s-2017-10-05

Free

train gangs, murder and true detective work 14 by scott thomas anderson

20

24

homegrown filmmaker goes big

afghan eatery in north highlands

08 viral outbreak was avoidable Sacramento’S newS & entertainment weekly

|

Volume 29, iSSue 25

|

thurSday, october 5, 2017

|

newSreView.com

2 | SN&R | 10.05.17

EditoR’S NotE

octobER 5, 2017 | Vol. 29, iSSuE 25

05 07 08 12 13 14 20 23 28 30 32 33 40 55

28 21 Our Mission: To publish great newspapers that are successful and enduring. To create a quality work environment that encourages employees to grow professionally while respecting personal welfare. To have a positive impact on our communities and make them better places to live.

Editor Eric Johnson News Editor Raheem F. Hosseini Arts & Culture Editor Rebecca Huval Associate Editor Mozes Zarate Staff Reporter Scott Thomas Anderson Calendar Editor Kate Gonzales Contributing Editor Rachel Leibrock Contributors Daniel Barnes, Ngaio Bealum, Alastair Bland, Rob Brezsny, Aaron Carnes, Jim Carnes, Willie Clark, John Flynn, Joey Garcia, Lovelle Harris, Jeff Hudson, Dave Kempa, Matt Kramer, Jim Lane, Michael Mott, Luis Gael Jimenez, Kate Paloy, Patti Roberts, Steph Rodriguez, Ann Martin Rolke, Shoka, Bev Sykes

33 Design Manager Christopher Terrazas Creative Director Serene Lusano Art Director Margaret Larkin Production Coordinator Skyler Smith Designers Kyle Shine, Maria Ratinova Marketing/Publications Designer Sarah Hansel Web Design & Strategy Intern Elisabeth Bayard Arthur Contributing Photographers Lisa Baetz, Evan Duran, Adam Emelio, Lucas Fitzgerald, Jon Hermison, Kris Hooks, Gavin McIntyre, Michael Mott, Shoka, Lauran Fayne Thompson Advertising Manager Michael Gelbman Senior Advertising Consultants Justin Cunningham, Rosemarie Messina, Kelsi White Advertising Consultants Matt Kjar, Paul McGuinness, Michael Nero Sweetdeals Coordinator Hannah Williams Facilities Coordinator & Sales Assistant David Lindsay Director of First Impressions Skyler Morris Distribution Director Greg Erwin Distribution Services Assistant Larry Schubert Distribution Drivers Mansour Aghdam, Beatriz Aguirre, Rosemarie Beseler, Kimberly Bordenkircher,

55 Daniel Bowen, Gypsy Andrews, Heather Brinkley, Kelly Hopkins, Mike Cleary, Lydia Comer, Tom Downing, Rob Dunnica, Richard Eckert, Chris Fong, Ron Forsberg, Joanna Gonzalez-Brown, Julian Lang, Lori Lovell, Greg Meyers, Lloyd Rongley, Lolu Sholotan, Steve Stewart, Eric Umeda, Zang Yang N&R Publications Editor Michelle Carl N&R Associate Editor Laura Hillen N&R Publications Writer Anne Stokes Marketing & Publications Consultants Steve Caruso, Joseph Engle, Ken Cross President/CEO Jeff vonKaenel Director of Nuts & Bolts Deborah Redmond Nuts & Bolts Ninja Leslie Giovanini Executive Coordinator Carlyn Asuncion Director of People & Culture David Stogner Project Coordinator Natasha vonKaenel Director of Dollars & Sense Nicole Jackson Payroll/AP Wizard Miranda Dargitz Accounts Receivable Specialist Analie Foland Developer John Bisignano, Jonathan Schultz System Support Specialist Kalin Jenkins

STREETALK LETTERS NEwS + BEATs gREENLighT ScoREKEEpER FEATuRE SToRy ARTS&cuLTuRE DiSh STAgE FiLm muSic cALENDAR ASK joEy 15 miNuTES

covER DESigN by mARgARET LARKiN covER phoTo by jASoN pERRy

1124 Del Paso Boulevard, Sacramento, CA 95815 Phone (916) 498-1234 Fax (916) 498-7910 Website www.newsreview.com Got a News Tip? sactonewstips@newsreview.com Calendar Events www.newsreview.com/calendar Want to Advertise? Fax (916) 498-7910 or snradinfo@newsreview.com Classifieds (916) 498-1234, ext. 5 or classifieds@newsreview.com Job Opportunities jobs@newsreview.com Want to Subscribe to SN&R? sactosubs@newsreview.com Editorial Policies: opinions expressed in sn&r are those of the authors and not of chico community Publishing, inc. contact the editor for permissions to reprint articles, cartoons or other portions of the paper. sn&r is not responsible for unsolicited manuscripts or review materials. Email letters to snrletters@newsreview.com. All letters received become the property of the publisher. We reserve the right to print letters in condensed form and to edit them for libel.

Advertising Policies: All advertising is subject to the newspaper’s standards of Acceptance. The advertiser and not the newspaper assumes the responsibility for the truthful content of their advertising message. sn&r is printed at Bay Area news Group on recycled newsprint. circulation of sn&r is verified by the circulation Verification council. sn&r is a member of sacramento Metro chamber of commerce, cnPA, AAn and AWn.

Rebel without a clue Staff writer Scott Thomas Anderson, who covered the Roseville trainhopper murder as a reporter at the Press Tribune, had been waiting for that case to come to a conclusion so he could tell the remarkable story of how two local detectives captured the killers (convictions were handed down in late July). He’s told pieces of the story to folks here at SN&R since he arrived just over a year ago. That’s probably why his article inspired a lot of conversation this week as the editorial and design departments worked together selecting images for the cover and inside layout.

Scott’s story, as you will see, gets pretty deep into the hidden world of illicit train-hoppers. A handful of these folks, like three of the four killers you will read about here, are hardened misanthropes with contempt for society. Others, including the fellow on our cover, belong to gangs such as the Freight Train Riders of America.

Still, others are just outcasts who want nothing to do with the straight world, and have successfully escaped.

A smaller handful hearken back to the hobos and beatniks of old—there is a romantic edge to their chosen lives.

John Alpert, who was killed in Roseville in 2013, was one of those.

Naively, he imagined a life filled with freedom and adventure. Briefly, he found that life. Too briefly.

Serene Lusano, our creative director, pointed out in our discussions that the rail-riders are a varied enough group that they reflect the general population. These are folks not so different from you and me who have decided that they can’t or won’t conform. They’re a lot less comfortable than us, and they face physical danger daily. After getting to know them just a little, especially in the light of this week’s events, I want us to make some more room for them.

—Eric Johnson e r ic j@ ne wsr e v ie w.c o m

BEST CAR WASH SPECIALS

SNR SPECIAL WASH ONLY BEST PAINT 24.99 Full Service Wash including $ interior vacuum & wipe down PROTECTION 399* 9.00 Triple Foam Wax FOR YOUR CAR 6.00 Underbody Rust Inhibitor WITH SNR CO UPON

2 year warranty

1.00 7.00

NORMALLY $600

$47.99 VALUE

*Expires 10/31/17 • Cost may change for larger vehicles • Coupon Code 164

Air Freshener Sealant

*Expires 10/31/17 • Coupon Code 158

ONLY 99

24 *

$

WITH COUPON

1901 L Street • 916.446.0129

(on the corner of 19th and L) •

www.harvscarwash.com 10.05.17 | SN&R | 3

# RiseUpAsOne 4 | SN&R | 10.05.17

“I’m not EvIl. I just don’t want to gEt In troublE.”

asked in front of sacramento comedy spot:

Ever throw someone under the bus?

Jason anderson private investigator

[As a private investigator] sometimes people give me information and then I use that to locate another person, but I don’t ever burn my leads. The people I track, I guess they get burned but they made that bus. They jumped under it.

I just had to move the bus on top of them (laughs).

roBert Berry comedian

I can’t recall that I ever have because I’m so paranoid of it being reciprocated. I’m afraid of someone doing that to me. I can’t do it. It’ll come [back] around.

parker newman

alfonso portel a

professional cat joke writer on Twitter

All the time, totally. Here’s the thing: Sometimes throwing people under the bus is hilarious. If you throw people under the bus, you’re going to get a story out of it. There needs to be a “throwing people under the bus 101” class.

patrick Bl anson

comedian

I’ve never thrown someone under the bus, onstage or offstage. It’s not in my nature to really do that.

[There are] a lot of moments where I want to.

I want to be bad (laughs).

I want to be the guy who throws people under the bus but I just can’t.

Benton HarsHaw

Motor vehicle representative at DMV

It’s not in my nature, but now that I’m thinking, I guess I have ... A manager gave me a slip of paper and I lost it. So when it came time to fess up, I just said I never got it (laughs). I’m not evil. I just don’t want to get in trouble.

student

There was once this time that I was directing a summer camp and I was, well, I shouldn’t have been trusted (laughs). I forgot one day that there was a summer camp happening, and I overslept and unintentionally threw the other director under the bus.

America’s Premier Jewelry & Bead Faires

GEM FAIRE OCTOBER 6, 7, 8 SACRAMENTO Scottish Rite Center

{ 6151 H St., Sacramento, CA }

2

$

SHOW HOURS: FRI 12pm-6pm | SAT 10am-6pm | SUN 10am-5pm

*Bring this ad to receive

JEWELRY ² CRYSTALS ² GEMS ² BEADS SILVER ² MINERALS ² FOSSILS

OFFon admissi

***** Admission $7

* *Not valid with other offer. ONE per person.

Property of Gem Faire, Inc, can be revoked P without notice. Non-transferrable. w

Jewelry Repair | Largest Selection | New Vendors!

Sponsored by GEM FAIRE, INC | (503) 252-8300 | GEMFAIRE.COM 10.05.17 | SN&R | 5

BUILDING A

HEALTHY S A C R A M E N T O

One Piece of Paper, A World of Difference

BY E D G A R S A N C H E Z

T

his Halloween was supposed to be crunch time for some offenders looking for a second chance.

places to urge people to have their felony records expunged.

Under Proposition 47, the criminal justice reform law approved by California voters in 2014, people with low-level felony convictions had until Nov. 4, 2017 to petition a judge to reclassify their cases as misdemeanors.

“[PROP. 47] REALLY MADE THE PUNISHMENT FIT THE CRIME.”

But the deadline was extended until Nov. 4, 2022, with the Legislature’s passage of AB 2765 last year, to help ensure maximum applicants.

“When Proposition 47 passed, there was a threeyear window for petitions,” said Karen Flynn, former Sacramento County chief assistant public defender, who retired recently after 31 years with the office. “With the deadline extension, things became a little less urgent.”

By August, about 9,794 people had petitioned Sacramento Superior Court to reduce their felony convictions for crimes such as drug possession and check forgery for $950 or less, to misdemeanors. About 5,209 of the petitions had been granted, according to Kim Pedersen, a spokeswoman for the court.

As of March, 124,780 people had filed reclassification petitions statewide, according to the Judicial Council of California, which doesn’t track final dispositions in the 58 counties.

Prop. 47 was passed by voters on Nov. 4, 2014 and enacted a day after the vote.

As officials in other counties scrambled in the face of new paperwork, Flynn began visiting local churches, community centers and other

Karen Flynn Former Sacramento County chief assistant public defender

Even before Prop. 47 passed, she had begun developing a one-page petition for Sacramentans seeking a re-designation of their felony convictions. The Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office and the County’s Superior Court edited the form further, said Flynn, who noted that the petition is simple, unlike the 10-page bureaucratic petitions some counties adopted.

Flynn “guesstimated” that 75 percent of the Prop. 47 petitions filed with Sacramento Superior Court to date were prepared with the help of herself and her former co-workers, who continue to help petitioners — for free.

For Flynn, the best part was when successful petitioners thanked her. Not being a felon means better jobs, access to student loans and other benefits.

She believes sentencing guidelines discriminated against minorities before Prop.

47, which also led to the release of thousands of inmates.

Karen Flynn, retired Sacramento County chief assistant public defender, helped develop a one-page petition that county residents convicted of low-level felonies use to reclassify their cases to misdemeanors. Around 5,209 people have successfully petitioned Sacramento Superior Court to reclassify their cases under Prop. 47.

Photo by Edgar Sanchez

“Some claim there’s been an increase in crime because of Prop. 47,” the devout Sacramento Catholic said, “but in my view, it didn’t do that.

It really made the punishment fit the crime.”

Anyone interested in filing Proposition 47 petitions can come to the misdemeanor division of the Sacramento County Public Defender’s Office at 700 H St., Suite O270, on Fridays at 9 a.m. for assistance or call 916-874-6417.

Your ZIP code shouldn’t predict how long you’ll live – but it does. Staying healthy requires much more than doctors and diets. Every day, our surroundings and activities affect how long – and how well – we’ll live.

BUILDING HEALTHY COMMUNITIES In 2010, The California Endowment launched a 10-year, $1 billion plan to improve the health of 14 challenged communities across the state.

Over the 10 years, residents, communitybased organizations and public institutions will work together to address the socioeconomic and environmental challenges contributing to the poor health of their communities.

#SchoolsNotPrisons

Health Happens in Neighborhoods. Health Happens in Schools.

Health Happens with Prevention.

PAID WITH A GRANT FROM THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT 6 | SN&R | 10.05.17

www.SacBHC.org

Email lEttErs to sactolEttErs@nEwsrEviEw.com

Liberal Nazis just don’t get it Re “Shock rock lives up to its name” by Steph Rodriguez (Music, September 28): Don’t these people know that the Mentors are a satirical novelty act!? How is going to this show any different than watching a movie or comedy act? I find it disturbing, paradoxical and downright hilarious that the P.C. police and their brand of liberal fascism is akin to Nazi Germany without even realizing it. I think it’s time to put away the often debatable who’s “right or wrong” card and start to give people their rights whether you agree or not with their chosen “entertainment.”

gary truJillo lo s a ng e l e s v i a s act ol et t er s @ n ew s r e v i e w . c o m

Put homeless shelter in Fab 40s Re “Field of Dreams” by Raheem F. Hosseini (News, September 28): I always see these homeless cities proposed for some sh*t hole areas. All these wealthy homeless advocates always want these places around people who have no financial means to object.

Here’s an idea: Let’s put them on the palatial grounds of these rich people crying for tent cities. Don’t make me name them, but I’ve been to their homes and have seen the acres of gated, secluded yard.

Curt Fry S a c ra m e nt o v i a s a c t o l e t t e rs @ne w s re v i e w . c o m

Too many people

Let’s Go! Sacramento!

Science says natural disasters like Irma, rising sea levels, floods and others may be caused by global warming. Science says global warming may be caused by overpopulation. If you are 69 years old or older, the world population has tripled while you have been alive.

Stuart King

ICYMI: Republic FC earned the @SacNewsReview 2017 Best Team Award! Thank you fans and let’s keep it going for these last matches!

SaC republiC FC

D e nv e r v i a s a c t o l e t t e rs @ne wsr e v ie w.c o m

Mediate, don’t litigate Re “Erika Englund, divorce mediator” by Faith Lewis (15 Minutes, September 21): Thanks @SacNewsReview for giving our show host @coopsolution her 15 minutes!

Split | DeCiSionS

v ia i nsta gr a m @ sa c r e p u b lic fc

A dancer’s dream Honored to be on the cover of @SacNewsReview representing @SacBallet! Don’t miss our stellar 2017-2018 Season: www.sacballet.org. alexanDra Cunningham

read more letters online at www.newsreview .com/sacramento.

@SacNewsReview

Facebook.com/ SacNewsReview

@SacNewsReview

v ia twitte r @ ale x a nd r a JKlC

v ia twitte r @_ sp litd e c isio ns

ALL AGES WELCOME!

1417 R Street, Sacramento, 95811 • www.aceofspadessac.com FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6

OBITUARY + EXODUS DUST BOLT

BEBE REXHA & MARC E BASSY

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10

RJ

FRIDAY OCTOBER 20

PAUL WELLER

TAGS

WEDNESDAY/THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11 + 12

CAFE TACVBA MARIACHI FLOR DE TOLOACHE FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13

INTOCABLE WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18

GEORGE CLINTON AND PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC

COMING

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21

BRUJERIA W/ PINATA PROTEST SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22

THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN MONDAY, OCTOBER 23

ISSUES VOLUMES – SYLAR – TOO CLOSE TO TOUCH

SOON

10/25 The Maine 10/26 The Underachievers 10/28 Yelawolf 10/29 The Devil Wears Prada 11/03 Chelsea Wolfe 11/04 Aaron Watson 11/05 Lecrae 11/08 Suicide Silence 11/09 $uicide Boy$ 11/11 Waterparks 11/14 Gryffin 11/15 Third Eye Blind 11/16 Mayhem 11/17 Matisyahu 11/19 Gwar 11/22 Return to Bubble Island 11/25 David Garibaldi 11/26 GlassjAw 11/27 Trivium & Arch Enemy 11/30 The Expendables 12/01 Collie Buddz 12/02 Pennywise 12/03 Big Gigantic 12/08 Louis The Child 12/16 Puddle of Mudd 12/20 Ekali 12/31 Buckethead 01/27 Chris Robinson Brotherhood

TICKETS AVAILABLE AT ALL DIMPLE RECORDS LOCATIONS AND WWW.ACEOFSPADESSAC.COM

10.05.17 | SN&R | 7

Karen Leland is the safety and security coordinator for the Sacramento Public Library, which is one of the last places in town homeless people are welcome to use the restrooms.

Photo by Raheem F. hosseini

Going viral

exploded in their communities.

“Now we’re getting more complaints about public defecation and the Hepatitis A scandal,” said Councilman Jeff Harris, who has been trying for months to get portable bathroom facilities online in the city. “We call ourself a full-service city?

We’re missing the mark.”

If Hepatitis A outbreak reaches Sacramento, politicians could have themselves to blame

by Raheem F. hosseini and Jason smith

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

Marcy sat on a blanket in the shade of the new Cesar Chavez Plaza, with its polished courtyard, city-subsidized restaurant and the bathrooms she’s not allowed to use. Beside her stood a twowheeled cart stocked with possessions and sundries, including two dwindling rolls of toilet paper. She doesn’t need to use the restroom now, but when she does, she knows it will be an ordeal.

“It sucks, especially if you’re homeless,” Marcy said.

Marcy is homeless. She has been for two years, she says. When nature calls, her options are few and measured in city

8 | SN&R | 10.05.17

blocks.

“I go to the library. I go to City Hall.

Sometimes, if it’s really, really late at night and Amtrak’s closed, I go all the way to the Hyatt,” she explained.

“And then, they give you that look, like, ‘Oh my God, watch her, she’s doing something.’”

This is the reality for thousands of people experiencing homelessness in Sacramento County. Public restroom access isn’t usually treated like a topic of pressing importance, but it’s playing a starring role in a Hepatitis A outbreak that’s crawling up California, leaving

r a h e e mh @ ne wsr e v ie w.c o m

hundreds sickened and more than a dozen people dead from a virus that thrives in human excrement and hops from person to person through the consumption of contaminated food or water.

If the liver-compromising virus breaks out here in Sacramento, local officials will be able to count several years’ worth of ignored warnings among their missed opportunities to prevent the preventable. They’ll also be in the company of public servants from throughout the state, who resisted calls to make clean water and public restrooms available as homelessness

The outbreak started in San Diego County, where officials watched as a virus that typically infects two to three people per month ballooned to more than 400 cases since November—16 of which proved fatal. Santa Cruz was the next to sound the alarm, with 68 confirmed cases in a county that typically sees two to three cases per year.

And on September 19, Los Angeles became the third county to declare an outbreak, with six out of eight Hepatitis A patients hospitalized.

Perhaps most unsettling for Sacramento County is the population amongst which the disease is spreading most quickly in the three infected counties: unsheltered homeless men and women, a group found by an

Jeff SeSSionS wantS your Stuff See newS

10

Surviving a maSS Shooting See newS

11

reviSit property taxeS See greenLight

12

beatS

up in Smoke overnight census to have more than doubled in Sacramento since 2015.

Before the outbreak, though, Hepatitis A was already rising in Sacramento, according to local data.

There were 12 confirmed cases of Hepatitis A last year, quadruple the number of people who fell ill with the disease in each of the previous two years, according to a fact sheet provided by Health and Human Services spokeswoman Samantha Mott. Those high numbers are continuing through 2017. Mott told SN&R there have been seven confirmed cases of Hepatitis A in Sacramento County this year, with one more under investigation.

Mott said none of the cases have been linked to the outbreak in SoCal. But the conditions that made them possible are similar.

San Diego finds itself at ground zero of a statewide outbreak, which health officials have attributed directly to the city’s lack of public restrooms downtown. Similarly, Sacramento’s record of intransigence reaches back more than a decade.

In 2005, every city in the county except Sacramento refused to legalize clean needle exchanges at the urging of the county health officer, who was trying to contain a tuberculosis outbreak. Even the county turned her down.

In 2012, a special envoy with the United Nations publicly condemned the city of Sacramento for not providing clean water and public restrooms to homeless residents. In the years since, public restrooms and working drinking fountains have declined further.

The city did experiment with making portable restrooms available in the River District under the watch of paid monitors last year, but pulled the plug due to cost overruns.

And this year, the Sacramento City Council rejected one of its members’ plans to establish a dormitory-style encampment in his district, where homeless people could access, among other things, restrooms and showers.

Those working with the homeless community are drawing a direct line between the political inaction and health dangers.

“This Hep A outbreak is the consequence of our inability to provide a solution to solve that problem—homeless individuals not having access to restrooms,” said Melinda Ruger, executive director of Harm Reduction Services in Oak Park, which treats addiction in the homeless and sexworker communities.

Dr. Ted Zwerdling, the chief medical officer of Elica Health Centers in Sacramento, stressed that Hepatitis A is most common in people who have not been vaccinated against the virus and people with extremely compromised immune systems, such as AIDS. “I wouldn’t downplay sanitation,” Zwerdling added. “If you’re not immunized, that’s how you can get it.”

A Sacramento County public health announcement says that Hepatitis A is transmitted person-to-person, and occurs most frequently from illicit drug use, needle sharing and unsanitary living conditions. According to the fact sheet provided by Mott, Sacramento County experienced a 71 percent increase in Hepatitis A cases between 2012 and 2016. That partially coincides with flattened immunization rates in California kindergarten classes, which have rebounded since a new state law went into effect last year.

Mott said officials are working directly with the California Department of Public Health to develop a preventative action plan.

Dr. Olivia Kasirye, the county’s public health officer, told SN&R that the response will happen in phases, with immunization clinics scheduled both inside temporary homeless shelters and out in the field where homeless people congregate.

Not everybody, however, is sold on the county’s response.

Civil rights attorney Mark Merin argues that by the time vaccinations are being offered to halt an outbreak, it’s too late.

“If it’s being spread by shared needles, provide clean needles. If it’s being spread because people are having to defecate outside, then provide bathroom access,” he said. “True prevention must be systemic rather than reactive.” the local librarian had been threatening City Hall with Porta-Potties.

Sacramento Public Library Director Rivkah Sass and Councilman Harris can joke about the unusual ransom deal now.

But for most of the year, the downtown library at I and Eighth streets has offered “the last free, open and public” bathroom in the city, Sass said.

“We feel our commitment,” Sass told SN&R. “We really care about our unsheltered folks.”

At the same time, carrying that burden by its lonesome was taxing for the central library, which pays power-washing and maintenance costs out of its humble budget.

Harris says—and Sass confirms—that

the local librarian was considering taking matters into her own hands.

“She marched up here and said, ‘Damn it, I’m gonna put Porta-Potties on the street,’” Harris recalled.

Instead, the two are about to propose an arrangement that they hope will serve as a model for the rest of the city.

Harris told SN&R that he’s close to a deal with a state agency to put up half the money to pay attendants to monitor the restrooms inside the public library. As the library already makes its restrooms open to the public, the deal wouldn’t add more capacity to the central city. But it would prevent the type of restroom abuse that forces Sass to spend library resources on biohazard cleanup. And both she and Harris are hoping other public agencies— and maybe even some businesses—see it as something they’re willing to partner on.

“I think the goal is to serve as an example,” Sass said. “We are all one bad decision from where they are. There but for the grace of God go I, in my opinion. I think about that all the time.”

Harris is still hoping to bring modular restrooms back in a cheaper fashion.

Sass is happy that action is finally being taken. She knows her library’s partnership with the city won’t add new pieces to the game board, but she hopes it will inspire others to open their restrooms.

Sass, whose roots are as a children’s librarian, offers one of her favorite quotes: “How do you eat an elephant?” she asked. “One bite at a time.”

Back at Cesar Chavez Plaza, Marcy says she and her partner used to live near the river, where other homeless people set up camps in an attempt to avoid detection by authorities enforcing laws against sleeping outside. As area politicians began locking public restrooms in parks and trails in response to vandalism and rising maintenance costs, more people began defecating wherever they could find a little bit of privacy. And sometimes not even that.

Marcy left the riverbanks, not because of the human waste, but because she got tired of her stuff being stolen. This was during the recent summer, the hottest on record. Because she has two dogs and doesn’t like being around other people, she didn’t make it to one of the cooling shelters. Neither did her partner.

“He died of a heat stroke,” Marcy said.

“He collapsed out in the river.”

She didn’t find out until it was too late to do anything. She sets her jaw and diverts her eyes.

“We were going to get married,” she said. “His name was Marvin Shepard.” Ω

Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg is hoping a new infusion of recreational marijuana tax money can help Sacramento survive its mounting pension debt; but an internal audit released this month suggests the city isn’t collecting the right amount of money from medical pot.

City Auditor Jorge Oseguera’s report indicates that some marijuana dispensaries aren’t sharing proper receipts, are filing vague or misleading financial statements, are missing membership information or, in one case, not cooperating with officials at all.

“Due to strict federal guidelines, medical marijuana dispensaries have limited access to banking services and, as a result, are cash-based businesses,” Oseguera wrote in his report, adding that the cash-intensive nature of the operations is leading to unreported sales and unpaid taxes.

Oseguera’s team randomly inspected six of the city’s 30 medical marijuana dispensaries. In five cases, the difference between income receipts and reported revenue was significant: Two of the dispensaries had a discrepancy of more than $20,000, and two others could not account for more than $120,000 in missing cash.

“I think it shows that the city needs a process to validate the information it’s receiving from the dispensaries,” Oseguera told SN&R this week.

Back in May, when the city council was updated by CalPERS representatives of their growing pension woes, Steinberg expressed hope that weed money could save the day. Specifically, the mayor asked Joe Devlin, head of the city’s Office of Cannabis Policy & Enforcement, how much extra taxes were expected from legalized recreational marijuana. Devlin told him a reasonable estimate would be $9 million annually, which would bolster the roughly $5 million annually the city nets from medicinal marijuana fees and taxes. Steinberg repeatedly told Devlin that number “sounds low” to him. (Scott Thomas Anderson)

the king Crop If there was any doubt about the role farms on Sacramento County’s side of the north Delta play in the region’s economic health, it was removed at the end of September. According to the county‘s Crop and Livestock report, Delta farms helped keep the county’s $507 million ag economy trending upward, even during the drought.

Sacramento County Agricultural Commissioner Juli Jensen shared the findings of the annual review with the Board of Supervisors on September 26. She said the $507 million figure doesn’t count the financial benefits county farms bring via processing plants, labor jobs and transportation services.

Sacramento County’s ability to reach the highest agricultural production value it’s ever had in 2016 came as a surprise to some observers. That’s because the amount of crops grown in the county was actually down from the previous year, due to ongoing challenges from the drought. Jensen said there was a clear reason the Sacramento farm industry still ended up ahead.

“Wine grapes continue to rule as king of Sacramento County,” she said. A significant number of county vineyards are planted on the east bank of the Sacramento River between the towns of Freeport and Hood. The north Delta’s other major crop, pears also helped drive the welcomed number.

In terms of threats to Sacramento County’s farming outlook, Jensen told the supervisors one of the main ones continues to be Gov. Jerry Brown’s California WaterFix project.

“It seems to be on a downward spiral right now with the decision by the largest irrigation district in the state to not participate,” Jensen said. (STA)

10.05.17 |

SN&R

|

9

illustration by serene lusano

Seize and spend A California Republican is battling the Trump administration over asset forfeiture

by Scott thomaS anderSon

President Donald Trump may have buyer’s remorse about his attorney general, but he and Jeff Sessions still agree on one thing: Seizing and keeping accused individuals’ cash and property—even when no one is convicted of a crime—is a sweet way to finance government spending sprees.

Known as civil asset forfeiture, the practice allows law enforcement to confiscate money and belongings from anyone they accuse of suspicious activity. And, as much as Trump and his A.G. are encouraging these seizures, asset forfeiture is meeting fierce resistance from California Congressman Darrell Issa, who’s leading a bipartisan charge in Washington to curb it.

According to a report by the U.S. Office of the Inspector General, between 2007 and 2016, law enforcement agencies used asset forfeiture to seize more than $28 billion in cash and property from American citizens and other suspects who were under investigation.

Some $3.2 billion of that was taken 10 | SN&R | 10.05.17

directly by federal officers. The report determined 81 percent of those federal seizures were executed by the Drug Enforcement Administration, or DEA. It also found that, in a survey of 185 DEA cases, only 73 led to a prosecution—or even an arrest.

“The standard for seizing property is pretty low, and they do grab property they’d never get a search warrant for,” said Kresta Daly, a Sacramento defense attorney who specializes in handling asset forfeiture cases in federal court.

“Basically, if they have an assumption, they’ll just take it. A lot of people who get property seized aren’t in the position to spend tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees to defend what got taken.”

Highly questionable cases of asset forfeiture have cropped up in California.

In 2010, federal public defender Daniel Broderick filed a motion in Sacramento’s Eastern District Court alleging that two Shasta County sheriff’s deputies were racially profiling Hispanic

sc o tta @ ne wsr e v ie w.c o m

motorists on Interstate 5, often seizing their cash and property on behalf of a multijurisdictional drug task force.

Broderick wrote in his filing that the deputies were “strongly motivated by their desire to bring in asset forfeiture revenues for the Shasta County Sheriff’s Office,” adding that Shasta authorities were counting on “asset forfeiture income” to make up 2 percent of the department’s next budget.

That same year, Gina Fiore and Keith Gipson, both professional gamblers, filed a federal lawsuit in San Francisco against DEA Agent Anthony Walden, who’d seized $97,000 from them. Walden realized the gamblers were carrying the cash after contacting them at the Las Vegas airport. He had fellow agents take the money from Fiore and Gipson as they stepped off their flight in Atlanta.

Federal Judge Marsha Berzon later ruled that Walden had “individually targeted Fiore and Gipson in Nevada by creating a false and misleading probable cause affidavit, and thus illegally seeking

to foster the forfeiture of the funds to benefit the Atlanta DEA.” Another federal lawsuit, filed in the Ninth District Court of Appeals in 2010, accused the Los Angeles Police Department of raiding a medicinal marijuana dispensary that was operating within parameters of California law in order to take $196,000 from its safe and cash registers. A federal court ultimately determined the LAPD’s warrant affidavit in that case was “misleading” and “contained reckless omissions.”

In 2016, California lawmakers passed Senate Bill 443, which requires that someone be convicted of a crime in most cases before state law enforcement can seize their assets. Gov. Jerry Brown signed the bill, but law enforcement agencies throughout California still have healthy funds built up around the practice: The Sacramento Police Department collected $712,656 in asset forfeiture funds over the last year, 26 percent of which came from federal agencies, the department reported this past June. It proposed spending the money on various things, like purchasing or replacing aircraft, buying tasers, paying informants and setting up neighborhood watch programs.

Despite the inspector general’s recent findings, in July Sessions rolled back a number of restrictions the Obama administration put into effect to limit asset forfeiture.

Now, Issa, a conservative Republican, is acting as a co-sponsor of the Due Process Act, introduced by fellow GOP Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin.

The Due Process Act would heighten the government’s burden of proof for seizing assets, ensure defendants have a right to counsel and require their attorneys’ fees be paid in cases when seizures are proven to be improper. Prominent assembly members from both parties are announcing support for the bill.

“Right now, we’re continuing to work with our colleagues to educate and raise awareness,” said Calvin Moore, a spokesman for Issa’s office. He added that Issa has set the modest goal of getting a committee hearing for his bill by the end of the year. Issa’s team feels confident about its chances if it can get an up or down vote.

“Asset forfeiture reform has increasingly become an area of agreement for members on both sides,” Moore added, “so we’re hopeful we’ll be able to get movement on this soon.” Ω

econo lube n’ tune & brakes We offer complete automotive service & repairs

Running scared

LubE, OiL & FiLtEr

1998

$

California woman recounts being in the middle of Las Vegas massacre

Good at Fulton location only. Most vehicles savings of $6. $3 Disposal fee.

brAkE SPEciAL

$

30 off fREE Call for details. Good at Fulton location only.

chEck EnginE Light ScAn* *Most vehicles

1700 Fulton at Arden Way, Sacramento • 481-1192

by Raheem F. hosseini

ra h e e m h @ne w s re v i e w . c o m

concertgoers were rushing en masse as bullets Angeline Gleason thought something was wrong ricocheted around them. with the sound system. It was early Sunday “We had no idea where the shots were morning on the Las Vegas strip, where Gleason coming from, so we just had to keep running,” and 11 of her friends were enjoying the last she said. “The whole time we’re running, we’re night of a three-day country music festival. thinking, ‘At any moment, there’s going to be When the screams started, Gleason realized the a bullet that hits us in the back.’” loud pops she thought were flickering through Gleason says she saw people on the ground, but the sound system were actually gunshots from didn’t know if they were injured or taking cover. some place up above.

Gleason remembers trying to stay focused Gleason, 33, a former Sacramento resident on her feet as she ran down a driveway and now living in Newport Beach, had found across a street, following others through a herself in the eye of America’s worst mass doorway under the marquee of the Tropicana shooting tragedy in memory. casino hotel.

At the time the shooting started, she didn’t She remembers people had to raise their yet know that a well-to-do retiree from nearby hands as they rushed in to show that they were Mesquite, Nev., had moved into a room on the unarmed, but doesn’t know if anyone was 33rd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and looking. They continued running into Casino with more than two dozen a basement, through a hallway and firearms and thousands of rounds into hotel offices. of ammunition. She didn’t Rumors of additional know that the indiscriminate gunmen followed them terror he unleashed through through the rest of the a rattling barrel would end night. up stealing the lives of at “Someone was screamleast 59 people and injuring ing behind me that the 527 more. She didn’t know gunman was behind us. that, days later, the nation Angeline Gleason And at this point, we had no would be soldiering through Las Vegas concertgoer idea how many there were,” a familiar—yet uniquely she explained.

American—grieving process.

The lockdown at the All she knew was that she Tropicana lifted around 4 a.m. couldn’t stop moving.

Gleason says two hours later, she and “Wherever we were, it was never safe,” all of her friends, finally accounted for, were Gleason recalled. “Even if you were taking back at their hotel watching the news, trying cover, people were still getting hit.” to understand the scope of what happened.

Gleason had flown in from Southern They’re still trying.

California to attend the Route 91 Harvest Gleason searches her mind for warnings that Festival, held in the open air of Las Vegas’ she missed, bad omens and the like. She can’t famed strip, with her friends. Minutes before find any. the shooting started, Gleason and two friends, “It was so happy. Everybody was pretty a married couple, left the main crowd for the relaxed, drinking, getting drunk, just having portable restrooms near the back. They were a good time—dancing,” she said about the about to buy some drinks and return to the moments before their lives changed. festivities when Gleason heard the popping.

“Everybody was in really good spirits. The “I thought it was something coming from concert thus far had been awesome.” Ω the speakers,” she said. “It was only after the first round of shots … that we heard screaming, because people were starting to drop. And then we realized what it was. I remember looking at Scott and Jess, and they said, ‘Run.’” Web extra: An extended version of this story is available at Gleason says her friend’s husband led www.newsreview.com/sacramento them toward the exit gates, where panicked

“Wherever we were, it was never safe.”

Mon-Sat 8-6 • Sun 9-4 • www.ardeneconolube.com • EXP 10/30/17

Your Downtown Service Shop SMOG CHECK

3175

$

OIL

CHANGE

2699

$

(reg $49.75) most cars.

Call for details. Same day.

Fast In/Out

Call for details.

916 554-6471 2000 16th St Sacramento M-F 7:30-5:30 Sat 8-4 sacsmog.com

$60 EMISSIONS DIAGNOSTIC w/repairs at time of service. (reg $120) most cars.

For renewal reg. only.

Call for details.

Use your smart phone QR reader for more specials

Need VeteraNs disability CompeNsatioN beNefits or Help witH aN appeal? law offiCe of steVeN H. berNiker,apC (916) 480-9200 2424 ardeN way, suite 360, saCrameNto, Ca 95825 Veteran adVocate:

camie Jo decker-Laske

Veterans assistance is our #1 Priority “ On the battlefield, the military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a Nation, let it be our pledge that when they return home, we leave no Veteran behind.”

– Dan Lipinski

10.05.17 | SN&R | 11

3 RD ANNUAL

ROCKIN’ DEAD HALLOWEEN

BA SH FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27 | 9PM $10 TICKETS | VINYL COSTUME CONTEST | 1AM TOP 4 COSTUMES WIN A SHARE OF $5,000 CASH & PRIZES! BOTTLE SERVICE AVAILABLE 775.443.7008

BOOK ONLINE HARDROCKCASINOLAKETAHOE.COM Must be 21+. Costumes may not include masks, fake or real weapons or make-up that would make a guest unidentifiable.

50 HIGHWAY 50 STATELINE, NV 89449

844.588.ROCK #THISISHARDROCK @HRHCLAKETAHOE

HardRockCasinoLakeTahoe.com

12 | SN&R | 10.05.17 JOB #: HRT-10783 AD TITLE: HALLOWEEN BASH

How Prop. 13 helped cause the housing crisis by jeff vonkaenel

I am not now, never have and never will run for public office, which means I can talk about Proposition 13. This is something most elected officials cannot do, without having a prefix added to their title: “Former.”

As we all know, California is having a severe housing crisis. The median price of a house in California is 2.5 times higher than the national average. Nearly 70 percent of poor Californians fork over more than half of their paychecks for rent. And this is only going to get worse, because while we would need to build 180,000 homes each year to keep up with growth, we are only building half that amount.

California’s Prop. 13, passed in 1978, which limited the property tax annual increase to 2 percent a year until a home is sold, is a major part of the problem. Before Prop. 13, new roads, schools and sewers were paid for by the whole community. In California, after Prop. 13 reduced the tax base, the government had to add significant fees to new construction to help pay for services, which raised the cost of new housing.

Property taxes and fees on new housing are still not enough to cover services such as police and fire.

However, when governments approve retail construction, they receive sales tax revenue. Retail also requires fewer services. Therefore, local governments tend to subsidize retail locations at the expense of housing.

Last Friday, Governor Jerry Brown signed 15 bills addressing the housing crisis. Senate Bill 2 will raise $250 million to $300 million per year for low-income housing. SB 3 will put a $4 billion bond before the voters.

And there is legislation that makes it easier to build new housing by reducing red tape. But these bills patch the

je ffv @ ne wsr e v ie w.c o m

symptoms without curing the disease.

The elephant in the room, Prop. 13’s low property tax rate, is not addressed.

Prop. 13 has created an unfair situation where different homeowners living in similar houses pay radically different levels of taxes while receiving the same level of government services. On my block, I pay $3,862 in annual property tax. My neighbor to the right pays $1,042 and my neighbor to the left pays $11,264. This is unfair.

Every year that government costs go up more than two percent a year, I pay even less of my fair share.

With commercial property, which turns over infrequently, the situation is even more outrageous. A corporation can have all new shareholders, but since it is the same corporation, its property tax only goes up two percent a year. Since Prop. 13 was passed, the commercial share of property tax decreased from 45 percent of the total to 28 percent.

And now there’s the Realtors’ 2018 initiative, which would allow homeowners to retain some of their lower property assessment when they move to a new home. This helps realtors earn more fees, but removes even more tax revenue from an already strapped state.

We need to fix this. The nonpartisan nonprofit, Evolve, has a proposal that’s a good start. Their approach proposes regular reassessment of non-residential, commercial property in California. This would help correct the imbalances of the current system and raise an estimated $9 billion a year for the state.

We can’t solve our state housing crisis without fixing the unfairness created by Prop. 13. Ω Jeff vonKaenel is the president, CEO and majority owner of the News & Review.

illuStration by marGaret larKin

’S mento SacraerS and winn S—with loSer ry pointS ra arbit

hn by jo

flyn

on sacramento

EVENtS

n

Dirty romanCing According to the California Department of Public Health, y’all nasty.

In 2016, the department recorded 198,503 cases of chlamydia, 64,677 of gonorrhea and 11,222 of early syphilis, marking the third straight year the rate of these sexually transmitted diseases has risen. These diseases can manifest into serious health conditions, but each can be treated with antibiotics and prevented with condom use. So wrap it up and get regularly tested because there’s nothing sexier than bacteria-free junk.

-274,402

Boo at the Zoo

poker FaCe California Attorney General Xavier Becerra has sued the Trump administration again. This time, the crusading AG is challenging the delay of a rule that requires states to gather greenhousegas emission data and set performance goals to decrease the pollution. the administration blinked last week and immediately implemented the rule.

“Climate change is real,” Becerra said. “If President Trump is not prepared to admit it or to do his job of protecting our families by enforcing our environmental rules, then I’m prepared as Attorney General to call his bluff.” Hot damn. Nothing wrong with a little grandstanding when you’re on the right side of history.

+20 Century CeLebration

raptor reLeaSe SMUD data shows that incidents of cars crashing into electrical poles increased from 153 in 2006 to 271 in 2016, partially attributable to increases in traffic and distracted driving. Each pole replacement can cost more than $11,000, as well as knocking out power in surrounding areas. In response, SMUD will start moving and redesigning poles, increasing their visibility and

pilot-testing the raptor, an impact-absorbing barrier, which SMUD described as “big and yellow.” Even still, Sacramentans should be better about avoiding stationary objects.

-271

40

%

Off

$9.60

a $16.00 valuE!

TIckETS caN BE puRchaSED FoR TI SaTuRDay & SuNDay’S EvENT

offers discount tickets to the great Sacramento haunts! Get out those costumes, grab a trick-or-treat bag and head to the Sacramento Zoo for the daytime Boo at the Zoo! Enjoy tick-or-treating throughout the ENTIRE zoo at 15 different candy stations, face painting for kids, festive games, themed stage shows, magic shows with Trevor the Magician, keeper chats and even animal enrichments. Discounts tickets to Sacramento chills has never been

Stay in your Lane

easier to get at a price that isn’t frightening.

In 1917, America entered World War I, Babe Ruth pitched for the Red Sox, Walt Disney graduated from high school and 47 current residents of Solano County were alive to witness it all. To honor these longtime locals, the county’s Board of Supervisors held an acknowledgment ceremony on October 3, featuring some queries as to the secrets of longevity, especially to the oldest honoree, Reta Wills of Vallejo, who is 106. Scorekeeper hopes to make it that far, but probably won’t as 2017 has aged him three or four extra years.

In a preview of a more bike-friendly future, the city will set up temporary parking-protected bike lanes on P, Q and 10th streets from October 4 to 6. The nifty infrastructural arrangement uses parked cars as a buffer between bicyclists and motorists and has been shown to drastically reduce accidents and increase bike-riding in Oakland, Washington D.C. and New York. It’s an excellent idea that should be expanded and made permanent in Sacramento.

+100

+3

discounted

gift

certificates and more!

SNRSWEETDEALS.NEWSREVIEW.COM

Buy online at snrsweetdeals.newsreview.com or in-person Monday through Friday, 9 am - 5 pm at 1124 del Paso Blvd., sacramento, 95815

SNRSWEETDEALS.NEWSREVIEW.COM

10.05.17 | SN&R | 13

Blood on the tracks How detectives solved the riddle of Roseville’s train-hopper murder

by Scott thomaS anderSon s c o t t a@ne w s re vi e w . c o m phot os by k ar l os r e n e a y al a

14 | SN&R | 10.05.17

In

mid-July, Josh Alpert wrote a letter about the death of his twin brother.

“I can’t glance in the mirror without seeing him,” Josh confessed. “And some days I even choose not to look in the mirror at all.”

A week later, Josh’s words were read aloud in a near empty courtroom hundreds of miles from where he and his twin grew up.

The letter was about a life extinguished at the age of 19. It was about John Alpert, an honors student who volunteered to feed the homeless; a vegetarian who’d ignore his diet to make things easier on friends; an upbeat pacifist who found most of his excitement in a world of books. Josh’s testament stressed something else: His brother was a selfless caregiver. Both of their parents were disabled. Despite John’s achievements, he’d volunteered to stay home and attend community college so he could look after them.

But John was a devoted son who was harboring a dream. He longed to travel, to see the world. A chance encounter on March 9, 2013, made him think that dream could actually happen.

John was riding his bike to the Barnes & Noble in his hometown of Palmdale when he spotted two men and two women standing in a field. He could tell that they were train-hoppers. It was a moment in John’s life when he’d been immersing himself in Hermann Hesse’s novel of self-discovery, Siddhartha. John walked into the bookstore and, as he would later tell his twin, suddenly had “an epiphany.” He wanted to ask the vagabonds what they’d learned journeying across the countryside. He wanted to know how it felt to live day to day without the burden of material possessions.

Perhaps most of all, John wanted to understand how people with little or no money, such as himself, could still experience the rapture of travel.

Josh can’t know what the drifters thought of his brother approaching them. John was a teen of small stature, big curly hair and bigger smiles. The group had two mutts, and John loved animals. What Josh knows is that the next day John told their family that he was going to ride the rails with the group for a few weeks before restarting his classes. Their mom, Cecelia Alpert, was scared, but John told her it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. He promised to call or text her every day.

John left Palmdale the following morning. His mother didn’t know who these train-hoppers were, save for the first name of one girl, Laura.

For more than a week, John was true to his word, calling or texting as the freight cars rolled north through the Central Valley. But his mom never stopped worrying. On March 17, John sent a text trying to put her mind at ease. He was on the outskirts of Roseville. He’d decided to come back. “I’m going to Nevada, then I’ll take a bus and go home,” his message read. “So please sleep.” He also sent a note to Josh saying he’d see him soon, because he’d found what he was looking for.

John Alpert was never heard from again.

As Josh’s letter was read in Placer Superior Court, a lone homicide detective sat listening in the back. He was part of a team that had spent two years working to make this day happen. They’d engaged in hundreds of hours of research and interviews. They’d written a dozen search warrants. They’d traveled throughout California and to towns in five different states. It was all to unwrap the enigma of John Alpert’s disappearance. It was all so John’s family would finally be heard.

That didn’t make listening to Josh’s letter any easier.

Roseville is home to the second largest switchyard on the West Coast, a fact that had allowed Flood to spend years becoming an expert on the world of train-hoppers.

“Sometimes I awake screaming,” Josh wrote, “but I don’t have the comfort of him consoling me like when we were kids and shared a room.”

the callout Night was falling. Roseville police Detective Vince Dutto maneuvered through dusk-lit olive branches and hanging trees of heaven. Cars rushed across a bridge over the creek, their hollow hum echoing out to a platformed train-crossing, and the switchyard where freight wheels were slowly gliding on steel rails. Dutto saw a patrol officer, a division sergeant and two crime scene technicians standing on a broken sandbar. They were looking down at a body.

It was May 15, 2013.

Dutto walked through what was left of a searing heat. He could tell the corpse was in an advanced state of decay. The movement of the insects, the mummified dryness of its skin, the skeletonized remnants of its legs—it all suggested this was someone who’d been lying there for months. The sergeant said the body was discovered by a fisherman trekking along the water.

Dutto took some photographs. The body was on its back with its arms spread open, as if looking up to hug the sky. A rotted piece of fabric was clinging to its femur.

Dutto started to process the scene in his mind. He knew this hidden underpass area was a regular camp for transients. He also understood that train-hoppers sometimes haunted the nearby rail yard. Their crossed, coded insignias were scrawled in black markers all along cement bridge braces.

“It looked suspicious,” Dutto recalled. “But there were no obvious signs that said homicide.”

A Placer County deputy coroner came stepping through the crackling oats. He put a toe-tag on the body’s foot before collecting the corpse into a bag. The coroner filled out a label: John Doe, No. 35.

The next day, Dutto looked on as a Placer County pathologist attempted an autopsy. They didn’t get far.

The doctor was worried he’d ruin potential evidence by pulling or scraping dried tissue away from the bone.

Per procedure, the remains were sent to Chico State’s Human Identification Lab. Six weeks later, Dutto got the call. A forensic dentist had identified John Doe, No. 35. He was John Alpert of Palmdale. Dutto called John’s mother, Cecelia, the same day. He sat and listened to the baffling story of her son’s disappearance.

Meanwhile, John’s body had landed in front of a Chico State professor, Dr. Eric Bartelink, recognized by the FBI as part of the top forensic anthropologist team in California. Bartelink got past the mummification challenge by putting the remains in an aquarium full of dermestid beetles. Over time, the insects cleaned the

dried flesh off the bones, leaving their exact condition apparent. Bartelink found hinge fractures on three of John’s ribs, blunt force trauma to his lumbar vertebrae and fractures in his skull on the left and right nasal bones. He could tell all the breaks happened before or at the time of death. Specifically, Bartelink wrote, the injuries were consistent with the victim being kicked or stomped.

Dutto got the news a week after talking with John’s mother. It was time for some conversations. He partnered up with another Roseville police detective, Mary Green, a relentless worker with an encyclopedic memory of case files. Dutto also met with Placer County Deputy District Attorney Doug Van Breemen, who was prosecuting one of his other homicide investigations. But even with Green and Van Breemen’s help, Dutto recognized he was starting his probe with damn near nothing.

“I knew whoever John was with that day was going to be long gone, and could literally be anywhere in the country,” Dutto said. “And I also knew because of the state of the body, our DNA options were low. I thought to myself, ‘This is going to be really tough.’”

killed By ghosts On a hot afternoon, Roseville police Officer David Flood approached three train-hoppers squatting in a baked sea of grass and foxtails. One of the men was strapped into a pair of greasy overalls that clung to his bare, sun-bronzed chest. The young girl near his feet was pregnant. A grimy, thrashed T-shirt barely covered her belly as she rose from the camp clutter. A copy of William S. Burrough’s novel Junkie laid next to an empty bottle of bourbon. Over by a broken fence, another rail-rider stood in the sun. A sweat-salted bandana hung under his Adam’s apple. His pigtails were braided in loose, dirty ropes. Flood encountered groups like this all the time. The faces change. The look is the same.

It was August 2013, a week before news broke about John Alpert’s murder.

Flood checked their ID cards: There was nothing suspicious about the rail-wanderers, but he planned to keep up his radar as he moved through the camps. Flood was one of the officers Dutto and Green had turned to for help.

Roseville is home to the second largest switchyard on the West Coast, a fact that had allowed Flood to spend years becoming an expert on the world of trainhoppers. He’d been in contact with so many, he’d even gotten a mention in their subculture Bible, a “secret”

““““Blood on the tracks” continued on page 16

10.05.17 | SN&R | 15

“Blood on The Tracks” continued from page 15

pamphlet known as “The Crew Change.” Flood’s fame was a testament to Roseville’s place in the history of American train-hopping. And long before John Alpert’s body was found, that history was a dark one.

In 1951, a rail-drifter named Lloyd Gomez started caving fellow riders’ heads in with rocks in isolated pockets of train yards. The murder Gomez committed in Roseville led newspapers to dub him “The Jungle Killer.” He was hunting the kind of post-Depression boxcar riders still associated with train-hopping in the public imagination: “hobos.” Those weren’t the modern riders that Flood met.

In his experience, most were high school runaways or college-age sojourners. Many were seeking freedom.

Some were looking for escape. Calling themselves “the traveling community,” they went from city to city, busking and begging and meeting up at music festivals.

Yet Flood also came across a different group on the rails—a malignant cadre of criminal drifters trying to stay off the grid. Running from warrants, preying on fellow transients, they existed on the hidden, empty margins. For them, train life was a matter of survival.

That year, Flood tried to help the FBI track down two rail-riders who’d kidnapped and raped a woman in Texas. Flood had seen the suspects in Roseville a week

camps. Meanwhile, Green, a meticulous researcher, was spending hours reading online rail-rider forums.

“They do things like cultivate body bugs, so if they’re hiding drugs, patrol cops won’t search them,” Green said. “If they get a warrant in one state, they just won’t go to that state anymore. They go around it.”

Driving down to Palmdale, Dutto searched through footage on Barnes & Noble’s security cameras. There was no sign of the four strangers. But the investigator did have one lead. When John vanished, his panicked mother went through his phone records. She started calling numbers.

The girl named Laura eventually answered. According to Dutto, Laura wasn’t just cold toward Cecelia, she was venomous. “He took off and he’s probably fucking some hippie chick,” she screamed at her. “I don’t know where he is—leave me alone!”

There was something Laura didn’t know. One of John’s friends had been doing some detective work and discovered her Facebook page. It was, he said, under the name Scary Laura Rocks. He forwarded the link to Dutto. In the coming weeks, both Roseville detectives lived on that Facebook page.

They explored its entire network. They followed every friend link, every photo tag. And then Green suddenly saw it—a picture of Laura standing at the

Watching the afternoon sun over New Mexico’s desert, Dutto and Green caught sight of their suspect.

before. After their victim was found, they faded into America’s wide-open spaces—gone without a trace.

That was often the pattern. But Roseville police broke the pattern at least once in 2011, when they arrested a train-hopper named “Dirty Mike” Adams for beating to death a fellow transient near Union Pacific’s property off PFE Road. Adams was a suspect in two other murders. He claimed to be “an enforcer” for the allegedly criminal gang Freight Train Riders of America, or FTRA. A decade before, another FTRA member, Robert Joseph Silveria Jr., had proved to be one of the worst murderers stalking American rails since the days of the Jungle Killer. Known as “Side Track,” Silveria was convicted of four slayings in three states and implicated in 23 more. He was captured in Placer County in 1996, not far from Roseville.

Flood shared his knowledge of train-hoppers with Dutto and Green and kept his ear to the ground in transient

16 | SN&R | 10.05.17

crime scene. The creek, the bridge, the graffiti, it was unmistakable. Laura was posing with two men and a woman. One of the boys was thin with blond hair rough-cut into a mullet. He had small stars tattooed around his eyes. The other man was taller, his hair tossed, a face hardened for his age. The woman next to Laura was stout and burly. Careless dreadlocks sprouted over her broad shoulders.

“So, the question was, ‘Who took the picture?’”

Dutto said. “John Alpert took that picture.”

The wire Dutto and Green sat waiting in a parking lot in Farmington, New Mexico, watching a maroon Chevy van covered in rainbow stickers. They planned on surprising the girl named Laura, who they now knew as Laura Kenner. It was March 25, 2014.

The detectives had uncovered the identities of all four people photographed in the camp where John’s body was discovered. The tall man was Jules Carrillo.

The straw-haired drifter with stars inked on his brow was Edward Anauo, known on the rails as “Eddo.”

On social media, he called himself “Stil-Eddo.” And then there was the strong-looking woman. She also had a nickname above the tramp fires: They called her “Aggro.” Her real name was Charity Ann Williams.

Dutto and Green were waiting for Kenner to walk out of her job at Kmart. Dutto had already spoken to her on the phone. He’d written a warrant to get cell tower data on her number. It revealed that on the day John died, Kenner’s phone tried to check the balance on a gift card that belonged to John. The detectives had locked down the numbers for all four suspects. They needed to make contact with one, but it was a gamble.

“We learned as much about them as we could, and then we debated how to mitigate our risks,” Dutto remembered. “If we’d picked the wrong person, everybody stops talking, throws away their phones and gets off Facebook. It could burn the whole case.”

When John first went dark, a Los Angles County sheriff’s investigator left a voice message for Kenner about the disappearance. Kenner later called back, leaving that detective a drunken, rambling diatribe that amounted to nothing. That was the kind of reckless overconfidence that Dutto and Green were looking for.

Dutto dialed Kenner and let her talk for a while about how John had casually walked off from her group. He’d gone his own way, she said, she didn’t know why he was a missing person. Halfway through the conversation Dutto told Kenner that they’d found John’s body. He said her tone quickly changed. In the following minutes, Kenner altered her story three times about whether she was with John in Roseville. Then she admitted that she was, but emphasized John had left the camp with a different trainhopper named Reno Bryant. Dutto mentioned to her that he was just waiting on some DNA evidence. There was a long pause on the other end of the line. “Well, I bit him,” Kenner muttered.

“Really?” Dutto said. “Tell me about that.” Kenner launched into a fourth version of events, one in which she and John had scuffled, she had bit John, and then John left the camp with Reno Bryant.

After the conversation, Dutto and Green learned that the traveler known as Reno Bryant had recently died in a train accident in New York. Conveniently, he couldn’t be contacted. Search warrants also showed the detectives that, as soon as Dutto spoke with Kenner, phone activity exploded between her, Carrillo, Anauo and Williams. The investigators needed to know what the four of them were saying. That’s when Van Breemen helped convince then-Roseville police Chief Daniel Hahn and Placer Superior Court Judge Charles Wachob to sign off on the highly unusual move of activating a wiretap.

Now, watching the afternoon sun over New Mexico’s desert, Dutto and Green caught sight of their suspect. Kenner seemed shocked when they

approached her. She didn’t give up much. But as soon as Green and Dutto left, phones started ringing in three different states. And back in the Sacramento County sheriff’s wire-room, officers were listening.

According to official court declarations, on March 25, Anauo called a female friend and told her that he was going down for murder. “You know, the one I told you about,” he said. Anauo added that the cops had all the evidence and there was no way of getting around it.

Carrillo took the phone, stressing, “We gotta disappear with a fucking quickness.”

The wire stayed hot. Court records show that on March 26 Carrillo got on the line with a different girl.

During that conversation, he mentioned “some serious shit” that was forcing him to run. The girl asked if he killed someone. Carrillo said, “pretty much.” Seconds later, Anauo’s voice came through the receiver. The

girl wanted to know the truth. Referring to his railway moniker, Anauo asked if she wanted him to be “Eddo honest.” She said yes. “Jules and I buffed up, and that kid doesn’t exist anymore,” Anauo admitted. “So, I killed somebody.”

“That’s crazy,” the girl stammered.

“Not really,” Anauo was recorded saying. “I’d kill for you … like, you’ve heard me say that … I’m kind of a sociopath.”

End of thE linE They came for Kenner first. It was late in the day when two Farmington police detectives grabbed her walking out of Kmart. Before the sun was down, SWAT operators had stormed a house in eastern Nebraska, taking Anauo and Carrillo at gunpoint.

Dutto and Green’s plane touched down in Omaha the following night. They’d decided Green would take the lead in the interview room. In the coming hours and weeks, the story of what happened to John Alpert emerged through a series of fragmented confessions.

That day at Barnes & Nobles, they’d invited him to

be their “fresh cut,” an underground label for first-time train rider. Williams (Aggro) reportedly told John she’d take him under her wing. But later in the evening, John was struggling with his decision. “I’m at a crossroads and for the first time I’m scared,” he wrote on Facebook.

John had steeled himself by the morning. “I need to do this,” he told his mom.

The days went by—a cheap motel in the valley, scouting the rail yard in Bakersfield, hopping a freight car in Stockton. John’s mom kept worrying. “ It’s safe, they’re all my friends,” he texted her.

Eventually the group walked off the rail line in Roseville, finding a creek where they could drink boxed wine, swim with their dogs and take pictures to post on Facebook. That day, Williams sent a Facebook message saying she was “in Roseville being amazing.”

In the darkness by the campfire, John got upset and started crying. Dutto and Green believe he’d told the others he was going home and they’d started bullying him. What’s discernible from official confessions is the group started yelling at the fresh cut to stop being “a pussy.” Then a tussle happened between John and Kenner. The detectives think Kenner got aggressive with

“Blood on thE tracks” continued on page 18

Investigators Mary Green and Vince Dutto stand at where the body was found.

10.05.17 | SN&R | 17

H O U R S P A P A C K A G E Enjoy a 20 minute lounge service with robe, foot soak, foot massage and complimentary beverage. Then enjoy your choice of a 35 min Swedish massage or Essential Facial. $50 per person Upgrade to a 50 minute massage or 50 minute facial for $65 per person This package is only available for booking Monday thru Friday from 3pm to closing. Last appointment starts at 7:30pm. Reservation Required. Please arrive at minimum 10 minutes before appointment time to ensure full service can be rendered. Lounge service will be shortened if client is late on arrival

18 | SN&R | 10.05.17

DAY SPA

916-482-2772 www.MELLOWMEOUT.com MELLOWMEOUT MELLOWMEOUT.com OPEN 7 DAYS 9AM–9PM 3421 ARDEN WAY (CORNER OF WATT & ARDEN BEHIND BURGER KING)

support

H A P P Y

real news

Donate to ’s Independent Journalism Fund at www.independentjournalismfund.org

Wine me down

“Blood on the tracks” continued from page 17

John, he defended himself, and then she bit him. What’s known for sure is that the entire group attacked John, punching and kicking his chest.

Carrillo would remember it in train-hopper lingo, saying they were “beating the brakes off him.”

Worst of all, Williams, who’d been cooking by the flames, decided to get involved. Williams had recently done prison time for trying to stomp a transient to death in Kansas City. Court records allege she’d made comments about experiencing “bloodlust.” Ever since, according to witness statements, she’d bragged about wearing black boots because they don’t show blood. Now Williams joined the fray.

John soon was laying on the ground, battered and unrecognizable. He was still breathing. Williams and Anauo dragged him across the ground, pulling him away from the camp. Carrillo and Kenner thought it was over.

They were getting ready to go to sleep when they heard it—Williams

From top to bottom: Jules Carrillo, Edward “Eddo” Anauo, Laura Kenner and Charity “Aggro” Wiliams

shouting that her “boots” were “going to end this.” As John laid on his back, she stomped him to death.

The group stripped John’s clothes off, burned his property and dug a shallow grave with a dog bowl. They took some gift cards out of his wallet and split them up. Williams kept the sleeping bag John had just bought. She washed her boots in the creek.

Van Breemen read the reports. He thought he had enough to charge Kenner, Carrillo and Anauo. However, co-defendants naming Williams as the main killer, without corroborating evidence, was not convincing enough. He told Dutto and Green he needed more.

As it turned out, the detectives had one last card to play. They’d learned during their investigation that the late Reno Bryant—who Kenner first blamed for the murder—was beloved within the trainhopper community. He was remembered as a friendly, supportive person who’d always lend a helping hand. Kenner was caught on the wire saying she was “putting as much blame on Reno” as she could. Dutto and Green continued to interview rail-riders who knew their suspects, and now they revealed that the group had thrown Bryant under the train wheels. Disgusted, witnesses came forward saying Williams told them about delivering John’s death blow.

But Williams was starting to vanish. She was moving farther north. She almost always kept her phone powered down. One morning, she briefly turned her cell on for a call. In that instant, Roseville police used geo-tracking technology to learn that she was hiding in a field in Pierce County, Wash. A sheriff’s deputy soon arrested Williams walking into a 7-Eleven to get a hot dog.

During the summer of 2017, Williams, Anauo, Kenner and Carrillo all pleaded guilty to various charges connected to John’s killing. Carrillo was sentenced to seven years in prison for assault with a deadly weapon. Kenner and Anauo were each sentenced to 11 years for voluntary manslaughter. Placer County probation reports indicate that only Carrillo expressed remorse about what happened, admitting to authorities that John Alpert was “a sweet little kid.”

As soon as Green and Dutto left, phones started ringing in three different states. And back in the Sacramento County Sheriff’s wire-room, officers were listening.

Williams, who Van Breemen called “the heavy” in his case, got 15 years to life for second degree murder.

Green was away on assignment July 27, 2017, when “Aggro” was sentenced. Dutto sat silently in the back row, listening to letters written by John’s twin brother, his older brother, his mom and his grandmother. They all talked about the unforgettable life that was taken. And then Williams was led away.

“It’s weird,” Dutto told SN&R. “It’s mixed feelings. You put so much time into an investigation, and some of the things you try work, and sometimes you also get lucky and ultimately you’re able to try to do something for the family. But the reality is, you don’t want to be here. At the end of day, you just wish none of this had ever happened.” Ω

10.05.17 | SN&R | 19

by Kris HooKs

Dream

LocaL FiLmmaker Deon TayLor works his way up The hoLLywooD ranks

Behind the scenes of Traffik with Paula Patton, left, and Deon Taylor.

There’s a calmness inside Deon Taylor’s Granite Bay home. It’s 100 degrees outside, but a cool 76 in. It’s quiet, save for the muffled sounds from the tree trimmers stuffing branches in a chipper just outside.

The two of us sit in chairs opposite each other. Taylor, 41, reclines in his chair, stretches his legs out, resting one atop the other.

I ask, “Are you the only black person on this block?”

His roaring laugh fills the room. “That’s funny as hell, man,” he says. “No, there’s one other person out here. We’re the two black dudes that live out here.”

Taylor is one of a number of black filmmakers recently pushed into success. While others like Will Packer (Girls Girls Trip, Ride Along), Ava DuVernay (Selma, 13th)) and Ryan Coogler (Creed, Fruitvale Station)) have solidified roles in Hollywood, Taylor says he understands that he’s just cracking the surface. In 10 years, Taylor went from creating slasher films with Brian Hooks and Flavor Flav to

20 | SN&R | 10.05.17

Photos courtesy of deon taylor

Directing the BLAcK Black tHe AmericAn

TRANSLATOR TURNED CHEF See OFF MENU

24

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DAVIS See STAGE

See MUSIC

32

LABRADORS IN LEDERHOSEN See CALENDAR

33

Deon Taylor, left, and Omar Epps on the set of Traffik.

Scaly fair

budget of roughly $900,000.

“That movie was made by me for, like, us,” he said, referring to black culture. “I told Mike, Duval, and all of [the comedians], ‘Yo, let’s just do us.’ I didn’t try to pull anything back. That’s how we talk. That’s what you say daily. That’s what I say daily.”

The movie opened No. 8 at the box office, going up against movies like Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice and Zootopia. It was such a success that Taylor is filming a sequel later this year.

“Right now, we are trending in that way in Hollywood, where people are saying, ‘We need to check Hidden Empire [Taylor’s film company] to see what’re they doing,’” Taylor explains. “Now more projects are coming—we’re trying to figure it out.”

Hidden Empire is scheduled to release two movies in 2018: Motivated Seller and Traffik. The former is a psychological thriller starring Michael Ealy, Meagan Good and Dennis Quaid.

The thriller Traffik was recently bought by Lionsgate and is scheduled for release on April 27, 2018. Like Meet the Blacks, Taylor shot Traffik in Sacramento. Some of the scenes were shot in SN&R’s office.

Paula Patton (also a producer) stars as a journalist who goes on a romantic getaway with her boyfriend, played

by Omar Epps. The two get caught in the crosshairs of a gang after they unknowingly come into possession of some evidence of the gang’s sex trafficking exploits.

“It was truly a labor of love, and a very collaborative piece for everybody,” Patton recently said in an interview with film website Collider. “It was something I hope I really get to do again.”

For Taylor, Traffik is something he has striven for his entire career—to write, direct and produce a film independently, then sell it to a big studio for a wide release. It’s a benchmark he expects to achieve more often, he says.

“That movie, to me, that’s 13 years in the making,” Taylor explains. “That is how you want to do it. …

That’s the first time we’ve ever completed that circle as a company. Now everything else I’ve got is going the same way. It’s gotta be the norm now.” Ω

“This is why you do whaT you do, so you can seT your family up and make sure your kids don’T have To come from The environmenT ThaT you came from.”

Deon Taylor filmmaker

Angel Epstein asked for a snake for her birthday 27 years ago. Her husband Jeremy Epstein bought her two.

The couple loved them so much, they bought more to start breeding, soon having enough for their own pet store, Pets to Go in Elk Grove. Seeking to gather others like themselves, they launched the Sacramento Reptile Show in an “atrocious” hotel ballroom, Jeremy said. Last weekend, the show celebrated its 20th anniversary, filling 100,000 square feet of the Sacramento Convention Center with scaly creatures.

“They not touching a real crocodile, is they?” asked an incredulous man at the petting zoo hosted by the Phoenix Herpetological Society.

Well, technically, the attendees were petting an alligator—named Baby despite his 125 pounds of girth because he’s “so spoiled,” according to volunteer Chelsea Tulenko. With black tape around his powerful jaws, Baby has visited these sorts of shows around the country his whole life. Layered like samurai armor, his scales made thick ridges on his back and felt “weird,” as three different children put it.

Kids comprised roughly half of the 17,000 attendees of this show, which is bigger than other reptilian revelries across the country. A third of the showroom offered educational exhibits, where attendees could view venomous snakes including a king cobra, a Sri Lankan pit viper and a 9.5-foot-long black mamba that wagged its forked tongue at the edge of its enclosure.

“Dude, that is so scary,” a little girl said to her older sister, who concurred, “Its mouth is, like, partly open.” The handler responded that when the snake reveals its “pitch-black inside,” it feels threatened and warns of a retaliation.

The other two-thirds of the show catered to those seeking to bring home a pet. More than 100 vendors offered an astonishing array of reptiles—including swimming turtles, leaf-tailed geckos camouflaged to look like mossy bark and snakes of every color that can be found in a sunset. The especially striking piebald ball python has scales adorned with a string of swirled Rorschach shapes intercut with patches of pure white—the

reptilian equivalent of a spotted dog.

Unlike furry pets, reptiles are bred in captivity for greater control over health. For customers, the show offers an unsurpassed range of selection.

Teen Alex Espinoza bought a black-and-yellow

Nile monitor that can grow up to 8 feet long. “I wanted a big

At this year’s Reptile Show, things got cold-blooded. lizard,” he explained.

Nearby, a ball python wrapped its muscular body around a handler’s wrist.

The common starter-snake had doe eyes, curious head movements and pebbly skin that was smooth and cuddlier than you’d think. When a little boy asked if they bite, the vendor responded, “Well, everything with a mouth bites, but these guys are fine.”

Photo by serene lusano

directing Paula Patton, Omar Epps and Dennis Quaid in some of his latest projects.

It took a while for the filmmaker to get to this place in life—a big house for his family tucked away in a gated community, far from the types of neighborhoods where he grew up. He’s achieved one version of the Black American Dream— making it out of a crime-ridden community to become successful enough to move his family somewhere better.

“This, to me, was what you work for. This is why you do what you do, so you can set your family up and make sure your kids don’t have to come from the environment that you came from.”

In high school, Taylor moved to Sacramento from Gary, Indiana, a city that was once the country’s murder capitol. He started playing basketball and eventually earned an athletic scholarship to San Diego State University.

Despite going to Germany to play professionally after college, it wasn’t basketball that he wanted to pursue—it was film.

“What I would do is rent movies, from Toxic Avenger all the way to The Omen,” Taylor recalls. “Anything scary, I was just fascinated with. So as I got older and learned just a tad bit about the business, somebody asked me what kind of movie I wanted to make, I said that the first thing I wrote was a horror.”

That movie was Dead Tone, a low-budget slasher flick reminiscent of the late ’90s movies Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer. Taylor followed that up with The Hustle, a comedy starring the late Charlie Murphy, two TV series and horror-thriller types that had limited releases.

After years of making small budget, limited-release movies that saw relative financial success, Taylor created his biggest movie: Meet the Blacks stars comedians Mike Epps, Lil Duval and Charlie Murphy, and is a parody of The Purge franchise in which all law is suspended once per year, and all crime is permitted.

The plot of Meet the Blacks goes like this: After coming into some money, Carl Black (Epps) moves his family from Chicago to an upper-class neighborhood in Los Angeles to escape the annual purge. Unfortunately, some of the people he wronged in his past follow him to the West Coast, specifically to get revenge on the one night when everything is legal.

Like his other movies, Meet the Blacks was low budget.

Taylor shot the movie a few houses down from his own.

Some of his neighbors, he says, were even extras in the movie.

“We put that movie out from that front room right there,” Taylor explains, pointing toward his small home office. “I shot the movie, got everybody to come down here and do a favor and shot it up here.”

The movie was a success financially, bringing in more than $9 million at the box office after being produced on a

28

HOMEGROWN ARTIST SIGNED

—John Flynn

10.05.17 | SN&R | 21

NOW OPEN TH TS R & 15 STREE

1800 15th Street Suite E Sacramento, CA 95811 R/S Alley

2

r o f s u Join HOUR APPY

H

$

SLICE

*Menu listed. No additions or modifications.

One slice per coupon. One coupon per customer. Dine in only. Not valid with any other offers. Valid through October 22, 2017, only at 15th Street Location.

15th Street

GRAND OPENING SPECIAL IRON HORSE TAVERN

ALL YOU CAN EAT SLICES! Monday–Friday 11am to 1pm

HAPPY HOUR DAILY FLAT SCREEN TVS Midtown | Downtown | Davis · www.unclevito.com

22 | SN&R | 10.05.17

R Street

Monday-Friday 3-6pm

GARLIC FRIES • CHICKEN MOLE SKEWERS • ELOTES ROASTED GARLIC HUMMUS WITH FETA • CHICKEN FRIED MUSHROOMS DUTCH MUSHROOMS • CORNBREAD WITH BACON RELISH NACHITOS • FOCACCIA WITH BALSAMIC DIP $5 PINTS FROM NEW HELVETIA $5.00 GLASSES OF WINE SANGRIA AND MARGARITA SPECIALS MINT JULIPS LYCHEE MOJITO

TOWER CAFE

1518 Broadway • Sacramento • 916.441.0222 • towercafe.com

Breakfast • Lunch • Dinner • 7 Days a week serving international beer & wine, cocktails & dessert

illUStrAtioNS by SErENE lUSANo

Unofficial menu

Export: offmenu.txt Photo: offmenu.psd

JAy’s speCiAl, thAi CAnteen Midtown

xxoffmenu Related Links Related Stories

Thai Canteen Midtown perfectly balances lower price points and hearty servings with gorgeous plating and deep flavor profiles. The best thing they sell, however, won’t be found on the main menu. Jay’s Special ($10.75) blends minced pork, fried pork belly, eggplant and rice topped with a crispy fried egg to make a savory heap of Thai goodness. Sometimes it’ll be the special of the day, but if you don’t see it, ask for it specifically and they’ll make it for you. Split the yolk, stir it all around and dig in. 1501 16th Street, Suite 109; www.canteensac.com.

Web headline Web Byline 1 One line summary Wordcount: 375-400

—Anthony siino The lamb burger at Serpentine Fox Prohibition Grille.

Bringing the party Serpentine Fox Prohibition Grille 2645 El Camino Avenue, (916) 913-1159, www.serpentinefox.com Good for: Colombian-inspired pub food, date nights, West African, East Sacramento cocktails, live music

$$$

Gastropub, Arden-Arcade

A man with white hair emerged from the darkness of night. He shuffled from the sidewalk and through the parking lot, his Cowboys jersey backlit by an accordion of business signs at the strip mall. At the end of his trek, he sidled up to the bar, chatted among other football fans and ordered a drink to watch his team ultimately wallop the Cardinals. He was no longer alone.

For a Monday night, Serpentine Fox Prohibition Grille was bumpin’. There were dates on stools and friends in booths. The previous Friday night, it hosted a well-attended EP release show by indie rock band The Depths.

Mind you, this is in Arden Arcade, a patchwork of big box stores. This gastropub has sparked camaraderie near a shuttered upholstery chain.

Sacramento native Diego Peralta opened the restaurant in May as a kind of sports bar with panache and personal significance. Upcycled local wood furnishes the space, along with a snazzy neon sign that reads “Serpentine Fox.” You can sink into the luxurious booths, and for anyone on a bombing date, there’s a giant Jenga game. More than a dozen beers are on tap. The several menus—lunch, happy hour, dinner and cocktail—each offer American pub-style food or drink with a nod to Peralta’s Colombian heritage.

Like any good bar with a dozen TVs blasting sports, the menu boasts a solid share of burgers—seven, in fact, with

by Rebecca Huval

photo by SCott DUNCAN

re b e c c a h @ne w s re v i e w . c o m

meat that’s ground and spiced every day in-house. Each has its own flourish: peppered pastrami or beer-battered onion rings, or Gorgonzola and red wine vinegar. The two most interesting have Peralta’s signature and are the priciest ($14.95!), Chorizo & Shrimp and Lamb.

In the latter, spices nipped the palate and heightened the lamb’s earthy essence. Gorgonzola cooled it all down, along with a housemade Greek yogurt with cucumber, dill and mint. The shiny brioche bun balanced the deliciously sour sauces with a frame of airy sweetness.

The burgers all come with fries that are flecked with golden dots of fry oil—surprises of crunch surrounding pillowy potatoes.

And the pizza! This is not the typical greasy pizza of a sports bar. On the margherita ($8.95), the discs of mozzarella were properly salted to bring out their creamy musk. The vine-ripened Roma tomato sauce zinged with freshness. The housemade dough carried a satisfying nutty flavor, though it was a bit mushy toward the middle.

Also notable: appetizers such as the empanadas ($7.95 for four) of juicy pork, chicken and veggies; and hearty mozzarella sticks ($5.95), served panko-breaded with marinara sauce—housemade, of course.

The only real strikeout was a grilled vegetable sandwich ($8.95) that came soggy (though we should possibly blame that on my to-go box) and without the promised mozzarella.

Yes, its name is a bit ridiculous. But at Serpentine Fox Prohibition Grille, you can relax into the comfort of a very normal burger and a plush booth, or check out Colombian-inspired pub food, funky cocktails and burgeoning local bands. In a sea of chain stores, this is a place where a Cowboys fan can show up by himself and finally meet his neighbors. Ω

Liquid meal bAnAnA nut sMoothie, CAp City squeeze Although loads of milkshakes masquerade as smoothies, Cap City Squeeze juice bar (1426 14th Street) serves the real deal out of a tiny shop bursting with fresh fruit smells.

Its Banana Nut Smoothie ($5.25 for a small) tastes like—and I mean this in the best way possible— a hearty bowl of cold oatmeal. Using almond milk as opposed to a fattier dairy option, the shop blends bananas, oats and oldfashioned peanut butter sweetened with just a hint of honey and cinnamon. Located about a block from Capitol Park, Cap City serves the ideal thing to sip while you stop and smell the actual roses.

—John Flynn

Can’t beet that beets As usual, it turns out your grandmother knew a thing or two when she spooned pickled beets upon your plate.

Beets were popular for their sweet flavor and eye-popping colors well before we knew how healthful they are. The red ones contain particularly high levels of antioxidants and anti-inflammatory phytonutrients. They’re also packed with folate and potassium. Golden and candy-striped Chioggia beets have plenty of goodness as well as flavor. Boil or bake them and toss with vinaigrette for a quick side salad, or thinly slice them and shingle them onto a savory tart for a showy top crust.

—Ann MArtin rolke

10.05.17

|

SN&R

|

23

THE

Thai Food & gluten free options On T

10 BEERS ON TAP HAPPY HOUR 4:30-6PM

BEERS & APPETIZERS AS LOW AS $3 1110 T ST. SACRAMENTO, CA 95811 | 916-822-4665

IllustratIon by Mark stIvers

BEST THAI WINNER THE COCONUT ON T

’17

Afghan flavors via the Bay Area

by Rebecca Huval

Translation, “Worth a drive”: It’s

drunken noodle •Midtown•

Powered by The Coconut

2 BEER $

ALL DAY

6 BEERS ON TAP 2502 J St. Sacramento, CA • 916.447.1855 www.drunkenthai.com or find us on Yelp

Check Yelp for Daily $2 Beer Specials 24 | SN&R | 10.05.17

exciting to see an Afghan restaurant venture far beyond kebabs.

Now that Aria-Afghan Restaurant opened in late summer in North Highlands (5601 Watt Avenue, Suite 2), Sacramentans can sample Aash ($4.99)—a traditional noodle soup with garbanzo beans and topped with yogurt and mint—as well as the rarely seen Pacha ($10.99)—cow feet cooked in a wheat broth.

Co-owner and chef Sayed Wasi is originally from Afghanistan, but he learned to cook in Northern California, most notably at De Afghanan Cuisine in Fremont—arguably the best Afghan restaurant in the Bay Area.

He says he’s infused his menus with those lessons and similar recipes to De Afghanan, so he’s hoping to rise above his few competitors in the area.

“That’s why I think ours is better,” Wasi says.

Back in Afghanistan, Wasi learned about food through eating more than cooking; he says he

worked as a translator for the U.S. military. “It was good!” he reassures me, saying he enjoyed helping people. Off the battlefield, Wasi worked in an office translating documents related to U.S. reconstruction efforts, building infrastructure such as schools and roads.

But then danger began encroaching on office workers, too, and Wasi says he decided to move stateside. He tried working as an Uber and Lyft driver, but didn’t like that so much because riders having a bad day would take it out on him, he says. As it turns out, customers tend to be more agreeable when they’re eating.

“When they like the food it gives you energy, and it makes me real happy,” he says.

Surrounded by a Korean market and gift shop, as well as a Russian grocery, Aria Afghan opened in North Highlands strategically.

“When there is a diversity, I like that kind of place—and people will come and enjoy that kind of place,” Wasi says.

r e b e c c a h @ ne wsr e v ie w.c o m

Good bakers: The sequel to the

beloved Filipino bakery Starbread opened in Roseville in August under the same owners. BAD Bakers (1420 E. Roseville Parkway, Suite 180) is a cutesy storefront covered in cartoonish baking icons and pink design details. The doughnuts, however, are fierce like the business name (an acronym of Bread And Doughnuts). Confections in all-caps like “SHORTY CAKE,” “COOKIE KRAVING” and “UNICORN CLOUDS” come with messy-yet-artful dustings of sugary crumbs. Don’t worry: The signature Spanish rolls are there, too.

Jimboy No. 8: Hometown chain Jimboy’s Tacos recently opened its eighth Sacramento location at 4245 Marconi Avenue in Marconi Square.

Those greasy beef tacos with the telltale sprinkling of Parmesan will available 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday to Thursday, and 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Friday and Saturday. Ω

Open-air roast

Come try the world famous monte Cristo sandwiCh at our new loCation!

After three decades at the downtown convention center, the Sacramento Greek Festival returns to East Sacramento at the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church’s newly opened event center (616 Alhambra Boulevard) on October 6, 7 and 8. The indoor-outdoor event will mimic similar festivals in Greece, said spokesperson Koula Gianulias, who added that you’ll be able to smell lamb roasting and the loukoumades frying blocks away. The festival will feature a gauntlet of rich, flavorful meats, butter-soaked pastries and labor-intensive classics like pastitsio: macaroni layered with seasoned beef and cheeses and topped with a creamy bechamel sauce. Alongside live music from Mythos, there’ll be lessons and performances of Greek dancing as well as an appearance by renowned local artist Greg Kondos, who designed the event’s poster. Tickets are $5 for this all-you-can-Greek fest.

available for private events 916.800.3050 • 1000 K st., saCramento

—John Flynn

over some tweets? Well, there’s good news: The Sacramento Vegan Chef Challenge has the most participating restaurants ever this year! Oh, you didn’t actually expect the good news to be about the aforementioned egotists’ exploits? Yeah, no, we’re screwed on that. But we’ll be well-fed from October 1 to October 31, thanks to the 31 restaurants from Sac to Auburn whose challenge is to come up with a special vegan menu.

This is the seventh year of the SVCC, and there’s a host of eateries on the roster in 2017: Broderick Roadhouse, La Cosecha, East SMF, The Federalist and Pushkin’s Restaurant in Sac; Pho Fresh in Rancho Cordova; The Cellar Wine Bar in Folsom; and Mesa Mercado and The Patriot in Carmichael. For a complete list, check www.facebook. com/sacveganchefchallenge; SVCC founder Bethany Davis said a few more restaurants may still be added, so be at peace with wearing elastic-waist pants all month.

real news

Worried about two pudgy-faced megalomaniacs starting a nuclear war

’s Independent Journalism Fund at www.independentjournalismfund.org

by Shoka

supp rt

Donate to

Elastic-waist pants challenge

10.05.17

|

SN&R

|

25

a paid advertising supplement

SN&R’s

TAP MAP AUBURN

65

ROCKLIN

5

49

ROSEVILLE

99

PLACERVILLE CITRUS HEIGHTS 5

80

SACRAMENTO

You love beer.

Here’s where to drink it.

Find the region’s best craft brews at these breweries, tap rooms and bottle shops.

6

RANCHO CORDOVA

3 1

16

5

DAVIS

50

2

4

80

FOLSOM

99 ELK GROVE

1

32

of Irish WhIskeys WhIskeys in town

16 taps • 26 bottled beers delicous irish & american meals 3514 BROADWAY | SACRAMENTO | 916.660.2722 | OPBREWCO.COM

2

8704 La Riviera Dr • Sacramento, CA 916.548.4848 • Everyday 11am-2am

45

offering a constant rotating

DRAFT SELECTION &  craft  beer —cocktails —pub

farm to fork focused gastropub 38° cooled taps // live music

2645 El camino avE // serpeNtiNefoX.com 26 | SN&R | 10.05.17

HAPPY HOUR

SPECIALS

all week long

1217 21st St • 916.440.0401 www.KuprosCrafthouse.com

on brews

The finest selection

a paid advertising supplement

SN&R’s

TAP MAP

35

Last year’s Street Pub in Sacramento, a family-friendly event hosted by Deschutes that benefits local nonprofit Runnin’ for Rhett.

Photo courtesy of runnin’ for rhett

CO M E E N J O Y OUR BEER GARDEN THIS MONTH! LIVE MUSIC EVERY WEEKEND

536 Grass Valley Hwy • Auburn, CA • 530-878-5232

61

Taste among the

Beer Gives Back

barrels

Bringing awareness and funding to charities through a love for craft beers

by LauRa HiLLen

people. In today’s age where … it’s really easy to be not uilt on a community of shared interest and passion, physically active, I think it’s really important to have that it’s only natural that some of the biggest names in outlet.” craft beer are now infusing their notoriety with other As craft beer enthusiasts may already know, Street worthy causes.

Pub also serves to revive the traditions of a public house.

Sacramento’s own streets have seen this growing “A public house is a gathering place for the commutrend firsthand with the annual Street Pub — hosted nity,” Carhart says. “Street Pub is a way for us to bring

by Deschutes Brewery from Bend, Oregon. But what our pub out to the public, into beer lovers may not realize is the markets like Sacramento that don’t upcoming event is more than just a get the opportunity to experience testament to great beer and good the pub.” company — 100 percent of the And this year’s event will proceeds benefit local nonprofit not disappoint. Bringing back Runnin’ for Rhett. its 400-foot-long mobile public “Connecting with the commuhouse to the heart of Midtown, nity and doing these fundraising Deschutes is prepping for an events really makes us part of eight-hour block party with free the local beer scene,” says Casey entry, live music, local art, and Carhart, Northern California market mouth-watering food and beer manager at Deschutes.

Randy Seevers pairings. Attendees will also have With over 22,000 people Executive director, Runnin’ for Rhett access to the brewery’s reserve expected on Oct. 14, the event and specialty beers, not often could potentially break its record seen outside of its home pub. of 200 kegs sold. The popular Deschutes also recently lent its beer power to Pitch fundraiser has brought in $180,000 for its beneficiary and Fiddle’s annual golf tournament on Sept. 30, benefitover the past two years. ing the Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services. Ron “It’s amazing, the hearts that are out there in the Reber, co-owner of the restaurant, says they hope to feed craft beer industry,” says Randy Seevers, executive direcover 400 families this holiday season with the proceeds. tor of Runnin’ for Rhett.

“I think that the success of craft beer has really made Seevers — who founded Runnin’ for Rhett with his wife after the passing of their son, Rhett — estimates that it possible for people to give back,” Reber says. “There’s a lot of good people in the industry.”

Street Pub has put around 7,000 kids through its afterCheers to that, Sacramento. school fitness program.

“One of our core values is building a healthier Visit www.deschutesbrewery.com for Street Pub event or volunteer society,” says Carhart. “Bend, Oregon, is a very outdoorinformation. oriented place. Many of our employees are very active

www.dunloebrewing.com 1606 Olive Dr. | Davis, CA

B

“ It’s amazing, the hearts that are out there in the craft beer industry.”

on brews el Dorado brewing Company: $20 gift certificates, you pay $12.00

Pitch and Fiddle: $15 gift certificates, you pay $7.50

serpentine Fox Prohibition Grill: $25 gift certificates, you pay $12.50

10.05.17 | SN&R | 27

elk grove’s #1 sp for

IE N TNE RDO O R TAINMENT

ReviewS

A familiar utopia

by Jeff Hudson

- i n -t h e d a r k m i n i g l o w t e r ta g | p a r t g o l f ies las

Kyle stoner’s Puck is a nimble skateboarder.

9 1 6 . 5 6 2 .3900 | www.ca liglo.com 344 3 l ag u n a b lvd st e 150 | elk grove , cal i forni a ca l i gl o in d oor e n t e rta in m e n t

Lets eat!

Sacramento’s new premier dinner spot is now open!

HAPPY HOUR Mon-Fri 3pm-6pm 6241 FAIR OAKS BLVD, Carmichael, CA 95608

DINNER STARTS @ 5pm

(916) 817-9917 | Find us on Facebook Contact us to schedule your next event here!

28 | SN&R | 10.05.17

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

5

8 p.m. thursdays, fridays, saturdays; 2 p.m. sundays; $25-$15; Veterans Memorial theatre, 230 e. 14th street in Davis. (530) 802-0998, www.shakespearedavis.org. through october 15.

The Davis Shakespeare Festival offers a most appealing, cleverly localized version of this popular comedy, moving the setting to the mythical university town of Athens, California, where the romantically inclined 20-something students ride everywhere on bicycles, and are forever falling in-and-out of love.

The forest outside Athens resembles the UC Davis Arboretum. Those familiar with the town will spot cute references to landmark downtown businesses (like “Woodstop Pizza”).

Adding visual appeal are numerous exotic bikes whizzing around the crowd in scenes that call to mind students pedaling through the busy roundabouts on the central campus. The mischievous sprite Puck also rides a skateboard (and athletic young actor Kyle Stoner has clearly done plenty of street surfing).

There are repeated outbreaks of love-at-first sight, and equally abrupt eruptions of romantic discord, all played with good-natured humor by Rob Salas, who is establishing himself as one of the best young directors in the region. Bay Area professional John R. Lewis (who’s done Oregon Shakespeare, California Shakespeare, American Conservatory Theatre, etc.) romps energetically as Bottom (the working-class stiff who gets a donkey head).

There are also lots of original songs with catchy themes by composer Richard Chowenhill, and delightful costumes (by Caitlin Cisek, based in New York). All in all, this production in a 325-seat indoor venue compares quite favorably (at a much more affordable ticket price) with the more elaborate outdoor productions of Lake Tahoe Shakespeare.

Photo courtesy of yarcenia Garcia

4 The Diary of Anne Frank After being freed from a concentration camp, Otto Frank was presented with the diary of his daughter—a diary that had been stored in the Amsterdam attic where the family hid from 1942 to 1944. Eventually, the diary inspired a 1955 play, The Diary of Anne Frank by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, and it’s this version that Sacramento Theatre Company is now presenting.

Though the central character in the title is Anne, this play is a collective story of the Frank family and others in hiding. It shows the harsh realities as well as the day-to-day interactions, both sentimental and irritating, of those forced to live in tight, quiet confinement. Knowing the eventual outcome of the story adds a deep poignancy, but as Executive Director Michael Laun said beforehand, “there’s also a lot of humor and heart.”

The cast is solid, with a sweet and sassy performance by Olivia Ingram as Anne. And the simple staging coveys the cramped quarters of the hidden attic, while the haunting sounds of marching boots and overhead planes remind us of the danger outside.

A weakness is in the one-dimensional portrayal of some of the characters as well as some moments that come across as more theatrical than natural. But overall, it’s a heart-wrenching story of a teenage girl developing into a young woman under unfathomable circumstances.

—Patti RobeRts

8 p.m. saturday, 2 p.m. sunday, 7 p.m. Wednesday; $20-$38. sacramento theatre company, Main stage, 1419 h street; (916) 443-6722; www.tickets.sactheatre.org. through october 22.

CAMuseum_DOTDParty2017_35V_SNR_Oct5.pdf 1 9/25/2017 11:03:47 AM

Now playiNg The Servant of Two Masters

There is just one word to describe City Theatre’s adaptation of the Carlo Goldoni’s play, directed by Christine Nicholson: zany. From the bizarre opening scene to the madcap chase through the ending, this is a nonstop laugh fest. As Truffaldino, the servant described in the script as “an enigma wrapped up in a conundrum wrapped up in ... an idiot,” Bert Anderson could not be better. F 8pm, Sa 2pm and

8pm, Su 2pm. Through 10/15.

$10-18. Art Court Theatre, City College, 3835 Freeport Blvd.; www.citytheatre. net. B.S.

4

The Tempest

Director Ed Claudio stages Shakespeare’s tale of shipwreck, love and forgiveness on “Trash Island,” which is cluttered with discarded plastic bottles and other detritus carried by the waves.

Tygar Hicks—Claudio’s protege and onetime B Street Theatre intern, now a professional actress in New York—plays the sprite Ariel, zooming about on skates. Claudio, the veteran, plays the old conjurer Prospero, of course. Other cast members are less experienced, but it’s an interesting show. F, Sa 8pm, Su 2pm. Through 10/8. $20.

California Stage, 1723 25th Street; (916) 501-6104; www.actinsac.com. J.H.

5

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Edward Albee’s searing drama is about a middle-aged couple’s marriage that is careening toward a cliff, driven by alcohol and a mutually agreed-upon deception that unravels late one night in the presence of a younger, seemingly more innocent couple. In the hands of B Street Theatre actors Kurt Johnson, Elisabeth Nunziato, Jason Kuykendall and Dana Brooke, as directed by Dave Pierini, it is devastating and breathtakingly brilliant. Th, Fr 8pm, Sa 5pm and

9pm, Su 2pm, Tu 6:30pm, We 3pm and 6:30pm. Through October 29. $27-$39. B Street

Theatre, 2711 B Street; (916) 443-5300; www.bstreet theatre.org. J.C.

“FLORES PARA JUAREZ” BY OSCAR MAGALLANES. COURTESY OF THE ARTIST.

5

C

1 FOUL

2

3

FAIR

GOOD

4

5

WELL-DONE

SUBLIME–CM DON’T MISS

M

Y

MY

CY

CMY

K

DÍA DE LOS MUERTOS FIESTA It’s hard to start a trust-fall exercise when a murderer’s got your back. phOTO cOURTESy OF LINDSEy BAkER

Cursed, you say?

Shakespeare’s shortest tragedy—the gruesome, bloody, murderous play superstitious theatre folks call “The Scottish Play”—is driven by the power-mad couple at its center: Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Big Idea Theatre’s Scott Devine, who adapted and directed the play, takes an Akira Kurosawa-cum-1950s “Hammer Horror Films” approach, creating what he calls “a roller coaster ride of fun and terror.” Hey, it’s almost Halloween. 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday; $18-$22 ($8 on Thrifty Thursdays); Big Idea Theatre, 1616 Del Paso Boulevard. (916) 960-3036; www. bigideatheatre.org.

—JIM CARNES

FRI., OCT. 13 · 6-10 PM · $10 ADVANCE · $20 DOOR Celebrate THE opening of “Arte y Almas: Día de Los Muertos 2017” featuring La Sonrisa de La Muerte & Lapiztola from Mexico plus California artists Lurac & Oscar Magallanes with: Performance by Maquilli Tonatiuh Aztec Dancers • LIVE MUSIC BY DINORAH • Food & cocktails FOR SALE by Mayahuel • Sugar skull workshopS ($20 fee) • Costume contest • FREE face painting • Hands-on activities for kids • Much more!

CALIFORNIA MUSEUM 1020 O St, Sacramento • TICKET S & INFO: CaliforniaMusEUm.org/DOTD-2017 10.05.17 | SN&R | 29

A Midsummer Night’s Special...

FOR A LIMITED TIME RECEIVE 100 REWARD POINTS WHEN YOU MENTION SNR!

1 visit and you’re hal ay to your first reward RESERVATIONS: (916) 443–2347 • 814 15TH STREET • SACRAMENTO, CA www.meltingpot.com/sacramento-ca Expires 10/12/17

OCT.2

11am 4pm

20-2 & 7 2 -29

Enjoy a train ride with Thomas & so much more!

165 F St. Virginia City NEvada 30   |   SN&R   |   10.05.17

For Tickets: ticketweb.com/dowt or 866-468-7630

From yesterday’s headlines

american made all of 55 and still impish in aviators.

3

by Jim Lane

jiml@ ne wsr e v ie w.c o m

into secret flights not running pot, but at the behest of a shadowy figure from the CIA. That character calls himself Schafer (Domnhall Gleeson), and Seal is too naive at first to suspect that that may not In a way, the most interesting thing about really be his name. From there the Medellinistas American Made is the fact that its director, Doug make him an offer he can’t refuse, and before he Liman, is the son of Arthur L. Liman, who was chief knows it there’s so much cash rolling into his base counsel for the Senate committee investigating in backwoods Arkansas that he doesn’t know the Iran-Contra affair during Ronald where to put it all.

Reagan’s second term. That scandal There’s no getting around the shadows the last act of American rollicking energy of Liman and Made, suggesting that director Cruise, and American Made, like Liman (with writer Gary Spinelli) There’s no getting its version of Barry Seal’s career, is continuing his father’s 30-yeararound the rollicking is a lot of fun while it lasts. It’s old investigation by other means. a sort of object lesson in Agnes energy of Liman and Liman and Spinelli’s movie Allen’s Law—everything is follows the late Barry Seal (Tom Cruise. easier to get into than out of. At Cruise). Seal was a real person, each stage of the plot, Cruise’s Seal and he’d probably be pleased to find stands nonplussed a moment before himself played in a movie by Tom shrugging his shoulders and going with Cruise (Seth Rogen might have been the flow. Sitting in the theater, we do more better casting). Seal was a pilot for Trans or less the same. At least the experience ends more World Airlines in 1972 when he was charged with happily for us than it does for our hero, cut off in conspiring to smuggle explosives to Mexico. The case mid-sentence as he extols the virtues of the good was dismissed, but TWA fired him anyway. After ole U.S. of A. that he got into drug smuggling—marijuana at first, Offering the semi-unsavory Barry Seal as but eventually cocaine for the MedellĂ­n cartel. When a Reagan-era Candide may be a tough sell, but he got busted for that, he worked undercover for the American Made gives it a good pitch. The credits DEA, testifying against some of his former associates. open with the familiar “inspired by true events,â€?

After he refused to enter the federal Witness Protection but the posters put it another way: “Based on a true Program, the cartel tracked him down and shot him lie.� Whether the “true lie� is what made the rounds dead in 1986. back in 1986, or what Liman and Spinelli are handThis is more or less what happens in American ing us now, is left discreetly obscure. Ί Made. Well, more less than more. Cruise, operating in his most impishly charming bad-boy-next-door mode— and in passing, let us acknowledge that at 55 he still does “impish� pretty well—gives us a Seal who gets

1 2 3 4 5 Poor

Fair

Good

Very Good

excellent

fiLm CLiPS

ECOWAS

BY DANIEL BARNES & JIM LANE

INTERNATIONAL RESTAURANT

3

American Assassin

When his fiance is murdered in a terrorist strike, young Mitch Rapp (Dylan O’Brien) launches a one-man vendetta. This brings him to the attention of a CIA exec (Sanaa Lathan), who recruits him for training under a veteran cold warrior (Michael Keaton). Directed

by Michael Cuesta and adapted by Stephen Schiff, Michael Finch, Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz from the novels of Vince Flynn, the movie is an efficient intro to a new franchise, though it can’t avoid a sense that no matter how well it’s all done this time—the globe-hopping, the explosive set pieces, the we’re-not-sodifferent-you-and-I villain, the apocalyptic climax—we’ve seen it all before. Still, O’Brien has an acceptable (albeit modest) level of charisma, Keaton adds gritty gravitas, and Cuesta keeps it all clipping along. J.L.

Authentic African Cuisine Explore African culture through food, music & atmosphere!

610 W. El Camino Ave, Sac, CA | 916.550.2066

2

Battle of the Sexes

Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (Little Miss Sunshine; Ruby Sparks) direct this cardboard biopic about the nationally televised tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs, a circus-like exhibition viewed by tens of millions and hyped as the “Battle of the Sexes.”

King is played by a sorely miscast Emma Stone, and her lack of athletic credibility forces the film to show all her tennis action in long shots and shaky close-ups. Still, Stone’s wide-eyed soulfulness is the closest thing to a human element here, and the self-discovering love story between the married King and a free-spirited female hairdresser (Andrea Riseborough) offers a brief respite from the sitcom-phony dialogue and wafer-thin characters that otherwise dominate Simon Beaufoy’s clanging screenplay.

Meanwhile, Steve Carell plays the loudmouth hustler Riggs as exactly the one-note, surfacelevel caricature you would expect, and the film veers chaotically from googly eyed comedy to sincere drama as a result. D.B.

3

Dolores

Peter Bratt directs this passionate but by-the-numbers documentary about Dolores Huerta, the labor leader who helped form the nation’s first farm workers union in the 1960s. Although frequently misidentified and dismissed as Cesar Chavez’s “assistant” or even his “girlfriend,” the twice-divorced mother of eleven was just as instrumental as Chavez and the rest of the movement’s male leaders in organizing workers and forming the union. The story of such a bold and brave human being deserves a similarly bold and brave documentary treatment, but Dolores rarely strays from its prosaic template, offering little more than a rote, bullet-point biography of a Great Woman. There are some genuine moments courtesy of Huerta’s children, many of them still emotionally raw from a childhood spent on her sidelines, but despite (or perhaps because of) the cooperation and participation of Huerta, the film only occasionally feels personal. This is more a monument than a movie. D.B.

1

Friend Request

A popular college student (Alycia Debnam-Carey) accepts the social media friend request of a freaky loner (Liesl Ahlers), but soon finds herself in the clutches of an evil force killing off all her friends (Sean Marquette, Brooke Markham, Brit Morgan, Connor Paolo) one by one. As usual with this kind of garbage, the only suspense comes from wondering who’ll get it next, and how. Written in a cliche flurry

by Matthew Ballen, Philip Koch and director Simon Verhoeven (whose pacing is as limp as his writing), the movie is an unacknowledged ripoff of 2014’s Unfriended—which may explain why it sat on the shelf for months before finally being released (or escaping) into theaters. As with its predecessor, the cast and crew here are all hungry nobodies looking for their big break. They should keep looking. J.L.

2

Home Again

Recently turned 40 and separated, a woman (Reese Witherspoon) moves back to Hollywood with her two daughters.

Complications arise when three aspiring filmmakers (Pico Alexander, Nat Wolff, Jon

Like Minority Report, but for necrophiles.

3

Flatliners

A promising young medical intern (Ellen Page) persuades several colleagues (Diego Luna, Nina Dobrev, James Norton, Kiersey Clemons) to join her in a dangerous experiment to investigate near-death experiences; those who are “killed” and then resuscitated find themselves haunted by frightening visions and hallucinations. Hard to believe it’s been 27 years since Joel Schumacher’s sci-fi thriller with Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts and Kevin Bacon, but it has. This loose remake (directed by Niels Arden Oplev, with writer Ben Ripley overhauling Peter Filardi’s original) updates the visions with state-of-the-art CGI, and the result is satisfyingly creepy. The new cast injects some new blood (no pun intended), and Sutherland makes a sporting cameo appearance. Nothing special, perhaps, but no disgrace either. J.L.

Rudnitsky) move into her guest house and her husband (Michael Sheen) turns up looking to reconcile. Writer-director Hallie Meyers-Shyer, the daughter of Nancy Meyers and Charles Shyer, turns out exactly the kind of slick, shallow comedy that Mom and Dad used to make—glib rather than funny, coy rather than subtle, leaning heavily on the kind of talent it needs but doesn’t deserve, and all sparkling with a spotless gleam that makes the Hallmark Channel look like film noir. The story moves with the predictable monotony of a Swiss clock that cuckoos every five minutes, and cheap jokes and wasted actors abound. J.L.

4

Kingsman: The Golden Circle

When a massive missile strike all but wipes out the Kingsman super-secret service, the lone surviving agent (Taron Egerton) and support tech (Mark Strong) investigate, leading them to Statesman, an allied American agency, and putting them all on the trail of a megalomaniacal, 1950s-nostalgic drug trafficker named Poppy (Julianne Moore) deep in the South American jungle. This sequel to 2014’s Kingsman: The Secret Service is even more enjoyable than the original—though like that fun-filled spy-fest, it could profit from trimming 15 or 20 minutes.

The best news: Colin Firth’s Harry is back from the dead, and the Statesman staff includes Jeff Bridges, Halle Berry and Channing Tatum.

Director Matthew Vaughn and his co-writer Jane Goldman expand on the Mark Miller/Dave Gibbons comic books in high style. J.L.

2

The LEGO Ninjago Movie

In the city of Ninjago, young Lloyd (voiced by Dave Franco) is scorned and bullied because his deadbeat dad is the evil Lord Garmadon (Justin Theroux); nobody knows that whenever Garmadon attacks the city, it’s Lloyd, disguised as the Green Ninja, who leads the counterattack. When Garmadon conquers the city, Green Ninja and his band embark on a quest to retake the city—and bridge the chasm between father and son.

The LEGO movie franchise may be reaching a point of diminishing returns. Cranked out by an unruly mob of three directors and nine writers, this third outing is of interest only to kids ages

BUY 1 GET 1 1/2 OFF Buy any dinner entree at regular price, get the second for HALF OFF! Must present coupon, cannot combine with other discounts. One per table. Valid Mon-Thu only. Expires 10/18/17.

Voted “Best of Sacramento” 3 years in a row!

Vote Us #1

Happy Hour

Monday–Friday 3–6pm 1315 21st St • Sacramento 916.441.7100

five to seven—and any parents with serious daddy issues. MVP goes to Jackie Chan, who introduces the story in a live-action framing sequence, voices Lloyd’s guru and choreographs the LEGO martial arts fights. J.L.

4

Mother!

Darren Aronofsky has cast such a long shadow over cinema for the last two decades, it’s hard to believe that Mother! is only his seventh feature film. Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem star as a couple sequestered in a suspiciously Edenic mansion. He is a famous writer struggling to get started on a follow-up book, while she is a hopelessly devoted, self-denying earth mother meticulously rebuilding their burnt mansion piece by piece.

Much to her horror, interlopers enter the surreal mansion and make themselves right at home, increasing in number and fervency the closer the devotion-hungry writer gets to finishing his next book. Religious allegories ensue. This is about as self-contained as a movie can get, but it’s also a stupendously tense, disturbing and powerful piece of filmmaking, with Aronofsky in full command even as the world seems to spin off its axis in the final half hour. D.B.

3

Stronger

Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Jeff Bauman, the man who got his legs blown off in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, and whose description of one of the bombers narrowed down the search for the culprits. Directed by David Gordon Green and written by John Pollono (from the book by Bauman and Bret Witter), the movie covers familiar ground but is well done, and the basic story is invincibly compelling.

Gyllenhaal proves once again that he’s one of the most adventurous actors in movies today, and once again (after Nightcrawler and Southpaw) earns an Oscar nomination he probably won’t get. The movie’s secret weapon is a possibly star-making performance by Tatiana Maslany as Bauman’s girlfriend and later wife. (Not to spoil the movie’s upbeat ending, but earlier this year the Baumans announced their pending divorce.) J.L.

10.05.17 | SN&R | 31

Mexican Food

with attitude!

Buy one 3 taco plate get

one Free including Free drink*

Buy super Burrito get

one Free

One-man band Andrew Castro builds his audience in Sacramento and itches to leave

including Free drink*

by AAron CArnes

916.370.6314

*exp. 10/11/17

3721 47th Ave, SAcrAmento

open M-T, 10-9 | F-S, 10-10 | Sun cloSed

team!

• advertising consultant • marketing &publications consultant • distribution driver For more inFormation and to apply, go to www.newsreview.com/jobs.

SN&R is an Equal Opportunity Employer that actively seeks diversity in the workplace.

John Developer

Kate Calendar Editor

32 | SN&R | 10.05.17

PhOTO COurTeSy OF Andrew CASTrO

join the

EP—Castro completely changed his live set, which elevated his draw to headliner status. He went from being just another guy with an acoustic guitar to a solo musician playing a full looping station. He layers guitar parts, vocal harmonies and rhythms by beatboxing and slapping on the guitar strings. It gives his folk music more depth and groove. His set is suddenly more of a show.

“I wanted more sound, but getting a band is a pain in the ass for so many reasons,” Castro says.

Dreaming of somewhere better than a blank wall.

“I practice a lot, and I want to be able to throw my looping station in my suitcase and go on tour. My loop pedal never complains.”

Andrew Castro sips his hot tea and casually Now Castro will release yet another EP, Solo, on recalls that time he released four EPs in a single year, October 13. This isn’t just another EP in a long list of each accompanied by a sold-out release show—well, releases. one wasn’t quite sold out, but he blames that on a “There’s a bigger picture. I had goals, like the heavy storm. four EPs. Those were very right-in-Sacramento goals.

Yeah, no big deal.

Now there’s more of a path, like how do I get out of He explains: The first was at Shine in February Sacramento?” Castro says. “Before it was almost like 2015, when the owners told him it was the most a fantasy. It’s not that I can see it, but I know the path money they’d ever made in a single night. Then to get there. I just have to make it happen.” it was Harlow’s, where he told the owner Much of his new confidence began he could, no problem, bring 250 people. this past May, when he went to He got off the phone and told his Nashville to talk to some industry “I know the girlfriend, the Sacramento musician folks. In June, he signed a contract path to get there.

Xochitl, “I got to figure out a way to with Riser Music, where, he says, get 250 people.” they selected seven of his songs I just have to make it Then it was Old Ironsides. to find spots for them on TV and happen.”

Though the last one at Harlow’s film. didn’t sell out, Castro did bring 225 He’s got a tour booked Andrew Castro people and felt proud. following a show at Momo singer-songwriter If that isn’t enough, he did all this Sacramento. He’s working with as a recent Sacramento transplant. When Sofar Sounds to perform all over the he threw that Shine show, one of his first country. Beginning October 29, he’ll be ever, he’d only moved to Sacramento from the Bay playing in Chico, Portland, Chicago, Honolulu, Area 10 months prior.

Austin and other cities.

The idea to record four EPs stemmed from his Over the course of five EPs and one LP, Castro open-mic days: He noticed that listeners took a liking feels he’s really gotten better at songwriting. to his gentle, emotive finger-picking folk song “Fall.”

“Before I was very confined to [Sacramento],” he The recording didn’t turn out great, but it sparked an says. “I think that’s why I got so frustrated. Because idea: Why not record as much as possible and get it was only this little box. Instead of, Oh wait, there’s really good at it in the process? this whole world.” Ω “Some people gave me crap. Like, why are you doing that?” Castro says. “Having that many people show up after four of those shows kind of proved Check out Andrew Castro at 6:15 p.m. Saturday, October 14, at Momo [my] theory.”

Sacramento, 2708 J Street. Tickets are $5-$8. For more information go to About five months after relocating to www.andrewcastromusic.com.

Sacramento—still months before releasing his first

foR the week of octobeR 05

by KATE GONZALES

Online listings will be considered for print. Print listings are edited for space and accuracy. Deadline for print listings is 5 p.m. Wednesday. Deadline for NightLife listings is midnight Sunday.

Send photos and reference materials to Calendar Editor Kate Gonzales at snrcalendar@newsreview.com.

POsT eVenTs OnLine FOr Free aT

www.newsreview.com/sacramento

sKeLeTOn Hands: Post-punk duo with Statiqbloom, Crimes AM, DJ Dire DeLorean. 8pm, $10. The Press Club, 2030 P St.

TUESDAY, 10/10 THe MaVeriCKs: Tex-Mex/Americana band out of Miami. 8pm, $22.50-$55. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St. North, Kyntallah, Saint Apostate. 8pm, $12. Blue Lamp, 1400 Alhambra Blvd.

PHOTO COURTESY OF SUSAN HUBBARD

sun

Barktoberfest Do dogs dressed in dirndls and lederhosen interest you? If not, check your pulse. If so, check out Barktoberfest, Fundraiser a day dedicated to man’s best friend and an annual fundraiser for Placer SPCA. The day starts with a 2.5/5k Fun Run, followed by a free festival with food trucks, contests and more. See pups per-

the stories of eight Ukrainians who had left their homeland to move to the United States in the pursuit of success. Ukrainian with English subtitles. 6:30pm, $20 donation.

Good Samaritan Slavic Missionary Church, 5051 College Oak Dr.

performs with Svetlanas (out of Russia/ Italy) and 57 (out of South Korea). 7pm, $12$15. Holy Diver, 1517 21st St.

CaFe TaCVBa: Mexican alternative rock band performs with Mariachi Flor De Toloache. 7pm, $49.50. Ace Of Spades, 1417 R St.

SUNDAY, 10/8 HOCus POCus: The Sanderson sisters come back from the grave to steal the lives of Salem’s children in this 1993 Disney favorite.

7pm, $8-$10. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.

THe MidniGHT GHOsT Train: With Shotgun

Sawyer, Gnargoyle. 8pm. Blue Lamp, 1400 Alhambra Blvd.

TUESDAY, 10/10

Brother Roy. 8pm, $27-$30. The Center for the Arts, 314 W. Main St. in Grass Valley.

eQuaL Means eQuaL: A documentary that examines the treatment of American women today and argues in favor of an Equal Rights Amendment. Film followed by a brief Q&A. 6pm, no cover. American River College Student Center, 4700 College Oak Dr.

FOOD & DRINK

form tricks and vote for the best costumes worn by dogs and their humans. Tickets will be sold for the biergarten, which will have food and beer tastings. Or for $40, get entry to the run and the biergarten, and all the entertainment of this festival celebrating all the dogs. 1550 Maidu Drive in Roseville, www.placerspca.org/barktoberfest.

SATURDAY, 10/7

COMEDY

FOOd FOr THOuGHT—FeedinG & FueLinG Our neiGHBOrHOOd: A discussion on creating opportunity and sustainability through food.

Brainstorm ways to feed your community while uplifting it economically. Learn to legally cook and sell food, create a backyard farm or a communal garden. 10am, no cover.

Greater Sacramento Urban League, 3725 Marysville Blvd.

LOOMis eGGPLanT FesTiVaL: For 30 years

MUSIC THURSDAY, 10/5 THe aCCidenTaLs: Folk rock band out of

Michigan. 7pm, $12. Goldfield Trading Post, 1630 J St.

BiLLY BraGG: English punk/folk rocker and activist comes to Sac. 7:30pm, $15$45. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.

LiVe aT FiVe: Old Sac restaurants host musicians for free live shows during happy hour Thursdays in October. Xochitl performs at Fat City Bar & Cafe; Privileges at Rio City Cafe, Cities You Wish You Were From at Sactown Sports Bar & Grill and Andrew Castro at Ten22. 5pm, no cover. Old Sacramento, 1124 Second St.

ViBe sessiOns THe BrOWn suGar sHOWCase: A sensual display of art and photography and performances from musicians, singers and poets, all in celebration of AfricanAmerican beauty. There will be nudity. 9pm, $8.50. Midtown Barfly, 1119 21st St.

FRIDAY, 10/6 BeneFiT sHOW FOr CaFe COLOniaL/COLOnY: See event description on page 34. 8pm, $5$20. Cafe Colonial, 3520 Stockton Blvd.

COnCeiVed in CHaOs: The Sac band’s final show, with Heat of Damage, Exiled from Grace. 7pm, no cover, donations welcome. The Colony, 3512 Stockton Blvd.

FOurTH annuaL BLues FOr THe sTaMP: Pat Martin & Animal House, the Dey Trippers and Adam Block perform to support the Breast Cancer Research Stamp and curebreastcancer.org. Food, wine and beer for sale. 6pm, $15-$20. La Cosecha, 917 Ninth St.

SATURDAY, 10/7 FirsT FesTiVaL BeneFiT: Eugene Ugly, Captain Cutiepie and Bad Patterns play to support First Festival. 5pm, $8. The Press Club, 2030 P St.

HOneY B & THe CuLTiVaTiOn: Caribbean jams and rhymes. Ska-funk band Lo & The Mix open. 8pm, $7. Shine, 1400 E St.

MOnsTer sQuad: With The Abuse, Remnants, Enemy Fire, Dead Weight. Benefit show for Cafe Colonial and the Colony. 8pm, $10$20. Blue Lamp, 1400 Alhambra Blvd.

saCraMenTO’s 8TH annuaL BLues BY THe riVer: Blues festival featuring Laurie Morvan, Mick Martin, Ryder Green and a surprise guest. 3pm, $8-$10. Swabbies on the River, 5871 Garden Highway.

SUNDAY, 10/8 Be BraVe BOLd rOBOT: Local band supports touring songwriters Adam Balbo and Andrew Hotz. 8pm, $5. Luna’s Cafe & Juice Bar, 1414 16th St.

dOn FeLder: The longtime member of The

Eagles. 7pm, $48-$88. Three Stages at Folsom Lake College, 10 College Parkway in Folsom.

sO sTressed: With DEEP STATE, Ex-

Rippers. 8pm. Blue Lamp, 1400 Alhambra Blvd.

MONDAY, 10/9 Jd MCPHersOn: Rock group performs with

Nikki Lane. 5:30pm, $25. Harlow’s, 2708 J St.

there’s been a reason to celebrate in Loomis, and that reason is eggplant! Expect wine, locally grown food and fun for the family. 10am, no cover. Loomis Train Depot Plaza, 5775 Horseshoe Bar Road in Loomis.

FesTiVaL OF FLaVOrs: Celebrate diversity through flavors, rhythms and craft beer and wine. Fundraiser for Opening Doors and its programs serving trafficking survivors, refugees, immigrants and other underserved neighbors. 6pm, $45-$60.

Sierra 2 Center, 2791 24th St.

an animal. For every beer sold, Big Stump will donate $1 to Sacramento Animal Area Coalition. Dress up your four-legged friend for the costume contest! 5pm, no cover. Big Stump Brewing Co., 1716 L St.

La anTena: An Argentinian film that examines the theme of media mind control in a

SHOWSTOPPER Spoken Word Competition.

Poets perform their words and one gets the title of best poem. Hosted by awardwinning poet Terry Moore. 8pm Thursday, 10/5. $10. Eric Blake. Los Angeles comic with opener David Lew. Through 10/8. Coming to the Stage Comedy Competition. Lance Woods hosts this competition between 10 comics. 8pm Wednesday, 10/11. 1207 Front St.

PunCH Line: Nikki Glaser. Comedian and Comedy Central sex talk show host performs. Thursday show benefits animal rescue. Through 10/7. $27.90-$31.80. 2100 Arden Way, Suite 225.

Comedy Festival. See event description on page 34. 10/6 through 10/8. 1050 20th St., Suite 130.

PinTs, Purrs and PuPs: Drink a beer, help

THURSDAY, 10/5

LauGHs unLiMiTed COMedY CLuB: THE BIG

saCraMenTO COMedY sPOT: Sacramento

WEDNESDAY, 10/11

FILM

TWin PeaKs: Fire WaLK WiTH Me: David Lynch’s

aMeriCan dreaM: Documentary that tells

BarB Wire dOLLs: Rock band from Greece

saraH JarOsZ: Folk singer-songwriter with

Maidu Park in roseville, 9 a.M., no cover-$40

FRIDAY, 10/6

SATURDAY, 10/7

WEDNESDAY, 10/11

08

dystopian future. Spanish with English subtitles. First in a three-month film series of foreign cinema at the museum. 7:30pm, $6-$18. Crocker Art Museum, 216 O St.

psychological thriller and prequel to the original television series, Twin Peaks.

7:30pm, $8-$10. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.

rOseTTa: Philadelphia post-metal band with

This dog is ready to party.

snr c a le nd a r @ ne wsr e v ie w.c o m

ON STAGE aMeriCan riVer COLLeGe THeaTre: Beauty and the Beast: The Broadway Musical. Disney’s Beauty and the Beast stuns with a live orchestra, vibrant settings and costumes and a 35-member cast. Through 10/22. $10$18. 4700 College Oak Dr.

arT COurT THeaTre: The Servant of Two Masters. Carlo Goldoni’s comedy follows

CaLendar LisTinGs COnTinued On PaGe 34

10.05.17 | SN&R | 33

SEE MORE EVENTS AND SUBMIT YOUR OWN AT NEwSREvIEw.COM/SACRAMENTO/CALENDAR

MUSEUMS CALIFORNIA AUTOMOBILE MUSEUM: 9th Annual Cruisefest on Fulton Avenue. Fall cruise and car show on historic Fulton Avenue. 3pm Saturday, 10/7. No cover for spectators. 2200 Front St.

FRIDAY, 10/6 THROUGH SUNDAY, 10/8

CALIFORNIA MUSEUM: Light & Noir Exiles &

Sacramento Comedy Festival SaCraMento CoMedy SPot, tiMeS vary, $15-$40

Let’s get ready for LAUGHTER! This weekend, the Sacramento Comedy Festival delivers three days of hilarity, with local comic favorites PHOTO COURTESY OF MILES ROBERTS and acts from around the country.

Stand-up, improv and sketch performances will take the stage at the Sacramento Comedy Spot. Get tickets to individual shows like the Super Fantastic Character Showdown (Friday night) or Improv Fight Club COMEDY (Sunday night), or get admission to all shows for just $40. As the world continues to go down the drain, we all deserve some laughs. 1050 20th Street, Suite 130, www.saccomedyfest.com.

CALENDAR LISTINGS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 33 Truffaldino, who outwits masters, mistresses, lovers and lawyers in this precursor to the modern farce. Set in 1980s New Jersey. Through 10/15. $10-$18. 3835 Freeport Blvd.

THREE STAGES AT FOLSOM LAKE COLLEGE: Dirty Dancing. The story of Baby and Johnny’s summer together. ASL interpreted performance 10/7. Through 10/7. $49$89. 10 College Parkway in Folsom.

WYATT PAVILION THEATRE, UC DAVIS: Ground &

Field Theatre Festival. Playwrights, scholars and emerging theater artists came together to create new plays and musicals, resulting in these performances. Through 10/7. No cover. Old Davis Road in Davis.

BIG IDEA THEATRE: Macbeth. Shakespeare’s classic tragedy of unchecked political ambition, supernatural forces and a lust for power comes to the stage. Inspired by the Hammer horrors of the 1950s and ‘60s. Through 10/28. $12-$22. 1616 Del Paso Blvd.

ART CROCKER ART MUSEUM: Full Spectrum Paintings by Raimonds Staprans. Latvianborn painter whose body of work reflects more than six decades in Northern California. Closing weekend. Through 10/8. $5-$10. 216 O St.

CALIFORNIA STAGE COMPLEX: The Tempest.

Closing weekend.

25th St.

Through 10/8. $20. 1721

DAVIS CEMETERY DISTRICT & ARBORETUM: Reflect and Repeat: Images from the Gladding, McBean Factory. Nationally recognized photographer Gene Kennedy’s photos of the historic Gladding, McBean & Co. ceramics factory in Lincoln. Through 10/31. 820 Line Pole Road in Davis.

COSUMNES RIVER COLLEGE: Our Town. Thornton Wilder’s American about a small, fictional New Hampshire community delivers universal truths about humanity. Through 10/21. 8401 Center Parkway.

SIERRA 2 CENTER: Ode to Earth III. Visual artists and performance artists including musicians, dancers, poets and acrobats display their souls and share the stage in celebration of the Earth. Fundraiser for 350 Sacramento to address climate change locally. 7pm Friday, 10/5. $10. 2791 24th St.

SUTTER STREET THEATRE: Evil Dead the Musical.

A comedy-horror musical based on Sam Raimi’s cult classic Evil Dead films. Follow five college kids as they travel to a cabin in the woods and unwittingly unleash an evil force. Through 10/31. $15-$23. 717 Sutter St. in Folsom.

THE CENTER FOR THE ARTS: The Vagina

|

SN&R

|

Hands-on activities and storytelling for children every Saturday in October. This week, kids will make paper scarecrow heads. 11am Saturday, 10/7. No cover. 1200 Front St.

ALL AGES FRIDAY, 10/6 GEM FAIRE: Explore fine jewelry, crystals, gems, beads, minerals, gold and silver, fossils and more, and meet exhibitors from around the world. Free hourly door prizes. Noon, $7. 6151 H St.

LEGO MANIA: LEGO bricks provided for families and children to build and play together. 3:30pm Saturday, 10/7. No cover. 601 Alhambra Blvd.

SATURDAY, 10/7 Nikkei Dogs Scholarship & Youth Programs Fundraiser. Hot dog lunch, cupcakes, bingo and kids’ activities, with money going to support financial awards to high school and college students. 5:30pm Saturday, 10/7. $6-$12. 7235 Pritchard Road.

GEM FAIRE: See event listing on 10/6. 11am, $7. 6151 H St.

SUNDAY, 10/8 GEM FAIRE: See event listing on 10/6. 11am, $7. 6151 H St.

GOLDEN 1 CENTER: Worldwide Photo Walk. Join fellow photogs to be a part of 10th annual Worldwide Photo Walk. Meet at Jeff Koons’ statue, head to Old Sacramento and share lunch and photos after. 9am Saturday, 10/7. No cover. 500 David J Stern Walk.

KVIE PUBLIC TELEVISION: KVIE Art Auction. A live television and online auction of more than 300 pieces of artwork. A weekend fundraiser for the local PBS station, KVIE Public Television. Through 10/8. No cover. On your KVIE station and kvie.org/artauction.

UC DAVIS DESIGN MUSEUM: Instinct Extinct:

Monologues. A community reading of Eve Ensler’s episodic play benefits victims of violence. 8pm Friday, 10/26. $25. Ordinary Days. A musical comedy about making real connections in that magical city that never sleeps. Through 10/28. $15. 315 Richardson St. in Grass Valley.

34

OLD SACRAMENTO SCHOOLHOUSE MUSEUM:

BUDDHIST CHURCH OF FLORIN: Florin JACL

B STREET THEATRE: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. Edward Albee’s award-winning dark comedy reveals a middle-aged couple’s volatile relationship over the course of a night.

Through 10/29. $9-$39. 3835 Freeport Blvd.

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. Through 10/15. $9. Día de los Muertos Festivities. The museum will celebrate the holiday all month in a new exhibit opening 10/13 and special events and activities exploring Mexican culture. A community altar will be in place for visitors to honor loved ones. Through 10/29. $9. 1020 O St.

10.05.17

The Great Pacific Flyway. A multidisciplinary art installation celebrating the beauty and biology of the Pacific Flyway. Through 11/12.

No cover. 1 Shields Ave. in Davis.

FASHION SATURDAY, 10/7 OLD GOLD: $5 Sale. Big savings on fall

fashion. 11am, no cover. 1104 R St., Suite 110.

SUNDAY, 10/8 FALL TRUNK SHOW: Exclusive shopping for trendy and traditional clothes and jewelry. Bridal wear, party and casual women’s clothes, kids and men clothes available. Noon, no cover. 4922 Kokomo Dr.

OLD GOLD: $5 Sale. See event listing on

10/7. 11am, no cover. 1104 R St., Suite 110.

SPORTS & OUTDOORS

$5-$30. Full Belly Farm, 16090 County Road 43 in Guinda.

SACRAMENTO INTERNATIONAL HORSE SHOW: See listing for 10/6. 8am, $10-$25. Murieta Equestrian Center, 7200 Lone Pine Drive in Rancho Murieta

SUNDAY, 10/8 NATUREFEST: Live animal demonstrations, exhibits and activities for kids and families like basket-weaving and guided hikes through the preserve. 10am, $5 park entry fee. Effie Nature Center, 2850 San Lorenzo Way in Carmichael.

STEP UP FOR DOWN SYNDROME: Join the Down Syndrome Information Alliance in an effort to raise funds and awareness. 9am, $20$25. William Land Park, 3800 W. Land Park Drive.

FRIDAY, 10/6

LGBTQ

MONSTER MASH BIKE PARTY SACRAMENTO: Get your best monster costume ready and hop on your bike for this 12-mile ride with two stops. 7pm, no cover. Sutter’s Landing Park, 20 28th St.

SATURDAY, 10/7 DOGFEST WALK ’ N’ ROLL SACRAMENTO: A onemile stroll through the park celebrating the people and dogs that make it possible for Canine Companions to improve lives.

A festival with games, activities, food and drinks will follow. 11am, no cover.

Southside Park, 2115 Sixth St.

FALL FROLIC: All-ages exploration of how our oak woodland changes with the fall season and how wildlife is preparing for winter.

10am, $5 park entry fee. Effie Nature Center, 2850 San Lorenzo Way in Carmichael.

FOLSOM GLOW RUN: Dress up in bright costumes and run, skip, hop or walk along the glowing marked trail, with a foam dance party at the finish line. 7:30pm, $34. Historic Folsom Plaza, 905 Leidesdorff St. in Folsom.

FUEL THE FIRE: Try something new with 10 workout activities and contests including kickboxing, Zumba and Olympic lifting.

Live music, bingo and puppies with Canine Companions for Independence. Money raised goes toward rehabilitative services for those with spinal cord injuries. 10am, $10-$25. Crossfit Sacramento, 1146 Fulton Ave.

HOES DOWN HARVEST FESTIVAL: In celebration of the harvest season, take part in agriculture workshops like goat milking, activities including wine tasting and circus performances. Enjoy live music and carve pumpkins, pet animals and churn ice cream in the children’s area. Visit the farm just for the day or stay and camp overnight. 11am,

SATURDAY, 10/7 5TH ANNUAL RED DRESS - DRESS RED PARTY AT BADLANDS SAT 10/7: See event description

on page 35. 9pm, $40-$100. Badlands, 2003 K St.

SAC BUDDIES BLACKOUT PARTY: Sac Buddies presents its annual Blackout Party, for guys to walk through pitch dark with other guys.

Free HIV testing and awareness through Cares Community Health Clinic. 5pm, $18.

Sac Buddies, 4909 Franklin Blvd.

SUNDAY, 10/8 PANSEXUAL PANCAKE BREAKFAST: Are you Pansexual? Do you love pancakes? This is the place to enjoy breakfast, meet other pans and build community. 11am, $5. The Sacramento LGBT Community Center, 1927 L St.

TAKE ACTION FRIDAY, 10/6 NO NEW KOREAN WAR: Rally at the Federal courthouse to show the community’s support for peace. 6:30pm, no cover.

Robert T. Matsui Federal Court House, 501 I St.

CALIFORNIA COMMISSION ON ASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN AFFAIRS (CAPIAA) PUBLIC HEARING: Join the public hearing and hear remarks by members of the Asian Pacific Islander American community on education and immigration. 1pm, no cover. California State Capitol, Room 112, 1301 10th St.

FRIDAY, 10/6

Benefit for Cafe Colonial/The Colony Cafe Colonial, 8 P.M., $5-$20

On any given weekend, you can expect these adjoined Stockton Boulevard venues to deliver punk, hardcore or metal shows to appreciative all-ages crowds. Maybe you’ve had one of the cafe’s burgers, named for local musicians; or maybe you’re a young’un who saw your first MUSIC show there. The venues have fallen on hard financial times, and it will take a community to help keep the scene alive. Join bands Pisscat, Dead is Better, Pug Skullz and JKKFO, and dig deep to help keep the space afloat. 3520 Stockton Boulevard, www.sacramentopunkshows.com.

PHOTO COURTESY OF BECKY MCINTIRE

Saturday, 10/7

Red Dress – Dress Red Party Badlands, 9 p.m., $40-$100

The folks at the Sacramento LGBT Community Center don’t care if you attend the Red Dress – Dress Red Party in a ballgown, a LGBTQ Mr. Rogers-style cardigan and jeans, or as Clifford the Big Red Dog. The important thing is that you come out in red, have fun and support the cause to raise awareness around HIV/AIDS and funds for LGBT community health programs. This year’s theme is “What’s Your Story?,” PHOtO COurtESy OF LuKaS FOXX, tEMPuSLuX.COM. so enjoy this night of dancing, entertainment and drinks dressed in a way that’s uniquely and perfectly you. 2003 K Street, www.sacramentoreddressparty.org.

Saturday, 10/7 CAPITOL PEOPLE FIRST: Monthly general meeting of Capitol People First, Inc., a nonprofit selfand peer-advocacy organization run by and for Sacramentans with developmental differences. 1pm, no cover. State Capitol Building, 1000 L St.

SACTRU (SACRAMENTO TRANSIT UNION) WEEKLY MEETING: Help improve public transit in Sacramento County and beyond and learn how to get involved in the Transit Riders Union. 1pm, no cover. Organize Sacramento, 1714 Broadway.

WHOSE STREETS? OUR STREETS! COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES TO POLICE: Help build community safety with your neighbors.

6pm, no cover. Arden Arcade Library, 2443 Marconi Ave.

SuNday, 10/8 SERVING FOOD & GIFTING CLOTHES TO THOSE LESS FORTUNATE: Join folks who want to make the lives of those struggling in Sacramento a bit easier. Donations of clothes, especially men’s clothes, needed.

Participants will caravan around homeless camps in Sacramento to distribute food and other items. 1pm, no cover. Location, 200 Richards Blvd.

CLaSSES FrIday, 10/6 FRIDAY UP FRIDAY—INTRO CLAY CLASS: Learn basic sculpting techniques, watch a pottery demonstration and then practice your skills on the wheel. Great for all ages and skill levels. 6:30pm, $10. Sincere Ceramics, 5931 Power Inn Road, Suite B.

Saturday, 10/7 BASIC COMPOSTING WORKSHOP: The UCCE Master Gardeners of Sacramento County host a class on the basics of composting.

2pm, Belle Cooledge Library, 5600 S. Land Park Drive. hosted by the California Department of Education focused on healthy meal planning, recipe development for kids, safety and more. Attendees will receive food and resources to use in child care centers and family daycare homes. 8am. Art Institute of California, 2850 Gateway Oaks Dr. #100.

INTRODUCTION TO BASIC CERAMIC TECHNIQUES WORKSHOP: The second of two workshops on

SuNday, 10/8 PERSONAL DEFENSE CLASS: Learn how to fight

FEM DEMS COMMUNITY SERVICE COMMITTEE MEETING: This month’s Community Service

Committee meeting. 6pm, no cover. Insight Coffee Roasters, 1901 8th St.

OCTOBER 7 | VINYL $15 GENERAL ADMISSION | 4PM DOORS RESERVED SEATING AVAILABLE CALL 775.443.7008

DEAD WINTER CARPENTERS OCTOBER 14 | VINYL | 9PM | $15

PINKTOBER BENEFIT CONCERT: MOJO GREEN OCTOBER 21 | $10 TICKETS* 100% PROCEEDS DONATED TO PINKTOBER TO SUPPORT BREAST CANCER RESEARCH RAFFLE AVAILABLE | 9PM

CRYSTAL HEAD VODKA PRESENTS: AN EVENING WITH DAN AYKROYD OCTOBER 27 | 6PM - 9PM | $49

3RD ANNUAL

ROCKIN’ DEAD HALLOWEEN PARTY OCTOBER 27 | VINYL | 9PM | $10

RESERVE ONLINE

HARDROCKCASINOLAKETAHOE.COM OR DOWNLOAD MOBILE APP MUST BE 21+

basic ceramic skills and techniques. 2:30pm, $20. Sol Collective, 2574 21st St.

HEALTHCARE COMMITTEE MEETING: Join

WEdNESday, 10/11

UFC 216

CHILD CARE MEAL QUALITY FORUM: A forum

tuESday, 10/10 the effort to create a cheaper, more efficient health care system that would provide quality healthcare to everybody in California and nationally. Background information at www.healthyca.org. 5:30pm, no cover. Old Soul at 40 Acres, 3434 Broadway.

OCTOBER LINEUP

for personal protection. Noon, $15. The Firehouse 5, 2014 9th St.

tuESday, 10/10 DRAWING 101: Weekly drawing class through

11/14. 6:30pm, $65 for series. The Learnery at Sierra 2 Center, 2791 24th St.

DJ’S EVERY

THURSDAY, FRIDAY & SATURDAY *Live Entertainment Tax of 9% not included in ticket price.

FIGURE DRAWING STUDIO: Weekly figure drawing class with a live model and a professional adult to offer basic instruction and feedback. Adults only. Attend five sessions and the sixth is free. 6pm, $10-$15. Verge Center for the Arts, 625 S St.

844.588.ROCK @HRHCLAKETAHOE #THISISHARDROCK

50 HIGHWAY 50 STATELINE, NV 89449

10.05.17 JOB #: HRT-10623 AD TITLE: OCT HALLOWEEN BASH AD

|

SN&R

|

35

thUrsday 10/5

Friday 10/6

satUrday 10/7

sUnday 10/8

Of the Heart Band, 6:30pm, call for 10271 Fairway driVE, rosEVillE, (916) 412-8739 cover

Katie Knipp, 6:30pm, $5; Rosemarie Austin, 7:30pm, $5

The Music of John Prine, 7:30pm, $10

Ukulele jam, 11am, no cover

Badlands

Fierce Fridays with Top 40 dance videos, 9pm, call for cover

Red Dress Dress Red Party, 7pm, $40-$100

Spectacular Sundays, 6pm, call for cover

Working Man Blues Band, 9:30pm, no cover

Elevation, 9:30pm, no cover

Trivia & Pint Night, 5pm, M, no cover; Open-Mic, 7:30pm, W, no cover

Monster Squad and more, Cafe Colonial/ Deep State, So Stressed, Ex-Rippers, Colony benefit show, 8pm, $10-$20 8pm, call for cover

Rosetta, 8pm, Tu, $12-$15; Midnight Ghost Train and more, 8pm, W, $8

The acousTic den cafe

#TurntUp Thursdays College Night, 8pm, no cover

2003 k st., (916) 448-8790

BaR 101

101 Main st., rosEVillE, (916) 774-0505

Blue lamp

Atriarch, Trapped Within Burning Machinery and more, 8pm, call for cover

1400 alhaMbra blVd., (916) 455-3400

The BoaRdwalk

Lil Peep, 8pm, $20

9426 GrEEnback ln., oranGEValE, (916) 358-9116

Photo coUrtEsy oF chUck Johnson

Be Brave Bold Robot with Adam Balbo, Andrew Hotz 6pm Sunday, $5.

Luna’s Cafe Local indie rock

Kuinka, 8pm, $13-$16

counTRy cluB saloon

The Golden Cadillacs, 9pm, call for cover

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

disTilleRy

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

2107 l st., (916) 443-8815

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

Sarah Jarosz, 7:30pm, W, $25-$28

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

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

Sunday Funday Pool Parties, 3pm, call for cover

Every Damn Monday, 7pm, M, call for cover; Noche Latina, 9pm, Tu, call for

faces

Dragon, 10pm, $10

Absolut Fridays, all night, call for cover

Decades, 7pm, call for cover

faTheR paddy’s iRish puBlic house

Dick Knutson, 6pm, no cover

Four Barrel, 7pm, no cover

Booz N Brewz, noon, no cover

Irish Jam Session with Stepping Stone, 8pm, no cover

Kevin Seconds, Bobby Jordan, Anton Barbeau and more, 9pm, $5

Empty Wagon, Broken & Mended, 9pm, $5

Living Proof Live, 7pm, call for cover

Living Proof Live, 8:30am, call for cover

Kenny Frye Band, 9pm, $5

Midnight Players, 9pm, $7

Zepparella, The Zach Waters Band, 7pm, $18-$20

This Charming Band, Just Like Heaven (The Cure tribute), 9pm, $15-$18

hiGhwaTeR

Total Recall (’90s cover band), 10pm, $5

SUGAR Dance Party, 10pm, $5

JD McPherson

kupRos

Live music, 9:30pm, no cover

Live music, 9:30pm, no cover

with Nikki Lane 5:30pm Monday, $25.

Harlow’s Rock/R&B

luna’s cafe & Juice BaR

2000 k st., (916) 448-7798 435 Main st., woodland, (530) 668-1044

fox & Goose

1001 r st., (916) 443-8825

Golden 1 cenTeR

500 daVid J stErn walk, (888) 915-4647

halfTime BaR & GRill

College Night, $9 Unlimited Bowling, Live

haRlow’s

El Ten Eleven, Sego, 6pm, $13.50-$15

5681 lonEtrEE blVd., rocklin, (916) 626-3600 DJ, 9pm, no cover 2708 J st., (916) 441-4693 Photo coUrtEsy oF alyssE GaFkJEn

1910 Q st., (916) 706-2465 1217 21st st., (916) 440-0401 1414 16th st., (916) 737-5770

Joe Montoya’s Poetry Unplugged OpenMic, 7pm, $2

2708 J Street Sacramento, CA 916.441.4693 www.harlows.com COMING SOON

EL TEN ELEVEN

10/9 5:30PM $25

JD MCPHERSON, NIKKI LANE

SEGO (ALL AGES)

(ALL AGES)

10/6 7PM $18ADV

ZEPPARELLA

THE ZACH WATERS BAND

10/10 7PM $20ADV

CRYSTAL GARDEN FEAT. BOYD TINSLEY BRIAN ROGERS

10/7 9PM $15ADV

THIS CHARMING BAND

JUST LIKE HEAVEN (A TRIBUTE TO THE CURE)

10/11 7PM $25ADV

10/8 7PM $12ADV

CUBENSIS

30 YEAR ANNIVERSARY TOUR “KEEPING DEAD ALIVE”

36 | SN&R | 10.05.17

MARC BROUSSARD CARSIE BLANTON

Marco Antonio Solis, 7pm, $85-$150

10/12 Tauk 10/13 Christian Scott 10/14 Tera Melos / Speedy Ortiz 10/15 Jessica Malone 10/16 Jr Jr 10/17 Tim Reynolds and TR3 10/18 Jay Som 10/19 Las Migas 10/19 Red Fang 10/20 Together Pangea 10/20 Wonderbread 5 10/21 Pink Floyd Experience 10/22 The Trashcan Sinatras 10/24 Aubrey Logan 10/25 Twiddle 10/26 The Soft White Sixties 10/27 The Purple Ones 10/28 Petty Theft 10/29 Paul Cauthen 11/02 Beatles vs. Stones 11/04 Foreverland

Trail Blazers v. Kings, 7pm, M, $10-$167; The Weeknd, 7:30pm, W, $37-$147.25 “Let’s Get Quizzical” Trivia Game Show Experience, 9pm, Tu, no cover JD McPherson, 5:30pm, M, $25; Crystal Garden, 7pm, Tu, $20-$25

Cubensis, 7pm, $12-$15

The Trivia Factory, 7pm, M, no cover Kurpos Quiz, 7:30pm, no cover

Open Mic, 8pm, Tu, no cover; Ross Hammond, 7:30pm, W, no cover Nebraska Mondays, 7:30pm, M, $10; Comedy Open-Mic, 7:30pm, Tu, no cover

Soul Persuaders, 9pm, $10

2708 J st., (916) 441-4693

10/5 6PM $13.50ADV

All Vinyl Wednesdays with DJ AAKnuff, 8pm, W, no cover

Venkman, Chopstick and more w/Norcal Noisefest, 7pm, $10-$40

momo sacRamenTo

Half-off Mondays, 8pm, M, call for cover; $2 Tuesdays/karaoke, 9pm, Tu, call

The Rockafellas, Espero and more, 8pm, $20

The cenTeR foR The aRTs

314 w. Main st., Grass VallEy, (530) 274-8384

Monday-wEdnEsday 10/9-10/11

The Sinister Party, 9pm, $5

2708 J Street www.momosacramento.com

NOMINATED BEST DANCE CLUB 2017

10/7 9PM $10

F R I O C T 2 7 & S AT O C T 2 8

SOUL PERSUADERS: MOTOWN, SOUL, FUNK, BLUES 10/8 9PM $5

THE SINISTER PARTY

GOTH/INDUSTRIAL DANCE PARTY 10/14 6PM $5ADV

ANDREW CASTRO, THE PHILHARMONIK 10/15 6:30PM $10ADV

COMEDY BURGER

HOSTED BY NGAIO BEALUM 10/18 5:30PM $5ADV

BOURBON & BLUES: HARMON & FRIENDS 10/21 9PM $10ADV

HARDLY DEADLY, TODD GARNDER, & THE VINTAGE FIND

STONEYS ANNUAL HALLOWEEN BASH

S AT N OV 4

STONEYS 10TH ANNIVERSARY BASH

F R I N OV 1 7

NASHVILLE COUNTRY ARTIST CRAIG CAMBELL

STONEYS 11TH ANNUAL H A L L OW E E N W E E K E N D BASH OCT 27TH/28TH COSTUME CONTESTS AND MORE!

STONEYS 10TH ANNIVERSARY BASH! NOV 4TH

FREE PRIME RIB DINNER 6-8PM, .50 CENT BEER SPECIAL & $2 JACK N COKES 7-9PM FREE DANCE LESSONS NIGHTLY 9PM WEEKNIGHTS, 8PM FRI/SAT KARAOKE NIGHTLY UP FRONT AMAZING FOOD AND DRINK SPECIALS NIGHTLY STONEYS HAS BEEN VOTED BEST DANCE CLUB OF SACRAMENTO 2016!

SACRAMENTO’S FAVORITE DJS EVERY FRI AT 10PM

For booking inquiries, email Robert@momosacramento.com

1320 DEL PASO BLVD IN OLD NORTH SAC

STONEYINN.COM

916.402.2407

suBmit your cAlenDAr listings for free At neWsrevieW.com/sAcrAmento/cAlenDAr Old IrOnsIdes

1901 10th St., (916) 442-3504

On THe Y

670 fulton ave., (916) 487-3731

thurSday 10/5

friday 10/6

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

Would Be Train Robbers, Infinite Vastness Lipstick Dance Party, 9pm, $5 and more, 9pm, $7

Open-Mic Stand-Up Comedy, 8pm, no cover

Palms PlaYHOuse

13 Main St., WinterS, (530) 795-1825

PlacervIlle PublIc HOuse

Saturday 10/7

Saturday Night Karaoke, 9pm, no cover Rob Ickes, Trey Hensley, 8pm, $17

Janiva Magness, 8pm, $20

Sunday 10/8

Monday-WedneSday 10/9-10/11 Heath Williamson, 5:30pm, M, no cover; Open-Mic Night, 7:30pm W, no cover

Open 8-Ball Pool Tournament, 7:30pm, $5 buy-in

Karaoke, 9pm, M, Tu, no cover; Movie Night, 7pm, W, no cover

414 Main St., Placerville, (530) 303-3792

Pint and Flight Night with Ninkasi, 6pm, no cover

Friends/Beatles Tribute, 8pm, no cover

Rooster Crows, 8pm, no cover

Smooth Tonic, 1:30pm, no cover

POwerHOuse Pub

Redwood Black, 9:30pm, call for cover

Take Out, 10pm, $10

Grooveline, 10pm, $10

Chris Cain, 3pm, $10; Industry Night Half Off Everything, 6pm, call for cover

Live Band Karaoke, 8:30pm, Tu, call for cover

First Festival benefit w/Eugene Ugly, Captain Cutiepie and more, 5pm, $8

HotBods, Reunions, False Positives and more, 5pm, no cover

Skeleton Hands, Statiqbloom and more, 8pm, M, $10

Crescent Katz, 9pm, no cover

Julie & The Jukes, 9pm, no cover

Massive Delicious, 9pm, no cover

1000 K St., (916) 947-0434

Bunny Party Tribute to Hugh Hefner, 10pm, no cover before 11pm

Serafin, 10pm, no cover before 10:30pm

swabbIes On THe rIver

Chicago the Tribute, 6pm, $10

8th Annual Blues on the River, 2pm, $10

The Spazmatics, 2pm, $8-$15

Coffis Brothers & The Mountain Men, The Golden Cadillacs, 9pm, $8

Aki Kumar, 9pm, $8

You Front the Band, 8pm, call for cover

Michael Ray Trio, 8pm, call for cover

Ryan Hernandez, 7pm, no cover

Tony Bataska, 7pm, no cover

Friday Night Blues with Blues Dues, 6pm, no cover

Ron Goldberg Quartet, 6pm, no cover

Yolo and Yoga, 11am, no cover

Speed Dating for Single Professionals Ages 35-49, 7pm, W, $30

Punk Rock Pilates, 11am, $25

RJ, 7pm, Tu, $22-$25; Cafe Tacvba, 7pm, W, $49.50

614 Sutter St., folSoM, (916) 355-8586

THe Press club

2030 P St., (916) 444-7914

Tigerchrist, Dirty Dirty and more, 8pm, call for cover

sHadY ladY

Tessa Marie, 9pm, no cover

1409 r St., (916) 231-9121

sOcIal nIgHTclub

5871 Garden hiGhWay, (916) 920-8088

THe TOrcH club

JW Jones, Charlie Baty, 9pm, $7

wIldwOOd KITcHen & bar

Ryan Hernandez, 7pm, no cover

904 15th St., (916) 443-2797 904 15th St., (916) 922-2858

YOlO brewIng cO.

1520 terMinal St., (916) 379-7585

Photo courteSy of darren fieldhouSe

Barb Wire Dolls with Svetlannas 7pm Wednesday, $12-$15.

Holy Diver Rock

All ages, all the time ace Of sPades

1417 r St., (916) 930-0220

Shooter Jennings, 7pm, $20

HOlY dIver 1517 21St St.

sHIne

1400 e St., (916) 551-1400

Jazz Jam, 8pm, no cover

cafe cOlOnIal

3520 StocKton blvd., (916) 718-7055

THe cOlOnY

3512 StocKton blvd., (916) 718-7055

Never Let This Go, Baseline and more, 7pm, $7

Obituary, Exodus and more, 7pm, $25 The Color Wild, 6:30pm, $10-$12

P.O.S., 7pm, $15-$18

MAX, 7pm, Tu, $15; Barb Wire Dolls, 7pm, W, $12-$15

Photo courteSy of Jacob blicKenStaff

Sacramento Classic Jazz Messengers, 8pm, $10

Honey B. & the Cultivation, Lo & The Mix, 8pm, $7

Naked Narratives Writers Open-Mic, 8pm, W, no cover

Billy Bragg

Pisscat, Captain Cutiepie, JKKFO and more, 8pm, $5-$20

Norcal Noisefest, 2:30pm, $10-$40

Norcal Noisefest, 3:30pm, $10-$40

Conceived in Chaos, Heat of Damage and more, 7pm, call for cover

Norcal Noisefest, 2:30pm, $10-$40

Norcal Noisefest, 3:30pm, $10-$40

7:30pm Thursday, $15-$45.

Crest Theatre Folk punk

LIVE MUSIC oct 06

WORKING MAN BLUES BAND

oct 07

ELEVATION

oct 13

BROKEN & MENDED

oct 14

ADRIAN BELLUE

oct 20

JASON WEEKS

oct 21

DAVE AND THE BOX

oct 27

CRITERS DUO

oct 28

THE ZACH WATERS BAND

33 BEERS ON DRAFT

MONDAY PINT NIGHT 5-8 PM, TRIVIA @ 6:30 PM TACO TUESDAY $1.25 TACOS NOON - CLOSE WEDNESDAY OPEN MIC – SIGN-UPS @ 7:30 PM 101 MAIN STREET, ROSEVILLE 916-774-0505 · LUNCH/DINNER 7 DAYS A WEEK FRI & SAT 9:30PM - CLOSE 21+

/BAR101ROSEVILLE

10.05.17 | SN&R | 37

38 | SN&R | 10.05.17

Print ads start at $6/wk.

(916) 498-1234 ext. 2 Phone hours: M-F 9am-5pm.

Deadlines for print: Line ad deadline: Monday 4pm Display ad deadline: Friday 2pm

Online ads are

STILL FREE!*

All advertising is subject to the newspaper’s Standards of Acceptance. Further, the News & Review specifically reserves the right to edit, decline or properly classify any ad. Errors will be rectified by re-publication upon notification. The N&R is not responsible for error after the first publication. The N&R assumes no financial liability for errors or omission of copy. In any event, liability shall not exceed the cost of the space occupied by such an error or omission. The advertiser and not the newspaper assumes full responsibility for the truthful content of their advertising message. *Nominal fee for some upgrades.

Attention Viagra users: Generic 100mg blue pills or Generic 20mg yellow pills. Get 45 plus 5 free $99 + S/H. Guarenteed, no prescription necessary. Call 877-290-9875 (AAN CAN)

MAKE THE CALL TO START GETTING CLEAN TODAY Free 24/7 Helpline for alcohol & drug addiction treatment. Get help! It is time to take your life back! Call Now: 855-732-4139 (AAN CAN)

PREGNANT? THINKING OF ADOPTION? Talk with caring agency specializing in matching Birthmothers with Families Nationwide. LIVING EXPENSES PAID. Call 24/7 Abby’s One True Gift Adoptions.

866-413-6293. Void in Illinois/ New Mexico/Indiana (AAN CAN)

WWW.GOLDCLUBCENTERFOLDS.COM

#1 PER N&R GREAT FOOD

adult

LUNCH SPECIALS

TORI BLACK

WED OCT 4 – SAT OCT 7

Livelinks - Chat Lines Flirt, chat and date! Talk to sexy real singles in your area.

Call now! (877) 609-2935 (AAN CAN)

Oriental Magic Hands

Jason Shimomura CMT 601-1292 (9am-9pm daily)

NEW AUTHORS WANTED! Page Publishing will help you self-publish your own book.

FREE author submission kit!

Limited offer! Why wait? Call now: 888-231-5904 (AAN CAN) PAID IN ADVANCE! Make $1000 a Week Mailing Brochures From Home! No Experience Required.

Helping Home Workers Since 2001! Genuine Opportunity. Start Immediately! www.IncomeStation.net (AAN CAN)

For Sale Mobile Home 2 Bedroom, 2 Bath, Double Wide, Large Rooms. $32000 OBO 10035 Mills Station Rd #51 Call (916) 281-1341 to make an appointment.

WHO ARE YOU AFTER DARK?

AFFORDABLE. U VISUALIZE AND I’LL CUSTOMIZE Brick, stone, tile, concrete, fencing, masonry and much more. (916)826-9796 Lic#810329

Try FREE: 916-480-6200 More Local Numbers: 1-800-700-6666 redhotdateline.com 18+

Over $10K in Debt?

Be debt free in 24 to 48 months.

No upfront fees to enroll. A+ BBB rated. Call National Debt Relief 844-831-5363.

(AAN CAN)

Most famous porn star we have ever had. Penthouse Pet of the Month.

Only porn star to be Female Performer of the Year for TWO years in a row.

Hot young beautiful super XXX Porn Star with over 450 XXX Movies

PURE GOLD

TOTALLY NUDE SHOWGIRLS

$5 OFF ADMISSION

W/AD $5 OFF AFTER 7PM 1 DRINK MINIMUM EXP 10/31/17. NOT VALID ON UFC FIGHT NIGHTS

STORE OPEN 10AM CLUB OPEN 5PM OPEN 365 DAYS A YEAR!

Japanese apanese MLF’S $1269 Evil Angel $2169 Bang Bros $1969 Brazzers $1269

XXX MAGS

SCORE, BLACK BOOTY, TABOO, 40+, CLUB

DANCER AUDITIONS

5 PACK DVDS

$9.69

DAILY 3000 SUNRISE BLVD. #2 W/COUPON REG. $12.69 AD EXPS 10-31-17. 1 PER CUSTOMER

RANCHO CORDOVA, CA

916.631.3520

STAGE TIMES:

Wednesdays & Thursdays 11:30pm Fridays 11:00pm & 1:30am (NO FRI NOON SHOW) Saturdays 11:00pm & 1:30am

NO STORE SIGNING AMATEUR CONTEST/AUDITIONS EVERY MONDAY

10:30 PM - $450.00 CASH PRIZE

FRIENDLY ATTRACTIVE DANCERS CONTRACTED DAILY. CALL 858-0444 FOR SIGN UP INFO

FREE ADMIT w/Ad $5.00 VALUE

Valid Anytime With Drink Purchase

25,000 ADULT DVDS $0.49 - & UP

WE BUY USED ADULT DVDS BACHELOR / DIVORCE PARTIES 916.858.0444 FULL SERVICE RESTAURANT

OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK

SPORTS ACTION ON OUR GIANT SCREEN TV

11363 Folsom Blvd, Rancho Cordova (Between Sunrise & Hazel)

858-0444

M-Th 11:30-3 • Fri 11:30-4 • Sat 12-4 • Sun 3-3 Gold Club Centerfolds is a non-alcohol nightclub featuring all-nude entertainment. Adults over 18 only.

10.05.17 | SN&R | 39

Playmates or soul mates, you’ll find them on MegaMates Always FREE to listen and reply to ads!

You should be

once a week.

Sacramento:

www.megamates.com 18+

n e w S r e v i e w.c o m

Sacramento’S newS and entertainment weekly. on StandS every thurSday.

REAL PEOPLE, REAL DESIRE, REAL FUN.

Try FREE: 916-480-6227 More Local Numbers: 1-800-926-6000

Ahora español Livelinks.com 18+

MASSAGE THERAPISTS

All massage advertisers are required to provide News & Review a current valid business license or somatic establishment permit issued by either the city or county in which they are operating in in order to run a printed advertisement.

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN ADVERTISING WITH US, PLEASE CONTACT CLASSIFIEDS AT 916-498-1234 EXT. 1338.

THE BEST MASSAGE YOU CAN GET

NEW STAFF!

5 OFF

$

• 7 Days a Week 10am–10pm • Sauna & Shower Available • Free Chinese therapies • Reflexology • Deep Tissue • Swedish *this is a model

GOOD DAY SPA

916.395.7712 7271 55th St. #D

Sacramento 95823

All Credit Cards Accepted

40 | SN&R | 10.05.17

@AskJoeyGarcia

getting it if you would like to carry the paper for free, call GreG at 916.498.1234, ext. 1317 or email GreGe@newSreview.com

(916) 273-8207

by JOEY GARCIA

Certified Massage Practitioner Maggie

916.216.8886

Actual CMT Not a model

the

GRAND OPENING

BESgeT! massa

7328 WINDING WAY FAIR OAKS• 9AM-9PM DAILY GRAND OPENING SPECIAL $40 1 HOUR • FREE STEAM & SHOWER * VIETNAMESE BODY MASSAGE * DEEP TISSUE * SWEDISH * HOT STONES

Lady Saigon Spa 6840 65TH ST #A135, SAC CA 95828 • 916-573-3919 MON-SUN 9A-8P, CLOSES TUES & HOLIDAYS

Endings and beginnings I was madly in love with a man who in many ways was everything I ever wanted.

We enjoyed the same things. Our families got along. We traveled well together and shared the same vision for the future.

Sex wasn’t great, but I could make it work. Fast forward, he left me. He’s already with someone else and making plans to get married. He refused to marry me. I’m heartbroken. Why didn’t he choose me?

fun of my work. I’ve pushed myself my whole life to get here and hate it. I don’t know if I should do something else for a career or find another school. I have support from my professors, but maybe they are just being nice because I’m a freshman? Advice, please.

Ask yourself why you believe the mean girls, but not your professors. Is it because the cruel words and attitudes of your peers match your deepest fears He did, sweetheart, until he didn’t. That’s about yourself? Competitive the rhythm of life, a cycle of environments bring out the beginnings, in-betweens and predator in some people. endings. The loss of a loved But that doesn’t mean one doesn’t mean that you should behave as a Ask yourself you are less loveable or predator or prey. Evolve why you believe less desirable. Rather, beyond that kind of the container you have the mean girls, all-or-nothing thinking. been in—the relationship Look in the mirror and but not your itself—is no longer a fit. say: I am following my professors.

Did you outgrow it? dream despite normal Or did he? Sometimes obstacles and critics. change occurs because the It’s hard sometimes, but I ego prefers to stay small and don’t let that harden me. When seeks another connection that feels someone criticizes me, I say thank you familiar, even though from the outside silently to myself because that person the new partnership might appear has just revealed who they are, and I radically different. It’s also possible have the heart to see them. When my that you and your former work is appreciated, I say thank you partner outgrew the relationship you because that person has just revealed were in and refused to acknowledge it who they are to me, and I have the heart until denial was no longer possible. to see them. Got it? Either way, you’re Speaking of denial, please reread just fielding opinions. What’s most your words: “Sex wasn’t great, but important is your ability to follow your I could make it work.” Doesn’t that dream. Ω sound dismal? Compromises are understandable in a committed MEdITATIOn OF THE WEEk relationship, but your perspective seems to be that you found a man with whom “If people knew how hard I you could enjoy a lifestyle you valued. worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful Could it be time now to explore the at all,” said Michelangelo. How depth of love and passion possible in a transparent is your process of committed relationship? I suspect that’s transformation? the next stage in your life journey, if you’re willing. Here’s what you’ll need: the courage to get naked emotionally with a man and explore the edges of Write, email or leave a message for your heart’s boundaries.

Joey at the News & Review. Give I’m a college freshman in a competitive arts program. The other girls in the program—all upperclassmen—tell me I don’t belong. They criticize me and make

your name, telephone number (for verification purposes only) and question—all correspondence will be kept strictly confidential.

Write Joey, 1124 Del Paso Boulevard, Sacramento, CA 95815; call (916) 498-1234, ext. 1360; or email askjoey@newsreview.com.

SN&R’s

What’s inside: Money Matters 49 Capital Cannabis Map 53 For More deals, updates & Listings Visit

and the at newsreview.com

10.05.17 | SN&R | 41

SN&R’s

420 med evaluations ’13

’13

$ 45 new pati e nts on l y v a l i d a t 1 8 00 21

st

’13

’13

’13

’13 ’14

’13

Winner 4 ye ars in a roW! st.

v alid th ro u gh 1 0 /1 1/17

B e st m e d i cal mar ij uana cli n i c - sacramento news and review readers’ poll -

$ 35

pati e nt r e n e wal s onl y v al i d at 180 0 2 1 s t . st

va lid t hro ug h 1 0/1 1 /17

Get approved or no charGe! • 24/7 verifications! • hipaa compliant • 100% doctor/patient confidentiality NOTICE TO CONSUMERS: The Compassionate Use Act of 1996 ensures that seriously ill Californians have the right to obtain and use cannabis for medical purposes where medical use is deemed appropriate and has been recommended by a physician who has determined that the person’s health would benefit from the use of medical cannabis.

Recommendations must come from an attending physician as defined in Section 11362.7 of the Health and Safety Code. Cannabis is a Schedule I drug according to the federal Controlled Substances Act. Activity related to cannabis use is subject to federal prosecution, regardless of the protections provided by state law.

2 1 st s t .

r st.

1800 21 st st • (916) 476-6142 • medeval420@Gmail.com • 420medeval.com open monday throuGh saturday 11am to 6pm • open sunday 11am to 5pm

42 | SN&R | 10.05.17

s m a r 10 G x a w f o * 0 0 1 $ r fo

on All grams flower and hash

vendors welcome Mon-Thurs 12-4pm

916.254.3287

M OR 4 RA G

R $55 FO

$10 cap

$20 PER

*while supplies last.

135 Main Avenue • Sacramento CA, 95838 • Open Mon-Sat 10AM–7PM • Now Open Sun 12-5 10.05.17 | SN&R | 43

SN&R’s

44 | SN&R | 10.05.17

Need Insurance?

Ca nna bi s I n s u r a nc e S pe c i a l i st s Pioneers in the Cannabis Insurance Industry Why choose us for your cannabis commercial insurance needs? Simply put, we have decades of experience in the professional liability market and are pioneers in the cannabis insurance

industry. We understand the needs of this industry, and we are devoted to providing great insurance coverage options to businesses in the legal marijuana industry.

*Cannabis insurance only available to state licensed cannabis businesses.

LET US PROTECT YOUR OPERATION AND GROW YOUR COMPANY’S BOTTOM LINE!

Cannabis licensing requires insurance.

We also specialize in commercial and personal insurance.

• Group Health • Annuities • Business Owner’s Coverage • Commercial Package Policy • General Liability • Commercial Property

• Workers’ Compensation • Umbrella • Professional Liability • Management Liability • Personal Auto • Home Owner’s Insurance

Exit 15W Agency, Inc. • 916-329-8533 • exit15wagency.com

Call us for Immediate assistance!

555 Capitol Mall, Suite 766, Sacramento, CA 95814 Fax: 916-446-3371

C

O

N

S

• Commercial Auto including Taxis • Limousines • Buses • Trucking • Non-Emergency Medical Transportation • Life

CE

NTRA

T

E

10.05.17 | SN&R | 45

SN&R’s

Pure Bliss.

SACRAMENTO’S #1 SOURCE OF

10/11/17

join our vip club text cc101 to 71441

High CBD Medical Cannabis Products T e x t CloudNine t o 71441 f o r a FREE GIFT w h e n you vecome a member of our collevtice!

$5 BUDGET GRAMS

$10 GRAMS

COME IN AND SEE WHY OUR PATIENTS KEEP COMING BACK:

FRIENDLY KNOWLEDGEABLE STAFF | QUALITY CLONES | EDIBLES | #1 CBD SHOP IN SACRAMENTO

5711 FLORIN PERKINS RD | SACRAMENTO | 916.387.8605 | 10AM-8PM 7DAYS A WEEK

S n U o L c t a d t e i o m n 0 S 42 $45

$35 renewal

new

with copy of ad Grow S LEttEr bLE AvAiLA LifiED A U Q O t tS Patien

patients

GEt APPrOvED Or NO ChArGE! one step evaluation process • walk-ins welcome

W MAtCEh’LL LOCAL ANY AD SPECLiNiC W/ COP CiAL! th Y Of iS S ad

NOTICE TO CONSUMERS: The Compassionate Use Act of 1996 ensures that seriously ill Californians have the right to obtain and use cannabis for medical purposes where medical use is deemed appropriate and has been recommended by a physician who has determined that the person’s health would benefit from the use of medical cannabis. Recommendations must come from an attending physician as defined in Section 11362.7 of the Health and Safety Code. Cannabis is a Schedule I drug according to the federal Controlled Substances Act. Activity related to cannabis use is subject to federal prosecution, regardless of the protections provided by state law.

downtown Sacramento 2015 Q Street, 95811 • (916) 706-1150 OPEN Monday through Saturday 11am to 6pm • CLOSED SUNDAY 46 | SN&R | 10.05.17

WANT TO START A CANNABIS BUSINESS?

h t h eig

E* th frE 4 E h t Et buy 3, G

LIVE SEMINAR IN SACRAMENTO OCT 21 & 22 • Breakdown of Cannabis Business proposed regulations • Learn how to start a California compliant Collective • Cultivation, edibles, exctraction and more • Professional cannabis business referrals • Networking opportunities with contacts in the industry

ONLIN E COUR VIDEO AVAIL SES A ANYTI BLE ME

SIGN UP ONLINE OR CALL TODAY! www.420college.org | TOLL FREE 855-420-TALK (8255)

Never Rushed.

Always Organic.

e e r F

15% Off

any edible

15% Off aNy CBD product

Exp. 10/11/17

9 1 6 . 7 0 6 . 0 4 8 9 • 1 404 28t h St re e t • w w w.G re e nSo lut io nsSa c .c o m Corner of 28th & N, Midtown Sac • Open 9am-9pm 7 days a week /greensolutionssac

/greensolutions420

10 GRAMS OF TOP SHELF FLOWER

FOR $70

DAI LY SPEC IALS EVERY WEEKDAY Text RHOUSE to 71441 to receive offers, gifts, specials and more.

OPEN EVERY DAY 9AM-7PM GIF TS FOR NEW PATIENTS & REFERRALS!

8848 FRUI TRIDGE RD | SAC RAMENTO | 91 6.381.3769

www.DOJAEXCLUSIVE.com • 916.495.7238 •

@DOJA.EXCLUSIVE

3PM-1AM 7 DAYS A WEEK • PROP 215 ONLY • FREE DELIVERY

10.05.17 | SN&R | 47

SN&R’s

Get Your Doctor Rec’s!

$35

North Of Hwy 50 @ Bradshaw & Folsom Blvd

ReNewalS

Va

FREE

w/ couPoN exP. 10/11/17 SNR

New PatieNt

- Mon-Sat 10am-6pm Sun 11am-5pm NOTICE TO CONSUMERS: The Compassionate Use Act of 1996 ensures that seriously ill Californians have the right to obtain and use cannabis for medical purposes where medical use is deemed appropriate and has been recommended by a physician who has determined that the person’s health would benefit from the use of medical cannabis. Recommendations must come from an attending physician as defined in Section 11362.7 of the Health and Safety Code. Cannabis is a Schedule I drug ’14 according to the federal Controlled Substances Act. Activity related to cannabis use is subject to federal prosecution, regardless of the protections provided by state law.

’13

caNN-Medical

9719A Folsom Blvd. Sacramento, CA 916-822-5690 • www.cannmedical.org

FASTEST EVALUATIONS IN TOWN. * NO LINES * BEST PRICE * MOST OPTIONS *

$25

Not Government ID

7

$5 off

$5 off

any wax*

any purchase*

ask about our Mobile Vip club o p e n 7 day s a w e e k • 9 a m - 9 p m

6x

*with coupon, while supplies last. exp 10/11/17

6666 fruitridge rd, #c • sacramento • 916-476-4431 • 916thc.com

all $30 wax

concentrates

4 for $100

BEST OF WINNER plus tax, exp. 10.11.17

50

Routier

Blvd om Fols

on all waxes*

Photo id

w/ couPoN exP. 10/11/17 SNR

w/ couPoN exP. 10/11/17 SNR

Bradshaw

$1lu5e!

plus tax, exp. 10.11.17

40 $50

$

cap

all $40 wax

concentrates

3 for $100

Renewals EXPIRES 10/12/17

BEST VALUE 50 PLANTS / 5 LBS. $125

99P/10 LBS. AVAILABLE STARTING AT $175 916.572.5215 1506 Sproule Ave, Sacramento, CA 95811 Open Mon-Sat 11am - 6pm 48 | SN&R | 10.05.17

8112 Alpine Ave Sacramento, CA 95826

916-739-6337 • Open Mon - Sun: 10am-8pm

Photo by Ken Magri

Two financial services companies are transparently working to solve the cash-only requirement plaguing cannabis businesses.

W HEN YOU SHOP AT A THER A PEU TIC A LT E R N AT I V E , Y O U A R E S U P P O RT I N G OUR MISSION TO M A K E THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE BY BEING A S O C I A L LY R E S P O N S I B L E C O M PA N Y !

Banking on CannaBis

CA L IFOR NI A BA SED SM A L L BUSINESSES L A B T E S T E D, A N D E N V I R ON M E N TA L LY SUSTA INA BL E PRODUCED PRODUCTS

New banking efforts target the cash-only problem

MON T H LY A DVO C A C Y GR OU P D ON AT ION S T O: Americans for Safe Access, The National Cannabis Industry Association, The California Cannabis Industry Association, The California Growers Association, California National Association for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, Brownie Mary Club

by Ken Magri

CEO Sundie Seefried. In Hawaii cannabis regulators chose “cashless” sales. Working with CanPay, an online payment company, customers will substitute cash for a payment app linked to their checking accounts.

MON T H LY C H A R I T Y D ON AT ION S T O: American Civil Liberties Union, Southern Poverty Law Center, Doctor’s Without Borders, Sacramento LGTBQ Community, Wellspring Women’s Center, Women’s Empowerment, WEAVE (Women Escaping a Violent Environment), Amnesty International, Stand Down Veteran’s Support Organization and the Anti-Recidivism Coalition

“It is critical that California dispensaries and patients have access to legitimate cannabis payment services, for both safety and convenience.”

MON T H LY HOM E L E S S OU T R E AC H A N D PA R K T R A S H C L E A N U P

Dustin Eide, CEO, CanPay

CanPay then transfers payment into the dispensary’s account.

As California scales up for recreational cannabis, could such banking practices work here? Because some businesses now do several million in monthly sales, Mull says more banks will become interested. Safe Harbor’s Operations Manager Mindy Ganze confirmed they are “in close contact with California officials.”

CanPay CEO Dustin Eide says, “It is critical that California dispensaries and patients have access to legitimate cannabis payment services, for both safety and convenience.”

3015 H Street • Sacramento, CA 916.822.4717 • 9am–9pm Everyday www.ATherapeuticAlternative.com

*

Doctor’s recommendation & CA I.D. required

G St

Alhambra

• FA I R WAGE S F OR E M P L OY E E S • • C ON T I N U I NG E DUC AT ION F OR E M P L OY E E S • • C OM P L I M E N TA R Y C H I L D P R O OF PAC K AGI NG F OR PAT I E N T S A N D C A R E GI V E R S • • C OM P L I M E N TA R Y HOL I S T IC H E A L T H S E R V IC E S F OR PAT I E N T S A N D C A R E GI V E R S • • T H E H E A L I NG YOU R S E L F N AT U R A L LY P R O GR A M • • T H E C OM PA S S ION P R O GR A M • DI S C OU N T P R O GR A M S F OR V E T E R A N S , DI S A B L E D PAT I E N T S A N D S E N IOR S • E DUC AT ION A N D OU T R E AC H T O C I T Y, C OU N T Y A N D S TAT E G OV E R N M E N T S , D O C T OR S , C OM M U N I T Y A N D GE N E R A L P U B L IC

BUS-80

T

here’s a good explanation for why cannabis is a cash-only industry.

Financial institutions won’t give accounts to cannabis businesses, fearing reprisals from the federal government.

It has everything to do with the Cole Memorandum.

Written in 2013 by the U.S. Deputy Attorney General James Cole, this directive specified eight possible cannabis industry abuses, including environmental pollution, illegal sales and distributing to minors. The memorandum then made banks legally responsible for verifying the compliance of any cannabis business clients.

Banks don’t want this compliance headache, nor the federal scrutiny. When discovered, they routinely drop cannabis accounts, or refuse to open one. “Most [small-sized] cannabis businesses lose several bank accounts a year,” said attorney George Mull of CanAccelerate, a Sacramento cannabis consulting firm. “Everybody wants to find a solution, including the Federal Reserve.”

The Fed is currently working with Colorado’s Safe Harbor Private Banking to solve this. A subsidiary of Partner Colorado Credit Union, Safe Harbor has opened 100 cannabis business accounts in a transparent effort to demonstrate that compliance and profits are both attainable. Safe Harbor schedules regular site visits to ensure their clients are following Cole Memorandum mandates.

“We are subject to prosecution and heavy fines” if they don’t comply, said Partner

H St

Produced by N&R Publications, a division of News & Review.

10.05.17 | SN&R | 49

SN&R’s frEE delivery w/ min. donation

the best first time patient deals in town!

ExtrEmE top ShElf: Gorilla Glu #4, Platinum OG, Blue Hawaiian, Fire OG

top ShElf: New York Sour Diesel, Banana Jack & Superglu

midgradE: OGK, Chem Dogg

top quality medicine • compassion prices • free delivery w/ min donation Ask us About: new shatter • kiva candy bars • cocoa med bars • vape pens & refill cartridges • kief

Need a grow space?

• B u i l d i n g for lea se

sign up now!

To get the latest info, coupons & deals text weed to 42828

• 2 4 k Sq Ft • R e d eve l opme n t ar e a • S o uth Sacrame n to • 1 2 0 0 amps/ 480 vol t 3 phase

Call for details 916-600-3400

capital cannabis newsletter

7 GRAMS FOR $50

s program d r a w e r t n Patie buy 3 1/8ThS get one

free*

20%

10%

aNy EdIbLE*

aNy cONcENTRaTE*

off

off

*Exp. 10/11/17. caNNOT bE cOmbINEd W/ aNy OThER OffER.

• First time patients receive a FREE PRE-ROLL or GIFT FAST RELIABLE SERVICE

• Refer a friend or leave a review on Weedmaps to receive a FREE GRAM! FIND US ON

@Mobilebudz_

PLACE YOUR ORDER TODAY � 916.544.1439 � MON-SUN 8AM-9:30PM 50 | SN&R | 10.05.17

scan the QR code to score a freebie from Two Rivers

TWO RIVERS WELLNESS • 315 NORTh 10Th STREET, SacRamENTO /TWORIVERSSac 916.804.8975 • TWORIVERSSac.cOm

/two_rivers

ALL CANNA-BUSINESSES MUST APPLY FOR A CA STATE LICENSE STARTING 1/2/2018 THE STATE WILL BEGIN ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS IN LATE NOVEMBER, EARLY DECEMBER FOR MORE INFORMATION, CALL THE ABDALLAH LAW GROUP, P.C. AT (916) 446-1974.

MITCHELL L. ABDALLAH, ESQ.

AC & COOLING SOLUTIONS

OPEN TO RETAIL PUBLIC/WHOLESALE PRICING PARTS & INSTALLATION • CANNABIS INDUSTRY EXPERT CONTRACTORS AIR FILTRATION • AIR MOVEMENT/FANS • DEHUMIDIFICATION

916.444.6650 | www.StandardAppliance.com

2201 Northgate Blvd, Sacramento, CA 95833 *No coupon stacking, not valid for @sherbinski415 & @the_real_king_cookie strains ** some exclusions apply *** of equal or lesser value. exp 10.11.17

GET ONE

Buy 3 1/8ths

Building a grow room?

where the real growers buy their clones

buy 3 edibles

FREE* 4th FREE and get the

*

- product of the week -

2416 X ST., SACRAMENTO, CA 95818 | OPEN M-F: 8A-5P, SAT: 9A-1P, CLOSED SUN.

SAturDAy

bacio gelato - real cookie family

eighth SpeciAl with any $40 min donation

munchie monDAyS ........buy any 2 edibles get 1 (free of equal or lesser value) top Shelf tueSDAyS ....$10 off all top shelf 1/8ths wAxy weDneSDAyS......$10 off $40 grams + concentrates vApe thurSDAy ..............buy 3, get 1 free mix n match (of equal or lesser value) free j friDAy ..................get a free joint with any $10 min donation SunDAy funDAy ..............4 gram 1/8ths all day Cannot be combined with other offers. Strain determined by HHWC. Expires 10/11/17.

Monday

Patients Choice Choose from any daily special

Tuesday

Thursday

Saturday

Free Gram w/donation towards any 1/8th

Free Gram w/donation towards any 1/8th

Shatter Day 15% off all concentrates**

Vape Day 15% off all vape products**

Free J Friday w/min donation of $30

Donate towards 3 edibles, get the 4th free!***

Wednesday

Friday

Sunday

SS gle

hin

50

Rd

d k RParking on

c ro

4020 Durock rD, Ste 1 • Shingle SpringS, cA (916) 757–0980 • open monday – friday 10am to 8pm • saturday 10am to 8pm • sunday 10am to 6pm Du

DAILY SPECIALS

Oakmont Drive

Compliant with California Proposition 215, S.B. 420 & Attorney General Guidelines. Must have doctor’s reccomendation and California ID to join.

www.ZEN916.com | 916.292.8120 @ Zen_Garden916 follow us open 10am-9pm 7 days a week 10.05.17 | SN&R | 51

SN&R’s Bring in any competitor’s coupon* and we’ll beat it by $5 *That is CA Medical Board Standards Compliant.

Must present competitor’s ad. Some restrictions apply.

VOted best 420 physician in sac!

. . .

T I H T X E N YOUR L A T I P A C S ’ SN&R E G A P S I B A CANN

’15

420 MD Medical Marijuana evaluations

Fall coMPassion sPecial

34 44

$

$

reneWals reneW rene Wals W als

MUST Bring Ad.

Limit one per patient. Some restrictions apply.

neW ne W Patients Patients MUST Bring Ad.

Limit one per patient. Some restrictions apply.

916.480.9000 2 convenient locations to serve You

2100 Watt Ave, Unit 190 | Sacramento, CA 95825 | Mon–Sat 10am–6pm 2633 Telegraph Ave. 109 | Oakland, CA 94612 | 510-832-5000 Mon–Sat 10am–6pm | Sun: 12am-6pm recommendations are valid for 1 year for qualifying patients Walk-ins Welcome all day everyday 420 md operating in compliance With the medical board of california

Your information is 100% private and confidential Visit our website to book your appointment online 24/7 at

www.420Md.org 52 | SN&R | 10.05.17

• A map of cannabis dispensaries, doctors and delivery services in the Sacramento area • Social media from local cannabis businesses posting promos and offers

• A calendar of local cannabis events • Product reviews, cannabis news and Ngaio’s 420 column • And much more

VISIT WWW.CAPITALCANNABISGUIDE.COM | NEW FEATURES ADDED

RALEY BLVD.

9. HOUSE OF ORGANICS 8848 Fruitridge Rd

2. A THERAPEUTIC ALTERNATIVE 3015 H St

10. FLORIN WELLNESS CENTER 421 47th Ave

3. ABATIN 2100 29th St

11. GREEN SOLUTIONS 1404 28th St

4. ALL ABOUT WELLNESS 1900 19th St

12. NORTHSTAR HOLISTIC COLLECTIVE 1236 C St

5. ALPINE ALTERNATIVE 8112 Alpine Ave

13. RIVER CITY PHOENIX 1508 El Camino Ave

6. CC 101 6435 Florin Perkins Rd

14. S.A.S. 8125 36th Ave

17. THC 6666 Fruitridge

7. CLOUD 9 5711 Florin Perkins Rd

15. SAFE CAPITOL COMPASSION 135 Main Ave

18. TWO RIVERS 315 N 10th St

EL CAMINO AVE. ARDEN WY. FULTON AVE.

21 ST ST.

16 TH ST.

12 Th ST.

160 12

C ST.

AUBURN BLVD.

13

19 18

GREENBACK LN.

80

NORTHGATE BLVD.

5

1. 515 BROADWAY 515 Broadway

8

HAZEL AVE.

15

WATT AVE.

CAPITAL CANNABIS MAP

WHITE ROCK RD.

11

J ST.

4 1

3

FOLSOM BLVD.

5

10

16

99

17

9 14

FLORIN RD.

19. ZEN GARDEN WELLNESS 2201 Northgate Blvd

MEDICAL MARIJUANA DELIVERY SIGN-UP, VIEW MENU, AND ORDER ONLINE $30 min. delivery

7

6

FLORIN PERKINS

FRUITRIDGE RD.

POWER INN RD.

80

50

FAIR OAKS BLVD.

24TH ST

8. HIGHLANDS HEALTH & WELLNESS 16. SOUTH SAC CARE CENTER 114 A Otto Circle 4020 Durock Rd

2

GET EVALUATED TODAY

FREE

AND RECEIVE A

LAMINATED REC & ID CARD!

3X SNR DELIVERY WINNER FREE DELIVERY TO Sacramento • Roseville • Folsom • Elk Grove • Davis Open everyday 10am-8pm • 916-661-7324 • eztree.com

Fast Faster Fastest

Quick Discrete Delivery

24/7 VERIFICATION • 100% CONFIDENTIAL WE BEAT ANY COMPETITORS PRICE

$5 oFF strawberry banana & gorilla glue cartriDges exclusive home of the ccell cartridges Find us on weedmaps

530.333.7642 • www.herbish.org •

@herbishdelivery

$35 Min.

10.05.17 | SN&R | 53

SN&R’s

54 | SN&R | 10.05.17

FRee will aStRology

by Rachel leibRock

by Rob bRezsny

FOR ThE WEEK OF OCTOBER 5, 2017 ARIES (March 21-April 19): You wouldn’t expect

a 5-year-old child to paint a facsimile of Pablo Picasso’s “Guernica” or sing Giacomo Puccini’s opera, La Bohème. Similarly, you shouldn’t fault your companions and you for not being perfect masters of the art of intimate relationships. In fact, most of us are amateurs. We may have taken countless classes in math, science, literature and history, but have never had a single lesson from teachers whose area of expertise is the hard work required to create a healthy partnership. I mention this, Aries, because the next seven weeks will be an excellent time for you to remedy this deficiency. Homework assignments: What can you do to build your emotional intelligence? How can you learn more about the art of creating vigorous togetherness?

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In accordance with

the astrological omens, I invite you to slow down and create a wealth of spacious serenity. Use an unhurried, step-by-step approach to soothe yourself. With a glint in your eye and a lilt in your voice, say sweet things to yourself. In a spirit of play and amusement, pet and pamper yourself as you would a beloved animal. Can you handle that much self-love, Taurus? I think you can. It’s high time for you to be a genius of relaxation, attending tenderly to all the little details that make you feel at ease and in love with the world.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “If an angel were to

tell us something of his philosophies, I do believe some of his propositions would sound like 2 x 2 = 13.” So said the German scientist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799). Now maybe you don’t believe in the existence of angels, and so you imagine his idea doesn’t apply to you. But I’m here to tell you that an influence equivalent to an angel will soon appear in your vicinity.

Maybe it’ll be a numinous figure in your dreams, or a charismatic person you admire, or a vivid memory resurrected in an unexpected form, or a bright fantasy springing to life. And that “angel” will present a proposition that sounds like “2 x 2 = 13.”

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Unless you have

an off-road vehicle, you can’t drive directly from North America to South America. The Pan-American Highway stretches from the town of Prudhoe Bay in northern Alaska to the city of Ushuaia in Argentina—a distance of about 19,000 miles—except for a 100-mile patch of swampy rainforest in Panama. I’d like to call your attention to a comparable break in continuity that affects your own inner terrain, Cancerian—a gray area where two important areas of your life remain unlinked. The coming weeks will be a favorable time to close the gap.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Based in Korea, Samsung is a world leader in selling smartphones and other information technology. But it didn’t start out that way. In its original form, back in 1938, it primarily sold noodles and dried fish. By 1954, it had expanded into wool manufacturing. More than three decades after its launch as a company, it further diversified, adding electronics to its repertoire. According to my reading of the astrological omens, the next ten months should be an excellent time for you to do the equivalent of branching out from noodles and dried fish to electronics. And the next six weeks will be favorable for making plans and planting your seeds.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In my opinion, you’re

not quite ready to launch full-tilt into the rebuilding phase. You still have a bit more work to do on tearing down the old stuff that’s in the way of where the new stuff will go. So I recommend that you put an “Under Construction” sign outside your door, preferably with flashing yellow lights.

This should provide you with protection from those who don’t understand the complexity of the process you’re engaged in.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You’re a good candi-

date for the following roles: 1. a skeptical optimist who is both discerning and open-minded; 2. a robust truth-teller who specializes in interesting truths; 3. a charming extremist who’s capable of solving stubborn riddles; 4. a smooth operator who keeps everyone calm even as you initiate big changes; 5. an enlightened game-player who reforms or avoids games that abuse beauty’s power.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The late actress and

author Carrie Fisher wrote three autobiographies. Speedskating Olympics star Apolo Anton Ohno published his autobiography at age 20. The rascal occultist Aleister Crowley produced an “autohagiography.” To understand that odd term, keep in mind that “hagiography” is an account of the life of a saint, so adding “auto” means it’s the biography of a saint penned by the saint himself. I’m bringing up these fun facts in hope of encouraging you to ruminate at length on your life story. If you don’t have time to write a whole book, please take a few hours to remember in detail the gloriously twisty path you have trod from birth until now. According to my reading of the astrological omens, the best way to heal what needs to be healed is to steep yourself in a detailed meditation on the history of your mysterious destiny.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): If you go to

the Historical Museum of the Palatinate in Germany, you will see a jug of wine that was bottled in 1687. In accordance with astrological omens, Sagittarius, I suggest that you find a metaphorical version of this vintage beverage—and then metaphorically drink it! In my opinion, it’s time for you to partake of a pleasure that has been patiently waiting for you to enjoy it. The moment is ripe for you to try an experience you’ve postponed, to call in favors that have been owed to you, to finally do fun things you’ve been saving for the right occasion.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): If a late-night TV

talk show called and asked me to be a guest, I’d say no. If People magazine wanted to do a story on me, I’d decline. What good is fame like that?

It might briefly puff up my ego, but it wouldn’t enhance my ability to create useful oracles for you. The notoriety that would come my way might even distract me from doing what I love to do.

So I prefer to remain an anonymous celebrity, as I am now, addressing your deep self with my deep self. My messages are more valuable to you if I remain an enigmatic ally instead of just another cartoony media personality. By the way, I suspect you’ll soon face a comparable question.

Your choice will be between what’s flashy and what’s authentic; between feeding your ego and feeding your soul.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): A Canadian guy

named Harold Hackett likes to put messages in bottles that he throws out into the Atlantic Ocean from his home on Prince Edward Island.

Since he started in 1996, he has dispatched over 5,000 missives into the unknown, asking the strangers who might find them to write back to him. To his delight, he has received more than 3,000 responses from as far away as Russia, Scotland, and West Africa. I suspect that if you launch a comparable mission sometime soon, Aquarius, your success rate wouldn’t be quite that high, but still good. What long-range inquiries or invitations might you send out in the direction of the frontier?

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “Intensify” is one

of your words of power these days. So are “fortify,” “reinforce,” and “buttress.” Anything you do to intensify your devotion and focus will be rewarded by an intensification of life’s gifts to you. As you take steps to fortify your sense of security and stability, you will activate dormant reserves of resilience. If you reinforce your connections with reliable allies, you will set in motion forces that will ultimately bring you help that you didn’t even know you needed. If you buttress the bridge that links your past and future, you will ensure that your old way of making magic will energize your new way.

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.

Queen Kong Since 1985, the Guerrilla Girls have operated as anonymous underground culture jammers, challenging the art world’s long-held practices on the representation of women and people of color. More than three decades later the groups’ members remain unknown, their identities protected in public by furry gorilla masks. Still, their lasting impact is undeniable. In Not Ready to Make Nice: Guerrilla Girls in the Art World and Beyond, currently on exhibit at the Verge Center for the Arts, the collective’s history is documented via 32 years’ worth of works. And, on Thursday, October 5, founding member Käthe Kollwitz (not her real name, it’s a nod to the famous German artist) will appear at Sacramento State to discuss activism and the art of “creative complaining.”

You are traveling constantly— setting up this interview was tough—what’s a typical day like?

When we’re not on the road, we’re working on projects all the time. And when we are on the road, well, we’re still working on projects. When people bring you somewhere, they want as much as they can get out of you. We have meetings and installations and we have our gigs and we do workshops.

What will you discuss at Sac State?

We’ll be [talking about] the work and how we’ve done it in regards to intersectional feminism. We’ll also talk about the terrible arts system—how billionaires are, more and more, controlling everything. We’ll talk about how to be an activist and not being paralyzed because you can’t do everything: Just do one thing, and if it works do another, and if it doesn’t work, do another anyway.

Do you sense people are overwhelmed?

Our problems are so huge that people have always had a tendency to want to take on as big an issue as possible. And, you can’t really do that, especially if you want to do some crazy creative complaining like we do … you have to narrow the focus. We started out with that idea. We could have put out posters on the streets of New York that said ‘there’s discrimination against women in the world’ and I wouldn’t be talking to you today.

Instead, we tried to find new and different ways into issues. Our most well-known poster ... we could have done a poster that said, ‘The Metropolitan Museum does not have enough work by women artists hanging on its walls,’ but instead we did one that asks, ‘do women have to be naked to get

PHOTO COURTESY OF ANDREW HINDRAKER

into the Metropolitan Museum?’—and then we backed it up with facts: You have to be naked and only 5 percent of artists [shown] in the museum are women. But 85 percent of its nudes are women. Take a look at that poster and I dare you to go into a museum and not think about what’s on its walls.

In 2011, the Washington Post declared that you’d been ‘accepted’ by the same art world you set out to target. Do you agree?

Starting at about 2005, the fancy art world came calling. I think it came calling because [there were] so many people inside museums and institutions who wanted to effect change, and they saw us as a way to jump-start this. It began when we were invited to do an installation at the Venice Biennale and we asked ourselves, ‘is this what we really should be doing?’ [But] one of the things about the Guerrilla Girls is that we always want to get our work out to as large an audience as possible. We couldn’t resist giving it a shot. Anyone who criticizes that this takes from our edge—I think those are valid things to bring up—but what we’ve found is that every time we have work somewhere then we get hundreds of letters saying, ‘I didn’t know this stuff before.’ For that reason alone it’s worth it.

Do some question if you’ve lost your edge?

It’s the question asked of any activist group that seems to find any kind of acceptance.

We started sneaking around New York in the middle of the night and we’re still anonymous and we’re still using the same strategies, although hopefully we’ve deepened our critiques. It’s something we think about. It’s something we’ve agonized over, but right now I think it’s something that gets our message out.

Are there places you think have made better strides in their representation of women or people of color?

Things are a little better now, but museums are stuck with their collections, and their collections are almost all old white males.

There always were women artists, there always were artists of color, but they were never part of the fancy system. And even in their own time, even European women who were well-known in their own time, they were then forgotten about or left out of the history books. When you go into a lot of the museums in Europe in particular, a lot of the museums were the collections of kings, basically. If you start looking at the work from that perspective … you just can’t help but think, another royal family portrait, blah blah blah. If a museum wants to change that, it takes a long time.

And in the United States?

In the U.S., because the big private, nonprofit museums, the government doesn’t give any money, so they’re totally dependent on their boards of directors and major collectors to help them buy stuff. These same people have driven up the price of art so much, that stuff that a museum might want to buy and the stuff their [donors] might want to donate cost a million dollars.

For a million dollars they could cast a much wider net and buy equally great work by a lot more artists.

It doesn’t seem like the Guerrilla Girls are anywhere close to hanging up the masks.

We have had 55 members over the years, but it’s always been a fairly small group at any one time. Some people have been members for a day, others for a decade.

We have new people all the time and new ideas coming in. There’s no reason to stop yet. There’s no reason to hang it up. Ω

Join Kollwitz at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, October 5 inside Sacramento State’s University Ballroom. No cover. 6000 J Street. www.vergeart.com.

10.05.17 | SN&R | 55