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May is National Bike Month, and this week Rachel Leibrock lays down the law for Sacramento bicycling manners in her Popsmart column. Also this week: Jonathan Mendick has the scoop on the city’s Cinco De Mayo parties (and a really addictive guacamole recipe), Greg Lucas finds the Cheers of River Park, Jim Lane gets onboard with the new Avengers flick, Nick Miller previews the Sacramento Electronic Music Festival, and this week’s 15 Minutes interview goes down in a language other than English (hint: It’s not Klingon).

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Re “Onward, sprawl” by Cosmo Garvin (SN&R Feature, April 19): The issues raised in this story can be directly traced to the intertwinement of business and political interests that have (for better or worse) guided the direction of the region’s culture and economy for decades. Look no further than two of the current candidates for Sacramento City Council. With Allen Warren running for Sandy Sheedy’s seat in District 2 (the district is a poster child for suburban sprawl), and Phyllis Newton running in District 4 (which incorporates some of the oldest neighborhoods in the city), the culture of overdevelopment has stout political representation.

Chasing profits by leveraging valuable agricultural land and railroading environmental preserves is the opposite of a creative economy, which is necessary to regional economic stability in the long run. Progressive ideas about reinvesting LETTER OF in existing structures, reinvigorating urban cores, and making outTHE WEEK lays for the future in programs like retrofitting, public transportation, and conservation have been proven to turn stagnant economies around (see Portland, Oregon, and Austin, Texas).

We can’t get back on this merry-go-round. Instead of listening to business leaders who shut their eyes and cover their ears by yelling “jobs,” we as voters should support public officials who believe in the value of vibrant local economies, that understand the danger of decimating natural resources for short-term profit, and that walk the walk when it comes to living in an economically responsible fashion.

In addition, we must be more vigilant about understanding who contributes to our elected officials and what they get in return. More importantly, to whom should our local officials respond: our fellow citizens or corporate interests uninterested in the minutiae of day-to-day life in the region? The devil is in the details.

Daniel Senecka Sacramento

SN&R hates mothers Re “Women and work” (SN&R Editorial, April 26): I’m not fan of Ann Romney, but the idea that she cannot speak to economics just because she’s never “worked a day in her life” is ridiculous. Most economists have never worked in the fields in which they purport to be experts. Moms are generally in a better position than most to speak to economics. They see economics on its most basic levels in very real terms; money, food, gas, roof over the head, education and security (not to mention making a loving supporting home).

The author of this editorial really has no idea what life is like for a person in politics or the life of a CEO. Many CEOs and politicians lose their jobs with no warning or fanfare. A stay-at-home mom has an income as long as the market decides that her husband still has skills that are needed, so every day, the Romney family is relying on their dad to stay employed and keep earning.

Finally, at their level of income, she hires/fires staff, mediates issues, develops goals and assignments and determines pay.

What part of management does she not do?

Would you have her dig ditches as well? It may not have been on the level that her husband did these things, but it certainly was close to a small business. Most importantly, don’t kid yourself that she had no risk of failure. Any politician’s wife will tell you that failure at the home front will affect the politician’s (or CEO’s) career— even end it.

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Joe Loyer Sacramento

The season’s over. The arena deal’s kaput. Yet there are still loyal Kings fans out there; admire barber Philip Manzanilla’s good work.

Redefining the good life

ways of farming and raising livestock, and really looking at our overconsumption of goods and therefore our overuse of our resources and extreme accumulation of waste.

We must redefine what comfort and richness means, to discover that living as a partner with the beauty and plenty that the Earth offers us means understanding her limits and the consequences of being oblivious to those limits.

Re “The Anthropocene” by David Roberts (SN&R Essay, April 19): I read your issue celebrating Mother Earth with interest, especially the thoughtprovoking essay by [David] Roberts.

While I realize that growth is what fuels the economy (businesses growing and more consumers), we as a cooperative world population are going to have to re-envision how we can live well by redefining what “living well” means and by coming to terms with the limitations of population consuming the world’s resources. Because we are now interdependent as a global society; we cannot afford to let even one country fail.

It has been my experience that people do not change until they are personally affected. We use less gas when the price goes up.

We buy fewer nonessential items when our income decreases. We “make do” with older models of cars, appliances and other updated goods when we can no longer afford new ones. Most of us will not really begin to make important, earth-friendly changes in our lives until we have to, like conserving our water (in a state where it only rains sporadically in the fall and early spring), and reducing our consumption of goods and the waste that it creates.

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Memories of Cynthia

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Re “Goodbye, Cynthia Dall” by Rachel Leibrock (SN&R Popsmart, April 19): Thanks for Rachel Leibrock’s column about Cindy [Dall]. She did a nice job capturing her essence.

I knew [Cynthia Dall] in junior high and high school. We had intimate, soulexploring telephone conversations back before cellphones existed, during intensely formative times in our lives.

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FRONTLINES Life after Maloofs The Maloofs suck. There, everybody feel better now?

But how about John Shirey and John Dangberg, our two highly paid city executives?

And our mayor, Kevin Johnson?

It seems likely, as reported out by SN&R over

by COSMO GARVIN the last couple of weeks (see “Let’s fake a deal?”

by Nick Miller, SN&R Frontlines, April 19; and “Back to the (arena) future” by N.M., SN&R Frontlines, April 26), that these fellows knew full well that the Maloofs were balking at the proposed arena deal, and knew exactly why they were balking, but chose to keep that under wraps, “for political reasons.”

And even if the Maloofs hadn’t had such profound (and oft repeated) doubts about the term sheet, it’s not like there ever was a real financing plan. Sure, the arena was maybe going to be paid for with money diverted from the city’s parking system, we knew that much. But that parking-privatization scheme was still months away from being finalized and voted on.

In other words, we all knew there was no deal, not yet. Still, city council members and most local media went along, for political reasons. If thinking about that makes you uncomfortable, just remember, the Maloofs suck.

Bites watched from the Bitescave last week as the mayor announced that, after two more days of negotiations, man to Maloof, the arena was still dead.

At the press conference afterward KCRA’s David Bienick asked if K.J. had spent as much time negotiating with the city fire and police unions recently as he had with the Maloofs.

After all, the cops and firefighters are right now being asked to make major concessions in their pension benefits in order to balance the city budget and stave off another brutal year of pink slips and slashed city services. These negotiations are going to have a much bigger impact on the city in the immediate future. The not-so-immediate “That’s not what future, too.

The mayor replied, “That’s not I do. That’s what the what I do. That’s what the city city manager does.” manager does.”

The next Bites heard from Mayor Kevin Johnson Johnson, he was posting pictures of himself at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington, D.C., posing with a series of celebrities: Bo Derek, Charlize Theron, Alicia Keys, Kelly Ripa, Elle Macpherson, Woody Harrelson—one of these things is not like the others—the Twitpics just kept coming. It must have been hard work corralling all those stars.

So, in some things at least, the mayor is indefatigable. Indeed, he’s suggested that the city may go ahead and use city-parking revenue to build an arena without the Maloofs.

One problem: There’s a “noncompete” clause in the bond agreement for the existing Kings loan. If the city goes ahead with any plan to build a new sports facility, anything that could hurt revenue at Power Balance Pavilion, the team is off the hook for the balance of its loan. That’s about $67 million. Details!

In any case, for now, the city has suspended its request for proposals from companies to “monetize” the city’s parking system.

That’s not stopping councilman and arena skeptic Kevin McCarty from pushing to wring more value from parking. He wants to use the money, get this, not to subsidize millionaire sports-team owners, but to pay for city services and invest in projects with a more direct public benefit.

Rather than privatize parking, he thinks the city can raise more parking revenue by investing in new technology, like mobile apps, and tinkering with prices, like dynamic metering that charges more for spaces in high demand. “We’ve known for a while that our parking was an underutilized asset” that could bring millions more to the city every year, McCarty says, suggesting the city could spend of the new revenue ongoing city needs and invest half in new economic development.

Bites wouldn’t mind a new Mondavi Center-sized performing-arts space; one that integrates nicely with the transit center being planned in the rail yards now.

That would not suck. Ω

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Law enforcement and attorneys say CHP perform more DUI arrests in Midtown and downtown Sacramento than in most other California cities

Midtown and downtown Sacramento are more than just hotspots for nightlife: Law enforcement and attorneys say the California Highway Patrol by Matthew W. Urner now makes the majority of DUI arrests in these central-city neighborhoods, possibly a news intern with SN&R more than in any other urban district in California. Which has a unique fiscal upside for the Sacramento Police Department: CHP gets no money for enforcing local DUIs, but the city and county still get upward of $700 per infraction.

This is unusual—highway patrol typically patrols highways, to state the obvious. But “you’re not going to find more CHP anywhere else than in downtown Sacramento,” as local DUI attorney Michael Rehm put it.

“They’re camped out over by the Capitol, by all the bars, almost like it’s a war zone,” he said.

Police are not complaining, however, about the CHP’s unique role. In fact, police currently face another round of serious budget cuts, and a spokesperson with the department’s DUI-enforcement team said they embrace the CHP’s assistance.

But critics point out that CHP vehicles often are not equipped with surveillance cameras. This is a point of concern, according to DUI attorneys such as Rehm (who is also a District 4 city-council candidate) because the CHP seems to have taken on

more drunk-driving enforcement efforts in the central city during the first few months of 2012. He estimates that the CHP now performs upward of 80 percent of all Midtown and downtown DUIs.

“They’re poaching there, because they know all the DUIs are downtown.”

Sgt. Christian Prince on California Highway Patrol making DUI arrests in the central city Other local DUI attorneys agree, such as Tim Brown, who works for Denis H. White Law, one of the busiest offices in Sacramento. He told SN&R that he’s recently seen about 20 DUI cases per month, and none of them were from the police; they all came from CHP. “I think they get a little bored at night,” Brown speculated. “It’s kind of strange that, for at least the past few months, they’ve been handling all the DUIs.” Both police and Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department deputies have cameras

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The Sacramento police acknowledge that the CHP is performing a majority of DUI arrests lately. “They really have nothing better to do than drive around looking for a DUI,” said DUI enforcement team Sgt. Christian Prince. “They’re poaching there, because they know all the DUIs are downtown.”

On any given recent night in downtown and Midtown, CHP makes around 60 percent of the DUI arrests, according to Prince.

He says that they sometimes make arrests on the perimeter of the Midtown-downtown grid close to freeway onramps. “It is also not uncommon for them to be transporting a DUI to jail,” he said, “and make a stop while en route.”

There is currently no 2012 CHP DUI arrest data available, but citations by CHP across the state have been in decline since 2008.

Prince reiterated that city police is grateful for the help. “[CHP officers] are right where they need to be, as far as where the DUIs are,” he said. “We are happy to have them downtown, where there are plenty of DUI drivers. They are preventing them from traveling on the roadways—whether it is a city street or a freeway—possibly preventing a fatal accident.”

The CHP has a bolstered presence in the central city because its officers guard the Capitol and nearby state buildings. This unit is actually called the Office of Capitol Services, or OCAPS, a distinct Midtown and downtown group that does not exist in any other California city.

OCAPS Officer Sean Kennedy told SN&R that CHP does not seek out DUIs, but that they do not turn a blind eye to crime in the central city.

He shared a story of how, last week, a drunk driver almost hit his patrol car on Ninth Street near OCAPS’ downtown headquarters. “It doesn’t matter where you’re at.

You have to ask, ‘What would the public expect of you?’ Just because you’re in the city area, you just don’t say ‘Oh, that’s not my problem.’”

Kennedy said OCAPS, which typically has two to three vehicles on patrol on Friday and Saturday nights, isn’t likely performing more DUI enforcement than normal.

But there are also two other CHP offices in the Sacramento area, one in north Sacramento and the other in the south, both part of the Valley Division.

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unit. OCAPS sometimes referred to by CHP as “headquarters.”

Officers from all three of these stations make DUI arrests downtown, according to law enforcement and DUI attorneys. And this is in part why the CHP’s share of the total citations is disproportionately higher than in other cities.

While OCAPS makes many of the arrests, over the past couple months most of the cases Brown has dealt with came from the CHP South Sacramento Station off of Mack Road.

“You’re not going to find more [California Highway Patrol] anywhere else than in downtown Sacramento. They’re camped out over by the Capitol, by all the bars, almost like it’s a war zone.”

Michael Rehm DUI attorney And the CHP is also busy outside Midtown and downtown. Sheriff’s department spokesman Jason Ramos explained that the county also has an agreement that CHP handle all DUI arrests in the unincorporated county. “If a deputy stops a vehicle,” he told SN&R, “and the driver is suspected of being under the influence, we notify CHP and they respond to the scene.”

This would all be well and fine except that up until a short time ago, none of the CHP vehicles were equipped with audiovisual surveillance cameras to monitor officers during arrests. Currently, only about one-third of the patrol cars are outfitted statewide, according to the CHP. “They should have the patrol-car videos,” argued Rehm. “Technically, they aren’t violating anyone’s rights by not having them, but they should have them.”

The police and the sheriff’s department say they value their surveillance gear as impartial witnesses. The police department is in the process of upgrading all its surveillance equipment, and also adding surveillance to motorcycles. This overhaul comes on the heels of the Brandon Mullock

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case: The former city-police DUI task-force officer was charged with 34 counts of perjury because of discrepancies between his reports and footage from his squad-car camera. The district attorney’s office has dropped nearly half of the 144 Mullock arrests reviewed.

Cameras also can be helpful in special cases. Prince said that while it is rare, officers sometimes will arrest people for DUI even if they are under the legal limit of .08 blood-alcohol content.

“When we get a breath sample at the jail and find out they are under [the legal limit], it is often a surprise, because they performed so badly during the field sobriety tests,” said Prince. But where police can always look back over the tapes to see how an arrest was made, CHP cannot.

CHP public information officer Adrian Quintero told SN&R that he would like to have more patrol cars outfitted with cameras; they are currently fitting 3,000 of them. He explained high costs have prevented CHP from equipping more cars.

Law enforcement uses cameras to monitor officer safety, as well as debunk “frivolous” complaints, Quintero said.

There is an upside of Sacramento’s DUI distribution for police coffers. The city can more or less make money off DUI fines without allocating additional resources for enforcement. When a DUI fine is paid, the state gets a hunk of the money and so does the city, indiscriminate of whom makes the arrest.

Police and the sheriff’s department can receive upward of $700 per DUI arrest.

Additionally, the county receives $701 per arrest that goes toward fingerprinting, jail construction and other special costs. The CHP receives no direct funding for DUI arrests.

“I think a large misconception is that CHP is funded through DUI. Which is not true, and it’s kind of ironic,” said OCAPS officer Kennedy.

But Rehm argues that the state should explore changing this distribution of funds.

“Every law enforcement agency gets a cut from the fines. Instead, some should go to the arresting agency and some should go to a public-transit fund,” Rehm said.

Investing in public transportation is a proven method to cut down on the number of people who drive drunk. Big cities such as San Francisco and New York City, for instance, surprisingly boast fewer DUI arrests per capita than Sacramento. Ω

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Most candidates for Sacramento City Council have agreed to keep their campaigns reasonably civil and clean. But some are reserving the right to go negative.

Of the 21 candidates running for city council or mayor, just six have refused to sign the city’s Code of Fair Campaign Practices pledge. Candidates who sign promise not to attack their opponents based on race, sex or religion, or lifestyle, and to generally run a clean campaign.

Most importantly, it requires candidates to let their opponents know eight days before sending out mailers of other campaign materials which directly names another candidate.

“That’s not enough time,” says Phil Giarrizzo, campaign manager for Allen Warren, who’s running for the District 2 council seat. He said that his campaign doesn’t plan to go negative, but needs to be able to respond to “last-minute, scurrilous attacks” from other campaigns. But all the other candidates in that race have signed the clean-campaign code.

“These days, when independent-expenditure committees can run amok, it’s just too much of a risk to hamstring a candidate like that,” says Giarrizzo.

The other candidates refusing to sign the pledge: District 8 candidate Betty Williams, District 4 candidates Phyllis Newton and David Turturici, and mayoral candidates Richard Jones and Kevin Johnson.

Johnson’s spokesperson Steve Maviglio said the incumbent didn’t need to sign the pledge because, “We’re not doing any mail about our opponents, and perhaps no advertising at all.” (Cosmo Garvin)

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But Mayor Kevin Johnson ally Betty Williams has already chosen to go negative on her opponent, incumbent councilwoman Bonnie Pannell. One Williams brochure attacks Pannell for opposing Johnson on his strong-mayor initiative and a key redistricting vote.

Williams just got $25,000 from independent-expenditure committee Better Sacramento Political Action Committee to help her keep up the attack. Better Sacramento is the outgrowth of the so-called Sacramento 60, a group of businessmen and developers who formed to support strong-mayor and other Johnson initiatives. The contribution is listed on campaign-disclosure forms as paying for campaign signs and “grassroots/field walkers.”(C.G.)

Pugno gets Bee love The Sacramento Bee’s editorial board surprised a few folks by endorsing anti-gay activist Andy Pugno—one of the authors of California’s gay-marriage ban Proposition 8—for state Assembly last week.

The Bee’s editors acknowledged their distaste for Pugno’s history of discrimination, downplayed it saying his Republican opponent Beth Gaines, “shares the same views on gay and lesbian rights.”

Maybe so, but there’s a big difference between being a run-of-the-mill conservative and making your living by fighting against marriage equality in the courts and at the ballot box.

Said Stonewall Democratic Club of Greater Sacramento spokesperson Neil Pople: “Andy Pugno plans to legislate hate. He’s done it in the past, and he eagerly awaits the chance to be able to do it as a legislator.”

Asked why he thought the Bee would embrace such a divisive figure, Pople guessed, “It almost feels like the Bee is listening more to the idiotic comments people leave on their website over the real feelings of the people who live where these races are being held.” (C.G.) |

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The student strikers requested a face-to-face meeting with CSU Chancellor Charles Reed and Board of Trustees Chair A. Robert Linscheid in hopes to present SQE’s solutions to state spending cuts. Student fees have jumped 318 percent since 2002, a SQE statement said.

SQE, with chapters on 18 campuses, gave Reed and Linscheid 31 days to reply and schedule a meeting. That deadline came and went. So now, CSU students at Fullerton, Dominguez Hills, Northridge, Long Beach, San Bernardino and Sac State will go hungry.

“The hunger strike was something I had to do for the 16,000 students shut out from enrolling in the CSU recently,” explained Yeimi Lopez, 22, a communications major at Sac State.

Mildred Garcia, 22, a social-work major, said learning about how the CSU Board of Trustees funnels state money to the 23 campuses inspired her to become involved with SQE and, ultimately, join the hunger strike. “It’s time to take things to the next level,” she said.

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James Damiani, 24, a sociology and communications major, will be striking with Lopez and Garcia at Sac State.

CSU spokesman Michael Uhlenkamp says student demands, such as a five-year moratorium on student-fee increases, won’t work.

“That would prevent the CSU from generating enough revenue and lead to cutting [enrollment for] hundreds of thousands of students,” he said.

Uhlenkamp said the CSU is willing to work with students and share information about the system’s challenges.

SQE has three other demands in addition to the student-fee moratorium: elimination of campus president housing and car allowances; rollback of top management’s salary to 1999 levels, and extension of free-speech areas on campuses.

Kevin Wehr, a sociology professor at Sac State and chapter president of the California Faculty Association, is concerned about the health of the student hunger strikers.

“I’ll be doing whatever I can to help them, with their health and well-being utmost in my mind,” he said.

The hunger strikers have contacted three Democratic state lawmakers—Assemblyman Richard Pan of Sacramento, Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez and Assemblyman Leland Yee— for endorsements, said Lopez. Ω

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Cap-to-Cap trip illuminates similarities, not differences

The stated goal of the Sacramento Metro Chamber Cap-to-Cap trip is to make the case for Sacramento in Washington, D.C. This is the 42nd year that about 300 Sacramento-area residents went door-to-door in Washington, D.C., for five days in April.

The goal is, of course, to bring back additional federal funding for our region. You name it, we are asking for itâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;flood protection, educational-research grants, homeless relief, energy grants and support for the arts, to name just a few general areas.

Specifically, we discussed a wide range of agenda itemsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;from policies that could promote electricvehicle readiness, to the cyber security of the electric grid, and strategies for ruralOne of the big wins of the urban connections. Every we have some wins. trip was not dollars but year, There will be fewer victories rather, hope. Yes, hope. this year because of federal cutbacks, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sure there will be some increased funding somewhere because of the chamberâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s efforts.

But for me, one of the biggest wins of the chamber trip this year was not dollars, but rather, hope.

Yes, hope.

On Saturday April 21, I left the capital of a state government where political gridlock was firmly entrenched, and where defaming oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s political opponent seems often more important than solving problems. I arrived in the capital of the federal government whose problems are even greater and whose gridlock is even more pronounced.

But then for five days, I worked with: Republicans and Democrats, business leaders and poverty advocates, some elected and some unelecTo read more about table, senior leaders and 20- to 30-year-olds. We took the priorities of this plane flights together, made presentations together, yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cap-to-Cap ate and drank together. All of these activities made participants, go to our differences seem smaller. http://metrochamber. org/captocap, and The main thing that made our differences diminscroll to the bottom ish was that we focused on the big picture. Thinking of the page. about the challenges of flood protection, our educational system, and the regional economy brought home the fact that we are all in this together.

After all, your personal tax rate matters little if your house is submerged under floodwaters. Without a healthy educational system our children will not have a chance for a bright future. And, for many of the business owners in the group, whether our companies succeed or fail is directly influenced by the health of the local economy.

Jeff vonKaenel is So while Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m clearly a partisan on political the president, CEO and issuesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;hoping that President Barack Obama is remajority owner elected, that somehow the House of Representatives of the News & Review turns blue, and that a bolt of enlightenment strikes the newspapers in Sacramento, Chico Supreme Courtâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;nevertheless, I enjoyed working side and Reno. by side with those whose beliefs are 180 degrees from my perspective.

Maybe someday people working in the two capitol buildings will take a lesson from Cap-to-Cap. â&#x201E;Ś

GREEN DAYS ‘Cage-free’ doesn’t always mean hens live a happy life Not all egg farmers are honest. In fact, the egg industry in America, with its 280 million hens, is largely by Alastair Bland unguarded from disingenuous claims about animal welfare.

Farmer Dan Jones usually tells his farmers-market customers that his eggs are from hens that are “pastureraised,” though he sometimes calls them “free-range” or “cage-free.”

These phrases may conjure up images of open range and free-roaming birds, which is an accurate painting of Jones’ small operation.

He owns Islote Farms near Esparto, where about 1,000 chickens roam the 10-acre property. At night, the birds file voluntarily back into their coops, which Jones leaves open in case some birds should wish to come or go in the wee hours. A llama named Dali guards the flock against predators, and each morning Jones collects and washes about 900 eggs by hand while the hens take once more to another day in the fields.

But not all chicken farms are such happy places, and not all egg farmers are as truthful as Jones.

“There’s nothing in the law to stop anyone from saying that their birds, cramped into a warehouse, are ‘pasture-raised,’” Jones explained.

He’s right. Erica Meier, executive Get some eggs: director of the Washington, D.C.http://islotefarms.com. based organization Compassion Over Killing, says that “free-range” and “cage-free” hens may have their beaks removed—a common industry practice. Moreover, “free-range” farms must offer their birds an open outdoor space, but this space may be small. Moreover, access to it may be very poor, and many “free-range” chickens might see the light of day rarely, if ever.

At the Humane Society of the United States, spokesperson Josh Green Days is on the Balk explains that egg producers lookout for innovative who keep their hens in cages cannot sustainable projects claim otherwise, but he concedes throughout the that “misleading advertising” does Sacramento region.

Turn us on at occur. Meier suggests that consactonewstips@ sumers personally inspect farms. newsreview.com.

“The best way to truly see if animals are being raised the way the producers claim is to shop at farmers markets and even visit the farm,” she said.

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Radical change April 22 has come and gone and is more or less forgotten. As the general state of eco-awareness increases, Earth Day has evolved from Sound-the-Alarm-the-House-Is-onFire Day to Every-Little-Thing-We-Do-Is-Magic Day. It’s a feel-good celebration of change: the significant changes, to a degree, but more often a celebration of the slight.

And while these small changes in individual lives are critical, it must be noted that these are the bare modicum of the environmental work that lies before us.

Which leads us, inevitably, to NASCAR.

The average NASCAR Cage-free hens still get locked in small spaces, may never see daylight and also may have their beaks clipped.

Backyard egg farming is another increasingly popular option.

“Since about 2009, we’ve seen a dramatic increase in backyard chickens,” said Marji Beach, education manager with Animal Place, a Grass Valley-based shelter for rescued or retired farm animals. Animal Place commonly receives farm hens that have been replaced by younger, more productive birds, and these chickens—which still produce eggs almost daily—are quickly adopted.

“There’s nothing in the law to stop anyone from saying that their birds, cramped into a warehouse, are ‘pastureraised.’”

Dan Jones Islote Farms “In the last year-and-a-half especially, it’s been incredible how many requests we receive for laying hens,” Beach said.

Beach attributes the rise in demand to the growing “locavore” movement and the snowballing interest in organic, healthier foods.

Animal Place currently has about 3,000 laying hens available for adoption—a temporary inundation following a recent farm closure in Turlock. Here, the owner of A&L Poultry abandoned 50,000 egg hens for two weeks without care or food.

Thousands starved, many more were put down by authorities, and in the end about 4,600 birds were saved.

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Better days for American chickens may be coming. In 2008, California voters passed Proposition 2, which by 2015 will essentially banish cages from the state’s egg industry, in which most of its 19 million hens currently live in cramped quarters.

Jones, although he doesn’t use cages, does not support the incoming regulations, which he believes could upend California’s egg industry. He expects, for instance, that egg-producing costs will rise sharply, and farmers that don’t jack up their prices may just leave the state.

His own practices will not be affected, though, and his eggs will remain at local markets—for $6 a dozen.

“There are people who can’t afford that,” said Jones, who appears at the Davis Farmers Market in Davis and at the Central Farmers Market in Sacramento. “It would be nice to see only pasture-raised eggs, but it’s an expensive way to farm, and the world needs a cheap egg.” Ω

race consists of 43 cars driving in circles for up to 500 miles. There are 36 point races, plus a bunch more nonpoint races and practice races—with each car Two million gallons of fuel getting 5 miles to the burned annually. gallon. The Center for Media and Democracy estimates that “NASCAR can burn off 2 million gallons of gasoline a year at this ridiculous mileage rate,” all exempt from the Environmental Protection Agency regulations the rest of us, by law, must adhere to.

It is at its core a celebration of the combustion engine by a culture that also celebrates the hooking of big fish from clean rivers. That celebrates the need for vast forests where the deer can Bambi about until they get shot. The contradiction is not unnoted.

And so, on April 20—as part of the NASCAR Green Clean Air program—“an initiative that seeks to neutralize the carbon produced by NASCAR” events—the mayor of Santa Rosa and representatives from Infineon Raceway in Sonoma hosted a ceremonial tree planting at the future Roseland Creek Elementary School.

Not a typo.

NASCAR’s green efforts aren’t insignificant—Infineon alone hosts an annual summit on sustainability, a solar installation, a recycling program, water-conservation efforts and the use of sheep to maintain their grasses and fire lanes.

It is a kind of change. But at its heart, NASCAR is a popular culture that builds thrills, romance and legend on a practice that must change radically in the coming decades. It will hardly be a cakewalk. Ω

(Come friend Aunt Ruth on Facebook and let’s hang out.)

ECO-HIT Crap into compost

Though they’re an old concept, composting toilets are getting lots of love recently on environmental blogs.

One company in particular, Sun-Mar—which first released a composting toilet in the early ’70s—creates stylish and functional composting toilets for modern-day eco-friendly homes. Sun-Mar offers three types of johns: centralized flushing units, centralized dry systems, and self-contained toilets that don’t require plumbing or water (or much space).

All three types are odorless, sanitary and provide heaps of free compost. Visit the company’s website (www.sun-mar.com) to browse dozens of models and configurations that will all reduce your water bill.

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ESSAY Memo from Vietnam Sacramento writer finds an evolving American dream My story doesn’t make much sense to people who see the United States as the land of opportunity. Read: my parents. by They sneaked out of Vietnam in Lien Hoang the 1980s and lived out the immia regular SN&R contributor now living grant dream in California, in Vietnam complete with the house, car and college for their children.

And here I am now, giving up all of those luxuries, to move from Sacramento, back across the Pacific.

When I told my parents I would return to Vietnam to work, they thought it was the dumbest decision I’d ever made.

Why, oh why, my mother lamented every time we talked, would I leave the comforts of home for that Third World country?

I’m pleased to hear about Sacramento friends who also are settling down in far-flung locales for whatever reason— adventure seeking, wanderlust, employment.

Even while driving me to the airport, she hoped I would reconsider, or at least wait until she was dead so she wouldn’t have to worry. Human life is cheap there, she said, and war with China (over ongoing territorial disputes) could break out any day.

Vietnam has a per capita income close to $1,000, and while my parents never seriously demanded I become a doctor or engineer, they sensibly expected I would earn more than that. How could I waste my Ivy League degree on a place like that?

Indeed, as I look around at this very moment, their question seems to be the only sane one. Surely, I have not resigned myself to sleeping on ceramic tile, squatting over toilets and scrubbing my laundry beneath a faucet.

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States, but there certainly is a culture here that pines for the land of air conditioning and four-wheeled cars. Some joke about it (“If you’re good, I’ll let you go to nuoc my with that lady,” one mother tells her 5-year-old when we meet); others pay for marriages of convenience or, in my family’s case, escape.

My parents felt everyone was heading in or looking toward one direction, and I was running in the opposite direction. Or perhaps I was like the daughter in The Little Mermaid II, returning to the ocean.

These days, I am wondering if the American Dream has evolved.

The narrative no longer has to be that immigrants work hard so their children don’t have to. Our parents aren’t giving us the tools just to become wealthy, but also to have freedom in the kind of lives we want.

I am simply taking the resources my parents gave me— education, curiosity, a stable upbringing—and investing them elsewhere. I don’t have a mission in Vietnam, like someone who made it out and then returned to give back. But I think my background will go much further here.

As a champion of globalization, I’m pleased to hear about friends and others who also are setting out and settling down in far-flung locales for whatever reason— adventure seeking, wanderlust, employment.

In some of their cases, and in mine, the journey somehow brings the immigrant story full circle. My parents abandoned Vietnam when it felt like a sinking ship. Decades of conflict had devastated the nation; global politics isolated it.

Then economic reforms began to bring the country back into the international fold, even to the point of friendship with its former enemy. Vietnam’s turnaround hasn’t quite reached the level of South Korea or Japan after U.S. involvement, but it’s no longer the country my parents left behind.

This seems like a good time to go back. Ω

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Not all mariachis and margaritas Mention Cinco de Mayo to today’s young Latinos and their the fact that the United States, with its Civil War, Anglo counterparts and you’re bound to get the would not intervene in Mexico. same answer: party time! It’s not their fault With state-of-the-art equipment and the when there’s next to nothing in school curricFrench Foreign Legion at his disposal, Napoleon ula that even hints of a connection between III planned a traditional military assault on U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and Mexican Puebla, then on to Mexico City. Once the capital President Benito Juárez during the Civil War. had fallen into French hands, the rest of the What America needs is a Cinco de Mayo for country would surrender, and the French forces Dummies book. Many of us confuse May 5 with would march north to aid the Confederacy.

September 6, Mexican Independence Day. But It was quite a plan—taking down two Cinco de Mayo’s celebration of the Battle of American democracies—but it didn’t count on by Puebla, fought between Mexico and France, also Andy Porras Texas-born Gen. Ignacio Zaragoza’s nontradicelebrates the salvation of America’s union. tional battle skills and his passionate pleas to a Sacramento On May 5, 1862, the freelance writer and Mexican soldiers, mostly former high-school Battle of Puebla shook Zapotec Indians. Nor did teacher who writes The victory of a ragtag the Americas. The victhe French have any and lectures on hidtory of a ragtag inkling, writes Texas histoMexican Army against den Hispanic history Mexican Army against rian Andrés Tijerina, that an elite French military Zaragoza would recruit an elite French military Check out our machine was just the Capt. Porfirio Zamora, machine was just the 15 Minutes interview with El Paisano owner start of the story. from Palito Blanco in start of the story.

Don Vicente Aguilar—in The U.S. Civil War South Texas, and his 500 Spanish—on page 59. was raging, and the Tejanos. As a cavalry unit, Or read the English United States seemed to be on a path of selfZaragoza’s forces joined the Mexican army and version online at destruction. Meanwhile, President Juárez’s www.newsreview.com. repelled the French invasion. Los Tejanos, troops were thought to be no match for the though Mexicans at heart, were U.S. citizens.

After the Civil War ended, U.S. leaders Have a comment? invading French, who had not tasted defeat in invited the Juárez family to Washington, D.C., in Express your views more than half of a century. Both presidents were in 350 words on desperate for a military miracle. gratitude for their aid. Perhaps someday, both a local topic Noted writers, among them Tejano José countries will get their historical facts straight of interest.

Antonio Burciaga and John Shepler, point out and celebrate Cinco de Mayo together—just as Send an e-mail to that Napoleon III of France shrewdly banked on their forefathers did. Ω editorial@

Disclosure It’s no secret that money is key when it comes to all human endeavors, and whether you believe the words to be sacred or not, we do all understand that the phrase “The love of money is the root of all evil” has more than a little truth to it.

And even before the informant Deep Throat advised reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein to “follow the money” to get to the heart of the Watergate story, we’ve known that money and politics are enmeshed. It’s even worse for the public if voters can’t tell who is funding political campaigns.

How are we to know if legislative votes are being bought and paid for, or if administration policies—at the federal, state and local level—are directed to benefit big-bucks campaign donors if we can’t figure out who is behind the campaign?

That’s the main problem with everything from the Citizens United decision by the U.S. Supreme Court—which ruled that corporations could make unlimited donations to political action committees and campaigns that were not That’s right, Toto. affiliated with a candidate— Assembly Bill 1648 to campaign disclosure laws that don’t have enough in the will mean that we way of enforcement.

We need to know who is can pay attention to paying for politics in order to what’s happening be sure that our government is not for sale to the highest behind the curtain. bidder. We need to know who is funding campaigns so that we can decide whether their interest in the issue is in the public interest or merely self-serving.

We need to know who is paying the bills so that we can tell who is really calling the shots.

And that’s what new legislation, Assembly Bill 1648, the California Disclose Act, would help accomplish. Introduced by Assemblywoman Julia Brownley (D-Malibu) and supported by the California Clean Money Campaign, A.B. 1648 would increase transparency in campaign advertising by requiring that the three largest funders of political advertising be clearly identified by both their name and logo.

The provisions of this bill would apply to all political advertising—including mass mailers, TV For more information, ads on ballot measures, initiatives and candidates— visit the California whether paid for by corporations, unions or wealthy Clean Money Campaign’s website, individuals. It will make sure that advertisements www.caclean.org. provide access to more information about who is paying for what, and it’s specifically designed to pull the curtain back and reveal the man—or woman—for all to see.

That’s right, Toto. A.B. 1648 will mean that we can pay attention to what’s happening behind the curtain.

If an oil company is behind energy legislation, we should know. If a food company is behind labeling legislation, we should know. If a group with unsavory ideals is pushing an initiative, we should know.

In order to wade through the political muck, we need to be able to follow the money.

The California Disclose Act is a step toward a more transparent process, and we urge readers to contact their state legislators to support its passage. Ω

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Essays from many of the 2012 College Essay Contest finalists are available to read with the online version of this story at www.news review.com.

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All of them had one thing in common: Each essay told us, in a very particular way, about a young person from the Sacramento region who is about to embark on their journey into the adult world That’s how many college-application essays we received in by heading off to college.

SN&R’s 2012 College Essay Contest. They came from every public, It was extremely difficult to choose our first-, second- and charter and private high school in our circulation area—and from a third-place essays, but we did. The victors will receive cash awards home-schooled student, too. to help with college expenses—$2,012 for first place, $750 for There were essays about overcoming disabilities, serious illness, second place, and $250 for third place—from SN&R and our sponpoverty and prejudice. There were also essays about sports, scisoring partner InterWest Insurance Services. ence, math, creative writing, public service and pets. Not to mention Most of all, because of these essays, we’ve now got a picture of some essays about family members who inspired them—sometimes what young people in the area are doing right, and we’d like to share by providing an example of what not to do—as well as essays about it with you. We promise, they’ll make you feel good about the future. family tradition, cultural tradition and religious belief.

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market. This incident took place a few years ago, however, to this day I have never felt so humbled. Unknowingly, this incident would be embedded in my brain, helping me sift into the mature young lady I am now.

I was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, where my father was a well-known architect and my mother was an OB/GYN. We were treated like royalty there, and we were very comfortable.

But then the Taliban started taking over bits and pieces of Afghanistan, and my parents were getting worried. They knew that if they were to stay there, my brother and I would not have the best situation to grow up in, so we immigrated to the amazing “Amreeka.”

We found an apartment in the depths of Hayward [Calif.] and began our new lives there. My mother’s medical degree and my father’s architectural degree was not enough in America, so my parents went back to school. Every Saturday, we would look for garage sales and purchase items we thought people would really like, and we sold those miscellaneous items at a booth in the flea market every Sunday. We would use this money to make ends meet.

Every few years we would move to a different city, from Hayward, to Oakland, to Union City and eventually to Elk Grove.

Throughout my interaction with customers at the flea market and the many times we moved, I have encountered people from all walks of life which have given me a wellrounded perception of life and my goals.

I was raised solely speaking Farsi. It was not until I started school that I first began

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First Place “AMREEKA” “Amreeka”

As I wiped the sweat off of my glistening forehead, I heard the girl, about my age, laughing at me. I had never felt so belittled before as I stood there watching my older brother and father clean up the treasures that I call junk from our rented space in the flea

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mom also wanted to be a doctor. But growing up in a Christian family in the USSR, it was prohibited for Christians to work in hospitals during that time. As a child, I watched doctors helping people, knowing that it could have been my mom or dad. My passion for becoming a doctor grew bigger and bigger. Doctors are my heroes; I’m impressed with their accomplishments.

My mom always suffered from high blood pressure. Every time she was taken to the hospital, I was there with her. I wanted to help her out in any way possible. I rejoiced when she came home alive. It gave me a feeling of success, because my dream was to help people.

We had a family of seven who always supported my dreams and inspired me to be a good student in school.

My parents always said, “Your knowledge will follow you until the end.” Living in a lowincome family made me try harder to fulfill my dream of being in health care, to help sick people all over the world. My dream is to go to poor countries and help people who can’t afford professional medical care. This is my passion, from that night; I became interested in helping people.

LACE Second Place “A“A Calling to Help CALLING Others” TO HELP OTHERS” It was a cold November in Ukraine. My feet fell into the freezing, fluffy snow. Cold heavy air took my breath as I sprinted to my neighbor’s house. As I approached the house, my neighbor came out; it seemed as if she was waiting for me.

“Call the ambulance,” I said with a trembling voice, “My mom is dying.”

I stood transfixed as the white and red blinking lights faded into the cold bitter night, taking my mom away. Tears rolled down my cheeks, I wanted to help, take the pain away, but what could I do, being only 6? This was the moment I realized, I could maybe do more than just bring her pills nightly for her illness.

My dad always wanted to become a doctor.

He enjoyed helping people, but his life led him down a different path. Just like my dad, my

“MY DREAM IS TO GO TO POOR COUNTRIES AND HELP PEOPLE WHO CAN’T AFFORD PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL CARE.” Marina Korniychuk second place BEFORE

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learning English. From then on, I started to become increasingly Westernized, which began to concern my parents. The adolescent years have definitely been the toughest years of my life. It was as though I was in two paradigms: At home I was the typical Afghan daughter that was foreign to the outside world, and at school I was the typical modern American teenager.

As I entered high school, I began to realize why my parents were so stringent with me. They did not want me to drown myself in drugs, sex, alcohol and every other threat out there in our society. This has shaped my aspirations in the sense that I do not want to conform to society’s standards or be a “slave” to the system. I want to be a leader in all realms of my life, whether it is professionally or socially, so that I may guide others into the path of success.

Most Afghans my age are typical kids that have no direction in life and are caught up with the two minutes of fun. I, on the other hand, am a complete contradiction of this

stereotype. I am yearning to do something for this world that is falling apart before our eyes, yet I am unable, without the proper education, to do so.

At whatever school I go to, I will make sure that I succeed in many ways. My longterm goal is to build hospitals for women and children in underrepresented Third World countries. I feel like that is my calling to the world. I have a very strong connection with my home country, and I have to do something about the way of life there.

NAME: Danish Farzad NOW ATTENDING: Cosumnes Oaks High School COLLEGE SHE’LL ATTEND: Saint Mary’s College of

California or University of the Pacific PLANS TO STUDY: Pre-med, with plans to become a pediatrician PERSONAL MOTTO: “Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world.” —Rumi

As a child, I pretended I was a doctor in play, and every time someone actually needed help, I was there to apply a Band-Aid or give my mom, brothers and sisters their medicine.

This is what made me a stronger person.

In my church, we often go visiting older people that are paralyzed; I love helping them, spending time with them, and watching their lovely smiles appear quickly on their faces: Hearing their appreciative voice saying “Thank you” or “God bless you,” warms my heart.

I enjoy helping people. It helps me go through different challenges in school, like taking AP classes, as well as at home helping my family. I’ve learned the inner feeling or reward of helping others and receiving help in return.

To see my dream become alive, I joined AVID (a program for college-bound students) and became an example to other students.

When I go to college, I will do everything possible to fulfill my dream that was born that bitter night when I was only 6. I have learned that, although I could not help my mother get better when I was 6, I can help others now. By helping others in the medical field, I will be able to help them in ways I couldn’t help my mom. Not only will this make my parents proud, but it will also allow me to help other children living a similar experience.

NAME: Marina Korniychuk NOW ATTENDING: San Juan High School COLLEGE SHE’LL ATTEND: Sacramento State PLANS TO STUDY: Nursing PERSONAL MOTTO: “Make a difference in the world

by simply helping others. Brighten the world by simply smiling to others. Change the world by simply achieving your goals.”

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age of 44. I am proud to say that my parents are on the right path, but it would have been much easier for them if they had focused earlier in life. The decisions that my parents have made brought me to the realization that I want to make my career decisions as soon as possible. I am not going to be affected by where I was born.

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experience. I learned to deal with colleagues that I did not necessarily agree with, which caused me to be more open-minded to others’ opinions and new ideas.

It was obvious, though, that no one besides my staff really understood my passionate dedication to The Titan Times. My friends and teachers would hear about me leaving school at 9 p.m. every single Tuesday, after what my staff and I learned to call “work nights” to make sure we always made deadline, and ask why I still did it. I lost count of how many times my mother kept dinner waiting for me on those nights. I had to ignore my friends’ countless disappointed, sidelong glances after I continuously declined their offers to hang out on the weekends, for I had work to do for the paper. My teachers would shake their heads after I told them I’d stayed up till 4 a.m. the previous night trying to finish the rest their homework after “work night.”

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“I HAVE ALWAYS HAD A PASSION FOR BUILDING AND INVENTING THINGS. EVER SINCE I WAS LITTLE I HAVE TORN APART MY TOYS AND PUT THEM BACK TOGETHER.” Casey Dudley third place

Growing up, my father instilled in me the idea of taking life seriously by focusing on college and getting as much of it paid as possible. I have been working my whole life to live up to this expectation, with my focus on school and athletics. I have always worked for my success, whether it is getting honor roll every term or being an all-league football player. I have always had my own personal drive to work for what I want in life.

From fourth grade on, I have had a passion for mathematics. As a freshman, I completed pre-calculus with all seniors in the class. I have juggled through different mathematical careers, and I have settled on the main one: electrical engineering. But I am still willing to study a similar major.

I have always had a passion for building and inventing things. Ever since I was little, I have torn apart my toys and put them back together. Also, I have been operating computers and other electronic devices very well form the age of 7 years old. I have noticed that many African-Americans are not very well represented in the engineering community. It is my goal to be an engineer and a role model for African-Americans in the engineering community.

From the start of my life, I have been selfmotivated, doing little things that got me ahead of the next person has helped me in ways unimaginable. I am a successful African-American male at the age of 17, and unfortunately, not many African-American males can say this. I juggle maintaining a GPA of over 3.8, AP and honors classes, football, link crew, community service and various club activities all at the same time.

I am blessed to be focused and serious in a dangerous world. Otherwise, I would not be in the position I am today.

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“Why do you look so serious all the time?”

I have been repeatedly asked this by my peers, teachers, and even people on the street.

It is because I have always been focused on what I need to do. Ever since I was in elementary school, I have wanted to go to college and be an engineer. I’ve noticed that if they’re not focused, African-American males of my age tend to follow the wrong path. My self-motivation has carried me throughout my whole life.

Both of my parents came from impoverished neighborhoods. My father grew up in East Oakland (where I was born), and my mother grew up in west Fresno, two neighborhoods that are struggling and in the ghetto. Where they grew up has made a significant impact on their lives. I have realized that my parents have made career decisions later in their lives because of where they grew up. They were unsure about their paths in life until their 40s.

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“EDITOR-IN-CHIEF” I sat quietly in the backroom of Room S206, my school’s journalism classroom. It was a place I was becoming accustomed to spending countless hours in, working devotedly on the school’s newspaper, The Titan Times.

Except today, in this particular meeting, I sensed something was different. My two editors-in-chief had called me in to speak to me alone. One of them finally began to speak up, and—to my complete shock—they told me they took note of my dedication to the newspaper, and decided it was my time to shine. They were formally asking me to step up as the new editor-in-chief, a position I’d been craving ever since I was a freshman.

I barely had time to go into shock. As seniors, they were both stepping down, and as a junior, I had absolutely no time to waste. I had to step into my new role immediately, for the paper was a running machine: It does not stop for you; rather, you stop for it.

I hastily consented to learn the mechanics and skills of an editor-in-chief: leadership, communication, professionalism, making deadlines—the list of learning tools seemed to never end. Day by day and issue by issue, I witnessed myself transforming. Through my contribution to The Titan Times, I eventually found myself growing mentally, my capabilities stretching farther than I’d ever imagined.

What struck me most about myself was my growing ambition as a leader in my role as editor-in-chief. I learned how to become the most organized I could possibly be, rather than tossing and turning in bed at night over unfinished plans for our next issue. I learned to work with and administer deadlines, which taught me harsh lessons of time management that other teenagers typically do not have to

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I got to watch the entire school body walk around with my newspaper in their hands, all reading and noticing my hard work. That feeling of knowing so many people appreciated the one thing I poured my heart and soul into made everything so completely worthwhile.

Now, my staff and I joke around that taking on editor-in-chief is more of “real world” experience than anything else. And it was and will always be just that: an experience that pushed me to be the best editor-in-chief I could be, as well as the best person I could be.

Under my watch, The Titan Times is now an upgraded, 20-page black-and-white edition that has been nationally recognized by the prestigious Columbia Scholastic Press Association Silver Crown award in New York.

As we head to New York again this year in March—fingers crossed for another Silver or Gold Crown award—I’ve come to realize that none of the lessons that working for The Titan Times has taught me could be taught in any other ordinary classroom. Newspaper is different; being an editor-in-chief is different. It taught me real-world things in a real-world environment, where I learned to grow into a person I’ve become genuinely proud of.

That’s most likely why I hold my contribution to the paper so near and dear to my heart.

It truly did change me for the better.

NAME: Sheyda Talebi NOW ATTENDING: Antelope High School COLLEGE SHE’LL ATTEND: UC Irvine PLANS TO STUDY: Biological sciences PERSONAL MOTTO: “Be the change you want to see

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“DEAR MARK” Dear Mark, I was flipping through Time Magazine last week, and an article relating to Facebook caught my eye. It was by senior writer Joe Klein, who was covering the F8 convention and your latest new profile idea, the Timeline.

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Mostly, Klein talked about society’s obsession with Facebook and the rest of the habitual claptrap we hear about social networking nowadays. But his reflections on your new Facebook feature got me thinking (again) about the power of technology, and the new ways it might have a meaningful impact on our world.

You know how much I respect Facebook’s continual growth as a globally powerful personal and political communications tool. But I can’t help but feel that your future evolution should include a venture that takes you in a new direction. Sure, a personal Timeline is a fresh and cool way to let someone know about your life. But you have the potential to do so much more.

I know you already see me as a crazy idealist. But pause for a second and think about it. You have access to millions of teenagers and young adults, people who go to your site not only for conversation, but to find out what’s happening in the world. They learned of the deaths of Osama bin Laden and Steve Jobs on Facebook. They no longer have to call someone to ask how their day was because, chances are, their friends will post a status update about it. They can even find out who their cousin’s boyfriend’s sister’s mother is, in fewer than five clicks.

More American teenagers discuss the changes made to the Facebook layout than our country’s economic problems or the crisis engulfing Greece.

These same teenagers of today are the people who will be making a difference in the next 20 years. They will be leading our governments and companies, and defining what our

world will accomplish and look like tomorrow.

So here is my simple proposal: Why don’t you take the strength of Facebook and encourage people to “click for a cause”? Why not harness the power of your vast number of members for a greater public good, along with encouraging people to trade personal information about themselves?

overlooked, I strived to work harder to impress the judges and prove that I could earn a place on the team. The following summer, I attended California State Summer School for the Arts, spending a month dancing eight hours a day and building my dance skills. Through four weeks of stress, sweat and exercise, I returned home more ready than ever for another round of tryouts.

When school began for my junior year, I was notified of another tryout. Again, I faced the prejudice. This time, however, I inched forward in my endeavor, barely missing the cut to be on the team, finally being judged as a dancer and not a boy. I took this second rejection as a step forward, realizing that I had managed to overcome sexism.

hard and never give up, because that is how I succeeded in becoming the first male member of the Davis High School Dance Team.

I like when things glitter. Not just literally, but I like when things glitter with life. When I really care about something, every action I take glitters; my aura sparkles with energy. When I dance, I feel alive, and I sparkle with charisma. That is why it was no surprise that I endeavored to be on my Davis High School Dance Team. Not to mention the fact that the dance team performs in sequins. However, there was a slight problem.

The dance team, known for its sex appeal and glitter tops, was a sisterhood, a group of girls never infiltrated by a male member. My effort and perseverance in my attempts to make the dance team have taught me how to overcome life challenges.

I dedicated myself to becoming a member of “IN MY LIFE AND AT SCHOOL, I WILL STRIVE the dance team from the first routine I watched from the stands. I was unaware of the roadblocks TO WORK HARD AND NEVER GIVE UP.” Bryce Vaewsorn, honorable mention I would face in attempting my goal. First among them was flexibility and technical strength. For weeks, I pushed myself into oversplits and leapt around my living room to further my dance The final tryout arrived, and this final chance skills. I compelled my body to move beyond its brought to an end my year of stretching, condiphysical limits, and I injured myself. Despite the tioning and work in preparation for tryouts. At injuries, I continued my stretching and condithe end of tryouts, after my third attempt, I tioning with more caution than before and with a became the first male member of the Davis High stronger mentality.

School Dance Team. The pride and sense of perThe first tryout finally came alongside anx- sonal achievement I felt when I made the team ious anticipation. Naively, I had assumed that was only heightened by the amount of time and high-school students were mature enough to effort I put into preparing for it. I am proud of look past prejudice and would evaluate purely my historical accomplishment that occurred only based on ability. This tryout week during my because of my endurance through rejection and sophomore year came and passed, and in an hard work. instant, my own little bubble had been burst Through my experience, I realized the imporwith rejection. tance of hard work, perseverance and patience.

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While your decision to donate $100 million to the Newark schools and launch Startup: Education is an extremely generous one, let’s take it a step further. Because of Facebook’s rapidly expanding network, you have access to millions of people who could all make a difference, just by logging on. You can stay true to our business goals, but give it a charitable twist.

Why not designate one day a year when a major company promises to donate 1 cent for every 10th person who logs on that day? Think of the mutual benefits. The company would be featured on your website and automatically be seen as one that gives back to the community.

Having a Gatorade-sponsored log-in day, for example, would not only provide that beverage company with unbeatable public exposure, but

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would also bring in money for a specific charity. People would log on to Facebook not only to interact, but also to make a broader impact on the world. You could call it “Givebook” or “Helpbook” or something along those lines.

TOMS shoes founder Blake Mycoskie has had tremendous success blending charity with business. Most consumers love the idea of giving through receiving, especially when it’s easy. People buy TOMS because it makes them feel good about buying something. It takes the selfish act of shopping and makes it selfless. In your case, something like “Givebook” could counteract the resentment that some people feel about “wasting” time on Facebook. If their engagement were a “win-win”—fun for them and philanthropic at the same time—that resentment would fade, causing your membership to grow.

Other websites, like www.freerice.com, have connected with major world-charity programs in order to give food and supplies to countries in need. Freerice donates 10 grains of rice for every question answered correctly—a simple idea with a powerful impact.

You are a businessman, Mark, one whose success will leave a large and lasting mark on history. Why not add to your legacy by expanding Facebook’s relevance to the world?

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ARTS&CULTURE POPSMART Biking rules May is National Bike Month, which means it’s finally time for me to pull my trusty green cruiser out of the garage, put air in the tires (if I can find the tire pump, that is) and take it for a spin along the

by RACHEL LEIBROCK Sacramento River, through Midtown and maybe down to Old Sac for some ice cream and a cruise along the waterfront. Easy, right?

Kind of. While it may true that you never forget how to ride a bike (though let me tell you, that old adage gave little comfort to my 6-year-old self as she struggled with all things balance and training wheels), it seems that bike manners are a different beast altogether. While I love riding my bike, sharing the road with other cyclists, pedestrians and four-wheel drivers is sometimes frustrating— dangerous, even. So please, fellow riders, take note of these rules for the road:

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1. Don’t be a jerk. Seriously. There’s a reason why there often seems to be a war brewing between cyclists and the rest of the world. Just because you’re on a bike, saving the environment and all, that doesn’t mean you should act as if you automatically have the right of way. Follow the rules of the road. Stop at traffic lights and stop signs. Don’t cut people off. Just. Don’t.

2. Stay off the sidewalk. As its name

For the love of sweet baby Jesus, stop wearing your sweaty, skintight bike shorts and jerseys to Sunday brunch.

helpfully implies, that paved strip that runs along the road is for walking— not biking. So next time you’re out zipping around town on your Schwinn, please stop terrorizing pedestrians. And no, yelling “On the left!” as you suddenly come up behind someone does not make it OK. The one exception to this rule? Anytime you find yourself cycling down Freeport Boulevard, J Street or some other equally frightening thoroughfare on which the bike lane is an unfunny joke. Sorry walkers, but when I’m traveling that stretch on Freeport between Sutterville Road and Broadway, all bets are off.

3. Don’t drink and bike. On the one hand, it’s easy to see the appeal of biking to your socializing destination—nightclub, bar, party, whatever. On the other hand, just as those drinks impair your ability to think clearly and act accordingly behind the wheel of a car, so do they impact your ability to keep it together while balanced precariously atop a metal frame and a pair of rubber wheels.

Think about it. Please.

4. Don’t text and bike. What are you, 12?

You know better. Stash the phone, and keep your eyes on the road. And turn off that iPod, too. Oh, and sit up straight while you’re at it.

5. No, really, stop being a jerk. Be mindful of who has the right of way, don’t ride against traffic, stop weaving in and out of cars, use lights and/or wear reflective clothing at night, stop hogging the road (single file people, single file), and for the love of sweet baby Jesus, stop wearing your sweaty, skin-tight bike shorts and jerseys to Sunday brunch. Ew. You are not Lance Armstrong. Get over it. Ω

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Writer Lovelle Harris rides hard and carries a big bag of biking tips.

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I’ll admit it, I’m afraid, no, terrified of driving.

So I gave it up about 17 years ago, and in doing so, condemned myself to a lifetime of being asked, “Why don’t you drive?” and “Are you ever going to drive again?”

In my defense, I’m a terrible driver. My saving grace? Getting around Sacramento on two wheels can be one hell of a sweet ride.

May is National Bike Month, and whether you’re trying to save the planet by minimizing your carbon footprint or, like me, a driving expatriate looking to take a self-imposed exile from the motorized world, traveling by bike is quickly becoming one of the most popular ways to get around Sacramento. Case in point: The number of bicycle commuters jumped from 4,090 in 2009 to 4,725 in 2010, according to the League of American Bicyclists. Unless you’re a seasoned cyclist, however, there may be some mysteries of the bike yet to be unlocked: The following is your guide to a more bikable Sacramento.

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Anyone who has exhumed a bike out of their grandparents’ web-ridden rafters knows that a quick visit to the neighborhood cycle shop is a smart way to get a ride ready for the road.

Luckily, Sacramento is full of shops that boast dedicated and knowledgeable staff that can help even the most inexperienced rider gear up.

“Hands down, invest in good front and rear bike lights,” says Zack Waddle, general manager of The Bicycle Business on Freeport Boulevard. “Get something that irritates drivers, and not one of those cheap, 1-LED Knog lights. I’ve seen them on the street, and they’re a joke. You might as well hold up a lighter for light.”

Another confession: While I’m lazy and would rather go to the pros to tune up my ride, gearheads will find plenty of opportunities to roll up their sleeves and get their hands dirty by learning how to fix that rusty chain themselves. Wednesday

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Death and foreplay nights, the crew over at Mike’s Bikes downtown provides hands-on instruction on how to repair bikes, and on Thursday nights, the team at the Sacramento Bicycle Kitchen in Midtown hosts a ladies-night event during which it waives the $5 shop fee for budding mechanics—well, budding female, transgender or “femme” gay mechanics, that is. And for those who were fans of the Kitchen’s Bicyclette!, an after-hours DIY bike-maintenance event geared toward the more feminine crowd, have no fear. Despite some staffing changes, the shop is still open for late-night business.

“There are volunteer mechanics on staff who teach patrons how to work on their own bikes; we don’t do it for them,” says Andrea Havelaar, the Bicycle Kitchen’s coordinator of public outreach.

The current DIY workshops are now taught by men and women, Havelaar adds.

“The purpose is still to encourage more female, transgender and gay patrons to come in,” Havelaar says.

price on bikes and equipment at his store is to subscribe to their online monthly newsletter which offers seasonal discounts.

Even better, I’ve found that the newsletter offers great commuter tips on the best bags to cart around your goods, planning the most traffic-free route to and from work, and the lowdown on how to make the most of a cycling lifestyle.

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If you’re more of the adventurous type, check out one of the Sacramento-area bike trails that allow cyclists to get up close and personal with nature. While there are more than 300 miles of bike paths and lanes in Sacramento, the American River Bike Trail, which offers bicyclists more than 30 miles of riding space surrounded by the wild beauty of the river, is perfect for a day trip, presenting riders with a bevy of picnic sites, swimming and fishing holes within the city limits.

“Hands down, invest in good front and rear bike lights.

Get something that irritates drivers.”

Zack Waddle manager, The Bicycle Business

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If getting greasy isn’t your thing, but you could use a little education on the fine art of dodging traffic, the League of American Bicyclists offers year-round courses in effective cycling, including a nine-hour urban-cycling skills course, available to all genders, age groups and abilities.

Take it from me, someone who just dropped close to $800 on a new bike after losing bike No. 3 to thieves, this month it pays to check out some of the deals at participating shops. Cyclists on a budget can score big on everything it takes to stay road-ready when the “Pedal Saver” discount signs go up in business windows around town. But May isn’t the only time you can grab a swinging deal on gear. Tim Castleman, owner of Practical Cycle in Old Sacramento, says the way to get the best

Just be sure to invest in a comfortable, well-cushioned seat if your excursion involves traveling more than a couple of miles. When I think back on my 14-mile jaunt from Old Sacramento to Swabbies Restaurant & Bar on the river and then down the back side of the Garden Highway last summer, I’m reminded of the sorry state of my rear end after the journey.

Cruising around Sacramento on two wheels isn’t just for those who, like me, rely on the bike as their sole means of transportation. From businesses that offer hourly and daily bike rentals, such as Practical Cycle, to the new bike-sharing phenomenon that has slowly made its way to the Midtown grid (check out Midtown Bike Share at www.facebook.com/rideyourownway, for more information), bike lanes are bustling with a variety of riders.

“I bike around a lot. I live in Curtis Park, and I try to ride my bike as much as

possible,” says Havelaar. “I have a 3-yearold, and we have a trailer, so we do take him as much as we can. Generally, it’s more of a family thing.”

Havelaar says she also thinks carefully about the routes they take. Those behind four wheels, after all, don’t always seem to notice their two-wheeled lane neighbors. If you’re riding on the oft-narrow streets of downtown or Midtown, for example, it’s good to map out your route ahead of time whenever possible.

“I like to … stick to the streets with the bike lanes, and the streets that are more welllit. I like to go down 21st [Street] when I’m going downtown, and then I’ll come down 19th [Street] on the way home,” she says.

Places to avoid?

“The areas around Curtis Park are really bad, Freeport [Boulevard] is really dangerous [and] Broadway’s not that great either,” Havelaar says.

Whether you’re a bike messenger weaving in and out of traffic at breakneck speeds or a cycle enthusiast who doesn’t dare straddle the saddle unless decked out in full-on Lance Armstrong gear, Waddle, who has worked in the bicycle business for approximately 25 years, stresses the importance of being hyperaware of one’s surroundings when riding, especially when cycling down one street in particular.

“I don’t agree with people riding bikes on J Street,” Waddle says. “Unless you’re on a super-fast road bike, cars get irritated with bicyclists on J. ... Remember, they’re bigger than you are.”

Downtown or the suburbs, riding doesn’t come without its drawbacks—I’ve been hit by a car, had three bikes stolen from my house, and have dodged my fair share of animal carcasses, used condoms and festering leaf piles, all the while lugging around a jumbo-sized purse filled with a change of clothes, shoes and anything else needed to make myself presentable after arriving at my destination. Still, you won’t see me behind the wheel of a car anytime soon. After all, the League of American Bicyclists awarded Sacramento with the bronze-level crown for being one of the most bike friendly cities in the United States—obviously, I’m in good company. Ω

“Did I almost hit you?”

Yeah, guy. You almost nailed me with your stupid golf ball. And you didn’t even yell “Fore!” Or “Damnit, fore! Get the shit out the way—I shanked the hell outta that em-effer!” Or whatever expletive-loaded spew is one’s preferred curse of choice after careening a wayward ball at 150 miles per hour toward another man’s temple.

But no, not a peep. You’re that 50-something guy in requisite golf khakis and wrinkled collared shirt towing a pull cart mindlessly across the golf courses of America. The weekend warrior who almost certainly can’t see farther than 50 yards, yet purports to wield a driver—or in this case, a death mallet—with the consideration of a 2-year-old. You’re my nightmare, guy.

Stay at home and mow the lawn.

“Oh, did I almost hit you?” guy asks.

“Nah, buddy, it was only this close,” I reply, gesturing with my hands a foot apart.

“Oh no,” guy says, as if shocked to discover he’s not the only one golfing this simmering Saturday morning at Bartley Cavanaugh Golf Course. “Did my ball go in the water?”

Like I give a lick where your ball went. “Yeah, it did,” I tell guy. “I threw it in there.”

Of course, I don’t actually have the gall to chuck another golfer’s ball in the drink. It’s just bad etiquette. Even though this is the third time in a month I’ve nearly been killed by an errant drive on a Sacramento golf course.

Killer.

The first time was at WildHawk Golf Club, way out off Jackson Highway in April, when some lumbering teenager sliced a wild ball 2 feet in front of me. No fore, either. And then two weeks later, at Teal Bend Golf Club on Garden Highway, when a husky outof-towner from Virginia nails my golf cart—a plastic windshield the only thing keeping “Titleist” from being permanently tattooed on my forehead.

But maybe this is what I get for playing a Republican’s game: Golf, the ultimate 1-percenters’ pastime; one rich in inequity and decried for its nasty ecological impact.

Anyone who indulges the sport deserves to get tagged by a rubber sphere traveling as fast as a Porsche at least once, no? If not outright decapitated.

Anyway, I have no clue why I find myself often contemplating death and foreplay. Lightning strike or heart attack mid-stroke, tee-shot beheading, drunkdriving golf-cart collision, lake drowning, putter to the head, quicksand bunker—the scenarios are many.

As a young kid, Grandma would entice me to practice golf with quarters for every time I sank a putt. Nowadays, I find myself standing over 10-footers, zeroing in on the grain, muttering over which pathway the ball will give. Take a deep breath, then gently swing back. It’s a dumb game, but I still love a putter’s onomatopoeia: Ping !

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Making fresh guacamole is incredibly quick and easy.

Yes, some people try to complicate the condiment by saying its ingredients need to correspond to the color of the Mexican flag: avocado (green), tomato (red) and onion (white). But creating the dish is not rocket science, and if you’re like me, you might use some of that stuff lying around the pantry. Here’s the fastest way to make a couple of servings of the dip (in less than five minutes).

Pit two or three large avocados and scoop all the green flesh out with a spoon. Place in a medium mixing bowl.

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Wherever you choose to celebrate, call the Yellow Cab Company of Sacramento at (916) 444-2222 anytime between 3 p.m. and 3 a.m. As part of Berg Injury Lawyers’ Safe and Sober Free Cab Ride Home Program, $35 of your ride will be comped when you tell the cabbie that the ride is on Berg Injury Lawyers. To qualify for the promotion, you must be at a restaurant, hotel or bar in downtown Sacramento, and headed home.

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Cinco de Mayo isn’t widely celebrated among Mexican-Americans (just ask Vicente

Aguilar of Taqueria El Paisano, subject of this week’s 15 Minutes on page 59). But we Americans love to celebrate it, anyway, even though the day is supposed to commemorate the Battle of the Puebla, when the Mexicans whooped the French, but is more like Cinco de Drinko. There will be concerts, culinary celebrations and even block parties this weekend. And if you don’t feel like celebrating, the following guide even provides a few ideas for your anti-Cinco de Mayo party, si quiere.

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Zocaló celebrates Cinco de Mayo with two events this week: First is a tequila festival Thursday, May 3, from 6 to 9 p.m. It features six different tequila distilleries offering three tastings each, appetizers and a cigar bar.

Tickets for the event cost $25.

Additionally, Zocaló’s Cinco de Mayo Fiesta begins Saturday, May 5, at 11 a.m. and continues throughout the day with more tequila, mariachi, ballet folklorico and a pig roast. Call for pricing. 1801 Capitol Avenue, (916) 441-0303, www.zocalosacramento.com.

Centro Cocina Mexicana will host a three-day celebration with music, food and a bartender competition. The party happens May 3-5, at 2730 J Street. For more information, call (916) 442-2552 or visit www.facebook.com/CentroCocinaMexicana.

Old Sacramento celebrates with a block party called Cinco de Old Sacto. The celebration will take place in 12 different bars within a few blocks of each other. Beginning at 4 p.m. on Saturday, May 5, live music, comedy, theater and salsa dancing are all on the bill at different venues. Tickets and reservations are required for some of the events, while others are free. Visit www.oldsacramentobars.com for more details.

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Tequila Museo Mayahuel will celebrate both Cinco de Mayo and its one-year anniversary. The celebration features food, drinks, entertainment and of course, plenty of tequila. On Saturday night, deejays Alex Trujillo and Rico Rivera will drop the beats. It happens May 4 and 5. 1200 K Street, (916) 441-7200, www.tequilamuseo.com.

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The Sacramento Public Library is hosting a number of Cinco de Mayorelated events. Highlights include a dessert making class, craft workshops and bilingual music and story time. Visit www.saclibrary.org for more details.

Anti-Cinco de Mayo suggestions

—Jonathan Mendick

Celebrate a belated St. Patrick’s Day by visiting an Irish pub.

Eat Chinese food and watch a movie (a de facto holiday avoidance tradition for Jews).

Try a Doritos Locos taco from Taco Bell, because that’s a “food” item only America could create.

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Mexico is home to a diverse array of cacti and succulents. So celebrate Cinco de Mayo at the Sacramento Cactus and Succulent Society’s annual cactus and succulent show. It happens Saturday, May 5, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, May 6, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Shepard Garden & Art Center inside McKinley Park, 3330 McKinley Boulevard.

Free. Visit www.sacramentocss.org for more information.

Roseville’s Cinco de Mayo 5k/10k Run & Walk will help you burn some calories right before a post-race party featuring food, drinks, dancing and games. The race happens Saturday, May 5, at 9 a.m., at the Miners Ravine Trail, 350 N. Sunrise Avenue in Roseville. Race entry is $15-$35, and racers are encouraged to bring canned-food items for the St. Vincent de Paul Food Locker in Roseville. For more information, call (775) 232-7933, or visit www.cincodemayorun.com.

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There’s something endearing, almost Norman Rockwell-esque about a neighborhood restaurant that is most commonly referred to by its patrons as the neighborhood restaurant. Places that embody the Cheers theme song, “where everybody knows your name, and they’re always glad you came.” It’s hard to visualize any place other than Mamma Susanna’s Ristorante Italiano being River Park’s neighborhood restaurant; both by longevity—it’s now in its eighth year—and temperament. Wedged into a strip mall, Mamma Susanna’s interior is welcoming and comfortable with booths topped with latticework festooned with plastic bunches of grapes and, naturally, red-and-white checkered tablecloths.

There’s even a strand or two of festive holiday lights. Far more egalitarian than elegant. The wall to the left of the open kitchen—from which any number of tantalizing smells emanate—has shelves stacked with wicker-wrapped wine jugs and, presumably empty Birra Peroni bottles.

But there is no shortage of options on the menu. “Foreboding,” daughter Katie says of its breadth. There are nearly a dozen or so pastas, even more types of pizzas, a smattering of salads and various entrees, including the piccata chicken or veal dish that Mamma Susanna’s counts as one of its specialties.

Included among the chicken or veal entree options are parmiggiano, gorgonzola and marsala. The piccata sauce, while perfectly lemony and studded with capers, is heavy and gloppy. The veal beneath the thick exterior, however, is tender. And there’s plenty of it. Accompanying broccoli and carrot coins are well lubricated with butter, bearing a kiss of oregano and, it seems, the licorice lilt of tarragon. Even this longtime broccoli belittler wolfs down a few florets, although more carrots vanish more rapidly.

Mamma says her spread is traditional Northern Italian fare, which might be why there’s some unfamiliarity with a couple of other ways to enjoy chicken or veal: boscaiola and valdostana. Turns out they are mushrooms, olives, roasted red peppers and marinara sauce (which seems kinda Sicilian or Neapolitan—tasty, though) and ham, provolone and wine sauce, respectively. The waiter recommends the piccata over the valdostana.

Of the pastas and pizzas, the norcina tastes like and looks like an orangey vodka sauce with roasted red-pepper slices and sausage rounds tossed in a bed of penne.

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before it coats the sides of her arteries. The ravioli marsala, a special one evening, are large but a bit overpowered by the sweet wine sauce.

Mamma doesn’t want anyone to leave hungry. In fact, most diners appear to leave gorged, laden with stacks of Styrofoam boxes stuffed with the sizable amount of the meal that simply could not be eaten without bursting.

The caprese pizza tastes as though it should be the refreshing centerpiece of a summer picnic.

For example, the pastas are served in heaping 8-inch diameter bowls that, when following a Caesar or pear-tomato heavy house salad and a basket of bread served with olive oil and balsamic, prove to be simply too much to finish, no matter how passionate the desire. A half-portion is $4 less. Similarly, a medium pizza seems large. Of them, the Mamma Susanna has the works and the chef is happy to subtract undesirable elements or add extra—in this case, onions.

On one Saturday, no take-out order is taken until 7:30 p.m. The crusts are thin and the pie itself is far less greasy than many other pizzas. Like the salad of the same name, the caprese pizza tastes as though it should be the refreshing centerpiece of a summer picnic. There’s but three soups: the required minestrone, tortellini in broth and a stracciatella—egg, spinach and chicken broth— that needs a sodium infusion.

Service is proficient and punctual, although it’s disappointing that no one can translate “Vive meglio!” at the bottom of the receipt since it’s a sage admonition: “Live well!” Ω

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

Midtown

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

1501 16th St.; (916) 341-0532. Dinner for one: $9-$12. ★★★ The 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

Red Rabbit Kitchen and Bar Resistance is futile when it comes to Red Rabbit’s desserts. The berry-infused ice-cream sandwich is bright and refreshing with a chewy shell that dovetails neatly with the smooth fruity interior. But there’s less effusiveness for the entrees. The Bastard Banh Mi doesn’t improve on the original.

A number of items from the “Farm to Plate,” “Tasty Snacks” and “Buns” sections of the menu land high in the plus column, however. Any place that offers chimichurri rocks hard. Here it enlivens the Farm Animal Lollipops snack—particularly the lamb—and the mayor-ofMunchkin-City-sized lamb bocadillas. American. 2718 J St., (916) 706-2275. Dinner for one: $20-$40. ★★1⁄2

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

Sampino’s Towne Foods

Thir13en From the start—and, lo,

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

these many weeks hence—the situp-take-notice plate remains the pork tonnato sandwich. It’s the Italian peasant spread or sauce

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made with tonno—tuna—tonnato that empowers this open-face masterwork. Spread on a toasted half baguette, the tonnato is the foundation upon which the pork rests.

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

Very authoritative. American.

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

Dinner for one: $12-$20. ★★★★1⁄2

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Rhubarb is coming into season, so now is the perfect time to make good use of the red-and-green sour stalks. While delightful in pies and crumbles, a piece of roasted rhubarb is perfect tossed into a salad, served along a grilled pork loin, used to top a bowl of vanilla ice cream or as a garnish for a cocktail.

Chop 2 cups of rhubarb into half-inch pieces and toss into a bowl with 2 tablespoons of sugar, 1 tablespoon of honey, and the zest of a lemon (or orange or lime), and allow it all to sit for 10 minutes to macerate. Place the mixture in a baking dish in a single layer and roast at 400 degrees for about six to eight minutes.

But rhubarb is easy to overcook and can quickly can go from astringent and stringy to flavorless, grey mush. The sweet spot for perfectly roasted rhubarb is rather easy to achieve, though, if you know how.

The rhubarb will still be crisp but no longer stringy, and be toothsome with a bit of give. If they still taste a bit sour, add a little more sugar and toss together. Reserve the syrupy juices, and mix them with a bit of olive oil and balsamic vinegar for a fruity and sweet dressing.

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

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Vanilla Bean Bistro Gonul’s J Street Cafe has moved up the street and evolved into the Vanilla Bean Bistro. Its narrow, lowceilinged coziness is consonant with its understated, whateverthe-impulse-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 engender a “Whoa, tasty!” The sausages—such as the Polish or Tofurky Kielbasa—are grilled as is the bacon-wrapped dog with its not-easily forgettable jalapeño relish. American. 715 56th St., (916) 455-0497. Dinner for one: $10-$20. ★★★★

Land Park/ Curtis Park

“Les Setilles.” The one-two punch here is, obviously, the food and wine. But the knock-out punch—at least when all cylinders are firing— is the delivery. American. 1431 Del Paso Blvd., (916) 922-6792. Dinner for one: $20-$40. ★★★★1⁄2

Pangea Two Brews Cafe Tables, tall and short, are large and communal, fostering that casual camaraderie that should be the goal of any self-respecting brewpub.

There’s a fairly extensive menu, including breakfast items. Not to put too fine a point on it: Pangaea’s offerings are not beers that will be found at Save Mart or even Nugget.

They are nuanced. Brewed with artisanship. In some 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

steady Thai burn that leaves lips and tongue tingling. The best on Siam’s salad list is the aptly named Yum Seafood. Here, the combination is warm shrimp, calamari and mussels on the half-shell, scattered willy-nilly in a thicket of crisp squares of iceberg and jumbled with lemongrass, dry chilies, cashews, onions, mint and cilantro, with some squirts of lime juice for good measure. There’s probably enough for two, but it’s too good to share. Thai. 5100 Franklin Blvd., (916) 452-8382.

Dinner for one: $10-$20. ★★★

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

North Sac

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 remains Enotria’s signature dish. A recent $32 prix-fixe meal begins with a rectangular plate upon which is served an alternating line of caramelized plantains and campaign-button size pork tenderloins.

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pistachios laced with a stentorian balsamic vinaigrette.

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

Rancho Cordova Ichi Maki Ichi Maki looks decep-

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 avocadoand-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. ★★★

Siam Restaurant It could take many months to work through Siam’s lengthy menu. There’s red, green, yellow and panang curry, Pad Thai—of course— drunken noodles and another 14 stir-fry options with tofu, chicken, pork, beef and eggplant.

The spicy rice with squid is monstrously portioned, flavored with a

Fair food The Dixon May Fair has built a solid reputation for bringing highcaliber entertainment to the region. This year, Snoop Dogg, the English Beat and Kellie Pickler will entertain fairgoers. But another reason to attend is the fair food. Sure, there’s always your standard greasy food that tastes so good after a few beers—funnel cakes, fried corndogs, barbecue, etc. But check out the Interior Living Showcase for more refined food-related activities, including a preserved-foods showcase, baked-food contest, decorated-cake contest and cooking contest. You’ll find high-caliber artisanal jams, olive oils, vinegars, bread, cookies and pies. Not to mention a home-winemaking competition over at the Floriculture Showcase, and the Solano County Wine Pavilion offering premium wines from the Central Valley. No wonder the Dixon May Fair is the longest continually running fair in California. It runs May 10 to 13. Visit www.dixonmayfair.com for more information.

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COOLHUNTING Find life’s random milestones Versaries app Keeping track of birthdays is what a calendar is for. Keeping track of random numbers and numerical coincidences is what Versaries is for. The 99-cent iPhone app keeps track of the years, days and even secAPP onds of your life with a steampunk feel. Add in when you started dating your significant other, and you’ll be reminded of more than just your regular anniversary; recently Versaries pointed out I’d been dating my girlfriend for 80 million seconds. Time seems to fly faster when you’re not counting by years. www.versariesapp.com.

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With protests and actions bound to resume as the weather improves, the publication of this well-written little book is a great place to bone up on the basics in time for some serious occupation. All proceeds are donated to Occupy Wall Street. www.orbooks.com/catalog/ows.

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Beer + podcast = ha-ha Top 10 List Podcast If your typical Friday night includes drinking beer and debating the finer points of pop culture, the Sacramento Comedy Spot’s Top 10 List Podcast lands right in your comfort zone. Every Friday at 8 p.m., a different panel of local loudmouths (stand-up comedians and entertainment writers) compete to build definitive lists for topics such as “best Harrison Ford movies” or “worst songs.” Admission is free, as are the downloadable episodes.

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Three months ago my boyfriend moved to Southern California for a new job. I don’t want to lose him. I write him an email every day to keep in touch, because it’s really hard to sync our schedules so we can talk by phone or Skype. At first, he would write me an email back. Now he mainly sends one-word responses, like “Thanks” or “Great.” I text him, too, but I still get one-word replies. Do you think he is seeing someone else? Does he want to break up with me? His birthday is coming up, and I’ve been thinking about flying down there to surprise him. What do you think?

Won’t he be surprised to discover that your visit is actually an investigation of his waning attention? And what happens if he accuses you of having an agenda well beyond celebrating his birthday? Let’s put the cake and candles aside for the moment.

Attending to your pity party is more important.

So, your man is distant and you don’t know why. He might be busy trying to shine at his new job. He could be attracted to a co-worker or neighbor. But it’s more likely that your communication is increasingly needy. He’s avoiding it. Sometimes an information vacuum inspires fear.

Without realizing it, you chose words that whine for reassurance of his affection and commitment.

Sometimes an information vacuum inspires fear.

The lack of feedback from your guy highlighted your deepest fears of loss or abandonment. Be assured: It’s natural to want to hold on to someone you care about. But you must accept that if a relationship you value changes or ends, you are still loveable, secure and esteemed.

You are enough as you are.

What would happen if you gave up trying to stay attached to your boyfriend and pulled back instead? Waves of loss or abandonment might flow into your life.

Good. Dive in. Beneath the surface is clarity about the amazing person you are. Every relationship

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is an invitation into spiritual evolution. Let yourself ride the communication disconnect and practice deeper self-love and compassion. Loving yourself right now means that you accept your boyfriend’s limitations (one-word responses) and make a mature decision about whether it works for you or not. Yes, that means you have a conversation about his communication style—and yours.

If you can’t or don’t want to, please end the relationship. Longdistance dating is difficult enough without the burden of poor communication. Find a guy who is happy to write his way into your heart. After all, isn’t that what you deserve? (The correct answer is yes!)

What do you think of a friend who never calls unless he wants something? One of my former coworkers, who I joined sometimes for happy hour, always asks me for free legal advice or hits me up to donate to fundraisers he is involved in. I am annoyed that he thinks our brief past connection is enough to sustain his tendency to take advantage of me. Am I off base here?

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Fuming about inconsiderate, socalled friends justifies shutting out the world. Rather than traveling through drama to get what you want, just choose to spend more time alone. And, the next time your friend asks for a favor, listen.

Then, say, “No.” Use his requests to practice drawing a boundary.

When you do, you will discover what a gift he is in your life. Ω

Meditation of the week: “Everything that needs to be said, has been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again,” wrote André Gide, the French writer. What voice do you ignore?

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Don’t mistake this for a traditional or sketch comedy. There are laughs, yes, but Axler’s story ensures that they’ll be the twitchy, nervous laughter that covers a barely suppressed cry of anguish.

Colby (Kelley Ogden, proving once again that she has the most expressive face in town) and Nick (Barry Hubbard) are anticipating the birth of their first child—but the sonogram shows … what? Is it just a bad image, or is their child really a smudge?

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than will admit to: a moment when immense and overwhelming love mingles torturously with the desire to destroy that thing which has now completely taken over one’s life.

This is honest, thoughtful and—yes— funny work. If it’s not disturbing as well, then you’re not paying attention. Ω Smudge, 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday; $15-$20.

KOLT Run Creations at the Ooley Theatre, 2007 28th Street; (915) 454-1500; www.koltruncreations.com. Through May 20.

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Sant Baljit Singh, the spiritual Master, teaches meditation on inner Light and Sound to anyone who is searching for a deeper meaning in life.

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What are these perfectly nice people to do when the baby they thought they’d bring home is tethered to tubes and bears less resemblance to the smiling infants on formula and diaper packages than to a stuffed toy? As their struggles, variously comic and heartbreaking, to cope with their new arrival unfold, we also meet Nick’s high-octane brother, Pete (Eric Baldwin), who has his own agenda in Nick’s life.

A wonderful set design by Nastassya Ferns that includes a crib that seems nothing short of magical, complete with flashing lights and colors (courtesy of light design and special effects by Owen Smith), remains flexible and holds up well with rapid scene changes.

But, ultimately, the power of the script is in the hands of the actors. What these three talented actors—under the direction of Lisa Thew—bring forward is a roughly comic (of the laugh so you don’t cry variety) examination of family, the meaning of life, surviving dashed hopes, and self-delusion. In Ogden and Hubbard, we also see a fantastic portrayal of the mixed emotions more new parents experience

It’s a big hit of magic from Folsom Lake College’s Falcon’s Eye Theatre in this production Carlo Gozzi’s The King Stag, adapted by Shelley Berc and Andrei Belgrader. Jamie Van Camp directs the commedia dell’arte piece, a throwback to when actors used masks and the physical comedy was rife with irreverent humor.

The plot of the play centers on a king (Ross Branch) who is trying to find an honest bride. After searching thousands of applicants, the king chooses one that truly loves him. When his mischievous right-hand man, Tartaglia (Michael Spargo), learns a secret spell that allows the user to swap bodies with a corpse, the kingdom is thrown into chaos.

Every facet of this show shines with talent. The costumes and set—especially the light work (designed by Les Solomon)— create a wonderfully immersive atmosphere for the audience to sink into. The masks are all well-made and suit the characters.

The production is full of excellent comic performances, but most notable are the hilariously voiced Pantalone (Ben Schilling) and the slapstick trio of Brighella (Gaby Haught), Smeraldina (Chloe Cornelius) and Truffaldino (Gavin Sellers). It also features a truly sweet romance between the king and his queen, Pantalone’s daughter, Angela (Matti McKenzie).

The King Stag is a perfect opportunity to see an ancient style of theater—one that proves fart jokes and tumbling remain as funny now as they were hundreds of years ago, but also ends with a message of tolerance and love.

—Maxwell McKee

The King Stag, 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday; 2 and 8 p.m.

Saturday; and 2 p.m. Sunday; $5-$15. Falcon’s Eye Theatre at Three Stages at Folsom Lake College, 10 College Parkway in Folsom; (916) 608-6800; www.falconseyetheatre.com.

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As John Barrymore, Gregory North brings gallant, impulsive, alcoholic talent to STC’s production of this show about one of the great American actors of the last century. Barrymore was both exceptionally volatile and exceptionally talented. This intimate production in the Pollock Theatre does the show justice. W 12:30 & 6:30pm; Th 6:30pm; F 8pm; Sa 2 & 8pm; Su 2pm. Through 5/8. $15-$38.

Sacramento Theatre Company, 1419 H St.; (916) 443-6722; www.sactheatre.org. J.H.

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Big Idea pulls out all the stops in this murder-for-hire dramedy, and when it says “no children admitted,” take it seriously. Tracy Letts’ play about a sociopathic hit man and the dysfunctional family that hires him has profanity; verbal, physical and sexual violence; and stupidity galore.

It’s also engaging, provocative and thoroughly adult theater, under the fine direction of Scott Divine and with a fantastic ensemble cast.

Th, F, Sa 8pm; Su 2:30pm. Through 5/5. $10-$15.

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The winning elements of this romantic comedy about a pharmaceutical company’s new drugs to combat workplace depression and heartbreak come from the pleasing variations that director Buck Busfield and his B Street regulars spring.

With Stephanie Althoz, Kurt Johnson and Jason Kuykendall. T 6:30pm; W 2 & 6:30pm; Th, F 8pm; Sa 5 & 9pm; Su 2pm. Through 6/10. $23-$35.

The B Street Theatre, 2711 B St.; (916) 443-5300; www.bstreettheatre.org. J.H.

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Celebration Arts stages the legendary Athol Fugard’s examination of post-apartheid South Africa, as the recently deceased white liberal Dawid (Jeff Bagley) is remembered by two women: his white wife (Carolyn Gregory) and his black mistress (Alana Mathews). Complicating matters is his angry, illegitimate biracial daughter (La Keisha Star Mondy). Th, F, Sa 8pm; Su 2pm.

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Based on a low-budget sci-fi movie, this musical parody holds up over time, with a meek and mild florist (Andrew J. Perez) making a Faustian bargain with a plant that has a taste for human flesh (operated by Aaron Hitchcock and voiced by Jeffrey Lloyd Heatherly). Directed by Michael Laun, with a smokin’ four-piece band led by Dan Pool. W 6:30pm; Th 12:30 & 6:30 pm; Th, F 8pm; Sa 2 & 8pm; Su 2pm. Through 5/20. $15-$38.

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The Avengers of Marvel Comics have had several changes of personnel since they first appeared in print in 1963. For the current movie’s purposes, they consist of (in no particular order): Tony Stark, a.k.a. Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), the self-described “billionaire genius playboy philanthropist” who also owns a flying suit of armor with self-contained weapons systems; Thor (Chris Hemsworth), the Norse god and prince of the realm of Asgard; Steve Rogers, a.k.a. Captain America (Chris Evans), the beneficiary of a World War II experiment in prowess enhancement, recently freed from more than 70 years of suspended animation in Arctic ice; and Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo), a brilliant scientist whose accidental exposure to gamma rays resulted in his transformation at angry moments into the Incredible Hulk.

In addition to these, the team includes two members with no superpowers but with mortal skills developed to the highest degree: Natasha Romanoff a.k.a. Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), a superspy and martial-arts expert; and Clint Barton a.k.a. Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner), the world’s greatest archer.

Rounding out the group are their handler, one-eyed Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson), and his assistants Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders) and Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg).

The Avengers revolves around what Alfred Hitchcock once called the “MacGuffin”—the thing everybody wants that moves the story along. Here the MacGuffin is the Tesseract, a source of infinite energy and unknown potential stolen from Thor’s father, Odin, king of Asgard.

As the movie opens, it’s in the hands of Fury’s

agency, SHIELD (Supreme Headquarters, International Espionage, Law-Enforcement Division), for study. But it’s immediately stolen

by Loki (Tom Hiddleston), Thor’s exiled adoptive brother, who intends to turn the Tesseract over to a warmongering alien race called the Chitauri. In return for this, they promise to make him supreme ruler of Earth. In the process, Loki subjects Hawkeye and scientist Erik Selvig (Stellan Skarsgård) to mind control, making them accomplices in his nefarious plans.

The plot of The Avengers is almost more trouble to recount than it’s worth. It’s enough to know that it’s all about regaining the Tesseract, thwarting Loki’s plans for world conquest and repelling the invasion of the Chitauri. And it gives Whedon—directing his own rewrite of Zak Penn’s script—all the hooks he needs to hang a slam-bang CGI-action-packed adventure on. If there’s a flaw in Whedon’s execution—and I almost hesitate to mention it—it’s the post-production addition of 3-D; the process adds little to the fun and forces us to watch the movie’s dimmed image through those uncomfortable glasses.

The Avengers revolves around what Alfred Hitchcock once called the “MacGuffin”—the thing everybody wants that moves the story along.

Here the MacGuffin is the Tesseract, a source of infinite energy and unknown potential stolen from Thor’s father, Odin.

But never mind that. Let’s concentrate on what The Avengers does right, like the unexpected, inspired casting of Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner and (through the miracle of motion-capture technology) the Hulk. Talk about a third-time charm: After a disastrous start with poor Eric Bana and a moderate improvement with Edward Norton, Marvel and Whedon have finally found the actor perfectly suited to portray Bruce Banner’s tortured tightrope walk of introverted genius and desperate anger management.

(Another nice touch: Lou Ferrigno supplies the Hulk’s voice.) The Hulk also provides the movie’s greatest and most hilarious moment, a surprise confrontation between Hulk and Loki that has to be seen to be (sort of) believed.

At the inevitable triumphant conclusion, as the Avengers disband and go their separate ways.

Nick Fury promises that they’ll be back someday, when they are most needed.

My guess is, that’ll be sometime around summer 2015. Ω

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Director Lee Hirsch’s well-intentioned documentary soberly depicts the emotional toll of bullying in the lives of five American families. It’s utterly heart-wrenching stuff, but only superficial in structure and in rigor, short on revelation, and tailored to an already wisedup 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 pseudogrown-up-addled world. J.K.

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The Cabin in the Woods

Five 20-something pals take off for a weekend retreat, where they are set on by murdering zombies. Producer Joss Whedon (who co-wrote with director Drew Goddard) has built a career on making silk purses out of sow’s ears, but sometimes a pig’s ear is just a pig’s ear. Here the hog gristle in question is the same dumbass slasher-movie hokum as last year’s Shark Night 3D, with cliché characters walking around marked “Kill me first” and “Kill me next.” Press materials warn reviewers against disclosing the movie’s “secrets,” but anyone with an IQ larger than their shoe size will see it all coming an hour ahead of time. Whedon is on probation now; he’d better be extra-good from here on out. Chris Hemsworth, Kristen Connolly, Richard Jenkins, Sigourney Weaver and others struggle to make this turkey fly. J.L.

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Damsels in Distress

Three coeds at a mid-level Ivy League college (Greta Gerwig, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Carrie MacLemore) spend their days running a suicide prevention center with a program of tap-dance therapy, and their nights dating their “intellectual inferiors” as an act of mercy. Writer-director Whit Stillman takes his time between movies—this is his first in 13 years, and only his fourth overall—but his wry smartypants wit always makes them seem worth the wait. The movie has a paradoxical aura of weighty triviality, and it takes place in a sort of vacuum—no iPhones, computers or Facebook— not unlike the vacuums in the three young ladies’ heads. Gerwig’s straight-faced earnestness is, in its diffident way, hilarious, and Stillman ices this airy pastry with an endearingly awkward musical number to wrap things up. J.L.

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The Five-Year Engagement

Faced with geographically opposed career opportunities, a newly engaged couple discovers that their life together has gotten in the way of their life together. And with this casually yet not automatically comedic concept, stars Jason Segel and Emily Blunt comport quite well. A Judd Apatow production, it runs purposefully long, loosening the corset of rom-com conventions to accommodate presumed authenticity, even if that includes misfired humor (beyond awkwardly funny, there is something nervier and more poignant: awkwardly not funny). As if in solidarity with all noncommittal young lovers everywhere, director Nicholas Stoller, Segel’s cowriter and fellow Apatow protégé, doesn’t push, instead just letting the movie coast along on baggy charm. A female co-writer might have kept some details in better check, but to complain of this is to seem stubbornly hard-hearted.

The amiable supporting cast includes Chris Pratt, Rhys Ifans, and Alison Brie. J.K.

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Sibling Belgian filmmakers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne bring their customary immediacy and unsentimental compassion to this naturalistic fable of an at-risk kid (Thomas Doret) who finds himself abandoned by his dad (Jérémie Renier) and taken in, practically at random, by a surrogate mom (Cécile De France). The magic of the Dardennes’ frugal style is an apparent detachment that gradually reveals itself as complete commitment. Long, nonchalantly attentive takes, punctuated only by a few choice bits of Beethoven, allow for a powerful and welcome clarity of human expression.

This lithe and solemnly kinetic little-blond-boy hero seems like an obverse of Spielberg’s depthless The Adventures of Tintin; his story is conveyed through rivetingly decisive

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The Deep Blue Sea

In post-war London, an emotionally volatile young woman (Rachel Weisz) flees her marriage to an aloof magistrate (Simon Russell Beale) for an affair with a differently aloof exRAF pilot (Tom Hiddleston). Destruction ensues. As adapted and directed by Terence Davies, Terence Rattigan’s 1952 play transcends merely tasteful period English melodrama; expectedly well-appointed and well-shot, it’s also somehow newly vitalized, a smoldering cauldron of soft lamplight and exquisitely intense feelings. Davies’ directing style is a carefully modulated meditation, and the script eschews sentimentality in favor of abetting elegant performances. What a pleasure, if also a heartbreak, to see how well these three actors respond. For aspiring thespians, or anyone who appreciates great displays of range, a Hiddleston double-feature of this and The Avengers is recommended. J.K.

moments of indignant determination, guileless self-deception, and touchingly credible moral reckoning. J.K.

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The Pirates! Band of Misfits

The leader of a band of well-meaning but inept buccaneers (voice by Hugh Grant) hopes to win the Pirate of the Year award, and his clumsy efforts lead to an improbable alliance with the young Charles Darwin (David Tennant)— while catching the evil eye of the villainous Queen Victoria (Imelda Staunton). Villainous Queen Victoria? Yep, that’s typical of the wacky turns in Gideon Defoe’s script (based on his novel). The plot of this farce from Britain’s Aardman Animations never quite becomes fully engaging— the participation of Nick Park of Chicken Run and Wallace & Gromit fame is sorely missed—but Defoe and directors Peter Lord and Jeff Newitt pepper the edges of the frame with enough amusing throwaway gags to keep us entertained.

The starry cast helps: Jeremy Piven, Salma Hayek, Anton Yelchin, etc. J.L.

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The Raven

Edgar Allan Poe (John Cusack) helps investigate a series of murders patterned on his own macabre stories. The idea has promise (even though it was swiped, slightly altered, from Se7en), but director James McTeigue, a decent cast (Luke Evans, Alice Eve, Brendan Gleeson, Sam Hazeldine) and a good production design (Roger Ford) contend in vain against one of the most moronically stupid screenplays since the advent of talking pictures—for example, the movie says Poe’s last days are a mystery (true), then has his every move plastered on the front pages of Baltimore newspapers (invented). The perpetrators of this anachronism-riddled mess are actor-turnedwriter Ben Livingston (turn back, Ben, turn back!) and someone named, no kidding, Hannah Shakespeare. (What’s in a name? In this case, absolutely nothing.) J.L.

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Safe

A former cage fighter and sudden widower (Jason Statham) fends off battalions of corrupt New York cops and thugs both Russian and Chinese just to protect a little girl (Catherine Chan) who’s memorized a valuable code. Boring us with superfluous setup, writer-director Boaz Yakin does at least take care to spread a pulp of uniform coarseness; at its best, his dialogue approximates the grimly expository B-noir patter of half a century ago. The problem, inasmuch as this stuff even deserves critique, is that it’s a thrill-less thriller, without even enough cathartic brutality. Quick cuts and camera jitters make the action hard to see and therefore less worth waiting for. Badness of this sort is not offensive, just deadeningly mediocre. James Hong, Chris Sarandon, and Robert John Burke co-star. J.K.

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- V.A. Musetto, NEW YORK POST

DAMSELS in DISTRESS

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

A British fisheries expert (Ewan McGregor) is approached by a publicrelations 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.

“HARROWING AND REWARDING EPIC.”

STARTS FRI., 5/4

FRI-TUES: 11:30AM, 2:00, 4:30, 7:05, 9:40PM

BULLY “SOBERING.” - Ronnie Scheib, VARIETY

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“A DISTINCT DELIGHT.”

“JUST WATCH THE DOGGONE MOVIE.”-

THE RAID Andrew O’Hehir, SALON.COM

- Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE

SALMON FISHING IN THE REDEMPTION YEMEN ENDS THUR., 5/3 WED-TUES: 11:15AM, 1:45, 4:15, 7:00, 9:30PM

WED/THUR: 11:00AM, 10:20PM

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Four couples (Michael Ealy and Taraji P. Henson; Romany Malco and Meagan Good; Jerry Ferrara and Gabriel Union; Terrence J and Regina Hall) travel the rocky road of romance, with the women taking tips from Steve Harvey’s book Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man. Keith Merryman’s script isn’t an adaptation of Harvey’s book, it’s a commercial for it, and a none-too-subtle one; Harvey makes several guest appearances, of course, and we halfexpect him to say, “Operators are standing by.”

Director Tim Story huffs and puffs trying to juggle all the stories, and things tend to bog down in the third act. Still, the actors are all extremely appealing (Henson and Union, as usual, particularly shine), and the movie goes down easily enough. Kevin Hart, as a newly divorced pal of the guys, has most of the best lines. J.L.

Larry (Sean Hayes), Curly (Will Sasso) and Moe (Chris Diamantopoulos) set out to raise $830,000 to save the orphanage where they’ve lived (unadopted) for 35 years. Writerdirectors Peter and Bobby Farrelly and cowriter Mike Cerrone do a reboot-cum-homage to the long-running slapstick franchise, a sort of movie equivalent of a tribute-band performance.

Such things are almost always a mistake (remember 1994’s The Little Rascals? Me neither.), but the Farrellys defy the odds. They understand the structure and spirit of the old Stooges shorts, but even more, their three stars are the pitch-perfect incarnations of Larry Fine and Curly Howard and Moe Howard—after all, the slightest mistake of body, face or voice would have sunk the whole show. Larry David, Jane Lynch, Sofia Vergara and others offer game support. J.L.

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MUSIC Bleepin’ stoked On spending Cinco de Mayo weekend at the Sacramento Electronic Music Festival

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Electronic music is way too complicated. Mostly because it seems listeners engage the genre from such diverse and rabid angles. There are beats-afiby cionado and synth-aholic insiders, post-ravers Nick Miller and dubstep fiends, nerdy and reclusive glitch nickam@ types, ambient trippers, beats-per-minute brain newsreview.com fryers, bros who only listen to Washed Out, and Rusko girls. Not to mention the countless haters, what with their sweepingly old-timey rejection of music made predominately by—forbid!— computers. Hard to believe these folk still exist.

But you hear them ad nauseam—“That racket!”—especially in Sacramento, where the bastions of guitar rock seem to have the coldest of dead hands.

Sleep on this year’s Sacramento Electronic Music Festival and (left to right) Shlohmo, Ride from Death Grips and Mux Mool will be doing face-palms all week.

The Sacramento Electronic Music Festival goes down Friday through Sunday, May 3-5, at Harlow’s (and the Momo Lounge upstairs); 2708 J Street; 8 p.m. each night; $13 or $30 for a three-day pass; http://sac electronicmusicfest.com.

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Anyway, these attitudes will obviously be shifting as electronic music continues to invade the mainstream—Grammy for Skrillex, anyone?

(I will repent for bringing him up.) But the point is that there really is a special beat for everyone at this weekend’s fourth annual Sacramento Electronic Music Festival.

This Thursday, Lorn is the opening-night main attraction: Milwaukee guy who put out a 2010 full-length on Flying Lotus’ Brainfeeder label with a penchant for linear upbeatness that embraces everlasting head-nod groovedom— very unlike the storybook noodling of Ninja Tune-label contemporary Amon Tobin. For the uninitiated: Bring your dad or uncle, stick a cold one in their hand, and they’ll be able to handle Lorn. It’s accessible.

Not sure the same applies to fellow SEMF Thursday nighters Jon Wayne (slow-fi bass bruiser with a dark side) or Dibiase (local producer, amazing patchwork and mashed sequences with chill-plow tendencies). But

that’s why there’ll be two floors of tunes— Harlow’s main stage and upstairs at Momo Lounge, plus a deejay tending to the back patio—all weekend.

Yes, the mantra of 2012 SEMF apparently is choices. Consider: Dusty Brown, DJ Nobody, Dolor, Dials, Doom Bird, Satellites, Adoptahighway, Paper Pistols, World Hood, Young Aundee and Master System all also perform on Thursday as well. Friday ups the ante: Bogl, El Conductor, A|d, Seventh Swami, Night Night, Ini, CrookOne, DJ Whores, Boss Magic, Tel Cairo, Tha Fruitbat, Bad Looks, Giraffage, Little Foxes, Jantsen, Mux Mool.

Just leave 13 bucks at the door, please. Or fork over $30 for a three-day pass, which gets you into the probablygonna-sell-out Saturday-night main event: Death Grips.

Aye, what to write about Death Grips? For those not up to speed: They’re a Sacto trio, inked to Sony’s Epic Records and are one of the more ubiquitous, even trendy acts in the nation. Which is kind of wild to fathom, because they’re withdrawn Sacramento dudes. Andy Morin—veteran local producer—is the ringleader, and Zach Hill his proverbial partner in grime. The two have big, inimitable thumbs on the power of the beat: producing undeniably addictive hooks, such as the choruses of “The Fever (Aye Aye)” and “Hustle Bones,” two patented bangers from their major label debut The Money Store. Along with emcee Stefan Burnett, who goes by stage name Ride and raps with a furious baritone idiolect, the trio merges dance and a punk ethos in an original way many find raw and refreshing.

Sacramento, where the bastions of guitar rock seem to have the coldest of dead hands.

Saturday night also is a stacked deck: Los Angeles producer Shlohmo, San Francisco synth-funk party starters B Bravo and the Starship Connection, local off-kilter rhythm-andbeats maven Raleigh Moncrief, plus Salva, James and Evander, Light Year, Favors, Yalls, Melee Beats, D.A.M.B., Ryan Lindow, Eames, Wes Steed and Ross Hammond, Thriftcar, and Chachi Jones.

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Operation shadow dancing Concerts in the Park returns: Let’s put aside all the bad juju, bruised egos and general butt-hurtness and show up for this year’s Friday Night Concerts in the Park kickoff on Friday, May 4, because some things never change: It still goes down at Cesar Chavez Plaza (albeit newly remodeled), still at 5 p.m. and ending just after sunset. The Budweiser will still flow, the bands will still rock, and maybe even that one shadow-dancing woman stage right will still be grooving, again, just like last year, and the year before.

DJ Shaun Slaughter returns to provide the between-band jams. Will he be flying through the park in a hovering deejay booth? You’ll have to show up to find out. Storytellers will bring the ska-reggae, ditto the soulful Island of Black and White. And then everpopular rock-reggae (I’m sensing a theme here) troupe Arden Park Roots.

Bike-valet service is available.

Look for my live tweets from the park: @NickMiller916.

Big-time Grimey-gig alert: Bassmusic dance night Grimey has been instrumental in the planning of this year’s Sacramento Electronic Music Festival. And, at the same time, there’s also an official off-the-hook Grimey this Tuesday, May 8, at TownHouse

Lounge (1517 21st Street, 9 p.m., cover varies). U.K. bass legend Addison Groove will stop in Midtown as part of the Surefire Sound Spring Tour.

Fellow Brit Doc Daneeka, as well, plus the usually Grimey crew. Don’t flake, flakesters.

Feel the flow, again, with poems: So-called “preview” gigs for the annual In the Flow Festival begin this Monday, May 7 (see Eight Gigs on the page 45 for Rachel Leibrock’s preview). But the festival begin for real on Wednesday, May 9—with poetry: ElectroPoetic Coffee, Bob Stanley, Josh Fernandez and Blaqulisted perform at the Sacramento Poetry Center (1719 25th Street, 7 p.m., $5-$10 sliding scale).

Look for more In the Flow Festival coverage in next week’s issue.

Freedom by the dozen: The 12th incarnation of the not-quite-annual KDVS festival Operation: Restore Maximum Freedom has been announced.

The lineup feels different than in the past, which in part might be due to new faces booking across the causeway. Here’s a peep: Buk Buk Bigups, Yi, World Hood, No Babies, Burglars, Dibiase, Raleigh Moncrief and more.

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For the uninitiated, O:RMF— sometimes called “Ormf”—is a relaxing, daylong outdoor festival at Woodland’s Plainfield Station (23944 Country Road 98 in Woodland).

There’s ample grass to, uh, get limber on, picnic tables in the shade, eats and pitchers of beer at the greasy spoon, and, of course, a cool slate of eclectic rock and electronic acts. All for $10.

This year’s O:RMF goes down on Saturday, May 19, and tickets are available at … uh, somewhere (sorry, we couldn’t track any down online—yet).

Don’t sleep on ’em: One of the coolest local music stories of the year so far is local beats troupe the Sleeprockers’ newfound collaboration with hip-hop legends Hieroglyphics.

And this Thursday, May 3, is your chance to see the two acts perform together—and for only 10 bucks—on Sacramento State’s campus. Souls of Mischief and Pep Love will open for the two acts, who’ll do their new thing inside the University Union Ballroom (6000 J Street, 7:30 p.m., $10-$15, www.sacstateunique.com).

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Start by blending gangster rap, dubstep, jungle, and drum and bass. Sprinkle with glitch. Boil down to a sticky resin. This is Bassnectar. The San Francisco native, known for his genre-defying sub-killers, remains as underground as you can get after selling out arenas following his new album Vava Voom— which features Lupe Fiasco on the title track and Zion I’s Amp Live on “Ugly.” Although there will not be any hologram performances (that we know of), the ELECTRONIC Burning Man alum’s appearance at the Memorial Auditorium Friday night promises an experience unlike any other, as the City of Trees gets pollinated with womp. 1400 J Street, www.bassnectar.net.

The In the Flow Festival—which is produced

by Sacramento guitarist Ross Hammond and features jazz and improvisaJAZZ tional groups—officially starts Wednesday, May 9. But if you just can’t wait until then, check out this Friday-night show, billed as a “pre-fest live music event.” Held at the newly opened Midtown Village Cafe (formerly Mondo Bizzaro Café and Butch N Nellie’s), it features three jazzy groups—the Anthony Coleman Quartet (pictured), Chikading and Dino Piranha—for one low price. To top it off, you can purchase advance series passes for the actual In the Flow Festival, happening May 9 through 14. 1827 I Street, www.intheflowsacramento.com.

—Andrew Bell

Power Balance Pavilion, 8 p.m., $37-$47

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

Midtown Village Cafe, 8 p.m., $6

Memorial Auditorium, 7 p.m., $32

The Black Keys

Arts & Leisure

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When a forest catches fire, some beautiful things are lost. But the nutrient-rich soil left by wildfires creates wonderful new life. Like a young sequoia that will grow 150 feet tall, Arts & Leisure bloomed from the ashes of Baby Grand, and POP shares the same name as Baby Grand’s final album, as well as most of its members. Its sound is an amalgamation of four decades of power pop-inspired indie rock (think Buzzcocks meets the GoGo’s). Arts & Leisure will be playing at Bow & Arrows with Allen Clapp and His Orchestra and Knock Knock opening. The show is all ages. 1815 19th Street, www.facebook.com/arts.leisure.music.

—Lory Gil

Akron, Ohio, spawned Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders and members of Devo. Ten years ago, it also became the launchpad of soaring blues-rock duo the Black Keys. Guitaristvocalist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney channel earthy, retro, garage and chitlin-circuit influences through their Rubber Capital of the World roots. Their hook-driven songs crawl with raunchy guitar riffs, primitive percussion, handROCK claps, raw passion, grit, infectious choruses and minimalist lyrics about women and relationships. Their current tour supports their seventh album, El Dorado, and includes bassist Gus Seyffert and keyboardist-guitarist John Wood. 1 Sports Parkway, www.theblackkeys.com.

—Jonathan Mendick

ACE OF SPADES THURSDAY, MAY 3

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SATURDAY, MAY 5

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 16

THE SUPERVILLAINS KAYAVIBE - OFFICIAL RESPONSE DOGFOOD - EAZY DUB

MONDAY, MAY 21

5/25 Destruction 5/26

Winds of Plague

5/27 Mishka/Anuhea 5/31

(HED) Pe & Mushroomhead

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Suicidal Tendencies

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Yo Gotti

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Left Over Crack

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Mickey Avalon

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Damage Over Time

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My Darkest Days

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Mayer Hawthorne & The County

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Reverend Horton Heat

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Sam Peligroso Sam Miranda celebrates both the release of his new EP and also 20 years of music in Sacramento this evening, which just so happens to be party-night-of-the-year Cinco de Mayo. And he’s got a pretty stacked deck: The Sol Peligro frontman going at his solo stuff, plus Mahtie Bush, DJ Los, Olmeca (from Los Angeles), the Desperados, La Noche Oskura and O Street. But let’s rewind to the man of the hour: Miranda’s new band, Sam Peligroso, which is rap en HIP-HOP español. Not a misprint. DJ Los is also in on the act, along with an accordion player, a hype man and a conga player.

I’d write something clever in Spanish, but no puedo. 1400 Alhambra Boulevard, http://sampeligroso.eventbrite.com.

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friday / mux mool, jantse, little foxes, giraffage, bad looks, tha fruitbat, tel cairo, boss magic, crookone, ini, night night, seventh swami, a|d, el conductor, bogl, billy lane, l raq

from “the voice” with special guest reggie ginn

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ledward kaapana

saturday / shlohmo, salva, light year, death grips, b bravo and starship connection, raleigh moncrief, james and evander, favors, yalls, melee beats, d.a.m.b., ryan lindow, eames, wes steed & ross hammond, thriftcar, chachi jones, al lover, adam j, sam i jam, taylor cho

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May 17 Sizzling Sirens May 18 Cheeseballs May 19 Midnight Players May 19 Steelin’ Dan May 23 Clap Your Hands Yeah May 24 Holmes brothers May 26 b-side Players May 26 Jon Mclaughlin May 31 Young Dubliners June 1 Cash’d Out June 1 Reminisce June 2 Juliana Zachariou June 3 A Silent Film June 8 Cream of Clapton June 16 the blues broads June 19 Parlotones June 20 Joe Craven June 21 Sizzling Sirens June 22 the Hits June 23 Midnight Players June 24 Muriel Anderson June 29& 30 tainted love July 3 James Hunter July 7 Joel the band July 19 Asleep at the Wheel Aug 8 ottmar liebert Aug 13 Heartless bastards Aug 18 Mother Hips Aug 24 Dan Curcio Aug 25 Hapa

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When The Voice first debuted on NBC, it was quickly tagged as American Idol lite. Or that-show-sucks lite. But—like ROCK having a sweet tooth for karaoke—there’s a guilty-pleasure factor to The Voice, which lead to the discovery of Whitney Myer during season two. She was, of course, eliminated early on—but she’ll do an encore this Wednesday at an early all-ages show at Harlow’s, along with local rock chanteuse Reggie Ginn. Myer hails from nearby Reno and rocks out onstage as a four-piece with members of the Myer clan. Question: Will Ginn be the next local to make it onto The Voice? 2708 J Street, http://whitneymyerband.com.

Lousiana-born singer-songwriter Victoria Williams is probably best known as the subject of 1993’s Sweet Relief: A Benefit for Victoria Williams. The record, featuring Pearl Jam, Soul Asylum and Lucinda Williams, followed Williams’ multiple sclerosis diagnosis—an ailment she found difficult to treat without health insurance. The Sweet Relief album led to a foundation by FOLK the same name benefiting uninsured musicians. It also led to a bigger audience for Williams’ Minnie Mouse voice and her incomparable talent for scavenging the raw, emotional terrain of her Southern upbringing on tracks such as “Crazy Mary,” “Weeds” and “Frying Pan.” 226 Broad Street in Nevada City, www.victoriawilliams.net.

Thursday, May 3

acouStic 9:30pm // no cover

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Harlow’s, 7 p.m., $7

Haven Underground, 7:30 p.m., $10-$20

Before Drake and Nicki Minaj, New Orleans rapper Curren$y was Lil’ Wayne’s prospect for Young Money Entertainment in 2004.

Taking the backseat for years, Curren$y left in 2007, and hasn’t looked HIP-HOP back, producing eight albums and 11 mixtapes since. His latest, The Stoned Immaculate, shows us why he is the best artist with a dollar sign in his name. Curren$y’s typical formula goes like this: Take weed, add money, add women, subtract any attachment to said women, include cameos from Wale and Wiz Khalifa, and add more weed. Smoke DZA, the Jets and many other rappers open this Ace of Spades show. 1417 R Street, www.currensyspitta.com.

—Nick Miller

Whitney Myer Band

Victoria Williams

Ace of Spades, 7 p.m., $19

Blue Lamp, 8 p.m., $7-10

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“Joy Cole’s passing is an immense loss for our community and for all of us who were touched by her love and dedication,” said Courtney Sheats, regional director with medical-cannabis-advocacy group Americans for Safe Access. “Joy has been a longstanding champion as a grassroots organizer and a dear friend to so many of us. I am so thankful to have gotten a chance to stand with her during many patient events and to have known her personally as a graceful, passionate and inspiring woman.”

Born in Southern California, Cole got her start as a cannabis activist shortly upon graduating from Ventura High School.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): On the one

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): From an

astrological perspective, it’s the new year season; you’re beginning a fresh cycle. How would you like to celebrate? You could make a few resolutions—maybe pledge to wean yourself from a wasteful habit or self-sabotaging vice. You could also invite the universe to show you what you don’t even realize you need to know. What might also be interesting would be to compose a list of the good habits you will promise to cultivate, and the ingenious breakthroughs you will work toward, and the shiny yet gritty dreams you will court and woo.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “My father-

in-law was convinced that his sheepdogs picked up his thoughts telepathically,” writes Richard Webster in his article “Psychic Animals.” “He needed only to think what he wanted his dogs to do, and they would immediately do it. He had to be careful not to think too far ahead, as his dogs would act on the thought he was thinking at the time.” To this I’d add that there is a wealth of other anecdotal evidence, as well as some scientific research, suggesting that dogs respond to unspoken commands.

I happen to believe that the human animal is also capable of picking up thoughts that aren’t said aloud. And I suspect that you’re in a phase when it will be especially important to take that into account. Be discerning about what you imagine, because it could end up in the mind of someone you know!

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Your right

brain and left brain have rarely been on such close speaking terms as they are right now. Your genitals and your heart seem to be in a good collaborative groove as well.

Even your past and your future are mostly in agreement about how you should proceed in the present. To what do we owe the pleasure of this rather dramatic movement toward integration? Here’s one theory: You’re being rewarded for the hard work you have done to take good care of yourself.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): A South African biologist was intrigued to discover an interesting fact about the rodent known as the elephant shrew: It much prefers to slurp the nectar of pagoda lilies than to nibble on peanut butter mixed with apples and rolled oats. The biologist didn’t investigate whether mountain goats would rather eat grasses and rushes than ice cream sundaes or whether lions like fresh-killed antelopes better than Caesar salad, but I’m pretty sure they do. In a related subject, Leo, I hope that in the coming weeks you will seek to feed yourself exclusively with the images, sounds, stories and food that truly satisfy your primal hunger rather than the stuff that other people like or think you should like.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): There are only

a very few people whose ancestors were not immigrants. They live in Africa, where Homo sapiens got their start. As for the rest of us, our forbears wandered away from their original home and spread out over the rest of the planet. We all came from somewhere else! This is true on many other levels, as well. In accordance with the astrological omens, I invite you Virgos to get in touch with your inner immigrant this week. It’s an excellent time to acknowledge and celebrate the fact that you are nowhere near where you started from, whether you gauge that psychologically, spiritually or literally.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “When I’m good, I’m very good,” said Hollywood’s original siren, Mae West, “but when I’m bad, I’m better.” I think that assertion might at times make sense coming out of your lips in the next two weeks. But I’d like to offer a variation that could also serve you well. It’s articulated by my reader Sarah Edelman, who says, “When I’m good, I’m very good, but when I’m batty, I’m better.” Consider trying out both of these attitudes, Libra, as you navigate your way through the mysterious and sometimes unruly fun that’s headed your way.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The Weekly

World News, my favorite source of fake news, reported on a major development in the art world: An archaeologist found the lost arms of the famous Venus de Milo statue. They were languishing in a cellar in Southern Croatia. Hallelujah! Since her discovery in 1820, the goddess of love and beauty has been incomplete. Will the Louvre Museum in Paris, where she is displayed, allow her to be joined by her original appendages and made whole again? Let’s not concern ourselves now with that question.

Instead, please turn your attention to a more immediate concern: the strong possibility that you will soon experience a comparable development, the rediscovery of and reunification with a missing part of you.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

Seventeenth-century physicians sometimes advised their patients to consume tobacco as a way to alleviate a number of different maladies, from toothaches to arthritis. A few doctors continued recommending cigarettes as health aids into the 1950s. This bit of history may be useful to keep in mind, Sagittarius. You’re in a phase when you’re likely to have success in hunting down remedies for complaints of both a physical and psychological nature. But you should be cautious about relying on conventional wisdom, just in case some of it resembles the idea that cigarettes are good for you.

And always double check to make sure that the cures aren’t worse than what they are supposed to fix.

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

space isn’t really that far away. As astronomer Fred Hoyle used to say, you’d get there in an hour if you could drive a car straight up. I think there’s a comparable situation in your own life, Capricorn. You’ve got an inflated notion of how distant a certain goal is, and that’s inhibiting you from getting totally serious about achieving it.

I’m not saying that the destination would be a breeze to get to. My point is that it’s closer than it seems.

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

most Westerners hear the word “milk,” they surmise it has something to do with cows. But the fact is that humans drink milk collected from sheep, goats, camels, yaks, mares, llamas and reindeer. And many grocery stores now stock milk made from soybeans, rice, almonds, coconut, hemp and oats. I’m wondering if maybe it’s a good time for you to initiate a comparable diversification, Aquarius. You shouldn’t necessarily give up the primal sources of nourishment you have been depending on.

Just consider the possibility that it might be fun and healthy for you to seek sustenance from some unconventional or unexpected sources.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You wouldn’t

want to play a game of darts with an inflatable dartboard, right? If you were a smoker, you’d have little interest in a fireproof cigarette. And while a mesh umbrella might look stylish, you wouldn’t be foolish enough to expect it to keep the rain out. In the spirit of these truisms, Pisces, I suggest you closely examine any strategy you’re considering to see if it has a built-in contradiction. Certain ideas being presented to you—perhaps even arising from your own subconscious mind—may be inherently impractical to use in the real world.

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Especial para el 5 de Mayo Don Vicente Aguilar abrió las puertas de su restaurante Taqueria El Paisano hace siete años. Don Vicente ofrece comida mexicana al estilo Michoacán y Guanajuato. El local ubicado en 3900 Fruitridge Road es un humilde restaurante cubierto con láminas de plástico, lo que lo hace ver más al estilo mexicano, cuenta con un amplio menú de antojitos mexicanos.

Don Vicente “El Paisano” (como se llama así mismo), comenzó su carrera culinaria vendiendo elotes y tamales en las calles de Sacramento en el año de 1990. Don Vicente invita al público en general diciendo: “Si quiere sentirse fuerte y sano, venga a comer antojitos con El Paisano.”

¿Por qué cree que los americanos comen muchas tortillas fritas antes de su comida?

Lo que pasa es que las tortilla frita es un aperitivo que les abre el apetito antes de servirles la comida, y para que no se enfaden y piensen que es muy tardado.

Además para tenerlos más contentos y para que sigan visitando hay que atenderlos bien, al estilo México.

¿Cuál es el platillo platillo preferido de los Americanos?

Bueno, pues la verdad es que los Americanos que ha venido aquí a probar mi comida, siempre piden los elotes, los tamales, las enchiladas y otros antojitos Mexicanos. En verdad les gusta muchísimo mi comida por que has de cuenta que estamos en México. Como los americanos van mucho de vacaciones a México, estos platillos los prueban allá y aquí los encuentran con Vicente “El Paisano.”

¿Cuál es el platillo mas popular entre la comunidad latina?

Pues mire, no hay ningún platillo en específico. Al latino y le gusta de todo, siendo platillo mexicano hasta los americanos dicen “quiero probar.” Por ejemplo, el pozole y el menudo, lo hacemos de viernes a domingo.

¿Qué piensa de la manera en que los americanos celebran el 5 de Mayo, ya que en México no es la mayor celebración?

Pues ya en la actualidad en la que estamos, el americano y el hispano, ya estamos revueltos. Ahora el americano habla español y el hispano habla ingles.

¿Como celebra El Paisano el 5 de Mayo?

El 5 de mayo viene la caravana de Charros y yo pongo mi publicidad ahí por Franklin Boulevard anunciando los antojitos “El Paisano.” Mi menú no cambia, es el mismo para ese día. Pero para el 10 de mayo les

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damos comida gratis a las madrecitas que vengan aquí a comer. Se trae el mariachi y se le regala un clavel a cada mamá.

¿Qué le disgusta de la cocina méxicoamericana?

¿Cuáles son las diferencias entre la cocina mexicana aquí en los E.U. y la de México?

Pues la verdad no le podría dar una respuesta, por que aquí yo vendo de todo.

Pero yo hago cosas que le gustan tanto al hispano, como al americano.

Bueno, pues la diferencia solamente está en el paladar, el que es mexicano sabe lo que es comida mexicana. Mis recetas las traje de México. Las llevé a cabo aquí en “El Paisano” porque miré que a la gente latina le gustaba mi comida, y seguí como el que toca la guitarra: adaptándole otra cuerda, adaptándole otro son y dándole sabor a la comida.

¿Qué platillo se recomienda para la cruda?

Para una mala cruda yo le recomiendo el pozole. Está picosito, pero no quiero decir que se ahoga uno con el picante, nomás lo suficiente para que se sienta feliz.

¿Cuál es el platillo más autentico que tiene en su menú?

Bueno, pues todos los platillos. Yo vendo tacos de lengua, tacos de pescado, tacos de carnitas, uchepos, tamales de pollo, elote y puerco, etc.

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¿Cuál es lo peor que usted considera acerca de la comida méxico-americana?

Es algo que en realidad no puedo lamentar, pues hay imitaciones. Y debidamente yo aquí ando al pendiente de que mis comidas sean 100% mexicanas, y que llegue al paladar y que no se arrepienta la gente para que no deje de venir. Aquí está bien cocinado todo, se tarda un poquito pero se sirve bien.

¿Alguna vez ha ido a Taco Bell? Y que pensó? ¡Oh, sí! Pues quisieron imitarme y no funcionó.

Quisieron hacer lo mismo que vendo yo aquí y lo pusieron en el menú. Es que para esto se necesita muchísimo talento, tener paciencia y saber darle buen sabor a la comida. Allá es comida rápida y aquí se tarda un poquito pero está muy bien preparada. Ω Read the English version of this interview online at www.newsreview.com. Happy Cinco de Mayo!

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