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I’ve thought more about doing so, however, since becoming editor here because I read every week about all the ways in Sacramento to be vegan.

While Shoka and her V Word column left SN&R last month after nearly nine years, we will continue to cover vegan restaurants and trends in our Planet V Vegetarians can pick from a feature. bounty of fresh produce at the With all those stories Ferry Plaza Farmers Market in in mind, I jumped at the San Francisco. chance to take a cooking class last month centered on a visit to the Ferry Plaza We can add another reason to go meat-free.

Farmers Market and its astounding variety of Doctors have warned for a long time that fruits and vegetables. eating too much red meat raises the risk of heart Divided into teams, the class went on a scavdisease, diabetes, certain cancers and other health enger hunt to find the ingredients for our menu: problems. How animals are raised and slaughasparagus and spring onion soup, vegetable tered makes a lot of people squeamish. slaw, salmon sliders and a dessert of lemon curd, More recently, scientists have shown the blueberries and strawberries. impact on climate change. Livestock—or more The San Francisco Cooking School is becomto the point, their poop and belches—are major ing more focused on vegetables and less on emitters of carbon dioxide and methane. meat, with far more fish on the menu, said Chef And now, there is growing concern about the Margie Kriebel, our instructor. use of antibiotics in livestock production leading We learned how to highlight farm-fresh to resistant bacteria in people, the Center for produce in recipes and substitute ingredients that Food Integrity reported recently. are in season—or at least that was supposed to I certainly didn’t need more convincing. be the lesson. Given my lack of kitchen skills, I I stopped eating red meat in 1992, mostly for count it as a success that I didn’t slice a finger health reasons. For the first few months, it was or do anything too embarrassing. At least I have tough driving home past the Char-Grill, with the more ideas to make vegetables a bigger part of aroma of burgers cooking on an open flame. my diet.

I gave up pork in 1996 after a reporting trip to And apparently I’m not alone. The planta huge hog farm in Eastern North Carolina. The based protein trend is picking up steam. farmer and industry flack were giving me the Fast-food places, including Burger King, are grand tour and bragging about how technology rolling out meatless options. And the Wall Street reduced the smell from open waste lagoons. success of companies that produce meatless Then the wind shifted. Let’s just say it took alternatives has other big corporations playing days to get the stench out of my clothes and hair. copycat.

Ever since, I’ve only eaten chicken, turkey While it would be a huge shift in American and fish. And I’m trying to limit those as I get society, eating more vegetables and less meat older. But I’m not disciplined enough quite yet to would be healthier for us and better for the go entirely meat-free, or even stop eating animal planet. Ω products altogether.

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Empty promises Re: “Rolling job killer” by Scott Thomas Anderson (Feature, May 9): Whenever a company or individuals wave money and make empty promises to our city leaders, our officials almost always devote time, money and public resources to make that “investment to our future” a reality. It’s happened with our previous city leaders and it continues today. Why do we continue this cycle?

Victor Morales s acr am e nt o / v i a e m a i l

More enforcement, please Re: “Rogue code” by Scott Thomas Anderson (News, May 16): I gladly invite Officer Angela Haight to move to Citrus Heights and do the job city employees here are too lazy to do. There may be some overkill going on, which has led to bad blood, but the article says that the neighborhood looks nice. Maybe the result of citations?

My Citrus Heights neighborhood is full of brokendown vehicles, yards full of junk, backyards growing pot, dilapidated trailers and other violations. It takes an act of God to get an officer to address the complaints, and on the rare occasion that it happens, the violation is repeated shortly after a temporary correction.

I would gladly accept over-enforcement until my neighborhood was “nice.”

curtis Fry citrus Heights / via email

Bad teachers Re: “Drama High” by Raheem F. Hosseini (Feature, May 2): As a drama teacher who took over from a “bad” drama teacher, I have seen how much damage bad teachers can do, especially those of us who deal directly with some of the most personal and intimate issues with students. Even though I have now been there for two years, I am still dealing with mental fallout from that bad teacher.

First, well-done students for speaking up! This behavior is unacceptable to any respectable teacher. For the Laguna Creek High School administration and Elk Grove Unified school board

to let this go on for as long as it did is not only unacceptable, but also an outrage and disservice to the students. Too often our drama departments are ignored or referred to as dumping grounds. I hope that when that administration and school board are held accountable, they actually learn something about theatre programs in their district and learn the difficulties that need to be addressed.

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Corrections Re: “The right to dance at the Pink Pussy Kat” by Rachel Mayfield (Arts & Culture, May 16): The reference to Earl Warren Sr.’s career was incorrect. He was California governor from 1943 to 1953 and chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1953 to 1969. SN&R regrets the error.

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A new way to live

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Probably consuming cannabis.

Because it allows me to chill out the part of my brain that won’t stop going on and on and on.

Cohousing creates real community and is better for the planet

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We live in a society that has become increasingly polarized and isolated. Years ago, people sat on their front porches and knew their neighbors.

Their homes were smaller and closer together, and the streets were narrower.

Today, people drive down the street with their garage door opener at the ready, and have little contact with neighbors. We are all suffering as a result.

I encourage people to consider an alternative approach—essentially a new version of oldfashioned neighborhoods. It’s called cohousing, and it offers community rather than isolation.

Cohousing originated in Denmark in the 1960s and was brought to the United States by architects Charles Durrett and Kathryn McCamant in the 1980s. Now, there are more than 160 cohousing communities across the country.

I discovered cohousing in 2003 when I visited a friend’s home in downtown Sacramento.

Looking out his kitchen window, I saw a number of other homes facing each other, all with porches and all facing a beautiful shared green. One home was much larger.

My mind was blown.

My friend said that he lived in cohousing and that it offers a balance of privacy and community. He said the larger home was the Common House, where residents share meals and hold frequent parties. As someone who has lived in Fair Oaks since 1981 and is used to the isolation of the suburbs, I immediately concluded this was a better way to live.

At the time, there was only one cohousing community in Sacramento County so I vowed to start one. In 2019, I’m happy to say there are two new cohousing communities in the area—Fair Oaks EcoHousing, which is under construction, and Washington Commons, which is planned for West Sacramento.

Cohousing offers many benefits. It offers connection. Human beings are social animals so isolation is as dangerous to your health as smoking, while socializing is as good for your health as regular exercise.

I mean, I’m dead serious when I say just sittin’ down with a cup of coffee and reading a book or doing some writing. It chills me out at the end of my day.

MAriA GArciA food service Marty Maskall, a retired web designer and author, plans to move into Fair Oaks EcoHousing in June.

Cohousing also offers convenience. Social activities are frequent and easy to arrange. Shared meals are affordable, typically $4 to $5 each.

Guests can reserve rooms in the Common House, so you don’t have to find visitors a hotel room or rush to clear out a spare bedroom.

Cohousing offers safety. It’s easy to get help from a neighbor. In the suburbs, it can be a different story. A year ago, my 90-year-old neighbor fell in her garage. She couldn’t get up and she wasn’t wearing her panic button. She was forced to lie on the cold garage floor all night. Early the next morning, when I delivered her newspaper, she heard me and yelled for help. I called 911. That sad story reminded me of the benefits of being in community.

Finally, cohousing allows residents to “tread lightly” on the earth. Most communities are “smart growth” infill projects that reduce suburban sprawl. Walkable neighborhoods and on-site activities lower the need for driving. Green design features include energy-efficient buildings and environmentally-friendly building materials.

I encourage people to look into cohousing as a way to experience more community and a smaller footprint on our shared planet. Ω

Cohousing offers community rather than isolation.

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I would for sure say long drives with music by myself. You’re just alone, you’re listening to your lyrics. I feel like it’s just very therapeutical.

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Going to the gym. It’s usually a way to relax and to step away from everything going on and just completely take my mind [off] whatever’s going in the day ...

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Yoga ... [and] flute playing. ... It’s a traditional Native American flute so the sounds are a slow vibration.

When you play, you just have to connect with the instrument so you have to get out of your head ...

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Definitely walking my dog. He is the most sniffingest-dog in the world and he’s really taught me to stop and observe little parts of Midtown I never really saw before.

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Reuse, revamp, repurpose There’s nothing like cruising down the street in a six-fo’ with a killer stereo, but what if you could take that stereo with you? Kaden Hill is an engineering auteur who manufactures killer, portable stereos sold under the Rare Bird Stereos moniker.

The stereos first start with an idea, usually a speaker Hill finds in a junk shop or thrift store. He fashions the found speakers into a variety of vintage vessels: canteens, purses, suitcases, toolboxes. Then, after some time and work—cutting holes, lining the interior with acoustic foam and wood, shellacking to prevent rust, wiring the inside—the end product is an “up-scaled Bluetooth stereo,” as Hill describes it, replete with multiple-day battery life and bass-thumping speakers.

SN&R caught up with Hill to talk about Rare Bird Stereos, favorite projects and, of course, music.

When did Rare Bird start?

Rare Bird was probably about four years ago.

I was living out in the woods with some friends, and that was kind of a time in my life where I was learning to ride the waves of the universe.

I didn’t have a whole lot. I didn’t really have a job. I had a friend that was throwing a market in Sacramento, so I started building stuff for it.

I was building little wood reclaimed shelves— anything I can find.

My passion has always lied in what I can find around me and what I can make out of it. I kept finding speakers everywhere, just laying on shelves.

For that market, I ended up putting together this plywood, ugly speaker out of random stuff I could find. And it was the hit of the market.

Everybody loved that ugly speaker.

Craziest, fave project?

I love doing custom work. That’s probably my favorite ... when there’s intention behind it. … There’s a sentimental value. It gives it an actual purpose. The coolest one I got to do will forever be—it was actually for an ex-girlfriend of mine that’s a really good, dear friend—was this ’80s red TV… I took the actual screen and cut a wood piece to go where the screen was.

I Mod Podged this static on it so it looked like a dead TV. I put the speakers in there, I put these different lights in it. I don’t know. It was rad and weird.

How do you select projects?

I had this speaker on my shelf for a year and I had no idea what to do with it, but it sounded amazing and I needed the right vessel for it because it was a really amazing speaker. I’ll find speakers and then I’ll find vessels—I usually find them separately—and then I kind of wait for them to come together.

How does your ADD influence your creativity?

[I was diagnosed with dyslexia and ADD in] my junior year of high school. I was like, “That’s why this has sucked.” But I also didn’t truly apply myself because academics was never really my jam. I was lucky enough to have teachers who would let me do art projects instead.

I think I’ve come to know myself a lot better than I ever have, where I understand that I get depressed sometimes, or I understand that some days are crazy, but it’s also temporary.

Working in the trades, too, you always have so many projects going at one time that it’s really easy to be ADD.

Fave artist, music genre?

I listen to a lot of old country, like Hank Williams.

That’s my genre. It’s a lot of Steely Dan and rock. I love rock. … And psychedelic rock. Ω Visit rarebirdstereos.com for more information and to check out some of Hill’s stereos.

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The California Consumer Privacy Act was hailed as a milestone for reining in secret data-mining. But the law doesn’t go into effect until 2020, and that’s given lobbyists for Big Tech a chance to pull its teeth.

Privacy advocates say that, so far, more Democratic lawmakers are lining up to actually help that effort rather than stop it.

A big job: PoliCing big TeCh Signed into law in 2018, the CCPA empowers consumers to block companies from collecting and selling their personal information without their permission. The CCPA also gives consumers the right to insist that a business delete their personal information if they have it already. The California

Attorney General’s Office will start enforcing compliance in July 2020.

Given that tech giants such as Facebook, Google and Twitter— and many start-ups—profit almost exclusively from harvesting users’ personal information, Attorney General Xavier Becerra has said that his team may struggle to keep up with a deluge of violations. That’s partly why Assemblywoman Buffy Wicks,

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who represents Berkeley, authored Assembly Bill 1760.

Not only would the bill narrow certain corporate exemptions to the CCPA, it would authorize district attorneys, county counsels and city attorneys to bring civil actions against violators.

Then, in late April, the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, which worked with Wicks to craft AB 1760, announced the bill was dead on arrival at the Assembly Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee.

“As I understand it, there was not one member of the committee who would support it,” ACLU legislative director Kevin Baker told SN&R. “But the attorney general understands you can’t expect his office alone to enforce the rights of 40 million Californians.”

Also galling to privacy advocates was the fact that, on the same day Wicks’ bill was stalled, the privacy committee moved several competing bills through its chambers, all of which opponents say limit the effectiveness of the CCPA. All three bills were also introduced

by Democrats.

death by a thousand legislatiVe Cuts AB 873, from Assemblywoman Jacqui Irwin of Thousand Oaks, would, according to the Legislative Counsel, soften the restriction on personal information by allowing certain general information to be collected. The ACLU and Electronic Freedom Foundation interpret the bill’s language to remove “household” from the definition of personal information under the CCPA, thus “threatening to undermine protections for information associated with a household.”

AB 981, by Assemblyman Tom Daly of Anaheim, would exempt the insurance industry from complying with the CCPA. There was also AB 25, from the privacy committee’s chairman, Democratic Assemblyman Ed Chau of Arcadia. That bill exempts companies

in California from CCPA rules in Jackson reflected on Moscone’s a way that allows the collection efforts in light of recent data-mining of personal data on job applicants, scandals. employees and contractors. “[He] saw the handwriting on the “All of those bills had a long list of wall as technology was emerging and corporate supporters,” Baker noted. the threats to potential privacy became One bill that privacy advocates clear,” she noted. “Those fears seem do support is state Sen. Hannah-Beth rather prescient today.”

Jackson’s Senate Bill 561.

The bill Jackson was Unlike Wicks’ bill, it testifying for faces stern wasn’t sidelined in opposition from the its first committee.

California Chamber Jackson’s bill of Commerce. would alter Sarah Boot, the CCPA in the chamber’s a way that policy allows any advocate, company described it as doing a giveaway to business in personal injury California Sen. California lawyers.

Hannah-Beth Jackson to be sued by “Businesses Democrat, Santa Barbara individuals whose will spend a personal informafortune trying to tion is misused under comply with these new the law. rights,” Boot told the judiUnder the current CCPA, ciary committee. “SB 561 would companies who break the rules have a allow thousands of trial attorneys to 30-day window to “cure” the problem test businesses’ ability to perfectly before the state attorney general can comply with the complexities of this take action. Jackson, a Santa Barbara new law. This will be strict liability Democrat, called that “a get out of with no proof of injury.” jail free card;” SB 561 removes the Major lobbying associations for grace period. tech and digital entertainment— The Attorney General’s Office including Tech Net, the Consumer supports the bill.

Technology Association, the Internet “Privacy in California is an explicit Association, the Consumer Data constitutional right,” Jackson said Industry Association and California while testifying before the state Senate Cable Association—all oppose Judiciary Committee.

Jackson’s bill.

Jackson then invoked the memory The senator succeeded in pushing of slain civil rights advocate and SB 561 to the Senate Appropriations former San Francisco Mayor George Committee, but there it was stalled.

Moscone, who, six years before his The committee, whose chair and murder in 1978, co-sponsored a legal majority of members are Democrats, effort to guarantee privacy for every voted to hold it from advancing.

Californian. A state senator at the time, Baker supports consumers having Moscone wrote: “Computerization the right to directly sue over violations of records makes it possible to create of the CCPA and disputes Boot’s claim ‘cradle-to-grave’ profiles on every that it will have a crippling effect on American.” small business.

He added that the citizenry needed “They say that about anything that’s to guard against governments and enforceable,” Baker stressed. “The corporations “collecting and stockpiling bottom line is, we live with a legal unnecessary information about us, and system that depends on being able to from misusing information gathered hold bad guys accountable.” Ω for one purpose in order to serve other purposes, or to embarrass us.”

“Privacy in California is an explicit constitutional right.”

One night after firefighters prevented a four-alarm blaze from destroying Blue Diamond’s almond factory, the Sacramento City Council discussed a 35% jump in complaints against the Fire department.

The criticism was measured in a new report by the Office of Public Safety and Accountability, which provides independent oversight of both police and fire personnel. The report documented 86 complaints covering 186 specific allegations against firefighters in 2018, which was markedly up from 2017. By contrast, the Sacramento Police Department only notched a 3% increase in complaints.

Of the complaints, 24 were sustained, 17 weren’t sustained and 14 were determined to be unfounded. The rest were either reclassified or still under investigation. The top complaint against firefighters was “discourtesy,” which was also the main gripe against police last year.

OPSA director Francine Tournour told council members she’s working with Fire Department management to determine why the numbers were so high compared to the two previous years.

“We don’t yet know the cause,” she said.

Referencing Tournour’s earlier remarks that many complaints against police officers were resolved by simply allowing the complainant to review body-worn camera footage of their incidents alongside internal affairs investigators, Councilman Larry Carr asked Tournour if firefighters were at a disadvantage because they don’t wear

body cams.

“How are you able to substantiate?” Carr asked.

“When it comes to the Fire Department, we have to rely on who was in earshot and what type of witnesses were present,” Tournour said. “That’s why you’ll see a high number of ‘not sustained’ in the fire field, because you can’t prove it one way or the other.”

(Scott Thomas Anderson)

dammed iF they do California Attorney General Xavier Becerra isn’t just battling President Donald Trump on 50 different legal fronts, he’s also suing at least one state contract agency where the president’s interior secretary formerly worked as a lobbyist.

Becerra announced last week that his office filed a suit against Westlands Water district for violating the California Wild and scenic rivers act. Westlands provides water to farms across the Central Valley and is one of the largest water districts in the United States.

Westlands recently became the lead agency for a $1.3 billion project to raise shasta dam by as much as 18 feet. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife has determined the project would alter the flow of the mcCloud river and seriously impact its wild trout and broader ecosystem.

Becerra contends that the McCloud River is protected by the state’s Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, writing in his complaint that the law specifically forbids an agency like Westlands from “assisting or cooperating with” any project that violates it.

“This project is unlawful,” Becerra said in a statement. “It would create significant environmental and cultural impacts for the communities and habitats surrounding Shasta Dam.” Those communities include the Winnemem Wintu tribe, which says it will lose access to sacred ancestral sites if the dam’s raised.

Westlands Water District told reporters that it’s still conducting its own environmental review process.

Trump’s latest interior secretary, David Bernhardt, spent years as a lobbyist and consultant for Westlands. Bernhardt is facing congressional scrutiny over allegations he lobbied for Westlands while working on the Trump transition team and his administration. (STA)

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David Greenwald, editor of the People’s Vanguard of Davis, works in his office on G Street in downtown Davis.

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A free and codependent press A Davis fundraiser and public radio station move raises questions about how cozy a struggling press should be with the opposition

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Raheem F. Hosseini contributed to this report.

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A Davis-centric alternative news outlet is under criticism for perceived moneydriven elbow-rubbing with local elected officials.

The online-only, nonprofit People’s Vanguard of Davis held a May 19 fundraiser at Lamppost Pizza in West Davis with a suggested $25 donation.

Four of five Davis City Council members, including Mayor Brett Lee and Mayor Pro Tem Gloria Partida, were featured speakers.

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“It looks like quid pro quo,” Davis resident Colin Walsh said at an April 23 City Council meeting. “It looks like investing now to buy favoritism later. I don’t know that any of you are doing that—I assume you’re acting ethically—but that’s what it looks like. … It’s not proper for elected officials and people running for office to be raising money for the people who will be reporting on you.”

Roberta Millstein, another Davis resident, called the fundraiser a case of “Davis exceptionalism.”

“When you get together and have these mutually beneficial exchanges, it

gets harder to be critical,” Millstein told SN&R. “Do I think any collusion is going on? No. But you do need to maintain that distance between elected official and journalists to maintain independence.

We’re a small town—for the most part, we all get along and want what’s best for the city. That doesn’t mean we should shy away from ethical norms.”

Even The Davis Enterprise, the city’s only general-circulation newspaper, jumped into the fray with an editorial calling the fundraiser a “stunning lapse in judgment.”

Vanguard editor David Greenwald dismissed the accusations as overblown.

“Number one, people aren’t paying for access,” Greenwald told SN&R a week before the event. “Anyone can come, with or without paying, and it’s not like this group isn’t already accessible.”

The question of whether local politicians should support a news publication that covers them arrives at a dire time for community-driven journalism.

Greenwald runs a tight ship. He’s the Vanguard’s only full-time employee. He has three part-time employees—an office assistant, a Sacramento reporter and an internship coordinator who oversees the Court Watch program. There is no business operations wing—leaving both newsgathering and fundraising responsibilities to Greenwald, who has been doing this for nearly 13 years.

Most traditional newspapers divide publishing and editorial duties to guard against pay-to-play-driven coverage.

“A small boost one month isn’t going to change the way I operate,” Greenwald said. “I’ve disagreed with every member of the council on countless issues over the years. To think that I’d change for, at most, a couple of thousand bucks is absurd. A few speeches won’t stop how I do business.”

The Vanguard relies on online ads, donations, $10-a-month subscriptions and the occasional fundraiser to stay “right on the margin every single month,” Greenwald said. The online news outlet held at least a half-dozen fundraisers over the past five years, some featuring elected officials, according to its Facebook page.

The fundraiser wasn’t expected to account for more than 2% of the publication’s yearly operating budget.

Despite requests from Millstein and Walsh, the four council members still attended.

“From a theoretical standpoint, I understand people’s concerns,”

Mayor Lee said. “But from a practical standpoint, I feel like I have an obligation to support local journalism. I subscribe to The Davis Enterprise, The Bee, The Vanguard. If the Enterprise wanted me to speak at one of their events, I would.

I’m not looking for favorable coverage or picking favorites here.”

The event wasn’t the only one where elected officials and private enterprise supported a specific member of the Fourth Estate.

On April 30, California Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis, Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg and Councilman Steve Hansen helped Capital Public Radio announce its future $10 million headquarters in downtown. Sutter Health is donating $2.25 million for a Center for Community Engagement that is part of the new headquarters.

“This investment reaches far beyond Sacramento and will have positive impacts for our democracy and freedom of expression,” Kounalakis said in a statement.

Whether the press can maintain independence of the politicians and businesses that provide publicity or resources may be eclipsed by a related question: Can it survive at all?

On May 4, referencing research conducted at the University of North Carolina, The Wall Street Journal reported that nearly 1,800 American newspapers folded between 2004 and 2018. Researchers predicted that half of the remaining papers will disappear within the next two years.

Davis Councilman Dan Carson, a retired journalist himself, said the city is often overlooked by the region’s larger media enterprises and relies on hyperlocal community journalism.

“The Sacramento Bee and KCRA aren’t coming across the causeway every other week to cover our City Council meetings,” Carson said. “We have to look at alternative ways of funding local news. Without The Enterprise, The Vanguard and the like, we’re at the mercy of the spinners and the outright fraud artists.”

Greenwald’s muckraking approach was on display last week. On May 17, a Yolo Superior Court judge, responding to a lawsuit from the Vanguard, ordered the city of West Sacramento to disclose the names of attorneys and law firms the city has consulted regarding police misconduct and use of force cases. The Vanguard’s lawsuit stemmed from the city’s admission that it “purged” records related to a 2005 use of force case. Ω

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The city of Sacramento may have temporarily abandoned its controversial panhandling ordinance, but homeless advocates and people on the streets are waiting to see if the move leads to similar enforcement under different sections of the government code.

That’s how Sacramento County responded to a court ruling linked to its own homelessness policies.

Last week, city leaders deleted their “aggressive or intrusive solicitation” code nearly one year after a federal judge granted an injunction against it, ruling that it was too broad and raising First Amendment issues.

Critics of the ordinance argued that it criminalized non-aggressive types of panhandling, including taking few steps toward someone or asking quietly for help while in a highly visible place.

The Sacramento Regional Coalition to End Homelessness and the Sacramento Homeless Organizing Committee worked with the American Civil Liberties Union to file a lawsuit against the ordinance in federal court.

In July 2018, U.S. District Judge Morris C. England Jr. moved to block it.

This month, city staff urged the City Council to pull the code off the books to “avoid further litigation and costs,” a staff report stated. The council voted quietly on the consent calendar without a public hearing. After the vote, City Attorney Susana Alcala Wood issued a statement saying her office “has begun to work with the City Manager’s Office to draft an ordinance that will serve to promote and preserve the interests of the community while protecting citizens’ constitutional rights.”

Homeless advocates are now wondering if that means new types of anti-panhandling actions becoming common under a slightly different legal definition.

It would not be unprecedented: In October 2018, the county changed its anti-camping ordinance after the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against a similar code in Boise,

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Idaho. At the time, Rob Leonard, deputy county executive for municipal services, told the Board of Supervisors that county park rangers would no longer be citing people for camping in the American River Parkway, but they’d be stepping up enforcement against littering, having shopping carts and starting illegal campfires.

An SN&R analysis of county data revealed that for 20 months prior to Leonard making that announcement, park rangers issued an average of 4.5 citations a month for shopping carts, 11.6 citations a month for littering and 3.1 citations a month for illegal campfires.

However, in the seven months since Leonard declared an end to camping enforcement, the rangers have issued an average of 83 citations a month for shopping carts, 90 citations a month for littering and 13.5 for illegal campfires.

Moreover, while rangers may have stopped writing anti-camping tickets, they began writing a different citation called “tying ropes to trees.” They’ve issued 537 of those tickets since September.

Ken Casparis, a public information officer for the county’s parks department, told SN&R that the increase in citations for building structures by tying ropes and tarps to trees is part of an effort to increase flood protection in the parkway and protect wildlife habitats.

“While a lot of these citations are issued to people experiencing homelessness, they are also issued to individuals who are not—especially in the summer recreation season,” he wrote in an email.

But Dan Aderholt, who volunteers with a coalition of 11 churches and a number of unhoused people known as the American River Homeless Crew, said that describing citations in the parkway as environmental protection glosses over the fact that organizations like his take part in large-scale cleaning effort.

“They keep saying the homeless are hurting the river,” Aderholt said, “but we’re out there cleaning it up.” Ω

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Two Sacramento detectives denied Tio Sessoms his right to an attorney.

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The walls of the jail’s interrogation room closed in. Tio Dinero Sessoms wore the 8-by-10-foot box like an oversized coffin. He compacted his 6-foot-1 frame into a chair and waited.

The 19-year-old from Sacramento remembered his father’s words: “I’m not a criminal,” he reminded himself. “I know I want to talk to a lawyer.”

It was November 1999. Sessoms was a long way from home and in a great deal of trouble.

A month earlier, at least two men broke into the mobile home of a Sacramento pastor named Edward R. Sheriff. The burglary became a home invasion became a murder. Someone stabbed Sheriff in his neck and upper body until the preacher’s blood stained the killer’s shoes.

Sessoms said he got a call from his father telling him the cops in Sacramento were looking for him. His face had been plastered all over the evening news. Sessoms was staying with his girlfriend in Oklahoma, a state that resembles a clenched fist with its finger pointing back to California. His dad told Sessoms to turn himself in, and offered some sage advice: Don’t talk. Lawyer up.

Sessoms listened to his dad.

Two Sacramento city homicide detectives didn’t.

They denied Sessoms’ legal right to an attorney. The fruit of that poisonous interrogation almost 20 years ago put the teenager behind bars for a murder he didn’t commit. Sessoms lost his youth in prison, but not his hope. A kid without a high school diploma cracked the law books and wrote a legal brief that ultimately reached the U.S. Supreme Court—twice.

It’s sometimes dismissively said that America’s prisons are filled with innocent people. There are at least more than 2,400 instances of that being the proven case since 1989, according to the National Registry of Exonerations, compiled at Michigan State University and UC Irvine. The wrongfully convicted have sacrificed more than 21,000 years combined to a criminal justice system that got it woefully wrong.

Nearly half of the unjustly incarcerated are black, like Sessoms.

Sessoms, however, doesn’t think what happened to him was about race. He insists he was undone by corner-cutting detectives, overly aggressive prosecutors, an incompetent public defender and an unsympathetic judge. In short, he believes the whole damn system is to blame.

“You can’t rebuild a system that’s shattered,” Sessoms told SN&R. “The only way we can fix it is by building it all again.”

Now 39, the new father said he wants to help create that new justice system. But only after he brings the old one crumbling down.

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YOu have the right tO incriminate YOurSelf No clock on the wall. Time dragged. Sessoms shivered. The box was an icebox. Its door opened. Two clean-shaven white men entered. They wore old jeans and old button-ups. Sessoms remembered thinking these cops weren’t paid enough. A video camera recorded the scene. The older one spoke first.

“Tio, I’m Dick,” Det. Richard Woods said.

“How you doing, all right,” Sessoms said. “You already know me.”

Det. Patrick Keller introduced himself next. He had Sessoms swap seats. It was cramped. Sessoms maneuvered while the two detectives crowded the open door. The detectives closed the door, resealing the box. Sessoms said something as he sank into the suspect’s seat. Woods didn’t catch it.

“Huh?” he said.

Sessoms repeated himself. “I’m glad you fellows had a safe flight out here,” he said.

“So are we,” Keller replied.

“Well, we want a safe one back, too,” Woods cracked.

Woods tried to move things along. Sessoms interjected. “There wouldn’t be any a—a lawyer present while we do this?” he asked.

Woods hemmed, “Well, uh, what I’ll do is, um.”

Sessoms interjected. “Well, that’s what my dad asked me to ask you guys—uh, give me a lawyer.”

Four days earlier, on Nov. 15, 1999, Sessoms’ father called him from Atlanta, where most of the family had relocated. He told his son he was wanted for a cold-blooded robbery-homicide in Sacramento. A victim, a minister, stabbed two dozen times. There was an “armed and dangerous” bulletin out for the younger Sessoms. He told his dad he knew nothing about it.

Sessoms was in Langston, Okla., with his

girlfriend. His dad arranged for him to turn himself into a police officer named David Hinds Jr. Hinds and his partner did things by the book, court filings state. When Sessoms informed them he wouldn’t be making a statement, they stopped trying to get one. And when a Logan County sheriff’s deputy tried “pressuring” Sessoms during booking, Sessoms remembered Hinds stepping in and saying, “Absolutely not.”

Sessoms had been given the Miranda warning, a term that’s become shorthand for a 1966 Supreme Court decision that established the rights of suspects in police custody. Sessoms had the right to remain silent and the right to an attorney. He invoked those rights.

That invocation protected Sessoms as he was transported about 40 miles south to a jail in Oklahoma City, where he waited four days for two Sacramento detectives to claim him. The legal protection followed him into the interrogation box, where he waited some more. It re-announced itself when Sessoms said the words, “get me a lawyer,” to Woods and Keller.

But that’s where it gave out.

Detective Woods used an old interrogation trick: Redirect, obfuscate, keep the conversation going.

He kept the conversation alive for 20 minutes, and pulled out a tape recorder to show he wouldn’t play any “switch games” with Sessoms’ words. He said he and his partner already knew “what happened” from Sessoms’ alleged co-conspirators. He said the two men told them Sessoms didn’t stab anyone.

Woods implied he believed that. Then he closed the loop. An attorney would only get in their way.

“If you said you didn’t want to make any statement without an attorney, we’re not really going to be able to talk to you and get your version of it,” Woods counseled.

Only after the long preamble did Woods re-Mirandize Sessoms.

Sessoms paused. He shrugged his shoulders and said, “Let’s talk.”

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According to the version of the crime that Sessoms’ appellate attorneys stipulated to the U.S. Supreme Court in 2006, it was supposed to be a simple burglary.

On the night of Oct. 19, 1999, Sessoms arrived at a house on Rancho Adobe Drive occupied by Frederick O. Clark, a small, stocky man in his early 30s. Clark had already done prison time for a 1990 case resulting in felony convictions for assault with a deadly weapon, sexual battery, statutory rape and false imprisonment, online court records show.

Clark was weird and intense, Sessoms told SN&R in a recent interview. Clark got lost staring at the wall like circuits misfired inside his head.

Sessoms didn’t know Clark well. Sessoms knew a guy who knew Clark, who knew of a

place on Elder Creek Road with money stashed inside. The house would be empty, so the heist would be easy: Get in, get out, split the loot.

Adam Wilson, Sessoms’ junior high classmate and Clark’s roommate, was already in the plot and invited Sessoms earlier that day, prosecutors said. Sessoms and Clark picked up Wilson and drove to the mobile home park where Ed Sheriff lived.

According to a 2014 Sacramento Bee article, Sheriff was an associate pastor at the Cathedral of Promise Metropolitan Community Church at Mather Field and a gay activist who ministered to AIDS patients and ran a thrift store and food program in Oak Park. One of the people he reportedly helped was Clark.

In their detailed summary to the Supreme Court, Sessoms’ attorneys portrayed him as a reluctant participant as soon as the would-be burglars arrived at their destination. Clark idled outside the gate of the mobile home park and punched in a code. The gate didn’t lift,

so he parked across the street and jumped a fence. Sessoms pulled Wilson aside and told him something was off about Clark. Sessoms suspected he was hiding something. Maybe they shouldn’t go through with it. But after a few moments, Sessoms climbed the fence and Wilson followed.

Sessoms told SN&R this isn’t the way it happened. Not at all. ...cAn And will be used AgAinst you Sessoms told SN&R he had spent some time in juvenile hall by age 19, but not for anything major.

The way Sessoms tells it, he was a reluctant cog in Sacramento’s school-to-prison pipeline.

He said he was kicked out of Valley High School after stepping to a guy who disrespected his sister. He did a stint at a probation school before transferring to Kennedy High.

Things were looking up. He said he was

▲ Tio Dinero Sessoms was 19 years old when two Sacramento homicide detectives interrogated him about a deadly home invasion he says he didn’t participate in. Twenty years later, he’s still fighting to clear his name.

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getting decent grades, playing football and gearing up for a breakout senior year.

But there was this security guard who hassled students. Sessoms said he told him, “Get your bitch ass to class.” Sessoms said he took offense and almost put hands on the man. He didn’t get the chance. The guard snitched him to the principal’s office. Sessoms was expelled with just a few weeks left in the semester.

“My life kind of shifted, like for the worse,” Sessoms said.

That summer, Sessoms and a buddy stole a car. He did three weeks in juvenile hall, he said. He got out on July 5, 1997, two days after his 17th birthday. His dad kicked him out. Less than two months later, Sessoms was back in juvi for receiving stolen property and evading the police. The intake officer offered him his one phone call.

“Nah, I’m good,” he said. “Let me just take my shower and lie down.”

The intake officer insisted. He called Sessoms’ dad and held out the receiver. The big, sullen kid wouldn’t take it. His friends’ parents always had nice things to say about him, but not the old man.

“There was a lot of anger between me and my dad,” Sessoms said.

They patched things up at Sessoms’ first juvenile court hearing. The father counseled his son. Keep your head down. Take care of business. Come home.

Sessoms was sentenced to four months at the Sacramento County Boys Ranch. He did well and shed time from his sentence. He came close to getting his GED, but fell 13 points short of passing, he said. The setback wounded him.

“That hurt my feelings, too, because I was ready,” he said.

Sessoms had already given up on getting a college football scholarship. Now his consolation dream of playing ball in city college was fading. He got out two days before Christmas.

The Boys Ranch hooked him up with a drywall job. He carried sheetrock panels up flights of stairs. He lugged the gypsum boards that prop up the discount hotel behind the McDonald’s on Richards Boulevard.

He lost his transportation and then the job.

He replaced it with a warehouse one loading seafood into trucks 8 p.m. through sunrise.

Riding the light rail back, he noticed the morning commuters making stink faces. He averted his eyes and ducked out at the next stop. It was a long bike ride home. He was past tired.

You have the right not to be killed The mobile home was dark. Clark tried the front door. No luck. He went around the side and braced a sliding glass door. He got in.

According to the prosecution, Sessoms and Wilson followed.

Surprise: Sheriff was there. He wore pajamas. “Goddamn,” Sessoms told Wilson, according to the Supreme Court briefing. “This motherfucker ain’t supposed to be here.”

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 Miranda Rights

The 68-year-old pastor asked his intruders if they were going to kill him. Sessoms promised they wouldn’t.

Clark handed Sessoms the keys to Sheriff’s Lincoln Town Car. They would take that and a GMC pickup truck, though that wasn’t part of the plan.

Clark bound Sheriff’s hands and feet with telephone cords and grilled the pastor. Where’s the money? He put his hands around the pastor’s neck and squeezed.

The phone rang. A woman left a message on the answering machine, something about pastries.

Clark moved to the front room and rummaged for money. He told Sessoms and Wilson to be on the lookout for nosy neighbors. Sessoms confronted Wilson in the kitchen: This wasn’t the plan.

Terrible sounds came from the bedroom.

Sessoms looked inside. He saw Clark wielding a long knife. He saw it go in Sheriff’s chest, back, arm and neck. Sheriff screamed and gasped and twisted. Clark spoke as he stabbed: “Why did you do it to me?”

Pillowcases were filled with a few hundred bucks, jewelry and paperwork. Clark swiped the dead man’s Bible. Sessoms did a dazed drive in the dead man’s car. He dropped Wilson off at work, and picked up his share from Clark. He drove home. The dead man’s car sat outside his parents’ house. He got back in and drove it to Greenhaven. He left the Town Car on the side of the road with the keys in the door. He prayed someone would steal it.

Instead, police found it. They dusted it for prints and found Sessoms’ on contents inside the glove box. They found Clark and Wilson in Sacramento. They found Sessoms 1,600 miles away.

While this is the account that grew out of a compromised interrogation, Sessoms maintains that he wasn’t even in the state when Sheriff’s home was invaded.

He said he learned about the crime when Wilson called him in Oklahoma, and that he

▲ A Sacramento Bee article from 2001 mistakenly identified Sessoms’ mugshot as belonging to Frederick O. Clark, who admitted stabbing to death a pastor during a botched robbery.

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offered his friend a place to stay until things cooled down. Sessoms said he told the detectives that in the box, but that they wouldn’t hear it. They said they already knew that he was there and that he didn’t kill anyone.

Sessoms said the detectives peppered him with questions. They jumped to different points in the time line. What about this? What about that? They didn’t take his statement so much as lead him where they wanted him to go.

Sessoms said yes and no. He affirmed details. The cops wrote it up. He looked guilty.

You have the right to die in prison The killer and his two accomplices faced the same punishment for Sheriff’s brutal death.

Sessoms and Wilson, who learned they lived on the same street years after middle school, were going to be tried together.

In September 2001, Wilson, who initially told police he only introduced Sessoms to Clark and didn’t participate in the crime, pleaded guilty to murder in exchange for the dismissal of felony robbery and burglary charges. He’s currently serving a 15-yearto-life sentence at a state prison in Solano County. A parole date came and went in 2013.

Sessoms was offered the same deal as Wilson, but refused it and went to trial. His courtappointed public defender tried to suppress his coerced statement to police. But when the judge denied the motion, the confession became the cornerstone of the prosecution’s case.

An appellate court later wrote that Sessoms’ statement proved that he knew about the planned burglary and went along, “expecting to rob the victim while he wasn’t home.”

The remaining evidence against Sessoms was weak. Sheriff’s neighbors spotted two short, stout men outside the mobile home, and saw two cars peel out of the area. Sessoms was

The Miranda rights are familiar to anyone who watches TV crime shows: “You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can, and will, be used against you in court of law. You have the right to an attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be provided for you.”

It was 1966 when the U.S. Supreme Court established the legal principle that suspects must be advised of their rights before being interrogated by police. The case involved Ernesto Miranda, who was arrested for rape in Arizona, interrogated and confessed.

Unaware that he didn’t have to talk, he later recanted the confession. The final text of the warning was written by California deputy attorney general Doris Maier and Nevada County district attorney Harold Berliner.

tall and athletically built. The neighbors didn’t see a third man. There were his fingerprints in Sheriff’s car and two unreliable teenage witnesses who lived in the same house as Clark and Wilson; one said she saw Sessoms and his brother in the murder victim’s car.

Sessoms’ brother was in prison at the time.

Sessoms said he later told his public defender the same thing he told Woods and Keller: He wasn’t there. Sessoms said he got the same response.

“He didn’t believe my innocence at all,” Sessoms said.

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 Exonerations by Race and Crime

NumBER Of ExONERatiONS (2,446 SiNcE 5/19/2019)

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Hispanic (285)

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Because of the byzanfor inconsistencies and the wrongfully tine way the legal system cross-referenced legal operates, Sessoms’ precedents. Thirteen convicted have version of events would points shy of his GED, be scrubbed from what he studied like he was sacrificed more happened next. preparing for the bar A jury found Sessoms exam. than 21,000 guilty on all counts He tried to avert in May 2001. He was prison drama. At High years combined sentenced to life in prison Desert State Prison in without the possibility of Susanville and then to a criminal parole—the same punishCalifornia State Prison ment as Clark, who told in Folsom, Sessoms justice system the jury during his trial avoided cliques and that he stabbed Sheriff 24 made friends with that got it times in a fit of rage. the prison librarians.

While behind bars, Sometimes they sent woefully wrong.

Sessoms focused on the case files to his cell so he ill-gotten confession. He could keep cramming. appealed for a new trial He printed out a and was denied. He appealed the denial to the blank legal template and carefully printed onto California Court of Appeal and was denied again. it. He violated a cardinal principle, the one that He thought back to this one exercise he says only a fool has himself for a lawyer. He participated in back in juvi. The boys were asked represented himself and filed a writ alleging to imagine what they would be like in prison. habeas corpus, or unlawful detention.

Some fronted. They’d be hard. No they wouldn’t, Less than a decade earlier, President Bill said the man running the exercise. Look at me, Clinton burnished his tough-on-crime credenhe said. Sessoms thought he looked like a cool tials by making habeas petitions tougher for professor, smart and put together, holding their federal courts to grant. The federal courts can’t attention without pandering for it. intervene when state laws have been violated.

I did 11 years in prison, the cool profes“If it’s not a federal issue, they can’t sor said. Sessoms thought no way. It left an handle it,” explained Eric Weaver, a Bay impression.

Area attorney. “That’s why there’s that Inmate Sessoms became a habitual resident of slang, ‘Make a federal case out of it.’ the prison library. He studied law books and his Because that’s so hard to do.” case file. He pored over police reports, interview The eye of the needle had gotten smaller. transcripts, trial transcripts. He scrutinized Somehow Sessoms threaded it.

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You have the right to appeal again and again Someone in the federal appeals court for the Eastern District of California flagged Sessoms’ petition as having merit. That got it assigned to the federal public defender’s office, which contracted it out to Weaver. He stayed with the case for the next 10 years.

“Once I got appointed, I was in it until the end,” he said.

Weaver and Sessoms hit numerous setbacks before they hit pay dirt. A magistrate judge recommended denying the petition. A district court listened. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the denial in a 2-1 ruling.

Weaver wrote his client a letter apologizing for striking out. Sessoms wrote back that the glass was half full. The one dissenting judge was his first legal victory.

“He stayed optimistic,” Weaver said.

The next move was to petition for what’s called an en banc hearing before the Ninth Circuit. Weaver made his case before 11 judges.

They broke 6-5—in Sessoms’ favor. Judge Betty Fletcher wrote the majority opinion concluding that the state court’s decision was an unreasonable application of federal law.

The California Attorney General’s Office, under current presidential candidate Kamala Harris, argued to keep Sessoms in prison. The U.S. Supreme Court reversed Fletcher and kicked the case back to the Ninth Circuit.

By this time Fletcher had died and been replaced by Judge M. Margaret McKeown, who wrote the majority opinion in another 6-5

nail-biter for Sessoms. The circuit judge didn’t hold back. She excoriated Sacramento detectives for violating the “clear bright-line rule” that Miranda sets and blamed the state court for “allowing the detectives to play games” with Sessoms’ request.

“The only reasonable interpretation of ‘give me a lawyer’ is that Sessoms was asking for a lawyer,” McKeown wrote. “What more was Sessoms required to say? Was he obligated to repeat the obvious—‘give me a lawyer’—another time? It is no more reasonable to demand grammatical precision from a suspect in custody than it is to strip the officers of all common sense and understanding.”

McKeown also portrayed Sessoms—“a naïve and relatively uneducated nineteen-year-old”—as a poster boy for Miranda’s protections. Like the original ruling said 40 years earlier, Sessoms had also been “swept from familiar surroundings into police custody, surrounded by antagonistic forces, and subjected to the techniques of persuasion.” And when Sessoms “deferentially” requested the presence of an attorney, the judge wrote, “The detectives instead pretended that Sessoms had never raised the issue of a lawyer in the first place.”

Though the decision was closely divided, two of the dissenting judges sounded glad to be on the losing end in their written opinions.

Following the Ninth Circuit decision in 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court denied Harris’ request to intervene once again. Sessoms’ conviction was vacated. He was sent to Sacramento County jail and the district attorney’s office was given new orders: Either retry Sessoms or cut him loose.

Sessoms spent two years waiting for that

The Northern California chapter of the Innocence Project, a nonprofit clinical program at the Santa Clara University School of Law, has successfully challenged more than two-dozen wrongful convictions since 2001, freeing 26 people who lost a total of 337 years to unjust imprisonment.

The exonerated include Zavion Johnson of Sacramento County, who was wrongfully convicted in 2002 of killing his 4-month-old daughter due to false medical expert testimony. Johnson, whose daughter slipped from his hands during a bath and struck her head on the tub, was released on December 2017. The DA’s office dropped all charges against him the following month.

The NorCal Innocence Project is working cases in 18 counties.

You have the right to be free PHOTO cOurTesy Of TiO sessOms Sessoms had his hands full. He stiff-armed the coffeehouse door and hipchecked in the baby stroller. decision. Without Weaver to represent His 3-month-old son, Tio Jr., slept. Tio Sr. him, he said, a court-appointed attorney sighed in relief. persuaded him to waive his right to a Sessoms pulled dad duty. His wife had speedy trial. gone back to work. Sessoms showed a “And the next thing you know, years go picture of her on his phone and grinned ear by,” Sessoms said. to ear. He’d known her since they were kids.

The Sacramento County district They said their vows one year to the day attorney’s office said its Justice Training Sessoms got out of jail on Oct. 5, 2017. and Integrity Unit reviewed his case with “You never forget the day you get out higher-ups. “It is important to note at no from a situation like this,” he said. time did Mr. Sessoms make a claim of Since he’s been out, Sessoms has tried to ‘factual innocence’ and therefore that issue be the advocate he needed as a young man. is not discussed in the appellate history,” the He has a YouTube channel where he breaks office said in a written statement. down the legal process and has been on The office said it decided to retry something of a criminal justice reform tour.

Sessoms, though it would have to do so He has linked up with the Anti-Recidivism without his statement to investigators and Coalition and California Families United 4 by relying on the 20-year-old memories of Justice, meeting civil rights luminaries in the a couple of compromised witnesses. But the process, including activist Cornel West and process would drag on for months, perhaps actor Danny Glover. years. Sessoms didn’t want to wait, or roll He also wrote another lawsuit, this the dice.

The DA’s office extended an offer: Plead one while stewing in county jail. This one alleging the cops never had a proper warrant no contest to manslaughter and burglary for to arrest him in the first place. The city of time served. Sessoms took it.

Sacramento declined to comment.

“I didn’t want to take the damn deal Sessoms may be free, but he isn’t done because I didn’t do anything,” he said. “I trying to clear his name. A manslaughter didn’t have an advocate.” conviction is standing in the way of his The Justice Training and Integrity next chapter: He said he wants to become a Unit formed in 2013 to examine claims of criminal defense attorney, the kind of lawyer prosecutorial misconduct and wrongful he asked for two decades ago. conviction. In its statement to SN&R, the “I know the law based on studying it all DA’s office said the unit has reviewed those years in a cage,” Sessoms said. approximately 50 convictions and agreed Now he wants to try practicing it out of to conduct DNA testing in at least one case, a cage.

■ but hasn’t found any convictions that merit overturning.

An extended version of this story is available at sacblog.

It might not be looking hard enough.

▲ Sessoms met actor and civil rights advocate Danny Glover during an April symposium called “Connecting Art & Law for Liberation” held at UCLA.

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American obsession Left to right: “Either Side” and “Till Death Do Us Part” by Gale Hart.

“Trigger Finger of Santo Guerro #23”

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ima Begovic and her husband Numan fled Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992.

“I was 22,” says Begovic, the director of artspace1616 on Del Paso Boulevard. “It was rock ’n’ roll, the digital age, and all those cool things were happening. Yet some people decided to have a war, and even if you don’t want to be a part of it, you are, because they come and burn your house down.”

They escaped the conflict, which left an estimated 100,000 people dead. In 2000, they landed in America, gun country.

The name of their gallery’s new exhibit, Gun Show, is playfully ambivalent. Most of the pieces, from 35 artists, are obviously anti-gun.

Muscular forearm sculptures etched with “masturbation” grip revolvers; 3-D printed guns in glass cases give instructions such as “Break In Case

of Insecure Patriarchal Masculinity;” a metal ball of pistols rests on a Jesus fish; themes of consumerism play out in portraits of armed Barbies and glossy, dual-muzzled hand cannons.

“What I see here, society’s obsessed with shiny objects,” Begovic says. “It’s gold. It’s diamonds. It’s guns.”

The idea for the exhibit originated with the guest curator Suzanne Adan. She and her husband Michael Stevens, who taught at Sacramento City College and organize the Kondos Gallery exhibits on campus, were inspired by a 1975 mixed media piece Stevens produced. For years, “Pretty Polly,” which shows a wood-enamel gun camouflaged in a feathered backdrop, was a fixture above their television set.

She thought of holding the show at Kondos, but that couldn’t have

turned out well: A shooting at Sac City in 2015 left one student dead and another injured.

“I tried to choose a space that would accommodate a whole bunch of artists with very diverse skills,” Adan says. “There’s not one gun that looks alike.”

Begovic says she’s proud of the roster of artists, which includes the late ceramicist Richard Shaw and metal sculptor Gale Hart. One of the most significant artists is Bay Area-based Al Farrow, whose scaled Abrahamic monuments built with bullets, bones and gun parts were exhibited at Crocker Art Museum in 2015. The $35,000 “Trigger Finger of Santo Guerro #23” shows a crucifix-topped shrine for an actual index finger, encased in glass and fortified by ammunition.

Adan and Stevens own only one gun, an inherited .22 caliber rifle they

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never use. But growing up, gun culture was unavoidable.

“In my family, a lot of my uncles were in World War II and the Korean War,” She says. “There were always guns in the house.”

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“Society’s obsessed with shiny objects.

It’s gold. It’s diamonds. It’s guns.”

Mima Begovic, director, artspace1616 “Because that’s the solution—just give makes it playful, but her giant pistol kids guns, give teachers guns and give isn’t kidding. them more Bibles and everything will be “It’s hard to stay away from politics OK,” Peetz says. “But when you see it, it right now,” Stevens says. “Everything gives you the shivers.” kind of ends around and creeps in there.

Adan says she really wanted to It’s a hard world right now. That’s why I include female perspectives in the think this show’s really important.” Ω exhibit. Fourteen artists are women who have never previously used guns as an image in their work, with the exception of Hart, whose revolvers with chain-link muzzles hang at the gallery’s entrance in the piece “Linked.” “Gun Shy,” by Julia Couzens and Sadie Bills, “Thoughts and Prayers” spells its title with nails and

by Ronald Peetz. thread using the Winchester Repeating Arms Company’s signature font.

A more humorous piece is “Penance,” by Stevens. It shows an angry nun drawn over a store-bought painting of flowers. An added white doily

Gun show runs until June 2. Check out the exhibit at artspace1616, open noon to 6 p.m. thursday through saturday, noon to 3 p.m. sunday. Admission is free.

Across from Ace of Spades, a line of eager hipsters rocking cowboy hats, flannels and facial piercings crowded the sidewalks from R to 14th streets. What drew them out on a rainy weekday night? lo-fi musician and master of chill Mac DeMarco, of course.

On May 16, the indie rocker sold out his first show in sacramento during a tour for his fourth album Here Comes the Cowboy, the debut release on his own Mac’s Record Label. For such a tranquil dude, DeMarco brought his version of rock-star energy by swinging around the mic, adding chicken-like dance moves. holiday sidewinder opened. Twirling around the stage in a royal blue leotard, the Australian artist was like an indie-pop Britney spears with her microphone headset and singalongs. During her last song, the blonde infiltrated the crowd.

Eerie piano played in a loop between sets, and when it stopped, the anxious audience cheered as though it was time for DeMarco. Nope. More piano loops. Well played, Mac. But by the third stop, the venue went dark, and silhouettes emerged onstage.

DeMarco gave a trademark gap-toothed smile and began strumming the chords to “Salad Days,” a song from his second album by the same name. During “On the Level” from his third album, This Old Dog, DeMarco dug his arms in a T-rex fashion, bobbing his head like a chicken around the stage. the energy was misleading; when he put the mic up to his lips, he gently sung the lyrics, “On the level / carrying a name / fall until my final day.”

The 29-year-old continued to perform songs off his new album, as well as crowd favorites. He stopped to ask what to eat around sacramento. Fans yelled out food recommendations as DeMarco described a burger with a cheese skirt from Squeeze Inn that he heard about from an Ace staffer. Guitarist Andy White butted in to ask for a good hardware store.

After playing two hours, DeMarco ended with “Still Together.” Fans took over singing the chorus. After the song, White bellowed out

grover washington Jr.’s “Just the two of us,” but with a twist. He started rapping to the Austin Powers in Goldmember version, complete with a Dr. evil impression. The music reverted back to “Still Together,” and DeMarco hit the last high-pitch lyric, said “Night” and Mac DeMarco sold out Ace of Spades exited. on May 16.

The rodeo of hipsters chanted for an encore.

DeMarco returned and asked everyone to sit down and light up their phones.

Surrounded by the smart phone twinkles, he sang “Watching Him Fade Away” like a lullaby. When it was over, he rose, and with a gentle voice, thanked everyone for being there.

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On television from the 1950s to the 1970s, Bat Masterson holstered a small derringer pistol. Steve McQueen carried a cut-off Winchester rifle nicknamed “Mare’s Leg” in Wanted: Dead Or Alive. There was Gunsmoke, Have Gun-Will Travel and The Lone Ranger, Saturday morning reruns of Hopalong Cassidy and singing cowboys Gene Autry and Roy Rogers. The outlaws sometimes named their guns—and named their animals after guns.

“His horse was Trigger, and his dog was Bullet,” says Ronald Peetz, Adan’s brother, about Rogers.

Peetz and Stevens were boys in the 1950s, and in imaginary gunfights, every kid brought a pop-gun, wood replica or broomstick. Craig Prisendorf, a 12-yearold woodworking ace, carved Tommy guns and gave them to other boys in Stevens’ neighborhood.

“When Craig got done with a gun, you hoped you were in line to inherit it,” Stevens says.

Unlike her brother, Adan got dolls for Christmas. But even she had a junior membership in the National Rifle Association. In the late ’50s, the NRA infiltrated 4-H youth development clubs, she says, and taught safety courses in rural communities. She was a superstar 4-H’er, and earned her NRA card at a course in the Yolo County Town Hall.

But when she went to college, it was the 1960s, and attitudes were shifting.

With President John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. and the Vietnam War, gun violence became a new conversation, and she noticed it inspiring Peetz and Stevens’ art.

“We were always thinking about gun violence,” Adan says.

Peetz’s piece “Thoughts and Prayers,” relays an all-too-familiar message: An old desk is decorated with pre-etched cries for help and a toy assault rifle. Bibles are spilled on the floor and more stacked in a cubbyhole. A sticker of Mad Magazine’s schoolboy mascot Alfred E. Neuman is slapped on the backrest.

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Left: A poster for a 1985 metal festival, the first show that Shane Stacy recorded audio for.

Top-to-bottom right: Footage of Nirvana at the Cattle Club in 1990; Sex 66 at Old Ironsides in ’98.

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The Sacramento Music Archive’s tape collection documents local history

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Shayne Stacy keeps more than 4,000 cassette recordings of live shows in his linen closet, 2,000 digital audio tapes in a dresser and 1,000 VHS tapes stacked in a walk-in closet.

Despite what evidence might suggest, however, he’s not a hoarder.

It’s all part of a larger collection dating back to 1981 that features early shows from touring bands including Operation Ivy, Green Day and Nirvana as well as hundreds of Sacramento locals, with a particular focus on the punk, metal and indie scenes—including more than 160 8-millimeter master tapes from the now-defunct Cattle Club. |

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Until just over a year ago, these recordings were confined to Stacy’s closets and hard drives. He started uploading them to YouTube in 2013 but hated the lack of organization. To contain that chaos, Stacy connected with a community of local “tapers” and dreamed up the Sacramento Music Archive—an online space where anyone could plunge into the free goldmine with ease. It launched in 2017 and currently hosts more than 2,400 recordings.

“The lack of structure on the internet drives me crazy,” Stacy said. “Everything is lost in a sea of content.”

Stacy brought a group of local tapers together to put old recordings online as well as create a home for the scattered

live sets already strewn across disparate YouTube channels. The archive’s format allows contributors to post videos to the main hub while continuing to host the files on their own channels.

Contributors to the archive—which lets users search by band, venue, year and more—include local musicians Charles Albright and Cory Wiegert, Bat Guano Records founder Ken Doose, Sacramento Punk Shows honcho Lee Osh and Zoran Theodorovic, host of the local metal show Capital Chaos.

“I have hundreds of live sets by great local punk bands,” Wiegert said. “Not many scenes can say they have something like this.”

Stacy made his first audio recording in the summer of 1985 using a boom box he stored in his car because he couldn’t afford a stereo. On a whim, he took it out and used it to capture a set by Sacramento thrash-metal favorite Sentinel Beast at the now-defunct DIY metal festival Helvetia Park. He was surprised to find that the sound quality wasn’t bad.

That debut recording, in all of its spontaneous glory, is in the archive. Shortly after that, Stacy got a hold of his stepdad’s top-notch Montgomery Ward boom box—the first of many gear upgrades over the years.

Eventually, he squirreled away earnings from his $5-per-hour graveyard shift parcel service job until he could afford a video camcorder.

While Stacy was digging into punk and metal, another local, “Taper Jim” McLain, was discovering rock bands like Sex 66 and Jackpot at the Heritage Festival.

McLain knew they routinely played Old Ironsides, so he began attending shows and recording them.

His path inevitably crossed with Stacy’s.

“When people saw me taping shows, they said, ‘Oh you must know Shayne,’” said McLain, who hadn’t yet met his recording peer. “Then I was at Old Ironsides and this other guy shows up and it was him.”

Prior to tapers like Stacy and McLain, there was Mark Martin, an old-school taper who recorded local punk and metal shows. Martin eventually sold Stacy his tape collection and phased out around the mid-’80s. He and Stacy are still in touch.

Martin occasionally borrows his gear to record local Americana and alt-country.

With a few of Martin’s taper contacts on hand, Stacy started trading by mail through underground networks advertised

in zines like MAXIMUM ROCKNROLL, Flipside and Goldmine.

“You would compile a list of what you have and swap back and forth with people,” Stacy said.

The world Stacy documented in the ’80s, however, experienced a new wrinkle in the early ’90s after bands such as Nirvana arrived on the scene. Stacy recorded the iconic grunge band at the Crest Theatre months before Nevermind landed like an atomic bomb, going platinum many times over.

Suddenly the DIY counterculture became a mainstream commodity, which of course brought other forces into the mix.

Bands that had played Cattle Club were suddenly playing large halls and arenas.

Tapes that previously existed specifically for die-hard music traders suddenly had measurable market value.

“When punk rock blew up in ’91 and money started getting into it, [taping] got harder,” Stacy said.

Not only was it suddenly more difficult to bring a camera into a show; Stacy also started seeing some of his original recordings monetized by others in the form of unsanctioned bootlegs on record store shelves. It was antithetical to why he did it, but soon became rampant.

“I quit for 10 years because these things were just seen as commodities and rarities,” said Stacy, who says he’s thankful in retrospect that others continued to tape hundreds of shows during that decade.

Now, the site’s bread and butter is live video and audio recordings, but it also hosts demos, flyers and other relics of the DIY scene.

“I think what Shayne and Jim are doing to document the history of music in Sacramento is invaluable,” said Sean Hills, who puts on local shows under Punch and Pie Productions. “I’m always happy when one, or sometimes both of them, come out to one of my shows.”

While in many ways the Sacramento Music Archive is for fans, McLain said it’s the bands who often appreciate it most. For many, it’s the only chance they ever get to see or hear their own sets live or have them archived and shared—save for fleeting Instagram stories or shaky Facebook clips.

The tapers’ workmanship and technical know-how sets them apart from your standard social media shares.

“There are a million phone cameras in the rooms, and it has driven the medium down to nothing,” Stacy said. “That’s how I differentiate. I have super-tall monopods and I just shoot right over the top of them.” Ω

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arah Kerber attends almost every Sacramento Regional Transit Board meeting. When the Board discusses proposals that might negatively impact public transportation in Sacramento, she protests them during the public comment period.

“Our transit system ... is going through a period of improvement,” but it needs more, Kerber said in a recent interview.

Kerber, a state worker who relies on public transit, belongs to the Sacramento Transit Riders Union (SacTRU), a group with over 100 members that advocates for a better public transit system.

The Union, which is supported by The California Endowment, is working to secure the vital funds RT needs to begin buying new trains.

Founded shortly after Henry Li became RT’s new general manager and CEO in 2016, SacTRU made it their aim to improve the quality of Sacramento’s RT system.

The Union is a project of Organize Sacramento, a nonprofit that trains people how to mobilize and make social change that tend to benefit the working poor.

Organize Sacramento adheres to a core principle: If you seek improvements in your community, speak to the people in power and help them make the right decisions for their constituents.

The nonprofit’s meeting room displays the portraits of local elected officials,

including all 11 RT Board members – a reminder of who the powerful are.

Upon learning that Kerber and other SacTRU members were attending his Board meetings, Henry Li appeared at some SacTRU meetings himself, signaling that RT would listen to the Union. Since then, Organize Sacramento and RT have developed a strong, positive relationship.

“Our traNSit SYStEm ... iS gOiNg tHrOugH a PEriOd Of imPrOvEmENt.” Sarah Kerber Sacramento Transit Riders Union Member

“Mr. Li has brought a customer-focused approach to RT that was not present before,” SacTRU member Russell Rawlings said.

According to SacTRU, their efforts convinced RT to reduce fares, effective last fall, for the first time in its 47-year history and successfully pressured RT keep a critical bus line in South Sacramento that they might’ve discontinued otherwise.

More than half of Sacramento Regional Transit’s train fleet is old and needs to be replaced, the agency says. funds for new trains may soon be obtained with Sactru’s help. Photo by Edgar Sanchez

That’s why SacTRU is speaking up to the Sacramento Area Council of Governments (SACOG), which coordinates regional transportation planning and funding. This new partnership could bode well for the future of SacRT. “SACOG welcomes public input from all individuals, organizations and stakeholders across the region,” including SacTRU, SACOG spokesman Alastair Paulin said.

The Union and RT agree: more than half of RT’s trains are past their useful life.

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Just listen to “Ten Toes.”

Paired with an uplifting rhythm and lyrics (“It ain’t worth your tears / It ain’t worth your pain / every time you see them / put a smile on your face”), the song embodies self-empowerment in spite of fake friends and naysayers.

Expect poetic hip-hop and neo-soul on Kari, which includes some songs that capture her most vulnerable side. She says she’s finally In KariJay’s music video for “ten toes,” she and her squad ready to release her two-year invade Arden Mall with good vibes. long project, but it’s not easy.

“The challenge for myself is to share my more intimate works that no one’s heard,” Kari says.

“It’s really just like the different facets, and it’s Sometimes finding yourself requires a name all that I can bring and hope to accomplish in change. Takarra Johnson’s needed to embody music.” her growth. She had just joined her high school Being a poet and hip-hop artist isn’t enough. slam poetry team, was learning about social In 2018, she co-founded an organization called justice movements and music production and was The West2West Movement, inspired by expanding her definition of spirituality a study-abroad trip to West Ghana beyond the church. during her freshman year of And of course, her new name college in 2016. West2West’s needed to be “hella deep.” She “The challenge goal is to create a cultural landed on KariJustiss. But it for myself is to exchange with the African didn’t fly. share my more intimate diaspora. She holds local “My friends were like, Saturday schools and field ‘That’s hella corny.’” she says. works that no one’s trips to West Ghana for “… I was just trying to make heard.” students. the ‘J’ in my last name stand for “Every person with KariJay something other than Johnson.”

African descent deserves this The 22-year-old Sacramento experience, and I feel like all hip-hop artist now goes by her people should experience where longtime nickname, KariJay. After a they came from,” Kari says. few roots-connecting trips to West Ghana As for her name, Kari lets the Jay and moving from creating spoken-word poetry speak for itself. to music, Kari is dropping her debut self-titled It stands for “Just As You Are,” she says, album this summer. But what does the Jay stand “to denote that we come into the world with for now? everything we need inside ourselves.” Ω Growing up in a Christian household, Kari became a youth speaker at Blessed Faith Ministries at eight years old. The church laid a foundation for her music; after school, she spent Check out KariJay’s performance at the Capitol after the black Women’s March on saturday, June 22. the march runs from 9am-12pm, beginning at time in the ministry’s music studio.

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Wed 8pm, thu 2pm & 8pm, fri 8pm, sat 2pm & 8pm, sun 2pm. through 6/2; $35-$165; Broadway sacramento at the community center theater, 1301 L street, (916) 808-5181, broadwaysacramento.com.

The treasured story of Aladdin comes to life on the Community Center Theater stage with both familiar and new music, dazzling colors and a brilliant company of performers. The tale follows the kindhearted street rat, Aladdin (Clinton Greenspan/ Jacob Dickey), who finds a charismatic genie (Major Attaway) in a magic lamp in the Cave of Wonders. Aladdin uses his three wishes to persuade Princess Jasmine (Kaenaonalani Kekoa) to fall in love with him, but the nefarious Jafar (Jonathan Weir) and his evil sidekick Iago (Reggie De Leon) create treacherous interference and distraction along the way.

The story of Aladdin invites viewers to see a new, fantastic point of view, while teaching the importance of honesty, friendship and love.

Directed and choreographed by Casey Nicholaw, the North American Broadway Tour introduces some new characters and songs that add a fresh feel to the story. Instead of the pet monkey Abu, we meet Aladdin’s closest pals Babkak (Zach Bencal), Omar (Ben Chavez) and Kassim (Erik Hernandez) who join him on his adventure and take on the palace guards to rescue Aladdin.

As Aladdin, Greenspan was flawless throughout the entire high-energy production, especially in an emotional performance of “Proud of Your Boy.” Attaway (who also played Genie in the original Broadway production) carries the show with his comedic attitude and impressive vocal range. His powerful performance of “Friend Like Me” does not disappoint, and is fittingly accompanied by a

glitzy set, riveting choreography, quick costume changes and explosive pyrotechnics.

Making her Broadway on Tour debut is the lovely Kaenaonalani Kekoa, whose charming portrayal of the sweet, but not-so-obedient Jasmine is tender and exquisite. The multi-talented ensemble entertain with tap dancing, traditional dances of the Middle East, musicality and animated stagecraft, while the Aladdin Touring Orchestra (joined by several local orchestra members) splendidly and skillfully recreate the music of Alan Menken.

When Aladdin and Jasmine soar above the stage on the magic carpet through the dazzling, diamond sky, it’s almost impossible not to be transported with them as they sing “A Whole New World.” As the theater transforms into a night sky above the city of Agrabah, the audience sits below, spellbound by this enchanting scene. With its magical moving sets and glittering costumes, the overall production is fun, fanciful and polished to perfection.

It’s a musical that’s bursting with excitement and is ideal for families with young children, or anyone who grew up watching the animated Disney film and loved singing along to “Arabian Nights,” “Prince Ali” and “A Whole New World.” This show is everything one would hope for in a live Broadway performance of Disney’s Aladdin, as it whisks you away on delightful journey to a distant land filled with sword fights, magic genies and one heroic diamond in the rough. Ω

stage pick Maybe getting stuck on a train isn’t so bad after all …

Strangers on a train Ever feel like there just aren’t enough plays about meet-cutes involving theoretical physicists? If so, you’re in luck—currently showing at UC Davis is playwright Andrew Nicholl’s {LOVE/logic}, a story about two brilliant scientists who are scheduled to debate theoretical physics at an upcoming conference. When they find themselves struggling to physically move past each other on a train, their impossible situation inevitably leads to romance. Is it an extended metaphor, or are they both just really stuck?

Those train hallways can get pretty tight. Thu 5/23, 7pm; Fri 5/24, 7pm; Sat 5/25, 2pm & 7pm; Through 5/25; $12$18.50; Wyatt Pavilion Theatre at UC Davis, Arboretum Drive in Davis; (530) 752-2471; arts.ucdavis.edu.

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Michelin is set to launch its first California restaurant guide in June. Will Sacramento establishments see stars?

by Robin EplEy

To understand why California’s state tourism board recently paid the famed Michelin travel guide company $600,000, we may have to start the story at the turn of the last century.

Michelin, a French tire company that wanted to spur more people onto the roads in the early days of automobile travel—and therefore, buy more of its tires—began putting out a guide to local gas stations, scenic sites and, yes, restaurants.

Fast-forward more than 100 years, when earning a Michelin star (or two or 24

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three) is the restaurant world-equivalent of winning Olympic gold or an Academy Award. Or if you ask any chef, it’s all three put together.

But at the heart of it all, a Michelin Guide is still just a tourism guide. And it’s run by a company that still wants to make a profit.

That’s where tourism boards such as Visit California and Visit Sacramento come in. According to Visit Sacramento CEO, Mike Testa, the conversation to bring Michelin to Sacramento started

more than two years ago, but Michelin In a highly-competitive world that’s expressed more interest in creating a all about how you’re perceived—by guide for all of California. customers, by critics and by fellow It’s notable as only the fifth Michelin chefs—will Visit California’s purchase guide in the United States: The other taint any newly-awarded stars? four are in San Francisco (which boasts “I would say eat at that restaurant of having the most three-star restaurants and tell me they’re not worthy of that in the world, eight), New York, Chicago designation,” Testa said. “What a terrible and Washington, D.C.—arguably among thing to say to someone who has poured the heaviest hitters in American cuisine. themselves into their restaurant.”

San Francisco’s guide, which started in 2007, will be absorbed into the new Being included in the guide even without California guide, so there’s really still a star rating is an honor unto itself, only four. sort of like being runner-up in a beauty Who appears in that guide and which pageant. But winning a star can land restaurants get stars have no connection a restaurant hundreds of thousands of to the money a local tourism board pays dollars more in revenue and worldwide Michelin, according to both sides of the acclaim. partnership.

According to an announcement from In fact, Testa said Michelin is Michelin, the 2019 star selection for exceedingly tight-lipped about the the inaugural California Guide will be process. He said representatives revealed in early June in Huntington would not discuss when, which or if Beach. any Sacramento restaurants would be Joseph Vaccaro, former general reviewed. manager of Ella Dining Room & Bar “Believe me, I’ve tried to get infor(which catered the Michelin announcemation out of them,” he said. ment event) and is now COO for Selland The real challenge may be one of Family Restaurants, said no one in the perception. restaurant business has ever “bought” First, some Sacramentans still revel notoriety. in the city’s cowtown image. The idea He also said he hasn’t heard whether that Sacramento’s restaurants would Ella will be under consideration by be on the same level as those in San Michelin critics, but that it “would Francisco or Los Angeles is be incredibly humbling.” antithetical to that selfVaccaro said he told his image, even though staff that just having “There chef and restaurateurs the guide include all have been steadily of California “only are more good coming to the makes the spotlight restaurants in this capital city for shine brighter” on years as a cheaper them. town than I have time alternative to “There are to dine at.”

San Francisco’s more good restauskyrocketing rants in this town Joseph Vaccaro prices. than I have time COO for Selland Family Second, payto dine at,” Vaccaro Restaurants to-play rumors have said. surrounded the deal since “Nothing comes easy its announcement in March in the restaurant business,” he at the Golden 1 Center, though added. “You’re only as good as your California is not the first location last service.” Ω to pay for a Michelin Guide. Seoul, South Korea paid roughly $1.8 million in 2017 to get one, to mixed reviews, according to Eater.com. And the Tourism Authority of Thailand spends Keep up with the launch of Michelin’s California Guide about $880,000 a year to commission at guide.michelin.com. its guide.

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There is something to be said about the aromas and particular flavors in a black cup of coffee. In search of the fruitiest, sharpest and most pleasant-tasting coffee notes, SN&R turned to experts at Temple Coffee Roasters, Peet’s Coffee and Identity Coffees, as well as Alpen Sierra Coffee in Nevada, where a Sacramento expat owns a wholesale company. So forget about the condiment bar at your local coffee shop for the moment. You won’t need to add sugar, honey or cream to these cups.

Temple Coffee lists three straightforward flavor descriptors on each 12-ounce bag of coffee it sells.

There’s the Costa Rica Finca Tirra, for example: “Pearl sugar, peach, cherry preserves.” Not just sugar. Pearl sugar. Not just cherry. Cherry preserves.

Skeptical yet?

Consider this: If you take a fruity sun-dried Ethiopian coffee, the seasonal Ethiopian Super Natural at Peet’s comes to mind, and inhale its aroma next to a handful of blueberries, they’ll smell strikingly similar, and the taste will follow suit.

However, tasting notes aren’t always this ostentatious. Shelly Runkle, shift lead at Peet’s Coffee at Alhambra and Folsom Boulevards, has been tasting coffee professionally for 11 years. She indicated the importance of a control coffee, similar to the control variable in a science experiment.

The control coffee brings out the brew’s distinct flavors, such as the earthiness in a bean from the South Pacific using a nutty coffee from Brazil.

She describes aged Sumatran beans, which sit for as long as five years in burlap bags before being roasted in the most romantic way.

“They’re pleasantly musty. Like ... a familiar closet, or an old wood chest,” Runkle said.

At Identity Coffees’ Midtown location, barista Kevin Z.’s craziest descriptor for coffee is unabashedly straightforward: “sweaty cardboard!”

Z.’s coworker, roaster and barista Jess Mill, noted that flavors such as acetone and potato are prime indicators of defects while coffee tasting.

In regards to the delicious, yet eccentric notes that vary from palate to palate, Ashley Stockwell, a supervisor at Identity’s West Sacramento location, mentioned that there are a lot of candy descriptors out there such as waxy, cherry bubblegum or Watermelon Jolly Rancher.

Speaking of candy, Temple Coffee’s S Street location manager Daniel Choe described his most memorable coffee tasting note as, “Sour Patch Kids ... the green one, a more apple-y taste.”

A fan of more conservative profile language, Christian Waskiewicz is an old gun who roasted for Boulevard Coffee in Sacramento in the 1980s and now owns Alpen Sierra Coffee in Minden, Nevada.

“I don’t go too wacky [with descriptors]. I keep it relatable,” he said.

He added that orange-citrus might be the most exciting term he uses.

In lieu of comparing apples to oranges, Camilla Yuan, head roaster at Temple, refers back to blueberries, and how different they taste compared to the flavor of a bright, orange-y bean, “It’s a different type of sweetness compared to an Ethiopia [variety].” Ω

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all-time low. Since the clusters broke up, they seem to have disappeared off the face of the Earth. … Thirty years ago, you could count 28,000 in one little park in the Bay Area.”

This spring, one monarch was recorded near Chico, another near Auburn. Shapiro saw one May 10 in the canyon of the South Yuba River.

Painted Ladies have a huge advantage over monarchs, which demand milkweed as their breeding habit and to feed their young.

“They’re not picky eaters and they’re highly mobile,” Shapiro said. “Natural enemies A painted lady butterfly sips nectar in Midtown can’t keep up with them.

Sacramento.

“One of the reasons they can build up their numbers so quickly is that, unlike monarchs, they can breed opportunistically on you-name-it,” he added.

Countless cases of mistaken identity this month North America’s painted lady population got butterfly lovers excited. winters in desert regions from Baja to West Texas.

“With all the publicity given to the collapse of “They mill around looking for places where the California monarch population, I keep getting rain has triggered large-scale germination of these celebratory emails: ‘The monarch is saved! annual host plants,” Shapiro explained. “Because Thousands of them are flying through Modesto of the contingent nature of this, their enemies right now!’” said butterfly expert Art Shapiro, don’t know where they are, so they can build up professor of evolution and ecology at UC Davis. huge numbers really fast.”

“Sorry. Uh-uh.”

In addition to butterflies born near the border, Those are no famous monarchs. They’re more Painted Ladies are hatched along the way common painted ladies. north in the Central Valley, creating a second “The wing shape, the way they fly is differwave as they head to summer flowers in Oregon ent,” said Shapiro, who says he hears a new and the Pacific Northwest. monarch mix-up every day. “They don’t really “Usually there is a hiatus, but this year the look similar at all, except for being mostly migration from the desert segued directly into the orange and black. … The miracle is to get people migration of butterflies bred in central California,” to notice things at all.”

Shapiro said.

While real monarchs are extremely scarce this This migration has been going on for two spring, millions of painted ladies moved through months, and reached the area on March 17. It may the Sacramento area. Their explosion coincided be over by Memorial Day. with this spring’s Super Bloom.

Heading south in October, another generation “This is the biggest painted lady year since of painted ladies may fly through town, but the 2005,” said Shapiro, “though my rough estimate biggest groups will be on the other side of the is that it’s only about 15 percent the number seen Sierra. According to Shapiro, they love the fallin ’05. … That year was the biggest Super Bloom blooming rabbitbush in Carson Valley. Ω ever recorded.”

Meanwhile, the monarchs continue their drastic decline.

Debbie Arrington, an award-winning garden writer and lifelong “It was the worst [monarch year] ever,” gardener, is co-creator of the Sacramento Digs gardening blog Shapiro said. “The entire overwintering population and website. in the state was estimated as only 28,000—an

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new Cannabis Bills moving forward Four new legislative proposals aim to correct For uneven regulations and taxes n an effort to correct some of the unintended consequences of Proposition 64 and legal adult-use cannabis regulations, four new bills are making their way through the California legislature.

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Senate Bill 34 Senate Bill 34, introduced by Senator Scott Wiener, allows cannabis businesses to donate cannabis to medicinal patients for compassionate use, without paying excise taxes on the donation. “We don’t tax prescription drugs. Why should we tax medical cannabis?” said Wiener on KQED last November.

Known as the Dennis Peron and Brownie Mary Act, the bill pays homage to two San Franciscans. Mary Jane Rathbun was a hospital volunteer who distributed cannabis brownies to AIDS patients. Dennis Peron co-founded the San Francisco Cannabis Buyers Club, and co-wrote Proposition 215, The Compassionate Use Act of California.

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New seNate aNd assembly bills aim to lower taxes aNd opeN greater access to use.

In its endorsement letter, the Cannabis Nurses Network said, “As nurses, we have witnessed significant benefits that cannabis therapeutics provide our patients, particularly with respect to pain management for patients with cancer and other debilitating or terminal medical conditions.”

Senate Bill 51 One of the cannabis industry’s biggest problems is that it operates on a cash-only basis, creating opportunities for corruption and robberies. This inability to conduct basic banking services motivated Senate Majority Leader Robert Hertzberg to introduce SB51, which authorizes limited charter banks and credit unions for cannabis businesses. “We can’t stand by while the safety of legal business owners, their employees and the general public are put at risk,” said Hertzberg in a press release on his website.

The bill would allow these banks to issue “special purpose checks,” allowing businesses to pay suppliers, employees and taxes without the need for bags of cash and armored transports. Designed as a temporary solution, SB 51 would become non-operative should the federal government legalize cannabis and authorize regular banking services for cannabis businesses.

aSSemBly Bill 1465 Assembly Bill 1465 creates an entirely new license, permitting people to purchase and use cannabis products at a “licensed consumption cafe/lounge.” Currently, there is no public place where such cannabis smoking is allowed.

“Hospitality-based businesses have different business models than cannabis retail businesses,” said the bill’s author, West Los Angeles Assemblymember Richard Bloom, in a statement. The bill allows for separate lounge rooms, in the image of San Francisco’s cannabis dispensaries.

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MUSIC THURSDAY, 5/23 THe BiG PoPPieS: The Davis-based rockers will play with the Sacramento-based garage soul band The New Crowns. 8pm, $10. Momo Sacramento, 2708 J St.

BirdS iN roW: These hardcore Lavaloise

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The Tonight Show, kinda STAB! Comedy TheATer, 9pm, $7 The year was 1979, the day May 24. Former NBA player Tracy McGrady was born—but no one knew he would one day Comedy be a basketball star. What they did know for sure was that a show with Johnny Carson was on that night. That fateful production is the subject of The Tonight Play. It’s a live-action reproduction of the entire episode that debuted 40 years

TiCKeT WiNdoW KENNY G The instrumentalist recruited

by Kanye West to serenade Kim Kardashian West on Valentine’s Day is coming to Sacramento—but you don’t have to be Kanye to appreciate some Kenny G. 6/7, 7:30pm, $69-$99, on sale now.

Crest Sacramento, ticketfly.com.

JIMMY EAT WORLD Catch the rock

band as it forays into Sacramento’s rich music markets for one night only. 6/16, 7pm, $39.50, on sale now. Ace of Spades, concerts1.livenation.com.

BRIAN REG AN Comedian and humorist Brian Regan will be performing, much to the delight of my fourth grade math teacher who played his comedy in class.

6/27, 7:30pm, $55-$67.50, on sale now. Crest Sacramento, ticketfly.com.

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JoHN KAdLeCiK’S feLLoWSHiP of THe WiNG: The famed Grateful Dead tribute guitarist is coming to Sacramento with Fellowship of the Wing, which featured Jay Lane, Reed Mathis and Todd Stoops. 8pm, $18-$20. Harlow’s, 2708 J St.

mArK HUmmeL’S HArmoNiCA BLoWoUT: You know Mark Hummel for his award-winning harmonica-playing, and that’s what you’ll get at his Harmonica Blowout. If you’ve ever heard a harmonica played and wished for way more harmonica, check out this event. 7pm, $48. Sofia Tsakopoulos Center for the Arts, 2700 Capitol Ave.

LoVeLyTHeBANd: The pop band with an affinity for lowercase is coming to town on their “finding it hard to smile tour.” Join them as they gin up some indie rock ’n’ roll. 7pm, $22. Ace of Spades, 1417 R St.

SyLAr: Grab some tickets for the rock band

ago, featuring local actors in the roles of Johnny and his guests. Those hallowed names: Ali MacGraw, Pat Boone, Pete Fountain and Donna Cross. Stephen Ferris brings this rare episode back to life, giving Sacramentans the gift of knowledge—to finally know what it was like sitting in the audience of this episode. 1710 Broadway, stabcomedytheater.com.

You want to see a show? Here’s a few.

CRASH TEST DUMMIES Performing

with Jill Sobule, the Canadian rock group famous for some hits like “Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm” and more is performing later this summer. 8/28, 7:30pm, $35-$55, on sale now. Crest Sacramento, ticketfly.com.

CAKE Get some tickets before it’s too late

to see Cake in their homecoming concert.

9/11, 7pm, $59.50-$279, on sale now. Golden 1 Center, ticketmaster.com.

ERIC CHURCH Church is in session— or it will be when the country rocker comes to town for two days of musical performances. 11/22 & 11/23, 8pm, $21.41-$522, on sale now. Golden 1 Center, ticketmaster.com.

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from France are on tour, and a whole slew of other groups will perform with them, including Listener, Quentin Sauve, Enter: Villain and two more that didn’t make this listing. 6pm, $12-$15. The Boardwalk, 9426 Greenback Lane in Orangevale.

in town. They’ll also be performing at the 20th annual Gathering of the Juggalos in Indiana, if that’s your jug of fun. 6:30pm, $15$18. Holy Diver, 1517 21st St.

FRIDAY, 5/24 2KTHAGooN: Catch the North Carolina rapper along with Tradey Stunna, Real Friends, Local Zero, Emoflytrap, Alex Griffith and Shaggy under one roof. 7pm, $10. Sol Collective, 2574 21st St.

CoNCerTS iN THe PArK: Concerts in the Park is a weekly, free concert series at Cesar Chavez Plaza. There are musical guests of all sorts from one Friday to the next. This week, the concerts are performed by rock group Emarosa, local post-hardcore group Wolf & Bear and more. Show up for the fun, all-ages, free music concert. 5pm, no cover. Cesar Chavez Plaza, 910 I St.

THe eXPLoiTed: Forty years since the Scottish punk band got together, they’re still touring and stopping in Sacramento. 6pm, $25. Ace of Spades, 1417 R St.

LiL deBBie: The rapper is playing with the singer-rapper Dev. Lil Debbie used to be in The White Girl Mob, produced a line of edibles called CAKES and will be rapping. 7pm, $18$20. Holy Diver, 1517 21st St.

THe SoNS of CHAmPLiN: Featuring the sounds of Bill Champlin himself, the Sons will be playing, as will Lydia Pense and Cold Blood. 7:30pm, $30-$55. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.

SATURDAY, 5/25 BAd ASS BLUeS: Some good ol’ blues should be filling up the Crest as Elvin Bishop shuttles

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in the Big Fun Trio and Tommy Castro wheels in The Painkillers. 7:30pm, $35-$65. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.

BooT JUiCe: It’s a free show with Boot Juice, who were featured in the SN&R calendar on October 4, 2018. That listing drew attention to their swampy jazz sound, and this listing draws attention to their show. 7:30pm, no cover. Goldfield Trading Post, 1630 J St.

CLUB SÉANCe 4 yeAr ANNiVerSAry PArTy: Spend a cold minute in the company of Club Séance with DJ Chat Noir and some dark sounds.

It’s year four, so celebrate that how you will. 9:30pm, $5. Midtown Barfly, 1119 21st St.

doKKeN: In case you missed the heavy metal band’s 1986 stop in Detroit, or their 2018 return to Motor City, you can catch them in Sacramento. Go Red Wings! 6:30pm, $25. Ace of Spades, 1417 R St.

riderS iN THe SKy: Several cowboy-clad performers take to the stage as they have since 1977. Spend a minute out in their pasture, taking in some of their Western sounds and comedic stylings. 8pm, $42$72. Harris Center, 10 College Parkway in Folsom.

STAr WArS & BeeTHoVeN: The Camellia Symphony Orchestra is performing some Star Wars music, but it will also throw in some Beethoven, Strauss and more. 7:30pm, $8-$30. C.K. McClatchy Auditorium, 3066 Freeport Blvd.

SUNDAY, 5/26 mooNALiCe: Join the jam rockers from Moonalive to benefit the Friends of Auburn Area Recreation. Have some raffles, music, food and drinks. 4pm, no cover. Crooked Lane Brewing Company, 536 Grass Valley Highway in Auburn.

SHooK oNeS: The Seattle-based, punk-pop Shook Ones, not to be confused with Jay-Z’s “Shook Ones,” will play Holy Diver. 7pm, $12$15. Holy Diver, 1517 21st St.

FESTIVALS THURSDAY, 5/23 2019 CoUNTy fAir: Hey, kids and adults and other folks—the County Fair is in town! This town, Sacramento. Check out the event highlight on page 29 for more details on the fair’s festivities. 10am, $8. Cal Expo, 1600 Exposition Blvd.

FRIDAY, 5/24 TorCHfeST 2019: Want to taste the Torch Club’s festival? Now’s your chance, as three days’ worth of performers perform for three days. With appearances by 50 Watt Heavy, Gillian Underwood, George Napp, Smokey The Groove and many more, it’s one Torchfest you won’t want to miss. 5:30pm, $12-$15. Torch Club, 904 15th St.

WATerfroNT dAyS: “Gol-ly! This here river in Sacramento sure is a sight. Let’s set up a city here!” This is probably what someone said before Sacramento was founded, and it’s time to celebrate that person and the city of Sacramento’s roots. Join lots of period musicians, reenactments

SATURDAY, 5/25

Sacramento Zine Fest vErgE CEntEr for thE arts, 11am, no CovEr

They’re hand-held, independently published and labors of love: zines. For the second year running, Sacramento FESTIVALS Zine Fest is back. Hosted by Unibrow Collective, this festival celebrates the best of independent, small-scale publishing. There will be more than 30 vendors of zines showcasing their art, their words, their visions. Come out and see what inspiration has struck Sacramentans, read some local zines and listen to some music from MC Ham. 625 S Street, vergeart.com.

SMUD: Living Colors- The SMUD Ribbon

virtual reality simulators to recover from her experiences in the war closes up show soon. Through 5/25. $12-$22. 1616 Del Paso Blvd.

Cutting. Vincent Michael Damyanovich’s LED art installation at SMUD is getting a forever home—at SMUD! In case you missed the artwork’s unveiling, you can catch its re-grand opening. Thursday 5/23, 11am. No cover. 6301 S St.

CAPITAL STAGE: A Night of Scenes. Catch some of the scenes from the Apprentice Company after performances of Cap Stage’s The Other Place. Through 5/26. No cover. 2215 J St.

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to Dinner. The film-based work about an interracial marriage in the 1960s comes to Chautauqua Playhouse. Through 6/9. $19$21. 5325 Engle Road, Suite 110 in Carmichael.

SUTTER STREET THEATRE: Vanya and Sonia and and performers as they turn the Old Sacramento Waterfront into plain old Old Sacramento—which, in 1849, was just called Sacramento City. With lots of activities and plenty of opportunity for jokes about cell phone contraptions, it’s a Sacramento event the likes of which you would like. 10am, no cover. Old Sacramento Waterfront, 1002 Front St.

SATURDAY, 5/25 15TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL KIDS FESTIVAL: Are you a kid who’s sick of poorly established, fly-by-night international kids festival?

Want a kid fest with 14 years under its belt?

Join Russian American Media’s festival and take in some pony riding, bouncy houses, face paints, games and all that fun kid stuff. 10am, no cover. William Land Park, 3800 Land Park Drive.

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FOOD FOR THOUGHT: Join wine savant Andrew Willsen for this sommeliered evening of wine socializing. It’s Grape’s and Groundbreakers, y’all, so come celebrate with Haarmeyer Wine Cellars. 6pm, $30. Haarmeyer Wine Cellars in West Sacramento.

FRIDAY, 5/24 TAHOE PARK FOOD TRUCK MANIA: Have an insatiable hunger for hunger? Then come spend some time trying out food truck foods in preparation for the coming hunger. With lots of mobile food trucks attending, there will be plenty of edible options. 5pm, no cover. Tahoe Park, 3501 59th St.

GLOBAL LOCAL MERCADO: Come down to the local and global market at Sol Collective.

With plenty of vendors selling plenty of neat things, you’ll get a nice smattering of fun creativity. To boot, you’ll hear some music, partake in some food and potentially get a new lease on life. Noon, no cover. Sol Collective, 2574 21st St.

SACRAMENTO ZINE FEST 2019: A zine is a humble hamster sharing its carrot, a panicked dentist lusting for a life of crime. See what zines are being cooked up by local zinemakers—more details on page 29. 11am, no cover. Verge Center for the Arts, 625 S St.

WATERFRONT DAYS: Waterfront Days continue through Sunday. 10am, no cover. Old Sacramento Waterfront, 1002 Front St.

MONDAY, 5/27 MEMORIAL DAY MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM OPEN HOUSE: The Memorial Auditorium is back and better then ever, more than 90 years since its original opening. Come spend some time in the space by taking a tour led by staff and Friends of the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium, listening to some songs on the Estey Municipal Organ and having some cookies—all while honoring those who’ve given their lives in service of the Armed Forces. 10am, no cover. Memorial Auditorium, 1515 J St.

FOOD & DRINK THURSDAY, 5/23 ELDERS EDIBLE EDUCATION: Take in some biweekly food education from Judith Yisrael with a number of tasty indigenous food options. Vegetable curry is the name of this class, and it’s got cooking on the mind. You’ll develop skills, learn about cultures and get your chef on. 10:30am, no cover. Oak Park

FILM FRIDAY, 5/24 14TH ANNUAL DAVIS FEMINIST FILM FESTIVAL: Check out some films specially selected for the Davis Feminist Film Festival. It’s a grassroots festival featuring stories from all walks of life and all walks of feminism.

Featuring documentaries, narratives and more, this festival will bring issues of gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality and more into the intersectional fold. 4pm, $5 suggested donation. Veterans Memorial Center Theatre, 204 E. 14th St. in Davis.

SUNDAY, 5/26

9pm. $7. YAK with Cory. Cory Barringer hosts this variety show, which features Jason Mack, Imin Love, Ryan King and Jordan Mata. Plus, Elise Bakerson. Friday 5/24, 7:30pm. $7. 1710 Broadway.

TOMMY T’S COMEDY CLUB: Sheryl Underwood.

The BET comedian, The Talk host, Miller Lite Comedy Search Finalist and funny person will be doing some standup. Through 5/25. $25-$35. 12401 Folsom Blvd. in Rancho Cordova.

WILLIAM J. GEERY THEATER: Keith Lowell Jensen What I Was Arrested For. The hit local standup comedian is bringing it all to the table in a new show about run-ins with the law, as the name implies. As Leonardo DiCaprio’s character’s actions in the biopic Catch Me If You Can seem to say to Tom Hanks’ character, catch him (Lowell Jensen) if you can. Through 5/25. $10-$30. 2130 L St.

ON STAGE B STREET THEATRE: Maximum Occupancy.

Join Dave Pierini, Tara Sissom, Stephanie Altholz and more folks as they bring some improvised comedy to the B Street. Pizza can get involved under the right circumstances. Sunday 5/26, 6:30pm. $12. New Play Brunch presents Unite The Right / A Black Comedy. Catch a new production of a comedy with B Street in a play reading plus brunch combo. Sunday 5/26, 10:30am. $12. 2700 Capitol Ave.

BIG IDEA THEATRE: Ugly Lies the Bone. Big

Masha and Spike. This somewhat new play about aging siblings and cohabitation comes to Sutter Street Theatre. Also there’s some future predicting that occurs. Through 5/26. $15-$24. 717 Sutter St. in Folsom.

Wild Things Are 2019. Join SFAC for some nature-based works of art benefiting nature-based nature center Effie Yeaw Nature Center. Through 6/2. $25. 5330 Gibbons Drive, Suite B in Carmichael.

VERGE CENTER FOR THE ARTS: “Zone” Curated

by Ryan Peace On The Sun. Pop down to Verge to see a collection of artwork from a number of contributing artists. With all kinds of work represented and a freedom for artists to express themselves however they saw fit, this collection of work explores zones. Thursday 5/23, 6pm. $10. 625 S St.

COMMUNITY CENTER THEATER: Disney’s Aladdin.

Catch the musical that people at parties I’ve attended have described as pretty cool, featuring the Disney story of the Arabian pauper, a genie and pretty incredible set pieces. Catch the review in our stage section. Through 6/2. $50-$90. 1301 L St.

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THE GUILD THEATER: Mics And Moods. Join some poets and comedians and musicians as they come together at The Guild. With Khiry, Khalypso, Patrick Jaye and Ode to Saturday performing in one way or another, it’s a cultural experience not to be missed. Saturday 5/25, 7pm. $15. 2828 35th St.

ART ALPHA FIRED ARTS: Out of Clay. Five artists come together for this ceramic show—Tilde Marksbury, Robyn Brakel, Muna Halabi, Melody Nix and Gloria Sakato. Contrary to the name of the show, there is plenty of clay left in the world. Through 6/1. No cover. 4675 Aldona Lane.

KENNEDY GALLERY: 20-Twenty Exhibit At Kennedy Gallery. Twenty artists meet 20 works of art. The twist? The artists made those 20 works of art. Come check out the more than a dozen artists’ work. Through 6/1. No cover. 1931 L St.

Idea’s work about a discharged soldier using

Day Car Show. Don’t sleep on the Cal Auto Museum—they’re putting on a car show for Memorial Day. Honor the sacrifices of service members with Cal Auto this year. Monday 5/27, 9am. $25-$30. 2200 Front St.

CROCKER ART MUSEUM: Sketch It. Museums aren’t just for viewing artwork any more.

Sprint down to the Crocker as fast as you can, because this monthly drawing program is coming up fast. Supplies are provided. Sunday 5/26, 10:30am. No cover. 216 O St.

OLD SACRAMENTO STATE HISTORIC PARK: The Quest for the Gold Spike. Don’t miss the State Railroad Museum’s production of this historical melodrama. Performed in the Eagle Theatre, it’s all a part of the sesquicentennial celebration of the Transcontinental Railroad. Through 5/25. No cover. 1014 2nd St.

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ERASERHEAD: David Lynch’s horror work about a father and his fun experiences with parenthood comes to the Crest. It’ll probably be nightmarish, but Buk Buk Big Ups will play in the lobby at 6:30 p.m. before the 7 p.m. screening. 6:30pm, $7.50$9.50. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.

COMEDY LAUGHS UNLIMITED COMEDY CLUB: Dustin Nickerson. Nickerson will be performing on Father’s Day in Wisconsin, but until then, catch him performing his dad-joke comedy with Diana Hong and Andrew Orolfo. Through 5/24. $10. 1207 Front St.

PUNCH LINE: Sacramento Comedy Showcase.

Smatterings are good ways to get a sense of a wider swath of things. In this way, you can get a sense of a broader slice of comedy from Sacramento in this showcase. Through 5/23. $12. 2100 Arden Way, Suite 225.

STAB! COMEDY THEATER: The Tonight Play.

Here’s Johnny—Carson, that is. Well, a Johnny Carson impersonator, anyway. Peep some more deets on page 28. Friday 5/24,

THURSDAY, 5/23MONDAY, 5/27

Sacramento County Fair Cal Expo, various timEs, $7-$8

Time to show your pride for the rootin’est, tootin’est state subdivision around— Sacramento County. That’s FESTIVALS right, the County Fair is back for another year of fun! Here are some reasons to show up: 1. There are monster trucks, the famous oversized vehicles. 2.

There’s livestock hanging out, 24/7. 3. There are duck races, the organized kind. 4. There is music, food, rides and entertainment galore.

That last reason is sort of a catch-all for the various things you ought to expect. 1600 Exposition Boulevard, sacfair.com.

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sPorts & oUtdoors tHUrsday, 5/23 wAterFront yoGA: Pick your day to get your stretch on—there are four days a week where Old Sacramento becomes Hold Sacramento—as in, hold that yoga pose! 6:30pm, no cover. Old Sacramento Waterfront, 1002 Front St.

Friday, 5/24 mentAL HeALtH mAtters niGHt: Join Each Mind Matters for this Mental Health Matters Night at the Sacramento River Cats. They’re playing the Salt Lake Bees. 7pm, $10$20. Raley Field, 400 Ballpark Drive in West Sacramento.

lGBtQ satUrday, 5/25 Q-Prom 2019: Q-Prom is back for another year

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The theme of the year is The Enchanted Garden, so come test out your green thumb in an inclusive, safe, welcoming environment. 7pm, $10-$15. Sac State University Ballroom, 6000 J St.

taKe action tHUrsday, 5/23 2019 disAbiLity & AGinG CAPitoL ACtion dAy: Unite to support people with disabilities as well as older adults in this day of action and support. There are all-day activities and education along with a trek to the Capitol.

Register in advance. 10am, no cover. Cesar Chavez Plaza, 910 I St.

buiLdinG bridGes For Community emPowerment And soCiAL JustiCe: Shirley Weber will be the keynote speaker at this fundraiser for CRISJ, the Center on Race,

Immigration and Social Justice. 6pm, $15$25. Sacramento State University Alumni Center, 6000 J St.

CCHAt Friends For breAKFAst: Join the CCHAT for a breakfast, some networking and some education about the services the organization provides to children who are deaf or hard of hearing. 9am. no cover. CCHAT Center Sacramento, 11100 Coloma Road in Rancho Cordova.

classes tHUrsday, 5/23 sCienCe CAFe: Join in the conversation with Frederick J. Meyers, director for the Center for Precision Medicine, along with Jacqueline Garcia from All of Us Research Program. 6pm, no cover. Old Soul at 40 Acres, 3434 Broadway.

suburbAn PermACuLture: This class on creating green and resilient homes is presented by Jan Spencer. 7pm, $10 suggested donation. Ooley Theatre, 2007 28th St.

Friday, 5/24 wHoLisitiC CooKinG CLAss And Community meAL: Grab a notepad and listen up, because you’re going to learn how to make potstickers. Bring a dessert dish if you’d like, because there’s a community meal after the class. 6pm, $25-$45. Temple KUKURI, 10723 Fair Oaks Blvd. in Fair Oaks.

satUrday, 5/25 intuitiVe PAintinG CLAss: Join Cara Emilia for an intuitive painting class, a calming, free expression facilitated by paint. You’ll have 80 square inches of canvas to fill with your intuitions over two hours. 1pm, $50. Broad Room Creative Collective, 2311 S St.

wednesday, 5/29 FALLs PreVention tHrouGH moVement: Join Sacramento Ballet for a dance-based class to help prevent falls, aimed at seniors and held by former prima ballerina Cynthia Drayer. 10am, no cover. Sacramento Ballet, 2420 N St.

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Spring’s rays open doors—poems written by lovers, housed in state archives. Come join in this visit to the American Art Haiku Archives, the largest collection of haiku poetry outside of Japan.

This event will feature a talk from Judy Halebsky, a Japanese poetry specialist.

Learn about the nature-themed poems, peruse the archives and discover some hidden beauty in the city. 900 N Street, Suite 200, americanhaikuarchives.org.

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Yo! & the Electric, 7pm, no cover

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B.P.M. & Sunday Funday Remixed, 4pm, call for cover

Trapicana, 10pm, W, no cover

Zach Waters Band, 9:30pm, no cover

Open-Mic, 7:30pm, W, no cover; Monday Night Trivia, 6:30pm, M, no cover

Anxious Arms, the Seafloor Cinema and more, 8pm, $5-$10

Pathology, the Kennedy Veil, Wurm Flesh and Nihil Futurum, 8pm, $12-$15

Noisem, Call of the Void and more, 8pm, M, $10

Tonic Zephyr, Roland Tonies and the Imported, 8:30pm, $10

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Dinner and a Drag Show, 7:30pm, $5$25; Karaoke, 9:30pm, call for cover

Boot Scootin Sundays, 8pm, $5

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

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The Sons of Champlin and Lydia Pense & Cold Blood, 7:30pm, $35-$55

Elvin Bishop’s Big Fun Trio and Tommy Castro & the Painkillers, 7:30pm,

Eraserhead and Buk Buk Big Ups, 6:30pm, $7.50-$9.50

The Winery Dogs, 7:30pm, T, $25-$55

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Sequin Saturdays, 9:30pm, call for cover

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Lucy’s Bones, 6pm, call for cover

Roadhouse 5, 8pm, call for cover

High Card Drifters, 8pm, call for cover

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JIGO, 8pm, no cover

The Roa Brothers Band, Yo! & the Electric and more, 9pm, $5

Western Spies & the Kosmonaut and Ian McGlone, 9pm, $5

The Darling Clementines Variety Show, 7pm, $15-$20

Boot Juice, 7:30pm, no cover

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John Kadlecik’s Fellowship of the Wing, 8pm, $18-$20

Wonder Bread 5, 10pm, $15-$18

Cale Dodds, 12:30pm, T, no cover

Etana and Island of Black & White, 8pm, W, $20

Shitshow Karaoke, 8pm, M, no cover; Record Roundup, 8pm, T, no cover

Hippie Hour, 5pm, no cover

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Sylar, Cane Hill, Varials, Bloodline and Beauty is Betrayal, 6:30pm, $15-$18

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

Let’s Get Quizzical, 7pm, T, no cover; Cornhole, 6pm, W, $10

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Birds in Row, Listener, Quentin Sauve and Damage Inc, Doppleganger and Love more, 6:30pm, $12 Removal Machine, 8pm, $12

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Lil Debbie, DEV, Lantern, Webster the Kat Knockout, Free Candy, Life of the Afterparty and more, 6:30pm, $10 and more, 7pm, $18-$20

Autumn Sky, Comfort Creature and House of Mary, 8pm, $6

Trivia Factory, 7pm, M, call for cover; Geeks Who Drink, 7pm, T, call for cover

Rhythm Section with Chad Ross and Sooshie, 10pm, call for cover Shook Ones, Daydream, Hot Bods and Original State, 7pm, $12-$15

The Skints, Jesse Royal and Two Peace, 6:30pm, T, $16

Trivialogy 101, 7:30pm, no cover

Live music with Jenn Rogar, 5pm, T, no cover

David Houston & String Theory, 8pm, $10

Jazz Jam with Byron Colburn, 8pm, W, $5

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Tom Rigney and Flambeau with Michael Doucet, 7:30pm, $12-$24

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Peter Rowan’s Free Mexican Airforce with Los Texmaniacs, 8pm, $12-$25

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Pop 40 Dance with DJ Larry, 9pm, $5

Sunday Night Dance Party, 9pm, no cover

Kings St. Giants, 9pm, no cover

Jimmy Toor, 9pm, no cover

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Louie Giovanni, 10pm, no cover before 11pm

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as Sacramento Self Help Housing, with the hopes of transforming many of the city’s grow houses.

“We want to find affordable housing for families, for those who have aged out of foster care and who are finding themselves on the streets,” he said. “Habitat happened to have clear construction expertise, a waiting list of families and a sweat equity [policy], which builds ownership in the home and the community from day one. The stars aligned.”

“It’s a killing two birds with one stone approach,” Guerra added.

From left to right: Gustavo Martinez, supervising deputy city For Leah Miller, CEO of Habitat for attorney, Susana Alcala-Wood, city attorney, Emilio Camacho, Humanity of Greater Sacramento, it has deputy city attorney, Leah Miller, CEO of Habitat for Humanity been a very exciting process. of Greater Sacramento, and District 6 councilman Eric Guerra.

“We are beyond thrilled to acquire these homes and rehab them to create PHoTo courTeSy of HabiTaT for HumaniTy of GreaTer SacramenTo more affordable housing options,” she said. “From our perspective, we work hard to empower as many people as we can and are always looking for out-ofthe-box creative partnerships.”

City of Sacramento and Habitat for Humanity partner to revitalize According to the Sacramento Housing Alliance, there are currently homes that were once used for illegal cannabis operations 5,800 families in need in Sacramento county. Rehabilitating homes is much

by Lauren Jones less expensive, about half the cost of the typical Habitat house built from scratch.

Construction work will begin in October on the first home, located in the With homeownership rates in really ignoring the issue out [in District housing one day and their construction Glen Elder neighborhood. It will go to a Sacramento at their lowest since the 6],” Guerra said. “In those years, we experts were there and I had asked if single mother and her three daughters.

1940s and about 1,000 illegal grow started seeing a rise in home invasions. they had ever retrofitted old “This single mom, she’s houses in the county, the city has come People would smell where it was strong, homes before, homes that been working really hard up with quite the clever solution, one to and they would bust into that house or had mold, rot” and to provide for her kids,” “We want both revitalize these structures and make hold people hostage in hopes of getting were in a general Miller said. “She to find affordable a dent in the affordable housing crisis. product and cash.” dilapidated state. moved up here from “In District 6, we have about 100 And while crime rates have dropped From there, housing for families, for the Bay Area due to grow houses,” said Councilman Eric due to tighter police efforts, grow houses an idea sparked, the cost of living those who have aged out Guerra. “Electricity is cheap, water is are still a major problem for the county. one which City and is now living of foster care and who are cheap and land is fairly cheap, so from a In the last 13 months alone, the city has Attorney Susana with her mom. business standpoint it’s a good environcollected $3.3 million in fines.

Alcala-Wood finding themselves on the [With this home], ment [for cannabis operations], but it’s a Now, there’s a plan to begin turning quickly embraced. she’ll be able to streets.” horrible thing for the community.” former grow houses into homes for Instead of continumake the dream And while cannabis has been legal in deserving Habitat for Humanity families. ing to collect from Eric Guerra of home ownership California since 2018, these illegal grow “Habitat for Humanity was trying to those arrested and District 6 city councilman permanency and stabilhouses threaten the legal market, attract build a few homes in my district and the leaving the homes ity a reality.” Ω crime and make neighborhoods unsafe cost for building is about $200,000,” he vacant for squatters, the and undesirable for families. said. “[You have to consider] purchasing properties could be gifted to a “In 2015 and 2016, before I got the land, permits from the city, infranonprofit, she decided.

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Swiss swish I hear you’re in Zurich.

How’s the weed?

—M. EntalEr

The weed is … different? I am in Zurich for the International Cannabis Business Conference (I work for them, they are awesome) and the Cannatrade show (I don’t work for them, they are awesome). The good news: In Switzerland, you can buy weed at the store. There’s a good selection of strains, the prices are reasonable (about $10 per gram) and everything tastes pretty good. The bad news: THC is illegal, so all of the store-bought pot is just high-CBD hemp and not the THC-laden cannabis we all enjoy. I have heard rumors that some shops will discreetly sell you some actual weed, but I haven’t tested the theory.

I did manage to find some really good hash, so I have resorted to rolling joints that are a mixture of the CBD weed and the high THC hash. Weird, yet effective.

More good news: Switzerland recently decriminalized cannabis. Instead of getting arrested and going to jail, someone caught with a small amount of grass has to pay a fine of about $100.

Also, high CBD hemp and regular THC weed look and smell the same, so it is more difficult for the police to know if someone is actually breaking the law, and the authorities don’t seem as inclined to bother people as they used to be (at least in the bigger cities).

Moderate news: The Swiss federal legislature is looking to start trials and studies about the effects and safety of weed. They are expected to take 10 years. This is, of course, a stalling tactic. Weed is the safest recreational drug known to man, and the Swiss could save themselves a bunch of money and time by looking at some of the studies that have already been done. The Swiss cannabis activists I met seem to think that Switzerland will legalize cannabis in about three years. I hope they are correct.

Hey, did the bill that is supposed to lower cannabis taxes ever pass?

—M.t. PursEanbowl

Nope. It’s not gonna pass this legislative session. Last week, Assembly Bill 286, which would have lowered the excise tax from 15% to 11% and eliminated the cultivation tax completely, failed to gain any traction and is dead for this session.

It’s a shame. To maximize profits, the state Bureau of Cannabis Control is pricing itself out of the cannabis game. The “black”—or as I prefer to call it, “traditional”—market is thriving in California for a few reasons: Prices are too high at the clubs, and more than half of the cities and counties in Cali still prohibit cannabis.

The solution is simple, although it may seem counterintuitive: Lowering taxes and expanding access to high-quality and well-tested cannabis would create more revenue than keeping taxes high and forcing people who live in prohibition zones to rely on the traditional weed dealer for their pot.

Sometimes, fast nickels are way more profitable than slow dimes. Ω

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): What standards might we use in evaluating levels of sexual satisfaction? One crucial measure is the tenderness and respect that partners have for each other.

Others include the ability to play and have fun, the freedom to express oneself uninhibitedly, the creative attention devoted to unpredictable foreplay, and the ability to experience fulfilling orgasms. How do you rate your own levels, Taurus? Wherever you may currently fall on the scale, the coming months will be a time when you can accomplish an upgrade. How? Read authors who specialize in the erotic arts. Talk to your partners with increased boldness and clarity. While meditating, search for clues in the depths.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): If there were a Hall of Fame for writers, Shakespeare might have been voted in first. His work is regarded as a pinnacle of intellectual brilliance. And yet here’s a fun fact: The Bard quoted well over a thousand passages from the Bible. Can you imagine a modern author being taken seriously by the literati if he or she frequently invoked such a fundamental religious text? I bring this to your attention so as to encourage you to be Shakespeare-like in the coming weeks. That is, be willing to draw equally from both intellectual and spiritual sources; be a deep thinker who communes with sacred truths; synergize the functions of your discerning mind and your devotional heart.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty,” writes Cancerian author and entrepreneur Timothy Ferriss. He doesn’t do that himself, but rather is quite eager to harvest the perks of dwelling in uncertainty.

I presume this aptitude has played a role in his huge success; his books have appeared on bestseller lists and his podcasts have been downloaded more than 300 million times. In telling you this, I’m not encouraging you to embrace the fertile power of uncertainty 24 hours a day and 365 days of every year. But I am urging you to do just that for the next three weeks. There’ll be big payoffs if you do, including rich teachings on the art of happiness.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Many 18th-century pirates were committed to democracy and equality among their ranks. The camaraderie and fairness and mutual respect that prevailed on pirate ships were markedly different from the oppressive conditions faced by sailors who worked for the navies of sovereign nations. The latter were often pressed into service against their will and had to struggle to collect meager salaries. Tyrannical captains controlled all phases of their lives. I bring this to your attention, Leo, with the hope that it will inspire you to seek out alternative approaches to rigid and hierarchical systems. Gravitate toward generous organizations that offer you ample freedom and rich alliances. The time is right to ally yourself with emancipatory influences.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Don’t wait around for fate to decide which decisions you should make and what directions you should go. Formulate those decisions yourself, with your willpower fully engaged. Never say, “If it’s meant to be, it will happen.” Rather, resolve to create the outcomes you strongly desire to happen. Do you understand how important this is? You shouldn’t allow anyone else to frame your important questions and define the nature of your problems; you’ve got to do the framing and defining yourself. One more thing: Don’t fantasize about the arrival of the “perfect moment.” The perfect moment is whenever you decree it is.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In the coming weeks, I

hope you’ll regularly give yourself to generous, expansive experiences. I hope you’ll think big, funny thoughts and feel spacious, experimental emotions. I hope you’ll get luxurious glimpses of the promise your future holds, and I hope you’ll visualize yourself embarking on adventures and projects you’ve been too timid or worried to consider before now. For best results, be eager to utter the word “MORE!” as you meditate on the French phrase “joie de vivre” and the phrase “a delight in being alive.”

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): According to Popular Mechanics magazine, over 3 million sunken ships are lying on the bottoms of the world’s oceans. Some of them contain billions of dollars’ worth of precious metals and jewels. Others are crammed with artifacts that would be of great value to historians and archaeologists. And here’s a crazy fact: Fewer than 1% of all those potential treasures have been investigated by divers. I bring this to your attention, Scorpio, because I hope it might inspire you to explore your inner world’s equivalent of lost or unknown riches. The astrological omens suggest that the coming weeks will be an excellent time to go searching for them.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Some days you need god’s grace,” writes poet Scherezade Siobhan. “On other days: the feral tongue of vintage whiskey and a mouth kissed by fire.” I’m guessing, Sagittarius, that these days you might be inclined to prefer the feral tongue of vintage whiskey and a mouth kissed by fire. But according to my astrological analysis, those flashy phenomena would not motivate you to take the corrective and adaptive measures you actually need. The grace of God—or whatever passes for the grace of God in your world—is the influence that will best help you accomplish what’s necessary. Fortunately, I suspect you know how to call on and make full use of that grace.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorn poet William Stafford articulated some advice that I think you need to hear right now. Please hold it close to your awareness for the next 21 days. “Saying things you do not have to say weakens your talk,” he wrote. “Hearing things you do not need to hear dulls your hearing.” By practicing those protective measures, Capricorn, you will foster and safeguard your mental health. Now here’s another gift from Stafford: “Things you know before you hear them—those are you, those are why you are in the world.”

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Love is an immoderate thing / And can never be content,” declared poet W. B. Yeats. To provide you with an accurate horoscope, I’ll have to argue with that idea a bit. From what I can determine, love will indeed be immoderate in your vicinity during the coming weeks. On the other hand, it’s likely to bring you a high degree of contentment—as long as you’re willing to play along with its immoderateness. Here’s another fun prediction: I suspect that love’s immoderateness, even as it brings you satisfaction, will also inspire you to ask for more from love and expand your capacity for love. And that could lead to even further immoderate and interesting experiments.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You will know you are in sweet alignment with cosmic forces if you have an impulse to try a rash adventure, but decide instead to work on fixing a misunderstanding with an ally. You can be sure you’re acting in accordance with your true intuition if you feel an itch to break stuff, but instead channel your fierce energy into improving conditions at your job. You will be in tune with your soul’s code if you start fantasizing about quitting what you’ve been working on so hard, but instead sit down and give yourself a pep talk to reinvigorate your devotion and commitment.

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