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OCTOBER 17, 2019 | VOL. 31, ISSUE 27

25 When the first leaves fall in October, suddenly, pumpkin fever takes over. Read about seven locally owned businesses that list seasonal goodies that feature the round, orange gourd.

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Now some experts warn that millennials could really get hammered in the next economic downturn because as a group, they’re burdened by high student debt, have been unable to buy homes—a key path to building wealth—and are in their prime career-building years.

Add it all up and millennials could very well be the first generation in modern American history to be worse off than their parents.

So what are millennials to do, other than make #MillennialRetirementPlans jokes on Twitter?

Kristin McGuire, Western regional director for Young Invincibles, said her key message is: Get involved in their communities.

“Young people can be a part of the process,” she said.

That includes preparing to be leaders themselves and also electing people who understand their particular problems and who promise to actually address them.

Millennials are now the second biggest generation in the electorate, behind only Baby Boomers. But a Public Policy Institute of California study this year suggests that millennials are less likely to register and vote than older Californians.

While 59% of millennials are registered, 79% of Baby Boomers are. And while Boomers make up 38% of the state’s likely voters, millennials account for only 20%. Politicians are going to cater more to the generation with more votes.

To increase participation by young adults, Young Invincibles helped push two bills through the Legislature this past session. Assembly Bill 59 will require counties holding all mail-ballot elections to consider putting vote centers on college campuses, while AB 963 will require campuses to have a civic and voter empowerment coordinator.

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed these bills into law on Oct. 8, so it will be easier for collegeage millennials to get to the polls. If enough millennials in swing states register and vote in 2020, they might just determine our next president.

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You don’t control the life you’re born into—your family, your country and also your generation.

I feel lucky to be born at the tail end of the Baby Boom (birth years 1946-64). I never had to fear getting drafted to fight in a war. I have lived through a time of relative peace and prosperity, plus mind-blowing advances in technology.

So I feel badly for millennials—born 1981 to 1996—who are overtaking the Boomers as America’s largest generation of adults.

Because of their timing, many millennials entered the workforce during the Great Recession when good jobs were scarce. Some have never recovered. One recent study said that half of even high-income millennials—singles making at least $100,000 a year—are so deeply scarred that they fear they won’t be able to save enough to retire.

A report by Young Invincibles, a national advocacy group for people between 18 and 34, concluded that in California, the recession hit millennials the hardest and longest of any age group.

California has the most millennials by far, an estimated 10 million, and Sacramento is a hot destination. According to a 2018 study, the city had a net increase of 6,680, behind only Seattle and Columbia, S.C. But some of those who grew up here are stuck in the local affordable housing crisis. An analysis by the online real estate company Zillow in May suggested that nearly one-fourth of Sac millennials are living with their parents.

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U.S. isn’t spending enough Re: “Money’s all spent, can’t pay the rent” by Jeff vonKaenel (Greenlight, Oct. 10): Suggesting taxes as a way to equalize wealth ignores the bigger problem: The way government spending has succumbed to the austerity bug recently. The U.S. spends roughly 32% below the average for large economies.

Counting government spending as a percentage of GDP, the U.S. ranks 45th among nations. If you reduce that spending by a modest 11% to make the U.S. comparable to other nations in military spending, our government spends roughly the same portion of GDP as Namibia does. So there’s no need to wonder why U.S. infrastructure is third-rate and Third World.

The campaign to delegitimize collective action has been succeeding, in spades. Rather than the extremely modest, Namibia-like spending, most people believe the U.S. spends like a drunken sailor. But the truth is that spending, relative to the size of the U.S. economy, is not just modest, it is Third-World modest.

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Re: “Will residents raise stink on garbage?” by Foon Rhee (Editor’s Note, Oct. 10): It has become very difficult to find anywhere to recycle your plastic bottles as most recycling centers have closed. I know for a fact that the money you get if you recycle is about half of the refundable fee as most bottles have been made very light and the payment is made by weight not count.

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Democrats are corrupt Re: “A note from the resistance”

by Ellen Chapman (Essay, Oct. 3): What a BS story! Democrats are corrupt, but Hillary Clinton is not in jail, along with the many others such as Jim Comey, John Brennan, Andrew McCabe, et al.

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Looking out for Biden Re: “A note from the resistance” by Ellen Chapman (Essay, Oct. 3): SN&R has previously printed my list of President Trump’s impeachable offenses. Ignoring all those previous offenses—including contempt of Congress, abuse of authority, obstruction of justice and violations of the Constitution— House Speaker Nancy Pelosi settled on the Ukraine circus for impeachment for blatantly political reasons.

It involves an attack on her chosen establishment presidential candidate, Joe Biden. Presumably, it will help prop up Biden’s previously flagging campaign, keeping his name in the spotlight as the outraged victim fighting to defend whatever it is establishment Democrats hold dear (besides their wealthy donor base)from the unscrupulous president. Yes, Biden will ride forth, his political armor shining blindingly bright compared to Trump’s rusty, corroded, mud-caked attire.

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STREETALK

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Favorite YouTube content?

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I’m now finally getting into makeup so I’ll look at, you know, how-to videos. There’s one that I like called “[Andrea’s] Choice” … and another that I watch a lot is Trevor Noah and Jimmy Fallon skits.

A fair share People of color should benefit from California cannabis boom For decades, people of color have been arrested, convicted and incarcerated for cannabis “crimes” at nearly four times the rate of whites, despite comparable cannabis use.

Now that California has legalized adult-use cannabis, those that have been disproportionately harmed by the failed “war on drugs” should have an opportunity to participate in the economic opportunities that the industry provides.

But are policymakers doing everything they can to realize that goal in their cities and towns? And are our communities seeing any progress?

The passage of Proposition 64 in 2016 was a beacon of hope for many. As a result, the state developed policies to both expunge criminal records for many cannabis-related crimes, as well as restore employment, education, housing and economic opportunities for thousands of people. The state also recognized its role— over policing in minority communities, for example—in creating such a disparity.

We know the cannabis industry is a driver of tax revenue, job creation, entrepreneurship opportunities and economic development.

Those of us focused on these issues (the members of most Chambers of Commerce) had hoped that adult-use cannabis legalization would also provide unique opportunities for advancing social justice, social equity and community reinvestment.

Some cities and the state have begun issuing equity-based cannabis business licenses, but roll-out is sparse.

Even in Sacramento, where the city has rightfully launched a social equity program, it falls short on the licensing side. The program gives discounted licenses, but does not set aside any licenses specifically for these applicants.

So the city of Sacramento remains a barrier to social equity applicants, rather than a foot in the door. The city has an obligation to ensure a level playing field, and superficial programs that do nothing to increase retail licenses will never lead to social equity in the industry.

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DANIELLE BOHLEN engineer

I watch a lot of channels, a lot of makeup skincare reviews, like “JeffreeStar.” I guess I just heard of them through the grapevine, a friend gave me some Jeffree Star stuff ...

Julian Canete is president and CEO of the California Hispanic Chambers of Commerce.

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the state. More than 80% of the cannabis industry is still dominated by white business owners. Nationwide, less than 6% identify as Hispanic/Latino, and even fewer (somewhere between 1% and 5%) are African American.

The lack of available licenses forces many entrepreneurs of color to operate in the illicit market. In a recent article, the state’s Bureau of Cannabis Control acknowledged that not all unlicensed dispensaries are bad actors. Some want to enter the legal market, but the barriers are too high. According to the BCC, these businesses “are paying their taxes and are trying to do things right, they just don’t have the ability to get a license.”

It’s true.

The majority of unlicensed business want to operate out of the shadows. Many actually signed leases, bought store equipment and other business necessities with the understanding that they would be able to obtain licenses—only to be met with closed doors from NIMBY politicians.

California has only issued about 10% of the licenses it estimated at this point in the legalization. And too few have gone to entrepreneurs of color.

The most effective way to combat unlicensed cannabis businesses in California, to promote small, minority-owned business across the state and to actually correct the decades and decades of social injustice is actually very simple: Give more cannabis business licenses to the people who deserve them. Ω

I watch a lot of videos. I like music so I’ll watch a lot of music … YouTube is good for research, music, entertainment.

There’s all type of stuff … I mostly use it for music.

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I watch a lot of the earthquake guy, “dutchsinse.” I watch a lot of music videos, street threads, stuff that lets you know about life and the truth, I watch a lot of that.

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Usually history or gaming, because I love gaming. When I want to solve anything I don’t know I usually look for a tutorial or “how-to.” I watch “KRASI FIFA;” he is wise about gaming ...

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I watch anything from magnet fishing or yard sailing … I like to metal detect, and [magnet fishing] is basically metal detecting blindly in a lake or something and they pull up scooters or safes and stuff, it’s really interesting.

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hinking about retirement? For many Californians, that day will never come. They work hard their whole lives, but never have the means to finally stop worrying, put their feet up and relax.

A good pension, that golden reward for a lifetime of service, is an endangered species as employers shift the burden of planning onto employees. But when you’re living paycheck to paycheck, it’s hard to put money aside for anything – including retirement.

Social Security is an important safety net that helps millions of Americans live out their years with some dignity and peace of mind, but it’s not enough on its own. What if you’re denied the opportunity to even participate?

Meet Robert. He’s an SEIU member who currently serves as a home care provider.

“I’ve worked hard my whole life,” Robert said. “I worked in refineries, worked for the Conservation Corps, and started pursuing a business degree to better my life, and provide for my family.”

That all changed with the birth of his son, Amorrie.

“I spend my days caring for him,” Robert explained. “He has been on a ventilator with a feeding tube practically all of his life.

“I love my son and he is a blessing in my life,” he continued.

“But as a family home care provider, I don’t qualify for any form of retirement – not even Social Security. Like so many others living paycheck to paycheck, I’m left without a safety net. Who will take care of me in retirement? I’ll be exactly where I am now in 20 years, working full time and struggling to get by.”

Typically people talk about retirement security as a threelegged stool – Social Security, pensions and individual savings.

For people like Robert, it’s more like balancing on a pogo stick as he wends his way down the road towards retirement.

And consider this: Half of all Californians working today have no access to a retirement plan through their employers.

Robert is not alone in this situation. Many seniors never retire; they can’t afford it.

One in four California seniors lacks income to meet basic needs. In particular, women and seniors of color feel the effects of our broken system even more. That’s because they tend to earn less while working, and get fewer benefits when they stop.

To end poverty, we need to help bolster retirement programs and preserve pensions. Less than a third of Americans now qualify for a pension program. Yet, pensions are an important anti-poverty tool.

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And contrary to myths, employees contribute mightily to their pensions; public employees on average kick in 12% of their salaries towards their pensions. The average pension is $2,945 a month in California, or about $35,340 a year.

As future retirees, we have to understand the big difference between a “defined benefit plan” and a “defined contribution plan.” They are by no means equal ways to guarantee a comfortable retirement.

That’s why protecting pensions is so important to those of us who may still have one. That also is why I helped pass a law in California requiring employers to offer a plan for their workers.

And why I helped create a plan for private sector workers called CalSavers. It offers low-wage workers a way to save for retirement with low fees and the benefit of professional management, with a public oversight board of which I am a member.

We are still adamant about increasing wages and controlling skyrocketing housing coasts. Our seniors’ insecurity represents the sum of decades of bad decisions by employers, politicians and developers. No one should live on $15,000 a year in California at the end of decades of work and have to work until they die.

What’s the difference?

A defined benefit, such as a pension, is a promise. Under a defined benefit plan, an employee knows for sure that he or she will receive in retirement a certain amount of money.

Investment risks are shared by the employer and spread across a giant pool.

By contrast, a defined contribution plan, such as a 401 (k), has no guarantees. What’s defined is how much the employee pays into the plan each month. That money is then invested. The plan’s potential benefits depend on the market. The employee carries all the risk. In addition, the employee pays hidden fees to Wall Street – which can really add up. When the employee is ready to retire, there may be no benefits at all.

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Sacramento State University and UC homelessness or polluted neighborDavis are 20 miles apart on the map. But hoods—have potential solutions that are they are worlds apart on their vision for a controversial and opposed by powerful 21st century university. And we are lucky vested interests. So this transformation to have both. will have its own challenges. But studying UC Davis is on the path to become one social problems in the abstract without of America’s finest research institutions. testing ideas in the real world is like And Sac State, under the inspired leaderdoing scientific research without any ship of President Robert Nelsen, is on the experiments. path to become an “anchor university.”

Talking with Nelsen last week, he According to Nelsen, this is “the brought up some other points I hadn’t seen opposite of the ivory tower. It aims to in the task force report. Unlike UC Davis, connect its students, faculty and staff with where most students come from elsewhere the community ... achieving lasting and leave after graduating, most Sac solutions and improvements State students live here before through inclusive civic they enroll and will remain engagement.” here after graduation.

You do not This is a tall order.

The students have need to convince It requires a major experienced our a student who is rethinking of virtually housing problems, the whole Sac State our pollution issues, living in their car about educational experithe need for more the importance of ence. A recently arts and many other Sacramento developing released 82-page task issues worthy of force report presents study by an anchor more affordable the challenges and university. housing. opportunities of that Given that Sac State transformation. has one of the largest Internships need to be criminal justice departments established. New classes must be in the country, Nelsen believes that formed. Faculty members need to be the university should be more involved in evaluated less on their publishing and the ongoing community discussion of law teaching and more on their community enforcement practices. involvement. Community-oriented You do not need to convince a student research grants need to be obtained. And who is living in their car about the importhe larger Sacramento community needs to tance of Sacramento developing more connect with its university. affordable housing.

Some of the needs and challenges idenFrom his appointment in July 2015, tified by the task force include: high K-12 Nelsen has been a force for change at absenteeism, polluted neighborhoods, Sac State, starting with a commitment to health disparities, rising homelessness and dramatically improve four-year graduation economic growth that does not include all rates. Sac State projects that 20.4% of communities.

2019 graduates completed their course These are thorny, difficult community work in four years, up from 8.8% in 2016. problems worthy of academic study. And Sacramento State should be combining educational theory with realSacramento’s University. Ω life practice is so much more satisfying than studying issues abstractly in an ivory tower.

But involvement is also messy.

Jeff vonKaenel is the president, CEO and majority Theories do not always work in real owner of the News & Review. life. And many challenges—such as

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You might see Mike Pelley diving for treasures in local bodies of water—you might not, too, because he’s underwater.

PHOTO COURTESY OF MIKE PELLEY

Scuba giver Summer’s gone, but the dropped phones, sunglasses and cameras that rest at the bottom of local rivers and lakes aren’t entirely out of reach. Mike Pelley is seeing to that.

Pelley, 27, started a YouTube channel called Merman Mike a couple months ago dedicated to scuba diving for lost items. In one video, amid a murky, underwater world of rocks and algae, there’s a glint, then a loud whoop from the voice behind the camera. Pelley found a moss-covered GoPro camera, still functioning. It’s the kind of find Pelley’s seeking every time he goes under—and the kind that he strives to reunite with its rightful owner. A full-time Sacramento State student studying business marketing and working as an estimator for his dad’s construction company, Pelley finds time once or twice a week to suit up, search for sunken treasure and pick up trash along the way. SN&R chatted with Pelley about his developing channel and the scuba life.

How’d you get into this all?

I was actually watching another [scuba diving] YouTuber, DALLMYD, and I was kind of feeling a little jealous that he was doing such a cool thing— and I was thinking to myself, I wish I could do something like that, and I started thinking about it.

I had the American River right next to me, I could get scuba-certified pretty easily … so I decided to pull the trigger on it, and went for it. Got certified, got my gear—my dad helped me out ’cause he used to go scuba diving all over the world ...

Took about a month since I decided to actually do it until I was in the water, certified and digging up treasure and collecting trash. … The river’s giving to you, so you give back to the river.

I can make money and do this every single day for people, I think that would be amazing—just getting to return valuables to other people that they thought were lost forever.

How do you find treasure hotspots for diving?

You usually want to try to find out where the most amount of people are hanging out. … But yeah, just follow the people. … It is honestly just a really good feeling for me to return something back to the owner. And then, of course, I always get excited for sunglasses, too. It’s just, unfortunately, there’s no way to return that unless someone specifically asks me to look for it.

What do you do with them all? How many do you have?

Oh god … I think I have like, 70-something pairs now? But I’m planning on using those for the raffle prizes, because I’ve got a bunch of $100, $200, a couple $300 dollar pairs of sunglasses now ... “Hey, like and subscribe to my YouTube channel and you’ll be entered in to win these awesome Oakleys that I found at the bottom of the American River.”

Have you lost anything before?

Oh yeah. I had a pair of Electric sunglasses, and they were my first pair of nice sunglasses. ... So I went whitewater rafting, the sunglasses were on my face, I went in the water with the sunglasses, came up without them.

Does diving ever get boring?

I’ve never been bored once yet. I’ve got a smile from ear-to-ear every time. It’s almost a surreal feeling of—it’s kind of like that corny saying of all your problems and everything else in the real world goes away. It’s that exact feeling. As soon as I’m underwater, my mind is just focused on that next piece of treasure, and I can’t get enough of it.

I have to be dragged out of the water. Ω

What’s the plan for the channel?

Right now it’s just a hobby I love doing, and it’s, to me, just really cool that other people are watching me do it. If it can get somewhere where

Watch Mike Pelley’s videos at youtube.com/channel/UCGLo_ Voyv_aDJ3ZpPQyrfuA and check out his Facebook page at facebook.com/mermanmike.

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Nevada City’s historic Main Street falls into complete darkness at sunset for the third night in a row on Oct. 10.

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The twilight zones This is what it’s like to live through a PG&E blackout

BY SCOTT THOMAS ANDERSON

Nearly 80 people crowded into a makeshift outpost in a quiet corner of Grass Valley, moving around desert-colored tents, mobile toilets, standing spotlights, buzzing generators and parked emergency vehicles.

At a glance, the camp—surrounded by a scattering of pine trees under a blue, cloudless sky—could have been mistaken for a forward operating base in Afghanistan.

Of course, there was an obvious difference between a military base and this “resource center,” hastily erected by PG&E after the embattled utility giant cut off electricity to 800,000 customers last week: No one signed up for this.

PG&E has steadfastly defended its biggest-ever power shutoff, saying that widespread, red flag conditions—similar to those when the deadly Tubbs and Camp fires ignited last year—made the shutoff across the Sierra foothills and Bay Area last week necessary to prevent an errant electrical spark from starting the next 10

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wildfire that could destroy communities, and put PG&E out of business.

In Nevada County, hundreds of small business owners and thousands of employees lost income from the evening of Oct. 8 to the afternoon of Oct. 11. As with the two previous instances when PG&E has activated its Public Safety Power Shutoff program, isolated seniors, disabled residents and those with medical conditions became even more vulnerable.

Grass Valley’s enclave was one of 28 safety zones PG&E set up to help people it put in the dark. Poorly advertised and relying on a borrowed—and quickly overwhelmed—Wi-Fi network of the nearby Sierra College satellite campus, the resource center functioned as a sort of survivalist speakeasy with unhappy customers.

People stewed in over-air-conditioned tents, many sharing a conviction that Nevada County only experienced moderate

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winds for a few hours on Oct. 9—and for that, every rhythm of daily life had been disrupted.

“They’re acting like we’ve never had wind before this year,” fumed Richard Calkins, a 16-year Grass Valley resident.

“Dry conditions shouldn’t be an issue if their equipment is up to code. … The bottom line is, there’s a lot of people here who want to know if we’re being punished because PG&E is losing its lawsuit. What’s the real motivation?”

Before the week was out, many others, including the governor, were asking similar questions.

Fictional comparisons abound for what it was like on that first powerless sunrise in places like Nevada County. For anyone with plumbing powered by well pumps, the dystopian vibe was like Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road. Tourists who wanted to experience the Gold

Rush-era saloons and Victorian architecture wandered Nevada City’s empty Main Street in an eerie silence reminiscent of The Twilight Zone. And early commuters driving to Sacramento might be excused for thinking of any number of disaster movies, with Highway 49’s traffic backed up for miles due to traffic signals going dark in north Auburn.

Few had it busier than the baristas working the espresso machines at Grass Valley’s Safeway and Raley’s. With the area’s coffeehouses shuttered, customers formed long lines in both grocery stores as hundreds paced the aisles around them, loading carts full of water, supplies and non-perishable food. Even though plenty in the territory own generators, many could only afford to run them sporadically, as PG&E had cut electricity at the same time California gas prices were spiking.

By Oct. 10, the small shopping center at Higgins Corner in Nevada County, which had a generator-powered gas station, was flooded with some 40 vehicles inching toward its pumps.

One businessman determined to keep his doors open was Al Lauer, owner of Cherry Records in downtown Auburn.

Relying on a large skylight, an old Princess phone and a hand-press credit card processor from 1984, Lauer made sure visitors had at least one place to shop.

“Old tech is the best tech,” Lauer said with a smile.

It will take time to determine what PG&E’s decision cost foothill economies, says Maureen Funk, executive director of the Amador Council of Tourism. Parts of the county went without power for five days, directly impacting two of its biggest industries—wine and historic sightseeing.

“In Plymouth it was affecting the grape harvest, and there was a bit of panic going on,” Funk said. “The inns and hotels that had guests coming were trying to figure out if they should cancel, and the places that already had guests were canceling and having to send them away. It was extraordinary.”

Economist Michael Wara of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment announced on his social media he’d used a special disruption calculator created by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to estimate that the blackout could cost California’s overall economy $2.5 billion.

The timing of the blackouts has fueled criticism. Just one day before the utility giant pulled the plug, a federal judge

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handling PG&E’s bankruptcy case ruled that its creditors, along with wildfire victims, can propose an alternative plan for the company to regain solvency, one that would prioritize recovering their losses over shareholder profits. PG&E’s stock plummeted on the news. The next day, PG&E sent much of Northern California into darkness.

“The PG&E Blackout con is all about threatening the judge in the PG&E bankruptcy case,” energy commentator Greg Palast wrote in an open letter. “The victims have joined with the bondholders to eliminate the equity of the stockholders who deserve nothing. … Hopefully the judge will not be intimidated.”

Gov. Gavin Newsom stopped short of that accusation, but made it clear he believed that PG&E was more responsible for the shutoff than weather conditions.

“This is not a climate change story as much as a story about greed and mismanagement over the course of decades,” Newsom told reporters.

“Neglect, a desire to advance not public safety but profits.”

On Monday, he called on PG&E to give refunds of $100 each to residential customers and $250 for small businesses.

Also Monday, the president of the state Public Utilities Commission also criticized PG&E, called the shutoff an unacceptable failure that cannot be repeated and ordering it improve its procedures immediately, including restoring power within 12 hours.

Even for those who believe PG&E acted in good faith, the utility’s actions stood in contrast to how weather experts at a smaller public utility handled the red flag conditions. While none of Sacramento Metropolitan Utility District’s customers live in an area the California Public Utilities Commission includes in its fire threat map, SMUD does have power lines and receivers that transmit electricity from its hydro plants down through the Sierra Nevada.

SMUD spokesman Chris Capra told SN&R there was a reason his company never shut off power to that equipment.

“We didn’t really see the wind events that were forecasted,” Capra said.

“We didn’t see wind speeds of more than 22 mph, and our infrastructure is rated for much more than that.

Basically, the wind wasn’t there.” Ω

School’s out, for wildfire PG&E’s power shutoff kept more than 130,000 students at home

BY RICARDO CANO

Pacific Gas & Electric Co.’s unprecedented power shutdown kept at least 130,000 students out of school last week as red flag conditions and high winds blew across Northern California, and the state’s largest utility attempted to keep from sparking another catastrophic wildfire.

More than 320 schools in 19 counties— including Sonoma, Napa, Contra Costa and Alameda—shut their doors, a student population roughly the size of the city of Santa Clara, according to a CalMatters tally. The closures represent one front among many being impacted in this era of climate-fueled natural disaster.

They were announced as PG&E notified an unprecedented 800,000 Northern California customers that it would be cutting power to large swaths of its service area under a new program aimed at preempting a repeat of last year’s devastating Camp Fire, which was linked to malfunctioning PG&E equipment. The safety measure is fairly routine in much of Southern California, but is new to the half of the state that relies on PG&E to keep the lights on and it left cities from Bakersfield to the Bay Area scrambling to cope with the possibility of days without electricity.

Using 2018-19 state enrollment data, CalMatters calculated that about 131,000 students in nearly 70 school districts were affected by emergency closures. Some school systems said their schools would essentially remain closed until the power is turned back on. Dozens more schools, including in Placer County, warned parents to be on the lookout for early-morning emails notifying them that classes there might also be canceled.

In its impact on California students, the rolling outage is expected to be second only to the “Great Blackout” of September 2011, in which botched maintenance on a transmission line near Yuma, Ariz., caused a cascade of power failures throughout the Southwest. That outage forced two dozen school districts primarily in San Diego County to close for a day, impacting 350,000 kids at the time, according to

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CalMatters’ database of reported school closures.

However, PG&E has made clear that such preemptive outages will be a “new normal” for Northern California, as the utility changes its policy to reflect a wildfire liability that already has prompted it to seek bankruptcy protection.

Last November, more than 1 million students were kept home from school due to poor air quality sparked by massive fires in northern and southern California.

Wildfires are the leading cause of emergency closures among California’s schools and have taken a particularly devastating toll on public schools over the last four years.

California schools have lost more than 21,000 days of instruction due to wildfires since 2002, but more than half of those lost days have occurred since 2015, CalMatters found. Schools that have been especially impacted by recent megafire—including several schools in Sonoma and Lake counties—closed Wednesday. That included those in the Middletown Unified district, which has lost 25 days of instruction, the equivalent of five weeks of class time, over the last four years due to wildfire.

In less ravaged areas, the situation was fluid. Roger Stock, superintendent of Rocklin Unified in Placer County, told families the evening of Oct. 8 that half a dozen schools in the district were likely to close, but later determined that schools could safely remain open.

Lisette Estrella-Henderson, superintendent of the Solano County Office of Education, told families in a note that county schools “will continue to operate to the extent possible,” but added that “parents should consider sending students to school with breakfast and lunch items that do not require refrigeration or heat, as our menu options may be limited.” Ω

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Thanks to the rhetoric of President Donald Trump, Sacramento County is finally out of the business of detaining undocumented immigrants for profit.

The Sheriff’s Department had been contracting with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to incarcerate suspected noncitizens at its jail facilities since 2000. But as the lucrative contract came up for renewal last year, a majority of the Board of Supervisors, citing Trump’s stepped-up enforcement efforts and disparaging comments about people from Central America and Africa, overruled Sheriff Scott Jones’ request to continue an arrangement that averaged $6 million every year.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, removed the last immigrants in its custody from Sacramento County by June 30, 2018.

On Oct. 8, supervisors received a final accounting of the county’s last seven months partnering with ICE. During that span, 384 men suspected of entering the country illegally were held at the Rio Cosumnes Correctional Center near Elk Grove. The vast majority of detainees—301, or 78%—were classified as Hispanic, while 35 were listed as Asian.

But just because the Sheriff’s Department is no longer subletting its jail to ICE doesn’t mean civil rights watchdogs believe the two agencies have stopped collaborating. The ACLU of Northern California and Sacramento Immigration Coalition both questioned whether the Sheriff’s Department violated the California Values Act by illegally transferring people into the custody of federal immigration authorities.

Citing the Sheriff’s Department’s own admission that it transferred 26 people convicted of driving under the influence into ICE custody, the ACLU and SIC noted that state law forbids local law enforcement agencies from facilitating transfers for simple misdemeanors, which DUIs are often classified as. The ACLU is awaiting a response to a public records request for more information about the roughly two dozen transfers, but says the Sheriff’s Department claimed in an email that the transfers involved deportees with felony DUI convictions. (Raheem F. Hosseini)

CALIFORNIA’S STD CRISIS In a state where sexually transmitted diseases are at epidemic levels,

Sacramento County residents are among the least protected and most infected when it comes to the most common, according to new data from the California Department of Public Health.

Sacramento County ranked fifth last year in rates of chlamydia, with 758.7 infections per 100,000 live births, state data shows. All totaled, the county reported 11,645 cases of chlamydia last year, a 34.5% increase from 2014. Only San Francisco, Alpine, the city of Long Beach and Kern had higher chlamydia rates, though Alpine had only 12 cases for 2018 and Long Beach is part of Los Angeles County, which itself ranked ninth.

Chlamydia—a bacterial infection that can enter through the throat, rectum, a woman’s cervix or man’s urethra—is at its highest level since mandated reporting began in 1990. California is also seeing a rise in antibiotic-resistant “super gonorrhea,” the other most common STD. Sacramento County ranked seventh in that category, with 3,838 individual cases, which translates to an infection rate of 250 per 100,000 live births.

Less common but perhaps more troubling is the 265% jump in syphilis cases over the past decade. “In 2018 alone, there were 19 infant stillbirths, 3 neonatal deaths, and 31 infants born with other symptoms or complications from syphilis,” the department states.

Sacramento County recorded 10 cases of congenital syphilis last year. (RFH)

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The Capitol Fountain has been sitting dormant for nearly a decade, but rather than restore it, the Department of General Services wants to raze the landmark for good.

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Fate of the fountain Sacramento preservationists make last-ditch effort to save historic landmark on Capitol Mall from destruction

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In 1927, newspapers were heralding Charles Lindbergh’s groundbreaking solo flight across the Atlantic, The Jazz Singer was the first motion picture with sound and President Calvin Coolidge announced he wasn’t running for a second term because a decade in Washington, D.C. was “too long.”

And in Sacramento that year, in an open courtyard between Ninth and 10th streets, a stone and tile fountain was unveiled as part of an effort to make sure the city remained the capital of California.

That classic water spring is now slated for demolition by state officials. But the city’s diehard history lovers say that won’t happen without a fight.

According to Preservation Sacramento, the fountain was a response to a 1910 effort by San Francisco to supplant the city, then a modest agricultural hub, as the new state capital. It was no idle threat: During the Gold Rush era, California’s capital started at San Jose, then moved to Vallejo, then again to Benicia. Though 12

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a state constitutional convention in 1879 deemed Sacramento the permanent capital, by the turn of the century San Francisco was in an alarmingly good position to swipe that honor. Sacramentans realized an array of offices for the growing state government were moving to the city by the Bay, mainly due to the limited size of the Capitol building.

Sacramento residents decided to head off San Francisco’s designs in 1913.

Locals approved $700,000 in bonds to start the process of expanding Capitol Park, adding two new buildings for state offices and enhancing world-class aesthetics to the grounds, partly in the form of the Capitol Fountain.

For decades its swirling waterworks danced in front of the neoclassical state citadel. But in recent years, officials have neglected the fountain’s upkeep and delayed repairs.

Between 2014 and 2017, the Department of General Services made various public comments suggesting

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the fountain would, at some point, be restored. So when the department released the environmental impact report for its new restoration of the Jesse M. Unruh Building in late July, members of Preservation Sacramento were shocked to see that the project proposed removing the fountain entirely.

The EIR states the fountain “has been nonoperational since 2010 and is deteriorating.” It adds, “There are issues with electrical shortages in the fountain’s lighting, failure of mechanical equipment, leaks in the fountain bowl and associated valves, and possible drain collapse.”

Luree Steston of Preservation Sacramento notes that the EIR makes no mention of why those issues can’t be repaired as part of the broader restoration slated for the grounds.

“They don’t justify why it has to be removed,” Steston said. While her organization only learned of the planned demolition a week before the Aug. 30

deadline for public comment, it was able to get more than 100 protests submitted.

“Right now, we’re trying to get the word out with the public and hoping our legislators will save it,” Steston said.

One lawmaker who’s already taken notice is Assemblyman Kevin McCarty of Sacramento. On Oct. 1, McCarty wrote a letter to Department of General Services Director Daniel Kim asking that the process to remove the fountain be halted.

Among McCarty’s reasons were a number of apparent inconsistencies within the EIR. “I share the concerns expressed by numerous constituents and would like to understand DGS’s rationale for proposing demolition of the fountain,” McCarty wrote. He also questioned whether the fountain was in as bad shape as the EIR implies. “These issues appear to be minimal and easily corrected,” he noted.

But the Department of General Services says that’s not the case. Its public information officer Jennifer Lida told SN&R that, while the fountain’s demolition is still being reviewed, her department has found it to be basically irreparable.

“The Department of General Services worked with multiple qualified vendors that reached the same conclusion,” Lida wrote via email.

Still, Milford Wayne Donaldson, chairman of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation and a 45-year restoration architect, doesn’t think that the Capitol Fountain is a lost cause. In 2011, Donaldson was called upon to restore San Diego’s Horton Park Plaza Fountain, which dates to 1909 and was the first electric fountain west of the Mississippi. Before Donaldson pulled off that rehab, public officials had been sparring over whether the fountain was fixable. Some thought it needed to make way for progress.

“We had a very similar situation back then, and that fountain had become a symbol for the citizens of San Diego,” Donaldson recalled. “They wanted to demolish it. … But when we flipped the switch to bring it back to life, we had four or five thousand people standing there, cheering.”

Donaldson believes Sacramento could have a similar moment if state officials put the brakes on their plans.

“There is no reason why the Capitol Fountain can’t be restored, they just need the right expert,” Donaldson said.

“I hope GSA does the right thing. …

Political leadership is key to all of this.

Preservation is politics.” Ω

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A California woman who accused Donald Trump of raping her a quarter-century ago when she was 13 has gone to ground, says her former attorney, deepening the mystery surrounding “Katie Johnson.”

“Recent attempts to reach … her have revealed that she has disconnected her telephone number,” Evan Goldman, a New Jersey attorney who represented Johnson in late 2016, wrote in an email.

“Katie Johnson” and “Jane Doe” are pseudonyms the woman used to sue Trump and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in California and New York federal courts three years ago, before Trump was elected president in 2016 and before authorities say Epstein hung himself in a jail cell in August while facing child sex trafficking charges.

According to the filings, “Johnson” was an aspiring model in 1994 when, after a string of unsuccessful meetings with agencies in New York City, she was at a Port Authority bus terminal getting ready to make her cross-country trip back home. Instead, a woman told Johnson how she could make money and modeling connections attending parties. It was at these parties—allegedly featuring other underage girls and wealthy guests— that Johnson says she was forced to sexually gratify the future president on four occasions, each one escalating in its described level of depravity.

The bombshell claims never gained as much traction as other Trump misconduct allegations, for several reasons. Johnson’s initial lawsuit, filed without an attorney, included a hinky phone number and unverifiable mailing address, and was swiftly dismissed in the Central District of California.

Johnson abruptly withdrew her second lawsuit and canceled a press conference days before the election, citing fears for her safety.

The sum total was that the press didn’t know what to make of Johnson or those surrounding her, and moved on to other controversies such as the Access Hollywood tape and the Stormy Daniels payoff.

But since multiple women emerged this year with shockingly similar stories about how Epstein recruited and sexually enslaved them as young girls, some of the people who believed Johnson in 2016 say her claims should be reconsidered today.

“Katie’s story mimics those that have come out in the past several months,” Goldman wrote. “She was very forthcoming and also a very reluctant person. She only decided to do something when she saw that there was a chance that Trump could become President.”

Goldman and two other attorneys represented Johnson from Sept. 30 to Nov. 4, 2016. Before they represented her, Johnson’s first lawsuit was dismissed for failing to cite an actionable civil rights claim. It sought $100 million in damages and described in graphic detail allegations against both Trump and Epstein, a one-time financier accused of hosting underage sex parties for the obscenely rich.

SN&R corresponded via text with a person who identified as “Katie Johnson” in May 2016 and recently traced the phone number to a Southern California esthetician. Goldman said he couldn’t reveal Johnson’s true identity, but stressed that she “is and was a real person.”

The attorney didn’t respond to questions about whether a blurred-out video purporting to show Johnson being interviewed was of his one-time client. But SN&R obtained what appears to be a letter from a combative “never Trump” conservative who paid for the video to be made. The June 30, 2017 letter from Illinois political donor Steve Baer is marked “confidential,” directed to then-Special Counsel Robert Mueller and copied to numerous others, including “select” media.

In the 10-page document, which includes an unblurred image of Johnson from her video interview, Baer urges Mueller to investigate the claims of the pseudonymous “Katie Johnson,” writing that his group, Freedom Partners Trust V, while skeptical that the president colluded with the Russians or obstructed justice, does believe Johnson.

“The current President of the United States raped a 13-year-old girl in 1994,” writes Baer, who has been credited with other aggressive email campaigns. Ω

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ouTube—the Wild West of video streaming.

Between the content directed at kids, the white supremacist-benefiting algorithms, the demonetizing craze and the lawsuits, succeeding in YouTube without really trying will be difficult, but that’s our goal.

Meet the players: Rachel Mayfield, above average typist and infrequent watercolor-er. Maxfield Morris, former photo booth operator and current amateur dancer. Can two talentless upstarts film, star in, edit and publish a series of videos that launch them into YouTube stardom, all while writing this enthralling story? We hope so.

We’re going to produce four entire videos for the public’s enjoyment, using mostly our dogged determination and classical film training, or lack thereof. Our bona fides?

We can both hold a camera.

Oh yeah—and one of us owns a camera-mounting shoulder rig for videography, one that was homemade out of PVC fittings, tape and plastic tubing. At the yard sale where it was acquired for $1, the seller said it was originally used by a little YouTube group you may have heard of: “Smosh.”

Now, we’re not ones for superstition, but given the present circumstances, we’re convinced that, much like in the 2002 movie Like Mike, in which Lil’ Bow Wow’s character inherits the abilities of Michael Jordan from a pair of his used sneakers, our endeavor is blessed with totemic streaming potency. Sure, Bow Wow gets struck by lightning as he retrieves the shoes from a power line, but that’s not important. What is important is getting some good ideas for sweet, clickable content.

We tossed around a whole bunch of ideas.

There’s a crumpled piece of paper with ideas that didn’t make the cut: a prank show where the prank is setting a forest fire, a situational comedy about a man and his puppet, a brand new challenge where people eat a handful of dirt (aka “The Dirt Challenge.”)

Shooting began tentatively, much in the way baby mountain goats take their first steps on sheer cliff faces, but instead of the threat of falling to our deaths, we were faced with a bigger dilemma— failing to be entertaining.

That’s when we decided to reach out to the experts: YouTube stars, talented professors, folks who watch a lot of videos. We would run our best ideas by these titans of media in order to mold our videos into sure-fire, viral sensations.

Will our efforts end in failure, or will we find ourselves in Hollywood, bathing in the sun, soaking up the fame and showering with loofahs made from $10 bills?

YouTube in the crosshairs We’re venturing into a lucrative, but controversial world. YouTube, which started in 2005 and was acquired by Google in 2006, is now the world’s most popular video hosting site. But it has been criticized for violating users’ privacy. In September, Google agreed to pay a $170 million fine for illegally collecting personal information from children on YouTube and using that data to target them with ads.

YouTube has also been blamed for spreading disinformation and lies during the 2016 presidential election. In 2018, The Guardian reported that in engineering its algorithm, YouTube prioritized extending the time users spent watching videos over the quality and diversity of suggested videos. It’s a strategy that resulted in placing political conspiracy theory videos next to regular news coverage of the election.

It’s pretty harrowing stuff, and it makes us wonder: What’s our move? Strive to produce quality content, or game the system?

How do we reach kids?

One of us had a brilliant idea. It would have kick, moxie and rhythm—and best of all, it capitalized off a YouTube sensation. We would parody Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road.”

It has been done, sure. Remixed by Lil Nas multiple times, parodied by ’Tubers who came before us.

But we were convinced there was still mileage on the track, which becomes clear from watching the other top parodies, including Swartz Creek Community Schools’ take, “Hometown Road,” and “Old Thanos Road,” with 22 million views. The competition is not at all fierce, the quality of these music videos is universally terrible and we were on the bullet train to YouTube stardom. We just had to find our angle that would make our video the sure-fire hit of the parody season.

A few weeks into our production, we took notice of a wildly successful phenomenon that tipped us off to the perfect market for our musical experiment: Kids. They’re easily distracted, enjoy colorful things and haven’t yet developed a sophisticated sense of humor—just like us! They’re a perfect mark for our channel.

And that’s when it hit us: What do kids like more than anything in the world? That’s right: clean teeth.

Our next move became obvious: a parody of Lil Nas X’s masterpiece with a dental hygiene theme and told from the perspective of overeager orthodontists.

To make sure we were on the right track, we talked to a bona fide child, a co-worker’s 4-yearold son. We tried to pick the brain of this avowed YouTube consumer on what works for kids his age.

At first, all Elliot would really say is that he liked Pokemon, but he finally let slip a few valuable tidbits.

“I like to watch on YouTube, and YouTube is my favorite thing to watch. The HobbyKids, gosh, they play some games,” he said before subtly asking about the cinnamon almond butter one of us was eating and finally asking for a taste. Elliot then asked to see photos of the Pokemon Dragonite.

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“Enough!” we wanted to bark. “Tell me what kinds of content we should produce!

You’re a golden goose that won’t produce!”

But we kept it together, and our co-worker filled in a crucial piece of Elliot’s viewing profile: He’s a fan of “Ryan ToysReview,” a channel featuring a child who reportedly earned $22 million in 2017-18.

In his recent videos, Ryan opens toys supposedly given by his parents. He galivants in enormous sets, mugs for the camera and interacts with product-placement merchandise that can be purchased in stores across the world.

Our findings—mirrored across all YouTube content aimed at kids—showed that these videos are soulless cash grabs aimed at exploiting kids. Finally, after weeks of searching, we had found an angle.

But we realized that, like Ryan, if we wanted to truly really make a brand for ourselves, we needed to branch out. We needed to produce our own creatively independent content instead of just copying viral sensations. We needed an original idea.

Oh, did we mention one of our videos involves a shovel? No? Well, one of our videos involves a shovel.

Air ball So we asked ourselves: What unites people?

Stories—there’s nothing more powerful in the world than a good story.

OK, technically Tyrion Lannister said that in Game of Thrones. But we decided to tell our own story about a potted plant’s unlikely journey toward basketball stardom.

It has everything: drama, suspense, pathos.

Viral moments are fleeting, but crafting a story that will embed itself in the cultural consciousness and live on long after we’re dead—that’s the mark of true success. Plus, we could probably capture some wild trick shots, just like the ninth most popular YouTube channel, “Dude Perfect.”

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Our writing process was simple. We created a shared Google document and banged out a couple pages of unpolished scene descriptions and dialogue before giving up.

We had done the hard part. Now, it was time to shoot!

We had a camera. We had a basketball. We had our plant. We had steely resolve.

Things started out smoothly enough. We captured the arc of the ball as it smoothly spun from our hands into the air, before bouncing violently toward a co-worker’s desk. It was pure cinema.

But it wasn’t long before we hit some bumps in the road.

We started to realize how difficult this video would be when we tried to pass the ball to the plant, and it would bounce right through its leaves. We don’t know about you, but if you’re telling a story about a plant that plays basketball, shouldn’t the plant at least be able to catch?

We were reluctant to admit it, but it was becoming clear that we had made a pretty serious casting error.

We needed to call in bigger guns.

Back to basics The deeper we fell into the world of YouTube, the more we realized that becoming a star is serious business. We weren’t sure if we were fully prepared for the time and commitment it takes.

Just this month, lifestyle and comedy personalities Ethan and Grayson Dolan announced that they would no longer be uploading weekly videos because their rigorous schedule (uploading 20-minute videos every Tuesday) had damaged their relationships and their mental health.

So how do YouTubers avoid burnout? We agreed that, before diving too deep, we needed to gather as much information as possible and

develop a serious plan. It was time to hit the books—specifically one single e-book, YouTube Channels for Dummies.

Written by Rob Ciampa and Theresa Moore, the volume covers “Managing Uploads,” “Understanding the YouTube Ecosystem” and even explains the basics of what each button on YouTube does—the one that goes to the homepage, the button that plays the videos. We didn’t read what the “pause” button does, but we’ve got a few leads.

As we clicked through digital pages, we read a few interesting theories about what makes a video go viral. Our best chances at blowing up the internet are to “engage the viewer” and “add humor.” No problem! But wait, we also have to “listen to feedback?”

We decided that books just weren’t for us.

We also decided to incinerate the book, but then we realized it was an e-book, so we spent three hours each researching how to get all the catharsis of book-burning without the toxic fumes from setting a computer on fire.

And then, it hit us—the name of our channel. “Explosions Only: 24 Hours a Day, 7 Days a Week.”

Catchy, right? We originally wanted it to be “Explosions Only 24/7,” but YouTube wouldn’t let us put the slash in our name.

It’s a little long, but we’re convinced that it’s good enough to

its first nine months. That’s pretty darn impressive, so we asked Straub to fill us in on YouTube’s secrets for success.

“Right now there are so many people putting up so much content on YouTube, even though there are billions of viewers, the algorithm kind of runs everything,” he said. “The great black box of the YouTube algorithm really decides for just random viewers out there what videos get recommended to them. And overwhelmingly, that’s what they end up watching.”

There’s a lot of competition, and Straub says that videos with a high click-through rate get recommended more. The trick is to get on that recommended list, but we might be at a disadvantage.

“As far as starting a new channel, yeah, that’s incredibly hard,” Straub explained.

“If you don’t really have any subs and you don’t really have any viewers, YouTube’s algorithm is not even going to statistically have any data.”

As the cast, crew and creative team behind “Explosions Only: 24 Hours a Day, 7 Days a Week,” we are all too familiar with that situation. How did “Animators VS Games” take off?

“The two main characters on our channel are DJ [Welch] and Alan [Becker].

Al is already kind of YouTube famous,” Straub said, laughing. “Alan was actually making videos before there was YouTube, back in the day when internet connections weren’t fast enough to stream le p so many peo video.” e r a e r e th ube, T u o Y “Right now n “There was a Flash o t n much conte , s r e animation called Animator w ie v f o putting up so s re are billion vs. Animation. That was e th . h .. g . u g o in th th even every Alan. Alan did that in high kind of runs el, yeah, n n the algorithm school. So he actually a h c w e n ting a r ta s s a started on YouTube at the r fa As ibly hard.” very, very beginning, so that’s incred he’s had a very long, slow b u a r t S u Bea burn. I think he’s at 9 l uTube channe million subscribers.” producer, Yo VS Games” Unfortunately, we “Animators don’t have the luxury of a built-in fan base of millions of people. Straub studies analytics grab the attention of enough for their channel and videos to see which YouTube surfers to rocket boost our profile topics and videos do well—another tool and rocket launch us into rocket stardom. we don’t have because we haven’t posted Almost immediately, we were faced with any videos yet. a problem. It’s difficult for people to find our When we reached out to YouTube channel. It doesn’t even pop up if you search titans such as “Smosh” for some worldly for “Explosions Only: 24 Hours a Day, 7 advice, we were met with stone cold Days a Week” word for word. In fact, that silence. It looks like we’ll just have to phrase gives results for countless other unreimprovise. And we will—look for our first lated channels, including “Chris Mcfarlane,” video on Thursday, Oct. 17, plus one on which has two subscribers and one upload Friday, Saturday and maybe Tuesday. from 2014: a 28-minute jaunt titled “Adult Still not convinced we’re qualified to egg unboxing” with 18 views. produce blindingly gorgeous YouTube content?

You might be onto something. But we may have a few surprises up our It was time to consult the experts, namely sleeves. To find out, just remember to like, Sacramento resident Beau Straub. He subscribe and buy the merch for our new is a producer for the YouTube channel channel: “Explosions Only: 24 Hours a “Animators VS Games,” which has Day, 7 Days a Week.” Ω gained more than 120,000 subscribers in

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T-Series, 114 million subscribers A Bollywood music record label, T-Series is known for its music videos and movie trailers. The most popular upload, at 808 million views, is a music video for Indian singer Guru Randhawa’s “Gabru High Rated,” about a man determined to win over a beautiful woman with all the signs of luxury: fast cars, boat rides and blue Timbs.

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PewDiePie, 101 million subscribers What does it take to be a successful professional YouTuber? Being a gamer?

Being Swedish? Being racist? Once the most subscribed YouTuber until this year, the Minecraft Let’s Play-er has never publicly come out as alt-right, but has shared white supremacist videos, pulled an anti-Semitic prank and said the N-word. We’ll probably shy away from modeling our channel after this guy.

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Cocomelon-Nursery Rhymes, 62 million subscribers It makes sense that the rise of online streaming would also mean a shift in where children’s entertainment is found. With just a click, parents can access a limitless amount of content designed to entertain and shape the youth of today. Cocomelon’s animated music videos cover a lot of ground, from learning the alphabet to dental hygiene.

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5-Minute Crafts,

61 million subscribers If only life could be made easier—or, dare we way, hacked? In addition to DIY tutorials and magic tricks, 5-Minute Crafts is also known for life hack videos, which include mesmerizing compilations of the various ways you can erase permanent marker, how to use a bra as a gas mask and the best way to peel an orange. (It turns out all you need is a syringe full of water and a license to practice medicine.)

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SET India,

57 million subscribers Short for Sony Entertainment Television India, this online channel is an extension of Sony’s Hindi-language television

channel. Maybe we should first try to make it as a multibillion-dollar entertainment company before setting our sights on YouTube success?

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53 million subscribers This Portuguese-language music channel is owned by Konrad Dantas, screenwriter and producer from Brazil.

Its most popular videos boast hundreds of millions of views, and its top videos are musically underproduced songs with catchy beats and themed heavily around women as sex objects.

49 million subscribers Sports drama is a sure-fire way to arouse emotions in people, but how can you make sure drama ensues? Having a script and creative writers who dictate the sports-adjacent drama sure helps.

WWE has capitalized on its largerthan-most characters and traditional story lines about betrayal, violence and pettiness. We can definitely take a page out of their commitment to theater.

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Justin Bieber, 47 million subscribers It doesn’t hurt to have a real-live pop star in your YouTube channel. Between radio play, interpersonal drama, musical collaborations and cameos, Justin Bieber has remained a hot name in the world of media. Our lesson?

Maybe we could lie and say we got someone famous in one of our videos.

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Dude Perfect, 46 million subscribers Trick shots appeal to the most basic part of humans: the desire to see things go into other things. Dude Perfect dripfeeds its subscribers highlight reels of just that—ping pong balls going into cups, ping pong balls going into cups or ping pong balls going into cups.

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Zee Music Company,

45 million subscribers Another Bollywood channel in the top 10, really hammering home the fact that once we hit it big in our local markets, we really do need to diversify into the broader world media.

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HEN DISCOVERY PARK’S GATES OPENED AT NOON FRIDAY, FANS RUSHED TO THE MAIN STAGE FOR A FRONT-ROW VIEW OF SLIPKNOT, THE GRAMMY-WINNING BAND OF COSTUMED HEAVY METAL FREAKS AND AFTERSHOCK’S FIRSTDAY HEADLINER.

Now they just needed to wait eight hours for the show. That meant no bathroom breaks and skipping 12 other bands, but the biggest challenge was surviving “crowd crush,” when fans push closer toward the barrier. And crowd-surfers: If they don’t get swallowed up and chomp dirt along the ride, it could be their bodies on your neck as they spill over the railing and into the arms of security.

If you ask, some will tell you the pain is well worth it. Why? “Slipknot.”

Heavy metal craze was pandemic at Discovery Park, where Aftershock returned for its eighth year last weekend.

The Sacramento festival had its biggest turnout, with a combined attendance of about 97,500, up from an estimated 60,000 last year, according to organizers. The fest expanded to three days, featuring 52 hard rock, heavy metal, rap, ska, punk and electronic dance music artists across three stages.

Slipknot, Blink 182 and Tool headlined.

Next year could be even bigger.

On Oct. 10—the day before the festival kicked off—Aftershock producer Danny Wimmer Presents announced that Metallica, the genre’s most commercially

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successful band, will headline two nights in 2020.

Through events such as Aftershock—billed as one of the largest music festivals in Sacramento history—is hard rock experiencing a resurgence?

“We literally have been talking about this every day,” said Lzzy Hale, lead singer and guitarist for the band Halestorm, which played its third Aftershock. “But it’s different. It’s not something catching on with kids or a certain gender. It used to be 60-40 malefemale [at shows], and now it’s totally flipped. … We’re kind of seeing the crest of the wave happening.”

By noon Friday, the park was invaded by fans wearing leather corsets, black band T-shirts, fishnet stockings, combat boots and patched denim spike-jackets.

The lion’s share of heshers gathered for Phil Anselmo, former frontman of Pantera, whose band the Illegals performed a tribute to the late guitar god Dimebag Darrell. Relentlessly crass, chuggy and groovy, the group ended with Pantera’s radio beatdown single, “Walk.”

At the corner Coors Capitol stage, the young Kentucky band Knocked Loose summoned a human torrent with its enraged hardcore tunes. This stage was a highlight throughout the weekend, with the Death Grips-style trappunk of Ho99o9 on Saturday and the anti-artisanal beer singalongs of Fidlar coupled with The Hu’s jam of rock and Mongolian throat singing on Sunday.

Friday culminated with Slipknot’s big rock circus, opening with its anti-social anthem, “People=Shit.” The eight-piece band’s music is tooth-snapping, and its visuals fit the theme: a gritty side-show of steel drummers and torched baseball bats slugging

With the mosh comes the crowd-surf, and both were never-ending at Aftershock 2019.

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Blossoms” morphed into heavy artillery metal barrels on tempo. Lead singer for a stampede.

Corey Taylor seemed to be wearing Aftershock ended with Korn and someone else's face.

Tool. Korn brought chunky nu-metal Saturday brought more of 2000s grooves with scat and bagpipes, and rock’s towering personas, including Rob Tool fans witnessed an extended progZombie and Marilyn Manson. Manson rock journey. Abstract images displayed burned a bible and tossed it into the on the stage’s massive crowd during “Antichrist screens as the band Superstar.” Doused in “PEOPLE debuted some tracks from washed-up war paint latest album, Fear and glitter, the shock PRIMALLY NEED its Inoculum. rocker’s Satanic songs, The global “heavywhich were the bane of TO BE THERE, metal family” was a evangelicals 20 years AND THEY common theme for ago, seemed to take on a banter; shock new relevance.

TRAVEL FAR AND onstage rockers used their Saturday’s performances ended with WIDE AND SAVE strongman characters to advocate for diversity and Blink 182’s pop-punk UP AND MAYBE inclusion. party, where the crowd “You have family all reached peak rowdiness MISS A RENT over the world,” Slipknot’s during the single, “First Taylor told the crowd.

Date.” Confetti cannons, PAYMENT.” “It doesn’t matter what inflatable aliens and a LZZY HALE color their skin is. It song played completely in VOCALIST/GUITARIST, doesn’t matter what f---ing the dark made it one of the HALESTORM language they speak, who weekend’s funnest sets. they love, where they live.”

On Sunday afternoon, Backstage, the message resonated with the wildest crowds thrashed for performers such as Babymetal, who tour Babymetal, the Japanese trio that internationally. performs cute, choreographed J-pop “The passion that [we] receive from fans, perverted by demonic breakdowns. some are crying and some are screaming,” A massive pit brawl imperiled the Su-metal, Babymetal’s frontwoman, told crowd during “Megitsune,” where a SN&R through a translator. “Seeing all of traditionally zen, Japanese folk-song this within the performance, [I] realize that called “Cherry Blossoms, Cherry

music is limitless … everyone becomes united through the power of music.”

Sacramento could become the movement’s mecca. Fans such as Nick Tujfly traveled more than 2,500 miles from a part of Canada, where he said the metal scene is “nonexistent.” “We live in the bible belt,” he said.

Aftershock 2019 may have brought an estimated $30 million in tourism dollars to the region, according to a 2017 study that Visit Sacramento extrapolated to account for the third day and increased capacity at Discovery Park.

“It’s the largest hard rock festival on the West Coast, and there’s cache for Sacramento to host it,” said Mike Testa, Visit Sacramento’s president. “The benefit for locals is we get to see a really great show in our backyard, but it also brings in a ton of outside dollars into the economy.”

With Metallica headlining next year, the festival is poised to grow.

“People primally need to be there, and they travel far and wide and save up and maybe miss a rent payment,” said Hale. “And you feel that from people.” □

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Annie Murphy-Robinson’s charcoal drawing “Emily and the Buffalo,” is one of many autobiographical works depicting her daughters.

Bold impressions

by PAtRick Hyun Wilson

Sacramento-born Annie Murphy Robinson was always a foul-mouthed, no flack-taking kind of person ready to fight at a moment’s notice—as long as she had her drugs. In 10th grade, her stepdad came home to find her smoking, drinking and blasting Black Sabbath.

They ended up in an argument, one that prompted her to run away to San Francisco where she eventually landed in juvenile hall, entered the foster care system and emancipated from her parents.

All of this before age 16.

“Most nights for me, it ended in: I’m at a party, it’s 4 or 5 a.m. Everybody’s passed out or partnered up with their partners and they’ve gone away, and I’m checking old beers for cigarette butts ’cause I’m still losing it,” said Murphy-Robinson, who now lives in Carmichael.

That was more than 25 years ago. Now, MurphyRobinson is in a different place, spending as many as 700 hours on a single, massive photo-realistic charcoal drawing, often depicting her daughters in a style that evokes the American West.

Curator Steve Diamant had admired MurphyRobinson’s work for more than a decade when, in 2017, he decided to represent her at Arcadia Contemporary gallery in Los Angeles. Since then, her work has received acclaim; in 2019 she won the Bouguereau Award at the 14th annual Art Renewal Center, a nonprofit online museum.

“There’s nobody I’ve ever seen that draws the way that she draws. Period,” Diamant said.

But her journey to the artist’s life may have never started if she didn’t first get sober. In 1996, she started attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, where she

realized that without the coping mechanism she used throughout her teenage years, she felt vulnerable, raw and, most of all, bored out of her mind.

Finally, she started to focus her energy on drawing.

While in AA she became pregnant with her daughter, Emily, with her then-husband, whom she left before the baby was born. She soon remarried and the couple had a daughter, Casey, in 1999.

She continued drawing, studying in Sacramento State’s graduate program. She met art professor Chris Daubert, who gave her a show at the Kondos Gallery.

Daubert says he saw potential in how MurphyRobinson challenged herself. “I don’t see any end point to her continued growth,” he said. “But it’s coming on its own. I know so many artists who keep on thinking that, you know, the marketing is probably as important as the work. And she has it the other way around.”

In 2002, she met the late charcoal artist, Troy Dalton, who died from his own addictions to alcohol, drugs and food in 2010. The two drew alongside each other.

Dalton introduced her to the charcoal sanding technique she’s used since. The approach involves sanding the paper to draw onto the raw material, then alternating between applying and removing the charcoal, so it’s embedded into the paper’s fibers. The result is a rich, tonal range allowing for nuanced representation.

Murphy-Robinson says it represented a huge step in her journey toward photorealism.

Her journey has taken other, deeper turns, too.

As she grew as an artist, Murphy-Robinson started to confront her hectic teenage years in autobiographical works depicted through her daughters. She imbues in the portraits a spirit of self confidence that evaded her early life. “I’m trying to give them what I didn’t have myself,” she said.

Now, she wants to continue to seek different forms for her art. “I want to experiment, I want to up the bar.

I want to draw something that is hard or harder,” she said. “Everything’s in flux.” Ω

learn more about annie Murphy-robinson’s art: facebook.com/ annieMurphyrobinsonart.

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“Derrick helps me translate what I’m hearing and feeling inside of my self into how the music’s captured. He understands the wavelength that I work on,” he says.

Scott says he was also buoyed by the engagement of longtime Oracle colleagues—pianist Taylor Eigsti, guitarist Mike Moreno, reedist John Ellis and bassist Joe Sanders, along with special guest turntablist Jahi Sundance—who contributed compositions during the sessions.

“When I compose a record I think of the grand arc of the record itself and how each track fits inside of the record and inside of the narrative,” Scott says. “Especially when we made this record—it was all narrative based—what messages Kendrick Scott’s jazz sounds fuse the personal with the are we sending? Front to back, I made conscious political. choices with each tune.”

Musically, the band simmers on high through the driving assertiveness of Scott’s playing, but each of the players individually is a noteworthy creator. Ten Kendrick Scott perfectly embodies the free-form years from now, some may marvel that they attitude in new jazz; he’s as much influenced by were all in a band together. progressive rapper Mos Def as iconoclast Pianist Eigsti, a Bay Area native, legend Miles Davis.

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4 A toast to toast Both father and son share a deep bond.

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Thu 7:30pm, Fri 7:30pm, Sat 2pm & 7:30pm, Sun 2pm; Through 10/20; $10-$18; City Theatre at Sacramento City College Performing Arts Center, 3835 Freeport Blvd., (916) 558-2228, citytheatre.net.

Perhaps the best show of the year—and there have been plenty of good ones—is on stage at the Art Court Theatre on the Sac City College campus through this weekend. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, by Simon Stephens, based on the novel by Mark Haddon, takes an entirely sympathetic and worthy hero on a voyage of discovery of self and the world at large.

Christopher John Francis Boone (impeccably portrayed by Vincent Barnett) is a 15-year-old boy with Asperger’s syndrome. He has difficulty with people, but is a whiz at other things. He’s “The Good Doctor” of math.

Christopher lives with his father (Jonathan Plon) in a relationship that has grown especially strong since his dad told him the circumstances of his mother’s death (which may or may not be true).

When Christopher discovers the body of a neighbor’s dog with a pitchfork stuck in it, he becomes determined to find the dog’s killer. His detective work leads him into interactions he wouldn’t ordinarily have with people and reveals a lot—a whole lot—about himself, his parents and so much more.

Lori Ann DeLappe-Grondin directs this swirl of action and emotions with authority and understanding. There is a sizable cast of both students and adults who are smartly incorporated into Christopher’s story.

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This year marks Green Valley Theatre Company’s 11th run of beloved musical, The Rocky Horror Show, and based on the enthusiasm shown by both audience and cast, it’s unlikely the company will retire the cult favorite any time soon.

Recently engaged couple Brad (Cole Forstedt) and Janet (Ashley Rose) stumble upon an anachronistic castle in the midst of a violent storm. Upon meeting the owner, Dr. Frank-N-Furter (Ryan Kevin-Patrick Allen), the strait-laced, sexually repressed couple find themselves caught up in a swirling fever dream of hedonistic decadence within Frank-N-Furter’s gothic pleasure den.

What makes Rocky special is its heavy reliance on audience participation. Throughout the show, members are encouraged to shout insults and witticisms as they anticipate each characters’ dialogue. While some shows traditionally involve tossing things like toast, Green Valley’s production specifically prohibits this for safety reasons.

Sorry, toast.

There’s also something to be said about how things like calling Janet a “slut,” might raise some eyebrows today. Does the campy nature and cultural context surrounding the production excuse its outdated notions of gender and sexuality? If the show can evolve to include President Trump jokes, can other aspects evolve?

Still, the cast is incredibly fun to watch—it takes a lot of skill to stay in character when people are constantly interjecting “a--hole” from the bleachers. Allen is especially electric as the —RACHEL MAYFIELD lead, Dr. Frank-N-Furter.

The Rocky Horror Show: Fri 8pm, Sat 8pm; Through 11/2; $20; Green Valley Theatre Company at the Roseville Tower Theatre, 417 Vernon St., Roseville; (916) 234-6981; greenvalleytheatre.com.

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Actors rehearse for an inspired, Afro-centric reimagining of Macbeth.

The people’s Bard The last time I spoke with director Khimberly Marshall about her MacBeth Project—the plan to produce Shakespeare’s play once a year for five years—she and her team were gearing up for a staged reading to see if the audience at Celebration Arts would embrace the company’s first Shakespeare production in its 33-year history. Embrace it they did, with standing-room only both nights of the reading.

Although the original plan was to see the first full production staged in 2020, audience excitement and community support fast-tracked that goal for Marshall and assistant director Karen “KT” Travis. After a month of rehearsals and a huge labor of love, they will open the first full production this weekend.

Travis, who is also a Celebration Arts board member, says that the project offers the community a chance to “stretch,” both as a challenge for actors new to Shakespeare and as an educational opportunity for audiences. The production is also one that looks to stretch Shakespeare by incorporating African music, step dance, drums and other elements to further the Afro-centric aesthetic Marshall has designed to build ownership.

“What separates people from Shakespeare is when you aren’t having mutual conversation, mutual dialogue with audience members,” Marshall says.

The project’s commitment to creating dialogue can be seen in the array of partners who have joined Marshall.

The Sojourner Truth Art Museum has helped curate the collaborating artists; the Northern California Film Coalition is preparing a recording for possible distribution; and a financial sponsorship from Ma Series Arts has helped support rehearsal and production costs for this first full production.

They’re also joined by a web of volunteers and donors who have been eager to share their time and resources.

Travis says the support comes from a genuine community investment. “You’ve got people interested also in the background, which is exciting,” she says. “Suddenly you’ve got somebody to make flyers, and a DJ! People want to be involved.”

In a town where most professional theaters are still disproportionately white (in casting but also notably in the decision-making artistic staff), and in a culture where Shakespeare is seen as elitist, the success of the MacBeth Project and its ambitious vision is noteworthy.

“Art cannot belong to one group, it has to be part of a cohesive ecology of art through long term investment from the community,” Marshall says. “We want to make Shakespeare accessible to everyone who wants to appreciate it.” Thu, 10/17, 8pm; Fri, 10/18, 8pm; Sat, 10/19, 2pm; Sun, 10/20, 2pm; Through 11/3; $10-$20; Celebration Arts, 2727 B St.; (916) 455-2787; celebrationarts.net. —SAWYER KEMP

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Playfulness is definitely the emphasis at Culinerdy Kitchen, which means sometimes tasty takes second place to fun.

At least that’s what I thought after ordering the Cowboy Mac & Cheese ($13). The bowl of oversized fusilli noodles mixed with sticky cheddar and Parmesan sauce lacked flavor, and the mound of juicy pulled pork, barbecue sauce, crispy onions and Goldfish crackers didn’t help. With the addition of roasted tomatoes from the “Nerdy Slaw,” it reminded me of the tomato mac my mom used to make, corrupted by my younger brother’s gleeful alterations.

Playful, yes. Yummy? No. Culinerdy Kitchen started out as the Culinerdy Cruzer food truck, but now it’s parked and the modest-sized downtown restaurant has been serving its American staples since June. Board games, sci-fi books and pop culture nerd memorabilia, such as comic books, decorate the tabletops.

It’s clear that celebrity chef Keith Breedlove, who has made appearances on Food Network cooking shows, including Cutthroat Kitchen and Guy’s Grocery Games, wants the vibe to be welcoming and family friendly.

The staff are personable yet professional, patiently helping people like me, who managed to read the menu wrong. I thought Culinerdy offered three main dishes: Mac & Cheese ($13), Burger ($14) and Grilled Cheese ($13)—which it does—with each entrée having three options to “style it up.”

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different choices. It’s a choose-your-own adventure menu.

“Things just got interesting,” I joked with the waitress.

Mac & Cheese mishaps were quickly forgotten when out came the Dammit Jim burger with a side of roasted Brussels sprouts drizzled with a balsamic glaze ($2 extra). The juicy burger oozed bourbon blue cheese and zesty comeback sauce. Giant strips of perfectly fried bacon stuck out haphazardly from every side and the crunchy Nerdy Slaw (red and green cabbage, kale and roasted tomatoes) dripped onto my hands with every delicious bite. The sprouts were cooked a little uneven, but the combination of char and balsamic was lip-smacking goodness.

Friends ordered the Thai-Peanut & Bacon burger (peanut butter, Sriracha and comeback sauce), which surprised with its sweet, slow heat, though I wasn’t totally sure why bacon was invited to the party. Not one to ever leave a grilled cheese uneaten, I hogged all of the Cubano with pulled pork, sliced pastrami, swiss, mustard, pickles and mojo—a bright, citrusy garlic sauce. The tang of mustard and gooey cheese was too appetizing to share.

Culinerdy Kitchen also offers four plant-based burgers ($14 each) and if the others are as fantastic as the Dirty Hippy, then future visits are a must. The patty consists of chunks of mushrooms, farro, roasted onions, oats, tomato and black beans, topped with sheaths of green chile, onion, garlic hummus and arugula. Super messy and in need of extra hands, the sharp clash of savory mushroom with garlicky, vinegary vegetables electrifies taste buds.

I also highly recommend the binge-worthy Dirty Fries (garlic, onion, green chile, cotija and slaw) to go with the Dirty Hippy.

The burgers and sandwiches at Culinerdy Kitchen hit that sweet spot of playful without forgetting that fun food should also taste good. But leave the Mac & Cheese for your kid brother. Ω

Whiskey weekenders Stone Cold Fizz/PeniCillin, deVere’S iriSh Pub The Stone Cold Fizz ($9) at deVere’s Irish Pub in Midtown is bursting with flavor and happy bubbles.

The refreshing drink is made with Irish whiskey, apricot, lemon, muddled mint and seltzer water. The balance of whiskey against its sweeter flavor notes of citrus and stone fruit is expertly shaken, poured over ice and served with an eco-friendly paper straw. Another whiskey cocktail that’s a bit stronger than the Fizz is called Penicillin ($10), which is made with smoky scotch, ginger, honey, lemon and more scotch. Both cocktails make a perfect cheers to the weekend, or even some midweek relief. 1521 L St., deverespub.com.

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Tastes of apple country Fall is upon us—which means it’s apple and pumpkin season. Get your fall fill and plan a trip to Apple Hill for lots of vegan-friendly offerings. The Pie House at High Hill Ranch serves a Beyond Meat burger as well as warm vegan apple pie by the slice or frozen whole to bake at home. Next door, The Fudge Factory Farm now offers an assortment of vegan chocolates. “We’ve had many employees who are vegan and customers who have requested vegan options, so we wanted to cater to all dietary needs,” said manager Seana Hartsell. Just up the road, Boa Vista Orchards serves vegan Impossible burgers on weekends, as well as a sundry of vegan jams and pickled goods. Pick fresh apples straight from the tree or pluck pumpkins right from the patch at 24Carrot Farms, with its wide variety of organic produce for sale. Most Apple Hill locations are open now until mid-December, visit applehill.com to learn more.

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As the days become shorter and nights grow colder, something shifts—and suddenly we want pumpkin. We want to pick them, paint them, carve them, drink them and eat them. For all the pumpkin lovers, here are seven local places that will fill your cravings when that pumpkin hunger inevitably kicks in.

Our first stop is situated between two auto shops on Power Inn Road: Emma’s Tamales and Natural Foods Co. Among its meat, vegetarian and vegan tamales (cooked behind the restaurant) is the pumpkin tamale ($2.50). It’s crumbly masa outer layer perfectly complements the sweetness of the creamy pumpkin filling, made with cinnamon, sugar and egg whites. Pour on mild, hot, or habanero salsa if you want a spicy kick.

Craving pumpkin ice cream?

Turn to Gunther’s Ice Cream.

It doubled down on pumpkin offerings this fall, selling both its

seasonal ice cream and a frozen pumpkin bon bon ($1.05). The bon bon consists of creamy ice cream encapsulated in a thin, crispy, dark chocolate orb—just petite and sweet enough to make you want a few more.

If you want something more pumpkin-forward and spicy, head to Original Grateful Bread for a seasonal pumpkin spice scone ($2.25) or pumpkin bar ($2.50).

The scone had a delicious spread of pumpkin glaze over a tender, triangular, spice-filled scone, with crispy corner bites. The pumpkin bar was ultra-creamy with a heavy pumpkin puree-like top and a soft graham-cracker base.

A super satisfying dessert-like pumpkin treat is also found at Pushkin’s. Its Pumpkin Spice Chocolate Coffee Cake is decadent, massive and dense with a crumbly top that you won’t want to share. Chock-full of dark chocolate chunks and cinnamon laced

throughout, it has just enough pumpkin to remind you of fall.

La Esperanza Bakery’s Empanada de Calabaza is stuffed with mild pumpkin in a pocket-like pastry, similar to a turnover. Pro tip: Call ahead to check if they sold out before journeying to the bakery.

For a cold twist on pumpkin, Pearls Boba on Fair Oaks Boulevard sells a seasonal pumpkin spice milk tea ($4). Choose from either a chai or green tea base and add toppings such as boba for 50 cents.

Personally, I recommend the chai; the sweetness of the pumpkin balances out its spiciness.

Lastly, for a sip and a spook, skip Starbucks for Oblivion Comics & Coffee’s Pumpkin King Latte, complete with a latte art drawing of Jack Skellington of The Nightmare Before Christmas on its foamy top.

However you get pumped for fall, there’s no shame in pumpkin spicing things up. Ω

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This Roald Dahl rose smells as good as it looks.

“People are really fond of fragrant roses,” she added. “If it looks good and smells good, they really love that.”

They might even head out into the nursery to buy a bush to take home.

Anyone can enter a flower in the rose show. It just has to be home grown, though it helps if the person entering the bloom knows the variety. Make sure to cut a long stem (at least 10 inches), preferably with three sets of leaves. For display, the best roses are about half open, not tight buds.

While some rose growers had a spectacular summer with lots of flowers, others had a tough time.

“It was a challenging year,” Jelten said of her own garden. “It was like the roses didn’t know when to bloom. There were a lot of stops and starts. They’d grow like gangbusters for a while, but then shut back down, especially during hot weather.”

Weird weather patterns also sparked pest infestations.

“I had the worse aphid outbreak I ever had,” Jelten said. “That first little bit of rain [in September] brought out the pests. It was so unexpected. But I just got out the hose and blasted them.”

The good news: The blooms should keep on coming for at least another month. When sniffing, just look out for the bugs. Ω

It’s a good time to stop and smell the roses—or at least admire their beauty.

October is Sacramento’s second rose season.

From Capitol Park to the foothills, thousands of bushes are in full flower, creating a fragrant cloud in gardens big and small.

Some of the very best autumn blooms will be on display Saturday during the 56th annual Sierra Foothills Rose Society show at the Folsom Green Acres Nursery and Supply. One of the largest flower shows in our area, this free event features exhibition roses, arrangements, photography and more.

What makes this show unusual is its setting: The middle of a busy retail nursery.

The logic is simple: The best way to get more people interested in roses is to bring the flowers to where the most people will see them.

In past years, the club has held shows at the Sunrise Mall and other nurseries. This is the event detaIlS fourth time the event has been hosted by Green Acres.

“We love it,” said Kay Jelten, the club’s presi56th annual Sierra Foothills Rose dent. “We’re in a big covered greenhouse, but it’s Society show open on the sides, so there’s good ventilation. Lots Noon to 5 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 19, Green of folks keep coming through—and meeting the Acres Nursery and Supply, 205 Serpa Way, Folsom. public is one of the goals.”

Admission and parking are free.

America’s official flower, the rose has a natural contest entries, 6:30 to 10 a.m. attraction to even casual gardeners, who ooh and Saturday. First-time participants aah at the many unusual varieties on display. should arrive before 9 a.m.

“We enjoy answering questions from the public,” Jelten said. “They like to come out to Debbie Arrington, an award-winning garden writer and lifelong see—and smell—the roses.” gardener, is co-creator of the Sacramento Digs gardening blog The public also judges one category: Most and website. fragrant rose.

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About 60% of power blackouts are caused by bad weather such as violent storms. But one out of three blackouts are now the result of aging infrastructure or an overloaded electrical grid. Or, as in the case of PG&E, these outages may be intentional to prevent fire danger and ensure safety.

It’s not just the initial loss of power that causes havoc, but the often days-long gap before power is restored.

A standby generator, also known as a whole-house generator, is becoming a popular option for homeowners who are tired of being left in the dark. It’s a necessity for people with home-care medical equipment.

Having your own power source is not cheap. A basic 22kW air-cooled standby generator, enough to power a typical 2,500-square-foot home, costs about $5,000; double that to include installation. A large capacity 45-kW standby generator can run $10,000 to $15,000; up to $30,000 installed.

Operated on natural gas or liquid propane, a standby generator kicks in automatically when electrical power is cut off.

Its permanently situated outside with good ventilation, so it can go to work immediately when needed.

When shopping for a generator, think about what you really need power for, not necessarily powering your whole house.

Focus on a “partial-house generator” that will have enough power to operate kitchen appliances, furnace, well pump and water heater plus a few lights and outlets (to charge cellphones, etc.). Central air conditioning, electric clothes dryer and hot tubs all take a lot of energy; you’ll need a much larger generator to keep them powered.

Generators need professional installation and there are restrictions to their placement.

They also can be noisy; imagine a motorcycle running next to your house around the clock.

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Mary Dedrick’s Main Street Cheese Shop in Placerville offers up to 400 varieties.

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Go for cheese, ice cream, history Placer ville is an easy day-trip, a

vital Gold Rush-era town that’s become something of a dining destination.

But we weren’t headed to Cascada or the Independent. Instead, our first stop was Mary Dedrick’s Main Street Cheese Shop, which has served a smorgasbord of goodies for 17 years.

“I like the concept that you can shop here and get more than cheese,” she said.

Our tour took us past sweets (New York cheesecake, baklava, pies) and the amazing Wall of Crackers (60 kinds). Nearby are jams and jellies, salumi, olive oils, chocolate covered oranges and figs, honey, nuts and chocolate bars (think bacon).

The star is the cheese case, with 200 to 400 varieties (depending on the season) from a dozen countries. “It’s still not enough,” Deidrick said.

Each Friday, Dedrick gets a delivery of chewy artisanal breads, hand-made by a lone baker in Sacramento. The loaves are baked in an almond wood-fired brick oven

in his backyard. “My favorite is his roasted garlic,” Dedrick said.

Placerville was originally Old Dry Diggins in Gold Rush days, until three members of the Owl Gang were hung for murder in 1849. As a warning to the lawless, the town changed its name to Hangtown.

On the site of the hanging, the Hangman’s Tree saloon operated from 1895 until it closed in 2009. Tim and Sue Taylor saved the rickety building from demolition, remodeled and reopened as the Hangman’s Tree Ice Cream Saloon As good as the ice cream is – Cascade Glacier from Oregon – the place is really a museum, starting with the leaded-glass front door and continuing to a wall covered in old photos and of-the-era art. Move on to the antique bar and stools, a wall mural painted in 1940s and two antique iron doors with antique shotguns as handles.

“We were trenching the foundation and uncovered more than 200 Gold Rush-era artifacts,” said Tim Taylor. “Everything in here has a story.” Just ask him.

Main Street Cheese Shop, 2 Main St., 530-344-8282, www.facebook.com/dedrickscheese/ Hangman’s Tree Ice Cream Saloon, 305 Main St., www.hangmanstree.com

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BY MAXFIELD MORRIS

Online listings will be considered for print. Print listings are edited for space and accuracy. Deadline for print listings is 5 p.m. Wednesday. Deadline for NightLife listings is midnight Sunday.

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variety of solo classical literature with John Cozza on piano. 4pm, no cover. Sacramento State, 6000 J St.

THURSDAY, 10/17 AUDIO MUSE: Experience the Crocker in a whole new way, with a concert crawl featuring bands you nominated and voted for! Ten bands and ample surprises await you in this two-part music series happening throughout the museum, featuring Kandia, Madk@p, Fashionista Boyfriend and Sad Girlz Club. 6pm, $12. Crocker Art Museum, 216 O St.

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Scott Freiman’s presentation will transport you to Abbey Road Studio with tales of the Fab Four’s recording sessions. 7pm, $30. The Sofia, 2700 Capitol Ave.

bluegrass show from Mike Compton and Joe Newberry. 7:30pm, $20. The Strum Shop, 209 Vernon St., Roseville.

FIVE LETTER WORD AT CLAIMSTAKE BREWING: Come celebrate the second event in the Claimstake Brewing Rocktoberfest series with Five Letter Word, three singersongwriters from Oregon putting the folk in bluegrass. 8pm, $10. Claimstake Brewing Company, 11366 Monier Park Place, Rancho Cordova.

JOHN GORKA: Catch a performance from

American folk musician John Gorka. 7pm, $30. Sofia Tsakopoulos Center for the Arts,

LANDON CUBE THE ORANGE TOUR: Sing-

2700 Capitol Ave.

songwriter, rapper and performer Landon Cube is on the Orange tour for your consideration. 7pm, $18-$20. Holy Diver, 1517 21st St.

LITTLE HURRICANE: Little Hurricane returns to Sacramento with their new record, Love Luck, with local opening band The Loose Threads in the Starlet Room. 6pm, $12$14. Starlet Room, 2708 J St.

FRIDAY, 10/18 ALIVE MUSIC W/ JUSTIN FARREN & ANDREW DELANEY: Alive Music is coming to STAB!

LOVEDRIVE: Lovedrive, a Scorpions

Comedy Theater to put the folk in folk music and folks in the theater. At this rate, they’ll have to rename the venue to SING! Music-y Theater or something. Let’s workshop that name. 7pm, $15. STAB! Comedy Theater, 1710 Broadway.

tribute band, is playing along with Love Removal Machine and the Brad Schultz Culmination. 7pm, $10-$12. The Boardwalk, 9426 Greenback Lane, Orangevale.

STEVE HACKETT: Genesis gets revisited with

COMMON KINGS: The Orange County reggae

Steve Hackett playing Selling England by the Pound. 7:30pm, $45-$65. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.

band is coming to Thunder Valley Casino. 7:30pm, $32.95. Thunder Valley Casino, 1200 Athens Ave., Lincoln.

YELAWOLF: The GhettoCowboy tour brings

HOZIER Get yourself taken to church

when the church-taker becomes the church-bringer, and the concert becomes the church. Freya Ridings also attends.

10/21, 8pm, $39.50-$49.50, on sale now.

Memorial Auditorium, mpv.tickets.com

SARA BAREILLES The royal singer-

songwriter and musical writer and star is headed to the Bay, performing alongside Emily King. Don’t miss the performance!

10/26, 8pm, $35-$95, on sale now. Chase Center, San Francisco, ticketmaster.com.

DEF LEPPARD Don Felder and Last in

Line are filling out the bill as Lepp heads back around for another Sacramentoadjacent installment. 11/2, 7pm, $35$199.50, on sale now. Toyota Amphitheatre, tickets.livenation.com.

FORTUNATE YOUTH The

sextet of reggae performers is coming to Sacramento to perform reggae music. 11/22, 8pm, $20, on sale now. Ace of Spades, ticketmaster.com.

JEN KIRKMAN The

star of stand-up comedy and acting is headed to town to do both of those things— stand-up and perform on stage for your amusement.

1/2-1/4, various times, $25-$35, on sale now. Punch

Line Sacramento, punchlinesac.com.

American rapper Yelawolf to town to perform. 7pm, $30. Ace Of Spades, 1417 R St.

instrumentalist is coming to lay his heart and soul on the line during his Heart & Soul tour. 7:30pm, $49-$79. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.

Grab-snag a ticky.

Hozier? I barely know him!

SUNDAY, 10/20 D.R.I.: The Dirty Rotten Imbeciles are going to

KARAOKE IN THE TAPROOM: Are you a bit of a bedroom Beyonce or a kitchen Kanye?

Grab some liquid courage from the bar and come sing with Jackrabbit Brewing Company. 7pm, no cover. Jackrabbit Brewing Co., 1323 Terminal St., West Sacramento.

THE MINDFUL: Catch the Mindful as they

perform at the Shady Lady. 9pm, no cover. Shady Lady, 1409 R St.

THE POLICE EXPERIENCE: Get the music of Police without all the realities of their split, with this tribute band. 7pm, $24.50. Ace Of Spades, 1417 R St.

RINGS OF SATURN: The genre of deathcore brings the Rings of Saturn to Sacramento for an evening of music—the deathcore variety. 6:30pm, $18. Holy Diver, 1517 21st St.

TROMBONE STUDIO RECITAL: Students from the Sac State trombone studio perform a

Lake Symphony’s season opener, High Impact, features Rachmaninoff’s hauntingly beautiful Symphony No. 2. In addition, composer and trombonist Chris Brubeck will perform his “Concerto for Bass Trombone and Orchestra.” 7:30pm, $27-$66. Harris Center, 10 College Parkway, Folsom.

Sacramento is proud to present its seventh round of Ladies Rock Camp in a rockin’ happy hour showcase, featuring two brand new bands. 4pm, $10. Torch Club, 904 15th St.

DAMIEN ESCOBAR: The violinist, musician and

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HIGH IMPACT WITH CHRIS BRUBECK: The Folsom

LADIES ROCK CAMP FALL SHOWCASE!: Girls Rock

group the Quebe Sisters for some Western swing and string instrumentation. 7:30pm, $20. Goldfield Trading Post, 1630 J St.

There will also be plenty of entertainment, games, prizes and more, and it’s all benefiting the Folsom Zoo’s work providing a safe haven for rescued, injured and unable to be animals. Your ticket includes admission to the zoo, which is good, because you couldn’t reach the food otherwise. 403 Stafford St., Folsom, folsomzoofriends.org.

BOOT JUICE: The six-piece, jammy band from

DECONSTRUCTING THE BEATLES’ ABBEY ROAD:

THE QUEBE SISTERS: Join Texan Americana

FOLSOM CITY ZOO SANCTUARY, 6PM, $10-$15 There are only a few truly monumental changes in breakfast technology in a lifetime—the Folsom FOOD & DRINK Zoo’s Pancake Breakfast features two. Not only will you be eating pancakes in a zoo—where rescued animals spend their days—but you’ll also be eating them at night. The pancakes, that is.

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SATURDAY, 10/19 Davis is coming to town to perform. 7:30pm, $10. Goldfield Trading Post, 1630 J St.

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be playing with Intent and Twitch Angry and another band. 6:30pm, $17-$20. Holy Diver, 1517 21st St.

GRYFFIN: Gryffin, Medasin and BUNT are all

coming together on the Gravity II tour. 7pm,

$30. Ace Of Spades, 1417 R St.

SOUL THERAPY SUNDAYS: Catch Soul Therapy Sundays at Ambiance Lounge for sounds from DJs Epik and Racer. 8:30pm, no cover. Ambiance Lounge, 910 2nd St.

MONDAY, 10/21 ALIEN WEAPONRY: The New Zealand heavy metal band is going to be performing in North America. That means here. 7pm, $12. Holy Diver, 1517 21st St.

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WCR 2019 BATTLE OF THE BANDS & CHILI COOK OFF: Join the Women’s Council Placer for its Battle of the Bands and Chili Cook Off. Eat chili, listen to bands, see which ones win. 5:30pm, $30-$80. Blue Goose Event Center-Annex, 3550 Taylor Road, Loomis.

Sacramento Porchfest BOULEVARD PARK, 1PM, NO COVER

FRIDAY, 10/18 SLIDERS, SPUDS & SUDS: Enjoy an evening of

Join the fine folks at Porchfest for another installment of music and more performances on porches in Midtown. There are three PHOTO COURTESY OF TEDDY ÖSTERBLOM FESTIVALS stages, or “porches,” with acts performing sets into the wee hours of the midevening. Catch the Roa Brothers, Lillian Frances, Salt Wizard and more, including the Sugar Pushers, One Button Suit, House of Mary and Bro Brocean. Remember, donations go to the Mustard Seed School, so share a little love. Various locations, sacporchfest.com.

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ROCKTOBERFEST 2019!: It’s the third annual Silver Orange Fundraiser hosted by Two Rivers Cider. Live music all day with indoor and outdoor stages, food trucks, local vendors, booths, haunted alley and activities for the whole family. 2pm, no cover. Two Rivers Cider, 4311 Attawa Ave.

AUSTIN LUCAS & THE BOLD PARTY: Austin Lucas & the Bold Party are performing in town again. 6:30pm, $20. Claimstake Brewing Company, 11366 Monier Park Place, Rancho Cordova.

SAC PORCHFEST: See the highlight above—and

it’s “Porchfest,” not “Porschefest.” 1pm, no cover. Boulevard Park.

TUESDAY, 10/22 JOSH A & JAKE HILL: This rap duo will be performing with Darko and JordanxBell. 7pm, $15-$60. Harlow’s, 2708 J St.

SUNDAY, 10/20 FALL FEST: For one day only, the Jackrabbit Brewing parking lot is turning into a Fall Festival! They will have steins of beer, delicious food, pop-up vendors, face painting, an outdoor beer garden, pumpkin carving, inflatable jousting and more. 1pm, no cover. Jackrabbit Brewing Co., 1323 Terminal St., West Sacramento.

FESTIVALS FRIDAY, 10/18 FRIENDS OF EMPIRE ARTS FUNDRAISER: Join Classy Hippy Tea Co. to raise funds for Empire Arts Collective by celebrating the 25th anniversary of the seminal TV sitcom Friends. They’re going to have tons of Friends-themed fun while raising money for the arts in Sacramento. 7pm, $20. Classy Hippy Tea Co., 3226 Broadway Suite A.

SACRAMENTO AUTO SHOW: The Auto Show

SAUSAGE FEST 2: SausageFest is a sausagemaking competition showcasing Sacramento’s best chefs competing for tubed meats supremacy. A-Trak will deejay with a special throwback hip-hop set during the competition. 4pm, $15. LowBrau, 1050 20th St.

celebrating the arts, culture and traditions of local Native Americans. The four-hour festival includes art demonstrations, hands-on activities, dancing, music, gallery interactives and a Native artisan marketplace. 11am, no cover. Crocker Art Museum, 216 O St.

SATURDAY, 10/19 9TH ANNUAL BARKTOBERFEST: If you love animals, food and beer, then the 9th Annual Barktoberfest is for you! Bring your doggies and join the Placer SPCA for a family festival. 10am, $15-$38. McBean Park, 65 McBean Park Drive, Lincoln.

Bosstones, the Vandals and more will be performing together at Punk in Drublic, a craft beer and music festival. 1pm, $45$185. Cal Expo, 1600 Exposition Blvd.

RIVER CITY MARKETPLACE AT FREMONT PARK: Enjoy the fall weather and shop local with River City Marketplace at Fremont Park for incredible vendors, food and fun in one of Sacramento’s beautiful parks. 11am, no cover. John C. Fremont Park, 1515 Q St.

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comedian and writer will be performing and making some laughs. Through 10/20. $27.50. 2100 Arden Way, Suite 225.

SACRAMENTO COMEDY SPOT: Comedy Exchange w/ Amy Estes & Jesse Rivera. Stand-up inspires improv in this comedy show hosted

by Melissa McGillicuddy. Friday 10/18, 8pm. $8. 1050 20th St., Suite 130.

TOMMY T’S COMEDY CLUB: Dat Phan. Dat Phan, the Original Winner of NBC’s Last Comic Standing is coming to Tommy T’s. Through 10/19. $20. 12401 Folsom Blvd., Rancho Cordova.

5TH ANNUAL PANCAKE BREAKFAST FOR DINNER: The Folsom Zoo Sanctuary’s fifth annual Pancake Breakfast will be serving dinner instead. There will also be entertainment, games, prizes and more. 6pm, $10$15. Folsom City Zoo Sanctuary, 403 Stafford St., Folsom.

FILM THURSDAY, 10/17 DOUBLE FEATURE: Join Slant Step Forward curator Francesca Wilmott for this double feature of two 16mm films, Five Artists: BillBobBillBillBob and The Great Blondino. 7:30am, $7-$9. Verge Center for the Arts, 625 S St.

FRIDAY, 10/18 BENEFIT SCREENING OF THE UNAFRAID: Alianza, Association of Raza Educators and The Los Rios College Federation of Teachers partner for a benefit screening of The Unafraid. 7pm, $10. Sacramento City College, 3835 Freeport Blvd.

COMEDY CSZ SACRAMENTO: Meanwhile At Hogwarts. An improv comedy show inspired by and set in the world of Harry Potter. Meet neverbefore-seen characters while Harry, Ron and Hermione are busy with their adventures. Saturday 10/19, 8pm. $8-$12. 2230 Arden Way, Suite B.

ON STAGE AMERICAN RIVER COLLEGE THEATRE: Little Shop of Horrors at American River College. Catch ARC’s production of Little Shop of Horrors and witness the slow, rising tension of the story of Seymour and a plant called Audrey II. Through 10/27. $15-$18. 4700 College Oak Drive

B STREET THEATRE: The Sword In The Stone.

This adaptation explores the thrilling adventures that made the boy into a man of legend and the powerful sword that only the rightful king could pull from the stone. Through 11/10. $19-$24. White Rabbit Red Rabbit by Nassim Soleimanpour. No set. No director.

No rehearsal. Each night, a different actor arrives on stage and is handed a sealed envelope. Together, actor and audience discover the mystery that lies in the envelope. Through 11/10. $25. 2700 Capitol Ave.

CAPITAL STAGE: The Humans. Breaking with tradition, Erik Blake has brought his Pennsylvania family to celebrate Thanksgiving at his daughter’s apartment in lower Manhattan. As darkness falls outside the ramshackle pre-war duplex, eerie things start to go bump in the night in The Humans. Through 11/17. $25-$49. 2215 J St.

CELEBRATION ARTS: MacBeth. Celebration Arts presents William Shakespeare’s Macbeth adapted and directed by Khimberly Marshall and featuring an all African-American cast for the first time in Sacramento history. Through 11/3. $10-$30. 2727 B St.

SACRAMENTO POETRY CENTER: Prose in the Afternoon at SPC. Meet murder mystery writer and award-winning author Sue Owens Wright for a reading from Ears for Murder,

WE ARE HERE A FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY NATIVE AMERICAN ART: Join the Crocker in

comes to Cal Expo, bringing cars and automobiles. 10am, $5-$13. Cal Expo, 1600 Exposition Blvd.

PUNK IN DRUBLIC: NOFX, the Mighty Mighty

unlimited sips and tasty bites while dancing the night away under the stars. 5:30pm, $30. Saint John Vianney School, 10499 Coloma Road, Rancho Cordova.

PUNCH LINE: Aries Spears. The New York

FOOD & DRINK THURSDAY, 10/17 NIKKA JAPANESE WHISKEY TASTING: Jump into the amazing world of Japanese whiskey. 6pm, $40. de Vere’s Irish Pub, 1521 L St.

SACRAMENTO COCKTAIL WEEK SHOWCASE:

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SATURDAY, 10/19

Sacramento’s Vegan Food Festival CESAR CHAVEZ PLAZA, 1PM, $10-$15

It’s about time for the vegans of Sacramento to have a food festival featuring no animal products. It’s all plantFOOD & DRINK based foods, meals and snack options for those interested in not partaking in meat and animal products.

Reduce your carbon footprint and help support the plant-based food industry with local food vendors. 910 I St., eventbrite. com/e/sacramentos-vegan-food-festival -tickets-62895808055.

her fifth book in the Beanie and Cruiser Mystery Series. Sunday 10/20, 4pm. No cover. 1719 25th St.

ART ELK GROVE FINE ARTS CENTER: Journey of Hope Show. Join the Elk Grove Fine Arts Center for a bunch of stories of folks living with mental health challenges in the form of artwork. Through 10/23. No cover. 9080 Elk Grove Blvd., Elk Grove.

KENNEDY GALLERY: Recycled The Exhibit. Catch the gallery’s newest exhibit of art work under the theme of trash recycled from around town, reused and turned into artwork. Through 11/3. No cover. 1931 L St.

THE ICE BLOCKS: Creativity Plus Illustrators Showcase. Illustrators Showcase is the third episode in the Creativity Plus series featuring creative professionals from a specific field. Thirteen illustrators will display their work and take the stage to offer a quick rundown of their talents. Thursday 10/17, 5:30pm. No cover. 1715 R St.

TIM COLLOM GALLERY: The Delta Paintings and Other Works. Richard Stein brings a solo exhibition to the Tim Collom Gallery. It’s focused around agricultural landscapes, primarily viewed from above. Through 10/31.

No cover. 915 20th St.

MUSEUMS CROCKER ART MUSEUM: Visual Sovereignty A Symposium on Contemporary Native American Art and Activism. Explore the complex relationship between Native American communities, the United States and contemporary culture. The symposium will examine issues including self-definition, power, community, modern colonialism and the role of art. Saturday 10/19, 9:30am. $60$70. 216 O St.

POWERHOUSE SCIENCE CENTER: Challenger Community Mission. Community Missions launch families, friends, and space enthusiasts on an exciting voyage of discovery where you can experience what it is like to work for NASA. Work with a team to build a probe, support astronauts from mission control and discover how tests are

Thursday, 10/17

Book Club on the Go Cesar Chavez Plaza Fountain, noon, no Cover

Join the folks from Sac Library’s Alt Library for an afternoon walk and talk with books. You’ll meet and BOOKS talk with fellow book lovers and explore downtown at the same time.

Sound like a dream? Show up, then. The book is Macy Beth’s Dopesick, and the discussion is centered around it. Can’t make this discussion, or haven’t read the book yet? There’s another meet-up on the fourth Wednesday with the same book.

910 I St., meetup.com/altlibrary.

performed in space. Friday 10/18, 6pm. $20. 3615 Auburn Blvd.

SACRAMENTO HISTORIC CITY CEMETERY: Lantern Tours 2019. Ever wonder what might have happened if Edgar Allan Poe had visited Sacramento? What local tales could he have heard? Join the Historic City Cemetery for an evening walk featuring true life intrigue, mystery, murder, insanity and death right here in Sacramento. Through 10/27. $40. 1000 Broadway.

SACRAMENTO HISTORY MUSEUM: Honoring Our Past. A night to discuss the meaning and history of Dia de los Muertos and honor community members for the impact they make. Thursday 10/17, 6pm. No cover. 101 I St.

BOOks Thursday, 10/17 BLACK AUTHORS GROUP-MONTHLY MEET & GREET: Join this group to share your written work, hear from other people who have been in your authorly shoes and to get on track to publish your work. 6:30pm, no cover. Capsity Coworking, 2572 21st St.

BOOK CLUB ON THE GO: On the Go is a walking book club, featured above. Noon, no cover. Central Library, 828 I St.

Friday, 10/18 FIELD TRIP CALIFORNIA STATE LIBRARY: The California State Library is the oldest continuously operated public library in the American West and is the central reference and research library for state government and the Legislature. Take a tour. 10am, $35. California State Library, 900 N St.

sPOrTs & OuTdOOrs saTurday, 10/19 SACRAMENTO KINGS FAN FEST: Head to the Golden 1 Center to get an up close, behindthe-scenes look at your Sacramento Kings!

Enjoy an afternoon of family fun watching your favorite returning and new players in action as they prepare for the new season. 12:30pm, no cover. Golden 1 Center, 500 David J Stern Walk.

sunday, 10/20 CARMICHAEL COMMUNITY DANCE NIGHT: Get on your feet, Carmichael! Join the Carmichael Recreation & Park District and the John

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Skinner Band for a free community dance for all ages and abilities. 2pm, no cover. La Sierra Community Center, 5325 Engle Road, Carmichael.

TakE aCTiOn Thursday, 10/17 I STREET BRIDGE COMMUNITY WORKSHOP: Join the cities of Sacramento and West Sacramento as they unveil final bridge design concepts. This third community workshop is for reviewing the final concepts and providing input. 6:30pm, no cover. Old Sacramento Waterfront Boardwalk, 100 J St.

STATE OF THE COUNCIL 2019: Join the Sacramento Food Policy Council at its yearly open meeting. Get an overview of the work of its campaigns and participate in a discussion on how to deepen its impact through 2020. 6pm, no cover. Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services, 3333 3rd Ave.

Friday, 10/18 CELEBRATION OF INCLUSIVE COMMUNITIES 2019: The Celebration of Inclusive Communities is an annual event at the Warehouse Artist Lofts, where local businesses are honored for recognizing the value of equal opportunity employment and for opening their doors for all people to contribute in meaningful and creative ways. 6pm, $35. Warehouse Artist Lofts.

saTurday, 10/19 HIGHWATER JAMBOREE: Watch first responders in action, observe a flood simulator and sign up for emergency alerts at this family-friendly flood preparedness exposition. 10am, no cover. Miller Park.

CLassEs saTurday, 10/19 BEGINNING BIRDING: Interested in birding but unsure where to start? Naturalist and wildlife photographer Hayley Crews will lead this class introducing the hobby of birding at a beginner level. 8am, $10-$15. American River Conservancy, 348 State Highway 49, Coloma.

THE SHADOW SIDE OF CREATIVITY WORKSHOP: Navigate imposter syndrome and creative blocks through self-care at this workshop.

1409 Del Paso Boulevard 12pm, $25. Broad Room Creative Collective, 2311 S St.

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Spectacular Saturdays, 6pm, call for cover

B.P.M. & Sunday Funday Remixed, 4pm, After Hours with Apple , 9pm, M, no call for cover cover; Trapicana, 11pm, W, no cover

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Off With Their Heads, Slingshot Dakota and Bastard of Young, 8pm, $14

Drunk Poetry, 8pm, no cover

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The Almas, Wendell & The Puppets, Anarchy Lace and more, 8pm, $10-$12

Trapt and more, 7pm, T, $20; Tantric and more, 7pm, W, $15

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

Boot Scootin Sundays, 8pm, $5

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

Damien Escobar, 7:30pm, $29-$79

Steve Hackett, 7:30pm, $55-$65

Miss Sacramento Latina 2019, 7pm, $35-$45

Gabby Bernstein, 7pm, M, $67-$117

Absolut Fridays, 9pm, call for cover

Sequin Saturdays, 9:30pm, call for cover

Funday Frolic, 3pm, no cover

Every Damn Monday, 8pm, M, no cover

The O’Mally Sisters, 6pm, call for cover

One Eyed Reilly, 8pm, call for cover

RetroSpecs, 8pm, call for cover

Laura McLean CD release party, 8pm, no cover

Working Man Blues Band and Whilt Spiskey, 9pm, $5

Would-Be Train Robbers, J. Graves and Little Black Cloud, 9pm, $5

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Teton Gravity Research Double-Header, 7pm, $10-$19.75

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Open-Mic Night, 7:30pm, M, no cover; Pub Quiz, 7pm, T, no cover

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Boot Juice, 7:30pm, $10

Don Gallardo, 7:30pm, W, $10-$12

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

Paint Nite, 6:30pm, call for cover

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Delta Rae and Francis Cone, 7pm, $22.50-$25

2708 J ST., (916) 441-4693

Circles Around the Sun, 8:30pm, $20-$25

The Darling Clementines: A Haunting at Harlow’s, 7pm, $15-$20

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

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Josh A & Jake Hill, 7pm, T, $15-$60; The Garden, 7:30pm, W, $16-$18

Cuffin, 9pm, $5

Night Swim with Joseph One, 10pm, call for cover

Rings of Saturn, Enterprise Earth, Angelmaker and more, 6:30pm, $18

Landon Cube and 24Goldn, 7pm, $18

Sac Unified Poetry Slam, 8pm, call for cover

Trivia Factory, 7pm, M, call for cover; Geeks Who Drink, 7pm, T, call for cover D.R.I., INTENT, Twitch Angry and more, 6:30pm, $17-$20

Alien Weaponry, 7pm, M, $12; G Perico, 7pm, W, call for cover

Triviology 101, 7:30pm, no cover

Live Music with Allie Marcel, 5pm, T, no cover

Comedy Funraiser For Sarah Gregory, 8pm, $10

Nebraska Mondays, 7:30pm, M, $10; Jazz Jam w/ Byron Colburn, 8pm, W, $5

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Lantz Lazwell & The Vibe Tribe, Jelly Bread and more, 9pm, $10-$12

Erasure-esque (A Tribute to Erasure), 10pm, $10-$15

Little Hurricane and The Loose Threads, 7pm, $12-$14

Summer Cannibals and Sad Girlz Club, 7pm, $10-$12

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Karaoke, 8:30pm, T, call for cover; 98 Rock Local Licks, 9pm, W, call for cover

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Stoney’s Saturdays with Free Line Dance Lessons, 7pm, $5

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Cashmere Agency founder, Ted Chung (left) and Flow Kana CEO Michael Steinmetz (right) might have gotten a contact high from Snoop Dogg at a September cannabis conference in The Emerald Triangle.

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the conversation ahead Flow Kana’s ‘Cannabis as a Catalyst for Change’ event heard from industry experts, politicians—and Snoop Dogg

by Danielle Simone BranD

it’s a strange moment when snoop dogg takes the stage at a cannabis conference to talk about how he legally sells a product for which he’s done jail time. But that’s exactly what happened at the “Cannabis as a Catalyst for Change” event in Mendocino last month hosted by Flow Kana, a cannabis processing and distribution company in the Emerald Triangle.

Snoop joked that because he’s known to smoke weed by the pound, he named his flower company Leafs By Snoop, which carries the same initials as the abbreviation for pounds—lbs.

He was a surprise guest at the conference where social and environmental issues were top of the agenda. In addition to the West Coast rap legend, featured speakers including Black Lives Matter co-founder Opal Tometi and two-time Green Party vice presidential candidate

Winona LaDuke talked about the industry’s challenges and opportunities to make the world a better place.

Tometi, a Nigerian-American immigrant and human rights activist, told the crowd that people of color are six times more likely to get arrested for cannabisrelated offenses and that cannabis infractions are also the fourth most common cause for deportation. Even now, with legalization in 11 states, there are still black and brown people serving life in prison for cannabis convictions, a sobering fact for everyone who enjoys legal access to the safe and regulated cannabis product of their choice.

California, Tometi said, is paving the way forward through local social equity programs including those in Sacramento and Los Angeles. Under these programs, black and brown people who have been

most negatively affected by the “war on drugs” have more opportunities for participating in the legal industry. But even then, access can be difficult for those historically deprived of capital and lacking business experience. Karim Webb, another speaker at the event, runs a firm called 4thMVMT that helps entrepreneurs of color through the lengthy cannabis permitting process in L.A. For the industry folks congregated among the oaks and redwoods of Flow Kana’s spacious campus, Tometi had a call to action: Support the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act, what she called “the most sweeping marijuana bill ever.”

Introduced by Sen. Kamala Harris of California and Rep. Jerry Nadler of New York, the bill calls for taking cannabis off the federal schedule of harmful drugs. It

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also stipulates that a portion of cannabis tax revenue should be allocated to a trust fund benefiting communities of color to pay for expunging criminal records, a reentry program for those leaving prison with cannabis offenses and substance abuse treatment programs. The trust fund would also establish an agency to encourage minority participation in the legal cannabis industry and create a more equitable licensing program.

If Congress passes and President Trump signs the bill, Tometi says, it would help those who have suffered disproportionately under prohibition and deserve to benefit from the industry’s exponential growth.

While Tometi’s message honed in on social justice, Winona LaDuke’s also wove in protecting the environment.

LaDuke, a member of the Ojibwe White Earth tribe in Minnesota and also a hemp farmer, said the cannabis conversation needs to include more than what we smoke or consume.

Hemp, the non-psychoactive cannabis variety, is effectively legal to grow and sell in the U.S. since the 2018 Farm Bill was passed. It can be used for clothing, shoes, paper, packaging, insulation and biofuel.

What’s more, hemp can be grown outdoors in an environmentally friendly way and can even store carbon to help stem climate change. The fossil fuel-addicted economy, she said, “needs to be hemorrhaged out” to create an economy that serves people and the earth, not corporate profits.

“We have a whole materials economy that is predicated on hauling s--t around the world that shouldn’t be hauled around the world,” she said. “And a lot of stuff [like fossil fuels] that should stay in the ground.”

Still, to reach a sustainable relationship for the industry and the economy, it’s a long road. LaDuke shared an Ojibwe prophecy: The “Seventh Fire” was said to be a time when, “we would have a choice between two paths: One would be well worn but it would be scorched, and the other would not be well worn and it would be green.”

The way forward, according to LaDuke, is to build an economy based on cooperation, not competition, and one in which hemp plays a vital role. She urged the crowd of cannabis industry veterans, newbies, and consumers to think beyond immediate gains and “be the ancestors our descendants can be proud of.” Ω 10.17.19 | SN&R | 35

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Right? Acapulco Gold, Michoacan, a really nice Oaxacan. It’s a shame that most of the old-school Mexican landrace strains died out in the 1980s after the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration started spraying Mexican cannabis fields with the pesticide known as paraquat. You can still find Acapulco Gold (purportedly) in Seattle and you can buy some Mexican landrace seeds from a few Dutch companies (buying or selling cannabis seeds internationally is a federal offense), but it is hard to find in California.

However, the Mexican government is hard at work on a new law that would legalize recreational cannabis.

Just last week, Mexican Senate majority leader Ricardo Monreal predicted that cannabis could be legal in Mexico by the end of October. If that happens—and Mexico’s Supreme Court has already declared cannabis prohibition to be unconstitutional—not only will your weekends in Cabo be even more epic, the U.S. will be smack dab in the middle of two countries with legal pot, and the global ganjapreneur gang will be pressing the feds to get into the game. The global weed game is way bigger than you think.

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Yes they have, and it’s a pretty good one. A team from the University of Pittsburgh has used technology to invent a Breathalyzer that not only detects THC, but can determine the amount of THC in a person’s bloodstream. They just unveiled it last month, so it will be a while before the cops have them and start forcing people

with bloodshot eyes and a car full of snacks to blow into a tube.

Here’s the thing though: It’s not just that THC sits around in the bloodstream long after the effects have worn off, so a chronic cannabis user could still blow a high number even though they are completely sober. It is also that no one knows how much THC is too much. According to a 2010 study published in The American Journal on Addictions, “Case-control studies are inconsistent, but suggest that while low concentrations of THC do not increase the rate of accidents, and may even decrease them, serum concentrations of THC higher than 5 nanograms per milliliter are associated with an increased risk of accidents.” By the way, the state of Washington uses 5mg/ ml as its limit. Drivers who have more than 5mg in the bloodstream can be arrested for DUI even though, according to Staci Hoff, research director at the Washington Traffic Safety Commission, “More and more research is coming out debunking this mythical link between THC level in the blood and level of impairment.” The same study showing 5ng/ml as maybe a good threshold also points out that “experienced smokers who drive on a set course show almost no functional impairment under the influence of marijuana, except when it is combined with alcohol.” Getting stoned and driving is not cool, but until we figure out how much is too much, maybe the cops should leave their Breathalyzers at the office. Ω

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In 2017, The New York Times what would you think about someone confronting their rapist if it’s someone reported on a study of men who commit they know? sexual assault and rape: “Heavy drinking, I would think that the confronter might perceived pressure to have sex, a belief be seeking closure and doesn’t yet in ‘rape myths’—such as the idea that no understand how best to accomplish it. means yes—are all risk factors among For the sake of simplifying a complicated men who have committed sexual assault. question, I will proceed as though the A peer group that uses hostile language to confronter has already reported the crime describe women is another one.” The article to the police and the legal process has goes on to explain that men who rape will been completed. If not, the confronter is freely acknowledge that they have engaged placing herself at unnecessary in “nonconsensual sex,” but don’t personal risk by privately consider it “real rape.” confronting someone A confronter must In movies who has engaged in a understand that her terrifying act of sexual rapist may not change, and fiction, a violence against her but she can change. confronter feels and who has not She has healed, will empowered after been held legally heal, is healing. If the accountable. If the rapist is a sociopath or confronting her rapist. statute of limitations narcissist, he will not This is not the norm on rape has passed, the be capable of seeing in real life. confronter can consult himself as the problem. an attorney about the He may try to justify his possibility of bringing a civil crime by saying that his victim suit against the rapist. In this way aroused him. Or he will tell a story she might receive some justice while also in which he appears as the hero. Ignore creating a paper trail that might contribute it. By stating the truth, a confronter will to protecting herself and others. have restored her own sense of power.

In movies and fiction, a confronter And that, my friend, is closure. feels empowered after confronting her One last thing, if we want a reduction rapist. This is not the norm in real life. in sexual violence against women we must More often than not, a confronter does not raise empathetic boys into men who refuse experience the closure she seeks. That’s to tolerate sexual aggression. We also must because the act of seeking closure from raise smart girls into women who protect a rapist gives the rapist power over the themselves and others. Ω confronter’s healing. For closure to work, the confronter cannot believe the rapist Meditation oF the week has something to give her. She accepts that she doesn’t need anything from him.

The opposite is true. She has something “No one can make you he lacks: The truth about what rape is and feel inferior without your who a rapist is. consent,” said first lady Before attempting a confrontation, Eleanor Roosevelt. Are you buying into beliefs that no process the rape experience with support longer serve you? from a qualified psychotherapist. If a confrontation is to follow, it should begin with the confronter clearly stating the legal definition of rape. Next, state what the rapist Write, email or leave a message for did. Make a clear connection between his Joey at the News & Review. Give behavior and the definition of rape. Don’t your name, telephone number argue. Be rational. Repeat the legal defini(for verification purposes only) and question—all correspondence will be kept strictly confidential. tion of rape and state what he did. Build Write Joey, 1124 Del Paso Boulevard, Sacramento, CA the bridge that makes his denial harder to 95815; call (916) 498-1234, ext. 1360; or email sustain. askjoey@newsreview.com.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Metaphorically speaking, you are now crossing a bridge. Behind you is the intriguing past; in front of you, the even more intriguing future. You can still decide to return to where you came from. Or else you could pick up your pace and race ahead at twice the speed. You might even make the choice to linger on the bridge for a while; to survey the vast vistas that are visible and contemplate more leisurely the transition you’re making. Only you know what’s best for you, of course. But if you asked me, I’d be in favor of lingering on the bridge for a while.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): As I write this, I’m sitting in a café near two women at another table.

One sports a gold cashmere headscarf and pentagram necklace. The other wears a dark blue pantsuit and a silver broach that’s the glyph for Gemini the Twins. The woman wearing the headscarf shuffles a deck of Tarot cards and asks the woman wearing the pantsuit what she’d like to find out during the divination she is about to receive. “I would very much like you to tell me what I really really want,” she says with a chuckle. “I’m sure that once I find out that big secret, I’ll be able to accomplish wonders.”

I hope you will be on a similar mission in the coming weeks. Do whatever it takes to get very clear about what you want most.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Ancient Greek philosopher Socrates was meandering through an Athenian marketplace, gazing at the appealing and expensive items for sale.

“How many things there are in this world that I do not want,” he exclaimed with satisfaction. I recommend you cultivate that liberated attitude.

Now is a perfect time to celebrate the fact that there are countless treasures and pleasures you don’t need in order to be charmed and cheerful about your life. For extra credit, add this nuance from Henry David Thoreau: People are rich in proportion to the number of things they can afford to let alone.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I invite you to try this exercise. Imagine that one springtime you grow a garden filled with flowers that rabbits like to nibble: petunias, marigolds, gazanias and pansies. This place’s only purpose is to give gifts to a wild, sweet part of nature. It’s blithely impractical. You do it for your own senseless, secret joy. It appeals to the dreamy lover of life in you. Got all that? Now, in accordance with current astrological omens, I suggest you actually try to fulfill a fantasy comparable to that one in the coming weeks.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): My Virgo friend Lola got a text message from her Scorpio buddy Tanya.

“Why don’t you come over and chill with me and my demons? It’ll be entertaining, I promise! My inner jerks are howlingly funny tonight.” Here’s what Lola texted back: “Thanks but no thanks, sweetie. I’ve been making big breakthroughs with my own demons—giving them the attention they crave without caving in to their outrageous demands—and for now I need to work on stabilizing our new relationship. I can’t risk bringing extra demons into the mix.” I suspect this is an accurate description of what could be happening for you.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In ancient holy texts from India, soma was said to be a drink that enhanced awareness and alertness. According to modern scholars, it may have been a blend

of poppy, ephedra and cannabis. In Norse mythology, the beverage called the Mead of Suttungr conferred poetic inspiration and the ability to solve any riddle. One of its ingredients was honey. In Slavic folklore, raskovnik is an herb with the magic power to unlock what’s locked and uncover hidden treasures. It’s not a four-leaf clover, but resembles it. I invite you to fantasize about using these three marvels.

To do so will enhance your imagination, thereby boosting the cosmic forces that will be working in your favor to enhance your awareness, confer inspiration, solve riddles, unlock what’s locked, and find hidden treasures.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Inventor Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) was a visionary genius in numerous fields, including architecture, design, engineering and futurism. In the course of earning 40 honorary doctorates, he traveled widely. It was his custom to wear three watches, each set to a different time: one to the zone where he currently was, another to where he had recently departed and a third to where he would journey next. “I know that I am not a category,” he wrote. “I am not a thing—a noun. I seem to be a verb.”

I recommend his approach to you in the coming weeks. Be a verb! Allow your identity to be fluid, your plans adjustable, your ideas subject to constant revision.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place,” said actress Tilda Swinton. How about you? What reminds you that you have a soul in the first place? Beloved animals? Favorite music? A stroll amidst natural wonders? Unpredictable, fascinating sexual experiences? The vivid and mysterious dreams you have at night?

Whatever stimuli bring you into visceral communion with your soul, I urge you to seek them out in abundance. It’s Soul-Cherishing and Soul-Enhancing Time for you.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The coming weeks will be a favorable time to arrange a series of high-level meetings between your body, mind and soul. You might even consider staging an extravagant conference-like festival and festival-like conference. The astrological omens suggest that your body, mind and soul are now primed to reveal choice secrets and tips to each other. They are all more willing and eager than usual to come up with productive new synergies that will enable each to function with more panache and effectiveness.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “I believe in inhabiting contradictions,” writes Aquarian author and activist Angela Davis. “I believe in making contradictions productive, not in having to choose one side or the other side. As opposed to choosing either or choosing both.” I think her approach will work well for you in the coming weeks. It’s not just that the contradictions will be tolerable; they will be downright fertile, generous and beneficent.

So welcome them; honor them; allow them to bless you with their tricky opportunities and unexpected solutions.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Piscean pianist Frédéric Chopin (1801-1849) was a poetic genius whose music was full of sweetness and grace. “Without equal in his generation,” said more than one critic. Today, more than 170 years after his death, his work remains popular. Recently an Italian sound designer named Remo De Vico created an original new Chopin piece that featured all 21 of the master’s piano nocturnes being played simultaneously. (You can hear it at tinyurl. com/NewChopin.) As you might imagine, it’s a gorgeous mess, too crammed with notes to truly be enjoyable, but interesting nevertheless. I’ll counsel you to avoid a similar fate in the coming weeks. It’s fine to be extravagant and expansive and mulitfaceted; just don’t overdo it.

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