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End child abuse as foreign policy California Attorney General Xavier Becerra’s complaint against the Trump Administration reads like something from A Handmaid’s Tale.

“Hundreds of children are left to languish in makeshift detention facilities—where staff are sometimes told not to comfort them—until a placement is found for the child. Defendants have moved the children and parents to different locations all over the country. While the parents are held in federal facilities to await further immigration proceedings, their children are sent elsewhere to group shelters or family placements.”

While this is not news, seeing it laid out in a legal document is chilling. The document also made clear the reasons this is a moral and legal atrocity.

“Border officials are unlawfully turning away these families on the pretext that the United States is ‘full’ or no longer accepting asylum seekers.”

Please note that fact carefully. This is not about immigrants. It is about asylum seekers. The right to seek asylum is an ancient doctrine, codified in 1948 in the Universal Declaration on Human Rights. U.S. laws provide for granting asylum or refugee status to qualified applicants. The individuals in the news this week are not looking for jobs—they are overwhelmingly families from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala—three of the five countries with the world’s highest murder rates, according to the United Nations. Turning these people away with no opportunity for a fair hearing is just plain wrong.

Of course, these folks can’t turn around and go home. When they inevitably enter our country, they are subject to Jeff Sessions’ zero-tolerance policy and detained, with parents and children forcibly separated. “As of June 25, 2018, emerging reports suggest that immigration officials are now using the children taken from their parents as leverage to coerce parents to withdraw their asylum claims.”

Look: Almost 300,000 people have fled the unspeakable violence in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala in recent years. We can’t welcome them all. Hell—everyone who lives in those three countries could reasonably apply for asylum here.

That’s not going to happen.

Those of us who are ashamed that our nation is operating internment camps for children are not calling for open borders. What we do demand are sane immigration policies, and this is insane.

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Fox News destroyed democracy Re “Why Tom McClintock Needs to Go” by Suzanne Eckes-Wahl (Letters, May 5): I watched Fox News for years and I was a bonafide Fox zombie. They are directly responsible for the cultural division this country is now experiencing. If some professor in an obscure community college in a small town said something crazy, Fox would run that as a national story in

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Now I see in the news where we as Americans are taking desperate refugees crossing the border and throwing them in jail and deliberately separating them from their children as some form of cruel nightmare punishment and using that to send a message, “Don’t come to America or we will take your children from you!”

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On June 19, a large crowd flooded Sacramento City Hall demanding support for rent control and tenant protections.

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Inclusionary exclusion A move by Allen Warren and a worsening rent crisis renew debate on axing former housing rules

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Call it the ghost of housing votes from the past.

In the same month that angry tenants poured into City Hall to challenge Mayor Darrell Steinberg and other council members on their opposition to rent control, employees at Sacramento’s housing authority were prepping reports and taking actions that resurrected an old controversy connected to the region’s affordable housing disaster.

Just before the June 7 city council meeting, staff quietly pulled Item 15 from the consent agenda. If they hadn’t pulled the item, the council would have been voting to allow one of their own, District 2’s Allen Warren, to be the latest developer to opt out of the city’s former mandate on inclusionary 6 | SN&R | 06.28.18

housing. Ironically, Warren says the reason he’s making the request for his subdivision is so he’ll be able to offer North Sacramento something it desperately needs—more lowincome rentals. But the request itself, coinciding with a dearth of affordable developments, and fresh outrage directed at the mayor around skyrocketing rents and evictions, has brought the 2015 decision to abandon the city’s Including Housing Plan back into a hot, glaring spotlight.

Tenant advocates say the folly of that move three years ago is now clear from the timeline: In 2000, the city council passed an inclusionary rule that mandated developers set aside 15 percent of any building project as low-income units; in 2015, developers and business groups

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convinced the council to reverse course, eliminating that rule in favor of allowing builders to pay a meager, per-square-foot fee into the city’s fledgling housing trust fund instead; in September of 2016, an SN&R analysis of data from Sacramento’s housing authority suggested the number of affordable units being constructed in the city and county had dropped by more than 56 percent in the first year of the rule being changed; at the same time, the data firm RentRange announced that Sacramento was suffering some of the highest year-toyear rent increases in the nation.

Things haven’t gotten better. A few months ago, real estate software engineered

by Princeton University showed that the city of Sacramento averaged five evictions

per day in 2016, while the county averaged 10 per day.

“Since that vote, we have seen a dramatic increase in homelessness and housing instability for low-income renters, as well as displacement of people who can’t afford to pay the ever-increasing rent prices,” said Delphine Brody, co-founder of the Trans and Nonbinary Housing Collective. Brody was one of many speakers who appeared before the council three years ago and implored it not to abandon the inclusionary housing mandate.

“Now the city and county have both moved to an ordinance that has no teeth,” she said.

The latest subdivision by Warren’s company, New Faze Development, is landing in a hard-hit area of North Sacramento. Last month, just three miles from where New Faze is breaking ground, eight different units at the Plaza State Apartments were hit with eviction notices in the same week. Reports of other serial evictions have been on the rise, with some landlords clearing out huge sections of their complexes and then sharply raising the rents for the next tenants.

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hIStory hElpEr When Warren’s new project, the Renaissance at Dry Creek subdivision, was first granted its permits by the city in 2008, it was under the inclusionary housing rule.

At that time, the 63 single-family-home development had a different ownership group and was called the Patterson Subdivision. The agreement stated that 15 percent of the project had to be constructed as affordable homes—meaning nine of its units. On September 1, 2015, Warren cast a vote to eliminate the inclusionary housing rule, allowing developers instead to pay a fee of $2.58 per-square-foot of their project into the city’s housing trust fund. Every current member of the city council, with the exception of Steinberg, who was then in the State Senate, cast the same vote. In September of 2016, Warren’s company bought the rights to the Patterson Subdivision and rechristened it Renaissance at Dry Creek. Several months later, New Faze formally requested to be released from the agreement under the old mandate to build nine affordable units.

Instead of building physical units, New Faze is now asking to pay $110,200 into the same housing trust fund that’s failed to build any affordable units in the city since the rules were altered. But Warren told SN&R last week his company is making the request because of the worsening housing crisis, not in spite of it. Warren said the terms of the old agreement include deed restrictions that bar him from offering any of the project’s houses as rentals. A 2017 report from the California Housing Partnership determined that Sacramento County needs more than 62,000 affordable rentals to meet the needs of its lowestincome renters. Warren says he wants some of the units from Renaissance at Dry Creek to be directed at the problem.

“In Sacramento, what’s considered an affordable home is one priced at $300,000,” Warren said. “But there’s a lot of people here who can’t afford that. We want the ability to sell or rent.”

Charanjeet Tiwana, vice president of strategic investments at New Faze, elaborated on that claim in a letter to the city, saying Warren’s company wants to take “several” of the finished homes and “rent those units at an affordable rate to local community members that are unable to afford high rents.”

Warren thinks the city staff pulled his request from the June 7 consent agenda to re-examine their options on the agreement.

Tiwana said she believes the city pulled it to make sure there weren’t any conflicts of interests. Either way, the move delayed Warren having to answer questions about

whether he’d inadvertently given himself an alley-oop with his 2015 vote to kill the inclusionary ordinance. Warren says his commitment to offer affordable homes to working-class Sacramentans is clear from his company’s 30-year history.

“It’s not easy,” Warren stressed. “But we’re still here and we’re still keeping at it.”

toward their stance against rent control. And some tenants at the meeting said they were also feeling a sense of déjà vu: Back when they’d tried to defend inclusionary housing, the council was focusing much of its energy on finalizing the Golden 1 Center. Last week, as one person after another talked about being priced out of their neighborhood, council members were stone silent. the city’s community development However, they soon came to life when department continues to maintain that discussing a $340 million restoration of the allowing builders like Warren to pay into Sacramento Convention Center. the trust fund rather than construct “You guys are wanting to do actual low-income units is renovations on the convention still addressing the crisis center, and all these things “The city because, in theory, it you’re putting money incentivizes more towards, but nobody and county have projects across the in this audience cares city. Guided by the both moved to an about that,” Danielle same philosophy, Boles, a state worker, ordinance that has no the Sacramento said from the County Board of podium. teeth.”

Supervisors—minus Other housing Delphine Brody Don Notolli—also advocates present co-founder, Trans and Nonbinary voted to ditch their told SN&R it should Housing Collective inclusionary housing be obvious why they’re rule. But the city and following the lead of county’s respective trust tenants of Richmond and funds aren’t actually used to build Mountain View to bypass the city affordable homes, they’re used to patch council altogether by gathering signatures funding gaps for private developers trying for a rent control ballot initiative. Many to make affordable units pencil out. In 2016, also cited concerns about the influence officials from the Sacramento Housing of special interest groups. Three years & Redevelopment Agency, or SHRA, ago, when the council ignored the outcry acknowledged that, since the inclusionary over eliminating its inclusionary housing housing rules were terminated, the rule, its members were following advice county’s trust fund only helped construct from groups that included the Sacramento 48 affordable units, while the city’s trust Metro Chamber of Commerce and fund helped construct zero affordable units. the North State Building Industry When asked last week if the trust fund had Association, both of which have given helped build any affordable units in the city tens of the thousands of dollars to various since 2016, SHRA spokeswoman Angela council members’ campaigns. Those same Jones declined to answer. groups oppose bringing rent control to For Russel Rawlings, of Resources Sacramento, along with the California for Independent Living, the silence isn’t Apartment Association, which has also surprising. Rawlings was another person poured tens of the thousands of dollars who spoke out fiercely in 2015 when city into various council members’ coffers. leaders prepared to abandon inclusionary At the start of June, Steinberg came housing. “We’re seeing the results, we’re out publicly against the rent control ballot seeing all the comments that we made play measure, calling it “a threat” and telling The out,” Rawlings said. “We’re seeing the Sacramento Bee, “I want to work hard to wrong kind of development. We’re seeing maximize the chance that this doesn’t go on development that’s keeping people out … the ballot.”

That’s our new normal, and that’s a result of Brody had a quick response to the having an ordinance that was gutted—absomayor’s words. lutely eviscerated.”

“The city council’s actions under the Meanwhile, council members may have previous mayor, and the present mayor, been experiencing a feeling of déjà vu June and the decision to abandon inclusionary 19 as dozens of people chastised them on housing, are what the real threat has been,” their handling of the housing crisis. The Brody responded. “And shame on Mayor same intensity directed at the representatives Steinberg for saying that. He doesn’t have back when they axed the inclusionary housto worry about being out on the streets from ing rule was now being mirrored in anger a rent increase.” Ω

A law that lets cities offer tax breaks to the owners of historic buildings, in hopes of preserving their integrity, is gaining steam in Sacramento.

The Mills Act, a state incentive program that’s existed since 1972, was once used to bolster Sacramento’s physical history. However, it lost its momentum during the recession when the city laid off the entirety of the preservation Commission’s planners, the employees who managed the program. Now that the city’s Preservation Commission director, Carson Anderson, has a small staff at his side the Mills Act is back on the table.

“The idea is that it’s better economically to have an old building that’s rehabilitated and being used than one that’s sitting vacant and decaying,” said Sacramento historian William Burg.

Major California cities like San Francisco have adopted the Mills Act to great effect, and it’s surprising to local history fans that Sacramento, with its 33 historic districts, only has the Senator hotel utilizing the 20-to-30 percent property tax break. District 4 city councilman Steve Hansen, who lives in an 112-year-old historic building, told SN&R that he supports the Mills Act and sees it as a great opportunity to preserve the city’s rich legacy for future generations.

“This program is a benefit to buildings in distress,” Hansen pointed out. “I’m very proud of our Sacramento history, but we’ve also seen buildings obliterated by freeways and large swabs of communities of color displaced downtown. ” City officials have staffing to review and accept 12 Mills Act applications, if council chooses to move forward with the program in August. According to Burg, if the demand presents itself there’s potential for expanding in the future, which could mean less vacant buildings and more opportunities for housing and new businesses.

“The issue of revitalizing the community and reusing the building is key,” Burg said. “ We have a housing shortage. There are houses that are useful, some are historic buildings and others are potentially historic buildings, but it could be really helpful to have this financial incentive to encourage that reuse.” (Steph Rodriguez)

DEaD rabbIt fINE After repeated violations concerning mistreatment of laboratory animals, UC Davis has been fined $5,000 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The fine results from a nearly two-year investigation after a “rabbit died under anesthesia when a valve was inadvertently left closed,” according to an April release from the university.

Jeremy Beckham, a research associate from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals’ laboratory investigations department, contended the fine wasn’t large enough to curb practices at the public university, a world leader in animal science and research.

“These fines have shown time and again to have no effect on these labs,” Beckham said. “Five thousand dollars is just a drop in the bucket for UC Davis.”

In 2017, UC Davis received more than $234 million from 468 National Institutes of Health awards. Over the past five years, the university has received 15 citations under the Animal Welfare Act. But the university was last fined in September 2005 when seven monkeys died from heat exhaustion.

The USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, or APHIS, has a history of under-penalizing violators, according to an internal audit. In 2010, the USDA’s Office of Inspector General found that APHIS didn’t follow guidelines in lowering penalties in over one-third of the cases brought forward under the Animal Welfare Act. In 2017, over 90 percent of alleged violations were settled with a warning. (Dylan Svoboda)

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America Martinez lights candles at an altar for children impacted by zerotolerance border policies.

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‘ICE out of California’ Sacramento County is officially out of the immigration enforcement business

by Kate Gonzales

Starting July 1, the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department will no longer be in the business of incarcerating undocumented immigrants.

The Board of Supervisors on June 5 voted 3-2 against extending a relationship between the federal government and the Sheriff’s Department, a deal that pays $100 per day for each detainee held in a county jail. In its proposal to continue the arrangement, the Sheriff’s Department budgeted for $6.6 million in revenue for 2018-19. With opposing votes from District 1 Supervisor Phil Serna, District 2 Supervisor Patrick Kennedy and District 5 Supervisor Don Nottoli, advocates celebrated the board’s close decision.

“This is something that really speaks to Sacramento values,” said Carlos Montes-Ponce, community organizer with Sacramento Area Congregations Together.

Sacramento ACT is one of several organizations pushing back against the presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE. “They made the right decision,” Montes-Ponce said. “They made the moral decision.”

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In 2017, California passed three laws barring local police forces from cooperating with ICE. These included Senate Bill 54, which prevents state and local law enforcement officials from keeping undocumented immigrants longer than their initial offense permits, and prohibits new contracts like that between the county and ICE. Sacramento Sheriff Scott Jones, a vocal critic of those laws, hosted a contentious forum before their passage that featured acting ICE Director Thomas Homan.

This past March, Jones traveled to Washington, D.C. for a White House meeting that included Homan, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Pres. Donald Trump.

Without presenting evidence, Jones told the president of “spectacular failures every single day around California” resulting in the release of “criminals that are going to go out and ... victimize other folks—that we’re unable to capture, apprehend, and keep detained for deportation.”

Last Wednesday, June 20, activists rallied outside Robert T. Matsui Courthouse, where the first hearing associated with Sessions’ lawsuit against

the state was taking place. Two men held a large, yellow banner with “ICE out of California” painted in black. Another group held a banner that said “Undocumented and unafraid,” as three ICE officers watched the scene. A petite elderly woman warmed by a lace shawl chanted with the rally cries in Spanish.

Sen. Kevin de León, who authored SB 54, spoke alongside immigrants and activists.

“We have a message for Jeff Sessions and for President Trump,” de León said.

“Whether you like it or not, we don’t support Jeff Sessions’ values here.”

Around 100 protesters attended a Monday rally at an ICE office on Capitol Mall to protest the administration’s zerotolerance policy that has led to thousands of children being taken from their parents.

Americans who were forced into Japanese internment camps during World War II spoke of their experiences being imprisoned as children.

While Trump signed an executive order last week reversing his administration’s practice of family separation, protests continue, with marches set for Saturday

in cities nationwide around the theme, Families Belong Together & Free. The local rally will begin at 10 a.m. at 650 Capitol Mall.

When the Sheriff’s Department first made a deal with the federal government in 2000, detainees were kept in the downtown jail as they awaited deportation or worked through their appeals. After the contract was renewed in 2013, they began being housed at Rio Cosumnes Correctional Center in Elk Grove.

Detainees have long complained of problems with the facilities, where, they say, they were packed into cramped cells with very little time outside, and had to bathe in toilet water. A man became quadriplegic after he attempted suicide.

Another wrote “They treat us like animals” in one of 20 letters sent to SN&R in 2015 (see “Inside the Sacramento jail’s Guantanamo Bay,” December 31, 2015).

“We’ve been very concerned with the treatment of people at this facility for years,” said Rebecca Merton, independent monitor for Freedom for Immigrants, which works to end immigration detention.

“We’ve heard countless stories of abuses.”

Lori K. Haley, a communications director for Department of Homeland Security/ ICE, said in an email that ending this contract could hurt detainees, who may be moved further from family and lawyers. In Susan Lange’s experience visiting RCCC for the past five years, many of them don’t have visitors frequently, if at all.

Lange speaks with unguarded delight when discussing the Faithful Friends—Amigos Fieles, a visitation group affiliated with the Freedom for Immigrants Visitation Network. She never expected to become a political advocate when she agreed to participate with members of her church.

“I started out thinking it was a nice thing to do,” she said. “But I really have changed my attitude through the years because of the conditions and abuse at Rio Cosumes. … I realized that I’m not going in there just to talk with people and make them feel good they had a conversation, but I’m going in there to be in solidarity with them.”

She’d like to see the men released under supervision into the communities they were living in, to continue working through their appeals, rather than be moved to detention centers out of state.

“ICE may have to depend on its national system of detention bed space to place those detainees in locations farther away from Sacramento,” Haley’s email stated. Ω

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Council’s last vote on Crocker Village. The judge Sacramento City Councilman Jay Schenirer has called for a re-vote on the project with Schenirer been absolved of conspiracy charges from the not participating. The city immediately appealed the developer of Crocker Village, though the fate judge’s decision. of District 5’s elaborately planned community After several preliminary hearings and postremains in limbo. ponements, the civil court judge David Brown Crocker Village was envisioned as a modern issued a major ruling in the case on June 12. In urban center, a vibrant living hub with an array it, Brown agreed with the city’s position that due of housing options anchored near the light rail process was administered and that there was no and within sight of Sacramento City College. conspiracy to deny the Safeway lease or favor Tailored to everyone from students to senior other grocery stores who would build without the citizens, it was heralded as bringing a smart gas pumps. Brown further ruled that the permit mixed-use living and commercial landscape to for gas pumps was not a development right but the city. Sacramento officials first approved a subject to discretionary approval by the council. master plan and an environmental impact report Finally, Brown dismissed the charges of for the project in 2010, but a bitter legal fight personal defamation asserted by Petrovich. between the developer, Paul Petrovich, and the But the courtroom smoke hasn’t entirely city has since nearly derailed it. cleared. Brown has not yet resolved The drama started when Petrovich Petrovich’s discrimination claim changed his original design plans against the city. The judge asked “We to incorporate a newly signed Petrovich and his associates Safeway grocery store lease, thought we to provide examples of other which brought with it 16 development projects that gas pumps that were highly were getting received more favorable unpopular with people in the something else.” treatment on gas pump community. Sierra Curtis approvals by July 3. The city Neighborhood Association Eric Johnson will have 30 days to provide began rallying against that president, Sierra Curtis counter arguments. part of the project, and the Neighborhood Association The project continues to be wheels essentially fell off. entangled in legal chess moves at a The revised version of Crocker time when Sacramento is experiencing Village barely passed the planning a major shortfall of housing options. People commission and had a rough time in front of who took the jump and committed to buying in city councilmembers in July 2015. The council Crocker Village have their own set of concerns. allowed the housing portion of the development “I don’t think a gas station would be so deleto move forward, but turned back its approvals terious, but we need the grocery store and other of the commercial component, particularly the retail services,” said Pastor Terrence Williams, parcel connected with Safeway’s would-be gas who bought one of the Crocker Village’s pumps. Since then, the only part of Crocker Brownstone units. “We bought our homes expectVillage that’s been built is its senior housing and ing the retail center, it was promised to us.” some 83 “Brownstone”-style homes.

Eric Johnson, President of SCNA, the Recently, Petrovich started installing neighborhood association that took on Petrovich, infrastructure and underground utilities for the remains firmly opposed to the gas station. commercial land.

“In the original community meetings, we were The overall building stagnation around Crocker sold on a walkable, bikeable, transit-oriented Village involves the fact that Petrovich has been development,” Johnson told SN&R. “We saw pushing a multitiered lawsuit against the city beautiful renderings of families strolling through since fall 2016. His legal filing alleges conspiracy, a retail village with plazas and green spaces. Now defamation of character, prejudice, due process we see a bait-and-switch of typical over developviolations and financial damages. In January of this ment with a sea of asphalt, high traffic counts, year, Sacramento County appeals judge Michael and car culture dominance. We thought we were Kenny ruled that Schenirer broke procedural rules getting something else.” Ω and showed bias against Petrovich leading up to the

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For the children of the rainbow

By Skye Cabrera

about how ignorant the world is and Queer is punk rock. Queer is synonymous inventing new religions and new psalms. with brave. It means moving 2,800 miles It’s discovering David Bowie’s makeup, from the Bronx to Sacramento because Gia Marie Carangi and Frida Kahlo’s a California woman stole my heart. It seldom acknowledged lesbian lover, means being yourself in a world that Chavela Vargas. It’s Marsha P. Johnson, encourages you not to be, because it’s a Gloria Anzaldúa, Freddie Mercury, direct form of activism. It means being a living, breathing rainbow flag, 365 days a Sylvia Rivera and the first brick thrown at Stonewall that smashed the patriarchy. year, ever so noticeable in your oversized It’s realizing your children are not a men’s tees without the seasonal validasecond chance at life, but beautiful beams tion of celebrity hashtags on Instagram. of light no matter what gender section It means calling the LGBTQ Center of they choose at Forever21. It’s knowing Sacramento as soon as your plane lands we are human beings first. We are to set up your allies in a new city, just in pansexual, bisexual, transexual, asexual, case your love is too loud for the block unrepressed and liberated truth-tellers. you live on. Just in case you’re called It’s coming out to your lesbian friends “dykes,” gawked at or followed home. that you are straight now, or bi, or maybe It’s sometimes quitting jobs and just changing your mind for the weekend. nearly getting evicted because of Being queer is decolonization discrimination in the workplace. of the mind, of the spirit, of It’s praying for the lost queer the conditioning of our bodies in Texas, and your ancestors. It’s unlearntrans friends on their We are ing and teaching tolerway home at 2 a.m. It pansexual, ance to our elders. means creating your bisexual, transexual, It’s highlighting own family because a Jesus poem like you still get calls from asexual, unrepressed “You were born in your grandmother and liberated truththe image and likeness asking you if you’ve tellers. of God” and using it as changed. As if you’re a shield against Christian phase. As if the gay might radicals on a train platform. have washed off by age 33.

It’s familiar faces at Faces, If you’ve found a husband yet. or Badlands and the bookshelves carrying If this time you might wear a dress to the comfort and healing at Lavendar Library. party you shouldn’t bring your girlfriend It’s holding her hand in McKinley to because queer is to be kept obscure.

Park and wishing upon every 11:11 that Queer is wonderful hanging over one day you will achieve normalcy in shoulders as a Marc Jacobs purse or a country run by a bigot, who entices Calvin Klein blouse, but never face-toother bigots to snarl at the accent of your face at Thanksgiving. very last name on top of the sex of the Queer is all or nothing. It means person you make love to. It’s being a loving your girlfriend anyway and warm triple-threat: a queer, Latinx woman in afternoons with gregarious Vallejo gays America. It’s laughing through discrimiwho take you as you are on Christmas. It nation while watching John Leguizamo means loving her, even if I’m not invited as Chi-Chi in To Wong Foo, Thanks for over for dinner by her parents tonight Everything! Julie Newmar, and knowing or possibly ever because every Sunday everyday is worth the beautiful struggle. a pastor invokes ancient ideas that our It’s love. It’s writing these narratives, love is a sin. It’s learning that in Hmong owning them, sending them, sharing communities, there isn’t even a word to them and serving that stardust all across describe your queer friend’s life. the world. Ω It’s getting to know God on a personal level and laughing with him 10

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‘Impeach Trump’ in Sacramento by jeff vonkaenel

As he demonstrated at his Impeach Trump town hall meeting last week at Beatnik Studios in Sacramento, billionaire activist Tom Steyer is extremely articulate, well-versed on issues, can easily take softball questions, and has a strong presence.

While there are many articulate people who are well-versed on issues, there are few articulate, well-versed, politically ambitious billionaires.

That’s why Tom Steyer is a force. It’s a little like the old joke: Where does an 800-pound gorilla sit? Anywhere they want. This joke explains much about 21st century American politics.

Democratic and Republican analysts agree that a serious campaign to impeach Trump will rally the Republican base and be controversial among Democrats.

The end result is that it will help Republican candidates. That is why most Democratic candidates are not on board.

And yet Tom Steyer is. And that only matters because he is a billionaire. Steyer is putting his money where his mouth is, spending $40 million on television ads urging Congress to impeach Trump.

His ads, like his town hall meeting, put much of the focus on Tom Steyer. At Beatnik Studios, about half of the messaging focused on Trump’s impeachment. The other half was on Steyer’s vision for America. It was an impressive vision of higher taxes on the rich, stronger environmental laws and a whole list of progressive agenda items.

But there were no Democratic leaders present. In fact, there was not a single elected official or labor leader at the event. It was the Tom Steyer show. I felt like an extra in a television show. The goal, it seemed, was to provide live footage for the video.

Clearly Steyer is ambitious, and we live in a time when a billionaire

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without any previous experience can become president of the United States, or mayor of New York. So one has to take Steyer seriously, just as we have to take the Koch brothers and their fellow right-wing billionaires seriously as they pour hundreds of millions of dollars into campaigns nationwide.

This power that billionaires have on the left and on the right scares me. I hope it doesn’t come down to a choice of which billionaire to support.

That said, I am not that crazy about the current process for non-billionaires running for office either. Most political candidates spend hours and hours—often literally most of their time—raising money for their campaigns. This reminds me of author Michael Pollan’s insight into the evolution of canines in America.

Pollen explains that dogs have filled the companionship niche for humans, while humans provide shelter, food and protection—we even pick up their poop. There used to be equivalent numbers of wolves and dogs on the continent, but now wolves have nearly been wiped out while their domesticated cousins have flourished.

The money these candidates raise will be used to pay their political consultants’ enormous salaries to run their expensive campaigns. But are the consultants working for the candidates, or are the candidates providing shelter, food and protection for them?

As any political observer will tell you: No one is picking up the poop.

Which should we choose: The billionaire candidate or the fundraising candidate without time to actually govern? Neither is a great option for our democracy. Ω

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

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Eddie Ray Jones Jr. was inside of a South Sacramento restaurant when he laid eyes on the woman he would pull into his depraved fantasy.

It was September 10, 2016, and the woman was picking up a to-go order with her 2-year-old granddaughter, according to the Sacramento County district attorney’s office.

The woman exited the establishment on Mack Road, returned to her car and eased the toddler into her car seat when Jones approached from behind. The repeat-offender with the alias “Lil Loco” already had misdemeanor convictions for false imprisonment, carrying an illegal switchblade and evading officers, Sacramento Superior Court records show. This time Jones told his victim he had a gun, and made her get behind the wheel of her car.

Over the next hour, Jones made the woman drive while he smoked narcotics in the passenger seat, the DA’s office states in a release. Jones then switched seats with his victim and forced her to perform a sex act.

Finally, he took cash from her purse, and stranded the woman and her grandchild on the side of the road as he fled in their car.

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this week, faces 69 years to life in prison. testing rape kits has not yet made justice This is an exceptional case for multiple more attainable for sexual assault survivors. reasons. Jones fits the “stranger rapist” archeThe big question is why. type that feeds most narratives about rape in ThE pRoSEcuTion RESTS the media and obscures the truth: Most sexual assaults are perpetrated by known persons or To learn how many reported sexual assaults family members—one of the reasons in Sacramento County end up sexual assaults are massively before a criminal court judge, under-reported, say investiSN&R analyzed California gators, survivors and their Department of Justice data, advocates. and reviewed figures The other thing obtained from the that makes the Jones county DA’s office cases unusual? and superior court.

Statistically, he is A pattern emerged one of a handful of from 2010 through rapists to be brought 2016: Even though to justice locally this thousands of rape decade, according survivors came ilse Knecht to a rare audit of forward and cooperated director of policy and advocacy at Sacramento County’s with investigators, their the Joyful Heart Foundation criminal justice system. cases stalled at each phase Even with the DA’s of the county’s fragmented crime lab now processing every criminal justice system—from rape kit it receives, only a small reports taken to forensic exams percentage of reported rapes are prosecuted, performed to arrests made to charges filed. By which is another reason most rape victims the end of this journey, only a fraction of rapists never come forward. As California legislators were held to account in a court of law. stand on the precipice of passing two new During the six-year span that SN&R laws intended to account for and test every reviewed, only 15 percent of the more than rape kit in the state, at least in Sacramento,

“We know that the prosecution of rapists is low to begin with. We don’t really know how to do this.”

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3,500 documented sexual assaults that authorities investigated were prosecuted.

Counterintuitively, the prosecution rate actually fell—to 13.5 percent—after the county began testing all rape kits in 2013.

It’s unknown how many of the prosecutions resulted in actual convictions, but what the figures underline is stark: “The system is not doing what it’s supposed to do, and it’s not the only system we need,” said Emily Austin, a senior policy and advocacy associate at the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault, or CCASA. “The DNA rape kit isn’t going to be the silver bullet.”

It certainly hasn’t been one in Sacramento.

While some figures aren’t yet available for 2017, the ones that are reveal a new low in rape prosecutions. According to the DA’s office, 253 rape kits were analyzed last year. But the superior court shows that prosecutors filed felony rape charges only 32 times—meaning that, at minimum, 87 percent of accused rapists likely got away with their crimes last year. (Not all reported sexual assaults result in a rape kit being

Natasha Simone Alexenko advocates for rape survivors.

head outside of her apartment building. The stranger asked if she lived alone. Alexenko answered honestly: She didn’t. The man led her up to the roof of her building and removed her jewelry. Alexenko thought she was being robbed. She said it didn’t occur to her that she was going to be raped until it started happening.

Afterward, the man leveled the gun and told her to count to 10. Then he left.

“I was shocked he didn’t kill me,” Alexenko told SN&R. “I thought … that was the end of me.”

Alexenko raced down to her apartment and banged on the door. Her roommates let her in and called 911. One of her roommates urged her to undergo a sexual assault forensic exam. It was the first time she’d heard of it.

“I didn’t even know about rape kits,” Alexenko said. “Even though I just wanted to take a shower, I knew how important it was to get this rape kit done.”

The process of submitting to a forensic collected, though sexual assault examinamost do.) tion can be long and The figures Natasha Simone Alexenko triggering, Knecht says. It aren’t surprising sexual assault survivor and can take several hours for an to Ilse Knecht, the memoirist exam to be completed, and asks director of policy and much of a person who just experiadvocacy at the Joyful enced what was likely the most traumatic Heart Foundation. Founded by event of their lives.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit star Alexenko says her exam was invasive, but Mariska Hargitay, the group is focused on told herself she was doing the right thing. ending sexual abuse, as well as partner and “I thought my rape kit would be tested,” child abuse, and sponsored the two rape Alexenko said. “I had no doubt.” kit bills advancing through the state house.

A year after her attack, Alexenko says, Nationally, it’s estimated that only 3 percent she received a phone call from an investigator of rapists are ever incarcerated for their telling her they were closing her case because violations. of a lack of leads. Alexenko blamed herself.

“We know that the prosecution rate of If only she could have given authorities a rapists is low to begin with,” Knecht said. “We better description of her attacker’s face rather don’t really know how to do this.” than of his gun, which was seared into her Natasha Simone Alexenko learned this memory. Alexenko spent the next decade in a firsthand. guilt spiral, self-destructing. She climbed out A long wAit for justice of it to become a leading voice for survivors, coming to the California State Capitol in In the early 1990s, Alexenko was a college May to urge lawmakers to audit their massive student living on the Upper West Side of backlog of untested rape kits.

Manhattan, where a man put a gun to her “I was afraid it was my fault,” she said.

“There was a criminal out there. And I thought that they had exhausted all leads when clearly they hadn’t.”

Over the past 50 years, reports and investigations of sexual assault have risen in number—but still represent a fraction of actual assaults.

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“There was a criminal out there. And I thought that they had exhausted all leads when clearly they hadn’t.”

It wasn’t until almost a decade after her attack that Alexenko learned the truth. Shortly before the statute of limitations was about to expire for the rape, Alexenko was called by a detective saying her kit had just been analyzed and asking if she could testify before a grand jury.

Authorities didn’t have a suspect yet, but they wanted Who commits her testimony to obtain what’s called a John Doe source: rAINN warrant. In cases where a crime has been committed and DNA evidence of the suspect exists, it’s a legal maneuver prosecutors can use to prevent the case from expiring.

Such a thing wasn’t possible 40 years ago— that is why the East Area Rapist suspect, Joseph James DeAngelo, faces 12 murder charges but not 51 counts of forcible rape.

Elk Grove police Detective-Sgt. James Fuller says John Doe warrants are obtained today.

“We do the same out here,” he said.

In Sacramento County, the DA’s crime lab receives a notification from the FBI that unidentified genetic profile in its Combined DNA Index System, or CODIS, is about to expire, Fuller explained. That starts a clock that local authorities can sometimes pause.

“Depending on the evidence, we can write a John Doe warrant for an unknown perpetrator,” Fuller said. “It buys us a tremendous amount of time.”

What the John Doe warrant means, Fuller explained, is this: “We have a suspect. We have a perpetrator. We just haven’t put a name to him yet.”

New York police were able to obtain a John Doe warrant for Alexenko’s attacker. On August 6, 2007, exactly 10 years after the rooftop attack on Alexenko, authorities got a DNA match: Victor Rondon, arrested in Las Vegas on a minor charge and extradited to New York on a parole violation.

Unlike most rape cases, he was tried, convicted and sentenced to a long prison term.

Even considering how slowly the wheels of justice moved in her case, Alexenko is hesitant to consider herself anything but fortunate. She was a white college student with a decent relationship with law enforcement at the time of her attack—she fears that’s one reason her case was solved. She says she’s since heard from many survivors who can’t relate to her experience.

“Everyone should receive the same kind of justice, respect and regard that I did,” Alexenko said. “There’s no reason that any single human being shouldn’t be treated like me.”

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fewer AssAults, more deAd ends Two weeks after Eddie Ray Jones Jr. ambushed the grandmother outside her car, Sacramento police checked out a tip that a wanted suspect was in the area of Notre Dame Drive and Folsom Boulevard west of Rosemont, according to a police incident summary from September 25, 2016. Responding officers found Jones, who led them on a vehicle pursuit that ended nearly seven miles west, where a California Highway Patrol helicopter found Jones hiding on a rooftop. He was arrested on numerous charges without further incident.

The victim picked Jones out of a lineup after describing to detectives her perpetrator’s distinctive tattoos, a DA’s release states.

DNA evidence Jones left on the woman’s shirt was analyzed by the crime lab and matched to Jones. Online court records show Jones’ attorney will ask the court for a new trial on June 29.

Most sexual assault investigations don’t unfold like modern-day thrillers. Most peer into neighborhoods and homes where the victims should have felt safe.

Six-year-old Jadiana died of blunt force trauma while being sexually assaulted by her mom’s partner in 2015. Her killer, 28-year-old Juan Rivera, then drove the little girl’s body to Glenn County and burned it. He pleaded guilty last week to the charges facing him, a DA’s release states.

Andrew Goodrich Young Jr., 58, will die in prison after a Sacramento Superior Court judge last week sentenced him to more than four centuries behind bars for sexually assaulting a family member over a period that spanned the child’s 13th birthday, a DA’s release and online court records show.

Rape isn’t like other crimes, Fuller says.

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Rather than being a crime of opportunity, it’s often an expression of an abhorrent compulsion.

“What we see is a pathology, especially with sexual assault,” he said. “It’s the way a person thinks and acts.”

Jones was apprehended the same year that the number of reported sexual assaults reached a 50-year high in California. Law enforcement agencies investigated 13,695 rapes in 2016, more than three times the number of assaults recorded in 1966, when only 4,078 victims came forward.

But the sexual assault crime rate is actually lower than it was a half-century ago, because there are more people living in California than there were in the ’60s. When accounting for population, 34.8 rapes were reported for every 100,000 California residents in 2016. By comparison, the sexual assault crime rate reached a 50-year low just five years ago, in 2013, when 19.5 rapes were reported for every 100,000 California residents.

The rate peaked in 1980, when 57.7 rapes were reported for every 100,000 California residents.

In Sacramento County, reported rapes peaked in 1992 at 534. Reports have since dropped to below 400, but the rapes are proving harder to solve.

New figures obtained by SN&R show the Sacramento Police Department struggling to clear reported rapes in the time since the state’s Criminal Justice Statistics Center last updated its figures in 2016. According to the department’s response to an SN&R public records request, city detectives made arrests in 28 out of the 99 rape cases they investigated last year.

Through March of this year, 25 sexual assaults have been investigated, resulting in eight arrests.

A misleAding nArrAtive “Jody Smith” didn’t identify with most rape stories she’d heard in the media. The Sacramento woman, who asked that her real name not be used, says it wasn’t until years after her attack,

Despite his unit’s specialized focus and the assistance of victims’ advocates, whom Fuller said “really hold the hands of victims,” it’s still a challenge to get victims to report. There are other hurdles to solving sexual assault cases, the vast majority of which are perpetrated by people known to the victims, Fuller says. Often the victims are young. Often authorities don’t find out what happened to them until years later.

“When individuals are assaulted as children or teens, it takes them many years for them to feel a place of safety to report something like this,” Fuller explained.

Even with all those obstacles, Elk Grove police have some of the highest clearance rates in the region for solving sexual assaults, more than 60 points higher than the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department, which only made arrests in 3 percent of the rape cases it investigated in 2016, the most recent year for which figures were available.

when she attended a Take Back the Night rally against sexual violence, that she finally heard a story that resonated with her experience. A woman spoke of being raped by someone she had considered a friend. The same thing had happened to Smith.

“It was at that moment that I realized what happened to me was sexual assault,” Smith said.

By then, it was too late to contact authorities, Smith says. The stranger myth she had heard proliferated so many times had prevented her from recognizing that she belonged to an oftenmarginalized society of sexual assault survivors.

With legal justice unattainable, she reached for a different kind. She went into advocacy, seeking out misled survivors like her and creating a rare support group for survivors.

“A lot of the ways I’ve found justice is through my work as an advocate,” she said.

Smith is not the exception.

The inability of authorities to improve outcomes for rape survivors has inspired advocates to look outside the criminal justice system—which the majority of rape survivors spurn anyway. (According to Stop Violence Against Women, nearly 60 percent of rape and sexual assault victims don’t report their victimization to law enforcement.)

Despite efforts to educate investigators and prosecutors, CCASA’s Austin says, those responsible for pursuing law and justice still work under stubborn misconceptions about how a rape survivor should behave after she or he has been attacked.

With most crimes, officers want to quickly debrief victims while their memories of the events are fresh. For someone who has been sexually assaulted, that process can backfire horribly. A person who experiences a terrible trauma is likely to shut down, Austin says. Their short-term memories short out as their brains attempt to insulate them from feeling the full intensity of what they just experienced. As a result, they may sound unaffected and unsure when speaking to authorities, which authorities mistake for lying or misdirection. As their

Partly due to the entrenched challenges, CCASA memories stagger back in waves, authorities may hasn’t prioritized rape kit legislation, Austin said, accuse them of changing their stories and doubt “because we don’t hear of that as a solution for what they’re saying. many survivors.” Austin stresses that the coali“As a whole, it’s not a trauma-informed tion isn’t against testing rape kits—it can be helpnetwork,” Austin said. “The criminalization of ful in identifying stranger assailants and serial sexual assault … I don’t know that it’s solved the predators—but that it’s focusing on approaches real needs of survivors.” that prevent gender-based violence, like speaking Prosecutors who are concerned with their frankly about consent and listening to survivors win-loss records will look at the conflicting articulate what justice looks like to them. statements and decide they don’t want to try That’s what Jody Smith is trying to do to sort it out in front of a jury, Austin and here in Sacramento. She says she was recently Knecht say. describing her job to a retail worker “It’s hard for survivors to and mentioned her focus on engage in a system that doesn’t preventing sexual assault. The treat them very well,” employee asked her how Knecht reasoned. the inability one accomplishes that.

Some law enforce“Telling people not to of authorities to ment investigators have sex with someone contend that arrest rates who’s unconscious, for improve outcomes for are so low because, by one,” Smith answered. rape survivors has inspired the time the rapes are Smith says she saw reported, there’s little a flicker in the retail advocates to look outside to no physical evidence. worker’s eyes, who then the criminal justice Some survivors recant said that had happened their stories, they add, to her. system. making prosecutors reluc“Prior to that conversatant to file charges. tion, she didn’t recognize that Some within the system are what had been done to her was working to change the paradigm that sexual assault,” Smith said. exists between survivors and authorities.

Austin credits the Bay Area Transformative Detective-Sgt. Fuller investigated sexual Justice Collective with being a leading agent of assaults all through the ’90s and early empowering survivors to articulate the healing 2000s, and now oversees a dedicated unit and accountability they want to come through within the Elk Grove Police Department that their attacks. investigates sex crimes and family abuse.

Knecht, who has run focus groups with Fuller says the unit, which was formally survivors, says some wanted their day in court established about a year-and-a-half ago, is while others simply needed to tell their stories to made up of conscientious investigators with someone who cared and would work to prevent it both expertise in the subject and compassion from happening to someone else. for the survivors.

“What most of them will tell you is it’s about For Fuller, the biggest challenge to arresting other people—making sure this doesn’t happen perpetrators isn’t the lack of rape kit testing. to someone else,” she said.

“It’s the societal judgment on victims,” he With rape prosecutions so rare, the vast said. “It’s the only crime, except for maybe majority of survivors only have each other to domestic violence, that puts the blame on the keep that promise. Ω victim. … That’s really the hurdle.”

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it & Run pogos along with all the buzzsaw guitar chords and candy-coated choruses that’s defined Dog Party over the past decade. But over its 11 tracks, the new album from Sacramento’s sister duo aims for a grander statement.

Hit & Run is the sound of an empire being built.

The album, which will be celebrated on Saturday at Holy Diver, marks the debut release on Dog Party’s self-run Brat Music label. But that’s just the beginning. Brat Magazine is also planned for the near future. So is an album of old-timey cover songs reflecting a heightened DIY-style approach and new era of savvy from the much beloved band.

“We are really intrigued with the business side of rock ’n’ roll, and are interested to see how far we can go with it ourselves,” said 20-year-old drummer Lucy Giles. “No one cares more about our brand than we do, and the bigger we can build our brand on our own, the more it could be potentially successful later.”

That’s right, Dog Party is graduating from a band to a brand. And it’s a brand defined as a sister-sister act with a precocious take on pop-punk and some of the pinkest hair imaginable.

The duo was formed when Lucy and sister Gwennie Giles were still in elementary school, playing gigs at Old Ironsides while their classmates fiended for Chuck E. Cheese.

Now, they’re bona fide veterans as Gwennie, 22, eyes graduation from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo this year with a degree in graphic communication and a minor in psychology.

Lucy is meanwhile pursuing a major in studio art and a marketing minor from California State University, Long Beach.

They’ve built a formidable highlight reel over the past decade, including releases on the indie-favorites Asian Man Records and Burger Records.

They know the feeling of touring Europe multiple times, of making a cameo in Punk’s Dead: SLC 2, of opening for Green Day on a highly touted 2016 tour. (“It was surreal,” said Lucy. “Billie Joe handpicked us to open for them. They were really nice guys.”)

Now, the Giles sisters want to know the feeling of being pop-punk lady bosses. After all, signing to a major label doesn’t hold the same sway as it did, say, in the glory days of grunge. Musicians of this post-label era are more likely to crave independence and quality control over signing on the corporate bottom line, whether it’s Chance the Rapper or even Metallica, which launched its own independent label after leaving Warner Bros.

“We were hands-on with everything,” said Gwennie Giles about Hit & Run. “We were able to design the cover, design the inserts.

We had full creative control, and it’s really awesome to have such a connection to fans through the process and the online orders.”

That’s to say, the women of Dog Party are already putting their future degrees to good use through their combined studies in marketing, graphics and digital media. But all those skill sets don’t mean much if the music doesn’t rock. In that sense, Dog Party may be primed more than ever to take its success to the next level.

Hit & Run marks some of the band’s most buoyant and well-crafted tunes yet. Produced

by Chris Woodhouse (Thee Oh Sees, Ty Seagall), tracks including the album-opening “The Walk” and “Operator” wrap their seething-about-relationships-gone-wrong angst around an irresistible melody. They are pissed off, but somehow the music makes you want to mosh and smile.

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is pretty unique,” said Lucy. “This record is full of emotion and heartbreak, but it’s not a sad boo-hoo record. It’s a ‘get out of my face’ record. It’s a ‘don’t mess with us’ record. It’s a bunch of raw emotion.”

Hit & Run also hints at a new effort coming soon. The album features a Ramones-ish spin on “Fujiyama Mama,” a hootenanny of a Wanda Jackson track originally recorded in the 1950s. Dog Party now has a whole album of old-timey cover songs on stand-by, including their takes on tunes by Merle Haggard, Ann Margaret and more.

“I love music of all kinds, and old music especially,” said Lucy. “So, if I find something that’s mind-blowing to me and I want to share it with people of this generation—kids my age—I say, ‘Listen to Wanda Jackson; this is cool.’”

Now, the sisters are eyeing more freedom to build Brat. Dog Party’s traditionally been most active during the summer months, when the sisters are free from schoolwork. But, with college graduations on the horizon, Dog Party will soon be a year-round deal of touring and more recording.

They are ready to inspire you or your kids.

They are ready to bring everyone together for sing-a-longs and stage diving at a show near you. They are ready to build Brat on their own terms. “[Going DIY] gives us the ability to build it exactly the way we want it,” said Lucy.

“This is most important to us—keeping the integrity of our band.” Ω

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Dog Party’s Hit & Run record release show takes place Saturday, June 30, at 7:30 p.m. Holy Diver, 1517 21st Street.

For tickets, visit holydiversac.com.

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Another draft dud they picked Marvin Bagley III?

by Michael cella

The Kings came into last Thursday’s and his slender build precludes him draft with much to be excited about. For from being an immediate rim protecthe second straight year, they’d moved tor, but at only 19, Bagley has time to up in the draft lottery. But unlike last grow mentally and physically into his year, when a pick swap meant their 6-foot-eleven, 235-pound frame. It may lottery luck was another team’s good have also helped Divac’s decision that fortune, this year, the pick was theirs Bagley was one of only two prospects to keep—and with it, a chance at the to hold a workout with the Kings, while franchise-altering superstar they so most others refused in hopes of avoiding desperately need.

Sacramento.

The overwhelming favorite among Divac’s claim that Bagley is “a better fans and draft experts alike was Luka fit” is debatable. Bagley joins a crowded Doncic. A 19-year-old star from Kings’ frontcourt alongside recent Slovenia, Doncic became the youngest draftees Skal Labissière, Willie Cauleyever EuroLeague MVP while leading Stein, and Harry Giles, plus veterans Real Madrid to the EuroBasket title just Zach Randolph and Kosta Koufos. Some two days before the draft. of those players will surely be moved, The Phoenix Suns, holding the but Doncic would have filled a position first overall pick, chose Arizona center of greater immediate need on the Kings DeAndre Ayton, leaving the door wide roster. Moreover, Doncic’s skilled shootopen for Sacramento to nab Doncic. But ing, passing and pick-and-roll play would for the most part, the typical draft-day have provided needed spacing for the intrigue was already over, as reports Kings’ 30th-ranked offense. Though had surfaced hours before the Bagley shot well from behind draft that the Kings would the arc in limited attempts When take Duke big-man at Duke, Doncic’s Marvin Bagley III. position and skillset is you are a The Dallas particularly suited for franchise without Mavericks, who would an increasingly winga superstar picking have been drafting dominated, pick-andsecond had the kings roll-heavy league. so high in the draft, not beaten the odds in Despite all you don’t draft the lottery, wasted no that—when you are for fit. time trading for the third a franchise without a pick (via Atlanta) to take superstar picking so high Doncic. Many pundits agreed in the draft, you don’t draft they’d gotten the draft’s best player. for fit. If the Kings saw Bagley as the The Kings disagreed. “Marvin for best player available, they were right to us is better fit, better player, and great take him. But it appears they were once talent,” Kings’ GM Vlade Divac said again behind the 8-ball from a strategy when asked about passing on Doncic. standpoint by letting their intention to “So, it was an easy choice for us.” take Bagley leak. With suitors eager to Doncic and Bagley may be forever trade up for Doncic, and many projecting linked in fans’ minds, but it will be years Bagley would be available a few spots before either player—and the team’s later, the chance to trade down, pick up decision—can be fairly evaluated. What future draft assets, and still get Bagley is open for criticism, though, is the would have been the best outcome.

Kings’ all-too-familiar bungling of draft There will theoretically be players strategy and team building. in free agency, if there are any superFirst: Bagley is an excellent prospect. stars more willing to join them than An off-the-charts athlete, tenacious the draft prospects who dodged them. rebounder and efficient low-post scorer, So after yet another lottery pick in he put together a terrific freshman year at Sacramento, consider the can officially Duke. His defense is a work in progress, kicked down the road. Ω 18

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Delectable duo chopped briSket Sandwich with mac & cheeSe, urban rootS brewing & SmokehouSe

You can add an egg to everything, and also “omelet rice” if so desired at Super Pan.

Hot Japanese fun Super Pan 900 15th Street, (916) 389-0661 Good for: diy teppanyaki Notable dishes: takoyaki, spicy bamboo shoots

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If you haven’t been to Japan, your idea of the restaurants there may be along the lines of the documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi, with a serious chef gently lowering a gleaming piece of fish onto a pat of rice, as if placing a preemie into a bassinet. These hallowed monuments to sushi, tempura and udon certainly exist, but the norm in any of the big cities is closer to the wacky thematic hodgepodge of the classic food comedy Tampopo.

Want to eat a rice-stuffed omelet topped with demiglace served by gingham-clad women in a facsimile of a ’50s-era American diner? How about “Hawaiian-style” pancakes piled so high with whipped cream and macadamia nuts that the pancake is beside the point (a meal that gave me life after I missed the last subway to my hotel following an all-night karaoke-room-session).

Japan has novelty dishes on lock, and the kicker is that the food is usually quite good, and prepared with care.

Super Pan, a wacky-ish teppanyaki and boba café, which in late March took over the space formerly occupied by Zen Sushi, has the novelty part right, and sometimes the quality and care as well.

Super Pan’s gimmick is that most dishes are served on sizzling hot cast iron pans, semi-protected by a cardboard band to prevent burns, and you cook them yourself. The menu presents various iterations of meat/veg/rice with a choice of sauce (from $10.99-$15.99). I sampled thin-sliced

Urban Roots boasts 24 taps, but its appeal reaches beyond beer-lovers. The new Southside Park spot is, at its heart, for foodies. The chopped brisket sandwich ($16 with a side) is a delicious tribute to smoked meat, made lighter with fresh arugula, pickled shallots and dressed with stone ground mustard.

Don’t leave without trying the mac ’n’ cheese. Smoked blue cheese binds the dense mass of gooey goodness with shredded jack and cheddar melted on top. The food alone could make it a new favorite hangout. The warm staff and sounds of a kitchen sing-along to “Love Come Down” is a bonus. 1322 V Street; (916) 706-3741; urbanrootsbrewing.com.

—kate gonzaleS

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beef, salmon and chicken, all with curry sauce. The tender beef was the best, followed closely by the pillow-soft dark-meat chicken, and too-fishy salmon at a distant third.

You can add an egg to everything, and also “omelette rice” (usually shortened to “omurice” in Japan) if desired.

Everything comes with a mound of white rice and the most boring steamed vegetable assortment found outside of a senior center. A bigger hazard from the sizzling pan than the possibility of burning your hands is the certainty of burning your mouth on the occasional bite that had just been in contact with the metal.

The gooey octopus balls known as takoyaki ($7.99) are notorious as mouth burners, but the version at Super Pan is served at a reasonable temp, likely from being pre-cooked and reheated. They’re the best local version I’ve sampled; a reasonable facsimile of those flipped with chopsticks on the streets of Osaka. The spicy bamboo shoots ($5.99) are served temperature-cool and crunchy, with a surprisingly strong hit of Sichuan peppercorn.

The workaday chashu ramen ($10.99) has an overabundance of pig, both in the form of cubed pork belly and limp strands that resembled raw bacon. The standard bowl comes with corn and lightly cooked spinach, and the broth is moderately savory. It’s not as good as Ryu Jin, but better than Raijin. (How can two restaurants owned by the same person across the street from each other vary so wildly? The sour note of the kimchi in the Korean spicy ramen ($9.99) overpowered both the broth and the Spam.

The boba drinks and large portions may explain why the clientele runs mostly to groups of teenagers struggling to eat Korean chicken wings without breaking eye contact with their phones. Super Pan may struggle to attract the more sophisticated diner. Ω

The Sandia Mountains, just east of Albuquerque, turn a unique shade of pink on summer evenings—it’s kind of a dusky alpenglow (sandia is Spanish for watermelon).

This inspired my New Mexican wife to invent a perfect summer cocktail: Muddle a cup of watermelon in a 12-ounce glass.

Squeeze half a lime. Add a jigger or two of tequila, to your taste. Drop in an ice cube, top off with soda, serve with a spoon. Happy summer!

—eric JohnSon

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Buffalo food At Buffalo Pizza & Ice Cream, breakfast pizza didn’t mean a cold, stiff slice of cured-meat-pocked pie. For three decades, the take-away joint at 2600 21st Street has piled bacon and eggs as toppings. But now, under new ownership since 2015, it also has four vegan pizzas, with housemade almond-based cheeses and plant-based white and bleu cheese sauces. Co-owner Mai Linh Tompkins said she has been vegan for 18 years and developed Buffalo’s vegan cheese under the mentorship of Nacheez’s Isla Hess. The Vegan Breakfast Pizza is savory, with spinach, mushrooms and tofu scramble and smoky, white sauce.

The other pies are the Hawaiian Cowgirl; The Vegan White; and the spicy Vegan Buffalo, Buffalo Pizza. Soy-based sausage and gluten-free crusts are available—and so is ice cream by the scoop or pint. “We’re aiming to have 5 [to] 6 vegan flavors at all times.” Tomkins said. Check Buffalo’s Facebook page for monthly vegan pop-ups.

—Shoka

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The Little Mermaid

Grateful for this one

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Hans Christian Anderson’s delightful fable of the mermaid who longs to be human and the price she must pay to make that happen. Strong performances, beautiful costumes. The perfect family show. Fri 8pm, Sat

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It’s nature vs. nurture in this tale of sexual identity and living truthfully in one’s body. The drama by Anna Ziegler is based on a true story and fits perfectly within the

confines of Big Idea Theatre’s 11th season theme: “identity crisis.” Naveen Bhat stars and Karen Bombardier directs. Thu-Sat 8pm. Through 7/14; $16-$22, $12 on Thu; Big Idea Theatre, 1616 Del Paso Boulevard; (916) 960-3036; bigidea theatre.org. J.C.

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thu 7pm, fri 8pm, sat 2pm & 8pm, sun 2pm, Wed 7pm. through July 22; $28-$40; capital stage, 2215 J street; (916) 995-5464; capstage.org.

Logan is a progressive liberal, and she’s proud she’s woke AF. This elementary school drama teacher is high on self-proclaimed self-awareness, and she’s self-congratulatory about her political, cultural, gender and ethnic sensitivities. So when she is tasked with producing a politically correct Thanksgiving play for Native American Heritage Month, she OD’s on P.C., along with her yoga-teaching, street-performing boyfriend Jaxton.

The Thanksgiving Play by Native American playwright Larissa FastHorse is a hilarious, satirical look at the well-intentioned, well-meaning and, at times, clueless efforts of white progressives to grasp the complexities of race, culture and ethnic societal challenges and solutions.

This Capital Stage production begins with a funny short video of adorable children putting on a past “tasteful” Thanksgiving play, setting the scene for the struggles to be politically correct with this historically problematic holiday. And then we get introduced to the three white peeps tasked with producing this year’s turkey play—Logan (Jennifer Le Blanc), Jaxton (Cassidy Brown) and earnest researcher Caden (Jouni Kirjola), all who overanalyze their every moment, thought, action and reaction.

Enter the actress they want to portray a Native American—hired based on her headshot, which shows her in braids, a headband and turquoise jewelry. Alicia (Gabby Battista) bounds in, and its soon apparent that a headband does not a Native American make.

The Thanksgiving Play is thoroughly entertaining, both in subject matter and in the seamlessly synchronized cast—all four talented actors completely capture their characters while playing off each other in perfect 20

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rhythm. All this under the careful direction of Michael Stevenson, staged in a simple classroom setting, and interspersed with videos of young actors in previous awkward holiday productions. A turkey it is not. Ω

5 Reckoning yesteryear Escaping or making peace with the past is at the heart of two outstanding plays now in repertory at Celebration Arts.

Blue Door is about an accomplished AfricanAmerican mathematician who has basically denied his blackness to attain academic success, and Black Pearl Sings! is about an African-American convict whose treasury of old songs may gain her freedom.

Both are excellent, with hugely talented twoperson casts: Tory Scroggins and Tarig Elsiddig in Door and Carla Fleming and Lynn Baker in Pearl.

In Blue Door, Lewis (Scroggins) spends an epic night of insomnia, visited by four generations of ancestors (all portrayed by Elsidding) who remind him of the painful path that others trod for his benefit.

Black Pearl Sings! was inspired by John Lomax’s discovery of blues-folk legend Huddie Ledbetter (a.ka. Lead Belly) while collecting and preserving old songs before they disappeared. Here, musicologist Susanna Mullally (Baker), discovers Alberta “Pearl” Johnson (Fleming) working on a chain gang in a Texas prison.

—Jim Carnes

Blue Door: 8 p.m. thu-fri and July 5, 6, 7, 14, 21, 26 and 27; 2 p.m. July 8, 15, 22, 28. through July 28; $15-$20; celebration arts, 2727 B street; (916) 455-2787; celebrationarts.net.

Black Pearl sings: 8 p.m. sat, and July 12, 13, 19, 20 and 28; 2 p.m. July 1, 21 and 29; through July 29; $15-$20; celebration arts, 2727 B street; (916) 455-2787; celebrationarts.net.

the Ladies Foursome themselves.

A forkful of theatre This week’s stage pick is two-pronged, because there are two projects underway by the B Street Theatre.

One project is familiar. In 2014, B Street enjoyed a late summer hit with plain-spoken Canadian playwright Norm Foster’s The Ladies Foursome, making a revival inevitable.

The play involves four women (longtime friends with “life experience”). Reviewer Bev Sykes recalls that “they discuss life, love, men, sex, and careers” as they “navigate the upsand-downs of life (while) on the links.” The cast includes two 2014 carryovers—Amy Kelly and Tara Sissom—joined this time by Rebecca Dines and Tate Hanyok. Tue 6:30pm, Wed 2pm & 6:30pm, Thu 8pm, Fri 8pm, Sat 5pm & 9pm, Sun 2pm.

Through July 22; $27-$39.

Seeking something new? B Street is holding a New Comedies Festival in a studio space upstairs at The Sofia, June 28-July 1. One script gets a full production at B Street in 2019. The contenders: more better beautiful by Robert Caisley, involving identical twins, lies and truth (Thu 6/28 9pm, Sun 7/1 2pm). Small Steps by Davis-born playwright Brian Oglesby, about a lonely earthling who is the first human to visit Mars (6/29 9pm, 6/30 5pm). The Forever Question by Jim Christy, about a couple deciding whether or not to have a second child (Fri 6/29 5pm, Sat 6/30 9pm). And Baby Cakes by Leila Teitelman, about a woman participating in a local support group for mothers (Thu 6/28 5pm, Sat 6/30 2pm). $12 ($40 for all four plays); (916) 443-5300; bstreettheatre.org.

—Jeff Hudson

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A young couple sailing a 44-foot yacht across the Pacific (Shailene Woodley, Sam Claflin) get caught in 1983’s Hurricane Raymond and are stranded in their crippled boat far from land. The fact-based script by Aaron Kandell, Jordan Kandell and David Branson Smith (based on the memoir by Woodley’s character Tami Oldham) is more complicated than it needs to be, with a time-hopping flashback structure that works against our getting to know the main protagonists. On the other hand, it’s virtually a two-person show, and Woodley and Claflin are both excellent.

Filming on water is notoriously challenging, and director Baltasar Kormákur pulls it off neatly; he keeps us interested, if not exactly on the edge of our seats. There’s a plot twist in the last act that won’t surprise those who know the true story. J.L.

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we hold some sort of burning affection for the characters.

Fallen Kingdom opens a few years after the events of Jurassic World, with Goldblum’s Dr. Malcolm still delivering dire prophecies, while the My bar for all things dinosaur-related, including the dinosaurs on the abandoned amusement park are Jurassic Park film franchise, has always been notorithreatened by an active volcano. If you’re wonderously low. The first Jurassic Park movie is generally ing why they built a luxury amusement park on a beloved and iconic, but I also ravenously consumed tiny island with an active volcano in the first place, the sequels, sticking with the franchise through every you are officially more intelligent than anyone indefensible decision like a tortured sports fan. Dr. who worked on the script (officially credited to Ian Malcolm’s adopted daughter doing gymnastics to Trevorrow and Derek Connolly, although the film escape the velociraptors in The Lost World? I’m fine feels cobbled together from a half-dozen scripts that with it. A typically moist-eyed Téa Leoni rescuing were also written by hacks). her parasailing son from dinosaur island in Jurassic World introduced the Jurassic Park III? Sure, why not. Jimmy concept of enhanced intelligence Fallon as Jimmy Fallon in Jurassic into the dino-verse, seemingly World? Yes. Fallen Kingdom setting the stage for a Planet of But even by my admittedly still feels like the Apes-like veer that could basement-level standards, J.A. have knocked the franchise a giant glob of Bayona’s Jurassic World: Fallen out of its rut, but that is Kingdom still feels like a giant triceratops spit largely abandoned in favor of glob of triceratops spit lobbed right lobbed right in the endless callbacks. As little as in the audience’s face. The first I care about Owen and Claire’s audience’s face.

Jurassic World was incredibly retrowooden repartee, the new characgrade and dumb, but it was also driven ters in Fallen Kingdom are even less by an irresistible premise, while this dutiengaging and original. We get a new ful follow-up just feels numb and exhausted.

Hammond-esque billionaire, a new evil man As with his 2016 film A Monster Calls, Bayona in a suit, a new wimpy good guy and a new spunky displays a talent for incorporating special effects into the drama, but no talent whatsoever for dramatic coher- kid. I never cared about them for a second.

Thanks to some arresting images and a few ence. He also exudes a mechanical humanity that feels intense sequences of dinosaur-related peril, Fallen more synthetic than any test-tube pterodactyl.

Kingdom remains watchable enough, but my One of the weird strengths of the Jurassic Park patience has clearly reached the tipping point. I sequels is that they are not wed to their human don’t mind if these movies are stupid, but they protagonists (ultimately, the dinosaurs are the stars), should never be so dull. Ω but Fallen Kingdom makes the baffling decision to

Chris Pratt feeds his pup-a-saurus.

reunite sleepwalking leads Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard as star-crossed lovers Owen and Claire. These two numbskulls were never anything more than attractive dinosaur bait in the first Jurassic World, yet Fallen Kingdom assumes that

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Another snuggly non-movie from director Brett Haley (The Hero), this time about a sad sack musician struggling to connect with his teenage daughter. As widower Frank Fisher (Nick Offerman) prepares to shutter his musty Red Hook record store, his distant daughter Sam is about to leave for UCLA. Her plans become complicated, for lack of a better word, when Frank and Sam’s father/ daughter jam session inadvertently produces a Spotify “hit.” Offerman is likable as ever, but it’s asking a lot for him to carry a film, especially one without an ounce of urgency in the narrative. Much of the script feels copy and pasted from Haley’s previous efforts, including the burnout best friend who shuffles in every now and then to drop stony bits of wisdom (Ted Danson plays the role here, although Offerman was the stoner friend in The Hero), but the delightful Kiersey Clemons is a revelation as Sam. D.B.

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Hotel Artemis

In 2028 Los Angeles, torn by the worst riots in the city’s history, a hotel/hospital for wounded criminals has a busy night, taxing the endurance of the harried manager, known only as Nurse (Jodie Foster). Among the patients: two brothers, fugitives from a robbery gone wrong (Sterling K. Brown, Brian Tyree Henry), an arms dealer (Charlie Day), a hired assassin who wounded herself to get close to her next victim (Sofia Boutella), the hotel’s crimelord owner (Jeff Goldblum)—and, in a breach of the rules, a cop whom Nurse knew as a child (Jenny Slate). Writer-director Drew Pearce serves up a hyper-violent black comedy, not for the easily upset but for those who can take it, a wildly unpredictable ride sparked by edgy performances and a striking look (courtesy of production designer Ramsey Avery). J.L.

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Mr. Incredible (voiced by Craig T. Nelson), Elastigirl (Holly Hunter) and their superchildren (Sarah Vowell, Huckleberry Milner) join forces with brother-and-sister telecom tycoons (Bob Odenkirk, Catherine Keener) in a public relations campaign to rehabilitate superheroes and thwart a new supervillain named Screenslaver, who has the power to hypnotize innocent bystanders to do his criminal bidding. It’s been 14 years since The Incredibles, and superhero movies are a lot thicker on the ground now, but writer-director Brad Bird has lost none of his wit and ingenuity; he can still show them how it’s done. It’s an odd paradox that Bird’s creations, despite a retro-’60s caricature look that’s closer to Jetsons than Justice League, feel more real than all of the Marvel and DC Comics universes put together. J.L.

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last job), but she goes back to her old habits “because it’s what I’m good at.” Her quarry this time is a fashion queen (Anne Hathaway) who’ll be wearing $250 million in diamonds at the annual Met Gala, and she recruits some old friends (Cate Blanchett, Mindy Kaling, Sarah Paulson) and some new talent (Awkwafina, Rihanna, Helena Bonham Carter) to help run her game. The script by Olivia Milch and director Gary Ross has a double-twist ending, but only one twist will surprise you if you can count as high as eight. The movie is mechanical and formulaic, but the formula is amusing and it goes down smoothly enough to pass for something original. J.L.

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This tedious adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s groundbreaking 1896 play The Seagull drearily “opens up” the drama while simultaneously draining it of any essence.

Director Michael Mayer and screenwriter Stephen Karam set the action in 1905 Russia, although every character speaks in a vaguely British accent. Annette Bening headlines the ensemble as Irina, a Moscow actress who brings her successful writer lover Boris (Corey Stoll) to the country to visit her brother (Brian Dennehy) and her pretentious son Konstantin (Billy Howle). The story is essentially a series of unrequited romances: the village teacher loves the sour Masha (Elisabeth Moss), who pines for Konstantin, who along with Boris fixates on the simple country girl Nina (Saoirse Ronan).

Unfortunately, Mayer displays no ability for pacing or structure, and the performances are wildly inconsistent. If you’re looking for a tragic romance tinged with class-war considerations, there are many better films to watch; if you’re looking for a nap, very few. D.B.

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Five buddies (Ed Helms, Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner, Jake Johnson, Hannibal Burress) spend one month every year playing an elaborate game of tag. This year, one of them (Renner) is retiring without ever being “it,” so the others (including Isla Fisher as Helms’ wife) redouble their efforts. Based on a Wall Street Journal article about ten reallife pals, Rob McKittrick and Mark Steilen’s script dumbs down the story into the kind of dimwit bromance comedy we’ve already seen too many of. Jeff Tomsic’s flailing direction fails—indeed, barely tries—to smooth out the script’s lurching changes in tone from jackass farce to buddy-buddy sentiment to group hug.

The cast works hard, but they’re in the hands of amateurs. The closing credits run over smartphone video clips of the real game, which looks like a lot more fun. J.L.

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Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

Best of Enemies director Morgan Neville delivers this heartfelt tribute to Fred Rogers, the Presbyterian minister turned iconic host of the long-running children’s program Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. Rogers started on local television in Pittsburgh, but his warmth, sincerity and ability to connect with children eventually made him the face of public television. In a direct response to the violent, stupid, mass-marketed, ad-based poison that was already beginning to dominate children’s TV, Rogers used his program to promote caring and self-worth, while still confronting relevant issues in a responsible manner. Won’t You Be My Neighbor? is just as fawning and formally unimaginative as Julie Cohen and Betsy West’s RBG, or any other talking-heads-and-clips documentary for that matter. Neville zips through the usual starry-eyed interviews and nostalgia-filled highlight reels, but there is an essential emotional element to the film, one driven largely by a protagonist with a powerful need to express his feelings. D.B.

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In March, they won their first Grammy for Emperor of Sand’s single, “Sultan’s Curse.” And a few years ago, they guest-starred on Game of Thrones as Wildlings, barbarians who worship the Old Gods of the Forest, and who kind of look like Mastodon’s members.

They were killed in the episode, but generally, it’s “onward and oh look, a rock formation in front of a rock formation. L to r: upward,” Dailor says.

Bill Kelliher, troy sanders, Brent Hinds and Brann Dailor.

“We’ve never been a motivated band, we just wanted to play,” he says about their start. “We [loved] writing music together We don’t know what the next Mastodon record will because it was really producing something that was sound like. Neither does Mastodon. heartfelt … new and interesting and different … we But ahead of their Saturday show with Primus, thought we were adding to the giant pile of music Brann Dailor, the metal band’s drummer/co-vocalist, that’s available to the humans.” was willing to talk about it anyway. Mastodon’s still Meanwhile, Mastodon’s new songs are being touring the world with its seventh record, Emperor conjured, and they come from everywhere. Lately of Sand, which released in March 2017. The road for Dailor: serial killer podcasts, but not only that. remains long, and Dailor doesn’t see a point in A visit to a museum abroad could also inspire charting where things will go until the four are another “homeless riff,” what the band calls back in the studio, probably sometime in vagrant pieces of music that haven’t January. found a song. When they do return “We “People have these throwaway to the studio, they’ll feel it out thought we phrases, especially with heavy democratically, as they’ve done music, where they claim that their with the previous records. were adding to the next album’s going to be super “We just sort of follow giant pile of music heavy even though they haven’t this divining rod until we hit that’s available to the written it yet,” Dailor says. “It’s water,” Dailor says. just mouth service, or lip service.

But with a new album humans.”

Mouth service. [Laughs.] You incoming, how will Mastodon Brann Dailor can put that, mouth service. It’s keep things fresh and inspired drummer/vocalist, just a twist on an old classic. … It’s after 18 years? The short answer Mastodon a salacious statement. It [could] end is trying on as many musical hats up being your softest record, or middle as they can. But Dailor put it better: between heavy and soft. Those are all really “[Lately], we’re in that sort of bad descriptions for music.” role-playing phase,” he says. “Put this wig on, or Dailor also says it’s silly to describe what a band change up your lipstick color, or just wear an outfit sounds like to friends, but anyway: imagine a trucker that’s different. Or we’ll play cops-and-robbers or driving straight through a wormhole. All-American something. You know, leave the back window open, heavy rock colored by the infinite. Big riffs as and at 9:30 p.m., I’ll come busting through that shit Captain Ahab battles Moby Dick (the concept of their with a ski mask on, and we’ll see what happens.” Ω second album, Leviathan) or chicken-pickin’ spirittravellin’ in Rasputin’s body (2009’s Crack the Skye).

The four—Dailor, guitarists Brent Hinds and Bill see mastodon with Primus at thunder Valley casino resort on saturday, Kelliher, and bassist Troy Sanders—experienced a June 30. show starts at 6 p.m. JJuuJJuu opens. tickets are $34.95slow-cooked rise since they formed in 2000 after $84.95. for show info, visit thundervalleyresort.com. meeting at a High on Fire show. A sort-of scientific

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TiCKeT WiNdoW harry styLes Styles has been

performing his debut solo album since September 2017, and his stop in Sacramento marks the tail end of his world tour. 7/9, 8pm, $26-$129, on sale now Golden 1 Center, ticketmaster.com.

michaeL mcDonaLD He’s been a part of the music industry for decades: Toto, Steely Dan, the Doobie Brothers.

You name it, he’s probably done it.

7/10, 7:30pm, $69-$293.50, onn sale now.

Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.

charLie WiLson The former

lead vocalist of the Gap Band and frequent Kanye West collaborator tours his eighth studio album, In It To Win It. 7/20, 7pm, $45-$84, on sale now. Thunder Valley Casino Resort in Lincoln, ticketmaster.com.

Jim GaffiGan The

funnyman and actor performs stand-up on his The Fixer Upper tour. 7/21,

8pm, $48-$83, on sale now.

thursDay, 6/28 ACCordiNG To BAZooKA: Based out of Sacramento, According to Bazooka performs catchy, original retro-pop music. 7pm, no cover. Fox & Goose, 1001 R St.

THe CHriS CAiN BANd: See event highlight on

page 25. 7pm, no cover. Heritage Plaza, Main and 2nd Streets in Woodland. and good music at Fair Oaks Concerts in the Park. 6pm, no cover. Village Park, 4238 Main St. in Fair Oaks.

pays tribute to the Grateful Dead. 6:30pm, $35-$38. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.

7/28, 6:30pm, $30-$300, on sale now.

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Push me to the edge, Lil Uzi.

sunDay, 7/1 THe ComediANS: With Bright Faces and

The Odious Construct. 8pm, $12-$14. Blue Lamp, 1400 Alhambra Blvd.

showcases her unique sound. 7pm, $5. The Acoustic Den Cafe, 10271 Fairway Drive, Suite 120 in Roseville.

SLUm ViLLAGe: With IllMac and the

Philharmonik. 9pm, $20-$25. Harlow’s, 2708 J St.

festivaLs friDay, 6/29

and Good Company at Concerts in the Park. 5pm, no cover. Cesar Chavez Plaza, 910 I St.

Music Friday and enjoy a delicious glass of fine wine. 5:30pm, no cover. McConnell Estates Winery, 10686 West Stockton Blvd. in Elk Grove.

Silver. 9pm, $8. Old Ironsides, 1901 10th St.

STrAWBerry GirLS: With Night Verses, Find

Greg Golden, with special guests Tonic Zephyr. 9pm, $20-$30. Harlow’s, 2708 J St. Yourself and Roman Pilot. 7:30pm, $12$15. Goldfield Trading Post, 1630 J St.

TUrNBUCKLe BLUeS reVieW: With Adam

Block. 9pm, $5. Fox & Goose, 1001 R St.

singer-songwriter stops by; join the Paisley Nation and listen in. 8/3, 7pm, $65$125, on sale now. Thunder Valley Casino Resort in Lincoln, ticketmaster.com.

LoS ANGeLeS de CHArLy: With Techy Aroma,

a national treasure and he’s coming to your town. 8/24, 7pm, $50-$165, on sale now.

Community Center Theatre, tickets.com

saturDay, 6/30

artist comes to town to perform his second studio album, The Thrill of it All. 8/24, 7pm, $45-$70, on sale now. Golden 1 Center, ticketmaster.com.

THe eLeCTriC fLAG: Celebrate the 50th

sam smith The Oscar-winning UK

saturDay, 6/30 SPriNG fLiNG 2018: See event listing

above. 8pm, $34-$68. Gold Country Fairgrounds & Event Center, 1273 High St. in Auburn.

meZCAL ACeS: With Huckleberry Road and

groundbreaking orchestra-pop band is coming to the Bay with special guest Dawes. 8/2, 8pm, $50-$150, on sale now.

Oracle Arena in Oakland, ticketmaster. com.

Jerry seinfeLD He’s a comedy icon,

Center, 1273 High St. in Auburn.

JoN NoLAN: Listen to the performance at Free

roCK for reASoN: Featuring Joe Fraulob and

BraD PaisLey The country music

of your life, featuring a host of popular DJs,

including Deorro, Audien and more. 8pm, $34-$68. Gold Country Fairgrounds & Event

O’Mulligans, Alarms and Pug Skullz. 7pm, $15. Blue Lamp, 1400 Alhambra Blvd.

Amphitheatre in Wheatland, concerts1. livenation.com.

Jeff Lynne’s eLo The

SPriNG fLiNG 2018: Let the music take control

THe dWArVeS: With Kill the Precedent, The

eight-piece Control-Z will perform at the official Concerts in the Park afterparty. 8:30pm, no cover. Malt and Mash, 715 K St.

hurry up and get your ticket, you bozo.

It’s a hip-hop dream as G-Eazy and Lil Uzi headline the Endless Summer Tour.

and life-affirming music of Tom Chapin. 7pm,

LiGHT THiS CiTy: With Gygax, Wastewalker and

SoNGWriTerS iN THe roUNd: Katelyn Convery

CoNTroL-Z: Blazing psychedelic funk hip-hop

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Tom CHAPiN: Enjoy the family-oriented, witty

Hod. 5pm, $10. The Press Club, 2030 P St.

dArK STAr orCHeSTrA: Dark Star Orchestra

friDay, 6/29

—Maxfield Morris

by Sacramento for their world tour, Soul2Soul. 7/22, 7:30pm, $50-$130, on sale now. Golden 1 Center, ticketmaster.com.

JAY.I.BE. 7pm, $25-$50. Ace Of Spades, 1417 R St.

Kids. 8pm, no cover. The Press Club, 2030 P St.

the comedy special is available on Netflix.

Sure, you could stream it, half paying attention while checking your FarmersOnly dating account—look, you don’t want to miss seeing Martin and Short in person.

The ground they walk on is hallowed. Your living room’s rug is not. 500 David J Stern Walk, golden1center.com.

tim mcGraW anD faith hiLL The two country icons drop

omB PeeZy: With Santana Montana and

$30. The Sofia, 2700 Capitol Ave.

JAX HAmmer: Enjoy an evening of good food

PeANUT BUTTer WoLf: With JMSEY, LaTour

Thunder Valley Casino Resort in Lincoln, ticketmaster.com.

and Kenneth Pattengale kick off the release of their new album. 7:30pm, $29-$49. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.

TiGerCHriST: With Sages and For The

Golden 1 Center, 7:30pM, $60-$250 Steve Martin is to comedy what Martin Short is to comedy: Indispensable. At A Night You Will Forget for the Rest of Your Life, there will be banjo, Comedy singing and stories from two lifetimes spent in humor. The two best Three Amigos will entertain Sacramento for one night, and it’s sure to be legendary.

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Thai Kitchen, 129 E St. in Davis.

THe miLK CArToN KidS: Musical duo Joey Ryan

La Sonora Santanera de Carlos Colorado and Sonido Rolas XRHH. 7pm, $40. Ace Of Spades, 1417 R St.

doG PArTy: With The Croissants and Free

Candy. 7pm, $10. Holy Diver, 1517 21st St.

anniversary of the incredible band that made their live debut at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival. 7pm, $30-$35. Harlow’s, 2708 J St.

fooD & Drink thursDay, 6/28 GreAT SACrAmeNTo VeGAN BUrGer BATTLe: Chefs from over 30 restaurants throughout Greater Sacramento create custom vegan burgers and sides in various categories. Go eat and vote for your favorites in the final days of the battle. 10am, $10-$20. Various locations in Sacramento.

saturDay, 6/30 AmeriCAN riVer rANCH fArm STANd: Taste and purchase fresh-from-the-field produce and enjoy organic coffee and delicious baked goods. 8am, no cover. Soil Born Farms, 2140 Chase Drive in Rancho Cordova.

midToWN fArmer’S mArKeT: Support your local farmers, craftspeople, and artisans. 8am, no cover. 20th Street between J & K Streets.

SUdSAPALooZA: Sample some of the best beers from your favorite breweries and brewmasters. 11am, $10-$60. New Glory Craft Brewery, 8251 Alpine Ave.

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BlaCKtop CoMedy: MildCats and Crime Scene

Sacramento is a city defined by its rivers, so it’s appropriate to celebrate on the waterfront.

Visit Raley Field for an iconic Independence Day celebration, complete with food trucks along the warning track, a push-up competition, live music and PhOTO COurTEsy OF ralPh ThOmPsOn a top-notch firework show.

If instead you prefer to utter your “ooh”s and fourth of July “ahh”s from the comfort of a yacht, check out our calendar entry for the Hornblower Fireworks Viewing Cruise. 400 Ballpark Drive, raleyfield.com/fourthonthefield.

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TuEsday, 7/3 saCraMento teQuila and food tasting tuesdays: Quench your thirst with some flavorful margaritas, paired with delicious appetizers. 6pm, $35. Florez Bar & Grill, 5900 South Land Park Drive.

FOurTh OF July wEdnEsday, 7/4 4th of July drive-in party: There’s roughly 15,000 ways to celebrate the Fourth of July—why not switch it up this year and watch some vintage 16mm films? There will be sci-fi, horror, old TV commercials and more. 7:30pm, no cover-$3. Two Rivers Cider, 4311 Attawa Ave., Suite 300.

arden-arCade 4th of July parade: Enter a float into the competition or just bystand along Fulton Avenue, Cottage Way and Bell Street. 9:30am, no cover-$15. Department of Human Assistance, 2700 Fulton Ave.

arden parK July 4th parade and festival: There’s free admission to the pool, fun

inflatables and, of course, a parade. 10am, no cover. Arden Park, 1000 La Sierra Drive.

elK grove salutes the red, white and Blue: Ever want to spend your Fourth trying to each as much pie as possible? Elk Grove’s got you covered, along with a parade, food trucks and a firework show. 4pm, no cover. Elk Grove Regional Park, 9950 Elk Grove Florin Road.

folsoM fireCraCKer 2018: Hit the ground running with a 5K or 10K race with sights along the American River. Some of the proceeds of your fee will go to organizations that help combat poverty. 7:30am, $32. 145 Parkshore Drive in Folsom.

fourth on the field: See event highlight above. 6pm, $12-$20. Raley Field, 400 Ballpark Drive.

hornBlower fireworKs viewing Cruise: Hop aboard a boat for a unique view of the firework show along the Sacramento River. 8:45pm, $40. L Street Dock, 1206 Front St.

poCKet 4th of July CeleBration: The Independence Day celebration kicks off Wednesday with a parade, festival and a pet pageant, which sounds incredibly precious. 10am, no cover. Garcia Bend Park, 7654 Pocket Rd.

ranCho Cordova 4th of July: Celebrate your independence with a cornhole tournament at this two-day festival. There’s an honestto-goodness carnival, a petting zoo, a trampoline show and more. noon, $2. Hagan Park, 2197 Chase Drive in Rancho Cordova.

Film Thursday, 6/28 My neighBor totoro: Revisit the magic of Miyazaki in the beautifully animated children’s fantasy film, My Neighbor Totoro.

It’s part of the Studio Ghibli Festival, bringing the studio’s endearing films back to screens. 11am, $10.50. Tower Theatre, 2508 Land Park Drive.

Friday, 6/29 anChorMan free Movie night: Anchorman highlights one of Will Ferrell’s best comedy roles. He’s supported by a hilarious cast, including an ever-loveable Paul Rudd and an unflappable Steve Carrell. Take it in for free; consider bringing a chair. 8pm, no cover. Jackrabbit Brewing Co., 1323 Terminal St. in West Sacramento.

Movies in the parK: There are two free movies with Steve Carrell in them, with Despicable Me 3 showing just how much a franchise can be stretched out. 5:30pm, no cover. North Natomas Regional Park, 4989 Natomas Blvd.

Improvisers. If you’ve ever watched a comedy show and wished the performers were married, you’re not alone, and you’re in luck: The MildCats are a husband and wife humor team. After them, the Crime Scene Improvisers solve a crime in hilarious fashion. 8pm friday, 6/29. $10. 3101 Sunset Blvd., Suite 6A in Rocklin.

golden 1 Center: An Evening You Will Forget for the Rest of Your Life. See event highlight on page 23. 7:30pm friday, 6/29. $60$250. 500 David J Stern Walk.

laughs unliMited CoMedy CluB: Insane Wayne. Stockton comedian Insane Wayne, who has some pretty solid sets, headlines with Big T and Bud Bud. 8pm thursday, 6/28. $15. Ricky del Rosario. Expect a high-energy performance and an appearance by Dan Mires. 7pm saturday, 7/1. $10. 1207 Front St.

punCh line: Sam Morril. The former Daily Show intern and stand-up comedian has a confidently dark sense of humor. through 6/30. $20. Rap Battle Roast Championship.

We don’t have the Roman Colosseum in Sacramento, so a roast championship will have to satisfy our eagerness for fights. Sixteen comics will roast each other in single elimination until the best remains. 7pm sunday, 7/1. $16. 2100 Arden Way, Suite 225.

staB! CoMedy theater: Podcast Panel Show.

The STAB! Comedy Theatre, which opened at the start of June, brings its long-running podcast to the new digs. through 12/28. $5. 1710 Broadway.

saCraMento CoMedy spot: Keith Lowell Jensen. This storytelling comic produces a whole lot of quality content, and he’s a local.

He’s doing good work, and this show will not disappoint. 8pm friday, 6/29. $15.50. 1050 20th St., Suite 130.

toMMy t’s CoMedy CluB: Comedian Steve McGrew. McGrew stops into Sacramento for a night of proudly redneck comedy. 7pm sunday, 7/1. $35-$50. 12401 Folsom Blvd. in Rancho Cordova.

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is held at the Garden Theatre next to the library. 9:30am thursday, 6/28. no cover. 350 Nevada St. in Auburn.

Big idea theatre: BOY. Dealing with issues of sexual identity, this piece tells a true story about a male infant raised as a girl and the effects of that decision. through 7/14. $12$22. 1616 Del Paso Blvd.

California stage: The Duchess of Malfi.

Plays from the 1600s have never been more relevant—this one delves into the disturbing ripples caused by a real-life royal scandal from the 1500s. through 7/1. $5-$20. 1723 R St.

Capital stage: The Thanksgiving Play. See

event highlight on page 20. through 7/22. $22-$47. Out & BOLD! Enjoy beer tastings before The Thanksgiving Play with the LGBT community, included with the price of ticket. 7pm friday, 6/29. $33-$38. 2215 J St.

arT CroCKer art MuseuM: Hopes Springing High: Gifts of African American Art. With works

by Romare Bearden, Beauford Delaney, Faith Ringgold and more, this exhibit celebrates the cultural significance of African American artists. through 7/15. $10. 216 O St.

sol ColleCtive: Contemporary Codices. This group art exhibition highlights indigenous Latino cultures and explores their links with present-day Latinx and Xicanx cultures. through 7/7. no cover. 2574 21st St.

verge Center for the arts: Notebooks of a Body. See what UC Davis fine arts students have made in a variety of mediums. through 8/12. no cover. 625 S St.

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Crest theatre: Bianca Del Rio: Blame It On Bianca! RuPaul’s Drag Race winner Bianca Del Rio is hysterically funny. Her comedy tour is a cavalcade of music and sass, and a great way to experience your first drag show. 8pm friday, 6/29. $37.50-$188. 1013 K St.

harris Center: Halau Ka Waikahe Lani Malie and Kahulaliwai. Hula your heart out; this evening shares a vital piece of Hawaiian culture. 6pm, saturday 6/30. $25-$30. 10 College Parkway in Folsom.

Jean henderson perforMing arts: Disney’s The Little Mermaid. Watch the live Disney version of the classic tale. You’ll see the cleaned-up, happy ending, not the original tale in which the mermaid turns to foam when she refuses to kill the prince to get her tail back. through 7/7. $20. 607 Pena Drive in Davis.

the sofia, hoMe of B street: New Comedies Play Festival. See event highlight on page 20. through 7/1. $12. 2700 Capitol Ave.

williaM a. Carroll aMphitheatre: The Count of Monte Cristo. Alexandre Dumas is the iconic adventure novelist. The eminently relatable story of Edmond Dantes is the archetype of a revenge story, and the original guy-who-just-won’t-let-itgo. 7:30pm, through 7/28. no cover-$20. 3901 Land Park Drive.

California autoMoBile MuseuM: Drive-In Movie Night at the Museum. Grab the kids, hop in the car and watch Grease. Don’t be alone at the drive-in movie, bring some friends along and fill a car for $20. 7:30pm friday, 6/29. $5. 2200 Front St.

California MuseuM: The Newest Americans.

On the eve of Independence Day, take the opportunity to look at the process immigrants take to become citizens, and what America means to them. through 7/8. $9. 1020 O St.

California state arChives: Alfred Eichler Art and Architecture in the Golden State.

Sacramento wasn’t built in a day, but you can find out who helped design it. Alfred Eichler was a state architect responsible for the design of the Tower Bridge and more. through 1/31. no cover. 1020 O St., 4th Floor.

CroCKer art MuseuM: Sketch Night. See

event highlight on page 26. 6pm friday, 6/30, $10. 216 O St.

saCraMento history MuseuM: Old Sacramento Underground Tours. Dive below the surface of Sacramento for an hourlong tour and see some neat foundations and passages. through 12/31. $10-$15. Underground After Hours. Did the above listing sound interesting, but you wanted a twist? How about a tour for adults

auBurn liBrary: Donny Crandell Magic! Like an angel in a polo shirt, Donny Crandell does magical things. This free magic show

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Thursday, 6/28

Chris Cain Band Heritage Plaza, 7Pm, no cover

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Everybody’s got the blues, but not everybody can play ‘em. Spend a lick of your time with the comfortably at-ease guitartist and vocalist, Chris Cain. The Memphisstyle music produced by the Chris Cain Band is like biting into an electric marshmallow: sweet with a real kick. Show up early to take in the food and the fun of Thursday Night Live at the Plaza. Main and 2nd Street in Woodland, visitwoodland.com.

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only? It’s an hour and a half of exciting tales fit for ages 21 and up. 6pm. through 9/29. $20. 101 I St.

nortH sacramento-Hagginwood library:

Open Mon-Sun 11am-9pm 3620 North Freeway Blvd #305, Sacramento l (916) 891-0375 2690 East Bidwell Street #300, Folsom l (916) 817-1184

Coloring Extravaganza. Scratch that artistic itch and do some coloring. These days, coloring is all the rage for every age. 4pm friday 6/29. no cover. 2109 Del Paso Blvd.

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tHursday, 6/28 Queer youtH of color grouP: Youths ages 1323 meet to share in their community. 6pm, no cover. Fruitridge Community Collaborative, 4625 44th St.

Q-Prom Sacramento State UniverSity Ballroom, 7pm, $10-$15

The Sacramento LGBT Community Center lgbtQ is hosting the 10th annual Q-Prom this Saturday, and the theme is—cue Demi Lovato vocal trill—Neon Lights!

Over 700 LGBTQ youth ages 13 to 20 are invited to dance the night away in a fun, safe, inclusive space. Tickets cover entry to the Sacramento State PHoto courtesy of lGBt community center University Ballroom and include snacks and refreshments. Dress to express yourself and close out Pride Month on the dance floor. 6000 J Street, saccenter.org

—rachel mayfield

saturday, 6/30 Join us on our 2nd floor patio

interconnections: An exploration of the label “Filipino” and the people and experiences grouped under it. 11:30am, no cover. Bistro Filipino, 7909 Bruceville Road.

Q-Prom neon ligHts: See event highlight

above. 7pm, $10-$15. Sacramento State University Ballroom, 6000 J St.

1217 21st St • 916.440.0401 | www.KuprosCrafthouse.com

Because You Have Taste

Authentic Italian family recipes made with fresh ingredients Over 70 wines available by the glass

1410 E Roseville Pkwy, Ste 140

(916) 782-0404

tuesday, 7/3 women’s coffee nigHt: A discussion group for all women who identify as LGBTQ. 6pm, no cover. Naked Lounge, 1500 Q St.

taKe action tHursday, 6/28 o street PoP-uP worKsHoP: Discuss the future of O Street in Sacramento with the Capitol Area Development Authority. If you ride a bike, walk around or ride the lightrail, give a shout and share your ideas. 9am, no cover. 9th and O Streets.

saturday, 6/30 families belong togetHer rally: A protest

classes

Buy any dinner entree at regular price, get the second for HALF OFF! Must present coupon, cannot combine with other discounts. One per table. Valid Mon-Thu only. Expires 07/04/18.

tHursday, 6/28 imProv for everyone droP-in worKsHoP: Laugh a little or a lot, and practice the art of making up comedy on the spot. 7pm, $5-$10. Blacktop Comedy, 3101 Sunset Blvd.

Suite 6A in Rocklin.

Job coacH: Meet one-on-one with a trained job coach who will help you spruce up your resume, build better job searching techniques, learn how to ace the interview and more. Reservation required. 4pm, no cover. Sacramento Public Library, 6700 Auburn Blvd. in Citrus Heights.

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dreamt about living incognito, but it’s hard to imagine where to start. Talk to a former PG&E engineer about living off the grid. 6:30pm, $5-$10. American River Conservancy, 348 State Highway 49 in Coloma.

tHe Power of Plants on tHe Plate: Anne Evans walks you through ways to grow plants and eat them, as well as promoting the benefits of that lifestyle. 7pm, no cover. Shepard Garden and Art Center, 3330 McKinley Blvd.

tuscan summer: Lucia Oliverio shares her recipes for stuffed eggplant, spaghetti viareggio, green beans and Tuscan wine grape pie. 6:30pm, $45. Community Learning Center & Cooking School, 2820 R St.

saturday, 6/30 entrePreneursHiP freedom summit: This event helps veterans and military spouses start their own business. There’s networking, a pitch contest with a $10,000 prize and lots of opportunity for the entrepreneurial spirit to grow. 8:30am, $25-

$35. Sierra College Rocklin Campus, 5100 Sierra College Blvd. in Rocklin.

englisH conversation grouP: Practice speaking English in a friendly, small group led by a trained facilitator. Discussion topics include everyday life, news, local things to do and more. All levels are welcome and no registration is needed. Children are welcome. 12pm, no cover. Hagginwood Library, 2109 Del Paso Blvd.

sunday, 7/1 aerial HooP class: There’s a metal hoop hanging from the ceiling that you can perform acrobatics on. How metal is that?! 4:30pm, $20. The Firehouse 5, 2014 9th St.

monday, 7/2 Power talKers toastmasters: Take part in a community of people who want to hone their communication skills. 7pm, no cover. Toastmasters Club, 2830 G St. Suite 210.

against the separation of families at the border, demanding the end of such policies. 10am, no cover. US Citizenship & Immigration Services, 650 Capitol Mall.

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luncH at tHe library: Those under 18 can get a free meal and have some free fun Tuesdays through Fridays through August 10. 1pm, no cover. Sylvan Oaks Library, 6700 Auburn Blvd. in Citrus Heights.

tHursday, 6/28

sketch night 216 o Street, 6pm, $10

Bust out your pad and pencil!

This Thursday, visitors of all ages and drawing museums levels are invited to participate in an evening of sketching with informal instruction provided by the Crocker Art Museum. Channel the creative energy of great artists like François Boucher, S.C. Yuan and Joan Brown and let it all flow onto the page as you explore your own creativity! 216 O Street, crockerart.org.

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submit your calendar listings for free at newsreview.com/sacramento/calendar THURSDAY 6/28

FRIDAY 6/29

The acousTic den cafe

Pam Taylor and Val Starr, 7pm, $8

10271 FAIRWAY DRIVE, ROSEVIllE, (916) 412-8739

Badlands

2003 k ST., (916) 448-8790

RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 10 Finale with Fridays on the Floor, 10pm, call for cover Trinity Taylor, 8pm, no cover

Spectacular Saturdays, 7pm, call for cover

BaR 101

Steve Stizzo Trio, 6:30pm, call for cover

Blue Situation, 9:30pm, call for cover

101 MAIN ST., ROSEVIllE, (916) 774-0505

Industry Sundays, 8pm, call for cover

Karaoke Night, 9pm, T, call for cover; Trapacana, 10pm, W, call for cover

Teknical, Dropz and more, 9pm, $10

Light This City, Gygax and more, 8pm, $12-$14

capiTol GaRaGe

Capitol Garage’s Next Drag Superstar, 8pm, call for cover

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

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

Capitol Cabaret, 7pm, call for cover

The cenTeR foR The aRTs

314 W. MAIN ST., gRASS VAllEY, (530) 274-8384

An Evening With Clint Black, 8pm, $37-$90

cResT TheaTRe

Dark Star Orchestra, 7:30pm, $35-$38

Bianca Del Rio, 8pm, $37.50-$182

The Milk Carton Kids, 7:30, $29-$49

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, 7pm, $7.50$9.50

faces

RuPaul’s Drag Race, 5pm, no cover

Decades, 7pm, call for cover

Pool Party, 3pm, no cover

faTheR paddY’s iRish puBlic house

Lucy’s Bones, 6pm, call for cover

2000 k ST., (916) 448-7798

Smokehouse Reunion, 7pm, call for cover

fox & Goose

Turnbuckle Blues Review and Adam Block, 9pm, $5

Phur Soles and Kally O’Mally, 9pm, $5

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

Golden 1 cenTeR

Steve Martin and Martin Short, 7:30pm, $60-$250 Backbar Saturdays, 10pm, call for cover.

Bear Quiz Trivia Night, 8pm, W, call for cover

1001 R ST., (916) 443-8825 500 DAVID J STERN WAlk, (888) 915-4647

Golden BeaR

Aurora Beam, Vinnie Guidera & the Dead Birds and more, 9pm, no cover

2326 k ST., (916) 441-2242

Goldfield TRadinG co. halfTime BaR & GRill 2708 J ST., (916) 441-4693

dwarves

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with Pug Skullz 8pm Friday, $16.

Blue Lamp Punk Rock

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Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, 6:30pm, $20

Rock for Reason, 9pm, $20-$25

Paint Nite, 6:30pm, W, call for cover

The Electric Flag, 7pm, $30-$35

Slum Village, 9pm, $20-$25

The Trivia Factory, 7pm, M, no cover; Geeks Who Drink, 6pm, T, no cover

The Darling Clementines, 8pm, $15-$20

Emo Nite Sacramento, 9pm, $12-$15

Dog Party, The Croissants and Free Candy, 7:30pm, $10

KupRos

Kupros Quiz, 7:30pm, no cover

1217 21ST ST., (916) 440-0401

The hide-

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Drew Allen and more, 9pm, T, $10

HOF Saturdays, 9pm, $5

1910 Q ST., (916) 706-2465 1517 21ST ST.

Y La Bamba, Sea of Bees and Marinero, 7:30pm, T, $12-$15 Left of Centre, 9pm, $7

5681 lONETREE blVD., ROcklIN, (916) 626-3600

haRlow’s

California Classic, 6pm, M-T, $19-$49

Strawberry Girls, Night Versus, Find Yourself and Roman Pilot, 7pm, $12-$15

1630 J ST., (916) 476-5076

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Every Damn Monday, 8pm, M, no cover; Noche Latina, 9pm T, no cover

Frankie and the Defenders, 7pm, call for cover

435 MAIN ST., WOODlAND, (530) 668-1044

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

The Dwarves, Kill the Precedent, Pug Skullz and more, 8pm, $16

1013 k ST., (916) 476-3356

7:30pm Saturday, $29-$49.

Crest Theatre Folk

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 7/2-7/4

Ukulele Jam & Sing-Along, 11am, no cover

Aye Tee and Dead Stock Clothing Launch Party, 9pm, call for cover

1500 k ST., (916) 444-3633

milk carton Kids

SUNDAY 7/1

Blue lamp

1400 AlHAMbRA blVD., (916) 455-3400

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SATURDAY 6/30

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7/19 Phoebe bridgers

rolanD Tonies, max BreakFasT 6/30 9:00pm $5

Open-Mic, 8pm, T, no cover; Ross Hammond, 7:30 pm, W, no cover

7/24 Shawn mullins 7/26 Antsy mcClain & the Troubs 7/26 ron Artis ii & the Truth 7/27 Lil darrion 8/4 rakim 8/7 Paul Cauthen 8/10 dustbowl revival 8/11 dJ Quik

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FRIDAY 6/29

SATURDAY 6/30

1414 16TH ST., (916) 737-5770

Joe Montoya’s Poetry Unplugged, 8pm, $2

Brotherly Mud and Eazy Dub, 8pm, $6

David Houston & String Theory and Doc Velocity, 8pm, $6

momo saCramento

The Bongo Furys and Prizm, 7pm, $3

Fresh Empire Teen Only Party, 4pm, no cover

Roland Tonies and Max Breakfast, 6pm, $10; New Wave Society, 9pm, $5

oLd ironsides

Americana Dance Party, 8:30pm, $5

Mezcal Aces, Huckleberry Road and Silver, 9pm, $8

Elusive Furs, The Happys, Graybar Hotel and more, 6:30pm, 10-$12

Luna’s Cafe & JuiCe Bar 2708 J ST., (916) 441-4693

1901 10TH ST., (916) 442-3504

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670 FUlTON AvE., (916) 487-3731

Open-Mic Comedy/Karaoke, 8pm, no cover

PaLms PLaYHouse

Lance Lopez, 7:30 pm, $18

13 MAIN ST., WINTERS, (530) 795-1825

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dog Party

614 SUTTER ST., FOlSOM, (916) 355-8586

Two Steps Down Rodeo Bash, 10pm, call for cover

Big Trouble, 9:30pm, call for cover

tHe Press CLuB

with The Croissants 7:30pm Saturday, $10.

Holy Diver Punk Rock

2030 P ST., (916) 444-7914

sHadY LadY

The Twilight Drifters, 9pm, call for cover

The Nickel Slots, 9pm, call for cover

1000 K ST., (916) 947-0434

Rock & Rhyme, 10pm, no cover before 11pm

Pete Alexander, 10pm, no cover before 10:30pm-$5

stoneY’s roCkin rodeo

Hot Country Fridays, 7pm, call for cover

Hot Country Saturdays, 9pm, $5

swaBBies on tHe river

1409 R ST., (916) 231-9121

Sweet N’ Sour, 9pm, call for cover

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1320 DEl PASO BlvD., (916) 927-6023 5871 GARDEN HIGHWAY, (916) 920-8088

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904 15TH ST., (916) 443-2797

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 7/2-7/4 Creative Music and Jazz, 7:30pm, M, $10; Open-Mic Comedy, 7:30pm, T, no cover

Heath Williamson, 5:30, M, no cover; KARAOK “I”, 9pm, T, no cover Open 8-Ball Pool Tournament, 7:30pm, $5

Open 9-Ball Pool Tournament, 6:30pm, M, no cover

Industry Night 1/2 off everything, 6pm, call for cover

Chris Scoville, 10pm, T, call for cover; 98 Rock Local Licks, 9pm, W, call for cover

Sunday Night Dance Party, 9pm, no cover

Reggae Night, 9pm, T, no cover

Ghost Town Rebellion, 9pm, call for cover The Retro Addicts, 9pm, call for cover

414 MAIN ST., PlAcERvIllE, (530) 303-3792

PowerHouse PuB

Sworn to the Black, Cemetery Legacy and Earth Crawler, 8pm, $10

SUNDAY 7/1

City of Trees Brass Band, 9pm, $6

Alex Jenkins, 9pm, call for cover

Sunday Funday, 8pm, no cover

College Wednesdays, 9pm, W, $5-$10

Journey Revisited, 6:30pm, call for cover Long Time, 7pm, call for cover

The Spazmatics, 4pm, call for cover

Scoles and Young, 5:30pm, M-T, call for cover

Indigenous, 9pm, $10

You Front the Band Karaoke, 8pm, no cover

Michael Ray Trio, 8pm, T, call for cover

Anxious Arms, Lavender Scared and more, 7:30pm, call for cover

Round Eye, Freature and Pablo Tweak, 7pm, W, $8

Birds of Fortune, 9pm, $10

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with Harvey Mandel 7pm Saturday, $30-$35.

Harlow’s Blues Rock

Dandelion Massacre, Not an Airplane and more, 6pm, $5

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The Shine Jazz Jam, 8pm, no cover

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California dispensaries. Forty-one of the products, including flowers, concentrates and vape cartridges, tested positive for pesticides, and over half contained myclobutanil.

“That’s why regulation is a good thing,” said Kymron De Cesare, chief of research. “To give people the tools at hand for their own safety.”

Steep Hill has several clients in the Sacramento area, including dispensaries, manufacturers, and even Yolo County, which contracted to test its growers’ samples. When UC Davis Medical Center needed to test cannabis in a Kymron De Cesare and forensics case, the federal government Donald Lamb of Berkeley’s Steep Hill Laboratories. wouldn’t allow it, so the hospital sent Steep Hill Laboratories’ Dr. the job out to Steep Hill.

Donald Lamb is a pioneer As part of his research, Land has in cannabis testing. identified 12 common “strain fingerprints” he designed to function as a serious guide Photo by Ken Magri for doctors. These renamed strain categories link together similar terpene profiles and healing properties. “No MD is going to say, ‘Go out and buy yourself some Alaskan Thunder Fuck,’” said Land, about creating new category names. “We would Cannabis labs play an increasing role in public safety like to call all of those [ATF strains] by one name, so an MD can look at a list.”

Land and Steep Hill also pioneered

By Ken Magri the popular GenKit, which helps growers swiftly identify male plants, and the QuantaCann, a portable testing machine that analyzes ground-up cannabis Cannabis testing will get a lot more We asked about Eagle-20, a byproducts of mold which cause acute samples using beams of light. When serious starting in July, and it’s for our controversial fungicide also known as and chronic health problems. hooked up to a computer and calibrated own good. myclobutanil. It is considered a miracle Five years ago, West Sacramento’s correctly, it can instantly measure After California legalized recreproduct for desperate blackHalent lab merged with Steep Hill, potency to within 1 percent ational use, the state’s emergency market growers who need to bringing along the expertise of UC Davis accuracy of larger, more regulations required dispensaries to sell Chemistry and Forensic Science professor save an entire crop from “No MD is complicated machines. off any untested cannabis products by mold infestation. Used Dr. Donald Land. Land has been instruNow in its second going to say, ‘Go June 30. Beginning July 1, dispensaries mental in expanding the lab’s capabilities. commonly on table generation, the may only sell lab-tested cannabis. grapes, it can be Steep Hill now tests for 17 different out and buy yourself QuantaCann2 is too Suppliers who haven’t done so yet will harmlessly eaten in cannabinoids, 43 terpenoids, molds, fungi some Alaskan Thunder expensive for mass be desperately seeking a relationship trace amounts. But and pesticides in three different plant production, but Land with any laboratory that can keep them when myclobutanil stages: raw, heated and aged.

Fuck.’” predicted hardware in compliance. is lit and inhaled, it Someone who has enjoyed smoking Dr. Donald Land, Ph.D. like this will probably Berkeley’s Steep Hill Laboratories produces hydrogen pot for decades might ask “Why do I need be a regular part of our Steep Hill Laboratories was the first such lab in the country and testing, anyway?” Land answers, “If you’re cyanide, which makes future. remains the most respected. When they cannabis smokers sick. ingesting mycotoxins and pesticides, the Regarding the possibiliopened their doors in 2008, co-founders Asked if the lab has health effects may not be immediately ties of testing: “There are over Addison De Moura, David Lampach and ever found myclobutanil noticeable. What we do know is that they 500 compounds identified in cannaHarborside’s Steve DeAngelo wanted while testing, Land answered, are toxic and should be avoided.” Land bis,” Land said. “People are discovering to do more than test for THC and CBD “Oh, all the time.” He pointed to a 2017 distinguished the simpler “hippie” growers new compounds to this day. It has not potency. They took equipment originally KNBC news story that commissioned of yesteryear from today’s “for-profit” been fully explored yet.” Ω designed for testing produce, and reconSteep Hill to test 44 retail cannabis prodgrowers, who sometimes choose petrofigured it to test for mycotoxins, the ucts, randomly purchased from Southern chemicals ahead of public health.

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Economical nugs How quick are lollipops?

—Mr. Owl

Hella quick. The THC gets absorbed into your bloodstream through your gums and sublingually. You should feel it in 15-20 minutes or so.

Weed question: I’m seeing “budlets” marketed in our shops.

They’re smaller buds.

What is the correlation between quality and bud size? The budlets are cheaper than the average eighth.

—r. lee SMall-Green

Great question! Quick answer: Budlets are AWESOME! Small nugs are a perfect fit for bongs and bowls, and the quality is just as good, although the aesthetics may be lacking. People love the look of a big, fat nug, although there’s probably a giant stem sitting in the middle of that juicy bud.

You aren’t gonna smoke the stem, so in essence, you are paying for something you won’t use. Small nugs are hella economical.

Speaking of low prices: Get ready for all the clubs in Cali to start unloading all of their untested nugs before the new regulations kick in on July 1. You should be able to get a good price on some great weed. Also, you probably want to stock up, because clubs are gonna have a hard time finding good pot to sell. Why? Well, the licensing, testing and distribution programs are taking hella long to get up to speed. I gotta say, I am disappointed in the new regulations and how they have been applied. All of the “mom-and-pop” growers I know are having problems going legit, and it’s a shame. Proposition 64 was supposed to make it easier for people to stop being outlaws. So far, it is not doing what it is supposed to do. I really hope the BCC can get it together.

Why do they keep emphasizing the difference between sativa and indica when there really is no difference at all?

—@HiGHerGrOundtv via twitter

I wouldn’t say there’s no difference.

Sativas tend to have long leaves, and they get really tall. Indicas tend to be shorter and bushier with fat, wide leaves. They are actually different, even though they are the same species.

Also, indicas and sativas need different cultivation techniques. Indicas mature quickly, while sativas can take a long time to reach maturity.

It’s an evolution thing. Sativas come from hot places like Africa or Panama (think Malawi Gold or a really good Michoacán), while indicas started out in colder, mountainous regions (Hindu Kush, Nepal).

Now, if you are talking about effects, I kinda agree. We are finding more and more that it’s the terpenes (myrcene, pinene, etc.) rather than the type of plant that create the different effects. But the line is getting blurry, what with all the crossbreeding and whatnot. It is possible to grow a short, bushy plant that gives you sativa-esque effects. But really, who cares? Find some weed you like and smoke it. Life is too short to argue about sativas and indicas.

Weed is weed, love is love and Jeff Sessions is a racist prohibitionist that uses the Bible to justify evil. Stay strong. Ω illustration by maria ratinova

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Unhealed trauma from childhood, like the loss of a parent through death or divorce, can be a barrier, too.

Your question is also about resting in God, that is, freedom from the fixation to ensure a particular outcome. If you trust yourself, it’s not a stretch to trust a deity or to accept the universe as reliable (or vice versa). But if you’re manipulating situations to force a desired outcome, you’re trying to play god. By contrast, to be godly is to live from within the union of the soul and ego.

A godly person is authentically awake and wise, but far from perfect.

That’s because an awakened person doesn’t adhere to social rules. Selftrust inspires them to follow their own drumbeat. A godly person shines a big flashlight on the brokenness of others, illuminating secrets and wounds. Those who yearn for healing are attracted to that light. They trust themselves enough to answer the call to transformation.

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Trust also determines what kind of relationship you have with God. Choosing to be a child of God means you remain small while projecting the role of parent onto God. If you choose to be God’s friend or partner, you will be drawn into long periods of solitude that are so fulfilling, loneliness will be rare. Another choice is to be one with God. This path requires pushing aside your own needs, wants and preferred outcomes so the divine can work through you in service of humanity. Not sure where you fit? Start anywhere, and trust that a new beginning will lead to your greatest desire. Ω

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “It is always what is

under pressure in us, especially under pressure of concealment—that explodes in poetry.”

Taurus poet Adrienne Rich wrote that in an essay about the poet Emily Dickinson. She was describing the process of tapping into potent but buried feelings so as to create beautiful works of literature. I’m hoping to persuade you to take a comparable approach: to give voice to what’s under pressure inside you, but in a graceful and constructive way that has positive results.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Introductory offers

are expiring. The bracing thrills of novelty must ripen into the cool enjoyments of maturity. It’s time to finish the dress rehearsals so the actual show can begin. You’ve got to start turning big, bright fantasies into crisp, no-nonsense realities.

In light of these shifting conditions, I suspect you can no longer use your good intentions as leverage, but must deliver more tangible signs of commitment. Please don’t take this as a criticism, but the cosmic machinery in your vicinity needs some actual oil, not just your witty stories about the oil and the cosmic machinery.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): In the coming weeks,

you will have an excellent chance to dramatically decrease your wimp quotient. As the perilously passive parts of your niceness toughen up, I bet you will encounter brisk possibilities that were previously off-limits or invisible to you.

To ensure you remain in top shape for this delightful development, I think you should avoid entertainment that stimulates fear and pessimism. Instead of watching the latest flurry of demoralizing stories on Netflix, spend quality time summoning memories of the times in your life when you were unbeatable. For extra credit, pump your fist 10 times each day as you growl, “Victory is mine!”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): It’s not so bad to

temporarily lose your bearings. What’s bad is not capitalizing on the disruption that caused you to lose your bearings. So I propose that you regard the fresh commotion as a blessing. Use it as motivation to initiate radical changes. For example, escape the illusions and deceptions that caused you to lose your bearings. Explore unruly emotions that may be at the root of the superpowers you will fully develop in the future.

Transform yourself into a brave self-healer who is newly receptive to a host of medicinal clues that were not previously accessible.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Here’s my list of

demands: 1. Avoid hanging out with people who are unreceptive to your influence. 2. Avoid hanging out with people whose influence on you is mediocre or dispiriting. 3. Hang out with people who are receptive to your influence and whose influence on you is healthy and stimulating.

4. Influence the hell out of the people who are receptive to your influence. Be a generous catalyst for them. Nudge them to surpass the limits they would benefit from surpassing. 5.

Allow yourself to be deeply moved by people whose influence on you is healthy and stimulating.

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As you might imagine, he ate and drank extravagantly. On one festive occasion, he quaffed 119 bottles of beer in six hours. Judging from your current astrological indicators, Scorpio, I suspect you may be ready for a binge like that.

JUST KIDDING! I sincerely hope you won’t indulge in such wasteful forms of “pleasure.” The coming days should be a time when you engage in a focused pursuit of uplifting and healthy modes of bliss. The point is to seek gusto and amusement that enhance your body, mind and soul.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): On her

90th birthday, my Great-Aunt Zosia told me, “The best gift you can give your ego is to make it see it’s both totally insignificant and totally important in the cosmic scheme of things.” Jenna, my girlfriend when I was 19, was perhaps touting a similar principle when, after teasing and tormenting me for two hours, she scrawled on my bathroom mirror in lipstick, “Sometimes you enjoy life better if you don’t understand it.” Then there’s my zen-punk friend Arturo, who says that life’s goodies are more likely to flow your way if you “hope for nothing and are open to everything.” According to my analysis of the astrological rhythms, these messages will help you make the most of the bewildering but succulent opportunities that are now arriving in your vicinity.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In accordance

with the astrological beacons, I have selected two pieces of advice to serve as your guiding meditations during the next seven weeks. You might want to write them on a piece of paper that you will carry in your wallet or pocket. Here’s the first, from businessman Alan Cohen: “Only those who ask for more can get more, and only those who know there is more, ask.” Here’s the second, from writer G. K. Chesterton: “We need to be happy in this wonderland without once being merely comfortable.”

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Ecologists in

Mexico City investigated why certain sparrows and finches use humans’ discarded cigarette butts in building their nests. They found that cellulose acetate, a chemical in the butts, protects the nests by repelling parasitic mites.

Is there a metaphorical lesson you might draw from the birds’ ingenious adaptation, Aquarius? Could you find good use for what might seem to be dross or debris? My analysis of the astrological omens says that this possibility is worth meditating on.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I suspect that

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Before you use your new treasure, say a prayer to your higher self, requesting that you will be guided to use it in such a way as to make yourself wiser and kinder. 2. When you use it, be sure it harms no one. 3. Express gratitude for it before and during and after using it. 4. Use it in such a way that it benefits at least one other person or creature in addition to you. 5. See if you can use it to generate the arrival of more pixie dust or magical beans or enchanted potion in the future.

6. When you use it, focus on wielding it to get exactly what you want, not what you sort of want or temporarily want.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “If I didn’t define

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Activist author Audre Lorde said that, and now, in accordance with your current astrological and psychological needs, I’m offering it to you. I realize it’s a flamboyant, even extreme, declaration, but in my opinion, that’s what is most likely to motivate you to do the right thing. Here’s another splashy prompt, courtesy of philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre: “We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made us.”

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Dressed, he grabs his keys and wallet and gives his wife a goodbye kiss before heading out to his car.

If it looks familiar, it’s because it’s modeled after the iconic Ecto-1 Ghostbuster car. It’s the perfect ride for Whatley, who founded the Sacramento Ghostbusters, a nonprofit organization that gives back to the community. Whatley and his crew, dressed as Ghostbusters, of course, show up to charity events in their Ecto-1 to grace people with a piece of nostalgia. “We are just a bunch of geeky guys who like to go out and have a good time as Ghostbusters,” Whatley said. Whatley set some time aside from chasing ghosts to chat with SN&R about his own terrible ghost hunting experience, and how his love for the franchise turned into a passion.

Why Ghostbusters?

Ghostbusters was the first movie that I remember watching with my dad, so it has a special spot in my heart. So, right around 2009, I see all these other cosplay groups, like the 501st [Legion] Stormtroopers who go around and do stuff for hospitals. I was like, I wanted to do that, but I am a chubby guy so I’m not going to look good in a stormtrooper outfit. Then I thought, “Why not Ghostbusters?” That’s how I got started. And then I wrote my buddy, who is a big fan of Ghostbusters, and it started up from there.

How did it turn into a company?

Well it’s not really a company, it’s more of a group of friends who have a mutual love for the franchise. Our first event was at a Halloween haunted house, then we started going to Comic-Cons and it just started to snowball from there. We were networking and talking to people, and eventually we got tables at events, and from there it became a lot easier doing community events. We are now a part of a branch under Sony called Ghost Corps. The branch started in 2016 when the new film came out and it united all the Ghostbuster groups.

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What do the Sacramento Ghostbusters do?

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We do attend other events like comic conventions where they provide us with tables and booths, and we can show up and take pictures with people.

Did you ever go ghost hunting?

Well, my phone number is on the side of my car, so people have actually called me up to investigate their house for paranormal activity, and I have to tell them no and explain what I do. I did go on one supposed investigation, but the way it turned out was the group who operated in Sacramento didn’t have permission to be on this Indian reservation. We were walking around at like 9 o’clock at night supposedly looking for ghosts. We wanted to see what it’s all about and we were not impressed with how the group handled things. The cops were called at one point, so we don’t associate ourselves with them for various reasons.

to solve a problem. I actually met one of the Ghostbusters, Ernie Hudson, and the puppeteer for Slimer in Ghostbusters II, Robin Shelby, and they were really cool.

Among your crew, who is the Venkman, Ray and Winston?

My Ray would be my longtime buddy and my hetero life-mate Alex, that I have known since kindergarten. The Venkman in our group would be our buddy Shawn, who drives the other truck. And our Winston would be our buddy Jay. I am Spengler because I make a lot of my stuff.

How did you manage to get a Ghostbuster car?

Actually this is my second Ghostbuster car. My first one was a big truck, but it was getting old and it was kinda of a gas guzzler.

So I downgraded to my current car. I made most of my stuff on my car. I love going to Goodwill and looking around and finding different things. I have friends who are in [the] vinyl business who hooked me up with all the stickers. I drive for Lyft and people are always excited when they see me roll up.

That’s one of the reasons why I like driving for Lyft.

What were your feelings toward the recent Ghostbusters remake?

I love it. People always ask me how could I like it. I am like, well, I looked at it this way: It worked for me, and they figured out a way to build the franchise, but also the majority of the cast members were from Saturday Night Live and that right there showed that they wanted to go for a comedy. Ω

Who is your favorite Ghostbuster and why?

Egon Spengler is my favorite because he is the nerdy type, and he’s always coming up with new inventions and stuff

Find the Sacramento Ghostbusters on Facebook and YouTube, or call (916) 370-5041 to book them for a charity event; facebook.com/sacghostbusters.

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