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A noble act The cover of this week’s issue of SN&R is all Anna Darzins. That is her smiling and hugging one of her many grateful clients, a homeless man named Mark.

And those are her words quoted in the headline.

As you will learn in John Flynn’s feature article, Darzins works for Elica Health Centers, a nonprofit whose slogan is “Healing With Heart.” This organization was founded in 1979 to serve what was then a wave of Eastern European immigrants. Its name (pronounced “elitza” in Romanian) means “noble.”

Now, there’s a word we don’t hear much these days. Happily, the feudal age and its caste of nobility are mostly long gone. Sadly, the age-old virtue of nobility is no longer much in fashion.

Noble. Righteous. Honorable.

Decent. We need these old-school virtues right now to deal with the circumstance that finds thousands upon thousands of people living in our streets and woods.

Yes, it can be frustrating and even frightening to feel as if our neighborhoods and parks have been overrun.

We need to get beyond the frustration and fear. We need to find that “place of love” Anna Darzins speaks of.

Flynn and photographer Karlos Rene Ayala spent a bunch of time with Darzins and with the people she and the Elica street team serve.

Like her, they found the humanity in these people, most of whom have been traumatized through no fault of their own. Their work was aided

by News Editor Raheem F. Hosseini, who himself has spent a fair amount of time visiting with our most vulnerable neighbors.

This piece fired up some compassion in me and I hope it does the same for you.

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It would be The Way with Martin Sheen. It is a man’s journey. He starts out as a curmudgeonly, rigid doctor who never steps outside of the box. His son is killed while making the Camino de Santiago Walk. He does the walk, scattering his son’s ashes. I am trying to learn as much as I can.

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Curating My Own Success Story, and it would be about

scouting new opportunities and overcoming obstacles, which is needed for me to build a creative, successful base for my future.

My mom would be in my movie, for she is my main supporter.

It is called The Truman Show with Jim Carrey. He is raised in this world, and everyone is actors, and even the sun setting is controlled. He even finds out his best friend is an actor, so it is important to pick your friends wisely. I like to question life around me.

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Farm to Fork: silly and too short Re “Diner of the dead” by Becky Grunewald (Dish, August 10): Ms. Grunewald’s comment about not using the term “foodie” to describe oneself really hit home with me. I am a gourmet cook. I prepare food for friends who like good food. Not a one of us is a foodie. My beer-drinking friends like quality beer—this does not make them “beer geeks.” And while on the subject, all of these wannabe bartenders who make “craft” cocktails; give me a break. I do not require a rosemary, rose water and rose blossom in my cocktail. It is called bourbon & branch (wild turkey and spring water). In closing, this so-called “farmto-fork” thing just makes us look silly.

And one last shot: This “dinner party” on the bridge needs work.

Way too many people are being shut out of this thing. This event needs to be held more than once over the course of a long weekend.

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Respect the river Re “Inanimate objectives”

by Cynthia Spencer (Essay, August 31): I found myself growing

angry at the conclusions while agreeing with the main points that the homeless problem has grown exponentially, people are more important than things, and politicians have patted

themselves on the back while having no new real ideas on what to do.

I fished the I-80 green bridge up to Watt Avenue in the 1970s, concentrating on the area below the Fair Oaks/ H Street bridge. A devoted yet not spectacular fisherman, I caught striped bass, steelhead, American shad, and an occasional salmon. This May I parked and tried to access my time-tested “hole” and was prevented by a newly formed camp of homeless. I could no longer get down to the river via my trail because a tent the size of my kitchen and dining room combined intervened. On the city side of the levee, 20 to 40 people had thrown up tents against one of the buildings, and the place was trashed like I have never seen.

The river is not a “thing.”

Rivers are the source of life and should be respected as such. The Nisenan Maidu people thrived along the

American River for centuries.

May we continue to be good stewards of the river in our personal lives, help those we can, homeless or not, not get ahead at others’ expense, and not ignore problems because they are so obvious. I write this out of frustration because I feel no one gives a crap.

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Say ‘no’ to pork Re “An eye for an eye” by Marc Perkel (Letters, August 31): To suggest that the good people from Texas would deny aid to fellow Americans is downright hard to swallow. The gent from Gilroy should have added that the Sandy relief bill had been commandeered and turned into a pork barrel … over $50 billion, which a large portion of the appropriations

had nothing to do with the aid package. Texas objected and was right to vote “no” to such corruption. It passed, of course.

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Some tidbits of love, happiness and truth to counteract and dispel Donald Trump’s hate, ignorance and lies. Hey Donald: The more one judges, the less one loves.

The most powerful force on earth is love. Great truths and great achievements involve great risk.

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Local rapper Lavish D boasted of his release from prison in a video posted to Instagram.

Less than two months later, he was back behind bars.

Images courtesy of Instagram

Rap stars behind bars Sacramento has locked up five gangster rappers for practicing what they rhyme

by Raheem F. hosseini and Bansky Gonzalez

It began with a post-Independence Day message.

On July 5, Lavish D announced his return home from prison with an exuberant Instagram video. The Sacramento rapper, born Donald Oliver, sported a large gold ring on his finger and a stack of hundred dollar bills in his hand, meant to mimic a phone, as he imagined a conversation with himself and everybody who could view the video.

“You say what bitch? Lavish D out?” he said while smiling. “Oh yeah!

Bitch it’s going down.”

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that came amid a hail of gunfire, an unsolved murder and a reignited beef with a prominent rap foe.

He’s not the only one, either.

Including Oliver, at least five selfstyled gangster rappers are behind bars as law enforcement reacts to the violence that it says ripples from their social media taunts and gritty music videos.

The rappers say they’re simply making art that accurately depicts their dispossessed neighborhoods, saturated in poverty and crime.

“Our music is not who we are,” said one of those jailbirds, Deandre Marquis

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Rogers, a.k.a. Lizk (pronounced “Lix”), who’s in custody awaiting trial on felony gun charges. “But they just throwing us out.”

Blurring the line between vérité art and real-world thuggery isn’t new in the gangster rap kingdom. A few break out doing so. But for every Mozzy, who signed with a music label and traded Oak Park for Los Angeles, there are plenty who fly too close to reality.

Oliver’s seven weeks of freedom did prove fruitful while they lasted. His Instagram following grew to over 100,000 as he released a steady stream

of music videos that amassed hundreds of thousands of views. The 33-year-old rapper was building toward the release of a new mixtape, 3 Years Later, and a posted FaceTime conversation with Bay Area rap legend E-40 sparked rumors that he had signed a record deal with E-40’s label Sick Wid It. All of that momentum came to a halt on August 27, when Oliver attended a video shoot at Meadowview Park, where gunfire left four wounded and a 49-year-old man dead. The video shoot was for two songs by Sacramento rap mainstay C-Bo (whose real name is Shawn Thomas), a noted 29th Street Crip currently embroiled in a war of words with Mozzy, Sacramento’s largest rap act of the moment.

Oliver’s attendance at the video shoot had its own significance, as he too has been in a years-long feud with Mozzy, an Oak Park Bloods-affiliated rapper. As a member of rival gang the Starz, Oliver is alleged to have organized the beating of an Oak Park Bloods member in Footaction at Arden Fair mall back in 2013. Oliver pleaded

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After the park shooting, Oliver took to Instagram to declare his innocence.

“I ain’t do nothing,” he said in a sincedeleted, minute-long video. “All I did was show up to a video shoot, trying to support my rapping partner, on some unity shit. Wasn’t no diss records being recorded or none of that shit.”

He denied partaking in any shooting before saying, “What y’all niggas trying to send me to jail or something?”

It proved a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Oliver was arrested the next day, officially cited for driving on a suspended license and violating his parole.

According to Sacramento Superior Court’s online database, he pleaded guilty to the violation on September 6 and was sentenced to 90 days at the Sacramento County Main Jail. Oliver is scheduled to be released on October 13, but has a Solano County bench warrant for his arrest, for an unresolved misdemeanor, waiting when he does.

Even some who are critical of the influence local gangster rappers have on the younger generation say Oliver was arrested for symbolic reasons.

“Arresting Lavish D was a punk move,” said Berry Accius, founder of the Voice of the Youth mentoring program. “Because it wasn’t his fault.

Should he have been there? Probably not. But he didn’t create that.”

Something similar was said when Oliver’s younger brother received a two-year prison sentence in May after pleading no contest to failing to appear in court.

California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s inmate locator shows the 29-year-old Deiondrea Oliver is at the Deuel Vocational Institution in Tracy. The younger Oliver, who raps under the moniker Prince Dreda, missed the court date because he was in the hospital with complications from an unsolved shooting that nearly killed him a few months prior, he, his mother and defense attorney said.

Also at the Tracy prison, Todd Maurice Williams, 24, is doing a 15-year bit after a jury convicted him of two felony counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm in July.

Williams sent a letter pleading his case to SN&R before his trial began. In it, Williams, who says he’s friends with Prince Dreda and raps as Stink, wrote

that his music status drew the attention of local gang detectives.

“Now I’m not saying that being an Entertainer gives you the right to break the law or that Entertainers don’t commit crimes,” he wrote. “However I do feel we should have a fair chance at proving our innocents [sic], and shouldn’t be made targets for chasing our dreams.”

Meadoview native said the neighborhood park shooting “actually touched home for me.”

“I’m trying to do what I can to give back—and help myself,” he added.

Rogers has spent the past nine months in jail on two felony counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm and one count of knowingly transporting a machine gun. Rogers says he was riding in the back of lavish d hasn’t been a car with his girlfriend connected to the and a friend after Meadowview violence. getting sushi when No one has been police pulled them arrested for the over late last year near shooting death of Howe Avenue and Lavish D Ernie Jessey Cadena Arden Way. Inside the Sacramento rapper at the 24th Street park, car, he says, was a gun the Sacramento Police that wasn’t his.

Department confirmed.

Like the other rappers “We don’t have in his situation, he says anybody in custody for [the prosecutors are using his rap shooting] yet,” said department spokesvideos against him; in this case, by woman Officer Linda Matthew. Calling arguing that a gun featured in one of it “still an active investigation at this his videos looks a lot like the Glock 21 point,” Matthew added that police were semi-automatic pistol reportedly found “not sure if it’s gang-related or not.” in the car. “If I was anybody else, I Two days after Oliver was arrested, wouldn’t be in here for this,” Rogers the Sacramento City Council agreed said. to fund a $1.5 million program called The felony charges threaten a third Advance Peace to combat gun violence. strike for the 24-year-old, who pleaded The council was set to discuss the no contest last year to felony counts of program in September, but a special assault with a firearm and possessing a meeting was called in the wake of the concealed firearm.

Meadowview Park shooting, which Noting Advance Peace’s goal of politicians blamed on a simmering feud targeting likely shooters with the street among gang-affiliated rappers. reps to halt the violence, Rogers said, “I The program especially seeks to highly qualify for it, you feel me?” reign in retaliatory gun violence by Asked if that meant Rogers had reaching the “small number of commucommitted gun violence, the rapper nity members who are among the demurred, saying his criminal record most likely victims of violence,” and spoke for itself. “I don’t want to say drafting them in a three-year fellowship I’m a shooter, but the police, they know program, providing educational and me,” he said. economic opportunities to “young adults Youth mentor Accius rolls his eyes who are traditionally isolated from a little at the notion that these rappers those services,” a staff report says. are just reflecting the grittier aspects of There’s been controversy about the their reality, not partaking in it. program’s approach, which includes “It’s hard because, in some sense, offering stipends of up to $1,000 over a I get that it’s entertainment value. But nine-month period to participants, and on the other [side], I feel that there’s a hiring reformed gang members to intercertain responsibility that we have to vene in conflicts before they turn violent. have as community members, as well as But the Richmond-born program artists, on what kind of imagery we’re claimed a 60 percent reduction in putting out and what we’re promoting,” firearm assaults over a six-year period he said. “There’s more to the commuin the Bay Area city, which Sacramento nity than just what they magnify. hopes to replicate.

“Yeah, it sells, but you’re almost Rogers, or Lizk, wants to offer his selling out your community and services. yourself by only depicting negative Calling SN&R from the same jail imagery,” Accius added. “Like, let’s holding Lavish D and Rogers’ cousin balance it out.” Ω Daniel “Poppy Chulo” Bush, the

“I ain’t do nothing.”

Sacramento’s most famous pie caper ended with a whimper instead of a splat.

Last Thursday morning, the Sacramento County district attorney’s office made it clear that it would not put activist and military veteran Sean Thompson in front of a jury for a second time on grounds that he “assaulted” former Mayor Kevin Johnson with a crusted pile of coconut cream. Instead, prosecutor Anthony Ortiz announced a deal in which Thompson pleaded guilty to one count of misdemeanor disturbing the peace, effectively ending a yearlong political soap opera that drew national attention.

“This was always about justice,” Thompson’s attorney Claire White said of the deal. “This is a model for how it gets done.”

Ortiz had no comment.

The plea agreement was a far cry from the DA’s original criminal charges against Thomspon—for felony battery on a public official with the intent to cause fear or intimidation.

Thompson had put the pie in Johnson’s face during a fundraising event in September 2016, claiming it was an act of political theater to bring attention to the mayor’s handling of homelessness in the city. According to numerous eyewitnesses, Johnson then threw Thompson on the ground and punched him repeatedly.

With a second jury trial looming, White was preparing a doublejeopardy motion when she learned on September 6 that prosecutors would accept a plea agreement for disturbing the peace.

Thompson was sentenced to two days in county jail with credit for time served. He’ll face no fines or probation. (Scott Thomas Anderson)

houSeS of illuSion An FBI investigation that involved Section 8 fraud in Sacramento ended with a Bay Area man en route to federal prison.

Last month, 55-year-old Mahendra Prasad pleaded guilty to his role in illegal real estate purchases, misleading mortgage lenders and improperly renting out Section 8 housing. Similar to an unrelated case that ended this summer (Read “White collar catch,” News, July 6, 2017), Prasad’s crimes began on the eve of the financial collapse.

According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, in 2006 Prasad and three co-defendants submitted falsified loan applications to banks in order to buy 25 different properties between Sacramento and Modesto. Specifically, prosecutors allege the ring manipulated a federal “short sale” program meant to help distressed homeowners.

FBI officials said Prasad then used some of those properties to get federal dollars by renting units out as Section 8 housing, including at his property in Sacramento. That move eventually drew the attention of the Federal Housing Finance Agency Office of Inspector General. Further investigation revealed Prasad conspired to sell his Sacramento properties to an acquaintance, who he pretended not to know, in a short sale that cost his lender $328,000. The U.S. attorney’s office has said that, in total, the efforts of Prasad and his co-defendants cost banks more than $3 million in losses.

Prasad was federally indicted for mail fraud, along with Jyoteshna Karan, Praveen Singh, Sunita Singh and Nani Isaac. Prasad pleaded guilty on August 14 and was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison. Charges are still pending against his co-defendants.

A 2015 analysis from the security firm Interthinx FraudGuard reported that California has the second highest risk level for mortgage application fraud in the nation. (STA)

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A mural created through the Wide Open Walls program was tagged last week in Oak Park, sparking debate about whether street art can be vandalized by other street art. photo By raheem F. hosseini

Wide open gall A vandalized mural inspires debates about artistic etiquette and gentrification in Oak Park

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When Micah Baginski returned to his Oak Park real estate office after Labor Day weekend, a brazen message spray-painted on his business’ façade greeted him: “Gentrify 101: Make it hip!” the whitelettered graffiti read. Underneath that, the tagger left a closing message: “fuck that.”

Baginski couldn’t help but laugh at the latest person accusing him of gentrifying the community. He’s operated Grounded Real Estate in Oak Park since 2002, and he’s worked in the neighborhood for more than 25 years. “Honestly, it’s kind of comical at this point,” he said.

The graffiti remains contentious, however, because it was scrawled over another artist’s work, which many consider a violation of an unspoken code.

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blossoming development overtakes the once-impoverished neighborhood.

Tanya Faison, founder of Black Lives Matter’s local chapter and an Oak Park native, for instance, called the graffiti “a great reminder to the neighborhood that people are still being affected by gentrification, that people are still being displaced.”

Local artist Waylon Horner finished the mural on Grounded’s Broadway and 34th Street headquarters in late August. The piece was commissioned as part of Wide Open Walls, a high-profile, citywide mural project where businesses and donors commissioned dozens of artists to paint new pieces on blank buildings.

“It’s not a big deal. We’re just going to fix it and move on with our lives,” Horner said of the graffiti, adding that he

anticipated that someone might deface the work, which he spent 100 hours painting.

Horner, who described himself as an artist and not an activist, said he sympathizes with anger over displacement.

Grounded said it will pay him to repair the mural. “The lesson learned is more like, ‘There are assholes out there,’” Horner said. “There’s no substantial message there. It’s just defacing.”

But south Oak Park resident and Sacramento City College arts professor Gioia Fonda contended that the graffiti is “a lot more complex than, ‘Oh, somebody’s art got fucked up,’” she said.

“The tag was heartfelt and well-placed, given the intention of the person who put it there,” she said. “The person behind it was feeling unheard, and they felt that they didn’t have a better platform to express themselves, other than put it on a wall.”

The mural was painted just north of the central-city grid on Broadway, blocks recently branded as “The Triangle.” It’s a community transformed in recent years.

Home and rental prices continue to rise. Baginski, whose business leases property in the area, estimated several new eateries and businesses arrived to the block in recent years. “It’s a really hard place to open a business,” he said.

Fonda described Wide Open Walls as a great program that helps artists, but worried the graffiti is “evidence that there might be a reason to slow down and consider the consequences of plopping something into a neighborhood.” She said “parachuting” art into neighborhoods doesn’t always resonate with locals (the initial response to the Watts Towers in South Central Los Angeles being an example). “The artists get caught in the middle,” she said.

Wide Open Walls’ founder David Sobon said his project worked with groups such as the arts and social-justice nonprofit Sol Collective to decide what murals would go in every neighborhood. “We did thoughtful and mindful outreach in the community,” he said.

Sobon, who called Wide Open Walls “the most popular event in the history of Sacramento,” said the murals were gifts to the city. “You were looking at an ugly brick wall,” he said, “and instead of looking at graffiti or gang tags, now you’re looking at art.”

Sobon, an art auctioneer, said he hopes the tagger goes to jail for the graffiti. But Baginski says he understands why folks are angry. “Rents are the highest they’ve ever been in Sacramento, and housing is in short supply,” he said.

He’d like to see a community forum to discuss how Oak Park is changing so that people can better understand different perspectives. For example, Baginski pointed out that most people likely don’t realize new businesses have hired several locals, including Sacramento High School students. “We’re trying to make Oak Park a nicer place to be. And that’s not a bad thing,” he said.

But he’s also observed an elevated sense of wokeness in Sacramento. “Most of this is coming from people who move to Sacramento from Berkeley in the past years and think they’re god’s gift to social justice,” he said.

In the meantime, Horner said, he’ll soon be in Oak Park repairing his mural.

“It’s all good. I love to be out there painting,” he said. Ω

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Water for the people As the city hesitates, others step up to quench homeless residents’ thirst

by Michael Mott “today i dropped off a large crate full of water and ice at cesar chavez Park. oasis Stations #1. about 100 bottles. i stayed to hand out bottles and talk with about a dozen homeless. they were grateful. With 100+ degree forecast this week, it was a good time to start.”

“Someone always offers to help. the crates haven’t been stolen and are empty by each day’s end. i don’t need publicity. the homeless know me as Jim the Water Man. Just encourage your readers to set up similar stations around town or keep some water bottles handy. it’s ironic houston is flooded by water and here people are in great need of it.”

“While at cesar chavez Park i saw Sister libby Fernandez and her fellow Mercy Pedalers riding their bikes and handing out water, food and referrals for services to the homeless. this woman has devoted years of her life helping those in need. i’ve done it for about a week. her good work needs publicity. i’m satisfied just knowing i did something.”

Jim Lofgren directs the property management nonprofit Rental Housing Association, but has recently fallen under a new title—“Jim the Water Man.” After reading about the city’s dearth of water fountains, mounting homeless population and record-breaking heat in SN&R (Read “Fountain of truth,” News, August 10), Lofgren started leaving icepacked containers of bottled water in parks, dubbing them “water oasis stations.” In the process, he learned he was contributing to efforts already underway by longtime do-gooders toiling anonymously in the summer heat.

Nearly 40 percent of park drinking fountains are broken or malfunctioning, leaving unsheltered Sacramentans reliant on the generosity of strangers for the most basic need. The city says it’s working on a long-term funding solution to repair fountains, but doesn’t plan on building any more, despite zero fountains in Midtown or downtown, as of the latest data.

As if the public disinvestment in clean, accessible water wasn’t challenging enough, this summer was also California’s hottest. At least six county residents died of heat-related hypothermia this summer. Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory researchers found that humanity’s contribution to climate change made the record-breaking heat waves four to seven times more likely.

Lofgren was initially hesitant to have his efforts publicized. “Like I said, many others have done much more for many more years,” he wrote in a text. “But if it inspires others, that’s a positive. The homeless could use some more oasis spots around town. At only $10 for 3 packs of 24 water bottles, I will buy an oasis kit every week when shopping for groceries.” Ω

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“You don’t see them really get sick,” Buck said. “They disappear. And they don’t ever come back.”

According to estimates by the Sacramento Regional Coalition to End Homelessness, a person experiencing homelessness dies nearly each week and has a life expectancy 25 years shorter than a housed person.

Buck has witnessed the statistical disparities firsthand. About the two other people who died, he said one was murdered and the other hit by a car. Now, Buck’s worried about a man he calls his “street pops,” who Buck said took him in when he was a teenager but has recently developed stage four liver failure.

Buck wasn’t sure how he could help his adopted father. Anna Darzins offered a solution.

The Elica Health Centers clinician had trudged out to this homeless encampment by the American River in search of a man with chest pains. Along with a handful of other health care providers, Darzins makes her daily rounds through the alleys, under the bridges and into the woods where Sacramento’s homeless

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residents try to survive out of sight. Official estimates put this population anywhere from 3,600 to north of 13,000 people.

Obviously, many lack health insurance. Yet the varied and layered medical issues of people experiencing homelessness are exacerbated by living in unsanitary places without easy access to bathrooms, clean water and trash disposal.

Fairly common infections can become lethal.

Still, there’s a reluctance to seek out medical treatment because, as UC Davis medical student Crister Brady put it, “docs and cops are seen as the same thing.”

According to Buck, “Pops” despises hospitals because “that’s where all his friends go to die.” He said the older man once promised to go to the hospital. Just as Buck planned to pay him a visit there, he instead discovered that he was living in a tent in the backyard of a friend.

“I told him, ‘Pops, I’m gonna give you a kisser to the chin, throw you in a trailer and then drive you to the hospital,’” Buck recalled.

Darzins assured him such measures wouldn’t be necessary. She and Brady have found that the most effective way to treat those experiencing homelessness is to come to them. They represent a new generation of medical professionals that wants to lower stigma and customize care for those experiencing homelessness.

They’ve found an ally and a liaison in Dee Chavez, a formerly homeless Navy veteran who managed to win Brady access to a large, secret homeless

encampment known as “the Island.” Together, they’re trying to save as many lives as they can in the face of a public health crisis that they fear will grow worse as politicians and police step up enforcement along the river.

As Darzins assured Buck she’d return to care for his de facto dad, Buck’s wife elbowed him in the ribs. It seemed there was another patient who needed Darzins’s help.

Making house calls to the hoMeless While outside of the Union Gospel Mission on June 8, Darzins turned the corner and discovered a woman screaming—alternately at imagined voices and a man she called her boyfriend. When Darzins came near, the woman remembered her, but only that in their prior meeting, she couldn’t provide prednisone, a multipurpose, anti-inflammatory steroid.

Darzins said she didn’t have any at the moment, but promised that she could potentially write a prescription if the woman engaged with her street team of clinicians, which enrolled 1,011 patients into Elica’s system over the last year. But the woman returned to her state of agitation and repeatedly told Darzins to go away, which she eventually did, but not before promising to return and check up on her.

“It’s never perfect, but we just try to go with it and do the best that we can,” Darzins said. “I wanted to make sure to check on the lady because the biggest thing is keeping your word. Because if we don’t have that, then we don’t really have their trust.”

To bridge the divide between clinics and the diverse homeless community, Elica Health Centers started its street team in 2014.

Similar programs that started later include Sacramento Street Medicine and the Street Nurse Program sponsored by Sutter Health. Darzins leads Elica’s street team.

For each patient they see, Elica employees fill out an admittedly cumbersome amount of paperwork that’s a prerequisite for their federal funding, but also helps establish a patient history that’s invaluable for future treatment, wherever it may take place. Darzins said it’s critical to manage health conditions of this population before a relatively straightforward malady turns deadly.

John buck She offered the example of diabetes. Without proper homeless resident medication, cuts on diabetics require much more time to heal properly, increasing the risk of infection. Beyond that, limited food options may mean a person’s diet can worsen their condition, leading to neuropathy (extreme pain in the limbs) that makes getting to a doctor or even administering self-care borderline impossible.

Darzins said that Elica operates under a “no wrong way in” model, meaning the street team will come to a person and provide them with care no matter what.

She said they also work with the Sacramento Police Department’s Impact Team, which refers prospective patients to Elica and alerts them to new encampments (sometimes before officers close the sites down).

When Darzins makes her visits, she announces her presence with loud greetings so she doesn’t take anybody by surprise.

Darzins and Brady point out that people experiencing homelessness often suffer from mental and/or physical illnesses exacerbated by drug use and inhospitable living conditions. Most homeless individuals experienced trauma earlier in their lives, Brady said, and continue to be victimized by predators. Darzins added that many of the women she’s spoken with as part of Elica’s street team are victims of sexual assault.

Although Darzins said residents regarded her hesitantly in the beginning, they’ve grown to trust and rely on her team. To maintain this trust, she must be honest when Elica can’t provide something for a patient.

Another man at the Mission, who introduced himself as Mickey, explained he recently became homeless after an employee at his gym, who used to let him spend nights there, told him he had to find somewhere else to go.

When Mickey asked Darzins for shoe inserts to help him recover from plantar fasciitis surgery, she said Elica will never have them, primarily because effective “‘ a place of ones can cost hundreds and require customization. Mickey nodded and seemed a little hesitant to enter the Mission, but thanked Darzins when she handed him her continued on page 16 card and promised he could call her “anytime.”

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homelessness, writing them prescriptions for necessary medications that often get facility on June 9, 2006, and later charged with misdemeanor possession of covered by Medi-Cal. But when survival is a daily struggle, asking a person to do a controlled substance. Chavez pleaded not guilty and a federal judge later everything that’s medically recommended is a big ask. dismissed the charge. But Chavez said the repossessed van was never returned.

“If you’re worried about getting food or where you’re going to sleep, then Shortly afterward, Chavez moved to the Island, where, she said, she never felt you’re not going to be like, ‘Oh, I got to take my meds,’” explained Sachiko “homeless” because, like many others, that community became her home.

Kageyama, a street team nurse practitioner. “If you’re high blood pressure, you Citing tall trees and river views, Chavez called the Island a “beautiful” place don’t feel any of the symptoms. You don’t think about it at all. But if you don’t and said it got its name because water will surround it during the rainy season. manage your blood pressure, you can have a stroke, then you’ll be out here She said dozens live in tents covered by tarps to obscure their presence and paralyzed.” supplement weatherproofing. She said they use gasoline-powered generators for Kageyama added that many people experiencing homelessness can’t get the electricity and propane stoves to cook, often dining together in a set-aside kitchen benefits that a housed person would. Many of her patients suffer from congestive area. They make the site feel like home with furniture, appliances, chunks of heart failure, a condition that can warrant palliative care, including a care provider carpet and other odds and ends that they pick up on nighttime recycling rides. to help the afflicted with cooking, cleaning and going to appointments.

For many, she said, the exposure to the elements and illegality of the living “But because they’re homeless, they don’t have all of the access to those situation is offset by the freedom, natural beauty and lack of judgment from resources,” she said. “And so their health just kind of deteriorates until they’re at outsiders that the Island offers. Many of those living on the Island were there a point where it’s really horrible.” when she first arrived.

In a January point-in-time survey of 2,052 unsheltered people, 34 percent Upon hearing news of the county’s recently approved $5 million plan to rid reported a medical condition; 46 percent said they suffered from PTSD; 56 the American River parkway of encampments, Chavez said law enforcement has percent admitted to abusing substances; and 57 percent claimed a form dispersed the encampment in the past, but the Island’s residents almost of mental illness, according to a report from Sacramento State unfailingly return.

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Tensions between the homeless community and law enforceSome use drugs to cope with the fallout from trauma or to ment have been widely documented, and this mistrust has been remain artificially alert, Darzins said, “self-medicating with transferred to health care professionals. Some have heard that something that’s not in their best interest, while it may help a medical team attracted attention to a San Jose encampment them feel better for a minute.” nicknamed “the Jungle,” which prompted the city to shut Most serious drug addictions begin after a person has down the site. fallen into homelessness, Brady added.

Stories like this are why Chavez and others are hesitant Dee Chavez, the formely homeless Navy vet who has about bringing in outsiders or extra attention to their living become a trusted resource on the Island, testifies to the situation. fact that methamphetamine and other drugs can lead to “People know we’re there,” she said. “But don’t bring dee chavez psychosis and paranoia that further destabilize a person’s the attention.

Because once there’s attention, they got to do homeless health mental health. something. They have to respond. And once they respond, it care advocate “Those voices are real,” she said. “Don’t think they’re may not be what you want.” just talking to themselves. It is very, very real to them. And Chavez first got involved with health care through a needle I tell them, ‘I know, I’ve lost my mind too.’” exchange at Harm Reduction Services. She said she took more than 30 needles three days in a row to provide clean injection materials for community members. Soon, administrators learned the details of Journey to the Island her unique living situation and guided her to securing other medical supplies and services.

High on methamphetamine, Chavez rode her bike through Sacramento on the Brady originally came to Sacramento to discover why people experiencing night of October 27, 2015. She had been up for two days, gathering recyclables homelessness didn’t avail themselves of conventional health services. But after and dodging danger—the predators who target women living on the street, the visiting the Island several times, he refocused his research on the network of care drug-induced delusions that rustled in the bushes and the police officers who had that Chavez created outside of formal systems. arrested her for possession of narcotics in the past.

He saw how Chavez kept stores of clean needles, bandages, blankets and While pedaling, she closed her eyes for what seemed like a moment. The next CalFresh credits. Beyond tangible items, he recognized her status as a leader time she opened them, she lay at the bottom of a hill. She closed her eyes again helping community members through pregnancies and mental health crises, and and awoke in a bed at the UC Davis Medical Center. Bright lights glared in her connecting them to drug recovery programs. Chavez said she’ll soon help bring face, the taste of blood sat in her mouth and she couldn’t move her head. training for residents to care for wounds, administer CPR and inject nalaxone, a “I fell asleep on my bike and broke my neck,” she said recently. “And that’s drug that can halt opioid overdoses. why I gave up meth.”

After Chavez introduced Brady to the residents of the Island, they graduAfter cycling in and out drug programs for “longer than [she] could rememally allowed him to begin providing medical treatment and interviewing them ber,” Chavez said, she never used meth again. Once her neck healed, she decided for a thesis project at UC Berkeley. to dedicate herself to caring for the health needs of members of the Island, an Chavez, who helped present that thesis, also sits on the board of Joshua’s encampment where she lived with between 30 and 50 people depending on House, a proposed hospice center for terminally ill people experiencing homedisplacement by weather and law enforcement. lessness. It aims to open in the River District by the end of 2018.

In another example of the “institutional trauma” that Brady said occurs to “[This work] gave me a purpose,” Chavez said. “It made me feel important. I a fair portion of people experiencing homelessness, Chavez said she and her finally found somewhere that I can be useful.” husband lost the van they lived in before moving to the Island after a visit to the Veterans Affairs Northern California Health Care System in Rancho Cordova.

In the medical center’s parking lot, she said, a VA police officer stopped them, down on emergency street searched their car and found knives, most of which, Chavez said, were for eating Robby Medibles slung his arm around Darzins and explained that his toe fracture or whittling, her husband’s hobby. wouldn’t have happened had he been a bit more “limber” from a little drinking.

Federal court records show that Chavez was arrested at the Mather Field

“I tell them, ‘I know, I’ve lost my mInd too.’”

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Elica Health Centers clinician Anna Darzins speaks with Michael Vogel outside his encampment, many of which exist along the Sacramento and American rivers.

Outside the Union Gospel Mission, Darzins reminded him not to mix alcohol with his medications. Mendibles rolled his eyes, but later explained why he appreciated this nagging.

“She tells me to take better care of myself because I’m not always doing that right,” he said. “And well, it’s like this, we can’t go to them, so they come to us.

And they must really care to be out here.”

Darzins hands out her personal cellphone number to almost every person that she meets on her rounds. She said one woman, Julie Boggs, who suffers from seizures and anxiety, will text her up to 20 times a day for everything from alerting her to a crisis to complaining about her relationship.

“I could say, ‘Forget it,’” Darzins said. “But if she’s frustrated with her boyfriend and she texts me, who knows? Maybe that means they’re not arguing and no one’s getting hurt. Sometimes, it’s like being a big sister.”

Darzins said this personal connection with her “friends” is essential to providing them medical care. Otherwise, she thinks that she wouldn’t be able to tell Mendibles not to drink with his medication or remind Boggs that she shouldn’t pick at her scabs. And her come-one-come-all approach to medical treatment provides a welcome change for a population that often must meet a variety of requirements to get aid.

“Nobody feels like I’m judging them,” she said. “I’m coming from a place of love. It doesn’t matter if you’re high. We’ll still see you. We’ll maybe say, ‘You shouldn’t use if you don’t want your heart to hurt.’ But nobody’s gonna say they’re not coming.”

That sense of urgency has meant that death is not a stranger on the street triage beat. Several patients have died, Darzins said. She hopes it’s a sign she’s getting to the places she’s needed most.

Darzins has seen displays of gratitude from the community, from hugs to simple gifts like a little bouquet of purple wildflowers left on the Elica van.

“Nobody took credit,” she said, misting up a bit. “Somebody who has nothing found a way to give something. My mood and my everything is at its highest when I’m out with the people we serve. That’s where my heart is.”

As she talked with John Buck and his wife, three members of Elica’s street team examined Pops and filled out medical information on a laptop while a little girl belly-rubbed a pit bull puppy. Next to Buck sat a small Dia de Los Muertosesque shrine dedicated to “Mrs. Huckleberry,” adorned with liquor bottles and a glass piece for consuming dabs of cannabis wax.

With a little prodding from his wife, Buck said he was born with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and admitted that he is aware that it can eventually turn into emphysema. His mother smoked while she was pregnant, Buck said, and he’s supposed to get his “lungs drained” every month. It’s been at least two years, according to him. His wife said it’s actually been three and the last time they checked Buck’s lungs, they were functioning at 40 percent strength.

“So next time we come out here, we’re going to want to check you out,” Darzins said. “Just to listen to your lungs and start paperwork. There’s no sense in not checking. The providers that come out here are really good and really care about what’s going on with you. They’re gonna help you make a plan that makes sense for you.”

Buck noted that he doesn’t have health insurance.

Darzins responded that “doesn’t matter,” but said Buck needs to provide an example for his adopted father if he ever hopes to see him get medical treatment for his heart and liver.

Buck mulled it over, then took Darzins’ card and agreed to start working with Elica the next time its team came out. His wife leaned on him and smiled as he shook hands with Darzins, who looked at him and said, “I’m gonna keep after you.” Ω

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Check out sets by Tavis (featuring Dom P.), Igwe Aka and Saevon, with Lefty DJing sets for Tavis and Aka on Saturday September 16, at 3 p.m. at HOFDAY 2017 in Old Sacramento. Tickets are $31.50. For more information go to www.soundcloud.com/mynorities.

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by AAron CArnes

Tavis laughs when I ask him about the most braggadocious song he’s ever recorded: “Top10.” He’s not the first rapper to brag about being the best, while simultaneously dissing all his haters (“Heard they mad / what for? / let ’em be”), but this one goes a bit over the top. The thumbnail image for the song even has 10 different pictures of himself inside the number 10, the implication being that he’s all 10 of the top 10 rappers in town.

That’s not what Tavis actually thinks, which is why he’s laughing. He wrote the song after he and a couple of guys in his MyNorities collective got named among the best local rappers on two separate lists earlier this year, one on Discover Sacramento, the other on Lgndvry just a few weeks later. That set off a bunch of shit-talking on Twitter by other rappers in the scene.

At first Tavis ignored the smack-talking—it wasn’t like he asked to be on those lists. But it didn’t stop, so he decided to address it, in a song.

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“It’s like, ‘You crying for says. “A team effort is always better something, so I’m going to give in the long run than the individual.” you something to cry about—I’ma The energy and music that each talk some shit to y’all,’” Tavis says. person brings is wildly varied.

“I made the song out of my own Lefty’s tracks are raw and hardasshole-ness. Not out of real anger. It hitting. Aka’s are eclectic and mix was like ‘Fuck you guys. I wrote that in elements of soul, Afrofunk and song so quick. I didn’t take too much reggae. Saevon’s “Checks” is a LefTy time on you.’” thought-provoking, bouncy track that DJ and member of MyNorities It was a solid track, and once it rides the line between underground was released, the shit-talking went and radio hip-hop. They’re representoddly quiet, a point that particularly ing all these varied subgenres of rap cracks him up. He didn’t need a dis in the same collective. track to prove himself. Tavis and Any semblance of crew began everyone else in MyNorities are some of the most talented with Tavis (originally known as TeavyOso) and Dom P., up-and-coming artists in the Sacramento hip-hop scene right who started rapping together after Dom graduated high now. Their music has a street vibe with honest depictions of school and Tavis was finishing his senior year. They their lives and, on the whole, positive messages. And they’re recorded several tracks, eventually releasing a mixtape, just getting started. under the moniker TheKamp, called KampGrounds. Dom’s I sit with the crew outside Identity Coffees in Midtown. laid-back sound complemented Tavis’ fiercely honest The first thing I’m struck with is how different they all are. expression of his struggles, something he attributes to a crash They range in age from 19 to 29. course in growing up by having his first kid a week after Earl sits in front of me, mostly quiet the entire interview. graduating high school.

He has the air of a Buddhist monk.

“When you have a baby at that age, you don’t have a lot “He’s the quiet assassin,” Lefty leans in to say. of time for being indecisive,” he says.

Meanwhile Igwe Aka is in the streets, stopping cars just The duo met Lefty in 2013 at a cypher he held on K Street to get a laugh, and freestyling for women passing by on the for Second Saturdays, using his own car for the boombox. sidewalk in a way that’s juvenile, but oddly brilliant—he With windows rolled down and instrumental tracks blaring deserves a show on TruTV. out of his stereo, rappers in the circle took turns spitting Dre wanders in and out of the coffee shop, while Lefty, verses. Lefty was blown away by Tavis and Dom and tried MANiK tha MC and DJ Steve are off to the side cracking to get them to form a crew with him, along with his buddies jokes to each other, like old college dorm-mates. Dom P. leans MANiK tha MC, DJ Steve and a few other guys who’d been against a lamppost with the laid-back, goofy vibe of a skater and rapping together since 2012 as The Piff Dawgs. casually refers to the snickering threesome as the O.G.s of the It didn’t pan out, but the guys all stayed friends and hung group—“the old guys,” and they laugh some more. out a lot. They revisited the idea in 2016. Working together Tavis is off to the side, observing and occasionally clarimeant everyone working for themselves, promoting each fying pieces of the collective’s history. Sitting next to me is other, and bringing as much attention to the MyNorities Saevon, who’s hunched over while the others crack jokes. brand as they could. So far, Tavis and Aka have gotten lots When he has something to say, everyone stops talking and of attention in the scene with show offers like HOFDAY this listens to his thoughts on what they’re all doing. past year, with other members like Saevon just behind them.

And what are they all doing? What binds the MyNorities “I want to focus on getting everyone’s individualism out. together? They don’t share a sound or a look. MyNorities is an I don’t want people to get confused that it’s a rap group. evolving thing that started officially last July, though most of We’re not trying to be the Sugarhill Gang,” Tavis says. the individuals have been rapping much longer than that.

“We all in together supporting each other. That don’t mean Members are asked to join if their music is deemed authenwe have to be in the studio every day rapping on the same tic, whether it’s something with commercial potential or not, songs. That shit gets old. You’re not adding no dimension to and they’ve also got to be willing to support one another. Oh, anything.” and they need to be someone that the other members would The name of the collective was taken from a song Tavis want to hang out with. released a year earlier. It was appropriate because the song “A lot of the reason why it’s good to have a collective was all about doing more with the support of his friends. is because you’re not out here winging it alone,” Aka says.

“I wanted to have a way I could say ‘My Niggas’ without “For the most part, regardless of what we’re doing, we’re actually having to say ‘My Niggas.’ If you look at the way winging it. But when you have more heads put together, it’s that MyNorities is stylized, it’s My capital N-orities,” Tavis a little bit more calculated.” says. “I was saying that I couldn’t do it without my friends.”

As the collective has gelled, members have taken it on There’s a lot of talk about what’s coming next, but the themselves to assume roles that fit their skill set. Manik has truth is that they’re still figuring it out. What is clear is the been doing much of the graphic design work for album and seriousness of their drive. single covers for everyone. Lefty and Ugo have been DJing “I think the city needs something like this. It needs a unit for folks at their live events. Up until recently Tavis and Lefty of movement. As long as everybody’s doing their shit and have been making most of the decisions, but that’s quickly still putting out dope music, I feel like Sac itself will get the changing as they emphasize the importance of the team. light it needs,” Saevon says. “The individual aspect of what “The collective was formed for support and to—as a we doing is good because everybody can shine, and we can united front—take over and turn the scene on its head,” Lefty all shine together.” Ω

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All the world’s a (small) stage It takes 27 minutes to get there. I weave through Citrus Heights strip malls, only to land in another strip mall. This one has a Baskin Robbins and a giant aquarium depot that sells “wholesale and retail.” (A separate sign simply says “reptile depot” and has a picture of scary reptilian creatures.) That’s not the most unusual thing in this mall. That honor belongs to the Theatre in the Heights, an actual mini theater in the burbs—not some hipster midtown joint.

It opened just this year on January 14 to provide Citrus Heights with art that’s accessible and DIY. I wanted to see the space more than anything. I’ve never been inside a tiny theater before. It’s the kind of space you’d see in a new york-based sitcom, where the wannabe actor character forces her friends to come see her perform in some experimental rendition of A Streetcar Named Desire.

A small line forms outside with a half dozen people, most of whom appear to be over 65. Someone says that it’s “a busy night.” On the ticket counter, there’s an assortment of snacks and beverages (Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, wine, Pringles, beer). I learn later that all concessions are included with the price of admission, just $15. “It’s our first year,” one worker tells a customer, to explain.

There are only 52 chairs, and the venue appears to be somewhere between half-full and two-thirds full. An announcer takes to the stage: “Welcome to the Theatre in the Heights! you are about to be tremendously entertained!”

Someone asks if the play is a comedy. “You are in for a laugh riot,” he replies. The play, A Thousand Clowns, is not the experimental piece of theater I’d imagined. It’s a 1965, three-and-a-half-hour Herb Gardner play about an unemployed writer who tries to retain custody of his nephew and needs to conform to society to do so. The play mostly takes place in the writer’s one-bedroom apartment, so it makes sense logistically on this small stage.

Some of the content of the play struck me as dated, like a scene in which a social worker is aghast over a hula-girl figurine with christmas lights concealing her breasts. But the acting and production were at a high caliber for being such a small, intimate production.

I chat with the guy next to me—one of the few people under 40—during the first intermission. “They really pack a lot in here,” he says, regarding the space. I learn he’s an actor at another small stage, the Wm. J. Geery Theater.

When I tell him I’m not an actor, he looks confused. He must have a hard time understanding why I, a solo guy in his 40s, came out to this play.

A Thousand Clowns, like much of the production schedule, falls closer to a mainstream play than I’d normally see, but the intimacy was fun. it makes you feel more like you’re part of the whole thing. After it ended, the cast was in the lobby, and they reached out to shake my hand and thank me for coming. It felt like we kind of already knew each other.

It’s the kind of space you’d see in a New York-based sitcom.

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Stephen Finlay archer, author of the Irish clans saga, shows off his latest book entente inside of deVere’s Irish Pub in Sacramento.

Of clans and culture Aerospace engineer turned writer of Irish tales sees warnings ahead Stephen Finlay Archer spent nearly four decades launching satellites into space, building a global network of light-speed radio waves that eventually lit the internet’s Promethean spark. But the aerospace engineer has had a lot of time to look back on those achievements, including what instantaneous thought-transmission has done to reading habits, writing skills and societal intelligence. Now he’s looking to the literary gods for absolution—by reaching into the past.

Archer is penning a series of historic fiction novels known as The Irish Clans saga. On September 15, he’ll appear at Face in a Book in El Dorado Hills to chat with readers about the first two tales of the epic to be published, as well as what a violent, century-old “Poets Rebellion” might tell us about pieces of the American character on the verge of being lost.

Archer was firing his imagination into the stars long before he was looping it through history books. He spent most of his career working for Hughes Communication Inc., formerly one of the top satellite designers in the world. Archer helped construct everything from launch vehicles to advanced delivery-and-orbit spacecraft. He helped envision state-of-the-art weather satellites

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for NASA and NOAA. Arguably, his most impactful job was working on a program called Spaceway, which eventually put the internet in the sky.

Archer retired in 2003 and suddenly had more time to observe the ways technological hyperspeed is affecting the human experience. He saw the warning signs that a lot of people have been noticing: Reading books is being replaced by drooling at video snippets and scripted “reality” television; ambitious writing is losing steam to emojis and fumbled 140-character tweets; the all-consuming connectedness of social media has affected emotional gratification. Not only has Archer noticed all of these trends, he’s observed his own small role in the tech that helped advance them.

“In the process of building communication satellites, over the years, the industry developed a lot of microprocessor chips,” Archer recalled. “That spawned, if you will, the instantaneous, ubiquitous communications systems we have around the world today, which clearly have a lot of benefits, but also offers a lot of opportunity for misuse—and I don’t think we understand the downstream effect yet.”

These developments began weighing on Archer’s conscience around the same time he was tracing his family roots in Northern Ireland. That got him delving into the history of the Easter Rising in 1916, Ireland’s pivotal fight for independence from Great Britain, which was also known as “the Poet’s Rebellion.” It was the fight that eventually shattered the Emerald Isle into two separate nations.

In studying the Rising, Archer saw a moment in time he thinks also encapsulates the best of the American character: bravery in the face of oppression; blood-soaked sacrifice for high principals; the power of persuasive writing when it’s aimed at finding justice.

The five-novel saga that Archer’s midway through writing brings fictional characters inspired by his family into the very heart of that struggle. His first book, Searchers, was published by Manzanita Writers Press in 2016. Its follow-up, Entente, was just released last month.

“I thought if I wrote about those ideals and added an interesting story, maybe it would get some readers thinking about our own society, and where it’s heading today,” Archer said.

With a wry grin, he added, “I fully understand that people who watch 12 hours of reality television every day aren’t likely to read my books, but it’s still my way of atonement for helping create all this.” Ω

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Dessert dumplings red bean Mochi, oSaka-ya As summer comes to a close, the line for Sacramento’s best snow cones starts to wane at Osaka-Ya. The tiny, tenured supermarket makes another treat, no less delicious and more fit for eating year-round: its assorted mochis. Starting at $1.40 each, the best seller is filled with Skippy-style peanut butter—available in smooth or crunchy—but for my money, the best-of-show is filled with red bean paste.

Possessing a subtle sweetness and a pleasantly mealy texture, it’s wrapped in rice-based dough that’s perfectly soft. 2215 10th Street, (916) 446-6857.

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The cookie butter cheesecake at Julian’s Pâtisserie & Café.

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Folsom isn’t necessarily known for fancy-pants desserts or competition-level pastry chefs, so when Julian’s Pâtisserie & Café opened in the Folsom Pavilions in January, it filled a niche that residents perhaps didn’t realize existed. Now locals flock to the shop to press their noses against the glass display, making puppy-dog eyes at the assorted fresh pastries and enjoying the decor, which blends Parisian accents with a French farmhouse sensibility.

Chef-owner Julian Perrigo-Jimenez built his pastry career in top Las Vegas restaurants and enjoyed a stint on the Food Network’s competition show Cake Wars.

Given his baking background, the menu at Julian’s is decidedly breakfast- and lunch-centric, with a generous selection of pastries, quiches, filled croissants, croques (madame ou monsieur) and sweet and savory crepes.

Vegetarians will enjoy several options, including the caprese crepe and a seasonal veggie quiche. As a testament to their veg offering, the tomato-feta quiche is one of the most flavorful things I’ve eaten all month.

While the baked goods lean French, many of Julian’s savory dishes are rooted in American flavors. The California club crepe is packed with cheese, bacon, avocado and shredded chicken, steaming hot and full of stretchy, cheesy strands. The turkey pesto crepe is filled with an assertive pesto, while the croque madame was 22 | SN&R | 09.14.17

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well-sauced without going overboard. The feuillette—a pocket of meat and cheese wrapped in flaky pastry—was tasty, though a little greasier than necessary.

The pastries are spot on, minus the oddly shaped butter croissants. The cheese Danish has become so popular that an elderly lady behind me complained when I ordered the last one. (Yes, I let her have it.) The fresh cinnamon rolls have a light, flaky texture with a generous amount of icing on top.

Once you make it past the breakfast pastries and savory menu, you’ll see what Julian’s is most famous for: his rotating cast of desserts. A small display case contains fancy sweets that look like they just stepped out of a pastry competition. On any given day you may find a lemon tart with toasted meringue, a raspberry-vanilla mousse with white-chocolate glaze and a glistening caramel butter cookie cheesecake.

The service here is quick and friendly, and the one time I received a subpar dish (a crepe that was still cold in the middle, mentioned offhandedly when the staff asked me how it was) the item was whisked away without hesitation and genuine apologies were issued. A new searing-hot crepe arrived at the hand of a smiling cook, who thanked me for the feedback and said she was happy to rectify the mistake.

And therein lies the true charm of Julian’s. Sure, the desserts are dazzling, the crepes are unpretentiously delicious and the pastries are homey-yet-elegant, but what makes this place truly special is the staff. Always welcoming, the people here make every customer feel appreciated, right down to Julian himself, who is perpetually beaming and greeting guests like old friends. The food alone is worth the trip, but the vibe seals the deal. Ω

Country-time demonade WhiSkey ain’t Working anyMore, red rabbit Most of us put away the Jägermeister after our early 20s, right? Only so much good can come from a liquor that tastes like medicine and feels like death. Turns out there’s a place for it, though: in Red Rabbit’s Whiskey Ain’t Working Anymore ($11). It takes the forcefully herby syrup of Jäger and rolls it around with apple cider, bitters, ginger, lemon and more into a more refreshing flavor profile that tastes primarily of grapefruit. Plus, there’s a Travis Tritt song by the same name, so feel free to whisper lines like “I need one good honky-tonk angel / To turn my life around” as you sip this one. 2718 J Street, https://theredrabbit.net.

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Ugly rootling SalSify What are those hairy brownish roots? They’re salsify, known in Italian as scorzonera, where they’ve been eaten for centuries. They’re also called “oyster plant” for their brackish sweet flavor. Once you get past their ugliness, peel off the rough outer skin and immediately toss the roots with lemon juice to prevent browning.

Then blanch, roast or boil them as you would potatoes. Puree salsify into soups or mashed veggies or roast them with meats. Choose ones that aren’t too large and woody, but big enough to make them worth the work.

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Suburban Septemberfest Counterintuitively, Europeans get the ball rolling on Oktoberfest before October has even begun. To parallel the beer-drinking extravaganza across the pond, Grist Beer Hall (310 Palladio Parkway, Suite 713) in Folsom will host its free holiday kickoff on September 16 and 17 from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Although it’s a bit of a drive from Sacramento, the trek will be worth it as the bar is stocking 13 of its 50 taps with imported beers to fit the occasion. Executive chef and owner Heather Zamarripa wants her business to become a destination for “beer nerds,” so she’s pouring rarities like a Smoked Märzen from Germany’s Gänstaller Bräu and a Belgian pale ale with gooseberries from Denmark’s To Øi.

They’ll offer liter-sized boots for bulk drinking, contests for costumes and stein-carrying as well as traditional German fare like schnitzel and bratwurst. Prost!

—John Flynn

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Farm-to-Fork five

by John Flynn

Big deal: Earlier this year, as you

know, the city changed its nickname on the water tower bordering I-5 from “City of Trees” to “America’s Farm-to-Fork Capital.”

And people lost it. Perhaps because Sacramento’s trees cover many neighborhoods with the nation’s largest urban canopy, while the local food movement seems more constrained to the grid as food deserts still exist around the periphery, denying some residents a tangible connection to the slogan.

Nonetheless, starting September 8, more than two dozen restaurants will participate in this year’s Farm-to-Fork Restaurant Week, including Chinese cornerstone Frank Fat’s (806 L Street), thincrust specialist Masullo Pizza (2711 Riverside Boulevard) and rib-sticking sandwich outpost Broderick Midtown (1820 L Street). During the 10-day-long “week,” restaurants will craft

specialty menus based around local ingredients in the buildup to the fifth annual Farm-to-Fork Festival that’s free to the public when it takes over Capitol Mall on September 23.

The upcoming festival will bring together at least 75 vendors—including farmers, ranchers, restaurateurs, educators and industry heads—to showcase the “depth and breadth of Farm-toFork,” said Kari Miskit, director of public relations for Visit Sacramento. By gathering these disparate groups, the festival hopes to show the region’s culinary interconnectedness, detailing how our food makes the journey described by the slogan.

It’s been a big year for the local food movement’s visibility—from the opening of the new Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op to the Golden 1 Center pledging to source 90 percent of its concessions’ ingredients within a 150 mile radius under

the direction of general manager Michael Tuohy, former executive chef of the award-winning Grange Restaurant & Bar, another restaurant week participant.

Although the water tower’s new look sparked fears that Sacramento was changing its core identity, Miskit stressed that the movement fits into the agricultural heritage that’s always been a part of the city. The celebration of local food culture is also a chance for Sacramento to show it’s not just a nice place to live, but also to visit for the array of newly sprouted farmers markets, local restaurants, craft breweries and coffee roasters.

“Travelers will come for food,” she said. “People are motivated by good meals. Even compared to five years ago, we have so much more to work with when we’re talking about Sacramento as a destination.”

Meanwhile, a new Grocery Outlet will become an oasis in a Del Paso Heights food desert. Ω

Energy on the (ultra)run

by Shoka What tastes like a gritty cornmeal pancake with syrup on the inside?

Tarahumara Pinole energy bars from the website One Ingredient Chef (www.oneingredientchef.com).

The One Ingredient Chef himself, Andrew Olson, focuses on creating vegan recipes without processed ingredients. His energy-bar recipe was inspired by a snack of the Tarahumara people of Northern Mexico—who are famous for being ultrarunners before ultrarunning was a trend. The ingredients

are simple enough—masa harina, dates, brown rice syrup, chia seeds, cinnamon, water—and instructions are uncomplicated. The website has dozens of other recipes, including desserts and cocktails—and sometimes a combination; Exhibit A: Boozy Frozen Margarita Cheesecake Cups. It also features entrees and snacks, such as baked cauliflower with spicy pesto and a tofu-andvegetable potpie. Here’s to eating deliciously well (and vegan), one unprocessed ingredient at a time!

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It’s eerie how much of the dialogue and plot points in Detroit ’67 resonate during these turbulent times. Dominique Morisseau’s play takes place in a Detroit basement during the city’s late ’60s civil unrest—though the story is basically about siblings trying to cope with changes in finances and family. The plot can be gripping, but sometimes is overburdened with too many issues and convenient plot lines. The cast is a mix of veterans and comingups, all committed to their characters and the story.

This post-modern reworking of a 19th century melodrama has all the necessary elements of a melodrama with a very modern, often offensive dialogue that will have audiences surprised at what makes them laugh. An inspired cast makes this a memorable, if not always comfortable, play. Th 7 pm, F

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8 p.m. friday and saturday, 2 p.m. saturday and sunday; $15-$20. 24th street theater, 2791 24th street; (916) 258-5687; www.lots.company. through september 24.

Gilbert and Sullivan’s Patience may be the silliest among their comic operas, and Light Opera Theatre of Sacramento is bringing out all the silliness.

The musical is a satire on the Aesthetic Movement, which was popular in Britain at the time of its writing in the 1880s and favored visual and sensual qualities over other practical considerations.

The object of almost every woman’s affection here is Reginald Bunthorne (Charlie Baad), who writes things like “Oh! to be wafted away from this black Aceldama of sorrow ...” until a new “idyllic poet,” Archibald Grosvenor (Timothy Power), comes onto the scene. His poems are more of the “Gentle Jane was as good as gold / She always did what she was told” variety.

There is the puling milkmaid Patience (Kate Murphy), who doesn’t like poetry at all, but who is loved by both poets nevertheless.

And then there are the dragoon guards (though— I’m sorry—they look more like hotel bellhops) who used to be engaged to the maids and now have been usurped by their newfound love of poetry and poets.

Colonel Calverly (Mike Baad) sings the show’s signature patter song and, with decades of experience, Baad nails it.

Perhaps the star of this production, however, is its 20-piece orchestra under the baton of Troy Turpen. It’s an almost-unheard-of sized orchestra for community theater, yet they played flawlessly and were able to both fill the theater and also play softly enough so as not to drown out the singers—not an easy task.

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4 The Old Musketeers Part farce, part fart jokes—the Chautauqua Playhouse’s production of The Old Musketeers is totally engaging.

Written by Rodger Hoopman, who also stars, along with John Haine and Philip Pittman, the play is about three “mature” (in age, anyway) actors who once portrayed the Three Musketeers on film some 30 years ago and who have reunited for a one-off special event in which they re-create selected scenes in the movie as it is screened for an audience.

The trio hopes to revisit its career high while reinvigorating its members’ now-sagging careers. Hoopman creates three distinct aging characters, but saves the flashiest, gassiest one for himself as the actor who decides too close to curtain time that he needs to visit the men’s room. He spends the rest of the evening trying—and often failing—to suppress the urge to break wind. Warren Harrison directs with amazing precision. The timing with which doors open (a character peeks in, then the door closes just as another opens) is a marvel—and the actors have the rhythm down perfectly.

Nate Lynn is a standout in the role of an actor’s assistant who faints at critical moments.

—Jim Carnes

the old musketeers, 8 p.m. friday-saturday, 2 p.m. sunday; $19$22. chautauqua Playhouse in the La sierra community center, 5325 engle road in carmichael; (916) 489-7529; www.cplayhouse. org. through october 1.

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Marooned on trash island Just in time for the rainy season, The Actors Workshop of Sacramento stages The Tempest—a Shakespeare classic that opens with a sailing ship breaking up in a howling storm. In this version, they wash up on “trash island,” choked with plastic junk deposited by the waves. The cast includes veterans Ed Claudio and Tygar Hicks (once Claudio’s acting student, now a New York professional).

The production runs through October 8. 8 p.m. Friday, September 15 and Saturday, September 16; 2 p.m. zSunday, September 17. $20. California Stage, 2509 R Street; (916) 501-6104; www.actinsac.com.

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An Episcopal pastor (John Corbett), sent to close down a failing church in Tennessee, finds himself faced with an influx of dozens of Christian refugees from Myanmar (Burma); he decides to keep the church open as a haven, turning the property into a farm that will provide a livelihood for the refugees and an income to pay off the church’s debts. Steve Armour’s script seems to presume that we’ve read the nonfiction book by Michael Spurlock and Jeanette Windle on which it is based, and that we can fill in all the holes. Steve Gomer’s direction and Eduardo Enrique Mayén’s cinematography are just serviceable, and some supporting performances are stilted. Acting at the top saves the day—by Corbett, old pro Barry Corbin as the town curmudgeon and (especially) Nelson Lee as the leader of the refugees. J.L.

When a thief is so fast, you just have to let him go and admire it.

To his credit, Robert Pattinson has made some bold decisions in the last few years, choosing to work with outsider directors instead of cashing in on his Twilight fame. Unfortunately, even when working with the likes of David Cronenberg, James Gray and Werner Herzog, Pattinson continued to exude a low-energy indifference that felt all too reminiscent of his days as a sleepy-eyed teen idol. That all ends with Pattinson’s ferociously brilliant turn as Connie, the morally screwy criminal at the center of Josh and Benny Safdie’s outrageous New York City nightmare Good Time. After a bank robbery gone wrong lands his developmentally disabled brother Nick (co-director Benny Safdie) in jail, bottleblond con man Connie schemes to acquire his bail money by any means necessary. Good Time matches the do-anything relentlessness of its lead character, making for one of the most visceral and exciting movie experiences of the year. D.B.

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director Matt Spicer) misfires by breaking the first rule of comedy; the protagonist is utterly unsympathetic. Plaza is helpless to make her anything but a liar, a user and an awful person.

We know that all this isn’t going to end well, and we just want to have it over with so we can get away from this psycho. The upbeat ending rings false because (1) it feels tacked-on, and (2) the movie hasn’t shown us someone who deserves it. J.L.

The Hitman’s Bodyguard

A bodyguard who’s fallen on hard times since losing an important client to assassination (Ryan Reynolds) gets a chance to redeem himself by escorting a notorious killer (Samuel L. Jackson) to testify in the Hague against an international criminal (Gary Oldman). Tom O’Connor’s script doesn’t know when to quit (half an hour earlier would have been smart); Jake Roberts’ editing is sloppy; and director Patrick Hughes seems just along for the ride. But Reynolds and Jackson deliver the goods; their chemistry is strong, and their scenes crackle, even when O’Connor gives them nothing to say but empty profanity. J.L.

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I Do… Until I Don’t

Oh, wow, no. Writer/director/producer/lead actress Lake Bell follows up her underwhelming but affable 2013 debut In a World… with this shockingly unfunny romantic comedy. The plot revolves around three utterly revolting couples—Bell and Ed Helms as a childless duo who have lost the spark; Mary Steenburgen and Paul Reiser as her parents, hostile and hurtling towards divorce; and Amber Heard and Wyatt Cenac as self-identified swingers coming to terms with their monogamy. They’re all distinctly unlikable characters with the shrill performances to match, but none of them compares to Dolly Wells as Vivian, a determined documentary filmmaker who manipulates the couples to prove a point about abolishing marriage. Right down to that insipid, cutesy-poo title, I Do… Until I Don’t plays like a succession of bulletpoint clichés about love and sex and marriage that no one ever bothered to develop, connect together or base in any kind of reality. D.B.

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Ingrid Goes West

A lonely, mentally unstable young woman (Aubrey Plaza), fresh out of the asylum after cyberstalking an Instagram acquaintance, takes all her money out of the bank, moves to California, and starts doing it all over again with another victim (Elizabeth Olsen). The acting is good, but this wannabe black-comedy riff on the dangers of social media (written by David Branson Smith and

Gook

Just like every other independent film from the 1990s felt like a halfassed clone of Martin Scorsese’s Mean Streets, Justin Chon’s Gook, a black-and-white day-in-the-life set in 1992 Los Angeles, feels like a half-assed attempt to recapture the raw intimacy of the independent films from that era.

Gook does capture some of the visceral qualities of those early 1990s crime films, but a lot more gets caught in the net—the shoddy narratives, the inconsistent pacing, the amateur-hour dream sequences, the woefully unrestrained actors, the over-reliance on out-of-control melodrama, the tendency to allow every emotional scene to devolve into a chaotic screaming contest. Chon also stars as Eli, a Korean shoe-store owner dealing with racism, cultural alienation, financial instability and a host of contrived, interlacing, ticking-clock story threads. The cacophonous result comes a lot closer to recapturing the spirit of Crash than to recapturing the spirit of 1990s independent cinema. D.B.

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Menashe

Documentarian Joshua Z. Weinstein co-writes and directs this intimate but drab family drama set in Brooklyn’s insulated Orthodox Jewish community. In a story largely based on his own life, newcomer Menashe Lustig stars as the title character, a recently widowed shop clerk who struggles to meet the personal and religious expectations of his family. A consummate loser, Menashe is confronted with his inadequacy at every turn—his boss routinely humiliates him in front of customers and co-workers, his piously contemptuous brother refuses to lend him any more money and he’s not even allowed to host his own wife’s memorial. Compounding these routine humiliations, Menashe’s son has been removed from his home until he remarries. The Yiddish-language Menashe wants to highlight the universality of thorny family dynamics, but it’s better at highlighting the universality of drearily wellintentioned Sundance drama clichés. D.B.

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The Only Living Boy in New York

A college grad (Callum Turner) slouches around lower Manhattan, scorning his privileged Park Avenue upbringing and wondering what to do with his life; when he learns that his father (Pierce Brosnan) has a mistress, he shadows the woman (Kate Beckinsale)—but she confronts him and virtually invites him to seduce her, which he does. Observing it all is the young man’s rumpled, boozy neighbor (Jeff Bridges). Echoes of 1967’s The Graduate and the works of Bob Dylan, Woody Allen, and Sundance TV abound, but Allan Loeb’s script still has a few surprises for us, and Loeb synthesizes all those elements into a personality of its own. Marc Webb’s direction is crisp and knowing, drawing

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Patti Cake$

This debut film from writer-director Geremy Jasper stars Australian actress Danielle Macdonald as the Jersey-bred Patti, a.k.a. Killer P, an ample 20-something woman who works two go-nowhere jobs and still lives with her alcoholic train wreck of a mother (Bridget Everett), yet dreams about meeting her hero and attaining hip-hop superstardom. The film essentially sutures the story arc and milieu of 8 Mile onto the character details and chintzy dream sequences of Precious. Most of Patti Cake$ is colorful and irresistible entertainment driven by Macdonald’s magnetic lead performance, a likeable ensemble cast and a credible sense of place.

But about halfway through, the film abandons any pretense of authenticity to become an aggressive crowd-pleaser. At least Macdonald’s Patti makes the sort of Rocky-esque underdog that rallies audience sympathy, and a strong rooting interest carries us through when the film’s integrity starts to crumble. D.B.

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Wind River

Taylor Sheridan makes his directorial debut with Wind River, a dour murdermystery set on the desolate Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming. Jeremy Renner gives a perfunctory lead performance as Cory Lambert, a grieving father employed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as a predator hunter on the reservation. While tracking a family of mountain lions in the snow, Cory stumbles across the frozen body of a dead Native American girl, a discovery that rekindles repressed memories of his own deceased daughter. Cory assists the woefully unprepared FBI agent (Elizabeth Olsen) who gets sent to investigate, but he may be harboring his own vigilante agenda. Wind River builds slowly, and a little of Sheridan’s klutzy predator-prey symbolism goes a long way, but he also shows a genuine knack for building tension, finally allowing it to explode in an excellent final act. D.B.

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local parties for a decade. It all started in Los Angeles in 2007: Lynch and the HOF guys were traveling down south at least “once or twice a month” just to party, he remembered. Their crew connected with Christian Murphy, son of the Beverly Hills Cop star, with whom they’d hop between mansions and clubs. Murphy coined the name Hall of Fame.

“We were like, ‘We’ll do it in Sacramento,’” Lynch recalled.

Murphy remained in LA, but back in Sac, the original Hall of Damian lynch wants to build something worthy of Fame team hosted parties everycorinthian columns. where from suburban houses to clandestine warehouses, events that drew both “club girls and folks in sneakers,” Lynch said, and racially Local party-starter Damian Lynch understands diverse fans. “We mastered the house party,” Lynch the power of the music festival—and that it’s not just said. about the music.

The catch, though, was that most of these Hall of He says that, for instance, “75 percent of the Fame happenings were illegal. Cops occasionally shut people going to Coachella don’t know 90 percent of down shows. Their operation’s surreptitiousness grew the people who are playing.” What, then, explains old, he said, and the guys—all still under 30—realthe festival’s ascendant popularity? “The majority of ized it was time to rise above the board. people are going for a selfie,” he said.

After a year off, they returned in a big way in While music fests sell out all over the country, 2015: the inaugural Hall of Fame Day, a festival that Sacramento has yet to sustain its own flagship drew several thousand attendees to West gathering. There’s Aftershock Festival, Sacramento’s waterfront. HOF’s 2016 arguably the most notable, but it’s follow-up attracted a larger crowd niche, drawing in a nondiverse metal and brighter talent, including and hardcore mob. The muchheadlining deejay/producer discussed TBD Fest fizzled out Metro Boomin’. after a couple of incarnations.

This weekend’s thirdAnd though City of Trees fest annual HOF Day, now on charms, it’s one of those quaint, the Sacramento side of the radio-promo affairs. river, features producers Lynch and his team are Hippie Sabotage and dance carefully watching that throne, deejays Joyzu, in addition Damian Lynch however. Known as Hall of to more than 30 undercard co-founder of HOFDAY Fame, he and colleagues Robbie artists. It’s a much bigger event Metcalf and Tony Christian attribute — and Lynch admits the squad their crew’s cautiousness to the city’s is rolling the dice. “It’s absolutely a slow maturation when it comes to attracting risk,” he said of the fest, which boasts a big crowds—and investors—to a major fest. budget in the high five-figure range.

“It’s a balancing act, especially here in But if they succeed this weekend, Lynch said he’ll Sacramento, where we kind of have the persona of a shoot for flagship-festival status in 2018. big city, but we’re still growing,” Lynch said.

“We’re going to go big,” he said. “We’re going This weekend, Lynch hopes Sacramento will to try to swing for the fences with this thing.” Ω bloom during Hall of Fame Day: an all-ages, EDM and hip-hop party that organizers say could attract some 20,000 people to Old Sacramento’s waterfront the third-annual hall of Fame Day goes down this saturday, september 16, for a Saturday of bass, beats and drops. at 915 Front street in old sacramento. Learn more and purchase tickets at Hall of Fame may be a new name to many, but www.hofdayparty.com. the trio behind the brand has been throwing down at

“We’re going to try to swing for the fences with this thing.”

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Rising Tide and Endless Yawn. 8pm, $12-$15.

Blue Lamp, 1400 Alhambra Blvd.

BAT GUANO FEST 7 (DAY 2): See Friday event

CAP CITY HEAVY FEST: Weekend metal fest.

SKID ROSES: ’80s rock cover band. Performing

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MusIc THursDAy, 9/14 DINORAH: Weekly solo concert by the SAMMIESwinning Latin singer and guitar player.

Dinorah performs renditions of traditional Latin, American and contemporary music. 6pm, no cover. Mesa Mercado Restaurant, 6241 Fair Oaks Blvd., Suite B in Carmichael.

GEOGRAPHER: Bay Area synth-pop indie rock.

Performing with Doombird and So Much Light. 7pm, $15-$18. Harlow’s, 2708 J St.

HOFDAY WARM UP: Pre-show for the annual Hall of Fame Day musical festival Saturday in Old Sacramento. Featuring hip-hop artists Nash, C Plus, Mahtie Bush, Doey Rock, ILL Root and others. 7pm, $5. Blue Lamp, 1400 Alhambra Blvd.

THURSDAY NIGHT LIVE AT THE PLAZA: Free weekly concert series at Heritage Plaza in Woodland. Performing Thursday: Cajun

frIDAy, 9/15 BAT GUANO FEST 7 (DAY 1): Weekend punk fest to raise funds for Cafe Colonial and the Colony.

Bands include the Strange Party, the Enlows, Bastards of Young, Captain Cutiepie and the Kitchen Bois. 7pm $6. Cafe Colonial, 3520 Stockton Blvd.

CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVISITED: Show with original members of Creedence, playing songs by the ’70s rock band. Performing with Three Dog Night. 7pm, $34.95-$149.95.

Thunder Valley Casino, 1200 Athens Ave. in Lincoln.

THE DAMN LIARS: Rock ‘n’ roll cover band performing in the Back 40 Ampitheatre. 7pm. Country Club Saloon, 4007 Taylor Road in Loomis.

DEAD WINTER CARPENTERS: Lake Tahoe alternative country band. Performing with

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DENNIS JOHNSON & THE MISSISSIPPI RAMBLERS: Release party for the master slide guitarist’s new album, Rhythmland. 8pm, $18-$30. The Guild Theater, 2828 35th St.

MYLAR’S HIPPIE HOUR: A Sacramento area staple for six years that began at the Torch Club and were popular at Old Ironsides and Starlite Lounge. Recently moved to Louie’s in Rancho Cordova. William Mylar plays with a rotating cast of guest musicians, performing free-form live music spanning all genres. 5:30pm, no cover. Louie’s Cocktail Lounge, 3030 Mather Field Road.

REVEREND HORTON HEAT: Dallas psychobilly band. Performing with Fishbone and Strung Out. 7pm, $26.50. Ace Of Spades, 1417 R St.

sATurDAy, 9/16 16: Stoner metal show with an L.A. hardcore band. Performing with Alex Perez & The

alternative country artist. 5:30pm, $22.50-

$25. Harlow’s, 2708 J St.

WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE, COME TO THIS SHOW!: Emo and mathrock show. Bands include The Seafloor Cinema, Enso Anima, Bird Caravan, City Mural and Punchline Bottom Text (performing their first show). 7pm, $7$10. Cafe Colonial, 3520 Stockton Blvd.

BENISE: Nouveau flamenco guitarist known for

HOFDAY: Annual hip-hop and electronic dance music fest. Over 30 artists including Joyzu, Hobo Johnson & The Lovemakers, Hippie Sabotage, Kennedy Wrose, Tavis, SOOSH*E! and The Philharmonik. (Read about the festival on page 28.) 3pm, $36-$40. Old Sacramento, 1124 2nd St.

his PBS Nights of Fire circus-style concert show featuring samba, salsa, tango and wildly extravagant costumes. 7:30pm, $29$95. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.

DEAD MEADOW: Los Angeles psychedelic

rock band. 8pm, $12-$15. Blue Lamp, 1400 Alhambra Blvd.

SHENANDOAH DAVIS: House show with a Seattle

JOHN SCOFIELD: American jazz rock guitarist.

Performing with New Orleans funk, R&B artist Jon Cleary. 8pm, $37-$42. The Center for the Arts, 314 W. Main St. in Grass Valley.

classical/pop artist. Performing with Sea of Bees. 7pm. Eye Street Co-Op, 2121 I St.

TUESDAY OPEN-MIC: Open-Mic at the WAL Public Market every Tuesday night. Local singers, songwriters, poets and storytellers welcome. 7:30pm, no cover. Metro Kitchen + Drinkery, 1104 R St.

SATURDAY NIGHTS AT THE BARN: Runs every week from 5pm to 10pm. Features a dynamic lineup of 13 to 16 local and regional food vendors, live music, live art and beverages from Rye on the Road in conjunction with Drake’s Brewing Co. 5pm, no cover. The Barn, 985 Riverfront St. in West Sacramento.

SHANE DWIGHT: Contemporary blues with a bit of funk and soul. 6pm, $30. Miner’s Leap Winery, 54250 S. River Road in Clarksburg.

WeDnesDAy, 9/20 ALL VINYL WEDNESDAYS WITH DJ AAKNUFF: Weekly funk, soul and old-school DJ night. 8pm, no cover. Fox & Goose, 1001 R St.

ANNA & ELIZABETH: Folk music, modern and traditional. They’ve performed on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts. 7pm, $17. Palms Playhouse, 13 Main St. in Winters.

ROSS HAMMOND: In addition to being the

SUGAR: All-things dance party. 10pm, $5. Highwater, 1910 Q St.

The Golden Cadillacs and Manzanita. 8pm, $12.50-$15. Harlow’s, 2708 J St.

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singer-songwriter who’s shared the stage with the Doobie Brothers. 9pm, no cover.

Sauced BBQ & Spirits, 1028 7th St.

culture during a panel hosted by Heroic Girls. This is the fifth go-round, so you likely know the drill by now, but in case you don’t, be sure to show up in your finest anime fright wig with a few bucks in hand for drinks and art from local artists. 216 O Street, www.crockerart.org.

and Zydeco band Tom Rigney & Flambeau.

7pm, no cover. Heritage Plaza, 701 Main St. in Woodland.

as part of Concerts on the Square in downtown Roseville. Enjoy food truck grub and/or visit the beer garden. 6:30am, no cover. Vernon Street Town Square, 311 Vernon St. in Roseville.

MADISON HUDSON: Wheatland-based country

CroCker Art MuSeuM, 6 p.M., $5-$10 Every year, the Crocker turns the monthly ArtMix Thursday gathering into Crocker-Con, a miniature convention full of panel discussions, performances, ART vendors and more. During this gathering of proud comic and sci-fi loving geeks, step into time-traveling vessels like the TARDIS or the Delorean, then learn about the role of race and gender in pop

hosted by Ross Hammond. 7:30pm, $10 sliding scale. Luna’s Cafe & Juice Bar, 1414

ROBBIE FULKS: Grammy-nominated Americana/

Performing Saturday: Spite, These Streets, With Wolves, Desolist, Aethere, Whitewolf, Tyranocannon, 12 Gauge Facelift, Focara, Set Trip, God Van Damme and Devthbed. 4pm, $14. The Boardwalk, 9426 Greenback Lane in Orangevale.

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more. 5:30pm, no cover. Old Ironsides, 1901 10th St.

NEBRASKA MONDAYS: Creative music and jazz

description. Performing Saturday: Pug Skullz, Red Pills, Frack! and Cassette Idols. 7pm, $6. Cafe Colonial, 3520 Stockton Blvd.

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sunDAy, 9/17 BLUES JAM: Weekly open jam at the Torch

Club. 4pm, no cover. Torch Club, 904 15th St.

owner of Gold Lion Arts and an acclaimed jazz guitarist, Ross Hammond also books all of Kupros’ weekend entertainment and somehow still finds time to perform every Wednesday night with special guest performers. 7:30pm, no cover. Kupros, 1217 21st St.

THE DEY TRIPPERS: Blues, jam, pop R&B/soul, reggae, rock and more from this Sacramento band. 4pm, no cover. Wicked West Pizza & BBQ, 771 Ikea Court, Suite 100 in West Sacramento.

METAL ASSAULT IN THE NORTH 2: The second in a series of Northern California metal fests.

Some of the bands include Apothesary, Digital Havoc and Tzimani. 8pm, $10 Blue Lamp, 1400 Alhambra Blvd.

PUP: Canadian punk rock. Performing with

Destroy Boys. 6pm, $13-$15. Harlow’s, 2708 J St.

fesTIVAls frIDAy, 9/15 ¡EL GRITO EN LA FRANKLIN!: Celebration of Mexican Independence Day in the heart of Sacramento’s Latino Boulevard. Live music, Mexican food, local beer from Fountainhead Brewing Company, jump houses, a mechanical bull and piñatas. 5pm, no cover. The Historic Monterey Trail District, 5383 Franklin Blvd.

MOnDAy, 9/18 HEATH WILLIAMSON: The local singer/songwriter performs originals and covers with music legend and 2017 SAMMIES nominee, William Mylar, and others. Beatles, Dylan, Dead, Young, Prine, Waylon & Willie and

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main stage, pancake breakfast, craft brew tasting, 100-plus vendors. A food court, kid’s park, kid’s entertainment, cluck ’n’ crow contest and more. 10am, no cover. Fair Oaks Village, 10219 Fair Oaks Blvd. in Fair Oaks.

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Lots of Scottish fun: Celtic, Scottish and Irish folk and rock bands; region’s finest bagpipe bands; Highland and Irish dancing; Scottish athletic competitions; British food, beers and gifts; Scottish living history displays; rugby; Scotch whisky tasting; Scottish animals; children’s activities and a wee bit more! $10 general admission; $8 for youths and seniors; and FREE for kids, under age 9, and active-duty military and their families (with military ID).

Well-behaved dogs on leashes are permitted.

first and third Saturday of the month. Find affordable handmade natural soaps and other skincare items, perfume oils, AfricanAmerican memorabila, books, shea butter, handmade jewelry, local music, African fashion and jewelry, food vendors, various styles of hats, self-defense products, handmade dolls and hand bags. noon, no cover. Sojourner Truth Museum, 2251 Florin Road.

soLsa PoPs in tHe ParK: Food and beverages from local food vendors. There will be a beer and wine garden. 5pm, no cover. South Natomas Community Center, 2901 Truxel Road.

sUnday, 9/17 Community musiC FestivaL & barbersHoP basKetbaLL tournament: The Barbershop Basketball Tournament is a full-court, 5-on-5 tournament with barbershops recruiting top players to represent their shops. Local barbershops compete on the basketball courts, and your favorite local singers and musicians set the stage for recording artist Carl Thomas. There will be vendors, jumpers and games. 9am, $20. McClatchy Park, 3500 5th Ave.

river City PorCHFest 2017: Music/jam fest in two neighborhoods. Performing bands include Anime Aliens, Poor Scene, Temple K. Kirk, Stepping Stone, Lauren Wakefield, Down in Smoke and more. noon, no cover. Colonial Heights/Tahoe Park.

Cafe Colonial and the Colony could use some financial help, which is why it’s even more important to hit up this seventh iteration of the PHoto coUrtesy renae Pine always rad Bat Guano Fest.

It’s been converted into a fundraiser for the punkiest musiC all-ages venue around, and the fest features great local acts across both Friday and Saturday, including the Strange Party, the Enlows and Pug Skullz. Get out there and keep the scene alive. 3520 Stockton Boulevard, www.facebook.com/batguanofest.

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restaurant grub. Live music. 1pm, $35-$75.

Discovery Park, 1000 Garden Hwy.

soiL born Farms 15tH annuaL autumn eQuinoX CeLebration: Join Soil Born Farms at the historic American River Ranch, an urban agricultural oasis located on the American River Parkway in Rancho Cordova.

Explore the farm, enjoy live music, and sample seasonal and organic food prepared by prominent local chefs. 5:30pm, $75. Soil Born Farms American River Ranch, 2140 Chase Drive in Rancho Cordova.

soiL born Farms Farmstand: Fun activities, tours and classes every Saturday through November 18 at the American River Ranch.

Taste and purchase fresh-from-the-field produce. Enjoy organic coffee and Magpie Café baked goods. Stock up on your produce and flowers. 8am, no cover. Soil Born Farms, 2140 Chase Drive in Rancho Cordova.

sUnday, 9/17 13tH annuaL mediterranean Food and musiC FestivaL: See Saturday description. noon,

tHUrsday, 9/14 Farm-to-ForK LeGends oF wine: Taste the best wines from the Sacramento region as selected by wine legends Darrell Corti and David Berkley paired with artisan local cheese, lamb sliders and other bites in the idyllic setting in front of the Capitol with views of the sunset over Tower Bridge. 6pm, $65. Farm to Fork Capital of America, 1608 I St.

GatHer oaK ParK: A take on the city as a dining table. Set in a familiar, but unusual setting; this unique food event includes communal tables for outdoor dining, a craft beer area, artisanal food vendors, designers, food demos, interactive art, live music and a modular kids park. 5pm, no cover. Oak Park, 3433 Broadway.

satUrday, 9/16 13tH annuaL mediterranean Food and musiC FestivaL: Two-day outing of live music and cuisine from the region. 11am, $3. Holy Virgin Mary Antiochian Orthodox Church, 3060 Jefferson Blvd. in West Sacramento.

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A man who has made a new life for himself and the daughter left on his doorstep six years ago find his family threatened when the birth mother resurfaces. 8pm, $7-$10.

Stellar Studios, 202 23rd St.

sUnday, 9/17 CLosinG tHe PaLms PLayHouse: tHe end oF an era in davis: A celebration of The Palms Playhouse’s 15-year anniversary in Winters. They’ll reminisce on the beginning of the Palms with a screening of filmmaker Alvin Remmers’ documentary, Closing the Palms Playhouse: The End of an Era in Davis. Filmed in 2002, 2008 and 2015 to 2016, the 112-minute documentary recounts the improbable saga of the Palms’ early years from a playhouse-in-the-rough to an Americana-and-traditional-music venue that was and continues to be a must-stop for touring world-class musicians. The film also documents a moving time in the history of the Sacramento Valley music scene. 5pm, $10. Palms Playhouse, 13 Main St. in Winters.

$3. Holy Virgin Mary Antiochian Orthodox Church, 3060 Jefferson Blvd. in West Sacramento.

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Film tHUrsday, 9/14 nevada City FiLm FestivaL: Named “The Sundance of the Sierra,” the Nevada City Film Festival showcases seven days of independent cinema. Highlights this year include special guest Bill Nye, the Science Guy, 100-plus award-winning short and feature length films, over 35 filmmakers, a virtual reality and multimedia pavilion, after dark parties featuring comedian Eric Wareheim, live music and more. 3pm, $8-$25. Miners Foundry, 325 Spring St. in Nevada City.

Friday, 9/15 nevada City FiLm FestivaL: See Thursday

event description. 3pm, $8 - $25. Miners Foundry, 325 Spring St. in Nevada City.

tanK GirL: Dystopian sci-fi film starring Ice-T, Malcolm McDowell, Naomi Watts and Lori Petty. Adapted from a comic book of the same name. 7:30pm, $8-$10. Crest Sacramento, 1013 K St.

satUrday, 9/16 movie and midniGHt tea: Films showing: a documentary on the late blues singer Nina Simone called What Happend, Miss Simone?

comedy Comedy sPot: High Anxiety Variety Show. Your hosts, Cory Barringer, Cameron Betts and Cristian Amaral host a night of performance and chats with comics and a musical guest. 8pm. Friday, 9/15. $8; Lady Business.

Sacramento’s only all-female improv troupe uses true stories from the audience and cast members to create a long-form improv show with smart humor and unexpected characters. 8pm saturday, 9/16. $8; Improv Bingo. A team of improvisors perform while the audience plays bingo. With each number called, the performers are forced to incorporate another suggestion into their scene. First person to get BINGO wins a prize. 10:30pm saturday, 9/16. $5; The Gateway Show. Four comics hit the stage and do their best sets, then they go to an undisclosed location to get high, only to come back in and attempt to do another set completely baked. 8pm sunday, 9/17. $12$15; Harold Night. The Harold is a popular long-form improv structure developed by Del Close and performed by major comedy theaters in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. These smart and funny shows start with a single suggestion that inspires many scenes that weave together at the end of the show. 8pm wednesday, 9/20. $6. 1050 20th St., Suite 130.

LauGHs unLimited Comedy CLub: Joey Medina.

Actor and producer known for the 2017 film, Man of a Funny Age. Performing with Drew Marks. through 9/17. $10-$20; Best of OpenMic showcase. The best of the best from our

PUNCH liNE: New Faces Showcase. With Raj

Dutta. thursday, 9/14. $5; Shawn Wayans.

One of the Wayans Brothers. Performed on the sketch comedy show In Living Color. You may have also seen him in the films White Chicks and Scary Movie. through 9/16. $25$40. 2100 Arden Way, Suite 225.

tHE CENtER FOR tHE aRts: 42nd Annual San Francisco Comedy. Performing at The Center will be 16 contestants in this year’s comedy competition, having survived an elimination process that started with hundreds of applicants. Each will offer up their very best five to seven minute set. The night’s winner in the eyes of a prestigious panel of local judges will be announced at the conclusion of the show. 8pm Friday, 9/15. $24-$27. 314 W. Main St. in Grass Valley.

ON sTaGE B stREEt tHEatRE: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? See event highlight on page 33. through 10/29. $9-$39. 2711 B St.

CaliFORNia staGE COMPlEX: The Tempest.

Widely considered one of Shakespeare’s greatest works, The Tempest is a lyrical play that tells the story of Prospero, an exiled duke who reigns over an enchanted island where fantastical creatures, mystery, music and romance abound. He conjures a shipwreck that delivers his enemies to the island, but the plot thickens when Prospero’s beloved daughter falls for the enemy’s son. through 10/8. $20. 1721 25th St.

CaPital staGE: An Octoroon. Judge Peyton is dead and his plantation Terrebonne is in financial ruins. Peyton’s handsome nephew George arrives as heir apparent and quickly falls in love with Zoe, a beautiful octoroon.

But the evil overseer M’Closky has other plans—for both Terrebonne and Zoe. In 1859, a famous Irishman wrote The Octoroon, a melodrama about slavery in America. Now an American tries to write his own. through 10/1. $17.50-$40. 2215 J St.

GOlDEN 1 CENtER: Marvel Universe LIVE! Age of Heroes. Live drama with Marvel superheroes. A synopsis: “Spider-Man, the Avengers and the Guardians of the Galaxy join forces with Doctor Strange, master of the mystic arts, in a race against time to recover the Wand of Watoomb before it falls into Loki’s hands. This ancient artifact holds immeasurable mystical power and

would allow Loki to achieve his eternal quest to crown himself ruler of Asgard and Earth.” through 9/17. $15-$75. 500 David J Stern Walk.

lUNa’s CaFE & JUiCE BaR: Victor Krummenacher Solo Acoustic and Poetry.

Victor Krummenacher (of Cracker, Camper Van Beethoven and Monks of Doom) will perform songs from his forthcoming solo album, Blue Pacific. Poets Frank Andrick and Rachel Leibrock open accompanied by musicians Chad Williams and Sam Elliot “Chenzo.” Victor will also accompany poet Cynthia Linville before his solo set. This evening is supported by mini-grants from Poets and Writers. 8pm. through 9/16. $10. 1414 16th St.

saC statE sOlaNO Hall DaNCEsPaCE: Sac State kicks off its Theatre and Dance fall season with Sacramento Dance Theatre’s Phoenix Rising, in Solano Hall 1010 Dancespace on campus. Directed by Lorelei Bayne, the concert features original dance numbers by students, faculty and guest choreographers in a mix of music and dance styles. through 9/24. $10-$18. 6000 J St.

saCRaMENtO CONvENtiON CENtER COMPlEX: CAIRtalks 2017. CAIRtalks is an annual event put on by CAIR Sacramento Valley. This year’s event aims to highlight the success of Muslim trailblazers in a variety of fields ranging from media and mental health to politics and fashion. 5pm sunday, 9/17. $15$20. 1400 J St.

tHEatRE iN tHE HEiGHts: A Thousand Clowns.

The year is 1962 and bachelor uncle Murray Burns is endeavoring to rear his precocious nephew in N.Y.C. He has tired of writing cheap comedy for a children’s television program and finds himself unemployed with some free time to saunter through New York and do everything he has always wanted to do: like standing on Park Avenue in the dawn’s early light and hollering, “All right, all you rich people; everybody out in the street for volleyball.” When Social Services arrive on the scene to ensure that the nephew is receiving a proper upbringing, he finds himself solving their problems. Eventually, he must go back to work or lose his nephew, or he might marry the social worker. through 9/17. $15. 8215 Auburn Blvd. Suite G in Citrus Heights.

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Show your appreciation of Mexico’s culture and history as Sac State hosts the El Grito Celebration of Mexican Independence Day. Music by The B-Side PhOTO COurTEsy OF NICOLE FOWLEr Players, a nine-piece, high-energy Sacramento band, will have you dancing. If you want to keep celebrating the September 16 holiday, don’t miss ¡El Grito on Franklin!

FEstival That party kicks off at 5 p.m. Friday, September 15, at 5385 Franklin Boulevard, with Mexican food, beer, piñatas, musicians and a live streaming of the Grito from Zocalo, Mexico, as the crowd cheers “¡Viva Mexico!” 6000 J Street, calendar.csus.edu.

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Fair Oaks Theatre Festival’s SHREW! A Jazz Age Musical Romp is an original adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. Through 9/17. $12-$18. 7991 California Ave. in Fair Oaks.

THREE PENNY THEATRE: Fool for Love/ Scaramouche Jones. Sam Shepard’s Fool for Love and Justin Butcher’s Scaramoushe Jones are two one acts. Come see these in Blank Canvas Theatre’s debut theatrical event. Through 9/23. $10. 2509 R St.

ART BLUE LINE ARTS: Jim Piskoti Reception - Coker Family Main Gallery. Combining the traditional medium of acrylic paint with new technology, motorized parts and LED lights, Piskoti’s works border on satire, while commenting on important social issues ranging from the death penalty to America’s eating habits. The exhibit runs through October 7. 5pm Thursday, 9/16. No cover. 405 Vernon St., Suite 100 in Roseville.

CAFE COLONIAL: Cafe Colonial Art Showcase.

Come out and celebrate Sacramento’s artistic culture at Cafe Colonial for a night of visual art and music. The front room will feature the following visual artists, including Cam Evan, Sarah Rene Kraft, Emerald Berkley and more. 6pm Saturday, 9/16. 3520 Stockton Blvd.

CAPITOL MALL: Sacramento United Park(ING) Day. Designers, makers, artists, landscape architects, architects, engineers, musicians, performers, contractors, business owners and creatives are invited to design their parklets to showcase the region’s ‘CREATIVE CAPITOL.’ 9am Saturday, 9/16. No cover. 914 Capitol Mall.

CROCKER ART MUSEUM: Turn The Page The First Ten Years of Hi-Fructose. Closing weekend for the exhibit, which highlights 51 contemporary artists featured in the first decade of the low-brow art magazine. Through 9/17. $5-$10; Artist to Artist: Raimonds Staprans in Conversation with Squeak Carnwath. In honor of “Full Spectrum: Paintings by Raimonds Staprans” (closing October 8) Raimonds Staprans makes a rare appearance to discuss his work with legendary artist and educator Squeak Carnwath.

Together they’ll discuss Staprans’ long career, his love of color and how, as a native Latvian, he went on to become a premier California painter. 2pm Sunday, 9/17. $8-$12.

216 O St.

LUNA’S CAFE & JUICE BAR: Sit ’n’ Spin Poetry Slam. The Sac Unified Poetry Slam is held every third Friday. There will be spoken word, Sangria and sarcastic hosts that will make you sit ’n’ spin. 8pm Friday, 9/15. No cover ($5 to slam). 1414 16th St.

PENCE ART GALLERY: Art Auction. Enjoy silent bidding on more than 175 works of art by top local and regional artists. Food and desserts will be served by Seasons Restaurant, Dos Coyotes Border Café, deVere’s Irish Pub and Nugget Markets. Beverages by Peet’s Coffee & Tea, Sudwerk Brewery and Fiddlehead Cellars. Live music. 6:30pm. Saturday, 9/16. $40-$45. 212 D St. in Davis.

SACRAMENTO FINE ARTS CENTER: Visions 2017 (Call to Artists). Artists are invited to submit for an annual open-juried photography show that takes place from October 31

SUPERHERO DASH! THE 10TH ANNUAL WALK FOR BRAIN INJURY: A superhero-themed walk

Project Lifelong Video Premiere The Brickhouse Gallery, 3 p.m., no cover

State presents ‘Last Words’ exhibit. The Sacramento State Library Gallery presents “Last Words,” a memorial and ode to our final words, by installation artist Julia Couzens. All the quotes are anonymous, with some from famous people, and others from those known only to family and friends.

Through 12/15. No cover. 6000 J St.

VERGE CENTER FOR THE ARTS: 12th Annual Sac Open Studios. Established in 2006, Sac Open Studios will spotlight 150 local artists which includes artist studios, a preview exhibition at Verge and select events. This program allows participants the opportunity to engage directly with the artists in an intimate setting, while they embark on an art-focused exploration of Sacramento. Sac Open Studios provides the public a chance to meet many of the local artists who participated in these projects. Through 9/17. No cover. 625 S St.

ARTSPACE1616: Lynn Criswell and Michael Bishop Exhibit. In her recent works, Lynn Criswell explores the relationships between the past and present. The portraits of the primary school class from 1965 are altered, collaged and printed on a traditional Turkish felt. Titled “Neither Here nor There,” the latest body of work by Michael Bishop continues to explore concepts of place, identity, time and power. By careful choice of visual vocabulary, Bishop creates narrative where beauty and danger coexist on an equal ground. Through 10/28. No cover. 1616 Del Paso Blvd.

MUSEUMS CALIFORNIA AUTOMOBILE MUSEUM: Inaugural Campus Car Show. Show off your ride or simply come as a spectator to this inaugural event, presented in partnership with Universal Technical Institute. All makes and models from 1970 and newer are accepted, with a $20-$25 show participation fee. 10am.

Through 9/16. No cover. 2200 Front St.

Requesting that this is a space only for black women. In July, Black Women United hosted the first-ever black women’s march in Sacramento. Now they’re back to expand their organization. 2pm, no cover. First United Methodist Church, 2100 J St.

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If you don’t know about Project Lifelong and its efforts to get Sacramento PHOTO cOURTESY OF JEFFREY lATOUR kids off the sofa and outside, here’s your chance to learn. The relatively new organization promotes self-esteem for kids ages 12 to 17 through SPORTS & OUTDOORS healthy activities like skateboarding, disc golf and outdoor adventures. Part of an all-day event, Celebrating Sacramento’s Skateboard Community, the video premiere party features a raffle, music, pizza and drinks. A skate jam will be held beforehand at Oak Park Skatepark from 1 to 3 p.m. 2837 36th Street, www.facebook. com/projectlifelong.

to November 21 this year. Enter your work online at www.sacfinearts.org/entry. They are accepting entries in a number of categories with prizes and awards going to the Best in Show, Best in Category in addition to awards of excellence, awards of merit and honorable mention. Through 9/30. $15-$50.

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with entertainment, food trucks, games, prizes, costume contests (for you and your leashed dog!) and more. 9am, $30.

California State Capitol, 1315 10th St.

CALIFORNIA MUSEUM: 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 RAILROAD MUSEUM: Off The Clock. This playful exhibit focuses on the variety of sports clubs, teams and athletic competitions that attracted Southern Pacific employees in the early- to mid1900s. Through 6/1. $10-$15. 111 I St.

CROCKER ART MUSEUM: ArtMix: Crocker-Con. Monthly ArtMix geeks out with panel discussions, live music, appearances by local comic book legends, live sketching, vendors and more—all centered around comics and fantasy. 6pm. 9/14. $5-$10. 216 O St.

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BEGINNER NOVICE HOCKEY LEAGUE: Instructional hockey program for players age 18 and older who want to learn the basics of hockey.

8:35pm, $6. Oak Park Ice Arena, 3545 N. Alvarado St. in Stockton.

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looking to organize around issues such as: housing as a right for all, the lack of rental housing, homelessness, rising rents and rent control, gentrification, displacement and resegregation, tenant protections and enforcing those protections, mistreatment of renters by landlords and just cause eviction, land rights, then you came to the right place. They meet every first and third Monday. 6pm, no cover. Organize Sacramento, 1714 Broadway.

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QUEER AFTERNOON: Held at the Lavender Library every the first & third Sunday of the month. An afternoon of creating and making in a queer-affirming space. Share projects, skills and techniques with likeminded artists and crafters. Basic craft supplies provided.

2pm, no cover. Lavender Library, Archives, and Cultural Exchange, 1414 21st St.

MONDAY, 9/18 LGBTQ SPEAKERS PANEL KICK OFF EVENT: Listen to a panel of six speakers who will share their story of love, struggle, triumph and acceptance. Most of them are people of color, LGBTQ-identified (or are family members of someone who is queer-identified). Light refreshments will be available. 6:30pm. The Sacramento LGBT Community Center, 1927 L St.

TUESDAY, 9/19 WOMEN’S COFFEE NIGHT: A discussion group

for all women who identify as LGBTQ. 6pm.

Naked Lounge, 1500 Q St.

SATURDAY, 9/16 BASIC COMPOSTING WORKSHOP: Learn how to turn yard waste into “gardener’s gold.”

A class on the basics of composting will include setting up a compost bin, types of compost bins and tips for success. 1pm, no cover. Orangevale Library, 8820 Greenback Lane, Suite L in Orangevale.

PHOTOSHOP IN 5 HOURS: Bring a laptop computer loaded with Photoshop CS5 or higher. Download the free trial or purchase it for $10 a month. This intensive workshop will cover the most important tools of Photoshop, such as where things are, basic toning, color, cropping, burning and dodging, using layers, cloning, adding text, sizing for printing and sizing for online. During the workshop, participants will complete a greeting card project so they can get hands-on experience with the Photoshop tools. 9am, $60. Sierra 2 Center, 2791 24th St

SOMATIC SERIES: Class includes lecture, somatics movement and excercises, and group and individual processing. 10am, $25$65. Graceful Evolution, 700 Alahambra.

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VEGETARIAN COOKING CLASS: Held every third

THURSDAY, 9/14

Saturday each month (except in November and December). A demonstration and sampling of vegetarian and vegan dishes you can prepare at home. This week: Ethiopian food. 6pm, no cover. Woodside Seventh-Day Adventist Church, 3300 Eastern Ave.

SAC DEMS SEPTEMBER MEETING: Join the Democratic Party of Sacramento County’s monthly meeting. 6pm. Sierra 2 Center, 2791 24th St.

SACRAMENTO HISTORY MUSEUM: Old Sacramento Underground Tours.

Explore the history that rests below Old Sacramento’s historic buildings and sidewalks. 11am. Through 12/31. $10-$15. 101 I St.

SPORTS & OUTDOORS SATURDAY, 9/16 DOGGIE DAY IN THE PARK: An event designed with pups in mind, the day includes an agility obstacle course, contests, information booths and more for the whole family. 8am.

Neil Orchard Senior Activities Center, 3480 Routier Road.

SUNDAY, 9/17 PROJECT LIFELONG VIDEO PREMIERE PARTY: See event description above. 3pm, no cover.

The Brickhouse Gallery, 2837 36th St.

RUN WITH THE COPS: A 5K fun run (not timed) benefiting the Sacramento Police K9 Association and Law Enforcement Chaplaincy, Sacramento. 7am, $20-$30.

Miller Park, 2710 Ramp Way.

SATURDAY, 9/16

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

B sTreeT TheaTre, 5 p.m., $9-$39

This 1962 award-winning drama is a dark portrait of the American family, as middle-aged couple George and Martha invite a younger couple to ON STAGE their home for a tense PHOTO cOURTESY OF RUDY MEYERS PHOTOGRAPHY after-party that runs off the rails.

Immerse yourself in George and Martha’s volatile relationship, as their marriage and sanity unravel right in front of you. 2711 B Street, www.bstreettheatre.org.

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The Inside Story, 9:30pm, no cover

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Poetry Unplugged Open-Mic, 7pm, $2

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Your heart is broken. Let yourself grieve the man you thought you knew so you can be present with the man he is. Don’t judge him.

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be a favorable time for refurbished models and revived originals. They are likely to be more fun and interesting the second time around. I suspect that this will also be an auspicious phase for substitutes and alternatives. They may even turn out to be better than the so-called real things they replace. So be artful in formulating Plan B and Plan C, Leo. Switching over to backups may ultimately bring out more of the best in you and whisk you toward your ultimate goal in unexpected ways.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In the coming weeks,

you might want to read the last few pages of a book before you decide to actually dive in and devour the whole thing. I also suggest you take what I just said as a useful metaphor to apply in other areas. In general, it might be wise to surmise the probable outcomes of games, adventures and experiments before you get totally involved. Try this fun exercise: Imagine you are a psychic prophet as you evaluate the long-range prospects of any influences that are vying to play a role in your future.

direction will reveal itself clearly. I predict that will happen soon—no later than October 1.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Welcome to

“Compose Your Own Oracle,” a special edition of Free Will Astrology. Departing from tradition, I’m temporarily stepping aside so you can have the freedom to write the exact horoscope you want.

Normally, you might be in danger of falling victim to presumptuous arrogance if you imagined you could wield complete control over how your destiny unfolds. But in the days ahead, that rule won’t be as unyielding, because cosmic forces will be giving you more slack than usual. Fate and karma, which frequently impel you to act according to patterns that were set in place long ago, are giving you at least a partial respite. To get the maximum benefit out of “Compose Your Own Oracle,” identify three plot developments you’d like to weave into a self-fulfilling prophecy for your immediate future. Then start weaving.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Almost

two-thirds of us confess that if we are alone, we might sip milk directly from the carton rather than first pouring it into a glass. Fourteen percent of us have used milk as part of our sexual activities. One out of every five of us admit that we have “borrowed” someone else’s milk from the fridge at work. Most shockingly, four percent of us brag that we have blown milk out our noses on purpose. I expect that in the next two weeks, you Sagittarians will exceed all these norms. Not just because you’ll be in the mood to engage in mischievous experiments and playful adventures with milk, but because you’re likely to have a loosey-goosey relationship with almost everything.

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

weeks will an excellent time for you to raise funds in support of political prisoners, or to volunteer at a soup kitchen or to donate blood at a blood bank. In fact, any charitable service you perform for people you don’t know will be excellent for your physical and mental health.

You can also generate vivid blessings for yourself by being extra thoughtful, kind, and generous toward people you care for. You’re in a phase of your astrological cycle when unselfish acts will yield maximum selfish benefits.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In his novel The

Jungle, muckraker Upton Sinclair (1878-1968) exposed the abominable hygiene and working conditions of the meat-packing industry. The uproar that followed led to corrective legislation by the U.S. Congress. Sinclair remained devoted to serving the public good throughout his career.

He liked to say that the term “social justice” was inscribed on his heart. Drawing from his inspiration, Aquarius, I suggest you decide what your soul’s main motto is—and imagine that it is written on your heart. Now is a perfect moment time to clarify your life’s purpose, and intensify your commitment to it; to devote even more practical, tender zeal to fulfilling the reason you were born.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You know that

“patch of bothersome weeds” growing right in the middle of your life? Is it really a patch of bothersome weeds? Or is it perhaps a plot of cultivated blooms that once pleased you but has now turned into a puzzling irrelevancy? Or how about this possibility: Is it a chunk of languishing beauty that might flourish and please you again if it were cared for better? Those are excellent questions for you to pose in the coming days, Pisces. According to my interpretation of the astrological omens, it’s time for you to decide on the future of this quizzical presence.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Dear Dr. Astrology:

I’m feeling lost, but am also feeling very close to finding my new direction. It hurts! It would be so helpful if I could just catch a glimpse of that new direction. I’d be able to better endure the pain and confusion if I could get a tangible sense of the future happiness that my pain and confusion are preparing me for. Can you offer me any free advice? —Lost Libra.” Dear Libra: The pain and confusion come from the dying of the old ways.

They need to die a bit more before the new

You can call Rob Brezsny for your Expanded Weekly Horoscope: (900) 950-7700. $1.99 per minute. Must be 18+. Touchtone phone required. Customer service (612) 373-9785. And don’t forget to check out Rob’s website at www.realastrology.com.

Joe to go Haley Prater has spent the past 20 years inside of a box. She memorizes names, makes coffee and tea of all kinds and includes her cheery demeanor with every order she delivers through two small windows. Prater, 39, celebrated her two decades working at Rocket Joe, the East Sacramento (5636 J Street) walk-up and drive-thru kiosk, by buying the business with her husband of 15 years, Bobby Prater, 40. The couple’s first day of ownership was September 1.

Northern California’s first drivethru coffee business opened in a former photography processing lab in 1993 and was called Cuppa Java. Philip Courey, owner of the small J Street Center that features the Greek restaurant Opa! Opa!, bought the business in 1997. He renamed the shop Rocket Joe after his son, Joe. Haley, who also worked at nearby Muffins Etc. began working in the kiosk parttime a few months later at age 19.

She calls nearly every customer by their first name and knows their orders before they order. The couple works seven days a week.

What’s it been like to work here, basically in a 11-by-11 kiosk, for 20 years?

Haley: I just love it. I like to talk to customers and make people happy and to help them start their day right. My grandfather owned a restaurant on Fair Oaks Blvd. in Carmichael. It was a small drive-in. I wish he still had it so that I could work in the restaurant. I think it’s something ingrained in me. I love getting up and going to work in the morning.

I don’t get up and say, “Oh, my God. I have to go to work.”

Bobby: As Haley has said, it doesn’t really feel like you’re working. You come it; you chitchat with people. You get to know people. You come to work and socialize. Customers have said they look at Haley from their car windows and it looks like she’s dancing.

How did you decide to buy the business?

Haley: He [Phil] had started talking to us about five years ago or maybe four but my mom had had a stroke and we weren’t ready. It was pretty severe stroke and [we] lived with her at the Kaiser Permanente location in Vallejo for five weeks. It just wasn’t the time for us. But my mom is alive and she’s feisty, which is good sometimes and she’s independent now. But Bobby lost

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his job after 13 years. I heard rumors Phil was going to sell it, so it was a great opportunity to see if we could buy the business. We thought, “Let’s go for it.

Let’s take the jump and a leap of faith.”

You always seem upbeat. What happens if someone comes to the window in a bad mood and takes it out on you?

Haley: You kill ’em with kindness. If you come back at somebody who’s combative the same way, that’s not going to do anything but cause friction. It’s better if you can defuse the situation with a few kind words and thank them for coming in.

Sometimes, that’s all it takes. You don’t want to put them in even a worse mood.

I want them to say, “I was in a bad mood, but I came and saw Haley and Bobby at Rocket Joe and they helped me with what I was going through.”

If you have a slow time, do you step outside for a break?

Haley: No, not really. We use the restrooms at Opa, but we have a little TV in the corner. We only get about 15 channels, so we only watch the old shows, like Andy Griffith and I Dream of Jeannie.

What kind of coffee do you use?

Haley: We use an Italia roast, an

espresso. We get it from the East Coast.

I really like it. It’s a dark roast. If you like a weaker coffee, you don’t want to have it.

As new owners, do you have some new plans for the business?

Haley: On Tuesday, when you come in you get two stamps [on a buyer’s card]. And we are going to start to do Christmas in July. People really like the holidays. And we are going to be the home of the year-round pumpkin spice latte. People love it. And we’ve just started talking with FoodJets yesterday.

They’ll deliver the coffee here and Midtown. I am going to start talking with businesses in office buildings.

You’re a husband and wife working together. How’s it going?

Bobby: The first thing I am learning is when Haley is talking to a customer, do I stand up here [close to the register]? Or do I stand back here [near the preparation area]? I am trying to stay out of trouble as much as I can. Ω

Rocket Joe is open 6 a.m. to 2 p.m., Monday through Friday and 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.

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