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or many Californians the “American Dream” of home ownership has been crushed by skyrocketing property values and other factors. But some who have given up on ever owning a home will likely have a new chance, now that Gov. Jerry Brown has signed 15 bills that encourage more affordable homes statewide, including new homeless shelters. Housing advocates celebrated Sept. 29 when Brown approved the extensive package, dubbed a ﬁrst step toward solving California’s housing crisis. One legislator said the approved measures contain “everything from A to Z — affordability to zoning.” “I was absolutely thrilled,” said Veronica Beaty, policy director for the Sacramento Housing Alliance (SHA). “Housing advocates had worked on this legislation for a long time. What the governor did was historic. “The housing situation is so bad, a lot of people from different backgrounds are trying different solutions across the state,” she said, adding that proposals made by longtime housing advocates are embedded in the new legislation. One key bill, SB 2, imposes a new fee of at least $75 for some real estate transactions. It will generate up to $300 million annually to fund, among other things, new affordable homes and homeless-assistance programs. Another, SB 3, is an urgency statute that will require voter approval to authorize a $4 billion housing bond. If approved by a simple majority

of voters in November 2018, the bill will set aside millions of that money for construction of new homes for low-income and middle-class families who meet certain requirements, along with $1 billion in loans to help military veterans purchase homes.

“HOUSING ADVOCATES HAD WORKED ON THIS LEGISLATION FOR A LONG TIME. WHAT THE GOVERNOR DID WAS HISTORIC.” Veronica Beaty Policy director, Sacramento Housing Alliance

With this legislation in place, how will it impact Sacramento County, which has an estimated 3,600 homeless people and needs 62,000 more affordable rentals? The SHA, a nonproﬁt that advocates for affordable homes with the support of The California Endowment, wants transformational change. On Monday, it hosted its third annual Sacramento Regional Affordable Housing Summit to discuss “innovative solutions” for the local housing crisis. More than 200 people, ranging from developers and architects to local

Sacramento Housing Alliance’s Veronica Beaty hopes more developments like the apartments at 7th and H streets, seen here, will soon be built locally. The 150-unit complex opened in downtown Sacramento five years ago. Half of its units were reserved for formerly homeless people, and the rest for low-income residents. Photo by Edgar Sanchez

elected ofﬁcials and community activists were invited. “We had a lot of passionate people there, people who know the crisis,” Beaty said of the summit. She said SHA and some of its allies, including the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, will educate voters on SB 3. “I think voters are ready to do something substantial” about the housing crisis, Beaty said.

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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BUILDING HEALTHY COMMUNITIES In 2010, The California Endowment launched a 10-year, $1 billion plan to improve the health of 14 challenged communities across the state. Over the 10 years, residents, communitybased organizations and public institutions will work together to address the socioeconomic and environmental challenges contributing to the poor health of their communities.

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Read this carefully When Carl Jensen started Project Censored at Sonoma State University in 1976, the phrase “media literacy” was not in vogue. But it was a requirement of citizenship then just as it is today. Jensen’s project unearthed stories ignored by the corporate media, and issued an annual report like the one in these pages. To be frank, the quality of the project has gone up and down; often balancing on the bias of its editor. In 2007, one of the Top 10 stories was about 9/11 Truthers; many newspaper editors stopped paying much attention after that. This year’s list presents stories that I believe SN&R readers ought to know more about—with one exception. I was surprised to see No. 9—“DNC claims right to select presidential candidate”—which tells how the Democratic National Committee worked to ensure that Hillary Clinton (a democrat) would win the party nomination—a move that caused Debbie Wasserman Schultz to resign. You know that name because Russia and Wikileaks conspired to put this story on page one of every newspaper in the country. So: censored? No. The author of the list, Paul Rosenburg, openly supported the candidacy of Bernie Sanders since at least 2014. The journalist he cites at some length here, Michael Sainato, is another Sanders supporter. Google his name, and you will find dozens of articles denouncing the DNC—cherry-picking facts to make his argument. I will point out here (cherry-picking a fact) that his news organization is owned by Jared Kushner. I need you to know that I am not unbiased in my judgment. I was and remain a Hillary Clinton supporter. So, take that under consideration. I do not want you, dear reader, to become cynical about what you read. Just be careful. And: We’ve got your back.

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I have no sense of humor Re “Our morbid history” by Anthony Siino (Feature, October 26): Sacto. Storie’s? How about scentillating gorrie’s, story’s most of the Chase story is incorrect I know the cop who worked the case and arrested him, I also met one of the son’s of a victim (His mother) whom Puente murdered by poisoning her. You have no feeling for the familys of those who were victimised by those two the storys are in bad taste and lack any kind of sympathy for their losse’s not only do you get things wrong, you dont even re-tract or correct them, your also heartless, especially for what the S.N.R. did to those people at the Twelve Rounds Brewery, next youll have Chris Macias writing for your paper, it’s all garbage. Classless crap paper. Sincerely, screw you.

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Get the name right Re “Our morbid history” by Anthony Siino (Feature, October 26): For heavens sake, don’t your reporters do any fact-checking? HUGH SCROTTON was the name of the Unabomber’s first Sacramento fatality. RebeCCa Kane via Facebook

I hate Nazis Re “Our morbid history” by Anthony Siino (Feature, October 26): Let’s not forget these two blood brothers; Benjamin

Matthew Williams and James Tyler Williams—white supremacist brothers. Whom killed a gay couple, tried to burn down some synagogues in Sacramento and also tried to blow up a Planned Parenthood.

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I have a right to be safe Re “The debate comes home” by Jeff vonKaenel (Greenlight, October 26): We need to help the homeless. A serious issue of social injustice is occurring here though. It’s not democracy, it’s greed. It’s relocating the homeless population of downtown, Midtown, East Sac, etc. into North Sac for at least the next several years. I hope they find them permanent housing. I am white but by no means am I upscale. I just bought my firstever home here in Woodlake after saving pretty much all my life, and I’m not young. Now I am shocked that they are putting us at risk so other affluent areas can sleep more safe and sound and make more money and attract more business. KRisten PeRRy s a c r a me nto v i a s a c t o l e t t e rs @ne w sr e v ie w.c o m

Re “Last stand on 21st Street,” by Scott Thomas Anderson (News, October 26): The city now belongs to the developers. Pity. The charm that was once Midtown is gone, replaced by boxy buildings with no redeeming qualities whatsoever. Thank Hansen and Steinberg for this revolting development. Way to wreck a city, boys. Well done. Judith ChunCo v ia Fa c e b o o k

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The day before Christmas 2009, Loren Tomschin arrived at the Chico home of his ex-wife and their daughter. He later explained to the Butte County family court that he hoped to leave Christmas presents for his daughter, who he had not seen since 2006, when she was three. He also says he wished to arrange to routinely see the child. Tomschin and his ex-wife had been separated for several years. The ex-wife, whose attorney asked SN&R not to name, described a different scenario. She reported to the court six days later in a request for a restraining 8 | SN&R | 11.02.17

order that Tomschin had threatened her boyfriend while demanding to see his daughter. Tomschin submitted a response in February 2010, telling the court his visit “was non violent and non threatening in nature,” and that his ex-wife’s claims were “absolutely fabricated.” The matter was one of his word against hers, and the court sided with her. Three years earlier, in 2006, his ex-wife had claimed Tomschin sexually molested their daughter. After interviewing the girl, Butte County Children’s Services and the Chico Police Department

issued a finding that was “inconclusive.” Tomschin swore he had done nothing and protested the decision, but Marion Mohl of Child Protective Services and Cesar Sandoval of CPD told him that while there was no way to prove that any kind of molestation happened, there was also no way to know for certain that it hadn’t. With that as background, since state law names harassment and “disturbing the peace” of another person as types of domestic abuse, the Butte County family court issued Tomschin a temporary restraining order following his Christmas

visit to the house where his daughter lived. The restraining order was later extended to five years. In 2012, the court granted his ex’s request to strip Tomschin of all custody rights—a request based on the claim that he had abandoned his family. Tomschin, who is fighting the claim in court, counters that he has been strategically exiled from his daughter’s life. Two Sacramento men told similar stories but asked not to be identified for fear of affecting their trials. One received a three-year domestic violence restraining order because he sent emails to his ex-wife with, he said to SN&R, the intention of angering her. The other man was issued a five-year restraining order in June, records show, after he made several phone calls to his ex-wife and visited her home, according to the woman’s request for a protective order. “[He] showed up at my residence, standing on my property, waving at me, and spoke to me so that I knew he is [sic] outside,” she wrote. She said his actions caused her “emotional and psychological” injuries. There were not allegations of violence in the encounter. Signed into law in 1994, the Domestic Violence Prevention Act was designed to enhance protections for victims. However, the language within the law—especially its definition of domestic violence—is broadly written, and this, some attorneys and unhappy court litigants say, opens the door for unwarranted restraining orders that can have lasting consequences. UC Berkeley School of Law lecturer Nancy Lemon said the language in the Domestic Violence Prevention Act “should be vague so that a diversity of behavior can qualify as domestic violence, but it’s then up to a judge to make sure the language is being applied in a fair way.” It isn’t clear this process is working very well. For one thing, domestic violence restraining orders tend to be requested in family courts, a branch of the court system often burdened by emotionally-charged divorce and custody cases and muddied by conflicting testimonies. Eric Nelson, a former police officer and a volunteer criminologist with UC Davis’ Department of Public Health Sciences, says the law’s definition of domestic violence is so vague that it is essentially meaningless. “There isn’t an adult in California who couldn’t be given a domestic violence restraining order, and if you haven’t gotten one, the only reason is because your partner hasn’t taken you to the family court

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that siNkiNg feeliNg and said, ‘This guy was mean to me,’” Nelson said. As a result of this language, he added, domestic violence restraining orders frequently get used “like a bludgeon.” Family code 6320 lists “harassing,” “making annoying telephone calls,” and “contacting, either directly or indirectly, by mail” as forms of domestic violence. “It’s written so that a phone call, or calling someone a name, or disturbing the peace can be considered domestic violence,” said Shannon Mason, a Sacramento family law attorney. San Ramon resident Joseph Sweeney filed a lawsuit in May in an Oakland court to challenge the Domestic Violence Prevention Act. “[V]irtually any speech or action can now be considered ‘abuse’ so long as a family law judge says so,” Sweeney argues in his suit. Sweeney received a five-year restraining order from the Contra Costa County family court in part because he had disclosed to a court custody evaluator a thread of text messages between him and his ex-wife, during a child custody dispute in 2013. According to a court record of the case, Sweeney’s ex-wife claimed his actions caused her “extreme embarrassment, fear, and intimidation.” Sweeney is arguing that the conduct was not domestic violence. The law does protect people—though only if judges correctly draw the line between routine relationship quarreling and actual abuse, some attorneys say. “It’s a hard balancing act,” Mason said. Paul durenberger is one of the public officials charged with striking that balance. An assistant chief district attorney in Sacramento County who works closely with criminal domestic violence cases, Durenberger says it’s critical that courts take seriously any allegations of behavior that could be construed as threatening. That, he says, is because nonviolent types of abuse frequently escalate to violent interactions—including homicide. Three summertime convictions in Sacramento Superior Court, stemming from unhappy relationships and custody arrangements between estranged partners, illustrate Durenberger’s argument. In May, a jury convicted Justin Jesus of the 2015 stabbing death of his wife, Elizabeth Masters, shortly after she left him and returned to her family’s home in Folsom. That same month, Marcos Adams was convicted of attempted voluntary manslaughter for shooting his wife during

a physical scuffle in 2015. Adams was Bay Area family law attorney Daniel arrested more than a year after the assault, Cantrell, who represents Sweeney’s during a subsequent domestic violence ex-wife, points out that temporary restrainincident with another victim. ing orders serve a critical purpose. At Also in May, Charles Ewers pleaded the first allegation of abusive or coercive guilty to the attempted murder of his behavior—even if evidence is thin—the children, whom he tried to suffocate in judge should issue one, he says. his garage with the car engine running. “It’s just a few weeks, and that allows Sacramento County sheriff’s deputies time to determine if the person is actually discovered the attempted murder-suicide a threat,” Cantrell said. Subsequently, he in progress after the children’s mother explained, a judge may issue a longreported that her estranged husband term restraining order if the accused had kept the kids past a prearabuser is confirmed to be a ranged drop-off time. genuine danger. In Sacramento, the But longer-term “There isn’t an No. 1 instigating orders come with event for homicide serious conseadult in California is fraudulent sale quences for the who couldn’t be given or theft of marirestrained person, juana, according says Chico family a domestic violence to Durenberger. law attorney restraining order.” “And the second Fritzgerald is domestic Javellana, who Eric Nelson violence,” he said. has represented volunteer criminologist, UC Davis’ Nationally, Tomschin’s Department of Public Health four out of five ex-wife. They Sciences mass murders in remain permanently the United States are on a person’s record and triggered by domestic can affect future employviolence, he says, while about ment opportunities. one fifth of all officers killed in the line He, too, thinks just about any request of duty were responding to domestic for a restraining order must be initially violence calls. taken seriously and answered with a At WEAVE, a Sacramento crisis inter- temporary order. However, he says, vention service for abuse victims, Julie requests for restraining orders are routinely Bornhoeft says repeated phone calls to based on false allegations. estranged partners and attempts to make That’s approximately what Tomschin contact and surprise house visits can says happened to him. His ex-wife has amount to stalking and, in many cases, be requested restraining orders against him precursors to violent acts. five times. Only one—following the 2009 Not acting on such signals can bring gift drop—resulted in a long-term restrainterrible consequences. In a 2013 annual ing order. report, the district attorney’s domestic Tomschin says he regularly travels violence review team described at least to Sacramento to demonstrate with other one case in which the family court members of the U.S. Brotherhood of “fail[ed] to inquire into the lethality Fathers, a group of men who say they factors and history of abuse” and overhave been impacted by false allegations. looked signs that children may have been Tomschin says he is preparing to take his threatened. “This contributed to a deadly ex-wife and her husband to court, and he result on one case we reviewed this year,” hopes, eventually, to establish a relationread the report, to which Durenberger ship with his daughter. contributed. “I haven’t seen my daughter for 12 Even in the absence of any physical years,” he said. “It’s been a nightmare.” violence, “if you look at the big picture, Tomschin and his ex-wife last met in the victim might actually be in danger,” Butte Superior Court on August 23. The said UC Berkeley’s Lemon, who is also case is confidential, but Jessica Freitas, the legal director at the Family Violence Tomschin’s assistant, says a judge is Appellate Project. “Coercive control by considering Tomschin’s ex-wife’s claim one partner can be devastating and lifethat he abandoned his daughter, and her changing. Even if there isn’t any violent petition to strip Tomschin of his rights as a abuse, the one person’s behavior can father. The judge, Freitas said, is expected make the other feel unsafe and isolated to make a ruling within months. Ω from the world around them.”

Sacramento police hope risks caused by abandoned boats are about to be washed away by a $100,000 grant. The Police Department received the grant in September from the California Division of Boating and Waterways. Known as SAVE, for “surrendered and abandoned vessel exchange,” the program gives local officers the financial means to pull empty and sometimes toxic boats out of portions of the Sacramento River surrounding the city. As bad as the shabby and wrecked vessels look, officials say their biggest concerns are on the safety and environmental fronts. Police Department spokesman Eddie Macaulay said one of the main dangers from abandoned boats is that they sometimes prompt children, teenagers or transients to go exploring. “What if kids climb inside, and the boat comes loose and drifts away?” Macaulay observed. “We’ve found transients living inside. These boats have been left behind for a reason. … They’re not safe as living quarters, without proper running water or much needed repairs.” Officials are also worried about the negative environmental impacts, which often include oil, fluids and garbage drifting from the deteriorating vessels into the water. “When the boats are left abandoned, they eventually sink,” Macaulay explained. “It can cost a significant amount of money to raise them back up.” In August, SN&R reporters observed six different abandoned boats in just two days on the Sacramento River, all between the city’s port and the unincorporated town of Courtland. SN&R documented still more abandoned vessels around the southern edge of the Sacramento County line near Isleton. Contra Costa sheriff’s Deputy Gary Madison said the SAVE program has helped relieve waterway clutter and unsightly pollution in his corner of the Central Delta. “It has made a noticeable difference,” Madison said. (Kate Paloy)

PaNtiNg Party crashers There’s about to be a lot more smiling in prison—it just won’t be human smiles. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is expanding a program that has furry, four-legged investigators sniffing out narcotics and illegal cellphones inside its prisons. But officials say if people are envisioning snarling attack dogs, they’re way off. “These dogs are totally non-aggressive,” said CDCR spokesman Ike Dodson. “All they care about is getting to play with their toy after they’ve sniffed out and signaled on contraband. When they come to work each morning, they just see it as play time and they go nuts.” Dodson told SN&R his department purchased eight new labrador retrievers at the start of October. Each one has been paired up with a correctional officer, who are finishing a special academy in Stockton. State corrections officials decided to expand the program after an independent UC Berkeley report found trained dogs to be one of the most effective tools for uncovering prison contraband. According to CDCR records covering the last three yeas, K9 teams have found 3,774 cellphones, two pounds of cocaine, 192 grams of hash oil, roughly 10 pounds of heroin, 126 pounds of marijuana, 20 pounds of methamphetamine and 470 pounds of tobacco. Dodson stressed that those seizures were achieved by the current 49 teams. Each prison in the state will get two additional teams under the expansion. “We should have 75 teams by the end of the fiscal year,” Dodson said. “This is going to be one of the biggest programs nationwide for corrections.” (Scott Thomas Anderson)

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that nearby residents and other shoppers complained about the Black Friday shoppers’ presence. “But the police did nothing about it,” she testified. That disproportionate police response was revealed during cross-examination by Trimm, whose case hinges on making the jury believe the opposite. Also threatening his defense were the current and former directors of a local Boy Scouts chapter, the Sacramento Valley Conservancy and Fairytale Town, all of whom testified that they allowed or organized extended campouts without special authorization— or citations—from the city.

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Separate and unequal Jury hears of disparate enforcement in trial over Sacramento’s anti-camping law by Raheem F. hosseini

Sister Libby Fernandez sat in the witness box reflecting on that time a nun got duped by a politician. This was back in September 2009. Fernandez was the head of Sacramento Loaves & Fishes, a local homeless charity. Kevin Johnson was less than a year into his first term as the city’s mayor. Days earlier, an extended version of the Police Department, under orders from this story is available City Hall, forcibly cleared a large homeless at www.newsreview. com/sacramento encampment from a private lot on C Street. Along with other faith-based advocates, Fernandez, who helped organize the encampment and was led away by officers when it was cleared, returned to the scene of her civil disobedience to show that the mission wasn’t over. That’s when Mayor Johnson came to offer a deal, Fernandez recalled last week. According to her testimony, Johnson promised he would deliver a city-approved 10 | SN&R | 11.02.17

safe ground by the end of the fall, some place where people without access to shelter could legally be without violating the city’s camping ban. It was a fair bargain, Fernandez and her partners decided. They left the fenced property. Safe ground never happened. Nearly a decade later, the surviving occupants of that raided encampment are challenging a city law they say is applied only to people without shelter. Since the trial began October 25, plaintiffs’ attorney Mark Merin has presented more than a dozen witnesses and exhibits advancing a portrait of a separate-andunequal system, in which thousands of homeless people are ticketed for having nowhere to go—while Boy Scouts, Black Friday shoppers and others are permitted to violate the city’s camping prohibition without penalty.

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Senior deputy city attorney Chance L. Trimm, who called his first witness Monday, denies the anti-camping law is unfairly applied, and accuses plaintiffs of concocting their legal challenge. A verdict, which could come this week, has the potential to ripple far beyond Sacramento. Annie Thomas has camped out for Black Friday deals in Sacramento in three of the last six years. On October 30, the Wheatland resident testified that she pitched a tent in front of a local Best Buy during the Thanksgiving weeks of 2012, 2014 and 2016. Last year, she camped in front of the electronics store for a full four days, along with 15 to 20 others. Testifying that she never received any prior permission from the city to camp on private property, she told the court

This could have been a far different trial. Prior to its start, Trimm fired off several motions intended to strip the subject of homelessness from the plaintiffs’ case. Appearing for a pretrial hearing on October 23, Trimm asked the court to prevent testimony regarding “the plight of the homeless,” homelessness in general, the number of homeless people in particular, the vulnerabilities they face, and the resources and services available to them, including the number of shelter beds. That was all in one motion. “Having this kind of information in front of the jury is a clear attempt, I think, to garner sympathy,” Trimm said. “I just think it’s totally unrelated to any legal issues in this case.” Judge Christopher E. Krueger disagreed, dismissing that motion and five others. Additionally, Trimm lost his bid to put Merin on the stand as a material witness. Merin was the one who invited approximately 30 homeless individuals to take up indefinite residence on a fenced lot he owned in 2009. Trimm said Merin’s testimony would be critical to showing that his lawsuit was premeditated. The judge’s response? So what. “Many civil rights challenges involve some sort of pre-action,” Krueger told Trimm. “I don’t think that’s inherently improper at all. I think it happens all the time in one form or another.” The jury will have to conclude that on its own. Sister Fernandez, who left Loaves & Fishes to form a different charity, says she hoped the city would have recognized by now the Catch-22 it creates for homeless people by making it illegal to exist outside. “We really believe this law ... is discriminatory,” she testified. “It only seems to pick on homeless people.” Ω

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A few applicants, including Lexi Howard, Fourteen lawyers walk into a room. It’s not the acknowledged they were both lawyers and lobbybeginning of a joke, it’s the beginning of the city ists. “Some would say that’s two strikes against of Sacramento’s new ethics commission. me,” Howard said lightheartedly, adding that she On October 30, council members Angelique had experience working alongside members of Ashby, Steve Hansen and Larry Carr conducted the Department of Business Oversight and state interviews for five open seats on the new Commission on Judicial Performance. oversight body aimed at holding local officials One applicant never subjected to lawyer jokes accountable. Two years in the making, the was retired journalist Alvin Block, who spent Sacramento Ethics Commission is tasked with 22 years covering Sacramento for the California investigating complaints against elected and Journal magazine. appointed city officials. “I’ve been fascinated by the behavior of public The voluntary job ended up drawing appliofficials,” Block told the committee. “I’ve been cants who were mostly attorneys and lobbyists. interested in that place where the letter of the law And only four of the 25 hopefuls weren’t in the and the spirit of the law often collide.” legal or union professions, or employed by state Another applicant, human resources government. specialist Blayne Flora, said he had a Applicants for the Sacramento straight-forward reason for wanting Ethics Commission appeared to bring his years of employee before the Personnel and Public investigation skills to bear on Employees Committee, which “I think there’s the new commission. will in turn send nominaless than full “I think there’s less than tions to the mayor for final full confidence in public appointment. The mayor’s confidence in public officials,” Flora said. office hasn’t announced officials.” “And the public deserves that timeline yet. to have a higher level of One of the reasons so Blayne Flora confidence.” many legal eagles lined up applicant, Sacramento Ethics Among the handful of at the podium was that the Commission would-be commissioners who city specifically asked that weren’t attorneys were a neurothree of the five seats be filled scientist, an engineer, a children’s by residents “with a background in pastor and a social worker. law, ethics or local government.” The “I guess I’m the oddball out of all [of] them, other two seats are designed to be filled with “a because I don’t have a law degree,” said Virginia member representing the general public.” Fair Amitani, a retired California Department of During the interviews, the applicants were Corrections and Rehabilitation teacher. “But, being called before the dais to make two-minute in the prison system, there are pressures to influpresentations as they watched a red digital clock ence decisions, and I’m accustomed to that.” counting down. When their time was up, Ashby, After the meeting, Fair Amitani told SN&R Hansen and Carr could ask follow-up questions. that her interest in serving on the commission Applicants from the legal profession was prompted by her final assignment with the included Amanda Kelly, an attorney at the Department of Corrections, where she worked state Office of Legislative Counsel; Derek alongside white-collar criminals housed in Cressman, a former secretary of state candidate special protection. She observed a general and Common Cause attorney; Emily Rodriguez, attitude that their actions were somehow not as senior counsel for the Fair Political Practices bad as others in the clink. Commission; and Linda Ng, a former attorney “These guys would come into the yard and be at the Department of Consumer Affairs and so afraid, but the reality is their actions affected California Department of Fair Housing and so many people,” Fair Amitani recalled. “When Employment. Noted McGeorge School of Law you commit crimes like that, you’re taking away professor Mary-Beth Moylan, whom Hansen food, clothing and education from others, and it pointed out had taught both him and Ashby, has a profound effect on the community.” Ω also applied for a position.

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Should Americans be allowed to starve to death? Or allowed to die from malnutrition? Or rely on handouts at food banks and churches to stay alive? Starting in the fall of 2018, around one million unemployed adults nationwide will likely have their benefits cut off. That includes 100,000 Californians who are currently receiving $192 a month in CalFresh (food stamp) benefits here in the Golden State. Those “able-bodied adults without dependents” who are not currently employed or unable to work* will be limited to CalFresh benefits for three months out of every 36- month period—three months in three years. While President Trump is proposing even more benefit cuts, these are coming because the national Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), known as CalFresh in California, has more generous benefits for areas with higher unemployment. For years since the 2008 Great Recession, California’s high unemployment rate meant that the whole state had expanded coverage. But now that the state’s unemployment rate has been going down, it will no longer qualify for this expanded coverage with the exception of a few California counties, particularly in the Central Valley that continue to have high unemployment. In the Sacramento region, many of those who depend upon their $6.40 a day (or less) in food stamps are going to be hard pressed to make ends meet, especially those who are struggling to overcome higher housing costs. Some may have to make the choice of whether to pay for rent or for food. The food banks are already struggling to deal with the demands of people who need emergency food. They will be even more overwhelmed. These changes will also increase frustrations and administrative costs at the county’s CalFresh offices. Telling hungry people that there is no relief is not easy.

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The rationale for limiting benefits to three months in three years is that when there is relatively low unemployment, people who can work should just get jobs. And there’s the misguided idea that someone who is receiving $6.40 a day for food will lose their desire for a regular paycheck. A minimum wage job would pay about $84 a day. That’s a significant improvement over $6.40 a day. I think most people would choose the job. But where do they find this job? With an unemployment rate of only four percent, that still means that one out of 25 people cannot find work. And many jobs that are available require some skill. I consider myself able-bodied, but I doubt I could pick fruit fast enough to stay employed on any farm. The government could be the employer of last resort, paying individuals who cannot find employment in the private sector to work at jobs that need to be done. During the 1930s, the unemployed were put to work in a myriad of public infrastructure jobs, building roads, buildings, bridges, sewage treatment plants, schools and libraries. They fought fires and floods, vaccinated children and served school lunches. But doing that would cost significantly more than providing $6.40 a day in food stamps. So we don’t. Instead we demonize those who need our support. And now the Republicans are proposing to increase income inequality in America with their new proposed tax plan that provides huge breaks for the top one percent. This tax cut for the wealthy could cost more than a trillion dollars. It would cost only one percent of that massive outlay to maintain food stamp benefits at current levels. Ω *For a complete list of exceptions for Able-Bodied Adults Without Dependents, go to www.calfresh.guide.

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n America, we commonly think of press freedom and censorship in terms of the First Amendment, which focuses attention on the press itself and limits on the government’s power to restrict it. But the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, drafted in the aftermath of World War II, presents a broader framework. Article 19 reads: “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.” By highlighting the right to receive information and ideas, Article 19 makes it clear that press freedom is about everyone in society, not just the press, and that government censorship is only one potential way of thwarting that right. That’s the perspective that has informed Project Censored from the beginning, more than 40 years ago. Even though Project Censored’s about the author and story: paul rosenberg is senior editor at random annual list focuses on specific censored lengths news. For an extended version of project Censored, visit projectcensored.org. stories, the underlying issue has never been isolated examples. They serve to highlight how far short we fall from the fully informed public that a healthy democracy requires—and that we all require in order to live healthy, safe, productive, satisfying lives. It’s the larger patterns of missing information, hidden problems and threats that should really concern us. With that thought in mind, here is Project Censored’s Top 10 List for 2016-17:

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lead contamination threatens children’s health; could triple water bills In January 2016, Reuters reporters M.B. Pell and Joshua Schneyer began an investigation of lead contamination nationwide, with shocking results. In June 2016, they reported that although many states and Medicaid rules require blood lead tests for young children, millions of children were not being tested. In December 2016, they reported on the highly decentralized data they had been able to assemble from 21 states, showing that 2,606 census tracts and 278 zip codes across the United States had levels of lead poisoning more than double the rates found in Flint, Mich., at the peak of its contamination crisis. Of those, 1,100 communities had lead contamination rates “at least four times higher” than Flint. In Flint, 5 percent of the children screened high blood lead levels. Nationwide, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that 2.5 percent of all U.S. children younger than 6—about 500,000 children— have elevated blood lead levels. But Pell and Schneyer’s neighborhood focus allowed them to identify local hotspots “whose lead poisoning problems may be obscured in broader surveys,” such as those focused on statewide or countywide rates. They found them in communities that “stretch from Warren, Pennsylvania, where 36 percent of children tested had high lead

levels, to Goat Island, Texas, where a quarter of tests showed poisoning.” In January 2017, Schneyer and Pell reported that, based on their previous investigation, “From California to Pennsylvania, local leaders, health officials and researchers are advancing measures to protect children from the toxic threat.” But there’s a deeper infrastructure problem involved, as Farron Cousins reported for DeSmogBlog in January 2017. “Lead pipes are time bombs” and water contamination is to be expected, Cousins wrote. The U.S. relies on an estimated 1.2 million miles of lead pipes for municipal delivery of drinking water, and much of this aging infrastructure is reaching or has exceeded its lifespan. In 2012, the American Water Works Association estimated that a complete overhaul of the nation’s aging water systems

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would require an investment of $1 trillion over the next 25 years, which could triple household water bills. As Cousins concluded, “While the water contamination crisis will occasionally steal a headline or two, virtually no attention has been paid to the fact that we’re pricing a third of United States citizens out of the water market.”

Over $6 trillion in unaccountable Army spending In 1996, Congress passed legislation requiring all government agencies to undergo annual audits,

but a July 2016 report by the Defense Department’s inspector general found that the Army alone has accumulated $6.5 trillion in expenditures that can’t be accounted for over the past two decades. As Dave Lindorff reported for the media collective This Can’t Be Happening!, the DoD “has not been tracking or recording or auditing all of the taxpayer money allocated by Congress—what it was spent on, how well it was spent, or where the money actually ended up.” But the Army wasn’t alone. “Things aren’t any better at the Navy, Air Force and Marines,” he added. The report appeared at a time when, “politicians of both major political parties are demanding accountability for every penny spent on welfare ... Ditto for people receiving unemployment compensation,” Lindorff wrote. Politicians have also engaged in per-

vasive efforts “to make teachers accountable for student ‘performance,’” he added. Yet, he observed, “the military doesn’t have to account for any of its trillions of dollars of spending ... even though Congress fully a generation ago passed a law requiring such accountability.” In March 2017, after Trump proposed a $52 billion increase in military spending, Thomas Hedges reported for The Guardian that, “the Pentagon has exempted itself without consequence for 20 years now, telling the Government Accountability Office that collecting and organizing the required information for a full audit is too costly and time-consuming.” The most recent DoD audit deadline was September 2017, yet neither the Pentagon or Congress, nor the media, seem to have paid any attention.

Concern over Russian involvement in promoting fake news during the 2016 election is a justified hot topic in the news. But what about our own involvement in similar operations? In October 2016, Crofton Black and Abigail Fielding-Smith reported for the Bureau of Investigative Journalism on one such very expensive—and questionable— operation. The Pentagon paid a British PR firm, Bell Pottinger, more than $660 million to run a top-secret propaganda program in Iraq from at least 2006 to December 2011. The work consisted of three types of products: TV commercials portraying al-Qaida in a negative light, news items intended to look like Arabic TV, and—most disturbing—fake al-Qaida propaganda films. A former Bell Pottinger video editor, Martin Wells, told the [reporters] that he was given precise instructions for production of fake al-Qaida films, and that the firm’s output was approved by former Gen. David Petraeus—the commander of the coalition forces in Iraq—and on occasion by the White House. They reported that the United States used contractors because “the military didn’t have the in-house expertise and was operating in a legal ‘gray area.’” The reporters “traced the firm’s Iraq work through U.S. Army contracting censuses, federal procurement transaction records and reports by the Defense Department’s inspector general, as well as Bell Pottinger’s corporate filings and specialist publications on military propaganda.” Black and FieldingSmith also interviewed former officials and contractors involved in information operations in Iraq. Documents show that Bell Pottinger employed as many as 300 British and Iraqi staff at one point; and its media operations in Iraq cost more than $100 million per year on average. It’s remarkable that an operation on this scale has been totally ignored in the midst of so much focus on “fake news” here in the United States.

Voter suppression in the 2016 presidential election The 2016 election was the first election in 50 years without the full protection of the Voting Rights Act, first passed in 1965. In Shelby County v. Holder (2013), a 5-4 conservative majority in the Supreme Court struck down a key provision requiring jurisdictions with a history of violations to “preclear” changes. As a result, TOP 10 c o n t i n u e d

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changes to voting laws in nine states and parts of six others with long histories of racial discrimination in voting were no longer subject to federal government approval in advance. Since Shelby, 14 states, including many Southern states and key swing states, implemented new voting restrictions, in many cases just in time for the election. These included restrictive voter-identification laws in Texas and North Carolina, English-only elections in many Florida counties, as well as last-minute changes of poll locations and changes in Arizona voting laws that had previously been rejected by the Department of Justice before the Shelby decision. Ari Berman, author of Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America, was foremost among a small number of non-mainstream journalists to cover the suppression efforts and their results. In May 2017, he reported on an analysis of the effects of voter suppression by Priorities USA, which showed that strict voter-ID laws in Wisconsin and other states resulted in a “significant reduction” in voter turnout in 2016 with “a disproportionate impact on African-American and Democratic-leaning voters.” Berman noted that turnout was reduced by 200,000 votes in Wisconsin, while Donald Trump won the state by just over 22,000 votes. Nationwide, the study found that the change in voter turnout from 2012 to 2016 was significantly impacted by new voter-ID laws. As Berman concluded, “This study provides more evidence for the claim that voter-ID laws are designed not to stop voter impersonation fraud, which is virtually nonexistent, but to make it harder for certain communities to vote.” As Berman noted in an article published by Moyers & Co. in December 2016, the topic of “gutting” the Voting Rights Act did not arise once during the 26 presidential debates prior to the election, and “[c]able news devoted hours and hours to Trump’s absurd claim that the election was rigged against him while spending precious little time on the real threat that voters faced.”

Big data and dark money behind the 2016 election When Richard Nixon first ran for Congress in 1946, he and his supporters used a wide range of dirty tricks aimed at smearing his opponent as pro-Communist, including a boiler-room operation generating phone calls to registered Democrats, which simply said, “This is a friend of yours, but I can’t tell you who I am. Did you know that Jerry Voorhis is a Communist?” Then the caller would hang up. In 2016, the same basic strategy was employed but with decades of refinement, 16 | SN&R | 11.02.17

technological advances and massively more money behind it. A key player in this was right-wing computer scientist and hedge-fund billionaire Robert Mercer, who contributed $13.5 million to Trump’s campaign and also funded Cambridge Analytica, a data analytics company that specializes in “election management strategies” and using “psychographic” microtargeting—based on thousands of pieces of data for some 220 million American voters—as Carole Cadwalladr reported for the Guardian in February 2017. After Trump’s victory, Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix said, “We are thrilled that our revolutionary approach to data-driven communication has played such an integral part in Presidentelect Trump’s extraordinary win.” Cambridge Analytica’s parent company, Strategic Communication Laboratories, was more old-school until recently in elections across Europe, Africa and the Caribbean. But now they’re able to micro-target their deceptive, disruptive messaging. “Pretty much every message that Trump put out was data-driven” after they joined the campaign, Nix said in September 2016. On the day of the third presidential debate, Trump’s team “tested 175,000 different ad variations for his arguments” via Facebook. This messaging had everything to do with how those targeted would respond, not with Trump’s or Mercer’s views. In a New Yorker profile, Jane Mayer noted that Mercer argued that the 1964 Civil Rights Act was a major mistake, a subject not remotely hinted at during the campaign. “Suddenly, a random billionaire can change politics and public policy—to sweep everything else off the table—even if they don’t speak publicly, and even if there’s almost no public awareness of his or her views,” Trevor Potter, former chair of the Federal Election Commission, told Mayer.

Antibiotic-resistant “superbugs” threaten foundations of modern medicine The problem of antibiotics giving rise to more dangerous drug-resistant germs (“superbugs”) has been present since the early days of penicillin, but has now reached a crisis, with companies creating dangerous superbugs when their factories leak industrial waste, as reported by Madlen Davies of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism in September 2016. Factories in China and India—where the majority of worldwide antibiotics are manufactured— have released “untreated waste fluid” into local soils and waters, leading to increases in antimicrobial resistance that diminish the effectiveness of antibiotics and threaten the foundations of modern medicine.

“After bacteria in the environment become resistant, they can exchange genetic material with other germs, spreading antibiotic resistance around the world, according to an assessment issued by the European Public Health Alliance, which served as the basis for Davies’ news report,” Project Censored explained. One strain of drug-resistant bacterium that originated in India in 2014 has since spread to 70 other countries. Superbugs have already killed an estimated 25,000 people across Europe—thus globally posing “as big a threat as terrorism,” according to UK National Health Service Chief Medical Officer Dame Sally Davies. “At the heart of the issue is how to motivate pharmaceutical companies to improve their production practices. With strong demand for antibiotics, the companies continue to profit despite the negative consequences of their actions,” Project Censored noted. Superbugs are especially threatening modern medicine, in which a wide range of sophisticated practices—organ transplants, joint replacements, cancer chemotherapy and care of pre-term infants—“will become more difficult or even too dangerous to undertake,” according to Margaret Chan, head of the World Health Organization. “What corporate news coverage there is tends to exaggerate the risks and consequences of natural outbreaks—as seen during the Ebola scare in the U.S. in 2014—rather than reporting on the preventable spread of superbugs by irresponsible pharmaceutical companies,” Project Censored noted.

The toll of U.S. Navy training on wildlife in the North Pacific The U.S. Navy has killed, injured or harassed marine mammals in the North Pacific almost 12 million times over a five-year period, according to research conducted by The West Coast Action Alliance and reported by Dahr Jamail for Truthout. This includes whales, dolphins, porpoises, sea lions and other marine wildlife such as endangered species like humpback whales, blue whales, gray whales, sperm whales, Steller sea lions and sea otters. The number was tabulated from the Navy’s Northwest Training and Testing environmental impact statement and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Letter of Authorization for the number of “takes” of marine mammals caused by Navy exercises. “A ‘take’ is a form of harm to an animal that ranges from harassment, to injury, and sometimes to death,” Jamail wrote. “Many wildlife conservationists see even ‘takes’ that only cause behavior changes as injurious, because chronic harassment of animals that are feeding or breeding can end up harming, or even contributing to their deaths if they are driven out of habitats critical to their survival.” As the Alliance noted, this does not include impacts on “endangered and threatened seabirds, fish, sea turtles or terrestrial species” due to Navy activities, which have expanded dramatically, according to the

Navy’s October 2015 environmental impact statement, including: ● A 778 percent increase in the number of torpedoes. ● A 400 percent increase in air-to-surface missile exercises (including Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary). ● A 1,150 percent increase in drone aircraft. ● An increase from zero to 284 sonar testing events in inland waters. “It is, and has been for quite some time now, well known in the scientific community that the Navy’s use of sonar can damage and kill marine life,” Jamail reported. “With little oversight on Navy training activities, the public is left in the dark regarding their environmental impacts, including especially how Navy operations impact fish in the North Pacific and marine life at the bottom of the food chain,” Project Censored noted. “There has been almost no coverage of these impacts in the corporate press.”

Maternal mortality a growing threat in the U.S. The U.S. maternal mortality rate is rising, while it’s falling elsewhere across the developed world. Serious injuries and complications are needlessly more widespread with shockingly little attention being paid. “Each year over 600 women in the U.S. die from pregnancy-related causes and over 65,000 experience lifethreatening complications or severe maternal

morbidity,” Elizabeth Dawes Gay reported, covering an April 2016 congressional briefing organized by Women’s Policy Inc. “The average national rate of maternal mortality has increased from 12 per 100,000 live births in 1998 to 15.9 in 2012, after peaking at 17.8 in 2011.” “The U.S. is the only nation in the developed world with a rising maternal mortality rate,” Rep. Lois Capps stated at the meeting. The Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health has developed safety bundles of “best practices, guidelines and protocols to improve maternal health care quality and safety,” Gay wrote. “These ‘bundles’ include equipping hospital labor units with a fully stocked cart for immediate hemorrhage treatment, establishing a hospital-level emergency management protocol, conducting regular staff drills and reviewing all cases to learn from past mistakes, among other things.” More broadly, Kiera Butler reported for Mother Jones that doctors rarely warn patients of the potential for serious injuries and complications that can occur following birth. “Women have a right to make informed decisions about their bodies and serious medical situations; however, when it comes to birth and its aftereffects, Butler found that doctors simply are not providing vital information,” Project Censored summarized. Many state laws require doctors to inform women of the potential complications and dangers associated with delivery, but none requires them to discuss potential long-term problems, including the fact that some complications are more prevalent in women who give birth vaginally, rather than by C-section. “The corporate news media have paid limited attention to maternal mortality and morbidity in the U.S.,” Project Censored notes. There have been scattered stories, but nothing remotely close to the sort of sustained coverage that is warranted.

DNC claims right to select presidential candidate A key story about the 2016 election has mostly been ignored by the media—a class-action lawsuit alleging that the Democratic National Committee broke legally binding neutrality agreements in the Democratic primaries by strategizing to make Hillary Clinton the nominee before a single vote was cast. The lawsuit was filed against the DNC and its former chair, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, in June 2016 by Beck & Lee, a Miami law firm, on behalf of supporters of Bernie Sanders. A hearing was held on the suit in April 2017, in which DNC lawyers argued that neutrality was not actually required and that the court had no jurisdiction to assess neutral treatment.

As Michael Sainato wrote in an opinion piece for the Jared Kushner-owned Observer Media, DNC attorneys claimed that Article V, Section 4 of the DNC Charter—which instructs the DNC chair and staff to ensure neutrality in the Democratic presidential primaries—is actually “a discretionary rule” that the DNC “didn’t need to adopt to begin with.” Sainato also reported that DNC attorneys argued that specific terms used in the DNC charter—including “impartial” and “evenhanded”—couldn’t be interpreted in a court of law, because it would “drag the Court ... into a political question and a question of how the party runs its own affairs.” Jared Beck, representing Sanders’ supporters, responded, “Your Honor, I’m shocked to hear that we can’t define what it means to be evenhanded and impartial. If that were the case, we couldn’t have courts. I mean, that’s what courts do every day, is decide disputes in an evenhanded and impartial manner.” Not only was running elections in a fair and impartial manner a “bedrock assumption” of democracy, Beck argued earlier, it was also a binding commitment for the DNC: “That’s what the Democratic National Committee’s own charter says,” he said. “It says it in black and white.” Much of the reporting and commentary on the broader subject of the DNC’s collusion with the Clinton campaign has been speculative and misdirected, focused on questions about voter fraud and countered by claims of indulging in “conspiracy theory.” But this trial focuses on documentary evidence and questions of law—all publicly visible yet still treated as suspect, when not simply ignored out of hand.

A record year for global internet shutdowns In 2016, governments around the world shut down internet access more than 50 times, according to the digital rights organization Access Now, “suppressing elections, slowing economies and limiting free speech,” as Lyndal Rowlands reported for the Inter Press Service. “In the worst cases internet shutdowns have been associated with human rights violations,” Rowlands was told by Deji Olukotun, of Access Now. “What we have found is that internet shutdowns go hand in hand with atrocities,” Olukotun said. Kevin Collier also covered the report for Vocativ, noting that Access Now uses a “conservative metric,” counting “repeated, similar outages”—like those which occurred during Gabon’s widely criticized internet “curfew”— as a single instance. The Vocativ report included a dynamic map chart, designed by Kaitlyn Kelly, that vividly depicts internet shutdowns around the world, month by month for all of 2016, as documented by Access Now. “Many countries intentionally blacked out internet access during elections and to quell

protest. Not only do these shutdowns restrict freedom of speech, they also hurt economies around the world,” Project Censored notes. As Olukotun told IPS, one way to stop government shutdowns is for internet providers to resist government demands. “Telecommunications companies can push back on government orders, or at least document them to show what’s been happening, to at least have a paper trail,” Olukotun observed. On July 1, 2016, the U.N. Human Rights Council passed a nonbinding resolution signed by more than 70 countries lauding the internet’s “great potential to accelerate human progress,” and condemning “measures to intentionally prevent or disrupt access to or dissemination of information online.” It noted that, “the exercise of human rights, in particular the right to freedom of expression, on the internet is an issue of increasing interest and importance.” Ω

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Rounding out the top 25 underreported stories 11. Law enforcement surveillance of phone records 12. U.S. quietly established new “antipropaganda” center 13. Right-wing money promotes model legislation to restrict free speech on university campuses 14. Judges across U.S. using racially biased software to assess defendants’ risk of committing future crimes 15. Shell understood climate change as early as 1991—and ignored it 16. “Resilient” Indian communities struggle to cope with impacts of climate change 17. Young plaintiffs invoke constitutional grounds for climate protection 18. Rise in number of transgender people murdered 19. Inmates and activists protest chemical weapons in U.S. prisons and jails 20. Seattle activist group leads first successful campaign to defund police 21. Fossil fuel industry “colonizing” U.S. universities 22. Lawsuit against Illinois Department of Corrections exposes militarization of law enforcement inside prisons 23. Facebook buys sensitive user data to offer marketers targeted advertising 24. Eight use of force policies to prevent killings by police 25. Juvenile court fees punish children for their families’ poverty

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or a franchise, the decision to break up even a semi-competitive team and begin rebuilding can be agonizing. It’s akin to leaving a comfortable relationship going nowhere in order to work on yourself and commit to staying single. It will be painful, and there’s no guarantee you’ll find happiness, but it’s the right thing to do. Two very significant games in the Kings’ early-season schedule help put their future in perspective. Last Thursday’s matchup with Pelicans was a glimpse down one fork in the road, and next Thursday’s tilt with the 76ers offers a look at another.

It’s always hard to see an ex enjoying themselves with someone else. DeMarcus Cousins returned to Sacramento last week, a standing ovation drowning out scattered boos, his 41 points and 23 rebounds leading the Pelicans to a 114-106 victory. “I’ve got nothing but love for this city,” Cousins said after the game. They were the kind of words one says months after a breakup, given some time to heal. Love was never enough to keep Cousins and the Kings together. Two partners in a codependent relationship, a superstar with attitude problems and a dysfunctional organization—in six-and-a-half seasons together, they failed to make the playoffs even once. Finally, the Kings decided to part ways. “It’s tough because it wasn’t his decision to leave,” Pelicans head coach Alvin Gentry said of Cousins after Thursday’s game. “I think when that happens, it stings, it hurts initially. I think he has found himself in a position where we really appreciate everything he brings to the table.” Boogie appears to have found a quick rebound in New Orleans. It may only be the happy early days of a new relationship, but Cousins is playing the part of a good teammate while displaying the tantalizing skill set that always made him so attractive. Yet it still might not be enough to go all the way. Even with another superstar in Anthony Davis and a max-contract point guard in Jrue Holiday, Cousins and the Pelicans find themselves with a short bench and long odds for a championship. Four years ago, the Philadelphia 76ers were mired in their own kind of mediocrity—four playoff trips in five years, but never surviving the second round. Philadelphia took a shot at adding a Cousins-like talent in Andrew Bynum to take 18 | SN&R | 11.02.17

by Michael cella them over the top. They gave up a bounty for Bynum, but it backfired when injuries prevented him from playing a single game. Management was fired. Depleted of young talent and with no viable path to a championship, the Sixers and new GM Sam Hinkie shipped franchise point guard Holiday to New Orleans, the first domino to fall in what would become known as “The Process.”

If rebuilding a team is the equivalent of hitting the gym and working on yourself, “The Process” is joining a monastery and taking a years-long vow of silence. Over the course of three seasons, the Sixers traded their veterans for draft picks, while fielding teams with little NBA experience led to losing seasons, thus buying them even more picks. Pundits acted appalled, talking heads called them a disgrace, league executives exerted enough pressure on Sixers’ ownership to force out Sam Hinkie. But now, with three potential franchise cornerstones in Ben Simmons, Joel Embiid and Markelle Fultz, the Sixers are undoubtedly in a better place than they were four years ago. The Process appears to be working. The Kings must now demonstrate the same organizational patience and commitment that Philadelphia showed. The Cousins trade brought a similar return of young players and picks to build around that the Holiday trade once did for Philly. Even with a flock of talented young players, the Kings will likely have a losing season and therefore a high lottery pick in next year’s draft.

The 76ers invented the rebuilding strategy the Kings must now employ. The Sixers, though, also aided their rebuild with savvy trades that took advantage of NBA front offices, most notably the Kings themselves, offloading future trade picks while clinging to contention. Two years ago, general manager Vlade Divac traded the Kings’ unprotected 2019 1st round pick, along with other picks and players, for the rights to two overseas prospects. The Sixers exercised their pick-swap right this year to move up to the third pick, and still hold the Kings’ 2019 pick, looking more valuable than ever after Cousins’ departure. The Kings used that cap space to sign ... Rajon Rondo and Marco Belinelli, a couple of mediocrities. The Kings, now at the onset of their own rebuild, are forced to overcome the loss of next year’s pick in the same way the Sixers had to recover from losing the picks sent out for Andrew Bynum. With the 2019 pick still hanging over his head, Divac has since demonstrated an ability to learn from his mistakes. Last year’s trade of Marquise Chris for Skal Labissiere and Bogdan Bogdanovic was a great start. Labissiere is sporting an ultra-efficient 52/40/100 field goals/three-pointers/free throws alongside spry defense in the early going, while Bogdanovic has combined highpercentage shooting with high-IQ playmaking—that move looks like a clear win for the Kings. Swapping Belinelli for

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The draft will always be the fulcrum of any rebuilding effort, particularly in cities without much free-agent appeal like Sacramento. Early returns are promising. Justin Jackson and Frank Mason III look like potential rotation mainstays. Georgios Papagiannis and Harry Giles are waiting in the wings. And despite shooting just 39 percent in his first six games, De’Aaron Fox has already shown he has the talent and makeup to be the leader of an NBA team. “He shoots the ball better than what I did coming in,” Wizards’ star point guard John Wall said of Fox after Sunday’s matchup with the Kings. “He’s been great for those guys,” Wall told Sactown Royalty. “He’s got some great veterans around that’s going to help him.” It is impossible to overstate the importance of coaching and player development. Coach Dave Joerger has a tricky balancing act on his hands distributing minutes to his

veterans without hurting his young players’ growth. The leadership of Vince Carter, Garrett Temple and George Hill will be instrumental, but hope within the organization is that the young players will emerge into starting roles sooner than later. The Kings showed faith in Joerger by offering him a two-year extension before the season, an important statement for an organization on its sixth coach in six years. “Because most of our players are young, we have to go back, like to high school and college, and teach,” Divac said before the season opener. “That’s the challenge. But we chose to go down that path and we think it’s the right thing to do.”

We’re single right now. It’s tough, but necessary. It will all require the patience of an already longsuffering fan base eager to love a team that loves them back, like the glory teams of the early 2000s, the one that got away. We want love. We want a championship. Let’s trust The Process. Ω

I nearly had an anxiety attack. I walked toward the Red Museum and saw a guy dressed in a nice suit, carrying a wedding gift. My wife told me I should “dress nice” tonight since this was technically a wedding reception, but I brushed off the suggestion since it was also technically a show with more than a dozen local hip-hop, punk, doom metal and indie rock artists. I figured everyone would be dressed like dirtbags, like me. It was bad enough that I didn’t know the married couple whose wedding reception I was crashing. Turns out, my wife and I were both right. It was a strange mixture of older nicely dressed folks and casually dressed 20-somethings at the Red Museum. A friend wore a Fruit Loop-colored shirt and punkpatch-covered jeans. A man in an artsy beanie asked me if I knew the bride and groom. No, I told him. “Good. Now I don’t feel so bad.” He went back to enjoying the live music. The couple, Hallie Wenz and Tyson Bouey, are big supporters “I’m so of local music and art, achonored to have cording to attendees. Writer Josh Fernandez read a piece a ska band play my about a having bad mushroom wedding.” trip and trying to kill his friend, and he had officiated Hallie Wenz the wedding, which was held local bride and music just before at Sol Collective. patron Local poet and rapper Andru Defeye, who hosted the evening, told me that he wanted to teach a class about how to support the scene using Wenz and Bouey as examples because of how often they attend shows. “If we had 100 people who supported like them, there wouldn’t be starving artists in this city.” The couple invited artists to participate in what they called the “Super Great Awesome Incredible Fantastic Wedding Reception,” including SpaceWalker, The Philharmonik, Caliscope, Vinnie Guidera & the Dead Birds and Hobo Johnson & the Lovemakers, who headlined. The choice of Johnson—who raps about his divorced parents and girls not liking him—shows just how far from the traditional wedding reception the couple allowed the evening to be. However, Johnson shared a few sentimental words about the couple: He had seen them at shows and noticed how much they enjoyed each others’ company, and he said it gave him a model for a relationship. The couple had also opened the proceedings to the public, so I wasn’t actually a wedding crasher. Bands and rappers performed at an almost constant pace from 6 p.m. to nearly 1 a.m. In a sense it felt more like a show than a wedding reception, even though there was free booze and a wedding cake. After punk-ska band At Both Ends played a highly energetic set, which included a bouncy cover of Rancid’s “Time Bomb,” Wenz hopped up on stage, got choked up and said a few words to everyone, like a normal wedding reception. Her gown was colorful— another deviation from the norm. After thanking everyone for coming out, she said: “I just want to say that I fucking love third-wave ska,” she said. “I’m so honored to have a ska band play my wedding.” The crowd roared.

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I like to order burgers at Mexican restaurants, and I had heard rumblings about Taqueria Jalisco’s burger. And by “rumblings” I mean my husband told me that their burger was good and I finally got around to trying it a year later. Why Mexican burgers? My motto: Give me your unadorned burger, your bacon-free burger, your simple burger yearning to breathe free of pretentious terms like “aioli” when “mayo” will do. Mexican joints often offer a burger like this, and Jalisco’s ($5.99) is a great example. The patty is medium thick, rough-hewn and juicy. I’ll allow for the terrible orange tomato because the airy bun holds up till the last bite. I posted a pic of mine on Instagram, sans identifier, and burger savant Rodney Blackwell of Burger Battle fame ID’d it within minutes and said that he, “loves it when a non-burger restaurant takes pride in their burger offerings.” That’s like Ebert praising your student film. Owner Danny Florez is pleased, but not surprised when I share this compliment from the Burger Boss. He 22 | SN&R | 11.02.17

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takes great pride in the quality of the meat at his restaurant, and his burger sales more than quadrupled when he switched from a pre-made patty to this rustic version a few years ago. He takes pride in everything about his restaurant, which was opened by his grandmother in 1974, and which he bills as “Sacramento’s first taqueria” on the menu. His son and daughter, both employed at Jalisco, represent the fourth generation of the family to work there. He has much to be proud of, and his customers agree. His tacos took second place in SN&R’s “best tacos” Reader’s Picks category in 2017, behind Chando’s. His carne asada street taco (all “street tacos” are $2.90) is my favorite around. It’s lightly salted so the quality of the meat and the roasted tomato salsa shines through. The pliable, soft tortillas are purchased from a preferred vendor in Modesto, and brushed with garlic before they’re grilled. The carnitas on the taco exhibit a pleasing interplay between the orange juice marinade and a judicious use of garlic, even if they don’t quite achieve the crispy/fatty texture that has made La Esperanza justly famous. The chunky al pastor again lets the quality of meat shine, with just enough spice to offset a bit of sweet pineapple. Did I mention that this place sells margaritas ($8)? With tequila—not that gross, wine-based stuff. And it has a couple of taps of local beer in addition to the standard taps such as Modelo. I have a new (to me) neighborhood spot that my rumbler, er, husband and I can agree on. Ω

Hating on pumpkin spice drinks is overdone. So fear not and try the seasonally appropriate pumpkin pie smoothie ($8.50 for 24 ounces) at the ounces) at the just-over-a-month-old Nekter Nekter Juice Bar (1050 20th Street). Street). It’s made with pumpkin, banana, cinnamon, nutmeg, agave nectar, housemade cashew milk and dates that provide a chewy chewy texture somewhat adjacent adjacent to boba. It’s too exhausting exhausting to constantly align yourself yourself against products designed to to appease the mainstream. So, just for a moment, drop your hip cynicism toward basic delights and have a sip of this naturally sweet treat.

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Get brunched up As capitalism shambles into its gig economy phase, more of our lives have been consumed by work, but Saturday—sweet, sweet Saturday—should remain reserved for leisure. If you’re looking to pregame your pregame, look to Highwater (1910 Q Street) and its event Brunch AF on November 4 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. For $25, you get bottomless mimosas plus your choice of an entree. The day’s menu includes huevos rancheros, chilaquiles, eggs benedict, a “buttermilk biscuit bowl” filled with gravy and breakfast tacos made with onions, bell peppers, ghost-pepper salt from Preservation & Co. and either bacon, sausage or soyrizo. The affair caters to EDM-heads with a slate of seven DJs, including Highwater’s resident jockeys: LIES, Tokio Rocks and Ajotta. The vibe seems to be lively, but mellow enough not to aggravate Friday-induced hangovers.

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This is trash by Shoka Here’s an interesting social experiment: Make unpalatable food for a potluck, put a sign on it saying, “This is trash,” and see who will actually eat it. That’s what happened recently when a recipe I found online for vegan cashew-cream stuffed balsamic dates turned sour: The dates were oversaturated with vinegar. To my surprise, people tried them anyway. Most politely agreed they were too strong, but a few liked them. A better way to get that vinegar tang is to make a

balsamic reduction and drizzle it over the stuffed date. Specifically, a Medjool date, sliced lengthwise with its pit removed, stuffed with cashew cream (puree 1 cup cashews, 1/2 cup water, 1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar, 1 teaspoon lemon juice, 1/2 teaspoon salt). You could even top it with coconut flakes or stuff it with pistachio puree (1/2 cup shelled, salted pistachios, 1/4 cup unsweetened coconut flakes, 2 tablespoons water, a pinch of cinnamon) for less trashy results.

Mixed traditions: Marco Sudjita, owner of Fujita Sushi (1976 Fulton Avenue), wants to introduce Sacramento to his brand of Japanese fusion that draws from Italy, Spain, Latin America and beyond. Trained in New York City, Sudjita can put together a tidy, traditional nigiri as readily as he can whip up a dish like “Japanese nachos” ($12) that come with raw fish and guacamole. “I decided Sacramento might need a new kind of sushi that we can provide,” he said. Other novel choices on his menu include ceviche ($11) dressed with mango, yuzu foam and micro cilantro, as well as hamachi carpaccio ($13) complete with basil, fried garlic and tomatoes, but also ponzo and himalayan salt. Still, his restaurant keeps some ties to tradition. His ramen broth combines chicken and pork for a stock with rich umami flavors. He makes his soy sauce

in-house, preferring the tosa style that includes hints of tuna and seaweed. And he gets his baos fresh everyday from the local Shun Fat Supermarket. He uses the baos for overstuffed sandwiches with fillings like peanut-soy pork belly ($3) and New England-style lobster ($5), complete with celery, onions and an aioli punched up with Old Bay spices. Sudjita said he hopes to seasonally shift his menu every “four to five months,” and right now, he’s trying to “Asian-ize” a gazpacho recipe. “We’re doing research,” he said. “We’re going to put, like, Korean pears and lychee in there. You’ve never seen that in a gazpacho.” Provisional dinner: Chefs Robert Sakado, Steve Gibanov and Theodore Gibanov started their food business American River Provisions in early 2017, bringing together more than 40 years of

culinary experience. After months of working on recipes, the group hosted its first pop-up event on October 30 at Revolution Wines (2831 S Street), where Theodore once served as executive chef. At $100 a person, the dinner wasn’t cheap, but it looked spectacular: After starting off with arancini, foie gras and a cannellini bean bruschetta, the four-course meal began with a salad made of mixed winter chicories. The pasta was a braised mushroom-stuffed pansotti. The entree was a smoked pork loin with wild rice and crisped kale. And the dessert was a pistachio almond cake topped with orange marmalade and whipped creme fraiche. Theodore Gibanov said they hope to continue building buzz with catering and private dinners as they compile recipes for a book and save money to purchase a food truck. Ω

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time. They have all survived multiple bubble bursts, and hen Julia Child became one of the first American their words hold authority in a world filled with rookies. celebrity chefs in the 1960s, few could have “That’s a big part of it,” says McCormick. “It’s those who envisioned where that trend would eventually lead — have been around long enough to emerge, and around chef-endorsed products stuffing grocery store shelves long enough to showcase their abilities and their talents.” and entire cable channels devoted to cooking and cooks. Another major factor in a beermaker becoming a Similarly, the idea of an American “celebrity brewer” brew household name is sheer personality — brewing is must have seemed utterly absurd in the 1980s and a largely unglamorous pursuit, 1990s, when craft beer and it tends to attract a fair cornerstones like Sierra share of introverts. “Some of Nevada, Dogfish Head and these individuals just enjoy Stone were just getting getting out more and connectstarted. But these days you ing with and interfacing with can’t think about those three the consumer, and getting breweries without also thinkout and doing things like beer ing about Ken Grossman, dinners and speaking at public Sam Calagione and Greg events,” says McCormick. Koch, their founders and “There are a lot of behind-thefigureheads. scenes people who don’t thrive Those three, along with on that publicity.” other notable names like Tom McCormick Ultimately, McCormick sees Vinnie and Natalie Cilurzo Executive director, California Craft Brewers Association the emergence of the celebrity of Russian River, Jim Koch brewer as an extension of craft of Boston Beer Company beer’s strong customer connecand Rob Tod of Allagash, are tion. “I think that the trend will definitely continue to part of a relatively new trend of celebrity brewers. “It’s grow, and I think there will be new names that emerge,” something that’s been developing in the last 10 to 15 he says. When asked about local brewers who could years,” says Tom McCormick, executive director of the break out, McCormick listed Ken Anthony of Device, California Craft Brewers Association. “I think it’s kind of a citing his combination of talent and enthusiasm. “Ken fascinating part of our industry.” has a ton of energy, loves getting out there, and makes The common factor among the names listed above really great beers,” says McCormick. is that they’re all battle-tested craft beer veterans in an industry where breweries pop up and flame out all the

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Life’s little pivots by Bev SykeS

Playwright Jerry R. Montoya’s adaptation of Mary Shelley’s horror story gets a supremely satisfying production here featuring a talented cast not that much older than the author (she was just 18 when she started the tale) and her compatriots when they challenged themselves to create the best monster story ever. F Sa 8pm, Su

2pm. Through 11/19. $17-$22. Chautauqua Playhouse, La Sierra Community Center, 5325 Engle Road in Carmichael; (916) 489-7529; www. cplayhouse.org.

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f, sa 7:30pm. through 11/4; $12-$18; Pamela trokanski Dance theater, 2720 Del rio Place in Davis; (530) 756-3949; https://trokanski.org.

Now celebrating 33 years in Davis, the Paula Trokanski Dance Studio is presenting its fall concert. Turning Corners examines personal epiphanies and sudden shifts in perception that allow us to see the world in a completely different light. Eight dancers ages 9 to 87 present solo and ensemble performances that reveal something about their own experiences of a time when their lives shifted. The first revelation comes from 9-year-old Asher Habicht, who recounts his decision to become vegan. Habicht is a wonder. He is in every ensemble number and has his own solos and his dancing is as crisp, clean and synchronized as the adults around him. Allegra Silberstein, 87, has been performing with Trokanski for many years. She recounted discussing the dangers of communism with her college professor in the 1950s and her surprise when he contrasted communism to Catholicism. In turn, each of the remaining dancers interpreted experiences with things like attending summer camp, decisions of what major to study and a very funny piece about learning to drive. The athletic choreography was sometimes humorous, sometimes harrowing but always with the precise dancing for which Trokanski is well known. It may inspire viewers to look at things in their own lives from a different perspective.

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One of the most beloved stage comedies, Noel Coward’s play tells of a wacky clairvoyant whose séance goes decidedly wrong, and a cantankerous novelist who suddenly finds himself haunted by the ghost of his first wife, much to the chagrin of his jealous second.

Tu 8pm. Through 10/31; $20; Ooley Theatre, 2007 28th Street; (916) 214-6255; www.emhpros.weebly. com. J.C.

Luna Gale

Capital Stage presents the Sacramento premiere of the LA Drama Critics Circle winner, Luna Gale, a dramedy which examines all sides of the question of what should happen to the infant daughter of two drug-addicted teens. There is no good solution and the overworked social worker must choose what’s best for the baby. Th, F, 7pm,

11/5. $15-$25; Woodland Opera House, 340 2nd Street in Woodland; (530) 666-9617; www. woodlandoperahouse. org. B.S.

J Street; (916) 995-5464; http://capstage.org. B.S.

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3 Kings of America As a child in grade school, Sean Patrick Nill was a history buff, and he “totally consumed the Hollywood version of it.” Now 26, he’s more consumed with the real version of history and what we do with the knowledge we have of it. An actor, singer, dancer and playwright, Sacramentan Nill has written a historically based play in which a teenage boy who’s going through some hard times has recurring dreams involving previous presidents of the United States. What he learns from these nocturnal encounters reveals to him both the flaws and the positive attributes of these legends, and helps him understand himself a little better, too. This production comes as the result of crosstown talent trade between Sacramento Theatre Company and the B Street Theatre. Last year, Nill completed a playwriting internship at B Street (he’s now an artistic associate there) and STC “has a commitment to produce new works by local artists,” says STC Executive Producing Director Michael Luan. So here’s Nill’s play, a perfect fit with STC’s 2017-2018 season theme of “Fate, Fantasy & Forgiveness.” —Jim Carnes

th 7pm, f 8pm, sa 2pm and 8pm, su 2pm, W 7pm. through 12/10; $30-$40; sacramento threatre company, Pollock stage, 1419 h street; (916) 443-6722; www.sactheatre.org.

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Marat-Sade in motion The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade was a cause célèbre in the ’60s, invoking madness and sadomasochism. This immersive Falcon’s Eye Theatre production asks attendees to stroll for about 10 minutes as the action moves through a one-of-a-kind extended set (with accommodations for the mobility impaired). F 7:30pm, Sa 2pm & 7:30pm, Su 2pm, also Th 11/9 and Th 11/16 at 7:30pm. Through 11/19; $25 general, $14 students/seniors; Stage Two (City Studio Theater) at the Harris Center, Folsom Lake College, 10 College Parkway in Folsom; (916) 608-6888; www.HarrisCenter. net.

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Frankenstein or a Mad magazine parody than a sequel to the dreary Thor: The Dark World. In last year’s Ghostbusters, Hemsworth Thor: Ragnarok shows why Marvel Studios is winning revealed a surprising gift for comedy, and its undeclared war with DC Comics in the battle of he unwraps it again here, not only in his the superhero movies. Eschewing the joyless solemsibling-rivalry banter with Hiddleston, but nity with which Christopher Nolan weighed down in interactions with supporting heroes and DC’s Batman, and with which Zack Snyder is in the villains—Doctor Strange (a cameo-ing Benedict process of murdering Superman, Thor: Ragnarok is Cumberbatch), a planetary emperor named the actually fun. Grandmaster (Jeff Goldblum, tarted up like The news isn’t all good. The truth is, it Caligula in disco drag), the Hulk/Bruce would probably be more fun if it were Banner (Mark Ruffalo, again giving half an hour shorter. Eric Pearson, both characters more than any Craig Kyle and Christopher L. other actor has even attempted). Yost’s story is thinner than A bonus is newcomer Valkyrie It may be damning green tea, with Thor (Chris (Tessa Thompson), a female Hemsworth) and his treacherous with faint praise, but Han Solo type who goes from brother Loki (Tom Hiddleston) being Thor’s captor to a flirtaRagnarok is the best uneasily uniting for Ragnarok, a tious confederate, a better match Thor movie yet. world-destroying battle with their for Thor (and Hemsworth) than evil sister Hela (Cate Blanchett). It the ill-cast Natalie Portman in the plays more as a series of build-ups first two movies. to action set-pieces, like song cues in As villain-in-chief Hela, Blanchett a 1930s musical. The action scenes themis squeezed into a skin-tight black body selves feel like items on a CGI programmer’s stocking and wild antler headdress that make her wish list, about as viscerally exciting as a Coyotelook like a dominatrix in a Martian whorehouse, Roadrunner cartoon and not nearly as funny. recycling her wicked stepmother from Cinderella. New Zealand director Taika Waititi, graduating Rounding out straight-man duties are Karl Urban from the quirky indie flicks that put him on the map, as Asgardian warrior Skurge and Idris Elba as the isn’t quite ready for the quantum upgrade in scale. all-seeing wizard Heimdall. If they felt left out of The final credit crawl reads like the population of a the enjoyment, they kept it to themselves. medium-size city, and he lets those hundreds of artists It may be damning with faint praise, but run away with the movie time and again. Ragnarok is the best Thor movie yet. The fans will Between these numbing extravaganzas, Waipiti love it, and the rest of us can duck out for more asserts his impish humorous side, and the movie popcorn when the fighting starts. Ω flares to life, revealing its saving secret: It’s really a comedy—or rather a knowing self-spoof; Pearson, Kyle and Yost are much better at mock-cocky badinage than they are at story construction, and at Poor Fair Good Very excellent Good its best Ragnarok feels mercifully more like Young

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All I See is You

Genre journeyman Marc Forster (World War Z) directs this moody and impressionistic psychodrama about a blind woman re-evaluating her life after receiving surgery to help her see again. Blinded by a childhood car accident that killed both her parents, Blake Lively’s Gina largely depends on her husband James (Jason Clarke), a doting but dull accountant working out of Bangkok. When corrective surgery slowly restores her sight, a less dependent Gina starts growing dissatisfied with the world she sees and begins to question her life with James. Meanwhile, an increasingly emasculated James, fearing that Gina has lost interest, begins to undermine her treatment. Rather than the pulp thriller you might expect, Forster and screenwriter Sean Conway leave the film on a low, sexy simmer, and the attempts to show us the world that the blind Gina sees are quite creative. Only an absurd finale keeps the film from being fully recommendable. D.B.

The Florida Project

The best film of the year so far, a dreamlike slice-of-life from Tangerine director Sean Baker, The Florida Project follows a mischievous group of kids led by foul-mouthed 6-year-old Moonee (a startlingly natural Brooklyn Prince) over the course of a summer. Moonee and her train-wreck mother Hailey (Bria Vanaite) live in candy-colored squalor on the outskirts of Disney World, denizens of a run-down budget motel managed by a tough but fair cipher named Bobby (an outstanding Willem Dafoe). While Moonee and her ferocious young playmates gambol through the kitsch-strewn landscape like a modern-day Tom Sawyer and friends, Hailey’s life slowly disintegrates. Without ever judging, preaching or force-feeding the narrative, Baker and his uniformly brilliant cast create a cinematic universe that is utterly absorbing and alive. The world of The Florida Project feels tangible, lyrical, forbidding and magical all at once, a boundaryless playground for kids and a quicksand prison for everyone else. D.B.

Geostorm

A satellite network set up to control global weather starts going haywire, sending freezing winds through Afghan deserts, hundred-foot tidal waves into Dubai, and Volkswagen-sized hailstones down onto Tokyo, and just about everything else on a CGIgeek’s wish list. Only one man can fix things, the prickly genius who designed the system (Gerard Butler)—but he’s checked out of the business since being fired by his bureaucrat brother (Jim Sturgess). The script by Paul Guyot and first-time director Dean Devlin putters around with leftover parts from disaster movies that were badly written in the first place, stranding a decent cast (Abbie Cornish, Andy Garcia, Ed Harris, Mare Winningham, Richard Schiff) with nothing to do but try to get a word in edgewise between some of the cheesiest effects in years. J.L.

Happy Death Day

A snotty college sorority sister (Jessica Rothe) is murdered on the night of her birthday, then wakes up again that same morning, living it—and dying—over and over while she tries to solve the mystery of who keeps killing her. Writer Scott Lobdell and director Christopher Landon have the cast-iron gall to make one character say, “This whole thing reminds me of Groundhog Day”—their rip-off is as shameless as that. Needless to say, Rothe’s character hasn’t seen the Bill Murray classic, or (presumably) any of those slasher flicks where killers run around wearing creepy masks; that may be her whole problem right there. Rothe is the closest thing to a saving grace here; she has presence and wit and looks. If she can manage to drag herself clear of having to do junk like this, she may even have a future. J.L.

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In the 1920s, British playwright A.A. Milne (Domhnall Gleeson) writes stories about Winnie-the-Pooh to amuse his son Christopher (Will Tiltson, later Alex Lawther), and the stories’ popularity creates family tensions that boil over when young Milne grows to “hate that blasted bear.” The minigenre of movies purporting to tell the back story of beloved childhood classics (Finding Neverland, Saving Mr. Banks) may have worn out its welcome with blatant inventions, but at last we get one with the gentle ring of truth—right down to the portrayal of Milne’s wife Daphne (Margot Robbie) as a bit of an ice-bitch. But even she gets her due of humanity, however fallible, in Frank Cottrell Boyce and Simon Vaughan’s tender script and under Simon Curtis’ delicate direction. Young Tiltson all but steals the show from his elders. J.L.

The Killing of a Sacred Deer

Iconoclastic Greek director Yorgos Lanthismos (Dogtooth) makes his second English-language film with The Killing of a Sacred Deer, following up last year’s The Lobster. Colin Farrell again stars here as Dr. Steven Murphy, a skilled and successful surgeon with a beautiful and successful wife (Nicole Kidman), two accomplished kids and a dark secret from his past. That dark secret takes the form of Martin (Barry Keoghan), a gawky teenager who gloms onto Steven, inserting himself further and further into the surgeon’s family life before finally revealing the vicious magnitude of his plan. Lanthimos specializes in caustically, even sadistically absurd satires on human behavior, and while The Killing of a Sacred Deer certainly fits that bill, it mostly feels vapid and mean. In adapting his singularly airless style to slightly more conventional material, Lanthimos only exposes his own limitations. I still ate up all the Kubrick-ian camera moves, of course. D.B.

The Meyerowitz Stories

More acridly intellectual extended-family comedy from writer-director Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale; Mistress America), this time structured as a series of short stories revolving around the embittered family of a forgotten sculptor. Dustin Hoffman plays Harold, a prickly artist whose greatest claim to fame is having one of his works buried somewhere in the Whitney, although he still manages to entangle his embittered children from his various marriages in his many mini-dramas. Adam Sandler plays Harold’s oldest son Danny, a failed musician and loving father prone to eruptions of anger, while Ben Stiller plays the prized son Matthew, far more financially successful but just as volatile and unhappy. It’s not as cohesive (or corrosive) as Baumbach’s best work, but even in second gear, no one depicts the tender malice of family better. The film offers a powerful reminder that Sandler and Stiller are otherwise wasting their careers on crap. D.B.

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A maverick Norwegian police detective with a drinking problem (Michael Fassbender) investigates the disappearance of a woman who may be the latest victim of a serial killer. Adapted by Peter Straughan, Hossein Amini and Søren Sveistrup from Jo Nesbo’s bestselling thriller and directed by Tomas Alfredson, the movie is simply a God-awful, incoherent mess. Characters and subplots pop in at random and nothing makes any sense. Two of the best editors in the business, Thelma Schoonmaker and Claire Simpson, seem to have assembled the footage blindfolded wearing boxing gloves, and a world-class cast (Fassbender, Rebecca Ferguson, Charlotte Gainsbourg, J.K. Simmons, Val Kilmer) makes no impression at all. Dion Beebe’s cinematography comes off best, but it only adds to the offputting Nordic coldness of it all. J.L.

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American Sniper screenwriter Jason Hall makes his directorial debut with this American Sniper-lite ensemble piece that follows a group of Iraq War veterans as they unsteadily reintegrate into society. Based on David Finkel’s nonfiction book of the same name, Thank You for Your Service mostly focuses on Schumann (Miles Teller), a young father still reliving disturbing war experiences, and “Solo” (Beulah Koale), whose debilitating brain injuries begin to tear his life to shreds. Faced with insufficient medical and psychological care, as well as an apathetic home front, the soldiers’ untreated trauma wreaks havoc on their families. Hall certainly seems to grasp the mindset of the modern warrior, sensitively showing the way that steely exteriors can conceal deep rivers of pain and regret. But as might be expected from a screenwriter turned first-time director, Hall’s film is dialogue-heavy and storylight, smart and observant but largely lacking in urgency and revelation. D.B.

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be neatly packaged; Hiss Spun is definitely a “rock album,” as she puts it. “I don’t think I ever stick to just one genre,” Wolfe said. “I like to experiment and I like to create my own world.” Last year, Wolfe moved back to Northern California and now resides near Sacramento, which has served as her latest muse. “A lot of it just had to do with revisiting memories that I haven’t thought about for a long time,” Wolfe said. “Dealing with things the darkness follows in the mirror. in my past that I haven’t dealt with yet. There’s some good times No one makes music quite like Chelsea Wolfe. The and there’s some darker times in there that I was critically acclaimed artist blends rock with a melandefinitely using without even really realizing it as choly and Gothic atmosphere, ambient yet heavy electronica and grunge-doom washed guitars, evoking inspiration for new songs.” For the last seven years, Wolfe has been based comparisons to Sonic Youth, Nick Cave, Siouxsie out of Los Angeles. The last show she played in and the Banshees, even heavy metal titans YOB. Sacramento was in 2012 at Harlow’s Restaurant & On Friday November 3, Wolfe returns home to Nightclub. She admits it did not go well, and at the Sacramento after a five-year absence. She’ll play Ace time she said that this would be the “last Sacramento of Spades in support of her new album Hiss Spun, show” her band played. Wolfe said she wasn’t in released through Los Angeles-based Sargent House the right headspace to come back home in 2012. But Records on September 22. never say never, as the adage goes. “It’s a very intense set of songs,” Wolfe said. “I think I just needed some Hiss Spun—like all of Wolfe’s music— distance,” Wolfe said. “Any artist is heavy and pulls no punches lyrically. needs time away from their The title track “Spun” expresses self“I like to hometown ... I think Sacramento destructive chaos in the wake of loss: experiment and is a really great incubator for “You leave me restless, / you leave bands—and it was definitely I like to create my me hung, / you leave me coiled, / that for me in my early 20s.” you leave me spun.” own world.” Wolfe’s first SacramentoThe track “Vex” has lyrics based band Red Host allowed Chelsea Wolfe suitable for a poetry reading or a her to experiment with different musician prog-rock album, with the line: “Hush, styles, ranging from acoustic singerAncient Purr, I swore off obsidian songwriter to rock music. Then, moving thoughts, / and lay awake on broken glass.” to LA helped her find her voice. Wolfe cites literary influences including Walt Hiss Spun encircles the listener in a sonic atmoWhitman and Dylan Thomas. She samples ambient sphere of haunting melodies and mournful vocals. noises like coyotes and motorcycles. The track Twin Fawn stands out as exemplary of the “(Musician) Ben Chisholm and I make these album’s sound: a soft buildup to a woven cacophony textures out of them,” she said. “Dealing with of darkly distorted guitars. Each track feels simultanetextures from our own lives to give them a more ously demanding of ferocious headbanging and personal and tactile feeling.” deliciously soothing. Perhaps the album’s best mark Wolfe said audiences seem to be reacting posiof success is that it keeps getting better with each tively to the new album’s songs, and it’s not difficult subsequent listen. Ω to see why. Each of her five studio albums has its Photo courtesy of motormouthmedia

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KASKADE: West Coast electronic music. 9pm, $40. The Park Ultra Lounge, 1116 15th St.

GRANT FARM: With Tyler Grant. 9pm, $7. Torch

VALE OF PNATH: With Depths of Hatred, Virvum,

Club, 904 15th St.

Flub, Wastewalker. 8pm, $10. Blue Lamp, 1400 Alhambra Blvd.

LITTLE CHAMPION: With Jerkagram, Pregnant. 9pm, call for cover. Cafe Colonial, 3520

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Stockton Blvd.

ROSEDALE & FRIENDS: With Surrounded by

AARON WATSON: Country musician performs

with Brandon Lay. 7pm, $20. Ace Of Spades, 1417 R St.

FRANKIE BALLARD: With McKenna Faith. 10pm,

Ace Of Spades, 1417 R St.

TRASH ROCK: DJs play their favorite trash rock.

HAROLD LÓPEZ-NUSSA TRIO: See event

9pm, no cover. The Press Club, 2030 P St.

description on 11/2. 8pm, $23.50-$47. UC Davis, 1 Shields Ave. in Davis.

TRUCKFIGHTERS: With American Killers, Shotgun Sawyer. 8pm, $13-$16. Blue Lamp, 1400 Alhambra Blvd.

LOFI LEGS: With the White Lighters, Ur X Wife.

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Dine ’n’ drag Get an eye full of drag queens and a mouthful of delicious supper at Sacramento’s newest spot to see a drag show—Capitol Garage. This Saturday’s performance is the second of the Midtown LGBTQ restaurant’s weekly Dinner and a Drag Show, where you can enjoy a meal special to that night (as well as regular menu items) with drag performances. This month features Sacramento drag queens Lovli Mohair, Luna Nova, Mercury Rising

7pm, $5. The Colony, 3512 Stockton Blvd.

PSYCHOSOMATIC: A benefit show for Sean Killian, vocalist for Bay Area thrash metal band Vio-lence, who has stage 4 liver cirrhosis. Hatriot, Solanum and Severpull will also perform. 8pm, $15. Blue Lamp, 1400 Alhambra Blvd.

and Sefora Skyy in a cabaret-style show. The spectacle is in its infancy, but manager Scott Larson expects the event to grow to include drag performers from Stockton, the Bay Area and Los Angeles. Eventually, the Capitol Garage team hopes to get performers from Ru Paul’s Drag Race on their stage. Come get your helping of dinner and drag this weekend. 1500 K Street, www.facebook.com/ capgarage.

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THURSDAY, 11/2 BEATLES VS. STONES—A MUSICAL SHOWDOWN: Two of the biggest rock bands of all time come together (in the form of two tribute bands) to face off to determine which was the greatest. 7pm, $20-$25. Harlow’s, 2708 J St.

HAROLD LÓPEZ-NUSSA TRIO: One of the latest in a procession of keyboard players to emerge from Cuba tours following his debut album, El Viaje. 8pm, $23.50-$47. UC Davis, 1 Shields Ave. in Davis.

THE LOVE JONES EXPERIENCE (POETRY & LIVE MUSIC): Singers, musicians and poets share the stage for a night of creative expression.

8pm, $10. Laughs Unlimited Comedy Club, 1207 Front St.

MARTY COHEN AND THE SIDEKICKS: The trio performs original acoustic folk/pop tunes and favorite folk classics. 8pm, no cover. Fox & Goose, 1001 R St.

STEVIE STONE: With Hennessy, Cy Fye, Jaded Jessay, Diego Lewis. 7pm, $15-$20. The Boardwalk, 9426 Greenback Lane in Orangevale.

FRIDAY, 11/3 CARAVONSERI: Santana tribute band. 10pm, $10. Powerhouse Pub, 614 Sutter St. in Folsom.

CHELSEA WOLFE: Northern California native rocker returns to a Sacramento stage with Youth Code. Read our piece on Wolfe and her

music on page 30. 7:30pm, $22.50. Ace Of Spades, 1417 R St.

THE CLAY DOGS: The band with an unplugged

feel and a big sound performs. 7pm, $5. The Acoustic Den Cafe, 10271 Fairway Drive, Suite 120 in Roseville.

FESTIVAL OF NEW AMERICAN MUSIC OPENING GALA: The 40th Annual Festival of New American Music (FENAM) opens with a Gala Concert featuring David Tanenbaum on guitar, Line Upon Line Percussion and Sacramento’s own Citywater with guest harpist Jennifer Ellis. FENMA events and performances run through 11/12. 8pm, no cover. Sacramento State, 6000 J St.

DIA DE LOS MUERTOS CEREMONY AND PROCESSION: Honor your loved ones who have died with others who celebrate Día de Los Muertos in Sacramento. Parade begins at noon with a mass and performances following after about 3 p.m. Bring a photo or memento to contribute for the community altar. Noon, no cover. St. Mary Cemetery & Funeral Center, 65th and Fruitridge Road.

Broussard with Vox Society, Ms. Vybe Max Bundles with No Name Cavalcade and more. 9pm, $5. Fox & Goose, 1001 R St.

DIA DE LOS MUERTOS OAK PARK 2017: Remember your loved ones and celebrate with your community during this event that includes altars, two stages with live Mexican music, crafts for kids, dance performances and more. 5pm, no cover. The Brickhouse Gallery & Art Complex, 2837 36th St.

SUNDAY, 11/5 TOM RIGNEY & FLAMBEAU: The band plays one of their favorite venues in the Sacramento region. 3pm, $10. Powerhouse Pub, 614 Sutter St. in Folsom.

FRIDAY, 11/3

BENEFIT FOR SAFE SPACE FOR UNHOMED YOUTH: Spoken word artists and musicians perform to raise money for Engage, Inc., which runs Sacramento Safe Space for Unhomed Youth. Performances by David Loret de Mola, Julie Bruce, The Gold Souls, Las Pulgas and more. 3pm, $10. Blue Lamp, 1400 Alhambra Blvd.

20TH ANNUAL SACRAMENTO ARTS FESTIVAL:

See event highlight on page 34. 10am, no cover-$8. Sacramento Convention Center Complex, 1400 J St.

NANOWRIMO 2017: Many fiction writers know by

HAROLD LÓPEZ-NUSSA TRIO: See event

description on 11/2. 8pm, $23.50-$47. UC Davis, 1 Shields Ave. in Davis.

now that November is National Novel Writing Month, when many work toward the goal of writing a 50,000-word novel by the end of the month. Get together with fellow writers to get started working on your novel. 5pm, no cover. Empire’s Comics Vault, 1120 Fulton Ave., Suite K.

Symphony performs under the direction of Michael Neumann. 5pm, $15-$20. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.

DAVID TANENBAUM: Solo performance by guitarist David Tanenbaum, a top guitarist of his generation. Part of the 40th Annual Festival of New American Music. 8pm, no cover. Sacramento State, 6000 J St.

OAK PARK FIRST FRIDAYS: An evening of

HIRIE: Reggae-pop artist performs with Nattali Rize. 6pm, $13-$15. Holy Diver, 1517 21st St.

RSVP CONCERT: See event description on 11/4.

3pm, no cover. Journey Church of Folsom, 450 Blue Ravine Road in Folsom.

TUESDAY, 11/7 THE FLOOZIES: With the Funk Hunters, Maddy

$17-$20. Holy Diver, 1517 21st St.

THURSDAY, 11/2

Voices of Peace (RSVP) present a vocal jazz, pop and gospel concert series benefiting Shoes4Sacramento, a nonprofit charity that collects and donates gently used shoes to homeless families. 7:30pm, no cover. Congregation Beth Shalom, 4746 El Camino Ave. in Carmichael.

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Capitol GaraGe, 7:30 p.M., $5-$25

Giants, Zach Van Dyck, Surviving the Era and Bailey Zindel of Hi, Mom! 7pm, $5. Cafe Colonial, 3520 Stockton Blvd.

SUICIDE SILENCE: Death metal band. 6pm, $20.

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SATURDAY, 11/4 20TH ANNUAL SACRAMENTO ARTS FESTIVAL:

See event highlight on page 34. 10am, no cover-$8. Sacramento Convention Center Complex, 1400 J St.

O’Neal. 7pm, $18-$20. Harlow’s, 2708 J St.

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ccaa 8tH annual craft fair: Local crafters show their work just in time to start shopping for the holiday season. Fundraiser for Creative Connections Arts Academy students to travel to the East Coast for learning opportunities. 9am, no cover. Creative Connections Arts Academy, 6444 Walerga Road.

marcHing band competition: Experience the excitement and pageantry of a competition of the area’s finest high school marching bands. 5:15pm, $7-$12. Folsom High School Football Stadium, 1655 Iron Point Road in Folsom.

neon nigHt: Black light candy hunt with 10,000 pieces of candy. 6pm, no cover. Liberty Towers Church, 5132 Elkhorn Blvd.

Kudiyattam Mondavi Center, 8 p.M., $10-$30

S AC RAM E N TO M U S I C AWARD S

Great artistic expression can often transcend the bounds of time and space. Kudiyattam is the endur ing representation of Sanskrit drama, bringing ancient stories alive through drumming and sing ing, extravagant on stage costumes, dramatic gestures and facial expressions. PHoto courtesy oF mondavi center Witness this moving form of ancient theatre, officially recognized by UNESCO as a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity. 1 Shields Avenue in Davis, www.mondaviarts.org/events.

souls of tHe city: Take in a procession and lighting of the altar led by Aztec dancers. Bring items to include on the community altar, where everyone is invited to leave notes, flowers, photos or mementos for their loved ones. The night also includes arts and cultural vendors, live music, face painting and family activities 6pm, no cover. Sacramento History Museum, 101 I St.

sunday, 11/5 20tH annual sacramento arts festival:

See event highlight on page 34. 10am, no cover-$8. Sacramento Convention Center Complex, 1400 J St.

Food & drinK Friday, 11/3

Foreign Film Series screenings. 6:30pm, $6$12. Crocker Art Museum, 216 O St.

under tHe same moon: A story of a mother and son, separated by a border, each struggling to make the best of their circumstances and join one another in the United States. 7:30pm, no cover. The University Union Ballroom, 6000 J St.

Celebrate the grand opening of this new restaurant in Rocklin, with live enter tainment, drinks and bites. 6pm, $50. Pink Martini, 6700 Lonetree Blvd. in Rocklin.

saturday, 11/4 2017 spagHetti feed for veterans and tHe Homeless: The annual allyoucaneat spaghetti feed to benefit homeless folks and lowincome veterans. 5:30pm, $15. Holy Family Church, 7817 Old Auburn Road in Citrus Heights.

dinner and a drag sHow: See event highlight

on page 31. 7:30pm, $5-$25. Capitol Garage, 1500 K St.

monday, 11/6

Friday, 11/3 line of descent: Travel the globe by land, air and sea, exploring the ties that bind us—whether we’re in the French Alps or the Sierra Nevada. 7:30pm, $16-$19. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.

saturday, 11/4

spaghetti dinner with salad, bread, a soft drink and dessert in support of Sacramento Gay Men’s Chorus. 6:30pm, $30. The Old Spaghetti Factory, 1910 J St.

Film tHursday, 11/2 guelwaar: Directed by the great Senegalese writer and filmmaker Ousmane Sembène, considered the grandfather of African cinema, Guelwaar offers a potently satiric take on Senegal—and Africa more generally—as the country and continent transitioned from colonial rule to independence. The third of the Crocker’s Fall

laugHs unlimited comedy club: Comedy @ Laughs. Sammy Obeid headlines, with guests Tom Bomb and Irene Tu. 8pm wednesday, 11/8. $15. 1207 Front St. Inside Amy Schumer. through 11/4. $15. 2100 Arden Way, Suite 225.

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sacramento comedy spot: AntiCooperation League. The improv cast interviews a special guest and then creates scenes inspired by the interview. Guests range from Hollywood players to “our friend Emily, who is just damn interesting.” 9pm. through 12/30. $12. 1050 20th St., Suite 130.

7:30pm, $16-$19. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.

sunday, 11/5 tHe radical lens of tHe newsreel collective: If you have seen original footage of the Black Panther Party, guerrilla warfare in Vietnam or youth revolts in the streets of the US, you have probably seen the work of the Newsreel Collective. UC Davis Professor Jesse Drew, who lived collectively with Newsreel members, presents Newsreel shorts. 7pm, no cover. Organize Sacramento, 1714 Broadway.

comedy tommy t’s comedy club: LAFF Attack Comedy

spagHetti dinner fundraiser: Enjoy a

highenergy, lesbian Latina comic tells her jokes. 7:30pm friday, 11/3. $20-$25. 1275 Starboard Drive in West Sacramento.

puncH line: Mark Normand. From Conan and

line of descent: See event listing on 11/3.

grand opening weeKend pinK martini:

csa event center: Sandra Valls. The brash,

ARE YO U thE

Tour. Tony Roberts ushers in this comedy tour with onstage dancing, prancing, stoolflinging and more. through 11/5. $20$30. 12401 Folsom Blvd. in Rancho Cordova.

blacKtop comedy: Game Night Improv for Everyone. You’re the star, as you play games similar to those seen in the show, Whose Line is it Anyway? Your first night playing is free. 7pm thursday, 11/2. $10. Your F#$&! Up Relationship. Improv inspired by real relationships. 8pm friday, 11/3. $5-$10. 3101 Sunset Blvd., Suite 6A in Rocklin.

blue lamp: Comedy showcase with Dejan Tyler, Raheem Rock and Stacy Pokchop, hosted by Catie McYee. 9pm, $7. 1400 Alhambra Blvd.

california automobile museum: Charles Phoenix: Addicted to Americana. A live comedy slide show celebrating classic and kitschy American life. Book signing, classic cars and an ice cream social. 6:30pm, $29. California Automobile Museum, 2200 Front St.

on staGe california musical tHeatre: Beautiful—The Carole King Musical. The inspiring true story of King’s rise to stardom. through 11/12. $25$87. 1510 J Street.

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california stage compleX: Blithe Spirit. Follow the fussy, cantankerous novelist Charles Condomine as he’s haunted by the ghost of his late first wife. through 11/18. $20. 1721 25th St.

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.

golden 1 center: Disney On Ice Dream Big. Tinker Bell leads families on a journey of beloved fairy tales. through 11/5. $10$54. 500 David J Stern Walk.

Harris center: Festival of South African Dance. A unique South African story which tells a tale of rural African men who come by train from all walks of life in search of greener pastures in Johannesburg. 7:30pm wednesday, 11/8. $12-$48. 10 College Parkway in Folsom.

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Jean Henderson performing arts center: Jesus Christ Superstar. A rock opera telling the story of biblical Jesus in the final days leading up to his crucifixion. through 11/26. $9-$18. 607 Pena Drive in Davis.

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No cover. 2700 Front Street.

NEVADA COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS: The Altar Show:

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MONDAVI CENTER: Kudiyattam. See event

highlight on page 33. Through 11/4. $10$30. MOMIX. The dancer illusionists bring the landscape of the American Southwest to life through a new live rendition of the troupe’s classic, Opus Cactus. Through 11/8. $12.50-$45. 1 Shields Ave. in Davis.

Renewal and Remembrance. Annual exhibit of more than 60 altars honoring our human experience of life and death. Through 11/5. No cover. Northern Mines Building,11228 McCourtney Road in Grass Valley.

THE BRICKHOUSE GALLERY & ART COMPLEX: Where Mules Wear Diamonds. KENT REEVES Images from photographer Kent Reeves’ career shooting the western U.S. Through 11/29. No cover. 2837 36th St.

SACRAMENTO STATE: S/BAD Dancing the Spirit. Sacramento/Black Art of Dance, a modern dance company that carries on the tradition of Black Concert dance in America, performs. Through 11/19. $10-$18. 6000 J 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.

MUSEUMS CALIFORNIA STATE RAILROAD MUSEUM: Big Weekend of Small Trains. Kick off the holiday season with a showcase of model and toy trains, hundreds of feet of track and an array of buildings and accessories. Through 11/5. No cover-$12. 111 I St.

SUTTER’S FORT: A Native Perspective. Tour the California State Indian Museum with Native American writer, educator and illustrator Al Striplen. Must be (or become) a member of the Friends of Sutter’s Fort to attend. 1 p.m. Sunday, 11/5. 2701 L St.

BEATNIK STUDIOS: Nightmares of Normality. An exhibit of professional skateboarder Stefan Janoski’s paintings and bronze sculptures. Opening reception Friday, 11/3 at 6 p.m. Through 11/22. No cover. 723 S St.

CALIFORNIA MUSEUM: Arte y Almas Dia de los Muertos 2017. A journey through life, love and death, with contemporary installations by artists’ collectives as well as California artists. Through 12/30. $9. 1020 O St.

ALL AGES MCKINLEY LIBRARY: Read to a Dog. Every first Tuesday of the month, kids are invited to boost their reading skills and confidence by reading to a trained therapy dog. 3:30pm. Through 12/5. No cover. 601 Alhambra Blvd.

SPORTS & OUTDOORS

CROCKER ART MUSEUM: Exuberant Earth: Ceramics by Ruth Rippon. Nearly 100 ceramic pieces illustrate the evolution of the work by Ruth Rippon, influential artist and educator from Sacramento. Through 2/4. $8-$10. 216 O St.

ELK GROVE FINE ARTS CENTER: 1st Saturday Art Reception Small Treasures Show and Sale. Opening weekend of the annual show, with a reception 11/4 at 4 p.m., where guests can meet the artists. Through 12/27. No cover. 9080 Elk Grove Blvd. in Elk Grove.

LATINO CENTER OF ART AND CULTURE: Masks, Memories and a Life Well-Lived. Traditional Mexican masks, images from Día de Los Muertos in Oaxaca, Mexico, by photographer Ruben Reveles and a memorial to Joanne Marie Sonn who passed away in 2014 from

FRIDAY, 11/3 DOWNTOWN SACRAMENTO ICE RINK OPENING DAY:

See event description on page 35. 12pm, $2. Downtown Sacramento Ice Rink, 701 K St.

SATURDAY, 11/4 LIGHT THE NIGHT WALK: A fundraiser for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s support services, advocacy and research. 5pm, no cover. Raley Field, 400 Ballpark Drive, West Sacramento.

SACRAMENTO BRAIN FREEZE: Brave the cold water at the Nimbus Dam Recreation Area for this event, which aims to raise awareness and funds for the National Brain Tumor

FRIDAY, 11/3 ThROUGh SUnDAY, 11/5 Sacramento Arts Festival Sacramento convention center, 10 a.m., no cover-$8

What’s kept the Sacramento Arts Festival going strong for 20 years is its knack for creative expression of artists nationwide—and all the Sacramentans who appreciate FESTIVAL PhOTO COURTESY OF KRISTEn hOARD that craftsmanship. Visit with vendors selling handmade jewelry, clothes and visual art in various mediums, and look for vendors with special 20-year participation pins. Musicians will entertain on the main stage and food vendors will be on site. Get a jump-start on your holiday shopping, or just treat yourself! 1400 J Street, www.sacartsfest.com.

Society. 10am, no cover. Nimbus Dam Recreation Area in Folsom.

OLD SCHOOL SKatE paRtY: A skate party for

SUNday, 11/5

QuEER CRaFtERnOOn: Share projects, skills

MILLIOn MaSK MaRCH 2017: A day-long march

and techniques with likeminded artists and crafters. Basic craft supplies provided, but guests are encouraged to bring materials and projects that are in progress. 2pm, donations accepted. Lavender Library, Archives, and Cultural Exchange, 1414 21st St.

adults, with old-school prices. 8pm, $5. Simmons Community Center, 25 Massie Court.

Run FOR a SaFE HaVEn: An annual run and fundraiser for My Sister’s House, which serves Asian, Pacific Islander and other under-served women and kids impacted by domestic violence, sexual assault and human trafficking. 9am, Free. William Land Park, 3800 W. Land Park Drive.

SUNday, 11/5

TaKE aCTiON THUrSday, 11/2 2017 CaLIFORnIa BIORESOuRCES aLLIanCE SYMpOSIuM: A case study looking at

FLOOD WatER ROLLER DERBY V. BaSIn BOMBERS ROLLER DERBY: The last home bout of the

permitting a new organics facility, and sessions on topics including short-lived climate change pollutants, healthy soils and more. 9am, no cover. Ziggurat Building, 707 3rd St. in West Sacramento.

season. 10am, no cover-$12. Foothill Skate Inn, 4700 Auburn Blvd.

FROnt StREEt aDOptIOn DaY: Join Fleet Feet for an easy three-mile run then your puppy fix!

pLaCE & pRIVILEGE pOStCaSt SaCRaMEntO REIMaGInED: Part listening session, part civic

10am, no cover. Fleet Feet, 2311 J St.

Run tHE paRKWaY: A 20-mile, half-marathon and untimed fun run and nature walk to raise money for the American River Parkway Foundation’s trail maintenance, land restoration and trash removal work. 7am, $10-$90. William B. Pond Recreation Area, 5700 Arden Way in Carmichael.

gathering and part visioning exercise, this postcast is intended to spark conversations that build understanding and ideas to move forward. 6pm, no cover. Capital Public Radio, 7055 Folsom Blvd.

SaTUrday, 11/4 HEaLtH EQuItY COnFEREnCE IntERSECtIOn OF pOLICY, EMpOWERMEnt anD aCtIOn:

LGBTQ

Workshops and speakers focus on the goal of creating a dialogue on barriers to health care, health disparities and political advocacy. 9am, $10-$20. UC Davis International Center, 463 California Ave., Suite 3140 in Davis.

THUrSday, 11/2 DRaG QuEEn BInGO: Have a rowdy good time while raising money for CGNIE’s LaKish Hayworth Memorial Scholarship Fund. 6:30pm, $15. Mango’s Sacramento, 1930 K St.

Friday, 11/3

Downtown Sacramento Ice Rink Opening Day Downtown Sacramento Ice rInk, noon, $2

in downtown Sacramento to stand against a corrupt system. 6:30am, no cover. Sacramento, 1315 10th St.

TUESday, 11/7 CREatIVE EDGE COMMunItY MEEtInGS RaCE anD CuLtuRaL EQuItY DISCuSSIOnS: A discussion on resource allocation, accessibility and representation. Part of three days of community meetings hosted by Creative Edge Initiative. 7pm, no cover. Sacramento State—Folsom Hall 1063, 6000 J St.

PHOTO COUrTESy OF dOWNTOWN SaCramENTO ParTNErSHiP Over the years, the Downtown Sacramento Ice Rink has become a city staple of the holiday season. And while it doesn’t yet feel like winter, the ice rink will open this weekend for the 26th season of making memories and delivering cheer. Bring the whole family out to opening SpORtS anD OutDOORS day for the $2 skating special. The bright smiles of confident skaters (and uncertain wobbling of the less graceful) are a sure sign that winter is coming in Sacramento. 701 K Street, www.godowntownsac.com/icerink.

WEdNESday, 11/8 COMMunItY OpEn HOuSE: Share your thoughts and review design concepts for a mixed-use

structure being built at 805 R St. 5:30pm, no cover. Arch Nexus Building, 930 R St.

CLaSSES SaTUrday, 11/4

page, and learn to explore nature based on

observation, research and drawings. 2pm, no cover. Arden-Dimick Library, 891 Watt Ave.

appLE OF MY EYE YOutH pIE BaKInG CLaSS: Kids ages 8 to 17 learn to make mini apple and pecan pies. All materials provided. 10:30am, $40. The Art Institute of California, 2850 Gateway Oaks Drive.

pROFESSIOnaL VOICE’S CELEBRItY SOnGWRItInG WEEKEnD: Two songwriters, Jason Mater and Nikola Bedingfield, host a songwriting class with opportunities for one-on-one attention. Participants will write and perform a full song. 10am, $70-$359. The Professional Voice Studio, 2164 Sunset Boulevard in Rocklin.

CannaBIS 411: Learn to build a cannabis market in California’s new legal market. 10am, $50-$175. Address provided upon ticket purchase.

JuSt DRaW It – natuRE JOuRnaLInG WItH LORna BuRKHaRD: Follow step-by-step drawing prompts to create a model journal

taStY tHanKSGIVInG tuRKEY WItH BIG GREEn EGG: Learn to cook the perfect turkey this

Nursery & Supply Folsom, 205 Serpa Way in Folsom.

mONday, 11/6 VEGan tHanKSGIVInG: Learn how to craft a plant-based Thanksgiving with dishes like stuffed seitan roast; herbed polenta cornbread; creamy mashed potatoes and celery root, savory mushroom and onion gravy and pumpkin pie for dessert. 6:30pm, $40. Community Learning Center & Cooking School, 2820 R St.

holiday season. 11am, no cover. Green Acres

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CHELSEA WOLFE SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4

AARON WATSON

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15

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11/19 Gwar 11/22 Return to Bubble Island 11/25 David Garibaldi 11/26 GlassjAw 11/27 Trivium & Arch Enemy 11/30 The Expendables 12/01 Collie Buddz 12/02 Pennywise 12/03 Big Gigantic 12/07 Intocable 12/08 Louis The Child 12/09 RJ 12/15 Dance Gavin Dance SOLD OUT! 12/16 Puddle of Mudd 12/20 Ekali 12/31 Buckethead 01/20 - 01/21 Iration 01/23 August Burns Red 01/27 Chris Robinson Brotherhood 01/30 Silverstein & Tonight Alive 02/03 Alex Aiono 02/14 Judah & the Lion 02/18 Ron Pope 02/21 Black Label Society 03/11 NF 05/21 Peter Hook and The Light

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thUrsday 11/2

Friday 11/3

satUrday 11/4

sUnday 11/5

Monday-wEdnEsday 11/6-11/8

The Clay Dogs, 7pm, $5

Acoustic Blend, 7:30pm, $5

Uke Jam, 11am, no cover

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

Fridays Are a Drag, 10pm, call for cover

Spectacular Saturdays, 6pm, call for cover

Sunday Beer Bust, 4pm, call for cover

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

Dylan Crawford, 9:30pm, no cover

Scotty Mac, 9:30pm, no cover

Capital City Comedy Showcase, 9pm, $7

Vale of Pnath, Depths of Hatred and more, 8pm, $10-$15

Sean Killian Benefit Show with Psychosomatic and more, 8pm, $15

Fundraiser for Engage (Homeless Youth) with The Gold Souls and more, 3pm, $10

Truckfighters, 8pm, W, $13-$16

Stevie Stone with Hennesy and more, 8:30pm, $20

Sages, GP and more, 8pm, $10

K-Ottic, Quen and more, 8pm, $10

The acousTic den cafe

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Badlands

#TurntUp Thursdays College Night, 8pm, call for cover

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BaR 101

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

Blue lamp

1400 alhaMbra blVd., (916) 455-3400

The BoaRdwalk

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The cenTeR foR The aRTs

Sam Bush Band, 8pm, $55-$65

314 w. Main st., Grass VallEy, (530) 274-8384 Photo coUrtEsy oF JaMEy JEt

Hirie with Natalie Rize 7pm Sunday, $13-$15. Holy Diver Reggae-pop

counTRy cluB saloon

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Raynal & Beighly Acoustic Country Show, 8pm, call for cover

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Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

The Temptations, 8pm, $27-$77

DakhaBrakha, 7:30pm, W, $24-$37

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

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

Country Covers with Ashley Barron, 9pm, call for cover Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

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Absolut Fridays, all night, call for cover

Decades, 7pm, call for cover

faTheR paddy’s iRish puBlic house

Whiskey and Stitches, 7pm, no cover

High Card Drivers, 7pm, no cover

Kevin & Allyson Seconds, 9pm, $5

LSC’s Birthday Celebration with Vox Society and more, 9pm, $5

Goldfield

Stephan Hogan, 7pm, $5

UFC Viewing Party, 11am, call for cover

halfTime BaR & GRill

Straight Shooter, 9pm, $5

Take Out, 9pm, $7

“Lets Get Quizzical” Trivia Game Show Experience, 9pm, T, no cover

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FOR THE WEEk OF NOVEMBER 2, 2017 ARIES (March 21-April 19): America’s Civil War

ended in 1865. A veteran from that conflict later produced a daughter, Irene Triplett, who is still alive today and collecting his pension. In the coming months, I foresee you being able to take advantage of a comparable phenomenon, although it may be more metaphorical. Blessings from bygone times, perhaps even from the distant past, will be available to you. But you’ll have to be alert and know where to look. So now might be a good time to learn more about your ancestors, ruminate exuberantly about your own history study the lives of your dead heroes and maybe even tune in to your previous incarnations.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “I wasn’t in the

market to buy a Day-Glo plastic fish from a street vendor,” testified a witty guy named Jef on Facebook, “but that’s exactly what I did. The seller said he found it in someone’s trash. He wanted fifty cents for it, but I talked him up to a dollar. The best part is the expression on the fish’s face. It’s from Edvard Munch’s The Scream.” I bring this testimony to your attention, Taurus, because I feel it’s good role-modeling for you. In the coming days, I bet you won’t know exactly what you’re looking for until you find it. This prize may not be highly valued by anyone else but you. And it will amuse you and be of use to you in just the right ways.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Where are Chinese

gooseberries grown? In New Zealand. What is a camel’s hair brush made of? Squirrel fur. When England and France waged their Hundred Years’ War, how long did it last? 116 years. When do Russians celebrate their October Revolution? In November. Trick answers like these are likely to be a recurring theme for you in the coming weeks, Gemini. That’s why I advise you to NOT be a master of the obvious.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): In accordance with

the astrological omens, I recommend you indulge in any or all of the following exercises. 1. Dedicate an entire day to performing acts of love. 2. Buy yourself flowers, sing yourself a song and tell yourself a story about why you’re so beautiful. 3. Explain your deeply felt opinion with so much passion and logic that you change the mind of a person who had previously disagreed with you. 4. Make a pilgrimage to a sacred spot you want to be influenced by. 5. Buy a drink for everyone in a bar or cafe.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Dear Rob: I saw a photo of you recently, and I realized that you have a scar on your face. I hope you don’t mind me telling you it resembles an ancient Mayan hieroglyph that means ‘Builder of Bridges for Those Who Are Seeking Home.’ Did you know this? If so, do you think it’s an accurate title for what you do? - Renegade Leo Scholar.” Dear Scholar: Thanks for your observation. I don’t know if I fully deserve the title “Builder of Bridges for Those Who Are Seeking Home,” but it does describe the role I’m hoping to play for Leos. The coming weeks will be an excellent time for your tribe to clarify and cultivate your notion of home.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Author Clarissa Pinkola Estés encourages us to purge any tendencies we might have to think of ourselves as hounded animals, angry, wounded victims, leaky vessels aching to be filled or broken creatures yearning for rescue. It so happens that now is a perfect time for you to perform this purgation. You have maximum power to revise your self-image so that it resounds with more poise, self-sufficiency and sovereignty.

current astrological omens, Libra, here’s the moral of the story for you: Meditate on what educational amusements you’d seek if you had more money.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In the early stages

of Johnny Cash’s development as a musician, his mother hired a coach to give him singing lessons. But after a few meetings, the teacher counseled him to quit. Johnny’s style was so unique, the seasoned pro thought it better not to tamper with his natural sound. I hesitate to offer you comparable advice, Scorpio. I’m a big believer in the value of enhancing one’s innate talents with training and education. On the other hand, my assessment of your destiny between now and October 2018 impels me to offer a suggestion: It may be useful for you to give some credence to the perspective of Johnny Cash’s voice coach. Make sure you guard and revere your distinctiveness.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I used to

nurture a grudge against Tony Pastorini. He was the high school math teacher who kicked me out of the extracurricular Calculus Club because my proofs were too “intuitive and unorthodox.” The shock of his rejection drove me away from a subject I had been passionate about. Eventually, though, I came to realize what a good deed he had done. It would have been a mistake for me to keep specializing in math—I was destined to study literature and psychology and mythology—but it took Pastorini to correct my course. Now, Sagittarius, I invite you to make a similar shift of attitude. What debt of gratitude do you owe a person you have thought of as a source of frustration or obstruction?

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In the lore of an-

cient Greek mythology, the god Prometheus stole fire from his fellow deities and sneakily gave it to us humans. Before our patron provided us with this natural treasure, we poor creatures had no access to it. As I gaze out at your possibilities in the coming months, Capricorn, I foresee you having Promethean inclinations. Your ability to bestow blessings and spread benevolence and do good deeds will be at a peak. Unlike Prometheus, however, I don’t expect you’ll get into trouble for your generosity. Just the opposite!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Here’s a parable

you may find useful. An armchair explorer is unexpectedly given a chance to embark on an adventure she has only read and dreamed about. But she hesitates on the brink of seizing her opportunity. She asks herself, “Do I really want to risk having ragged reality corrupt the beautiful fantasy I’ve built up in my mind’s eye?” In the end she takes the gamble. She embarks on the adventure. And ragged reality does in fact partially corrupt her beautiful fantasy. But it also brings her unexpected lessons that partially enhance the beautiful fantasy.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “A game of chess is usually a fairy tale of 1001 blunders,” said chess grandmaster Savielly Tartakower, a Pisces. “It is a struggle against one’s own errors,” he added. “The winner of the game is the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.” I think this is excellent counsel during the current phase of your astrological cycle, Pisces. It’s time to risk bold moves, because even if they’re partly or wholly mistaken, they will ultimately put you in a good position to succeed in the long run. Here’s a further point for your consideration. Remember the philosopher René Descartes’ famous dictum, “Cogito ergo sum”? It’s Latin for “I think, therefore I am.” Tartakower countered this with, “Erro ergo sum,” which is “I err, therefore I am.”

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I used to scoff at people who play the lottery. The chance of winning big is almost nil. Why not invest one’s hopes in more pragmatic schemes to generate money? But my opinion softened a bit when the planet Jupiter made a lucky transit to an aspect in my personal horoscope. It really did seem like my chances of winning the lottery were unusually high. I started dreaming about the educational amusements I’d pursue if I got a huge influx of cash. I opened my mind to expansive future possibilities that I had previously been closed to. So even though I didn’t actually get a windfall during this favorable financial phase, I was glad I’d entertained the fantasy. In alignment with

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Drag racer’s son Henry Giselle Roberson takes after his father. He likes to drive fast cars in a straight line for a quarter-mile alongside other racers doing the same. The elder Roberson, also Henry, and still competing at age 75, began on the streets of San Francisco. The younger Roberson, 31, has been drag racing for more than half of his life. He competes on tracks from Arizona to Oregon. Roberson the younger, who lives in North Highlands, will compete this season through November. About a month afterward, the 2018 season will begin January 1 at Sacramento Raceway. He competes in bracket racing, the format determined by the predicted elapsed times of two cars competing side-by-side. Consistency, repetition and luck win over outright speed.

How did you get involved in the sport? My dad is the racer in the family. He’s not very competitive anymore. But when I win, he wins. He just has fun going out and banging through the gears. He’s so proud. He likes to show off my trophies and tries to get me new sponsors.

What kind of car do you drive and how fast does it go? I run a 1984 Ford Mustang GT. My dad and I are self-proclaimed “Pick-N-Pull” racers. We are budget racers. It’s a stock bottom 302, just like a normal 5.2 [liter engine] you’d see on the streets. It has run a best time of 11.3 seconds at 117 miles per hour for a quarter-mile.

Are there are a lot of people in the area who drag race? It’s a men’s and women’s sport. Women are actually really good. It must be something in their chemistry. It’s like they don’t get nervous or something. They are pretty cutthroat. We have a good mixture of people, as far as gender and race as well. At Sacramento Raceway, we’ll have about 200 cars show up on a normal Saturday.

I’ve never heard Giselle as a man’s name. What’s the story behind it? My mom wanted to name me Giselle. But I guess they thought it sounded better as Henry Giselle, rather than Giselle Henry, so that’s how it ended up. I am half Mexican and half African-American. In Mexican culture, your family calls you by your middle name. My family calls me Giselle. I don’t really associate with Henry except for at the track and people who

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don’t really know me. Growing up, I never realized it was a girls’ name until the kids in school started making fun of me.

You’ve been on local television stations speaking about the potential closing of Sacramento Raceway. Can you share some thoughts? I’ve been on three separate newscasts to make the public aware of just what’s going on. The county is basically forcing the family out of the business. They don’t want the racetrack there; they want to build houses. They want to put a Starbucks and Wal-Mart on my racetrack. It’s sad, man. The kids aren’t going to have anywhere to race. They’ll be taking it back to the streets, and people are going to get hurt.

When you compete, it’s for 11 or 12 seconds. What’s it like during a race?

But when we line up to compete, we’re trying to knock each other’s heads off. I look at this as my job. I have my sponsors, Rocklin Automotive and Boddie Racing. Jermaine Boddie Jr. grew up with my dad. He’s on a television show called Street Outlaws. He backs me up and helps me out a lot.

Do you have any idea how many races you’ve won? I’ve probably won 300 to 400 races. I only have one championship. But I have finished top 5 in every single season I raced. I’ve stayed consistent, although I have run into some bad luck every year. Stuff happens. Something breaks. I’ve finished second by one point. I have the one championship, which was an amazing year in 2009.

How do you feel at the end of a race when you win?

It’s not terribly strenuous on your body. It’s not that you just go in a straight line that’s what a lot of people think. There’s a lot that goes into it. We always have the risk of crashing. My biggest concern is that my opponent, who might be much faster, comes over to my side and hits me. It would be completely out of my hands. You have to be ready in case some type of injury might occur.

Is this your full-time gig or do you do something else for a living? Most people do it on the side as a hobby. We’re all competitors and we take it very seriously. We’ll help each other in the pits.

Oh, man, it’s the greatest high in the world, dude. It’s a thrill that’s indescribable. It’s not just the 11 seconds. It’s the taste of the thrill of victory. If you’ve raced the entire day, knocking off six or seven people in the brackets, it’s a great feeling of accomplishment. You get to hold the trophy, get the winner’s check and the girls are kissing you. It’s a wonderful feeling. Ω

Sacramento Raceway Park hosts races every week. to find a schedule, go to www.norcal dragracing.com and search for Sacramento Raceway Park.

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