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Global suicide “Planet Doom.” “Point of no return.” “We’re all gonna die.” These were just some of the headline ideas we kicked around for this week’s cover story by Alastair Bland (see page 14), which opens with an evacuation scene at the Carr fire in Redding and hopscotches around the globe seeking an answer to this question: Did humanity blow its chance to prevent the worst outcomes of climate change? You don’t need a weatherman to tell you which way the wind blows, and you don’t need me to tell you what it looks like outside your window. As of Tuesday, 11 large wildfires were still raging across our state and some 12,500 firefighters were girding for the arrival of another unhelpful stretch of punishing heat. California’s largest wildfire in history is burning right now in Mendocino County. More than 2,000 structures have been destroyed and over 740,000 acres scalded. Many people have died. Many more will continue to do so. This is the “new normal” that fire officials say should actually be known as just “normal.” Fire tornadoes and massive, year-long conflagrations that devour whole neighborhoods and leave the sky a permanent orangegray are now the best case scenario going forward. In the not too distant future, we’re looking at catastrophic losses of life. Welcome to California. Welcome to the world. We broke it. Now we own it. We could’ve stopped this. We can’t anymore, but we can still mitigate some of the hairier effects. We won’t, of course. Because why start being sensible now? If there’s a silver lining to all of this, it’s that history won’t remember mankind’s profoundly stupid collective suicide. There won’t be anyone left to write it down.

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Nevertheless, they persist Re: “Out of the dark” by Felicia Alvarez (Arts & Culture, August 9): Aang (hello) Aang Qagaalakux (Thank you) for the article regarding the Southern Winds dancers. Alaska native culture is alive and flourishing all over Northern California. There are actually about 800 Tlingit and Haida in the Bay Area, plus about 400 Aleutian Island (Unangax) and Kodiak Island (Sugpiaq) people as well. We meet each year at Fort Ross, where many [of] our families were taken by the Russians in the 1800s to hunt sea otter. Our culture and languages are not “lost.” They have survived genocide, slavery, colonization, forced boarding schools, and even imprisonment in WWII. It flourishes a thousand miles away from our homelands. It is actively practiced in community centers and garages and around dinner tables. People all over Alaska and the West Coast practice language weekly in person and online. To say it was “lost” reinforces the idea that we don’t exist anymore. Unangax alix. We exist.

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Re: “Nestlé’s secret water deal” by Steph Rodriguez (News, August 2): We can never forget about the dirty backroom deal that Kevin Johnson and his cronies struck with Nestlé at the taxpayer’s expense. There was no public meeting, there was no contract, there was no vote, just a bum’s rush push to get Nestlé to set up shop in Sacramento. The #crunchnestlealliance called for major reforms in the business of water bottling for mass profit. With 110 water guzzling bottling plants in California—the most drought-affected area of the country—these businesses cut “special deals” with public officials where they locate, often at taxpayer’s expense. Sacramento officials have refused to investigate and make public Nestlé’s water use. Alliance members have addressed the Sacramento City Council a number of times and requested that Nestlé either

pay a commercial rate under a two-tier level, or pay a tax on their profit. The City Council refuses to act. … In 2009, Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson cut a deal with Nestlé to come to Sacramento and set up their water bottling plant, and giving them the right, for pennies on the dollar, to drain local aquifers, bottle the water, and then sell it back to the people at exorbitant profits. This bad deal continued unabated in the midst of a severe drought and the ever expanding environmental issue of plastic waste ending up and damaging our oceans. Furthermore, our oceans are dying and single-use plastic water bottles are a major contributor to that fact. Though their publicity team crafts very nice and consumer-friendly statements on their website and on their packaging and advertising, and they continuously greenwash their public image, Nestlé is anything but

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Re: “A friend in need” by Rachel Leibrock (Editor’s Note, August 9): I think it’s impressive that it isn’t just the music community jumping in [to help local music promoter Jerry Perry]—he’s touched a lot of lives!

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Responding to rape

Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department (including Rancho Cordova PD):

168

167

128

131

(76.2%)

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Forcible rape cases received Rape kits collected and tested Forcible rape cases cleared

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Unsolved rape data mystery Sacramento County’s biggest law enforcement agency can’t explain why arrests for sexual assault suspects have plummeted

by Raheem F. hosseini

The largest law enforcement agency in Sacramento County can’t explain why its ability to arrest suspected rapists plummeted to a 50-year low in 2016—and hasn’t recovered. The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department, which polices the unincorporated county as well as the city of Rancho Cordova, only cleared 3 percent of the 168 rapes reported to the agency in 2016. According to recently updated figures from the California Department of Justice, the department’s clearance rate improved slightly last year, to eight arrests in 167 reported rapes, or 4.8 percent. 8

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Through the first four months of this year, there hasn’t been much of a rebound. In response to a public records request filed by SN&R, the department’s legal affairs bureau says 49 sexual assaults have been investigated through April 30, resulting in three arrests. The FBI defines a clearance as when a reported crime results in at least one person being arrested, charged with committing the offense and turned over to the superior court for prosecution. The FBI also allows for clearances through “exceptional means,” which happens when an offender has been identified and located but not yet arrested due to

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circumstances outside of the agency’s control. SN&R received a response to its records request on June 26, but delayed reporting on the findings after department officials requested time to schedule an interview with an investigations commander who could put them in context. That resulted in a bizarre series of exchanges in which the commander provided inaccurate information to SN&R and the department’s public information officer threatened to provide a purportedly more detailed report to a rival media outlet if this newspaper published its findings before the report was completed.

But no report was ever produced and sheriff’s officials ended up backtracking on their promises to provide exculpatory information, leaving a hard truth: Rape survivors who turn to the agency for help are among the least likely in California to get traditional legal justice. This wasn’t supposed to be a gotcha story. I sent the Sheriff’s Department a public records request for updated rape stats back in April. I had submitted this same request to other law enforcement agencies in the region, as part of an attempt to track how reported rapes move through the criminal justice system. I asked three basic ques questions: How many rapes are reported to the agencies? How many result in rape kits being collected? And how many rapes are cleared through an arrest and charges filed against at least one perpetrator? When the Sheriff’s Department provided its response two months later, on June 26, the answers were bleak; hundreds of documented sexual assaults reported, most resulting in a rape kit being collected, only a few ending in an arrest. A couple weeks after getting these records, I forwarded them to a depart department spokesman and asked if he could contextualize the numbers for me, make sure I wasn’t missing anything important. Sgt. Shaun Hampton called the following day and asked if I could wait a week on reporting the stats, so he could arrange a conference call with the head of their inves investigations unit, who was on vacation. Sure, I said. When the conference call happened July 19, Hampton and Lt. Todd Henry, commander of the special investigations bureau, acknowledged that they were still pulling this ball of yarn apart. Henry did caution against comparing the crime reporting data of other agencies, since he couldn’t speak to how strictly those agencies comply with guidelines under the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program, which is the national clearinghouse for crime and arrest data. “It’s a voluntary system and so there’s no quality control,” he said. “Some agencies may be stricter than others.” Troubling as it may be to hear that a law enforcement official can’t vouch for the reporting accuracy of other law enforcement agencies, the argument didn’t explain why the Sheriff’s Department’s rape arrests fell sharply below its own historical average. Prior to 2016, the department’s clearance rate hovered between the low teens and low 20s, which already isn’t great. But why the record drop in 2016—and why hadn’t it recovered?

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uNited For MoMeNtuM It soon became clear that Henry didn’t have the answers. He and Hampton said they were working on a more comprehensive report that would detail all the different ways investigators cleared rape cases that weren’t being counted by state or federal databases. For instance, Henry said, the department doesn’t get any credit for solving rapes that were reported more than a year prior. That didn’t make sense to me. I knew that law enforcement agencies did receive credit for clearing old murders. That’s why, some years, agencies reported clearance rates of more than 100 percent: because along with solving the homicides that happened that year, they broke open a couple of cold cases. That’s right, Henry said, but it wasn’t the same with rapes. It seemed weird, but what did I know? I explained to Henry and Hampton that I couldn’t promise to hold the story another week—this was their moment to explain what was missing, I reminded them—but could always update the story if this new report warranted it. They said they understood and we hung up. Then, as part of the general factchecking process a reporter goes through, I tried to figure out if what Henry told me about solving old rapes not being counted was true and, if so, why. I spoke to an official at the California Department of Justice on background who contradicted Henry’s assertion. The DOJ collects monthly statistical reports from individual law enforcement agencies that it forwards to the FBI, and says that both crimes and clearances are counted toward the year they’re reported. The official sent me a link to an FBI webpage that spelled out its definition of clearance explicitly: Solving old crimes counted. I emailed Hampton three times requesting clarification for the untrue statement that the department wasn’t receiving credit for clearing old cases. After the third email, which included a reminder about my deadline, Hampton called back. The conversation began polite, but I think we both became a little frustrated. I didn’t like feeling like I was being misled, even accidentally, and Hampton didn’t like feeling like his department’s integrity was being challenged. When I asked him why the newspaper was given incorrect information that would have put the department in a better light, Hampton responded that he hadn’t spoken to the commander since the conference call. “I know nothing about that,” he said. Hampton implored me to wait for the new report. He said he had seen some preliminary numbers and that they would

show the department in a more favorable “For whatever reason we had this light. I asked him why I should trust that directive,” he said. “Exceptionals are not when I wasn’t getting an answer to what I being sent to UCR.” felt was a reasonable question. He cut me Henry wasn’t able to identify from off. where this directive originated or say if it “This conversation is over,” he said. was made prior to 2016, when the stagger“Publish what you’re going to publish and ing drop-off occurred. Henry couldn’t even we’ll give it to The Bee.” say if a change in how rape cases are routed Somehow the conversation continued. through the internal system is actually the I conveyed that I neither appreciated nor reason clearances decreased, because he cared that he was threatening my exclusive; would have to review each pending rape I just wanted clean stats. He said the in-thecase individually to see which ones should works report would provide them. I specifihave been classified as cleared through cally asked if the report would show that the exceptional measures. department had, in fact, made more “It’s almost like an onion,” he arrests than previously shown said. “So I can’t give you hard and explain what changed data.” “This prior to 2016. He said yes Like many sexual to both. assault investigators, conversation is “The numbers are Henry zeroed in on a going to be significantly over.” common misconception different” than the that rapes are most often Sgt. Shaun Hampton original report the perpetrated by strangers. spokesman, Sacramento department produced, While assaults like that do County Sheriff’s Hampton said. “You’ve occur, the vast majority of Department actually exposed an error these crimes are committed in our system. You’ve uncovby known perpetrators, such ered a problem for us.” as friends, family members or No report was ever produced. authority figures. That can make it more difficult to convince survivors to participate a week later, henry phoned and broke in a grueling, slow-marching criminal the news. Apparently, there was little desire justice process. to expend staff resources on deconstructing “Often it’s someone they know and a report-writing system that was in the someone they trusted,” Henry noted. process of being phased out. He also said Getting cooperation from survivors “is it was important to realize that detectives always a tough component. And we have to aren’t thinking about the FBI’s annual work really hard to build that trust. When United Crime Reporting Program, or UCR, you throw that emotional component on top when they’re working cases and writing of that, it makes it even more so.” their reports. But a lack of victim participation doesn’t Henry acknowledged providing inacuappear to be the issue, based on figures rate information about old rape clearances reviewed by SN&R. not being counted in the department’s favor. The vast majority of rape survivors “Apparently that’s incorrect,” Henry who reported their attacks to the Sheriff’s said. “I’m trying to wrap my ahead around Department consented to forensic exams, this because I’m not a records person.” signaling their desire to have their rapists His mea culpa seemed genuine. identified and arrested. The so-called rape Henry said department officials and IT kits collect biological fluids, hairs, genetic staff spent weeks trying to figure out what traces or other signs of trauma left on the may be behind the department’s arrest survivors’ bodies and are sent to the county woes, and found one possibility: an issue crime lab for analysis. In 2016 and 2017, with how officers are identifying cases in more than 77 percent of purported victims which a rape survivor declined to participate agreed to have their bodies probed for any in the investigation. evidence that could identify their attackers. The FBI allows for these cases to be Through the first four months of this year, entered as “exceptional clearances,” and that participation rate fell to 43 percent of not count against agencies as unsolved rape survivors. crimes, Henry said. He said he believes Henry said he doubts the “pending” officers and investigators have been directive alone can explain the drastic drop tagging these cases as “pending,” leaving in solved rapes, and was at a loss to point to them on the books as unsolved. There is no other factors. investigative reason for officers to do this, “Nothing I can put a finger on,” he said. Henry explained, since any exceptionally “The report-writing glitch alone, I don’t see cleared case can be reopened if new it being responsible.” information comes to light. About that, I believed him. Ω

For many, ZIP codes are little more than a jumble of numbers. But for some Sacramento County children, they can be the difference between life and death. In several areas of the region, African-American infants and children experience mortality rates that are twice that of their peers. A team of community advocates continues trying to change that grim dynamic. After securing nearly $2 million to expand their Black Mothers united program, it just might. Her Health First, formerly the Center for Community Health & Well Being, is one of more than 20 nonprofits working out of former classrooms at the Fruitridge Community Collaborative. In a neighborhood fraught with violence, malnutrition and housing insecurity, Her Health First follows its name as a guide, subscribing to the mantra that “strong and healthy communities begin with strong and healthy women.” Executive director Shannon Read explains the organization’s goal as one that seeks to build health equity—not equality—for women throughout the community. “We have to start with the population that’s experiencing the disproportionality,” Read said. “We have to help women of color first.” In 2013, Her Health First pilot-launched the Black Mothers United program, designed to address the region’s disproportionate infant mortality rates in a holistic manner. Black Mothers United partners expectant African-American women with pregnancy coaches who help them get proper pre- and perinatal care. The First 5 Sacramento Commission has been a vital funding source for Black Mothers United since the beginning. On July 1, the commission renewed its contract with Her Health First for another three years, this time upping the ante to $1.9 million. With new momentum, Black Mothers United anticipates serving 630 new women across seven neighborhoods between 2018 and 2021. (Kyler Alvord)

u-turN oN taxes In November, Sacramento voters will decide whether to indefinitely extend and double Measure u, a once-temporary, recession-era half-cent sales tax. Despite being heralded as an opportunity to invest in underserved communities by city politicians, activists are concerned about the non-binding nature of the promise. Mayor Darrell Steinberg has repeatedly assured voters the new funds would go to youth programs, housing and job creation. Yet, if passed, the revenue won’t be earmarked for such programs—it will go straight to the city’s general fund. The decision to make Measure U’s adjustment a general tax was triggered by hopes of it passing with a simple majority vote, rather than needing a two-thirds supermajority required for earmarked revenue streams. Jonah Paul, a member of Sacramento’s chapter of Democratic Socialists of America, expressed concern over the divvying of the estimated $100 million yearly windfall. “These promises are based on good faith,” Paul said. “The question is if we should believe them.” In 2015, a report from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy found that heavy reliance on sales taxes is a characteristic of the most regressive tax systems. The half-cent sales tax increase would bring Sacramento’s sales tax rate to 8.75 percent, on par with the city of Isleton for the highest in the region. Even supporters of the initiative are wary of those consequences. Michelle Pariset, a housing advocate with Organize Sacramento, is on board with the tax increase, so long as the money goes toward those who will be hurt by it most. “If we’re going to support something like that, we need some assurances that the interests of low-income communities will be served with this money,” she said. (Dylan Svoboda)

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“I was told ‘it’s great you’re the first of many murals down there, it’ll attract new business and push the homeless people out of the area,’” Askew One wrote on Twitter in September. “And I will not ever be used as a tool to further alienate those already marginalised.” Almost a year later, Sobon dismissed the notion that WOW acts as an agent of gentrification in a city reeling from high rents, a dearth of housing and the influx of Bay Area residents. “Art does not displace people. Art and gentrification have nothing to do with each other. We’re talking about putting beautiful art on walls,” Sobon stressed. “The idea that a piece of beautiful art on a wall, and that it’s going to push people out of the neighborhood, I think it’s ridiculous. I really do.”

A muralist fills in his outline with shades of color. It’s one of five new murals to decorate the Old North Sacramento neighborhood.

Photo by StePh RodRiguez

Wide Open Walls returns In its second year, local mural festival looks to splash color along neglected business corridor by Steph RodRiguez

As a second-year mural festival shares its “place-making” powers with a neglected business district in Old North Sacramento, the question of who really benefits from Wide Open Walls has once again surfaced. Wide Open Walls is the brainchild of David Sobon, an art auctioneer and event consultant whose bio on the festival’s website says he was inspired to create WOW while biking down a Midtown alley that he envisioned as an untapped canvas. Sacramento’s largest mural festival to date launched last year with about 40 widescreen illustrations on an array of buildings and structures around the city. WOW’s inaugural showcase 10

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was largely popular, but did feature some high-profile controversies: In September 2017, an unknown vandal tagged one of the murals in Oak Park with the following graffiti message: “Gentrify 101: Make it hip! (fuck that).” Around the same time, a wraparound mural by New Zealand’s Askew One was painted over on the side of Sacramento Pipeworks Climbing and Fitness in downtown. Organizers said there was a miscommunication between the artist and Pipeworks owners about what the illustration would be. Askew One said he became disillusioned with WOW when he learned what organizers wanted from the mural fest.

On Friday, the Launch Pad, an outdoor creative arts’ space located on Del Paso Boulevard, hosted a WOW kick-off party. Sitting under a canopy near the entrance was Marriah Treloar, a native resident of the neighborhood and an oil painter showing her work. While not participating in WOW, Treloar was excited about the positive publicity the mural fest was garnering. “Instead of just a bunch of people out there selling drugs and turning tricks, it’s a different kind of people there and it’s better for us,” Treloar said. Some business owners along Del Paso Boulevard say they are eager for the foot traffic WOW will attract to a corridor with a sometimes unfavorable reputation. “I hope it shows a different light to the boulevard itself because I think we’ve got a bad rap no matter what we do on this side between the shootings and everything like that,” said Michael Chaves, who owns Son of a Bean coffee shop and art gallery. “What I like about it is that people that come to these events never come to this area for their own reasons or they never think that there is anything over here that’s worth coming to.” Just up the street, Cong Nguyen, owner of the new King Cong Brewery, said he sees WOW as a positive first step. But if the boulevard wants to keep attracting new businesses like his, it can’t be the last. “Whenever people come in here, they tell me how often they pass through this area but they don’t realize what’s happening on Del Paso Boulevard,” Nguyen said. “Although there is this idea that we are revitalizing the neighborhood, there still needs to be more attention put to the neighborhood to create this perspective

where people want to stop while they’re passing by.” Treloar said she wasn’t afraid of WOW displacing local residents with new money. “I think that it’s going to create a lot of opportunities for people like me who didn’t have them before,” she said. “I, myself, come from a low-income family and it isn’t affecting me in a negative way at all. It’s creating opportunities for me.” At least one WOW muralist says he sees both sides of the issue. Lopan 4000 is a longtime Sacramento street artist marking his return to the festival. “You can argue both points either way. I think for Sacramento, it’s good because there’s not a lot of art in Sacramento,” Lopan told SN&R. “At some point, I can see the negative side of that more where they’re pricing out artists in the area. But it’s not a tapped market around here, yet. Right now, it’s drawing attention in a positive way.” Lopan, whose work pays homage to classic comic books, anime and video games, added that mural culture is still new in Sacramento and that WOW is giving muralists access to large canvases they wouldn’t otherwise be able, at least legally, to paint. For example, Lopan and his partner-in-crime, Ernie Fresh, contributed to a mural at Sacramento State University with dozens of other local artists. “[Wide Open Walls] is not taking projects away from people right now,” Lopan said. “But if they keep doing it at this rate, in a few years, I could see the negative side of that argument.” This year, Sobon invited some of Sacramento’s busiest artists to participate in WOW, including Jose Di Gregorio, Anthony Padilla (Kinetik Ideas), Molly Devlin and Raphael Delgado. But he also brought in OBEY-clothing giant and professional street-artist Shepard Fairey, whose iconic “Hope” poster featuring former President Barack Obama became an overnight phenomenon. Fairey is slated to paint the Residence Inn by Marriott in downtown. Altogether, 21 local artists and 24 visting ones are participating in this year’s fest. The latter category includes Shamsia Hassan, a street artist from Afghanistan, who is scheduled to paint one of the exterior walls of SN&R’s office on Del Paso Boulevard. Last year, 20 locals and 18 out-of-towners rattled paint cans into the night. Ω

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More than a year after Alex Honnold did what no one ever had, the rock climber’s deathdefying ascent to the top of El Capitan in Yosemite will be detailed in the upcoming movie, Free Solo. The 32-year-old Sacramento native scaled the nearly 3,000-foot granite wall without ropes on June 3, 2017. Only a few close friends, including husband-wife filmmakers Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, knew when Honnold was going to attempt the climb, which took a harrowing three hours and 56 minutes to complete. But the voyage had been in Honnold’s sights for eight years. He planned for more than a year and trained in a half-dozen countries. Since accomplishing what has been cited as the greatest rock-climbing feat in history, Honnold has been in demand. He traveled to finish the movie. He worked on a second book. He made public speaking appearances for corporations and at universities. He gave a TED Talk. Rock climbing has long been a niche activity. But Honnold’s exploits, which first gained mainstream notoriety in 2011 when his solo climb of Half Dome in Yosemite was featured on 60 Minutes, have kindled new interest. With the increased fascination come frequent reminders of rock climbing’s dangers.

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full-length documentary. The movie initially had the title, Solo. But a conflict arose when the “With social media, you hear movie Solo: A Star Wars Story about these climbs more often, was released. that’s bringing more people out “We found out the Star Wars there,” said Ken Yager, presimovie was coming, so we were like, dent of the Yosemite Climbing ‘Oh, no,’” Honnold said earlier this Association. “Climbing is pretty scary if you haven’t done it before. year while appearing on a popular lifestyle video podcast hosted by I do worry about it. Like climbing Rich Roll. “Solo is a better name, El Cap in a day [with ropes] is but how are you going to compete pretty much the norm now. Not with [Han] Solo?” that long ago, it was pretty rare. The National I do kind of worry about Geographic people taking it Documentary lightly.” Four days before Films’ feature is In the 2015 listed as in-postclimbing that record was set, production film Valley veteran climbers Jason on IMBd. Uprising, com, and is Wells and Tim Klein fell to Honnold talks expected to about his their deaths while climbing debut by the admiration end of the a Freeblast section of of friend year. But a Dean Potter, the Salathé Wall on El prevailing rumor a renowned Capitan. among the climbclimber who also ing industry is that favored BASE jumpFree Solo will debut ing off cliffs in a wingduring the Toronto Film suit. Potter died in 2016 during Festival beginning September 6. a wingsuit jump in Yosemite. Climbing’s increasing popularThree BASE jumpers, all ity and perils haven’t gone unnoNorthern Californians, were arrested ticed by Yager, a former Davis for trespassing and resisting arrest resident who has lived in Yosemite in mid-July after leaping from the since 1976. 730-foot Foresthill Bridge just “There are just so many more outside of Auburn. In recent years, climbers now,” said Yager, who was the Placer County Sheriff’s Office employed for years as a climbing reports it has arrested or cited 88 guide. “Climbing gyms have opened people for either trespassing or up people’s eyes to rock climbing. BASE jumping off of California’s There are a lot more people out tallest bridge. there and when they get tired of Earlier this year, Honnold the gym, they decide they want to traveled to Antarctica for a sixbranch out and go outside. week expedition with The North “Climbing gyms are getting Face, his primary sponsor. He better, but I compare it to a has a five-year contract with the stationary bike to a bike out on the adventure company and often road. There’s a lot more going on wears its clothes. The company outside.” Ω is also prominent in the pending

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In the next few weeks, 2.7 million California college students will be picking out new classes, buying books and getting to know their new roommates. And according to numerous studies, somewhere between a third-and-a-half of these students will be forced to skip meals or eat inexpensive, unhealthy foods because of a lack of funds. And, these food insecurity studies were done before this year’s California tidal wave of rent increases that have emptied out so many college students’ wallets. Many colleges around the state have established food pantries, or programs through which students can donate meals from their meal plan to other students. Hunger is a gigantic problem, causing some students to drop out or perform poorly. Given the extent of the problem, one would hope we were taking advantage of every federal program to help our California students. But we are not. According to a study done by the national nonprofit, Young Invincibles, which advocates for young adults, there are 320,000 California college students who qualify for CalFresh (food stamp) benefits, worth approximately $125 a month. But only 70,000 students are receiving them. The other 250,000 college students are missing out on an additional $375 million dollars a year in food benefits. This is all federal money that could be coming into our state. There are many reasons for the lack of CalFresh participation among college students, but the main cause is that many students do not know that they are eligible. The rules are incredibly confusing and difficult to understand. As part of my work with our N&R Publications division, I had an opportunity to delve into the confusing CalFresh regulations when we produced an outreach publication for Placer, Sacramento and Yolo counties, currently being distributed at local colleges. We’ve had good feedback about how our publication has helped

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sh had rained from the sky for about a day when Beverly Strand’s phone lit up with a text. It was an automated public safety alert telling her to leave town. Then her neighbor called. “She told me to look out my back window,” said Strand, who lives near the west side of Redding. “I did, and on the ridge to the north I saw the flames.” The Carr fire, sparked by a minor automobile malfunction a few miles to the west, was advancing rapidly. Strand, who has lived in Redding for all her 60 years and never seen a wildfire prompt an evacuation before, collected her camera equipment, ushered her pets into her car and drove east. Her home, ultimately, would be spared. However, the Carr fire would go on to kill at least eight people, destroy more than 1,000 homes and become the sixth most destructive wildfire in the state’s history. The fire is the latest in a scourge of infernos that have recently ravaged the West—calamitous events made worse by the rapid warming of the planet, most scientists agree. Humanity has had its chance to avert calamity. It appears that window is rapidly closing. A study recently published in the journal PLoS Medicine warned that heatwave deaths in California could increase by five-fold in the next 60 years if people around the globe continue extracting and burning fossil fuels like there’s no tomorrow—or no 22nd century, anyway. California has been pursuing steep cuts in statewide greenhouse gas emissions that would bring carbon dioxide output to 40 percent of 1990 levels by 2030. Alone, however, the state’s actions will not avert the disasters. In fact, the annual pace of global emissions increased last year over the prior 10-year average. Now, virtually every realistic climate scientist agrees we are already committed, with no way

of going back, to an increase in global temperatures ranging from significant to disastrous—even if we halted all emissions today. For scientists, this basically means they don’t know what will happen with certainty except that temperatures and sea level will rise considerably. Most predictions are educated guesses, but one common theme is that catastrophe looms. Park Williams, a bioclimatologist at Columbia University, compared the Earth’s climate to a resting monster—“a climate beast that we don’t really understand.” “We’re all really afraid that if we kick this thing, it may lurch and respond in a very wild way that we can’t predict,” he said.

caLifornia in fLames California’s recent past shows what happens when temperatures inch up: The state’s driest drought in 500 years ended with one of its wettest winters. Then the landscape blew into flames. Measured by number of structures lost, six of California’s 20 most destructive wildfires occurred within the past year. Measured by acreage, the two largest fires have burnt in the past eight months, with the bigger—the Mendocino Complex fire—still going strong. Future fire models show that acreage burned each year could increase some 75 percent by 2085. “This is part of a trend, a new normal, that we’ve got to deal with,” Gov. Jerry Brown said at an August 4 press conference in Redding. Brown’s comments come with a caveat. Though widely applauded as a climate policy hero, the state’s multi-term governor has also eased restrictions on California’s oil industry and facilitated its growth. The group Consumer Watchdog has reported that Brown and initiatives he supports have received $10 million in donations from oil lobbyists. Last week, several protesters were arrested outside his office. “I’m no longer willing to remain comfortable while politicians gain accolades for promoting renewable fuels when they’re simultaneously permitting fossil fuel extraction,”

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said Morgan Curtis, 26, an Oakland activist with the “Brown’s Last Chance” coalition who spent a night in jail for demonstrating without a permit outside the governor’s office on August 7. “Young people have the most at risk because of climate change—our futures are ahead of us.” Underlying the extreme fire phenomena, California keeps getting hotter. Last year may have been Earth’s third warmest recorded year (2015 and 2016, warmed by

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El Niño, were hotter), but it delivered to California its all-time hottest summer. The temperature hit 100 or more a record 72 times in Redding in 2017. This year, though the globe has been cooled by last year’s La Niña conditions, is another scorcher for the state. In Fresno, the thermometer has stayed near 100 every day since July 6, and Redding was in the midst of a streak of triple digit days when the Carr fire broke out. Such heat spells will only get worse. “We’re going to get heatwaves that will last for days and days and days and days at extraordinary temperatures,” said Richard Grotjahn, a UC Davis professor of climate dynamics. Grotjahn coauthored a study recently published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres warning that climate change could nudge summertime heatwave highs in California up by at least 7 degrees Fahrenheit—that’s assuming aggressive global reductions in CO2 emissions, which are not currently happening—and by as much as 12 degrees if emissions continue to increase. “Temperatures that are several degrees above what we have now will become the norm—that’s a pretty sizeable increase,” Grotjahn said. “If the normal high is 93, well, imagine if the normal high was 98, and on top of that you have these big swings— it’s a pretty scary thought.”

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Williams, the bioclimatologist, said reducing greenhouse gas emissions can still help soften the impacts from increasing temperatures many years from now. As for stopping global warming, though, it’s too late for that. “We’re already signed up for a very different climate a few decades from now,” he said.

UNDERWATER AND UNINHABITABLE The planet is now about 1 degree Celsius warmer than in pre-industrial times, and it is all but certain the planet will be another degree warmer by 2100. In the worst possible scenario, the planet’s emissions of CO2 and methane might continue unabated, causing—according to climate models—another 4 degrees Celsius or more of warming. That’s 8.6 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than today’s average. This is not trivial. About 20,000 years ago the planet was 4 or 5 degrees Celsius cooler than it is now. “And at the time, Manhattan was buried under hundreds of meters of ice,” said Jason Smerdon, a climate researcher at Columbia University and coauthor of the forthcoming book, Climate Change: The Science of Global Warming and Our Energy Future. “So, 4 degrees Celsius warmer would be like one Ice Age warmer.” Such would be the outcome of what scientists know as the RCP8.5 scenario, often referred to as the business-as-usual scenario. In climate science, though, business as usual means anything but. That’s because, if humankind continues burning fossil fuels at current rates, the sleeping climate beast wakes and, late in the century, unleashes all manner of suffering. Business as usual would, by 2100, transform much of Eurasia into desert and cause the ocean to rise several feet. Climate Central warns that the rising ocean could force 760 million coastal residents to evacuate or perish. Human deaths are expected to increase by a quarter million every year because of climate change-related ailments, including heat stress, malnutrition and malaria, according to the World Health Organization. The Pacific Institute, a water and climate think tank in Oakland, has estimated that half a million people in the Bay Area could be affected directly by flooding as the sea rises. Heather Cooley, director of the institute’s water program, said that forecast uses a 1.4-meter increase, or 4.5 feet, without a specific time span. “We often talk about climate change as though it stops at 2100, and it won’t—these changes will continue,” Cooley said. Other mass population shifts will occur as average high temperatures creep past what humans can physically tolerate. Parts

of the Middle East are expected to become uninhabitable over the next several decades. The U.S. Global Change Research Program, a national initiative to study the changing climate, has forecast that, by the end of the century, the American Southwest could be 9.5 degrees Fahrenheit warmer, on average, than it is today. In California, these changes will make the state unsuitable for most trout and salmon, stress crops to the point of unprofitability, turn forests into scrubland and, probably, kill many people outside the confines of air-conditioned buildings. The RCP2.6 scenario, by which warming increases just another degree or less by 2100, offers much brighter prospects for the Earth and its inhabitants. It is, however, mainly used as a reference point. “That would be like every government agrees climate change is an extreme emergency and does everything possible to cut back on emissions, and I don’t see that happening,” Grotjahn said. Even the middle ground scenario— RCP4.5—where the Earth’s temperature would increase by as much as 5.5 degrees Fahrenheit, “is probably optimistic at this point,” he said. Under any warming scenario, less snow will fall in the mountains, and the U.S. Global Change Research Program estimated that California’s mountain snowpack—its most important reservoir—could, by 2100, hold less than half the water equivalent to what it did 100 years prior. That’s on top of a projected doubling of the state’s human population—a recipe for water conflicts far more serious than the nonstop squabbles seen today as environmentalists and farmers argue over how best to divvy resources. “We’ll need to change our reservoir operating systems,” Cooley said. “Right now, we plan for summer snowmelt by making room in the reservoirs.” When precipitation falls as rain rather than snow, it means more frequent, more severe floods and drier summers. In the grimmest of outlooks, the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta will transform into a swamp-like ecosystem where invasive species, like black bass and catfish, thrive but salmon cannot, warned UC Davis fisheries

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Climate projections show the best, moderate and worst-case scenarios for daily surface temperatures on Earth by the year 2100.

“ We are now giving atmospheric chemistry a kick of the kind of magnitude … where the climate state could start spinning out of control.” Park Williams bioclimatologist, Columbia University

professor Peter Moyle. Native fish will suffer, but farmers—often at odds with fishery conservation—will not necessarily win big. Growers of many crops, especially nuts and stone fruits that require chilling hours, will be forced to move or somehow adapt. “There are a lot of crops California won’t be able to grow anymore,” Cooley said.

It’s possible the impacts of global warming will be even worse than scientists are predicting. That’s because of what’s known as “positive feedback cycles,” a phenomenon whereby the very effects of warming begin to drive it. For example, warming is melting the reflective sea ice that once would have bounced solar radiation back into space. As this deflective layer evaporates, the ice that’s left melts even faster, perpetuating the vicious cycle. Another feedback loop only recently identified is that of soil carbon entering the atmosphere at faster and faster rates as the air warms, enhancing the greenhouse effect. In theory, such feedback cycles can cause warming to accelerate in unpredictable ways. This, Williams said, is of great concern to climate scientists wise enough to know they can’t predict the future. He said paleo evidence of climate change in the past shows that atmospheric chemistry changes have sparked extreme shifts that reset the planet’s climate into a wildly different state. For instance, Earth, he said, has apparently frozen over, all the way to the equator, several times in the distant past. While extreme freezing is not an immediate threat to Earth, Williams said the moral is that climate change, once put into motion, can assume a life of its own. “We are now giving atmospheric chemistry a kick of the kind of magnitude it takes to initiate these really big and unpredictable feedbacks where the climate state could start spinning out of control and eventually come to rest in a new state entirely,” he said. Perhaps nowhere does Earth’s climate seem more unstable and volatile than in the deep Arctic. Here, permafrost that has been frozen for ages is now rapidly thawing (and releasing huge amounts of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas—yet another positive feedback loop). In the coastal town of Svalbard, journalist Mark Sabbatini had to abandon his apartment two years ago when the softening Earth caused his building to cave in. Sabbatini has spent the past decade in Svalbard watching global warming happen. He said observing what happens in the Arctic is very important for the rest of the planet. “Climate change is happening two times as fast here, so we’re getting a preview of what’s to going to happen everywhere else,” Sabbatini said.

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JERRY BROWN’S GIFT TO BIG OIL Across the northern hemisphere, heatwaves are cooking the Earth. The African continent just logged a record high of 124 degrees Fahrenheit, and Japan saw an all-time high reading of 106 Fahrenheit. Triple digits have been the rule for much of inland California since early July. While some climate models predict that parts of coastal California could get cooler as inland warming enhances sea breezes, in the Central Valley the summers will just get hotter and drier. Amid the melting glaciers, the record heatwaves, the superstorms, the wildfires and the record heat, President Donald Trump’s denial of climate change and his refusal to participate in international efforts to slow warming have embarrassed the nation.

Lobby. “Congress listens to the will of the people, because we have elections.” In July, 39 of the 43 GOP members of the Climate Solutions Caucus voted for an anti-carbon tax, sponsored, no less, by another Republican, Steve Scalise of Los Angeles. Earlier this year, after the Pentagon removed climate change references from national security documents, 40 members of the House, including eight Republicans, signed a letter of criticism addressed to Defense Secretary Jim Mattis. In July, Rep. Carlos Curbelo, a Republican from Florida, introduced a bill that would place a fee on carbon and use the revenue to fund infrastructure projects. “In Florida, they have to think about this,” Valk said. But some Republicans who acknowledge warming trends still question humanity’s role in the process. At a May 16 hearing of the House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Chairman

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Six youth were arrested after staging a protest outside Gov. Jerry Brown’s Sacramento office on August 7.

Though less well publicized, Jerry Brown’s actions contradict his official stance as a leader on climate change policy. According to data from FracTracker, Brown has issued more than 5,000 permits to drill new offshore oil wells in California state waters, while Trump has issued permits for about 1,400 in federal waters a few miles farther offshore. Curtis, the demonstrator arrested last week in Sacramento, said she went to jail for a night, along with five others, “to help illuminate the discrepancy between the governor’s walk and his talk.” While Brown ignites the anger of protesters, it continues getting hotter so fast that even Republicans in Congress are stepping across party lines and joining in calls to cut CO2 emissions. “They’re hearing from their constituents, and they know they can’t ignore this anymore,” said Steve Valk, director of communications with the Citizens’ Climate

Lamar Smith, a Texas Republican, called “alarmist findings” that climate change will cause great damage and mortality in the future “the ultimate fake news.” He dismissed calls for emissions reductions, since they tend to harm fossil fuel-based industries that fork over huge political bribes to lawmakers and leaders (California’s governor included), and said we can count on “inevitable advances in building construction and design” to handle future climate challenges. “It’s funny how the goal posts keep moving,” Valk said. “You start out denying there’s a problem. Then, you agree there’s a problem but say that we’ll just adapt to it.” Smerdon, at Columbia University, feels the adaptation arguments are a way of kicking the can down the road. “It’s a new way of arguing for business as usual,” he said. Which, of course, is the sugar-coated term for what happens when the climate beast wakes up. Ω

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it 56 times, often enduring thin air in the Rocky Mountains and the undulating Sierra Nevada. But the 57th attempt will be Finkbeiner’s hardest. Fourteen months after he was hit by a wayward bicyclist on the American River Parkway levee, he’ll brave the Leadville Trail 100 in Colorado on Saturday, August 18. Nicknamed “The Race Across The Sky,” it begins at 4 a.m. and twice reaches the 12,600 foot-high Hope Pass. The time limit is 30 hours.

“One month or so ago, I was thinking, ‘Maybe I shouldn’t do this; this year isn’t going that great,’” Finkbeiner said. “I was in a lot better shape last year, and I was lighter. But then I just thought to make the recovery complete, or as complete as it’s going to get, I feel like I need to finish this.” On June 13, 2017—finishing a casual after-work jaunt he’s done with friends hundreds of times—Finkbeiner was catapulted from behind. His body pummeled,

abruptly deposited face-first on asphalt and gravel. “When he woke up, he wanted to get up and keep going,” said Lisa Downey, a Sacramento nurse among the friends exercising with him. “He knew who the president was, but he didn’t know the day. So I knew he was concussed.” Finkbeiner looked worse than a pulverized boxer. The aftermath, shown on multiple websites and Sacramento-area television stations, is a gruesome vision not easily forgotten. His left hand, particularly his thumb, still doesn’t work correctly. He’s lost his sense of smell and taste permanently. His lower back is in near constant pain, often leaving him unable to walk erect. Physical therapy and CT scans have been commonplace in recovery. Finkbeiner wears several new teeth and a vertical scar near his right eye. Lacerations, multiple facial orbital and skull fractures, have healed to varying degrees, but he can still feel soft spots on his head. Still, he’s lucky. “My doctor told me the gash about one inch from my eye was very close to a fatal injury, if something slightly different had happened in that part of my head,” he recalled. “There are martial arts practices used to fracture the same bone to kill people.” The incident occurred during a several-month span when Sacramento’s recreational artery became increasingly unsafe. In

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one incident, several cyclists and runners training on the Jedediah Smith Memorial Trail were pelted with rocks. One friend’s husband, a skilled amateur cyclist, was knocked down, his bike trashed. The parkway lost its innocence many years ago, but recent violence and mishaps have required users to become more vigilant. Sections of the 32-mile trail are avoided, though problems have occurred from Discovery Park to Folsom Dam. But this may have been an accident. “I don’t think the guy intended to harm Bill,” said Beth, Bill’s wife, also an ultrarunner. “He was just careless and stupid, and that’s why it occurred. Then it comes down to holding someone accountable if they don’t intend to hurt someone. I think that’s what Bill wrestles with.”

in recovery Finkbeiner’s finished the Leadville Trail 100 30 times, seven more than anyone else. It’s an unfathomable achievement, even in a sport rich with overachievers who thrive on daylong runs and sharing their ordeals with enthusiasm. “When [the incident] first happened, I was so certain that a day, or a week, or three weeks later, or even in a month or so, I was going to be 100 percent,” Finkbeiner said. “I thought I was just going to get up,

returned to work four months after the incident, where his longtime job relies on physical labor. For decades, Finkbeiner ran on the foothill trails not far from his home, and he’s trained through less-traveled paths in the high country. He’s pumped water from creeks, seen wild animals, gotten lost, fallen, become dehydrated and suffered horribly from poison oak, the trail-running curse. He’s laughed with friends through it all in extreme temperatures, and in the middle of the night. Ultrarunning, or distances longer than a marathon, has other not-sopleasant considerations. Finkbeiner is prone to sleepwalking during 100-mile races. Vomiting is accepted because it usually means runners feel better and improve their chances to finish. “A hundred is different than any other event because you’re just out there long enough so that everything has a chance to hurt,” Finkbeiner said. “In a 50, you might not feel much of anything. You might have a blister or a little bit of chafing or something. “But in a hundred,” he continued, “everything hurts at some point during the day, or the second day you’re out there. It’s just the time, and staying awake and all of that.” A daylight walk/run on a wide,

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go to my truck and drive home to Auburn.” A graduate of Rio Americano High School, Finkbeiner began “serious” running on January 1, 1980. The exact date is significant; It’s when the husband, father of two adult children, vintage car collector, historian and volunteer began a daily running streak. Irony derailed it after 13,679 days, or nearly 37-and-a-half years. Finkbeiner

problematic. It’s a popular location, a short distance from the Howe Avenue thoroughfare and its cluster of businesses and residences. Finkbeiner and his companions recall hearing only the beginning of the phrase “On your right.” It’s a verbal courtesy among trail users. Too late; Finkbeiner was down, out and amid a sizable amount of blood before he could react. The cyclist veered down an embankment and was restrained by one of Finkbeiner’s friends. But Finkbeiner’s

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well-being was more important, so the culprit was released and he pedaled away. Finkbeiner initially said he believed the cyclist didn’t hit him intentionally. He’s now reconsidering his legal options after he received notice from the district attorney’s office that it wouldn’t press charges because a crime couldn’t be proven. “I’ve just got several issues going,” Finkbeiner says. “The main one that would affect my livelihood is not so much my left hand, it’s my back. I just don’t know if it’s aged me 10 years or what it did. It’s probably my biggest problem now. It’s a bigger problem than not being able to smell or taste. It’s just the uncertainty of whether I can work.” With the incident, Finkbeiner began another streak, albeit dubious. He didn’t run for 100 days and then began to exercise again on a loop near his home. “It’s a pre-dawn token run [of] about 1.5 miles around the neighborhood,” he said. “I did it a lot when I just didn’t have the time to dedicate to a workout. Now, I do it just to loosen up.”

the running ambassador A few days into his hospital stay at UC Davis Medical Center, a friend, Denis Zilaff, a Sacramento ultramarathon veteran, and I visited Finkbeiner in his room. He was gaunt and covered in gauze, salve and scabs. He’d lost more than 10 pounds. His thrashed legs were thin, his face swollen. Minutes after we arrived, an occupational therapist entered the room to test his cognitive skills. She had a series of numbers and phrases for her patient to remember and recite, which he did easily. I began to chuckle and nudged Zilaff. We knew our injured friend had a great memory and fondness for numbers and distances. He once memorized Pi to 200 digits, far past its common 3.14 reference. Finkbeiner doesn’t calculate Pi during runs. But he will sometimes count to 100 and then start again. He has to talk himself into stopping. Training partners know well Finkbeiner’s passion for numbers and distances. Running to different sections of the trail are exact, 1.63 miles, for example. He can recite finishing times from races 30 years ago, and he knows other runners’ times and finishing places with uncanny accuracy. Because of his longevity in the

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language. The two runners met a few times before the race and communicated during it with a notepad and pen, and Haskins finished in just under 29 hours. “It definitely ranks in one of the top-five running days I’ve ever had,” Finkbeiner recalled. “I got complimented for what I did for her. But I got more out of that day than she did, probably, or at least as much. It was awesome.” After completing the Leadville 100 several years

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recovering from injuries and is the only other runner to officially finish all 29 editions of the popular event held in the foothill community of Cool. “When we saw Bill, it was just a breath of fresh air. It kind of lifted my spirits and it brought me in.” Finkbeiner can recite his career with clarity, but he’ll only do so if asked. It’s a time capsule of hundreds of races and training days with friends. He’s rarely considered an elite athlete, but he has won about a dozen events, and he’s run 50 miles more than 300 times. One mutual friend told me after Finkbeiner’s 30th finish at the Leadville 100 a few years ago, he was asked for his autograph in local restaurants. Finkbeiner awkwardly obliged. Perhaps to a greater degree than his running accomplishments, he’s a running ambassador, leading by example. Seventeen years ago, he accompanied Patti Haskins, a deaf runner, start-to-finish in the Western States 100. Finkbeiner learned the words Gatorade and water in sign

ago, Finkbeiner gave his finisher’s belt buckle to a longtime running friend recovering from cancer. With two friends, he trained five women, including Downey, for their first 100. For many years, Finkbeiner has served as a group pacer for runners at the California International Marathon. He’s groomed trails with his own work equipment because he can, and he’s dropped water in remote places for friends the night before long runs. “The one thing Bill has always had is that strong mental tenacity to get him through all the 100s he’s done,” Beth said. “It’s what many people, including me, respect about him.” She is more impressed with her husband’s acceptance of his permanent injuries. “I used to joke with friends when Bill was leading up to his 20th Leadville that was going to be his 20th and final, because that’s what I was hoping,” Beth said. “Now he’s done 30 and going for 31. That’s how he is wired and he doesn’t see a need to ever stop.” Ω

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A later visit, when I sampled the BBQ chicken, was almost as good, if not quite as succulent. I was surprised that the BBQ shrimp combo plate only came with one plump, butterflied shrimp, but Com Tam Thien Huong serves up quality over huge quantities. And they’re not just good with com tam—like that person you hated in high school because they were smart and funny and cute—the menu at CTTH is well-rounded and their other dishes are also marvelous. The delicate and lightly spiced pho ($9.75) has strips of truly rare steak that were more flavorful than a recent $54 steak I had (cough cough, Diplomat Steakhouse, cough). The hu tieu thap cam (served dry or with soup, I chose dry, $10.50) is a revelation of hot noodles coated with oily, tart and salty umami sauce dotted with verdant garlic chives and diced squares of fried pork skin. The soupy bottom of this bowl, brightened with a squeeze of lime, is a slurp I dream about. I had to order the unusual-on-a-Vietnamese-menu Hainan chicken rice ($10.50), which is a Chinese dish that is considered a national dish of Singapore, but also served in Thailand and Vietnam. In contrast to the intense flavors of the other dishes I’d sampled, it was bland, and could be a good dish for a picky kid or adult. The tender, poached breast was served with the cilantro-like, earthy sawtooth herb (or ngo gai), quick-pickled cabbage, and a side of rice flavored with the chicken’s cooking broth. Any of these dishes would be well accompanied by a sparkling, salty plum drink ($4), served as a can of club soda with a plastic cup of ice and a tart plum preserve at the bottom. I’m so glad that my lack of directional sense finally yielded something good: A new favorite lunch spot. Ω

Most doughnut connoisseurs are aware of Sweet Dozen thanks to its “Doissant,” a light, flaky doughnut made from laminated croissant dough. The Khamphay family continues to dream up new delights like the “Dochi,” a doughnut made out of deep-fried, golden-brown mochi dough. The tender, stretchy doughnut ($2.50) has a diminutive stature and an intriguing texture that feels like part mochi and part raised doughnut. They come in an array of colors and flavors: matcha, churro, brown-sugar cinnamon, purple reign (ube), and my personal favorite, strawberry shortcake. It’s a fun take on doughnut culture, shaking up both the texture and flavor of American’s most taken-for-granted breakfast sweet. Midtown Farmers’ Market and at 5207 Madison Avenue, sweetdozen.com.

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Bad medicine ball The small strip mall at Broadway and Riverside Boulevards hosts five commercial tenants. For two of those tenants, there’s a bad case of businessmodel incompatibility. Thai Farm House BBQ & Bistro and TriPark Strength and Conditioning are next-door neighbors. TriPark runs CrossFit workouts that frequently lob heavy medicine balls at a wall they share with Thai Farm, which made James McRitchie’s dinner experience at Thai Farm in May an abnormal one, replete with the secondhand effects of the exercise. “I was eating at the restaurant and happened to notice that everyone was sitting on one side of the room,” McRitchie said. “I thought, that’s kind of odd.” He and his wife sat along the shared wall, and it wasn’t long before they were disrupted. “Every minute or so, there was a thump against the wall,” he said. “So I went next door and looked, and

they’re throwing a medicine ball against the wall.” McRitchie talked to TriPark management and even recorded a video of his encounter, where he suggested that the exercise balls could be thrown against a different wall. To be fair, it’s not a quiet thump—it sounds more like someone whacking the wall with a sledgehammer. The continuous noise even sparked conversation between TriPark co-owner Sean Powers and Brad Sandoval, owner of Thai Farm. “They have toned it down quite a bit,” Sandoval said. “They said they’ll try to keep the noise down, and they have.” Sandoval stressed that he has a good relationship with the owners of TriPark, and he wants to keep it that way. Still, the vibrations can be disruptive. Ice Promke, who works at Thai Farm and is married to Sandoval, reiterated that they don’t

want to stir up trouble, but there are distractions when working next to the gym. “The pots in the back sometimes fall down,” Promke said, who added that when the couple visited the site before leasing, they didn’t experience the noises. It’s a tough situation, Powers said, but using another wall isn’t feasible and he’s installed sound-absorbent plates to mitigate the noise. “We stipulated in the lease that we would be making noise on the walls and playing music,” Powers said. “In all honesty, we’ve done our best to assuage any issues. We don’t have to quiet ourselves, but we do our best to meet halfway.” Thai Farm has been in business for almost a year, and Sandoval said they’re not going anywhere. Yet, there’s no simple solution that leaves all parties content. “I don’t want to make a huge deal about it,” Sandoval said. “But I’m not sure what to do.” Ω

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and Jake (Doug Harris). Both teen and adult angst abounds—teens with insecurities and adults with fears—with B Street regulars (plus newcomer Harris) delivering believable and sympathetic characters. The plot is funny and engaging in the first half, full of existential ramblings and funny asides, with a second half that brings drastic tonal and set shifts when the action moves to an underground bunker with cots, canned food and water barrels, all while incorporating a number of unexpected plot twists that keep the audience engaged throughout. Ω Grill until the cows come home—if there’s even a home left.

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Two neighbors stand grilling side-by-side in their shared yard, discussing world and national issues, nervous about political and cultural changes including social upheavals, societal shifts and even Russian threats. Though the opening scenes of We’re Gonna Be Okay by playwright Basil Kreimendahl sound familiar to current events, it’s actually set in 1962, during the daunting days of the Cuban Missile Crisis, when dystopian fears abounded and cracks were felt in Father Knows Best, perfect TV-family scenarios. B Street Theatre’s clever and compelling production of We’re Gonna Be Okay brings all the elements together for an intriguing look at a moment in history that eerily parallels present day. The early ’60s vibe is evident from the beginning, achieved through period music (Buttons and Bows, Volare), beautiful costumes (women in full skirts and capri pants, men in button-down shirts and loafers) and the creative set of side-by-side houses complete with porches and large front windows that frame the picture-perfect living rooms of two adjoining neighbors. Dueling grillers Efran (Dave Pierini) and Sul (Jason Kuykendall) talk about barbecue, work, wives and the pros and cons of building a shared underground bomb shelter to prepare for a Cuban atomic bomb. Their wives eventually join them: a nervous-Nellie Mag (Dana Brooke) and a more outspoken Leena (Elisabeth Nunziato), along with the two teens-with-’tudes Deanna (Stephanie Altholz)

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This jukebox musical at the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival is a tribute to songs made famous by girl groups in the early 1960s. It’s sweet and sunny, and the frothy music is enjoyable. But it doesn’t have a plot, or characters, so it’s closer to a lounge act than a play, which will disappoint some (though not all) theatergoers. Beehive alternates with Macbeth. Thu, Fri, Sat,

Beat poet William S. Burroughs, eccentric singer/ songwriter Tom Waits and creative theater director Robert Wilson walk into a bar (or writer’s room) … and emerge with a most creative, peculiar, morose and wickedly bizarre avant-garde musical. Fri 8pm, Sat 8pm,

Lake Tahoe Shakespeare’s handsome production of this bloody Shakespeare tragedy, staged outdoors at night with a large professional cast, is the leanest, meanest and most traditional interpretation we’ve seen in years. Excellent performances by Lynn Robert Berg in the title role and Erin Partin as Lady Macbeth. Macbeth alternates with Beehive. Thu, Fri, Sat,

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5 Fairy-tale fresh There is a lot of fun going on at the Woodland Opera House. The current production of Shrek, directed and choreographed by Andrea St. Clair with musical direction by Lori Jarvey, is a delight from start to finish. Based on the playwrighting and lyrics of David Lindsay-Abaire with music by Jeanine Tesori, this is the story of a hideous ogre tasked by an evil prince to kidnap a beautiful, cursed princess from the tower in which she has been imprisoned for her entire life. Newcomer James Morgan is a bit too handsome to be a hideous ogre, but his acting is unquestionable. His voice fills the opera house wonderfully. Woodland regular Jori Gonzales may have her best role ever as Princess Fiona. Her singing is glorious, and she has wonderful numbers—especially a memorable dance with a stage full of mice. Ryan Kevin-Patrick Allen, another newcomer, adds some fun as the reluctant Shrek’s BFF. He is as much fun as the role’s original Donkey, played in the movie version by Eddie Murphy. Erik Catalin is half his normal height as the diminutive, evil Lord Farquaad, but he is in top form. On his knees, he gives his patellas a great workout, particularly in “What’s Up Duloc,” a colorful dance number with the Duloc dancers. With nearly every fairy tale character you’ve ever known for the kids, enough double entendres for the adults and a fabulous dragon for everyone, this is a joyous production for the whole family. —Bev SykeS shrek: fri 7:30pm, sat 7:30pm, sun 2pm. through 8/26; $12-$25; Woodland opera house, 340 2nd street in Woodland; (530) 666-9617; woodlandoperahouse.org.

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Backwood yucks Main Street Theatre Works, situated in the foothill town of Jackson, transports the audience to a backwoods hunting lodge in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula in the Jeff Daniels comedy Escanaba in da Moonlight. The occasion is the opening day of deer season for the Soady clan—which for them means “Christmas with guns” plus foaming beer cans—and one unlucky member of the family is under pressure to “bag a buck” to establish his manhood. Fri 8pm, Sat 8pm. Through 9/8; $12-$20; Kennedy Mine Amphitheatre, 1127 N Main Street in Jackson; mstw.org.

—Jeff HudSon

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Crazy Rich Asians Just another day in the life of unbelievably affluent Singaporeans.

The title of director Jon M. Chu’s Crazy Rich Asians can be misleading; the movie isn’t about crazy Asians who are rich, it’s about Asians who are “crazy rich,” meaning a billion dollars or so beyond “filthy rich.” That’s the Young family of Singapore, and when scion Nick (BBC-TV host Henry Golding, in his acting debut) invites his Asian-American girlfriend Rachel (Constance Wu) home to meet the family at his best friend’s wedding, the poor woman doesn’t know what she’s in for. Nick hasn’t told her much about his background, and she’s expecting a quiet summer in his humble family home, enjoying the local color and exploring her ancestral roots. Her first hint comes on the plane, when she and Nick are obsequiously ushered into their private suite—not just a room, mind you, but a suite. She asks Nick exactly how rich his people are. “We’re comfortable,” he says. Rachel gets a clearer picture when she meets up with her old college chum Peik (Awkwafina, in a sprightly performance that provides another relatable point for Americans, regardless of ethnicity). The Youngs, Peik tells her, are not only the richest family in this uncommonly rich city-state, but Nick is its most famously eligible bachelor. Rachel and Nick have been dating for a year, and she’s cautiously hopeful that a proposal is in the offing. Now, as she beholds the family’s digs—no humble home, but a palace inspired, one of Nick’s aunts tells her, by Versailles and “Donald Trump’s bathroom”—the truth dawns: She’s not here to “meet” Nick’s relatives, but to be vetted by a 26

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financial royal family. Can she measure up? Can love find a way? She gets her answer to the first question from Nick’s imperious mother (Michelle Yeoh), who tells her, with passive-aggressive kindness that masks a chilling hauteur, that she will “never be enough.” Yeoh gives a performance of breathtaking subtlety in a small role that she makes seem like a lead; it’s the kind of work for which the term “best supporting actress” was invented. The second question—spoiler alert!—involves that messiest of clichés of second-rate rom-coms, an airplane full of applauding strangers. It’s an ending that, one hopes, was invented by screenwriters Peter Chiarelli and Adele Lim rather than coming from Kevin Kwan’s bestselling novel. Such a groan-worthy wrap-up might have sunk the movie, but Crazy Rich Asians’ reservoir of good will is enough to carry us over that late bump in the road. Chu, whose record has been uneven to say the least (Step Up 3D, Jem and the Holograms) rises unexpectedly to the occasion, giving us an eye-filling tour of Singapore’s upper crust while getting strong performances from his large ensemble. Golding, Wu, Awkwafina and Yeoh may be the standouts, but they’re just the surface of a pretty deep well of talent. I can’t resist quoting a favorite line. It comes from Ken Jeong as Peik’s father, who admonishes his brood of children at the dinner table, “Eat your food. There are children starving in America.” Ω

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In the late 1970s, the first AfricanAmerican police detective in Colorado Springs, Colo. (John David Washington) goes undercover to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan, with a white colleague (Adam Driver) stepping in for face-to-face meetings. Detective Ron Stallworth’s memoir is adapted by Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott and director Spike Lee into an alternately harrowing and hilarious melodrama that often cleverly mimics the style of “blaxploitation” movies from the era when it takes place. It’s entertaining and angrily thought-provoking, with Lee at the top of his game—even if he can’t stay off the soapbox and piles on too many endings. The closing scenes, tying the resurgent Klan to the Charlottesville riots and Donald Trump, may be what helped win the picture the Grand Prix at Cannes. J.L.

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After a farewell tea with his pals Winnie-the-Pooh, Eeyore, Piglet et al., young Christopher Robin (Orton O’Brien) grows up to be a dull workaholic schlub (Ewan McGregor) who neglects his family (wife Hayley Atwell, daughter Bronte Carmichael); it takes a visit from Pooh and the gang to set him straight. Earnest acting, brilliant CGI and a few good lines (from Brad Garrett as the voice of Eeyore) can’t conceal that the script (by Alex Ross Perry, Tom McCarthy, Allison Schroeder, Greg Brooker and Mark Steven Johnson, all working separately) is a half-hour’s worth of stale whimsy dragged out to 104 minutes, directed at a plod by Marc Forster and murkily photographed by Matthias Koenigswieser. The result is, essentially, Mary Poppins without Walt Disney, Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, songs or charm. J.L.

The Darkest Minds

After a disease wipes out 90 percent of America’s children, the survivors all have mutant powers that make them a threat to adults; they are to be either sent to concentration camps or killed. If you’ve seen The Hunger Games, Divergent or The Maze Runner, there are no surprises in this low-rent X-Men knockoff (from Alexandra Bracken’s novel), just the usual tale of bravely “special” teenagers bent on saving the world from treacherous adults. Chad Hodge’s script is top-heavy with confusing exposition, and the whole thing is hopelessly derivative, but director Jennifer Yuh Nelson keeps things moving right along, and the cast—led by Amandla Stenberg, Harris Dickinson and Mandy Moore—is OK. Bracken’s book was the first of a trilogy, so the movie’s makers clearly harbor hopes of a franchise. Fat chance. J.L.

Dog Days

A varied group of people living in and around Los Angeles have various adventures with canine companions, eventually coming together at a pet shelter benefit. Directed by Ken Marino and written by Elissa Matsueda and Erica Oyama, the movie is a bit of a shaggy dog itself, wandering hither and yon almost at random. Marino’s direction is haphazard—he has trouble even matching shots—but he gets sincere performances from his large (and largely unfamiliar) cast, with top honors going to Vanessa Hudgens as a coffee-bar barista, Eva Longoria and Rob Corddry as over-eager adoptive parents, and Ron Cephas Jones and Finn Wolfhard as a lonely retired professor and his pizza delivery boy. The movie’s heart is in the right place, and like a good doggie we forgive it if it doesn’t always know what it’s doing. J.L.

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The Meg

Jon Turteltaub wrote and directed his first feature film in 1989 at the age of 25. The movie was called Think Big, and it starred musclebound twins David and Peter Paul (aka the Barbarian Brothers) as toxic waste-toting truck drivers sheltering a runaway teenage genius. Turteltaub followed it a few years later with 3 Ninjas, a family-oriented film about three white kids who are Japanese ninjas, and over the next quarter century, he produced a steady output of exactly that kind of lowbrow, brain cell-killing crud. Three Nicolas Cage collaborations later, we get Turteltaub’s latest forgettable trifle: The Meg, a Crackle-worthy monster shark movie starring the always monotone Jason Statham. Essentially a PG-13 version of Alexandre Aja’s Piranha 3D with fewer jokes and even less of a point, The Meg is a faceless, lifeless, workmanlike, unimaginative, lowest common denominator-courting, movielike substance. In other words, it’s infused with that Turteltaub magic. D.B.

Slender Man

Four teenage pals (Joey King, Julia Goldani Telles, Jaz Sinclair, Annalise Basso, all hoping to be the next Jamie Lee Curtis) start fooling around with the internet meme of the Slender Man, a supernatural entity who supposedly stalks and abducts children—and sure enough, one by one, the girls start vanishing or going crazy. This tawdry, shoddy stinker is a movie of rare and total incompetence, literally unwatchable thanks to some of the worst cinematography in film history—out of focus, murky even in broad daylight, the work of one Luca Del Puppo. Not that there’s anything worth seeing; David Birke’s nonsensical script seems to have been put through a shredder and pasted together at random, and Sylvain White’s direction is as botched as Del Puppo’s camerawork. There’s better film on a pan of cocoa. J.L.

The Spy Who Dumped Me

Teen Titans Go! To the Movies

The title says it all in this intermittently amusing spoof of ordinary-personcaught-in-dangerous-adventure movies. The “me” played by Mila Kunis, Justin Theroux is the spy ex-boyfriend, and Kate McKinnon plays Kunis’ best friend. Like a straight spy flick, the movie globe-hops without ever bothering with airport security, shooting up countries and moving on, leaning on clichés while seeming to poke fun at them. The most amusing joke gets lost in the shuffle: Kunis and McKinnon wear different clothes in every scene, even though they never carry so much as a fanny pack with them. Kunis has a nice flair for comedy, but she gets shoved aside by McKinnon—who, like the movie at large, is obnoxious and funny in a roughly 60-to-40 ratio. Director Susanna Fogel’s control of the action is dicey at best. J.L.

The Teen Titans—Robin the Boy Wonder (voiced by Scott Menville), Beast Boy (Greg Cipes), Cyborg (Khary Payton), Raven (Tara Strong) and Starfire (Hynden Walch)—decide that the way to get respect as superheroes is to star in their own movie. The animation of directors Aaron Horvath and Peter Rida Michail makes The Flintstones look like Fantasia, and the script (by Michael Jelenic and Horvath) has similarities to the far superior Incredibles 2 that may not be coincidental. On the other hand, there are some pretty clever turns along the way, the look is bright and shiny enough to keep toddlers from getting restless, and there are enough self-referential in-jokes to amuse their older siblings and parents. All in all, it’s an enjoyable enough time-killer—even if you can see something just as good on TV for free. J.L.

Rising tide With Sacramento music in the spotlight, can Sparks Across Darkness’ debut album break big? by Mozes zarate

Sacramento’s music scene has had a good year. In May, rapper-singer the Philharmonik scored radio host Sway Calloway’s attention at a South By Southwest rap cypher in Austin, recently getting an interview with the MTV News executive producer on his satellite radio show, Sway in the Morning. That same month, doom-rockers Chrch released its EP Light Will Consume Us All on Neurot Recordings, an indie label run by Neurosis—one of the most influential avante-garde metal bands in the world. In July, Blues-man Michael Ray opened for ZZ Top and George Thorogood. And there’s Hobo Johnson, who went viral with his song “Peach Scone” and performed at Outside Lands last Sunday. Anthony Giovanini says he can feel the recent wave of success around him. It makes the emcee, known onstage as Sparks Across Darkness, excited about the future. And after recently being featured on the cover of Submerge, the Sacramento music and art magazine, Sparks says he’s also anxiety-ridden. His debut album, Obscura, drops Saturday. “People are looking at our scene like, ‘Who’s the next person that’s going to come out of it and do something?’” Giovanini says. Obscura is Giovanini’s “curiosity cabinet,” as he puts it, those windowed furniture pieces that act as a home museum for odd treasures. While one might put family photos and tourist trinkets in it, Giovanini’s curio holds 10 art-rap tunes inspired by his darkest moments. “I’ve been daydreaming about monsters during snow season, for no reason,” he rhymes in the album’s first track “Monsters and Thieves,” his voice a colorful brand of monotone and hyper-articulate,

spat with precision over an eight-bit melody. Sparks raps through a wide soundscape that recalls everything from MF Doom to Radiohead, using orchestral strings, eerily soft synth and clean guitar. That inner darkness first inspired the album four years ago. Giovanini had been unemployed for several months, and then his friend died. Two weeks later, his grandmother, who suffered from dementia, passed away. “She was one of my favorite people, and towards the end of her life, we kind of grew distant because the dementia ran its course and she said a lot of horrible shit about me,” Giovanini says. “That still kind of sits with me and makes me feel bad, because she was one of those people that always picked me up and made me feel good, and then it was like she was doing the opposite.” Obscura remained Sparks’ way to express himself and reflect, and in the music, he hopes listeners can see themselves. “My biggest focus was to make it relatable and accessible, and leave myself a little more open and vulnerable,” he says. But like Giovanini today, the album reaches a happier moment in time by the end. The track “Nice to Meet You,” sings like a boastful rap hit as Sparks picks up on a stranger with playful, addictively positive energy. In “Tada,” Sparks brags with hilarious contradiction, going from, “I’m David Blaine, watch me work magic,” to repeating in the chorus, “I ain’t shit.” “It’s one of those things like ... watch me be cool for a minute, even though I’m going through all this bullshit,” he laughed. And like rising tide that lifts all boats, Sparks features a neighborhood of local talent, including the electronic one-woman band SpaceWalker and heavyweight emcees Chuuwee and Charlie Muscle, Alex Salveson, Tip Vicious and Hobo Johnson. In the song “No Toast,” the two rap about feeling like metaphorical peanut butter without the bread. The featured artists are that tidal wave Giovanini sees himself helping create. “[Sacramento’s] a good breeding ground, and I think the thing that makes it so awesome is how diverse it is,” he says. “There’s Charlie Muscle and there’s Hobo Johnson, and both of those guys are completely different form one another, but they’re both from the same town.” Ω Photo by N&R Staff

Check out sparks across Darkness’ album release show at Momo sacramento saturday, august 18. show starts at 6:30pm. tickets are $10. Petaluma and ode to saturday open.

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mUSIC THURSdaY, 8/16 casEY aBraMs: There will be “special guests”

performing with Abrams, purportedly. 8pm, $18-$20. Harlow’s, 2708 J St.

LucKi: The Chicagoan rapper is bringing his low-key, unconventional style to the stage. 7pm, $17-$50. Holy Diver, 1517 21st St.

Battle of the battles

ticKEt WindoW J. COlE The rapper, music producer and

inimitable talent, J. Cole, is touring his new album, KOD. 9/4, 7:30pm, $64.95-$309, on sale now. Golden 1 Center, ticketmaster. com.

bIll bURR Registered funnyman Burr is a provocateur, which some people really seem to get a kick out of. 9/7, 8pm, $42.95$77.95, on sale now. Thunder Valley Casino in Lincoln, ticketmaster.com.

lYlE lOVETT With His Large Band,

Lovett puts on a real show with some Texan spin. 9/7, 8pm, $17.50-$125, on sale now. Mondavi Center in Davis, tickets. mondaviarts.org.

daVE maTTHEWS band The

band famous for ‘Crash Into Me’ and dumping human waste from a tour bus onto a tourist cruise on the Chicago

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to see if the Element Brass Band can outtrombone MJ’s Brass Boppers? Would you rather discover the king of the blues? Or do you simply prefer to see barbers duke it out on the canvas of the human head? Barber, blues or brass—which battle will win your vote? Brass: 2708 J Street, harlows.com; Blues: 2701 Marina View Drive; Barber: 2600 Watt Avenue.

nEllY Along with Busta Rhymes,

THE EaglES The Slay us, Michelle.

Dude might not like the Eagles—but maybe you do! 9/18,

8pm, $95-$225, on sale now. Golden 1 Center,

Salt N Pepa, Faith Evans and more. It’s a big deal. 9/2, 3pm, $35-$149.50, on sale now. Concord Pavilion in Concord, livenation.com.

mICHEllE WOlF Get the hottest take

a contractual obligation to rock. 9/12, 7:30pm, $82-$364, on sale now. SAP Center in San Jose, ticketmaster.com.

CHIldISH gambInO Even if Gambino

FOO FIgHTERS Dave Grohl’s band has bIllY IdOl See the master of punk-

rock from the 1980s British Invasion. 9/14, 7pm, $44.95, on sale now. Thunder Valley Casino Resort in Lincoln, ticketmaster. com.

WarforgEd: With Apotheon, Enigma, Jack

Ketch and more. 8pm, $10-$50. Blue Lamp, 1400 Alhambra Blvd.

FRIdaY, 8/17 asLEEp at tHE WHEEL: After nearly 50 years of existing, the country band with new and old blood continues to make some Texan swing. 7:30pm, $35-$75. Three Stages at Folsom Lake College, 10 College Parkway in Folsom. roll into town for a night of indispensable music. 7pm, $20. Ace Of Spades, 1417 R St.

LadY antEBELLuM & darius rucKEr: Country, country, country: It’s the week for it. Come see the award-winning group with the award-winning Rucker. 7pm, $34.25$99. Toyota Amphitheatre, 2677 Forty Mile Road in Wheatland.

Mr. p cHiLL: Mike Colossal, J.Smo, Max Bundles and more join the Mr. for an album release. 9pm, $5. Fox & Goose, 1001 R St.

SaTURdaY, 8/18 2nd annuaL BattLE of tHE Brass Bands: See event highlight to the left. 7pm, $12.50$15. Harlow’s, 2708 J St.

cLint BLacK: According to the event description, Black is successful due to his “deep sense of country music history and his humble gratitude in being an important part of it,” so go take in a humble musician’s music. 8pm, $38-$62. Harris Center, 10 College Parkway in Folsom.

These shows require tickets.

River is making music. 9/8, 8pm, $49.50-$115, on sale now. Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, concerts1.livenation.com.

of the acclaimed duo that broke up because someone had a big head, Simon & Garfunkel. 8pm, no cover. Fox & Goose, 1001 R St.

tHE EXpEndaBLEs: The reggae-punk rockers

Harlow’s, 5:30pm saturday, $12.50-$15; miller park, noon saturday, $10-$20; Country Club lanes, noon sunday, $15 It’s a contentious weekend in Sacramento, and we’re upping the ante: There are three separate Music (and Hair) events that pit contestants against each other, and we’re pitting those events against each other. Choose from the Brass Band Battle at Harlow’s, the Blues Band Battle at Miller Park or the Norcal Barber Battle 3 at Country Club Lanes. Are you in the mood

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Take your pick of battles this week at a brass, blues or barber contest.

stEpHEn rudErMan: Playing music in tribute

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on comedy from the highest voice, and hurry. 9/21. 7:30pm, $35, on sale now. Punch Line, concerts1.livenation.com.

just stands on stage and talks to the crowd, it would still be a can’t-miss show. What a talented artist. 9/27, 7:30pm, $110$240, on sale now. Oracle Arena in Oakland, ticketmaster.com.

rJ: The Los Angeles rapper prides himself

on a versatile style. 6:30pm, $20. Momo’s Nightclub, 2708 J St.

sacraMEnto BattLE of tHE BLuEs Bands: See event highlight over in the top left corner of this page, with the picture. 12pm, $10$20. Miller Regional Park, 2701 Marina View Drive.

toM BrossEau: The musical storyteller with the sweetly delicate voice plays with special guest Donald Beaman—what makes Beaman special, you ask? He’s got a mellow vibe. 9pm, $10-$12. Sophia’s Thai Kitchen, 129 E St. in Davis.

SUndaY, 8/19 cLint BLacK: He’s back for a second day—if you missed Black, you’ve still got a chance to listen. 7pm, $38-$62. Harris Center, 10 College Parkway in Folsom.

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tLatZotZonaLoYan indigEnous Music: It’s a jam session. Bring your indigenous instruments and be ready to get Tlatzotzonaloyan. 1:30pm, no cover. Sol Collective, 2574 21st St.

TUESdaY, 8/21 daVid BYrnE: Marketed as a true cultural pilgrimage, this show features Byrne’s newest solo album centered around the America we live in. 8pm, $128$240. Sacramento Community Center Theater, 1301 L St.

puncH BrotHErs: See event highlight on page 31. 7pm, $18.50-$179. Mondavi Center, 1 Shields Ave. in Davis.

WEdnESdaY, 8/22 picnic in tHE parK: Crazy Chester plays ’60s and ’70s rock amidst the Davisonian crowd. Enjoy the music as you partake in the farmers market. 4:30pm, no cover. Central Park, 301 C St. in Davis.

FESTIValS THURSdaY, 8/16 MidtoWn MadE: Sacramento is home to an enormous amount of people who consider themselves creative—come check out the people that are more committed to their creativity than most! There are shops, consumables, music and activities. There will even be a screening of Lady Bird, that movie set in Sacramento. 6pm, no cover. K St. in Midtown, 2326 K St.

FRIdaY, 8/17 WidE opEn WaLLs strEEt partY: See event

highlight on page 29. 6pm, $10. L Street, Between 15th and 16th.

SaTURdaY, 8/18 paKistani indEpEndEncE daY cELEBration: Celebrate the independence of Pakistan after the end of the British Raj—which happened in 1947. With performances by Jawad Ahmad and Malaika Faisal, it’s always a good time to celebrate the end of colonialism. 5pm, no cover. Cesar Chavez Plaza, 910 I St.

SUndaY, 8/19 HoMEstEad: Music, eats, drinks and people selling things. All of these will be happening at this farm-to-fork event. 5pm,

$30. Platinum Living Amphitheater at

Quarry Park, 4000 Rocklin Road in Rocklin.

FOOd & dRInK SaTURdaY, 8/18 art, WinE & food cLassic: Usually the word “classic” indicates there’s some sort of sports competition—unless you consider silent auction a type of sport, there doesn’t appear to be much competition. Instead, expect food, raffles, games and

Friday, 8/17

Wide Open Walls street party L Street, 6pm, $10

In 1994, Michael Jordan temporarily retired from basketball and signed with the Chicago White Sox, Festivals proving that people who are known for one thing can have other interests. In that vein, come see Shepard Fairey’s new mural in Sacramento and listen to his DJ set. It’ll be a blast of a street party, with live music and food, and a muralist who is also a DJ. Saturday, there’s a closing night block party at the LaunchPad on Del Paso Boulevard at 6 p.m., so there are many ways to say bye to the mural fest. L and 15th streets, wow916.com.

music. 5:30pm, $40. Tsakopoulos Library Galleria, 8281 I St.

iCe CReaM saFaRi: There aren’t a lot of allyou-can-eat Brussels sprout events these days. You’ll have to settle for this all-youcan-eat ice cream social fundraiser at the zoo. 5pm, $18-$24. Sacramento Zoo, 3930 W. Land Park Drive.

saCRaMeNtO RiveRFest: It’s a seafood festival absolutely chock full of music and food. The Battle of the Blues Bands featured on page 28 takes place at this fest. There are fishing lessons for kids, frog jumping and a serious wealth of seafood. Noon, $10-$15. Miller Regional Park, 2701 Marina View Drive.

SUNday, 8/19 el DORaDO Hills FaRMeRs MaRKet: Food keeps growing, we keep eating it. Participate in the exchange and consumption cycle by going and buying some. 8am, no cover. El Dorado Hills Town Center, 4364 Town Center Blvd. in El Dorado Hills.

FiLM THUrSday, 8/16 HOWl’s MOviNG Castle: It’s the second Ghibli film to gain the Oscar nomination for best animated feature, and as we all know, it’s an honor just to be nominated. This dreamily beautiful and bizarre film will continue to enchant audiences as long as they watch it. 11am, $10.50. The Tower Theatre, 2508 Land Park Drive.

SUNday, 8/19 tHe MORe tHe MeRRieR: This romantic comedy pokes fun at the housing situation in Washington, D.C. during World War II. Its contemporary relevance likely won’t escape Sacramentans dealing with the housing crisis. Come share a laugh that’s about 75 years old. 12:30pm, no cover. Central Library, 828 I St.

COMEdy HiGHWaY HOUse BaNQUet ROOM: Gavin’s Birthday Comedy Riot. Is someone’s birthday a good reason for a comedy show? It’s about as good as any other reason. Saul Trujillo’s headlining. saturday 8/18, 8pm. through 8/18. $10. 627 S. Highway 49 in Jackson.

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laUGHs UNliMiteD COMeDY ClUB: Keith Nelson. Some people push the comedy scene forward, but not everyone can take that role—some people need to do hyper-typical sets. Keith Nelson takes that position with enthusiasm. Keenan Baker is also performing. through 8/19. $10. 1207 Front St.

PUNCH liNe: Roy Wood Jr. The Daily Show correspondent, funny person and professional social commentator has a lot of stuff going on. through 8/18. $22.50. 2100 Arden Way, Suite 225.

staB! COMeDY tHeateR: Thursday Open Mic. Open up your mind and let the musings of open-mic comedians flow into your senses like a can of Sprite flows into a glass. thursday 8/16, 9pm. $5. Top Hats and Hoodies. Comedy and magic combine as they often do, whether intentionally or otherwise, but this night should be intentionally funny. Friday 8/17, 8pm. $8. Late Night Leftovers Open Microphone. Another openmic? Yes. There will be a number of different kinds of comics. saturday 8/18, 11pm. $5. 1710 Broadway.

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BiG iDea tHeatRe: Bootycandy. Raunchy and intense, this series of scenes follows Sutter, a man who grows up gay and black. It’s a real ride, written by Robert O’Hara and somewhat based on his experiences. through 9/8. $18. 1616 Del Paso Blvd.

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B stReet: We’re Gonna Be Okay. The Cold War bunker two neighbors built takes center stage at this comedy. Check out the review on page 25. through 9/9. $33-$47. 2700 Capitol Ave.

CHaUtaUQUa PlaYHOUse: The Mysterious Affair at Styles. Okay, so Hercule Poirot is a detective, right? Slightly less famous than Sherlock Holmes. Still good though—not a bad detective. Anyway, murder happens, and it’s up to Poirot to figure out who it was done by. through 8/19. $20. 5325 Engle Road, Suite 110 in Carmichael.

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MUsiC CiRCUs at tHe Wells FaRGO PaviliON: Little Shop of Horrors. Broadway at the Music Circus winds down with this classic, featuring music by Alan Menken, a floral shop, a love interest and plants. through 8/26. $45-$99. 1419 H St.

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Swartz’s “painterly style” characterized by abstracted landscapes and a complex approach. Through 9/2. no cover. 254 Old Davis Road in Davis.

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Fe GaLLery: Art Nouveau Exhibit. In French, “art” means “art” and “nouveau” means “new,” so when you put the two together, it means something like “art that is newly made.” Through 9/28. no cover. 1100 65th St.

Sacramento Juneteenth is nearly a year away, but the lead-up to museums it is starting now. Voices of our Elders is a six-part video series focused around members of the African-American community PHoto courteSy oF Gary Simon who were involved in the struggle for civil rights. The first installment of the series is centered around Marteal Perry, who founded the Santa Rosa Juneteenth Festival in 1954. Her family members will be interviewed and her accomplishments and struggles for justice will be explored. 1020 O Street.

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TeaTro esPeJo: Summer One Acts 2018. Take in a story that needs to be told. The oneact festival features compelling stories about love, bigotry, violence and journalism. Through 8/19. $8. 1721 25th St.

PauL miTCHeLL THe sCHooL: Stilettos on the Runway. Fashion—what is it? Is it fashionable to wear cool clothes? Usually, but not always. If you’re between the ages of 12 and 19, come see what these fashionista teens have been working on in the industry. saturday 8/18, 2pm. $15-$20. 2100 Arden Way.

THeaTre in THe HeiGHTs: Don’t Dress for Dinner. Don’t miss it—it’s almost gone, and it’s a high-stakes game of cat and mouse, lovers and significant others. Hilarity is the name of the game, and there should be plenty of situational irony. 8pm. Through 8/17. $15. 8215 Auburn Blvd., Suite G in Citrus Heights.

sierra 2 CenTer: The Gondoliers. The Gilbert and Sullivan opera follows two brothers in Venice. They’re the title gondoliers, and also they’re in contention for the throne. The work was written in the 19th century, back when operas were still performed in black and white. Through 8/26. $15-$20. 2791 24th St.

Green vaLLey THeaTre: The Black Rider. Most things are nowhere near as bizarre as they ought to be; this play does its best to tip the scales in the right direction, mixing a fable plot with a musical. Through 8/25. $18. 1300 N St.

souTHside ParK: Seeing Red. The mimes from the San Francisco Mime Troupe are coming to town to perform a very subtle piece about our current political climate. Imagine a version of The Christmas Carol where Scrooge is a Trump voter. That’s basically the premise for this free show, where Bob goes back in time to learn about socialism in America. If you think the story of a timetraveling voter needs to be told, then by all means, go check this out. sunday 8/19, 5pm. no cover. 2115 6th St.

art Exhibition. This show was conceived nine years ago in response to artists using the Davis Cemetery to paint in. That struck a chord with cemetery staff—the using of a beautiful space so often associated with death for life-affirming purposes. Since its onset, the show ended up turning the cemetery into a monthly gallery. Through 8/30. no cover. 820 Pole Line Road.

HiLTon saCramenTo arden wesT: Hassan Sheheryar Yasin. Come see a presentation by Hassan Sheheryar Yasin of his fashion label. There will be over 50 articles of clothing presented, and compared to the cost of the clothes, the entry fee is totally reasonable. sunday 8/19, 5pm. $75. 2200 Harvard St.

THe BenvenuTi PerForminG arTs CenTer: Kultura. Celebrate Filipino culture and heritage at this dance show featuring the Leyte Kalipayan Dance Company. This show is also a fundraiser for Tacloban City, which was decimated by a typhoon in 2013. Through 8/18. $30-$50. 4600 Blackrock Drive.

THe davis arTs CenTer: The Davis Arts Center Poetry Series. Mary Zeppa and Barbara West will share some of their poetry with the crowd. Zeppa has been actively making poetry in the area for decades, and West’s first book was published last year. sunday 8/19, 2pm. no cover. 1919 F St. in Davis.

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Exhibition. At the crest of a storied career in art, Marak’s solo exhibition will highlight his ceramic work with abandon. Through 9/22. no cover. 521 1st St. in Davis.

PuBLiC Land: Down to Earth. See the second exhibition at Public Land, featuring the art of Maxwell McMaster. The former Sacramentan is coming from Los Angeles for his first solo show. He’s got a bunch of California landscapes, often employing the image of a palm tree. Through 8/16. no cover. 2598 21st St.

muSeumS CaLiFornia museum: Drawing Caleeforneeya. This exhibit explores the work of late Rex Babin, who was Sacramento’s very own editorial cartoonist for over a decade. Current Sacramento Bee cartoonist Jack Ohman curates the exhibit. Through 10/14. $6.50-$9. Passion and Perseverance: A Year at Encina Exhibit. Ever spend a year at a low-income high school documenting the teachers and students? No? Well, you can experience what that’s like anyway at this exhibit produced for Capital Public Radio. Through 9/2. $6.50-$9. Voices of our Elders. See event highlight on to the left. saturday 8/18, 2pm. 1020 O St.

CaLiFornia sTaTe raiLroad museum: Weekend Excursion Train Rides. Today, trains are marketed as a smart way to get from point A to point B. Instead, why not use them as a fun way to blow off steam on the riverfront? Through 9/23. $6-$24. Toy Train Month. What’s more exciting than regular trains? Hardly anything, because trains are pretty neat. Toy trains are also pretty neat, and a special vintage collection of them is on display during Toy Train Month, which August is, apparently. You heard it here first. Through 9/2. $6-$12. 111 I St.

GaLLery 1855: Celebration of Life Group Art

suTTer sTreeT THeaTre: On Golden Pond. Love is the subject of this work. As Ethel and Norman Thayer spend their golden years on Golden Pond, they end up having to interact with a teenager whose father is a dentist. The teenager spends the summer with the pair. Through 8/19. $15-$23. 717 Sutter St. in Folsom.

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Kennedy GaLLery: Oceans Alive. The ocean is exactly as vast as it is breathtaking—come celebrate that majesty at this art show that lauds the beautiful aspect of nature in truly surprising ways. Through 9/8. no cover. 1931 L St.

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ocean in half to be here. Andrea Chung’s work explores the Caribbean islands in an eclectic blend of mediums. Through 9/2. no cover. Breaking Away. See Susan

PowerHouse sCienCe CenTer: After Hours Science. Remember high school science classes? If only you could go back there, even just for one night. Wait! You can, and you can have a drink while you do it at this event that runs you through an engaging refresher course on physics, chemistry and astronomy. Adults only. Thursday 8/16, 6pm. $20. 3615 Auburn Blvd.

saCramenTo HisToriC CiTy CemeTery: Sakura-mento Japanese-Americans in the River City. Japanese immigrants had found a home for themselves in Sacramento by 1910. After World War II, discrimination got worse. Learn about the situations those Sacramentans were faced with. sunday 8/19, 1pm. no cover. 1000 Broadway.

saCramenTo HisTory museum: Old Sacramento Underground Tours. If you haven’t done an underground tour, it’s time. Take to the tunnels and explore the world beneath our feet. The tour guides, the museum explains, are “entertaining and knowledgeable,” so you can rest easy on that front. Through 9/30. $10-$15. 101 I St.

mCKinLey LiBrary: LEGO Mania! Let go of their Eggo Waffles, but feel free to use the library’s collection of LEGO blocks. Build whatever you like in this free event for kids. Friday 8/17, 3:30pm. no cover. Knit and Craft. Take some time crafting with this tight-knit community. Get it? Tightknit. wednesday 8/22, 10am. no Cover. 601 Alhambra Blvd.

saCramenTo visiTors CenTer: Gold Fever! Take a tour of Old Sacramento that lets you see what the city was like during the Gold Rush. You’ll become a historic figure for the duration of the tour, though you can pretend to be that person even after the event has ended, if you like. Through 9/30. $6-$10. 1002 Second St.

BooKS tHurSday, 8/16 a LiTerary HisTory oF THe sierra nevada: Come hear a talk about a book that highlights famous authors talking about writing about the Sierra Nevada. It’s an event that aims to give a context to the area as well as a glimpse at its future. 6pm,

Saturday, 8/18

Gender Bender Ball Pagoda Building, 8Pm, $20-$25

If you haven’t gotten the memo, there’s a whole lot of pressure in this country to conform to gender norms. Trans and nonbinary people have a LGBTQ measurably rough time in a society that prefers to marginalize them. In the face of all that, come out to the 2018 Gender Bender Ball to shake up archaic notions of gender identity. The theme is superheroes and villains, so dress up, be ready to dance, support the community and more. 439 J Street, thegenderhealthcenter.org.

no cover-$10. American River Conservancy, 348 State Highway 49 in Coloma.

Saturday, 8/18 BLaCK women TeLL TaLes wriTinG GrouP: Bring your writing medium of choice and your voice. Put them together at this event where you can support writers and get support yourself. 10am, no cover. Underground Books, 2814 35th St.

SPortS & outdoorS tHurSday, 8/16 BaT TaLK and waLK 2018: Meet the bats that live in your area. As flying mammals go, they’re pretty unique. At this walk, you’ll get to see thousands of Mexican free-tailed bats, and you’ll even learn a thing or two, if you pay attention to the guide. 6pm, $14. Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area Headquarters, 45211 County Road 32B in Davis.

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sunday yoGa: Yoga: the biggest exercise craze since push-ups were invented. Come to this free lesson and participate in the culture that is not only mindful and calming, but trendy as hell, too. 10:30am, no cover. Sactown Union Brewery, 1210 66th St.

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below. 7pm, $20-$25. The Pagoda Building, 429 J St.

Tuesday, 8/21

Punch Brothers Mondavi Center in davis, 7pM, $12.50-$179

A guitarist, a violinist, a bassist, a banjoist and a mandolinist walk into the Mondavi Center Music and start to play. There’s no punchline, only Punch Brothers. The quintet offers a clean and bright acoustic sound for the discerning folk-acousticbluegrass-classical listener. As musicians on the rise PHOTO COuRTesy OF JOsH GOleman with their fingers in a number of pies, including lead singer Chris Thile’s hosting of the radio show Live From Here, it should be a delightful evening of music. 1 Shields Avenue, mondaviarts.org.

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sPEED DATiNG EVENT: When you’re a professional in your 30s or 40s, you don’t have time for just one date a week. You’re a busy person, and your time is valuable, so try out speed dating, where you get to meet a whole bunch of potential partners in rapid succession. It sounds like fun, and can you really put a price on love? Yes, as this event is $30. 7pm, $30. Powerhouse Pub, 614 Sutter St. in Folsom.

saTuRday, 8/18 BARRE FOR BOND: Likely you’ve never had a barre class that made such a difference. The goal of the evening is to raise money for a bond for a local husband and father in ICE custody. There are two classes available an hour apart. Get your sweat on and help a community member in need. 11:30am, $25$40. Elevate Exercise Barre Studio, 1011 8th St. Suite 1011.

sunday, 8/19 VOLuNTEER WORKsHOP suMMER 2018: Do you ache to educate? Wandering through an exhibit, do you long to elucidate? Come learn about volunteering your time as a docent at the California Museum. 1pm, no cover. California Museum, 1020 O St.

THuRsday, 8/16 VEGAN iNDiAN DELiGHTs: Is your vegan home cooking menu a little sparse? Try out this class to learn new uses for chickpeas, cauliflower and a vast range of other vegetables. 6pm, $55. Community Learning Center & Cooking School, 2820 R St.

sunday, 8/19 WiLD BLuE DOGs PAiNT & siP EVENT: Pick up a paintbrush and a glass of wine at Lake Tahoe in support of the Wild Blue Dogs Canine Cancer Nonprofit. The final product is a portrait of your dog in a Lake Tahoe landscape. 11am, $50. Beach Retreat and Lodge, 3411 Lake Tahoe Blvd. in South Lake Tahoe.

Tuesday, 8/21 TANGO scHEMA: You’ve spent time a-tangoing. You love the dance. Now it’s time to take it to the next level and learn about the flow of tango. Think of it as fostering your tango consciousness, as reinforcing the muscle positions of the dance form. 6:15pm, $5. The Firehouse 5, 2014 9th St.

Tuesday, 8/21 TRANs 101: Are you a medical provider who engages with the transgender community? Come to this night of education and discussion aimed at better assisting the historically under-served

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whose only stated ambition is to get high and watch TV. Unfortunately, Melanie hangs out with some bad characters, and she even passes the bong to the man who will eventually be her murderer. sample stony dialogue: “Take your thumb off the carb.”

Captain elias (Willem Dafoe), Platoon

“That rug really tied the room together.”

Oliver Stone’s semi-autobiographical Platoon divided the American troops in Vietnam into boozers and stoners, with the former led by the psychotic Sgt. Barnes (Tom Berenger) and the latter led by the noble Elias. Like Melanie, Elias also gets fragged by his own teammate, but rest assured that he’s “drunk as a monkey and smoking shit” up in heaven. sample stony dialogue: “Feeling good’s good enough.”

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Whether it’s an early sound-era scare film like 1936’s Reefer Madness, Bob Hope joke about “making reefers” in 1942’s Road to Morocco, the reefers forced on Janet Leigh in 1958’s Touch of Evil or the reefer-smoking parents in Milos Forman’s 1971 English-language debut Taking Off, cannabis has a long and storied cinematic history that transcends the typical dopey pot comedy (and I haven’t even mentioned the 1986 horror film Class of Nuke ‘Em High, in which toxic weed turns teen stoners into violent mutants). I enjoy jerk-gene comedies as much as anyone, so it is with sincere apologies to Messrs. Cheech and Chong, as well as Smokey, Kumar, Billy Madison, Jeff Spicoli, Sir Smokea-Lot and the kid who eats all the pot in the opening scene of Super Troopers, that I present this list of my favorite semi-serious cinema stoners.

Jeff lebowski a.k.a the Dude (Jeff Bridges), The Big Lebowski This White Russian-swilling, bowling-obsessed, Creedence Clearwater Revival-loving, original Port Huron Statement-composing amateur shamus is such a no-brainer pick that this should really be called the Jeff Lebowski Memorial List. Jeff Bridges created one of the most indelible portraits of a lifelong pothead in this Coen brothers classic, but he won his Oscar a decade later for Crazy Heart because the Academy Awards are ridiculous and valueless, and we should all stop caring about them forever. sample stony dialogue: “Yeah, well, you know, that’s just like, uh, your opinion, man.”

floyd (Brad Pitt), True Romance Twenty-five years later, and Pitt has still never been better than in his four-scene turn as the stringy-haired, couch-locked pothead roommate Floyd in this adrenaline-fueled crime film directed by Tony Scott and written by Quentin Tarantino. Smoking weed out of a Honey Bear bong and registering just enough of the plot to stonily inform the film’s heroes, Floyd is simultaneously loathsome and loveable. sample stony dialogue: [Spoken to shotgun-wielding hitmen] “You guys wanna smoke a bowl, or …?”

melanie ralston (Bridget Fonda), Jackie Brown Another Tarantino-scripted stoner, this time a wake-and-bake, bikini-clad beach bunny and Helmut Berger appreciator

Paul Thomas Anderson’s shaggy dog detective movie feels like it exists in largely the same milieu as Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye. However, whereas Elliott Gould’s Phillip Marlowe smoked a cigarette in every single scene, Phoenix’s spacey but surprisingly capable private dick Doc Sportello ingests a variety of mind-altering substances, including copious amounts of marijuana. sample stony dialogue: “I’m only a light smoker.”

Danny gopnik (Aaron Wolf), A Serious Man Like any good Jewish boy, F Troop fanboy Danny just wants to get crazy high in the bathroom before his own bar mitzvah. After Danny makes a blurry attempt to read the Torah while baked out of his skull, things get weirder when the elderly Rabbi Marshak privately recites lyrics from a Jefferson Airplane song. sample stony dialogue: “F Troop is still fuzzy.”

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Steve Zissou (Bill Murray), The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou This underwater explorer is an example of a movie stoner archetype that gained traction in the late 1990s and early 2000s—the sad, pathetic, aging stoner. Think Kevin Spacey as Lester Burnham in American Beauty or Michael Douglas as Grady Tripp in Wonder Boys, only this time through the stylized and wistfully depressive lens of Wes Anderson. Zissou gets the edge over the other middle-aged sad sacks due to his apparent love of David Bowie. Sample stony dialogue: “Supposedly Cousteau and his cronies invented the idea of putting walkie-talkies into the helmet. But we made ours with a special rabbit ear on the top so we could pipe in some music.”

carrot,” a 12-spliff super-joint so named because Danny invented it in Camberwell and it’s shaped like a carrot. Sample stony dialogue: “It will tend to make you very high.”

Dylan (Michael Chernus), Mistress America The hairy and pretentious ex-husband of Greta Gerwig’s self-mythologizing Brooke, Dylan is the dictionary definition of a stoner poseur. He spends most of the sublime, screwball comedy midsection of Noah Baumbach’s criminally underrated 2015 film promising and then failing to deliver his guests a batch of freezer weed, but Lola Kirke’s Tracy is later seen smoking the stuff by herself. Sample stony dialogue: “I just learned what case-sensitive meant, like seriously, yesterday.”

Marty (Fran Kranz), The Cabin in the Woods

Diane and Steve Freeling (JoBeth Williams and Craig T. Brad Pitt has still Nelson), Poltergeist never been better An example of than in his four-scene the sort of antiturn as the stringy-haired, drug hysteria that couch-locked pothead infected mainstream Hollywood in the roommate in True 1980s. These hippiesRomance. turned-sellout suburban

fact: Cops will never pull over a man with a huge bong in his car. Why? They fear this man. They know he sees farther than they, and he will bind them with ancient logics.”

Jabba the Hutt (voiced by Larry Ward), Return of the Jedi Alright, it probably wasn’t cannabis that the Tattooine-based crime boss was smoking out of that globe-sized glass pipe—the drug probably has some dumb, on-the-nose, Lucas-ian euphemism—but the squinty eyes, the inappropriate laughter and the excessive drooling provide enough evidence for adults to read between the lines. Sample stony dialogue: “Fohtooh ma Solo kaychahlah.” (I told you this guy was blazed).

board, it’s like an air pocket, sweetheart. When you dive off the board, it’s like freefalling.”

George Hansen, Wyatt and Billy (Jack Nicholson, Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper), Easy Rider The prototypical getting-the-rookie-high scene, as cocaine-dealing bikers Wyatt and Billy share a fireside joint with Nicholson’s “square” ACLU lawyer. Fonda has said that the trio was smoking real marijuana in the scene, rather than the synthetic, nonpsychoactive schwag usually ingested by actors playing potheads. Sample stony dialogue: “Oh yeah, hey, like

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the garden, the dirtier the hands of the gardener,” writes aphorist B. E. Barnes. That’ll be especially applicable to you in the coming weeks. You’ll have extra potential to create and foster beauty, and any beauty you produce will generate practical benefits for you and those you care about. But for best results, you’ll have to expend more effort than maybe you thought you should. It might feel more like work than play—even though it will ultimately enhance your ability to play.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Author and

theologian Thomas Merton thought that the most debilitating human temptation is to settle for too little; to live a comfortable life rather than an interesting one. I wouldn’t say that’s always true about you, Taurus. But I do suspect that in the coming weeks, a tendency to settle for less could be the single most devitalizing temptation you’ll be susceptible to. That’s why I encourage you to resist the appeal to accept a smaller blessing or punier adventure than you deserve. Hold out for the best and brightest.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “I’ve learned quite a

lot, over the years, by avoiding what I was supposed to be learning.” So says the wise and well-educated novelist Margaret Atwood. Judging by your current astrological omens, I think this is an excellent clue for you to contemplate right now. What do you think? Have you been half-avoiding any teaching that you or someone else thinks you’re “supposed” to be learning? If so, I suggest you avoid it even stronger. Avoid it with cheerful rebelliousness. Doing so may lead you to what you really need to learn about next.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Sometimes you make

it difficult for me to reach you. You act like you’re listening but you’re not really listening. You semi-consciously decide that you don’t want to be influenced by anyone except yourself. When you lock me out like that, I become a bit dumb. My advice isn’t as good or helpful. The magic between us languishes. Please don’t do that to me now. And don’t do it to anyone who cares about you. I realize that you may need to protect yourself from people who aren’t sufficiently careful with you. But your true allies have important influences to offer, and I think you’ll be wise to open yourself to them.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Whoever does not visit

Paris regularly will never really be elegant,” wrote French author Honoré de Balzac. I think that’s an exaggeration, but it does trigger a worthwhile meditation. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you’re in a phase of your cycle when you have maximum power to raise your appreciation of elegance, understand how it could beautify your soul and add more of it to your repertoire. So here are your homework meditations: What does elegance mean to you? Why might it be valuable to cultivate elegance, not just to enhance your self-presentation, but also to upgrade your relationship with your deep self? (P.S.: Fashion designer Christian Dior said, “Elegance must be the right combination of distinction, naturalness, care and simplicity.”)

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Many of us imagine

medieval Europe to have been drab and dreary. But historian Jacques Le Goff tells us that the people of that age adored luminous hues: “big jewels inserted into book-bindings, glowing gold objects, brightly painted sculpture, paintings covering the walls of churches and the colored magic of stained glass.” Maybe you’ll be inspired by this revelation, Virgo. I hope so. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you can activate sleeping wisdom and awaken dormant energy by treating your eyes to lots of vivid reds, greens, yellows, blues, browns, oranges, purples, golds, blacks, coppers and pinks.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): An astrologer on Tumblr named Sebastian says this about your sign: “Libras can be boring people when they don’t trust you enough to fully reveal themselves. But they can be just as exciting as any fire sign, just as weird as any Aquarius, just as talkative as a Gemini and just as empathetic as a Pisces.

Really, Librans are some of the most eccentric people you’ll ever meet, but you might not know it unless they trust you enough to take their masks off around you.” Spurred by Sebastian’s analysis, here’s my advice to you: I hope you’ll spend a lot of time with people you trust in the coming weeks, because for the sake of your mental, physical and spiritual health, you’ll need to express your full eccentricity. (Sebastian’s at venuspapi.tumblr.com.)

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): A blogger who calls

herself Wistful Giselle has named the phenomena that makes her “believe in magic.” They include the following: “illuminated dust in the air; the moments when a seedling sprouts; the intelligence gazing back at me from a crow’s eyes; being awaken by the early morning sun; the energy of storms; old buildings overgrown with plants; the everchanging grey, green, blue moods of the sea; the shimmering moon on a cool, clear night.” I invite you to compile your own list, Scorpio. You’re entering a time when you will be the beneficiary of magic in direct proportion to how much you believe in and are alert for magic. Why not go for the maximum?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Since 1969, eight-

foot-two-inch-tall Big Bird has been the star of the kids’ TV show Sesame Street. He’s a yellow bird puppet who can talk, write poetry, dance and roller skate. In the early years of the show, our hero had a good friend who no one else saw or believed in: Mr. Snuffleupagus. After 17 years, there came a happy day when everyone else in the Sesame Street neighborhood realized that Snuffy was indeed real, not just a figment of Big Bird’s imagination. I’m foreseeing a comparable event in your life sometime soon, Sagittarius. You’ll finally be able to share a secret truth or private pleasure or unappreciated asset.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Activist and

author Simone de Beauvoir was one of those Capricorns whose lust for life was both lush and intricate. “I am awfully greedy,” she wrote. “I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish.” Even if your longings are not always as lavish and ravenous as hers, Capricorn, you now have license to explore the mysterious state she described. I dare you to find out how voracious you can be if you grant yourself permission.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): According to my

reading of the astrological omens, the coming weeks will be prime time to vividly express your appreciation for and understanding of the people you care about most. I urge you to show them why you love them. Reveal the depths of your insights about their true beauty. Make it clear how their presence in your life has had a beneficent or healing influence on you. And if you really want to get dramatic, you could take them to an inspiring outdoor spot and sing them a tender song or two.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In her book Yarn:

Remembering the Way Home, Piscean knitter Kyoko Mori writes, “The folklore among knitters is that everything handmade should have at least one mistake so an evil spirit will not become trapped in the maze of perfect stitches.” The idea is that the mistake “is a crack left open to let in the light.” Mori goes on to testify about the evil spirit she wants to be free of. “It’s that little voice in my head that says, ‘I won’t even try this because it doesn’t come naturally to me and I won’t be very good at it.’” I’ve quoted Mori at length, Pisces, because I think her insights are the exact tonic you need right now.

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Tattooing landmarks The war-torn walls of Kabul, Afghanistan articulate a clear message in a harsh tone: The cityscape is shaped by violence. Bullet holes in signs and damaged masonry are familiar scars for Shamsia Hassani. As a street artist and art professor who lives in Kabul, Hassani wants to tattoo those landmarks with new messages— but she faces unique constraints. A woman taking to the streets to detail walls with contemporary art isn’t met with open arms. Many men confront Hassani, often cursing at her, some going so far as trying to stop her. It’s not a low-stress hobby. When she’s not at home, she’s traveling the world for art festivals, fellowships and other opportunities. This month finds her coming to Sacramento to participate in the Wide Open Walls mural festival— for which she’s painting a mural on SN&R headquarters. We talked with Hassani about her unique experience as a street artist and her artistic goals.

Would a piece of your art in Sacramento be similar to one you’d paint in Kabul? It would be different, because in Kabul, the situation is different. Usually in Kabul, I’m scared of going out and [upsetting people], because ... I’m scared of the security, the political issues. Being a woman and working outside is difficult. Usually I hear a lot of bad words from people when I’m working, and sometimes I’m really scared of people. I’m scared they hate me or they’ll do something bad to me because I’m a woman. And usually, Afghan men are not OK with women working outside … usually I’m trying to leave very fast, so most of my artwork is not complete.

How does that affect you as an artist? When a woman is walking—just normally walking—they hear a lot of bad words from people. There is a lot of street harassment. When a woman starts painting in the street, it’s not normal for people, and some of them are coming to stop my work. I accept that people use bad words to me. I can say, “OK,” I can ignore it, but I’m really scared from the bombing and the explosions. That’s the biggest problem, I think.

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Is the art culture redeveloping in Afghanistan? There are some things very good, and there are other things very bad. Both of them are developing together. One of them, which is good, is that people are interested in art, and also a lot of people are trying to study art. … At the same time, the situation is getting very bad, like way to the opposite side of these things.

Is it like things are starting fresh? I was born in Iran in an Afghan family, and when we got back to Afghanistan, I heard from people that [during the Taliban’s reign], people were not allowed to make art—they could make Islamic art or landscapes [but] not any portrait or figure drawing. After Taliban was gone, artists could start working again. It was like a renaissance for artists.

Why do you make art? Not for money, not for anything that people give me, not for credit; I just wanted to paint something for people, just for their mind. When I started doing graffiti in 2010, it was a very big change in my life. It’s very difficult for people to go to galleries and exhibitions. It was a good way to introduce art to people when I paint in the street. … At the time, I saw that there were a lot of memories of war on walls. I saw the bullet signs. So I wanted

to paint over those walls [to] cover the bad memories of war from walls. So instead of seeing the bullet sign, they see something else.

Have you ever faced danger as a result of your art? Yeah. I try to be ready to go [when I’m painting]. I was close to a few explosions … I’m always very careful. That’s why I don’t have a lot of art in Kabul. It’s a very risky and dangerous process for me, as a woman, to make art.

When you paint in other countries, what is your message? When I’m traveling, I have two goals. One of them is to introduce the idea of Afghanistan to people, because people from other countries, they have a bad image of Afghanistan in their minds. … We have a lot of war, a lot of political issues. Everyone knows about that. So I wanted to introduce something new, a positive side of my country. Usually I want to show an Afghan woman [in a way] that is different from what people have in their mind: a woman [who] is powerful, a woman [who] is trying to fight [her] problems with [her] voice, with [her] power, [who is] trying to stay strong. Ω Shamsia hassani will paint a mural this week on the west wall of the SN&R office. 1124 Del Paso Boulevard.

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