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ast summer, Sacramento Regional Transit was considering cutting bus routes and raising fares, measures that would have severely impacted residents in South Sacramento’s lowincome neighborhoods. “We knew RT was heading down the wrong road, we knew it was in crisis, and we knew that it was going to take a community campaign to turn things at the public transit agency,” said Tamie Dramer, co-founder and chair of Organize Sacramento, an all-volunteer nonprofit that provides training and education to community groups, individuals and organizations on the tactics of community organizing. Training and education for members is supported in part with funding from The California Endowment “We realized we needed to form a transit riders union similar to those in Seattle, New York and other cities,” Dramer said. The result: The Sacramento Transit Riders Union. SacTRU holds its own meetings, on the second and fourth Saturdays of the month at 1 p.m., at Organize Sacramento’s small but tidy 1714 Broadway office. SacTRU’s 100 members spend their meetings reviewing upcoming RT Board agendas for items that impact riders and discussing which items to oppose and support, ongoing RT problems, and the union’s long-term goal strategy. The members take turns attending RT Board meetings and speaking up when necessary. SacTRU’s long-term mission is to increase access in the Sacramento region to safe, reliable, and fiscally responsible public transit service that

links people to resources and opportunities. As SacTRU, the goal is to collectively build power to advocate effectively with the decision-makers at Regional Transit to ensure riders’ and workers’ needs and demands are met.

TOO MANY CARLESS SACRAMENTANS SPEND HOURS GETTING TO WORK DAILY BECAUSE THEY LIVE FAR FROM RT’S NETWORK OR IN AREAS WITH INFREQUENT SERVICE. From the beginning, public participation at SacTRU’s meetings and events has been exceptional. Even Henry Li, RT’s new general manager, has attended at least two SacTRU meetings, according to Eric Sunderland, another board member of Organize Sacramento. Li’s presence has signaled that he, too, wants improvement. According to an RT spokesperson, RT is “always interested in organizations sharing the same concerns we have: to make transit service ... as excellent as possible.” Organize Sacramento and its offshoot SacTRU, have for now achieved getting the recommended bus route cuts taken off the table, and riders no longer have to wait in long lines in the blazing summer sun to purchase their monthly passes at

Organize Sacramento advocates for good public policies that bring justice and equality to build healthier and stronger communities. Organize Sacramento is the umbrella organization which houses the Sacramento Transit Riders Union (SacTRU). SacTRU is a campaign around restoring rider equity and efficiency to the Sacramento Regional Transit system.

the RT Customer Service center on 12th Street, thanks to the shade structures erected by RT after SacTRU advocated that something be done about the situation.

BUILDING HEALTHY COMMUNITIES

But too many carless Sacramentans still spend hours getting to work daily because they live far from RT’s network or in areas with infrequent service, Dramer said. Those people “desperately need better transit options. So we will continue to grow our riders union, and we will continue to advocate for a better, more user-friendly and affordable system overall.”

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.

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. Health Happens in Neighborhoods. Health Happens in Schools. Health Happens with Prevention.

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My old neighborhood’s on fire I’ve been a little distracted all day. First thing this morning, I got a call from my daughter, Cielle. She wanted to know if Traci, my wife, was with me here in Sac, or at our house in the Santa Cruz Mountains, which we’re fixing to sell. Cielle was concerned because she’d heard about the Bear Fire, which had erupted just five densely-wooded miles from our place. Later in the day Cielle sent us an update. I was putting a final edit on Raheem’s cover story (which, by the way, is a blast) when I got a ping: “Looks like they’re setting up evacuation centers on Zayante, which has to be a good sign—they wouldn’t be having people evacuate TO there if it was in danger.” Whew. Zayante Road is just down the street from us. Heading north, it leads to Upper Zayante, a gnarly, beautiful stretch of road that leads to the summit, and to Bear Creek Road, which is where the Bear Fire is still burning as I write this. For seven years, on and off, I commuted between our ridgetop cabin and Silicon Valley; my route was usually Upper Zayante and Bear Creek Road. At this time, the Bear Fire seems to be trending away from my route, and our house. But looking at the fire map is still a bit chilling. I’m sure many of you have been more closely connected to the terror and tragedy these fires have wrought, but for me, this one is hitting a bit too close to home. I’ve been feeling bad for the folks who have lost their lives, lost friends or lost their homes. Today I feel worse. As the sun sets, the sky is a hideous shade of orange again.

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Does Christmas in October ruin Halloween?

Ryan Smith real estate developer

I have two little ones, so we are fully engulfed in Halloween. And we don’t want to ruin it by mixing it with Christmas. So for us, I just think Halloween should be solely Halloween. You can’t do Christmas in August or July, so don’t do it in October.

Rodne y FeRRell business consultant

Absolutely not. If I’m shopping for certain products, I’m shopping for certain products. If I’m shopping for my dog, just because they have notebooks and journals for back-to-school time, [it] does not affect my ability to get products for my dog.

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I don’t really notice it as much. Because I live downtown, I feel like it’s more of an issue in more commercialized places like suburbs and stuff. I’d like everything to stick to its month. But I don’t know. I don’t really mind it.

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It’s like the creep affect … You try to get into the Halloween spirit and now it’s already Christmas. I think Halloween should start on October 1. Thanksgiving should start November 1, and as soon as Thanksgiving is over, the last few days of November, then Christmas can start.

No, it doesn’t, because I don’t celebrate Halloween. I celebrate the birth of Christ.

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Roza: Step down Re “House of cards, part II” by John Flynn (News, October 12): “Calderon said the fact that she paid the money does not prove that she had taken it. ‘I grew tired and frustrated by the situation and decided to write a check to the club and be done with it,’ she said.” OK. I’m not sure about anyone else, but if I wasn’t guilty of taking/ using a sum of money not from my own funds, I most certainly wouldn’t fork over almost $2K “to be done” with something. Roza, if you aren’t going to fight for yourself in your self-proclaimed innocence, why should we believe that you’ll fight for those of us in the 4th District? Please step down and let one of the other three women get the job done.

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Calderon candidacy = McClintock win Re “House of cards, part II” by John Flynn (News, October 12): I don’t want to vote for a person who makes poor choices and errors (unintentional or intentional) in handling other people’s

money ... period. Mistakes are hard to make if a candidate is being serious and responsible. If this article didn’t come out imagine what McClintock would do with this information next year. Yah ... not good. Too many people knew about it for it to stay within Placer Women Democrats.

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Stoner safety Re “Pull over, roll up” by Ngaio Bealum (The 420, October 12): The author is correct that no one should drive impaired, but he is incorrect when he says there is no objective way to tell if a person is stoned. I have developed a new public health app that measures actual impairment—it is called DRUID (an acronym for “DRiving Under the Influence of Drugs”) available now in the Apple App Store (Android version coming very soon). DRUID measures reaction time, decision making, hand-eye coordination, time estimation and balance, and then statistically integrates hundreds of data points into an

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overall impairment score. DRUID was featured on NPR’s All Things Considered and on CBS Local. MiCHael Milburn

Re “My Little Pony: The Movie” by Jim Lane (Film, October 12): Leading voices are mostly unknown?! Tara Strong, Tabitha St. Germain, and Cathy Weseluck have been doing voice work for years! Why does it seem lately that every single negative review coming out in the past few days sounds tired and by the numbers, with the same limp string words pulled from a hypothetical hat with paper slips? At least you weren’t rude like that prick from Movie Nation. Mario rodgers Me r id ia n v i a ne w sr e v ie w.c o m

Good Pony! Part II Re “My Little Pony: The Movie” by Jim Lane (Film, October 12): “Bronies will be disappointed by the ponies.” *Sees 88% Audience Score on Rotten Tomatoes* Zak Wood br e c k e nr id ge v ia ne wsr e v ie w.c o m

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Andrew Howell belongs to the relatively new Psychedelic Club of Sacramento, which is a place for psychedelic drug users to share their experiences. Photo by karlos rene ayala

The spore you know As research into psilocybin’s health benefits grow, Californians face a slim chance to legalize magic mushrooms by Jason smith

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Full disclosure: I use hallucinogenic mushrooms. No, I’m not some vagabond ingesting whatever amount one must ingest to make a Phish concert bearable. Instead, I am one of the lucky 0.1 percent of the population who suffers from a neurological disorder known as cluster headaches, sometimes called suicide headaches. A 2011 study published in the medical journal Headache found that 55 percent of sufferers contemplated suicide while 2 percent attempted suicide to alleviate their suffering. Yes, they hurt that bad. I started getting them when I was

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19. For 14 years, I went through various misdiagnoses: migraines, sinus infections, tempromandibular joint syndrome, tooth infection, you name it. Doctors tried everything. Nothing worked. The headaches hit behind my left eye like an ice pick before digging around in my head for an hour. Finally, a doctor at UC Davis correctly diagnosed me, which was the good news. The bad news? There is no cure. My physician recommended a documentary, which showed a group of people in Texas who were treating their cluster headaches with “magic mushrooms.” He made it clear that he was not

suggesting I ingest a Schedule I narcotic, because he could lose his license by doing so. Then he gave me a wink. Taking the hint would mean risking arrest and incarceration, as growing, purchasing, possessing or ingesting these mushrooms for any purpose is strictly prohibited under both state and federal law, because they contain psilocybin, the active compound that causes hallucinations. Not taking mushrooms would mean enduring excruciating pain with no end in sight. Soon, Californians may get the

chance to save people like me from this devil’s bargain. A proposed statewide ballot initiative would decriminalize the use of psilocybin for personal and recreational use for anyone over the age of 21. Officially titled the “California Psilocybin Legalization Initiative,” Initiative 17-0024 will be placed on the California ballot in 2018 if it receives enough signatures. The odds of that happening are slim. According to Ballotpedia, which tracks money spent in each state for various political causes, the 15 California initiatives that successfully became propositions in 2016 spent an average of $2.9 million to collect the requisite 365,880 signatures. If psilocybin supporters think they can ride the sticky-green coattails of marijuana’s successful Proposition 64 campaign, which legalized marijuana for recreational use in California last year, they may very well be in for a bad trip. The Drug Policy Alliance, which coughed up $4.5 million in support of Prop. 64, appears to be sitting this one out. DPA board member George Soros, who kicked in an additional $4 million for Prop.

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shelTer for Two 64, has yet to show any support for the legalization of psilocybin. In the meantime, the activist behind the initiative, Kevin Saunders, doesn’t seem to be doing the cause any favors. Saunders, who didn’t respond to SN&R’s request for an interview, told The Hill last August that he believes mushrooms were transported via asteroids by aliens so humans can reprogram their souls and minds. (I don’t care who you are or what you believe, but when you need to sway seven million registered voters, you probably want to keep that shit to yourself.) While the odds of extraterrestrial fungus seem highly improbable, what is harder to dispute are the stories of those who say their lives have benefited greatly by use of the drug. Andrew Howell is the organizer of the Psychedelic Club of Sacramento, which was formed 18 months ago as a place for users of drugs like mushrooms, LSD and Dimethyltryptamine, or DMT, to share their experiences. The group also welcomes users of MDMA, even though that drug is not classified as a psychedelic. Howell says that he continues to be surprised by the experiences individual users undergo as a result of a psychedelic trip. “People’s lives are changing in huge ways, thanks to these drugs,” Howell told SN&R. “I’ve heard people from right here in Sacramento talk about overcoming depression, addiction, PTSD, all of whom tried traditional medicine, which didn’t work. They found relief thanks to psychedelics.” Howell credits mushrooms and LSD for helping him overcome his own battles with depression and addiction. When he was 10 years old, following a diagnosis of clinical depression, doctors prescribed him Prozac and Zoloft. Howell says the drugs simply compounded his feelings of isolation, loneliness, boredom and sadness. When he communicated this to his parents or his doctor, they simply added an additional antidepressant. By the age of 13, he says, he was suicidal. With each passing year, his thoughts became darker and his outlook on life more bleak. Ironically, it was a visit from the DARE anti-drug program that initiated his curiosity into illegal narcotics. “I became fascinated with the human mind and how experiencing different drugs might have different effects,” he said. He became addicted to prescription painkillers, and eventually heroin and alcohol, as he sought to numb the depression. But he says it was the psychedelics that changed everything. “I began having these introspective

experiences that allowed me to see my life—the things I’d experienced, the things I’d done, the things that were done to me—and view it all in a way that let me forgive and love myself,” he explained. “It provided relief, for the first time since I was 10 years old.”

contributes to the National Review and is the editor of City Review, this is precisely the slippery slope he anticipated when Washington, D.C., softened its stance on marijuana and began allowing states to violate federal drug laws. “Now that cannabis is being legalized, I thought it only a matter of time howell’s experience precedes a slew of before people proposed to legalize recently approved trials by the Federal other drugs,” Dlarymple told SN&R. Drug Administration to explore the potential “This will continue until we have drug medical benefits of psilocybin and MDMA. supermarkets.” Last year, studies by New York Dlarymple says that he sees no mediUniversity and John Hopkins University cal use for psilocybin and warns that found that 80 percent of the damage caused by acute terminal cancer patients psychotic reactions to the had clinically significant drug, otherwise known reductions in both as “bad trips,” has the depression and anxipotential to be lifeety for up to seven altering. “It is difficult months following a to predict the harm single use of psilothat will be done [if] cybin. The results the drugs are legalwere published ized,” he contended. Theodore Dlarymple in the Journal of Even Howell, a editor, City Review Pharmacology in supporter of the initiative, December 2016. acknowledges the potential The FDA recently for harm should drugs like approved the Multidisciplinary psilocybin and MDMA be used Association for Psychedelic Studies’ irresponsibly. phase-3 testing, the final step before a “Obviously, safeguards should be drug becomes available for prescription put into place to ensure the safety for by a physician. The MAPS nonprofit, use,” Howell said. He says that’s why according to its website, is also currently groups like the Psychedelics Club of researching the use of marijuana and Sacramento are so important. “People MDMA to treat PTSD in soldiers returnare welcome to come learn about how ing from Afghanistan, and has conducted these drugs are used safely, and are the first double-blind, placebo-controlled free to ask questions to people who’ve study of LSD to treat anxiety and experienced them.” depression. As for me, I tried the mushrooms in Not everybody, however, agrees with February 2014 and haven’t had a cluster loosening restrictions. period since. Richard Mahan, director of communicaThe decision was an easy one, despite tions for Drug Abuse Resistance Education, being in recovery at the time from an says that, while the nonprofit DARE takes addiction to fentanyl, which, ironically, is no formal position on ballot measures, it a synthetic drug stronger than heroin, with would be strongly opposed to the legalizamore abuse potential than mushrooms, yet tion of psilocybin or MDMA for any readily available in every pharmacy on any purpose. corner in Anytown, USA, about 30 feet “These drugs have no medical value from aisles selling Cap’n Crunch and and have high potential for dependence and curling irons—but I digress. abuse,” he said. “Heroin and LSD are in the I ingest psilocybin-laced mushrooms same category.” once every eight to 10 months, as the In fact, marijuana is also still listed as a documentary showed. They taste like shit Schedule I narcotic, and data shows that it and I don’t particularly enjoy the high, but wasn’t too long ago that the idea of legalthe alternative is too crippling to consider: ized marijuana sounded just as far-fetched Two cluster periods per year, each lasting as the idea of legalized psilocybin might five to weeks. Mentally, it’s a mind fuck. I sound to some today. wake up and watch the clock with a knot in According to Pew Research from 1990, my stomach. I know it’s coming and I know only 16 percent of Americans believed there’s nothing I can do to stop it. marijuana should be legalized, while 81 No thanks. I’ll continue risking jail time, percent believed it should remain illegal. until Californians decide otherwise. For Theodore Dlarymple, a retired Crazier things have happened. Ω psychiatrist and prison doctor who now

“This will continue until we have drug supermarkets.”

When Cal Expo opened its doors to those displaced by a catastrophic wave of wildfires unleashed across Northern California, two grateful people showed up. For four days, they found shelter as 140 Red Cross staff and volunteers coordinated aid to other evacuation centers. Kimberly Church thought Cal Expo could use more customers. The Sacramento City College faculty member, who operates a weekly safe space for homeless adults under 30, started urging her Facebook followers to tell sacramento’s homeless residents about cal expo, which wasn’t screening people before letting them in. For Church, the decision to open up Cal Expo to victims of a series of fires that have killed at least 41 people, displaced 100,000, destroyed 5,700 structures and torched 213,000 acres as of Monday revealed a blind spot for a daily disaster happening on Sacramento’s watch. “Isn’t it interesting how we can step over some people to give blankets to other people?” Church said. “There’s an inherent classism to helping people who have been recently unhomed to those who haven’t been by fire or water.” The Governor’s Office of Emergency Services issued the emergency declaration that opened Cal Expo for evacuees, as it did in January during the Oroville Dam disaster. “Cal Expo is literally an empty shell. Everything has to be brought there,” said Janna Haynes, a county spokeswoman. “You’re talking about natural disasters versus an ongoing issue.” For several years, Cal Expo did act as a winter homeless shelter through a city-county partnership, until the county switched to local churches and hotel vouchers in 2014 to reduce costs. (Michael Mott) This story was made possible by a grant from Tower Cafe.

aDDeD To The wall A crowd gathered in Capitol Park on Saturday to watch 14 names added to the walls of its vietnam Memorial. Most belonged to men who were killed by the conflict, though not alongside their fallen comrades in the jungle. Instead, they suffered for decades from exposure to toxins like agent orange. The October 14 event was conducted by the California Department of Veterans Affairs, which helps track former servicemen who’ve died from illnesses connected to their time in Vietnam. CDVA spokeswoman Cathy Kenny told SN&R that the majority of names added to the memorial were as a result of deaths due to Agent Orange, with the exception of pilots Lt. Gregory Hodson and Lt. Harold Roach. “Two are Navy pilots who died when their plane went down in the South China Sea in October 1964,” Kenny said. Hodson was from West Sacramento. Among the other names added were James Allen Gray of Auburn, Ronald Van Westburg of Sacramento and Dennis Wilburn Williams of Sacramento. The CDVA cited Williams as an example of the kind of ongoing sacrifice some veterans made after Vietnam, noting that Williams was “100 percent disabled” from chemical exposure. Westburg was another Sacramentan who endured years of chronic illness due to his service. “Ron would never have thought of putting his name forward, but I really believe that war killed him,” said his widow, Linda Westburg, fighting back tears. “And we have one of the most emotionally meaningful monuments in the U.S., one that says so much about what they went through. So, this means the world to me.” (Scott Thomas Anderson)

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Paul cantarutti was booked into jail on resisting arrest charges october 10, more than two years after he nearly died in a police shooting. Left, he visits his father michael after getting out of the hospital in 2015. Photo courtesy of MichAel cAntArutti And the sAcrAMento Police dePArtMent

Sons of fortune Two mentally ill young men, two officer shootings, two different outcomes by Scott thomaS anderSon and raheem F. hoSSeini

The night before the civil trial began, attorney Stewart Katz was prepared to do anything to get his client into the courtroom. A wheelchair, a gurney, a full medical transport—Katz was prepared to make it happen. That’s because his client, Ted Rose, was dying of terminal cancer and holding on to testify about the killing of his son, Jonathan. Ted Rose died the morning of the trial. Katz told SN&R he had remained confident he’d convince a jury that Sacramento County sheriff’s Deputy David McEntire wrongfully took the life of Jonathon Rose, an unarmed, schizophrenic 24-year-old, while he was in the arms of his father. At the time, Katz was representing another parent of another mentally ill young man shot by a frightened law An extended version of enforcement officer. Katz says the two this story is available at www. cases shared similar circumstances and newsreview.com/ revealed to what lengths the government sacramento will go to avoid paying damages to bereaved survivors. Yet they diverged in two critical respects: One case began with a death, the other eked out a narrow survival. One culminated in a verdict against law enforcement, the other ended in the officer’s vindication. 10 | SN&R | 10.19.17

According to court filings and an interview with Ted Rose before his death, his son was having a mental health episode on January 17, 2012. Ted Rose dialed 911 to see if a peace officer could help. Dispatched to his North Highlands home was McEntire, who was the subject of two other lawsuits for alleged brutality. Ted Rose told SN&R that by the time McEntire arrived, Jonathan Rose had calmed down and fallen asleep in his bedroom. Without permission, Ted Rose said, McEntire barged into the house and into Jonathan Rose’s room. Ted Rose claimed McEntire woke Jonathan Rose up, threw him into a wall for moving too slowly, and then struck his head with a flashlight. Ted Rose said he then grabbed his disoriented son to pull him away, and McEntire opened fire. Ted Rose said he felt the bullets enter his son’s body. McEntire told internal affairs investigators, and then claimed during the recent civil trial, that Jonathan Rose attacked him in the room, making him fear for his life. With the death of his star witness, Katz was forced into court knowing the only way to present his client’s story was through a video deposition recorded years earlier. After reviewing the deposition of

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Ted Rose, a previously pro-law enforcement minister and chairman of the United States National Prayer Council, as well as other physical evidence, the jury made its determination in less than two hours. On September 27, a federal jury in the Eastern District Court granted a wrongful death judgment against the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department for $6.5 million. Asked to comment, county counsel simply sent an email saying that the jury had rendered its verdict. In November 2016, an ailing Ted Rose told SN&R he believed Sacramento County’s contracted attorneys were intentionally drawing the case out with needless continuances so that he, the main witness, would die before trial. SN&R recently asked Katz if he thought the same thing. “Absolutely,” Katz said. “Ted Rose really wanted to testify. From what I could tell, his only immediate goal was to live long enough to tell the story of what had happened.” By contrast, a civil jury will never hear what happened to Paul Cantarutti. On September 7, Cantarutti pleaded no contest to one count of felony carjacking—a non sequitur crime given

that the purported victim, Cantarutti’s mother Linda, denied being carjacked and testified that she had driven her bipolar son to Cesar Chavez Plaza in May 2015 in search of help. That afternoon, Linda Cantarutti told Sacramento police that her son was experiencing a delusion in which he thought their car was going to explode. When a veteran bicycle officer beckoned Paul Cantarutti to meet him on the sidewalk edging the park, Paul Cantarutti walked across the street clutching a small folding knife. The officer shot Paul Cantarutti three times. He was subsequently charged with attempted assault on a peace officer and evading arrest. At trial, the prosecution argued that Paul Cantarutti lunged a second before the officer fired his service weapon. A jury deadlocked on the case this past May. Both sides were preparing for a retrial when Paul Cantarutti accepted the carjacking conviction in exchange for the other charges being dropped. The plea squelches the civil claim Linda Cantarutti filed against the city and its police department, said attorney Katz, who represented her. The legal reasons are complicated, Katz says, but because Paul Cantarutti accepted guilt for carjacking his mom, his mom can’t now argue that officers shouldn’t have shot her son. Cantarutti’s father Michael says his son accepted the deal because he could no longer take being in jail, where he spent nearly a year. Paul Cantarutti is back there now. On October 10, police officers responding to reports of an assault in progress arrived on the 4200 block of Raley Boulevard, north of Del Paso Heights, where the purported victim pointed out Paul Cantarutti. Officer Linda Matthew, a Police Department spokeswoman, said officers were only able to take Cantarutti into custody after a lengthy struggle in which he head-butted an officer and shadowboxed the air. Tasers didn’t work on Cantarutti, described as 5-feet8-inches tall and 180 pounds in jail logs, but pepper spray did. A booking photo shows Cantarutti with glassy, redrimmed eyes. Cantarutti was arraigned on new felony counts of resisting arrest on October 13, which pushed out final judgment on his plea agreement, his public defender said. As for the male transient that Cantarutti allegedly punched twice in the head, Officer Matthew said he declined to press charges. Ω

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its blacklist of 350-plus others excluded from At lunch on August 14, Kimberly Michelle checked Google’s ad network. The blacklist included sites Breitbart.com, curious to see how the “alt-right” like SouthernAvenger.com, MightyRighty.com, hate-news site covered the Charlottesville terror OpenSecrets.org, WikiLeaks.org. It even blacklisted attack. She was surprised to see an advertisement FoxNews.com, which it has since removed. featuring a woman beside her car, touting the When contacted by SN&R, SMUD replied Sacramento Municipal Utilities District’s free with the following note: “Due to the nature of electric vehicle charging. digital advertising, despite our efforts Outraged to see the publicly owned we occasionally learn of ads that we power company advertising on a have purchased through online site known for attacking women, advertising networks that show immigrants, Jews, the transgenup on sites such as the one der community—the list goes “@SMUDUpdates your reader mentioned.” on—the 37-year-old education um … Your ads are After a Public Records consultant and blogger did showing up on hateful Act request, SMUD clarified what she’s done since the its practices and sent the election: She tweeted, tagging @BreitbartNews. That’s a blacklist and emails that SMUD directly. mistake, right?” followed Michelle’s tweet. Her tweet was part of a According to SMUD, its Kimberly Michelle nationwide political effort. blacklist applied only to ads a.k.a. @kim_michelle Since last fall, Michelle had purchased through Google, and been following Sleeping Giants, the ad on Breitbart was distributed a social media activist group whose via Facebook’s Audience Network, boycott campaign has reportedly resulted which gathers users’ data to place relevant ads in thousands of companies pulling their ads from on the sites they frequent. Such “programmatic” Breitbart. advertising dominates the online landscape today, Sleeping Giants, a group of anonymous digital as companies buy ads targeting users based on media professionals and activists, launched its location, interest and other parameters, without Twitter campaign last November by inviting even knowing what sites their ads appear on—or people to do two things: “Go to Breitbart and take whom their dollars support. a screenshot of an ad next to some of their content. It’s likely that Michelle was targeted for Tweet the screenshot to the company with a polite, SMUD’s ad simply because she lives in the area. nonoffensive note.” SMUD spokesman Jonathon Tudor confirms Michelle tweeted: “@SMUDUpdates um … that the utility buys advertising packages from Your ads are showing up on hateful Google, Facebook and Twitter. Like many ad @BreitbartNews. That’s a mistake, right? buyers, Tudor says, he has a new responsibility: Be @sacbee_news @SacNewsReview associated with unsuitable content, or monitor ads @slpng_giants” across thousands, if not millions, of websites. In an interview, Michelle said she was surprised When SMUD ads are found on sites staffers because SMUD is generally sensitive about its deem inappropriate, they use tools to block those reputation. “Public utilities are public, especially sites. There is no policy about which sites are SMUD,” she said. Their public face is one of “an considered inappropriate, with staffers adding sites inclusive, diverse, wonderful provider for all the to the blacklist as they see fit. residents of the city.” “It’s a challenge that just about every digital So how could the agency appear on Breitbart? advertiser in the country faces,” Tudor said. “Ad revenue supports these sites,” she said. “Given Andrew Stoner, a Sacramento State University our political climate, I couldn’t believe it.” communications professor who teaches public Only 35 minutes after the tweet, SMUD’s relations, crisis management and social media, says corporate communications specialist, Sarah online advertising makes this problem ubiquitous. Sciandri, was monitoring mentions on social media, “It’s an artifact of the era we live in,” he said. Ω and shared Michelle’s tweet with her marketing colleagues. She asked whether SMUD monitored the placement of its ads. Following a back-and-forth among her This story was made possible by a grant from Tower Cafe. colleagues, SMUD added the hate-news site to

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omestic violence can have a lifelong impact. Survivors endure physical, mental and emotional abuse as well as suffer social and economic consequences. While samegender and heterosexual partner abuse share similar occurrence rates and dynamics, members of the LGBTQ community face unique barriers when seeking help. Prejudice, discrimination and misunderstanding within law enforcement, the justice system and even from service providers can make it even harder to prevent and address violence.

“We’re actually trying to transform justice and the justice systems as well as understand the needs of a community.” Elaine Whitefeather Executive Director, A Community For Peace

According to a statewide 2012 survey conducted by the Los Angeles LGBT Center: • More than 61% of LGBTQ survivors were turned away from mainstream domestic violence shelters • Less than 3% sought protective orders • Less than 50% of victims reported violence to police • 94% of community providers surveyed have no comprehensive, culturally specific services for the LGBTQ community

Approximately 10 percent of Sacramento’s population identifies as gay, lesbian or bisexual, one of the highest rates per capita among major American cities, yet the county has no LGBTQspecific domestic violence shelter or emergency housing resources. Elaine Whitefeather, executive director of A Community For Peace (ACFP) crisis center, is changing that. Together with Sacramento’s LGBTQ Safe Haven Collaborative, Whitefeather has created Tapestry of People Empowering a Change for Everyone, or P.E.A.C.E. The program addresses the greater social injustices faced by members of the LGBTQ community and seeks to eliminate barriers to safety, housing and healing through transformative justice and programs such as: • A 24/7 crisis helpline • Domestic violence education programs for law enforcement and other agencies • Emergency and transitional housing • Legal services “Justice is not often present in these marginalized communities,” Whitefeather says. “We’re actually trying to transform justice and the justice systems as well as understand the needs of a community.” The project is specific, not just in that it addresses the unique issues faced by LGBTQ community members, but it’s also led, developed, staffed and delivered by certified domestic violence advocates within the community. Services are available to anybody experiencing domestic violence: survivors and batterers, men and women. “In our world today where we live in an environment that appears to give permission to be racist, bigoted, and homophobic in blatant ways it is important for the rest of us to resist, persist, and speak truth out loud,” Whitefeather says.

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Researchers at the Public Policy Institute of California leads the nation once again—this time California, which has developed its own Californiain a statistic no state wants. specific alternative poverty measure, tried to simuWhen the cost of living is factored in, the late an answer to that question. Researchers there Golden State has the highest poverty rate in the ran a model of the state’s poverty rate with every country. More than 20 percent of its residents Californian bearing a cost of living similar to that struggle to make ends meet, according to recently in Fresno County, where a family of four making released Census figures. That’s nearly 8 million about $25,000 would not be considered poor. people. The result? The overall poverty rate drops Unfortunately for Californians, this year’s dramatically (from about 21 percent to 14 percent), poverty numbers are not an aberration. The Census began releasing state-by-state results for its “supple- with nearly 2.4 million Californians lifted above the poverty line. The effect is most pronounced among mental poverty measure” in 2011, in an attempt children, who are disproportionately likely to live in to improve on the outdated and heavily criticized higher-cost regions of the state. The child poverty “official” poverty statistics. rate drops nearly 8 percentage points—about In the less sophisticated “official” measure, a 717,000 kids—once the cost of living is lowered. family of four in San Francisco or Los Angeles Relocating every poor family in the state to or San Diego faces exactly the same poverty Fresno is, well, not a practical policy consideration. threshold—$24,339 annually—as a family in rural And housing subsidies for low-income families Miss. That’s despite the fact that you can rent a currently make only a small dent in the poverty three-bedroom, two-bathroom 1,200-square-foot house in Horn Lake, Miss., for the same price ($850 rate, at least compared to some other safety-net programs. (Advocates for the poor argue that’s a a month) as half a living room in the Bay Area. great reason to dramatically expanding housing California has been the poorest state in subsidies). the nation under the vastly more sophisticated A group of researchers at Columbia University “supplemental” poverty measure since the alternarecreated the Census supplemental poverty measure tive statistic was created (Mississippi is poorest for all states with data stretching back to the late under the old measure). It’s not even really that 1960s. Under this measure, California started lookclose: Florida has the second highest rate, at 18.7 ing considerably different from the rest of percent. the United States in the early 1980s. Part of the reason California tops But notably, while California’s the list year after year is a byprodsupplemental poverty rate has uct of how the supplemental You can rent a remained significantly above the poverty measure is calculated. three-bedroom house national average in recent years It’s a three-year moving averprimarily because of housing age, so year-over-year changes in Horn Lake, Miss., for costs, in absolute terms the can’t swing a state’s poverty the same price as half a state is actually in better shape rate all that much. living room in the Bay than it was in the early 1990s, The Census uses data dating when more than one in four to 2011 to calculate the cost Area. Californians lived below the of living, so even the improved poverty line. And the recession of poverty rate could be underestimatthe early 1990s paled in comparison to ing how big a drain housing has the Great Recession of the late 2000s. been on California’s poor. The biggest That’s partly because of the significant expanjumps in housing costs—like those we’ve seen in sion of federal and state poverty programs to Sacramento and other mid-size California cities in California families in the past three decades. In recent years—typically apply to a relatively small 1991, researchers estimate, such programs reduced percentage of renters finding new apartments. But California poverty by about four percentage points. ask any California renter whether they’d rather be In 2014, those same programs (and new ones) cut paying 2011 rents or 2017 rents, and they’ll ask you hardship by more than twice as much. Ω for the keys to the DeLorean as soon as possible. What would poverty look like if everyone in California had cheaper rents?

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founded by the owners of the alt-weekly We have some big problems in our Austin Chronicle. region: a lack of affordable housing, a Austin’s cultural coolness did not growing number of homeless people, come overnight. For decades, Austin was an inadequate transportation system, a the place that attracted a fun, creative tottering healthcare system and a need to and offbeat crowd who came for the cold create tens of thousands of better-paying beer and cheap pot and stayed for the jobs. We need to figure out solutions. low rents. We were told that Austin was Seeing how other American cities once a place where 20-somethings came are dealing with these problems is one to hang out. But no longer. Now many way to gain perspective and find good come to work at technology startups. ideas to implement here in the capital Many businesses, especially tech city. And that is why 150 Sacramento businesses, need creative people who business leaders, government officials, love a unique city like Austin, and we heads of nonprofits and myself packed can learn from that city’s success. up our business and Texas-casual From a dollars-and-cents clothes to head off for four business perspective, it is days of the Sacramento imperative to support and Metro Chamber of It’s an encourage local culture Commerce’s 19th annual ongoing and the local music study mission in Austin. scene, since this will Austin was an concern: “How do make Sacramento a interesting city to study. we keep Austin more attractive region We have 2.4 million weird?” for cutting-edge business people in our region; they development. have 2.1 million. Both are For Austin, it’s an ongocapital cities in large states, ing concern: “How do we keep although a much higher percent Austin weird?” This is a particularly of Sacramento’s workforce is in the difficult problem given that the area’s government sector: Twelve percent of growth, just like ours, has significantly our jobs are government, compared to driven up housing costs and created five percent in Austin. They have more housing shortages. Many of the region’s jobs in the education and information celebrated musicians are struggling to technology sectors, and we have more make ends meet and are losing their agricultural jobs. housing to those higher-paid tech workBoth cities are growing. The Urban ers who want to live in a town with a Institute predicts that the Sacramento vibrant music scene. region will grow a respectable 25 One of the major differences between percent between 2010 and 2030, but Austin and Sacramento is that Austin is they predict that the Austin region will politically a “blueberry in tomato soup” grow an incredible 44 percent. Austin while we are a blueberry in blueberry is expected to continue to be the fastest pie. Unlike Austin, Sacramentans can growing metro area in America. Much work with our state government. of the growth is tied to the expansion We, like Austin, face difficult of the tech industry in business-friendly problems. The smartest way to solve Texas, but locals also attribute it to problems is to learn from others. Which Austin’s “weirdness.” 150 people did for four days in Austin, Austin is a cool city. It’s a thriving thanks to the Sacramento Chamber. Ω music hub, hosting hundreds of live music performances every night in bars, at the airport, in grocery stories and even Jeff vonKaenel is the president, CEO and majority at city council meetings. Austin hosts owner of the News & Review. the world famous South by Southwest,

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I avoid making any furtive move ments as the two women holding machine guns eye me curiously. There’s a tall on e and a short one, both dressed in crisp gray shirts, black slacks and bullet-proof vests, the snouts of their rifles pointing downward as they guard entry into the country. Or are they preventing escape ? I didn’t have an appointment, ha dn’t even rehearsed what to say. I just sh owed up, expecting to be let in. Typical Am erican. Stationed beneath a metallic sig n that read “UNITED STATES CONS ULATE GENERAL,” the short one aske d how she could help. Wearing a Bob Dylan T-shirt and running shorts, sweat dappling the backs of my knees, I slinked through the nonexistent queue, a fiction created by two yellow ropes leading to a mobile podium on small wheels, and furrowed my brow. What’s the right way to defect to Canada? illustrations by seRene lUsano

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A day earlier, my brother, girlfriend and I touched down in Vancouver, British Columbia, for what was supposed to be a temporary holiday. The tickets were cheap (enough), the flights were short (enough) and the timing was just right. It was 10 months after the United States elected its first openly rapey president, and the grand experiment was not faring well. Our whitesupremacist-in-chief was toilet-tweeting us into World War III and searching out new adversaries to bury in swamp muck, from the GOP to the NFL to the people (and pronunciation) of Puerto Rico. Besides the ghastly parody that America was becoming, my hometown was grinding me down as well. I sorely needed a break from Sacramento, with its out-of-touch politicians, gentrifying stormtroopers, summertime shooters and tired, change-the-channel debates about shit that never, ever changes. I was always going to come back, of course. Until I wasn’t. I didn’t tell any of this to the heavily armed guard. Instead, I babbled something about being a California reporter wanting to learn about the immigration process (true enough). Within minutes, an embassy official appeared and broke the news: I was at the wrong government agency. The consulate’s office was for Canadians trying to reach the United States. No wonder the queue was empty. I capped my pen, shoved my reporter’s pad into a drawstring gymsack and jogged away. Oh, Canada, you’re not keeping me out that easily.

No escapiNg Trump Wearing mirrored shades, a hay-colored mop of hair and a sweet ’stache, Bill has the air of a children’s television show host who’s dropped too much acid. Piloting the charter bus up to the Capilano Suspension Bridge Park—“Bill’s excellent adventure,” as he calls it—he might just be the most learned man in Canada. Vancouver’s resident big-wheel-philosopher gives his passengers delightful lectures on everything from the Lions Gate Bridge and earthquake trends to water quality. Lumbering through the financial district, Bill explains the city’s vertical construction patterns, with gentrification pushing into the higher elevations as poverty circles the drain below. My girlfriend and I witnessed this firsthand, when we rented wobbly blue bicycles through the city’s bike-share program and chugged into Chinatown. Under the tiled gateway arches that promised old-world flourishes, Vancouver’s skid row awaited. Blighted SROs, littered transit stops, throngs of people cloaked in poverty and the

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occasional bystander yelling obscenities at invisible opponents. As far as I can tell, this is where the city’s poorest residents have clustered. Up until this point, I’d wondered where Vancouver’s homeless people were. I’d only seen traces of them my first two nights in country—a middle-aged man pushing a neatly packed cart, a polite young man seated in the chilly shadow of a Starbucks cafe, a small group of 20-somethings standing in a park at night. The Vancouver metropolitan region and Sacramento County claim to have similarly sized homeless populations of around 3,600. (That’s a baseline figure, by the way, based on overnight censuses done earlier this year.) The big difference between the two is that most of Sacramento’s homeless residents are literally unsheltered, while Vancouver’s are under some sort of roof, whether belonging to shelters, transition homes, safe houses, detox facilities, hospitals or jails. In other words, the Vancouver area is doing a better job of managing its neediest residents. Aboard the charter bus, Bill shows us how the other half lives as he maneuvers his large rig past a gleaming luxury hotel with a familiar name: Trump Tower. “All right people, eyes right. Nothing to see here,” Bill raps into his headset microphone. “That’s how you avoid a political discussion.” Bill tells the eight or so souls on board that the construction project began several years ago, back when the Trump brand was still palatable, at least to local politicians hoping to ride the tourism wave. But construction delays and funding issues kept the hotel from opening until well after the election—and now there was trouble. (For any other person, getting elected president would be good free publicity.) “The problem was it opened in March,” Bill says. (February 28, to be precise.) Protesters gathered outside for that grand opening. In June, local media reported that Trump Tower Toronto was relinquishing the unpopular name under new ownership, leaving Vancouver as the only Canadian city with a big, phallic tribute to America’s most successful con artist.

VaNcouVer: aN alTerNaTe TimeliNe I’m watching sea otters frolic inside a turgid water tank at the Vancouver Aquarium, wondering what it is about these mammals—with their ink-drop eyes, bristly mustaches and awkward surface-world waddle—that makes us humans so giddy, when she leans in, close enough that only I can hear. “You know they rape penguins, right?” my girlfriend whispers.

“Yeah,” Jasmine continues nonchalantly, “they’ll keep the carcass until there’s almost nothing left. From the raping.” Several children have pressed their noses to the glass as two otters play their version of swim tag. The kids bounce on their heels and flap their arms in that excited, I-don’t-care-who’s-looking way that only children, blissed-out Christians and people on MDMA seem able to. I turn to look at Jasmine. She winces. This next part is worse, she telegraphs. “They prefer baby penguins,” she says apologetically. “Jesus!” I gasp. I look it up later. Sea otters actually rape baby seals to death. So, you know, still awful. But it reiterates the folly of judging a book by its adorable cover. And it begs the question: What do I really know about Canada? I make a quick mental inventory. Hockey, maple syrup, moose—mooses? No, moose. A chief export is comedic personalities (Mike Myers, Jim Carrey, Justin Bieber). There was that one mayor who did crack—not Marion Berry, he was ours … shoot, I forget. Did I mention hockey? This is embarrassing. I need to dig deeper. I grab a copy of The Georgia Straight outside a breakfast commissary called Yolks, which specializes in poached eggs, surprisingly decent diner coffee, and an undying appreciation for young Mariah Carey. While nibbling on a two-eggs’ Benedict column, I thumb through the paper, which happened to put out its Best of Vancouver issue while we were there. If you’re ever new in town, pick up an alternative weekly, which can’t hide its contempt for social injustice or political incompetence even when tasked with celebrating happy stuff. By the end of my third cup, I learn that British Columbia’s welfare rates are so low some destitute people say they can make more panhandling; the synthetic opioid fentanyl is stealing lives here as well; supervised injection sites are a thing; and police are doing more to respect the rights of transgender individuals, but still raiding medical marijuana dispensaries. Then there’s Canada’s original sin. About five years ago, aboriginal communities drew wider recognition of the institutionalized neglect and forced assimilation they’ve faced since French and British colonialists began fighting over their lands almost 500 years ago. Specifically, their protests shined a spotlight on the epidemic murder and disappearance rates of aboriginal women, which the Royal Canadian Mounted Police documented in a 2014 report. A year later, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada looked at

You’ll find bike-share stations outside of most public transit stops in Vancouver, like this one between City Hall and an underground rail station.

I was always going to come back, of course. Until I wasn’t.

the disproportionately bad health, education and foster care outcomes for aboriginal children, who used to be “abducted” into church-run residential schools intent on stripping them of their identities, says Vancouver City Councillor Andrea Reimer. Reimer was the only one to volunteer to meet with me when I spammed her and her council colleagues with emails from an American reporter whose AirBnB was just down the street from City Hall. I was too hungover to make her appointment window, but she graciously made time for a phone interview later. British Columbia plays a unique role in Canada’s native rights history, Reimer notes. The province is home to half the First Nations, most of which didn’t sign treaties with “the Crown.” (Even though Canada negotiated its independence from British rule in the early ’30s, this is how Canadians refer to their government.) Reimer says a “crushing” number of court rulings since the ’70s established that these indigenous communities still retain absolute authority over their lands, putting them on equal footing with the official government. These rulings “super-charged what already was pioneering work” on the issue of reconciliation, she adds. “It was like a thread that got pulled,” Reimer says. During our trip, I see frequent reminders of this ongoing, soul-searching dialogue. Signs, art, planned events, marches—I’m reminded of being in Germany, where public acknowledgments of the Holocaust are prolific. It’s a painful, necessary vigilance.

Whereas, in America, we have Black History Month and Indian casinos, and seem content at leaving our great shames at that. Reimer says she would like to see a reconciliation process take place for African Americans. (They can’t even quietly kneel without our president throwing a conniption.) She gets choked up speaking about what she’s seen happen in her country, in her lifetime, that she didn’t expect. “If you can’t find a pathway forward for the truth to be told, for the healing to begin, it’s the same trauma over and over and over again,” she says. “The only path forward is reconciliation.” This is part of what makes exploring Vancouver like being in an episode of Sliders, the hokey sci-fi series from the ’90s about parallel universes. Each episode plunked our heroes in a society that was different from ours. Because the show was on Fox and its budget was modest, the alternate universes differed from our own in the most innocuous, half-baked ways. What if the summer of love never ended? What if the Amish ran society? What if caffeine was illegal? These were actual episodes. On television. That hundreds of people watched. I digress. Vancouver is by no means a utopian society. But it has diverged from our timeline in critical ways. Let me cherry pick two other examples besides reconciliation that will resonate with a Sacramento audience: homelessness and prostitution. In recent years, Vancouver has taken steps to decriminalize both.

In October 2015, the city eased its urban camping prohibition in direct response to a U.S. Department of Justice opinion that it’s unconstitutional to arrest people for sleeping outside when there isn’t enough shelter. Acknowledging the cruel and unusual Catch-22, the Vancouver City Council revised its ordinance so that homeless people could legally rest on public property between the hours of 9:30 p.m. and 6:30 a.m., without fear of being ticketed or arrested. Just to be clear: Vancouver, B.C., Canada adjusted its laws in response to a U.S. legal opinion that Sacramento has so far ignored. To be fair, Reimer says, the city was responding to forces other than the U.S. Justice Department. There were other provincial court rulings that forced local governments to act, including one that granted homeless people the right to refuse shelter if they feel their safety is at risk. Plus, British Columbia’s provincial government in Victoria has been more consistent at supplying money for shelters and permanent housing than California legislators have. Vancouver is also pilot-testing a new tax on real estate speculators, which Reimer hopes will induce property barons to open up more housing options across the city. If they don’t, they pay into a fund for affordable housing. These are among the reasons that Reimer says Vancouver probably has the reputation as the most progressive city in Canada. She chooses the term carefully.

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local delicacy Vancouver:

Poutine French fries and cheese curds slathered in brown gravy

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hometown royalty Vancouver: Three-way tie between Justin Bieber, Jim Carrey and Ryan Reynolds

Sacramento: Three-way tie between Jessica Chastain, Greta Gerwig and Brie Larson

“The left doesn’t necessarily see us as left,” she chuckles. On that point, Vancouver and Sacramento are equals.

The amnesTy challenge It takes a little poking around on the Canadian government’s website, but I finally find a link to a questionnaire that promises some answers about whether I’m eligible for citizenship in this PG-13 America. I’m excited. I love online quizzes, and this one looks like it runs on a more perceptive algorithm than most. (No way am I Ross from Friends.) Scanning the drop-down options, I tell the government spooks where I’m from, when I was born, where I want to move (British Columbia), what I plan to do (find a job, I guess?) and how long I plan to stay (forever!). A couple more clicks, I crack my knuckles and wait for Mother Canada to spread wide its wings and—rejected? It must be a mistake. I try again, saying this time that my main reason for coming is selfemployment “as a farmer, sportsperson or artist.” Crap, now they’re asking me my net worth. Um, no, I don’t have any interest from angel investors or venture capitalists just yet, but—another rejection! I call up Nir Rozenberg, a licensed immigration counsel whose firm assesses foreigners like me hoping to plant stakes in Canada. Most of his clients become permanent citizens through their Canadian spouses. The other 30 to 40 percent are doctors, IT workers, chefs, truck drivers and the like applying for skilled-worker visas. “What we do is evaluate their credentials and qualifications against the Canadian immigration system, which is skill-based. It’s a points-based system,” Rozenberg explains. “A lot of our clients are Canadians bringing in spouses. Other clients of ours are Americans who have gone to school in Canada and are looking to become permanent residents or are just Americans that, now, with everything going on, are interested in Canada because it’s a different option.” Hey, that’s me. I want a different option. I ask Rozenberg if Trump has made that big a dent in his business. He answers with one word, repeated three times: “Yes. Yes. Yes.” “As soon as Trump won the election, we saw the very next two, three days, into that week, an influx of phone calls,” he says. “And those phone calls have not necessarily stopped coming in.” This new run on Canada by desperate Americans does not make the math work in my favor. The country has granted permanent residency to 6,130 Americans through the first three quarters of 2017, according to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada. That’s less than the 6,980 American expatriates the country

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save me, Ryan Reynolds admitted over the same time last year, but higher than the first three quarters of 2015, when Canada adopted fewer than 6,000 dissatisfied Americans. It might be too soon to see the Trump effect laid out in an Excel spreadsheet, but Rozenberg says his office has been fielding more calls. The immigration counsel says there’s some 60 different ways in which a person could become a permanent resident, most of which require education or work experience in Canada, both of which I lack. But unlike America, the Canadian government offers its poor, huddled masses yearning to be free a legal pathway to achieving its national dream. This pathway to citizenship is called Express Entry, which is a misnomer, Rozenberg says. It’s more of a points-based selection system that can also function like a lottery. “The U.S. doesn’t have any program like this,” Rozenberg says. Here’s how it works: Got a college degree? Proficient in English? Have several years experience in a desirable profession? If Canada likes the media more than our president, then yes to all three. Then Rozenberg pops my balloon: Between the age of 21 and 35? Nuts. I’m 37 going on 80. Rozenberg says all is not lost. Sure, I lose points for aging, kind of like a lame Logan’s Run, but he says the English requirement is the one that matters. Still, I need an ace in the hole if I want my citizenship application to make the cut. And I think I know who to call.

Ryan Reynolds sounds different on the phone. I’ve been desperately trying to make contact with a Canadian celebrity since returning to the states. My editor thought it would make the story more interesting to read, but I had ulterior motives. After the immigration attorney confirmed for me that my humiliating rejection from Canadian Border Services was no fluke, I knew I needed an edge to get the government to reconsider. I needed a celebrity endorsement. I started googling for famous Vancouverites. Clicking on a 2014 slide show from Van City Buzz, I sized up my unsuspecting benefactors: Jason Priestly? I tried, but the former 90210 star’s people never got back to me. Property Brothers’ Drew and Jonathan Scott? Gross. Seth Rogen? Before Trump blundered along, the wheezy comedian was the person most likely to start a war with North Korea. Ryan Reynolds? Like I’ll ever be able to track down contact information for—oh wait, here it is. That was easy. When the superstar actor of Deadpool fame and Mississippi Grind acclaim (seriously, check the latter out) answers the line, he sounds younger and is less quippy than I expected. He says I’m reaching him at his studio in San Jose. (He has his own movie studio? In San Jose? Interesting.) He shocks me by saying he’s not working on a Green Lantern sequel, but preparing for a February art show at the B Sakata Garo gallery right here in Midtown, Sacramento. Typical Hollywood, I think. Make enough money and they’ll let you dabble in any medium. Remember Eddie Murphy’s pop album? I can’t forget it.

Reynolds says he’s actually been painting for 20 years and that he specializes in slightly abstract oil renderings of landscapes and scenes of suburbia. Then Reynolds tells me he’s also an art teacher at Santa Clara University. “It’s the oldest college in California actually,” he says. Something’s wrong here. I ask him point blank, is he Ryan Reynolds the actor? “Oh no,” he says. “I’m Ryan Reynolds the artist.” :/ It turns out this Reynolds was born in Southern California and is not married to Blake Lively. He gets this sort of thing all the time, he says. One time, at an airport in Utah, someone holding a sign with his name on it drew an eager, and then disappointed, crowd. It’s a funny story, but I’ve got pressing concerns. “So you would have no in with the Canadian government, say, if someone like me was trying to relocate,” I ask. “It’s not like you could call up Justin Trudeau ...” I hear laughing. “I wish I could,” he says. “That would be great to have that kind of clout. But no, I’m afraid I don’t even know that many Canadians honestly.”

Coming (baCk) to ameriCa I’ve been back home for a few weeks now and the dream of Canada has started to fade. The daily grind is like that—it grinds you down until all you see is what’s in front of you. There are mass shootings to be horrified about, lateseason wildfires to be terrified of, fresh hells to cover. Sitting in my car, idling behind a line of other cars waiting to turn left from 12th Street onto J Street, I’m reminding myself to breathe when I spot the shirtless man whose karate moves have backed up traffic. He has hair like Kurt Russell, a sturdy gray beard and a pinched expression of haughty disregard for the motorists threading around him. He makes a point of waiting for the lights to change so that he can wade into oncoming traffic and perform what looks like some off-the-books version of tai chi. Yet I don’t see anyone lose their cool, lean on their horns or threaten to bumper-tag him out of their way. We accept this man. We honor his performance. And then we roll on. Even with the delay, I manage to beat Julio Molina to Ink Eats and Drinks on N Street. Molina works at a nearby property development company and is president of the nonprofit Dream. Develop. Do., which focuses on making higher education more accessible within marginalized communities. Molina knows this terrain intimately. The 26-year-old was brought by his parents to Sacramento from their native Mexico in the early 1990s, when Molina was just 2. Growing up undocumented in America, Molina says there was no expectation that he would attend college. When he was in high school, an art teacher grabbed hold, introducing him to different clubs and community colleges, which was an alien concept at the time. He eventually graduated from UC Santa Cruz. Molina knows why his parents broke immigration laws to come here. If you’re a mother or a father, you probably know the reason, too. It’s that old saw about wanting your kids to have the opportunities you never did. Molina’s father dropped out of elementary school to enter the workforce. His mother dropped out of nursing school when she became pregnant with him.

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The fifth annual Creative Women Mini-Con will be held 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. October 21 at Empires Comics Vault, 1120 Fulton Avenue. Learn more at www.empirescomics.com.

by amy bee

Who gets to be a geek? Creative Women Mini-Con boosts local artists in a scene that’s historically unwelcoming to women

Sarah René Kraft, left, Heather Merrifield, center, and Jen Monson handwrote their own words of empowerment.

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“Creative Women Mini-Con is necessary for helping self-described “geek fan” heather merrifield to set the example of what a welcoming space looks like,” says she once struggled to call herself an artist. Kraft says. At comic conventions, she and her friends were Ben Schwartz, the owner of Empires Comics Vault, quizzed by men who had taken on the mantle of sensed that same need for a figurative welcome mat five geek gatekeeper, challenging women to answer years ago. After talking to several female fan trivia to suss out whether or customers who also happened to be not these women actually artists, he realized they weren’t “belonged.” showing their art to the public. An experienced metalsmith and Schwartz says he recognized that photographer, Merrifield met the same Sacramento has a considerable resistance from acquaintances when it number of women artists undercame to pursuing art as a career. She represented at other conventions. says they had a tendency to benevoHe thought to himself, “Well, lently diminish her work, calling it why not use this space?” “cute” or a “great hobby,” but not Schwartz notes that many anything to take too seriously. former guest artists come back “Men in the same field are much each year, but he is especially more likely to be encouraged to proud to spotlight newbies submit to galleries and make art as a who may have been nervous job,” Merrifield notes. “It’s disheartto publicize and sell their ening, to say the least.” artwork. Merrifield and 19 other local “We try to keep it open to artists will be showcasing their the up-and-comers, so they have work this Saturday at the fifth that springboard,” he says. “I annual Creative Women Mini-Con, sarah rené krafT want to make sure everyone has a held at Empires Comics Vault in arTisT chance to have their stuff seen.” Arden Arcade. The prerequisite for a Merrifield recalls the excitement place at the table? Being an artistically she felt when Schwartz encouraged talented woman. That’s why there will her to apply. “I didn’t expect him to be such a wide array of genres: jewelry, accept me, honestly. I showed him some comics, paintings, sculptures and books, all by of my work from my phone, and he seemed women at different stages in their careers. The event interested.” As one of the newcomers this year, she is lookemphasizes creation, not geek culture—even though the event ing forward to showcasing her art and getting her name out is at a comic store—and that’s an essential component of why there. Creative Women Mini-Con has been so popular over the last Schwartz concedes that the convention world is in the five years, and what sets it apart from other local art convenmidst of a significant change, but maintains that CWMC tions or Sac-Cons. is unique to the scene. “Anything you can imagine that fits Sarah René Kraft has been pursuing art professionally within ‘creative,’ we’re going to give you a table.” He adds since 2009 and has participated in CWMC since its inception. that customers of all genders attend, making it his second Her playful, dark renderings with pencil and paper invoke biggest event of the year behind free comic book day. For dreamlike journeys that are both surrealist fantasy and deeply some attendees, it’s their first time coming into a comic personal—her friends like to call it “pastel goth.” As an avid book store. participant in geek culture, Kraft says she’s witnessed sexist In the event’s first year, Jen Monson visited as a customer bias in the art and geek communities, but now, those who once and knew it was something she wanted to be part of. She controlled the dominant narrative—namely, white men—have was inspired by the camaraderie she saw among the artists. been asked to make room for other voices and perspectives. Monson says she struggles with anxiety and depression, so Kraft is quick to point out that women in the industry have participating in CWMN has helped her to connect with the already made considerable contributions to the history of arts community. “I felt so comfortable here that I was able to comics and arts. branch out, get to know other people in the world and get into “The difficulty is in finding the same spotlighting traditionthings like Sac Anime or River City Marketplace,” she says. ally afforded to male creators, especially without the scrutiny This year, Monson will be bringing back her resinand online abuse experienced by so many women in the geek painted koi bowls to CWMC, as well as debuting a few community,” she says. paintings. Although Monson says she hasn’t experienced Creative Women Mini-Con gives women artists a firsthand bias in the art world, she says Mini-Con makes platform to expose their work to the public without the her feel more comfortable and acts as a needed morale gatekeeper-mentality exhibited by some fans. Controversies boost in a culture that is often dismissive of women. like Gamergate—a massive, coordinated attack on women “I guess it helped me to not be so afraid to try because involved in the video game community—may grab headlines, there were other women doing it,” she says. but it’s not a singular event. Women artists say they often Even in the face of adversity, Kraft says, women will experience attempts to intimidate them out of creative spaces continue to tell their stories, and events like Creative and that they receive harsher criticism than their male peers. Women Mini-Con will help them tell it. “These events say Historically, comic-book stores are the gatekeepers that to young girls, ‘Your work is relevant. People want to see control geek culture. By holding this convention, Empires it. We want to see it. We want you to make it.’” Ω Comics Vault acknowledges that women are a legitimate force within its community.

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White out At Sacramento’s second Le Dîner en Blanc, drumlines thumped and horn ensembles riffed. Nearly 1,700 guests dressed in white descended upon the Memorial Auditorium on October 7, towing carts that contained their own tables, chairs, place-settings and, in the majority of cases, dinner. Wearing a shoulderless white dress, purple lipstick and 10 diamond studs in her ears, Airreea Hayes said she made a “fabulous” dinner of roasted chicken, potatoes and green beans that she and her husband enjoyed. Despite the bring-your-own-meal premise, the exclusive dinner was mostly by invitation. Hayes scored an early sign-up on the waitlist—home to 5,100 hopeful future attendees, said Christine Ault, one of the six members in the host team that organized the Sacramento rendition. The event exists in 87 cities worldwide. “[Dîner en Blanc doesn’t] want a city to run it,” Ault said. “They don’t want an event agency to run it. They want it to be organic. It’s a pop-up picnic. It’s not for profit or for a cause. People do it [because] they want to.” The host team assembled the original guest list. Those on it could invite one guest, and one friend, who in turn could invite another guest to the event, which debuted at the Golden 1 Center last year. The semi-private affair is “like a wedding,” said Ault, who added that organizers also reserve 15 percent of the space for wait-listers. On Saturday, guests arrived in pairs at the lawn surrounding the auditorium and sat next to strangers. This is meant to encourage a cross-pollination of social circles. Ault’s table included Patrick and Bobbin Mulvaney (Bobbin is another organizer). The host team and their guests dined on rabbit and filet mignon. But others who paid $48 to attend brought more humble gourmet fare like a caprese salad, a charcuterie plate and bacon-puff-pastry-twists, a recipe that participant Christy Jewel found on Pinterest. Wine and ready-made food could also be purchased. Although the rules mandated white outfits, the limitation prompted an astonishing range of styles. Women ignored post-Labor-Day fashion norms and dazzled in an array of dresses and rompers. A man named “Buzz” wore a white kilt. Patrick Mulvaney rocked white crocs. But the flossiest was Tre Borden, a member of the host team who donned

A man named “Buzz” wore a white kilt.

high-top nikes, a powdered wig and a revolutionary-era jacket with gold-fringed epaulets. After a weird a capella interpretation of the National Anthem, the entertainment included a ballet performance, a try-hard comedy sketch by B Street Theatre and a set by cover band Take 2, who came on around 8 p.m. to open the dance floor—an occasion marked by the lighting of more than 1,000 sparklers. The imported French concept that looks positively elitist earned mockery from a few passersby. And despite being by and for Sacramentans, the event felt mildly out of place and symbolic of a bourgeois cultural change. But if not for the Dîner en Blanc, the Memorial Auditorium—one of the most historic, beautiful and underused buildings in Sacramento—might have been dead on a Saturday night.

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Cowgirl up hawaiian cowgirl, buFFalo Pizza & ice creaM Buffalo Pizza & Ice Cream changed ownership a few years back, and the result has been better, more innovative pies, including tasty vegan options. Choose from various toppings—including tofu, nutritional yeast and Nacheez (a nacho cheese-esque sauce)—or go with one of the shop’s specialties. The Hawaiian Cowgirl ($11-$29) is particularly delicious. Made with red sauce, garlic Nacheez, pineapple, vegan sausage and barbecue sauce, it boasts a hearty, nuanced flavor. Buffalo’s owners are planning to expand into a full-service pizza joint in Oak Park—exact date still to be determined. 2600 21st Street, www.buffalobreakfastpizza.com.

—rachel leibrock Hu tieu Nam Vang, fish cake appetizer and a load of other goodies at Cambodia Restaurant. pHoto By Scott duNcaN

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When I tried to order the fish cakes, the restaurant was out of them—twice. Instead, my server recomSouth Sacramento, Cambodian $$$ mended a substitute of the lemongrass beef stick ($5.99) which was gamy and gristly with no detectable lemongrass, but did have some crunchy-sweet pickled cabbage and carrots on the side. A bowl of pho dac biet ($7.50) was too oily and oneSometimes persistence pays off. On my third visit to note meaty. I left the bowl half-finished. Perhaps pho the uncreatively named Cambodia Restaurant, I was able was not the best thing to order at a Cambodian restauto convince the server to let me order the Khmer fish rant, but the menu is a mix of Cambodian, Vietnamese, cakes ($5.95), after three attempts. Chinese and even Thai dishes, so I gambled—and lost. My first try was during an unplanned visit. On On the third visit I tried again to order the Khmer a weekday evening, I hit up three of my favorite fish cake and was told no and that I wouldn’t like Vietnamese spots—Co Do Deli, Quan Nem Ninh Hoa it. Nevertheless, I persisted and was finally and Long Sandwich—and watched in dismay successful. I don’t know who wouldn’t like as they all snapped off their open signs. a non-fishy, hot-fried fish cake colored Disheartened, I headed north on Stockton and flavored with turmeric and redolent Boulevard and saw that the stuccoed pink Order the hu of lemongrass and chili, but I wouldn’t former home of Ocean King Seafood tieu nam vang want to be friends with them. Restaurant was now Cambodia Restaurant. and the fish cake I also tried the dac biet mi la cay trieu A sign declared “grand opening” as of chau, another soup-on-the-side noodle early August. appetizer. dish ($8.95), this one with a juicy fried I walked in and gratefully ordered the chicken wing tucked into the bowl. Again, house specialty at my server’s recommendafried garlic, chive and scallion dominated the tion, hu tieu Nam Vang, served “dry” without palate, but that’s not a bad thing. broth. Hu tieu is a noodle soup with many different If you’re cruising Stockton Boulevard and every varieties, and Nam Vang is the Vietnamese name for Vietnamese restaurant that claims that it closes at 8 p.m. Phnom Penh. This variation on hu tieu is a bowl of shuts off its lights at 7:30 p.m., Cambodia Restaurant is pho-style rice noodles with ground pork, thin-sliced pork a good plan B. Order the hu tieu nam vang and the fish liver, and shrimp and squid. Bone-in pork broth is on the cake appetizer from Cambodia Restaurant, even if you side. The noodles are satisfyingly oily, and the dominant have to ask for the latter three times. Ω flavors are fried garlic and fresh Chinese chives. Order a plate of the off-menu savory fried dough (quay) to dip into the broth. 26 | SN&R | 10.19.17 Good for: Hu tieu Nam Vang, Khmer fish cakes

Marigold margarita PersiMMon Margarita, the FlaMingo house social club There are two qualities I look for in a good margarita: I want it fresh and boozy. It doesn’t need to be pretty, but the Flamingo House’s persimmon margarita delivers on all three. A new K Street bar, the Flamingo House boasts a colorful lounge atmosphere, fitting for fruity drinks crafted by friendly bartenders. Topped with persimmon slices and a small marigold, the margarita ($11) has slight spice but is not overwhelmed by the fruit. And it’s not too sweet to have a second. Or third. 2315 K Street, www.facebook.com/flamingosac.

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An eye for pie butternut squash You know that fall is imminent when you start to long for curvaceous butternut squash. The creamy fleshed cucurbit keeps long after harvest—but why wait? Halve small butternuts and roast them, then stuff with a nut-studded grain salad for a vegan meal. Cut it into chunks to toss with pomegranate seeds for a picturesque side, or puree the cooked flesh for a satiny smooth “pumpkin” pie, and no one will be the wiser. The meaty vegetable goes equally well with savory and sweet dishes, and it packs plenty of vitamin A to keep your eyes sharp for sneaky pie thieves.

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Midtown meatfest To celebrate the fifth anniversary of LowBrau (1050 20th Street), co-owner Michael Hargis and executive chef Brock Macdonald decided to throw Sausagefest, a quintessentially midtown take on Oktoberfest. On October 21 from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m., 10 local chefs—including Adam Schulze from Waterboy, Mike Thiemann from Empress Tavern and Dane Blom from Hawks Public House—will compete against each other to craft the most supreme pork sausage. The event is free entry, but a $25 ticket offers swag, beer and a sampling of each chef’s custom-curated meat. For entertainment, there’s a beer garden, a socks-andBirkenstocks fashion show and a Daft Punk cover band, One More Time, that will play a set in full helmeted regalia. Macdonald won’t be competing as he said it’d look “suspect” if he won his own event. Still, that doesn’t mean the competition’s head judge thinks the participants serve better sausages, as he half-jokingly said, “We like to think of it as a competition for second place.”

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Halloween barnyard brunch by Shoka Be honest, what sounds like it’ll feed your soul more: Pigging out on pumpkin-shaped candy corn that is made from bugs (shellac), gelatin (boiled animal bones and tissue) and potentially toxic food dye (Red No. 3), or watching real live pigs chomp on real pumpkins? The latter, the obviously less-scary option, is Oink-a-Ween, and it’s happening at the farm-animal sanctuary Animal Place at 17314 McCourtney Road in Grass Valley on Saturday, October 28. The human attendees are encouraged

to bring a pumpkin for the pigs and wear a costume, and they’ll receive a trick-or-treating session. They’ll also get to make and feed treats to the sanctuary’s bunnies and chickens. The event is $5 (tickets at www.animalplace.org) and is from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., so it’s basically barnyard brunch. This may sound like a kidcentric event, but being outdoors and connecting with animals is healing, so just put on your sexy poopemoji costume and medicate yourself by watching animals brunch.

Silver star: In September, Andy Baker went to the Golden Bean North America competition in Portland mainly as a judge. But the co-owner and head roaster at Chocolate Fish Coffee Roasters ended up winning big at the largest coffee roasting showdown on the continent. At the award ceremony, he went up to the stage five times to pick up medals for his espresso, pour-over and single-source blends. “You start jingling a little bit like a gangster with all your medals,” he joked. “And I was just sitting, talking to the guy next to me when they announced second place overall. And it was us. I was literally stunned.” For his roasts, Baker seeks to pull out the natural, fruity flavors from the coffee cherry that are in a bean. As soon as roasters start applying heat, the sucrose inside

the bean caramelizes, which turns it from green to brown and “degrades its quality,” he said. So, Baker “cooks” his beans just enough to unearth their flavor while minimizing darker, roasty notes. “Our goal is to remove as little quality as possible,” he said. “We want to stop the process when it’s at its sweetest.” Andy and his wife/co-owner, Edie, go to Guatemala yearly to check in with the farmers that supply their coffee. Andy said the trips give him an appreciation of the immense labor—picking, sorting, depulping, fermenting, washing and sorting again—that takes place for each bag. He said a cup of coffee should be about double the price it is, but these farmers earn a fraction of American workers. And so, the Bakers have given back from the success of their business to build a school, a rainwater collection system and

latrines for the villages. Starting October 15, Chocolate Fish hosted several Coffee Specialty Week events that included a talk on October 17 by coffee farmers Juan Luis Barrios from Guatemala and Jose Maria de Olivera from Brazil. On October 19, there will be a $100 pop-up dinner at the cafe (4749 Folsom Boulevard) catered by Mike Fagnoni of Hawks Public House, who will incorporate coffee into each of the four courses. The dinner’s proceeds will benefit the Guatemalan village school. Coffee Specialty Week features brewing competitions, educational seminars and guided tastings to enhance the knowledge of Sacramentans and the quality of coffee they brew at home because, as Andy said, “If you don’t know what good coffee tastes like, you can’t make good coffee.” Ω

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Character Peter Matson is either a professional actor trying out a new character or he’s a very real serial victimizer of women who, when he’s finished toying with them, lobotomizes them. Maude Christopher is either the actor’s latest audience of one or the monster’s next intended victim. Maude is a psychiatrist who has interviewed the women left paralyzed by the man who has been dubbed the Toyer. One evening, at home in her secluded apartment off Mulholland Drive, she gets a knock at her door. It’s the young gay man(he says) who had helped her start her car earlier. He followed her (he says) to make sure she got home safely. What follows is a game of cat and mouse in which roles seem to reverse and re-reverse in a brutal—perhaps unnecessarily so—drama that the audience seems to know the truth about but can’t easily guess the outcome of. Paj Crank, who suggested the play to producer/ director Elise Hodge, stars as Matson, and he has the charm and guile (and occasional psycho presence) to pull off the challenging character. Bethany Hidden takes Maude from friendly-but-wary hostess to wily adversary through a torrent of emotional moments. Playwright Gardner McKay, an actor-turnedwriter, knows how to create a strong character and to depict brutality that is both physical and emotional. Director Hodge has a firm grip on the drama, gives each actor room to explore the role (although Hidden may over-emote at times) and moves the action confidently about the small but effective set.

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4 Blithe Spirit In celebration of the season, the Woodland Opera House presents Noel Coward’s spooky ghost story Blithe Spirit, which the playwright called an “improbable farce.” In an unforgettable performance, Lenore Sebastian plays the wacky British medium, Madame Arcati, brought to the home of author Charles Condomine to perform a seance. The author is hoping to get material on professional charlatans for an upcoming book. He and his guests look on the experience as a lark. Unexpectedly, Madame Arcati, channeling spirits with dances and flailing arms, manages to resurrect the ghost of Condomine’s first wife Elvira (Analise Langford-Clark), which causes no end of problems for his second wife Ruth (Patricia Glass), who at first thinks Elvira is a figment of Charles’ alcohol-induced imagination. The script is very funny, though sometimes the upper-crust British accents are hard to decipher). Amidst the humor, the test of the security of Condomine’s second matrimony and his realization of what went wrong with his first provide a sharp examination of the challenges that occur in a marriage. This is an excellent, fun production by a firstrate cast under the direction of Robert Cooner, and just the thing to ease the audience into the Halloween season. Recommended for audiences ages 8 and up, children under 4 not allowed. —BEV SYKES Blithe spirit, 7:30 p.m. fridays and saturdays; 2pm sundays; $15$25. Woodland opera house, 340 2nd street in Woodland; (530) 666-9617; www.woodlandoperahouse.org. through november 5.

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wheelchair with a built-in respirator, Robin traveled the world and became an advocate for the severely disabled. But as lovingly produced by Robin and Diana’s son Jonathan, Breathe doesn’t We almost lost Andrew Garfield for a moment there. offer much more than auburn-tinged hero worship After a string of eye-catching supporting roles that (Robin always seems to be wheeling into a standing culminated in 2010 with The Social Network and ovation). There’s no story, no urgency and no Never Let Me Go, the 29-year-old Garfield was tapped antagonists other than some sputtering cartoon villain to play teenage Spider-Man in a franchise reboot that doctors and a banker with a runny nose. was foolish in conception and thoroughly botched in Cinematographer Robert Richardson (The execution. The two Amazing Spider-Man movies were Hateful Eight) provides some lovely images, but categorically awful and Garfield looked the pleasant yet stale Breathe lacks even lost in the lead role, yet those two films the puppy-soft edge of The Theory monopolized nearly half a decade of of Everything, a film that at least his development before the plug got Andrew bestowed its characters with inner pulled. Garfield lives and human flaws. Claire Foy’s Post-Spidey, Garfield meticuDiana gets the most neglected by gives a fine lead lously set about rehabbing his repuSerkis and screenwriter William tation as an actor, re-embracing performance but Nicholson (Unbroken), and she’s small movies by starring in Ramin falls well short of left thoroughly undefined by Bahrani’s 99 Homes, using his anything except her heroic, starrytranscendence name value to get Martin Scorsese’s eyed love for Robin. Other supporting long-gestating Silence made, going characters only exist to marvel at Robin’s through physical transformations for both awesomeness. Silence and Hacksaw Ridge and appearing Garfield gives a fine lead performance, capturon stage in a London Theater production of Angels ing Robin’s humor and persistence even when in America. After all that savvy rehab, Garfield receives acting with just his face and a strangled voice, but his reward: a starring role in a drippy biopic positioned falls well short of transcendence. Serkis (who shot to attract awards season attention. a live-action/CGI adaptation of The Jungle Book Andy Serkis doffs the mo-cap suit to direct Breathe, as his directorial debut more than two years ago, an old-fashioned period piece about the British disability but saw the release repeatedly pushed back when advocate and long-time “responaut” Robin Cavendish. Disney’s version became a blockbuster) keeps things While his devoted wife Diana was pregnant with their jovial and pip-pip until a final half-hour of inspiring child, Robin became paralyzed from polio, and was only speeches and merciless tear duct-wringing. Devoid kept alive through a mechanical respirator. Although of any fully realized characters, though, Breathe initially suicidal, Robin grew confident enough to leave feels like an awards campaign in search of a film. Ω the hospital, defying medical precedent by living a comparatively comfortable existence at home with his wife and son. With the assistance of Diana and his friend Teddy Hall, an Oxford professor who helped develop a

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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-so-different-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.

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American Made

Tom Cruise stars as real-life pilot Barry Seal, who ran drugs for the Medellín Cartel in the 1970s and ’80s, went undercover for the DEA when he got busted, and was murdered by the cartel in 1986. In director Doug Liman and writer Gary Spinelli’s telling, Seal works not for drug money, but at the shadowy behest of the CIA (in the oily person of Domnhall Gleeson); Seal himself is just an all-American guy-next-door going with the flow—and while he’s at it, raking in more cash than he knows what to do with. At 55, Cruise still does “impish charm” pretty well, and there’s no denying the rollicking energy he and Liman bring to bear. The last act is overloaded with dots for us to connect (Iran-Contra! CIA! Oliver North! George H.W. Bush!), but the movie—like Seal’s shady career—is fun while it lasts. J.L.

Blade Runner 2049

Possibly the least provocative provocateur in contemporary cinema, director Denis Villeneuve (Prisoners; Arrival) is the modern master of empty, thundering portent, and the dystopic future cinematic universe of Blade Runner gives him a gigantic space to practice his darkly didactic arts. So long, mystery and sensuality! Hello, world-building mythology and plot, plot, plot! More a straight sequel than a reboot, Blade Runner 2049 takes place 30 years after the original, in a world where a new messianic technocrat named Niander Wallace (Jared Leto, bad) has replaced Tyrell, creating an updated breed of obedient replicants. Earth remains a rain-swept, neon-lit shithole, a refuse pile for the remains of humanity unfit for off-world colonization, and blade runners still hunt and “retire” rogue old-model replicants. Ryan Gosling plays a young blade runner named “K,” sporting an updated model of Harrison Ford’s brown trench coat, and living out a similarly lonely and booze-soaked existence. D.B.

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.

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Professor Marston and the Wonder Women

This is the second of three Wonder Woman-related properties set to premiere in calendar year 2017, although it comes with far fewer CGI explosions than Patty Jenkins’ hacky Wonder Woman or Zack Snyder’s dreaded Justice League. Instead, Angela Robinson’s Professor Marston and the Wonder Women tells a period story of the comic book character’s creator, William Moulton Marston (Luke Evans), a professor and psychologist who based the Amazon superhero on his wife and colleague Elizabeth (Rebecca Hall), as well as their long-time mutual lover Olive Byrne (Bella Heathcoate). Marston spent his career dissecting themes of dominance, submission and powerful women, finding the perfect expression in a polyamorous relationship with Olive and Elizabeth, and also finding the perfect propaganda machine in comic books. Hall and Heathcoate both do strong work, but Evans’ performance feels strained and false, and this otherwise smart and savvy film gets handcuffed by a weak framing device.

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.

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.

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fly them out—only to have the plane crash and leave them injured and marooned high in the Rockies. Adapted by Chris Weitz and J. Mills Goodloe (from Charles Martin’s novel) and tensely directed by Hany Abu-Assad, it’s essentially a two-person survival drama leaning heavily on the chemistry of the two stars (Beau Bridges as their ill-fated pilot and Dermot Mulroney as Winslet’s fiancé barely amount to cameos). The final few scenes ramble on a bit longer than they need to, and the ending flirts with outright hokum, but Elba and Winslet come through—likewise the deadly/beautiful mountain scenery, sharply photographed by Mandy Walker. J.L.

My Little Pony: The Movie

The meandering plot is merely a framework to involve as many Hasbro toys as possible and separate little girls from their parents’ money. There are some catchy (if forgettable) songs to get toes tapping, but the animation looks like something doodled with colored pencils in an elementary school notebook. And considering that this cutesy-pie drivel couldn’t possibly interest anyone over the age of 7, letting it babble on for an hour and 39 minutes is sheer madness. J.L.

Only the Brave

Director Joseph Kosinski and writers Ken Nolan and Eric Warren Singer recount the story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a 20-man crew of firefighters from Prescott, Arizona, 19 of whom died fighting a wildfire in 2013. It’s a harrowing story of heroism and dedication, and the movie does it full justice. A slew of well-known names—Josh Brolin, Miles Teller, Jeff Bridges, Jennifer Connelly, Andie MacDowell, Taylor Kitsch—all but disappear into their sharply drawn characters; this movie looks and feels real on every level, and there’s hardly a cliché to be found. There’s plenty of credit to go around— to cinematographer Claudio Miranda, to editor Billy Fox, and to the effects technicians who created some of the most terrifying fire scenes ever put on film. J.L.

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To barter his soul, Robert Johnson met the devil at a crossroad. He took Johnson’s guitar that midnight, perfectly tuned its steel strings, played a few songs and returned it with a curse of Delta blues mastery. Others claim the two traded in a graveyard. The myth of how Johnson got the ability to make Depression-era music history—overnight—depends on the maker. 34 | SN&R | 10.19.17

Almost a century after Johnson’s death, Blue Oaks frontman Brendan Stone says he may have encountered the Old Boy, too. Cute, curious and creepy signs of Satan’s intervention turn up in his story of making the four-piece’s debut album, To Be Kind is Sin. First, on Craigslist: A used guitar ad beckoned Stone’s wallet with a Gibson much like the one Johnson played, built in 1928, the

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year he died. Deteriorated gear cycled through to a life of music, to carry the same torch as the trade counter at Skips Music, where Johnson and Mick Jagger? Or is he just chasing Stone worked: a Big Muff fuzz pedal (aka the the devil, trying to join a legacy he admired? “Ram’s Head”) and a rare Marshall amp with Stone has long dressed like his idols, Elvis a serial number that includes “666.” He bought Presley and Bob Dylan, even though his high all three instruments and restored them. school classmates taunted him for it. At 17, Stone summons the Big Muff throughout promoters booked his folk act because it was To Be Kind is Sin, disturbing the quieter parts good—and unusual: He’d sing and strum along with its mighty curtain of fuzz. Part blues, folk to a phonograph playing vinyl. and heavy rock, the record weeps like Today, his Stone Vintage Music Muddy Waters, poeticizes like Bob Boutique on R Street is a museum Dylan and terrorizes like Black of weathered instruments, a Sabbath. space furnished with a 1950s The record The album is Stone’s television and retro-futuristic coming-of-age memoir put machines. The R Street store weeps like Muddy to music. His rasped whiswill close after opening in Waters, poeticizes pers narrate his struggles May. The temporary lease like Bob Dylan and making moral choices ends this year, and while (“Devil on My Side”), his he’ll tour the new record for terrorizes like Black pessimism about the sacreda while, Stone plans to try Sabbath. ness of life (“Nicotine”) and again with a new shop when death (“Time Signals”). Stone he returns. wrote and rewrote the songs Some customers who enter over the last decade, between job the store scoff that it’s pretentious and transitions, ended relationships and bad days. It nostalgic, Stone says. But he sees it as a muchfinishes with his reconciliation: “What’s done needed homage. He devotes his life to preservis done.” ing the past, and worries that the younger “I see it as a current record,” Stone, 27, generation is losing sight of its value. says. “But on a personal level, all of it’s from “Being able to see where things come from, the past.” and know how they grew to be the way they The album also explores traditional ideas of are; I want people to understand that,” Stone good and evil. So when that evil ventured from says. “And I don’t think anyone is growing up old gear and into the recording space, Stone [saying that they] don’t want to know about knew why. those things. It’s because their parents aren’t In 1968, the Rolling Stones’ studio burned teaching them.” down after they recorded “Sympathy for the About theramins, for example, which Devil.” The ultra-flammable tape somehow produce those UFO sounds in black-and-white survived the wreckage. On its live debut, a horror films. They’re difficult to play. You concertgoer was stabbed to death in the crowd, wave your hands over two antennas to produce and the Stones decided not to perform the song the sound. for a while. You’ll hear the theramin’s eerie flight in the Back in 2017, Stone witnessed a strange song “Sand and Skin.” Stone’s hands—or some coincidence during the recording of “Sin other force—produced a perfect melody in the Will Find You Out,” a short interlude sung a first take. And the second. cappella. After Stone finished his vocal take, “[The melody] had accents and flows right drummer Cody Walker, who’d been reading where it needed to be,” Stone says. “And it was comic books on his tablet, rushed into the right in key. We just went like, ‘OK, that’s the room. There, on the current page, they both take. Let’s not touch that thing again.’” Ω saw it. The Joker, cryptically warning: “Sin will find you out, Batman!” But was some cosmic presence really blue oaks will play to be kind is sin in full on october 30, 8 signalling to Stone? Choosing him, just as p.m., at the Clara auditorium. $5 minimum cover. For more details, visit www.blueoaksmusic.com. he believed certain people were predestined

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SATURDAY, 10/21 AFTERSHOCK: Annual rock fest. Saturday lineup includes Nine Inch Nails, A Perfect Circle, Run the Jewels, Stone Sour and Anti-Flag. 11am, $94.50-$200. Discovery Park, 1600 Garden Highway.

COLONIAL COMPLEX BENEFIT SHOW: The Barfly Effect, Point of View, The Moans, United Defiance and Dead Is Better play in support of the all-ages venues, The Colony and Cafe Colonial. Hosted by Alpha as Fuck. Costumes encouraged. 7pm, $10. Cafe Colonial, 3520 Stockton Blvd.

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Young (P)oets (O)f (C)olor (POC) Showcase Sol ColleCtive, 10:30 P.M., $10 This Friday, young folks will share their perspectives and experiences as people of color through powerful spoken POETRY word performances. Local poets representing neighborhoods throughout Sacramento will be joined by those from the Bay, San Diego and Chicago in this celebration and showcase of their talents. Performers in their teens to their early 20s with diverse, intersectional identities will

Wings Denied and more. 7pm, $8-$10. PJ’s Roadhouse, 5641 Mother Lode Drive in Placerville.

THURSDAY, 10/19 LAS MIGAS: Spanish band performs a fusion of

flamenco, jazz and more. 5:30pm, $25-$30. Harlow’s, 2708 J St.

PAUL COLLINS: Paul Collins of The Nerves and The Beat (the American one) with Plastic Shoelaces, Boy Romeo and DJ Dali Baba. 8pm, call for cover. The Press Club, 2030 P St.

SARAH POTENZA: Nashville musician, songwriter and contestant on The Voice performs. 4pm, call for cover The Lodge at Odd Fellows Hall, 415 Second St. in Davis.

SLOW SEASON: With Cloud Catcher, Peace Killers. 8pm, $10-$12. Blue Lamp, 1400 Alhambra Blvd.

THE SACRAMENTO STORYTELLERS: With the

Scouse Gits, the Gargoyles. 9pm, $6. The Torch Club, 904 15th St.

SACRAMENTO PORCHFEST: See event highlight on page 39. 1pm, no cover. 21st and I St.

SUNDAY, 10/22 AFTERSHOCK: Annual rock fest. Sunday lineup includes Ozzy Osbourne with Zakk Wylde, Five Finger Death Punch, Suicidal Tendencies and Halestorm. 11am, $94.50-$200. Discovery Park, 1600 Garden Highway.

ANDREW BIRD: Instrumentalist, vocalist and

FRIDAY, 10/20 AMERICAN DISCHORD: With Dead Is Better, Danger Inc. 7pm, $5. The Colony, 3512 Stockton Blvd.

JAZZ AT THE BEN: Professional jazz musicians and the Natomas Charter School’s Performing and Fine Arts Academy Show Band and Vocal Ensemble perform. 7pm, $10$12. The Benvenuti Performing Arts Center, 4600 Blackrock Dr.

PAUL WELLER: Former member of the Jam and the Style Council performs with Lucy Rose.

7pm, $38. Ace Of Spades, 1417 R St.

8pm, $7. Shine, 1400 E St.

SO MUCH LIGHT: Halloween house party with themed performances by Hobo Johnson, DoofyDoo and So Much Light. Costume contest, bobbing for apples and a haunted house. BYOB. 8pm, $15. Red Museum, 212 15th St.

TOGETHER PANGEA: With Tall Juan, the Side Eyes. 5:30pm, $12-$14. Harlow’s, 2708 J St.

TRANSGENDER LAW CENTER BENEFIT SHOW: Floral Jacket, Planet Pedestrian and Your Local Cemetery play a fundraiser show for the Transgender Law Center. 5:30pm, by donation. Armadillo Music, 207 F St. in Davis.

DÍA DE LOS MUERTOS: Bring chairs, blankets and items to contribute to the collective altar honoring all ancestors. Artists and performers will practice indigenousinfluenced rituals. 9am, no cover. Davis Cemetery, 820 Pole Line Road in Davis.

GIBSON RANCH PUMPKIN FESTIVAL: See event

description on 10/21. 10am, $5-$90. Gibson Ranch Park, 8556 Gibson Ranch Park Road in Elverta.

HALLOWEEN PSYCHIC & HEALING ARTS FAIR:

songwriter plays his unique brand of pop. 7pm, $22.50-$45. Mondavi Center, 1 Shields Ave. in Davis.

Holistic health practitioners, spiritual counselors, speakers and more gather to provide resources and knowledge. 10am, $0$10. Crowne Plaza Hotel, 5321 Date Ave.

THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN: With Cold Cave. 7pm, $32. Ace Of Spades, 1417 R St.

FOOD & DRINK

SLUTZVILLE: With Killer Couture, Rebel

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food prepared by the area’s finest chefs, cocktails, dessert and bid on unique auction packages. March of Dimes fundraiser. 6pm, $250. Memorial Auditorium, 1515 J St.

and more. 8pm, $10-$12. Blue Lamp, 1400 Alhambra Blvd.

DANDELION MASSACRE: With Bird Teeth, Bigger than Mountains. 8pm, $5. Cafe Colonial, 3520 Stockton Blvd.

SATURDAY, 10/21 70TH SACRAMENTO ARMENIAN FOOD FESTIVAL:

TUESDAY, 10/24 AUBREY LOGAN: Singer-songwriter performs

covers and original music. 5:30pm, $20-$25. Harlow’s, 2708 J St.

PREGNANT: With Imelda Marcos, Anime Aliens.

month with food, games, a pumpkin patch and a live DJ. A haunted maze and a zombie obstacle course will be set up at night. 11am, $10. William Land Park, 3800 W. Land Park Drive.

SUNDAY, 10/22

WEDNESDAY, 10/25

MUSIC

OCTOBERFEST: A celebration of the spookiest

haunted walk-through of the castle. Not for young children. 7pm, $25. Preston Castle Foundation, 900 Palm Drive in Ione.

Holocrons, Lightweight. 8pm, $5-$10. The Colony, 3512 Stockton Blvd.

share pieces of themselves on stage, revealing personal histories entangled within social structures. We all have something to learn from their words—about ourselves, our communities and our world. After the original 7 p.m. show sold out, a second performance of this anticipated showcase was scheduled for later that evening. 2574 21st Street, www.poc2017.eventbrite.com.

festival with bounce houses, hay rides, a pumpkin patch and family entertainment. 10am, $5-$90. Gibson Ranch Park, 8556 Gibson Ranch Park Road in Elverta.

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SING WITH US!: Join Dinorah and Carlos Kandia for a new community singing group. No experience necessary. 6pm, no cover. Latino Center of Art and Culture, 2700 Front St.

SWMRS: With the Interrupters. 6:30pm, $15-$17. Holy Diver, 1517 21st Street.

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Gourmet Armenian food, dancing and family entertainment. 11am, $0-$5. Greek Hellenic Center & Hall, 614 Alhambra Blvd.

COFFEE WEEK AND SPLAT ALL DAY GRAND FINALE CELEBRATION: A full day of coffee attractions, including coffee education classes and a free espresso bar. The final round of SPLAT (Sacramento Public Latte Art Tournament) will also be held. 9am. The Vintage Monkey, 400 N. 16th St.

CO-OP DAY: Demos by Pachamama Coffee, Strauss Meats and more, samples, a pop-up farmers market and live music. 10am, no cover. Sacramento Natural Foods Co-Op, 2820 R St.

SAUSAGE FEST 2017: See event description on

page 38. 5pm, $0-$25. MAARS-Midtown Art Retail Restaurant Scene, 1050 20th St.

SATURDAY, 10/21 CREATIVE WOMEN MINI-CON 2017: A celebration of women in comics. Guests include Heather Merrifield, the art of Megan E. Risk, Sarah René Kraft and many more. 11am, no cover. Empires Comics Vault, 1120 Fulton Ave., Suite K.

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State Theatre. 5:30pm, $100. Auburn State Theatre, 985 Lincoln Way in Auburn.

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ameriCans aGainst Gun vioLenCe First annuaL dinner: A dinner featuring keynote speaker Josh Sugarmann, the executive director of Violence Policy Center in Washington, D.C. 5pm, $25-$45. Doubletree by Hilton, 2001 Point West Way.

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Girls take over movie night, with a trio of shorts about the feminist activist artists and Sacramento’s very own Matrix Workshop of Women Artists, a group dedicated to the women’s art scene and development in Sacramento for 39 years. 7pm, $5-$7. Verge Center for the Arts, 625 S St.

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of music on people suffering from dementia and other cognitive disorders, and highlights the national Music & Memory program, which helps patients re-ignite positive memories as they listen to songs from their past. 6pm, by donation. Rosemont High School Auditorium, 9594 Kiefer Blvd.

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California communities undergoing gentrification, including Oak Park in Sacramento. A panel discussion will follow, with folks from BLM Sacramento, ACCE, OPNA and the Sacramento Housing Alliance. 5pm, no cover. Organize Sacramento, 1714 Broadway.

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about two fallen angels trying to break back into heaven. Film includes adult language and sex. 7pm, no cover. Reason Center, 1824 Tribute Road, Suite A.

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one-day, mini-version of the summer festival showcases five French films. 11am, $11-$40. Crest Sacramento, 1013 K St.

sUndaY, 10/22 tHey CaLL us monsters: This film follows the lives of three juvenile inmates with life sentences in a Los Angeles prison who take a screenwriting course. 2pm, $5-$10. Crocker Art Museum, 216 O St.

comedY bLue LamP: Comedy Fundraiser. Headliner Dennis Gaxiola, featuring Connie Bryan. Fundraiser for Josh’s Heart, Inc., which benefits those experiencing homelessness in Sacramento. 8pm sunday, 10/22. $10. 1400 Alhambra Blvd.

Crest tHeatre: Margaret Cho—Fresh Off the

Bloat. See event highlight on page 37. 7:30pm. through 10/19. $39-$69. The Pump and Dump: A Parentally Incorrect Comedy Show and Night Out, For Once. Comedy duo Shayna Ferm and Tracey Tee take a brutally honest look at parenthood. 8pm Friday, 10/20. $25$30. 1013 K St.

LauGHs unLimited Comedy CLub: Say It Loud Comedy Show Presented by Michael Calvin, Jr. Top Sacramento comics and out-of-town favorites. Tobe Hixx headlines. 8pm thursday, 10/19. $20. 1207 Front St.

LimeLiGHt bar & CaFe: Scary Funny Comedy Night. Hosted by “Perfect Mommy” Jennifer Mikacich. 7:30pm tuesday, 10/24. $10. 1014 Alhambra Blvd.

PunCH Line: Josh Wolf. Comic and regular on Chelsea Lately performs. through 10/21. $23.55. 2100 Arden Way, Suite 225.

sCottisH rite Center: Soul Vibe Lounge. Comedy, live music, food and drinks. Performances by comedians Melanie Comarcho and Daniel Dugar. 8pm Friday, 10/20. $20-$40. 6151 H St.

on staGe biG idea tHeatre: Macbeth. Shakespeare’s tragedy about unchecked political ambition, supernatural forces and a lust for power. Inspired by Hammer horrors of the 1950s and ’60s. through 10/28. $12-$22. 1616 Del Paso Blvd.

CHautauQua PLayHouse: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. The creation of literature’s most memorable monster plays out on stage. through 11/19. $19-$21. 5325 Engle Road, Suite 110.

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Calidanza: noches de muertos CroCker Art MuseuM, 7 p.M., $14-$20

Día de Los Muertos comes to life through color and sound in this annual performance by Calidanza Dance Company under the stars at the Crocker. Come for the dancing, stay for a Catrina Catwalk Fashion Show, with costumes by designer danCe Rory Castillo, a dazzling liquid light show and live folkloric music by Vinic-Kay. 216 O Street, www.crockerart.org.

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Comedian Margaret Cho has tackled many forms of entertainment, including television, movies and books. Now she comes to the Sacramento stage with COMEDY PhOTO COuRTEsy OF ALBERT sANChEZ her newest show, Fresh Off the Bloat, which she describes as her “sickest show to date.” Like many comedians, her humor is not without controversy as she jokes about sex, race and her Korean heritage. But judge her newest show for yourself. 1013 K Street, www.crestsacramento.com.

CROCKER ART MUSEUM: Calidanza: Noches de

Muertos. See event highlight on page 36. 7pm Thursday, 10/19. $14-$20. 216 O St.

E. CLAIRE RALEY STUDIOS FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: Beer & Ballet. Feed your spirit with compelling dance created by Sacramento ballet artists and quench your thirst with Ruhstaller beer. Through 10/29. $54. 2420 N St.

OAK PARK: The Intersection. An art free-forall with poets, rappers, musicians, dancers and performers of all kinds. No sign-ups, no rules. 7pm Monday, 10/23. No cover. 35th and Broadway.

OOLEY THEATRE: Toyer. In this mystery thriller, a woman is over her head while a violent criminal is on the loose. Is it the man she’s just met and is now in her living room? See a review of the show on page 28. Through 10/31. $17-$20. 2007 28th St.

SACRAMENTO CONVENTION CENTER COMPLEX: Aventurera. This musical follows a young woman who immigrates to Northern Mexico after her family falls apart. 7pm Saturday, 10/21. $58-$98. 1400 J St.

SACRAMENTO THEATRE COMPANY: The Diary of Anne Frank. A play dramatizing one of the most famous books of all time, the journal of a Jewish girl who is hiding with her family and others from the Nazis during WWII. Through 10/22. $17-$35. 1419 H St.

SOL COLLECTIVE: The 2nd Annual Young (P)oets (O)f (C)olor. See event description on page 35. 7pm, 10:30pm Friday, 10/20. $10. 2574 21st St.

SUTTER STREET THEATRE: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. Alexander’s struggles with daily dramas entertains and educates young viewers as they identify with Alexander and his obstacles. Through 11/26. $13-$17. 717 Sutter St. in Folsom.

THE GUILD THEATER: The Absent Father, the Wayward Son. This one-man show that captures a son’s reaction to truths about his absent father is a story of love, redemption and forgiveness. 8pm Saturday, 10/21. $25. 2828 35th St.

THE HOUSE OF OLIVER WINE LOUNGE: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. A vindictive 19th-century London barber, exacts his grisly revenge with the help of a creative culinary accomplice. Through 10/29. $49. 3992 Douglas Blvd., Suite 140 in Roseville.

THREE STAGES AT FOLSOM LAKE COLLEGE: A Night with Janis Joplin. A musical journey celebrating Janis and her biggest musical influences, including Aretha Franklin and Nina Simone. Through 10/21. $44-$79. 10 College Parkway in Folsom.

WILKERSON THEATER, SACRAMENTO: Birmingham Blues. A gritty dark comedy about a disgraced doctor who becomes homeless and her journey toward redemption. Through 10/28. $20. 1725 25th St.

ART ALPHA FIRED ARTS: Daniel Alejandro: Trejo Slowly Doing the Splits. Trejo’s ceramic sculpture forms are ambiguous, leaving room for hidden emotions, attitudes or motivations to be projected by the viewer. Through 11/18. No cover. 4675 Aldona Lane.

ARTISTIC EDGE: October 2017 Exhibition. Three decades of work by visual artist Cheselyn Amato. Through 10/31. 1880 Fulton Ave.

AXIS GALLERY: The Chaya Chesed Love Life Codex. Features works by Jim Marxen, Megan Hosmer, David Good and Curt Brandhorst. Through 10/29. 625 S St.

CALIFORNIA MUSEUM: Arte y Almas: Día de los Muertos 2017. Contemporary installations by artists’ collectives Sonrisa de la Muerte and Lapiztola from Mexico and California artists Luis Campos-Garcia and Oscar Magallanes. A journey through love, life and death. Through 12/30. $9. 1020 O St.

E STREET GALLERY: One of a Kind Exhibit. Fourteen artists with over 100 works. Through 10/19. 1115 E St.

LUNA’S CAFE & JUICE BAR: Sac Unified Poetry Slam. An unpredictable monthly poetry slam with no set participants, performers or judges until the event. Slam needs five judges, 10 poets, 20 poems and 40 audience members. Expect spoken word, sangria and sarcastic hosts. 8pm Friday, 10/20, no cover. 1414 16th St.

MAIDU MUSEUM & HISTORIC SITE: Voice Exhibit. An exhibit highlighting the work of indigenous women artists. Through 11/18. $2-$5. 1970 Johnson Ranch Drive in Roseville.

SACRAMENTO BEE PARKING GARAGE: Street Mural Art Jam. One day, one block and over 100 artists come together. Food trucks, beer garden, kids zone and art. Through 10/21. 21st and Q streets.

VERGE CENTER FOR THE ARTS: Not Ready to Make Nice: Guerrilla Girls in the Artworld and Beyond. Closing weekend of the exhibit highlighting the work of Guerrilla Girls,

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see more events and submit your own at newsreview.com/sacramento/calendar An archeological symposium with speakers from Sacramento State, UC Davis and the Oregon-California Trails Association. 1pm saturday, 10/21. no cover. 1970 Johnson Ranch Drive in Roseville.

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saturday, 10/21

cover. Pumpkin Carving: Kids and families are invited to carve a pumpkin. Supplies and pumpkins provided on a first-come, firstserve basis. 1pm, saturday, 10/21. no cover. 1212 Merkley Ave. in West Sacramento.

sausage Fest MAARS Building, 5 p.M., no coveR-$25

FairytaLe town: Safe & Super Halloween in

BooKs

an anonymous, feminist-activist arts group. through 10/22. 625 S St.

saturday, 10/21 embraCinG tHe end oF LiFe: A reading,

museums

discussion and book signing with author Patt Lind-Kyle. 7:30pm. Avid Reader, 617 Second St. in Davis.

aerosPaCe museum oF CaLiFornia: Take Flight. Exhibit shows the history and evolution of flight and invites guests to create their own flying machines. On Saturday, 10/21, NASA Solar System Ambassador Jayce Pearson presents “Rocket Talk,” a discussion about the world of rocketry. through 1/9. $8-$10. 3200 Freedom Park Drive.

sunday, 10/22 dear Friend: A reading, presentation and activity with author and Girls Love Mail founder Gina Mulligan. Dear Friend is a collection of handwritten letters to women living with breast cancer written by compassionate strangers. 7:30pm. Avid Reader, 617 Second St. in Davis.

CaLiFornia state raiLroad museum: Off The Clock. An exhibit focused on the wide variety of sports clubs, teams, and athletic competitions that many Southern Pacific employees participated in during evenings and on weekends in the early to mid1900s. through 6/1. $10-$15. Spookomotive Trains. Family-friendly Halloween-decorated train rides. Each weekened has a theme and costumes are encouraged. This weekend’s theme is Pirates & Princesses. through 10/29. $8-$15. 111 I St.

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Space. Three nights of trick-or-treating and Halloween fun in a galaxy far, far away, with 15 treat stations, a costume parade each night, magic show and more. 5pm Friday, 10/20 through 10/22. $12. 3901 Land Park Drive.

nortH saCramento FamiLy resourCe Center: Just Like Sunday Dinner. Culturally sensitive social support groups for eight to 15 people who identify with the African American experience. The discussion topic, “remaining a strong family unit in trying times,” will focus on common stressors for black families, how to maintain good mental health and keep a strong family bond. Lunch included. Presented by Greater Options and Assistance for Lifelong Success (GOALS). Email lakisha@goalsforwomen.com or sign up through Eventbrite to reserve a space. noon saturday, 10/21. no cover. 1217 Del Paso Blvd., Suite A.

cars, on-site ride and drive and more. The first 100 to arrive each day will park for free. 10am, $0-$13. Cal Expo, 1600 Exposition Blvd.

Feminism From a to Z: Local author and Sacramento City College Professor Gayle Pitman presents her feminism guide for teens. 6pm. Avid Reader, 617 Second St. in Davis.

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artHur F. turner Community Library (west saCramento branCH): Tales for Tails. Children ages six to 12 are invited to read to a dog. 4pm monday, 10/23. no

LowBrau is turning five years old, so they’re throwing a block party celebrating all things sausage. Taste sausages from Empress PHoto courtesy oF ran alBerto Tavern, V. Miller Meats and other Sacramento restaurants, or go all-out in an epic hot dog eating contest. The free Food & drink street party will feature low-rider Volkswagens on display, a socks and stocks fashion show, dancing to Lipstick DJs and One More Time, a Daft Punk tribute band, and a beer garden. Our Midtown baby is growing up. Come celebrate five years of a Sacramento staple. 1050 20th Street, www.facebook.com/lowbrausacramento.

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4tH annuaL waLk4LiteraCy: A fundraiser to support local educational programs that strengthen children’s literacy in Sacramento. 9am, $20-$35. Cesar Chavez Park, 924 J St.

saCramento City CoLLeGe oF tHe 1930s waLkinG tour: A one-mile tour of the college includes a look at art deco buildings, paintings and vintage photos of the campus. Contact Bruce Marwick at 916-549-5419 to RSVP. 10am, no cover. Sacramento City College, 3835 Freeport Blvd.

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tHurSday, 10/19 cREATiNG cHANGE cHiPOTLE FuNDRAiSER: Support youth involved with the Sacramento LGBT Community Center who will attend the 30th annual Creating Change Conference in Washington, D.C. in January. Eat at Chipotle, mention the fundraiser,and money from the meal will support the trip. 4pm, no cover. Chipotle Mexican Grill, 1831 Capitol Ave.

#SAc4PR: Live Latin music, DJs, salsa and bachata lessons, food and drinks. Money raised will go to the 3.5 million Americans who were victims of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. 5pm, no cover until 9:30pm Mango’s, 1930 K St.

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Sunday, 10/22 TAPESTRY OF PEAcE: The LGBTQ community and allies will come together in a show of support and unity. Food, drinks and entertainment will be provided. 1pm, no cover. Mango’s, 1930 K St.

tuESday, 10/24 SENiOR PRiDE iNFORMATiON & RESOuRcE FAiR: Community resource vendors will offer information and services for LGBTQ seniors. Speakers include State Senator Scott Wiener, City Councilman Steve Hansen, Placer County Stonewall Democrats Founder Jacalyn Smith. 2pm, no cover. Hart Senior Center, 915 27th St.

the revolution in Rojava to many young Americans through Twitter, talks about a living revolution, the role of international volunteers and the prospects of a free and equal society. 4:30pm, no cover. Organize Sacramento, 1714 Broadway.

tuESday, 10/24 VOTER’S cHOicE AcT FORuM: A discussion on the Voter’s Choice Act and how implementation will affect Sacramento County and the Pocket-Greenhaven Community. Light refreshments will be served. 6pm, no cover. Robbie Waters Pocket-Greenhaven Library Community Room, 7335 Gloria Drive.

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support groups of four to six people who identify with the African-American experience. The theme for this group is “managing teen and young adult stressors,” and will cover how to cope with stress and care for our mental health. 6:30pm, no cover. North Sacramento Family Resource Center, 1217 Del Paso Blvd.

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Friday, 10/20 TRAiNS & TRiPODS PHOTO OPPORTuNiTY & LiGHTiNG SEMiNAR: A two-part workshop beginning with a seminar about natural light photography conducted by former Sacramento Bee photographer Dave Henry. 5:30pm, $35-$60. California State Railroad Museum, 111 I St.

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What sounds better than chillin’ on a porch for a lazy Saturday afternoon? Add some friends, neighbors PHOtO COurtESy OF katrina Harman and a handful of local bands, and your day becomes perfect with PorchFest. Sacramento’s annual front porch show returns with six hours of live music from Salt Wizard, MuSic Flourish, The Family Bandits, Be Brave Bold Robot and more. The show’s free, but organizers will be collecting donations for Mustard Seed School, a local school that serves children experiencing homelessness. So bring extra cash. 21st and I streets, www.sacporchfest.com.

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three hours. Materials provided. 10am, $35. Verge Center for the Arts, 625 S St.

iNTRODucTiON TO cOMPASSiONATE cOMMuNicATiON: Develop the skills to stay connected in the midst of challenging times, through the principles and practice of Nonviolent Communication (NVC). Email diamondlight.sac@gmail.com for information on scholarships. 10am, $20-$60. Diamond Light Tibetan Buddhist Group, Room 14, 2791 24th St.

SOuLS OF THE ciTY WORKSHOP: Learn to create a plaster mask that’s traditionally used to hide your identity during Día de Los Muertos ceremonies with teacher Amar Azucena

Cid. 11am, $5-$10 or donation. Sacramento History Museum, 101 I St.

TRAiNS & TRiPODS PHOTO OPPORTuNiTY & LiGHTiNG SEMiNAR: See event description on 10/20. Saturday participants will get to set up their tripods and shoot inside the museum before it opens. 7am, $35-$60. California State Railroad Museum, 111 I St.

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by Steph RodRiguez

by Rob bRezSny

FOR ThE WEEK OF OCTOBER 19, 2017 ARIES (March 21-April 19): “I am my own muse,”

wrote painter Frida Kahlo. “I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better.” Would you consider trying out this perspective for a while, Aries? If so, you might generate a few ticklish surprises. You may be led into mysterious areas of your psyche that had previously been off-limits. You could discover secrets you’ve been hiding from yourself. So what would it mean to be your own muse? What exactly would you do? Here are some examples. Flirt with yourself in the mirror. Ask yourself impertinent, insouciant questions. Have imaginary conversations with the person you were three years ago and the person you’ll be in three years.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Happiness comes

from getting what you want,” said poet Stephen Levine, whereas joy comes “from being who you really are.” According to my analysis, the coming weeks will bear a higher potential for joy than for happiness. I’m not saying you won’t get anything you want. But I do suspect that focusing on getting what you want might sap energy from the venture that’s more likely to thrive: an unprecedented awakening to the truth of who you really are.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Sigmund Freud was

a medical doctor who laid the groundwork for psychoanalysis. Throughout the twentieth century, his radical, often outrageous ideas were a major influence on Western culture. When Freud was 50, he discovered a brilliant psychiatrist who would become his prize pupil: Carl Jung. When the two men first met in Vienna in 1907, they conversed without a break for 13 consecutive hours. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you could experience a comparable immersion sometime soon: a captivating involvement with a new influence, a provocative exchange that enchants you, or a fascinating encounter that shifts your course.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): In the next 12 months,

I hope to help you track down new pleasures and amusements that teach you more about what you want out of life. I will also be subtly reminding you that all the world’s a stage, and will advise you on how to raise your self-expression to Oscar-worthy levels. As for romance, here’s my prescription between now and October 2018: The more compassion you cultivate, the more personal love you will enjoy. If you lift your generosity to a higher octave, there’ll be another perk, too: You will be host to an enhanced flow of creative ideas.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Are you interested in diving

down to explore the mysterious and evocative depths? Would you be open to spending more time than usual cultivating peace and stillness in a sanctuary? Can you sense the rewards that will become available if you pay reverence to influences that nurture your wild soul? I hope you’ll be working on projects like these in the coming weeks, Leo. You’ll be in a phase when the single most important gift you can give yourself is to remember what you’re made of and how you got made.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Louisa May Alcott

wrote a novel entitled A Long Fatal Love Chase, which was regarded as too racy to be published until a century after her death. “In the books I read, the sinners are more interesting than the saints,” says Alcott’s heroine, Rosamund, “and in real life people are dismally dull.” I boldly predict that in the coming months, Virgo, you won’t provide evidence to support Rosamund’s views. You’ll be even more interesting than you usually are, and will also gather more than your usual quota of joy and self-worth—but without having to wake up even once with your clothes torn and your head lying in a gutter after a night of forlorn debauchery.

be on the lookout for them in the coming weeks. Life will be conspiring to provide you with clues about where you can feel at peace, at home, and in the groove.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Simon & Garfunkel

released their first album in October 1964. It received only a modest amount of airplay. The two musicians were so discouraged that they stopped working together. Then Bob Dylan’s producer Tom Wilson got permission to remix “The Sounds of Silence,” a song on the album. He added rock instruments and heavy echo to Simon & Garfunkel’s folk arrangement. When the tune was re-released in September 1965, it became a huge hit. I bring this to your attention, Scorpio, because I suspect you’re now at a point comparable to the time just before Tom Wilson discovered the potential of “The Sounds of Silence.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Consider

how hard it is to change yourself,” wrote author Jacob M. Braude, “and you’ll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.” Ninety-nine percent of the time, I’d advise you and everybody else to surrender to that counsel as if it were an absolute truth. But I think you Sagittarians will be the exception to the rule in the coming weeks. More than usual, you’ll have the power to change yourself. And if you succeed, your selftransformations will be likely to trigger interesting changes in people around you. Here’s another useful tip, also courtesy of Jacob M. Braude: “Behave like a duck. Keep calm and unruffled on the surface, but paddle like the devil underneath.”

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In 1969, two

earthlings walked on the moon for the first time. To ensure that astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed there and returned safely, about 400,000 people labored and cooperated for many years. I suspect that in the coming months, you may be drawn to a collaborative project that’s not as ambitious as NASA’s, but nevertheless fueled by a grand plan and a big scope. And according to my astrological calculations, you will have even more ability than usual to be a driving force in such a project. Your power to inspire and organize group efforts will be at a peak.

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

ambitions will burn more steadily in the coming months, and will produce more heat and light than ever before. You’ll have a clearer conception of exactly what it is you want to accomplish, as well as a growing certainty of the resources and help you’ll need to accomplish it. Hooray and hallelujah! But keep this in mind, Aquarius: As you acquire greater access to meaningful success—not just the kind of success that merely impresses other people—you’ll be required to take on more responsibility. Can you handle that? I think you can.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): What’s your top

conspiracy theory? Does it revolve around the Illuminati, the occult group that is supposedly plotting to abolish all nations and create a world government? Or does it involve the stealthy invasion by extraterrestrials who are allegedly seizing mental control over human political leaders and influencing them to wage endless war and wreck the environment? Or is your pet conspiracy theory more personal? Maybe you secretly believe, for instance, that the difficult events you experienced in the past were so painful and debilitating that they will forever prevent you from fulfilling your fondest dream. Well, Pisces. I’m here to tell you that whatever conspiracy theory you most tightly embrace is ready to be disproven once and for all. Are you willing to be relieved of your delusions?

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): A woman I know, Caeli

La, was thinking about relocating from Denver to Brooklyn. She journeyed across the country and visited a prime neighborhood in her potential new headquarters. Here’s what she reported on her Facebook page: “In the last three days, I’ve seen three different men on separate occasions wearing sundresses. So this is definitely the right place for me.” What sort of signs and omens would tell you what you need to do to be in the right place at the right time, Libra? I urge you to

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Dead talk With not a single happy ending in any of his four books, crime historian and author David Kulczyk revives the stories of the dead in vivid descriptions that shine a light on Sacramento’s darker side and California’s underbelly. Last year, Kulczyk published his fourth book, California’s Deadliest Women: Dangerous Dames and Murderous Moms, with illustrations by artist Olaf Jens. It focuses on 28 cases, including that of the stone-faced “Acid Queen” of Clovis, and the cannibalistic nightmare titled “She’s a Man Eater.” For Kulczyk, a man who enjoys the many nuances of California’s rich history, murderers and psychopaths are part of the Golden State’s past, and should be remembered along with its dead.

Were you always fascinated by the true-crime genre? I was never really interested in true crime. I started out writing fiction and the first two things I ever sent out got published. I was pretty successful getting short stories published and I started writing for weekly magazines and things like that. I never thought about writing about crime at all. Ever. I enjoyed reading true crime books like Jay Robert Nash, but I never liked singleissue crime books. I found them hideously boring.

So what inspired your first book? We have really great history around here. Sometimes, you see an old building in Elk Grove or in Jackson and it’s this living piece of history. I was reading all these California history books by Quill Driver/Craven Street Books, and I thought, “I got a pretty good idea,” and I pitched to them and that became California Justice: Shootouts, Lynchings, and Assassinations in the Golden State.

Do you favor certain methods of murder? I have no favorite stories in these books because every single person I write about is the most horrible, hideous [person] that you’ve ever heard about. These are senseless crimes and I never glorify the killer. I always make sure that I have as much as I can get about the victim and still make it a readable story. I like to put in names and address and dates, and that’s what I’m going to be talking about in my presentation at the Sacramento Family Historical Association. I’ve done so much new research for this show “Forgotten Sacramento Murders.”

What should people expect when attending a David Kulczyk Dead Talk? I like to inform and entertain in my shows. I just go up there and I tell a story and I

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What makes a case worthy to be written about in your eyes?

watch people cringe a lot. With California’s Deadliest Women, I never had so many cringers. But, people will start cringing in their chairs and I’ve seen people hug each other and go, “Ahh!” and stamp their feet.

I think the ridiculousness of the crime is the thing that catches me the most. I found out about this guy [who] was 67 years old, and he was out partying all night, in like 1949. Some friends were supposed to come in on the train, so he walked over to Union Station to meet them. Next thing they know they found him on the I Street Bridge shot dead. What the hell? I’m almost 60 years old and I don’t even like going out at night. I hardly like leaving my house.

Was there ever a case that struck you emotionally? Yeah, I’ve experienced that in other books. But, in this one, I guess the only person I have any kind of feelings for is the Batgirl, [which] happened here [1991]. I feel bad for her because she never had a chance in life. She was a stripper by the time she was 14 and was fried out of her mind by the time she was 19. She killed a guy and she’s still in prison, too, because she has not been a good prisoner. Usually, if you only kill one person, you only get about 17 years.

Are people ever intimidated by you because of the nature of your books? No. They’re my ghoul-friends.

Why “Forgotten Sacramento Murders?” Will the event solely focus on cold cases?

Do women kill differently? Women seem to use what’s handy. Two murders in the book happened with a clothes iron. It was handy.

Your Google history must be insane. What is your research process like? I read so much boring stuff so you don’t have to. I scour through newspapers and websites. I do all the work in the trenches and I’m starting to get more and more secretive about what I do. I’ve even been ripped off by a couple TV production shows. So, I’m very guarded about what I do now. I read a lot of books and I have a really good memory. But, there are certain things I do in order to find just what I’m looking for.

Not all of them. Some of them are solved. But, once everything goes out of living memory it just turns into, “Yeah, my uncle got murdered in 1948.” What does that mean? Then it just becomes a family story and it falls out of living memory. I always laugh when people say, “This is the crime of the century.” We’re only 17 years in. Ω “forgotten sacramento murders,” a talk by David Kulczyk, Tuesday, October 24 at the sacramento County Historical society, 5380 elvas avenue. no cover. Kulczck’s works are available at Time Tested books in midtown. listen to episodes of his Death in California podcast at www.deathincalifornia.com.

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