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after sandy see Editor’s note, page 3 see Essay, page 14 see Opinion, page 15

bOnd, lamE bOnd? see Film, page 40

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The new normal?

Hurricane Sandy is gone, but its aftermath remains. With at least 110 people confirmed dead and many regions in the northeastern United States still struggling to recover, myriad questions remain: Could we have been better prepared? How high will the recovery price tag skyrocket? Is this the new normal?

A few days ago, even as it satirized the disaster, The Onion managed to succinctly answer that last question.

In “Nation Suddenly Realizes This Just Going To Be A Thing That Happens From Now On,” a fictional citizen realized these so-called superstorms can no longer be considered freaks of nature. “‘Oh, I see—this is just going to be how it is from here on out,’ said New York City resident Brian Marcello. …

‘Hugely destructive weather events are going to keep happening, and they are going to get worse ... and living through them is something that will be a part of all our lives from now on. ... I get it now.’”

Ha-ha. Of course, this isn’t really parody, it’s reality.

Homes and businesses destroyed. Massive power outages.

Gas shortages. Costly, heartbreaking devastation.

And it could easily happen in Sacramento, thanks, in part, to the city’s aging levees. Indeed, it no longer seems to be a matter of “what if” but rather “when.”

Climate change and, correspondingly, disaster preparation didn’t really become topics of political discussion until the final days of the presidential campaign. Now’s the time to not just talk about it but to finally take real, preventative action and, also, learn how to mitigate the effects of the damage that’s already been done.

This is the new normal.

—Rachel Leibrock

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“He’ll play with your mind, and then he’ll getcha.”

Asked at Marconi and Fulton avenues:

What TV show are you addicted to?

Gia Liguori unemployed

More than one. You could say I am addicted to the Discovery Channel, National Geographic [Channel] and international news … [and the show] Deadliest Catch, usually on Tuesday nights.

It’s off the air right now; they’re coming back with a new season, I guess. It’s real life. Shows you the toughest job in the world. I pull for all of them.

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Johnny Williams convalescent-home worker

The Steve Harvey show.

He’s on weekdays. He’s a real man, and he helps me to become a real man.

It’s kind of a new show, so I don’t have a favorite episode.

Marissa Shaddix

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House [M.D.], Sunday nights starting at 9. … I like [Dr. Gregory] House’s personality. He always saves somebody at the last second.

He’ll play with your mind, and then he’ll getcha.

Basketball Wives LA. It is brand-new, on every Monday at 8 [p.m.]. ...

I just look at how rich people live their lives compared to people in poverty. I have seen that they argue so much over nothing. ... They’re just out there drinking, partying, gossiping. ... There are real problems in the world, ya know? To me, it’s just a comedy.

Rudy Rodriguez marshal of Old Sacramento

I like Pawn Stars. Doing the living history that I do, I know a lot about the antiquities of those periods.

Nine out of 10 times somebody brings in a weapon—I can usually tell if it’s a fake or if it’s [an authentic] item. People may have things hidden in their attics they don’t know that they’ve got.

Yvonne McManus declined to state

Dr. Oz [on The Dr. Oz Show]. He’s really knowledgeable [about] things we are just clueless with. Things that women are going through in their bodies. Men, too. There are things we don’t think about, [like] what we are eating and drinking. He opens up your mind to things. It wakes you up.

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Re “See the light” by Nick Miller (SN&R Editor’s Note, November 1): Despite this excellent observation, nothing will happen. No one is going to put the automotive [industry], aftermarket parts [manuLETTER OF facturers] and their associated unions or trade associaTHE WEEK tions out of business. The only solutions are if the Mayans were correct, or if there really are other benevolent life forms in the universe, that [they] take pity on us!

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To reach the conservatives, censor curse words Re “Question: Why vote?” by Nick Miller (SN&R Feature Story, November 1): We are up against a hard time with this election, holding our nose while trying to vote for President Barack Obama. We realize the election system is freaky and not a direct measure or indication of the people’s sentiments. I don’t think we can change how it works.

People with influence are too uptight to think of making a change.

But I just wish that in [this story], you had the grace to say ... “Republicans truly believe their s--- doesn’t stink.” But you spelled the words out (because you are a weekly newspaper, you can say any bad words you want), which makes the SN&R look like the crazy one.

When speaking to or about Republicans, speak their language. Say “s---” and “f---” and also “st---” for stink.

This will rile them and make the rest of us laugh. The language is right, and the message is clear.

T. Gould Sacramento

SN&R should support real options Re “Question: Why vote?” by Nick Miller (SN&R Feature Story, November 1): It would seem that if the Green and Peace and Justice parties are pretty but impractical options, it is precisely because of the behavior of our perhaps lamentably influential mass media. If Jill Stein or Rocky Anderson were given the same level of attention accorded the corporatist party mascots in the press, neither of the latter would stand a sliver of a chance at garnering significant popular support or of winning a fair election and possibly of avoiding retribution for treasonous financial chicanery or a warcrimes tribunal.

My curiosity is as to whether in its “news” aspect your publication is meant to be an effectively journalistic one, or one whose default tendency is to promote general public adherence to the hairbreadth spectrum of consideration BEFORE

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on offer from other ad-funded outfits and to contribute to the prevalence of deeply uninformed opinion that continues to render our meta-shady mafia-style government safe from real public scrutiny and censure. I guess throwing in a weekly digest of stories from publications that don’t accept corporate funding, or maybe just from writers not beholden to the status quo parameters of political discussion, could get you into trouble with the market, huh?

Ho hum.

Butch Hastily Sacramento

Prop. 36 is anti-victim, not cost-saving Re “Let the time fit the crime” (SN&R Letters, October 25): Here we go again. Proposition 36 is another attempt by the George Soros-funded, anti-victim crowd to water down the very effective threestrikes law. Violent crime is down in California since the law passed. The revolving door of justice has been slammed shut. The (overinflated) costs of incarceration have been more than offset in savings to law enforcement, the courts, attorney fees and victim restitution. The law continues to perform just as it was always intended—to protect the public.

The anti-victim crowd, having failed on numerous occasions to win the fiscal argument, are now seeking to bring back the “pizza thief” argument. But this time, there is no mention of the 1996 [People v. Supreme Court (Romero)] decision, which already permits any defendant to petition the court for dismissal of prior strikes in the interests of justice, prior to, during or after trial. Judges who fail to utilize proper discretion when ruling on Romero motions can be easily voted out and/or recalled.

But why has there been only token opposition to this initiative? I believe we have not heard from the American Bar Association or the California Correctional Peace Officers Association because they both stand to score big should 3,000 felons be returned to court for resentencing and subsequently returned to the streets. Follow the money.

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We here at SN&R aren’t sure if RUOFS the bull’s (at Ruland’s Used Office Furniture Store on 16th Street) message is red or blue.

Of course, we mustn’t forget about the corresponding increase in crime and the grand reopening of the “revolving door.” Unfortunately, this Proposition 36 big “win” will turn into a big loss for law-abiding Californians.

Richard W. Copp Sacramento

I have some big trees, and one-timea-month pickup during the city’s “leaf season” will not hack it. My tub will be so heavy, it will break the hydraulic tub lifter. The claw has capacity that is unmatched.

Steve Otis Sacramento

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Re “Pack your bags” by Becky Grunewald (SN&R Dish, October 18): Your description of your fellow diners whom you felt were unsophisticatedlooking (due to their deep Southern accents, I wonder?) was a very unkind thing to say. I am very disappointed to read such a mean comment in SN&R. Kelly Randolph Sacramento

Give him the claw!

Re “Yes on T and U” (SN&R Opinions, October 11): I’m sorry to see SN&R fall into believing the city’s happy talk about tree leaves. SN&R readers should go to the grand jury’s 2011-2012 report to find out about the mismanagement of ratepayers’ money in the Utility Department (www. sacgrandjury.org/reports/11-12/2011-2012Report.pdf: Read pages 33 to 44).

It has been our right to have street pickup of green waste since 1977, and the bureaucrats have been trying to overturn the will of the people ever since. No one asked the city to go out and buy 100,000 tubs to implement their citywide “test program” or to add a fourth set of garbage trucks to pick up the third tub (real garbage, recyclables, green waste) and the existing truck to follow the claw. |

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I know in subways or designated riot zones there’s a familiarity with the way I brush your knuckles and I know I haven’t hidden wide-eyed lamps that tongue your calves suckle the rolls our culture left on your abdomen and I can’t not glare at those alien swells we call breasts to land, finally at the exclamations of hair on your chin.

I stare too deep, that is why you rarely catch me watching your eyes.

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FRONTLINES Trillion-dollar highway Big-time global corporate powerhouses and influential Sacramento lobby shops ramp up to privatize California’s roadways It slipped under the public’s radar, but a couple of years ago, Caltrans formed a unique conby tract that effectively privatized a major Darwin Northern California roadway traversed by BondGraham millions annually. And now, more privatized highway projects might be approved over the next several years as major financial corporations, construction companies and Sacramento-based lobbying groups eye California as a potentially lucrative market for infrastructure, especially highways.

These so-called public-private partnerships, or P3s, are a multibillion-dollar global business. One Swedish corporation has called the United States the “trillion-dollar opportunity” for privatized highways and other public infrastructure.

Many of these companies are becoming more active in Sacramento and in regions of the state where transit agencies are planning billions in upgrades. Some influential capital-city lobby shops are beginning to specialize in representing the P3 contractors, and powerful law offices are gearing up to serve the industry.

Critics and union groups, meanwhile, argue that Californians should be wary of privatization of their roads. They remind that the reason California got rid of its P3 laws the first time in 2004 was because of bankruptcies and messy contractual clauses that suggested privatization might not be in the public’s best interest.

The 2010 contract was the second time California’s lawmakers have approved highway-privatization plans. The state’s first flirtation began in 1989, but a law that essentially authorized privatization was repealed in 2004 after only two road projects were built in Southern California.

Thanks to a last-minute push by officials in the Schwarzenegger administration to revive highway-privatization laws and Gov. Jerry Brown’s wait-and-see attitude, California is once again experimenting with privately financed and maintained roads.

Under the P3 model, corporate teams— consisting of big construction companies, BEFORE

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investment banks and private-equity groups—take over many of the state’s previous responsibilities, including even the crucial financing portion of a project. In return for this equity invested in a roadway, the companies are granted the right to extract a profitable return through tolls paid by drivers or lease payments by the state.

The first roadway privatized under California’s new law is Presidio Parkway, a 1.5-mile span that will connect San Francisco to the Golden Gate Bridge. When it’s completed in 2015, Presidio Parkway will replace Doyle Drive, a crumbling stretch of concrete and asphalt that was built during the Great Depression with federal funds. The new road is to be financed, built, operated and maintained by a majorplayer private-corporate consortium called Golden Link Concessionaire.

Many of these companies are becoming more active in Sacramento.

Golden Link is a partnership of the German construction corporation Hochtief and Meridiam Infrastructure, which is a partnership between the French bank Crédit Agricole and the U.S. engineering firm AECOM. Three more big banks— Barclays, Merrill Lynch, Scotia Capital—are lending money to these corporations to fill out private-sector financing for Presidio Parkway. This corporate team will maintain and operate the road for use by the public for 30 years, which means that when there is a repair to be made, you

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In return, the state has promised Golden Link a lucrative contract that includes a minimum $173 million “milestone payment” upon its completion in 2015, and thereafter $30 million to $40 million in “availability payments”—essentially lease payments—each year until 2045.

California is a potentially big market, one of the largest in the world for transportation projects, so these companies and their lobbyists have become increasingly active in Sacramento. Even though privatization under the P3 model draws on private capital to finance construction, the public must still ultimately pay back the investors through availability payments or tolls. This requires the industry to cultivate close relationships with lawmakers and state regulators.

From 2000 to the present, P3 contractors and investors have spent at least $2 million lobbying California legislators, the governor’s office, Caltrans, and the state Department of Finance on bills and policies specifically related to privatization of infrastructure. Among the industry’s big players employing lobbyists in California are multibillion-dollar transnational companies such as Meridiam, Skanska, Veolia Environmental Services, Dragados USA Inc. and Macquarie Capital Group, as well as some California-based giants like URS Corporation and Parsons.

Meridiam is an infrastructure fund run

by Crédit Agricole. Lobbying records filed with the secretary of state show that

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Dragados is a Spanish construction company owned by Grupo ACS, a conglomerate that also owns a major share of Hochtief, the German corporation partnering with Meridiam on the Presidio Parkway. Dragados has hired Smith Watts & Company, a Sacramento firm that specializes in transportation policy, to lobby Caltrans, the Legislature, and the California Transportation Commission on various issues related to infrastructure contracts and P3 procurement.

Macquarie Capital Group is an investment bank that specializes in financing privatized infrastructure all over the world and, according to the company’s website, is globally one of the largest toll-road operators. Since 2005, Macquarie paid the Sacramento lobby shops California Strategies and Aprea & Micheli approximately $100,000 to influence state lawmakers, Caltrans and the state Department of Finance on issues related to P3 privatization.

Macquarie has a history in California.

Back in 2003, it obtained permission to build and operate the South Bay Expressway, a toll road in the San Diego region that was one of only two privatized highways built in California until the

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Eco-kudos Sacramento ranks high when it comes to clean technology Finally, Sacramento is getting a little love from the rest of the country. The region earned heaps of scorn earlier this year by after high unemployment rates and Christopher Arns sliding home prices prompted Forbes to peg California’s capital the fifth most miserable city in America.

But last month, the area’s green economy scored a major high five when Sacramento snagged fourth place in the first ever U.S. Metro Clean Tech Index, a study ranking the nation’s largest metro areas on four different clean-technology measures.

The capital edged out Seattle and only trailed San Jose, Calif.; San Francisco; and Portland, Ore., for the top spot.

The kudos came from a Portland research firm called Clean Edge, which ranked the nation’s 50 largest metro areas based on green building, electric vehicles, clean-tech investment and jobs in the green workforce.

Because the index focused on metro areas around major cities, Clean Edge included Davis and Roseville when researchers looked at the region.

Perhaps surprisingly, given the recent hand-wringing over local unemployment statistics, this area earned props for having the highest percentage of green jobs in the country—thanks mostly to the high number of state agencies working on clean-tech initiatives in the capital.

The index used data from a recent Brookings Institute survey, which found that 4.5 percent of Sacramento’s jobs are in clean tech. If you add it up, that’s roughly 37,000 people working in the region’s green economy, according to Ron Pernick, Clean Edge’s managing director.

“A good deal of those jobs … are consulting firms, advisory firms and others that are servicing the state for all of its pretty considerable initiatives,” Pernick said.

He also said California’s push to improve energy-efficiency standards on new and existing public buildings helped boost Sacramento higher in the rankings. Earlier this year, Gov. Jerry Brown ordered state agencies to cut carbon emissions and implement strict new building measures. Currently, the city has 83 LEED Silver-or-higher certified buildings, a standard used by the U.S. Green Building Council to measure energy efficiency in new and existing structures.

As more state agencies begin retrofitting their buildings, local

officials believe, that number should climb higher.

“Not only do we have privatesector folks who have been investing and making their properties greener, but because we are the state capital, we have the state of California investing and making their projects much greener,” said Julia Burrows, executive director of Greenwise Joint Venture, a regional nonprofit firm that promotes clean-tech initiatives in the region.

Besides green buildings and jobs, electric vehicles also helped the capital earn that fourth-place ranking. Pernick said the Sacramento Valley has the third-highest number of registered electric cars in the country behind the Bay Area and Los Angeles. According to automotive-research firm Polk, the region had 2,752 registered electric vehicles as of April 2012.

Those cars have another advantage, said Joe Loyer, a staff member with the California Energy Commission. He said that compared to the rest of the country, Sacramento’s electric fleet runs on extremely clean power.

“We’re looking at a lot at the efforts from [Sacramento Municipal Utility District],” said Loyer. “Their commitment to solar and wind, I think, is really renowned. I think it’s one of the primary sources of clean power for our area.”

The region didn’t score as well on public transit, clean-tech innovation and attracting venture capital, although Loyer thinks the rankings may have missed a few things.

“I think that public transportation in Sacramento is actually quite good,” he said, pointing to the city’s light-rail and bus system and the American River Parkway bike trail.

“I would stack it up against almost any city. I think they didn’t give us enough credit.”

Pernick said the index is still a work in progress, and he’s hoping to add more data categories by May when the next green metro rankings come out. But Sacramento officials were still excited by the city’s high marks and said they’re hoping for even higher scores the next time around.

“It reinforces what we already knew, and that we’re doing well,” said Erik de Kok, senior city planner.

“It reinforces our belief that Sacramento is on track to being on the top of the list.” Ω

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The Sacramento Transportation Authority has discussed privatization in recent board meetings.

It was in the context of budget crunches in the late ’80s and early ’90s that state lawmakers passed the first law allowing corporate developers to build and operate toll roads, harvesting profits from drivers to pay back the cost of construction and keep a profit. That law was repealed in 2004, though, after tolls failed to provide profitable returns and political scandals erupted over the terms of privatization. Drivers became upset with toll roads, and privatization acquired a bad reputation.

The Schwarzenegger administration brought privatization back under the moniker of public-private partnerships with Senate Bill 4 in 2009.

Bonner led this effort, working with the state Senate and Assembly to secure P3 legislation as part of a larger budget deal.

“What’s different at this point is that in years prior the economy quickly came back around, and dollars came in from Congress, so people’s attention got redirected,” said Bonner, further explaining why the previous privatization effort ended in California after only two attempted projects.

“There hasn’t been sustained political push. That’s what’s different now: The recovery is taking so long, even when it’s complete, I don’t think anyone thinks Congress is going to start sending money to take care of the state’s needs.” Ω

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Presidio Parkway. The South Bay Expressway LP spent a quarter-million dollars lobbying state lawmakers and regulators over the past seven years.

Even former state officials are setting up as advisers to smooth the way for P3 privatization of highways.

Former secretary of transportation Dale E. Bonner now runs Cal-Infra Advisors, which describes itself as a “specialty technical advisor focused on California infrastructure,” with expertise that “spans multiple sectors at all levels of government, with cabinetlevel experience overseeing the financing, development and operation of public assets throughout the State of California.” Bonner is also working as a senior adviser to the Milken Institute to help industry and government officials identify P3 investment opportunities in California infrastructure.

Powerful law firms round out the lobbying and legal push for the new privatization. Meyers Nave, which has an office just four blocks from the state Capitol, works closely with P3 contractors to shape policies and seal highway-privatization deals.

Meyers Nave has even formed a partnership with a privately owned developer, the Public Private Community Development LLC, to “guide government entities and public organizations through all facets of public-private partnerships (P3) in California,” according to Meyers Nave’s website.

Privitization efforts haven’t come without resistance. Two years ago, the Professional Engineers in California Government, a union representing 13,000 engineers employed by the state, came out in strong opposition against the plan to convert the Presidio Parkway into a P3 project. The original plans were to finance and build the roadway using the traditional designbid-build process, something the union said would have been cheaper. The engineers union attempted to block the P3 conversion in a lawsuit, but a judge ruled against it in 2010. Based on this ruling, other regional authorities are moving forward with their own P3 projects.

Kome Ajise, Caltrans’ program manager for public-private partnerships, says there are at least four major highway projects in California that may soon be transferred over to private companies for finance, construction and operations, likely using availability payments.

“These [projects] are very much in the minds of market players,” said Ajise about Los Angeles’ planned freeway upgrades. “Companies come out to check and see on progress. Some

have had some teams put together anticipation that it will be put to procurement.”

The Sacramento Transportation Authority has discussed privatization in recent board meetings, but no specific plans have been announced.

However, a summary of recommendations from a recent STA policy meeting calls on the board to “promote and facilitate the use of public-private partnerships to finance capital projects.”

Bonner said this latest attempt to institute P3 investments in infrastructure is different. “Every time we get into a recession, that starts a conversation again about P3, about whether we should have more private investment.

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The Rhee-Johnsons screw with other people’s school systems, Raymond sets The New York Times straight Bites sometimes gives Sacramento City Unified School District Superintendent Jonathan Raymond a hard time. He doesn’t notice. Snarky alt-weekly columnists are nothing to muckety-muck superintendents. Likewise, a little praise won’t much perturb him, either.

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by COSMO G L. Friedman’s praise of President Barack cos mog@ n ewsrev iew.c om Obama’s Race to the Top initiative, which Friedman said set off “a nationwide wave of school reform.” That’s the same Thomas Friedman who was cheerleader for the Iraq War, telling Iraqis to “suck on this.”

Raymond wrote to set Friedman straight about Obama’s education quagmire, saying RTTT “throws education stakeholders into enemy camps” by requiring districts to tie teacher evaluations to test scores—or else get no federal money.

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Being married to a school teacher, Bites certainly knows better. But Raymond also ought to tell it to The Sacramento Bee editorial board, who has been religiously flogging the idea of tying teacher evaluations to test scores.

Speaking of that whole Waiting for ‘Superman’ cult: What was Sacramento’s first couple doing this election season while hundreds of millions of dollars were on the line for Sacramento schools?

Roving the country, trying to screw up other people’s school systems, of course.

Michelle Rhee, patron saint of the teacherbashing movement, has been using her Sacramento-based StudentsFirst organization—a 501(c)(4) “social welfare” organization, of course—to funnel money into ballot measures in several states.

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Rhee’s group is one of the biggest contributors— at $250,000—along with Alice Walton, heiress of the Walmart fortune.

And StudentsFirst backed another ballot measure in Bridgeport, Conn., to turn control of the schools over to that city’s mayor. Rhee’s husband, Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, personally flew out to Bridgeport to stump for the measure—because, again, nothing important was going on with schools or elections in Sacramento that was more deserving of his time.

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McKibben, the prophet The prophesy and the math of climate change While listening to Bill McKibben speak about climate change at The University of Vermont, I was reminded of sitting in a small church in Vermilion, Ohio, as a boy, hearing about the Old Testament prophets. Maybe it was the hard wooden pews, but the message that “If we do not change our ways, we are doomed” seemed oddly familiar.

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by Jeff VonKaene had a beardless, brilliant one on the stage for two j e ffv @ ne wsr e v ie w.c o m hours, telling his story with video and music: Bill McKibben.

Bill, the teacher and environmentalist, taking the difficult subject of global warming and making it simple.

Bill, the political activist, who just served jail time for protesting a natural-gas pipeline, showing us how we can make a difference. And Bill, the prophet, bringing moral authority to the cause. It was a Bill McKibben’s remarkable evening.

Not because of the great fight against music or the wonderful videos; the fossil-fuel they were just so-so. But when message is, “If we allow companies takes on the world temperatures to increase biblical proportions. by 2 degrees Celsius, then we will be toast,” then there really is no need for song and dance.

While there is much uncertainty about global warming, we have already had record temperatures throughout the world, the polar ice caps are melting and we are seeing more extreme-weather events every season. Most scientists agree that we can expect For a devastat- significant deadly weather changes if the average temperaing story about ture goes up 2 degrees Celsius. our future, read According to Bill, to prevent the world’s temperature Bill McKibben’s from increasing, we, the inhabitants of this planet, must July article in Rolling Stone, collectively make sure that we do not put more than 565 “Global Warming’s gigatons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

Terrifying The problem, Bill says, is that the oil, gas and coal New Math” at companies and energy-rich countries already have enough http://tinyurl.com/ fossil fuel in their reserves to exceed that 565 gigaton rollingstone warming. number. In fact, they have enough fuel to release 2,795 gigatons of carbon dioxide, which, when burned, is more than five times the limit we need to adhere to if we want to See National avoid environmental disaster.

Geographic’s Global If we told these companies that they couldn’t use the Warming Fast Facts energy in their reserves, their stock prices would go through at http://tinyurl. com/natgeographic the floor. That’s probably one reason why there’s so much warming. resistance from business interests to saving our planet.

Bill’s fight against the fossil-fuel companies takes on biblical proportions. Using the example of the movement against apartheid in South Africa, Bill wants us to create a Jeff vonKaenel movement against the fossil-fuel industry. Bill is demandis the president, CEO and ing that universities, pension funds and anyone with a stock majority owner of portfolio take their money out of the fossil-fuel industries. the News & Review Bill McKibben does not have a long, flowing beard, nor newspapers in was he wearing a robe. I believe he had on khaki pants and Sacramento, Chico and Reno. a blue dress shirt. But, just as some of the Old Testament prophets tried to lead us to a better place, so does Bill. That is what prophets do. Ω

Taxing soda

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A study finds less pop in minority communities would reduce instances of diabetes

A tax on soda would carry the greatest health benefits for black and Latino Californians, who face the highest risks of diabetes and heart disease, according to by Christina Jewett recent research findings.

The study found that if a penny-per-ounce tax was applied to soda, cuts in consumption would result in an 8 percent decline in diabetes cases among blacks and Latinos. The statewide reduction in new diabetes cases is projected at 3 to 5.6 percent, according to researchers from UC San Francisco, Columbia University and Oregon State University, who released their findings at last week’s American Public Health Association annual meeting.

The study was unveiled as a sugar-sweetenedbeverage tax faced votes in two California cities this past Tuesday. A statewide excise tax was proposed but died in the California Legislature in 2010.

Harold Goldstein, executive director of the California Center for Public Health Advocacy, said residents of those two cities, Richmond in the Bay Area and One study predicted El Monte near Los Angeles, face the pressure of nearly $3 million that nationwide, in spending by the beverage a soda tax could industry, which opposes the reduce sugar- measures.

The residents “are using the sweetened-beverage power of democracy to say we consumption by want to change this,” Goldstein said. “But the beverage industry 15 percent. is using the enormous power of its pocketbook to try to crush it.”

Karen Hanretty, a spokeswoman for the American Beverage Association, said the Richmond and El Monte taxes would take a heavy toll on small-business owners who would see a new license fee that they could pass on to customers’ grocery bills.

Christina Jewett is a And, she said, “There’s no real-life evidence writer at California that would suggest that taxing soft drinks would do Watch. Read more at anything to improve health.” www.california watch.org.

The populations of Richmond and El Monte are predominantly composed of the groups that the recent study shows would benefit most from a soda tax.

In Richmond, 63.5 percent of residents are black or Latino, according to city figures. About 70 percent of El Monte residents are Latino, according to U.S. Census Bureau data.

Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, the study’s lead Green Days is on the author, said researchers took a conservative stance, lookout for innovative assuming that a penny-per-ounce tax would cut soda sustainable projects consumption by 10 to 20 percent. throughout the Even so, she said the decline in consumption Sacramento region.

Turn us on at would eliminate five in 10,000 new diabetes cases for sactonewstips@ African-Americans and four in 10,000 for Mexicannewsreview.com.

Americans. The decline for those groups is higher than the projected statewide reduction, which is one in 10,000, she said.

Bibbins-Domingo said the study, which has been submitted for publication, was among the first to show that some groups that tend to drink more soda and face BEFORE

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Would taxing sodas make a healthful difference in minority communities?

higher diabetes risks also stand to benefit most from a soda tax.

“It’s pretty clear that what’s necessary is some mechanism to increase price [enough] to curb consumption,” said Bibbins-Domingo, who is a physician and epidemiologist.

The UCSF team’s latest research builds on a study published in the journal Health Affairs in January.

That study predicted that nationwide, a soda tax could reduce sugar-sweetened-beverage consumption by 15 percent. And even if Americans replace 40 percent of the cut calories with juice or milk, it would lead to a weight loss of nearly 1 pound per year.

Researchers conclude that within 10 years, the lost weight would translate to 876,000 fewer obese Americans in the 25 to 64 age range. The study found that over a decade, the change is projected to prevent 30,000 heart attacks; 8,000 strokes; and 26,000 premature deaths. The changes would lead to $17 billion in health-care cost savings, the study says.

Hanretty, the beverage-association spokeswoman, disputed the findings: “I am very confident that a 1-pound weight loss per year will have no effect on the health of Americans.”

At the conclusion of last week’s meeting where the recent findings were presented, a council of 200 public-health workers, including doctors and epidemiologists, passed a resolution supporting local, state and federal soda taxes, noting the toll of the nation’s obesity epidemic. Ω

like a weed, with 60 people coming from as far away as Spain. “Oh my God,” said Aunt Ruth. OMG! This clan met in college, becoming active because of the divestment of public funds from apartheid and environmental issues. They were folks from Davis and Sacramento. Now, many years later, everyone’s hair is grayer and shorter, the drugs are fewer, the food is more anticipated, better tasting and—damn right—local.

We strove for zero waste at the afternoon event (“striving” being the operative word). It’s a game of subtraction—subtraction being good, addition being bad.

Better recycle that!

No paper, no envelopes—the invites and organizing took place on Facebook. We caught a break or two—a local co-op loaned us its tub of reusable dishware, and we rented the wine glasses. Points are subtracted for this. While the wine, beer and hooch came in recyclable glass, the bubbled water came in less-desirable plastic. Points are added.

Points subtract for the local seasonal food (potlucked and from a caterer who prides himself thusly), and we emphasized finger foods (less cutlery that needs washing). We did use paper napkins, not cloth—recycled, but still, points are added. Recycling bottles and cardboard? We had that one down years ago.

Composting? At party’s—i.e., wit’s—end, Auntie Ruth was going to just throw the inedible leftovers away. A Humboldter scolded and promptly collected a handsome bucket of compost.

Ruth gently suggested that Humbodlt could take the bucket with her all the way back to Arcata. And anyway, there was a local intervention, and whatever’s left of our party is now rotting somewhere in Davis. That is to say, mulching.

Auntie Ruth was lying in bed later that night, remembering the people from the reunion, realizing how people don’t change much— or maybe it’s just really good people like these find their way early and stay that way.

And on the radio (Living on Earth) came a profile of students at eastern colleges who just held a National Day of Action, pressuring their administrations to divest their endowment holdings from fossil-fuel stocks.

We bet your aunts aren’t as cool as ours.

Auntie Ruth’s memory is dim. There was that Friend Auntie Ruth chant we used over and over, to a clapping of on Facebook hands: “A movement, recycled, will never be deand let’s hang out. feated.” Pretty sure it went something like that. Ω

Go native Although many trees are losing their leaves during this time of the season, others are just taking root, especially California native plants. Planted in the fall, many native plants will soak up winter rains and establish themselves with little other maintenance, according to the Nature Conservancy. Other benefits of going native with your garden include the ability to use fallen leaves as mulch; the native garden soaking up rainwater and diverting it from local waterways; and the large number of local organizations that can help you get started for free, such as the California Native Plant Society (www.sacvalleycnps.org), and the UC Davis Arboretum (http://arboretum.ucdavis.edu).

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And I wandered the darkened streets of downtown and on the Williamsburg Bridge on Halloween, and the waterlogged west side of Chelsea and the Meatpacking District. But my vision and understanding of Sandy early on were severely limited.

With my access to cellphone service and the Internet and TV re-established, I finally knew more. But what I knew above all was this: Life without electricity is life in the dark in more ways than the merely literal.

One of the levees around Sacramento, perhaps an important one, will break.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just a matter of when.

Those watching storm coverage on TV, which I was not doing for much of my electricity-free week, knew more about what was going.

I spoke on the phone with Beth Ruyak N E W S & R E V I E W B Uon SIN E S S UPublic S E O Radioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s N LY Capital Insight on DESIGNER ISSUE DATE ACCT. EXEC. Tuesday morning, after walking crossAL 06.18.09 town to get a REM signal, but she knew FILE NAME more of theREV. big DATE picture than I did.

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CONTACT INFO (PHONE, ADDRESSES, ETC.) Without electricity, my post office AD APPEARS AS REQUESTED branch at Cooper Square was closed, APPROVED BY: so I missed two crucial pieces of mail.

Refrigerators failed in homes and in stores and restaurants. Theaters and bars were closed. Cash registers didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t work, nor did ATMs. There were no traffic lights, no street lights, no lights from buildings.

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For some of us, we have to admit, this disaster was an adventure.

My main night out downtown was Halloween, at the peak of the blackout, a fateful bit of timing. And it did not disappoint: It was spooky and exciting and, yes, fun. Boo! Wandering downtown at dusk into the encroaching darkness, as the night fell and no lights came on, we went looking for a group of Burning Man friends in SoHo, intent on creating a renegade version of the canceled Halloween Parade.

We found them, and the parade marched uptown, shepherded by many cops. But we soon peeled off, hit up a candle-lit bar, and then wandered again into the night. We could see stars.

But as spooky as wandering the nearly deserted streets of Lower Manhattan on Halloween was, it was spooky for another reason: It underlined how fragile our civil life is. With electricity gone, everything changed, almost immediately. I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t feel endangered, but the necessity of streetlights quickly became apparent.

Spookier still: By the end of the week, this storm revealed the extent to which climate change may soon be affecting many millions of peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; because it already has. The deniers will continue to denyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what they doâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but if Manhattan is not safe, if the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Capital of the Worldâ&#x20AC;? can be plunged into darkness so quickly, so completely, what does the future hold for other cities?

Being a Sacramento native, my mind has flashed back a number of times to where something of this magnitude is not just possible but likely. One of the levees around Sacramento, perhaps an important one, will break. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just a matter of when.

And while Sacramentans can live in the same denial that New Yorkers enjoyed until Sandy came ashore, that denial will have very real consequences. It can happen, and it most surely will.

When that time comes, will Sacramentans have the same resourcefulness and neighborliness that New Yorkers do? Will Sactownâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first responders be as professional and ready? Is Sacramentoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s infrastructure, in many cases older and less resilient than New Yorkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, capable of handling an â&#x20AC;&#x153;unexpectedâ&#x20AC;? weather event?

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Free Freeport C.K. McClatchy High School, Sacramento City College, the Fourth Avenue light-rail stop, William Land Park—all these destinations on Freeport Boulevard attract a ton of bicyclists. But Freeport, what with its four lanes of traffic, two each way, isn’t safe for twowheeled commuters.

Remedying this heavily traveled thoroughfare is long overdue. That’s why SN&R urges city council this week to approve a $1.4 million overhaul of Freeport between Sutterville Road and Fourth Avenue, which would convert the boulevard into one lane of traffic north and south and a suicide lane with bike lanes on both sides.

Yes, we understand neighbors’ concerns—even outrage—over how the switch will impact parking and traffic congestion. But establishing a north-south bicycle-friendly connector between “the grid” and destinations such as McClatchy and Sacramento City College should have happened years ago. This plan may not be the best for everyone—even cyclists—but it’s affordable and workable.

The proposed overhaul of the boulevard also includes the addition of crosswalks on Fifth, Sixth and Seventh avenues, which will make it a helluva lot easier—and less risky—for students to walk to and from school.

SN&R stands by almost any progressive-minded, bike-friendly improvements to Sacramento’s infrastructure. We look forward to these new lanes and changes in 2014. Ω

Sandy means it’s time to act

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Remember that Hurricane Irene resulted in mandatory evacuations in lower Manhattan. Now, a year later, parts of lower Manhattan are still submerged days after Hurricane Sandy.

New York City isn’t prepared for hurricanes and flooding. But the seas are rising, and warmer ocean temperatures allow hurricanes to reach the Mid-Atlantic states with their strength intact.

Now, NYC does need to worry. And so do all the rest of the more than 50 percent of Americans who live within 50 miles of the U.S. coasts. The tides and storm surges will be higher, the winds and storms stronger—all because the average temperature of the planet is rising.

We’re done arguing over what caused this. It no longer matters.

But it is a fact. The time for mitigation of the effects of climate change is slipping away. We need decisive leadership to prepare for extreme-weather events, including droughts, that will affect not just all Americans, but also the population of the entire planet.

Turning disaster relief over to the private sector would be a second disaster. The private sector exists to make a profit. Disaster relief that attempts to do so is not mere profiteering, it is inhumane.

So now, right now, let’s all move forward, act like grown-ups, and start making sure that we’re ready to face what the planet will—not might, but will—send our way. Ω

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IT WAS WHEN HE SAW THE GIRLS’ EYES THAT HAFED MOHAMED THABET REALIZED WHAT HE HAD BECOME.

In the summer of 1993, a 23-year-old Thabet strutted into a nondescript courtroom 40 miles east of Sacramento to iron out what had spiraled into a gross cultural misunderstanding. Bound by tribal law and propelled by circumstance, Thabet had just killed the man who murdered his father and two others in a remote Yemen village two decades earlier.

Surely such retributive justice was permitted in a Christian nation like the United States, Thabet believed—a thought he maintained while stalking his prey cross-country to the foothills of Northern California, as he dispassionately recounted his deed to homicide detectives, and right up until he stepped into a Jackson courthouse like someone with a speeding ticket and a legitimate excuse.

But then, Thabet saw the eyes of his victim’s three daughters—sponged by a hurt he knew all too well. It was only then that Thabet realized he wasn’t the hero of his own tale.

“I saw these three little girls looking at me as I was a monster, just like I looked at their father,” he recalled. “I saw what I hated most.”

A SON OF TRAGEDY AND A DAUGHTER OF VIOLENCE The village of Dakhla in Yemen, where the Alharsami family lived.

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MURDER Hafed Mohamed Thabet, at his fourth parole hearing.

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Days earlier, Thabet gunned down his father’s killer in broad Mahlia moved back home. Her husband seethed. The daylight at a gas station in rural Amador County. The scene episode tapped a venomous well inside a man who couldn’t was a hazy reflection of one that unraveled in 1974, some 8,000 abide refusal. miles east, where a man named Ahmed Ali Alharsami sprayed On February 13, 1974, Alharsami confronted his fatherbullets into Thabet’s family home over a marriage dispute. in-law to demand Mahlia’s return. Again, he was denied.

Then, he’d set out to do what the courts back Alharsami stalked away, but not before leveling an home permitted, what his culture ordered ominous threat at the sheik. and what the legal system here apparently The next afternoon, after a long morning toiling refused to do: avenge his father’s murder on the farm, the sheik sipped tea at a table with and reclaim honor for his ruined family. his cousin and a friend. A few feet away, a Hafed Mohamed Thabet thought he got justice.

4-year-old Thabet lay on his stomach, playing Instead, the Yemeni national with a homemade car he assembled from a Thabet thought he got sealed another bloody link in tin can and shower shoes. Without a word, justice. Instead, the a chain of honor killings that Alharsami appeared in an open doorway creates martyrs out of victims and with his hands wrapped around the belly Yemeni national sealed turns survivors into vigilantes. of an AK-47 assault rifle. another bloody link in a This past summer—as his The next few seconds were a blur of nation labored through fierce protests shouting and the tin-driven drone of 33 chain of honor killings. and a precarious revolution—Thabet smoking bullet shells raining on the floor. In sat before two parole commissioners the onslaught, the boy felt his father topple onto and tried to articulate the cruel ironies him, shielding him from the storm. It was the that turned a grieving son into a convicted sheik’s final gift to his son. murderer.

Down the street, Thabet’s mother, Mooriah, was This early September afternoon marked on a rooftop hanging laundry on a clothesline. When an Thabet’s fourth appearance before the California Department of approaching villager shouted out the news, she fainted, plumCorrections and Rehabilitation’s Board of Parole Hearings. For meting three stories onto the dusty street below. the 42-year-old model prisoner, this cramped room inside Mule Despite absorbing more than 20 rounds to his chest Creek State Prison was a stage for one actor telling a tale he’d and stomach, Thabet’s father didn’t die immediately. That told countless times before, a story about a son and a daughter: happened eight agonizing hours later, as four men carried him two Yemeni expatriates trying to escape a cycle of honor along an unpaved road to a hospital hundreds of miles away. killings, only to be foiled by the unlikeliest of obstacles—the The other two victims, also fathers, perished as well. Thabet’s American justice system. mother was confined to intensive care with severe back and Thabet has known for a while now that he is not the hero of shoulder injuries. Thabet and his siblings were rushed to a his incredible story. But he isn’t its only victim, either. grandparent’s home. Gunfights broke out across the village.

SLAUGHTER IN YEMEN

EYE FOR AN EYE

Thabet grew up in Aldakalah, a small village in western Yemen.

Its valley of wells and cisterns is tucked under terraced hillsides that fade from lush teal in the fall to sun-scorched, jagged blisters in the warmer months. Thabet’s family was among the most prominent in the community by virtue of his father, Mohamed, being the village sheik.

In this far-flung settlement of narrow buildings and ancientfaced stone huts—nestled in a divided nation with a feeble grafting government—Mohamed was mediator and judge to a handful of tribes that looked to him for wisdom. Respected as he was, though, there was one dispute he wouldn’t be able to calm.

This quiet existence unraveled when Thabet’s older sister Mahlia married Ahmed Alharsami, a hot-tempered young man who frequently made sojourns to the United States. As the union progressed, Mahlia revealed to her father that Alharsami was physically abusing her, beating her any time he flew into one of his signature fits of rage. By the time Thabet turned 4, his older sister worried about Alharsami’s plans to take her with him to the United States. Mahlia’s father agreed.

“No,” Mohamed told the family about the proposed move.

“If he beats her in Yemen, then what will he do to her when she’s farther away from her dad?”

In the fluorescent-tube-lit confines of a motel bathroom in Jackson, California, a 23-year-old Thabet stared at himself in a wide, anonymous mirror. As manhood settled his features, he’d been able to see more of his father, whose gentle presence he scarcely recalled. But now that Thabet had cut his hair and shaved his mustache, the dead sheik no longer stared back.

After traveling 2,800 westward miles across the cracked plains of America, Thabet altered his appearance for one reason: So that the man he had come for would not realize that his reckoning had arrived until it was too late.

It was a long journey to that mirror: In 1974, a Yemeni court convicted Alharsami of triple homicide and sentenced him to death. The ruling, however, was made after the defendant escaped into the vast unknown of the United States.

Meanwhile, Thabet’s mother was in and out of hospitals with the debilitating back injuries from her fall. With little money coming in, what remained of the Thabet clan dribbled to the bottom of the village’s social and economic castes.

In 1991, Thabet temporarily moved to the United States to earn money for his family. While he was with his brother in New York stocking shelves, members of the insular Yemeni

community alerted Thabet that his father’s killer was a coast away, enjoying the spoils of a free man. For nearly a decade, relatives of the fallen sheik had petitioned the United States to extradite Alharsami back to Yemen, where he would have been put to death. But the government here never responded.

“It was like it wasn’t important enough,” Thabet noted years later. “That made me very resentful.”

But Thabet had one last option: In Yemen, the law afforded sons the right to mete out capital punishments its courts could not. The culture absolutely demanded it.

Back in Aldakalah, he’d witnessed firsthand what became of those who didn’t regain their families’ honor. One local man who elected not to avenge his father’s killing was ostracized and barred from taking a wife.

If word reached home that Thabet failed to avenge his father’s murder, an already tortured existence would become unbearable.

Pressure mounted on Thabet to perform his sacred duty. The sheik’s cousins, especially, made their expectations known.

“It’s like the only thing they had was me,” Thabet explained through the static whisper of a prison pay phone. “I already hated the man for what he did to my father, and they nurtured that. I didn’t need a lot of encouragement, but I got a lot of it from them.”

As he wavered, those in the community provided him with a white, windowless Chevy van singed with orange and yellow stripes; a route to California; and a recent photograph of his father’s killer. A young Yemeni acquaintance named Tamin Hauter, who spent time with the Alharsami family some years earlier, was assigned to be Thabet’s driver.

Thabet met with an immigration attorney to extend his visa and see if there was any way to put off his grim decision. The answer came that he would be back in Yemen within months.

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Ahmed Ali Alharsami with his second wife, Dorothy.

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Former homicide detectives Weldon Lincoln (left) and Jack Vining revisit the gas station where Thabet gunned down his father’s killer, Alharsami, in 1993. While the investigation ended with a murder conviction, the former partners readily acknowledge Thabet felt extreme pressure to carry out the honor killing.

With time running out, Thabet bought a 9 mm to King, he looked through the window at the pistol and .38-caliber revolver. Within weeks, man who had consumed his thoughts for so he and the 19-year-old Hauter were skulking long. Did he look like much? With his wavy through the nearby foothills pursuing Alharsami. hair on a balding scalp, his blue polyester shirt After a few half-hearted attempts, the pair set and cream-colored shorts, his mismatched belt up an ambush at a tidy commercial square in and striped socks pulled up to his knees?

Pine Grove in Amador County Alharsami had convinced that Alharsami frequented. They most people in these little waited in the parking lot near mountain towns he was a an Exxon service station kindly proprietor who “I grew up in a society and tire store for hours. worked in his garden on where you don’t express A photo of the man the weekends, two small formed a crooked crease children and a German anger. You don’t express in Thabet’s pants shepherd trailing fear. And you can’t laugh pocket. And on that closely at his heels.

Wednesday in May Those closest to too loud, because people of 1993, Thabet the man, however, saw Alharsami. described a will think that you have His father’s killer paranoid figure who forgotten that your father had pulled into the abused his daughters, shopping center and intimidated his wives was murdered.” stopped at the tire store and cultivated multiple before pumping gas 20 feuds within the YemeniHafed Mohamed Thabet feet away from Thabet, who American community. And had concealed the pistol in his Alharsami wouldn’t have black leather jacket and stepped thought twice about taking out out of the van. additional members of the Thabet clan.

The air was warm. Cars milled in and out “If my father knew [Thabet] was in of the shopping center, idling under faded the country, he would have made sure he yellow business signs from the 1970s. Thabet was going to be killed,” Sabah Algazali, kept walking.

Alharsami’s daughter, later told authorities.

Inside the Exxon, Alharsami urged its On this particular day, however, a owner, Richard King, to tell him the quickest distracted Alharsami was caught off guard. route to Reno. He purchased fuel and went Thabet willed himself into the descendback out to the pumps. In his rush, Alharsami ing daylight. The sky lit the blanched red scarcely noticed a young Yemeni man heading gas pumps as he approached Alharsami. An into the service station he’d just exited. adolescent boy ate candy by the ice machine.

Thabet shuffled around inside for a A man at the farthest pump lowered soft moment and then asked for a pack of cigadrinks into the bed of a truck, his wife and rettes. Pushing his money across the counter child inside the cab. Thabet saw none of them.

Step by step, Thabet watched Alharsami fill his field of vision. The .38-caliber floated into the air. Years later, when Thabet was asked how long he’d been waiting for this moment, he would respond, “For all my life.”

Inside the Exxon, King was startled by the crack of a gunshot. He froze. Four more shots followed in rapid succession. He went outside to find Alharsami lying on his side in a fetal position, dressed in a widening cloak of blood.

A gas hose dangled from his Toyota.

the age of 10, Alharsami marched his daughter into a swell of sugar-beet fields, shoved a gun into her small hands and taught her to direct its flashing muzzle. He told her to be on guard for his enemies and to avenge him if one succeeded.

“If you ever see one come near me or anything, make sure you protect me and revenge me,” he instructed.

By the age of 13, Algazali carried her own loaded weapon wherever she went. Instead of attending school, Alharsami made her work the counter of his general store in West Point in Calaveras County, selling milk and hard liquor across a cash register she barely cleared. On one occasion, she watched her father violently pummel a customer for trying to pass a counterfeit hundred-dollar bill. She then helped tie up the unconscious man.

From her father’s own lips, she learned of the murders he committed and the retribution he escaped. Alharsami told these stories like folk tales, comparing himself to Rambo and demonizing Algazali’s mother in the process.

For a long time, she accepted the fiction.

Seven years later, however, everything changed. Her 41-year-old father died beside his truck. Thabet went to prison and life trundled on. Years passed, but Algazali couldn’t subdue her curiosity.

So she launched her own investigation, journeying to the isolated valley town in Yemen where a scorned husband authored his own death warrant with the rocking cadence of a spitting rifle. From initially reluctant townsfolk, she learned how that act created a deep schism in the tribal community. Much of the Alharsami clan scattered in shame. The Thabet family never fully healed.

THE MIRACLE CHILD Inside the gray walls of a prison so far from their homeland, Sabah Algazali studied the face of the man she’d been raised to kill.

Alharsami’s eldest daughter waited a decade before summoning the courage to sit down with her father’s killer in 2003. She had seen him once before; Algazali was one of the three little girls in that Jackson courtroom during a brief preliminary hearing in the days after her father’s death.

Then, Algazali knew that the defendant was her mother’s little brother and, thus, her uncle. But it was a name-only relation at the time.

“I had no feeling that he was my blood,” Algazali said. “Our intention was to prosecute him and make sure he got life.”

Be careful what you wish for.

Thabet swallowed a second-degree murder plea that brought with it a 15-years-to-life sentence. Alharsami’s ghost, meanwhile, clamored for the same violent retribution that befell him—a burden that pressed the slight, steady shoulders of a daughter bent on escaping her father’s unforgiving coda.

After growing up with her grandmother in the village of Dakhla, Algazali was summoned by her outlaw father to these shores in 1983. At

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While in Yemen, Algazali also debunked a tall tale: That those loyal to the murdered sheik hurled an 8-month-old out of a thirdstory window. The story went that the infant miraculously survived, took a new name and was smuggled into her grandmother’s care.

That little girl was Algazali.

She chuckles now at the fables she believed for so long. Finding out she wasn’t the victim of an attempted infanticide didn’t mean she couldn’t take a lesson from that particular fairy tale, however.

“If I was really a miracle child, I should do something positive,” she decided. “I want to be a hero by saving a life.”

The life she chose to save was her uncle’s.

When she finally came face to face with Thabet, her dad’s executioner, in 2003, Algazali expected someone like the man who raised her: unrepentant and cold. Instead, looking at her stranger-kin seated before her with hooded, downcast eyes, she saw a lost soul, a fellow cultural orphan.

“I know more than anybody [the pressures Thabet felt], because my father always dreamed that I would be the one to revenge for him,” she recounted. “It could’ve been me in prison if I listened to my father.”

DREAMS AND JUSTICE At a little past 1:30 p.m. on a Wednesday in September, according to the dragging hands

of a clock inside one of Mule Creek State Prison’s nondescript offices, inmate J-30663, resident of the upper bunk in housing unit 10-235, entered with little fanfare, escorted by a bulldog-shaped correction officer with a sweet disposition.

Except for the giveaway prison-issue denims hanging baggily on his sloped frame, Thabet could have been mistaken for anyone other than a killer. Years of confinement packed on the stress pounds, scaled back a wavy, sable hairline, and flecked his speech with a subtle NorCal prison drawl. He wore dentist’s glasses over sad, inky eyes, and took pills for acid reflux and cholesterol medication.

Thabet briefly scanned the room, politely acknowledged two commissioners and cast a grateful look at his niece.

In short order, the meat of the hearing had arrived.

“My partner and I have about two hours or so to get to know you,” presiding commissioner John Peck said lightly, “so let’s start at the beginning.”

Peck, considered a seasoned pro in the parole game, coaxed Thabet to unfurl his life story, confirming that this is the most important tale Thabet would ever tell. This is something Thabet had already learned during the course of three previous hearings over seven agonizing, self-scrutinizing years.

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Two years later, Thabet encountered a board that relied on a dated evaluation by a prison psychologist who was unfamiliar with “Islamic issues.” At one point, deputy commissioner Dennis Smith even asked the foreignborn inmate whether he would “be received as a hero” if he were sent back to Yemen.

But if there’s one date that reflects how arbitrary the correctional system’s proxy courts can be, it’s September 16, 2009.

This was the hearing where the stars aligned for Thabet. He finally admitted the degree to which he plotted Alharsami’s murder. Amador County’s twin legal authorities pointedly rescinded their opposition to his parole. Algazali, as she had at the previous two hearings, pleaded for her uncle’s release.

Thabet’s central file brimmed with favorable psychological evaluations, glowing testimonies from an army of vocational instructors and self-help counselors, impeccable parole plans, and too many letters of support to be recorded.

The inmate—a model prisoner who, while incarcerated, learned to speak English, earned a high-school diploma and an automotive-repair certification—had everything going for him.

And it all came to naught. The panel issued Thabet a three-year denial, its longest yet.

“They denied him because of his credibility, because he told the truth,” Algazali recounted in disbelief.

This is not a biased view, by the way; it’s also the assessment of someone who has every political reason to oppose Thabet’s release.

“He was denied parole for what I believe to be the wrong reasons,” explained Todd Riebe, elected district attorney of conservative

Amador County. “His remorse wasn’t long He shared the same story he’d told for enough? Remorse is remorse. That’s not even decades, hoping for a different ending. But against the law.” the panel before him—created by the state and At that parole hearing, Algazali stumbled appointed by favor-doling governors—would to her feet during the middle of the presiding decide whether it was good enough. commissioner’s statement Later, inside an Ione prison and knocked over a chair on conference room, both her way to the bathroom, Thabet and Algazali cried where she became sick. In uncontrollably.

“My father always between heaving groans, A short while ago—as she cried and screamed. she had at every heardreamed that I would Her daughter, who’d ing—Algazali offered read her own letter an impassioned be the one to revenge of support, was statement on behalf for him. It could’ve equally disgusted, of an uncle she came telling Algazali she to know only after he been me in prison if I wished she never came. gunned down her father. listened to my father.”

“He told the truth Related by blood, and got punished for it,” enemies according to their Sabah Algazali she seethed. “I guess you culture, the two expatriates got to lie in order to live.” grew close over the past Three long years later, decade. For Algazali’s younger Thabet was once again accountsisters and two daughters, ing for a life gone wrong.

Thabet became an unlikely voice of female The September 2012 parole board— empowerment, encouraging them to pursue an Thabet’s fourth in seven years—listened education, fall in love and break with some of closely as the inmate recounted the gritty their culture’s more restrictive traditions. details of growing up fatherless in an ardently Algazali already has. She became her paternalistic community. uncle’s most tireless advocate, speaking at “I grew up in a society where you don’t parole hearings, hiring attorneys and papering express anger. You don’t express fear. And every elected official, even President Barack you can’t laugh too loud, because people will Obama, with pleas for assistance. think that you have forgotten that your father Few listened. Those around her insisted she was murdered,” Thabet told commissioners. spare herself the heartache of these wonderland tribunals and stop going.

“You’re just putting fuel in my body,” she replied, defiantly.

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Thirty-eight years after the murder of Thabet’s father, 19 years after Thabet shot down Alharsami and three years since his last rejection, the American justice system finally listened.

At 4:05 p.m. on September 6, the panel agreed to grant Thabet a parole date.

The decision is buried in boilerplate legalese and qualified “ifs”: The governor has until the new year to make an improbable veto, and Thabet’s release would be immediately followed by federal detention and likely deportation to Yemen. Thabet has months of anxious waiting ahead.

“I know it happened. People told me it happened. I believe it,” Thabet said from a prison weeks later. “I’m afraid to even be hopeful.”

He dreams of one day opening an auto shop in his native land and spreading his niece’s message of forgiveness and love back home. But right now, the boy from Yemen just wants to see his mother.

Days after the hearing, from inside the maternity ward of a Stockton hospital, Algazali empathized. Despite attempts to reconnect as an adult, this family saga left Algazali estranged from her own mom, Thabet’s sister. At this moment, though, Algazali could only count the blessings.

“I feel like a newborn person. I feel like I’m alive,” she effused.

The 39-year-old should know from newborns. Her grandson Khalil just entered a world with infant peace in his family but stubborn, flaring conflict in his young grandmother’s homeland.

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Thabet during his fourth paroleboard hearing.

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there are four such gro These days, however, ators, tattoo y of comic-book illustr of which attracts a bev painters re ltu rcu nte cou elopers, artists, video-game dev love to draw. and people who simply nects approach, yet what con its in ct Each is distin toward ty ini aff e tiv lec col a not—is ects them—intentional or rej t tha ent derground movem culp “lowbrow” art, the un po ces bra em d tea art and ins ms the restrictions of fine for art defined “disposable” ture and more loosely such as comics. ve the area’s first alternati Ben Walker founded n, Draw the ce Sin .

07 20 in le, sic drawing group, Pomp e followed , and SketchBomb hav Club, Drink and Draw e that ing a casual atmospher suit, each group foster does it as ling vibe as much focuses on a freewhee , form and process. mpsicle’s current leader Indeed, Ryan Cicak, Po ng axi rel n, “fu a one rooted in describes his group as .” environment ing in our studios, tortur “We are not pent up d sai ” rk, wo r ations of ou ourselves over the cre ke ma d an t ou ng ha s et’ e, ‘L Cicak. “It’s more lik this an art party.’” nse to d Pompsicle as a respo Walker initially starte art in classes he’d taken the nude figure-drawing t by end the classical forma Up ch: school. The approa outic ect ecl and ird we ssed in s, bringing in models dre ate pir ost roller-derby girls, gh fits—alien vampires, of. nk he could thi whatever offbeat idea ut ng nudes, it’s more abo wi dra e u’r yo “When the of er nn eless subject ma the artistry and this tim erint are o wh le d. “Peop nude body,” Walker sai erested in capturing int re mo are t tha in ested realistic approach. … re mo a e humanity and hav o [is] more for people wh Clothed figure drawing cre and s ation, comic book are interested in illustr ating characters.” with the group meeting The concept was a hit, ded in leries. Pompsicle disban monthly at various gal n Sa to ved mo r er Walke early 2010, however, aft r visited lke Wa 11, 20 of end the Francisco. Then, near

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ever they feel booze and sketch pads. Artists draw what sed on comfocu as it’s said, que Saul and, ing, like draw munity as it is on creativity. out with “The idea [of] the get-together [is to] hang ] get away from [and drink a have and le peop ed mind likeSaulque life in general and spend time drawing,” explained.

Saulque runs another sketch group as well. offshoot of a SketchBomb, which formed in 2011 as an day of each Tues last the on s meet p, grou cisco San Fran cipate in parti dees atten , month at Bows & Arrows. Here stranger the ises— exerc ng rawi ed-d different timed them Models Amanda Storey and Emily Wells (below) pose the concept the better. for sketchers at Pompsicle, the alternative drawing ally do. We “It pushes you to do things you don’t norm group that meets monthly at Bows & Arrows. an astros that’ cat a w ‘Dra like, idea an might [present] 10 have d you’ then naut and likes to ride on unicorns’— minutes,” Saulque said. p, Draw Club, le to tears and peop ght Sacramento’s newest sketch meet-up grou brou have that es stori rman Supe lars, regu his of some up d roun to any fine-art stuff Sacramento and decided is the least formal of them all. that have stirred emotions greater than went over so well, Fight Club. including Cicak, for a one-off session. It The name is a nod to Chuck Palahniuk’s ” find. you that own. his on nue t Escape conti to Grea at Walker asked his friend if he’d like Formed in late 2011, it meets Thursdays . mind in ideas 3A). few a Suite with Cicak did—but Games (1250 Howe Avenue, and different— with Brad S, DIO STU “Pompsicle is so fundamentally weird, fun OUR The group was co-founded by Overbai IN UP T PEN NOT “WE ARE “I wanted to keep the r and Sarah R. Straub Bake Josh hy, Murp e Shan ery, it was what I was looking for,” he said. tgom Mon ge the scope.” setting up any TURING OURSELVES OVER THE structure the same. But I wanted to chan TOR who were, Overbai explained, weary of still It at. form ar simil Now, though, the group follows a . parameters sday of each create our own CREATIONS OF OUR WORK. meets regularly, gathering on the last Thur “When it first started, we wanted to just still k Cica and t), Stree any rules. It can t 19th aren’ (1815 there ws like Arro OUT st & s G almo month at Bow E, ‘LET’S HAN rules,” he said. “It’s LIK RE MO IT’S to tries also he said he els— brings in alternative, clothed mod be anything you want it to be.” unity, making it a h groups pop up, KE THIS AN ART PARTY.’” MA AND encourage a true counterculture arts comm Now, as more of these alternative sketc offbeat art local n: They’ve other ratio of inspi bers as mem p serve just grou m than infor to point they’ve done more Ryan Cicak s. events. helped to connect local lowbrow artist Pompsicle d culture in movement, “One of my goals is to embrace the weir “The force of us all helps the heat of the beyond this sesjust people producthat other of know lot le a peop are let there and that to, amen know Sacr because we on g goin s thing d weir y reall hardt other of Corey Bern sion … there’s a bunch ing this kind of work,” Cicak said.

Formed in 2009 by Hainanu Saulque and are other people ration, ing group, Drink draw ased in town,” Cicak said. “Knowing that there les-b And that, in turn, cultivates further inspi Ange Los a to oot offsh as an is is great, because after o ment Sacra in ge emer said. i to … who have similar ideas about what art p pitsk grou Kono often [you just see] and Draw was the first sitting there sday of if you go to a gallery in Sacramento, very “You get them all together, they’re just e. Now the group meets every third Thur psicl Pom that creativity ze s.” reali cape you and lands or ing, t). acts draw Stree abstr R and a lot of and laughing month at Fox & Goose (1001 each the of t Mos d. ens one night, adde k happ Cica ing than There’s a reason for that, is creativity,” he said. “Even if noth Here, the atmosphere is far less formal feawork their their own to have y on t rarel emen ps just urag grou enco els— these d that mod artists who atten people are able to take e’s and, notably, doesn’t include psicl Pom is Ω style the use beca tured in local, mainstream galleries other art endeavors.” considered lowbrow. d in Los Angeles The lowbrow-art movement, which starte art, punk rock, ok c-bo comi in the late ’70s, mashes together subcultures odd other and i, sci-f , porn pop culture, soft-core steadily in n grow it’s in strange and creative ways. Although poz Juxta as such zines maga popularity over the years with ss thele none it’s s, work its g casin show se and Hi-Fructo deemed subpar by many art critics. g to be in [a] “The lowbrow art scene is not exactly goin in that graphicmore is] it [in y ybod Ever art. fine museum of on comic up grew that s novel culture,” Cicak said. “Kid stimuli.” ral cultu that all of g essin proc books—this is their aning. deme ” brow Some, however, consider the term “low ral of seve ents frequ who i, pitsk Sacramento artist Jared Kono .” brow “new term the rs prefe he said these groups, d saying, ‘Oh, it’s “People in the highbrow art scene starte pitski said. “It Kono row,” lowb ed lowbrow,’ so it got label g it’s not lowsayin d starte folks of lot a so y, was derogator brow, it’s just newbrow.” separates them Either way, one important element that row scene, even lowb the in that is m strea main the from considered great comic books, tattoos and video games are works of art.

Draw Club, Tomas Overbai, co-founder of the monthly e. ectiv persp nal said it’s all about perso , to me, that’s as “Even though I am drawing Superman re had been “The said. artistic as the ‘Mona Lisa,’” he ILLUSTRATION AND PHOTO BY RYAN CICAK

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Painterly pixelation If you didn’t receive the memo, until further notice, Beatnik Studios is not participating in the Second Saturday art walk. But this month’s show, Easily Digestible by Lisa Alonzo, is worth noting.

Her super-textured pointillism can’t truly be appreciated until it is seen up close in person. She uses acrylic paint in cake-decorating tools to create her frostinglike dots of pigment—such as thousands of tiny rosettes. The light that reflects off of each petal and each ridged flourish as the viewer moves before the piece gives it depth in addition to the visual breakdown pleasure of her painterly pixelation.

Where: Beatnik Studios, 2421 17th Street; www.viewpointgallery.org.

Hours: Tuesday through Thursday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

Through December 15.

“Baad Vibes” by Lisa Alonzo, acrylic, 2012.

“Tropez” by Kim Squaglia, acrylic and resin on wood panel, 2012.

Slick execution “Suerte Suprema” by Leonardo Ceballos, acrylic on canvas, 2007.

A fly in your chardonnay Isn’t it ironic that José Guadalupe Posada became well-known posthumously for his calavera folk art? ’Cause his satirical illustrations of skeletons are now associated with Día de los Muertos, which is the Mexican holiday for celebrating the dead? Or perhaps this writer is merely having an Alanis Morissette-circa-the-mid-’90s moment? Well, Posada’s influence continues to live long after his death, including in the work of Leonardo Ceballos. Check out his A Sigh for México art exhibition this month, and if chardonnay is served at the reception, watch out for flies.

Where: Union Hall Gallery, 2126 K Street; (916) 448-2452.

Second Saturday reception: November 10, 6-9 p.m.

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At first glance, Kim Squaglia’s vivid and well-crafted abstract paintings look like the art one might see in the entrance of a chichi department store or the lobby of bank or the hallway of a law office.

If that’s the case, your instincts are superb: Squaglia lists her work as being in the collections of Neiman Marcus stores in three different states; a Capital One bank in Houston; and Microsoft in Seattle. Which makes sense because her compositions are accessible, often with fluid, messy elements— squiggles and splatters of paint—over precisely painted tones and graphic shapes or repeating patterns. It’s a slick execution.

It’s not necessary to travel to the Lone Star State and open a checking account if you’d like to see them for yourself, however: They will be showing at JayJay through December 22. Also on display is work by David Wetzl.

Where: JayJay, 5520 Elvas Avenue; (916) 453-2999; www.jayjayart.com.

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11 CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, SACRAMENTO 1519 19th St., (916) 498-9811, www.ccasac.org

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Leaves you will hear about the humble beginnings of tea. China’s tea is surrounded in mystery and legends such as The Divine Farmer, Ti Kwan Yin, Da Hong Pao and Dragon’s Gate.

You will share in the ritual of Gongfu Cha Dao, the traditional Chinese tea ceremony, and sip on an exquisite Ti Kwan Yin Oolong tea. Th, 11/8, 6:30-7:30pm. $18. Ancient Future Urban Sanctuary, 2331 K St.; (916) 476-3754; www.ancientfuturenow.com.

Dolores Clara Fernandez Huerta is a labor leader and civil-rights activist who, along with Cesar Chavez, co-founded the National Farmworkers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers. Huerta has received numerous awards for her community service and advocacy for workers’, immigrants’ and women’s rights, including the the Presidential Medal of Freedom. F, 11/9, 7:30pm. $25. St. Mark’s United Methodist Church, 2391 St. Mark’s Way; (916) 475-8554; www.stmarksumc.com/ upcomingmoon.

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Special Events THE ECOLOGY OF PERCEPTION: DAVID ABRAM: Wild and Scenic Arts and Lectures and The Center for the Arts present David Abram for an evening of discussion and readings from his newest book. He is a philosopher, cultural ecologist, sleight-ofhand magician and performance artist known for his work bridging the philosophical tradition of phenomenology with environmental and ecological issues.

Th, 11/8, 7:30-9:30pm. $10-$20.

Center for the Arts, 314 W. Main St. in Grass Valley; (530) 274-8384; http://thecenterforthearts.org.

JAMIE TWORKOWSKI LECTURE: Pain, Hope, Questions & Community is an evening with Jamie Tworkowski, founder of To Write Love on Her Arms, a nonprofit dedicated to helping those who suffer from depression, addiction, self-injury, and suicidal tendencies find hope, support and love. Th, 11/8, 7:30pm. Free.

Sacramento State University Union Ballroom, 6000 J St.; (916) 278-6997; www.sacstateunique.com.

UPTOWN FASHION NIGHT: Bring your girlfriends to shop the latest fall and holiday fashion trends.

Enjoy complimentary wine, tasty treats and music at each store while you mix, match and mingle. Th, 11/8, 5:30-8pm. Free.

Krazy Mary’s Boutique, 3230 Folsom Blvd.; (916) 442-6279; www.facebook.com/events/ 150341215109579.

Groups SPEED NETWORKING EVENT: The Sacramento Asian Pacific Chamber of Commerce hosts the Networking Nexus, the region’s largest 90-second business networking mixer. The goal of this event is to promote regionalism and to celebrate the importance of small business. More than 1,000 business people are expected to attend. Th, 11/8, 5-7pm. $25-$35. Sacramento Convention Center, 1400 J St.; (916) 446-7883; www.sacasiancc.org.

Concerts JOURNEY TO AWAKEN: Join Journey to Awaken Kirtan for an evening of Buddhist and Hindu devotional chanting at the Crocker Art Museum’s Thursday evening Art Mix. It coincides with the Supporting Celestial Realms: The Art of Nepal exhibition. Th, 11/8, 6:30-9pm. Free with museum.

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

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Special Events SOCIAL WORKER APPRECIATION DINNER: The Sacramento Association of Black Social Workers hosts a dinner and awards presentation. The mission of the organization is to promote family preservation within the African-American community in the areas of education, housing and health care. F, 11/9, 6-8pm. Call for pricing. Plates Cafe & Catering, 14 Business Pkwy., #149 in Depot Park; (916) 381-2233.

Comedy SUZANNE WESTENHOEFER: Suzanne Westenhoefer’s ground-breaking career as the first openly gay comedian ever to appear on television, includes appearances on Late Night With David Letterman, HBO, Bravo, Logo and GSN, as well as performances across the nation in popular theaters, clubs and fundraisers. F, 11/9. $20-$25.

Center for Spiritual Awareness, 1275 Starboard Dr. in West Sacramento; (916) 374-9177; www.csaeventcenter.com.

Literary Events CALIFORNIA WRITERS CLUB OPEN-MIC: California Writers Club, Sacramento Branch hosts an open-mic for writers. Signups begin at 6:45pm. Readings are limited to 10 minutes per person. Listeners are welcome.

The California Writers Club is an educational nonprofit corporation dedicated to educating writers of all levels of expertise in the craft of writing and in the marketing of their work. F, 11/9, 7-9:30pm. Free. Barnes & Noble, 6111 Sunrise Blvd. in Citrus Heights; (916) 344-5778; www.cwcsacramentowriters.org.

LEON KID CHOCOLATE BROWN: Grammy-award-winning jazz musician Leon “Kid Chocolate” Brown brings his New Orleans jazz sextet to Clarksburg for one night only. Kid Chocolate is part of the new wave of young trumpeters steeped in traditional jazz but exploring the new sounds of today. Classic Louisiana dishes will be served along with wine.

F, 11/9, 7-11pm. $50-$65. Old Sugar Mill, 35265 Willow Ave. in Clarksburg; (916) 744-1345; www.clarksburgwineco.com.

PETE ESCOVEDO: Percussionist Pete Escovedo performs live at the Guild Theater in Oak Park.

Escovedo’s versatility as a

percussionist has been featured in performances and recordings by a wide range of artists such as Carlos Santana, Tito Puente, Herbie Hancock, Mongo Santamaria, and with his own group, the Escovedo Brothers Latin Jazz band. F, 11/9, 7pm. $35-$50. Guild Theater, 2828 35th St.; (916) 572-5123; http://peteescovedo. eventbrite.com.

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Sacramento Community Center is hosting its first Second Saturday event to help raise proceeds for the Greater Sacramento Chapter of the ALS Association. Local artists and musicians will showcase their art inside the new state-of-the-art community center while sipping on local wines and tasting food from food trucks. Sa, 11/10, 5pm. Free. West Sacramento Community Center, 1075 West Capitol Ave. in West Sacramento; (925) 895-2846.

Special Events CARNIVALE GRAND MASQUERADE BALL: Don’t miss a ball that features an evening of Monte Carlo-style gaming such as blackjack, craps, roulette and poker, live entertainment and dancing. Your ticket includes hors doeuvres and beer or wine.

There will be a silent auction and raffle with items donated from local Sacramento businesses. Black-tie attire is suggested. Sa, 11/10, 7-11pm. $45$55. The Elks Tower, 921 11th St.; (916) 658-9830; www.sacwomens2030.org.

CIVIL WAR TOUR: Sacramento, primarily a Union town, had many who fought in the Civil War and then headed west to make their mark. How did Sacramento contribute to the Civil War and who were those who fought so bravely? Come hear the stories at the Historic City Cemetery’s program titled “Country divided, City united: Sacramento’s Involvement in the Civil War.” Sa, 11/10, 10am. Free. Old City Cemetery, 1000 Broadway; (916) 264-7839; www.oldcity cemetery.com.

TRICK-A-THON FOR PUPS: Does your dog have some wild tricks up their paw? Join Unleashed

by Petco for the Trick-a-thon.

Dogs will have the opportunity to show off their wild tricks and receive some delicious treats. Sa, 11/10, 3-4pm. Free.

Unleashed by Petco, 8447 Elk Grove Florin Rd., Ste. 10 in Elk Grove; (916) 525-1210.

SUTTER CREEK WINEFEST: Enjoy tastings from more than 25 Amador County wineries. First, visit the Sutter Creek Auditorium to check-in. Pick up your map and commemorative wine glass. Bid on silent auction items, then, journey up and down Main Street, tasting as you go. This fundraiser benefits AmadorArts programs that bring the arts to local schools and the community. Sa, 11/10, 4:30-8pm. $25-$30. Sutter Creek Auditorium, 18 Main St. in

Sutter Creek; (209) 223-9038; www.amadorarts.org.

Art Galleries CAFE DANTORELS: Holiday Show, artwork by the artists of Women’s Wisdom Art will be on display. The cafe will offer discounts during the reception.

Sa, 11/10, 5-8pm. Free. 2700 24th St.; (916) 451-2200.

COFFEE GARDEN: Photography Exhibition, A series of photographs related to Día de los Muertos. Sa, 11/10, 6-9pm.

Free. 2904 Franklin Blvd.; (916) 457-5507; www.thecoffeegarden.com.

DEL PASO WORKS BUILDING: Hands in Mud, enjoy a handbuilt ceramic sclupture gallery and ceramic artist studio featuring member art monthly. Join a clay studio group, which meets weekly on Wednesday.

Instructional classes coming soon. Second Sa of every month, 6-9pm through 10/12. Free. 1001 Del Paso Blvd.; (916) 333-4833.

PATRIS STUDIO AND ART GALLERY: Second Saturday Art Walk and Art in Action, draw, paint, sculpt from a live model from 3 to 6pm or observe artists in action. Enjoy live music and an artist reception from 6 to 10pm. Sa 11/10. Free. 3460 Second Ave.; (916) 397-8958.

SACRAMENTO GAY & LESBIAN CENTER: THEshow’s mission is to showcase both emerging and established artists of the Sacramento region in an environment of creativity, love and acceptance. Second Sa of every month, 5-9pm through 12/8. Free.

1927 L St.; (916) 442-0185.

SACRAMENTO POETRY CENTER: Local painter Bob Girasek paints a canvas every day. A large collection of his work will be exhibited at this show, accompanied by refreshments and live music. Sa, 11/10, 6-9pm. Free.

1719 25th St.; (916) 441-7395; http://sacramento poetrycenter.org.

STUDIO 24: DeviantSAC Artists Group, the DeviantSac Artists Group celebrates its first anniversary. These new and upcoming Sacramento-area artists display their eclectic and deviant art works, including illustration, painting, sculpture, three-dimentional arts and conceptual photography. Sa, 11/10, 3-10pm. Free. 2220 K St.; (916) 442-8262; www.studio24.com.

UNION HALL GALLERY: Un Suspiro por Mexico, Leonardo Ceballos’ art displays the essence of what he misses in Mexico: Di≠a de los Muertos, Folkorico and mariachis. There will be a wood sculpture demo in garden by Douglas Adam Bradley and refreshments including Peet’s coffee.

Sa, 11/10, 6-9pm. Free.

2126 K St.; (916) 448-2452.

Classes RESTORATIVE YOGA: Restorative yoga is ideal for those with intermittent or chronic physical tension and pain, or anyone seeking stress relief. You rest supported by pillows and folded blankets in poses designed to open the areas of the body where most tensions are stored. Sa, 11/10, 2-4pm. $25. Ananda Sacramento, 10450 Coloma Rd. in Rancho Cordova; (916) 361-0891; www.anandasacramento.org.

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INTRODUCTION TO SOMATIC EXPERIENCING: Somatic Experiencing, developed by Peter A. Levine, is the naturalistic approach to the healing, resolution and prevention of trauma. This method is based on the observation that wild prey animals. Learning to model an animal’s innate resilience to stress enables humans to return to equilibrium in the aftermath of stressful and extreme experiences. Sa, 11/10, 10am-5:30pm. $85-$100. Ancient Future Urban Sanctuary, 2331 K St.; (520) 405-3888; http://bodymindtherapy.com/register.

Martin Ellis will play many tunes in the style of Grant Union High School alum George Wright, as well as his own arrangements of orchestral music transcribed for the Wurlitzer pipe organ installed in 1939 in the Grant High Auditorium. Su, 11/11, 2pm. $12.

Grant High School, 1400 Grand Ave.; (530) 477-7018; www.sierrachapteratos.org.

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12MON Classes

from industry experts. This one-day seminar will cover media materials and pitching, social media, events, influence outreach and more. Why hire a publicist when you can manage your own PR campaign free of charge? This seminar will teach you how. M, 11/12, 9:30am-5pm. $75. Hyatt Place Roseville, 220 Conference Center Dr. in Roseville; (916) 939-3344.

Concerts BECAUSE, A LIVE BEATLES TRIBUTE: Because is now in its 10th year of bring authentic Beatles music to the stage. Beginning with the Beatles’ appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964, to the Sgt. Pepper era and on, Because will perform more than 30 songs. Sa, 11/10, 8pm. $25-$30. Grass Valley Veterans Memorial Building, 255 S. Auburn St. in Grass Valley; (530) 273-5486; www.starbrightshows.com.

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sweet vocals of Chris Webster combined with the incredible guitar work of Nina Gerber blend for a very special evening of music. Opening the show will be a special and first ever acoustic appearance by multiinstrumentalist Bill Edwards and Bob Woods. Sa, 11/10, 7-11pm. $18-$20. Auburn Event Center, 145 Elm Ave. in Auburn; (530) 823-8310; www.keep smilinpromotions.com.

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Area-based drone activist who participated in CodePink’s October 2012 Peace Delegation to Pakistan, gives a firsthand account of life under daily drone surveillance and attacks.

The delegation joined Pakistanis at a rally against drones in Hatala, near Waziristan, an area that has seen most of the drone strikes.

W, 11/14, 7pm. Free. Sacramento Area Peace Action, 909 12th St.; (916) 448-7157; www.sacpeace.org.

SACRAMENTO SPCA FALL BOOK SALE: Ready to curl up with a good book? Looking for unique holiday decorations or that special gift? This sale will feature hundreds of gently-used books in a variety of popular categories including fiction, games and puzzles, children’s books, romance, mystery, tabletop, adventure, biographies, science fiction, cookbooks and more. W, 11/14,

Grammy-award winner Chucho Valdes has recorded more than 80 albums. He has performed all over the world in such prestigious venues as Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Centre and the Hollywood Bowl and has shared the stage with such musical luminaries as Herbie Hancock, Billy Taylor, Chick Corea and more. Tu, 11/13, 7:30pm. $12-$29. Three Stages at Folsom Lake College, 10 College Pkwy. in Folsom; (916) 608-6888.

Catch the excitement of the Sacramento Heatwave ABA Pro Basketball Team.

Pro basketball will live on in Sacramento regardless of the fate of the Kings. Come out and support the Heatwave and make some noise. Su, 11/11, 3pm. $5-$10.

Natomas High School, 3301 Fong Ranch Rd.; (559) 779-0100; www.heatwavelive.com.

Art Galleries GALLERY 1855: The Language of

Teens

Mystery, an exhibition of original watercolors by Joseph Finkleman. Su, 11/11, noon-4pm.

Free. 820 Pole Line Rd. in Davis; (530) 756-7807; www.daviscemetery.org.

JUNIOR-HIGH AND HIGH-SCHOOL THEATER CLASSES: This work-

James Scott’s work has been published by numerous public and private organizations. In this exhibition, he captured digital images of wetlands, some of the most ecologically productive and threatened landscapes locally and abroad. Subjects include: natural landscapes, people, community, wildlife and more.

M-F, 9am-4pm through 12/12.

Free. 10 College Park in Davis, (530) 753-5007.

LITTLE RELICS BOUTIQUE & GALLERIA: Skellykitty & Friends, celebrate Día de los Muertos with an exhibition by Krissi Sandvik Through 11/24, 11am-6pm. Free. 908 21st St., (916) 716-2319.

PENCE GALLERY: Women That I Have Encountered, a body of artwork by Malaquias Montoya depicting the strength and extraordinary contributions of Latina women. Visual imagery will explore women’s impact on community and how their determination and sacrifice add to the energy, vigor and success of Latino culture.

SACRAMENTO STATE ELSE GALLERY:

SIX ELEMENTS MEDITATION SERIES: Jeff Hoji Keller, a Shingon Buddhist priest, will guide you in the practice of the Six Elements of Meditation: earth, water, fire, wind, space and conciousness. Second W of every

month, 7:45-9pm through 12/12.

Water: Essence and Potential, Four artists explore the nature of water for a free exhibit.

Works are by Koo Kyung Sook, Brenda Louie, Meech Miyagi and Minh Tran; each piece flowing into the central theme of water. It is curated by Professor Pat Chirapravati.

Through 12/7. Free. 6000 J St., (916) 278-6166.

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By donation. The Yoga Seed Collective, 1400 E. St.; (316) 209-3242; www.facebook. com/sacurbandharma.

CALIFORNIA STATE CAPITOL MUSEUM: Artwork of the Great Depression Exhibit, Visitors to the State Capitol Museum are in for a visual treat. A new exhibit titled California Treasures: Artwork of the Great Depression will showcase some of the magnificent artwork that was commissioned by the California State Parks System and created under State and Federal Government work relief programs dating from 1934 to 1942. Through 12/31, 9am-5pm.

Free. 1315 10th St., (916) 324-0333.

Dance DANCE HOUSE: Sacramento State’s Dance House, directed

by Lorelei Bayne Yacur and Philip Flickinger, showcases original works choreographed by students, alumni and community guests. 11/14-11/18. $5-$12. Dancespace, Solano 1010, Sacramento State, 6000 J St. Solano Hall; (916) 278-6368; www.csus.edu/dram.

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11:30am-5pm Tu-Su. 212 D St. in Davis, (530) 758-3370, www.pencegallery.org.

Free. Country Club Plaza Mall, 2310 Watt Ave.; (916) 504-2842; www.sspca.org.

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Women: Contemporary Fabric Artists, the group is comprised of seven local textile artists, each with her own unique style.

Pieces are available for purchase. Through 12/8, noon-5pm.

Free. 314 W. Main St. in Grass Valley, (530) 274-8384, www.thecenterforthearts.org.

Tu-Su, 11:30am-5pm through 11/25. Free. Gallery hours are

10am-7pm; Th, 11/15, 10am-7pm; F, 11/16, 10am-7pm; Sa, 11/17, 10am-7pm; Su, 11/18, 11am-5pm.

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poets Oscar McNary and Casey Tonnelly will be featured at the Sacramento Poetry Center’s weekly poetry reading. McNary and Tonnely craft a dynamic show of dense, magical wordplay and witty social commentary.

M, 11/12, 7:30pm. Free; donations accepted. Sacramento Poetry Center, 1719 25th St.; (916) 441-7395; http://oscarmcnary. wordpress.com/tour-dates.

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Holiday Inn Capitol Plaza, 300 J St.; (916) 442-3100; www.cookbrown.com.

POETS OSCAR MCNARY AND CASEY TONNELLY: Seattle performance

ONGOING CENTER FOR THE ARTS: Artful

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EDUCATIONAL SEMINAR ON PUBLIC RELATIONS: Learn the secrets

Student Union, Redwood Room, 6000 J St.; (916) 278-6997; www.sacstateunique.com.

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Taylor Gang stop at the arena formerly known as Arco. The Taylor Gang members include Juicy J, Chevy Woods, Lola Monroe, Tuki Carter and Berner. Su, 11/11, 7:30pm. $35-$45. Sleep Train Arena, 1 Sports Pkwy.; (916) 649-8497; www.arcoarena.com.

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his weekend at Cal Expo is a great opportunity for two days of drunk shopping and daydreaming about hitting the slopes around Lake Tahoe—or the Rocky Mountains in Colorado or across the border in Canada.

With already a little snow on the ground in the Sierra Nevada, and more expected soon, now’s a good time to plan for the upcoming ski and snowboard season. Luckily, the two-day Snowbomb Ski & Board Festival happens this weekend (Saturday, November 10; 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.; and Sunday, November 11; 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.) at Cal Expo, and it features a huge tent sale, vendor booths, and beer and wine tasting.

On Saturday, prepare to shop while enjoying unlimited wine tasting from more than 50 wineries, including Northern California favorites, such as Michael David Winery, Beaulieu Vineyard and Chateau St. Jean. Or, on Sunday, sip microbrews from the likes of Lagunitas Brewing Company, North Coast Brewing Co. and Deschutes Brewery. Regardless of your libation preference, buzzed shopping sure takes the edge off decisions such as: Do I really need a new winter beanie or pair of ski goggles? (The answer, of course, is yes.)

General admission ($20) includes three lift-ticket vouchers to Sierra at Tahoe, China Peak Mountain Resort or Dodge Ridge. But you’re probably better off with getting the VIP ticket ($40), which also includes unlimited wine or beer tasting, a two-night hotel stay at Grand Sierra Resort and Casino, and a one-year subscription to Ski Magazine or Transworld Snowboarding—in addition to the aforementioned lift-ticket vouchers.

Pro tip: Don’t be afraid to check out booths for out-of-town resorts. Sure, Squaw Valley and a few other Tahoe resorts are nice, but Mammoth Mountain Ski Area (Mammoth Lakes, Calif.), Whistler Blackcomb Ski Resort (British Columbia, Canada) and Aspen/Snowmass (Aspen, Colo.) are also great winter vacation destinations. During a vacation a few years ago at Aspen/Snowmass, I was treated to a week full of endless powder, mile-long snowboard trails, and plenty of good food and drink. It was by far the best snowboarding experience I’ve ever had.

instrument and getting the “self” out of the way. Tu, 4-6pm through 12/11. $300. Victory Life Church, 800 Reading St. in Folsom; (916) 207-5606; www.actorsworkshop.net.

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Hang on to the glory days Pit Stop Bar-B-Q 3515 McClellan Drive in North Highlands, (916) 344-1771 There’s a rough stretch of Watt Avenue in North Highlands that is a Model United Nations of restaurants: This is where to find the area’s only Cuban, by British and Ukrainian restaurants, as well as Becky some decent Thai and perhaps the only Grunewald Korean restaurant that is tucked away in the back of a market.

The Pit Stop Bar-B-Q is also on that stretch. The restaurant’s décor can be pretty much summed up, at least by those who’ve been inside the time capsule of an eatery off of Broadway, as “high Trails style.” If you haven’t been to Trails Restaurant, the barbecue joint in question, picture wood, wood and more wood.

Similarly, at Pit Stop, the walls have wood paneling, the chairs are wood and Naugahyde, and the menus are posted inside cute, mounted Rating: wooden half-barrels. ★ ★ 1/2 This look is finished with assemblages of Dinner for one: random objects such as old-timey radios, $8 - $13 clocks and even a sewing machine. The restaurant’s faded outdoor sign has a martini glass on it—although the time when this establishment offered alcohol is long past—and the words “steak house” are now covered up. Both details bespeak former glory days gone by.

There’s also a yellowed review from 1988 posted on the wall that declares the Pit Stop’s barbecue “heavenly.” The write-up also declares that the pork dinner’s “hefty” price of $7.95 is “worth it.”

Well, now that meal will set you back $12.95, but it still might be considered worth it.

The lunch specials are a much better deal, however, ranging in price from $6.95 to $8.50—a cost that includes big portions of ★ meat and two side dishes.

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mashed potatoes and macaroni salad are completely home style, in a good way: The mashed russets still have small lumps, and the macaroni salad is made with pasta shells, chopped celery, red onion and pickle relish.

My grandparents used to live in this area, and this macaroni salad conjures my grandmother’s perfectly, sending me into a nostalgic North Highlands reverie along with memories of the long-defunct Velvet Hammer bar.

The only dessert on the menu is sweetpotato pie. Oddly, the nutmeg-laced, eggy filling seems to have picked up the smoke that the meat lacks, which is simultaneously disconcerting and pleasing.

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As I eat, the proprietor sits at the counter, chin propped on elbow, doing a word-search puzzle in the paper. I ask how long he’s been operating this place, and he wearily answers, “Thirty-two years.” That’s a long enough stretch of time that he’d have observed the closing of McClellan Air Force Base, which was the economic lifeblood of the area; the closing of the Pussycat Theatre adult-movie house; and, yes, the closing of the Velvet Hammer.

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Estelle’s Patisserie With its marble tables and light wooden chairs, there’s an airy atmosphere, casual and cozy. Estelle’s offers an espresso bar and a wide assortment of teas and muffins and rolls for the breakfast crowd as well as sweets, including DayGlo macarons.

For the lunch-inclined, there are soups, salads, sandwiches and meat or meatless quiche. One of the authentic touches is the spare use of condiments. The smoked salmon is enlivened by dill and the flavor of its croissant. Its tomato bisque is thick and richly flavored, and, in a nice touch, a puff pastry floats in the tureen as accompaniment.

Everything is surprisingly reasonable. Half a sandwich and soup is $7.25. A caprese baguette is $5.25.

Ham and cheese is $5.75. There’s a lot to like about Estelle’s—except dinner. Doors close at 6pm. French.

901 K St., (916) 551-1500. Meal for one: $5-$10. ★★★1⁄2 G.L. 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. ★★★ B.G.

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. ★★★ 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.

Generally excellent, the saloon’s

Café, it adds optional offal addons—various organ meats, entrails, et al—to three versions of the dish: beef with tripe, chicken with gizzards, or pork with pork skin. The beef salad offers a gentle respite from aggressive flavors, consisting of medium-thick chewy slices of eye of round with red bell pepper, chopped iceberg and hot raw jalapeño. The single best dish here is the nam kao tod, a crispy entree with ground pork that’s baked on the bottom of the pan with rice, then stirred and fried up fresh the next day with dried Thai chilies and scallions. Thai and Lao. 2827 Norwood Ave., (916) 641-5890. Dinner for one: $10-$15. ★★★★ B.G.

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

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Asian Café serves both Thai and Lao food, but go for the Lao specialties, which rely on flavoring staples such as fish sauce, lime juice, galangal and lemongrass, lots of herbs, and chilies. One of the most common dishes in Lao cuisine is larb, a dish of chopped meat laced with herbs, chilies and lime. At Asian

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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 cholesterol-challenged, it’s a worthy dish in its own right. American. 926 J St., (916) 492-4450. Dinner for one: $40-$60. ★★★★ B.G.

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Oakland-based rapper and producer Lil B collaborates with Mikkeller’s brother, Evil Twin Brewing, on a boozy porter? Yes, it’s hands down the nuttiest beer collab of 2012. But is the 11.5 percent ABV imperial porter any good? Too good to drink now: I’m sitting on it. But I did crack open Mogli—and imperial porter aged in oak and brewed with chocolate—by Oregon’s Caldera Brewing Company. It’s addictive: a malty, cocoa nose that gives way to equal parts chocolate and oaky, vanilla malt.

This beer’s lighter (only 8.5 percent) but welcome in its dryness—and there’s a cool-looking senior black Lab on the label. Beer snobs often pass over porters for stouts, but don’t miss these highly quaffable fall options. In bottles at Pangaea Two Brews Cafe, 2743 Franklin Boulevard; (916) 454-4942; www.pangaeatwobrews.com.

Beer: Oude Geuze Golden Blend Brewer: 3 Fonteinen Where: The Davis Beer Shoppe,

211 G Street in Davis; (530) 756-5212

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bread that sets the tone. Giò Cha Duc Huong Sandwiches goes against the grain with bread that’s more football shaped than submarine shaped, garlic bread, and a selection of premade grab-and-go sandwiches right by the counter. And, with its substitution of butter for mayonnaise and the emphasis on pâté, Duc Huong shows a stronger than usual French influence.These details may seem trivial, but with banh mi, such small variations make all the difference. The small menu is limited to eight sandwiches (mostly pork) and two soups: chicken curry soup and a beef stew called bo kho banh mi, which comes with bread.

There’s a thick float of chili oil on top of the yellow, turmeric and lemongrass-laced curry soup, which, at first, is off-putting until you realize it can be dipped into the yeasty, crusty, fluffy bread.

Vietnamese. 6825 Stockton Blvd., Ste. 200; (916) 428-1188. Dinner for one: $5-$10. ★★★1⁄2 B.G.

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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.

fast 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. ★★★ 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

you get at the store. Mexican.

5701 Franklin Blvd., (916) 428-7844.

Dinner for one: $10-$20. ★★★1⁄2 B.G.

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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. ★★★ 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. ★★★1⁄2 G.L.

Nevada City

The Willo The Willo’s menu is simple, centered on a slab of meat and starchy sides— although the restaurant has added a veggie burger to its lineup. While the thick, smoky pork chop and the tender, butterflied half-chicken suffice, here it’s really all about the New York strip steak offered in small, medium and large portions. If you’re not the designated driver, slip into the bar 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. ★★★★ B.G.

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DOWNTOWN SACRAMENTO PLAZA ICE RINK In Sacramento, autumn and winter are marked by the changing color of leaves, a much colder breeze, pumpkin-flavored everything and, of course, the return of the Downtown Sacramento Ice Rink presented by Sacramento Downtown Plaza.

Now celebrating its 21st season, the 5,000-square-foot-plus rink has been set up by the folks at the Downtown Sacramento Partnership just in time for the holidays. The rink HOLIDAY is open through January 21, so gather family and friends and head down for an afternoon session on ice, or grab a date and brave an embarrassing fall on the cold surface in the evening. Hot chocolate and coffee are available for $2 a cup—a tasty way to keep skaters of all ages cozy (last year, 31,000 hit the rink, according to the DSP). This year, a deejay will provide Top 40 hits and era-appropriate tunes during theme nights. Bonus: Dress up for the theme nights and earn a free skate rental. So head to the thrift store and get decked out for ’80s prom night (December 6) or, just in time for the Super Bowl, don your favorite sports team jersey (January 17).

Admission is $8 or $10 with skates, so you’ll have enough pocket change left over for a hot chocolate to warm your hands or, if you prefer, that pumpkin-flavored whatever. Monday through Thursday, 2 to 8 p.m.; Friday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.; 701 K Street; (916) 442-8575; www.downtown sac.org/events/ice-rink.

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Room for change It’s my first year at college, and I live in the dorms. One of my roommates and I got into a tiff, and now she is ruining my life. I was in our room studying with a friend when she walked in with one of her friends and proceeded to be loud and obnoxious. I said something about the noise, she and her friend were offended and left.

Later that day, she was totally tweeting about me and calling me a bitch. Some of my friends

by JOEY GA say she has written other mean RCIA stuff about me since then.

There are people on campus a skj o ey @ n ewsreview.c om looking at me like I’m a freak. I am trying to ignore her and her friends, but it’s hard. I am scared of her. What do you think I should do?

Joey Realize that cyberbullying is a crime. fell asleep Check your university’s student watching a play. handbook. It should include a zerotolerance rule for bullying, the steps you should take if bullied and clearly defined consequences for students who engage in bullying others.

Harassing, intimidating or threatening someone through the use of cellphones, email, chat rooms, or any social-networking sites is abuse. If your university is more worried about its public image than maintaining a safe campus, university officials will ignore your concern. They might also try to minimize the issue. (Minimizing

Many young adults lack the ability to control their impulses.

Immersion in video games and other forms of technology have contributed to wiring their brains to desire instant gratification.

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

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is a form of denial.) If that happens, file a police report (you can do this online) with the off-campus police.

Yes, that means law enforcement in the city where you currently live.

You will need evidence of the things your roommate has been saying about you. Print out copies of her tweets from a friend’s account and the online police report. Send both to the university administrator in charge of resolving such problems. If that does not focus her or his attention, amp up the volume. Inform your parents and solicit their help in confronting school officials (this is especially important if you are under 18 years old). Introduce yourself to the professor on campus who lists bullying issues as an area of expertise (there’s always one—try

the psychology department). Ask for advice. Get the school newspaper interested in writing about cyberbullying. And, without mentioning details that would turn your story into campus gossip (don’t say it’s your roommate, don’t name your roommate, don’t give details about what happened or what she said), explain what it feels like to be the victim of cyberbullying and why it should be stopped. Explain how alone and helpless a bullying victim feels, and how those painful feelings increase when the expected, advertised and promised support from the campus community never materializes. Note how failure to take action is simply supporting the bully’s behavior.

Of course, you could also have a sit-down heart-to-heart conversation with your roommate. Many young adults lack the ability to control their impulses. Immersion in video games and other forms of technology have contributed to wiring their brains to desire instant gratification.

Antidotes like cognitive behavioral therapy, true Buddhist meditation or Christian contemplation are not considered until the lack of impulse control becomes a crisis. This explanation is not intended to solicit your sympathy. It is offered to deepen your understanding.

That said, when you chat with your roommate, be specific and nonaccusatory: “I was hurt by the tweets I read about me. This must stop now and never happen again.

I understand there is some tension between us. Let’s talk it out and find solutions so we can share this dorm room peacefully.” It’s really helpful to have a neutral third-party present, like the dorm’s resident adviser. If you can’t work it out, insist that you are given your own room, no matter the impact on the university. Ω

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by Kara Ow. Mark (Dan Fagan) is the ultimate nice guy, whether he’s partying on the roof with Jeremy (Kevin Kirtlan) or, after Jeremy has died, comforting his sister Sherry (Elise Hodge). As the already-shaky marriage of Sherry and Ben (Eric Baldwin) begins to totter more wildly, helped along by the ever-present, ever-needy Mark (“Are we OK?”), Drader’s play scrapes away the lies that have been holding it together. The tools for this work are the lies told by the possibly sociopathic Mark, and they serve as either incredible irony or weird poetic justice. In either case, it works.

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And are they OK? Not quite, but they’re getting there. Ω Liar, 8 p.m. Friday, Saturday; 7 p.m. Sunday; $15-$20.

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Causeway to the bard Davis Shakespeare Ensemble steps it up The Davis Shakespeare Ensemble just launched its third season with its original adaptation of Macbeth: The Radio Play, which was staged outdoors at night in the gazebo at the UC Davis Arboretum, with live sound effects and appropriately dim and moody lighting.

And Rob Salas—who co-directed Macbeth with Gia Battista—was recently offered an opportunity to be the assistant director of The Taming of the Shrew at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival next year. Salas will be in Ashland, Ore., from January until March, working under David Ivers (artistic director of the Utah Shakespearean Festival).

The idea for a Shakespeare troupe in Davis hatched during a spring 2010 production of the 1960s musical Hair, produced by a campus theater club, Studio 301 Productions, during the Whole Earth Festival. Salas attended that show, staged on the lawn next to the gazebo, which functioned as a “back room” for the production. Salas was taken with the idea of the open-sided gazebo as a performance space.

The Davis Shakespeare Ensemble launched that September in partnership with the UC Davis Arboretum, presenting Romeo and Juliet. It was a successful production and more followed: Henry V, Twelfth Night and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, as well as some original works.

“We love performing in the gazebo because of its circular architecture,” Salas said. “It allows for dynamic staging and also gives that ritualistic feeling of sitting around the campfire sharing stories. We love the opportunity to embrace storytelling in the simplest, purest form.”

Salas and Battista share duties as co-artistic directors. Associate artistic director Richard Chowenhill has contributed original scores to several shows.

Look for upcoming shows: a movement piece in April titled Nightingale (to be performed in the Pamela Trokanski Dance Workshop and Performing Arts Center) and As You Like It in the gazebo next summer.

—Jeff Hudson

For more information about the Davis Shakespeare Ensemble, visit www.shakespearedavis.com.

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THE K OF D: AN URBAN LEGEND

Playwright Laura Schellhardt explores the twists and turns of urban myths in this two-actor (Jason Kuykendall and Tara Sissom) play with characters of multiple ages, races and backgrounds. It’s a tour de force of gymnastic acting feats under the direction of Jerry Montoya.

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From the Garden of Eden—or the primordial ooze—forward, the course of true love has never run smoothly. A talented foursome (Michael Dotson, Jerry Lee, Jennifer Malenke and Melissa WolfKlain) shows us the story, one musical vignette after another, of how romance plays out in our lives. W 7pm; Th 2 & 7pm; F, Sa 8pm; Su 2pm. Through 11/18. $20-$43. The Cosmopolitan Cabaret, 1000 K St.; (916) 557-1999; www.cosmopolitancabaret.com. J.M.

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Joan Didion, Sacramento native, wrote this stage adaptation of her own memoir of grief. It becomes a one-woman tour de force for the outstanding Janis Stevens, who evokes a deep and profound sense of loss while still managing to be intelligent, snarky and more than a little funny. Ray Tatar directs this West Coast premiere. Th 7pm; F, Sa 8pm; Su 2pm. Through 11/25. $15-$25. California Stage in the Wilkerson Theatre, 1723 25th St.; (916) 451-5822; www.calstage.org. K.M.

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It’s a long, fun way down Skyfall We’ve had James Bond movies for 50 years now, and Skyfall treats the benchmark like a special occasion. In its urbane yet never-too-serious way, it honors by Jonathan Kiefer the formidable legacy not just of this particular franchise, but of British spy fiction as a whole.

For starters, it’s clever how Daniel Craig’s Bond is still becoming the devilish 007 we’ve always known, even as his third outing in the role applies a framework of fussing over oldness and possible obsolescence. Part of Skyfall’s project is sorting relics from ruins.

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As it happens, the requisite pre-credits pulse pounder—a chase through Istanbul by way of car, motorcycle, train, steam shovel and fateful sniper’s bullet—doesn’t do the old (horn)dog any favors, and reevaluating his fitness for duty is the movie’s first real order of business. Is he even going to make it?

Meanwhile, some passive-aggressive baddie has a top-secret list of MI6 special agents and has begun circulating it online, blowing their cover—or, with slightly more active aggression, simply blowing them up, as in bombing the division’s London headquarters. Bond lives through that, at least, if only to find himself subjected to a battery of pull-ups, poor marksmanship and word-association tests. Was it “Skyfall,” the man just said or “stifle”? What’s that all about? And might any confusion there also relate to how Bond talks to his boss, with every “ma’am” sounding like “Mom”?

His boss is of course the immortally matriarchal M, played again by Judi Dench, who finds herself here brooding in a room full of flagdraped coffins, and there quarreling with her own boss, an apparent grey-faced bureaucrat played

by Ralph Fiennes. Under the unfortunate circumstances at hand, he’s urging her retirement, and thinking of her dignity. “To hell with dignity,” she says. “I’ll leave when the job’s done.”

Dignity is important to Skyfall, and so is getting jobs done. Although not above sacrificing

minor players (Bérénice Marlohe doesn’t have much chance to transcend mere Bond Girldom), it takes tender care of the majors, particularly in matters of their comings and goings—some of which are permanent, or at least as permanentseeming as any half-century-old institution might suggest.

The best scene might be when Bond meets his new quartermaster, very well-played by Ben Whishaw, at London’s National Gallery, in front of a famous painting of an old warship being tugged away to the scrapyard. Bragging about how much he can achieve with only a laptop while still in his pajamas, and deliberately touching a nerve, Whishaw’s Q also makes clear his respect for the agent’s tradition of keenness and cultivation.

Similarly, Skyfall also introduces Naomie Harris as a witty, pretty fellow agent who’s on the fence about whether she belongs in the field or at a desk.

Both our hero and the movie itself seem protective of her, but thankfully not too paternalistic.

And then there’s the aforementioned baddie. He’s played

by Javier Bardem, with a solid sense of what the role requires and a useful balance between pathos and preposterousness.

Bond villains often find themselves forced to choose between camp and menace, but Bardem understands how camp itself can be a menace. With a commanding monologue and a showy, long take by which to make his entrance, he seizes the day.

Bond villains often find themselves forced to choose between camp and menace.

Some of this guy’s conflict with Bond has to do with backstory they have in common, and it amounts to a rather cheeky British take on Freudian mama’s-boy anguish (queen and country and whatnot). Skyfall expands to Shanghai and Macau, but for all its glitzy globe-trotting—beautifully photographed by British cinematographer Roger Deakins—it still seems coziest in the Scottish Highlands, where we discover the Bond family’s ancestral home, complete with Albert Finney in fine form as a shotgun-toting gamekeeper. Here occurs the climax, a literal blast if also a ludicrous one.

It’s another good fit for the impeccably tailored Craig, and for director Sam Mendes, who, in general, has made his career imposing a sort of British pretense on American movies.

The posh popcorn muncher seems like just what the Bond experience always was all about. Nice to see there’s a future in it. Ω

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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.

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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—the acting is decent (including Elisabeth Shue as Moriarty’s mother), and the surfing scenes are terrific. J.L.

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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 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.

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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.

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

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The Sessions

A 38-year-old man (John Hawkes) decides to lose his virginity—despite the fact that he’s a quadriplegic confined to an iron lung. So he consults a priest (William H. Macy) on the spiritual aspects of his quest, and a sexual surrogate (Helen Hunt) on the physical. The story of reallife poet and journalist Mark O’Brien, who died at 49 in 1999, was the subject of an Oscar-winning 1997 documentary, and don’t be surprised if this dramatized version picks up a few more statuettes. Written and directed by Ben Lewin, the movie navigates all the pitfalls inherent in the basic situation (just imagine what Judd Apatow would have done with it!) to become truly and honestly moving, brimming with wit and warmth and sparked by powerhouse performances from Hawkes and (more quietly and even more fearlessly) Hunt. J.L.

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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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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The Man With the Iron Fists

The delirious plot of this whacked-out martial-arts phantasmagoria, co-written (with Eli Roth) and directed by rapperturned-filmmaker RZA (née Robert Fitzgerald Diggs), simply defies synopsis: Basically, it’s about a shipment of stolen gold, a blood feud among gangs of Chinese bandits, a blacksmith (RZA himself), a British soldier of fortune (Russell Crowe) and a high-class madam (Lucy Liu). At any rate, it’s time to open the Guilty Pleasure File, because the movie’s crude headlong energy eventually winds up being a lot of bloody fun. The first half-hour strains patience with its grim-jawed solemnity and dialogue that sounds like it was poorly translated from some obscure forgotten language. Things pick up considerably once Crowe and Liu come along to inject a badly needed dose of tonguein-cheek aplomb. J.L.

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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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Wreck-It Ralph

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 tothine-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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Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë’s classic novel of passion and vengeance on the moors of 18thcentury Yorkshire takes a beating at the clumsy hands of writers Olivia Hetreed and Andrea Arnold (who also directed, if that’s what you want to call it). The result is a dreary, interminable, horrible mess, devoid of even the most basic rudiments of moviemaking—underwritten, barely acted at all by an almost entirely inexperienced cast, and atrociously photographed by cinematographer Robbie Ryan: Whole scenes are out of focus and clumsily framed, interior and night scenes are pitchblack and indistinguishable. Shreds of Brontë’s tempestuous tale survive, but only shreds. As ill-starred lovers Heathcliff and Catherine, James Howson and Kaya Scodelario hardly seem to be living on the same planet, let alone sharing the same soul. J.L.

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Of course, they’d long been following a similar path. Lipka, Yaffee, Cruz and Davis all met while studying music at Sacramento State University and all played regularly around town. Cruz, who studied at The New School in New York City, was also a fixture on the scene, performing with the likes of the Harley White Jr. Orchestra.

Now, with all five sharing songwriting duties, the quintet’s music reflects eclectic and esoteric influences. The variety of instruments makes for a sound tinged with classical, jazz and gypsy folk as well as African and Brazilian pop.

But while on paper it may seem as if it’s all over the map— globally, musically, thematically—the music’s nevertheless well-crafted and cohesive.

“In some respects, [songwriting] is really a challenge,” Davis says. “We do have different ideas and interpretations.”

The band takes an organic approach, she says.

“One of us writes a song ... and we just play through it.

The more you play it, the more you can figure out where things should go.”

For its new album, CAVE Women worked with local producer Pat Olguin, taking its time in the studio to create an experience decidedly more deliberate than the EP session.

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The members of CAVE Women played together only a few months before recording their first EP—the idea at the time was to create a platform to get more by Rachel Leibrock gigs and get known around town.

Funny thing is that in the year since its ra c h e l l @ release, says flutist Kim Davis, the band’s actune w s re v i e w . c o m ally become just that: a band.

CAVE Women’s self-titled debut full-length album, set for a November 15, release, reflects that transformation.

“We’ve learned so much—[how] to be a performer,” Davis says. “We’ve figured out how to connect with each other and the audience.

We’ve learned how to communicate ideas musically.”

Not that any of the band’s members, who vary in age from 21 to 28, would have been considered unseasoned before. Each is formally trained and each boasts an impressive résumé.

CAVE Women formed in 2011 when Casey Lipka (vocals, stand-up bass, mbira), Alicyn Yaffee (vocals, guitar), Vanessa Cruz (drums) and Emily Messick (vocals, piano and accordion) bonded over a shared love for the jazz and folk singer Becca Stevens.

“We were totally inspired—she has an accordion in her group!” says Lipka.

The four debuted as CAVE Women (the name is an acronym of the first letter of each of their first names), playing a handful of jazz and folk covers during Ross Hammond’s weekly Nebraska Mondays series at Luna’s Café & Juice Bar. Soon after, a friend of Lipka’s offered to record CAVE Women.

That’s when the band tapped Davis to join.

“We loved Kim’s compositions, and so we said, ‘Let’s go record some original music,’” Lipka says.

The resulting eponymous five-song EP featured a songwriting credit for each member and, Lipka says,”ultimately brought us together.”

“ In some respects, [songwriting] is a really a challenge: We do have different ideas and interpretations of music.”

Kim Davis CAVE Women Songs such as “Blizzard” and “Under Willow the Tree” reflect a seductive jazz-chanteuse ethos, while tracks such “Counting Sheep” and “With You” recall a swingy, sultry Astrud Gilberto bossa nova.

More time in the studio as well as more time logged as a band made for a fully realized sound, Lipka says.

“You can just imagine what can happen in a year,” she says. “We’ve all written new songs, we’ve played more than 50 shows—our cohesiveness as a group and our compositions have changed over time. It’s just a natural evolution.” Ω

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Happy anniversary, Zuhg Life Store: Let’s rewind to 2010. We’re at the mall, eating Sbarro or whatever, and you tell me that a small store owned by Sacramento’s premier reggae jam band will, in two years, be the coolest, arguably most successful retail spot inside Downtown Plaza.

I would have bet you a Sbarro, raised you a Hot Dog on a Stick (and a lemonade) and then laughed in your face.

Well, fast-forward to this weekend, Saturday, November 10, and boom: Local music, clothing and what-have-you destination Zuhg Life Store—in the Plaza on the second floor near the food court—is celebrating two years in the mall.

Who knew?!

The anniversary shindig begins at noon, and there will be bands (in order): Adrian Bellue, the Nickel Slots, Michael Tobias, J.R. Halliday, Awkward Lemon and Dylan Crawford.

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Downtown Plaza was recently sold to new ownership, so the fate of the mall is, of course, in limbo.

That said: Congrats, Zuhg, and here’s to two more.

Death Grips dumped, still doesn’t give a damn: I owe Death Grips an apology?

Maybe so. While I never wrote as much, I didn’t believe the band’s big October beef with its label, Epic Records. Seemed too cloyingly—and annoyingly—rebellious to be a legit spat over an album’s drop date.

For those not in the know, the narrative was: Epic told the guys it wouldn’t put out their second major-label release this year.

Band subsequently was pissed off because they wanted it to be in fans’ hands this fall. So Death Grips gave away the record, No Love Deep Web, for free online.

A music-blog shitstorm ensued.

And finally, this past Thursday, November 1, Epic announced that it was dumping Death Grips.

The label’s breakup letter read: “Epic Records is a music first company that breaks new artists”—you know, like Avril Lavigne. It continued: “Unfortunately, when marketing and publicity stunts trump the actual music, we must remind ourselves of our core values. To that end, effective immediately, we are working to dissolve our relationship with Death Grips.”

Anyway, back to that apology: It appears that Epic Records is indeed—shocker—a bad parent label. Death Grips had a record.

It’s not the most exciting album ever, but it plays. And the band is hot. So Epic should have hit the gas and put No Love out. But it didn’t. So the guys did the right thing by giving it away for free.

It wasn’t just some big publicrelations hoax. Sorry for doubting.

The trio is currently on tour— and just got New Yorker praise this week, but the nearest Sacto gig, however, is on Monday, December 3, at Slim’s in San Francisco. No love, Sacto web, I guess—so let’s just hope the guys don’t follow talents such as Mom, Skinner and Sister Crayon and move to Oakland.

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New highs for Harlow’s: Jim Cornett takes over one of Sacto’s most popular live-music venues, Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub, this week. Why, after 30 years of ownership by the same family, is this exciting news? Because Cornett—who worked for Bill Graham Presents and managed San Francisco’s The Fillmore—aims to give the venerable live-music spot a little TLC. He told SN&R recently that over the coming year, concertgoers will be seeing a lot of changes at Harlow’s. He’s investing in a new sound system, for one, which will surely please most local acts and audio engineers. And he’ll be bringing much of the club up-todate, including upstairs at The Momo Lounge, in hopes of making it a place that can entice more of the bands whose tours sometimes skip Sacramento.

“The bands will play that room if we do the right things,” said Cornett, who’s excited about showing bands a good experience “the old Bill Graham way,” as he put it.

But will Sacramento’s local acts still be part of this new mix?

“Oh, absolutely, of course they are,” Cornett assured. “I think we need to promote the local scene.”

New highs for Harlow’s.

Sounds good to me.

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Y La Bamba

Jazz at ‘The Ben’

La Sera

Eric Church

Haven Underground, 8:30 p.m., $12

Benvenuti Performing Arts Center, 7 p.m., $8-$15

Portland, Oregon’s Y La Bamba handily defies categorization, fusing Latin rock, jazz, freak folk and pop into a sound that’s sweet, sultry INDIE and slightly surreal. Los Lobos’ Steve Berlin produced the band’s sophomore album, Court the Storm, helping the band craft its atmospheric, oft-eerie mood. Here, singer Luz Elena Mendoza sings many songs in Spanish—but whatever the language, the effect is the same. With a voice that falls somewhere between a birdlike warble and angelic choir, Mendoza seems to float above the music, a ghostly chanteuse to guide you on that long journey to nowhere.

Exquisite Corps is also on the bill. 226 Broad Street in Nevada City, www.ylabamba.com.

—Rachel Leibrock

Midtown Village Cafe, 8 p.m., $5

Imagine jazz as a high art form. Imagine the Capital Jazz Project on a Friday evening.

Imagine Jazz at “The Ben.” Located next to Natomas Charter School, the 364-seat Benvenuti Performing Arts Center is the perfect venue to hear Capital Jazz Project and LaGroo JaFu, the school’s own show band.

CJP, formed in 1997, is considered the area’s premier jazz ensemble and features Kerry Kashiwagi (bass), Rick Lotter (drums), Mike McMullen (saxophone) and Henry Robinett (guitar). CJP, in addition to its own comJAZZ positions, often performs themed concerts, including interpretations of works by women and Brazilian composers, Thelonius Monk, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, and Afro-Cuban classics. 4600 Blackrock Drive, www.benarts.org/events/jazz-ben.

Sleep Train Arena, 7:30 p.m., $37.50-$47.50

As one-third of Vivian Girls, Katy Goodman has made some fun, creative rock ’n’ roll albums. Her solo project, La Sera, follows a similar format of noise and twee pop mixed with shoegaze instrumentation. It’s basically a grab bag of early ’90s lo-fi indie rock. La INDIE POP Sera, though, is slightly more surreal and much more bittersweet. Songs about heartbreak are plentiful—though never vocalized in a dark and dreary manner. Her lyrics of pain are always packaged in catchy songs. You’ll be humming them to yourself while you clean the kitchen—which, if you think about it, kind of puts you inside a David Lynch movie. 1827 I Street, www.hardlyart.com/lasera.html.

—Aaron Carnes

Eric Church sings country music. He rocks aviators, a low-slung baseball cap and an ungroomed beard. He’s not a clean-cut Nashville cowboy, and that’s OK. He’s got a laid-back outlaw country vibe that’s perfect for dive bars and Southern frat boys. His Blood, Sweat & Beers tour is still rolling on in support of his 2011 release Chief, which just earned him a Country Music Award for album of the year, securing Church a spot on the mainstream’s radar. Despite his new wider audience, he still keeps his hazy cool demeanor—shades always on. With hits such as “Drink in My Hand” and “Homeboy,” expect plenty of enthusiasCOUNTRY tic beer-drinking bros.

1 Arena Parkway, http://ericchurch.com.

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David Houston is Sacramento’s own rock ’n’ roll history gem. He was a part of the 1964 garage-rock band Public Nuisance, which evolved from the Jaguars and Moss & the Rocks. Notably, the White Stripes covered one of Public Nuisance’s songs—“Small Faces” off its two-CD set, Gotta Survive— during a 2003 tour. Fast-forward to the present and, after all this time, Houston’s never truly left this city, and he continues to perform at various cafes and coffee shops throughout town along with a string FOLK/ROCK trio of cello, viola, and violin. Supporting bands at this show include Manzanita Falls and With Eyes Set Forward. 1400 14th Street, www.davidhouston.com.

—Steph Rodriguez

Ace of Spades, 6:30 p.m., $20

The Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek and slide-guitar savant Roy Rogers are on the road with a rotation of roadhouse-saturated BLUES/ROCK shuffles, rock grooves, noir ballads, jazz rides, and jams on which they alternate both instrumental and vocal leads. Supported by bass and drums, their recent shows have featured cuts from their 2011 album Translucent Blues (with lyrics from beat poet Michael McClure and The Basketball Diaries author Jim Carroll), and two Doors classics: a resurrection of “Riders on the Storm” and a Manzarek solo version of “The Crystal Ship.” The band’s third album, Twisted Tales, will be released in 2013. Let it roll, baby, roll!

314 West Main Street in Grass Valley, http://manzarek-rogersband.com.

Ace of Spades, 6:30 p.m., $25

Seattle indie rockers Minus the Bear have a wide-ranging discography—such as the sometimes irreverent and offbeat sounds on Menos el Oso, and the more layered and rich rock sound of the band’s 2010 release Omni. Now the group is back with its newest album, Infinity Overhead. “Empty Party Rooms” features the band’s trademark jangly melodies and echoing vocals, “Zeros” goes for a more dreamy modern-rock effect, ROCK and “Cold Company” fills ears with an intriguing combination of crunchy riffs and ethereal licks that would make Joe Satriani proud. It might not be MTB’s best album, but there should be plenty here to keep fans happy. 1417 R Street, www.minusthebear.com.

Party like it’s 1999—or perhaps even 2001— with Everclear and Eve 6 at Ace of Spades this Thursday. Take the nostalgiac trip back to the days when lyrical authenticity was celebrated, and bands launched careers ROCK off of a few simple and emotive songs. For Everclear, it was painful material about bandleader Art Alexakis’ tumultuous life experiences, such as “Father of Mine,” “Santa Monica” and “Heartspark Dollarsign.” Eve 6—another alt-rock band from Los Angeles—produced emo-flavored songs such as “Inside Out” and “Here’s to the Night,” which can simultaneously make you feel like you’re at a high-school graduation and breaking up with your ex-girlfriend again. 1417 R Street, www.everclearonline.com.

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Sizzling Sirens burlesque dancers and comedy, 8:30pm, $8-$10

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DEVIN FARREN, MYLAR & STARR, MONDROOL; 8pm, $6

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DAVID HOUSTON & STRING THEORY, MANZANITA FALLS; 8pm, $5

RACHEL LOMAX, AARON ZIMMER, BILLY PATTON; 8pm, $5

Open jazz jam w/ Jason Galbraith, Tu; Poetry With Legs with Primal Urge, W

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

Microphone Mondays, 6pm M, $1-$2

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HIRED GUNS, 8pm, $5

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Deejay dancing, 9pm, call for cover

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SOME FEAR NONE, TERRA FERNO, OVERWATCH, ZEN ARCADIA; 6:30pm

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Open-mic, 8-10pm, no cover for paying customers

2904 Franklin Blvd., (916) 457-5507

Sera Cahoone with the Parsons Red Heads and James Finch Jr. 8pm Monday, $8-$10.

Luigi’s Fun Garden Alt-country and folk

MINUS THE BEAR, CURSIVE, GIRL IN A COMA; 6:30pm W, $20

LUIGI’S SLICE AND FUN GARDEN

STATUE OF LIBERTY, 7pm, no cover for paying customers TALKDEMONIC, JEL, YOUNG AUNDEE; 8pm, $8-$10

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by ROB BREZSNY

FOR THE WEEK OF NOVEMBER 8, 2012

ARIES (March 21-April 19): The data

that’s stored and disseminated on the Internet is unimaginably voluminous. And yet the 540 billion trillion electrons that carry all this information weigh about the same as a strawberry. I’d like to use this fun fact as a metaphor for the work you’re doing these days—and the play, too. Your output is prodigious. Your intensity is on the verge of becoming legendary. The potency of your efforts is likely to set in motion effects that will last for a long time.

And yet, to the naked eye or casual observer, it all might look as simple and light as a strawberry.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): What if you

have a twin sister or brother that your mother gave up for adoption right after you were born and never told you about? Or what if you have a soul twin you’ve never met—a potential ally who understands life in much of the same ways that you do? In either case, now is a time when the two of you might finally discover each other. At the very least, Taurus, I suspect you’ll be going deeper and deeper with a kindred spirit who will help you transform your stories about your origins and make you feel more at home on the planet.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I urged my

readers to meditate on death not as the end of physical life, but as a metaphor for shedding what’s outworn. I then asked them to describe the best death they had ever experienced. I got a response that’s applicable to you right now. It’s from a reader named Judd: “My best death was getting chicken pox at age 13 while living in the Philippines. My mother banished me to the TV room. I was uncomfortable but hyperactive, lonely and driven to agony by the awful shows. But after six hours, something popped. My suffering turned inside out, and a miracle bloomed. I closed my eyes and my imagination opened up like a vortex. Images, ideas, places, dreams, people familiar and strange—all amazing, colorful, and vibrant—flowed through my head. I knew then and there that no material thing on this Earth could hook me up to the source of life like my own thoughts. I was free!”

CANCER (June 21-July 22):

Conservationists are surprised by what has been transpiring in and around Nepal’s Chitwan National Park. The tigers that live there have changed their schedule.

Previously, they prowled around at all hours, day and night. But as more people have moved into the area, the creatures have increasingly become nocturnal.

Researchers who have studied the situation believe the tigers are doing so in order to better coexist with humans. I suspect that a metaphorically similar development is possible for you, Cancerian. Meditate on how the wildest part of your life could adapt better to the most civilized part— and vice versa. (Read more at www.tinyurl.com/HumanTiger.)

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): What is a dry waterfall? The term may refer to the location of an extinct waterfall where a river once fell over a cliff but has since stopped flowing.

Döda Fallet in Sweden is such a place. “Dry waterfall” may also signify a waterfall that only exists for a while after a heavy rain and then disappears again. One example is on Brukkaros Mountain in Namibia. A third variant shows up in “Cliffs Beyond Abiquiu, Dry Waterfall,” a landscape painting by Georgia O’Keeffe. It’s a lush rendering of a stark landscape near the New Mexico town where O’Keeffe lived. Soon, you will have your own metaphorical version of a dry waterfall, Leo. It’s ready for you if you’re ready for it.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You are getting

to where you need to be, but you’re still not there. You have a good share of the raw materials you will require to accomplish your goal, but as of yet you don’t have enough of the structure that will make everything work. The in-between state you’re inhabiting reminds me of a passage from the author Elias Canetti: “His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.” Your next assignment, Virgo, is to see what you can do about coalescing a few constellations.

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to believe that ulcers were caused by stress and spicy foods. But in the 1980s, two researchers named Barry Marshall and Robin Warren began to promote an alternative theory. They believed the culprit was Helicobacter pylori, a type of bacteria.

To test their hypothesis, Marshall drank a petri dish full of H. pylori. Within days, he got gastric symptoms and underwent an endoscopy. The evidence proved that he and his partner were correct. They won a Nobel Prize for their work. (And Marshall recovered just fine.) I urge you to be inspired by their approach, Libra.

Formulate experiments that allow you to make practical tests of your ideas, and consider using yourself as a guinea pig.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): This is not

prime time for you to rake in rewards, collect hard-earned goodies and celebrate successes you’ve been building toward for a long time. It’s fine if you end up doing those things, but I suspect that what you’re best suited for right now is getting things started. You’ll attract help from unexpected sources if you lay the groundwork for projects you want to work on throughout 2013. You’ll be in alignment with cosmic rhythms, too. Your motto comes from your fellow Scorpio, writer Robert Louis Stevenson: “Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

On a beach, a man spied a pelican that was barely moving. Was it sick? He wanted to help. Drawing close, he discovered that ants were crawling all over it. He brushed them off, then carried the bird to his car and drove it to a veterinarian. After a thorough examination, the doctor realized the pelican was suffering from a fungus that the ants had been eating away—and probably would have removed completely if the man hadn’t interfered. Moral of the story: Sometimes healing takes place in unexpected ways, and nature knows better than we do about how to make it happen. Keep that in mind during the coming weeks, Sagittarius.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

A farmer in Japan found a 56-leaf clover.

Well, actually, he bred it in his garden at home. It took effort on his part.

Presumably, it provided him with 14 times the luck of a mere four-leaf clover. I don’t think your good karma will be quite that extravagant in the coming week, Capricorn, but there’s a decent chance you’ll get into at least the 16-leaf realm. To raise your odds of approaching the 56-leaf level of favorable fortune, remember this: Luck tends to flow in the direction of those who work hard to prepare for it and earn it.

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

largest bell in the world is located in Moscow, Russia. Called the Tsar Bell, it’s made of bronze, weighs 445,170 pounds, and is elaborately decorated with images of people, angels and plants. It has never once been rung in its 277 years of existence. Is there anything comparable in your own life, Aquarius? Some huge presence that has never actually been used? The time is near when that stillness may finally come to an end. I suggest you decide how this will occur rather than allowing fate to choose for you.

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

interested in experiencing a close brush with a holy anomaly or a rowdy blessing or a divine wild card? If not, that’s perfectly OK. Just say, “No, I’m not ready for a lyrical flurry of uncanny grace.” And the freaky splendor or convulsive beauty or mystical mutation will avoid making contact with you, no questions asked. But if you suspect you might enjoy communing with a subversive blast of illumination—if you think you could have fun coming to terms with a tricky epiphany that blows your mind— then go out under the night sky, and whisper a message like this: “I’m ready for you, sweetness. Find me.”

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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Sugar Smacks, beer and friends When Gina Lujan moved back home to Sacramento, the 40-year-old tech enthusiast was surprised to discover the city lacking in a ready-made startup community. So the mother of six cofounded Hacker Lab, a collaborative work space and tech incubator. That was in February, and in the months since, the company’s grown into a larger space and developed a full calendar of classes, meet ups and hackathons. The latter are marathon start-up pitch sessions designed not just as a way to award seed money to the most promising concepts, but also as a means for techies to forge friendships with like-minded collaborators.

In that spirit, Hacker Lab will host a 30-hour Cereal Hack starting at 9 a.m. on Saturday, November 10. Lujan took a break from picking out boxed breakfast nutrition to talk about Sacramento’s growing hacker-makers, beer and industry sexism.

How did Hacker Lab come about?

When I lived in Berkeley [Calif.], I had a coworking space, and it was awesome. There were start-up [tech] people who came in, whom I befriended, and we started doing events. When I moved back to Sacramento, I was looking for some [similar] start-up excitement in tech, but I didn’t find anything. I tried visiting other co-working spaces, and then I finally just put an ad on Craigslist looking for other enthusiasts and met my co-founder, [Charles Blas]. I’m more on the development and business side, and he’s more of a hackermaker type.

What’s a “hackermaker”?

A person who builds things and hacks solutions—you know, electronics and robotic projects and things made with surfboards.

How did you build the community?

We got our building and thought it’d be cool. ... Then, we did our first meet up, and 100 people came out. The next time, there were 200 people, then 300 and then more than 500 people.

We had our first hackathon in June. It was a great success. ... By that time, we’d outgrown our tiny space, and we needed something much bigger, so we found our new space [in Midtown].

So, what happens at a Cereal Hack?

People meet, start off with a pitch and try to get other people enthusiastic [about it]. Then, people break into teams—there are 10 to 15 people to a team—and everyone huddles in

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But where does the cereal come in?

(Laughs.) It’s kind of a stereotype that hackers work all night and don’t really eat—they just eat constant bowls of cereal. So it’s kind of a joke.

Do you actually have cereal at your hackathon?

[At] the last one we had tons of cereal—we got it just for kicks. There were Sugar Smacks and CornPops—all the sugary stuff.

So this isn’t exactly a Kashi GoLean or granola kind of crowd?

We should have that [kind of cereal]. Last time, we had a lot of people say we should have more healthy food. We actually have a lot of healthy hackers.

What are other stereotypes about hackers?

That they have no personality, that they’re anti-social—that isn’t true. Our community is built on a social culture. We drink a lot of beer!

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Do people have stereotypical ideas about you because you’re a woman in what’s traditionally thought of as a maledominated industry?

I’ve had people ask, “Who’s the founder?

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Wow, that would be hilarious if it wasn’t so maddening.

I was so taken aback, I think I just stared at him.

What’s next?

We’re still in the middle of building our [new] space, [and] we’re also focusing on education. Our mission is community, ventureship and education. ... It’s all about more opportunity for jobs. … Our goal is to make it bigger and make friends and do projects. Ω The two-day Cereal Hack event starts at 9 a.m.

Saturday, November 10, at Hacker Lab, 1715 I Street. Registration is $25-$34.99. For more information, check out www.hackerlab.org or www.cerealhack.com.

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