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Bring it home Every morning I stop at the coffeeshop a block from my house, and every morning a guy offers to clean my car windows for change. I don’t know his story, but he’s polite, softspoken and clearly in need of basic creature comforts. He’s also just one of many faces who represents Sacramento’s myriad challenges to me: He needs money, my friend hopes she’ll keep her house, and my neighbor is looking for a job. I thought of all that as I watched the season premiere for Parks and Recreation, the sharply written comedy about small-town politics. The episode centered around fictional protagonist Leslie Knope’s visit to Washington, D.C., where she met real high-profile politicians including Sen. Barbara Boxer. Here, Knope, newly elected to the city council in Pawnee, Indiana, worried that her mission and accomplishments paled in importance. It’s just a made-forTV premise, of course, but one that reflects a real-world disconnect that seems to occur every presidential election. Politics, unarguably, start at home. Indeed, in recent weeks, SN&R’s editorial board has met with many prospective Leslie Knopes— would-be council members vying to represent the city’s districts. Several common themes emerged during these talks: business and job creation, public safety, and the fostering of arts. None, however, was as prevalent as this basic idea: Whether we’re talking about the homeless guy asking for change, the friend struggling to keep his business open or the family member looking for a job, one needn’t look to Washington to realize there’s so much as stake, city by city, neighborhood by neighborhood and, always, block by block. —Rachel Leibrock

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Christopher Nathan Smith unemployed

Equal rights between male and females. I feel like females got their equal rights, but now they’re getting more. I know a lot of females who don’t know shit, but have a baby, and they are taken care of. They still got the nerve to say something about a young black male that is actually trying to do something.

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John Lourdas real-estate broker

The way the court here operates. For filing and all that, you know people are going through a lot of hell. There is a lot of filing, but they are not expediting. They don’t work fast enough. Paperwork is delayed. Next time, if I have a case, I will give it to my attorney and forget it.

Christopher McMahon flooring contractor

Less technology. It just seems that through the years of technology building, we have thrown our minds away from more important subjects. People are always texting on their phones and not collectively thinking. ... I know we had more benefits in the past because of less technology. I would like to see it slow down a little bit.

Tracy Lynn Hoffmann state worker

It would be the political climate of the world, the whole world. I would like to see the corruption in our politics gone. Eradicated. [It’s] out of hand. It seems to be a battle between the rich and the poor. I feel as though the middle class is getting pushed out of the realm, out of the playing field. Either you’re going to have to be rich or poor.

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I would change people’s beliefs on alternative faiths and alternative religions, such as Paganism, Wicca [and] goddess worshippers. ... Mainstream religions have spoken against it for so long, that people want to shut it out. They don’t want to take a look at it and see the beauty. So a little more open-mindedness.

Sherron Ingram musician

I am just really fed up. I am here making a complaint with my neighbor. It is unfortunate that I have been disturbed by these dogs that she has. All summer long I have suffered. I have been sleep-deprived. Apparently, there is nothing I can do about it. I think the system needs to intervene. These dogs have more rights than humans.

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Re “Justice and Warren” by Nick Miller (SN&R Frontlines, September 20): It was my perception that the SN&R was a news organization, until you printed this one-sided attack ad on Allen Warren. Warren has owned his business for over 20 years. He’s created jobs and brought money into the district. His business survived the biggest recession since the Great LETTER OF Depression when many others didn’t. To use pending litigation as evidence of wrongdoing is just THE WEEK bad journalism. I knew this campaign would get dirty, and now your paper has proven that. Michelle Gladney Sacramento

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Re “What’s the score?” (SN&R Bites, September 20) and “K.J. Inc.” by Cosmo Garvin (Feature Story, August 16): I wonder if Sacramento City Council has secret meetings where they play the Megadeth song, “Crush ’Em?” It’s strange that they can put a curfew on free speech. Just one more way to make citizens feel powerless. I guess they gotta show who the boss is, so we don’t forget. Maybe I’ll worry less about Occupy Sacramento and the city council, and spend my time accepting donations without reporting them. Oh, wait a minute—that’s the mayor’s job.

Re “Jim Crow 2012” by Jeff vonKaenel (SN&R Greenlight, September 13): The drug war has been waged in a racist manner since its inception. The Harrison Narcotics Act of 1914 was preceded by a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment. Opium was identified with Chinese laborers, marijuana with Mexicans and cocaine with AfricanAmericans. Racial profiling continues to be the norm, despite similar rates of drug use for minorities and whites. Support for the drug war would end overnight if whites were incarcerated for drugs at the same rate as minorities. The drug war is a cultural inquisition, not a public-health campaign. Prison cells are inappropriate as health interventions and ineffective as deterrents. It’s time to declare peace in the failed drug war and begin treating all substance abuse, legal or otherwise, as the public-health problem it is. Thanks to public-education efforts, tobacco use has declined without any need to wage war on tobacco addicts and farmers. Mandatory minimum prison sentences, civil asset forfeiture, random drug testing and racial profiling are not the most cost-effective means of discouraging unhealthy choices.

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False outrage and evil ways Re “Call the doctor” by Rachel Leibrock (SN&R Editor’s Note, September 13): The problem with your Editor’s Note is that you fail to mention that this girl at “urgent care” could just have gone to one of the many emergency rooms at a hospital and received treatment for free. That’s right—it would not cost her a dime. Why would she go to a generally privatized thing like urgent care? The big part you’re not telling is that where treating the arm would have supposedly cost a minimum of $220, it will now cost them $1,000 a year (minimum) for insurance. This does not include the costs that society will bear. Yes, liberals, let’s pay for condoms and sex changes, because the 45 percent of us who work can afford it. So as a nation, we will get poorer and poorer, which is the point, because you want us to live in the Dark Ages, or like Africa, where fraud and unethical behavior is the norm, and there is one nurse for every 10,000 patients. Give me a break from your false outrage and your evil ways. William Kennedy, R.N. Sacramento

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It distresses me that Sacramento authorities would be so careless with their guardianship of the people living here that they would jeopardize their health and strength in this way. It has no nutrient value. And the city has added it to our water which we drink daily in varying amounts. Noni Redmond via email

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Re “Who’s who of Prop. 37” by Christine G.K. LaPado-Breglia (SN&R Green Days, September 6): We already have labeling of foods: calories, fats, the breakdown of nutrients and ingredients, country of origin, etc. Almost 50 countries around the world including Japan, the entire European Union countries, Russia and China label [genetically modified organism] foods. I don’t think genetically modified foods are healthy. The [U.S. Food and Drug Administration] has not conducted a single independent test of any genetically engineered product. The agency simply accepts the testing completed and provided by the biotechnology companies. Conflict of interest? Only one human study has been done with GMOs and, of the seven people involved, three had adverse effects after eating the genetically modified food. We can trust the FDA, government and corporations to look after our welfare, right? Unfortunately, I don’t think so. ...

Careless with fluoridation Re “Fluoride fail” by Brian Lambert (SN&R Guest Comment, September 13): Many thanks to Brian Lambert for his essay on the ills of water fluoridation. I remember that when this notion of adulterating Sacramento’s water supply was first proposed some years ago. There was an outcry, but there were also powerful voices supporting the idea. Instead of proposing low-cost dental service to financially stressed families, the city decided that water fluoridation citywide would provide good teeth naturally to poorer children. Unfortunately, it also provided young people with an increased risk of cancer and elders with bones more likely to break. ... They die with good teeth, presumably, but I doubt that this is any consolation. |

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FRONTLINES Blue state, red meat This November’s ballot contains two criminaljustice initiatives that could reshape the way Californians view law and order Don’t believe the cable-news chatter about California being some bastion of weak-tea liberal values. When it comes to our criminal-jusby Raheem F. Hosseini tice system—and its penchant for mandatory-sentencing guidelines, gang raheemh@ enhancements and the death penalty—the newsreview.com Golden State is as red meat as they come. “It’s remarkably out of sync with the rest of the country,” contends University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law professor Michael Vitiello. Which is why two initiatives on this November’s ballot are rustling some eyebrows. The impressively funded, broadly supported Proposition 36 aims to modify a three-strikes law that voters overwhelmingly adopted way back in 1994. Specifically, Prop. 36’s authors want to make sure that anyone going away for 25 years to life on a third-strike conviction is being prosecuted for a serious or violent offense rather than for stealing videotapes. (More on that later.) Proposition 34, meanwhile, is taking on the death penalty itself—not because it’s unethical for a government to execute its own citizens, but because it’s too damn expensive. A study last year by former prosecutor and federal judge Arthur L. Alarcon says it cost California roughly $4 billion to snuff out 13 death-row inmates since voters reinstated capital punishment in 1978. Prop. 34 promises to save hundreds of millions of dollars a year, and put a chunk of that toward solving more murders and rapes. Likewise, Prop. 36 makes its case on largely pragmatic grounds, with proponents dangling the juicy carrot of $70 million to $90 million in projected annual savings if the measure passes. With two ballot initiatives that fly in the face of the accepted “tough on crime” paradigm, the question becomes whether California is experiencing something of a sea change when it comes to its counterintuitively hard-assed stance on crime and punishment. BEFORE

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Proposition 36 would modify California’s three-strikes law and permit prisoners to apply for resentencing. Experts say this will dramatically change the state’s approach to criminal justice.

The short answer is: nah. “I see only a weak trend, not one that’s going over a cliff,” observed Vitiello, an expert on sentencing reform. Lumping the two propositions together to form such an argument is dicey, Vitiello added, because one measure is a serious re-examination of how fairly the criminal-justice system acquits itself, and the other is about not killing bad people. Which doesn’t have a chance. Sorry.

San Francisco County has a total of 43 three-strikers in prison. Sacramento County currently has 574. Despite some big-name endorsements and a $5.5 million war chest, support for repealing the state’s death penalty and replacing it with automatic life sentences is trailing by an 8-point margin, according to the latest polling data from the California Business Roundtable and Pepperdine University School of Public Policy. The odds of modifying the current three-strikes law are much more favorable, however. Tracking of that initiative by CBR/PU shows current support at 81.1 percent, and has never dropped below 71.7 percent. “The three-strikes initiative really looks like it has a chance to pass,” Vitiello said.

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Then again, the criminal-law professor and avid blogger thought the same exact thing in 2004, when a very similar reform effort marched under the Proposition 66 banner. As in this race, those in favor of modifying three strikes had the money, favorable public opinion and scattered organized opposition. That is, until days before the election, when Broadcom Corporation co-founder Henry Nicholas, whose sister was murdered in 1983, pumped millions of dollars of his personal wealth into a television- and radio-ad campaign that convinced voters that they would be up to their necks in homicidal maniacs if Prop. 66 passed. The initiative ended up losing by a 5-point margin. Barring a similar last-minute cash dump that re-energizes a slumping opposition, Vitiello doesn’t expect a repeat come-from-behind loss this November. This time around, district attorneys in the counties of Los Angeles, San Francisco and Santa Clara have thrown their support behind the reform effort, which has raised $1.8 million to the opposition’s $100,000. And the two Stanford University law professors behind this year’s model crafted the measure in such a way that perpetrators of certain nonviolent, nonserious crimes involving sex, drugs or guns won’t benefit from the law’s modified sentencing mechanisms. That doesn’t mean there aren’t those who still think the initiative is a terrible idea. If adopted, the law would be retroactive, meaning someone like 25-to-lifer

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Leandro Andrade could petition the court to resentence him for the 17-year-old crime of filching $150 worth of videotapes in Southern California. Andrade is in the unique position of being a poster child for each side of the Prop. 36 debate. The California District Attorneys Association—which, ironically, opposed three strikes back in 1994— released a position paper this month citing Andrade as someone with “a horrific criminal history” who might be sprung early if the ballot measure passes. A U.S. military veteran who has struggled with drug addiction, Andrade’s case went all the way to the Supreme Court in 2003; the high court upheld a 50-year sentence for Andrade, who had multiple prior convictions for residential burglary and drug trafficking before stealing a total of nine videotapes from two different Kmart stores in San Bernardino County in 1995. Cases like Andrade’s raise the question of how fairly three strikes is being applied around California. Sacramento County District Attorney Jan Scully, who came out against changing the current law, said in an April 26 statement the law was being used “very judiciously by prosecutors and judges throughout the state.” Those who work for her agree. “It’s not that disproportionate at all,” said Assistant Chief Deputy District Attorney Steve Grippi. “To the degree

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The reason for the gathering is because Exodus International, which was once the main group for “pray away the gay” ministries, has fallen from grace—in the eyes of some conservative Christians. Earlier this year, Exodus’ president Alan Chambers was quoted as saying he no longer believed gay people could become straight, although he and Exodus still promote a very conservative Christian view that gay people should refrain from acting on their sexual identity. Meanwhile, Comiskey was elected to the board of the new Restoring Hope network of ministries. He’s also the founder and executive director of Desert Stream Ministries, one of the oldest—started in Southern California in 1980—of the ex-gay ministries. So, there are now two national exgay ministry networks for Christians—and they disagree about whether it is even possible to “pray away the gay.” Changing the sexual orientation of gay people has a long, complex and controversial history in California. It was only last year that Assembly Bill 2199 removed from the books a law— long unenforced—that required state-funded research for a cure for being gay.

And now, there are new political issues. At press time, Gov. Jerry Brown had yet to sign Senate Bill 1172, which would ban the use of “reparative therapy” for minors and require informed consent for such therapy for adults. Gay-rights activists argue, however, that there’s little difference between a Christian ministry that seeks to help gay people become straight and reparative therapy that claims to do the same. “Ex-gay ministries and reparative therapy are the same thing,” explained Wayne Besen, founder of a watchdog group called Truth Wins Out. He was also in Sacramento last weekend, where he spoke to a group of local gay-rights activists and allies. “I would argue that the ex-gay ministries are providing unlicensed therapy,” Besen told SN&R. “They can protest this all they want, but all you need to do is listen to their speeches or read their books.” He claims that ex-gay ministries promote reparative therapy, and that reparative therapists are, for the most part, conservative Christians who think of being gay as both pathological and sinful. “In both cases, it simply doesn’t work and can and does harm people,” he argued. He also noted that when his organization went to protest a meeting for the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality, “their response was to pray for us. “You wouldn’t see that at the [American Psychological Association].” Meanwhile, Comiskey, who is not in a hurry to either endorse or oppose S.B. 1172, called psychotherapy a “soft social science,” and added that “to slam that or to illegalize on the basis that there is no hard evidence would actually call into question many forms of interventions for different kinds of psychological disorders.” Comiskey was very clear about the difference between freedom of conscience and being forced to change for any reason. “In a free society, there should be freedom for a person to find a clinical advocate to pursue his or her ethical goals,” he said. “If there is coercion, if there is manipulation or if there is control—of course, it’s diabolical, regardless of your faith.” Ω

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“I find it fascinating … that in such a blue state we have such a conservative criminal-justice policy. There are much less expensive ways to handle criminal offending. So why hasn’t that caught on in California?” Michael Vitiello professor University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law “Californians want to be safe, and three strikes makes us safer. The death penalty makes us safer,” Schubert said. There will always be raging debates about how effective a deterrent the death penalty is, but Schubert brushes them away by citing the movie-theater massacre in Aurora, Colo., and by name-checking notorious Toonerville gang member Timothy Joseph McGhee, one of 725 death-row inmates in name only. McGhee, a brazen attacker of cops, was sentenced to death in 2009 for the murder of three fellow Los Angelenos. A few weeks ago, the 39-year-old stuck an 8-inch shank into a prison guard, Schubert relayed. “We are safe when his sentence is carried out,” Schubert declared. Call it the Golden (State) Rule. Ω

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that it is, that’s why district attorneys are elected by the public.” A lack of uniformity in applying three strikes isn’t necessarily a problem to be fixed, both Grippi and Supervising Deputy District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert argue. “You’re always going to find examples of different deals,” offered Schubert. Some communities might pass laws that say no homeless people within 300 feet of schools, she said by way of example, while others might not consider such ordinances. “It depends on the community that you live in.” Indeed it does. According to California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation records from September 2011, San Francisco County has a total of 43 three-strikers in prison. A more conservative county like San Bernardino, which has slightly more than twice the population of San Francisco, boasts 625. Sacramento County currently has 574 three-strikers in state prisons, accounting for 6.4 percent of that population. Along with some very serious crimes, those numbers include two inmates whose third strike was for driving under the influence, one who was caught selling marijuana, and 28 inmates busted for possession of a controlled substance. The state prison system is currently home to nearly 8,900 three-strikers. The CDAA claims 4,300 of these inmates could be eligible for resentencing hearings under the proposed law, but says nothing of the 4,000-plus black inmates that make up a whopping 46 percent of the three-strike prison population. Grippi agrees that’s a figure that needs scrutinizing. “I think that’s something that should be studied, definitely,” the prosecutor said. Sacramento County doesn’t tally the ethnic or racial breakdown of its three-strike offenders, Grippi said, because it’s not a consideration that comes into play. The prosecutor admits it wouldn’t be impossible to extract such figures. Vitiello believes that racial disparity in how three strikes and other criminal penalties—from drug possession to gang enhancements to the death penalty—are applied is one factor nudging a glacial re-envisioning of our criminal-justice system. But there are more reasons for it to remain the unforgiving system we all know and fear.

“I find it fascinating in kind of a perverse way that in such a blue state we have such a conservative criminal-justice policy,” Vitiello said. “There are much less expensive ways to handle criminal offending. So why hasn’t that caught on in California?” For Schubert, the department’s resident expert on death-penalty cases, the answer is simple. “It’s not a red-state blue-state thing,” she said. “For us, it’s about the victims of crime.” The death penalty has been tied up in legal limbo the past few years, and Schubert blames state politicians for ignoring “tons of bills” that could get the death-row conveyor belt moving again. But the outspoken prosecutor isn’t deterred. She believes a fix will eventually come.

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I first worried that the city of Sacramento had big—but not necessarily promising— ideas for its poorest residents last December, on an icy, 40-degree morning near the American River. More than 100 tents, which housed hundreds of homeless Sacramentans, zigzagged along to the levee just north of downtown. But this encampment—some called it “Tent R E City 2”—was different than L IL by NICK M previous ones. It boasted leaders, sobriety zones and basic nickam@newsreview.com sanitation. And, yes, health, drug and crime issues, too. Its residents pleaded that they had nowhere else to go, though, that city shelter beds were more than filled. Tent City 2 was, sadly, the best worst option. Just after 9 that morning, a black SUV climbed the levee and a crew of sharply dressed—long noir coats, leather gloves, shiny shoes—city leaders emerged: Councilman Steve Cohn, Sacramento Steps Forward’s Ben Burton, River District executive director Patty Kleinknecht. The council member seemed unmoved by the scene. He spoke, instead, of how it would be impossible to attract business investment to the neighborhood with tent cities, a concentration of homeless social services or “environmental catastrophes” caused by campers on the parkway. Ultimately, the city didn’t have a solution for Tent City 2 or its homeless crisis, one that even the United Nations has condemned. They broke up the encampment, residents disbanding into the parkway and city streets. At the time, I feared that—as the U.N. wrote—this would further “criminalize” homelessness.

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Which is exactly what’s been happening on the streets, behind the scenes—and even in the pages of The Sacramento Bee—over the past month. Business leaders have called my office and the Bee’s Marcos Breton has written two columns to bewail the lawlessness and depravity on the American River Parkway. And that homeless campers are to blame. Residents tell me about messy and illegal feedings where church groups give away meals on downtown’s sidewalks. And that homeless downtowners are to blame. And emails and op-eds speak of the need to break up downtown’s

concentration of homeless social services. There’s a quality-of-life problem in this neighborhood, they wrote. And homelessness is to blame. Sonny Iverson finds this recent assault on the city’s homeless residents “frustrating.” He works full-time in homeless outreach and was also homeless from age 18 to 27. “They’re just targeting poverty,” he said of city policy and recent attitudes. Sister Libby Fernandez at Loaves & Fishes said she’s also well aware hat Sacto homelessness is always in the crosshairs. “It’s a cat and mouse game, forever,” she said. Both Fernandez and Iverson reminded that shelters are wait-listed, in some cases upward of 200 persons. “And until they can get into the shelter, they have nowhere to go except the rivers and the alleyways,” Iverson said.

Do we really need a refresher course on the Great Recession? Companies folded, jobs vanished. City revenues plummeted, unprecedented belt-tightening ensued. Seniors, middle-class homeowners, students, children—and, yes, homeless Sacramentans were impacted, in some cases, devastated. New faces joined the ranks of the region’s least fortunate—you know, our fellow residents who don’t even have a place to reside. They looked to the city’s single-room occupancy hotels and shelter programs for hope. But the number of SROs has taken a big hit in the past 15 years, and shelter beds are scarce. Soon, a “tent city” popped up just north of downtown near the American River. Thousands converged on the encampment, as did The Oprah Winfrey Show, which came to town to highlight Sacramento as Homelessness Capital USA. Regional leaders vowed to find solutions. But they didn’t. And budget cuts to mental-health, social-service and homeless-outreach programs persisted. The number of parkway rangers fell by more than half—what was an illegalcamping problem devolved into a lawlessness problem. City police officers on the “homeless beat” were reassigned. Donations to nonprofits such as Loaves & Fishes dropped off. The recession pushed homeless downtowners to the edge. And now, people want to shove them over? Ω

Time and space Looking at the stars, space travel’s future, District 2’s race—and beyond! Nibbles came home from school last Friday excited about “the spaceship” he saw. When the kids heard the engines of the 747 overhead, his whole class made a break for it and ran out to the blacktop in their sock feet to catch a glimpse of the space shuttle Endeavour. Twice it flew by on its piggyback ride around the Capitol and down to Los Angeles. ARVIN by COSMO G Bites saw the shuttle that day, too, and felt a little like the kid who got up cosmog@newsreview.com before dawn on April 12, 1981, to watch the first launch of space shuttle Columbia. That kid thought something very important was happening. Human exploration of the solar system, at least as far as Mars, was probably next. In fact, human spaceflight would plateau in low Earth orbit for a couple of generations. (Did you know the International Space Station is no farther away than Bakersfield? Not a bad drive if your car drives straight up.) On the same day Endeavour made its flyby, Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation giving qualified immunity to companies like SpaceX and Virgin Atlantic, in case any passengers get injured in future space flights out of California. Something to keep in mind for your next space/Bakersfield vacation.

If you’re looking for a Governor Moonbeam crack here, forget it. Last month, after the landing of the Mars rover Curiosity, Brown visited NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena and declared August 21 “Space Day” in California. He made a similar proclamation 35 years ago, after the successful test flight of the space shuttle Enterprise. Yes, during that previous go-round as governor, Brown also proposed establishment of the space academy in California, and launch of the state’s own communication satellite. But if you’re looking for a Governor Moonbeam crack here, forget it. The rovers are great, they’re amazing. Short flights for rich space tourists are fine, too. But they aren’t really what Bites was expecting back in ’81. Will Bites’ generation, or Nibbles’, ever see a human land on Mars? That kid watching the Columbia take off was pretty sure that we would. The adult,

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watching Endeavour fly to a museum in Los Angeles, doesn’t have such high hopes. Last week, SN&R’s front-of-the-book editor Nick Miller did an important story on city council candidate Allen Warren. Warren has baggage: a long list of lawsuits and unpaid property taxes related to his development business. Lawsuits and liens aren’t all that unusual for developers—just ask Kevin Johnson. But the number of legal issues on Warren’s plate raises real questions. Warren would rather they not be asked. After Miller’s piece came out, he took to SN&R’s comment boards to complain about the story. “I’m disappointed that the News and Review chose to write this article without citing sources, verifying the accuracy of the information, or asking for my comment on the specifics. The reporter provides no documentation and no sources for his allegations,” he wrote. That’s a little bit of bluster and a little bit of doublethink and a lot untrue. In fact, Miller’s piece extensively cites court records, and Warren is quoted at length, too. And the whole story is written without a whiff of editorializing. Still, for having the temerity to report facts in the public record, Miller is accused by Warren supporters of having a “vendetta” against their guy. Two days later, when Sacramento Bee reporter Ryan Lillis weighed in with his own lengthy piece about the District 2 race, the Warren sections also dealt with the candidate’s complicated history of legal troubles. Another vendetta, Bites supposes. Another Warren supporter wrote: “It is horrifying that a blogger can look up every expense charged to your personal credit card from years ago. Why don’t we get to read about every financial pitfall his opponent has encountered?” Well, that’s not exactly how it works. But, yes, if you get sued by your creditors, that is in the public record. And Warren’s opponent, Rob Kerth has been named in lawsuits as well—though far fewer than Warren. Don’t take Bites’ word for it. Or Nick Miller’s or Ryan Lillis’. Go to www.saccourt.ca.gov, and punch up the court records for anyone you want. Look at Kerth’s suits and look at Warren’s. You can read them, you can talk about them, you can even write about them. They are all in the public record. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Ω

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I don’t know about you, but I bounce between hope and cynicism on a daily—and even hourly—basis. There is so much to be cynical about. The buying of this election, for example. Rich folks, along with corporate and union interests, spending hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars on untruthful television ads. The unbalanced news coverage on Fox News. The banking, oil and pharmaceutical industries, which have been able to rig the political process so that stealing becomes legal, because they wrote the law. Yes, there is much to be cynical about. But then I spend a few minutes with the AmeriCorps workers at Sacramento Habitat for j e ffv @ ne wsr e v ie w.c o m Humanity. They work so hard and for so little just so that they can give back to the community. Or the young soldiers who sacrifice so much, and even sometimes their lives—they inspire hope in me, too. The hopeful part of my brain and the cynical part keep for dominance. While Hope or future fighting I am disgusted with the teachdisaster? ers union buying school-board elections and fighting to keep I do not know. incompetent teachers on the job, but at the same time, I am inspired by my daughter’s high-school drum-line instructor, Mr. John Ousley, who works an unbelievably large number of unpaid hours, runs fireworks sales and fundraisers in his spare time, and clearly loves the kids. So should I be hopeful or cynical about education? Mr. Ousley’s underfunded but passionate drum line or the cynical teachers union? My brain cannot decide. Can we save the planet from climate change and all of the environmental disasters that it will bring? The economic might of the oil lobby is impressive. The willingness of knowledgeable, smart people to choose short-term profits, destroying the planet as long as they get a big paycheck, is beyond belief. But so are the people who work at nonprofits and government services, willing to sacrifice so much to save the planet. Hope or future disaster? I do not know. As a newspaper publisher, I meet hundreds of smallbusiness owners. As a group, they are very inspiring. A Jeff vonKaenel is the president, new restaurant owner loves food and hungry people. An CEO and majority enthusiastic car mechanic wants to fix people’s cars. A owner of the bookstore owner wants her books to engage readers. These News & Review newspapers in small-business owners often risk everything to succeed. Sacramento, There is a love and passion in what they do. But then there Chico and Reno. are the Wall Street people who take so much, do not care about the end product, and ask others to take the risk for their gain. The Bain Capitals of the world. So, hope or cynicism? Which voice will win out? While I fear the cynics will win, I’m joining with the millions who have decided that hope is better than cynicism. Ω

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Shareholders impact environmental policy with small, sometimes meaningful votes Many shareholders of major corporations use their investor status to lead companies down a more sustainable by path—and they do so sometimes quietly, by driving Carrie Madren out poor directors and blocking key decisions with proxy votes. “When someone buys a share of a corporation, they are a small minority owner of the corporation, and with that comes rights,” said Andrew Behar, CEO of As You Sow, a California nonprofit that aims to achieve corporate responsibility through shareholder advocacy, among other strategies. “And those rights include being able to express views about what the corporation is doing, That’s a great deal of power.” Shareholders make their voices heard by voting on a proxy, or a ballot to vote on issues, that signals to a corporation’s board of directors what they want. The company can look at that resolution and either accept or reject it. Votes are nonbinding, though, but even votes as small as 5 percent or 10 percent can move companies to make changes. Every February, As You A few years ago, Sow publishes an annual proxy shareholders for preview that compiles shareholder Best Buy took action resolutions for major corporations. As You Sow’s 2011 list included by addressing the an item about the Coca-Cola way the company Co.’s soda-can linings containing the hormone-altering chemical recycled electronics. bisphenol A, a.k.a. BPA. “As shareholders, we say that isn’t good for the company, it’s not good for general environmental health [and] we believe the company should make a move to change this liner in the can,” Behar said. A quarter of Coca-Cola shareholders supported getting rid of BPA. The first environmental vote to get 50 percent support was a resolution for Idacorp Inc.—a holding company that counts Idaho Power as its main subsidiary. Shareholders voted to transition the company from reliance on coal to wind energy. “The shareholders wanted to see less air pollution, less mercury, fewer toxins from coal ash and fewer toxins in groundwater,” said Behar. In May 2011, Ernst & Young released a study that showed an increase in shareholder resolutions with an environmental and social focus. The report revealed that in 2010, resolutions focusing on social Green Days is on the and environmental issues made up the largest slice of lookout for innovative sustainable projects all shareholder proposals. In 2005, according to the throughout the report, just 2.6 percent of all shareholder resolutions Sacramento region related to social and environmental issues received Turn us on at support from more than 30 percent of votes cast (30 sactonewstips@ newsreview.com. percent is a typical threshold for many boards to take action). In 2010, more than a quarter of all proposals reached the 30 percent support threshold. Part of writing a good proxy, Behar said, is laying out a sound economic argument for the company that highlights financial, health and environmental benefits. BEFORE

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A few years ago, shareholders for Best Buy took action by addressing the way the company recycled electronics. “We said, ‘You should be doing electronic-waste recycling in a good way,’ and by 2009, we helped them to put a plan in place. In 2010, they collected 2 million items,” Behar said. Companies that have a consumer brand are hypersensitive to their shareholders’ concerns—and to their public perception. After Starbucks Corp. received media attention for adding 3.5 billion cups to landfills, it swooped in to defend its brand and change its policies. “You have more leverage when a brand wants to maintain a green image,” Behar said. As You Sow has amassed a series of successes thus far. It has prevented more than 500,000 tons of e-waste from entering landfills each year, helped companies find solutions for safe disposal of toxic coal ash, reduced carbon emissions from coal utilities, and worked with companies such as Coca-Cola, PepsiCo Inc., Nestlé Waters North America and Starbucks to remove some 30 billion plastic bottles from the waste stream annually. “We’re looking to companies to raise their levels of integrity and find solutions,” Behar said. “We believe that corporations are responsible for a lot of the environmental degradation on the planet, and that they can find solutions that are both profitable and responsible.” Ω

from Whole Foods Market, a.k.a. the Whole Planet Foundation, touting its Austin, Texas, film premiere of Into Poverty: Living on One Dollar. The trailer footage intones gently, “I’ve read about poverty my whole life … in media, in school”—and then, off go four middle-class college students to experience poverty, because 1 billion people live on $1 a day. The piano track was winsome. “It’s not due to laziness that someone is poor. … They lack things we take advantage of every day.” Not that these efforts aren’t important—some days Ruthie wonders wearily if each generation has an intrinsic need to recreate the wheel (or a documentary that captures yet again a well-captured truth), but Into Poverty reportedly makes the case for microfinancing. No, really, Ruthie’s problem is with Whole Foods. She went off to see if she could survive on $1 a day at Whole Foods.

The salad and hot-food bar was crowded. Auntie Ruth took one of the green plastic plates and weighed it—that’s called the tare weight, which is subtracted from weight of the food to be heaped on it. At $8 a pound, roughly, how much food was Ruthie going to eat today with only $1 to spend? The whole concept was upsetting, so Ruthie went for comfort food. She weighed it herself, and she counted it: roughly 10 pieces of macaroni, with cheese. It should come in at a buck. When Whole Foods came to Sacramento, Feeding the world. Aunt Ruth—ever supportive of the fact (and even the fictions) of food co-ops—was a little worried, even though the Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op’s parking lot was famously crowded. Likely, they would do fine, and they have. But recently, a Whole Foods opened in Folsom and, now, as reported by The Associated Press, another one is moving into Davis, a burg with too many grocery stores and a much more geographically constricted clientele. Like Sacramento, the Davis Food Co-op is one of the best-run food co-ops in the country, one of the largest and one of the oldest. Whole Foods We bet your aunts should have opened a store somewhere else. aren’t as cool as ours. But that’s not what capitalists do, not even Friend Auntie Ruth capitalists that promote sensitive movies by on Facebook at www. young people about poverty. facebook.com.aunt. At the cash register, alas: $1.21 worth of mac ruth1, and let’s hang out. ’n’ cheese. Next day, Ruthie’ll have to curtail her macaroni by a third. Suck it up, girl. Suck it up. Ω

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Sunny and clear A team of 10 UCLA researchers across multiple science departments recently collaborated to develop a transparent solar cell. Instead of capturing the full spectrum of light waves from the sun, these cells harness only the invisible infrared light waves. Their study, published in an American Chemical Society journal in July, could mean the possibility of power-generating windows. Just imagine the design applications: a skyline full of power-generating skyscrapers with solar-panel windows; glass windows and doors in your home powering your appliances; car windows soaking up the sun and charging your battery. To read the full article in ACS Nano, visit http://tinyurl.com/solarcells2012.

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Less than a week after moving to town, my wife and I walked to a nearby coffee shop and settled into reading The Sacramento Bee while by drinking our morning lattes. A woman left a Jim Cameron a freelance writer, small group in the corner, came to our table human-resource and and asked if we’d care to join them. Not communications particularly social in the morning, I declined consultant, and for both of us. abstract painter who The next morning, it happened again, and shows his art at local galleries and other then again the following morning. I finally said to my wife, “Wow! She’s relentless! We public venues better join them!” And so we did. The insistent woman was Barbara Hodgin, a lifelong activist on behalf of the disadvantaged and the wife of Howard Weaver, the retired vice president of news for The McClatchy Company. Others in the group included Brooks Truitt, Q Street’s resident rapscallion, and his longtime friend, Bruce Selway, both retired state employees, and Edwina White, a retired veteran of film industry. Our group moved to the Soon after, Old Soul Co. in the group moved to Old Soul Co. Midtown and began in Midtown and growing growing at an began at an astoundastounding rate. ing rate. Our coffee crowd On any given weekday, now numbers half-a-dozen people an estimated 40 members, perhaps are there from 30 of them reguOn any given 6:30 a.m. on. lars. weekday, half-adozen people are there from 6:30 a.m. on, and the size of the group grows from then until about 8 a.m., when it begins to decline. On weekends, group members arrive later, and conversations often take on a more familial tone. The atmosphere is extraordinarily friendly, and if a visitor seats himself in “the clubhouse,” he is welcomed and often will find his way back as a result of the friendliness shown to him (or her; this is an equal-rights crowd, because to be otherwise would incur the substantial wrath of some very determined members). Only the seats of Truitt and Selway are “protected”: One morning when I sat in Selway’s spot on the couch, thinking that my near-charter membership status entitled me to whatever seat I wanted, I was greeted with a serious lecture. I have not made that mistake again. So much for 10 years of membership. Casual conversation over coffee has morphed into a kind of tribal relationship

that Nico Forte says is best described by the refrain from the theme song of the old TV show Cheers: “Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name / and they’re always glad you came.” Forte, the U.S. representative for a medical-device company, joined the group five years ago and never left. John Griffing, a retired economist, and his wife, Shelly, a retired attorney and administrative-law judge, became part of the group one morning when he was hailed with the rejoinder, “Hey, you gotta name?” by Richard Levitt, retired Procter & Gamble manager who prowls the world and may have the best handle on life of anyone I know. A marine robotics engineer visits from his home in Davis. An automobile-company representative who deals with state legislators is there virtually every morning. The coffee groupies speak with one voice in praise of the experience, and all seem to have some special skill or achievement. Jean Nelson, a teacher and a formidable long-distance cyclist: “I’m in constant awe of my good fortune to wander into this fine fold of friends.” Merle Axelrad, an awardwinning fabric artist: “I’m a newbie to the gang, but I’ve been warmly welcomed.” Felipe Ferraz, a native of Brazil who was selected as Teacher of the Year in Natomas Unified School District three years ago: “For a foreigner, especially, this group acts as a great gateway to Sacramento.” He and his wife, Joanna, also a teacher, are professional musicians who perform throughout the Sacramento region. Weaver, a charter member with a recent book to his credit, is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner. Monica Nainsztein Rodríguez, a transplanted Argentinean, was named Businesswoman of the Year in 2011 by the Sacramento Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. The coffee crowd members have bonded in countless ways. There are parties, potlucks, movie nights, guerrilla gardening projects, museum trips, wine tastings, automobile and home repairs, hospital visits, airport-transportation assistance, trivia nights, and myriad others. The conversation is expansive and meaningful and spirited. Differences are accommodated, if not always embraced. And above all, there is kindness— genuine kindness—and caring. The group at it’s best—and at it’s worst— is as fine and human a microcosm of society as I have ever known. A place where everybody knows your name … and they’re always glad you came. Ω

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We take the District 2 Sacramento City Council election seriously, not just because we work in the district, but also because north Sacramento has a storied history that has fallen into decay and disrepute over the past years. One of the biggest problems is the perception—not the reality—of a high crime rate. Another is empty storefronts. And, yet another, is a lack of enthusiasm for investing here. While Allen Warren has done some serious work at bringing this district back to its former glory as a developer and community organizer, he’s also been plagued with missteps. We value his contributions, but think both he and the district would be better served if he devoted his time to getting his personal affairs and business interests back on track before tackling the problems facing the entire community. We’re endorsing Rob Kerth for the District 2 seat on the Sacramento City Council. Kerth’s served this neighborhood—and the city as a whole—for a long time, and he knows how to get things done. We were impressed with his proposals to revitalize city services by “keeping score differently,” rejecting the old style of simply avoiding mistakes and instead focusing on putting the space and resources we already have to good use as quickly as possible. His goal to revitalize the parks—because, he believes, “resources follow enthusiasm”—is a sound one. We agree with Kerth that money isn’t the problem, whether in District 2 or in the city as a whole: The real problem is a lack of enthusiasm and involvement. We look forward to helping him revitalize an area that is SN&R’s home, and we urge readers to vote for Rob Kerth for Sacramento City Council District 2’s seat. Ω

Do the math deduction—in the first year alone. And it’s Former Gov. Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential on a higher marginal rate (assuming that nominee, has a beef with folks who don’t pay taxes and who take payments from the govern- someone who buys a million-dollar beach house also has a higher income), so the tax ment. But he forgets that many of the folks relief is significantly greater than the amount who fall below income-tax thresholds vote that a family earning $50,000 might ever pay Republican and that one of the largest groups in taxes, with or without any deductions, tax receiving payments are people on Social Security, many of whom also vote Republican. credits or child tax allowances. But it’s far too inconvenient to mention Worse, however, is that folks like Romney that one of the largest tax and his vice-presidential benefits of all disproportionnominee, Rep. Paul Folks like Mitt by ately favors higher earners, Ryan, will always Tony Sheppard Romney and especially when the working ignore one of the largest a professor of single mother who cleans that tax handouts of all, Paul Ryan will recreation, parks beach house might be sliding the mortgage-interest and tourism always ignore one by, paying no income tax on deduction—which isn’t administration at Sacramento State her minimum-wage paycheck. going to many workingof the largest tax University; a local Of course, she’s still class people who are handouts of all, the film columnist; and paying Social Security and struggling to get by and co-director of the Medicare taxes on every mortgage-interest nowhere near able to Sacramento Film & penny she earns, plus state make a down payment Music Festival deduction. taxes, sales taxes on the on a house. And let’s majority of her take-home not forget that the mortgage-interest deduction covers loans up to pay (which is all being spent), and property taxes via the rent she pays to her landlord. All $1,000,000 on both first and second homes. Have a comment? of that probably comes close to equaling the So, while Romney’s complaining about Express your views gross tax rate of 13 percent that Mitt Romney in 350 words on whether or not people making between a local topic $20,000 and $40,000 are paying taxes, somesays he pays. of interest. body entering into a $1 million real-estate loan But, again, that’s just awkward to point out. Send an e-mail to And it requires pausing to, you know, think Ω on their weekend beach house at 5 percent on editorial@ newsreview.com. a 30-year term is getting a $50,000 itemized BEFORE

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No on 32 Of the statewide measures on the November 6 ballot, one in particular is not what it seems. That’s Proposition 32, the so-called “Stop Special Interest Money Now Act,” which purports to be an evenhanded campaign-finance reform, but in fact is, as Michael Hiltzik writes in the Los Angeles Times, “a fraud to end all frauds.” Prop. 32 is the third attack on unions—two similar initiatives, in 1998 and 2005, failed—by a core group of super-rich Republicans known for their lavish spending on conservative causes and candidates. The measure purports to limit both corporate and union contributions to political campaigns, but it won’t do so because it doesn’t include so-called super PACs and independent-expenditure groups, which will still be allowed to spend unlimited money. In the meantime, unions, which often are the only campaign-funding source that can compete with corporations and the ultrawealthy, would be prohibited from automatically deducting dues from members’ paychecks for political purposes, even if the members approve. This would effectively cripple them as political players. We don’t always agree with how unions use their money and power, but we know that without their influence, the corporations and the 1 percent would exercise even more power than they do now, and that would be terrible for California. Vote no on Proposition 32. Ω

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Dan Lungren won his first congressional seat in 1978. To what did pundits credit his win? a) The unpopularity of thenPresident Jimmy Carter b) The simultaneous passage of Proposition 13 c) His blunt opposition to the policies of California’s then-Gov. Jerry Brown d) The fact that his father, John Lungren, was former President Richard Nixon’s personal physician

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In 1983, Congressman Dan Lungren voted against the Equal Rights Amendment that stated succinctly that “legal rights cannot be abridged on the basis of sex.” a) True b) False Which individual, in 1984, told The New York Times, “There’s a whole network of very strong religious groups in this country. And they’ve only begun talking to one another in the last few years.” a) Newt Gingrich b) Rush Limbaugh c) Jerry Falwell d) Dan Lungren

Which ultraconservative organization with the goal of “taking back” Congress was Dan Lungren a founding member of during his time in the House? a) The tea party, officially dedicating to reducing the role of government and “restoring America’s founding principals” b) The Conservative Opportunity Society, dedicated to reducing the role of government, combating “the liberal welfare state” and saving “moral values” c) The Club for Growth, dedicated to “lower taxes and limited government” d) The Moral Majority, dedicated to reinforcing the family and reintegrating religion into society

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general in 1990. After serving eight years at that post, he ran against Gray Davis for governor, failed, and, after a brief hiatus as a lobbyist, boomeranged back to Congress, representing the Sacramento region. Just in time for the upcoming District 7 election, and in honor of Lungren’s long career in government, SN&R devised the following 47-question trivia challenge. Check your answers against the key below and enjoy! (Please note: All facts stated in this quiz are accurate, but there is only one correct answer to each question.)

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In 1987, Congressman Dan Lungren vigorously opposed the effort to have the U.S. government make reparations to surviving Japanese-Americans relocated to internment camps during World War II. a) True b) False

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Which of the following Dan Lungren activities did Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau satirize in his famous cartoon strip? a) Lungren’s status as lead singer in a rock band called Elvis and the Lawmen b) Lungren’s 1996 use, as attorney general, of 100 agents and a battering ram to raid the San Francisco Cannabis Buyers Club, which distributed medical marijuana to cancer and AIDS patients c) Lungren’s uncharacteristic bid in 2011, to restore Yosemite National Park’s Hetch Hetchy Valley to its natural state d) Lungren’s traffic stop by police for speeding in the Commonwealth of Virginia in July 2010 while live on the air in a KFBK interview

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Which member of Dan Lungren’s family has not been employed as a high-powered Sacramento or Washington, D.C., lobbyist? a) Brother b) Wife c) Son d) Self

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Attorney General Dan Lungren pursued only 15 polluter prosecutions during his eight years in office while his predecessor, Attorney General John Van de Kamp, pursued 179 pollution cases in four years. a) True b) False

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When Dan Lungren told the Los Angeles Times, “This thing is a disaster. … An unprecedented mess,” to what was he referring? a) The overwhelming passage (56 to 44 percent) of Proposition 215, a 1996 measure to legalize medical marijuana in California b) The aftermath of a report in The New York Times that Lungren “sweated profusely” under the hot television lights during his 1998 gubernatorial debate with then-Lt. Gov. Gray Davis c) Passage of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2008 (which he voted against) d) The California Citizens Redistricting Commission map, which recently put Lungren’s GOP-majority district into a newly drawn District 7 (including Elk Grove, Citrus Heights, Carmichael, Folsom) that leaned slightly Democratic

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Who is Marian Johnston? a) A nationally recognized lawyer (Stanford University and Columbia Law School graduate) who headed the civil-rights division at the California attorney general’s office when Lungren arrived as boss there in 1991 b) A lawyer who was demoted seven months into Lungren’s first term and removed from a civil-rights case where she had “expert” status c) An attorney whose demotion by the state’s attorney general helped spark a flurry of protests, disapproving editorials and a 100-lawyer walkout at Lungren’s 1991 keynote speech at the California state bar convention in Anaheim d) All of the above

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After serving two terms as attorney general, and failing to win his 1998 bid against Gray Davis to become governor of California, Dan Lungren became a radio talk-show host on Catholic Family Radio, speaking about taxes, abortion and traditional family values. a) True b) False

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Despite a new congressional ethics law meant to stop lobbyists from buying vacations for legislators, Dan Lungren drew fire when he and his wife traveled first-class to Hawaii’s Big Island in May 2008 for an American Association of Airport Executives gathering. ABC News reported that Lungren, finding a loophole, had billed $4,900 for lodging and travel as a “campaign expense.” Which of the following occurred in Hawaii? a) The gathering at the Hapuna Beach Prince Hotel, which kicked off with a banquet featuring a pig roasting over a spit, included a Lungren fundraiser that easily “raised” the funds that paid for the trip b) Lungren was filmed by ABC TV cameras, hanging out at the pool, wearing what a reporter called “a festive yellow Hawaiian shirt” c) As chairman of an important congressional committee overseeing airport security, Lungren told the ABC reporter filming this that his conference with airport executives was “in full compliance with ethics laws” d) All of the above

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Physician Bill Durston, who ran against Lungren for Congress in 2008, said this: “While I was fighting in the jungles of Vietnam, [he] was sitting out the war on a medical draft deferment, serving as the chair of youth for Nixon.” a) True b) False

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Dan Lungren voted in March 2011 against removing U.S. armed forces from Afghanistan. a) True b) False

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From the list of super PACs in questions 20-23, choose the Karl Rove-backed one that gave Dan Lungren $670,000 for attack ads during the last two weeks of his close 2010 re-election bid against local physician Ami Bera and is widely acknowledged to have won the seat for Lungren?

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Überconservative casino mogul Sheldon Adelson and his wife, Miriam, have given a combined $36.3 million to super PACs so far in the 2012 election cycle (according to CalPIRG’s “Megaphones for Millionaires”). At least $5 million of that has gone to the super PAC American Action Network that recently sent mailers to help Lungren. a) True b) False

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28. “President Clinton and her husband Bill …”

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“If I was starting a football team in a national budget league, I’d pick Paul Ryan as the captain and quarterback.”

30. “I cannot say, per se, that

a) “I would support anything to overturn Citizens United. … [It’s] corrosive to politics.” b) “The absence of prearrangement and coordination ... alleviates the danger that expenditures will be given as a quid pro quo for improper commitments from the candidate.” c) “This is a great day, Mr. Speaker. The Supreme Court finally got it right.” d) “Let freedom ka-ching. ... Corporations do everything people do except breathe, die and go to jail for dumping 1.3 million pounds of PCBs in the Hudson River.”

17. Ami Bera, local physician and District 7 candidate

18. Stephen Colbert 19. Congressman Dan Lungren

b) Because Lungren holds a “radical” position on campaign-finance reform, e.g. he applauds Citizens United and believes all caps should be eliminated on direct contributions to candidates c) Because Lungren voted in 2011 to defund Planned Parenthood and all its affiliates d) Because just a few months ago, Lungren voted to block a piece of legislation, the Stop the Rate Hike Act of 2012, that would have stopped the doubling of student loan rates for 7 million students

Which quote from Dan Lungren matches what circumstance? “They are moving us closer and closer to pacifism.”

Match the quote about the Supreme Court’s 2010 ruling in Citizens United (which allows unlimited campaign spending and acknowledged “corporate personhood”) with the person who said it: 16. Sacramento-born Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy

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Jonathan Soros, son of liberal hedge-fund billionaire George Soros, plans to raise $8 million for his super PAC to support 10 or more Democratic candidates in swing races, including local physician Ami Bera’s race against Dan Lungren. Soros has already given $180,000 to this cause. What is Soros’ avowed reason for giving Bera money? a) Because Lungren has repeatedly voted against gay marriage and against prohibiting job discrimination based on sexual orientation

waterboarding is torture.”

a) His answer to a question at a Folsom townhall meeting in 2007 about America’s use in Iraq of a torture technique prohibited by U.S. military law and the Geneva Conventions b) His remark about the sitting president and first lady during a breakfast speech at the 1996 California state GOP convention in Anaheim c) His comment to the Wall Street Journal about the current GOP vice presidential pick’s 2011 budget bill d) His response in 1983 during the height of the Cold War to the Catholic Bishops who took a stand against nuclear weapons and what they called an “unwinnable” arms race

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Match the individual with their super PAC: a) Americans for Prosperity b) American Crossroads (now affiliated with Crossroads GPS)

Was it Stephen Colbert or Congressman Dan Lungren who said, “Let freedom ka-ching” about the Citizens United ruling that allows unlimited campaign spending by corporations?

c) Making a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow d) Friends of Democracy

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Dan Lungren receives an annual $56,000 pension from the state of California for serving as attorney general of California for eight years. He accepted a 25.9 percent raise during his last month in office (known as pension spiking) that resulted in this comparatively high annuity. a) True b) False

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As a member of Congress, Dan Lungren receives an annual salary of $174,000. After he leaves the House, and in addition to his pension (above) from the state of California, Lungren will be eligible for an additional $64,000 a year in federal, inflation-protected pension benefits. a) True b) False

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Former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin said in 2009 that President Barack Obama’s healthcare plan would create “death panels” for seniors. True or False: Dan Lungren joined in, claiming Obama’s plan would require a 100-year-old woman in need of a pacemaker to “take a pain pill instead.” a) True b) False

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Though largely embraced by the tea party, Dan Lungren is controversial among this group’s membership for one chief reason. What is it? a) For deciding, in 1983, to change his previous opposition to Martin Luther King Jr. Day becoming a federal holiday b) For claiming to be an earmark reformer while requesting and obtaining earmarks (a total of $93.13 million in 2009) for his district c) For sharing his family’s famous holiday Jell-O recipe on NPR (use cherry Jell-O, jellied cranberries and sour cream) d) For being present at Newt Gingrich’s first communion in 2009 when the former speaker converted to Catholicism

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Dan Lungren has not been endorsed by the Sierra Club or the League of Conservation Voters. Why? a) In 2011, he advocated for expansion of offshore oil drilling, the development of shale oil reserves and drilling in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska b) In 2011, he voted for barring the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gases and, earlier, voted to bar greenhouse gases from Clean Air Act rules c) In June 2009, he voted no on enforcing limits on CO2 global-warming pollution and, the year before, voted no on tax credits for renewable energy d) All of the above

Was it Jon Stewart or Congressman Dan Lungren who remarked that George W. Bush “answers questions the way an 8-year-old does when they didn’t read the book”?

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What earned Dan Lungren the nickname “Styrofoam Dan”? a) His claim that efforts to combat climate change are “ideologically driven” b) His refusal in 2011 to approve Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s efforts to “green” the House cafeteria c) His performance on the floor of the House in 2009, invoking Harold Hill from The Music Man by rapping, “Oh, we got trouble, right here in Capitol City, with a capital ‘T’ and that rhymes with ‘D,’ and that stands for “Democrat” d) His claim that the regulation of carbon by the Environmental Protection Agency is a “vicious blow” to “our freedom”

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To what do Democrats credit Dan Lungren’s 2011 call to restore Yosemite National Park’s magnificent Hetch Hetchy Valley? a) As a political ploy to irritates House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who represents San Francisco b) As a political ploy to irritate Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who lives in San Francisco c) As a political ploy to irritate both Pelosi and Feinstein d) As a fitting tribute to naturalist John Muir, who, like Lungren, wanted Hetch Hetchy restored to its ecological glory

True or false: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s failed push to “green” the congressional cafeteria resulted in a new nickname for Congressman Dan Lungren, “Styrofoam Dan”?

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Dan Lungren voted in favor of three of the following bills while in Congress. Which one did he vote against? a) HR 1800, the 2011 reauthorization of key provisions of the Patriot Act which, for example, extended roving wiretaps for another six years b) HR 801, a 2005 bill to allow human embryonic stem-cell research lines c) HR 3, a 2011 bill that sought to prohibit federal funding of abortion d) HR 1076, the March 2011 bill to end federal funding of National Public Radio

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Dan Lungren is considered one of the House members most vulnerable to losing his congressional seat on November 6. Which campaign and sponsoring group has made defeating Lungren one of its top priorities? a) Tea Party Ten, Credo’s project targeting the most extreme members of Congress b) Flat Earth Five, the League of Conservation Voters’ project targeting key “climate change deniers” in Congress c) Red to Blue, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s project to return its party to a majority in Congress d) All of the above

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Dan Lungren has received more than $1 million in campaign contributions from financial interests over his career, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Which of the following votes has he cast in just the last two years that involve the regulation of the financial industry? a) Voted against the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2009, a bill to improve accountability and transparency in financial institutions and end “too big to fail” b) Voted for HR 839, the 2011 HAMP Termination Act that eliminated a government foreclosure-prevention program that sought to obtain loan modification for homeowners on their mortgage debt c) Voted for HR 1315, a Wall Streetbacked bill that, in June of 2011, eviscerated the Dodd-Frank bill d) All of the above

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GOP vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan’s 2011 budget sought to alter Medicare drastically and would raise health-care costs for future retirees by $6,400 per year (according to the nonpartisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities). Dan Lungren vigorously supported Ryan and voted for his budget. a) True b) False

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Dan Lungren voted in 2011 for a plan that took nearly $55 million from Pell grants with the cuts affecting nearly 65,000 students—one-third of University of California undergraduates. a) True b) False

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from a pile of like objects. The piece is lumpy; small, yet surprisingly heavy, and resembles a wilted bowling pin, glazed in drippy candy stripes of cobalt blue and white. “Look at that!” she exclaims while cradling the object. “You can’t beat that. That’s beautiful, right? Frozen in time—this thing that was this soft, mushy lump of shit … all of the sudden, it’s this hard, shiny beautiful thing.” Rosen then quickly corrects her own assertion to note that this “sudden” occurrence is actually a process that took weeks to complete, due to its time-consuming nature of shaping, firing and glazing clay. Another lengthy aspect of said process is Rosen’s inclusion of broken pieces of already-fired ceramic in her sculptures. Why break the pieces? For Rosen, it’s part of the journey: finding a piece of broken dish or shell on the beach and turning it into treasure. Once, she says, she visited a museum in Korea that was filled only with ancient pottery shards.

“LIKE A LOT OF ARTISTS, I THINK I ABSTRACT FROM THE WORLD AROUND ME, BUT IT’S NOT REALLY A PARTICULAR LANGUAGE.” Annabeth Rosen artist

When she breaks something, Rosen explains, “I just think I could make it better.” Rosen’s studio is very warm—she notes that when she first started at Davis in 1997, the space wasn’t even air-conditioned. Rosen offers a visitor a drink, but fails to locate a cup and, instead, resorts to offering up a room-temperature ginger ale. When the comic juxtaposition of a ceramicist surrounded by thousands of pounds of her work who can’t find a drinking cup is pointed out, Rosen protests that she does occasionally make functional pieces, and that she has great admiration for those who specialize in such art. But, instead of an exquisite cup or a perfect bowl, Rosen creates sculptures out of small ceramic objects, pressed into cubes or lashed together with wire, or constrained within wheeled frames or perched on metal platforms, “like circus cats.” The word probably most often

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associated with Rosen’s work in press is “exuberant,” and biological images such as snakes, gourds or even intestines are often evoked in her twisted, tubal shapes. When she’s making art, however, Rosen says she doesn’t work with such images in mind. “Like a lot of artists, I think I abstract from the world around me,” Rosen says. “But it’s not really a particular language; it’s not a narrative or illustrative discussion.” A more direct association between outside influence and her art formed in the aftermath of September 11 when, Rosen says, she acutely felt the separation from friends and family on the East Coast. In the months following the attack, her work became drained of all color as Rosen poured white over everything, echoing the ghostly, ash-covered figures and buildings in those haunting images from lower Manhattan. As time passed, Rosen resumed the ebb and flow of her experimentation with color, using her signature acid greens and yellows, now sometimes intermixed with deep blues and incendiary reds. Youngsuk Suh, a UC Davis professor of photography, curated Rosen’s CCAS show, which consists of ceramic sculptures and large-scale acrylic, gouache and ink drawings. “[I] was very moved by the liveliness of the work, and also at the same time, the sense of weight … that goes with this light liveliness of her sculpture,” says Suh. “Ceramic sculpture has always been associated with something that’s very static and more stationary, but her work is very much about movement, and she kind of defies gravity.” The predominance of drawing in the show is unusual for Rosen, although she’s always drawn. At some point, Rosen says, she realized that the ideas reflected in her drawings tend to presage her ceramic works by two or three years. Musing, somewhat wearily on the future of her art after a long and fulfilling career, Rosen is clearly attracted to the idea of someday leaving the difficulties of ceramics behind and, in flight of fancy, contemplates a different life studying languages, gardening or even becoming a baker. Still, it’s hard to take her seriously when Rosen immediately switches subjects and begins again to rhapsodize about working with clay: “It still holds my interest,” she says. “It’s still the thing I want to do when I wake up in the morning. I’m not really sure why. It’s kind of unfathomable and infinite, and I just love it. “ Ω

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iCrazy? The air was just a little chilly, and the sun had yet to peek over the horizon when I pulled into the parking lot of the Arden Fair mall at 6 a.m. on Friday. The reason? The new iPhone 5 was set to go on sale later that morning. That, in turn, meant that people were already queuing up outside of the Apple Store on the mall’s second floor, ready to jump at the chance to be one of the first to hold the tech company’s sixthgeneration mobile phone. People often ask why I line-sit. It isn’t because of some desperate need to have the new product on the first day it comes out—it’s because of the people I meet while standing in line. Chances are that everyone else in that line is a lot like me. We share a bond over our love of all things Apple. There is a type of community that exists among early adopters that make sitting in line for hours worth the effort. On this day, the line began at the entrance of the Apple Store, wrapped around past Macy’s and all the way to Gap Kids on the other side. The wait started early with a group of dedicated fans that camped out in their cars at midnight before being let into the mall iPhone 5 = cult-of-Apple meet up. at 4 a.m. David, the first person in line, waited patiently to be let inside the store. Now, with less than two hours to go, he seemed neither tired nor restless. He’d arrived early, he explained, to make sure he had a chance to buy the new device. “This is the first time I’ve stood in line for a phone,” he said. “I didn’t know it was such a big deal.” Elsewhere down the line, I spotted someone checking email on a MacBook Pro while another linesitter chatted with a friend via FaceTime on his iPad. The whole event had a bit of a party atmosphere with Apple employees handing out bottled water and snacks to their would-be customers. (Ultimately, nearly 100 Apple employees also turned out to serve the estimated 400 people who showed up to buy the new iPhone on its first day.) Nearby, Peet’s Coffee & Tea employees set up a table and gave away free cups of joe. Around 7 a.m., I met a woman named Barbara who arrived with a travel mug of tea and comfortably settled into her place in line. This wasn’t her first linesitting experience, she said, explaining she’s a longtime Apple loyalist who purchased one of the first Macintosh desktop computers nearly 30 years ago. She’s been an early adopter of Apple’s devices ever since, she said. When I asked Barbara why she shows up hours before the doors open to be one of the first, her answer seemed to sum up the prevailing mood among the Apple faithful: “It makes you a part of the community of Apple crazies,” she said. “It’s just fun.” –Lory Gil

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Beeman, author of The Penguin Guide to the United States Constitution, will discuss how the democratization of American presidential politics and the development of an aggressive news media has eroded the barrier between a president’s public life and his private affairs. Th, 9/27, 6:30pm. Free. Sacramento Public Library (Central Branch), 828 I St.; (916) 264-2920; www.saclibrary.org.

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Special Events CANDY FINNIGAN OF A&E’S INTERVENTION: Candy Finnigan, interventionist from the A&E series, Intervention, will speak about confronting a loved one with addiction. All ages permitted. No alcohol sold or permitted at venue. Th, 9/27, 7:30pm. Free. Sacramento State University University Union, 6000 J St.; (916) 278-6997; www.SacStateUNIQUE.com.

Kids’ Stuff FIFTY STATES, ONE NATION: Learn how the country moved from a collection of states to a nation unified by the beliefs expressed in the U.S. Constitution. Color and decorate a map of the United States that can be cut up and reassembled. Th, 9/27, 4pm. Free. Ella K. McClatchy Library, 2112 22nd St.; (916) 264-2920; www.saclibrary.org.

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and tradition, the 45th Annual Native American Day will take place on Friday, September 28, showcasing a theme of “Honoring Native Women.” F, 9/28, 10am-2pm. Free. California State Indian Museum, 2618 K St.; (916) 324-0971; www.parks.ca.gov/ indianmuseum.

Special Events DATING MIXER: Mix, mingle and match at the Flow Dating Mixer hosted by matchmaker Paul Carrick Brunson. Brunson is the author of It’s Complicated (But It Doesn’t have to Be): A Modern Guide to Finding and Keeping Love, and co-host of the new show Lovetown, USA—premiering August 19th on the Oprah Winfrey Network. F, 9/28, 7-9pm. $35. Hyatt Place Hotel, 173 Old Davis Road in Davis; (916) 893-2815; www.saccultural hub.com/events/flowdating.

MEN OF THE BALLET: With swashbuckling virtuosity, the men of Romeo and Juliet rule the stage with powerful artistry. Join Ron Cunningham and Carinne Binda as they showcase the explosive athleticism of the men of the Sacramento Ballet. F, 9/28, 7pm. $15. Davis Senior High School,

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Concerts BOLO & HONOLULU BLUE: The Grammy-nominated Bolo, from Kona, Hawaii, plays a guitar and ukelele at the same time. His lively, uplifting and original songs blend Latin, Hawaiian and flamenco styles. Honolulu Blue opens for Bolo with original music written in an island reggae style. F, 9/28, 6:30-10:30pm. $15-$20. Grass Valley Veterans Memorial Building, 255 S. Auburn St. 16466 Fawnbrook Road, in Grass Valley; (530) 613-4034; www.dancingdoge.com.

ELVIS COSTELLO: Grammy Awardwinning Elvis Costello has followed his musical curiosity in a career spanning more than 30 years. Hear him in a venue with great acoustics, Jackson Hall in the Mondavi Center. F, 9/28, 8pm. $17.50-$65. Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, 9399 Old Davis Rd. in Davis; (530) 754-2787; www.mondaviarts.org.

ANDREA WOLPER AND KEN FILIANO: Wolper, an accomplished and innovative vocalist and songwriter, and Filiano, one of the premier bassists on the contemporary New York jazz scene, will be appearing together. Filiano and Wolper have been playing together since 1998, when Filiano became the bassist in Wolper’s ensemble. They have been married for nine years. F, 9/28, 7pm. $12. River Valley Church, 9985 Folsom Blvd. in Rancho Cordova; (916) 804-8370; www.AndreaWolper.com.

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Cultural Hub Media Foundation and the UC Davis Office of Campus Community Relations will recognize this year’s “Exceptional Women of Color” at the 2012 Exceptional Women of Color Networking Brunch. The brunch will include a keynote presentation, workshop sessions and a panel discussion. Sa, 9/29, 8am-4pm. Call for pricing. Freeborn Hall, 1 Shields Ave. in Davis; (916) 470-2337; www.sacculturalhub.com/ events/women-of-colorretreat.

Special Events CRAFT & VENDOR FAIR: Join a craft and vendor fair with more than 55 local crafters and vendors with lots of variety and unique items to choose from. There will also be a snack bar and several raffles. Start your holiday shopping early and support local vendors. Sa, 9/29, 9am-4pm. Free. New Life Community Church, 8101 Sunset Ave. in Fair Oaks; (916) 536-5433; www.aboutnewlife.com.

DANCE, YOGA & ART: Movement as Medicine is an outdoor community event to inspire people of all ages to get in motion with dance, yoga, expressive art and live

drumming. This event is open to the public and all ages are welcome. Proceeds benefit the Sacramento non-profits The Yoga Seed Collective and Spirit in the Arts, and scholarships for 5Rhythms dance. Sa, 9/29, 4-7pm. $25-$30. Southside Park, Sixth And T Streets; (916) 267-5478; www.movementasmedicine.net.

Classes BYOB AND MIXED MEDIA: This class is perfect if you want to tap into your artistic side, explore, play, make a mess and relax with a glass of wine. Feel free to bring your choice of refreshments and organizers provide all the art materials you will need such as canvas, paint, paper, ephemera, beads, buttons, baubles, glitter and glue. Sa, 9/29, 5:30-8:30pm. $40. Trezhers Gift Shop, 3214 Riverside Blvd.; (916) 538-6584; www.TrezhersGifts.com.

Kids’ Stuff ICE CREAM SOCIAL: Join Our Children’s Keeper Child & Family Services for its Village Celebration Ice Cream Social. The organization is celebrating the efforts of our community in making foster care better. Sa, 9/29, 11am-2pm. Free. Valley Hi-North Laguna Library, 7400 Imagination Pkwy.; (916) 486-1737; http://ockffa.com.

GARDEN LEADER TRAINING: Kids Growing Strong will provide leadership with a variety of media-rich educational materials, displays, continuing education opportunities and guidance for structured handson workshops to help people grow, prepare and taste produce in season. Sa, 9/29, 8:30am. Free. North Natomas Library, 4660 Via Ingoglia; (916) 316-5873; www.kidsgrowingstrong.org.

Literary Events OMEGA NU 8TH ANNUAL AUTHORS LUNCHEON: This event features Margaret O’Brien Dilloway, bestselling Author of How To Be An American Housewife. Enjoy a catered lunch as Dilloway speaks about her book and life experiences that inspired the book. Additionally, a Doncaster fashion show will be presented by Suzanne Sanchez. Sa, 9/29, 11am-2pm. $50. Yolo Fliers Club, 17980 County Road 94B in Woodland; (530) 666-6232.

Sports & Recreation STRIKEFORCE: Gilbert Melendez, Strikeforce lightweight champion and top pound-for-pound fighter, will make his next title defense against veteran and red-hot No. 1 contender Pat Healy. The main event, scheduled for five rounds, will air live on Showtime. Sa, 9/29, 4:30pm. $43-$103. Power Balance Pavilion, 1 Sports Pkwy.; (916) 649-8497; www.arcoarena.com.

Concerts CIONCO PERFORMS AT SAC STATE: Sac State Professor Richard Cionco kicks off the University’s Piano Series with a concert. Sa, 9/29, 7:30pm. $15-$20. Sacramento State Music Recital Hall; 6000 J St.; (916) 278-5191; www.csus.edu/music.

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The Sacramento Comic, Toy and Anime Show (Sac-Con) is a celebration of pop culture entertainment specializing in comic books, toys, video games, Japanese animation, costumes and more. The show features more than 100 vendors tables as well as an artists alley highlighting local amateur artists and self-published comic book creators. Su, 9/30, 10am-6pm. $6. Scottish Rite Masonic Center, 6151 H St.; (916) 395-1107; www.sac-con.com.

Concerts OH MR. SOUSA: This one-off performance of Oh Mr. Sousa! is a musical biography with exhilarating, toe tapping performances recalling the life, times and music of John Philip Sousa, “The March King.” It features a rousing 60-piece band. Su, 9/30, 4pm. Call for pricing. Three Stages at Folsom Lake College, 10 College Pkwy. in Folsom; (916) 608-6888.

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Special Events TERRY NATHAN PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW: View landscape photographs by UC Davis professor of art, science and photography. The exhibition includes his fascinating creative images of curling smoke. M, 10/1, 7:30pm; Sa, 10/13, 6-9pm. Free. Sacramento Poetry Center, 1719 25th St.; (916) 606-4303; http://sacramento poetrycenter.org.

Art Galleries RAIL BRIDGE CELLARS PENTHOUSE LOUNGE AT THE ELKS TOWER: Cindy Lemmon, works on paper, This is a one-person show of figurative abstract works by painter Cindy Lemmon. Her paintings are mixed media on paper primarily using watercolor, ink, acrylic and chalk. M, 10/1. Free. 921 11th St.; (916) 492-2530.

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Join for a series of classic movies hand-picked by staff who will share the reason for their choice, the historical context of the movie and interesting behind-the-scenes facts regarding its production. Drama, comedy, adventure and romance filmed between the 1920s through the 1970s will be screened in the West Meeting Room. Free. Sacramento Public Library (Central Branch), 828 I St.; (916) 264-2920; www.saclibrary.org.

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is invited to use tempera paints to create murals inspired by the works of great artists. Tu, 10/2, 4pm. Free. Rancho Cordova Public Library, 9845 Folsom Blvd. Community Room, in Rancho Cordova; (916) 264-2920; www.saclibrary.org.

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SAC STATE PROFESSOR DISCUSSES BOOK: Sacramento State art

about minimalist running, but aren’t sure what all the buzz is about? Join for a class that will help identify what it is all about, the gear and ideas on how to get started. From fitness to fashion to training tips, this class will give you the information and tools to get out there. W, 10/3, 7-8:30pm. Free. REI Sacramento, 1790 Expo Pkwy. (916) 924-8900; http://rei.com/Sacramento

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grades 4-6 are invited to the Brain Quest competition to test their knowledge of American history, culture, milestones, ingenuity and spirit. Students who want to challenge others in this United States trivia contest are asked to register at McKinley Library by September 26. W, 10/3, 4pm. Free. McKinley Library, 601 Alhambra Blvd.; (916) 264-2920; www.saclibrary.org.

professor Elaine O’Brien kicks off this year’s popular Friends of the University Library’s Author Lecture Series. O’Brien will discuss Modern Art in Africa, Asia and Latin America: An Introduction to Global Modernisms, an anthology that sheds fresh light on modern art beyond the West. W, 10/3, 3pm. Free. Sacramento State Library Gallery, 6000 J St.; (916) 278-5954; www.library.csus.edu.

Concerts JERRY DOUGLAS BAND: The Center

Special Events PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE VIEWING: A viewing of the first debate between President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in Room 301. The audience will be polled beforehand and after, followed by an open post-debate discussion with political scientists there to comment and moderate. W, 10/3, 5:45pm. Free. Sacramento State Sequoia Hall, 6000 J St.; (916) 278-6011.

for the Arts presents Dobro player, Jerry Douglas. Douglas has garnered thirteen Grammy Awards and numerous International Bluegrass Music Association awards. His most recent work, Traveler, is his first solo release since his acclaimed 2009 Christmas album Jerry Christmas. W, 10/3, 7:30pm. $35-$40. Center for the Arts, 314 W. Main St. in Grass Valley; (530) 274-8384, ext. 14; www.thecenterforthearts.org.

T’S NEVER TOO EARLY to start thinking about Halloween. Besides, there’s an event this weekend certain to get you in the mood for something dark and terrifying. Horrorfilm producer, director and actor, Reyna Young—a.k.a. Miss Misery—is throwing a festival called Days of Terror: Sacramento Horror Convention this Friday and Saturday at the Scottish Rite Masonic Center. It’s basically two full days of films, music, meet and greets with horror actors, a haunted house, makeup and special-effects showcases, costume contests, zombie walks, and a screaming contest. Hardcore horror fanatics will appreciate celebrity guest appearances by actors such as Ari Lehman (Friday the 13th), Suze Lanier-Bramlett (The Hills Have Eyes), Eileen Dietz (The Exorcist) and Tom Fridley (The Karate Kid). Meanwhile, casual and longtime horror fans alike can browse comic books, vendor booths and watch screenings of They Came From the Attic (Friday, 1 p.m.), The Good Sisters (Friday, 3 p.m.), Frankenstein: Day of the Beast (Friday, 5 p.m.), Welcome to my Darkside! Women in Horror Documentary (Saturday, 11 a.m., directed by Young), Bloody Bloody Bible Camp (Saturday, 12:30 p.m.) and The Black Dahlia Haunting (Saturday, 3 p.m.). Those who want to get in on the action should check out the scream contest (Friday), the costume contest (Saturday) and the zombie walk (Saturday). The scream contest will be hosted by actress and model Maxine Wasa, and the best screamer will be awarded a role in an upcoming Last Doorway Productions horror film. Zombie walkers on Saturday will slither and creep toward a costume contest hosted by actress Kaci Hansen and judged by actors Kenneth J. Hall, Michelle Tomlinson and Dave Reda. Friday, September 28, 1-11 p.m.; Saturday, September 29, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. $20 per day or $35 for both. Scottish Rite Masonic Center, 6151 H Street, (916) 452-5833; www.daysofterror.com.

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Sushi’s sweet spot Zen Toro Japanese Bistro & Sushi Bar 132 E Street in Davis, (530) 753-0154 If someone was asked to play word association with the term “Japanese food,” the first thing likely to pop into his or her mind would likely be by sushi or ramen. Becky “Dessert” would probably not be part of Grunewald that list, but there’s a dessert at Zen Toro Japanese Bistro & Sushi Bar that could change that. The “uji kintoki parfait” (it translates roughly to “Best. Dessert. Ever.”) is served in a sundae glass filled with layers of green-tea ice cream and sweet red beans, and it’s topped with whipped cream, chocolate Pocky candy, salty sesame crackers, peanut clusters, and warm, soft squares of mochi. Rating: Not only does Zen Toro serve inventive ★ ★ ★ 1/2 desserts, the menu changes seasonally, a distinction that reflects the great care that chef Dinner for one: Masa Nishiyama puts into his food. $10 - $25 Nishiyama used to operate a Zen Toro in Sacramento, but he’s since sold it in order to concentrate on the Davis outlet. And concentrate he does: Nishiyama, a serious man with salt-and-pepper hair, is often found behind the sushi bar, deliberately crafting rolls at a steady pace. ★ This lack of speed is sometimes a probPOOR lem during a lunch or dinner rush, and Zen ★★ Toro isn’t really a place for a group dinner— FAIR although it will make you a sushi boat if you ★★★ insist. The boatload of sushi will be good, GOOD but its preparation will take forever. Here, ★★★★ each server is responsible for quite a few EXCELLENT tables, so there can be a lag for drinks, the ★★★★★ bill, etc., but they are invariably knowledgeEXTRAORDINARY able about the dishes. And you may need to test their knowledge, because there are some uncommon offerings on the menu. Kinpira gobo with renkon (braised lotus and burdock-root salad) comprises matchstick-sized fibrous pieces of burdock root and juicy slices of lotus in a sweet mirin soy sauce. The server tells us that the sansai (mountain vegetables) are “hard to explain,” but that they include fern shoots called warabi. The sansai arrives Still hungry? served in a soup that’s accompanied by Search SN&R’s either buckwheat or udon noodles and con“Dining Directory” to tains every color in the autumn palette, from find local restaurants by name or by type of brown to orange to deep green, with a mushfood. Sushi, Mexican, roomy broth to complement. Indian, Italian— Hiyashi mazemen, a cold ramen-style discover it all in the noodle dish, is listed under the category “Dining” section at www.newsreview.com. “house specials” and is a wonderful summer dish; the al dente noodles are dressed in sesame-miso vinaigrette and accented with the same chashu (pork slice) that tops the ramen. The ramen is also listed under house specialties, but it’s only serviceable, and the tonkatsu broth too subtle for this customarily bold dish.

Zen Toro features a large sushi menu, made up of both the steroidal Americanized rolls and traditional nigiri. Every day there’s a roster of five or so recommendations, which are wise to heed. I try the anago, a skinny strip of saltwater eel draped flamboyantly across the warmed plate; its lightly smoky meat yields under the barest pressure of a chopstick. The ombré kanpachi (amberjack), which shades from deep rose to pale white, has an assertive fishiness and springy bite. The uni is sweet and firm on one visit, but has runny spots and a strong, unpleasant flavor the next; I blame the fact that Nishiyama wasn’t manning the bar on that visit.

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The Sacramento Vegan Chef Challenge not only provides a platform for area restaurants to concoct the most creative and palate-pleasing fare without the use of any animal products, but it also invites diners to judge the dishes, which are, like, the two most popular human pastimes: eating and judging. Experience the vegan-cooking prowess of the 20-plus participating local eateries the entire month of October, including Evan’s Kitchen, Grange Restaurant & Bar, and Kupros Bistro. The real challenge, however, may be getting around to all of the restaurants, but if doubt creeps in, think of Béla Károlyi’s inspirational words: “You can do it!” Get ready for this tasty challenge at http://sacveganchallenge.com.

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Estelle’s Patisserie With its marble tables and light wooden chairs, there’s an airy atmosphere, casual and cozy. Estelle’s offers an espresso bar and a wide assortment of teas and muffins and rolls for the breakfast crowd as well as sweets, including DayGlo macarons. For the lunch-inclined, there are soups, salads, sandwiches and meat or meatless quiche. One of the authentic touches is the spare use of condiments. The smoked salmon is enlivened by dill and the flavor of its croissant. Its tomato bisque is thick and richly flavored, and, in a nice touch, a puff pastry floats in the tureen as accompaniment. Everything is surprisingly reasonable. Half a sandwich and soup is $7.25. A caprese baguette is $5.25. Ham and cheese is $5.75. There’s a lot to like about Estelle’s—except dinner. Doors close at 6pm. French. 901 K St., (916) 551-1500. Meal for one: $5-$10. ★★★1⁄2 G.L.

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families, the Wongs and the DeVere Whites, know what Sacramento wants: good beer; solid pub grub; and a casual, unpretentious atmosphere. Here, the bar is the centerpiece with a full stock of liquor and 60 beers on draught. The menu features savory appetizers—the tortilla soup with poached chicken, avocado and tomato is particularly noteworthy—and a selection of sandwiches and pizzas, including a simple pie with fresh mozzarella and tomato sauce. American. 1132 16th St., (916) 446-0888. Dinner for one: $15-$20. ★★★ B.G.

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The Red Rabbit Kitchen & Bar Resistance is futile when it comes to Red Rabbit’s desserts. The berryinfused 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-of-Munchkin-Citysized lamb bocadillas. American. 2718 J St., (916) 706-2275. Dinner for one: $20-$40. ★★1⁄2 G.L.

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 G.L.

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bars try to do bar snacks, and so many fail. Shady Lady, however, nails it. The fried green tomatoes are punched up with a tarragon rémoulade and the huge charcuterie board is more like a groaning board, stocked with abundant regional meats and cheeses. The pickle plate looks like Peter Rabbit’s dream, all teeny turnips and tangy carrot chunks. Generally excellent, the saloon’s cocktail list veers from

Sampino’s Towne Foods turns out to be a bright jewel in a drab Alkali Flat strip mall of paycheck cashers and laundromat. It’s everything an Italian deli should be and more, right down to the Louie Prima on the box and the timpano in the refrigerated display case. Several lobbyists, who elect to drive the six to seven blocks from their offices near the capitol, to pick up sandwiches or—in one instance—five

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the classics with a list of bartender-created drinks with unusual, but wisely considered flavor combinations: cilantro and tequila, blackberry and thyme, and the surprisingly sublime mixture of celery and pineapple. American. 1409 R St., (916) 231-9121. $10-$20. ★★★ 1⁄2 B.G.

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

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cheese, which comes with rock shrimp on rigatoni, a Grana Padano, Gruyère and cheddar trio and a dusting of paprika, is a creative take on a comfort-food classic. In the traditional-sandwich realm, all start out with the advantage of Juno’s homemade sour—but not sourdough—bread with its crunchy crust and soft interior. In the soppressata salami sandwich, the bread amplifies the tartness of the pepperoncini while the turkey sandwich with provolone, tomato, arugula and pesto requires several napkins as the oil in the pesto seeps inexorably through the airy bread slices. American. 3675 J St., (916) 456-4522. Dinner for one: $5-$10. ★★★★ G.L.

Mamma Susanna’s Ristorante Italiano Most commonly referred to by its patrons as the neighborhood restaurant, there is no shortage of options on the menu with 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 her specialties. 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. While the menu claims spicy, some red chili flakes do the trick. Italian. 5487 Carlson Dr., (916) 452-7465. Dinner for one: $12-$20. ★★★ G.L.

Vanilla Bean Bistro Gonul’s J Street Cafe has moved up the street and evolved into the Vanilla Bean Bistro. Its

narrow, low-ceilinged coziness is consonant with its understated, whatever-the-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 roundhouse-punch flavor combination. Turkish. 3260-B J St., (916) 457-1155. Dinner for one: $10-$20. ★★★★1⁄2 G.L.

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with dried Thai chilies and scallions. Thai and Lao. 2827 Norwood Ave., (916) 641-5890. Dinner for one: $10-$15. ★★★★ B.G.

South Sac

Giò Cha Duc Huong Sandwiches With banh mi, it’s the bread that sets the tone. Giò Cha Duc Huong Sandwiches goes against the grain with bread that’s more football shaped than submarine shaped, garlic bread, and a selection of premade grab-and-go sandwiches right by the counter. And, with its substitution of butter for mayonnaise and the emphasis on pâté, Duc Huong shows a stronger than usual French influence.These details may seem trivial, but with banh mi, such small variations make all the difference. The small menu is limited to eight sandwiches (mostly pork) and two soups: chicken curry soup and a beef stew called bo kho banh mi, which comes with bread. There’s a thick float of chili oil on top of the yellow, turmeric and lemongrass-laced curry soup, which, at first, is off-putting until you realize it can be dipped into the yeasty, crusty, fluffy bread. Vietnamese. 6825 Stockton Blvd., Ste. 200; (916) 428-1188. Dinner for one: $5-$10. ★★★ 1 ⁄ 2 B.G.

North Sac

Asian Café serves both Thai and Lao food, but go for the Lao specialties, which rely on flavoring staples such as fish sauce, lime juice, galangal and lemongrass, lots of herbs, and chilies. One of the most common dishes in Lao cuisine is larb, a dish of chopped meat laced with herbs, chilies and lime. At Asian Café, it adds optional offal addons—various organ meats, entrails, et al—to three versions of the dish: beef with tripe, chicken with gizzards, or pork with pork skin. The beef salad offers a gentle respite from aggressive flavors, consisting of medium-thick chewy slices of eye of round with red bell pepper, chopped iceberg and hot raw jalapeño. The single best dish here is the nam kao tod, a crispy entree with ground pork that’s baked on the bottom of the pan with rice, then stirred and fried up fresh the next day

Harvest moon (cake) Chinese people in the United States celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival (a.k.a. Moon Festival) on the day of the harvest moon (September 29), the full moon closest to the autumnal equinox. It’s one of the most important holidays of the year for Chinese families—and also the only chance every year to eat a pastry called the moon cake. Sold at Asian supermarkets such as SF Supermarket (4562 Mack Road and 6930 65th Street) and 99 Ranch Market (4220 Florin Road), the small round pastries often contain taro, lotus seed, pineapple and assorted nuts. Some have a whole egg yolk baked in the center, a salty spherical tribute to the moon that balances well against the cakes’ thin— and often sweet—pastry crust and fillings. My favorite moon cakes are from the Bay Area’s Sheng Kee Bakery (available in local supermarkets) and Golden Gate Bakery (1029 Grant Avenue in San Francisco; not available in local supermarkets). —Jonathan Mendick

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It’ll really hurt WILD HORSE, WILD RIDE When working with horses, it’s not about if you get hurt, but when and how bad, according to two friends of an amateur horse trainer in the documentary Wild Horse, Wild Ride. The film follows their friend plus several other trainers—both amateur and professional—in 2009 for the Extreme Mustang Makeover, FILM where they have 100 days to teach a wild U.S.-governmentrounded-up mustang to impress in hand and under saddle for a two-day showcase and competition, which comes with a $5,000 prize and prestige. The day after the show, the horses are auctioned off to the public to avoid returning to the Bureau of Land Management’s mustang and burro internment camps, population 30,000-plus. Make no mistake, though: Mustangs, made by natural selection, are smart as a whip, and suffice it to say without being a spoiler, the feats that these horses have learned in such a sort time will astonish. That includes the bond that has developed between horse and human. But as the sale of the mustangs looms, trainers begin to realize that’s truly the “how” they’ll get hurt, if they have to part with their new friends. As one of the trainers said, “It’ll really hurt.” Wanna see a cowboy cry? Take away his horse. Friday, September 28, through Thursday, October 4; Crest Theatre, 1013 K Street; (916) 442-7378; Century 14 Folsom, 261 Iron Point Road in Folsom; (916) 353-5247; www.wildhorsewildride.com. —Shoka

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Charles Smith’s play takes place during the Harlem Renaissance, when W.E.B. Du Bois (Jerrold Jones) gathered a circle of influential, intellectual artists, writers and political activists around him—and insisted that his daughter, Yolande (Imani Mitchell) marry one of them: the poet Countee Cullen (James Townsend). Unfortunately, she was in love with another man, musician Jimmy Lunceford (DeAngelo Mack)—and Cullen? He was in love with another man as well. This well-done look at the politics of love and race in 20th-century America is directed by James Wheatley. Th, F, Sa 8pm; Su 2pm. Through 10/14. $13-$15, $8 Thursdays. Celebration Arts, 4469 D St.; (916) 455-2787; www.celebrationarts.net. J.C.

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The proprietor of Hotel Transylvania is—who else?—Dracula (voice by Adam Sandler). He established the place as a retreat for harried monsters where they can relax, away from murderous humans with their torches and pitchforks. It’s also a shelter for Drac’s daughter Mavis (Selena Gomez), whom the overprotective count clings to ever since the demise of his wife at the hands of just such a rampaging lynch mob. To the hotel every year for Mavis’ birthday flock Frankenstein (Kevin James), his bride Eunice (Fran Drescher), werewolves Wayne (Steve Buscemi) and Wanda (Molly Shannon), H.G. Wells’ invisible man Griffin (David Spade) and a legion of mummies, skeletons, bigfoots and other creatures with Catskill-Mountainsresort-patron names to add to the irresistible hilarity. This year is different—Mavis is turning 118 (18 plus a hundred, get it? Ha ha), and Drac has promised she can go out to see the world outside their castle walls. But he cheats—he has the hotel staff masquerade as marauding humans in a fake village, all to scare Mavis back to Daddy, where she promises she’ll never leave again. But you know how it is with the best-laid plans. While the drawbridge is down a real human wanders in. It’s a wide-eyed doofus

named Jonathan (Andy Samberg), on a hiking tour of Eastern Europe with his beloved backpack, and when his eyes meet Mavis’, it’s love at first bat. More interesting than this nonplot and these 2-D characters viewed through 3-D glasses is the challenge of deducing how they all came about, for which we can look to the movie’s writing credits: “Screenplay by Peter Baynham and Robert Smigel; story by Todd Durham and Dan Hageman & Kevin Hageman.” Remembering that by union rule, “&” indicates a collaboration between writers while “and” denotes independent work, here’s a possible scenario: Todd Durham, who has no other credits on the IMDb and evidently no movie experience whatsoever, came up with an idea for an animated feature. Maybe he just came up with a cool title: Hotel Transylvania. Whatever he had to start with, he took it to someone he knows in the movie business—“executive producer” Sandler, perhaps, who is wellknown for giving opportunities to newcomers. From there the story wound up in the hands of Dan and Kevin Hageman, whose only experience to date has been writing a bunch of Lego toy commercials masquerading as a half-hour TV series called Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu. The Hagemans embellished whatever they inherited from Durham until the story as it appears was more or less in place.

The best you can say is that Hotel Transylvania is harmless, and that during production it held down the unemployment rate for The Animation Guild Local 839. From there it went to Peter Baynham and Robert Smigel, one after the other rather than as a team. Hotel Transylvania, while undistinguished, is harmless. The worst thing about it is that there may be sequels—but even that won’t be the end of the world. At least it’ll keep those animators employed and give Sandler and his friends something to do between gigs. It’s like a box of Jujubes or gummy bears: OK to munch on, if you must, but the gang at Pixar Animation Studios may be whipping up another serving of filet mignon, so don’t spoil your appetite. Ω

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In a post-apocalyptic future, where 800 million people lead marginal lives in what used to be the Northeastern United States, the only representatives of law and order are a small cadre of paramilitary “judges” apprehending perps and, when necessary, dispensing summary justice on the spot. Two such judges, the seasoned Dredd (Karl Urban) and the rookie psychic Anderson (Olivia Thirlby) find themselves trapped in a 200-story high-rise and hunted by a ruthless gang leader (Lena Headey). The 1980s sci-fi comic-book hero gets his second movie treatment (there was a Sylvester Stallone campfest in 1995), courtesy of writer Alex Garland and director Pete Travis. It’s suitably grimy and relentlessly violent. Urban does a fairly witty Dirty Harry impression, and the results will probably satisfy the comic’s remaining fans. J.L.

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A former getaway driver for bank robbers, now in the Witness Protection Program (Dax Shepard), risks blowing his cover to drive his girlfriend (Kristen Bell) to a job interview in Los Angeles; he also risks falling into the clutches of the friend he ratted out (Bradley Cooper), while his inept parole officer (Tom Arnold) and her ex-boyfriend (Michael Rosenbaum) follow in hot pursuit. For Shepard, this is almost a one-man show—he also wrote, co-directed with David Palmer and co-edited with Keith Croket. The result is a wacky trailertrash farce with careening and crashing cars instead of slamming doors—and in its raunchy, lowbrow way, it’s surprisingly funny much of the time. The supporting cast is also strong, with well-turned cameos from David Koechner, Beau Bridges, Jason Bateman and Sean Hayes. J.L.

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For his next trick, writer-director Todd Solondz provides this portrait of a tubby 35-year-old loser (Jordan Gelber), still living with his parents (Christopher Walken, Mia Farrow), nursing malaise, collecting action figures and blasting too-peppy pop from behind the wheel of his yellow Hummer. Even his occasional fantasies seem aggressively banal, but at least there’s the overmedicated depressive (Selma Blair) who agrees to marry him out of surrendered selfrespect. It’s neither as misanthropic nor as laugh-out-loud funny as it might sound, and that’s to the filmmaker’s credit. Solondz tempers his tone, allowing for something natural—if also unfortunate and irresolute—to emerge from the pairing of Gelber’s shrewd ingenuousness with Blair’s inherent poutiness. It’s a modest effort, all the more lifelike for its nagging lack of fulfillment. J.K.

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A billionaire hedge-fund manager (Richard Gere), scrambling to sell his firm before his embezzlement is discovered, crashes his Mercedes, killing his mistress (Laetitia Casta); now he must juggle a second cover-up while a dogged cop (Tim Roth) sniffs around. Writer-director Nicholas Jarecki builds a tightly written, sharply acted melodrama with a Tiffany gleam. Only trouble is, nearly every character is an amoral, bottom-feeding snake; the only decent people in sight are Gere’s daughter (Brit Marling) and the son of his former driver (Nate Parker), and they’re decidedly small potatoes. With nobody to root for—we don’t care what happens to most of these bastards—it’s hard to muster more than mild curiosity about the outcome. Still, Jarecki’s sheer craftsmanship is undeniable and refreshing. J.L.

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A World War II Navy vet who can’t adjust to peacetime (Joaquin Phoenix) falls under the spell of a charismatic charlatan (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a mix of self-help guru, snake-oil salesman and religious mystic. Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson has a reputation for artistry despite (or because of) his modest output of six features in 24 years. His admirers will no doubt find this one profoundly poetic, but at 137 solemnly lumbering minutes, it’s actually a windy bore, an attractively wrapped but thick and indigestible slab of baloney. Phoenix plays an ex-sailor with anger management issues by giving—I am not making this up—an impression of Popeye: That’s the level of profundity on display.

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Two cops (Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Peña) patrol the mean gang-ridden streets of South Central Los Angeles with courage and edgy gallows humor, even when a routine traffic stop nets a bonanza of cash, firearms and smuggled drugs, putting them on the hit list of a ruthless Mexican cartel. Writer-director David Ayer adopts a found-footage style that’s become clichéd by now. But he uses it well, even abandoning it when necessary, and his movie has an intensity and immediacy that breathes new life into the conventions of the cop-buddy movie that serve as his basic template. Gyllenhaal and Peña have an effortless screen chemistry, which they share generously with Anna Kendrick and Natalie Martinez as their respective wives. David Harbour, Frank Grillo, America Ferrara and Cody Horn round out the excellent ensemble. J.L. There’s a charlatan at work here, all right, but it’s not Hoffman’s character, it’s Paul Thomas Anderson. J.L.

ParaNorman

A timid, bookish kid (voice by Kodi Smit-McPhee), bullied at school and punished at home because he talks to ghosts, tries to save his town from a witch’s curse dating back 300 years, his mission complicated by an invasion of zombies. Directors Chris Butler and Sam Fell dress Butler’s script up with a visually inventive mix of stop-motion puppet animation and CGI, aiming at the delicious creepiness of The Nightmare Before Christmas or Coraline, but evidently that sort of thing is harder to pull off than Tim Burton and Henry Selick make it look. Here the effect is not so much creepy as simply unpleasant, and Butler’s basic theme—be nice to people: Today’s schoolyard bully is tomorrow’s witch-hunting bigot—becomes as dreary and preachy as a finger-shaking lecture from a purse-lipped school counselor. J.L.

Pitch Perfect

A college student (Anna Kendrick) is dragooned into a campus a capella singing group, where her experimental nature clashes with the conservative style of the group’s self-appointed leader (Anna Camp). Kay Cannon’s script (based, ever so loosely, on a book by Mickey Rapkin) parodies, by faithful imitation, the silly adolescent soap opera of Glee, with plenty of sly winks at the audience, congratulating them on having such a knowing postmodern sense of humor. Broadly directed by Jason Moore, the story grows tiresome before long; what redeems the movie is the musical numbers, energetically danced and sung, hopefully (but maybe not) in the actors’ own voices. (Oddly enough, though, Kendrick and Camp’s group doesn’t sing a capella at the climactic competition: It’s accompanied by an unseen percussionist.) J.L.

The Possession

A girl buys an odd little box at a yard sale that turns out to contain a dybbuk, a demon of Jewish folklore, who takes possession of her body, to the dismay of her divorced parents (Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Kyra Sedgwick). Juliet Snowden and Stiles White’s script is supposedly inspired by a Los Angeles Times article. The article (“A jinx in a Box?” by Leslie Gornstein; July 25, 2004) is easily available online, and even a cursory reading shows the movie up for what it is—a stale and shameless rip-off of The Exorcist, into which director Ole Bornedal manages to inject not one whit of scares or suspense. Sedgwick stands out (or rather, sticks out) in a largely unknown cast. Did she lose a bet? Blackmailed? Need the money? J.L.

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A Manhattan bicycle messenger with superhuman reflexes and no brakes (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) undertakes a delivery for the ex-roommate of his ex-girlfriend (Dania Ramirez)—but whatever he’s carrying is also sought by a menacing stranger (Michael Shannon), who turns out to be a dirty cop with a gambling problem and poor impulse control. Director David Koepp (who co-wrote with John Kamps) takes an outlandish and far-fetched premise, gussies it up with slow-mo, freeze-frames and a timeshifting narrative flow, and turns it into a lightning-paced, hyper-adrenalized entertainment. Koepp and Kamps add a Looney Tunes in-joke—the hero’s nickname is Wilee and he works for Road Runner Messenger Service—but they never explain why he (or anyone) would want to be identified with that hapless, incompetent coyote. J.L.

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What took you away from music? It’s been kind of an ongoing thing since around my early 20s. … I was using a lot of meth, and that’s what took me down. I was [also] diagnosed [as being] bipolar after I went into treatment. [Addiction] wasn’t a path that I ever saw myself going down. Now that I’m on medication for the bipolar stuff and I’m sober, life’s a lot more interesting in a good way. How has your relationship with fellow bandmate, Moore, influenced your sobriety and the music? Molly and I work together as I’m writing songs, and it’s shaped the music a lot. It makes touring easier when you can take your home life with you. When she started singing with the band, she said wouldn’t be involved with me because I was a drug addict. That was one of the factors of me taking a look at myself, and we’ve been together now since October. How is the rest of the band supportive of your new sober path? The bass player and I have been playing together since I’ve had bands. We’ve been

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Out here, we’ve got the California sound, what’s Minnesota’s? [In] Minnesota, we’ve got cold. Cold and dark. I definitely think that there’s a Midwestern kind of vibe to [the new EP]. It’s the cold winters that give it that kind of quasi-dark folk sound. Our sound is more like the Midwesternlonely town kind of sound. Photo By StePhAnie ColgAn

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through all of this together. It’s kind of nice to be 10 years down the road now [and] able to still play music together. Half of the band went through this whole thing with me, the other half are all new guys. They’re really supportive as a group.

What songs are you most attached to on the EP? Some of the songs I wrote before I went into treatment, and some of them I wrote in treatment. It’s six songs, but it bridges that gap between the two worlds. Getting sober is a process. The first year, I was still getting used to being a normal person. The song “Ghosts” was the first song I wrote in treatment. It’s about getting sober. “Don’t Remember Me,” which is the last song of the EP, was [written] a week before I checked in and [is] about me coming to terms with the fact that I had these problems.

“ I left music, and I came back and binged on it, for sure— it’s constantly a struggle.” Johnny Solomon Communist Daughter Have you found a new addiction in Communist Daughter? I left music, and I came back and binged on it, for sure—it’s constantly a struggle. I feel like I’m just starting to make music as a sober person, or a different person on medication. Being sober was one struggle, and now, it’s learning how to be normal again and be an artist. … It’s kind of rough. But I’m glad I did it. I learned I have to keep doing music. Ω

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After CNN published an article wrongfully accusing hardcore veterans Hatebreed of being a white-power band in August (it was HARDCORE later corrected), the guys in the group are moving forward and trekking across the country on their first United States tour since 2009. The 10 Years of Perseverance Tour features other metal and hardcore acts such as Whitechapel, All Shall Perish and Deez Nuts. And, if you’re itching for some new heavy material from Hatebreed, the group is planning to get back in the studio for a new fulllength album with world-renowned metal producers Josh Wilbur and Chris “Zeuss” Harris, set for release in 2013. 1417 R Street, www.hatebreed.com.

This trio (Joe Stevens, Ingrid Elizabeth and Michael Connolly) describes its music as “roots,” but it doesn’t just retread traditional folk. Instead, it uses the traditional instrumentation (guitars, banjo, accordion, upright bass and fiddle) to create a newer sound that’s closer to what we once called Americana. While the group’s not afraid of a good ballad, it doesn’t rely on them: It’s willing to experiment a bit. Coyote Grace’s music is as earnest as any guitar-wielding singer-songwriter’s, but there are plenty of catchy, poplike choruses and FOLK refrains that will keep you humming hours after you’ve heard them. Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub, 2708 J Street; www.coyotegrace.com.

—Steph Rodriguez

—Kel Munger

Three Stages, 7:30 p.m., $20-$40

It’s been nearly a year since Tommy Castro (pictured) brought his Legendary Rhythm & Blues Revue to Folsom, but it won’t be the same show. It never is, because each performance BLUES features musicians that represent different styles of blues. This time, he’s bringing together blues and jazz guitarist Chris Cain, blues guitarist Debbie Davies, and winner of the 2012 Living Blues magazine’s award for Best Horn, Terry Hanck. Castro also has a new band called Tommy Castro and the Painkillers. Known for crossing the boundaries of rock, blues, gospel and soul, Castro and his revue are a surefire way to welcome autumn. Three Stages at Folsom Lake College, 10 College Parkway in Folsom; www.sacblues.com/#LRBR.

—Trina L. Drotar

ACE OF SPADES THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27

HATEBREED

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OZOMATLI BESO NEGRO

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29

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Community Center Theater, 2 p.m., $18-$114

The Spanish-speaking world has contributed greatly to many genres of music, but its role in classical music still remains somewhat underappreciated. The Sacramento Philharmonic’s first event of the year—a celebration of composers with Latin American ties—should help remedy that. The performance will feature pieces including Construir by Christopher Caliendo, Estampas Mexicanas by José Elizondo and Fiesta! by Jimmy López. A free preconcert celebration begins in the Community Center Theater lobby at 11 a.m. and features musicians, dancers and artists from local organizations such as La Raza Galería Posada, CLASSICAL the Brazilian Center for Cultural Exchange of Sacramento and Instituto Mazatlán Bellas Artes. 1301 L Street, www.sacphil.org.

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COMING

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10/14 Abandon All Ships 10/16 Matisyahu 10/17 The World Alive & Born of Osiris 10/20 Del The Funky Homosapien 10/23 Motion City Soundtrack 10/24 Alesana 10/26 Death Angel 10/27 Groundation 11/2 Dance Gavin Dance 11/3 Colt Ford 11/6 Gwar 11/8 Miss May I 11/9 Blue October 11/14 Minus The Bear 11/16 The Faint 11/17 Halestorm 11/18 Pierce The Veil 11/19 Woe, is Me 11/21 Twiztio 11/25 The Acacia Strain & Veil of Maya 11/30 7 Seconds 12/7 Streetlight Manifesto 12/8 Motionless in White 12/10 NOFX 12/11 Blood On The Dance Floor 12/12 Never Shout Never 12/14 The English Beat 12/27 X (original lineup)

29SAT

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Keri Carr Band

Mondo Deco

The Helio Sequence

The Wombats

Elkhorn Saloon, 6 p.m., no cover

Old Ironsides, 9 p.m., $5

For a couple of years, local band Rowdy Kate was developing a notable following with its unique up-tempo brand of honky-tonk and outlaw country. When it broke up, lead singer Keri Carr surprised everyone by playing a one-off show singing all Spanish-language songs. When she retooled her new group, the Keri Carr Band, she returned to country, but opted for a slower, more soulful roots-rock variety reminiscent Emmylou Harris. Carr, like Harris, is a diverse and precise singer— authentic and emotional without ever losing COUNTRY/LATIN composure. And she’s not afraid to throw in an occasional Spanish-language song. Elkhorn Saloon Country Bar & Grill, 18398 Old River Road in West Sacramento; http://twitter.com/keriacarr.

TownHouse Lounge, 9 p.m., $8-$10

The glam-rock movement of the early ’70s (T.Rex, Mott the Hoople, David Bowie) was brief, but liberating. No one looked twice GLAM ROCK at bands’ flamboyant vocal shrills, monster guitar solos, meaty boogie-woogie riffs and overall theatrics—it was deliberately tongue-in-cheek. While Mondo Deco lacks the gender-bending elements of this era (the group wears nice retro suits), it does breathe new life into this short-lived scene, drawing attention to significant R&B influences that got less attention, but were equally important to early glam rock. Nowadays, every rock band and their mothers pull heavily from soul music. Glam rockers did it first. Mondo Deco is doing it, too. 1901 10th Street, www.mondodecomusic.com.

—Aaron Carnes

Close your eyes and imagine: It’s the year 2000, and you’re holding a copy of Modest Mouse’s The Moon & Antarctica against your chest like a bible as you look down at your Converse and sip from an 8-ounce can of Red Bull. Is this a wrinkle in the space-time continuum to the better days of indie pop? No, it’s the Helio Sequence helping you lose yourself in music that grows and swells with arching arpeggios and skin-tingling melodies ELECTRO-POP that the Sub Pop duo has perfected since day one of its 13-year career. Warm, ethereal and built to last. 1517 21st Street, www.heliosequence.com.

—Julianna Boggs

Blue Lamp, 8:30 p.m., $12-$15

From all the way across the sea—Liverpool, England—comes indie and new-wave band the Wombats. The guys are commonly associated with their catchy, Brit-popesque single “Let’s Dance to Joy Division,” which BRIT POP reached No. 11 on the U.K. Albums Chart and their song “Tokyo (Vampires & Wolves)” from their album This Modern Glitch. The three-piece met at The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts in 2003 and formed the band shortly after, eventually touring abroad, including Germany and Japan. Come out and pay homage to the late, great Ian Curtis of Joy Division by dancing to the Wombats and all the group’s catchy tunes. 1400 Alhambra Boulevard, www.thewombats.co.uk.

—Steph Rodriguez

—Aaron Carnes

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SATURDAY 9/29

SUNDAY 9/30

BLUE LAMP

THURSDAY 9/27

1400 Alhambra, (916) 455-3400

HERO’S LAST MISSION, OTHER BRITScratch Pad Sacramento, 9pm, no cover TANY, BELL BOYS, HEY ZEUS; 7pm, $8

THE INCITERS, RIOT RADIO, CITY OF VAIN; 8pm, call for cover

TELL RIVER, ALEX DORAME, JASON WELT, ANDREW HARRISON; 3pm

THE BOARDWALK

MACK SPENCE, JACK DARWIN,

BLACK LIGHT BURNS, THE WITCH WAS RIGHT, FARTBARF; 7:30pm, $15-$18

BOWS AND ARROWS

Pompsicle: live figure drawing event, 6pm, $10

9426 Greenback Ln., Orangevale; (916) 988-9247 NICK COHEN, ZACK WHEELER; 8pm 1815 19 St., (916) 822-5668

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SEA OF TREACHERY, FLOAT FACE DOWN, BURIAL, ABIOTIC; 7pm M, $12

BUNJEE, PERSIST TO RISE, OPPOSITION, WISHING STICK, ANTISOCIAL; 7pm, $10

Aly and Fila, Ray Reverse, Trenix, 9pm, call for cover

JERRY DOUGLAS, 7:30pm W, $35-$40

MIND’S BODY, RADANTE KEYS, FRANKIE SOUL; 8pm, $10-$12

Open-mic, 7:30pm, no cover

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

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 10/1-10/3

NICE MONSTER, THE CARLY DUHAIN BAND, DEVIN FARREN; 8pm, $5

314 W. Main St., Grass Valley; (530) 274-8384

DJ Michael Toast, Brian Lilly, Katz, 9pm W, call for cover

DJ Louie Giovanni, 9pm, call for cover

DJ Eddie Edul, 9pm, call for cover

STEPHEN YERKEY, 6pm, no cover

THE KERI CARR BAND, 6pm, no cover

Deejay dancing and karaoke, 9pm, $3

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

BETTER DAYS, PETE RG; 8-11pm, no cover

SLY PARK, IN LETTER FORM, MASTER MOYA; 9pm-midnight, $5

BLAME THE BISHOP, ERIK SPENCER, AKRON ENGINE; 9pm-midnight, $5

DJ SMILEZ, 10pm-1:15am, no cover

PHENOMENON, 10pm-1:15am, no cover

MONOPHONICS, 8pm, call for cover

COYOTE GRACE, 7pm, $10-$15

DOEY ROCK, 10pm, call for cover

YOUNGBLOOD HAWK, 8pm, call for cover

LUNA’S CAFÉ & JUICE BAR

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

ELIZABETH BUSCH, LENNOX FLEARY, AMANDA CHRISTINE; 8pm, $6

DAVID HOUSTON & STRING THEORY, MOONDROOL; 9pm, $6

KYLE VINCENT, 7pm, $10

MARILYN’S ON K

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

SEXRAT, THE GOLDEN GHOSTS, SICFUS; THE OLD SCREEN DOOR, 9pm, $7 BRIAN JENNINGS; 9pm, $7

MIDTOWN BARFLY

VERBATIM, PLAYBOY SCHOOL, CAVE WOMEN, DER SPAZM; 8pm-2am, $5-$25

NAKED LOUNGE DOWNTOWN

World’s Worst Doctors comedy improv, 8:30pm, $5

JACK RABBIT SPECIAL, TURN DOWN THE STONES; 8:30pm, $5

RICHARD DRIVER, HANS EBERBACH; 8:30pm, $5

Jazz session, 8:30pm M, no cover

OLD IRONSIDES

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

STORYTELLERS, CROSSING THE RIVER; 9pm, $5

THE MOANS, THE LEFT HAND, AVENUE SAINTS, STRANGE PARTY; 9pm, $5

JEM & SCOUT, MONDO DECO, VICTORY & ASSOCIATES; 9pm, $5

THE NUANCE, 7:30pm M; Karaoke, 9pm Tu; Open-mic, 8:30pm W, no cover

ON THE Y

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

HUMAN FILTH, EMBODIED TORMENT, KILLGASM, BRAIN ROTT; 7pm, $6

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

THE AUSTIN LOUNGE LIZARDS, 8pm, $20

BILL KIRCHEN & TEXACALLI, 8pm, $25

1016 K St., (916) 737-5770

ELKHORN SALOON

18398 Old River Rd., West Sacramento; (916) 371-2277 2000 K St., (916) 448-7798

FOX & GOOSE

1001 R St., (916) 443-8825

G STREET WUNDERBAR Hey local bands!

YOUNG DIZZY, PARALLEL, SMURFY, MOXIE, 24-7, PENNY, THE GATLIN; 8pm

CENTER FOR THE ARTS

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FRIDAY 9/28

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

HARLOW’S

2708 J St., (916) 441-4693 1414 16th St., (916) 441-3931 908 K St., (916) 446-4361 1119 21st St., (916) 549-2779 1111 H St., (916) 443-1927

670 Fulton Ave., (916) 487-3731

THE PALMS PLAYHOUSE

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

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

Dragalicious, 9pm, $5

Open-mic, 7:30pm M; Pub Quiz, 7pm Tu; GROUNDED, MINDFLOWERS; W, $5

Nebraska Mondays, 7:30pm M, $5-$20; Comedy night, 8pm W, $6 ZERO FOR ZERO, 9pm W, $5 Swing dancing, 8pm Tu, $6; Salsa, Bachata and Merengue, 8:30pm W, $5

Open-mic comedy, 9pm, no cover

Karaoke, 9pm Tu, no cover

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monophonics fri sept 28 7pm $10

Tue & Wed OcT 9 & 10

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oct 19 Tea Leaf Green / stone Foxes

Sold out

Thu OcT 11 8pm $18 adv

oct 21 savoy Brown

saint vitus WeeDeater sourvein

Fri Oct 12 7pm $25

niCK Gravenites anD DaviD laflamme fri Oct 12 10pm $10

vibesquaD anD opiuo sat Oct 13 10pm $10

Iconclast Robot

HAILEY BOYLE

with special guest SHANE MURPHY

oct 25 Trailer park Troubadors

oct 27 Busdriver / open mic Eagle oct 28 savoy Brown oct 29 other Lives / indians oct 30 storm Large nov 2

close To You: carpenter’s Tribute

nov 2

Robert Glasper

nov 8

saul Williams

nov 19 Walk The moon / Family of The Year Dec 10 The sword Dec 15 corrosion of conformity (c.o.c.) / Yob

Friday, Sept 28 AUBURN EVENT CENTER

Tickets Available at: Cherry Records Tribal Weaver (Auburn) Briar Patch Co-Op All Dimple Records The Beat http://davealvin.eventbrite.com $20 Advance / $25 Day of Show

Saturday, Oct 13 BILLY JOE SHAVER

THE ORIGINAL OUTLAW

Dress CoDe enforCeD (Jeans are oK) • Call to reserve Dinner & Club tables

BOB WOODS & SWAMPBILLY

2708 J Street • Sacramento • 916.441.4693 • www.harlows.com

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FRI 9/28 - SUN 9/30

oct 24 Zach Deputy

oct 26 Red Fang/Black Tusk

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oct 20 steelin’ Dan

oct 23 omar Rodriguez-Lopez Group

coyote grace ThE LuminEERs sat sept 29 10pm $12adv

coming Soon

Live Music in the Legends Lounge: Saturday 9/29 at 4pm Gunshy - No cover

Sunday 9/30 at 3pm The PIckups - No cover

Tuesday 10/2 - 8pm Comedy Open Mic

Wednesday 10/3 - 8pm Karaoke with KJ Ryan and Jenny and Jeff the Singing Bartenders

TICKETS AVAILABLE AT: Laughsunlimited.com Call Club for showtimes, prices and reservation (916) 446-5905 • 446-8128 Two item minimum - 17 and over 1207 Front Street in Old Sacramento

THURSDAY 9/27

FRIDAY 9/28

THE PARK ULTRA LOUNGE

SATURDAY 9/29

Dirty Kitty w/ DJ Shift and DJ Eddie Edul, DJ Peeti V, 9pm, $15 9pm-2am, $15

1116 15th St., (916) 442-7222

SUNDAY 9/30

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 10/1-10/3

Asylum Downtown: Gothic, industrial, EBM dancing, 9pm, call for cover

PISTOL PETE’S

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

REVOLVING DOORS, 9pm, $5

DUCHESS WILDER, 9pm, $5

PJ’S ROADHOUSE

DJ Marina, 9pm, no cover

Oldies party w/ DJ Marina, 9pm, no cover

BLACK AND WHITE, 9pm, $5

CHRISTIAN SIMMONS, KYMMI AND THE DIAMONDBACK BAND; 9:30pm

APPLE Z, MOTHER MAYHEM; 10pm, $10

THE INFAMOUS SWANKS, RELIC 45; 9pm, call for cover

LYDIA PENSE AND COLD BLOOD, 3pm, $10

Country Karaoke, 9pm M, call for cover; DJ Alazzawi, DJ Rigatony, 10pm Tu, $3

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

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

Sunday Night Soul Party, 9pm, $5

REBEL RADIO, SACTO SOUL REBELS, BURNIN’ WAVES; 8:30pm M, $5

EGG, ALLONS-Y; 8pm, $5

JENN ROGAR, KEN BURNETT, WILLIAM PATTON, TARA TINSLEY; 8pm, $5

100k Poets for Change, 2pm, call for cover

Open jazz jam w/ Jason Galbraith & Friends, 8pm Tu, no cover

140 Harrison Ave., Auburn; (530) 885-5093 5461 Mother Lode, Placerville; (530) 626-0336

POWERHOUSE PUB

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

THE PRESS CLUB

2030 P St., (916) 444-7914

SHINE

GROOVIN’ HIGH, STEPHEN YERKEY; 811pm, $5

SOL COLLECTIVE

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

ROCKIE FRESH, ELECTRIC AFTERPARTY; 8pm, call for cover

SOPHIA’S THAI KITCHEN

CON BRIO, 9pm, $5

TRAILS & WAYS, SO MANY WIZARDS, SIC ALPS, EXRAY’S, TWIN STEPS; 9pm, RANGE OF LIGHT, WILDERNESS; 9pm, $5 $5

STONEY INN/ROCKIN RODEO

JASON BUELL, 9:30pm, no cover

DRY COUNTY DRINKERS, 8pm, $5

1400 E St., (916) 551-1400

129 E St., Davis; (530) 758-4333

1320 Del Paso Blvd., (916) 927-6023 5871 Garden Hwy, (916) 920-8088

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

Country dance party, 8pm, no cover

CARAVANSERAI, 5pm, call for cover

THE 8 TRACKS, 3pm, call for cover

Comedy open-mic, 8pm M; Bluebird Lounge open-mic, 5pm Tu, no cover

904 15th St., (916) 443-2797

X TRIO, 5pm, no cover; STEVE FREUND, 9pm, $6

PAILER AND FRATIS, 5:30pm; SIMON FECK, THE MIDNITE RIVALS; 9pm, $7

JOHNNY KNOX, 5pm, no cover

Blues jam, 4pm, no cover; IRA WALKER, 8pm, $5

LEW FRATIS, 9pm Tu, $4; HOWELL DEVINE, 9pm W, $5

TOWNHOUSE LOUNGE

Deejay dancing, 9pm, call for cover

Whip w/ DJ Shaun Slaughter and Adam J, 9pm, call for cover

Pop Freq w/ DJ XGVNR, KIM LENZ, AARON KING & THE IMPERIALS; 9pm

LOW FLYING OWLS, LITE BRITE; 9pm, $5

Open-mic, M; HELIO SEQUENCE, SLOWDANCE, EXQUISITE CORPS; 9pm W, $10

1517 21st St., (916) 613-7194

Doey Rock 10pm Saturday, call for cover. Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub Hip-hop

Microphone Mondays, 6pm M, $1-$2; Liberation Permaculture, 6pm Tu

SWABBIES

TORCH CLUB

Karaoke, 9pm Tu, W, no cover

All ages, all the time ACE OF SPADES

HATEBREED, WHITECHAPEL, ALL SHALL PERISH, DEEZ NUTS; 6:30pm, $20

1417 R St., (916) 448-3300

OZOMATLI, BESO NEGRO; 7pm, $20

BEATNIK STUDIOS

JEFF ALKIRE, JOE GILMAN, RICK LOTTER, BEAUCOUP CHAPEAUX; 9pm, $10

LUIGI’S SLICE AND FUN GARDEN

THE HUNGRY, THE KELPS, MARCUS CORTEZ, MONDO DECO; 8pm, $7

THE REFUGE

1723 L St., (916) 764-5598

JONATHAN RUNDMAN, KEITH GRAY, ADELYNN LACKEY; 7pm, $7

ZUHG LIFE STORE

MAGIK SPELLS, 6pm, no cover

2421 17th St., (916) 443-5808 1050 20th St., (916) 552-0317

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

BEFORE

FRONTLINES

FEATURE STORY

DEAD RABBITS, GET SCARED, ROB THE CARTEL, OH! THE HORROR; 6:30pm, $12

THE LISTEN NOW!, ORANGE MORNING; 2pm, no cover

ADRIAN BELLUE, MICKEY MUFFINS & THE ADVENTURE FUN SQUAD; noon

A RT S & C U LT U R E

GYPSY FISH, 6pm Tu, no cover

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FOR THE WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Here’s the

curious message I derived from the current astrological configurations: It’s one of those rare times when a wall may actually help bring people together. How? Why? The omens don’t reveal that specific information. They only tell me that what seems like a barrier might end up serving as a connector. An influence that in other situations would tend to cause separation will, in this case, be likely to promote unity. Capitalize on this anomaly, Aries!

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In my first

dream last night, I gave you a holy book that you left out in the rain. In my second dream, I cooked you some chicken soup that you didn’t eat. My third dream was equally disturbing. I assigned you some homework that would have helped you discover important clues about tending to your emotional health. Alas, you didn’t do the homework. In the morning, I woke up from my dreams feeling exasperated and worried. But later, I began to theorize that maybe they weren’t prophecies, but rather helpful warnings. Now that you’ve heard them, I’m hoping you will become alert to the gifts you’ve been ignoring and take advantage of the healing opportunities you’ve been neglecting.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): There’s a

good chance that your rhythm in the coming days will resemble a gentle, continuous orgasm. It won’t be stupendously ecstatic, mind you. I’m not predicting massive eruptions of honeyed bliss that keep blowing your mind. Rather, the experience will be more like a persistent flow of warm contentment. You’ll be constantly tuning in to a secret sweetness that thrills you subliminally. Again and again you will slip into a delicious feeling that everything is unfolding exactly as it should be. Warning! There are two factors that could possibly undermine this blessing: 1. if you scare it away with blasts of cynicism; 2. if you get greedy and try to force it to become bigger and stronger. So please don’t do those things!

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Philosopher

Jonathan Zap (www.zaporacle.com) provides the seed for this week’s meditation: “Conscious reflection on the past can deepen the soul and provide revelations of great value for the present and future. On the other hand, returning to the past obsessively out of emotional addiction can be a massive draining of vitality needed for full engagement with the present.” So which will it be, Cancerian? One way or another, you are likely to be pulled back toward the old days and the old ways. I’ll prefer it if you re-examine your history and extract useful lessons from the past instead of wallowing in dark nostalgia and getting lost in fruitless longing.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Picture a TV satellite dish on the roof of a peasant’s shack in rural Honduras. Imagine a gripping rendition of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata played on the mandolin. Visualize the Dalai Lama quoting Chris Rock a bit out of context but with humorous and dramatic effect. Got all that? Next, imagine that these three scenes are metaphors for your metaphysical assignment in the coming week. Need another hint? OK. Think about how you can make sure that nothing gets lost in the dicey translations you’ll be responsible for making.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Here are some

ways to get more respect: 1. Do your best in every single thing you do—whether it’s communicating precisely or upholding the highest possible standards at your job or taking excellent care of yourself. 2. Maintain impeccable levels of integrity in everything you do—whether it’s being scrupulously honest or thoroughly fair-minded or fiercely kind. 3. On the other hand, don’t try so compulsively hard to do your best and cultivate integrity that you get self-conscious and obstruct the flow of your natural intelligence. 4. Make it your goal that no later than four years from now you will be doing what you love to do at least 51 percent of the time. 5. Give other people as much respect as you sincerely believe they deserve. 6. Give yourself more respect.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The German

poet and philosopher Friedrich von Schiller liked to have rotting apples in his desk drawer as he worked; the scent inspired him. Agatha Christie testified that many of her best ideas came to her while she was washing dishes. As for Beethoven, he sometimes stimulated his creativity by pouring cold water over his head. What about you, Libra? Are there odd inclinations and idiosyncratic behaviors that in the past have roused your original thinking? I encourage you to try them all this week, and then see if you can dream up at least two new ones. You have officially entered the brainstorming season.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):

It’s expensive for the United States to hold prisoners at its Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba: $800,000 per year for each detainee. That’s 30 times more than it costs to incarcerate a convict on the American mainland. According to the Miami Herald, Guantanamo is the most expensive prison on the planet. How much do you spend on locking stuff up, Scorpio? What does it cost, not just financially but emotionally and spiritually, for you to keep your secrets hidden and your fears tamped down and your unruly passions bottled up and your naughty urges suppressed? The coming weeks would be a good time to make sure the price you pay for all that is reasonable—not even close to being like Guantanamo.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

What time is it, boys and girls? It’s Floods of Fantastic Gratitude Week: a perfect opportunity to express your passionate appreciation for everything you’ve been given. So get out there and tell people how much you’ve benefited from what they’ve done for you. For best results, be playful and have fun as you express your thanks. By the way, there’ll be a fringe benefit to this outpouring: By celebrating the blessings you already enjoy, you will generate future blessings.

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

the whole deep truth and nothing but the whole deep truth isn’t necessarily a recipe for being popular. It may on occasion provoke chaos and be disruptive. In an institutional setting, displays of candor may even diminish your clout and undermine your ambitions. But now take everything I just said and disregard it for a while. This is one of those rare times when being profoundly authentic will work to your supreme advantage.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Show me

the money” is a meme that first appeared in the 1996 movie Jerry Maguire. It has been uttered approximately a hundred trillion times since then. Have you ever said it in earnest? If so, you were probably demanding to get what you had been promised. You were telling people you wanted to see tangible proof that they valued your efforts. In light of your current astrological omens, I propose that you use a variation on this theme. What you need right now is less materialistic and more marvelous. Try making this your mantra: “Show me the magic.”

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): My acquain-

tance Jacob fell for a woman who also professed her ardor for him. But in the midst of their courtship, as the mystery was still ripening, she suddenly left the country. “I’ve got to go to Indonesia,” she texted him one night, and she was gone the next day. Jacob was confused, forlorn, dazed. He barely ate for days. On the sixth day, a FedEx package arrived from her. It contained a green silk scarf and a note: “I wore this as I walked to the top of the volcano and said a five-hour prayer to elevate our love.” Jacob wasn’t sure how to interpret it, although it seemed to be a good omen. What happened next? I haven’t heard yet. I predict that you will soon receive a sign that has resemblances to this one. Don’t jump to conclusions about what it means, but assume the best.

You can call Rob Brezsny for your Expanded Weekly Horoscope: (900) 950-7700. $1.99 per minute. Must be 18+. Touchtone phone required. Customer service (612) 373-9785. And don’t forget to check out Rob’s website at www.realastrology.com.

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Diamonds, cash and tats Irish Cash just might be the most tattooed man in Sacramento. As owner of Capital Ink Tattoo (1021 Second Street in Old Sacramento), Cash specializes in both tattooing and piercing, and practically bleeds ink and energy. No, Irish Cash isn’t his birth name, but it’s a fitting moniker for a guy who, as a fixture on the Northern California rockabilly scene, says he’s into cars, babes and the Benjamins. Cash recently sat down with SN&R at Midtown’s Ink Eats and Drinks where he talked about skin as art, living the playboy lifestyle and whiskey-drinking leprechauns.

So, what made you pick Ink as the place to meet? The décor—it’s got a tattoo atmosphere.

You ever think about donating your skin for art? I figure, by the time I go, my son will have a shop, and he’ll have me taxidermied.

What do you do when you’re not doing tattoos or piercings? I’m out showing my ’49 [Cadillac] around, doing rockabilly events.

Are there a lot of rockabilly events in Sacramento? Sacramento has a huge rockabilly car scene here. [It’s] huge—I love tattooed women. I love money. I love tattoos. And I love old bombs.

“Old bombs”? Yeah, old bombs, like ’40s and ’50s cars— Cadillacs. I got an emblem tattooed on my neck.

What else do you have tattooed on your neck? (Pulls down collar.) Check it, buddy. People ask me, “Hey, what is all this?” Diamonds, cash, Big Macs and Cadillacs. That’s my motto: “Diamonds, cash, Big Macs and Cadillacs. Getting tattoos at Capitol Ink back in Old Sac.”

What’s your tattoo studio like? I built that myself; [It’s also] my piercing studio. I have a 1920s Koken barber chair—that’s the oldest barber-chair manufacturer. They were putting them out in the 1800s, back in the Wild West. All the old-school barbers love it.

Do you get your hair cut at Anthony’s Barbershop? Yes. But I’ve got to mention Jake at Spanish Fly [Hair Garage]: I traded him a brand-new Mustang for a color [and] cut. It took him a year to pay it back. True story: I gave him my

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2006 Mustang, I traded it to him to color and cut my hair in 2006, and he worked it off in one year, to the day. I kept bringing in my model girlfriends every week for him to do their hair.

I’ve never heard of anything like that. I’ll admit, I am a playboy. I understand it.

I have a girlfriend now. She’s a model. For a year, I was single, so I would go out with different girls, or two girls at a time. I’ve been with [my current girlfriend] for about nine months now. I didn’t want to settle down, but her body and her look and just the press that this girl [gets]—she’s been on [magazine] covers. She’s a tattoo model [and] a professional fashion model.

You look like you are completely covered with tattoos. Yeah, covered. I believe I can claim that I am … probably the most tattooed man in Sacramento. I mean, this thing is intense. … there ain’t an inch of skin that isn’t colored in. You see most people have coverage. What they don’t have is solidarity. AFTER

When people ask me that, I tell them that’s the solidarity I’m talking about: It’s all filled in.

What are you going to do when you don’t have any more canvas, or skin, to ink? I’ll just go back over the old ones.

Do you still go out with models?

How many tattoos do you have?

What’s your favorite tattoo? The 4-foot leprechaun on my back with a Jameson [Irish Whiskey] bottle. That tattoo goes from the back of my neck, all of my entire back, to the back of my knees. And it’s a real life-sized leprechaun, with brass knuckles and Jameson … all the typical Irish hooligan stuff.

Well, your name is Irish. Did your parents name you that? No. ... [Irish] is the person I created, and when I turn that person off and I go home to my son and I go to my house in suburbia, that’s where I’m me. Ω

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LOCAL WRITERS AND PRODUCERS ARE SHOWCASED

I streets, that is—with blues bands, a pasta cookoff and a silent auction at the Blues for Life concert, all in support of the Albie Aware Breast Cancer Foundation. Sunday, October 7; 1 to 9 p.m. 904 15th Street; $25 in advance, $30 at the door; www.torchclub.net.

in the 13th annual A Place Called Sacramento Film Festival, which features films that exemplify Sacramento’s greatness. Sunday, October 7; 1 p.m. Crest Theatre, 1013 K Street; $10; www.accesssacramento.org.

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Lesbian Film Festival returns to the Crest Theatre on Thursday, October 11, through Saturday, October 13, at 7:30 p.m. for three days of LGBT feature films and shorts. 1013 K Street; screenings are $10 each; festival passes are $40; www.siglff.org.

MANY KNOW THE MOVIE FRANCHISE, but not all know about Evil Dead: The Musical. In Sutter Street Theatre’s rendition, be prepared for a humorous-yet-horrifying trek through the cult classic. The play runs October 11 through October 28. Sutter Street Theatre, 717 Sutter Street in Folsom; $23, $21 for seniors and SARTA members, $15 for kids age 12 and under; www.sutterstreettheatre.com.

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WINNERS OF THE 21ST ANNUAL SACRAMENTO AREA MUSIC AWARDS, or Sammies, are announced this Friday, October 12, at 6:30 p.m. at Ace of Spades. 1417 R Street, www.sammies.com.

Business Council’s annual Prelude to the Season. Emphasizing all aspects of the arts community, awards are handed out to nominees in a variety of categories, and local arts groups perform. Friday, October 12; 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Woodlake Hotel Sacramento, 500 Leisure Lane; $65; www.sacabc.org.

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EXPERIENCE TRADITIONAL GERMAN MUSIC AND DANCE (and traditional food and drink, too, of course) at the 45th annual Sacramento Turn Verein Oktoberfest on Friday, October 12, from 6 to 11 p.m., and Saturday, October 13, 3 to 11 p.m. 3349 J Street; $20 per day, $5 per day for children ages 6-12; children under 6 are free; www.sacramentoturnverein.com.

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Sacramento Horror Film Festival returns with three days of film and live music at the historic Colonial Theatre. Costumes are encouraged! Friday, October 12; 7 p.m.; Saturday, October 13; 2 p.m.; Sunday, October 14, 1 p.m.; 3522 Stockton Boulevard; festival passes $30 in advance, $50 at the door; individual tickets are also available; www.sachorrorfilmfest.com.

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SPANNING TWO WEEKS, from October 12 through October 28,

the inaugural Central Valley Region Architecture Festival, produced by the American Institute of Architects Central Valley, draws attention to the design of the Sacramento region. Get to know the city from an architectural perspective, brought to light through biking and walking tours, film screenings, art shows, kid-friendly activities, panel discussions, and more. www.facebook.com/AIACVArchFest.

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GET YOUR DOSE OF THE HAWAIIAN SPIRIT at the second annual Sacramento Aloha Festival, presented by cultural organization Hui o Hawaii of Sacramento. The inaugural event drew 6,000 people to Cal Expo last year, so expect another good showing this year. There’s certainly a little bit of something for everyone, including food competitions, a cultural village, vendors, an art exhibit, a kids’ area, a Miss Sacramento Aloha competition, and Hawaiian and Polynesian music and dancing. Saturday, October 13; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; free; Cal Expo, 1600 Exposition Boulevard; www.sacalohafest.org.

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CONDUCTOR MICHAEL MORGAN leads the Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra in its Prodigies: Beethoven and Beyond concert at the Community Center Theater. Saturday, October 13; 7:30 p.m. 1400 J Street; tickets start at $18; www.sacphil.org. EXPERIENCE SECOND SATURDAY IN A NEW WAY by participating in the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission’s free Second Saturday Costumed Scavenger Hunt. Dress as your favorite artwork or artist (or whatever tickles your fancy) and complete challenges around town on your smartphone. The hunt begins from the MARRS Building at 4 p.m. on Saturday, October 13. www.sacmetroarts.org.

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TANTALIZE YOUR ARTISTIC SENSES with CORE Dance Collective’s The Doorway, a modern dance performance inspired by the personalities of a room in a Victorian mansion. Performances run October 18 through October 27. 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday; $20 advance, $25 at the door; Benvenuti Performing Arts Center, 4900 Blackrock Drive; www.coredancecollective.org.

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ENJOY AN EVENING OF FINE ART, MUSIC AND WINE on Friday, October 19, from 7 to 9:30 p.m. at Developmental Disabilities Services Organization’s Uncork for the Arts benefit event at Sutter Club. $75. 1220 Ninth Street, www.ddso.org.

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SHAKESPEARE’S TRAGIC LOVE STORY takes to the Community Center Theater stage as the Sacramento Ballet portrays Romeo and Juliet in dance form, October 18 through October 21. Thursday through Saturday, 8 p.m.; Sunday, 2 p.m.; tickets start at $17. 1400 J Street, www.sacballet.org.

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THIS FREE, FAMILY-FRIENDLY STREET FAIR celebrates the artistic tradition in the center of the grid by taking over the block in front of the MARRS building, as well as two adjoining parking lots, for a celebration of music, dance, visual arts and—craft beers? Well, beer-brewing is an art, and this year’s Midtown Arts Festival will include Untapped Midtown, a special area featuring the work of Sacramento’s craft brewers. There’s also a (separate) Kids’ Arts Area, two stages, plus vendor booths of crafts and art. Saturday, October 20; noon to 6 p.m.; 20th Street between K and J streets; free.

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Panteon de Sacramento celebrates Dia De Los Muertos with two days of hands-on activities and events. The Mexican holiday honors those who have died, not through mourning but through the creation of such things as sugar skulls, masks and altars— the latter which serve as shrines to the departed. This year’s Panteon gathering will celebrate death in a larger-than-life spirit with 50 outdoor altars on public display. Saturday, October 27; 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.; Sunday, October 28; 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.; 2020 J Street; www.lrgp.org.

Theatre’s 2012-13 Broadway Sacramento season, October 30 through November 4, at Community Center Theater. 8 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday; 2 p.m. matinees on Thursday, Saturday, Sunday; tickets start at $19. 1400 J Street, www.broadwaysacramento.com.

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