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30 Creative Services Manager Christopher Terrazas Creative Director Serene Lusano Editorial Designers Maria Ratinova, Sarah Hansel Publications Designer Mike Bravo Web Design & Strategist Elisabeth Bayard Arthur Ad Designer Catalina Munevar Contributing Photographers Dylan Svoboda, Karlos Rene Ayala, Rebecca Huval, Michael Mott Our Mission: To publish great newspapers that are successful and enduring.

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“I was lIke, ‘Ohhhhh.’ she was lIke, ‘Is anythIng wrOng, hOney?’”

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Describe the worst haircut you ever got.

Chris Lovin architect

I had a new stylist who wanted to try something new… [She] decided she wanted to pull my hair forward. I ended up with like a No.1 and No.2 all the way around; and it left (some hair) and pulled it to the front. I looked like a fucking Kewpie doll.

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The worst haircut would had to have been in beauty school. I was someone’s model and I left with a short, black bob. In the back, it was shaved up about halfway, so I looked like I was bald.

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Going from a buzz cut to a mohawk. Well, more a fauxhawk. I wanted to get into this new hairstyle. I went to this barbershop that I’ve never been to before and they started to shave my head… When I asked to look at the mirror, my entire head was shaved and just the front part was a fauxhawk.

When I went to [the barber], I just wanted to fade my sides and I wanted my top long. She got the scissors and she got to my forehead hairline and she just snipped everything right off. I was like, “Ohhhhh.” She was like, “Is anything wrong, honey?”

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Killer former cop I guess your reporters and editors will no longer be able to imply that DA Anne Marie Schubert never prosecutes cops. Please see Golden State Killer, a former Auburn cop. christine craft s an f ra nc i s c o v i a s act ol et t er s @ n ew s r e v i e w . c o m

history, I say good riddance. How can you prosper when you insult and degrade almost half your potential readers and express a left agenda from page one to the Forum. As much as I disliked The Bee, I would usually buy it on Sunday. Lately, I don’t do that.

So I happily say “Ding Dong the once-great-Bee is (almost) dead.” And ironically at its own hands.

Ken Lauszus s a c ra m e nt o v i a s a c t o l e t t e rs @ne w s re v i e w . c o m

Bye-bye Bee Re “Save The Bee” by Eric Johnson (Editor’s Note, April 26): A long time ago I was a tried and true Democrat. In the ’70s, I was a member of the downtown Democratic Club and hosted fundraisers at my home for candidates like Vic Fazio and Tom Hayden and his wife Jane Fonda. I also worked on campaigns for Mayors Phil Isenberg and Ann Rudin. I

also worked with Pat Malarkey on the Save the Alhambra campaign.

But my involvement in the Democrat Party ended with all the shenanigans of the Clintons.

The Bee was always a liberal paper, but starting with the Clintons, it has started to grow farther left each year. The Democrat Party left me. With Obama’s presidency it rocketed to the extreme, fringe left.

So if The Bee passes into

Hip-hop artist deserves it Re “Nate Curry: Hip-hop in his bones” by Skye Cabrera (15 Minutes, April 26): Sacramento has so much talent!!! Thank you for spotlighting artists who deserve it.

Great article. nancy G We s t s a c ra m e nt o s a c t o l e t t e rs @ne w s re v i e w . c o m

Don’t forget the first locals Re “Mapping racism” by Alan Pyke (Feature, April 19): Why is there no discussion of the indigenous inhabitants of Sacramento? You can’t discuss the racial history of Sacramento without recognizing that the Maidu and Miwok people were forced out of their land.

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Actually, orange weed is even better.

Seriously.

Re “Bring back brown weed”

by M.W. “Malozone” Malone (Letters, April 26): Thank you for the honor of being chosen and published.

However, I made a grave mistake by using the color “brown” when I meant to say “orange,” thus

resulting in your staff titling the letter “Bring back brown weed.”

Although I have tasted some weed from Thailand and Hawaii that dropped its chlorophyll and took on a spicy cinnamon-tasting brown color at harvest, I don’t forget the bales of brown weed from Mexico that were seriously inferior to the strains my letter was bringing to the reader’s attention.

This brown weed dropped its chlorophyll after harvest either before or after it was baled, often using a Sears trash compactor.

There were dirt, rocks and other trash to be found in this weed. It was usually low-grade and not “con-non-sewer” quality that gold (yellow), red and orange weed was. To whomever gave my letter the misleading title, “You got me!” I’ll be careful in the future.

M.W. “MaLOzOne” MaLOne

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Mike Turner works over several disassembled ghost guns in his house.

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Ghost of a chance Battle brews over new anti-ghost gun bill at the state Capitol

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Mike Gipson smiled as he walked through a lamp-studded hallway inside the state Capitol. Not only had the Democratic assemblyman’s bill targeting ghost guns just sailed through its first committee hearing, but Gipson learned that YouTube took down dozens of videos that walked laypeople through the process of building the high-powered, untraceable weapons.

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direction, because they also see the benefit now of making sure this is not accessible. Too many bad people, or people with mental illness, are going to the internet to do this—and the damage they’re doing is catastrophic.”

Moments earlier, Gipson recounted the blood-stained legacy of homemade arms to the Assembly Public Safety Committee. He started by revisiting the November 14, 2017, carnage that struck the Rancho Tehama Reserve, where Kevin Janson Neal used two AR-15 rifles

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he built in his living room to murder five people and wound nine others, including three small children. Neal was legally barred from possessing firearms as he awaited trial for attacking two women with a knife. But by personally assembling his assault rifles—ghost guns—Neal bypassed the database that flags criminals at licensed gun stores.

Gipson made sure the committee knew Neal’s killing spree wasn’t an isolated incident. He brought his colleagues’ memories back to June 2013,

when Adam Zawahri used a homemade AR-15 to slaughter five people and wound four more at Santa Monica City College. Zawahri was also prohibited from owning firearms, in his case due to mental illness. Building a ghost gun solved that problem for him.

Gipson ended his address with a story set in his own district. In March, Alex Galvez was arrested for allegedly manufacturing and selling more than a hundred ghost guns on the streets of Compton, Watts and south Los Angeles.

Federal prosecutors say Galvez even tried to mail his homemade firearms to Egypt and the Philippines.

With authorities across the state reporting more ghost guns turning up at armed robberies and gang shootings, Gipson views this little-known loophole in firearm regulations as a growing threat. Most of the lawmakers listening to him April 24 were convinced.

Gipson’s Assembly Bill 2382—which attempts to implement background checks on a core component to ghost guns—passed out of the Public Safety Committee by a 5-2 vote.

Gipson knows, however, the fight’s not over. The National Rifle Association, Gun Owners of California, the Firearms Policy Coalition and the National Shooting Sports Foundation are all lining up to stall his bill. Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed a similar one last year. Gipson, a former police officer, is undeterred.

“If we don’t do something, we’re creating a society of anarchy,” he said.

Gipson isn’t the first lawmaker to heed law enforcement’s warnings about unrestricted self-made weapons.

Last year, Elk Grove-based Assemblyman Jim Cooper, a former sheriff’s captain, took a mild stab at the dilemma with Assembly Bill 857, which mandates that anyone who buys an unfinished lower receiver—the most essential frame-piece of a ghost gun— has to apply for a paper serial number from the California Department of Justice. After that, it’s on the gun owner to etch that number onto the completed weapon. The bill passed, though gun enthusiasts have widely mocked its ability to prevent crime, as it operates on a self-reporting honor system that criminals and deranged individuals can simply ignore.

Gipson’s new bill works differently. It would mandate that gun stores and parts suppliers perform standard background checks on anyone buying an

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That would record the purchases in a federal database designed to catch everything from past convictions to current restraining orders.

Amanda Wilcox, who heads the California chapter of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, thinks Gipson’s strategy is a good one.

“This is probably a more effective bill than the Cooper bill because it puts a requirement on the companies selling the parts, and a vendor is easier to regulate than a person,” Wilcox observed.

Daniel Reid, the California state director of the NRA, strongly disagrees.

Reid has been calling Gipson’s bill “an incredible overreach” and “an enforcement nightmare.” He said unfinished lower receivers are “consumable items,” meaning simple parts that law-abiding gun owners use to repair and upgrade their firearms. Backing him is Craig DeLuz, the director of legislative affairs for the Firearms Policy Coalition. Deluz has also been lobbying hard against Gipson’s bill.

Taking on the law is increasing the strategy for gun rights’ groups in California. While the NRA hasn’t donated to a state legislative candidate in years, it has been spending money on attempts to defeat the state’s newer gun laws in federal court.

In 2010, the NRA sued acting California Department of Justice Chief Steve Lindey, trying to block the implementation of a law that tracks out-of-state ammunition sales and mandates faceto-face purchases for bullets. The NRA lost that challenge. Four years later, it was back in court, this time suing former California Attorney General Kamala Harris over the fees that gun-buyers pay to support background checks. The NRA argued those fees infringe on the Second Amendment rights of Californians. It lost that case, too. Most recently, the Firearms Policy Coalition has sued Attorney General Xavier Becerra, attempting to challenge California’s new ban on highcapacity magazines.

With the NRA and FPC challenging elements of background checks and outof-state gun regulations in court, even a signature from Brown might not end the battle over Gipson’s bill.

“At least in court they’re supposed to base their decisions on the law,” DeLuz said. “And we’ve found we have a better chance to make our case there and be heard on the facts.”

That law changed in 2012 when an avid builder of firearms, mike turner Gov. Brown finally banned open carry doesn’t think much of the gun lobbies or in California. Annoyed, Turner studied lawmakers. the legislation and realized that it didn’t Turner has used his legally owned firearms to fend off home invaders on two include rifles. He says he decided to protest by walking to his local gas station with a occasions in his Antelope neighborhood, 12-gauge slung over his shoulder. Before including one incident in which he traded gunfire with an alleged robber who is now he could buy his cigarettes, Turner says, a cavalcade of sheriff’s deputies surrounded standing trial in Sacramento (read “Ghost him. Eventually a captain who was familiar guns kill,” News, March 22, 2018). Five with the law arrived and Turner was off years before either of those quick-draw the hook. The governor banned encounters, Turner drew his gun open carry for rifles a few in a different situation, months later. To this day, one that shaped his Turner is convinced view of gun laws in most Californians California. don’t stay informed In 2011, it on changing gun was still legal laws. He also cites for licensed the repeal of open gun owners to carry as a prime openly carry example of legistheir firearms in lation that had an public, a right unintended effect, Turner often Assemblyman Mike Gipson since it drove availed himself Democrat, Carson scores of people to of. One night, he apply for concealed drove his motorcycle carry weapons permits, to the Denny’s on which especially surged in Auburn Boulevard. He Sacramento County. had a GoPro-style camera on “I’d rather see people carrying a gun his belt and a Sigma 9mm strapped to his hip. Turner says an SUV squealed into the on their hip, maybe with a visible permit on their belt, than be out in the public and parking lot. The driver exited and began notice that someone has a hidden gun on assaulting his female passenger. Turner them,” Turner said. “If I notice a hidden says he objected and the man started gun, I’m way more worried.” heading toward him in an aggressive Though Turner enjoys building ghost manner. Turner says he jacked a clip guns, he’s not opposed to a system that into his pistol and backed up, thumbing keeps unfinished lower receivers out 911 into a cellphone with his free hand. of criminals’ hands. He favors making Turner says the stranger kept coming manufacturers employ computer chip but stopped when he heard Turner tell a technology, or at least brand receivers dispatcher, “I’m going to shoot him.” with serial numbers from the minute Turner says the man got into the SUV they’re produced. and drove away. Arriving sheriff’s depuAs for Gipson’s new bill, Turner says ties reviewed the recording from Turner’s it won’t stop all illegal acquisitions of belt camera and concluded that he was unfinished lower receivers, since there are justified in pulling his sidearm. But there machinists who can make that part out of was something about the exchange that a solid block of aluminum that can’t be bothered Turner. traced. He also notes that lower receivers “Their first concern wasn’t finding the can be easily bought at gun shows in lady who’d been beaten, it was finding Nevada. out if my gun was legal,” Turner recalled.

Wilcox doesn’t disagree with either Another standoff that year also left a of those contentions, though she still sour taste. Turner says he was shopping thinks Gipson’s bill is a step in the right at a Costco in Roseville with his motherdirection. in-law and his trusty 9mm holstered at “It takes some wherewithal to drive to his side. By the time Turner reached the Nevada, so why are we making it so easy checkout line, he says he was surrounded right now to get ghost guns in California?” by eight police officers. Checking that she said. “With any public health approach, his gun was licensed and unloaded, the we’re not going to stop it all, we’re going officers explained that a slew of terrified to reduce the rates. And in the case of ghost customers had complained to 911. They guns, that means saving lives.” Ω didn’t know the law, Turner says.

“If we don’t do something, we’re creating a society of anarchy.”

Tenants are fed up with runaway rent increases and unjust evictions. On April 23, hundreds marched on the state capital to demand new protections.

The Renters Rising 2018 event was sponsored by Housing Now and Tenants Together, two advocacy groups trying to stem a displacement crisis linked to rapidly spiking homelessness, as well as an estimated shortage of more than two million affordable housing units in the state.

According to Housing 4 Sacramento, a local advocacy group that sponsored the sacramento Fair rent charter amendment, for every $100 increase in monthly rents, there is a corresponding 15 percent increase in local homelessness. In 2017, the Sacramento region saw a 30 percent overall annual increase in nighttime homelessness.

One way affordable housing proponents are pushing back is by trying to repeal the little-known but far-reaching costa-Hawkins rental Housing act, which limits the ability of local governments to control rent and establish tenant protections. In January, Assemblyman Richard Bloom tried to get Costa-Hawkins repealed, but the Santa Monica Democrat’s bill died for lack of votes in the Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee. The following week, the committee’s chair, Assemblyman David Chiu of San Francisco, told reporters that California’s legislature was “paralyzed” when it comes to addressing the housing crisis.

Now, tenant groups across the state are trying to bypass that paralysis at the ballot box. They say investors and speculators are abusing loopholes in anti-displacement laws like the Ellis Act, acquiring low-rent properties, evicting all existing tenants and re-renting them at much higher prices. In San Francisco, investors have reportedly displaced 3,610 households over the past 10 years using Ellis Act provisions.

A bill to require that evictions be based on cause was scheduled to be heard Tuesday in the Assembly Judiciary Committee.

(Mark Heckey)

WayWard steWardsHip A few days after calling the Delta Stewardship Council “a shill” for gov. Jerry brown and his controversial twin tunnels project, Assemblyman Jim Frazier attempted to forward a bill that would abolish the statewide coalition altogether. While the legislative attempt fell flat, the lively exchange it sparked revealed not everyone is sold on brown’s $17 billion legacy project.

The Delta Stewardship Council is a state-sanctioned governing body created in 2009 to balance monitoring of the state’s water supply with restoring the Delta’s fragile ecosystem. Frazier, who represents the Delta cities of Antioch, Brentwood and Oakley, says it has done anything but. He noted that four of the council’s seven members are Brown appointees and claimed they’ve been operating as a “tunnels stewardship council.” On April 24, Frazier appeared before the Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee to try to advance his Assembly Bill 1876, which would essentially replace the delta stewardship council with another governing group, the Delta Protection Agency.

“The council has gone out of its way to suppress input from Delta interests,” Frazier told the committee. “The council too often acts as a rubber stamp for the interests of Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, to force through the twin tunnels plan.”

The main witness testifying in favor of the Delta Stewardship Council was Cathy Coal of the Metropolitan Water District.

Frazier’s bill died in committee on a 7-0 vote, with half the members refusing to vote. (Scott Thomas Anderson)

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To create more on-campus living options, UC Davis recently began allowing its students to double up in a shared bedroom at its West Village apartments. The starting price is “only” $705 a month. photo by dylan svoboda

Majoring in couch surfing Spiking rents are forcing college students into their cars or onto the streets in pursuit of a university education by dylan svoboda

Due to the impracticality of living in a city with an average rent of nearly $1,200 for a one-bedroom apartment, for his first two years at UC Davis, Dylan Musgrove commuted 47 miles from El Dorado County for class, band practice and social outings.

“There’d be times where I commuted back and forth between my home in Rescue every single day for weeks on end,” Musgrove said. “I made virtually no friends my first year. I essentially

missed out on two hours of studying each day.”

As rents in the Sacramento region continue to skyrocket, forcing students to either couch-surf or commute absurd distances, UC Davis and Sacramento State University have announced a number of housing projects aimed at easing the crisis.

UC Davis recently announced its long-range development plan, which

would create room for an additional careers; more than 47 percent struggle 8,500 students, a near 50-percent with food insecurity. increase from the school’s current capacIf it wasn’t for the financial help from ity. Some 5,200 units are expected to be her father, Holly Feuerwerker, a senior built by 2022. at Sacramento State, could’ve been one On April 18, the Davis Vanguard of those homeless students—or not be hosted a town hall to address the student attending college at all. housing crisis, at which Mayor Robb “My dad gave me a place to live and Davis expressed frustration with local helped me out with tuition,” Feuerwerker interests blocking construction of new said. “If it wasn’t for him I would’ve had a multifamily residential projects. These choice: go into tens of thousands of dollars groups say they are concerned about in debt just to get my bachelor’s degree or additional traffic and greenhouse gas nix the whole college thing from the start.” emissions downtown and around the Just 6 percent of students live on university. Davis characterized opponents campus at Sacramento State compared as NIMBYs and said it was hypocritical in to 25 percent at UC Davis, according to a city that calls itself one of the most enviUSNews.com, making Sacramento State ronmentally friendly cities in the world but one of the most commuter-heavy colleges refuses to embrace density. in California.

“We’re pushing people out to Dixon, Feuerwerker has spent four-and-a-half Vacaville, Woodland, Sacramento, West years commuting between Fair Oaks and Sacramento and beyond,” Davis said. “The the university—dealing with the school’s reality is you cannot call yourself a city abysmal parking situation in the process. that cares about the environment when you “Hours of my life have been stolen force people into their cars.” from me [in the school’s parking lots],” Davis said that, since he took office, Feuerwerker said. “There’s basically the City Council has been trying to build nowhere to live on campus and offmultifamily units rather than depend campus is a pain in the ass and too entirely on the university to provide expensive, otherwise I’d love to walk or student housing. The city has fought—and bike to campus.” won—two lawsuits challenging the After having been long known as a environmental impact reports of two commuter campus, Sac State is shifting multifamily projects aimed at easing the gears to a 24-hour campus setting. The crisis: Nishi 1.0 and Lincoln40. university recently began housing over That may sound counter-intuitive—that 400 students in the newly constructed taking on EIR challenges is somehow akin Riverview Hall and purchased Dan to defending the environment. But the McAuliffe Memorial Ballparks for a mayor rebuts the notion that not building student housing development, which will has no environmental impact. push the number of beds on campus “We seem to have this from 2,100 to 3,200. idea that if the [environAccording to RentCafe. mental] impact is not com, rents have increased visible to us, then by 10 and 9 percent the impact does since last year and not exist,” Davis 18.9 and 32.8 percent said. “If you don’t since January build it, then 2015 in Davis and there’s no impact.

Sacramento, respecWell, we know tively. Average rent that’s not true.” for a studio apartSacramento ment in each city Holly Feuerwerker State, UC Davis’ hovers around $1,000 senior, Sacramento State more affordable a month. neighbor to the east, has As cities and counrecently faced a housing ties struggle to house their crisis of its own. students at a reasonable price, At the end of last year, Sacramento state legislation aimed at easing the State officials estimated that as many as crisis is making its way through the 3,600 students were homeless—sleeping legislative process. Senate Bill 1227, outdoors, in a shelter, car or on a friend’s authored by state Sen. Nancy Skinner couch. In February, a study conducted of Berkeley, would allow local jurisdicby the California State University system tions to provide what are called density reported that 12.6 percent of Sacramento bonuses to developers who build student State students attest to experiencing housing, including a certain amount for homelessness at one point in their college lower-income students. Ω

“There’s basically nowhere to live on campus.”

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their genetic profile to an open-source genealogy research site called GEDmatch.

The profile bore similarities to DNA samples authorities had collected from sexual assault victims, making them think their suspect was a blood relative. Jones said officers began surveiling DeAngelo, and retrieved two discarded DNA samples that resulted in a hit inside of Sacramento’s crime lab, outside which last week’s press conference was held.

“We found the needle in the haystack and it was right here in Sacramento,” Schubert told reporters.

Authorities credited a June 2016 press conference on the 40th anniversary of the East Area Rapist’s first known sexual assault for jump-starting the case.

Bruce Harrington, whose Jones said the multi-agency team that brother and sister-in-law was created to find the suspect who had were fatally assaulted in long eluded them consisted of the “best their Orange County home nearly 40 years ago, said and brightest” investigators, who were the arrest of the suspected given “virtually unlimited resources” to Golden State Killer should pursue fresh leads and thaw old ones. bring victims some peace.

Sean Regan, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Sacramento office, acknowledged Photo by Raheem F. hosseini the public’s enduring interest in the case for keeping it at the forefront of law enforcement’s minds. Jones noted that his office still receives phone calls and tips on a regular basis.

O’Malley, the Alameda County DA, Open-source genealogical site was used to track down used her time at the podium to remind the public—and law enforcement—of former police officer to Citrus Heights home the importance of taking rape kits out of evidence lockers and testing their contents.

by Raheem F. hosseini r a h e e mh @ ne wsr e v ie w.c o m “This case is one example of so many, but a very stark example,” O’Malley said of the importance of using the kits to what first got them invested in catching worked as a police officer at the height of Almost every elected prosecutor had a identify serial predators. the serial rapist and murderer who has also the suspect’s violent spree. Between 1973 personal story about the monster with According to Totten, now the DA in been called the “Golden State Killer.” On and 1979, Jones said, DeAngelo many names.

Ventura County, it wasn’t until April 25, they revealed the suspect’s true was an officer in the Exeter Anne Marie Schubert remembered the late 1980s that authorities name: Joseph James DeAngelo.

Police Department in being a 12-year-old girl in the mid-1970s, recognized through the “We Tulare County and when the one they called the “East Area evolving science of found the The 72-year-old Citrus Heights resident the Auburn Police Rapist” was terrorizing the suburbs of DNA forensics that and former police officer is suspected of Department in Sacramento County. Nancy O’Malley was “we were dealing needle in the carrying out upward of 50 sexual assaults Placer County a volunteer rape counselor in Contra Costa with a serial killer.” haystack and it and 12 murders over a 12-year span, said until he was County in the late ’70s, ministering to the The logistics of was right here in Schubert, now the DA in Sacramento reportedly fired for survivors of a serial rapist who struck at DeAngelo’s trial are County. On April 27, a wheelchair-bound shoplifting. least nine times before his trail seemingly still being worked Sacramento.”

DeAngelo was arraigned on murder It has long been went cold. Gregory Totten was a young out. He was assigned Anne Marie Schubert charges for the serial killer’s first two rumored that the law clerk with the Ventura County district a public defender last Sacramento County district known homicide victims—Brian and Katie Golden State Killer attorney’s office in 1981, a year after week, but most of the attorney Maggiore, gunned down outside their might have been workLyman and Charlene Smith were clubbed suspect’s murder victims ing in law enforcement, to death by someone authorities nicknamed Rancho Cordova apartment complex in were residents of Southern February 1978. and that’s how he managed the “Original Night Stalker.”

California.

DeAngelo had been apprehended to stay ahead of investigators all that More than 40 years after California’s “This defendant’s been able to live free outside of his home just days earlier in time. most notorious bogeyman carved a sadistic in a nice suburb in Sacramento,” Orange what Sheriff Scott Jones called “a perfectly Authorities say they only identified path through bedrooms across the state, County DA Tony Rackauckas told reportexecuted arrest” that Jones believed caught DeAngelo as their suspect in the decadesSchubert, O’Malley, Totten and other ers last week. “Our team’s going to make the septuagenarian by surprise. Responding old cold case six days before his arrest, districts attorneys took turns recounting sure to never let him out.” Ω to reporters, Jones confirmed DeAngelo thanks to a relative’s decision to upload

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Rent Control Conundrum by jeff vonkaenel

Housing prices and rents in Sacramento are skyrocketing.

People unable to pay their rent are living on the street or in a car or on somebody’s couch. With incomes creeping up only a few percentage points a year and with rents leaping up 10 percent a year, housing is becoming unaffordable for more and more people each year.

Something has to be done. On the state level, activists say they have enough signatures to qualify a ballot initiative that would repeal a state law known as Costa Hawkins that makes it illegal for cities to impose rent control on single-family rentals, condominiums or apartments built after 1995, or in some cases earlier (after a city adopted its first local rent control ordinance). Costa Hawkins also protects a landlord’s right to raise rent to market rate when a tenant moves out. If this law is repealed, it opens the door for cities to establish broad rent control policies.

Here in the city of Sacramento, a rent control initiative is being circulated that would limit maximum annual rent increases for rentals built before 1995 to the consumer price index—currently around 2.5 percent, far less than the typical rent hike of around 10 percent. The measure would also create a nine-member rent control board, require landlords to pay an annual rental housing fee, and establish relocation assistance for displaced tenants.

While there is no doubt something needs to be done to rein in California’s ever-increasing housing costs, is this the right solution?

It’s obvious why home prices and monthly rents are going up. Jobs and the population of California are increasing fast—much faster than the number of new housing units.

This supply and demand problem is dramatically escalating prices.

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While rent control would be wonderful for those who are covered, it does not increase the supply of housing. In fact, the prospect of rent control could actually discourage developers from building rental units.

Rent control, as currently structured, benefits one group of renters at the expense of one group of landlords. The housing crisis also benefits those who own homes at the expense of those who do not.

Here in the Golden State, we need to increase the number of new rental units and lower the cost of building rental units. Here’s how: First, the way that Proposition 13 was written in 1978 has benefited commercial property owners much more than residential property owners. Reform Prop 13 by regularly reassessing nonresidential commercial properties. This would bring around $9 billion a year into state and local government coffers. This money could be used to reduce fees on development—that would encourage new rental units.

Second, change local sales-tax allocations so that cities and counties benefit from housing development instead of retail. Instead of auto malls and shopping centers, we’d start seeing more housing.

Third, stop giving out large tax breaks to corporations that bring in new jobs. Creating new jobs without creating housing to match makes the housing crisis worse. Why would a company want to relocate to a place where their employees cannot afford to live? Instead, creating housing will make Sacramento a more appealing location for employers.

We need to solve the housing problem. Let’s do something that will work for the whole community. Ω

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his story begins in Festival Hell. For a festival organizer, anyway: the hours dwindling toward launch day. and not in indio (Coachella), Napa (Bottlerock) or San Francisco (outside lands). right here, in Sacramento.

Two weeks ’til First Festival. It’s a Sunday afternoon, training day for festival volunteers.

But inside the Lounge, the ground zero office tucked on J Street, it’s much quieter than it should be. Only three volunteers showed up for the evening slot.

“I wonder if I can just train my dog,” said Danielle Vincent, First Fest’s cofounder and producer, probably freaking out a little bit, but wanting to lighten things up. Adopting a Scooby Doo voice, she added, “Yooou want me to do what?”

And there was a bright side.

More people than ever had signed up to volunteer this year, and dropouts were expected in this game of festival-making.

It’s the fourth First Festival, after all, and this team, made up of Danielle,

the lineup Like a deer in the headlines.

Pictured from left to right: First Festival organizers James Vincent, Danielle Vincent, Bandbi (worn by Lorraine Ohlendorf), Paige Fleener, Paul Willis and Lindsey Molineaux.

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Shotgun Sawyer 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Bigelow Stage

a three-piece blues-rock band out of auburn (close enough), complete with snarling guitar fuzz, vocalist dylan Jarman’s pain-stricken wails and wilderness rock nostalgia. listen to their single, “you got to run,” and you might be inspired. like the video suggests, it’s music prime for desert off-roading. or outdoor festivals.

her husband and cofounder James Vincent, Paige Fleener, Lindsey Molineaux, Jesse Silcox, Paul Willis, Elwin Williams III and Bandbi—the festival’s deer mascot—had seen worse.

But never an operation this big. Fifty bands, 10 comedians, avant-garde performers, food and merch vendors. Which meant more sound engineers, security, staff, stages, stage plots, generators, fencing, hand-washing stations, trash cans, Porta Potties. Did I mention beer? What about beer paperwork?

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You have permission to laugh at these people. Take a break from the sun and enjoy the routines of some of sacramento’s finest stand-up comics within the indoor Circus stage: shahera hyatt, keith Lowell Jensen, robert Berry, Marcus Mangham, sydney stigerts and Amy estes make only half of the funny people performing over the weekend.

Party at the Beach, Drop Dead Red (and Humble Wolf), saw an audience of practically no one for an event that size.

In 2017, the festival made its comeback at River Walk Park, where top-billing artists Oleander and rising stars including Hobo Johnson & The LoveMakers performed (no Humble Wolf), stand-up comedy was added, and a turnout of around 3,500 people over the weekend meant the festival could continue, and even grow.

Now for 2018: A $25,000 grant from the city of Sacramento, through its initiative dubbed the Creative Economy Pilot Project, made an even bigger festival possible. Added stages, more impressive billing (Blackalicious, A Lot Like Birds, Butterscotch), and more performers and amenities. The team matched that grant with around $25,000 in fundraising.

“The first three years, there was no funding,” Vincent said. “Literally nothing.

The only way it got funded was by selling vendor booths and by selling tickets. That’s insane. We still had to raise a hell of a lot of money, but that nest egg at the beginning, that gets you off the ground.”

And under the city’s working arts and culture jobs plan, called Creative Edge, First Fest may be on the cusp at the right moment.

“This year is so different,” Vincent said.

“I think we’re finally coming to a time where the city, the city government, and I mean people who aren’t entrenched in the arts scene every day … they’re primed to want something like this now. This is the first year that heads are turning that haven’t turned before.”

“I have to get this form to ABC [Alcohol Beverage Control], but I can’t get this form to ABC unless A, B and C, ironically, happen,” Vincent said.

After a year of preparation, everything could go wrong in these last days leading up to May 5 and 6, when at Tanzanite Park, a grassroots, all-local weekend arts festival opens its gates again.

First Fest has spent four years building interest with growing pains. Some locals scoffed at its launch year in 2015, a one-day event at River Walk Park with around 20 bands and a local rock headliner, Humble Wolf, because of past attempts to put on a big outdoor festival, like TBD Fest, which had an all-star lineup that included Blondie and Chance the Rapper over the years, but folded amid lawsuits over nonpayment of vendors.

First Fest ’15 was ultimately successful enough that Vincent and her colleagues decided to do it again. But its second year, at Southside Park, which doubled the lineup and expanded to two days, with a worthy bill including bands like Epsilona, Death

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Jonathon Glus feels it too. Like many artists around town, the director of Cultural and Creative Economy at the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission senses that Sacramento is on the precipice of a new era.

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college town/state capital to a music hub with South By Southwest? Or Portland, which has its longstanding arts scene and is steadily investing in its nonprofit arts organizations? Or Chicago, with its recently revitalized film, fashion and music industries?

7 p.m. Saturday, the ConfluenCe Stage

pop-punk sisters gwendolyn and lucy giles have been playing together since elementary school more than 10 years ago, when the now-closed luigi’s Slice was a hub for Sacramento’s underground and up and coming. after touring with the big kids—green day actually—in 2016, dog party is back with a new album on their own record label, slated for June. expect some new songs and a birthday celebration: gwendolyn turns 22 Saturday.

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vigorously support creative artists so that they can do what they want here.”

The grant funding also allowed the festival to hire 10 staffers, to pay installation artists both to make the art and for their supplies, and to pay the performers.

And unlike Sol Blume Festival and Aftershock, everyone on the bill has roots in Sacramento, and most still work in Sacramento.

“The bands are playing on the biggest stages some of them have ever played on, and they’re getting paid to do it,” Vincent said. “That is success, because people in our city make art at their own expense all day long, every day, and they work very hard.

And they’re always so thankful when they do have a chance to actually monetize their art. And that’s what this is about.”

Where’s the hip-hop?

When you put on a large fest like this one, complaints are inevitable. For example: First Fest is like Outside Lands for artists who aren’t good enough to play Outside Lands, or that there isn’t enough metal on the lineup, or that there isn’t Coors Light.

Contradictory complaints even, like the stages are too far apart and there’s too much sound bleed.

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“It’s still a big question,” said Glus, who’s leading the development of the city’s creative economy plan. “Here it’s really up to us to decide where it’s going.”

The goal of Creative Edge is to map a vision for the future of Sacramento’s arts and culture. The priorities of that vision were crowdsourced at several town halls and forums since September. The result is a draft plan released in April, which outlines a set of goals for the city to implement over the next seven years, including providing arts education, investing in the creative sectors, creating funding and opportunities for local artists to support themselves and their work, and branding Sacramento as an attractive destination for tourists (beyond “capital city”). To name just a few.

First Festival, which received one of the largest grants through the Creative Economy Pilot program last year, and whom the panelists praised for having the potential to become a destination festival like TBD could have been, seems to fit the priorities outlined in the creative economy plan well, according to Glus.

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anDyes 1:45 pm Sunday, the CirCuS

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The team receives them with frustration and laughs, but the complaints they take seriously fall into two categories: economic impact and community representation. When complaints arose about the high cost to attend the dismal second year (around $60 for the weekend), they lowered ticket prices in 2017.

Then there was the lack of hip-hop artists on the bill, particularly true in the first and second years, and endemic of a larger issue regarding a lack of spaces for hip-hop in the city. An issue which Paul Willis, who co-organized the hip-hop lineup with Elwin Williams III this year, knew well as a local emcee.

“There are a lot of hip-hop artists who play in Sacramento, and they’ll have to travel to get some of their name recognition,” Willis said. “The stigma that Sac hates hip-hop, there’s some validity to that.”

Knowing that Blackalicious was one of the headliners was exciting to Willis. In the past, few hip-hop acts in the city felt that First Fest was right for them, he said. This year there are 7 hip-hop artists on the bill, and Willis helped put together a cypher, a hip-hop tradition that evolved from rap

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SunmonkS 3 p.m. Sunday, Blue lamp Stage

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Nine emcees, including Willis and headliner Charlie Muscle, will participate.

“And it’s not a sausage fest,” Willis said, pointing out that there are four women performing; J Ross, KARIJAY, Kaila Love and Jane The Message. What’s more, it’s a mentorship opportunity. Many of these hip-hop artists have never performed in a festival before, and Willis said he wants to help them make the most out of the experience.

“We saw there was a void and an opportunity for us to step into that leadership role,” he said. “To really open doors for folks.”

Cultural equity is a goal First Festival and the Creative Economy plan share. And it’s also typically neglected in city arts plans, Glus said.

This year, the festival received 800 artist submissions, up from 280, though only 13 were from hip-hop artists.

Vincent said it meant the festival’s still wasn’t accessible enough despite their good intentions, and they’re hoping to change that next year.

“Part of the goal this year was to let the music community—the whole music community—know that there’s a seat here at the table for them,” she said.

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So far, the fest has sold around 2,500 tickets, counting weekend passes, Vincent said. Last year, on the Friday before launch, around 900 tickets were sold. The team expects that they’ll meet or exceed last year.

Whether the grant program returns next year is unclear until the city approves its 2018/19 budget in June. And as to whether First Festival’s ticket sales would

ButterScotch 7 p.m. Sunday, the ConfluenCe Stage

the world-renowned beatboxer was first exposed to the televised stage on america’s got talent about 10 years ago. She fuses hip-hop and jazz, and her vocal talents go beyond making beats. She’s an incredible soul-singer and can emulate other instruments, like trumpets, with crazy impressive accuracy.

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look up “‘pSa’ don’t Fu[n]k up our Beats 6” on youtube. Center-stage is Sac emcee Charlie muscle, breathlessly speeding through a freeway of monosyllabic words and tongue-twisters. it’s impressively hard to keep up with. Catch him for his headline act, or watch him participate in the Circus’ hip-hop cypher.

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affect its consideration for future funding: city officials say its too early to tell, and filling parks with people is just one of many factors in making that determination.

But that doesn’t mean turnout doesn’t worry Vincent. She still thinks about the dreadful second year, when most bands across the festival’s three stages played for to 10 or 20 people, and Southside Park looked depressingly empty.

“It’s just terrifying,” she said. “It’s the scariest feeling ever, thinking that a year of my life went into this, and really so much of it comes down to: Are people going to be there to see it? Not focusing on that is the main goal, because inevitably, you’ll always be disappointed. Unless you’re Outside Lands,” she laughed.

Still, they’re proud of that year. It had beautiful stages and an eclectic lineup of local bands ranging all different genres. It was what the festival still is: a great primer on what Sacramento has to offer in terms of arts scene, and even more, a stage for the artists to play.

“I think the first year was a lot of blind luck,” Vincent said. “The second year, I think that was the most valuable year. Hands down, hindsight whatever, and it had to happen the second year.

Because if it happened the first year, it never would have gone up again. And then we put it up the third year.

“And now here we go.” Ω

The Sacramento Gay Men’s Chorus Presents:

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the evening will be turned over to the Orestis Koletsos Greek Ensemble,

by Howard Hardee a quartet of classically trained local musicians rounded out by Koletsos’ wife, Jaime Smith (violin), Panagiotis Papageorgiou (piano, vocals) and Giannis Karalis (guitar, vocals).

Koletsos was born in Paris, and moved to Athens when he was two years old. He started playing piano and guitar shortly thereafter, but didn’t Local quartet honors the music fall in love with any particular type of music until he heard rebetiko—a of legendary Greek composer century-old form of Greek music that Mikis Theodorakis was recently added to UNESCO’s list of Intangible Cultural Heritage. n 1962, American guitarist Dick Dale put a “Musically, rebetiko combines surf-rock take on a traditional Greek song called the modes and rhythms of ancient Greece and the “Misirlou,” which was famously purposed as the Byzantine period, but also uses Western harmonies,” he intro music for Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction. In said. “The outcome is very unique. Concerning lyrics, 2006, The Black Eyed Peas sampled—some might say the topics are sad—it’s about poverty, prison, love and bastardized—the guitar track for their hit single, “Pump struggling—but somehow you see an optimism there.

It.” Katerina Lagos, a professor of Hellenic studies at It’s a little bit like when you get a high from listening to Sacramento State, often cites the song as an example of the blues. It’s like a catharsis.”

Greek influence on American culture.

Koletsos, 39, has spent his adult life studying “When I lecture on music in my Greek history rebetiko and mastering the genre’s primary instrument, class, I start off by saying, ‘You all have a CD with the bouzouki. “It’s the most adored instrument in Greek music on it, or you dance to Greek music,’” Greece,” he said. “It reminds of the mandolin, but has Lagos said. “They look at me like I’m crazy.” a more deep sound, I would say. The way you play the Indeed, most people in the states probably don’t bouzouki is very staccato. For the player, it offers the know much about Greek music, traditional or otherability to be very direct in their expression.” wise, with perhaps one exception: The compositions He met Smith in Greece and followed her home to of Mikis Theodorakis. the Sacramento area about two-and-a-half years ago.

Theodorakis’ work is most recognizable from He’s found that the climate in Sacramento is indeed the 1964 film Zorba the Greek, or The Ballad of Mediterranean, but the similarities don’t end there.

Mauthausen, a cycle of four arias written about the “It’s kind of relaxed here, and I would say the same Holocaust. He’s also known for supporting the ideas of Greece,” he said. “And people are happy. I see the of freedom and liberty through his music, especially open hearts and open minds in California that I see in during the Greek military junta, a dictatorship that Greece too.” lasted from 1967 to 1974.

Koletsos recently struck up a partnership with Lagos to put on the upcoming concert. Theodorakis composed many symphonies, operas and arias, but Koletsos’ ensemble will focus on his rebetiko songs.

“He had the wisdom to pay attention to the people, The Orestis Koletsos Greek Ensemble performs the working class,” Koletsos said. “He would use the the music of Mikis Theodorakis Friday, May 4 at bouzouki, he would compose songs for the people UC Davis’ Ann E. Pitzer Center, Hutchison Dr & who wanted to dance and go to the tavernas.” One Cushing Way, Davis. The performance was made of Theodorakis’ masterstrokes was setting popular possible through a grant from the Tsakopoulos music to classic and contemporary poems, he said: Hellenic Foundation. Admission is free.

“The miracle he created was putting these masterpiece poems on the lips of the poor and less educated people, the working-class Greeks.”

Lagos views the concert as an opportunity to “He was very well known for creating music educate the public about Greek culture. “There are during this time to protest all of the repression and certain types of ideas about Greekness,” she said, abuses of human rights,” Lagos said. “While it is “and I hope that Theodorakis’ music shows [the political in the sense that he was resisting this military culture] in a more universal light.” dictatorship, his themes are far more general and Of course, the foundation of our political supportive of universal concepts.” system—the very concept of democracy—was The Hellenic Studies Program at Sacramento State born in ancient Athens. For a more visual Hellenic is hosting a concert to honor Theodorakis’ music connection, look no further than the neoclassical on Friday. It will be preceded by a short film about architecture of the State Capitol building.

Theodorakis, as well as a special video recorded by “Look at those pillars,” Lagos said. “Are they the composer himself, who is 92 years old. Then British? No, they are not.” Ω

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Gallic goodness roAsTed sirloin dip, 33rd sTreeT BisTro My mom loved a good French dip. We used to split them, taking turns plunging our halves into the ramekin of deeply flavored au jus, which softened the baguette and added an umami-intensive kick of juicy goodness to every bite. The Roasted Sirloin Dip sandwich ($14.95) at 33rd Street Bistro is a superb example of the form. A warm, soft baguette gets a light smear of mayonnaise, a pile of tender sliced sirloin and a light layer of melted swiss cheese. Served with the heady au jus and crisp, thin-cut fries, it’s a treat Mom would approve of.

—TrAci Hukill The kung pao chicken lunch special is spicy with chili oil, sweet and garlicky, with flecks of green onion.

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The steaming pile of fried chicken wings tempted my husband to break his vow. Studded with chili pepper seeds and green onions and braised with a molasseslike sauce, the Hot Braised Chicken Wings ($12.95) reminded him of his mother’s stories of her childhood in Hong Kong, where the seven siblings would squabble over their portions on the rare night of wings for dinner.

The shared memory was enough for my husband, a pescatarian, to tear into a piece of chicken for the first time in roughly a decade.

The wings at the new Wing’s Restaurant are dankly appropriate for post-420 nourishment. Their sauce is sticky as tree sap, tasting of caramelized sugar, garlic, salt and a sharp zing of spice. My husband adored the marinade, but kept his same opinion of chicken everywhere: “Tastes like an old sock.” Mind you, as a carnivore, I loved this leg meat and judged it to be fresh and juicy.

This year, Wing’s Restaurant has revived an East Sacramento storefront that’s cycled through Chinese eateries. Most recently it was Canton House, and before that, China Cafe, both of which received lukewarm reviews.

Now, Wing’s seems poised to change the storefront’s reputation with its generous portions, affordable prices ($6.95 for most lunch specials) and saucy, spicy grub. Billing itself as Sichuan and Hunan, it delivers until 10 p.m. every day, filling a neighborhood need for late-night munchies.

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The interior looks like a dim living room, with the shotgun-style restaurant letting in limited sun even midday, but the food was colorful enough to shine without much light.

The sweet and sour fish fillet ($10.95) looked like a murder scene if blood were orange, with flakey fish encased with a thin-battered, fried shell that was softened by the ample sauce. It tasted mostly sweet and slightly tangy, and came with produce that added a juicy spurt to the thick melee: pineapple, carrots, green bell peppers.

Par for the saucy course, the kung pao chicken ($6.95 for lunch) was spicy with chili oil, sweet and garlicky, with flecks of green onions. The lunch specials arrive with soup and your choice of fried rice, noodles or brown rice. In this case, chow mein offered a fitting complement to the kung pao, with egg noodles that were springy with freshness.

The hot and sour soup was spicy with white pepper and pleasantly suffused with egg.

But it was the eggplant with spicy garlic sauce ($6.95 for lunch) that felt like the best harmony of all between entree and flavor. The sautéed eggplant was silky soft, adding a burst of thin water to contrast with the thick sauce.

The lunch dishes were delicious for the price, but the restaurant did suffer for one factor I rarely notice: the service. The waiter there on most days seemed shy and unsure of himself, but to some patrons, it read as rudeness. One time I asked, “Could I please eat to stay?” He replied, “Yeah, sit down.” No flourishes of gentility here, but the wait staff will refill your lemon-infused water with regularity.

Besides, who needs performative politeness when a sniff of these chicken wings has the power to break a pescatarian? Ω

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It’s one of the most unique outdoor wine and food events ever conceived, and it’s happening in our back yard. Festivals abound, but few have this level of focus on the particular strengths of a wine region. And few are held at such an historic venue, complete with authentic 19th century buildings, complemented by infrastructure designed to handle a really big crowd.

That’s code for there are plenty of real bathrooms (not porta potties) and places to sit and enjoy your food.

What I love most about Four Fires is its organization: There are four huge tents, each with wineries pouring Amador-grown varietals whose origins hail from Southern France (think Rhône), Iberia (think Spanish and Portuguese varieties), Italy (think pinot grigio, Barbera, sangiovese, etc.) and Heritage California (think mission and zinfandel). Each tent is flanked by local chefs cooking foods of these regions over open flames, which makes for a fragrantly tantalizing affair. Think lamb, pork, beef and chicken, even peach cobbler, grilled or spit-roasted, and served with tasty accompaniments.

Now in its fifth year, Four Fires is being run for the first time by the Amador Vintners Association (AVA), so there are some exciting new additions. The basic premise, though, of focusing on the unique wines and cuisine of the four Mediterranean wine regions that thrive in Amador, remains intact. You’ll taste wine from 45 different wineries, all of which have depth in one or more of these areas, and you won’t go hungry, unless you don’t like food.

AVA’s Jack Gorman reports that the whole-roast lamb and pork, venison, grilled steak and gourmet hot dogs come from Sacramento’s premier butcher shop, V. Miller Meats. Each main dish is accompanied by farm-to-fork sides including polenta cakes with caramelized onion, lentil salad with goat cheese, lemongrass risotto, and pasta with fire-roasted veggies.

The smores come on homemade graham crackers.

Gorman is particularly excited about the lineup of panels and seminars this year. “Our ‘Women in Wine’ panel will include five award-winning Amador County winemakers and guests will get to hear firsthand about their winemaking experiences and philosophies.

“With more and more second and third generation Amador natives working in their family wine businesses, they are beginning to change the face of Amador Wine Country. Guests will get to hear from six of them on our ‘Next Gen’ panel.”

Each of the five participating chefs will give a cooking demo, visitors will be able to visit a “sensory station” featuring barrel woods, soils and other winerelated stuff to sniff. Throughout the day, scheduled talks include “Wine Tasting 101” and “Wine & Food Pairings: There are no rules” with wine experts.

Plus, there’s live music, on a real band stage, with ample seating and yes, a dance floor. Ω Four Fires takes place Saturday, May 5, 11am-4pm at the Amador Fairgrounds, 18621 Sherwood St., Plymouth. For tickets and info visit www.amadorfourfires.com.

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Sacramento chefs are earning respect on a national scale. The world-famous Pebble Beach Food & Wine (#PBFW) festival, where the country’s best chefs and winemakers come together for a hedonistic fourday event on a beautiful stretch of California coastline, is the-place-to-be if you like to hobnob with celebrity chefs. Seriously, you can’t throw a duck confit taco without hitting at least three Top Chef contenders.

At this year’s festival, Sacramento chefs were honored with an invitation to host their own event, an exclusive four-course affair titled “Sacramento’s Farm-to-Fork All Stars.” The whitetablecloth luncheon attracted 120 guests. In attendance was Jeremiah Tower, who will be leading local chefs for this year’s Tower Bridge Dinner, alongside Senior Culinary Director Dorothy Maras, who organizes the culinary side of PBFW. A native to the area, Maras says she planned this event to highlight Sac chefs for one primary reason: She is impressed with the depth and creativity of our local talent. “I’ve heard it referred to as an emerging culinary hot spot,” she says, “but I thought it

was high time to give notice to our audience at PBFW that Sacramento has not only emerged, but has beaten down the kitchen doors of San Francisco and Napa. Sacramento has completely arrived.”

The Farm-to-Fork All Stars menu showcased the best produce, grains, meats and wines from the Sacramento area, including products by Passmore Ranch, Azolla Farm, Emigh Lamb, Capay Organic, Del Rio Botanical and Rue & Forsman Ranch. Representing wineries included Bogle, Skinner, Turley, and Haarmeyer, with grapes from several local vineyards.

Sacramento chefs lived up to their reputation for creating innovative dishes based on the area’s best seasonal produce, bringing their well-known creativity to the table and giving PBFW attendees a taste of what we have available every day of the week. Highlights include Billy Ngo’s Passmore Ranch sturgeon rillettes with caviar, yuzu, yaki onigiri, and pea tendrils; Michael Fagnoni’s chilled Dungeness crab with sunchokes, edible flowers and lemon verbena gelée; Oliver Ridgway’s duck breast with sorghum, beet ketchup, foie gras and

smoked olive oil; and Ramon Perez’s colorful plate of chocolate truffles, hibiscus-caramel cups, cucumber-lime macarons and pea-mint bonbons.

“Sacramento chefs have great energy and a laser-focus on delivering excellence,” says Maras, who was excited to experience the lunch she helped create. “This isn’t a clichéd and over-hyped version of farm-to-fork fare. This is the real deal.”

Sac chefs also featured strongly at PBFW’s prestigious tasting tents, having earned spots among the country’s most celebrated culinary talent.

Several local chefs and purveyors hosted their own tasting tables, including Brad Cecchi, Ginger Elizabeth, Michael Passmore and several chefs from the All Stars luncheon.

Cecchi, who opened his new restaurant Canon in late 2017, was elated to receive his first invite as a guest chef. “I was honored to get the call to represent Sacramento,” he says.

“You work hard hoping that people notice, so to have the hard work validated, especially for a new place like Canon, it means a lot. To be invited to an event at that level to execute your craft is special.” Ω

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Secrets, lies and laughs

By Jim Carnes

This 1964 musical adapted from Cervantes’ 17th century novel, Don Quixote, presents the author as a failed writer who, while awaiting trial, barters for his stolen possessions by acting out the fantasy adventures of his quixotic hero. Thu 7pm, Fri 8pm, Sat

2pm & 8pm, Sun 2pm, Wed 7pm. Through 5/13; $15-$38; Sacramento Theatre Company, Main Stage, 1419 H St.; (916) 443-6722; www.sactheatre.org. P.R.

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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

This 55-minute visit to Narnia (the fantasy land created by author C.S. Lewis) features B Street regulars Dana Brooke and John Lamb, each playing

a surprisingly contemporary bromance in this Oscar Wilde social satire.

An Ideal Husband

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thu 8pm, fri 8pm, sat 8pm. through 5/26; $18-$22; Big idea theatre, 1616 del Paso Boulevard. (916) 960-3036, www.bigideatheatre.org.

Oscar Wilde’s social satire An Ideal Husband, opens at a dinner party in the home of the highly regarded member of the House of Commons, Sir Robert Chiltern (Eric Craig), and his adoring, highly principled wife Lady Chiltern (Ashley Rose). Among the attendees is Mrs. Cheveley (Elizabeth Holzman, who carries the stage authority of a Kathy Bates), an old enemy of Lady Chiltern from school days, who wants to secure a lucrative Argentinian investment that is dependent upon a government decision. During the party, she attempts to blackmail Sir Robert into supporting her scheme. She knows the dark secret of his current wealth and position and has proof that will ruin him. Sir Robert’s only salvation may be that Mrs. Cheveley has a dark secret, too—and his wife knows exactly what that is.

Directed here by Kevin Adamski and Nina Dramer, this fine-tuned 1895 comedy revolves around blackmail, political corruption, the status of women in society and questions of public and private morality.

Wilde’s satire plays out in a domestic comedy involving love, affection, ambition—and a surprisingly contemporary bromance in which two friends, Lord Robert (Craig) and Lord Arthur Goring (Ian Hopps) are seen to value the other’s well-being as much as his own. There is a scene late in the first act in which the two reveal their authentic selves and determine the proper course of action. The give and take between the men is magical, a joy to watch. The scene is stunning stagecraft. Ω

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some performances sold out. Through 5/5; $25-$30;

multiple roles. It’s geared toward younger kids (5+) with talking animals, magic and some lovely snow scenes, plus good original music by Noah Agruss. Sat

Community Asian Theatre of the Sierra (CATS) at Nevada Theatre, 401 Broad St. in Nevada City; www.CatsWeb.org. J.H.

1pm, Sun 1pm. Through 5/5; $23 adult, $18 children;

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Uncle Vanya

B Street Theatre Family Series, The Sofia, 2700 Capitol Ave.; (916) 433-5300; www. bstreettheatre.org. J.H.

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

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South Pacific

You may associate the musical South Pacific with WWII nostalgia.

Navy officer Lt. Cable considers marriage to a Polynesian woman in this play, interracial marriage was illegal in many states (including California). This thoughtful production is mostly about white Americans reconsidering their assumptions about life and love as they find romance abroad. Thu 7pm,

pm, Sun 2pm. Through 5/6; $20; The Actor’s Theatre of Sacramento, 1721 25th St.; (916) 501-6104 / (916) 583-4880; www.actinsac.com. B.S.

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Gutenberg! The Musical! delivers 90 minutes of zaniness presented by Davis’s newest company, Bike City Theatre Company. Doug (Kevin Gish) and Bud (Kyle Stoner) are enthusiastic playwrights who have written a musical about the inventor of the printing press. The performance is staged as a backer’s audition, as the performers seek funding to bring the show to Broadway.

Doug and Bud admit that after an extensive Google search, they’ve found information about Gutenberg, so they have made up “facts” about how a winemaker in Schlimmer, Germany came to turn his wine press into a printing press so that the members of the town might learn to read.

The two actors play some 20 or more characters, each identified by a hat with a character’s name on it. (The “kick line” of five dancers is ingenious). The action is non-stop madcap comedy.

The dialog is filled with lots of groaners. For example Gutenberg tells his girlfriend, the lovely Helvetica (who spends most of her time stomping grapes), that he loves lamb stew. “I love ewe,” he says.

“Me?” she responds.

As Bike City Theatre has no permanent home, the show is being presented in several venues around town—two breweries, a kava bar, an art gallery, the idea being to bring theater to people who might not otherwise go to theater.

Gutenberg! gives us a much needed opportunity to “sit back, laugh and not take life too seriously for a short while,” promises artistic director J.R. Yancher.

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gutenberg! the Musical! thu 7pm, fri 8pm, sat 8pm, sun 8pm. through 5/13; $10-$15; Visit website to find location for each performance; https://bikecitytheatre.org

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The Merchant of Venice, CA City Theatre transposes Shakespeare’s classic The Merchant of Venice from Renaissance Italy to contemporary California… specifically the LA beachside community of Venice, with its circus-like Ocean Walk, colorful mosaics and graffiti.

Veteran director Adrienne Sher is channeling the antiSemitism evident in Shakespeare’s script into the presentday USA under Trump (remember that neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville?). Fri 7:30pm, Sat 7:30pm, Sun 2pm, plus Sat 5/12 2pm. Through 5/13; $18 general, $15 seniors, $10 students; Art Court Theatre, Sacramento City College, 3835 Freeport Boulevard. (916) 558-2228; www.citytheatre.net

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Tully purrs. She sends Marlo to bed, to be gently half-wakened when Mia needs feeding, and Marlo gets her best night’s sleep in years.

Tully, from director Jason Reitman and writer Diablo Night after night Tully returns. Before long, Cody, is yet another one of those movies that offer up Marlo’s attitude is brighter and her once kidparenthood, and particularly motherhood, as nothing ravaged home is neat as a pin all thanks to Tully’s less than hell on Earth. There’s everything but a sign industrious nighttime ministrations, dispensed with over the maternity ward door: “Abandon hope all ye sunny wisdom. “You’re like a book of fun facts who enter here.” for unpopular fourth-graders,” Marlo tells her.

The damned soul in Tully is Marlo (Charlize Tully even goes to bed with Drew, rejuvenating a Theron), a mother of two in suburban New York with sex life that has languished for years.

No. 3 arriving any minute. Her eight-yearThings come to a head when Tully coaxes old daughter Sarah (Lia Frankland) Marlo into a girls’ night out, bar-hopping is well-adjusted and gifted, while around Marlo’s old stamping ground Diablo six-year-old Jonah (Asher in Bushwick. This millennial Mary Miles Fallica) is a handful; he Poppins finally breaks the news Cody’s script requires daily body-brushthat it’s time for her to move ing, compulsively kicks the on, and the secret of her abilhas its facile back of Marlo’s seat while ity to ease Marlo’s burdens moments, but it also she’s driving, and flies into finally comes to light. hysterics at the sound of a Diablo Cody’s script reflects her ear for flushing toilet. In the safety has its facile moments, but of the theater we think of it also reflects her ear for clever dialogue and autism, but nobody in Tully clever dialogue and eye for mentions the word; everyone eye for revealing revealing details. It provides as just calls him “quirky.” In any well a framework for Reitman details. case, Jonah’s school insists that and Theron to create sympathy for he needs a personal aide, which the Marlo even when she’s most harried and school won’t pay for and neither Marlo unreasonable. And the casting of Theron with nor husband Drew (Ron Livingston) can afford.

Davis is inspired; their screen personae and charThe thought of another child has the forty-someacters mesh neatly, making the movie’s outcome thing Marlo at the end of her rope, and her hotshot ring truer than it might otherwise. brother (Mark Duplass) doesn’t help by offering to The movie has its surprises that aren’t all that pay for a “night nanny” to help her out; she takes it as surprising, but it has a sweetness that makes us hope his way of calling her an unfit mother. But once baby every mother finds her own personal Tully. Ω Mia arrives, after a few days of constant squalling, dirty diapers and spilling breast pumps, Marlo surrenders and calls the number on the nanny’s card.

Enter Tully (Mackenzie Davis) in the dead of night, a cheerful millennial with a placid smile, a retro-’60s wardrobe, and a stream of patter wise Poor Fair Good Very excellent beyond her 26 years. “I’m here to take care of you,” Good

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Beirut

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 Bourne-esque 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.

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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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Finding Your Feet

When her marriage of 35 years collapses, a snobbish upper-crust wife (Imelda Staunton) moves in with her aging-hippie, semiestranged older sister (Celia Imrie). She gets a bracing dose of how the other half lives, eventually climbing down off her high horse and joining the sister’s elderly dance class, where she takes a shine to a houseboat-dwelling handyman (Timothy Spall). Writers Meg Leonard and Nick Moorcroft and director Richard Loncraine whip up the kind of middlebrow, middle-class feel-nice comedy that has been a stock-in-trade of British movies since the coming of sound, as comfy and enjoyable as it is formulaic. A last-act plot turn is straight out of the Dictionary of Tearjerker Clichés (look under “C”), but by that time we’re enjoying these people’s company so much that we don’t really mind. J.L.

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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 been 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.

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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

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Avengers: Infinity War

This third Avengers film re-assembles almost the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe of wise-cracking gods, superhumans and space creatures, and manages to finally pay off the franchise’s long-gestating “infinity stones” storyline (basically, a purple alien wants to put jewels in a glove so that he can punch the world in half). If you care, you probably already know that this is the Avengers movie where many of your beloved characters meet their shocking ends. And they’re never ever coming back, no way, never gonna happen, even though many of the characters in Avengers: Infinity War have already returned from the dead, and Marvel has several thousand (or so) releases slated for 2019 alone, including an Infinity War sequel. Obviously, the mass death ending is a gigantic fakeout, just a launching pad for the next waves of Marvel product, but as a longtime detester of the MCU machine, I must admit that it brought me some joy. D.B.

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.

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Kings

Turkish-born, French-raised writerdirector Deniz Gamze Ergüven follows her passionate and personal debut film Mustang with this clumsy and chaotic drama set against the backdrop of the 1991 Los Angeles riots. Halle Berry ostensibly stars as a South Central foster mother trying to care for her brood of hellcats, while Daniel Craig plays a grumpy neighbor with a heart of gold, but in truth they’re relatively minor players in the ensemble. As in Mustang, Ergüven is more interested in the raw energy of young people rebelling against the limitations of their world, but what once felt fresh and honest now comes across as completely phony.

Incoherence abounds (I’m still not certain if the story spanned a year or two weeks), and one jaw-droppingly bad scene after the next lands with a loud thud. With several great documentaries about the LA riots having been released in recent years, Kings becomes even more unnecessary. D.B.

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Lean on Pete

For all the emotional repression of the characters in Andrew Haigh’s Weekend and 45 Years, those previous films felt tightly wound, while the first half of his latest effort Lean on Pete is the kind of wandering, navelgazing indie movie that critics charitably describe as “austere” or “stark” or “exquisitely observed.” Charley Thompson (Charlie Plummer) is a miserable 15-year-old boy who was long ago abandoned by his mother and sentenced to a lonely life with his impoverished and promiscuous father. While out running

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The Miracle Season

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 bythe-numbers 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.

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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 talentfree 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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On-again, off-again punks the Descendents are back in Sac

NoMBe is the epitome of performance and the feature of the latest installment of Billboard magazine’s “You Should know”

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We’ve seen Milo have a shit day. We’ve seen him dressed as Uncle Sam and we’ve seen him go to college. But to catch the real driving force behind the Descendents, fans must look past its four-eyed front man to the guy behind the drum set.

For 40 years, Bill Stevenson has been the constant member of Descendents, a band that originated in Southern California and became a musical refuge for teenage punks until today. Since the release of the 15-song, 22-minute debut album Milo Goes to College in 1982, the band’s furiously fast, melodically driven songs on subjects like junk food, girls, romantic desperation and parents helped define pop-punk.

Before they paved the way for emerging pop-punk bands of the ’90s, Stevenson derived inspiration from the Los Angeles punk scene two decades earlier.

“We had all those bands right there,” he said.

“You could go see them for five bucks—Germs, X, Go-Gos. … They were all right there, you could get right up next to them.”

The Descendents, then made up of Stevenson, Milo Aukerman (vocals), Frank Navetta (guitars) and Tony Lombardo (bass) didn’t sport green mohawks or studded leather jackets. They were four kids in jeans and T-shirts, playing their caffeinefueled music hard and fast.

“We were trying to write actual songs, but we would just drink tons of coffee and play them too fast,” Stevenson said.

Milo introduced a lasting punk rock symbol: Jeff Atkinson’s simple line illustration of Aukerman donning a tie and button-up. That image has seen thousands of iterations—in show fliers, album covers, fan art and tattoos.

When Aukerman left the band to pursue a degree in biochemistry in 1987, Stevenson played

for three years with Black Flag, and the Descendents’ on-again, off-again history with the face of the band began.

During Stevenson’s stint as Black Flag’s drummer, Descendents songs kept writing themselves in his mind.

“The song just enters my brain and it’s a finished song, or at least a finished part of the song,” he said.

“And it comes all at once—melody, lyric, chord progression.”

During Aukerman’s long hiatuses, Stevenson kept the band going under the name All, which released albums on the indie label Cruz, and later on Interscope and Epitaph, but never achieved the same fan base.

Aukerman returned in 1996 for Everything Sucks, and again for Cool to Be You in 2004. In 2016, he announced that he was breaking up with academic research to join the Descendents full-time. Their latest album, Hypercaffium Spazzinate, was released that summer. The cover shows Milo in his lab, behind a beaker.

“Surprisingly, we’ve managed to hold the interest of basically, what, three generations?” Stevenson said.

“It’s cool to have a new batch of songs.”

While their last three albums have covered similar themes as their earliest work, the message has shifted.

They continue to pine for girls in songs like “I’m the One,” while “I Won’t Let Me” reflects a more mature love. They’ve gone from singing about their disdain for parents to a longing for “One More Day” with them, a song Stevenson wrote after his father died.

Over the four decades, they’ve continued to deliver an authentic, definitive sound that bridged pop punk and hardcore. Stevenson’s favorite descriptors are a bit more unique.

“Somebody called us chainsaw pop,” he said.

“Somebody else called us frustrado rock, because like there’s always this sense of yearning or sense of unfulfillment.”

Whatever they’re calling it, it’s unlikely fans will have to wait another decade for the next Descendents album.

“It’s not in our nature to do an album every two years, how normal bands do it,” Stevenson said, but added they’ve done preliminary recording on a few new songs. “We’re creeping toward another recording.” Ω Photo CourteSy of kevin SCanlon

The Descendents are: Karl Alvarez (bass), Bill Stevenson (drums), Milo Aukerman (vocals), Stephen Egerton (guitar).

They’ll come to Sac for the first time in about 30 years.

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But if you experienced him at Sacramento’s Holy Diver on April 24, alongside Mansionair and Mikky Ekko, you already knew that, and you’re probably still in awe, recovering from an overwhelming enthusiasm for life, and wondering where you can catch this magician of a man perform next.

Of course he’s a musician, with intricate, emotionally charged lyrics, who effortlessly plays electric guitar as if possessed by the spirit of Jimi Hendrix, but his performance presence is what will have this generation of short attention spanners glued to the stage and not the screen. Enough to keep their iPhones on airplane mode and sail away with him on a cordless journey to only a time our ancestors experienced at Woodstock, or way back when they looked up to the moon for celestial navigation.

If you’re unfamiliar with this electric soul god, NoMBe, otherwise known as Noah Mcbeth, is the German-born, Los Angeles-based godson of Chaka Khan, with 100 million-plus online streams, who will probably be the most versatile musician I’ll hear this year.

Behold the joy of live music. Backed by an all-women band onstage, the self proclaimed feminist is all punk rock in the way he jolts towards the mic, captivating in every move. Propelled by kinetic energy, he delivers island-tinged dance moves seemingly inspired by his mother’s Caribbean-Trinidadian roots. He sways, spins and catapults from one end of the stage to the other, utilizing every square foot. No surface goes untouched as he flows from soul and R&B to a “Pharrel Williams-endorsed,” Vandals-esque, head bopping “Catch me if you Can.” “California Girls” has every 916-born woman in the room flattered and gawking while “Jump Right In” reminds us that music is the antidote with lyrics like: “I know you’ve been restless/ clingin’ onto stress/ but drown it in the bliss I bring.”

Perhaps the most personable and endearing moments were NoMBe’s tender ad libs before such songs as “Wait,” in which he invites us to recall our own lost loves, and shares a memory of his own, about a middle-school crush Photo b that he never had the courage to yS kye Ca take a chance on. On the sensual b track “Freak Like Me,” NoMBe entices us to delve into our sexuality and forget for a minute the lovers we left behind. All throughout the journey of a million stories, he is dancing in that groove, switching various instruments, in an effort to deliver to us the ultimate sound experience. noMBe at Holy Diver last week.

Crowd favorites “Sex” and “Drama” had the audience craving an encore, and afterwards, likely returning to their phones for his music for the ride back home. You won’t find much about this artist on Wikipedia just yet, and views of his videos won’t give the impression of what seeing him perform in the flesh will do for your life. Catch him if you can. But while you’re waiting for this epiphany, cop NoMBe’s debut album, dedicated to all the women past and present in his life who ever made an impact on him: They Might’ve Even Loved Me. Yes, we certainly do.

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BeRNsteiN aND GeRshWiN: The San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band and Roseville Community Concert Band combine for a program featuring West Side Story, American In Paris, Candide Overture and Suite and More.

5pm, $10. McClatchy High School Auditorium, 3066 Freeport Blvd.

FiRst Festival: Sunday lineup includes A Lot Like Birds, Butterscotch, Cities You Wish You Were From, the Philharmonik and more. 11am, $25$42. Tanzanite Park, 2220 Tanzanite Way.

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Give big for Big DOG 909 12th St., 3 P.M., no cover Depending on how you celebrate this year’s Big DOG, there may or may not be canines involved. What is Festivals guaranteed? When you get out to one of the dozens of Big Day of Giving events, you’ll meet those working to make Sacramento a better place.

Organized by the Sacramento Region Community Foundation, the 24-hour online giving challenge has become the largest day for philanthropy in the region.

the UC Davis Concert Band, the San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band, pianist Richard Glazier and others will raise money for Joshua’s House—California’s first homeless hospice. 2pm, $35. McClatchy High School Auditorium, 3066 Freeport Blvd.

THursDay, 5/3 GRiND hiP hOP shOWCase: Performances by the Gatlin, Seff Smokes, Masyah, CT and more.

Hosted by Mickey Tiltz. 8:30pm, $15. Blue Lamp, 1400 Alhambra Blvd.

saC state JaZZ CONCeRt: The award-winning student jazz ensembles perform under the direction of Steve Roach and Mike McMullen. 8pm, $5-$10. Sacramento State University, 6000 J St.

saCRaMeNtO sONGWRiteR shOWCase: Original Latin music hosted by Frank Lizarraga and Yesenia Fuentes. 6:30pm, no cover. La Familia Maple Neighborhood Center, 3301 37th Ave.

sMOKiNG POPes: With Bad Cop / Bad Cop,

Bastards of Young. 8pm, $17. The Press Club, 2030 P St.

frIDay, 5/4 aChilles Wheel tRiO: Dog-friendly brewery show with food trucks. 6pm, no cover. Big Sexy Brewery, 5861 88th St., Suite 800.

aNDRe NiCKatiNa: Bay Area rapper. 7pm, $22. Ace Of Spades, 1417 R St.

CODY JiNKs: With Red Shahan. 8pm, $35$100. Crest Sacramento, 1013 K St.

CONCeRts iN the PaRK: The first in the 2018 CIP

series, with Cemetery Sun headlining. 5pm, no cover. Cesar Chavez Plaza, 9th and J streets.

lissie: With Van William. 6pm, $18-$95. Harlow’s, 2708 J St.

ONeWaY ReCORDiNG 5-YeaR aNNiveRsaRY Fest: With Cold Trap, Omnigul, Yankee Brutal, Knocked Down, Sparks Across Darkness and more. 8pm, $10-$12. Blue Lamp, 1400 Alhambra Blvd.

sasha COOKe aND JasON vieauX: The pairing of Grammy winners on voice and guitar perform

together. 8pm, $37.50-$75. UC Davis, 1 Shields Ave. in Davis.

taKiNG FOX hOllOW: “May the Fourth be With You” show with Hi, Mom, The Colossal Dream, Whitewolf and Lonely Avenue. 6pm, $10-$12.

Holy Diver, 1517 21st St.

titaNiC—a MusiCal JOuRNeY: Book your passage on a trip to 1912, as you enjoy the first live concert of music as it was actually heard on the Titanic. Adam Swanson, one of the world’s most acclaimed ragtime pianists, will star in this show. 7pm, $15-$20. Stokes Music Studios & Event Center, 5011 Golden Foothill Parkway in El Dorado Hills.

saTurDay, 5/5 FiRst Festival: The homegrown weekend music festival features Blackalicious, Dog Party, Jonah Matranga and the Moans in its Saturday lineup. 11am, $25-$42. Tanzanite Park, 2220 Tanzanite Way.

KiNGDOM OF GiaNts: With Artisvns, Sages,

Pecker. 6:30pm, $12. Holy Diver, 1517 21st St.

saCRaMeNtO aRea aNiMal COalitiON BiG DaY OF GiviNG FuNDRaiseR aND CeleBRatiON: Drink beer, pet dogs and raise money to support hundreds of local spays and neuters. 4pm, no cover. Yolo Brewing Co., 1520 Terminal St. in West Sacramento.

frIDay, 5/4 FOOD tRuCKs aND FRONt stReet aNiMals: Food,

RaleY FielD BReWFest: Celebrate local craft beer, with more than 40 breweries lining the diamond’s track with unlimited samples of their brews. 6:30pm, $10-$65. Raley Field, 400 Ballpark Drive in West Sacramento.

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CiNCO De MaYO DiNNeR: Priscilla Circle will serve

craft beers. Noon, $10-$50. Gold Country Fairgrounds, 1273 High St. in Auburn.

left. Midnight, by donation. Sacramento.

chips and salsa, tacos, enchiladas, beans and rice, tres leches cupcakes with virgin sangria and Mexican hot chocolate. 5pm, no cover-$15.

First United Methodist Church, 109 Washington Boulevard in Roseville.

and vendors will share information to enhance and support the living, health and interest of the region’s seniors. Spanish and Russian translators will be on site, and light refreshments will be served. 10am, no cover. West Sacramento Community Center, 1075 West Capitol Ave. in West Sacramento.

TuesDay, 5/8 ChOCOlate PaiRiNG NiGht: Celebrate Old

CeNtRal valleY CaNNaBis CuP: Celebrate legal weed with vendors and musical performances

by Ms. Lauryn Hill, Lil Wayne, Gucci Mane, Rick Ross and more. Noon, $12-$420. Cal Expo, 1600 Exposition Blvd.

Sacramento Chocolate Week with a wine/ cocktail and chocolate pairing. Choose from one of two pairing options at either Fat City Bar & Cafe or Rio City Cafe. 5pm, $10-$15. Old Sacramento, Front St.

WeDnesDay, 5/9

saCRaMeNtO GeM FaiRe: Three day show of fine jewelry, crystals, gems, beads, fossils and more at manufacturer’s prices. Noon, $7.

Scottish Rite Masonic Center, 6151 H St.

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A family-style dinner at Magpie caps off a day of six chefs of Slow Food Bilbao-Bizkaia exploring the slow food movement in Northern California. 7:30pm, $75. Magpie, 1601 16th St.

beverages, music and a visit by Front Street Animal Shelter’s adoptable animals. Meet your new pet! 5pm, no cover. Belle Cooledge Park, 5900 South Land Park Drive.

2018 seNiOR ResOuRCe FaiR: Organizations

Whether you support young writers, your neighbors experiencing homelessness or, yes, dogs, plenty of organizations need your help. Special shout out to the group of nonprofits at 909 12th Street, like Sacramento Area Bicycle Advocates and 350 Sacramento, working to combat climate change. Be sure to bike to their party (time and location above) and support that effort. www.bigdayofgiving. org/events.

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Two days of free appraisals, gold and silver raffle, youth activities and opportunities to buy, sell and trade coins. 10am, no cover-$3.

Four Points by Sheraton, 4900 Duckhorn Drive.

saTurDay, 5/5

day of the new Farmers Market at UC Davis Health. 3pm, no cover. Farmers Market at UC Davis Health, 45th St at X St.

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description for 5/4. Noon, $12-$420. Cal Expo, 1600 Exposition Blvd.

FRee COMiC BOOK DaY: See event highlight on page 32. various times, no cover. Various locations.

a ride to the Crocker for the screening of this coming-of-age comedy focused on a small-town American teen’s obsession with joining an elite Italian cycling team. 6:30pm, $6-$12. Crocker Art Museum, 216 O St.

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MOvie iN the PaRK: A family-friendly screening

THursDay, 5/3 the BiG DaY OF GiviNG—Class & a Glass FOR a Cause: Enjoy beers and activities at Jackrabbit Brewing to support Elkhorn Village Elementary and West Sacramento Friends of the Library. 3pm, no cover. Jackrabbit Brewing Co., 1323 Terminal St. in West Sacramento.

of Leap!, a story of two kids who escape from their rural orphanage to chase their dreams. 7:30pm, no cover. Arden Park Recreation and Park District, 1000 La Sierra Drive.

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coSumneS river college: Living on a Dollar a Day—The Lives and Faces of the World’s Poor.

In a series of photographs and profiles by Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist Renée C. Byer, this exhibit illuminates the faces and stories of those who live in extreme poverty around the world. through 5/18, no cover. 8401 Center Parkway.

Comic book lovers, unite!

During Free Comic Book Day, a worldwide celebration of the all ageS worlds and characters that pop from pages to capture our imaginations, Empire’s Comic PHOtO COurtESy OF brian CaylOr Vault will give out more than 20,000 free comic books. The shop’s “mini-con” event will also showcase local artists and writers, wrestlers, roller derby athletes and food trucks. Parents grab your kiddos, kiddos grab your friends and head to Empire’s Saturday. 1120 Fulton Avenue, www.empirescomics.com.

will feed the story of her life back to her. This show explores what we would remember and what we would forget, along with the mysteries of human identity. through 6/3. $22-$47. 2215 J St.

SpoKen worD anD youtH Digital Film premiere: A showcase of Native youth digital stories, artists, singers and poets. 6pm, no cover. Sol Collective, 2574 21st St.

creSt tHeatre: Blackheart Burlesque. The SuicideGirls perform the smart, geeky, sexy pop-culture burlesque show. 9pm Saturday, 5/5. $25-$125. 1013 K St.

MOnday, 5/7 ALIENS: This modern classic blends science fiction and horror, as a commercial spacecraft responds to an SOS signal to discover the hive colony of an unknown creature. 7pm, $9. Tower Theatre, 2508 Land Park Drive.

DietricH tHeatre: Broadway Pops—A Musical Revue 2018. A production of the best-loved Broadway show tunes, from Motown the Musical to La La Land to The Greatest Showman. through 5/6. $24.50-$39.50. 5000 Rocklin Road in Rocklin.

FinniSH temperance Hall: 1776. This Tonywinning musical drama goes behind the scenes of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. through 5/13. $12-$17. 4090 Rocklin Road in Rocklin.

COMEdy blacKtop comeDy: Rocklin Comedy Jam. Two nights of comedy with 10 hilarious comedians, including headliner Eulalio Magana and host Paul Conyers. through 5/5. $15-$20. 3101 Sunset Blvd., Suite 6A in Rocklin.

laugHS unlimiteD comeDy club: Ladies Night Out. Featuring singer William Mininfield, poet Terry Moore, fitness specialist Danielle Duffy, poet Toine Houston and singer Chris Jones. 8pm thursday, 5/3. $10-$25. Shaun Jones. With Isak Allen. through 5/6. $10. 1207 Front St.

monDavi center: An Evening with David Sedaris.

The humor writer makes a stop in Davis. 8pm wednesday, 5/9. $20. 1 Shields Ave. in Davis.

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A surreal look at suburbia, full of imperfect lovers and dreamers. through 5/5. $10$18. 6000 J St.

Sac State univerSity tHeatre: Comic Operas.

Two fully staged operas follow an engaged couple who don disguises to learn more about one another, and doctor whose patients keep getting in the way of his wedding night. through 5/6. $15. 6000 J St.

tHe guilD tHeater: Oak Park Speaker Series. The series kicks off with a talk and book signing by journalist, talk show host and author Roland Martin. Attendees must purchase a book from Underground Books to attend the signing. 6pm wednesday, 5/9. 2828 35th St.

tHeatre in tHe HeigHtS: Twelfth Night.

Shakespeare’s gender-bending comedy of unrequited love and romantic mischief. through 5/12. $15. 8215 Auburn Boulevard, Suite G in Citrus Heights.

caliFornia Stage: Lydia. This unflinching portrait of a Mexican immigrant family caught in a web of dark secrets is set in the 1970s on the Texas border separating the United States and Mexico. through 5/27. $15-$20. 1723 25th St.

tHree penny tHeater: Uncle Vanya. Anton

capital Stage: Marjorie Prime. The aging Marjorie is a jumble of fading memories, but in the age of AI, her handsome new companion

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After Hours. Adult-only evening tours cover the alluring dark secrets and racy tales lurking in Old Sacramento’s underground history. through mid-october. $20. 101 I St.

de Hoy. Latin American artists including Alda Nuvia, Raul Mejia, Arturo Romero and others with work around the theme “The Fight is Now.” See an interview with the event organizer on page 47. 5pm Saturday, 5/5. 2700 Front St.

pence gallery: Bay Area Clay—A Legacy of Social Consciousness. Works by artists including Arthur Gonzalez, michelle Gregor, Marc Lancet, Lisa Reinertson and more. through 5/7. no cover. 212 D St. in Davis.

Sacramento State: Flight Discussion. Members of the Royal Chicano Air Force (RCAF) discuss their latest work, Flight, a 35-foot mural that hangs in the Golden 1 Center. 6:30pm wednesday, 5/3. no cover. 6000 J St. in Mendocino Hall.

Boundaries—A Fantasy and Science Fiction Art Exhibition. This exhibit that precedes the Intergalactic Expo will feature original work inspired by the theme as well as fan art.

Artist reception will be held at 5pm Thursday, 5/3. through 5/30. no cover. 1075 West Capitol Ave. in West Sacramento.

artSpace1616: May Exhibit. Features new works by Julian Faulkner, Aaron Petersen, Marc Foster, David Mayhew. through 6/2. no cover. 1616 Del Paso Blvd.

Star warS Day: Meet intergalactic characters

and make a Star Wars-themed craft. 11am, $5. Fairytale Town, 3901 Land Park Drive.

SPOrtS & OutdOOrS bOOKS tHurSday, 5/3 cHilDren’S booK weeK: Features story time, activities, a book fair a nd giveaways each day of the week. 10am, $5. Fairytale Town, 3901 Land Park Drive.

Friday, 5/4 arDen-DimicK library FrienDS booK Sale:

Friday, 5/4 biKe party Sacramento: Ride you must, and take back spring from the dark side. Arrive around 7pm, socialize and light up your bike. The 12mile, two-stop group ride will take off around 8pm. 7pm, no cover. 28th and C St.

FirSt FriDay Flow at Sutter’S Fort: Practice yoga on the exterior grounds of Sutter’s Fort. 6pm, no cover. Sutter’s Fort State Historic Park, 2701 L St.

Hundreds of books will be available at low prices during this two-day sale. Proceeds support the library. 1pm, no cover. ArdenDimick Library, 891 Watt Ave.

autHor event—tim palmer: Award-winning photographer, nature writer and former Davis resident Tim Palmer presents his latest collection, Wild and Scenic Rivers: An American Legacy. 7:30pm, no cover. Avid Reader, 617 Second St. in Davis.

Saturday, 5/5 arDen-DimicK library FrienDS booK Sale: Hundreds of books will be available at low prices during this two-day sale. Proceeds support the library. 10am, no cover. ArdenDimick Library, 891 Watt Ave.

Story Hour witH marcia KaSabacH: The local author presents her debut picture book, What Color Is My Day? 3pm, $15.95. Avid Reader, 617 Second St. in Davis.

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caliFornia muSeum: And Still We Rise in 2018.

A day of festivities in conjunction with the museum’s installation of the national traveling exhibit, And Still We Rise: Race, Culture and Visual Conversations (which runs through 5/27). Features verbal quilt appraisals, a family history booth, sales from fiber artists

of Star Wars. 8pm, no cover ($5-$10 per lightsaber). Fremont Park, 1515 Q St.

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ClaSSES tHurSday, 5/3 acu-aroma yoga SerieS: This weekly four-class series on acupressure, aromatherapy and yin yoga begins this week. Class will cover emotional balancing themes such as stress relief, focus and clarity, joy and self-compassion. 5pm, $60-$70. Kris Shevlin Physical Therapy and Pilates, 708 57th St.

garDen to pantry picKling vegetableS: Learn to use seasonal produce and fruit for lactofermented pickles, quick-brined refrigerated pickles as well as traditional shelf-stable pickle. 6pm, $25. Soil Born Farms American River Ranch, 2140 Chase Drive in Rancho Cordova.

Sunday, 5/6 roSe walK anD talK: Learn about the history of this award-winning garden with the rose garden curator and volunteers. 1pm, no cover (donations accepted). Sacramento Historic Rose Garden, 1000 Broadway.

miDtown’S maSSive Saber battle to ligHt up tHe nigHt: May the fourth be with all the nerds who battle it up in this annual celebration

Sac State playwrigHtS’ tHeatre: Love/Sick.

puncH line: Brad Williams. Comedian and actor

stops in Sac. through 5/4. $22.50-$32.50. Chris Franjola. Writer, comedian and regular performer on Chelsea Lately. Through 5/6. $17.50. Cheap Rent with Max Rosenblum.

Featuring local comedians. 8pm wednesday, 5/9. $16. 2100 Arden Way, Suite 225.

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Chekhov’s tragicomic masterpiece of yearning and regret. through 5/6. $20. 1723 25th Street.

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Folsom Handcar Derby Broadstone Market Place, 9 a.M., no cover-$125

Pushing a handcar: It’s an activity that reminds us of a time long past, when folks regularly rode the rails. Each spring, Folsom revives the tradition of pushin’ the old Kalamazoo during the annual Folsom Handcar Derby. On Saturday, teams will go through orientation and on Sunday, they’ll show off their skills for a crowd of spectators during SportS anD outDoorS the derby. The top teams get prizes and, of course, bragging rights.

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Sunny Sweeney & Ward Davis, Tennessee Jet, 8pm, $20-$100

Ekolu, Melvin Sings Project, 7pm, $15-$20

Horse Feathers, 7pm, T, $15-$17; Stephen Jay & Jim “Kimo” West, 5:30pm, W, $20-$25

Total Recall, 10pm, $5

HOF (Hall of Fame) Top 40 Dance Party, 10pm, call for cover

Island Vibes Reggae Night, 10pm, call for cover

The Trivia Factory, 7pm, M, no cover; Geeks Who Drink, 7pm, T, no cover

Taking Fox Hollow, Hi, Mom and more, 6pm, $10-$12

Kingdom of Giants, Artisvns and more, 6:30pm, $12

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The Dangerous Summer, 6pm, M, $15$18; Motograter, 6:30pm, T, $12-$14

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Back in the Day—Old School Dance Party, 10pm, $10

Candyrat Guitar Night w / Luca Stricagnoli, Antoine Dufour, 6pm, $25

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(1643-1727) was among history’s three most influential scientists. Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) has been described as the central figure in modern philosophy. Henry James (1843-1916) is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English literature. John Ruskin (1819-1900) was a prominent art critic and social thinker. What did these four men have in common? They never had sex with anyone. They were virgins when they died. I view this fact with alarm. What does it mean that Western culture is so influenced by the ideas of men who lacked this fundamental initiation? With that as our context, I make this assertion: If you hope to make good decisions in the coming weeks, you must draw on the wisdom you have gained from being sexually entwined with other humans.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Every so often,

a painter has to destroy painting,” said 20thcentury abstract expressionist painter Willem

de Kooning. “Cézanne did it. Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did it. He busted our idea of a picture all to hell.” In de Kooning’s view, these “destructive” artists performed a noble service. They demolished entrenched ideas about the nature of painting, thus liberating their colleagues and descendants from stale constraints. Judging from the current astrological omens, Libra, I surmise the near future will be a good time for you to wreak creative destruction in your own field or sphere. What progress and breakthroughs might be possible when you dismantle comfortable limitations?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Mayflies are

aquatic insects with short life spans. Many species live less than 24 hours, even though the eggs they lay may take three years to hatch.

I suspect this may be somewhat of an apt metaphor for your future, Scorpio. A transitory or short-duration experience could leave a legacy that will ripen for a long time before it hatches. But that’s where the metaphor breaks down. When your legacy has fully ripened—when it becomes available as a living presence—I bet it will last a long time.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): When a

critic at Rolling Stone magazine reviewed the Beatles’ Abbey Road in 1969, he said some of the songs were “so heavily overproduced that they are hard to listen to.” He added, “Surely they must have enough talent and intelligence to do better than this.” Years later, however, Rolling Stone altered its opinion, naming Abbey Road the 14th best album of all time.

I suspect, Sagittarius, that you’re in a phase with metaphorical resemblances to the earlier assessment. But I’m reasonably sure that this will ultimately evolve into being more like the later valuation—and it won’t take years.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): According to

my analysis of the astrological omens, love should be in full bloom. You should be awash in worthy influences that animate your beautiful passion. So how about it? Are you swooning and twirling and uncoiling? Are you overflowing with a lush longing to celebrate the miracle of being alive? If your answer is yes, congratulations. May your natural intoxication levels continue to rise. But if my description doesn’t match your current experience, you may be out of sync with cosmic rhythms. And if that’s the case, please take emergency measures. Escape to a sanctuary where you can shed your worries and inhibitions and maybe even your clothes. Get drunk on undulating music as you dance yourself into a dreamy love revelry.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Life never

gives you anything that’s all bad or all good.” So proclaimed the smartest Aquarian 6-year-old girl I know as we kicked a big orange ball around a playground. I agreed with her! “Twenty years from now,” I told her, “I’m going to remind you that you told me this heartful truth.” I didn’t tell her the corollary that I’d add to her axiom, but I’ll share it with you: If anything or anyone or seems to be all bad or all good, you’re probably not seeing the big picture. There are exceptions, however! For example, I bet you will soon experience or are already experiencing a graceful stroke of fate that’s very close to being all good.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “Enodation” is an

old, nearly obsolete English word that refers to the act of untying a knot or solving a knotty problem.

“Enodous” means “free of knots.” Let’s make these your celebratory words of power for the month of May, Pisces. Speak them out loud every now and then. Invoke them as holy chants and potent prayers leading you to discover the precise magic that will untangle the kinks and snarls you most need to untangle.

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Art at the intersection Frida Kahlo gazes down the Sacramento street alongside Carlos Santana and other icons of Mexican and Latino culture, as artist Raul Mejia extols the virtues of a Chando’s taco. Mejia, a 38-year-old Sacramento painter, focused on the intersection of American and Latin American culture, painted the mural at Chando’s Cantina, and another at Cantina Alley. With a Cinco de Mayo show on his mind, he pulled out his phone to show a brightly depicted, pop art-style luchadora ripping off an American flag mask. Another punches the president. “I was just so frustrated and angry,” Mejia says. “I can’t physically do that, but I can battle through art.” Mejia talked with SN&R about culture, representation and what it means to create art in the Trump era.

How were you drawn to art? How does politics relate?

It started as a way to relax. It was my therapy before it turned into language. I started drawing my friends as The Simpsons.

People started buying sketches and drawings and I never stopped. I was drawing body figures from X-Men, emulating comic book characters, which taught me the bone and muscle structures of human beings. My illustrative style definitely comes from that range. Being Chicano comes with certain stereotypes; I want to obliterate those.

I’m not a one-dimensional character.

People dehumanize each other and see you like they do in TV, as a vato, or with an American accent; you rarely see the one who just loves comic books or video games. For me, it’s important to be nerdy, to be free, to be happy. I make art people can consume.

Everyone can relate to illustration. I’ve seen one-line drawings that move people more than a fine art piece can.

For me, it’s always been important to weave my artwork in the tapestry of America. It doesn’t need to be expensive to have impact. I recreate paintings sometimes since not everyone has my art. In Mexican or Latin American culture, we don’t have a lot of pop art, so for us, it’s not even Chicano—it’s kind of unheard of. That’s why I thought it was necessary for me to make pop art with Mexican imagery, ingraining us further into American culture.

Is your art about paying bills or passion?

There’s nothing wrong with paying the bills.

Biggie says “Mo‘ money, mo‘ problems.”

PHOTO BY MICHAEL MOTT

I say “No money, mo‘ problems.” We all have to figure out what works for us individually as artists. We really have one chance at this, though. I feel like Super Mario sometimes, trying to save the princess. We’ve got to make it count, so I say speak from the heart always. There’s nothing wrong with paying the bills. There’s a conflict there. But I always ask myself, “Who am I laboring for?” All artists need an answer to their “why.”

What advice would you give to a young artist?

My advice would be don’t take anyone’s advice. Do what feels right. Don’t be concerned about how people feel about your work. You know how you feel. It’s the kiss of death when you’re super focused on what other people will like.

Enjoy the process and have fun. That resonates to people. When you’re mad at the universe, it gets mad back at you.

Don’t miss your opportunity to be honest, especially right now. Take risks. When I don’t take risks, nobody cares; when I do, everyone does.

How does your identity affect your pieces?

I’m not Chicano and I’m not completely Mexican. I was raised with Mexican parents, but can’t deny I was a skateboarder in high school. Since I fall in between, I’ve tried to create a sanctuary for people like me. My art reflects subjects that have to do with neither being here nor there and finding our own.

I decided to create art that is in the middle. It’s really important for me to make this since it doesn’t exist for my people. The Latin American people need to feel like we belong, especially right now. There’s a lot of

heinous and awful things that were said and are hurtful. My response to that is creating this art.

My parents migrated here. My father worked the fields and my mother was a seamstress. I was born in Mexico City and raised here, and that creates conflict in me.

I’m bordering the two cultures. I want to live up to that by bridging the gap.

This wall at Chando’s was created because of all the things being said against Mexicans in politics. It was necessary to create this, not for myself or the Mexican people per se, but for the youth. They need to know there’s still people fighting for them.

I want to be part of a movement. If I’m not part of one, let me start one. If I have a message, it’s be as free as you want to be. Tomorrow is not guaranteed.

When you use rhetoric that our people are “bad,” that’s the way Hitler talked. If DT’s going to do anything good, it will be uniting us to kick his ass out. That’s how I really feel. I would personally feel great shame knowing if I did nothing to help.

We need to normalize Mexican American culture so this city lives and breathes Chicano history. Certain people push back and try to “Make America Great Again.” It’s already great. We just have to make it better. That’s my drive as an artist; being an American, a patriot. Pointing out the lies and deceits and bigotry that stands against the true American code: The pursuit of happiness. Ω Raul Mejia and more than 20 other Latin American artists will showcase paintings and more in “La Lucha de Hoy,” or the “Fight of Today,” Saturday, May 5, 6 p.m. to midnight at the Latino Center of Arts and Culture, 2700 Front Street. Find Mejia’s work on Instagram @soytiger.

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