers than there the event, which will be held used to be.

September 15-17 in New Anti-choice operatives have York City. been quietly successful at Whitaker says whittling down access “I’m definitely the pro-choice to both abortions and worried about movement, when contraceptive care at the compared to state level for years, regressing to more other progressive with counter-intuitive archaic beliefs on movements, has results. Case in point: abortion.” stagnated because In Texas, where state of mass abortion lawmakers defunded Shireen Whitaker stigma. Polls show Planned Parenthood, co-founder of Abortion Access that most of the counteen abortions and teen Hackathon try supports choice, births rose over four years and approximately one by more than 3 percent, in three American women according to a Texas A&M obtain an abortion before the age University study. Something similar of 45, according to a 2011 report from the happened there in 2014, after Texas legislaGuttmacher Institute, a leading research and tors regulated reproductive health clinics policy organization in favor of advancing into near-extinction and more women began reproductive health rights. attempting self-induced abortions using Whitaker says she is concerned that medications they bought online. public opinion could be swayed in the Wild In other words, the conservative West of online propaganda. campaign to banish abortions is actually “This presidency was won over making them more common and dangerous.

Twitter,” Whitaker said. “We’re seeing that But that doesn’t mean the right is stopping. social media has a huge effect on culture.

Following the Senate vote last week, I’m definitely worried about regressing to Trump pressured Congress via Twitter to more archaic beliefs on abortion. It’s really continue Obamacare repeal efforts. There hard enough just to maintain the ground are talks of a new bill that could tempt we’ve made, and now we have to worry moderate senators like Lindsay Graham, about regression.” potentially getting Republicans past the But not if Lady Parts Justice League, 50-vote threshold to repeal. Prior efforts, a partner in #ExposeFakeClinics, can do including the “skinny” repeal, have included something about it. language to defund Planned Parenthood and other federally subsidized organizations that Lizz winstead, a feminist comedian and perform abortions. co-creator of The Daily Show, formed Whitaker is both hopeful and unsure of the coalition of comics two years ago in the future for reproductive autonomy. response to the spike in state anti-abortion “I used to think that we were making laws. Imagine the online comedy skit site progress,” Whitaker said. “It’s not even Funny Or Die, but for issues that affect just that Trump was elected and that women and nonbinary people.

Republicans have control of both houses.

“For us, if you are trying to put your There’s something about what that message into conversations that are happendoes in the mindset of everyone, in the ing in other spaces, especially pop culture culture, that’s making it really hard to spaces, you can reach people who maybe fight this battle.” Ω

Zityrua Abraham said she was sitting outside her home with family on July 9 when her mother’s boyfriend went to get a glass of water.

Several police officers immediately stormed after him, according to the nearly eight-months-pregnant mother. When Abraham tried to warn them about her sleeping infant son, she said an officer grabbed her arm and threw her to the ground, where she landed on her stomach.

“Then, they started kicking down my door,” Abraham said at a press conference hosted by Black Lives Matter Sacramento on July 27. “They grabbed my mom’s boyfriend with guns still [drawn] and still took the time to search my home. … Next thing I know, I hear my son and he’s screaming. He’s traumatized.”

Abraham said that, soon after, an officer would yell “wrong house” and that the search party left her apartment on Lampasas Avenue without offering her an apology or their information.

Although limited in his ability to discuss an incident under internal investigation, police department spokesman Sgt. Bryce Heinlein said the officers had been in “fresh pursuit” of a suspected automobile thief who they believed had entered Abraham’s apartment.

Officers had the right to enter Abraham’s apartment because they had “reasonable suspicion to detain the individual,” who “was not compliant with a lawful order,” Heinlein said.

The department’s Internal Affairs Division will review video footage of the incident, which it may release at a later date.

At the press conference, Abraham said she had been to a doctor to check on the status of her unborn son. “He’s good,” she said.

“But I’m stressed on the fact that I don’t know until I’m actually gonna have him.” (John Flynn)

daviS dEtouR UC Davis is increasingly looking beyond its own backyard for new students.

Recent revelations that the university is admitting foreign students at nearly twice the rate as california hopefuls has some local community college students thinking twice about applying.

Former Sierra College student and English major Syd Scanlon even removed UC Davis from his watch list after realizing how difficult the odds of being accepted—and academically successful—were.

“I actually had UC Davis as one of my top schools. … I didn’t realize that they had such strict requirements in terms of how many units a student must take a semester before being put on academic probation,” Scanlon said. “Since I’m a full-time student and I work full-time, I knew that some semesters I just wouldn’t be able to balance.”

UC Davis approved 60.4 percent of the international applications it received this year, compared to 35.9 percent of california applications. In overall numbers, the campus is still taking in more instate students, but that gap has continued to narrow over the years.

The university offered freshman and transfer admission to a total of 41,299 applicants for the upcoming fall semester, the university announced last month. International admissions rose 24.5 percent over the previous year, accounting for 8,415 slots this upcoming fall.

Community college transfers increased 3.5 percent to 9,636 students for the fall, university figures show.

Acceptance letters for the fall semester were mailed to 18,480 freshman applicants in California, mostly in the southern part of the state.

American River College adjunct counselor Jane Adams said the doubts are based in reality. “I’ve seen students get denied [from UC Davis] this year, more than any other,” Adams said.

(Luis Gael Jimenez)

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San Francisco resident Judy Dale long championed assisted death options before she was diagnosed with terminal cancer last spring. Her attempt to access aid-in-dying medication has prompted a lawsuit by her family.

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Die of omission California lawsuit accuses physicians of misleading terminally ill woman

by Raheem F. hosseini

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

As her surviving daughter remembers it, Judy Dale pestered everyone in the ICU with her dying wish.

Diagnosed in May of last year with incurable stage 4 colorectal cancer, which had metastisized to her liver and lungs, the 76-year-old Bay Area woman told anyone who entered the orbit of UCSF Medical Center’s intensive care unit that she wanted what her own mother never got—a medically-assisted death, free of pain, suffering or anxiety.

“My mother was so adamant about this that literally every person who walked in here, she said, ‘Make sure this is on the record,’” recalled Catherine Dale, “whether someone was just changing the linens.”

Like just about every adult child of an aging parent, Catherine shrugged off her mom’s worrying. After all, everything

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was falling swiftly into place. A month after Judy’s diagnosis, California became the seventh state with a working aidin-dying law for terminal patients. Judy qualified for it, her hospital had already been preparing to implement it and, according to a complaint filed last month in San Francisco Superior Court, her physicians and social workers repeatedly reassured her that they would participate.

So what could go wrong?

Signed into law in the fall of 2015, a year before it took effect, California’s End of Life Option Act provides dying adults access to lethal drugs if they manage to navigate several procedural requirements in the limited time they have left.

Requests must be made in person and in writing, and hospitals and their doctors have to be willing to participate.

Anecdotally, at least, that’s proved the largest hurdle to patient access so far.

Over the law’s first six months, 191 of the 258 individuals who started the end-of-life process received written prescriptions for aid-in-dying medication, according to the California Department of Public Health. That means 26 percent of patients were unsuccessful for reasons that state health officials aren’t collecting.

But patients’ rights advocates and the surviving relatives of terminal patients have told SN&R the process can be impossible to navigate, with dying individuals and their loved ones spending their final days frantically searching for a doctor willing to conduct one of two legally required consultations that stand in the way of relief. That’s what happened with my mother. (Read “Killing Mom,” SN&R Feature Story, June 15, 2017.)

Catherine didn’t think her mother would have that problem. UCSF’s medical staff, she said, had given the family every indication that it would assist Judy’s request for a medically induced death. But that August, two months after her diagnosis, as Judy was preparing to check out of the hospital and enter palliative care at home, Catherine says, a hospice social worker mentioned in passing that UCSF physicians were not participating under the law.

“Nobody wanted to be the one to tell us,” Catherine said. “That’s how we found out.”

During her final oncology appointment, Judy told Dr. Chloe Atreya she felt betrayed, Catherine says.

UCSF Medical Center declined to comment on the pending lawsuit.

“My mom was so fit to be tied,” Catherine recalled. “She said, ‘Chloe, you lied to me. You lied to me.’ She said, ‘Well, I just didn’t tell you.’ And my mom, her most famous quote, she kept saying, ‘That was the biggest lie of all—the lie of omission.”

The family’s ordeal has prompted what the End of Life Liberty Project says is the first patient-driven lawsuit to contend with California’s aid-in-dying law. (A separate lawsuit is attempting to rewind the law.)

For Kathryn L. Tucker, family spokeswoman and executive director of the End of Life Liberty Project, the lawsuit isn’t about forcing doctors to participate in the law against their will.

It’s about making sure they’re transparent about their stance.

“The duty of the clinician to be clear early on is essential,” said Tucker, whose

organization has also challenged New York’s assisted death prohibition. “This case isn’t about contesting the provision to opt out.”

In demanding a jury trial, the 17-page complaint, from Stebner and Associates, alleges elder abuse or neglect, negligent infliction of emotional distress, misrepresentation or fraud, and other causes worthy of unspecified damages.

UCSF Medical Center issued a general statement noting that it was one of the first California hospitals to develop protocols for implementing the state’s aid-in-dying law, but that it “also respects clinicians’ rights not to participate.”

“In these cases, the patient’s doctor will speak with the patient about other ways the doctor can provide support during his/her terminal illness,” the statement adds.

Catherine says the hospital didn’t provide any such support to her family.

At home, Catherine and her sister split their time caring for their mom and blindly searching the internet for another doctor to step in. Every morning, Catherine says, her mother asked if she had found someone to grant her dying wish.

One day, Catherine stumbled across a San Jose Mercury News article online, with the name of a doctor she contacted.

The doctor arrived the next day to conduct a consultation. That started the required 15-day countdown between when a request is made and when the lethal medication can be prescribed.

“My mom died on Day 14, the day before she could take the medicine,” Catherine said.

Having cared for her own mother as she succumbed to cancer, Judy intimately knew the ravages she wanted to avoid, the legal complaint asserts.

“Judy’s final weeks were brutal,” the complaint states. “She did not want to die in a diaper, bleeding from her rectum and urinary tract, in pain unless sedated to the point she was too confused to say goodbye to her family. But this horrific death was forced upon her by DEFENDANTS’ actions.”

Judy Dale died on September 13, 2016.

Her husband followed some five months later. Pneumonia and low blood pressure were the official causes of his death.

“After my mom, he just kind of gave up,” Catherine said.

On the phone from her garden in Santa Rosa, Catherine takes her frustration with the hospital and her grief over her parents’ successive deaths, and aims it all inward.

She asks herself why she couldn’t find that good doctor’s name a few days earlier.

“I still feel like I let my mom down,” she said. Ω

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is a cancer survivor and that scares the hell out Five years after an outbreak of hantavirus in of you, but it certainly isn’t the pure fright of Yosemite National Park, California’s park watching somebody sitting right there at death’s system is now in the hot seat as a Sacramento door.” family claims unsanitary living conditions Meanwhile, Bodie park officials launched an infected their son with the rare disease. investigation into the exposure, which remains Spencer Fry, 22, is recovering at home in open. Johnson inspected the living quarters and Citrus Heights after spending nearly two weeks all areas that Fry would have frequented and said in the hospital as a result of contracting hantahe found no evidence of hantavirus. virus while working as a seasonal park aide at That’s not unusual.

Bodie State Historic Park near Mono Lake.

“Most of the time when we do an investigaHantavirus is a rare disease contracted by tion we do not find specifically a sight that inhaling or ingesting infected deer mouse dropcan be clearly implicated as the cause of the pings, or urine that becomes airborne. Activities exposure,” Johnson said. that are likely to stir up dust, like sweeping, may Even after the family raised concerns that the increase the chances of contracting the disease, cabin had been cleaned after Fry fell ill, possibly which is most common in rural residences. destroying evidence of the virus, Johnson Approximately 10 percent of tested mice claims that the reports he received in the Eastern Sierras show signs of didn’t indicate any nesting matethe rare disease, says Dr. Rick rial or other likely sources were Johnson of the Mono County “These kids … found.

Health Department. don’t have to live Now home with his “You can see that the family, Fry has lost hearing Eastern Sierras, which the life that the people in his left ear and is unable essentially involves of Bodie lived hundreds of to walk without a walker, Inyo County and Mono years ago.” side effects that his family County, [have] more cases fears may be permanent. that anywhere else in Curtis Fry Bodie officials insist that California,” Johnson said. father of Spencer Fry, the park is safe for visitors, “When we trap mice we do hantavirus patient but Curtis Fry believes that find a significant proportion more should be done to protect that are infected with the virus park employees. He claims that they and it’s really unclear why that exists were not adequately trained on preventing more in Mono County and Inyo County hantavirus and that the employee cabins are than anywhere else.” unsanitary.

According to his father, Fry first showed “The housing has mice running all through symptoms when his family visited him over the it. The employees have to set traps and dispose Fourth of July. While his mother, Haven Fry, of dead mice instead of having trained people do was immediately suspicious that hantavirus was to blame for his constant headaches, Spencer Fry it,” Curtis said. “These kids don’t have to live in houses built in the 1800s. They don’t have to live was only taken to urgent care the morning of the life that the people of Bodie lived hundreds July 8, when he woke with a 104-degree fever. of years ago.”

There he was told that he likely had the flu.

According to the Sacramento County When his fever didn’t break next day, his family Department of Health and Human Services, insisted he return to Sacramento with them and Sacramento County has not seen a case of hantahe was taken to Kaiser Permanente in Roseville. virus since 2012, the same year that 10 people His lungs filled with fluid and he was admitted contacted hantavirus after staying in Yosemite’s to the intensive care unit for 12 days, where he Curry Village. Three of those cases were fatal. Ω was intubated and placed in a medical coma. He remained in critical condition for 10 days, his father says.

“I haven’t been through anything quite like An extended version of this story is available at www.newsreview.com/ sacramento. that,” said Curtis Fry, Spencer’s dad. “My wife

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Incoming Sacramento Police Chief Daniel Hahn looks back at his career before leaving Roseville.

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On a March night in 1992, two Sacramento police officers stood in front of an apartment at 19th and G, guarding the body of a low-level drug dealer who lay murdered inside.

Waiting, the patrolmen noticed another squad car roll into the nexus of old houses and leaning trees. Daniel Hahn, who’d been on the force for three years, climbed out and walked past them to the victim. The officers seemed put off.

Why the hell was this young cop tromping through their crime scene? “Have you ID’d him yet?” Hahn asked. The others said they hadn’t. “His name is Chris Castle,” Hahn said, “he was born May 10, 1970.” The officers looked shocked. Hahn just said, “He’s my brother.”

The patrolmen stood frozen, not knowing what to say.

Hahn silently dropped back into his patrol car and drove off into the night.

Twenty-five years later, Hahn has been named chief of the agency that investigated that mostly forgotten homicide.

To many observers, the hire makes perfect sense. During the 23 years that he served on the force, where he rose to become a high-profile captain, Hahn earned a reputation as a fair-minded reformer, both in the neighborhoods where he worked and among the community leaders he served.

Now, Hahn’s returning to the streets that bred him and the cop shop that brought him up. He’s also walking into a City Hall saga of communal pain laid bare—a political pressure cooker where neighborhoods are demanding police reform and officers are quitting left and right.

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“I remember seeing him laying right there on the sidewalk, and the blood trail from where he crawled into the liquor store and then crawled back out.”

Daniel Hahn Incoming Sacramento police chief

Daniel Hahn knows Sacramento’s most challenged neighborhoods.

Daniel Hahn has been here before. Tapped in 2011 to restore faith in a Roseville Police Department mired in accusations of wrongful death and discrimination, Hahn pried apart Roseville’s stat-driven, good-ol’-boys network of commanders and replaced them with a 21st-century law enforcement apparatus, all while making inroads with the area’s most marginalized communities.

As a reporter with the Roseville Press Tribune, I covered Hahn’s department for four-plus years, witnessing police officers, civic leaders and citizens groups largely rally behind him.

While many insiders believe Hahn’s the right chief for this moment, others worry he’s a man stepping into a maelstrom where there can be no winners, only symbols of blame.

Between conjecture and mounting expectations, Hahn knows one thing: His worst moment wearing the badge is already behind him. It was the night he drove to a shadowy phone box on K Street to tell his mother, on her birthday, that one of her sons was never coming home.

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receiver of the same phone box where, only two weeks before, he’d warned her that Chris was either going to wind up in jail—or dead.

Hahn says he learned to follow his instincts the hard way. And, no matter how he ends up being remembered in Sacramento, he says he’ll never ignore his instincts again.

A deAth in the fAmily When Hahn was 10 years old, he saw a man get murdered. He and his brother had been looking through the front window of their home in Oak Park when it happened. As the killers sped away, Hahn decided to venture out.

“I remember seeing him laying right there on the sidewalk,” the chief says, “and the blood trail from where he crawled into the liquor store and then crawled back out.”

Hahn doesn’t associate the moment with fear. In a neighborhood where sirens and gunshots were part of the evening’s soundtrack, the slaying was just an odd beat to the everyday

rhythms of the corners. But that changed months later. While his mother, Mary Jean, was across the street visiting some friends, Hahn recalls, there was a sudden knock at the door. Opening it, he was staring at two investigators in suits with badges. They wanted to talk about the killing he’d witnessed. The fourth-grader happily stepped onto the porch to chat.

Later, when Mary Jean found out he’d been speaking with strangers about the murder, alone, she came unglued.

“She said, ‘You don’t know who they are: they could have been the suspects—this could be gang-related,’” Hahn remembers. “I realized how scared she was.”

By 1989, Hahn was the one knocking on doors with a badge. When he first went to work for the Sacramento Police Department, it was an agency viewed with considerable distrust by many he’d grown up with. Hahn, who himself was arrested for tussling with a Sacramento cop when he was 16, now was wearing the same uniform as that officer.

Hahn started on the downtown beat. Chris Castle was one of its countless drug dealers. Hahn doesn’t think Chris, on the streets, ever denied that his brother, who was adopted into his family as an infant, was a cop. If Castle saw Hahn on patrol he’d often walk over to chat with him. And Hahn knew Castle was addicted. He knew he was selling. He knew there was at least a chance Castle was breaking into cars and houses. Yet Hahn admits the reality of his brother’s freefall didn’t sink in until one bizarre night on the job.

Hahn was parked at the corner of 21st and K when Castle climbed in the back. In the middle of a conversation, Castle suddenly pulled out a gun. Hahn flipped. Witnessing his brother flashing a weapon inside a marked police cruiser forced him to realize how far-gone he was. Hahn threw him out and walked over to the call box to tell their mother Chris was heading for an early grave.

“In hindsight, that was the cop in me telling my mom,” he says. “The real me was kind of in denial.”

But Castle was in trouble, and Hahn will never know how much his status as an officer played into it.

According to Hahn, Castle’s drug-dealing partner was a man named Skip. He had a long rap sheet that included stabbing a roommate numerous times in the chest. Around the same week that Hahn yelled at Castle to get out of the car, he tried to question Skip about an alleged assault on a prostitute. Hahn says Skip got aggressive and they ended up in a confrontation.

“I think that was the first time it was real for Skip that Chris’s brother was a cop,” Hahn says.

Days later, Hahn remembers, Skip was arrested by another Sacramento officer on drug charges. Skip began to suspect Castle was a police informant.

“He thought Chris was snitching, which he wasn’t,” Hahn recalls. “Chris never told me anything about other people dealing drugs. Then the call comes out a couple weeks later: Someone named Chris is down on his floor in his apartment and they don’t know if it’s OK or not, but there’s blood.”

Although the exact details are fuzzy 25 years later, Skip was reportedly later convicted of Castle’s murder.

“I thought about how this had happened on my beat, in my area of town, and how come I couldn’t stop it?” Hahn says.

For the next 18 years, Hahn set about following his instincts and doing police work the way he thought it should be done. He

learned ways to get to know people in the neighborhoods. He did his best to motivate officers during hard times. When he was a public information officer, he even tried to learn what it was like to be a reporter—and how disseminating accurate information could help the police solve cases. By the time he was called to Roseville, Hahn had begun to develop a pretty coherent set of ideas about community policing.

A chAnge Agent “Shots fired! Shots fired! Officers down! Multiple men down!

We’ve got an operator shot in the face!”

Hahn had been chief of the Roseville Police Department for two years when he heard that call over the radio. He remembers standing in place, unable to move.

“No one knows what it’s like to be a chief until they’re a chief,” says Ray Kerridge, the former city manager in both Sacramento and Roseville. “There are some things you just can’t be prepared for.”

While he was in Sacramento, it was Kerridge who first took notice of a police captain with a reputation for connecting with people in challenged neighborhoods. When he became the top administrator in Roseville in 2010, Kerridge walked into a city facing multiple lawsuits tied to its police department.

The agency had made national headlines after an inmate was shot with a stun gun in the jail and dropped dead. Then, three Roseville police officers filed suit against their commanders for alleged harassment over their sexuality. There was also backlash from residents over the inordinate number of traffic citations being issued.

“It was pretty obvious the police department needed a change in direction,” Kerridge recalls. He placed the call, and Hahn agreed to take the job in 2011.

For months, Kerridge watched the first-time chief try to change his department’s management through conversations. The problem was, as Kerridge tells it, that didn’t work with some of Roseville’s captains and lieutenants. Kerridge says Hahn finally realized he needed to draw a hard line and make changes to the police command structure.

Hahn admits that change in Roseville did not come easy.

“When you’re trying to build trust, and you have people who are cutting against that—people who don’t care what the community thinks—that filters down to the line-level staff,” he says. “It just tears everything apart. I had to sit across from those people and tell them what I was getting ready to do. That was tough, but I also felt that I should be the one to tell them.”

Settling in, Hahn learned that Roseville had a large Spanishspeaking community that had almost no dialogue or interaction with his department. Many Roseville-area Latinos were afraid to

report crimes against them or their neighbors. Hahn began having bilingual police employees accompany him to church events in their neighborhoods. He hosted police-sponsored barbecues and sports gatherings for their kids. He supported one of Roseville’s Spanish-speaking officers, hosting parent forums and making appearances on Univision. One of Hahn’s biggest goals was to eventually host a large gathering for Roseville’s Spanish-speakers inside the police department itself.

“For people who don’t have trust, we need to get them inside the building,” Hahn stresses. “It shouldn’t be this mystery when you drive down the street.”

Even Hahn’s most stalwart supporters in the Latino community told him that would never happen.

But on a night in 2015, it did. Nearly 400 people attended a forum conducted in Spanish inside the police department, and then took tours, with Spanish-speaking officers and administrators, of the facility.

Hahn had stood outside as they were arriving—a chief of police personally welcoming people and even helping park their cars. Hahn still smiles when he thinks about that event.

It’s a far cry from his memories of the day a Sureño gang member named Sammy Duran shot at two of his Roseville officers, took a young family hostage at gunpoint and then emptied a cartridge into the face of one of his SWAT members. The chaotic firefight happened in the Theiles Manor neighborhood, where many Latino families lived. The day after the shooting signs had shown up around its streets thanking the Roseville Police Department.

“The people who put those signs up had to be worried about what might happen,” Hahn reflects. “So, it meant a lot.”

BlAck And Blue On June 3, an issue of The Sacramento Bee rolled off the presses with the headline, “Sacramento’s first black police chief aims to heal embattled department.”

The news came after a year of community leaders and activists flooding Sacramento City Hall with concerns—and outrage—directed at some police officers. Controversial shootings, a beating caught on video, and a 2015 audit showing that 75 percent of the Sacramento Police Department is white all drove the emotions.

The reaction to The Bee article was almost universally positive, with one exception. Tanya Faison, the founder of Black Lives Matter Sacramento, posted on Facebook about The Bee’s headline: “They think this will fix it. They think they are appeasing Black folks with this move.”

But other organizations who have been confronting the city appear ready to work with the incoming chief.

Richard Owen, co-chair of the Law Enforcement Accountability Director, told SN&R that his group firmly supports the decision to hire Hahn.

“We know him well and how respected he was when he worked in Sacramento,” Owens says. “He definitely has a refreshing approach. But he has a very delicate balancing act now. There’s a lot of suspicion of the police from those who want reform; but, on the other hand, he also needs to manage the rankand-file officers and have their support. It’s not going to be easy.”

Sacramento Area Congregations Together, a coalition of churches pushing for police transparency sent a similar message of hope. SacACT’s Danielle Williams said her organization is cautiously optimistic. But, for Williams personally, she’s not focusing on the historic nature of the appointment.

“I don’t care if the new police chief is black. What I care about is accountability,” Williams said. “We must remain vigilant. We cannot say, ‘Oh, we have a black police chief. Let’s call it a day.’”

Having worked alongside Hahn for years, Kerridge says he has no doubts about the chief’s ability to affect change. But even Kerridge acknowledges Hahn’s time in Roseville—overseeing approximately 130 police officers and 60 civilian employees— wasn’t without rough patches.

In 2014, Hahn was caught in the middle of a nasty battle between Roseville’s police union and city management, one that left some officers feeling Hahn hadn’t fought for them. There was a wrongful termination lawsuit, and a suit from a business owner named Len Travis claimed a handful of Roseville officers constantly harassed him. The department was also hit with a wrongful death suit following a domestic violence call that went bad. Hahn can’t discuss the suits, but emphasizes that he learned a lot from the dark days of the union battle, and is proud of the overall accomplishments of the Roseville Police Department.

Kerridge says Hahn should be proud. “I saw him evolve, mature and even change his basic approach,” Kerridge recalls.

“I’ll say this to Sacramento police officers, ‘Anyone who’s not on board with community policing is going to be in for a rude awakening when Chief Hahn gets there.’”

For his part, Hahn says he understands why Sacramento police officers feel demoralized right now. He’s willing to testify about all of the bridge-building they’ve been trying to do, which he says rarely gets reported. But Hahn also says there’s a historic legacy of mistrust—an American legacy—that the department has to overcome. And he needs everyone on board to do that.

“I’ve learned people don’t give up power easily,” Hahn says.

“I’m OK with people disagreeing with me, but when you do things on purpose that bring down the department, or bring down the community, or cut against the trust we’re trying to build, I have zero tolerance for that—zero.” Ω

“Anyone who’s not on board with community policing is going to be in for a rude awakening when Chief Hahn gets there.”

Ray Kerridge Former city manager, Roseville and Sacramento A collection of badges Daniel Hahn has worn over the years.

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Hennessy commands the booth at his hyperlocal rap show Top Shelf Radio.

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The sound of laughter is abrupt.

It’s five minutes into Hennessy’s Top $helf Radio Show that airs local hip-hop every Tuesday from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on The 360 Radio. The comment that catches everybody off guard comes from the host Hennessy himself: “I got into a conversation with somebody,” he says, pausing to consider his next line. “They told me that I don’t support the scene.”

The tone of the laughter is indignant more than anything. Once

it dies down, he gives it context. A local performer (no name given) asked Hennessy to come to one of their shows, which he couldn’t do because of scheduling conflicts.

His support for Sacramento artists was quickly called into question.

Everyone in the studio understood the inherent absurdity of this accusation. Hennessy, more than just about anyone in Sacramento, supports Sacramento’s artists.

Every week he brings in local talent from the hip-hop scene and

gives them a platform to promote themselves. Tonight’s guests for the show’s one-year anniversary are eight members of the Auburn Hip Hop Congress—a group of artists, emcees and DJs that help troubled kids in Placer County by giving them a means to express themselves. When Hennessy’s not interviewing guests, he’s playing tracks by local hip-hop and R&B musicians at the online-only 360 Radio, one of the only remaining places in town that will do so.

It wasn’t just the Auburn Hip Hop Congress that found the comment ridiculous. Hennessy mentioned this incident on his Facebook page and got nearly a hundred responses. “They’re joking right?” one person commented.

“You are definitely one of the top people that put on for the local scene in Sacramento hands down,” another posted.

“I support the city,” Hennessy, whose real name is Jeffrey Harris, tells me after his show that night. “I enjoy hearing an artist that just kills it on stage. It’s how I like to spend what little free time I have.”

The 360 Radio network recently won a Northern California Entertainers Music Award for best internet radio network. It’s in the same Old Sacramento building in which Sacramento’s famous 103.5 The Bomb used to do its thing back in the ’90s. You open a nondescript door that leads up a flight of stairs, and the studio is in the back room. Tonight’s show is packed. The studio isn’t built for eight guests, so they sit anywhere they can find a spot.

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longform discussion with each of the guests taking turns spitting a capella verses.

Normally, Harris has just two guests whom he takes turns interviewing. Then, he plays their music and features other local artists’ tracks in-between. But tonight, it’s actually fortunate that his format is disrupted. He’s able to dig in deeper with Auburn Hip Hop Congress, who are passionate about what they do and have a lot to say.

Harris, a natural on the air, only has a couple of years of radiohosting experience, but his experience as an artist is much longer.

At 35 years old, Harris has been rapping a majority of his life. He’s released six projects, some solo, some with his various groups (The Beatknocks, Snatch’n Gwap).

“He’s a very talented hip-hop artist,” says DJ Eddie Z, founder of The 360 Radio. “He’s very underrated.”

Originally from San Jose, Harris moved to Davis, Texas and then ultimately Sacramento in 2004. It was here that his music found a receptive scene. Unlike many rappers, Harris ingratiates himself with artists from every hip-hop subgenre and collaborates with anyone whose music he likes, no matter how different they might be. He’s even collaborated with rock bands including Some Fear None in 2014 and reggae-rock band Riotmaker in 2015.

“I tend to get along with everybody. I’ve been able to be involved in the gangsta rap to the backpackers to the people like Sparks Across Darkness, the experimental stuff,” Harris says. “I’ve always been someone that is like, ‘I make music, you make music, let’s make some music together.’ I’ve collaborated with a good amount of the artists in the city.”

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to host a show that spotlighted Sacramento’s hip-hop scene for both emerging artists and old-school talent. It started a couple of years ago on the Kali Boyz radio show, which he co-hosted with local rapper Dirk Dig. After a year of the Kali Boyz, Dig decided he didn’t want to do the show anymore. Harris reformatted it and returned a few weeks later with Top $helf Radio.

“I feel like it gave me the opportunity to makes the show what I envisioned it to be from the jump,” Harris says.

For his vision, Harris has featured more local artists, something he felt was lacking in mainstream radio.

“I feel like the underground has an element that the mainstream doesn’t. It’s the hunger. It’s the struggle,” Harris says.

There’s not much that Harris won’t play as long as he likes it and it sounds professional. During his show with the Auburn Hip Hop Congress, they all spent a few moments poking fun at the new “mumble rap” trend, but he tells me he’s open to playing even that kind of music if the artist is passionate about what they do.

“If your mumble rap sound alright, then I’ll play it for you,” he says.

The timing is perfect for a hiphop show focused on Sacramento: Harris is proud of the large variety of rap music happening locally right now.

“I love the diversity. Not to take nothing away from the O.G.s, but Sacramento at one point in time had a certain sound. The era of Lynch and C-Bo and X-Raided. When I thought about Sacramento music, that’s what I thought of. Now it’s all over the place,” Harris says.

Near the end of the show, his DJ fixes the computer and is able to play some music again. Harris plays a couple of songs by the Auburn artists he has, but ends with a new segment that doesn’t have a name yet. He plays two local songs and lets the guests and listeners choose a favorite: “Stay in your lane” by Zelly and “4am” by Lazie Locz. Zelly wins by an almost unanimous vote.

With the little time left on air, he wraps up by promoting other artists when he could have played his own song.

“I’d like my music to take off.

That’s a goal. But I feel like what I’m doing here is more important,” Harris says. “If music doesn’t work out for me, it’s not the end of the world. I’d just like to have a positive impact on people, whether it’s doing music or the radio show.

Whatever it is.” Ω

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Purple hues Tehama and Kwabena drove up from Fresno to paint and smoke marijuana. (They declined to use their last names.)

As attendees of Sacramento’s second Puff, Pass & Paint class on July 22, the couple left their four kids with a sitter and brought a bible. The front page didn’t reveal holy text, but rather space for a grinder and enough bud for three blunts and multiple bowls. A recreational and medicinal user, Tehama said she suffers from chronic lupus and treats it strictly with cannabis after a cocktail of prescribed pharmaceuticals proved debilitating.

“I couldn’t get out of bed,” she said. “And I got to get my kids to basketball, football, cheerleading. It just didn’t work.

Cannabis has been a blessing.”

The instructor of the class, Tyler Joyner, said Puff, Pass & Paint classes destigmatize the plant. He said marijuana helps participants “let loose” and “get outside T of themselves” as they partake in the newly recreational product and attempt a form of creativity that’s often Tyler Joyner been dormant since instructor, Puff, Pass & Paint grade school.

“It’s easy to walk into,” said Joyner, a former pastor. “The classes really help people change their perspectives.”

After moving out to California on January 1, the national Puff, Pass & Paint company has already established a permanent location in Oakland and hosted events in San Francisco, Joyner said. For now, the Sacramento classes ($51.40 per person) will be hosted in the South Natomas backyard of a member of the local art community with a German Shepherd puppy that snuffles at those who enter the bathroom.

Underneath an ivy overhang dotted with string lights, roughly 30 people—predominantly chatty, chill women— puffed away as they used the provided brushes, acrylic paints and canvases to render Day of the Dead sugar skulls.

Joyner gave a step-by-step demonstration while providing universally complimentary feedback, stressing the class is about the “process, not the product.”

The next class is scheduled for August 12, and Joyner said they will be held monthly, then weekly, if early interest produces steady attendance. Austa Martin, another instructor, said guests have only gotten too inebriated when they mixed cannabis with a more deadly drug: alcohol.

Participants kidded their table mates’ early efforts during a giggly start, then quieted as they focused on applying distinguishing features to their creations. Kwabena gave his skull bloodshot eyes, and his wife inserted a blunt into the mouth of hers as she enjoyed one herself.

After about two hours, the couple finished and placed hands on each others’ legs as they surveyed their work.

Then Kwabena declared, “That’s a wrap,” and they left, planning to quench their munchies at a Golden Corral buffet.

Tickets are available at https://puffpassandpaint.com/ find-a-class.

“The classes really help people change their perspectives.”

—John Flynn

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it into a festival on her own, but The Red Museum was too expensive. So she put out the call on Facebook: Does anyone want to go to or play a festival?

A community of creators volunteered sets, art, zines and outfits. Organizers at the Latino Center of Art and Culture wanted to host more events, and Palacios picked the venue as a place where artists of color A young Sacramentan starts would feel comfortable. Queer, nonbinary, multiethnic participants agreed to play. Visual artists and bands an impromptu music fest liked that the festival put the music first.

“We have locals and local favorites with strong connections,” Palacios said. In contrast to Concerts in

by Michael MoTT the Park, her festival wouldn’t focus on blowing up or attracting visitors from outside of Sacramento.

Palacios works by day at a multicultural counseling Teens smoked outside on a warm night as a wave of support center. To her, it was important to make the surf-pop rock leaked from an Oak Park living room. show accessible to all ages and people. Many pitched Heads bobbed to melancholy dadwave. Alexander in: The venue discounted rent; artists will split L’Chaise of The Bottom Feeders sang about lost sales; TUBE. Magazine is sponsoring love. the event; Palacios’ friend Sam Fields “Who else is getting sweaty?”

“Creative built a website; and the Library of L’Chaise said. “Who wants to get MusicLandria is loaning an entire expression sweatier?” sound system for free.

Katherine Palacios, a 20-yearshouldn’t be limited MusicLandria rents instruments old Sacramentan, was there to to people who can buy as if they were library books, so support her friends, but she also co-founder Buddy Hale said this what they need.” had a festival to promote. collaboration makes sense.

The Bottom Feeders took Buddy Hale “Creative expression shouldn’t SN&R’s Sammies award for indie co-founder, Library of be limited to people who can buy in June. They’ll be joined by 11 other MusicLandria what they need—in fact, it should be bands in Palacios’ new, homegrown the opposite,” Hale said. art and music festival on Saturday at the What’s more, Palacios and Fields founded Latino Center of Art and Culture. It features a booking agency, Peach House Presents, to keep a hefty lineup of visual artists and musicians from promoting musicians around the city.

Sacramento: “mutoid body slime” from Vandalaze, A few days before the show, Palacios posted: What soothing electronic ballads by Vida Solstice and avantabout a zine festival? garde pop by local favorites Pregnant, among others.

“I’m going to keep throwing [festivals] for however Palacios began organizing Daydream Festival to long Sacramento lets me,” she said. Ω create a day of local music at an affordable price.

“It was just supposed to be a festival for friends at first,” Palacios said at the house show. “But everyone check out the Daydream Festival Saturday, august 5, at the latino who played music I knew was interested.” center of art and culture, 2700 Front Street. Doors are at 2:30 p.m.

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Because you can get all sorts of bad (or, even worse, mediocre) pizza around here, but good pizza sometimes seems rare. There’s a newish place in town that does everything the bad pizza places don’t. Uptown’s got a sweet deal for two slices, a salad and a drink for $10 during the lunch hours, and you should definitely check it out—but only if you’re into good pizza. 1431 Del Paso Boulevard, https://uptownpizzakitchen.com.

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by John Flynn Lou Lou lemonade: Lou Valente, the former chef and co-owner of Lou’s Sushi (2801 P Street), hasn’t been there since April 8 because of a pending legal dispute.

“I have no control over what’s happening,” he said. “So if I dwell on that, then I’ll be in the fetal position in bed all day long. So I’ve just been trying to have fun while I have this little break.”

Currently, Valente takes the night shift from Thursday to Sunday at Shige Sushi (5938 Madison Avenue in Carmichael).

When he left his restaurant, Valente only wanted to work under owner and seasoned sushi chef,

Shige Tokita. And Tokita hired him because he needed a helping hand—though he played things coy when Valente came into his restaurant to have lunch and more or less beg for a position.

“I told him I’d work for minimum wage if I had to, and he didn’t say a word,” Valente recalled. “Then towards the end of my meal, I see him looking at the calendar, and he’s holding his finger there. He comes back, and he goes, ‘You start Friday.’”

After working 15-hour days as the head of his own restaurant, Valente’s new role as a part-timer for Tokita has taken adjustment.

He said Tokita, who also trained Taka Watanabe of Ju Hachi (1730 S Street), prepares his fish, rice and workstation in a drastically different fashion than Valente’s.

Occasionally, this prompts some nostalgia when Valente’s muscle memory from his old job kicks in and he has to remind himself that the plastic wrap is on the left now, not the right.

Valente said he misses the “busyness” of running a restaurant, as well as his core group of employees, some of whom quit after he left. But after 17 years in Sacramento, the white guy who worked his way into the exclusive guild of sushi chefs can now count on his loyal clientele to pop into Shige’s, the present home of Lou’s sushi.

“The best part is that I get to see my customers who I miss and love so much,” he said. “Being able to have them come see me just makes dealing with this whole situation much easier.” Ω

Nothing says Sacramento more than folks getting excited about a thing from San Francisco while a bunch of Sac versions of that thing already exist. So, in a way, thing already exist. So, in a way, the softly opened Philz Coffee is Coffee is as Sacramento as they come. come.

The Philharmonic ($3.50) blends flavors of “earth” with a sprinkle of cardamom and leaves of fresh mint for an approach to your morning Joe that tastes lightly of grapefruit. grapefruit.

Pair that with the minimum minimum $1,450 rent of the nearby Ice House Ice House Lofts and you’ve got a miniature simulacrum of SF that some folks claimed they’ve always wanted here. 1725 R Street, www.philzcoffee.com.

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Backyard blossoms muLberries For just a few weeks, mulberries ripen haphazardly on trees hidden in parks and backyards. Some make it to farmers markets, where they look where they look like stretched-out blackberblackberries. The reddish-purple fruits can vary widely in sweetness vs. tartness, depending on their variety and readiness. If you find a good tree, keep it to yourself (and the birds) birds) and pick as many as you can can for sorbet, sauces and syrups. syrups.

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Selland’s Market-Cafe 915 Broadway, (916) 732-3390 www.sellands.com Meal for one: $10-$15 Good for: casual neighborhood dine in or takeout Notable dishes: macaroni and cheese, wood-fired pizza,

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The Selland family has had a monumental year. In June 2016, they opened OBO’ Italian Table & Bar in East Sacramento, a Selland’s pizza outlet in the Golden 1 Center in September, and the newest Market-Cafe in Land Park this past April.

Just one of those would have been noteworthy, but all in a short amount of time demonstrate the well-tuned character of the Selland Family Restaurants.

Despite a slew of other new eateries in the Land Park area (Sampino’s Kitchen at Joe Marty’s, Meet & Eat, Dali’s Kitchen), Selland’s Market-Cafe has clocked steady business since opening.

Why? It fills an apparently pent-up need for fresh, healthy food choices with plenty of space and abundant wine options. The variety of hot and cold prepared foods for take-out particularly fill a void in the area. Ample parking certainly helps.

More than two years ago, the Selland’s group purchased part of an outdated office building at Ninth and Broadway with the intention of moving their high-end Kitchen restaurant closer to downtown. Eventually, they changed the concept to the more affordable Cafe, sensing the opportunity for multiple visits per diner rather than a once-a-year splurge.

As with OBO’, the new Selland’s appeals to a wide variety of customers. They offer wood-fired pizzas with vegetarian and gluten-free options, for example. A classic pepperoni ($16) yields enough for two eaters, with a crisp crust and shards of fresh basil.

The menu and presentations will be largely familiar to Selland’s regulars, with a few new additions. One is the spicy Moroccan chicken burger ($11), with harissa and ginger flavoring the meat. Carrot slaw and feta add crunch and brininess to a solid—if not particularly spicy— alternative burger.

Salads include hearty options, like the goat cheese and apple ($6.25/$8.75), to which you can add chicken (add $3) or salmon (add $9.50).

Either goes well with the toasted walnuts and well-balanced balsamic vinaigrette.

Or, you can tack on a side salad to any order, which is the genius of this mix-and-match menu.

The simple mixed greens with green onion ($4/$6.50) makes the choice of ultra-creamy macaroni and cheese ($3.75/$5.75/$9.75) somewhat less indulgent.

One of the best deals is the Dinner for Two & Bottle of Wine ($25), available at both locations.

Each week, Monday to Saturday, the restaurant offers a set entrée paired with a bottle of wine for a very reasonable cost. You can eat in or take it out—making weeknight dinners that much easier.

Recently, it was pork carnitas tortas with avocado, onions, fontina and black beans and a very drinkable bottle of Vina Borgia Garnacha. Dinner, done.

One of the best aspects here is the wines—available by the glass or the bottle—at reasonable cost, as well as local beers on tap. Or, just enjoy the pitchers of water prepared with sliced citrus set out for taking with silverware and napkins. You can even water your dog on the patio with convenient dog bowls.

The dessert case always features a seasonal parfait, cupcakes, cookies and a cornucopia of cakes and tarts by the slice. The parfait ($4.99) comes in a small mason jar and always fills that need for creamy richness, such as the recent peanut butter version with whipped cream and cookie crust.

Sacramento really hasn’t had a lot of examples of a large-scale eat in/take-out quick-serve restaurant with high-end ingredients. While it may not be all things to all diners, Selland’s certainly tries. Ω

While it may not be all things to all diners, it certainly tries.

Feast at the Festa The Croatian American Cultural Center (3730 Auburn Boulevard) will become a “good place to feel Italian” on August 5 and 6 during the 32nd annual Festa Italiana, says Bill Cerruti, executive director of the Sacramento Italian Culdirector of the Sacramento Italian Cul tural Society. Attended by thousands each year, each year, $12 gets you access to a free-sample-laden free-sample-laden market of imported goodies, a variety of variety of Italian beverages as well as the new Che Che Buono food truck serving homemade fettuccine bolognese, arancini di riso (fried balls of peas, mushrooms and risotto) and piadina (Italian flatbread) flatbread) stuffed with prosciutto, mozzarella, tomato, arugula and parmesan. The nights will feature live music from Bay Bay Area band Italica and Moreno Fruzzetti, Fruzzetti, a singer from Pisa who does modern and and centuries-old hits. There’ll be bocce, a car show a car show and a Saturday dance under a summer moon that has been rumored to hit summer moon that has been rumored to hit eyes like a big pizza pie. For more information, visit http://italiancenter.net.

—John Flynn

I’m too sexy for this portobello

by Shoka It seems unexpected that a restaurant that offers bacon-wrapped meatloaf also has a vegan menu, but Malabar American Cooking does.

Granted, an average diner wouldn’t know about this vegan stepsister of a menu unless requested. Here’s what’s on it: a couple of green salads, a vegetable wrap with black beans on the side ($12), sautéed vegetables and risotto with tomato sauce ($14.50), a fire-roasted “portobella” sandwich ($10.75), stir-fry veg and

vermicelli ($14.50) and fire-roasted stuffed “portobella” ($11.95). OK, so the dishes come across as whatever’s left in the pantry, but, they did season the portobello with vinaigrette, saving it from blandness.

Malabar, located at 2960 Del Paso Road in Natomas, gets props for having vegan offerings, although why segregate them from the main menu? But it was listening to Right Said Fred’s “I’m Too Sexy” that was a real turnoff.

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by Jim Carnes

This irreverent, fastmoving spoof of Sherlock Holmes features three energetic actors (in perpetual motion), bad wigs, fake beards, and crossdressing guys with falsetto voices playing the women.

It’s one-part Arthur Conan Doyle, one-part silly satire of cinematic cliches, and two-parts Monty Python.

Well-performed, though a bit formula-driven, the production alternates in repertory with Love’s Labour’s Lost. F, Su, Tu, W 7:30 pm. Through 8/21. $27-$99.

Sand Harbor, Lake Tahoe Nevada State Park, 2005 Highway 28 in Incline Village, Nevada; (800) 747-4697; http://laketahoe shakespeare.com. J.H.

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Hour of the bewilderment.

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8 p.m. thursday-friday, 5 and 9 p.m. saturday, 2 p.m. sunday, 6:30 p.m. tuesday, 2 and 6:30 p.m. Wednesday; $27-$39. B street theatre, 2711 B street. (916) 443-5300, www.bstreettheatre.org. through september 10.

It’s the old story of boy-meets-girl, boy-loses-girl, boy-goes-back-for-girl too late in Bloomsday, Steven Dietz’s new play that illuminates James Joyce’s Ulysses while cleverly mocking, paraphrasing—and evoking—what is generally regarded as one of the greatest literary works ever written.

Ulysses is “the most underread and overpraised” novel in the world, explains the protagonist Robert (Dave Pierini). And yet, he knows every word and nuance of the epic because of a young Irish tour guide he met 35 years earlier. He was known as Robbie then, and she was Caithleen (Steve Sherman and Brittni Barger, respectively).

So here he is today (whenever that is supposed to be), back in Dublin looking for the girl, now grown-up and known as Cait (Rebecca Dines), who changed—perhaps ruined—his life.

Like Joyce, Dietz manipulates time and space, bending each upon itself as he goes from past to present, Robert to Robbie, Caithleen to Cait, and who knows what or when. It’s intricate and fascinating, wistful, hopeful and ultimately too melancholic for words with its exploration of images that remain and memories of what was and might have been.

Robert personifies the wisdom of age, how one might make peace with the past and its lost opportunities while still feeling the pain of regret. In this role, Pierini is first among equals in an outstanding cast.

Director Elisabeth Nunziato understands these four characters and directs with empathy for each of them. She moves them and their lives gently through time and space, keeping things as simple as can be in a time-warp story with characters who meet, converse and interact with themselves. Ω

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Summer’s last gasp

Summer doesn’t officially end until mid-September but the seasonal theater festivals are already starting to wrap up. No need to despair, however, as there are still a few new shows to enjoy.

This will be the final week to catch the Davis Shakespeare Festival, through this Sunday, August 6, with the swashbuckler adventure The Three Musketeers and the musical Wonderful Town, running in repertory at the Veterans Memorial Theatre (203 East 14th Street in Davis). Tickets are $15-$25. For a complete schedule of times visit www.shakespearedavis.org or call (530) 802-0998.

The Music Circus is also closing out its current season with the 1950s musical Damn Yankees, which runs through Sunday, August 13, followed by Sister Act, which runs August 22-27. All shows take place in the Wells Fargo Pavilion (1419 H Street).

Tickets are $45-$71. For more, visit www.california musicaltheatre.com or call (916) 557-1999.

Or, head to the foothills for Main Street Theatre Works’ rendition of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible.

The show will be staged outdoors Friday and Saturday at the Kennedy Mine Amphitheatre (1127 N. Main Street in Jackson). Gates open at 6:30 p.m., and the show starts at 8 p.m. Arrive early to have a picnic and bring chairs and jackets—the latter for the evening cooldown. Tickets are $12-$20 and the show runs through September 9. Learn more at www.mstw.org or by calling (916) 799-3430.

Finally, this weekend the Fair Oaks Theatre Festival launches The Taming of the Shrew. This rendition of the Shakespeare tale is set in Jazz Age Paris. Performances take place every Friday, Saturday and Sunday through September 18 at the Veteran’s Memorial Amphitheatre (7991 California Avenue in Fair Oaks). Tickets are $15-18. Get details at www.fairoakstheatrefestival.com/ or by calling (916) 966-3683.

—Jeff Hudson

It’s a nimble battleof-the-sexes, which the women win hands down.

This is the Bard’s “collegial” comedy—four randy young royals foolishly vow to immerse themselves philosophical tomes and

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fasting but that pledge fades fast when some French ladies come to town.

With 14 professional actors and starlight over the lake, this production makes for a lovely evening. The show plays in repertory with The Hounds of the Baskervilles.

Th, Sa 7:30pm. Through 8/21. $27-$99. Sand Harbor, Lake Tahoe Nevada State Park, 2005 Highway 28 in Incline Village, Nevada; (800) 7474697; http://laketahoe shakespeare.com. J.H.

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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. Alternates in repertory with the musical Wonderful Town. Th, F, Sa 8 8 pm, Su 2pm. Through 8/6. $15-$25.

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

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The musical, based on the stories of Ruth McKenney, 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. Th, F, Sa 7pm, Su 2pm. Through 8/6. $27-$39, $15-$25. Davis Shakespeare Festival at Davis Veterans Memorial Theatre, 203 E. 14th Street in Davis; (530) 802-0998; www.shakespeare davis.org. B.S.

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Twin stories This weekend the Winters Community Theatre is set to stage Twelfth Night for its annual summer Shakespeare in the Park production. This iconic play was the basis for the popular 1998 film Shakespeare in Love and tells the story of twins Sebastian and Viola and all the mistaken identity hijinks that follow. It will be a bittersweet production for the company, following the recent death of its co-founder, director, actor and mentor Howard Hupe. The show runs through August 12. 8 p.m. Friday, August 4 and Saturday, August 5. $5; free for children 12 and under. Winters Community Center, 201 Railroad Avenue in Winters. (530) 7954014; http://www.winterstheatre.org.

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were partying at the motel, leaving three AfricanAmerican males dead. State Troopers and National Guardsmen activated by the state and federal governAfter writing, and in some respects rewriting, ments to keep the peace also appeared on the scene, modern history with lightning in the excellent Zero Dark but largely declined to intervene in the dehumanizing Thirty, director Kathryn Bigelow looks back 50 years for events. her follow-up film Detroit. Fascinated by violent, mostly Unlike the opening section of Detroit, the long masculine group dynamics, Bigelow reteams with The middle portion depicting the Algiers Motel incident Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty screenwriter Mark fits right into the Bigelow/Boal wheelhouse. Tense, Boal for this visceral take on the 1967 Detroit riots that intimate and frightening, with an escalating tension left 43 people dead, mostly focusing on the horrifying that appears increasingly unresolvable, the sequence events that occurred at the Algiers Motel. plays like an extended version of the bomb defusThe opening third of Detroit, a rhythmiing sequences from The Hurt Locker. Every cally careening depiction of the early word and gesture seems attached to a days of the riot, stands as one of the hair-trigger. most electric and original pieces of Tense, intimate The final movement of Detroit filmmaking in Bigelow’s career. also feels unlike anything else and frightening, Bigelow usually thrives on ironin the Bigelow filmography, with an escalating fisted control, but the opening unfortunately landing more in the passage of Detroit feels loosetension that appears wheelhouse of awards-grubbing limbed, spacious and expansive, commoners. This last portion of the increasingly quite unlike anything else in her film covers the cover-up, morphing unresolvable. frequently taut and claustrophobic into a rote courtroom drama crossed filmography. with a rote “dirty cops” procedural, Bigelow and Boal not only fill in while also indulging in cobwebbed biopic the social history of the city, outlining the clichés and erratic, momentum-crushing timekey reasons that the riot started (the usual suspects: line leaps, and the closing scenes of Detroit expose police brutality and racial inequality), but they also Bigelow’s general awkwardness with warmth. introduce dozens of key characters with an almost musiDespite a sputtering finish, the first 110 minutes cal grace. The ensemble cast includes John Boyega as or so of the film’s 143-minute running time are security guard Melvin Dismukes, Will Poulter as psycho strong enough to warrant a hearty recommendation. cop Philip Krauss and Algee Smith as The Dramatics Detroit offers the sort of invigorating, disturbing, singer Larry Reed, with familiar faces like Anthony explosive, socially relevant large-scale cinema that Mackie and John Krasinski showing up in smaller roles. many assumed extinct. Ω After that bracing introduction, the film assembles the disparate characters at their intersection of destiny, the Algiers Motel. Several days into the riot, bloodthirsty Detroit police officers overresponded to an unfounded Poor Fair Good Very excellent Good report of sniper fire, torturing a group of teenagers who

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Stunt coordinator David Leitch makes his directorial debut with Atomic Blonde, a graphic novel series adaptation set in Berlin during the waning days of the Cold War. Charlize Theron stars as Lorraine Broughton, a British spy dispatched to Germany to investigate the death of a colleague, and to secure a list of undercover agents before it falls into the wrong hands. Lorraine is greeted at the airport by unnamed assassins, and the bloody mayhem gushes on from there, with most of the action scenes set to 1980s Europop. The script by 300 scribe Kurt Johnstad is decidedly unclever, and Leitch works way too hard to invest a familiar story with new life. It’s mostly wasted energy, merely an exercise in vapid style, but Theron makes for an extremely compelling kung fu cipher, and there is one extended action scene set in an apartment building that almost justifies the entire endeavor. D.B.

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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. 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.

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Another entry in the growing catalog of biopics about would-be Hitler assassins, this time the story of Georg Elser (Christian Friedel), a German carpenter and musician who made his failed attempt in November 1939.

After growing alienated from the Nazi regime that was slowly ruining his life, Elser detonated a homemade bomb inside a Munich beer hall where Hitler was scheduled to speak, missing him by 13 minutes and killing eight people in the process. As the captured Elser resists revealing his motives and methods to the German authorities, even as he gets brutally tortured, his life story unfolds in extended flashbacks. 13 Minutes was directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, who previously made the Hitler biopic Downfall, then followed it with the fiery English-language flameouts of The Invasion and Diana. Back in his element, he delivers a sturdy but routine biopic, one that works best as a political radicalization process film. D.B.

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Dunkirk

Christopher Nolan ascended from indie unknown to the crown prince of PG-13 darkness, but in recent years he has become low-hanging fruit for mockery—his heaviness, his humorlessness, his lead-foot ponderousness. But just when the diminishing returns of The Dark Knight franchise and the philosophical emptiness of Interstellar seemed to cement his irrelevance, along comes Dunkirk to remind us what Nolan does so well. Nolan is a master of escalating and sustaining tension across multiple dramatic planes, and the outwardly simple yet slightly fractured structure of Dunkirk affords him the ideal canvas to practice his art. You’re stuck in Nolan’s grasp within minutes, and he only keeps squeezing tighter, the pinprick tension growing more unbearable, with the phony dramatic crescendos kept to a relative minimum. Nolan does himself a favor with his own terse script, largely laying off the blockhead exposition and instead crafting a fingernail-obliterating cinema experience. D.B.

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In the smartphone city of Textopolis, where emojis are limited to only one emotion, our hero Gene (voiced by T.J. Miller) can’t fit in—he’s supposed to be a “Meh!” but can’t suppress a wide range of emotions. If the leaders of Textopolis wanted to give Gene a permanent “Meh!” expression, all they really had to do was make him watch this movie. Written by Eric Siegel, Mike White and director Tony Leondis, the script rashly invites comparison with Pixar’s Inside Out, only to remind us how much funnier and more resonant that movie was, and what folly it is to challenge Pixar at their own game. (Remember Antz?) Still, the animation is candy-colorful, the pop-music soundtrack is catchy and the dopey puns almost pass for wit. On the whole, there are worse ways to waste 86 minutes—but waste them you will. J.L.

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A young wife (Florence Pugh) embarks on a torrid affair with one of her abusive husband’s stablemen (Cosmo Jarvis), and in her heedless passion she resorts to a series of murders to cover her tracks—and in revenge for the cruelty she has suffered. Writer Alice Birch and director William Oldroyd transplant Nikolai Leskov’s 1865 novella from Tsarist Russia to Victorian England, omitting the second half of the story and changing the ending to make some vague points of their own about sexism and the British class system. The result is cold and unconvincing, by turns dull and repellent. Plot developments are implausible, characters are shallow stick figures that give the actors too little to work with. Still, they do what they can, and Ari Wegner’s stark cinematography is more interesting than the story. J.L.

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Another spiked-punch punch-puller from Obvious Child auteur Gillian Robespierre, once again headlined and nearly saved by Jenny Slate. Slate plays Dana, the jittery bride-to-be to a doughy schmuck in the analog mid-1990s.

Just as Dana starts cheating on her fiancee, her teenage sister Ali uncovers evidence of their father’s infidelities. Like Obvious Child, Landline

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parking lot with his hands in his pockets mismatch the fire of his flow.

“My stage presence, it’s a little better now. It sucked though at this time,” Salveson says.

His rap career took a big step this past March at the Starlite Lounge. Salveson’s dad joined him on stage, doing a five-minute a capella song. Salveson says his dad killed it.

“He’s always dope. There’s nothing bad from my dad. Just imagine me, but twice as better.”

What to do when the wall behind you is more interesting That wasn’t his dad’s first time than your shirt? on stage. Back in the mid-aughts, he was a prominent rapper around Sacramento going by the name The Emaculit 1, part of The Hurchu Alliance, an early influence on Salveson.

There’s a photo of a flipped over 1991 Mercedes Benz “I grew up around that. I’m playing Tony on the cover of Alex Salveson’s 2016 EP, Blessed.

Hawk[’s] Pro Skater 2, and they’re recording in the That’s his car. The EP’s title track details the story back,” Salveson says. behind this car accident.

Unlike his dad and fellow crew members, “I thought I was going to die,” the local artist Salveson chose not to give himself an emcee pseudsays. “As I was flipping I accepted my fate that onym. He did at one point call himself “Clean Edit.” this was it, and out of pure luck, I’m still alive.”

At the time, he was a rapper who didn’t cuss, but he’s He immediately offers, “You want to see since decided that name was silly. pictures?” After scrolling through several on his “I don’t like rap names. Ninety percent of rap phone, he switches gears and tells me how, names suck,” Salveson says. “I don’t want for weeks after the accident, he relived to portray something I’m not. I don’t the moment of impact in his mind want to be Lil O.G. I’m just Alex, over and over again. He’s only your friendly neighbor,” Salveson “There’s some performed the song live once. says. cool stuff going on “I don’t like it,” Salveson Since Salveson started, he’s says. “Everything on there is lately. I’m at the right watched as the artists who motihonest. I don’t want to think vated him to give it a serious time.” about it. That’s bad energy.” attempt—like Hobo Johnson Despite his reservations, the Alex Salveson and The Philharmonik—have song has become a favorite among hip-hop artist gotten some credibility in town. his fans. It and the entire EP marked a He’s hopeful that the time is right turning point in Salveson’s rap career. for him, too.

He recorded his first song in the “I can vibe with this, versus, you’re seventh grade—he’s 18—but it was in late at the rappity rap show, where everyone in summer last year, when Hobo Johnson let him the crowd is mad cause they’re listening to rap hop on stage to perform a couple of songs, that music. They’re just head nodding. That’s not my he decided to take his music more seriously. thing,” Salveson says. “When I come to these First thing he needed was some music online. He shows that are happening lately, I want to be on put together the Blessed EP and released it on the stage. There’s some cool stuff going on lately.

Bandcamp. He just released his newest EP, This I’m at the right time.” Ω One’s 4 You on August 1.

Since Blessed, he’s been playing consistently.

Having been a bedroom rapper, his stage presence started off a bit awkward. To get a sense of early Check out alex salveson at 7 p.m. Friday, august 4, at sol Collective, Salveson, check out the music video he released 2574 21st street. tickets are $7. Learn more at www.soundcloud.com/ alexsalveson. for the song “Fiend.” Shots of his rapping in a

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STEELIN’ DAN - AJA 40TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION: Special two night series

Radio and You Bastard. 8pm, $10. Blue Lamp, 1400 Alhambra Blvd.

WeDNesDay, 8/9

celebrates Steely Dan’s classic album.

Steelin’ Dan, a cover band, will perform songs from the record. 5:30pm, $20$35. Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub, 2708 J St.

COASTLANDS: Ambient instrumental postrock from Portland. Performing with Plots and Astral Cult. 7pm, $8-$10. Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub, 2708 J St.

saTurDay, 8/5

FALLOUT KINGS: Folsom rock ’n’ roll band.

THE ARIEL JEAN BAND: Northern

Performing with HERESaY, Free Candy and Lowglance. 6pm, $7-$10. Momo Sacramento, 2708 J St.

California country singer performing in Country Club Saloon’s Back 40 Ampitheatre. 9pm. Country Club Saloon, 4007 Taylor Road.

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CHESTER BENNINGTON MEMORIAL: Not a show. Candlelight vigil for late Linkin Park singer, who passed away in July. Donation proceeds go to the One More Light Fund, a suicide prevention nonprofit. 6pm. The McKinley Park Rose Garden, 601 Alhambra Blvd.

frIDay, 8/4 FOUNTAINS FIRST FRIDAYS: A night of shopping, games, a classic car show, food tents and more. 6pm, no cover. Fountains at Roseville, 1013 Galleria Blvd. in Roseville.

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PAT HULL: Chico, CA singer-songwriter who uses finger-picked guitarring to create surreal soundscapes. 8pm, $15. Palms Playhouse, 13 Main Street in Winters. with jams by The O’Jays, Morris & The Time, SOS Band and GQ. 5:30pm, $45.95159.95. Thunder Valley Casino Resort, 1200 Athens Ave. in Lincoln.

to the Blue Lamp show Friday. Different assault. Still metal, though. Ten bands.

Two venues. Performers include Thrash or Die, Blessed Curse, X-Method, Cold Trap and more. 8pm, $12. Cafe Colonial and The Colony, 3520, 3512 Stockton Blvd.

Performing with Battle Hag, Capitalist Casualties and XTom HanX. 7:30pm, $22.

Blue Lamp, 1400 Alhambra Blvd.

musIc THursDay, 8/3 DOCTOR P: English dubstep producer and DJ. 10pm, $8. Social Nightclub, 1000 K St.

FIREHOUSE: Popular ’80s glam metal band.

7pm, $20. Ace of Spades, 1417 R St.

NEW BREED BRASS BAND: New Orleans second line group. Performing with Sacramento’s Element Brass Band. 6pm, $15. Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub, 2708 J St.

SEA OF TREES: Emo, post-hardcore show.

Also performing: Enso Anima, Color Til Monday, Goosey Grey and City Mural. 6pm, $15. Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub, 2708 J St.

THE STRANGE PARTY: Local macabre punk group. Performing with The Kegels, T.V. Static and Rebel Holocrons. 8pm. The Press Club, 2030 P St.

TYLER RICH: Yuba City country singer. 8pm,

$22-$25. The Center for the Arts, 314 West Main St. in Grass Valley.

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soul, hip hop showcase with art. 9pm, $9$12. Midtown BarFly, 1119 St.

frIDay, 8/4

BACK IN THE DAY: ’80s, ’90s dance party party. 10pm, no cover. Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub, 2708 J St.

BLACK MAP: Bay Area post-hardcore trio.

Performing with Sac stoner rock group Horseneck. 7pm, $10-$12. Goldfield Trading Post, 1630 J St.

THE ILLSKILL SHOW: Emcee show featuring local rappers. Performers include Tavis, Mahtie Bush, Abstract Ninjaa, Poor Majesty, Boney-Jay and Alex Salveson. 7pm, $7. Sol Collective, 2574 21st St.

JD SOUTHER: Grammy winning songwriter who’s penned for the Eagles, George Strait, Ray Orbison and more. Jazz and pop for this show. 7pm, $35-$55. Harris Center, 10 College Parkway Drive in Folsom.

METALACHI: Heavy metal meets

mariachi. 7pm, $8-$15. Swabbies On The River, 5871 Garden Highway.

METAL ASSAULT IN THE NORTH, VOL. 1: Performers include: Disastroid, Roswell, Ironaut and Motorize. 8pm, $10. 1400 Alhambra Blvd.

FEELS: Pysche punk, grunge group from LA.

Performing with Shame Waves. 8pm, $7.

The Colony, 3512 Stockton Blvd.

SAMANTHA FISH: Kansas City, MO, blues

singer-songwriter guitarist. 7pm, $13.

Goldfield Trading Post, 1630 J St.

WICCID: Electro-industrial synth-pop band known for their work with Ministry, Frontline Assembly and more. 9pm.

Factor IX, 1119 21st St.

TuesDay, 8/8

DRUG APTS.: Rootop show at the Warehouse Artist Lofts with a local post-punk band.

Also performing: Secret Drum Band and LaTour. 7pm, $10. Warehouse Artist Lofts, 1108 R St.

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FESTA ITALIANA: Food and music festival

THRASH METAL ASSAULT 2: Not the sequel

EYEHATEGOD: Sludge metal legends.

cosplayers, anime fans, gamers, memorabilia collectors, filmmakers and comic book artists. 11am, $8. Scottish Rite Masonic Center, 6151 H St.

saTurDay, 8/5

trio. Performing with Animo Cruz. 7pm, $10. Goldfield Trading Post, 1630 J St.

suNDay, 8/6

oriented event that transforms the Broadway corridor for an evening full of shopping, dining and art installations. 5pm, no cover. From 37th Street to Alhambra, 3433 Broadway.

every first and third Saturday of the month. Shop for handmade soaps, perfume oils, dolls and clothes. Live music and food. 11am, no cover. Sojourner Truth Museum, 2251 Florin Road.

THICKER THAN THIEVES: Roots rock-reggae

it’s fitting for the highflying freakshow that unfolds. The Los Angeles troupe performs aerial acrobatics, fire twirling and neotribal dance with costumes that would win Best of Show at a steam punk convention, or maybe Burning Man (you know, I’m not really sure).

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description. 5:30pm, $20-$35. Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub, 2708 J St.

ACE OF SPADES, 7 P.M., $24-$32 Picture a circus show that combines the sort of flamboyant, post-apocalyptic outfits you’d see in the film Mad Max, ONSTAGE vaudeville-style theatrics and bass heavy EDM. That last part sounds a little out of place, but watch a YouTube video or two of The Lucent Dossier Experience, and

the local music school. 5:30pm, $25. Ace of Spades, 1417 R St.

STEELIN’ DAN - AJA 40TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION: See Friday event

Cirque Bro Soleil

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celebrating everything Italian. 11am, $12. Croatian American Cultural Center,

3730 Auburn Blvd.

DAYDREAM FESTIVAL: A mixed art festival dedicated to romance. Think roses and loveletters. Bands include The Bottom Feeders, Honyock, Pregnant and more. 3pm, $12-$15. Latino Center of Art and Culture, 2700 Front St.

suNDay, 8/6

FESTA ITALIANA: See Saturday event

description. 11am, $12. Croatian American Cultural Center, 3730 Auburn Blvd.

fOOD & DrINK frIDay, 8/4 FOOD TRUCK MANIA: Weekly afternoon of food truck grub, music and family-friendly entertainment. 5pm, no cover. Rosemont Community Park, 9304 Americana Way.

saTurDay, 8/5

KOMBUCHA QUEST: A taste test of California brewers. Some of them include Zeal Kombucha, Marin Kombucha and Wild Tonic. 11am, no cover. Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op, 2820 R St.

THE GODDAMN GALLOWS: Detroit punk, metal and bluegrass band. Also performing: Riot

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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.

art is…

1810 Gallery, 6 p.m., no cover

sHowbiZ tHeatre company: A Funny Thing

A collection of meta-art

by Akira Beard, centered around art about art itself. While her drawings often depict jaggedly contorted art human figures, the drips and splashes of her watercolor faces ooze like they’re alive and PHoto courtesY oF 1810 GallerY temporary. The gallery opens Friday, with another showing on Second Saturday. 1810 12th Street, www.facebook.com/1810gallery.

Happened on the Way to the Forum. A musical comedy set in Ancient Rome.

Pseudolus, a crafty slave, struggles to win the hand of a beautiful, but slow-witted, courtesan named Philia for his master, in exchange for freedom. through 8/13. $15$20. 1744 Pacific Ave. in Stockton.

sutter street tHeatre: Harvey. A Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy about a man and his invisible friend, a six-foot-tall rabbit. through 8/13. $15-$23. 44 Main St. in Sutter Creek.

midtown farmer’s marKet: Weekly farmer’s market that features more than 50 food and art vendors, monthly chef demos and a free bike valet. 8am, no cover. Midtown Sacramento, 20th Street, between J & K streets.

first saturday walKing wine tours: Tour a community of 13 California wineries.

Tour lasts about 45 minutes to an hour.

11:45am, $10. Old Sugar Mill Wineries, 25265 Willow Ave. in Clarksburg.

Film tHursdaY, 8/3 la Haine: Part of the Crocker Art Museum’s Summer Film Series. A 1995 black and white film that follows the lives of three friends in a Parisian low income housing project. After an incident of police brutality against their friend and an ensuing riot, they avoid the cops as much as possible. But when one of them finds a police revolver, and fears another riot, the three men struggle to keep their heads and stay alive. 6:30pm, $6-$12. Crocker Art Museum, 216 O St.

FridaY, 8/4

tHe princess bride: A showing of the classic comedy, which serves up a healthy helping of romance and adventure complete with a princess and evil prince, swashbuckling pirates and a giant, played by Andre the Giant. 7:30pm, $8-$10. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.

sundaY, 8/6

a clocKworK orange: A showing of Stanley Kubrick’s classic adaptation of the dystopia novel. 7pm, $7.50-$9.50. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.

comedY blacKtop comedy: Your F@#$%! Up Relationship. Improv inspired by real relationships. Hear interviews from audience members and watch the comics use their stories for improvisation. 7pm sunday, 8/6. $5-$10. 3101 Sunset Blvd., Suite 6A in Rocklin.

csZ sacramento: ComedySportz Improv Comedy. Two teams compete for your points and laughs by creating instant sketches based on your suggestions.

Similar to the hit show Whose Line Is It,

Anyway? 8pm saturday, 7/29. $10-$12; Improvivor 11. Improv comedy mixed with the TV show Survivor. Challenges, tribes, immunity and jokes. 10pm friday, 7/28. $8. 2230 Arden Way, Suite B.

comedy spot: Cage Match. Two improv teams each have 20 minutes to perform a longform improv show using any structure.

The audience votes for the winner. 8pm thursday, 8/3. $5; Improv Jam. Open-Mic for longform improvisors. 9pm thursday, 8/3. $6. Secret Handshake Society. Held every first Friday of the month. The Comedy Spot’s main stage sketch comedy show. Similar to Saturday Night Live, Key and Peele and The Whitest Kids U Know. 8pm friday, 8/4. $8.50. AntiCooperation League. Celebrating its tenth anniversary Saturday. Each week, the comics of ACL interview a special guest, then create comedy scenes inspired by the interview. This week’s guest: ABC10 News reporter Becca Habbegger. 9pm saturday, 8/5. $12.50. 1050 20th St., Suite 130.

laugHs unlimited comedy club: Venus Vs. Mars: The Original Female & Panel Productive Relationship Forum.

Relationship-themed comedy show.

Special performances by singers Charles Baxter Jr., Jennifer Barton, Chris Jones and poet Dutchess Battle. 8pm thursday, 8/3. $10; Alex Elkin. Springfield, Oregon comedian performing with Brent McDonald. through 8/6. $20. 1207 Front St.

on tHe y: Open-Mic Night. Held weekly.

Signups at 7:30pm. Show begins at 8pm. tuesday, 8/8. no cover. 670 Fulton Ave.

puncHline: Comedy Showcase. Top area comedians and up and coming pros take the stage. Often features jokes riffing off the city’s culture. thursday, 8/3. $10; Lil Duval. Jacksonville, Fla., comedian. . through 8/6. $25; 2100 Arden Way, Suite 225.

tommy t’s comedy club: Tony Roberts.

Detroit comic, actor and writer. Directed a series of Burger King commercials. through 8/6. $20-$30. 12401 Folsom Blvd. in Rancho Cordova.

sacramento convention center compleX: Joe Rogan. Comedian, podcaster, UFC commentator, and former Fear Factor host. thursday, 8/3. $61-$172. 1400 J St.

tHunder valley casino resort: Terry Fator.

Impressionist, singer and ventriliquist who competed on NBC’s America’s Got Talent.

friday, 8/4. $39.95-$84.95. 1200 Athens Avenue in Lincoln.

on staGe ace of spades: Lucent Dossier. See “Cirque Bro Soleil” on previous page. Vaudevillestyle variety show that mixes aerial acrobatics and dubstep with a post-apocalyptic aesthetic. friday 8/4. $24. 1417 R 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: Bloomsday. In Steven Dietz’s new love story, time travel and James Joyce help illuminate the lives of Robbie and Cat, who meet in Ireland. through 9/10. $27-$39; The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey.

One actor portrays every character in a small Jersey Shore town as he unravels the story of a tenaciously optimistic and flamboyant 14-year-old boy who goes missing. through 9/9. $19-$39; 2711 B St.

cHautauQua playHouse: Screwtape. Follows a midlevel Satanic beauracrat, Screwtape, who is training a young demon, Wormwood, to lure his first soul, named Mike, into a pit. The demons seek to trip up Mike by way of his overprotective mother, a new boss, a demon-possessed coworker and even his new lover. through 8/20. $18-$22. 5325 Engle Road, Suite 110 in Carmichael.

mesa verde performing arts center: Come Back to the Five & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. James Dean’s legend looms large for four Texas women who were teenagers when the start filmed Giant in their town. Now, 20 years later, the “Disciples of Jimmy Dean” come to reminisce about the past. But when a familiar stranger walks in, tensions bubble to the surface and old secrets are revealed. through 8/20. $17-$20. 7501 Carriage Drive in Citrus Heights.

nevada tHeatre: Chicago. Set in the 1920s.

Tells the story of Roxie Hart, a chorus girl who murders her lover. Desperate to

california museum: Art & Advocacy.

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. through 9/17. $9. Turn The Page: The First Ten Years of Hi-Fructose. A collection of 51 contemporary art pieces featured in the first decade of the low-brow art magazine. 10am. Through 9/17. $5-$10. 216 O St.

everywHere: Wide Open Walls. A mural

tHe acting company: Wizard of Oz. A 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.

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Bilingual Play. Teatro Espejo, Sacramento’s longest running Latino theatre company, presents a classic play that explores Mexican immigration to the United States in the 1930s. through 8/13. $10. 1721 25th St.

tHeatre in tHe HeigHts: Love’s Labour’s Lost. Shakespeare’s comedy 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.

veterans memorial center tHeater: The Three Musketeers. This modern adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ novel is chockfull of humor and swordfights. 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 bigger city of New York. Also part of the Davis Shakespeare Festival. through 8/5. $25. 203 East 14th St. in Davis.

festival featuring local and international artists. Takes place at over 40 locations in Sacramento. Learn more about it by reading SN&R’s story, “Wide Open Walls: Art in the street” published July 27. Check out a map of the murals at www.wow916. com. through 8/20. no cover. 3193 Riverside Blvd.

smud art gallery: MATRIX Revisited. MATRIX, a women’s artist group of the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s, celebrates their reunion with exhibits in two separate galleries. through 9/11. no cover. 6301 S St.

sacramento fine arts center: Celebrating the Figure. Features drawings, paintings and sculpture by the Friday Morning Figure Studio Group. through 8/13. no cover. 5330B Gibbons Drive in Carmichael.

verge center for tHe arts: The Brightsiders. An exhibition that brings together paintings and sculptures from 18 artists based in Los Angeles, inspired by the city. 11am. through 8/10. no cover.

625 S St.

vic’s cafe: California Landscapes in Watercolor and Pastels. Vic’s Café is featuring the artists Elaine Bowers, Linda Clark Johnson and Ruth HoltonHodson. Bower paints aerial views of the Sacramento Delta, Clark Johnson paints local scenes and Holton-Hodson uses pastels to capture area landscapes. through 8/4. no cover. 3193 Riverside Blvd.

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saturdaY, 08/05 girls rock sacramento showcase ace of SpadeS, 11 a.m., $10

We know that girls rule. That said, our world sucks and nondudes still face a music harsher road to the stage. Local music org Girls Rock Sacramento set up this lovely event to show off the results of their musical training summer camp. Come support girls rockin’ and rollin’. 1417 R Street, www. girlsrocksacramento.com.

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Come taste a variety of yeast drinks at the Sacramento Natural Foods food & drinK Co-op.

Sample these fermented tea concoctions brewed by local names like Zeal Kombucha, Wild Tonic, Revive Kombucha and more. 2820 R Street, https://sacfood.coop.

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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 through the film noir genre. The exhibit features rare artifacts and memorabilia from 16 iconic films. through 10/15. $9; Patient No More People with Disabilities Securing Civil Rights. Chronicles the lives and legacies of the courageous Californians whose activism 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 11 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.

california state railroad museum: A World on Wheels. Five vintage automobiles are on display to highlight how innovative train technology and design paved the way for the emergence of the automobile. The five automobiles on loan from the California Automobile Museum will include the following: a 1914 Stanley Steam Car, a 1932 Ford Model B Station Wagon, a 1937 Cadillac Series 60 Sedan, a 1940 Lincoln Zephyr and a 1953 Chevrolet Bel Air. 10am. through 9/4. 111 I St.

sPorts & outdoors saturday, 8/5 lunar lunacy ride: Annual nighttime bike ride. Enjoy Sacramento landmarks

like the Capitol, the Sacramento River, Raley Field and the railyards. When you hit the finish line, there’s a festival-like experience with food trucks, live music and vendor booths. Costumes, neon lights and creativity encouraged. The ride benefits CASA Sacramento and their “Making Memories” program, which funds extracurricular activities for foster youth in Sacramento. 7pm, $25-$35. Raley Field, 400 Ball Park.

sacramento republic fc vs. vancouver wHitecaps fc 2: 8pm, $20-$102. Papa Murphy’s Park, 1600 Exposition Blvd.

virgil flynn iii productions presents: village of cHampions: Sacramento’s premier pro wrestling promotion returns to Fruitride Road. 6pm, $10-$32. 4401 Fruitridge Road.

taKe action identity and political organiZing: An evening discussion about identity politics and how to navigate identity in political organizing. Applies leftist revolutionary theory. 6:30pm. 4660 Via Ingoglia.

saturday, 8/5

sactru (sacramento tranist riders union) weeKly meeting: The Sacramento Transit Riders Union is an independent, democratic, member-run union of transit riders organizing for better public transit in Sacramento County and beyond. 1pm.

Organize Sacramento, 1714 Broadway.

wHose streets? our streets! alternatives to police!: Forum on how to build a structure to replace police with community. 6pm. Sacramento Public Library Belle Cooledge, 5600 Land Park Drive.

sunday, 8/6

prisoner solidarity nigHt: letter writing: Every Sunday night, the Prisoner Solidarity Network writes letters to people who are currently incarcerated. Supplies provided, but bring extra stamps, a computer or notepad, loose cash to donate to the space and any reading material on prison issues.

6pm, no cover. Lavender Library, 1414 21st St.

monday, 8/7

building a citywide tenants union: Has the rent, in your opinion, gotten too damn high? Come join the budding Sacramento Tenant Union at its next bi-monthly meeting. They organize to fight for tenant protections. 6pm. Capsity, 2572 21st St.

classes tHursday, 8/3 badassery 101: A Spiritual Life Center 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.

tHe booK lab: Do you have a story to tell?

In this camp, you’ll write your own story, illustrate the characters and setting, then put it all together in your own bound book.

9am, $205-$225. Blue Line Arts, 405 Vernon St., Suite 100 in Roseville.

frencH cooKing class: Three hour cooking class. Get instructions from the head chef to cook potato gratin dauphinois, chicken and vegetable stew, and chocolate mousse.

Dinner and wine included. Classes fill up quickly. 5:30pm, $26. Napoli’s Culinary Academy, 1401 Fulton Ave.

pHotograpHy 101: Learn the basics of working with a digital camera, including composition, lighting and the rule of thirds. 10am, $85$90. Blue Line Arts, 405 Vernon St., Suite 100 in Roseville.

women of wealtH retreat 2017: Annual event that includes interactive sessions and exercises for professionals. Keynote speakers include Shea Vaughn (founder and co-CEO of the Women’s Broadcasting Television Network), Endyia KinneyStearn (former VP of programing for the O Network) and more. 2pm, $400-$750.

Embassy Suites by Hilton Sacramento Riverfront Promenade, 100 Capitol Mall.

friday, 8/4

latin dance nigHt: Learn to salsa dance, enjoy food and drinks and jig the night away.

Art displays and crafts for sale. 7pm, no cover. Casa de Español, 1101 R St.

saturday, 8/5

artful tot: Held monthly. Toddlers can explore artmaking in a variety of ways, from printmaking, color mixing to working with clay and fabric. Adults can learn how to encourage experimentation and self-exprssion while nurturuing their kids’ creativity. For children 19 to 36 months old. 9am, $7-$10. Crocker Art Museum, 216 O St.

cutting board: Learn to make a food-safe blank of wood. Students should bring safety glasses, a mask and hearing protection if they have them. 1pm, $45. Rockler Woodworking and Hardware, 6648 Lonetree Blvd. in Rocklin.

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MASTERCRAFT dRIVINg SCHOOl: Become certified to trailer and operate pull watersports. 8am, $150. The Watersports Farm, 1776 Marcum Road in Nicolaus.

RuHSTAllER HOP SCHOOl 2017: Learn the brewery’s history, the history of hop cultivation, how they grow beer and have a helping hand in growing hops. Taught in stages. This week’s stage: harvest.

Admission includes beer, lunch and a $10 donation to the Center for Land Based Learning. 7am, $30. Ruhstaller Farm & Yard, 8949 Olmo Lane in Dixon.

sunday, 8/6

AERIAl HOOP: Learn acrobatics on a lyra, or a metal hoop suspended in the air. Like most circus acrobatics, the class requires a little upper body strength, depending on your ability. Beginners welcome. 4:30pm, $20. 2014 9th St.

BEER YOgA: Earn a Sunday beer with a Yoga class first. Twenty bucks gets you an hourlong yoga class and a Big Stump cold brew after. 11am, $20. Big Stump Brew Co., 1716 L St.

PERSONAl dEFENSE ClASS: Learn how to defend yourself and win. Has selfempowerment components. Call (916) 225-9077 to reserve a spot. Noon, $15. The Firehouse 5, 2014 9th St.

Tuesday, 8/8 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.

BEgINNINg TRIBAl FuSION BEllY dANCE: Learn the basics of isolating and layering areas of the body to fuse multiple styles of world dance. Build a short combination, or choreography, based on the workout. 6:30pm, $12. Hot Pot Studios, 1614 K St.

`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.

THE HEAlINg PATH SERIES: A free series of bereavement workshops, intended to provide support to those in the Sacramento community who have experienced loss. Each meeting is approximately one hour in length. Weeks one through five (7/11-8/8) are held in Rodda Hall South 176. 4pm, no cover.

Sacramento City College, 3835 Freeport Blvd.

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The mother claims it was vandals. I feel sorry for this boy having a mother who won’t take responsibility. Some neighbors want to start a fund so he can attend a Christian school and learn values. What do you think?

Your good intentions are misdirected. Trauma or stress or a personality disorder has driven this mom to protect herself and her son from reality.

As a result, her son is in crisis.

He hasn’t yet learned how to express anger in a healthy way.

When he destroys other people’s property, he faces no consequences. Sending the boy to a school that teaches Christian values could cause more trouble. As he learns new values at school, he will have to choose between loyalty to the school’s values or loyalty to his mother. Who do you think will win?

Christianity (or any other religion) is not magic. It’s superstitious to believe that attending a Christian school automatically initiates a change of heart. Integrating values into one’s life can be challenging, humbling and painful. A religious school offers community and change is easier within a supportive circle. But don’t be naïve—some students, teachers and staff won’t exemplify your values. After all, even Christians can’t agree on what Christian values are. But most citizens of the world can agree on the qualities of a good person. And those qualities are informed by our view of people

transformed through religion or spirituality. (See what I did there?)

Honesty is a universally acknowledged value. Let me attempt it here: You’re avoiding responsibility. Every child is our child. Every adult is a brother or sister. If I caught a child destroying flowers, I’d say he had to pay for the damage, but could work it off by helping me garden. If his mother accused me of verbally attacking him, and I didn’t, I would say he must be scared to tell the truth and ask how she and I could work together to help him be honest. Be clear—I’m not saying that I could flip a switch in the mother’s heart. I’m choosing to be honest despite her drama. And that brings me to this: Your neighborhood is colluding to harm this boy and his mother. She asks to borrow money?

Set terms in writing for repayment and get it notarized. She asks to borrow a car?

Set terms in writing, get it notarized, inform your insurance agent, etc. Show her how to be responsible by being responsible. Send him to a Christian school after you create a community that reinforces the values you want him to live. Ω

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Sun-grown weed gets a bad rap, mostly because back in the day, all the outdoor weed was smuggled in from out of the country or grown by irresponsible rapscallions more interested in profit than growing good cannabis. Also, the war on drugs crackdown on family pot farms (anyone remember the Paraquat herbicide?) created a great opportunity for indoor growers to dominate the market.

Cannabis grown indoors is really, really, good, but nothing beats a well-grown cannabis plant from the great outdoors. Indoor lights and fans can do a good imitation, but even the best lights lack the full spectrum of light emitted by the sun. Growing cannabis in the sun is also a more sustainable way to farm cannabis—you don’t have to spend thousands of dollars a month on electricity.

Plus, in my opinion, well-grown outdoor weed just tastes better, the same way a microbrew or a craft beer smells and tastes better than a commercial brewed beer. If you want to try some good sun-grown cannabis, hit up your local dispensary. Or wait until the Emerald Cup in December. Or just come over.

What’s up with the feds? Are they coming after us or not?

—Khan Speerasee Who knows? These guys like chaos because it keeps everyone on alert. So far, though, things are going OK. Although United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions is still trying to keep cannabis illegal, the Senate Appropriations Committee just reauthorized the Rohrabacher-Blumenauer amendment, federal legislation that has kept the feds from spending money to go after state-legal canna-businesses since 2014. Hopefully, this amendment will also pass the House of Representatives, and we will be safe for a while longer.

One would hope that Sessions would have better things to do with his time than go after law-abiding cannabis users, The war on drugs seeing as he has a country to help ruin, crackdown on family er, run. As it stands, cannabis activists have a few things in our favor: One is pot farms created a the fact that the cannabis industry is great opportunity for making money for everyone, so goverindoor growers. nors and business owners aren’t going to want to kill their cash cow or go to jail for profiting from a federally illegal drug. And if you think Sessions won’t throw a governor in jail for collecting tax money from cannabis, you probably didn’t think Donald Trump would become president.

The other reason is that the Department of Justice may have to defend itself in court from a lawsuit by former NFL player Marvin Washington, which cites the racist roots of the war on drugs to challenge the Drug Enforcement Agency classification of cannabis as a Schedule I drug. Ω Ngaio Bealum is a Sacramento comedian, activist and marijuana expert.

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FOR THE WEEk OF AUGUST 3, 2017 ARIES (March 21-April 19): In my astrological

opinion, your life in the coming days should draw inspiration from the ancient Roman festival of Saturnalia, a six-day bout of revelry that encouraged everyone to indulge in pleasure, speak freely and give gifts. Your imminent future could (and I believe should) also have resemblances to the yearly Doo Dah Parade in Pasadena, which features a farcical cavalcade of lunatics, like the Shopping Cart Drill Team, The Radioactive Chicken Heads, the Army of Toy Soldiers and the Men of Leisure Synchronized Nap Team.

In other words, Aries, it’s an excellent time to set aside your dignity and put an emphasis on having uninhibited fun; to amuse yourself to the max as you experiment on the frontiers of selfexpression; to be the person you would be if you had nothing to lose.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): It’s time to Reinvent

the Wheel and Rediscover Fire, Taurus. In my astrological opinion, you’ll be wasting your time unless you return to the root of all your Big Questions. Every important task will mandate you to consult your heart’s primal intelligence. So don’t mess around with trivial pleasures or transitory frustrations that won’t mean anything to you a year from now. Be a mature wild child in service to the core of your creative powers.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Writing in The Futur-

ist magazine, Christopher Wolf says that the tradition of eating three hearty meals per day is fading and will eventually disappear. “Grazing” will be the operative term for how we get our fill, similar to the method used by cavemen and cavewomen. The first snack after we awaken, Wolf suggests, might be called “daystart.” The ensuing four could be dubbed “pulsebreak,” “humpmunch,” “holdmeal” and “evesnack.” In light of your current astrological omens, Gemini, I endorse a comparable approach to everything you do: not a few big doses, but rather frequent smaller doses; not intense cramming but casual browsing; not sprawling heroic epics but a series of amusing short stories.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The RIKEN Institute

in Japan experiments with using ion beams to enhance plant growth. In one notable case, they created a new breed of cherry tree that blossoms four times a year and produces triple the amount of flowers. The blooms last longer, too, and the trees thrive under a wider span of temperatures. In the next 11 months, Cancerian, you won’t need to be flooded with ion beams to experience a similar phenomenon. I expect that your power to bloom and flourish will be far stronger than usual.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Leo actor Robert DeNiro

once observed that most people devote more energy to concealing their emotions and longings than to revealing them. Is that true about you? If so, the coming weeks will be a favorable time to hide less of yourself and express more. There’ll be relatively little hell to pay as a result, and you’ll get a boost of vitality. Don’t go overboard, though. I’m not suggesting that you unveil every last one of your feelings and yearnings to everyone—just to those you trust. Most importantly, I hope you will unveil all your feelings and yearnings to yourself.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): It has almost become

a tradition: Each year at about this time, you seem to enjoy scaring the hell out of yourself, and often the heaven, too. These self-inflicted shocks have often had a beneficial side effect.

They have served as rousing prompts for you to reimagine the future. They have motivated and mobilized you. So yes, there has been an apparent method in your madness—an upside to the uproar. What should we expect this time, my dear? A field trip to a crack house or a meth lab? Some fun and games in a pit of snakes? An excursion to the land of bad memories? I suggest something less melodramatic. How about, for example, a frolic with unruly allies in a future paradise that’s still a bit unorganized?

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Before grapes become wine, they have to be cleaned. Then crushed.

Then macerated and pressed. The next phase is fermentation, followed by filtering. The aging process, which brings the grapes’ transformation to completion, requires more time then the

other steps. At the end, there’s one more stage: putting the wine in bottles. I’d like to compare the grapes’ evolution to the story of your life since your last birthday. You are nearing the end of the aging phase. When that’s finished, I hope you put great care into the bottling. It’s as important as the other steps.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Are you gearing

up to promote yourself and your services? In my astrological opinion, you should be. If so, you could put the following testimonial from me in your résumé or advertisement: “[place your name here] is a poised overseer of nervewracking transitions and a canny scout who is skilled at tracking down scarce resources. He/ she can help you acquire the information and enhancements you don’t quite have the power to get by yourself. When conditions are murky or perplexing, this plucky soul is enterprising and inventive.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Your eyes

are more powerful than you realize. If you were standing on a mountaintop under a cloudless night sky with no moon, you could see a fire burning 50 miles away. Your imagination is also capable of feats that might surprise you. It can, for example, provide you with an expansive and objective view of your entire life history. I advise you to seek that boost now. Ask your imagination to give you a prolonged look at the big picture of where you have been and where you are going. I think it’s essential to your discovery of the key to the next chapter of your life story.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Love is your

gritty but sacred duty. It’s your prickly prod and your expansive riddle, your curious joy and your demanding teacher. I’m talking about the whole gamut, Capricorn—from messy personal romantic love to lucid unconditional spiritual love; from asking smartly for what you desire to gratefully giving more than you thought you had. Can you handle this much sweet, dark mystery? Can you grow your intimacy skills fast enough to keep up with the interesting challenges? I think you can.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): There’s an eclipse

of the moon coming up in the sign of Aquarius.

Will it bring bad luck or good luck? Ha! That’s a trick question. I threw it in to see if you have been learning anything from my efforts to redeem astrology’s reputation. Although some misinformed people regard my chosen field as a superstitious pseudo-science, I say it’s an imaginative art form that helps us identify and transform our subconscious patterns. So the wise answer to my earlier question is that the imminent lunar eclipse is neither bad luck nor good luck. Rather, it tells you that have more power than usual to: (1) tame and manage the disruptive and destructive aspects of your instinctual nature; (2) make progress in dissolving your old conditioning; (3) become more skilled at mothering yourself.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): August is Good

Hard Labor Month for you Pisceans. It’s one of those rare times when a smart version of workaholic behavior might actually make sense.

Why? First of all, it could ultimately lead to a pay raise or new perks. Secondly, it may bring to light certain truths about your job that you’ve been unconscious of. Third, it could awaken you to the fact that you haven’t been trying as hard as you could to fulfill one of your long-term dreams; it might expand your capacity to devote yourself passionately to the epic tasks that matter most. For your homework, please meditate on this thought: Summoning your peak effort in the little things will mobilize your peak effort for the Big Thing.

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The flying bartender Bobby Griffith is grilling hot dogs in a parking lot in East Sacramento.

The owner of Clubhouse 56, a pub and restaurant near the corner of 56th and H Streets, Griffith, 50, is smiling and shaking hands with customers and passersby. The longtime Sacramento resident has two fulltime jobs with seemingly diverse skill sets. While he’s not working the crowd—with mostly everyone on a first-name basis—Griffith is managing employees, tweaking the menu and otherwise running the business. When he’s not doing that, he’s a captain for Southwest Airlines.

Griffith flies out of Oakland. But his long work days can begin in Sacramento by opening the neighborhood establishment that caters to locals and various university athletic alumni groups who gather for key sporting events. Big-screen televisions, cold beer, mixed drinks and a mean menu of burgers, tacos, tortilla soup and daily lunch and dinner specials define the vibe. The decor is primarily sports memorabilia except for a large logo sign from the original and long-gone Shakey’s Pizza Parlor on 57th and J Streets.

How did you decide you could own a pub and also be an airline pilot?

I don’t think I really knew how difficult this industry was until I jumped into it. It takes similar devotion and commitment to get where I’ve gotten with the airlines.

It just took years and years of dedication.

But [the pub] is probably a more difficult industry. They are both customer-based.

And both require a lot of hands-on responsibilities. I’m still here, but it’s definitely the most difficult and challenging thing I’ve done in my life.

How long have you been a pilot?

I’ve been a commercial pilot since 1987.

I’ve had various jobs along the way, from flight instruction, corporate to charter. But the only airline I’ve flown for is Southwest.

We fly just 737s.

How do you manage both jobs?

A lot of mornings, I’ll come in, open the restaurant and work two or three hours.

I fly evening shifts primarily, so I make the two-hour drive, check in an hour before departure and then maybe head to Las Vegas and then to Newark. On combo days, my average day is 15-18 hours. When we first opened in 2010, I might land in Oakland at 10 p.m., drive here and then close the restaurant at 2 a.m. Now, I go

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home from Oakland. It’s been 100-hour weeks for a lot of years, but the good thing about it is that they’re both different.

The restaurant is very challenging; the airline allows me to get away from the restaurant.

You often work 80-100 hour weeks.

How do you do it?

It’s crazy wearing two hats. It’s always good to come home. When I come into the restaurants, I find out how things have gone the past couple of days. But if I’ve been [at the restaurant] for too long, it’s always great to ship out for a few days.

The jobs definitely complement each other.

course. But there seems to be some dichotomy, at least on the surface.

Can you make any comparison between the two jobs?

Being in aviation is all about consistency.

There’s not a lot of room for error and you are always trying to have the perfect flight or landing or whatever it may be.

Each job poses different challenges. The restaurant is all customer service. How can you make their experience memorable and get them to come back? In the airlines, you are always trying to do good, follow a lot of procedures and rules. They are both very demanding jobs and stressful under certain circumstances.

Can you give me an example?

What have you learned about the restaurant business?

Before I was this deep into it, I didn’t realize why restaurants would come and go.

But when you get into it, you understand the challenges facing small businesses and little restaurants. You have to have a consistent level of food and a consistent level of service. You have to keep it clean.

We are a neighborhood, family-friendly place and for a bar and grill, a sports-bar kind of place. It’s really difficult to do.

But we’ve managed to do it. You have to maintain, and you can’t get complacent.

This industry never allows you to feel too comfortable.

I can’t help but think of Flight, the Denzel Washington movie in which he was an alcoholic pilot. It’s unfair, of

You could have a full house in the restaurant and the air conditioner goes out. It happens. Or the ice machine breaks, or maybe it’s the grill. Maybe you have a gas leak or a sewer issue. It can be anything.

In the airlines, we have mechanical problems. We have an airplane full of passengers, some of whom may not understand why we are canceling a flight. Trying to keep your emotions under control in two uniquely different jobs is important.

Do you ever come in after a long haul and pour yourself a beer?

Not very often. The longer I’ve been in the industry, the less I drink at all. The days are so long; I just don’t have the time. You kind of have to be on your game all the time. Ω

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