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“With the big homeless explosion, i’ll find clothes on the street.”

ASked on the corner of k And 22nd StreetS:

Where do your clothes come from?

“Sprocket” artist

Most of my clothes I get from a thrift store, because I think it’s better to reuse clothes instead of them all going into a burn pile. But I think it’s important overall to support somebody who put their hard work and energy into something they’re making for someone, like an artist.

dAynA r Amel high school teacher

I don’t really care. I don’t know where they come from. ... If I think it’s cute, or it attracts me, I’ll wear it.

Maybe it would take a lot of resources to make a certain item, and people just aren’t aware of how difficult it is to get, so that’s why they might care. But for me, if I like it, I’ll wear it.

pAtrick imel musician

I usually go over to Stockton and 47th Avenue, there’s a Goodwill outlet where they sell clothes by the pound ... Actually, with the big homeless explosion, I’ll find clothes on the street that they left behind. Occasionally, I’ll find a shirt, and once I found pants. But you got to be kind of brave with those ones.

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Do I know where my clothes come from? Expensive and black. That’s all I care about. Expensive and black. I mostly shop online.

Internationally, for sure.

Inspired by David Bowie.

Him as a person more than his brand. Yeah, androgyny.

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No, I don’t really know where my clothes come from, but I don’t really care, either. I mean, I just wear clothes. I feel like there are a lot bigger problems in the world you could care about.

The problem I’m focused on is my math test on Friday ...

People not having homes is more important to me.

“Squirrel” farmer

I do care about where my clothes come from, to a certain extent, but that doesn’t mean I do anything about it. I’m poor. I buy clothes cheap. I don’t really want to know it’s made in Taiwan.

What are we going to do about it? It’s kind of the way things are right now.

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Re “High-stakes standoff” by Bob Speer (Feature, February 19, 2004): Mooretown Rancheria has never taken care of its tribe. It has disenrolled people and lowered their status so they cannot [receive] per capita payments—we receive nothing. Once a year, we get a $50 Walmart gift certificate. I’ve been a member since before any casino—now they have a casino, gas station, smoke shops, RV shops and are working on a second casino. And they’re worried about taxes—they have stolen our identity, eliminating us from the tribe, creating genocide, to where our people will be wiped off and forgotten while the conquerors reap the rewards of the land under a front claiming to be indigenous. One forgotten native feeling like Ishi.

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White blindness Your quote [in the Sacramento Bee article regarding the BLM protest of the SAMMIES]: “I never would have thought we’d have gotten this reaction,” [publisher Jeff vonKaenel said].

Sir, can’t you see/understand, based on your quote— this is exactly the problem?

Your newsroom’s lack of black voices—not only writers and contributors, but editors and mentors, is one reason “you never would have thought ...”

That is the very definition of white male privilege.

You didn’t and don’t have to because you’ve never had to consider because you simply cannot. You are not a black man, woman or child and thus you do not have the experiences in this country, community, city of our lived experiences that so clearly enabled us to see your paper’s article and immediately know what was wrong.

That you have no one in your newsroom who could have told you that is further, and longstanding, indictments against what on first glance appear to be a progressive publication but when one looks deeper… it’s white male dominated and thus limited in so many race/gender issues.

The SAMMIES boycott and the word on the street should tell you something. It appears your stubbornness is preventing you

from listening. The community is upset because so many root for you all and for you to just so clearly drop the ball and paint a killer like you did. There are not always “two sides.”

There’s a lot of listening and learning that needs to take place in that office. I hope you start soon.

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Anger addicts Re “Help us diversify’ by Eric Johnson (Editor’s Note, January 18): At what point does apologizing for something as inane as tagging a person in a Facebook post become enabling victim mentality? Activists who take offense to such minutiae can no longer differentiate between actual injustices and perceived sleights to their own fragile egos. They are addicted to the feeling of selfrighteous outrage, undermining their movement and revealing themselves to be of weak moral fiber—as thin skinned as the president they love to loathe. nathan Muniz S a c ra m e nt o

Rethink immigration and gentrification Re “Happy New Year—you’re evicted!” by Scott Thomas Anderson (Feature, January 11):

The SN&R advocates reckless immigration policies and then wonders why the area is overcrowded. The SN&R demonizes gentrification, but fails to mention that it is what is causing construction of new units in now desirable and formerly undesirable areas.

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Some tenants deserve eviction Re “Happy New Year—you’re evicted” by Scott Thomas Anderson (Feature, January 4): It appears that SN&R had no way to differentiate between evictions for no payment of rent and evictions for profit. [Tenants Together Executive Director] Dean Preston is obviously a hack if he is suggesting that a vast majority of renters are being evicted due to a landlord wanting to raise the rent. I had the fabulous experience of spending five months trying to evict two tenants. The police knew my house very well from visiting every week. They destroyed the house/carpets. And after the “judge” gave them another month to stay in the house, they managed to break every inside door. The bedroom was used as a dog breeding room. Metal weights were stuck to the carpet by piss and rust. Poor renters.

Each and every rule about evictions benefits the tenants. No, sirs, the vast majority of evictions

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are because tenants stop paying the rent or break other rules in the rental contract. Oh yeah, and rent control is really going to help the rental market. It will help property owners to stop renting and get out of the market. It will kill property values in Sacramento if people are trying to dump rental property.

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Gambling commission cheating?

Re “Towering doubts” by Scott Thomas Anderson (News, January 18): There appears to be no legal reason whatsoever for the commission to deny this license.

It’s simply based on personal opinion and not the law. It seems the commission has overstepped its bounds. It’s also been suggested that Commissioner Evans has a political agenda as a hardline Democrat and is opposed to approving Mr. Ayers’ license for the cardroom because of his Republican affiliation. The commission should carefully review the laws, specifically “Ineligibility for Licensing,” which they recently approved.

Nothing that Mr. Ayers has done falls into any category of the law.

It’s like disapproving someone because they don’t like their Facebook page. Cardrooms that have committed multiple felonies are still in business and yet this

honest businessman is being held up from establishing a legitimate business in Sacramento. Nothing the Elks Towers or its future owners have done is wrong as it applies to license denial.

MitChell GoldStein

Trump and antiabortion terrorists A week ago, Donald Trump was playing to the white racists in the Republican Party; Saturday he was playing to the anti-abortion activists in the GOP. Doesn’t Donald know the anti-abortion religious right is the largest domestic terrorist group in America? Forget the white supremacists. These anti-abortionists hidden in the Republican Party have committed over 60,000 offenses against clinics and Planned Parenthood; have firebombed over 400 clinics; have killed 18 doctors and staff members; have harassed and stalked doctors, staff and supporters nonstop for two decades.

Donald Trump and VP Mike Pence’s priorities are sadly misplaced as they play to these Republican anti-abortion extremists, or should I say homegrown terrorists? And Donald, what happened to your promise to be president for all Americans?

You’re playing to a small sliver of society. ron lowe ne v a d a City

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Three years after parting ways under tense circumstances, a father and son rekindle their relationship outside a shack where the father currently resides.

Photo by luis gael jimenez

My homeless dad A young writer reconnects with his homeless father after three years

by LuIs GaeL JImenez

I could feel the beginnings of a sunburn prick my arms and the back of my neck as the July sun stared down at us. Sweat skimmed my face and my legs began to ache. My body was telling me to stop, a version of this story but I couldn’t. As always, I was trying to originally appeared in the catch up to my dad. american River Review.

My father was gliding ahead ever so gracefully. He had mastered the trails that weaved around Discovery Park. He veered off road and guided us down a dirt path that ran along the Sacramento River. My dad pointed out the foot trails that hid in the shrubbery. I could see where the grass had been flattened by the weight of someone’s body.

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“This is where they sleep,” he yelled over his shoulder, not bothering to slow down. “They call it ‘the Island.’”

I wondered where my father slept.

If it wasn’t for the way my dad was dressed, someone might assume we were just an ordinary father and son out for a weekend bike ride. Upon closer inspection, that mirage would dissolve. His pants were camouflaged by green and brown paint. I could smell old sweat peeling off his unwashed shirt. Disheveled hair sat under a flat cap. Gray and black whiskers fought for control around his mouth. His once white teeth were now shades of yellow

and brown. It had been three years since we’d last seen each other. The eccentric bohemian artist who raised me for 18 years was no more.

My father was homeless.

This wasn’t how I remembered him.

The man I affectionately called “Papito” had always been the cool dad. When I was younger, my friends wanted to sleep over because there were no rules at Casa de Jimenez.

In fact, there didn’t seem to be rules anywhere my dad went. I can’t tell you how many times I witnessed my father tell an authority figure to suck him off in the way only a man fluent

in two languages can get away with.

Or the times he raced the family car down Discovery Highway at 110 mph with 12-year-old me sitting shotgun, praying in a native tongue I thought I’d forgotten.

Eventually, that rebelliousness gave way to something else. Violence became part of the daily routine. A serious foot injury forced him into the hospital, where his paranoia and verbal abuse worsened. Eventually, I decided it was too much. I convinced my mom that he could no longer live with us. I was the one who locked the door on him. I was the one who called the police the night he tried breaking back into the house.

His house.

I was the one.

We rode on, passing tree after tree, until we came upon a section of forest that enveloped the trails around us. I could see the charred remains of an extinguished fire. The dried-out husks that used to be tall, verdant trees looked out of place amid the still living thicket that

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another leaK composed the background. The bicycle my father rode didn’t have brakes so he gently glided off the paved road and onto the mounds of earth and grass that bordered the trail. His tires kicked up the bone-dry dirt.

“How are you feeling son? You tired yet?”

“No, I’m still good to go,” I said, as I slung the weight of my body over the handlebars.

“Good, there’s a spot over here where you can really see the whole river, but it’s going to go off the trail. Do you think you’re ready for it?”

“Yeah, yeah, I’m good. Just lead the way,” I gasped.

“You hot yet?” he chuckled. He knew the answer.

“Yeah, but I’ll be fine.”

His hand disappeared into his battered backpack. I wondered how many times he used that rucksack as a pillow. I began to feel the guilt weasel into my mind. My dad interrupted it. He presented a hat, beige and worn with the word “WOOF” across the front. I was never really one for hats, and this one smelled like it had been collecting sweat for months. I placed it on my head and felt the immediate relief of shade.

The 56-year-old diabetic alcoholic then reached back into his bag, pulled out a carton of Fortuna and sparked up a cigarette. The smoke had barely hit my nose before he took off pedaling. “Well, let’s go,” I heard him shout as he put distance between us.

How the hell is he still healthier than me? I thought.

My father had always been an athletic specimen. He was a semi-professional soccer player in his youth. Later in his life, he became a carpenter, lifting entire entertainment centers into the back of his truck without any help. Well, without my help anyway.

After about 10 minutes, we came to a parking lot filled with families. I glanced at all the smiling people unloading their minivans and SUVs. They had come here to escape. I envied them. They barely noticed us.

The Sacramento skyline cut a jagged scar across the horizon. The American and Sacramento rivers met in one beautiful mass. My father stood tall, completing the scene. From this angle you couldn’t see the dirt on his clothes, or the rotting teeth in his mouth. For the first time in three years, I just saw my father.

The moment was short-lived.

I began to notice some of the junk We still had ground to cover and the that dotted the trail around us. Clothes, sun was sinking. The sky had taken on empty aluminum cans, scraps of paper. hues of orange and purple. The heat that caused me so much agony at the beginning I watched my father rummage through it. It wasn’t long before he noticed a of our journey gave way to cool river air. large backpack off to the side of the The trails seemed smoother. I took a deep trail. It was in worse shape than his own breath and we set off for Old Sacramento. tattered pack. He began unzipping and The rest of the day passed in a blur. searching the different compartments.

Nothing felt real. We walked around While doing so, he tossed out articles Old Sacramento, talked about old times of clothing and small trinkets from the and laughed the last three years away. many pockets. He eventually came upon But it was getting late and the air was a small white pipe. getting cold.

“Aha,” my dad muttered “We should probably to no one in particular. start heading back before “Alright let’s get out it gets any colder,” my From this angle of here,” he said, dad said. not waiting for a “Yeah, sure, you couldn’t see the response. Before I good idea,” I said, dirt on his clothes, or the could process what trying to hide my had happened, he disappointment. rotting teeth in his mouth. was on his bike.

The rubber For the first time in three I stood there, of the tires made years, I just saw my contemplating a smooth, sliding everything and seeing sound across the father. nothing. The same man trail. The darkness was that I’d convinced myself unforgiving, and neither was a loving father earlier of us had a light to illuminate in the day had just rummaged the way. I couldn’t see much through the belongings of an unconscious more than five or six yards ahead of me, man. Why didn’t I just call 911? I had so I decided to pace myself. My dad must been able to when he was banging on our have taken the pitch black as some sort of door, begging to be let in. Why was it so challenge because he was pedaling like he hard now? was being chased. It wasn’t long before I Before I could finish my thought, lost sight of him. For the next 10 minutes, I heard the man let out a small groan.

I rode alone.

Whatever bravery I had escaped and I The crickets quieted until the only took off on my bike. I eventually came sound was of my bicycle slicing through the night. It was almost silent when I heard upon my dad pedaling slowly through shoe soles scraping the concrete. My father the park. Instead of confronting him, I decided to take the long way around and was stopping. Was he worried about me? head home.

As I got closer, I could see his form I’ve seen my dad multiple times hover over something in the middle of the since then. trail. I squinted and tried to focus. I called I don’t hate him or look down on him out, “Papito!” but there was no response. for what he did. How can I? I’ve never I brought the bike to a halt a couple had to steal to survive; I don’t even think yards away and walked to where he knelt.

A man’s body lay across the bike trail with I know what hunger truly feels like.

How can I pass judgments on a man in his head tilted back. His eyes were closed a situation like that—a situation I feel and his mouth open. His breaths were responsible for putting him in? short. His leathery arms were covered in My father texted me on New Year’s tattoos and what looked like track marks.

Day. According to him, we saw each My first instinct was to call 911, but my other 14 times last year. That’s once father stopped me when he saw my phone. every 26 days by his count. I wasn’t “No, if he croaks I don’t want to deal keeping track, but I’m going to trust with the police,” he said. “Just leave The Carpenter’s math, because I know him there. He’s a junkie; don’t worry, those days meant something to him. he’s fine. I’m sure this isn’t his first time Because, as flawed as the man may be, doping out.”

This is wrong. We need to do somehe’s still my “Papito.” Nothing will thing! I wanted to yell. But I couldn’t ever change that. Ω speak. I did nothing.

“Look at all of this stuff!” my dad said.

Already facing a lawsuit claiming decades of state mismanagement of the Oroville dam and a “culture of corruption” that fostered harassment, the California Department of Water Resources drew a new legal challenge from Sacramento County—one that accuses its employees of improper communications around the twin tunnels project.

The latest dWr drama was triggered January 15, when attorneys for Sacramento and San Joaquin counties, and the city of Antioch, filed a motion demanding that the State Water Resources Control Board halt the phase-two public hearings for WaterFix, better known as “the twin tunnels” project. The motion claims an attorney named Michael Brodsky, representing Save the California Delta Alliance, used the California Public Records Act to uncover illegal interactions between DWR employees and the team charged with hosting the state’s hearings.

The hearings were scheduled to begin January 18, but have been called off until at least February 2.

DWR is the main agency pushing the controversial twin tunnels forward. Gov. Jerry Brown came under fire last week for appointing Karla Nemeth its new director, after it was discovered her husband is a strategist for a Southern California water district championing the tunnels. The new motion says DWR employees took part in “unlawful ex parte communications” that advised hearing facilitators at the state water board to positively interpret parts of the tunnels’ environmental impact report.

Antioch City Attorney Matthew Emrick argued that state officials need to delay the hearings until it’s clear just how “tarnished” they are by DWR’s actions. “The ex parte communications have the potential to result in an unfair hearing,” Emrick wrote in the motion. “Whether it can be salvaged, in whole or in part, remains to be determined.”

DWR attorney Tripp Mizell filed a motion against stopping the hearings, arguing that his agency’s inside communications don’t pose any risk to a balanced playing field.

Sacramento County’s legal team disagrees. County counsel Robyn Drivon told SN&R it’s vital that attorneys watching out for Delta communities have time to investigate whether the hearing process has been “irreparably compromised.” (by Scott Thomas Anderson)

diShoneSt aBe Former Roseville restaurateur, real estate developer and fast food mogul Abolghasseni “Abe” Alizadeh pleaded guilty to $22 million worth of bank fraud on January 12. The plea brings an end to Alizadeh’s second noted saga with federal prosecutors in a handful of years.

The Department of Justice reported the nature of Alizadeh’s latest scheme went like this: He would inflate the purchase price of properties he intended to develop when he requested bank loans. The banks, unaware of the exaggerated values, competed with each other and would sometimes loan Alizadeh far more funds than he should have gotten.

In total, financial institutions ended up losing $22 million.

Before his fall, Alizadeh’s life resembled a propagandic vision of the American Dream. An Iranian immigrant, he got his start as a dishwasher at a Jack in the Box, the first franchise he purchased in 1986. Alizadeh pleaded guilty to tax fraud involving his chain of Jack in the Boxes in 2012. Three years later, he was indicted on the new bank fraud charges. He will remain free before his sentencing on March 30. (John Flynn)

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SpaceWalker, seen here at the 2017 SAMMIES awards ceremony, is boycotting this year’s event.

PhoTo By jEANNIE McLoEd

Canceling the SAMMIES show The show will not go on after artists’ boycott and lagging sponsorships doom annual local music showcase

by Steph RodRiguez

The Boycott SN&R and Anti-SAMMIES events will be March 14–15 at 7 p.m. at the Blue Lamp (1400 Alhambra Boulevard).

Black Lives Matter Sacramento will collect sliding scale donations of $5-$10 at the door for families of victims of police violence.

After 25 years, the Sacramento News & Review is canceling the live music show associated with the SAMMIES, an annual showcase for local musicians.

The decision was made after at least 20 nominated performers denounced their nominations following criticism the newspaper has received since publishing the December 14, 2017, cover story “Confessions of a killer cop,” about a fired Sacramento police officer and the African-American man he shot to death.

The article chronicled the lives of John Tennis, an Army veteran with a history of violent encounters on the police force, and Joseph Mann, a former college-radio deejay and state employee who struggled with drug use and his mother’s death.

Moments after responding to a weapons call in July 2016 in North Sacramento, Tennis tried to run Mann over with his patrol car twice. Tennis and then-partner Randy Lozoya exited the vehicle and confronted Mann, who was holding a knife on a sidewalk when the two officers shot Mann 14 times.

The article revealed that the Police Department terminated Tennis for violating its use of force policy in killing Mann, and was under an internal investigation at the time of the shooting.

Aside from the story itself, outcry has been aimed at the cover image—featuring Tennis in the Superman T-shirt he wore to the scheduled photo shoot.

SN&R’s response to the criticism, particularly the tagging of local activists on the newspaper’s Facebook page, has also drawn an angry response.

“We are really boycotting SN&R as a whole because of how they have been tone-deaf in their response to the backlash they received from the article,” said Black Arts Matter founder Mone’t Ha-sidi. “I was one of the activists tagged by the editor when they wrote their response [on Facebook]. I thought it was irresponsible and it would also make those a target for people who are more on the ‘blue lives matter’ side of things.”

Ha-sidi said she didn’t receive any threats due to the Facebook tag. SN&R editor Eric Johnson said the tags were

removed shortly after the post.

“I understand that caused them a lot of distress and I feel terrible about that,” Johnson said. “A person in my position should have known that the rules have changed regarding Facebook tagging by institutions like newspapers.”

Ha-sidi and Black Lives Matter Sacramento chapter founder Tanya Faison recently teamed up with Gabriell Garcia, co-owner of Blue Lamp, to protest the SAMMIES with two nights of live music and performances.

“I know it was hard for the artists to denounce their nominations and I wanted them to know they had support and a place to play still,” Garcia said. “I just hope that it rings loud in the community and within our local media that the people still hold the power.”

Jointly, the events are known as Boycott SN&R and the Anti-SAMMIES, with the latter taking place on March 15, the day the SAMMIES show was scheduled at Ace of Spades. What started out as a fundraiser for the Mann family will

now raise money for other local families who have suffered from police violence, organizers said.

The Mann family hasn’t been contacted by organizers.

SpaceWalker, Jonah Matranga and Sparks Across Darkness will be among those performing the first night, with the second night dedicated to black artists.

For Faison, the event is about more than the SAMMIES. She wants to see SN&R devote more in-depth coverage to black victims of police violence.

“We want those citizens’ faces that have been killed by police on the cover and we want their families heard,” said Faison, who organized a protest outside SN&R’s office last month. “If they can do it for a white guy, they can do it for all these black victims because right now Sacramento is killing more black people than they are killing white people.”

Faison said BLM Sacramento is currently working with eight families whose loved ones have experienced police violence. The chapter’s website lists Ryan Ellis, Desmond Phillips, Mikel McIntyre and other individuals.

SN&R publisher Jeff vonKaenel says the community response is exactly the type of discussion he wants his newspaper to elevate.

“Within the pages of the paper there should be a dialogue with different parts of the community,” vonKaenel said.

“That’s the only way we can have a synthesis of views that can create real policy and social change.”

He said the event was created to support the local music scene, but has operated at a financial loss. He said some sponsorships for this year’s showcase didn’t line up; when the protests were announced, that pushed the 2018 SAMMIES over the edge. Voting for this year’s contest will continue, culminating with an expanded local music issue.

Johnson said he used the controversy as an opportunity to initiate conversations with activists and artists, including The Philharmonik, who met with Johnson after initially turning down his SAMMIES nomination. He is back on the ballot, but not satisfied.

“When we encounter problems we discuss how to move things forward in a way that is mutually [beneficial],” The Philharmonik wrote in an email to SN&R. “However, a meeting proves only words, actions prove progress.” Ω

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Deportation panic Even the sheriff doesn’t know what immigration authorities are planning for Sacramento

by Raheem F. hosseini

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The Sheriff’s Department does have a passive Citing a source familiar with the operation, the relationship with ICE, which enforces federal immiSan Francisco Chronicle reported last week that gration policy in the United States. Since 2000, ICE federal immigration authorities were plotting has leased space at the Sheriff’s Department’s jail in what could be the largest deportation sweep under Elk Grove, where ICE incarcerates detainees being President Donald Trump in cities across Northern processed for deportation.

California.

California’s so-called sanctuary law, Senate Bill The January 17 article said the planned raids 54, further restricted the level of cooperation that could result in the arrests of 1,500 undoculocal law enforcement agencies and employers can mented immigrants as the Trump administration grant to federal immigration authorities, but carved looks to make an example of California, which out an exception for preexisting detainee contracts rebuked the president’s anti-immigrant agenda like the one the Sheriff’s Department has with by mandating non-cooperation with indiscrimiICE. “It doesn’t affect our ability to continue that nate deportation efforts. Since the Chronicle contract or renew that contract,” Jones explained. report, communities across California have been That contract is due to expire later this tensing with anticipation over what may be year, unless the federal government and the heading their way.

Sacramento County Board of Supervisors “Everything continues to be rumors,” decide to renew it. said Carlos Montes-Ponce, a commuJones noted that SB 54 “still allows nity organizer with Sacramento ICE to come into our facilities and ACT (which stands for Area “People are access our inmates,” though the Congregations Together). really looking for inmates have to be advised of their “People are really looking for information.” right not to speak to agents. “It has information.” very little impact on their ability But the federal government’s Carlos Montes-Ponce to come in and conduct interviews plans have remained locked in a community organizer, and take custody of most of the proverbial black box, with even Sacramento ACT folks they would otherwise take powerful politicians pressing for custody of,” the sheriff added. answers.

In the meantime, immigration advoIn a joint letter issued the same day as cates are on high alert, where they’ve been since the Chronicle report, U.S. Sens. Dianne Feinstein Trump was elected. and Kamala Harris requested a briefing from On Monday, more than 100 people from differThomas Homan, acting director of Immigrations ent faiths and 13 states struck a defiant tone against and Customs Enforcement, better known as ICE. the raid rumors inside a ballroom at the Hilton The letter referenced Homan’s January 2 statements Sacramento Arden West in North Sacramento. The on Fox News, where he ominously warned that Sacramento Immigration Coalition was among the “California better hold on tight.” organizations represented. The coalition organizes “We firmly believe that law enforcement must regular know-your-rights trainings, has set up a prioritize dangerous criminals, not undocumented rapid-response hotline and is training community immigrants who do not pose a threat to public members to act as legal observers—“what we call safety,” the California Democrats’ letter read. moral observers,” Montes-Ponce said.

“Diverting resources in an effort to punish The organizer was careful to note that legal California and score political points is an abhorrent observers are dispatched to scenes of immigration abuse of power, not to mention a terrible misuse of arrests to monitor authorities, not to intervene. scarce resources.”

“They’re only there to observe, not to break up An ICE spokesman didn’t respond to an SN&R anything,” he explained. request for comment Tuesday.

Since SB 54 went into effect, Montes-Ponce A day earlier, Sacramento County Sheriff Scott said Sacramento ACT has been hearing anecdotal Jones said during a meeting with a community accounts of ICE agents arresting people at their advisory board that he was in the dark, too. “I’ve homes in the early morning hours. never been informed of an ICE raid,” Jones said.

“Right now it just continues to be threats,” “We don’t work with them. We don’t do anything. he said. Ω They do their thing.”

Washington Post Editor Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks) and publisher Katharine Graham (Meryl Streep) in The Post.

The Post and the future of journalism

by Jeff vonKaenel

Jeff vonKaenel is the president, CEO and majority owner of the News & Review.

In the landmark Supreme Court decision supporting journalistic freedom in 1971, Justice Hugo L. Black wrote: “Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government … In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam war, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the founders hoped and trusted they would do.”

I encourage you to see Steven Spielberg’s movie, The Post, which tells the story of how Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee, played by Tom Hanks, and Post owner Katharine Graham, played

by Meryl Streep, faced possible criminal penalties for defying a court order and publishing the Pentagon Papers. These top-secret documents revealed much that was previously unknown about the history of the Vietnam War, and made it clear that American presidents and numerous officials had repeatedly lied to the public about the war.

This war, which lasted two decades, resulted in the deaths of as many as 3 million Vietnamese, Laotians and Cambodians and close to 60,000 Americans. The Pentagon Papers revealed that this war did not need to be fought, could not be won and was

allowed to continue mainly because government leaders did not want to be the ones who lost the war. Instead, these leaders squandered American and Vietnamese lives needlessly. If Americans had been told the truth about the Vietnam War, the war would certainly have ended much sooner.

The movie focuses on Katharine Graham, who took over the company she inherited from her father after her husband’s suicide. She is deciding what to do about the Pentagon Papers at the same time that she is taking her company public. This story deals with the intersection of the business of journalism and the reporting of news. It is also the story of a woman in leadership at a time when almost every room she walked into was a room full of men.

Her male financial advisers were strongly opposed to the publishing of the Pentagon Papers because of the possible financial impact to the company. They were afraid to defy the government because it meant potentially losing the newspaper.

Graham bravely chose to publish.

And things worked out well. The Supreme Court ruled six to three in the newspaper’s favor. The Post later

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distinguished itself with its coverage of Watergate, which led to President Richard Nixon’s resignation.

While, in my 44 years of publishing, I have never had a story like the Pentagon Papers, I do know that taking on powerful interests is dangerous. In the media world, there are numerous and repeated examples of companies lost and careers destroyed by doing excellent, important journalism. Graham made this risky decision without knowing what the consequences would be. History proved her right. But things could have very easily gone another way. The outcome was not obvious.

Similarly, it is not obvious what is happening with journalism today. I wish I could see the future, but it is hazy.

Of course, the internet has dramatically changed the business of newspapers and of journalism—but not in the way that we first anticipated. In 2000, it was believed that newspapers could receive enough online revenue to support their news operations, while eliminating the cost of printing and distribution. Since most newspapers spent only 10 percent of their revenue on editorial, it seemed that it would be easy to support journalism through

internet advertising. Many newspapers moved quickly in this direction.

At the dawn of the new millennium, media companies made money online by displaying banner ads and counting how many people saw them. The cost-per-thousand impressions (CPM) averaged $10-15 back then, a price that was predicted to double. With three to 15 ads on a page, that could result in as much as $4,500—and with that kind of revenue, online journalism would be sustainable.

But very quickly, it became apparent that this would not be. In 2000, Google, then two-years old, introduced Ad Words, and online advertising as we now know it took off.

The market was quickly dominated by a few internet giants. Today, Google and Facebook take in more than 60 percent of all online advertising dollars, while most media companies are lucky to get a CPM of $4.

As a result, it’s hard to pay for quality journalism. And the statistics about banner advertising are not optimistic.

More than 90 percent of internet readers find banner ads intrusive. Young people ignore online advertising. Most major browsers now offer ad-blocker extensions.

Even now that it’s clear that online revenue cannot support journalism, most newspapers have refused to face this reality. They have continued to focus on online content, with very little financial return. The end result is that many large newspaper chains are insolvent. The Chicago Tribune has declared bankruptcy.

MediaNews Group, which owns the Denver Post and San Jose Mercury News, was not able to make its loan payments and was taken over by creditors including a hedge fund firm, and renamed Digital First Media. The Sacramento-based McClatchy Corporation, which owns 29 other newspapers, has lost over 2 billion dollars in stockholder equity, and its stock price is only a small percentage of what it once was.

On January 12, McClatchy Corporation announced that the Sacramento Bee and five other McClatchy papers would be overseen by a new regional editor, 37-year-old Lauren Gustus. Where prior Bee editors from C.K. McClatchy to Joyce Terhaar all had significant journalism credentials, Gustus, previously executive editor of the Fort Collins Coloradoan, was hired for her digital expertise. She will now be greenlIghT ConTInued on Page 12

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than bring us together, I ask forgiveness and I will work to do better.”

The changes at Facebook, Google, overseeing six newspapers. I suspect YouTube and HuffPost clearly indithat upon this announcement, C.K. cate that there is a major rethinking rolled over in his grave. of social media and the impact of At the News & Review, our print unfiltered and unverified information. product produces the revenue that This rethinking will naturally impact supports our journalism. We post our journalism. stories a day after our paper comes out Journalism has many faults. But it because we want people to read the also has many virtues. Journalists check paper and to see the ads that support their sources. Journalists try to be fair. our journalism. Our print advertising, Journalists provide reliable information. which reaches more than 300,000 Journalists try to get it right. This is readers in the Sacramento region, is an in contrast to much of the information evermore affordable and effective way for local businesses to reach customers. online and on social media.

This new awareness of the imporPrint advertising continues to be seen tance of reliable information, and the as useful content, as web advertising is awareness of the damage that can be seen as more intrusive and annoying. caused by unreliable, unvetted informaAnother current shift that will likely tion, will likely bring more respect for have a major impact upon media is the professional journalism and information increased appreciation of vetted inforthat has been verified by journalmation as compared to unvetted ism methods. information. Several years I say this not because ago, many thought that While I have of my belief in Thomas citizen journalists never had a story Jefferson and the would replace profesFounding Fathers, like the Pentagon sional journalists, and or because of my amateur videos would Papers, I do know that belief in the First provide content for taking on powerful Amendment, but YouTube and other interests is rather because of internet outlets. There dangerous. my belief in Darwin. would not only be cost Individuals, companies savings. There would and countries that make be more freedom and more decisions based on vetted, reliable diverse views. information are going to do much Those ideas are now being rethought. better in the real world than those who In the last several weeks, Huffington make decisions based on unvetted, Post, which built up its website with unreliable information.

100,000 non-paid writers who selfAnd the cost of vetting information published their stories and opinions, through professional journalists is announced that they were dissolving nothing compared to the consequences the self-publishing platform. HuffPost’s of using inaccurate information. Ask editor-in-chief was quoted in the New the millions of people in their graves York Times saying that unfiltered platwho died needlessly in Vietnam. They forms had devolved into “cacophonous, paid the price. messy, hard-to-hear places where voices I read the Wall Street Journal and get drowned out and where the loudest the New York Times, and I still read the shouting voice prevails.”

Sacramento Bee practically every day. If Google recently announced that it is hiring 10,000 people this year to oversee you are interested in what’s going on in the local community, you have to read content that violates its policies after the Bee. Yes, it used to be better—but advertisers started dropping out because The Bee still provides essential informathey did not want to be seen next to tion that you cannot find anywhere else. I offensive content. Google’s YouTube sincerely hope it survives. division is removing ads from many The Post demonstrated the power videos, and pledging to review “every of journalism, as well as the difficulsecond” of the most popular videos ties and complexities of running a which are eligible for ad placement. business that provides journalism.

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That’s 10,000 more marchers than last year. After Saturday’s powerful display, Scorekeeper hopes that each new year will bring us a government that looks more and more like the marchers.

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+30,000 criminal oFFicer While employed as a Sacramento Police Officer, Isaac Knutila was found in a hotel room in November 2016 with heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine, marijuana and a loaded .40-caliber firearm. This according to a press release by the Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office, which also stated that police later found an illegal assault weapon at Knutila’s residence. After pleading no contest to felony charges on January 11, he was sentenced to 150 days in jail and five years of probation. If only this sort of prosecutorial vigor also occurred when officers wrongfully harass, injure or kill civilians.

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award-winning Food (recyclers) A Sacramento company, California Safe Soil, re received the state’s highest environmental honor— the governor’s environmental and economic leadership award—on January 17. Seeing as Americans throw out roughly half of all produce grown, the company developed an “enzymatic digestion technology” that turns unsold food into a liquid fertilizer—a process they say is “720 times more efficient than composting.” After recently dumping a fetid compost bin that had filled with rainwater (even grosser than it sounds), Scorekeeper could use some of them enzymes.

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Poachers ProsecuTed A Humboldt County man, Shawn Hof, received a 20-year prison sentence January 16 for firing at a wildlife officer in the early hours of August 21, 2016.

On that morning, the officer attempted to stop Hof and his driver, Thomas Wheeler, after catching them “spotlighting,” or using high-powered beams to flush out and poach animals. In response, the aptly named wheeler sped away as hof fired at the pursuing officer before the duo crashed into a tree and escaped into the woods. Police spent nearly a year pursuing Hof before he turned himself in—at which point, Scorekeeper imagines, a somewhat ironic mugshot was taken of Hof being spotlighted.

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Full Triage After a slightly slow start, the City of Sacramento announced on January 18 that its winter triage center is at capacity after outreach partners enrolled 244 people into the facility. This triage center not only offers temporary shelter from the elements, but also a variety of services to help folks find permanent housing. Six visitors already have done that, according to the city. Kudos to Sac’s government leaders for its first year of sponsoring a place like this. Let’s do even better next year.

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The little known textile company producing some of the only selvage fabric made in the U.S.

Reviving an industry

heir clacking can be heard in the silk villages of Vietnam and China, wood slamming against metal, a cacophonous metronome that weaves the past into the future and threads into fabric. In sweatshops in Bangladesh and the Philippines, industrial versions unfurl the polyester florals that become dresses, leaking toxic dyes into nearby rivers, then lasting all of a week on the floors of fast fashion shops at the mall.

They echo from the past, too, with a whisper: Two hands in ancient Egypt gingerly thread flax in a dance of over and under, over and under. In The Odyssey, Penelope deflects sexual advances by pretending to weave Odysseus’ burial shroud. Even her name is woven: “Pene” means “weft,” the name of the threads that nimbly move left to right, in and out. Weaving is cunning, is storytelling, “to weave a tale.” The etymology of weaving comes from the 14th century: “to combine into a whole.”

After years of steady thrumming, the machines started screeching to a halt on the East Coast decades ago. In Oakland, one of the country’s largest cotton fabric manufacturers, California Cotton Mills, shut down in 1954 after the 880 highway bisected it. Today, the two halves of the mill are bricked up, and one part has been converted into studio lofts (of course).

In October, Cone Denim White Oak Plant, the last major U.S. manufacturer of top-quality selvage denim, shut down its plant in Greensboro, N.C., after 112 years.

Now, in the unlikeliest of turns, they’re revving to life here. Looms are producing cotton and wool fabric, even denim, in Sacramento County.

On the Mather Airport runway sits a large, drafty warehouse that formerly housed airplane parts.

Engineer, army vet and fabric enthusiast Ryan Huston has taken over the space to restore more grounded machines: almost a dozen vintage textile looms from the ’50s and ’60s. His company Huston Textile Co. uses California wool and West Texas cotton to produce cotton duck, canvas, chambray, shirting, wool-and-cotton blends and denim, tightly woven to a degree that I—a sewist who fondles every bit of fabric I can snatch—have never felt.

Pinching the finished selvage on a bolt of denim, Huston says, “It’s something you can only get on vintage looms or handwoven. Modern technology can’t reproduce that.” The selvage is the edge of fabric, sometimes peeking from the cuff of designer jeans in the form of a white stripe. Modern industrial 14 | SN&R | 01.25.18

looms produce a messy, weak version that frays because they’re made of cut strands of thread.

Huston’s uses sturdy, continuous threads and a cheeky red racer stripe called a ticker. It’s neat, complete, “combined into a whole.”

Though the mantle of “Made in the U.S.A.” has been passed from rock-ribbed ’60s conservatives to twee Brooklynites to anti-NAFTA Trump supporters, its most passionate advocates share at least one similar end goal: more American jobs. In California, employees of textile mills decreased by half—from 12,000 to 6,000—over the past decade, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Most of those jobs are in Southern California. Meanwhile, Northern California’s heritage denim brand, Levi’s of San Francisco, has 528 factories from Cambodia to Colombia, according to its website. Only 10 of them are located stateside. None appear to specialize in textile manufacturing, and none are near Levi’s home in Northern California. Levi’s declined my request for an interview.

Apart from its habit of outsourcing, fashion also has a nasty environmental problem: The industry is cited as one of the world’s largest sources of pollution because of harsh chemical dyes, the pesticides required to grow cotton and the petroleum needed to make polyester. To feed the ravenous maw of fast fashion, the global industry produced 50 million tons of polyester in 2015, according to industry analysts Tecnon OrbiChem. Then, the fabric must be shipped on oil-guzzling barges from factory to factory, country to country, for dying, laundering, buttons, zippers.

Huston says he’s in this business to combat these very problems. He uses negative-carbon-footprint wool from Lani’s Lana in Eagleville, California; his Texas cotton is organic. He’s trying to use cotton from nearby sources like Bowles Farming Company, but the infrastructure for growing clothes locally doesn’t yet exist in the Central Valley. For all of Sacramento’s farm-to-fork righteousness when it comes to food, we can’t say the same about our clothes.

Huston hopes to change that and plant an industry in the process.

“There’s a good, strong workforce in Sacramento that can be employed in many different ways—there just has to be an opportunity or a sector for them,” Huston says. “I think I’m the only manufacturer in Rancho.”

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Learn more about Huston Textile Co. at its website, www.hustontextile.com, or on Instagram @hustontextilecompany.

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Huston’s parents tell him that he’s become kinder since his time of duty. The Army was a humbling experience, Huston admits. He was troubled by what he saw on the ground in Iraq, doing what he thought was the right thing: He dropped off medical staff to administer vaccines or officials to distribute school supplies. “You go to places and you think you’re helping them, and then you leave and come back, and a bunch of people are killed or murdered because we helped them.”

Still, Huston says he doesn’t regret it. “I was old enough and a capable person, and my country was in a time of war so I felt it was my duty to do something—even though I may not have agreed with the war, that’s not really my point of going. My point of going and being in the service was because I had no excuse not to.”

This national devotion is evident on the warehouse walls, where local muralist Ted Weldon painted looms and an undulating American flag in the style of Diego Rivera and New Deal artwork that romanticizes the laborer.

Kat explains that, apart from the machines, her husband’s driven to add more jobs for Sacramentans that they would actually enjoy, ideally as much as Ryan Huston appreciates his.

“He’s passionate about working with these machines, like when he gets something working that hasn’t been working, you can see it on his face how excited he is,” she says, then looks at him. “You probably won’t shut up for three or four days about it, and [hiring] other people—sewing and machinery people would enjoy it probably more than their day jobs.”

When he moved back home from the army, Ryan and Kat started dating again in 2008. They were up one morning around 2:30 a.m., watching Tom Hanks in 1984’s Bachelor Party, when the nuptial themes inspired Ryan to turn to Kat and ask: Want to book it to Vegas and get married?

“I thought he was joking because of the show, and of course he wasn’t,” Kat remembers.

So they did, right then. They trekked all the way to a drive-through wedding chapel with a gift shop at the cash register, drove back to Utah, packed up all their things and made their way to Sacramento, where Ryan wanted to live again.

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“ T his is the stuff you used to give to your grandchildren.

Clothes used to be inherited, and they were mended until they fell apart.”

W E AV I N G A FA M I LY Kat and Ryan met in their teens, after Ryan had moved from Sacramento to Utah.

Back then, Ryan helped his mother with the family business of reupholstering cars, a crash course in fabrics that would serve him later. Kat and Ryan dated for a spell, then separated, “because that’s what kids in school do,” Kat explains. Ryan went off to war, but unlike Penelope, Kat didn’t weave any burial shrouds. Ryan’s the weaver in the family. He’s even sewn a few quilts and made his daughter a dress.

For a macho vet, what’s it like working with fiber arts and sewing—the proverbial “women’s work”?

“I’m the kind of person that never really cared what people thought, so if they did think anything, I wouldn’t have noticed,” Ryan says.

Kat adds, “He hasn’t really experienced a stigma, more of an excitement.”

Ryan’s mother entered his quilt into a contest, she says. “There’s not a lot of men that quilt. So they were all really excited to hear that ‘Oh her son did this!’ … Even in the making of the fabric it’s like, ‘Oh my gosh, you make fabric?

You’re amazing.’”

builds environmentally friendly textile processes. They’ve also invested considerable personal debt. Kat and Ryan sold their house for the business and now live with Ryan’s mother. To buy more yarn to sell fabric, they’re gunning to raise an additional $400,000 in investments from organizations that care about building a local, organic, sustainable fashion industry.

Rebecca Burgess, executive director of Fibershed, says that she decided to support Huston once she realized how rare his skills are and how his presence could create even more farm jobs and infrastructure around textiles.

“I was happy to support Ryan however we could,” Burgess says. “He’s super talented, he’s an Army veteran, he’s been through hell and shot in the chest. This

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all off so it wouldn’t get stuck in the looms.)

Inside his factory, he bounds with boyish excitement and talks about his collection of seven (soon to be 11) vintage looms with a bashful smile, hesitantly proud. He’s scooped them up from Georgia, Montana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Connecticut.

The latter he excavated from a barn, literally carving through a wall.

“It took me two years to find my first power loom,” Huston says. “After that, they kind of just find me.”

In the power loom community, Huston has become a known entity, and folks with a loom to offload reach out to him, he says. Most of his are emblazoned with the brand Draper, a power loom maker in Massachusetts for 130 years that has been out of business since the ’70s.

A computer scientist and electrical engineer by trade, Huston has always loved machines. He once entered a robotics competition at the Maker Faire in New York, where he was a lone contestant up against teams with multiple scientists. He won.

Today, Huston uses his engineering knowhow to retrofit the dusty looms with microprocessing chips to measure and regulate the speed of the shuttle, a type of bobbin that holds the thread and weaves back and forth 170 times per minute.

A cable connects 1950s equipment to a modern laptop, and through Huston’s electrical sorcery, the two eras are able to speak the same language.

“Draper: They say it’s the most unmechanical mechanical machine,” he explains. “There’s so much going on with a loom that’s really scientific, but also a lot of it that’s kind of just… it just happens. We don’t really know.”

To avoid any mysterious hiccups, Huston babysits each project, sometimes logging 16 hour days, he says, “till what comes on comes off”—until the hundreds of individual threads become completed fabric.

The first time Huston was surrounded by canvas was in 2006-07, when he served in the U.S. Army in Iraq. The Things They Carried were carried by canvas duffel bags. Originally assigned to be a driver, the military reassigned him once Huston couldn’t fit behind the wheel in full battle rattle because he’s 6’1”. So he became a gunner with a .50-caliber machine gun on convoy security, transporting high value targets from one base to the next in Northern Iraq.

“So generally we were the ones getting blown up,” he says. He was bombed in a vehicle eight times during his course of duty. “Most of my experience was like a mouse in a tin can, getting shook.”

Once while riding in a humvee, a bullet ricocheted off his chest plate.

He had a flashback on the Fourth of July 2017 when a firework exploded next to his car. “It was really close the ground and close to us and the car shook, it was very similar to what you’d have in Iraq.”

Kat interjects: “It’s scarier hearing him say that when he’s driving.”

huston cut off his rad beard so it wouldn’t get stuck in the looms.

was a locally made baby carrier, but later realized it was made in Taiwan.

“It made us redefine our definition of what local means,” Huston says.

They ultimately couldn’t find affordable, American-made baby carriers, so they decided to make their own and sell them.

It led them down a vortex that started with the whole family weaving on hand looms in 2013, then progressed to Ryan buying and fixing power looms. They realized that they didn’t want to maintain a baby-focused brand, so they pivoted to producing fabric as Huston Textile Co. in 2016.

So far, they’ve received loans totaling $100,000 from organizations such as Fibershed, a Marin County nonprofit that

Rebecca Burgess executive director, Fibershed

man is trying to do well by his community.

He thought he was serving his community by going into armed services, but what he’s doing now is such a win-win for local service, and I want to support what he’s doing for his local community.”

It’s not just that he’s well-intentioned.

Huston’s skills and equipment are vanishingly rare. After Cone Mills White Oak Plant closed down in North Carolina, Huston Textile Co. is possibly the last remaining American manufacturer of selvage denim at its scale and potential capability. There are a few smaller upstarts, True Loom Textiles in San Diego and Pacific Blue Denim in Los Angeles. Huston knows about a few of them because they’ve

Fancy pants glossary Selvage: The edge on fabric that prevents it from unraveling. Modern looms produce a selvage with cut threads peaking out. On the other hand, a finished selvage reveals no cut threads and is woven tidily into a whole.

Ticker: The thin line woven into the middle of a selvage. In denim, it’s often red.

A swatch of indigo cotton shirting from Huston Textile Co., showing the finished selvage and blue ticker.

called him to ask how he’s repaired the vintage looms—the only machines capable of making selvage fabric.

Huston will tell them how to fix the looms, but he won’t share how he’s used those machines to make not just denim, but also chambray, canvas, pincheck, army duck. At least in the United States, he might be the only one who does it.

“Ryan is a built-in factory, a repairman and a technician all in one,” Burgess says.

“It’s the talent. It’s very, very rare.”

TIMELESS THREADS Fashion designer Victor Kali says he wasn’t planning on making and selling shirts until he happened upon Huston Textile Co.’s fabric. Now he sells dapper Huston chambray button-down shirts under the Oakland label Kali Made Garments.

“It is the best fabric I’ve ever seen,” Kali says. “You just don’t see fabric like that in the world anymore. It was testing off the charts for water abrasion and durability. Did that come from the source, or what makes this machine so special? There’s something that comes off these machines that can’t be replicated with other machinery and inputs.”

So he bought 20-25 yards, an amount that most mills—with their 1,000-5,000 yard minimums—would never offer to scrappy independent designers.

The crafting supply store A Verb for Keeping Warm, known internationally for promoting and teaching natural dying, now sells Huston’s fabric in its Oakland shop.

Owner Kristine Vejar made herself a jacket out of Huston’s wool-cotton blend that she recently wore throughout a trip to Japan.

Businesses normally have to buy “a kajillion yards of fabric,” she says.

“That’s what’s made it hard for smaller designers to buy fabric and enter the market because the minimums are so huge,” she says. “At fabric shows they have stacks and stacks of swatches, and you have no

idea where it was manufactured or what it was manufactured from. It’ll say 100 percent cotton and it’s definitely not. That’s the majority of fabric. It’s been extremely challenging.”

Vejar said she grew up during the food revolution, when food stylists would release gorgeous cookbooks that romanticized the provenance of food. Meanwhile, she hadn’t thought as much about how her clothes were made until studying abroad.

“In India, I began seeing people growing cotton and growing wool and picking it and spinning it and seeing all the different ways, personal weaving to factory weaving. It was very easy to see, it surrounded me, I didn’t have to seek it out. It was mind blowing and just going: Oh my god, someone does this.

You don’t grow up seeing it the way you see your mom cooking.”

The fashion industry, unlike the restaurant one, is very secretive about where its clothes are woven, dyed and finished, guarding trade secrets lest another brand steal its trustworthy manufacturers. So it’s hard to know if Huston is the only one doing what he’s doing in the states, Vejar says.

However: “From my view right now, he’s the only person I can see doing it, using vintage looms to make fabric at a scale that’s 100 yard minimum or manufacturing fashion fabric. I don’t know anyone else—and I feel like I know a lot of people.”

Though it might seem like a nostalgic affectation to use vintage shuttle looms, they serve a real purpose. These old machines are slower than modern ones, yes, but that’s because they use a continuous piece of yarn instead of cut threads shot from an air compressor. As a result, the fabric is sturdier.

“We’ve done durability tests and it blew doors on any modern textile,” Burgess says.

“This is the stuff you used to give to your grandchildren. Clothes used to be inherited, and they were mended until they fell apart.”

In Los Angeles, Blue Star Selvedge creates durable jeans and previously relied on Cone Mills Denim White Oak until the plant

ShuTTle loom: A loom that uses a shuttle, a tool that holds the weft threads and weaves them back and forth. Slower than modern projectile looms, it produces a finished selvage.

WefT: The threads or yarns that weave over and under, left to right, perpendicular to the selvage.

Warp: The stable threads or yarns that run lengthwise through the fabric, parallel to the selvage.

closed. Now, owner Mik Serfontein says he’ll have to source from abroad because an upstart like Huston couldn’t yet handle the amount of selvage denim he requires—tens of thousands of yards on a regular basis.

Still, Serfontein remains devoted to selvage denim because of its high quality.

“The jeans today are lightweight and they fall apart,” Serfontein says about fast fashion. “Denim jeans became the opposite of what they were invented for. It really is a utility garment.”

Today, a devoted cult of selvage jeans wearers—Serfontein calls them “denimheads”—have sprung up on Instagram because they’ve discovered fabric that’s so unlike the fake faded, whiskered jeans at the mall. Instead, they’re all about that raw denim indigo fade. They even have a hashtag: #fadefriday.

“It has this mystique to it—it’s really not easy to find—and once you start going down the rabbit hole, there’s a whole community of people that live the blue life in a sense,” Serfontein says. “It becomes kind of like this addiction because of the color indigo and how the indigo will fade on the jean. … Raw denim straight off the loom in its natural state, it’s a beautiful thing to behold. When the denim starts aging from the way you wear it, and not from some template, it gives it uniqueness and character. It’s like having a custom piece of clothing.”

Huston Textile Co. could fill the hole left by Cone Mills, but it depends on their execution and the quality of their fabric, he says. For his part, Serfontein is partial to the quality of European and Japanese looms.

However, Cone Mills White Oak previously ran the made-in-Massachusetts Draper looms that Huston uses. Serfontein questions whether these few selvage denim makers in the U.S. can get their prices down. He says Japan’s price and quality are hard to beat.

“Would I rather buy that or buy at one of the most storied mills in the world for $6.50 [per yard]? That’s going to be a challenge for them. But these are normal startup

challenges, whether you’re building bikes or food trucks or weaving fabric, it’s just economies of scale. Are they businessmen or are they makers?”

Huston says he thinks of himself as a mechanic, first and foremost—hold the artisan and the maker. To manage the business side of things, Scott Ragsdale was brought on. They hope to gather enough investment and orders to lower the price from its current approximate point: $12-$55 per yard, depending on the fabric and the size of the order.

Regardless, Huston says the goal is not to become a large corporation with thousands of looms.

“I don’t want to just produce and be like Cone Mills and have a massive factory where if I lose a couple of contracts, I go out of business,” he says. “I want to be able to source from people here in the area, in the Valley, and make stuff out of their fiber and their yarn and sell it to other people in the Valley. And I want other people in other businesses to open up and do the same thing.”

He and Burgess imagine Huston Textile Co. as a self-sustaining model that can be replicated in cities all over the United States. Huston says he only wants “20ish” looms making high quality fabric, and to inspire a wave of “mom-and-pop shop weaving businesses” all spooling made-inyour-city fabric.

“The Sacramento area, people talk about it and refer to the farm-to-fork movement,” he says. “I don’t want to say that’s what I’m trying to do but… sort of. My goal is for people to buy things that are made in the country where they live. For us to produce or buy things from other countries doesn’t make sense. We need to produce stuff in our country and consume stuff from our country. That’s the big umbrella. The more localized it gets, the better.”

If you listen closely at the Mather Airport, you can hear the shuttle rattle and the yarn unfurl, that ancient sound of threads combined into a whole. Ω

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At 19, Péläyo moved to a place known to attract dreamers: New York City. He took out student loans to attend a for-profit college in graphic design, but soon wound up without housing and in a shelter. He got a job at Starbucks, but sacrificed opportunities to recite subway poetry because he didn’t want his coworkers or customers to judge him for busking. After spending his 20s in New York City and some time in Chicago, he returned to Sacramento, where he fell into a depression.

“I was out here in Sac and I felt like I totally failed,” he says. “I was so determined on making it out there.”

He went through bouts of self-isolation, a place where he never wants to return.

“My whole hope is that I don’t ever get back there,” he says. “I try to do all this good stuff so maybe I don’t go back to that dark place.”

His poetry and his community pulled him up. While he hosted a workshop on making chapbooks (homemade poetry zines), his students helped him to heal.

by KATe GOnzAleS | k a t e g @ne w s re v i e w . c o m “They really came at a time when I needed them and they got me out,” he says. They talked about spoken word, and they encouraged him to return to the city’s open mics after going MIA. His poetry became There is no question for Péläyo, now 35, about where more uplifting. his drive comes from.

“Most of the time we’re speaking to ourselves “Honestly, I just feel like I’m following my mother’s (through poetry),” he says. “Lift yourself up, turn your legacy,” he says. “I always felt like I was pressured to life around.” do something epic. In my eyes, this is epic.”

He was back at it, participating in and hosting open Connection to his African-American and Filipino mics and reaching out to his community in new ways. heritage is central to Péläyo’s identity. He was influDivine Styles, which he ran off and on since 2013, enced early on by black activist writers like Malcolm got a reboot when Péläyo was invited to participate in X and Marcus Garvey. A high school trip to Ghana put the weekly Love Market in Oak Park in early 2017. He him deeper in touch with his African roots. also ran #BlackUber, a one-man taxi service. He envi“I never really had to deal with … an identity crisis sions stories from those trips one day inspiring a poetry trying to figure out who book and continues to provide I was because I grew up #BlackUber rides. knowing—knowing I was Last year, he launched The black and Filipino,” he says.

Oak Park Open Air Open Mic, So he offers the people a Sunday afternoon showcase much more than books. each week at a different spot in Those who pass the the neighborhood. Going on 47 bookshop are generally weeks of #TOPOAOM, Péläyo intrigued by its out-ofarranges for one featured placeness. Even if they spoken word voice each week. don’t buy a book, they may “The poetry you gotta catch,” still leave with something. he says on a gray Sunday afterDanté PéläyO Outside Luna’s, a few noon on Martin Luther King Jr. POP-uP bOOkseller young women browse the Boulevard. giveaway section of items He works in hashtags, neatly arranged in small coining phrases like baskets: snacks, lotions, #MakeAmerikkkaLiterateAgain in 2016, and wants to condoms. Péläyo’s tells them they’re all up for grabs. build a major online following so people can take in They happily grab a few condoms and a bottle of water. the “virtual open-mic” from anywhere with an internet “He’s setting a good example for what it is to connection. be part of the community,” says Sacramento poet Because of its grassroots, pop-up nature, Monique Semone. “Danté’s not rich, and to give back in the way he does … he’s a symbol of doing what you TOPOAOM doesn’t always pull large crowds. But the impact of Péläyo’s work is felt by the artists and audican no matter what you have.” ence who attend.

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t’s a Thursday night, so poetry flows out of Luna’s Cafe as it has for just over two decades. The crowd breaks and some folks step outside for fresh air.

A man approaches a display of a several dozen books on a table covered in colorful cloth on the sidewalk along 16th Street.

“What’s a good book for someone who doesn’t read?”

The proprietor of the bookshop takes a split second to think, reaches for a book and offers the man his usual warm smile and a recommendation.

He suggests something from the Read Aloud series, for English language learners.

“You got anything smaller?”

No two days at work are the same for Danté Péläyo, a poet and the creator of Divine Styles Pop Up, a roaming bookstore that he sets up alongside cafes, bars and streets throughout Sacramento and the East Bay. In his 2004 Hyundai Sonata, he transports the words of rotating authors like Chuck Palahniuk, Maya Angelou and Frantz Fanon straight to the people. Depending on his inventory and where he sets up shop, sometimes even his windshield is covered with neatly organized literature.

“I want to meet whoever walks down these streets,” he says. “I really want this to be for the community.”

Péläyo was raised in Oakland and Sacramento, one of two sons of Dr. Linda Goodrich, who grew up during the civil rights movement and was passionate about dance. At the demand of her Depression-era mother, Goodrich first got a more practical master’s degree in English before earning her second MFA in dance. She took a job teaching dance at Sacramento State University, where she helped develop and was artistic director for Sacramento/Black Art of Dance.

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Andorian Ramsey is an Oakland-based poet recently featured at TOPOAOM. “For me to drive 100 miles … I’ll do that for the art,” Ramsey says. “Danté, what he brings to every town he goes to is organic.”

Andru Defeye, a fellow spoken word artist, founder of ZFG Promotions and communications director with Sol Collective, gives Péläyo credit for being ahead of the curve.

“Danté is a pop-up pioneer out here,” says Defeye.

“Before the ‘creative economy,’ before pop-up was a buzz word in the city of Sacramento, Danté was popping up and getting harassed by the police, shut down and just continued to do it,” he says.

Together, Defeye and Péläyo founded the Intersection in 2017, an outdoor open-mic at 35th and Broadway in Oak Park each Monday and a regular site of the Divine Style Pop Up. Then, also last year, Defeye applied for an Oak Park Sol Grant for Péläyo’s bookshop. The nonprofit awarded him $300, a grant that went toward more books and general improvements to the shop.

“He wants to give away a lot of stuff,” Defeye says with a laugh, and that takes funding. He sees common goals between Sol Collective and Péläyo’s

work—promoting education, community empowerment. But Sol Collective has its own building, while Péläyo has to physically create new places for his work, every time.

“Danté kind of creates his own safe space out on the street corners wherever he goes,” Defeye says.

“He’s a great mentor, he comes from great mentors. …

He is a conduit for something greater than himself.”

In early January, Péläyo stepped onto his biggest platform yet: a sold-out Kings game at the Golden 1 Arena.

During the Jan. 11 halftime show in celebration of Martin Luther King Jr., Péläyo was invited to perform.

He stepped onto the court and waved to the large audience. His piece “King” was written in a Black Lives Matter notebook, which event organizers asked him to cover for the reading. He recited the piece.

“Sunlight shine on my flow and sound, / Rise up people we are glory bound. Master, master, I am my king, / I rule my life and I shine my being.”

When he finished, he took a knee.

Defeye says the poetry scene is rich in Sacramento, and Dante’s work elevates everyone involved.

“We all thought there was a ceiling here until Dante played the arena,” says Defeye. “Then we realized that’s the ceiling for poetry.” Ω

There is no end to the ways Americans are expressing their frustrations.

Saturday’s Women’s March drew an estimated 36,000 participants in Sacramento, and it had no shortage of expression. People chanted as they walked from Southside Park to the Capitol Saturday morning: “What do we want? DACA. When do we want it? Now!” and “My body, my choice” rose from the tight crowd.

And of course, there were posters—some repped identity, others supported policies and plenty hated on Trump. The unofficial award for most popular sign went to Rick Adams of Fair Oaks, whose words, “Trump’s no pussy... he lacks the depth and the warmth” earned him plenty of protest selfies.

Sacramento artist Ianna Frisby greeted marchers dressed in an inflated dinosaur costume with the simple sign, “Time to evolve.”

Many pink pussy hats returned, a throwback from the inaugural Women’s March that has been criticized for not including trans folks and people of color in feminism.

Funny signs and third-wave adornments aside, others struck a more serious tone.

Jeff Peck, a retired Elk Grove veteran, was dressed in his U.S. Army uniform holding his sign, “Amnesty and citizenship for all undocumented immigrants #DACA.” He said he’d hoped his uniform would add legitimacy to his stance. Protestors occasionally stopped to thank him for his service.

Cienna Silvia, a 19-year-old first-time attendee of the Women’s March, came out to represent women of color.

“I don’t see a lot of signs out here supporting not just dreamers but especially black women,” she said. As a black and Filipino woman, “I wanted to be a voice for that.”

At noon, the crowd convened at the west steps of the State Capitol for a rally. Among the speakers was Adama Iwu, a lobbyist who has led the challenge to sexual harassment in politics and was recognized as one of Time Magazine’s Silence Breakers. A line of folks in the audience held black banners with two catchphrases from the movement to hold powerful men accountable for sexual misconduct: “Me Too” and “Time’s Up.” Just beneath those banners, a woman sat on the sidewalk with her interactive art display. A long, white sheet of paper was taped to the ground, a few black sharpies made available. At the top was the header, “Expose Your Local Rapist!”

“There are so many systems in place to keep people who do this where they are,” said the woman, who declined to give her name. Her intent is to break the silence among survivors like herself and possibly protect others.

“This is the worst art project I’ve done. Every name fucking hurts.”

As the rally proceeded, the sheet filled up with more names—a dozen, two dozen and counting. Some people looked at the names in silence, others thanked the artist.

Matt Fulton, who attended with his wife and three daughters, stopped to look at the display.

“I’m sure there are probably hundreds of people here, too, who could put a name down,” he said. “I would hope my daughters never have the need to do something like this.”

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When most people think of Sloughhouse, the last thing on their mind is fine dining. Sacramento residents may remember the old Sloughhouse Inn—with middle-ofthe-road fare and a strange smell emanating from the floorboards—and ignore the town on their way back from wine tasting in Amador County. Those folks are missing out.

In late 2016, local restaurateurs Ron and Terri Gilliland gave the old farmhouse a new lease on life and a new name to match: Meadowlands. They gave the building a light-handed facelift, handed the reins to Roxy Restaurant’s executive chef Danny Origel and overhauled the menu with an emphasis on the Gillilands’ pastured, Dixon-raised Lucky Dog Ranch beef. The result? Not your mama’s middle-of-nowhere steakhouse.

During one visit, my smoked “beef in a barrel” meatloaf ($24) was flavorful, well-textured and not overly smoky. The accompanying potatoes gratin was smothered with an admirable amount of cheese and the meaty bacon-braised greens elicited a “SQUEEEEE” from my dining partner. The Lucky Dog Ranch burger ($13) was one of the best burgers I’ve had in a while, perfectly cooked and laid on a rich brioche bun. The mini housemade cheddar biscuits ($4) were so good I decided to bring home extras, only to feel a mild sense of grief when I realized we’d eaten them all.

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The only caveat during my visit was dessert. The sticky toffee pudding with cream cheese gelato more closely resembled two dejected-looking mini burgers sidled up to a scoop of icy mashed potatoes. The burgerlike “puddings” missed the texture of a traditional British steamed pudding, and the gelato was so icy that I wondered if someone had let the carton melt on the counter and thrown it back in the freezer without rechurning it. I mentioned it to the waitress, who offered her chagrin but no alternative or resolution.

On another night, I tried the takeout deal: dinner for two for $25, with an entrée, salad and dessert. (An extra buck gets you a handful of those blissful cheddar biscuits.) My roast chicken was tender and luxurious, and the Meadow Salad so hearty and fresh that it could have made a proud meal in itself. All was well until dessert.

I was told I’d be getting an apple crisp but was surprised to find a box of still-sad-looking sticky toffee pudding pucks. If they were just OK while warm, they were less-so at room temperature. The tiny portion of baked apples did little to moisten them up. Sticky toffee pudding fail, take two.

The verdict? Meadowlands is well worth the drive, and a must-stop if you’re already coming up Highway 16. Even if you’re just dropping into the luminously decorated bar for a craft cocktail or a locally sourced glass of wine, you’ll find a wide selection of generous bar bites that themselves make for a grand small meal.

Pro tip: Meadowlands is currently selling Lucky Dog Ranch ground beef for the insanely low price of $15 for 5 pounds. (That’s $3 per pound if the math escapes you.) If you happen to be driving down Highway 16, stop and grab a bag… or five. Ω

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“We’re going to have a strong representation of IPAs, but we want to cover a variety of palates,” she said, adding that the stouts stocked during the winter opening will likely transition to ales that go down a bit easier in the warmer weather.

So far, they’ve locked down distribution with bigger local players like Bike Dog Brewing Co. and Track 7 Brewing Co. as well as granted a tap to the lauded Moonraker Brewing Co. from Auburn. But SacYard will also stock breweries from San Diego, Oregon and Colorado as well as maintain a “33rd Street Tap” that’s dedicated to the rotating preference of its local

connoisseurs, said Thebeau, who, along with the rest of the ownership group, lives only a short walk away.

True to its name, SacYard aims to be a family- and dog-friendly gathering spot for its neighbors.

Built in an old automotive garage, the interior features a minimalist, modern vibe, exposed wooden trusses and a communal table made from a decommissioned water tower.

Outside, there’s a sizable biergarten featuring ample seating, a hop trellis, a bocce ball court, cornhole ramps, fire pits and a kids’ section that includes a sandbox and a supersized Connect 4 rack. For food, they plan to use pop-ups, delivery services and food trucks with an emphasis on local, fresh choices.

Chef’s special: Hawks Public House

(1525 Alhambra Boulevard) debuted its new monthly late-night happy hour series from 10 p.m. to midnight on January 19. Seeking to showcase what chefs enjoy while off the clock, the first guest chef, Patricio Wise

from Roseville’s Nixtaco, whipped up a duck confit carnitas sope and two different types of pork belly tacos ($4.50 each).

In addition, Hawks’ master bartender Zeph Horn created a specialty caramel orange margarita ($8) garnished with crispy wonton salmon poke. This ongoing series will happen monthly on Fridays.

Check Hawks’ long-handled Instagram (@hawksprovisionsandpublichouse) for updates.

Wholesome gesture: Sacramento didn’t

make the cut to house Amazon’s next warehouse, but on January 11, Amazon’s subsidiary, Whole Foods Market, donated $12,317—or 5 percent of all sales from three regional locations—to local foodbased nonprofit Alchemist CDC. The funds will help kick off the Alchemy Kitchen, which will offer planning support and commercial cooking space to help food entrepreneurs launch businesses in Sacramento. Ω

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frican Americans comprise only 15 percent of Sacramento’s population, yet they accounted for nearly half of the city’s marijuana arrests from 2012- 2016.

The lengthy incarceration of African Americans devastated families, Seku-Amen said, costing them home ownership, a college education and other achievements.

Of 3,323 people arrested on marijuana offenses during that period, 43 percent were black, the Sacramento Police Department said last summer, after conducting a special analysis at City Council request.

“Families experienced incredible trauma,” added Seku-Amen, a Harvard-educated economic justice advocate.

The revelation confirmed what local activists who pushed for the study had maintained: minorities in California’s capital, as in other cities, have been disproportionately impacted

by America’s war on drugs.

Now that recreational marijuana is legal in California, Jim Keddy and Malaki Seku-Amen are in a coalition seeking drug war reparations from the city of Sacramento and the state.

Just as tobacco taxes fund health programs in California, the advocates want marijuana taxes to enhance social services in local minority communities.

“People of color, particularly African Americans, paid a heavy price,” said Seku-Amen, CEO of the California Urban Partnership, referring to the racist policies behind the drug war, which intensified under President Nixon.

“The typical story is that someone black was trying to escape economic bondage by dealing in marijuana,” he said. “After his arrest, he faced physical bondage in jail or prison ... even though whites sell more weed and smoke more weed.”

“PEOPLE OF COLOR, PARTICULARLY AFRICAN AMERICANS, PAID A HEAVY PRICE.” Malaki Seku-Amen CEO, California Urban Partnership

An “equity incubator” would help repair the damage, the coalition told city officials. Under that system, some marijuana-dealing licenses would be set aside for minorities along with cityprovided business loans.

In response, the City Council recently approved a $1 million Cannabis Opportunity, Reinvestment and Equity Program that for two years will help an unspecified number of minorities enter the legal marijuana trade — without city loans.

The program is good, yet more is needed, said Seku-Amen, noting he and Keddy remain in talks with the city and state.

How much the city will collect in taxes from cannabis retailers is unknown — but it will be in the millions annually. The state will collect more.

Flanking the words “social justice,” Jim Keddy (left) and Malaki Seku-Amen appear confident that Sacramento will use its new marijuana sales tax for “drug war reparations” to African Americans and poor people.

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The nonprofit California Urban Partnership (CUP) receives financial support from The California Endowment. Keddy, a former Endowment vice president, is executive director of Youth Forward, a Sacramento nonprofit with a contractual relationship with CUP. As “policy organizations,” CUP and Youth Forward are not pursuing reparation grants for themselves, Keddy emphasized. Such funds would be for nonprofits providing direct services to the needy, including the formerly incarcerated.

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The Musical of Musicals: The Musical!

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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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Short reviews by Jim Carnes and Bev Sykes.

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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Winter’s Waltz, Sacramento playwright Richard Broadhurst’s intense, late-night interchange between two men from vastly different backgrounds, is based loosely on the life of playwright William Inge, who came out of the American heartland in the 1950s, winning a Pulitzer Prize and an Oscar. Inge faded fast, and he took his life (brokenhearted at age 60) in 1973.

Broadhurst presents Ingram Wychoff, a onetime literary celebrity living alone in Manhattan, gazing out a picture window at the twin towers of the (new) World Trade Center. As the play opens, Wychoff welcomes Jamal, a small-time hustler who was briefly involved with the Black Panthers, currently peddling marijuana on the street. Incongruously, the lonely Wychoff offers wine and brie, and initiates a conversation.

Like Inge’s plays, Broadhurst’s script draws on sexual tension (Inge was closeted, but created several gay characters before that was cool). Broadhurst explores the vast discrepancy in these guys’ ages and backgrounds (white rural Kansas-slash-gritty New York City). Janis Stevens directs resourceful veteran Loren Taylor (whose performance in a 1996 local production of Death of a Salesman is still fondly recalled) and the much younger Tory Scroggins— their tag-team exchange turns Broadhurst’s witty lines into lively comic banter onstage, without diminishing the script’s dramatic mission. Broadhurst reportedly kept this play in a drawer for the 15 years; this belated premiere at California Stage is both welcome and long overdue.

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3 Sibling strife The title character of playwright Gina Gionfriddo’s Becky Shaw doesn’t even make her appearance until halfway through this dark comedy of family, death, marriage and dating. And when she finally does, she’s not quite the heroic figure who will be diving in to fix things. Instead, Becky is just one more swimmer in a pool of emotional messes.

Now at Big Idea Theatre, Becky Shaw is a fascinating, though sometimes frustrating, look into murky human dynamics—with surprising twists.

Sometimes, however, less would be more.

We first meet the family as two siblings— Suzanna (Amber Lucito) and Max (Dan Featherston)—talk about their father’s recent death.

We find out Max is not a blood son, but was given shelter with the family as a teenager. Enter mother Susan (Shelly Russel Riley), not packing soothing support, instead armed with discord.

Along he way come family interlopers: Suzanna’s new husband Andrew (Brennan Villados) and Max’s blind date Becky (Janey Pintar).

Director Elise Hodge keeps the action and intrigue on point, bringing out strong performances from her cast. The standout is Featherston, who masterfully plays a true Machiavellian, ethics and empathy thrown aside, a role that could easily be overplayed. Featherston keeps his Max in check.

The production design handles the many location changes with a clever multilevel stage, though there are a couple long set changes that disrupt the rhythm and pace of the story—a story that holds together while everyone is falling apart.

—Patti RobeRts Becky Shaw: Thu 8pm, Fri 8pm, Sat 8pm, one 2pm Sunday performance on February 11. Through February 17; $12-$22; Big Idea Theatre, 1616 Del Paso Boulevard; (916) 960-3036; www.bigideatheatre.org.

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Black mirror The indulgence of personal desires in the darker digital realms of virtual reality is fertile territory for contemporary playwrights, and The Nether—a prize-winning script that’s been staged in London, New York and Los Angeles, and opens this week at Capital Stage—delves into a mix of total sensory immersion, disturbing forms of “entertainment” (in which avatars mask the identity of some participants), with elements of crime drama and science-fiction thriller in the mix. Wed 7pm, Thu 7pm, Fri 8pm, Sat 2pm & 8pm, Sun 2pm. Through 2/25; $28-$45; Capital Stage, 2215 J Street; (916) 995-5464; www.capstage.org.

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Tally and Craig keep things straightforward and simple. Some might say “oversimplified,” and they In 12 Strong, writers Ted Tally and Peter Craig and might be right, but 12 Strong is telling a story, not director Nicolai Fuglsig tell the “declassified” story of expounding on the intricacies of post-9/11 geopolia detachment of U.S. Army Special Forces deployed tics. The movie offers no hindsight on America’s to Afghanistan in the days immediately following war in the region, any more than Julius Caesar’s “I September 11, 2001. I put “declassified” in quotes came, I saw, I conquered” reflected on the wisdom because I seem to recall, reading at the time, of of Rome’s war with Pharnaces of Pontus. Our American soldiers riding to battle against the boys prevail against daunting odds, and if Taliban and Al Qaeda on horseback, but the movie ends before things get too the movie says the mission was clasOur complicated—well, that’s the way sified until journalist Doug Stanton drama works. boys prevail wrote about it in his book Horse Director Fuglsig is a bit of an Soldiers, so what do I know? If against daunting unknown quantity; his only other it’s in the movie, it must be true. odds, and if the movie director’s credit is last year’s Anyhow, it’s an enjoyable Exfil, a picture so obscure that ends before things get old-fashioned war movie, albeit not even the IMDb knows very spruced up with the kind of too complicated—well, much about it; even its running graphic combat action that was that’s the way time is a mystery. Here, he deploys once forbidden by the limits of his forces reasonably enough, and drama works. film technology and the dictates of he never lets the microphone bob into the Hollywood Production Code (at the scene. one point, unidentifiable body parts of One of his forces—the movie’s not-sosome hapless Taliban soldier are blown right secret weapon—is Chris Hemsworth, whose stature over our shoulder). seems to grow with every movie he makes, even the Leading the doughty band of twelve strong is Capt.

Thor installments. If he ever looked like just another Mitch Nelson (Chris Hemsworth), with support from the pretty face, those days are gone. He’s an actor of real rank-unspecified Hal Spencer (Michael Shannon) and substance, and as an action hero he could become a Sam Diller (Michael Peña). Nelson’s local ally among real superstar, a sort of 21st century Errol Flynn.

Afghanistan’s Northern Alliance is Gen. Abdul Rashid 12 Strong never becomes as inspiring as it wants Dostum (Navid Negahban), and the two men bond in the to be, but it’s an upbeat movie about a downbeat time-honored band-of-brothers fashion of movies where war. And as movies go, that’s not nothing. Ω soldiers from all walks of life come together and find common ground on the battlefield. (Interesting factoid: in real life, Dostum has spent a lifetime cannily guessing which side was going to come out on top in his country’s turbulent history, and joining that side in the nick of time; today he’s vice president of Afghanistan.)

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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.

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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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Darkest Hour

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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Forever My Girl

A popular but unhappy country music superstar (Alex Roe) returns to his small hometown and the girlfriend he abandoned at the altar (Jessica Rothe)—and a daughter he never knew he had (Abby Ryder Fortson).

Director Bethany Ashton Wolf’s story (from Heidi McLaughlin’s novel) is lifted (no doubt unintentionally) from the forgotten 1956 classic Come Next Spring, but the movie staggers under its own clumsiness (also unintentional).

Roe tries for tortured angst, but his character comes off as an unlikeable lump, while young Fortson is saddled with college-age dialogue and the kind of twee precocity that moviemakers seem to think is so cute. And the music isn’t all that hot either. If you’re in the mood for this kind of love-lost-and-found story, stay home and watch Come Next Spring on Amazon Instant Video. J.L.

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Mary and the Witch’s Flower

Studio Ghibli veteran Hiromasa Yonebayashi adapts Mary Stewart’s 1971 children’s novel The Little Broomstick into this charming, entertaining, just-dark-enough GKIDS import. The story sutures together pieces from Spirited Away and the Harry Potter series: Mary, a bored but courageous orphan with wild red hair, bemoans her adventureless life in the country, only to get unexpectedly whisked away to a school of magic in the sky. Acquiring short-term “powers” from a magic flower she finds in the woods, Mary bluffs her way through the school gates, but she is forced to become a hero when her lies put other people in danger. Mary and the Witch’s Flower doesn’t possess the substance and seamlessness of When Marnie Was There, Yonebayashi’s previous effort: the in-scene pacing sometimes feels arrhythmic, and the characters rarely emerge from the plot clutter. However, this is still a compulsively watchable film with a strong female hero and a deluge of gorgeous images. D.B.

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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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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.

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Fractured masculinity and daddy obsessions have served as thematic pillars of the cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson ever since he debuted with Hard Eight in 1996. But before the formula grew untenable and stale, the control freak Anderson veered off track with his cosmically shaggy detective story Inherent Vice in 2014. Anderson serves as his own director of photography on the impeccably groomed yet quietly unsettling fashion world romance Phantom Thread, and he also created his first true female protagonist (there’s even a mommy obsession in the mix). As the demanding 1950s fashion designer Reynolds Woodcock, the excellent Daniel Day-Lewis may get top billing, but the film belongs to Vicky Krieps as Alma, a beach town waitress who enters Reynolds’ orbit. Phantom Thread often plays like a reverse Taming of the Shrew, with Alma determined to preserve her position in the House of Woodcock by cutting Reynolds down to size. 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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Ritual minus religion Jose Gonzalez believes human nature is enough

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In the 15 years since his music reached these shores, the Argentinian-Swedish artist Jose Gonzalez has evolved a genre of his own. His first album, Veneer, developed a cult following among fans of alternative-folk music (and sparked countless comparisons to Nick Drake). He turned “Heartbeats,” the Knife’s surreal electro-pop gem, into a romantic masterpiece of simple fingerpicked classical guitar and vulnerable vocals. On “Stay in the Shade,” the guitar-picking is fancy; there are some bongos and subtly overdubbed vocals—that’s it, and it’s devastating.

There have been just two more albums while Gonzalez spread his wings, forming a series of bands, touring with those bands and solo, and releasing mini-hits that explored a range of sounds. Recently, he’s toured with the brilliant contemporary classical ensembles Göteborg String Theory and yMusic. Critics universally describe his music as “minimalist”—and yet his rhythms, dynamics, influences and sonic textures are frequently complex.

In Our Nature, released in 2007, is a concept piece based on Gonzalez’ reading of contemporary philosophy, and features songs confronting religion and superstition. The song “Animal” consists of four words: “You are an animal,” set over a dazzling river of guitar. It feels like a chant, and it works like a meditation.

In an email this week from an Istanbul tour stop, Gonzalez writes that the piece was a last minute add-on to the album.

“I was thinking how the phrase is used in Spanish to mean, ‘You’re a beast,’” he writes.

“Then also thinking how we humans many times forget that we are animals. The whole album was vaguely inspired by evolutionary psychology— and this one felt like a nice simple addition.”

On a similar note, “Leaf Off / The Cave,” on 2015’s Vestiges & Claws, sounds like a joyful hymn for rationalists. “Why can’t you take the leaf off your mouth / now that you have the facts on your side? Take a moment to reflect where you’re from / let reason guide you.”

A long crescendo builds up to what sounds like a folk-mass performed by a loose choir, driven by hand-claps, repeating the phrase, “Let the light lead you out!”

I asked him: “What does ‘the light’ refer to?”

“Reality, cosmos, knowledge, reason.” “‘Out’ from where?”

“I was thinking of Plato’s cave. But also out from our semi-blind hiveminds.”

One doesn’t ordinarily find the immense inspirational lift of this song in atheist tracts.

Gonzalez writes that it was his goal. “It was very intentional,” he writes. “I don’t think I succeeded though in making it as uplifting as it could be. I blame my lack of production skills.”

Asked directly to address the quasi-religious nature of the song, he replied: “We don’t need superstition for ecstatic rituals. (Think about The Beatles.)”

Because his music reveals both strength and vulnerability, I felt like checking in about his emotional state in the time of Trump.

“I like the blurry zone between art and satire and how it can be used to highlight incongruities.

But it needs to be backed up by millions and millions of friendly interactions between people with different opinions and worldviews to move us past bumps in the road toward more enlightened societies.”

For the tour that brings him to the Crest Theatre next Tuesday, Gonzalez returns to his roots.

“I’ve done many tours with my latest album, but not that many on my own with just guitar,” he writes. “It’s the style that I feel is the most authentic. ... It’s nice to go back once in a while to the simplicity of just me onstage, playing the versions that are most similar to the recordings.

It keeps me on my toes.” Ω Photo courtesy of Malin Johansson

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Doors open at 6:30 p.m., and the show is at 7:30 p.m. tickets are $35-$55.

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Online listings will be considered for print. Print listings are edited for space and accuracy. Deadline for print listings is 5 p.m. Wednesday. Deadline for nightLife listings is midnight sunday. send photos and reference materials to Calendar editor kate gonzales at snrcalendar@newsreview.com.

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WeDnesDay, 1/31 JAMes ARMstRONG BAND: The Los Angeles band performs in this fundraiser for the Sacramento Blues Society. 6:30pm, $15.

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KAtY PeRRY: With Carly Rae Jepsen. 7pm, $82-

$187. Golden 1 Center, 500 David J Stern Walk.

tYLeR the CReAtOR: With Vince Staples.

6:30pm, $39.50-$199. Sacramento Memorial

Auditorium, 1515 J St.

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sACRAMeNtO ChOCOLAte sALON: Taste and experience the finest in artisan, gourmet and premium chocolate in one of California’s most central regions. Shop for the perfect gift and enjoy chef and author talks, wine tasting and more. 11am, $12.50. The Citizen Hotel, 926 J St.

MOnDay, 1/29 FOOD FOR thOuGht: sACRAMeNtO CheFs WIth MICheLIN-stAR sKILLs: In the first Food for Thought event of 2018, chefs Brad Cecchi, Edward Martinez and Scott Ostrander will share their experiences, philosophies and favorite dishes. 6pm, $15. CLARA Auditorium, 1425 24th St.

WeDnesDay, 1/31 ANNuAL BuBBLe tAstING: Taste bubbles from around the world and sample snacks like prawn and sausages skewers, oysters on the half shell and more. 5:30pm, $38. Taste Restaurant and Wine Bar, 9402 Main St. in Plymouth.

California MuseuM, 10 a.M., $6.50-$9 Sacramento is in the midst of major changes, altering the look and feel of many of the city’s neighborhoods with MuseuM each passing year. An exhibit at California Musesum takes a long look back at a side of Downtown Sacramento you might not have learned about in school.

“Kokoro: The Story of Sacramento’s Lost Japantown” returns to the museum for the second year with a collection of rare family

MusiC THursDay, 1/25 GReG ReKus: With Tim Holehouse, Danger Inc.,

Sunday School. 8pm, contact for cover. The Press Club, 2030 P St.

KeOLA BeAMeR & heNRY KAPONO: A performance by legends of Hawaiian music who became iconic in the 1970s and have continued playing for over four decades.

7pm, $18-$48. Harris Center, 10 College Parkway in Folsom.

AVAtAR: With The Brains, Hellzapoppin. 6:30pm, $19. Ace Of Spades, 1417 R St.

Lee sCRAtCh PeRRY: With Subatonic Sound

System. 8pm, $26-$28. Harlow’s, 2708 J St.

friDay, 1/26 BRING YOuR OWN VINYL OPeN tuRNtABLe NIGht: New and practiced DJs are invited to bring their favorite vinyl to play for the crowd.

Food will be available onsite. 6:30pm, no cover. Two Rivers Cider, 4311 Attawa Ave.

photographs of the neighborhood before it was devastated by Americans’ internment of Japanese citizens in the 1940s and the redevelopment of the 1950s. It was developed by former Japantown residents and author Kevin Wildie, whose book “Sacramento’s Historic Japantown: Legacy of a Lost Neighborhood.” See the exhibit on display through 3/11. 1020 O Street, www.californiamuseum.org.

CItIes YOu WIsh YOu WeRe FROM: With Blue

Oaks and DJ sets by Justin Moravitz. 9pm, $5. Hideaway Bar & Grill, 2565 Franklin Blvd.

the eNLOWs: With The O’Mulligans, the Dodges, Lightweight. 8pm, $5-$10. Cafe Colonial, 3520 Stockton Blvd.

FIVe FOR FIGhtING WIth stRING QuARtet: Charttopping singer/songwriter John Ondrasik brings his current project featuring a string quartet. 8pm, $47-$52. The Center for the Arts, 314 W. Main St. in Grass Valley.

LIttLe RIVeR BAND: Nashville classic rock band.

7:30pm, $49.95-$59.95. Thunder Valley

Casino Resort, 1200 Athens Ave. in Lincoln.

saTurDay, 1/27 DIO DIsCIPLes: With Criminal Rock, North

Shore, Arminius. 7pm, $20-$25. Holy Diver, 1517 21st St.

the FAB FOuR—uLtIMAte BeAtLes tRIBute: The Emmy Award-winning tribute band comes to Sac. 7:30pm, $32-$62.50. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.

GARBLe: With The Surrounded, Clevers. 8pm, $6. Old Ironsides, 1901 10th St.

MARK huMMeL’s BLues hARMONICA BLOWOut: Featuring an all-star Chicago Blues Celebration lineup of Billy Boy Arnold, John Primer, Mark Hummel, Deitra Farr, Oscar Wilson and more. 7:30pm, $12-$45. Harris Center, 10 College Parkway in Folsom.

sACRAMeNtO PhILhARMONIC: Rachmaninoff

Third Concerto. 8pm, $18-$50. Sacramento Community Center Theater, 1301 L St.

sunDay, 1/28 NIYAZ: Iranian folk/poetry group presenting

an immersive multimedia experience. 3pm, $21-$54. Harris Center, 10 College Parkway in Folsom.

JACAM MANRICKs QuARtet: With Grammywinning drummer Clarence Penn and jazz bassist Matt Penman as well as local jazz icon Joe Gilman on piano and Jacam Manricks on saxophones. 6pm, $15-$30.

Clara Auditorium, 1425 24th St.

TuesDay, 1/30 INteRVeNtION: With Sunsleeper. SAMMIESnominee Enso Anima, CitySick, Swing Away. 7pm, $10-$12. The Boardwalk, 9426 Greenback Lane in Orangevale.

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fesTivaLs friDay, 1/26 GLOBAL GAMe JAM: A hackathon focused on game development, where a secret theme is announced and players have 48 hours to design, create and test a new game. 4pm, No cover. Square One Clubs, 9342 Tech Center Drive, Suite 600.

saTurDay, 1/27 AuBuRN WINteR stORYteLLING FestIVAL: A daylong event with a children’s hour, a storytelling workshop, a liar’s contest and more. 10:30am, no cover. General Gomez Art And Event Center, 808 Lincoln Way in Auburn.

MIssLu-MIeN PAGeANt 2018: The Miss Iu-Mien Pageant, with a guest appearance by Lady Luna, R&B artist Fou Saeturn, DJ Dee, Mien rapper Jimi Saechao, Youa Xiong, Yami Lee and more. 3pm, $35-$350. Holiday Villa Resturant, 7007 South Land Park Drive.

teMPLe KuKuRI NeW YeAR’s CeLeBRAtION & teA CeReMONY: A New Year Tea Ceremony with New Year Japanese calligraphy, game and activities for everyone. 3pm, $5-$30.

Temple KUKURI, 10723, Fair Oaks.

fOOD & Drink friDay, 1/26

THursDay, 1/25 AN INCONVeNIeNt seQueL: A film about former Vice President Al Gore’s continuing mission to battle climate change. 7pm, $8. State Theatre, 985 Lincoln Way in Auburn.

WONDeR: The heartwarming story of August Pullman, a boy with facial differences who enters elementary school for the first time.

7:30pm, no cover. The University Union Ballroom at Sacramento State University, 6000 J St.

saTurDay, 1/27 the AFRICAN AMeRICANs: MANY RIVeRs tO CROss: The third screening of this six-hour series by Henry Louis Gates Jr. that covers centuries of African-American history.

Includes interviews with people on the front lines of school integration, former Black Panther members and politicians.

RSVP required. 5pm, no cover. SF Johnson Foundation, 6720 Fair Oaks Blvd., Suite 103 in Carmichael.

sunDay, 1/28 MY ItALIAN seCRet: the FORGOtteN heROes: A story about the underground network of Italians who risked their lives to save Jewish people in Italy. Refreshments included. 2pm, $15. Italian Cultural Center & Museum, 6821 Fair Oaks Blvd. in Carmichael.

hAZY IPA Fest: More than 15 Northeast IPAs will be on tap, food will be available and a DJ set by My Cousin Vinny. Fundraiser for Young Life. 5pm, no cover. California Automobile Museum, 2200 Front St.

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COMeDy BLACKtOP COMeDY: Open Mic Mix. A 90-minute open mic night of new comics working out

LAND AND seA tRI-tIP AND CRAB FeeD: Enjoy a meal while helping raise money for XP

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Speak Out! Sacramento Pop-Up Concert Shine, 8 p.m., $5 SuggeSted donation

I’ve heard it said that Speak Out! Sacramento is among the most supportive open-mic nights in the On Stage city. Held every first and third Wednesday, artists working out their craft can expect a receptive audience at Shine. Let’s celebrate those warm vibes. Speak Out! Sacramento PopPHOTO COURTesy OF dOnOVan LynCH Up Concert is an amplified version of the regular open-mic—a show with featured performers from the artistic worlds of comedy, poetry and music. Comedian Shahera Hyatt, Sacramento Poetry Slam champion Jeanette Sem and musician Jordan Moore will perform, along with a few surprise audience participants.

Drop your name in a hat for a chance to get on the Shine stage for a five-minute set, and come prepared with something you’ve been itching to share. 1400 E Street, www.shinesacramento/events.

CaLenDaR LIStIngS COntInUeD FROM Page 31 material mixed with top comedians in the region performing 10-minute sets. 8pm Friday, 1/26. $30. Shot Form Improv and Drinks. As the game goes on, the improv actors get more tipsy. 9:30pm Saturday, 1/27. $5. 3101 Sunset Blvd., Suite 6A in Rocklin.

LaUgHS UnLIMIteD SaCRaMentO: The Sweet Spot Sacramento. Celebrate the sexier side of life with this traveling pop-erotica variety show. 8pm thursday, 1/25. $20$40. 1207 Front St.

PUnCH LIne: Corinne Fisher & Krystyna Hutchinson Present The Bridget Bishop Tour. New York comedy duo and hosts of the podcast, Guys We Fucked: The Anti-Slut-Shaming Podcast. through 1/27. $22.50. LOLGBT Drag Dinner — A Night of Drag and Comedy. See event highlight on page 35. 7pm Sunday, 1/28. $15. Robert Berry Presents: Murdering Comedy Monsters of Fire. Local comedian Robert Berry hosts a lineup featuring Joe Gorman, Jason Sohm, Emma Haney and others. 8pm Wednesday, 1/31. $16. 2100 Arden Way, Suite 225.

tOMMY t’S COMeDY CLUB: Comedian Shang Forbes. A comedian who has appeared on BET, HBO, Comedy Central and MTV who got his comedy career started because of a $50 dare. through 1/28. $20. 12401 Folsom Blvd. in Rancho Cordova.

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

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.

HaLFtIMe BaR & gRILL: Halftime Idol Karaoke Contest. Show off your singing skills and win your share of $1,000 in prizes in this 14-week, American Idol-style competition. 7pm. through 5/10. $5. 5681 Lonetree Blvd. in Rocklin.

HaRRIS CenteR: Jeffrey Toobin. CNN analyst and writer for The New Yorker, Jeffrey Toobin shares his insight and expertise on politics, media and the law. 7pm. through 1/28. $12-$64. 10 College Parkway in Folsom.

OaK PaRK COMMUnItY CenteR: Express Yourself Talent Show Auditions. Auditions for a talent show that will take place during the Sacramento Black Book Fair, on June 2.

Audition if you’re a musician, in a band, a dancer, singer, poet or more. 5pm Friday, 1/26. no cover. 3425 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.

SaCRaMentO COMMUnItY CenteR tHeateR:

Jersey Boys. Opening weekend. 8pm. through 2/4. $33-$102. 1301 L Street. ticketmaster. evyy.net

SHIne: Speak Out Sacramento Pop-Up Concert. See event highlight on page 33. 8pm Wednesday, 1/31. $5 suggested donation. 1400 E St.

tHeatRe In tHe HeIgHtS: A Shot In the Dark. A three-act comedy about a woman accused of murdering her lover. through 2/16. $15. 8215 Auburn Boulevard, Suite G in Citrus Heights.

tOMMY t’S COMeDY CLUB: Hunks The Show. A

Magic Mike-style male revue. 8pm tuesday, 1/30. $25-$50. 12401 Folsom Blvd. in Rancho Cordova.

UC DaVIS: Circa. Seven dancers strive to connect with each other against a stark black wall, precariously lifting, holding, levitating and falling. A Q&A session will follow the performance. 8pm Friday, 1/26. $12.50-$49. 1 Shields Ave. in Davis.

DaVIS MUSICaL tHeatRe COMPanY: Monty Python’s Spamalot. Ripped off from the comedy Monty Python and the Holy

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LoLGBT: Dinner with Queens Punch Line, 7 P.m., $15

Fix your crowns, guys, gals and nonbinary pals, because its time to be among queens. The LoLGBT: Dinner with Drag Queens will feature hilarious drag queens like Suzette Veneti, Apple Adams, Mercury Rising and Anna ComeDy Mosity—beauties you may have seen during Drag Queen Bingo or other local drag events. John Ross, Chelsea Bearce and other local standup comics will also perform.

If you end up feeling judged in the crowd, you probably are. The queens will be looking for the best drag outfits in the audience, so don’t be afraid to sparkle. 2100 Arden Way, Suite 225, www.punchlinesac.com.

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arT ARTS CoUNCIL oF PLACeR CoUNTy: Arts Council of Placer County. A reception for the Placer Artists League new exhibit. Enjoy light refreshments, drinks, music and more. 5pm Friday, 1/26. No cover. 5440 Park Drive, Suite 102A in Rocklin.

CK ART: A Sense of Place. Artwork inspired by a sense of place, including landscapes, abstracts, sculptures and conceptual art. Second Saturday Reception at 6pm Saturday, 1/13. Through 1/31. No cover. Paint Night at CK Art. An evening of painting poppies with artist Kyle Lawson. No experience necessary. 5:45pm Tuesday, 1/30. $45. 2500 J St.

CRoCKeR ART mUSeUm: E. Charlton Fortune The Colorful Spirit. An exhibition of work by one of California’s most progressive female artists. Through 4/22. $5-$10. 216 O 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.

GALLeRy AT 48 NATomA: Local Color SAQA Fiber Art Exhibit. A free opening reception for this exhibit of artistic quilts will be held at 6pm Friday, 1/26. Through 3/9. No cover. 48 Natoma St. in Folsom.

oUTLeT CoWoRKING: Stranger Things 2 The Art Show. A Menagerie art show tribute to the popular Netflix show. 7:30pm Saturday, 1/27. 2110 K St.

SAC STATe eLSe GALLeRy: All Exaltations: Meditations in Sculpture. An exploration of idealism, dogma and symbolism in these works by artist Andrew Connelly. Through 2/9. No cover. 6000 J St.

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.

all aGeS SaTurday, 1/27 KoKeSHI DoLLS: A simple toy traditionally made in Northern Japan, the Kokeshi

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doll is the perfect craft to make with friends. Explore Japanese culture and craft a Kokeshi doll of your own. 2pm, no cover. Sacramento Public Library—North Sacramento-Hagginwood Library, 2109 Del Paso Blvd.

Sunday, 1/28 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, 1/29 ALL ABoARD FoR SToRy TIme WITH FoX40 meTeoRoLoGIST DARReN PeCK: FOX40 Meteorologist Darren Peck is the celebrity guest reader. 11am, $0-$12. California State Railroad Museum, 111 I St.

TueSday, 1/30 DRAWING FoR BeGINNeRS: Students can explore their creativity while learning fundamental drawing skills. For ages 7 to 12. 3:30pm, $90-$95. Blue Line Arts, 405 Vernon Suite 100 in Roseville.

SPOrTS & OuTdOOrS friday, 1/26 PRoFeSSIoNAL BULL RIDeRS: The top 35 bull riders in the world compete in this man versus beast duel. 7:45pm, $15-$350.

Golden 1 Center, 500 David J Stern Walk.

SaTurday, 1/27 ACoRN CReeK WoRK DAy: Enjoy a day of trail work as the team continues to smooth out rough edges, remove barriers, post interpretive signs and create clearer marked paths for use. For location information contact Taylor Faye at stewardship@arconservancy.org 10am, no cover. American River Conservancy, 348 State Highway 49 in Coloma.

PoLAR PLUNGe: Jump in and join the fun for

this spinal cord injury fundraiser. 8am, $20. Fruitridge community center, 4000 Fruitridge Road.

PRoFeSSIoNAL BULL RIDeRS: See event listing

on 1/26. 6:45pm, $15-$350. Golden 1 Center, 500 David J Stern Walk.

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RidGe WALk on ARC’S CoSumneS RiveR PRoPeRTy: An intermediate, four-mile hike with 600-ft. elevation change. Some steep and rutted areas. Ages 12+ welcome.

Contact ARC to sign up and for meeting location. 9am, $5-$10 suggested donation.

American River Conservancy, 348 State Highway 49 in Coloma.

tueSday, 1/30 FRom GRid To GARAGe eLeCTRiC CARS in SACRAmenTo neiGHboRHoodS: Learn about the future of electric transportation in Sacramento and join the discussion to expand electric car infrastructure. noon, no cover. Governor’s Office Council Room, State Capitol Building, 1315 10th St.

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Sunday, 1/28 PRoFeSSionAL buLL RideRS: See event listing on 1/26. 1:45pm, $15-$350. Golden 1 Center, 500 David J Stern Walk.

taKe action tHurSday, 1/25 CommuniTy ConveRSATionS SCienCe CAFe: A bimonthly speaker’s series hosted by the UC Davis Clinical and Translational Science Center, UC Davis Center for Reducing Health Disparities and the Powerhouse Science Center. An opportunity for researchers to present cutting-edge research findings and learn from the public. 6pm, no cover. Old Soul at 40 Acres, 3434 Broadway.

friday, 1/26 STATeWide ConFeRenCe—PRoJeCT CHAnGe And youTH LAW CenTeR: A statewide conference to increase post-secondary education opportunities in California for young people impacted by the juvenile justice system.

The conference will include presentations from educators and advocates, workshops, networking opportunities and a panel of students impacted by juvenile justice who have navigated higher education. 8am, no cover. Sheraton Grand Hotel, 1230 J St.

Saturday, 1/27 LoudeR THAn WoLveS TAkinG A STAnd AGAinST RAPe CuLTuRe: See event highlight below.

8pm, $10 suggested donation. Colonial

Theatre, 3522 Stockton Blvd.

tHurSday, 1/25 RoLL youR oWn: Learn to roll sushi during this fun, delicious class. Includes sake tasting.

Fundraiser for the Ashton Fritz Rehab Fund.

6pm, $60-$100. Kanpai Sushi, 1013 Riley St. in Folsom.

Saturday, 1/27 FRee yoGA CLASS: Experience the grounding, calming effects of yoga while increasing your strength, flexibility and balance. All skill levels welcome. 1pm, no cover. ArdenDimick Library, 891 Watt Ave.

SAvoR youR LiFe: Learn the essential elements of savoring to increase joy, happiness and satisfaction. 9am, $25. Soil Born Farms, 2140 Chase Drive in Rancho Cordova.

SHoP TooL bASiCS And SAFeTy (beGinneRS WeLCome): This class is designed for those wanting to learn how to use woodshop power tools. Instruction in the use of a jointer, planter, table saw, band saw, drill press and router table. Bring safety glasses. 1pm, $20. Rockler Woodworking and Hardware, 6648 Lonetree Blvd. in Rocklin.

Sunday, 1/28 SoLiSTiC PReSenTS: LEARN HOW TO MEDITATE: Benefits of meditation include reducing stress and anxiety, increasing energy, reducing anger and frustration, improving health and more. Learn a daily practice of meditation. 2pm, $10. Sol Collective, 2574 21st St.

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Louder Than Wolves: Taking a Stand Against Rape Culture Colonial TheaTre, 8 p.m., $10

What was she wearing? Was she drunk?

Where were her friends? Many who posted “me too” last year recogTAke ACTion nize that these responses to sexual assault are problematic, but prevaPHoto courteSy of brian coffman PHotograPHy lent. It sucks, but we can change the culture.

Louder Than Wolves will feature filmmakers, performance artists and survivors of sexual assault who are challenging the toxicity of rape culture through their work. The variety show will include spoken word, aerial arts, burlesque, stand-up comedy and films about consent and gender. A $10 donation is requested, with proceeds benefiting My Sister’s House, but nobody will be turned away due to lack of funds. 3522 Stockton Boulevard, facebook.com/sacramentohorrorfilmfestival.

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—Loki Downlow What a drag. California is an “at-will” state, so employers can definitely fire you or refuse to hire you if you use cannabis, even though cannabis is now legal. And before you ask, this has already been challenged in court (See Ross v. RagingWire Telecommunications, Inc., 2008). It’s a shame, really. THC can stay in the bloodstream long after the effects of the drug have worn off, so even though a person may test positive for marijuana, it doesn’t mean they were high at work. According to the internet, three weeks is just about enough time for someone to pass a drug test, although some chronic users (hehe) need about a month. Abstaining from cannabis and hoping for the best (drink lots and lots of water) is probably the most you can do, but I have heard of people purchasing “detox drinks” online or at head shops. These drinks are supposed to help you pass a drug test, but I can’t vouch for their effectiveness. We need to change state law to allow cannabis users to keep their jobs, but I don’t think it’s gonna happen anytime in the near future. Good luck. I hope you get the job.

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FOR THE WEEk OF JANUARy 25, 2018 ARIES (March 21-April 19): Anders Haugen

competed for the United States as a ski jumper in the 1924 Winter Olympics. Although he was an accomplished athlete who had previously set a world record for distance, he won no medals at the games. But wait! Fifty years later, a sports historian discovered that there had a been a scoring mistake back in 1924. In fact, Haugen had done well enough to win the bronze medal. The mistake was rectified, and he finally got his longpostponed award. I foresee a comparable development happening in your life, Aries. Recognition or appreciation you deserved to have received some time ago will finally come your way.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In 1899, Sobhuza II

became King of Swaziland even though he was less than five months old. He kept his job for the next 82 years, and along the way managed to play an important role when his nation gained independence from the colonial rule of the United Kingdom. These days you may feel a bit like Sobhuza did when he was still in diapers, Taurus: not sufficiently prepared or mature for the greater responsibilities that are coming your way. But just as he received competent help in his early years from his uncle and grandmother, I suspect you’ll receive the support you’ll need to ripen.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In my ideal world,

dancing and singing wouldn’t be luxuries practiced primarily by professionals. They would be regular occurrences in our daily routines.

We’d dance and sing whenever we needed a break from the numbing trance. We’d whirl and hum to pass the time. We would greet each other with an interpretative movement and a little tune. In schools, dance and song would be a standard part of the curriculum—as important as math and history. That’s my utopian dream, Gemini. What’s yours? In accordance with the astrological omens, I urge you to identify the soul medicine you’d love to incorporate into your everyday regimen. Then go ahead and incorporate it! It’s time for you to get more aggressive about creating the world you want to live in.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Psychology pioneer

Carl Jung believed that most of our big problems can never be fully solved. And that’s actually a good thing. Working on them keeps us lively, in a state of constant transformation. It ensures we don’t stagnate. I generally agree with Jung’s high opinion of our problems. We should indeed be grateful for the way they impel us to grow.

However, I think that’s irrelevant for you right now. Why? Because you have an unprecedented opportunity to solve and graduate from a major long-running problem. So no, don’t be grateful for it. Get rid of it. Say goodbye to it forever.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Between now and March

21, you will be invited, encouraged, and pushed to deepen your understanding of intimate relationships. You will have the chance to learn much, much more about how to create the kind of togetherness that both comforts and inspires you. Will you take advantage of this eight-week opportunity? I hope so. You may imagine that you have more pressing matters to attend to. But the fact is that cultivating your relationship skills would transform you in ways that would best serve those other pressing matters.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In December, mass

protests broke out in Mashhad, Iran’s secondlargest city. Why? The economy had been gradually worsening. Inflation was slowly but surely exacting a toll. Unemployment was increasing.

But one of the immediate triggers for the uprising was a 40-percent hike in the price of eggs. It focused the Iranian people’s collective angst and galvanized a dramatic response. I’m predicting a comparable sequence in your personal future, Virgo. A specific irritant will emerge, motivating you to stop putting up with trends that have been subtly bothering you.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In the late 1980s,

Budweiser used a bull terrier to promote its Bud Light beer in commercials. The dog, who became mega-famous, was presented as a rich macho party animal named Spuds MacKenzie. The ad campaign was successful, boosting sales 20 percent. But the truth was that the actor playing Spuds was a female dog whose owners called her Evie. To earn money, the poor creature, who

was born under the sign of Libra, was forced to assume a false identity. To honor Evie’s memory, and in alignment with current astrological omens, I urge you human Libras to strip away any layers of false identity you’ve been pressured to acquire. Be your real self—to the max.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The giant panda

is a bear native to China. In the wild, its diet is 99 percent bamboo. But bamboo is not an energy-rich food, which means the creature has to compensate by consuming 20 to 30 pounds of the stuff every day. Because it’s so busy gathering its sustenance, the panda doesn’t have time to do much socializing. I mention this, Scorpio, because I want to offer up the panda as your anti-power animal for the coming weeks. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you should have a diversified approach to getting your needs met—not just in regards to food, but in every other way as well. Variety is not just the spice of life; it’s the essence.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You’re the

star of the “movie” that endlessly unfolds in your imagination. There may be a number of other lead actors and actresses, but few if any have your luster and stature. You also have a supporting cast, as well as a full complement of extras.

To generate all the adventure you need, your story needs a lot of dramatis personae. In the coming weeks, I suggest that you be alert for certain minor characters who are primed to start playing a bigger role in your narrative. Consider the possibility of inviting them to say and do more to advance the plot.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Thirty-five miles

per hour is typically the highest speed attained by the U.S. Navy’s Nimitz-class aircraft carriers.

That’s not very fast. On the other hand, each ship’s engine generates 190 megawatts, enough to provide the energy needs of 140,000 houses, and can go more than 20 years without refueling.

If you don’t mind, I’m going to compare you to one of those aircraft carriers during the next four weeks. You may not be moving fast, but you will have maximum stamina and power.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The pawpaw is

a tasty fruit that blends the flavors of mango, banana and melon. But you rarely find it in grocery stores. One reason is that the fruit ripens very fast after being picked. Another is that the pollination process is complicated. In response to these issues, a plant scientist named Neal Peterson has been trying to breed the pawpaw to be more commercially viable. Because of his work, cultivated crops have finally begun showing up at some farmers’ markets. I’d like to see you undertake metaphorically similar labors in 2018, Aquarius. I think you’ll have good luck at developing rough potentials into more mature forms of expression. You’ll have skill at turning unruly raw materials into more useful resources. Now is a great time to begin.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): An iceberg is a huge chunk of ice that has cracked away from a glacier and drifted off into the open sea. Only nine percent of it is visible above the waterline. The underwater part, which is most of the iceberg, is basically invisible. You can’t know much about it just by looking at the top. This is an apt metaphor for life itself. Most everyone and everything we encounter is 91 percent mysterious or hidden or inaccessible to our conscious understanding.

That’s the weird news, Pisces. The good news is that during the next three weeks you will have an unprecedented ability to get better acquainted with the other 91 percent of anything or anyone you choose to explore.

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.

Stan Padilla, artist, educator and activist, stands with a mural he painted for students of the United Auburn Indian Community Tribal School.

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Paint and power Saturday, advocates for equality and human rights gathered at the Southside Park Ampitheater, a place of pilgrimage for activists in Sacramento. A mural honoring Latino culture in the neighborhood there has served as a backdrop to events and protests for thousands of participants, even Cesar Chavez. The city commissioned the mural in the 1970s from the Royal

Chicano Air Force, an artist collective nationally recognized as masters of Chicano/Mexican art. Now, the group is producing another gift to Sacramentans, unveiled March 1 at the Golden 1 Center: A 30-foot-tall piece titled “Flight.” Stan Padilla, who helped paint the Southside mural with other RCAF artists, is working with fellow RCAF co-founders Esteban Villa and Juanishi Orosco, plus 25 assistants.

What does this mural mean for RCAF? It’s the culmination of our ancestral lineage: We’re bringing the themes, symbols and aspects from the Aztec world to our work in the present. It’s a crowning glory honoring social justice and civil rights movements. RCAF stands for using creativity to meet those ends. This is a heritage mural, a social art with trust and cooperation. There are no lead artists; we’re all taking the lead, moving beyond personalities to honor this legacy.

“Flight” means to move beyond the ordinary: How can we change, better ourselves and move forward in a social justice way? For us, just to be painting there is social justice. We were poor and to do this, it’s a big deal. This is long term—thousands of people will experience it over the years.

Where did RCAF draw symbolism?

“Flight” comes from the Aztec Mesoamerican myth of the coming of the Sixth Sun: That we have had worlds before on this Earth. Our ancient myths

tell us under the new sun rising, we’ll see an integration of all people into a greater corona of humanity.

It looks like we’re falling apart, if you look on the ground. But if you look broader, all the old issues are being dealt with: racism, sexism, militarism. We’re breaking through. At least the truth is being told, not hidden in a closet.

The fifth era we’re living in ends with earthquakes, civil war, plagues and general degenerate behavior—that’s how we’d know. Then, a new sun, the sixth, moves us into consciousness—self-awareness.

Walls, once painted, become portals of understanding. When people don’t have avenues to speak, they paint it on the walls. In times past, people weren’t as literate, and so often got information from murals. Simon and Garfunkel said, “the words of the prophet are written on the subway walls.”

What is flight, anyway? It’s not just getting on an airplane. It’s elevating ourselves to a higher level to see these things; to get some altitude and perspective on things.

Last year, we saw water protectors standing up. It’s like grass breaking through concrete. Germination is stronger than parking lots. That’s what I see happening.

What will the mural look like?

It’s a triptych, three parts unified into one.

A vertical panorama rises up like a tower, with the bottom level showing third-world astro-pilots: People at the control booth, all of humanity and races working together to get this flight going. Esteban Villa, the artist, calls it MASA—the Mexican American Space Administration.

The middle section is mine, a reconfiguring of the Sixth Sun. It shows a kaleidoscopic view of the sun with a butterfly of transformation and change, showing navigation, where we’re going. I’ve added hidden poetry, which won’t be seen but felt; telling the story in the painting like a time capsule. You’ll just

see the outer metallic. I used to paint cars.

This will have pearlescents, candy-apple red and golden solar flares.

The top panel, Juanishi Orosco’s, shows a man and a woman drifting into the cosmos together, to self and their place in the scheme of things, with ancient pyramids and classical themes often used

by Mexican muralists.

RCAF has a rich history of championing Latino culture. How does this relate?

We feel like prodigal sons coming home to that arena. It was an old Mexican barrio torn down before the space ship. This means Latinos are coming home. We’re natives. We’re from here. We can only speak of this in a bigger view than politics.

This is brown, indigenous land. You can bubble over it with tin cans. It doesn’t change the nature of it.

We’re native sons using Fibonacci sequences. When this is finished, you will be able to come to the Golden 1 arena and the Golden State and see a golden message. That’s fine, they play basketball there and have concerts there. What’s most important is people graduate there.

People will attain a golden diploma and the possibility of a greater future, being initiated; of starting something new.

We were all the first to be educated.

When you’re first in line to stand up—my grandparents didn’t even speak English.

These things are universal. It comes from our cultural expression.

The pieces are carved 18 to 20 inches from the wall, actualizing. They’ll be filled with natural light as well as a bank of lights behind. Colors will change all day long.

Even at night, some will still be seen.

I don’t know if there will be anything brighter in all of Sacramento. Ω “Flight” will be unveiled at the Golden 1 Center March 1, the Kings’ Latino Heritage Night.

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