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Identity. Politics.

I’m a recipient of birthright citizenship.

My father was born in Iran, one of the countries that survived Trump’s Muslim ban 2.0.

My mother’s family fled Russia following the war, and narrowly avoided the returning soldiers who burned down her grandparents’ village and everyone in it. My mom was a refugee for a spell, though I don’t remember her ever using the term.

America was generous to them and, by extension, to me. The people I grew up around, the kids at school, my teachers, no one batted an eye at my mutt heritage. Sure, there were garbled pronunciations. Sure, attending high school was like attending a four-year roast with a thousand Don Rickles; but I also learned from the Jesuit priests that faith is not a secret you carry in your heart. It’s an act you bestow upon the most vulnerable. If you don’t, if you choose to hoard your cosmic luck and turn your back on those in need, well, God have mercy on the frauds who bask in his name.

I didn’t share their faith, but I respected their philosophy. And I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately. Being alive in the 21st century will do that to you.

I’m writing this on Election Day. By the time you read this, we may or may not know how these midterms have shaken out. Whether they proved to be that clichéd referendum on the president’s hard-line agenda, an endorsement of his vindictive white-man tribalism or a defeated, lazy shrug at a ginned-up game most Americans don’t want to play.

It’s understandable, not voting. But it’s no longer excusable—if it ever was.

I am the son of immigrants and refugees.

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An agenda to silence Re: “Black trans lives matter” by Raheem F. Hosseini (Feature, November 1): I’ve had the pleasure of getting to know Ebony [Harper] a little bit and she is the sweetest, kindest woman I have ever met. Reading this article was upsetting and alarming because Ebony did not deserve to be brutalized by the police and arrested on bogus charges. The actions being taken against her are an agenda to silence the voices that do speak up for the disenfranchised and marginalized souls here in Sacramento. My hope is that Miss Ebony shakes the hell out of this broken system and forces out the demons who choose to ignore people’s civil and constitutional rights. sunchalla Jenkins s acr a m e nt o v i a F ac e b o o k

Make RT more reliable, not cheaper Re: “Lessons from Brooklyn to Sacramento with love” by Jeff vonKaenel (Greenlight, November 1): If [Regional Transit] is actually interested in learning how to run an actual transit system, here’s some more advice from a former New Yorker: Low fares are important, but frequency of service is more important.

People drive here because RT bus service is too infrequent; employers want people with “reliable” transportation, which should not be code for “must have car.” More frequent service allows all people, including persons who can’t drive due to age or disability, to get to places in a timely manner, rather than effectively being a second-class citizen. Not having to wait a half hour or more for a bus to start one’s journey is more important to the average rider than saving

a quarter. I’d rather RT keep the fare where it is and use that money to have bus service that’s more than twice an hour—for all lines. That money could also go a long way toward increasing signage and wayfinding, so more people would know how and where to use transit. Sacramento is geographically small enough that the infrequency of service is really a slap in the face to riders—low-income riders can’t rely on Uber and Lyft constantly for fast, reliable transit. RT should open its books and explain why service can’t be more reliable and frequent.

The saying is, “If you build it, they will come.” If transit is effectively invisible due to infrequency of service, we can’t wonder why people aren’t riding. If service is more reliable and frequent, people would use it more.

Alternative news, alternative uses Re: “Redefining ‘going postal’”

by Raheem F. Hosseini (Beats, November 1): Many thanks to our postal workers. They were the ones most in danger, but they not only kept working, but also protected others. tina bennett s a c r a me nto v ia Fa c e b o o k

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The lawsuits are all separate, but have been constructed by the same attorney using much of the same evidence. And together they make a case for a massive corporate conspiracy.

Corporate cartel logic Inside the Sacramento region lawsuits that blame pharmaceutical companies for sparking the opioid epidemic

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For Chris, it started with a trip to a Sacramento emergency room in 2010.

Presenting with extreme abdominal pain, he was given the opioid Dilaudid every four hours. Then the doctors sent him home with a bottle of OxyContin.

Chris—not his real name—said he got zero advice about possible side effects or symptoms of withdrawal.

Two years later, Chris was slumped in the darkened cab of a car, his arm tied off for a needle, his face turning blue, his heart barely pumping.

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Department of Public Health, 91 people in the Sacramento region fatally overdosed on opioids last year. The National Institute on Drug Abuse estimates that the bridge from legal prescription to hardcore dependency kills 90 Americans every day.

In Chris’ view, those numbers don’t tell the whole story. They don’t show how a patient who’s legitimately given opioids will devolve into an addict with crawling skin, who steals from loved ones to stave off the sickness, and embarks on a double life of owing money to multiple drug dealers or facing a gun in a parking lot.

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“I was super depressed and suicidal,” Chris remembered. “I didn’t really know a way out.”

Chris is aware that Sacramento is one of 31 California counties now suing some of the largest pharmaceutical producers in the nation on charges that they violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, better known as the RICO Act—and better known for being used to go after organized crime.

While Chris isn’t part of those actions, he’s paying attention to what happens next. He wants to know if anyone can really reign in Big Pharma.

The consortium of counties is being represented by San Diego attorney John Fiske, who’s arguing that five of the world’s largest pharmaceutical manufacturers launched a coordinated plan to normalize opioid use while intentionally downplaying the known dangers.

Using everything from letters sent between regulators to affidavits from the Justice Department, Fiske claims he can outline exactly how Big Pharma’s conspiracy worked: By spending millions of dollars on planting misleading articles in scientific journals; by hiring compromised doctors to take part in sham speakers’ bureaus; by creating elaborate fronts that masqueraded as patient advocacy crusaders; and by finding various schemes to pay the majority of doctors serving on the board that wrote widely used guidelines for opioid prescriptions.

The latest county to hire Fiske to file suit in the U.S. Eastern District of California was Amador. A land of old western towns and sprawling ranches, it may not conjure images of opioid and heroin addiction, but leaders there say they’ve been overwhelmed by the unfolding crisis.

State health records indicate that at least 30 people died of opioid overdose between 2014 and 2017. Similarly, Amador’s lone emergency room dealt with overdoses at a rate of 44 per 100,000 residents last year, the third highest rate in the state. County health records indicate that, in 2016, Amador’s opioid prescription rate was 112.3 scripts per hundred people. In other words, more than one opioid script for every resident.

“It impacts public health, the emergency room, behavioral health, social services, probation, child protective services, law enforcement,” said Dr. Rita Kerr, head of Amador’s public health department. “All areas of county services are touching the problem in one way or the other.”

Similar to other suits filed by Fiske, Amador County’s 300-page complaint alleges that Big Pharma conspired to maximize profits off one of the greatest death epidemics in modern American history.

The story, according to the suit, started in the early 1990s, when opioids were mainly prescribed to cancer patients

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airbN-peeved and people recovering from major surgery. Citing the work of investigative reporters, memos from the U.S. Surgeon General and documents from the Food & Drug Administration, Fiske charges that some of the largest pharmaceutical companies began a coordinated “marketing enterprise” to normalize opioids as a standard treatment for chronic pain.

Among the biggest players in this sales push were Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin; Janssen Pharmaceutical, the maker of Duragesic, generically called fentanyl; Endo Pharmaceutical, the maker of Opana; Insys Therepeutics, the maker of Subsys; and Cephalon Inc., the maker of Fentora.

The companies began spending millions on advertisements in medical journals, which, according to the suit, shared a misleading “core message” about the safety and proven effectiveness of using opioids for pain management. By the mid-2000s, the Justice Department learned that some of the companies were hiding internal data that showed just how dangerous opioids were.

In 2007, three of Purdue’s top executives pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of criminally “misbranding” products, as well as misleading regulators about the risks of opioids. That same year, Purdue agreed to pay more than $600 million to various states that were suing it for reckless advertisement.

Fiske is prepared to argue that the publicity did nothing to change the companies marketing playbook. Fiske plans to present evidence that defendants spent a combined $168 million on questionable journal advertising, spurious brochures and biased websites as recently as 2014. He says evidence will also prove they deployed scores of sales representatives to make personal visits to doctors and medical staffs in the same time frame.

While the level of direct marketing that continued after Purdue’s criminal trials may have surprised some jurisdictions, the lawsuits from California counties allege there were even more elaborate financial transactions going on. Fiske is on course to be the first in the state to make that case in court. the terms “unbranded marketing” and “key option leaders” sound benign.

According to testimony from a former Insys employee, they were euphemisms for a thinly veiled payoff campaign.

In 2012, Insys whistleblower Ray Furchak claimed the company’s speakers

program—ostensibly a way for doctors who drafted the AAPM/APS guidelines to educate fellow health professionals for prescribing opioids. at conferences—was actually a ruse to The pharmaceutical companies’ joint secretly reward physicians for prescribparticipation in funding these societing large amounts of the opioid Subsys. ies is a lynchpin in Fiske’s theory of The Justice Department looked into the racketeering and conspiracy. So too is program and investigators for the state the “core message” they all adhered to in of Illinois began their own probe around their various marketing initiatives. The 2015. counties’ suit claims such actions amount “The speaker events took place at to Cephalon, Endo, Janssen, Insys and upscale restaurants in the Chicago area, Purdue all being part of an “associationand Illinois speakers received an in-fact enterprise.” According ‘honorarium’ ranging from to Fiske, personal relation$700 to $5,100, and ships, industry forums they were allowed and joint lobbying to order as much groups all played food and alcohol into it. as they wanted,” “Purdue Fiske wrote of believes the accuthe investigasations against tive findings the company that resulted. are without “At most of merit and we “Chris” the events, the look forward to recovering opioid addict ‘speaker’ being the opportunity paid by Insys did to present our not speak, and, on substantial defense,” many occasions, the Bob Josephson, Purdue’s only attendees at the events executive director of commuwere the speaker and an Insys sales nications, told SN&R this week. representative.”

Janssen has called the counties’ allegaInsys’ owner is currently being charged tions “baseless and unsubstantiated” in a with a number of felonies in federal court, statement. INSYS declined to comment, and some of the prescribers working for citing concerns over pending litigation. his speakers program have since been sent Cephalon and Endo did not respond to to prison. Meanwhile, the company made requests for comment. more than $330 million off marketing Last week, Sacramento County Subsys in the last four years.

Counsel Robyn Truitt said the purpose of Insys was allegedly not an outlier the lawsuit is to recover taxpayer dollars in its use of unbranded marketing. The spent on combating opioid addiction and counties’ lawsuit claims that by funding “prevent the proliferation of the crisis.” special “professional societies,” the Greg Gillott, an Amador County pharmaceutical companies were able to attorney, and Kerr said their foothill advertise opioids in the medical commujurisdiction’s motivations are the same, nity—and lobby politicians on drug though they cite a more immediate need. policy—in ways that completely dodged After next year, funding runs out for the the FDA’s reviewing process. They opioid overdose reverse kits public safety reportedly did this by financially backing officers carry. County officials are hoping “front groups” like the American Pain a settlement with the pharmaceutical Foundation, American Academy of Pain companies could keep the program going.

Medicine and the American Geriatrics For Chris, who nearly lost his life to Society. The suit alleges Cephalon, Endo, an opioid addiction that started within Janssen and Purdue all spent millions the medical profession that Big Pharma funding these pro-opioid use organizaallegedly manipulated, the lawsuits that tions, which were publicly claiming to be Sacramento, Amador and other counties independent patient advocacy groups. are pressing are important.

According to whistleblowers who “I think they were really trying to push quit AAPM/APS, the same Big Pharma sales—they were pushing their product,” operators were also channeling research Chris said of the pharmaceutical compafunding, consulting fees and honorarias nies. “They were saying, ‘This is better, to many of the doctors involved in those this is safer, this is less addictive.’ … I groups, including 14 of the 21 experts think they should be held accountable.” Ω

“I think they were really trying to push sales—they were pushing their product.”

Some Airbnb hosts cried foul at a hearing on Sacramento new tourism infrastructure district last month. Local hotel owners and one city councilman essentially offered them the world’s smallest violin.

The plan to create a 218 square-mile business district was spearheaded by Visit Sacramento and the Sacramento Hotel Association. Its purpose is to finance the addition of an extravagant ballroom on the second floor the Sacramento Convention Center during the first phase of renovations. The groups believe this will bring new and larger conventions to the city. All hotels operating within the boundaries of the district will see a 1 percent increase in the transient occupancy tax they are charging. And so will all Airbnb and VRBO outfits in the same space.

Airbnb hosts appeared at the October 23 hearing to tell the council that mandate will hurt their business.

Last year, finance officials estimated that 85 percent of local Airbnb operators hadn’t obtained the required permits. The city has since hired an internet firm to track those operators down.

Councilman Steve Hansen, whose district encompasses the convention center, was decidedly unmoved by the airbnb lobby.

“I would say that the VRBO- and Airbnb-sharing hosts got the benefit of not paying taxes for a long time, their guests were not included until very recently, and that was an unfair advantage,” Hansen said during the hearing. “We have a lot of Airbnb hosts in my district who have impacts on the neighborhood, and my particular neighbors don’t feel a lot of sympathy if the hosts have people who are paying 1 percent more.” (Scott Thomas Anderson)

displaceMeNt theory Memories of a critical 2017 California State Auditor’s report on the UC president’s office were still fresh for AFSCME Local 3299 members during a recent three-day strike over the university system’s medical institutions.

The AFSCME Local 3299, which represents over 24,000 UC employees, held demonstrations October 23-25 throughout California, including at the UC Davis campus and Sacramento’s medical center. The strike followed stalled contract talks and allegations by the union that the UC system was flattening wages and outsourcing jobs. Outsourcing was a focal point of the 2017 auditor’s report, detailing how the UC system had used service contracts to cut jobs and labor costs, despite clashes with service contract policies.

The report noted that a five-year, $30 million information technology contract in 2016 by UC San Francisco displaced 49 career and 12 contract employees. Meanwhile, a 2015 housekeeping contract for $5.2 million over 18 months by UC Davis Medical Center displaced 12 employees. The auditor noted that “low-wage services contract workers received hourly wages that were on average $3.86 lower than the wages received by comparable university employees,” as well as generally lower benefits.

The recent strike reportedly ended without a change in the workers’ contract. Union leadership didn’t respond to a request for comment.

UC spokeswoman Claire Doan disputed that service contracts displaced employees and said the number of UC union workers had risen 9.9 percent over the past five years. Doan said the union was seeking an 8 percent raise per-year over four years, which was untenable “for a taxpayer-supported institution.”

“The union wants more money—more than any other group at the university,” Doan said. “This is why they are striking, plain and simple.” (Graham Womack)

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A memorial for late homeless guests was on display at Maryhouse, a daytime hospitality shelter for homeless women and children.

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Days of the dead Taking their cues from Mexican tradition, Sacramento’s homeless community remembers the scores they’ve lost

by Kate Gonzales

There were five memorial services held at the end of North C Street this October for people who died while experiencing homelessness in Sacramento County. Normally, there are one or two a month. Hannah Ozanian, standing in Friendship Park on the first day of November, says there will be another service tomorrow.

“We’re trying our hardest to make this a true celebration,” she says. “We have over 700 names to read.”

That’s approximately how many homeless Loaves & Fishes guests died since 2001. Borrowing from the Mexican tradition of Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, people come together to read the list of names. Every year the list is longer. This year’s memorials began a couple months after the 2018 Sacramento County Homeless Deaths Report detailed a sharp rise in such deaths last year.

Pedro “Tony” Torres. Clara Rene Swan. Sheila Green.

In Mexico, the Day of the Dead celebration lasts from October 31 to November 2, when the living create

altars with food, drinks, photos and other earthly offerings for their dead loved ones. It’s celebrated in homes and cemeteries. Here, two dozen people took turns reading names in front of a quaint altar of marigolds, flower crowns and programs. This ceremony is in Friendship Park, a place of respite for the city’s homeless population and a program of Loaves & Fishes, which offers services to those experiencing homelessness. Fountains that contain many of the names being read flank the gathering, an encircling some join while others watch from surrounding tables.

Joe King. Ignacio Rosa. Norman Allen.

Ozanian, the director of Friendship Park, rings a bell in between each reading of names. A muffled chant of “presente, presente, presente” follows.

It takes under an hour to read all 715 names, all but two of whom experienced homelessness: The late Loaves & Fishes founder Dan Delaney and board member Bob Pinkerton were also honored.

In its annual report, the Sacramento Regional Coalition to End Homelessness reported 127 deaths in 2017—a 75 percent jump from the 71 deaths reported the previous year. The nonprofit uses data from the coroner’s office to tabulate the annual count. Last December, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s annual Homeless Assessment Report estimated that a quarter of those who were homeless live in California.

Larry J. Rogers. John Sykes.

Raymond Porter.

The list includes many men, who made up 79.3 percent of the deaths in 2017. But the percentage of women who died while homeless grew, from 16 to 18 percent from 2016 to 2017. Emily Judd Bevington was one of those women; it’s her memorial that will be held the next day at Maryhouse.

About a dozen people gathered at Loha’s Garden in the backyard at Maryhouse, a day shelter for women and children that falls under the Loaves & Fishes

umbrella. A standing bouquet of flowers was wrapped in a green ribbon, Emily’s name written in gold lettering.

“She took showers here, ate breakfast, got her mail here as many of you do,” said Shannon Dominguez-Stevens, Maryhouse director. “This campus was Emily’s landing pad.”

She welcomed others to speak about Emily, a 54-year-old mother of two grown daughters. A couple friends came up, remarking on her funky dyed hair and big smile. The last to speak was her husband, David Bevington.

“It’s like getting the breath knocked out of you, losing someone you love,” he said.

Bevington likes to tell people they spent “33 and a half months together.”

Twenty-four of those, they were homeless.

They met about three years ago, as she was rolling up her sleeping bag in front of a gym and he was looking for his job site where he cleaned windows.

Bevington has early-onset Alzheimer’s, and Emily joined his business and acted as his caretaker. They washed windows for a dollar a minute and wrote and performed country songs at open-mic nights while based out of a tent along the American River.

They were married in June.

Bevington, a veteran of the U.S. Air Force and Coast Guard, said they were on the brink of getting caregiver benefits for Emily.

“We had just almost gotten everything together,” he said, wearing her wedding ring on his pinky.

After the service, Stevens encouraged the group to take a flower from Emily’s bouquet, either to hold onto or to place somewhere on the Loaves & Fishes campus in her memory. Bregetta Borden took a flower and sat back down. She met Emily about five years ago at the Salvation Army shelter, and had stood up to speak during the ceremony. She said Emily was easy to open up to.

“It was nice to know you can talk to somebody that you can trust out here,” Borden said. “Homeless people are people too and had lives before they became homeless. … There are people who want to remember and love them.” Ω

trinity episcopal Cathedral (2620 Capitol ave.) will host the Fifth annual Interfaith homeless Memorial service at 7 p.m. Friday, December 21.

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Rio Linda-Elverta residents and the city of Sacramento and significantly increase the odds Sacramento are at odds over who will provide of the pan being removed from the park district’s parks and recreation services—and receive tax jurisdiction as well, said Sacramento County revenue for it—in the city’s planned 600-acre Supervisor Sue Frost. Currently, 40 percent of the development in northern Sacramento County. park district’s revenue comes from property taxes Known as the panhandle, nearly 1,400 acres in the panhandle, mostly from the light-industrial of land east of North Natomas and west of Rio pan portion.

Linda are currently serviced by the Rio LindaThe city’s proposed panhandle tax plan offers Elverta Recreation and Park District. The city $12,500 over five years, sunsetting after the fifth of Sacramento is demanding to be the service year. Moore said that pales in comparison to the provider for the undeveloped “handle” portion, property tax revenue the area would enjoy once which it’s targeted for residential development. the city develops the land, bringing new residents Rio Linda-Elverta residents are calling the city’s and boosting property values. bid a money grab.

Parks and recreation administrator Mike “We feel like we deserve that revenue,” said Heller feels his district is getting pushed around Rio Linda-Elverta Recreation and Park District by the city. board member Charlea Moore. “There’s no “I’m not going to say they’re the bully, reason for them to detach us. If they but they’re definitely the bigger kid detach us, we lose that revenue.” on the playground,” Heller said.

As a full-service city, “Our board isn’t satisfied. Their Sacramento says it’s offer doesn’t even cover the responsible for providing legal fees that are going into police, fire, parks and this.” other municipal services Ultimately, Heller within its boundaries. In a contended, his district joint statement, the city’s can better manage future Charlea Moore departments of Community park development in the board member, Rio Linda-Elverta Development and Youth, panhandle.

Recreation and Park District Parks and Community “We know we can do a Enrichment claimed responbetter job as far as park and sibility for the area, which is in recreation services than the city the process of being annexed by can,” Heller said. “We don’t close the city. parks when there’s an economic down“Providing park services is standard practice turn. We didn’t have layoffs or stop programs in for the City of Sacramento and no different than 2008.” the park services provided in other part[s] of the Frost, whose district includes the contested City,” the statement read. area, said she agreed.

The reality is a little murkier. The Fulton-El “I believe the future of the residents in the Camino Recreation and Park District overlaps community would be best served if RLERPD with the city, but doesn’t currently contain any was their park district,” said Frost, who noted that city-owned parks. Capital Park is located within she received over 700 letters in opposition to the the city, but is owned and operated by the state. removal of the panhandle from Rio Linda-Elverta’s Rio Linda’s incorporation prospects would jurisdiction at a supervisors meeting on October 16. take a hit without the additional revenue. Several “They’ve had these same district lines over time, times in its history, the rural town has attempted decades. To lose a portion of their district when to incorporate and fell short due to financial they’ve done a good job doesn’t seem fair.” limitations, said longtime resident Mike Todd.

County supervisors delayed voting on the Of even greater concern for Rio Linda-Elverta panhandle annexation proposal until January, residents is the potential loss of the “pan” portion sending both parties back to the negotiation table. of the panhandle, an area north of Interstate 80 If supervisors approve it, the proposal will head and south of Del Paso Boulevard. Annexation to the Sacramento Local Agency Formation would create an urban island within the city of Commission for a final decision. Ω

“We feel like we deserve that revenue.”

Looking for a miracle by jeff vonkaenel

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I attended a California Association of tallied.) If these propositions pass, there Local Housing Finance Agencies sympowill be between $250 million and $1 sium last week, where state officials billion dollars per quarter made available learned about proposed new housing for affordable housing for veterans, legislation and innovative building low-income residents, farmworkers, the solutions that could be used to address mentally ill and more. Propositions 1 the housing crisis, such as tiny homes, and 2 will not come close to solving our and possible financing approaches to the housing problems, but they will help. housing crisis. I kept thinking about how At the conference, I gained so first responders run into a building on much appreciation for the work done fire while everyone else is running away. by the Housing Authority staff and all Clearly housing data, legislative the people who are working so hard to changes in proposed budgets, conflicts make affordable housing available in between regulations and the upcoming California. But just as a city fire departtimetables for implementation of housing ment that can successfully put out several policies are not as dangerous as burning fires a night cannot deal with a firestorm buildings or as life-threatening where hundreds of houses are as a gunfight. But I do burning, the Housing believe that only a very Authorities cannot deal dedicated public servant with this problem on We need to is willing to dive into their own. They are build another this mind-numbing, the first responders, complicated and meant to take care of 1.8 million homes by often contradictory emergencies. They 2025 to deal with our material. cannot take on the expected population The need for responsibility of being housing, and especially the main housing growth. affordable housing, is provider. Political soluoverwhelming. California tions are needed. needs well over a million There is a well-known housing units. According to the biblical story of the miracle the five state, we need to build about 180,000 loaves and two fish. Five barley loaves new housing units a year, but we have and two small fish were blessed by Jesus, only been building about 80,000 over the and then were able to feed a multitude. last 10 years. We need to build another Right now, the Housing Authorities 1.8 million homes by 2025 to deal with have five loaves and two fish. And our expected population growth. This we have a multitude of people waiting shortage of housing has driven up the desperately for housing. What we need cost of housing, way above what the is a political miracle, or miracles, for average Californian can afford. example: The passage of Props 1 and In the room at the Holiday Inn, state 2, a reform of Prop. 13, less income officials calmly and matter-of-factly inequality, innovative ways to build less talked about how we need to create expensive housing, city codes allowing billions of dollars of needed housing. smaller homes and more.

These housing units will make such Without political solutions, we a difference to many people’s lives. will continue to have dedicated public California Department of Housing servants doing their best to divide up and Community Development five loaves and two fish to house the Deputy Director Lisa Bates presented multitudes. Ω the proposed timetables for the quarterly allocation of housing funds if Propositions 1 and 2 pass on the Jeff vonKaenel is the president, CEO and majority November 6 ballot (Note: This column owner of the News & Review. went to print before voting results were

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by Edgar SanchEz Now that the November 6 election is history, the barrage of political mailers that overwhelmed voters also is over.

But the U.S. Postal Service is still delivering a new type of message to some Sacramento parents: Picture postcards mailed not from a distant tourist spot, but from local schools campaigning to end chronic absenteeism.

Depicting images of boys and girls thriving in class, with “Be Here” printed in a corner, the cards notify parents that their children have missed too many school days.

“It’s important we work together to help (student’s name) be successful,” the cards say on the back.

The postcards are from the Sacramento City Unified School District, which in 2016-17 had a chronic absence rate of 15.1 percent — or 4.3 percent higher than the state average.

Chronic absenteeism means missing 10 percent or more of school days.

This is not a new problem for the 47,900-student district.

Now, it is employing new ways to increase attendance, as part of Superintendent Jorge Aguilar’s endeavor to provide immediate help when a student lags academically.

The “Be Here” campaign, supported by The California Endowment, was launched this fall. It was made possible by a $1.6 million Safe Neighborhoods and Schools grant from Proposition 47, approved by voters in 2014.

The grant allowed the district to hire two attendance employees, including former

social worker Jennifer Kretschman, who leads the “Be Here” initiative.

In an interview, Kretschman described a tragedy: Even the district’s kindergarteners suffer chronic absenteeism. In 2016-17, 22 percent of the 4,363 kindergartners missed 10 percent or more of school days.

“The biggesT Thing is To Tell children, direcTly ... ThaT aTTendance is imporTanT.” cecelia colchico youth Media Team member working on be here campaign

Such kindergarteners will probably not read at grade level by third grade, and will be four times more likely not to graduate from high school, she said.

The districtwide attendance improvement program is especially focused on 28 highabsenteeism schools, seven of them high schools. Most of the schools are in south Sacramento.

West Campus Senior Cecelia Colchico is part of Sac City Unified’s Youth Media Team. She holds an anti-absenteeism poster she helped design for display at local schools, buses and elsewhere. Photo by Edgar Sanchez

There is often an association between poverty and absenteeism. If a family lacks bus fare, the district offers reduced-rate bus passes.

The “Be Here” postcards were designed by the district’s Youth Media Team. In collaboration with a marketing agency, the seven-member team also crafted proattendance radio and movie theater ads, billboard messages and posters for display on local buses/trains and at schools.

“The biggest thing is to tell children, directly ... that attendance is important,” said team member Cecelia Colchico, a West Campus High senior. “Visiting with elementary school kids is something we’ll continue to do.”

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Organizers behind the State of Jefferson count 23 Northern California counties as part of their movement to secede from California.

Can the growing Jefferson separatist movement

A California split off into a new,

51 state? st

By Stephen Magagnini

divided A

lmost anywhere you drive through Northern California, you’ll see green and gold signs, flags and banners heralding the arrival of the State of Jefferson, a separatist movement that nearly succeeded in 1941 and, more recently, has grown like a grass fire in the era of Trump.

The signs feature “The Great Seal of the State of Jefferson,” a gold pan emblazoned with two X’s—Jeffersonians have long believed they’ve been double-crossed by big city politicians in Sacramento who take their money but ignore their concerns.

Over the last two years, the signs have popped up on billboards, front yards, and haystacks, sometimes next to Confederate flags and anti-immigrant slogans.

They can also be seen at county fairs and frequent rallies featuring supporters, some in camouflage fatigues, outside the Federal Building in Sacramento, where the secessionists have taken their fight all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

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and noted that the more federal judges Trump appoints in California, especially to the decidedly liberal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, the better Jefferson’s chances.

Critics across California and the nation have called Jefferson a hare-brained scheme, a disaster in the making.

But Baird and others argue that Jefferson’s time is now.

“Our window of opportunity is here,” he said.

Jeffersonians argue that since Southern California has 111 elected state reps (74 assembly members and 37 senators) and Northern California above the San Francisco Bay Area, only nine (six in the assembly, three in the Senate), the courts have “a legal, moral and constitutional” obligation to fix this imbalance by adding more state legislators, especially in far“California flung rural counties. has beCome a “Taxation without representation,” the totalitarian rallying cry of the American Revolution, now resonates with tens of thousands of nightmare” Jeffersonians in 23 counties from Stanislaus The Jeffersonian movement has recently to the Oregon border—nearly all of which re-ignited and spread across California. voted for Trump. The “double cross” dates Now, supporters as far south as San back to 1941 when residents of five counties, Bernardino want in, even though it’s not sick of paying taxes and not getting needed practical to admit counties that aren’t roads in return, joined forces with rural contiguous, Baird said. But he understands Northern Californians to secede and then why impoverished rural Californians formed their own border patrol. statewide want to join.

Today, they reflect a growing senti“California has become a totalitarian ment that California should be carved nightmare of social engineering, and into anywhere from two to six states in people are bailing out, we’ve lost 9,000 order to adequately govern its 40 million businesses and nearly a million productive people and their conflicting political views people,” Baird said. on a broad range of issues, including Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence immigration, gun control, water rights and opens with a Trumpian-sounding rant that environmental regulations. claims leaders such as Gov. Jerry Brown Just this summer, a measure to ask and Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom “have openly Congress to split California into three and publicly declared war on the governstates, backed by Silicon Valley billionaire ment of the United States.”

Tim Draper, qualified for the November “Is this or is this not a nation of laws?” ballot. It was eventually invalidated by the it reads. “[We] Declare the 51st State, California Supreme Court, which quesJefferson, to free us from tyranny!” tioned the measure’s constitutionality.

The language and ideas date back much The legal setback didn’t discourage further than the 45th president.

Jeffersonians.

In 1941, Jeffersonians Indeed, this unlikely captured attention when assortment of survivalthey formed a rebel ists and hippies, militia and even pot growers and stopped drivers hardline cops, on Highway real estate 99 in Siskiyou appraisers and County at loggers, fencgunpoint, ing instruchanding tors and out their gun-lovers, declaration of Latinos independence and antiJamie beutler and bumper immigrants has chair, california democratic party, stickers letting rural caucus joined forces, them know they seemingly imperviwere entering the ous to criticisms.

State of Jefferson.

While Jefferson’s Stanton Delaplane, a leader, Mark Baird, writer for the San Francisco claims the movement is nonChronicle, could smell a great story partisan, Baird admits he, and many other 300 miles away. He rode into Siskiyou Jeffersonians, voted for Donald Trump— County and won the 1942 Pulitzer Prize for “he wasn’t my first choice, I wanted reporting his coverage of the “mountain Ted Cruz”—because they couldn’t stand men” rebellion.

Hillary Clinton. He also acknowledges “Gun-toting citizens of these rebel Trump’s victory empowered thousands counties are partly mad, partly in fun, of disaffected voters in Jefferson country,

“I think there’s no chance of this passing, but there’s a populist mood sweeping the country.”

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Stephen Johnson, an avid State of Jefferson supporter, sold shirts, caps, signs and flags during a recent Auburn Home Show. Some hats proclaimed “Jefferson Militia,” while others featured a gun and the slogan, “Mama Didn’t Raise No Victim.” photo by steve magagnini

partly earnest about this new state,” Delaplane wrote then.

The rebels—then comprising four counties in California and one in Oregon— demanded the state build promised roads into the mountains containing millions of dollars of copper deposits, “and if they don’t get them pretty soon, there’s no telling what they might do.”

“This is the last frontier and the hard stand of rugged individualism that is not a political slogan,” Delaplane opined in his December 1, 1941 piece.

Jeffersonians appeared on the verge of getting approval from Congress to break away until it was blown out of the water by the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

The movement remained largely under the radar until Mark Baird, 65, a strapping reincarnation of John Wayne, started breathing new life into Jefferson five years ago.

The 6-foot-4-inch fire tanker pilot, rancher and reserve deputy sheriff from Siskiyou

County cuts an impressive figure. He sports a black belt holster, but instead of a sidearm, packs his weapon of choice, a copy of the Constitution.

Many politicians, academics and journalists seek to dismiss Baird and his fellow Jeffersonians as a bunch of gun-toting, right-wing rednecks, Trumpies and neoConfederates whose chances of launching the 51st state are slim to none and slim’s left town.

Tim Onderko, vice-mayor of Loomis in Placer County, empathizes with Jeffersonians—to a point.

“I understand people feel underrepresented or misrepresented and want to make a change—I totally get it, I’m all about local control,” Onderko said. “But we have to have a state-wide constitutional convention. How would Jeffersonians support themselves?”

Onderko’s skepticism was amplified by the State Legislative Analyst’s Office, a nonpartisan think tank, which last year issued

Here’s what Jefferson would look like based on census records from the 23 counties that have signed on and two others on the fence, either through referendum or a vote of their board of supervisors: 2.5 million people 69 percent caucasian 21 percent Hispanic 4 percent Asian about 3 percent multi-racial 1.6 percent American indian 1.6 percent African-American nineteen counties voted for Trump four (Mendocino, lake, nevada and Stanislaus) went for clinton

a 13-page report on secession outlining a wide range of potential problems, including who will pay for and operate public schools, courts, prisons, water, welfare, transportation, parks and state agencies.

If the measure was approved by voters and the federal government—and until California and Jefferson came to an agreement on how to split the state’s assets and liabilities, the report read, “all tax collections and spending by the existing state of California would end.”

Baird’s used to not being taken seriously.

When he and his finance expert, Steven Baird (no relation) of Sacramento, showed up for a scheduled appointment with Gov. Brown to present their secession plan, for example, a California Highway Patrol officer outside the governor’s office told them the state’s chief “had more important things to do.”

“We couldn’t even get the guy who brings them coffee to take our papers, so we dropped them off in the mail room,” Steven Baird said.

Mark Baird is equal parts Don Quixote, Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson. He lives in Scott Valley, a staunchly independent community 30 miles west of Yreka, now the provisional capital of Jefferson.

Baird said he and several other ranchers took on the California Department of Fish & Game a decade ago, “when they were trying to charge us $25,000 per ranch for our water rights and unfettered access to our land.”

“We told them not only ‘no’ but ‘hell no’—if you want our water be prepared to take it.”

Ultimately, Mark Baird and company never had to brandish their weapons, Fish & Game just cleared out. That victory set the table: On September 3, 2013, the modern state of Jefferson was born when Baird and about 100 supporters presented the Siskiyou Board of Supervisors with their Declaration of Independence and won approval by a 4-1 vote.

Baird, a walking encyclopedia of California history and constitutional law who’s fond of quoting Alexis de Tocqueville and Frederick Douglass, has sold his dream across a vast expanse of California.

“We’ve raised more than $500,000—$2 at a time, and I’ve been reading legal cases like a crazy law student for the last five years,” he said.

Teachers, mechanics, doctors, lawyers, clerks, small business owners, farmers, ranchers and survivalists have all contributed.

“While most of us are gray-hairs, we have a strong Facebook presence in all our counties, and young people are turning out for our fairs and events,” Baird said.

Whatever their age, background or profession, Jeffersonians share a common distrust of big-city, heavy-handed

government, Mark Baird says. He knows plenty of folks who “hate California, they hate the taxes, rules and regulations.”

Baird and many other Jeffersonians have a distinctly libertarian flavor. They say their new state will largely be governed by individual counties that will enforce their own laws and fund their own police, courts, fire departments, schools, public officials and indigent medical care.

“Spending, except in rare cases such as the state Supreme Court, education above K-12 and prisons will be handled at a city/ county level,” explained Steven Baird, the finance expert, who ran for the sprawling 1st Senate District in 2016 on a pro-Jefferson Platform and lost. Now, he argues that one district with 11 counties shortchanges almost every constituent.

“It is up to the people in those communities how they want their taxes and money to be spent. We will not force any county to fund any particular action.”

A new independence Here’s what Jefferson would look like based on census records from the 23 counties that have signed on and two others on the fence, either through referendum or a vote of their board of supervisors: 2.5 million people, 69 percent Caucasian, 21 percent Hispanic, 4 percent Asian, about 3 percent multi-racial, 1.6 percent American Indian and 1.6 percent African-American. Nineteen counties

voted for Trump, four (Mendocino, Lake, Nevada and Stanislaus) went for Clinton.

If secession happens, Jefferson would hold a constitutional convention to draw its own legislative boundaries.

Jefferson’s governor and courts would have less power to authorize or veto legislation—that responsibility would fall squarely on the legislature. Nearly all services—from police to fire to schools— would be run by individual counties, Baird said.

Critics both inside and out of Jefferson’s boundaries, including Chamber of Commerce officials and park rangers, fear a state made up of California’s poorest counties won’t have the resources to provide quality services—they say the state sends more money back to those counties than it collects from them.

But Jeffersonians argue that without having to pay income, sales or corporate taxes to the state, their financial model shows an aggregate county surplus without reducing current spending for schools, roads, public safety and infrastructure, according to their website.

The Jefferson movement welcomes all independent parties, and the Green Party, which has scored few victories elsewhere, would have a better chance running in

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freshly-drawn rural districts, Mark Baird said.

Not all Jeffersonians are crazy about their namesake, but Steven Baird says it fits.

“I guess we adhere to Thomas Jefferson’s principles of limited government. We would like to reboot the core beliefs of our Founding Fathers.”

America’s Founding Fathers believed every American would have the opportunity to succeed but there’s no guarantee of success: You will succeed on your own merits and resources.

The State of Jefferson has sparked plenty of opposition within its boundaries.

Keep it California, a nonpartisan group based in Sierra City, for one, is staunchly anti-Jefferson. The group claims the actual costs to Jeffersonians, ranging from having to pay out of state tuition to California universities to having to buy their way out of California’s $778 billion debt, which means Jefferson’s projected $3.16 billion annual budget will be sliced to $840 million.

“This proposal would create a very weak, Balkanized states with little uniformity throughout creating confusion and uncertainty,” declares Keept It California’s website. “It wouldn’t even guarantee that the few comparatively prosperous counties (Eldorado and Placer, both Jeffersonian bastions) would choose to help the poorer counties.”

Placerville’s Jamie Beutler, chair of the California Democratic Party, Rural Caucus, said Keep It California was formed in 2015 to counter Jefferson after its leaders began persuading county after county to join up.

“I think it’s crazy—I understand their frustration,” she said. “But they get more money from the state for roads, schools, hospitals, infrastructure than they would get if they broke away.

While Mark Baird says Jefferson would liberate mining, timber, farming and energy from California control, Beutler notes, “most of the water and forests are federally controlled, so nothing would change there.”

Baird hopes that Jefferson can become a reality in five years; Beutler counters that notion.

“I think there’s no chance of this passing, but there’s a populist mood sweeping the country and they have been emboldened, all these hate movements have risen up,” he says. “These are the same people who have been infused with fear by Trump, Rush Limbaugh, and altright media. They listen to what they want to hear and don’t listen to reason.”

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VoterS, lawSuitS and true grit While Jefferson’s plans to create a special Native American senate seat has generated support from some of the many Indians within its boundaries, Jessica Jim, an elder with the 5,000 member federally recognized Pit River Tribe who sits on the enrollment committee, said, “the problem is, who is going to get control of that seat?”

Jim, who lives and works in Burney, said she feels Jeffersonians mark Baird are simply pandering.

State of Jefferson leader “We have Karuk, Hoopa, Susanville and Pit River among the 37 tribes in Northern California. We all have different dances and beliefs.

They’re trying to pacify us,” she said.

“We said no, you treat us on a governmentto-government, face-to-face basis.”

Mark Baird, who agrees many details need to be worked out, nonetheless insists they’ll be successful.

“We are picking up steam in the face of some pretty serious opposition from both political parties.”

Though Jefferson’s two U.S. Senators will likely be Republicans, he says, there’s no real alliance between the political party and secessionists.

“Republicans hate us more than Democrats, because they have literally more permitting the measure to remain on the to lose,” Baird said. ballot outweighs the potential harm in delayIn fact, three U.S. Representatives will ing the proposition to a future election.” shift from California to the new state, and Even if voters had approved Draper’s those seats tend to be held by Republicans, proposition, it couldn’t become reality who Baird says often ignore rural without Congressional approval—the same Californians. obstacle Jefferson faces, assuming it can Despite some 200 attempts to divide persuade the California legislature to go California into two or more states even along with it. But in the era of Trump, the before California entered the Union in 1850, possibility of giving California—the bluest including one effort that was on the verge of of blue states—more Republican seats in the succeeding when, it too, was blown up by a Senate and House of Representatives may war, in this case, the Civil War, these efforts not be that far-fetched. have been derailed by political and legal Meanwhile, without mentioning opposition. the State of Jefferson, Citizens for Fair In January, Silicon Valley venture Representation sued California Secretary of capitalist Tim Draper—claiming 40 million State Alex Padilla, arguing that Californians Californians were not adequately reprehave the worst proportional representation sented either in the state legislature or the in the nation—each of the 40 senators United States—collected more than 400,000 represent about 1 million people, while each valid signatures to split California into three of the 80 assembly members represent about states, qualifying it for the November ballot. half a million. California’s 53 U.S. represenDraper also launched failed campaigns to tatives each represent nearly 740,000 people. break up California into six states in 2012 The plaintiffs, which include the and 2014.

American Independent Party of California, Draper’s current bid fizzled when the the Libertarian Party of California, several California Supreme Court unanimously northern counties, Mark Baird and other concluded “that the potential harm in Jefferson leaders, have made a fairly

Mark Baird, a rancher and reserve deputy sheriff from Siskiyou County, started to breathe new life into the State of Jefferson separatist movement five years ago.

photo by steve magagnini

“Republicans hate us more than the Democrats, because they have literally more to lose.”

strong case that the California Senate and Assembly need to increase their membership “so we can all have access, not just the lobbyists,” Baird wrote in his supporting document.

The plaintiffs sought to get the U.S. Supreme Court to have their case heard by a three-judge panel, but the court rejected their request. They lost that round, but they’re hoping the Sacramento federal judge who handled their case, Kim Mueller, can still be persuaded to let them argue their case in court. If not, they will appeal to the 9th circuit, Mark Baird said.

The Jeffersonians have no quit in them.

Over barbecue at the House of Chicken in Antelope, Mark Baird, joined by Steven and Dianna Baird, said California has historically kept the number of state senators low to keep Chinese, African-Americans, Mexicans and other minorities from being represented.

“In 1879 there were six different African-American representatives when the legislature held a Constitutional Convention that led to the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act,” Baird explained. He said Californians took up the chant, “The Chinese must go,”

leading to deportations that could have been prevented had Chinese communities had the right to elect state representatives. The same thing happened to disenfranchised Mexican immigrants, Baird said. Between 1929 and 1936, the United States launched the Mexican Repatriation program, which deported anywhere from an estimated 400,000 to 2 million Mexican Americans, the majority of them from California.

That “tyranny” continues today, he said, adding that the Jefferson movement embraces people of all races.

Despite its rebel beginnings, Jefferson has attracted an increasingly diverse following.

Lisa Pruitt, a UC Davis law professor specializing in rural and urban differences, said she has seen Jefferson signs in El Dorado, Amador and Calaveras Counties.

“I saw a Jefferson decal on a Prius in Fair Oaks, and on I-80 near Davis,” she said. “It’s all over rural California and creeping into urban California. I’ve seen their stickers on cars in Target parking lots.”

The further north you go, the bigger the signs, Pruitt said.

“There’s a lot of agitation on the part of rural Californians who feel their interests are not being heard or taken seriously in Sacramento,” Pruitt said.

“The example is the state gas tax: people in rural areas who drive long distance don’t feel they get anything for their buck.”

Mark Baird argues that there’s a historic precedent for Jefferson: Vermont left New York and New Hampshire in 1791, Kentucky left Virginia in 1792, Maine bolted from Massachusetts in 1820 and West Virginia—which argued that Virginia committed sedition by breaking away from the union to join the confederacy—got its independence in 1863.

Pruitt, however, disagrees.

“It’s not a winning analogy,” she said, adding that West Virginia’s split happened more than 150 years ago.

“People are intrigued by it, but peeling themselves into a separate state would not solve their economic woes, and might make them worse,” she said.

“I’m not convinced they would be in a better situation if they got more representatives, rural interests would still be greatly outnumbered by urban interests in Jefferson. Legislators represent people, not cows and trees.”

“The momenT has come” The struggle ahead didn’t dampen the enthusiasm for Jefferson at the Auburn

Home Show last month—the Jefferson booth proved to be one of the most popular destinations.

“We’ve filled up four sheets with about 20 people each today,” said Chris Page, a 55-year-old real estate appraiser from Granite Bay on a recent Saturday afternoon.

“Close to 90 percent said if we don’t regain our property and water rights, lower our taxes and restore our political representation, they will leave California,” said Page, a Republican who owns farmland in El Dorado County.

Jean Colegrove, 64, worked the booth in a pink State of Jefferson hat and a Jefferson T-shirt declaring “Ha Llegado El Momento De Los 51 Estados”—“the moment has come for the 51st State.”

Colegrove said one of Jefferson’s strongest Hispanic voices, David Garcia of Valley Springs recently died, but there’s still solid Latino support.

Colegrove, a Libertarian, confessed she lives in Sacramento County, “behind enemy lines,” but said she sees support for Jefferson growing in Citrus Heights, Orangevale and Folsom.

“When Jerry Brown signed the anticow farting and manure legislation in October 2016, I said I’ll be leaving the state before I put a contraption on my cow’s butt,” said Colegrove of the state’s plan to curb cow-generated methane to reduce greenhouse gasses.

Stephen Johnson, a retired mechanic and chiropractor from Applegate, was doing a brisk business selling $15 shirts, caps, signs and flags. Some hats proclaimed “Jefferson Militia,” while others featured a gun and the slogan, “Mama Didn’t Raise No Victim.”

“We’re having fun with it,” said Johnson, 74. “Any militia will be done through our county sheriff’s departments. Jefferson’s going to have maybe 50 state agencies, while California has over 500.”

Aleksei Ugachenko, a 17-year-old student from Pioneer High School in Woodland, was intrigued by everything Jefferson has to offer.

“How would Jefferson deal with federally controlled resources and federal funds for schools? They might have to privatize their schools,” he pondered. “Still, I think we should have better representation up north.”

Mark Baird, Jefferson’s leader, agrees. His conversations with everyday people have made it clear that the State of Jefferson’s future holds promise.

“The oligarchy that runs Sacramento doesn’t care what the voters think,” he says. “We have been over-taxed and over-regulated, and more and more people every day are willing to stand up and fight.” Ω

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at monthly mortuary gatherings, Grass Valley duo posy-Filled pockets encourage mortals to look forward to their last breath by aaron Carnes

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’m uncomfortable with death. A staunch atheist who grew up Christian, I used to believe heaven or hell awaited me on the other side. It took years of anxiety attacks and therapy to come to terms with mortality, with there being nothing afterward, and I find peace by not thinking about it.

But tonight, the whole point is to think about it. The mortician warns us that at any moment, someone’s dead body could interrupt the show. Even mine.

Posy-Filled Pockets founders Rachel Tim Lilyquist coolly gives the omen to the 25 or so James and Tim seated at the Chapel of Angels Mortuary in Grass Valley.

Lilyquist.

His death-positivity group Posy-Filled Pockets is just beginning its October presentation. The projector screen reads: “Death. Everyone’s doing it.”

It’s not like we’ll see a literal dead body (though if we hear commotion in the back, Lilyquist says it could be because of that). A fresh corpse would remind us that, even though we’re all here to laugh, learn and contemplate our unexistence, death strikes at any time. Tonight’s topic of discussion: the afterlife.

Lilyquist and founder Rachel James open the night by defining death positivity, which boils down to allowing death to be a part of everyday conversation, even if it’s scary.

“Death is something our culture is extremely weird about,” James told SN&R. “We don’t talk about it, we don’t plan for it, and anyone interested in it is considered morbid or weird when it is the only personal experience besides birth really that we all have.”

Four speakers gave talks that were funny, morbid and informative. One made a case that seances, mummies and telephones were ways humans tried to call up the dead. tim lilyquist photo courtesy of Another theorized that water is a parasite that infects and Johnathan Woodson. rachel James and top photo courtesy of Jamaica karr. animates our otherwise lifeless bodies. She used The Stuff 18 | SN&R | 11.08.18

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as a metaphor. In experienced death the ’80s B-horror in early age or had an movie, railroad experience that left workers discover us with a lot of quesa tasty, yogurt-like tions,” James says. substance growing out In 2015, James’ of the ground, which surprise breast cancer they package and sell diagnosis led her to like hotcakes. It turns out, move back to Grass it’s alive and mass-consumes Valley, her hometown. its consumers. To add to the She put writing on hold and strangeness, she offered everygot a double mastectomy while one water before she started. in her second trimester with her Sneaky! now 3-year-old son.

In the modest church space, She’s in remission now. The RAchEl JAmEs it felt somewhere between experience was shocking, but James awkward youth group night, lo-fi says it showed her death wasn’t an co-founder, the Posy-Filled Pockets Ted Talk and a giggling gathering of abstract concept. goths. But it’s more than that. At the front of the “I had never thought about a [living will], or show, James told the crowd that the talks are meant to lure you anything like that,” James says. “How can I be so involved in into the workshops—the less peculiar part of the project— this topic and still not have thought about the practicalities of it where they help people with more pragmatic issues related to for myself? It kind of got me more serious about the topic.” death, including how to create a living will, who to call first Later that year, she met Lilyquist. As a kid, he imagined when a loved one passes, and eco-alternatives to embalming. himself as a homicide detective, but with no real interest in You know, stuff we should be planning for, but our culture’s law enforcement and a dead-pan sense of humor, it transmuted aversion to death gets in the way. into death industry work, which he’s happy doing. He says he Several recent studies confirm this. One in 2017 by caring. enjoys the questions folks have regarding his career choice, com showed that only four out of 10 Americans have a trust or like what happens in the cremation process. living will. A 2013 survey by the Institute of Medicine showed “Once I started working at the mortuary, I saw how widethat 90 percent of Americans thought it was important to have spread it was that people considered death a taboo subject,” end-of-life discussions with their loved ones, but only 30 Lilyquist explains. “Especially the topic of grief. It definitely percent did. And a 2013 Pew Research Center report showed helped expose me to a greater variety of how it’s affecting that 47 percent of Americans have experienced a death in their people.” lives.

James insisted that he co-host a death-themed monthly If listening to macabre presentations softens people enough event that was distinctly Grass Valley. The initial Posy-Filled to start planning for death in a responsible way, then James Pockets was a success, something James wasn’t sure about at says she feels like she’s succeeded. first, since the Nevada County small town is no Los Angeles Though Posy-Filled Pockets started in 2016, it went on or San Francisco, where similar Death Salons are sometimes hiatus that year when James found out that her father was held at convention centers. diagnosed with Stage 4 esophageal cancer. His death, and Lo-fi elements are part of its charm. Many of the speakers her similar diagnosis a year earlier, made much of what she aren’t professionals, including Courtney Williams, who’s advocates become crystal clear. spoken twice at Posy-Filled Pockets. Once about how “fashion kills” (about people wearing dresses dyed with arsenic, for DEADx Talks instance) and a second time about her ex-husband’s suicide.

“People are normally uncomfortable in mortuaries,” Death positivity is now a national movement. One of its most Williams says. “You think it’s probably an awkward converprominent figures is Caitlin Doughty, a mortician who wrote sation so maybe people won’t be raising their hands and a morbidly funny memoir titled Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, and laughing about stuff. People were really engaging with the founded the death acceptance organization called Order of the information, which was surprising to me.”

Good Death, which shares death-positive content online and In 2019, Posy-Filled Pockets have several themed events hosts similar gatherings to Posy-Filled Pockets. and workshops lined up, a new website, new speakers and James was one of the first people to join the Order. At a podcast in the works. Lilyquist and James are resurrecting the time, she was the editor-in-chief of Atlas Obscura, an their efforts to get people talking about death. offbeat travel site with her own personal focus often being on But after watching Posy-Filled Pocket’s presentation, I death-related destinations, like an realized that death-positivity isn’t just about thinking about the abandoned brothel in Lassen end; It’s about cracking jokes, finding weird stories to spin and County that is rumored to studying all the oddball edges of this scary seemingly straightbe haunted. forward topic, and having fun with something we are told is in Check out Posy-Filled Pockets’ “I’ve always been no ways fun. workshop “Now What? Where to drawn to [death], and Start When a Love One Dies” at 12 It is pretty strange that we all eventually cease to exist I think for most of p.m. on Saturday November 17 at one day, and why not celebrate that? My dog, who’s blissus who are in the the Chapel of the Angels Mortuary fully unaware of death, will never know the joy of laughing death industry, & Crematory, 250 Race Street at her mortality. Ω Grass Valley. For more information it’s because we

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Off the sidewalk of Stockton Boulevard, a doorway gives way to a charming, wood-paneled antechamber. A second set of doors at the far wall leads to a deafening engine room. Screamingly loud, dark and hazy, it’s not a place to stay without hearing protection, but the crew keeps at it, fueling the fire, making the metal sounds that bounce off

walls and pound through skulls.

OSHA would not recommend a prolonged visit here. A few seconds are enough to leave eardrums convulsing.

Stepping back through the set of doors, things are bizarrely conversational, comparatively quiet once the door swings shut. Beers and sodas get tossed back, voices are seldom raised over casual conversation. An episode of Seinfeld plays silently on a TV screen with closed

captioning on.

Then the noise next door stops. Applause breaks through the unfamiliar quiet, and people begin filtering in.

Amps and guitars in cases get packed out of the engine room, through the front door onto the sidewalk and out of sight.

So it’s not your typical engine room; it’s more of a room with a stage for musicians to perform music at Cafe Colonial. Ready for the big reveal? The “engine room” was really a metaphor the whole time.

To keep the metaphor going: The whole crew knows the ship is going down, and it’s coming soon. Tonight, though, they’re the harbingers of local music at the second day of 916 Fest. All told, about 20 bands came out to perform, many of them regular acts and visitors to one of the few remaining all-ages venues in town.

It’s one of the last hurrahs at the Colonial Complex (comprised of the Cafe and the Colony next door) before it closes after November 17.

For now, there’s a lot of boots on feet. There’s a lot of leather on people. A lot of ink on skin and shirt sleeves left at home where they belong. Someone drops the phrase “mohawks on fleek,” which is hugely accurate.

To reiterate—it’s really loud when the music’s going.

“That’s the point,” my friend says, a little surprised. He plays with Anime Aliens, and he’s right. Everyone knows it’s supposed to be loud. People leave their tables; the next act is a noise battle set between two bands, No More and Killer Couture. There’s a lot of drums and guttural guitar, and also more harmonica than a human can survive.

It’s not a huge crowd, but more people filter through as the night progresses. There was a bigger crowd Friday, packed full of kids. A red ketchup bottle migrating between plates of food is nearly empty. It might last as long as the venue does, or it may need to be refilled one last time.

The Colonial Complex is on its last legs. There’s Danny

Someone drops the phrase “mohawks on fleek,” which is hugely accurate.

Reynoso’s Fuck Cancer show and one more two-day festival, Colonial Fest 4, before the venue shuts its doors for good.

After that, Sacramento is going to be one hell of a lot quieter.

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Behold! The Quesito Roll, a leaden rice brick of shrimp, steak and cream cheese topped with melted cheese and bacon ... ay dios mio.

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Asian/Mexican fusion, Arden-Arcade

The awkward space that currently houses Culichi Town, a “Sinaloa-style” sushi and Mexican seafood restaurant, used to house another fusion sushi spot: Guy Fieri’s Tex Wasabi, which itself was an unholy alliance of barbecue and sushi.

It might seem dangerous, nay foolhardy, to open a fusion sushi restaurant in a space that had hosted a similar spot, but Culichi Town, a burgeoning chain with 12 locations in the United States and another coming soon to Elk Grove, has a unique angle that just might work.

This comes in the form of ear-splitting live norteño and mariachi music. If you roll up on a weekend, there is a wait (and valet for the packed parking lot), but likely only for the elevated part of the restaurant near the stage.

The semi-circle vinyl booths near the stage are the baller spots for big groups that want to hear the music, and who are willing to wait quite a while. The other area of booths and tables, which I’ll call “the sunken place,” has no wait. The sight line of the band is blocked by the large square bar in the middle of the restaurant and when the band is playing it’s too loud to converse comfortably, so it’s kind of the worst of both worlds.

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in Sacramento, not even at the late, great Mariscos Mazatlan. The Culichi version with ham-like, chewy marlin and melt-y cheese is a reasonable facsimile of those you will encounter in a beachfront shack in Maz, but additional menu items like the Octopus ($3.95) and Fish Tacos ($2.65) are deadly dull.

All of the sushi rolls on order contain cream cheese and none include raw seafood; Jiro Dreams of Sushi this is not. Even though the Quesito Roll ($13.95) is filled with shrimp, steak and topped with grilled cheese and bacon, it somehow has only a ghost of a flavor that could be best described as “fried.” It’s a leaden rice brick that has absolutely nothing about it that evokes sushi.

The best tactic is to stick with the shrimp dishes, which make up the bulk of the menu. The raw shrimp in the Aguachile ($23.95) is meltingly tender and sweet, but it had better be at that price. Almost as good is the “Hulk” ($12.95), a ceviche so-named because of the deep green color of the cilantro sauce and the pale green of the cubed cucumber.

The service exhibits missteps, and a perusal of scorching Yelps reveal that many customers experienced far worse than my visits with the non-delivery of empanadas from a courteous, but scattered server. They never do arrive and are taken off the check.

If you and your family (or date) want to get your banda on in a lively and raucous atmosphere, wait for a booth or table near the stage, forgo the syrupy margaritas and enjoy a Michelada made with Pacifico (brewed in Sinaloa), and split some shrimp dishes. Otherwise, stay outta C. Town. Ω

The season of the gourd is upon us, which means an insufferable period of grocery shopping under the looming presence of Big Pumpkin. Every corner you turn, it’s a steady onslaught of pumpkin bread, pumpkin cookies, pumpkin butter and, worst of all: pumpkin pie. Want to fight back against the Man? Sarom’s Southern Kitchen makes a mean sweet potato pie with a delectably velvet-like texture and a perfect crustto-filling-ratio that will open your eyes to the truth of holiday capitalism and corporate fascism. Grab a generous slice ($3.95) of sugar and spice before heading out to rally in protest of the corrupt systems propping up Big Pumpkin. 1901 El Camino Avenue, saromssouthernkitchen.com.

—raChel mayfield

Guilt-free frosty CoCotini, Sun & Soil JuiCe Company Is there anything tahini doesn’t make better?

Answer: No. Exhibit A: the Cocotini smoothie from Sun & Soil Juice Company ($10). Composed of cashew milk, banana, dates, tahini, cocoa, cardamom and “Himalayan salt,” this drink is thick and chocolate-y like a run-of-the-mill Frosty, but has a sophisticated undertone of salinity and nutty sesame flavor, and despite the dates is only lightly sweet. It might cost twice as much as Wendy’s, but it has about 300 fewer calories, and hey, the salt came all the way from Pakistan and that ain’t cheap. 1912 P Street, sunandsoiljuice.com.

—beCky Grunewald

The V Word

Cuddle that turkey Ever cuddled a turkey? Are you surprised they like to cuddle? It’s legit: Just do a Google search for cuddling turkeys. Like cattle, these birds are cuddle bugs, if we let them be. But by the numbers, humans generally don’t: Time magazine reported 45 million turkeys were going to be killed for last year’s Thanksgiving meals. That’s out of the 244.5 million that are raised for slaughter on American farms annually. Some of those millions get lucky, though, and wind up at farm sanctuaries like Animal Place at 17314 McCourtney Road in Grass Valley. Animal lovers are invited to meet them on Saturday, November 10, for the annual Thank the Turkeys fundraiser. Tickets are $40-$75, and attendees will get a catered vegan dinner, a guided tour of the farm, treats to feed the birds and a goody bag. Turkey cuddles are not guaranteed, but who knows, maybe there’s a hen there who wants a hug!

—Shoka

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New Helvetia owner David Gull (left), and head brewer Iver Johnson (right) toast to this year’s silver medal win for best Coffee Beer at the 2018 Great American Beer Festival in Colorado.

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by Daniel Barnes

The 2018 Great American Beer Festival silver medal for best Coffee Beer hangs on the cafeteria-style board inside New Helvetia’s Broadway taproom, right next to the name of the winning brew: Mystery Airship 4.0. A collaboration with Temple Coffee originally created for New Helvetia’s fourth anniversary, this Cascara Golden Ale was unavailable on the day we visited, but we’re assured that a new batch was only a few days away from completion.

An epic three-day event that brings together 800 American breweries and draws about 62,000 attendees a year, the Great American Beer Festival is arguably the most high-profile annual beer event in the country, and a winning medal can dramatically elevate a brewery’s profile.

“We’re sold out of it right now for that reason,” says New Helvetia head brewer Iver Johnson, who was in Denver for the festival along with owner David Gull, and accepted the award onstage from Brewers Association founder Charlie Papazian.

The two are working with Temple again to create one of six collaboration beers intended for New Helvetia’s sixth-anniversary party on November 23.

New Helvetia was one of six local breweries to win a medal at this year’s 32nd annual GABF competition, which saw over 2,400 breweries from all but one of the 50 states (pull yourself together, Mississippi). Roughly 8,500 beers were up for evaluation across 167 categories and subcategories. The highest-placing medal went to newcomer Alaro Brewing, which opened earlier this year in the vacated Rubicon space in Midtown, and which took home gold in the English-Style India Pale Ale category for Castillo.

Other area winners included Davis breweries Three Mile (silver in the Session India Pale Ale category) and

Sudwerk (silver in the American-Style Amber Lager category) and Auburn breweries Moonraker (silver in the hotly contested Imperial India Pale Ale category, which had 211 entries) and Crooked Lane, which took home the bronze in the German-Style Kölsch category for Veedels Brau.

Crooked Lane co-owner and head brewer Teresa Psuty was also in Denver to accept her award, and she was particularly satisfied to be recognized for the brewery’s hyper-traditional take on Kölsch.

“It’s very near and dear to our hearts,” Teresa says.

“We have really tried to make it the most authentic Kölsch-style beer that we can and having that beer win at GABF was such an honor ...”

Teresa was first introduced to the style by her husband, Crooked Lane co-owner Adrian Psuty, whose work for a German biotech company frequently took him to Cologne, where the light, crisp, cold-conditioned beer style was born. Adrian brought his enthusiasm for the beer and its surrounding culture and aesthetics back to the states, where he began experimenting with his brewing partner Teresa.

“We started working on that Kölsch as a recipe as home brewers and went through a bunch of iterations,” she says. “When we started the brewery, that was one of the first beers we had on [tap].”

At the Crooked Lane taproom in Auburn, Veedels Brau is served in the traditional, thin and cylindrical stange glass that holds 200 milliliters. As with Mystery Airship 4.0 at New Helvetia, Crooked Lane customers devoured the newly minted beer as soon as the award was announced.

“The moment we won, we sold out all the rest of the Kölsch that we had, so I was scrambling to make another batch,” Teresa says. Ω

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With two star leads and a strong supporting cast, this Chautauqua Playhouse production is theatrical perfection.

Mark Kirshnir transforms before our very eyes into the horribly disfigured “Elephant Man” and makes us totally believe in his innate goodness despite all his challenges. Fri 8pm, Sat

8pm, Sun 2pm. Through 11/18; $19-$21; Chautauqua Playhouse, 5325 Engle Road in Carmichael, (916) 489-7529; cplayhouse.org. J.C.

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Jim Turner’s Come and Gone

August Wilson’s play is second in a 10-play cycle chronicling African-Amer-

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by James Wheatley delivers Wilson’s drama with power and conviction. Th 8pm, Fri

factory closures. A timely, thought-provoking and unsettling peek into lives and communities that seem forever floundering for a future. Completely captivating cast, handsome set and era-set production elements. Wed 7pm, Thu

Celebration Arts Theatre, 2727 B St., (916) 455-2787, celebrationarts.net. J.C.

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7pm, Fri 8pm, Sat 2pm & 8pm, Sun 2pm. Through 11/18; $28-$40; Capital Stage,

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thu 7:30pm, fri 7:30pm, sat 7:30pm, sun 2pm. through 11/18; $12$20; falcon’s eye theatre at harris center stage two, 10 college Parkway in folsom; (916) 608-6888; harriscenter.net.

The Scottish play is hunkering down in Folsom, bringing with it wily witches, bloody battles and gobs of guilt. Falcon’s Eye Theatre at Folsom Lake College is presenting Shakespeare’s Macbeth—with the creative staging and strong production elements that are trademarks of stage designer Ian Wallace.

Macbeth is the shortest, most intense of the Bard’s stories, with what seems to be a murder a minute and endless backstabbing—both figuratively and literally.

It’s the story of Scottish general Macbeth believing a bevy of witches who prophesied his rise to king.

There are some strong performances—including Ryan Pullen as Macbeth and Stephanie Hodson as “out-damned-spot” Lady Macbeth—and the last half really pulls the audience into the dark world of doubt, distrust and devastation.

However, there were a couple of stumbling blocks in the beginning that thankfully smoothed out by the end of the play. First, it took a while for the cast members to find their flow with the dense Shakespearean dialogue, though most eventually warmed up and delivered with assurance.

And then there’s the one production glitch that’s a major distraction: For the first third of the production, sheets of plastic line the walls and are bunched up onstage—creating distracting crinkling noises and awkward areas onstage. A shame, since when the plastic is finally removed and the stage fully exposed, it’s highly effective, stylized, steel-grated tiers, surrounded by walls that morph into mirrors, videos and various backgrounds. Out, damned plastic, out! Ω 22

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3 Words, words, words Aditya Putcha’s Inversion is an ambitious examination of contemporary dating games, the dynamics of male-female relationships and the difficulty of dealing with a parent sliding into Alzheimer’s.

It’s earnest and well-intentioned—but good intentions are not enough. It’s wordy and a bit unfocused at times. However, the play is Putcha’s first full-length theater piece and suggests better things to come.

Adam (Brenden Garcia) is a socially awkward young man who really wants to find a hot woman like those his friend Brendan (Nick McCollum) continually finds and discards.

To add to Adam’s problems, his mother’s Alzheimer’s disease threatens to erase him from her memory before he can find a girl to take home to momma.

These two male characters are more fully developed and satisfactorily presented than any of the three female characters—Jennifer (Monica Vejar as Adam’s mother), Rhonda (Joanna Johnson as a zaftig young woman whose poor self-image causes desperation in a budding relationship) and Natalia (Tatyana Kireyeva, in essence a female Brendan, but less likable).

A very cool set design by director Elise Hodge and effective lighting (by Matthew Timoszyk) make the production pleasing to the eye.

—Jim Carnes

Inversion: thu 8pm, fri 8pm, sat 8pm. through 11/17; $17-$20; eMh Productions at the ooley theatre, 2007 28th street; (916) 214-6255; emhpros.weebly.com.

beautiful like flowers but strong like s2 tool steel, Kayla K. Johnston and Janis stevens shine like flowers do.

The flower metaphor show Steel Magnolias, now at Sacramento Theater Company, is the heartwarming story of six Louisiana women who gather under the hair dryers at their local beauty salon to share gossip, laughter and the bond of friendship.

They sometimes bicker and squabble, but the love is apparent, especially in times of trouble and loss, when they come together to support each other. They are all “as delicate as magnolias, but as tough as steel.” This production features some of Sacramento’s most beloved actresses. Thu 7pm, Fri 8pm, Sat 2pm & 8pm, Sun 2pm & 7pm. Through 12/9; $17-$33; Sacramento Theatre Company, 1419 H Street; (916) 443-6722; sactheatre.org.

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The Happy Prince Rupert everett dons a cool hat and cigarette to play himself in this Oscar Wilde drama.

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Pratfall queen Melissa McCarthy takes a stab at dramatic credibility by playing real-life writer and convicted counterfeiter Lee Israel in this middling biopic from director Marielle Heller (The Diary of a Teenage Girl).

Once a semi-successful biographer, Israel had fallen on hard times by 1991, when she started creating fake letters from dead celebrities and selling them to gullible and greedy New York City booksellers to pay for her alcoholism and overdue rent. Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty adapted their literate but lumpy script from Israel’s cash-in memoir of the same name, so perhaps it’s no surprise that the film twists itself in knots to make Israel seem like the victim of her own crimes, but this mainly amounts to McCarthy moping around in a Kathy Geiss haircut. Meanwhile, Richard E. Grant easily steals the film as Israel’s even more mangy and amoral drinking buddy and partner in crime. D.B.

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The Happy Prince is an obvious labor of love for Rupert Everett, who wrote, directed and stars as Oscar Wilde. “Labor of love” can all too easily slide into “vanity project,” and it’s to Everett’s credit that he avoids that pitfall. Still, for all its heartfelt sincerity, the movie is missing something. Not much, maybe, but something.

The title, of course, is ironic. Its immediate meaning is a reference to Wilde’s 1888 children’s story about the gilded statue of a sheltered prince; the statue gets a glimpse of the poverty and unhappiness in the kingdom that the living prince was never forced to confront. In the end, the statue’s leaden heart is broken, though it is redeemed by a merciful angel and allowed to live forever in heaven. It’s a melancholy, bittersweet story, but the heavenly comfort the statue receives is denied to Everett’s Prince Oscar.

The movie covers the last three years of Wilde’s life, after his release from two years hard labor for “gross indecency with men.” From reciting The Happy Prince to his two sons during happier times, he is reduced to telling it to two brothers, guests in his squalid Paris apartment (with the older boy serving as Wilde’s paid lover). The misery of these years is relieved only sporadically by Wilde’s wit, defiant in adversity (including his famous aphorism, “I am in mortal combat with this wallpaper; one of us has to go.”), and by brief, dreamlike flashbacks to his days of celebrity before his self-inflicted scandal and ruin. These moments are too vague and fleeting to do anything but throw his present dire straits into sharper relief.

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When Wilde reunites with Lord Alfred “Bosie” Douglas (Colin Morgan), the callow, selfish young lover whose vindictive father brought on Wilde’s downfall in the first place, it’s an act of heedless self-destruction that only makes matters worse. It deprives Wilde of his meager allowance from his ex-wife (Emily Watson in a tragically dignified cameo), while Bosie is threatened with losing his own income. Their idyll in Naples crashes around their ears and Bosie flits off, while Wilde lands in that cheap Paris hotel with the murderous wallpaper. His last days are spent in the company of the only friends who never abandoned him, his literary agent Robbie Ross (Edwin Thomas) and writer Reggie Turner (Colin Firth).

Rupert Everett was born to play Wilde, and has done so before on stage in David Hare’s The Judas Kiss. His investment in the role is total, and at times The Happy Prince threatens to become a pity-party wallow. As a writer, Everett sometimes overplays things, as when Wilde’s deathbed baptism into the Catholic Church is intercut with flashbacks of his being spat upon by a British mob while in transit from one prison to another. And as a director, he sometimes lets his movie lapse into an awkward lurch from one martyrdom to the next, like the Stations of the Cross—which, again, may have been Everett’s overstated point.

But as an actor, Everett never makes a false move. His Oscar Wilde is like a great bear, weakened by dissipation and wounded by cruel abuse, yet somehow summoning a ruined dignity almost to the very end. Ω

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When a series of mysterious cyberattacks all but cripples Great Britain and exposes all the agents of British Intelligence, MI7 has no choice but to recall the inept Johnny English (Rowan Atkinson) from his forced retirement to get to the bottom of things. In reviewing Atkinson’s first two Johnny English movies, I said that such James Bond spoofs were an exhausted genre and had worn out their welcome. Now I have to take it back; here’s an inspired bullseye. Maybe it’s the new director (David Kerr), or the fact that this time writer William Davies is working without collaborators, but the movie is hilarious from beginning to end. Atkinson is at the top of his game, wonderfully supported by Ben Miller (as his dogged sidekick), Olga Kurylenko (a Russian spy) and Emma Thompson (the harried Prime Minister). J.L.

Rank nostalgia and 1990s hip-hop alone prop up this cocktail napkin sketch of a movie, the debut film from writer-director Jonah Hill. Sunny Suljic stars as Stevie, a precocious pubescent who escapes his depressing family life in mid-1990s Southern California by glomming on to an older group of skateboarders. Eager to prove himself to his new idols, Stevie mimics their nihilistic behavior, sexual promiscuity and drug and alcohol abuse, and he quickly gains a reputation for recklessness. In between endless skateboarding montages, a few wispy mini-conflicts arise within the group, hurtling everyone toward a symbolic car crash that teaches them all a lesson about friendship for some reason. Mid90s is one of the slightest major releases in recent memory, and although a handful of nice moments point to Hill’s potential, none of the characters are developed beyond a one-sentence outline. The great Katherine Waterston is especially wasted as Stevie’s single mother. D.B

A go-getter at an ad agency (Tika Sumpter) carries on a smartphone/ email romance with a man she’s never met (Mehcad Brooks), while straight-arming the obvious interest of a coffee-shop barista (Omari Hardwick); when her brash older sister (Tiffany Haddish) gets out of prison and moves in with her, her whole life is thrown into chaos—from her job to that fishy-sounding romance.

Writer-director Tyler Perry throws all kinds of ideas at us, but he never manages to get over the basic problem at the center of his script: Sumpter’s character is shallow and unlikeable, while Haddish’s is essentially a younger version of Perry’s own Madea persona, only coarser and more obnoxious; she wears out her welcome in record time. Whoopi Goldberg tags along as their mother, while Amber Riley plays Sumpter’s best friend. J.L.

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At a lavish Christmas party, young Clara (Mackenzie Foy) enters a magical land created by her late mother, joining forces with a human nutcracker (Jayden Fowora-Knight, remarkably dull) to resolve a war among its realms. This gaudy, vulgar kitsch sat on the shelf for a year while Disney tried to salvage first-timer Ashleigh Powell’s incoherent story.

Either desperate rewrites by Tom McCarthy (without credit) and reshoots with director Joe Johnston taking over from (and sharing credit with) Lasse Hallström didn’t help—or the movie must have been really awful before.

Now it’s a grab bag of remnants from far better books and movies, from The Wizard of Oz to Chronicles of Narnia. Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman, Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen and other worthies are trapped in the goo.

Impressive visuals, though. J.L.

Christopher Caldwell and Zeek Earl wrote and directed this intriguing but emotionally estranged bit of lo-fi sci-fi, an expansion of their 2014 short film of the same name. Sophie Thatcher stars as Cee, a resourceful teenager living outside of civilization with her father Damon (Jay Duplass), an outer space prospector in a hazily defined, largely analog alternate universe. As the first act slowly unfolds, it seems like we might be watching Leave No Trace in space, but everything changes when Cee and Damon discover an enormous deposit of valuable gems on the surface of a toxic planet. Suddenly, Cee is forced to team up with interplanetary bandit Ezra (Pedro Pascal) to avoid a gun-toting team of mercenary miners and get off the planet alive. A high-concept film that doesn’t explain itself to death is refreshing, but the margins of Prospect are far more interesting than the central story and characters. D.B.

It was only when faced with the prospect of an impending remake that I finally worked up the nerve to watch Dario Argento’s 1977 horror classic Suspiria, but I’m happy to report that the film is a complete blast, all overthe-top style, deranged energy and fever dream logic, with gonzo fairytale visuals and a rightfully iconic original score. Unfortunately, watching Argento’s lean and hyper-potent gothic vision in such proximity to Luca Guadagnino’s plodding parade float of a remake does the latter film no favors, as there is not a single way in which the newer film compares favorably to its predecessor. Of course, Guadagnino’s flavorless film is less a straight remake than a dreaded “homage,” with subtext becoming text, the unspoken getting spoken and tantalizing assumptions transforming into leaden story points. It’s like listening to an endless lecture on Suspiria delivered by someone with a tenuous grasp of the subject. D.B.

Susan Sarandon headlines this trudging and bleary-eyed drama as Helen Sterling, an emergency room nurse fighting to free her independent journalist son Sam (Matt Bomer), who is being held captive overseas by Islamic terrorists. When Helen finds that the CIA and FBI are reluctant to act (or even talk to each other), she seeks the help of an underground network called the Viper Club, thrusting her into a world of secret fundraising and illicit money laundering. Meanwhile at the hospital, Helen mentors a young Iranian doctor and counsels a distraught mother waiting for her daughter to wake from a coma. An ostensibly fictional story inspired by real-life events and people, most notably slain American journalist James Foley and his mother, director Maryam Keshavarz’s Viper Club is incredibly unfocused and impersonal, relying heavily on hackneyed visions, dreams and flashbacks to forge any kind of emotional connection with the audience. D.B.

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Arena dreams For British rockers the Struts, opening for The Rolling Stones was just the beginning

by Howard Hardee

Photo courtesy of AnnA Lee

The Struts’ sophomore album, Young&Dangerous, dropped on October 26. The band plays Ace of Spades Sunday, November 11 as part of its plan to take over the world. Really, this is just more of the same from the Struts. On “Could Have Been Me,” the first single off their 2014 debut album, Everybody Wants, Spiller lays out his arena-size aspirations in no uncertain terms. In the first line, he sings, “Don’t wanna live as an untold story/Rather go out in a blaze of glory.”

Luke Spiller welcomes fame and fortune with open “I just know that this band arms and vocals reminiscient of Freddy Mercury. is meant for bigger and better things,” Spiller said. “Our music is always written with that in mind. If I was happy at this level, where Luke Spiller won’t rest until he’s a rock star, and we’ve been for the past three years, this album he’s dredging up the oil left by the dinosaurs of claswouldn’t be as strong as it is, because I wouldn’t sic rock as his band brazenly attempts to become as have resung everything a hundred times. ... my big as Queen. managers wouldn’t be so driven. ... We want to be He has a couple of things going for him: As the the biggest band on the planet.” frontman for the English rock band the Struts, he It’s potentially off-putting that Spiller and his exudes Mick Jagger’s cocksure swagger onstage bandmates—guitarist Adam Slack, bassist Jed Elliott, and bears an eerie resemblance to Freddie Mercury. and drummer Gethin Davies—are making music In fact, he wears stage outfits designed by Zandra rooted almost entirely in stuff that happened 40-plus Rhodes, the English designer who outfitted both years ago. Pitchfork recently mocked Michigan rockMercury and Queen guitarist Brian May. ers Greta Van Fleet for being a “classic rock vampire Spiller’s band played in front of 80,000 act,” and, similarly, the Struts seem to be people in Paris as the opener for the peddling in nostalgia. However, Spiller Rolling Stones, and Dave Grohl of and company put on such a convincthe Foo Fighters recently declared ing Mötley Crüe-style show that “I think what the Struts the “best opening band it’s easy to believe the most we’re doing is we’ve ever had.” There’s no denypopular and culturally relevant ing such high-profile support slots forms of music are still played creating a new era of give the band a boost, but Spiller with guitar, drums, and bass — rock and glam-rock.” says it’s difficult to measure that rock ’n’ roll isn’t dormant, success as a modern recording and but dominant.

Luke Spiller touring group, particularly when Spiller says it’s never been the singer, the Struts the bandmates’ goals are so lofty. band’s mission to revive yester“It’s funny, isn’t it? Define year’s music. ‘success,’ really,” he said. “Bob Dylan “I think people have to be very caresaid success is being able to get up in the ful with regurgitating a genre and not adding morning and go to sleep again, and everything anything new,” he said. “I think there’s a real danger in between that is doing what you want. On the in that, and I think what the Struts have always other side, we define success with chart position, wanted to do is take the music that really inspires us cash flow, and how your business, which is your and push it in another direction. … I think what we’re band, grows. In terms of breaking America, I’d say doing is creating a new era of rock and glam-rock.” Ω we’re taking a giant leap forward. We’ve covered an enormous amount of ground over the last three years. Everything is moving toward this second the struts perform at Ace of spades sunday, november 11, 7 p.m. the album.” show is sold out. follow the band at facebook.com/thestruts.

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SATURDAY, 11/10

DaLeY: The British songwriter a vocal range

coLT FoRD: The country-est rapper to come

FenaM FeSTiVaL: The FENAM festival continues

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#StillHere capitol March & Rally for Trans Justice Chyna Gibson mural, 10am, no Cover When was the last time your government decided for you that an immutable aspect of your existence was Take acTion invalid? Not recently?

For a lot of people, the answer is and will likely remain “never,” and that makes it hard to properly understand the threat of the Trump administration’s efforts to define away transgender people. It’s a

TickeT WinDoW STEvEN PAgE TRiO Get some

exciting Steven Page rock music, even though the band name is less eyecatching. 11/19, 11am, $25-$35, on sale now.

Harlow’s, ticketfly.com.

FLEETWOOD MAC It’s the last time

you’ll see Fleetwood Mac in the Ticket Window—there’s still tickets, too. 11/23, 8pm, $69.50-$149.50, on sale now. Golden 1 Center, ticketmaster.com.

LiNDSEY STiRLiNg The Wanderland

Tour is what brings the famed electric violinist to Sacramento, also money. 11/24, 8pm, $34.50-$129, on sale now. Golden 1 Center, ticketmaster.com.

bRUCE HORNSbY Hurry up and get a

little smooth rocking from Hornsby, who’ll be solo on the piano. 11/26, 7:30pm, $43-$75, on sale now. Harris Center, harriscenter.net.

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really big threat. This march to the Capitol will start with a rally and speakers who will talk about the systemic opposition and violence toward trans people. Sacramento, come out and support a group that continues to be ignored and underserved.

If you’re looking for some kind of sign that things have gone too far in this country, we’re there. 1414 21st Street.

Lay down some scratch for entry to a concert, you buffoon.

PJ MORTON The musical artist known for playing with Maroon 5 will be playing with Grace Weber. 12/4, 7pm, $20, on sale now. Harlow’s, ticketfly.com

SiLvERSTEiN The only Canadian

band I can think of that’s named after Shel Silverstein is touring for the 15th anniversary of their album When Broken is Easily Fixed. 12/5, 6pm, $22, on sale now.

Ace of Spades, eventbrite.com

THE NUTCRACkER Get that

unquenchable thirst for Tchaikovsky momentarily quelled at the Sacramento Ballet. 12/14-12/23, various times, $30-$90, on sale now. Community Center Theatre, sacballet.org/nutcracker.

bOSTON bRASS There’s a lot of holiday orchestral music options this season—pick one. Here’s a brassy one, with a jazzy

take on winter tunes. 12/16, 2pm, $12.50-$90, on sale now.

Mondavi Center, tickets. mondaviarts.org.

PAPA ROACH Come next year, you may want to hear some hard-rocking Papa Roach. Consult your astrologist.

1/18, 7pm, $39.50, on sale 11/9 at 10am. Ace of Spades, eventbrite.com.

Don’t stop, Stevie.

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THURSDAY, 11/8 like the expanse of the Gobi Desert will play with special guests. 9pm, $20-$55. Harlow’s, 2708 J St.

March on the Capitol to bring justice to transgender people.

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in its 41st year of new American music. Sac State’s faculty and alumni will perform, a keynote address will be given by Terry Riley, and other performances and discussions round out the final days of the event. Various times, no cover. Sacramento State, 6000 J St.

kaLin WHiTe: The Bay Area R&B’er tours his Would You Still Be There? tour. 8pm, $15-

$20. Momo, 2708 J St.

kaTie kUFFeL: Spend some time listening to Kuffel’s folk music in a location disclosed upon your registration. 7pm, $25. Somewhere in Sacramento.

LaS MaDRinaS (THe GoDMoTHeRS) FUnDRaiSeR: The Philharmonik and Paul Willis and Live Band Cypher and Drunk Poetry and more come together to support Las Madrinas and their work in the community with underserved communities. Bring formula and diapers and wipes. 7pm, $5-$20. Blue Lamp, 1400 Alhambra Blvd.

LiSa LoeB: You are unable to describe Lisa Loeb without mentioning her hit song, “Stay” and its multi-platinum status.

Check out the Loeb behind the song. 7pm, $40. Sofia Tsakopoulos Center for the Arts, 2700 Capitol Ave.

FRiDAY, 11/9 Don VeDDa: According to donvedda.com, “donvedda is San Diego’s premiere mainstream pop band.” Most music groups qualify themselves as “one of the best” as opposed to the best—not Don Vedda! 6:30pm, $12. Holy Diver, 1517 21st St.

FUck canceR BeneFiT: The Knockoffs, Jesus & The Dinosaurs, The O’Mulligans and Mob Rule come together to teach cancer a lesson—get the hell out of here, cancer!

You suck! 9pm, $10-$20. Old Ironsides, 1901 10th St.

G HeRBo: The Swervo tour brings the Herbo sensation along with Southside, Queen

Key, Q Money and Lil James. 6:30pm, $27$102. Ace Of Spades, 1417 R St.

JoHn cRaiGie: The funny and funnily sentimental Craigie has a fun presence, and this show sends $1 from every ticket to Sacramento Steps Forward, which aims to help connect the homeless with services that they need to find stability. 6:30pm, $19$21. Harlow’s, 2708 J St.

LaDieS Rock caMP SHoWcaSe: This benefit show for Girls Rock Sacramento brings The Ladies Rock Camp band and other guests to round out the evening with music. 8pm, $10. Shine, 1400 E St.

LocaL H: Though Local H is local to Zion, IL, their music will be performed locally in Sacramento. 10pm, $15-$18. Harlow’s, 2708 J St.

through town for a while comes through town for a while. 7pm, $20. Ace Of Spades, 1417 R St.

GoaTWHoRe: The metal band that has a bone

to pick with goats stops through town. 7pm, $20. The Boardwalk, 9426 Greenback Lane in Orangevale.

STRUnZ & FaRaH: What happens when two talented guitarists play together onstage?

Well, a venue might sell tickets to that show, which is the case in this situation. 7pm, $45. Sofia Tsakopoulos Center for the Arts, 2700 Capitol Ave.

SUNDAY, 11/11 ToRcH oF HoPe BeneFiT conceRT: The Breakers, The Hucklebucks, The Pistofferson Brothers and Aaron King play music for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. There’s food and a raffle, too. 3pm, $15. Torch Club, 904 15th St.

TUESDAY, 11/13 BReakinG BenJaMin: The hard-rock band with the eponymous Benjamin Burnley comes to G1C with the heavy metal band named after a kung fu movie, Five Finger Death Punch. 6pm, $25.94-$125. Golden 1 Center, 500 David J. Stern Walk.

GHoST: Amid legal concerns, the devilishly Swedish performance art band stops through on their A Pale Tour Named Death tour. We ran a story on them last week, remember? 8pm, $57-$127. Community Center Theatre.

RUSSian STRinG oRcHeSTRa: Do you like your string orchestras how you like your tea cakes? Well, if that’s the case, see this 1991-founded orchestra perform the hottest hits from teen-favorites Elgar, Shostakovich, Bach and Dvorak. 7:30pm, $22-$42. Harris Center, 10 College Parkway in Folsom.

oSHUn: Don’t miss the hip-hop group’s mellow flow or the contributing performances from Moon Magic, KARE Collective and Highclass Hoodlums. 7pm, $12-$50. Holy Diver, 1517 21st St.

FESTivALS THURSDAY, 11/8 ZeRo GRaFFiTi inT’L 2018: Are you part of the international movement of people united against graffiti? Probably not—but they’re convening this year in Sacramento, detailing their efforts in ending the unlawful painting, with guest speakers and vendors and all manner of networking for people against graffiti. 8am, $50-$250. Holiday Inn Downtown, 300 J St.

SATURDAY, 11/10 SLoPPY BaLL: This party held by the Sloppy Moose Running Club goes brings beer, food and music into one place, which means it’s a party. Come dress up in a costume and bring a food or clothing donation for

SATURDAY, 11/10

Sacramento Roller Derby Announcer Workshop SacRamento RolleR deRby, 4pm, no coveR

Ready for a career change? It could all start here at this free roller derby announcer workshop. Come see what it takes to describe roller derby as it’s happening in SPORTS & OUTDOORS this two-part class (second date is November 16).

Whether you’ve played a lot, a little or a lot less than a little, it couldn’t hurt to show up—after all, workshops are for learning. Bring an open mind and a willingness to try new things, and you’ll get to announce a scrimmage. 1501 N. C Street, facebook.com/sacrollerderby.

ON STAGE BEATNIK STUDIOS: Journeys to Belonging.

This night features stories from refugees, immigrants and more. It’s an evening of storytelling hosted by World Relief Sacramento, and tickets include appetizers and beverages. Thursday 11/8, 7pm. $10. 723 S St.

C.K. MCCLATCHY HIGH SCHOOL: Change, the Musical. This high school original production tells the musical story of a group of high schoolers facing the struggles of high school. Through 11/16. $5-$10. 3066 Freeport Blvd.

SUNDAY, 11/11 SACRAMENTO ANTIQUE FAIRE: There’s a lot of places you can get antiques in Sacramento—especially if you buy new tchotchkes and waiting for them to become antiques—but this one makes it a bit faster, with 300 vendors of things that are not from this century. Get your monthly fix of old-timey possessions. 6:30am, $3. 21st & X Streets, Under the Freeway, 2350 21st St.

has been consistently disappointing.

You’ll learn about the finer details of bean brewing, so get on down and learn from a bona fide barista. Noon, no cover. Insight Coffee, 1901 8th St.

CREATING BEAUTIFUL CHEESE BOARDS: Everyone has at some point faced this problem: Your cheeses taste great, but they are poorly arranged. Fret no more! Come learn how to prepare a cheese board in the various artistic styles, themes and pairings at this very extra course. Yes, you will get to taste cheese. 11am, $60. American River College, 4700 College Oak Drive.

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FILM FRIDAY, 11/9 WARREN MILLER’S FACE OF WINTER: Do you like snow sports? Do you like films sponsored

by Volkswagen? Really? That’s a bizarre combination, but this film sounds like the perfect fit for you. You’ll see extreme ski and snowboarders in extreme snow-capped locales. 6:30pm, $16-$19. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.

FRIDAY, 11/9

WEDNESDAY, 11/14

SACRAMENTO COFFEE BEERFEST: Do you like

COLDPLAY’S A HEAD FULL OF DREAMS: The story

coffee? Do you like beer? Do you like a kind of bastardized hybrid of the two?

That’s probably too harsh—so come out and enjoy some coffee beer from more than 20 brewers of the bitter bubbly. You can even vote for your favorite of the bean brew beverage offerings, so come participate. 6pm, $15-$45. The Brickhouse Gallery & Art Complex, 2837 37th St.

SATURDAY, 11/10 AUTUMN WOOD FIRE PIZZA CELEBRATION: Come work for a day at this community garden.

You should do it for the sense of ownership for your community, but also because you get wood fire pizza at the end. It’s a surefire way to enjoy some ’za, by sweating for it in the garden. 10am, no cover. Fruitridge Community Collaborative, 4625 44th St.

BEATLES & BREW: The beer train is going British, bringing the Beatles to the railroad tracks. Come and have some brew while listening to a Beatles tribute band. Kids are allowed, and dogs are also allowed. 2pm, $10-$70. Sacramento RiverTrain, 400 N. Harbor Blvd. in West Sacramento.

COFFEE BREWING SEMINAR: Get the information you desperately need to make good coffee, as the stuff you’ve been brewing recently

STAB! COMEDY THEATER: Duos Night. Battle Canary and 20 Minute Intermission go head-to-head with improv, as the two groups comprised each of two people take stage and make audiences laugh and … learn? Friday 11/9, 8pm. $5. The Licorice Boys (and friends). More improv from a number of improv comics, all set on one goal: to perform improv comedy. Friday 11/9, 9pm. $5. 1710 Broadway.

SACRAMENTO COMEDY SPOT: The Gateway

SACRAMENTO VETERANS DAY PARADE: Head downtown (unless you’re already downtown) for this parade of veterans, marching bands and organizations you’d expect in a parade. The Capitol Mall will have a resource fair, a presentation and of course the parade mentioned in the title, which starts at 11 a.m. 9am, no cover. Capitol Mall, Between 3rd and 9th Streets.

celebrities’ wildest portraits is stopping through and mustn’t be missed. Thursday 11/8, 8pm & 10:15pm. $25. 2100 Arden Way, Suite 225.

of Coldplay, years in the making, comes to the screen. It’s like a cross between Boyhood and One Direction, detailing the group’s rise and ultimate destination as one of the world’s most enjoyable bands. 7pm, $10.50. The Tower Theatre, 2508 Land Park Drive.

COMEDY FOOTHILLS EVENT CENTER: The Second City’s Improv All Stars. You don’t have to go to Chicago to get comedy from the Chicagofounded comedy theater! You only have to go to Grass Valley. Stop by to get improv from the touring arm of the comedy company. Thursday 11/8, 8pm. $40. 400 Idaho Maryland Road in Grass Valley.

HARLOW’S: One Night of Fun with Jen Kirkman.

You might know her from her stand up, from her specials, her work on Chelsea Lately—or you might know her from the two episodes of Phineas and Ferb she conceived. Well, check out the prolific comedian, one night only. Monday 11/10, 7pm. $25-$30. 2708 J St.

PUNCH LINE: Celeste Barber Live USA Tour. The uproariously funny Australian Instagram model and comedian who parodies

Show. This show, sponsored by a vape cartridge company that I refuse to name, has comedians perform comedy then get high, then try to tell more jokes. Friday 11/9, 9:15pm. $15-$20. The Art Critique Comedy Show. Get yourself to the most approachable art auction you can find with this comedic roasting of cheap art. Saturday 11/10, 6pm. $15-$20. Rhea Butcher. The Ohioan comedian who became a Los Angelesian comedian stops through and will likely sell out. Through 11/11. $20. 1050 20th St., Suite 130.

TOMMY T’S COMEDY CLUB: Joey Guila. “One of the funniest Filipino-American comics working today” is stopping through with energy, lots of it. Through 11/10. $20-$30. 12401 Folsom Blvd. in Rancho Cordova.

Palestine on Foot. This human rights activist walked from Sweden to Palestine this year and will speak about his experiences. 7pm.

Through 11/9. No cover. 2100 J St.

HARRIS CENTER: Peter Pan. The J.M. Barrie tale about the ageless, nymph-like Peter Pan comes to Folsom, care of El Dorado Musical Theatre. Through 11/18. $36-$55. 10 College Parkway in Folsom.

JEAN HENDERSON PERFORMING ARTS: Annie.

The plucky orphan once again shines on the stage in a series of unlikely events that leads to her own happy ending. Through 11/24. $20. 607 Pena Drive in Davis.

PACHAMAMA COFFEE: Open-Mic Night. Get thee to an open-mic night, you swine. This one features an art pop-up as well as the offerings of Sacramentans, amplified through a sound system. Saturday 11/10, 6pm. No cover. 919 20th St. from the South come together in a hair salon to dish about the things going on in their life. Through 12/9. $38. 1419 H St.

SUTTER STREET THEATRE: Little Women. Alcott’s work about some young women forced to cope with poverty and their adventures and misadventures comes to the stage in an adaptation by Peter Clapham. Through 12/2. $13-$18. 717 Sutter St. in Folsom.

Storytelling Live Event. Come hear some

Check out photography from Dave Webb in this exhibition of iPhone artwork, featured on page . Friday 11/9, 6pm. No cover. 1919 F St. in Davis.

E STREET GALLERY: From the Hills. Artists from Nevada County share their work based on life up in the hills, with artists Rick Morrall, Chantelle Goldthwaite, John Baca and more. Through 11/25. No cover. 1115 E St.

JAYJAY: Her Way. This four-woman show features the unique styles of the artists, which range from abstract mixed media to geometric constructions by Katherine Warinner, Ellen Van Fleet, Jennifer Lugris and Kerry Cottle. Through 12/22. No cover. 5524 Elvas Ave., Suite B.

KENNEDY GALLERY: Water Stained Watercolor.

The medium of watercolor is explored as it in turn explores the Sacramento region’s autumnal array of natural beauty. Through 12/1. No cover. 1931 L St.

SHEPARD GARDEN AND ART CENTER: Art to

SACRAMENTO THEATRE: Steel Magnolias. Women

VERGE CENTER FOR THE ARTS: Capital

DAVIS ARTS CENTER: Drama in Agriculture.

around and about in Davis, exploring art exhibitions and installations and all things creative. Friday 11/9, 5pm. No cover. E Street Plaza in Davis.

about the changing industrial environment in America continues. Through 11/18. $22$47. 2215 J St.

FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: Sweden to the Sacramento Food Bank for discounted admission. 6:30pm, $10-$20. Sierra 2 Center, 2791 24th St.

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CAPITAL STAGE: Sweat. The Lynn Nottage work PHOTO COURTESY OF LIZ MARCHIANDO

people’s stories. Genuine folks will share their tales, and you will listen and subconsciously consider your own similarities and your differences with the speakers. Friday 11/9, 7pm. $7. 625 S St.

Wear & More Show. Maybe you like your art hanging on your walls, but you might prefer some of it draped off the harsh curves of your shoulders or clinging to your belly. If that appeals to you, consider stopping by this exposition of textile art, with variety in fabric and other wearable art. There’s music and food you can purchase, too, and a fashion show on Saturday at 10 a.m. Saturday 11/9 and Sunday 11/10, 10am. No cover. 3330 McKinley Blvd.

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Touch-a-Truck 2018 Raley Field paRking lot, 9am, $10

Kids these days—when I was their age, at 9 a.m. on a Saturday I’d be watching Yu-GiOh! in my PJs. Nowadays, they spend their weekends out at Raley Field, exploring trucks and machines that professionals use to help run society.

SPORTS & OUTDOORS Garbage trucks, tractors, police cars, you name it. The point of the morning is to highlight the women who run these machines and to empower girls by seeing the many roles women have in society. It’s presented by the Junior League of Sacramento, and it benefits their efforts.

860 Riverfront Street in West Sacramento, jlsac.org/events/touch-a-truck.

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watermelon music: Music as My Muse.

Marilyn Rose shares a collection of 30 portraits of 30 local musicians who were painted as they played. You’ll be able to see the musicians perform and meet the artist who painted them. friday 11/9, 4pm. 1970 Lake Blvd., Suite 1 in Davis.

mUseUms aerospace museum of california: Veterans Day Open Cockpit. Hop into the cockpit of an airplane in honor of the many veterans who have served this country. The museum is open to the public at no charge, so come down and learn about the aircraft that have a place in the history of our country. sunday 11/11, 10am. no cover. 3200 Freedom Park Drive in North Highlands.

california state capitol museum: WWI Armistice Day 100th Anniversary. One hundred years after the end of the first World War, the California State Capitol will open to the public to commemorate the war and the people who fought in it. There will be music, historical displays, costumed docents and more. sunday 11/11, 11am. no cover. 1315 10th St.

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to Crocker for another mixer in the home of many art mediums. This months brings music paired with big-top style circus acts.

There’s Ringmistress ChaCha Burnadette, Magician Ryan Kane, SacCirque and more. 6pm. through 11/8. $10-$20. 216 O St.

nortH sacramento-Hagginwood library: Drum Up a Story. Participate in a drum circle and listen to a story. It takes the phrase “feeling the beat” to the next level— the library level. saturday 11/10, 2pm. no cover. 2109 Del Paso Blvd.

sylvan oaKs library: Coffee, Donuts and a Movie. The coffee is made from coffee beans, the donuts are made from dough and the movie is made by George Roy Hill—that’s right, The Sting. Relive the awesome con artistry set to music by the great, great Scott Joplin. friday 11/9, 1:30pm. no cover. 6700 Auburn Blvd. in Citrus Heights.

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wednesday, 11/14 gold country writers Joey garcia: Garcia shares her book, Start the Press: How to Get Media Attention. Garcia, who writes a column in this publication, page 40, clearly gets media attention—heck, this thing you’re reading is media attention. 10am, no cover. Bethlehem Lutheran Church, 1279 High St. in Auburn.

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will show up to talk about her memoir, TigerFish: A Memoir of a South Vietnamese Colonel’s Daughter. She will discuss the book that follows her experiences growing up in Vietnam in the aftermath of the war and coming to America. 3:30pm, no cover. Rancho Cordova Library, 9845 Folsom Blvd.

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The Davis City Council decided that this month is Phone Art Month, and coinciding with that art is this photography show from Dave Webb.

The artist’s medium of choice is his iPhone, which he uses in this exhibition PHoto coUrtesy oF dave weBB to capture the moments of drama he sees while out driving with his wife and dog. Everything in this show was shot and processed on Webb’s phone, and the final products are housed in “glowing frames.” Stop by for a discussion with Webb, or check out the exhibit before November 17. 1919 F Street in Davis, davidmarketing.net/2014/drama-in-agriculture.

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will run nearly through the end of January, with a number of activities and themed days along the way. Get downtown at some point to skate, alright? 2pm, $13-$15. St. Rose of Lima Park, 701 K St.

satUrday, 11/10 community day at tHe sacramento adventure playground: Get your playing on at this adventure playground. Kids can make their own playthings out of repurposed items in a safe way.

There’s no cover, it’s a fun way to let kids get some play excitement. 11am, no cover. Sacramento Adventure Playground, 3301 37th Ave.

srd announcer worKsHop 2018: Do you have the voice of a roller derby announcer trapped inside your body? If so, check out the event highlight on page 27. 4pm, no cover. Sacramento Roller Derby, 1501 N. C St.

toucH-a-trucK: Want to touch one of the trucks that people use to provide vital services to the community? Check out the event highlight on page 27. 9am, $8$10. Raley Field, 400 Ballpark Drive in West Sacramento.

sUnday, 11/11 sKatemd 4tH birtHday & benefit: The doctor is in: Skateboarding is still not a crime!

Come on down for some birthday cake in celebration of the fourth birthday of an entity that cannot consume cake but that does provide a much-needed skateboard prescription for kids that need it. With a DJ, music, a raffle, an auction and lots of fun times to be had, it’s a great night in the spirit of skateboarding. 3pm, $10. Beatnik Studios, 723 S St.

is an inclusive acroyoga workshop for folks with all levels of skill. 1pm, $24-$30. The Yoga Seed Collective, 1400 E St., Suite B.

wednesday, 11/14 tHe otHer mic: Partake and take part in this open mic for the LGBTQ community to take to the amplification systems to share their material. 7pm, no cover. Lavender Library, 1414 21st St.

taKe action tHUrsday, 11/8 wind youtH services open House: Check out the new Wind Youth Services Center downtown, because you’re invited to tour it, learn about it and meet folks involved with it. 5pm, no cover. Wind Youth Services, 185 S St.

satUrday, 11/10 cair sacramento valley 16tH annual banQuet: Bring an appetite for civil rights!

And also bring an appetite for banquet food. Both will be needed at this 16th year of the advocacy group’s efforts. Rashida Tlaib is the guest of the evening, the first Muslim American female congresswomanelect. 5pm, $20. Sacramento State University Ballroom, 6000 J St.

Hops & Handlebars: Time to tell prostate cancer that it’s time to go to hell; this fundraiser for awareness will be educational, community-building and plenty of fun, all in memory of Dr. Benjamin Pessah.

The evening brings local beers, raffles, a photo booth and a mustache contest. Come together, Sacramento, for this night of combating the cancer, benefiting ZERO, a nonprofit dedicated to the cause. 5pm, no cover. Urban Roots Brewing, 1322 V St.

purplestride sacramento 2018-tHe walK to end pancreatic cancer: Pancreatic cancer can also go to hell; this event is a walk to

suNday, 11/11 saCRaMeNTO sPCa’s Fall BOOK sale: The SPCA is raising funds with a good old-fashioned book sale. Proceeds go toward the SPCA animals and the books go toward your continued growth and education as a human. 10am, no cover. Sunrise Mall, 6041 Sunrise Blvd. in Citrus Heights.

Tuesday, 11/13 F.U.e.l. RallY aT THe sTaTe CaPITOl: The Families United to End Life Without Parole is rallying at the Capitol to deliver a petition to the governor. 10:30am, no cover. California State Capitol, 1315 10th St.

CLasses THuRsday, 11/8 VeGaN THaNKsGIVING: Vegans are probably one of the more grateful groups out there, so get a Thanksgiving meal experience at this demonstration class. 6pm, $30. Community Learning Center & Cooking School, 2820 R St.

FRIday, 11/9

things you need to know about drypoint printmaking, which is sort of like engraving, but different. 10am, $180. Verge Center for the Arts, 625 S St.

PaINT YOUR PeT WaRHOl: Think your pet portraits have gotten a little staid? Perhaps they need a glamorous restyling—if you send a headshot of your animal companion, pay a fee and show up to this event, you’ll be able to Warhol-ify your pal on a square foot of canvas. 4pm, $55. The Painted Cork, 1624 J St.

Tuesday, 11/13 CeNTROaMeRICa HIPHOP, POlITICs aND FeMINIsMs: Join a discussion about Central American culture with a number of experts in various sectors of the cultural spectrum.

Federico Peixoto is a film producer and DJ, Dr. Aleksander Aguilar Antunes runs O ISTMO, an online discussion platform, and Paula Sofia Ayala is an intersectional feminist, grad student and hip-hop advocate. 6pm, $10. Sol Collective, 2574 21st St.

IMPORTaNCe OF CaTIFYING YOUR HOMe: How cat-friendly is your home? It can always be more friendly, as you’ll learn at this class, featured below. 7pm, no cover. UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, 1 Garrod Drive in Davis.

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So you’ve got a cat—you’re rightfully excited. For all you know, though, you may be making every mistake in the catClasses rearing book.

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Godmothers Fundraiser with the Philharmonik and Paul Willis, 7pm, $5-$20

Atriarch, Statiqbloom and Deth Crux, 8pm, $10-$12

Spanky’s Electric Swing Soiree with DJ Lady Chair and more, 8pm, $10-$12

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Roland Tonies, 1-800, Henry’s Magic Family Band and more, 8:30pm, $10

Goatwhore, the Casualties, Black Tusk and more, 6:30pm, $20

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Fuck Cancer: Danny’s Lame-Ass Birthday Honyock, Prism B!tch and Everyone is Bash, 7pm, $5-$20 Dirty, 8pm, M, call for cover

Capitol Cabaret, 7pm, $5-$25

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

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Ghost, 8pm, T, $40-$75

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Warren Miller’s Face of Winter, 6:30pm & 9:30pm, $16-$19

Suicide Girls Blackheart Burlesque, 9pm, Brazil, 7pm, $7.50-$9.50 $25-$125

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Sequin Saturday, 9:30pm, call for cover

Tempest, 8pm, call for cover

Mark and Steve, 8pm, call for cover

Adam Block, 9pm, $5

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

Pool Party, 9pm, no cover

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Leaving Austin and Dire Lane, 7:30pm, W, $10

Let’s Get Quizzical, 7pm, T, no cover

Vagabond Brothers, 8pm, call for cover John Craigie and Rainbow Girls, 6:30pm, $19-$21

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This Will Destroy You and Clarice Jensen, 8pm, T, $16-$18

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Southern Culture on the Skids, 8pm, $18-$20

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I like to carry a pipe with me while running errands just in case the opportunity arises. A quick hit with a small pipe is much more discreet than sparking a joint.

After years of “research,” I still haven’t found that absolutely perfect carry-around pipe—but I do know what to look for. So with that in mind, here’s a few tips from a veteran toker.

The ideal portable pipe is compact, sits upright and draws easily, with a screen that fits tightly and a cover over the bowl. A device that’s easy to clean is also important.

An added bonus is if the piece looks nice and feels good to the touch. Some materials like ceramic clay are too fragile for such daily use. Mick Sheldon, an artist based in Yolo County, made me a

ceramic self-portrait pipe with a circular bowl that was shaped like artist’s mouth. I dropped it once and the stem broke. (Sorry, Sheldon.) Clay pipes can be durable like the one local artist Dan Samborski crafted for me three years back, but its smooth glaze finish made it impossible to anchor screens inside the bowl.

Glass is a beautiful material, especially the way it reflects light, and professional glass-blowing artist Jason Thiemann’s spoon pipes are portable works of art. His process starts with true glow-in-the-dark borosilicate glass that radiates under black light. But glass also breaks easily. Needless to say, my Thiemann pipe only makes special appearances.

A $6 silicone pipe from China came close to the ideal smoking vessel. With

shallow hole down from the top. If the two holes connected, we had a pipe.

We added faucet screens from the hardware store, and used folded paper and a rubber band to cover a packed bowl.

Recently, I discovered the “Genius Pipe” made from anodized aluminum.

It’s split into two layers: A bottom with 2,000 tiny dimples inside, which cool and filter the smoke; and a sleek top layer that slides to cover the bowl.

GeniusPipe.com calls it a “no-cough” hit, while highlighting its convenience on its website: “You can pack a bowl, put it in your pocket just like a phone and when you get to your destination it’s still packed.”

Sounds ... well, genius. Except, its $80 price tag slowed me down.

But then I saw Genius Pipe’s Stanley photo by ken magri / illustration by sarah hansel Mouse/Alton Kelley limited-edition pieces that features the psychedelic artists’ rose-covered skeleton of Grateful Dead fame. Price now meant nothing and I bought one for $120.

With a nice easy draw, the dimples worked well to prevent cough attacks.

The cover slid smoothly, the screens fit tightly and cleaning with a little

by Ken Magri isopropyl alcohol was effortless. The Genius Pipe would be my recommendation for the perfect pipe, excluding the high price. an unbreakable cover and reusable After all the online searches—and aluminum screen, it drew well and perhaps inspired by a bit of cleaned easily with hot nostalgia—I stepped into water. Still, the pipe was my garage and took so short it had the out my power tools. capability to light As teenagers, From some simple a mustache on before the advent of rosewood burl, I fire. The silicone crafted a 4-inch also felt odd and head shops, my friends pipe reminiscent ultimately this and I made pipes from a of the one-hitters cheap pipe lost simple resource: wood. … If from my youth. I its appeal. added an 89-cent, As teenagers, the two holes connected, steel-rimmed screen before the advent we had a pipe. complete with the of head shops, my familiar folded paper/ friends and I made rubber band cover. It was pipes from a simple as perfect as any other, but resource: wood. Using way less expensive. Almost genius? three-sixteenths and half-inch drill I think so. Ω bits, we’d drill a long hole across the length of the wood piece followed by a

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Have weed, will travel Can cannabis give you pneumonia?

—Lungs Mcgee

Only if you smoke outside without a coat. Winter is coming. But for serious, cannabis won’t make you sick, but you do have to careful about molds and fungi and stuff, because fungi love warm, wet, dark places, and your lungs are definitely warm, wet and dark. However, all of the weed you buy at the dispensary has been tested for molds and stuff, so you should be OK. If you are still buying your cannabis in the “traditional” marketplace, be careful. Lung infections are not fun. Enjoy weed.

Wear a sweater.

What do you think of liverwort as a cannabis substitute?

—KLJ

Why would anyone use a deli meat as a cannabis substitute? Oh. Wait.

Liver-WORT. My bad.

Are you asking because of the recent study that claims that perrottetinene (A THC-like chemical found in liverwort plants) has good anti-inflammatory properties but doesn’t get you high like weed?

Yeah. I’m good.

Besides the fact that liverwort has been a folk remedy for more than a long time, I bet smoking liverwort tastes worse than smoking liverwurst. Also: We already know where to get THC. There is no reason for science to find a new source for THC, unless they are trying to find a way for big pharma to keep all the good medicine for themselves.

So I was wondering, what can people take on airplanes? Does it depend upon the destination? What do people who have chronic pain do when they travel, if they cannot bring weed?

—gLo B. TroTTer

Excellent question. People used to get busted at the airport for possession.

Maybe not all the time, but enough for some folks to be worried. These days? Not so much. I fly with weed all the time. Only been caught once, and the TSA agent told me that since my weed wasn’t a threat to the safety of the plane, I could enjoy my flight. The TSA doesn’t mind small amounts of cannabis, especially if you are traveling from a legal state to a legal state. I mean, don’t bring a pound and a half, but a few grams isn’t really a problem. Put your vape pens in your carry-on luggage (they worry about the batteries in vape pens exploding in checked luggage), throw your flowers in your checked luggage and have a safe trip.

If you find yourself somewhere without dispensaries, I suppose you will have to do what people have done for years: Either bring enough with you so you don’t run out, or find the black, er, I mean traditional market. Also, just because the TSA is cool, doesn’t mean the local law enforcement agencies are.

Stay cool and be discreet. Ω

Ngaio Bealum is a Sacramento comedian, activist and marijuana expert. Email him questions at ask420@newsreview.com.

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Self-improvement is your deal breaker.

So start every conversation (and your online profile) with that level of clarity.

A few people might be offended and clap back. Try not to take their criticism personally.

Say that vegans prefer to date vegans and liberals enjoy dating liberals.

Explain that you are also choosing a partner who shares your values. It’s a lifestyle choice, not a judgment against slackers.

The other dating hack I’d recommend is to make hard decisions courageously. Here’s one: Stop hanging out with a man once you know you have no long-term future together. If he’s the kind of guy you want as a friend, ask yourself if that’s fair to him. Is he hoping for more but settling for friendship because that’s all you offer?

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You might be attracted to your friend and unable to admit that to yourself. So you get drunk and pretend not to know what you’re doing.

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For THe Week oF NovemBer 8, 2018 ARIES (March 21-April 19): In 1994, Aries pop diva

Mariah Carey collaborated with an associate to write the song “All I Want For Christmas Is You.” It took them 15 minutes to finish it. Since then it has generated $60 million in royalties.

I wish I could unconditionally predict that you, too, will efficiently spawn a valuable creation sometime soon. Current planetary alignments do indeed suggest that such a development is more possible than usual. But because I tend to be conservative in my prophecies, I won’t guarantee anything close to the $60-million figure.

In fact, your reward may be more spiritual in nature than financial.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): An interactive post

at Reddit.com asked readers to write about “the most underrated feeling of all time.” One person said, “When you change the sheets on your bed.” Another extolled “the feeling that comes when you pay all your bills and you’ve still got money in the bank.” Others said “dancing under the rain,” “physical contact like a pat on the back when you’re really touch starved” and “listening to a song for the first time and it’s so good you just can’t stop smiling.” I bring this to your attention, Taurus, because I suspect that the next two weeks will bring you a flood of these pleasurable underrated feelings.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “Beer makes you

feel the way you ought to feel without beer,” wrote Gemini author Henry Lawson. Do you have any methods for making yourself feel like you’ve drunk a few beers that don’t involve drinking a few beers? If not, I highly recommend that you find at least one. It will be especially important in the coming weeks for you to have a way to alter, expand or purify your consciousness without relying on literal intoxicants or drugs. The goal: to leave your groove before it devolves into a rut.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Study the following five

failed predictions: 1. “There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom.” —Robert Miliham, Nobel Laureate in Physics, 1923. 2.

“This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.” —Western Union internal memo, 1876.

3. “Rail travel at high speeds is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia.” —Dionysius Lardner, scientist, 1830. 4. “There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.” —Ken Olson, president of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977. 5. “Most Cancerians will never overcome their tendencies toward hypersensitivity, procrastination, and fear of success.” —Lanira Kentsler, astrologer, 2018. (P.S. What you do in the next 12 months could go a long way toward permanently refuting the last prediction.)

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): German scientists have

created cochlear implants for gerbils that have been genetically modified, enabling the creatures to “listen” to light. The researchers’ work is ultimately dedicated to finding ways to improve the lives of people with hearing impairments. What might be the equivalent of you gaining the power to “hear light”? I understand that you might resist thinking this way. “That makes no sense,” you may protest, or “There’s no practical value in fantasizing about such an impossibility.”

But I hope you’ll make the effort anyway. In my view, stretching your imagination past its limits is the healing you need most right now.

I also think that doing so will turn out to be unexpectedly practical.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Here’s useful wisdom

from the poet Rumi: “Our defects are the ways that glory gets manifested,” he said.

“Keep looking at the bandaged place. That’s where the light enters you.” Playwright Harrison David Rivers interprets Rumi’s words to mean, “Don’t look away from your pain, don’t disengage from it, because that pain is the source of your power.” I think these perspectives are just what you need to meditate on, Virgo. To promote even more healing in you, I’ll add a further clue from poet Anna Kamienska: “Where your pain is, there your heart lies also.” (P.S. Rumi is translated by Coleman Barks; Kamienska by Clare Cavanagh.)

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Artist David Hockney

is proud of how undemanding he is toward his

friends and associates. “People tell me they open my emails first,” he says, “because they aren’t demands and you don’t need to reply.

They’re simply for pleasure.” He also enjoys giving regular small gifts. “I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms.” Hockney seems to share the perspective expressed by author Gail Godwin, who writes, “How easy it was to make people happy, when you didn’t want or need anything from them.” In accordance with astrological omens, Libra, I suggest you have fun employing these approaches in the coming weeks.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I am not currently

a wanderer or voyager or entrepreneur or swashbuckler. But at other times in my life, I have had extensive experience with those roles. So I know secrets about how and why to be a wanderer and voyager and entrepreneur and swashbuckler. And it’s clear to me that in the coming weeks you could benefit in unforeseen ways from researching and embodying the roles of curious wanderer and brave voyager and savvy entrepreneur and prudent swashbuckler.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “The best thing

one can do when it is raining is let it rain.”

That brilliant formulation came from poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Does it seem so obvious as to not need mentioning? Bear with me while I draw further meaning from it, and suggest you use it as an inspiring metaphor in the coming weeks. When it rains, Sagittarius, let it rain; don’t waste time and emotional energy complaining about the rain. Don’t indulge in fruitless fantasies about how you might stop the rain and how you’d love to stop the rain. In fact, please refrain from defining the rain as a negative event, because after all, it is perfectly natural, and is in fact crucial for making the crops grow and replenishing our water supply. (P.S. Your metaphorical “rain” will be equally useful.)

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Every true love

and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation,” writes activist and author Elif Shafak. “If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven’t loved enough.” I bring this to your attention because you’re in a phase when your close alliances should be activating healing changes in your life. If for some reason your alliances are not yet awash in the exciting emotions of redemption and reinvention, get started on instigating experimental acts of intimacy.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I suspect you will be

an especially arousing influence in the coming weeks. You may also be inspiring and disorienting, with unpredictable results. How many transformations will you unleash? How many expectations will you dismantle? How many creative disruptions will you induce in the midst of the daily grind? I hesitate to underestimate the messy beauty you’ll stir up or the rambunctious gossip you’ll provoke. In any case, I plan to be richly amused by your exploits, and I hope everyone else will be, as well. For best results, I will pray to the Goddess of Productive Fun, begging Her to ensure that the commotions and uproars you catalyze will be in service to love and kindness.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Gonzo journalist

Hunter S. Thompson wasn’t always a wild and crazy writer. Early in his career he made an effort to compose respectable, measured prose. When he finally gave up on that project and decided he could “get away with” a more uninhibited style, he described it as being “like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.” I foresee a metaphorically comparable development in your future, Pisces.

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Family artwork In his diary-style comic strip, Having it All, cartoonist Jesse Baggs

illustrates hilarious and relatable moments inspired by the everyday experiences he shares with his wife and two budding children. He invites the reader to giggle at the curiosities of toddlers, to revel in the ups and downs of parenthood and to connect with the candid experiences of one father navigating life. An English teacher at Florin High School by day, Baggs dreams of syndicated comics, graphic novels and keeping new work flowing on a monthly basis.

Local craft beer enthusiasts might recognize Baggs’ artistic style, as he made original illustrations for some of Track 7 Brewing Co.’s specialty can releases: A caricature of Ryan Gosling on a kettle sour ale and other silly characters adorned about 15 of the creative brews.

SN&R wanted to know Baggs’ childhood inspirations, his introduction to the world of drawing and, more importantly, what his wife thinks of Having it All. Does he ever leave anything out? Yes, here and there—but, thankfully, not everything.

What are your first memories tied to drawing?

My mom encouraged me to draw, and there was a show on PBS called Commander Mark and the Secret City; it was on in the ’80s. [It was hosted by] Mark Kistler, and he does this whole thing where he teaches kids how to draw in 3D and the different principles of drawing. He’s still around. So, I have memories of her taping that for me, and I would come home and draw after school and watch that.

First thing you illustrated—go.

My first memory is, I drew a monster with a penis, and I was like, “Look what I drew, Mom!” and she was like, “We don’t draw penises.” (Laughs.) I didn’t really understand why not. So I scribbled in something over it, and I was like, “Oh look, he’s wearing underwear now.”

Despite that experience, I kept drawing.

Any artists you looked up to during those formative years?

The author Syd Hoff visited our school—who wrote Danny the Dinosaur and Sammy the Seal. He was a cartoonist, but he did children’s books, too. I didn’t like his artwork at the time. I liked Garfield, and I thought Garfield was where it was at, like, art-wise. Syd Hoff

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has flat, Bigfoot-style, goofy characters with like, big potato noses, and I was like, “I’m not into this guy.” But the librarian asked kids to draw posters to welcome him, so I was copying his drawings to make these posters and I realized I was learning how to draw from this guy, because I didn’t really know how to draw, even though I thought I did.

Tell me about creating illustrations for Track 7.

I did quite a few illustrations … there was a series that I did that had to do with breakfast, and I created this brewer character that I liked drawing. It was just kind of goofy, but I liked it because it was silly. There was a brew called California Kids, and it was supposed to taste like a Creamsicle, and the characters on the can were buying beer out of an ice cream truck. So we had to age them up because of issues of marketing to minors, but it was fun. Helping out a friend and seeing my artwork out there was pretty exciting.

What’s your favorite Having it All strip?

I just did one based on this idea of gravity being like a bed or a blanket. I first read about it in a Michael Crichton novel, where the idea is that gravity is like a blanket, and when you put a heavy object on it, other objects sink toward it.

That’s like what’s happening with gravity.

Objects are attracted to each other.

But I just like that idea of attraction as

gravity. And also, we have a family bed, so our kids sleep with us, and we have three cats—who we don’t let sleep with us—but the whole idea of the comic was that our family bed was the gravity that was pulling us together, and that’s like the center of our universe, our family.

That was a nice one to do.

What does your wife think about the details of your diary comic?

She likes it. It’s something we joke about.

Something I worry about is that I don’t want to [fall] into that trope where I’m presenting the family where the dad’s like this bumbling idiot like Homer Simpson, and the wife is all together, but it’s hard not to fall into that sometimes.

There’s definitely been some ideas that I have where she’s not as gung-ho about it, or when our daughter does some really silly stuff … so it’s a good balance overall. She reminds me not to be too revealing, but I’ve essentially created characters that were kind of based on our family [so] there would be a little more distance. Ω

Draw with cartoonist Jesse Baggs on November 15 from 4-6 p.m. at the Valley Hi-North Laguna Library, 7400 Imagination Parkway in Elk Grove, where Baggs will lead a comic-making demonstration using Chromebooks. Follow Baggs on his Instagram, @hardpressedjess, or visit jessebaggs.com.

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