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In 2015, Golden 1 Credit Union agreed to fork over In May, SAFE announced a new multimedia $120 million over 20 years to the Sacramento branding campaign so it can “stand out in a Kings to put its name on downtown’s sparkling crowded field of financial institutions.” And now, new arena. it’s following up with the naming rights agreeNow, SAFE Credit Union is paying City Hall ment for the SAFE Credit Union Convention and nearly $23 million over 25 years to have its name Performing Arts District, including the SAFE on the spruced-up Sacramento Convention Center Credit Union Convention Center and SAFE Credit and Community Center Theater.

Union Performing Arts Center.

Both are closed for construction and SAFE can only hope the payoff in scheduled to reopen in fall 2020. exposure is anywhere close to what The city is spending $196 million Golden 1 is reaping from its deal, to expand and renovate the which made it the nation’s first convention center and $86 credit union to put its name SAFE can only hope million to fix up the theater. on a major pro sports venue. the payoff in exposure The city plans to use the Golden 1 Center, home to is anywhere close to what naming rights money on the NBA games and big-name convention center or other concerts, is now among Golden 1 is reaping from downtown projects.

America’s top-grossing its deal.

As part of the deal arenas. approved by the City Council on Aug. 13, SAFE will also promote events at the convention center and theater, as well as Memorial Auditorium, which just had a $16 million renovation of its own.

But SAFE Credit Union isn’t helping the city for nothing.

The city is committing to deposit at least $29.1 million with SAFE. The credit union says that at least half the money will be reinvested locally by helping customers finance cars, homes, businesses and real estate. SAFE’s revenues from those loans and the city deposits depend on many different market factors, it says.

Under a new policy that took effect in June, SAFE Credit Union CEO Dave Roughton, left, shakes the city set a goal of investing as much as 7.5% of hands with Mayor Darrell Steinberg at the Aug. 8 its cash in local financial institutions. Besides the announcement of a naming rights deal.

SAFE money, the city says it has $40 million on deposit at Five Star Bank, $25 million at River City Bank and $10 million at American River Bank.

The naming rights agreement also calls for City While SAFE will raise its profile and get the Hall to ease access to its employees as potential attention of potential new customers, it says the SAFE members, and for SAFE to offer workers naming rights deal is not about its bottom line, financial education free of charge. Fran Halbakken, but about being a partner in boosting downtown, project executive in the city manager’s office, said economic development and the arts. SAFE CEO the city can’t put a value on that benefit, either, and president Dave Roughton said in a statement since it depends on how many city workers join that the deal shows its commitment to make SAFE. Sacramento a “world-class city” and help it The credit union says it already has many city become a “cultural gem.” workers as members, but doesn’t disclose specifBut if the credit union also grows its business ics. Founded in 1940, it has grown to more than along the way, it certainly won’t complain. □ 235,000 members overall and $3 billion in assets.

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Prison kitchen Re: “Halal things considered” by Kimberly Brown (Dish, Aug. 15): Kimberly Brown did a very nice article about one of my Falafel Corner franchises, but the back story is just as amazing as the food we serve. You see, I started working at the original Falafel Corner in Fremont shortly after my release from prison in 2013.

I went on to open up my own restaurant in my hometown of Sacramento, bought out the original owner, trademarked and copyrighted everything and turned it into a franchise. I now have 12 franchises, mostly in the Sacramento area. All my cooking skills actually came from San Quentin state prison. I was told to establish the first ever halal kitchen inside prison. It was there that I knew I had a gift for cooking. I carried that sense of service and joy of cooking with me to the outside. Falafel Corner is the result of that passion for serving humanity through food.

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Life-saving training Re: “Prepping for disaster” by Tess Townsend (Feature, Aug. 8): I cannot more highly suggest that every Sacramento resident pursue CERT training.

It specifically addresses every point in the article, and then some. As a former member, I can attest to the comprehensive skills of chief instructor Robert Ross. With the full support of the Sacramento Fire Department, the training and skills you learn are second to none. You can spend as little as a few evenings, or go all the way to becoming an EMR and being deployed to emergencies around the state.

It is a life well spent, irrespective of any infirmities or disabilities. As Ross often said, there is a job for everyone. Learn to care for your own, and help others in the process.

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Impeachment doomed Re: “Don’t add to partisan polarization” by Jeff vonKaenel (Greenlight, Aug. 15): You hit the nail on the head.

Democrats need not snatch defeat from the jaws of victory by focusing on a doomed-to-fail impeachment exercise. Our energy should be spent organizing voters for a decisive win in 2020.

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Correction Re: “Nickel and dimed to death?” by Foon Rhee (Editor’s note, Aug. 22): The article misidentified the city of Sacramento garbage customers who will have to pay a new food waste collection fee. They are those who don’t pay for city yard waste collection because they live in condos or townhomes that don’t have yards or that get service from homeowner associations.

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bY James “FayGo” clark James “Faygo” Clark, an activist on homelessness, is seeking the District 4 Sacramento City Council seat now held by Steve Hansen.

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immediate drug testing for officers involved in any use-of-force situation, a psychiatric evaluation and randomized drug testing for all officers. I will advocate for a civilian-run licensing board for police.

Violations of a strict code of conduct would result in fines or loss of the license.

I will address homelessness through a robust set of policies that help individuals obtain essential services specific to their needs. Concepts include tiny home villages attached to a business that employs people at a living wage. We would create sanctioned camping zones—with access to restrooms, water and other services—that move periodically to minimize environmental impacts.

Other options include safe parking areas for people living in their cars and multiple small shelters of 20 to 30 beds spread around the city to complete a real “housing first” approach.

Sacramento needs a localized Green New Deal to transform our power structure to one that works with the environment. We could be using city-owned areas along our beautiful rivers to install underwater turbines to generate power and a Sac council candidate filtration system to remove toxins. Environmental vows police, environmental impact reports should be mandatory for all new development projects to proceed, except for tempoand economic reform rary emergency shelter projects. We can plant more indigenous plants and trees to help preserve the environment, and transition from petroleum-based You may have seen me around town with Kozmo, forms of transportation to address the climate crisis. my furry companion. I grew up in Sacramento, We have the power to create living-wage jobs as we living in poverty. As I observed more, I began to shift to renewable energy sources. see the suffering all around me. I looked closer at I will propose policies that revitalize the systems that run our lives and how communities without displacing they impact people. In 2011, I joined longtime residents and instead lift the Occupy Wall Street movethem out of poverty. I will bring ment, where I helped at food back the “big box” ordinance My campaign will tables and learned to organize. to make it difficult for large I am running for elected address the epidemic of corporations to open new office because our City police brutality, protect the locations in Sacramento, Council has continually and couple this with a environment and promote disregarded the commutax on large corporations nity’s concerns, while economic reforms to help doing business in the city regularly catering to the raise residents out of to fund one-year subsidies interests of large corporafor longtime residents to open poverty. tions, developers, business businesses in their communities. districts and investors, often to Sacramento needs more the detriment of residents. My low-income, very low-income and campaign will address the epidemic extremely low-income housing to meet of police brutality, protect the environthe real demand. Real rent control and just-cause ment and promote economic reforms to help raise eviction protections are essential to keep people in residents out of poverty. their homes. Higher wages indexed to the cost of The city’s police oversight commission should living and creating green jobs that help make our be restructured to have subpoena power, authority infrastructure more environmentally friendly would to independently investigate use-of-force cases ensure a better quality of life with stability for all the and the power to indict officers who have unjustly residents of Sacramento. □ brutalized someone. My campaign will demand

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Sacramento County Activists Protest Funding Increases for Jail Expansions

By E d g A R S A n C H E Z

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ust this month, in a stunning move, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 to scrap a $1.7 billion jail project. Officially, the project was meant to replace the Men’s Central Jail in the heart of downtown LA with a “mental health treatment center.” But opponents of the project argued that community-based treatment centers provide better services than mental health jail facilities.

This decision may have a ripple effect on other cities when it comes to the development of new lockup facilities. In California’s capital, criminal justice activists want the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors to follow suit, urging them to abandon plans that would expand county jails.

As the L.A. decision showed, Sacramento could reject the expansion of the Rio Cosumnes Correctional Center (RCCC) in Elk Grove and avoid spending $89 million on the project. According to activists, Sacramento could also save an additional $21 million—money that would be diverted from human assistance and child services—if it didn’t expand the downtown county jail.

Thirteen members of Decarcerate Sacramento, a group of nonprofits and private citizens opposing the expansions, gave an earful to the Board of Supervisors on July 16, as bids for the RCCC project poured in. The county received $80 million from the state for the RCCC project—money taxpayers must repay. The county will provide $9 million in

matching funds. The project calls for seven new buildings that, among other things, would support medical and mental health programs with 26 beds that jailers say will improve services for RCCC inmates.

“OvEr 50% OF tHE PEOPlE iN COuNtY jail HavE BEEN DiagNOSED witH a mENtal illNESS.” Courtney Hanson Activist, Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB)

But Decarcerate Sacramento partners, including Sacramento Area Congregations Together, which is supported by The California Endowment, maintain that the county should prioritize diversion instead of planning for a future with more incarceration. They also maintain that jails are not the best settings for mental health services.

“Over 50% of the people in county jail have been diagnosed with a mental illness,” speaker Courtney Hanson told the board, “and if you don’t have it when you go in, there’s a good chance you’ll get it from being in the jail.”

according to activists Courtney Hanson (left) and asantewaa Boykin (right), Sacramento County should invest in social services, rather than spend millions on expanding jail facilities.

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Asantewaa Boykin, a registered nurse from a local hospital’s ER, also blasted the board. She said it would be “irresponsible” to expand funding for jails while reducing allocations to health and family services if the goal was to help balance the fiscal 2019-20 budget.

“I ask that our citizens not lose valuable services to pay for the inhumane conditions in your jails,” Boykin told the board. “The current system is not working.

Let’s be an example of how to fix it, instead of expanding it.”

Your ZIP code shouldn’t predict how long you’ll live – but it does. Staying healthy requires much more than doctors and diets. Every day, our surroundings and activities affect how long – and how well – we’ll live.

Health Happens in Neighborhoods. Health Happens in Schools.

Health Happens with Prevention. paid with a grant from the california endowment

BuilDiNg HEaltHY COmmuNitiES in 2010, the California Endowment launched a 10-year, $1 billion plan to improve the health of 14 challenged communities across the state.

Over the 10 years, residents, communitybased organizations and public institutions will work together to address the socioeconomic and environmental challenges contributing to the poor health of their communities.

For more info: Decarcerate Sacramento will host a two-hour public forum at 6 p.m. Sept. 4.

For location, contact decarceratesac@gmail.com

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by Jeff vonKaenel

After filing a Reno News & Review cover story about how Nevada’s state legislature is the first with more women than men as well as three news stories, one of which included former Sen. Harry Reid saying that Al Franken deserves another shot, longtime RN&R reporter Dennis Myers passed away last weekend.

Over the last 17 years, I have been his colleague, his employer and his biggest fan. He was a reporter’s reporter. He was super smart, hard working, fair and productive. And he had an incredible ability to absorb and retain a massive amount of information, which he then transformed into interesting stories. He brought life to a vast array of topics, including music and the defense budget.

But his primary area of expertise was Nevada politics.

He covered the state for 50 years. He knew all the major players, and they knew him. Several times, when I was visiting RN&R’s offices, Reid was there talking with him.

I will not even attempt to list all the phenomenal stories that Dennis wrote for RN&R, or during his previous journalistic career. RN&R will be dedicating a special issue to some of these.

But I would like to tell you about one story. In the Aug. 15 issue, he wrote a story, “Lost dollars: Nevada lets gold royalties slip away.” What is most remarkable about this story is that it was not remarkable for him. It is typical of what he wrote every week for the last 20 years.

In this story, he reveals that large amounts of taxes “are going uncollected from the mining industry for lack of legal authority.” Which is significant, given

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that “Goldman Sachs is predicting the price of gold will hit $1,575 an ounce within three months.” In 2014, if Nevada voters had closed this loophole and taxed the mining industry similarly to other industries, it would have brought in significant tax revenue at a time when so many government services are underfunded in Nevada. The article pointed out that neither Republicans nor Democrats, who are now in charge of both legislative chambers, nor the governor’s office, have found the political courage to take on the powerful mining industry.

This is classic Dennis. He finds a story not covered by anyone else and connects the dots—in this case, the recent rise in gold prices to the ongoing lack of Nevada government funding. He explains the political process that got us into this mess and the possible path that could get us out. And he does it without any over-the-top rhetoric.

There will only ever be one Dennis Myers. He used his 50 years of experience to bring light to Nevada politics.

There are now three million people living in the Silver State, who may never have had the pleasure of knowing him. But all of those people are living in a better state because of him.

I don’t know if there is an afterlife.

But I would suggest that if there is any hanky-panky going on behind the Pearly Gates, it’s time to knock it off.

Dennis is coming. Ω

He was a reporter’s reporter. He was super smart, hard working, fair and productive.

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

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Laundry is no laughing matter at Love Laundry.

It might be a smiling one, though.

PHOTO BY MAXFIELD MORRIS

Laundry time Front-loading washing machines tumble clothing, sheets and other textiles in a perpetually cresting wave of water and fabric. This is the laundromat, and the domain of Maria Carias. For the past two years, Carias has been a laundromat attendant at Love Laundry’s Midtown location. She has quickly picked up the trade and is deeply involved in the world of cleaning and all it entails, and outside of the soapy store, she’s considering going into social work. SN&R chatted with the 19-year-old Carias about her clothes-line of work, its perks and her extra-laundromatic interests.

How much laundry have you done since you’ve been here?

A lot. Well, in a shift, we’ve got to do 100 or more [pounds], so I do more than 100. If somebody’s new, they start off with 60 pounds … but once they get settled in they do 100.

Is it a fun job?

And I just like to walk around downtown a lot.

And right now I’m trying to get back into dance, because I really like to dance.

Neat-o! What kind of dance do you do?

Hip-hop. I like to do some hip-hop dance, and when I was in high school I used to teach belly dance.

How’d you get into dance the first time?

I guess I just liked it ever sense I was younger, always wanted to start classes, but growing up my parents couldn’t really put me into classes so I just taught myself. I don’t know if you know folklórico, it’s this traditional Mexican dance.

Is this someone’s laundry you’re folding?

Yes, this is actually for a business; this lady, she drops it off a lot. I think it’s for a chiropractic place. So yeah, we get a lot of businesses dropping off with us sometimes, or people dropping off for somebody they work for. Or I know sometimes, when there’s big events at Golden 1, the people backstage—we do the caterers, or some of the crew will come drop off their clothes or tablecloths so they can get ready.

I like it. I socialize with people, so I like to socialize. … I meet new people, I meet awesome customers. We’ve got this one customer, he brings us hot chocolate every Sunday. He’s very nice.

Do musicians do that, too?

So you get hot chocolate every Sunday?

Do you ever take anyone’s fashion sense that you see?

Every Sunday, if I work on a Sunday. And there’s this other one who always brings us candy or something—they’re super nice.

Anything memorable ever happen in here?

You never know what you’re going to get. They have six locations of this [laundromat], but every location, it’s different, you’ll get a different crowd. Right here it’s more diverse, so you get all types of people and personalities. In other places—once you go, you’ll see it, but every location has its thing going on.

What do you do for fun?

I usually hang out with my friends. After work, sometimes I have to babysit, help out my sister babysit, so I’m with my niece and nephew a lot.

I feel like smaller ones—because, you know, the bigger ones are more hidden. Definitely the smaller ones, I know some local DJs that come to do their laundry here.

Yeah, I can just see from some people, they’re probably dressed up really nicely. Or, it’s so funny, you kind of get to know the customer by their laundry, and you’ll see something and be like, “This is new!”

Anything else laundry-related or otherwise in your life that’s cool?

Well, I’m very good at doing laundry, so I’m awesome. I’ve become a professional, I’ve trained people.

Are you the best?

Well, me and my little sister argue, because she actually works here too. She says she’s the best, but I don’t think so. She got it from me. Ω

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Maggy Krell, chief legal counsel for Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California, is representing a Honduran family that was separated at the border last year.

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‘Every mom’s worst nightmare’ A mother and son separated at the Texas border. A Planned Parenthood attorney from Sacramento. And five weeks of searching.

by Margherita Beale

On June 5 of last year, a Honduran woman seeking asylum entered the United States at the southwestern border near McAllen, Texas, with her 6-year-old son.

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describe the crowded, cold immigration detention cells filled with other scared parents and small children, some as young as a few months.

The next morning, mother and son were separated—with no information about each other’s whereabouts or whether they would be reunited. It would take a Sacramento attorney to answer those questions.

Alessandro was among the nearly 3,000 children who have been forcibly

separated at the border from their parents or caregivers by a Trump administration that isn’t above using fear and trauma in its policy of deterrence. Despite federal court orders to reunite the parents and children, an estimate from mid-July shows that at least 30 children who were separated from their parents at the border more than a year ago remain apart. But those numbers are actually much higher.

In May, the Trump Administration acknowledged in court documents that at least 1,712 immigrant children could have been separated from their parents under its “zero tolerance” policy, which was suspended in June 2018.

Meanwhile, the administration has just announced a new policy that would allow migrant children to be detained indefinitely.

Patricia, who asked that she and her son be identified only by their middle names due to fear of retaliation, spent the next five weeks separated from her son. Apprehended near McAllen and transported 60 miles to the Port Isabel Detention Center, she now faced the unlikely prospect of reuniting with her son.

Then a former state prosecutor from Sacramento showed up. She said she wanted to help. She said her name was Maggy.

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doUBling doWn on family Separation Maggy Krell, who worked in the California Attorney General’s Office before joining Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California as its chief legal counsel, was in Texas as part of the Texas Civil Rights Project. Krell said she was sent to Port Isabel Detention Center to volunteer because family separation is at the heart of her family health care provider’s core values.

Krell said because Patricia’s asylum case is still pending, she cannot comment on the circumstances of the family’s decision to flee Honduras.

With the help of several other attorneys, Krell was able to secure the $1,500 bond necessary for Patricia’s release and, eventually, get Alessandro released from the foster facility where he was being kept in Texas.

“Nobody told her whether he was OK and who was taking care of him,” Krell recounted in an Aug. 13 interview at her Sacramento office. “Every mom’s worst nightmare.”

Krell, who spent 15 years as a state prosecutor and ran unsuccessfully for the Sacramento County district attorney in 2014, compared the practical effects of the family separation policy to some of the most sensitive crimes she has handled.

“As a prosecutor, I’d handled human trafficking cases and even murder cases where I’d spoken first-hand with parents who had kids that were missing,” she said. “This was close to that.”

The mother and son now live on the East Coast with Patricia’s brother.

Alessandro is about to start the second grade and Patricia is working at a restaurant, Krell said. Their asylum case is still pending and, if unsuccessful, the family would be at risk of deportation.

Krell is representing Patricia and Alessandro pro bono. Planned Parenthood joined law firm Arnold & Porter earlier this month in filing a claim against the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Health and Human Services on behalf of Patricia and Alessandro.

Arnold & Porter represents eight other families affected by the administration’s family separation policy. Krell said that under the Federal Tort Act, the claim filed is for “intentional infliction of emotional distress,” but also to hold

the shadows in a way that for most of the government accountable for the my adult life, they’ve been moving in a family separations. positive direction.”

While Alessandro and Patricia were Both Gonzalez and Krell say that separated, President Donald Trump signed avenues exist to help asylum seekers an executive order ending his administraand undocumented families. Planned tion’s policy of separating migrant famiParenthood has volunteer opportunities, lies, which was followed by a court order such as escorting immigrants to get health requiring families to be reunited. care services, Krell said.

But family separation never Also, whenever the really ended. federal government On Aug. 21, the issues a proposed Trump administraAlessandro was rule such as this tion announced among the nearly month’s public new rules that charge rule— would allow 3,000 children who have which would migrant famibeen forcibly separated at deny immilies to be held grants green indefinitely. the border from their parents cards if they U.S. Rep. or caregivers by a Trump have received a Doris Matsui range of public of Sacramento administration that isn’t above benefits, effecjoined other using fear and trauma in its tively discouragDemocratic policy of deterrence. ing immigrant members of families from accessCongress in ing food assistance or condemning the medical programs—the move. public can send in comments “By seeking to deny that the government is required to review. migrant families basic human rights, the Gonzalez said NorCal Resist offers Trump Administration is again betraying training to people who want to accomthe values of our country,” Matsui said pany asylum-seeking or undocumented in a statement. “We cannot repeat the mistakes of our past, and we cannot allow people as they make their ICE check-ins, court dates and doctors and lawyer’s the White House to end decades-old legal visits. protections and indefinitely detain vulner“It’s really hard,” she said. “You’re able migrant children and families.”

This came shortly after the administra- new to a country you don’t know your way around. You don’t have a car or a tion also announced that immigrant famijob. So they’re very dependent on the lies held at the border would not receive community to make sure that they get flu vaccines. all these important dates so that they can win their asylum case and can stay here Spreading fear legally. So there’s a huge need for more people to do that.” to SaCramento Patricia and Alessandro still suffer Immigration advocates in Sacramento say from the trauma they underwent while the administration’s assault on immigraseparated, according to their asylum tion and asylum requests has spread fear claim. even here, where local and state politiIt states that when they first arrived cians have asserted numerous “sanctuary” on the East Coast, it was difficult for protections.

Alessandro to attend school; at times he “People ... stay in their homes and refused to leave the house altogether. To they don’t want to go to the grocery this day, he fears being away from his store or send their kids to school or go mother even for short periods of time, the to work, and that’s really unfortunate,” claim says. said Autumn Gonzalez, a labor attorney Patricia avoids the news because and organizer with NorCal Resist, an mentions of immigration issues scare her. advocacy group that formed to focus on She feels “hopeless and wracked with immigration after Trump’s election. “I guilt for Alessandro’s experiences during feel like it’s driving people back into the separation,” the claim states. Ω

Despite protests from a Southern California-based activist, the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors on Aug. 20 awarded a $1.8 million contract to a company that installs traffic light cameras.

Redflex Traffic Systems Inc. had operated the system from 2008 through last Dec. 16. In a memorandum to county officials, Sheriff Scott Jones noted that the vendor that briefly took over the service, Conduent, lost the contract after it “failed to make any of the photo enforcement sites operational.” CBS 13 reported in early August that the cameras had been off for months.

Jones wrote that Redflex’s wiring and infrastructure largely still remains, with the sheriff hoping 25 replacement cameras could be installed within a month. The sheriff asserted that at the 23 intersections with cameras, there were just 40 collisions in 2017.

The board also approved the county operating 11 of the cameras within Sacramento city limits, according to a memorandum between county and city officials.

The new two-year contract with Redflex was delayed by an Aug. 6 email from activist Jim Lissner to county officials, hours before they were originally slated to vote. “The staff report prepared for later today does not mention that in the last month menlo park and San mateo acted … to shut down their Redflex camera programs,” Lissner wrote.

San Mateo discontinued camera use after analysis “showed the program’s safety benefits may be overshadowed by the efforts required to administer it,” a local newspaper reported. Menlo Park Councilman Drew Combs also questioned the benefits. “This is a situation where I don’t think the technology is bringing us to a better place,” Combs said, according to the San Jose Mercury News.

(Graham Womack)

a fortUitoUS CliCK Folsom police survived a close call with an armed suspect last week.

The incident started with a 911 call about shoplifting at a store on Riley Street. When officers arrived, they reportedly found a loss prevention employee in a standoff with 29-year-old Jason Knapp inside. The officers stepped in and a violent struggle ensued. During the fight, Knapp allegedly drew a loaded gun, aimed at the officers and pulled the trigger.

the gun jammed.

Police believe a mechanism in the weapon may have been damaged during the tussle. Officers managed to disarm Knapp before he could try another shot, though the desperate fray continued until one of them downed Knapp with a taser.

Knapp and some of the officers were taken to a nearby hospital.

A search of Knapp’s vehicle allegedly revealed two more loaded guns and a half-pound of cocaine.

Contacted via email, Folsom police Detective Melanie Catanio said that while the incident was “very rare,” it demonstrated why officers regularly train for split-second decisions. “The officers involved in this incident are grateful to have come out it alive and with minor injuries,” Catanio wrote.

Knapp, a Folsom resident, was booked into Sacramento County jail on charges of attempted murder, being a felon in possession of a firearm and possession of a controlled substance.

Folsom City Councilman Roger Gaylord told SN&R the incident was a reminder that violence can spill into suburbs with relatively low crime rates.

“I think it shows why people should stay vigilant,” Gaylord said.

“If you look at how fast it happened and how quickly they handled it—inside a store of all places—and that no shots were fired and no one was hurt, it’s the best possible result that could have happened.”

(Scott Thomas Anderson)

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Red flag of courage California’s red flag law may prevent shooting rampages, but can it expand to a national scale?

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A man veers his SUV onto a sidewalk, accelerating straight at a group of pedestrians as he screams, “I’m going to kill you!” He misses his targets and is arrested within minutes. Police soon learn the suspect’s father recently contacted them, worried that his son was “delusional and paranoid.”

The father also had another piece of information: His son had an arsenal of 10 handguns, three AR-15 rifles and a shotgun. The officers decided that regardless of what happened with their attempted assault case against the suspect, he was a prime candidate for a Gun Violence Restraining Order, also known as an “extreme risk” or “red flag” order.

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El Paso and Dayton over the course of seven days in late July and early August, claiming 34 lives and injuring scores of others.

In Sacramento County, nine “red flag” orders were granted between 2016 and 2017, when the study was conducted.

Now, the victims’ advocate who was key in getting the law passed is working to get it adopted at the federal level. And even with President Donald Trump backsliding on his commitment to confronting gun violence, some politicians on both sides of the aisle say gun violence restraining orders may stand a chance of passing on Capitol Hill this year.

Preempting gun violence became a crusade for Amanda and Nick Wilcox after their daughter Laura’s death in a mass shooting in 2001. The 19-year-old sophomore at Haverford University

in Pennsylvania had come home to causal claim” as to what would have Penn Valley on her winter break and happened if the orders had not been started working at the Nevada County issued.

Behavioral Health Clinic. That’s where Two weeks ago, an APM Research a disturbed 40-year-old patient opened Lab poll found three-fourths of fire, killing Laura and two others and Americans support family-initiated wounding three more people. “red flag” laws, and 70% support those “His family, his girlfriend and his initiated by law enforcement. Fifteen case worker were all worried about states already have some version of a him, but they had no way of legally “red flag” law. taking way his weapon,” Amanda On March 26, the Senate Judiciary Wilcox told SN&R. Committee examined whether While she was still in shock, her Congress should provide financial husband, a scientist, threw himself incentives to states for developing “red into research. He discovered that flag” laws. A witness who cautioned Connecticut had a law that allowed against the laws was Dave Kopel, for the seizure of firearms when a research director for the Independence person’s loved ones—or law enforceInstitute, a libertarian think tank based ment—believed they were highly in Denver. dangerous.

“Federal funding should reward In 2013, the Wilcoxes had a states only for best practices which meeting with then-Assemblywoman protect civil rights and public safety,” Nancy Skinner, a Berkeley Democrat.

Kopel said, adding that some states Also present were advocates for require very little burden of proof for the mental health and disabilities a seizure. “The period when someone communities. Looking back, is disarmed is the period when Amanda Wilcox said it they’re vulnerable, and was critically important without due process to have those voices protections these laws in the conversation, can be abused by “I really can’t see so the resulting stalkers and other a reason why we legislation domestic abusers can’t pursue this at the wouldn’t broadly who want to tempotarget Californians rary disarm their federal level.” with mental health intended victims.”

Sen. Lindsey Graham challenges.

Sen. Dick Republican, South Carolina Ultimately, by Durbin, an Illinois convincing members Democrat, pushed of the legislature that back, pointing out that the law would provide most domestic violence tools to deal with anyone victims’ advocacy groups experiencing extreme emotional support “red flag” laws. crisis, a heightened state of anger, The hearing ended with Sen. the onset of dementia or constant Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina thoughts of suicide, Skinner’s team Republican, saying, “I really can’t see got California’s red flag law over the a reason why we can’t pursue this at finish line. It went into effect in 2016. the federal level.”

Amanda Wilcox, who testified The UC Davis study examines its first at the hearing, was encouraged by two years of implementation. the words from Graham and other Of the 21 cases it cites as potentially Republicans. Despite a series of having stopped a mass shooting, seven conflicting statements from Trump on involved a disgruntled employee gun laws in recent days, Wilcox and threatening workplace violence; three other advocates are convinced “red involved current or former high school flag” legislation could get through students threatening campus violence; Congress this year. two involved suspicions about religiously As for the UC Davis study’s findmotivated terror; and one involved a ings, Wilcox choked up a little, saying, veteran with Post-Traumatic Stress “We’re really saving lives, and that’s Disorder. the best way I know to honor my The authors of the study are careful daughter.” □ to point out that they can make “no

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Bern-ing Sacramento Bernie Sanders courts California voters, who may actually decide who faces Donald Trump

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Vendors sold Bernie Sanders merchandise from the sidewalk bordering Cesar Chavez Plaza during the candidate’s Aug. 22 rally.

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over Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, who ultimately Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ visit to Sacramento won the nomination and become America’s first last week confirmed one thing about the 2020 African-American president. presidential race—California will likely play a deciThat primary was also California’s earliest since sive role in determining who challenges President at least 1992, occurring in February 2008, Black Donald Trump for the future of this country.

“I need your help to win in California because History Month.

After the state’s last two presidential primaries the candidate who wins here in the largest state in June, California moved up the 2020 primary in the country will in all likelihood win the to March 3, when it’ll be one of 15 states nomination,” Sanders told a crowd of more than participating in the super Super Tuesday. Only four 4,000 during an Aug. 22 campaign rally in Cesar states—Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Chavez Plaza.

Carolina—will hold earlier nominating contests.

That hasn’t always been the case. In the last two According to FiveThirtyEight’s tracking, decades, with Iowa and New Hampshire monoporecent polling shows California voters are lizing early-bird primaries, California’s still considering their options when it role has often been to ratify a choice comes to the Democratic field, with that was all but already made.

Giving former Vice President Joe Biden, Over the last four presidential California Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth primaries in which the incumvoters more say in Warren, Harris and Sanders bent participated, California trading first and second place. voters backed the candidate the primaries doesn’t Four years ago, Sanders who would be his (yes, his) necessarily spell victory dueled Hillary Clinton to a opponent each time. In 1992, for a more progressive close second in California, voters in the state favored about 400,000 votes and 8 Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton, the candidate. percentage points behind. In eventual Democratic nominee, Sacramento County, Clinton beat over their own governor, Jerry Sanders by 10 points.

Brown, by 7 percentage points, which On Aug. 22, the indefatigable should be a lesson to California Sen. Sanders stumped for a full 30 minutes under a Kamala Harris that the home crowd can be fickle. steamy Sacramento sun, just hours after he toured In 1996, California voters overwhelmingly wildfire-devastated Paradise and held court during supported Kansas Republican Sen. Bob Dole over a town hall in nearby Chico. To the Sacramento right-wing firebrand Pat Buchanan to challenge audience, he hit upon his major theme of calling for President Clinton. In 2004, it was Democratic Sen. a political and economic revolution that wrests the John Kerry who dominated his rivals here before levers of power from the wealthy and hands them to facing President George W. Bush. And in 2012, working-class Americans. former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney steam“We understand that to transform this country, rolled Kentucky Sen. Ron Paul by nearly 70 points it is not just good enough to defeat Trump,” he in California to win the GOP nomination. bellowed. “We have to take on the whole damn After running away with results at the one percent!” □ California polls, these three challengers ultimately lost their contests.

Giving California voters more say in the For additional moments and photos from primaries doesn’t necessarily spell victory for bernie sanders’ rally in sacramento, visit a more progressive candidate. In 2008, most sacblog.newsreview.com for an expanded version. voters picked New York Sen. Hillary Clinton

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He’s not the only Elvis in town, nor the only local musician reincarnating the golden years of rock ’n’ roll.

But are tribute bands and artists keeping the old music alive? Or are they keeping new bands from getting their big break? Or is it both?

The closing of longtime venues and sparse crowds mean it’s hard to be an up-and-comer in Sacramento.

Meanwhile, bands resurrecting the live performances of old music giants such as Tom Petty and the Beatles, down to the note and bowlhair wig, are selling out saloons, theaters and restaurant-bars.

Why pay for the sweat-drenched antics of the real AC/DC, or the sonic-love ritual of Fleetwood Mac, when the tickets are cheaper, the parking isn’t a headache and the feeling is good enough? With audiences hungry for a blast from the past, can Reno and other trib-adours give the people what they want?

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ohnny Reno paced a storage room thick with dust, lit only through a single window. The full-haired 66-year-old had just his done his Roy Orbison and Johnny Cash impressions. In a few minutes, he’d return to the stage as Elvis Presley.

Reno straightened his disco collar and adjusted his gold medallion, He was strapped in a replica of the King’s white jumpsuit, a relic of the 1970s after his rockabilly days and a decade of kitschy Hollywood musicals.

Reno had three gigs that weekend. One at a classic car show in Stockton, another in St. Helena and this one at a dinner party before a golf tournament at the Northridge Country Club in Fair Oaks.

“This is my life,” he said.

He got his start as an Elvis impersonator in 1979, which means Reno has been Elvis longer than Elvis. Formerly based in Las Vegas and Reno, he’s now known as the Sacramento King.

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Tribute to Elvis Presley (1953-1977) Formed: 1979 Members: Johnny Reno (Elvis Presley).

Deep catalog song: “So Close Yet So Far (From Paradise)” Song most people know: “Can’t Help Falling In Love”

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‘The venue is king’ Just Like Heaven Tribute to The Cure (1978-present) Formed: 2013 Members: David Horning (vocals, guitar), David Tippie (guitar), Zakk Thonen (guitar), Christopher Joel Swanson (bass), Randy Teresi (drums), Ryan Vaughn (keyboards) Deep catalog song: “10:15 Saturday Night” Song most people know: “Lovesong”

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It took Aaron Linkin three years to become Paul McCartney. The toe-tapping, head-bobbing bassist sports a rounded British cadence and an upright demeanor onstage. He studied live footage and interviews to hone the McCartney character in MANIA!, a Sacramento Beatles tribute band.

The wannabe British Invasion is everywhere, in Southern California, Las Vegas and New York City. Nationally, the Fab Four and Rain dominate the Beatles tribute market. “Wherever they are, you don’t want to be in the same city at the same time,” Linkin said.

The four ram through costume changes, donning monochrome suits from the Ed Sullivan Show era and the kaleidoscopic uniforms of the 1967 album cover for Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They swap through 11 different guitars, including McCartney’s Hofner violin-bass and George Harrison’s signature Gretsch.

“We try to make it how the live Beatles experience would have been, whereas as the other [Beatles tributes] feel a little more sticky … and they’re playing caricatures,” Linkin said.

For Bay Area-based Fleetwood Mask, it’s musical theater. Claudette Rodrigues, who plays Stevie Nicks, lights chakras backstage, waves her own homemade crystal wands, gets into character and does vocal warm-ups for 40 minutes, meditating on why hits such as “Landslide” were written in the first place. On stage, Fleetwood Mac’s iconic romantic tensions between Nicks, Christine McVie and Lindsey Buckingham play out.

“You’re taking the elements of sound, vision and gesture and you’re wrapping them into a ball so that, god forbid, when Fleetwood Mac dies off, at least our children and children’s children will be able to have that experience,” Rodrigues said.

In Riff/Raff, it’s all about Angus Young.

Visually, the local AC/DC tribute band relies on the manic leaps and duck walks made famous by the Australian rock troupe’s school-boy guitarist, played by David Chapman.

“The casual fans, they love the energy,” says Chapman. “But doing the total aspect of the AC/ DC show, I’m a 53-year-old man, I’m not taking my shirt off for anybody.”

And then there are the all-female tribute bands—such as The Iron Maidens, Krewella

(Mötley Crüe), Zepparella (Led Zeppelin) and Flock of Seagirls. They bring a big show and an empowering presence in a music industry dominated by male performers.

Audiences flock to the gigs, held at casinos, theaters, fairgrounds and bars. An April 2018 show at the Crest Theatre for Steelin’ Dan, Sacramento’s Steely Dan tribute band, sold more than 800 tickets at $25 to $45 a pop. Tickets for the real Steely Dan’s upcoming Sept. 13 show at Thunder Valley Casino Resort in Lincoln range from $84 to $377.

Some fans prefer the Steelin’ Dan version of the songs, said Dave Buehler, the band’s keyboardist and manager. The original band’s founders, Donald Fagen and the late Walter Becker, were known for producing immaculate recordings backed by world-class session musicians.

For Steelin’ Dan, and other groups such as San Francisco’s Tom Petty tribute band Petty Theft, the approach isn’t to dress up, but simply to celebrate the original compositions.

“We hear this a lot: ‘We went to see Steely Dan, they’re great musicians, but they don’t play the music like the original recordings,’” Buehler said. “A band like that, they want to grow and express themselves and do things differently, so a lot of times they’ll play the hits in a different way.”

In Fleetwood Mac’s case, Nicks, at 71, now has a lower vocal register, so songs such as “Rhiannon” are modified live. Plus, the chance of ever seeing the band with its original lineup (guitarist Lindsey Buckingham was fired in 2018) are slim to none.

“Those days are done. So your tribute bands are the only way you can see that five lineup anymore,” Rodrigues said.

But even with fan bases of their own, and some bands such as The Iron Maidens touring globally, the tribute genre doesn’t get a lot of respect as an art form.

“The musicians that I knew [growing up], they looked at other musicians who were playing cover music … as sellouts or as nonauthentic musical entities,” Linkin said. “But you go back to some of these greats: The Beatles were a cover band for years, in Germany; they were the Safari Band. Bob Dylan was a Woody Guthrie cover player before he started playing his own stuff. There’s a lot to be learned from digging into what other people do.”

The criticism of cover bands might come down to the money. While tribute bands such as Riff/Raff claim to play for no less than $3,500 a night, Sacramento’s scene can look dire for bands playing original music.

Low attendance at shows is a common complaint among local musicians and promoters. With the longtime owners of venues Blue Lamp and Old Ironsides announcing their sale in the last three months, newer artists could be losing key places to be heard. Will the growing success of tributes take their spotlight away?

In Technicolor suits that scream, “Lighten up, man,” Wonderbread 5 leads the Opera House Saloon crowd through an endless sing-along through “(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party),” “California Love” and “Paul Revere.”

Eleven miles away is the Friday night competition at the Powerhouse Pub in Folsom, where Thunder Cover rocks to a younger crowd.

At both venues, the weekends are all about tribute and cover bands. The party rock groups and nostalgia troupes keep the crowds, beer and food sales moving. Both venues reserve their main stage for covers and tributes, touring acts and established locals that can fill a several-hundred capacity venue. While Powerhouse hosts 98 Rock’s Local Licks for new talent, Opera House tried booking up-and-coming artists, with little success.

“We had the worst night ever, and it’s not because the band is awful, but nobody knows them,” said Opera House co-owner Rebecca Ryan.

The venue that leans most heavily on covers and tributes is Swabbies on the River, a West Sacramento open-air restaurant-bar. While there’s a smaller stage in the pirate-cabo themed venue often for original music, co-owner Chris Barbino says tribute and cover bands account for as much as 70% of bookings.

Barbino and his wife took over the venue over a decade ago, and it has been trial and error

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to find a successful business model. The method is simple: A high-turnout show means the band will return.

Barbino admits that he doesn’t have a strong connection to the music. His passions lie in running a business. “I book bands here I don’t like all the time,” he said.

The sales of Blue Lamp and Old Ironsides, which were not blamed on decreasing revenue, could mean a negative shift for local, original music, said Mark Gonzales, the main booker at Old Ironsides. He says he believes that tribute and cover bands take away opportunities from rising talent.

The Iron Maidens Tribute to Iron Maiden (1975-present) Formed: 2001 Members: Kirsten Rosenberg (aka Bruce “Chickinson”), Linda McDonald (Nikki “McBurrain”) Wanda Ortiz (“Steph” Harris), Courtney Cox (“Adriana” Smith), Nikki Stringfield (“Davina” Murray) Deep catalog song: “Wrathchild” Song most people know: “Run to the Hills” theironmaidens.com

who plays singer Brian Johnson in Riff/Raff.

“In Phoenix, you invite one person and 50 people show up,” he said. “In Sacramento, you invite 50 people, and one shows up.”

But being in a tribute band doesn’t mean an automatic draw. The current lineup of Steelin’ Dan played Harlow’s 17 times before they grew out of the venue and played the Crest Theatre.

“At the entry level, I totally understand that it can be difficult to find places to play.

It’s really all about building your audience overtime and paying some dues,” Buehler said. “We did a lot of low-paying gigs to build up a following, and we got lucky, and it caught on.”

Barbino’s philosophy: “The venue is king.”

The band started originally as a Go-Go’s tribute, and Ijam’s hoping that through playing the songs of the ’80s rock idols she grew up with—Joan Jett, Cydni Lauper, Madonna—she can show younger girls that conquering the stage is possible.

“Especially when we play festival gigs or all-ages shows … all the little girls want to hold my guitar,” she said. “I think it’s an example that we all want to set. … One little chip off the patriarchy, I guess.”

Rodrigues joined Fleetwood Mask in her late 40s. A trained opera singer who dabbled in theater in college, she eventually left opera when her instructor said a professional future wasn’t in the stars. Her vibrato, like Stevie Nicks’, was out of control.

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Petty Theft Tribute to Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (1976-2017) Formed: 2003 Members: Dan Durkin (lead vocals/guitar), Adam “Bagel” Berkowitz (drums), Django Bayless (bass/vocals), Michael Papenburg (guitars), Monroe Grisman (guitar/vocals) Deep catalog song: “Driving Down to Georgia” Song most people know: “Free Fallin’”

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Inside Just Like Heaven’s hideout, everything lies everywhere: bicycles, couches, Greek pedestals topped with beer bottles, an old butter knife next to the amplifiers and mixer.

It’s a grain silo in middle-of-nowhere Davis, a furnace on summer nights lit by a few hanging lamps. It’s where the Sacramento tribute band perfects its Cure tunes. This night, they were prepping for a show at the Rickshaw Stop club in San Francisco, opening for Flock of Seagirls and Erasure-esque.

David Horning, its Robert Smtih, formed the band in 2013, soon after picking up his son’s guitar at 43.

“I jokingly say that this is sort of my expression of mid-life crisis,” he said.

Through Just Like Heaven, Horning is living out his teenage rock star dreams. His first idol was David Bowie, but he was too shy to form a band.

Now he plays Smith for fans of The Cure, covering his silver hair with a black wig and channeling the frontman’s pigeon-toed stance and sincere, introverted emotion onstage.

Horning isn’t alone in loving the strange ride that the tribute genre offers: the out-of-body experiences, the crying fans after shows and the catharsis of playing someone other than yourself.

“The experience is almost ego-less,” Horning said. “I really just try to empty myself out and give myself to the performance. … On the best nights, it can feel like this really amazing dream that’s actually happening.”

For Katie Ijams, who plays keytar, guitar and vocals in Flock of Seagirls, being in an all-female band means making a mark in a male-dominated industry.

“I can’t tell you how many mostly older dudes come up to us after gigs and say they were surprised we were so good,” she said. “It’s 2019, but it still happens.”

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Venues such as Old Ironsides have historically been a place to nurture those artists, he says. Its Wednesday open-mic night is where local rock group Band of Coyotes met and formed. Hobo Johnson, the Sacramento rapper who signed to Warner Bros. Records last year, also got his start playing at openmics, including the one at Old I. By contrast, other businesses such as Ace of Spades, which is owned by industry giant Livenation, see tribute bands as an opportunity. A growing trend for touring artists is to pre-book a supporting act, eliminating a slot often held for local musicians. Meanwhile, Ace’s tribute events are often locally curated.

“If the music is going to be a good fit on the show, it’s easier to get that approved than some of the more high-profile acts,” said Raychel Sabath, Live Nation’s senior marketing manager in Northern California.

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“They tried to fix it,” Rodrigues said.

“Try to fix it? It’s like asking a fish not to swim. It’s part of me.”

Rodrigues says she bares a striking resemblance to Nicks in more than one way. They’re the same height, at 5-foot-1-and-a-half. They both went to private schools and lived a Bohemian lifestyle at a young age. For a time, her ex-husband played Lindsey Buckingham, so the awkward stage dynamic was real.

“Our lives parallel in more ways, that I can tell you,” Rodrigues said. “I’ve had people literally come up to me and stop me on the street going into Trader Joe’s asking me for an autograph. … I had

Flock of Seagirls Tribute to the “Ladies of the ’80s” (1980-1989) Formed: 2013 Members: Stephanie Hammack (vocals), Jennifer Conley (bass), Katie Ijams (guitar, vocals, keytar), Dana Parker (drums) Ruba Tuesday (guitar), Gogo (keys, keytar).

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Tribute to Fleetwood Mac (1967-present) Formed: 2012 Members: Claudette Rodrigues (Stevie Nicks), Barbara Martin (Christine McVie), Don Oberempt (Mick Fleetwood), Paul Jones (John McVie) Christopher Zerbe (Lindsey Buckingham), Jason Moss (guitars) Deep catalog song: “Bombay Sapphires” Song most people know: “Dreams”

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Tribute to AC/DC (1976-present) Formed: 2008 Members: Mike Barnes (Bon Scott & Brian Johnson), Dave Chapman (Angus Young), Michael Spencer (Cliff Williams), Joel Proto (Malcolm Young), Steve Marshall (Phil Rudd) Deep catalog song: “Squealer” Song most people know: “Highway to Hell”

He opens with “Welcome To My World,” a love song that feels appropriate for the meal.

The dance floor is barren. The crowd is still eating their dinner and chatting.

Eventually the show energizes, Reno delivering “Hound Dog” and “Jailhouse Rock,” welcoming a few club members to twist. Some run up to take selfies, while others hug Reno mid-song.

Does Reno live up to the King?

For the most part, yes. His versions of ballads, especially “Can’t Help Falling In Love,” ring true, while the faster songs can’t quite match the rockabilly rasp and operatic howls of the legend. And the pelvic gyrations seem weaker.

“He hits about 90 percent of the notes, but about 2 percent of the notes, I really think about Elvis,” a man at the bar said.

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It’s kinda crazy.”

Even the original band’s founder, Mick Fleetwood, approves of the performance. Each Fleetwood Mask show opens with a video of his endorsement.

For Rodrigues, the performances keep the music alive.

“The days of the ’70s and ’60s, those were those days that you had free love—‘Make love, not war’—you had the hippies, you had all this other stuff going on,” Rodrigues said. “It was a different feel, and I think people want those days back. They want the Day on the Green.”

Back in the dining hall of the Northridge Country Club, Johnny Reno lands onstage to a pre-recorded track of “C.C. Rider,” the upbeat Las-Vegas-style blues show-tune that was Presley’s entrance music.

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The show ends with a meet-and-greet and more photos.

The night also happened to be the 42nd anniversary of Presley’s death. Reno said he didn’t have time to reminisce backstage before the performance, but the moment was no less meaningful.

“You know, back in the day, there weren’t very many Elvis impersonators. In the late ’70s, there were maybe two impersonators that were out that people knew about, when Elvis was still alive. And after he passed, there were more Elvis impersonators, more Elvis impersonators.

Now there’s probably thousands and thousands around the world,” Reno said. “So at this rate, by the exponentional growth, I’m estimating that within another 10 years, everybody in the world will be an Elvis impersonator.” Ω

Tribute to Steely Dan (1972-present) Formed: 2003 Members: Sandford Wragg (vocals), Kurt Shiflet (guitar), Ray Merrill (drums), Larry Tagg (Bass), Dave Buehler (keyboards), Ann Roach (vocals) Emily Kollars (vocals), Charley Langer (alto sax, ewi), Bob Williams (trombone), Maurice Montgomery (trumpet) Deep catalog song: “Show Biz Kids” Song most people know: “Hey Nineteen”

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his weekend, we celebrate Labor Day, a federal holiday for 125 years. It’s not the end of summer; it’s a historic milestone.

A salute to the enduring contributions of American workers, Labor Day – like the American labor movement – was born out of strife. Back in the late 1800s, workers could expect to toil 12 hours or more a day, seven days a week, just to earn enough to eat and a place to sleep. Safety was an afterthought.

Every member of the family worked hard, including young children. Public education? Health care? Retirement? Paid vacation? Racial justice? Minimum wage? Those concepts hadn’t been invented yet.

A few extremely rich families controlled most of the nation’s fortune. (Sound familiar?) During this “Gilded Age,” the top 10% owned three-quarters of all American wealth while the bottom 40% had nothing at all.

That’s when unions started organizing American workers.

Facing extremely unsafe working conditions in mills and factories, union members demanded to be treated like people – with respect.

Their hard work and sacrifice lifted up all Americans.

Things got uglier before they got better. As unions gained power, companies tried to beat them down. Union members were killed while fighting for such basic rights as fresh air, clean water and breaks on the job. After some particularly bloody incidents, unions pushed Congress to pass laws to protect workers, regardless of gender or race. In 1894, Congress also created a special holiday for the worker: Labor Day. In the 20th century, unions won many important rights that most people now take for granted. (The fact that workers have weekends at all is thanks to organized labor.) But after so much success, people took their unions for granted, too.

Employers seized the opportunity to whittle away at those hard-won union gains.

Now, only 10% of Americans belong to a union.

That’s down from 20% in 1983 and nearly 35% in 1954.

Meanwhile, worker rights have slipped away, too. That’s led to increased safety hazards; according to a recent survey, one out of four workers know someone who was hurt on the job. Wage inequality is approaching levels not seen since the Great Depression.

Without union support, workers have lost political power and strength at the workplace. Employers are free to ignore worker concerns, use hordes of unpaid interns, demand

employees work 60-hour weeks and illegally treat workers as independent contractors. We’re back in another “Gilded Age” with the top 5% holding two-thirds of American wealth.

Without strong unions, that inequality will only grow.

Americans haven’t lost faith in unions. According to a 2018 MIT study, 46% of non-union workers would like to be in a union, up from 32% in 1995. Yet only 6.4% of private sector workers are union members.

By contrast, more than one-third of state and local government workers belong to a union. Why? As union organizers have known from the beginning: There’s strength in numbers. I see it every day in my union, SEIU Local 1000. Our power is amazing. When we speak with one voice, it demands to be heard.

The largest union of state workers in California, the Service Employees International Union Local 1000 represents about 96,000 state workers.

We’re still fighting that good fight, demanding a living wage, the right to retire in dignity and access to quality health care. Together, we can lift up California like our union predecessors lifted up America more than a century ago.

We’re working on a California for all, where every Californian can have an affordable place to live, access to quality health care, racial justice and freedom from hunger and poverty. In the coming weeks, I’ll share more about that goal and how we can get there.

As Thomas Huang, SEIU Local 1000 member said after a work-site victory, “Once workers get a taste of their power, they won’t stop. I get that now. I feel like this is the first real win we’ve had — meaning we won what we did through collective struggle. And now, I am voracious.”

We state workers know the strength of a strong, united voice. We’re speaking up for everyone.

Yvonne R. Walker president, SEIU Local 1000 PHOTO COURTESY OF SEIU lOCal 1000

It pays to belong to a union

$28.50 26% $30.41 15%

average salary of female California union worker more than non-union counterpart

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he great hope of Sacramento music promoters rolls up to Harlow’s Nightclub & Restaurant on his skateboard, a tussle of green hair peeking out from his baseball cap on a recent Saturday afternoon. Along with the backpack he plops behind the ticket booth, he carries one of Sacramento music’s most legendary surnames: Perry.

A hoot comes from the members of the band Californios as they soundcheck on the stage: “Eliiiiiiiiiii!”

These local Americana musicians are shouting for Eli Perry, the 26-year-old son of Jerry Perry. Longtime Sacramentans probably recognize Eli from scurrying around at gigs over the past two decades, while his pops was book booking shows at the Cattle Club, Crest Theatre and other venues. But now, as his father recovers from a major stroke, the kid has stepped into the promoter role that defines the family name.

At this moment, he keeps his eye on the door, scratching names off the guest list and stamping wrists after he’s collected the $15 cover charge.

“Maybe it’s in my blood,” says Perry, as the crowd trickles into Harlow’s. “I’ve been around so many bands that I’ve seen go nowhere and deserve so much more, and I want to be a good stepping stone to help people get their music out there.”

It hasn’t been easy.

Last year, following the elder Perry’s stroke, Eli Perry stepped in to finish booking one of his dad’s annual projects, the three-day Chalk It Up! Festival. The event features bands and artists as part of an ongoing education program that awards grants and sponsors youth arts programs in the region.

He might as well be thrown into the deep end. He’d never booked a show before.

Now, he’s taking another shot this weekend as the primary booker for this year’s festival, Aug. 31-Sept. 2 at Fremont Park. It has been a massive undertaking, the kind of scheduling and logistical puzzle that’s a guaranteed anxiety attack. But Perry presses on, championing local bands.

In addition to Chalk It Up!, he also spends

time working the door at venues. Someday he hopes to give bands a stage of their own.

“The big dream for me right now is to open a small venue, a Luigi’s Fun Garden kind of thing where it’s 150 people,” says Perry, referencing the Midtown indie rock venue that closed in 2014. “It’s a good place to build up smaller musicians and send them to someplace like Harlow’s.”

Born into music Perry was born in 1992, a time that could be called Peak Cattle Club. Along with Brian McKenna and others, Jerry Perry built the legendary venue into perhaps Sacramento’s definitive spot for live music.

The building on Folsom Boulevard was a dump, but the décor never mattered.

Before closing in the mid-1990s, it became a janky home for such local bands as Deftones and Cake before they inked major-label deals. It was also a stage for Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins and No Doubt as they clawed from the underground to alt-rock superstardom.

Eli Perry is too young to remember those nights, but just about every Sacramento musician and scenester older than 40 does. They also remember Jerry Perry’s work at Concerts In the Park, the SAMMIES awards show and countless gigs in between.

Now, his dad’s shadow remains inescapable as he charts his own promoter’s path.

“I always compare myself to him as to what he was doing at this point age-wise,” Perry says. “At this point, he was in the second half of the Cattle Club. He’d been through multiple clubs. He’d done the Vortex, all kinds of things. It kind of freaks me out sometimes.”

On this night at the Harlow’s show, Perry wears a Go-Go’s T-shirt he scored last year at Stockton’s Fox Theater. It was the last show he saw with his dad before the stroke, which happened just weeks before Chalk it Up!

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With his dad in rehabilitation, Perry insisted that the responsibility fall on his shoulders, even if he barely had experience. In high school, his senior project involved booking bands to play the quad at McClatchy High School (though dad helped guide him as well). Later, he and his mom, Linda Perry, also earned a certificate in event planning at Sacramento State.

But nothing measured up to the crunch of booking nearly three dozen bands with just about a month’s notice for the 2018 Chalk It Up! Perry didn’t have much to go on, just some notes of bands his dad wanted to contact.

Growing up in the midst of Sacramento’s music scene helped guide him. He knew which calls to make, which bands might provide the right vibe and mix for an outdoor festival.

“It was his baptism in the fire to cover like that for his dad,” says Mike Blanchard of the Californios, one of the bands that played at last year’s festival. “He’s someone who’s come off as confident, very talented and very competent. He learned a lot from his dad and mom.”

The music promoting game isn’t for the meek. You tend to live and die by the small cut of ticket sales taken at the door. And because musicians are involved, just about anything can happen: a blown tire on the touring van, a drummer who flakes at the last minute. More than anything, you just pray people show up and everything runs like it should.

“It’s one of the scariest things,” Perry says. “I don’t care if there’s 30 people already in line. Sometimes I’ll take a [financial] hit, but I want to make sure the bands go home with something.”

like father, like son His mom, Linda Perry, keeps the faith.

She has been by her husband’s side for nearly 30 years, through the years working the Cattle Club’s door, through the ups and downs of the music scene, through the stroke that’s kept him out of action for over a year.

She says she sees that same devotion to local music—and all the anxiety that goes with it—in her son. He is definitely a Perry, a chatterbox about local bands one minute and a bundle of nerves as show times approach.

“He’s taken up some of Jerry’s mannerisms,” she says. “You see him on the phone outside [a venue] and then going on a walk.

There’s a lot of juggling to do. But he definitely knows a good band when he sees it, and then rallies around it.”

Jerry Perry continues to recover. He’s still a fixture at local shows, all the while working to improve his mobility and speech. The love for live music is definitely still there.

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“A normal five minute conversation takes 15 minutes with him, but you can see it’s totally still my dad,” Eli Perry says.

“It’s Jerry Perry. He still has a sense of humor and his memories are there.”

Eli Perry says there’s no Plan B for him. Local music is his everything and he looks for opportunities to branch out.

Along with growing his promoter role, he hosts “Listen Up! Sacramento,” a live music show on Public Access TV that his dad previously hosted.

But as Californios strum the first notes of its set, it’s back to work. The kid with the green hair and great promise keeps his eye toward the door, ready to collect another $15 and apply a hand stamp on the wrist.

“There’s so many great small musicians, I love those guys,” says Perry. “Music’s always been there for me, so I want to be there for it.” Ω

Check out the Chalk it Up! Festival, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Aug. 31-Sept. 2 at Fremont Park, 1515 Q St. Entry is free; visit chalkitup.org.

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A beautiful explosion The Renegade Literari series fuses poetry with music, literature and visual arts

by ERika MaiLMan

Sacramento’s poetry scene is vast, but the city’s poet laureate, Indigo Moor, believes it could support a new literary fusion.

“I never felt like we needed one more reading, but I wanted to do something that represented my understanding of the arts,” Moor says. “Over the course of my poetic lifespan, it’s been wonderful to work with musicians and visual artists and others who aren’t poets, to create a beautiful explosion.”

So while poets read at the quarterly Renegade Literati event, musicians and artists are also involved.

Launched earlier this year, the second installment takes place Aug. 30 at Sacramento City Hall.

How do visual artists perform, exactly? Their images are projected onto the stage before things get underway, during the break and anytime someone isn’t presenting. In addition, they also engage in a 10-15 minute interview.

The series arose out of Moor’s desire to fuse genres, but the genesis of the reading series’ title dates back further.

“A friend in Virginia was starting up a book club and asked people to come up with names for it. Renegade Literati came into my head,” Moor says. “Then later I thought, ‘Why did I give that away?’ I begged her to give it back.”

Moor succeeded. He also received important aid from the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission, which funds a small amount to pay the artists.

This month’s Literati includes a stellar roster of presenters, including jazz bassist Gerry Pineda, who has headlined with greats such as Joe Gilman, Nick Fryer and Tim Reiss.

“He’s so fluid in switching genres. I’m just startled by what he comes up with,” Moor says.

The event’s lone poet will be Brynn Saito, who has published two volumes of poetry, Power Made Us Swoon and The Palace of Contemplating Departure.

“She’s the poet I’d like to write as; her work is Hegelian,” Moor says. Saito’s poetry echoes the beliefs of the German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, whose work centered on exploring absolute idealism Also on the program is visual artist Lin Fei Fei, who has exhibited in more than a dozen countries and holds a master’s of art degree in oil painting from China’s Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts.

“Her work is so expansive; she’s gifted,” Moor says. “She’s exactly how an artist needs to be in this climate. She knows her own worth.”

The final presenter, fiction writer Vanessa Hua, is well known in literary circles. Her novel A River of Stars was the subject of much buzz, including a recommendation from Oprah Winfrey and Best Book of 2018 nods from The Washington Post and National Public Radio.

Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas, who co-hosts the event, says the reading series makes for a great night. “It’s an amazing experience, delivered by some of the West Coast’s best artists,” she says.

For Moor, the series is an extension of his position as Sacramento’s city’s poet laureate.

“Each poet laureate has their own axes to grind,” Moor says. “One of the reasons we take this position that doesn’t pay very well and requires a lot of effort is that we believe we have a vision for poetry, all the arts, that will benefit the community as a whole.” Ω

catch the renegade Literari at 6:30 p.m., friday Aug. 30. sacramento city hall, 915 I st. entry is free.

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Comics Anonymous Talking After Sets merges the stage and the green room

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Part stand-up showcase, part live podcast panel, Talking After Sets is a comedy show that merges two different worlds of a stand-up comic—the rehearsed performance that happens onstage, and the relaxed conversations that happen behind the scenes before and after every show.

“The idea is to bring the green room to the stage,” creator and host Austin Carr told SN&R. “...

I want the audience to get to know each comedian beyond just the material in their set, which they’ve spent the last few months or whatever working on and shaping. I want them to see the person behind the jokes.”

The traveling show works like this: As each comedian comes on stage, they perform a 2 to 3 minute version of their usual set and then take a seat on the panel of stand-ups, where they can’t rely on pre-canned punchlines.

“It’s something a lot of comedians don’t have a chance to do very often, hang out on stage with fellow comics and just shoot the s--t,” Carr says.

“Sometimes we talk about our sets, sometimes we talk about life and other times its like an open micturned-AA meeting.”

When Carr isn’t producing the show, he manages security at the legendary Cobb’s Comedy Club in San Francisco. He lives, breathes, sleeps and eats comedy, and it’s why he allows comedians free entry to each performance of Talking After Sets.

“I want to give everybody stage time and exposure,” Carr says. “Talking After Sets is meant to be a platform for comics. Every show has a completely unique lineup with comedians local to the area.”

The Wednesday, Aug. 28 show at Punchline Sacramento features headliner Lance Woods, plus Sac comedians Emma Haney, Anthony K. and Alfonso Portela—all handpicked by Carr. The lineup is a mix of well-known comics and some up-andcomers who could use the spotlight, Carr says.

For Portella, Talking After Sets could be an opportunity to break out of his shell.

“Interacting with other comedians should be interesting. Maybe people will see how not-funny I am when I’m not doing stand-up,” Portella jokes.

“It’s not very often you get five or six stand-up comedians on stage at the same time, so I’m excited to see how it goes, regardless.”

Carr says he hopes Talking After Sets is able to break some of the traditional barriers to comedy.

“Comedy is like an internship that never ends.

There are all these weird rules and laws that say in order to do certain shows, you have to have done other shows or been passed by a comedy club in another city that only passes people who have been passed by some random booker in a part of the country you might not have even been to,” Carr says. “Talking After Sets is an attempt to bypass all of that and just put on good comedy.” Ω

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Fuddy Meers, by playwright David Lindsay-Abair, is an odd and rather disturbing play that defies any logical description of its plot or characters. It’s funny, farcical and at times frustrating—but does put the “fun” in family dysfunction.

We first meet a sunny Claire (Bethany Hidden), who greets the day with an optimistic yet quizzical smile as a strange man (Earl Victorine) enters the bedroom. He explains to Claire that he’s her husband Richard and that she suffers from psychogenic amnesia. Which means every day is “Groundhog’s Day” for Claire, who remembers no one and nothing from the day before.

After Richard hands Claire a scrapbook designed to help her sort out the people, places and events in her past and present, a masked stranger pops out and persuades her to flee to her mother’s house. Along the way, new husbands, family members, strangers, peculiar characters and a hand puppet rotate in and out trying to both comfort and confuse Claire.

Equally confused is the audience, which tries to keep up with the merry-go-round of shifting characters and story lines. The redeeming reward is that Fuddy Meers is seldom boring, with its fun twists and turns. The current staging by Errant Phoenix Productions brings together a talented cast and creative staging.

Errant Phoenix makes good use of its new home at Thistle Dew Dessert Theatre. This small, very intimate theater space in the basement of an old Victorian has three rows of seats with little room between stage and audience. Which means in-your-face action—a plus most of the time for this eccentric play. Ω |

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Can’t get enough of a certain musical about love, family and marriage, set to a certain Swedish pop band’s greatest hits? Fair Oaks Theatre Festival offers its own version under the stars, and it’s a pretty fun island getaway. Fri 8pm, Sat 8pm,

Playwright Anna Ziegler combines coordinated timing and precise rhythm to bring theater and sports together in her one-act, 90-minute drama about

fri 8pm, sat 8pm, sun 2pm; through 9/8; $16-$18; thistle dew dessert theatre, 1901 P st., (916) 443-5099, facebook.com/errantPhoenix.

Three half-siblings are forced to figure out their relationships with their dad, with each other and with other characters swirling about in their lives.

All in all, it’s an interesting exploration of the bonds of blood, and whether they’re worth keeping if they weigh down like a ton of bricks.

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a rising star facing off with a tennis legend at the U.S. Open semi-finals.

After 40 years of child rearing, Helene and George Butler are ready to finally enjoy the peace and quiet, until their two older sons move back in, unannounced.

Like so many ’80s-era sitcoms, Alone Together suffers less from entitled children, and more from a myopic view of how the world actually works. Fri

4 Stuffed to the brim Maximum Occupancy is a monthly, no-frills improv show starring B Street Theatre company members Stephanie Altholz, Dave Pierini and Tara Sissom. The show’s name comes from a promise: If the room achieves maximum occupancy (75 people), the team buys everyone pizza.

Not a bad incentive.

For a show that lasts just under two hours, the cast manages to pack in plenty of bits and call-backs to previous jokes. Where the first act is characterized by the more structured Harold—a traditional improv template born out of Chicago—the second act loosens up with shorter, less-connected scenes.

This month’s show was a solid entry in the Harold Canon, if something like a Harold Canon existed. Based on the audience suggestion of “drinking,” the team constructed three interconnected stories: a couple who bonded over alcohol but couldn’t seem to shake the clingy bartender who first brought them together; a modern-day Jesus with a teen son who could miraculously conjure fistfuls of cigarettes; and a woman seeking revenge against another woman who turned her dog into jerky.

While there were some occasional lulls, and it wasn’t always clear where the team was taking certain ideas, they always managed to land plenty of jokes, and they ended every scene on a high note.

stage pick Pops Washington can’t seem to catch a break.

99 problems Capital Stage kicks off its 15th season this weekend with playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis’ Between Riverside and Crazy.

Set in New York City, the story centers around former police officer and widower Walter “Pops” Washington, who faces a host of issues, including his newly paroled son and those attempting to evict him from his rent-controlled apartment.

On top of that, the police department is pressuring him to settle a lawsuit he filed when an NYPD officer accidentally shot him. Previews run Wednesday through Friday, with opening night landing this Saturday. Wed, 8/28, 7pm; Thu, 8/29, 7pm; Fri, 8/30, 8pm; Sat, 8/31, 8pm; Sun, 9/1, 2pm; Through 9/29; $25-$49; Capital Stage, 2215 J St.; (916) 995-5464; capstage.org.

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Maximum occupancy: every fourth sunday, 7pm; $12; B street theatre at the sofia, 2700 capitol ave.; (916) 443-5300; bstreettheatre.org.

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Lariza Barcena runs the Instagram account @thesleepyfoodie where she posts photos of delicious dishes found throughout Sacramento.

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The temperature read a steady 101 on a recent Wednesday evening when Sacramento transplant and local social media influencer Lariza Barcena sat sweating it out on Sac City Brews’ patio, beer in hand. Barcena was awaiting the rest of her order and, as with anytime she’s out to eat, it’s a mix of business and pleasure fueling her body (and her Instagram feed) simultaneously.

A dancer in local hip-hop crew Boogie Monstarz and a die-hard foodie, Barcena’s Instagram account, @thesleepyfoodie, has garnered a mostly local following of more than 4,100 over the past two years.

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khao poon, a Lao soup, from The Spot in South Sacramento; sticky goldenbrown Monkey Bread French Toast from Punch Bowl Social downtown; decadent burrata atop apples crowned with microgreens from Paesano’s in Midtown. Each post is sprinkled with puns and playful humor that work as complementary word garnishes.

As with many creative endeavors, Barcena’s was a humble beginning.

Born to Filipino parents in Milan, Italy, where she was raised until her late teens, Barcena described a constant struggle with her sense of identity and belonging.

“There was always that clash between those two cultures. It was an internal conflict for me. For those I knew who were raised in the Philippines, I wasn’t Filipino enough, but as a daughter of

immigrants, I never felt fully accepted

by Italians,” she said.

In her struggle for acceptance, she learned to use the power of food as a unifier with a twist on an old adage: The quickest way to an open mind is through the stomach.

“When there would be a party at my house, my Italian friends would eat Italian food, but they would also eat our Filipino food, and vice versa,” Barcena said. “I’ve always seen it as the first thing that’s widely accepted. You might not understand someone’s customs or someone’s ideas, but you’ll always be open to trying someone’s food.”

Her family relocated to Sacramento in 2008 when Barcena was 17. The variety of the Capital City’s food scene left her teenage head spinning.

“It was like landing in a food mecca.

To this day, I’m learning about new dishes and getting access to different ethnic cuisine I didn’t have [in Italy],” Barcena said. “There’s never a month where I don’t try something new. It blows my mind how much food there is out there, and that feels special about Sacramento.”

Barcena left Sacramento in 2011 to study anthropology at UCLA, where the first rumblings of @thesleepyfoodie began.

“In college, I was always looking for things to do and places to go with my friends,” she said. “I had a notebook that I kept—like a sort of personal local guide. It had all the places I wanted to go to divided by neighborhood and prices. Then whenever I would go somewhere, I would write down what I ate and I would rate it.”

It wasn’t long before she became the go-to for all of her Bruins buddies on where to eat in the L.A. food scene.

Back in Sacramento after she graduated, Barcena was looking for ways to turn her passions into purpose. It was 2013 and Instagram was booming with popularity, and social media content creators and influencers were gaining serious traction. Barcena’s rumblings grew stronger.

“One of my goals after college was to go after things I’m unsure of, or that I was afraid of,” she explained. “I would see all these accounts, and in the back of my head, I thought, ‘Maybe I could do that.’ So one day, it’s just like, let’s go.

And I started my Instagram.”

She said that the initial growth of her account came rather easily with the first 1,000 or so followers. After that, it takes effort to build an audience.

“It’s all been organic for me; I’ve never paid to advertise my account.

But it definitely takes time,” she said as a waiter arrived at the table with a banh mi and a plate of BLT sliders.

Without hesitation, Barcena realigned the long, rectangular trays, staging them just so, before capturing a few shots with her phone.

“Aesthetics do matter, but you can always play around ... and make it look good for the camera,” she said between bites. “Taste is the most important factor ... Some of the smaller establishments that are not all glitz and glamour actually do have the best food.”

That authenticity and appreciation for the little guy has earned Barcena respect from her influencer peers.

Fellow local content creator Dixie, who runs the Instagram account @deets.on.eats, met two years ago at an Instameet event through a mutual friend.

“Lariza is very confident in who she is,” Dixie told SN&R in a recent phone call. “She doesn’t ever let anyone dictate what she’s going to put up. The real Lariza comes across in everything she posts.”

Barcena’s constant stream of posts and steady growth of followers has turned her Instagram account into a mini side hustle. She has a few business relationships with local restaurants—including Sac City Brews—and has received invitations to local influencer events.

But in a world where nearly everyone is letting their food get cold to snap some pics for the ’Gram, what sets @thesleepyfoodie apart?

“What you see is what you get,” she said. “I don’t edit [my photos] a hundred times. They are personal, what I feel about the world.”

Barcena leaned back from the table and laughed nervously. “I just want to show others all that Sacramento has to offer because of all that it has offered me.” Ω

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Now, one thing is for certain: There isn’t a shortage of craft breweries and cocktail bars in the farm-to-fork capital.

However, there is a growing trend of men and women who seek the social aspects of being at a bar, sans alcohol. Elevated “mocktails” are becoming more popular, but sometimes those zero-alcohol beverages can be sickeningly sweet.

For those who are taking a 30-day breather from booze or who are kicking cocktails altogether, there are a few bars in town that shake up refreshing and visually appealing sippers.

One place is The Snug in Midtown where bartender Britta Currie created the Sober Spritz. “It’s an ounceand-a-half of Seedlip Herbal, one ounce of pineapple gum syrup, three quarters of an ounce of lime juice, and we use this really cool stuff called Sera. It’s a nonalcoholic amaro soda,” she said. “I top it with about six ounces of that in a wine glass with some cucumber ribbons and a mint sprig.”

Currie said she recently took a break from drinking and having options such as amaro soda or herbal distillates such as Seedlip’s rosemary, thyme and sugar-snap pea blend really hit the spot.

The Snug’s close neighbor, Iron Horse Tavern, has six mocktails on its drink menu, including the Guava

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That’s what Gabriel Aiello, co-owner of Burly Beverages, believes is important for most folks—that the mocktail doesn’t just look like a glass of juice with a twist of lime.

“When people go out they don’t just want a seltzer water with bitters and lime. They want something that’s made like a cocktail. They want something that’s made with the same attention and technique that craft cocktails are made with in the shaker that feels less like juice or kombucha or soda and something that feels more like the cocktails that they’ve come to appreciate,” he said.

Burly Beverages specializes in craft soda and shrub syrups that are carried in many bars throughout Sacramento, including Red Rabbit Kitchen & Bar on J Street, where Colleen Smalley and other bartenders create concoctions on the fly known as The Daily Squeeze. One Wednesday afternoon, Smalley was busy squeezing batches of oranges before making a refreshing passion fruit-based mocktail that was sweet, effervescent and well-balanced.

“I always start by asking people if they want juicy or tart, or if they want something sweet,” Smalley said. “Sacramento is a pretty boozy place, and I feel like a lot of us have grown up a little bit and we have a lot of friends that are pregnant or maybe they’re doing sober January. But just having a cocktail being beautiful and presentable even though it’s nonalcoholic is important.” Ω

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Too early to think about Halloween? Not if you want to squeeze into Sacramento’s Historic City Cemetery for its wildly popular and spirited affair: The annual Lantern Tour.

Tickets for the 2019 edition will go on sale Sunday, Sept. 1, at midnight.

“Program your phone! Mark your calendar!” tour organizers said in their official announcement, warning: “Last year, they were gone by noon, so set your alarm and don’t hit the snooze button!”

Or just stay up late—which may be appropriate for a tour devoted to things that go bump in the night.

This year’s tour is set for four nights spread over two pre-Halloween weekends: Oct. 18 and 19 and Oct. 25 and 26. By lantern light, docents garbed in Victorian attire lead guests through the famous cemetery, home to Sacramento’s most famous rose garden and two other major gardens, and also the resting place of pioneers, city builders, civic leaders and more. Along the way, guests encounter many “residents” who retell their unique chapters in Sacramento history. It’s a spectacle not to be missed.

eveNT deTails: Historic City Cemetery lantern Tour Tickets are $40 plus handling fees, available at lanterntours2019.brownpapertickets.com Cemetery is at 1000 Broadway. Free parking is available on surrounding streets. For more details: historicoldcitycemetery.org

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Shenandoah School Road Progressive Picnic.

Set for 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Sept. 2, this fun event invites visitors to explore Plymouth’s wineries as well as other landmarks such as the flower farm. Have your picnic passport stamped at each location and enter to win a gift basket.

Shenandoah School Road loops past wineries that will be serving picnic treats as well as offering wine tastings. Besides dessert at Amador Flower Farm, the menu includes watermelon at Cooper Vineyards; gourmet chips and dips at Terra D’Oro; and hot dogs and home-cooked beans at Wilderotter Vineyard.

Home to millions of day lilies, Amador Flower Farm also features massive valley oaks. It’s a great place to picnic any time with tables under the trees.

(Wine is welcome, too.)

eveNT deTails: shenandoah school Road Progressive Picnic Amador Flower Farms, 22001 Shenandoah School Road in Plymouth. For directions and more details: amadorflowerfarm.com and visitamador.com/ events/2019/labor-day-progressive-picnic.

looking way ahead For gardeners who want to get a big jump on next year, the Sacramento County Master Gardeners now have their 2020 gardening guide and calendar available for sale. The theme: “Blossoms.” With beautiful photos, each month features seasonal flowers that will be at their height of bloom plus advice on how to grow them.

An invaluable resource for local gardeners, these calendars are also packed with tips on what to plant when, expected harvest dates and timely reminders. In addition, UC Cooperative Extension Master Food Preservers share their favorite recipes using edible flowers and herbs (such as lemon sage wine mustard).

A major fundraiser for the UC master gardener program, the calendars are available at sacmg.ucanr. edu for $10 each. □

Debbie Arrington, an award-winning garden writer and lifelong gardener, is co-creator of the Sacramento Digs gardening blog and website.

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A few of the vintage Spider-Man comics to be offered in Witherell’s sale.

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From webslinger to investment Spider-Man, other comics become top collectible Spider-Man is a gold mine, and

not just for movie makers.

“Spider-Man is the Babe Ruth of comics,” said auctioneer Brian Witherell of Witherell’s auction house in Sacramento. “And comic books are the hottest thing going now.”

Not just as fodder for summer blockbusters; comic books themselves rank among the top collectibles for today’s investment market.

More fun than precious metals, comic books also can be affordable. Their value depends on several factors including rarity, age, condition and character popularity.

Witherell’s will offer hundreds of vintage comic books Labor Day, Sept. 2, in an onlineonly “Buy It Now” sale. The comics will be sold in lots of five, priced at $50.

“This is a good wholesale way to buy some very nice comics; just log on and buy it,” Witherell said. “We’ve found more younger guys want it now; they’re not patient enough for an auction. This is a way to quickly build or add to a collection.”

But act fast, Witherell added. “The last time we tried a sale like this, one guy bought the whole sale.”

These comics all came from the same source: The collection of Larry J. Tilley of San Jose. A research scientist who specialized in water quality, he built a large comic collection before his death in 1998.

“The comic books were kind of like therapy,” said Carol Tilley, his widow.

“When he was off work, he didn’t want to read anything in depth. He used to tell me, ‘It’s history. These (comic) stories are so full of history.’ He really enjoyed that.”

Mrs. Tilley, who now lives in Lincoln, recently attended one of Witherell’s free evaluation Tuesdays.

“She came in with a list of comics,” Witherell recalled. “She said, ‘I don’t know what they are. Are you interested?’”

Witherell recognized some gems on her list and accepted the consignment: 28 boxes and about 2,400 comic books.

“They’re in really good shape,” Witherell said. “They all come from the golden age of comics, 1950s through 1980s.”

With estimated values of $1,000 to $2,500 apiece, the rarest examples will be sold next June during Witherell’s annual Father’s Day sale. But that still left many boxes for the Labor Day event.

“They’re a lot of fun,” Witherell said.

“And there are a lot to choose from.”

Details: www.witherells.com.

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MUSIC THURSDAY, 8/29 HOt JaZZ JUBilee: Not to be outdone by last year’s sixth annual Hot Jazz Jubilee, this jubilee has more than 120 musicians playing jazz for four days straight. There’s a kick-off party on Thursday and the music continues through the weekend. Dancing is fun. 7pm, $45. DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel, 2001 Point West Way.

MOGWai: Going to see Mogwai? They’re a

Chalk, restocked

tiCKet WiNDOW IRON MAIDEN The hyper-iconic rock

group makes a stop in Sacramento on their hyper-iconic Legacy of the Beast tour. 9/9, 7:30pm, $49.50-$129.50, on sale now. Golden 1 Center, ticketmaster.com.

RENT The award-winning play from

Jonathan Larson is coming to the Harris Center. Relive the story of artists trying to make ends meet in Manhattan while living during the AIDS crisis. 9/27-9/29, various times, $48-$82, on sale now. Harris Center in Folsom, harriscenter.net.

YELAWOLF Don’t cry wolf, cry Yelawolf— because Yelawolf is coming to town.

The hip-hop artist and singer will be performing, and tickets are running low.

ace of spades, concerts.livenation.com.

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FRIDAY, 8/30 COveR Me BaDD: To cover is human—Cover Me Badd may be the most human band of us all, bringing the music and hits you love to love to all your favorite shindigs. 6pm, no cover. The Village at Sacramento Gateway, 3648 N. Freeway Blvd.

DON OMaR: Do you have tickets to see Don Omar yet? Tickets are available for the Puerto Rican reggaeton artist. 6pm, $60$175. Cal Expo, 1600 Exposition Blvd.

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Fremont Park, 10am, no cover It’s time again to talk about chalk! The rockin’ chalk block doesn’t balk—take stock of the rock and roll Festival flock. With music from Girls Rock, Roman Pilots, Bru Lei, That Kid Raja & Charm the Riot and more, it’s yet again chock-full. Walk by and check out the hundreds of paintings that wash up onto

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post-rock group from Scotland. They play lots of soundscape-y music and are touring right now. If you already had tickets, you knew that, though. 7pm, $25. Ace of Spades, 1417 R St.

sidewalks, witness artists as they put their crumbly medium to the pavement.

There are, of course, plenty of musical acts, lots of food and drink to consume, a beer garden stocked with ales for you to drink carefully, and plenty of activities for the whole family. 16th and Q Streets, chalkitup.org.

everything musical is going on at Old I, including this night of sounds from the Easy Chairs. Plus, you’ll get sounds from Light Rays, all included in the cost of admission. 8:30pm, $7. Old Ironsides, 1901 10th St.

FRee tHROW: Interesting sounds can be heard at this show from the emotional rock band from Nashville. Catch them and enjoy their sounds at your leisure while also dealing with your own emotions. 7pm, $15-$17. Holy Diver, 1517 21st St.

leDWaRD KaaPaNa & FRaN GUiDRY: With Guidry, Kaapana will be playing music on the strings. Catch the pair at this album release show. 8pm, $25. Watermelon Music, 1970 Lake Blvd. in Davis.

ONe MORe tiMe: The Daft Punk tribute experience is coming to town. Watch as the Daft Punk impresarios and impressionists pay homage to the band. 10pm, $18$20. Harlow’s, 2708 J St.

Don’t have one? Get one. Or two.

so grab some tickets early, folks. You’ll get to taste plenty of chili and see who’s the best of the best. 11/2, 7:30pm, $30-$60, on sale now. Ace of Spades, concerts1. livenation.com.

11/14-11/16, various times, $30-$40, on sale now. Punch Line Sacramento, concerts. livenation.com.

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The Clevelandborn, New York-based comedian will be bringing as much funny as she can carry to the Punch Line, so check out a show.

TRANS-SIbERIAN ORCHESTRA The one-

of-a-kind orchestra that performed last winter is coming back this year for yet another performance. Catch the holiday-themed performance while you can. 11/29, 4pm

& 8pm, $39.59-$79.59, on sale 9/13 at 10am.

Golden 1 Center, ticketmaster.com.

POPa CHUBBY: Calendar, meet the blues guitarist with the funny, Popa Chubby, also known as Theodore Horowitz. Grab a rock ’n’ roll experience with the Bronxer. 7pm, $37.50. Sofia Tsakopoulos Center for the Arts, 2700 Capitol Ave.

RiNGO staRR aND His all staRR BaND: This former Beatle and his current band will be performing for your amusement. Don’t pass him by. 7:30pm, $52.95. Thunder Valley Casino, 1200 Athens Ave. in Lincoln.

saCRaMeNtO sUMMeR viBes laBOR DaY WeeKeND: Work week over, it’s time for three days of summer excitement. There are DJs, a birthday party, a dress code and everything. 7pm, $20-$250. 2708 J St.

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SATURDAY, 8/31 PaRlOR tRiCKs: No shortage of ragtime and rockabilly music will be present at this evening shared by Parlor Tricks and the Cantaliers. 9pm, $5. Fox & Goose, 1001 R St.

tHe RaY CHaRles PROJeCt: Hidden from the public view, you can catch tribute to the music of Ray Charles with musicians Tony Lindsay, Chris Cain, Glenn Walters, David K. Mathews, DeWayne Pate and Deszon Claiborne. 7:30pm, $26-$28. Auburn State Theatre, 985 Lincoln Way, Suite 104 in Auburn.

saCRaMeNtO sOUlFUl sOUNDs OF JaZZ: Messages of the musical designation will be shared at this jazz-filled festival of blues, wine and more, with wine from Wachira Wines. 6pm, $20-$50. Sacramento Scottish Rite Center, 6151 H St.

sKiNlaB: Nothing beats a little bit of metal music when it comes to eardrum-shaking.

Catch the Bay Area metal band as they sprawl through the city. 7pm, $13. Holy Diver, 1517 21st St.

SUNDAY, 9/1 DR. FRaNK aND DaN JaNisCH: Exciting opportunity after Chalk It Up!—head over to Riving Loom and spend some time with Dr. Frank of the Mr. T Experience along with the singer-songwriter Dan Janisch. 8pm, $5-$10 donation. Riving Loom, 2741 Fruitridge Road, Suite 6.

KOta tHe FRieND: Or perhaps you’d like to spend an evening with Kota the Friend, the hip-hop artist from Brooklyn with a taste for hit-making. 7pm, $15-$35. Holy Diver, 1517 21st St.

ReWiND Fest ‘19-lOst 80’s live: Out in the historic, Theodore Judah-surveyed city of Lincoln, you can turn back time and spend some time with bands of the 1980s. We’re talking Loverboy, A Flock of Seagulls, Missing Persons, Wang Chung and more. 5:30pm, $45.95. Thunder Valley Casino, 1200 Athens Ave. in Lincoln.

MONDAY, 9/2 MOtOWN 5-YeaR aNNiveRsaRY BlOCK PaRtY: Catch the fifth anniversary of Motown on Mondays with Z-Trip and Shortkut, plus DJ Founder, Gordo Cabeza, DJ Epik and Billy Lane. 3pm, $10. LowBrau, 1050 20th St.

WillOW: Don’t miss this night of performance from Willow, also known as Willow Smith, daughter of Will Smith and performer in her own right. 7pm, $25-$30. Harlow’s, 2708 J St.

TUESDAY, 9/3 PaUla FUGa: John Cruz is joining in the fun for an evening of music and performance with Paula Fuga. 7pm, $20-$25. Harlow’s, 2708 J St.

FESTIVALS THURSDAY, 8/29 MOMMY + Me | CHalK DRaWiNG: Want to get

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your chalk on? Here’s a way for you to do it, with a mother-child chalk drawing

Saturday, 8/31

Preserving the Harvest: Tomatoes Yisrael FamilY Farm, 10am, $20-$25

Have too many tomatoes to eat and don’t quite know what to do with them all? Look no further than this class Classes that walks you through dealing with an abundance of the fruits.

Included in the cost of your ticket, you’ll learn how to can tomatoes, how to store them, how to choose the best tomatoes and much more. Bring an apron and potentially some enthusiasm for canned tomatoes, because you’ll be leaving with a jar of them and some newfound food knowledge. 4505 Roosevelt Avenue, yisraelfamilyfarm.net.

extravaganza. Head over to South Natomas Park for a morning of chalk, artwork and much more friendly, intriguing fun. 10am, no cover. South Natomas Community Park, 2881 Truxel Road.

FrIday, 8/30 DRY DIGGINGs FesTIVal 2019: Buy a ticket to this multi-day musical festival, complete with camping, three days of fun and plenty of drinks and other entertainment. Catch the event highlight on page 32. 10am, $30-$450. El Dorado County Fair and Event Grounds, 100 Placerville Drive in Placerville.

NIGHT OF THe lIVING TIKI! TIKI MaRKeT, sWaP aND sHOW WITH TIKIYaKI 5.0: Join this tikithemed festival with all kinds of Polynesian food, music, cocktails and much more.

The Jungle Bird’s mixologists will be in attendance, and there will be more than enough surf-music spinning on vinyl for you to get down to. Plus, catch the Blender Bombs! 5pm, $15-$30. Sail Inn Grotto, 1522 Jefferson Blvd. in West Sacramento.

Saturday, 8/31 BlaCK COMMUNITY FesT: The first installment of the Black Community Fest kicks off this weekend, featuring local black businesses.

There will be a food-tasting contest, free haircuts for kids, plenty of vendors and much more for you to check out. 2pm, no cover. McClatchy Park, 3500 5th Ave.

aUTUMNUs PRIMUs: Don’t miss the changing seasons as summer slowly fades into autumn. This festival celebrates the shift and features some local artists and vendors, plus live performances from Sonny Vibes and JustIs. There’s also an open-mic, and there will be food and drink.

Pay a $5 suggested donation, or wear the colors red, orange, yellow and brown for free entry. 6pm, $5. Brazilian Center for Cultural Exchange of Sacramento, 2420 N St., Suite 180.

CHalK IT UP! FesTIVal: Want to get a little bit of chalk into your weekend? Well, check out the event highlight on page 30. It’s time for Chalk it Up!, once again. 11am, no cover. Fremont Park, 1515 Q St.

ONe lOVe ONe HeaRT ReGGae FesTIVal 2019: It’s the 10th year of the One Love One Heart Reggae Festival. Take to the Yolo County Fairgrounds for some reggae music from Anthony B, Richie Spice, Amara La Negra, Fyakin, Lila Iké and much much more.

Bring the love. Noon, $20-$150. Yolo County Fairgrounds, 1250 Gum Ave. in Woodland.

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saCRaMeNTO NaaCP RHYTHM & BlUes FesTIVal: Spend some time with The Greater Sacramento NAACP Branch as they present their Rhythm & Blues Festival this year.

There’s lots of old-school sounds along the river and plenty of food, drinks and vendors keeping the day flowing with good vibes and fun. 11am, $10-$50. Miller Regional Park, 2701 Marina View Drive.

SuNday, 9/1 RaINBOW FesTIVal 2019: Take to the streets in the Lavender Heights District for the annual Rainbow Festival. There are tons of performers sharing their talents, and the entire festival benefits The Jose Sarria Scholarship Program. Walk around, enjoy the show and support grants for educational purposes to organizations with educational projects on LGBTQ issues. Noon, $10. 20th St.

FOOd & drINK tHurSday, 8/29 DaVIs FaRMeRs MaRKeT aT sUTTeR MeDICal CeNTeR: The Davis Farmers Market remains a not-just-for-Davis excursion. Head on over to the Sutter Medical Center to get some healthy, locally sourced produce. 4pm, no cover. Sutter Medical Center, 2825 Capitol Ave.

VeGaN BReWs aND BBQ: Want to get some vegan food, but don’t know where to get some vegan drinks to go along with that food? Check out this evening of food and beverages, all vegan, at Tower Brewing.

There’s all kinds of Southern food staples and soul food, but without the meat. 5pm, call for cover. Tower Brewing, 1210 66th St., Suite B.

FrIday, 8/30 KICK OFF TO FaRM TO FORK UNCORKeD!: Spend a little time with the Old Sugar Mill as it starts the festivities for Farm-to-Fork.

There will be a car show, music from Big Crush, a complimentary glass of sangria and much more exciting family fun. 6pm, $10-$30. Old Sugar Mill, 35265 Willow Ave. in Clarksburg.

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THE GEERY THEATER: Tiny Stage, a talent showcase. Catch this showcase of local talent from performing artists. All proceeds go to Empire Arts Collective, a nonprofit incubator dedicated to providing resources, education and collaborative opportunities for performing artists in the Sacramento area. Saturday 8/31, 8pm. $5. 2130 L St.

Animals on Tap Release Party traCk 7 BrEwing, noon, $15-$60

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the review of this Errant Phoenix production on page 24, and catch a showing of it as well. Through 9/8. $16-$18. 1901 P St.

VETERANS MEMORIAL AMPHITHEATRE: Mamma Mia!. Catch a showing of the classic production that mixes ABBA songs with a story loosely based around ABBA songs. Through 9/8. $10-$18. 7991 California Ave. in Fair Oaks.

ART ALPHA FIRED ARTS: 3rd Annual SPG Art By Fire Membership Invitational Exhibition.

Catch the third annual SPG Art By Fire exhibition, featuring art made using hot techniques. Through 9/7. No cover. 4675 Aldona Lane.

SPORTS & OUTDOORS THURSDAY, 8/29 SISTER MIXER-HOSTED BY THE LADY SALAMANDERS: Catch a Sister Mixer in support of the Sacramento Confidence FC’s Lady Salamanders Women’s Street Soccer Club. With food, drinks and plenty of conversation, it’s sure to be an evening of excitement and mentoring. 6pm, $15$20. Uptown Studios, Inc., 2415 23rd St.

WATERFRONT YOGA: The waterfront isn’t just for shipping things anymore—it’s also for yoga. Come spend some time and no money at this free series of yoga on the embarcadero in Old Sacramento. 6:30pm, no cover. Old Sacramento Waterfront, 1002 Front St.

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Grand Re-Opening Event!. Laughs Unlimited Comedy Club reopens and has an all-star lineup of comedians to ring in the new digs. Through 8/31. $10. 1207 Front St.

ANIMALS ON TAP RELEASE PARTY: Do you like gibbons? Of course you do, they’re incredible charismatic animals. Catch this event highlight on page 32 if you want to drink a toast to the animals. Noon, no cover. Track 7 Brewing Company, 3747 W Pacific Ave., Suite F.

BEER TASTING EXPERIENCE: Taste some beers in the Hamilton Room and learn about new trends, food pairings and more. 2:30pm, $80. The Hamilton Room, 2009 N St.

PUNCH LINE: Ron Taylor. Catch the comedian as he performs in Sacramento through the start of September. Through 9/1. $23.50. 2100 Arden Way, Suite 225.

Join Drew Absher for a take of the typical campfire story: the scary story. Local comedians will also share some scary stories, and it’s up to you, the audience, to be scared by them. Plus, you’ll get s’mores. Friday, 8/30, 9pm. $7. The Imported Podcast. Join immigrant comedians as they share some stories and jokes: Mikhail Chernyavsky, Maryam Moosavi and Derek Dosha. Saturday 8/31, 10pm. $5. 1710 Broadway.

than 30 breweries’ offerings at this brew festival. As always, there will be food, music entertainment and more. Don’t miss it! 4pm, $40-$50. Heritage Plaza and Main Street in Woodland.

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SACRAMENTO COMEDY SPOT: Crush Puppies.

Catch this night of comedy with Jaclyn Weiand, plus Cory Barringer and Maryam Moosavi. Friday 8/30, 8pm. $8. 1050 20th St., Suite 130.

CHILDREN’S TEA: Grab a ticket for two at this children’s tea event, featuring a story time, snacks and lemonade. 1pm, $50. Sierra 2 Center, 2791 24th St.

LABOR DAY WEEKEND CRAFT BEER CRAWL: Join Sac Beer Socials for their Annual Labor Day Weekend Craft Beer Crawl, spanning Chalk it Up! and more, crawling slowly around the grid, starting at Device Brewing Company. 1pm, no cover. Device Brewing Company, 1610 R St.

ON STAGE CLARA AUDITORIUM: Stories on Stage Sacramento with Jenn Alandy Trahan and Diane Kallas. Catch some on-stage stories from Jenn Alandy Tahan and Diane Kallas as they get the Stories on Stage Sacramento treatment. Ruby Sketchen and Krystle Piamonte will be reading. Friday 8/30, 7:30pm. $10. 1425 24th St.

FILM FRIDAY, 8/30

CAPITAL STAGE: Between Riverside And Crazy.

Catch the Stephen Adly Guirgis work with direction from Judith Moreland. It’s a Sacramento premiere. Through 9/29. $25$47. 2215 J St.

POTTERFEST HARRY POTTER MOVIE NIGHTS: It’s the final installment of the Harry Potter series at Jackrabbit Brewing. The second part of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is the offering, so come grab a seat in full Hogwarts regalia. 7pm, no cover. Jackrabbit Brewing Co., 1323 Terminal St. in West Sacramento.

SACRAMENTO CITY HALL: Renegade Literati.

YOUNG GUNS: Catch this action flick back in

theaters for one night only. 7:30pm, $7.50$9.50. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.

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BOOKS THURSDAY, 8/29 STUTTERER INTERRUPTED: Nina G brings her experiences from a lifetime of stuttering and comedy to her book event at Time Tested Books. 7pm, no cover. Time Tested Books, 1114 21st St.

TAKE ACTION THURSDAY, 8/29 CONVERSATIONS THAT MATTER IMMIGRATION: Join this conversation of importance at the Crocker, featuring a panel talk and discussion on immigration, centered around the current exhibitions of Chiura Obata and the Transcontinental Railroad. 6:30pm, $6$12. Crocker Art Museum, 216 O St.

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THURSDAY, 8/29

DAVIS LABOR DAY RACE: Race through

SMUD PRESENTS ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN PUMPING SYSTEMS HANDS-ON WORKSHOP: Get some

downtown Davis for the 32nd year in a row and get your run on. Plus, you’ll receive a T-shirt and a pancake breakfast after your exertion. 7am, $33-$48. Central Park, 5th Street and B Street in Davis.

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that will pair nicely. 7pm, no cover. Lavender Library, 1414 21st St.

LGBTQ FRIDAY, 8/30 ALYSSA EDWARDS: Kick off the Rainbow Festival with RuPaul’s Drag Race’s Alyssa Edwards putting on a full drag show. 8pm, $20$40. Badlands, 2003 K St.

SATURDAY, 8/31 GENDER BENDER BALL PROM NIGHT: The Gender Health Center’s annual fundraiser is back for its 10th year. The theme is Prom Night, so come and enjoy the costumed dancing, the DJ music and the raffle excitement, all centered around dismantling society’s gender expectations. 8pm, $20-$25. CLARA, 2420 N St.

FRIDAY, 8/30 MILK & COOKIES READING AT THE LAVENDER LIBRARY: Come listen to eight local authors of queer fiction reading their works, plus get your hands on some milk and cookies too

hands-on experience learning about pumping systems with this workshop from SMUD. 8:30pm, no cover. SMUD Customer Service Center, 6301 S St.

SATURDAY, 8/31 FLOWER CROWN CLASS WITH DAISYHEAD: Want to learn how to make a crown of flowers?

There’s only one way to do that, and it’s at this class that will set you back $45. 7:30pm, $45. Strapping Store, 3405 Broadway.

PRESERVING THE HARVEST TOMATOES!: Jar and can some tomatoes at this class celebrating the fruit and its continued consumption throughout the winter and fall, featured on page 31, the previous page. 10am, $20-$25. Yisrael Family Farm, 4505 Roosevelt Ave.

TUESDAY, 9/3 THREE CONVERSATIONS ABOUT DEATH: Take part in three conversations about death with help from the Unitarian Universalist Society of Sacramento. You’ll learn about your rights regarding end of life care, consider your life values and explore how to design your end-of-life care plans. 6pm, call for cover. Unitarian Universalist Society of Sacramento, 2425 Sierra Blvd.

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Dry Diggings Festival 2019 El DoraDo County FairgrounDs, 10am, $30-$450

Are you prepared for three whole days of music?

Something to consider: You may also need to pack camping gear. That’s right, it’s another installment of the Dry Diggings Festival, bringing you FESTIVALS 20 different bands performing over the long Labor Day weekend, plus so much more. There’s a skateboarding competition, mimosa mornings, all kinds of beer and plenty of vendors providing food. The headliners include Fortunate Youth, Slightly Stoopid (pictured) and Rebelution. Grab a ticket while you can.

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Alice and Clark are hosts of the YouTube channel That High Couple and both love smoking weed as much as they love each other.

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YouTube’s cannabis channels are the gateway to hilarious celebrity interviews, dispensary tours and new products

by Kevin Cortez

Last year, amidst a massive purging of channels hosted by gun enthusiasts, hate speech auteurs and conspiracy theorists, YouTube also began deleting videos and accounts dedicated to marijuana-related content.

No one really understood why, nor did many channel creators. Weed is undoubtedly one of the least threatening topics featured on YouTube, and although its policy prohibits the sale of “highly regulated substances,” most channels never link to businesses that sell marijuana.

As small creators had accounts suspended or removed, celebrity or “high status” channels such as Vice or the Snoop Dogg-founded publication Merry Jane, survived the purge. The range of deleted channels spanned the educational website Leafly, cultivator Jorge Cervantes and stoner

personalities such as Matthias710WRX and CustomGrow420.

Some of those creators have moved elsewhere—Instagram, WeedTube, Vimeo or Twitter—or have completely sworn off all platforms to pursue other endeavors.

But some have come back from YouTube timeout to carefully curate content for weed enthusiasts. Here are five YouTube channels that provide the highest form of entertainment by discussing the social issues and stigmas that surround cannabis, as well as dishing on product reviews and advocating for medicinal marijuana as a federal right.

Getting Doug With High When it comes to cannabis content, no one reigns more supreme than comedian Doug Benson. Part talk show, part chill

session, each week, Getting Doug With High features guests from all walks of entertainment––comedians, actors, writers, even porn stars––to sit down, smoke pot and talk shop. Benson’s interviews are laid back, seemingly aimless in nature but still managing to bring out the best in his guests by never delving into topics that are too challenging. Benson’s sharp, witty comedy doesn’t miss a beat, regardless of how much coughing follows his trail of laughter.

“Comedian Pete Holmes was on again recently and he always presents a fun challenge for me because normally he’s a pretty hyper guy,” Benson told SN&R in an email. “Then he gets high and gets even more hyper! High-per, if you will. He becomes a complete menace, but it’s hilarious. I mean, high-larious.”

420 Science Club isn’t just an online storefront for your every smoking need. It’s also an educational resource for cannabis news and products. 420 Science Club’s YouTube channel follows hosts Gary and Brandon on their smoking escapades. Viewers can discover new insight into smoking accessories and glassware. Every week, the two talk about smoking products that recently hit the market: bongs, vaporizers, pipes or even joint-rolling devices. The two also interview artists, growers and other cannabis enthusiasts, as well as detailed smoking techniques and answers to viewers’ questions.

“The main purpose of our channel is to inform and educate our viewers on the highest quality products for enhancing their sessions,” Brandon said. “We want people to have the best smoke sessions possible. ... We also love to go on location for cannabis grows, extraction labs and interview big names in the cannabis industry when we can.”

420 Science Club has nearly 100,000 subscribers on YouTube. Brandon said they plan to redesign their set and update the channel to be even more involved with the cannabis community.

“More than anything we want people to know that you can have fun enjoying cannabis while still being a responsible and productive member of society,” he wrote. “We strive to change the stereotype of the typical stoner and elevate the experience of everyone that tokes.”

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That High Couple

Alice and Clark love each other as much as they love smoking weed. The pair are known on YouTube as That High Couple, a bright and happy duo who love showing off the best parts of weed in Los Angeles.

They usually toke up in their “Dabbin’ Cabin” and showcase the latest in smoking goods, but the channel is at its best when they’re filming on location, detailing California’s wide Leafly “Weed definitely variety of 420-friendly Probably the most helped bring us hotels, weed parties informative of the together … We’re proof and weed yoga bunch, Leafly’s classes. They also do that you never know which channel is a mustexcellent dispensary watch for cannabis weed encounter could lead tours, which are enthusiasts who to wedding bells!” helpful for locals want to learn about and tourists alike. every spectrum of the Alice and Clark “Our channel is marijuana industry. The hosts of That High Couple all about exploring our channel features reviews of passion for cannabis,” the strains, edibles and cartridges couple wrote SN&R in an from major brands, as well as email. “That includes vlogging video showcases of popular dispensaries from different weed events, reviewing and interviews with growers from around the new products and teaching others how to nation. It’s full of tutorials for the enthusiast, incorporate cannabis into their daily lives. introducing basic growing techniques for Weed definitely helped bring us together, so those who’d like to try their hand at bud, and we believe that by sharing our love for this explaining concepts such as microdosing plant with viewers online, they, too, can with THC and creating pipes out of everyday open themselves up to new experiences and objects for curious smokers. Leafly is home new people. We’re proof that you never to some of the most interesting weed-related know which weed encounter could lead to content YouTube has to offer, and the chanwedding bells!” Ω nel’s quality is only improving with time.

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Fortunately, it hasn’t been many people, only about 150 around the country so far (and no one has died), but this is still a serious matter. Listen: Vapes are cool, discreet and easy to use, but I cannot recommend buying any old vape cartridge just because it’s inexpensive and the person selling it to you says it’s OK. Remember last year when a bunch of lead-tainted vape cartridges caused a small panic? You probably forgot because there are a lot of things happening in this country right now, but believe me when I tell you that a lot of these vape carts are not good. We are long past the days where companies would just press the resin from a weed plant and pour it into a cartridge. Today’s disposable cartridges are made with THC distillate and a bunch of artificial terpene flavors. I love the grey market, but I think it’s OK for me to ask that you only buy cartridges from licensed dispensaries. That way you can be relatively sure that you are getting a product that has been rigorously tested.

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true. If you have 30 minutes at lunch, I became friends with the mother of my daughter’s friend because our girls turn off your phone and go for a walk do so many activities together. Now I or sit under a tree. Listen only to the wonder whether this woman and I should beating of your heart. If you’re an early be friends at all. She often invites me to riser, find a peaceful spot and sit quietly do things and then overreacts if I can’t before the day’s activities rush toward make it. recently she invited me to go you. Or take a journal into your backshopping. I said “yes,” but when the day yard before bedtime and write whatever rolled around I was exhausted. I called, comes to mind. Teach yourself to be free. said I was tired and needed to cancel.

Once you increase inner space, it She took it personally and was really becomes easier to discern when to say hurt. She kept asking if I really liked her. “yes” or “no” or “maybe.” Restoring there was no sympathy for how tired I integrity to your yes is an act of love. was. every time I cancel or change plans, Without integrity, your word is unreliI get sucked into her craziness and have able. Be a friend to this woman to repeatedly remind her: Yes, by becoming sensitive to I do like you. Maybe I cancel how your cancellations often but dealing with her impact her and keeping overreaction is too much more commitments. work. what is the best If you want to That’s what friendship way to set boundaries with unhealthy people? is—caring about decrease drama, stop The person you need another person in saying “yes” when you to set boundaries a meaningful way. mean “maybe.” with is yourself. Your So yes, if you’re friend is frustrated with exhausted from a diffiyour ease in canceling cult week at work you on her. If you want to certainly have to right to decrease drama, stop saying exit plans. A habit of cancel“yes” when you mean “maybe.” ing isn’t cool. Try pushing past It’s not kind to overextend yourself by self-imposed limitations by showing up committing to more people and experiand being open to fun. Then you won’t ences than you have taught yourself to need conflict to provide emotional manage. When you feel overwhelmed, release. Having a blast will release breathe. Don’t take a slash-and-burn tension and energize your joy. □ approach to your social calendar. Not immediately.

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3. Climb a hill and sit on the grass as you sing your favorite songs and watch the moon slowly rise over the eastern horizon. 4. Take naps when you’re not supposed to. 5. Sneak into an orchard at night and eat fruit plucked just moments before. 6. Tell a beloved person a fairy tale in which he or she is the hero.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The hardiest creature on the planet may be the bacterium known as Deinococcus radiodurans. It can endure exposure to radiation, intense cold, dehydration, acid and vacuum. I propose we make it your power creature for the coming weeks.

Why? Not because I expect you’ll have to deal with a lot of extreme conditions, but rather because I think you’ll be exceptionally robust, both physically and psychologically. If you’ve been waiting for the right time to succeed at demanding challenges that require you to be in top form, now is a good time to do it.

P.S. Deinococcus radiodurans is colloquially referred to as Conan the Bacterium, borrowing from the spirit of the fictional character Conan the Barbarian, who is renowned for his strength and agility.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In the yearly cycle of many Geminis, retreating into a state akin to hibernation makes sense during the end of August and the first three weeks of September. But since many of you are high-energy sophisticates, you often override your body’s signals. And then nature pushes back by compelling you to slow down. The result may be a rhythm that feels like constantly taking three steps forward and two steps backward. May I suggest a different approach this year? Would you consider surrendering, even slightly, to the invitation to relax and recharge?

CANCER (June 21-July 22): If you decide to travel to a particular place via hot air balloon, you must be prepared for the possibility that your route will be indirect. At different altitudes, the wind may be blowing in different directions— toward the east at a hundred feet high, but toward the southwest at two hundred feet.

The trick for the pilot is to jockey up and down until finding a layer that’s headed toward the desired destination. I see your life right now as having a metaphorical resemblance to this riddle. You have not yet discovered the layer that will take you where you want to go. But I bet you will soon.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Considering how bright you have been burning since the Flame Angels designated you as the Hottest Cool Person of the Month, I hesitate to urge you to simmer down.

But I must. Before there’s a meltdown in your vicinity, please lower your thermostat. Not a lot.

Just a little. If you do that, everyone will continue to see your gleaming charisma in the best possible light. But don’t you dare extinguish your blaze. Don’t apologize for your brilliant shimmer.

The rest of us need your magical radiance.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Shogun is a bestselling novel about an Englishman who transforms himself into a samurai warrior in seventeenthcentury Japan. Written by James Clavell, it’s more than 1,100 pages long. Clavell testified that the idea for the story sprang up in him when he read one line in his daughter’s school book: “In 1600 an Englishman went to Japan and became a samurai.” I suspect it’s highly likely you will soon encounter a seed like that—a bare inspiration that will eventually bloom into a Big Thing.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Libran athlete Mickey Mantle is in Major League Baseball’s Hall of Fame. He had a spectacular 18-year career, winning the Most Valuable Player Award three times, playing in 12 World Series and being

selected to the All-Star team 16 times. So it’s astounding that he played with a torn ligament in his knee for 17 years, according to his biographer Jane Leavy. She quoted an orthopedic surgeon who said that Mantle compensated for his injury with “neuromuscular genius.”

I’m thinking that in the next few weeks you’re in a position to accomplish an equivalent of Mantle’s heroic adjustment.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Most people who belong to the Church of Satan neither believe in nor worship Satan. (They’re atheists, and don’t believe in the supernatural.) I think a comparable principle is true for many rightwing fundamentalist Christians. Their actions and words are replete with bigotry, hardheartedness, materialism and selfishness—so contrary to what the real Jesus Christ taught that they in effect don’t believe in or worship Christ. I mention this in hopes of inspiring you to take inventory of whether your stated ideals are reflected in the practical details of how you live your life. That’s always an interesting and important task, of course, but it’s especially so for you right now. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to purge any hypocrisy from your system and get your actual behavior in close alignment with your deepest values.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): It’s the right time for you to create a fresh mission statement and promotional campaign. For inspiration, read mine: “My column ‘Free Will Astrology’ offers you a wide selection of realities to choose from. With 4,212 years of dedication to customer service (over the course of my last 13 incarnations), I’m a reliable ally supporting your efforts to escape your oppressive conditioning and other people’s hells. My horoscopes come with an ironclad guarantee: If the advice you read is wrong, you’re under no obligation to believe it. And remember: A panel of 531 experts has determined that ‘Free Will Astrology’ is an effective therapy for your chronic wounds and primordial pain. It is also dramatic proof that there is no good reason to be afraid of life.”

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Here are good questions for you to meditate on during the next four weeks. 1. How can you attract resources that will expand your mind and your world? 2. Are you bold enough to reach out to wise sources and provocative influences that could connect you with useful tricks and practical treasures? 3. What interesting lessons can you stir up as you explore the mercurial edges, skirt the changeable boundaries, journey to catalytic frontiers and make pilgrimages to holy hubbubs? 4. How best can you encourage lyrical emotion over polished sentimentality?

Joyous idealism over astringent zealotry?

Exuberant integrity over formulaic kindness?

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you want to live by,” wrote author Wallace Stegner, “and it’s persistent and aggravated imbecility to pretend you can live without any.” That will be an excellent meditation for you during the coming weeks. I trust you are long past the time of fantasizing you can live without any rules.

Your challenge now is to adjust some of the rules you have been living by, or even dare to align yourself with some new rules—and then completely commit yourself to being loyal to them and enjoying them.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Given the astrological omens that will symbolize your personal story in the coming weeks and months, I think Piscean author Nikos Kazantzakis articulated the perfect prescription for you. I invite you to interpret his thoughts to fit your circumstances.

“We’re going to start with small, easy things,” he wrote. “Then, little by little we shall try our hand at the big things. And after that, after we finish the big things, we shall undertake the impossible.” Here’s an additional prod from Kazantzakis: “Reach what you cannot.”

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