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34 20 create a quality work environment that encourages employees to grow professionally while respecting personal welfare. To have a positive impact on our communities and make them better places to live. Editor Eric Johnson News Editor Raheem F. Hosseini Arts & Culture Editor Rebecca Huval Associate Editor Mozes Zarate Staff Reporter Scott Thomas Anderson Calendar Editor Kate Gonzales Contributors Daniel Barnes, Ngaio Bealum, Alastair Bland, Rob Brezsny, Aaron Carnes, Jim Carnes, Willie Clark, John Flynn, Joey Garcia, Jeff Hudson, Matt Kramer, Jim Lane, Michael Mott, Luis Gael Jimenez, Rachel Leibrock, Kate Paloy, Patti Roberts, Steph Rodriguez, Ann Martin Rolke, Shoka, Bev Sykes

24 Design Manager Christopher Terrazas Creative Director Serene Lusano Art Director Margaret Larkin Designers Kyle Shine, Maria Ratinova Marketing/Publications Designer Sarah Hansel Web Design & Strategy Intern Elisabeth Bayard Arthur Contributing Photographers Lance Yamamoto Advertising Manager Michael Gelbman Sales Coordinator Victoria Smedley Senior Advertising Consultants Rosemarie Messina, Kelsi White Advertising Consultants Mayra Diaz, Mark Kates , Matt Kjar, Alyssa Morrisey, Michael Nero, Allen Young Sweetdeals Coordinator Hannah Williams Facilities Coordinator/Sales Assistant David Lindsay Director of First Impressions Skyler Morris Distribution Director Greg Erwin Distribution Assistant Rob Dunnica Distribution Drivers Mansour Aghdam, Beatriz Aguirre, Gypsy Andrews, Rosemarie Beseler, Kimberly Bordenkircher, Daniel Bowen, Heather Brinkley, Kathleen Caesar, Mike Cleary, Lydia Comer, Tom Downing, Marty Fetterley, Chris Fong, Ron Forsberg, Joanna Gonzalez-Brown, Kelly Hopkins,

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Help us diversify On Saturday, I met with a remarkable young man, Coon the Poet, at Old Soul in Oak Park. You can read a little about him and his work in the 15 Minutes column on the inside back page. He told me about coming up in south Sacramento and the traumatizing experiences that led him to become a true culture warrior in our community. I was introduced to Coon by another activist, Andru Defeye of ZFGpromotions and Sol Collective, while I was meeting with him and the brilliant artist known as The Philharmonik. A few days later I met with Tanya Faison of Black Lives Matter Sacramento and apologized for tagging her in a Facebook post, which, I only recently learned, is unacceptable behavior. All of these people are fighting what I consider one of the most important fights being waged in this community and nation. All of them have shared with me their perspective on an article about that fight, “Confessions of a killer cop,” which we ran in December. Over the past couple weeks, I have also heard from a couple dozen artists who were nominated for SAMMIES awards and are choosing not to participate because of the controversy surrounding that article. I am responding to each individually. This newspaper has been and remains committed to giving a voice to marginalized communities, and I promise you that we will continue to do so. Everyone in my newsroom recognizes that we must do a more proactive job of recruiting people of color to tell their stories. Raheem Hosseini, our news editor, has contacted diversity-focused journalism associations and individuals for help. As I look through the pages of the newspaper going back over the years, I believe we have done a pretty good job. And I believe we can do better. And I welcome your help.

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“All of thoSe golf CourSeS In the deSert need A lot of wAter ...”

asked aT The sTaTe CapiTol:

Is Southern California stealing our water?

Marie Carol Todd retired

Absolutely, they are stealing our water. All of the grass in SoCal has to be watered somehow, and all of those golf courses in the desert need a lot of water as well. And on top of that, they don’t like us. So they don’t deserve our water. [Laughs.]

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MarTha aye intern

I don’t think SoCal is stealing anyone’s water. They need it just like the rest of us. I think it’s only right that they get water. It’s a human right.

aliCe sunshine communications director

It seems like it’s possible that they are stealing our water, but I will say that there is a history of moving water down to Southern California. I am worried for them. They need the water. I know that they need an answer to their water shortage problems. I don’t know what that answer is.

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No. As part of California, we are all entitled to the same resources. We share. We need to help them out. If we share an economy, then we should share water.

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No, they are not stealing our water. I mean, there is no shortage of water right now in Northern California. They can have it.

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I mean, can you really say it’s stealing? If we didn’t give them water, where would they get it? We’re all one state.

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Just say yes Re “Housing policy for dummies” by Jeff vonKaenel (Greenlight, January 11): You’ve admirably addressed the “build” part of the housing solution, but you seem to give short shrift to the vital “sustainability” part. Do we need to think sustainability in solutions to the housing problems? Yes. Do we need to teach sustainability from an early age? Yes. Do we need to point out the physical impossibility of continued housing growth? Yes. Do we need to point out the desirability and feasibility of stabilizing housing? Yes. Do we need to support the work of Planned Parenthood and Population Connection? Yes. Do we need to provide voluntary family planning education? Yes. Do we need to provide tax incentives and education to encourage families to have fewer children? Yes. Do we need to be aware that we are endangering our children’s futures by not reining in building growth? Yes. Do we need to recognize continued population growth as a primary driver behind ecological and societal threats? Yes.

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Get some experience Re “The zen of District 7” by Scott Thomas Anderson (News, January 11):

[Tristan Brown] seems like a nice, smart, young lobbyist who really wants to be a politician. As part of a team of Bernie Democrats running for a variety

of offices, he will raise some great ideas and have some of his own on a variety of subjects. But his notion that, “We’re both applying for the same job … ” has nothing to do with the context of elections and is a cliché. It’s easy to make promises. In fact, the art of making promises is taught in politician school. That’s why I look for a candidate with a proven record of performance, not someone who makes promises. To gain support, Brown must make a compelling case for why the current councilmember should be replaced. Brown provides no substance, only vague notions against “the Council.” I appreciate that he is smart, involved and energetic. Hopefully, he will gain experience by actually getting things done, volunteering, making a difference, learning humility. I wish him luck in his ongoing endeavors. Phil Giarrizzo

Departmental bamboozlement July 2017, sprinkler main broke. Water consumption hit the ceiling. Received account summary today and noted return to baseline. Five months later? Based on the fact that the Sacramento city water meter fails to immediately return the reading to where it should be. Are there others who’ve had this lazy, inaccurate water-meter consumption history condition? On November 11, I met Gabriel from the city water department, who was unable to explain why my reported water use is still high. Last year, I retired as a field investigator and technical advisor, and I know when I’m being bamboozled. Confident this post won’t be up too long. Marvin DuDley reeD Jr.

Stoned and paranoid Re “Can they tell I’m high?” by Ngaio Bealum (The 420, January 11): LOL! Love No. 3, can’t help but laugh because I’ve been there, viewing AND being viewed. What you write is gospel and, what’s more, there exists a very old videotape of me hosting a television show, early in my career, that today would rank in the YouTube viewership stratosphere and nicely illustrates your point. Thanks, a fan of the column—you communicate in plain English without brandishing an agenda. Rare. Mark WilliaMS

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58% of women Sexual violence in the military: by the numberS

and 60% of men

who reported a sexual assault face retaliation.

victims

dropped out of the justice process—a rate unchanged since 2013. infographic by Sarah hanSel

14,900 members

(8,600 women and 6,300 men) were sexually assaulted in 2016. Rates of penetrative assault were unchanged from 2014.

Victims received

harsher discharges, with 24% separated under less than fully honorable conditions, comapred to 15% of all service members.

Data from “Facts on United States Military Sexual Violence,” www.protectourdefenders.com.

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The monster in uniform They bonded over being witches in the Air Force. Then the abuse started. by Raheem F. hosseini

His attorneys described it as a kinky marriage of young witches, forged in the Air Force but wilted over time. The prosecutor argued it as a clear-cut case of a sadistic husband terrorizing his spouse with years of sexual and physical violence. On December 19, 2017, a powerful oracle in a black robe incanted the words that sent Christopher Mroz, 26, of Sacramento to federal prison for 15 years. U.S. District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller gaveled the sentence after both sides struck a plea agreement that saw Mroz admitting to one count of stalking and two counts of assault by a member of the armed forces resulting in serious bodily injury. The plea deal means a jury won’t hear the most disturbing crimes Mroz was accused of committing against the female service member he followed to England in 2012. But federal court records tell a story of a woman who continued to serve her country while trying to survive her tormenter. According to its sentencing memo, the victim told the judge during her impact statement, “Living with Christopher Mroz had me constantly in fear.” According to national statistics on sexual violence in the military, she is

one of a precious few to secure anything resembling justice. Mroz and his wife met in 2011, when both were going through basic training at an Air Force base in Texas. According to a motion filed by Mroz’s attorneys, the two bonded over their shared belief in “benevolent witchcraft”: She was an 18-year-old healer and he was a 20-yearold warlock. After the victim was transferred to England, the two married “by proxy” in May 2012, allowing Mroz to join his new bride. It was roughly two months after the couple reunited in the United Kingdom, at the Royal Air Force Base in Lakenheath, that the abuse began. According to the plea agreement Mroz signed, he found numerous ways to torment her. He choked her repeatedly and forced himself on her. During one sexual assault, the victim grew dizzy and collapsed to the shower floor, where Mroz started kicking her. In February 2013, Mroz stomped on the back of the victim’s neck as she tried to crawl away from his attack. Her head struck the kitchen floor and grew “a softball-sized knot,” court documents state. Two months later, Mroz “snapped a bone” in his wife’s arm after becoming

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infuriated at how she folded money, a sentencing memorandum states. Before calling for help, Mroz dragged his wife into the living room and staged things to make it look like she had fallen off a chair while cleaning a large fish tank, the plea agreement shows. He later admitted to his mother that he broke his wife’s arm, an Air Force investigation revealed, but Mroz spent the next several months intimidating his wife from revealing his brutality. The victim’s coworkers noticed a drastic change in her demeanor, court documents say. Her bubbly and outgoing personality faded. She had grown withdrawn, shed weight and often showed up to work with unexplained injuries that they suspected Mroz of authoring. An Air Force sergeant told investigators Mroz wouldn’t let the victim speak for herself, and yelled at her in public. The sergeant described the airman as strange, that he “would often be very loud at work, either yelling or singing songs at the top of his lungs,” an Air Force investigative report states. In 2014, the victim got a brief reprieve when she was deployed to another base for almost five months. Back in Lakenheath, Mroz was admonished by his superiors for sexually

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crisis close aNd wide harassing three women at work, the plea The department of defense tallied more agreement shows. In October 2014, he than 6,172 reports of sexual assault during was honorably discharged over poor the 2016 fiscal year, the most recent performance evaluations and the harassfigures available. But that number tells ment allegations, including one that he only a partial tale. propositioned female coworkers to have In a DoD survey, 14,900 active duty sex with him and his wife when she members said they experienced some returned from her deployment. form of sexual assault that year, including After his discharge, Mroz became 4.3 percent of all women in the military. what’s known in military parlance as a Most never come forward because “dependent spouse.” At home, his they’ve seen what happens to those alleged sexual abuse reportedly who do. escalated. In April 2015, The armed forces prosecutors say Mroz were in crisis mode sexually assaulted over unaddressed his wife twice. sexual misconduct A day after allegations even the second before the assault, DoD asked the young the RAND airwoman National moved out Defense of their home Research and told Air Institute in U.S. Air Force member and Force officials early 2014 to domestic violence survivor of a history of independently spousal torture assess the that was “harrowing prevalence of gender and palpable,” the U.S. discrimination and Attorney’s Office wrote sex crimes in the military. in the sentencing memo that RAND returned with a report that requested the maximum prison sentence. estimated more than 20,000 active duty In its motion, the defense argued an military personnel experienced sexual alternate theory of the case, describing assault the previous year, including nearly Mroz and his victim as engaged in an 40 percent of men. “active sex life that included ‘swinger RAND senior behavioral analyst parties’” and “consensual sado-masochisAndrew R. Morral co-authored that tic sex, which often includes consensual report. Four years ago, he said only a choking, the use of ‘safe’ words and ‘safe fraction of victims “felt it would be signals.’” to their benefit” to come forward due A spokeswoman for the U.S. to credible fears of retaliation. More Attorney’s Office told SN&R there was than half of the female victims RAND no evidence to support those claims. surveyed said they experienced some Mroz’s attorneys didn’t respond to a form of professional or social retaliation request for comment. after sharing what happened to them, Julie Bornhoeft, the chief developMorral explained. ment and marketing officer at WEAVE That includes being improperly Inc., which serves survivors of domestic discharged from service after reporting violence and sexual assault in Sacramento sexual assault, according to figures from County, said it’s common for abusers to the DoD. deny accountability and heap blame onto That’s one of the reasons only one in their victims. 10 victims who do report their assaults “Regardless of the excuses used by see the process through to its conclusion, the batterer, the fact remains that the according to Protect Our Defenders, a abuser holds the power and control in national advocacy organization that says the relationship and is the one who must it wants to end a culture of pervasive be held responsible for violent actions,” misogyny in the armed forces. Bornhoeft added in an email. There’s still a big gap between those Accountability would eventually come who say they’ve been assaulted and for Mroz, but that hasn’t been the case for those who officially report the crimes, most abusers in the military. particularly among male service members,

“Living with Christopher Mroz had me constantly in fear.”

who are more likely to describe being sexually assaulted while on duty by multiple attackers, Morral said. These male victims are also more likely to say the attacks were perpetrated as some sort of hazing ritual meant to humiliate them, rather than for the sexual gratification of their attackers. While the military has instituted changes that have improved reporting numbers and better tracked instances of retaliation, progress has been slow. In 2016, Morral said the DoD found that about 40 percent of male and female service members who reported their assaults experienced “perceived professional reprisal,” while half faced ostracism. “They still look pretty high,” Morral said of the numbers of survivors who face a backlash for telling their stories. it doesn’t appear that mroz’s victim faced an organized backlash, but there were bureaucratic hiccups. Because Mroz lacked a passport, he spent two months confined to the same base as his victim. It was the victim who bought him his plane ticket back to Sacramento, the plea agreement notes. The day before he was to depart, Mroz got a call to return to his residence on base, according to the defense motion. When he got home that June 2015 evening, Special Agents Adam Sorci and Grace Park of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations were waiting outside with other law enforcement officers. They told Mroz he wasn’t in custody; they just wanted to get his side of the story, the motion states. They talked about the British television show Doctor Who and turned on a video recorder. “This is your chance to really tell us what happened … before it’s just you on the stand and facts that aren’t lining up,” the motion quotes Agent Park as saying. “I don’t want you to be ripped apart.” The motion says Mroz sobbed and shook during the course of an interview that last nearly six hours, and proffered a number of “incriminating statements.” By the end of it, the self-proclaimed warlock expressed regret and handed investigators a signed statement that his lawyers wouldn’t be able to make disappear. But now Mroz will—for 15 years. Ω

Housing advocates were dejected last Thursday when a bill to give cities and counties more power to enact rent control died by one vote in committee. Meanwhile, the Sacramento City Council heard that its own housing crisis is affecting the disabled on a level local nonprofits can’t keep up with. Hundreds arrived January 11 at the state Capitol to testify about Assembly Bill 1506, which would repeal the costa-Hawkins rental Housing act. Housing advocates say Costa-Hawkins takes the teeth out of local rent control measures by limiting them to apartments built before 1995. Rental houses, duplexes and newer developments are also exempt. Assemblyman Richard Bloom, the author of AB 1506, attempted to move his bill forward through the Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee. One person there to support him—and rent control—was Luanna Villanueva, a landlord from Davis. “It’s the right thing to do,” Villanueva told SN&R. “The rents are just outrageous. I make enough money to maintain the property I own, but I’m not trying to make a big profit, certainly not off the students.” Republicans Steven Choi and Marc Steinorth voted against it. Democrats Ed Chau and Jim Wood abstained, and the repeal effort died for lack of one vote. Two days later, the Sacramento City Council heard from Elizabeth Drake, a woman with severe cerebral palsy, who said she’s been searching for a year-and-a-half for an apartment that will accept her housing choice voucher. A program manager with the local nonprofit Strategies to Empower People told the council her organization has eight other clients with cerebral palsy facing the same eviction threat. She said the risks of homelessness are compounded by landlords refusing housing choice vouchers, formerly known as Section 8 vouchers, and their requirement that renters make three times their monthly rent, which is impossible for people on Supplemental Security Income. (Scott Thomas Anderson)

defiNed sHelTer In the event of a catastrophe—say, disastrous earthquake, epidemic outbreak, flooding or a hell of a wildfire—the Sacramento region may be a little more prepared. Last week, the county accepted one of the state’s six mobile medical shelters, a 5,100-square-foot structure featuring six connecting tents, a power supply, heating and air conditioning, and beds for up to 50 people. The mobile medical shelter is designed for sustained emergencies that last beyond three days. Specifically, it’s meant for patients who need some medical care but not serious hospitalization. State officials said the unit is ideal for major fires, triage and treatment during flu seasons. It can also serve as an emergency operations center that’s dropped into a disaster zone. “Last February, Oroville sent a lot of evacuees to our county from assisted living facilities,” noted David Mangino, Sacramento County’s administrator of emergency medical services. “This would be able to accept and take care of those kinds of patients.” County spokesman Sam Fong said that, in the past, local officials had to put emergency evacuees into nursing facilities, but the new mobile shelter brings more flexibility because it can be set up in any parking lot. Nine counties will all be able to use the mobile shelter. What the county’s new asset will not be deployed for is homeless assistance. “It’s intended … for people coming into our operational area that have medical needs,” Fong said. (Michael Mott)

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The historic Elks Tower on 11th Street. Photo by scott thomas anderson

Towering doubts Elks Tower card room threatened by city’s fraud admission, businessman’s arrests by Scott thomaS anderSon

The dream of an upscale card room in one of downtown’s most timeless buildings may be unraveling on two fronts: City attorneys quietly acknowledged last summer they’d been hoodwinked by an act of fraud from the region’s most infamous gambling hall. And separately, State authorities moved to block prominent businessman Steven Ayers from entering the gambling industry due to his history of alcohol-related arrests, putting in limbo a $2 million interior restoration of the Elks Tower. Sacramento officials are being sued by Clark Rosa, owner of Capitol Casino, and John Park, owner of Parkwest Casino Lotus card room, for allegedly violating the city’s own gambling ordinances. The plaintiffs claim that city attorneys broke the law when they reinstated a revoked city gaming license to Casino Royale, which California investigators closed in 2014 for illegal bookkeeping and failing to pay winners. Around the same time, Casino Royale’s minority owner, William Blanas, sued majority owner James Kouretas for fraud. Kouretas died in 2016 before a judge could weigh in on the showdown 8 | SN&R | 01.18.18

between him and Blanas. But in the middle of that fight, the Casino Royale business entity applied to get its city gaming license back, specifically on the grounds that it wanted to reopen in south Sacramento. The City Council ordered that the matter be referred to an administrative hearing at McGeorge School of Law, though the City Attorney’s Office later restored the license without holding a public hearing. That’s a key point Rosa and Park are suing over. They claim the city should have followed its own rules and put Casino Royale’s city license up for lottery. In the course of obtaining documents, Rosa and Parks’ legal team added a potential bombshell to the court file—a letter from the City Attorney’s Office acknowledging that Casino Royale perpetrated fraud against the city when it applied to get its license back. Prepared by Deputy City Attorney Katherine Underwood and addressed to Casino Royale attorney Kenneth Bacon, the letter clearly states that Underwood’s office learned through the deposition of a real estate agent that Kouretas produced fake documents for the city when

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applying to have the license restored. “[There] was a fraudulent document,” Underwood wrote. “Accordingly, to avoid perpetrating a continuing fraud on the City, we would like to know if your clients, Casino Royale and its sole remaining member, William Blanas, intend on surrendering Casino Royale’s card room license.” Despite writing that letter in August, Underwood appeared in court last week to defend the city’s intention to keep Casino Royale’s gaming license active, and help Blanas transfer the license to Ayers. Rosa and Parks’ attorney, Dale Campbell, condemned the city’s approach when making his arguments to Sacramento Superior Court Judge Allen Sumner. “At some point in time, someone has to hold Casino Royale to its false representations,” Campbell said. “This application was submitted under penalty of perjury. Someone has to hold them accountable, because the city’s not.” While Sumner hasn’t made a final ruling, he did issue a tentative written ruling that found the city entered into an illegal settlement agreement with Casino Royale because it exempted the

card room from complying with existing codes. A final ruling could come in a matter of weeks. The Sacramento City Attorney’s Office declined to comment further by press time. While Ayers’ ability to get Casino Royale’s city license is in doubt, he faces a steeper uphill battle to get Casino Royale’s state gaming license. On December 18, 2017, the Bureau of Gambling Control officially recommended that the California Gambling Control Commission not transfer that license to Ayers. Ayers has been promising to combine the Elks Tower’s art deco atmosphere with an elegant card room and chic, vintage-style bars. Mayor Darrell Steinberg and Councilman Steve Hansen have both expressed enthusiasm for the project. But gaming commissioners are less enthusiastic, after a background check revealed Ayers pleaded guilty to a DUI in 2011, another DUI in 2013 and—just six months ago—a misdemeanor public intoxication that his own attorney acknowledges is part of a domestic incident involving Ayers’ wife. Commissioner Trang To said that he’d listened to the recording of a 911 call associated with the domestic incident and found it “disturbing.” “[Mr. Ayers] knows he has an issue with alcohol,” attorney John Maloney told the commissioners while defending the well-known businessman. “It has not been his friend over the years.” Maloney added that Ayers is getting counseling, repairing his home life and taking the reality that gaming is a privileged industry “damn seriously.” Maloney requested that the commission consider issuing Ayers a temporary state license if it was uncomfortable with a permanent one. The commission revisited that possibility last week. Despite numerous people testifying to Ayers’s scrappy, self-made biography and his work as a philanthropist in Sacramento, the commissioners barred him from getting a temporary gaming license. Ayers will now make his final case at a future evidentiary hearing. Maloney sounded taken aback. He asked commissioners to consider the potential job loss if the Elks Tower project falls apart. “I’m extremely sensitive to Sacramento and its potential jobs,” Commissioner Jim Evens responded, “but we are not the economic development department for the city of Sacramento. We have a duty.” Ω

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The Sacramento Police Department says it’s responding almost daily to homeless-related complaints in the downtown core, but what’s happening to people’s stuff? Photo by Raheem F. hosseini

The tent collectors Despite assurances, doubt rages over whether cops are still taking homeless people’s stuff by Raheem F. hosseini

The flatbed pickup truck tattooed with Police Department decals lumbered along 16th Street, piled high with other people’s things. A red baby stroller lay up front, jammed against a garbage bag and plastic waste bins crammed with blankets, clothing and the sort of survival gear the city says its officers no longer take from individuals experiencing homelessness. As the winter starts to get wet again, skepticism over that promise has flared on social media and tested trust on the streets. Back in July, Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg told SN&R the Police Department assured the City Council that officers are prevented by their general orders from confiscating homeless people’s belongings. “I don’t think we should hassle homeless people who aren’t bothering anyone, and I don’t believe that we are,” he said then. Steinberg was unavailable for comment Tuesday, but a police spokesman told SN&R that deal is being kept to. Sgt. Vance Chandler said officers only take homeless people’s property if they’re being arrested or if a camp has been abandoned for longer than 24 hours. In both cases, Chandler said, officers take everything to a property

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warehouse where homeless individuals can reclaim their things. “We take it for safekeeping,” he said. Some homeless people and advocates are doubtful that’s what’s happening. Kimberly Church, a Sacramento City College faculty member who operates a weekly safe space for homeless adults under 30, started handing out sleeping bags and other outdoor gear tagged with “E.N.G.A.G.E., Inc,” the name of her budding nonprofit, to see if cops are still hauling away people’s survival gear, as some of her guests have told her. On January 4, she posted photos to her Facebook profile of a gloves-wearing police officer standing by a tent and a pile of other items as he wrote on a clipboard and a woman stood nearby. A flatbed police truck with a bicycle in the back idled nose to end with another pickup filled with a menagerie of items. Church wrote that the scene occurred near Loaves & Fishes, an area dotted with small campsites on sidewalks. “Taking tents and sleeping bags from people with no access to shelter = sadistic conTinued on Page 10

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After the march, what’s next? by jeff vonkaenel

In her brilliant book, Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest, Zeynep Tufekci describes how a small group of activists using Facebook and Twitter have been able to create large protest movements such as Arab Spring, Occupy, the Women’s March and others. She then examines how these essentially leaderless protests have gained attention—but have struggled to create lasting social change. Tufekci tells the story of former Google executive and Egyptian activist Wael Ghonim, who was secretly incarcerated by the Egyptian police for 11 days after creating the “We are all Khaled Said” Facebook page, which helped spark the 2011 Arab Spring protest demonstrations in Egypt. These demonstrations led to the resignation of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Ghonim and several other prominent members of the youth opposition were invited to the presidential palace for negotiations. But since Ghonim had no organization behind him, he was in no position to negotiate a settlement. He did what he could, only to be viciously attacked on social media. Ghonim told Tufekci that, “I once sarcastically said that I feel like it is much harder to actually stand up against the mainstream on Twitter than stand up against a dictator.” Tufekci believes that social media has enabled a leaderless protest movement which has no mechanisms to develop consensus and no leaders who can effectively govern the movement, let alone the country. And while there were hopes that these demonstrations across the Middle East would bring democracy and justice, most of the region is currently wracked with violence, corruption and military or monarchy control. In the United States, we have several leaderless movements, such as Occupy and the Women’s March, which have mobilized large numbers of people to protest but have not

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translated into politically effective or powerful organizations. I marched in the Women’s March last year. I will march again this year. But I suspect that if you asked a cross-section of marchers why they were marching, we might all have very different goals. If we were asked for our demands, I do not know who would answer the question, and how. I had a different experience last Friday night at the Sacramento AFL-CIO Council annual Crab Feed, where labor activists and politicians worked the room at a fundraiser to raise money for labor programs. Fabrizio Sasso, the master of ceremonies and the council’s executive director, seemed to know everyone by name. Elected officials, including Darrell Steinberg, Phil Serna, Richard Pan, Jay Hansen, Don Saylor, Eric Guerra, Jim Cooper and Lucas Frerichs connected up with labor activists. Candidates such as Democratic congressional candidate Regina Bateson were personally introduced to the hundreds gathered in the crowded hall. These people spend their days working towards concrete goals. They put in the hours required to represent their constituencies and create social change. In our country today, the wealthy are getting more and more wealthy and funding programs and candidates to give them more wealth. For the remaining 99 percent of us, we have people power. We can march—but then we have to get organized. We need to support and engage with organizations such as labor groups, activist organizations and the Democratic Party to debate issues, develop consensus and elect officials to govern for us instead of the wealthy. So let’s march in the Women’s March this Saturday. And then let’s get to work. Ω

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Gov. Jerry Brown has proposed two giant tunnels, each wide enough to contain most of the Sacramento River, to alleviate California’s chronic water woes and reduce tension between San Joaquin Valley farmers and salmon advocates. This controversial project, billed “California WaterFix,” is little more than a modern application of irrigation technology developed by the Roman Empire. Scientists at an East Bay laboratory, meanwhile, are also trying to address water shortages, but to do so, they’re delving into uncharted realms of science and technology. Like Brown’s clunky tunnels, the scientists’ lab-scale project involves passing water through expensive tubes—but the water conveyance tunnels being assessed by researcher Aleksandr Noy and his colleagues are barely one atom wide. Noy works at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where he has spent almost 20 years studying the potential of tiny carbon nanotubes—50,000 times thinner than a human hair—to separate salt from water. Noy drew attention from the research community last August when he and several colleagues published findings that using a thinner nanotube greatly increases the rate at which water can pass through a desalination filter. “Imagine you have a group of people going through a door, and they all bump into each other as they go through one by one,” Noy says. Well, it turns out that using a thinner tube facilitates a smoother, albeit single-file, flow. “It’s like all those people form a chain and hold hands, and that way they can slip through the doorway much faster.”

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As with polymer membranes, currently employed by desalination plants worldwide, the salt molecules are too wide to pass through, and freshwater flows out the other side—but huge implications dwell in the details. In Noy’s recent experiments, saltwater has passed through the nanotubes six times faster, using 25 percent less energy than it would to pass through desal systems now in use. Noy says future nanotube systems, in the very best of scenarios, might be able to desalinate seawater hundreds of times faster than existing ones. In an age when freshwater supplies, both in California and abroad, are under pressure from a growing human population, the alchemic act of turning seawater into drinking water is enormously appealing. “It’s an understandable perspective when you look west from California and see all that water,” says Jonas Minton, a Sacramento-based water policy advisor for the Planning and Conservation League. But Minton, who chaired a state-advising desalination task force in the early 2000s, thinks desalination of seawater should be a last resort for California. That’s because it comes with problems: Pumping water from the ocean can harm marine life, and so can discharging the brine that contains the salt removed from the fresh stuff. The enormous amount of energy needed to squeeze salt out of water also makes desalinated seawater almost prohibitively expensive, and a source of greenhouse gas emissions.

“It’s generally two or three times as expensive as alternative water supplies,” says Jay Lund, a UC Davis professor with the Center for Watershed Sciences. But Peter Fiske, director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Water–Energy Resilience Institute, says the energy costs of desalination should not be a deal breaker, and that it must play a role in supplying the state with water. “Desalinating seawater does take a lot of energy, but there are lots of valuable things in our society that take a lot of energy,” he says. California is home to several seawater desalination facilities, with at least one very large facility being planned. There’s no question California has cheaper, safer options for producing water. Heather Cooley, water program director at the Pacific Institute, says the state’s urban population could produce at least 4 million acre-feet of water each year—80 times the amount now coming from seawater desalination statewide—simply by using less water to begin with. Recycling treated wastewater that flows out to sea could produce, some say, another million acre-feet. In fact, Noy has speculated that carbon nanotube filtration systems might wind up serving water recycling systems, if not desalination plants, though he says any commercialization of the technology is at least five years off. California just experienced its hottest recorded summer, with all-time heat records logged in numerous cities, biggest-ever wildfires and—in early January—a record-breaking rainfall day

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Two decades of R&d In the Zucker brothers’ 1984 comedy film Top Secret, fictional rock star Nick Rivers, imprisoned in Cold War Germany, breaks out of his cell, scurries through the bowels of a prison and abruptly tumbles out of a ventilation duct into an underground laboratory. The musician is greeted by a scientist, clad in a white lab coat, who tells him he had spent years developing “the first magnetic desalinization process so revolutionary it was capable of removing the salt from over 500 million gallons of seawater a day.” “Do you realize what that could mean to the starving nations of the Earth?” the scientist asks. Rivers, played by a bright-faced 25-year-old Val Kilmer, answers, “Wow–they’d have enough salt to last forever.”

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in downtown Sacramento. The turbulent year came after the worst drought in an estimated 500 years or more. Clearly, the scientific consensus that climate change will cause increasingly variable weather and extreme conditions is coming true—and this will certainly impact the state’s water supply. Still, Lund is open-minded but conservative when it comes to developing desalination. He thinks California’s climate must grow dramatically drier, and water much more expensive, before seawater desalination becomes financially viable at large scales. For now, the technology remains on the fringe of feasibility. “Desalination is a promising tool,” Lund says, cracking a subtle joke, “and it probably always will be.”

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The entrance to Noy’s lab is a bit more formal, requiring an escort from the gate and a brief glance from an armed guard in camo fatigues. Once inside, Noy himself is careful about making grand claims about what his work may accomplish. “We don’t want to embellish what we are doing here,” he says as we walk through the maze-like, institutional-gray halls of the facility. Noy, who speaks with a faint accent from his native Russia, took his current post at Lawrence Livermore in 1998. Though the esteemed facility’s main focus is nuclear weapons, the science of desalinating water has absorbed Noy’s attention here for 19 years. In the early 2000s, he and several competing scientists from other institutions made advances on the nanotube desalination front. They were, as he says, “in a friendly race,” and it was Noy’s lab that broke ahead in 2006, when a test batch of saltwater ran through a nanotube system so quickly that freshwater overflowed the capture basin overnight. Noy says the water had moved through the filter thousands of times faster than he’d expected it to. More than a decade later, Noy and several colleagues and assistants still work in the same lab. “Have you been to a water treatment plant before?” he asks, still leading me toward his office. I have—the Silicon Valley water treatment plant, which uses polymer membranes to filter impurities and trace salts from urban wastewater. “We are nothing like that,” he says. It’s true. The focus of his work—still some of the world’s most groundbreaking nanotube filtration research—is still confined to the desktop scale. Noy’s lab is crammed with beakers, test tubes, vials of solution, vacuum chambers, computer screens and powerful microscopes. Noy guesses it will be five years, at the very least, before the technology he is working on moves to a commercial scale. Though he is modest, Noy is also bluntly honest about his work. “In principle, if you made a membrane that uses the same mechanism as we’ve been studying, you could move water through 100 to 200 times faster,” he says. The reason these nanotubes work so much more effectively at filtering water has to do with the carbon atoms they’re made of. Industry-standard polymer-filtration membranes contain proteins called aquaporins that may be attracted to hydrogen, ultimately slowing the passage of water through a filter. But carbon is hydrophobic, Noy explains. This has the effect of causing the water molecules, just before they enter the tubes, to align themselves in a smoothly flowing, single-file chain. There is little or no friction between the water and the tube walls, and the H2O molecules zip through the filter.

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It sounds brilliant, but in the world of separating salt from water, efficiency doesn’t come for free. Noy says a big problem with rapid desalination is clearing the salt off the filtering membrane. “We don’t know if we could actually use the membrane at that speed,” Noy says. “If you pass water through that fast, salt will begin to build up at the surface—like a salt traffic jam. So, where will that salt go?” He says the filtered salt can actually crystallize over the membrane, effectively clogging it. “So, even though you have this built-in advantage of really high flux, it doesn’t mean you should necessarily run it at that flux.” Years of experimenting lie ahead, in which time Noy and his colleagues must try and understand the mechanisms and efficiencies of nanotube filtration and, based on their findings, optimize the filters and size the nanotubes specifically to target certain particles. “With nanotubes, we actually have a chance to make a membrane that is selective only for water,” Noy says. That would be the gold-standard filter, preventing everything except water molecules passing through. Polymer membranes, with their much wider tubes, may prevent salt from passing through a filter, but they allow various harmful particulates, like pharmaceutical pollution and endocrine disruptors, to pass through. Noy explains that another massive challenge in desalination, energy demands, can also be streamlined, but only to a point. The absolute minimum of energy needed to desalinate Pacific Ocean water at a recovery rate of 50 percent of the inflow volume—the optimal rate in terms of energy requirements, since the saltier water gets, the harder it is to desalinate—is roughly 3.8 kilowatt hours per 1,000 gallons of water. (An electric motor rated at 1,000 kilowatts, running for one hour, uses 1 kilowatt hour of energy.) “Anything less than that number would violate the laws of physics,” Noy says, explaining that this figure corresponds to the osmotic pressure needed to separate the molecules. It takes 4,888 kilowatt hours to desalinate an acre-foot of water, 3,900 to deliver an acre-foot from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta and 385 to recycle an acre-foot, a 2016 study calculated. Emissions in CO2 equivalents, according to the authors, ranged by equal proportions, with recycled water producing one-twelfth the CO2 equivalents of desalinated water. Noy says carbon nanotubes could reduce energy inputs into seawater desalination by 25 percent. “That’s a lot when you consider the amount of energy being used,” he says. An acre-foot of desalinated seawater in California costs $2,000 to $3,000, according

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to a 2016 report titled “Proceed with Caution.” The same amount of water—326,000 gallons, about the average Californian household’s one-year supply—costs anywhere from $300 to $1,300 when produced through recycling. And simple conservation can make available an acre-foot of water for as little as $300 or less. The Silicon Valley Advanced Water Purification Center, in San Jose, treats and recycles 8 million gallons of water per day, directing it toward uses other than drinking water—mostly urban landscaping. Hossein Ashktorab, the plant’s recycled water manager, says the facility has considered investing in desalination but, for cost and logistical reasons, opted against it.

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But to Minton and other desalination skeptics, the Carlsbad facility shows why communities should avoid seawater desalination. The facility went online in December 2015 and in the 2016-17 year produced 40,000 acre-feet of freshwater. This wound up being an oversupply of water, thanks to last winter’s heavy rains. Since the plant is operating on a contract that requires the San Diego County Water Authority to buy the desalinated water whether it needs it or not, the agency poured more than half a billion gallons of desalinated water into a reservoir, where—to be used again—it must undergo standard treatment processes.

In the late 1980s, a severe drought drove California into a water crisis. The dry spell would last six years, depleting reservoirs and prompting aggressive conservation efforts statewide. The city of Santa Barbara did more than that, electing to invest in a $34 million desalination plant. The project went online in March of 1992. Just three months later, it shut down. The next winter was a wet one, and as depleted reservoirs refilled, Santa Barbara’s desalination plant remained idle. For more than 20 years it stayed that way, and for desalination skeptics, the plant stood as an example of why such facilities should not be built in the first place. “The drought ended, and they had much cheaper options for producing water,” Cooley says. “That was a significant capital investment for the community.” However, in the midst of another drought in 2015, the Santa Barbara City Council voted to reopen the plant. It reopened in May of last year, and once fully operational will provide Santa Barbara residents with 30 percent of their potable water. Another potential lesson in desalination economics comes from Australia, where a

12-year dry spell parched the nation and finally ended in 2010. To buffer its water supply, the nation built six desalination plants at a cost of more than $10 billion. A wetter climate cycle resumed, and nearly all the plants shut down within a few years of opening. “Now only one is still operating,” Lund says. “They were too expensive to operate.” In spite of challenges in desalinating water and doing so cost competitively, the industry is growing. Globally, 18,000 desalination facilities were operating as of December 2015, according to the International Water Association, producing about 1 percent of the world’s drinking water. In places such as Israel, Dubai and Singapore, desalination projects have proven very cost effective, mainly because so little other water is available. In California, seawater desalination plants have been built in several locations, including Catalina Island, Santa Barbara and Carlsbad, near San Diego, to supply communities with freshwater. Another desal project is underway in Monterey, although it is facing a legal challenge. Like the proposed Monterey facility, about two dozen plants are desalinating brackish groundwater. This takes less energy. However, there is relatively little brackish groundwater available to work with. Minton, at the Planning and Conservation League, says California aquifers contain about 100,000 acre-feet of brackish groundwater that could be desalinated at a fraction the cost of desalting seawater. The Carlsbad plant, built by Poseidon Water between 2012 and 2015, is the state’s largest. Former Sen. Barbara Boxer recently wrote an editorial for the San Diego UnionTribune in which she praised the facility. “The plant in Carlsbad serves as a shining example of the advances that have been made in pursuit of safe, reliable climate changeresilient water,” wrote Boxer, who is a paid lobbyist for Poseidon. The Claude “Bud” Lewis Carlsbad Desalination Plant is located beside the Encina Power Station, where it will share the existing facility’s seawater intake pipe—which the power plant needs for cooling off machinery. The desalination plant will similarly share the power station’s outfall pipe. To conserve energy, the desalination plant uses 144 energy recovery devices produced by the aptly named Energy Recovery, Inc., in San Leandro. These contraptions capture the hydraulic energy contained within the high-pressure outflow stream of discharged brine and uses that energy to help operate the intake pumps. The plant’s website claims this saves 146 million kilowatt-hours of energy per year and reduces annual carbon emissions by 42,000 metric tons. The facility, which produces as much as 50 million gallons of drinking water per day, will also be restoring 55 acres of wetland.

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“We’ve compared desalination to water reuse, and water reuse is much better—it’s more cost effective and more environmentally friendly,” he says. “So, in the next 20 to 40 years, we’re concentrating our focus on wastewater and purifying for reuse.” Scientists elsewhere are working to address serious environmental threats associated with desalination. To mitigate the risk of entrapping of larval sea creatures, many modern plants are being built with their intake pipes buried deep in the sand, sometimes in the form of wells drilled into beaches between the hightide and low-tide zones. To deal with the harm of the extra salty effluent, many desalination plants blend their brine with effluent from wastewater treatment plants, or discharge the brine from multiple small pipes angled upward in a way that promotes mixing with surrounding seawater. In theory, such mitigations, combined with the use of solar panels or other renewable energy sources to run the plants, could take care of most of the environmental issues. Newsha Ajami, Stanford University’s director of urban water policy, believes desalination should be kept on the table as an option, especially in parts of the world with no better option for accessing freshwater. However, in much of California, she feels it must be considered a last resort. “It’s a very expensive solution, and it’s very energy intensive,” she says. “If there are cheaper, better, more environmentally friendly solutions at the table, why wouldn’t you use them?”

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“Water Sourcery” continued from page David Zetland, a water policy analyst and author who studied at UC Davis and now lives in Amsterdam, says the plant is a complete waste. “They didn’t need it, because consumers have reduced their demand enough to live with conventional supplies.” Now, Poseidon Water is proposing to build another desalination plant in Huntington Beach. It is being promoted as state-of-theart, with energy recapture systems to improve efficiency and systems in place that will minimize marine impacts. In a San Diego Union Tribune editorial, Boxer says the Huntington Beach plant will be “the most environmentally sound desalination plant in the world.” Opponents “are behaving like climate change deniers” by ignoring science, the politican-turned-lobbyist wrote. John Kennedy, the Orange County Water District’s executive director of engineering and water resources, says even injecting the water into the ground would serve a good purpose, helping guard against seawater intrusion into the local aquifer. While all the desalinated water might not be needed immediately by the local community, he says having the plant will be a good security measure. “We don’t know how much imported water will be available in the future,” he says. “Exports from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta keep getting cut lower and lower, and who knows if they’ll ever build the tunnels.” Kennedy says the desalination plant will increase local monthly water bills between $3 and $6 per month. “That’s not very much, and it’s a good insurance policy, if nothing else,” he says. “Poseidon has come along and offered to build us a desalination plant in our backyard, and if we say no now, we might not get another chance.” Fiske, at the Lawrence Berkeley lab, says the cost of desalination, and the energy needs, are rather trivial compared to its potential value. The ocean, he says, cannot be overlooked as a water supply for coastal communities in arid places, primarily for the obvious reason—the ocean is essentially endless. “Ocean desalination represents a water supply that has very, very limited risk—we’re always going to have ocean water to treat and purify,” he says. Fiske believes every coastal community in California without a highly reliable water supply should aim to use seawater desalination to produce between 7 and 10 percent of its supply. “Ocean desalination doesn’t have to be a large percentage of our water supply, but it provides a very stable, very reliable source,” Fiske says. “I like to think of it a little bit like a portfolio. You have some assets that have low cost but are variable, and you want to also have some assets that might be higher in cost but are absolutely reliable.” Like Fiske, Seth Siegel feels the costs of desalination should not be seen as a deal breaker. Siegel, author of Let There Be Water, a New York Times bestseller about Israel’s

high-tech path toward water sustainability, says the energy needed to desalinate enough seawater to provide a family of four with all their household needs is the electricity equivalent of having a second refrigerator. “We all have refrigerators, and televisions, and nobody is saying we shouldn’t because of the energy costs,” he says. “We don’t tell people they should go back to a lifestyle of the ’60s and ’70s.” He argues that desalination, while not appropriate in regions with consistent rainfall, may be a vital technology of the future, especially in affluent areas that can afford to pay for it and where water is in short supply. “We shouldn’t rush into it, because they’re expensive to build, but we also shouldn’t be ideological about it and say we shouldn’t desalinate water because it takes energy,” he says.

Saving Water Urban Californians, whipped into shape by repeated droughts, are using less and less water each year. In 2010, the Sacramento Suburban Water District was serving 170,000 people. Now, its service population is 177,000. However, overall water use has plunged, according to data provided by Roscoe, from 12.3 billion gallons in 2010 to 5.8 billion in the water-year ending in 2017. That corresponds to a per capita reduction from 199 gallons per day to just 90. A similar drop has occurred in San Francisco, where a rapidly rising population is consuming about 20 percent less water than it was in 2005. The city’s residents use just 44 gallons per day on average. The cutbacks have come largely from standardizing more efficient toilets and shower heads, and by removing lawns and making irrigation more efficient—and there is certainly more room to improve. For instance, the Orange County residents who would receive water from the proposed Huntington Beach plant use two to three times as much water as do residents of San Francisco, according to data from the California Department of Water Resources. Cooley, at the Pacific Institute, says California’s annual urban water use of about 9 million acre-feet could be cut by at least half through further conservation efforts. That, at very little cost, would free up roughly 5 million acre-feet of water per year—enough water to fill a skyscraper 200 miles tall, and about the amount exported from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta each year. It would take the Carlsbad desalination unit 100 years to squeeze out that much freshwater. Cooley says stormwater capture could produce another 400,000 acre-feet each year, and water recycling another 1 million acre-feet. In fact, while large cities lobby constantly for more imported water from depleted rivers, coastal water treatment plants discharge almost 1.5 million acre-feet of treated sewage water every year, according

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to the Department of Water Resources. The Los Angeles area, which annually uses as much as 1.9 million acre-feet of water from the beleaguered Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, recycles just 11 percent of its effluent. Israel, by contrast, recycles and reuses almost 90 percent of its sewage water, and per capita usage is very low—only 40 gallons per person daily. Israel also desalinates lots of water—enough to supply its 8 million people with more than 90 percent of their household needs. “But they made those investments [in conservation and recycling] first, before they went to desalination,” Cooley says. Fiske points out that water recycling is not itself a source of water. Indeed, he says, recycling and reusing become less effective the less water a community has available. California’s population is rising and may reach 50 million in 30 years, and its water supply is growing unstable. Total precipitation may decline in the future, and higher temperatures will mean more of it falls as rain, rather than snow—historically the state’s most important storage reservoir. Fiske says to delay desalination development could even risk disaster. “In Australia, their drought was an economic catastrophe,” Fiske says. “So, we have to ask ourselves, ‘What are the consequences of having an extreme drought where we literally run out of water?’”

nanotubeS for recycling? At Lawrence Livermore lab, it isn’t clear that carbon nanotubes will ever produce water at a commercial scale. Years of experimenting lie ahead, in which time Noy and his colleagues must try and understand the mechanisms and efficiencies of nanotube filtration and, based on their findings, optimize the filters and size the nanotubes specifically to target certain particles. “With nanotubes, we actually have a chance to make a membrane that is selective only for water,” Noy says. Noy believes nanotube filtration technology could eventually find a functional home in water recycling systems, if not desalination. “It depends what they have in the water that they want to remove,” Noy says. “If they

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have large-sized impurities, then the carbon nanotubes would be overkill. But if we’re interested in molecules in the water, then this would be a proper use.” But commercializing the technology could be challenging. Fiske, who is familiar with but not involved in Noy’s research, explains that a garbage can-sized piece of industrialsized piping that draws water through a desalination system contains 500 square meters of membrane, which is fitted in the system rather like a rolled-up carpet. “So, any membrane technology needs to be massively scaleable” at affordable costs, he says. Elsewhere, many researchers are exploring ways to potentially improve the science of turning saltwater into freshwater. A lab at UC Berkeley, for example, is studying the way that tropical mangrove trees process seawater, removing its salt and making it physiologically serviceable. These plants are of particular academic interest because they achieve what the most advanced desalination plants cannot— solar-powered, 100-percent recovery of desalinated seawater. California is a fitting place for such research. The state has emerged in recent years as a poster-child for the worst of what climate change may deliver—unpredictable weather extremes, fires punctuated by flooding, and the sporadic ebb and flow of water. Amid such inconsistent rhythms, the steady clockwork-like drone of desalination plants— and the prospect of entirely drought-proof water—may eventually resonate even with skeptics. And for desalination believers, it is already clear that California has enough water to last forever. Ω

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Oakland’s Black Salt Collective brings its freewheeling creative energy to Verge Center for the Arts

By CAroline MinASiAn

Vision Black Salt Collective’s exhibit Space and Place runs through March 18 at Verge Center for the Arts, with an artist talk 7 p.m. February 8.

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writing exercise, a hat and the talented hand that picked the lucky winning words: black, salt and collective. The phrase meshed well together and the name, Black Salt Collective, was chosen. It was after this name-picking ritual in 2012 that artists Grace Rosario Perkins, Sarah Biscarra-Dilley, Anna Luisa Petrisko, Adee Roberson and former founding member Fanciulla Gentile learned that black salt was used in protection spells.

“It fit perfect,” Roberson says. “There is a lot of protection around thinking about being in the art world as women of color—protecting your work and ideas and the institutions and gazes that might not understand it,” “Salt is also something everyone needs to survive,” Petrisko adds. “Everything we do has infinite meanings.” This sentiment of infinite meanings translates to their work and sets them apart as a collective. Black Salt combines a kaleidoscope of styles and mediums to create conversations that breach even the edges of their own artistic work. In the summer of 2016, their collaborative skills were recognized: They were tapped to become artists-inresidence for two months at the Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park. “[Our] four murals were installed intentionally to be in conversation with each other, situated around a skylight in one of the buildings on campus,” Petrisko describes. The color palette of Roberson’s collages and risographs exude happiness, while Petrisko’s prints—though a bit more chaotic—are just as vivid with bright emotions. Perkins’ work shares the same abstract shapes but with a desert-like quality (no surprise, given she is originally from New Mexico), and Biscarra-Dilley uses sharp lines within her collages that create organization within abstraction. And now, Black Salt Collective has an exhibit at Verge Center for the Arts, Space and Place, featuring two of the collective’s favorite mediums: paintings and videos. “The videos and paintings are different textures of the same cloth all woven together,” Petrisko says. “Some are more performance based and some are more landscape based.” Liv Moe, the Verge’s curator, became a fan of the artists in late 2015. After attending an Oakland panel in which they featured, she says she was hooked. “[Their] work is this combination of exuberance and joy alongside an assertive frankness about their personal and shared histories,” Moe describes. “Artist production is so often grounded in the individual that it’s really unique to see

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a group of artists produce work together.” If that’s not enough, one particular video in Space and Place will feature palm trees, in case you’re looking for an escape from the winter weather. The paintings quite literally leap from their edges, weaving together neon greens, pinks and blues in a way that makes your body want to dance. But their goal goes beyond that. Black Salt says they want to honor the lands and all the people that have inhabited them before. Petrisko wants everyone to “take his or her own truth out of it” and to “reflect on their energy and how it lives within a place or within a space.” For its part, Verge’s space should give off positive vibes after Black Salt splatters it with large pieces and bright colors. Though the exhibit centers on Black Salt’s painting and videos, their repertoire doesn’t stop there. The four artists also dabble in music, installations, sculptures and performances. And it isn’t all about the group’s output. These four women are trusted friends who use Black Salt to gather feedback and enhance their solo work. The collective has a special connection that makes working together easy, they say. They take turns filming, and each can wear the cap of director or cinematographer. There are no separate roles because everyone does everything. “We get together in these bursts and bang out a bunch of work and then go off on our own because we are all very solitary creatures,” Petrisko says. Their first official “burst” was in 2013 when the collective—along with Gentile—took a trip from the Bay Area to Perkins’ ancestral homelands in New Mexico. Together they traveled through Santa Fe and Blackwater and Fort Defiance in Arizona, filming clips that will be on display at Verge. “We did a lot of filming during that trip and it really solidified us,” Roberson states. Trips like these are important for Black Salt, whose members are spread throughout California. But once they’re together, they say they teach and support one another, whether in collaboration or for their own work. Each has strong individual practices that started before and continue with Black Salt. Prior to the Collective, Perkins was working on art and music in Oakland and Biscarra-Dilley was pursuing art and academia. Petrisko and Roberson were both in post-punk bands in the mid-2000s. What instigated the friendship between the post-punk musicians? Myspace, in all its heyday glory. The women still stay connected with the help of technology—and old-school traditions. “We are all very intentional and ritual-based people … the kind of people that do rituals on the full moon, the new moon, the eclipse moon and everything in-between,” Petrisko says with a laugh. She explains further that they create altars, hike, burn candles or gather food from the wild. With busy lives, staying grounded is a must. Roberson does massage therapy and DJs on the side, and Petrisko can be found teaching different body-based healing

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classes and collaborating with Practical Records in Los Angeles. Biscarra-Dilley is also currently pursuing a Ph.D. at UC Davis. Even though the artistic and professional juices are flowing, Petrisko notes that the lack of opportunities and funding for artists all over the world can get frustrating. It essentially boils down to an opportunity block—not a creative one. Petrisko does highlight the magic in being able to work with what you have and create and innovate even when there isn’t any money. She adds, “[Adee and I] are not just artists. We are both freelancers and hustlers, piecing together [our] income from multiple different sources.” Enter massaging and DJ work. Their art is indicative of freelancing. They combine personalities, histories and stories into one cohesive and vibrant foundation. Juggling it all has become second nature to Black Salt Collective. “My creativity is always active—or overactive,” Petrisko admits. Ω

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Pork dumplings with broth at Dumpling & Tea House—but try them pan-fried first. photo By reBecca huVal

Doughy nuggets of garlicky goodness Dumpling & Tea House

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3000 Freeport Boulevard Good for: Breakfast with milk tea, a cozy date in a warm cafe Notable dishes: Veggie pan-fried dumplings, wonton soup and dan

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On a chilly Friday night, the customer wearing an AC/DC shirt struck up a conversation with most of the patrons inside the new Dumpling & Tea House. He gawked at the pan-fried dumplings of a couple on a date. “Did I screw up my order by getting it with broth?” he asked them. Eventually, he concluded that yes, yes he had, and so did I. The pan-fried dumplings are where it’s at. After opening late last year, Dumpling & Tea House is one of few Taiwanese dumpling shops in town. The eponymous and much-discussed hand-wrapped dumplings ($7.35) are filled with pork and chives or vegetables, chicken and corn, kimchi pork or all veggies. The diaphanous dough tastes like it was indeed finely shaped by this kitchen’s hands. For all you vegetarians out there: These are legit. White pepper and ginger swirl together with cabbage, carrot and chunks of tofu. I also tried the pork and vegetables—mostly cabbage accompanying rich meat with the musk of garlic. For an extra dollar, try them pan-fried or with broth, but you already know whose side I’m on in this fight: The chicken broth is bland, not adding much unless it’s a cold, rainy day, which—welp, you can see the weather forecast for yourself. The pan-fried version, though, takes these doughy nuggets from decent to worth a return visit. The crisped crescents add a fatty note that plays well off of the sour

housemade dip: soy sauce, white and brown vinegar, sesame oil and garlic. The dan dan mien ($6.50) is also more than the sum of its humble parts: Egg noodles, chili and sesame oil and blanketed with cucumbers, carrots, green onions, fried shallots and chopped peanuts. Add meat or tofu (off menu) for a hearty, dank meal that radiates with nuttiness. With legalization upon us, it’s handy to have a nearby dish that so completely quenches the munchies. But it wasn’t all fried shallots and rainbows. The BBQ pork bao (three for $4) were a disappointment on the day I ordered them, gray and mushy meat without any flavorful gusto. But it looks like I got them on an off day: Yelp and Instagram snaps show BBQ pork with rusty red sauce that was totally lacking from mine. And the white bun was soft as a snowflake and oh so sweet. Though it was also lacking in flavor, the wonton soup ($7.35) was mostly a positive experience. Traditionally served at breakfast, this dish and its subtle broth were a soothing way to start the morning. The kitchen’s specialty, delicate dumplings, floated alongside green onions and broccoli for just the right dose of guilt-free flavor. Sure, it could have used more seasoning, but you could always have a choose-your-own-condiment adventure. The other namesake, the teas, were outstanding and came in an array of flavors: rose, passion fruit, lychee, chrysanthemum, taro. The milk teas ($3.75) are made to your exact sweetness and temperature at a reasonable price for such a smoothly mixed, creamy confection. The Dumpling & Tea House is very upfront about its strengths: They’re emblazoned on the storefront. But be careful about choosing the broth over pan-fried, or you might stare longingly at strangers, too. Ω

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Brighten up Meyer leMons Of all the bountiful citrus available in the winter, Meyer lemons most represent California. They were introduced to the U.S. from China and now grow widely in our state. As an exceptionally fragrant cross between a tart lemon and a sweeter orange relative, Meyers feature a high juice content. Their subtle sweetness pairs especially well with chicken and vegetables and makes an easy vinaigrette. Because their thinner skins bruise easily, they don’t ship as well as other citrus. Hoard them now and freeze the juice for the most aromatic summer lemonade.

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On trend: The Shanghainese soup dumpling craze has officially arrived in Sacramento now that there are a few options for eating them, including a restaurant in our tourist zone of Old Sac. I-Shanghai Delight (1115 Front Street) opened in December in the former space of the fondly remembered Cellar Bistro, a Cantonese restaurant that served some of the most traditional jook and egg flour sauce in town. It remains to be seen whether I-Shanghai will inspire the same devotion as the building’s previous tenant or other soup dumpling restaurants in the area, such as Elk Grove’s well-regarded Journey to the Dumpling. The owners of Cellar Bistro didn’t share details of the reasons for the closure, according to Jim Wu, co-owner of I-Shanghai Delight. But the new owners say they hope to take advantage of their prime location with its foot traffic along the Sacramento River.

“We’re pretty well known in Bay Area, so that’s why we decided to open up a second location here,” Wu says. “There’s a lot of population, there’s a lot of demand for Shanghainese.” I-Shanghai Delight has another location in Fremont, which has been successful during its first year of business, Wu says. For the second outpost, they kept the preexisting brick arches along the walls, repainted them gray and filled the space with photos of Shanghai from the 1930s and 1940s. It’s stirred up memories in some customers. “I saw one old lady was crying,” Wu says. “She said, ‘Oh wow, that’s the same as my childhood neighborhood, the picture.’” The food also brings back glimpses of home, he says. “When they taste the food, they say, ‘When I was a little kid in Shanghai it tasted exactly the same.” The menu includes not just the soup pork dumplings, but also

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Shanghai-style dishes such as crab roe dumplings and braised duck in brown sauce, deep-fried shrimp balls and sauteed shredded eel. Wu’s favorite is the pan-fried pork bun because of its mix of textures. “Pan fried pork bun is crispy with a soupy inside and the top is soft, so it’s kind of crispy, soft and juicy,” he says. Beside the cash register, a clear window shows chefs in paper hats pinching dumpling dough into dainty pinwheels. Each dumpling is housemade upon ordering, so don’t be surprised if an order takes 20 minutes during the lunch-hour rush. But for Wu, the restaurant’s unique selling point is its long list of Shanghainese dishes aside from the dumplings. “We have a lot of traditional items that I don’t see other Sacramento restaurants having,” Wu says. “We’re pretty much the first ones.” Ω

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morality are in direct conflict? How do you proceed if your country becomes unrecognizable?” With a cast of only eight people, Acme has been able to gather the best of its actors to bring this story to light. Outstanding are Eleanor Richter as student activist Sophie Scholl and Gracelyn Watkins as Robert Mohr, the investigator who spends days trying to get her to confess. Grey Turner is also mesmerizing as Anton Mahler, the Nazi intent on punishing the students in the extreme.

The play about a theatre company in distress is a loving, sometimes satirical, tribute to great Broadway musical composers. It’s a little snarky with Andrew Lloyd Webber (“I’ve Heard This Song Before”) but whip smart in its tribute to Stephen Sondheim (“A Little Complex”). A spunky cast of five sings and dances its heart out. Thu 7pm, Fri 8pm,

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showtimes: thu 8pm, fri 8pm, sat 8pm, sun 4pm. through 1/21; $10$12; Pamela trokanski Dance theater, 2720 Del rio Place in Davis; (530) 401-6688; www.acmetheatre.net.

In its 37-year history, Davis’ Acme Theater Company has not shied away from difficult subjects. From terrorism to transgender issues to abortion, Acme, a self-sustaining theater group for high-school artists, has chosen intelligent and thought-producing content. The White Rose follows this tradition, tackling the subject of Nazism and the consequence of protest. In these controversial political times, it becomes more timely than when it was written by Lillian GarrettGroag in 1991. The White Rose was an organization of students founded in Munich with the goal of exposing Nazi crimes. In 1943, five students were arrested for distributing treasonous material. The play covers the arrest and interrogation of the students, mixed with flashbacks to the formation of the group, its growing passion and increasing boldness in the name of nationalism. Director Emily Henderson asks questions such as: “What does it mean to be immersed in historical injustice and current inhumanity, to come of age under the reign of a delusional leader? How do personal faith, truth and honor operate when law and 26 | SN&R | 01.18.18

Spamalot

Follow King Arthur and his faithful horse Patsy through the country, collecting knights for his round table. Based on Monty Python and the Holy Grail, this musical is filled with typical Python gags, cheap shots, fart jokes and lowbrow humor. Guaranteed to delight Python fans.

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B Street Theatre is unveiling its beautiful new Midtown theater complex, the Sofia Tsakopoulos Center for the Arts (The Sofia) on January 30 with the debut of One Man, Two Guvnors. The new 45,000-square-foot complex on Capitol Avenue has two theater spaces—the 250-seat Mainstage Theater and the 365-seat Sutter Theater for Children. Celebration Arts, which lost its East Sacramento lease last year, has happily adopted one of B Street’s former stages at 2727 B Street and will debut its new 200-seat space on February 23 with the iconic A Raisin in the Sun. “[With] support and encouragement from donors, patrons, friends, performers, the theater community has been tremendous,” says executive director James Wheatley. Green Valley Theatre Company, known for its innovative musical productions, has one more production at the current 3823 V Street space before relocating to a new West Sacramento 100-seat Black Box at 3920 West Capitol Avenue in May, where they will expand their repertoire to include nonmusicals, youth theatre and a school of puppetry. “This move is exciting for us and is going to allow us to greatly expand the sort of programs we can offer,” says artistic director Christopher Cook. Side Show will open February 16 at the current location with A Chorus Line debuting in the new site in May. Runaway Stage Productions (RSP), formerly housed at 24th Street Theatre, found quarters in West Sacramento but ran into technical snags with the intended space, so is back looking for a new location. Producing Director Bob Baxter says the search for theater space continues, but the company will be producing shows at temporary locations in the meantime. “RSP is excited to get back to producing and we are anxious to find our permanent home,” Baxter says. —Patti RobeRts

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Empathy generation California Stage presents the premiere of a new play by Richard Broadhurst, whose scripts have been done locally at the Sacramento Theater Company and River Stage, and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland. Winter’s Waltz involves two strangers—one black, one white, from different generations—who meet in New York City in the 1970s. The production pairs distinguished veteran actor Loren Taylor with Tory Scoggins (Celebration Arts and independent films), Janis Stevens directs. Fri 8pm, Sat 8pm, Sun 2pm. Through 2/18; $12-$20; California Stage, 1725 25th St. (in the R25 Arts Complex); (916) 451-5822; www.calstage.org.

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stands anonymously in a line of seamstresses while Reynolds courts wealthy clients, while Reynolds’ Fractured masculinity and daddy obsessions have increased nitpicking suggests an imminent served as thematic pillars of the cinema of Paul Thomas breakup—but Alma proves ferociously resourceful. Anderson ever since he debuted with Hard Eight in Despite the luxurious settings, the film is rarely 1996. But before the formula grew untenable and stale, extravagant, favoring understated camera movethe control freak Anderson veered off track with his ments and a melancholy color palette. It feels like cosmically shaggy detective story Inherent Vice in 2014, a Max Ophuls movie directed by John Cassavetes. and with his free-form 2015 musical documenMany of the most beautiful shots are simple tary Junun. and fleeting, like Reynolds and Alma’s After the cinematographer-less giddy, dashboard-lit faces as they speed Daniel Junun, Anderson serves as his own through the night. director of photography on the impecDay-Lewis Daniel Day-Lewis does his usual cably groomed yet quietly unsettling may get top demanding, powerful, precise yet fashion world romance Phantom unpredictable work. He’s basically billing, but the film Thread, and he also created his first Marlon Brando multiplied by Fredric true female protagonist (there’s even belongs to Vicky March, ho-hum. The part isn’t bellia mommy obsession in the mix). As Krieps. cose and theatrical in the same manner the demanding 1950s fashion designer as Daniel Plainview from There Will Be Reynolds Woodcock (not a typo), Daniel Blood, but his Reynolds Woodcock is just as Day-Lewis may get top billing, but the film much of a force of nature in his own emotionally belongs to Vicky Krieps as Alma, a beach town waitress withholding, hissy fit-having manner. Meanwhile, who enters Reynolds’ orbit. Krieps is a revelation as Alma, earthy and emotionReynolds lives in the same building where his successful fashion house is located, resulting in a meticu- ally pliable to contrast the unbending Reynolds. Phantom Thread often plays like a reverse lously arranged fusion of personal life and creative-slashwork life that also informs his romantic relationships. An Taming of the Shrew, with Alma determined to preserve her position in the House of Woodcock by “incurable bachelor” and emotionally immature control cutting Reynolds down to size. Anderson dedicated freak, Reynolds is already discarding a girlfriend when the film to his longtime partner Maya Rudolph and the story opens, speeding off to the coast while his loyal sister Cyril (Lesley Manville, one of Mike Leigh’s favor- their four children, and a hazily unspecific personal element haunts this story about the romantic power ite chameleons) does his dirty work. There he meets the struggles of a demanding, obsessive artist and the much younger Alma, and the cycle starts anew. woman who affects and protects his work. Ω Reynolds crafts her a dress to initiate their relationship, measuring and belittling Alma as part of his seduction technique. That dress blossoms into a collection, and soon enough Alma is modeling his creations, a muse draped in her own inspiration. From there, her position in his life grows increasingly tenuous—she 28 | SN&R | 01.18.18

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The Commuter

A middle-aged insurance agent (Liam Neeson) is accosted on his train home by a mysterious woman (Vera Farmiga) who coerces him into finding someone on the train, threatening his family if he doesn’t set the stranger up to be murdered. The script by Byron Willinger, Philip de Blasi and Ryan Engle is preposterous, far-fetched and insanely complicated, and it leaps madly over the top in the last act—but what the hell, it’s just suspenseful enough to keep us wondering how it’ll all turn out. Jaume ColletSerra’s direction is unsubtle but effective, and Neeson (having evidently given up on ever winning an Oscar) provides the conviction the movie needs (and doesn’t deserve). Patrick Wilson as his best friend has a couple of good scenes, while Sam Neill and Elizabeth McGovern are wasted in cameos. J.L.

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Hugh Jackman stars as 19th century impresario P.T. Barnum—a fascinating character whose real life and career are of scant interest in the movie as written by Jenny Bicks and Bill Condon and directed by the unready Michael Gracey. Then again, Barnum made his fortune peddling hoaxes to a gullible public, and he might be amused by how the movie runs the same scam. Jackman’s musical chops are real enough—ditto those of Zac Efron, Zendaya and others—but you can’t make a first-rate musical with third-rate songs, and these (by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, way off their game) are utterly humdrum. Any real dancing is undermined by glitzy CGI; we don’t know what’s real and what’s phony, so we assume it’s all faked. A miscast and unappealing Rebecca Ferguson as soprano Jenny Lind sinks the movie even further. J.L.

Hostiles

This gaseous, pompous, clumsily well-intentioned revisionist Western from writer-director Scott Cooper (Black Mass) offers all the hollow ponderousness of The Revenant without any of the technical exuberance. Christian Bale stars as Capt. Joseph J. Blocker, an accomplished Indian killer nearing the end of his service who gets ordered to escort an old foe (Wes Studi) and his family to their homeland. Making their way through the blood-soaked moral wasteland that is Blocker’s legacy, the pair slowly reach an understanding while fighting off violent threats from all sides. Cooper made a decent, low-key debut with the Jeff Bridges vehicle Crazy Heart, but ever since then, he has wallowed in pointless violence and thunderously empty drama, and with Hostiles he has hopefully found his nadir. Bale plays hard-bitten terseness in the hammiest manner possible, but as a deranged survivor who joins the caravan, Rosamund Pike delivers the most embarrassing performance of the year. D.B.

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Gary Oldman blubbers and bellows from under wads of makeup as Winston Churchill in this lifeless biopic by director Joe Wright (Atonement), portraying the embattled British prime minister during the tumultuous weeks between his 1940 appointment and the rescue mission at Dunkirk. Despite his abrasive nature and alcoholsoaked diet, Churchill was a compromise choice intended to unite Britain’s rival political parties against the Nazi threat, although his saber-rattling rhetoric quickly proved divisive. While Oldman chomps on the scenery in a sweat-stained awards grab, much of the action is filtered through his secretary (Lily James), whom Churchill treats with a borderline Weinstein-ian overfamiliarity (bad year to heroize handsy bosses in bathrobes). After Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk and Their Finest, this is the third 2017 release to touch on the Dunkirk evacuation, although Darkest Hour stops short at Churchill’s “we shall fight on the beaches” speech, as if to underline its own pointlessness. D.B.

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Call Me by Your Name

Director Luca Guadagnino (A Bigger Splash) dials down some of his stylistic excesses for this sun-kissed coming-of-age drama set in the Italian countryside. James Ivory adapted the André Aciman book, and the combination of chilly repression and warming desire in Call Me by Your Name make it feel like an heir to Ivory’s A Room with a View. Timothée Chalamet gives a potentially star-making lead performance as Elio, an intellectually precocious but sexually inexperienced 17-year-old nursing a crush on his father’s new research assistant, an enigmatic hunk in white crew socks and shorts named Oliver (Armie Hammer). While Elio fumbles through an awkward relationship with a female peer, his encounters with Oliver grow increasingly flirtatious, finally becoming sexual as the summer speeds toward an end. Michael Stuhlbarg gives a strong supporting performance as Elio’s compassionate father and Hammer is very well-cast, but Chalamet owns the film with his passionate ambiguity. D.B.

Paddington 2

That marmalade-loving bear from Peru (voiced by Ben Whishaw), happily ensconced in London with the Brown family (dad Hugh Bonneville, mom Sally Hawkins, teenagers Madeleine Harris and Samuel Joslin), is falsely convicted of stealing a rare pop-up book, framed by a has-been actor (Hugh Grant, chewing on his villainy with hilarious relish). Director and co-writer (with Simon Farnaby) Paul King scores again with a sequel every bit as delightful and charming as the 2014 original. King and Farnaby expand the fragile whimsy of Michael Bond’s children’s books to feature length without leaving any awkward or unsightly stretch marks. The result is the kind of irresistible family-friendly fantasy that could wind up giving “sweetness and light” a good name. Brendan Gleeson as a snarling prison cook adds to the fun. J.L.

Pitch Perfect 3

The Bellas reunite for a USO tour. This franchise ran out of steam halfway through the credit crawl on the first movie, and there’s been nothing but garbage-ingarbage-out since then. Director Trish Sie and writers Kay Cannon and Mike White seem determined to see how much non-story, lame dialogue, fuzzy cinematography (Matthew Clark), sloppy editing (Craig Alpert and Colin Patton) and vapid songs they can cram into 93 minutes and still make $100 million. The charms of stars Anna Kendrick and Hailee Steinfeld are hardly powerful enough to carry this junk, especially when they’re teamed with the insufferable Rebel Wilson, who can ruin any movie with 10 minutes of screen time (and take John Lithgow, as her ne’er-do-well father, down with her). “Last call, pitches!” scream the movie’s posters. If only. J.L.

The Post

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After a three-year break following Lincoln, Steven Spielberg has cranked out three mature and understated genre films in three years, culminating with his latest release, The Post. The BFG was an undervalued children’s fantasy, but spy flick Bridge of Spies and newspaper movie The Post use their respective genres to make august, auburn-tinged commentaries on American institutions, past and present. Set in the 1970s, The Post centers on the leak and publication of the Pentagon Papers, the classified documents that proved the government lied about the then-raging Vietnam War. The Post was written by Josh Singer, the Oscarwinning co-screenwriter of Tom McCarthy’s forgettable awards magnet Spotlight. Both The Post and Spotlight are process movies about real-life journalists and their groundbreaking scoops, and they both trace over similar issues regarding the freedoms and responsibilities of the press. It’s as if Spielberg watched Spotlight and thought it might make a good movie someday. D.B.

An assassin for a Boston crime family (Taraji P. Henson) takes a guilty interest in an adolescent boy (Jahi Di’Allo Winston) orphaned when she killed his bookie father—and her concern leads to an all-out gang war between her boss (Danny Glover) and a rival Russian mobster (Rade Serbedzija). John Stewart Newman, Christian Swegal and Steve Antin’s script is bare-bones predictable and never speaks when shooting will do. What keeps the movie afloat is Henson’s remarkable star power— she has the ability to be tender-hearted and steely-eyed almost in the same breath. Young Winston’s performance is similarly textured by turns truculent and vulnerable; he may be one to watch. Director Babak Najafi gives a reasonable facsimile of the gritty atmosphere of the so-called “blaxploitation” pictures of the 1970s. J.L.

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Bittersweet ride Surfer Blood reflects on ups and downs by Howard Hardee

As a high school junior, John Paul Pitts used to stand around in the parking lot of his South Florida school and smoke cigarettes. Basically, he thought he was pretty cool, so he was surprised when a freshman girl named Lindsey Mills walked up and asked if his band could play at her birthday party. Pitts recalls saying “yes” because it was disarming to be so boldly approached by a ninth-grader. “You know, two years is a big age gap in high school,” Pitts said. “But she’s always been like that; she’s never been afraid to ask.” The two became friends and Mills ended up joining Pitts’ band years later. In the meantime, the group morphed into the indie-pop group Surfer Blood, releasing debut single “Swim” in 2009 and an album, Astro Coast, the following year. The group got caught up in an intense wave of buzz, suddenly thrown onto stages at major music festivals and cast by critics as indie trendsetters. It was a lot to handle for the band’s young members who, by Pitts’ recollection, hadn’t mastered anything more subtle than bashing away at guitars with their amps turned up to 11. It’s possible that Pitts—who spoke to SN&R ahead of Surfer Blood’s show at Blue Lamp on January 20—was underselling how good the band has been from the beginning. It’s always cleverly used the pop format to explore interesting territory, and Pitts in particular has a track record of producing curious two-part songs that end nowhere near where they started. It’s been a winning formula throughout the band’s history. Surfer Blood experienced a dizzying rise, but the hype slowly leveled off—and then things got rocky. In 2012, Pitts was charged

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with domestic battery following a fight with his girlfriend (the charge was eventually dropped). Then in 2015, guitarist and founding member Thomas Fekete quit after being diagnosed with sarcoma, a rare form of cancer that had spread to his lungs and spine. “I was feeling pretty dejected, honestly,” Pitts said. “Tom was still alive and fighting, but it was pretty clear he wasn’t going to come back anytime soon. It occurred to me to get a full-time job and do the band as a weekend warrior kind of thing. Maybe I would have done that, but Tom got sick at this time when we’d booked 60 or 70 shows all over the country. It felt like the pieces were scattered everywhere and I had to run around picking them up.” With little choice but to keep going, the band picked up guitarist Mike McCleary—and he learned about 35 songs in a week to play on the tour. Another blow came later, however, when longtime bassist Kevin Williams told Pitts he was done with the band, too. Pitts immediately thought of recruiting an old high school friend to play bass, but Fekete had been one step ahead. “Lindsey [Mills] was also really good friends with Tom, who was really sick but must have played matchmaker,” Pitts said. And Mills wasn’t shy about it: “She called me a few days later and straight-up asked me to be in the band.” As the group’s bassist, Mills’ backup vocals lend warm undertones to songs on the new album Snowdonia, released in February 2017. She and McCleary are both lighthearted people, Pitts said, and they helped steer him away from writing what could have been a somber record. Still, there are emotionally heavy moments throughout Snowdonia. “Bittersweet is always what I’ve always kind of gone for in my songwriting,” Pitts said, “and this is no exception.” Ω catch surfer Blood at Blue Lamp 7 p.m. saturday, January 20. 1400 alhambra Boulevard. tickets are $10-$12. Learn more at www.surferblood.com.

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in the news and entertainment industries, and in government. Adama Iwu, recognized as one of Time’s People of the Year (the Silence Breakers), will be a keynote speaker when the crowd gathers at the State Capitol Saturday. Iwu is one of the founders of We Said Enough, an organization created to address systemic harassment in the state legislature. Fellow members Samantha Corbin and Alicia Lewis will also speak. 2115 6th Street, www.womensmarchsac.com.

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80th anniversary tribute show featuring clarinetist Ken Peplowski and the Sacramento Jazz Orchestra. With special guests Chuck Redd, Ehud Asherie and Ann Roach. 7:30pm, $25-$50. Harris Center, 10 College Parkway in Folsom.

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Glass House. 8pm, $8. Shine, 1400 E St.

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7pm, $25. Ace Of Spades, 1417 R St.

a personal tribute to Leonard Bernstein to celebrate 100 years since his birth. 8pm, $10-$30. Mondavi Center, 1 Shields Ave. in Davis.

2018 aRT & Wine WiTH soMeTHinG MoRe: Enjoy beverages from 20 local wineries, breweries and distilleries while bidding on original art pieces. Artists are developmentally disabled adults and proceeds go directly to them. 6pm, $40-$75. El Dorado County Fair & Event Center, 100 Placerville Drive in Placerville.

Comin’ Down—Tiki Edition. With three DJs starting at 4pm and the live set at 7pm, followed by a Hawaiian shirt/island outfit contest at 8pm. 4pm, no cover. Hideaway Bar & Grill, 2565 Franklin Blvd.

Dine DoWnToWn ResTaURanT Week: See event

listing for 1/18. 4pm, $35. Various locations.

GoLD coUnTRY FaiR HeRiTaGe FoUnDaTion cRaB FeeD: A crab feed with a no-host bar, raffles

TUESDAY, 1/23

and a dessert auction. 5pm, $45. Gold Country Fairgrounds & Event Center, Placer Building in Auburn.

aUGUsT BURns ReD: With Ocean Grove, Born

of Osiris, ERRA. 6pm, $23. Ace Of Spades, 1417 R St.

kiWanis cLUB ciTRUs HeiGHTs cRaB FeeD:

THe DiRTBaLL: Hip-hop/punk artist and member of the rap group Kottonmouth Kings. 7pm, $12-$14. Holy Diver, 1517 21st St.

MiLe HiGH cLUB: With Jerry Paper. 8pm, $15.

MaD JackY: With The Beings, Lily Quintero of

Mallard. 8pm, $8. Luna’s Cafe & Juice Bar, 1414 16th St.

naM THe GiVeR: With The Seafloor Cinema,

market that features over 50 food and art vendors, monthly chef demos and free bike valet. 8am, no cover. Midtown Sacramento, 20th Street, between J & K streets.

WEDNESDAY, 1/24 JeFFReY sieGeL: American pianist performs,

Yugen, Alta Luna, Paper Skin. 6pm, $5. The Silver Orange, 922 57th St.

FESTIVALS SATURDAY, 1/20

MiLk MoneY PoP-UP: Coffee beer from Bike Dog paired with a doughnut pop-up from Milk Money. Limited amounts of coffee mugs available for $10. Milk Money will soon offer seasonal, small-batch donuts and ice creams at the Ice Blocks on R St. 9:30am, contact for cover. Bike Dog, 915 Broadway, Suite 200.

THe oLiVe oiL eXPeRience: Learn how olive oils

MaRTin LUTHeR kinG JR. JaZZ FesTiVaL: A

and vinegars are made and how they can be combined. Includes appetizers, a tasting bar with different mustard, pesto and more and a small glass of wine. 6:30pm, no cover, donations accepted. WeOlive, 713 Sutter St. in Folsom.

concert celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. features Dorothy Morrison, the Harley White Jr. Orchestra and the Grant High School Band. 7pm. $20. Grant Union High School, 1400 Grand Ave.

sacRaMenTo aFRican MaRkeTPLace: Shop from

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A crab feed, live auction, silent auction, DJ and raffle. 5pm, $55. Citrus Heights Community Center, 6300 Fountain Square Drive in Citrus Heights.

MiDToWn FaRMeR’s MaRkeT: Weekly farmer’s

Harlow’s, 2708 J St.

vendors selling natural soaps and skincare items, African-American memorabilia and books, jewelry and more. A great place to network and be sure to check out the artwork on the walls. noon, no cover. Sojourner Truth Museum, 2251 Florin Road.

listing for 1/18. 4pm, $35. Various locations.

SATURDAY, 1/20

LaVa PUPs: The Hideaway’s Sunday Mornin’

followed by a Q&A session. 7pm, $6.50-$38. Harris Center, 10 College Parkway in Folsom.

iRaTion: With The Movement, Tyrone’s Jacket.

BennY GooDMan, caRneGie HaLL anD THe conceRT THaT cHanGeD THe WoRLD: An

6:30pm, $25. Ace Of Spades, 1417 R St.

Rock, Lowglance. 6pm, $5. The Silver Orange, 922 57th St.

Hans anD THe HoT Mess: With SpaceWalker,

FRIDAY, 1/19

iRaTion: With The Movement, Tyrone’s Jacket

THe neW cRoWns: With Short Trip, Criminal

with Natalie McKeever and Simon Dvorak. 6:30pm, $8-$14. Crocker Art Museum, 216 O St. Clouds. 9pm, no cover. The Golden Bear, 2326 K St.

SUNDAY, 1/21

MONDAY, 1/22

SouthSide Park, 10 a.m., no cover

THURSDAY, 1/18 Dine DoWnToWn ResTaURanT Week: Explore top

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The 2017 march.

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onesie BaR cRaWL: The most comfortable night out comes to Sacramento. Includes a check-in party, food and drink specials and a costume contest. 4pm, $25-$30. Coin-Op Sacramento, 908 K St.

WoMen’s MaRcH aFTeR PaRTY & FUnDRaiseR: Two Rivers Cider hosts its favorite female performers, including Emma Simpson,

sacciRQUe PaRk TakeoVeR: A freestyle, skillshare jam with acro-yoga, hand balancing, flow arts, juggling, slacklining and more.

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headaches, but who knew they could also be the source of side-aching laughter? Audience members dish out their most horrifying relationship nightmares, which the improv cast uses for outrageous sketches. 8pm friday, 1/19. $10. 3101 Sunset Blvd., Suite 6A in Rocklin.

monster Jam GoLden 1 Center, variouS timeS, $15-$75

csZ sAcrAmento: ComedySportz—Improv

(The following is to be read in an aggressive announcer voice): They’re loud, they’re mean and they’re kicking up dust in a stadium near you! Monster Jam returns to Sacramento with fierce competitions between athletes in Monster Jam SpeedPhOTO COurTEsy OF FEld EnTErTainmEnT sters, ATVs and Monster Jam trucks. The whole family will love cheering as their sports AnD outDoors favorite larger-than-life trucks like Grave Digger, EarthShaker and Alien Invasion tear up the track. 500 David J Stern Walk, www.golden1center.com.

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covers centuries of African-American history. Includes interviews with people on the frontlines of school integration, former Black Panther Party members and politicians. RSVP required. 5pm, no cover. SF Johnson Foundation, 6720 Fair Oaks Blvd., Suite 103 in Carmichael.

Xochitl and Ainsley. A fundraiser for the Sacramento Women’s March cause. 6pm, no cover. Two Rivers Cider Company, 4311 Attawa Ave.

Autism-frienDly fAmily movie—finDinG Dory:

sunday, 1/21

A screening for kids with autism and/or sensory disorders, as well as those without. The lights will be slightly up, sound will be slightly down and kids can move around while watching the movie. Healthy snacks and fidget toys will be available. 10am, no cover. Arden-Dimick Library, 891 Watt Ave.

Dine Downtown restAurAnt weeK: See event

listing for 1/18. 4pm, $35. Various locations.

sAcyArD community tAp House soft openinG: The new SacYard Community Tap House hosts its soft opening with a barbecue, with brisket, spare ribs and turkey. 1pm, no cover. SacYard Community Tap House, 1725 33rd St.

wEdnEsday, 1/24 tHe GreAt rAmen sHowDown: Six chefs will be whipping up their best ramen dishes in a delicious competition. Try all the competitors’ dishes and even take place in the judgment. 6pm, $20. The Jungle Bird, 2516 J St.

BlADe runner: The 1982 Ridley Scott sci-fi starring Harrison Ford and Rutger Hauer. 7:30pm, $8-$10. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.

sunday, 1/21 feature with Blue Velvet and The Short Films of David Lynch, which include films from the first 29 years of his career. 7pm, no cover. Cafe Colonial, 3520 Stockton Blvd. holocaust survivor with haunting memories of the horror of the camps. In recognition of International Holocaust Remembrance Day (1/27), the film will open with an informative introduction. 12:30pm, no cover. Sacramento Public Library—Central, 828 I St.

Film Friday, 1/19 Dirty DAncinG: A beloved teenage film of the

THE INVENTION OF LYING: Ricky Gervais plays the first person who can lie in this film with Jonah Hill, Jennifer Garner and Tina Fey. 7pm, no cover. Reason Center, 1824 Tribute Road, Suite A.

wEdnEsday, 1/24 Alive insiDe: An award-winning film chronicles the astonishing experiences of people who have been revitalized and awakened by the simple act of listening to the music of their youth. Through fundraising efforts at the event, organizers plan to purchase Alive Inside headsets to donate to local low-income seniors. 5:30pm, no cover. Jill Solberg Performing Arts Theater, Folsom High School, 1655 Iron Point Road in Folsom.

itAliAn film—miA mADre: The third film of the Sacramento Italian Film Festival is a social dramatic film about a director whose emotional turmoil is taking her toll as she tries to stay professional. Italian with English subtitles. 8pm, no cover. Italian Center, 6821 Fair Oaks Blvd. in Carmichael.

saTurday, 1/20 tHe AfricAn AmericAns: mAny rivers to cross: The second screening of this six-

COmEdy BlAcKtop comeDy: Your F#$&! Up Relationship.

hour series by Henry Louis Gates Jr. that

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lAuGHs unlimiteD comeDy cluB: Say It Loud Comedy. Hosted by Javon Whitlock, featuring Chey Bell, Cuzin Sean, Shaun G, with headliner Nate Jackson. 8pm thursday, 1/18. $20. 1207 Front St.

puncH line: Steve Trevino. Hollywoodbased comedian and podcast host performs. through 1/20. $20. Comedy Bingo. Daniel Humbarger and Jason Bargert hosts this night of fun and prizes that’s part-comedy show, part-bingo night. through 1/24. $10. 2100 Arden Way, Suite 225.

sAcrAmento comeDy spot: Dystopian Idol Cycle 11. In Dystopian Idol, three narcissists compete for rulership of the parallel universe, Dystopia, in this improvised character showcase hosted by Jack Brown. With improvisers Josh Kinedak, Sarah Kullbom, Julie Maginnis. 10:30pm friday 1/19. $5. Anti-Cooperation League. A fast-paced improv show where the cast interviews a special guest and creates scenes inspired by the interview. With Martiza and Roshaun Davis of Unseen Heroes. 9pm saturday, 1/20. $12-$15. Lady Business: Promises, Promises. Sacramento’s only all-female improv troupe uses true stories from the cast to create a long-form improv show. This month’s theme is “promises.” 8pm saturday, 1/20. $8-$15. Nameless Numberhead. A sketch comedy duo based in Charleston, South Carolina made up of Maari Suorsa and Henry Riggs. 7pm sunday, 1/21. $10. 1050 20th St, Suite 130.

tHe reD museum: The Latest Show. See event highlight on page 35. 8pm thursday, 1/18. $10. 212 15th St.

cApitAl stAGe: The Nether. When a young detective uncovers a disturbing brand of entertainment in a virtual wonderland, she triggers an interrogation into the darkest corners of the imagination. through 2/25. $22-$45. 2215 J St.

DAvis musicAl tHeAtre compAny: Monty Python’s Spamalot. Ripped off from the comedy Monty Python and the Holy Grail, this show retells the legend of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, and features a bevy of beautiful show girls, cows, killer rabbits and French people. through 1/28. $16-$18. 607 Pena Drive, Suite 10 in Davis.

lunA’s cAfe & Juice BAr: Sac Unified Poetry Slam. Held every third Friday, this is an unpredictable show where the guests and judges aren’t named until the audience arrives. Come for spoken word, sangria and a sarcastic host. 8pm friday, 1/19. $5 to enter. 1414 16th St.

pAmelA troKAnsKi DAnce worKsHop AnD performAnce Art center: Acme Theatre Company’s The White Rose. A story about student Nazi resisters in 1942 Germany. through 1/21. $10-$12. 2720 Del Rio Place in Davis.

sAcrAmento tHeAtre: Walkin’ After Midnight. The Main Stage Lobby is transformed into a chic nightclub for an intimate performance of favorites from Americana-influenced shows. through 1/21. $30. 1419 H St.

sutter street tHeAtre: The Carsino Show. The Mafia gets in on late night show business in this musical comedy to die for. through 1/21. $15-$23. 717 Sutter St. in Folsom.

tHunDer from Down unDer: A steamy performance by chiseled Australian guys. 6:30pm. through 1/19. $34.95$49.95. 1200 Athens Ave. in Lincoln.

wAl: creativity+ storytelling: Poet Jeff Knorr and viticulturist Ann Kraemer share stories from their careers in this speakers series that generates dialogue among our creative community. 5:30pm thursday, 1/18. no cover. 1108 R St.

cory’s cult clAssics: A David Lynch double

tHe pAwnBroKer: A searing portrait of a

‘80s. 7:30pm, $8-$10. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.

Comedy. Hilarious, interactive, spontaneous comedy for all ages in a similar format to the show, Whose Line Is It, Anyway? 8pm. through 2/17. $10-$14. 2230 Arden Way, Suite B.

another, they explore what it means to live and die. through 2/18. $12-$20. 1723 25th St.

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Horrible relationships cause more than their fair share of heartaches and

On sTaGE cAliforniA stAGe tHeAter compAny: Winter’s Waltz. The world premiere of a show centered on two strangers in a game of cat and mouse after one invites the other into his apartment. As they toy with one

arT BeAtniK stuDios: Dana & Satterlee’s Intersection at Beatnik Studios. The two longtime artists and friends show individual and collaborative works. through 1/25. no cover. 723 S St.

e street GAlley: Small Works of Art. Unique and affordable pieces for your home or for a gift. through 1/28. Free. 1115 E St.

cK Art: A Sense of Place. Artwork inspired by a sense of place, including landscapes, abstracts, sculptures and conceptual art. through 1/31. no cover. 1115 E St.

GAllery 1855: Solo Exhibition of Cathie Robison. Work by the local mixed-media artist. through 1/31. no cover. Davis Cemetery District 820 Pole Line Road in Davis.

sAcrAmento fine Arts center: Animal House. The 13th edition of this exhibit of animalthemed art, will open January 3. Mediums include painting, drawing, photography and sculpture, all media was submitted. through 1/28. no cover. 5330B Gibbons Drive in Carmichael.

tHe Artery: The CHAA Collective Exhibit. Artists and art educators who are members of the Contemporary Humanitarian Artists Association display a range of work. through 1/29. 207 G St. in Davis.

verGe center for tHe Arts: SPACE AND PLACE by Black Salt Collective. An exhibit of multimedia works, including video, sound, collage, performance and painting, that highlights the culture and work of Black, brown and indigenous women. through 3/18. no cover. 625 S St.

musEums cAliforniA AutomoBile museum: Shasta Minis. On display as part of the Car Club Cavalcade. through 2/4. 2200 Front St.

cAliforniA museum: Beauty and the Beast: California Wildflowers and Climate Change. Images by San Francisco Bay Area-based photographers Rob Badger and Nita Winter reveal the effects of climate change on a universal symbol of beauty: the wildflower. through 1/28. $9. 1020 O St.

cAliforniA stAte ArcHives: California Memoirs: The William M. McCarthy Photograph Collection. A selection of images from the William M. McCarthy photograph collection. William and Grace McCarthy shared a passion for photography and travel for years, resulting in nearly 3,000 photos that document their early-20th century travels. through 1/30. no cover. California State Archives Speaker Series with Lynn Downey—Levi Strauss: The Man Who Gave Blue Jeans to the World: Historian Lynn Downey sets the record straight about the mysterious businessman who created

Thursday, 1/18

Be Gay for a Day St. John’S Lutheran ChurCh, 7 p.m., no Cover

Ever want to get on stage and use your voice to belt out with the best of them? Be Gay for a Day is your chance, as the Sacramento Gay Men’s AuDitions Chorus opens up auditions to everyone—including gay, bisexual, pansexual, transgender and heterosexual singers. Established in 1984, the group uplifts the human spirit through song and celebrates diversity. Join their family! 1701 L Street, www. sacgaymenschorus.org.

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THURSDAY, 1/18

The Latest Show the red MuSeuM, 8 p.M., $10

If you haven’t attended a live “episode” of The Latest Show, which comedians Shahera Hyatt and Michael Cella launched last year, well, where have you been? COMEDY Get up to speed with this late night-style talk show that highlights Sacramento’s hottest topics and talents. In the first 2018 show, guests will include punk historian William Burg, comedy by Saul Trujillo and musician Sea of Bees. 212 15th Street, www.facebook.com/thelatestshow.

SACTRU SURVEY SWARM: A final push to talk

CALIFORNIA STATE RAILROAD MUSEUM: Off The Clock. An exhibit focused on the sports, clubs, teams and competitions that Southern Pacific participated in to pass the time. Through 6/1. $10-$15. 111 I St.

MAIDU MUSEUM & HISTORIC SITE: Night Out at the Museum. Meet the artists during the closing reception for the VOICE exhibit, which highlights the work of indigenous women artists. Original art will be available. 6:30pm Saturday, 1/20. No cover. 1970 Johnson Ranch Drive in Roseville.

UC DAVIS DESIGN MUSEUM, CRUESS HALL: It’s Bugged: Insects’ Role in Design. An exploration of the creative relationship between people and insects through this vibrant art and design installation. Through 4/20. No cover. 1 Shields Ave. in Davis.

ALL AGES THURSDAY, 1/18 ART SPOTS WINGDING: A three-dimensional art experience designed for young children to learn about the basic elements of art through play, experimentation and creative collaboration. 10am, no cover-$10. Crocker Art Museum, 216 O St.

STORYTIME: A time for babies, toddlers, preschoolers and their caregivers to talk, sing, read, write and play to build early literacy skills. A play-time with age-appropriate educational toys follows the program. 2pm, no cover. North Sacramento-Hagginwood Library, 2109 Del Paso Blvd.

SATURDAY, 1/20

SUNDAY, 1/21 JUSTIN RIVERA ALL-AGES FAMILY SHOW: A former contestant on America’s Got Talent, he’s known as the comedian’s magician. 1pm, $5. Laughs Unlimited Comedy Club, 1207 Front St.

ROLLER DERBY JUNIOR REC: Kids ages 8 through 17 can learn the basics of derby in this eight-week course. 1pm, $10 per class. Sacramento Roller Derby Warehouse, 1501 North C St.

MONDAY, 1/22 LITTLE PEEPS AT THE SACRAMENTO ZOO: The Little Peeps classes are for children age 3 to 5 and their caregivers, with a mini-lesson, craft, stories and other activities. 9:30am,

SOLDERING FOR JEWELRY: Learn beginner-level soldering techniques like fusing. 6pm, contact for cost. Hacker Lab, 1715 I St.

DECOLONIZATION PROJECT Y^5 PROJECT: The

$30-$35. Sacramento Zoo, 3930 W Land Park Dr.

SPORTS & OUTDOORS FRIDAY, 1/19 MONSTER JAM: See event highlight on page 34. 7pm, $15-$75. Golden 1 Center, 500 David J

Stern Walk.

YOGA AND SOCIAL JUSTICE RACE AND ETHNICITY: A monthly meeting to discuss social justice as it relates to yoga, mindful living and nonviolence! 6pm, no cover. The Yoga Seed, 1400 E St.

SATURDAY, 1/20 BIRD WALK AT AMERICAN RIVER RANCH: A walk around American River Ranch to see a variety of resident birds along with winter and migrant birds. Led by naturalist Cliff Hawley, Naturalist. 8am, $8. Soil Born Farms American River Ranch, 2140 Chase Drive in Rancho Cordova.

CRONAN RANCH HIKE: Hike a 5- to 7-mile loop of the Cronan Ranch trails with American River Conservancy hike leader Amy Brinkley. Hike has great views of the river and the rolling prairie. 8:30am, $8-$10. American River Conservancy, 348 State Highway 49 in Coloma.

MONSTER JAM: See event highlight on page 34. 7pm, $15-$75. Golden 1 Center, 500 David J

Stern Walk.

MONDAY, 1/22

Library, Archives, and Cultural Exchange (LLACE), 1414 21st St.

SUNDAY, 1/21 QUEER CRAFTERNOON: An opportunity for creating and making in a queer-affirming space. Share projects, skills, and techniques with like-minded artists and crafters. 2pm, donations accepted. Lavender Library, Archives, and Cultural Exchange (LLACE), 1414 21st St.

TAKE ACTION THURSDAY, 1/18 THE CONVERSATION: The Conversation is a new public event series with professors and intellectuals considering issues of the day in an open format. The first installment reflects on monuments removed from Charlottesville and New Orleans, and wider debates about history and identity. 6:30pm, no cover. 24th Street Theater, Sierra 2 Center, 2791 24th St.

FEM DEMS WOMEN’S MARCH SIGN MAKING PARTY: Make signs in preparation for the

1/20 Women’s March. 5:30pm, no cover. Big Stump Brewing Company, 1716 L St.

SATURDAY, 1/20 DSA GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING: A membership meeting of the Democratic Socialists of America. Donations of warm survival gear including socks, blankets and jackets will be accepted. 3:30pm, no cover. South Natomas Library, 2901 Truxel Road.

SARAMENTO ROLLER DERBY REC LEAGUE: An eight-week session for beginners to learn the basics of roller derby. 6pm, $10 per week. Sacramento Roller Derby Warehouse, 1501 North C St.

HANDS ON HISTORY: A gold rush-themed event that shows how the gold rush changed Sutter’s Fort. Includes gold panning, an experience of the gold rush economy and history. 10am, no cover-$7. Sutter’s Fort State Historic Park, 2701 L St.

job coach who can help you with your resume, job-searching techniques, interview skills and more. Reservation required. 4pm, no cover. Sacramento Public Library, 6700 Auburn Blvd. in Citrus Heights.

SUNDAY, 1/21 PHOTO COURTESY OF JOHNNY HERMISON

an American symbol: the bluejeans. 5pm Thursday, 1/18. No cover. 1020 O Street, Fourth Floor.

JOB COACH: Meet one-on-one with a trained

to public transit riders in Sacramento to distribute the last batch of rider surveys. 9am, no cover. Organize Sacramento, 1714 Broadway.

LGBTQ THURSDAY, 1/18 BE GAY FOR A DAY: See event highlight on page 34. 7pm, no cover. Sacramento Gay Men’s Chorus, 1701 L St.

SATURDAY, 1/20 POC+QUEER POP UP MARKET: A market and movie hangout, with screenings of Milk and How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It). Vendors with tarot readings, arts, clothing and more. 1pm, contact for cover. Sol Collective, 2574 21st St.

QUEER CLOTHING SWAP: Bring clothes and accessories that are in good, clean condition for a swap. Clothing is free, coffee and tote bags available through sliding donation. Leftover clothing will be donated to WEAVE, Inc. 2pm, no cover. Lavender

Y^5 Project will utilize traditional Mexica song, dance, and art to empower youth to build self-reliance relative to their own truth. 3pm, no cover. The Washington Neighborhood Center, 400 16th St.

FRIDAY, 1/19 CARD-MAKING WORKSHOP: Create different

MONDAY, 1/22 ROE V. WADE ANNIVERSARY EVENT: Celebrate the 45th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision recognizing the constitutional protection for a woman to have an abortion. Sign-up with your local Planned Parenthood action fund affiliate. 11:30am, no cover. California State Capitol, 1315 10th St.

cards, one with a Valentine’s Day theme. Bring scissors and adhesive, all other materials are provided. 6pm, $10. Raley’s Event Center (in store), 1915 Douglas Blvd. in Roseville.

POUR OVER ACRYLIC PAINT CLASS: Learn to paint without a brush and create two original pieces using this technique. 6:30pm, $55$70. Verge Center for the Arts, 625 S St.

SATURDAY, 1/20

SACTENANTS BIMONTHLY MEETING: Organize around issues including homelessness, rent control, gentrification and more. 6pm, no cover. Organize Sacramento, 1714 Broadway.

BITE-SIZED—EASY APPETIZERS FOR ENTERTAINING: Learn to make delicious, vegetable-forward small bites and appetizers for your next potluck or tailgate party. Come ready to eat and play with your food. 2pm, no cover. Arden-Dimick Library, 891 Watt Ave.

WEDNESDAY, 1/24 BICYCLE MASTER PLAN & VISION ZERO WORKSHOPS: View the draft plans for

CARD-MAKING WORKSHOP: See event listing for

Vision Zero and the Bicycle Master Plan and provide your feedback. 5:30pm, no cover. Pannell Community Center, 2450 Meadowview Road.

1/19. 6pm, $10. Raley’s Event Center (in store), 1915 Douglas Blvd. in Roseville.

CUSTOM BOTTLE STOPPER TURNING: Students will use a lathe to create a custom bottle topper of their choice. Participants should bring safety glasses. 1pm, $35. Rockler Woodworking and Hardware, 6648 Lonetree Blvd. in Rocklin.

SACRAMENTO HANDMAIDS INTEREST MEETING: Learn about the Handmaid Coalition and how to get involved in bringing visibility to regressive policies toward women and minorities. 6pm, no cover. Old Soul at the Weatherstone, 812 21st St.

MIXED MEDIA COLLAGE WITH FOUND OBJECTS: Mix fabric, paper and acrylic paint with techniques that will produce attractive pieces that are built to last. 10am, $95. University Art, 2601 J St.

CLASSES

TAYLOR’S MARKET BUTCHERING 101: A class

THURSDAY, 1/18

covering seafood, poultry and knife skills. A light lunch will be served. 10am, $40. Taylor’s Kitchen, 2924 Freeport Blvd.

FINANCIAL LITERACY SERIES—BUILD A BASIC BUDGET: Design a financial blueprint to control your monthly spending. Set realistic goals, identify spending leaks and stay motivated. 6pm, no cover. Mary L Stephens Davis Branch Library, 315 E. 14th St. in Davis.

THURSDAY, 1/18

Wayne Thiebaud | 1958–1968 Manetti ShreM MuSeuM of art, 11aM/noon, no cover

Stop calling him a pop artist, a’right! Painter Wayne Thiebaud is a Sacramento treasure, and the 97-year-old rose to prominence alongside the Andy Warhols and Roy Lichtensteins without identifying as a pop artist. He rejected the Abstract Expressionism of the midcentury for ART something sweeter: realistically painted confections seen through the pastel glow of memory. Admire his early, formative works on the campus where he’s spent the PHOTO COURTESY OF THE MANETTI SHREM MUSEUM OF ART majority of his career. Look closely, and you’ll notice that his cakes and pies have shadows that “vibrate,” as Thiebaud puts it, with competing colors. This exhibit is on display through May 13, with an opening reception at 5pm 1/18. 254 Old Davis Road in Davis, manettishremmuseum.ucdavis.edu.

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The acousTic den cafe

10271 Fairway driVE, rosEVillE, (916) 412-8739

Badlands

2003 k st., (916) 441-6823

thUrsday 1/18

Friday 1/19

satUrday 1/20

sUnday 1/21

Monday-wEdnEsday 1/22-1/24

Songwriters in the Round, 7pm, no cover

Debbie Wolfe & Halfmoon Highway, 7pm, no cover

The Old West Trio, 7pm, $15

Terry & Harold, 1:30pm, no cover

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

PopRockz Presents: Janet v. Whitney, 10pm, no cover

Fridays Are a Drag 8-Year Anniversary Show, 8pm, call for cover

#ManCandy, 10pm, call for cover

Sunday Beer Bust, 4pm, no cover

Half-Off Mondays, 8pm, M, no cover; Trapacana, 10pm, W, no cover

Banjo Bones, 9:30pm, no cover

Curtis T, 9:30pm, no cover

BaR 101

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

Blue lamp

1400 alhaMbra blVd., (916) 455-3400

Lil Slugg, 9pm, $15-$17

The BoaRdwalk

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

The cenTeR foR The aRTs

Nugget Fringe Festival, 2pm, $3

Green Leaf Rustlers, 8:30pm, $27

faces

Dragon with Vickie Vo, 10pm, $10

Absolut Fridays, 9pm, no cover

Decades, 7pm, call for cover

Sunday Funday, 3pm, call for cover

faTheR paddY’s iRish puBlic house

Groove Line, 7pm, no cover

Smokehouse Reunion, 7pm, no cover

fox & Goose

The Mindful, Deacon Free, 9pm, $5

The Brangs, Jem & Scout, 9pm, $5

Monster Jam, 7pm, $20-$75

Monster Jam, 1pm, $20-$70

8 Track Massaacre, 9pm, $5

The Cheeseballs, 9pm, $10

The Dustbowl Revival, 8pm, $15-$18

The Flesheaters, 8pm, $30-$35

Golden 1 cenTeR

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

Monster Jam, 7pm, $15-$65

halfTime BaR & GRill

5681 lonEtrEE blVd., rocklin, (916) 626-3600

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As the industry grows, Wall Street tries to market cannabis-themed opportunities for investment.

Wall Street’S GroWinG intereSt Big investors find ways to engage the cannabis industry by Ken Magri

hile recreational cannabis users join the party in California and next door in Nevada, Wall Street investors are increasing their opportunities to jump in. Motivated by a desire for profits more than changing politics, their interest reflects a willingness to leave value judgements aside when considering investment strategies. Several new cannabis-themed Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) bundle together the stocks of federally compliant cannabis companies with alcohol, tobacco, fertilizer and pharmaceutical companies. Solactive, MJIC and New Cannabis Ventures are among Wall Street institutions whose ETFs juggle different percentages of such core stocks. AdvisorShares Investments sells a “Vice ETF” (ticker symbol: ACT), that includes Canadian cannabis growers and U.S. firms like Anheuser Busch and Phillip-Morris. “There was some debate,” said Chief Operating Officer Dan Ahrens, about using “vice” to describe a cannabis ETF. But Ahrens explained that the word is understood by investors to involve highly regulated industries. “There is a large social surge of people who want legalization,” said Ahrens. “We think in the future there is going to be a great deal of overlap between these companies.” When Constellation Brands, a beer distributor, bought 9.9 percent of Canopy Growth, a Canadian cannabis grower, some wondered if marijuana-booze was on the horizon.

Probably not, according to Jim Watson, Senior Beverages Analyst at Rabobank.

There was some debate about using the word “vice” to describe a cannabis-themed Exchange Traded Fund. Watson cited the Four Loko brand of caffeine-infused alcohol drinks as the reason. Nicknamed “blackout in a can,” the Food and Drug Administration forced a reformulation of Four Loko’s recipe in 2010, because added caffeine dangerously masked the effects of alcohol. Inversely, researchers fear that THC could amplify alcohol’s effects. But Watson said Constellation Brands’ interest in Canopy Growth is more about “the distribution logistics possibilities” and building relationships with the emerging cannabis industry. Will this turn into a battle of big versus small companies? “A lot depends on what happens to it federally,” said Ahrens. If the nation legalizes cannabis, Ahrens predicted that, “absolutely,” major tobacco companies would get involved. Produced by N&R Publications, a division of News & Review.

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FOR THE WEEk OF JANUARY 18, 2018 ARIES (March 21-April 19): Many American

women did not have the right to vote until August 18, 1920. On that day, the Tennessee General Assembly became the 36th state legislature to approve the Nineteenth Amendment, thus sealing the legal requirements to change the U.S. Constitution and ensure women’s suffrage. The ballot in Tennessee was close. At the last minute, 24-year-old legislator Harry T. Burns changed his mind from no to yes, thanks to a letter from his mother, who asked him to “be a good boy” and vote in favor. I suspect that in the coming weeks, Aries, you will be in a pivotal position not unlike Burns’. Your decision could affect more people than you know. Be a good boy or good girl.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In the coming

weeks, destiny will be calling you and calling you and calling you, inviting you to answer its summons. If you do indeed answer, it will provide you with clear instructions about what you will need to do expedite your ass in the direction of the future. If on the other hand you refuse to listen to destiny’s call, or hear it and refuse to respond, then destiny will take a different tack. It won’t provide any instructions, but will simply yank your ass in the direction of the future.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Looks like the Season of a Thousand and One Emotions hasn’t drained and frazzled you. Yes, there may be a pool of tears next to your bed. Your altar might be filled with heaps of ashes, marking your burnt offerings. But you have somehow managed to extract a host of useful lessons from your tests and trials. You have surprised yourself with the resilience and resourcefulness you’ve been able to summon. And so the energy you’ve gained through these gritty triumphs is well worth the price you’ve had to pay.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Every relationship is

unique. The way you connect with another person—whether it’s through friendship, romance, family, or collaborative projects—should be free to find the distinctive identity that best suits its special chemistry. Therefore, it’s a mistake to compare any of your alliances to some supposedly perfect ideal. Luckily, you’re in an astrological period when you have extra savvy about cultivating unique models of togetherness. So I recommend that you devote the coming weeks to deepening and refining your most important bonds.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): During recent weeks, your

main tasks have centered around themes often associated with strain and struggle: repair, workaround, reassessment, jury-rigging, adjustment, compromise. Amazingly, Leo, you have kept your suffering to a minimum as you have smartly done your hard work. In some cases you have even thrived. Congratulations on being so industrious and steadfast! Beginning soon, you will glide into a smoother stage of your cycle. Be alert for the inviting signs. Don’t assume you’ve got to keep grunting and grinding.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Norwegian artist

Edvard Munch (1863-1944) created four versions of his iconic artwork The Scream. Each depicts a person who seems terribly upset, holding his head in his hands and opening his mouth wide as if unleashing a loud shriek. In 2012, one of these images of despair was sold for almost $120 million. The money went to the son of a man who had been Munch’s friend and patron. Can you think of a way that you and yours might also be able to extract value or get benefits from a negative emotion or a difficult experience? The coming weeks will be a favorable time to do just that.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): When he was 24

years old, Scorpio-born Zhu Yuanzhang (13281398) was a novice monk with little money who had just learned to read and write. He had spent years as a wandering beggar. By the time he was 40 years old, he was the emperor of China and founder of the Ming Dynasty, which ruled for 276 years. What happened in between? That’s a long story. Zhu’s adventurousness was a key asset, and so was his ability as an audacious and crafty tactician. His masterful devotion to detailed practical matters was also indispensable. If you are ever in your life going to begin an ascent even remotely comparable to Zhu’s, Scorpio, it will be in the coming ten months. Being brave and enterprising won’t be enough. You must be disciplined and dogged, as well.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In 1892, the

influential Atlantic Monthly magazine criticized Sagittarian poet Emily Dickinson, saying she “possessed an extremely unconventional and grotesque fancy.” It dismissed her poetry as incoherent, and declared that an “eccentric, dreamy, half-educated recluse” like her “cannot with impunity set at defiance the laws of gravitation and grammar.” This dire diss turned out to be laughably wrong. Dickinson is now regarded as one of the most original American poets. I offer this story up as a pep talk for you, Sagittarius. In the coming months, I suspect you’ll be reinventing yourself. You’ll be researching new approaches to living your life. In the course of these experiments, others may see you as being in the grip of unconventional or grotesque fantasy. They may consider you dreamy and eccentric. I hope you won’t allow their misunderstandings to interfere with your playful yet serious work.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Bubble gum is

more elastic and less sticky than regular chewing gum. That’s why you can blow bubbles with it. A Capricorn accountant named Walter Diemer invented it in 1928 while working for the Fleer Chewing Gum Company. At the time he finally perfected the recipe, the only food dye he had on hand was pink. His early batches were all that color, and a tradition was born. That’s why even today, most bubble gum is pink. I suspect a similar theme may unfold soon in your life. The conditions present at the beginning of a new project may deeply imprint the future evolution of the project. So try to make sure those are conditions you like!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “When one

door closes, another opens,” said inventor Alexander Graham Bell. “But we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened.” Heed his advice, Aquarius. Take the time you need to mourn the lost opportunity. But don’t take MORE than the time you need. The replacement or alternative to what’s gone will show up sooner than you think.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Gilbert Stuart

painted the most famous portrait of America’s first president, George Washington. It’s the image on the U.S. one-dollar bill. And yet Stuart never finished the masterpiece. Begun in 1796, it was still a work-in-progress when Stuart died in 1828. Leonardo da Vinci had a similar type of success. His incomplete painting The Virgin and Child with St. Anne hangs in the Louvre in Paris, and his unfinished The Adoration of the Magi has been in Florence’s Uffizi Gallery since 1671. I propose that Stuart and da Vinci serve as your role models in the coming weeks. Maybe it’s not merely OK if a certain project of yours remains unfinished; maybe that’s actually the preferred outcome.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “I think I like my brain

best in a bar fight with my heart,” says poet Clementine von Radics. While I appreciate that perspective, I advise you to do the opposite in the coming weeks. This will be a phase of your astrological cycle when you should definitely support your heart over your brain in bar fights, wrestling matches, shadow boxing contests, tugs of war, battles of wits, and messy arguments. Here’s one of the most important reasons why I say this: Your brain would be inclined to keep the conflict going until one party or the other suffers ignominious defeat, whereas your heart is much more likely to work toward a win-win conclusion.

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

Coon the Poet and warrior Inside of me I’m hearing my pulse; this ain’t a joke, and every time my heart beat blood came out of my throat. I thought that was all she wrote but I guess she kept writing.

Coon the Poet was born Chris Coon, and strongly prefers to be known by his last name—to own that name and drain it of any insult. Born and raised in South Sacramento, he was a pretty passionate Valley High theatre and English student, as well as a budding poet and rapper when, at 15, he was hunted down and shot three times in what was likely a case of mistaken identity. As Coon tells it, he faced the certainty that he would die. When he realized he was alive, he says, he was filled with “an overwhelming feeling of love and gratefulness.” Since then he has worked with various youth organizations and recently founded Coon the Poet, LLC. His mission: “Inspiring, educating and opening minds through poetry and spoken word.”

You’ve talked about your journey and your mission. How did it begin? In 2013, I turned 25, and that year I made a decision that I was going to finally follow my dream: to leave the city and go travel and experience the art scene and the poetry scene elsewhere. I was let go as a recovery specialist working with the juvenile drug court program, the STARS program. They let me go, and I went out to the river. I spent seven hours out by the river, and I just sat there. And when they let me go, they really gave me the greenlight. So I geared up, I had a lot of shows, I met a lot of dope individuals. I was voted Best Male Spoken Word Artist in the Sounds of Soul Music Awards, and I looked out into the crowd—I didn’t think I was the best at anything. But I knew I had a mission.

You described moving around a lot when you were young. What was that about? My mother didn’t own a house ’til I was 13, so it was just moving from apartment to apartment, from rental to rental. My parents were young when they met and married, so there was a struggle finding that stability. Honestly, I couldn’t imagine how to do that, with children, myself personally. My mother is a phenomenal woman, strongest woman that I’ve ever seen in my life.

So, what inspired you? Were you reading poetry, listening to spoken

Coon the Poet at the Queen Sheba restaurant on Broadway, where he frequently performs at the Wednesday night Mahogany Urban Poetry Series. PHOTO BY SERENE LUSANO

word, going to shows? For me, 7 years old, my father, who left home when I was 3, came back when I was 7. And he came back with a notebook of all the rhymes that he was writing. My pops is the one that introduced me to writing rhymes. That was our way of connecting, ’cause of course our relationship was estranged. I used to steal his book, keep his book and rap his rhymes over and over until I then started adding to them. And then I started writing my own. The thing was, I had always been a storyteller, even before I knew how to use a pencil. And that was with my toys, my action figures. I’d grab a Power Ranger, a Michelangelo Ninja Turtle, and I’d make them brothers, and I’d create a storyline. So I’ve always been an imaginative thinker and a creative kid, and it just turned into words as I grew.

Talk about your first outfit, the E-Legal Tag Team, and Coon and Trouble. As I look back I’m like, yo there was nothin’ like that, because it came organically. We pulled from different things that inspired us, such as wrestling. We were WWF kids. And so we would tag each other in as we were performing. But that came from, honestly, us hanging out all over Sacramento. Once I hit a certain age, we started taking the bus and the light rail, going from South Sac to North Sac, to the mall…

ladies.” “Hey, tag me in.” It was that kinda organic, playful feel. And honestly, we just brought that to the stage, that same interaction. By 2011, we’d been running for six or seven years. As time went, we grew apart— I’m not gonna say “departed” because me and Trouble are brothers for life. But for me, I had made a decision at a young age: This is what I’m gonna do. We were part of a group, E-Legal. And we were telling our stories. And we were young. And I was fresh coming out of the hospital. Just recovering from being shot three times. So that was my therapy, that was my family. And I made a decision that I was going to tell my story, and I was going to go all the way in with this.

Tell me about your book. It should be finished in a few weeks to a month. It’s entitled A Warriors Journey (A Poetic Documentation). The preface of the book is a short anecdote, and it’s going to be the story, in detail, of my being shot. Everything that happened on that day, ending in the hospital. The next chapter will be “A Warrior’s Battles and Travels,” about everything that I battled through after I made the decision that I am going to do something different. From the court level to the retaliation level, I decided that I just wanted it to end. And from that decision, that’s what placed me on a path to become who I am right now. That’s why I’m sitting in front of you as this man. Ω

Performing? Hanging out—and meeting girls! So, like “Coon, see them? You start, I’ll finish.” So it was like, tag team. So, “Hey, what’s goin’ on

Watch and hear Coon the Poet’s video, “Anniversary,” on YouTube. Find him on Facebook @COONTHEPOET and @ChrisCoon.

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