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Vote for Noah Phillips anyway In 1988, Lee Atwater, a ruthless political strategist, came up with the most notorious attack campaign of all time by suggesting that candidate Mike Dukakis was responsible for a series of murders committed by a parolee named Willie Horton. The campaign, and the television ad featuring the mug shot of Horton, an African American, are still discussed in political communications classes today. I was reminded of this campaign today watching an ad released Monday by District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert’s campaign. Featuring a reference to the website sacramentounderattack.com, the ad is designed to frighten the supporters of her opponent, Noah Phillips. Mimicking the Willie Horton ad, it lingers on the mug shot of an African-American man who was involved in a case Phillips prosecuted. I will never be convinced that this ad was not designed to incite voters who are witnessing the Black Lives Matter protest against Schubert into seeing that protest as an “attack against Sacramento.” That is despicable. The Sacramento Under Attack website says: “Phillips supports reducing punishment for sex crimes. Including rape on an unconscious victim and lewd acts with a child.” As evidence, it simply cites his support for California Proposition 57, which allows parole consideration for nonviolent felons, and passed in 2006 with a 65 percent majority. Two days after launching the attack ad, Schubert’s campaign leaked an email from Phillips to his uncle. This was a response to an unfunny, sexist email that the 70-year-old had sent to his nephew, and Phillips’ response was, without a doubt, inappropriate. The email might have disqualified him from getting my vote and endorsement in another campaign, but not this one. In this race, the stakes are too high. Sacramento has been in the national news for a couple of years now because our city is symbolic of one of our nation’s most serious problems. The 10foot fence surrounding our DA’s office is symbolic as well. Anne Marie Schubert’s meek response to officer-involved shootings in Sacramento show very poor judgment, as do this week’s desperate political moves. The only good news is that she might have some polling that shows she’s in trouble. Let’s hope so.
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Notorious RBG review Re “RBG” by Daniel Barnes (Film, May 17): Perhaps your movie reviewer did not see the RBG movie that I saw. He gave it a two-star rating—I give it 10 stars! Everything he said that was not seen in the movie WAS seen in the movie, and very well done. The movie emphasized Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s part in giving women equal rights in the work force, her bipartisan decisions in the court, and her love for her family and country. The audience gave an enthusiastic round of applause when the movie finished, which you don’t hear very often. Reviewer, see the movie again! sondRa mEyER s a c ra m e nt o v i a s act ol et t er s @ n ew s r e v i e w . c o m
Cox for sheriff Re “It’s a real horse race for Sacramento sheriff” by Raheem F. Hosseini (News, March 8): To be fair, you should update this or write a new article including details of Milo Fitch’s “misconduct allegations” (granted they were released well
after this was published). The fact that Milo retired early (for less money than full retirement) rather than face the pending investigation. I tried looking at that as objectively as possible, but it reeks of guilt and truth. I absolutely do not like Scott Jones, and Bret Daniels is a really bad candidate IMHO.
I’m gonna have to go with Donna Cox on this one. Retired mother of two with a chip on her shoulder regarding pro-bro and harassment bias within the force. I think she is the only logical person that can bring some much-needed positive change. Perhaps you can look into her a little more. Inquiring voter minds would/should like to know. Thank you. Paul EusEy E l k G ro v e v i a ne w s re v i e w . c o m
Still not enough Re “Council long shots take the competition to task over homeless policies” by Raheem F. Hosseini (Beats, February 18, 2016): It’s interesting to see that since this article was written back in 2016, nothing has changed. The city council continues to do next to nothing to solve the homeless crisis that is now significantly worse
in 2018 as a result of the rising rents and opioid epidemic. I recently began going to the city council meetings and I am teaming up with new activists such as Kimberly Church to give renewed vigor to the campaign to find housing for the homeless as well as health services. I truly believe with the exception of Jeff Harris that the entire city council needs to be replaced. It is corrupt and ineffectual. I vow to be as polite as possible when speaking at these meetings because I do believe that part of the problem is that some of the activists have become so cynical and angry (and with good reason) that they have permanently turned off the members of the city council. I will work hard to end this combativeness within the activist community. Things are so bad though with regards to the future of this city that I may have to run sooner than later and leave the teaching profession sooner than
later. I love being a teacher and I am truly a public servant in helping these kids achieve their goals. JEnn RoGaR
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The rent control elections Sacramento City Council incumbents embrace housing views of their larger donors by Scott thomaS anderSon
On Monday, a group of seniors got an up-close preview of next month’s primary contest between Sacramento City Councilman Jay Schenirer and his District 5 challenger, Tamika L’Ecluse. For the 60 people crowding around the candidates in the break room of the Curtis Park Court Senior Apartments, the stakes couldn’t be higher. That’s because the managers of this federally-designated low-income complex had just hit every resident with their second rent hike in nine months. At least five tenants were forced out by the first increase. Now, paperwork for the second price hike had arrived with a number of eviction notices. Since the apartments’ ownership received public subsidies from the city, Schenirer attended the gathering with a 8 | SN&R | 05.24.18
team from the Sacramento Redevelopment and Housing Agency, as well as the building’s onsite management. The panel absorbed a collective wave of fear, shock and anger. “I’m already on Meals on Wheels, so cutting back food is out,” stressed Jackie Hilderbrand. “I’m worried I’m going to be on the streets next.” She looked at the manager and added, “When you just said that $70 isn’t that much money, I almost fell out of my chair.” For Hilderbrand, that chair is a wheelchair. L’Ecluse watched from a corner, where she received hugs from several residents. She’s made the city’s housing crisis a focal point of her campaign. With the city experiencing some of the nation’s highest
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year-to-year rent increases, L’Ecluse and Schenirer have both heard stories of residents being priced out. But they disagree about what will stop the displacement. L’Ecluse is in favor of enacting some type of rent control. Schenirer is strongly against that, preferring instead to look for ways to build more market-rate housing and, in theory, stabilize prices over time. An SN&R analysis of campaign filings shows that the housing positions staked out by Schenirer and fellow incumbents facing challenges to their reelection bids happen to align with the views of some of their largest donors. In the last four years, Schenirer has accepted $57,525 in contributions from developers, real estate interests,
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construction companies and building trade unions. At least $27,800 of that came from groups actively opposing rent control. L’Ecluse, by contrast, has taken zero dollars from those groups, raising her $35,500 war chest almost entirely from individual donations. A similar trend is playing out in the city’s other contested council races. District 7 representative Rick Jennings also opposes rent control. His challenger, Tristan Brown, says rent control is desperately needed to prevent more locals from being forced out of the city or into homeless camps. Campaign filings show that Jennings has raised $65,075 from developers, real estate interests, construction companies and building trade unions in the last four years. At least $38,259 of that came from groups that have lobbied against rent control. Brown, on the other hand, has spent the last two years collecting $40,779 for his campaign, with virtually none coming from those groups. In the District 1 race, Councilwoman Angelique Ashby has said she’s “open to discussions” about rent control but hasn’t publicly advocated for it. Conversely, her challenger, Gabriell Garcia, says rent control is needed to prevent neighborhoods from further unraveling.
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Hope foR Hospice Ashby raised $44,100 from developers, units in the county are owned by out-ofreal estate interests, construction companies town corporations or Wall Street hedge and building trade unions in the last four funds, the rent control battle isn’t primarily years. At least $14,050 of that has come about mom-and-pop landlords. from groups against rent control. L’Ecluse says she knew that confronting Garcia has hustled all of her $6,000 the housing crisis meant not accepting from residents and small business owners. campaign contributions from developers, While calling for caps on rent may not property managers and real estate interests. be a formula for raising campaign cash, When one developer tried to write a sizable there are signals that the strategy may check to L’Ecluse—well-known Schenirer ring true with voters. A pent-up demand enemy Paul Petrovich—she says the money for relief on the housing front has already was promptly returned. garnered thousands of signatures “There is a conflict when you’re to place a city rent control accepting huge donations from initiative on the November the California Apartment ballot. The desperation Association and all the big When one of the very people realtors,” L’Ecluse said. most likely to vote “I made a pledge not developer tried to was on full display to take money from write a sizable check on May 21. any interests that would compromise to L’Ecluse—well-known after listening to my values.” Schenirer enemy Paul worried pleas and irate venting, Petrovich—she says the similar questions Schenirer told the are swirling around money was promptly seniors he’d act as a the District 7 race returned. liaison between them between Jennings and and Curtis Park Court’s Brown. When the two ownership. recently appeared together in “I want you to be happy—I front of the Sacramento League of want you to be here,” Schenirer said. Women Voters, Jennings said he’s against “You want our vote!” a man yelled from rent control because he thinks it could the back. “Act like you care!” hinder building and economic growth. “You can vote for whoever you want, Brown told SN&R that he was frustrated you can vote for Tamika, this isn’t about but not surprised by his opponent’s answer. that,” Schenirer stressed. “This is about That’s because Brown was already aware doing what’s right.” of the money Jennings has accepted from But some attendees later told SN&R special interest groups. that Schenirer’s assurances that he puts their “Once you’re an elected official who welfare ahead of real estate corporations is forms those alliances, I think it can be really hard to believe. And money is the reason hard to part course with them,” Brown they doubt. said. “Generally, big money can put public Schenirer doesn’t deny that something officials in a really difficult position.” needs to be done about Sacramento’s Jennings’ chief of staff, Dennis Rogers, skyrocketing rents. The two-time incumbent stressed the campaign contributions play told SN&R that he’s been hearing alarmno role in the councilman’s views on rent ing eviction stories all over his district, control. particularly in Oak Park. But Schenirer “Anyone who’s done any work with worries that rent control could make the Rick understands his integrity,” Rogers said. problem worse by dissuading building and “His position is what he believes in from a investment. policy perspective.” “I don’t think it’s going to be good The concern that rent control might for bringing the housing supply up in our intensify the housing crisis is shared by area, which is a key factor in all the rent Mayor Darrell Steinberg. However, when increases,” Schenirer explained. that claim came up at a February 14 housL’Ecluse, who’s a landlord herself, ing summit in downtown Sacramento, it disagrees that a carefully vetted rent control prompted a heated exchange between Matt policy would hurt businesses or stop famiRegan of the Bay Area Council and Dean lies like hers from getting a fair return on Preston, executive director of the renters’ their rental investments. L’Ecluse said she advocacy group Tenants Together. During and her husband have learned that keeping a panel discussion, Regan alluded to a good tenants stabilized in their units over University of Chicago survey and told the time is a sound way to operate. She also crowd, “Ninety-nine percent of America’s notes that, given that the majority of rental top economists believe that rent controls,
over the long term, have a deleterious effect on housing affordability.” That comment drew an emphatic response from the man next to him. “To say you’re data-driven and then drop some really misleading, non-datadriven points?” Preston challenged. “There are data studies to show the statement around rent control inhibiting new construction is absolutely false, and I have five of them sitting in front of me. That is a talking point repeated over and over, and there is zero data in the state of California to show that.” During the summit, Preston and Assemblyman David Chiu also expressed concerns about the vast amount of financial support developers and real estate firms are leveraging across elections in California. Garcia said a glance at local campaign filings, including those of her opponent, should give voters the same concerns. “I’ve been telling people throughout the campaign, if you saw the money, then you finally feel like it makes sense when it comes to the decisions they make,” Garcia said. Ashby did not respond to interview requests by press time. Within certain parameters of state law, city leaders are empowered to enact rent control measures. The council chambers have been filled several times over the last year with people begging them—sometimes tearfully—to do exactly that. The reluctance from the other side of the dais has now prompted housing advocates and labor unions to launch a ballot initiative called the Sacramento Renter Protection and Community Stabilization Charter Amendment. Organizers expect to meet the signature-gathering threshold for the November ballot by early next month. However, even if that measure passes in the fall, it might need the City Council to defend it. When voters in Richmond and Mountain View circumvented their elected officials to pass rent control, they later relied on their respective cities’ attorneys to defend those initiatives against lawsuits from the California Apartment Association. For his part, 50 minutes of listening to fear and loathing in Curtis Park was all Schenirer had time for. His early departure prompted hands to shoot up and voices to call out to him. “I’ll be setting up a meeting in a couple weeks,” he assured them. “I’m not going anywhere.” “Well I am,” replied tenant Jerome Malbrough. “I’m getting evicted.” Ω
People upset over a homeless hospice facility planned in Sacramento’s River District got an emphatic reply from elected officials and public speakers at City Hall last week: Deal with it. On May 15, the City Council voted unanimously to approve the project, known as Joshua’s House, and deny an appeal by the Alkali Mansion Flats Historic Neighborhood Association. The hospice, which the city’s planning and design commission approved in April, is slated to transform a historic warehouse at 1501 North C Street into a 20-bed bastion for terminally ill people living outdoors. Councilman Jeff Harris, who motioned to deny the appeal, said he knew of three people in his district who’d experienced such anonymous endings in the past year. “When they perish in the bushes, quite frankly, that belongs to all of us,” Harris said. No council members spoke against the project. Fifteen of the 17 people who spoke during public comment were in support of it. “The only problem I have is this should’ve been done years ago in Sacramento,” said resident Robert Coplin. Neighborhood association president Sean Wright said he generally supported the project but questioned its location. If Wright or anyone else sues the city under the California Environmental Quality Act in the next 30 days, they could face a stiff defense as Joshua’s House has pro bono support from the powerful North State Building Industry Association, as well as the Thomas Law Group, which specializes in CEQA cases. (Graham Womack)
MaRKing a Milestone May marks the 100-year anniversary of women serving in the California Legislature. The Public Policy Institute of California recently hosted a special event to commemorate the milestone, one that included a forum on the importance of gender diversity in the state house. At the start of the afternoon, PPIC board member Maria Blanco recalled the first wave of tough, legislative ladies who broke California’s political glass ceiling in 1918. It was four women who walked up the marble steps that day. However, those candidates’ fire and enthusiasm has not always been matched in recent times. “The number of women in the California legislature is at its lowest since 1998,” Blanco noted. “There are only nine women in the Senate out of 40 senators, and 19 women in the Assembly out of 80 Assembly members.” These numbers mean california has a lower percentage of women in state office than Washington, Oregon, Nevada and Arizona. “So, while we’re here to celebrate, I think we’re also here to encourage women to participate,” Blanco stressed. Another speaker was Toni Atkins, the first female president pro tem of the California State Senate. During a conversation with PPIC President Mark Baldassare, Atkins said the tide of women getting involved is now coursing back in the right direction. “I see more women running,” Atkins observed. “But studies still show us that women shy away from running for a lot of reasons.” The pro tem added, “ All of the great young women I meet are working hard on an issue. Great, follow your heart, do something you believe in, get engaged, be part of it; but then seriously think, ‘Could I be someone to be appointed, elected or run?’ … That will change the culture—being represented.” (Scott Thomas Anderson) Ω
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It’s one of the darkest blights on the 20th century, when the United States allowed people committed to psychiatric wards and other state-run facilities to be neutered without their consent. California was a leading agent of the draconian practice known as eugenics, accounting for approximately one-third of all forced sterilizations in the nation. Now, as a recent study highlights just how brazenly racist California’s eugenics program actually was, a bill that would have compensated the surviving victims for the injustices they bore is languishing in the state Senate. It’s unclear whether Senate Bill 1190 will be put to a vote this year. The proposed legislation would create a financial reparations program under the California Victim Compensation Board, to give a yet-to-be-determined amount of money to survivors of forced sterilizations. On April 30, the Senate Committee on Appropriations placed Sen. Nancy Skinner’s bill on its suspense file, which may prevent it from advancing this year. Popularized as a way to eliminate
hereditary disorders, genetic defects and traits deemed “abnormal” by the social structures of the time, eugenics practices were most popular during the early part of the 20th century, but remained legal for seven decades in California, where at least 20,000 people underwent medical procedures to prevent them from procreating. A recent medical study says Latinas and Latinos were disproportionately targeted by California’s eugenics policy thanks to antiMexican hostilities in the state. Those attitudes have been revived generations later by a Trump administration that recently ended a policy that limited the detention of pregnant undocumented women. “This new policy further exposes the cruelty of Trump’s detention and deportation force by endangering the lives of pregnant immigrant women,” Victoria Lopez, American Civil Liberties Union senior staff counsel, said in a written statement. According to an article in the March issue of American Journal of Public Health, Latinas in state-run institutions were 59 percent more likely to be
subjected to forced sterilization procedures. Latino men in these hospitals were at 29 percent greater risk than their counterparts of different ethnicity. “Eugenic thinking inscribed ‘scientific’ legitimacy to racial stereotypes of Latinas/ os as inferior and unfit to reproduce,” wrote the authors of the March article. “In California, eugenics programs were linked to efforts to reduce immigration, particularly from Mexico, during a time when growing anti-Mexican sentiment manifested in school segregation and racial housing covenants.” California had the most active eugenics program in the nation, with a third of all documented compulsory sterilizations occurring in the state between 1909 and the 1950s. The practice was finally outlawed in 1979. The American Journal article estimated that 831 of the 20,000 victims were still alive in 2016. The study prompted Skinner and her coauthors to introduce SB 1190. Similar laws have been adopted in recent years in Virginia and North Carolina, out of a total of 32 states with a history of permitting eugenics programs. The Senate appropriations committee placed the bill’s price tag at around $1.3 million, but it’s unclear why the six senators on the committee voted to put the measure on the suspense file. Sen. Pat Bates didn’t record a vote. Skinner remains confident that the bill will make it out of the suspense hearing planned this week. “Providing victims of California’s forced sterilizations with compensation has a cost, so it makes sense my bill, SB 1190, is being reviewed by the Appropriations Committee,” the Berkeley Democrat said in a statement provided to SN&R. “I’m optimistic SB 1190 will move forward and ultimately offer solace to living survivors of this horrible practice.” In 2003, California issued a formal apology for its eugenics legacy in the state hospital system. SB 1190 would be the first law in the state to specifically recognize that Latinos were disproportionately affected by state-authorized eugenics. The bill also names 12 state hospitals in total that would be required to place commemorative plaques to note that eugenics practices occurred. Stockton State Hospital is included in that list. Founded in 1851, the Stockton location was California’s first state-run
mental hospital and saw one of the largest volumes of patients. The superintendent of Stockton State Hospital from 1929 to 1946, Margaret Smyth, published multiple articles on her refined technique for sterilizations in medical journals. Smyth later praised Nazi Germany for emulating and massively expanding American eugenic sterilization practices, according to the San Joaquin Historical Society. After more than a century in operation, Stockton State Hospital closed its doors in 1996 after multiple reorganizations and downsizes in the state’s health system. The earliest patients to arrive at DeWitt State Hospital in Auburn were likely overflow patients of Stockton State Hospital. Originally a military hospital during World War II, DeWitt transformed into a state psychiatric hospital that was active from 1946 to 1972. Ralph Gibson, who oversees the museum at the former state hospital, says that sterilization practices may not have been as common here as DeWitt operated after the time period when eugenics was most popular. Gazing upon a table spread of aging electro-shock therapy instruments and lobotomy diagrams, Gibson said patients were, however, subject to the mental health treatments of the mid-20th century. “You were really incarcerated,” Gibson said. Many patients found their way after run-ins with police who might have deemed them more fit for the psychiatric ward than a jail. The hospital was also notoriously understaffed. Compared to the military hospital days that employed up to 2,000 staff, for the mental hospital only 200-to300 staff were available for about 3,000 patients, Gibson said. Most of the state hospital system shrank rapidly after 1968, when new laws required judicial review before mentally ill persons could be institutionally committed. DeWitt closed its doors in 1972. When Placer County repurposed the hospital for its administrative headquarters, it wasn’t uncommon for staffers to see the hospital’s former patients wandering the grounds when they came to work in the morning, Gibson said. Five former eugenics sites still remain up and running, including hospitals in Atascadero, Coalinga, Napa, Patton and Los Angeles. Ω
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Ronald Bell, left, has moved from running for Sacramento City Council to challenging Patrick Kennedy, right, for his seat on the county Board of Supervisors.
Pastor in the ointment Ronald Bell brings the only election intrigue to Sacramento’s most powerful political body by Dylan SvoBoDa
When next month’s June primary ballots are counted up, the most powerful political body in Sacramento County will likely be unchanged—unless Ronald Bell has his way. The retired pastor and frequent political candidate is providing the only intrigue to a drama-free election season for the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors. Two incumbents face no competition, while a third member of the five-person board, Supervisor Patrick Kennedy, is favored to defeat Bell on his way to a second term representing the Pocket, south Land Park, Hollywood Park, south Sacramento, Valley-Hi and Greenhaven communities in the unincorporated parts of the county. Indeed, Bell’s campaign is as grassroots as it gets. His wife is his campaign manager, his son-in-law is his consultant and his seven sisters make up his team, which is going door-to-door distributing signs. “It doesn’t take all they say it takes to run a campaign,” Bell said. “If you’ve got a good team, you can make it happen.” Local politicos give Bell virtually no shot at dethroning Kennedy. “What race?” said Steve Maviglio, a Sacramento-based Democratic consultant. “There doesn’t seem to be any real effort or opposition on behalf of Bell. It’s difficult to take out somebody who’s all over the place like Patrick.” Tab Berg, a right-leaning political consultant, agreed. “In campaigns, you never say never— there’s an upset in every cycle—but I just don’t see any of those indicators that an upset is in progress,” Berg said. Kennedy’s election four years ago, meanwhile, is responsible for altering the complexion of the board from a centerright political body that killed the county’s pioneering inclusionary housing ordinance to a center-left body that will soon determine the fate of the Sheriff’s Department’s 12
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detention contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In the unlikely case of his election, Bell would be the only African-American member of a board that has resisted diversity. Bell has been counted out before. He ran for Sacramento City Council’s District 8 seat three times—finishing second in each contest. Before he was elected supervisor, Kennedy served on Sacramento City Unified’s school board from 2008 to 2014, leading the campaign to pass bond measures Q and R. Four years ago, Kennedy defeated Jrmar Jefferson in a landslide, garnering 84 percent of the vote after Jefferson’s late entry into the race. Kennedy is running this time on his track record as supervisor. “We [the board] opened up an urgent care facility, where we allow walk-ins and law enforcement drop-offs, instead of just taking [mentally ill individuals] to an emergency room,” Kennedy said. Kennedy anticipates a significant improvement in homeless services over what he hopes to be his second term. “We’ve increased the options for homeless families and individuals,” Kennedy said. “If you have a dog, there’s now somewhere you can go. If you wanna keep your stuff, we’ve got a place you can go. If you’re addicted to drugs and alcohol, we’re not going to turn you away.” Despite his commitment to the lessfortunate, Kennedy’s campaign is primarily financed by development interests. Among his top donors are California Real Estate PAC, DeSilva Gates Construction, Silverado Homes and Teichert Inc. Kennedy has raised nearly $31,000, campaign finance disclosures show. Bell estimates he has $14,000, all from his recent retirement as a California DMV supervisor. Bell says he’s taken a vow of financial modesty.
“I’m not seeking funding or endorsements from anyone,” Bell said. “I don’t want to be beholden to anyone when I’m elected.” In past races, Bell has campaigned on opportunities for youth. This year, in light of the Parkland shooting and recent gun violence scares in Sacramento-area schools, Bell just wants to ensure schoolchildren make it home for dinner. “We live in a brave new world now,” Bell said. “The No. 1 concern of parents in the county is if their kids are going to come home from school. Reassuring parents that their little Johnny or Mary are going to make it home from school should be the No. 1 priority of the board.” Citing the community backlash to the death of Stephon Clark, an unarmed black father fatally shot by police, Bell also vowed if elected to declare a state of emergency in District 2, particularly in the lower-income areas east of Freeport Boulevard and south of Fruitridge Boulevard. “The climate in this district is very tense,” Bell said. “A state of emergency would drive funding, social workers, psychologists and physicians into District 2 and highlight all of the issues going on.” Not that long ago, Bell wasn’t the only person rumored to be coveting Kennedy’s seat. Two former Sacramento City Council members, Robert Fong and Robbie Waters, reportedly considered running. Waters was listed as a candidate on the county’s public portal online, but told SN&R he wasn’t running. Waters has been in the political wilderness since losing his council seat in 2010, which he blamed on a $2 million developer noncollection scandal his son presided over while employed with the city. Waters is also a former county sheriff who retired one year into his second term in 1987. Ω Raheem F. Hosseini contributed to this report.
Last BLue PusH A grassroots campaign to dethrone longtime Rep. Tom McClintock is coalescing around a group of Placer County-area organizations trying to turn California’s fourth congressional district from red to blue. The Sacramento Central Labor Council, Flip the 14 and California Away Team have created a field campaign made up of progressive organizations such as Indivisible Auburn, Indivisible Sierra Nevada and El Dorado Progressives, among others, to target infrequent voters in the fourth district. The groups’ new district action council will conduct eight door-to-door canvasses after just 27.1 percent of eligible voters participated in the last midterm primary election. Sean Frame, the founder of El Dorado Progressives, figures this race will be decided by less than 5,000 votes, making it essential to get independent and young voters to the polls. Suz Eckes, co-chair of the district action council, questioned McClintock’s environmental record and his representation of a portion of the state that stretches from the Sierras to Yosemite. “Our district is Lake Tahoe and Yosemite,” Eckes said. “It’s insane that we have someone who’s a climate change denier as the steward of those places.” California’s fourth congressional district has been a Republican stronghold since 1993, but some political experts are beginning to doubt whether CA-04 is as safely Republican as history would suggest. Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a nonpartisan election forecaster, recently downgraded McClintock’s reelection chances from safe to likely. The Cook Political Report expressed the same doubts in the former Breitbart op-ed columnist’s reelection chances, humbling the district from solid Republican to likely Republican. “With the surging democratic enthusiasm in the suburbs and nothing to run on but a toxic Republican agenda that puts powerful special interests over California families—it is no wonder that Tom McClintock is vulnerable,” said Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee spokesperson Amanda Sherman in a statement. Democratic frontrunner Jessica Morse stands to benefit the most from the district action council’s work. Endorsed by the Democratic Party of California, the former national security analyst has out-raised McClintock three quarters in a row and holds a cash-on-hand advantage of $715,094 to $675,811. Morse drew parallels between her campaign and Charlie Brown’s near-defeat of McClintock in the career politician’s first campaign for a congressional seat. “In 2008, Charlie Brown raised $2.5 million and came within half a percentage point of beating Tom McClintock,” Morse said. “Our campaign has [already] raised over $1 million, 78 percent coming from small-dollar donors.” The race also includes Democrats Regina Bateson, Robert Lawton and Roza Calderon, and one Republican, Mitchell White. (Dylan Svoboda) Ω
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The rising rapper’s sold-out show got delayed by protestors accusing him of cultural appropriation. But can you blame them? by Ngaio Bealum
So, I was walking down R Street, headed to the sold-out Hobo Johnson concert, when I hear loud call-and-response chanting. “You steal from us?! We shut you down! You steal from us?! We shut you down!” As I get closer, I see a culturally diverse group of about 20 protestors standing in front of the Ace of Spades nightclub, chanting and holding signs that say things like “Gentrification is white supremacy!” and “Cultural appropriation is white supremacy!” So, I’m standing there thinking, But why are they protesting Hobo Johnson? From what I know, he’s a random nerdy dude who happens to be a halfway decent rapper, whose endearing YouTube videos (6.2 million views on his NPR Tiny Desk concert so far) have garnered a young, cute and mostly white following. At first, I didn’t get it. A quick perusal through social media (there was a Facebook invite for the protest. My, how times have changed) lays out the reasons: the local magazine, Submerge, called him the “Pride of Oak Park,” although he is originally from Loomis and has only lived in Oak Park for a few years. Seeing as Oak Park is being gentrified with a quickness, it makes sense that longtime residents would feel slighted that this kid from Loomis is emerging as the “face” of the “new” Oak Park. To some, it may seem like a small thing, but to others, it is just another symptom of the rapid changes taking place all over Sacramento and Oak Park in particular. I talked to quite a few people waiting to see the show. One guy I talked to (young white dude, if it matters) was hella mad because he just wanted to smoke a little weed and enjoy a concert. He didn’t want to have to deal with having to think about the effects of gentrification or cultural appropriation or any of that. Tough for him. Now, maybe he has to think about it.
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At least for a little while. Another young man (He told me he is half Native American, if that matters) was all for the protest. Not necessarily because he agreed with it, but because Americans have a fundamental right to protest, and who was he to get in the way of that? I agree with him. At this point, we probably need more protests. And as protests go, it was fairly mellow. The police didn’t overreact, the management at Ace of Spades stayed calm and cool, the protesters made their point and the concert still took place, although it started a few hours later than scheduled. So, I have been working through my feelings. First, I feel empathy for Hobo Johnson. I mean, he’s just a young man that wants to make goofy rhymes and tour around playing music. He doesn’t really have a P.R. team (He should probably get one ASAP), and he most likely doesn’t know what to do about the controversy surrounding him. I totally get that. Second, I have hella empathy for the residents of Oak Park. It’s not just that the Sacramento DA doesn’t seem to care at all about police misconduct and unarmed civilians being shot to death by the cops, or that longtime residents have been priced out of the neighborhood, or that minority-owned businesses have been replaced by white businesses, but that no one in a position of authority seems to be doing anything to address these problems. So people have to protest. That’s just how it is. Kings games get protested, the High Times Cup (which was awesome, by the way) gets protested, and the Hobo Johnson concert gets a protest. I have no problem with it. In fact, I support it. Ω
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At this point, we probably need more protests. And as protests go, it was fairly mellow.
Ngaio Bealum is a Sacramento comedian, activist and the author of SN&R’s The 420 weekly pot column (see page 47).
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It is time to vote by jeff vonkaenel
If you are making over $400,000 a year and believe there is nothing wrong with the country going to hell in a hand basket, then please don’t read this column. This column is for the 99 percent of Americans who are not making over $400,000 a year, so we can protect ourselves from those who are. And between now and June 5, we can take an important step by voting in the California primary. I urge you to vote, not because it is your civic duty. Although it is. I urge you to vote because there are people out to screw you. The richest one percent of Americans now own 40 percent of America’s wealth, the highest percentage in the last 50 years. And that’s before their tax cut. And they want even more. Voting is one way to protect yourself. You can protect yourself from a criminal justice system with one set of rules for the white-collar criminal and another set of rules for everyone else. You can protect yourself from a future without enough housing, clean air or affordable education. While the super-rich can pour billions of dollars into campaign donations and lobbying to control the political process, we have more people. A lot more potential voters. But this only matters if we vote. It only matters if we vote for candidates and propositions that will help protect us. I’d like to offer my own personal recommendations for your June ballot, starting with the Sacramento City Council. During my 28-year tenure in Sacramento, this is the best mayor and city council combination that we have ever had. They are working together and actually getting things done. I’ve been particularly impressed with Jeff Harris and Jay Schenirer. We should return all four incumbents.
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The three best Sacramento Supervisors are on the ballot. Phil Serna, Don Nottoli and Patrick Kennedy all deserve your support. Kennedy is the only one with opposition. Let’s return all three. Our Sacramento County sheriff’s and district attorney’s races are receiving national attention, as did the police shootings of Joseph Mann and Stephon Clark. Both our sheriff and district attorney need to go. We need reform. And we need to send a clear message by supporting Milo Fitch for Sheriff and Noah Phillips for District Attorney. The other important local race that is receiving national attention is the 4th congressional district race, where the truly awful, rude and tone-deaf Republican Tom McClintock is in a hotly contested campaign. My vote here goes to the candidate endorsed by the Democratic party, Jessica Morse. We should rally behind her, in part because this election could determine which party controls the House of Representatives. It matters. On the state propositions, please vote for Proposition 68, to raise $4 billion for parks, the environment and water projects. Vote. The super-rich throughout the country are trying their hardest to prevent you from voting. They are eliminating polling stations so poor voters have to wait hours to vote. They are implementing “voter fraud” measures, designed to suppress voter turnout. They are restricting voting days. And they are gerrymandering. The super-rich are afraid of democracy. They know how important your vote is. Do you? Ω
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veryone had a story. Some firsthand, many passed down from parent to child. Each with similarly eerie details: The sound of twigs snapping underfoot in the backyard on a moonless night. An unnerving sense of being watched by someone driving slowly down the street. The whir of police helicopters overhead, circling endlessly. Everyone had a story about the Golden State Killer, it seemed, except me. When police announced they’d finally arrested the suspected serial killer and rapist, however, I gasped with shock.
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I’d lived in Sacramento for years but never heard of the Golden State Killer, also known as the East Area Rapist (or EAR) and Original Night Stalker, until nearly five years ago when a friend emailed, wondering if I had any memories of him. She was asking for a writer researching the subject, she said. Before my time, but it sounded fascinating, I replied—then tucked the mention of him deep into the recesses of mind. In April, I finally picked up that writer’s book, Michelle McNamara’s I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer, and realized how closely his crimes once tracked a path through my community. Then, on April 25, authorities announced they’d arrested a suspect, 72-year-old Joseph James DeAngelo, now charged with 12 counts of homicide, including the 1978 murders of Brian and Katie Maggiore. Turns out he’d been here this whole time, living in Citrus Heights for the last 30 years. Police captured the former Auburn police officer after linking him through DNA evidence, and if they were right, they’d found the man responsible for killing a dozen people, raping as many as 50 others and burglarizing more than 120 homes across California in a crime spree that ranged between 1976 and 1986. Finally, closure for the victims and their families. Relief for the detectives who’d spent decades chasing down clues. Validation for McNamara, who’d put in years exhaustively researching her subject in hopes of identifying him through geographic profiling, DNA and other clues. Did Michelle McNamara ultimately help nab the Golden State Killer? “That’s a question we’ve gotten from all over the world … and the answer is no,” Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones told reporters after DeAngelo’s arrest. Her work kept the story in the public eye, Jones said, but that’s it. “There was no information extracted from that book that directly led to the apprehension,” he said. Others disagreed, including those who helped to complete the book after McNamara died unexpectedly in 2016, and her husband, the comedian Patton Oswalt, who posted a video to Instagram the day news broke. “Looks like they’ve caught the East Area Rapist, and if that’s true they’ve caught the Golden State Killer,” 18 | SN&R | 05.24.18
Oswalt said wearily into the camera. “I think you’ve got him, Michelle.”
‘I’m more optImIstIc there wIll be closure here’ The email landed in my inbox on November 1, 2013. “Do you guys remember the East Area Rapist? There’s a writer who runs a crime blog who’s been working on the case and almost has it solved,” Apryl Lundsten wrote in a message addressed to several family members and high-school-era friends, including me. Lundsten, a writer and filmmaker now living in Los Angeles, had reached out to McNamara after coming across her True Crime Diary blog. “I wrote to her immediately, because this story has haunted me for years,” Lundsten explained. In her correspondence with Lundsten, McNamara, who’d also written on the subject for Los Angeles magazine, sought to learn more and better understand Sacramento. “I’m just looking for those kind of flavorful details that make good writing—where did the kids hang out?” she wrote. “What were considered the nicer neighborhoods and/or did neighborhoods have kind of reputations or vibes about them? Did it seem like a scary time in the ’70s or more a small town feel?” She seemed confident, too, that she’d get her man. “By the way, the investigation is progressing rapidly,” McNamara wrote in closing. “I’m more optimistic there will be closure here than I’ve ever been.” Most of Lundsten’s friends were too young to fully understand the EAR’s crimes, but recalled their parents’ fears. “I think it was before I really grasped what rape even meant,” one woman wrote, adding a detail that stuck with her over the years. “My mom started to sleep with a hammer under her pillow.” Lundsten shared these and other memories with McNamara, many of which eventually ended up in the book. Part memoir, part true-crime study, I’ll Be Gone in the Dark mined rich detail from interviews, police reports and newspaper clippings. The prose is concise yet elegant, the reporting meticulously researched. McNamara’s interest in the case was rooted in another unsolved murder.
McNamara was 14 and living in Oak Park, Ill., when a neighborhood woman, 24-year-old Kathleen Lombardo, was dragged into an alley while out jogging one late summer evening. There, someone slit her throat as McNamara, less than a half-mile away in her attic bedroom, daydreamed about starting high school. The murder haunted McNamara. “[T]he monsters recede but never vanish. They are long dead and being born as I write,” she wrote in her first chapter. I picked up the book a few months after its February release and found myself consumed with McNamara’s obsession. I read passages aloud to my husband, pored over details with friends and hijacked my book club discussion. I’d moved to Sacramento in 1983, several years after the EAR’s last known crime in the area. But now McNamara’s obsession became mine as I read stories that crisscrossed through the quiet, leafy
Brian and Katie Maggiore were the first known murder victims of the East Area Rapist. The married couple was fatally shot while walking their dog in 1978.
I’d moved to Sacramento in 1983, several years after the EAR’s last known crime in the area. But now McNamara’s obsession become mine...
suburban neighborhoods where I spent my teenage years, including a possible sighting of the EAR at the elementary school my brothers attended, just a few blocks from our house. It seemed obvious to me that her book, at least in some small way, led to DeAngelo’s arrest. In the course of her research, for example, McNamara made a critical decision to rename the East Area Rapist. “Golden State Killer” was more accurate, she reasoned, because his crimes
eventually stretched up and down the state. There was another justification, too. “Here was a case that spanned a decade. … Neither the Zodiac Killer … nor the Night Stalker … were as active,” she wrote. “Yet the Golden State Killer has little recognition. He didn’t have a catchy name until I coined one.” A bold move, sure, but one that stuck. Upon his arrest, local law enforcement agents used McNamara’s nickname.
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Author Michelle McNamara spent years reporting on the unsolved crimes of the serial rapist and murderer she called the Golden State Killer.
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Eventually he moved to a different beat but never stopped thinking about the East Area Rapist. Gritzmacher kept in touch with other detectives working the case. He never met McNamara nor heard of her book until DeAngelo’s arrest. “I don’t think [the book] had anything to with his arrest and neither does Anne Marie Schubert,” he says. For her part, Schubert says the timing of the press conference after McNamara’s death was coincidental. The task force had formed loosely years before as a way for detectives to share information. Its official launch and subsequent reward were meant to capitalize on the 40th anniversary of the EAR’s first known assault. For Schubert, the case was personal. “I knew this case not only as a professional but [for] its significance on the Sacramento community,” says Schubert, who describes growing up carefree in her Arden-area neighborhood until reports of a killer on the prowl made parents take new safety measures and usher kids in long before dark. “It significantly changed the community in the way of fear; we went from an innocent town to a place where people locked their doors and women took self-defense classes.” Schubert says she first started looking into the EAR when she formed a cold case unit in the DA’s office in 2000. McNamara’s book didn’t solve the case, Schubert says, but it did bring helpful attention. “I never met her and I haven’t read the book but I have tremendous respect for her work,” Schubert says. “The story … kept people passionate about the case.” The idea that McNamara’s work didn’t help, at least indirectly, is false, Jensen says. “It wasn’t necessarily the book, it was Michelle— it was Michelle working on her book,” Jensen says. “Once she died the whole world knew about the Golden State Killer.” Certainly, a quick skim through LexisNexis, the database archiving decades’ worth of newspaper articles, reveals that Schubert’s first public mention of the “Golden State Killer”—McNamara’s nickname for the killer—didn’t occur until that 2016 press conference. Sheriff Jones, elected in 2010, never publicly mentioned the East Area Rapist until that same day. The rush to distance the case from McNamara’s work is political, Jensen says. “If you talk to the investigators [who continued working on the case] they would tell you something different.”
‘One day sOOn’ Paul Holes is one of those investigators. The former Contra Costa County detective officially retired in March but stayed involved up until DeAngelo’s capture; he even helped write the suspect’s arrest warrant and is credited for tracing the genetic bread crumbs of DeAngelo. He spent a lot of time with McNamara, too, driving her around the GSK’s crime scenes in the East Bay and Davis. He remembers McNamara as thoughtful, curious and knowledgeable. “[Our] initial phone call, she was zinging me left and right with very detailed questions,” he says.
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“There’s no question that Michelle’s role, even outside of the book, is significant.” Paul Holes retired Contra Costa County investigator
Initially, Holes worried he’d given away too much but that first Los Angeles magazine article proved otherwise. “Once Michelle gained my trust, I was very open,” he says. Holes, along with the other detectives working the case, eventually agreed to cooperate with McNamara, and the two regularly traded leads, clues and theories. “She was naturally gifted,” he says. “I got [information] from her that I’ve never seen before in the case.” McNamara was as much a part of the Golden State Killer team as anyone else, he adds. “She was my investigative partner,” he says. “She was embedded as part of a working group. Michelle had access to information no one else had access to.” Holes hasn’t read I’ll Be Gone in the Dark yet—“my wife says [I] need to hold off because of my emotional attachment to it”—but believes it was crucial. “There’s no question that Michelle’s role, even outside of the book, is significant,” Hole says. “It goes back to the Los Angeles magazine article, in which she renamed him the Golden State Killer. That was a pivotal change in the public perception of the case.” Before that, Holes says, interest and attention waxed and waned over the years, never fully gaining momentum in the public eye or with the media. The magazine article, McNamara’s book, the press conference, the tireless detective work and the reward all eventually steamrolled into DeAngelo’s arrest. Still, Holes is careful to draw the line on giving McNamara’s book direct credit for the arrest. “Was there that nugget of information that led to DeAngelo? The answer is no,” he says. What the book accomplished, however, was equally important. “It didn’t just keep the story alive, it pushed the story forward,” Holes says. Ultimately, McNamara wasn’t seeking credit anyway. In a tweet, Patton Oswalt said his late wife just wanted the case closed. “Michelle McNamara didn’t care about getting any shine on herself. She cared about the #GoldenStateKiller being behind bars and the victims getting some relief,” Oswalt posted. “She was Marge Gunderson in Fargo, not Chilton in Silence of the Lambs.” Jensen agrees. All those years of work weren’t
about accolades. “[McNamara’s] ultimate objective was to see this person identified, and if still living, apprehended,” he says. Soon, though, more people may know of McNamara’s obsessive dedication. An HBO docuseries is in the works and Jensen and Haynes plan to update I’ll Be Gone in the Dark with Oswalt’s help. McNamara’s closing chapter in the book perhaps shines the biggest light on her compulsion. “One day soon you’ll hear a car pull up to your curb, an engine cut out. You’ll hear footsteps coming up your front walk. Like they did for Edward Wayne Edwards … like they did for Kenneth Lee Hicks,” she wrote in “Letter to an Old Man,” the prescient final chapter that imagined DeAngelo’s eventual capture and that, in the wake of his arrest, has been widely shared by those struck by McNamara’s final words on the subject. “This is how it ends for you.” Ω
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“We didn’t think anything could happen to us.” The authorities would eventually call the perpetrator the East Area Rapist. In less than a year, investigators believed he was responsible for 22 home-invasion rapes and the nonfatal shooting of an 18-year-old man who tried to stop him. But no one did—and the violence escalated in both permanence and depravity. In 1978, he committed his first known murders with a gun. By 1986, when his trail went cold, authorities would attribute approximately 50 rapes and a dozen murders to him. Few who encountered the East Area Rapist escaped unharmed. Charlene didn’t know that yet.
DangeR on the eDge oF subuRbia A few years earlier, Charlene moved with her mother and older brothers to the small suburb of Rancho Cordova, an unfinished outpost on the eastern side of a slow-sprawling county. Charlene’s two older brothers were already off living adult lives, so it was just Charlene, her mom Barbara and their black poodle Pierre at the one-story house on Grayson Way. People who grew up in the 1970s mistakenly think of the decade as some golden era, when doors could be left unlocked and kids could
wander free range without consequence. Charlene had already learned this was a myth. One evening, she was walking her dog in the big empty field behind her home when she heard the gravelly register of tires on an asphalt blacktop. She stiffened as the car stopped where the half-paved road dead-ended and the unkempt yellow grass began. Charlene felt watched. Her gut crawled. Her mind reached back a few years and about 800 miles north to the last time she had this feeling: This was back in Tacoma, when she was 12. There was a big field at the end of her street, beyond which spread a lake and stood an abandoned mental hospital where she and the other kids would play. One day, Charlene and a friend were returning home from feeding the ducks and registered something approaching fast behind them. Charlene remembered thinking deer when the stranger grabbed her and her friend by the back of their necks and shoved their faces into the sodden ground. They scratched and pinched as they struggled to breathe through the dirt in their nostrils and mouths. Charlene squirmed loose first and scrambled through the tall brush. Their attacker rammed a fist into her friend’s face, but the girl staggered to her feet and caught up to Charlene. The two clasped hands as they flushed into the street where their neighbors could see them. The stranger piled into a van with an accomplice and drove away. “This was gonna end bad,” Charlene reflects today. Charlene remembers the local police acting cavalier about the attack, telling the two girls that they must have been pretty “alluring” to attract the kidnapper’s attention. Her mom was livid. The event changed Charlene. At 12 years old, she became a little suspicious, somewhat jaded. “So I had my guard up,” she says. “That already happened to me. And that was not going to happen again.” Standing in the field, Charlene half-turned. She got “that gut feeling” from the driver whose face she couldn’t quite make out. The car just sat there breathing. She didn’t wait to hear the door click open. She sprinted through the field and cut through a yawning fence into a neighbor’s yard, so the man wouldn’t know where she lived, and waited there until he left. Once she got back home, she teased the curtain back on the front window and peeked outside. The same car drifted by.
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tHe years tHat followed ‘He looked rigHt at me’ On the night in question, Charlene remembers her mother left unexpectedly to deal with an issue at a house she had recently purchased in Elverta some 20 miles away. So the teen flipped on the television set and nestled into a recliner for what she thought would be an uneventful night. Her poodle rose up on its haunches and began pacing, growling and agitated. Charlene went to the front window nearest the fireplace. She moved her face to the glass and focused her eyes through the pane. A man stood in her flower bed and stared back. A black knitted ski cap was folded up to his hairline. He wore dark clothing and there was something in his hand. His eyes were a terrifying blue. “He looked right at me,” Charlene recalls. “I remember very piercing eyes and this very determined mean look on his face. … My heart froze and I thought, ‘I have to get out of here.’” Like she had done twice in her young life already, she ran. This time, she raced through the kitchen, tore open the back door and fled into the yard, where she grabbed hold of a lawn chair and scrambled over the fence, falling into the neighbor’s yard. She ran to the door and pounded on it. It opened. She plunged inside. The neighbors phoned the police and then Charlene’s mom. They all met back at the house, where Charlene gave her statement. She remembers the officers hanging on every word, scribbling notes as they asked her to describe the suspect and exchanging astonished looks with each other. “Their eyes just got wide open,” Charlene says. “I could see them look at each other like, ‘Damn, man.’” They finally told Charlene and Barbara that the teenager’s description synched up with what authorities knew about a violent perpetrator that was responsible for several violent sexual assaults in the area. Charlene doesn’t think they had named him yet. They may have just referred to him as “the rapist” or “that guy.” “It was so early on,” Charlene says. “He went on to lots more [attacks].” No sketch was commissioned based on Charlene’s description and soon the family was alone in the last place the suspect had been seen. Charlene’s brother Ernie came armed with a pellet gun. Or maybe it was a shotgun. “It’s been so many years,” Charlene says. “As time goes by, memories fade.” The three of them set about booby-trapping the house with glass along the windowsills. Other families at that time in that part of Sacramento used fishing wire, and went to sleep with baseball bats within arm’s reach. Some bought guns. For a few years, terror was the new normal. “We lived in a safe neighborhood up until that point,” Charlene says. “We didn’t think anything could happen to us. … It really affected everyone’s life.”
Charlene did her best to move on with hers. Soon, news outlets were reporting that the perpetrator’s savage attacks had migrated to the Bay Area and then down into Southern California. Charlene says there was a palpable sense of relief when people realized the East Area Rapist had left Sacramento. People flinched with shame that their safety came at the expense of other people’s horrors, but what could you do? In her 20s, Charlene had a good job with Safeway that allowed her to follow her brother and his wife first to the Bay Area and then to Las Vegas. She and her daughter returned to the area in the late ’90s, settling in north Sacramento. That’s when she learned the East Area Rapist had never been caught. Whoever he was, he was still out there or dead. It upset her to think he went on living his life, feeling like he got away with it. In 2016, local and federal authorities announced they were resuming the hunt for the serial predator, who had also been christened the Original Night Stalker and Golden State Killer. The FBI interviewed Charlene at her home about 18 months ago. She credits the agents with jogging her memory and connecting the man in the car to the one at her window. “The FBI were the ones that kind of drew it out of me,” she says. “Never put the two together.” Last month, Charlene awoke to several messages from friends alerting her that the person believed to be the East Area Rapist was caught. Authorities had arrested a 72-year-old Citrus Heights man by the name of Joseph James DeAngelo. The former police officer in Exeter and Auburn had been living in the eastern part of the county for three decades. Authorities linked him to the crimes by using an open-source genealogical website that found similarities in the DNA from long-ago crime scenes to someone in DeAngelo’s bloodline. So much had changed—including the culture. Back when she was a girl, society was still learning how to treat survivors appropriately. “Not blame women and not blaming victims,” Charlene says, thinking about those Tacoma cops. “There was just a thinking back then that was different.” Now they’re catching suspected serial killers with a gob of spit and a website. It was so surreal. “It’s mind-boggling to me how they were able to do all this,” says Charlene, now a doting grandmother to a 5-year-old boy. “I hope it holds up.” But some things haven’t changed. Asked if she sees anything in the mugshot of DeAngelo that reminds her of the man at her window 40 years ago, Charlene answers quickly. “The eyes,” she says. “The piercing eyes. Kind of that tilt up of the head. He was obviously so much younger, but the eyes stand out. They just look right through you.” Ω
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Every September, brewers and suds lovers from across the state gather for a three-day celebration of all things beer here in the capital. Packed with brewer “tap talks,” educational sessions and opportunities to meet the makers of your favorite Cali beers, the California Craft Beer Summit offers an in-depth look at how the industry operates to bring you the perfect pint. Oh, and you get to drink it too. While the event has often included some food and beer pairing (still haven’t forgotten the time I gobbled down chocolate and beer for breakfast in the name of research during the 2016 summit), this year they’re leaning into the foodie aspect with a new “Brewed for Food” area. On Thursday and Friday, attendees can taste the unique pairings of bites and beer created in collaboration between 17 restaurants and 17 breweries, which were paired up at random.
“Pairing beer with food is such a natural step for people that love beer,” said Leia Ostermann Bailey, managing director of the California Craft Brewers Association, which hosts the summit. “Once you taste beer and food together it’s really amazing how it changes the flavor of both.” While the festival culminates in Saturday’s Summit Beer Festival—a popular event at Capitol Mall that features unlimited tastes from more than 150 breweries statewide, these exclusive food and beer pairings will only be available during the Summit Thursday and Friday. Some restaurants plan to include these pairings on their menu, so patrons may also have the chance to taste the results of these collaborations. “Food is what makes beer come to life,” said Lauren Zehnder, general manager at Mraz Brewing Company in El Dorado Hills. “It
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Cannabis and Pain ManageMent agreeMents While no longer a violation, patients should still inform doctors of marijuana use By Ken magri
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ain management agreements (pmas) are contracts that patients make with their health care providers to receive opioids for pain. among other rules, pmas list drugs that patients are not allowed to take with opioids, like cannabis, cocaine and heroin. random drug testing ensures compliance. a few years ago, testing positive for cannabis would have violated such pain contracts. But attitudes in the medical industry have changed. sutter Health Communications manager Craig Baize provided the latest version of sutter’s pma, which now reads: “any use of marijuana will be communicated to the clinician at the execution of this agreement and/or at the start of any new treatment that includes medical marijuana.”
“it is important that clinicians know what their patients are using as they collaborate to develop an approach to pain management that is both safe and effective.”
Using cannabis once violated Pain Management Agreements, but not anymore. Photo by Ken Magri
Dr. Michael Conway, Chief Medical Officer, Sutter Medical Group
That’s it. Cannabis no longer violates pain contracts. In fact, health care providers don’t even test for it now. Kaiser’s pma only prohibits the use of “illegal drugs.” UC davis Health uses the term “illegal substances,” but neither mentions cannabis by name. in a 2016 report on pain management strategies, the Centers for disease Control and prevention singled out cannabis as not harmful, suggesting that doctors “should not test for substances for which results would not affect patient management.” The CDC also advised against using cannabis as a reason for violating PMAs, saying, “clinicians should not dismiss patients from care based on a urine drug test result because this could constitute patient abandonment and could have adverse consequences for patient safety.”
should cannabis users come clean with their pain doctors? “sutter medical Group clinicians recognize that marijuana is used by many people,” said Dr. Michael Conroy, Sutter’s chief medical officer. According to Conroy, Sutter’s policies are constantly evolving. “it is important that clinicians know what their patients are using as they collaborate to develop an approach to pain management that is both safe and effective.”
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Sun 3pm & 7pm. Through 5/25; $18; Green Valley Theatre
Company, performing at Hiram Johnson High School Auditorium, 6879 14th Avenue; greenvalleytheatre. com/tickets; Or, at the box office 30 minutes before show time. J.C.
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Eric Craig and Ian Hopps give masterful performances in Oscar Wilde’s satirical comedy about blackmail, political corruption and public and private morality. Directed by Kevin Adamski and Nina Dramer. Thu 8pm,
Fri 8pm, Sat 8pm. Through 5/26; $18-$22; Big Idea
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An American in Paris
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It’s hard to imagine a musical better than An American in Paris, now playing at the Community Center Theater. The 2015 multi-Tony-winning musical is part of the Broadway on Tour (formerly Broadway Sacramento) season and plays through Sunday. This is a traditional Broadway musical, with a standard book by playwright Craig Lucas that varies but slightly from the 1951 movie of the same name, with music and lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin. The plot is relatively thin—an American soldier remains in Paris at the end of World War II in 1945 to pursue his dream of becoming a painter and becomes enchanted with a mysterious young French woman. But, it’s advanced through songs (“I’ve Got Rhythm,” “Shall We Dance?,” “But Not for Me,” “They Can’t Take That Away From Me”) and interspersed with set pieces and fine dancing. Christopher Wheeldon, a well-respected ballet choreographer, directed and choreographed the play. McGee Maddox, who plays the American soldier Jerry Mulligan, studied at the Houston Ballet’s dance academy, danced with that organization and then became a principal dancer with the National Ballet of Canada. Allison Walsh, who plays love interest Lise Dassin (a role she understudied on Broadway), has danced soloist roles with the Joffrey Ballet. Caitlin Meighan, a member of the ensemble who danced the role of Lise in some performances here, danced 10 seasons with the Joffrey; Kyle Robinson, an ensemble member who sometimes danced the role of Jerry, is
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Jordan Harrison’s play is a sci-fi tale wrapped inside a family drama about aging, fading memories and how we choose what to remember— and how. Janis Stevens brilliantly stars in the title role, with sterling turns by Jamie Jones, Brock D. Vickers and Steven Sean Garland. Stephanie Gulart, Capital Stage founding artistic director (now producing artistic director of Florida’s American Stage) directs this co-production of the two companies. Wed
2pm & 8pm, Sun 2pm. Through 6/3; $28-$40; Capital Stage, 2215 J St.; (916) 995-5464; capstage.org. J.C.
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A Song for Coretta
This one-act play imagines the individual reasons that five women of all of different ages and backgrounds stood for hours in front of Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church to honor Coretta Scott King, the widow of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The messages, characters and a talented Celebration Arts’ cast carry the story along. Thu 8pm, Fri 8pm, Sat
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thu 2pm & 8pm, fri 8pm, sat 2pm & 8pm, sun 2pm. through may 27; $25-$97; Broadway on tour at community center theater, 1301 L street; (916) 557-1999; www.broadwaysacramento.com.
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A large and earnest young cast gives its all in this drama about the audition process for dancers for a new Broadway musical. Several songs are familiar; the orchestra is good; but the sound is sometimes muddled. Fri 8pm, Sat 8pm,
an alumnus of Juilliard Dance. Kevin A. Cosculluela, who is Lise’s ballet partner in an especially beautiful sequence in the play, joined the Joffrey Ballet School at 17 and went on to dance with Tulsa Ballet Theatre. Not only are they and others in the cast fine dancers, they can sing and act with the best of them. Other outstanding singers include Matthew Scott, who reprises his original Broadway role of Adam Hochberg (a pianist and Jerry’s friend); Ben Michael, who plays Henri Baurel (a son of wealthy parents who support the arts but who wants to be a nightclub crooner); and Kirsten Scott, who plays rich American dilettante Milo Davenport. She has the hots for Jerry. The cast and music alone would make this a superior Broadway show (how it lost the 2015 Tony for best musical to Fun Home is a mystery to me). But what pushes this production over the top is its staging and lighting, which did win Tony awards in those categories. Designer Bob Crowley, who did the sets and costumes, creates an encompassing environment. The staging is a marvel of technical achievement with projections, videos and hardscapes precisely timed, making scene changes seamless. Natasha Katz’s lighting design serves Crowley’s vision. At the beginning, the entire stage is bathed in grayness, reflecting the dull fear and uncertainty that remained in the city immediately following the war. But the optimism of the young Americans, in particular, brings lightness to the scene. Crowley introduces brighter and brighter colors until one magnificent scene suggests a painting by Mondrian. There are six performances remaining. You can hardly do better than seeing An American in Paris. Ω
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Before the final bow The Sacramento Ballet’s next-to-last production under co-artistic directors Ron and Carinne Binda Cunningham is this weekend’s Modern Masters, a trio of breathlessly entertaining dances. Ma Cong’s visceral “Blood Rush” is joined by Ron Cunningham’s sensual “Bolero” and Septime Weber’s irreverent “Fluctuating Hemlines.” It’s the first dance program ever at The Sofia, the B Street Theatre Company arts complex. The Genius of Balanchine, the Cunninghams’ final bow with the ballet, will come June 14-17. Fri 7:30pm, Sat 2pm & 7:30pm, Sun 2pm; Through May 27; $65; The Sofia Tsakopoulos Center for the Arts (The Sofia), 2700 Capitol Avenue; (916) 443-5300; sacballet.org.
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Not every student attains a 4.0 GPA at a medical prep high school, but then not every student is like Caitlin Tapales. The 15-year-old sophomore at Arthur A. Benjamin Health Professions High School takes rigorous classes such as Chemistry and Medical English 10. While she hopes to be a forensic pathologist one day, one program at her school is giving her and her classmates a chance to make a difference in their community today. Y-PLAN (Youth - Plan, Learn, Act, Now) is a program that encourages community work and civic engagement by asking students to identify local problems then formulate solutions. It was founded at UC Berkeley and brought to Sacramento with The California Endowment’s support. Tapales and 60 of her classmates divided into Y-PLAN teams, each brainstorming to find a problem. She and fellow team members Isabel Maldonado, Alexa Davis and Shayal Prakash realized that despite being hooked on social media, Sacramento youth were largely unaware of things that can help them and their city. Under @helpingusteens, the quartet launched a social media campaign on Twitter and Instagram to increase teens’ awareness about opportunities including Sacramento job fairs, internships and voluntary park cleanups. The platforms also feature motivational quotes.
Reaction has been absolutely positive, Tapales said. The Y-PLAN is administered by the Center for Cities and Schools, a division of UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design. Successful in various cities, some of them overseas, the program arrived in Sacramento in 2015. In the end, “the students see the value in what they have done and want to do it again, or find other ways to stay involved in the community,” said Myrna Ortiz Villar, who coordinates Y-PLAN Sacramento, including at Hiram Johnson High’s medical academy.
“This has been The greaTesT opporTuniTy for me and everyone else in y-plan.” caitlin Tapales high school sophomore and y-PLan participant
“Y-PLAN gives students the opportunity to be agents of change within their communities,” said Bre Rizzo, who along with Marsha Stanley, teaches Medical English 10 at Health Professions High School. Last week during a student presentation of Y-PLAN projects at City Hall, Mayor
Caitlin Tapales, a sophomore at Health Professions High School, presented a plan to improve youth engagement at City Hall on may 16. Photo by Edgar Sanchez
Darrell Steinberg personally thanked about 80 participants from both academies. “I am so pleased and proud that as young people, you are choosing to spend real time and effort in ... community-based problem solving,” Steinberg said. “What you have been doing is going to serve you well as you become young adults into your futures.” Tapales said of the experience: “Hearing the mayor was really memorable and beneficial. This has been the greatest opportunity for me and everyone else in Y-PLAN.”
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The rider Former pro cowboy Brady Jandreau, who suffered rodeo accident in 2016, mirrors his life in the role of Brady Blackburn.
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Like his character, Brady grew up on a Lakota reservation in South Dakota, started cowboying as Of all the rickety crutches that mediocre movies lean soon as he could walk, and suffered a near-fatal rodeo fall (we see footage of his accident in the on, one of my least favorites is when a character film). Whatever the performances in The Rider lack expresses their cosmic ambivalence by gazing meaningin depth and detail, they make up for with authenticfully into the empty distance. Like any trope, it can be ity. Jandreau’s skill with horses allows Zhao to used well—think Luke Skywalker contemplating the stick her protagonist at the center of some stunning stars in A New Hope, or the way that Terrence Malick sequences, such as the scene where Brady methodicontrasts those images with the elliptical poetry of the cally yet tenderly trains a wild pony. narration—but indie filmmakers tend to overuse it as Whenever the film feels like a documentary, as an all-purpose, fill-in-the-blanks placeholder in the sequence where Brady’s bull riding for details, nuances and character friends discuss their worst accidents (“By development. NFL standards, I should be dead,” says In Chloé Zhao’s The It’s when the one young cowboy), The Rider hums Rider, the slightest twinge of along nicely. The movie never stops emotional conflict sends the melodramatic meandering, but the milieu feels lead character outside to stare storytelling kicks into authentic, and the performances blankly into the sunlight, gear that the film offer a verisimilitude that no “real” the twilight, the moonlight actors could capture. We get a real or even the “friscalating clanks and sputters sense of the danger and physical toll dusklight,” to borrow a phrase to a stop. of the rodeo life, and we understand from Eli Cash. To be fair, that that Brady is equally obsessed with and dusklight friscalates over the trapped in this world. forbiddingly beautiful badlands of It’s when the melodramatic storytelling South Dakota, which Zhao shoots to kicks into gear that the film clanks and sputters to a occasionally stunning effect. However, those stop. Squeezed by his father’s debt collectors, Brady empty stares are almost too apt for a film with an is torn between his physical inability to ride and his offscreen story that is so much more interesting lack of marketable job skills, feeling like a lame than the actual movie. horse ready to be put down. Much clumsy foreshadFormer rising star on the rodeo circuit Brady owing and leaden symbolism later, The Rider finally Jandreau stars as Brady Blackburn, a former rising star lands at the expected feckless non-ending. Too bad on the rodeo circuit, but currently recovering from a Zhao spent more time contemplating the emptiness horrible accident that left him with a metal plate in his of the badlands than the emptiness of her script. Ω head. Almost everyone in the film plays a version of themselves, including Brady’s irresponsible father (Tim Jandreau), his developmentally disabled sister (Lilly Jandreau) and his fellow cowboy friends, and many of the story beats echo incidents from Brady Jandreau’s real life. Poor Fair Good Very excellent
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Four lifelong pals (Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, Mary Steenburgen) feel the stirrings of dormant libido when their monthly book club takes up Fifty Shades of Grey. Make no mistake, it’s great to see these four working together, good sports and consummate pros that they are, but the fact remains that they’re shoveling crap, and it’s insulting. The script is a mélange of lame jokes about menopause, plastic surgery, Viagra and online dating, plus a huge slab of naked product placement (pun intended) for E.L. James’ steamy novel. It’s aimless, contrived and clichéd, betraying the inexperience of writers Erin Simms and Bill Holderman (who also directed, limply; he’s new to that too). Escorting the ladies to this senior prom are Andy Garcia, Don Johnson, Richard Dreyfuss and Craig T. Nelson. J.L.
When her estranged, cryptically criminal father dies, a woman (Gabrielle Union) takes her children (Ajiona Alexis, Seth Carr) out to his secluded summer home to prepare it for selling. Little do they know that the scumbags who killed the old man (Billy Burke, Richard Cabral, Levi Meaden, Mark Furze) are heading there to steal his $4 million stash—and they don’t want witnesses. Writer Ryan Engle and director James McTeigue celebrate Mother’s Day with a tribute to the fighting spirit of protective moms everywhere, prepared to brave any danger, pay any price and purvey any cliché to ensure the safety of their offspring. Action hero may not be what Union does best, but her versatility stands her in good enough stead; here’s hoping this potboiler makes enough money to bring her vehicles more worthy of her. J.L.
This rare stinker from animation importer GKIDS offers echoes of Studio Ghibli classics like My Neighbor Totoro and Ponyo, but it contains little of the charm and none of the elegant character design of those films. Mopey teen Kai lives in a quiet, Japanese harbor town where humans and merfolk once co-existed in harmony, at least until an “old curse” inspired the humans to construct a wall to keep the merfolk out. However, when Kai gets recruited into joining a rock band, their song attracts the young and impetuous mermaid Lu, whose tail transforms into two wobbly legs whenever music plays. Lu joins the band as lead singer, and she bonds with Kai over their missing mothers, but a misunderstanding eventually threatens to reignite the curse. There are a few lovely images and ideas, but the character design is ghastly, the animation is inconsistent, the story meanders and the voice performances grate. D.B.
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An arrogant, selfish playboy (Eugenio Derbez) stiffs a working-class single mom (Anna Faris) after she cleans the carpets on his mega-yacht; later, when he falls overboard and washes ashore with amnesia, she claims him as her husband, intending to get her money’s worth by putting him to work around the house. This remake of the 1987 Goldie Hawn/Kurt Russell rom-com switches the genders of the lead characters, which was probably a mistake—Derbez is scruffy-looking and charmless, without Faris’ comic flair for playing superficial characters; he’d have been more sympathetic as a workingclass dad, and she’d have been funnier as Hawn’s spoiled heiress. Otherwise, the movie is passably mediocre, and at least it’s one remake that doesn’t desecrate the original—which was hardly a classic in the first place. J.L.
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More snot-nosed nihilism and fangless comic book meta-commentary from Marvel’s unkillable “merc with a mouth,” once again played by Ryan Reynolds as a homicidal rape-joke comedian. With original Deadpool director Tim Miller off working on yet another Terminator reboot, Atomic Blonde director and former stunt coordinator David Leitch takes over for the sequel, but the film doesn’t feel any less sloppy, desperate and stupid for his participation. The plot sees Deadpool trying to protect a mutant child from sexual predators while delivering a nonstop string of one-liners about child molestation, before finally sodomizing the villain to death with an electrical cable. Disconnected pop culture references pass for humor, as though the mere mention of dubstep, LinkedIn, gluten, Justin Bieber, Sharknado, the McRib or any other recognizable proper noun or pop culture buzzword was sufficiently hilarious. True to form, the film calls out its own lazy writing, which is probably the laziest writing of all. D.B.
Life of the Party
A middle-aged housewife (Melissa McCarthy), suddenly dumped by her husband, decides to go back to school and finish her degree, to the horror of her collegebound daughter. The latest laughless dud from McCarthy and husband Ben Falcone (she stars, he directs, they both write) takes its place beside predecessors Tammy (2014) and The Boss (2016), the two worst pictures of McCarthy’s career. Now there are three. The story is inconsistent from one scene to the next—sometimes from one shot to the next—with nearly every scene looking desperately improvised, falling flat, and left in for the sake of filling out the running time. It’s all Melissa all the time; nobody else gets even a sliver of the limelight. A vanity production sure enough—but whose vanity is being catered to, McCarthy’s or Falcone’s? J.L.
Julie Cohen and Betsy West direct this fawning and skin-deep documentary about octogenarian Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The film obligingly touches on but never examines the Wikipedia page bullet points of RBG’s life and work, including her childhood in Brooklyn, her education at Harvard and Columbia, her long marriage to fellow lawyer Martin D. Ginsburg, her early career as a women’s rights crusader, her 1993 appointment to the Supreme Court by President Clinton and her contemporary status as a liberal pop culture icon. We get a few humanizing glimpses of Ginsburg’s exercise routine, her devotion to opera and her extensive collection of lace collars, but she remains extremely guarded throughout, and her participation in this project feels half-hearted at best. Desperate to pad the running time to feature length, an inordinate chunk of this lightweight and unnecessary documentary is devoted to RBG memes and Kate McKinnon’s non-impression on SNL. D.B.
Show Dogs
A New York police dog (voiced by Chris “Ludacris” Bridges) enters a Las Vegas dog show with his reluctant human partner (Will Arnett) to nail a gang of animal smugglers. Written by Max Botkin and Marc Hyman and directed by Raja Gosnell (who did much better with Beverly Hills Chihuahua—but then again he had a better script), this dreary time-and-talent waster seems to have been aimed at undemanding three-year-olds whose parents have more money and less sense than is good for them. Arnett and Natasha Lyonne (as another dog trainer entered in the same show) gamely go through the motions, forlornly resigned to playing second and third fiddle to a lot of semi-cheesy talking-animal effects and stale fart jokes. Supplying canine voices are the likes of Alan Cumming, Stanley Tucci, RuPaul and Shaquille O’Neal. J.L.
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Breaking the mold Hannah Jane Kile embraces imperfection on two new albums by Howard Hardee
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and now lives in Sacramento with her boyfriend and drummer Corey Morgan Strange. Much of her catalog could be classified as Americana, but she also touches on jazz, blues and more theatrical styles of singing. They Almost Got Away is a relatively loose collection of songs Kile wrote as a teenager that don’t share a common thread. On the other hand, Broken Girls Anthem is a concept album exploring themes of family, growth and practicing self-love. Now that’s the perfect smoky eye. “We didn’t sit down and say, ‘This is going to be a concept album,’ but I wrote all of these songs at a similar place in my life—getting out of an abusive Sacramento-based singer-songwriter Hannah Jane relationship, finding myself again, falling in love, Kile has already written and recorded four albums being with my family, realizing how lucky I am to at 23 years old. She finds that listening back on her have the family I do,” she said. “The whole album first two albums—Becoming Someone and Little Blue is about self-acceptance and forgiveness, joy and Heron—is something like reading snippets of her sadness, and it’s all centered around love.” teenage diary. They also serve as a record for how Kile wrote the album’s title track on a new much she’s grown as a musician. keyboard she’d received as a Christmas present. “Some of the lyrical choices were funny and She’s struggled with anxiety for most of her life, random,” she said, “and I do like to listen back and she recalls feeling particularly low at the time. to how much my voice has changed. I’ve moved She’s perpetually insecure about working in an forward, especially with these new albums. industry that tends to reward artists who I feel like I really found my voice this look as good as they sound. time. Basically, it feels like I have “I just cried and cried because the same voice, but there are more I felt so awful about myself,” “A lot of what tools in my tool box now. … I she said. “Then I heard from I learned is about have a lot more ways to make my friend, and she said, ‘If staying out of the way of myself emotional.” you could see you the way On June 1, Kile is dropping I see you,’ and that kind of a really good song. You don’t two new albums: Broken Girls flipped the switch for me. have to put a bunch of stuff Anthem and They Almost Got I started thinking about all on top of it.” Away Vol. 1. Tackling both at of the women in my life once was a huge undertaking and my best friends growing Hannah Jane Kile that consumed most of her spare up—who I think are some of Singer-songwriter time for the past two years, and it the most beautiful human beings was also a valuable learning process. on this planet, inside and out and “I better understand how to serve a watching them pick themselves apart. song not just as a vocalist, but as a guitarist,” “It was damaging for them and also she said. “A lot of what I learned is about staying out for me,” she continued. “I want to set an example of the way of a really good song. You don’t have to for other young women, and especially young artists, put a bunch of stuff on top of it.” who don’t fit the mold.” Ω Kile is celebrating the double-album release on Monday, June 4 at Capital Stage with Sacramento composer, music director and producer Graham Sobelman. She will be backed by a nine-piece band. see hannah Jane Kile perform at capital stage on June 4 at 7:30 p.m. Originally from Auburn, Kile has performed tickets are $25-$35. for more information visit www.capstage.org. throughout Northern California for several years,
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by kate gonzales
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suNday, 5/27 BlOQ PaCiFiC mUsiC FEstiVal: With Sage the Gemini, Eric Bellinger, Adrian Marcel, Coyo T and more. 3pm, $25-$100. Cesar Chavez Plaza, 910 I St.
THursday, 5/24 sUNsEt siP: Enjoy tastes from 20 wineries,
ECHO FEst mEGa tRiBUtE CONCERt: See
event listing on 5/26. 1pm, $28-$48. Old Sacramento Historic State Park & Railroad Museum, 111 I St.
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looking beyond resistance California MuseuM, noon, 5 P.M., $15-$80 For its size, Sacramento has an impressive number of film festivals each year with themes ranging from food to Film horror. This weekend, stories that showcase the diverse perspectives of Asian and Pacific Islanders through film and new media will come to the California Museum during the Sacramento Asian Pacific Film Festival. In its fourth year, the
festival delivers more than two dozen films across four show times under the theme “Beyond Resistance,” and will include panel discussions with local activists and talks with filmmakers. Through documentaries and fiction, the festival spotlights API artists and filmmakers while offering viewers a deeper understanding into these cultures. 1020 O Street, www.sapff.org.
this sudsy party featuring a live DJ, drink specials, prizes and more. 7pm, $15. 1930 K St, 1930 K St.
THursday, 5/24 aNDY FRasCO aND tHE U.N.: With Element Brass Band. 7pm, $12-$15. Harlow’s, 2708 J St.
tHE BlaCK lilliEs: Americana band plays
with special guests. 6pm, $15-$18. Momo Sacramento, 2708 J St.
DEPECHE mODE: With Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. 7:30pm, $35.97-$125.97. Golden 1 Center, 500 David J Stern Walk.
tHE PHilHaRmONiK: With JMSEY, Beautiful
Strangers. 7pm, $10-$12. Holy Diver, 1517 21st St.
saN FRaNCisCO sYmPHONY: The prestigious, 100-plus-year-old symphony performs. A pre-performance talk will be held at 7pm in Jackson Hall. 8pm, $27.50-$150. Mondavi Center, 1 Shields Ave. in Davis.
friday, 5/25
saTurday, 5/26
aNUHEa: With New Kingston. 9pm, $40-$45.
ECHO FEst mEGa tRiBUtE CONCERt: A two-day
Harlow’s, 2708 J St.
CONCERts iN tHE PaRK: Mike Love, Cas Haley, One Leg Chuck & The Hustle and Mookatite perform. 5pm, no cover. Cesar Chavez Plaza, 910 I St.
FaNNa-Fi-allaH sUFi QaWWali PaRtY: Songs in the tradition of Sufi Qawwali music. 8pm, $27-$30. The Center for the Arts, 314 W. Main St. in Grass Valley.
mEllON mUsiC FEstiVal OPENiNG NiGHt: This festival to bridge cultural divides through classical music includes performances of compositions by Kapustin, Amy Beach, Dvorak and Shostakovich. 7pm, no cover-$10. John Natsoulas Gallery, 521 1st St. in Davis.
RaDiO ORaNGEValE: With Space Hoodie,
California Riot Act. 8pm, $8. Old Ironsides, 1901 10th St.
festival with tribute bands who range from Selena (!!), to Metallica to James Brown. 1pm, $28-$48. Old Sacramento Historic State Park & Railroad Museum, 111 I St.
tHE maNHattaN tRaNsFER: The 10-time Grammy Award winners celebrate the 45th anniversary of their first recording. 4pm, $65. Roseville Theatre Arts Academy, 241 Vernon St. in Roseville.
NEF tHE PHaRaOH: Hip-hop artist out of
Vallejo. 7pm, $27-$60. Ace Of Spades, 1417 R St.
NORtH BY NORtH: With Well Dressed
Mannequins. 9pm, $8. Old Ironsides, 1901 10th St.
ROsEVillE JaZZ DaY FEstiVal: A one-day jazz festival featuring the 10-time Grammy Award-winning group The Manhattan Transfer. 11am, $27. Vernon Street Town Square, 311 Vernon St. in Roseville.
COmiNG tO amERiCa DiNNER, WiNE aND PaiNt: The 1988 Eddie Murphy comedy is celebrated with dinner, costumes, wine and painting. 5pm, $45. 1900 28th St.
mONday, 5/28
miDtOWN UNPlUGGED: Pachamama Coffee
WilD ONEs: With Living Hour, Honyock. 8pm,
hosts an evening of music and neighborly connection featuring local musicians The Philharmonik and Tre Burt. The kid-friendly event will feature a pop-up market of vintage clothes and accessories. 8pm, no cover. Pachamama Coffee Cooperative, 919 20th St.
$12-$14. Blue Lamp, 1400 Alhambra Blvd.
Tuesday, 5/29 GBH: With Monster Squad, Setting Sons. 7pm, $20. Harlow’s, 2708 J St.
HillBillY mOON EXPlOsiON: With Hard Fall
suNday, 5/27
Hearts. 7:30pm, $10-$12. Goldfield Trading Post, 1630 J St.
BRUNCH ON FRONt stREEt: Enjoy unique dishes
WedNesday, 5/30
from Old Sac restaurants, mimosas and a live DJ during this community meal. 11am, $25-$35. Old Sacramento, Front St.
BHaD BHaBiE: With Asian Doll, Chux,
ImmaLoser, Ar.mani. 7pm, $22-$103. Ace Of Spades, 1417 R St.
film fesTiVals
saTurday, 5/26 2018 saCRamENtO asiaN PaCiFiC Film FEstiVal:
THursday, 5/24
See event highlight at left. 12pm, $15$80. The California Museum, 1020 O St.
saCRamENtO COUNtY FaiR: The five-day fair features bull riding, rides, classic fair food, games and more. Don’t forget to bring an extra $10 for parking. 10am, no cover-$6. Cal Expo, 1600 Exposition Blvd.
friday, 5/25 saCRamENtO COUNtY FaiR: See event listing
music
along with sweet and savory bites, with a river sunset as the backdrop. VIP option/ benefits available. 5:30pm, $45-$70. Old Sacramento, Front St.
saTurday, 5/26
maNGO’s FOam PaRtY: Kick off summer with
The film Gook will be Sunday night’s closing feature.
snr c a le nd a r @ ne wsr e v ie w.c o m
for 5/24 10am, no cover-$6. Cal Expo, 1600 Exposition Blvd.
saTurday, 5/26 FREE GaRaGE salE DaY at DENiO’s: Cash in on your spring cleaning and sell your items for free at this huge swap meet. Only new vendors to the market will get to take advantage of the free space. 7am, no cover. Denio’s Roseville Farmers Market & Swap Meet, 1551 Vineyard Road in Roseville.
saCRamENtO COUNtY FaiR: See event listing
for 5/24. 10am, no cover-$6. Cal Expo, 1600 Exposition Blvd.
suNday, 5/27 saCRamENtO COUNtY FaiR: See event listing
maRY JaNEs: tHE WOmEN OF WEED: A film about the ways women are changing the cannabis industry. 4:20pm, $22. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.
suNday, 5/27 2018 saCRamENtO asiaN PaCiFiC Film FEstiVal: See event highlight at left. 11am, $15$80. The California Museum, 1020 O St.
tHE lOst sHiPs OF ROmE: Examine the mystery behind five ancient Roman ships that were found in pristine conditions in 2009 around the island of Ventotene. Refreshments included, only cash or check accepted. 1:30pm, $15. The Italian Center, 6821 Fair Oaks Blvd. in Carmichael.
Tuesday, 5/29 COCO: This Latinx movie night (hosted by Latinx LGBTQ of Sacramento) will feature the sweetest animated film of 2017, Coco. 7pm, contact for cover. Lavender Library, Archives, and Cultural Exchange, 1414 21st St.
for 5/24. 10am, no cover-$6. Cal Expo, 1600 Exposition Blvd.
cOmedy
mONday, 5/28 saCRamENtO COUNtY FaiR: See event listing
for 5/24. 10am, no cover-$6. Cal Expo, 1600 Exposition Blvd.
laUGHs UNlimitED COmEDY ClUB: Tom McClain. Featuring Sebastian Cetina. through 5/27.
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CaLendaR LiStinGS Continued FRoM PaGe 35 $10. By All Means Comedy Show. Starring Anthony K. with appearances by Jay Wuck, Sydney Stigerts, Leggs Malone, Malcolm Hatchett. Hosted by Josh Means. through 5/30. $10. 1207 Front St.
PunCH Line: Jimmy O. Yang How to American Tour. Comedian from the HBO series Silicon Valley performs. 7:30pm thursday, 5/24. $25$35. Mo Amer. Texas comedian comes to Sac. 8pm wednesday, 5/30. $18.50. 2100 Arden Way, Suite 225.
SaCRaMento CoMedy SPot: MRI [Masters of Rap Improv]. A freestyle rap improv show, featuring Nicholas George, Justine Lopez, Corky McDonnell and more. 8pm Saturday, 5/26. $8-$15. 1050 20th St., Suite 130.
on staGe b StReet tHeatRe: Airness. Prepare to have your face melted by the likes of Shreddy Eddy, Golden Thunder and the reigning champ, D Vicious, in this comedy about professional air guitar competitions. through 6/10. $27-$46. 2700 Capitol Ave.
CaLiFoRnia MuSiCaL tHeatRe: An American in Paris. The Tony Award-winning musical centers on an American soldier, a mysterious French Girl and an indomitable European city—each yearning for a new beginning in the aftermath of war. through 5/27. $25-$82. 1510 J St.
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.
CaPitaL StaGe: Marjorie Prime. The aging Marjorie is a jumble of fading memories, but in the age of AI, her handsome new companion will feed the story of her life back to her. through 6/3. $22-$47. 2215 J St.
CHautauQua PLayHouSe: Comedy of Tenors. A sequel to the Ken Ludgwig farce, Lend Me a Tenor! through 6/9. $19-$22. 5325 Engle Road, Suite 110 in Carmichael.
HiRaM JoHnSon HiGH SCHooL auditoRiuM: Green Valley Theatre Presents A Chorus Line. This Broadway favorite tells the story of a group of dancers at an audition for a show, as they tell their personal stories and why they chose to become dancers. through 5/25. $18. 6879 14th Ave.
art aLPHa FiRed aRtS: Larry Carnes—A Whale of a Show. Forty pieces of sculpture and pottery inspired by a surreal dream. through 6/2. 4675 Aldona Lane.
aXiS GaLLeRy: Surveying the Prairie of a Room. Ben Hunt combines works of mixed media photographic and sculptural objects to explore the relationship between manufactured landscape, nature and interior space. through 5/27. no cover. 625 S St.
Kennedy GaLLeRy: 20/20 Show. Twenty artists each exhibit 20 small, 8x8-inch pieces in their own theme and medium. through 6/5. no cover. 1931 L St.
MiCRo GaLLeRy: Artworks by Felipe Davalos, El Maestro. His work, inspired by the pre-Columbian artists of his native Mexico, reflects history and visual storytelling. through 6/16. no cover. 1200 S St., Suite D.
SMud aRt GaLLeRy: Wonder Women—An Exploration of Making Art While Raising Children. Sacramento-area artists including Terry Atkinson, Julie Bjorgum, Esther Cheng and others use a variety of media to represent the joys and challenges of parenting while being an artist. through 6/1. no cover. 6301 S St.
tHe aRteRy: California Clay Competition Exhibit. Extraordinary ceramics that run the gamut of witty, charming, outrageous and breathtaking. through 5/25. 207 G St. in Davis.
uRban Hive: Splintered—New Works by Gale Hart. Using wood trunks and large branches, Gale Hart created a series of figurative sculptures ranging in size from 3-feet tall, to a 16-foot long installation. through 5/31. no cover. 1601 Alhambra Blvd.
Wednesday, 5/30
Sac Museums 20th Celebration Rally California State Capitol, 10 a.M., no Cover
The region’s museums bring so much to our communities every day, so here’s a chance to celebrate them. In 1998, Sacramento Area Museums began as MuSeuMS a small collaboration to raise awareness and drive visitation to local museums. Today, it includes 30 museums and destinations from PHoto coUrtesy oF sacramento cHildren’s mUseUm Folsom to Sac to Woodland. Gather on the Capitol steps to enjoy a sampling of museum activities from the Sacramento Zoo, Verge Center for the Arts and more. 10th Street and Capitol Avenue, www.sacmuseums.org.
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Saturday, 5/26
Bike-In Movie Night HI Sacramento HoStel, 8 P.m., no cover
Summer is almost here, and we love that. Longer days, bike rides and maybe a little summer lovin’ is coming our FIlM way. HI Sacramento Hostel kicks off its third year of free bike-in movie nights with a 40th anniversary screening of Grease. Ride over in your poodle skirts and leather jackets for the costume contest, BYOB (wine and beer only) and settle in with your friends and neighbors for the first in a season of free film screenings. 925 H Street, www.facebook.com/hisacramento.
MuSEuMS CAlIFORNIA AUTOMOBIlE MUSEUM: Memorial Day Car Show—Vettes & Vets. Music, military color guard, vendors and a car show. 9am Monday, 5/28. $2-$30. 2200 Front St.
CAlIFORNIA MUSEUM: And Still We Rise Race, Culture and Visual Conversations. Four hundred years of significant moments of social justice for African Americans is chronicled on 67 story quilts. Through 5/27. $9. The Newest Americans. A unique look at the U.S. and the immigration process through the eyes of 28 new citizens. Through 7/8. $9. 1020 O St.
FOlSOM HISTORY MUSEUM: 100 Years of Fashion Accessories. Witness the change in trends between 1860 and 1960. Through 5/29. $4$10. 823 Sutter St.
WEST STEPS OF STATE CAPITOl: Sac Museums 20th Year Celebration Rally. See event highlight on page 36. 10am Wednesday, 5/30. No cover. 1315 10th St.
SPOrtS & OutdOOrS Saturday, 5/26 ‘80S CROSSFIT STYlE DODGEBAll: Wear your best 1980s gear for dodgeball, Crossfit style. RSVP requested. 9am, no cover. Larchmont Community Park, 2449 Stansberry Way.
MONday, 5/28 WOUNDED VETERAN RUN: A run to raise awareness and donations for veteransupporting nonprofits and programs. 8am, $15-$50. Vista del Lago High School, 1970 Broadstone Parkway in Folsom.
taKE aCtION tHurSday, 5/24 COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS SCIENCE CAFE: In a conversation about climate change, the risks, resiliency and impacts on individuals, communities and regions will be explored. Scientists will present their research and help lead the discussion. 6pm, no cover. Old Soul at 40 Acres, 3434 Broadway.
JUNE 8-10 2018
BLACK OAK RANCH • CALIFORNIA
COPWATCH ORIENTATION: An orientation for folks to learn and commit to watching the police to make sure community members’ rights are not violated. 6pm, no cover. Belle Cooledge Library, 5600 S. Land Park Drive.
SOCIAlIST FEMINIST READING GROUP: A feminist discussion around women’s liberation and works by Casey Hayden, Shulamith Firestone, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and more. 3:30pm, no cover. Arden-Dimick Library, 891 Watt Ave.
tuESday, 5/29 ClEAN TECH MEETUP: A technologyfocused monthly meetup that features presentations about products and technologies from companies that are already in operation. Appetizers and drinks will be served. 5:30pm, no cover. The Urban Hive in Midtown, 1931 H St.
RAllY TO PHASE OUT GIllNETS IN CAlIFORNIA: A rally in favor of SB 1017, which would phase out deadly drift gill nets in California’s swordfish fishery. 11am, no cover. California State Capitol North Steps, 1315 10th St.
CLaSSES Saturday, 5/26 HERBAl FIRST AID: Learn how to handle nonemergency first aid situations using plantbased remedies. 9am, $25. Soil Born Farms American River Ranch, 2140 Chase Drive in Rancho Cordova.
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DEL THE FUNKY HOMOSAPIEN W/ AMP LIVE • DIRTWIRE • LYRICS BORN • MONOPHONICS • LIBERATION MOVEMENT • ZACH DEPUTY • ELISE TROUW • GENE EVARO JR BUTTERSCOTCH • MIKEY PAUKER • TV BROKEN 3RD EYE OPEN • HIGH STEP SOCIETY MAMA CROW • KR3TURE • OBJECT HEAVY • CHINA CATS (GRATEFUL DEAD TRIBUTE) • DIGGIN DIRT • SCHINDIG • BRION SHEARER
ANTENNAE • ILL-ESHA • ANDREILIEN • NICO LUMINOUS • LIVING LIGHT • BOGTROTTER SIXIS • ATYYA • DOV1 • LONGWALKSHORTDOCK • G.A.M.M.A. • MR. ROGERS DRAGONFLY • DJ DAKINI • SECRET RECIPE • SPAGEGEISHA • TIGERFRESH • APPLECAT • A HUNDRED DRUMS SMASHELTOOTH • LITTLE JOHN • NEPTUNE • SPEKT1 • BARISONE • THE PIRATE • DUBCOLING • SHARU NAUGHTY PRINCESS • IMAGIKA OM • SATSI • NAS JA • SPEKTRUM • DABIS • GENJI AARIN G • YOHM • ACACIA BEATS • GABRIEL FRANCISCO • PRINCESS • MIGALOO • DAR • EDEKIT
INTRODUCTION TO 3D PRINTING: An intro to
3D printing for teens ages 13-18. 10am, no cover. Franklin Community Library, 10055 Franklin High Road in Elk Grove.
INTRODUCTION TO URBAN BACKYARD BEEKEEPING: This workshop will cover the basics for a successful start to backyard beekeeping. 1pm, $25. Soil Born Farms’ American River Ranch Schoolhouse, 2140 Chase Drive in Rancho Cordova.
WORM COMPOSTING WORKSHOP: Learn the basics of worm composting—including bin setup, harvesting techniques and what to feed the worms—from the worm wranglers with the UCCE Master Gardeners of Sacramento County. 3pm, no cover. North Highlands-Antelope Library, 4235 Antelope Road in North Highlands.
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Saturday, 5/26 THE BlACK TRUTH: A dialogue between the black community and those who wish to be allies, kicking off with a discussion about the candidates for district attorney and county sheriff. Noon, no cover. Sacramento, 25 Massie Court.
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THURSDAY 05/24
FRIDAY 05/25
SATURDAY 05/26
SUNDAY 05/27
MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 05/28-30
The acousTic den cafe
Songwrite in the Round, 7pm, $5
American Fingerstyle Guitar Night, 7pm, $10
Bruce Tuttle with Steve Gust plus Joe Landry, 7pm, call for cover
Ukelele Jam and Singalong, 11am, call for cover
Open Mic, 6:30pm, W, call for cover
Badlands
PopRockz ’90s Night, 9pm, no cover
Man-morial, 10pm, call for cover
Spectacular Saturdays, 7pm, call for cover
Memorial Day Sunday Funday, 9pm, no cover
Trapacana, 9pm, W, no cover
BaR 101
Steve Stizzo Trio, 6:30pm, no cover
Yo & The Electric, 9:30pm, no cover
Jay Tausig, 9:30pm, no cover
Trivia, 6:30pm, M, no cover; Open-Mic, 7:30pm, W, no cover
Blue lamp
TV Girl, Wished Bone and more, $10
FSE, Cheer-Accident, Gentleman Surfer, Battle Hag, 8pm, $10
Drunk Poetry (Political Edition) Campaign Cloud Catcher, Crypt Trip, Peace Killers, Fundraiser, 7pm, no cover Astral Cult, 8pm, $10-$12
Wild Ones, Living Hour, Honyock, 8pm, M, $12-$14
10271 FAIRWAY DRIVE, ROSEVIllE, (916) 412-8739 2003 k ST., (916) 448-8790 101 MAIN ST., ROSEVIllE, (916) 774-0505 1400 AlHAMbRA blVD., (916) 455-3400
The BoaRdwalk
Abstract Abyss, Emoflytrap, Dead Home, 24 Hours, 9pm, $20 Foreign Hype, 8pm, $10
9426 GREENbAck lN., ORANGEVAlE, (916) 358-9116
capiTol GaRaGe
Capitol Garage’s Next Drag Superstar, 8pm, no cover
Capitol Fridays, 10pm, no cover before 10:30pm
The cenTeR foR The aRTs
Nevada City School of the Arts Spring Student Showcase, 11am, call for cover
Fanna-Fi-Allah Sufi Qawwali Party, 8pm, $25-$28
faces
2000 k ST., (916) 448-7798
RuPaul’s Drag Race screening, 5pm, no cover
Absolut Fridays, 8pm, call for cover
Decades, 8pm, call for cover
faTheR paddY’s iRish puBlic house
Ralph Gordon, 6pm, no cover
According to Bazooka, 7pm, no cover
The Teds, 7pm, no cover
Whiskey Society Dinner, 7pm, T, contact for cover
fox & Goose
James Parr, 8pm, no cover
Hans & The Hot Mess and Jordani, 9pm, $5
Dolores 5000 and TBA, 9pm, $5
Open Mic Every Monday, 7:30pm, M, no cover
Golden 1 cenTeR
Depeche Mode, 7:30pm, $35.97-$125.97
halfTime BaR & GRill
College Night, 9pm, no cover
Latin Touch, 9pm, $7
Rhythm City RCA All-Stars, 9pm, $7
Let’s Get Quizzical Trivia Game Show, 7pm, T, no cover
haRlow’s
Andy Frasco and the U.N, 7pm, $12-$15
Anuhea, New Kingston, 9pm, $40-$45
The Purple Ones—The Insatiable Tribute to Prince, 9pm, $17-$20
Big Business, 7pm, M, $12-14; GBH, 7pm, T, $20
Cuffin R&B / Soul Party, 9pm, call for cover
The Brunch Club 1980s themed Brunch Party, 11am, call for cover
The Brains, 7pm, $15
Bruno Major, 7pm, sold out
1500 k ST., (916) 444-3633
Anything for Salinas
314 W. MAIN ST., GRASS VAllEY, (530) 274-8384
with EchoFest Tribute Festival 6pm Saturday, $28-$48 Old Sacramento Tribute bands
435 MAIN ST., WOODlAND, (530) 668-1044 1001 R ST., (916) 443-8825 500 DAVID J STERN WAlk, (888) 915-4647
5681 lONETREE blVD., ROcklIN, (916) 626-3600 2708 J ST., (916) 441-4693
hiGhwaTeR
1910 Q ST., (916) 706-2465
holY diVeR
The Philharmonik, 7pm, $10-12
1517 21ST ST.
Dinner and a Drag Show, 7:30pm, $5-$25
kupRos
luna’s cafe & Juice BaR
Joe Montoya’s Poetry Unplugged, 8pm, $2 Guerrilla Dogs, 8pm, $8
momo sacRamenTo
The Black Lilies, 6pm, $15-$18
1414 16TH ST., (916) 737-5770 2708 J ST., (916) 441-4693
DJ DM, 10pm, $10
2708 J Street Sacramento, CA 916.441.4693 www.harlows.com 5/28 7PM $12ADV
BIG BUSINESS 5/24 7PM $12ADV
ANDY FRASCO & THE U.N. 5/29 7PM $20
GBH
ANUHEA & NEW KINGSTON 5/26 9PM $17ADV
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Memorial Day Party (Pool Party Kickoff), 3pm, call for cover
Island Vibes Reggae Night, 10pm, call for cover
6/1 5:30PM $12ADV
ZZ TUSH
COMING SOON 6/1 The Hackensaw Boys 6/2 Keith Harkin 6/6 Jessica Malone 6/7 Reed Mathis Trio 6/8 Elise Trouw (Early) 6/8 Eminence Ensemble 6/9 Majestic - Journey Tribute 6/10 Blue Water Highway 6/11 Dirty Dozen Brass Band 6/14 Justin Townes Earle 6/16 Rich Homie Quan 6/18 Zane Carney 6/20 The Calling 6/22 Trashcan Sinatras (Early) 6/22 Just Like Heaven (Ultimate Tribute to the Cure) 6/23 Heartless (A Tribute to Heart) 6/24 Day 26 6/29 Rock for Reason 6/30 Electric Flag 50th Anniversary (Early) 6/30 Mike Jones 7/1 Slum Village
David Houston & String Theory and more, 8pm, $6 Ocean Alley, 6:30pm, $13-15
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The assemblymen said that support of legal cannabis is pro-lawenforcement. Voters in 2016 approved Proposition 64, which legalized cannabis, and so the assemblymen say they have a duty to make the law work. Lackey said his proposed tax reduction is essential for loosening the chokehold unlicensed retailers have on cannabis sales. The state places a 15-percent excise tax on cannabis, in addition to a cultivation tax based on weight. Local government adds taxes, too, creating overall rates as high as 45 percent, according to an industry group. Cooper is also taking aim at the Assemblymen Jim Cooper (D-Elk Grove, black market. He has proposed creating left) and Tom Lackey (R-Palmdale) recently a task force that would study the illegal introduced bills to lower marijuana sales market with an eye toward promoting taxes and combat the illegal market. the legal market. While the bill has received support in committee, it could PHoToS CourTeSy oF ASSeMBlyMeMBer JiM CooPer DiSTriCT 9/lACkey For ASSeMBly 2018 die because of a separate proposal recently announced by Gov. Jerry Brown to create an enforcement unit in the Department of Justice. Cooper has also introduced a bill that would make it a $10,000 fine for Formerly lawmen who opposed marijuana, two legislators aim to aid unlicensed operators to advertise on California’s underperforming commercial pot industry Weedmaps and other websites. The state has asked Weedmaps to stop allowing such ads, but the company has by Brad Branan responded that it is not subject to state licensing laws. Weedmaps has also argued that the greater problem is local control, which like weedmaps.com and don’t collect taxes, “I’m not a natural ally,” Lackey said. The best opportunity to help California’s at least not all of them. Cooper and Lackey’s transformation has led 85 percent of local governments struggling commercial cannabis industry to ban commercial cannabis sales. Enter two unlikely allies: reflect changing attitudes may lie with two state lawmakers who A bill pending in the Senate Assemblymen Tom Lackey, R-Palmdale, across the country at a opposed marijuana when they worked in would ease the restrictions and Jim Cooper, D-Elk Grove. Lackey time when a majority law enforcement. Lackey by allowing cannabis worked for the California Highway of states have some The need for change was highlighted wants to delivery companies Patrol for 28 years and was once named form of marijuana this month when the state released to bring marijuana “Legislator of Year” by the California legalization, and revenue figures for the first three temporarily reduce anywhere, regardless Police Chiefs Association. people like former months of the year, the opening weeks taxes on cannabis, of local restrictions. Cooper worked for the Sacramento U.S. House Speaker of California’s commercial marijuana while Cooper is taking While the bill has County Sheriff’s Department for 30 John Boehner have market. The state collected $32 million industry support, it years, including an extended run in drug gone from being in cannabis excise taxes, which indicates aim at blackfaces opposition from interdiction. His capitol office is filled prohibitionists to revenues are less than half of what was market sales. the California League of with pictures of him as a narc, standing profiteers. expected. Cities, the California State in front of seized drugs and wearing Both Cooper and Californians aren’t smoking less Association of Counties and undercover disguises. Lackey say their attitudes weed, industry leaders say. They’re just law-enforcement groups. Ω Yet Lackey and Cooper are now changed as they saw sick people not buying it from legal retailers because sponsoring legislation supported by become better with medical cannabis. of high taxes and local government bans the cannabis industry. Lackey wants to Lackey said the wife of his former that block sales. Brad Branan was previously the cannabis reporter at The Sacramento Bee. He has been a journalist for temporarily reduce taxes on cannabis, law-enforcement partner started using Legal dispensaries are competing with 27 years and won many awards, including for best cannabis to treat the symptoms of hundreds of unlicensed operators across the while Cooper is taking aim at blackinvestigative reporting in California. market sales. cancer. state, many of which advertise on websites
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Flavor over strength Considering that cannabis is now legal, and the police used the war on drugs to ask for increased funding for decades, and marijuana is easy to detect and use for that purpose, shouldn’t we now be clamoring to reduce police funding and take back our tax dollars? —Freddy Frugal
Sure, but it’s not gonna happen. The DEA is never gonna ask for less money. In fact, 20 percent of the extra tax money collected from Proposition 64 (after expenses and obligations) goes to law enforcement, so they can work on a new sobriety test to catch stoned drivers, and to “support programs designed to reduce any potential negative impacts on public health or safety resulting from the measure.” If you understand the Acronym “C.R.E.A.M.” (“Cash Rules Everything Around Me”) you would see that it would probably be more effective to offer the DEA more money to leave marijuana alone than to try to take money away if pot is made legal. Make of that what you will.
Do you agree with the widely-held belief that weed is “a lot stronger these days,” or like me, think there is just better availability of the decent stuff now, and good weed has always been good weed? —Jess Wunderen
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percentages in the ’70s or the ’80s. Weed was either “weak” or “strong.” But now, with all the fancy machines and whatnot, there has definitely been an increase in THC percentages in the past few years. I will say that hash and concentrates have higher THC levels now than they have ever had before. I mean, when I was a young cannabis user, all we had was cold-water hash, which would max out at around 50 percent THC. These days, a good butane extraction will be like 85 percent. You can even find straight-up THC distillate if you try hard enough. It doesn’t matter. It’s not about strength, it’s about flavor. Stronger weed just means you have to smoke less to get just as high. It will save you money in the long run. Although, I must say that I generally prefer cannabis in the 15 to 20 percent THC range. This is hella subjective, but I feel like it just tastes better. Happy toking!
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FOR THE WEEk OF MAy 24, 2018 ARIES (March 21-April 19): The Aries poet Anna
Kamieńska described the process of writing as akin to “the backbreaking work of hacking a footpath, as in a coal mine; in total darkness, beneath the earth.” Whether or not you’re a writer, I’m guessing that your life might have felt like that recently. Your progress has been slow and the mood has been dense and the light has been dim. That’s the tough news. The good news is that I suspect you will soon be blessed with flashes of illumination and a semi-divine intervention or two. After that, your work will proceed with more ease. The mood will be softer and brighter.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Do you know what
you are worth? Have you compiled a realistic assessment of your talents, powers, and capacities? Not what your friends and enemies think you’re worth, nor the authority figures you deal with, nor the bad listeners who act like they’ve figured out the game of life. When I ask you if you have an objective understanding of your real value, Taurus, I’m not referring to what your illusions or fears or wishes might tell you. I’m talking about an honest, accurate appraisal of the gifts you have to offer the world. If you do indeed possess this insight, hallelujah and congratulations! If you don’t, the coming weeks will be an excellent time to work on getting it.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Now is a favorable
time to worship at the shrine of your own intuition. It’s a ripe moment to boost your faith in your intuition’s wild and holy powers. To an extraordinary degree, you can harness this alternate mode of intelligence to gather insights that are beyond the power of your rational mind to access by itself. So be bold about calling on your gut wisdom, Gemini. Use it to track down the tricky, elusive truths that have previously been unavailable to you.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): “A poem is never
finished; it is only abandoned,” wrote poet W. H. Auden, paraphrasing poet Paul Valéry. I think the same can be said about many other kinds of work. We may wish we could continue tinkering and refining forever so as to bring a beloved project to a state of absolute perfection. But what’s more likely is that it will always fall at least a bit short of that ideal. It will never be totally polished and complete to our satisfaction. And we’ve got to accept that. I suggest you meditate on these ideas in the coming weeks, Cancerian. Paradoxically, they may help you be content with how you finish up the current phase of your beloved project.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I highly recommend that
you spend the next three weeks hanging out on a beach every day, dividing your time between playing games with friends, sipping cool drinks, reading books you’ve always wanted to read, and floating dreamily in warm water. To indulge in this relaxing extravaganza would be in maximum alignment with the current cosmic rhythms. If you can’t manage such a luxurious break from routine, please at least give yourself the gift of some other form of recreation that will renew and refresh you all the way down to the core of your destiny.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Contemporaries of the
ancient Greek philosopher Pythagoras told colorful stories about the man. Some believed he was the son of a god and that one of his thighs was made of gold. When he crossed the Casas River, numerous witnesses testified that the river called out his name and welcomed him. Once a snake bit him, but he suffered no injury, and killed the snake by biting it in return. On another occasion, Pythagoras supposedly coaxed a dangerous bear to stop committing violent acts. These are the kinds of legends I expect you to spread about yourself in the coming days, Virgo. It’s time to boost your reputation to a higher level.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): My counsel may seem
extreme, but I really think you should avoid mildness and meekness and modesty. For the immediate future, you have a mandate to roar and cavort and exult. It’s your sacred duty to be daring and experimental and exploratory. The cosmos and I want to enjoy the show as you act like you have the right to express your soul’s code with brazen confidence and unabashed freedom. The cosmos and I want to squeal with
joy as you reveal raw truths in the most emotionally intelligent ways possible.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): French novelist
Honoré Balzac periodically endured intense outbreaks of creativity. “Sometimes it seems that my brain is on fire,” he testified after a 26-day spell when he never left his writing room. I’m not predicting anything quite as manic as that for you, Scorpio. But I do suspect you will soon be blessed (and maybe a tiny bit cursed) by a prolonged bout of fervent inspiration. To ensure that you make the best use of this challenging gift, get clear about how you want it to work for you. Don’t let it boss you. Be its boss.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Ancient civi-
lizations waged war constantly. From Mesopotamia to China to Africa, groups of people rarely went very long without fighting other groups of people. There was one exception: the Harappan culture that thrived for about 2,000 years in the Indus River Valley, which in the present day stretches through Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India. Archaeologists have found little evidence of warfare there. Signs of mass destruction and heavy armaments are non-existent. Art from that era and area does not depict military conflict. One conclusion we might be tempted to draw from this data is that human beings are not inherently combative and violent. In any case, I want to use the Harappan civilization’s extended time of peace as a metaphor for your life in the next eight weeks. I believe (and hope!) you’re entering into a phase of very low conflict.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Every human
being I’ve ever known, me included, has to wage a continuous struggle between these pairs of opposites: 1. bad habits that waste their vitality and good habits that harness their vitality; 2. demoralizing addictions that keep them enslaved to the past and invigorating addictions that inspire them to create their best possible future. How’s your own struggle going? I suspect you’re in the midst of a turning point. Here’s a tip that could prove useful: Feeding the good habits and invigorating addictions may cause the bad habits and demoralizing addictions to lose some of their power over you.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Some books
seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s own castle,” said author Franz Kafka. I suspect this idea will be especially relevant to you in the coming weeks, Aquarius. And more than that: In addition to books, other influences may also serve as keys to unfamiliar rooms in your inner castle. Certain people, for instance, may do and say things that give you access to secrets you’ve been keeping from yourself. A new song or natural wonderland may open doors to understandings that will transform your relationship with yourself. To prep you for these epiphanies, I’ll ask you to imagine having a dream at night in which you’re wandering through a house you know very well. But this time, you discover there’s a whole new wing of the place that you never knew existed.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Just for now, let’s
say it’s fine to fuel yourself with comfort food and sweet diversions. Let’s proceed on the hypothesis that the guardians of your future want you to treat yourself like a beloved animal who needs extra love and attention. So go right ahead and spend a whole day (or two) in bed reading and ruminating and listening to soul-beguiling music. Take a tour through your favorite memories. Move extra slowly. Do whatever makes you feel most stable and secure. Imagine you’re like a battery in the process of getting recharged.
Technology and art intersect Locals might remember the installation ZSpace at last year’s ArtStreet event, where they stepped into a futuristic world. There, observers were lured in by bright LED lights that displayed an array of cooltoned colors in geometric patterns on the pure white walls. Their ears were stimulated with low frequency sounds as they viewed themselves in slanted, mirrored steel strips. The piece attracted a lot of foot traffic and people stayed for an extended period of time interacting with the art. “I had to start kicking people out at one point,” said Alex Trujillo, the visionary behind ZSpace. Now, Trujillo
is set to launch his own two-day digital media art showcase called Light.Wav, where he will display his art along with that of several other artists. Trujillo took time out from getting ready to chat about interactive art, audience expectations and the inevitable tech fails.
What is Light.Wav? Light.Wav is a showcase that revolves around digital tech art. We are going to have various artists that do installation art, from sculptures and projection to interactive projections and LED lighting. There are also going to be artists that have their art kind of look like tech art. I don’t want to limit it to just digital stuff. Light.Wav is about light, sound and space and whatever encompasses that. Not only do we have visual artists, but we are going to have deejays and producers playing experimental electronic music. Ultimately, I want to curate an audiovisual experience for everybody.
What exactly is tech art? Using technology, electricity and things that may some give a hint or notion of what the future is like. It can be anything that resembles stuff that is generated from technology like glitches, noise and patterns. You can take tech art and put it into fine art. It’s up to the individual and their own interpretation of what tech art is.
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to be sound-reactive. So whatever sound that’s happening in the space, it’s going to animate to that sound.
What is the weirdest reaction someone has ever had to your art? The weirdest reaction was no reaction. When I did the ArtStreet thing, people were like, “Wow, this is cool.” And this girl came in and looked at everything and she goes, “I don’t get it.” And I was like, “What do you see?” And she looks around and says, “Yeah, OK, but I don’t get it.” I tried to pull some things out of her, but her attitude about her not being open made it impossible.
Has the technology ever failed you? Well today, I forgot my main power cord, which kind of says a lot. You depend on electricity a lot for some of the stuff, and at any point of time you forget your main cable, you are done. Go get it. I try to think everything through and try to be prepared.
What’s the one thing you would like to create but can’t yet because you haven’t figured out the technology? I have this one thing I have in my head, and I feel like I will eventually get there. I want to use some sort of compress vapor waves mixed with visible electricity and encase it in glass or something so that you can see all the stuff inside it reacting to each other. I have it in my head, but I don’t not know where to start.
What can people expect from your event? I would like for them to feel like they left the regular world and forget about it so they can
focus their attention on the sensory experience that is here. They might come across things that they’ve never seen before, and they can interpret it. I would love for people to walk away from this and be like, “Wow, we need more of that.” It’s a good break from what we are used to.
How long have you been doing this? I’ve been doing tech art at this level for two to three years, but I’ve always been interested in 3D animation—ever since I was in high school. That’s actually what sparked my interest and pointed me in the direction of what I am doing now. I studied graphic design in college then continued to work on side video projects, entertainment and music. Ever since I saw that stuff in the ’90s, I was like, “That’s what I want to do.”
What are you looking forward to most? I think I am most excited for those special moments when I notice other people being fascinated by the things in here, and I become an observer of the audience, and I get to see what special moments people have in here. Those key moments are kind of why I do this. It means a lot when people come to me and say, “We love what you did here.” I spend countless hours and energy doing this stuff, but at the end of the day, it’s worth doing. Ω Light.Wav takes place at 1930 H Street, Friday, June 15, 6 p.m.-midnight, $11; Saturday, June 16, noon-6 p.m., free, and 6 p.m.-midnight, $16. Weekend passes are $20. For tickets, visit Eventbrite.
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