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Our Mission To publish great newspapers that are successful and enduring. To create a quality work environment that encourages employees to grow professionally while respecting personal welfare. To have a positive impact on our communities and make them better places to live.

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Editor Melinda Welsh Managing Editor Nick Miller Senior Staff Writer Cosmo Garvin Arts & Culture Editor Rachel Leibrock Copy Editor Kyle Buis Associate Copy Editor Shoka Shafiee Calendar Editor Jonathan Mendick Editorial Coordinator Kel Munger Special Sections Editor Becca Costello Editorial Interns Valentín Almanza, Jonathan Nathan, Matthew W. Urner, Amy Wong Contributors Sasha Abramsky, Gustavo Arellano, Rob Brezsny, Larry Dalton, Joey Garcia, Jeff Hudson, Eddie Jorgensen, Jonathan Kiefer, Jim Lane, Greg Lucas, Ann Martin Rolke, Garrett McCord, John Phillips, Patti Roberts, Steph Rodriguez, Seth Sandronsky, Amy Yannello

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Streetalk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Letter of the Week . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Poet’s Corner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

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There’s a new wave of the capital’s brightest and bravest men and women, young and old who—on the heels of a pretty gnarly recession— aren’t afraid to roll the dice or take a risk. They’re embracing big visions and turning ideas into reality. And transforming Sacramento. They’re lending their business savvy toward bettering the community and, in some cases, the world. A few have years of expertise, others only recently reinvented themselves after a sudden job loss. Here are 25 of the city’s next entrepreneurs.

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Presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s old firm Bain Capital has put the spotlight on the dubious funding practices of California’s big pension programs, CalPERS and CalSTRS. Darwin Bondgraham reports on Bain’s benefactors. Also this week: James Raia on the sustainable rail practices at Siemens’ Sacramento headquarters, and our editorial board chimes in on the slow, 11-year bleed of the war in Afghanistan.

Bain’s benefactors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Beats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

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Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 This Modern World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Guest Comment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

SECOND SATURDAY . . . . . . . . . . . .25 Art picks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Art map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

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Red Rabbit Kitchen and Bar. . . . . . . . 31 The V Word . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Dish Listings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Eat It and Reap. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Food Stuff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

COOLHUNTING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34 ASK JOEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35 STAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36 Zoot Suit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Merrily We Roll Along . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Now Playing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

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It’s Second Saturday; see what Shoka’s picked for this month’s don’t-miss gallery exhibitions. Also this week: Greg Lucas checks to see if the Red Rabbit Kitchen and Bar hops, James Raia spends time with (not in) one of Sacramento’s only iron lungs, and Anthony Nathan gets on his jiujitsu moves.

Popsmart. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Heavy metal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Scene&Heard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

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When I was in college, I had this idea for delivering soup to students who are sick. There are a bunch of places that will bring you pizza or Chinese food, and I wanted soup.

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Well, I actually thought of what is now the iPhone, like, 10 years ago, because I wanted a phone without any buttons, but after it came out, I figured they’d already been working on it for quite a while. But all the other ideas I can’t tell you about, unless there’s a dance worth a billion dollars.

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Re “Bring on the major leagues” by Nick Miller (SN&R Frontlines, April 5) and “Maloof moonwalk” by Nick Miller (SN&R Beats, April 5): I’m getting whiplash from trying to follow the arena situation. Back and forth.

Sometimes I think the Maloofs should just buy a tennis team, since that’s what they like, all that back-and-forth action.

But it’s really clear that the Maloofs don’t really want to be here in Sacramento. I think they want to go to [Los Angeles] so they can hang out with the stars like they do in [Las] Vegas, but they don’t have the money to buy the [Los Angeles] Clippers.

So maybe we could just swap. I’ll bet the Clippers would love to LETTER OF be in a town where the fans actually notice them, and they don’t THE WEEK have to be the second-tier choice if you can’t afford [L.A.] Lakers tickets. We could call ’em the Sacramento Grass Clippers, and save money by leasing them out to West Sac to trim Raley Field, which may need more frequent work if [Nick] Miller gets his way and the [Oakland] A’s move to town.

Rick Westfall Citrus Heights

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Fast, skinny and addicted

Re “Blue crush” by Joey Garcia (SN&R Ask Joey, April 5): This was a good column, especially the advice to the massage therapist.

I’m a massage therapist and frequently have family friends say my rate is too high. When I did lower my rate, those friends usually didn’t book a massage anyway. My solution was to just charge $60 per hour and when they say that’s too much, I just offer to do a shorter session.

I do this because I don’t want to turn people away, and because lowering my rate for some clients isn’t fair to clients who will pay my standard fee.

Re “Crystal clear” by Amy Wong (SN&R Frontlines, March 29): I read somewhere several years ago that users of meth or speed are more likely to be women. Why? Because it helps keep the weight off and your house clean.

Several years before that, I saw a drug-rehab discussion group on CSPAN, and I’ll never forget the addict who said his gateway drug was eating sugar in his mom’s kitchen. But so much of our culture is about speed— driving on the freeway, getting around to everything that needs doing, drinking lots of caffeine, checking our email, etc.—that even a recession can’t seem to slow us down.

Erica Wachs Sacramento

Vote about money, not arena Re “Full STOP” by Cosmo Garvin (SN&R Bites, March 29): Cosmo Garvin apparently does not understand the purpose of the measure that [Sacramento Taxpayers Opposed to Pork] seeks to put on the ballot requiring approval from a majority of voters for public financing of an arena.

The purpose is not to oppose an arena. The purpose is to give the taxpayers, the people who would ultimately pay for the arena, a chance to vote on how their money should be spent. If private parties wish to develop an arena using private monies, they are free to do so.

Christine Hansen Sacramento

A unique peek at Gong Yuebin’s terra-cotta soldier sculptures, part of his Site 2801 exhibition, showing at the Crocker Art Museum for a couple of more weeks, through April 29.

students to buy something they can’t afford to pay, what is causing this “education bubble”? Could it be too many people are making too much money off the system and are driving the prices up?

The legislative line of thinking this bill represents, this sort of 20-20 hindsight/retro-financing of societal “obligations” is not the way to go. Why propose to deal with the effect and not the cause?

If the issue is that education costs too much, then deal with that. If it is simply that kids today think they’re entitled to a free higher education, then they need to get a job and deal with reality.

Either way, if we don’t deal with the cause, the bill you’re advocating will just become another entitlement.

Muriel Strand Sacramento

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With this they can start over with a clean slate; the loan is permanently waived with no negative effect on their credit rating.

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Re “Forgiveness” (SN&R Editorial, March 29): I take issue with the premise that students who signed for student loans should now be given a sort of “doover.” As someone who worked three crap jobs all the way through college and still had to take a loan when my ’64 [Volkwagen] blew up, I object, your honor. I had to pay off my own loans, and now you’re suggesting that I should pay off their loans?

If students are being saddled with too much debt, it must mean that they didn’t want to work while in college, or the payoff is not worth the investment, or the costs are inflated. Why not deal with those issues?

Is the average graduate debt-to-earning ratio higher today than in years past?

I don’t know the answer. Maybe they’re getting a raw deal, but maybe they aren’t. If college tuition is bloated like the previous housing market, causing

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Permanent waives Re “Forgiveness” (SN&R Editorial, March 29): What some people may not realize is that they can get a temporary unemployment or disability deferment on their student loans. They still have to pay the interest portion of the loan, and none of that payment goes toward the principal.

That means that whenever the deferment ends, they owe the same amount of principal as they did to start with, but at least interest hasn’t accumulated on the interest, and there haven’t been any negative reports to the credit agencies.

People on permanent disability (Social Security Disability and/or [Supplemental Security Income]) can get a permanent disability forgiveness of their student-loan debt, if they can find a doctor to fill out the paperwork. (Just

The pasty moon wrapped in gossamer swirl Hangs yellow above this city of two rivers Like a jaundiced face lost in obscurity: The dull gray lick of river-shadows Paint-ridged stick silhouettes On the chaste landscape, black and white These serpentine rivers of mud Crawl along the valley floor Turbid with suicidal venom Condemned with aboriginal death cries Washed from the Earth like salmon Migrating to the sea, never to return How many nameless and hungry Prowl these muddy shores Lost and forgotten Their cadavers bloated afloat To be discovered at the confluence Of this city of two rivers —Jim Cain

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FRONTLINES Bain’s benefactors Mitt Romney’s old firm puts spotlight on dubious funding practices of California’s big pension systems Mitt Romney’s run for the Republican presidential nomination has turned private equity into a by topic of heated debate again. Romney’s Darwin former firm, Bain Capital, in which he still Bondgraham owns a significant stake, has been called a a freelance writer from job destroyer by critics on both the left and the Bay Area right. Most recently, The New York Times revealed that a Bain fund in which Romney is personally invested stands to profit from illustration by the burgeoning Chinese market for surveilJason Crosby lance cameras where there’s one buyer: the communist party.

Romney’s stake in the Bain Capital Asia fund—about $250,000—is very modest, however, compared to the California teachers pension system. According to the California State Teachers’ Retirement System’s most recent reports, the pension has committed $25 million to Bain Capital Asia, and has earned approximately $2.5 million on the investment since 2007. That makes CalSTRS one of Bain Capital Asia’s largest funders.

Critics point to the secrecy and oftentimes socially destructive behaviors of private-equity firms.

CalSTRS investments in Bain don’t end there. Since 2006, it has committed $1.28 billion to eight other Bain funds focusing on tech, real estate, consumer goods and credit.

California’s teachers are therefore one of Bain’s largest sources of cash. CalSTRS stands to reap a much bigger profit than Romney from China’s thirst for spy cameras, among other questionable investments that pepper the firm’s investment portfolio.

Investments by CalSTRS in Bain’s controversial funds raise broad questions about the role of public pension funds in bankrolling private equity firms. Critics of private-equity point to the secrecy, heightened risks that fall ultimately on retirees and 8

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No Big Mac for you taxpayers, and the oftentimes socially destructive behaviors of private-equity firms, all of which are arguably multiplied by the addition of pension dollars. Now that the issue has been raised thanks to Romney’s presidential bid, and now that some pension executives are signaling they intend to increase their stakes in private equity, criticisms of Bain and other firms are all the more relevant.

The issue of secrecy clouds all other potential problems.

Joining CalSTRS as a major bankroller for Bain’s various investment vehicles is the University of California Retirement Plan, which has plunked more than $177 million in eight different Bain funds. According to recent disclosures filed with the secretary of state, the 300-pound gorilla of pensions, the California Public Employees Retirement System, is also mulling over whether to join in with a Bain investment of its own.

CalSTRS, University of California and CalPERS have all been intensely lobbied by executives from Bain’s Palo Alto and Boston offices in recent months, signaling that the firm is recruiting to complete a new fund. A spokesperson for Bain confirmed that meetings are taking place, but declined to offer any further details.

A representative for CalSTRS likewise declined to comment on Bain’s recent communications with the fund except to explain that doing so, “may be counterproductive to our fiduciary role.” Like other pension systems, CalSTRS and CalPERS official policies are to keep the specifics of its dealings with private-equity firms a closely held secret. Current California law allows the pensions to shield the contents of their communications with private-equity firms from the public.

Private-equity firms have no obligation to disclose the contents of their portfolios, meaning that literally billions of pension dollars entrusted to private equity can be locked into unknown and risky investments, much of this overseas, often bankrolling ethically questionable activities, with years passing before a profit is turned, if at all.

This worries skeptics who question whether private equity actually delivers on its promised performance benchmarks.

Some pension accounts with private equity have actually lost considerable money over the past decade, while others failed to meet the 7 to 12 percent return benchmark that most pension boards aim for.

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only guarantees that pensions will pay exponentially higher fees,” says Siedle, an analyst who runs Benchmark Financial Services and is widely consulted on pension issues. “The higher the fees, the more difficult it is to achieve superior net-investment performance.”

“Some say public-pension funds were the key enablers of the private equity boom,” says Ed Mendel, a veteran Capitol reporter who runs the influential Calpensions blog.

“The funds do expect above-market returns from private equity.” Mendel, however, points to a recent New York Times analysis that cast doubt on private equity’s claim of securing higher returns. According to the Times: “[pensions] with a third to more than half of their money in private equity, hedge funds and real estate had returns that were more than a percentage point lower than returns of the funds that largely avoided those assets. They also paid nearly four times as much in fees.”

Thanks to Mitt Romney’s presidential bid, criticisms of Bain Capital and other private-equity firms are very relevant— especially as CalSTRS, the University of California and CalPERS engage more heavily in this type of investing.

Notwithstanding these fees, CalPERS reported a negative 8-percent return on its portfolio of publicly traded stocks, but a 12.4-percent positive return on private equity over the last year, raw figures that justify the goals of pension managers who want to hand over more money to private equity.

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management had only 3 percent of their total dollars committed to private-equity firms, according to a Wilshire Associates study completed for CalPERS this year.

Today, that’s risen to 11 percent across the big pension funds.

Edward Zelinsky, a law professor at Yeshiva University, says the turn to private equity is due to unrealistic demands on investments such as the 9-percent growth benchmark. “In this low-return environment, public-defined benefit-pension plans generally assume that they can earn annual investment returns in the vicinity of 8 percent,” explains Zelinsky. “Such aggressive return assumptions allow governors and legislators to authorize smaller tax-financed contributions to such public pensions on the theory that anticipated investment gains will fund the retirement benefits promised to public employees.”

Ironically then, the public pensions hand billions over to private equity seeking these higher returns to benefit their unionized membership, and private equity turns around to fund corporate raids, offshoring of jobs, attacks on workers in other countries, and environmentally destructive activities.

And it’s still unclear if, after fees and other costs are calculated, private equity pays. It’s all shrouded in secrecy.

“Public pensions can play a key role in leveraged buyouts,” explains Ed Mendel. “A private-equity firm puts up a token amount, gets a larger down payment from a pension fund or other limited partner, and borrows most of the money, using the takeover target’s assets as collateral.” The results of these leveraged buyout deals are mixed, but oftentimes the conquered company is forced to cut costs by laying off workers and selling assets, reinforcing private equity’s predatory reputation. Romney’s career (and fortune) at Bain Capital included more than a few of these kinds of deals, and recent press reports about the presidential contender’s role in various deals has brought the practice back to the foreground of political debate. “More than half of the CalPERS and CalSTRS private-equity holdings are in buyouts,” Mendel observes.

Criticisms of private equity as a job destroyer (and agent of other questionable pursuits) then are at the same time very much a criticism of the big California pensions as enablers, driven by their fiduciary obligations to public-sector employees. It all makes for a complicated problem that has yet to be acknowledged in the national debate about Bain Capital, and private equity in general, that has been engendered

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Oak Park likely won’t be getting a new McDonald’s any time soon.

For years, the Golden Arches has hoped to drop a franchise in the neighborhood on a long-vacant lot at the corner of Stockton Boulevard and Second Avenue. Residents opposed this proposed fast-food restaurant, however, and not just because they want healthier food options in their community.

The catch is that McDonald’s wants a drive-thru at this new location, of course.

But this area near the

UC Davis Medical Center has significant pedestrian density— and activists argue that a drive-thru would create a log jam of cars where people typically walk (see Ronald, denied.

“Not lovin’ it” by Andrew Bell; SN&R Frontlines; September 15, 2011).

McDonald’s appealed to the city last year to allow for a drive-thru, but this week city staff will recommend to deny Ronald and Co.’s request at a planning-commission meeting.

The city also argues that a McDonald’s goes against the 2030 general plan. Specifically, staff cites that it is not a “sensitive transition” from the neighborhoods to commercial areas.

The staff report includes 69 pages of letters opposing the new Oak Park McDonald’s. A neighborhood group, Healthy Development for Oak Park, plans to demonstrate at this Thursday’s planning commission meeting at 5:30 p.m. at city hall.

The fast-food chain has not stated whether it will pursue the new location if denied by the city.

It’s also worth noting that, if approved, the new McDonald’s would be directly across the street from a UC Davis obesity clinic. (Nick Miller)

Copper thieves suck Is it trendy to steal copper? Maybe. And that’s not a good thing, because if a copper thief steals valuable wire from your neighborhood streetlight, it could take up to a year for the city to get it back up and running.

But this is about to change. Now—on the heels of rampant copper jacking in the city—the city manager has authorized spending an extra $400,000 over the next 90 days to get up to date with a huge backlog of out-of-commission streetlights.

A city report notes that the price of salvaged copper has more than doubled over the past few years, from approximately $1.80 a pound in 2008 to $3.30 today.

The department of transportation also estimates that some 224 city neighborhoods are blacked out due to copper theft. (N.M.)

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And this week, the company will also receive honors, a regional Green Leadership Award, for its global sustainability practices.

Siemens announced in November 2010 a $466 million contract to build 70 electric locomotives for Amtrak as part of the country’s largest rail operator’s fleet-rejuvenation initiative.

In addition to a healthy budget, the contract also meant good things in the local job market.

An additional 250 workers, according to Siemens, were required for the project, including 200 more in Sacramento and an additional 50 combined in Norwood, Ohio, and Alpharetta, Georgia.

The construction of the locomotives is part of Amtrak’s multiyear Fleet Strategy Plan to replace its entire fleet of passenger rail cars and locomotives over the next 30 years.

“This isn’t your grandfather’s locomotive,” Oliver Hauck, president of the Mobility Division of Siemens, said when the contract was announced. “Not only will we use renewable energy to build them, the locomotives will also include energy-efficient features such as regenerative braking that can feed up to 100 percent of the energy generated during braking back to the power grid.”

The Amtrak order is currently on schedule.

“The first car body and frame are scheduled for completion this summer, and the first locomotive delivered to the test track in early 2013,” The 2012 Green said Michael Krampe, director of media relaLeadership Awards tions for Siemens, via email. is Friday, April 13, Siemens’ light-rail manufacturing facility in at Sacramento Hilton Arden West, Sacramento has been in operation for more than 2200 Harvard Street; 27 years. It’s powered up to 80 percent by 2 7:30-9:30 a.m.; $90. megawatts of solar energy and employs 750 people. In addition to its

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Beyond Sacramento, other main components of the new locomotive will be made in Alpharetta (motors) and Norcross, Georgia (propulsion containers).

“These locomotives will be built in America using renewable energy and provide cleaner, more efficient movement of people on the most heavily traveled rail route in the country,” said Daryl Dulaney, president and CEO of Siemens Industry Inc. Siemens currently produces one-third of the light-rail vehicles in the United States. The new Amtrak Cities Sprinter is based on Siemens latest iteration of the EuroSprinter electric locomotive. More than 1,600 units are in operation worldwide. It will be customized to sustain a speed of 125 miles per hour in the new project. Ω

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BY TOM TOMORROW

Earth’s good news The vast majority of scientists on the planet agree that greenhouse gases—as produced by human activities such as deforestation and the burning of fossil fuels— are the top contributor to climate change. And it is a statement of fact that power plants are America’s largest source (40 percent) of greenhouse-gas emissions.

It was therefore great to see President Barack Obama propose new rules (despite it being an election year) that severely limit carbon-dioxide emissions from new power plants. Basically, the Environmental Protection Agency’s new standards put an end to the building of new coal-fired power plants in America.

People like us have spent the last three years concerned about Obama’s lack of action on the environmental agenda he set forth in his presidential campaign, especially when it comes to dealing with the climate crisis. So we’re happy to see his administration finally signal a proactive plan to get more aggressive related to emissions and fuel economy standards.

California has long ago embraced the necessity of rules that limit greenhouse gases. It’s a relief to know the rest of the country will be soon taking action on this challenge, too. Ω

Earth Day 2012 is coming! Check next week’s SN&R for news, views and events listings related to this holiday for the planet.

The slow bleed

Putting education first Many people believe that education is the key to a bright The answer lies in public-private partnerships. future. But instead of a key, education has Just as the private and public sectors are working become the lock on the door that holds people together to bring much-needed jobs to the captive in their socioeconomic status. People Sacramento region, they must also work in living in poverty have lower literacy and numerunison to support the education of our children. acy rates, as well as large gaps in the use of Imagine if our community put forth the same technology. effort and enthusiasm to support education as it In Sacramento, the number of children living has done to keep the Kings in Sacramento. in poverty or homelessness continues to increase.

Here are several ways we can help: With unemployment numbers in the double • Continue supporting efforts to bring jobs digits and continued funding for affordable hous- and affordable housing to the Sacramento region. by ing in jeopardy, it is expected that the problem of • Develop partnerships to provide schools Addie Ellis homeless children in our with academic enrichan Ed.D. student at community will worsen ment opportunities and Academic success is Drexel University economic support.

Center for Graduate before it gets better, and as difficult to focus on when Studies in Sacramento the number of children • Volunteer! Schools and is a board your biggest concerns are always need the support with unstable housing member for Capitol increases, proper educaof caring adults.

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By now it must be evident to all Americans that Afghanistan has become a horrible quagmire. President Barack Obama’s “good war” has become a lot like that “bad war” in Iraq: intractable and unwinnable.

According to a March 13 article in The New York Times, the White House, which has long sought to end the American presence in a way that would stabilize the Afghan government sufficiently to fend off the Taliban, is discussing whether to reduce American forces by at least an additional 20,000 troops by 2013, a significant acceleration of the U.S. withdrawal plan.

The president understandably wants to “get out in a responsible way, so that we don’t end up having to go back in,” as he recently put it. The United States chose to invade the country 11 years ago, so it bears major responsibility for what has since ensued.

Besides, the president has to deal What Afghans are with his military commanders, who want to keep most of the American really angry about troops in the country until the end is a violent foreignof 2014, as originally planned. military presence in But how long do we continue to sacrifice American lives—not to their country. mention those of other NATO soldiers and Afghan civilians caught in the crossfire—in a conflict we can’t win? Polls show Americans are fed up with the war and want out.

The Karzai government is feckless and corrupt.

Western aid has gone to enrich the elite. And evidence from the field indicates that the U.S. military effort is nowhere near succeeding in the way its commanders have posited. The best that can be said of this campaign is that it’s a slow bleed.

It’s convenient to think that Afghans’ anti-American rage is due to such aberrances as the recent massacre of civilians by a deranged staff sergeant, the accidental burning of Qurans or video images of U.S. troops urinating on dead Taliban fighters. But it’s more than that.

What they’re really angry about is an 11-year, extremely violent foreign-military presence in their country. They are, to put it bluntly, sick of us.

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28 UP-AND-COMING BUSINESS INNOVATORS WHO DO SACRAMENTO RIGHT A new entrepreneurial culture is forming.

It’s a new wave of the capital’s brightest and bravest, men and woman young and old who—on the heels of a pretty gnarly recession— aren’t afraid to roll the dice or take a risk. They’re embracing big visions and turning ideas into reality. And transforming Sacramento.

Here are 28 of the city’s next entrepreneurs. They’re lending their business savvy toward bettering the community and, in some cases, the world. A few have years of expertise, others only recently reinvented themselves after a sudden job loss.

This list is by no means definitive—new businesses are popping up every day—but as you read about people who’ve stepped off the corporate ladder to follow their dreams, we hope it inspires you to reconsider your own.

MAD MEN FOR A NEW AGE

RYAN VANNI, BKWLD

It’s been more than a decade since Ryan Vanni and a couple of friends decided to launch their dream company: a fan service site for bands seeking Web-based promotion, marketing and design. What the Sacramento native ended up with, however, was something much bigger.

Vanni, 32, isn’t just chief executive officer and co-founder of that original company BKWLD, that he started in 2001. He’s also the brains behind Ground(Ctrl). It’s the latter company, launched in 2007, that fits Vanni’s vision for a one-stop service for musicians—only it exists on a much grander scale than his 20-something self likely ever imagined.

The two companies share space in a hip downtown office—exposed brick, shiny wood floors, indie rock playing in the background—just a few blocks from the Fox & Goose Public House. Both will move into a new, larger space in Old Sacramento later this year.

Until then, Vanni said, giving a tour of his company’s current digs, things are a little cramped. The downstairs warehouse overflows with boxes filled with T-shirts and posters for some of Ground(Ctrl)’s biggest clients: Guns N’ Roses, Nicki Minaj and Linkin Park, to name just a few.

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“It’s kind of crazy, I guess,” Vanni said, surveying the goods, “but it’s good to see the growth.”

Vanni and his partners founded BKWILD with a humble concept. “Our big aspiration at the time was to sell to local music artists and maybe a restaurant,” he said. “I remember saying at the time, maybe after we do a [few “I’M A HUGE PROPONENT OF bands] we could do a [website] for Tapa [the World],” BALANCE AND NOT he said, with a laugh.

WORKING ’TIL MIDNIGHT Soon after BKWLD signed its first contract, a EVERY NIGHT. SACRAMENTO music deal with J Records, the company’s purpose IS CONDUCIVE TO THAT. expanded. Today, BKWLD IT’S NOT A TURN-ANDspecializes in digital-based media for clients local and BURN KIND OF CITY.” far-flung. The company Ryan Vanni created a social-mediadriven billboard campaign in Times Square (for Corona Light’s efforts to become the most-liked light beer on Facebook), designed online banners for Google TV, and implemented an LED touchscreen–based “living mural” for the Crocker Art Museum.

“I explain it to friends of my dad’s like an advertising agency, but we’re only dealing with digital stuff—so if it’s online, or for a mobile phone or has some other [digital] aspect,” Vanni said. Think of it as Mad Men for a new age.

Ground(Ctrl) has 37 employees, including a touring staff. BKWLD also has a Seattle office, opened after one of the company’s partners decided to relocate. Despite the growth of both companies, Vanni says he’s happy keeping Sacramento as home base.

“I’m a huge proponent of balance and not working ’til midnight every night,” Vanni said. “Sacramento is conducive to that. It’s not a turn-and-burn kind of city.” (R.L.)

Lorri Ann Code, Mama Bootcamp Every day, fitness enthusiasts sweat their way through one of Lorri Ann Code’s rigorous boot camps somewhere in the Sacramento area.

Since the launch of her first Mama Bootcamp in a Roseville park in 2007, Code’s business has expanded to 26 camps, including Man Camp and a triathlon-training program. www.mamabootcamp.com. (B.C.) Vikram Janardhan, Insera Therapeutics Vikram Janardhan, CEO of Insera Therapeutics, founded the company with his brother, neurologist Vallabh Janardhan.

The biotech company has developed a revolutionary catheter to help prevent strokes in patients. Insera won the Frost and Sullivan 2010 Award for Product Innovation, as well as grants from the National Science Foundation the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. http://inseratherapeutics.com. (B.C.) Cody Dorkin, Studio 24 Still often recognized on the street for his role as a creepy white-haired kid in the 1995 film Village of the Damned, Cody Dorkin is now the 26-year-old CEO of his own talentmanagement company, Studio 24. The studio, located at 2220 K Street, provides classes, demo reels and headshots for actors. It will soon enter into the production business as well. http://studio24.com. (J.M.)

Geno Failla, Lurk Hard.

Bay Miry, D&S Development.

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K STREET’S BIG HOPE

BAY MIRY, D&S DEVELOPMENT

Bay Miry’s evolution as a Sacramento developer might not have occurred if not for a near family disaster.

About eight years ago, after graduating from UC Berkeley, a younger Bay Miry joined his family on a 10-day trip to Egypt. David Miry, Bay’s father and co-founder of D&S Development in Sacramento, became extremely ill with a rare liver ailment. One physician predicted he wouldn’t survive.

“It was a really rough time for us, especially my dad,” Miry recalled.

“My dad ended up losing 35 or 40 pounds, and another doctor came in and ended up saving his life.”

His father is completely healthy now. “But that’s what kind of resulted in me staying in Sacramento and doing development here,” Miry said.

Up until that point, Miry had always envisioned himself working in the Bay Area, going on his own path. But instead, he began shadowing his father and D&S firm partner Steve Lebastchi. “And when I saw the kind of projects they were working on,” Miry explained, “I knew I wanted to stay in Sacramento and try to help be part of helping to improving our city.”

Miry, 31, is deep in the trenches of downtown Sacramento’s revitalization. He and partner Ali Youssefi of CFY Development Inc. formed 700 Block THE ESTIMATED Investors and are tackling what $48 MILLION K STREET could arguably the most vital downtown project after the posMALL PROJECT IS RIGHT IN sible new Kings arena: the strip BAY MIRY’S WHEELHOUSE: of K Street Mall between Seventh and Eighth streets.

THE REHABILITATION OF Projected to begin this summer, the estimated $48 million projHISTORIC LANDMARK ect is right in Miry’s BUILDINGS. wheelhouse: The rehabilitation of historic landmark buildings.

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You see, when Miry first joined his father in business, D&S Development was more involved with suburban shopping malls and “strip centers,” he said. But now, the focus has transitioned to more challenging “urban, downtown, mixed-use projects.”

In recent years, Miry has worked on several high-visibility, central-city projects, such as the Maydestone Apartments, 2020 H Street Lofts and the popular nightlife destination at R and 15th streets, which includes lofts and retail spots Shady Lady Saloon, Magpie Café, Burgers & Brew, and others.

“I think I’ve been lucky enough to have some kind of mentors around me,” Miry said. “Even from when I was a kid, I was around people who were very business-minded. I’m pretty grateful that I’ve been put in a position where I have older people to learn a lot from.”

And with the 700 block of K Street, Miry and Youssefi’s fathers are available as consultants.

Miry is excited about changing this block of K Street. “Not only because it will hopefully be one of the most significant projects in downtown,” he said, “but it’s also an opportunity for me to work closely with one of my good friends, Ali Youssefi. It’s an opportunity to work with someone you enjoy hanging out with socially, anyway.” (J.R.)

Ilsa Hess, Love & Joy Foods It’s been just over a year since the first jars of Ilsa Hess’ Nacheez went on sale in Sacramento. After being abruptly laid off from a job with the county, Hess took a chance on marketing her vegan, cashewbased nacho sauce and has since spawned a nondairy phenomenon. Nacheez currently is sold throughout California, as well as in Indiana, Illinois, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia, with more retailers on the way. www.nacheez.com. (B.C.) Cory De Roo, French Cuff Consignment Cory De Roo opened French Cuff Consignment with her mother Darcy McNie in 2005. Since the company took off, she’s become a noted guest speaker for the National Association of Resale and Thrift Stores, a mentor for new business owners, and a world traveler. www.frenchcuffbtq.com. (J.M.) John Bissel, Micromidas West Sacramento-based startup Micromidas turns wastewater sludge into biodegradable plastic. CEO John Bissell studied chemical engineering at UC Davis where he and other student engineers began searching for ways to commercialize this method of plastic production. Having been featured in the Wall Street Journal and EnergyNow!, Micromidas is now planning to build a manufacturing plant. www.micromidas.com. (J.M.)

LEADER OF THE LURKERS

GENO FAILLA, LURK HARD

It’s never hard for Geno Failla to find motivation in his office space, which is covered in graffiti. Motley colors of blue and purple dress cold cinderblock walls and twist into words unrecognizable. The murals inspire Failla’s clothing company Lurk Hard, which mimics street art—and the controversy that comes when skateboarding and pop culture collide.

Lurk Hard began as a school project for an ex-girlfriend; she had to come up with fashion brand for her design class. But the brand soon became an actual business, which Failla ran out of his house, first selling stickers and T-shirts.

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sales on his website in 2008, and it wasn’t unusual for the 26-year-old to purchase too many shirts in uncommon or weird sizes and underproduce the more popular items.

“It was all ran out of our house. We didn’t have a direction, really, we just went for it and dove right in and started making a lot of mistakes,” Failla described the early days.

But then, things started to click. Failla’s Lurk Hard brand tapped into timeless trends in skateboarding, designs on standard baseball T-shirts and snapback hats. His love for keeping things simple is his line’s not-sosecret ingredient. But Lurk Hard also gains inspiration from the edgier side of life.

LURK HARD ALSO GAINS Shirt designs prominently INSPIRATION FROM THE feature the Unabomber, upside-down crosses and EDGIER SIDE OF LIFE. drugs references.

SHIRT DESIGNS “We do more edgy stuff,” Failla said. “I try to PROMINENTLY FEATURE switch it up. I like simple stuff that has something THE UNABOMBER, that kind of pops. ... I try UPSIDE-DOWN CROSSES, to balance it out.”

It didn’t take long for AND DRUGS REFERENCES. people to notice. Failla has spotted hip-hop artists such as Lee Bannon and ASAP Ty Beats sporting Lurk Hard. And there is no shortage of the original Lurkers—that’s what people call those who wear the Lurk Hard brand—around town.

“I’m always, like, surprised when I see bums wearing [Lurk Hard]—like, I’ve seen a couple bums,” said Failla.

“To lurk” usually has a negative connotation, someone hiding in the bushes or shadows and watching others. But skateboarders, being people of the street, took the word and made it a term of endearment for one another.

Being a skateboarder himself, establishing a Lurk Hard skate team was a no brainer for Failla. Local skate shops Ground Zero and Nine16

were the first stores to carry his clothes; this quickly legitimized his brand as a skate company.

Four years later, Failla has hung up his hat as a bike shop manager and now focuses on Lurk Hard full time in downtown Sacramento. He moved from his house to a spacious warehouse, which he shares with fellow local fashion line Official Crowne of Laurel, owned by Jason Maggio. And there’s room to grow: Lurk Hard has expanded from T-shirts and stickers and now produces jackets, sweaters, accessories and a successful snapback hat line. Lurk Hard can be found in 35 stores internationally.

The line maintains a strong social-media presence, from Facebook to Instagram, and 30 percent of sales are online. The most popular shirt features an image of Lindsay Lohan in court, which has sold more than a 1,000 units so far, and their most popular hat is a snapback with the word “Lurker” emblazoned on it, selling more than 2,000 units.

“You put in a lot of work; it’s kind of a slow process,” said Failla reflecting on his success, “but it will pay off if you have a vision, even if it’s a rough vision, as long as you continue to pursue it, it won’t go unnoticed.”

Having just finished his spring 2012 line, these days Failla can be found in his downtown warehouse as early as 9 a.m. Later, catch him out filming his skate team with an iPhone.

And Failla is still surprised to see other “lurkers” around town. “I just trip when I see people I don’t know [wearing Lurk Hard], because it still doesn’t feel like it’s that big,” said Failla.

Time to get used to it. (A.N.)

THE FUTURE OFFICE

JEFF LOUIE, CAPSITY OFFICES

Jeff Louie is the entrepreneur’s entrepreneur. A self-described workaholic, he tackles multiple projects at once and does it all while helping other entrepreneurs. That’s why he prefers the title “community cultivator.”

Since graduating from UC Berkeley in 2004 (with a self-designed major blending sociology, political science and technology), he’s been involved in five start-up endeavors. Louie’s main focus for the last few years has been Capsity Offices, which along with the Urban Hive, was one of Sacramento’s first co-working spaces. It opened in 2008, allowing professionals in any field to rent office space shared with other entrepreneurs.

Kate Miller, Kate Miller Events Kate Miller started planning weddings out of her home in 2008. Last year, she opened offices at 1808 Q Street with a staff of three and a burgeoning client list. Although Miller’s events are posh enough to be featured in Real Weddings Magazine, she’s committed to helping clients save money.

Her custom online planning tools give her company the technological edge. http://katemillerevents.com. (B.C.) Steven Tiller, Reclamation Art + Furniture Steven Tiller creates fine-art furniture from locally sourced wood—structural beams from the old Globe Mills building and trees culled from Sacramento’s urban forest.

Tiller’s recent Kickstarter campaign to mass produce his wall-mounted bike valets—a must for tiny grid apartments— raised nearly $13,000 in 30 days. http://reclamation.4ormat.com. (B.C.) Bill Swan and Peter Holmes, Big Table Media After meeting on the job at KCRA 3, Bill Swan and Peter Holmes launched The Idea Factory in 1998. The production company came up with the DIY Network show Yard Crashers, as well as its offshoots Bath Crashers, House Crashers and Room Crashers. The company relaunched as Big Table Media in 2011 and now has offices in Sacramento, Los Angeles and Minneapolis. www.bigtablemedia.com. (J.M.) Jen and Shawn Fosnight, Never Felt Better Vegan Shop Last November, the Fosnights moved Never Felt Better to larger, sunnier digs at 1910 P Street and launched a vegan buying collective, allowing customers to order bulk and specialty vegan groceries. The store is also hub of goodwill. Last month alone, Never Felt Better ran a vegan food drive, hosted a pet-adoption day, and sponsored a bake sale to benefit rescued hens at Harvest Home Animal Sanctuary. http://neverfeltbettervegan.com. (B.C.) Carissa Jones, Sugar and Spice Specialty Desserts Sugar and Spice Specialty Desserts is a delicious part of downtown Sacramento’s renovation, filling 1201 F Street with the sweet smell of cupcakes and house-made Pop-Tarts-like pastries. At the helm is Carissa Jones who left an office job to reinvent herself as a pastry chef. Jones also designs custom desserts for weddings or any occasion requiring something fancier than a Pop-Tart. www.sugarandspice.me. (B.C.) Brian Fikes and Greg Howes, Two Flew the Coop When Sacramento legalized backyard chickens last fall, Fikes and Howes emerged as the city’s go-to chicken experts. The team sells gorgeous coops at Talini’s Nursery, located at 5601 Folsom Boulevard, each with a different decorative theme. The company will soon offer books, chicken feed and chicken-raising consulations. (B.C.)

Jeff Louie, Capsity Offices.

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Nick Berruezo, Xoso Sport & Social League “We believe it is our God-given duty to bring people together through sports and cheap drinks.” A noble ambition, right? And Nick Berruezo followed through with it in May 2008, when the Xoso Sports and Social League founder started his company with an outdoor kickball game. And drinks afterward, of course. Four years later, Xoso has expanded to Fresno and San Josae, and 30something Berruezo now does a lot of crucial support work for local charities and nonprofits. www.xososports.com. (N.M.)

“Everybody should be able to have a business,” Louie said, “and eventually, you need to team up with people.”

Mirroring the quickly changing and growing co-working scene in Sacramento, Capsity has been through a few key changes since it opened: Its first location in Midtown closed. The lease on a second office location on Franklin Boulevard was taken over by a friend who opened Sacramento’s fourth coworking space in March, known as The Lab. “EVERYBODY SHOULD Currently, Louie is busy renovating a building at 2572 21st BE ABLE TO HAVE A Street for a revamped Capsity office. He’s looking forward to BUSINESS, AND utilizing four years of experiEVENTUALLY, YOU NEED TO ence to provide even better service. When Capsity reopens TEAM UP WITH PEOPLE.” in May, it will still be known as Jeff Louie a more business-oriented office than some of the other coworking spaces. (The Urban Hive and Thinkhouse Collective are arts-oriented and The Lab is geared toward tech.)

Louie also wants to help foster the next generation of entrepreneurs by eventually making the Capsity space available for free for students to use.

“You want them to have access and energize the space. You want to be able to have a space where they can talk to somebody and networking is key,” said Louie. “It’s who you know. You’re more likely to get a job opportunity through someone you sort of know.”

When he’s not doing demolition work and planning for the new Capsity office, Louie works with friends as a business developer on three other projects: Asobuyo, a social game community; A Big Fisch, a Web-development company; and Brand-Aid Media, a video-production company.

“I’m always constantly asked, ‘Why don’t you go back to the Bay Area or come down to Los Angeles [to work]?’” said Louie.

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ANITA JOHNSON, MONEY WISDOM FOR WOMEN

Ben Ilfeld, Ad Glue South by Southwest in Austin isn’t just a music festival; it’s also arguably the nation’s premier multimedia and tech convention.

And this year, a local firm—one Macer Media, co-founded by Ben Ilfeld—made it to the finals (out of 670 companies) at SXSW’s Interactive Accelerator competition. The product, Ad Glue, marries digital advertising to content Web users actually enjoy. Ilfeld, 30, is also COO of The Sacramento Press. www.adglue.com. (N.M.)

Erin Boyle and Stefan Betz Bloom, Scout Living When Anita Johnson went into business for herself in 1998, she Scout Living popped up on 18th Street last intended to focus simply on bookkeeping and tax-preparation services. year and was really something new for While helping Sacramentans straighten out their finances, she discovMidtown: a collective and storefront that ered a disturbing trend. became a hub for local furniture and home“Many women did not know what they were doing,” Johnson said. accessory designers. Visit the shop for that Clients sometimes arrived at tax appointments without knowing what a mid-century modern sofa you’ve always W-2 was, or with boxes of unopened bank statements they were afraid wanted, return to get something like, say, an to examine. Many of these women were widowed or divorced and had imported Italian fish bowl. Bloom and always relied on their partners to take care of the finances.

Boyle—making Midtown living rooms way When she began pursuing a Ph.D. in finance, Johnson discovered more legit. www.scoutliving.com. (N.M.) women’s money woes weren’t just personal, but epidemic. “Eight out of 10 women will retire and live in poverty,” Johnson said.

Dr. Donald P. Land and the Rev. Dr. Kymron Johnson enumerated the stacked odds many women face: Women usudeCesare, Halent Laboratories ally earn less than men. Women lose an average of 40 percent of their Two UC Davis professors sparked a good income when a marriage ends in divorce. Women often assume the bulk one: Why not open a lab and test medical of child-care responsibilities, which limits professional opportunities. cannabis for things such as mold and Johnson resolved to educate pathogens and efficacy? This they did, and women to take control of their now Halent Laboratories—despite the fedfinances, and by extension, their “I WANT TO MAKE IT eral crackdown—does something the Food futures. In 2008, she founded a and Drug Administration won’t even touch: new company, Money Wisdom for CLEAR THAT I AM NOT Ensure that people’s medical pot is safe to Women. She currently educates use. www.halent.com. (N.M.) BASHING MEN. women via classes, one-on-one consultations, her Money Wisdom WHAT I AM TRYING TO for Women online radio show on DO IS EMPOWER WOMEN the Atlanta-based Praise House station (www.thepraise TO TAKE CARE OF house.com), and her 10-step workbook Big Girls Don’t THEIR OWN FINANCES.” Cry: Taking the Emotion Out Anita Johnson of Finance. “ ENTREPRENEURS” The first step? Start continued on page 21 where you are.

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“Those are nice shoes.”

Christina Marie glances down at her feet, then grins. “I call them cow-print couture,” she says, laughing at her heels’ black-andwhite motif.

Shoes don’t typically say much about a person, right? Unless you’re Jerry Seinfeld or an astronaut or something. Yet Marie’s cow-hide kicks speak to a charming loyalty to the River City. And that’s reassuring, because her allegiance is unexpected: She’s a Hollywood girl.

But Marie’s life ambition is to build what she refers to as “Indiewood”: an 800-acre cinema, TV and digital-arts production community right here in downtown’s River District.

No one wants to see someone make it big locally, only to head off for greener pastures in Hollywood. So her high heels encourage.

“We don’t want anything to do with [Los Angeles],” she makes a point of saying, more than once.

By “we” Marie is referring to Capital Indie Collective—a little nonprofit with some bigtime goals for the Sacramento arts and design community—and her film and TV company, Cow Town Productions.

Marie founded Cow Town in 2007 after some 25 years in the entertainment industry.

That’s right: She started young, spending her early days on a stage or in front of a camera, first as a child actress and later as a stunt woman. She took time out in between to earn a degree at Sacramento State, and eventually returned here for good after an injury knocked her out of the stunt biz.

The mom and wife didn’t divulge much of her Hollywood résumé. But she did rep some impressive Sacto cred: “My secret claim to fame is that I was the gymnastic lady who did the halftime show for the Kings in the ’90s.”

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“Women are earning more money, but they aren’t tracking it,” Johnson said. “I help you start tracking what you’re spending, so you can make a financial-spending plan.”

Johnson practices what she preaches. She notes all her expenses on cards with “Anita’s Tracker” printed at the top, the same cards she gives her clients. Every Monday she “makes a date” with her finances to organize and file her receipts. Even after so many years in finance, she continually learns by educating others. She recently got inspired to pay off her mortgage faster after encouraging listeners of her radio show to make a similar plan.

“I love to educate women about finances,” she said enthusiastically. “I want to make it clear that I am not bashing men. What I am trying to do is empower women to take care of their own finances.” (B.C.)

world: businesswoman, fundraiser, mover and shaker. If she’s not in a meeting with potential Indiewood investors, she’s out and about: an art show at Verge Center for the Arts, chatting with workers at The Urban Hive, a film screening. And she likes what she sees, Sacramento, she likes it.

Yet she’s not so sure Sacramentans have the confidence it takes. The talent’s there. But something’s missing.

As Marie puts it, “I just want to see more swagger.”

Ah, yes, that Hollywood braggadocio—but with aptitude to back it up. And so, enter Indiewood’s big pitch: The greenfriendly campus will “I JUST WANT be a home to artists, complete with liveTO SEE MORE work spaces and SWAGGER.” production facilities; Christina Marie plus galleries and rooms for forums or panels; production hangars and post-production studios, equipment rental, sound-stages and education classrooms. All the “ancillary support,” she says, you need for film, video, TV and digitalmedia arts. Phase one of the facility officially opens its doors this summer.

And the cool thing, Marie says, everything Indiewood needs is already here. “Sacramento citizens are not quite in tune with what we have,” she says.

So, she just wants to put it all in one place.

And she has help: Township Nine, a new River District retail-residential destination; the forthcoming Powerhouse Science Center; Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission; Smythe Academy and more.

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Frazzled gray matter It’s just past 11 p.m. on a recent weeknight, and I’ve finally turned off my computer, put the finishing touches on tomorrow’s to-do list and settled down on the couch for a relaxing hour with my husband, cats, a nightcap and some mindless TV. Oh, yeah, and my iPhone and iPad, too.

by RACHEL LEIBROCK “Do you ever shut your brain off?” my husband asks as I flip between friends’ status updates on one device while playing a round of Words With Friends on the other.

“Should I go get you your laptop, too?”

Ha, ha—very funny. Only, it’s kind of not.

What I like to think of as multitasking—quality time with the family! Catching up on Project Runway All Stars ! Triple-word score!—is actually, perhaps, veritable proof that my brain is disintegrating into overdrive-induced shards of frazzled gray matter.

Attention span? What attention span?

Seriously. It’s hard to remember the last time I sat down and was one with the moment much less focused on a singular task or endeavor.

And, apparently, I can blame it on Angry Birds.

Not that I’ve ever played that smartphone game, but by all accounts, it’s a bulls-eye target for the argument that our iPhones and Droids are redefining how we fill the empty spaces in our days, nights and everything in between.

In recent years, such games have exploded I tell myself such in popularity. Angry Birds, Apple’s best-selling app to date, reportedly sucks up 200 million games are ways to minutes of our collective time every day.

And that’s just a nanosecond in time if you keep my mind look at the overall picture. Whether it’s one of sharp but, the endless variations on Angry Birds or Words I suspect they’re With Friends, Infinity Blade, Fruit Ninja or—God help me—Farmville, such mobile games are really doing the high-scoring away our ability to turn off, tune opposite: out and just relax already.

Writer Sam Anderson explored the pulverizing it phenomenon in the latest New York Times into an exhausted Magazine. “[These games] are designed to push their pile of mush. way through the cracks of other occasions,” Anderson writes in “Just One More Game.”

“We play them incidentally, ambivalently, compulsively, almost accidentally. They’re less an activity in our day than a blank space in our day; less a pursuit than a distraction from other pursuits.”

True, that.

As I write this, I’m playing no fewer than two-dozen games on my iPhone or iPad. There are at least 10 rounds in Words With Friends, half-a-dozen Scramble With Friends matches and three Hanging With Friends bouts. Oh, yeah, and eight rounds of Draw Something.

No wonder I have trouble falling asleep at night. Indeed, no matter how exhausted I seem to be, as soon as my head hits the pillow, my brain starts racing. Sometimes I’m mulling over various real-life problems but lately, more often than I really care to admit, I’m thinking about various word strategies or the best way to illustrate the word “breakup.” And don’t even get me started on trying to watch TV or read a book—my head reflexively jerks away from the entertainment in front of me whenever I hear my phone or tablet buzz.

I know—it’s kind of sad. I tell myself such games are ways to keep my mind sharp, but I suspect they’re really doing the opposite: pulverizing it into an exhausted pile of mush. I can’t blame it all on technology—I’ve always been fidgety and found it difficult to unwind and shut off my brain; it’s just now all these mobile games seem to add to my brainwave disturbances instead of mollifying them.

Of course, I’d spend more time worrying about it but my phone just vibrated with another notification—it’s finally my turn again.

Game on. Ω

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A NEW MUSEUM EXHIBITION SHOWCASES THE IRON LUNG AS A DINOSAUR OF THE MEDICAL INDUSTRY For the past seven years, one of Sacramento’s least conspicuous museums has showcased one of the most ominous and emotion-wrenching contraptions in medicine—an iron lung.

Large steel cylinders, these iron lungs were prevalent in hospitals around the country in the 1940s and 1950s. They were often the required sole living quarters for thousands of patients stricken by polio. But now, with rare exception, iron lungs are medical dinosaurs.

One of those dinosaurs is currently on disThe Sierra Sacramento play at the Sierra Sacramento Valley Medical Valley Medical History History Museum. Because the machine isn’t Museum is located at 5380 Elvas Avenue. For easily transportable due to its considerable more information on the size, a video of it will be shown April 16-20, exhibition, call in the Capitol rotunda in conjunction with the (916) 456-3152 or visit California Medical Association Legislative www.ssvms.org/ museum/index.asp. Leadership Conference at the Sacramento Convention Center.

While there’s no proof, the museum display may be the only regional place where people can view an iron lung. There, the contraption resides as part of a collection of medical artifacts that belie today’s medical norms but were once considered state-of-theart medicine.

For example, there’s a bottle from the early 1900s, that once held a heroin syrup

used to cure colds. There’s also an archaiclooking apparatus once used for electric-shock therapy. And then there are the hundreds of medical wonders—including wooden wheelchairs, 100-year-old stethoscopes and Civil War amputation kits.

Located along the Elvas Avenue corridor that divides East Sacramento and River Park, the museum’s entrance is hidden from vehicular traffic and casual passersby. But visitors need to walk no farther than to the glass front door entrance of the office building to get an abrupt indoctrination to the museum’s monolith. The iron lung rests in the entry hallway flanked by glass cases full of those devices that help define the history of medicine.

Technically called a negative-pressure ventilator, an iron lung replaces a patient’s diaphragm and creates a vacuum that causes the chest to expand and suck air into the lungs.

Museum curator Dr. Bob LaPerriere says the device now stands as a grim reminder of bygone medical ailments.

“One of the biggest benefits of it is that it gives the kids who visit and hopefully their parents the reason that they need to immunize their kids,” says LaPerriere. “There are parents now who are not getting their kids immunized

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because of concerns that are not valid. This really shows what happens to these kids before we had immunizations. It’s a real good selling point for immunizations.”

When Dr. Jonas Salk introduced the polio vaccine in 1955, iron-lung usage quickly and drastically subsided. According to the World Health Organization, polio remains endemic in only Nigeria, Pakistan and Afghanistan. On average, about 1,000 cases per year are reported, compared with the 350,000 cases reported in 1988.

About 1,200 people in the United States lived in iron lungs in 1959. By 2004, the advancement of portable ventilators had reduced the number of iron lung inhabitants to less than 50. The iron lung at the museum is likely among less than a dozen on public view in the United States.

LaPerriere, 71, a retired Sacramento dermatologist, keeps busy as an historian, antique collector, educator and promoter of the wonders of medical paraphernalia.

After his collecting interests began with coins, stamps and bottles, LaPerriere’s hobby transitioned into a collector’s appreciation for the tools and history of his profession. In 1990, he showcased some of his early collection in an exhibition called Out of the Doctor’s Bag at the Sacramento History Museum.

The museum includes a medical library as well as donations from many collections.

A physician at UC Davis Medical Center donated a new display of heart valves. And much of LaPerriere’s personal collection is also featured in the museum.

LaPerriere wanted an iron lung as part of the museum when it opened in 2001, but it took three years to find one. The iron lung on display, which includes the words “March of Dimes” (the charity founded by polio victim and then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1938 to combat the disease), was discovered BEFORE

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in storage at UC Davis Medical Center and donated to the museum in 2004.

Students on field trips to the museum often know little, if anything, about iron lungs. If the accompanying teachers are under the age of 50 they may not know much, either. “‘What is that?’ some kids will ask,” LaPerriere explains. “They sometimes think it’s a CAT scan or a whole variety of things like that. Unless they’ve talked about it at school, they generally don’t know what it is.”

Visitors’ reactions to the iron lung can be extreme, he adds.

Museum visitors have cried or become anxious when viewing the iron lung, LaPerriere says, particularly when it’s started and the heavy diaphragm at the foot of the iron begins to “breathe.” One visitor, a

Contacted via email, Rudin’s recollection of the iron lung is vivid, frightening and expansive.

“Only the heads of patients were exposed. A small mirror mounted above them enabled them to see what was going on around them,” she wrote. “On the side of the machine were portholes for the caregivers to reach in to provide essential nursing care such as bed baths, medication and massages.”

Despite polio’s eradication in the United States, some celebrated modern-day ironlung cases remain astonishing.

Martha Mason of Lattimore, N.C., died in her sleep in 2009, after spending 60 years of her 71-year life in an iron lung.

With the advancement of voice activation systems, Mason wrote a 2003 memoir Breath: Life in the Rhythm of an Iron Lung that documented her experiences.

Mason was also the subject of a 2005 documentary film Martha in Lattimore and appeared in the 2009 Oscar-nominated documentary about polio The Final Inch.

Likewise, June Middleton of Melbourne, Australia, died six months after Mason at age 83 also after spending more than 60 years of her life in an iron lung—the longest ironlung tenure known.

The Sierra Sacramento Valley The iron lung also Medical History Museum is host to gained considerable attenantiqued contraptions and other tion in 1994 when outdated medical oddities.

Radiohead released an EP and a single called My Iron Lung, reportedly a metaphorical reaction to how the band’s biggest hit, 1993’s “Creep” had both given them life and constrained them.

When the iron lung arrived at the museum, LaPerriere placed a mannequin in the steel cylinder to simulate the machine’s restrictive capacity. But the full-sized dummy proved too traumatic for some museum visitors.

LaPerriere says staff members overruled Dr. Bob LaPerriere him and a smaller-sized female doll has since curator, Sierra Sacramento Valley Medical replaced the mannequin. Its head protrudes History Museum from the opening of the iron lung where a patient once lived as best as he or she could. member of a mariachi band visiting the Still, one day a few years ago, a young museum, was visibly upset when he viewed girl visiting the museum was particularly the iron lung. It reminded him of the iron concerned at the sight of the lung. lung he inhabited as a boy.

“She was really anxious about diseases,” Former Sacramento Mayor Anne Rudin LaPerriere says. “But we always tell them, has intimate knowledge of iron lungs. Five ‘Kids don’t get polio anymore—at least in years ago, Rudin wrote a short article for the the United States because of immunizations. museum’s magazine about her experience So you don’t have to worry about this.’” Ω working with iron-lung patients while she

“[THE IRON LUNG] REALLY SHOWS WHAT HAPPENS TO THESE KIDS BEFORE WE HAD IMMUNIZATIONS. IT’S A REAL GOOD SELLING POINT FOR IMMUNIZATIONS.”

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Anything but noodle soup The strip mall on Freeport Boulevard that houses the time machine that is Awesome Video now features a new tenant: Blue Moon Cafe and Karaoke. For those of you not familiar with private karaoke rooms, they are labyrinthine spaces that contain a warren of rooms ranging in size, depending on the party. They are rentable by the hour, and you and your friends can sing to your hearts’ content until 2 or even 3 a.m., if you so choose.

In contrast to other karaoke establishments, which I will not name (cough, Rurulala, cough), Blue Moon’s prices are clear and reasonable, ranging from $20 an hour (for four to six people) all the way up to $45 an hour (for up to 20 people).

Blue Moon features a cafe in the front, and it’ll deliver food to your room—“Anything but noodle soup” the friendly server says, for obvious reasons. The menu is Hong Kong-style, meaning that it leans heavily on sweets, such as crepes and egg puffs and fried finger foods, such as salt-and-pepper crab.

It’ll also deliver beer, but be careful; a bucket containing a dozen Coronas will set you back $50, and it can add up to sticker shock at the end of the night.

On a recent evening I rounded up a posse of about 15 friends, and we rented the biggest room in the joint. Instead of a book listing available songs, Blue Moon has an almost impossibly complicated touchscreen system, which only gets harder to operate as the brew flows. The song selection is so-so; it has the bands you want (Fleetwood Mac, the Beach Boys), but only a couple of songs by each artist.

Of course, this is a middle-aged person talking, there’s plenty of Fall Out Boy and Taylor Swift for the young folks.

The accompanying karaoke videos alternate between the typical ’80s-era randomness (e.g. a girl clad in a high-cut string bikini roller-skating) and live footage of the bands, or sometimes, in a swank touch, the actual video for the song. In one of the random-style videos, there was a WTF moment when I spotted a quick cut of the infamous front gate of Auschwitz.

One bonus of karaoke is that you get to finally read the words of songs that you may have been singing wrong your entire life.

I gained newfound respect for the song “You’re So Vain” by Carly Simon, for example. Did you know she rhymes “your scarf of apricot” with “you watched yourself gavotte” (defined as “a dance of French peasant origin marked by the raising rather than sliding of the feet”)? The song is rumored to be about Warren Beatty and those lines conjure up a powerful mental picture.

Our crew was five buckets of Corona deep when my inner mic hog came out. I know I’ve had too much to drink when I find myself: A) singing song after song, B) inserting myself into songs that aren’t duets, and/or C) rapping. I caterwauled my way through the Euro-pop smash hit “Sacramento” (“you’re in Sacramento, a wonderful town, sing sing, din-di-din”), “Kokomo,” and even conjured an appropriately huskyvoiced Michael McDonald for his duet with Patti LaBelle. We ended the session with a rousing singalong of “Wonderwall” and midnight came far too soon.

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Mystical detailing It wasn’t too long ago that Justin Lovato was hunkered in his parents’ garage in Folsom, meticulously painting a several-foot-long canvas for an upcoming exhibition. But things have changed since then, geographically and visually: Lovato moved to Berkeley, and his work has moved on, too. His paintings from the late ’00s featured detailed figures that often appear physically uncomfortable or distressed in a 15th-century European setting, reminiscent of Hieronymus Bosch. In his latest pieces, however, he hasn’t abandoned his signature detailing, but has pared down and become more abstract, adding mystical elements, plus reoccurring geometry—most notably the triangle and pyramid. Welcome him back to Sac at the reception for Fantastic Notion, also featuring Troy Mighty.

Where: Bows & Arrows, 1815 19th Street; (916) 882-5668; http://bowscollective.com.

Second Saturday reception: April 14, 6-9 p.m.

Through May 3.

Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m.-11 p.m.

Making the grade George Esquibel has been professing art for years to creative students at Los Rios Community College campuses. For April, he has curated a body of student work for a new-media art show, including “graphic design, digital illustration, Web and 3-D animation.”

Plan on seeing a wood-sculpture demonstration at the reception, too. Hopefully, these talented pupils all are scoring an “A” grade in class—so far. Semester ain’t over, kids.

Where: Union Hall Gallery, 2126 K Street; (916) 217-7500.

Second Saturday reception: April 14, 6-9 p.m. Through April 27.

Hours: by appointment; call (916) 448-2425.

“Language Virus” by Justin Lovato, mixed media on paper, 2012.

Super fishy

“Gone Fishin’” by D.L. Thomas, oil on paper, 2012.

Where: Archival Framing, 3223 Folsom Boulevard; (916) 923-6204; www.archivalframe.com.

Second Saturday reception: April 14, 6-9 p.m.

Through April 28.

Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

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Anyway, 1986 also marked the first Gone Fishin’, a fish-themed group art show. Although it hasn’t been held annually, its mastermind, Archival Framing’s owner and gallery curator D. Neath, said this year’s exhibition is near its 20th iteration. And, unlike most art shows, Neath revealed that this one has a catch: “The artists are all required to have a fishing license.” Check the credentials and art of Jadell Andrews, Phyllis Cottrell, Fred Gordon, John K. Landgraf, Arthur Sordillo, Nick Steinmetz, D.L. Thomas, Sue Torngrin and Ken Waterstreet. |

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Teens SPRING BREAK CAMP: Do you need a safe and fun place for your kids to go during the hours they would be at school? Bring kids ages 7-14 to Sacramento State Aquatic Center’s Spring Break Camp. Camp activities will include boating-safety activities, sailing, stand-up paddling, kayaking and team building. Through 4/12, 8am-4pm. $230. Sacramento State Aquatic Center, 1901 Hazel Ave. in Gold River; (916) 278-2842.

Concerts KANSAS: All these years later, Kansas still rules the classicrock-radio airwaves and continues to put on shows of the highest caliber. Kansas is promoting its live symphonic DVD There’s Know Place Like Home, which celebrates 35 years of the band. Th, 4/12, 7:30pm. $45-$50. Veterans Memorial Auditorium, 255 South Auburn St. in Grass Valley; (530) 477-0708.

SCCS GOT TALENT: Sacramento City College students show off their vocal solo talents at this oncampus performance. Th, 4/12, 12:10-12:50pm. Free. Sacramento City College, Room A27, 3835 Freeport Blvd.; (916) 558-2496.

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DON’T MISS! PLANET OF THE VAMPIRE WOMEN: See a special

screening of Trash Film Orgy Productions’ Planet of the Vampire Women, newly remastered and revamped.

Plus, see a special TFO presentation of The Sexiest Ladies in Outer Space, featuring a heart-stopping barrage of the most titillating space babes of all time. Proceeds go to TFO Productions’ new movie, Badass Monster Killer.

F, 4/13, 10:30pm. $10.

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

Special Events LGBT MOVIE NIGHT, COSTUME CONTEST: Grab your pompoms for an adults-only showing of a LGBT cult-classic film, featuring RuPaul in butch drag. Enter the cheerleader-costume contest, in which the winner will be determined by popular vote.

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

THE REPUBLICAN BRAIN: This lecture will draw from Chris Mooney’s examination of the “science of why we don’t believe science.” He will review cuttingedge research suggesting liberals and conservatives are, in aggregate, fundamentally different people—differing in personalities, psychological needs, even brain structures.

F, 4/13, 10:30am-noon. Free. UC Davis ARC Pavilion, 1 Shields Ave. in Davis; (530) 752-9178; http://johnmuir.ucdavis.edu/ events/1950.

TNT N TANGO: A tango dance (milonga) to benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. This event begins at 7pm, with a beginning tango lesson and a dance party from 8-11pm. F, 4/13, 7-11pm. $20 suggested donation. Capital Athletic Club, 1515 Eighth St.; (916) 799-1952.

Film SCREENING: SWEET CRUDE: In a small corner of the most populous country in Africa, billions of dollars of crude oil flow under the feet of a desperate people. Immense wealth and abject poverty stand in stark contrast. The environment is decimated. The issues are complex, the answers elusive.

Sweet Crude tells the story of Nigeria’s Niger Delta. F, 4/13, 7:30pm. Free. Lavender Library, 1414 21st St.; (916) 492-0558.

Now Playing IT’S MAGIC: A lineup of some of the world’s top professional magicians takes the stage in this annual live spectacle produced

by Milt Larson (founder of Hollywood’s famous Magic Castle). The show has entertained magic enthusiasts of all ages for more than five decades.

F, 4/13, 7:30pm. $21-$39. Three Stages at Folsom Lake College, 10 College Pkwy. in Folsom; (916) 608-6888; www.threestages.net.

Concerts ELLA: A TRIBUTE CONCERT: Come help celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month and Ella Fitzgerald’s 95th birthday with a tribute concert for the late, great Fitzgerald, the “First Lady of Song,” featuring Jacosa Limutau and Capital Jazz Project. F, 4/13, 7pm. $15-$17.

Benvenuti Performing Arts Center, 4600 Blackrock Dr.; www.capitaljazzproject.com.

OAXACAN SINGER MARTHA TOLEDO: Martha Toledo is an internationally recognized performer whose commanding presence embodies the sensibility and majesty of the Oaxacan culture. The Mexican singer’s soulful sound evokes the pulsing, vibrant rhythm of her country’s music legacy. F, 4/13, 7pm. $15. Time Tested Books, 1114 21st St.; (916) 446-5133; www.larazagaleriaposada.org.

SHINDIG WITH JIM SCOTT: Acclaimed acoustical guitarist Jim Scott will perform at 8:30pm after an open-mic starting at 7pm. Scott is a composer, guitarist, singer and ecological peace activist who has transcended stylistic boundaries and recorded and shared stages with luminaries from the jazz,

classical and folk-music worlds.

F, 4/13, 7-10pm. $5-$10. Unitarian Universalist Society of Sacramento, 2425 Sierra Blvd.; (916) 483-9283; www.uuss.org.

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DON’T MISS! UC DAVIS ARBORETUM PUBLIC PLANT SALE: Shop

the the area’s largest selection of attractive, low-water, easy-care, region-appropriate plants.

This sale offers hundreds of different kinds of uncommon garden plants that have been locally grown—including the Arboretum All-Stars, the top recommended plants for Central Valley gardens.

Sa, 4/14, 9am-1pm. Free. UC Davis Arboretum Teaching Nursery, Garrod Dr. in Davis; (530) 752-4880; http://arboretum75th. ucdavis.edu/plant-sales.

Special Events BASKET WEAVING DEMONSTRATIONS: View basket weaving demonstrations by Dixie Rogers. Mesmerizing to watch and fun to learn from, Rogers is a traditional basket weaver from the Karuk tribe and uses a technique called Closed Half Twist-Twined With Overlay. She incorporates a number of native California plants into her intricate and original basket creations. Sa, 4/14, 11am & 1pm.

Free with museum admission.

California State Indian Museum, 2618 K St.; (916) 324-0971; www.parks.ca.gov/ indianmuseum.

CLOSING RECEPTION OF SOL 7: Join Sol Collective for the closing reception of Sol 7, featuring work by Shaun Burner, Jose Di Gregorio, Dana Iske, Miguel “Bounce” Perez, Trent Liddicoat, Carson McWhirter and Trisha Rhomberg. Working with different mediums from aerosol to installation art, Sol7 offers a captivating art experience for art enthusiasts of all ages. Live music provided by DJ Crush Delight and LINL Witchie. Sa, 4/14, 7pm. Free. Sol Collective, 2574 21st St.; (916) 832-0916; www.solcollective.org.

MCKINLEY BRANCH LIBRARY BOOK SALE: McKinley Branch Library is holding a book sale to benefit the Friends of the McKinley Library. Come by, buy a book and support a beloved library.

The library is also collecting donations of all books and media. Sa, 4/14, 10am-4:30pm.

Free. Clunie Auditorium at Mckinley Park, 601 Alhambra Blvd.; (916) 712-5889.

RETURN OF SWAINSON’S HAWK CELEBRATION: See a presentation of live Swainson’s hawks

by California Raptor Center at 9am, followed by a nature walk along American River Parkway with views of wild Swainson’s hawks. Educational booths will be provided by Friends of the Swainson’s Hawk, Sacramento Audubon Society, Save the American River Association and Friends of the River Bank.

Sa, 4/14, 9am. Free. Sutter’s Landing Regional Park, 28th and B streets; (916) 447-4956; www.swainsonshawk.org.

Art Galleries ART FOUNDRY GALLERY: It’s All About Color, 15 different artists exhibit in an upstairs studio gallery. Artists include Brenda Boles, Taylor Gutermute, Lisa Fernald Barker, Julie Didion, Zbignew Kozikowski, Diana Jahns and more. Sa, 4/14, 6-9pm. Free.

1021 R St.; (916) 444-2787.

THE BOOK COLLECTOR: Art of Modern Myth & Pop Culture, a front-window exhibition at The Book Collector bookstore will display items of the Museum of Modern Mythology and Pop Culture, featuring the art of comic books, movie posters and other items. A special emphasis will be on the Tarzan Centennial.

This year marks 100 years of Tarzan of the Apes on the world stage, and centennial celebrations are already underway.

Sa, 4/14, 10am-9pm. Free.

1008 24th St.; (916) 442-9295.

CHOCOLATE FISH COFFEE: Second Saturday, check out paintings by Nathan Beeck, an up-andcoming artist. Sa, 4/14, 8am-5pm.

Free. 400 P St.; (916) 400-4204; www.chocolatefishcoffee.com.

FE GALLERY & IRON ART STUDIO: Jon Mess, Fe Gallery presents the work of Jon Mess, a recent Sacramento State University graduate. Musicians Pregnant and Mandy Zeboski will be providing the soundtrack for opening night, April 14, 6-9pm.

Sa, 4/14, 6-9pm. Free. 1100 65th St., (916) 456-4455, www.fegallery.com.

SACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES: Womens Wisdom Art Spring Fever Show, A celebration with nearly 250 works of art artwork from teachers, volunteers, and students of Women’s Wisdom Art. Art will be on display in Sacramento Food Bank and Family Services’ Community Room through June 9. Sa, 4/14, 5-8pm. Free. 3333 Third Ave.; (916) 456-1980.

Kids’ Stuff DIA CELEBRATION: Dia Celebration features a performance by musician Felipe Ferraz. A guitarist, Ferraz performs a selection of songs in English and Spanish that entertain and delight. The audience is encouraged to participate and sing along. Sa, 4/14, 3pm. Free.

Southgate Library, 6132 66th Ave.; (919) 264-2920; www.saclibrary.org.

Volunteer HABITAT RESTORATION WORKDAY: The Cosumnes River Preserve invites you to participate in Public Restoration Workdays.

The days are a great way to connect with the environment and are ideal for individuals seeking service learning hours.

Wear closed-toed shoes, a longsleeve shirt, long pants, hat and work gloves. Bring lunch, snacks and a reusable water bottle. Sa, 4/14, 9am-3:30pm. Free.

Cosumnes River Preserve Barn, 6500 Desmond Rd. in Galt; (916) 870-4317; www.cosumnes.org.

Now Playing THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES: Hailed

by The New York Times as “funny and poignant” The Vagina Monologues, which was first performed off-Broadway by Eve Ensler, dives into the mystery, humor, pain, power, wisdom, outrage, and excitement buried

in women’s experiences. Ensler has performed the play to great acclaim throughout the world.

Sa, 4/14, 6pm. $18-$20. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.; (916) 442-7378; www.vdaysacramento.org.

Concerts ENGLISH GRANDEUR: The Sacramento Choral Society and Orchestra with Conductor Donald Kendrick present English Grandeur, a tribute to English Romantic tradition. It features special guests, the Sacramento Children’s Chorus with Director Lynn Stevens. Sa, 4/14, 8pm. $35$55. Sacramento Community Center Theater, 1301 L St.; (916) 808-5181; www.sacramento conventioncenter.com/venues/ communityCenterTheater.

PIANIST NATASHA PAREMSKI: Pianist Natasha Paremski will perform as part of Sacramento State’s Piano Series. She won the top prize in the Young Artists category in Carnegie Hall 2000 International Piano Festival, and received the Classical Recording Foundation’s Young Artist of the Year award in 2010. Sa, 4/14, 7:30pm. $15-$20.

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

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favorites and Sony recording artists The American Tenors will perform their crowd-pleasing multi-genre program at the Three Stages Theatre. This is the final concert of Folsom Lake Community Concert Association’s first season in their new home at Three Stages. Su, 4/15, 3pm. $25.

Three Stages at Folsom Lake College, 10 College Pkwy. in Folsom; (916) 608-6888.

Special Events LGBQT BUDDHIST MEDITATION RETREAT: LGBQT people and friends are invited to come together for this daylong retreat to build a sense of belonging as practitioners of the dharma. A spiritual community has the power to deeply transform our lives. The day will include sitting and walking meditation. Su, 4/15, 10am-4pm.

Free. The Met Sacramento, 810 V St.; (916) 769-5865.

Sports & Recreation ZOOZOOM: Join a stampede as thousands of runners raise funds to benefit the Sacramento Zoo. The course winds through scenic William Land Park along flat, tree-lined streets. This 5k, 10k and children’s fun run is a fundraiser for the Sacramento Zoological Society. Race fees include admission to the Zoo. Su, 4/15, 7am-noon. Call for pricing.

Sacramento Zoo, 3930 West Land Park Dr.; (916) 808-5888; www.saczoo.org.

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“Troopers” by Vanessa Marsh, archival pigment print, 2012.

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

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tepping into the visual world of Oakland-based artist Vanessa Marsh is taking a step into her dreams—and nightmares. Her black-and-white images are photograms she puts together in a complicated layer-by-layer process, resulting in silhouettes of figures on hilly landscapes that fade into mysterious fog. Marsh usually exhibits in the Bay Area, but her work is currently on display in Davis along with photographer Sean McFarland in Dreams of the Darkest Night at the Richard L. Nelson Gallery through May 27. Marsh spoke about the alternate reality of her work, using miniatures and the nightmare that inspired her vision.

Explain your process.

I start in the studio and do a bunch of drawings. So all of the backgrounds are drawings on acetate. I go into the darkroom and I create a negative image by laying things [on glass under the enlarger]. So two layers of models and two layers of drawings, and then as I expose the paper, I remove a layer of drawing, and then I expose it again, remove the drawing, expose it again; so I end up with a negative image of this from that process. … Then I scan that negative, flip it over so it’s a positive image in Photoshop and print from there.

The first two layers are train scale models for the most part. … The houses are things I build, and the other materials, I buy a lot of plants from Michaels.

Subsequent layers are drawings.

While you were creating these images, did you dream about them?

[I was] definitely having a lot of landscapey dreams and dreams about looking out the car window as a kid. Also, I have [had] this reoccurring nightmare since I was a kid where—I think work is definitely coming from this nightmare, in a way—it’s like an apocalyptic nightmare, where the moon and the stars start revolving around the Earth really quickly. I had that dream a few times when I was preparing. It’s a weird dream.

How does it end?

Usually that dream ends with me waking up kind of panicky. And there’s usually a lot of me trying to

communicate with someone, trying to get a hold of someone in the dream and not being able to. You know, it’s like, the world is ending, and I want to call my friend and talk to them, and I keep trying to call the number, and I can never dial the number all the way.

Have you consulted a dream dictionary or a therapist about this?

(Laughs.) I should, right?

I definitely looked in a dream dictionary about the moon, because the moon aspect of it is so continuous, like since I was a little kid—the moon revolving around the Earth really quickly. … To me, it seems pretty straightforward, like anxiety about something catastrophic happening.

You grew ip in the Seattle area?

I grew up in Seattle, but most of my extended family lives in the Bay Area, so I gew up doing that drive between the two places. … There was a lot of moving, like in the high-school years, and I think I’m drawing a lot on that, these fractured experiences at that time in my life, and the way I understand place and landscape. … I’ve been overthinking it lately.

Why? Well, I went back to Seattle a couple of weekends ago and … it made me think about how your identiy is tied to place, because all of my family has left Seattle, and I’m the only one that was born there, so I go back, and there’s no family there. … I feel this very strong sense of identity to a place, and I don’t have any home any family there, and those are the kinds of things we think of when we think of home. … I don’t know if that’s something that’s coming out in the work or something that will come out.

—Shoka

Dreams of the Darkest Night featuring Vanessa Marsh and Sean McFarland is at the Richard L. Nelson Gallery in Nelson Hall at UC Davis, 1 Shields Avenue in Davis; (530) 752-8500; http://nelsongallery.ucdavis.edu. Through May 27.

Read an extended version of this interview at www.newsreview.com.

cial power of the fossil-fuel industry is at the heart of the climate-change problem, and the climate movement is finally grappling with this reality. Bill McKibben shares stories from the frontlines of this movement, from every corner of the country and the planet. M, 4/16, 9:3010:30am. Free. UC Davis Conference Center, Alumni Ln. and Old Davis Rd. in Davis; (916) 278-8900; www.eventbrite. com/event/3093844773/ ?ref=enivtefor.

INSIDE THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE: Former presidential advisers Paul Begala and Ari Fleischer will share the same stage, discussing their insights as California moves toward its June presidential primary and the 2012 presidential election. M, 4/16, 8pm. $25-$55.

Scottish Rite Masonic Center, 6151 H St.; (916) 452-5883; www.sacramentoscottishrite.org.

SOCIAL FUN WITH BULLS AND ASOBUYO: Asobuyo is a social movement that aims to inspire all people to incorporate play into their everyday lives. GoBuyo Nights are intimate social events that bring people together through play and discovery. If you’re looking for a social alternative that provides more depth and face-to-face interaction, then check it out. Registration required. M, 4/16, 7-9pm. Free.

Bulls Bar & Restaurant, 1330 H St.; (916) 672-2112; www.bulls.eventsbot.com.

Concerts ELK GROVE COMMUNITY CONCERT BAND: The band will perform Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, a suite in 10 movements. It has been regularly performed and recorded by the world’s greatest symphony orchestras and even rock group Emerson Lake & Palmer. M, 4/16, 7pm. Free. Laguna Town Hall, 3020 Renwick Ave. in Elk Grove; (916) 920-2272; www.facebook.com/ Elk-Grove-Community-Band.

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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!

Kids’ Stuff ALL IN THE FAMILY SCRAPBOOK: Create a simple scrapbook and learn about decorative techniques to individualize the book using collage stenciling, embellishments and more to tell a family story. W, 4/18, 6:30pm.

Free. Southgate Library, 6132 66th Ave.; (916) 264-2920; www.saclibrary.org.

Concerts SAC STATE HOSTS HOT CLUB: Enjoy Gypsy jazz when the Hot Club of San Francisco performs. The group performs the music of Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli as well as its own compositions. W, 4/18, 7:30pm. $5-$25.

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

ONGOING Special Events CAL EXPO DOG SHOW: Watch the judges review dogs and cheer on your favorites. Learn more about the specific breeds, meet new breeds and compare options.

Hundreds of exhibitors will be showcasing unique and hard-tofind treasures, as well as the latest and greatest in dog and pet supplies. 4/12-4/15, 8am-9pm. $8.50-$10. Cal Expo, 1600 Exposition Blvd.; (877) 225-3976; www.calexpo.com.

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W, 4/18, 5pm. $5 suggested donation. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.; (916) 442-7378; www.thepoweroftwo movie.com.

day event. Proceeds go towards scholarships for students in gender and global issues programs. Th, 4/12, 6pm; F, 4/13, 6pm. $15-$30. Veterans Memorial Theatre, 203 E. 14th St. in Davis; (530) 752-8205.

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DAVIS FEMINIST FILM FESTIVAL: Two

up comedy show featuring young college students from around Sacramento. See the next generation of comedians, so that you can say you saw them way back, before the scandals. Tu, 4/17, 7:30-9pm. $10. Tommy Ts, 12401 Folsom Blvd. in Rancho Cordova; (916) 357-5233; www.facebook.com/ ComedyFromTheClassroom.

“Man Chopping Wood” by Vanessa Marsh, archival pigment print, 2010.

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This year’s festival will again feature solo explorations, Main Stage dance, undergraduate oneacts and midnight singalong screenings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. 4/12-4/15; 4/194/22. $10 per event. Wright Hall, 1 Shields Ave. in Davis.

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There’s no bone marrow on the menu, however, as there was at Red Lotus, but there are any number of tantalizing desserts.

Resistance is futile when it comes to Red Rabbit’s desserts. A meal isn’t complete without picking at least one item off of the large chalkboard to the left of the bar. The berry-infused ice-cream sandwich is bright and refreshing, with a chewy shell that dovetails neatly with the smooth, fruity interior. The German chocolate doughnuts splashed with powdered sugar depress only when there isn’t a fourth one to wolf down. Magic is also made with Meyer lemons—surprise yourself.

But there’s less effusiveness for the entrees. For example, the Bastard Banh Mi doesn’t improve on the original. Replacing a felicitously flaky French roll with toasted sourdough is certainly a different flavor convocation—but to what end? There’s a reason banh mi has been made the same way for more than half a century, and Red Rabbit’s bastardized version offers no improvement on the original. “Greasy” would be one word that comes to mind to describe it, and that’s not a word one wants to find in the banh mi lexicon.

Pickled veggies, thinly sliced pork, pate and sprigs of cilantro are all present, but not the aforementioned French roll. As the French would say, that makes it a full-on batard. Lack of the French roll is a fatal omission. No way around it. Any number of folks routinely gripe that Sacramento lacks a banh mi bar so why not add a few variants— shrimp, turkey, five-spice chicken—and have Red Rabbit be that place? And not to go wish-list crazy, but there’s always room for a good döner kabob place.

Similarly, lemongrass opens up a wide array of palate possibilities, which, at least in the case of Red Rabbit’s beef stir fry, doesn’t reach its potential. With the exception of brocollini, on paper the following sounds like a wickedly awesome combo: bell peppers, onions, cilantro, shiitake and basmati. Seems like so much wonderfulness should be happening there, and yet, the result is flatter than Kansas. A pint or two of sriracha, por favor.

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As for the meat pops, the chimichurri enlivens enough so that it’s not a bad idea to ditch the salty, bland marinara that’s also offered. “Snacks” is the operative word, here.

These portions are smaller than their price tags suggest. The three mini tacos, while viewable to the naked eye, are definitely mini and the habanero sauce is hot but not “screamingly HOT!!” as the menu warns. More better: The frisee salad with chicken—$7 plus another $3 for the bird bits—offers a well-rounded, light meal. The pancetta lardoons, pepitas and Asian pears with the sherry vinaigrette combine pleasantly on their own but improve with the generous chunks of grilled chicken piled on top.

As a beets fanatic, it would be remiss not to encourage a sample of the B.L.B.—beets, lettuce and bacon—sandwich and, more rewarding, the Roasted Beet Carpaccio with goat cheese and arugula.

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Think taro and deep-fried tofu and steamed buns. There are pre-made plain and bean-paste-filled varieties of the latter at Asian grocery stores, like Shun Fat Supermarket (6930 65th Street), but sinking your teeth into a savory vegetable-filled bun is a priority. Filled with baby bok choy and mushrooms, look for Vegetable Buns in the refrigerated section by D.K. Bakery Inc. Hello, dim yum.

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Here are a few recent reviews and regional recommendations, updated regularly. Check out www.newsreview.com for more dining advice.

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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 Porch The Porch is light and white with a vibe that suggests the airy sweep of an antebellum Charleston eatery. One can only envy the extensive on-site research conducted by chef Jon Clemens and business partners John Lopez and Jerry Mitchell, creators of Capitol Garage. The most enjoyable menu selections

are salads or seafood sandwiches or entrees. Slaw on the barbecue pork sandwich elevates its status, and its pickled vegetables are sweet and tart, adding an additional dimension. The shrimp and grits dish, while laden with cheddar and gravy, is a synergistic mélange— perhaps The Porch’s trademark dish. Also in the running is the purloo, the low country’s version of jambalaya, with andouille, crunchy crawfish appendages, and the same sautéed bell peppers and onions that also appear in the grits.

Southern. 1815 K St., (916) 444-2423.

Dinner for one: $20-$30. ★★★

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

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.

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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. ★★★★

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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

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

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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 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

The Wienery The Wienery is wondrous, metaphysical, even. This 35year-old East Sacramento landmark sells old-fashioned steamed franks and sausages. The menu warns that the Fiesta Dog—refried beans, onions, cheese, lettuce, tomatoes and taco sauce— is “surprisingly good.” Who can quarrel with truth in advertising?

Even a simple, straightforward creation such as the Ranch Dog, starring—natch—ranch dressing, can

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Herby days I’m also giving some lesser-known herbs a try.

When it suddenly becomes spring, I want my garden to produce now. I want fresh, tender veggies and juicy fruits, but I still have weeks to wait.

Borage has lovely blue flowers and tastes

slightly like cucumber. It grew for me in San Francisco, so it likes a bit of cool weather.

Fortunately, herbs give almost immediate gratification. If you’re really in a hurry, get plant starts from a local nursery or the farmers market. Thyme, oregano, rosemary and sage will produce for years if you plant them in a place they love. Put in cilantro now, as it will bolt when the summer (and tomatoes) come around.

Epazote thrives here, and you can add the pungent leaves to beans to give them a creamy texture. I also love a little lemon verbena, with its bright citrus flavor, on grilled fish or chicken, or tossed into a spring salad. Even if you barely cook, add some fresh herbs to your meals for finish and flavor.

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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 cases, for hundreds of years. 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

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

Sabaidee is a quality meal for the price. Thai/Laotian. 8055 Elk GroveFlorin Rd., (916) 681-8286. Dinner for one: $10-$20. ★★★1⁄2

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Enotria Restaurant and Wine Bar 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

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meat substitute. While colossal, the 1,665-calorie barbecue-chicken salad—there’s a reason the calorie count is not on the menu—has disparate ingredients that combine artfully. Yard House is over-thetop, a bit overwhelming and mustn’t be overlooked. American. 1166 Roseville Pkwy., Roseville; (916) 922-6792. Dinner for one: $20-$40. ★★★★

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tively small from the outside, but enter through the front doors and look past the sushi bar into a lengthy dining room. Given the maki in the name, it’s no wonder there are more than 50 types of rolls, along with a sizable selection of sashimi: Hamachi, salmon and tuna being the most obvious. In the maki bull pen there’s avokyu—a bargain-basement $3.50 avocado-and-cucumber roll—and the aptly named Sumo—featuring shrimp tempura, spicy tuna, bell pepper, hamachi, avocado and more, with the whole kit-and-caboodle landing near the $14 mark. Most of the rolls lie within the $10 range. Overall, a good value and a good time. Sushi. 11291 Folsom Blvd., Rancho Cordova; (916) 635-8880. Dinner for one: $10-$20. ★★★

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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, as does the complexity of the offerings. Baked Alaska for dessert is as rich and decadent. 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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My boyfriend keeps our relationship a secret, and it bothers me.

My entire family and all of my friends have met him. He says he loves me, but that he doesn’t want to deal with telling his family yet. He was engaged to his last girlfriend but broke it off.

His family and friends all love the girl, but he says she is a completely different person in private and they didn’t understand.

I accepted this for the first six months, but I want to meet his family and friends. Am I asking too much?

Your boyfriend is excessively afraid of what his family and friends think of his life choices.

So you are not asking too much, but you are asking too soon. Yes, that means you probably caught him on the rebound. It doesn’t really matter how many months rolled between the end of his engagement and the beginning of his connection with you. The problem is he hasn’t had sufficient time to admit his past dishonesty. He failed to tell his inner circle the truth about his exfiancée. He knew who she was.

When he discovered his inability to thrive with her, he probably slipped into denial for a bit. Most of us would. At some point, he woke up. And, instead of admitting his experience, he keeps it hidden. Doesn’t it make sense that he hides you, too?

You are every online dater’s nightmare.

Do you have any idea how completely creepy your behavior is?

Your relationship cannot advance without an infusion of honesty. Tell your boyfriend that you value being the same person privately as you are publicly. By saying this you advocate exactly what he believed important in his previous relationship. He probably has no idea that his secrecy about you places him in the same behavior category as his exfiancée (a public self separate from a secret, private self). If he

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All of my closest friends are coupled. When we go out, I am always by myself. This is uncomfortable. They keep inviting me, even though I don’t know how much longer I can be such a loser.

Sweetheart, here’s the loser: the thought that being coupled is better than being single. Haven’t you ever listened to your friends complain about their partners? Being coupled includes burdens and blessings, just like being single.

You are so wired into suffering, you can’t feel the joy of belonging. But your friend group loves you as you are. Why not join that embrace?

I saw a really hot guy on an online dating site and created a profile that I knew would interest him. I actually met him a few times at a club, but he never asked for my number. I know it is because I am overweight and average-looking.

But once guys get to know me, they always want to date me.

Anyway, we have been flirting intensely online, and he wants to meet. I really like this guy, but I used a picture of someone else and her facts, too. Should I tell him the truth and take my chances or just disappear?

Ooh, you are every online dater’s nightmare. Do you have any idea how completely creepy your behavior is? Your pants were on fire for this guy, so you lied to him. Send an email admitting that you lied about everything. Explain that you chatted him up in person at a local bar and knew he was not interested. If you are truly sorry, apologize. Then cancel your online-dating subscription and never contact him again. Actually, don’t contact anyone online until you are ready to be transparent.

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Zoot Suit

A zoot suit is vivid. The colorful and conspicuous ensemble includes baggy pants, oversized by Maxwell McKee jacket, dangling chains, pointy Italian shoes and a matching felt hat replete with a long feather.

Luis Valdez uses the image and powerful emotions associated with the style for the name of his 1978 masterwork Zoot Suit, with music by Lalo Guerrero. The production currently playing at Sacramento State’s University Theatre is a collaboration between the Theatre and Dance Department and Teatro Espejo.

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Manuel Jose Pickett directs the huge cast—his farewell to the Chicano theater program as he retires after 32 years—and the production shines with living memory of both the style of dress and the issues that inspired the zoot-suit riots in 1940s Los Angeles.

The story follows the fate of Henry “Hank” Reyna (Jose Perales) and his personified zoot-suit id, credited only as El Pachuco (Martin J. Rodriguez). A minor gang scuffle ends with Hank and his friends being tried for a murder they didn’t commit.

The true impact of this production lies in the costumes. Designer Audrey Walker brings to life the detailed pachuco “drapes” and iconic ’40s fashion.

Rodriguez captures the audience before a word is spoken when he steps onstage and slowly dresses himself in pachuco armor. His black attire contrasts excellently with Hank’s white. Perales plays Hank with conviction and takes the audience through the trials of an oppressed and indignant defendant.

Big laughs came from many onstage, but standout comic timing lives in the 38th Street Gang’s lawyer, George Shearer (Antonio Tito Juarez) and Hank’s ebullient father Enrique (Alan Arroyo).

The large cast keeps the setting and place concrete for the audience. El Pachuco leads three Pachuca Singers (Bethany Beam, Jenna Cedusky, Rebecca Yarbrough) in swing-dance numbers that envelop the stage in dancing.

Three big things that make New Helvetia Theatre’s production of Merrily We Roll Along work: an outstanding cast; songs by Stephen Sondheim, which are always complex and interesting; and airtight direction by Connor Mickiewicz, who’s also the company’s artistic director and president.

But the move to the cavernous and traditional proscenium stage at the 24th Street Theatre sucks all the intimacy out of an otherwise bright show. Granted, the stage is large enough to allow the entire cast room to move, as well as housing a five-piece band and a multi-story set, but this story of a successful if jaded man’s life—told backwards, so that we end with him on an emotional high note in the embrace of friends and values we know he will abandon for glitz and money—is emotionally powerful, and it loses a little something when the emotion is kept at a distance.

That said, Mickiewicz has assembled a cast that is, frankly, kick-ass. As Frank, Matthew Schneider peels off a slick and scaly shell to become a guy with high ideals and hopes. Jouni Kirjola, known locally for nonsinging roles, is a hoot as Frank’s writing partner and best friend, Charley—he steals the show with “Frank Shepard, Inc.,” a song about Frank’s transformation from composer to businessman. Lauren Parker completes the trio of friends-gone-cold as Mary, and her great performance as a disillusioned, sarcastic drunk makes her unveiling as a romantic, hopeful girl even more heartbreaking.

It is, of course, yet another entry in New Helvetia’s museum of musicals about musical theater, joining Tick, Tick … BOOM!, [title of show] and They’re Playing Our Song in its list of tributes. It is also—yet again— extremely well-done, with voices and songs worth both time and ears.

—Kel Munger

Merrily We Roll Along, 8 p.m. Friday, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday, 7 p.m. Sunday; $15-$30. New Helvetia Theatre at the 24th Street Theatre, 2791 24th Street; (916) 469-9850; www.newhelvetia.org. Through April 22.

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Battling brothers Austin (Cole Alexander Smith), a bookish writer, and Lee (Jonathan Rhys Williams), a drunken burglar-turned-mystic, find out how alike they are in their differences. Sam Shepard’s best-known play has staying power, and this production is note-perfect. Directed by Stephanie Gularte, with Eric Baldwin and Janis Stephens in well-played supporting roles. W 7pm; Th, F, Sa 8pm; Su 2pm. Through 4/22. $18-$28.

Capital Stage, 2215 J St.; (916) 995-5464; www.capstage.org. K.M. This musical biography of the troubadour of the working man gets a workmanlike production at the hands of City Theatre. Great songs, fine music— but several actors who need to grow into their roles. F, Sa 8pm; Su 2pm. Through 4/29. $12-$15.

City Theatre at the West Sacramento Community Center, 1075 West Capitol Ave., West Sacramento; www.citytheatre.net. J.C.

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on the attention with calculated, semi-false modesty. (One colleague warns another to fall in line with the constant flow of low-level flattery or risk being frozen out of Uriel’s orbit.)

Things come to a boil—at least, as much as anything in the dusty, bookish halls of academia can be said to be boiling—when Eliezer’s name is announced as this year’s recipient of the prestigious Israel Prize. The announcement comes with a plot twist in Cedar’s script, one that forces Uriel into an excruciating position to spare his father’s feelings and save what tenuous relationship they have. Meanwhile, unaware of what’s happening behind the certif icates up to 75% OFF! Visit www.newsreview.com scenes, Eliezer takes the award as his ultimate vindication, and in a newspaper interview, he vents his years of resentment against Uriel’s popular success, going out of his way to humiliate his son at the exact moment that his son is going out of his way to avoid humiliating him.

On one level, Footnote is a comedy, but a bitter and mordant comedy that evokes winces instead of laughs. The simmering conflict between father and son, smothered in a heavy blanket of filial duty, flares up in oblique directions: Uriel lashes out at a student and, more callously, at his own slacker son: “You know what it means to give up on your son? It means going from wanting to help you before it’s too late to hoping you’ll suffer so I can gloat.” He Father is Eliezer Shkolnik (Shlomo BarAba), a venerable professor of Talmudic Studies even snaps unfairly at his wife (Alma Zack).

The closest he comes to confronting Eliezer is at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. His son Uriel (Lior Ashkenazi) is a professor in the same a whispered taunt to his own mother (Aliza Rosen) during—of all things, and yet more field at the same university, but the arcs of their mordant humor from Cedar—a performance in respective careers couldn’t be more different.

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Eliezer has spent decades in cloistered research into minute variations in translations of the Talmud over the centuries, carefully building a On one level, Footnote revolutionary thesis: There was originally a difis a comedy, but a bitter ferent version of the Talmud, now lost. After 30 years of painstaking analysis, he was on the and mordant comedy brink of publishing his findings when a rival that evokes winces scholar, Yehuda Grossman (Micah Lewensohn), instead of laughs. stumbled across a manuscript of that original Talmud and beat him to the punch. Grossman In the end, Uriel gets a sort of revenge on went on to fame and honors while Eliezer his father’s self-righteous smugness, although, remained in obscurity, pursuing his pointless ironically, he doesn’t know it. Also ironically, research wearing a noise-canceling headset that shuts out the world. Never published, never lion- the revenge comes through Eliezer’s penchant ized, his only recognition came years ago from a for dogged, internalized research (it’s best not to disclose exactly how). minor footnote citation in his mentor’s magnum Cedar’s movie ends in an indecisive opus—and even then, he wasn’t given his full muddle, as if he couldn’t decide whose mind to name, cited only as “E. Shkolnik.” focus on at the last. But it’s the movie’s only Son Uriel, on the other hand, is a rock star real misstep. No, wait, there’s one other: Amit by comparison with his plodding father—a Poznansky’s intrusive, irrelevant musical score, best-selling popularizer, nationally famous, in as obnoxious and annoying as a too-loud such demand on the lecture circuit that he dashes around Jerusalem giving as many as six orchestra rehearsing a second-rate symphony in the theater next door. Ignore it if you can, speeches in one night. While father fumes in but not what comes with it. Ω anonymity, son basks in the spotlight, thriving

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A fast-talking, insincere literary agent (Eddie Murphy) finds a magic tree in his backyard that loses a leaf for every word he says; when the last leaf is gone, he and the tree will both die. How does he know this? It has something to do with a simpering New Age guru (Cliff Curtis), but really, don’t ask— it’s just one of the gaping holes in Steve Koren’s script, which seems to be suffering from some mysterious strain of screenplay blight. The movie is equal parts labored allegory without resonance and forced comedy without laughs. Murphy does what he can but is reduced to flailing and grimacing; his considerable talents don’t extend to making a bad script better, and neither do the far more modest skills of director Brian Robbins.

Kerry Washington, Clark Duke and Alison Janney flounder in support. J.L.

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American Reunion

Not that you asked, but here’s what’s going on with the American Pie class of ’99. The hapless Jim (Jason Biggs) and horny Michelle (Alyson Hannigan) are cordially married but sexually disconnected.

Sweet beefcake Oz (Chris Klein) settled into sub-ESPN sportscasting after losing a TV dance contest. Nonentity Kevin (Thomas Ian Nichols) compensates for Real Housewives date nights with a gently manicured beard.

Pseudo-sophisticate Finch (Eddie Kaye Thomas) has fashioned himself as a bohemian drifter, and rude-boy Stifler (Seann William Scott) grumbles his way through corporate-temp subservience. Getting collectively sentimental about the shame-based comedy of crude bodily functions, they reconvene for some cathartic and quaintly raunchy regression. With presiding father figure Eugene Levy ever game and in good form, writer-directors Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg labor over a lot of setup and a lot of wrap-up to carry off one big so-so sequel heap of millennial nostalgia. J.K.

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Bully

Director Lee Hirsch’s well-intentioned documentary soberly depicts the emotional toll of bullying in the lives of five American families. It’s utterly heartwrenching stuff, but only superficial in structure and in rigor, short on revelation, and tailored to an already wised-up audience that won’t get much from it beyond validated indignation, although that is something. (Also, some jittery focus distracts from otherwise usefully intimate digital cinematography.)

What’s saddest, but again no revelation, is the sense of bullied kids being let down by the adults in their lives, including parents, school administrators, and, come to think of it, crusading documentary-makers too.

There is some hope to think that if they can make it through (and not all of them can), these brave young souls might themselves one day improve our lousy pseudo-grownup-addled world. J.K.

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Adolescents from a dozen districts of some future former America annually are chosen by lottery for a woodsy death match on live TV. Two of them, played by Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson, hold our interest. This comes from the first book of Suzanne Collins’ bestselling sci-fi trilogy, and the script, by Collins, Billy Ray and director Gary Ross, has its own battles to fight against pseudo-suspense and other bloating filler. Reportedly inspired by Collins’ experience of flipping channels between war coverage and reality TV, it seems appropriately more mind-numbing than groundbreaking or actively satirical. Peripheral notquite-characters are played with brightly costumed monotony by Elizabeth Banks, Woody Harrelson, Toby Jones, Stanley Tucci, Lenny Kravitz and Donald Sutherland. But Hutcherson commits to his sudsy subplot, and Lawrence anchors it all with enough presence and genuine vulnerability to reward the patient attention of those many people who’ve been waiting in line to watch since before you began reading this. J.K.

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A British fisheries expert (Ewan McGregor) is approached by a public-relations consultant (Emily Blunt) to help a Yemeni sheikh (Amr Waked) realize his dream of bringing the sport of fly-fishing to his homeland. Writer Simon Beaufoy and director Lasse Hallström turn Paul Torday’s novel into a thoroughgoing delight. McGregor and Blunt make an engaging team—they’ve always been able to bring out the best in their co-stars, and here they bring out the best in each other. Waked plays the sheikh with just the right blend of exotic dignity and friendly warmth, and Kristin Scott Thomas has wicked fun as the no-nonsense press secretary to the prime minister, giving the movie an edge of political satire that nicely balances the sheikh’s visionary mysticism and the blossoming romance between Blunt and McGregor’s characters. J.L.

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Jeff, Who Lives at Home

A 30-year-old stoner/slacker (Jason Segel) ventures out of his mother’s basement on an errand, but quickly gets sidetracked on a search for a mysterious “Kevin,” a name he feels sure came to him as a sign from the universe. Before the day is through, his quest will involve his mother (Susan Sarandon), brother (Ed Helms, in the kind of part he plays so well), sister-in-law (Judy Greer)—and yes, several Kevins. The writing-directing team of brothers Jay and Mark Duplass have a way of making movies that hardly seem written or directed at all, just earnestly improvised and captured on the fly. This one galumphs along from one episode to the next with a somehow lovable sense of ramshackle inevitability toward a sweet and extremely satisfying conclusion.

Rae Dawn Chong tags along as Sarandon’s co-worker. J.L.

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John Carter

A Civil War veteran and gold prospector in 1880s Arizona Territory (Taylor Kitsch) is miraculously transported to the planet Mars, where his superior strength and agility make him a mighty warrior, while his valor, honor and good looks win the heart of a beautiful Martian princess (Lynn Collins).

Edgar Rice Burroughs’ seminal 1912 pulp-fiction adventure, after influencing fantasy and science fiction for 100 years, comes to the screen courtesy of Disney, Pixar and writers Mark Andrews, Michael Chabon and Andrew Stanton (who also directed). The result is great fun, true to the spirit of the original and, with some tweaks and adjustments, reasonably faithful to the letter as well. Burroughs fans everywhere (he still has millions) can rest easy, and hope that Stanton and company can keep the series going. J.L.

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Mirror Mirror

The Brothers Grimm story of Snow White (Lily Collins) and her wicked stepmother (Julia Roberts) gets a Fractured Fairy Tales retelling, courtesy of director Tarsem Singh and writers Melissa Wallack and Jason Keller. The dialogue is more wisecracking than witty, but still pretty funny, and the story is surprisingly sweet and charming. Roberts sashays through her Cruella de Vil turn with relish. Collins’ Snow White is smart and spunky, and Armie Hammer, as her handsome prince, shows an unexpected flair for square-jawed Dudley Do-Right comedy. Nathan Lane, Mare Winningham and, of course, the seven dwarves (Jordan Prentice, Mark Povinelli, Joe Gnoffo, Danny Woodburn, Sebastian Saraceno, Martin Klebba, Ronald Lee Clark) round out the eager cast. Tom Foden’s scrumptious production design is another huge plus. J.L.

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In Jakarta, a police raid on a gang lord’s tenement headquarters goes terribly wrong, leaving the survivors of the invading SWAT team trapped and out of ammunition, forced to fight their way out with bare hands, flying feet and whatever weapons come to hand. The result, in writer-director Gareth Evans’ hands, is like a martial arts tournament with “real” blood, injury and death—everybody comes on one at a time to get his neck snapped, throat cut, or chest skewered in whatever way Evans and fight choreographers Yayan Ruhian and Iko Uwais (the real stars here) have devised for them. Evans seldom stops for dialogue, and never for plot or characterization, so the names of actors hardly matter. The action is literally wall-towall and floor-to-ceiling, and all you could want if you like this sort of thing. J.L.

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Two CIA agents and close buddies (Chris Pine, Tom Hardy) find themselves dating the same woman (Reese Witherspoon) at the same time they’re more or less following the case of an international thief (Til Schweiger) who’s out to avenge their having killed his brother. Timothy Dowling, Simon Kinberg and Marcus Gautesen’s script is a fantasy for stunted adolescent boys masquerading as an action rom-com—too much action, not enough comedy, and no romance at all. Director McG (full name Joseph McGinty Nichol, whose body of work makes Michael Bay look like Woody Allen) manages to waste both Angela Bassett and Rosemary Harris in less-thannothing roles. For that matter, he wastes Witherspoon too; she serves as a beard for Pine and Hardy’s characters; these two spies are obviously in love only with each other. J.L.

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OK, so if there wasn’t really anything to say, why exactly did We Need to Talk About Kevin? Director Lynne Ramsay’s adaptation (with Rory Kinnear) of Lionel Shriver’s novel contemplates the perpetrator of a high-school massacre. With its emptily evil brat embodied at various ages by Rock Duer, Jasper Newell and Ezra Miller, the nonstory plays out as a mannered retrospective litany of warning signs, cut against his mother’s stoic guilt. Tilda Swinton dignifies this exercise with such skill that for a few moments we even stop asking why she would, but basically it’s just some hyperpretentious horror flick. Complete with self-congratulating music cues, and John C. Reilly as the malefactor’s too-credulous father, Ramsay’s shriveled vision regresses us to the pretentious indie rubbish of the 1990s. It’s an outdated, unexamined pose of nihilism, somehow at once sneering and ingratiating—which, to some tastes, might indeed seem “masterful.” J.K.

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If you’ve ever tried to find a bandmate on Craigslist, you know that the experience can sometimes feel like an exercise in futility. No matter how by Kathleen Richards specific your ad is, you may end up with a rhythmless bassist, a wanky guitarist, a tonedeaf singer. Or, worse yet, no one at all.

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About eight months ago, Philip Kaplan was mired in such frustration. The drummer was looking for a singer to play with, someone who lived in his hometown of San Francisco and liked Slayer as much as he does. But he could find no such combination on Craigslist—at least, not in the way the site is currently formatted. Since the posts in the musicians section of Craigslist are deleted every two weeks, it takes a certain amount of diligence to wade through them frequently enough to get an accurate account of who’s out there. Plus, it’s impractical for someone to list all of his or her influences in one ad.

“The whole interface is so sucky,” the drummer lamented.

Then, Kaplan, a computer programmer, had a thought: “I want every musician in the world to be in a database. ... If I had that database, I could find that guitar player.”

The idea was for musicians to create profiles of themselves on the site, detailing where they live, what instruments they play and how long they’ve played, who their influences are, and what genre they’re interested in. They’d upload YouTube videos of themselves playing, which fellow musicians could give “props” to, comment on, share, etc., in typical social-networking fashion.

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message to the user. And musicians could find each other using a search engine that could dial down to very specific criteria.

As ambitious as the idea sounded, Kaplan spent the next seven months furiously working on the project. Fandalism—which is kind of a misnomer, considering the site is for musicians—was launched on January 23, to little fanfare. Kaplan relied on its popularity growing by word of mouth, and it did, indeed. He smartly made it invite-only. He started with his musician friends, who invited their musician friends, who invited their musician friends, and so on. Thanks to the site’s Facebook integration, Fandalism quickly garnered some 85,000 users, according to Kaplan—pianists, singers, guitarists and the like, from places as far-flung as Norway and Brazil—in just a little more than a month.

His success was no accident. Kaplan has a background in starting Internet companies and then selling them. Of course, he has yet to figure out how to monetize the site. “The site is so pure; it’s just people making art,” he said. “I don’t want to muck it up with ads, which is ironic—I started an ad company a long time ago.” He said he isn’t yet worried about making money, but added, “it’s an expensive hobby.”

“I want every musician in the world to be in a database.”

Philip Kaplan founder, Fandalism The site’s tagline may be “The world’s largest database of great musicians,” but the nature of being comprehensive means the quality of its users varies widely. And as for Kaplan’s original mission—to find a Slayerloving guitarist—Fandalism has yet to help him with that. If he wanted to find a harp guitarist in Raleigh, North Carolina; or a tattooed, pierced dude in Somerset, England, to play some fierce metal guitar leads; or maybe a young woman in Incline Village, Nevada, to belt out a Susan Tedeschi cover, well, then, Kaplan (who goes by the screen name “Pud”) would be in luck.

But Kaplan says he hasn’t even built the site’s proper search interface yet. “When I do, there’s probably hundreds of guitar players on my site,” he said. And, in the meantime: “I have found a ton of amazing musicians around the world.” Ω

SOUND ADVICE Hip-hop seen New movement in hip-hop: If you ran into emcee K.Flay at a frozenyogurt shop—which some of you might have Friday night during her tour stop in Sacramento—you probably wouldn’t tag her as one of the most important voices in underground hip-hop today.

Although she suffers from an obvious lack of shiny jewelry and face tats, the San Francisco raptress does have dual degrees from Stanford University in psychology and sociology and just landed herself a spot on one of the biggest stages in underground hip-hop at the Paid Dues Festival.

I walked in to Luigi’s Fun Garden on Friday night at the very end of Century’s performance. The Sacramento lyricist—who would hunt me down if I called her a femcee—has been working quietly on an upcoming project featuring an all-female cast. After sampling a few of her new tracks, dare I say, I’m excited about the Girl Power mixtape.

Compliments to whoever put this lineup together. Electro-pop locals Wrings followed Century. If the Fray and the Killers got

together, got girlfriends, and listened to Passion Pit, it would sound like Wrings. Great choice in openers.

K.Flay took the stage with no introduction in faded skinny jeans and a baggy T-shirt, pausing between drum rolls to push her hair out of her eyes. She moved seamlessly between live drums and the MPC while dropping a 45-minute set of the machete-wit, tongue-in-cheek rhymes that recently earned her kudos from Rolling Stone as being the smart man’s Ke$ha.

From anthems of the suburban everyday such as “No Duh” and “So Fast, So Maybe,” to the ballad of a prescription-drug nation, “Crazytown,” K.Flay paints the picture of middle- to upper-class boredom with the same precision that Bone Thugs-N-Harmony use to describe the streets of Cleveland.

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Greatest rapper ever, now: In other underground hip-hop news, Danny Brown’s XXX was everyone’s fave name-drop release of 2011.

And for good reason: It took the catchy and prolific promise of his debut, The Hybrid, bathed it in concept-album-depraved tales of self and city (Detroit), and then dressed it in a much more engaging, raw, lo-fi rap production. As they say in Breaking Bad, it was definitely the blue shit.

Anyway, Brown is riding shotgun on the Childish Gambino tour and will stop in Sacramento this Wednesday, April 18 (1417 R Street, 7 p.m.). The gig is, regrettably, sold out—but it’s worth StubHubbing it, if you can find a ticket.

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As always, Ozomatli brought in a huge crowd during its stop this past Friday, April 6, at Ace of Spades in downtown Sacramento.

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Bobby Hutcherson Quintet

PHOTO BY BRIAN MCMILLEN

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Anoushka Shankar

Bon Iver

Mondavi Center, 8 p.m., $18-$55

Freeborn Hall, 7 p.m., $40

Three Stages, 8 p.m., $12-$39

Blue Lamp, 9 p.m., $5

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Childhood friends Kelly Ogden and Luis Cabeza comprise the core of this longtime Florida-born, Los Angeles-based trio. Over the years, the band has endured a few lineup and label changes—including stints on Lookout! Records and Joan Jett’s Blackheart Records. Now, it has settled into a solid ensemble with drummer Alicia Warrington.

With a sound that evokes the best of poppunk (think the Muffs, Green Day, the Donnas), the Dollyrots bash out PUNK quick-and-dirty little gems. Songs such as “Free at Last” and “Playing With Fire”—both on its latest, self-released EP Arrested Youth—are grungy, tinged with fury and joyfully dance-worthy. 1400 Alhambra Boulevard, www.dollyrots.com.

Vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson transcends the boundaries of jazz subgenres. He’s a master of mallets whose résumé as leader and sideman (to such musical royJAZZ alty as Eric Dolphy, Tony Williams and McCoy Tyner) since the 1960s ranges from progressive, hard-bop, post-bop and mainstream to points in between. Elegance, ecstasy and experimentation coexist in works that are alternately lucid and lyrical, moody and majestic, intimate and introspective, playful and propulsive. Now 71, Hutcherson is battling emphysema but remains a sonic force not to be missed. And his quintet features Sacramento pianist Joe Gilman. 10 College Parkway in Folsom, www.myspace.com/bobbyhutcherson.

—Rachel Leibrock

—Mark Halverson

Touring in support of its self-titled sophomore release, Bon Iver plays melancholic, falsetto-laden love and love-lost tunes. Its critically acclaimed 2007 debut, For Emma, Forever Ago, put the group on the indie map, and with Bon Iver, its popularity swelled even further as the group continues to appear in more television shows, movies and hipster top 10 lists than can realistically INDIE be counted. Tracks like the dreamy acoustic-folk number “Holocene” have a hauntingly soothing feel, and many of the record’s location-centric tracks—like “Calgary,” “Perth” and “Lisbon, OH”—share similar languidness, ambient noise and relationship recollections. 1 Shields Avenue in Davis, www.boniver.org.

Anoushka Shankar is Ravi Shankar’s daughter and Norah Jones’ half sister. But her musical style is far different than both of them. In her early career, Shankar displayed virtuosity in Indian classical music under the tutelage of her father. But since WORLD 2005’s Rise, the England-based Indian musician has blended a smorgasbord of world-music sounds with her ever-present core of sitar and Indian music. Her latest, Traveler, explores connections and differences between flamenco and Indian music.

Indeed, the Romani people (gypsies)—like the ones in Spain who created flamenco music— can trace their ancestral roots back to India.

9399 Old Davis Road in Davis, www.anoushkashankar.com.

—Brian Palmer

ACE OF SPADES

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

ALL AGES WELCOME!

FRIDAY, APRIL 13

SUNDAY, APRIL 22

STUCK - RICK JAMES PROJECT - BELL BOYS MUSIC ONE LOST MC - KODAC VISUALZ W/ JOEY GORGEOUS

THE AUDITION - HERO’S LAST MISSION TAKING’S NOT STEALING

ICONOCLAST ROBOT SATURDAY, APRIL 14

KILL THE PRECEDENT CITY OF VAIN - THE SECRETIONS - GIANT SQUID BLACK MACKEREL - KILLDEVIL

EVE 6

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25

TECH N9NE

MACHINE GUN KELLY - KRIZZ KALIKO - !MAYDAY! PROZAK - STEVIE STONE - BRUTHA SMITH

THURSDAY, APRIL 19

FRIDAY, APRIL 27

IMAGES - BOATS!

ADAM ROTH PROJECT - JELANI - M-THEORY

BUZZCOCKS FRIDAY, APRIL 20

ROACH PLAYAH GIGZ K - KMAC

E-40

SATURDAY, APRIL 28

ALL SHALL PERISH CARNIFEX - FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE - CONTORTIONIST CONDUCTING FROM THE GRAVE I WISH WE WERE ROBOTS - AWAITING THE APOCALYPSE

SATURDAY, APRIL 21

SUNDAY, APRIL 29

WHO RIDE - J. SIRUS - STATUS GOES - HIGHER LEARNING YOUNG DIZZY

BLACK CARDS - BENZI - SILVER MEDALLION PLAYBOY SCHOOL

CALI SWAG DISTRICT

HYPER CRUSH

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Mr. P Chill w/ Trunk of Funk Curren$y Imagine Dragons Delta Spirit Andre Nickatina Kid Ink & Kirko Bangz The Supervillains Coventry Square Fear Factory The Real McKenzies Destruction Mishka/Anuhea (HED) Pe & Mushroomhead Suicidal Tendencies Yo Gotti Dredge Damage Over Time My Darkest Days Mayer Hawthorne & The County Arden Park Roots Who’s Bad (Michael Jackson Tribute) Reverend Horton Heat Moonshine Bandits Full Blown Stone Powerman 5000 D.R.I

Florence and the Machine

Childish Gambino Childish Gambino is the brainchild of Donald Glover, son of Danny and actor on the sitcom Community. He brings a similar penchant for pop-culture references and nerdy humor as the show, mixed with rap braggadocio. A former Saturday Night Live writer, Glover’s sharp wit is evident throughout, but his attempts at earnest neo-soul are laughable.

Opener Danny Brown is a fine foil with comparable wordplay and lyrical envelope-pushing (he imagHIP-HOP ines fellatio from Sarah Palin), but the Detroit native’s offbeat manner manages greater menace and grit. His latest, XXX, explores decadence and debauchery with an inventive glint in its eye. 1417 R Street, (877) 403-2875, www.iamdonald.com.

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For the better part of April, Minneapolis natives the Bad Plus will be doing various residencies at some of the greatest jazz venues in America. While the group gained notoriety during its stint on Columbia Records, its fan base has grown exponentially via word of mouth. Fans of jam bands and die-hard jazz aficionados know the aptitude of the Bad Plus and the JAZZ synergy that only this trio can produce. Its latest release, 2010’s Never Stop, was met with great critical acclaim and further proves how ridiculously high the bar has been set. The group’s residency in Davis starts Wednesday and ends Saturday. In the Mondavi Center, 9399 Old Davis Road in Davis, www.thebadplus.com.

—John Phillips

—Eddie Jorgensen

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Crocker Art Museum, 7 p.m., $6-$12

Vanderhoef Studio Theatre, 8 p.m., $19-$38

One look at the biography of Florence Welch, singer and front-woman for rising indiepop act Florence and the Machine, and you are overwhelmed by a familial POP legacy in the arts. Quickly going from indie to worldwide success, FATM is recognized not by its general sound, but by the idiosyncratic nature of Welch’s tremedous vocals; swaying and heaving, her highs’ silky embrace is matched by the force of her mid-level timbre, filled with passion and backed by lyrics and orchestra. It’s not hard to appreciate how the Grammy-nominated singer can work with everyone from Josh Homme to Drake.

9399 Old Davis Road in Davis, www.florenceandthemachine.net.

—Chris Parker

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Exquisite Corps

The Bad Plus

Mondavi Center, 7:30 p.m., $43

Ace of Spades, 7 p.m., call for cover

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Oh, what to write about Sacramento indiechamber troupe Exquisite Corps that hasn’t already been written? Hmm, maybe I should disclose that E.C.’s trusted leader Bryan Valenzuela is not just a ferocious musician, but he’s also one helluva nice guy.

INDIE I mean, I fucked up my knee, called for help on Facebook, and the guy gave me his crutches! That’s exquisite humanity. Plus, he wields a mean bocce ball.

Anyway, the music: The six main Corps members, plus a small chamber orchestra, all inside the lovely theater at the new Crocker this Thursday night is a no-brainer.

Show early for a drink at the cafe. Look for E.C.’s debut album later this year.

216 O Street.

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NIGHTBEAT

THURSDAY 4/12

FRIDAY 4/13

SATURDAY 4/14

SUNDAY 4/15

BLUE LAMP

MR P CHILL & TRUNK OF FUNK, BLAQUELISTED, OSO NEGRO; 9pm, $5

THE DOLLYROTS, WHIZ BANG!, HEY PRETTY PRETTY; 9pm, $8

BROWN SHOE, THE INVERSIONS, CARLY DUHAIN; 8:30pm, call for cover

Wax Appeal, 8pm, no cover

THE BOARDWALK

CALISTA SKY, TOUCHE, FIRST CLASS ACT, IN THEORY, ADIEUX; 8pm

RONNIE MONTROSE BAND, FRANK HAN- SERPENT AND SERAPH, BLACK, DROPNON, DAN MCNAY; 8pm, call for cover SEVEN, RESTRAYNED; 8pm, $10-$12

1400 Alhambra, (916) 455-3400

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9426 Greenback Ln., Orangevale; (916) 988-9247

BOWS AND ARROWS

AUTUMN SKY, KEITH GRAY, ALWAYS NEVER; 8pm, $5

1815 19 St., (916) 822-5668

CENTER FOR THE ARTS THE COZMIC CAFÉ

Open-mic, 7:30pm, no cover

DAN CRARY, HUGH HOEGER, KEITH LITTLE; 7pm, $15

WICKED SISTERS, KEN CUSTIDIO; 7:30pm, $6

FOX & GOOSE

DANTE ROMANDIA, ERIK SPENCER, SLY PARK; 8-11pm, no cover

HANS AND THE HOT MESS, SANDBOX; 9pm-midnight, $5

THE TWILIGHT DRIFTERS, THE COCKFIGHT KINGS; 9pm-midnight, $5

THE FOX TAILS, THE NICKEL SLOTS; 10pm-1:15am, call for cover

MARISSA MORIEL, CALLING MOROCCO, THE 5TH HOUSE SONS; 10pm-1:15am

594 Main St., Placerville; (530) 642-8481 1001 R St., (916) 443-8825

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

Traditional Irish jam, 8-11pm W; Openmic, 7:30pm M; Pub Quiz, 7pm Tu

HARLOW’S

BROKEDOWN IN BAKERSFIELD, PAULA FRAZER; 8pm, call for cover

THE REMEDIES, 9:30pm, call for cover

THOMAS DOLBY, AARON JONAH LEWIS, BEN BELCHER; 6:30pm, $5

TODD SNIDER, 7pm , call for cover

GIVERS, 7pm M; YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND, BROWN BIRD, 8pm Tu

JAVALOUNGE

2416 16th St., (916) 441-3945

GORDUS, MIKE JAMES, MICHAEL TOBIAS; 8pm, $5

MODEL A, LOVE IS OVER; 8pm, $5

ASTEROIDIA, THE DUMB FOX; 4pm, $5; INSTAGON, ISAAC BEAR; 8pm, $6

XOME, CHOPSTICK; noon, $5; DEAD END GYPSIES, STONEBERRY; 8pm, $5

Open jam night, 8pm M, no cover

LEVEL UP FOOD & LOUNGE

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

LUNA’S CAFÉ & JUICE BAR

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

MARILYN’S ON K

JAZZ GITAN, 6-9pm, call for cover

Hip-hop and R&B deejay dancing, 9:16pm Tu, no cover

12 MILE BLUES, PROXY MOON; 9pm, $6

KYLE VINCENT, 8:30pm, $10

Nebraska Mondays, 7:30pm M, $5-$20; Comedy night, 8pm W, $6

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

THE BLUES MONSTERS, THE CHICK P’S, ALLI BATTAGLIA; 8pm, $6

JOEL: THE BAND, 9:30pm, $10

MRQ, 5:30pm Tu, no cover; LP SESSIONS, TYSON GRAF; 9pm W, $5

NAKED LOUNGE DOWNTOWN

THE DALLAS HORSE THIEVES, MIKE BENDER, GERI NICHOLSEN; 8:30pm, $5

THICK SOUP, JUSTIN FARREN, LP SESSIONS; 8:30pm, $5

MAJESTY, SPIDER GARAGE, WILLIAM PATTON; 8:30pm, $5

Jazz session, M; GARY ALLEN; 8:30pm Tu, $5; BUFFALO! BUFFALO!, 8:30pm W

OLD IRONSIDES

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

BARELL FEVER, LIGHT BRIGADE; 9pm, $5

JET BLACK POPES, GROOVIN’ HIGH, 2 OR 3 GUYS; 9pm, $5

FASCINATION: an ‘80s new-wave dance club, 9:30pm, $5

ARIA, CENTURY, MISS ASHLEIGH; M, $5 ; Karaoke, Tu; Open-mic, W, no cover

ON THE Y

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

DIVINATION OF THE DAMNED, BLOOD ETCHINGS; 9pm, $6

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

LOAFER’S GLORY, 8:30pm, $25

I SEE HAWKS IN LA, OLD CALIFORNIO; 8:30pm, $20

2431 J St., (916) 448-8768

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DAYNA WILLS, KENNY MIELE, DOUG COHEN; 2pm and 7pm, $12-$15

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

2708 J St., (916) 441-4693

Hey local bands!

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 4/16-4/18

1414 16th St., (916) 441-3931 908 K St., (916) 446-4361 1111 H St., (916) 443-1927

670 Fulton Ave., (916) 487-3731

THE PALMS PLAYHOUSE

13 Main St., Winters; (530) 795-1825

Open-mic comedy, 9:30pm, no cover

PISTOL PETE’S

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

BLUES FARM, 9pm, $5

TBA ALLSTARS, 9pm, $5

PJ’S ROADHOUSE

Karaoke with DJ Jimmy, 9pm, no cover

DJ Zephyr of Element of Soul, 10pm, no cover

ICE HOUSE BLUES BAND, 8pm, $5

PO’ BOYZ BAR & GRILL

Jam with Roharpo, 7pm, no cover

140 Harrison Ave., Auburn; (530) 885-5093 5461 Mother Lode, Placerville; (530) 626-0336 9580 Oak Avenue Pkwy., Folsom; (916) 987-2886

Karaoke, 9pm Tu, no cover

Karaoke, 9pm W, no cover

MITCH WOODS, 8pm, $15

Blues Jam, 2pm, no cover

Open-mic comedy, 9pm M; Jam with Dave Channell, 7pm Tu; Trivia, 7pm W

CELEBRATING OUR 20TH ANNIVERSARY ALL YEAR LONG!

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ThUrSdayS

rocK on live aoKe band Kar // KaraoKe //

THURS APR 12 8PM $15 ADV

BROKEDOWN IN BAKERSFIELD

FEAT NICKI BLUHM (THE GRAMBLERS), TIM BLUHM (MOTHER HIPS), SCOTT LAW, DAN LEBOWITZ, STEVE ADAMS AND DAVE BROGAN (ALO), PLUS GUEST PAULA FRAZIER (EX-TARNATION)

FRI APR 13

THE REMEDIES ROCKIN BLUES SAT APR 14 6:30PM $22.50 ADV

THOMAS DOLBY

MON APR 16 7PM $12 ADV

GIVERS TUE APR 17 8PM $25 ADV

YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND

PLUS BROWN BIRD

WED APR 18 9PM $7 SACCA ROCKS FEAT THE CAT MOUSE TRIO WITH TOTAL PERSPECTIVE VORTEX AND FULL MELT

THU APR 19 6:30PM $18

GROUPLOVE THU APR 19 9:30PM $12 ADV

TIME CAPSULE TOUR WITH SIZZLING SIRENS AARON JONAH LEWIS & FRI APR 20 10PM $12 BEN BELCHER ARDEN PARK SUN APR 15 7PM $22 ADV ROOTS

TODD SNIDER

SAT APR 21 9:30PM $12

MIDNIGHT PLAYERS

COMING SOON Apr 25 Midnite Apr 26 Skatalites Apr 27 Tainted Love Apr 28 Aggrolites Apr 29 Anthony Coleman’s Big Band Apr 30 Girl in a Coma May 2 Diego’s Umbrella May 2 March Fourth Marching Band May 3-5 Sacramento Electronic Music Festival May 6 Murs May 10 Ledward Kaapana May 18 Cheeseballs May 19 Midnight Players May 23 Clap Your Hands Yeah May 26 B-Side Players May 31 Young Dubliners June 1 Cash’d Out June 8 Cream of Clapton June 19 Parlotones June 22 The Hits July 19 Asleep at the Wheel Aug 8 Ottmar Liebert

DRESS CODE ENFORCED (JEANS ARE OK) • CALL TO RESERVE DINNER & CLUB TABLES

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frI 4/13

the blueS monSterS the chicK p’S, alli batagglia 9:30pm // $6

SaT 4/14

Joel the band

billy Joel tribute band 9:30pm // $10

april 12 & 22

2 FOR 1 ADMISSION!! (WITH THIS AD)

THURSDAY 4/12 - SATURDAY 4/14

FROM MIND OF MENCIA AND RUSSELL PETERS’ TOUR!

STEVE TREVINO

JUSTIN WORSHAM, RAY MOLINA SUNDAY 4/15

THE CURRY KINGS OF COMEDY KABIR SINGH AND TAPAN TRIVEDI

THURSDAY 4/19

PUFF, PUFF, PASS

WITH NGAIO BEALUM, THE PRE-FUNK PARTY!

FRIDAY 4/20 - SUNDAY 4/22

FROM JAMIE FOXX PRESENTS AND DEF COMEDY JAM!

ESAU MCGRAW

CARLA CLAYY, CHRIS BURNS

TUES 4/17

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Jazz // blue // americana // 5:30pm // free

mic acouStic open 8pm // free talent ShowcaSe //

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lp SeSSion 9pm // $5

ticKetS now on Sale For these upcoming shows at www.marilynsonk.com $3 TallbOy Pbr

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4/20 ten mile tide 4/21 random abiladeze

908 K Street // 916.446.4361

++Free parking aFter 6pm with validation @ 10th & l garage+

THURSDAY 4/26- SUNDAY 4/29 FROM COMEDY CENTRAL!

SHENG WANG

KEVIN CAMIA, CHRIS STORIN SPECIAL EVENT, NO PASSES

THURSDAY 5/3 - SUNDAY 5/6 FROM LAST COMIC STANDING AND DEF COMEDY JAM!

COREY HOLCOMB SPECIAL EVENT, NO PASSES

FRIDAY 5/11 - SATURDAY 5/12

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FRIDAY 4/13

SATURDAY 4/14

SUNDAY 4/15

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 4/16-4/18

POWERHOUSE PUB

614 Sutter St., Folsom; (916) 355-8586

MICHAEL MARTIN MURPHEY, 7pm, $25$30; AMANDA GRAY, 9:30pm

SUPERHUEY, 10pm, $10

THE DECADES, 10pm, $10

JEFF JONES, GUMBO STEW; 3pm, call for cover

DJ Alazzawi, DJ Rigatony; 10pm Tu, $3

THE PRESS CLUB

BUK BUK BIGUPS, 8:30pm, $3

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

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

Sunday Night Soul Party, 9pm, $5

WORK YOUR SOUL; 8:30pm M, $5; WALKING DEAD; 8:30pm W, $5

SHENANIGANS

Comedy Night and DJ Selekta Lou, 9pm, $5

WINGS OF INNOCENCE, ILLUSIONS ECHO, TERRA FERNO; 8pm, $7

2030 P St., (916) 444-7914 705 J St., (916) 442-1268

SOL COLLECTIVE

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

MASON SPADE, SWAIN TURRAY, TIGGA T, TRU RELIGION, KOOL CAT$; 7pm, $10

DJ Crush Delight and LINL Witchie, 7pm, no cover

SOPHIA’S THAI KITCHEN 129 E St., Davis; (530) 758-4333

PETER WOLF CRIER, NOT AN AIRPLANE; 9pm, $5

COPPERWIRE, THA DIRT FEELIN; 10pm, $5

CAUGHT IN MOTION, EXQUISITE CORPS; 9:30pm, $5

STONEY INN/ROCKIN RODEO

BRODIE STEWART BAND, 9:30pm, $5

Country dancing, 7:30pm, no cover, $5 after 8pm

Country dancing, 7:30pm, no cover, $5 after 8pm

1320 Del Paso Blvd., (916) 927-6023

SWABBIES

Microphone Mondays, 6pm M, $1-$2; TASK1NE, RON DEUCE; 8pm Tu, $7

LACY LEE & HELL ON HEELS, ZAC AND JAY, PINKIE RIDEAU; 7pm, $10

Comedy open-mic, 8pm M; Barbecue and blues jam, karaoke, Tu

ROBBIE WALDEN AND THE GUN SLINGERS, 4-8pm, $5

5871 Garden Hwy, (916) 920-8088

TORCH CLUB

X TRIO, 5pm, no cover; HARLEY WHITE JR., AARON KING; 9pm, $5

PAILER AND FRATIS, 5:30-7:30pm, no cover; JOHN NEMETH, 9pm, $12

JOHNNY KNOX, 5pm, no cover; MOFO PARTY BAND, 9pm, $8

TOWNHOUSE LOUNGE

Live music and deejay dancing, 9pm, no cover

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

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

ROBBIE WALDEN AND THE GUN SLINGERS, 8pm, call for cover

DJ JoeJoe, 9pm, no cover

904 15th St., (916) 443-2797 1517 21st St., (916) 613-7194

THE WRANGLER

8945 Grant Line Rd., Elk Grove; (916) 714-9911

Blues jam, 4pm, no cover; WAYNE “THE TRAIN” HANCOCK, 8pm, $10

WEST OF NEXT, 9pm Tu, $4; Open-mic, 5:30pm W; GRANT FARM, 9pm W, $5 Open-mic, 9pm M, no cover

Mr. P Chill & Trunk of Funk with Blacklisted, Oso Negro, MC Pigpen, Pat Maine, Burnell Washburn and DJ Garbanzobean 9pm Thursday, $5.

Blue Lamp Hip-hop

All ages, all the time ACE OF SPADES

ICONOCLAST ROBOT, STUCK, RICKY JAMES PROJECT, BELL BOYS; 6:30pm

1417 R St., (916) 448-3300

CLUB RETRO

1529 Eureka Rd., Roseville; (916) 988-6606

SOUNDBOY, B-LOCKE, B.MAC, BROWNSUGA, 916FOOTA; 6:30pm, $11-$13

KILL THE PRECEDENT, CITY OF VAIN, SECRETIONS, GIANT SQUID; 6:30pm CITY OF KINGS, DIVINE RESTORATION, VERA PROJECT, SALYTHIA; 7pm, $10-$12

JERICHO COFFEE

Open-mic, 7pm, no cover

THE MERCYKINGS, MYLAR & STARR; 7pm, no cover

LUIGI’S DAVIS

213 E St., Davis; (530) 231-5177

RED MEAT, DRY COUNTY DRINKERS; 8:30pm, call for cover

RADIOSHOCK, BUK BUK BIGUPS, A WHITE HUNTER; 8:30pm, call for cover

LUIGI’S SLICE AND FUN GARDEN

DOOFYDOO and game night, 7pm, $1

THE REFUGE

SPENCER HOFFMAN, PARIE WOOD, 99, 100, GABRIELLA RUIZ; 7pm, $7

THE SHINE CAFÉ

SCHEMING SCARLET, SUPER WATER SYMPATHY, KARLEE HORMEL; 7:30pm

BLAKE JONES & THE TRIKE SHOP, JB & THE WASH; 8pm, $5

ZUHG LIFE STORE

BRIEFCASES, JAMES CAVERN, 99, 100, SARIAH; 4pm, no cover

Greatful Dead tribute show, 1pm, no cover

8711 Sierra College Blvd., Roseville; (916) 771-5726

1050 20th St., (916) 552-0317 1723 L St., (916) 764-5598 1400 E St., (916) 551-1400

545 Downtown Plaza, Ste. 2090, (916) 822-5185

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April 20 is not only a stoner holiday, it marks the certified failure of any and all 2012 cannabis-initiative efforts in California.

Groups such as Regulate Marijuana Like Wine and Repeal Cannabis Prohibition had until the epic weed day to file more than a half-a-million signatures for their initiatives.

None of them came close.

It’s a bummer state of affairs that would surprise the average weed-positive citizen, especially after Proposition 19 came within 400,000 votes of legalizing cannabis just two years ago.

Insiders are taken aback.

“I was really hopeful,” said Santa Rosa attorney Joe Rogoway, co-organizer of Repeal Cannabis Prohibition 2012.

“Prop. 19 had a galvanizing effect nationally,” said Stephen Gutwillig, deputy executive director for the Drug Policy Alliance.

“We were all very optimistic when Prop.

19 got 46 percent of the vote. When it was that large, we were sort of very enthusiastic,” said Bill Zimmerman, a California political consultant who has worked on 31 initiatives, including Proposition 215.

But post-Prop. 19 polling revealed a tough journey to the 2012 ballot. “We learned that legalizing marijuana would be a difficult sell,” Zimmerman said.

The 2012 election would bring out more gather donors big and small along the way. legalization votes, but more opposition votes Wine tried to tap Orange County libertarians as well, such as females and seniors, he said. and Silicon Valley to little effect.

Polling showed a Prop. 19 repeat had 50-50 Some donors said California legalization odds of passing, and “when it comes to initiatives are a solution looking for a investing millions of dollars in an initiative, problem. In reality, more than 99.99 those numbers don’t look very good,” percent of all cannabis transactions are Zimmerman said. not interdicted. Personal possession is a Viable initiatives should poll in at least misdemeanor punishable by a $100 fine. If the low 60s, because the opposition will one would believe Prop. 215’s critics, peel off voters along the way to anyone with a bum elbow can get a Election Day. Running Prop. 19 recommendation for cannabis again meant $1.5 million to from a specialist, and obtain “Marijuana $2 million for signatures, the drug at a storefront laws are still plus anywhere from $10 or delivery dispensary million to $15 million in their area. What’s to being used by police to wage an advertising fight over? in poor and minority campaign to retain “That’s exactly neighborhoods to hassle 50-plus-1 percent of what I heard from the vote. some aides to some young people on Steve Kubby, of these big donors,” the street.” co-organizer of Regulate Kubby said.

Marijuana Like Wine, The stance amounts to Bill Zimmerman was one of six initiative accepting a racist, classist political consultant campaigns running for 2012. form of détente in the drug “We recognized and felt the drag war, Zimmerman said. of disunity on our campaign and on “The situation you are describing the donors’ confidence levels,” he said. is one that affects white people,” he said.

Others agreed. “We do suffer from having “Marijuana laws are still being used by police a lot of big personalities and people who are in poor and minority neighborhoods to hassle not willing to compromise on things that young people on the street.” ultimately are trivial,” said Rogoway.

Groups like Michael Jolson and the Each Hail Mary effort lurched ahead last California Cannabis Hemp & Health Initiative fall without a major backer, and attempted to also sought nontraditional funding. Jolson

tried and failed to make inroads in Hollywood, reaching out to Snoop Dogg and Larry Flynt.

He was rebuffed by E-40 and Too Short as well, he said.

This was ironic. “Somehow, they didn’t want to be associated with pot,” he said.

As Kickstarter (www.kickstarter.com) and MoveOn.org redefine campaign finance, crowd-funding legalization is still in its infancy. Prop. 19 had raised several hundred thousand dollars in small donations, but the 2012 groups couldn’t get lightning to strike twice, Gutwillig said.

“It’s not something that can be invented overnight or one election cycle to the next,” said Gutwillig.

Looking toward 2014, at least three factions have already staked out their claims: Repeal, Wine, and CCHHI. Has the movement already begun sabotaging itself again?

“Nothing is there to prevent it,” said Kubby.

“I think unity will prevail. I think we’ve learned,” said Rogoway.

And differences of opinion are good, added Gutwillig. Think of it as healthy competition.

“There is no one obvious way to replace marijuana prohibition,” he said.

While more than 50 percent of Californians agree with the general notion legalizing pot, there is no detailed implementation that can carry a supermajority. So the otherwise ebullient April 20 this year will also sort of a downer.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Some people

misunderstand the do-it-now fervor of the Aries tribe, thinking it must inevitably lead to carelessness. Please prove them wrong in the coming weeks. Launch into the interesting new possibilities with all your exuberance unfurled. Refuse to allow the natural energy to get hemmed in by theories and concepts. But also be sure not to mistake rash impatience for intuitive guidance. Consider the likelihood that your original vision of the future might need to be tinkered with a bit as you translate it into the concrete details.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): There is a

possibility that a pot of gold sits at the end of the rainbow. The likelihood is small, true, but it’s not zero. On the other hand, the rainbow is definitely here and available for you to enjoy. Of course, you would have to do some more work on yourself in order to gather in the fullness of that enjoyment. Here’s the potential problem: You may be under the impression that the rainbow is less valuable than the pot of gold. So let me ask you: What if the rainbow’s the real prize?

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “It’s eternity

in a person that turns the crank handle,” said Franz Kafka. At least that should be the case, I would add. The unfortunate fact of the matter is that a lot of people let other, lesser things turn the crank handle— like the compulsive yearning for money, power and love, for example. I challenge you to check in with yourself sometime soon and determine what exactly has been turning your crank handle. If it ain’t eternity, or whatever serves as eternity in your world view, get yourself adjusted. In the coming months, it’s crucial that you’re running on the cleanest, purest fuel.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): For a white

guy from 19th-century England, David Livingstone was unusually egalitarian. As he traveled in Africa, he referred to what were then called “witch doctors” as “my professional colleagues.” In the coming weeks, Cancerian, I encourage you to be inspired

by Livingstone as you expand your notion of who your allies are. For example, consider people to be your colleagues if they simply try to influence the world in the same ways you do, even if they work in different jobs or spheres. What might be your version of Livingstone’s witch doctors? Go outside of your usual network as you scout around for confederates who might connect you to exotic new perspectives and resources you never imagined you could use.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The flag of California features the image of a grizzly bear, and the huge carnivore is the state’s official animal. And yet grizzly bears have been extinct in California since 1922, when the last one was shot and killed. Is there any discrepancy like that in your own life, Leo? Do you continue to act as if a particular symbol or icon is important to you even though it has no practical presence in your life? If so, this would be a good time to update your attitude.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The cartoon

character Felix the Cat made his debut in 1919. He was a movie star in the era of silent films, and eventually appeared in his own comic strip and TV show. But it wasn’t until 1953, when he was 34 years old, that he first got his Magic Bag of Tricks, which allowed him to do many things he wasn’t able to do before. I bring this up, Virgo, because I believe you’re close to acquiring a magic bag of tricks that wasn’t on your radar until you had matured to the point where you are now. To ensure that you get that bag, though, you will have to ripen even a bit more.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I have one child, a daughter, and raising her conscientiously has been one of the great privileges and joys of my life. Bonus: She has turned out to be a stellar human being. Every now and then, though, I get a bit envious of parents who’ve created bigger families. If bringing up one kid is so rewarding, maybe more would be even better. I asked an acquaintance of mine, a man with six kids, how he had managed to pull off that difficult feat.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I expect

there’ll be some curious goings-on this week. A seemingly uninspired idea could save you from a dumb decision, for example. An obvious secret may be the key to defeating a covert enemy. And a messy inconvenience might show up just in time to help you do the slightly uncool but eminently right thing. Can you deal with this much irony, Scorpio? Can you handle such big doses of the old flippety-flop and oopsie-loopsie? For extra credit, here are two additional odd blessings you could capitalize on: a humble teaching from an unlikely expert and a surge of motivation from an embarrassing excitement.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

Some of our pagan forbears imagined they had a duty to assist with nature’s revival every spring by performing fertility rituals.

And wouldn’t it be fun if it were even slightly true that you could help the crops germinate and bloom by making sweet love in the fields? At the very least, carrying out such a ceremony might stimulate your own personal creativity. In accordance with the astrological omens, I invite you to slip away to a secluded outdoor spot, either by yourself or with a romantic companion. On a piece of paper, write down a project you’d like to make thrive in the coming months.

Bury the note in the good earth, then enjoy an act of love right on top of it.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Once

upon a time, I fell in love with a brilliant businesswoman named Loreen. I pursued her with all my wiles, hoping to win her amorous affection. After playing hard to get for two months, she shocked me with a brazen invitation: Would I like to accompany her on a whirlwind vacation to Paris? “I think I can swing it,” I told her. But there was a problem: I was flat broke. What to do? I decided to raise the funds by selling off a precious heirloom from childhood, my collection of 6,000 vintage baseball cards.

Maybe this story will inspire you to do something comparable, Capricorn: Sacrifice an outmoded attachment or juvenile treasure or youthful fantasy so as to empower the future of love.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): We all

know that spiders are talented little creatures. Spiders’ silk is as strong as steel, and their precisely geometric webs are engineering marvels. But even though they have admirable qualities I admire, I don’t expect to have an intimate connection with a spider any time soon. A similar situation is at work in the human realm. I know certain people who are amazing creators and leaders but don’t have the personal integrity or relationship skills that would make them trustworthy enough to seek out as close allies. Their beauty is best appreciated from afar. Consider the possibility that the ideas I’m articulating here would be good for you to meditate on right now, Aquarius.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Have you

ever had the wind knocked out of you? It feels weird for a short time, but leaves no lasting damage. I’m expecting that you will experience a form of that phenomenon sometime soon. Metaphorically speaking, the wind will get knocked out of you. But wait—before you jump to conclusions and curse me out for predicting this, listen to the rest of my message. The wind that will get knocked out of you will be a wind that needed to be knocked out—a wind that was causing confusion in your gut-level intuition. In other words, you’ll be lucky to get that wind knocked out of you. You’ll feel much better afterwards, and you will see things more clearly.

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Beyond Bruce Lee What makes a good fighter? Technique, strength, determination or heart? Or is it in one’s blood? Black belt and owner of Sacramento Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Fight Academy Terry Maxwell can teach you how to subdue an opponent once the fight is on the ground—a crucial aspect of mixed martial arts— plus all kinds of other jiujitsu technique. With his new location across the street from Sacramento City College, you can get schooled hitting the books and the mat.

How many people come to your gym saying they’re going to kick ass but end up quitting?

I get guys like that. I can never judge who’s going to stick and who’s not going to stick.

Some of the most athletic looking guys have come in and professed how dedicated they are, this is their lives and they knew from the minute they saw it this is what they wanted to do. They came for one or two sessions and never came back.

Ha! Recently, I had a guy, 300 pounds, come in and train and threw up all over my mats and left without saying goodbye. I didn’t think I was going to see him again, he didn’t profess to anything, just quiet. But he came back, signed up, has been training every day since.

It’s been a few months, and now I think he’s down to 250 pounds. Once they’re humbled, they have two choices: come in to learn this or just not come back.

Is Brazilian jiujitsu useful in the real world?

What you do in the gym prepares you for what happens in the street. Unfortunately, I have had to use jiujitsu a few times, but I do not encourage street fighting at all. I have strict rules against it in my academy, but in the streets there are no rules. So, you have to know survival if you are confronted. You have to know how to get out.

Brute strength or technique?

Technique always wins. A guy who comes to mind is Caio Terra, multiple world champion, competes at maybe 130 [pounds], he can go into the open [weight] division of black belts and do well. He is so technical, so smooth. I heard in an interview that he doesn’t do any strength conditioning at all.

He doesn’t believe in it.

Could Bruce Lee hang with today’s best black belt?

(Laughs.) You take Bruce Lee’s skill set he had at that time, and he wouldn’t stand a chance against even a blue belt, probably. That’s not to say he didn’t have the ability to learn. ... But there’s no way.

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Even in mixed martial arts, he wouldn’t be able to beat a C-level fighter. He was working with what he had.

But he was tough.

He was aware of submissions. In Enter the Dragon, he killed Chuck Norris with a guillotine; they make it sound more like a neck break. Also, he did an arm bar in Enter the Dragon. He was aware, definitely ahead of his time.

How did you open your first gym?

I had been teaching at other places, just spreading my time running around town.

Sometimes I was traveling 50 miles. I had it in my mind that I was going to do this.

I didn’t have the funds. We really did it on a shoestring budget. It really was a risk for me to take when I opened that academy, but it was calculated and it was worth it to me.

It really put me in a hardship for the first year and a half and put my family in a hardship. We struggled, but in the end, it was all worth it. I gained a lot of students, and success only came through that hardship, and it made me appreciate what I have today.

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Seeing how it has changed my student’s lives.

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their life. It really affects them in every facet, every way, it really cleans them up. I have a few students, I can imagine what road they would have went down had they not found jiujitsu—probably wouldn’t be too pretty. I really didn’t know how I affected lives before I started teaching. That’s the best part.

How has the fighting scene changed over the last 10 years?

More people are aware of what jiujitsu is now because every [Ultimate Fighting Championship] fighter does it. Technically, what has changed is that it doesn’t even look the same from when I began. Guys that are blue belts are throwing moves that didn’t even exist back in the ’90s. The whole game, especially the sporting game, looks completely different.

YouTube is what has changed the game the most. Back in the day we would have to buy video tapes, which was a pain—scrolling through video. Now with YouTube, it’s the click of a button and mere minutes to break down someone’s game. Immediately when people are doing new things, you recognize it and implement it. As an instructor, I’m on YouTube every night, late, studying. Ω Find out more at Sacramento Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Fight Academy, 2300 Sutterville Road, Suite A; (916) 370-5874; www.southsacjiujitsuacademy.com.

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