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Second Amendment rights to life My good friend Dan Baum, an enthusiastic gun-owner, author of the book Gun Guys and contributing editor at Harper’s, is proposing what he calls a “fiendishly clever” way to bring about sane gun laws. It’s based on the Second Amendment itself. That Amendment reads: “A wellregulated militia, being essential to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” The NRA usually excises the verbiage about the militia. Here’s Danny’s idea: “If you don’t own a gun and want tougher gun restrictions, file a federal lawsuit arguing that your Second Amendment rights are being violated. “‘The militia’ has been since colonial days understood as the community of armed citizens, so as an unarmed citizen, you have a Second Amendment right to live among a well-regulated militia. The current community of armed citizens is anything but.” Although Dan is deeply critical of the NRA, he has long praised the organization’s gun-safety training program. “We’d all be better off if good training were required to own a gun,” he says. Dan contends that an assaultweapons ban cannot work. In a 2013 cover story for Harper’s, he wrote: “[Assault-style rifles] are a collection of integrated components, which makes controlling their proliferation almost impossible.” This week’s cover story by Scott Thomas Anderson reveals how this has impacted our region, from the nation’s first high-profile mass school shooting, which took place in Stockton in 1989, to last November’s bloody tragedy in Tehama. Both of those massacres were perpetrated by home-assembled ghost guns.
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Right now, there’s an uproar about guns and what laws should be passed. It’s a huge controversy. … I have younger siblings in high school, and I know they’re taking more precautions around what to do. It’s probably messing with people’s minds a little bit.
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Everything about Trump: I feel like he’s constantly on the news. Doesn’t matter what it is, even if it’s something stupid, like about his social life and stuff, it’s always him. Sometimes it’s important, because he’s the president, but sometimes it’s, like, I don’t need to hear that.
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I think they cover the amount of money that a campaign makes too much, rather than the relevant issues that they’re trying to promote. Because, I think the idea of more money in our culture is always better, and with respect to the value of candidates, I don’t think it’s necessarily true.
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There’s really only one answer. The giant orange monster that we call the president. Presidents are always covered pretty heavily, but I think they focus a bit too much on his personality, in terms of his celebrity. The fact that we elected a TV personality puts the press in a difficult position.
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The fact that Kylie Jenner had a baby. It was everywhere. The minute she posted she had her baby, it got blown up for weeks. Society is too much in each other’s business. We always want to know what’s going on. That’s why we have social media, so you can basically watch people, right?
I feel a lot of negativity in the news media is glorified. These people that are shooters get broadcast on the media. Which is a good thing, because you should know who are doing bad things, right? But it gives other people an outlet. Like, this is how I get on mainstream media.
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Worst idea ever Re “Bloat” by Dennis Myers (Feature, March 8): Thank you for finding the courage to open this door and begin to speak the unspeakable. It may only be the tip of the iceberg, but it is still a major breakthrough. Probably not 1 percent of the American people could say what NSC 68 [the “Truman Doctrine”] was and what it meant. But, it may well be the most important doctrine ever enacted by the U.S. government (yes, I’m including the Monroe Doctrine). It committed us to a level of spending, and worse, to a concurrent mental attitude that has bankrupted (financially and morally) the former wealthiest, most powerful of nations. This has been going on for 70 years with little or no attention from our citizens, and certainly no attention to consequences.
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Freedom isn’t free Re “Bloat” by Dennis Myers (Feature, March 8): And who do you think let’s you print this? The U.S. Military should be your first answer. Steven DaviS via Facebook
Excessive prosecutorial fervor Re: “A political YOLO” by Michael Mott (Beats, February 1): The reason we got to this point is politicians using voters’ fear of being victimized to get them
to vote for them. Republicans are the most guilty. Our district attorney in Yolo County put four 14-year-old Mexican American kids in prison for 10 years, using enhanced sentencing, for a crime that in other counties would get them no incarceration, or maybe six months in a juvenile facility. These four young men’s lives have been destroyed. The case involves an Amtrak train that these kids threw rocks at while rolling through West Sacramento. Finally we have a choice in Yolo County. It is time to vote Reisig out. tim mcKinnon We s t S a c ra m e nt o v i a ne w s re v i e w . c o m
Art vs. commerce Re: “Moving art” by John Flynn (Scorekeeper, March 15): Thank you for your thumb’sdown on the local-artist-wrapped design on light rail cars. Apparently SN&R is content with the calico-cat advertising offal that adorns many RT light rail trains.
Didn’t hear a peep from you on that. RT, keep up that revenue generation no matter how ugly your trains are. Just goes to say: If you don’t have something nice to say, don’t say anything at all. GeorGe mcaliSter or a nge v a le
Swimming and singing Re “A marathon life” by Skye Cabrera (15 Minutes, March 8): Swimming from Cuba to Florida at the age of 64 is a remarkable feat, and I would say it qualifies Diana Nyad as an inspirational figure. But in her interview, she said one thing that makes no sense. Nyad related that in the course of her swim, she sang Kris Kristofferson’s “Me & Bobby McGee,” made famous by the great Janis Joplin, a thousand times, singing “the entire song, from the first note to the last note,” and used it to clock herself: “Nine hours and 45 minutes. That’s how long it [took] me ...’”
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That’s a total of 585 minutes, which translates to 35.1 seconds [per song]. Janis Joplin’s version of the song ran about four and a half minutes. I reached out to Ms. Nyad herself about this, and she was kind enough to reply and explain: “I sing that first stanza (Janis’s voice reverberating in my ears) and then I skip right to the La La La di La’s,” she said. “Oral accounts are always fraught with word slips... I had no idea I said I sang ‘the entire song’ … will not make that mistake again.” Of course, Ms. Nyad’s amazing accomplishment still stands as an inspiration to us all. DaviD Urman
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Sally Dunbar, one of the American River Parkway’s mile stewards, says she feels a responsibility to leave the world a better place for her grandson, which includes cleaning a stretch of the river. Photo by Michael Mott
Riverbed fellows Homeowners and advocates agree: to save the American River, give homeless people bathrooms and shelter by Michael Mott
Raheem F. hosseini contributed to this report. this story was made possible by a grant from tower cafe.
Sally Dunbar hiked across a verdant meadow along the American River until a blue flap gave her pause. “Wait,” Dunbar said, eying the tent. The 66-year-old grandmother and realtor pulled out her smartphone and dropped a location “pin” using Sacramento 311’s app. Volunteer river stewards like Dunbar intend for this information to reach Sacramento County rangers tasked with citing people who illegally camp along the shore. Rangers received 35 of those alerts in January, county figures show, and handed out 260 tickets.
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It’s not like homeless people have many legal places to go instead. City and county officials haven’t reopened warming centers since last March, leaving 383 beds for the thousands of people sleeping on streets or along waterways. Recent storms didn’t result in temperatures dipping below the three-day, 32-degree threshold that triggers the centers to open. However, emergency staff can open them for other reasons, like the hail that blanketed Sacramento in late February or last week’s storms, the heaviest this year. There were no requests
to do so, said county spokesperson Janna Haynes. As a state water quality board investigates whether troubling E.coli levels in the river were caused by feces from animals or humans, the absence of shelter and a lack of public restrooms along the American River Parkway has formed common ground between advocates for the homeless and the residents who grumble about their messy footprint. Woodlake Neighbors Creating Transparency, a neighborhood alliance in north Sacramento, has confronted the City
Council and county Board of Supervisors with a series of requests. The group has asked politicians to create temporary sites where homeless people can legally camp; to put trash cans, restrooms and showers near encampments; to fast-track new housing for the homeless; and to declare a shelter crisis, something homeless advocates have been requesting for years. “We’re only helping 12-to-15 percent of unhoused people. There’s still at least hundreds of people in the hail and rain,” said Woodlake resident Jane Macauley. “My preference would be to open up warming centers in every zip code. Why don’t the city and county partner so each district opens an emergency shelter?” Thus far, the group hasn’t received an answer. It remains to be seen whether politicians treat these homeowners the same way they’ve treated the advocates— by ignoring them. After getting no response following their City Council appearance, Woodlake residents brought their recommendations to county supervisors on February 27. They showed videos of encampments large and
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armed With a cellphone small dotting the parkway. “We want to pretend we don’t have tent cities. … But we do, we have many, many of them,” said Nancy Kitz, who belongs to the Woodlake group as well as Eye on Sacramento, a government watchdog that joined in this effort. Supervisor Phil Serna thanked the residents and asked for a report on the value of declaring a shelter crisis, which homelessness advocates have long called for to free up disaster-level funding and lift building restrictions that would make it easier to erect housing. Serna, whose district includes the parkway, spoke against providing more public restrooms and showers, saying they would encourage more homeless people to come to the area and worsen environmental impacts. “It tugs on your heartstrings to see folks use 5-gallon buckets as toilets and having to bathe in the river,” Serna said. “But we have to be very thoughtful about how we’re going to provide resources people obviously need. … Give us a chance.” Bob Erlenbusch, executive director of the Sacramento Regional Coalition to End Homelessness, said officials have had enough time. He praised the city for “shaming” the county into investing millions into a pilot health program aimed at reducing homelessness over the next three years. The county’s 10-year plan to end homelessness expired in 2016. “You can’t scream about issues like Hep. A or E.coli and not provide 24-hour bathrooms and some dignity,” Erlenbusch said. “The county has doubled down on giving citations. The city has real political will to address this, but not the county.” In August, supervisors approved spending $5 million to roust homeless people from the river. Along with the 260 people cited in January, another 196 people were cited for not paying park fees. Rangers also cleared 208 camps and removed 175 tons of debris, according to the Sacramento County Regional Parks system. Rangers did make some interesting discoveries, recovering two loaded shotguns from an illegal camper on the lower parkway and finding several items of abandoned property at Cherry Island Golf Course. The county considers homeless people’s property abandoned if they’re away from it for 48 hours. Supervisor Don Nottoli nearly shook in calling for another $5 million to maintain the parkway if necessary. “That filth is shameful. Shame on us.
And shame on them for doing it. We saw year, her team “Hands up for Hooters” pictures like this last summer,” he said. “I gathered 101 of her friends and colleagues want to have that debate in these chamto raise $530,000. bers. To, one, help those people; and two, Last month, though, was her first trip clean up the mess.” to the river since she “adopted” a mile of The county will spend $3 million this the parkway to watch over as a volunteer year to clear camps, up from $500,000 steward. Wanting to see the largest issues in 2014, according to a report the county affecting the river, she followed a guide provided the state’s Regional Water through an abandoned camp that used to Quality Control Board. The board’s report house at least eight people before rangers on what’s causing the elevated E.coli cleared it, she said. Walking near the San levels in the American River is due back Juan rapids, Dunbar saw needles and in a year. trash strewn everywhere. She’d only At the city level, expected to pick up cigarette Sacramento Mayor Darryl butts and flag graffiti. Steinberg has suggested Instead, when she and keeping a temporary 24 neighbors showed “Regardless of shelter on Railroad up one Saturday in how you feel about Drive open beyond February, they hauled the homeless, this is a March 31. Officials 2,500 pounds of are considering various debris in 80 systemic issue.” opening a second to 90 bags by her Sally Dunbar shelter in north estimate. volunteer, American River Parkway Sacramento, which “I know there Foundation has prompted the will be more camps to Woodlake group and clean up,” Dunbar said, Eye on Sacramento to sounding resolved. “This is question why other parts of a natural resource. We need to the city aren’t being considered. protect it.” Outside of the city’s triage shelter, Jordan Powell, the American River which offers 200 beds by referral only, Parkway Foundation’s volunteer coordinathe county funds the existence of approxitor, said county parks crews clean up mately 183 emergency shelter beds for the majority of the trash, which he says single adults, 91 beds for families and six originates from recreational users as well for transition-aged youth. as homeless people. He said 5,000 to 6,000 Councilmen Jeff Harris and Eric foundation volunteers pick up the rest and Guerra, whose districts include parts of perform other conservation measures. the parkway, say 24/7 triage services are Last winter’s torrential rains brought needed. the American River to historic levels, Harris, who has lobbied his council chasing homeless campers from flooded colleagues on allocating money to have riverbanks into more visible urban centers, attendants monitor public restrooms—with according to a point-in-time report minimal success—said he’ll be bringing from Sacramento State University and the proposal back later this month. Sacramento Steps Forward. The flooding Erlenbusch, who works near the river also caused soil erosion that may be and sees hundreds of tents arrayed along contributing to animal feces ending up in the shore line, suggests any blame should the river. be put on the politicians, not people with Powell said he wasn’t sure if the river no place to go. has been impacted by camping or foreign “If they’re not going to put more debris. But, speaking only as a Sacramento money into emergency shelters before resident, he said the parkway is a poor providing affordable housing, at least they alternative to a lack of shelter. can provide homeless people the dignity “The parkway is not a good answer to of bathrooms and clean water,” he said. the lack of beds. That’s where the enforce“Don’t blame homeless people [for] trash ment attitude comes from county parks, when you don’t provide receptacles and and why we need to really take a hard look there’s E.coli in the water.” at what we’re willing to invest in,” he said. “Until then, our stewards will roll up their dunbar has monitored a 1-mile stretch of sleeves and help out.” the American River for only a few weeks, Days after Dunbar’s tour, campfires but has lived by it for 39 years. A breast dotted the river near downtown, alighting cancer survivor, she often walks it to raise dozens of tents and maybe hundreds of money for breast cancer research. Last people. Ω
Two officers opened fire on an unarmed black man who may have pointed a cellphone at them while standing in his grandmother’s backyard Sunday night. The fatal shooting and discrepancies over what happened in the moments leading up to it have touched a raw nerve in Sacramento’s Meadowview neighborhood, which is grieving the loss of one of its own this week. The Sacramento Police Department issued two media releases within 15 minutes of each other on Monday night. The dueling releases show the department revising its account more than 24 hours after the shooting occurred and present police chief daniel hahn with his first real test at a time of intense public scrutiny over law enforcement’s use of force. The first release describes a scenario in which officers scour a neighborhood for a tall, thin man in dark clothing who allegedly broke several car windows and took an unspecified “toolbar” to a sliding-glass door before advancing toward officers in an adjacent backyard with something extended in his hands. Thinking the object was a gun, officers opened fire, “striking the suspect numerous times,” the release states. The second release issued to the media minutes after the first includes two important updates. First, it says that “an exhaustive search” found no weapons. All that was near the shooting victim was a cellphone. The second update is that the man was killed outside of a residence he has “a familial association to.” A GoFundMe page identified the victim as Stephon “Zoe” Clark, a father of two. Berry Accius, a youth mentor who says Clark attended Sacramento Charter High School with his daughter, attended a Monday night vigil on the 7500 block of 29th Street, where the shooting occurred. Accius says relatives told him Clark was probably trying to get his grandmother’s attention when officers mistook him for a burglar. He questioned the department’s initial account of a suspect aggressively approaching officers and feared that’s how the larger public would now remember Clark. “You can’t unring that bell,” he said. (Raheem F. Hosseini)
Zone offenSe Sacramento officials say an obama-era program to help struggling communities is paying dividends and might actually grab more investment under the new federal tax code. On March 13, Tyrone Williams of the Sacramento Housing & Redevelopment Agency told the City Council a local Promise Zone initiative is having a measurable impact on education and youth employment. Promise Zones are part of an exchange program with the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development that help governments leverage federal funds in distressed neighborhoods. The city of Sacramento enacted its Promise Zone in 2015, drawing the boundaries around much of Del Paso Heights, the downtown core and neighborhoods along Stockton Boulevard. The county is also participating, with its Promise Zone spanning the south area between Power Inn Road and Franklin Boulevard. Williams told council members that about 127,000 county residents reside in the boundaries, and that 34 percent of them are below the federal poverty line. Only 37 percent of third-graders attending school within the Promise Zone can read at their grade level, and general life expectancy in the zones is lower than for those living outside it. According to Williams, the program’s best achievements so far have been putting on Stem programs for underserved children and creating jobs for youth through a partnership with the Regional Conservation Corps. (Scott Thomas Anderson)
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Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones greets attendees of a March 28, 2017, forum on immigration that he thought would “turn the tide” on California’s sanctuary legislation. Photo by Raheem F. hosseini
Trump’s inside man Sacramento County sheriff worked to derail California sanctuary law by Raheem F. hosseini
Nearly one year before Attorney General Jeff Sessions sued California over its sanctuary legislation, Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones was working behind the scenes to prevent its adoption, internal communications show. According to a trove of emails obtained by National Day Laborer Organizing Network and shared with SN&R, Jones spearheaded a heated immigration forum last spring hoping to, in part, erode public support for legislation that restricts local law enforcement from actively assisting federal deportation efforts. The legislation, Senate Bill 54, became one of three new laws at the center of a federal court battle between California and the Trump administration. In March of last year, Jones, who was then campaigning to unseat U.S. Rep. Ami Bera in his first congressional bid, personally invited Thomas Homan, acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, to make a rare public appearance in the state capital “to turn the tide of SB54.”
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The emails reveal sides of the sheriff that the public rarely sees—as a politician courting favor from a federal official, and as a local lawman who underestimated the Trump administration’s appetite for payback. The invitation went out March 17, 2017. In an email to Homan’s office, Jones reminded the ICE director that the two met in Washington, D.C., and portrayed himself as the face of the resistance to California’s sanctuary legislation. “You may recall, I was the Sheriff from Sacramento County that said my intention was to stand up against the law if it passes, because it is in direct contradiction to federal law and is therefore preempted (I’m also an attorney),” Jones wrote. “I asked if you or your office would ‘stand with me’ if I decided to do so, and you said you would. That bill is quickly making its way through our democraticsupermajority legislature.”
After humblebragging that he had “the State’s attention on this issue,” Jones suggested that a community forum on immigration, co-headlined with Homan, could prevent a “showdown on this particular bill.” Jones also credited Homan’s agency with displaying the very restraint that President Donald Trump removed two months earlier. The sheriff wrote that Homan could dispel “the notion that you’ll be going into communities simply to go after every law abiding alien (which is the narrative being advanced here), and re-asserting that you WILL be going in to get folks that fit your priorities (i.e., criminals).” By this time, ICE was already operating under Trump-issued directives to round up all undocumented immigrants, not just those with criminal records, which was the policy of the Obama administration. ICE was also under fire for seizing suspected noncitizens at their homes and inside hospitals, outside of courthouses, churches and their children’s schools. Jones’s initially invited Sacramento Area Congregations Together to help plan the event. But, in an email to an ICE official, he accused the social justice collective of “trying to assert demands and hijack this thing, but I’m shutting that down.” Sacramento ACT executive director Gabby Trejo told SN&R on Tuesday that the group quickly decided against any association with the forum after learning its true intent. “That gathering was an attempt to derail SB 54,” said Trejo, whose organization has been lobbying Jones to end his detention contract with ICE. In his pitch to Homan, Jones suggested the two of them could make the case that indiscriminate enforcement would get worse if California became a sanctuary state, writing “that the best way to prevent wide nets from being cast in the communities is for law enforcement to cooperate with ICE where the criminals already are—the jails.” A year later, ICE acknowledges it’s casting wide nets in response to California’s sanctuary status. Last month, a deportation sweep “in local neighborhoods and at worksites” throughout Northern California resulted in the arrests of 232 people, more than half of whom possessed no criminal convictions. In January, Jones downplayed the impact SB 54 has had on ICE’s ability to enter his jails. “It has very little impact on their ability to come in and conduct interviews and
take custody of most of the folks they would otherwise take custody of,” he told a community advisory committee. The sheriff has long maintained that his department doesn’t cooperate with ICE outside of what happens inside his jails. That isn’t entirely the case. Since 1994, ICE and the Sheriff’s Department have worked on the Sacramento Valley Hi-Tech Crimes Task Force, to which other law enforcement agencies also belong. SB 54 requires that these joint law enforcement task forces start reporting their activities to the California Department of Justice next year. Jones’ prediction that the forum would “turn the tide” against SB 54 didn’t pan out. The California Legislature last year approved the California Values Act, which prevents state and local law enforcement from assisting in the enforcement of immigration laws. One reason? Immigrant communities won’t go to the cops if they think that reporting crimes will get them deported. The bill and other protections for undocumented immigrants reached the governor’s desk, including bills that prevent employers from cooperating with immigration investigations unless there’s a warrant and restrict jails from entering into new or expanded detention partnerships with ICE. On March 6, the Department of Justice sued California over the constitutionality of its sanctuary policies. A day later, Sessions goaded state officials with a speech that misrepresented California as a rogue state of open borders and secessionist desires. As the progressive American Immigration Council notes, sanctuary jurisdictions don’t protect unauthorized immigrants from detection or deportation. But the Trump administration wants more than passive compliance from states and local governments. The president signed a trio of executive orders last year making all 11 million unauthorized immigrants subject to deportation and claiming the authority to deputize local law enforcement in that massive endeavor. ICE has actually tried deputizing local law enforcement before. In 2013, ICE drafted the Sheriff’s Department into a seaport border enforcement security task force, allowing Homeland Security to grant customs enforcement powers to sworn law enforcement employees under the Tariff Act of 1930. “This agreement does not grant the designated Customs Officers the authority to enforce ‘Immigration’ laws,” the contract pointedly noted. Ω
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The survival gap Black children accounted for 31 percent of Sacramento County’s childhood deaths last year by Raheem F. hosseini
Despite the efforts of a landmark public health campaign, African-American children remain sharply overrepresented in Sacramento morgues, SN&R has found. According to a review of online coroner records, 75 persons age 18 and younger died in Sacramento County over a one-year period ending March 14. Twenty-three of the young decedents—nearly 31 percent of the total—were black. That’s an 8-point jump in just a couple of years, though the figure needs some contextualizing: Fewer children are dying than in the past, including fewer black children. But as child mortality rates improve across the board, African-American families remain disproportionately stalked by tragedy. Only 11 percent of Sacramento County children are African-American, according to a community indicator report from last year. Sacramento County first took notice of its alarming childhood mortality disparities five years ago. That’s when a 20-year study revealed that black children accounted for 22 percent of child deaths between 1990 and 2009. Stunned by the inequitable tide, Supervisor Phil Serna commissioned a blue ribbon panel to devise a long-term response, which led to the creation of the county’s Black Child Legacy Campaign. The campaign is attempting to chip away at the systemic inequalities that make black youths more likely to perish from perinatal factors, sleep-related accidents, abuse and third-party homicides. Earlier this year, Chet Hewitt stood before the Sacramento City Council with a cautiously hopeful message about that critical mission. Hewitt, president and CEO of the Sierra Health Foundation, a private philanthropy focused on reducing health disparities across Northern California, is also an ambassador for the campaign, which has seeded partnerships in the hardest-hit neighborhoods. In January, Hewitt informed elected officials that the coalition’s work on one corner of the unwieldy tapestry was sewing together—reducing the number of infants dying in their sleep. Now, the region’s four major health systems conduct “safe sleep assessments” for every infant born inside their hospitals, Hewitt said. “Not all black children. All children born in their hospitals,”
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Hewitt told council members on January 9. “That is a huge systemic and policy change from what existed before.” Under the safe sleep endeavor, Hewitt said, families without appropriate cribs for their newborns are provided them free of charge. In addressing a problem that unevenly afflicts AfricanAmerican babies, the campaign spearheaded a strategy that helps all families, he added. The notion that racism is a killer is nothing new. But the ways in which it shaves years off lives can be hidden from plain view. Some epidemiologists believe there are few better microcosms through which to explore this nefarious truth than inside the womb, where a mother’s heightened stress levels can affect her physiology and the developmental biology of her unborn child, according to the 2006 Unnatural Causes documentary series produced by California Newsreel. A decade later, black women still absorb more toxic stress than their white counterparts, says Flojaune G. Cofer, director of state policy and research for Public Health Advocates, which works toward health equity in Sacramento’s leftbehind communities. White women who smoke are more likely to watch their babies grow up than black women who do not smoke, Cofer says the research shows. “It is absolutely true that prenatal care is great, but prenatal care can’t fix this,” she said via email. While the coroner’s website doesn’t list cause of death in most cases, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome was a potential factor in at least 11 infant deaths since last March. All but one involved a child of color. A spokeswoman said campaign stakeholders couldn’t comment until they independently verified the data. The partners have set themselves an ambitious goal of reducing African-American child deaths by 2020. Less than two years from that deadline, the coroner’s website shows the percentage going in the wrong direction, even as fewer black children are dying. Ω
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have more rights than my vagina,” she discovered A downtown Sacramento high school particithat it had been removed. pated in a nationwide student protest against gun Mia said Principal Denise Lambert directed her violence last week, but it was the removal of a to the janitor, who told the sophomore that Lambert poster containing the word “vagina” that dominated instructed him to take the poster down since it the conversation in the days to follow. would be the first thing visitors saw upon entering On March 14, the Met Sacramento High School the Met. Mia found her poster in the vice principal’s participated in National School Walkout Day, to trash can and was allowed to put it back protest how easy it was for 19-year-old up outside her classroom. The poster Nikolas Cruz to acquire the semidisappeared again. automatic rifle and bullets that he The story of the removed poster allegedly used last month to kill 17 When Mia Nurge spread via social media. Two students and teachers, and wound went to take a days later, students returned to 14 others. picture with her school wearing pink and red, and Students prepared for the poster, she discovered covered the public charter’s walls walkout beforehand with their with their own vagina-themed that it had been advisories (what the Met calls its posters to protest what they homeroom teachers) by creating removed. perceived as censorship. posters to carry around Southside Lambert defended the students’ Park, where the school’s protest was right to free speech, and said she asked being held. After the 17-minute walkout, only that the posters not block windows or be which was dedicated to each life taken at displayed near the school’s entryway. Ω Stoneman Douglas High School, students returned to class pumped with adrenaline, with hopes of making a difference. A group of students in advisory teacher Xico Gonzalez’s class taped their posters near the front Terra Richards is an SN&R intern and a junior at Met Sacramento entryway to the school. When Mia Nurge went to High School. take a picture with her poster, which read, “Guns
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On March 14, I joined a couple hundred of my fellow Mira Loma High School classmates and left school during third period. If you haven’t heard, it was National School Walkout Day. At 10:30 a.m. last Wednesday, we exited our classrooms for 17 minutes, in recognition of the 17 lives lost at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., last month. Students held signs and chanted, “Enough is enough!” Papers with information about calling our representatives were passed out. Some of the students who organized the walkout gave a short speech. The students were very attentive and cheered at what was said. When the speech was done, and we had read the names of the 17 victims from the Parkland shooting, there was a 5-minute silence in their honor. It was so quiet that you could hear the birds chirping and the heels of a teacher in a nearby hallway. Many people asked us why we participated. The answer is simple: We want our schools to be safe. We live in a world where students have a genuine fear of a school shooting happening on their campuses. A few weeks ago, the power went out at our school during sixth period. It only lasted a few seconds, but a student was afraid it was the beginning of a shooting. This is the reality of the world we live in, and it needs to change. We need our legislators to protect students by passing laws to restrict gun sales and permits. We are not asking for guns to be banned—we are simply asking that guns be less
accessible to those who are not mature or mentally stable enough to handle them safely, and that our representatives pass measures to reduce gun violence. I, along with so many other high school students, will be voting this November, and the rest in the few years that follow. When we vote, we will vote for those who not only promise to keep our schools safe, but deliver on those promises. If our representatives want to get reelected, they need to make effective gun laws to protect us. We are also asking our schools to work with local law enforcement to teach students what to do in the event of an active-shooter situation on campus. Students should know how to respond, how to run (zig-zag motion), and where to run to. We practice lockdowns at school, but that is not going to protect us if someone opens fire in a place where we can’t hide. We need our schools to show us what to do and what not to do if something like this happens. We never again want to hear that people are dying in a place where they are supposed to be safe, especially children. No one should be afraid that a child or teacher is going to be killed by something completely preventable. We all need to come together now and demand that gun laws change. Our democracy works when we make our voices heard. So we are speaking up. Ω Audrey Booth is a senior at Mira Loma High School in Sacramento.
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In a protest demanding gun control, thousands of students in the Sacramento area and around the country walked out of their classrooms on March 14 for 17 minutes, one for each of the victims of the Parkland shooting last month. Amid calls to arm teachers, the demonstration couldn’t have been more timely as just a day earlier, a gun-trained teacher “accidentally” discharged a firearm during a safety demonstration at a high school in Monterey County, injuring one student. To quote from an infamous rant that took place at the Golden 1 Center: “Listen to the kids, bro,” and keep guns out of schools.
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them. Prosecutors outlined the encounter in their charging documents: Neal spotted the women on a walk and fired his Bushmaster rifle near them. Panicked, they saw him bolting over the fence with a 7-inch knife. A three-way fight tore across the gravel. Neal drove his blade into Poland’s abdomen. He snatched Steele’s cellphone as she tried to call for help and punched the 68-year-old woman in the face. Then he threw her to the ground, continuing to beat her. Poland says he suddenly snapped out of it and stopped. Neal was arrested and charged with multiple felonies. A Tehama County judge issued a restraining order that barred him from going near the women and their family. That decree made Neal a “restricted” person—a judge’s order forbade him from possessing firearms. On February 22, Neil’s attorney filed a form promising that his client had surrendered his remaining Jennings 9mm to a gun supplier inside a garage near a lonely airstrip outside Red Bluff. There may have been a brief pause in the nighttime sounds around Neal’s doublewide, but there were other sounds—different sounds—going on inside the trailer’s
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rancho tehama reserve is still reeling from the mass shooting that took place there in november.
he house has been torn down. Some papers stapled to a hacked-up stump are the only evidence it ever existed. Before getting ripped to pieces, the double-wide trailer on the edge of Rancho Tehama Reserve was a testament to the nocturnal activities of Kevin Janson Neal. For months, people along the broken hills could hear him in the darkness: Neal working his dog into a frenzy under the dry, cadaverous tree limbs; Neal screaming lewd threats over shredded ribbons of plastic tangled through manzanita and a weathered fence line; Neal firing his Jennings 9mm into the night, shots echoing off a steep wash of oaks that rose like a shadow over his trailer. Now, on this winter afternoon, there’s only silence. The papers fixed to the stump tremble in the breeze, bending toward a blanched arch of gravel at the road’s end. It was here, not far from the trailer, that Neal first attacked the women. They were his neighbors, 34-year-old Hailey Poland and her boyfriend’s mother, Diane Steele. Court documents indicate Neal had been menacing their family for months. And on January 31, 2017, he finally went after
The RAnch living room. They were the noises of a handdrill biting shavings out of a metal frame, the click of a trigger spring and pop of a slave pin, the quiet scrape of a gas-block sliding over a barrel. Neal soon had two fully functional AR-15 rifles, and every part he used to build them was unmarked, unregistered and unlicensed. They were “ghost guns.” A cold wind slaps the papers on the stump.
They flap backwards, waving in the direction of the spot where Neal stuffed the body of his slain wife under the trailer’s floorboards. The next morning, November 14, 2017, he took his AR-15 ghost guns, along with two pistols of unknown origin, down a long brushy road spotted with old gates and pickup trucks. In a thunderous instant, four more people lay dead, nine others were being rushed to the hospital with gunshot wounds, and an elementary school stood riddled with the marks of high-velocity bullets. Among the bleeding
A group of people stand shivering by the door of Rancho Tehama Community Church. Sunlight beams on the rough ridges and wooded bluffs overhead, casting brighter on snow-dusted mountains lifting through a frigid blue sky. The townsfolk huddle in a line under beanies and flannels. A few bent cowboy hats are tipped in the breeze. They’re waiting for the food bank to let the next family in. Chic Sievers, a church elder, carries two bags of groceries out to a woman’s car. To Sievers’ right, Stagecoach Road stretches 700 yards from a faded “Come and Worship” sign to the elementary school where Neal fired a hundred rounds from his ghost gun, its .223-caliber bullets punching through walls to hit a sheltering 6-year-old. Sievers sets the groceries down. To his left is the intersection where Neal opened fire on Tiffany Phommathep’s pickup, striking her five times and sending bullets into her 7- and 10-year-old sons. As Sievers pivots back toward the line, his eyes turn over the section of road where a sheriff’s deputy and a Corning police officer finally confronted Neal, hearing round after round sing into their patrol cars as they tried to drop him.
neal soon had two fully functional AR-15 rifles, and every part he used to build them was unmarked, unregistered and unlicensed. but breathing survivors were three young children. Among the bodies being driven to the mortuary were two names on Neal’s restraining order. Graham Barlowe of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms arrived at Rancho Tehama in the aftermath of the chaos. The longtime federal agent had come to assist with the investigation. He wasn’t surprised to hear from sheriff’s deputies that it was a ghost gun Neal had pulled out at the elementary school. Barlowe’s team had seen a nightmare like this before. And everyone knows that the next nightmare can be worse. “It’s a huge problem,” Barlowe says of ghost guns. “No records are kept on them. They’re not regulated in any way. There are no serial numbers when you find them. … In Sacramento, they’re probably the majority of our work now.”
On that morning four months ago, this pale pillbox church literally stood at the crossroads of terror. “Even our pastor’s truck had bullet holes in it,” Sievers says. All winter, residents of Rancho Tehama Reserve, which they call “the Ranch,” have tried to move on from the sound of cracking air and desperate screams. But this week is different. This week they’ve had to contemplate the slaughter of 17 students and teachers in Parkland, Fla. The story keeps playing on the news—and in the minds of locals who can still hear Neal’s AR-15. The Ranch put its flags at half-mast for Parkland’s dead. Some here sense a real connection with the teenage victims. But on the Ranch’s community Facebook page, the debate about the effectiveness of gun laws remains fierce. Plenty on the Ranch have thought about the differences between Neal’s killings and the Parkland horror. Unlike the Florida shooter, Neal didn’t get
his long rifles through a dealer. He couldn’t have. Neal was awaiting trial for felony assault, assault with a deadly weapon, taking property by force, possession of an assault rifle and reckless discharge of a firearm. The restraining order in Neal’s case would have flagged him in the database of any licensed retailer. Yet after all the killing that happened on that November day—Michelle McFayden murdered in front of her husband, Joseph McHugh shot dead out in the open, Danny Elliot executed before he could get to the school where his 7-year-old came under fire—some people on the Ranch think the restraining order wasn’t worth the paper it was issued on. Neal killed two of the five people the restraining order was meant to protect: Elliot, Poland’s boyfriend, and Steele, the middle-aged woman he’d earlier throttled. None of the evidence for Neal’s pending trial stopped him from getting the AR-15s, and most locals on the Ranch are fully aware of why. “People know that he just got his gun parts through the mail,” Sievers says, shaking his head. With a story emerging about how Neal had murdered his wife and hidden her remains under his floor, the detail of his ghost guns found minimal coverage in the media. But for Barlowe, the resident agent in charge of the ATF’s Sacramento field office, it was a critical factor in the carnage that ensued. “The ATF regulates the sale of firearms, but what we don’t regulate is the sale of firearm parts,” Barlowe explains. “If you Google ‘unfinished AR-15 receivers for sale,’ you’re going to get a hundred hits, all from companies that are selling them. ... The parts are delivered within two to three days. If I’m going to commit some terrible crime, I can probably have one of these guns within 48 hours of pulling out my credit card.” Barlowe adds that his team has dealt with ghost guns long enough to know two things: They’re not as hard to assemble as people think, and the ATF’s sophisticated gun-tracing center can’t track their history. That’s significant because, according to him, ghost guns are now one of the largest sources of “crime guns” in the Sacramento region, trumped only by stolen pistols.
Several Rancho Tehama residents who spoke with SN&R expressed concerns about how Neal circumvented his restraining order by building his rifles, though they cautioned not to oversimplify how the tragedy unfolded. Several factors contributed to the killings. Despite Neal being charged with five violent felonies 10 months before the incident, Tehama Superior Court Judge Todd Bottke only set his bail at $160,000; Neal’s family sprung him from jail on bond in just two days. Then, not long after Bottke barred Neal from having guns, the disturbing nighttime noises started around his trailer again. The crack-cadences were the unmistakable sign of Neal firing his ghost guns in the shadows. Alarmed residents began making calls to law enforcement to report that Neal had firearms again. Tehama County Sheriff Dave Hencratt has acknowledged his office received numerous calls about shootings near Neal’s address prior to the killings. Hencratt has said his deputies could never definitively prove who was pulling the trigger. Many in Rancho Tehama feel they never tried. The Tehama County Sheriff’s Office stopped doing interviews about Neal’s story in December. Finally, though Neal made two ghost guns, he also had two pistols that were stolen or illegally purchased. In a town like Rancho Tehama, where numerous residents are Second Amendment defenders, and more than a few own AR-15s, the logic goes that Neal could have killed people that morning no matter what. But how many? His self-assembled AR-15 was his primary weapon at the elementary school. It’s generally considered a far more stable shooting platform than a pistol and much easier to accurately aim under stress. It also had triple the round capacity of a standard handgun. Barlowe did not directly comment about the likelihood that the ghost gun made Neal a more effective killer. But he does call the AR-15 “a highly effective gun for killing human beings.”
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Mike Turner walks by the long, prisonstyle bars caging a storefront in south Sacramento. The late afternoon light glares on his sunglasses and a red skull centered in a gear silhouette on his T-shirt: The death’s head was a symbol for the gun parts store Turner used to work at behind those guarded windows. When the shop’s owner was sent to federal prison over ghost guns, Turner’s own photograph found its way into an affidavit in the case. He still simmers over how he feels it made him look like a criminal. And on a lawn-dotted cul-de-sac in Antelope, Turner is one gunbuilder whose reputation is the opposite. It started with screams. On the night of October 5, 2017, Turner was watching TV in his house on Sun Maiden Way when a frantic wailing echoed through his windows. Turner paused to listen. A week before, the neighbors to his south had spotted a man in a skeleton mask peering through their window, holding a pistol with a blue laser sight. Though the couple didn’t own a gun, they threatened to shoot the stranger, bluffing him back into the darkness. Turner knew all about the incident. Now his phone was ringing. “Mike, they’re in our house with a gun!” his neighbor Linda yelled through the receiver. “Help! Help!” Turner jumped up, grabbed his Sigma 9mm and told his wife to call 911. A second later he was stalking down his driveway in the dark, trying to adjust his eyes to the floodlights. He practically walked into one of the home invaders. The man, later identified by sheriff’s deputies as Marius Oh, was dressed in black and grasping a pistol with a blue laser sight. Turner says he shouted to stop, but the azure beam only slashed up at him. The gunfight was on. Turner drilled a hollow point bullet through the stranger’s hip. The stranger banged a 45. caliber slug right at him. It sailed low, cutting into the ground. Turner started emptying his 10-round magazine with such gusto he stumbled backward, though his volley landed one more hit. At the same instant, the stranger took a shot at Turner’s head. The round whizzed by to detonate the tire of a Ford Ranger up the driveway. Turner could hear his Sigma’s empty chamber clicking as a second intruder darted out of the shadows. A truck suddenly swooped by to grab the men. Turner jacked another clip in as the getaway vehicle tore off for the north county line.
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Later, investigating deputies were contacted by a Roseville police officer who’d found Oh bleeding from two gunshot wounds in a Chevron parking lot. An official report by the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department supports Turner’s version of the shootout. Oh is awaiting trial for assault with a deadly weapon and multiple cases of robbery. Word about Turner’s actions traveled through his neighborhood. Then, in early January of this year, Turner got another hysterical call, this time from his neighbors on the north side of his home. As the sun was rising, they’d walked into their garage to find a burly biker sleeping in their white sedan. “He’s in my house!” his neighbor Mona stammered. “He’s in my car, in my house!” Turner didn’t wait. He grabbed one of his big, self-built AR-15s. Within seconds, the biker was sitting against a retaining wall with Turner’s rifle holding him at bay. Since the man hadn’t forced his way through a locked door, sheriff’s deputies ultimately declared it a civil matter. Turner’s neighbors, who confirmed the incident to SN&R, said it was “scary” but ended alright “since Mike was there.” Turner says both calls for help illustrate why gun owners aren’t paranoid to think that they need their high-powered weapons. That includes ghost guns, though Turner doesn’t call them that. The technical term is “firearms built from unfinished lower receivers.” The receiver is a hand-sized metal casing that a hammer, breechblock, trigger, firing pin and other parts assemble onto. Most lower receivers come with a jig showing exactly where to drill the holes to facilitate attaching the parts needed to turn it into a functional gun. It’s a process hobbyists call “carving out” or “milling out” the gun. After that, attaching the upper receiver, a barrel, a stock and other parts complete the firearm. Turner got hooked on this customizing process at a gun show in Nevada. “It’s like being a motorhead,” Turner explains. “I can put together a really
high-quality gun, and it can be specific. … Making them was always more fun for me than shooting them.” Now, as Turner paces by the door that once led into LCG AR Parts and Accessories, he glances at the fractured sidewalk where he used to drop signs advertising rifle pieces. The shop had been owned by Luis Garcia, who gave Turner tips on milling out receivers. But the man who taught him the most about building ghost guns was a machinist out of north Sacramento named Dan Crowninshield. Turner says he didn’t know Crowninshield had an alternative persona on internet gun forums. He called himself “Dr. Death.” According to an affidavit filed by ATF Agent Jerry Donn, on April 3, 2013, an undercover member of his team went into Crowninshield’s machine shop on Striker Avenue. The agent discovered that Dr. Death had a $200,000 drill press that could completely mill out an unfinished lower receiver in 20 minutes. Moreover, the agent said, Crowninshield would engage in this hyper-fast carving for anyone who’d pay him $120. That’s significant, because, according to federal law, if someone instructs another person on how to mill out an unfinished
receiver, that’s legal, but if they do any step of the process for another person, or “provide expertise,” for pay, that’s a crime—that’s unlicensed gun manufacturing. Donn wrote in his warrant that Crowninshield was prepping weapons for strangers without background checks, waiting periods or sales transactions. Dr. Death kept his ghost guns pretty ghostly. There was a reason: Crowninshield had twice been convicted of domestic violence. “Turns out he’s a prohibited person,” Turner recalls. “He’s not even allowed to touch a gun.” Turner says he stopped hanging out with Crowninshield in August 2013, after the machinist set him on edge. “He pulled out [a lower receiver] and showed it to me, and it was an M16 carved out, probably ready to put a fullauto mag in,” Turner remembers. “I was done with him.” Turner didn’t want to hang out with people who made automatic weapons. When the ATF raided Dr. Death’s machine shop, agents searched several other locations, including Luis Garcia’s store and Mike Turner’s house. Luis’ brother, Jimmy Garcia—already convicted of firing a machine gun in Nevada City— was caught having numerous pistols and
shotguns. An undercover agent also watched Jimmy mill out a ghost gun and sell it to a convicted felon. Crowninshield and the Garcia brothers were charged with criminal manufacturing of firearms. All three pleaded guilty and went to prison. Turner was never arrested, though four of his guns—some of the best he ever made, he says—were seized. He says what troubles him more is losing the job at Luis’ gun store, the only job he’s ever loved. These days, Turner admits that the ATF probably had a case on Crowninshield and Jimmy Garcia. He doesn’t believe the same of his former boss, Luis Garcia. Turner’s convinced Luis was different than his brother—that he was a small-business owner who enjoyed helping gun-lovers, including cops, and was just tripped up by a nebulous fog of regulation around making ghost guns. “The law is so vague,” Turner stresses. “It makes no sense. No one can even understand it.”
Ricochets Walking in the winter rain, Rich Hanner pauses on a soundless street in Stockton to look through a chain-link fence. The retired journalist moves his eyes to a chipped and faded sign for Cleveland Elementary School. He’s sure its letters date back to a moment that’s never stopped haunting this avenue—or his own memories on the job. It was January 17, 1989, and Hanner had been the Stockton Record’s city editor for two months when he got a call from Calixtro Romias, his staff photographer. Romias urged Hanner to send every available reporter to a schoolyard in the north city. Hanner’s team was about to discover, in real time, that a violent ex-con and drifter had walked onto the campus with an AK47 assault rifle. His name was Patrick Purdy. He was wearing a flak jacket. There was a bomb in his van. Then Purdy did what until that moment had been unthinkable: He started mowing down the children on the playground. “I’d covered floods, fires, crimes, but no kind of spot-news experience could prepare someone for this,” Hanner says as he glances to where his photographer captured the small, bleeding bodies. “All you can think about is the tragedy of it, and the horror.” Purdy murdered five kids and wounded 32 more before terminating himself. The Record’s management eventually made sure Hanner’s reporters had access to professional counseling. “For the people of Stockton, it was traumatizing,
shocking,” he recalls. Hanner now understands his team was witnessing an ominous opening note—the nation’s first high-profile, mass-casualty schoolyard shooting. They’ve since watched its specter return over and over, like a grotesque shadow play that won’t stop flickering up at different spots in the nation. It turned through the American consciousness again last month in Parkland, Fla. But in 1989, the people of California weren’t stupefied by Purdy’s massacre of little children. Before the year ended, lawmakers passed the RobertiRoos Assault Weapons Control Act, which banned an array of military rifles in the state, including the AK47. Twenty-five years later, Hanner was still a journalist in San Joaquin County when Stockton experienced the seconddarkest day in its history. And if the city’s slaughter of the innocents in 1989 had helped pass the Roberti-Roos Act, three Stockton gang members were about to show how ghost guns could beat it. And they’d do it by turning the streets into an urban war zone. Misty Holt-Singh was pulling cash out of an ATM on a July afternoon in 2014. Her 12-year-old daughter was a few feet away in the car. Suddenly someone grabbed her. It was one of three gang members. Hoodies over ball caps, dark fake beards, gloves duct-taped to their sleeves. The men pulled Holt-Singh into the bank, leveling guns on the customers and employees. The Police Foundation, a nonprofit research center, later interviewed more than 50 officers and witnesses to understand what happened next. One of the gangsters took hold of the manager, Kelly Huber, by her shirt collar. Huber felt a gun at the back of her head. The men pulled cash from a safe and took bank teller Stephanie Koussaya as a third hostage. They forced the women out into the parking lot. A Stockton police officer was pointing a rifle at them, ordering them to surrender. The robbers kept their guns on the women’s skulls. In a matter of seconds, the trio was driving wildly through Stockton as they used a self-built AK47, a ghost gun, to overwhelm the responding officers. They still had their three hostages. In the front of the Explorer was 30-year-old Gilbert Renteria. Nineteenyear-old Jaime Ramos sat in the backseat. In the way back, spraying 7.62-mm rounds out the window, 27-year-old Alex Martinez. According to San Joaquin Superior Court records, both Renteria and Martinez already had felony convictions for dealing meth and street terrorism. The ghost gun had allowed the two men not only to beat the federal Gun Control Act’s rule on felons, but also the RobertiRoos Act prohibiting
AK47s. With his high-capacity combat weapon, Martinez crippled 14 police cruisers during the firefight. He even shot the tires out of a BearCat armored vehicle. “Bullets tore through cars, shattered windshields, shredded tires, and incapacitated engines,” Police Foundation President Jim Bueermann noted in a review. “Never in the history of U.S. law enforcement has a police force dealt with an incident like this.” Meanwhile, Holt-Singh’s husband, Paul, got a text from his daughter: “Bank got robbed. They took mom.” Paul and his daughter would never see Misty alive again. When the smoke cleared, she was found dead from 10 bullet wounds, the result of Ramos allegedly using her as a human shield. Later that day, after Renteria and Martinez were zipped into body bags, and Huber and Koussaya were laying in a hospital, two of Barlowe’s ATF agents arrived on the streets of Stockton. It wasn’t the first time the agents had seen a ghost gun used in an exigent shooting event. The year before, Adam Zawahri—prohibited from owning guns due to mental illness—built his own AR-15 and used it for a shooting rampage at Santa Monica City College. He killed five people and wounded four others. The Stockton case was also far from the last time the ATF would see ghost guns in the hands of gang members. In December 2017, Barlowe and his team partnered with the Sacramento police and county sheriff’s departments to launch a major anti-gang operation that led to 29 arrests and the seizing of 211 illegal firearms. Barlowe says many of those weapons were ghost guns. “We bought one from a 17-year-old gang member,” Barlowe recalls. “And when that’s happening, you know they’re pretty available.” In July, a new California law, Assembly Bill 857, goes into effect. It requires anyone who builds a ghost gun to apply to the state for a serial number, which arrives in the mail. It’s on the gun owner to etch it onto the weapon’s receiver. To an amateur gunsmith like Turner, the claim
that AB 857 prevents crime is ridiculous for an obvious reason: It works on a voluntary honor system, something gang members and disturbed men aren’t known to follow. Turner says law-abiding gun owners will comply. Criminals and deranged loners won’t. If anything, the law is further fueling a belief with many gun enthusiasts that announcements around the state capital are about optics instead of reality. As for Hanner, 30 years of being a journalist has left him with his own linger-
An undercover agent watched Jimmy Garcia mill out a ghost gun and sell it to a convicted felon. ing questions about lawmakers’ commitment to putting problem-solving over political gain. That’s what has changed, Hanner says, since he was tasked with making sense of the hellish havoc on the yard he’s now staring at. “Back then, the idea that a madman would walk onto a playground and slaughter children was beyond most peoples’ perception,” he admits. “But the politics weren’t as deeply entrenched as they are now. Back then, they took action.” With children dashing out to the bars and swings of Cleveland Elementary School, Hanner suddenly notices a tiny cardboard sign, written in sharpie pen, hanging on the worn chain-link. It reads: “No bullying. No violence.” “I’m kind of surprised that there’s no permanent memorial,” Hanner mutters over the shouts and laughter. “But maybe the kids being out there is memorial enough.” Ω Mark Heckey contributed to this report.
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he most personal song local singersongwriter Erik Hanson ever wrote— “Boulevards”—might not seem like it’s revealing much about him. It’s a breezy, melancholy country-rock song he wrote for his band the Stragglers back in 2009, and it vaguely recounts losing himself and riding around on the streets. “Missed calls as evening falls / Lonely souls losing hold of what they’ve been told.” Hanson kept the song’s true meaning buried. Though now, nearly a decade later, he has no problem speaking openly about it. “It’s about riding these streets here scoring drugs and my wife calling me,” Hanson says plainly. At the time, he was secretly smoking crack and popping opioids, and he desperately wanted to stop. This habit would escalate to 20 pills and crack usage daily until June 2014, when his addiction—and the fact that he’d routinely stolen from friends and family to fund it—came out. He tells me his need for crack was so bad, he would scour the carpet in his apartment when he ran out, looking for nuggets, sometimes accidentally smoking pieces of cat litter. “It’s a sick disease,” he says. “You want to isolate and do it all by yourself. It’s horrible. Once I started, I couldn’t stop.” The last time I saw Hanson, he was rail thin and seemed distracted, dark and brooding. This was in 2014, literally weeks before he checked into Sierra Vista Hospital in their suicide-watch ward, which would lead to a full year rehab program at Joshua House Men’s Center 11 days later. Today, he’s nearly four years sober. Back then, I interviewed him for his band the Foxtails, unaware that he was a junkie. At that point, he’d been a prominent member of the music scene for years with bands Forever Goldrush, The Cassidys, The Stragglers and the Foxtails. For all but the first one, he was the singer/ songwriter/guitarist of the group, writing emotional and often melancholy Americana tunes—a cross between Gram Parsons and the Cure. He was so involved with the music scene that, earlier in 2014, I’d also interviewed him for his Living Room Sessions singer-songwriter monthly series he curated at Old Ironsides, where he brought in all the top singer-songwriters in town and casually played songs like they were in his living room. There were even couches onstage. Now 46 years old, he looks healthy, filled out, like a completely different person. Judging by his Facebook posts, he spends his free time watching Star Wars and hanging out with his daughter. I suspect he has a swath of dad jokes on deck. I mention how he’s changed. “It’s the drugs, man. It physically changes everything about you,” he says. “Normally, I’m not a dark person.” He’d apparently smoked crack an hour before the Foxtails photo shoot for SN&R. Some musicians still feel animosity toward Hanson. It’s because of these burned bridges and a deep shame for all the people he’s hurt that Hanson has stayed away from the scene. But now, he’s finally playing his first show in public, and he’s both nervous and excited to return. Hanson will be at Luna’s Cafe & Juice Bar, with sets also by Underwood and singer-songwriter Alex Walker. When Hanson first got out of recovery, some old friends and acquaintances were willing to give him another shot. The first musician to encourage him to play again was Gillian
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Underwood, who initially shared a bill with Hanson back in 2008. By late 2015, she was telling him that they should play a show together sometime. “He’s an amazing musician. He’s an amazing songwriter. I have openly told him I believe you deserve a second chance,” Underwood says. “He’s looking for community. He’s looking to feel normal again. Music is so important to him.” It wasn’t hard for Underwood to feel compassion for him. She, too, is in recovery. Underwood has been sober in her program for eight years and had lost friends and her marriage because of her addiction. She saw his open, honest Facebook posts that conveyed the seriousness of his conviction to live a sober life. He would reveal ugly facts that, in his addict days, he would have kept a secret. Underwood says she’s worked really hard to rebuild and establish new healthy relationships in sobriety. Part of that is helping others.
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“I think he was reaching out to whoever would listen,” Underwood says. “He was bearing his soul. I consider myself a good person, and I totally fucked up, too. He was brave enough to ask for help, and that’s what led me to believe that he was sincere.” A particularly low moment for him that he clearly still feels guilty about was stealing money out of his grandmother’s wallet. But addicts often talk about hitting rock bottom, and for Hanson, it came a week and a half after he’d been sober. As his life was falling apart, and everyone was learning the truth about him—among other things, his roommates kicked him out for stealing. He got suicidal and checked himself into Sierra Vista Hospital, taking his last dose of pills right before going inside. When they released him 11 days later, all he had were two suitcases and a city’s worth of burned bridges. He sat at the bus stop on Watt Avenue, trying to figure out what to do next. “I realized that everything led to this bus stop,” Hanson says. “It wasn’t a moment of clarity. It was just a moment I
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realized what I had lost. I think at that moment, I’d made the decision to live. I could give up or I can go to rehab and give life one more shot.” June 29, 2014 is also his sobriety date. At nearly four years, it’s by far the longest stint since 2002, when he first started drinking. In 2004, he moved on to cocaine, then crack in 2006. After sitting on that bus stop contemplating the failures of his life, he called his parents. They’d found a yearlong rehab center in Marysville called Joshua House Men’s Center. He decided to do it, and the continuing work he’s done has changed his life. “I will never be healed from this disease, but I can manage it,” Hanson says. “My addiction is a sleeping dog. If I poke it, it will bite me. But if I know how to navigate around it, he will be asleep.” Facebook became a major part of his recovery. After a month of getting out of rehab, he decided that he would manage his disease by being completely open and honest. He’s currently doing yard maintenance at the Historic Sacramento City Cemetery every Sunday as part of courtordered community service. “I have no secrets—I don’t know if you know how freeing that is after living a complete lie for years,” Hanson says. During a full year of rehab, he had to let go of everything: no TV, no internet, limited contact with friends and family, and probably hardest of all, he couldn’t play music. After the sixth month, they’d let him play guitar on occasion and even lead the songs at the bible study. While still in rehab, Hanson had joined a church, and when he got out, they offered him the position of worship leader, which lasted until December last year. He left due to some conflicts with the church leaders. It was a major outlet for his music. Alone in his room, he would still write his own songs, and he feels his style has taken a major shift. “It’s simpler, less contrived,” Hanson says. “I’m not hiding anymore. That just came from the confidence I have. Are the songs better? No. There’s some really good Foxtails songs.” Hanson is excited to show Sacramento his new music, but he’s also nervous that people won’t give him another chance. He even understands why some people might not and doesn’t hold it against them. “I was pretty deep in the music scene,” Hanson says. “Unfortunately, all of that went away because of my actions. I hurt a lot of people. There’s a lot of people in the Sacramento music scene who probably don’t want me around. Playing music: It’s who I am. Without that, I’m missing a part of myself.” Now, Hanson’s thinking about positive things he can do with his music, like getting fundraisers going for rehab facilities, in addition to telling his story and encouraging other people to seek help if they need it. “Life is good. I’m happy living in my one-bedroom apartment in a crappy part of Marysville,” Hanson says. “I lived in constant fear. It takes its toll on you. Through this rehab, through self-introspection, through working out, I’ve tackled that fear. I like life now. I know this sounds cliché, but it’s true.” Ω
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Addiction and Death Grow Due to Opioid Crisis 2016 was the worst year for opiate drug overdoses — Transitions Clinic Manager Richard Alcala discusses the problem and offers some much-needed solutions! Richard Alcala, Clinic Manager
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1) We know America is in the middle of an opiate crisis. You are at ground zero. Can you tell us what you are seeing on a daily basis? Richard: What I see on a daily basis is the devastation that the opiates have caused. People are addicted through pain pills mostly and they eventually graduate to heroin because it is cheaper and easier to get on the street. They lose their jobs, their friends, their family and most of them end up homeless, which adds to the homeless crisis which we also have. Not to mention again all the deaths, there is no coming back!
2) In your opinion, who is responsible for this crisis?
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Richard: The pharmaceutical companies that started this opiate crisis over 20 years ago. They knew what they were doing by giving people the pain pills, convincing the doctors to prescribe Norco, Benzo, Oxycontin, just to name a few opiates, that they knew were addictive. They are worse than any terrorist group!
3) And they have been fined, right, by the federal government, by not showing how addictive they were? Richard: Yes, they have been sued over and over again, paid out millions, when they make billions of dollars. They don’t mind spending millions to shut people up.
4) What should the government do to respond to this crisis? Richard: Health coverage for EVERYONE! They should hold the pharmaceutical companies accountable for what they’ve done. We need to ask Congress to repeal The Marino Law, and have all the congressmen who signed it into law agree to sign it out of law. Also, to ask Congress to pass legislation and demand 1% of total
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opioid sales from all pharmaceutical companies be allocated to all small organizations in the USA that help with opioid addiction. Maybe use it to pay for health insurance?
5) How is Transitions Clinic responding to this crisis? Richard: We are responding as best we can. We see 500 people a month and we also see some homeless people for free, because we are helping them to get off opioids by using Bup/Suboxone. They have no health insurance, no Social Security and they are living in the street. We help them, along with many other great organizations, such as CARES, HRS, SWOP, CASH, Loaves & Fishes, SANE, and SSHH in conjunction with Phil Serna & Assemblymember Kevin McCarthy.
6) So when people do get the treatment and do get the housing, are they able to turn their lives around? Richard: Yes they do. In our clinic I can tell you 50% do fantastic sticking with the program, staying on Suboxone or buprenorphine. They go back to work, they go back to school, they get married, have babies, and live a normal life. They take their lives back!
7) What should concerned citizens who want to advocate for change do? Richard: First and foremost, people should educate themselves on this subject. Also please read and sign our petition to repeal the Marino Law on the website WE the People. We are going to put a petition out there to have everyone sign it so that Congress can listen to our demands that something needs to be done. We should be going after the pharmaceutical companies and repealing the Marino law, which helped the pharmaceutical companies do whatever they wanted to sell these opiates.
Learn more and sign the petition at www.wethepeople.com Transitions Clinic 3647 40th St. Sacramento, CA, 95817 (916) 452-1068
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Gumbo’s back, tell a friend celestin’s GuMbo, celestin’s restaurant Longtime Sacramentans may remember Celestin’s, which filled bellies with warm gumbo from 1983 until 2011 in Midtown. They’re back for their third opening, this time in a smaller space with counter service. Its namesake gumbo ($21) is the meatiest: hunks of chicken, rock cod, scallops, shrimp and perfectly smokey sausage and red bell peppers are mixed with a roux, which was too mild for the medium spice order but still damn good. With seven gumbos to try (including a veggie option), and an extended menu, it looks like a promising comeback. 3610 McKinley Boulevard, (916) 258-4060.
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Chocolate for dinner Mezcalito Oaxacan Cuisine 5065 Pacific Street in Rocklin; (916) 701-4772 https://www.mezcalitocuisine.com
When I lived in Mexico for a year, I quested after the perfect mole rojo: a chocolate oil slick of decadence and cinnamon, cloves, cumin. Oaxaca had the best. It’s called “the land of seven moles,” though there are as many as 200 variations in the central Mexican city. I remember staring at the baroque flying buttresses of cathedrals cast in volcanic rock while eating a mole that tasted of mystery and darkness. I haven’t found any American approximations that have hit the same mark, but darn it if Mezcalito Oaxacan Cuisine in Rocklin doesn’t come dangerously close. Opened in December, the small casual eatery is full of the culinarily curious even at 3 p.m. on a weekday. The friendly staff lines up to welcome patrons and bid goodbye. One waiter was so empathetic as to notice that my mother was cold and turn on the heat lamp by her. The menu had a long list of Oaxacan classics such as Tlayudas—the crispy tortilla topped with beans and fixings that looks like a salad on a pizza—and sopa azteca, also known as tortilla soup. The seafood and vegetarian offerings were generous, as were the appetizers with regional specificity like molotes—a stuffed corn pastry— and empanada de amarillo. The latter ($8) contained thick, crumbly (read: real) masa tortilla that oozed with unctuous quesillo with a texture like melted string cheese. Mushrooms carried 24 | SN&R | 03.22.18
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a pungent fungal essence that reminded me of another Mexican dish I haven’t had in ages: huitlacoche, or corn smut, an edible and delicious (I promise) corn disease! The accompanying salsa roja tasted smoky and roasted. Another highlight was, of course, that mole rojo. The enmoladas ($12) carried it best, with corn-filled tortillas that revealed shredded chicken with only the choice bits, in other words, no tripe. The mole was dark with the telltale chocolate that Oaxaca is so known for, while notes of raisin, cloves and cinnamon still shone through. The “Oaxaca’s Favorite” ($14) roasted chicken didn’t quite soak up the mole with the same pleasing thickness, though the meat itself was juicy. The chicken chile relleno ($13) hit so many high notes: tangy red salsa, fried and fatty batter on the outside, a mild sting of chile stuffed with sweet pockets of chicken, studded with raisins. Less fantastic? The pastor wrap ($9), where the ingredients suffered for their proximity. The tortilla got soggy, the cooling effect of the guacamole and sour cream wore off quickly, until it was all an inert mass of roomtemperature, squishy ingredients. Separately, the pork itself was marinated marvelously, but the wrap concept was, to me, a flop. But that doesn’t take away from the rest—and oh, the dessert menu. The platanos fritos ($6) were presented with an artful scattering of deep fried bananas, abstract splotches of caramel and raspberry sauce and your choice of ice cream. Choose the mezcal flavor, there’s no other choice with that alcoholic bite softened by the honeyed agave. In conclusion: Get the mole. Sit in the airy tent outside, and don’t be shy about the heat lamp. It’ll have you feeling like you’re in Oaxaca in no time. Ω
We took cover at Hawks Public House on a recent rainy night, seeking comfort and provisions. Usually this would call for a stiff, inside-warming concoction. Then we glanced at the cocktail menu that advertised the fancy-sounding Alhambra Theatre Presents a Barberry Gin Fizz ($13). Made with gin, barberry jam, water and sparkling wine, the coral-hued drink exhibits marquee appeal. With its thick and uR te bubbly texture, the cocktail Se Sy ou of h awkS Public h balances sweet and tart notes for a refreshing end-of-winter escape. 11525 Alhambra Boulevard, www.hawkspublichouse.com. to
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Crunchy, green fries Kohlrabi The proliferous cruciferous family has a German cousin in kohlrabi. While we usually eat the leaves or florets of cabbage cousins, it’s the stem we stem we eat on the kohlrabi. The leaves leaves are edible, too, but it’s the crunchy bulbous stem that appears in markets. With a flavor similar to cucumber or radish, kohlrabi works well as a crudité with ranch dressing or mustard vinaigrette. Make sure to peel off the fibrous outer skin, skin, whether it’s green or purple. Then cut the stem into lengthwise sticks and munch away. You can also roast it alongside potatoes and turnips for a hearty side dish.
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The pear orchards in Courtland are vast and quiet, but not quiet for long. The trees have begun to bloom, and flowers mean fruit is not far off—pears are harvested before they are ripe, beginning in June. Fruit means the Hemly family, its relatives and crew will be in full work mode. There’s cider to be made. Beginning in 2015, and recently relocated from 35 miles away in Lockeford, the sixth generation family-owned enterprise has made three varieties of craft hard cider—Original, Dry and Sloughhouse Jalapeño. While craft beer brewing may be reaching saturation overload, cider is at the forefront of a new beverage-frontier, based on its enduring past. Moderately light of alcohol (about 5.5 percent) Hemly pear cider is harvested and produced unfiltered and oak aged on about 1,000 acres in the hamlet 17 miles south of Sacramento along the Sacramento River. Apple cider is more well-known, but pear cider is the newbie (again) in the alternative alcohol market. It has a rich history, as does the Hemly’s association with pears. A variety of ciders were vastly popular before Prohibition. “When we got started, cider was starting to make a comeback,” said Sarah Hemley, the company president, during a recent tour of the orchards and plant. “But cider is limited and usually marketed more in the beer industry. If you’re following the craft beer scene, you can see markets like San Francisco, San Diego and Los Angeles are blowing up, and the Sacramento market is large.”
The Hemly family heritage dates to the early 1850s, when a pioneering relative bought the property unseen and underwater. He built the first levee on the Sacramento River and began to grow fruit. The rest is a long and winding history of family farming, all built around pears and apples and reflected in the company’s mottos: “165 Years in the Making” and “Pears Well With Everything.” Hemly Cider, made with dessert pears and with a combination of 60 percent pears and 40 percent gala apples, is expanding its reach in the Sacramento region. Two Rivers Hard Cider Company in Sacramento is the region’s only other craft cider maker. The recently opened Cider Junction in San Jose, a cideronly bar, is apparently the first of its kind in Northern California. “When you are paying attention to the fruit, paying attention to the yeast or not using concentrate or sugars, it’s a different beast unto itself,” Hemly says. Angry Orchard, based in New York, may be the biggest thing in the cider industry, but, Hemly says, craft cider is a whole different experience. “You realize there’s more than Coors Light,” she says. “People are waking up.” Ω
the sacramento and Davis Natural Foods Co-ops carry hemly Cider, as does Corti bros. in east sacramento and Nugget markets in elk Grove and el Dorado hills. it is also served at Grange, Lowbrau and masullo Pizza in sacramento. Pangaea bier Cafe has hemly Cider in rotation on tap.
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Greek Fieri: Don’t even try to call the authenticity police on the new fast-casual Greek restaurant at 1901 J Street, Jyros Twisted Gyros—the fact that it is unorthodox, fusionfrenzied Greek food is the whole point, according to its owner. Pronounced “Jai-Rohs” Twisted “Hee-Rohs,” the name hints at the common mispronunciation of the Greek pita sandwich, says owner Jared Katzenbarger. “Of course the way you say it is hee-rohs, and I know that,” Katzenbarger says, “but it’s also a part of that fun debate. I make no claim to being authentic Greek— I’m not Greek—so I wanted to do a fun twist with that, and that’s our thing … It’s taking things that everyone likes from different areas and putting them all together in one food and just making it a fun experience.”
In keeping with the twisted theme, the menu—created by Katzenbarger as well as his friends and employees—includes funky options like Medusa Nachos ($7.99) with pita chips and Twisted Fries ($7.99) loaded with your choice of protein, Greek salad ingredients and uncommon sauces like Sriracha tzatziki. Vegans can add the falafel to any gyro or bowl. “We’ve got your traditional options: You can do your gyro sandos with beef and lamb and get your traditional toppings and in original toppings, but you can do a sando with naan and do an al pastor pork and Sriracha tzatziki—and I don’t know anyone else doing flavored tzatzikis like that.” Katzenbarger is trying to differentiate his business from other Greek restaurants with the buildyour-own meal approach. There’s
also the Guy Fieri-esque, brazen design that includes devil-horn hand symbols on the menu and sexy Medusas, including a sensual interior mural painted by local artist Franceska Gamez. The grand opening on March 15 cashed in almost 400 receipts and, Katzenbarger estimates, around 800 visitors. He says it’s the right time to open a Greek restaurant, a cuisine he particularly loves. “It’s the freshness, the wholesomeness, it’s filling but it doesn’t feel like it sits solid in you,” he says. “You get full, but it’s fresh, it’s healthy.” If this location is successful, the future might bode well for a second location of Jyros Twisted Gyros or a new, gleefully inauthentic concept. “I have an Asian idea and a Mexican idea,” he says. Ω
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Macho taco face-off Sacramento’s food trucks are revving their engines for The Food Truck Challenge, a taco showdown at the California Museum. Drewski’s Twisted Tacos will battle Flavor Face and Masa Guisería to see who’s the crowned king of the folded flavor pocket. You’re the judge. A two-forone $20 ticket (or full-priced $45) gets you six tacos, two from each truck, and access to the museum’s exhibits. The menu includes a mash-up of taco fusions: chicken with bacon and citrus slaw, Korean, pulled pork, Caribbean. There’s also the more traditional pork adobada taco. According to event organizer Alonso Garcia, the tacos can all be made vegetarian upon request at the entrance. Plus, tickets support Inalliance, a nonprofit that aims to improve life for people with developmental disabilities. That’s one satisfying taco face-off. www. eventbrite.com/e/food-truck-challenge-tickets-41116182609.
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Kids and tofu these days by Shoka Moan about kids these days and their screen time all you want, but they’re just trying their best. Usually. Sometimes. As much as adults will let them, including participating in the kitchen. The Bay Area’s Sprouts Cooking Club mission is to empower kids to be healthier with after-school cooking classes, cooking camps and a vocational training program. On Saturday, March 31, it hosts a vegan class with tofu makers Hodo Soy for 7-12 year olds. They’ll make their own silken tofu, then use it to whip up
peanut butter chocolate pie, breakfast scrambles and pesto with angel hair tofu noodles from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Girls Inc. Kitchens, 510 16th Street in Oakland. If you can’t make the trip to Oakland, the class cost ($45), or meet the age requirement, try making tofu lime and vanilla cheesecake from https://quitegoodfood.co.nz, vegan lemon pie from www.win-winfood.com or marshmallow cheesecake from www.feastingonfruit.com. Or something tofu-based that’s not dessert. Your call.
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Getting a landlord who cares about the well-being of tenants can be difficult — but Jovana Fajardo made it look easy.
Such a union was critically needed, Fajardo said.
Even if that landlord happened to be her father, his actions speak to Fajardo’s persuasive talents as Sacramento director of the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE).
Local landlords can collect everincreasing rents, while, in some cases, allowing apartments to become unfit for human habitation. The city had among the nation’s highest rent hikes last year, with one-bedroom apartments costing an average of more than $1,100 a month.
Two years ago, Fajardo asked her Dad, who owns rental properties in Contra Costa County, to become a member of her statewide nonprofit, which advocates for tenants’ rights. “He signed up to be a member and since then has been going to ACCE’s meetings in Bay Point,” Fajardo said recently. “My father understands that what we’re fighting for is fair,” she added. “He hasn’t raised his rents in years ... to keep good tenants in their homes.” To fight unscrupulous landlords, Fajardo is forming a Sacramento tenants’ union that will advocate for tenants’ rights and pressure landlords/owners to respond to unfair practices, including illegal evictions. About 600 Sacramentans have joined the union, which is being created with the support of organized labor. Besides attending legal-rights clinics cosponsored by Legal Services of Northern California, members visit apartment complexes in South Sacramento and other
“The more you Talk To people, The more you realize This is a human righTs issue.” Ava Nadal ACCE state representative Jovana Fajardo, Sacramento director of aCCE, says a tenants’ union will protect renters from unfair practices and illegal evictions. Photo by Edgar Sanchez
Mom-and-pop landlords who care about tenants are being replaced by “ruthless corporate landlords” who care only about profits, Fajardo complained, adding that tenants need protection. ACCE leader Ava Nadal said the movement is a noble cause. “The more you talk to people, the more you realize this is a human rights issue,” Nadal, an ACCE state representive from Sacramento, told a meeting of local ACCE members. “People are suffering, and we care!”
ACCE is part of the Housing 4 Sacramento Coalition which includes, SEIU 2015; SEIU 100; SEIU 1021; SEIU UHWW; Sacramento Housing Alliance; Democratic Socialists of America, Sacramento; Sacramento Central Labor Council; and Tenants Together, all of which are collectively tackling local housing issues. The California Endowment has supported ACCE’s work regarding housing and tenant education.
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Bachelorette
Family, fire and myth By Patti RobeRts
A very black comedy about a bachelorette party gone terribly wrong. The play features lots of drugs, alcohol and sex, with crude and offensive language. Directed by Chloe King and performed by six talented actors. Thu 8pm, Fri 8pm, Sat
8pm. Through 4/7; $18-$22;
Big Idea Theatre, 1616 Del Paso Boulevard; (916) 9603036; www.bigideatheatre. org. B.S.
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Heaven Can Wait
The classic fantasy/ romantic comedy of a boxer prematurely called to heaven by an overly ambitious messenger, wanting to spare him the pain of his actual death. Now comes a search for a suitable body so he can be returned to Earth and live out his destiny. Fri 8pm, Sat
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A Raisin in the Sun
Celebration Arts chose Lorraine Hansberry’s iconic A Raisin in the Sun to unveil their new theater space at 27th and B streets. This wonderful, heartfelt production of an AfricanAmerican family trying to traverse the social and racial issues of 1950s Chicago still resonates with a talented cast all under the direction of Celebration Arts founder James Wheatley. Fri
Sense and Sensibility
City Theatre takes a bookish approach to Jane Austen’s first published novel, with a large cast and sterling production values. The acting is very mannered— and very mannerly. Fri
7:30pm, Sat 7:30pm, Sun 2pm, 2pm show on Sat 3/17. Through 3/18; $15-$18; Sacramento City College Performing Arts Center, 3835 Freeport Blvd.; (916) 558-2228; www. citytheatre.net. J.C.
8pm, Sat 8pm, Sun 2pm. Through 3/24; $10-$20;
short reviews by Bev sykes and Patti roberts.
Celebration Arts, 2727 B Street; (916) 455-2787; celebrationartsacts@ gmail.com. P.R.
8pm, Sun 2pm & 8pm. Through 3/25; $10-$12; Winters Com-
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From the opening moments of The Arsonists, playwright Jacqueline Goldfinger pulls the audience into the deep, dark recesses of the Northern Florida swamps and its murky, quirky inhabitants. This intense, compacted 70-minute play about father-daughter arsonists-for-hire, is a strange and beautiful weaving-together of Southern Gothic tales and the Greek mythology Electra, with a dozen traditional folk tunes sung by the two-person cast. Family relationships, secrets, losses and binding love are achingly brought to life by the talented duo of Megan Wicks and Rich Hebert. The setting is a rustic family cabin with wooden slats askew, the bare necessities of life and the riggings and tools of the arson trade—all surrounded by flickering lights and the haunted sounds of the bayou. Wicks and Hebert are in sync with each other and the story—Hebert as the protective and proud father (identified in the program as “H”), and Wicks as the strong, fearless, yet vulnerable daughter (identified as “M”), directed with the right blend of intensity and delicacy by Gail Dartez. Wicks is mesmerizing as she wears her internal emotional struggles on her tattered sleeves. My only wish is that the tale was just a tad longer to explore some of the mysteries of the intriguing career of professional fire-bugs. Worth noting: Sacramento’s Capital Stage is one of four theaters in the country debuting The Arsonists as part of the National New Play Network’s rolling world premiere program. Ω
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If you’re the kind of person who goes to a bar or restaurant to watch the other patrons, A Balm in Gilead is the play for you, here presented by Resurrection Theatre Company at the California Stage, directed by Margaret Morneau. This is a difficult play to get into, as it has overlapping dialog, simultaneous scenes and mostly unlikable characters. It takes place in a seedy bar populated by drug addicts and dealers, prostitutes (male and female), transvestites and thieves. To complicate things, there are 30 in the cast; all are listed by name in the program, but only a handful are ever called by name in the script. Trying to figure out who is who is pretty much impossible. That said, there’s an electricity to the play that makes it oddly compelling and entertaining. The central characters are Darlene (Jennifer Berry), a good-hearted prostitute freshly arrived from Chicago, and Joe (Vernon Lewis), a drug dealer with whom she becomes infatuated. While talking with Ann (Aviv Hannan), a world-weary hooker, about her own past in Chicago, Berry delivers what may be the longest monologue I have heard. It’s a tour de force, but I was perhaps even more impressed with Hannan, who played the scene as someone trapped listening to a monologue when she would prefer to be anywhere else. —Bev SykeS
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Sinfully delicious Based on a manuscript of more than 250 poems and texts mostly from the 11th and 12th centuries, Carmina Burana is a collection of bawdy, irreverent and satirical works by horny, old monks (can I say that?). Carl Orff composed music for it in 1935. Ron Cunningham created a masterwork dance that has become a signature of the Sacramento Ballet. See it this weekend with live music and a full chorus. Fri 7:30pm, Sat 2pm & 7:30pm, Sun 2pm. Through March 18; $30-$89; Community Center Theater, 1301 L Street; (916) 808-51891; www.sacballet.org.
—Jim CarneS a Balm in gillead: fri 8pm, sat 8pm. through 4/7; Wilkerson theater, 1723 25th street; $15-20; (916) 491-0940; contact@ resurrectiontheatre.org.
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Everybody Already Thinks You’re Crazy. More good news: Claire Foy harrowingly sheds the regal demeanor of her breakthrough role as First, the good news. There’s something exhilarating Elizabeth II in TV’s The Crown. In her hands, about an inventive filmmaker who, with nothing left to Sawyer is a borderline basket case who keeps us prove, keeps at it, always ready to try something new. wondering exactly which side of the border she’s That’s what director Steven Soderbergh does in Unsane, on. Adding to the disorientation, Soderbergh has and he gives the picture a jumpy energy that comes close shot the movie with iPhone cameras, serving as to covering up the bad news: Jonathan Bernstein and his own cinematographer (under the alias Peter James Greer’s script is a boilerplate schlock thriller. Andrews) and editor (aka Mary Ann Bernard). Claire Foy plays Sawyer Valentini, a tough-talking This technique makes Sawyer’s world look at once data analyst at a big-city bank, new on the job but wide-angle (when she reaches for a coffee cup near good enough to get a thinly veiled come-on from her the camera, her arm suddenly looks seven feet long) boss. We see her in a bar, completing a social-media and claustrophobic (figures seem flattened and hookup by telling the guy this is going to be jammed together, lit with a chilly green a simple one-night stand, after which he’s cast). Is this woman really sane, or is never to contact her again. He agrees, she dragging us down the rabbit hole Like but back at her apartment, some with her? Hitchcock’s frantic flashback sends her fleeing Like Hitchcock’s Vertigo to the bathroom, locking the door Vertigo (which may (which may have been a partial and trembling, and him retreating in inspiration), Unsane tips its have been a partial confusion. hand way too soon. Critics are inspiration), Unsane The next day, Sawyer seeks help urged not to reveal “characters’ from a clinical professional for her tips its hand way secrets,” so I won’t. trauma, telling a tale of being a stalkAlthough Soderbergh’s visuals too soon. er’s victim, getting restraining orders, and Foy’s jittery performance carry changing phone numbers and emails, us far, Unsane falls an early victim finally moving from Boston to Pennsylvania, to wait-a-minute-that-doesn’t-make-sense but still seeing her stalker everywhere she looks. syndrome. It’s okay if that hits you on the way The sympathetic therapist induces Sawyer to sign home from the theater, but it’s fatal if it comes some “routine paperwork.” Too late, Sawyer realizes before the movie’s even halfway over. she has unwittingly committed herself for observation Soderbergh and Claire Foy are, essentially, in a “behavioral center” that makes the booby-hatch in putting lipstick on a pig—but for a while, it’s a One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest look like a French pretty nifty shade of red. Ω Riviera timeshare. Worse, Sawyer is convinced that her stalker has followed her even this far, masquerading as the mild-mannered male nurse who administers the inmates’ daily meds (Joshua Leonard). Desperate to the point of seeming (or being) unhinged, Sawyer Poor Fair Good Very excellent Good gives a master class in What Not to Do When
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7 Days in Entebbe
Here’s a nutty idea: What if they made a based-on-a-true-story historical drama that didn’t end with images of the real-life people portrayed in the film? Dare to dream. Brazilian director José Padilha (Elite Squad) instead dutifully continues this unfortunate trend in 7 Days in Entebbe, splicing actual footage of Israeli hostages returning home into the ending of his workmanlike political thriller. Of course, that moldy grace note is hardly the only shopworn element in 7 Days in Entebbe, a competently crafted and acted but largely unoriginal take on a story that has already been filmed several times (once in Israel and twice for American television). In fact, the only unique element that Padilha brings to the film is an unexpected obsession with politically charged interpretive dance. It’s not exactly what I was hoping for, but you take what you can get. Despite the film’s many shortcomings, it remains watchable. D.B.
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Death Wish
A doctor (Bruce Willis), distraught after a gang of home invaders leaves his wife dead and his daughter in a coma, and fearing the police investigation is going nowhere, embarks on his own anti-crime crusade. Writer Joe Carnahan and director Eli Roth update the 1974 Charles Bronson vigilante wet dream (from Brian Garfield’s novel), relocating it to Chicago on the theory that the present murder rate there is roughly equivalent to New York in the ’70s. The result is a satisfying melodrama, bolstered by the supporting performances of Vincent D’Onofrio as Willis’ brother, Elisabeth Shue as the illfated wife, and Dean Norris and Kimberly Elise as police detectives. A sequel is inevitable, I guess (and not especially to be looked forward to), but at least this one shoots its way to a satisfying conclusion. J.L.
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A Fantastic Woman
Chilean director Sebastián Leilo cowrote and directed this dreamy and deliberate Oscar winner about Santiago songbird Marina (Daniela Vega), a transgender woman reeling from the unexpected death of her much-older boyfriend Orlando. Without allies in his family or in the government, Marina gets put through the ringer of a humiliating and dehumanizing police investigation, while Orlando’s wife and son seize his possessions and shut Marina out of the official grieving process. Meanwhile, oblique visions of Orlando’s ghost and the discovery of a mysterious key seem to lead Marina toward a hidden treasure, or at least an emotional breakthrough. There is some narrative and thematic overlap between A Fantastic Woman and Tom Ford’s A Single Man, but Leilo’s film is warm and contemplative rather than cold and clinical, with light doses of magical realism and a marvelous lead performance from Vega (although Leilo makes it all too easy by turning Orlando’s family into violent, dognapping psychopaths). D.B.
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Love, Simon
A gay teenager (Nick Robinson), securely closeted in front of his parents (Josh Duhamel, Jennifer Garner) and friends (Katherine Langford, Keiynan Lonsdale, Alexandra Shipp), falls in love on social media with an anonymous classmate, also closeted, and fantasizes about who the other might be. Directed by Greg Berlanti and adapted by Elizabeth Berger and Isaac Aptaker from Becky Albertalli’s novel, the movie is enjoyable enough, despite the callow gloss of a 1970s after-school TV special preaching to us about tolerance. Robinson is a blandly likeable presence, though he can’t quite overcome the fact that his character is, frankly, a selfish little jerk who, in his efforts to hide his real nature and ascertain the identity of his true love, does some borderline-unforgiveable things to his supposed pals. J.L.
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Gringo
With blockbuster cinema now fully owned by brand names like Marvel and Star Wars, you can add grungy crime films to the list of genres ceded to the independents. Nash Edgerton’s darkly wacky Gringo is the sort of proudly profane, twist-filled story of amateur criminals and sensitive hitmen that came out every other week in the 1990s, and while no new ground gets broken here, the film has enough energy and nerve to carry you through the underwhelming end. David Oyelowo heads a strong ensemble cast as Harold Soyinka, a born loser with a cheating wife and a tenuous job at a pharmaceuticals company. When Harold learns that his boss Richard (Nash’s brother Joel Edgerton) has set him up as the fall guy in a Mexican drug-running scheme, he fakes his own kidnapping and demands ransom, but the plan gets upended by a largely rote series of double-crosses and misunderstandings. D.B.
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The Party
Writer-director Sally Potter (Orlando) roped in a solid cast for this blessedly brief yet utterly annoying black-and-white drama set during a disastrous gathering of friends and secret lovers. Janet (Kristin Scott Thomas) has just been appointed to a high government position, but the party to celebrate her promotion is demolished by unexpected news from her mopey husband Bill (Timothy Spall). Meanwhile, a lesbian couple (Cherry Jones and Emily Mortimer) learn that they are having triplets and a cocaine-snorting lawyer (Cillian Murphy) secretly plots revenge, while Janet’s acidtongued best friend (Patricia Clarkson) spews toothless one-liners. The writing is even more annoying than the lackluster visuals, just a series of lowbrow, laugh track-ready putdowns wrapped in the trappings of academia. Cramped and predictable and far less clever than it thinks, The Party feels like it was based on a play that I would also dislike, rather than an original screenplay by Potter. D.B.
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Red Sparrow
The foul and flightless Red Sparrow is the seventh feature film from director Francis Lawrence, and the seventh unremarkably bad one to boot. It’s like Lawrence was created in a laboratory by mad scientists who needed to provide content for Crackle. A witless teenage sex fantasy dressed in the solemn tones of a Le Carré-inspired spy movie, Red Sparrow stars Jennifer Lawrence as Dominika Egorova, a Russian ballerina who suffers a career-ending injury during a performance. After taking a shady job and accidentally witnessing a statesponsored murder, Dominika is given a choice: get murdered, or train to become a sexually charged superspy known as a Red Sparrow. The contemporary setting of Red Sparrow does allow a respite from the tacky CGI that usually overwhelms Francis Lawrence’s films, but it only gives us more time to focus on his clunky storytelling and inability to sustain tension. D.B.
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Heiress Lara Croft (Alicia Vikander), reluctant to have her adventurer/ tycoon father (Dominic West) declared legally dead, sets out to retrace the journey on which he vanished years earlier. The venerable video game gets another movie version (15 years after a would-be franchise with Angelina Jolie petered out), with the inevitable results—no video game has ever made a decent movie, and probably none ever will. Norwegian director Roar Uthaug fails to conceal the fact that the story (by Geneva Robertson-Dworet, Alastair Siddons and Evan Daugherty) never makes a lick of sense and, in true Lara Croft fashion, it doesn’t end but merely sets us up for the next level. On the plus side, Vikander looks luscious in her adventuring togs, and the graphics, while devoid of excitement or suspense, are impressive. J.L.
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A Wrinkle in Time
Three kids (Storm Reid, Levi Miller, Deric McCabe) search across the universe for the missing father of two of them (Chris Pine). Director Ava DuVernay and writers Jennifer Lee and Jeff Stockwell turn Madeleine L’Engle’s fantasy novel into a truly epic fiasco, with Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling (as the kids’ cosmic guides) flouncing around like tacky disco drag queen hookers in the nadir of their careers. DuVernay’s ineptitude is total—the camera always too close, too far away, clumsily moving or at an ugly angle, the editing lurching and rhythmless. Performances range from dull (Reid) to obnoxious (McCabe) to humiliating (Witherspoon, Kaling, Winfrey), never wandering—not even by accident—into the vicinity of interesting. This turkey is a shoo-in to sweep the Razzie Awards. J.L.
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Label of love Local label Friendship Fever signs national acts and will host a “fucking rad” live showcase Photo courtesy of friendshiP fever
by Bansky Gonzalez
Hey wait, Neighbor Lady has more than one lady.
Running and funding a record label out of your home while working full-time day jobs in the music industry may seem like a daunting task, but local couple Christopher and Sabrina Watson are taking it head-on with their Sacramento-based label Friendship Fever. Housing acts like Father John Misty’s David Vandervelde, Neighbor Lady, Imaginary Tricks, minihorse, Sacramento mainstay Honyock and more, the label is now planning a showcase to invite the city into their world. “It’s nothing but a labor of love,” said Christopher, a 38-year-old creative director for Music Tastes Good, a southern California-based music festival. “It’s a passion project for my wife and I to be able to release records that we’re super into, by people that we like working with.” But it takes more than passion to keep a business afloat, and the Watsons have run into their share of unique difficulties operating in Sacramento. “There’s not a ton of independent record retail out here,” Christopher said. “Back in the day, when I first started working in the independent record label world, it was a whole lot easier to sell records.” Still, Friendship Fever is undeterred and remains inspired by its hometown. “Sometimes the local scene can be a little difficult to navigate, because there’s only a couple of successful bigger venues in town, and more recently, some of the smaller venues have had a hard time getting a go at it,” Christopher said. “Still, I feel
like there is something pretty magical happening in town right now. There’s some great live music, there’s some folks piecing together some elements in the very beginning stages of what I think might be a pretty viable scene in Sacramento. So that’s been encouraging.” Watson name-dropped festivals like the upcoming Sol Blume along with rockers Drug Apts and rappers like Mozzy and Hobo Johnson as signs of Sacramento’s rising music scene. Although he admitted that “we haven’t really set ourselves up as trying to be the voice of the Sacramento scene,” it’s clear Friendship Fever wants to make their imprint on the city. “I feel like Sacramento is a place where you can be yourself.” he said. “I love Sacramento. It just fits our overall vibe for Friendship Fever.” Like every other label in the current landscape, much of Friendship Fever’s releases are centered on digital sales and streaming services, but it also peddles collectors’ items like vinyl or cassette hard copies. The family business is also finding ways to generate income for artists through licensing deals with movies like the upcoming indie film Summer Night and TV shows like TNT’s Animal Kingdom that want to use their music. Now, it all culminates with the Friendship Fever showcase at The Red Museum on March 30, featuring performances from Imaginary Tricks, minihorse, Neighbor Lady and Honyock, with the latter set to present their soothing indie rock sound in the form of the record El Castillo this summer, featuring a collaboration with David Vandervelde. “It’s just a way for us to invite people to check out some of the artists we’re working on,” Christopher said before adding, “it’s just an opportunity to show off some fucking rad live bands.” Ω catch friendship fever’s neighbor Lady, imaginary tricks, minihorse and honyock at the red Museum, 212 15th street, on friday, March 30. doors are at 8 p.m. Pizza by Pizza supreme Being. tickets are $10.
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gLOBaL LOCaL MeRCadO: Handmade arts and
tHe BIg LeBOwSKI: The Coen Brothers’ quirky
cultural goods produced by local and global vendors. Music provided by Raza Vinyl Collective (noon to 3pm) and Hip Hop Chess (3 to 5pm). noon, no cover. Sol Collective, 2574 21st St.
sunday, 3/25 SPRIng PRIMaVeRa BaRRIO MaRKet: Handmade
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John Cleese will be at the Mondavi Center.
a night with Cleese Mondavi Center, 8 P.M., $52-$252 If you listen closely, you may be able to hear the coconut halves clicking together as John Cleese comes to On Stage town. As a writer/comedian behind the popular Monty Python comedy group, Cleese helped found the collaboration that was a staple of 1970s British pop culture and left an imprint on sketch TV. After a five-year run on
BBC as Monty Python’s Flying Circus, the group pivoted to film. A fan favorite— Monty Python and the Holy Grail—will be screened, with a talk by the bloody Black Knight himself to follow. Cleese will discuss his life and career and answer audience questions. Bring your most absurd inquiries for the comic legend. 1 Shields Avenue in Davis, www.mondaviarts.org.
goods and art for sale in a family environment with music and more. 10am, no cover. The Washington Neighborhood Center, 400 16th St.
fOOd & drinK THursday, 3/22 dInIng In tHe daRK: Guests will enjoy dinner wearing eye shades in low-light conditions to utilize their other senses in this fundraiser for the California Council of the Blind. Food by Christina Ha, a chef who is blind and won Master Chef season three, will be featured. 5:45pm, $75. Sacramento Marriott Rancho Cordova, 1121 Point East Drive in Rancho Cordova.
FOOd tRUCK CHaLLenge: Sacramento’s top food trucks compete for the title of best taco, and the people get to be the judge. Ticket holders get six tacos (two from each truck), one drink and admission to the California Museum exhibits. 5:30pm, $20-$45. California Museum, 1020 O St.
friday, 3/23 BLInd teQUILa taStIng: See event highlight on
denIO’S dOg daY OF FUn 2018: Possibly the wILL HaVen: With Horseneck, With Wolves,
ZaCH wateRS Band: With Rachelle DeBelle & The
saTurday, 3/24
mOnday, 3/26
BedROOM: With Sunmonks, Pierce and the Gals.
BeRnIe & tHe wOLF: With Gezan, Worthy Goat,
Infinite Sleep. 7pm, $10-$15. Holy Diver, 1517 21st St.
THursday, 3/22 BRIanna CaRMeL: With I Kill Cameron, Melissa
Schiller. 8pm, $5. The Colony, 3512 Stockton Blvd.
BUddY gUY: Influential blues guitarist/singer.
7pm, $12-$15. CLARA, 1425 24th St.
HeaRtLeSS: 2018 SAMMIES nominee and Heart tribute band. 9pm, $10-$15. Opera House Saloon Roseville, 411 Lincoln St. in Roseville.
With Brandy Zdan. 7:30pm, $69-$99. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.
MaRtIn SeXtOn: With Chris Trapper. 7:30pm,
tSOL: With Downtown Brown, Sore Eyes. 8pm,
OMnIgUL: With Human Nature and more. 8pm,
sunday, 3/25
$20. Blue Lamp, 1400 Alhambra Blvd.
$30. The Sofia, 2700 Capitol Ave.
$10. Blue Lamp, 1400 Alhambra Blvd.
friday, 3/23
KaneKOa: Hawaiian ukulele reggae folk. 8pm, $22-$24. The Center for the Arts, 314 W.
aUStIn LUCaS: With Kevin Seconds. 8pm, $10. Earth Tone Studios, 411 18th St.
Main St. in Grass Valley.
ROYaL tHUndeR: With Pinkish Black, Holy Grove, Brume. 8pm, $12-$15. Blue Lamp, 1400 Alhambra Blvd.
aUtOMeLOdI: With Alak, Kevin Zee and more. 8pm, $10. Red Museum, 212 15th St.
BaCHeLOR PaRadISe: With Occupy the Trees,
Sene: With Lecsi, Sapphyre Blu. 6pm, $15-$20.
Micah McCaw. 8pm, $5. Luna’s Cafe & Juice Bar, 1414 16th St.
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Harlow’s, 2708 J St.
Jamfest Miracles. 4pm, $7. Blue Lamp, 1400 Alhambra Blvd.
Sam Peter. 7pm, no cover. Cafe Colonial, 3520 Stockton Blvd.
tHe dICKIeS: With the Queers, the O’Mulligans, the Enlows. 6:30pm, $17-$20. Holy Diver, 1517 21st St.
MInIStRY: With Chelsea Wolfe, The God Bombs. 7pm, $35. Ace Of Spades, 1417 R St.
Wednesday, 3/28 g. LOVe & SPeCIaL SaUCe: With Ron Artis II & the Truth. 7pm, $30-$35. Harlow’s, 2708 J St.
tHe OH HeLLOS: With Wildermiss. 7pm, $18. Ace Of Spades, 1417 R St.
comedy-mystery about bowling, avantgarde art, nihilistic Austrians and the Dude. Doors open at 6pm, costumes are encouraged for the character contest and trivia. 7pm, $8. Auburn State Theatre, 985 Lincoln Way in Auburn.
waYne’S wORLd: Mike Myers and Dana Carvey bring their popular Saturday Night Live characters to the big screen in this rock ’n’ roll parody. 7:30pm, $8-$10. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.
saTurday, 3/24 aUtISM-FRIendLY MOVIe nIgHt—deSPICaBLe Me 3: A screening of the popular film, with healthy snacks, raised lights, lowered sound and the freedom for kids to move around and play with fidget toys. All toddlers, preschoolers and families welcome. 10am, no cover. Sacramento Public Library— Sylvan Oaks Library, 6700 Auburn Blvd. in Citrus Heights.
LUnaFeSt: A national traveling film festival spotlights the work of diverse filmmakers who are women with intelligent, funny and thought-provoking short films. 2pm, $15$25. Guild Theater, 2828 35th St.
PRettY gUaRdIan SaILOR MOOn: tHe MUSICaL: Sailor Moon and Sailor Guardians try to stop the Shadow Galactica before it’s too late in a battle for the future of the galaxy. 11am, $15. The Tower Theatre, 2508 Land Park Drive.
ROad HOUSe: Patrick Swayze stars as the big city philosopher/bouncer who takes on corruption in a small town. 7:30pm, $8-$10. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.
35. 5pm, $20. Mayahuel, 1200 K St.
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cutest fundraiser for the Placer County SPCA, this event features wiener dog and small dog races, a wanna-be-a-wiener dog costume parade, a human corn dog eating competition and meet and greets with adoptable pets. Race begins at 11am and parade follows. 11am, $5-$15. Denio’s Roseville Farmers Market & Swap Meet, 1551 Vineyard Road in Roseville.
SaVOR, SIP, ROad tRIP!: Foodies, beer and wine lovers and auto enthusiasts will enjoy this event that features classic cars (and photo ops), food and drink tastings and live music. 6pm, $50-$60. California Automobile Museum, 2200 Front St.
sunday, 3/25 SHaCKFeSt: The 9th Annual ShackFest, a boutique beer festival with 13 breweries, home brews, local bands and more at the East Sacramento restaurant. 12pm, $45-$50. The Shack, 5201 Folsom Blvd.
wIne and eaSteR CandY PaIRIng: Easter for adults, with wine pairings with chocolate eggs, Peeps and more. 11am, $15-$20. Rendez-Vous Winery, 35265 Willow Ave. in Clarksburg.
cOmedy B StReet tHeatRe: Keith Lowell Jensen—Not for Rehire. The local favorite recounts the 30-plus jobs he quit (or was fired from) before he had even turned 30. Featuring opener Becky Lynn. 8pm Saturday, 3/24. $12. 2700 Capitol Ave., Suite 100.
HILtOn SaCRaMentO aRden weSt: The ASL Comedy Tour. An evening of stand-up performed in American Sign Language, by deaf or hard-of-hearing comedians. A deaf social follows the show, and children are welcome to the PJ night, an event with snacks, entertainment and more held in a separate room from the comedy. 7pm Saturday, 3/24. $5-$15. 2200 Harvard St.
LaUgHS UnLIMIted COMedY CLUB: Ellis
Rodriguez. With Nick Larson. 8pm thursday, 3/22. $15. Big TREE. Comedian out of Oakland. With Wight Out, Ozzy McNazz and Big Chuckles. 8pm wednesday, 3/28. $15. 1207 Front St.
PUnCH LIne: Really Funny Comedians (Who Happen to Be Women). Performers include Carla Clay, Sandra Risser, Jaime Fernandez, Diana Hong. 8pm wednesday, 3/28. $16. 2100 Arden Way, Suite 225.
FRIDAY, 3/23
Tequila Blind Tasting Competition mayaHuel, 5 P.m., $20 examples of artistic practices extended into activism. A panel talk will highlight the connection between art and social justice. 6:30pm Thursday, 3/22. $6-$10. 216 O St.
Think you know your tequilas? Test your skills and your palate at Mayahuel Friday night with a blind tasting competition. The restaurant will serve four brands of tequila (Don Julio, FOOD AND DRINK Frida Kahlo, Azunia and Don Fulano) with 12 tastings total. The person with the most correct guesses will win a $100 Mayahuel gift card and bragging rights. Attendees will get to soak up the tequila with Mexican street food included with the ticket, and proceeds will benefit NorCal AIDS Cycle, the Sacramento LGBT Community Center and other local organizations. 1200 K Street, www.facebook.com/mayahuelsacramento.
Show and Awards Night. Dinner and drinks, comedy, live music and silent auction and more. 5:30pm. Through 3/23. Entry by donation. 7050 Del Webb Blvd. in Roseville.
TWO RIVERS CIDER COMPANY: Cidesplitters. Stand-up comedy the last Wednesday of each month, hosted by Ben Rice with different comedians sharing the hour. Features adult humor. 8pm Wednesday, 3/28. no cover. 4311 Attawa Ave.
ON STAGE 24TH STREET THEATRE: BailaHora. A performance of traditional flamenco focused on the female in flamenco, the bailaora. 4pm Sunday, 3/25. $30-$45. 2791 24th St.
B STREET THEATRE: Dry Powder. This comedic drama is set in the world of high finance, where the CEO of an enormous private equity firm desperately needs a deal to come through to save him from a public relations nightmare. Through 4/29. $9$41. 2700 Capitol Ave.
CALIFORNIA STAGE: Balm In Gilead. The bleak world of young exiles and outcasts in New York’s upper Broadway region is illuminated in this story centered on two people—Joe and Darlene—who seem to have the strength to persevere. Through 4/7. $15$20. 1723 25th St.
CAPITAL STAGE: The Arsonists. A fatherdaughter duo who are singers, storytellers and arsonists must run from the law and set their final fire. Through 4/15. $23$45. 2215 J St.
CELEBRATION ARTS: A Raisin in the Sun. This classic family drama portrays the divergent drams and conflicts within three generations of one family as they consider what to do with money from a life insurance policy. Closing weekend. Through 3/24. $10$20. 2727 B St.
MCLAUGHLIN STUDIO THEATRE: You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown—The Broadway Musical. Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus, Sally, Schroeder and a beagle named Snoopy navigate the joys and pitfalls of childhood: chaotic baseball games, unrequited valentines and five-cent psychiatry. Through 3/24. $15. 3470 Swetzer Road in Loomis.
MONDAVI CENTER: John Cleese. See event
highlight on page 34. 8pm Wednesday, 3/28. $52-$252. 1 Shields Ave. in Davis.
THE COMMUNITY CENTER THEATER: Carmina Burana. Bringing erotic passion to the stage with a full chorus and orchestra and largerthan-life set. Through 3/25. $30-$99. 1301 L St.
THE GEERY THEATER: It’s Only Monsters. A detective who is haunted by the kidnapping and death of a young boy jumps at a chance to vindicate himself. This tale of suspense is told by 10 characters over the course of 10 monologues. Through 3/25. $18. 2130 L St.
ART ACAI GALLERY & STUDIOS: Reflections. Steve Memmering’s landscape paintings of water scenes from throughout California, and from a trip to India last November. Through 4/14. No cover. 7425 Winding Way in Fair Oaks.
ARTISTIC EDGE GALLERY: March Exhibit. Works by Ron Hall, Diana Ormanzhi, Jonathan Lowe and Carol Brown. Through 3/31. No cover. 1880 Fulton Ave.
AXIS GALLERY: Leaves, Series II Dixie Laws. An exhibit featuring new linoleum and monotype prints based on the leaf shape by gallery artist Dixie Laws. Through 4/1. No cover. 625 S St.
CK ART: Earthen Abstracts. Contemporary artwork by Anthony Maki Gill, Sandy Parris, Nick Lopez, Julie Maren and more. Through 3/31. No cover. 2500 J St.
CROCKER ART MUSEUM: E. Charlton Fortune— The Colorful Spirit. Works by the late California plein-air painter. Through 4/22. No cover-$10. Hopes Springing High Gifts of African American Art. An exhibit of recent acquisitions and promised gifts of art by African-American artists. Through 7/15. $10. Power Up: Corita Kent’s Heavenly Pop. This vivid exhibit bridges aspects of Corita Kent’s life as a nun, artist and activist. Through 5/13. $10. 216 O St.
E STREET GALLERY & STUDIOS: Color Fields. Works by Matt Rhoades and Cherie Hacker. Through 3/25. No cover. 1115 E St.
GALLERY AT 48 NATOMA: What Came First? Artists Loretta Armstrong, Karen Hunziker and Mihalko Harbert display works relating to the chicken or egg question in this whimsical show. Through 5/3. No cover. 48 Natoma St. in Folsom.
MANETTI SHREM MUSEUM OF ART: Wayne Thiebaud 1958-1968. Trace the iconic painter’s emergence as a mature artist with a singular style. Through 5/13. No cover. 254 Old Davis Road in Davis.
PENCE GALLERY: Artist Walkthrough with Nicole Mueller. Artist Nicole Mueller, recipient of the 2017 Glickman McClure Artist Award, will lead a tour and discussion of her exhibit, Light Matter (through 4/13). The event will offer insight into her process, statement and inspiration and visitors are encouraged to ask questions. 1pm Saturday, 3/24. No cover. Paper and Leaf. Collage works by
SPORTS & OUTDOORS
SACRAMENTO HISTORY MUSEUM: Old Sacramento Underground Tours. See event highlight below. Through 12/31. $10-$15. 101 I St.
FRIDAY, 3/23 BARREL BONSPIEL: Three-day event has 20 curling teams gather from California and Nevada to compete. 3pm, no cover for spectators. Skatetown Ice Arena, 1009 Orlando Blvd. in Roseville.
ALL AGES SATURDAY, 3/24 PHOTO COURTESY OF MARCOS HERNANDEz
TIMBER CREEK BALLROOM: Funny Bones Comedy
Egg. Materials provided; intended for age 12 and up. 2pm, no cover. McKinley Library, 601 Alhambra Blvd.
Hannah Klaus Hunter merges her interest in plant life with pattern and color. Through
4/13. No cover. 212 D St. in Davis.
PANAMA POTTERY: The Odd & The Ordinary from in the Hood. Photography by Ingrid Lundquist. Through 4/29. 4421 24th St.
SOL COLLECTIVE: El Corrido y La Cruzada— Documenting the Stories of the Undocumented. A mixed-media presentation by Xico González that reveals the stories of undocumented people who have left their homeland in search of a better future. 6:30pm Wednesday, 3/28. $5-$10 suggested donation. 2574 21st St.
THE ARTERY: Storytellers Art Exhibit. Pyrography by Shannon Moore and oil paintings by Leslie DuPratt. Through 3/25. 207 G St. in Davis.
TIM COLLOM GALLERY: Form is Emptiness, Emptiness is Form. Works by William Ishmael explore this concept that comes from a Buddhist teaching. Through 4/5. 915 20th St.
MUSEUMS CALIFORNIA STATE RAILROAD MUSEUM: Tuesday Train Rides On the Sacramento Southern Railroad. Weekly train rides for the whole family. 11am, 1pm. Through 4/24. $6-$12. 111 I St.
CROCKER ART MUSEUM: Panel Talk Art and Activism. The lives and work of Corita Kent and Faith Ringgold, featured in exhibitions at the Crocker through May 13, offer stirring
SATURDAY, 3/24
A QUEEN & HER PRINCE MOTHER SON DANCE: Enjoy dinner from Blu Prynt Restaurant, dancing, entertainment, games and plenty of photo opportunities with your son. Each additional son is $10. 4pm, $30-$40. Blue Prynt Restaurant, 815 11th St.
BARREL BONSPIEL: See event listing on
Friday, 3/23. 7am, no cover for spectators. Skatetown Ice Arena, 1009 Orlando Blvd. in Roseville.
DRAG QUEEN STORYTIME: A local drag performer reads LGBTQ children’s books. Light refreshments provided. Noon, no cover. Lavender Library, Archives, and Cultural Exchange (LLACE), 1414 21st St.
EGGS GALORE AND MORE: A morning of activities and breakfast with the bunny. Breakfast includes eggs, bacon, sausages, pancakes, milk, juice and coffee. Egg hunt will follow at Rizal Community Center. Egg hunt begins at 10am. 8am, $5-$7. Jose P. Rizal Community Center, 7320 Florin Mall Dr.
RIDE INTO SPRING MURAL CRUISE: Get a different view of the city while traveling on two wheels with your friends to different mural spots. All bikes and riders welcome. Roll out around 11:30am. 11am, no cover. Jalapeños, 1413 21st St.
SUNDAY, 3/25 ARCHERY LESSONS: Choose from a personal lesson, group lessons, group trail lessons and party lessons. 9am, $30-$300. Discovery Park, 1600 Garden Highway.
BARREL BONSPIEL: See event listing on
LGBTQ ASIAN/PACIFIC ISLANDER FAMILY BOBA SOCIAL: An afternoon of boba making,
Friday, 3/23. 8am, no cover for spectators. Skatetown Ice Arena, 1009 Orlando Blvd. in Roseville.
networking and the sharing of family narratives through Asian/Pacific Islander perspectives. 2pm, no cover. Nisei War Memorial, 1515 Fourth St.
TAKE ACTION
ROSEVILLE GEM, JEWELRY, FOSSIL AND MINERAL SHOW: Northern California’s largest gem and mineral show will feature more than 60 vendors, activities, special exhibits and more. Bring your unknown rocks to the Rock ID station to learn what you have. 10am, no cover-$6. Placer County Fairgrounds, 800 All America City Blvd. in Roseville.
SOUTHSIDE PARK EGG HUNT: An afternoon
hunting for eggs with the family. 12pm, no cover. Southside Park, 2115 6th St.
SATURDAY, 3/24 MARCH FOR OUR LIVES: A rally and march at California’s State Capitol to bring attention to gun violence issues in solidarity with the students of Douglas Stoneman High School in Florida. March will start at Crocker Park and end at the west steps of the Capitol. 10am, no cover. Crocker Park, 211 O St.
SOCIALIST FEMINIST READING GROUP: This
TAHOE PARK COMMUNITY EASTER EGG HUNT:
month’s topic is “Women and the Russian Revolution.” 3:30pm, no cover. Sacramento Public Library (Arcade Branch), 2443 Marconi Ave.
Games, Easter Bunny photo opportunities, bounce houses and egg hunts. 10:30am, no cover. Tahoe Park, 3501 59th St.
UKRAINIAN EASTER EGGS: Using beeswax and a multi-dye process, participants will get each get to make their own Ukrainian Easter
MONDAY, 3/26
Old Sacramento Underground Tours Sacramento HiStory muSeum, 11 a.m., $10-$15
It’s possibly the most Sacramento touristy thing you can do—to head underneath Old Sacramento and explore the city’s past. Tour guides will lead families on an exploration of what’s been hidden underground for 150 years before a street-raising project brought Sac up a level. The Sacramento History MUSEUMS Museum also hosts Underground After Hours, an adult-only tour of old brothels that reveals dark and racy tales. The season officially kicks off April 1, but spring break preview tours will begin Monday. 101 I Street, www.sachistorymuseum.org. PHOTO COURTESY OF DAYNA STUDIOS
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The acousTic den cafe
10271 FAIRWAY DRIVE, ROSEVIllE, (916) 412-8739
Badlands
2003 k ST., (916) 448-8790
THURSDAY 3/22
FRIDAY 3/23
SATURDAY 3/24
SUNDAY 3/25
MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 3/26-3/28
Songwriters in the Round, 7pm, $5
Jaclyn Lovey, Stewart Lewis, 7pm, $12
Cheryll Kent, Hickory Wind with Bob Woods, 7pm, $12
Ukulele Jam and Sing-Along, 11am, no cover
Open-Mic Wednesday, 6:30pm, M, no cover
Drag Race Season 10 premiere with Kennedy Davenport, 7pm, $15-$25
Fridays are a Drag Employee Drag Show, 8pm, call for cover
Spectacular Saturdays, 9pm, call for cover
Sunday Tea Dance & Beer Bust, 4pm, no cover
Trapacana, 10pm, W, no cover
The Ghost Town Rebellion (Acoustic Show), 9:30pm, no cover
Comedy Roast Battle, 9:30pm, no cover
Epsilona, Fever Feel, Our People, 8pm, $7-$10
T.S.O.L., Pisscat, Sore Eyes, 8pm, $20
Zach Waters Band, Rachelle DeBelle and more, 4pm, $7
L$st Byz, Escali, DJ Caz and more, 8:30pm, $15
Guapdad4000, 9pm, $20
Declan McKenna, 7:30pm, $15
Capitol Fridays, 10pm, no cover before 10:30pm
Dinner and a Drag Show, 7:30pm, $5-$25
BaR 101
101 MAIN ST., ROSEVIllE, (916) 774-0505
Blue lamp
1400 AlHAMbRA blVD., (916) 455-3400
Fucked and Bound, Human Nature and more, 8pm, $10
The BoaRdwalk
9426 GREENbAck lN., ORANGEVAlE, (916) 358-9116
capiTol GaRaGe PHOTO cOURTESY OF RON SObOl
The Dickies
Capitol Garage’s Next Drag Superstar, 9pm, no cover
1500 k ST., (916) 444-3633
The cenTeR foR The aRTs
NANDA: Acrobaticalist Ninja Theatre Troupe, 7:30pm, $17-$27
314 W. MAIN ST., GRASS VAllEY, (530) 274-8384
faces
with the Queers 6:30pm Monday, $17-$20 Holy Diver Punk
faTheR paddY’s iRish puBlic house
Ralph Gordon, 6pm, no cover
Cuttin the Cord, 7pm, no cover
Hat Trick, 7pm, no cover
Whiskey Dinner, 7pm, T, $80
1001 R ST., (916) 443-8825
Scotty Mac and Will Comstock featuring the Stummies, 8pm, no cover
The Stoneberries, Adam Block, 9pm, $5
Kally O’Mally & The 8-Tracks, Blame the Bishop, 9pm, $5
Open-Mic Monday, 7:30pm, M, no cover
Golden 1 cenTeR
Hawks v. Kings, 7pm, $14-$198
CIF State Basketball Championships, 10am, $5-$16
CIF State Basketball Championships, 10am, $5-$16
halfTime BaR & GRill
5681 lONETREE blVD., ROcklIN, (916) 626-3600
College Night, 9pm, no cover
Latin Touch, 9pm, $7
haRlow’s
Every Damn Monday, 9pm, M, no cover; Noche Latina, 9pm, T, no cover
Hit Parade, 9pm, $7
hideawaY BaR & GRill
2565 FRANklIN blVD.., (916) 455-1331
hiGhwaTeR
1910 Q ST., (916) 706-2465
holY diVeR
Taylor Bennett, 7pm, $20-$50
1517 21ST ST.
kupRos
1217 21ST ST., (916) 440-0401
luna’s cafe & Juice BaR 1414 16TH ST., (916) 737-5770
Joe Montoya’s Poetry Unplugged, 8pm, $2
3/28 77PM $30ADv
G. love & SPeCial SauCe
PeTTy ThefT
RoN ARTiS ii & THe TRuTH 3/21 5:30PM $35ADv
TRiBuTe To ToM PeTTY & THe HeARTBReAkeRS
Carl Palmer’S elP leGaCy
3/25 6PM $15ADv
Sene
LeCSi, SAPPHYRe BLu
3/29 7:30PM $18ADv
Turkuaz 3/30 6PM $15ADv
aPril foolS Comedy Tour FeAT. CoRY PoLSTeR, STePHeN FuReY, MATT BiLLioN, HoRMoZ RASHiDi
3/27 8PM $18ADv
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Mavericks v. Kings, 7pm, T, $14-$175
Sené, Lecsi, Sapphyre Blu, 6pm, $15-$20
Kristin Hersh, Grant Lee Phillips, 6pm, T, $20
Sunday Morning Coming Down, 4pm, no cover
Karaoke, 8pm, M, no cover; Cactus Pete, 8pm, T, no cover; Trivia, 8pm, W, no cover
Cuffin, 9pm, call for cover
The Brunch Club (’80s-themed brunch party), 11am, call for cover
Island Vibes Reggae Night, 10pm, call for cover
The Trivia Factory, 7pm, M, no cover; Geeks Who Drink, 7pm, T, no cover
Will Haven (Album Release Show), with Horseneck and more, 7pm, $10-$15
Niviane, Dire Peril and more, 7pm, $10-$12
Mastoids, Operocia, TheBeeMusic and more, 6pm, $12-$15
The Dickies, 6:30pm, M, $17-$20; Smooky MarGielaa, 7pm, $18-$22
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The evoluTion of head ShopS In today’s paraphernalia stores, exotic-looking glass pipes replace black light posters BY Ken Magri Head shops have come far since the late ’60s, when San Francisco’s Psychedelic Shop started selling pot paraphernalia with its posters. Fifty years ago, the closest thing Sacramento had was an Indian imports store on K Street that sold rolling papers, clips, and played KZAP on the radio. Kids relied on hardware stores and creativity to engineer anything more complicated. By the mid-1970s, commercial head shops were abundant, and the gold standard was Tower Posters on Watt Avenue. “We sold black light posters, bongs, papers, roach clips, leather jewelry, incense and any other paraphernalia you could imagine,” said Julie Coyle, who worked for owner Russ Solomon, who passed away this month. Coyle remembers the Tower atmosphere as “fun and vibrant” in those days. “I always had the feeling that it was not profitable, but it was a landmark destination for stoners.” In the early 1980s, Gov. George Deukmejian signed an anti-paraphernalia law, defining it as anything that aided in the use of illegal drugs. A pipe was considered illegal by merely talking about cannabis when buying one. It became so difficult to sell paraphernalia, head shops across the state closed. Berkeley’s famous store, Annapurna, stayed open, but issued stern warnings about mentioning “illegal uses” inside. Customers had to navigate a code language for their “tobacco” supplies. In Sacramento, Russ Solomon closed Tower Posters and put his inventory, fuzzy black light posters and all,
into permanent storage. The golden age was over. Head shops made a quiet comeback in the 1990s, after medical cannabis was legalized. But if psychedelic posters were the “art” feature at old shops, exotic glass pipes bring the customers now. “Designs by well-known pipe makers can go for $750,” said Jaeden Gales at Hella Glass, which houses a separate gallery for handmade bongs and dab rigs.
“I always had the feeling that it was not profitable, but Tower Posters was a landmark destination for stoners.” Julie Coyle, Former Tower employee Besides papers and pipes, today’s head shops carry CBD products, odorless courier bags, and kits to pass a drug test. “It’s OK to talk about cannabis,” says Gales. “We want to be a place where customers feel comfortable, whether you are young or old.” But the traditional rule still applies. If your intentions aren’t legal, don’t mention them inside.
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by Hillary Knouse
by rob brezsny
FOR THE WEEk OF MARCH 22, 2018 ARIES (March 21-April 19): The “School of Hard
Knocks” is an old-fashioned idiom referring to the unofficial and accidental course of study available via life’s tough experiences. The wisdom one gains through this alternate approach to education may be equal or even superior to the knowledge that comes from a formal university or training program. I mention this, Aries, because in accordance with astrological omens, I want to confer upon you a diploma for your new advanced degree from the School of Hard Knocks. (P.S.: When PhD students get their degrees from Finland’s University of Helsinki, they are given top hats and swords as well as diplomas. I suggest you reward yourself with exotic props, too.)
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Europeans used
to think that all swans were white. It was a reasonable certainty given the fact that all swans in Europe were that color. But in 1697, Dutch explorer Willem de Vlamingh and his sailors made a pioneering foray to the southwestern coast of the land we now call Australia. As they sailed up a river the indigenous tribe called Derbarl Yerrigan, they spied black swans. They were shocked. The anomalous creatures invalidated an assumption based on centuries of observations. Today, a “black swan” is a metaphor referring to an unexpected event that contravenes prevailing theories about the way the world works. I suspect you’ll soon experience such an incongruity yourself. It might be a good thing! Especially if you welcome it instead of resisting it.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Crayola is one of the
world’s foremost crayon manufacturers. The geniuses in charge of naming its crayon colors are playful and imaginative. Among the company’s standard offerings, for example, are Pink Sherbet, Carnation Pink, Tickle Me Pink, Piggy Pink, Pink Flamingo, and Shocking Pink. Oddly, however, there is no color that’s simply called “Pink.” I find that a bit disturbing. As much as I love extravagant creativity and poetic whimsy, I think it’s also important to cherish and nurture the basics. In accordance with the astrological omens, that’s my advice for you in the coming weeks. Experiment with fanciful fun, but not at the expense of the fundamentals.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): According to Vice
magazine, Russian scientist Anatoli Brouchkov is pleased with the experiment he tried. He injected himself with 3.5-million-year-old bacteria that his colleagues had dug out of the permafrost in Siberia. The infusion of this ancient life form, he says, enhanced his energy and strengthened his immune system. I can’t vouch for the veracity of his claim, but I do know this: It’s an apt metaphor for possibilities you could take advantage of in the near future: drawing on an old resource to boost your power, for example, or calling on a well-preserved part of the past to supercharge the present.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Booze has played a crucial
role in the development of civilization, says biomolecular archaeologist Patrick McGovern. The process of creating this mind-altering staple was independently discovered by many different cultures, usually before they invented writing. The buzz it provides has “fired our creativity and fostered the development of language, the arts, and religion.” On the downside, excessive consumption of alcohol has led to millions of bad decisions and has wrecked countless lives. Everything I just said is a preface to my main message, Leo: The coming weeks will be a favorable time to transform your habitual perspective, but only if you do so safely and constructively. Whether you choose to try intoxicants, wild adventures, exhilarating travel, or edgy experiments, know your limits.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): If you want people to
know who you really are and savor you for your unique beauty, you must be honest with those people. You must also develop enough skill to express your core truths with accuracy. There’s a similar principle at work if you want to know who you really are and savor yourself for your unique beauty: You must be honest with yourself. You must also develop enough skill to express your core truths with accuracy. The coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to practice these high arts.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Your journey in the
coming weeks may be as weird as an R-rated telenovela, but with more class. Outlandish, unpredictable, and even surreal events could occur, but in such a way as to uplift and educate your soul. Labyrinthine plot twists will be medicinal as well as entertaining. As the drama gets curioser and curioser, my dear Scorpio, I expect you will learn how to capitalize on the odd opportunities it brings. In the end, you will be grateful for this ennobling respite from mundane reality!
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Love is
the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence,” wrote philosopher Erich Fromm. I would add a corollary for your rigorous use during the last nine months of 2018: “Love is the only effective and practical way to graduate from your ragged, long-running dilemmas and start gathering a new crop of fresh, rousing challenges.” By the way, Fromm said love is more than a warm and fuzzy feeling in our hearts. It’s a creative force that fuels our willpower and unlocks hidden resources.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): My goal here
is to convince you to embark on an orgy of selfcare—to be as sweet and tender and nurturing to yourself as you dare to be. If that influences you to go too far in providing yourself with luxurious necessities, I’m OK with it. And if your solicitous efforts to focus on your own health and well-being make you appear a bit self-indulgent or narcissistic, I think it’s an acceptable price to pay. Here are more key themes for you in the coming weeks: basking in the glow of self-love; exulting in the perks of your sanctuary; honoring the vulnerabilities that make you interesting.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): One day, Beatles’
guitarist George Harrison decided to compose his next song’s lyrics “based on the first thing I saw upon opening any book.” He viewed this as a divinatory experiment, as a quest to incorporate the flow of coincidence into his creative process. The words he found in the first book were “gently weeps.” They became the seed for his tune “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.” Rolling Stone magazine ultimately named it one of “The Greatest Songs of All Time” and the 10th best Beatle song. In accordance with the astrological omens, I recommend you try some divinatory experiments of your own in the coming weeks. Use life’s fun little synchronicities to generate playful clues and unexpected guidance.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Millions of you
Pisceans live in a fairy tale world. But I suspect that very few of you will be able to read this horoscope and remain completely ensconced in your fairy tale world. That’s because I have embedded subliminal codes in these words that will at least temporarily transform even the dreamiest among you into passionate pragmatists in service to your feistiest ideals. If you’ve read this far, you are already feeling more disciplined and organized. Soon you’ll be coming up with new schemes about how to actually materialize a favorite fairy tale in the form of real-life experiences.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The astrological
omens suggest that the coming weeks will be favorable for making agreements, pondering mergers, and strengthening bonds. You’ll be wise to deepen at least one of your commitments. You’ll stir up interesting challenges if you consider the possibility of entering into more disciplined and dynamic unions with worthy partners. Do you trust your own perceptions and insights to guide you toward ever-healthier alliances? Do what you must to muster that trust.
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.
Prince of the podcast “I’m a white kid from the suburbs of America, if you can’t tell by my voice.” Cole Cuchna is talking to an invisible but not insubstantial audience, 22 episodes into his musical analysis podcast, Dissect, which last year spent some time as the most listened-to podcast on iTunes. As it turns out, he’s a lot of other things too: former keyboardist for the SAMMIES-award winning band, The New Humans; former director of education at Temple Coffee; and a former Sac State music composition student who didn’t know how to read music. His degree in composition certainly seems exceedingly relevant in his tightly produced analysis of iconic hip-hop albums. But his technical knowledge is handily outshined by his sincere desire to engage with and understand the world around him. That’s probably what makes him a pretty good dad, too.
Why did you choose podcasting as your medium? Well. I was listening to a lot of podcasts at the time my daughter was born—a lot of times, I would just put on podcasts and play with her. I’m the type of person that if I like something, I always kind of want to try it. And the accessibility of podcasts was attractive. All you need is a microphone and you can essentially self-publish.
Have you started to think about the sorts of things you want to be introducing her to? Yeah, I’m already kind of doing that and make it a point to listen to a broad array of music. We listen to a little kid’s music, but I play her hip-hop. I play her jazz. I play her the Beatles. I play her classical music. You know, all the things that I love. She’s [about to] be 3, so I think now is the prime time where she is actually going to be actively thinking about it, too. So that’ll be fun. Already when we watch a Daniel Tiger episode, I’ll ask her questions about what she thought about it, just trying to get her brain actively thinking about the things that she consumes and not just be like a passive consumer.
Do you worry about her getting older and falling for the Britney Spears or Justin Bieber of her time? Oh, I think she will, and I think that’s totally fine. I don’t think that those things pay off until you reach early adulthood, and that’s kind of when you find yourself. All the stuff you lay out as a kid comes back around after you kind of go through your awkward teenage years. It’s unavoidable and it’s
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super important too, so I don’t really want to influence that too much. It’s important that she discovers things on her own. And I get that the rebellion part is important to that, too. When we get there, I’m sure it’ll be really hard, but I’m prepared for it.
Tell me about taking music composition classes without knowing how to read music.
going to get along in the end. Her Lemonade album was phenomenal. And Lauryn Hill actually has the 20-year anniversary of Miseducation coming up, which would be kind of cool to come back to … But I think definitely for season 4 we’ll branch out into another genre.
Do you know how you’d like that to be?
I auditioned on piano with a song that I wrote myself, so that kind of skirted me having to read music. They never asked, so I was just like, “OK.” I just kind of busted my ass to catch up. I was taking college-level music courses but at the same time also taking these online courses that you just download at one time so you can take them as you go, like homework. So I was learning the fundamentals while taking classes at Sac State. And eventually, they merged together and I ended up graduating on the dean’s list. That’s actually one of my proudest things, because I literally almost quit because it was so hard in the beginning. But sticking through it, and then to get recognized, was kind of a big deal. It was really confidence-building to overcome the struggle of it all and succeed or whatever.
What’s in contention for season 3? Frank Ocean is the biggest request, so I’ve definitely been giving that some thought. Tyler the Creator. I’ve been looking at Ctrl by SZA. Solange is another one. I would actually love to do Beyoncé, but I don’t think it would work out because she’s exclusive to Tidal and I don’t know if Tidal and Spotify are
Yeah, I think I’ll have to be careful to not alienate the audience. I’ll try to pick something that I kind of know will appeal to hip-hop and R&B listeners. For instance, I think Radiohead would be amazing, and I think that’s a great bridge, and they’re like my favorite band ever, so that would be great.
How do you see yourself? I try to make my time as valuable to the world as possible. Everything that I do, I do for me first, to be honest. But I feel like hopefully Dissect is a service in some way that people could use for discovering new ideas and new approaches—not just to music but hopefully to life in general. I always felt this purpose in life that’s driven me to provide the world with good energy. To bring beauty to the world. For me, personally, that’s been through art and creative endeavors. So that’s who I feel I am, or who I’m working to become all the time. Which is hopefully everyone’s purpose in some way. I hope everybody feels a responsibility to give the world beautiful things. Ω
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