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See the light Light rail is the best way to ride— and I never want to set foot on it again. Before I commence ranting: Let’s give it up for Regional Transit. The outfit operates on a paltry $134 million annual budget, yet somehow keeps the trains Mussolini. Just imagine if Congress actually taxed 1 percenters and invested in alternative transit: real jobs, nourished city economies and a helluva lot of cars off the roads. It’s at least a remote possibility under the current president. Mitt Romney, given the chance, would soon let the private sector gut light rail, control car to caboose. I recently made a major change in my life and rejoined the 50,000 Sacramentans who take light rail each weekday. (No more car, bike stolen, long story.) I roll for just one stop, yet the fare for this short voyage is $2.50, the exact same price it costs to ride from Folsom to downtown. Which never made much sense: I took street trains in Germany and France and paid tiered rates based on distance traveled, not unlike BART. Anyway, this is of course the least of RT’s problems. My route from downtown to Del Paso Boulevard, for instance, is surely the gnarliest five minutes in Sacramento. Over the past three years, I’ve witnessed tragedy (men and women so despondent they couldn’t even control their own bowels), criminality (rampant prescription-pill dealing) and nightmares (a mentally ill man screaming at kindergartners about a “murderer on the loose”). Still, you can’t beat watching the sun rise over the American River through the train’s dirtied windows. Or sitting back and checking email instead of enduring commuter gridlock. Hopefully, the new batch of leaders we elect Tuesday will see the light and invest in public transit. —Nick Miller

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Re “Jerry Brown’s moment of truth” by Marc Cooper (SN&R Feature Story, October 25): The problem Gov. Jerry Brown faces in this election is the body politic’s lack of faith in the state Legislature. I have no faith that any tax dollars added to the state budget by this—or any other measure— won’t 1. prevent the restructuring needed to balance letter of the budget through real cuts; 2. be sopped up by the the week unions and fat pension plans (we don’t have fewer public employees because they became less expensive, we have fewer because it is easier to fire less tenured people than it is to reduce union salaries); 3. be spent on nanny-state programs representing the political issue of the day (i.e., mauled by a Chihuahua? Someone will quickly find a politician to write a law outlawing the pooch, and Taco Bell, for good measure). “Vote local, spend local” is my motto these days. I will not vote for [Proposition] 30 or any new taxes until the state lawmakers earn my respect by overcoming divisive politics. Maybe the governor’s real agenda with this measure is to highlight the absurdity of budgeting by state proposition. Why have a representative government if the people have to do the work of their representatives? Mob budgeting, is that what we’re about now? Perhaps the governor knows it won’t pass, or maybe he doesn’t really want it to pass. Perhaps he’s just trying to force us toward the logical end of a broken political system: a budget crisis that forces the public to demand that their representatives take their legislative responsibilities more seriously than their party affiliation. Benjamin Bannister

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Bogus endorsement Re “Vote with us!” (SN&R Opinion, October 25): Your endorsement for Dianne Feinstein for U.S. Senate was anything but “independent” or “alternative,” as your paper claims to be. You asked us to blindly vote for her because she is a Democrat, and you failed to mention what you did not see eye to eye with her on. Feinstein has been in office for 42 years. She is a “has-been.” She has been responsible for driving companies out of California, for creating a state with the highest income tax and driving California to the gates of bankruptcy. Right now, instead of campaigning, she is taking a taxpayer-funded vacation and is refusing to even debate her opponent, Elizabeth Emken. But I guess we should vote her in yet again, because, well, she is a Democrat. Tell me again: What is independent about that? Grant Erfert Sacramento

Pilgrims were drunks, too Re “Tell your pilgrim to shove it” by Becky Grunewald (SN&R Brew the Right Thing, October 18): Becky Grunewald is to be commended on her taste in beers, but BEFORE

she is woefully misinformed about Pilgrims and their attitudes toward this most excellent beverage. She praises Lagunitas Brewing Company’s fine DayTime IPA, but inaccurately suggests that our country was founded by Puritans whose attitude toward “day drinking” stood in sharp contrast to much of the world, where a midday beer is considered “as natural as day eating or day drinking.” In truth, the “day drinking” of beer and “day eating” were considered one and the same by our Pilgrim forefathers. As all good beer nerds know, it is a historical fact that the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock rather than continuing further south as planned, because they were in serious danger of running out of beer. ... North America was colonized by Europeans, and beer was considered an essential and nutritious part of the daily diet, a food to be consumed at all times of the day by young and old, and with good reason. In the days before people understood the dangers of bacterial contamination, beer was much safer to drink than water, didn’t spoil as quickly as milk, tasted good, and offered vitamins, minerals, soluble fiber, and calories that people needed to survive. Beer was an essential part of the colonists’ diet, and they had no qualms about enjoying it throughout the day. Joe Martin Davis

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Volunteers should fix up schools Re “Homework improvement” by Cosmo Garvin (SN&R Frontlines, October 18): It is disturbing to read of the sorry state of C.K. McClatchy High School and other schools in Sacramento. What will happen to all the students— our future leaders—who experience an education in such a setting? ... Then we read how much money is required to turn things around, and we want to throw up our hands in despair. We know such monies will not be available for many years, if ever. What do we do until then? It seems we are faced with two choices: We can either continue to bemoan the terrible state of education in our community while we lose a generation of kids ... or we can do the best we can with what we have and decide not to give up. We can use volunteers. ... If someone puts together a volunteer corps, I am willing to put in a few hours a month working at McClatchy. I am sure many parents and others will do the same at all our schools if given the opportunity. Mike Savino Sacramento

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New bike lanes rule! Re “Don’t get ‘Jerry Browned’” by Nick Miller (SN&R Frontlines, October 18): I really enjoyed this article and was happy to find out that more bike lanes have been added to downtown. ... As for the suggestion that a better bike lane should be placed between parked cars and the curb, I strongly disagree. ... The idea of a bike lane caught between cars where the passenger’s side of the car could just as easily open into an innocent bicyclist ... [it] wouldn’t fly at all. I’d much rather ride in the road than even contemplate the obstacle course a lane like that would entail. At least with the bike lane between parked cars and the roadway, the bicyclist has the option to cautiously ride around any obstacles in the bike lane. I’m just thrilled that we have bike lanes at all, and even new ones in these times of economic hard times for the state and city governments. When it comes down to it, the sharrows or bike lanes work best when there is a mutual respect between the bicyclist for the power of the car and the car driver’s respect for the vulnerability and right of way of the bicyclist. Ellen McMahill Sacramento

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FRONTLINES Jailhouse crock Insiders worry Capitol to bail on prisonrealignment plan—and foot local governments like Sacramento County with the bill A little more than a year after the state shifted responsibility for corralling thousands of by lower-level felons and parolees to individRaheem F. Hosseini ual counties, one thing has become clear: Nothing is clear. raheem@ On the surface, Assembly Bill 109— newsreview.com the state’s effort to realign its overcrowded prisons—reflects a shifting paradigm that would make most UC Berkeley professors cream their hemp Patagonia trousers. The argument now goes that simply warehousing prisoners without preparing them for the outside world doesn’t work. Statewide recidivism rates stubbornly hover around 70 percent. So, rather than sentence nonserious, nonviolent, nonsexual offenders to state facilities where they’ll simply learn to be better crooks, the plan now is to place these folks under the purview of local counties, where they’re supposedly more likely to get the services they need. In theory, it sounds great. In practice, those administering the state plan keep waiting for the other shoe to drop. “For me, it’s sort of broken from the get-go,” Sacramento County Supervisor Phil Serna told SN&R. Last month, supervisors begrudgingly accepted a plan to spend $30 million in state realignment funds, but complained it didn’t go far enough to meet the goal of reducing recidivism. County supervisors have little say over how yearly state allocations are spent. And there are other problems with the realignment plan, which was cobbled together only after the U.S. Supreme Court ordered California to reduce its illegally crowded prisons by more than 30,000. Critics, and even some proponents, say realignment is a bastard child of cowardly politicians, that the long-term effects aren’t known and the money that’s earmarked for it has a cloudy future. The “dedicated funding source” for realignment, as it’s termed, is stitched BEFORE

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California’s effort to realign its prison population has been anything but a clear, straight path from point A to point B.

together from vehicle-license fees and a portion of sales-tax revenues. The state provided more than $850 million to its counties this fiscal year and is slated to distribute more than $1 billion during the next, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. But beyond that? Uncertainty looms. “There was a fear from day one—and I think rightly so—that the state of California was not going to provide commensurate resources,” Serna observed.

“There’s no question that this population is both sicker and more fraught with mental-health issues.” Jamie Lewis Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department on how realignment has changed the makeup of California prisoners Buried somewhere in Proposition 30—under the more voter-friendly promises of restoring schools, taxing millionaires and paying off bond debt—is language that would make the funding source for realignment constitutionally protected and, thus, permanent. But Gov. Jerry Brown’s revenue-generating ballot

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measure is far from a sure thing, according to the latest polling data. If the initiative fails on Tuesday, there’s nothing from stopping future lawmakers from passing legislation that could supersede realignment, said CDCR spokesman Jeffrey Callison. If that happens, quipped Chief Probation Officer Don Meyer, “We’re sunk.” Such a fate would make realignment essentially another unfunded mandate— with counties on the hook for all those redirected bodies but with no extra money to handle them. It’s a possibility that’s rooted in history, not political speculation, Serna said. “The state does sort of have a long … history of getting creative, let’s say, with deciding where resources are [spent],” he said. Before that sky even has a chance to fall, though, local officials say money is already short of what’s needed. The county requested more than $50 million from the state this year but received a little less than $30 million, 55 percent of which is going toward inmate housing. Public-safety officials told an unhappy board of supervisors on October 16 that the allocation plan was the best they could do with limited funds. A majority of the board wanted more money for rehabilitative programming, but were told that “hard costs” like jail beds were unavoidable. Such will be the case next year, too, and likely won’t change unless crime rates suddenly drop, officials said.

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“The reduction will occur as the system stops being fed by people committing crimes,” Jamie Lewis, the sheriff’s department’s chief deputy of correctional services, told supervisors last month. “I don’t know how that happens exactly.” He’s not the only one. A recent Public Policy Institute of California report on realignment also proved to be a big fat question mark. With many county jails already facing capacity challenges, the nonpartisan research foundation surmised that local facilities were making room for tens of thousands of newly sentenced inmates by incarcerating fewer parole violators and people awaiting trial. How safe this strategy is remains to be seen, the report states. Public-safety officials say realignment has already changed the makeup of local jails, with a population that’s more sophisticated at gaming the system. And, according to Lewis, “There’s no question that this population is both sicker and more fraught with mentalhealth issues.” This dynamic has translated to the streets as well, with patrol deputies encountering more probation violators who would likely be incarcerated if not for realignment. “Without a doubt,” agreed sheriff’s spokesman Deputy Jason Ramos. “I can’t quantify it with precise numbers, but

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Did Sacramento miss out on California’s biggest cycling tour because of debt? Sacramento has been part of the Amgen Tour of California cycling race for five of its seven years. But while the tour is by expected to announce details for this James Raia year’s route in the coming weeks, this city’s participation in the 2013 event is tenuous for several reasons, including its still-unpaid loan to the Sacramento Sports Commission. The $400,000 debt for the 2011 USA Masters Outdoor Track & Field Championships isn’t a deal breaker when it comes to Sacramento gaining a stage start or finish in the eighth annual Amgen Tour, scheduled for next May. But race organizers are aware of the city’s financial dilemma, and it’s one reason Sacramento has been relegated as a “fallback location,” according to tour officials.

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“The event knows what Sacramento can do as a stage city,” said one race organizer, who spoke via an agreement of anonymity. “And some of the biggest crowds the race has had have been in Sacramento.” But, the source added, “The city does have a sports deficit. But more importantly, with the race likely starting in Southern California, it wouldn’t likely be feasible to get to Sacramento.” Like a half-dozen Northern California cities, including Davis and Folsom as well as the Lake Tahoe region, Sacramento submitted a bid to host a stage start or finish by the August 17 deadline. In previous years, the route for the following year’s race already would have been announced. John McCasey, executive director of the Sacramento Sports Commission, believes the geographic preferences for the event may prevent a Sacramento stop. But

he doesn’t believe the financial deficit is a consideration. “The event is too important for us not to want to be involved again,” McCasey said. “We’ve been in contact with the organizers, and they said they will do whatever they can to help. I’m not sure how the event could get here in eight days, but I know there are a lot of route scenarios being discussed.” With fewer cities applying to host a stage start or finish, event organizers have had difficulty finalizing a route that incorporates more desirable major cities—San Diego, Los Angeles and a finish in San Francisco. The reason: The second-year USA Pro Challenge, a nearly identical cycling-tour event held in Colorado, has prospered. In August, it featured idyllic cities such as Aspen, Telluride and Beaver Creek, as well as a final-day time trial in Denver. The Tour of California is also facing additional concerns, an image makeover and a pending change of ownership. The mega-sports corporation Anschutz Entertainment Group, owner of the Amgen Tour of California and once a partner in the proposed Sacramento Kings arena downtown, went on sale this past September. With biotech monolith Amgen as its title sponsor, the race has reportedly lost several million dollars per year since its inception in 2006. The 2013 race is the last year of Amgen’s contract. Last year’s Tour of California included a successful start in Santa Rosa and concluded in Los Angeles. But the race also visited smaller cities such as Clovis and Livermore, and the race’s pivotal time trial was held in front of a small crowd in Bakersfield. The 2013 Tour of California’s pending start is in Escondido, located 30 miles southeast of San Diego, and the host of the race’s final stage in 2009. In early August, the Escondido City Council approved a budget expenditure of $475,000, according to several media outlets. It would be the first Southern California city to host the overall start. Ω

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“The allegiance should be to reducing recidivism.” Phil Serna Sacramento County Supervisor He was the lone supervisor to cast a symbolic vote against the plan, but board members Don Nottoli and Jimmie Yee indicated they might have as well, if not for a stipulation requiring a super majority to reject the plan and send it back to the committee. “The allegiance should not be necessarily to an agency or historical programs when it comes to reducing recidivism,” Serna told SN&R a week later. “The allegiance should be to reducing recidivism.” Speaking of allegiances: Meyer rejected the recommendation for a workshop as a recipe for cronyism, comparing it to a “good-ol’-boys, good-ol’-girls network.” Ascend, which requested 1 percent of the $30 million allocation, boasts a recidivism rate of less than 10 percent of those who graduate its class. Those court-ordered clients who don’t are sent back to jail. Cofounder Toni Carbone pointedly reminded county officials of that success rate to no avail. “In the turbulent waters of criminal justice, we are the lifeboat, and the CCP plan that stands before you today is like the USS Titanic,” Carbone said shortly before supervisors approved the plan. For now, the Titanic lurches forward, hoping history won’t repeat. Ω

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there has been no shortage of these people continuing to re-offend. I can say that unequivocally.” Sacramento was one of 13 individual counties to face capacity issues even before realignment went into effect, with an average daily population that was regularly larger than the number of beds available. CDCR projected nearly a thousand new felons and parole violators would be added to the county rolls during the first year of realignment. According to sheriff’s officials, there are currently a little more than that amount of A.B. 109ers (as they’re called) spread across the Rio Cosumnes Correctional Center near Elk Grove and the main jail in Sacramento. While the relocation of lowlevel offenders from state prisons to local facilities has tapered off, the PPIC cautioned the true impact to public safety might not be known for a while. “Part of the problem is we don’t know how the counties will react,” explained policy fellow Magnus Lofstrom, who presented the PPIC report, “Capacity Challenges in California’s Jails,” during a meeting in September. “Just one year of this huge experiment [is] a pretty short period.” As the experiment continues, so does, it seems, the status quo. Under A.B. 109, the responsibility for deciding how millions of dollars in realignment money gets spent falls to panels made up by local public-safety officials with limited oversight. Depending on your outlook, this either makes perfect sense or else is wildly inappropriate. (The stipulation was written, after all, to prevent county boards from siphoning realignment funds for non-realignment projects.) The panel—known as the Community Corrections Partnership—represents law-andorder departments that benefit directly from realignment funds and that stand to suffer the most if the funding spout shuts off or slows to a dribble. “The people most impacted by this has been the sheriff’s office and probation department,” said Meyer. Realignment has shifted approximately 1,600 adult and juvenile probationers to local supervision, Meyer said. In all, 27,000 people are currently on probation in Sacramento, only a sliver of which are supervised. If realignment funding falls through, Meyer said the county will be “stuck with a

population that won’t be supervised” at all. Meanwhile, community-based organizations that focus on rehabilitating offenders, such as Ascend, have had difficulty making a case for their successful programs. “We don’t have any real enemies per se. We just don’t have any power, because we don’t have a seat at the table,” Ascend co-director Christine Galves told supervisors. According to a majority of supervisors and a flurry of Ascend loyalists, this has translated into zilch for private-sector groups. “I’m trying to understand why we think it’s a good decision to have a majority of $30 million allocated to inmate housing without hearing some of the benefits of maybe some of the other programs,” Serna said during the meeting.

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In just 20 days, Joe Yee and Steve Hansen brought in only $2,000 less than what Councilman Steve Cohn raised in all of 2010. Here in the grid, Joe Yee and Steve Hansen’s neck-and-necker to be the next mayor of Midtown—a.k.a. council member of District 4, which also includes downtown, Land Park and that ’hood near Chevy’s on the river—is being fueled by a robust eleventh-hour influx of campaign contributions. Hansen leads this infusion: The attorney raked in some $34,000 in only 20 days of October, according to the city clerk’s latest campaigndisclosure statements. This number is nearly one-fifth of what Hansen brought in during the entire year; final contribution reports won’t be available until after Tuesday’s election. Yee, too, has been no slouch in the fundraising department. The architect 12

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and planning commissioner accrued more than $30,000 during these same three weeks, which amounts for almost 20 percent of his contributions received in 2012. Think about it: In just 20 days, the two guys brought in only $2,000 less than what Councilman Steve Cohn raised in all of 2010 (granted, he did not have a November runoff). When it’s all said and done, Hansen and Yee likely will amass half-a-million dollars in contributions over the past two years (Hansen sitting at $267,429; Yee at $176,694) for the District 4 race, a very healthy uptick over the Jay Schenirer-Patrick Kennedy District 5 contest in 2010 (those two together raked in nearly $293,000). And, as the saying goes, mo’ money mo’ problems. Including shenanigans: On October 25, Hansen’s attorney Amber Maltbie was paid to file a complaint with the California Fair Political Practices Commission that Yee is using office space near the Midtown Safeway, owned by megadeveloper Paul Petrovich, without disclosing it on finance reports. But the FPPC hasn’t filed any charges. And Yee still has time to make disclosures on statements if necessary. Another instance: Hansen’s spent more on mailers than any other candidate, some $36,000 in charges recently, all to Portland, Ore.-based firm Morel Ink. The candidate explained to SN&R, however, that he wasn’t spending big cash with an out-of-town business, and that all mailers were printed locally at Pacific Standard Print (the company also confirmed this). Morel Ink handles the transaction, turns out, because a friend involved with the national Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund runs the outfit. No harm, no foul. Just more big special-interest money impacting Sacto (although electing the city’s first-ever gay council member is a noble cause). Still, critics worry that Hansen— who’s taken from cops and the chamber of commerce—and Yee— developers and labor—won’t stand up for public interests when special interests come knocking (read Cosmo Garvin’s Bites column this week, on the next page). It’s a legit concern. And those money trees keep on growing. Ω

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He did come awfully close, though—going on at length about the benefits of the bonds and directing employees to a Sacramento Bee editorial in favor of the measures. In a letter to the district’s Board of Education, the lawyers demanded that Raymond, “immediately cease and desist” with the emails. District spokesperson Gabe Ross said it’s true that district employees can’t advocate for the passage of a particular measure—at least not on the taxpayer’s dime. “We can, however, provide factual information about the impacts should a potential measure pass or not pass,” he said. Last month, a California State University, Monterey Bay instructor was dinged for using state email to urge students to help pass Proposition 30. Raymond’s note was less blatant. “Of course, these are delicate items, and we work closely with legal counsel to ensure we are in compliance with laws,” Ross added. So, you see, when Raymond sends an email to his employees telling them, “The cost of failing to make a move in the direction of the future is huge,” he’s not telling them to vote for measures Q and R; he’s just telling them they’ll be sorry if they don’t. That, or he’s warning school employees against time travel; Bites isn’t sure which. By the way, the law firm that called Raymond out for electioneering is Bell, McAndrews & Hiltachk. As in Thomas Hiltachk, who is the attorney for everything sleazy in politics around here— Kevin Johnson’s strong-mayor initiative, Meg Whitman, Proposition 23 (which would have rolled back California’s greenhouse-gas laws), stuff like that. Hiltachk is really not the kind of guy we want mucking around in our schools. So, instead of trying to be cute and seeing how close they can get to the legal line without crossing it (and then crossing it anyway), maybe the district ought to just leave the BEFORE

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Elections are always something of a pick-your-poison sort of proposition. And each candidate in the Sacramento City Council District 4 race has one or two qualities that are a bit hard to swallow—at least when it comes to the power of money in City Hall. Candidate Steve Hansen is technically not registered as a lobbyist. His job title at Genentech is “regional manager.” Still, it’s his job at the firm to direct money to political candidates, and its lobbyists report to him. He talks a lot about transparency. In fact, when SN&R endorsed him for the seat, it even said, “He’s big on transparency.” But as any editor knows, it’s important to “show don’t tell.” When Bites recently asked Hansen how he felt about the mayor’s use of nonprofits to receive unlimited and undisclosed donations (see “K.J.’s dark money machine,” SN&R Bites, September 6), Hansen didn’t seem to get it.

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New program warms up low-income Sacramentans’ houses, saves energy, dollars Like many of us, Everett Hooker tried to ignore the chilly air seeping through his drafty front door. The retired auto mechanic has owned his north by Christopher Arns Sacramento home since 1970. But, at 79 years old, Hooker lives on Social Security and a small pension; he needed help making his house more energy efficient. Luckily, a new pilot program in Sacramento is helping low-income homeowners make those repairs. After Hooker signed up earlier this year, local volunteers from Sacramento Habitat for Humanity spent two hours at his house caulking windows, installing new weather stripping, replacing old light bulbs with more efficient compact fluorescent bulbs and fixing that balky front door.

“It’s made quite a big difference,” Hooker told SN&R. “You could already tell, like when I turn the heater on, you don’t have to have it on so long. This makes everything so much better.” And here’s the best part: Hooker didn’t spend a dime on those upgrades. The Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District and a handful of local organizations created the free program to help struggling homeowners save a few bucks on their energy bills and reduce air pollution. Local chapters from Habitat for Humanity and Rebuilding Together provide the manpower with volunteers, while the Sacramento Association of Realtors Charitable Foundation bankrolled the work with $10,000 in start-up cash. So far, 34 homes have received weatherization upgrades since the pilot program began in May. Organizers selected former clients from the two construction-minded charities to kick off the service, which should be open to the public within the next few months. The service could one day help thousands of Sacramento’s low-income homeowners. “We have a huge database of people that we’ve personally served in other ways and that I know would want weatherization,” said Katy Zane, resource and program manager at Rebuilding Together. Just a few simple tweaks around the house can pay off. Christina Ragsdale, a spokesperson from SMAQMD, said inexpensive upgrades can lower energy bills from 10 to 20 percent.

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If it doesn’t sound like much, ponder this: Every dollar counts for seniors and disabled residents scraping by on fixed incomes or families struggling to pay the mortgage. “That can make the difference potentially between staying in their home or not,” said Ragsdale. “I think these days, that’s a real benefit.” The environment also gets some love. According to program coordinators, simple energy upgrades such as sealing windows and doors can reduce Sacramento’s annual carbon emissions from 1 to 3 tons per home. And using less energy means utility companies don’t have to splurge on new power plants. “Low-tech energy-efficiency strategies are the cheapest form of new energy,” said Tim Taylor, a division manager with SMAQMD. It’s also hardly new. Many utility companies already dangle rebates and energy credits in front of customers who make green-friendly upgrades to their homes. But those repairs aren’t cheap. Homeowners can replace entire heating and cooling systems through SMUD’s Home Performance Program, but the service usually costs a few thousand dollars. “If you’re in a vulnerable population and utility prices are going up and your home is leaking like a sieve, energywise, what are your alternatives?” said Ken Cross, CEO of Sacramento Habitat for Humanity.

Inexpensive upgrades can lower energy bills from 10 to 20 percent. Ragsdale said the free weatherization concept only costs $100 to $300 in supplies and administrative costs but won’t compete with anything offered by SMUD or other local utility companies. “We’re really talking about hopefully a very large-scale effort for people who are homeowners but have really no resources or are not Internet connected and really could not take advantage of those programs,” she said. Ω

this week. There’s the cardboard bicycle an Israeli fellow has invented and the self-balancing gyroscope motorcycle that got the BBC all frothy. Somehow, she was going to morph these biwheeled musings around how Jed Bartlet, president of the United States on The West Wing, was introduced by way of a bicycle accident—further proving the importance of bicycles—and therefore, and by the way, be sure to vote for Barack Obama. A line of reasoning that looks straight enough to Ruthie—one gal’s zig is another gal’s zag—and likely no one else. But, hey, this is the last column before the election, and that’s the drum to beat, unless you’re a Mitt Romney person … and good luck with that.

But then Auntie Ruth got the weirdest note: “I hastily sent a bitchy letter about the [SN&R’s] alarmingly doofusy lukewarmth regarding matters political, mentioning in particular auntie ruth’s bizarre silence on the existence of the green party.” Vote! Gosh. Yer Auntie had forgotten all about the Green Party these past weeks. A case of Ruthnesia. Nothing against Jill Stein, its presidential candidate, nothing at all. Just … nothing. One could say, cynically, that third-party politics are one of America’s great romances, like Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, or Al and Tipper Gore. But no. Better to be a third-party activist and be actively engaged than not; better to be looking ahead than not; better to have hope, however defined, springing eternal. One can find any number of ways to despair about the status quo. This is the third party’s fundamental line of argument, and it’s a good one—witness all the support for Ron Paul, the periodic arm wave from the Peace and Freedom Party folks, etc. That neither major party can change a thing can be well argued, and the thirdparty folks Auntie knows are really, really good arguers. Climate change might be the one cause that might someday tip the scale away from the stunting stability of the two-party system. “Someday” being the operative word. Operative and essential. This is politics, not art. The goal isn’t to have the prettiest politics, admired for its moral symmetries, shiny predictions, handsome righteousnesses, historic inevitabilities. No, politics can be butt ugly, you bet—a war without We bet your aunts the guns, especially in these times that seem, aren’t as cool as ours. on some days, to be as divided as any since the Friend Auntie Ruth Civil War. on Facebook Next Tuesday is not an election to stay and let’s hang out. pretty for. Obama in 2012. Ω

We’re No. 4! (Hey, not bad.) It’s no secret that Sacramento is a relatively “green” city. But it’s not quite the “Emerald City” yet. A new report by Oregon-based clean-tech research firm Clean Edge ranked Sacramento No. 4 on its U.S. Metro Clean Tech Index. The index factors in nearly two dozen statistics in categories such as green buildlings, transportation, clean electricity, carbon management, investment, workforce and innovation. San Jose topped the list, followed closely by San Francisco and Portland, Ore. Sacramento came in fourth, bolstered by its No. 1 rank in “clean economy job creation.” View a summary of the report at www.cleanedge.com/research/metro-index.

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Fast-forward four years, and those good times are so over. No party for you, Barack, just one last week of Tough Muddering through GOP-slung guck on the back road to an unenviable second term. And, like a car that won’t turn over, the Obama economy also is sputtering toward this finish. Pundits blame joblessness for this razor-close contest with Mitt Romney, the tightest since 2000, according to RealClearPolitics and Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight election blog on The New York Times’ website. But it’s Obama himself who has allowed Romney to emerge as a “worthy” adversary, the first debate—in which the president clearly was a mile high—being that proverbial shaking of the Etch A Sketch restart for the GOP candidate. Romney lied like a frat bro prowling on a Delta Gamma, and America has put out for this kinder, gentler, more moderate Mitt ever since. Yet while Denver was Obama’s facepalm moment, his campaign hiccups flared up long before. Unlike in 2008, the president has yet to dip into his let’s-fix-Washington lexicon. Where are those soaring war cries against strongheaded, single-minded and simpleton Capitol Hill Republicans? Instead of lighting fire, Obama’s been wonky, high-minded and, by turn, distant—a Democrat not unlike the legion of donkeys who callously greenlit the Iraq War in 2003. There’s a term for it: out of touch. At the same time, the president’s also been wise, calculative, holding cards (sometimes too) tight while forking out hundreds of millions on a (hopefully successful) “ground game” and (once) effective swingstate TV ads. The machine doesn’t lack oil. It’s Obama who hasn’t been smooth. Still, it would be shocking—eyelid splitting!—if the president doesn’t return for four more. Be that the case on Tuesday, it won’t be the fault of a groggy economy. It’ll be because Obama forgot to believe in the change he sold America on in 2008. (And maybe because he didn’t give us free pizza and beer this time.) Meanwhile, and despite efforts to cook up Romney as a toothsome POTUS, is anyone actually excited to vote for the guy? Not even his right-leaning brethren, who could hardly utter his name at the senile

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Republicans are so accustomed to pinching noses at this point that they truly believe their shit doesn’t stink. It’s a rotten vision. And that’s why, despite California’s blue-hued Electoral College irrelevance, you’ve gotta punch a ballot on Tuesday, if only to show the rest of the country—and the world—that this extreme-right aggression will not stand, man. Republican veep candidate Paul Ryan and the nonchalance with which he busted out “method of conception” as a euphemism for rape (this, not to mention his Shrugging off of America’s poor)? No thanks. Romney’s brazen, pathetic lying (he even fibbed about watching dressage—and his wife had a horse competing—during the Summer Olympics, if you recall)? No thanks. The GOP’s Stone Age “thinking” when it comes to tax breaks for the wealthy, war in Iran and climate change? No thanks. “Why vote?” you ask. Really? Because there’s nothing to freak out about. Uh huh.

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wasn’t just “change you could believe in” on the night in 2008 President Barack Obama won the Iowa caucus. It was a classic American rager: Empty sparkling-wine bottles and beer cans strewn across folding tables inside Obama’s Midtown Sacramento campaign headquarters, where volunteers heckled Hillary Clinton and devoured free pizza. The celebration was exactly what this country is all about: community, hope—and greasy, cheesy, drunken revelry.

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Rob 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. We agree with Kerth that money isn’t the problem, whether in District 2 or in the city all together: The real problem is a lack of enthusiasm and involvement. Sacramento City Council District 4: Steve Hansen

Steve Hansen has a unique, specific vision for how a burgeoning arts and entertainment scene in Midtown and downtown can serve as catalysts to power economic growth and redevelopment. He understands that the funky, artsy style that has sprung up in the last two decades is a huge asset. He’s a hands-on, suit-up-and-show-up guy. And he’s determined to build employment sectors other than government payroll so that Sacramento can become economically sustainable and establish an urban identity not entirely tied just to its status as the state capital. Sacramento Municipal Utility District District 5 board member: Michael Picker

Michael Picker will bring unequaled expertise and a rich history of leadership to SMUD’s board. For the past few years, he’s advised Govs. Jerry Brown and Arnold Schwarzenegger on renewable energy. In the 1990s, he was Mayor Joe Serna’s chief of staff. Picker has a huge advantage on how to develop viable green-energy products for Sacramento consumers, and he should get your vote for SMUD’s District 5 representative. Measure M: No

This measure to convene an elected charter commission for Sacramento is accompanied on the ballot by 56 local candidates vying for 15 spots on a commission that won’t even exist if the measure fails. So the process comes to voters in a confounding manner straight out of the gate. Though most observers assume Measure M will not pass, local politicians, unions and businesses are hedging

their bets by nominally backing various slates and individuals—ones who serve their agenda. Result: If the commission does come to exist, it will likely resemble a kind of larger, messier doppelgänger of the city council itself with a few policy wonks added in for good measure. In the absence of real leadership, is more always better? Measure T and Measure U: Yes

Measure T specifically would repeal 1977’s Measure A, which prohibited the city from requiring yard-waste containers. The city hopes to curb illegal yard-waste dumping and also make the roads safer for pedestrians and cyclists. A yes vote on Measure U, meanwhile, will help pay for these services. Measure U, called the Essential Services Protection Measure, will raise the city’s sales tax by half a percent—from 7.75 percent to 8.25 percent—over six years. We’re not thrilled about a regressive tax, but city services—police, fire, libraries and solid waste—have experienced unprecedented cuts over the past five years. And the estimated $28 million in added revenue from Measure U will go a long way to ensuring that Sacramento’s fundamental services are preserved. Measure Q and Measure R: Yes

Measure Q would approve a bond to raise $346 million to pay for new classrooms, science labs, heating and air conditioning, and bathrooms in schools. Smaller bond Measure R will raise $68 million for playgrounds and athletic and kitchen facilities. Sure, Sacramento city schools need to pay for teachers, janitors, bus service and more. But the facilities also need some TLC, too—and desperately. Measures Q and R are a smart and needed investment in Sacramento’s education infrastructure.

StatewIde Proposition 30: Yes

Gov. Jerry Brown won a resounding return to California’s top job in 2010 because voters believed he could enact a balanced solution to California’s calamitous budget problems. Well, Republican lawmakers blocked him straightaway and without conscience. But on November 6, at last, Brown gets what he wanted back then. It’s called Proposition 30. The measure calls for a

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no evidence—other than the anecdotal evidence put forward by the very nonprofits that stand to gain—that this so-called crisis exists. What’s more, this would expand law-enforcement control over Internet access. This looks suspiciously like some old-time vice squad all dressed up in the language of human rights. We urge a no vote on Proposition 35. Proposition 36: Yes

We’ve all heard the stories of criminals convicted under the state’s three-strikes law who were sentenced to 25-years-to-life in prison for stealing a loaf of bread. Proposition 36—which has been proven over its 18 years to have no demonstrable effect on violent-crime levels or trends—would make things more equitable by requiring that the third strike be a serious or violent felony. The Legislative Analyst’s Office estimates the state could save from $70 million to $90 million annually in prison costs. Proposition 37: Yes

Simply put, U.S. Rep. Dan Lungren’s too extreme. Vote Dr. Ami Bera.

temporary, quarter-cent sales tax (from 7.25 to 7.50 percent) and personal income-tax increase for Californians earning more than $250,000. Passage of Prop. 30 will prevent an immediate $6 billion in further cuts to schools, provide billions in new school funds starting this year, prevent more tuition hikes and protect public safety by halting further cuts to cops and firefighters, and save billions in future prison costs.

automatically deducting dues from members’ paychecks, effectively crippling them as political players. We don’t always agree with how unions use their money and power, but without their influence, giant corporations would hold even more power. Proposition 33: No

Proposition 32: No

Proposition 34: Yes

This measure is a familiar attack on unions by a core group of super-rich Republicans, like the Koch brother billionaires. It purports to be an evenhanded campaign-finance-reform plan, but it won’t actually limit corporate influence, because it doesn’t include super PACs, which will still be allowed to spend unlimited money. In the meantime, unions would be prohibited from

The Savings, Accountability, and Full Enforcement for California Act—a.k.a. the SAFE California Act—which seeks to replace the death penalty with a sentence of life without the possibility of parole, is a long-awaited fix for a system that SN&R has argued for years is enormously flawed, practically as well as morally. We can’t put it better than a recent Los Angeles Times editorial: “With one vote, Californians can solve a host of problems bedeviling its law enforcement system: the spiraling costs of incarceration and appeals for death row inmates, the legal tangles over methodology that have stalled executions in this state since 2006, and the unfairness built into a system in which convicts are more likely to be sentenced to death if their victims were white.” As a bonus, the same vote would unclog a court system that is jammed to the point of dysfunction with deathpenalty appeals.

Proposition 31: No

Proposition 35: No

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Let’s keep it simple: Human trafficking is already illegal. If the penalties aren’t severe enough, they can be changed in the Legislature. This proposition actually benefits those lawenforcement agencies that will receive funds and, even more, those nonprofits that provide services for victims of human trafficking. But we’ve seen

Proposition 38: No

We’re keenly aware of the need for more funding for California’s public schools. But multimillionaire civil-rights lawyer Molly Munger’s proposition is not the fix it claims to be and would create many more problems than solutions. Among other things, the $7 billion that it would raise for public K-12 schools annually would be walled off from the state’s general fund, i.e., the measure is ballot-box budgeting at its worst. Yes, the schools need rescue and resources, but they’re not the only ones. What about the decimation we’ve seen in other realms like public safety, social services, health services and infrastructure? There is no doubt that passage of this measure would mangle Gov. Brown’s attempt to fix our budget crisis. Also, a vote for Proposition 38 is a potential vote against Proposition 30 (since it’s not possible for both propositions to become law at once).

California State Assembly District 6: Beth Gaines

It might seem that Beth Gaines and Andy Pugno are cut from the same cloth, but Pugno’s already broken his vow not to campaign against a fellow Republican. Since the voters in this district clearly want a far-right conservative, though, we urge them to elect Gaines. California State Assembly District 7: Roger Dickinson

Here is a politician who remains a serious, thoughtful and pragmatic representative of his district. He resoundingly deserves a second term. California State Assembly District 8: Ken Cooley

Congressman Dan Lungren’s chief of staff, Peter Tateishi, is vying with former Rancho Cordova city Councilman Ken Cooley. From Tateishi, it’s the same-old GOP talking points that have made his boss such an obstructionist in Washington, D.C. Cooley has a more moderate approach, favoring realistic pension reform and a sound combination of budget cuts and revenue increases. We endorse Cooley for District 8. California State Assembly District 9: Richard Pan

Richard Pan has proven himself to be a responsive and compassionate legislator during his first term, working hard on issues of public health and education, especially as those issues affect the youngest and most vulnerable Californians.

NatioNal U.S. House of Representatives Congressional District 3: John Garamendi

U.S. Rep. John Garamendi has got a fight on his hands this time, thanks to a newly drawn congressional district that contains lots more Republicans, and includes all or parts of Colusa, Glenn, Lake, Sacramento, Solano, Sutter, Yolo and Yuba and counties. Garamendi—who has served in public office as a state senator, insurance commissioner, lieutenant governor and congressman—is an experienced envoy for the area. His challenger, Republican Kim Vann, supports the political agenda of the “do nothing” photo by shoka

California requires far-reaching reforms when it comes to its tax and budgeting process. But this attempt by good-government groups like California Forward simply does not fly. Proposition 31 would make cuts and austerity the go-to method for dealing with our problems when what we need is a governor and legislature free to consider cuts in addition to other revenuecreating alternatives, like raising taxes on the ultrawealthy to previous levels.

Conceived and funded by 91-year-old billionaire George Joseph, founder of Mercury Insurance Group, Proposition 33 is nearly identical to a measure that was rightfully voted down years ago by California voters. Proposition 33 would allow discrimination against the young and the poor so as to make it easier for drivers to switch insurance companies. Discounts would come at the expense of new drivers (the young) and those who’d let their coverage lapse (the poor). Also, experts say if this measure passes, more drivers would take to the road without insurance, driving up costs for everyone.

It’s simple, really: A company should not be allowed to label a food product “natural” if it contains genetically modified organisms. This is why Californians should lead the way—again— and vote yes on Proposition 37, the Mandatory Labeling of Genetically Engineered Food Initiative. The law would also stop companies from calling food “natural” if it isn’t. Companies such as Monsanto, General Mills, PepsiCo, The Coca-Cola Company and others shouldn’t hide ingredients from consumers. But those companies and dozens more have donated more than $32 million to the No on 37 effort. Let’s disappoint them by voting yes.

following the process established by California voters in 2008. A nod to one gets you bonus points for saving state and local governments a cool $1 million.

Proposition 39: Yes

This measure would accomplish quite a lot that is good for California. First, it would close an unjust corporate-tax loophole opened in 2009 under the watch of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, which gives an advantage to out-of-state corporations. The loophole costs the state budget about $1 billion per year in lost revenues and lost jobs. Secondly, it would create new jobs in the “green” sector by dedicating a portion of the increased revenues (see that $1 billion above) to programs that create “green” jobs (up to 30,000 in five years) and reduce public energy costs. Proposition 40: Yes

A yes vote on this measure would safeguard the state Senate districts that were drawn up by the Citizens Redistricting Commission in 2011,

If elected, Steve Hansen (left) would be the city’s first openly gay council member.

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U.S. Rep. Tom McClintock is running for re-election in a redrawn district that encompasses the major cities in Placer and El Dorado counties—such as Roseville, Rocklin, Auburn, Placerville and Pollock Pines—and includes a much larger number of independent voters than ever. In this suburban and foothills district, voters with a conservative approach to fiscal issues and a moderate view of social issues can look to tech businessman Jack Uppal as the sort of conservative Democrat who will best represent their interests. U.S. House of Representatives Congressional District 7: Dr. Ami Bera

Here is a man who would enter Congress as a bright but independent Democrat—one willing to think outside the box. Dr. Ami Bera understands health care inside and out and has shown he will stick up for the rights of women, the poor and the middle class. Also, he’ll be an ally to those in Congress who are working to combine job growth with lower carbon emissions. His opponent U.S. Rep. Dan Lungren is far too conservative to represent a district that incorporates huge swaths of Sacramento County. Lungren opposes abortion, supports offshore oil drilling, denies humans are a major factor fueling the climate crisis, has blocked efforts at campaign-finance reform and has fought initiatives to better regulate the financial sector. (Meanwhile, he’s taken plenty of money from both oil companies and the finance industry.) BEFORE

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In 2011, he voted enthusiastically for GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan’s radical, ultraconservative budget. U.S. House of Representatives Congressional District 9: Jerry McNerney

Throughout his three terms in Congress, U.S. Rep. Jerry McNerney has shown himself to be an extremely worthy representative. He’s a moderate Democrat (despite his Republican opponent Ricky Gill’s claims in television ads) with a high profile on issues like veterans’ affairs, maintaining the Delta and opposing the proposed peripheral canal. Let’s send him back to Congress.

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America faces colossal challenges. We need to fix the economy while growing jobs; reign in Wall Street; strive for balance and intelligence in our dealings with an increasingly unpredictable world; implement and improve the historic health-care overhaul now underway; and move swiftly to tackle an already unfolding climate crisis. This is no time to go backward. We must vote to allow President Barack Obama to continue leading us forward on these and other fronts. Ω Read SN&R’s Election 2012 endorsements online at www.newsreview.com/sacramento/liveballot. |

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a drunken woman flailing down the stairs in a wild mass of hair, legs and shoes as she angrily protests the forced exit of her gentleman caller from a popular downtown nightclub. There’s the one about the couple who was unceremoniously banned for life at another local hot spot for getting a little too intimate in the bathroom. Then there’s the story straight out of a scene from the cult-classic film Road House, in which the unfortunate recipient of a beer bottle straight to the dome was left reeling in pain. While frequently stereotyped as thuggish brutes with snarling countenances and muscled bodies, the guys and gals on the frontlines—the bouncers who provide security and keep the peace so that the party goes on until last call— are in reality a myriad group who employ not 20

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A student of self-defense-styled martial arts, Kemp says his method for managing the crowd is a balance of friendly demeanor AND CLUB BOUNCERS HAVE YOUR BACK. and intimidation. “The majority of the time, what I want just sheer force but also wit and psychological to do is gain control of a situation,” Kemp says. tactics to ensure that everyone has a good time. “I don’t want to go fistfighting. I don’t want to Each night, they witness Sacramento escalate it into something that’s going to get nightlife scene firsthand—the good, the bad and crazier.” the jaw-droppingly scary—and now they’re And, even as one of the city’s most popular talking. nightspots, TownHouse Lounge, prepares to “People want to come out and listen to shutter its doors for good, Kemp says the local music, and they want to blow off that steam at nightlife doesn’t appear to be slowing down or the end of a long work day,” says Guy Kemp, going away. If anything, it appears to be morphhead of security at Pour House on Q Street and ing into a hybrid of scenes, comprising a rich one of the regular ’keeps on the lookout for diversity of fun seekers. good times gone awry at Ace of Spades on the R “Growing up, there were thick lines Street Corridor. between certain cultures in the music Kemp, who has done security at bars, nightscene,” Kemp says. “You had your punk clubs and other venues for approximately 12 rockers, your metal heads, your hip-hoppers years, has worked up and down California’s and your clubbers. At this point … everyone coast and even in Mexico. His skin is adorned is kind of integrating into this weird [meltwith a vibrant spread of tattoos seared across ing] pot. It’s great.” the majority of his body and he towers over It’s this melting pot that inspired another most in his presence—the picture-perfect image security officer to jump into the fray. of a bouncer, perhaps—but it’s his cool, calm, With only about four months on the job, Zen-like demeanor that commands attention. Ace of Spades’ newest security officer defies

the bouncer typecast with her expertly manicured eyebrows and glamorous eye makeup. And she knows her stuff when it comes to managing the nocturnal set. “I’ve been going to shows and bars forever, and was asked to do security by the head of security at Ace of Spades,” says Jalynn Cleaver, the club’s newest security-team member. In a culture populated by men, she adds, her twin set of X chromosomes proved essential. “[They] … needed a [female] security officer because the men have an issue with going into the girls’ bathroom,” Cleaver explains. “It gets kind of touchy when girls pass out in the bathroom.” Now, in just the few short months she’s held the line at Ace of Spades, Cleaver has already formed a distinct impression of the scene after dark. “You can almost tell what kind of night you’re going to have by what’s playing that night,” Cleaver says. “At metal shows the crowd is more rowdy, [with] older males usually and very heavy drinkers ... but nonviolent, surprisingly. … At hip-hop shows, I get a lot of disrespect from the girls, but my biggest issue is with the weed smokers.”

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Many working security at bars and other venues, however, say such situations where they have to employ strong-arm tactics are isolated incidents. For the most part, those who are allowed to pass through the velvet ropes are really just looking to have a good time. One such bastion of merriment, Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub on J Street, has long played host to a number of drool-worthy shows including headliners Chelsea Wolfe and Talib Kweli. The venue is also home to monthly burlesque show hosted by the Sizzling Sirens Burlesque Experience dance troupe, and it’s the hulking yet soft-spoken Antjuan Lambert’s job to keep the dancers’ tasseled derrieres safe from harm. A three-year veteran of the Harlow’s security crew, Lambert says it’s all about ensuring that the venues’ patrons and performers are happy and coming back for more. “Attitudes are checked at the door based on how people in line carry themselves,” Lambert says. “We cut off all of the riffraff—it’s important to have a good BEFORE

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“ATTITUDES ARE CHECKED AT THE DOOR. … WE CUT OFF ALL THE RIFFRAFF. IT’S IMPORTANT TO HAVE A GOOD DOORMAN. IF YOU LET THE WRONG PERSON IN, IT CAN RUIN THE WHOLE NIGHT FOR EVERYBODY.” Antjuan Lambert security Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub Across Midtown on L Street, The Mercantile Saloon is the place to belly up to the bar for a drama-free night, says one of its security officers, a Southern California native who has been securing the front doors of bars and nightclubs in California since 1995. |

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“Here, the crowd is very outgoing and happy compared to other bars I’ve worked at,” says Octavio Gallegos, the 38-year-old veteran of the Mercantile’s nighttime security force. Of course, he adds, that doesn’t mean the bar’s been without drama. “I’ve only had two altercations, but I have heard stories of people being eighty-sixed for life for having sex in the bathroom.” The wax and wane of the Midtown scene after dark is unmistakable—the landscape is ever changing and constantly in flux as venues arrive hot and heavy on the scene only to dissipate into the oblivion that is the graveyard of broken amplifiers and beer taps. But, based on the amount of sweat and booze left on the dance floor after a recent Chk Chk Chk show at Harlow’s at least, ultimately, it’s about having an entertaining, (mostly) clean and safe night. “We try to control everything to make sure people have fun,” says Lambert, the Harlow’s bouncer. “We aim to please.” Ω

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The view from our deck in Weed, Calif., is serene yet surreal. A thick forest of evergreens canopy the hills; there are no houses within view; and Mount Shasta looms in the distance, its snowcapped peak swaddled in a thin stream of clouds. One cloud in particular, hovering near the top, commands our attention. It’s oval and ringed like a tree trunk. And as we sit, basking in the late-afternoon sun, clutching cheap beers, we watch as it splits into three nearly identical clouds that stack into a neat tower of suspended water crystals. It’s a lenticular cloud, someone says, the kind of atmospheric mass that forms near a mountain, perpendicular to the direction of the wind. This isn’t just a meteorology lesson—it just may hold the key to the cluster of picturesque mountain hamlets that dot Interstate 5, approximately 235 miles north of Sacramento. More explanation follows—intricate details about dew points and wind flow—but (and maybe this is just the beer talking) we have decidedly less scientific things on our mind. “It looks like a UFO,” someone else says. “Or like it’s hiding a UFO.” Well, that would certainly explain a lot. Mount Shasta, part of the Cascade Range and one of the tallest peaks in California, has long been revered by spirituality seekers who claim its rocky exterior is home to a wealth of positive energy. Others, however, believe the mountain hides the Lemurians: a race of so-called superhumans. As lore has it, the Lemurians arrived at Mount Shasta after a volcanic eruption destroyed the now-lost continent of Lemuria. Frederick Spencer Oliver’s 1894 book, A Dweller on Two Planets, described Lemurians as spiritually advanced beings who live in a “complex of tunnels” beneath the mountain and who are occasionally seen walking its surface, dressed in white robes. Over the years, their mythology has shape-shifted: They’re reportedly very small, glow with a purple light and speak impeccable English with a slight British accent. Oh, and they usually make themselves invisible. So, good luck trying to spot one—much less upload a picture to Instagram. “They’re selfish little bastards,” a souvenir-shop cashier tells us. “They won’t make themselves seen.” That doesn’t stop locals from paying homage, however. The area is stocked with related trinkets— purple crystals, T-shirts and books. There’s even a Lemurian lager on tap at a nearby brewery. Touristy kitsch or something else? “Some people really believe in them,” the cashier says. In fact, the little sprites are viewed as healing entities that feed off Shasta’s subterranean vibe. “They say that the mountain’s positive energy fuels the [Lemurian’s] spaceships,” he says. Ah, yes, back to those cloud-dwelling spaceships. You see, these sprites aren’t just lost-continent refugees who talk like Madonna, circa 2001—they’re also aliens. It’s easy to be skeptical, the cashier adds. But really, anything is possible. “I’m open to the possibility. How kick-ass would it be to fall into one of [Mount Shasta’s] holes and meet a Lemurian?” he says. “I’m always looking when I go hiking, but so far, I haven’t seen one. It remains a mystery.” —Rachel Leibrock

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Academy Award-nominated classic political comedy, starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck, is about a grassroots movement unwittingly created by a newspaper columnist. Ticket holders will learn about what makes Sacramento voters special and hear voting myths debunked during the film’s introduction, presented by the League of Women Voters of Sacramento County. Th, 11/1, 7pm. $5-$8. Crocker Art Museum, 216 O St.; (916) 808-7000; www.crocker artmuseum.org.

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Special Events HOLIDAY SHOPPING EXTRAVAGANZA: Partake in a fun shopping event while at the same time fundraising for the Caring Hearts Society of Auburn. Th, 11/1, 4-8pm. Free. The Power Club, 195 Harrison Ave. in Auburn; (650) 642-1215; http://chsauburn.org.

RESPIRATORY RALLY: Join the American Lung Association for its Respiratory Rally as the organization celebrates COPD and lung cancer awareness month. It’s an educational event for individuals affected by chronic lung disease, their families, friends and caregivers. Th, 11/1, 10am-3pm. Free. Sierra 2 Center, 2791 24th St.; (916) 4523005; http://action.lung.org/site/ Calendar?id=104262&view=Detail.

SNOW CAP LAUNCH, UGLY SWEATER PARTY: Enjoy food and beer specials, games and more at the release party for Pyramid Alehouse’s Snow Cap beer. There will also be an ugliest sweater competition. Th, 11/1, 5-9pm. Free. Pyramid Alehouse, 1029 K St.; (916) 498-9800, ext. 15; www.facebook.com/ events/146161238863222.

Kids’ Stuff FALL CHILDRENS THEATRE CLASS: Focusing on the “fun” in fundamentals, this acting class provides a well-rounded education geared towards developing healthy habits and solid techniques for children ages 6-12. Registration is recommended. Th, 4-6pm through 11/15. $220. Victory Life Church, 800 Reading St. in Folsom; (916) 207-5606; www.actorsworkshop.net.

Literary Events SAC STATE HOSTS AUTHORS: Sacramento’s Chinatown, by Brian and Larry Tom, is the topic for the next Friends of the University Library’s Author Lecture Series presentation. Sacramento has one of the nation’s oldest Chinatowns, and the Tom brothers are thirdgeneration Chinese Americans. Th, 11/1, 3pm. Free. Sacramento State Library Gallery, 6000 J St.; (916) 278-5954; www.library.csus.edu.

ROLLER DERBY MADNESS: Enjoy a hard-hitting roller derby bout with Sacramento’s first allfemale flat-track team, the Sac City Rollers, featuring the Capitol Punishers versus the Folsom Prison Bruisers, plus live music. Th, 11/1, 7:30pm. Free. Sacramento State University University Union, 6000 J St.; (916) 278-6997; www.sacstateunique.com.

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Special Events SPARE ONE 4 THE KIDS: The bowla-thon will feature two hours of bowling in teams of four, allyou-can-eat pizza and soda, prizes and raffles. The goal is to raise $10,000 to support Sacramento County Kinship Support Services Program, which supports kin—grandparents and other family members—who are raising their relatives’ children when the birth parents are not able to do so. F, 11/2, 6-8pm. $75. Country Club Lanes, 2600 Watt Ave.; (916) 567-4472.

Literary Events AUTHOR APPEARANCE: Professors R. Michael Davis and Robert Sommer will discuss the new Field Guide to Mushrooms of Western North America. It provides the most up-to-date science on the role of fungi in the natural world, methods to identify species and locations of mushroom habitats. F, 11/2, 7:30pm. Free. Avid Reader, 617 Second Ave. in Davis; (530) 758-4040; www.avidreaderbooks.com.

Concerts ANNUAL BLUES HARVEST: Join this fundraiser to help benefit the Yolo Adult Day Health Center. The event offers appetizers and a buffet dinner, local wines and beer, and a silent and live auction. The Kyle Rowland Band will perform at 9:30pm, so bring your dancing shoes. F, 11/2, 6:30-11pm. $45. Heidrick Ag History Center, 1962 Hays Ln. in Woodland; (530) 666-8828; www.friendsof adultdayhealth.org.

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FASHION SHOW: Help support local charities and get a sneak peak at the hottest designs for 2013 by attending Sacramento State’s SFA Fashion Show, highlighting the collections of student and local designers. Proceeds from ticket sales will benefit My Sister’s House, The Volunteer Center of Sacramento, Adopt-aFamily and Birthday Magic. Sa, 11/3, 6pm. $10-$15. Sacramento State University Union Ballroom, 6000 J St.; (916) 278-6997; www.facebook.com/SFA.Sac State.Board?fref=ts.

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of all genres are invited to this mixtape exchange at Phono Select. Be sure to make a cover for your mix including track and artist info and bring a copy or two; CDs are welcome, too. Guest deejays will be spinning wax while music lovers and partygoers are enjoying the festivities. Sa, 11/3, 6pm. Free. Phono Select, 2312 K St.; (916) 400-3164; http://phonoselect.com.

Special Events CALIFORNIA INDIAN BASKET WEAVING DEMO: In honor of Native American Heritage Month, the State Indian Museum presents a full day of special California Indian basket weaving demonstrations. Guests will enjoy watching Native weavers as they demonstrate how to use a variety of materials and techniques, and also share stories in a day-long showcase of basketry art. Sa, 11/3, 10am-4pm. $3-$5. California State Indian Museum, 2618 K St.; (916) 324-8112; www.parks.ca.gov/ indianmuseum.

ORIGAMI EVENT: Celebrate World Origami Days with the Davis Origami Group. Hear guest speakers and learn a few folds. Many models will be taught to folders of all levels. Bring old magazines and pieces of junk mail to upcycle them into origami. Sa, 11/3, 1-5pm. Free. Davis Public Library, 315 East 14th St. in Davis; (530) 753-6093; www.facebook.com/Davis OrigamiGroup.

WINES FOR CANINES: Join Chako Pit Bull Rescue for a wine-filled fundraiser. Your ticket gets you three tastings of wine, a custom Chako-labeled bottle of red wine and appetizers. Participate in a silent auction and listen to live music from SaxMan Dave. Sa, 11/3, 5-7pm. $40-$45. Vintners Cellar Winery, 12401 Folsom Blvd., Ste. 204 in Rancho Cordova; (916) 534-8608; www.meetup.com/ pitbulls/events/77658732.

Comedy WELCOME TO THE CHUCKLEDOME: A creative duo of stand-up comedians, Johnny Taylor and Daniel Humbarger, bring something completely unique to the Sacramento arts scene with their Welcome to the Chuckledome show. The show aims to combine the best elements of art exhibitions, comedy shows and music concerts in to one amazing night out. Sa, 11/3, 8pm. $12-$15. Art Warehouse, 215 14th St.

Classes SAT PRACTICE TESTS: The Sacramento Public Library will present free workshops for college-bound students. Highschool students are invited to take a free SAT practice examination with a real SAT test under real test conditions. Kaplan Test Prep will administer the practice test. First Sa of

every month, 8:30am-noon through 12/1. Free. Sacramento Public Library (Central Branch), 828 I St.; (916) 264-2920; www.saclibrary.org.

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decoupage. Decoupage is traditionally done by adhering papers, fabrics and other mediums to an object, giving the finished piece a painted quality and textured look. Sa, 11/3, 10am-12:30pm. $30. Trezhers Gift Shop, 3214 Riverside Blvd.; (916) 538-6584; www.TrezhersGifts.com.

Kids’ Stuff SANTA PAWS: Get a jump on the holidays when Santa makes a special visit to the Sacramento SPCA. You’ll have the opportunity to have your holiday photos taken with your twoand four-legged family members and Santa himself. Sa, 11/3, 11am-4pm. Photo packages start at $20. Sacramento SPCA, 6201 Florin-Perkins Rd.; (916) 504-2868; www.sspca.org.

Concerts CLASSICAL GUITAR TRIO: Trio Seven is a unique guitar ensemble featuring three seven-string guitars. This allows performers to play symphonic and piano works seldom attempted in a 6string ensemble, including works by Bach, Dvorak, Satie, Debussy, Rachmaninov, Bizet, Stravinsky, Brahms and Grasso, as well as various popular movie themes. Sa, 11/3. $5-$12. American River College, 4700 College Oak Dr.; (530) 759-9071; www.trioseven.com.

MYSTIC MANTRA MUSIC FROM NEW ORLEANS: Dive into the bliss of kirtan, the yoga of music, with celebrated New Orleans mantra musicians Sean Johnson and the Wild Lotus Band. This critically acclaimed band creates evocative music that blends ancient eastern mantras with western musical taste, passionate vocals, funky grooves, and dreamy melodies. Sa, 11/3, 7pm. $20-$25. It’s All Yoga, 2405 21st St.; (916) 548-7221; www.facebook. com/events/333488666738348.

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Special Events ENGLISH COUNTRY DANCING: If you saw Keira Knightley dance with Matthew Macfadyen (Mr. Darcy) in the movie version of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, you’ve seen English Country Dancing. Join this group and you can dance like that. Beginners welcome; no partners needed. First-timers should come to the free introductory lesson at 1:30pm that precedes the 2pm dance. Su, 11/4. $5-$10. Roseville Masonic Temple, 235 Vernon St. in Roseville; (916) 739-8906; www.sactocds.org.

GOOD STREET FOOD & DESIGN MARKET: Good Street Food and Design Market features deejays, live music, good beer and wine, and good bike parking. There are a few things that set it apart from other markets: high-quality products that are locally made or grown, one-ofa-kind items, and custom goods designed to improve the consumer experience. First Su of

every month, 1-5pm through 11/4. $3 entry. 1409 Del Paso Blvd.; (312) 854-7524.

Concerts POWER OF 12: Power of 12, Nevada County’s homegrown R&B band, will be presenting a 20thanniversary concert. A no-host bar will be offered and dinner will be available for purchase from Anya’s Catering. Su, 11/4, 5:30pm. $18-$22. Miners Foundry Cultural Center, 325 Spring St. in Nevada City; (530) 265-5040; www.minersfoundry.org.

STEPHEN WAARTS, VIOLIN: Like most talented young musicians, Stephen Waarts has won his fair share of awards and prizes (including a Grand Prize at the 2008 Mondavi Center Young Artists Competition). A former student of Itzhak Perlman and San Francisco Symphony concertmaster Alexander Barantschik, Waarts now attends the Curtis Institute of

Sacramento State’s choirs present Light Transcendent, a concert featuring choral works of transformation and hope. The concert includes Sisask’s “Oremus,” Holst’s “Choral Hymns of the Rig-Veda,” works by Rachmaninoff and Brahms, and guest harpist Beverly Wesner Hoehn. Sa, 11/3, 8pm. $5-$10. Sacred Heart Church, 1040 39th St.; (916) 278-5191; www.csus.edu/music.

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DON’T MISS! FALL COLORS: Create colorful fall art by making a leaf rubbing for each of the leaf shapes found in the village area of the Effie Yeaw Nature Center. Learning each leaf is the key to identifying the many trees found in this area. All ages welcome. Su, 11/4, 1:30pm. Free. Effie Yeaw Nature Center, 2850 San Lorenzo Way in Carmichael; (916) 489-4918; www.effieyeaw.org.

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Music. Su, 11/4, 2pm. $17.50-$35. Mondavi Center, 9399 Old Davis Rd. in Davis; (530) 754-2787; www.mondaviarts.org.

DENISE PERRIER: Denise Perrier has spent most of her 30-year career performing in the San Francisco Bay Area and touring Europe, Latin America and Asia. Her latest CD The Second Time Around, with guest Houston Person, is her fourth release. Su, 11/4, 5-8pm. $13. JB’s Lounge, 1401 Arden Way; (916) 723-5517.

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INTERNATIONAL JURIST SERIES: Join a conversation with Sylvie Cimamonti, professor of law at Paul Cézanne University. She explores civil law and commonlaw approaches, and the challenges in Europe to define the place and role of victims in different legal systems. M, 11/5, 5-6pm. Free. University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law, 3200 Fifth Ave.; (916) 739-7316; http://mcgeorge.edu.

Concerts HOODIE ALLEN: Enjoy a live hip-hop concert featuring touring artist Hoodie Allen and special opening guest, local emcee Soosh*E. M, 11/5, 7:30pm. $10$15. Sacramento State University Union Ballroom, 6000 J St.; (916) 278-6997; www.sacstateunique.com.

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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-thescenes facts regarding its production. Drama, comedy, adventure and romance filmed between the 1920s through the 1970s will be screened in the West Meeting Room. First Tu of

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DON’T MISS! KRISTIN CHENOWETH:

Experience Tony- and Emmy-award-winner Kristen Chenoweth’s vocal talent in a rare concert. Kristin’s range spans pop to country to classical to captivate everyone in the audience. W, 11/7, 7:30pm. $35.50-$127.50. Sacramento Community Center Theater, 1301 L St.; (916) 808-5291.

SOCIAL MEDIA SUMMIT: Join local business professionals for a social media lunch-and-learn opportunity and networking. The event includes a Q-and-A panel of the region’s top social media experts as well as marketing veteran Maureen Dudley. Tu, 11/6, 11:30am-1:30pm. Free. Sacramento Business Development Center (SBDC), 1410 Ethan Way; (916) 759-6977; http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=p7 aasceab&oeidk=a07e6exxjqq76 901b4b.

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and Religious Affairs. He has also been appointed by the Prime Minister in charge of the open government project and has been a visiting professor at UC Berkeley and Stanford University. W, 11/7, 4pm. Free. Mondavi Center, 9399 Old Davis Rd. in Davis; (530) 754-2787; www.mondaviarts.org.

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Meetings & Groups DEMOCRATIC CLUB MEETING: The

Special Events DR. JOHN PANARETOS: Dr. John Panaretos speaks as part of the UC Davis Chancellor’s Colloquium Distinguished Speaker Series. Born in Kythera, Greece, Panaretos was Deputy Minister of Education, Lifelong Learning,

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Elk Grove-South County Democratic Club will hold its regular monthly meeting. The main topic of discussion will be the general election outcomes, followed by election of club officers for 2013. W, 11/7, 6:30pm. Free. Gary Davis Mayoral Campaign Office, 8234 Laguna Blvd. Ste. 340 in Elk Grove; (916) 686-5258.

Percussion, Jack Quartet, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players and keynote speaker Augusta Read Thomas are just a few of the highlights of Sac State’s annual Festival of New American Music. Most FeNAM concerts are in Capistrano Hall. Through 11/10. Call for pricing. Sacramento State, 6000 J St., Capistrano Hall Music Recital Hall; (916) 278-5191; www.csus.edu/music/fenam.

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One thing’s for sure:

DeMarcus Cousins will be an all-star for the first time this year. He’s improved every year, and entering his third season, he’s undoubtedly one of the best big men in the West—even with the addition of Dwight Howard to the division with the Los Angeles Lakers. Despite not making the 2012 Olympic men’s team roster, Cousins dominated a few scrimmage games against the Olympic team’s players and came to the Kings training camp in great shape. And the Kings also have a lot of other positive new things going for them this season: A new arena name (Sleep Train), a new contract with News10 to broadcast 10 games, some OK new signings (James Johnson, Aaron Brooks), and a promising, talented rookie (Thomas Robinson). They’ve also put a bunch of numbers in the win column during the preseason—certainly a departure from last year. But as a longtime fan, I’m still skeptical. Besides, a lot of things remain the same: We’re still watching games at Arco—er, Sleep Train—the Maloofs are still thinking about taking the team elsewhere and my optimism for a good season will probably once again be squashed come January. But who knows? Last year, “Linsanity” changed the course of the New York Knicks’ season with just a few moments of sheer dominance within a short span of several games. So perhaps that’s what will happen this season. The team has six players who can potentially break out and take over a game on any given night: Cousins, Marcus Thornton, Tyreke Evans, Isaiah Thomas, Brooks and Robinson. Throw in a shutdown defender like Johnson (who, by the way, is a black belt in karate with a 20-0 record as a mixed-martial artist), and you’ve got the makings of a solid team. But will they have a shot at the No. 8 seed in the playoffs?

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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. H H H1⁄2 G.L.

Grange Restaurant & Bar You won’t find any “challenging” dishes on this menu—just delicious local and seasonal food such as the Green Curry & Pumpkin Soup, which has a Southeast-Asian flair.

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Firestone Public House A sports bar with a focus on craft beer isn’t exactly a groundbreaking concept, but two local and prominent restaurant 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. HHH B.G.

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A spinach salad features ingredients that could be considered boring elsewhere: blue-cheese dressing, bacon, onion. But here, the sharply cheesy buttermilk dressing and the woodsy pine nuts make it a salad to remember. Grange’s brunch puts other local offerings to shame. The home fries are like marvelously crispy Spanish patatas bravas. A grilled-hamand-Gruyere sandwich is just buttery enough, and an egg-white frittata is more than a bone thrown to the cholesterolchallenged, it’s a worthy dish in its own right. American. 926 J St., (916) 492-4450. Dinner for one: $40-$60. HHHH B.G.

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The Porch The Porch is light and white with a vibe that suggests the airy sweep of an antebellum Charleston eatery. One can only envy the extensive on-site research conducted by chef Jon Clemens and business partners John Lopez and Jerry Mitchell, creators of Capitol Garage. The most enjoyable menu selections are salads or seafood sandwiches or entrees. Slaw on the barbecue pork sandwich elevates its status, and its pickled vegetables are sweet and tart, adding an additional dimension. The shrimp and grits dish, while laden with cheddar and gravy, is a synergistic mélange—perhaps The Porch’s trademark dish.

Also in the running is the purloo, the low country’s version of jambalaya, with andouille, crunchy crawfish appendages, and the same sautéed bell peppers and onions that also appear in the grits. Southern. 1815 K St., (916) 444-2423. Dinner for one: $20-$30. HHH G.L.

Shady Lady Saloon So many 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.

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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. H H H1⁄2 B.G.

Pho King 2 Pho King 2 takes diners on a trip to crazy-delicious town with its salads, including one off-the-menu salad featuring cold, pink tendon smothered in pickled daikon, carrot, crunchy garlic chips and peanutss and served with sweet fish sauce dressing. A beef with lemon salad, with thin slices of eye of round “cured” in lemon juice, is coated with sesame oil, herbs and chili flakes and is meant to be piled on rice crackers studded with black sesame seeds. It’s an incredible dish, and one you won’t find on a menu very often.

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you get at the store. Mexican. 5701 Franklin Blvd., (916) 428-7844. Dinner for one: $10-$20. H H H1⁄2 B.G.

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Carniceria No. 2 If you breakfast or lunch here on a weekend, you’ll likely encounter parties of bleary-eyed men conversing over large bowls of menudo, but La Victoria has plenty of other dishes on offer: breakfast plates, chile verde and roja, tacos, and tortas. In general, the food here has a reliable mid-level heat, but it distinguishes itself with its “normal” tacos, especially the cow-based ones, such as cabeza and lengua, and also its asada, which demonstrates a mastery of the cow: fatty, well-salted steak with a hint of garlic. They are served on tortillas fried in oil— which just adds to the decadence of the piled-up tacos. Mexican. 6830 Stockton Boulevard, (916) 427-1745. Breakfast or lunch for one: $5-$10. HHH B.G. Tacos & Beer This is one of the area’s best Michoacán restaurants. Of its regional dishes, the enchiladas Apatzingán are unusual, filled with only a smattering of sharp cheese and diced onion, soaked in a vinegary sauce, and smothered in very lightly pickled, shredded cabbage with raw hunks of radish and avocado slices. Another specialty is the morisqueta—the ultimate comfort dish due to the unique texture of the white rice, which is as soft as an angel’s buttock. Diners also have the option to order hand-shaped, griddled-toorder tortillas. They are warm, soft, taste like corn and barely resemble those cardboard things

for a shot to lull you during the long drive home. The sassy bartender will fix you right up as you take in the curving walls of this prefab structure from a long-gone era, the E Clampus Vitus plaques and the regulars’ birthdays listed on the wall. American. 16898 State Hwy. 49 in Nevada City, (530) 265-9902. Dinner for one: $20-$40. HHHH B.G.

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Zen Toro Japanese Bistro & Sushi Bar Zen Toro features a large sushi menu, made up of both the steroidal Americanized rolls and traditional nigiri, but it also changes seasonally and features some uncommon offerings: 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. It also features inventive desserts. 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. Sushi. 132 E Street in Davis, (530) 753-0154. Dinner for one: $10-$25. H H H 1⁄2 B.G.

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Bowl & Ramen Randomness yields wonderful rewards at Bowl Ramen, a ramen eatery under the same ownership as Mana Japanese Restaurant & Sushi Bar. This venture may explain the miso soup, not a common occurrence in other Korean joints, which is proffered here, along with the eight banchan dishes. It also explains the initially incongruous ramen and California Roll combo. For the less intrepid and the spice-averse, there’s nine ramen options, including ones that feature dumplings, cold buckwheat noodles and potato noodles. If not a believer in the miracle of sundubu, Bowl & Ramen offers conversion. This unique tofu stew has mushrooms, veggies, onions and an egg on top but simply reciting the ingredients doesn’t do the combination justice. Here, the bibimbap is presented in an artful way; among the dish’s vegetables are small cubes of zucchini that appear out of place but skillfully augment the other flavors. Korean. 2560 Alta Arden Expy., (916) 487-2694 Dinner for one: $9-$15. H H H1⁄2 G.L.

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There are few iconic images that conjure Sacramento: the Capitol’s dome, the Tower Records logo and … the KZAP cat. This kitty smiled knowingly from many a T-shirt and car window in the ’70s and ’80s, it’s image signifying a fan of KZAP 98.5 FM, a rock RADIO station which broadcasted from 1968 to 1992. And now the cat is back, this time on the air on UC Davis’ KDVS 90.3 FM. For 48 continuous hours, starting at 6 a.m. on Thursday, November 8, (listen to it by radio or the station’s online stream) deejays from the late ’60s and early ’70s-era glory days of KZAP will duplicate the iconic station’s freeform playlist and recount stories. Tune in and turn on. http://kdvs.org/kzap-takeover.

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Canadian-born singer-songwriter Neil Young has always marched to the sound of a different guitar—his own—with pathways guided by his feelings on directing his 40-year music career. So it’s no surprise that his memoir has the same feel. Waging Heavy Peace (Blue Rider Press, $30) offers a stream of consciousness, as if he’s talking to an old friend, reminiscing about people, the “scene” and the beautiful women, BOOK all of which is threaded around a single focus, music: writing, playing and listening. Throughout, Young moves back and forth in time and through different places with a cadence that’s at first a little jarring, like riding in car with a jerky clutch. Once the driver catches on, it’s a smooth ride. —Saunthy Nicolson-Singh

Cancer sucks Big Jay Bastard Benefit show No one likes cancer. So, here’s the chance to give this disease a big middle finger and benefit a musician who’s not just battling melanoma but also a growing pile of hospital bills. On Friday, November 2, check out the Big Jay Bastard Fuck Cancer Benefit Show at the Blue Lamp. The show MUSIC will feature Bastard’s band, the Sacramento-based U.S. Roughnecks (pictured; with Big Jay on the right), who haven’t performed since 2007. Other supporting bands include Hoods, Old Glory and the Old Firm Casuals—a three-piece street-punk band with Lars Frederiksen of yes, Rancid. Hoods’ Mike Hood, friends with Big Jay since the mid-’90s, organized the event by rallying bands from Reno to San Francisco to help the cause. “I love Jay, he is a great gentle giant,” Hood says. “He has many friends that love him, and like most of us, [he] lacks the money for proper insurance.” In addition to the the music, there’ll also be donations from Icing on the Cupcake and a raffle featuring prizes, including a guitar, Lush Fresh Handmade Cosmetics and chances for free ink donated by various local tattoo artists. Big Jay is currently recovering from surgery, but if he’s feeling well enough, his Roughneck bandmates say he just might join the festivities as well. 9 p.m., $10 at Blue Lamp; 1400 Alhambra Boulevard; www.bluelamp.com. —Steph Rodriguez

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Dunne will return. It might be “nuts,” as she so frankly states, but as played by Stevens, we appreciate the sly understanding that reality can coexist with the hope against reason that this magical thinking will be true. It never is. And it will happen to you. Ω The Year of Magical Thinking, 7 p.m. Thursday; 8 p.m. Friday, Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday. $15-$25. California Stage in the Wilkerson Theatre, 1723 25th St.; (916) 451-5822; www.calstage.org. Through November 25.

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It will happen to you. That’s the message—and it’s an uncomfortable one—to be found in the stark, by emotionally intense and surprisingly funny Kel Munger West Coast premiere of Joan Didion’s The kelm@ Year of Magical Thinking at California newsreview.com Stage. As the author, Janis Stevens exudes the physical lightness—almost a birdlike quality—we have come to associate with Didion, while constantly surprising us with reminders of how sharp the wit, how fluid the language and how incisive the thinking are within that small woman.

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The play, written by Didion from her Pulitzer Prize-winning book for the New York stage production that starred Vanessa Redgrave, does not go easily or gently into the murky terrain that is a deep, pervasive grief. It opens with the warning—“It will happen to you”—and the suggestion that this is precisely why no one wants to think about the death of a loved one. If you love, you will also lose. Everyone we love will leave us, because death—never truly expected, never really prepared for—is inevitable. And, once that’s out of the way, Stevens’ Didion takes us through the sudden death of her husband, writer John Gregory Dunne, as the couple were sitting down to dinner. But that’s not all. At the same time, the couple’s only daughter, Quintana, was near death, suffering from toxic shock in an intensive care unit at a New York hospital across town from the one in which her father was pronounced dead. Stevens gives yet another outstanding performance in a one-woman show, striking just the right notes of vulnerability and controlfreak mania to make us understand the hospital social worker’s assessment of Didion as “a cool customer.” The Year of Magical Thinking takes its title from Didion’s “magical” thought after Dunne’s death: If she plays along, does the right things,

Guns a-blazin’ Assassins

Assassins is a killer musical—a musical about killers, anyway—and the Sierra Stages production of the Stephen Sondheim-John Weidman play comes out guns a-blazin’. Like its subjects—nine people who killed or tried to kill a president of the United States—the play sometimes misses. The play, mind you, not this production. It’s right on target, a bull’s-eye every time, starting with the overture from a small but extremely effective four-piece band. The cast is introduced by J.R. Lewis as the proprietor of a carnival booth with the legend “Kill a Prez, Win a Prize.” Quickly, we meet those who would claim that carnival prize: Leon Czolgosz (Conor Nolan-Finkel), who shot President William McKinley; John Hinckley Jr. (Casey Burke), who tried to get Jodie Foster’s attention by killing President Ronald Reagan; Charles J. Guiteau (Jed Dixon), who shot President James A. Garfield; Giuseppe Zangara (Isaias Acosta), who shot the mayor of Chicago, but missed President Franklin D. Roosevelt; Samuel Byck (Paul Micsan), who tried to hijack a plane, fly it into the White House and kill President Richard Nixon; Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme (Tinley Ireland) and Sara Jane Moore (Kim Wellman), who both separately tried to shoot President Gerald Ford; John Wilkes Booth (Danny McCammon), who shot President Abraham Lincoln; and Lee Harvey Oswald (David Holmes), who shot President John F. Kennedy. Susan Mason smartly directs the fast-paced revue, which skims but never delves into the motivations of these marginalized individuals. Are they seeking to right perceived wrongs, gain fame or … who knows? That’s the trouble with Weidman’s book that Sondheim’s lyrics can’t fix: Everything isn’t explained. The one truth Assassins reveals is this: There are and seemingly always have been too many guns too easily accessed. —Jim Carnes

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Shreds of Brontë survive in Arnold and Olivia Hetreed’s script. We still have Heathcliff (played as a boy by Solomon Glave, as a man by James Howson), Catherine Earnshaw (first Shannon Beer, then Kaya Scodelario), Catherine’s sadistic brother Hindley (Lee Shaw), and her straitlaced suitor Edgar Linton (Jonny Powell, James Northcote). Those who are familiar with the novel or any of its 15 or 20 movie and TV adaptations will probably be able to follow this one (more or less) as it plods leadenly through the years covered by the story. Arnold’s most daring stroke is to cast two black actors as Heathcliff. This isn’t as radical a stretch as it may seem. In the novel, Heathcliff is described as a black-eyed, blackhaired “gipsy brat,” and his status (or lack of it) as a despised outsider is a constant torment. (I remember once watching the classic 1939 version with a friend who, not quite grasping the rigid class system of 18th-century England, kept wondering what Heathcliff’s problem was.) Making Heathcliff African instead of “gipsy” underlines his otherness, but it also introduces a level of meaning Brontë never dreamed of—when other characters call him

(in their Yorkshire accents) “niggeh,” or flog him for shirking his work, or say things like, “We should just hang you now, boy, and save the county the trouble.” The problem with Solomon Glave and James Howson’s performances isn’t the color of their skin, but the lack of color in their characters. Neither have acted before and it shows. Where Brontë’s Heathcliff is brooding and Byronic, theirs is blank and bland. There’s no trace of the mystic bonds that tie Heathcliff’s soul to Cathy’s (Shannon Beer is equally inexperienced; only Kaya Scodelario has any résumé), and without that, Wuthering Heights is less than nothing. (As if to acknowledge this, Arnold banishes Cathy’s dramatic declaration, “I am Heathcliff!”—the emotional heart of the story—to the very end, after the last of the credits have rolled by and the audience is safely out of the theater. Did Arnold fear the inevitable snorts of derision?) As it happens, that line, late as it comes, is one of the few that survive from the novel. Arnold and Hetreed eliminate almost all dialogue. When the characters speak, it’s seldom in Brontë’s words, and Arnold and Hetreed’s paraphrasing is a sloppy substitute. After one of brother Hindley’s typically spiteful acts, Cathy snarls, “You’re a fookhead, Hindley!” In response to the Linton family’s snobbery, Heathcliff barks, “Fook you all, cunts!” Most hilarious of all, when Heathcliff returns to find Cathy and Edgar married, he tells her, “You’ve treated me so badly, Cathy. You think you can be nice and everything’ll be OK.” For the record, Wuthering Heights takes place circa 1780: “OK” entered the language 60 years later and 3,000 miles away.

There’s no trace of the mystic bonds that tie Heathcliff’s soul to Cathy’s, and without that, Wuthering Heights is less than nothing. Finally, a few words about Robbie Ryan’s camera work: It stinks. In a perfect world, it would be enough to get Ryan expelled from The British Society of Cinematographers. Whole scenes are out of focus and clumsily framed. Interior and night scenes are black and indistinguishable. We not only can’t see faces, we often can’t even see bodies: Ryan and Arnold, out of some demented fetish for “authenticity,” evidently refused to employ any light source that wasn’t available 250 years ago. There are 9-year-olds on YouTube who could teach Robbie Ryan some things about photography. Some of them, perhaps, could even teach Andrea Arnold a few things about Emily Brontë. Ω

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Argo

A homicide detective (Tyler Perry) investigates the work of a torturer and killer (Matthew Fox), which causes him, his wife (Carmen Ejogo) and his detective team (Edward Burns, Rachel Nichols) to become targets. Author James Patterson’s character, played twice before by Morgan Freeman, is taken over by Perry in an apparent effort to break out of the Madea trap he’s been in for so long. He does reasonably well and is supported by a reasonably good cast (Cicely Tyson, John C. McGinley and Jean Reno are also along). Unfortunately, the movie itself is pretty slapdash. Marc Moss and Kerry Williamson’s script junks most of Patterson’s plot without coming up with a very good one, and they change the locale from Washington, D.C., to Detroit to take advantage of General Motors product placement. Rob Cohen directs with a heavy hand. J.L.

In November 1979, as Iranian revolutionaries overrun the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and take the staff hostage, six Americans manage to escape and find refuge in the residence of the Canadian ambassador (Victor Garber). A CIA exfiltration expert (Ben Affleck) hatches an elaborate cover story to smuggle the Americans out disguised as members of a Hollywood film crew. Director Affleck and writer Chris Terrio fictionalize a real-life story, the CIA component of which wasn’t declassified until 1997—and is here emphasized somewhat to the detriment of the Canadian contribution, which was considerable and highly risky. Still, it’s a crackling good suspense thriller, told with mounting tension and just the right splashes of humor. John Goodman plays Oscar-winning makeup artist (and CIA contractor) John Chambers. J.L.

Atlas Shrugged: Part 2

The second third of Ayn Rand’s long novel comes to the screen with an entirely new cast and director (John Putch); only producers John Aglialoro and Harmon Kaslow and writer Brian Patrick O’Toole (joined by Duke Sandefur and Duncan Scott) are back from before. Still, the result is the same: a respectable effort hampered less by its limited budget than by the dogmatic contrivances of Rand’s plot and the straw-man polemics of her wooden, declamatory dialogue. Samantha Mathis steps easily in as railroad magnate Dagny Taggart; Jason Beghe is less successful as Hank Rearden (speaking in a raspy whisper like a dinnertheater Clint Eastwood). As with Part I, Rand’s detractors will hate the movie as much as they do her, but her fans will be satisfied, both of them for the same reasons. J.L.

Chasing Mavericks

In 1990s Santa Cruz, a budding surfer (Jonny Weston) persuades the old pro across the street (Gerard Butler) to train him to surf the gigantic Maverick waves of Half Moon Bay on the California coast. The life of surfer Jay Moriarty fits comfortably into the standard Hollywood sports-bio formula. A little too comfortably, in fact—the be-your-personal-best clichés tend to stick out all over Kario Salem’s script (from Jim Meenaghan and Brandon Hooper’s too-pat story), and we grow impatient to get to the big payoff we know is coming. The pace is sluggish, possibly due to a change in directors: Curtis Hanson had to drop out for health reasons, and Michael Apted took over. Still, while the movie tries our patience, it rewards it—acting is decent (including Elisabeth Shue as Moriarty’s mother), and the surfing scenes are terrific. J.L.

Chicken With Plums

This perhaps reluctantly live-action tale from Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi, the creators of Persepolis, suffers from an abundance of minicingly storybookish touches. Thick with warm light and would-be poignant whimsy, it recounts the life of a “desperately melancholic” musician (Mathieu Amalric) who loses the will to live upon seeing his prize violin broken. That happens in an inevitable quarrel with the wife (Maria de Medeiros) he can’t love because another woman (Golshifteh Farahani) once broke his heart. Paronnaud and Satrapi tend to forgo

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The villain in a classic 1980s videogame (voice by John C. Reilly) gets tired of being the bad guy, but his efforts to prove himself a good guy end up jeopardizing every game in the arcade. This animated feature has a lot going for it: clever writing in the early scenes, good voice work (Reilly, Sarah Silverman, Jane Lynch—even the usually annoying Jack McBrayer), and brilliant animation that wittily spoofs the evolution of vid-game graphics over the past 30 years (the design of the climactic Sugar Rush game is particularly clever). But the story dissolves into a puddle of familiar to-thine-own-self-be-true bromides, and from there, it becomes a matter of been here, played this. Not a bad time killer, but with a bit more sustained inspiration, this might have been a classic, like Who Framed Roger Rabbit. J.L.

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opening Friday, nov. 9 subtlety, signposting deeper feelings with cutesy visual flourishes that ultimately leave the feelings seeming shallow. The cast is firstrate, but the movie is so mannered that it can’t help but hold them at arm’s length. Still, it has a raconteur’s confidence, and so the story marches on, moping its way to a sorrowful but not exactly satisfying ending. J.K.

Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel

It’s fun to imagine Lisa Immordino Vreeland’s debut officially beginning when she got engaged. “Marry me,” he whispered, “and make an unchallenging film about my late grandmother!” With couture-chronicle chic still apparently active in documentary circles, what chance did the new Mrs. Vreeland stand against kismet? The old Mrs. Vreeland, outlived by her reputation as “the empress of fashion,” already had bestowed the legacy of everything we think we know about modern glamour. Anyway, as a familyapproved portrait of a bon vivant, this will suffice. It falters with actors overdoing performed transcripts of interviews between Vreeland and George Plimpton, who helped on her memoir, but scores with animated page flips through old issues of Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar, whose Vreeland-edited style spreads still seem remarkably new. Behold here young Mick Jagger, as if for the first time. It knows enough to have the exactly right title. J.K.

Flight

In what seems like a very expensive public-service announcement brought to you by Alcoholics Anonymous and Christianity, director Robert Zemeckis and screenwriter John Gatins presents Denzel Washington as an airline pilot who manages a plane crash very heroically, but who also— less heroically—may have caused it. For all its protracted moralizing, at least the movie also tries very hard to be cool, offering up full frontal from Maxim Hot 100 habitué Nadine Velazquez, cheeky drug humor from John Goodman, and, oh yes, that harrowing crash—a fine set piece which indeed proves much more suspenseful than all the subsequent will-he-or-won’t-he fretting over the pilot’s compulsion to keep drinking. Nimbly managing the segue from literal to figurative downward spiral, and milking self-pity as only he can, Washington does give a convincing portrayal of an addict in denial. His conflicted enablers include Bruce Greenwood, Kelly Reilly and Don Cheadle. J.K.

Frankenweenie

Young Victor Frankenstein (voice by Charlie Tahan) applies elementaryschool science and native genius to bring his

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dog back to life after it’s run over by a car— but keeping the secret opens a Pandora’s box of problems. Writer-director Tim Burton remakes his 1984 live-action short as a blackand-white stop-motion feature—literally reanimated—with mixed results. It’s an odd, not-always-comfortable blend of sweetness and doleful gloom, with dozens of in-joke references to 1930s horror movies that few viewers under 30 will get. Burton has plowed this ground before (The Nightmare Before Christmas, Corpse Bride), and it’s not that fertile; this one feels like exactly what it is: a padded-out short. The melancholy atmosphere sometimes plays as lack of energy, but it’s still an interesting novelty. J.L.

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Liam Neeson returns as the CIA agent whose daughter (Maggie Grace) was kidnapped back in 2008. This time, in Istanbul, Neeson and his ex-wife (Famke Janssen) are snatched by the vengeful father of the original villain—and daughter gets away to help Dad free himself by following his orders over her cellphone. Writers Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen press their luck by trying to recycle their earlier success, but they can’t wring another story out of it; they just repeat the old one, with flourishes that make it less credible, less suspenseful and less satisfying than it was before. They compound their mistake by bringing in the aptly named Olivier Megaton to direct. Megaton employs his usual style, hammering away at us like a bully in a bar. The ending sets us up for—shudder!—Taken 3, 4 and 5. J.L.

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How to Survive a Plague

David France’s documentary chronicles the turbulent formative years of ACT UP, a socially essential and historically momentous response to the AIDS epidemic. Working with a well-assembled archive-footage mosaic, France builds a group portrait of unequivocally heroic activists organizing themselves under apocalyptic duress, raging against unconscionably sluggish drug research and regulation, and most certainly earning the authority implied by the film’s title. One through-line is the eloquent, desperate fury of Bob Rafsky, the man who was told “I feel your pain” by President Bill Clinton, before being told off by him. “The question,” Rafsky says elsewhere, “is what does a decent society do with people who hurt themselves because they’re human?” In the grand scheme to which France remains warmly receptive, even the group’s infighting yields hard-won understanding, and points the way toward a deeply touching epilogue that summons much power from simple images of living, aging faces. J.K.

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didn’t just set out to find a replacement: He also added a second guitar player, growing the band from a rock trio into a fleshed out and textured rock quartet. The lineup change happened about a year ago, shortly after the Kelps released their first album, Head Like a Mouse. The current band features Tony Reyes on drums, Donnie Weatherly on second guitar and James Larson on bass. “There’s more sonically happening now, [including] two guitar parts—that’s an enormous difference,” Barringer says. “For the most part, [the second guitar player’s] parts are sort of melodic layers over what’s already happening. It just enhances everything.” Regardless of the band’s changes, one element that’s remained a constant is its approach to music—writing raw, immediate rock ’n’ roll songs that steer clear of specific musical genres. “All I really know how to do is make what sounds good to me,” Barringer says. “Any time I’ve tried to put it into a genre, it doesn’t make sense.” While the band’s music has a certain familiarity to it, there’s also a freshness. This isn’t about reinventing rock music, but rather playing it in the same spirit in which it’s always best achieved its goal: direct, honest communication. PHoto by ryaN DoNaHue

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The band’s lead singer and guitarist Cory Barringer says this showy bent is rooted in his time working behind the scenes for his highschool theater department and also in the short stories he has written since childhood. Things changed for the Kelps, however, after Barringer went through a painful breakup in 2011. Then, he says, he felt compelled to actually write about himself instead of madeup characters. “It was a matter of honesty. I was pretty much constantly on the edge of some sort of collapse,” Barringer says. “I felt like I broke my brain, and I had to rebuild it. These songs were really there to be an outlet.” The lyrics in Barringer’s new songs are, much like the music, sharp, pointed and bluntly honest. In the “The Waltz Song,” for example, Barringer addresses a poignant whatcould-have been: “I was your father’s favorite / he once told me while he was inebriated / and he said he would have loved to call me son if we had married.” This shift in lyrical content ultimately led to a subtle but noteworthy change in the band’s sound as well. After the Kelp’s original bass player quit—because, Barringer explains, the musician wasn’t feeling the band’s new lyrical direction—Barringer

“ I felt like I broke my brain, and I had to rebuild it. These songs were really there to be an outlet.” Cory Barringer singer, the Kelps “What makes rock ’n’ roll powerful is the attitude, of getting onstage and saying, ‘Here is how I feel,’” Barringer says. “If it’s the same three chords that have been used in a million other songs, I don’t care, so long as they are appropriate to the emotion I’m trying to convey.” Now as a band whose primary songwriting goals are to craft personal expression, the rock format makes for an even tighter fit that helps create timeless, relatable songs. “It’s never about trying to make the best song I can make,” Barringer says. “It’s more about taking a moment in time and making something honest out of it, trying to make the best of a bad time and try to create something good out of it.” Ω

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princess-worthy flaxen hair and quirky songs—has something of a twee reputation around these parts. Just another adorkable girl with a ukulele (and accordion!), right? Well, yes and no. Berger’s stuff is actually way more ambitious and sophisticated—in an endearingly oddball sort of way—than the dreck spit out by the average Zooey Deschanel wannabe. Certainly, her upcoming album reflects an ethos that’s at once sweet yet disturbingly dark. This is a girl who, after all, writes songs with titles such as “A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Breaks.” Take that, Disney. This is the new anti-adorkable girl. Berger, as many of y’all know, has been working with Gordon Raphael. She met the Strokes producer after playing a San Antonio gig in front of the wife of a friend of Raphael’s, who, obviously, succeeded in getting him to listen to the California singer. Berger and Raphael eventually connected, and she drove to the Lone Star State to work with him. The two formed a close, creative friendship, moving the recording sessions first to the Clear Creek Recording studio in Keene in Southern California— near Berger’s parents’ home in Bakersfield—and then, eventually to Sac’s own The Hangar enclave. Berger admits she was kind of nervous about recording there, but once she met owner John Baccigaluppi (“the nicest, most helpful man you can imagine”) she fell in love with its well-worn charms. “I found a microphone there that is the love of my life,” she says. “It’s called a Church mic— named after the inventor, Stanley Church—and was used by people like Frank Sinatra.” Not to be outdone, Berger’s assembling her own Rat Pack of sorts. Raphael is currently in Berlin, so Berger’s been racking up studio time with a “true gentleman,” Sacto musician Lance Jackman (of the band Eightfourseven). The pair first worked together in Bakersfield after he worked with her as an engineer at The Hangar. “We recorded a song of mine called ‘Temporary Love’ with my piano at my parents’ house,” she says. The track didn’t make the album, but, Berger says, “I just

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Comedian Ian Edwards is spew-your-drink funny when he’s talking about shark attacks. (“It ain’t an attack when you’re in the water. COMEDY That’s you peeing in his living room, asking for it.”) Like most young men, though, he hits the sexist humor pretty heavily. He’s very funny, but some bits are more accessible than others; it’s when he cuts loose with observational humor that the laughs start rolling instead of trickling out. If his six shows (two on both Friday and Saturday, one on Thursday and Sunday) have a heavy dose of seagoing threats and his misadventures in acting class, the club may need extra napkins. 2100 Arden Way, www.ianedwardscomedian.com.

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Fox & Goose, 8 p.m., no cover Last year, Sacramento singer-songwriter Jay Shaner sat down in his living room with some instruments, a couple microphones and recording equipment. The result is a new CD, Ruth. Written, recorded and engineered by Shaner, the collection is built on a foundation of solidly written pretension-free songs that explore classic themes: love, loss and longing. “American Heart,” a plaintive tale about a girl with “stars in her eyes and a head full of dreams,” evokes a kinder, gentler Ryan Adams, while songs such as “Transistor FOLK Radio,” “All My Friends are Crazy” and “I’m Not the One” exude a sweetly nostalgic, slightly bittersweet vibe. John Conley opens the show. 1001 R Street, www.jayshaner.bandcamp.com.

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“Tell Me Something Good” is the title of a ’70s favorite by Rufus featuring Chaka Khan, and is also the title of Ethel’s current nationwide tour featuring Todd Rundgren. It’s a suitable name because this post-classical string quartet from New York—and TEDxManhattan POST-CLASSICAL house band— plans to celebrate the culture and sounds of the ’70s. Don’t expect Rufus and Chaka Khan, but do plan to hear Lou Harrison’s 1972 “String Quartet Set”; Kimo Williams’ “Quiet Shadows”; music arrangements by Sun Ra; and a new work by Judd Greenstein, featuring ’70s synthesizer sounds. Expect amplification and improvisation in each performance: Ethel is not your typical string quartet. 9399 Old Davis Road in Davis, www.ethelcentral.org.

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There was something damn appealing about ’90s twee-pop bands such as Tiger Trap, Rocketship and Heavenly. They were generally female-dominated bands and played lo-fi, jangly loosely stitched-together chords with bubblegum melodies, energetic drumming and lots of cuteness. It was basically punk rock, but without all that male aggression. Sacramento’s Nacho Business sounds like it was plucked right out of this era—right down to its sincerity, honesty and downright sweetness. The group is perhaps a shade more raw, with a slightly more dissonant guitar tone than a lot of the old-school twee bands, but otherwise, it’s a TWEE-POP spitting image. And that’s not a bad thing. 1050 20th Street, Suite 150; www.facebook.com/nachobusinessband.

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READ THE FACTS ABOUT PROP 37: Prop 37 was written to encompass the foods that people eat most frequently - processed packaged foods on supermarket shelves. Pet food containing GE crops such as corn or soy would have to be labeled under Prop 37. 61 other countries currently have labeling laws for genetically engineered (GE) foods which include exemptions. Prop 37 exempts products with no ingredient labels, such as restaurant food and alcohol. By California law, a ballot initiative cannot cover more than one subject: Prop 37 would label meat, dairy, and eggs from animals that have been genetically engineered (GE) themselves. But, because livestock fed GE grain are not themselves genetically engineered, the meat, dairy, and eggs coming from them will not be covered - as per this CA law. There are no genetically engineered animals on the market today, but the ﬁrst one - a GE salmon, is on its way. It contains a growth hormone gene from a Chinook Salmon and a genetic “on switch”

from an eel-like ﬁsh known as the Ocean Pout. Without Prop 37, it will be unlabeled. (For more info: carighttoknow.org/exemptions). Costs: Labeling didn’t raise costs in other countries when they started labeling their GE foods. Don’t listen to fear tactics by proﬁteers. There are no incentives for lawsuits: Lawyers can’t make big money from Prop 37, so claims about “shakedown lawsuits” make no sense whatsoever. And there will be no need for lawsuits. Companies will label for genetic engineering just like they label for calories and fat. Don’t believe the lies. California Farmers are FOR Prop 37: Thousands of California Farmers, all the leading businesses in the natural and sustainable food sector, and all the leading labor groups - United Farm Workers, United Food and Commercial Workers, and the California Labor Federation - are saying YES ON 37

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KRS-One, who’s performed as an emcee since the ’80s, has a message that’s vast, diverse and often thought provoking. While this message has evolved throughout his years of rapping and speaking, it always pushes the envelope and makes you think. Perhaps that’s why he’s nicknamed “the Teacha”: He doesn’t just spit philosophical-yet-enjoyableto-listen-to raps, he also gives speeches in his free time. His lesson is often spiritual and preaches the culture of hip-hop as a religion that can help empower youth, promote HIP-HOP nonviolence and fuel knowledgeseeking activites. He’s inspired and collaborated with countless emcees, rock groups and community-service organizations—most notably his own Stop the Violence Movement. 2708 J Street, www.krs-one.com.

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He’s not a King for nothing. He’s the greatest living bluesman, and one of the most influential guitarists ever. B.B. King developed a BLUES fluid, vibrato-based lead style that’s economical but quite evocative (and much copied). Many of his earliest recordings were produced by Sam Phillips before Sun Records existed. Though known for his six-string, King’s big-throated croon deserves notice as well and is a big secret to his enduring success. Another is his indefatigable touring throughout his career. Even now at 87, he plays 100 shows a year. It’s estimated he’s played 15,000 shows over his 60-plus years of touring. The thrill isn’t gone yet. 9399 Old Davis Road in Davis, www.bbking.com.

Torch Club, 8:30 p.m., $5

Does anyone even know what Gwar’s songs are about? Does it matter? Gwar goes HAM every time it performs. Since 1984, these guys have been crushing eardrums and bruising eyeballs all over the world. Expect sword fights, decapitations, more fake blood than Kill Bill: Vol. 1 and outlandish costumes. New guitarist Pustulus Maximus will be making his debut—replacing the late, great Cory Smoot (Flattus Maximus)—and makMETAL ing a ruckus. Maybe you should wear a costume, too. Pro tip: If you are going to stand near the front of the stage, be ready to be covered in blood. White T-shirts are recommended. There will be blood: This means Gwar. 1417 R Street, www.gwar.net.

—Chris Parker

The groovy semi-acoustic rock track “Dancing Isn’t Dangerous” and the acoustic-country and folk stylings of “Guitar Never Broke My Heart” demonstrate Sly Park’s refusal to be pigeonholed by labels. ROCK “For What it’s Worth” is an epic seven-minute piece of Americana rock that boils before spilling over the edge during the choruses, and “Sugarland” is a blues-rock number that would not be out of place in some dive bar. Keir Wilkinson leads the charge with his scratchy and sometimes off-key vocals, but what he lacks in vocal prowess he makes up for with passion. If variety is your thing, then Sly Park is for you. 914 15th Street, www.facebook.com/slyparkband.

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Mad Mondays, 9pm M; Latin video flair and Wii bowling, 7pm Tu

ROUGHNECKS, OLD FIRM CASUALS, HOODS; 9pm, $10

Reggae showcase, 8pm, call for cover

THE MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP, CALIGATOR, SUCKER PUNCH; 8pm

RETRO GANG, KID FRESH, YB, KHRYS LAWSON, A.STEUBER; PAYDAY; 8pm

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Open-mic, 7:30pm, no cover

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DAN CRARY, HUGH HOEGER; 7:30pm, $13-$15

DJs Vincent Salas, Penthaus, Steele, Nick Ferri and Luigi, 9pm, call for cover

Dia de los Muertos party, 9pm, call for cover

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THE HUCKLEBUCKS, 6:30pm, call for cover

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Deejay dancing and karaoke, 9pm, $3

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

JOHN CONLEY, JAY SHANER; 8-11pm, no cover

JULIE THE BRUCE, DELTA CITY RAMBLERS, THE BENEFICIARIES; 9pm, $5

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DJ Crook One, 10pm, call for cover

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DJ Shaun Slaughter, 10pm, call for cover

2326 K St., (916) 441-2252

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2708 J St., (916) 441-4693

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VINTAGE JIMMY, CROWBAR NOIR, RAIDD, MADI & CICI; 8pm W, $10-$12

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

Dragalicious, 9pm, $5

Open-mic, M; Pub Quiz, Tu; AUSTIN QUATTLEBAUM, JOHN GRUBER; 8pm W

Industry Night, 9pm, call for cover

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

DJ Rock Bottom and The Mookie DJ, 9pm, no cover

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

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

JORDAN KENNEDY, XOCHITL, MRQ; 8pm, PENNY HARDING, JEFF SEARS, KATHY $6 BARWICK, STEVE MCLANE; 8:30pm, $10

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

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DJ Bryan Hawk presents Factor IX, 9pm- Swing dance lessons, 8pm Tu, $6; Salsa, 2am, $1 Bachata and Merengue, 8:30pm W, $5

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1119 21st St., (916) 549-2779

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OLD TIRE SWINGERS, POOR MAN’S POISON; 8pm, $7

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MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 11/5-11/7 Jazz session, 8:30pm M; JULIET COMPANY, SANDRA DOLORES; 8:30pm W, $5

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Karaoke, 9pm Tu, no cover

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

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Top 40, 9pm, no cover

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DJ Club mixes, 10pm, no cover

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Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

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Sunday Night Soul Party, 9pm, $5

EGG, MISSION BELLS, THE HIGHWAY; 8pm, $5

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

ABSTRACT RUDE w/ community hip-hop showcase, 8pm, $5-$10

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

Karaoke, M; DJ Alazzawi, 10pm Tu, $3; ARE WE HUMAN, PLAYBOY SCHOOL; W

SHINE

Hi There: a stand-up comedy night, 8pm, STEP JAYNE, ERIK SPENCER, $5 FAMILY THIEF; 8pm, $5

SOL COLLECTIVE

Dia de los Muertos poetry w/ Carmen Calatayud, Francisco X. Alarcon, 6pm

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TOM DRINNON AND DEUCES WILD, 9pm, BRANDED, 8pm, $5 no cover

JESSICA CAYLYN, 9:30pm-1am, $5-$10

JEFF WATSON BAND, 2pm, $13

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

TORCH CLUB

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

X TRIO, 5pm, no cover; DIPPIN’ SAUCE, 9pm, $5

PAILER AND FRATIS, 5:30-7:30pm, no cover; DENNIS JONES, 9pm, $7

JOHNNY KNOX, 5pm, no cover; CON BRIO, 9pm, $7

Blues jam, 4pm, no cover; TESS MARIE & THE POOR MAN BAND, 8pm

LEW FRATIS, 9pm Tu, $4; Open-mic, 5:30pm W; HOWELL DEVINE, 9pm W, $5

TOWNHOUSE LOUNGE

Deejay dancing, 9pm, call for cover

Record Club w/ DJ Roger, 9pm, $5, no cover before 10pm

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

1400 E St., (916) 551-1400 2574 21st St., (916) 832-0916 1320 Del Paso Blvd., (916) 927-6023

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

Robert Glasper 10pm Friday, $20. Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub Jazz

Jessica Caylyn 9:30pm Saturday, $5-$10. Stoney Inn/Rockin Rodeo Country

Open-mic, 9pm M, no cover; Eyewitness Wednesdays, 9pm W, no cover

All ages, all the time ACE OF SPADES

DANCE GAVIN DANCE, A LOT LIKE BIRDS, I THE MIGHTY; 6pm, $16

1417 R St., (916) 448-3300

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THE REFUGE

COLT FORD, JJ LAWHORN; 7pm, $20

GWAR, DEVIL DRIVER, CANCER BATS, LEGACY OF DISORDER; 6pm Tu, $24

NACHO BUSINESS, KNOCK KNOCK, SAN KAZAKGASCAR; 8:30pm, $5

JEANS WILDER, MONSTER TREASURE, TRANS DESTINY; 8:30pm W, $5

BROLLY, THE REPAIR, PICTURE ATLANTIC, STREETLIGHT FIRE; 7pm, $7

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FOR THE WEEK OF NOVEMBER 1, 2012

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Big opportuni-

ties are coming up for you. Even if you cash in on them, though, they aren’t likely to make an immediate practical impact. They are subtle and deep, these prospects. They have the potential of catalyzing monumental shifts in your long-term unfolding, but will take a while to transform your day-to-day rhythm. So what are these openings? Here are my guesses: 1. You could root out a bad seed that got embedded in your subconscious mind before you knew any better. 2. You could reinterpret the meaning of certain turning points in your past, thereby revising the flow of your life story. 3. You could forgive yourself for an old sin you thought you’d never let go of. 4. You could receive a friendly shock that will diminish some sadness you’ve carried for a long time.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): This would

be a good time to get introspective and meditative about your urge to merge, to think objectively about the way you approach togetherness, to be honest with yourself about what strengths and weaknesses you bring to the art of collaboration. The most important question you can ask yourself during this inventory is this: “How do I personally contribute, either knowingly or unconsciously, to the problems I experience in relationships?” Here’s another query you might consider: “How hard am I willing to work to create the kinds of intimacy and alliances I say I want?”

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “Dear Rob: I

seem to be marooned in an interesting limbo. The sights and sounds are not exactly pretty, but they keep me perversely entertained. I’m sampling tastes that are more sour than sweet, thinking that sooner or later the sweetness will start to prevail—but it never does. Sometimes I feel like I’m in a trance, unable to do what’s best for me. Can you offer any help? Like, maybe give me a password that would break me out of the trance? —Meandering Gemini.” Dear Meandering: This is one of those rare times when you have cosmic permission to favor what’s calming and reassuring rather than what’s amusing and stimulating. Your password is sanctuary.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): On

September 22, the San Francisco Giants played a baseball game against the San Diego Padres. In the fourth inning, the Giants’ third baseman Pablo Sandoval sprinted to the edge of the field, then hurled himself over a railing and into the crowd in order to snag a foul pop-up. The fact that he landed upside down but perfectly unhurt wasn’t the most impressive aspect of his feat. Nor was his improbable ability to wield such precise concentration while invoking so much raw force. Even more amazing was the pink bubble that Sandoval blew with his chewing gum nanoseconds before he dived. It was a supremely playful and successful Zen moment. That’s the spirit I hope you will bring to your efforts in the coming days.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Your unconscious

mind will be more accessible than usual in the coming weeks. It will reveal its agendas more clearly and play more of an active role in your life. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? It will depend on how open-minded you are toward the surprises your secret self will reveal. If you try to ignore or repress its eruptions, they’ll probably wreak chaos. If, on the other hand, you treat this other part of you as an unpredictable but generous ally, you may be able to work out a collaboration that serves you both.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Urban

Dictionary defines “Skymall solution” as “an absurdly single-purposed tool or solution that solves a problem you don’t actually have.” The term is derived from the famous SkyMall catalog, which sells unusual specialty products. According to my analysis of the current astrological omens, you should be wary of any attraction you might have to Skymall solutions. Do you really need a King Tut tissue-box cover or an ice-cube tray that makes ice in the shape of dachshunds or a stencil set for putting messages on your Bundt cake? I doubt it. Nor do you need their metaphorical equivalents.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Right before I

woke up this morning, I had a dream that one of my teeth fell out. As I lay there groggily in bed, my mind searched for its meaning. “What does losing a tooth symbolize?” I asked myself. “What is its psychological meaning?” I promised myself that when I got up, I would Google that question. But my rumination was interrupted by a dull ache in the back of my mouth, and it was only then that I remembered: Yesterday, in actual waking life, I had a real tooth yanked out by a real dentist. The moral of the story, Libra: Be wary of making up elaborate stories and mythic assumptions about events that have simple, mundane explanations.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): This is an

excellent time to explore the frontiers of wise foolishness. I’m hoping you will take full advantage of learning opportunities that might require you to shed your excess dignity and acknowledge how much you don’t know. Are you brave enough to disavow cynical thoughts and jaded attitudes that muffle your lust for life? Are you smart enough to understand how healthy it would be to go out and play like an innocent wild child? Make yourself available for delightful surprises.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

Zombies used to be terrifying. But then they became a featured motif in pop culture, often in humorous contexts, and now there’s a growing acceptance and even affection for them. Here’s the view of Max Brooks, author of The Zombie Survival Guide: “Eventually rock and roll morphs from Sid Vicious to the Jonas Brothers. Same thing with vampires: We went from Dracula to Twilight to make them peachy and G-rated. I guarantee you someone is working on a way to take the fear out of zombies and market them to children.” Your assignment, Sagittarius, is to do to your personal fears what the entertainment industry has done to zombies: Turn them into amusing caricatures that don’t trouble you so much. For example, visualize an adversary singing a duet with Justin Bieber.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “You

must learn from the mistakes of others,” said humorist Sam Levenson. “You can’t possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.” That’s excellent advice for you right now, Capricorn. In order to glean the teachings you need most, you won’t have to bumble through a single wrong turn or bad decision yourself. There will be plenty of blundering role models who will be providing you with the precise inspiration you need. Study them carefully.

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

November, thousands of writers participate in National Novel Writing Month. They pledge to compose at least 50,000 words of a new novel in that 30-day period. In accordance with the astrological omens, Aquarius, I propose that you commit yourself to a comparable project in your own field. Is there a potential masterpiece on which you could get a substantial amount of work done? Is there a major transformation you’ve long wanted to undertake but have always had some excuse to avoid? I predict that you will attract unexpected help and luck if you summon the willpower to focus on that task.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Don’t believe

the climate is changing? Go ask the birds what they think. Sixty percent of all the feathered species in North America have moved north in the past 46 years. Scientists are pretty sure their migration is a response to the warming trend that’s afoot. I like the idea of tuning in to how animals behave in order to get accurate information about the state of the world. Would you consider doing more of that, Pisces? According to my astrological analysis, the coming months will be a time when you can learn a lot from nonhuman intelligences.

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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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

Choosing your religion Kimberly Nalder doesn’t want you to vote stupidly. The Sacramento State University political-science professor would never put it so indelicately, though—she’s a molder of young minds, after all. But when you get to the core of why Nalder created the college’s Project for an Informed Electorate, the title pretty much says everything: Our electorate is uninformed, misinformed and sometimes even malformed. Hence, a project to inform it. The nonpartisan resource for political and government information is still in its infancy, but Nalder envisions PIE growing into a one-stop shop for substancestarved voters. During this current election season, PIE studied student reactions to the vice-presidential debate and the first presidential matchup. It also organized panels of nonpartisan experts to explain state ballot initiatives and has a number of campus events planned for after the election. Nalder spoke to SN&R about media, political apathy and which voters are the most misinformed. Hint: It’s not who you’d expect.

How will PIE affect students at Sac State? We have some funding this year and will continue to apply for [funding] grants to … actively involve students, which is kind of fun. You don’t get a lot of opportunities to do hands-on research at an institution like this.

You conducted a lecture in which you discussed a phenomena where people who are the most misinformed are not who you’d expect. When you look at the political information literature, it’s pretty predictable as to who knows the most. It’s people with higher levels of education—that’s the biggest factor— [and] higher levels of income. People who are more interested in politics and pay more attention know more, older people know more, and that’s been really well-established. You would think that the people who would be misinformed would be the people who are low on those scales. But it turns out ... in some instances, the people who should know the most are the most misinformed, [because] they have these strong beliefs in things that are not true. And that’s because they’re paying the most attention. Ironically enough, paying attention can sometimes backfire if you’re paying attention to sources that feed you information that’s not true.

Is the answer dropping out of high school, flipping off the TV and not paying attention? Because we used to think apathy was the big problem, right?

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I think the solutions to apathy are probably easier in some ways than the solutions to misinformation and divided audiences. If you’re really firmly convinced of something that’s wrong, it’s much harder for me to change your mind than if I have to convince you that your votes matter. That’s actually easier.

Because you’re building up someone’s self-esteem—“You matter!”—as opposed to saying, “You’re completely wrong.” That never sells (laughs).

A lot of the recommendations in the lecture had to do with the media’s role in facilitating a lot of this misinformation. A lot of the causes are media related, and a lot of the solutions are also media related. We need reporters to be, well, like Candy Crowley did in the middle of the [second] presidential debate, where she fact-checked mid-debate. That’s so rare. We don’t really have a way to fact-check throughout the debate in real time.

Do you have students coming up to you asking who they should vote for?

they should vote for sometimes. I think that’s more confusing. I have had students ask me which political party they should register with (laughs). Freshman will say, “Well, which party am I?”

It’s like choosing a religion. A little bit!

The election’s over soon. What happens now? My next plan is to really start building ... and working on getting some grants and making better connections with other researchers at other universities and branching this thing out.

Is the focus going to be more on California issues? I want the website to be something that has national and state and eventually local [information] on it, too, so that a voter can use it ... to find everything [he or she needs] to know to vote in a credible way that’s not spun and [has] no political ads or anything. You can actually trust it. Ω For more information on the Project for an Informed Electorate, visit www.csus.edu/ssis/pie.

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