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t’s not often that young people get to be the ones compiling data about themselves, but a collaboration between South Sacramento youth and UC Davis is making that happen. “It’s data about youth being presented by the youth. I think it makes a big difference,” says Zelia Gonzales, a senior at The Met Sacramento High School. Zelia and her peers on the Building Healthy Communities South Sacramento Youth Leadership Team visited UC Davis this past summer to learn how to interpret and map data. The data covers topics ranging from substance abuse to college readiness, food access to social relationships. Zelia believes that the data, and the reality that it uncovers, will encourage greater accountability on the part of South Sacramento’s youth and adults. The youth team learned these data-mapping skills from the researchers behind Putting Youth on the Map (PYOM), a project of the UC Davis Center for Regional Change. PYOM and its website combine data from publicly available sources to reveal new demographics on California’s youth. The data is especially powerful because it maps youth vulnerability and well-being across the state. The California Endowment’s Building Healthy Communities initiative has supported the development of PYOM and its collaboration with the South Sacramento Youth Leadership Team. UC Davis Assistant Research Professor Dr. Nancy Erbstein says the youth’s stories become especially powerful once they combine their

own research with data. But seeing the data put to use is the point. “The work that the young advocates are doing out in the communities and with policy makers really make that data matter,” she says. Since the Youth Leadership Team’s trip to UC Davis, Zelia says they have been using the data on ﬂ iers and when they speak to members of our community. They’ve even pinpointed one statistic in need of improvement.

and community members they use PYOM data on social media, in community engagement efforts and at conferences. “Decision makers and adults in the community are using data to justify the decisions they’re making,” says Sergio Cuellar, Community Engagement Coordinator at the UC Davis Center for Regional Change. “We want to put the power of maps and data into the hands of young people.”

With a 74 percent graduation rate, and only 34 percent of youth ready for university, the South Sacramento region is ranked as one of the most vulnerable areas in the state. Though the data is disheartening, the team also found it afﬁ rming.

BUILDING HEALTHY COMMUNITIES In 2010, The California Endowment launched a 10-year, $1 billion plan to improve the health of 14 challenged communities across the state. Over the 10 years, residents, community-based organizations and public institutions will work together to address the socioeconomic and environmental challenges contributing to the poor health of their communities. Youth from the BHC South Sacramento Youth Leadership Team visit UC Davis to learn about how to interpret and map data about youth. Photo courtesy of Youth Leadership Team

“IT’S DATA ABOUT YOUTH BEING PRESENTED BY THE YOUTH.” Zelia Gonzales BHC South Sacramento Youth Leadership Team

“The data validated everything that we were seeing, and it felt good that other people could see it, too,” Zelia says. To improve college readiness in the region, the Youth Leadership Team is running a Grades Up Campaign. The team seeks out youth and provides educational resources for those who are struggling or need guidance in school. To rally support from policy makers

Your ZIP code shouldn’t predict how long you’ll live – but it does. Staying healthy requires much more than doctors and diets. Every day, our surroundings and activities affect how long – and how well – we’ll live. Health Happens in Neighborhoods. Health Happens in Schools. Health Happens with Prevention.

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Mixtape heaven Somewhere in the garage I still have a shoebox filled with old mixtapes. Some are from former boyfriends and current husbands. Love letters comprising carefully chosen songs, with messages waiting to be teased out in song lyrics. Others I compiled myself, envisioning them as sonic self-portraits. I remember one particular teenage mix, heavy on the Smiths, R.E.M., Cure and Cocteau Twins. Certain it exemplified my soul, I made a copy for my best friend, viewing the act almost as akin to handing her the key to my diary. I know, how very high school. The art of the mixtape is, for all intents and purposes, now largely dead, a relic of ancient technology. Or is it? In a way, the mixtape spirit still thrives via its modern descendants: the Spotify playlist, the iTunes-curated jam, the carefully transferred vinyl-to-CD sampler. These newfangled mixes also boast many purposes: workout motivation, cooking soundtracks, road trip mile markers, love letters to a crush. All reasons why I’ve been looking forward to this week’s issue. The project, the brainchild of SN&R junior art director Brian Breneman, reveals new facets of many Sacramentans. Who knew, for example, that City Councilman Steve Hansen was a Daft Punk fan? Or that Taxi Dave likes to crank the classic ’80s rock? Or that SN&R columnist Ngaio Bealum loves that one Kacey Musgraves song? Check out this week’s cover story (see “The Playlist Issue,” page 14) for lists and details on how to hear them. Participants include me, Breneman and this issue’s cover stars, Sacramento ballet dancer Alexandra Cunningham and librarian/roller derby queen Jessica Zaker, the latter whose list convinced me we needed to become friends thanks to her inclusion of Jenny Owen Youngs’ cover of Nelly’s “Hot In Herre.” The modern mix(tape). Maybe not so unlike high school after all.

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My girlfriend. She moved all the way out from South Carolina to California to live with me. We moved into an apartment together. She is pretty introverted, long brown hair, brown eyes, olive skin. ... Just her being around is good. We play a lot of video games, watch movies and go for walks. Her name is Jennifer.

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My religion. A few different times I have talked with my friends and we discussed priorities. Before it was hanging with friends, playing soccer, going to Starbucks or whatever it was. [Now] my priority is to be a better person. This makes me feel most alive, when I am connected to my religion.

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On gender rights It was a “blink and you missed it” sort of moment in the second week in December, since a good chunk of America was still wrapped up in wrapping up holiday gifts and plans, but the U.S. Department of Justice took a huge step toward justice for all. Attorney General Eric Holder, on behalf of the Obama administration, announced that it would begin taking discrimination cases on behalf of transgender citizens, recognizing that Title VII applies to people who are discriminated against because of their gender identity. Previously, Title VII had been deemed to apply only to circumstances in which people experienced discrimination based on the gender assigned them at birth. It’s a big welcome to the 21st century. The rights of transgender people to live, work and engage in the community without fear of harassment, violence and discrimination is without a doubt the next step forward in human rights in the United States. With this decision, the Justice Department has made it clear that no American may be discriminated against in employment on the basis of their gender. This can only be a very good thing for all of us. Ω

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The city of Sacramento was the main local news story in 2014. The arena and the strong-mayor controversy were our community’s top water-cooler topics. Well, for better or worse, the arena will be built and we will not have a strong mayor. So it’s time to move on to other topics. I believe that the big newsmaker of 2015 will be the county of Sacramento. Much is happening at the county. The city of Sacramento has a respectable $900 million budget, but the county budget is four times bigger, coming in at $3.6 billion. What’s more, the county is in charge of signing people up for Medi-Cal, CalFresh, l ne ae by JeFF VonK and Veterans Services. These programs bring hundreds of millions of dollars in federal and state aid to the j ef f v@ n ewsreview.c om county. There will be big issues for the county to sort out next year. Here are a few. Development: Construction is back. Building fees, land use decisions and affordable housing concerns are all back, front and center. This means that developers will have a lot riding on county decisions. Developer contributions will lubricate the political process. And the increase in construction fees will provide more money for the county’s general fund. Foster care: Following the successful experiment in Alameda County, Sacramento will receive a set amount from the federal government to run foster care services, instead of being reimbursed according to the number of children in foster care. This is an important because it helps pay The city of Sacramento reform, for programs that can help has a respectable families stay together. It will $900 million budget but mean a significant revamping of the county’s child protective the county budget is four services. Jail: What types of offenders times bigger, coming in should the district attorney be at $3.6 billion. sending to jail? How should we deal with drug offenders? What is the role of the criminal-justice system in dealing with people with mental illness? Should jail time be used for vocational and educational training, reducing recidivism? The issues are endless and important. In addition, the county is a major player in the implementation of the Affordable Care Act’s Medi-Cal policies. The county will receive additional revenue through the state’s cap and trade program for a wide assortment of environmental projects, and the county is adopting new procedures for improving its animal-control facilities. The big news on the political front is that liberal Patrick Jeff vonKaenel is the president, Kennedy is replacing conservative Jimmie Yee on the fiveCEO and member Sacramento County Board of Supervisors. This should majority owner of the News & Review be a sea change. The supervisors previously had one liberal, newspapers in Phil Serna; one moderate, Don Nottoli; and three conservatives, Sacramento, Susan Peters, Roberta MacGlashan and Jimmie Yee. Now there Chico and Reno. are two liberals and two conservatives and one moderate. On controversial issues, Nottoli will be the swing vote. With 20 years on the board and possessing a seemingly photographic memory, Nottoli will make for an interesting and influential swing vote. Can the county staff present the plans and proposals that will make dramatic improvements to our critical county services? I believe they will. And that is what will make news in 2015. Ω

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This past weekend, The New York Times profiled President Barack Obama—and his golf game. We’re not sure what to make of presidents hitting the greens too much, as courses aren’t the most eco-friendly recreational destinations in North America. But we’d like to congratulate Barry and his low-80s handicap. That’s gotta make up for your crap approval ratings.

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The Bee’s Ryan Lillis reported on Monday ambitions for a “public market” destination at the downtown train station. Those eying the property want the city of Sacramento to issue a request for interested developers and market operators. Scorekeeper says this a pretty cool concept. But let’s just hope the market is more Les Halles in Paris or Eastern Market in D.C. than a swanky S.F. Ferry Building (even though we love us some $30 raw oysters and $25 artisan cheese flights).

Megafest Coachella and regional party Bottle Rock in Napa announced their respective festival lineups on Monday. Think AC/DC, No Doubt, Imagine Dragons and Drake. And dozens more. Yet Scorekeeper remains uninspired (no Drake love, wha?). Perhaps this is because, on the heels of TBD Fest’s high-flying indie flag, we no longer crave corporate-festival juju here in Sacramento?

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The state’s Fair Political Practices Commission broke its own record by closing 1,005 cases last year. That’s a lot of Political Reform Act violations by public officials—and yet, somehow, we worry it’s just the tip of the iceberg.

The Sacramento Kings have been sucking majorly since ownership canned Michael Malone. That’s why general manager Pete D’Alessandro stepped up to KHTK radio’s mic on Monday morning: to answer to frustrated fans. The GM’s appearance in a nutshell? “Hey guys, I’ve been doing this for a long time, trust me.” Yeah, well, Scorekeeper and Co. have been at this going on 26 years, and we still jack things up. And D’Alessandro, you canned a guy who brought stability, even respectability, to a shitshow franchise. But now you’re back where you were when Vivek bought the farm. Nice one.

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The big payday Bites looks at what public employees really take home. Plus, Bee kudos and cheap shots. Sacramento-area public employees are wildly overpaid, according to a new study released over Christmas break by the California Policy Center. Lots of California news outlets took the bait, implying or outright complaining that local government workers unfairly make way more than their private-sector counterparts. “California municipal workers regularly aRvIn G taking home six-figure salaries,” gasped o SM Co by Sacramento talk station KFBK. In the cosmog@ newsrev iew.c om story, California Policy Center’s president Mark Bucher called public paychecks “unaffordable.” In other stories it was “shocking.” Meh. As with most reports of this sort, the information underneath the talking points is more interesting. First, when you look at the data collected (www.transparentcalifornia.com), it turns out average salaries for full-time Sacramento-area local-government employees are about $70,000. It’s only once you add in pensions and benefits that average total compensation gets up around $100,000. Most careful studies generally find that when you make apples-to-apples comparisons, looking at specific occupations, public employees tend to make a little less than their private-sector counterparts in take-home pay, and then pull about even or slightly ahead when pensions and other benefits are added in. No big surprise there. And of course public employees are going to make more money on average. City payrolls in particular are dominated by public-safety spending. That means salaries and benefits for cops and firefighters. How many private-sector firefighters do you know? More interesting to Bites is what happens when you start sorting the data by city. You might assume that the city of Sacramento, where the power of public-employee unions is virtually unchecked, we’re told, would offer the fattest pay packages. But the suburban (and more Republican) jurisdictions of Roseville, Elk Grove, Folsom and Rocklin are actually far more generous. Roseville is tops; the median total compensation (pay and benefits) for city workers there is $125,000. In Sacramento it’s $92,000. That’s 14th out of 26 cities in the Sacramento area, and less than any large city in the region. Make no mistake, Bites hates it when city bureaucrats take generous piles of public money and then treat the public with contempt. That happens way too much. But Bites suspects some folks want to keep us agitated about the size of government worker paychecks, instead of agitating about our own. Speaking of working for the man: You may have noticed that Bites has, on occasion, been a bit frustrated by the coverage by The Sacramento Bee. A lot of the time, they seem to think their BEFORE

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job is to amplify whatever message is coming out of City Hall or the Metro Chamber, rather than challenge it. That said, Bites appreciated Bee reporter Cynthia Hubert’s account of the “Last Days of the Hotel Marshall.” It’s a well-crafted, saywhat-you-see story of one of downtown’s last “single room occupancy” hotels. Her writing, and Renée Byer’s candid photos, give us an up-close look at the lives of the real people affected by the downtown real-estate shuffle. Hubert hints at what SN&R writer Dave Kempa reported a couple years back, about how the hotel’s owner Peter Noack let the Marshall deteriorate while he waited to cash in on the arena project.

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And there’s a lot more to be said about who is benefiting from those downtown projects, and who is paying the costs. And about the city’s SRO policy going forward, and what’s happening to folks who are being displaced. But “Last Days” is a great contribution. More of that, Scoopy. If Bites had a heart—instead of just a bunch of teeth—it would have to go out to now-former Secretary of State of Debra Bowen. In the fall, as her time in office was ending, she revealed that she struggled at times with “debilitating” depression, and was then in the midst of an especially severe episode. Her struggles earned her “no free pass” from critics like the Bee editorial board. That’s fair. Early on, she steered California away from touch-screen voting systems after a review by her agency revealed security concerns. But after a strong start, Bowen was pretty quiet in the office. Critics say ineffective. Still, it seemed like a cheap shot when, after her successor Alex Padilla was elected, The Bee said the change “can’t come soon enough.” Her exit was made even sadder when on Monday, when she posted on Facebook that she might miss her last day of work, and Gov. Jerry Brown’s State of the State address, because she had to deal with a motion her husband had filed in divorce court. Oof. Anyway, Bites will remember Bowen for all the good things she did in office. Like safeguarding our votes from being hacked. Thanks for that, Madam Secretary. Cheers. Ω

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Fish only live once, too Thousands of salmon trapped in Yolo Bypass It may seem like a miracle that migrating salmon are able to navigate from the ocean, through the bay and upstream by for hundreds of miles through a complex maze of ditches, Alastair Bland rivers, canals and sloughs in the Sacramento Valley in order to spawn. But this is becoming even more difficult for salmon, in fact, because of the drought and government inaction. Currently, many salmon are failing to complete the journey and winding up lost in dead-end backwaters. If they can’t quickly find their way out, the salmon die. That’s what’s happened to hundreds, maybe more, of Chinook salmon in recent weeks. The fish have been getting stuck in the Yolo Bypass canal system just north of Sacramento, ever since the first heavy rains, and are missing out on the now perfect spawning conditions in the Sacramento River. “This makes the fall-run fish that have arrived later and which are now stuck in Yolo Bypass A biologist with UC that much more important,” said Jacob Katz, a biologist with the group Davis said modifying California Trout, one of several orgathe flow through the nizations working to trap and relocate the wayward fish. No one knows how Yolo Bypass to keep many salmon remain in the canals, salmon from what he but environmental groups and fishery advocates fear the number could be calls “the canals substantial—possibly thousands. of no return” would Salmon strandings in the Yolo Bypass are not a new problem. Adult be a simple fix. migrating salmon, swimming against the current, may enter the bypass during high-water periods. If the water level drops while the fish are in the canal system—and it often does—they become stuck. And they are unlikely to ever find their way out. The Yolo Bypass stranding issue should have been resolved years ago. A federal law passed in 2009, with the scientific oversight of the National Marine Fisheries Service, requires officials to correct the problems that make it possible for salmon, as well as other fish, to become stranded in these off-channel waters. However, the California Department of Water Resources and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation have dodged this responsibility for years. John McManus, the executive director of the Golden Gate Salmon Association, suspects the reasons for this could be part of a political strategy to facilitate construction of the controversial delta tunnels—the centerpiece of Gov. Jerry Brown’s Bay Delta Conservation Plan. McManus suspects that government agencies may be delaying the Yolo Bypass improvements in order to log the action not as a mandate of existing law but as the first step toward building the tunnels. “If they were to fix the [Yolo Bypass] problem now, it would be more visible to the public that this was part of the 2009 federal law and therefore not eligible for the BDCP requirements,” McManus said. Carson Jeffres, a biologist with the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences, said modifying the flow through the Yolo Bypass to keep salmon from what he calls “the canals of no return” would be a simple fix costing some several million dollars. “That’s a drop in the bucket in the total amount of money spent on helping [salmon],” Jeffres said. Ω 12 | SN&R | 01.08.15

The standoff City sends SWAT team after disgruntled water customer Patrick Lee O’Kane grew up preparing for war. The 66-year-old came of age during the Vietnam by conflict, reading his destiny on the caskets of the Raheem slightly older boys returning home. But combat F. Hosseini operations ended before he was drafted, and ra h e e m h @ O’Kane’s war would have to wait. “Your life is ne w s re v i e w . c o m not a normal life when you grow up like that,” he said, “and I’m probably not a normal person.” On Monday, O’Kane and wife, Melissa Jean Andrews, 68, appeared in Sacramento Superior Court as defendants in a bizarre case that started with a disagreement over city utility fees, turned on questions about O’Kane’s constitutional beliefs and climaxed with a police standoff outside the couple’s home. They face one misdemeanor count apiece of delaying an investigation or resisting peace officers. The minor charges represent a far cry from what authorities expected when a tactical squad descended on the Little Pocket neighborhood domicile two months ago with suspicions that O’Kane harbored stridently anti-government views—and a cache of illegal firearms. Problems arose in 2013, when O’Kane says he stopped paying his water bill because no one could explain, to his satisfaction, the rate hikes and surplus charges. The city papered him with delinquent notices and threats of a lien. He requested a special hearing, which arrived that June. At the hearing, O’Kane recalls objecting to a missing American flag, which he said robbed the proceeding of legal jurisdiction. Nine days later, he received a letter saying the hearing officer ruled against him and that he still owed the money. Cut to October 22 of last year: According to a warrant affidavit by police Detective Andy Hall, O’Kane visited the Department of Utilities and told a customer service representative “that if someone came to shut off his water, he ‘would stand outside with a shotgun to stop it.’” A week later, on October 30, the Sacramento Police Department’s SWAT team served a search warrant at O’Kane’s single-story residence. No firearms were found. A longer version The husband and wife characterize the of this story episode as a misunderstanding. “When I found can be read online at www.news out it was connected to [the water dispute], review.com. I said, ‘You gotta be joking. This has to be a mistake,’” O’Kane told SN&R during an interview at the couple’s home. “It was a surreal beat and a half.” Police say O’Kane’s attitude toward government employees and paperwork found on his property align him with a “sovereign citizen” movement that the FBI links with domestic terrorism. “Sovereign Citizens are often uncooperative, hostile, and at times have been violent with police officers,” Hall wrote in a report following the couple’s arrest.

O’Kane denies the “sovereign citizen” label, saying it’s authorities way of branding him a terrorist. But he does espouse the belief that a “fake constitution” was adopted in 1935. He claims authorities lack the jurisdiction to levy taxes or enforce laws. “They’re not valid government agencies,” he contended. That tension, between two sides that don’t agree to the same basic history, informed the confrontation that followed. The couple’s small, tan house is the only private residence in a tight cul de sac of apartment and commercial buildings on Rio Lane. On the morning of the SWAT operation, Andrews was getting ready for work when she heard amplified calls to exit the home. O’Kane was deep in the backyard when he registered the commotion. As he approached an automated gate that spans his driveway, he squinted through floodlights casting a halo over his home: two armored vehicles nosed toward each other in a diagonal formation in front of the house, providing cover for numerous officers outfitted in helmets and thick bulletproof vests. This was just six days after two Sacramento-area deputies were gunned down while pursuing a suspected fugitive,

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Brown renewed The No. 1 focus of Gov. Jerry Brown’s fourth inaugural address: climate change. The guv, in full-on legacy mode, served up bold policy declarations at the Capitol on Monday, announcing a goal of deriving 50 percent of the state’s electricity from renewable energy, and cutting oil consumption by cars in half, too. “We must demonstrate that reducing carbon is compatible with an abundant economy and human well-being,” Brown said. California is already on track to generate one-third of its energy from renewables by 2020. So, apart from keeping enviros and energy experts employed indefinitely, the governor’s vision also has teeth—and sharper than a corgi’s, too. (Nick Miller)

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Melissa Jean Andrews, 68, and her husband, Patrick Lee O’Kane, 66, filed a complaint with the Sacramento Police Department’s Internal Affairs unit after an October 30, 2014 search of their home failed to turn up the cache of firearms authorities expected to find.

and Andrews remembers the atmosphere being charged. “I really believe that, to some extent, what we experienced was a backlash because they are so afraid,” she said recently. “Bad timing.”

“From a citizen’s perspective, of course it’s outrageous. [But] this actually looks like pretty good police work.” Michael Vitiello McGeorge School of Law professor Police spokesman Officer Justin Brown declined comment, citing the pending court case. He did confirm the use of two armored vehicles, an equipment van and 21 officers in serving the warrant. According to the police report, O’Kane and his wife refused to surrender, saying they believed there was a mistake and feared being shot. The 45-minute standoff ended when three BEFORE

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officers and a K-9 accessed the rear gate that adjoins the property next door, and arrested O’Kane. Hearing her husband’s shouts and barks from the K-9, Andrews says she exited the side door and was immediately brought to the ground. “I was so indignant and so angry,” she said. “I wasn’t even afraid. I was incredulous.” Officer accounts in the police report say O’Kane resisted officers’ attempts to handcuff him and described Andrews as rude. Authorities had interpreted O’Kane’s alleged threat at the DOU as an indication that he kept guns at his house and might use them. Hall also cited the registration of five handguns to O’Kane in 1988 and 1989, which O’Kane says he lost years ago in a divorce. Because of a 1997 felony conviction for possession of a controlled substance for sale, O’Kane is forbidden from owning or possessing firearms. He denies making the verbal statement, or writing anything, about guns. He says he visited the department to find out who authorized cutting the water valve to his home two weeks after the city had already shut off his water. F E AT U R E

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DOU spokeswoman Rhea Serran confirmed that the couple’s water service was discontinued July 15 due to nonpayment, more than three months before O’Kane allegedly threatened a utilities employee. As part of the warrant, police searched every room of the home and its detached garage, seized computers and recording devices, and searched for images and undeveloped film of O’Kane “posing with weapons.” Asked to review the affidavit, McGeorge School of Law professor Michael Vitiello, who specializes in criminal procedures and policing, says authorities met the threshold that the U.S. Supreme Court established for obtaining search warrants. “Probable cause is not a very high standard,” he noted, adding that it refers to “some reasonable possibility that evidence will be found in the place searched,” not, in fact, probability. “From a citizen’s perspective, of course it’s outrageous,” he added. “[But] this actually looks like pretty good police work.” According to court records, this is O’Kane’s first charge since his 1997 conviction and Andrews’ first charge ever. Ω

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The possibility of a streetcar line connecting West Sacramento and downtown gets very real next week. On January 15, ballots will be sent out to property owners within three blocks of the proposed line, which would run from West Sac’s City Hall and Raley Field, over the Tower Bridge, to the Amtrak station, then through downtown before finally circumventing the Streetcar trolleys on Convention Center. K Street in three years? These parcel owners will vote on whether to assess themselves and ultimately contribute $30 million of the projected $150 million cost for the streetcar install. The ballots are due back on February 17. If approved, trolleys would be shooting up and down Sacto streets in 2017. Trolley cars would also take over for light rail along routes such as K Street; the existing K Street rail would move north into Alkali Flat. (N.M.)

Unsolved mystery Sacramento may hold the key to identifying a woman whose remains were found a quarter century ago, and who may have spent much of her adult life hiding her true identity, the FBI announced late last month. A construction crew discovered the mystery woman’s skeletal remains under severed tree limbs behind a greater Seattle freight shipping business on October 3, 1989, the FBI stated in a release. In the decades since, the King County Sheriff’s Office and the FBI followed a trail that skipped across five states and dead-ended in numerous false identities. Now, authorities are asking for the public’s help and focusing on the city where her criminal record may have begun: Sacramento. An FBI number that’s used to track individual fingerprints was issued to the woman after a 1977 arrest by the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department, the release states. The number was issued to Brenda N. O’Neil. Her booking documents list the alias, “Brenda Victor,” but the name “Brenda O’Neil” may also be fake. Authorities in Washington believe the deceased woman also went by the alias of “Rita Lang.” Anyone who recalls Brenda O’Neil or a woman matching the photos and description on the FBI’s Seeking Information poster is asked to call the King County Sheriff’s Office at (206) 263-2068 or the Sacramento FBI at (916) 481-9110. Individuals with information may also submit tips to Sacramento Crime Alert at (916) 443-HELP or (800) AA-CRIME. (Raheem F. Hosseini)

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the Web and find something you’ve never heard before. What if your favorite band was out there, just waiting for you to discover it? What if that perfect gym song was only a few clicks away and you missed it? In an ideal world, we’d all have the time and energy to find the music that speaks to us. Streaming services such as Spotify, Pandora and Rdio provide access to an unprecedented amount of music, and the options just keep growing.

I’m a die-hard music hunter, and one of my favorite things to do is look at what other people are listening to. What’s the DJ listening to when he’s not deejaying? What album inspires my favorite local musicians? What kind of jazz gets the real-deal jazzbos all jazzed up? We decided to take a peek into the playlists of some notable Sacramentans (and me) and here’s what we found:

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be willing to bet that music is a pretty big part of most of our lives. It’s the soundtrack to our highest moments and the valleys in between. It can get us fired up for a night on the town or help us unwind during a particularly nasty traffic jam

on Business 80 (good luck with that one—it’s going to take more mellow horns than Yanni and Kenny G could order up on their best days). But here’s the weird thing: Most of us don’t go looking for a specific song. We’re happy to soak up what we hear on the radio, on TV or from our friends. That’s all well and good for the ’80s and ’90s, when major labels kept a tight grip on our access to music. But now it’s easier than ever to surf around

Favorite SongS From Brian Breneman’S Favorite alBumS oF 2014

“Under The Pressure,” The War On Drugs

“Don’t Wanna Lose,” Ex Hex— Perfect pool party rock ’n’ roll. Too bad it came out in October.

“Keep In the Dark,” by Temples

“Oh My Darling (Don’t Cry),” Run The Jewels—Perfect morning music. It makes me want to punch my day in the face and steal its wallet.

“Wastoid (feat. Chrome Pony),” Stardeath And White Dwarfs

“Purple Mesas,” Gardens & Villa

“Bomb (feat. Raekwon),” Freddie Gibbs

“Accelerate” by Jungle

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“Despicable Animal” by Wye Oak “XMAS_EVET10[120][thanaton3 mix],” Aphex Twin

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“Lead Us,” Spirits of the Red City

“Marigold,” Mother Falcon

“Josephine,” The Dustbowl Revival—Sure bet for time travel to the 1930s, especially at a live show. Close your eyes and lean back in that rocking chair on a sunny porch in New Orleans.

Janelle Bitker is SN&R’s arts and music writer.

memoraBle SongS From BandS Who toured through Sacramento in 2014

“No Love,” The Ballantynes

“Um Abracaco,” Caetano Veloso

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“Zombies,” Radiation City “Terracur,” Social Studies “Sea of X’s,” Be Calm Honcho “Psychic City,” Yacht

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(feat. Ayla Nereo & The Polish Ambassador),” Wildlight

“Peanut Butter Sandwiches,” Milo—Expert weirdo wordsmith in the nerd-hop genre. I wish we were friends.

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“Sleep Walk,” Santo & Johnny

“Alors On Danse (feat. Kanye West and Gilbere Forte)” by Stromae— I first heard this song in Morocco and it brings me back every time.

“Only The Horses,” Scissor Sisters

“Atmosphere,” by Kaskade

“Walk on the Wild Side,” Lou Reed

“Deadlines and Commitments,” The Killers

“Instant Crush (feat. Julian Casablancas),” Daft Punk

“Feeling Good,” Nina Simone

“Feel Your Love (feat. Javeon),” Le Youth

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Be (feat. Jess 10 “Rather Glynne),” Clean Bandit

“Good Thing,” Sam Smith

“I’ll Try Anything Once,” Julian Casablancas

Out (feat. 13 “Dancing Jody Watley),” French Horn Rebellion—A nod to TBD Fest brought to us by Clay Nutting and Michael Hargis. My Best 14 “You’re Friend,” Queen

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“Eye of the Tiger,” Survivor “Fantasy,” Aldo Nova—This song feels the excitement of the nightlife in downtown Sacramento, resembling the sites and sounds but also a caution not to make this your lifestyle because you will regret it because your life will spin out of control trying to chase down the shiny vanity.

It encourages me to stay focused on my goals and what I stand for, which are included in most of the lyrics of the song.

“Blue Collar Man (Long Nights),” Styx

“I Wanna Love You (feat. Snoop Dogg),” Akon

10 “Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love,” Van Halen

“Dream On (Live),” Aerosmith

“What You Got (feat. Akon),” Colby O’Donis

“Get Down On It,” Kool & the Gang

13 “Jump,” Van Halen

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“Danger Zone,” Kenny Loggins

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“I’m Going All the Way (feat. Chase Moore)” Taxi Dave—This song is one of my first original songs that I wrote and co-produced in a local Sacramento studio (Omina Labs) with a Sacramento artist.

“Fantasy,” Mariah Carey

12 “Ice Ice Baby,” Vanilla Ice

plays in my cab my customers say, “It sounds like we are live at a rock concert with Journey—crank it, Taxi Dave!"

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“All My Stars Aligned,” St. Vincent

“Real Thing,” Tune-Yards

“Underbart,” Little Dragon

“Asiam (Joan),” Ambrose Akinmusire

“All Good Things,” Iiii

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“Come Down To Us,” Burial

“The Truth,” Moonchild

“Lingus (We Like it Here),” Snarky Puppy

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“New Orleans,” Naxxos

“Prayer in C,” Lilly Wood & the Prick and Robin Schulz

“Nobody To Love,” Sigma

“Waves,” Mr. Probz

“Jubel,” Klingande

“Beautiful Day,” U2

“Magic,” Coldplay

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Clean Bandit & Jess Glynne

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“Evil Eye,” Franz Ferdinand

“Tonight (feat. Phoebe),” Basement Jaxx

“Kick Your Game,” TLC—Laugh if you want but I dare you to not wanna boogie to this. I mean can we talk about that “meeeeeeooow” sound in the background?! I love it (#becausecats)

“Isis (feat. The Egyptian Lover),” Hot Natured

“The Jerk,” Electric Guest

“R U Mine?” Arctic Monkeys

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“Gangsta,” Schoolboy Q

“Wade In Your Water,” Common Kings

“About The Money (feat. Young Thug),” T.I.

“Latch (feat. Sam Smith),” Disclosure

“Waltz from ‘Masquerade,’”Aram Khachaturian

“Babylon (feat. Kendrick Lamar),” SZA

“What About Us” by Flume & Chet Faker

“Believe Me (feat. Drake),” Lil Wayne

10 “Mt. Olympus,” Big K.R.I.T. Telegraph Ave 11 “III. (“Oakland” by Lloyd)” by

“Regulate (feat. Nate Dogg),” Warren G

“Rude,” Magic!

“My Nigga Just Made Bail (feat. J. Cole),” Bas

“Symphony in C Major: II. Adagio,” Georges Bizet—I love to cool down and stretch to this hauntingly beautiful piece of music that I hope to one day dance to.

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“Mercury Dime,” Death Vessel

“Refugee,” Homeboy Sandman

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“Awake,” Tycho—Generally I find it annoying when a song becomes ubiquitous through adaptation in other media. Not so the case here. The more exposure Tycho can get the happier I’ll be. “Awake” is one of those perfect instrumentals that’s attention grabbing without being distracting.

“Cat on Tin Roof,” Blonde Redhead

“Moving to the Left,” Woods

“I Won’t Be A Casualty,” OFF!

“Palmless,” Dana Falconberry

“Stephanie Says,” Tele Novella

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“i,” Kendrick Lamar— Because this song forces you say “I love myself” over and over again.

Don’t Fuck With You 10 “I(feat. E-40),” Big Sean

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“Hedron,” Badbadnotgood I seem to glom on to one track from each The Juan MacLean record. Nancy Whang and John MacLean have really outdone themselves with this straightup dance track. A steady beat, layers that build upon each other and just enough disco to reference the early ’80s without sounding like a throwback. It keeps it fun in a genre that’s a sea of serious.

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Childish Gambino—Wavy. Very wavy.

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“The Pinnacle (of Class & Taste),” Diggs Duke

“P.I.M.P.,” Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band

“Treat Me Like Fire,” Lion Babe

“Laputa,” Hiatus Kaiyote— Named after the Hayao Miyazaki flick, this track is off their recently released EP, By Fire. Some ridiculous textures in this one have you feeling underwater. Leading in to the next joint. …

“Underwater,” Fatima

“Everything Is Everything,” Gabriel Garzon-Montano

“Differently, Still,” Badbadnotgood

“I’m The Man, That Will Find You,” Alice Russell—Alice takes the already dope Connan Mockasin track and destroys it. It opens with a slow burn but builds into a lush soundscape with her harmonies dancing on top of haunting keys.

“PRPL,” Ava Luna

“This Painted World,” Silk Rhodes

“World Restart (feat. Kelela and Ade),” Kindness

“Stardust,” The Rentals

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Harley White Jr. is the bandleader for the Harley White Jr. Orchestra, which resumes its third Thursdays residency at Shady Lady Saloon on February 19. Learn more at www.facebook.com/ HarleyWhiteJrOrchestra.

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“ Don’t Interrupt the Sorrow,” Joni Mitchell

“ Big Bertha,” Duke Pearson

“ Old Portrait,” Charles Mingus

“ Something to Live For,” Carmen McRae and Duke Ellington

“ It’s Going Down (feat. Lateef the Truthspeaker and Keke Wyatt),” Blackalicious

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“Lucky Day,” Faith Evans

“Jive Talkin’,” The Bee Gees

“ Mi Swing Es Tropical (feat. Temple & the Candela Allstars)” Nickodemus & Quantic

“ It’s a Shame,” The Spinners

“Estate,” Joao Gilberto

“ Ma-Ma FC,” Ballaké Sissoko & Vincent Segal

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“ Hard To Say No,” Chromeo

“ I’m in Love (Poolside Remix),” Fool’s Gold—Hands down my favorite song to come out this year. I play it anywhere and everywhere.

Shaun Slaughter is one of the deejays behind Lipstick, a long-running indie rock and dance DJ night. Lipstick's The Strokes vs. Yeah Yeah Yeahs Party happens this Saturday at 9 p.m. at Old Ironsides. Learn more at www.shaunslaughter.com.

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rules. We were stoked to have ’em out to our This Midtown music series in 2013.

“ Do That Dance (feat. Nancy Whang),” Shit Robot

“ Drone Logic,” Daniel Avery

“ Can’t Do Without You,” Caribou—This song is perfect in so many ways. Dance floor oriented, well-crafted electronic with soul.

“ Lonely (Waldemar Schwartz Remix) (feat. Donald Waugh),” Ultracity

“ Together,” Octave Minds

“You Were a Runaway,” The Juan Maclean

“ Half Full Glass Of Wine (Live),” Tame Impala

“ Works Like Magic,” Yacht—Another DFA records pick, no big surprise here, Yacht

“ Love Letters,” Metronomy

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Jessica Zaker, known to fans of the Sac City Rollers as the “Lipstick Librarian,” also leads punk-rock and heavy-metal aerobics classes at the Sacramento Public Library’s Central Branch, where she is the branch manager. Learn more at http://altlibrary.com.

Jessica “the Lipstick Librarian” Zaker’s songs to skate 100 Laps by

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Andrew Barnhart is singer, songwriter and producer for the Sacramento indie dance rock band Saint Solitaire. You can catch the band for free on January 14 at Dive Bar. Learn more at http://saintsolitaire.com.

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“Panther,” White Flight

“True Colors,”Abuela

“Problem Me,” Modwheelmood

“Wardrum,” Life In 24 Frames

“Says,” Nils Frahm

“ Utopia,” Cristobal Tapia de Veer

“All Time Low,” Nine Inch Nails

“Voodoo Vision,” Adebisi Shank

“Right On, Frankenstein!” Death From Above 1979

“From God’s Perspective,” Bo Burnham

“I Fink U Freeky,” Die Antwoord

“Die On A Rope,” The Distillers

“Shitlist,” L7

“ True Trans Soul Rebel,” Against Me!

“ Waiting Room,” Fugazi—Around lap 85, this one starts up in my head.

“48 Roses,” Mariachi El Bronx

“Hard Out Here,” Lily Allen

“ Hot In Herre,” Jenny Owen Youngs

“ I Wanna Be Naked!” Screeching Weasel

“Crazy On You,” Heart

“ Leave My Kitten Alone,” The Detroit Cobras—When I resign myself to skating for what feels like forever, suddenly it’s over and BOOM, I’m singing meows under my breath.

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John “Crookone” Molina is a Sacramento DJ. You can catch his “Crucial Fix” nights every Friday at The Golden Bear. His band Team Sleep, a collaboration with the Deftones’ Chino Moreno, will release a live album later this spring.

Jams from 2014 in no particuLar order

“ Press Play (feat. Zackey Force Funk),” XL Middleton

“ The Motherload,” Mastodon—I was a fan of these guys about a year or two before actually getting to play with them at Fields of Rock festival in 2005. This song’s video really makes you ponder life—a must see.

“Floyd,” Kelis

“ A Certain Way,” Moniquea

“ 64 Ways” (feat. Mayer Hawthorne)(Kraak & Smaak remix),” Detroit Swindle

“ Black Moon Spell,” King Tuff

“ Everybody Knows,” SBTRKT

“ Collard Greens (feat. Kendrick Lamar),” Schoolboy Q

“ Prisoner of Love,” Faze Action

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“ Out of the Woodwork,” Courtney Barnett

“ Don’t Want to Know If You Are Lonely,” Hüsker Dü

“He Gets Me High,” Dum Dum Girls

“ Every 1’s a Winner,” Hot Chocolate— Saddest happy song ever.

“ Jolene,” Dolly Parton—Because, Dolly.

“ Scott Get the Van, I’m Moving,” Cayetana

“Hold On, Hold On,” Neko Case

“ Unsatisfied,” The Replacements— Because, Paul.

“Chemistry,” Jawbreaker

“Push It,” Salt-n-Pepa

“ Call the Doctor,” SleaterKinney—1996 called; it wants my youthful angst back.

“Alice,” Dick Diver

“ The Concept,” Teenage Fanclub— Oh, don’t mind me, I’m just over here having a Young Adult-worthy meltdown, thank you very much.

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“ Cheeba Cheeba,” Tone Loc

“ Smoke a Little Smoke,” Eric Church

“ Mary,” Freestyle Fellowship

“ Follow Your Arrow,” Kacey Musgraves— Pro-pot, pro-gay pride. In a country song? Hell yes.

“ Weed Instead of Roses,” Ashley Monroe

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“ I’m Gonna Get High,” Tampa Red & the Chicago Five

“ Roll Me Up and Smoke Me when I Die (feat. Snoop Dogg),” Willie Nelson

“ Marijuana,” The Reverend Horton Heat

“ Smoke Some Weed,” Ice Cube

“ Don’t Give Me No Bammer Weed,” RBL Posse—A Yay Area classic

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“ Oh My Darling (Don’t Cry),” Run the Jewels

12 “ Know What I Want,”

Kali Uchis—Totally obsessed. I can watch her videos nonstop. Also check my favorite jam “Honey Baby” on YouTube. Kali Uchis, if you’re ever in Sac, hit me up. I’ll make tacos and we can drink Tecate and play Perquackey or something.

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Restless Creature SAT, JAN 24 • 8PM In the kickoff project of her New Works Initiative, former New York City Ballet principal Wendy Whelan will dance in a contemporary suite of duets with four rising choreographers, set to music from Max Richter, Philip Glass, Hauschka and Hilder Guðnadóttir. Whelan dances with contemporary artists Kyle Abraham, Josh Beamish, Brian Brooks and Alejandro Cerrudo. “Everything about her is riveting, interesting, unusual, intelligent.” —The New York Times

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Latino communities and their blended cultural traditions. The Crocker is proud to be the only West Coast venue

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for Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Tomáš Kubínek SUN, JAN 25 • 3PM

Emilio Sanchez, Untitled, Bronx Storefront, “La Rumba Supermarket,” late 1980s. Watercolor on paper, 40 x 59 1/2 in. Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of the Emilio Sanchez Foundation. Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art is organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Generous support for the exhibition has been provided by Altria Group, the Honorable Aida M. Alvarez; Judah Best, The James F. Dicke Family Endowment, Sheila Duignan and Mike Wilkins, Tania and Tom Evans, Friends of the National Museum of the American Latino, The Michael A. and the Honorable Marilyn Logsdon Mennello Endowment, Henry R. Muñoz III, Wells Fargo and Zions Bank. Additional signiﬁcant support was provided by The Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center. Support for Treasures to Go, the museum’s traveling exhibition program, comes from The C.F. Foundation, Atlanta.

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Former CIA Analyst and Targeting Officer Nada Bakos was on the team charged with analyzing the relationship between Iraq, Al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden.

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A natural storyteller, Gregory Porter redefines the emotional tenor of what jazz singing can be, weaving elements of folk, R&B and soul into melodies that seem fresh and timeless at the same time.

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Certified Lunatic and Master of the Impossible The one-and-only Tomáš Kubínek is a comic genius, virtuoso vaudevillian and all-round charmer who gives audiences an utterly joyous experience they’ll remember for a lifetime.

A full list of the 2014–15 season is available at mondaviarts.org

January picks by Shoka

Fitting in, standing out The first month of 2015 marks the first solo show for Manuel Fernando Rios at Axis Gallery. Acceptance is the theme of the West Sacramento-based PaINtINg artist’s work for this collection, called Get In Where You Fit In. Rios’ background in screen-printing presents itself in his paintings and collages, combining the flatness of geometric and abstract forms with figures, resulting in intriguing contrasts. His work doesn’t just fit in with the local art scene—it stands out. Where: Axis Gallery, 625 S Street; www.axisgallery.org. Second Saturday reception: January 10, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Hours: Friday through Sunday, noon to 5 p.m.; and by appointment. Through February 1.

“Couchbleachers” by Nate Page, mixed-media installation.

The sofa king and his couch potatoes Art with which one can interact is nearly always a breath of fresh air vs. the don’t-touch variety—which, of course, has its place, too. That said, Los Angeles-based artist Nate Page wants people to touch his work—with their butts. His architectural sculpture of mismatched old couches, “Couchbleachers,” at Verge Center for the Arts, is meant to be INteRactIve sat on and walked around, among other things. Until March 22, the tiers of sofas and the negative space created beneath—it will be used as a performance space—will be the centerpiece for community events, like the scavenger hunt that takes place during the Second Saturday reception, or the movie screenings shown at lunchtime every Friday through the duration of the exhibition, a Stories on Stage presentation, a Valentine’s Day “Kiss-In,” a slumber party, and the Sacramento French Film Festival Cesar Awards and Winter Shorts Program—which all make it perfectly acceptable to be a couch potato. Where: Verge Center for the Arts, 625 S Street; (916) 448-2985; www.vergeart.com. Second Saturday reception: January 10, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Through March 22. Hours: Wednesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Sunday, noon to 5 p.m.

“Acceptance by Any Means” by Manuel Fernando Rios, aerosol and oil on wood panel, 2013.

Winners at home Seventy-five works of art were chosen by Gregory Kondos for this year’s Crocker-Kingsley Competition and Exhibition. Of the 75 MIxed MedIa California artists in the show, six will receive a cash prize and be featured in the Crocker Art Museum in March. See the pool of winners in Roseville’s Blue Line Arts for now until February 21, and closer to the grid take the time to visit Sol Collective, where Sacramento’s Trent Liddicoat and Jared Tharp will show their work in Home. The gallery is going to be separated into two sections, though both are said to highlight the “humanistic nature of

“Untitled Pre-Cosmose 3” by Kari Breese.

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Where: Blue Line Arts, 405 Vernon Street, Suite 100 in Roseville; (916) 783-4117; www.bluelinearts.org. Reception: Saturday, January 17; 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Through February 21. Hours: Tuesday and Thursday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.; or by appointment. Where: Sol Collective, 2574 21st Street; www.facebook.com/ArtCultureActivism. Second Saturday reception: January 10, 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.

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A Salute to José Montoya Through Monday, January 12 José Montoya passed away in 2013. He was Sacramento’s leading Chicano artist, a poet, a politiART cal activist, musician and co-founder of the local artist collective Royal Chicano Air Force. This exhibition honors his memory by showcasing his work and the work of others that pay tribute to him. Free, hours vary at the Center For Contemporary Art, 1519 19th Street; www.ccasac.org.

—Aaron Carnes

Tibetan monks Through Thursday, January 15 Many people in the United States know very little about Buddhism. Tibetan Buddhism is one of the most recognizable branches of the religion because of its spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama. Find out more BUDDHISM when monks from the Gaden Shartse Dokhang Monastery visit Northern California with the help of Placerville Friends of Tibet. Various prices, times and locations in El Dorado County; www.facebook.com/PvilleTibet.

—Jonathan Mendick

Downtown Sacramento Ice Rink Through Monday, January 19 The nice thing about the ice rink entering its last few weeks is that post holidays, you’ll have plenty of room to practice your triple toe loop. Plus, theme nights still remain: ’80s night on January 8, and favorite-sports-team ICE SKATING night on January 15. $8, hours vary at St. Rose of Lima Park, 701 K Street, http://downtownsac.org/events/ice-rink.

—Deena Drewis

acramento’s iconic Crest Theater and the area around it went through some big changes in 2014. Just to recap: At the start of 2014, vegetarian restaurant Mother opened in a small spot adjacent to the theater. Then, in August, we learned that after disagreements, Laura “Sid” Garcia-Heberger and her team would leave after nearly 30 years of managing the theater, and that the owner of the building, Robert Emerick, would take over day-to-day operations. On November 1, Emerick’s fiancee, Yulya Borroum, took over as manager. Then on December 23, the snack bar was closed down for a day due to “insect/rodent infestation”—an unfortunate hiccup that seemed to remind us just how much we miss Garcia-Heberger and Co. But now it’s 2015, and the Crest team is set to launch a new chapter. Any day now, the highly anticipated meat-centric

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restaurant Empress Tavern will open in a former Crest screening room. There’s also some great stuff scheduled to happen in the venue’s main theater this month that’s worth mentioning. A classic movie series that kicked off last Friday night with Citizen Kane continues this Friday, January 9, with a screening of Casablanca. It starts at 7:30 p.m. and tickets are free with a receipt from any K Street restaurant. At the same time on the following two Friday nights (January 16 and January 23), the Crest will show Blade Runner and The Shining. Those each cost $7.50 to $9.50 for a ticket. Stand-up comedian Hari Kondabolu (pictured), formerly of the unfortunately canceled FXX

show Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell, will perform his observational (and sometimes described as “philosophical” and “political”) comedy on Thursday, January 15. Tickets cost $45 and the show begins at 6:30 p.m., with young poets from Sacramento Area Youth Speaks organization opening. The event benefits the Parent/ Teacher Home Visit Project, which aims to bolster relationships between families and teachers, among other things. Fans of The Big Lebowski can get a double helping of the Dude with a screening of The Big Lebowski ($7.50-$9.50, 7:30 p.m. on Monday, January 19) and a performance by Jeff Bridges & the Abiders ($45-$125, 7 p.m. on Thursday, January 22). For more information about the Crest, located at 1013 K Street, call (916) 476-3356 or visit www.crestsacramento.com.

—Jonathan Mendick

Sacramento International Sportsmen’s Exposition Thursday, January 8, Through sunday, January 11 If you’re the outdoors type and want to catch up on all the latest wares for fishing and hunting, you SPORTS ought to attend this event. Hundreds of different booths showcasing different products, more than 200 seminars, clinics and more will keep your attention in check. $15, hours vary at 1600 Exposition Boulevard; www.sportsexpos.com.

—Eddie Jorgensen

Public Speaking Open House Monday, January 12 Klassy Talkers, a Toastmasters International speaking group, will host a forum on public speaking that is meant to assuage fears of speaking in front of large groups. If you’ve been looking to freshen up your communications degree or PUBLIC SPEAKING want to learn how to engage the listener in a public setting, this class is for you. Free, 7 p.m. at Sacramento Executive Airport, 6151 Freeport Boulevard, http://klassy talkers.toastmastersclubs.org.

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Saffron Grill Cuisine 1300 E. Bidwell Street, Suite 100 in Folsom; (916) 984-6800; www.saffrongrillcuisine.com You should know by now that Sacramento is one of the most diverse cities in the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;more so than Los Angeles or New York. Look by Ann Martin Rolke no further than the kaleidoscopic variety of cuisines on offer in the region as proof. You can travel the globe by flavor within 25 square miles. Diners can even try a taste trip to Iran via the Persian restaurant Saffron Grill Cuisine. In its second year, this family-run spot is an inviting way to experience something new. Saffron Grill is run by an Iranian-born husband and wife who base their dishes on Rating: family recipes. As with other Middle Eastern HHH cuisines, the menu features rice, stews, salads and nuts. Persian food, though, is characterized Dinner for one: by lots of saffron, pomegranates, walnuts and $10- $15 a sweet-and-sour profile. The restaurant space is small but warmly decorated, with twinkling lights and saffron-hued walls. We started with hummus, since itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a familiar dish, but the Saffron Grill version is unique. Flavored with lots of cumin and tahini, their take on the ubiquitous dip is a revelation. We liked it so much we ate it with a spoon and over rice, although itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s served with a flatbread called taftoon. Somewhat similar to lavash, the taftoon was warm but a bit too chewy. The Persian olive salad is another great starter here; made with pomegranate juice and finely ground walnuts thickly coating the pitted olives, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got a sweet/savory balance. For entrees, a Persian friend advised us to try koobideh. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s made with lamb or beef, and we tried the latter, which was finely ground and mixed with lots of flavorful spices, then grilled on a skewer. One of the owners came over to make sure we knew to sprinkle it with sumac, the tart ground flavoring made from dried berries. The meat was juicy and chock full of flavor, Still hungry? Search SN&Râ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s even more so with the requisite sumac. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dining Directoryâ&#x20AC;? The cumin chicken was another meaty to find local restaurants by name choice; here it consists of large chunks of or by type of food. marinated chicken grilled and servedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;as all Sushi, Mexican, Indian, entrees areâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;with long-grain rice and a grilled Italianâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;discover it tomato. While the chicken was well-seasoned all in the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Diningâ&#x20AC;? section at and beautifully presented, it was also just a bit www.news dry. Topped with some of the hummus, though, review.com. it was delicious. There are several versions of the stew called gheymeh, which is based on cooked split peas with onions and tomato. The vegetarian option arrived with chunks of potatoes and slivered fried potatoes on top. It was the best dish we tried and the portion was generous. In contrast, the beef gheymeh was served with small chunks of meltingly tender meat and a garnish of stewed eggplant. The fesenjoon is another stew worth trying. It features a thick mole-like sauce of pureed walnuts and pomegranate juice over braised chicken. The dark sauce tasted fairly sweet and

intriguingly complex. The chicken was so tender and moist it shredded with each bite. A combo platter of main course options or a traditional Persian tray of various appetizers makes for a nice way to sample a few dishes. Be sure to order one of the yogurts mixed with eggplant, shallots or cucumber to top the meats as well. Saffron Grill also offers several unique drinks and desserts. Dough is club soda with yogurt and mint thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s available by the glass or pitcher. The special Saffron drink (sekanjebin khiar) is a refreshing combination of mint and vinegar syrups with cucumber and lime. The sour and sweet flavors would be especially good in hot weather.

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mustard, pickled cauliflower and beets, served with small slices of bread. The ’nduja sandwich is startlingly spicy and salty, with rich melted cheese and ground meat spread between pressed slices of bread. Or try the pressed serrano ham, manchego cheese, arugula and salsa sandwich—it’s like a cross between a cubano, a breakfast panini and a torta. Elsewhere on the menu there are fine cocktails, an intimidating whiskey list, and a small but diverse selection of beer and wine. European. 1050 20th St., (916) 476-6306. Dinner for one: $10-$20. HHHH J.M.

Blackbird Kitchen & Beer Gallery Blackbird is back with chefowner Carina Lampkin again at the helm. It’s located in its original space with a similar aesthetic, though with more focus on beer and bar food to better complement the seafoodinspired dinner menu. A burger served with house pickles, seven-day house-cured bacon, cheddar and sweet ’n’ chivey “awesome sauce” make for one of the city’s best burgers, no question. Chowder fries, however, are nifty in theory—fries covered in bay shrimp, bacon and parsley, then doused with chowder. It’s a play on poutine, but a lack of acid and serious sogginess issues mar it from being a landmark dish. Better yet? Fish tacos featuring fried pollock served with pickled cabbage and chipotle crema. These and a beer will remedy any bad day you’re having. American. 1015 Ninth St., (916) 498-9224. Dinner for one: $10-$30. HHH1/2 G.M.

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Here are a few recent reviews and regional recommendations by Janelle Bitker, Ann Martin Rolke, Garrett McCord, Jonathan Mendick and Shoka updated regularly. Check out www.newsreview.com for more dining advice.

Capital Dime Restaurant With a new chef and menu, this Midtown eatery has transformed into a farm-to-forkthemed place for smart bar bites and appealing sandwiches and salads. Try the bacon lollipops, perhaps the tastiest little creations ever put on a stick. Here, salty rib bacon is slathered with melted brown sugar and whispers of cayenne and cinnamon more hushed than the juiciest of rumors. Sweetpotato pierogis are tasty, puffy packets of potato drizzled with sour cream and shredded-duck confit. A duck burger with fig jam and plenty of crispy onions makes for a gamy change of pace, but the rib bacon whiskey burger—with crunchy lumps of house-made pickle, cheddar and a landslide of crispy fried onions—just might be the best burger in town. American. 1801 L St., Suite 50; (916) 443-1010. Dinner for one: $15-$25. HHHH G.M.

Midtown Block Butcher Bar This place serves the holy trinity of European cuisine: meat, cheese and alcoholic beverages. Most of its boards and plates are balanced using three basic tastes: salty (meats and cheeses), sweet (honey and jam) and sour (pickles and vinegar). The charcuterie boards impress visually and on the tongue. A recent selection included shaved almonds, neat piles of meat,

Goldfield Trading Post This new eatery rustles up much nicer chow than your usual cowboy fare with a menu that features dishes with names like Grandma’s Meat Loaf. Grandma knows how to make some meat loaf, that’s for sure: slabs of beef ground with bacon are glazed with a sweet sauce, served atop the cheesiest mashed potatoes this side of Wisconsin. The Gold Panner’s Pork Chop was flat-out fantastic, oozing juicy flavor from its fire-kissed crust. House-made cinnamon applesauce for dunking was a perfect accompaniment. Any good country bar worth its salt pork has chili on the menu, and Goldfield is no exception. It’s made with chunks of tender chicken rather than ground beef, with plenty of nuggets of gold corn and black beans to boot. American. 1630 J St., (916) 476-5076. Dinner for one: $5-$10. HHH1/2 AMR

Harry’s Cafe It can be difficult to decide what to order here— there’s one menu for breakfast, and another with general Chinese and Vietnamese meals. Oh, and the breakfast menu has a subcategory for “Asian Breakfast,” featuring Hawaiian favorites such as Spam and loco moco (rice topped with hamburger patties, eggs and gravy). Whatever the option, portions here are huge, especially the heaping plateful of fried rice, which has a playful texture. Recommended from the Chinese food menu: Stir-fried green beans, hot and sour soup, beef chow fun in black bean sauce and ginger beef that’s piping

hot, tangy, spicy and slightly salty. A nice way to heat up the belly on a cold night. Or, try ginger beef over rice. Asian. 2026 16th St., (916) 448-0088. Dinner for one: $10-$15. HHH1/2 J.M.

Izakaya Daikoku Izakayas are to Japan what pubs are to England: a place to grab a cheap drink and some easy grub. The purveyors behind I.D. hope to bring this Eastern swagger to Sacramento with a menu that’s rich in options. Agedashi tofu is the big hit here: deep-fried cubes of delicately soft tofu served with a soy dashi broth form squishy pillows of flavor. The hamachi collar is also recommended. Served with lemon and ponzu, it’s a boastful dish that exemplifies simplicity. The okonomiyaki is the biggest pull— it’s a traditional Japanese pizza made of cabbage and savory pancake batter. Each is buried under mayo, katsu sauce, and bonito flakes resulting in a rich, greasy mess that leaves you feeling heavy but guarantees you’ll sober up quickly. Japanese. 1900 S St.; (916) 662-7337. Dinner for one: $15-$20. HHH G.M.

East Sacramento Fahrenheit 250 BBQ This barbecue joint ups the ante with attentive table service and high-end ingredients. Chef Jacob Carriker serves Southern staples such as pulled pork, brisket and ribs, plus the very California addition of smoked tri-tip. There’s also chicken and

trout—all smoked in a 7-foot hand-forged steel behemoth. The pulled-pork sandwich is moist, smoky and falling apart with tenderness. The halfchicken is a bit dry, but benefits from a shot of sauce. The tri-tip is well-smoked, but not as good as the brisket, although it still makes for a very nice addition to the Market salad, with baby greens, grilled zucchini and onions, and cornbread croutons. Barbecue. 7042 Folsom Blvd., (916) 476-4508. Dinner for one: $10-$15. HHHH AMR

Land Park/ Curtis Park Boba Cafe For starters, try the scallion pancake; it’s salty, crunchy on the outside and chewy inside. Or, order the pan-fried beef bun, which with its doughy, crunchy wrapping strangely resembled the texture of a Taco Bell Crunchwrap, only smaller, with a much richer flavor. Also worth sampling: pork dumplings served as a firm dough wrapping filled with a rich pork broth and a small ball of meat. The “Taiwan Style Stewed Pork Over Rice,” a red-braised pork, is a tender, deep-red colored pork marinated in earthy aromatic spices and copious amounts of soy sauce. Paired with an egg and a heaping pile of rice, it’s one of the most comforting rice plates in Sacramento. Chinese. 5131 Freeport Blvd., (916) 455-1687. Dinner for one: $5-$15. HHHH J.M

Pangaea Bier Cafe Just as European wines are made to be enjoyed with food rather than sipped alone, the current tsunami of European-style microbreweries feature drinks often best quaffed alongside a well-crafted meal. Pangaea Bier Cafe recently stepped up its food game to satisfy that need with a revamped menu that includes an ever-changing rotation of seasonal, slightly upscale pub food. Try the Buffalo wings: They’re deeply flavorful fried morsels with a thick glaze. The mac ’n’ cheese is creamy, with a bit of beer in the sauce and a crunchy topping of herb-flecked breadcrumbs. The sliders are gorgeous little mouthfuls with Tillamook cheddar and housemade pickles. The main-course cheeseburger, one of the best we’ve had in ages, is made from a custom blend of brisket and chuck. This is a juicy patty that holds together, yet bursts with flavor. The locally made brioche bun bears up well, and the house pickles and cheddar simply gild the lily. American. 2743 Franklin Blvd., (916) 454-4942. Dinner for one: $10-$15. HHH1/2 AMR

South Sac Bodhi Bowl This Vietnamese eatery’s menu is all vegetarian and mostly vegan, with plenty of high notes. The Heavenly Noodle is a can’t-go-wrong salad comprising snow-white vermicelli noodles with cooling mint, cucumber slices, houseroasted peanuts and jagged pieces of faux beef. The “beef”

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Kansai Ramen & Sushi House This place serves its own take on ramen and sushi, with varying degrees of success. The kakuni ramen, which features three thick slices of braised pork belly in lieu of the house ramen’s thin slices of chashu, boasts a nice, sweet marinade; tender consistency; and copious flavor. The sushi rolls here are Western style—aka loaded with toppings. Try the Mufasa roll. With crab and avocado on the inside and salmon and sauce outside, it’s particularly tasty, seasoned in sesame oil and baked—a somewhat unusual technique for sushi. Japanese. 2992 65th St., Ste. 288; (916) 455-0288. Dinner for one: $10-$20. HHH J.M.

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The Waffle Experience Hold your forks—these aren’t your mom’s buttermilk beauties full of syrup. They’re traditional Belgian liège waffles, which are closer to bread than pastry. Open for breakfast and lunch, the menu offers choices that include breakfast creations and dishes labeled “Two Hands Required”—i.e., waffle sandwiches. All are packed with flavor. The “Eggcellent” consists of applewood bacon, fontina, egg, arugula, and sun-dried tomato aioli sandwiched between fennel seed waffles. It’s messy, but worth the extra napkins. American. 4391 Gateway Park Blvd., Suite 650 in Natomas; (916) 285-0562. Dinner for one: $10-$15. HHH AMR

Danielle’s Crêperie This eatery, which specializes in French and American, serves a ton of breakfast and lunch options (pancakes, waffles, omelets, quiches, crepes, sandwiches) and diners can order them at any time of day. A chocolate crepe is huge and could make for an entire (sugary) meal itself. A Nutella filling option would also be nice. Savory crepes are a good option; try the Crab and Spinach Crêpe. With crab meat, spinach, garlic and a cheesy French Mornay sauce, this is rich haute cuisine at a bargain price. French and American. 3535 Fair Oaks Blvd., (916) 972-1911. Dinner for one: $10-$20. HHH1⁄2. J.M.

Arden/ Carmichael Dad’s Kitchen The cooking at this Guy Fieri-approved joint is consistent and at times technically terrific. Try the Dad’s Burger (lettuce, red onion, tomato, Aleppo chili aioli, and a beef patty encrusted with blue cheese and bacon). With a firm and chewy bun and a sauce with kick, it’s one of Sac’s best burgers. Or get the Hot Blonde. It’s like a subtle, healthier version of a club sandwich, with organic chicken, avocado, spinach, cucumber, roasted onion and Swiss cheese—all set between sourdough bread and grilled on a panini press. It boasts a crunchy texture from all

Field House American Sports Pub Launched by the same team that raised Shady Lady Saloon, this spot brings a bit more culinary hope to an often forgotten part of Sacramento. The whiskey burger is a mighty sammich of perfection with smoked Gouda cheese and bacon that serve as excellent counterpoints to the achingly sweet maple-bourbon glazed red onions. Fries-slash-chips arrived pencil-thin and fiercely crispy. If you visit for brunch, don’t miss the signature bloody mary: a 32-ounce bloody mary that doesn’t skimp on the horseradish. It’s served

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actually is slightly sweet, plenty umami and pleasantly inoffensive, as far as fake meat goes. Nearly everything here has a faux-meat product or tofu element. So, sorry diners with soy allergies—it can’t even be escaped in the papaya salad. Not an issue? Soldier on with the Hot & Sour soup, a not-too spicy sunset-orange broth that teems with a tomatoey and citrus flavor, chunks of pineapple, semicircles of trumpet mushrooms, cubes of fried tofu and slices of faux crab. Or, try the stir-fried Eight Fold Path. It features al dente celery, red bell pepper and triangles of the most savory, salty, dense tofu perhaps ever. Vietnamese. 6511 Savings Place, Ste. 100; (916) 428-4160. Dinner for one: $10-$15. HHHH S.

with skewers of beet-pickled egg, sausage and bacon, tiger prawn, pickled veggies, and the most amazing slider. American. 1310 Fulton Ave., (916) 487-1045. Dinner for one: $15-$25. HHHH G.M.

Roseville Flame & Fire Brazilian food in the United States is often served in the context of an all-youcan-eat style of service called rodizio. One popular place to find rodizio in the states is at a churrascaria, basically a Brazilian barbecue joint. Put the two concepts together, and what you get is a fancy Brazilian barbecue buffet, such as the one found here. Expect an onslaught of meat— there are 12 to choose from at dinner and eight during lunch. The quality of most meats is incredibly high, with the fraldinha and the tri-tip among the juiciest and most flavorful. Desserts include slices of cinnamon-glazed pineapple that’s roasted on a spit and a refreshing “papaya cream”— basically fresh fruit blended into ice cream. Even though this place is all-you-can-eat, quality shines through. Latin American. 963 Pleasant Grove Boulevard in Roseville, (916) 790-5750. Dinner for one: $45-$55. HHHH J.M.

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SN&R’s often criticized for being skeptical about the benefits of the new arena. Fine—because such skepticism often leads journalists closer to the truth than if they just take everything at face value. Nevertheless, I’m mostly optimistic after recent announcements about the partnership between Legends Hospitality and the new Sacramento Entertainment and Sports Center. I have every reason to believe Michael Tuohy (Block Butcher Bar, LowBrau) will be an amazing executive chef. Plus: Tuohy, Patrick Mulvaney, Randy Paragary and Randall Selland comprise the new food program’s advisory council. Legends has previously partnered with the Yankees, the San Francisco 49ers and FC Barcelona. A press release promises “90 percent of food [and] beverages will be locally sourced within 150 miles.” KJ’s already coining it “farm to court.” I’d sure be impressed if LowBrau or Block’s food made it into the ESC. But what if out-oftown vendors from as far as Redding, Reno and Monterey (which are technically “within 150 miles”) outnumber Sacramento’s? Or if everything’s just too darn expensive? Could we then call it “farm to fail”?

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The Iceman Cometh is a huge project: The play runs four hours and 45 minutes, includes three intermissions and has 18 roles. And it’s bleak. Moody losers chat and drink themselves numb in a dismal saloon, dreaming of a better life which will never materialize. It’s a tragic tale of self-deception and slow self-destruction. The play is commonly revered as one of O’Neill’s greatest. But most people have never seen it, owing to the script’s uncommon length, the dark territory it explores and the number of actors required. It’s mounted in big cities occasionally and productions in a city like Sacramento are as rare as hen’s teeth. Many people are unaware that The Iceman Cometh was written in a house about an hour southwest from Sacramento, in Danville. O’Neill was already famous at the time, having been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1920, 1922 and 1928; and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936. In 1937, O’Neill took some of that prize money and bought 158 acres in Danville (a sleepy, largely rural outermost suburb at the time). There, he and wife Carlotta built a dream home called Tao House, furnished with Chinese and pseudo-Chinese gear from Gump’s in San Francisco. O’Neill wanted a retreat where he could concentrate on what he felt would be his greatest plays. At Tao House, he completed The Iceman Cometh and Long Day’s Journey Into Night, the scripts for which he is now best remembered. O’Neill wasn’t sure audiences were ready for these intense and very personal works. The Iceman Cometh was finished in 1939, but wasn’t staged or published until 1946. Long Day’s Journey was finished in 1942 but premiered in 1956, after O’Neill’s passing. Financial setbacks and wartime gas rationing forced the ailing O’Neill to sell Tao House in 1943. When he left, he had his wife burn several unfinished manuscripts. He never wrote another play. Tao House is now a literary shrine, open to the public as part of the Eugene O’Neill National Historic Site. Visitors can take a house tour (reservations only) and stand in the study where The Iceman Cometh was written. Ω

Next up for Sissom: the role of Pearl in the monumental Eugene O’Neill drama The Iceman Cometh, which has a February to March run at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York, a prestigious and historic theater. It’s a reunion of the highly-praised 2012 production in Chicago by the Goodman Theatre, and also stars Tony Award-winner Nathan Lane. There’s a possibility that Iceman may transition to a Broadway theater following the BAM run. The character Pearl is a tart, looking for her next customer in a cheap saloon; her personality is typically described as fun-loving and boisterous. The New York Times, reviewing the Chicago production, praised Sissom’s “winning vibrancy.” Pearl shares traits with several cheeky characters-at-risk we’ve seen Sissom portray here—like an exotic dancer wiggling in a Plexiglas cage in Make Someone Happy (2007) and a cheerful-butvolatile recovering druggie trying to rebuild her life in the suburbs in Detroit (2013), to name but two. Sissom started at B Street as an intern in 2007. Producing artistic director Buck Busfield recruited her from Elon University in North Carolina. (Small Southern colleges have been a frequent source of B Street interns). The following year, Sissom joined the Actor’s Equity Association, and now she divides her time between Sacramento and Chicago, where she is associated with the New Colony Theater.

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So before I change my mind, let me say here that 2012’s The Woman in Black, which starred Daniel Radcliffe and was loosely adapted from Susan Hill’s 1983 pastiche of a gothic horror novel, was a tidy little ghost story that took major liberties with Hill’s plot but remained true to its spirit of dreadful foreboding, generally eschewing cheap scares in favor of a mounting atmosphere of fearful anticipation. It was written by Jane Goldman and directed by James Watkins. Both were relatively inexperienced (though Goldman had scripts for Kick-Ass and Stardust to her credit), but they showed a clear understanding of their material. This second time around, not so much. The writer is Jon Croker, the director Tom Harper; they are similarly inexperienced (though Harper has a track record in British TV), but they show little of Watkins and Goldman’s instincts. There is little in Woman in Black 2 to suggest that they are anything but the most mediocre hacks. I sincerely hope this is not the case, but Croker and Harper should know that they’re in a competitive line of work—opportunities, once blown, don’t always knock again. Watkins and Goldman might have done better, but almost nobody from The Woman in Black is back. Daniel Radcliffe, of course, might have come back except … well, nevermind; let’s not rouse the Spoiler Police. But compare the credits of the two movies and the only name you see both times—besides nine of the original’s 17 credited producers—is composer Marco Beltrami, whose obtrusive score detracted from the original more than adding to it.

The reason none of the original cast is back is that Croker’s script takes place some 40 years later. It’s 1940, and London is suffering under the Blitz; we first meet our heroine, a young schoolteacher named Eve Parkins (Phoebe Fox) in a makeshift bomb shelter with hundreds of other Londoners. She smiles at a little girl and draws her into conversation about her teddy bear, while the girl’s mother remarks on Eve’s ever-present smile. “It’s all we can do, isn’t it?” Eve replies. But we will soon learn that Eve’s smile is the smile of the truly and deeply stupid. We see this demonstrated in short order, when Eve, along with her employer the imperious Mrs. Hogg (Helen McCrory), is escorting a group of school children from London to the presumed safety of the English countryside. As it happens, the refuge for these children turns out to be the remote, derelict and (as we soon learn) haunted manor house from the original Woman in Black. A while back, in another review, I mentioned the genre of “don’t-goin-that-dark-room-you-idiot horror movies.” In Woman in Black 2, this is depressingly literal. When a flat tire disables the bus transporting Eve, Mrs. Hogg and the kids in the dead of a misty night to their destination, Eve immediately abandons her charges at the side of the road, venturing into an apparently abandoned building in search of dark rooms to explore. Truly and deeply stupid.

Why anyone would send a bunch of innocent kids and two hapless women to a miserable ruin in the first place? The building, Eve soon learns, isn’t abandoned after all—although who the babbling madman in the building is, and what he has to do with anything, never gets adequately explained; it’s just an excuse for a jump-scare punctuated by Beltrami’s obnoxious music (abetted this time by one Brandon Roberts). Oh, need I go on? Don’t waste your time with Woman in Black 2, nor with trying to figure out the gaping holes and loose ends in Croker’s script—for starters, why anyone would send a bunch of innocent kids and two hapless women to a miserable ruin at the ass-end of nowhere in the first place? Instead, put the Daniel Radcliffe original in your Netflix queue, turn out the lights and curl up with the kind of movie that gives ghost stories a good name. Ω

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Director Tim Burton and writers Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski tell the story of artist Margaret Keane (Amy Adams) and her husband Walter (Christoph Waltz), who made a fortune in the 1950s and ’60s marketing her paintings of wispy, huge-eyed waifs while claiming to have painted them himself. The look is brighter than the usual Burton film—all breezy California sunshine and vivid retro fashions— but the underpinnings are as dark as ever, fraught with subtle psychological abuse and manipulation, encapsulated in Waltz’s unctuous smile that never quite spreads as far as his shifty, empty eyes. His Walter is the epitome of the oily small-time con man who hits it big, while Adams’ Margaret is a sweet spirit at first confused by Walter’s dishonesty, finally finding the strength to assert herself. J.L.

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The Interview

We’ve been had. Only a few weeks ago The Interview looked like a symbol for the limits of free speech in the world of omnipresent surveillance and cyberterror. Now that Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen’s idiots abroad comedy has been made available to the world via VOD and a smaller-scale theatrical run, it all seems like an elaborate head-fake designed to turn a toxic, sloppy, drastically unfunny comedy into a headline-grabbing, dayand-date release experiment. James Franco stars as a fatuous TV host and Rogen plays his producer, a couple of bumbling slackers recruited to kill the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un. Franco and Rogen can be very funny, but here they engage in the sort of one-note racist and homophobic hijinks that should be beneath them by now. If the villain were a fictional creation like Sacha Baron Cohen’s Admiral General Aladeen from The Dictator, there would be nothing worth talking about. D.B.

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In this Disney-fied adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s Tony-winning musical, a selection of Grimm Brothers characters that includes Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel, Prince Charming and Cinderella come together in an attempt to reverse a witch’s curse. The Sondheim music is still utterly appalling, but at least it’s unmemorable, a monotonous series of tuneless and barely differentiated refrains masquerading as musical numbers (only one sequence—the princely preen-off “Agony”—sticks out). However, the appeal of Into the Woods was always the surprisingly dark book, and while James Lapine adapted his own stage material for the screen, he guts the second act, and the finished product plays like an attempt to make a movie

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During World War II, the eccentric, socially challenged math genius Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch) leads a British cryptography unit charged with cracking Nazi Germany’s Enigma code, a hitherto unbreakable cipher that has defied all efforts to unravel it. Graham Moore’s script takes a few liberties with history, and his multiple-flashback structure is a bit awkward at times, but director Morten Tyldum smooths it all out into an expression of Turing’s psychological complexity. Cumberbatch’s masterful performance towers over the picture, but he has plenty of sturdy support—Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode and Allen Leech as co-workers, Charles Dance and Mark Strong as higher-ups, and (most especially) Alex Lawther as the teenage Turing, in a performance that complements and enriches Cumberbatch’s own. J.L.

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Steve Carell stars in Bennett Miller’s compelling Foxcatcher as the real-life billionaire John DuPont, heir to a legendary American fortune and a paranoid schizophrenic who murdered wrestling champion/ coach Dave Schultz in 1996. At first glance, Carell looks like a “stunt” choice for the part of DuPont, but it is inspired casting by Miller (Capote, Moneyball). With his awkward compulsion to be both father and brother, benefactor and lover, boss and buddy, DuPont has a lot in common with Carell’s heretofore most iconic role—Dunder Mifflin regional manager Michael Scott on TV’s The Office. While this is the darkest and bleakest role that Carell has ever played, he uses his comedy-honed physical and vocal chops (and generous amounts of makeup) to disappear into the role of the pale and paunchy DuPont. Miller and cinematographer Greig Fraser (Zero Dark Thirty) abet Carell by giving Foxcatcher the teeming, sweat lodge claustrophobia of a wrestling room. D.B.

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Inherent Vice

With their many absentee fathers, robber-baron capitalists and would-be messiahs, the films of Paul Thomas Anderson portray the California Dream as an oft-repeated fall from grace of Biblical proportions. All pinned to the wall and linked together with an intricate series of colored strings, the Anderson oeuvre begins to form an alternate-history book of California as spoiled paradise, stretching from the oil field power struggles in There Will Be Blood to the millennium apocalypse anxieties of Magnolia, and now the “square is hip” conspiracy at the heart of his ramshackle masterpiece Inherent Vice. Joaquin Phoenix stars as the stoned-out-of-his-gourd private detective Larry “Doc” Sportello, who with his gentle nature and bong-rattled comprehension skills, makes for a perfect noir patsy. No matter how lost we are in the narrative, Doc is always a little more lost, never more so than when the frazzled ends of the mystery occasionally fit together. D.B.

of Shrek the Musical without buying the rights. A strong cast of theater vets and movie stars with passable voices do their best, but director Rob Marshall has the insipidly literal sensibility of a born hack. D.B.

Selma

There is such a powerful convergence of hot-button topics in Ava DuVernay’s Selma, from civil rights to voting laws to police brutality to street protests to government surveillance, that even some of the film’s strongest proponents are positioning the film as a good-for-you, syllabus-ready obligation. That’s an affront to the intelligence, cinematic flexibility and emotional satisfaction of this rousing film, which tracks the involvement of Martin Luther King Jr. (David Oyelowo) in the 1965 voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. Oyelowo is fantastic as MLK, a perfect mix of humanity and moral authority, and Carmen Ejogo is fine in the underdeveloped role of Coretta Scott King. Enough famous faces ham it up in bit parts that the film threatens to turn into Ava DuVernay’s Lee Daniels’ The Butler (a snarling Tim Roth as George Wallace is particularly distracting), but Oyelowo keeps it grounded and DuVernay keeps it moving. D.B.

The Theory of Everything

Jake Kasdan’s 2007 genre parody Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story so effectively skewered the hoary tropes of movie biopics, any film employing them with a straight face risks looking ridiculous. Cliches are not mandatory for the genre—films as diverse as Todd Haynes’ I’m Not There and Mike Leigh’s upcoming Mr. Turner have tossed aside biopic crutches while still landing emotional and intellectual impacts. But James Marsh’s The Theory of Everything is engineered for maximum awards season appeal, and so it crams in as many of those conventions as it possibly can. The film might be unwatchable if not for excellent performances from Felicity Jones and Eddie Redmayne as Jane and Stephen Hawking. Redmayne especially does bravura work—he becomes Stephen Hawking, body and soul—but The Theory of Everything doesn’t have the imagination or ambition to be anything more than his showpiece. D.B.

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A standup-comic-turned-moviestar-in-dopey-comedies (Chris Rock, who also wrote and directed) submits to a ride-along interview with a reporter (Rosario Dawson) to publicize his latest movie, an attempt at a serious drama about the 1791 Haitian Revolution. This raunchy, witty, smart

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and cheerfully profane comedy just may turn out to be Rock’s Annie Hall. Not that it’s as good as Woody Allen’s 1977 breakthrough—not quite—but in the sense that Rock shows, as Allen did back then, unexpected depth and perception about celebrity and personal relations to go along with his edgy comedy riffs. His conversations with Dawson crackle with intelligence and sexual chemistry, and a parade of guest artists—some playing characters, others as themselves—is folded into the mix with a minimum of awkwardness. J.L.

Unbroken

Directed by Angelina Jolie and adapted from the Laura Hillenbrand nonfiction bestseller about Olympic-athlete-turnedWorld War II-prisoner-of-war Louis Zamperini, Unbroken is a contemptible and unrewarding film, a depersonalized catalog of beautifully photographed torture and suffering. Even still, the most damning criticism I can levy against Unbroken is that despite boasting a script by Joel and Ethan Coen (with co-writing credits for fellow script doctor legends Richard LaGravenese and William Nicholson), there is nothing remotely Coen-esque about this movie (wit and intelligence are most sorely missed). It goes on like that—Jolie assembles a fabulous group of collaborators, including composer Alexandre Desplat (The Grand Budapest Hotel), the Coen Brothers’ house cinematographer Roger Deakins, editor William Goldenberg (Zero Dark Thirty), and rising star Jack O’Connell (Starred Up and the upcoming ’71) as Zamperini, but their collective harmonies are soulless and contrived, and Jolie makes for an indifferent conductor. D.B.

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Director Jean-Marc Vallee follows up last year’s Oscar fave Dallas Buyers Club with another blatant awards grubber in Wild, based on the memoir by Cheryl Strayed. Reese Witherspoon plays Strayed, who in 1995 hiked over 1,000 miles along the Pacific Crest Trail, exorcising the demons that occupied the space left by her mother’s untimely death. Much like Dallas Buyers Club, Wild is a mix of unguarded rawness and mawkish calculation, equal parts honest inspiration and mercenary ambition. Witherspoon is very good, not just deglamorized but immersed, and Laura Dern is every bit her equal as Strayed’s mother (another “dream Mom” role for Dern to match her turn earlier this year in The Fault in Our Stars). The editing, cinematography, sound design, nonlinear Nick Hornby script and PCT scenery are all exquisite, so perhaps the entire project is just a little too Hike, Pray, Love for this critic’s taste. D.B.

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His sister Karlee, 18, had one of many similar epiphanies as a freshman at Del Campo High School, shadowing folks backstage during 107.9 The End’s Jingle Ball with Paramore and B.o.B. Why so lucky? Their father worked for 107.9, granting the kids access to plenty of huge concerts. And as impressionable children, those were formative experiences. In 2010—soon after that Jingle Ball—Connor and Karlee decided to take their songwriting more seriously. And they decided to start writing songs together, going under the name “Connor and Karlee.” The pair released its self-titled debut album last July; the celebration at Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub was full of children and parents alike and featured Connor’s songs, Karlee’s songs and Connor and Karlee’s songs. “I have my own personal songs, which are so different from his personal songs,” Karlee says. “We share both of those on the album but also do things together.” The result is a mix of acoustic, indie folk and keys-driven, upbeat pop. Some songs feature the vocals of just Karlee or Connor, others feature both.

But now Connor says he’s hooked on co-writing, which presents some difficulties now that his sister’s living in Los Angeles. In August, she started her first year in the University of Southern California’s Music Industry program. Connor, meanwhile, is finishing up his second year at American River College studying audio engineering. They collaborate digitally and play solo shows out of necessity. “It’s so much harder to keep the audience when you don’t have your other half,” Connor says. “Even just talking to the audience is harder. We’re so used to bantering and talking shit to each other.” Aw, sibling love. Connor and Karlee are determined to keep up their momentum, though. They’ve added Trey Grayem on bass and Daniel Blackburn on drums. They plan on performing locally during Karlee’s breaks from school, such as an upcoming Shine Cafe show on Thursday, January 8. And after Connor finishes up his classes at American River, he hopes to join Karlee down in Los Angeles. But in the mean time, it’s all about writing and honing in on their true sound. “We tried a lot of genres on the first album,” Karlee says. “We were just trying to discover what we wanted. After listening to it over and over, we’re writing new songs that are more electric than acoustic.” More pop, she says. And a little alternative. “For a while it was hard to admit that we’re pop,” Karlee says. “We love folk and indie so much. But we’re pop. We’ve come to terms with it.” Still, Connor and Karlee maintain their folk and indie influences—Lord Huron, The Tallest Man on Earth, Matt Nathanson—even if their output sheds much resemblance to them. Their updated sound is more likely to reflect beloved acts such as 1975, John Mayer, Sara Bareilles and Young the Giant.

“ For a while it was hard to admit that we’re pop. We love folk and indie so much. But we’re pop. We’ve come to terms with it.” Karlee Hormell singer-songwriter, Connor and Karlee

“We’re trying to pull a lot of inspiration from a lot of different bands,” Connor says. “To create something new,” Karlee continues. Aw. They even finish each other’s sentences. Ω

A real block buster New year, new party: The first song of 2015 was “Heads Will Roll” by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. At least it was for the 1,500 people rocking out at TBD Fest’s first-ever New Year’s Eve block party. And, yeah, okay, it was a remix. But it was A-Trak’s seminal remix. Without a doubt, it was

didn’t quite feel like a massive, raging party until the middle of Gigamesh’s 10 p.m. set. Despite the strong lineup, most ticket holders chose to arrive late and sprint through 2014’s final hours.

For those into the indie EDM scene, A-Trak is a big, big deal. Getting him to Sacramento to usher us into 2015, was a big, big deal. But obviously, he’s not a household name for everyone. Beyond his label Fool’s Gold, which fostered the likes of Kid Cudi and Danny Brown, he spent years as Kanye West’s tour deejay. And he’s one half of electronic duo Duck Sauce. You surely at least know “Barbra Streisand.” Anyway, A-Trak’s showmanship on the turntable was real impressive, even with his impressive credentials. His latest single “Push,” featuring pulsing piano and Miike Snow’s Andrew Wyatt, was everything I wanted in the evening’s electro-house. Countdown. Confetti. “Heads Will Roll.” A couple more songs and it was all over. Well, tropical synth-pop duo Ghost Beach provided one last set inside LowBrau. But based on how crowded the bar was earlier, I didn’t even attempt to smush myself inside. And judging by the quick exodus, I assume most folks felt the same way. What can we expect next from the TBD team? Apparently, we don’t have to wait until the big festival in October. TBD is apparently planning something local called Stranger Fest. No details yet beyond a short Tweet with the hashtags #whatisstranger, #strangerfest and #whatsnext.

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images that plagued Instagram and surely the event many more people will be looking forward to next December. It completely sold out in advance—even when prices nearly doubled to $80, the last lot of tickets moved quickly. Earlier in the day, I had some concerns. I feared the near-freezing temperatures, as well as being pressed between obnoxious assholes with no escape. I dreaded unbearably long lines for drinks, or worse, bathrooms. I was worried about finding water, especially when no refillable bottles were allowed inside. But everything was totally fine. There was more than enough room to dance, walk around and even sit down for breathers. The lines were long, but manageable, spread out between LowBrau, Mr. Pickle’s Sandwich Shop, Azul and Pizzeria Urbano, along with the porta potties and pop-up bar in the street. With all those businesses open, water was easy, too. With the exception of one almost-fight between some very, very drunk guys close to midnight, everyone was sweet and friendly. People behaved. Aesthetically, the block definitely pleased. Market lights formed a crisscrossed ceiling, strung from 20th Street’s lines of trees. Chairs and benches surrounded heat lamps like mini-bonfire gatherings. And a few art installations gave the party a more festival-like feel. Dressed in pink sequins, local emcee Andru Defeye hosted the evening with his Mobbment crew. The glowing, massive main stage featured A-Trak and Nick Catchdubs, co-founders of iconic indie dance label Fool’s Gold, along with Gigamesh, Oliver, Sister Crayon and Chllngr. Other deejays—DJ Greg J, Sam I Jam, Jurts—spun inside LowBrau, offering a classic nightclub vibe with VIP tables and all. Starting at 6 p.m.—with no ins and outs allowed—was perhaps a bit ambitious. The block felt pretty empty up until about 9 p.m., when Oliver hit the stage. And it still BEFORE

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It’s SN&R’s to-heck-with-yourresolutions-let’s-indulge guide. Over the holidays we enjoyed all the good stuff—tasty food, excellent drinks, lots of rest—but why stop now? Eating, drinking, gambling, comfy clothes and much, much more—SN&R will guide you through all the fun ways to live life to the fullest in 2015.

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Kris Parker, a.k.a. KRS-One, is an icon from rap’s late-’80s and early-’90s golden age. His booming vocals and consciousnessraising manner were early models for Public Enemy’s Chuck D. Sometimes called the Teacher, Parker’s released more than 20 albums, characterized by nimble, articulate flow with a touch of dancehall in the delivery HIP-HOP over simmering boom-bap rhythms. He’s never sold out nor surrendered, declaring on “Forever”: “I don’t do dance lyrics, I do advanced lyrics.” Still wise and witty, his steadfast aesthetic’s served him well as nostalgia brings his era back to the spotlight’s edge—still real and scientific as ever. 2708 J Street, www.krs-one.com.

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Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub, 7 p.m., $30

Even though Sammies Hall of Famers Zuhg moved to Oregon, they’re still booking shows regularly at places like Dive Bar, Bar 101 FUNK/HIP-HOP and Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub. This week, they bring New York funk fusion trio Sophistafunk to Dive Bar. Sophistafunk may be “Guy Fieri’s favorite band” (at least according to a Buzzfeed “article” last year), but don’t let that hyperbolic quasi-journalistic, logically leaping statement fool you. This group is more “awesome sauce” than “donkey sauce.” Multi-instrumentalist Adam Gold and drummer Emanuel Washington create funky organic beats and Jack Brown raps over them—kind of like the Roots meet G. Love. Sacto’s Saint Solitaire opens. 1016 K Street, www.sophistafunkband.com.

Blue Lamp, 8 p.m., $7

Although New York’s Al Kooper cut his teeth at the ripe young age of 14 with the Royal Teens, he’s still touring and making rare solo appearances, much to the delight of his fans. While most of his fans know him from playing with Jimi Hendrix, Alice Cooper, Cream, the Rolling Stones, B.B. King and the Who, Al Kooper’s body of solo work has also stood the test of time. His most recent album, the magnificent White Chocolate, was ROCK released more than six years ago and converted many new fans. If you’ve never heard his Black Coffee release from 2005, take one listen to “How My Ever” to hear guitar magic happen. 2708 J Street, www.alkooper.com.

One of the latest tracks by local rapper Dirk Dig is called simply “Don’t Fuck Wit Me.” The song is a down-tempo, head-bopping hiphop tune, where Dig says in a casual tone, “I don’t think you want to fuck with me.” It HIP-HOP comes off more as a matter of statement than a threat of any kind, and he talks about how rough of a history he’s had. His other tunes have a similar vibe, sticking close to the laid-back West Coast sound of other rappers like Mac Dre, Too Short and E-40. He even has a song called “West Coast Music” about his love for the sound. 1400 Alhambra Boulevard, www.facebook.com/imfasha.

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THE THREE WAY, PEACE KILLERS, SLOW SEASON; 8pm, $7

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FACES

Kamikaze Karaoke, 9pm-2am, no cover

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

FOX & GOOSE

STEVE MCLANE, noon, no cover

KEVIN SECONDS, 9pm, $5

BUJI, 9pm, $5

DJ Shaun Slaughter, 10pm, call for cover

DJ Crook One, 10pm, call for cover

DJ Whores, 10pm, no cover

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TOREE MCGEE, RODEO HOUSE; 9pm, no cover

CHUCK RAGAN, PAWNSHOP KINGS, JAKE DESROCHERS; 9pm, $20

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THE TONE MONKEYS, 9pm-midnight, $5

RASH, 9pm-midnight, $5

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SOPHISTAFUNK, 9pm W, no cover

Dragalicious, 9pm, $5

Kamikaze Karaoke, 9pm M; Latin night, 9pm Tu, $5; DJ Alazzawi, 9pm W, $3 Open-mic, 7:30pm M; Pub Quiz, 7pm Tu; Northern Soul and Cornhole, 8pm W

Industry Night, 9pm, call for cover

Trivia night, W, call for cover

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Indie Thing’s Possible arts mixer, 6pm, $10

MIDGE URE, 7pm, $20-$25; KRS-ONE, 10:30pm, $20-$25

Hilarium Comedy Show, 8pm, $20

OH, MAU; 7pm, $8

LUNA’S CAFÉ & JUICE BAR

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

KKSL JAZZ QUARTET, SEE SPOT PLAY; 8pm, $5

THE RAY “CATFISH” COPELAND BAND, 8pm, $6

ELIZABETH BUSCH, MIKE JUSTIS, STEVE MCLANE; 7pm, $6

Nebraska Mondays, M; Open-mic comedy, 8pm Tu; Comedy night, 8pm W, $5

That Thing on Friday, EDM, 10pm, $5

The Midtown Moxies Burlesque, 8pm, $15-$20

Goth, darkwave, industrial, electronic deejay dancing, 9pm-3am, call for cover

Swing dancing, 7:30pm Tu, $6; Salsa lessons with Nicole Lazo, 7:30pm W, $5

JULIAN JASPER, MASON HOFFMAN, SIMPL3JACK; 8:30pm, $5

COLLEEN HEAUSER, GILLIAN UNDERWOOD & THE LONESOME DOVES; 8:30pm

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Sunday Night Soul Party, 9pm, $5

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TWILIGHT DRIFTERS, 9pm, no cover

JANE THOMPSON TRIO, 9pm, no cover

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Home opening reception, 7pm, no cover

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

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BILL MYLAR, 5:30pm; ARCHANGEL, THE LEFT HAND, SLEEP NO MORE; 8pm

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BIG EARL, HARLIS SWEETWATER; 9pm, $8

Blues jam, 4pm, no cover

RYAN BEHLING, 8pm Tu, $5; PETER PETTY BAND, 9pm W, $5

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Karaoke, 9pm, call for cover

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Tig Notaro, 7pm, $20

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E. L. Doctorow says that the art of writing “is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” This realistic yet hopeful assessment is true of many challenges, not just writing. The big picture of what you’re trying to accomplish is often obscure. You wish you had the comfort of knowing exactly what you’re doing every step of the way, but it seems that all you’re allowed to know is the next step. Every now and then, however, you are blessed with an exception to the rule. Suddenly you get a glimpse of the whole story you’re embedded in. It’s like you’re standing on a mountaintop drinking in the vast view of what lies behind you and before you. I suspect that this is one of those times for you, Taurus.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Most people have numerous items in their closet that they never wear. Is that true for you? Why? Do you think you will eventually come to like them again, even though you don’t now? Are you hoping that by keeping them around you can avoid feeling remorse about having wasted money? Do you fantasize that the uncool stuff will come back into fashion? In accordance with the astrological omens, Gemini, I invite you to stage an all-out purge. Admit the truth to yourself about what clothes no longer work for you, and get rid of them. While you’re at it, why not carry out a similar cleanup in other areas of your life?

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Koss leads groups of people in singalongs. You don’t have to be an accomplished vocalist to be part of his events, nor is it crucial that you know the lyrics and melodies to a large repertoire of songs. He strives to foster a “perfection-free zone.” I encourage you to dwell in the midst of your own personal perfectionfree zone everywhere you go this week, Libra. You need a break from the pressure to be smooth, sleek and savvy. You have a poetic license to be innocent, loose and a bit messy. At least temporarily, allow yourself the deep pleasure of ignoring everyone’s expectations and demands.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “I dream

of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can,” wrote Jack Gilbert in his poem “The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart.” Judging from the current astrological omens, I’d say that you are close to accessing some of those lost vocabularies. You’re more eloquent than usual. You have an enhanced power to find the right words to describe mysterious feelings and subtle thoughts. As a result of your expanded facility with language, you may be able to grasp truths that have been out of reach before now.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

“If you have built castles in the air,” said philosopher Henry David Thoreau, “your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” That may seem like a backward way to approach the building process: erecting the top of the structure first, and later the bottom. But I think this approach is more likely to work for you than it is for any other sign of the zodiac. And now is an excellent time to attend to such a task.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

Songwriter RB Morris wrote a fanciful poem in which he imagines a smart mockingbird hearing rock ’n’ roll music for the first time. “When Mockingbird first heard rock/He cocked his head and crapped/ What in the hell is that?/It sounded like a train wreck/Someone was screaming/ Someone’s banging on garbage cans.” Despite his initial alienation, Mockingbird couldn’t drag himself away. He stayed to listen. Soon he was spellbound. “His blood pounded and rolled.” Next thing you know, Mockingbird and his friends are making raucous music themselves—“all for the love of that joyful noise.” I foresee a comparable progression for you in the coming weeks, Capricorn. What initially disturbs you may ultimately excite you—maybe even fulfill you.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Do you

recall the opening scene of Lewis Carroll’s story Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland? Alice is sitting outside on a hot day, feeling bored, when the White Rabbit scurries by. He’s wearing a coat and consulting a watch as he talks to himself. She follows him, even when he jumps into a hole in the ground. Her descent takes a long time. On the way down, she passes cupboards and bookshelves and other odd sights. Not once does she feel fear. Instead, she makes careful observations and thinks reasonably about her unexpected trip. Finally, she lands safely. As you do your personal equivalent of falling down the rabbit hole, Aquarius, be as poised and calm as Alice. Think of it as an adventure, not a crisis, and an adventure it will be.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You are

positively oceanic these days. You are vast and deep, restless and boundless, unruly and unstoppable. As much as it’s possible for a human being to be, you are ageless and fantastical. I wouldn’t be surprised if you could communicate telepathically and remember your past lives and observe the invisible world in great detail. I’m tempted to think of you as omnidirectional and omniscient, as well as polyrhythmic and polymorphously perverse. Dream big, you crazy, wise dreamer.

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Nothing’s sacred Before this article goes any further, Kareem Daniels needs to get something on the record: President Barack Obama stole one of his jokes. In 2012, the stand-up comedian live-tweeted jokes during the presidential debates between Mitt Romney and Obama. Days later, Daniels says that Obama made headlines with one of those same jokes at a rally, riffing on Romney’s tendency to forget his political convictions. That bit about “Romnesia”? “Until somebody proves otherwise that they didn’t get it from my Twitter feed, that’s mine,” Daniels says. “And it sucks as a comic because you can’t do the bit again after the president does it.” Fortunately, Daniels has plenty of other jokes. Intellectual takes on politics and race relations are the backbone of Daniels’ humor. This month, he’s showcasing these interests at The Chitlin’ Circuit—a three-week exhibition of visual art, comedy, music, poetry and films examining the history of black entertainment. The event, hosted by the Brickhouse Gallery from January 10 to January 31, is named after the string of venues where black musicians and entertainers performed during the era of racial segregation in the United States. The multimedia show is a collaboration with artists Milton Bowens and Angela Mayes. Daniels will host comedy sets at the gallery, and also moderate a panel discussion on the state of black entertainment on Saturday, January 24.

Your humor focuses on subjects like race and politics. Is anything too sacred to joke about? No. There’s nothing too sacred to joke about. Sometimes it takes a joke to shift the conversation on something, but the timing of that joke has to be perfect and the joke itself has to be pretty damn good.

How do you keep your sense of humor in this time of heavy news and Ferguson protests? This stuff is not new to black people. For us, it’s another day. For white people or other people it’s “Oh my God!” You know, with the Ferguson grand jury, I called it. I said, “Gonna be 12 jurors? It’s going to be nine whites, two blacks and an ‘other.’” But the only thing I got wrong was that it ended up being three blacks. I didn’t know that because I’m psychic. I know that because that’s how it works.

Wow. I know many people were shocked by that verdict. I was reading an article that said black people deal with reality, white people deal with facts. They’re two different things. You think things are supposed to work a certain |

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way and you use your logic to say, “If this happens, then this will follow” but that’s not ever the way it works.

Does an audience’s racial makeup affect your set list? I pretty much try to be Kareem all the time. I think that’s where you get yourself in trouble, when you try to switch it up and not be true to yourself. I tried to switch it up for a black audience and that was the worst set I’ve ever had. I’m not doing that again.

Ever get audience pushback? One night after a show I had a lady come up and say, “I don’t see color.” And I was like, “I hope we never meet at a traffic light.”

How did The Chitlin’ Circuit show happen? It’s me, Milton Bowens and Angela Mayes. Milton is a really accomplished artist. He works with Mayor [Kevin] Johnson and teaches art in the schools, but he’s actually a big enough artist that he could just paint. … Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant are some of the people who are collectors of his work. But he does a lot of—his art is like my comedy.

In what sense? It’s political. It’s about race. One of the things he uses as a background a lot is slave insurance policies. He uses the documents in his artwork. So that gives you a different feel of what really was. So the show itself came about through a conversation we had about the Chitlin’ Circuit and different artists I thought maybe he should try to do something about. Like, Jimi Hendrix was on the Chitlin’ |

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Circuit and he used to perform with Little Richard, but Little Richard kicked him out because he was doing too much. So we had a conversation about those kinds of things and black economics and how during the Depression, there were still black people that were making money, when the money was kept within the community.

The show’s mission includes the “importance of controlling our historical cultural narratives.” Say more about that? White people steal everything. Rock ’n’ roll was born out of the Chitlin’ Circuit. Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Johnny Ace, Big Mama Thornton, they all were from the Chitlin’ Circuit. Doing research, I found out that a lot of people who later became famous—like Elvis Presley—Elvis’ whole style came from people he watched on the Chitlin’ Circuit. It went from R&B Chitlin’ Circuit music to rock ’n’ roll because Alan Freed named it “rock ’n’ roll” and white people kind of took off with it. Now you hardly see any black people in rock ’n’ roll. ... So, just keeping that cultural narrative what it is. In the next 10 years, hip-hop might be called something else and it will have been invented by Eminem and Macklemore. And I like Eminem and Macklemore. It’s never the artists themselves who appropriate it. It’s the people behind them, who are trying to make money off of everybody. Ω

For a complete schedule of events for The Chitlin’ Circuit, visit www.thebrickhouseartgallery.com.

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