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It was three years ago around this vividly green time when I read about the ease of procuring a medical marijuana card and purchasing legal weed (“Going legal” by Anthony Siino, 2015 420 Issue). It was then that I decided to extricate myself from the pharmaceutical industry of self-betterment, and instead set off on my own in the medical marijuana industry of self-discovery. Like most people who go to a psychiatrist and actually tell the truth, I was prescribed a colorful variety of medications, all of which came with round-trip tickets back to the couch clutching a laundry list of terrifying and sometimes lifethreatening side-effects. So with a small bounty of half-full pill bottles tucked away but a hurricane of concerns ever mounting, I started experimenting with marijuana in search of existential respite. At first, I kept extensive spreadsheets to track strains and sensitivities, purchased expensive gadgets to remove the stigma of what I was doing and experienced a lot of confusion inextricably entwined with curiosity that has kept me enrapt and repacking for three years now. These days I smoke neat little dry salads of median-priced herb out of a $5 glass pipe when I want to leave this existential plane for an hour or five, draw cartoons, and listen to what the Spotify algorithm feeds me. This though is not a story of final respite, but very much a continual journey through my own subconscious at heightened sensitivity. There have been times I smoked myself into sideways hellscapes that mirror my most prescient horrors. I’ve seen vortexes emerge from paintings, felt friends turn into vitriolic enemies as we discussed identity politics, felt time move, jump and skip in a non-linear helix while a lover whispered freedom backward into my subconscious. One time I had $70 of Indian food delivered to my apartment and was afraid to answer the door when it arrived. I was everything I already was, turned up to 11, until after coming down, when it all seemed like a vague memory. This year’s 420 Issue is packed with budbound content, as always, to sate your curiosity, your intellect and your giggle bones. Remember to drink water and don’t forget to laugh. We’ve got a lot of time on this rock, until we don’t.

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When I get home from work, I usually get all my dab stuff ready and my favorite thing to dab is … Golden Goat Diamonds. It’s really smooth. It’s perfect for like after work, just to kind of relax me. After that, I’ll go pack a bowl of like another kind of indica hybrid.

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Playing some good music before I engage in the activity. Whether I’m smoking flowers, taking a dab, I like to put some chill jazz on, or some mushroom jazz, and get the vibe right.

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Going home after I get off work, setting up with a really nice dab, usually of some diamonds and then smoking a blunt. That’s usually how I wind down after a really long 10-hour day here.

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I like to get my nail on my dab rig nice and hot, let it cool down… I like to really wait til the temperature gets to still hot, but not too hot where it combusts, but to vaporize hash oil, basically. So that’s my ritual, sitting with my bong and playing some music.

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Evangelicals have taken over and hijacked the Republican Party to the point that the GOP is no longer a political party but is a religious party of anti-abortion, anti-gay and anti-immigration fanatics. Jesus was quite a troublemaker. In fact, I’m thinking the Trump administration would have a special place for Jesus were the Nazarene to take up his ministry today in the U.S.A.—in a cell with other Middle Eastern men awaiting deportation. Fundamentalists in the GOP have made Jesus into a Republican. That’s idolatry. Jesus never said one word about homosexuality, never said one word about same-sex marriage or abortion. The Christian who believes that homosexuality is a more important issue than justice for the poor hasn’t read the Bible straight. The engine that drives the radical Republican fundamentalists in the United States, the most dangerous mass movement in American history, is not religiosity, but power.

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Disarm police. (Sarcasm?) Re “Reporting while black” by Kris Hooks (Essay, March 29): When anyone is killed, it is a tragedy. It was a tragedy when a friend of mine was killed by a robber. In order to stop killings by police and sheriff officers who routinely carry guns, let’s just take their guns away, then we wouldn’t have to listen to their apologies. In Norway, Iceland, New Zealand, Britain and Ireland, police officers generally do not carry

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Republicans in general: Fiscally irresponsible Now that Republicans are in power, it’s back to borrow and spend. We get tax cuts for the rich and deficit spending skyrockets. No one talks about fiscal responsibility, balancing the budget, or the national debt anymore. But debt has historically been the basis for slavery, and some day the bill is going to be due and the credit is going to be cut off, and it will be time to pay for it all. And that will be a sad day indeed.

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Richard Grossman (right) represents 1,500 health plans suing Sutter Health for $700 million plus damages. He spoke with SN&R publisher Jeff vonKaenel. PHOTO BY geOrge e. Baker, jr.

Sutter vs. the people This attorney’s lawsuit could impact hospital care nationwide By Jeff vonKaenel

an extended version of this story is available at www.newsreview. com/sacramento.

Attorney Richard Grossman represents a group of 1,500 health plans in a classaction suit against Sacramento-based Stutter Health, alleging that the industry giant has been illegally overcharging patients for more than a decade. The case is being closely watched by policymakers across the country as hospital consolidation increases and prices continue to rise. Last November, it was discovered that Sutter destroyed 10 years of records after the lawsuit was filed. SN&R publisher Jeff vonKaenel visited Grossman in his San Francisco office.

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California exceeds the cost for the same health care in Southern California by 30 to 40 percent. When I learned that that was the case and examined what was likely to be behind it, I determined that there is no explanation for that kind of price disparity other than anti-competitive behavior that restrains price competition here and allows hospital providers to increase their prices without discipline. The discipline that we all accept and rely upon to keep prices low and quality high. And that’s competition in our marketplace. Without that competition, there is no reason for competitors to keep their prices at the lowest possible rates and no reason for them to increase their

quality. With competition, they have tremendous incentive to do what our economic system requires, which is provide the best quality at the lowest possible price and, if you fail to do so, you do so at your peril. Who are you representing in this case? As of last August, I represent all selffunded health plans—employers that pay for the health care of their employees directly without purchasing insurance to cover those costs. That’s how half of the individuals in Northern California—for that matter, across the country—obtain their health care coverage. What are you alleging in the lawsuit that Sutter did to allow their health care costs to go up 30 to 40 percent?

Sutter’s anti-competitive conduct is extremely treacherous. What they did was they entered into anti-competitive and illegal contracts with all of the major health insurance companies that provide health care coverage in Northern California. And those contracts require the following: One, that if you utilize one Sutter Health provider, one of their hospitals or one of their medical practices across the state, you must utilize all of them in your network. And if you fail to do that, you will pay a huge pricing penalty. So, for larger employers with many locations, they have to include Sutter in their entire network. Is that correct? Sutter is so large that they have providers, either hospitals or medical practices, in locations where they are the dominant provider. And it is not commercially feasible to put together a provider network that does not include Sutter—either their medical practice or their hospital in that location. In other locations, there are many alternatives, and you could choose to go to a higherquality or lower-cost hospital or medical practice. But Sutter says no, you cannot exclude our higher-cost or lower-quality provider in that area and encourage your

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members to go to a competitor that may be lower-cost and higher-quality. and does the lawsuit also allege that sutter bought different hospitals to set up the situation, so they became the only provider in an area? That is the history of Sutter. We have not alleged that Sutter’s acquisition of hospitals or medical practices is by itself illegal. One could possibly make that case, but that is not part of our case. What we’re saying is that they used the leverage they obtained by acquiring must-have hospitals in certain locations or must-have medical practices in other locations to force inclusion of all of their hospitals and all of their medical practices. In other words, they’re saying to the health insurers and to all of the health plans, you may not exclude our higher-priced or lower-quality providers in locations where there are better alternatives. That is what we refer to as “all-or-nothing.” Secondly, they have provisions that make it difficult or impossible to have a tiered system. So a health plan might decide, all right, we’re happy to include Sutter’s facilities in our network, but we would like to provide financial incentives to our members to choose a higher-quality or a lower-cost hospital. And Sutter prevents that from occurring through their contracts with the health insurance companies. And thirdly, Sutter makes its pricing secret. They refuse to allow health plans to know in advance what the prices are for the services they provide. is that a practice somewhat unique to sutter? There are other health providers that keep their pricing secret. But certainly in this context, it’s anti-competitive. What is the possible justification for a nonprofit health care system not to be transparent with their prices? There’s no justification. And Sutter is a nonprofit in name only. they are a nonprofit in their tax status. That is absolutely correct. The truth is that unlike the rest of us, Sutter obtains enormous amounts of government services without paying taxes. In other words, other taxpayers must subsidize the cost of all of the services that Sutter’s 24 hospitals and multiple medical practices obtain from our state and local governments. At the same time, while they claim to be a nonprofit, their revenues far, far exceed their costs, so that they

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have surpluses—what would be called profits in any other context—in the hundreds of millions of dollars. What happens with those surpluses? Well, Sutter uses them to acquire more facilities for their conglomerate. Sutter uses them to pay multimillion-dollar salaries to dozens of their executives. Sutter uses them to subsidize, as alleged by the attorney general, their effort to roll out an HMO to compete with Kaiser. According to the attorney general’s complaint, Sutter is losing money in that effort and is subsidizing those losses with the overcharges that it charges the rest of us. the california nurses association estimates that sutter’s nonprofit status enables them to have a $500,000,000 tax savings while providing only a couple hundred million dollars in charity work. I can’t confirm that. One thing I do know is that various studies have determined that Sutter’s contributions to charitable care on a per capita basis are less than the for-profit hospitals that it competes with. and they’re counting the reduced amount that they receive for Medi-cal patients as a charitable donation. Right. in terms of possible damages—how long a period are you looking at, and what’s the dollar amount? Sutter has, since it has instituted these anti-competitive policies and contracts, been able to raise its prices, and that has led to a substantial overcharge. The amount we currently estimate, since 2004, is just north of $700 million in overcharges. If we can demonstrate at trial that these overcharges are attributable to Sutter’s anti-competitive policies, we can recover that $700 million. In addition, because our state Legislature has for over 100 years valued the principles of our competitive and free market economy, the anti-trust laws provide that any overcharge that Sutter has imposed is automatically multiplied times three. As a consequence of that, if we are successful, we will recover possibly over $2 billion. The trial is set for June. We had a case management conference with [San Francisco Superior Court Judge Curtis E.A. Karnow] earlier this week, and he said that that trial date is set in stone. There will be no delays. We’re going forward with it. Ω

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But that doesn’t square with the feedback the In March, Sutter Health found itself fighting a legal attorney general’s office has been getting from battle on two fronts, with a Bay Area union closing around the state, including from companies conin on one side and the state’s highest ranking law cerned about what’s happening to their employees. enforcement official on the other. Attorneys from In 2014, one organization of employees decided to both sides of this pincer say what’s at stake is take Sutter Health on directly: nothing less than the future of California’s health The United Food and Commercial Workers filed a care costs. lawsuit claiming that Sutter’s manipulation of the By its own account, Sutter has consolidated health market was hurting blue-collar Californians. its way to being responsible for the health care of And almost as soon as the UFCW got Sutter’s atmore than 3 million patients in Northern California. torneys into a courtroom, strange things started The state’s antitrust lawsuit and the private class happening. Specifically, Sutter’s chief contracting action filing contend that the scale of this portfolio officer Melissa Brendt ordered the destruction of came into being under dubious circumstances and 192 boxes of documents union attorneys were trying is now over-charging the people under its weight. to force them to produce. San Francisco Superior When state Attorney General Xavier Becerra Court Judge Curtis E.A. Karnow issued an official announced a lawsuit against Sutter on March 30, determination that Sutter’s Saturday-night mashe said the health-care giant’s conduct is clearly sacre of documents was no accident. hurting California families. Becerra’s decision came “The circumstances of the document destrucon the heels of a long-term investigation by the tion were, to put it as mildly as I can, decidedly odd, Los Angeles Times and an analysis by UC Berkeley’s and Sutter has not explained them except to argue Nicholas C. Petris Center on Health Care Markets it was all a mistake,” Karnow wrote. “But records and Consumer Welfare. The LA Times found that show Sutter’s conduct was more than just an inadhospitals in Northern California’s six most populous counties—where Sutter is a major entity—collected vertent error. Ms. Brendt personally selected the 10-year timeframe for the boxes to be destroyed.” 56 percent more revenue on each patient, per day, Referring to a witness in the case, the than hospitals based in Southern California. judge added, “This was not a routine Similarly, the UC Berkeley study found destruction authorization: Ms. that Sutter’s six-year campaign Santagata testified that in her to consolidate medical centers, 17 years at Sutter, she was not physicians and insurance markets aware of any other time when pushed the price of the average the Managed Care departinpatient procedure in Northern ment authorized destruction of California to nearly double that of records in storage.” the price in Southern California. UFCW attorney Richard The state’s justice department Richard Holober Grossman has said there’s no has now concluded its own invesConsumer Federation of mystery behind Sutter’s shredtigation, alleging Sutter triggered California ding spree of documents he was those financial shockwaves through compelling them to produce, calling elaborate price-fixing, acquiring and the move “incriminating.” eliminating competitors, and by preventing inGrossman said if his class action suit prevails, surance companies from fair negotiations. AccordSutter could owe as much as $2 billion in damages. ing to Becerra’s team, all of these tactics are illegal One person following both the UFCW’s lawsuit, under the Cartwright Act, a California antitrust law as well as state attorney general’s legal action, is that’s existed since 1907. Richard Holober, executive director of the ConSutter Health spokeswoman Karen Garner sumer Federation of California. Holober’s nonprofit pushed back against such assertions this week. organization frequently works with the state LegisShe stressed that data from the Office of Statewide lature on trying to improve health care access and Health Planning and Development shows that, on affordability. Holober thinks Becerra is making the average, “total charges” for an inpatient stay in right move. a Sutter hospital are lower than other Northern “When you have these bigger health corporations California medical facilities. or nonprofits gobbling up hospitals throughout “Unfortunately, the California attorney general’s Northern California, they become very dominant, filing is factually inaccurate,” Garner said via email. monopolistic, oligarchic players,” Holober said. “It mischaracterizes the activities of our not“They’re controlling the market place at a time for-profit organization, and it fails to adequately when health care costs are skyrocketing, and their account for Northern California’s robust and comactions are passing more costs onto the consumpetitive health care environment. Our integrated ers. … I think it’s the right thing, and necessary, for network plays a valuable role in providing our comthe attorney general to try to stop this pricemunities with more efficient care … including [for] the poor and vulnerable.” gouging.” Ω

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YouTube. Rather, Gilliard explained, she’d gotten glimpses of an intelligent father, capable of quoting a 17th century philosopher and on the verge of discovering a new path forward. “The Mr. Rogers who’s been in this courtroom, who has been extremely respectful to the court, is who you are,” the judge told him. “I want you to know this isn’t easy for me. Because I see the potential you have. You are a bright guy. I’ve never had a person in your situation quote Pascal to me in a letter to the court. … It’s just a tragedy that you and I are here in this courtroom.” Gilliard explained to Rogers that she wouldn’t lower his sentence because he’d endangered too many lives by carrying a loaded handgun into a crowded restaurant in the middle Deandre Rogers, better of a gang war. The judge made it clear known as the rapper Lizk, she thought Rogers was armed the was sentenced to a possible whole night, though it was only proven life term in prison, in part, he had a gun inside a car near the for his video “No Air.” restaurant. News that Gilliard was striking ScreenShot via youtube out Rogers stunned Rogers’ mother, Kendra Jackson, who was just weeks from graduating from Sacramento State University with a degree in social work. While Jackson believes her son should be held accountable South Sacramento rapper Lizk sentenced to for his actions, the Cooper Woodson scholar thinks incarcerating someone 30 years to life for simple gun possession for a third of a lifetime for a crime that usually earns a handful of years— sc o tta @ ne wsr e v ie w.c o m by Scott thomaS anderSon based on his gang affiliation—shows a blindness to the challenges young black men face in neighborhoods like escalating tensions between G Mobb, a ladled on sentence-ballooning gang and At 25 years old, Deandre Rogers is offiMeadowview. In watching her son’s gang Rogers admitted to being part of, arming enhancements. cially out of strikes. trial, Jackson says she also saw other and the Oak Park Bloods. For the district Rogers’ attorney, Jessica Graves, The South Sacramento rapper entered inequities. attorney’s office, that was enough to show filed a brief on April 6 arguing court April 6 to be sentenced on a single “Never in Sacramento, because of the Rogers deliberately blurred his worlds as a against the sentence on the conviction of being a felon in possession population, would Deandre get street soldier and performer—and deserved grounds that its proporof a firearm. That crime typically carries a jury of his peers,” Jackson 30 years to life in prison. tionality, in relationthree years in county jail. But, as things told SN&R. “My son is “I want ship to the crime, stand, Rogers will spend the better part absolutely an example you to know Past convictions also hurt Rogers. violates the Eighth of his adult life in state prison. It was a of the school-to-prison He pleaded guilty to assault with a Amendment of the decision that gave Superior Court Judge pipeline.” this isn’t easy for deadly weapon in 2016 after originally U.S. Constitution’s Maryanne Gilliard pause, and she made When it was Rogers’ being charged with attempted murder. prohibition on sure Rogers knew that while engaging turn to address the me.” Rogers had claimed innocence and cruel and unusual with him in open court. court, he said he never Judge Maryanne Gilliard hung two separate juries in the matter. punishment. The Rogers grew up in a rough part of wanted to hurt anybody Sacramento Superior He eventually pleaded to the assault judge acknowledged Meadowview. After being in and out that evening and, whenCourt charge to avoid a third trial. That same that having to contemof juvenile hall, he rose to modest local ever he did carry weapons, year, he was convicted of illegal gun plate that legal question prominence as a hip-hop artist known it was only to protect himself. possession. Both were “strikes” under “wrecked” her day. as Lizk. But Rogers’ music was also “There’s no way to underCalifornia law. Looking down from the bench, associated with South Sacramento’s stand where I’ve come from if you When Rogers was arrested in Gilliard said the Deandre Rogers she’d ongoing gang wars. Gang detectives with haven’t been there,” he said quietly, December 2016 for having a .45-caliber gotten to know in court seemed very the Sheriff’s Department testified last “and lost all the people that I’ve lost.” Ω Glock in his Mercedes, prosecutors different from the gun-toting rapper on month that Rogers’ YouTube videos were 10 | SN&R | 04.19.18

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Joint Unified School District informed parents A recent surge in student activism is forcing that students who left class would have their Sacramento-area school administrators to reevaluate what constitutes an excused absence— absences marked “unexcused” under school rules. Madhavi Sunder, a professor of law and whether educational family vacations should at UC Davis and member of the Davis Joint fall under that umbrella. Unified School District Board of Education, In March, Nai Saechao took daughter Hayden was disappointed in the district’s reaction Garza out of her seventh-grade class at T.R. to what she saw as a positive expression of Smedberg Middle School in Elk Grove for a freedom from Davis elementary and secondary vacation to Mexico. Upon their return, Saechao school students. says she learned Hayden, an honors student, “Districts across the country encouraged wouldn’t be allowed to make up nine class schools to participate in the 17-minute program days of missed assignments in social sciences, to honor the 17 victims who were killed destining her for a failing grade. Saechao thinks in Parkland,” Sunder said. “I was frankly Hayden, who currently has two As and a B in disappointed that Davis took a more tentative three other classes, is paying too steep a price for approach to this national event, which was first her decision. and foremost to honor the innocent fallen.” “This trip to Mexico was an educational Sacramento City Unified School experience because she was able to learn and District didn’t penalize students who experience the Mexican culture and demonstrated against gun violence their way of life,” Saechao said. “As as long as they returned to class. an immigrant myself, I want my Truancy But it was a different story daughter to see the difference in has long been a one week later, when C.K. that quality of life in the U.S. McClatchy High School, versus in other countries. My closely-watched issue which is in the district, daughter now has to see an F in schools, where flagged students who left class every time she checks her grade funding is tied to to protest sexual violence. because this teacher refuses to attendance. In a written statement, give her makeup work without an Laura Fitzgerald of Fem Dems of explanation. This cannot be healthy Sacramento characterized the move for her self-esteem.” as a double standard toward sexual Smedberg principal Richard Wall and violence. Hayden’s teacher responded to SN&R’s requests “The fact that [McClatchy] administrators for comment by referring to school codes, which did not support students who participated in don’t require an instructor to provide makeup this particular walkout perhaps indicates an work for unexcused absences. unwillingness to take partial responsibility for This isn’t a new issue. In October, a Rocklin the lack of resources and guidance that sexual school district sent a truancy letter to parents who had taken their 10-year-old son out of class for three assault victims on campus have experienced after coming forward about their stories,” days to see last year’s total solar eclipse in Oregon. Fitzgerald wrote. Truancy has long been a closely watched A district spokesman said the real differissue in schools, where funding is tied to attenence was that administrators only learned about dance. In December, the California Department the sexual violence walkout less than a day of Education began monitoring truancy as a before, through word of mouth. measure of schools’ performance on its new “That was not enough time to engage in online dashboard, The Sacramento Bee reported the same kind of planning and preparation as last year. With the state paying closer attention the previous walkout,” said Alex Barrios, the to school attendance and a new wave of student activism finding its voice through mass walkouts, chief communications officer for SCUSD, in an email. Ω some area school districts are struggling to find a balance that pleases both sides. On March 13, one day before a national school walkout to protest gun violence, Davis

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tarting a cannabis business from scratch is hard and expensive work. Fortunately, there are two companies in Sacramento working to make things easier for would-be cannabis entrepreneurs. Infusion Factory, located in a discreet ware warehouse in South Sac and run by veteran cannabis activist Landon Long, has just about everything a person needs to get their business off the ground. Need a commercial kitchen to make your edibles? Got it. Need fancy new state-compliant packaging? No problem. “I have done contract manufacturing in other businesses,” Long says. “I had a company doing e-liquid and other products. We have the capacity to do product design and development. But before we do all that, it’s all about compliance. “Can someone get a license? Can someone set up their business? The answer is that it’s possible, if someone has the fortitude to do so. I wish it was easier, but setting a business can be cost-prohibitive. Just finding a facility that is in the sweet spot for zoning to allow a cannabis business can be a nightmare.” The Infusion Factory could be a valuable asset for those that already are halfway set up in the gray area of the cannabis industry, but need a little help to go fully legit. Closer to Midtown, Kim Cargile of A Therapeutic Alternative dispensary on H Street, along with her partner Mindy Galloway, are starting a canna-business accelerator. They have named it “Khemia” (according to Cargile, “Khemia” is a root word for “alchemy”). They are looking to be a “godmother” company for 30 new cannabis businesses.

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Project Runway contestant Richard Hallmarq opens a new studio at WAL Marketplace As a teen growing up in Meadowview in the ’80s, Richard Hallmarq would roll into John F. Kennedy High School wearing sparkly silver converse, ripped leopard pants and a Culture Club T-shirt. That sense of wild yet relaxed style would take him all the way to Project Runway, Season 11. In 2012, he quit his job to move to New York for the summer. “When I left, I was so scared because I had never been away from my family and friends,” he remembers. “It was kind of like the Olympics for fashion.” Previous to making it on the show, the Sacramento native had gotten rejected from it—over and over. His Kennedy High School buddy-turned-assistant, Crystal Reyna, encouraged Hallmarq to apply even when he 18 | SN&R | 04.19.18

thought he shouldn’t anymore. With her at his side, he’s since dialed in on his sense of style: liquid drapey womenswear with ’80s twists and a modern aesthetic, but never at the expense of comfort. This spring, he moved his studio from Elk Grove to the Warehouse Artist Lofts Marketplace on R Street, where passersby looking for handmade shoes at Benjamins or vintage duds at Old Gold can easily happen upon his work. “People are like, ‘Oh, you have a store!’—it’s not a store, it’s actually my design studio,” Hallmarq explains with a laugh. “It’s in a creative environment with so many other artists and business owners. Everyone’s really supportive of each other.”

To finally arrive at a place where he’s inspired by his surroundings, he’s had to work through two major health hurdles: First, his mother had open-heart surgery while he was filming Project Runway. Then, a year ago, he woke up in Los Angeles, where he was showing a collection at Fashion Week, unable to move. Doctors told him he may never sew again.

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Hallmarq took his first sewing class in middle school, when he sewed up a pair of shorts. But it was really in high school home ec classes that his creativity began to crackle in the form of overalls covered with sunflowers, self-drafted dresses and a layered sheet cake that housed an aquarium of tropical fish.

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“He just oozed creativity in every way,” says Julie major kudos. “I love Richard’s look,” Kors said on the Strong, his former high school sewing and cooking show. “A great balance between softness and architectural teacher who remains a mentor. “After the first semester, sharpness. It looked sleek, chic and very New York.” I turned him loose and let him do what he was doing so And yet, other designers threw him shade, including well.” designer Layana Aguilar. “If you ask me who is the weakest Back then, Hallmarq had already identified his style link, I would say Richard because throughout the competition icons, and most of them came from music: Pete Burns he’s been very inconsistent,” Aguilar said in episode nine. from Dead or Alive, Boy George, George Michael. But Though she did really say those critical things, above all, no question, was Prince. The Prince of Funk Hallmarq says it’s reality TV, after all. was also the Prince of Funky Fashion, with his ruffled “The way the show was plotted, it looked like me and tops and pink fur stoles. Layana hated each other on the show, but we’re actually Reyna met Hallmarq when mutual friends told each really good friends,” he says. “You’re filming a show, and other they would bond over their mutual admiration of the you’re going to say what you’re going to say.” Artist Formerly Known as Prince. “From then on it was More dramatic than what appeared on screen was what nonstop. We would go to The Beat, a record store,” Reyna was happening at home. Producers woke Hallmarq with says. a call from Reyna: His mother was going into open-heart Hallmarq started out his working life in music with a surgery. gig at Tower Records' headquarters—as a mail distributor. “For me to come home and give up everything—my “It wasn’t quite the job I thought I was going to have, mom wanted me to do this so bad,” he says. but it was probably one of my favorite jobs I ever had Reyna encouraged him to stay and give it a few days because I got to be around music and to see if his mother’s health fashion,” Hallmarq remembers. In the improved, and thankfully, she mailroom, he found stacks of fashion perigot better. His mother also had odicals from around the world. “I would a premonition that something “I think a lightbulb just go crazy. I was like, ‘Oh my god! All special would happen on her went up, and he these magazines, all this inspiration.’” son’s 40th birthday. And it did: As a side hustle, Hallmarq made Hallmarq was eliminated from started … making prom dresses, ultimately hundreds of the show and came in fifth place. stuff that still may them. His first fashion show was at “I wasn’t even upset, I was just the Brickhouse Gallery in the early so happy because I didn’t want to be a little crazy, 2000s, and as a result, boutiques in the go home first, and I had made it so but it’s still very Pavilions Shopping Center started carryfar, to the very end,” he says. ing his designs. Hallmarq returned to wearable.” To advance his career, Hallmarq Sacramento with a refined sense attended fashion school at the International of his style and ran his studio in Crystal Reyna Academy of Design & Technology. After Elk Grove. He continued to do Fashion Coordinator, graduation, he worked at the Prada counter fashion shows in New York and Richard Hallmarq at Nordstrom’s and sewed at nightfall, around the country until waking working long hours to elevate his craft. up that morning last year in Los The dream of becoming a full-time Angeles, where he was unable fashion designer continued to burn: He’d to get out of bed because of pain been rejected a few times from Project Runway and had coursing through his arm. just about given up, but Reyna nudged him to keep at it. He flew back home, where he was tested by multiple She had also been influential in a recent shift in his style. doctors. A neurologist told him it was an issue with his “I remember he made this huge jacket, and when the neck.Hallmarq was told he may never sew again—and girl came out she looked like a big ball,” she says. “I was certainly not for the next several months. like, ‘This is all good, but who’s gonna buy this? Isn’t “It was horrible: It would be like someone telling you that your goal, that somebody would buy this?’ I think a whatever you love doing the most in your life you can lightbulb went up, and he started editing himself to put never do again,” he says. his design, his creativity, into making stuff that still may Thankfully, Hallmarq responded well to the cryotherbe a little crazy, but it’s still very wearable. That was a apy, and he’s back to sewing up a flurry of jersey in his challenge that he mastered.” brand new studio. In late March, he was serging together Project Runway agreed. A blocked number called flowing, spray-paint splattered sweatpants and palm frond Hallmarq’s cellphone while he was working for a cosmetdresses in preparation for his resort-inspired show at Palm ics distributor. Springs Fashion Week. “I was crying, I was just so happy because I had He continues to craft womenswear through a slight worked so hard,” he says. lingering pain in his arm. “It is a hustle, but it’s a good Hallmarq made it to the pinnacle of mainstream fashion one, especially when you enjoy what you do, it makes it only to discover a hitch: He still hadn’t zeroed in on his style. all worth it in the end,” Hallmarq says. Someday, he hopes to see his work in department Editing the excess stores like Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue. But for now, he’s simply thankful to have a studio outside of his “You know what’s funny? I didn’t really know who home so that he’s no longer tempted to stay up till 3 a.m. I was as a designer before the show,” Hallmarq says. “I seaming what he’s started. learned very quickly on the show that I was good at work“You don’t want to stop until it’s finished,” he says. Ω ing with jersey and knitwear.” When he sewed up an asymmetrical jersey dress in gray and black, celebrity judge Michael Kors gave him

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member shouted the cliché concert request, “Freebird!” and Pecknold obliged with a few bars. And when he said The Fleet Foxes’ first Sacramento goodbye to the audience, show on Wednesday, April 11. roaring with applause at the end of the show, the 30-something frontman doesn’t press his hair close to his neck and jerkily nod in thanks like a Muppet anymore; he holds his hand to his chest in that same earnestness, but, yeah, he still kinda nods like a Muppet. “crazy, what a weird world this is,” he said 10 years ago— and it’s still crazy; there’s just more Fleet Foxes music.

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You wouldn’t know it by a quick glance at his YouTube channel, but JP Sears once took his lifestyle pretty seriously. Previously a San Diego-based emotional healer, Sears provided one-on-one healing sessions to clients around the world through Skype and offered advice videos on his channel, AwakenWithJP. Going back to watch these older videos, you’ll notice his comedy peeking through. “I just always loved to make people laugh in my personal life, but nothing professionally,” Sears said. “I thought it was bad for business to let my sense of humor out. So I kind of kept that under wraps.” He tiptoed around his humor. In one video, he jokes about taking a shotgun to a disruptive bird, offering an awkward wink to let the audience know he’s kidding. His balance of his natural silliness and playing it safe is endearing. “The itch just kept getting my attention,” Sears said. He posted his first comedy video—“How to be Ultra Spiritual”—in October, 2014. Today, he’s well known for his satirical ribbing of the boujee liberal lifestyle. It was actually good for business, but just over a year ago, he decided to do comedy full time. The videos also allowed Sears to confront his own problematic behavior. “I was realizing I have a lot of egotistical stuff wrapped into my journey,” he said. “Like, ‘I meditate longer than you, so sorry that you’re you and I’m me.’” Through the Ultra Spiritual Life series, he’s released dozens of videos making fun of Instagram-famous yogis, minimalists and new age parents. With 8.7 million views, one of his most popular videos has Sears—with judgmental blue eyes and a fiercely spiritual band wrapped around his red, shoulder-length hair—acting out the premise: “If Meat Eaters Acted Like Vegans.”

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He writes two jokes in the morning A few Saturdays ago, it was a gorgeous April morning. Ideally, I would have gone for a run and grabbed healthy groceries from the farmers market. Instead, I spent the day inside, eating Cheez-Its, getting stoned with comedian Doug Benson. Well technically, I got high in front of my laptop screen, which played Benson all day. Where stoner humor is concerned, there’s a spectrum: at one end are great stories, made more hilarious by characters who happen to get stoned. The Big Lebowski comes to mind. Somewhere in the middle are Fast Times at Ridgemont High and the Harold & Kumar movies. At the other end are funny people getting stoned together and talking about weed. Benson has produced a ton of work including a documentary, series and podcasts mostly at the latter end of that spectrum. His 2007 film Super High Me today illustrates the rapid changes in marijuana laws, products and culture in the past decade. In his live video podcast series, Getting Doug with High, actors and comedians have casual conversations with Doug over joints and bong rips. Some guests space out (lookin’ at you, Jenny Slate), others get way off track (hi, Todd Glass) and a few are just so dull (we know, Aubrey Plaza, it’s your brand). With a loose format that includes “first time” stories and marijuana trivia, the comedian guests can make or break the episode. While he also makes non-ganja related media like the Doug Loves Movies podcast, weed is what he’s known for. Last year, he premiered the first reality court show presided over by a super-baked judge, The High Court with Doug Benson. Judge Benson’s comedy for yourself during his Countdown to 4/20 show at the Punch Line. Ω

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veggies to create an epic vegan option. (The accompanying shoyu sauce can be replaced with a gluten-free version— just ask.) The cooked items on the menu include miso soup ($2), Hawaiian, Sacramento $$$ egg rolls ($5), and pot stickers ($5). A few more intriguing options are the Noke tacos ($13.50 for three)—crisp tortillas filled with marinated ahi tuna and house-made coleslaw, and the Noke fries ($6), standard French fries smothered Reviewing restaurants can be tough on a critic’s body. with aioli and unagi sauce. Eating at the same restaurant repeatedly to get a core The pricing at Poke Noke is about average for sample of not only the food, but also the service and Sacramento, and the generous portion sizes mean a large ambiance, can take its toll. While some might think $15 bowl with five scoops of fish will easily feed two eating three burgers in a week is “living the life,” people to satisfaction. Still need a few more my digestive system would argue otherwise. calories between the two of you? Add an a Then there are the restaurants that leave la cart Noke taco ($5) or a side of crispy me feeling fresh and light after repeated garlic chicken ($6). Excluding tax and tip, Poke Noke is one of visits, like I’ve just returned from a that’s about $20 for an incredibly fresh, five-day juice cleanse on a tropical the better places in healthy, two-person dinner. Not bad. island. Poke Noke, which opened in Sacramento to exercise If you happen to be in the neighborJuly 2017 on Fair Oaks Boulevard hood between 2 p.m. and 6 p.m., stop some healthy hedonism; near Howe Avenue, is one such in for a happy hour special that includes restaurant. With fresh fare that leaves feel free to stuff a free side with any beer or wine order. the diner feeling healthy, refreshed, yourself silly. Pair that with the friendly young staff and 100 percent satisfied, I can’t help clad in yoga garb and a huge custom mural but wonder if I’d live forever if I could painted by local artist Maren Conrad, and eat there every day. you’ve got a chill afternoon stop that will take Poke Noke (pronounced “po-kay no-kay”) has the edge off whatever long day may be having its way all the standard staples you find in other poke places, plus with you. a few cooked options. The Shredder Bowl ($12 for three The poke trend is still having a minute, and for good scoops of fish, $15 for five) is a prime example of nutritious reason: done well, poke leaves you feeling full without indulgence with generous portions of salmon, pineapple, feeling gross. Poke Noke is one of the better places in jalapeño, edamame, cucumber, brown rice, and citrus Sacramento to exercise some healthy hedonism; feel free to ponzu sauce. The veggie bowl ($12) comes packed with stuff yourself silly. Ω tofu, wakame, brown rice, macadamia nuts, and a host of Good for: a healthy yet filling dinner Notable dishes: shredder bowl, veggie bowl

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Dank brew breaking bud froM knee deep brewing From a forum on cannabis.com: “Hops are one of only two plants in the genus cannabinaceae, with the other being, as the generic name suggests, the cannabis suggests, plant. Indeed, the hops plant can plant can be grafted onto a root stock stock of cannabis, producing a a plant that contains THC.” I THC.” I once believed this too, and and when I first heard about Knee Deep Brewing’s Breaking Bud IPA, I though though “Finally!” No such luck (see (see Snopes). But this is a lovely lovely IPA; there’s the right amount of amount of fruit under the bitter tang, and a nice, almost skunky tang, and a nice, almost skunky aroma. And despite the lack of cannabinoids, its 6.5 ABV gives a pretty good buzz.

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Foraging for fungi Morel MushrooMs Earthy and meaty, morel mushrooms are commonly mushrooms are commonly considered more delicious than their brethren, even their brethren, even by those eaters who don’t normally normally enjoy mushrooms. And these fungi aren’t farmed on a mass scale, so you know that your morel was likely handpicked. Mushroomers forage for them in open pastures, searching for the telltale bulbous cap with a honeycomb texture. For first first timers, it might be helpful to to explore with an experienced guide, experienced guide, and Sacramento Area Mushroomers (sacmush.com) Mushroomers (sacmush.com) offers some info. Regardless, beware of “false morels,” “false morels,” lookalike mushrooms that can be toxic—unless, a la la Phantom Thread, you’re into that sort of thing.

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Gary Sleppy has an enthusiastic personality and wears an expression that makes it seem that he’s just heard something clever. Discuss beer with the owner of The Shack, and his energy level swells. A fine-dining trained chef, Sleppy for the past 13 years has been transforming the old-school, rustic East Sacramento landmark on Folsom Boulevard. The Shack’s been around for 87 years, enduring good and bad owners; it’s flourished as a working museum of Sacramento-restaurant history and it’s floundered in various stages of disrepair. For years, enormous turkeys were displayed on rotisseries, and were favored by locals who didn’t much care about the grungy kitchen that served exactly what you might expect from a drive-up-only diner in need of a makeover. As long as the meat was juicy, the fries crisp and the beer cold, the formerly named Sub Shack was just fine. The Shack has retained its character, but Sleppy expanded its appeal way back at the dawn of the craft beer era. Comfort food—a patty melt, Reuben sandwich or rich, hot chili, best served with cheese and onions and a side of sour cream—still rules. And while they might be well complemented with, say, a pint of Pabst Blue Ribbon, Sleppy offers more. He may suggest pairing your entree with a Belgian wheat such as Chimay Red (nicely priced at $7) or a Westmalle Tripel ($8.50), or a German lager such as Weihenstephaner ($4.50) or Erdinger Dunkel ($6). Or something he’s recently added to The Shack’s vast and varied selections from around the globe.

“The first time I had really spicy chili with a good West Coast IPA, it was like a light went off,” says Sleppy, who talks about beer the way a sommelier talks wine. “It was like, ‘Thank you.’ It made the chili taste better. It made the beer taste like beer. It took the hops out of the beer and the spiciness out of the chili.” Sleppy and his brother grew up in Sac and were Shack patrons. He hesitated when he discovered the joint was for sale. It wasn’t what he’d envisioned in his restaurant-ownership business plan. “The Shack was a wreck and had fallen into disrepair,” he says. “By the time me and my wife got married, she had heard me talking about a restaurant for so long. She finally said, ‘Why don’t you just go ahead and get it out of your system and quit talking about it.’” Under his ownership, some of The Shack’s history has been removed, including the pot-bellied stove and photos of 1950s East Sac. But Sleppy hasn’t forgotten. He has plans to have a revolving video of the past featured on a television monitor above the front door. It will be a marriage of old and new. The Shack still makes a mean turkey sandwich, and it also offers a nice, nutty veggie burger. With equal care, The Shack makes dog biscuits to encourage canine visitors. It has live music every Saturday afternoon. And its draught, bottled and canned beer selection is unsurpassed. “We’ve been doing craft beer for 13 years and my personal position was to always be an ambassador,” Sleppy says. “It’s almost like a family. I feel like we are partners with our distributors to get the word out. I always consider us like a tasting room.” Ω

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Just arriving home from work, I’m already late. Two stories are past deadline for the 4/20 issue. So what do I do? Make weed brownies, duh. Don’t judge. It’s for an assignment. The task: to create delicious, stoney lava cakes (OK, not technically brownies) using cannabis butter made from scratch. It might sound simple, but I’ve never tried it in my years-long pastime of consuming weed. Hell, I can’t even roll a joint. So crafting an effective, Instagram-worthy dessert seemed out of reach. Since I didn’t have a ton of time to invest in this experiment, I decided to cook the butter and the dessert in a slow cooker. I used two recipes: one to yield a cup of marijuana butter, the other to slow-cook a lava cake. The Leafly recipe calls for one cup of butter with one cup of ground cannabis. It says to use shake, and I recall the leafy cuttings

of yesteryear. A decade ago, I would have sneaked shake from the “dad stash”—a large, hidden trash bag with a combination of dried leaf, dusty buds from seasons past and more than a few dog hairs to pick out (RIP, Chewy). These days, I can go to the local weed store for shake. The budtenders suggest other methods—1,000 milligram pre-made cannabutter, single-dose injections I don’t quite understand. Instead, I walked out with a $36 half-ounce of shake (ouch!). At home, I preheat my oven and prep the shake for decarboxylation (which activates the THC). Doubting whether it will be potent enough, I compile the near-empty weed bags I’ve stored for a desperate day. The pile of misfit buds go into the coffee grinder. Self-satisfied, I pulverize the pot. I knew these sad bags would come in handy. Once the pot is decarbed, I slow-cook it with the butter on

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Dry Powder

Hippie heaven by Patti RobeRts

Smart direction and superior acting mark this financial dramedy about the art of the deal— and the price paid to make it. Melinda Parrett, Dave Pierini, Jason Kuykendall and Jahi Kearse co-star Buck Busfield directs it. Thu 8pm,

Fri 8pm, Sat 5pm & 9pm, Sun 2pm, Tue 6:30pm, Wed 2pm & 6:30pm. Through 4/29. $27-$46;

Sacramento Theatre Company, Pollock Stage, 1419 H Street; (916) 443-6722; www.sactheatre.org. P.R.

This 90-minute play by award-winning playwright Terrence McNally traverses many decades as well as many issues, pains, battles and triumphs of the gay community. It’s a story of a mother’s long-stemming resentment of her deceased son’s gay relationship

Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical

thu 7:30pm, fri 7:30pm, sat 2pm. through 4/21; $25 general, $15 students/seniors, special $5 student price for thursday show; falcon’s eye theatre, stage one at the harris center, folsom Lake college, 10 college Parkway in folsom; (916) 608-6888; www.harriscenter.net.

When the moon is in the Seventh House and Jupiter aligns with Mars, then Hair will come to Folsom, and love will steer the stars. That’s exactly the vibe the tribe emits in this staging of the iconic 1969 counterculture celebration now at Falcon’s Eye Theatre. The tribe in this case includes both the show’s young cast members and the enthusiastic, mostly older, audience members—all eager to be pulled into the collective experience of joy and resistance that swept the country in the late ’60s and is being mirrored in current culture and politics. The audience is greeted by vintage black-andwhite news footage of the Vietnam War and unrest stateside, giving context for this group of flower children who’ve decided to drop out and live a life of love, peace, drugs, sex and rock ’n’ roll. The enthusiasm of the talented cast members is intoxicating, as is the psychedelic set and dynamic production elements, with the live orchestra capturing the magic sounds of the play’s hits including “Aquarius,” “Hair” and “Let The Sun Shine.” The opening weekend audiences skewed heavily toward the original generation of tribe members, some who showed up in hippie attire, many of whom were the same age as the young actors when Hair first came out (or perhaps when the 1979 Golden Globe-winning film adaptation, by the just-deceased Milos Forman, came out). There are only three more opportunities to catch the tribe vibe. Ω

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4 Culture shock This is the 25th production Community Asian Theatre of the Sierra—this region’s only Asian American theater group. It has grown into a remarkable venture, doing plays that no one else stages in these parts, involving mythology, immigration and wartime internment. So why the vintage musical South Pacific (staged often by the Music Circus), and why now? Well, this World War II classic puts the shoe on the other foot—it’s the white characters from distant lands who are coming to grips with unfamiliar cultural traditions. And in this Asian American production, the show’s commentary on old-school American attitudes regarding race and intermarriage resonates more deeply than usual. I can’t think of a production in which the song about fearand-loathing of non-whites (“You’ve Got to be Carefully Taught”) connects as powerfully as it does here and now, in an age when some Americans call for self-deportation and building walls. (The ’40s dialogue between men and women, on the other hand, feels pretty dated.) The Rodgers and Hammerstein score (from 1949, it will mark its 70th anniversary next year) remains radiant. And this elaborate production (a huge undertaking for a small organization like CATS) wins your heart, despite occasional little glitches. —Jeff Hudson

south Pacific: thu 7pm, fri 2pm, sat 2pm, sun 2pm, plus Wed 4/25 & 5/2 7pm. some performances sold out. through 5/5; $25-$30; community asian theatre of the sierra (cats) at Nevada theatre, 401 Broad street in Nevada city; www.catsWeb.org.

performances by most of the cast. Fri 8pm, Sat 8pm,

Sun 2pm. Through 4/22; $19-$21; Chautauqua

Playhouse, 5325 Engle Road, Suite 110 in Carmichael; (916) 489-7529; http://cplayhouse.org. B.S.

Uncle Vanya

A bright new contemporary translation of the Chekhov classic by Annie Baker. Ennui, anger, lust and greed affect the residents of a Russian country estate when a proposed sale is suggested. Fri 8pm, Sat 8

Sat 2pm & 8pm, Sun 2pm, Wed 7pm. Through 4/30; $15-$38;

B Street Theatre at the Sofia, 2700 Capitol Avenue. (916) 443-5300, www.bstreettheatre.org. J.C.

Mothers and Sons

Nicki Latini plays tribe member sheila.

and ultimate death from AIDS decades ago, played out by her unexpected and uninvited visit to her late son’s widower. The Sacramento Theatre Company cast works well together to create believable characters in this compact, heart-tugging production that takes place all in one long scene. Thu 7pm, Fri 8pm,

A Time to Kill

pm, Sun 2pm. Through 5/6; $20; The Actor’s Theatre

The John Grisham courthouse drama is brought to life by playwright Rupert Holmes. An African American man, distraught at the rape and near death of his 10-year-old daughter, shoots the perpetrators. His attorney goes for an insanity plea. Very good

of Sacramento, 1721 25th Street; (916) 501-6104 / (916) 583-4880; www.actinsac.com. B.S.

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Dana brooke as Lucy in the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

From page to stage The B Street Theatre Family Series visits Narnia with The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, a 55-minute version of the C.S. Lewis parable. This one is geared toward younger kids (5 years and older), with lots of costume changes, snowfall onstage, talking animals, and original music. Sat 1pm, Sun 1pm. Through 5/5; $23 adult, $18 children; B Street Theatre, The Sofia, 2700 Capitol Avenue; (916) 433-5300; www.bstreettheatre.org.

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Another week, another serviceable story of Middle East intrigue co-starring an impassive Rosamund Pike. Unlike last month’s fact-based 7 Days in Entebbe, Brad Anderson’s Beirut offers a more Bourneesque take on Bourne-esque themes from a script by Bourne franchise screenwriter Tony Gilroy. Jon Hamm stars as Mason Skiles (Beirut largely takes place during the Lebanese Civil War, with a story that traces over many actual events, but the name “Mason Skiles” alone is enough to establish the script as pure fiction), a professional arbitrator living the sweet life in 1970s Beirut. Mason’s world comes crumbling down when Palestinian terrorists crash his cocktail party, and his wife gets killed in the confusion. A decade later, Mason is a broken man soaking his sorrow in alcohol when he gets word that his friend has been abducted by Palestinians, and that the lead kidnapper specifically requested Mason return to Lebanon to serve as negotiator. D.B.

2 Rampage He doesn’t like it when you call him Donkey Kong.

by Jim Lane

drawn by a homing signal from the shady corporation that funded the original experiment, where the company CEO (Malin Akerman as a female We don’t give half-stars here at SN&R, so a while Snidely Whiplash) eagerly awaits them. ago, faced with a movie that rated two-and-a-half Meanwhile, our man Okoye follows George stars, I told my editor I bumped it up to three because hoping to rescue him, accompanied by Naomie the movie had a good heart. Dwayne Johnson’s Harris as a scientist who once unwittingly worked new vehicle Rampage is another two-and-a-half star on the genetic project, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan picture, but it doesn’t get bumped because it doesn’t as a scruffy, stubble-faced G-Man who looks like have a good heart. It doesn’t have a heart at all, just he should be standing on a traffic median holding a spreadsheet of projected box-office returns. It’s like a sign that says, “Will do secret government work one of those comic-strip characters with dollar signs for food.” for eyes. All this folderol is just a way to get the Not that it isn’t enjoyable in its mechanical monsters tearing up a big city. In Rampage way. And considering that it’s based on a it’s Chicago’s turn, and the beasts go videogame, it’s better than usual for that at it with a vengeance—literally, it bastard genre. It’s not garbage, but that seems, because the corporation’s doesn’t exactly make it Jurassic Park. signal is driving them even It’s not garbage, Johnson plays Davis Okoye, madder than they already are. but that doesn’t a primatologist at the San Diego Soon they even turn on each Wildlife Sanctuary whose best friend other, and our hero redoubles his exactly make it is an albino gorilla named George superhuman efforts to extricate Jurassic Park. (played via motion capture by Jason George from his predicament. Liles, aspiring to be the next Andy Lucky thing he used to be a Serkis). special-forces soldier (but there I go, When a sinister genetic experiment trying to explain the plot again). goes awry on an orbiting space station, three I guess I should mention that Rampage canisters of mutant DNA come crashing to Earth. is directed by Brad Peyton; it seems impolite not One lands in George’s compound, infecting him with to, though it’s hard to say exactly what he contribuncontrolled growth and uncontrollable rage. uted to the proceedings besides calling “Action!”, We needn’t go into the plot brewed up by Ryan “Cut!” and “Lunch!” Engle, Carlton Cuse, Ryan J. Condal and Adam Rampage qualifies as a guilty (as hell) Sztykiel; it’s a textbook case of too many cooks with pleasure, not bad for what it is—but what it is, of too few ideas about how to incorporate all the ridicucourse, is exactly the problem. Ω lous points of the original game. Anyhow, it involves George and two other monsters created by the rogue DNA, a 30-foot wolf from Wyoming and an alligator from the Everglades grown into the kind of creature Godzilla used to fight. All three set off for Chicago, Poor Fair Good Very excellent

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Blockers

Three parents of teenage besties (Leslie Mann, John Cena and Ike Barinholtz), having gotten wind that their daughters (Kathryn Newton, Geraldine Viswanathan and Gideon Adlon, respectively) are planning to lose their virginity on prom night, launch a desperate campaign to stop them. The movie’s posters have the silhouette of a rooster, or “cock,” right above the title—“cock blockers,” get it? Hyuk, hyuk. That’s about the level of humor struck by Brian and Jim Kehoe’s script and Kay Cannon’s direction, but things aren’t quite as crude as they might have been, for which we can all be grateful. In fact, it’ll probably go unnoticed among all the penis and vagina jokes, but Barinholtz gives a very good performance as a rueful father whose bad choices have kept him from being the parent he wanted to be. J.L.

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Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero

Director Sean McNamara and writers David Aaron Cohen and Elissa Matsueda tell the true story of the Iowa City West High School girls’ volleyball team, defending state champions in 2011 who had to battle back from overwhelming grief when team leader Caroline Found (Danika Yarosh) died in a moped accident just before the start of the school year. It’s a by-thenumbers sports tearjerker, and high school girls’ volleyball isn’t exactly the World Series or Super Bowl, but the story is inspiring enough to make up for a more or less routine telling. Helen Hunt as the team’s coach, Jason Gray-Stanford as her assistant, and William Hurt as Caroline’s heartbroken father all lend professional heft to the cast, and the team members (led by Erin Moriarty and Rebecca Staab) tackle their roles with youthful ardor. J.L.

An outbreak (or invasion) of blind carnivorous creatures with supersharp hearing forces the remnants of the human race to live in absolute silence, in isolated pockets with little means of communication. The script by Bryan Woods, Scott Beck and director John Krasinski concentrates on one family: father (Krasinski), mother (Emily Blunt), son (Noah Jupe), and a daughter (Millicent Simmonds) whose deafness, under the circumstances, is even more of a handicap. The creatures are unexplained; when we see them, they’re generically bizarre, but sightings are wisely few. The result is an old-fashioned horror movie, and a nerve-wrackingly effective one. Director Krasinski ratches up the tension and dread almost to the breaking point, knowing just when to let up and when to start tightening the screws again. J.L.

Foxtrot

Originally positioned as a contender for Best Foreign Film awards, Israeli writer-director Samuel Maoz’s surprising Foxtrot was unsurprisingly phased out of the race in favor of films that are much worse (don’t get me started on In the Fade). Foxtrot stars Lior Ashkenazi and Sarah Adler as Michael and Dafna Feldman, a Tel Aviv couple who’ve hit with the news that their son Jonathan was killed while serving with the Israeli Defense Forces. The film’s opening movement follows the Feldman family through the first few hours of an overwhelmingly emotional grief process, up until the military informs them that it was a different Jonathan Feldman who died and that their son is still alive. That powerful portrait of grief gives way to an ecstatic and absurdist midsection that follows Jonathan during his military service at a lonely desert roadblock, and there are still a couple more wallop-packing twists to come. D.B.

Georgia-based Fun Academy Motion Pictures makes their first foray into feature-length animation with Richard Lanni’s deliberately old-fashioned Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero. Based on the true story of t he heroic street dog who became mascot of the Yankee Division of the 102nd Infantry Regiment during World War I, forming a bond with doughboy Robert Conroy (Logan Lerman) and going on to save many lives, Sgt. Stubby is a mixed bag in almost every respect. The humans all look like different versions of the same dead-eyed automaton, but the character design for Stubby is excellent, his face and movements marvelously expressive yet perfectly natural at the same time. There are strong individual scenes, but the story structure is shoddy, with Robert’s unseen sister Margaret (Helena Bonham Carter, doing an Ashley Judd impression) narrating for no reason at all. For all the film’s faults, though, passionate voice performances might have pushed it over. D.B

Journey’s End

R.C. Sherriff’s venerable 1928 play about life in the trenches during World War I lives again in the hands of director Saul Dibb, screenwriter Simon Reade and a terrific cast: Sam Claflin as the captain driven to drown his horror in alcohol while somehow rising to his duty; Asa Butterfield as the naïve, idealistic youngster; Paul Bettany as the older lieutenant everyone calls “Uncle;” Toby Jones as the company cook (who provides merciful comic relief)—and those are just for starters. Dibb’s hyper-realism is a drawback at times—soft voices and regional British accents make some dialogue hard to catch, and the nightmarish confusion of combat tends to obscure what’s happening to whom. But those are minor quibbles; the movie is very strong stuff, offering proof that Sherriff’s play is unjustly neglected. J.L.

Super Troopers 2

The forgotten-but-not-gone “comedy” troupe Broken Lizard (Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, Erik Stolhanske) is back in a sequel to their 2001 turkey about incompetent Vermont Highway Patrolmen—this time opening a station in an area of Canada that’s being ceded to the U.S.—and they’re just as unfunny and talent-free as they were back then. All five wrote the non-script, and Chandrasekhar provided the non-direction. The “boys” are all pushing 50 now, and what passed for youthful folly in 2001 now looks like sadly wasted lives. Brian Cox is back as their harried captain, Rob Lowe and Emanuelle Chriqui play Canadian liaisons to the “invading” Vermonters, and Lynda Carter, Seann William Scott, Damon Wayans Jr., and Fred Savage all show up for oh-what-the-hell cameo appearances. J.L.

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They’ve been performing as a trio (rounded out by drummer Thom Sonny Green) since the departure of guitarist/bassist and founding member Gwil Sainsbury in 2014, but not much has changed with the band’s live setup; UngerHamilton has always held down the low end with heavy synthesizers. Far from a music gearhead, he takes a layman’s approach to playing keys and doesn’t stray far from preset noises. “One of the keyboards we started the band with was a very Thom Green, Joe Newman and Gus Unger-Hamilton form the cheap, basic Yamaha keyboard,” band Alt-J. And sure—It’s also the ∆ shortcut on your Mac. he said. “It had loads of wicked pre-programmed sounds on it like organs and strings and pianos. The Alt-J sound was really Alt-J rocketed to international fame on the strength based on that keyboard and another one I bought of their debut album, 2012’s An Awesome Wave, but on eBay for literally £1.” they’ve since experienced some pushback. Unger-Hamilton’s contributions are integral Maybe it was to be expected. As an art-rock group to Alt-J’s sonic signature. In the studio, he takes out of Leeds, England, they’re often cast—perhaps up space by layering several different keyboard unfairly—as a group of stuffy and privileged British elements on top of each other. For example, on the dudes. They’ve also been consistently criticized as a band’s hit song “Fitzpleasure,” he used a preset supposedly experimental band that doesn’t actually called “hot organ” and combined it with a dirty get all that weird outside of frontman Joe Newman’s bass synthesizer for a aggressive tone that cuts mushy-mouthed, consonant-free and often unintelthrough the mix like a buzzsaw. ligible vocal style. Which, yeah: That’s a valid point. Alt-J’s concerts, praised for their dazzling light But despite being the subject of Internet displays, are set to become even more memes and critics’ relentless compariimmersive. In June, the band is sons to another high-minded British planning to roll out a cutting-edge, “Our group—Radiohead—Alt-J has 360-degree sound system for a fanbase is survived. According to the band’s show in New York that will pretty open-minded, keyboardist and backup vocalist, make the performance sound Gus Unger-Hamilton, they optimized for each audience musically ... They don’t have, in fact, thrived: Over the listener, no matter where expect us to be one kind past five years of heavy touring, they’re sitting or standing in of band.” they’ve gotten much tighter as the venue. a gigging band, and their run of “We want to do with the Gus Unger-Hamilton success has afforded them more sounds what we’re already Keyboardist/vocalist, time and resources to expand their doing with the lights and the Alt-J sound in the studio. video,” Unger-Hamilton said. “In terms of songwriting, a lot of what I “We’ll gather at least two of the do on the keyboard is transposed to other instrusenses, but I guess not smell. Although, ments,” he said. “It’s not just a matter of playing you never know; I’m sure there’s the potential for something and recording it. It’s more like playing it pumping in the smell of freshly cut grass.” and then transposing it to strings, or getting a bassoon And why not? Alt-J always comes out of left to play it. That’s more of what we’ve been doing field, Unger-Hamilton said: “Our fanbase is pretty with our current work, and it certainly is a nice sort of open-minded, musically ... They don’t expect us to be sandbox to play in.” one kind of band.” Ω Unger-Hamilton spoke with the SN&R from his home in London ahead of Alt-J’s show at the ARC catch alt-J at 8 p.m. on Monday, april 23 at the arc Pavilion at uc Pavilion at UC Davis on Monday, April 23, as part of Davis. tickets are $49.50 via ticketmaster.com. a tour supporting their latest album, Relaxer.

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Live tour was not just a reaction, but also a means by which we could try to help people deal with their frustration.” Blanchard, a four-time Grammy winner, formed the group in 2015 to explore a more contemporary electric sound than he had with with previous acoustic based ensembles. E-Collective consists of Blanchard on trumpet, Fabian Almazan on piano and synthesizers, Charles Altura on guitar, Oscar Seaton on drums, and David Ginyard on bass. Their first album “Breathless” referenced the death of Eric Garner, who was choked by police officer Daniel Pantaleo on July 17, 2014. The medical examiner ruled Garner’s death a The four-time Grammy winner’s Davis show homicide. comes amid high community tensions in Sac. Blanchard told a story about being approached after an E-Collective concert by an audience member who said he thought the Trumpeter-composer Terence Blanchard didn’t music sounded “angry.” The man was fan of set out to make his new band a protest group. But Blanchard’s score for the Spike Lee documentary stuff happens. Bad stuff—and musicians are as A Tale of God’s Will: A Requiem for Katrina. much a part of the world as anyone else. Perhaps “I just thought I was frustrated with the they are even more in the world than most as lack of action with all these officers shooting they travel from city to city across the country people and feeling no consequences,” Blanchard and around the world. said. Then the man said that when Blanchard Blanchard’s band the E-Collective explained to the audience what the music was consciously pulled music from its about—it made perfect sense. Then upcoming album Live (releases the man said he was going to go April 20) from performances home and rethink his ideas on in communities that have “The music we gun control, and Blanchard experienced trauma was speechless. created for the between law enforcement “The mere power Live tour was not just a and African-American of that energy is what citizens. Minneapolis reaction, but also a means touched his heart,” (where Philando Castile Blanchard said. by which we could try to was shot on July 6, Blanchard, a studied help people deal with their 2016); Cleveland (where jazz historian, understands 12-year-old Tamir Rice frustration.” the continuing political was shot on November history of the music. Terence Blanchard 22, 2014); and Dallas From Joe Oliver and Louis (where police officers Lorne Armstrong through artists like Ahrens, Michael Krol, Michael Max Roach, Elvin Jones and Art Smith, Brent Thompson and Patricio Blakey, there has been an underlying and Zamarripa were assassinated during a Black then overt social consciousness. Lives Matter protest on July 7-8, 2016). “Both groups were playing music on a higher The band has said they condemn gun violence level,” he said, “and the mere creation of it was a of any kind. subversive act against societal norms.” Ω The E-Collective performs at the Mondavi Center on Friday, April 20. Coming to Davis with the Stephon Clark shooting still so raw in terence blanchard, featuring the e-collective, performs friday, the community puts the band back in another april 20, 8 p.m. in jackson hall, Mondavi center; $12.50-$49. emotional cauldron. www.mondaviarts.org. alex jenkins Quartet performs in the “Events were just overcoming all of us,” courtyard at 6:30 p.m.; no cover. Blanchard said. “The music we created for the

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buzzsaw fuzz and singer Carl Arana’s raspy bellows and screams make for catchy, moshable music regardless of your lyrical interpretation. With Sac trio American Killers, imagine the arena-blasting simplicity of AC/DC, the upbeat noise of bands like Death From Above 1979, and the alt-metal angst of Deftones, vocalized by Eddie Underwood’s sometimes inaudible but vicious singing style. For a taste test, listen to their 2016 album, Young Blood, and the song “Big City.” I mentioned organs, and Bay Area band Glitter Wizard likes them often in their psychedelic, progressive rock carnival. Extended, wah-ed guitar solos and Earthforeign soundscapes are grounded by rough-and-tumble-in-the-dirt rock ’n’ roll. Ruby the Hatchet will headline a night of To hear what I’m saying, find their 2016 psychedelic retro rock at Blue Lamp. album, “Earth Hollow Tour.” Then there’s the headliner: New Jersey rockers Ruby the Hatchet. In their music Put the joint down: The best 4/20 weekend video for “Vast Acid,” a stoned love show in Sacramento is actually on Saturday song is presented as a parody of The Evil night (4/21), if you’re into vintage rock by Dead, featuring a creepy forest bands that are stoned a lot. More cabin, skin-bound book of specifically, bands that take after the dead and basement Black Sabbath, Deep Purple possessions. Aside In “Vast Acid,” a and Judas Priest, to name a from the band’s few, favoring heavy fuzz, stoned love song is addictive ’70s soaring vocals, gothic psych- and progpresented as a parody of organs and plenty guitar rock arrangements, The Evil Dead, featuring a riffs. Groups that draw vocalist Jillian inspiration from old creepy forest cabin, skinTaylor, originally horror films, space travel inspired by Stevie bound book of the dead and and killer cults. Nicks and Heart, basement possessions. Local heavy music is a room-filler, promoter Atlantean sporting a voice that’s Collective put together a Blue epic, theatrical and Lamp bill that’s worth seeing, rock-nostalgic. They’re even sober: Ruby the Hatchet, touring their third album, Glitter Wizard, American Killers and Interplanetary Space Child, but their Crimson Eye. Here’s why. previous work is also worth your curiosity, Crimson Eye is a neighborhood favorite particularly 2015’s Valley of the Snake. Ω for stoner-doom metal. Listen to their selftitled 2016 LP, or the song “Hammer Down (SuperChevy),” and you might agree. Now, the show starts at 8 p.m., and tickets are $12 in advance, $15 at the door. Blue Lamp is located at 1400 Alhambra this heavy ode to a nice car does seem Boulevard near Midtown. like a trite innuendo for someone’s trophy woman out of the ’70s, but the tune’s 32 | SN&R | 04.19.18

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Online listings will be considered for print. Print listings are edited for space and accuracy. Deadline for print listings is 5 p.m. Wednesday. Deadline for NightLife listings is midnight Sunday. Send photos and reference materials to Calendar Editor Kate Gonzales at snrcalendar@newsreview.com.

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RUBY tHe HatCHet: With Glitter Wizard,

Crimson Eye and more. 8pm, $12-$15. Blue Lamp, 1400 Alhambra Blvd.

SATURDAY, 4/21

SUNDAY, 4/22

PUPs & BReWs: Raffles, prizes and adoptable

BURiaLs: With Modern Man, xTom Hanx and

dogs. One dollar from each pint supports

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

Front Street Animal Shelter. noon, no cover. Midtown BierGarten, 2332 K St.

neCK fest iii: See event listing on 4/20. 4pm,

saCRaMentO BeeR anD CHiLi festiVaL 2018:

$10. Torch Club, 904 15th St.

tHe PURPLe XPeRienCe: A tribute to Prince with live music by the Purple Xperience, a DJ, video show and more. 8pm, $30-$45. The Colonial Theatre, 3522 Stockton Blvd.

breweries offer a selection of samples. 6pm,

$45-$60. Sacramento Asian Sports

Foundation, 9040 High Tech Court in Elk Grove.

an eVening WitH steVe KiLBeY & aManDa KRaMeR: Songs from the band Church

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Wine & ROses annUaL tasting eVent: The valley’s wineries and caterers get the spotlight as they offer food and drink tastings. 5:30pm, $30-$50. Hellenic Community Center, 616 Alhambra Blvd.

and solo songs. Show held at a private residence, with the address emailed after ticket purchase. BYOB. 7pm, $25-$100. Private home in Arden Arcade.

TUESDAY, 4/24

the Rocky Horror Picture show

MUSIC THURSDAY, 4/19 aUDiO MUse: Crocker’s concert series features the Hot Baked Goods and Darin Reyes. 6:30pm, $8-$14. Crocker Art Museum, 216 O St.

BaD BUnnY: Latin trap/reggae. 7pm, $44.53-

$144.53. Golden 1 Center, 500 David J Stern Walk.

gRaVe LaKe: Cassette release for Grave Lake,

with Black Mare, Glaare. 8pm, $8. The Press Club, 2030 P St.

MOneYBagg YO: With YSD, Yung Rowdyyy,

STUNNA CHIPS. 10:30pm, $25-$30. Harlow’s, 2708 J St.

FRIDAY, 4/20 420 fest 2018: Featuring bands from all over California, including He Died, These Bastards, Illicit Trade, JFFKO, Endless Yawn

is acceptable. Hardcore fans will know to bring their bag of props (rice for the wedding, condoms for Janet). And they’ll be stoked to know that Barry Bostwick, who starred as Brad in the film, will be on-hand to meet and sign autographs for the VIP folks. If you’re a newbie, be prepared for the weirdest movie night of your life. Don’t dream it, be it! 3522 Stockton Boulevard, www.sachorrorfilmfest.com.

and more. 6pm, no cover. The Colony, 3512 Stockton Blvd.

CUBanisMO: A blend of mambo, salsa, rumba

and Latin jazz. 7:30pm, $40-$45. The Sofia, 2700 Capitol Ave.

JUstin faRRen: With Andrew Delaney. 7pm, $10. The Acoustic Den Cafe, 10271 Fairway Drive, Suite 120, Roseville.

neCK fest iii: Three days of country music featuring Hellbound Glory, the Evoleros, Tommy Miles & Milestone and more. 8pm,

$12. Torch Club, 904 15th St.

steeVen sanDOVaL: The master of mariachi kicks off a solo career with this tour. 7:30pm, $39-$59. Crest Sacramento, 1013 K St.

teRenCe BLanCHaRD featURing tHe e-COLLeCtiVe: Socially conscious music rooted in the Black Lives Matter movement. 8pm, $12.50-$49. UC Davis, 1 Shields Ave. in Davis.

taste Of HOPe: Sample food and drinks

COYOte BReD: With Cassette Idols, Rebel Holocrons. 7pm, $5. The Colony, 3512 Stockton Blvd.

while learning about (and supporting) the Wellspring Women’s Center. 6pm, $80-$150. Mack Powell Event Center, 2003 Howe Ave.

ROBeRt CRaY BanD: With Katie Knipp. 7:30pm, $33.75-$55. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.

The Colonial TheaTre, 9:30 P.M., $25-$45 Give yourself over to absolute pleasure this 4/20. Sacramento Horror Film Festival and performance group Amber’s On stage Sweets team up to present a shadow-cast screening of the cult sci-fi musical, The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Watch as vanilla couple Brad and Janet are trapped in the warped, voyeuristic world of Dr. Frank N Furter, where pleasure is prioritized, song and dance is commonplace and a dash of cannibalism

A chili cook-off competition with beer tastings from local breweries. 1pm, $20-$35. Roosevelt Park, 1615 9th St.

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SATURDAY, 4/21 BaD PatteRns: With Sir Corduroy, Sad

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

JUMBUCK MOB: With the Side Wheeler String Band, Bob Easton-Waller. 9pm, $5. Fox & Goose, 1001 R St.

neCK fest iii: See event listing on 4/20. 3pm, $15. Torch Club, 904 15th St.

niKi J CRaWfORD: With Elevation. 8pm, $24-$26. The Center for the Arts, 314 W. Main St. in Grass Valley.

PianO seRies aDaM neiMan: Guest pianist Adam Neiman performs a recital of works by Brahms as well as Schubert’s Sonata in A Major. 7:30pm, $15-$20. Sacramento State, 6000 J St.

PRinCe tRiBUte in tHe PaRK at CesaR CHaVeZ PLaZa: A celebration of the life and legacy of Prince. 4pm, no cover. Cesar Chavez Plaza, 910 I St.

FILM

WEDNESDAY, 4/25 CRYstaL BOWeRsOX: Folk/rock. 8pm, $35-$50.

THURSDAY, 4/19

The Sofia, 2700 Capitol Ave.

MOVies On tHe VeRge—ONIBABA: This chilling folk tale shows the lives of an impoverished mother and daughter-in-law as they struggle to survive in the war-torn medieval Japan. Japanese small bites and drinks will be served. 7:30pm, no cover-$7. Verge Center for the Arts, 625 S St.

FESTIVALS THURSDAY, 4/19 KiDs DaY at tHe CaPitOL: Celebrate kiddos

saCRaMentO JeWisH fiLM festiVaL: See event

with guest speakers, performances and activities including a yoga demonstration, coloring station, balloon artist and more. 10am, no cover. California State Capitol, West Lawn, 10th St.

highlight on page 34. 5:30pm, $12-$70. Crest Sacramento, 1013 K St.

FRIDAY, 4/20 ROCKY HORROR PiCtURe sHOW sPRing fLing:

SATURDAY, 4/21

See event highlight at left. 9:30pm, $25-$45. Colonial Theatre, 3522 Stockton Blvd.

35tH annUaL saCRaMentO sCanDinaVian festiVaL: Treat yourself to Scandinavian

SATURDAY, 4/21

food, baked goods and merchandise. There will be Viking reenactors and interactive activities for the family. 10am. no cover-$5. Scottish Rite Masonic Center, 6151 H St.

48 HOURs saCRaMentO 2018 WORLD PReMieRe 2018: Regional filmmakers present the films they completed in 48 hours around the theme fashion. 12:30pm, $15. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.

PLaCeR COUntY eaRtH DaY CeLeBRatiOn 2018: A party with arts, libraries, community organizations and culture. 10am, no cover. Royer Park, 190 Park Drive in Roseville.

COMEDY

SUNDAY, 4/22 saCRaMentO eaRtH DaY: Live music, local

LaUgHs UnLiMiteD: The World Series of Comedy

artists, plant-based food, educational opportunities and more. 11am, no cover. Southside Park, 700 T St.

sPRing fLing eaRtH DaY: Sustainable vendors, live music, a plant sale, car show and more. 1pm, $7-$25. California Automobile Museum, 2200 Front St.

Satellite Competition. Four professional comics compete for a chance to win a spot at the main event (in Vegas) in the search for the country’s best comedian. through 4/21. $20. 1207 Front St.

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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.

Sacramento Jewish film festival 2018 crest theAtre, vArious tiMes, $10-$70

GALLEry 1855: Landscapes with a Gist.

Each year, this film festival finds new ways to explore and share aspects of Jewish culture with the wider Sacramento audience. The Jewish Federation of the Sacramento Region fiLm continue that tradition with six films. Subjects include Hedy Lamarr, the beautiful Hollywood star whose genius helped produce technology of today, and the unifying power of hummus. There will also be receptions with food and live music and discussions included with the festival pass. 1013 K Street, www.jewishsac.org.

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momo LounGE: Ngaio and Friends Chronic Comedy. With Winsor Riccodagreat Alston, Saul Trujillo, Emma Haney and more. 6:30pm Sunday, 4/22. $10. 2708 J St.

treacherous path toward forgiveness and reconciliation. through 4/29. $34-$38. 1419 H St.

SiErrA coLLEGE: The Importance of Being Earnest. Oscar Wilde’s best-known play, this farce has identity confusions, back-handed courtships and double lives. through 4/22. $10-$15. 5100 Sierra College Blvd. in Rocklin.

puncH LinE: Doug Benson—Countdown to 4/20. Weed-centric comic rings in the stoner holiday (see story on page 20). 10:30pm thursday, 4/19. $20. JP Sears. YouTube satirist comes to Sac (see story on page 20). through 4/21. $25. Doug Loves Movies. Doug Benson performs again, this time to host his movie podcast. 4:20pm, Saturday 4/21. $20. 2100 Arden Way, Suite 225.

SAcrAmEnto comEdy Spot: High Anxiety Variety Show with Chelsea Hughes. With hosts Cory Barringer, Cameron Betts and Christian Amaral. 8pm friday, 4/20. $8. Lady Business Trees. Sac’s longest-running allfemale improv troupe talks trees (because, you know, Arbor Day). 8pm Saturday, 4/21. $8. 1050 20th St., Suite 130.

tHrEE pEnny tHEAtEr: Uncle Vanya. Anton Chekhov’s story of two dissatisfied middleaged men who pursue the affection of a young, married woman. This show takes a comedic look at the quest for love and meaning in life. through 5/6. $20. 1723 25th St.

wArEHouSE ArtiSt LoftS (wAL): Creativity+ Movement. Explore the idea of a creative “spark” with Estella Sanchez of Sol Collective and Ron Cunningham from Sacramento Ballet. 5:30pm thursday, 4/19. no cover. 1108 R St. The Head Doctor Show. The Punany Poets (previously featured on HBO’s Real Sex) present an interactive, intimate show that includes PDA’s like kissing competitions, lap dancing and love confessions, paired with music, poetry, theater and sketch comedy. 7pm Saturday, 4/21. $32.50$60. 2130 L St.

Boxed Wine and Bigfoot. Longtime comedian comes through Grass Valley. 7:30pm thursday, 4/19. $57-$67. 314 W. Main St. in Grass Valley.

tommy t’S comEdy cLub: Cocoa Brown. The energetic comedian and actress comes to Rancho. through 4/22. $20-$30. 12401 Folsom Blvd. in Rancho Cordova.

art AXiS GALLEry: Revision 1. Nick Shepard’s color still-life photographs of everyday objects in playful geometric compositions that challenge the perception of space. through 4/29. 625 S St.

HoLy divEr: The Darling Clementines Variety Show Glitter-Gasm. An evening of sexy sparkling fantasy, with live music, burlesque, circus arts, comedy, a spanking booth and more. 8pm wednesday, 4/25. $15$20. 1517 21st St.

bEAtniK StudioS: Still in the Streets. An exhibit of four generations of street photography from the 1930s into today. Works by Kent Lacin, Marion Post Wolcott, Jeff Landi, Richard Hughes and Alexis Wilson. through 5/21. 723 S St.

SAcrAmEnto tHEAtrE: Man of La Mancha. This classic Broadway musical brings the timeless character Don Quixote to life. through 5/13. $30-$40. 1419 H St.

bLuE LinE ArtS: Gambatte! Legacy of an

SAcrAmEnto tHEAtrE: Mothers and Sons. A grieving mother sets off on a

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at the Fort. A day for photographers, Instagram-mers and camera aficionados to explore the landmark and the oddities found around the Fort. 10am Sunday, 4/22. no cover-$7. 2701 L St.

SPOrtS & OutdOOrS Saturday, 4/21 SAcrAmEnto GiAnt rAcE: Race tours along the Sacramento River including a 5K, 10K (individual) and 10K (team run). 8am, $45$110. Raley Field, 400 Ballpark Drive in West Sacramento.

SHop ridE: Enjoy a group ride. 8am, no cover. Greenhaven Bike Shop, 354 Florin Road.

uc dAviS picnic dAy: This long-running tradition features marquee events like the Doxie Derby and the Chemistry Show, as well as more than 200 exhibits. 9am, no cover. UC Davis, 1 Shields Ave. in Davis.

cALiforniA muSEum: Passion & Perseverance—A Year at Encina. Based on a yearlong series produced by Capital Public radio, this exhibit highlights the stories of dedicated teachers in a low-income school and their students, whose resilience is impossible to be measured by test scores. through 4/22. $9. 1020 O St.

mAidu muSEum & HiStoric SitE: Night Out at the Museum. Ethnobotanist and certified medical herbalist Sage LaPena (Nomtipom/ Wintu) discusses “Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Past, Present and Future.” She’ll share her knowledge of native plant uses and tending to the land. Will also be the opening reception for Niseek Kawi: Knowing Our Land, an exhibit by the Field Studies and Museum Project from the United Auburn Indian Community Tribal School. 6:30pm Saturday, 4/21. no cover. 1970 Johnson Ranch Drive in Roseville.

cAnnAbiS tALKS: Join the CalAsian Chamber and cannabis industry leaders to discuss current and up-and-coming opportunities and challenges to the cannabis industry. Lunch will also be served. 11:15am, $25-$50. University of the Pacific, 3200 5th Avenue.

CLaSSES FrIday, 4/20 trAinS & tripodS: A two-day course, including a Friday night seminar and a Saturday morning workshop, on existing light photography. 5:30pm, $75. California State Railroad Museum, 111 I St.

Saturday, 4/21 cELLAr ScHooL At rEvoLution winES: Taste through three years of the Fields Family Vineyard Syrah. 2pm, $25-$30. Revolution Wines, 2831 S St.

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c.n. GormAn muSEum At uc dAviS: Contemporary Prints. Several large Native American print portfolios will be featured, as well as gifts by individual artists and collectors. through 6/15. no cover. 1316 Hart Hall, 1 Shields Ave. in Davis.

wEdnESday, 4/25

4/20 FrIday, 4/20 cAnnAbiS SympoSium: Covering the new laws and regulations around cannabis, including taxes, licensing and compliance and development agreements. 8:30am, $175-$225. Sacramento County Bar Association, 425 University Ave., Suite 120.

QuAdrupLE rELEASE dAy: A hoppy celebration of 4/20, with new can releases that have names like Half Baked Brownie Porter and Sip Sip Pass Double IPA. Food truck Ash and Oil will be on site. noon, no cover. New Glory Craft Brewery, 8251 Alpine Ave.

SAmpLE & SHArE: A party for women to sample, experiment with and purchase different cannabis products and services. It’s like a Tupperware party, but for weed. This is the world we live in now. Snacks and wine provided. 7pm, $25. Private Sacramento address provided with registration.

4/20. 7am, $75. California State Railroad Museum, 111 I St.

tuESday, 4/24 SuGAr SKuLL: Learn to create a sugar skull image during this paint party. Guests can bring snacks, beer and wine to enjoy during the class. Doors open 30 minutes early. 6:30pm, $35. The Painted Cork, 1624 J St.

wEdnESday, 4/25 dEcoLoniZinG food i LocAL pLAntS worKSHop: Explore what it means to grow food from a decolonizing perspective, with an emphasis on the region’s native edible plants. 6:30pm, no cover (donations appreciated). The Washington Neighborhood Center, 400 16th St.

doGGy biScuit bAKE + Sip: Enjoy refreshments while you bake treats for your doggo. Class includes the silicon molds and the organic ingredients. 6pm, $24.95. Boar Haus, 1115 21st St.

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Saturday, 4/21

Gambatte! Legacy of an Enduring Spirit Blue line Arts, 5 P.M., no cover

Early in Paul Kitagaki Jr.’s photography career, he learned Dorothea Lange had photographed his family as they awaited detention following FDR’s decision to intern Japanese Americans. The image inspired his yearslong project to identify and revisit the internees in the historic photos. The result: a then-and-now look at the Art people whose lives were overturned by xenophobia. Kitagaki, a Sacramento Bee photographer, will discuss the process during an artist talk (5pm), followed by a meet-the-artist reception. 405 Vernon Street in Roseville, www. bluelinearts.org.

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Songwriters in the Round, 7pm, $5

Justin Farren, Andrew Delaney, 7pm, $10

The Taylor Chicks, 7pm, no cover

Music of Joni Mitchell & Gordon Lightfoot, 2pm, no cover

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

Badlands

PopRockz ’90s Night, 8pm, no cover

Fridays are a Drag Sacramento Coronation Show, 8pm, call for cover

RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 10 Star Monique Heart, 10:30pm, $15-$25

Sunday Tea Dance & Beer Bust, 4pm, no cover

Trapacana, 9pm, W, no cover

Jay Tausig, 9:30pm, no cover

Western Spies & The Kosmonaut, 9:30pm, no cover

American Graffiti Art Show with Jungle Green, Dying For It, 8pm, $5

Bob Wayne and more, 2pm, $10; Ruby the Hatchet and more, 8pm, $12-$15

Baeza, 7pm, $20-$40

Graveshadow album release, Niviane, Hellheart, 8pm, $10

Redeem/Revive, Of Virtue and more, 8pm, W, $12

Next Drag Superstar, 8pm, no cover

Capitol Fridays, 10pm, no cover before 10:30pm

Dinner and a Drag Show, 7:30pm, $5-$25

Geeks Who Drink, 8:30pm, W, no cover

The cenTeR foR The aRTs

Kathleen Madigan: Boxed Wine and Bigfoot, 7:30pm, $57-$67

Folk Friday with Lindsay Clark, 8pm, $12-$15

Niki J. Crawford, 8pm, $24-$26

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Kevin O’Leary Live, 10am, $19.95-$29.95; Hummus! The Movie, 5:30pm, $12-$13

Steeven Sandoval Sentimientos Mexicanos 2018, 7:30pm, $39-$59

48 Hours Sacramento,12:30pm, $15; Bombshell, 7:30pm, $12-$25

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RuPaul’s Drag Race screening, 5pm, no cover

Blow, 9pm, call for cover

faTheR paddY’s iRish puBlic house

Andrew Little, 7pm, no cover

Frankie and the Defenders, 6pm, no cover

High Card Drifters, 7pm, no cover

fox & Goose

Jigo, 8pm, no cover

Clevers, Salt Wizard, 9pm, $5

Jumbuck Mob, The Side Wheeler String Band and more, 9pm, $5

Open-Mic, 7:30pm, M, no cover; All Vinyl Wednesdays, 8pm, W, no cover

Blackout Betty, 9pm, $5

LH Rockfest, 11am, no cover

Let’s Get Quizzical Trivia Game Show, 7pm, T, no cover

Luniz, Dj Soul-Jah, DJ Keyz, DJ Nice Up and more, 7pm, $15-$20

Foreverland (Michael Jackson tribute), 9pm, $17-$20

Moonchild with special guests, 7:30pm, $15-$20

LLS Benefit with the Sacramento Blues Revue, 5:30pm, M, $20

Cuffin R&B/Soul Party, 9pm, call for cover

Brunch AF, 11am, no cover; HOF Top 40 Dance Party, 10pm, call for cover

Island Vibes Reggae Night, 10pm, call for cover

The Trivia Factory, 7pm, M, no cover; Comedy Night, 8:30pm, W, call for cover

Damage Inc. tribute to Cliff Burton-era Metallica, 7pm, $10-$12

Travis Garland, 7pm, $15-$20

Mansionair, 7pm, T, $15-$18; The Darling Clementines, 8pm, W, $15-$20

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Hey Ocean!, Fonty, Pierce & The Gals, Sloome, 7:30pm, $10

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Michael Barr, Sleeptalk, Hush and more, 6:30pm, $10-$12

Psychotica, 6:30pm, $12-$14; Twiztid’s 420 Fest After Party, 11pm, $10-$15

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Poetry Unplugged, 8pm, $2

Sac Unified Poetry Slam, 8pm (workshop Occupy Space Movement: Art Poetry at 6:30pm, call for cover Community, 5pm, call for cover

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Heartbreak, Yung Jae, Kusta, 7pm, $20

Champion Sound (Reggae, dance hall, hip-hop, 10pm, no cover

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Open Acoustic Jam, 7pm, no cover

Halcones, The Three Way, The Suns, 9pm, $10

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Jewish Film Festival: Fanny’s Story (1pm), Gordon Lightfoot, 8pm, M, $39-$69; Shalom Bollywood (3pm), $12-$13 each Robert Cray Band, 7:30pm, T, $33.75-55

Open-Mic Comedy, 7:30pm, T, no cover; Storytelling Show, 8pm, W, call for cover Ngaio and Friends: Chronic Comedy, 6:30pm, $10

Desario and more, 5:30pm, T, $5; John Cocuzzi Courtet, 5:30pm, W, $8 Heath Williamson, 5:30pm, M, no cover; Karaoke, 9pm, T, no cover

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Open 8-Ball Tournament, 7:30pm, $5 buy-in

Open 9-Ball Tournament, 6:30pm, M, $5 buy-in

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Roy Zimmerman, 8pm, $22

Niki J. Crawford, 8pm, $18

Rita Hosking CD Release Show, 8pm, $20

Afternoon Jazz: Little Charlie & Organ Grinder Swing, 3pm, $22

Straight Shooter, 10pm, $10

Skid Roses, 10pm, $10

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Doug Loves Movies, 4:20pm, $20; JP Sears, 7:30pm, 10:15pm, $25

High Anxiety Variety Show, 8pm, $8-$15; The Friday Show, 9pm, $12-$15

Lady Business: Trees, 8pm, $8-$15; AntiCooperation League, 9pm, $12-$15

Switch Blade Trio, 9pm, no cover

Current Personae Coming Home Party, 9pm, no cover

DJ JB, 10pm, no cover before 10:30pm, $5 after

Romey Reyes, 10pm, no cover before 11pm

Hot Country Fridays, 7pm, $5-$10

Beginning Country Two Step Dance Class, 6pm, $10-$15

Sunday Funday, 9pm, no cover

Third Friday Reggae (Prezident Brown with Reggae Angels), 6:30pm, $15-$18

Chicago (tribute), 1:30pm, $8; Mr. Crowley (Ozzy tribute), 6:30pm, $8

Jackson Stone, 1pm, call for cover; Savannah Blue, 3pm, $8

Neck Fest Feat. Hell Bound and Glory, 9pm, $12

Neck Fest, 4pm, $15

Neck Fest, 4pm, $10

Cocoa Brown, 7:30pm, 9:45pm, $20-$30

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Cocoa Brown, 9:45pm, $20-$30

The Penske File, Decent Criminal and more, 8pm, M, call for cover New Faces Showcase, 8pm, W, $5

Massive Delicious, 9pm, no cover

College Wednesdays, 8pm, W, $5-$10

The Andrew Little Project, 8pm, T, no cover; The Mindful, 9pm, W, $5

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Cody Johnson, Mike and the Moonpies, 7pm, sold out

Big K.R.I.T., Cyhi the Prynce and more, 7pm, $22-$150

Heavy 420 Bash with Shotgun Sawyer, Astral Cult and more, 8pm, call for cover

KDVS Benefit with Mob Rule, Lodi, Pug Skullz, 8pm, $6-$10

Doombird, Red Ribbon, Ur Ex Wife, 8pm, $8

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Primer Regimen, Class System, West Lords, Get Out, 8pm, $7-$10

420 Fest with He Died, These Bastards, JKKFO and more, 6pm, no cover

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of the automobile, electric engines were more popular and common than gasoline-powered engines. They were less noisy, dirty, smelly and difficult to operate. It’s too bad that thereafter the technology for gasoline cars developed at a faster rate than the technology for electric cars. By the end of the first decade of the 20th century, the petroleum-suckers were in ascendance. They have remained so ever since, playing a significant role in our world’s ongoing environmental degradation. Moral of the story: Sometimes the original idea or the early model or the first try is better. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you should consider applying this hypothesis to your current state of affairs.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The Chesapeake

Bay is a fertile estuary that teems with life. It’s 200 miles long and holds 18 trillion gallons of water. More than 150 streams and rivers course into its drainage basin. And yet it’s relatively shallow. If you’re six feet tall, you could wade through over a 1,000 square-miles of its mix of fresh and salt water without getting your hat wet. I see this place as an apt metaphor for your life in the coming weeks: an expanse of flowing fecundity that is vast but not so deep that you’ll get overwhelmed.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You’ll soon arrive at

a pressure-packed turning point. You’ll stand poised at a pivotal twist of fate where you must trust your intuition to reveal the differences between smart risks and careless gambles. Are you willing to let your half-naked emotions show? Will you have the courage to be brazenly loyal to your deepest values? I won’t wish you luck, because how the story evolves will be fueled solely by your determination, not by accident or happenstance. You will know you’re in a good position to solve the Big Riddles if they feel both scary and fun.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Strong softness

is one of your specialties. So are empathetic rigor, creative responsiveness and daring acts of nurturing. Now is a perfect time to summon and express all of these qualities with extra flair. If you do, your influence will exceed its normal quotas. Your ability to heal and inspire your favorite people will be at a peak. So I hereby invite you to explore the frontiers of aggressive receptivity. Wield your courage and power with a fierce vulnerability. Be tenderly sensitive as an antidote to any headstrong lovelessness you encounter.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In 1973, Pink Floyd released

the album The Dark Side of the Moon. Since then, it has been on various Billboard charts for over 1,700 weeks, and has sold more than 45 million copies. Judging from the astrological aspects coming to bear on you, Leo, I suspect you could create or produce a beautiful thing with a similar staying power in the next five months. What vitalizing influence would you like to have in your life for at least the next 30 years?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I beg you to take a

break sometime soon. Give yourself permission to indulge in a vacation or recess or sabbatical. Wander away on a leave of absence. Explore the mysteries of a siesta blended with a fiesta. If you don’t grant yourself this favor, I may be forced to bark “Chill out, dammit!” at you until you do. Please don’t misunderstand my intention here. The rest of us appreciate the way you’ve been attending to the complicated details that are too exacting for us. But we can also see that if you don’t ease up, there will soon be diminishing returns. It’s time to return to your studies of relaxing freedom.

aesthetic, testifying that the film gave his song an “otherworldly quality that added a whole new dimension.” Now let’s meditate on how this story might serve as a parable for your life. Was there an opportunity that you once turned down but will benefit from anyway? Or is there a current opportunity that maybe you shouldn’t turn down, even if it seems odd?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You’ve been to the

Land of No Return and back more than anyone. But soon you’ll be visiting a remote enclave in this realm that you’re not very familiar with. I call it the Mother Lode of Sexy Truth. It’s where tender explorers go when they must transform outworn aspects of their approach to partnership and togetherness. On the eve of your quest, shall we conduct an inventory of your capacity to outgrow your habitual assumptions about relationships? No, let’s not. That sounds too stiff and formal. Instead, I’ll simply ask you to strip away any falseness that interferes with vivacious and catalytic intimacy.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In 1824,

two British explorers climbed a mountain in southwestern Australia. They were hoping to get a sweeping view of Port Phillip Bay, on which the present-day city of Melbourne is located. But when they reached the top, their view was largely obstructed by trees. Out of perverse spite, they decided to call the peak Mount Disappointment, a name it retains to this day. I suspect you may soon have your own personal version of an adventure that falls short of your expectations. I hope—and also predict—that your experience won’t demoralize you, but will rather mobilize you to attempt a new experiment that ultimately surpasses your original expectations.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorn

rock musician Lemmy Kilmister bragged that he swigged a bottle of Jack Daniel’s whiskey every day from 1975 to 2013. While I admire his dedication to inducing altered states of consciousness, I can’t recommend such a strategy for you. But I will love it if you undertake a more disciplined crusade to escape numbing routines and irrelevant habits in the next four weeks. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you will have a special knack for this practical art.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Germany was

one of the big losers of World War I, which ended in 1919. By accepting the terms of the Versailles Treaty, it agreed to pay reparations equivalent to 96,000 tons of gold. Not until 2010, decades after the war, did Germany finally settle its bill and fulfill its obligation. I’m sure your own big, long-running debt is nowhere near as big or as long-running as that one, Aquarius. But you will nonetheless have reason to be ecstatic when you finally discharge it. And according to my reading of the astrological omens, that could and should happen sometime soon. (P.S. The “debt” could be emotional or spiritual rather than financial.)

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “I would rather

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Singer-songwriter Roy

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Gaming visionaries Seeing a void in mobile gaming accessibility, a Sacramento company has unveiled an app paving the way for a seamless experience between sighted and visually impaired individuals. Plenty of mobile apps are designed to make life easier for the blind in terms of navigation, reading books and other basic life functions. When it comes to mobile gaming, however, that’s an area that hasn’t fully utilized digital technology. Independent gaming studio AppA11y was founded in 2016 by three lifelong friends—Nick Barbato, Lee Hobbs and Mitch Dobbins. In 2017, the team took a step toward filling the void in accessible mobile gaming with the introduction of Huboodle—a free gaming app that uses Apple’s VoiceOver screen-reader to allow chat functionality. There are currently eight games available in seven languages that allow users, both sighted and visually impaired, to compete on a level playing field. Their goal is to link people all over the world, regardless of disabilities, through fun and exciting mobile gaming experiences. Two of the three founders were available for a Q&A to show SN&R readers a glimpse into their world.

Can you elaborate on how the visually impaired are able to operate these games? Barbato: iOS is the leader in accessibility. If you go to your settings on your iPhone and turn on VoiceOver accessibility, once that’s activated, through coding, you can tie it into a bunch of different things. We’ve kind of dug deep on what’s possible with VoiceOver. So, with the crossword game, we have blind people that can play that really fast. Hobbs: Basically, whatever is touched, the phone says. Barbato: It’ll speak to them; it’ll read them hints; it’ll kind of guide them along as they go. It does a lot of stuff in the background that a sighted person will never see. Hobbs: We’ve taken that a little bit further and given them hand gestures so they can do different shortcuts on the screen. They can do three-finger swipes up or down and it will spell a word for them, it will tell them the remaining words, and give them the timer.

You posed a question on AppleVis.com (an online community for blind and

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low-vision users of Apple products) last year trying to gather game ideas. Is that where you get most of your ideas?

the Facebook for the visually impaired— something that they have to go to once a day. We want to be integrated in their communication and just provide them with what I think is missing in their community right now. Hobbs: When the visually impaired think of gaming, we want to be on the top of their list.

Hobbs: Partially. We found that what we like isn’t necessarily what our users like, so we just try to get things out in front of them as much as possible and get their feedback on what we’re going to do next. That’s probably our best place of getting it. They’re a pretty active visually impaired user group.

Providing this service and bringing these opportunities to people who are visually impaired, what does it all mean to you?

Are there any new games/features in development that we can expect from Huboodle in the future? Barbato: Probably in the next release there will be two more games. We’re going to do everything within Huboodle. We’re shooting for one game a month.

One of the various games within Huboodle has made it’s way over to Android. Can we expect a full Android transition any time soon? Barbato: When we get the resources we can expand over to Android as well. We released one of the games over at Android. We’re in the process of merging them and getting them into one big app over at Android, and that’s got to be at least six months out. And maybe bring it to AppleTV, because AppleTV will carry the accessibility settings over.

What are the goals for Huboodle in 2018? Barbato: By the end of the year, we’d like 15-plus games. We want to make it like

Hobbs: It’s rewarding. We get a lot of positive feedback, so it makes you feel like you’re heading in the right direction. Our hope is that anybody who’s not disabled or visually impaired, they have no idea what our app can do, it kind of levels the playing field. Barbato: It’s awesome, honestly. We’ve been in software for 25 years, and usually anybody who has anything to say, it’s always negative, right? “Why can’t it do this?” and “Why can’t it do that?” We get emails daily now and it’s never anything negative. We’ve had people who have met and got married through the game, through the chat. The blind community out there and how this accessibility stuff is really changing their lives—just to be part of it and watch it grow and have them reach out to you daily and just like what you do—it makes what we do seem like it’s worthwhile. It might just seem like games, but it’s really something these people are doing daily. It’s cool. Ω

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