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When we read the submissions to SN&R’s Worst Date Contest, we were shocked, amused and even a little saddened. We expected awkward stories, but some of these were downright awful (though funny)—tales of dine-and-dash dinners, unwanted groping, racist jokes, drunken vomiting and worse. Uh-oh. Clearly, there had been pent-up demand in Sacramento for somebody to ask the “worst date” question! Anyway, we hereby present the winners of our Worst Date Contest.

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The superintendent called it the “worst” year of budget cuts he’s experienced.

It wasn’t an exaggeration: Sacramento City Unified School District’s proposed $28 million in slashes will cut stipends to sports coaches and yearbook teachers, impact music and adult education, and eliminate school buses. The teachers union and the school board, however, say the cuts are political—and that the district needs to look at the tens of millions it spends on consulting contracts annually. Cosmo Garvin reports.

Also this week: Tasers and Tent City 2’s aftermath, redevelopment and climate change, and Tom Hayden on the potential for war with Iran.

Bites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Cuts, crowded classes and consultants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Beats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Homeless cleanup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 The coming war with Iran. . . . . . . . . . 11

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It’s Second Saturday. But the weather isn’t winteresque, so you won’t have to brave the chill to check out Shoka’s monthly art picks. Also this week: Jonathan Mendick has some Valentine’s Day cocktails, Greg Lucas samples Midtown’s latest Indian fare, Nick Miller chills with Lee Bannon and Rachel Leibrock revisits the Polaroid.

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COOLHUNTING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34 ASK JOEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35 STAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36 Death of a Salesman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Where We’re Born . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Now Playing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

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Re “Mixed signals” by Cosmo Garvin (SN&R Bites, January 19): This column is right on. But as we lament the loss of “local” programming on Sacramento’s public-radio stations, we shouldn’t overlook what’s happened on our private “commercial” stations. These stations hold lucrative LETTER OF [Federal Communications Commission] licenses to run a comTHE WEEK mercial for-profit station, but with an FCC requirement that they serve the “public interest.”

Airing only nonlocal, nationally syndicated talk shows day and night in California’s capital city raises the question, “What are they thinking?” Throw in the fact that their talk shows offer an overwhelmingly one-sided (conservative) viewpoint, and it’s hard to see how our local “public interest” is being served—especially in an election year.

Yes, we need more “localism” on our public-radio stations, but let’s not forget to expect it from our commercial stations either.

Roger Smith Sacramento Media Group

Jolt of personal experience Re “Jolt of hope” by Jeff vonKaenel (SN&R Greenlight, February 2): I’d first like to thank [Senator President Pro Tem Darrell] Steinberg for writing and supporting the Mental Health Services Act, which provides funding for mental-health treatment and services for all California mental-health clients and family members.

I have participated in many of the Act’s training programs and sat on several MHSA committees. I was heavily involved in the Sacramento Wellness and Recovery Center, which received MHSA funding.

It was through these MHSA activities, committees and training sessions that I met Andrea Hillerman-Crook. I was impressed by her professionalism and personal strength. She has sincere compassion and empathy for her peer clients. She understands the challenges and struggles clients and family members face on a daily basis.

She understands because she’s “been there.”

This empowers [Hillerman-Crook], as it would any mental-health client. This is not “victimization” in any form; this is a good example of what Steinberg had in mind when he wrote the “five essential elements” of the MHSA legislation.

Clients need unity now—from their peers most of all!

Becky Skalinder Sacramento

Don’t pass stigma forward Re “Jolt of hope” by Jeff vonKaenel (SN&R Greenlight, February 2): Actually they are not “combating the stigma of mental illness”; they are positing it through you and successfully. It is a pernicious practice.

[As written in the story]: “‘Because of the stigma of mental illness, despite everything that was happening to me, I did not want to be thought of as being one of the crazy ones,’ Andrea [Hillerman-Crook] told the audience gathered at the Sam Pannell Meadowview Community Center.”

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This statement is offensive, for more than one reason. First, she is positing a prejudice as if it were universal. It is hers.

It may be other people’s prejudice as well, but it is far from universal.

Second, she is, as a victim of someone’s prejudice, repeating it. It is not uncommon for victims of a prejudice to internalize it as a truth and repeat it.

Please do not, for anyone, employ journalism to repeat their prejudice, no matter how “sincere” or “professional” they may seem. Do not validate their prejudice.

A shot from behind taken on a rainy day of the male members of wedding party crossing a bridge at Sacramento’s Discovery Park.

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Re “Defend freedom of choice” by Eileen Schnitger (SN&R Guest Comment, January 26): I wonder why people like Eileen [Schnitger] and other “choice” advocates always think that women seeking an abortion are capable of make this life-ending decision. How is this possible when just a few weeks or months prior they couldn’t even make the simplest decision to just say no and keep their legs together?

Re “Oh, ho, ho, it’s magic” (SN&R Letters, February 2): I believe Richard Copp missed the point. Unlike alcohol, overconsumption of marijuana, and even tobacco, has not killed anyone.

All three can cause accidents and involuntary manslaughter.

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Re “Crunch time for strong mayor” by Cosmo Garvin (SN&R Beats, January 19): Despite the continuing efforts by Mayor Kevin Johnson and the editorial board of The Sacramento Bee for a “strong mayor,” I have yet to see any compelling reason for making such a change. If there is a desire by the citizens of Sacramento for the change it certainly is not apparent.

Councilman Rob Fong was correct when he said he didn’t discern any desire in his district for a strong mayor. Fortunately, the council took the right action on this issue and now perhaps we can get on with the business of the city without these types of distraction.

Incidentally, I was amused that, while the mayor and the Bee did a full-court press for a vote on the “strong mayor,” they

Re “State of hunger” by Sasha Abramsky (SN&R Feature, January 26): While I did find the story of the dancer interesting, I can’t help but question the news judgment in putting it on the cover rather than Sasha Abramsky’s great work on hunger in California.

One is interesting; the other is important.

I know, in these tough times, people look for “lighter” fare. However, I trust SN&R to tell me what’s really important— you always have. I can only hope that people who picked it up for the dancer read the hunger story as well and put the information to good use.

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by COSMO GARVIN privilege.”

Bites doesn’t know if those words, spoken by President Harry Truman at a campaign stop in Iowa in 1948, ever made it onto a sign at Occupy Wall Street, or Occupy Sacramento. But they ought to.

They were quoted again by California’s former State Treasurer Phil Angelides, at a gathering last week of Sacramento’s Truman Democratic Club.

Angelides, for whom Truman is a favorite—he evoked the same speech during his 2006 run for governor against Arnold Schwarzenegger—knows more than most about Wall Street reactionaries.

He was appointed by Congress to chair the bipartisan Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission formed in 2009 to get to the bottom of America’s financial meltdown.

“I thought I knew something about the financial system in this country,” Angelides—himself a successful developer—is fond of saying. The commission was a “journey of revelation” which led him to open a door to the hidden back room of the financial system, in which he spied, “A casino floor as big as New York City.” A casino that wiped out $9 trillion of household wealth.

The FCIC’s report came out a year ago, along with several referrals from the Commission to the U.S. Department of Justice. “It is still my hope that justice will be done in this country,” Angelides said.

But that seems ever less likely. And Angelides is still making the rounds, reminding us that little has changed, no one has gone to jail, and no one has been held accountable.

“Compensation practices “We are fighting with all remain unchanged and the our strength to prevent amounts of compensation the gluttons of privilege remain ungodly,” Angelides remarked. Seventy-seven from swallowing percent of banking assets are controlled by the 10 biggest the country.” banks, a level Angelides says President Harry Truman is greater concentration than ever before, up from 25 percent in 1990, and 55 percent in 2005. “And we have a bitter rearguard action by the forces of power and money to stop reform,” he added.

But wait, aren’t the Democrats among the forces of power and money, too? Angelides acknowledged it, saying, “We need to look at our own party.”

Right now, if the Democrats don’t get back, at least a little bit, to taking on the Wall Street reactionaries, right now, they never will.

“For all of our disappointments” with the White House, Angelides said, “I now see a new attitude in this administration. And it was the people who gathered in Zuccotti Park who lit the fire and put this back on the street.”

The mention of Occupy Wall Street was one of the few applause lines in the otherwise grim talk. Interesting since a lot of the folks in the room were pretty mainstream Dems, including several city council members who’ve had a pretty awful relationship with the local Occupy movement.

The local scene has devolved into a cycle of harassment and mutual contempt regarding Sacramento’s (futile and unconstitutional) camping ordinance. It’s a shame. The Occupy folks and the Democrats are on the same side—nationally and locally—on so many issues.

Later in that 1948 speech, Truman says, “We are fighting with all our strength to prevent the gluttons of privilege from swallowing the country.” Sound familiar? Ω

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Sac city schools chief says this year’s budget is worst yet Say goodbye to school sports, music classes and school-bus transportation, and hello to more by crowded classrooms.

Cosmo Garvin At least that’s the scenario facing Sacramento City Unified School District cosmog@ newsreview.com schools. Last week, the school board approved a brutal list of cuts totaling $28 million.

Teachers say the list is at least partly political, an attempt to scare the public and pressure employees to make bigger concessions. They argue that the district still has fat to trim in consultant contracts and other areas. But district officials say the cuts may in fact turn out to be much worse if California voters reject tax measures proposed by Gov. Jerry Brown.

“The upcoming budget year probably will be the worst one we’ve experienced,” said schools Superintendent Jonathan Raymond Full disclosure: last week at a public budget workshop held The reporter is at C.K. McClatchy High School. married to a The shortfall occurs mostly because state Sacramento City Unified School funding for the next budget year is going to District teacher. be flat under the governor’s budget proposed earlier this year. Federal stimulus money helped the district muddle through the last couple of years, but that money is all gone now. And the district continues to face falling enrollment, losing students—and the state funding that follows them—to nearby suburban districts.

Sadly, a $28 million deficit may actually be the rosier of two scenarios. If California voters don’t approve Brown’s measure raising sales taxes and other revenue, that will prompt a new round of “trigger cuts” for schools.

Then it’s another $15 million lost to SCUSD. The district can’t finalize its budget until the state budget is final. But it must have its preliminary budget approved by March 15.

That’s also the deadline for the district to issue pink slips to any teachers who might be laid off.

“The upcoming budget year probably will be the worst one we’ve experienced.”

Jonathan Raymond superintendent Sacramento City Unified School District The district says these cuts will go forward unless the state-budget picture improves, or the teachers union and other employee groups agree to concessions. So far, the district hasn’t made any demands for concessions, and there’s no guarantee it could come to an agreement. So, for now, it’s all cuts.

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BEATS The biggest savings, about $4.8 million, would come from increasing class sizes significantly. That means 32 kids in a kindergarten class, up from 25 now, and also bumping up class size in grades first through third.

Increasing class sizes of course also means laying off a lot of teachers. The dance of the pink slips has become something of a cruel ritual in Sac city schools, with the district issuing hundreds of lay-off notices in the spring, then reeling them back as the budget picture becomes clearer in the summer.

Last year, the district brought back 360 of the 400 teachers and counselors who were issued pink slips. District spokesman Gabe Ross says it’s not because the district issued too many pink slips initially, but instead because it prepared for the worst, then saw the state-budget picture improve.

Here are some of the other proposed cuts: • The district’s plan eliminates stipends for sports coaches, yearbook advisers and band teachers, likely ending those programs at many schools. This would save the district about $1.27 million. Music teachers would be eliminated, too, saving another half-million dollars.

• The budget eliminates school counselors at and middle and high schools, to save $1.68 million.

• Most of the district’s adult-education programs would be cut, saving about $2.9 million.

• The new budget eliminates school-bus transportation for most kids who currently receive it, saving about $1 million.

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• The plan would cut the number of assistant principals at middle and high schools.

• The cuts would eliminate school librarians in middle and high schools. Librarians in lower grades have already been cut.

“They chose the cuts that would seem most onerous to parents,” said Scott Smith, president of the Sacramento City Teachers Association.

Smith thinks there are less painful cuts to be made. “There’s a lot they could have done, if they’d come talk to us.”

Despite the district’s budget woes and deep cuts to other categories, “the account for consulting services continues to grow,” says SCUSD board member Gustavo Arroyo.

One place the union and several members of the school board think the district should look for savings is in the millions it spends on contracts for education consultants and other outside professional services.

This covers everything from campus security to software for evaluating teachers and tracking test scores. The district says it will reduce outside contracts for consultants and other services enough to save about $1 million. But teachers say that’s not good enough.

“I know you can squeeze more than $1 million out of these contracts,” said teacher Carlos Rico, during the public meeting. “If you need help, I’ll sit down and look at them with you,” he told Raymond. The superintendent didn’t respond to the offer.

Some SCUSD board members, too, have pressed for more information and more oversight over the large and lucrative block of consultant contracts.

SN&R has highlighted some of these contracts in the past. One, a $1.6 million deal with Energy Education, a Dallas consultant who was supposed to show the district how to save energy, didn’t save the district as much money as they thought it would.

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And teachers are generally concerned about the cost-effectiveness of paying so many outside consultants to come in and train teachers. “Let’s just be honest: 90 percent of it is a complete waste of time,” said teacher Scott Chase.

The district spent about $39 million on consultants in the 2011-12 year and $42 million the year before. But Ross says that most of the contracts, 77 percent, come from “restricted” pots of money that don’t affect the general fund.

“The notion that there’s millions and millions of dollars we can save in contracts just isn’t accurate,” said Ross.

But despite the district’s budget woes and deep cuts to other categories, “The account for consulting services continues to grow,” says SCUSD board member Gustavo Arroyo.

Arroyo and SCUSD board president Diana Rodriguez managed to win support on the board for an ad hoc committee to hold hearings and study consultant contracts.

“Maybe it’s a half million, maybe it’s $2 million. Everything should be on the table,” said Arroyo.

If there’s one thing that the district and teachers agree on, schools need more stable funding.

The district has done some polling on potential voter support for a parcel tax or bond measures in November. But Raymond was tight-lipped about any plans. “I hear the encouragement—almost screaming, really— about raising revenue. I want to assure folks that we’re being very deliberate about it.”

At the McClatchy High event, teachers and parents also questioned why the district chose not to close any of several underenrolled schools in the district. The district hired a consultant and formed a task force to recommend school closures and consolidation. That set of proposals also included some politically controversial changes to the Sacramento Charter High School and West Campus high schools.

The board ultimately backed off any changes in the face of parent anger. School closures by themselves wouldn’t save a lot of money, just $180,000 to $450,000 according to the district’s estimates.

Raymond said closures remain on the table. “But what if it’s your school? How do you feel about closing your school?”

Raymond asked the parents at McClatchy.

But parent Brian Grattridge said the district should revisit the school closure—if it could help stave off the loss of programs. “I’d rather have four slightly damaged schools than five completely gutted schools.” Ω A RT S & C U LT U R E

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Prop. 8 still unfair, judges say Proposition 8 is still unconstitutional, says the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. A three-judge panel on February 7 declared, “Proposition 8 serves no purpose, and has no effect, other than to lessen the status and human dignity of gay men and lesbians in California.”

The ruling upholds a 2010 ruling by federal Judge Vaughn Walker.

The Ninth Circuit court didn’t consider whether gays and lesbians have a right to marry like straight couples. Instead, it found that Prop.

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But the court left in place the current restriction on gay marriage, pending further appeals.

Backers of the measure will likely appeal to the entire panel of the Ninth Circuit to reverse the decision. And the law may ultimately wind its way to the U.S. Supreme Court. That’s a somewhat scary prospect for marriage-equality backers, says Sam Catalano, acting president of the Stonewall Democratic Club of Greater Sacramento. “That means our lives and our families are in the hands of Justice [Anthony] Kennedy.”

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Anti-union measure ‘not even close’ to making ballot The effort to ban labor pacts on big public-works projects came up surprisingly short last week.

Nonunion construction companies and contractors cooked up a proposed ballot measure to end project-labor agreements, which impose wage and benefits requirements and which they say make it harder for nonunion outfits to win big public contracts.

The companies hired professional signature gatherers to help qualify their initiative for the June ballot in Sacramento. But the Sacramento County Registrar of Voters say they came up short.

One of the measure’s proponents told The Sacramento Bee that the shortfall was due to “a concerted union effort to harass and intimidate signature gatherers and citizens.”

SN&R did observe union and democratic activists discouraging voters from singing the anti-PLA petitions.

But at the time, signature gatherers told SN&R that the pro-union picketers were having absolutely no effect on their ability to sign up voters.

And in fact, the group turned in far more signatures than they needed: 46,692 were submitted, just 32,207 valid signatures were required to qualify.

But an unusual number of the signatures turned out to be no good. The county registrar said that from a 1,400 signature sample only 62.4 percent were valid. Nearly 19 percent of the signatures turned in were from people not registered to vote, 7.5 percent of those signatures lived outside the city, and 7.3 percent were registered at the wrong address.

“It was a complete failure, it wasn’t even close,” said Kevin Dayton, with the Associated Builders and Contractors of California, one of the groups supporting the measure. Dayton said that “the union harassment didn’t help,” but said the numbers suggested something else was going on. “We just need more information to get the whole picture.” (C.G.) |

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Two activists, including Safe Ground Sacramento president John Kraintz (right), protest lack of access to clean water and sanitation for the region’s homeless individuals last Tuesday at City Hall.

County spokesman Zeke Holst explained that most of these citations occurred near Discovery Park and eastward along the American River.

Beginning last October, city of Sacramento police officers began regularly joining county rangers on patrols of this area. This has resulted in a considerable upswing in the number of $221 illegal-camping tickets: 33 were issued between July and September of 2011, but then 332 were issued between October and December. The report notes that only 29 citations were issued in 2010.

Chief county ranger Stan Lumsden says the huge increase in written citations is “basically the difference between doing [one’s job] and not doing it,” adding that staff finally has the time to enforce the no-camping ordinance and that it’s not a new “crackdown” against homelessness.

Meanwhile, homeless advocate John Kraintz, president of Safe Ground Sacramento, told the city council on January 24 that campers who were ejected from the former Tent City 2 site near North 10th Street are now being threatened with Tasers.

“This business about using Tasers to influence people on the river,” Kraintz told city council, “this is not a good plan.”

Both city and county officials insist Tasers are not being used against homeless persons.

“We don’t threaten people with Tasers,” city of Sacramento Sgt. Andrew Pettit told SN&R. He says officers are instructed to only display

or “arc” their Tasers if there is a combative or physical threat, or during riot or crowd control.

County rangers, meanwhile, only recently were given Tasers, on February 1, according to spokesman Holst. Their policy for use is similar to that of the city police.

Either way, Kraintz said there needs to be a de-escalation of patrols and citations. “They’ve got nowhere else to go,” he reminded.

The international community, meanwhile, has taken notice. A United Nations representative who visited Sacramento last year sent a letter this past week to Mayor Kevin Johnson’s office. It condemned homeless living conditions, arguing that homeless people are “increasingly being criminalized” and urged the city to provide access to 24-hour public-restroom facilities and clean water (see “Cruel, inhuman, degrading,” SN&R Frontlines, March 17, 2011).

Johnson spokesman Joaquin McPeek insisted that “no one is more frustrated” than the mayor when it comes to homelessness in the city.

“Our community has made incredible strides in the past few years by moving over 2,300 individuals into permanent housing,” he stated. “But there’s more we need to do.”

The U.N. report describes how one Safe Ground homeless man, “Tim,” engineered a sanitation-waste system for fellow campers. Each week, he collected “bags full of human waste, which varied in weight between 130 to 230 pounds, and [hauled] them on his bicycle a few miles to a local public restroom” for disposal.

“This business about using Tasers to influence people on the river, this is not a good plan.”

John Kraintz president, Safe Ground Sacramento, as told to the city council last month This past Tuesday morning, after the report’s release, more than a dozen homeless persons marched in light rain to City Hall for a protest and press conference. They chanted “sanitation, not discrimination” and also brought along “Tim’s” makeshift toilet: an 8-foot-tall tent with a plastic seat inside along with a mountain bike with metal baskets filled with bags for human waste.

Safe Ground’s Kraintz reminded that his organization has offered to pay for clean water and sanitation. But city leaders have rebuffed him, including Councilman Steve Cohn, arguing that the encampment was not sustainable or clean.

“But there’s still the sanitation problem.

There’s still the water problem,” Kraintz said.

“They’re still making a mess all over the river.”Ω

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Israel now estimates that Iran’s nuclear program is nine months away from “being able to withstand an Israeli attack,” which happens to be by the same timeline as the U.S. presidential elecTom Hayden an author, leading tion. Meanwhile, a well-connected U.S. anti-war activist Pentagon adviser believes that Israel might and occassional give the White House only an hour or two contributor to SN&R warning before attacking Iran, “just enough to maintain good relations between the countries but not quite enough to allow Washington to prevent the attack.”

sudden outbreak of war, Congress—dominated by supporters of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee—and the media are not prepared to oppose a strike. A short “successful” war—a highly dubious prospect—would be accepted by American public opinion until serious consequences set in afterward.

Any public expression of protest against this war is far better than silence, of course.

But the greatest opportunity for protest may be in the arena of the presidential-election drama now playing out. It is fair and accurate to say both Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich are collaborating, for political reasons, to push Obama into war during the presidential election, with Rick Santorum on the bench if needed.

The stage is set for nuclear brinksmanship in an American presidentialelection year, and the role of GOP candidates is to ensure “tacit support” for an Israeli strike.

The New York Times Magazine’s Israeli correspondent Ronen Bergman wrote “Will Israel Attack Iran?”

(January 25) to delineate how Israel believes three key conditions for starting a war have already been met.

These troubling assertions were contained in a recent and authoritative article in The New York Times Magazine about a potential Israel-Iran confrontation. Written by the magazine’s Israeli correspondent Ronen Bergman, who has access to top Israeli leadership, the story reports that Israel believes three key conditions for starting a war may have been met.

First, that Israel can cause serious damage to Iran’s sites and “withstand the inevitable counterattack.” Second, that there is tacit support from the “international community,” particularly the United States, for carrying out an attack. And third, all other possibilities of containing the threat have been exhausted, and it will soon be too late to prevent.

Standing in the way, according to the article, is President Barack Obama, whom the Israelis suspect “has abandoned any aggressive strategy that would ensure the prevention of a nuclear Iran and is merely playing a game of words to appease them.” The same conclusion has been suggested elsewhere.

So the stage is set for nuclear brinksmanship in an American presidential-election year.

The role of Republican candidates is to ensure that the second condition is met, that of “tacit support” for an Israeli strike, even if forced by political pressure. The balance of forces is lopsided at present, with most Americans worried about Iran and unprepared to resist a

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No one in the mainstream media so far has written the story of Romney’s past consulting and business partnership with Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu at Boston Consulting Group, but his campaign rhetoric echoes Netanyahu’s position, that Obama can’t be trusted to prevent Iran from getting the bomb.

The Romney and Gingrich campaigns create an unrelenting pressure on Obama to support an attack on Iran with little countervailing pressure. But neither the Republicans nor the Israeli hawks are comfortable being charged with using political pressure to start a war.

Santorum, whose Republican ranking is third, is equal to Romney and Gingrich in his hawkish position toward Iran. Santorum has deep support from right-wing Christian groups who believe that war in the Middle East will hasten the Second Coming.

Avoiding war with Iran may be Obama’s best option in policy and politics, if he can navigate the campaign winds. The question is whether any organized force has his back. Ω

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Financial education is like sex education. What you do not know can and will hurt you. Over the last several weeks, many Americans have learned the importance of financial literacy from reading about Mitt Romney’s tax returns.

Romney, who is obviously very financially literate, has shown that if you have a team of crafty economic advisers, set up offshore accounts, store money in Switzerland and get paid in capital gains rather than wages, you can cut your tax rate in half. Last year, Romney paid only 13.9 perFinancial education should cent in taxes, while most of not be confined to the rich you reading this paper probably paid more than that and powerful. It should be percentage. In fact, even available for all. Romney’s political opponents paid more: President Barack Obama paid 26.3 percent, and Newt Gingrich At www.mymoney.gov, paid 31.7 percent in income taxes. find financial You may wonder how something so unfair and information for any unpatriotic can be legal. Simple. It’s legal because the stage of life; explore a collection of financial hedge-fund groupies that Romney hangs around with resources, or use tools write the laws. such as calculators, But financial education should not be confined to budgeting worksheets the rich and powerful. It should be available for and checklists to make everybody. We at the News & Review have been more informed financial decisions. This website helping to provide financial education for the other, contains information dare I say, 99 percent. and resources This started last year, when my good friend produced by more than Mary Hogarty, a community-relations manager for 20 federal agencies and bureaus. Also available Citibank, saw the eight-page publications we had in Spanish. created for the Salvation Army and the Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services. She asked if we could produce a publication on financial literacy for NEWS & REVIEW BUSINES Citibank. We said, “Sure!”

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After the California Supreme Court affirmed Gov. Jerry Brown’s plan to eliminate redevelopment in California, much of by Robert Gammon the news has focused on the likely huge impacts on cities. The high court’s decision also promises to be devastating for Sacramento, forcing deep budget cuts while making it nearly impossible for the city to build affordable housing and revitalize blighted neighborhoods.

But the court’s ruling also could derail efforts to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.

In recent years, environmentalists and climate-change experts have reached a consensus: One of the best ways to reduce greenhouse gases is to curb suburban sprawl and get people out of their cars.

According to the most federal estimates, transportation produces about one-third of the greenhouse-gas emissions in the United States. And of that Read SN&R’s previous total, cars and light trucks are the pricoverage on the city’s mary culprits. They produce about 60 Climate Action Plan, percent of U.S. greenhouse-gas emis“Climate Choice,” by sions in the transportation sector.

Cosmo Garving (SN&R To discourage sprawl and long Frontlines, December 22, 2011) at www.news- commutes, environmental groups have review.com/sacramento. pushed for legislation and governmental standards that encourage so-called smart growth, also known as transitoriented development or infill development. Smart growth is all about dense development in cities and near major transit hubs. The idea is to encourage commuters to walk or bike or to take mass transit.

In 2008, the state Legislature endorsed smart growth by passing Senate Bill 375, environmental legislation that requires regional planning Green Days is on the agencies to embrace sustainable comlookout for innovative sustainable projects munities and development. throughout the And Sacramento is doing this. In Sacramento region. fact, its recently produced Climate Turn us on at Action Plan report aims to both cut sactonewstips@ newsreview.com. greenhouse-gas emissions across the board, curbing 2005 emission levels by 15 percent by 2020. And the city also plans to write a Green Development Code over the next few years, so as to facilitate eco-friendly infrastructure.

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has traditionally depended on redevelopment funds to work. Redevelopment tax dollars allow cities to purchase blighted land, help pay for its cleanup, and thereby make it attractive to developers who might otherwise build in suburbia.

Sacramento, in particular, has used redevelopment funds for numerous smart-growth projects over the years and had plans for many more, such as the 800 block of K Street Without smart growth, it may be impossible to fully implement S.B. 375, let alone meet California’s goals for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions.

“Without redevelopment, it will make it more difficult to make good infill development happen.”

Stephanie Reyes Greenbelt Alliance The state’s landmark environmental law, Assembly Bill 32, calls for slashing greenhouse gases to 1990 levels by 2020, and to 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050.

“There is no doubt that without redevelopment, it will make it more difficult to make good infill development happen,” said Stephanie Reyes, policy director of Greenbelt Alliance, an environmental group that has championed smart growth and fought suburban sprawl for years.

Reyes noted that redevelopment funds, particularly in cities with substantial amounts of blight, often pay for needed infrastructure upgrades— building sewers, sidewalks and parks.

Redevelopment also has been used to help clean up brownfields—property, often located in low-income areas, that is laced with toxins and represents a serious health risk for nearby residents.

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The top line shows the growth of Sacramento carbon-dioxide emissions (in metric tons) if no changes are made. The middle line shows CO2 emissions under its draft Climate Action Plan.

The bottom line shows possible long-term reductions. Experts say the end of redevelopment will impact fighting emissions.

Reyes and other environmentalists, however, readily recognize that redevelopment has been corrupted over the years to also enable sprawl. Suburban cities, for example, have used redevelopment to declare well-to-do areas as blighted in order to build strip malls and attract big-box retailers, thus spurring even more residential development away from mass transit.

In fact, if the Legislature decides to re-establish redevelopment in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision, there’s a growing agreement that it will have to be reformed to meet California’s climate-change goals. For example, the idea that redevelopment funds can be used in “blighted” suburban areas should perhaps be modified to only apply to areas near mass transit—especially in cities—regardless of whether they are blighted or not.

“This is an opportunity to come up with a strategy for how we use these financing tools in the future,” Reyes said. Ω

—loves downhill skiing, as do so many in Sacramento. She goes up once or twice a year, and never on a weekend, playing hooky from work, driving up leisurely, skiing ’til her legs ache (usually before the telltale sunburn sets in) and then the sore drive home.

Resolutely she dresses badly for ski culture: old pants, demure jacket and funky headwear. Proud as an ugly peacock.

Oh, the speed of it (give Ruth an intermediate hill and she looks good); oh, that smooth weightless feeling of gliding down, down the hill; oh, that little tension when she everso-slightly catches an edge (that chill up the spine: Is today the day Auntie Ruth falls and breaks her butt?).

Love, that many-splendored, rosy thing.

But.

Environmentally, downhill

Spare the powder? skiing offers a million reasons to fall out of love, offseason and on. There is something jagged and scarred about the Sierras in summer: the gashing of the treeline, which adds to erosion and undercuts the forests’ availability to habitat. And also renders a green mountain just plain ol’ ugly.

The ski lift roars as it lifts you up the hill, and woe is the thought as to all the gas being guzzled. (And never mind when they actually have to make the snow, as in this strangely warm season.)

And then there’s the steady crawl of development into places that might have gone untouched—often development by and for the 1 percent, those who can afford the lift ticket and the condo, while the rest of us are driving for hours, belching out more carbon emissions than usual just for those brief bursts of chill thrill.

Enter the Ski Area Citizen’s Coalition (www.skiareacitizens.com). It rates ski resorts in four categories— Habitat Protection, Protecting Watersheds, Addressing Global Climate Change, and Environmental Practices & Polices—and then award a letter grade. Top ranked in the country? Squaw Valley, and bully for them. Alpine Meadows and Sugar Bowl also made the top 10. The worst in the region? Homewood got a “D.” Jumping back into the dogpile of contradictions, SACC notes that the numbers of skiers has grown less than one-tenth of 1 percent per year since 1978. With Squaw Valley merging with Alpine Meadows and the implied suggestion of new chairlifts and the opening of backcountry wilderness, do we need it? Does Ma Earth?

Does Aunt Ruth?

Resolutely—and contarily—naw. Ω (Come friend Aunt Ruth on Facebook and let’s hang out.)

ECO-HIT Lone Wolf On December 28, 2011, a single gray wolf (Canis lupus) wandered across the border from Oregon into California. The first of his species to run wild in our state in 88 years, he started a media and fan frenzy. Known as OR7, the wolf has a GPS collar around its neck, allowing scientists and fans to track his location online. At the time of writing, he’s currently southbound, wandering the Sierra Nevada Mountains near the city of Redding. The 2-year-old wolf arrived here by means of a behavior called dispersal, a natural survival instinct. Follow his whereabouts by visiting www.dfg.ca.gov/wildlife/nongame/wolf.

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OPINION

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BY TOM TOMORROW

More water propaganda flowing I ventured into a January 19 public meeting of the Association, the State Building & Association of California Water Agencies at Construction Trades Council of California its Sacramento headquarters to see what was and the Metropolitan Water District of going on. I expected to hear its views on the Southern California. No “public” partners financing of the coming water bill. Instead, I were listed. listened in awe as ACWA’s executive director Quinn also talked about the necessity of Tim Quinn unveiled a detailed political PR the campaign appearing to be all “grassroots campaign designed to convince California and low cost.” This is the biggest deception voters that “since they are the public, it is in of all. It is an admission by the ACWA that the public interest to invest money in upgradthe public can be duped by a disingenuously ing the Delta concocted propaganda infrastructure in order to campaign designed to do The phrase “reliable maintain a reliable water just that. by supply for California.”

Finally, the ACWA’s water supply for Burt Wilson Of course, the phrase purported main mesCalifornia” is really a member of the Bay “reliable water supply for sage—that it’s in the Delta Conservation California” is really code public interest to support code for sending more Plan public committee for sending more water the 2012 Water Bond water south. and the 2013 State south. In Northern measure—is a half-truth.

Water Plan forum California, we already A half-truth is the most subcommittee have a reliable water supply, so it’s just devious form of lie, because it can be supanother water grab from Southern California. ported in part by fact. Yes, the public might The ACWA’s propaganda campaign will benefit a little, but all the water agencies, originate from a sham organization called corporations, construction industries, develClean Water and Jobs for California. It claims opers, etc. stand to profit immeasurably from Have a comment? it’s a “broad based public-private partnership.” it—beyond their wildest dreams!

Express your views There’s an old political phrase that in 350 words on ACWA’s Quinn himself is listed as president.

Some of the “private” partners are the describes the ACWA’s fallacious campaign a local topic of interest. California Chamber of Commerce, the best: “enlightened self-interest.” Ω Send an e-mail to California Building Industry Association, the editorial@ San Diego Regional Economic Development newsreview.com.

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No pay hikes By now, most everybody’s heard about the hefty pay raises the board of the Sacramento County Employees’ Retirement System has approved for six of the county’s top executives. We’re talking 13 to 22 percent increases for people already making six-figure salaries: the retirement administrator, two investment officers, an operations officer, a benefits officer and the general counsel.

It doesn’t seem to matter that our county supervisors will likely vote not to approve the raises. SCERS seems determined to give them anyway. The organization may even sue the county so as to go forward with the plan.

This has got to be a joke. Somebody please remind SCERS that we’re staring down a $90 million deficit in The Sacramento Sacramento County, that we’re in the fourth consecutive year County Employees’ of layoffs, budget cuts and Retirement System service reductions, that we’re board wants 13 to 22 still, generally speaking, in a recession. percent increases for Clearly, now is no time for top county employees pay hikes at the top. The fact that we’re even debating it who already make illustrates a glaring need to consix-figure salaries. tinue the conversation that was begun last fall (thank you, Occupy movement) around basic income inequality.

In the case of the executive raises, Sacramento County Supervisor Phil Serna said it best: At a time of unprecedented budget austerity, pushing executive pay hikes “speak volumes about a lack of common sense.”

SCERS board members? It’s time to find some. Ω

Thank you, Mitt!

The raucous Republican primary race has brought up some important issues—one of them is the federal tax code. It’s been clearly shown to be rigged to favor financial wheeler-dealers like Mitt Romney and his fellow private-equity multimillionaires and billionaires who pay lower tax rates than ordinary citizens do.

For his part, President Barack Obama has proposed what he calls the “Buffett Rule,” after Warren Buffett, the multibillionaire. The Buffett Rule would mandate that those making more than $1 million a year would pay at least 30 percent in taxes.

Buffett and Romney, whose tax rate was less than 14 percent on earnings of more than $20 million in 2010, pay a lower rate because their earnings come mostly from investments, which are taxed at the current capitalgains rate of 15 percent, far less than the rate applied to labor income, which can be as high as 35 percent. They also pay less in payroll taxes.

The capital-gains rate was set at 28 percent during the Reagan administration and went up to 29 percent early in the Clinton administration. Congress began lowering the rate in 1997. Then, in 2003, President George W. Bush and an army of Wall Street lobbyists convinced Congress to adopt today’s ultra-low rates with the rationale that doing so would spur the economy.

Obviously, it hasn’t turned out that way.

We thank President Obama for pointing out the illogic of these tax breaks for the rich. And we thank Romney for offering a case study on why the unfair tax situation has simply got to change. Ω |

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Presenting the winners of SN&R’s Worst Date Contest

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e’ll admit it. We had no idea just how bad a bad date could be.

When we read your submissions for the Worst Date Contest, we were shocked, amused and even a little saddened. We expected awkward stories, but some of them were downright criminal. We learned two big lessons from your entries. First, some people are bafflingly thoughtless. Try not to be one of them. Your date might not live up to your romantic ideals, but that’s no reason to abandon common courtesy.

Special thanks to models Shawn Barnum (left) and Carlos Rodriguez (author of honorable-mention entry “Count your drink tickets”) for illustrating our award-winning bad dates.

Are his wet khakis a slow-dance deal breaker? Find out in our first-place story “What would Jesus do?” on page 17.

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Second, don’t sweat the small stuff.

After reading stories of dine-and-dash dinners, unwanted groping, racist jokes and drunken vomiting, we had to smile at entries that detailed an “offense” like failing to check a restaurant’s hours of operation or having a thick French accent. These are not deal breakers. First dates are a lot of pressure, so go easy on the person who invited you.

That said, SN&R is proud to present the winners of the Worst Date Contest. Our first-, second- and third-place winners each received $100 at Raku Sushi. We’re grateful to everyone who shared their uncomfortable stories and shined a light on the dark depths of Sacramento’s dating pool. Be safe out there, and don’t let these stories keep you from swimming.

In our third-place story, Uncle Touchy wants to get a feel for his nephew’s date.

FIRST PLACE: WHAT WOULD JESUS DO?

I was asked to a Valentine’s Day dance at my sister’s church. My sister and her boyfriend were already there and had reserved a table for us. I told my date I love to dance. He was just nodding his head. He was not into talking much.

He drank four cups of punch. I reached over to grab his cup, smelled it and sure enough, it was spiked. Then the deejay announced it was time to boogie, so we headed for the dance floor. We were dancing our asses off! My date kept on going to the table and grabbing his (spiked) punch.

They began to play romantic songs, so we slow danced. He held me tight, then tighter and then I felt something. Oh no! It can’t be! He was like the chorus of that song by “Too Close” by Next: “You’re making it hard for me.”

I slowly backed away. I looked down at his package and he had a wet spot! I turned red, and ran into the ladies’ room.

When I came out, people were looking at me like it was my fault he had the wet spot. My date didn’t even care, because he was drunk. As if the night couldn’t get worse, they told us each table had to go to the picture booth, and our table was next.

Really? Why, Jesus?!

After the photos, I told my date I was leaving, and he gave me an envelope and said thanks. When I got home, I opened the envelope, and there were several photos. They were the funniest pictures ever. I was looking at the wet spot, and my face was red in all of them, like a tomato.

I will never forget this date. Not ever. By the way, I did not continue to go to church.

—Maricela Martinez, 35, medical assistant

SECOND PLACE: DRINKING PROBLEM

This goes back to the summer of 1993.

My sister worked with this gal that was a total knockout! This girl was the prettiest, hottest girl I’ve ever gone out with— hands down! For two weeks we talked on the phone, but it was kind of a blind date when we saw each other. At dinner, I ordered a soda, and she ordered apple juice. As we talked, she ordered a few more apple juices.

We decided to play miniature golf. As soon as we got there, she complained her stomach was hurting. About 15 minutes goes by, and she was almost buckled over in pain. I put my golf club down to comfort her. All of a sudden, I heard this disturbing sound like a thousand farts. She had uncontrollably gone to the bathroom on herself.

She was wearing a skirt and the poor girl started freak out as she realized what had happened. I helped her quickly to the

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bathroom where she tried to clean up.

After that, she was embarrassed and wanted to go home. I was very sympathetic, and felt bad that I had to find a cardboard sheet out of the trash so she could sit on it and not my seat.

I still called her for another date. I mean, shit happens, right? Not her fault.

But I guess she just couldn’t face me after that, and we never went out again.

—Ken Koenig, 43, musician

THIRD PLACE: UNCLE TOUCHY

New Year’s Eve 2009: I was going to see Utz! and the Shuttlecocks at Harlow’s. My friend chatted with a guy outside who she thought would be perfect for me. He went to Oregon State [University]. He worked at UC Davis Medical Center. He was in an argyle sweater! What man in an argyle sweater isn’t an upstanding citizen?

I acted like I gave a rip about football (having seen on TV literally minutes before that Oregon was playing in the Rose Bowl). He invited me to watch the game with him the next day, and we went our separate ways.

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We walked past a few trailers and I hear “Who’s that sexy thang?” coming from a double-wide. As we walked up, the “really cool” uncle grabbed my chest, like a “honk honk” situation.

Kimberly Hicks New Year’s Day: The guy called! He mentioned he was going to his uncle’s place to watch the Rose Bowl, but that his uncle was “really cool” and he would love for me to go with him. I decided to follow him in my car. We drove. We kept driving. Where the hell were we going? We exited somewhere in Rancho Cordova and turned into a trailer park. After we parked, the guy falls out of his car wearing his solid-green Oregon Ducks jumpsuit. He stood up, balanced himself, and said, “You’re pretty.”

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We walked past a few trailers, and I hear “Who’s that sexy thang?” coming from a double-wide a few slots down. This was his “really cool” uncle.

As we walked up, the uncle grabbed my chest, like a “honk honk” situation. I know.

It sounds ridiculous, but this happened. I was honestly so scared, thinking they would do something crazy if I tried to run.

I went inside the trailer. They had three televisions stacked on top of each other, all with rabbit ears. I sat down, trying not to let on that I was absolutely repulsed and in fear of contracting scabies from the couch. At each play, the guy jumped up from the couch and screamed and danced.

At one point, he hit the ceiling fan above us, and a giant pile of dust fell over me.

He kept trying to kiss me and said things like, “I’m a good lookin’ guy. You think I’m good lookin’, don’t you?” I just kept dodging the kisses, acting like I didn’t want to make out in front of the family.

I told them I had to be somewhere at 2 p.m., so I was only there for 45 minutes. Longest 45 minutes of my life.

—Kimberly Hicks, 30, nonprofit account executive

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THE CATCH

We met at Sudwerk when it was on Exposition Boulevard. I arrived first and told the waitress I was on a blind date. She said she’d keep an eye on things. The guy showed up and proceeded to tell me about all his past girlfriends and how none of them were up to his standards, and a guy like him really deserved someone special. Every time I thought I might slit my own throat listening to him drone about how great of a catch he was, the waitress would come over and give a little reprieve and say something nice to me.

As soon as she left, he was off and running about how street smart he was or how he was stronger than he looked. Just when I though it couldn’t get any worse, he said to me, in a condescending tone, that it was probably obvious that we didn’t have any chemistry. He went on to say men had to be men, and he thought the waitress was very cute, and he was sure I wouldn’t mind if he asked her out. I replied he should do whatever he felt he had to.

The next time the waitress came over, he proceeded to tell her how pretty she was and that they should go out sometime. The waitress knew we were on a date, and told him what a jerk he was and then pointed out her husband and kids sitting at the next table. She walked me to my car with a sweet pep talk and said she was sure the “dude” could pay for the meal.

MR. DASH

I met a friend of a friend who channeled ’90s grunge. He gave me a white carnation at a show and dropped the line, “We should go on a date sometime.” I agreed. He picked me up one afternoon from my studio apartment, and we were off to grub on some Indian food.

At a restaurant that will remain anonymous, he ordered us drinks and picked the food, with a side of this and a side of that. I was impressed with his take-charge demeanor. The food came and went: warm naan, stiff drinks and then the bill.

Pulling out quarters, dimes, rolls of pennies and crumpled dollar wads, ’90s Grunge placed all his money on the little black tray where the bill lay and informed me we needed to dine and dash. Dining and dashing is something one does at 16 years old, at a Denny’s, past curfew with too many friends—not on a first date.

I’m a freelance writer. I didn’t have the cash to cover said bill and, hey, I was asked on this date. So, I guessed we were dining and dashing. I got up first, he got up second, we exited the building and I just strode really fast around the corner and into his vehicle. The food was so great, but I’ll never go back there again because I am forever scarred.

—Melissa Gelbart, 39, Sacramento County employee

—Steph Rodriguez, 26, journalist

I was sitting at my place on a Saturday night when I was contacted by a female friend of mine. She informed me that one of her friends had spotted me at a party, and was wondering if I would take her out on a date that night. I got the woman’s number and gave her a call.

What this woman wanted to do for our date was “live action role playing” (or LARPing).

We would all pretend we were vampires.

Being a huge nerd, I thought this sounded like a great idea.

I picked her up. I must admit, she looked fantastic. After she got into my car, she asked if I could pick up her friend who lived nearby.

We picked him up and were on our way.

I quickly noticed something was wrong.

Once I started to drive, she started talking more and more to him. Once we were on the freeway, she was touching his hand. When we finally arrived, they were walking hand-in-hand.

It turns out my “date” had me pick up her boyfriend for their date. I asked some of the others who were there, and they informed me that the two had been a couple for a few weeks already. She was never interested in a date with me; she was interested in a ride.

She got a call from our mutual friend about a party and wanted to go. I told her when we get to the party, the date is done. Before we walked up to the party, she vomited most of the booze she got from using all my drink tickets at the show.

As the night proceeded, one girl informed me that the girl I came with was all over her boyfriend. After a while, another girl came up with the dude who was throwing the party, and they told me she was being rude. In the background, I could hear her tell some girl that her shoes were ugly.

We called her a cab. I paid the cabby and went back in. She was calling my name and said she wouldn’t leave without me. (Mind

He ordered us drinks and picked the food, with a side of this and a side of that.

I was impressed with his take-charge demeanor.

Then the bill came. My date informed me we needed to dine and dash.

—Ron Edens, news producer, KCRA 3

COUNT YOUR DRINK TICKETS

On a first date, this girl wanted to come to one of my shows in Modesto. By the time I got off stage, she was hammered! Not like sexy-hammered. I mean trash-talking drunk.

So I was in the car with a drunk date for an hour-and-a-half drive back to Sac. She was trying to light a cigarette in my car where I’d told her not to smoke.

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you, I had the sympathy card from all the ladies in the party for dealing with that girl, and there was no way I was leaving.) I told the cab driver, “I’m going to get in, but I am going to sneak out the other door and as soon as she is all the way in the cab, I want you to take off.”

I got in first and scooted over all the way to the other door as she got in. She started to wave bye to everyone. I sneaked around the back of the cab and waved bye to her with the rest of the party and as they started to drive, she realized she was waving bye to me. The look on her face will forever make me smile.

Twenty minutes later, I was outside joking with some people about what just went down.

I saw a cab and said, “Wouldn’t it be funny if that was her coming back?” I looked in the back window of the cab, and it was her!

The driver had taken her home, but she wouldn’t get out and demanded he take her back. I told him we were going to do the same play in reverse at her house. Once she was out of the car, I was going to close the door and take off. He agreed, but wanted another fare.

We argued a bit, then agreed on $10 upon my arrival back at the party.

I hopped in the front seat and we headed to her house. The plan worked. Once I was back at the party, I jumped out of the cab and told him to screw himself about the additional fare.

He called the cops on me, but I left before they got there, and now I am a wanted man.

For quite a while my worst date was the one where the guy showed up in a “Will Work for Sex” T-shirt, told me I wasn’t very sexy, inquired as to the severity of my menstrual cycles, and informed me that he had a live-in girlfriend whom he couldn’t bring himself to break up with because she was “a really good piece of ass.” I had been pretty sure it couldn’t get any worse than that, but then a few years later, I had a date with a guy who arrived 45 minutes late with tiny bits of bloody toilet tissue dotting his face.

He explained that he didn’t want to make a bad impression by showing up unshaven, so he’d stopped to shave in a gas-station bathroom. It went downhill from there.

I spent the evening riding in his giant fourby-four truck with a gun rack, hoping the AC/DC blasting out of the aftermarket speaker mounted next to my head did not rupture my eardrum, and hanging out at a bar where his family was gathered to eat chili dogs and drink beer. I sat through his endless stream of “hilarious” impersonations of homosexuals, Mexicans and mentally disabled people—one of which required that he hump his sister-in-law’s leg.

As we were finally leaving, my date rolled his eyes and said to his family, “I said I’d take her to dinner.”

His mother’s boyfriend responded by yelling in my face, “If she can’t eat a goddamned chili dog, she’s got no business being in this family!” Amen to that.

—Leah Rosasco, 40, freelance writer

—Carlos Rodriguez, 29, stand-up comic

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Perhaps the most helpful dating advice ever conceived is commonly attributed to Miss Manners herself, Judith Martin.

The etiquette advice columnist engineered this simple date-planning formula: “There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered: entertainment, food, and affection. It is customary to begin a series of dates with a great deal of entertainment, a moderate amount of food, and the merest suggestion of affection. As the amount of affection increases, the entertainment can be reduced proportionately.

When the affection is the entertainment, we no longer call it dating. Under no circumstances can the food be omitted.”

With this in mind, we offer a selection of our favorite food-based dates for a variety of budgets. Most include an entertainment option. We’ll leave the affection up to you.

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ETHICAL COFFEE TALK

Insight Coffee Roasters, the new cafe on the grid, offers sustainably sourced coffee beans and organic milks.

Even the furniture is made from locally obtained fallen trees. Suggesting a casual meeting here tells a potential love interest you are health conscious, eco-savvy and up to date on the newest neighborhood spots. It’s a great place to compare values and decide if you want to occupy a second date. 1901 Eighth Street, (916) 642-9555, http://insightcoffee.com.

OUTDOOR ENTHUSIASM

Park in Fair Oaks Village and dine on nutburgers and nutty tacos at the vegetarian Sun Flower Drive In. (Be sure to say hello to the village chickens roaming around the tables.) Walk or bike down Bridge Street and across the footbridge to access the American River Bike Trail, or hike uphill to take in the river view from Fair Oaks Bluff. 10344 Fair Oaks Boulevard in Fair Oaks, (916) 967-4331, www.sunflowernaturalrestaurant.com.

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Fondue is a tried-and-true date experience. Dipping and cooking your food is fun, or at least gives a couple something to do besides stare at each other. Multi-course fondue restaurants can be pretty pricey, so we recommend the affordable and exotic fondue experience at Heat Shabu Baru. Shabu is Japanese fondue—thin meat, tofu and veggies you cook at your table in a hot pot of broth. Rumor has it that Heat’s charismatic owners sometimes try to get customers drunk. Kampai!

2416 18th Street, (916) 930-9888, www.heatshabu.com.

ROCKIN’ RAMEN

Shoki Ramen House offers savory, inexpensive bowls of nourishing soup. Whether your date is vegan, gluten-free or nearly carnivorous, Shoki’s endlessly customizable menu is sure to please. Shoki is located within a few blocks of Old Ironsides, Fox & Goose, and Ace of Spades, making it the perfect fuel station before a night of live music. 1201 R Street, (916) 441-0011, www.shokiramenhouse.com.

SMALL-PLATE DATE

Test your compatibility at the bar inside The Press by choosing options off of the tapas menu together. At three items for $10, you can afford to supplement the inexpensive eats with a selection from The Press’ extensive wine list. 1809 Capitol Avenue, (916) 444-2566, http://thepressbistro.com.

ONE MILKSHAKE, TWO STRAWS

Gatsby’s Diner has hearty burgers, cooked on a grill in the center of the restaurant, accompanied by crisp golden fries and rich milkshakes. The whole décor is retro art deco, including the diner’s silver facade, but the menu offers modern options like beet sliders for vegetarians. If you really want to go old school, share a milkshake with two straws. 2598 Alta Arden Expressway, (916) 977-0102.

TWO TOWERS

Take your date to an artsy flick at the Tower Theatre.

(Subtitles make you feel smart!) After, head next door for tea and a frosted feat of dessert architecture from the Tower Cafe’s glass showcase. Tarts, mousse and triplelayer cakes are guaranteed to sweeten any evening.

16th Street and Broadway, www.thetowertheatre.com, www.towercafe.com.

THE MORNING AFTER

You could meet a date for brunch at Awful Annie’s, but it’s more likely you’ll head there together after a successful night out. Both Annie’s locations—in Lincoln and Auburn—are surrounded by small-town streets lined with charming boutiques for leisurely post-brunch walks.

You’ll need one to sober up from Annie’s gourmet Bloody Marys. 160 Sacramento Street in Auburn, (530) 888-9857; 490 G Street in Lincoln, (916) 645-9766, www.awfulannies.com.

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ARTS&CULTURE POPSMART

Reversal of fortune Last week, executives at the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation learned that you don’t mess with the Internet.

But by the time they figured that out it, it was too little and definitely too late.

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In December, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, a charitable organization that solicits and collects donations for breastcancer research and treatments, as well as preventative testing and care, ended its policy of funding of breast-cancer screenings at Planned Parenthood facilities nationwide.

News of the foundation’s decision, however, didn’t go public until January 31. And when it did, the Internet blew up.

Initially, the foundation, known globally for its pink-ribbon campaign (and the resulting consumer-centric “think pink” culture that envelops breast-cancer-campaign fundraising efforts) explained its decision as part of a new policy that barred it from bestowing grants to an organization under investigation. A policy, it explained, that now encompassed Planned Parenthood, recently the target of an inquiry by Republican Congressman Cliff Stearns. He is currently investigating the organization for allegedly using federal funds to provide abortions.

But there was also another possible reason for decision: Karen Handel, Susan G. Komen foundation’s senior vice president of public policy who was elected last April following an unsuccessful bid for the governor’s seat in Georgia. Her political platform? A strong anti-choice campaign during which she vowed to defund Planned Parenthood.

As news of the foundation’s decision Susan G. Komen for raced around the Web, Planned Parenthood supporters took to Facebook the Cure’s wording and Twitter to denounce the organization. still leaves a They didn’t just post angry status updates, however, they signed and shared online loophole—one petitions urging the foundation to reverse potentially big enough its decision.

Handel, for her part, also took the for future social-media route, tweeting that Planned withholding of funds. Parenthood supporters could “cry [me] a freaking river.”

Instead, they did her one better, digging deep into pockets to back Planned Parenthood.

In just a 24-hour period, the organization received more than $650,000 in donations— almost enough to match the amount of money that Komen donated to Planned Parenthood in 2011.

By the end of three days, that number topped $3 million. It was a fascinating example of anger-fueled social media. It was also very, very effective.

On February 2, Nancy Brinker released a statement explaining that the organization’s decision wasn’t political, nor was it tied to pressure from anti-choice groups. Instead, she clarified the decision as an attempt to “streamline” the foundation’s mission by only providing grants to “direct” providers of mammograms. Planned Parenthood provides clinical breast exams and, typically, gives patients referrals for further testing.

But by February 3, Brinker and other executives seemingly had a complete change of heart: “We will continue to fund existing grants, including those of Planned Parenthood, and preserve their eligibility to apply for future grants,” the company said in a statement posted on its website.

On February 6, Handel resigned from her position at the Komen foundation. Great news—and a great indication of the influence of negative viral publicity—but it’s not a complete reversal. Indeed, the Komen foundation’s wording still leaves a loophole—one potentially big enough for future, politically motivated withholding of funds.

Now it’s time to take this social-media revolution to the next stage. Research the organizations to which you give your money and time. Continue to support Planned Parenthood and other women’s health organizations through funding and social-networking communities.

Research and health care shouldn’t be a politically motivated game and all the cute, pink merchandise in the world won’t change the fact that the higher-ups at Susan G. Komen for the Cure shamefully put their politics before the health of millions of women. Ω Smarted by Popsmart? Got something to say? Let Rachel know: popsmart@newsreview.com.

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CONCERTO Musicians of Midtown will open with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. today at Gallery 2110 (2110 K Street). A Second Saturday reception will be held February 11, from 6 to 9 p.m. The exhibition runs through March 2.

It’s a few minutes past 11 a.m. on a Thursday morning, and Brooke WalkerKnoblich enters a sunny room, takes off her robe and sits naked on a stool. For the next four hours, inside this Carmichael art studio, five local artists practice painting her nude figure. It’s a ritual: Every week for more than a year now, the 29-year-old—herself a painter—has modeled for this private group.

And it’s a mutually beneficial relationship. During this weekly custom, the young artist also learns from the artists painting her, a distinguished group that includes veterans such as Fred Dalkey, Jian Wang and Pat Mahony. They meet regularly at Mahony’s studio to discuss ideas and learn from each other—all while Walker-Knoblich poses and listens, gaining insight along the journey to discover her own artistic voice.

The latest product of that journey, an exhibition of works called The Musicians of Midtown, opens with a reception at 6 p.m. today at Gallery 2110. The exhibition, as the name implies, features portraits of local music mainstays such as Ricky Berger, Musical Charis, Sister Crayon and the Nibblers.

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now, also marks a new direction for the artist, and it’s a concept that came out of both a need for a fresh creative inspiration and a life-long admiration of music.

Previously, Walker-Knoblich says, her early career was less focused. In the wake of her 2007 Sacramento exhibition debut, she tried to organize a different show every Second Saturday but found that in the ensuing years, she spent most of her time trying to market an assortment of exhibitions instead of focusing on her craft.

“It became a real strain on me creatively, where I just wasn’t painting, and I was spending all this time on the business aspect of it,” she says, chatting during a recent interview in her cluttered Midtown studio.

“With this series, I finally came to a point where I was like, ‘You know what? I just need to paint … [and] be out in the community listening to these bands, sketching, meeting people and not be worried about a show in three weeks.’”

So in January 2011, she essentially stopped showing her works, instead focusing energy on The Musicians of Midtown.

That decision, she says now, helped her blossom into a more complete painter.

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For example, using only black canvases for this series, she says, changed her approach to color.

In the paintings, splashes of color hint at the mood and timbre of sounds at a show. Blurred lighting and instruments depict movement, like a visceral glimpse of a raucous show at the downtown nightclub, Old Ironsides.

Putting herself out there in the community also opened up a new direction in Walker-Knoblich’s life. After meeting at a party, she began dating one of the musicians she painted for the series: Marcus Cortez, lead singer of Black Tar Caviar.

Cortez says Walker-Knoblich’s work captures the essence of music.

“Each [painting] has its own particular flavor. Some of them are very abstract and some are more photo-realistic,” he says.

“The pure raw emotion of it is so rock ’n’ roll. It’s so in the moment.”

Developing such a style of artistic expression took a lifetime of practice.

Walker-Knoblich grew up in Nevada City obsessed with crayons. When she was just a toddler, her parents noticed her filling up numerous coloring books, so they decided to send the budding artist to a Waldorf school. That environment, she says, was filled with art, creative thinking and good teachers. After high school, she studied at the University of California San Diego, where she would eventually complete a bachelor’s degree in studio art.

Halfway into her studies, however, Walker-Knoblich says she noticed a certain problem with the program.

“No one knew how to paint,” she explains.

“The UC system really isn’t craftbased; it was all theoretical and criticism,” she continues. “You could talk about a piece of art and the cultural context it was

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in and how it was feeding off of other people, but there [weren’t] actually any classes on how to blend color, value changes, composition, or things like that.”

This became even more evident when Walker-Knoblich spent her junior year studying abroad in Paris, France. There, she enrolled in a yearlong session of serious painting-focused classes. She also studied the classics at museums such as the Louvre and the Musée d’Orsay, learning the fundamentals of painting by copying museum masterpieces.

“The stability of [life as an artist] is the biggest challenge. Not having this regular paycheck that you can count on ... creates a lot of stress.”

Brooke Walker-Knoblich Sacramento painter Back in San Diego, she finished her bachelor’s degree in 2005. Then, after graduation, the artist discovered that school had also never taught her about the marketing aspect of her chosen profession.

“You might be able to sell 10 pieces in a month, and the next month you might not sell anything,” she says. “The stability of [life as an artist] is the biggest challenge.

Not having this regular paycheck that you can count on ... creates a lot of stress.”

So in 2006, she moved to Sacramento to live rent free; her boyfriend at the time had a house in Gold River. There, she focused on practicing and perfecting the

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style of painting she learned in France, classical realism. She also built large bodies of work that now cover nearly every wall of her current studio in Midtown, where she’s lived since 2008—a less “creatively stifling” area than Gold River, she says.

Additionally, like many aspiring artists, Walker-Knoblich began supporting her career by working a number of part-time jobs. Now, a 12-hour shift one day per week at her parents’ medical practice pays the rent, while a teaching job, numerous modeling gigs and personal commissioned portraits bring in additional income.

During the 2010 holiday season, she took that modeling job for Mahony’s private painting group.

“There are exceedingly few artists who can make a living on their own,” says Mahony. “I really admire that Brooke is achieving her dream. It is a struggle. She works many different jobs, and then tries to get to her work when she can.”

Though she took the job for extra income, Walker-Knoblich also transcended her role there as a mere model. After the artists discovered their subject was, herself, an accomplished painter, her relationship with the group became more symbiotic.

Each week, she and the others share and critique art, discuss shows and chat about issues affecting in the community. It is, she says, a collective learning experience, helping everyone’s creative-growth process.

An exhibition of the artists’ paintings of Walker-Knoblich—which includes a selfportrait—will eventually be released this March at the Sacramento Temporary Contemporary Gallery. It’s titled Six Artists and a Model.

“She was able to give us advice about her own poses and she would bring work that she was working on,” says Mahony.

“We’ve seen the [Musicians of Midtown] pieces. ... I think it’s commendable [work]. ... We’re all learning and growing as a group.”

One surefire way to never stop learning and progressing, says Walker-Knoblich, is to buckle down, sacrifice other plans, and just practice.

“I’ve heard it takes 10,000 hours to become a master at anything, whether it’s art or chess,” she says.

“Muscle memory, hand-eye coordination: It’s just a matter of constantly doing something, just like playing a musical instrument. ... How do you expect to progress if you haven’t worked at it?” Ω

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Where’s the veggie beef?

I just left Sacramento VegFest 2012, and I’m still hungry. I assumed a “celebration of raw, vegetarian and vegan cuisines” would overflow with food options, so I skipped breakfast and purposely arrived at Del Paso Boulevard’s Artisan Building ready to chow down.

An adorable woman dressed as a carrot took my $3 admission, and I squeezed into the crowded festival. I browsed health-industry vendors and scored a copy of Low Funds: Family Friendly Vegan Meals on the Cheap, a Xeroxed cookbook by Never Felt Better Vegan Shop owners Jen and Shawn Fosnight. I contemplated a Sacramento Vegan Society “Compassion is Sexy” T-shirt before deciding I was too hungry to shop. Bring on the food!

The only place in the room selling consumables, however, was the Nacheez booth: $2 bought a small paper boat of tortilla chips ladled with the locally made cashew-based cheese substitute, which I devoured in seconds. Licking my fingers, I pushed my way into the adjacent auditorium.

I immediately saw signs for The Green Boheme and Azna Gluten Free. Now we’re talking! Or hopefully, eating.

Green Boheme’s table sported decorative kale leaves and menus, but no food. A cheery representative suggested I walk to the cafe to eat. It was only a few doors down, but hadn’t I just paid to enter this building for a food festival?

The next table sat empty. Perhaps that’s where Sugar Plum Vegan was supposed to be. The cafe announced its VegFest boycott two days earlier on Facebook, prompted by the participation of two meatcentered catering companies: Ambrosia Fine Food and Mama Kim Cooks. I read the companies’ menus online and found pages of descriptions of tri-tip, salmon filets, and herb-roasted chicken breasts with hardly a vegetarian entree. I understood Sugar Plum’s reservations, but its food was sorely missed.

Azna offered none of its signature baked goods, but only a $6 lasagna plate. The ice-cold portion was smaller than the smallest piece of cake at an office birthday party. I ate it in four bites, with three more for a teensy cube of brownie and a miniature slice of garlic bread. (All delicious.)

The controversial Mama Kim’s also had food, along with an intimidating line that stretched halfway around the auditorium. Two harried cooks dished up falafel appetizers as fast as hungry patrons could grab them.

I headed to a cooking demonstration by Chef AJ, author of Unprocessed. The crowd filled every available seat and some of the stage floor. AJ was endearing, not only because her fantastic sugar-free truffles kept me from spiraling into hungry crabbiness, but because she sang songs and joked while she cooked. For an hour, VegFest transcended the merely educational and became fun.

Vegetarianism is often perceived as a practice of sacrificing pleasure for cold, ethical righteousness. A festival could subvert that stereotype by making plantbased eating a delicious celebration. VegFest was a good place to acquire recipes and learn about plantbased diets, but with slim food options, no entertainment, and a shaky commitment to representing truly vegetarian businesses, there’s room to improve. VegFest crowds proved Sacramentans are enthusiastic about vegetarian cuisine. Next time, let’s make sure there’s plenty to go around.

—Becca Costello

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It’s a happening Insight Coffee Roasters, downtown Sacramento’s newest coffeehouse, is taking part in Second Saturday culture with a slew of activities that shall be summed up as a happening. The list of goings-on at the handsome caffeine dispensary includes obligatory art by featured artists Corey Okada and Miguel Wille; a live “community canvas” painting described by the event coordinator Yasamin Safarzadeh as “a collaboration piece composed at the hands of almost a dozen Sacramento artists”; and the musical stylings of Adrian Bellue, Cat & Mouse Trio, Hooligan’s Wake and Electropoetic Coffee. Plus, there’s a promise that there will be hula hooping at the event. Hold ’em to it.

Where: Insight Coffee Roasters, 1901 Eighth Street; (916) 642-9555; http://insightcoffee.com.

Second Saturday reception: February 11, 5-10 p.m.

Hours: Every day, 7 a.m.-8 p.m.

“Household” by Miguel Wille, photograph, 2011.

Lowbrow reunion

The visitors of the Toyroom Gallery in the early aughts when it was located in an alleyway off of Second Avenue got to experience a healthy dose of lowbrow art from creators in Sacramento County and beyond.

After its move and subsequent closing on K Street, the Toyroom now is only online. But this month at the Sacramento Temporary Contemporary, it presents some artist-designed toys to show along with some folks who graced the former gallery’s walls—John Stuart Berger, Robert Bowen, Carrie Cottini, Marty Gessler and Kim Scott—in sort of a lowbrow reunion show.

“Bear, Birch and Trees: A Love Letter to B” (detail) by Laurelin Gilmore, oil, 2012.

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Where: Sacramento Temporary Contemporary,

1616 Del Paso Boulevard; (916) 921-1224; http://stcgallery.webs.com.

Opening reception and artist talk: Thursday, February 9, 5:30-8 p.m.

Second Saturday reception: February 11, 6-9 p.m. Through February 29.

Closing reception: Sunday, February 26, 3-6 p.m.

Hours: Thursday through Saturday, noon-4 p.m.

Brought to you by the letters A through Z, the Sacramento Art Complex—and perhaps an affinity to Sesame Street—presents Love of Letters. More than 50 artists, including Dana Barrow, Steve Cook, Laurelin Gilmore and Robert Hollingsworth, conjured alphabet-themed artwork for this exhibition.

Where: Sacramento Art Complex, 2110 K Street; (916) 476-5500; www.sacramentoartcomplex.com.

Meet the artists reception: Thursday, February 9, 6-8 p.m.

Second Saturday reception: February 11, 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Through March 1.

Hours: Tuesday through Friday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

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18 MAIYA GALLERY 2220 J St., Ste. 1; (916) 476-3964; www.maiyagallery.com.

19 MIDTOWN FRAMING & GALLERY 1005 22nd St., (916) 447-7558, www.midtownframing.com.

20 OLD CITY ART GALLERY 2512 Franklin Blvd., (916) 952-4810.

21 OLD SOUL CO. 1716 L St., (916) 443-7685, www.oldsoulco.com.

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24 SACRAMENTO GAY & LESBIAN CENTER 1927 L St., (916) 442-0185, http://saccenter.org.

25 SHINY NICKEL ART GALLERY 1518 21st St., (916) 224-7051.

26 SIDE SHOW STUDIOS 5635 Freeport Blvd., Ste. 6; (916) 391-6400; www.sideshowstudios.net.

(916) 956-2491, http://tangent-gallery.com.

28 THE URBAN HIVE 1931 H St., (916) 585-4483, www.theurbanhive.com.

29 VERGE CENTER FOR THE ARTS 625 S St., (916) 448-2985, http://vergeart.com.

30 VIEWPOINT PHOTOGRAPHIC ART CENTER

32 ZANZIBAR GALLERY 1731 L St., (916) 443-5601, www.zanzibartrading.com.

DOWNTOWN/OLD SAC 33 APPEL GALLERY 931 T St., (916) 442-6014, www.appelgallery.com.

34 ART FOUNDRY GALLERY 1021 R St., (916) 444-2787, www.artfoundrygallery.com.

St., (916) 444-7125, www.artcollab.com.

36 CROCKER ART MUSEUM 216 O St., (916) 808-7000, www.crockerartmuseum.org.

37 E STREET GALLERY AND STUDIOS 1115 E St., (916) 505-7264.

38 MILK GALLERY 212 13th St., (916) 873-5920, www.facebook.com/milkartgallery.

39 PAMELA SKINNER/GWENNA HOWARD CONTEMPORARY ART 723 S St., (916) 446-1786, www.skinnerhowardart.com.

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42 SOLOMON DUBNICK GALLERY 1021 R St., (916) 444-3868, www.sdgallery.com.

43 TEMPLE COFFEE 1010 Ninth St., (916) 443-4960, www.templecoffee.com.

EAST SAC 44 ELLIOTT FOUTS GALLERY 4749 J St., (916) 736-1429, www.efgallery.com.

45 EVOLVE THE GALLERY 2907 35th St., (916) 572-5123, www.evolvethegallery.com.

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09THURS DON’T MISS! HUMAN TRAFFICKING CONFERENCE: This confer-

ence’s goals include: increasing knowledge and awareness of human trafficking; teaching what local law-enforcement agencies are doing to fight child sex trafficking; and showing what local law-enforcement agencies have done, and need to do to address adult labor and sex trafficking in the Central Valley. Th, 2/9, 9am-1pm. $20-$90.

Sacramento State University, 6000 J St.; (916) 209-0626; www.my-sisters-house.org.

Special Events DECONSTRUCTING THE BEATLES: In Deconstructing Sgt. Pepper, composer, musician and Beatles expert Scott Freiman looks at Sgt. Pepper from multiple angles, exploring the history behind the music. Using rare and unreleased recordings, he walks the audience through the construction of songs from take one to the final version. Th, 2/9, 7pm. $12-$15. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.; (916) 442-7378.

LEARN ABOUT HOME ENERGY SAVINGS: Find out how much electricity your household appliances really use. Yolo Energy Watch will demonstrate how to use a watt meter and how you can borrow one from your library. Th, 2/9, 7-8:30pm. Free.

Veterans Memorial Center, 203 E. 14th St. in Davis; (530) 757-5662; http://cityofdavis.org.

Film CUT POISON BURN: View the film Cut Poison Burn, a documentary which exposes the “Cancer Industrial Complex,” and explores the idea that cancer treatment is only half the battle. Th, 2/9, 7pm. Free.

SMUD Headquarters Building, 6201 S St.; (916) 452-3211.

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FATHER AND DAUGHTER DANCE:

CALIFORNIA WRITERS CLUB OPEN-MIC: California Writers

African artists have been making jewelry out of paper beads for generations. Learn the technique from an artist from Ghana, who learned it from her mother, who learned it from her mother before that.

Th, 2/9, 2:30pm. Free. ArdenDimick Library, 891 Watt Ave.

Now Playing THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES: View a stage production based on Eve Ensler’s monologues with real women exploring intimacy, vulnerability and sexual self-discovery. Th, 2/9, 7:30pm. $5-$10. Sacramento State University Union Ballroom, 6000 J St.; (916) 278-6997; www.sacstateunique.com.

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DON’T MISS! CARNAVAL SAMBA: Bring out samba drums and other percussion, and practice for Carnaval 2012. This drop-in class is for anyone who wants to jam or learn hot Samba rhythms. Bring your instruments or use the ones provided. F, 8pm through 2/23. Opens 2/10. $5.

Brazilian Cultural Exchange of Sacramento, 3313 Julliard Dr., Studio C; (916) 205-3970; www.fenix drumanddance.com.

Fathers and daughters are invited to attend the 20th annual Father and Daughter Dance hosted by the Cosumnes Community Services District.

The Father and Daughter Dance is suitable for girls ages 3 and older. Each semiformal affair includes a catered buffet dinner and dancing. Dinner is provided by DeVinci’s Delicatessen and Catering. F,

2/10, 6pm; F, 2/17, 6pm; F, 2/24, 6pm. $30. Laguna Town Hall,

3020 Renwick Ave. in Elk Grove.

Classes EFFECTIVE JOB SEARCH STRATEGIES: Learn useful information for creating an effective approach to job-hunting.

Registration is required by calling the library. F, 2/10, 3:30pm. Free. Rancho Cordova Public Library; 9845 Folsom Blvd., in Rancho Cordova, (916) 264-2920; www.saclibrary.org.

Film WHEN THE LEVEES BROKE: See the Spike Lee film about Hurricane Katrina. The film also looks at a community that has been through hell and back, surviving death, devastation and disease at every turn. Yet, amidst the ruins, the people of New Orleans are finding new hope and strength as the city rises from the ashes, buoyed by their own resilience and a rich cultural legacy. F, 2/10, 7:30pm.

Free. Lavender Library, 1414 21st St.; (916) 492-0558.

Club, Sacramento Branch hosts an open-mic for writers. Signups begin at 6:45pm. Readings are limited to 10 minutes per person. Listeners are welcome.

F, 2/10, 7-9:30pm. Free. Barnes & Noble, 6111 Sunrise Blvd. in Citrus Heights; (916) 344-5778; www.cwcsacramentowriters.org.

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DON’T MISS! ICELANDS VALENTINE LUV 2 SKATE: Come skate at the

first Valentine Luv 2 Skate event at Iceland Ice Arena.

Enjoy drinks, food and a skate show. There will be a raffle drawing for a Zamboni lesson, a skate lesson, and a birthday party at Iceland. Sa, 2/11, 6-9pm. $5 for entry and skate rental. Iceland Ice Arena, 1430 Del Paso Blvd.; (916) 925-3121; http://skate sacramento.com.

Special Events BENEFIT POKER TOURNAMENT: Davis Musical Theatre Company is cutting the cards and dealing an exciting evening of poker action. Thousands of dollars in prizes are up for grabs throughout the night with a final round showdown on the stage for the evening’s highest rollers. All proceeds benefit Davis Musical Theatre Company. Sa, 2/11, 6:30pm. $40 to buy in,

$20 rebuys available. Davis Musical Theatre Company, 607 Pena Dr. in Davis; (530) 756-3682.

BITCHIN’ BAKE SALE: Indulge in decadent cupcakes, doughnuts, cookies, and other tasty treats to benefit Sacramento Urban Dharma, a Buddhism-focused instruction and silent meditation and discussion group offering support for both beginners and experienced meditators. Sa, 2/11, 4-7pm. By donation. Phono Select, 2312 K St.; (916) 400-3164.

LOVE, SEX AND RELATIONSHIPS IN 2012: Celebrate love by attending the first event of its kind in Nevada City. It features bliss yoga, presentations on sexuality, communication and healthy relationships, gifts, sensual food and enticing entertainment. Sa, 2/11, 9:30-midnight. Free. The Stonehouse, 107 Sacramento St. in Nevada City; (530) 362-8013; www.facebook.com/#!/events/ 130629923723116.

PASSION FOR PORTS: Looking for something different and special to do this Valentine’s Day? Join Deaver Vineyards for its semiannual port tasting and pairing event. Sa, 2/11, 2-5pm. $5-$10.

Deaver Vineyards, 12455 Steiner Rd. in Plymouth; (209) 245-4099; www.deavervineyards.com.

Art Galleries ACAI STUDIOS & GALLERY: This exhibition will feature the imaginative works of Suzanne Goodwin. Her art is whimsical, with a dark edge to it—a style sometimes called “BubbleGoth.”

Sa, 2/11, 6-9pm. Free. 7425 Winding Way in Fair Oaks; (916) 966-2453.

E STREET GALLERY AND STUDIOS: Third Annual Bleating Hearts Exhibition. A group show featuring works by Thomas Powell, Linda Paris, Rachel Miller, David Hodapp, Linda Gelfman, Chris Botta and others. Sa, 2/11, 5-9pm. Free. 1115 E St.; (916) 505-7264.

TEMPLE FINE COFFEE & TEA: Jazz in the temple, View a solo art show featuring jazz-themed paintings by Avery King.

Sa, 2/11, 7-9pm.

Free. 1019 Ninth St.; (916) 443-4960; www.templecoffee.com.

Classes THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN KITCHEN: Explore the rich culinary heritage and diverse recipe sources of the AfricanAmerican kitchen. Learn about foods from Africa, the Caribbean and the Americas; recipes collected from church suppers, family reunions and traditional celebrations. Share your recipes and create something with ingredients supplied at the program. Sa, 2/11, 2pm.

Free. South Natomas Library, 2901 Truxel Rd.; (916) 264-2920; www.saclibrary.org.

Film SEARCHING FOR SAFEGROUND FILM FESTIVAL: Award-winning filmmaker Costa Mantis moved into tent city in April 2009 to give the homeless a voice. Now he tells the stories of their struggles in a compelling new miniseries, Searching For SafeGround. This episode, part five, is titled Now What? Sa, 2/11, 5-7pm. $5. First United Methodist Church, 2100 J St.; (703) 728-6800; www.safegroundsac.org.

Kids’ Stuff ASHANTI PRINTED CLOTH WITH ARTWORKS: The Ashanti people of Ghana paint and stamp patterns on fabric used for garments.

Create a cloth wall hanging using fabrics and stamp it with spools, bottle caps, cookie cutters and other shapes. Sa, 2/11, 2pm. Free.

Arcade Community Library, 2443 Marconi Ave.; (916) 264-2920.

Poetry A MARATHON OF LOVE POEMS: Enjoy A Marathon of Love Poems, in which 20 local poets read poems of love, lust and heartache. Refreshments provided. Sa, 2/11, 7-8:30pm. Free.

Vox Sacramento, 1818 11th St.; http://voxsac.com.

VALENTINE EROTIQUE AND EROTIC ART SHOW: An annual classic, this erotic extravaganza returns with a brand-new array of poetry, sexy skits, a chocolate dessert contest, love raffle and other sensuous entertainment. Sa, 2/11, 7:30pm. $14 per person; $22 per couple.

North Columbia Schoolhouse Cultural Center, 179894 Tyler Foote Rd. in Nevada City; (530) 265-2826; http://north columbiaschoolhouse.org.

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Sports & Recreation VALENTINE RUN: Join the ninth annual Valentine Run presented

by Legal Services of Northern California. The Valentine Run is a family-friendly event featuring kids races and a 1.8-mile or 4-mile run/walk, fitness expo, awards ceremony and more.

Sa, 2/11, 7am-noon. Call for pricing. Macys Country Club Plaza Mall, 3500 El Camino Ave.; (916) 551-2164; www.lsncrun.info.

Concerts KAMRAN & HOOMAN: Kamran & Hooman are two brothers who have become one of the hottest Persian groups outside of Iran.

Born in Tehran, raised in Canada and the United States, Kamran & Hooman were influenced by such artists as Michael Jackson, mixing Western pop, dance and R&B sounds to create a unique style. Sa, 2/11, 8pm. $35-$100.

Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.; (916) 442-7378.

WILLIE K.: Raised on Maui, Willie Kahaiali’i (a.k.a. Willie K.) has been playing music and entertaining audiences since the age of 10. Sa, 2/11, 8pm. $25-$35.

Cache Creek Casino Resort, 14455 Hwy. 16 in Brooks; (888) 772-2243; www.cachecreek.com.

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SACRAMENTO DARWIN DAY:

Sacramento Darwin Day celebrates reason, science, humanity and Charles Darwin’s 203rd birthday. The event will include speakers, displays, vendors, entertainment, music and refreshments (and birthday cake too). Su, 2/12, 2-5pm. $5-$10. La Sierra Community Center, 5325 Engle Rd. in Carmichael; (916) 447-2170; http://sacdarwinday.info.

Special Events THREE SECRETS TO A LOVING PARTNERSHIP: At this workshop, you and your partner will discover three insights on how to make your relationship vibrant and passionate. You will also gain skill at using three techniques for connecting with your partner even on the tough subjects

CHINESE NEW YEAR PARTY: This celebration includes dim sum, story-telling by Kwong Chew, Chinese calligraphy by Nikko Wu, martial arts demonstrations, drumming by Grass Valley Taiko, mahjong and dragon dancing by the Community Asian Theater of the Sierra. Su, 2/12, noon. Free.

The Stonehouse, 107 Sacramento St. in Nevada City; (530) 346-1188.

RABBI MICHAEL LERNER: Rabbi Michael Lerner is a political activist, the editor of Tikkun, a progressive Jewish interfaith magazine based in Berkeley, Calif., and the rabbi of Beyt Tikkun Synagogue of San Francisco. He is also the founder of the Network of Spiritual Progressives, and the author of several books, including The Left Hand of God, and his latest, Embracing Israel/Palestine. Su, 2/12, 7:30pm. $15-$25. St. Marks United Methodist Church, 2391 St. Mark’s Way; (916) 483-7848; www.stmarksumc.com/ upcomingmoon.

SPEED DATING FOR BOOK LOVERS: Meet your match. It’s a new year and the perfect time to find love in the library. Bring a book you’ve enjoyed to spark conversations on your “date.”

Registration is required. Su, 2/12, 2pm. Free. Sacramento Public Library (Central Branch), 828 I St.; (916) 264-2770; www.tinyurl.com/76rhbkx.

Classes FRIED BLUE TOMATOES: AN ACTING WORKSHOP: Fried Blue Tomatoes is intended to provide an open rehearsal space for ensemble building. During weekly drop-in sessions, participants will explore various practices and theatre techniques, including but not limited to warmups/yoga, viewpoint, contact improvisation, and long-form improvisation, all of which can help you grow as an actor. Su, 10am-noon through 5/27. $5.

Sacramento Temporary Contemporary, 1616 Del Paso Blvd.; (916) 923-6204; www.taactheatre.com.

TRACING YOUR BLACK ROOTS: Learn to find documents to help trace the lives of your ancestors.

Professional genealogist Lisa B.

Lee will show the many resources and research tools to locate your ancestors so you can be the family storyteller of your generation. Su, 2/12, 2pm.

Free. Sacramento Public Library (Central Branch), 828 I St.; (916) 264-2920; www.saclibrary.org.

Emmanuel has a professional career that spans four decades.

A household name in his native Australia, Emmanuel has garnered loyal fans worldwide. His unique style - he calls it simply “finger style” - is akin to playing guitar the way a pianist plays piano, using all 10 fingers.

Su, 2/12, 7:30pm. $35. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.; (916) 442-7378.

Kids’ Stuff I HEART SACRAMENTO ZOO: Bring your valentine to a special I Heart Sacramento Zoo day organized by the Sacramento Zoo Teen volunteers. The event features valentine-themed animal enrichments, informative talks and activity tables - all included with general admission.

Su, 2/12, 10am-4pm. Free with cost of admission. Sacramento Zoo, 3930 West Land Park Dr.; (916) 808-5888; www.saczoo.org.

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simple to advanced dances from Bulgaria, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Japan and more. Most dances don’t require a partner, are good workouts and mentally stimulating. Su, 7-10pm through 3/18. $25-$35. Davis Art Center Studio E, 1919 F St. in Davis; (530) 758-0863; www.davisfolkdance.org.

ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION SUPPORT GROUP: Attend local groups or speak to a Family Care Specialist, who assists with care planning and managing challenging situations. Second M of every

THE FOUR FRESHMEN: After 60 years, the legendary sound of the The Four Freshmen continues to excite audiences worldwide. The faces have changed, but the same dynamic vocal harmonies and jazz stylings that propelled the Four Freshmen to the top tier of popular music take center stage at the Three Stages. Su, 2/12, 3pm. $25. Three Stages at Folsom Lake College, 10 College Pkwy. in Folsom; (916) 608-6888.

month, 10:30am-12:30pm through 6/11. Opens 2/13. Kaiser Point West, 1650 Response Rd.; (888) 813-2047.

MARLYNN SMITH, SOPRANO: In cele-

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SEAN KING: Sean King is a poet with a gift for word manipulation, splicing and other rhetorical devices.

W, 2/15, 9pm. $5. Queen Sheba, 1704 Broadway; (916) 446-1603; http://theurbanpoet.org.

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Looking for something to do? Use SN&R’s free calendar to browse hundreds of events online.

Art galleries and musems, family events, education classes, film and literary events, church groups, music, sports, volunteer opportunies—all this and more on our free events calendar at www.newsreview.com.

Start planning your week!

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Meetings & Groups WOMEN PARTNERS OF ASPERGER MEN: A free education and support group will be held for women partners of men with Asperger’s syndrome. It is co-led

by Sally B. Watkins L.C.S.W., and Marilyn Perry, PhD., both therapists. A formal diagnosis is not

LEARN ABOUT HOME ENERGY SAVINGS: Find out how much electricity your household appliances really use. Yolo Energy Watch will demonstrate how to use a watt meter and how you can borrow one from your library. W, 2/15, 7-8:30pm. Free.

Woodland Library, 250 First St. in Woodland; (530) 661-5981.

HIREVENT: With Valentine’s Day approaching, love is in the air, and sweet success may be in store for jobseekers at Sacramento’s HIREvent. This free job fair will feature numerous employers actively hiring for entry-level to management positions in a wide range of fields. W, 2/15, noon4pm. Free. Crowne Plaza Hotel, 5321 Date Ave.; (888) 843-5627; www.jobjournal.com/JF_details.

Service Group will sponsor an antique appraisal session focusing on china, glass, silver, residential contents and memorabilia with Gary Cox and Bonnie Dunlap; and Native American, Western, and “cowboy” art and artifacts with Bob Hickman.

Informal appraisals or verbal approximations of value are $10 per item or $45 for five items.

Appointments required.

Barwest, 2724 J Street; (916) 476-4550 De Vere’s Irish Pub, 1531 L Street; (916) 231-9947 The Depot Video Bar, 2001 K Street; 441-6823 Dive Bar, 1016 K Street; (916) 737-5999 Ella Dining Room & Bar, 1131 K Street; (916) 443-3772 Fox & Goose, 1001 R Street; (916) 443-8825 The Golden Bear, 2326 K Street; (916) 441-2242 Grange Restaurant & Bar, 926 J Street; (916) 492-4450 Lounge on 20, 1050 20th Street, Suite 100; (916) 443-6620 The Mercantile Saloon, 1928 L Street; (916) 447-0792 Old Ironsides, 1901 10th Street; (916) 443-9751 R15, 1431 R Street; (916) 930-9090 Shady Lady Saloon, 1409 R Street, Suite 101; (916) 231-9121

Mauricio Oliva says this is a sweet red drink, just like a heart. Ingredients include tequila, pomegranate, agave nectar, lime juice and Domaine de Canton ginger liqueur.

Zócalo, 1801 Capitol Avenue; (916) 441-0303.

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ART SERVICE GROUP EVALUATION DAY: The Art

bration of Black History Month, internationally renowned soprano Marlynn Smith will perform African-American spirituals, including “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” and “There is a Balm in Gilead.” Smith has performed with the Berliner Symphonicker and the Poland Symphony Orchestra. Su, 2/12, 3pm. $6-$12. Crocker Art Museum, 216 O St.; (916) 808-7000; www.crocker artmuseum.org.

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CORAZÓN PURO (PURE HEART): Bartender

Reception, JAYJAY: The Back Room opens with an artists’ reception on Valentine’s Day evening. Join for great art, bubbly, live music and sweets from local chocolatier The Chocolate Architect. Tu, 2/14, 5-7:30pm. Free. 5520 Elvas Ave.; (916) 453-2999; www.jayjayart.com.

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HERE ARE SOME OTHER PLACES TO ORDER A GOOD COCKTAIL THIS VALENTINE’S DAY:

Comstock, when you order a Sunday Funday, you’ll recieve a martini glass lined with chocolate drizzle, then filled with marshmallow vodka, amaretto and crème de banana, all topped with whipped cream.

3 Fires Lounge, 1501 L Street; (916) 267-6823.

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PASIÓN DE MAYAHUEL (PASSION OF MAYAHUEL): The creation of bar manager Gil Jora, this cocktail features tequila, champagne, pomegranate and orange liqueur. Tequila Museo Mayahuel, 1200 K Street; (916) 441-7200.

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preschoolers and caregivers can enjoy an interactive 45minute Arabic-English storytime. Young children can hear stories, enjoy songs and engage in circle time. Each session will end with a simple craft to take home. Second Tu of every month through 3/14. Free. Valley Hi-North Laguna Library, 7400 Imagination Pkwy.; (916) 251-9297; www.saclibrary.org.

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Davis M.I.N.D. Institute, 2825 50th St.; (916) 734-9040.

ARABIC-ENGLISH BILINGUAL KIDS STORYTIMES: Toddlers,

New Millennium Music series opens with the Los Angeles Piano Quartet. The quartet’s expertise extends from the Classical Era to the present.

The performance will include works by Mozart, Steven Stucky and Gabriel Faure.

M, 2/13, 7:30pm. $20-$25.

Sacramento State Music Recital Hall, 6000 J St.; (916) 278-5155; www.csus.edu/music.

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required to attend the group.

Second Tu of every month. Free. UC

Crocker Art Museum, 216 O St.; (916) 808-7000; www.crockerartmuseum.org.

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that breed strife between you.

Su, 2/12, noon-3pm. $45 per couple. Unity of Roseville, 107 Sutter Ave. Lion’s Club in Roseville; (916) 784-1054; www.unityroseville.com.

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Sunday, February 26 4:30–6:30PM All proceeds benefit the Davis Elderly Nutrition Program.

FEATURING SOUPS FROM THE FOLLOWING LOCAL RESTAURANTS: Tommy J’s Monticello Dos Coyotes Caffe Italia

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Valentine’s Day, February 14 Enjoy delicious dinner specials and FREE live music from 7 – 10 pm. Regular menu also available. Open for lunch and dinner.

Submit it on our facebook page or bring it in person.

Beer Week, February 24 – March 4 Exciting events and amazing prize giveaways! Make your reservation now for our March 2 Beer Dinner.

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Monsoon, the new Indian eatery in Midtown, doesn’t live up to its evocative and artful website. Of course if this were a prerequisite to assessing the caliber of a restaurant, many would be wanting.

Most recently, the location that currently houses Monsoon was Spin Burger Bar, a burger joint whose Rueben and lamb patties are now missed.

Little has changed from Spin’s interior, save the removal of a large chalkboard— whose dust a Howard Hughes-channeling diner could easily imagine, gently settling on the plates of neighboring tables. Still present are the large street-facing window walls and dominant central bar. There are fewer tall seats and more tables. The apparently required black, steel-and-glass Midtown urban-sparse motif still reigns supreme.

Like so many things in life, there is always room for another good Indian restaurant. And, in the aggregate, Monsoon is good. It is not great. Not to be a broken record or scratched disc or whatever the 21st-century cliché is, but Bombay Bar & Grill at 1315 21st Street is an inspired Indian restaurant where, unlike, Monsoon, mango chutney is available—free of charge—at every meal. Free mango chutney being but one of the smaller of Bombay’s superior attributes. And despite little affinity for Indian lunch buffet, Pooja Indian Grill in West Sacramento lays out an expertly prepared spread that offers almost as much variety as Monsoon’s truncated lunch menu.

For the Indian buffet aficionados who wish to remain on foot in the greater downtown environs, Mati’s Indian Express at 1501 16th Street gets the nod over Monsoon with its engaging but eagle-eyed matriarch stationed behind the chaffing dishes to ensure her creations are just so.

As to Monsoon’s fare, it runs the familiar gamut of dishes familiar to Americans. The dinner menu offers plenty from the tandoori oven, five biryanis (rice and spice mixed with various meats or vegetables) and 10 vegetarian curries including spinach and chunks of paneer (Indian cheese) and aloo gobi (cauliflower and potatoes).

There is a mulligatawny-ish soup on the dinner menu, but it’s not available at lunch, a heart-crushing blow on the first visit that is lessened by the discovery of its blandness when eventually sampled. Nowhere in the broth, with its bits of tomato, chicken and rice, will you find the traditional curry, cardamom, cumin punch. There are several common elements between the lunch menu and the far more expansive dinner menu.

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One of the more nuanced entrees, lunch or dinner, is the coastal prawn dish, composed of three or four shrimp that lay beached in a tomatoesque masala redolent with the spices that form its foundation.

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Refreshing is the nibu pani, a spiced lemonade that will earn a pleasantly quizzical eyebrow arch over its unique flavor—a much better choice than the ginger lemonade.

To get the full feel of Monsoon, eat dinner there. As noted previously, the menu is significantly more varied. Lunch offers a series of entrees—although rice is included—and a “vegetable” of the chef’s choice. On days when that’s saag, creamy spinach, sometimes punctuated with a bit of paneer, that’s pert near Punjab-perfect. The aloo something-or-other with peas, carrot boulders and potatoes, is less appealing. Lunch, however, stays well under the $15 ceiling. Dinner can quickly become significantly more expensive. Pulao (seasoned basmati) is à la carte. Plain Pulao is $3. Mango chutney is $2 a throw. Entrees cluster in the $13 to $16 range. There are a few designer cocktails that hover in the $10 range. Brendan, the eager and efficient waiter, recommends an Old Boy. Add a $5 cup of that mulligatawny and— presto—it’s the high side of $30 a person.

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Midtown

Mati’s There’s a reason “Indian Express” was part of Mati’s previous title. A variety of dishes are offered daily in a buffet, but Mom serves instead of diners slopping stuff onto their own plates. Options are fairly straightforward: A small dish at $6.99 with rice and two items, and a large, which has up to four items, at $8.99. Subtract $1 if going vegetarian. There’s five dishes in the daily veg rotation, most of them vegan. Offerings run the gamut from mild to spicy, although the temperature of spicy is well within tolerance, except for the most heat adverse. This is straightup, nicely prepared Indian food without frills. Mom and daughter make it even more appealing. Indian.

1501 16th St.; (916) 341-0532. Dinner for one: $9-$12. ★★★ The Press Bistro There are flashes of Greece, such as the crisscross rows of bare light bulbs over the front patio. Or the summery small plate of stacked watermelon squares with feta and mint.

Even Italian vegetarians get cut into the action with mushroom ravioli and its corn, leek and dill triumvirate. Another special is a colorful small plate of pepperonata—slightly-pickled-in-champagne-vinegar

stripes of peppers awash in olive oil.

Speaking of olive oil, it’s all that’s needed to accompany the fluffy, light focaccia, whose four rectangles come neatly stacked. Share The Press with someone you love.

Mediterranean. 1809 Capitol Ave., (916) 444-2566. Dinner for one: $15-$30. ★★★1⁄2

Sampino’s Towne Foods Sampino’s Towne Foods turns out to be a bright jewel in a drab Alkali Flat strip mall of paycheck cashers and laundromat. It’s everything an Italian deli should be and more, right down to the Louie Prima on the box and the timpano in the refrigerated display case. Several lobbyists, who elect to drive the six to seven blocks from their offices near the capitol, to pick up sandwiches or—in one instance—five meatballs, begin spewing superlatives when asked their views on Sampino’s. Italian Deli. 1607 F St., (916) 441-2372. Dinner for one: $7-$15. ★★★★1⁄2

Tequila Museo Mayahuel On each visit chef Ramiro Alarcón offers a tantalizing taste of what’s to come. One time it’s a tart, fishladen ceviche that’s neither sugary nor syrupy. Another it’s a cup of albondigas soup. For many years, 524 Mexican Restaurant had cornered the market on meatball soup. Mayahuel’s is superior: a thicker, more flavorful broth and generously sized meatballs.

Bookending the meal is a complimentary dessert. The free flan is memorable, but spending $5 on mango cheesecake is a Lincoln well-invested. Mayahuel seems to be benefiting from positive word of mouth. Each time is busier than the

previous visit. Mexican. 1200 K St., (916) 441-7200. Dinner for one: $12-$20. ★★★★

Thir13en From the start—and, lo, these many weeks hence—the situp-take-notice plate remains the pork tonnato sandwich. It’s the Italian peasant spread or sauce made with tonno—tuna—tonnato that empowers this open-face masterwork. Spread on a toasted half baguette, the tonnato is the foundation upon which the pork rests.

Above the pork is an awning of mixed greens, with a generous overhang, sprinkled with not enough crispy onions and paperthin slices of pickled fennel. There isn’t space to wax poetic about the cordon bleu sandwich, the burger, the designer cocktails or the fizzy

water from Wales. See for yourself.

Very authoritative. American.

1300 H St., (916) 594-7669.

Dinner for one: $12-$20. ★★★★

East Sac

Formoli’s Bistro Formoli’s is the other half of the restaurant swap on J Street that sent Vanilla Bean Bistro (formerly known as Gonul’s J Street Cafe) to Formoli’s old warren and brought Formoli’s into its current high-ceilinged, spare, dark cranberry space of black tables and chairs just six blocks away. Flavor combinations are a big part of the Formoli playbook, and the blend of the tower’s components is the payoff just as it is in the salad of beets—wafer-thin enough to be used interchangeably in the

carpaccio—with shaved fennel, frisée, a few orange segments and pistachios laced with a stentorian balsamic vinaigrette. Mediterranean.

3839 J St., (916) 448-5699. Dinner for one: $20-$40. ★★★★

fresh—in many dishes. And the tabbouleh delivers a roundhousepunch flavor combination. Turkish.

3260-B J St., (916) 457-1155. Dinner for one: $10-$20. ★★★★1⁄2

Vanilla Bean Bistro Gonul’s J Street Cafe has moved up the street and evolved into the Vanilla Bean Bistro. Its narrow, lowceilinged coziness is consonant with its understated, whatever-theimpulse-inspires alchemy that owner/chef Gonul Blum, has shown over the past eight years. Blum hails from Turkey. That country’s culinary tradition provides a sturdy foundation, but for her, it serves more as a launching pad. A recurring feature practiced here is the inclusion of fruit—preserved and

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Pangea Two Brews Cafe Tables, tall and short, are large and communal, fostering that casual camaraderie that should be the goal of any self-respecting brewpub. There’s a fairly extensive menu, including breakfast items.

Not to put too fine a point on it: Pangaea’s offerings are not beers that will be found at Save Mart or even Nugget. They are nuanced.

Brewed with artisanship. In some

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Co-op grows The Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op may be changing locations. The store recently revealed plans to relocate to a parcel of land on 28th and R streets next to Revolution Wines and Temple Coffee. It would come replete with plenty of parking (taking over the lot of the nearby Department of Human Assistance) and building a four-level parking garage.

It projects a June 2014 opening of a store with 22,000 square feet of space and 15,000 additional square feet of mezzanine level. This

is, of course, assuming that financial and board matters all go according to plan.

Is this move necessary? Many Co-op shoppers feel that’s it’s the right move and have been wanting to expand the store and reinvest in it in order to bring in more and new customers. Yet I wonder if it can—to use co-op terminology—sustain itself at that size? No doubt we’ll find out, and I hope so, as the Sac Co-op is an institution to the local-food scene, and with the increased size, could come a number of new services to draw people in.

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Enotria Restaurant and

Wine Bar The longtime eatery’s reworked patio cries out for lazing on an amber autumn afternoon. Enotria is an enophile’s dream. The waiters here speak fluent wine and their knowledge is both capacious and definitive.

Enotria promises “Food made for wine made for food,” and it delivers on the pledge. The paella remains Enotria’s signature dish.

A recent $32 prix-fixe meal begins with a rectangular plate upon which is served an alternating line of caramelized plantains and campaign-button size pork tenderloins. The accompanying wine is a 2008 white burgundy, Olivier LeFlaive “Les Setilles.” The one-two punch here is, obviously, the food and wine. But the knockout punch—at least when all cylinders are firing—is the delivery. American. 1431 Del Paso Blvd., (916) 922-6792. Dinner for one: $20-$40. ★★★★1⁄2

South Sac Sabaidee Thai Grille If the menu at Sabaidee Thai Grille is any indication, pumpkin and other squashes play a major role in Laotian cuisine, which, in turn, plays a major role at Sabaideee.

Sabaidee—“hello” in Lao—requires fortitude to find. The khalii khapou, listed as “curried crab stew” on the menu, comes from the hometown of the matriarch who is happy to answer questions about the ingredients and volunteers what is apparent after one mouthful: real crab is used. On the appetizer front, the pumpkin wontons are a new enough addition that they’ve yet to appear on Sabaidee’s website. A word about the freebie salad that accompanies each meal: expect mixed greens, a dash of carrot shreds, cucumber chunks, a quarter of a tomato, a spattering of sesame seeds and what taste like fried shallots. All this with a tamarind emboldened dressing. Now that’s a freebie.

Service can be kinda slow and tentative, but certainly part of that is due to the freshness of the fare.

Sabaidee isn’t cheap, but it’s a quality meal for the price.

Thai/Laotian. 8055 Elk Grove-Florin Rd., (916) 681-8286. Dinner for one: $10-$20. ★★★1⁄2

Arden/ Carmichael

Ambience It’s not surprising the folks at Zagat have done a fair amount of hyperventilating over Ambience, the decidedly upscale eatery on Fair Oaks Boulevard.

Where else in Carmichael can you

find a $222 meal for two—without alcohol? There is coulis and confit and soufflé and brûlée and reductions and stuff that’s sliced wafer thin and, of course, vast white real estate that surrounds the small portions served on the plates. As the meal progresses, the presentation of the food gets better and better, as does the complexity of the offerings. Baked Alaska for dessert is as rich and decadent. It is also the largest item to appear on a plate all evening.

Kudos to chef and owner Morgan Song for a truly memorable meal.

American. 6440 Fair Oaks Blvd., (916) 489-8464. Dinner for one: $60 and up. ★★★★★

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cases for hundreds of years. A large number are Belgian. There’s the usual panoply of French dip, hot pastrami, Reuben and so on.

Among the signature offerings is The Gobbler. Turkey, natch.

Cranberry sauce, natch. Then red onion, several roma tomato slices, a thicket of green leaf and pepper jack cheese, all shoehorned into a big baguette.

Brewpub. 2743 Franklin Blvd., (916) 454-4942. Dinner for one: $10-$20. ★★★1⁄2

1608 Howe Ave., Ste. 5; (916) 920-5930. Dinner for one: $20-$40. ★★★1⁄2

Nagato Sukiyaki Nagato Sukiyaki’s website says that it is the oldest Japanese restaurant in Sacramento; its doors opened here 41 years ago. And yet business is brisk. Perhaps part of the attraction is the menu with sushi rolls priced well-below the mid-tohigh teens. Another bright spot is sushi chef and owner Don Kawano, who extolls virtues of simple rolls such as albacore, avocado and jalapeño that are unsullied by myriad sauces. The menu runs the gamut of Japanese cuisine: somen, soba, udon and a variety of generously portioned bento boxes. The warmth of chef Kawano and the familiar feel of a longtime quiet neighborhood fixture are the restaurant’s trump cards. Sushi. 2874 Fulton Ave., (916) 489-8230. Dinner for one: $10-$20. ★★★1⁄2

Arigato Sushi Tucked inconspicuously into a strip mall on Howe Avenue, Arigato’s décor seems skewed to a youngish demographic: One wall is lit with changing colors— blue, green, magenta.

The miso is somewhat bereft of the tofu and seaweed flotsam and jetsam found in many bowls elsewhere. The poki, with slices of cucumber and onion, is artfully presented and more than lives up to its “three red chili” billing in the menu with an unrelenting assault on the tongue. The chef recommends the Spanish mackerel (aji) over the mackerel for dessert.

He’s right, of course. There are beginner’s sushi samplers, bento boxes, udon, teriyaki and sukiyaki options. But Arigato’s chief attraction is raw fish bits. And if that’s what you crave, then this place’s crowds you should brave. Sushi.

Palenque Cocina Mexicana Palenque’s flautas don’t taste greasy—something of a feat—and are presented on a bed of shredded lettuce with zigzags of cheese and mayo rivaling the handiwork of the Lilliputians on Gulliver. Kinda don’t want to tear into it—for like a second or two. Requests are readily accommodated, like bringing buckets of the habanero miracle salsa, which, based on the minuteness of the dice, must be quite a labor-intensive hassle to create. Mexican. 2598 Alta Arden Expwy., (916) 483-1751. Dinner for one: $6-$12. ★★★1⁄2

Butter up your valentine Who needs flowers or greeting cards? Impress your Valentine’s Day date with food. Here is one unique and alternative (but still sweet) way to show your date that you care: Head off to a lunch or early dinner at Russian Chocolate (10170 Croydon Way) which closes at 5 p.m. This bakery, despite its name, doesn’t only carry chocolate. It carries a full selection of Russian and European baked goods and food, everything from pirozhki (stuffed Russian pastry buns) to mille-feuille (Napoleons). Tip: Pair up a delicious sandwich with something from the store’s diverse cookie selection.

After your meal there, head to Sacramento’s de facto “sweet corner.” On the northwest side of 19th and L streets, you’ll find three local, artisanal dessert shops all right next to each other: Ginger Elizabeth Chocolates (1801 L Street, Suite 60), TreyBcakes (1801 L Street, Suite 70) and Yogurtagogo (1801 L Street, Suite 90).

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With regularly updated posts and pics of missing bikes, Stolen Midtown Bicycles is a useful, peaceful resource for those hoping to undercut bicycle thieves and take back their wheels. www.facebook.com/stolen.bicycles.

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The opening story of this history of American borrowing has a “ripped from the headlines” feel: A young working couple take out an interest-only mortgage on a house in a BOOK decent neighborhood—but outside what they can afford—then fills up its interior on credit. When the economy goes south and they lose their jobs, they also lose the house and everything in it. It’s the same story that afflicted thousands of people last month, except, as Louis Hyman makes clear in Borrow: The American Way of Debt, this particular case happened in 1932.

This comprehensive—yet extremely readable—history of American attitudes toward credit and debt is fascinating, especially as it stresses how our attitudes toward borrowing have always been undercut by our economy’s relentless need to grow. This is a must-read primer on the American way of buying for anyone who resists economic texts.

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ASK JOEY Dump or date?

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Joey

buys fair-trade chocolate at Trader Joe’s.

Are you clinging to a bad relationship to avoid being alone on Valentine’s Day? Falling in line with the cultural pressure to couple might give your ego a brief boost, but in the long run, it’s detrimental to your health.

Unhappy matches produce stress.

Chronic stress is the foundation for many serious illnesses.

Chronic stress interferes with our capacity to love ourselves, and that impacts how we love others. If you want to grow in self-love this Valentine’s Day, learn to love solitude. When you enjoy being on your own, staying in a bad relationship quickly loses its appeal.

If an attachment to being attached leaves you unable to make a decision about your dating relationship, this “Dump That Date” list can help.

Your partner wants to save, change or fix you.

Got a problem?

Write, email or leave a message for Joey at the News & Review.

Give your name, telephone number (for verification purposes only) and question— all correspondence will be kept strictly confidential.

Write Joey, 1124 Del Paso Blvd., Sacramento, CA 95815; call (916) 498-1234, ext. 3206; or email askjoey@ newsreview.com.

Does your partner invest heroic amounts of energy trying to transform you into her or his ideal?

That’s a red flag. Yes, love can arouse awareness that it’s time for a new belief system, attitude or action. But that awareness should come from inside you and be led by you. When you request support your partner can pitch in. But anyone trying to change you wants to date his or her preferred version of you, not you.

Your partner hits, threatens, pushes or scares you.

Abuse should never be tolerated, ever. Leave.

Your partner tries to convince you to lie for him or her.

Don’t erode your integrity to score points with your partner.

Lies create distrust, not intimacy.

Who has he or she sweet-talked into lying to you?

Your partner gawks at others or flirts openly.

Disrespect means he or she is not ready to date. Someone with the capacity to care about you is attentive and focused during your time together.

Your partner is racist, sexist, homophobic or elitist.

Immaturity reveals itself in many ways, including the inability to accept others as fully human and as made in the image of God. Don’t waste your time trying to establish a romance with someone harboring more fear than love.

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Your partner resents time you spend with family, friends or alone.

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Your partner cheats, physically or emotionally.

Truth and trust are essential ingredients of a healthy relationship. When one partner prefers infidelity to honesty, he or she is admitting to an inadequacy as your equal. Believe them. Let go and move forward.

Your partner lies to you.

Dating partners lie when they are afraid of being seen as less than perfect. If you can’t be vulnerable with each other, true emotional intimacy will never grow.

Your partner puts you down.

Insecure teenagers jockeying for attention from their social groups use sarcasm and put-downs. But an adult who puts you down, then says, “Just kidding!” is using you to wipe away his or her low selfworth. Show your self-esteem by ending the relationship.

Your partner spends more than she or he earns.

Mature adults can live with delayed gratification. Don’t get trapped paying for someone else’s childish attitudes toward money and possessions.

Your partner drinks excessively or uses drugs.

Dating an addict is a chaotic, crazy-making lifestyle. Of course, you are actually dating the drug or booze, since the real person rarely peeks out. Ditch denial and get sober about your addiction to roller-coaster relationships.

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Because he believes in a fair and just solution for all sides in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, like we do.

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Arthur Miller’s American tragedy Death of a Salesman never goes out of fashion because—unlike so many plays from the late 1940s—it seems to speak directly to each new generation. A few aspects may have dated, but the absorbing, heartrending portrait of the stressed-out Loman family hits the dramatic and emoby tional bull’s-eye just as squarely now as it Jeff Hudson did when the play opened more than 50 years ago.

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Willie’s long-suffering wife Linda. Josh Triplett plays the womanizing son, Hap. Director Jeffrey Mason manages the dysfunctional family dynamics well. There are also several good scenes by the supporting cast, particularly cagey old Michael Ω Moerman as neighbor Charley.

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It’s all about truth and lies, of course, as Willie (an aging salesman with a huge New England territory who’s outlived his usefulness) experiences a mix of fantasy episodes and reality checks as his mind nears the end of its tether. As he plods through a grueling travel routine that he can no longer physically sustain, Willie alternately scolds and encourages his ne’er-do-well son, Biff (a high-school football hero who’s now 34).

Biff, for his part, is still nursing the traumatic wounds sustained when he realized (at age 18) that his father is a fraud.

This well-crafted community production features some solid talent. Robert Rossman (as Willie) is an experienced Bay Area actor who settled in Nevada County a few years ago. He’s done musicals and comedy, but he moves into this dramatic role convincingly, illuminating Willie’s endless (and unfounded) optimism, his contrary outbursts (praising and then lambasting), his stubborn refusal (or inability?) to recognize the lies he’s living.

Sam Haley-Hall (son Biff) holds an MFA in acting, and brings more depth and gravity to his role than I’ve seen from other actors in community productions elsewhere. Susan Mason radiates sadness and authority as

Lucy Thurber’s Where We’re Born, which features raw social issues and even a mature-audience warning, is a powerful drama full of human emotion and experience.

KOLT Run Creations produces this impressive telling of the play and Lisa Thew directs. The plot seems less important than the connections and emotions that reverberate almost every minute. Lilly (Jessicah Neufeld) comes back to her Podunk Massachusetts hometown and realizes she no longer belongs.

After troubles arise with her cousin and quasi father figure, Tony (Brian Harrower), and his girlfriend, Franky (Kelley Ogden), Lilly is put into strange and difficult circumstances.

The small cast all sink wonderfully into their roles, especially parts the audience loves to hate. John Young and David Chernyavsky play Tony and Franky’s friends, Vin and Drew, respectively. Both are great foils to the other characters and balance out the stage’s many conflicts.

Ogden is completely set into Franky. She sucks the audience in with her ability to translate the character’s breadth of feelings.

Neufeld plays Lilly well and makes the audience feel every look, shrug and smile. Brian Harrower appears outside of Big Idea Theatre and plays a character that at times makes Stanley Kowalski look tame.

The set is beautifully designed, courtesy of Nastassya Ferns and Brian Rife, with a functional and fluid use of the small space.

The play is not everyday theater. The events that unfold onstage and off are sure to make most audience members a little uncomfortable, but it is the relationships and characters that make the journey worthwhile.

Expect raw human need and denial, both of which usually come with a fair amount of sex and violence.

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Where We’re Born, 8 p.m., Friday and Saturday; 2 p.m., Sunday. $15-$20. KOLT Run Creations at the Ooley Theater, 2007 28th Street; (916) 454-1500; www.koltruncreations.com.

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An outstanding cast (Martha Omiyo Kight, Elizabeth Holman, Dean Shellenberger and Gloria Jones), deft direction (Alysha S. Krumm) and stellar production values (scenery by John Ewing and Jeffrey Lloyd Heatherly; lighting by Ciara Ashley; sound design by Aaron Stewart) make this a must-see version of a contemporary classic play. F, Sa 8pm; Su 2/5 2pm. Through 2/19. $10-$15.

Resurrection Theatre in the Wilkerson Theatre, California Stage Complex, 25th & R streets.; (916) 838-0618; www.resurrectiontheatre.com. K.M.

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Good news—the Cosmopolitan Cabaret’s vivacious Broadway spoof possesses “smarts,” energy and attitude. With the ubiquitous Graham Sobelman at the keyboard, singers Jerry Lee, Jessica Reiner-Harris, Melissa WolfKlain, and Marc Ginsburg gleefully send up everything from Annie to Cats. W 7pm; Th & 7pm; F 8pm, Sa 2 & 8pm; Su 2pm. Through 3/18. $33-$48. The Cosmopolitan Cabaret, 1000 K St.; (916) 557-1999; www.calmt.com. J.H.

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THE GIVER

This dystopian drama contrasting freedom vs. mind control—based on Lois Lowry’s prize-winning novel for young readers—is an unusual, welcome addition to the B Street Family Series. Set in a tightly managed (and medicated) future, the show targets kids who are a mature 8 or older. But this stylish, provocative little production will appeal to teens and adults, too. Sa, Su 1pm & 4pm.

Through 2/19. $13-$20. B Street Theatre, 2711 B St.; (916) 443-5300; www.bstreettheatre.org. J.H.

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This over-the-top skewering of The Bad Seed, All About Eve, Mame and Gypsy gives the talented cast a chance to camp it up. High points include the theater critic who gets her just desserts and a Mama Rose/Auntie Mame turn by Michael R.J. Campbell. W 12:30 & 6:30pm; Th 6:30pm; F 8pm; Sa 2 & 8pm; Su 2 & 7pm. Through 2/19. $15-$38.

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Connie had tried to stop before. She woke up each morning promising herself she wouldn’t drink that day, only to break that promise time and time again. Her self-esteem plummeted to new lows after each failure. “It makes you feel ashamed,” Connie said.“I thought it was a lack of will.

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Daniel Radcliffe—grown up at last—plays Arthur Kipps, a young solicitor in early 20th century England. Kipps is young (Radcliffe is playing somewhat older than his 22 years), but already a widower with a 4-year-old son and anguished memories of the wife who died in childbirth. His employer, none too gently, warns him that he’d better snap out of his grief if he wants to remain on the payroll; his last chance to save his job is to travel to a bleak, remote coastal village and close out the estate of a recently deceased old recluse, Mrs. Drablow.

Kipps finds the villagers as forbidding as the surroundings, all except local landowner Samuel Daily (Ciarán Hinds) and his wife (Janet McTeer). But even they are hounded by grief for their dead son (she is quite unhinged by it)—and, in fact, the child mortality rate in this village appears to be unusually high: The movie gets off to an unsettling start by showing three young sisters, in the grip of some trance, leaping to their deaths from the window of their attic playroom.

When Kipps goes to Eel Marsh House, the Drablow mansion—a gloomy old place at the end of a winding road through marshy wetlands, on a low hill that becomes an island at high tide—he looks out a window to see a woman in black standing mute by a grave in

the small cemetery behind the house. When he looks again, she is gone. And when he asks about her in the village, the locals become even more hostile and forbidding than before.

And more children die.

Anxious to resolve the Drablow estate before his son and his nanny join him in the village for a holiday (which seemed like a better idea back in London), Kipps decides to work through the night at Eel Marsh House, sifting and collating the letters and papers there, even though it means he will be stranded there all night until the tide goes out the next morning. Slowly, by candlelight, he discovers the tortured history of Mrs. Drablow, her husband and her sister, and of a deranged grief that can turn malevolent and reach from beyond the grave. And as he walks the halls of the old dark house, a candle trembling in his hand, things begin to happen.

This isn’t the first time Susan Hill’s 1983 novel has been adapted. There were radio and television versions in the 1980s, plus, most successfully, a stage adaptation that opened in London’s West End in 1989 and is still playing there (it looks likely to become The Mousetrap of the 21st century). Each version, especially Stephen Mallatratt’s play, made major changes in Hill’s original plot, and so does writer Jane Goldman here.

But like the play, Goldman remains true to the novel’s grim and dreadful spirit (no pun intended). The essence of the story is that Arthur Kipps walks into a nightmare that cannot and will not end happily. He seems to know it, and we certainly do, but there’s no turning aside from it, so on he goes, taking us with him. That’s what real horror means, and Goldman preserves that.

The movie gets off to an unsettling start by showing three young sisters, in the grip of some trance, leaping to their deaths.

Director James Watkins stages the movie with a firm sense of foreboding, slipping up only in an overreliance on the screeching scare chords of Marco Beltrami’s obtrusive score (the underlining is unnecessary; we’d be just as scared without it). As Kipps, Radcliffe has come a long way from the dutiful little boy overwhelmed by the magic of the first Harry Potter movie; he has real command in a role where screen presence is more important than the few words he has to speak.

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The birth of psychoanalysis is traced by director David Cronenberg and writer Christopher Hampton (from his play The Talking Cure, based on John Kerr’s book); their movie follows the relationship of Sigmund Freud (an incisive Viggo Mortensen) and Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) from mutual respect to ultimate estrangement, catalyzed

by Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley)—first Jung’s patient, then his lover, then his and Freud’s colleague and a psychiatrist in her own right. Knightley’s often alarming performance grabs our attention, especially in her early “mad” scenes, but the quiet intellectual intensity of Mortensen and Fassbender’s scenes is an education for any actor. For that matter, so is the way Hampton nimbly distills and dramatizes the give-and-take among these three characters over the years. J.L.

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Albert Nobbs

In Victorian-era Dublin, the most conscientious waiter at a staid middle-class hotel is in reality a woman (Glenn Close), forced years ago to conceal her gender and identity just to avoid prostitution, exploitation or the poor house. Now the charade has gone on so long that she/he seems almost to have no identity at all; others in the hotel talk about this “queer little man,” and we in 2012 wince at the double meaning. Directed by Rodrigo García and written by Close and John Banville (from George Moore’s story), the movie is a nearly plotless character study, a thoughtful examination of the attempt to adjust to a society that sees only what it wants to see, and the consequences thereof. It’s fascinating, but in the end, we’re as frustrated as Nobbs, with no more sense of his/her true self than she/he has. J.L.

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The Artist

Writer-director Michel Hazanavicius’ exuberant throwback—a black-andwhite movie, with no spoken dialogue, set in 1927—has the clarity and grace to delight homage-mad nostalgists without alienating everyone else. Framed around the romance between a has-been silent-movie star (Jean Dujardin) and an upstart extra (Bérénice Bejo) at the dawn of the talkies, the structure is slight but sound. More important is the will to entertain, as promulgated through the enduring cinematic values of radiant chemistry and technical precision. Hazanavicius has a light touch and manages sophistication without pretension. This isn’t and needn’t be the bestever movie about one decisive moment in Hollywood history—and who would even presume to top Singin’ in the Rain? Nor is this a call for reversion so much as a touchingly sincere comment on coping with a forwardlurching world. In that regard, and on account of never being boring, this is highly contemporary stuff. John Goodman and James Cromwell co-star. J.K.

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Big Miracle

Three California gray whales trapped in Alaskan pack ice above the Arctic Circle capture the attention of news networks, and the resulting media circus rivets the attention of the world on efforts to free the whales and help them reach the open sea. Based on a real story in 1988 (once called “the world’s greatest non-event”), there’s the makings here of a savage satire on media excess and TV news hype. Instead, predictably, director Ken Kwapis and writers Jack Amiel and Michael Begler (adapting Thomas Rose’s book Saving the Whales) go for cute and heartwarming, mixing the facts with generous helpings of lighthearted fiction. The result, though overlong, gets the job done if Hollywood uplift is what you’re looking for. John Krasinski, Drew Barrymore, Kristen Bell, Ted Danson and Dermot Mulroney star. J.L.

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The Grey

It’s sorta fun seeing Fair Oaksian writerdirector Joe Carnahan make himself at home in a pseudo-philosophical thriller about starving freezing bruiser oil drillers led by Liam Neeson and stalked by wolves in the backwoods of Alaska. Part Budd Boetticher western, part John Carpenter horror thriller, part douchey beer commercial, The Grey was adapted by Carnahan and Ian Mackenzie Jeffers from Jeffers’ story Ghost Walker, and its literary ambitions are built in, if not fully built out.

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In Roman Polanski’s adaptation of Yasmina Reza’s play God of Carnage, two pairs of parents (Jodie Foster, John C. Reilly, Kate Winslet and Christoph Waltz) gather in a posh Brooklyn apartment to come to terms over a playground scuffle between their boys. But instead and inevitably, ostensibly adult negotiations spiral into a blackly comedic vortex of alcohol, accusation and abraded political pieties—the Polanskian conceit that civilization itself is a bourgeois pretense.

Carefully coscripted by Reza and the director, Carnage mocks but ultimately tolerates the problematic social roles into which men, women, bullies, victims, parents and even actors cast themselves. It’s intelligently played by all involved, particularly the self-satirizing Foster, and doesn’t take its audience for granted. At the very least it works as a movie-going palate cleanser: another photographed play, yes, but better that than another photographed comic book or board game. J.K. lives, the movie delivers good visceral anguish.

Supporting players including Frank Grillo and Dermot Mulroney do occasionally redeem their token parts, but of course the best thing about it is habitual winter-movie action-hero Neeson holding court as a brooding human alpha male. J.K.

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The Iron Lady

From the writer of Shame (Abi Morgan) and the director of Mamma Mia! (Phyllida Lloyd), the latest Meryl Streep showpiece of biographical impersonation is not a Marvel Comics property, mercifully, but instead a portrait of the former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who took that office, as the first woman ever to do so, in 1979. Unhugged by mum upon getting into the University of Oxford, young Maggie (Alexandra Roach) applied her coolly reasoned rigidity to pulling herself up into the middle class, whereupon she wanted more than mere housewifery. Decades later she finds herself embodied by an excellent, empathetic Streep (even her sublingual groans seem authentic), alone with Alzheimer’s and unable to let go of her dead husband (Jim Broadbent). The in between is rather a blur: Shrewdly framed as a series of demented reminiscences, with history reduced to a literal cacophony of bullet points, this should satisfy a certain conservative mindset.

There’s no hint as to why Elvis Costello should ever have sang about dancing on her grave.

Generally it’s hard to say how the English will feel about this, but don’t be surprised if they retaliate with Colin Firth in a homely effigy of Reagan. J.K.

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Man on a Ledge

An ex-cop and current convict (Sam Worthington) who claims he was framed for a major jewel robbery escapes from custody while attending his father’s funeral; he winds up on a hotel ledge 22 floors up, but it’s all part of an elaborate sting to prove his innocence. Writer Pablo F. Fenjves and director Asger Leth concoct an outlandish cock-and-bull story that would hardly pass a freshman screenwriting class, but somehow they pull it off and make it fun.

Clever editing and smooth digital mockups of Worthington cavorting high overhead help maintain the illusion that this nonsense is happening in the real world, as do supporting performances: Jamie Bell as Worthington’s brother, Elizabeth Banks as a disgraced hostage negotiator, Anthony Mackie as Worthington’s ex-partner, Ed Harris as the big bad villain. J.L.

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One for the Money

An unemployed woman (Katherine Heigl), desperate for money, goes to work as a bounty hunter for her bail-bondsman cousin. Her assignment: to bring in a bail-jumping murder suspect (Jason O’Mara)—who happens to be the guy who took her virginity in high school, then never

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called. Writers Stacy Sherman, Karen Ray and Liz Brixus and director Julie Anne Robinson adapt the first of Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum novels, no doubt as a hoped-for franchise for Heigl. Chances look good; this one is breezy and enjoyable, and a decent mystery to boot. A little disorderly in construction and unsteady of pace, but nothing Heigl’s star presence (and her amusing bantering chemistry with O’Mara) can’t overcome. There’s good support from Daniel Sunjata as Heigl’s mentor and Debbie Reynolds as her wacky grandmother. J.L.

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In director Tomas Alfredson’s new film, adapted by Bridget O’Connor and Peter Straughan from John le Carré’s seminal 1974 thriller, Gary Oldman plays a spy coming out of retirement to uncover a double agent among his colleagues. These include Benedict Cumberbatch, David Dencik, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, Ciarán Hinds, John Hurt, Toby Jones and Mark Strong, among yet more others.

There’s no time to fully delineate them, but the movie makes a good show of playing that potential deficit to its own advantage.

Necessarily more concise than the definitive 1979 BBC miniseries starring Alec Guinness, Alfredson’s film is a tense succession of economical scenes and a visual equivalence of drab bureaucracy between the spies’ London and the Eastern Bloc. What’s crucial is the masterfully recessive Oldman making a weapon of watchful silence; Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy isn’t so much a throwback as a cautionary tale about the soul-sucking espionage machine—immortal, apparently, yet dead inside. J.K.

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Bookending his semi-experimental portrait of IRA hunger-striker Bobby Sands in Hunger, British director Steve McQueen delivers another corporeally potent Michael Fassbender performance, with another thematically prescriptive yet variously interpretable one-word title. Here, coscripting with Abi Morgan, McQueen posits Fassbender as a fictional Manhattan sex addict who loses (more) control of his life when his wayward younger sister, played by Carey Mulligan, comes to live with him. Theirs is a strong if uneasy sibling bond of mutually assured self-destruction. Sean Bobbitt’s glassy cinematography helps calibrate McQueen’s art-house-specific ratio of compulsion and detachment; the display of sexual directness, mostly deprived of eroticism, has a hollowing effect, and that is clearly the point. The point of that being the point is perhap less clear, but Fassbender’s and Mulligan’s fearlessness is bracing. James Badge Dale and Nicole Beharie costar. J.K

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It’s kind of an unwritten rule: Don’t meet up with a musician too early in the morning, because by they’re notorious dawn-worshippers. And Nick Miller Sacramento electronic producer Fred Warmsley, known primarily for his work under nickam@ newsreview.com the moniker Lee Bannon, is by no means an exception to this rule.

For instance: On a recent Thursday just after 1 p.m., we’re out front his Midtown home. “Hold on a sec,” he says. “I need to grab some breakfast.” He crosses the street and, a couple of minutes later, emerges from a nearby convenience store with a bag of gummy worms and a pack of Orbit gum.

Local producer and musician Lee Bannon makes a daylight cameo.

Visit Lee Bannon’s Bandcamp page at http://leebannon. bandcamp.com.

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It’s no joke, though. The late-night producer, who often goes to bed when his girlfriend is waking up to go to work, has collaborated with international artists such as Mary Anne Hobbs, Del the Funkee Homosapien, Talib Kweli and Inspectah Deck. He’s legit.

And, while only 24, his beats have quite a loyal following. For instance, after seeing the film Drive recently, he spent his entire New Year’s Eve making an 11-song “soundtrack to an imaginary movie.”

Then, on January 2, he put the album, called Gnarlon Bando’s Midnight Noir, on Bandcamp—and within a week he’d earned some $2,500 in downloads.

Needless to say, Warmsley no longer has to work a day job.

His living room on this Thursday speaks to this single-minded fervor for production. A three-seater couch rests in front of a coffee table with a bike frame waiting to be spray-painted on top. The couch faces a work station: a desk, covered with gadgets and an Akai board and lots of yellow Post-it notes, a computer monitor towering over it—and then another flat-screen TV above the monitor. The studio desk is the main event. It’s the No. 1 focus.

Sitting at his desk, he plays songs and tracks for me from upcoming releases. This month, an album, Fantastic Plastic, drops on Plug Research. It’s an experimental hip-hop

full length with cameos by Del, and locals such as Poor from Tribe of Levi and even Downtown James Brown.

It’s probably easiest to pigeonhole the album as Madlib-styled production with a penchant for snarky samples and jazzy beats. But Warmsley says that he’s over this “Bannon” hip-hop sound. “I turned this album in to the label a year ago,” he explains. “Hip-hop, to be honest, was what I was into when I was a lot younger.”

Indeed, he gets more fired up when sharing new work, such as First Person Shootr. It’s wildly gloomy, experimental electronic music that features his own vocals and sounds like downtempo R&B ’80s tunes, but from the mind of a man who sees more darkness than daylight.

But the sounds addict—even the single “Punch Struck” recently premiered by Urban Outfitters’ website.

Warmsley says part of what he’s just trying to do with new work is capture the spirit of R&B groups such as Deele and the System, for instance, but at the same time “removing the cheese” and taking them to a different, more abstract place.

To show what he means, he plays the YouTube video for Deele’s “Two Occasions.”

He calls the song inspiring. “My mom had a Camaro, and this is what she’d listen to,” he explains. And you can see the influence on First Person Shootr. And it’s a groove that other locals can vibe with. “[He’s] a talented producer, for sure,” says DJ Whores, who’s invited Warmsley to perform at his various dance nights. “He has the uncanny natural ability to chop up obscure vocal samples, melodies and drums.”

“Hip-hop, to be honest, was what I was into when I was a lot younger.”

Lee Bannon “Basically, the boy has soul. He’s definitely no flash in the pan.”

Videographer Sean Stout, who’s currently finalizing a debut video for First Person Shootr, agrees. “[He’s] is one of those true spastic artists whose mind seems to work faster than ideas can be expressed,” Stout says. “I’ll get sent an ambient, borderline noise track one day, then the next day some hip-hop banger with C-Plus spitting on it, then the next day a soundscape for a short-film idea he has had.

“It’s inspiring, yet sort of hard to keep up with—I mean that in the best possible way.”

Warmsley says it’s simple. He shows me a work of art, a mixed-use painting he created, and says his inspiration is quick.

“I just look for the color that I’m feeling,” he says. And then he just goes, goes, goes. Ω

SOUND ADVICE What’s in a name?

More on Javalounge’s stolen soundsystem: Bands never spell names how they’re “supposed” to be spelled. Hip-hop, electronic artists and deejays are high-security offenders. This can drive an editor nuts, for sure.

But that’s no excuse for the error in this column last week, where I presumed local punk outfit DCOi! was actually spelled “Decoy.”

Which was a problem: DCOi!, not “Decoy,” played the gig at the Javalounge in December when the coffeehouse’s PA system and other gear were stolen. But when SN&R contacted “Decoy,” not DCOi!, for comment—well, it was no wonder the band didn’t reply by deadline.

Got that? Anyway, apologies to readers for the mistake.

By Friday, however, I’d connected with DCOi! bassist Ben Dewey to hear his side of the Javalounge-show-gone-awry tale.

Dewey, like Javalounge booker and member of Instagon Lob, agreed that the gig was canceled due to his band’s tussle with Javalounge owner Toben Woodman. Dewey disagrees, though, that his bandmates were out of line; he calls the entire fracas “a case of egos.”

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And, after Woodman slammed a baseball bat on the Javalounge’s counter and yelled for everyone to exit the coffeehouse, Dewey insisted it wasn’t the bands playing that night who stole the Javalounge’s PA, mic stands or gear.

“We did not steal the PA,” Dewey told SN&R. “We don’t know who did.

“We do know the Javalounge pissed off a lot of people who paid to get to see a band who didn’t play,” he added. “People were pissed.” DCOi! and opening band Side Effects did earn $250 for the gig, though.

Javalounge held a fundraiser this past Saturday to pay for new gear.

It seems likely the taker of the old gear will never be found.

Big in Japan, zero in Sacto: Rachel Leibrock previewed the Fleeting Joys’ gig this week (turn the page), but I wanted to chime in and ask: Has the Sacramento-based band, who’s toured abroad and is, apparently, quite big in Japan, ever even played a local gig until now?

“Never,” clarified local producer and former Tinfed drummer Matt McCord, adding that they’ve only played Europe and Los Angeles.

And Japan. Guess Fleeting Joys lives up to the name.

Anyway, now’s your big fleeting chance, for the first time to catch the local indie-shoegaze troupe, with McCord on drums, this Friday, February 10, at TownHouse Lounge (1517 21st Street, 8 p.m., $5).

Welcome to The Cave, Sac’s latest venue: No, not Plato: The area’s latest all-ages music—plus art and comedy and other creative outlets—venue. The Cave plugs in this month, February 24, at 3512 Stockton Boulevard (next to the Colonial Theatre).

It’s off the beaten trail—don’t start complaining about having to actually drive or bike more than a mile to a gig—but do your best to support. Find out more at www.facebook.com/thecave916.

Olympia invasion: If I hear another person tell me how awesome the music scene is way up north in Olympia, Wash., I’m going to … well, do something outrageous.

Anyway, big Olympia show this Monday, February 13, with Letters and Poppet and locals Buk Buk Bigups.

Five clams, 8 p.m., at—where else—Javalounge (2416 16th Street).

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Fleeting Joys

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Swathing its sound in layers upon layers of feedback and reverb, Sacramento’s Fleeting Joys crafts noisy indie rock reminiscent of the Jesus and Mary Chain, Lush, and the Cocteau Twins. This is vintage psychedelic shoegaze pop, complete with swirling girl-boy vocal harmonies and sonic treatments that will give you that dizzy, drugged-out feeling— without any nasty side effects or lingering hangover. Crank up tracks such as “Lovely Crawl” or PSYCHEDELIC “I Want More Life” for a dose of distorted musical gratification that lingers longer than the band’s name implies. I’m Dirty Too and Dusty Brown round out this show at the TownHouse Lounge. 1517 21st Street, www.fleetingjoys.tumblr.com.

—Rachel Leibrock

Black Sabbath’s droning, psychedelic metal sounds influenced every band that would eventually wear the metal label, including glam, thrash and black metal. But the bands that would stay closest to Black Sabbath’s core sound would be the stoner- or sludgemetal bands, groups like ROCK Sacramento’s Majesty. Containing members from Red Tyger Church, Majesty is not new to the Sacramento scene (or sludge metal, for that matter). Majesty may not be as experimental as some of its contemporaries (like Acid Mothers Temple or even the Melvins), but its slow, grooving, psychedelic blasts sound like the group could have been plucked right out of the acid-drenched ’70s.

1815 19th Street, www.reverbnation.com/ theredtygerchurch.

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Bows & Arrows, 8 p.m., $5

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Indian Jewelry isn’t mood music for the banal. Listing the barrage of cliché of descriptions music journalists have paired with the four-piece: droning, dark, postpunk—all typical labels for bands that might be known as “new gaze.” What it offers besides buzzing vocals and guitar feedback is building energy. The difference between Indian Jewelry NOISE ROCK and Asobi Seksu or Crystal Stilts is its ability to create constant friction, which keeps building on itself until it reaches near combustion. Its musical equivalent is probably somewhere closer to Royal Trux. The band expects to release a new album, Sufi Headbanger, sometime in the next few months. 1517 21st Street, www.swarmofangels.com.

Brooke White of American Idol fame and Jack Matranga of former Sacramento poprock band Self Against City, initially got together to ACOUSTIC ROCK record White’s solo album and ended up with their first EP together, Gemini. After the release of its first work, the pair recently released a four-song sophomore EP Winter in late January, taking more control of their musical career by writing, producing and mixing the record themselves. The EP highlights more of Matranga’s vocals balanced with the soft harmonies of White. Jack and White has previously performed at Luigi’s Fun Garden and now returns to the City of Trees to light up Harlow’s. 2708 J Street, www.jackandwhite.com.

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Leo Kottke has made music for 45 years. He’s an acoustic-guitar virtuoso thanks in part to his unconventional picking style. His instrumental compositions mine a sweet spot between blueINSTRUMENTAL grass, folk, blues and jazz. Refined but grounded in roots tradition, his music is tender, vibrant and mesmerizing. Kottke doesn’t need words to convey these emotions. Initially prolific— releasing 16 albums in his first quarter century—he suffered tendonitis in the ’80s, forcing a change in his picking style. He’s only released two albums—a solo album and one with Phish bassist Mike Gordon—in the last 13 years, but still tours regularly. 1 Shields Avenue in Davis, www.leokottke.com.

If you’re like me and slept on the past couple Grimey dance nights, then you are: 1. shit out of luck and 2. hella weak. Anyway, Grimey founder DJ Whores and local producer Waylonn debuted their new live thing, Bad Looks, at one of last month’s nights.

And then, Krampfhaft and Akkachar from Amsterdam played their first U.S. gigs ever at Grimey a couple weeks back. Suckers.

But you’re in luck: This Tuesday is a Valentine’s Day special edition of Grimey, featuring all-female deejays, BASS including San Francisco headliner Skulltrane (pictured), Lotus Drops, and Sacramento’s Rogue, plus an early set by Who Cares upstairs. Give the one you love deep bass this holiday. 1517 21st Street, www.facebook.com/grimeybass.

Camp Lo

Storm Large

Mondavi Center, 8 p.m., $12.50-$49

TownHouse Lounge, 9 p.m., $10

Although Susan “Storm” Large is known for her appearance on the ridiculously named reality show, Rock Star: Supernova, don’t hold that against her. Large cut her teeth playing in a lesser-known band called Flower SF that had quite a following in the Bay Area before disbanding. As ROCK the vocalist of her current entourage, she is engaging on more levels than imaginable. There simply aren’t enough superlatives to describe her ability to adapt to different music styles. When she’s not filling in for Pink Martini, you can find her on the West Coast circuit filling up clubs without much ado. Come see what the hullabaloo is about. 2708 J Street, www.stormlarge.com.

—Chris Parker

—Eddie Jorgensen

Fortunately for music lovers, Harlow’s stacks shows. After catching rock vocalist Storm Large earlier in the evening, stay for hip-hop group Camp Lo. The duo from Bronx County, New York, dropped its first full-length, Uptown Saturday Night, in 1997. An instant classic, featuring jazz-influenced beats reminiscent of A Tribe Called Quest and Digable Planets, it featured laid-back singles such as “Coolie High” and “Luchini a.k.a. This Is It.” Fifteen years later, Camp Lo still keeps its sounds organic, without all HIP-HOP that synth and Auto-Tuneheavy swill prevalent in today’s hip-hop. Its latest, 80 Blocks From Tiffany’s, features production from Pete Rock, one of the best deejays ever to blend jazz and hip-hop. 2708 J Street, www.camplo.net.

—Nick Miller

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THURSDAY 2/9 DARIN HOUSER AND MYSTIC WIND, 7pm-midnight, call for cover

BADLANDS

Tipsy Thursdays, Top 40 deejay dancing, 9pm, call for cover

3129 Penryn Rd., Penryn; (916) 740-0131

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2003 K St., (916) 448-8790

BLUE LAMP

1400 Alhambra, (916) 455-3400

THE BOARDWALK

INCISION, COLOR THE SOUND, FATE

9426 Greenback Ln., Orangevale; (916) 988-9247 UNDER FIRE, SQUALI, ABBEY SKY; 7pm

Saturday Boom, 9pm, call for cover

MILO GREENE, FAMILY OF THE YEAR; 8:30pm, $10

THE BOOZE BOMBS, COCKFIGHT KINGS; 9pm, $8

THE ECLECTIC, THE ELECTRIC SHOES, SPIRIT OF SAINT LOUIS; 7pm

SIMPLE CREATION, EAZY DUB, LA NOCHE OSKURA, PENDULA; 7:30pm

GANGLIANS, ZODIAC DEATH VALLEY, MAJESTY; 8pm, $5

CENTER FOR THE ARTS

HOT BUTTERED RUM, 8pm, $15-$17

Mad Mondays, M; Latin video flair and Wii bowling, 7pm Tu

Sin Sunday, 8pm, call for cover

HENHOUSE PROWLERS, 8pm W, $8 DR. ACULA, THE DEVISTATED, DESIGN THE SKYLINE; 7pm, $10-$12

KENNY WHITE, 7:30-10:30pm, $20-$50

Open-mic, 7:30pm, no cover

DISTRICT 30

1016 K St., (916) 737-5770

Djs Sultan and Ned Shepard, 9pm, call for cover

DJ David Foley, 9pm, call for cover

DJ Tina T, 9pm, call for cover

FACES

Deejay dancing and karaoke, 9pm, $3

Hip-hop and Top 40 Deejay dancing, 9pm, $5-$10

Hip-hop and Top 40 Deejay dancing, 9pm, $5-$10

FOX & GOOSE

HANS AND THE HOT MESS, MARTIN PURTILL; 8-11pm, no cover

BIG IRON, THE LOVELORN TRIO, HANK BIGGS; 9pm-midnight, $5

ALMA DESNUDA, PUSHTONAWANDA, THE INVERSIONS; 9pm-midnight, $5

THE SOFT BOMBS, 10pm-1:15am, no cover

Dj Smilez, 10pm-1:15am, no cover

594 Main St., Placerville; (530) 642-8481

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 2/13-2/15

EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE, MOM; 8pm W, $8

THE COZMIC CAFÉ

1001 R St., (916) 443-8825

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SUNDAY 2/12

Fabulous and Gay Fridays, 9pm, call for cover

1815 19 St., (916) 822-5668

314 W. Main St., Grass Valley; (530) 271-7000

SATURDAY 2/11

Open-mic, 7pm-midnight, no cover

BOWS AND ARROWS

2000 K St., (916) 448-7798

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FRIDAY 2/10

AVA’S LOUNGE

D.R. Wagner and Patrick Grizzell poetry reading, 7:30pm W, $1-$5

DARK RIVER, POPPET, LETTERS, J. NOIR; RITA HOSKING, 7:30pm, $18-$20 8pm, $5

G STREET WUNDERBAR 228 G St., Davis; (530) 756-9227

Queer Idol, 9pm M, no cover; Latin night, 9pm Tu, $5; DJ Alazzawi, 9pm W, $3

Dragalicious, 9pm, $5

Traditional Irish jam, 8pm W; Open-mic, 7:30pm M; Pub Quiz, 7pm Tu, no cover

THE GOLDEN BEAR

DJ Shaun Slaughter, 10pm, call for cover

DJ Crook One, 10pm, call for cover

DJ Whores, 10pm, no cover

Industry Night, 9pm, call for cover

HARLOW’S

DIEGO’S UMBRELLA, 8pm, $12

TEMPEST, 7pm; CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN, NOT AN AIRPLANE; 9:30pm

STEELIN’ DAN, 7pm, $15; JACK & WHITE, 10pm, $8

CLOSE TO YOU, 7pm, $15

JAVALOUNGE

ODD MONIKER, KEVIN LEE FLORENCE, YELLOW DOT; 8pm, $5

ADRIAN BOURGEOIS, ELLYN MAYBE BAND, ELECTROPOETIC COFFEE; 8pm

PISSNBLOOD, CITY OF VAIN; 4pm, $5; DUKES COUNTY LOVE AFFAIR, 8pm, $6

PROBLEM WITH DRAGONS, PLANETOID, FLOUNDER; 7pm, $5

LUNA’S CAFÉ & JUICE BAR

Joe Montoya’s Poetry Unplugged, 8pm, $2

AUTUMN SKY, SHERMAN BAKER, CHRISTOPHER FAIRMAN; 8pm, $6

DANIEL LASKOWSKI, BERNADETTE CONANT; 9pm, $5

MARILYN’S ON K

“Rock On” Live Band Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

RASHELL, SAXMAN DAVE; 8:30pm, $15

RELIC 45, GENTLEMAN CALLER, SMIRKER; 7pm-midnight, $5-$10

NAKED LOUNGE DOWNTOWN

WILLIAM PATTON, TODD MORGAN, DOUG NEWTON; 8:30pm, $3

FOXTROT MARY, HONKY CATS, SONGBABE AND BRISSON; 8:30pm, $5

ICONOCLAST ROBOT, JAMESON STEPHENSON; 8:30pm, $5

OLD IRONSIDES

1901 10th St., (916) 442-3504

TYLER JAKES AND THE BOOTLEGGERS, KEEGAN GOGERTY; 9pm, $5

FUNK DEFIED, BURNING WAVES; 9pm, $5

Fascination: ‘80s New Wave deejay, 9:30pm, $5

STRAPPED FOR CASH, NUANCE; M; Karaoke, 9pm Tu; Open-mic 8:30pm W

THE PALMS PLAYHOUSE

GRETCHEN PETERS, 8pm, $20

HOUSTON JONES, SUZIE GLAZE AND THE HILONESOME BAND; 8pm, $20

JENNIFER BEREZAN, 8pm W, $20

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PISTOL PETE’S

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PO’ BOYZ BAR & GRILL

Jam with Roharpo, 7pm, no cover

POWERHOUSE PUB

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THE PRESS CLUB

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SHENANIGANS

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705 J St., (916) 442-1268

THE SHINE CAFÉ

1400 E St., (916) 551-1400

FRIDAY 2/10

SATURDAY 2/11

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CHEESEBALLS, 10pm, $12

ZEPPARELLA, 10pm, $12

SHANE DWIGHT, 3pm, call for cover

Top 40 w/ DJ Rue, 9pm, $5

Top 40 Night w/ DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9pm, $5

Sunday Night Soul Party, 9pm, $5

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SOLSA, 9pm, $12

MASON REX, PATRICK WALSH; 8pm, $5

SWEAT CHAKRA, 8pm, call for cover

SOL COLLECTIVE

2574 21st St., (916) 832-0916

John Lee Hooker Jr. 9pm Friday, $12.

Torch Club Blues Open jazz jam, Tu; Reggae Night and jam session, 8pm W, no cover

The Sol Mercado and Kid’s Day, 1pm, no cover

Microphone Mondays, 6pm M, $1-$2; Lecture: Malcom and Martin, 6pm W

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TOM DRINNON AND DEUCES WILD, 9:30pm, $5

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TORCH CLUB

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PAILER AND FRATIS, 5:30-7:30pm, no cover; JOHN LEE HOOKER JR., 9pm, $12

JOHNNY KNOX, 5pm, no cover; KAYE BOHLER BAND, 9pm, $8

Blues jam, 5pm, no cover; GRAVEL ROAD, 8pm, $5

DANIEL ELLSWORTH & THE GREAT LAKES, Tu, $5; MERLE JAGGER, W, $5

TOWNHOUSE LOUNGE

Live music and deejay dancing, 9pm, Free

DJ Roger and special guests, 9pm, $5, no cover before 10pm

Pop Freq w/ DJ XGVNR, 9pm, $5

LIVE WYYA, DUANE STEPHENSON; 10pm, Open-mic, 10pm M, no cover $15

TERRY SHEETS BAND, 9pm, call for cover

DJ JoeJoe, 9pm, no cover

1320 Del Paso Blvd., (916) 927-6023 904 15th St., (916) 443-2797 1517 21st St., (916) 613-7194

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EXCISION, LIQUID STRANGER, LUCKY DATE, G.A.M.M.A., ATOM O.N.E.; 7pm

1417 R St., (916) 448-3300

THE SLACKERS, BLAMMOS, SYNCHRO, THE COMMUNITY; 6:30pm, $15

CLUB RETRO

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EXPENDABLES, MTHDS, THROUGH THE ROOTS, FORTUNATE YOUTH; 7pm; $18

FALLING IN REVERSE, OH SLEEPER, SKIP THE FOREPLAY; 6:30pm M, $13

LONG LIVE THE KING, 7pm, $10-$12

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LUIGI’S SLICE AND FUN GARDEN

DAMAGE OVER TIME, BELL TOWER SNIPER, REPRESA, CHERNOBOG; 7pm

DRAG THE RIVER, KEPI GHOULIE, VIC RUGGIERO; 7:30pm, $8

Midtown Horrow Picture Show, 8:30pm, $10

THE REFUGE

THE HUNGRY, THE KELPS, THE TREES, THOSE MEDDLING KIDS; 7pm, $7

ZUHG LIFE STORE

STORYTELLERS, EAZY DUB, DJ Jaytwo; 4pm, no cover

1723 L St., (916) 764-5598 545 Downtown Plaza, Ste. 2090, (916) 822-5185

Zepparella 10pm Saturday, $12.

PowerHouse Pub Psychedellic rock

FRANK ALDRICH BAND, 7pm, no cover

CLARK REESE, KEN KOENIG, BAD CONNECTION, JENN ROGAR; 1pm, no cover

INSTAGON, 2pm, no cover

Open-mic, 6-8pm Tu, no cover

ACE OF SPADES 1st ANNIVERSARY

1417 R Street, Sacramento, 95814 www.aceofspadessac.com

ALL AGES WELCOME!

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13

COMING

FALLING IN REVERSE

CELEBRATION!

SOON

2/24 Jamie’s Elsewhere

OH SLEEPER - SKIP THE FOREPLAY PAINT OVER PICTURES

DRINK SPECIALS & GIVEAWAYS THRU 2/12

2/25 The English Beat 3/1 Jboog

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9

EXCISION LIQUID STRANGER - LUCKY DATE G.A.M.M.A. - ATOM O.N.E.

3/2 Anthem

TESTAMENT PRONG - WHITE MINORITIES

3/3 Dance Gavin Dance 3/7 311

GARY BUSEY AMBER ALERT

3/9 Chelsea Grin

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10

KINGDOM OF GIANTS

THE SLACKERS THE BLAMOS - SYNCRO - THE COMMUNITY

DAMAGE OVER TIME

BELL TOWER SNIPER - REPRESA CHERNOBOG - FAIR STRUGGLE - NEKROCYST

3/29 Saw Doctors

WE THE KINGS - THE DOWNTOWN FICTION ANARBOR

3/30 Ozomotli 4/18 Childish Gambino

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21

4/19 Buzzcocks

TOMORROWS BAD SEEDS

MTHDS - THROUGH THE ROOTS FORTUNATE YOUTH

3/20 Rehab 3/25 For Today

MAYDAY PARADE

THE EXPENDABLES

3/19 Boyce Avenue 3/21 Whitechapel

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12

3/15 MartyParty 3/17 The Cheeseballs

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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11

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Sacramento cannabis enthusiasts have yet another thing to be snobs about in 2012: terpenes, the building blocks that make up the unique smell of cannabis, which are beginning to waft into the mainstream.

Drug companies are researching the therapeutic properties of these simple organic molecules, and at least two California medical-cannabis labs have begun testing for their presence in dispensary weed.

According to Donald Land, a UC Davis chemistry professor who cofounded Halent Laboratories, which tests for terpenes and conducts occasional smelling classes, “Terpenes are a set of relatively simple organic molecules that are present in all living organisms.” He noted that most of the flavors and aromas of plants comes from terpenes.

“The name terpene is derived from the main ingredient in a certain type of pine pitch called turpentine,” Land explained. “That piney smell that comes along with turpentine comes from terpenes. There are lots of others.”

Herbalists have recognized the power of terpenes for decades. “Cannabis and other plants share a lot of the same terpenes, so terpenes have been legal for many decades,” Land said. “There’s been quite a bit of research on them in the U.S. and abroad, including many well-documented medicinal effects.”

Rick Pfrommer, manager at Harborside Health Center in Oakland, said that as head buyer for the popular dispensary, he has smelled countless numbers of bags and glass jars full of the sticky ick, and that a lot of the odors he detects aren’t actually coming from the weed.

“You can smell everything from bat guano to heavy salthydroponic fertilizers,” Pfrommer said during an interview inside Harborside’s buyer’s room. The space is dominated by an examination counter, shelves of pot-strain reference books and expensive computers. Pfrommer has been selling ganja for about 25 years.

Pfrommer insists that if one boasts an acute sense of smell, you can smell chlorophyll in a bud that hasn’t

been cured well, and even molds. “Once you’ve smelled multiple thousands of samples of cannabis,” he explained, “when something is off, it’s apparent that it’s off, like, as soon as you crack the bag open.”

Like a wine sommelier or a buyer for a boutique coffee roaster, Pfrommer smells each potential new addition to Harborside’s menu using a specific ritual. First, he pops open a glass jar of coffee beans and takes a big sniff.

Like ginger before sushi, coffee beans reset the palate, he said. Then he takes a big whiff from a sample cannabis bag, fishes out a single nug, cracks it open, and inhales deeply.

“All you really want to smell is the terpenes,” he said.

“Cannabis and other plants share a lot of the same terpenes, so terpenes have been legal for many decades.”

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According to a literature review by the medicalcannabis journal O’Shaughnessy’s: “Limonene (also found in lemon) is an antidepressant and immune-stimulant in humans; alpha-pinene (also found in pine needles) is an anti-inflammatory, a bronchodilator, and a wide-spectrum antibiotic; nerolidol (also found in oranges) is a sedative; linalool (also found in lavender) has an anti-anxiety effect; and myrcene (also found in hops) is a sedative, a muscle relaxant, a sleep aid, and an anti-inflammatory.”

Trainers teach drug dogs to hunt for betacaryophyllene, a terpene in cannabis that also is an

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Terpenes are also the chemical precursors to the euphoric ingredient in pot, tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, making them a proxy for potency.

Researchers like Ethan Russo, senior medical director at GW Pharmaceuticals, believe that terpenes contribute to the “entourage effect” that lies at the core of medical cannabis’s efficacy in treating nausea, inflammation, chronic pain and more. GW Pharmaceuticals has started growing terpene-only pot— sans THC—to better investigate the effects of terpenes, O’Shaughnessy’s reported.

And, unlike the THC pill Marinol, new prescription throat spray Sativex contains THC, its therapeutic peer CBD, and terpenes.

Terpenes also enable pot snobs to make outlandish yet credible claims that they smell chocolate, mango, diesel or lavender in their bag. The five to 10 main terpenes in cannabis have about 25 more rare peers, but cannabis has been found to contain more than 200 different types of them. The combinations are infinite.

Cannabis lab data from Halent and The Werc Shop near Los Angeles is helping to elevate breeding to a science. It’s also giving patients a first-ever ingredients list for that dubious doobie, said Jeffrey Rabe, director of The Werc Shop.

Pfrommer envisions legal OG Kush deodorizers or Agent Orange floor cleaners. “I think, along with CBD, terpenes are one of the two most exciting things going on in cannabis,” Pfrommer said. “We’re just scratching the surface now.”

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FOR THE WEEK OF FEBRUARY 9, 2012

ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Marriage

must be a relation either of sympathy or conquest,” said author George Eliot. I believe the same is true even about intimate bonds that have not been legally consecrated. Each tends to either be a collaboration of equals who are striving for common goals or else a power struggle in which one party seeks to dominate the other. Which of those two models has characterized your romantic history, Aries?

Now is an excellent time to begin working to ensure that the partnership model will predominate for the rest of your long life.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Love loves

to love love,” wrote James Joyce in his 1922 novel Ulysses. “Nurse loves the new chemist.

Constable 14A loves Mary Kelly. Jumbo, the elephant, loves Alice, the elephant. Old Mr Verschole with the ear trumpet loves old Mrs Verschoyle with the turnedin eye. The man in the brown macintosh loves a lady who is dead. His Majesty the King loves Her Majesty the Queen.” What Joyce said 90 years ago is still true: The world is a churning, burning uproar of yearning. The droning moan of “I want you, I need you” never dies down. Give yourself to that cosmic current without apology this Valentine season, Taurus. Celebrate your voracious ache for love. Honor your urge to merge with reverence and awe for its raw splendor.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I’ve ghost-

written a personal ad for you to give to your Valentine or potential Valentine: “I’m looking for a free yet disciplined spirit I can roll down hills with on sunny days and solve thorny puzzles with when the skies are cloudy. Can you see the absurd in the serious and the serious in the absurd? Are you a curious chameleon always working to sharpen your communication skills? Might you be attracted to a sweet-talking wiseass who’s evolving into a holy goofball?

Emotional baggage is expected, of course, but please make sure yours is organized and well-packed. Let’s create the most unpredictably intriguing versions of beauty and truth that anyone ever imagined.”

CANCER (June 21-July 22): On average,

an adult on planet Earth has sex 103 times a year. But I’m guessing that in the immediate future, Cancerians everywhere may be motivated to exceed that rate by a large margin. The astrological omens suggest that your tribe’s levels of sensual desire may reach astronomical heights. Do you know anyone you’re attracted to who might be willing help you out as you follow your bliss? If not, be your own Valentine. One way or another, it’s prime time to celebrate your relationship with eros.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I’d love for you to be

able to always give the best gifts you have to give without worrying about whether they will be received in the spirit with which you offer them. But that’s just not realistic.

I would also be ecstatic if you never had to tone down your big, beautiful self out of fear that others would be jealous or intimidated. And yet that’s not a rational possibility, either. Having said that, though, I do want to note that now and then both of those pleasurable scenarios can prevail for extended lengths of time. And I believe you’re now in one of those grace periods.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In accordance

with the astrological omens, here’s what I wish and predict for you in the near future: You will be a connoisseur of temptations. By that I mean you will have a knack for attracting and playing with allurements and enticements. More importantly, you’ll have a sixth sense about the distinction between good bait and bad bait—between provocative temptations that will serve your most fervent dreams and debilitating traps that will dissipate your integrity. And when you get a lock on the invigorating, ennobling kind, you will know just how to work with it so that it drives you wild with smart longing.

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How can you create a relationship with love that will be a gift to the world and also make you smarter, kinder, and wilder?

KNOW what magic you have to do. WILL yourself to do it. DARE to be ingenious and inspired. And don’t tell anyone what you’re doing until you achieve your goal.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): After ana-

lyzing the astro data for this Valentine season, I realized that you could really benefit from being less sober, solemn and serious about your intimate relationships.

That’s why I decided to collect some oneliners for you to use as you loosen up your approach to togetherness. Please consider delivering them to anyone you’d like to be closer to. 1. “Let’s go maniacally obsess about our lives in a soothing environment.”

2. “We’ll be best friends forever because you already know too much about me.”

3. “It would be great if you would schedule your social events around my mood swings.” 4. “I’m sorry I drunk-dialed you before realizing you were already in bed with me.” 5. “I wanna do boring things with you.” (All the one-liners come from www.someecards.com.)

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

“The world is an oyster, but you don’t crack it open on a mattress,” said a character in Arthur Miller play. He was referring to the idea that if you’re obsessed with sex and romance, your level of worldly accomplishment may be rather low. It jibes with what a friend in my youth told me when he noticed how much of my energy was engaged in pursuing desirable females: “They don’t build statues in parks for guys who chase women.” I realize you may not be wildly receptive to ruminating on these matters during the Valentine season, Sagittarius.

However, the omens suggest I advise you to do just that. It’s a good time to fine-tune the balance between your life-long career goals and your quest for love.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

Ancient Egyptians thought that drinking bear grease could stimulate ardor, while the Greeks believed that eating sparrow brains would do the trick. When potatoes first appeared in Spain in 1534, imported from the New World, they were used in love potions and worth more than $1,000 a pound. The Asian rhinoceros was hunted nearly to extinction because its horn was thought to have aphrodisiac properties.

Just in time for Valentine season, I’d like to suggest that you call on a very different kind of romantic stimulant that costs nothing and doesn’t endanger any species: being a good listener.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Maybe

there is a soulmate for you in this world.

Maybe there isn’t. But you can count on this: If that person is out there, you will never bond with him or her by clinging to a set of specific expectations about how it should happen. He or she will not possess all the qualities you wish for and will not always treat you exactly as you want to be. I’m sure you already know this deep down, Aquarius, but hearing it from an objective observer like me might help liberate you further from the oppressive fantasy of romantic perfection. That way you can better recognize and celebrate the real thing.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “We are all a

little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.” So proclaimed Dr. Seuss. I think this is an excellent meditation for you during this season of love. You need more permission to share your idiosyncrasies and eccentricities, and you need more freedom to ally yourself with people whose idiosyncrasies and eccentricities you’re compatible with— and on behalf of the cosmos, I’m hereby giving you that permission.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Eliphas Levi was

a 19th-century author and hermetic magician whose work has had a major influence on Western mystery schools. The great secret of magic, he said, is fourfold: “to KNOW what has to be done, to WILL what is required, to DARE what must be attempted, and to KEEP SILENT with discernment.” Your assignment, Libra, is to apply this approach to your love life.

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Instant memories It’s been years since Corine St. Ofle purchased her first Polaroid instant camera in a thrift store. In the time since, what was once a casual hobby developed into a passionate endeavor to capture something fleeting— particularly in 2008, after Polaroid stopped production on its iconic instant film.

St. Ofle’s More Polaroids About People and Buildings opens February 11, at Bows & Arrows (1815 19th Street) as part of the gallery’s ongoing “Bathroom Series.” The exhibition explores people and structures in Sacramento, as well as far-flung locales such as Paris and Madrid. In this age of digital photography, St. Ofle says her choice of a dying medium not only records images of life at home or travels abroad, but gives life to a romanticized notion of faded, yet indelible, memories.

How did the idea for the show come about?

It started four years ago when [the Verge Center for the Arts] held the Doug Biggert show. I’d been taking Polaroids already, and when I saw his show of Polaroid art, it blew my mind. I thought you couldn’t do a show like that! Polaroids are small; it’s so hard for people to look at something so small, but then I saw that show, and I was completely amazed.

Why did you start taking these pictures?

I found a Polaroid at a thrift store for $1.99, and it became my favorite camera. It’s so funny to do a show today with Polaroids; the show truly comes after the fact. At the time I took the photos, I thought they looked amazing, but I never thought [I’d do a show].

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When were they taken?

A lot of the photos were taken in 2008 when I was traveling in Paris and Madrid and getting film there was so difficult. I found the last few packs of Polaroid film in stores there. Of course, when you’re traveling, that’s when you have this impulse to take photos. Everything looks fresh and new, and you have things in front of your eyes that you want to take photos of.

The dwindling supply of film must have added an element of urgency.

It did. Actually, I was having such a difficult time in my personal life then. I’d just graduated university and then doing these Polaroids, running out of film. Life is so tragic—of course it’s ridiculous, compared to other people’s woes—but in the middle of it you think, “Oh no, what’s happening to me? Everything is running out.” It’s tragic, but when it ends it ends, and I hope I’ve taken photos of it all.

Was it difficult deciding what to actually shoot?

It’s just such a snap decision. [I’d think] if I’m not going to truly be able to take the picture that I want, then I’m not even going to try. But if I thought it was doable, then I’d have to make the decision right then. Is the light good enough? Is the angle right?

How many pictures did you take?

At the time I was buying the packs, I didn’t even count, but they come in packs of 10 [pictures], and I have about 100 packs just from that summer. I’d just go and grab them if I found them in stores. … Even just

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looking for the film became part of the process. It made it a joy, taking the pictures—just the whole thing, really. The relationship of opening the package and putting the film in the camera and then having the first piece of film come out—everything about the experience was so amazing. …

When something you love is about to go away, you love it so much more.

Do you have any film left?

I have some old [expired] packages, and then I have some newer film; I just have one package. At this point, I don’t want to waste it.

What are some of your favorite pictures in the series?

When you shoot in packs of 10, then the photos are linked in some kind of brotherhood. My favorite series was taken in May 2009 when I was about seven months pregnant. I’d participated in a [march] to the [state] Capitol for gay rights.

Everything was so beautiful, and all the pictures turned out so amazing, but there is one, taken of just two men in an embrace. … That’s one of my favorites [but] the original won’t be in the show [because] I dedicated it to my son. I can’t part with it.

Are you making copies of any of the Polaroids?

The ones in the show, yes. If they end up going somewhere, I want to have a memory of them. But the ones I keep for myself, no.

I like the idea of growing old with them. I know they will fade away. I hope I will be old one day, and I hope I will try to remember their colors. Ω

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