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The real Hillary problem Hillary Clinton recently announced she was running for president. With the news came a fresh round of sexism lobbed at the former first lady, senator and secretary of state. While there’s plenty of legitimate fodder for criticism and debate when it comes to Clinton, little of it seems to come without an accompanying whiff of old-fashioned chauvinism. The latest arrived via The New York Times’ Maureen Dowd, who opined in an April 12 column titled “Granny Get Your Gun” that “the most famous woman on the planet has a confounding problem. She can’t figure out how to campaign as a woman.” Actually that’s not Clinton’s problem, it’s Dowd’s. Sure, Clinton has struggled with image—which candidate hasn’t?—but it’s ludicrous to suggest that during her 2008 bid, “Hillary scrubbed out [her] femininity” in attempt to win. This time around, Dowd says, the candidate will face an even tougher time. After all, Clinton’s not just saddled by previous missteps, she’s also now a grandmother. Now, she must bridge the divide between politics and her age and gender. “Isn’t there a more authentic way for Hillary to campaign as a woman … something between Macho Man and Humble Granny?” Dowd asked. Clinton isn’t the only woman to face sexist political scrutiny, of course. If former Hewlett-Packard head Carly Fiorina makes good on a bid for the Republican ticket, she’ll undoubtedly also endure intense examination over her femininity, looks, emotional state, et al. Whether Fiorina, Clinton or any other female candidate is in possession of a vagina should never be a political consideration. When an accomplished journalist makes it a case, however (and without irony, it should be noted), then unfortunately it’s clear such treatment is here for the long haul.

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Increased hourly pay may make working families less dependent on public assistance b y b r I t t a n y W e s e ly n April 15, nearly 500 activists marched to Sacramento City Hall, hoping to influence change-makers to raise the minimum wage.

The “Fight for $15” demonstration came two days after the release of a University of California, Berkeley study that reported 56 percent of state and federal welfare dollars are used to support working families. In California alone, $3.7 billion in public assistance goes to employed households. Tamie Dramer, director and board chair of Organize Sacramento, says that while public assistance programs offer important support for families, raising the minimum wage would help lift working families out of poverty and allow tax dollars to be spent in other areas. A local nonprofit with the mission to educate and mobilize communities to influence change, Organize Sacramento is one of three organizations that make up the Sacramento Raise the Wage Coalition. Along with Sacramento Area Congregations Together and the Alliance for Californians for Community Empowerment, the coalition is spearheading the local movement to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour. “We’re three really active groups of activists and organizers who are concerned about the disparities in Sacramento families,” Dramer says. “We’ve all received grants from The California Endowment’s Building Healthy Communities initiative to provide education and dispel misconceptions about increasing the minimum wage.”

Organize Sacramento used its grant to conduct a poll about Sacramento attitudes toward the minimum wage. “We learned that a strong majority of Sacramento voters really feel it’s time to raise the minimum wage locally,” Dramer says. The poll revealed that 58 percent of Sacramento voters would support a measure that phases in a $15 minimum wage over the course of three years.

“We learned that a strong majority of sacramento voters really feel it’s time to raise the minimum Wage locally.”

“She had no savings, no benefits and all she earned was minimum wage,” Mazariegos says. “She really wasn’t able to take care of her needs.” The woman had to retire early due to her disease. She moved in with her son and his family in their one-bedroom apartment. Mazariegos says the situation is tragic, but it is an experience that is unfortunately shared by many. “Her story really bothers me,” Mazariegos says. “We need to raise awareness and increase the minimum wage so these stories are less common.”

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ACCE Lead Organizer David Mazariegos says there is a lot of concentrated poverty in Sacramento, especially in the South Sacramento area. “In the neighborhoods we work in, there are a lot of folks in low wage jobs who are just barely scraping by to pay bills, buy food for their families and fill their cars up with gas,” Mazariegos says. Mazariegos tells the story of a woman in her 50s who is active in the “Fight for $15” movement. She worked at McDonald’s for a long time until she was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.

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I finished school. It was a nine-month program. The toughest moments include not finding patients for practice procedures we had to do in class. I have a plan to stay in Sacramento and work. I will go back to school to become a hygienist while I am working.

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I beat cancer. It was skin cancer, melanoma, found out on my birthday. When I was 26, I was diagnosed with cancer. They did a major surgery back behind my left ear and removed it. My support system is here. My family is here. My brother lives in Carmichael; my best friend is here. This is home.

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The birth and raising of my son. I am watching him grow and he is a great kid. I get compliments on what a good kid he is. Parenting is hard work and it is a lot more than people think it is going to be. It is hard to keep him straight and focused and away from trouble.

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Lets get under 350 There’s a certain irony—or providence, depending on how one looks at it—in California Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León’s climate-change legislation package bearing the name Senate Bill 350. That’s because 350 parts per million of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is the upper limit beyond which serious climate change isn’t just pending, it’s inevitable. We’re currently at 400 ppm. De León’s bill—or rather, the legislative package—would ask Californians to double our energy efficiency, get half of our power from renewable sources and cut our oil use in half by 2030. Our only complaint about this Our only legislation? That it will only be complaint about in force in California. this legislation? We might want to add some penalties for drivers that insist That it will only on low-mileage, high-emission vehicles, especially because we be in force in reside in a state where there are California. almost as many people as cars. In fact, if vehicle-registration fees reflected the weight of vehicles (and thus the damage to roadways and infrastructure) and emissions (and thus the damage to our breathing and our planet’s climate), there might be enough economic incentive to get Californians out of our single-occupancy cars and into everything from public transport and carpooling to biking and walking. (Yes, we’d support some exceptions.) We focused on that part of the law that will cut back our use of fossil fuels because that’s where the big opposition will come from; the Western States Petroleum Association has already weighed in against it. Big surprise there. For more information Here’s the simple reality: We’re past the point about what we can of no return when it comes to climate change. Now, do to reduce CO2 we’re in the place where we can—at best—simply emissions, visit hope to adapt. Hope to mitigate the coming changes www.350.org. and reduce our contributions to the problem enough so that the effects aren’t completely devastating for our children and grandchildren. For contact The year 2030 is not that far away. The kids information for in their first soccer cleats this year will be young your state senator, adults, worrying about the future of their own chilvisit http://senate. dren. What are we going to say to them when they ca.gov/senators. ask why we didn’t do more to stop a slow-motion disaster that we knew was coming? We urge our readers to stand up in support of S.B. 350. Make sure that your legislators know that these proposals are the minimum that we should be doing if we’re to have a livable Golden State in our golden years. Call or email in support of these proposals, and resist the fear-mongering of the oil, coal and gas lobby. It’s that sort of fossilized thinking that got us here. Now, let’s move ahead. Ω

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Fifty Shades of Green Medical marijuana growers hopeful for industry regulation by Mike Blount

In the absence of state regulation, many local governments have set guidelines for marijuana cultivation, or, in some cases, growers have made their own. But these solutions are far from uniform across the state, according to Hezekiah Allen, executive director of the Emerald Growers Association. The group has produced multiple guides on sustainability and environmental responsibility for growers, but adoption of these policies is slow and voluntary.

Currently, two bills — SB643 and AB34 — are focusing on setting up regulatory framework for the medical marijuana industry. “Our fundamental goal is to have regulation that balances with existing legislation and increases our access to programs and incentives,” Allen says. “Working with both of the authors of these bills, we are hopeful about what they might do. They have resisted all of the stigma and focused on the fact that it’s a public policy question. We’re really excited about this fresh, new perspective.” Photo by Laura Anthony

ince the passage of the Compassionate Use Act in 1996, the medical marijuana industry in California has largely been unregulated by the state, leaving many questions about public safety and environmental concerns unanswered. With a public vote on the legalization of recreational use of marijuana looming in 2016, state lawmakers and cannabis growers have begun working together to create statewide legislation by the end of the year.

“Our farmers are ready to pay taxes and work with state agencies. We just want to make sure the program is balanced and fair.” Executive Director of the Emerald Growers Association Hezekiah Allen, far right, rallies with cannabis farmers in front of the State Capitol April 15.

Hezekiah Allen, executive director of the Emerald Growers Association Allen says new regulations would legitimize the medical marijuana industry, setting it apart from the illegal growing operations, which are at a competitive advantage.

While specific details for either bill have yet to be announced, Allen is hopeful that one will pass this year ahead of a 2016 public vote on recreational use.

California currently has a multimillion dollar black-market cannabis industry, and illegal growing has caused environmental concerns. As part of Gov. Jerry Brown’s emergency drought package passed in March, $2 million was set aside to fight illegal water diversion for illegal marijuana growing operations.

“Of course, if we’re going to do that in 2016, it would be so much better to have some of these questions already answered ahead of time,” Allen says. “But I believe this stands on its own merits as a public policy question. Our farmers are ready to pay taxes and work with state agencies. We just want to make sure the program is balanced and fair.”

In response to these concerns, Allen and his 750-member group have hired lobbyists to work with politicians at the State Capitol to make sure their interests are represented as the groundwork for new regulations is being laid.

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Because medical marijuana is not a regulated industry, growers also do not have access to state agricultural programs and incentives — something Allen would also like to see changed. Medical marijuana farmers also are unable to obtain business licenses, which would allow them to have business bank accounts and apply for bank loans.

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Last week. SN&R music writer Janelle Bitker reported that one of the city’s foremost emcees, Task1ne (Corey Lakel Pruitt), stole lyrics and verses from other rappers. On Monday, Pruitt conceded as much in a quasi-apologetic YouTube video diary. Scorekeeper says: Mic drop, it’s all over, Task. Thanks for playing.

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Then, there is that broad category of was an attempt by city planners to limit buildunintended consequences and good ideas ing “setbacks” and put new buildings close to done badly. city sidewalks, and thereby be more connected Take the city of Sacramento’s attempt to surrounding streets and sidewalks. to apply some forward-thinking planning The setback ordinance, put in place after principles to a planned chain-store pharmacy CVS began its application for the Franklin on Franklin Boulevard, which now seems to have Boulevard site, says new building fronts backfired in a big way. shouldn’t be set back more than 25 feet from ArvIN You may recall that last year neighbors the property line. 9 0 o n e - b e d r o o m , 9 0 t wo - b e d r o o m h o m e s by CoSMo G in the North City Farms, Hollywood Park The purpose of the policy, says Sacramento Central heating and Air conditioning Private parking garage cosmog@ newsrev iew.c om and Curtis Park neighborhoods were pretty city associate planner David Hung, is so “the exterior storage closets Interior courtyard agitated to learn that the Mercado Loco market building can be closer to the street, and there on Sutterville Road and Franklin Boulevard can be more interaction with the street. There dishwashers Community fitness & conference rooms would be torn down and replaced with a CVS can be eyes on the street.” After school programs & enrichment classes Laundry rooms on each floor pharmacy and convenience store. Neighbors even City planners wanted CVS to put the buildhigh-speed Internet, phone & tV balconies & patios circulated a petition asking the landowner—the ing entrance on the sidewalk. CVS instead Sacramento Children’s Home, located next asked for a variance from the new policy, and door—not to go through with the deal. But the to stick with their original plan. City planners CALL NOW (916) 553-2222 mUst containerized economy rolls on. Mercado Loco is refused. CVS said OK, but insisted on having see to Located at 601 Cannery Ave. sacramento, CA 95811 already closed, with plywood over the doors. the store entrance face the parking lot, and no beLIeVe! Section 8 Welcome! • SE HABLA ESPANOL • EHO&EOA After CVS submitted its application to the entrance facing the street. “For us, this is a city, the Sierra Curtis Neighborhood Association compromise solution,” said Hung. asked the project developer for a number of changes, to make the project a little less of “This makes absolutely suburban-style beige box surrounded by parking. “The idea was to make it more architecturally no sense in terms of good compatible with the Sacramento Children’s urban planning and Home, and more bike and pedestrian friendly,” design and it will be an explained Andrea Rosen, a Curtis Park resident and SCNA member, who negotiated with the incredible eyesore at this CVS developer on the plan. intersection.” CVS agreed to drop several parking spaces, put bike parking near the store entrance, and Marti Brown reduce the drive-thru pharmacy lanes from two executive director, North Franklin Business to one. A shade-providing arched trellis would District Association be built near the sidewalk, connected by a raised brick walkway running from the street corner to the building’s corner entrance. The developer The result of the compromise, says Brown, also agreed to consider adding larger windows. is a building that, “literally turns its back” on Still a big box, but could be worse. Rosen the street. “No entrance on either street. No said she felt pretty good about the changes. That eyes on the street. No building face on either was in summer 2013. Fast-forward a year and a commercial corridor.” half, when Rosen learned the city had approved Hung says the new entrance, facing the an entirely different project. “They completely Children’s Home on the building’s west side, trashed the pedestrian experience,” she says. will still be near the sidewalk on Sutterville. Now the entrance is on the west side, facing And he said SCNA was notified that there the Children’s Home. There are no entrances were changes, so it’s not clear how the new planned to face the street; instead, the building design got by them. turns its rear to Sutterville. There’s another Still, neighbors feel the city has botched blank wall facing Franklin. The CVS will have implementation of its new zoning rules. “window graphics”—meaning signs, not actual “You’ve got to think about how it works windows for looking through—on the walls out on the ground,” says Rosen. “Is the intent plants 4 feet facing the street. of the ordinance to build a building that turns “This makes absolutely no sense in terms of its back on a busy intersection?” & above good urban planning and design and it will be an Brown says CVS should get a refund of its 916.922.4769 In-store only. incredible eyesore at this intersection,” says Marti planning fees and be allowed to resubmit their 1833 Howe Avenue No double discounts. Brown, executive director of the North Franklin original plan. 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Election extremes Islamophobic campaign mailer disrupts Twin Rivers school board race Another scandal in the Twin Rivers Unified School District has cast an ugly pall over an upcoming special election. by Murmurs of racism have uglied up May 12’s vote, when Brooke Purves residents of the district’s Area Five will choose between Sonja Cameron and Basim Elkarra. Area One trustee Michael Baker told SN&R that his in-laws recently received something disturbing in their mailbox: a flier branding Elkarra as having ties to religious extremism and Islamic terrorism. The flier calls Elkarra an “outsider,” accuses him of terrorist ties as part of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, and includes pictures him with women in headscarves. Elkarra said he does work with CAIR, but says it is a civil-rights organization. It’s not clear who distributed Islamophobic campaign materials. The Clarion Project, a Washington D.C.-based organization that proposes to “challenge extremism,” is cited on the flier but has denied responsibility. It’s also uncertain how many fliers were produced or The flier calls Elkarra distributed, or whether the Fair an “outsider” and Political Practices Commission will investigate. accuses him of terrorist Cameron emphatically denies ties as part of any involvement in distributing the inflammatory material, the Council on saying it makes her “sick to even American-Islamic talk about it.” A Denmark native, Cameron Relations. said she herself was treated poorly upon coming to the states 45 years ago, a bride of a black Air Force member. “Why would I put something like that out there?” she said. The special election has been contentious so far. Cameron said her election committee distributed a letter to voters expressing support for a discussion about moving Regency Park Elementary from Twin Rivers to the Natomas School District. For that, she’s received some blowback. But “everyone I talked to, including my old community, feels we naturally belong in the Natomas School District,” Cameron said. She added that many families in Area Five send their kids to the geographically closer Natomas District schools, and that many are not happy with Twin Rivers. “What I want is for Twin Rivers to explore this,” she said, calling it a “crucial conversation.” Cameron was appointed by the district in December to fill the spot left vacant by Cortez Quinn, who was sentenced to jail for receiving loans and gifts from a district employee and conspiring to obstruct justice in a paternity case. But the Democratic Party of Sacramento County promptly took issue with the appointment, stalled it, and successfully collected signatures to force a special election. Cameron has no campaign website, no Facebook page. And she’s sought only local endorsements. “I’m not a politician,” she said. “The school board is nonpartisan.” Elkarra, on the other hand, is endorsed by multiple elected officials, including many high-powered Democrats. Ω

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Special delivery Mayor Kevin Johnson and his staff use private email for public work—and there’s no rule saying they can’t. Should there be? The Hillary Clinton email controversy brought public attention to an issue that open-government advocates have worried about for years: the by Cosmo Garvin widespread use of private emails by government officials to do public business. cosmog@ The danger is that some government officials ne w s re v i e w . c o m will use private email accounts to skirt publicrecords laws and avoid scrutiny by the media and larger public. Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson also uses private emails extensively to do city business. In fact, he and his staff have created a sort of parallel email system, not connected to city servers at all. That’s a big problem, says Jim Ewert, an attorney with the California Newspaper Publishers Association. “The practice essentially guts the California Public Records Act.” The mayor’s office has refused to answer SN&R’s questions about these private email accounts. And, unlike some other government agencies, the city of Sacramento has no policy at all regarding the use of private email accounts by government officials. In this way, Johnson is exploiting a legal gray area, one which is being fought over in the California Supreme Court right now. Like all city employees, the mayor and his staff are all assigned official city of Sacramento email addresses. But the mayor’s staff also uses a

special set of Gmail accounts to do a lot of city business. The accounts are private, but all branded with the letters “OMKJ,” for “Office of Mayor Kevin Johnson.” So, the email for Johnson’s chief of staff, Daniel Conway, is daniel.omkj@gmail.com. His press person, Ben Sosenko, is ben.omkj@gmail.com, and so forth. The mayor himself doesn’t appear to use Gmail, instead preferring to use other email addresses to do some city business. For example, he has in the past used mayorjohnson@ kevinjohnson.com. A more recently used address is seven@kevinjohnson.com. (Seven was Johnson’s jersey number in the NBA.) The mayor’s office won’t say why these accounts are used instead of the official city accounts available, or under what circumstances they are used. Sosenko did not return several calls and did not reply to an emailed list of questions, but sent a statement: “As has been widely pointed out in the media, elected officials in California have no clear uniform guidelines on the use of email. We look forward to the Legislature addressing this issue.” But the Legislature is not likely to address the issue any time soon, Ewert said, while the issue is tied up in California courts.

BEATS In 2013, the Santa Clara County Superior Court ruled that all emails used by San Jose city officials to conduct city business—even if they are sent using personal phones and private email accounts—were subject to the California Public Records Act. But a year later, the Sixth District Court of Appeal overturned the lower courts’ ruling. And now the case is before the California Supreme Court, which may or may not hear it this year. A decision is more likely sometime in 2016. In the meantime, “Most state and local agencies are looking at this like it’s the Wild West,” Ewert said. So, SN&R turned to the Sacramento city clerk for some answers. This paper filed a California Public Records Act request with the clerk’s office for all emails from all “OMKJ” accounts going back two years. The records request also included some basic questions about the use of the accounts, such as the names of the employees using the accounts and the number of emails generated. Many of those questions could not be answered, because the emails are not directly accessible by the city clerk. Instead, the messages are on Google servers, in accounts controlled entirely by the mayor’s staff. The city clerk’s office asked for and acquired 371 pages of emails from the mayor’s staff and turned them over to SN&R as part of a request. Much of what the city has turned over so far concerns the Kings arena. And much of it is information that was already turned over as evidence in a lawsuit brought by a group of citizens against the Kings arena deal, which is still in process. Most of the material disclosed is from early in 2013, and shows the constant communication between the mayor, his chief of staff Conway, spokesman Sosenko—all using private email accounts—and certain players in the arena deal. These included Kunal Merchant, the mayor’s former chief of staff who went to work for the mayor’s nonprofit arena booster organization, Think Big, then later parlayed that into a job with the Kings. Another frequent correspondent in this batch is Jeffrey Dorso, a Sacramento attorney who helped push through the deal. Many of the emails are historically interesting, allowing readers a glimpse of how the sausage is made at City Hall. Many of the exchanges show the group developing its talking points and planning how to manage local media and Johnson’s colleagues on the city council. Some of the emails also seem to suggest the senders weren’t thinking that their messages would ever be made public. For example, here’s an excerpt of an email from Dorso to the mayor and his lieutenants, on March 15, 2013:

“Met with [Sacramento Bee columnist] Marcos Breton today and put him in the dog house. He tried to back peddle [sic] saying it was just more neutral than negative. I hit him on this saying he needs to keep in mind his goals and focus on economic benefits of downtown development. He said he would do a better article Sunday. We will see.” In another exchange, Conway tells the group about his efforts to lobby “The Steves” on the arena term sheet, meaning Councilman Steve Hansen and thenCouncilman Steve Cohn. Hansen was asking for the vote on the tentative arena deal to be pushed back two days, and had concerns about what the deal would do for arts funding. Conway wrote: “Hansen said he’s a ‘no’ vote on Tuesday but that he can ‘support at the end of the day.’ Said two days will 1) allow Hansen to get assurances from Shirey that arts will be taken care of and 2) let public have input on term sheet.” To which Merchant replied, “Hansen is a tool.”

“ Met with [Sacramento Bee columnist] Marcos Breton today and put him in the dog house. … He said he would do a better article Sunday. We will see.” Jeffrey Dorso attorney, in an email to Mayor Kevin Johnson and his key staff And later, “Must Keep Shirey spine,” apparently meaning to keep City Manager John Shirey on board with the plan. It’s not clear if the emailers presumed these records would remain private, or even if that was the point of setting up the outside OMKJ accounts. And it’s not clear if these emails would have been turned over by the mayor’s staff if much of the material wasn’t already revealed in court. No other emails have been released so far, and no timeline has been given for the release of further material. If more emails are forthcoming, it’s hard to be sure the mayor’s office is turning over everything it should—because the law is not settled, and because the city clerk doesn’t have access to the emails directly. Assistant City Clerk Wendy KlockJohnson told SN&R, “I don’t have cause to believe that when I’ve asked for records that they withheld them from me.”

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But Ewert said the honor system is problematic. “It permits the owner of the account to make arbitrary decisions about what he or she wants the public to see,” he said. “You may not be getting the emails from the chief of staff or the press person, because they may not want you to see them.” The city has no policies or rules about the use of emails. It does have rules about the retention of public records, and those rules apply to city emails generally. The current policy allows the city to destroy records after two years, but requires certain documents to be retained and archived for the public record. But because the OMKJ emails are not in the city’s control, there is no way to know for sure if the mayor’s staff is following the records retention policy with regard to emails on private accounts. “We rely on our staff to follow our policies,” reiterated Klock-Johnson. Craig Powell, president of the local government watchdog group Eye on Sacramento, said that given the current confusion in the law, the mayor should be commended for turning over some emails from his private OMKJ accounts. “He could simply cite the recent California court of appeals decision. … I think it shows he has a basic commitment to open government.” But Powell said a better practice in the future would be to require that only city-provided email accounts be used for city business, and to treat all of those emails as public records. “That way no one will be going through emails making subjective judgment about what is or is not a personal or a city business email.” Powell is describing something similar to the policy in the city of Auburn, not far from Sacramento. Auburn’s email policy, adopted in 2012, requires “all emails sent to or from City elected officials and staff to be sent via or copied to an address on the City server so they can be preserved and made available to the public.” The rule was put in place to settle a lawsuit brought against Auburn by the California First Amendment Coalition, after an Auburn citizen alleged city council members were using private emails to get around the public records act. CFAC executive director Peter Scheer said that no matter how the California Supreme Court rules, “government agencies need to have control over their business files. This is the case whether the files reside in a city hall file room, a database on the premises or the city manager’s personal email account.” Ewert said the city needs to come up with its own policy about private emails accounts and city business. “Why is this practice being allowed in the first place? The city really needs to address that fundamental question.” Ω

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Sexual reeling For the 14th year in a row, Sacramento County is a statewide leader in sexually transmitted diseases. That’s according to the latest County Health Status Profile from the California Department of Public Health, which ranks California counties by the number of cases relative to the counties’ populations. Second only to Fresno County in female gonorrhea, and fourth in chlamydia and male gonorrhea, Sacramento ranks eighth in AIDS cases. Chlamydia reports have risen countywide by 60 percent since the disease was first included in the 2001 report, but STD rates overall have risen in California. It’s not clear what’s driving the numbers, but Sacramento County Public Health Officer Olivia Kasirye thinks it might have something to do with young people’s misconception about the risk of certain STDs. Screening and education efforts focused so heavily on HIV prevention that people didn’t get tested for other diseases. We’re now seeing an uptick in syphilis, which was almost nonexistent until a few years ago, Kasirye said. The county has tried to shake the trend by bolstering outreach and education efforts. Everyone coming through the county’s juvenile detention center gets tested, according to nursing supervisor Gwen Morrissey, and county reps visit high schools with educational material. Young women hesitant or unable to access clinic-based STD services can request a confidential testing kit online, collect their own sample and ship it back to a lab for analysis through the county’s I Know program. (Brooke Purves)

Roadkill science Unless you’re a budding serial killer, you probably avoid thinking too much about roadkill. This is why we have academics: to design interactive mapping software that tells us where we’re most likely to encounter these street-pizza horrors. That’s just what the folks at UC Davis’ Road Ecology Center did. Using data from the California Roadkill Observation System, the center released a 13-page report last week that describes which stretches of state highway are deadliest to wildland critters. The April 15 report divides the state into four regions, combining the Sacramento Valley and nearby mountain areas into one. The area around Sacramento County appears fairly benign at about one to six animal carcasses per mile. Activity picks up to about seven to 18 carcasses per mile in Yolo and El Dorado counties, where there’s more agriculture, waterways and forest habitats. A UC Davis release that accompanied the report suggested the drought “may be increasing the number of roadkill.” Author Fraser Shilling, co-director of UCD’s Road Ecology Center, writes that building fences and underpasses along priority highways could provide safe passage to wildlife. The CROS website also offers a “Roadkill Photo Gallery” that is exactly what it sounds like. And probably only of interest to academics or budding serial killers. (Raheem F. Hosseini)

Black lives Andreas Tillman Jr., better known as hip-hop artist Dre-T, brought the house down last week with a spoken-word performance inspired by the disproportional deaths of Sacramento County’s black children. Dre-T performed during a packed April 14 workshop organized by the board of supervisors to hear ideas on how to address the crisis, which has stretched on for 21 years now. Greater Sacramento Urban League president James Shelby urged supervisors to heed Dre-T’s message and adopt the strategy put before them. “As board of supervisors, you have an opportunity now to do something that’s never been done before—show that you care about African-American lives,” he said. (RFH)

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he metal tab pulls back with a familiar clickclick-hissssss as bubbles rush to the top of the can. The alluring scent of faux orange or grape or berries wafts through the air, a familiar smell that hints at what’s to come. What’s to come tastes good. It’s a reminder of summer, or of a childhood treat, of a sporting event or

a beach day with friends. It’s OK to indulge yourself, the advertising says. You’ve earned it. If you’re drinking a 20-ounce Mountain Dew, you’re earning the equivalent of 18 teaspoons of sugar. A same-sized Pepsi equals 16 teaspoons and a Coke comes out to 15. A 16-ounce Rockstar Energy Drink slams more than 15 teaspoons of its own. Here’s the problem with what you’re drinking, some scientists say: Humans are not biologically designed to deal with that much liquid sugar at once. Since there’s no digestion involved, it enters the bloodstream and is absorbed more quickly than food. As it does, the sugar overwhelms the pancreas, the organ tasked with regulating blood sugar, and over time wears it out. Welcome to Type

2 diabetes. That much sugar hits the liver like a freight train—the liver doesn’t know what to do with it all, other than convert it into fat, leading to higher rates of fatty liver disease. That’s a condition that once used to be seen mostly in alcoholics. Davis-based doctor of public health Harold Goldstein offers up the statistics on the amount of sugar in the most popular drinks off the top of his head—and then he sends a chart. Goldstein is the founding executive director of the California Center for Public Health Advocacy, located across the Yolo Causeway and whose mission is to look for solutions to what scientists say is an alarming increase in diabetes and obesity in California. About five years ago, the CPHA commissioned a study

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by the UC Berkeley Center for Weight and Health to see if there was a correlation between obesity and sugary beverage consumption. The UC study found that between 1977 and 2001, Americans on average were consuming 278 more calories a day than before, with 43 percent of those calories defined as new beverage calories. “I had no idea what the answer was going to be, but what they came up with was simple and compelling,” Goldstein says. “I was stunned. It was twice as much as I guessed.” We weren’t just eating more. We were drinking more. And mostly, we were drinking more sugar, a phenomenon that coincided with the “soda wars” of the ’70s and ’80s, where Coca Cola and Pepsi went head-tohead on television advertising campaigns to win the hearts, tastebuds and dollars of consumers. It also coincided with an increase in portion sizes: In the ’70s and ’80s, a 12-ounce can was the norm. Now fast-food restaurants offer 32-ounce cups with free refills, and thirsty consumers can find sugar-sweetened drinks everywhere, from corner markets to vending machines in airport parking garages. Another surprising statistic, this from the National Institutes of Health via Goldstein: A quarter of teenagers, or 23 percent, have pre-diabetes, an increase from 9 percent just 10 years ago. “These beverages are tricking the body,” Goldstein says. “The pancreas goes wild and the liver says, ‘Look at all this. I better save it for a rainy day and turn it into fat.’ There is a cohort of teens that will be entering the health care system with higher rates of diabetes than ever.” The grim statistics are why state Senator Bill Monning, backed by CCPHA and the Sacramento-based Health Officers Association of California, is going back into battle with the beverage industry. Earlier this year, Monning introduced Senate Bill 203, which would require a warning label to be placed on the packaging of sugar-sweetened beverages including sodas, sweet teas, sports drinks and energy drinks. He introduced a similar bill last year, but it didn’t make it to the governor’s desk. The label would be required on drinks with 75 or more calories per 12 ounces and would read as follows: “STATE OF CALIFORNIA SAFETY WARNING— Drinking beverages with added sugar(s) contributes to obesity, diabetes and tooth decay.” Sacramento state “Sugar Senator Richard Pan ” supports the bill and is ContInuEd on pagE also listed as a co-author.

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If the immediate reaction from the beverage industry is any indication, Monning faces an uphill battle. It might actually be dead already; the bill was scheduled to appear in a legislative committee on April 22. (Results from the committee vote were not known before deadline; insiders say it will likely make it through, but you never know.) PHOTO BY NIC COURY

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If it dies, it will be because the beverage industry is willing not only to put a lot of muscle and money behind the effort to stop Monning, but also to try to stop information they deem harmful to their industry from reaching the public in the first place.

The ‘S’ word But the soda industry has bigger problems besides one California legislator: More and more studies are being released every year on sugar-sweetened beverages, and how they’re not so good for you. For instance, a Monterey County Health Department study, which was delayed for more than two years because someone higher up the food chain brought down pressure, finally was released this past March. Which adds even more fizz to the pop drama. The report was based on research conducted between 2011-12 by a tri-county organization—San Benito, Santa Cruz and Monterey counties—called the Nutrition & Fitness Collaborative of the Central Coast, as part of the nationwide initiative called “Rethink Your Drink.” The aim is straightforward: getting people to reduce their consumption of sugary drinks. Christine Moss is a staffer to the collaborative and knows what she’s talking about. She also knows about pressure from the American Beverage Association, a representative of whom called her while the collaborative was gathering its data. “He wanted to make sure we weren’t doing anything silly like pushing for a soda tax,” she says. “I explained to him we couldn’t work on something like that, because our funders wouldn’t allow it.”

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Epidemiologists began the survey in 2011, seeking to track the sugary-beverage-consumption habits of 250 people in each of the three counties. They found participants at health clinics and in laundromats waiting for their clothes to dry. In the end, they collected 1,053 surveys and completed the survey work by late 2012. “Anyplace we could get a group together, we did a survey,” Moss says. “That way we could get a nice representative group of people. That was important to us.” The aim was to release the survey a few months into 2013. Yes, that means it is a full two years late. What happened? “We were touchingly naive,” Moss says. “We started to realize this was very controversial. We got lots of pushback. Our state funder, the California Department of Public Health, had lots of questions and cautions.” She says she would would send in surveys and the Department of Public Health would send them back asking for very precise changes. “I wasn’t quite sure of the intent, but the approvals each step took a lot of time. It pushed back our timeline a long way,” she said. Examples of that pushback: Moss says she was not allowed to use imagery people might think of as a specific soda can—no red backgrounds with silver swirls, or blue backgrounds with red and white imagery.

And she was actually discouraged from using the word “soda” in the report (it may have slipped in, she says, in at least one instance, but the report mostly references sugarsweetened beverages). “I expect it’s a trigger word for certain special interests,” Moss says, “but we found it’s much broader than soda.” Moss says the research found what she calls “two big shockers.” First, as soda sales have started to plateau, companies have ramped up their advertising for energy and sports drinks, specifically targeting 11- to 17-year-olds. “The numbers will knock your socks off. For every second-grade teacher wondering why kids are so hopped up, caffeinated drinks are big,” Moss says. The other big shocker: Nobody’s drinking much water. The California Department of Public Health did not respond to questions about the report’s delay.

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Committee, PepsiCo spent $2,200 on a catered event for 13 legislators and more than three dozen legislative staff members from the Latino Legislative Caucus, as the Sacramento Bee reported. Of the legislators who attended, two voted against Senate Bill 1000, the previous iteration of the labeling bill. Later that day, the Bee reported that PepsiCo representatives took Assembly members Luis Alejo and Freddie Rodriguez to dinner. Alejo, who this year became head of the Latino Legislative Caucus, didn’t vote on the bill because he’s not a member of the Assembly Health Committee. Rodriguez, who is a committee member, abstained. Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez voted against it. She said at the time that a decline in soda sales would lead to the loss of too many jobs in her district. Alejo says the timing was coincidental. The PepsiCo event had been planned for more than a month and featured a book signing by Richard Montanez, a former janitor who became a PepsiCo executive—and the inventor of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos. In 2014, the American Beverage Association California Political Action Committee, also known as the American Beverage Association Strategic Advocacy Fund, spent $11.8 million on various candidates and measures. Of that, $9.24 million went to the successful opposition of a soda tax floated before San Francisco voters. The group also spent $2.43 million to defeat a Berkeley soda tax, which passed despite fierce industry opposition.

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The PAC donated $4,100 to Alejo for Assembly, and the same to the Senate campaign of Ben Hueso, the San Diego Democrat who is vice chair of the Latino Legislative Caucus. It put $27,200 into Gov. Jerry Brown’s campaign and $3,000 into Attorney General Kamala Harris’ too. It gave $46,000 to the Democratic State Central Committee of California and $10,000 to the California Republican Party. (For more information, see box at right.) Fast forward to this year. The PAC started 2015 with $504,000 in the bank. The spokesman for the Latino Legislative Caucus PAC and foundation, local political strategist Roger Salazar, is now the spokesman for CalBev, also known as the California-Nevada Beverage Association, the trade association representing the nonalcoholic beverage industry in California and Nevada. The Cal-Nev Soft Drink Association PAC spent $37,371 on various campaigns in 2014, mostly as $1,000 contributions to individual legislators. In the hours and days that followed Monning’s announcement of his labeling bill, S.B. 203, CalBev went on the offensive. In a written statement, CalBev Executive Director Bob Achermann says obesity and diabetes are more complicated than a warning label. Monning’s bill is “misguided,” singles out soft drinks while ignoring sugar-rich cupcakes, donuts and processed foods, and is riddled with loopholes that will

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confuse consumers, according to the statement. For example, the release says, fountain sodas purchased at restaurants with table service will be exempt from labeling. The release also calls out milkbased products like Frappuccinos and lattes, which contain as much sugar and more calories than soft drinks. Salazar says the industry has taken on an initiative to reduce sugarsweetened beverage consumption 20 percent by 2025. “There are ways you can have a collaborative effort, but bills like this seek to demonize an industry with a shocking label when there are other, broader causes to obesity and diabetes we should be looking at,” Salazar says. “It’s about balancing calories, and there’s no question we support programs that educate people about nutrition and exercise.” But the statement that there could be a collaborative effort came as news to Monning. “They haven’t proposed any compromises to us that would work for them,” he says. “I think we’ve maintained open and cordial conversation. Their position on labeling is, they provide caloric information on the label and consumers have that at their fingertips.” He acknowledges other sources of sugar are out there, but says none are as dangerous. “While sugar is in other foods,” he says, “medical evidence is clear that liquid consumption of sugar is more immediately damaging. When

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State Senator Bill Monning has taken other runs at legislation surrounding sugar-sweetened beverages. Two taxes he floated, one in the Assembly and another in the Senate, failed, as did last year’s labeling bill. “The more awareness we bring to the issue, the more it will resonate with the public,” he says.

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was born in Cameroon; there her mother taught her piano and Allo explored her dad’s extensive record collection. A move to Sacramento at 13 expanded Allo’s musical breadth and by the time she was 20, the singer-songwriter (who’s also done some modeling and commercial work) was playing guitar, performing at open-mics and working on her first album, 2009’s UnFresh. In 2010, Allo moved to Los Andy Allo got her musical start playing open-mic nights at the Fox & Goose.

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… It was my first crowd experience. It was fun because these are songs we had written together. Did you record your first album in Sac? Yes, at Paradise [Recording] Studio. I wanted to go there because Tony! Toni! Toné! recorded there. It was one of the most difficult [things I’ve done] but exciting. I was 20 and … financing everything and being the force that was pushing it forward.

Tell me about the new EP. This is my first project since leaving the NPG and I’m venturing into a different sound. [It’s] pop-rock. It’s a little grittier and there’s still some soul elements but it’s definitely reconnecting me with the music I listened to when I was [younger]: Arctic Monkeys, Grateful Dead, the Strokes.

Why did you move to Sacramento? My mom is from Sacramento. She … wanted my siblings and I to finish school and get a better education.

When did you meet Prince? Real quick, about the open-mics, the reason I did them is because that’s how I started here.

When did you start playing music? My mom was a pianist and so when I was 6 or 7, she started teaching me. … In my late teens, that’s when I was introduced to guitar because I wanted to have an instrument that was a little more portable. … It was [also] a chance for me to enhance the songs I was writing, to step forward and … put them forth [for a band].

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What kind of feedback did he give you? It was more that he just listened. He would play some songs and we were just two musicians singing. He hadn’t yet become a mentor. It was still him testing me out and seeing. Then I performed two shows with him and a couple of weeks after that he asked if I would join the band. … He had the “Welcome 2 Europe” tour and the “Welcome 2 Canada” tour all set. Those were my first major tours and I had two weeks to learn a bunch of songs.

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That seems like a school of rock right there. It was boot camp. I was challenged every day and the night before, because I didn’t know all the songs. The night before [Prince] might write down some of the songs he might do the next day. I’d figure out the chords or he’d show me what he wanted me to play or I’d call some of the other band members and ask for help. Then I’d spend most of the night practicing. What happened after the tour? In between [shows] I was writing and I would share my new songs with [Prince] and it organically happened where we ended up having a collection of songs that I had written, some that he and I had written together. When we had time off, we would just go into the studio.

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What did he say after? He didn’t say anything. It was a party, so it was more like I performed and then I went back to being a guest. Later on, I played more songs. We had a one-on-one jam session.

He can play forever, too. Yeah … shows were about four hours. Then we’d have an after show. We’d take, like, an hour break then perform until 4 a.m.

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So then, you come to L.A. where you have at least an album’s worth of songs. And because of that I was featured on The Africa Channel. They had heard of the music and wanted to do a special with me. … A year or two later, they reached out to me and said we’re working with Prince and we’d like to introduce you.

What’s your reaction? “Ahh! Is this real?!” [But] I didn’t go crazy with my imagination. I just went to the concert where they were working with him. They [had given] him my first record. I think he liked one song on it. Then he asked me to jump on stage and perform with him at the after party. I sang “Waiting in Vain” by Bob Marley. This was no rehearsal, nothing, I just met him and this was my audition to see if I was real. I take it that it went well. I had been preparing for it. All those open-mics, all those performances. I was ready. It’s what I was born to do.

You performed at the Fox & Goose, right? Yes, and for me that was the cycle. It’s more an open, supportive space. … The first [open-mic] night at Fox & Goose was so crucial to what I’m doing now because I only had two songs written. They said I needed three songs. I had half of a song written. … I sang that song and improvised and finished it on stage.

How did you find like-minded musicians? I would go to this rehearsal space off El Camino [Boulevard] and that’s where I … created my first band, Allo and the Traffic Jam. We played Second Saturday. … It was awesome.

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You moved to Los Angeles in 2010— what was that like? I had to figure out what I was doing and where I was living and things e like that. I just took a thos chance. I took the risk of “All s, -mic going to a place I didn’t n e p o e know at all. There was . thos l this little theater that has l a nces a m open-mic poetry night or perf once a week and I went ady. e r s s there and I sang. I wa I wa

You grew up in Cameroon. How did that shape you? I think it grounded me, in the sense that we didn’t have everything available to us at the drop of a dime. It was mostly focused on community, family and the arts. … My father had this epic record collection and we’d always listen to music: reggae, African music or even country.

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Where did you record? At [Prince’s Minneapolis studio] Paisley Park; then some of the music was recorded at a studio in Switzerland. I was working with some of the best musicians out there. Maceo Parker, Trombone Shorty, Prince. They were taking charge and I was involved in the process but I was also watching and observing how he led the musicians. Did it change your approach? I think I was more careful and just not so much analytical but looking at the songs overall and thinking about how they could be the best song possible. … There were times I finished a song and I’d share it with Prince and he’d say, “I think you need one more verse.” And I’d say, “Ah, man, really!? I thought I was done.” Then I’d go back and I’d write it and share it with him and he’d say, “Yeah,

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that’s it.” It pushed me to not accept the first run-through or the first draft. What’s happened since then? Are you still on his label? I never was signed. Everything we did was just as a collaboration. I created my own company, Allo Evolution. Why did you stop playing with his band? At the time we had finished touring and Superconductor had just come out. I wanted to promote the record and [Prince] was also changing bands. … It just was right. Are you still working with him? His recent record that just came out, Art Official Age, we have two songs [together] on it. Did he work with you on any of the new stuff? Or is this independence? This is independence! This is me, venturing out on my own. How does it feel? I love it! It’s been a humbling experience and readjusting to me saying, “What’s my voice, truly and what do I want to say?” It’s been a trusting experience of learning how to listen to myself. I still have a lot of what [Prince] taught me, I can’t not have it. That’s what gave me the confidence to say, “OK, I can do this.” Ω Download Andy Allo’s new EP at https://itunes. apple.com/us/album/hello-ep/id982254114. For more information, visit http://alloevolution.com.

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his week is all about watching films, and buying tickets for those films really early. There are plenty to choose from—except for maybe the long-awaited Colin Hanksdirected Tower Records documentary, All Things Must Pass, that everyone wants to see. Basically, one screening (part of the opening night of the Sacramento International Film Festival) sold out quick, and then festival organizers decided to organize a second one—and that sold out fast, too. For everyone who wasn’t lucky enough to get tickets for those screenings, the following guide should help point you to some other good stuff on the big screen. To start, there’s the rest of the Sacramento International Film Festival. It’s pretty long, running from Saturday, April 25, through Sunday, May 3, at multiple venues, including the Tower Theatre, the Crest Theatre and the Delta King. Highlights include films from a local 48-hour film-making challenge, an action-packed

short-film program called Hard Ass Cinema, conferences, youth films and a bunch of other locally made and international films. Head to www.sacramentofilmfestival.com for the full schedule and individual ticket prices. Catch old-school films this week at both the Crocker Art Museum (216 O Street, www.crockerartmuseum.org) and the Crest Theatre (1013 K Street, www.crestsacramento. com), both venues that regularly screen classic films. Speaking of sold-out, the Crocker’s already filled up an April 26 screening of Paris Blues, which will help close out the magnificent Toulouse-Lautrec and La Vie Moderne: Paris 1880–1910 exhibition. But tickets are still available for Citizen Kane, screening on Thursday, April 23, at 7 p.m. (tickets are $6-$10). And then at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, April 24 (tickets are $8-$10), the Crest will show Stand By Me, starring River Pheonix, Will Wheaton, Corey Feldman and Keifer Sutherland.

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Art Studio Trek Saturday. april 25, through Sunday, april 26 Seventeen artists show off their art at 10 locations in Rocklin, Granite Bay and Roseville this weekend at the Art Studio Trek. Art demonstraART tions, chocolate and door prizes round out the event, which features the art of Patricia Abraham, Cathy Cline, Diane Ruhkala Bell and more. Free, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily at various locations; www.artstudiotrek.com.

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Kids Art Festival Saturday, april 25 A full day of art for kids includes an exhibition of student art, entertainment, food and a dozen make-and-take art stations including sculpting with clay, making Chinese yo-yos, beading bracelets and ART FESTIVAL making ribbon wands. Also enjoy performances by nearly two dozen youth performers including the Mission Avenue Elementary Doo Dit Doo Bahs, the Howe Avenue Ukuleles and the Barrett Middle School Dancers. Free, 10 a.m. at Village Park, 4238 Main Street in Fair Oaks; www.fairoakspark.org.

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Vinyl and Music Fair Sunday, april 26 Although seemingly everyone is glued to their phones these days, there are still lots of audiophiles around who like their music on vinyl. Hearing music VINYL reproduced on records is still a wonder after all of these years. The fine folks at Armadillo Music have been hosting these music fairs with great results and there are always gems to be found. Free, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Armadillo Music, 646 A Street in Davis; www.armadillomusic.com.

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TEDxUCDavis: Beyond the Conversation Sunday, april 26 More than a dozen speakers, including a cognitive neurologist, a fashion designer, a hydrologist and an Internet entrepreneur, will LECTURE explore what motivates individuals to act on inspiration during various panels and interactive activities. $15-$30, 1 p.m. at UC Davis, 1 Shields Avenue in Davis; http://tedxucdavis.com.

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since. The challenge, owner Carlos Ulloa said, is that he had to build a new wall and therefore get new permits from the city and health department as well. Ulloa hopes it’ll be back open by May. On to the new: The Green Boheme opened in Roseville (1611 Lead Hill Boulevard, suite 160), serving raw, vegan eats for dining in or to go, plus Liquidology juice and Pachamama coffee. In Davis, Shabu Extreme (213 E Street) softly opened a few weeks ago. Think of shabu as Japanese fondue, dipping thin strips of raw meat, noodles and vegetables into bubbling soups. Shabu Extreme also boasts a long menu of Taiwanese boba teas: squat cups carry brown, sugar-infused milks; flavored puddings; salty, foamy creams; and flavored shaken tea. And to look forward to shortly: The Sacramento Business Journal reported that Roxie Deli’s new location at 15th and R streets will open sometime next week. The East Sacramento shop has been longbeloved for its made-to-order deli sandwiches, and expect more smokey options at the new spot, as it’s called Roxie Deli & Barbecue. Ω | A R T S & C U L T U R E

For once we can thank the gluten-free trend, because most bars and restaurants carry at least one hard cider nowadays—usually from locals Two Rivers Cider Co. or Common Cider Co. Their ciders usually run the gamut of sweet and fruity, and while delicious, I often crave something light, dry and a little more complex. Enter the Ginja Ninja from 2 Towns Ciderhouse in Corvallis, Ore., which pours pale gold and cleanly balances notes of tart green apple and spicy ginger. It’d pair well with an aged, nutty sheep’s cheese, say, from The Rind, which regularly carries 12-ounce cans. 1801 L Street, www.therindsacramento.com.

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More cheese, please Cheddar Cauliflower Cauliflower is one of those vegetables often improved by cheese. So imagine my delight when I spotted a “cheddar” cauliflower at the farmers’ market! While it actually contains no cheese, this variety is a lovely yellow-orange, making it a great source of vitamin A. Use it raw to add color to a crudité platter or steam it and watch the color deepen. Since cauliflower is a good sub for mashed potatoes, puree the cooked florets and honor the varietal name by adding a handful of sharp cheddar to the mix. Or make it into a cheesy beer soup with a local lager.

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Best restaurant Boulevard Bistro Best restaurant El Palmar Mexican Restaurant El Papagayo Restaurant Skip’s Kitchen Mighty Tavern Mikuni Japanese Restaurant & Sushi Bar Peacock Indian Restaurant Noble Vegetarian Firebird Russian Restaurant & Gallery Stirling Bridges Restaurant & Pub Yui Marlu Kolbeh Kabob Best breakfast or brunch Bella Bru Cafe & Catering Dianda’s Italian Bakery & Cafe Fair Oaks Coffee House & Deli Hungry Hollow Lido Cafe and Bakery Mirabelle Cafe Mighty Tavern The Village Bistro

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Best restaurant Boulevard Bistro Bravo’s Soup and Sandwich Shoppe Brick House Restaurant & Lounge Deliciozo Mexican

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Best sushi Crazy Sushi Fuji Sushi Buffet Kintaro Sushi Bar Mikuni Japanese Restaurant & Sushi Bar Satori Sushi & Teriyaki Grill Wasabi Japanese Steak House Yoshi Japanese Restaurant Osaka Sushi Japanese Restaurant Suki Sushi Sushimono

Best Mexican/ Latin Chando’s Tacos Truck Dos Coyotes Border Café El Jardin Fine Mexican Restaurant El Potro Taqueria Plaza Del Sol Restaurant & Bar Sol Mexican Restaurant Taqueria Vallarta Todo Un Poco Vallarta Mexican Restaurant

Best coffeehouse Grace Coffee Roasters It’s a Grind Coffee House Java Time Donuts Moo Moo Tapioca & Tea Tea Culture

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Best restaurant ASR Restaurant & Lounge Baagan The Chef’s Table Flame & Fire Four Sisters Cafe Hawks Restaurant La Huaca Peruvian Cuisine Mehfil Indian Restaurant Mikuni Kaizen The Monk’s Cellar Ninja Sushi and Teriyaki Source Global Tapas Restaurant

Best brewery Black Vinyl Ale Project Boneshaker Community Brewery Dragas Brewing GoatHouse Brewing Co. The Monk’s Cellar Out of Bounds Brewing Company Roseville Brewing Company

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Best Mexican/ Latin American Carmelita’s Mexican Restaurant Chando’s Tacos Don Quixote’s Mexican Grill El Azteca Taqueria Flame & Fire La Huaca Peruvian Cuisine Jalisco Grill Mas Cocina Mexicana Nela’s Mexican Restaurant Rudy’s Gourmet Mexican Cuisine Sabores Mexican Cuisine Zócalo Best coffeehouse Bambu Desserts & Drinks Bloom Coffee & Tea Edwin’s Coffee & Tea Kona Cafe Lollicup Coffee & Tea Origin Coffee & Tea Pipeline Coffee House Shady Coffee & Tea Best bakery Baker Ben’s Donuts Beard Papa’s Sweets Cafe Celestial Bites Cookie Connection Cupcake A La Mode Foothills Donuts Icing on the Cupcake Kelli’s Cookies Little Bliss Cakery Nothing Bundt Cakes Smallcakes: A Cupcakery Stieber’s Sweet Shoppe A Slice of Goodness

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Uncomfortably nice comPulsion In Compulsion (Minotaur Books, $25.99), Elk Grove novelist Allison Brennan’s second installment in the case files of Maxine “Max” Revere has her going after a serial killer. Already in custody, Adam Bachman is Book charged with five murders; Max thinks there are two more. She secures an interview with Bachman for her TV show and probes the murder of a middle-aged couple who disappeared on their second honeymoon. A taunt from Bachman lights a fire under her, but not even her bodyguard, David, can get between Max and danger. While the first novel, Notorious, depicted Max as obnoxious but right, she’s now edging uncomfortably close to nice. Max started out as a “Nancy Grace with brains” type; now she’s gone a bit too far in the emotionally-available direction.

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Onscreen equality Davis Feminist Film Festival It’s no secret that women have suffered at the hands of the male species for centuries. Sexism still exists in countless settings and while many do Film their best to learn the nuances of what makes equality possible, education is key. This film festival, now in its 10th year and currently run by the UC Davis Women’s Resources and Research Center, offers a focus on art from women and people of color. Selections include the documentary In the Turn about a 10-year-old Canadian transgender girl. There’ll also be experimental genre flicks and traditional narrative films. 7 p.m. Thursday, April 30, and Friday, May 1; $5-15 suggested donation. Veterans Memorial Center Theater, 203 East 14th Street in Davis; http://fem filmfest.ucdavis.edu. —Eddie Jorgensen

Dogchella Pet-a-Palooza Festival season is upon us, and for those of you with a Fido that has serious FOMO, this year’s Pet-APalooza looks like it’ll be a banger—Colbie PEts Caillat and Katy Tiz are headlining. Plus, there will be obstacle courses for dogs, a beer garden for humans and more than 20 animal-rescue groups, so you can expand your brood, save lives and live that flower-crown lifestyle all at the same time. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, April 25; free. 7801 Auburn Road, http://ksfm.cbslocal.com/pet-a-palooza-2015. —Deena Drewis

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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet Community Asian Theatre of the Sierra ventures in new directions with this show about young love interrupted by World War II, between by Jeff Hudson a Chinese-American boy and a JapaneseAmerican girl. The boy’s father (a stern Chinese Nationalist) despises everything Japanese, so young son Henry (Kevin M. Lin, an actor from Seattle) hides his growing fondness for classmate Keiko (Lyra Dominguez, who brings energy and surprising insight to the role).

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his Americanized son, counterbalance the love story. The script (based on Jamie Ford’s 2009 debut novel) was developed by Seattle’s Book-It Repertory Theatre. What you’re getting here is “literature on stage,” with multiple characters speaking narrative prose drawn directly from the book. The storytelling style takes a little getting used to (and Ford’s plot occasionally leans toward the melodramatic), but the show grows on you. Seattle’s Annie Lareau (who directed the 2012 Seattle premiere) helms this CATS staging. It’s a big show (23 actors, 2.5 hours), but it grips your attention, unifying strikingly different ideas, eras and outcomes in Henry and Keiko’s long, unusual lives. Ω

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There’s lots more going on. Angry racists target any Asian as a hated Japanese (Henry’s father makes him wear a button saying “I am Chinese”). A gentle-hearted black jazzman (Michael Lewis) offers perceptive advice. A few tolerant whites are troubled by the harsh government crackdown—mass arrests of Japanese-Americans, leading to internal exile amid barbed wire. The lovers struggle to stay together, but the tide is against them. Woven in is a parallel plot in the 1980s involving the haunted, middle-aged Henry, and his modern, culturally-assimilated son, who’s marrying a white girl. They help old Henry (Bay Area pro Randall Nakano) trace Keiko, whom Henry hasn’t heard from in decades. The very different relationships between young Henry and his dictatorial Chinese dad, as well as old Henry and

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Cloud 9; 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m Sunday, 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 30; $10-$15. Harris Center for the Arts, 10 College Parkway in Folsom; (916) 608-6888; www.harriscenter.net. Through May 3.

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Nick Cearley charms as a struggling actor who takes a preposterously impossible job working in the basement mall of Barbra Streisand’s Malibu home. This play broaches several important topics: the isolation of celebrity, the narcissism that accompanies stardom, the mark of an unhappy childhood on the adult and even the attraction between gay men and divas. Tu, W,

Sa 8pm; Th, F 7pm; Th 2pm; Su 1pm. Through 5/9. $23-$35. B2 Space at B Street Theatre, 2727 B St.; (916) 443-5300, www.bstreet theatre.org. J.C.

The Clearing This play humanizes the conflicts of 17th-century

Ireland when Cromwell’s English army sets out to clear the Irish from their homeland. The personal price paid by those trapped in the conflicts is the focus of Ovation Stage’s production, which tells the story of a young married couple with roots and allegiances in two different countries. F, Sa 8pm; Su 7pm. Through 4/26. $17-$20. Ovation Stage at the Wilkerson Theatre in the R25 Arts Complex, 1723 25th St.; (916) 606-5050; www.ovationstage.com. P.R.

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Buddy Butler directs this powerful play that takes place at the close of the Civil War in Richmond, Va., during Passover. Playwright Matthew Lopez’s award-winning story chronicles a young wounded Confederate soldier’s return home, where he finds his home destroyed and two of his newly freed slaves trying to cobble a life together amidst the ruins of the house. The historic time frame is pertinent: the war is ending, an assassination takes place and Passover is being observed in the relatively large Jewish population who lived in Richmond. The performances are memorable, as is the script, the story and the staging. W,

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When Caryl Churchill’s Cloud Nine was written and produced in the late ’70s, it was meant to titillate and shock with its overt sexual themes and language. All these years later, it still does. In a storyline that starts in British colonial Africa and ends in a London park in 1980, it presents a whole cornucopia of social, sexual and gender taboos with a comedic bent that has tongues firmly planted in cheeks. This is a daring offering for Falcon’s Eye Theatre up at Folsom Lake College, and comes with a warning: It’s not a production for those who might get the vapors upon hearing lewd language and all things carnal. Turns out David Williams, the dean of performing arts, wrote his dissertation on the original Cloud Nine, so even a recent rival by Sacramento’s Big Idea Theatre did not thwart the college from staging another production. And the decision was a wise one, with the winning combination of a fascinating play, flawless performances by a wonderful team of talented and very versatile actors under the careful guidance of director Christine Nicholson, and Folsom Lake’s usual creative production decisions. The only weakness lies in the play itself. Though the first act has a compelling and comedic storyline, the play fades a bit in the second half with the abrupt change in era, genre and pace, with a flat plot and titillations that feel forced.

This play by Mark St. Germain, based on the bestselling nonfiction book by Osha Gray Davidson, tells an unlikely—but true—story about the relationship between an African-American civil rights activist and a Grand Cyclops of the KKK during the desegregation of Durham, N.C., schools in 1971. James Wheatley directs the play as a series of short scenes. There’s only one set, and rearranging chairs and turning a desk into a table are the only changes, so it all moves relatively smoothly. Th-Sa 8pm; Su 2 pm. Through 5/9. $8-$15. Celebration Arts Theatre, 4469 D St.; (916) 455-2787, www.celebrationarts.net. J.C.

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The funny foursome There’s a difference between laughing at people and laughing with them. This is an important point that the Comedians With Disabilities Act want to get people to think about. The group of Bay Area comedians met and joined forces a few years back with help from local comedian Keith Lowell Jensen, and have been making audiences laugh (and think) ever since. The foursome includes blind comedian Eric Mee, little person Steve Danner, wheelchair user Michael O’Connell, and Nina G, who stutters. The line between being laughed at and laughed with is a particularly important one for them, as folks with disabilities are often the butt of jokes by comedians. “We thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be more fun for the crowd to laugh with people with disabilities instead?’” O’Connell says. “That’s guilt-free fun right there.” This is a special performance, a release show for their new CD, and Jensen will host. The Comedians with Disabilities Act; 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 29; $15. Punch Line Comedy Club, 2100 Arden Way; www.comedianswithdisabilitiesact.com. —Aaron Carnes

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Returning home, Connor finds his wife Eliza (Jacqueline McKenzie) dreamily cleaning a shoe. “Arthur has worn through the toe of his boot,” she says. “I don’t know how he does it.” She tells him the boys are all in bed waiting for him to read them to sleep. Pained, he tries to beg off, but she insists. Sighing, he goes to his sons’ room and reads from The Arabian Nights—to an audience of three empty beds. The boys are all gone, lost in 1915 in the disastrous Gallipoli campaign of the Great War. Grief has unhinged Eliza, and it drives her to suicide, after bitterly reproaching Connor (“You can find water but you can’t find your own sons!”). At her grave, he promises her that somehow he’ll find their three sons and bring them home to rest beside her. This is what brings Connor to Istanbul in the shattered Ottoman Empire, where the Turkish locals seethe under Britain’s postwar occupation, and where the British Army is undertaking the grisly chore of uncovering the dead, identifying them where possible, and interring them in military cemeteries on the Gallipoli Peninsula. Connor is denied access to the peninsula, but he’s not easily turned aside once his mind is made up. In his self-imposed mission, Connor finds unexpected allies, even friends, along the way. He stays at a small hotel owned by Ayshe (Olga Kurylenko), a Turkish woman whose husband, like Connor’s sons, lies among the unknown corpses on Gallipoli. At first her bitterness makes her cold and hostile, but as days wear on she responds to Connor’s obvious decency and, in her way, empathizes with his loss. Her son Orhan

(Dylan Georgiades, in an engaging performance) befriends Connor, reviving the man’s withered paternal instincts. And most curious of all, he forms a wary, respectful bond with Major Hasan (Yilmaz Erdogan), a commander on the Ottoman side in the Gallipoli campaign, now reluctantly cooperating with the British in their work of finding and identifying the dead. Through all this, Connor’s peculiar sixth sense, which once helped him to find water in the desert of South Australia, somehow, in ways he only dimly understands, guides him in his anguished quest for the remains of his three sons. The Water Diviner was written by Andrew Knight and Andrew Anastasios, and the script is a sometimes heady mix of epic events and intimate emotions, punctuated by brief but savage battle scenes—either experienced, remembered, imagined or psychically sensed—as brutal and indelible as anything since Saving Private Ryan. Knight and Anastasios juggle time and place expertly, but in a way that might easily flummox a fledgling director, especially one who’s starring in the movie himself. So it’s a relief to see the confidence with which Crowe drives the movie.

Russell Crowe doesn’t allow the scenery or the exotic Turkish locations to upstage the characters. Like Connor luxuriating in the water of the well he has dug, Crowe similarly basks in the lush beauty of Andrew Lesnie’s cinematography, while Lesnie proves that his work on the Lord of the Rings trilogy was no fluke. But the movie never slides into an album of travel postcards; Knight and Anastasios keep the plot percolating with turns that shouldn’t be spoiled here. And in its tranquil moments, Crowe doesn’t allow the scenery or the exotic Turkish locations to upstage the characters. Even in a visit to an exquisitely beautiful Byzantine mosque, the focus remains on Connor and his young guide Orhan. And Crowe’s scenes with Kurylenko (in her way as exquisite as that mosque) gently pulse with the decorous, tentative rhythms of courtship between damaged souls. The Water Diviner is an old-fashioned movie in the best sense of the term, directed by Crowe with a (perhaps surprisingly) delicate and generous touch. Ω

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To the extent that it’s possible, I tend to avoid extra-textual awareness of the films that I might review. I shun gossip and spoilers, mistrust all hype and never read the media notes that studios spoon-feed to lazy critics. Director and co-writer Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s inscrutable biblical noir western Broken Horses presents a rare exception— there’s no way to fathom what’s happening here without a Ken Burns documentary worth of explanatory anecdotes, much less an IMDB page. Broken Horses is the first Englishlanguage production for Chopra’s India-based production company, which at least partially explains why good actors like Thomas Jane and Vincent D’Onofrio behave as though English was their second language. It’s hard to tell if the film is an unfunny joke or an earnest failure, but ham-fisted symbolism and sloppy plotting rule regardless; to see this sort of genre smashup done right, check out last year’s Young Ones. D.B.

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Another Earth Day, another Disneynature documentary, this one following a group of Sri Lankan macaques as they deal with a strict social system and defend their territory from interlopers. The macaques, a Shemp-haired species of monkey, are decidedly less adorable than the stars of last year’s Bears, and Monkey Kingdom narrator Tina Fey is a weak substitute for Bears narrator John C. Reilly. Much like Bears, the film focuses in on a struggling single mother dealing with dangers from both outside and inside her troop, but Monkey Kingdom tries too hard to manufacture a storyline. It’s never clear why we’re supposed to root for one group of monkeys to defeat another group of monkeys, except that some of the “bad” monkeys have facial scars, and facial scars equal evil. Monkey Kingdom is a passable time-passer, with lovely visuals and positive if oversimplified messages about conservation and motherhood, but nothing more. D.B.

Salt of the Earth

This Oscar-nominated documentary charts the 40-year career of Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado, whose horribly beautiful black-and-white images of slave labor and genocide and exodus form a visual timeline of human suffering on the planet. The venerable German filmmaker and documentarian Wim Wenders co-directs, along with Salgado’s son Juliano, but you get the impression that Wenders only came aboard to shape decades of disparate material into this coffee table book of a movie. After an awkward first act, The Salt of the Earth settles into a comfortable rhythm, following Salgado’s nomadic career across several continents, from the gold mine at Serra Pelada to the Kurdish refugee camps. But there are also a number of contentious family dynamics that the film sets up and then neglects to explore (at a certain point, Salgado’s wife simply disappears), and ultimately this feels more like a greatest hits collection than a unique work of art. D.B.

It Follows

After a drifting suburban Detroit teen sleeps with her new boyfriend, she learns that he has “passed on” to her a malevolent presence, one that will never stop its slow but deadly pursuit. In just his second feature, writer-director David Cameron Mitchell (The Myth of the American Sleepover) produces one of the best horror films of the millennium. The story touches on themes of venereal disease, rape, contagion fears, PTSD and more, while combining cinematic influences from zombies, ghosts, slashers, J-horror, conspiracy thrillers, exorcisms, Robert Altman, teen sex comedies, apocalypses, John Carpenter, chase films and the first five minutes of M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening into something deeply unsettling and nightmarishly lucid. Imagine if Texas Chainsaw Massacre-era Tobe Hooper

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Speed demon Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel) and his crew (Dwayne Johnson, the late Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez, Ludacris, Tyrese Gibson, et al.) are being hunted by the brother of a vanquished villain from Fast & Furious 6 (Jason Statham); they join with a shadowy government operative (Kurt Russell) to turn the tables on their pursuer. The preposterous franchise reaches an apotheosis of sorts with a delirious array of death-andphysics-defying stunts, as exciting and enjoyable as they are unbelievable and physically impossible. (On a more subdued note, similar CGI wizardry completes the performance of Walker, who died during production.) Chris Morgan’s script is pretty much beside the point, but it provides director James Wan with an efficient framework, and outlandish as it all is, the movie delivers the goods. J.L.

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Amid the chaos of the First Liberian Civil War (1989-1996), a group of African Mormon missionaries flees the violence in Monrovia, the capital, for the presumed safety of Freetown in neighboring Sierra Leone, crammed into a rattletrap car with a worried but good-hearted driver. Written by Melissa Leilani Larson and director Garrett Batty, the movie has laudable intentions on its side (not least a determination to counteract the lily-white image of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints), but it’s limp, leaden, redundant and too-clearly hampered by a limited budget. The inexperienced cast is earnest but wooden, easily upstaged by the stark beauty of the Ghanaian countryside where the movie was filmed. J.L.

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An aging pop superstar (Al Pacino) finally receives a letter written to him by John Lennon 40 years ago, when he was just starting out; the letter plunges him into soul searching, and the first thing he decides to do is look up the biological son he’s never met (Bobby Cannavale). Based “a little bit” (but really, hardly at all) on a true story, writer-director Dan Fogelman’s movie bulges with talent; besides Pacino and Cannavale, there are Christopher Plummer as Pacino’s avuncular manager, Jennifer Garner as Cannavale’s wistful wife, and Annette Bening as the bemused manager of a modest New Jersey hotel where Pacino checks in. Pacino sinks his gleaming teeth into his role with a relish that’s infectious and charming, and the charm spreads and coats the whole movie like butter over hot pancakes. J.L.

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Swimming in Bengal is Brewer’s second band to explore a Middle Eastern sound. The other is San Kazakgascar, but even that plays structured, prewritten songs. All of Swimming in Bengal’s music is composed on the spot, live. It’s a new thing for Brewer whose previous bands, most notably Harvester, played alternative rock and Americana, albeit with a dark edge. “Now I’m not playing chords. I’m just playing up and down on the strings, and just taking that whole approach to another extreme,” Brewer says. Spontaneously writing music on stage is a new experience for Brewer. For Passarell, who has an extensive jazz background, it’s not. These days, he says, he prefers improvisation. “I don’t even play in any bands that have real tunes anymore,” he explains. Jenkins also has a jazz background, and has worked full-time as a musician for more than a decade. As such, he is not able to make every gig, in which case Brewer and Passarell enlist someone else to play. When Jenkins is behind the kit, Passarell says, the musician brings a very trance-like element to the music. Despite not actually writing music, Swimming in Bengal has released a few EPs. The process for making a record is more or less the same as a show and editing is minimal. “Mostly we’re just picking out the sections that work. It’s amazing because once you get some sort of parameters to everything, it’s not that difficult,” Passarell says.

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Maybe because it was so different, the band ended up capturing the audience’s attention in full. “It was so loud in there [when the previous bands played] that people went outside. We started playing and when we opened our eyes after being meditative for a few minutes, the whole place was packed with people sitting, intently listening,” Passarell says. “It was really bizarre.” In the few years that Swimming in Bengal has been a band, it’s managed to move seamlessly between the alternative rock and jazz scenes, finding a comfortable spot grabbing folk’s attention as the intriguing oddballs. The group comprises Jed Brewer on gourd guitar; Passarell, who rotates between the saxophone, flute and various percussion; and Alex Jenkins on tablas and, sometimes, the drum set. With such odd instrument selections, transcendental vibes and a clearly nontraditionally Western choice of chords and rhythms, it’s obvious to even the casual music listener that they’re influenced by Eastern and Middle Eastern sounds, yet they play it without any real concept of whether they’re doing it right. Brewer says that, initially, he considered taking formal gourd lessons. “Then I thought, ‘No. I don’t want it to be straight. I want it to be a weird hybrid that’s kind of messed up and not strictly traditional,’” Brewer says.

“ We’re trying to be as genuine as we can.” Tony Passarell multi-instrumentalist, Swimming in Bengal As they’ve played more together, and developed a better understanding of what they’re doing, the band members say they’ve found themselves actually playing less. Brewer plays more open chords, as opposed to noodling on the guitar, and Passarell often drops out for complete sections, only to come in again when it feels right. “We’re the first ones to say that we don’t know exactly what we’re doing, but we’re trying to be as genuine as we can about making the music sounding interesting,” Passarell says. “This music has a vibe. If you tap into that vibe then you might get a kick out of it.” Ω

Sweet Scottish nostalgia: Belle & Sebastian’s Stuart Murdoch is not a candy-ass bitch, but that didn’t stop someone in Sacramento from hurling the pejorative phrase at the singer the last time he was in the area. At least, that’s the story that the frontman shared from the stage at the Mondavi Center during Belle & Sebastian’s April 14 performance. The incident happened while Murdoch was doing laundry— presumably between tour stops. Murdoch related the same story the week prior at Coachella, so it’s not likely just some made-up stage banter—although it was unclear when, exactly, the Scottish musician was in town to run his clothes through the spin cycle. In any case, he moved on with a shrug and off-handed “fluff ’n’ fold” comment. Why would he care anyway? This is a guy who’s fully comfortable in his skin, full of energy and good cheer. The Mondavi set was an engaging trip through the Glasgow band’s extensive catalog. There were plenty of numbers off of Belle & Sebastian’s latest album, the dance-ready Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance, but the band also dug deep into its 19-year catalog, pulling out oldies such as “My Wandering Days are Over” (from the 1996 album Tigermilk), “Judy and the Dream of Horses” (from 1996’s If You’re Feeling Sinister), “The Boy with the Arab Strap” (from the 1998 album by the same name), “Dear Catastrophe Waitress” (from the 2003 album by the same name) and “The Blues are Still Blue” (2006’s The Life Pursuit). Murdoch led a 12-piece band– the usual B&S line-up plus a string section–during a set that included an on-stage dance party with nearly 40 fans that the singer hand-selected from the audience (this despite some obvious discomfort on the part of Mondavi’s security squad which seemed befuddled by their task of having to deal with a small throng of well-behaved, dancing indie-rock fans). The show wasn’t sold out but if the members of Belle & Sebastian were disappointed by this, even on the heels of playing Coachella and Berkeley’s Greek Theatre, they didn’t let it show. Murdoch is an engaging, fun performer—the kind of guy who actually listens to the requests fans shout out. “I can’t find that one in the archives,” he said, shuffling through some papers at his feet, after one request. BEFORE

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Task1ne didn’t potentially accidentally use some of the same words in the same order as another rapper. It’s the bulk of a verse, lifted verbatim. According to the video’s uploader, Task1ne claimed to have used a ghostwriter. Yes, ghostwriters are also frowned upon in hip-hop. Since then, more allegations have surfaced, suggesting Task1ne has quite a history of plagiarism. Last Sunday night, he posted his own response via YouTube video: “I am guilty of overworking myself and cutting corners, and by doing so, I broke hip-hop’s No. 1 rule,” he said. Another big question in Sacramento’s hip-hop community right now: Is Task1ne done for good? Fun-draiser: Once again, it’s time to tune into KDVS 90.3 FM and listen to college kids stammer about needing money. And you should absolutely consider donating—the UC Davis free-form radio station is a truly unusual treasure, chiefly supported by this $60,000-goal fundraiser each year. Head to https://fundraiser. kdvs.org and take advantage of the premiums, a.k.a. really rad stuff you

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Nora Jane Struthers & the Party Line

Musics of the World Ensembles of UC Davis

Cory Barringer & the Agnostic Tabernacle Choir

Cliff ’Em All

Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub, 6:30 p.m., $12

Mondavi Center, 7 p.m., $8-$20

There are plenty of reasons to be tired of pop-Americana, but singer-songwriter Nora AMERICANA Jane Struthers isn’t one of them. Hailing from Nashville, Struthers’ 2015 release Wake is the most roots-rock of her efforts. It’s a significant departure from 2013 release Carnival and her 2010 self-titled album, which lean more toward a modern Alison Krauss and Emmylou Harris. There’s plenty to like across Struthers’ entire discography. Combining close-knit harmonies and nostalgic strings plus the addition of more electric guitar and bigger sound on the recent album, she still steers skillfully away from commercial pop country. 2708 J Street, www.norajanestruthers.com.

Shime, 8 p.m., $5

Samba’s distinctive and energetic rhythms, dances and parties often flood city streets with people. Picture 25 drummers performing the music of Carnaval inside the intimate Vanderhoef Studio Theatre at the Mondavi Center. Woah, indeed. These drummers are all UC Davis students, and just one of several student ensembles that are part of the university’s enthomusicology program. Dart around the world with performances from three more student groups: the Hindustani Vocal WORLD Ensemble, Korean Percussion Ensemble and Gamelan Ensemble (pictured), an Indonesian orchestra featuring bronze gongs and chimes. 9399 Old Davis Road in Davis, www.mondaviarts.org.

—Deena Drewis

It’s the Kelps (pictured) guitarist Cameron Betts’ 25th birthday! Join in the celebration by watching him perform a bunch of new songs—solo. The headlining act for the ROCK evening will be Kelps’ frontman Cory Barringer, who’ll be performing with a group he assembled solely for the event. Note: Barringer won’t actually be backed by a choir, but will have Betts on upright bass, Tony Reyes on drums and also a guitarist and keyboardist. They’ll be playing a few Kelps songs, but mostly solo material Barringer has recorded with his brother Danny over the years. Dino Dimare from Pandoval will also perform. 1400 E Street, www.facebook.com/thekelpsmusic.

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Before Metallica was headlining arenas and filming documentaries about its members being in therapy, it was one brutal thrash band that terrorized clubs all over the Bay Area. The secret ingredient was bassist Cliff Burton, who played with an intense amount of energy, and unfortunately died in a bus accident in 1986. Burton’s contributions can be heard on Metallica’s METAL first three albums, Kill ’Em All, Ride The Lightning and Master of Puppets. Cliff ’Em All is a group of Los Angeles-based early Metallica fanatics that pays tribute to this era of Metallica and the magic that Burton brought to the group. 1400 Alhambra Boulevard, www.facebook.com/cliffallica.

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Mr. December

The Tipsy Hustlers

Imbibed by the Quasar

Yasiin Bey

Torch Club, 9 p.m., $8

Old Ironsides, 9 p.m., $6

At first glance, Mr. December might seem like another one in an endless stream of bands playing a little bit of funk, a side of rock ’n’ roll, tossed with a bit of soul and blues. But with frontwoman Dana Moret belting out her own take on Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition” or vocalizing on “Telling Lies” (one of the band’s many originals)—backed by some serious musicians—it’s clear that Mr. December is different. Moret’s voice ranges from sultry jazz singer to hard-hitting blues rocker. BLUES/FUNK Singer-songwriter Miles Schon will join the band for some jams. 904 15th Street, http://mrdecembertheband.com.

—Trina L. Drotar

On the Y, 8:30 p.m., $5

If you’re in the need of some high-energy funk and rock music with a heavy dollop of soul, Old Ironsides should be your destinaFUNK/ROCK tion this Saturday night. Tipsy Hustlers are led by the multitalented Ken Rudulph on vocals and guitar alongside longtime friend and bassist John Mullick. They will be joined by their former band’s guitarist, Vince Mellone from the defunct Mama’s Gravy, and have big plans for the night’s set list. This is also a CD re-release show for Pressure which was released in 2013, but now includes new songs and special remixes. Also on the bill are Back Alley Buzzards and Clouds Roll By. 1901 10th Street, www.facebook.com/ TheTipsyHustlers.

Ace of Spades, 7 p.m., $39.95

Booking veteran Tanaka Leal is putting on some high-quality metal shows around the Sacramento area. For the price of a coffee at Starbucks, you can catch some crazy death metal from Imbibed By The Quasar, which may just have the coolest band name ever. If you’re into frenetic, fast-paced death metal with some cool synthesizer workouts, these five lads will take you on a nauseating journey through time and METAL space. If you’ve always wanted to know what it would feel like to be excreted and splattered into the stratosphere aurally, you best come out to this one. Also on the bill are Perfect Nightmare and Bloodgeon. 670 Fulton Ave, www.facebook.com/imbibedofficial.

—Eddie Jorgensen

Brooklyn-based rapper Yasiin Bey is a longtime force in underground hip-hop culture. Throughout the ’90s and until recently, Bey was known as Mos Def. He formed the hip-hop duo Black Star with Talib Kweli, HIP-HOP and in ’98, the two released their debut album Mos Def & Talib Kweli are Black Star—whose tracks “Definition” and “Respiration” made VH1’s 100 Greatest Songs of Hip-Hop list. As Mos Def, he’s worked with a variety of performers like Kanye West, the Roots, Gorillaz and even French electronic dance duo Justice. In 2011, Mos Def announced that he changed his name to Yasiin Bey and has since performed and appeared in films under his new identity. 1417 R Street, www.facebook.com/ MosDef.

—Steph Rodriguez

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DYLAN CRAWFORD, 2-5pm, no cover

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The Grind Hip-Hop Show, 8pm, $10

Reggae w/ Wokstar and guest deejays, 10pm, $5

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BRANDY ROBINSON, GANA, ABBY NORMAL, D.U.S.T.; 8pm, $7

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JARED & THE MILL, 9pm, no cover

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NORA JANE STRUTHERS, 6:30pm, $12; ARDEN PARK ROOTS, 10:30pm, $10

SIR MICHAEL ROCKS, 6:30pm, $15-$50; BIG EYED FISH, 10:30pm, $12

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Singer-songwriter showcase w/ Howard Hall, 8pm, $5

DAVID HOUSTON & STRING THEORY, 8:30pm, $6

AMY BLACK, 7pm, $8-$10

Nebraska Mondays, 7:30pm M; Open-mic comedy, 8pm Tu; Comedy night, 8pm W, $5

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OLD IRONSIDES

50 WATT HEAVY, BILLY SHADDOX, SCOTT CHARLES; 8pm, $7

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Karaoke Night, 7:30pm, no cover

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FRIDAY 4/24

Trivia Night, 6:30pm M, no cover; Open-mic night, 7:30pm W, no cover

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Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

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THE PALMS PLAYHOUSE

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PISTOL PETE’S

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CAROL GARCIA BAND, 9pm, $5

KENNY FRYE BAND, 9pm, call for cover

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): If you’re

stumped about what present to give someone for a special occasion, you might buy him or her a gift card. It’s a piece of plastic that can be used as cash to buy stuff at a store. The problem is, a lot of people neglect to redeem their gift cards. They leave them in drawers and forget about them. Financial experts say there are currently billions of dollars going to waste on unredeemed gift cards. This is your metaphor of the moment, Aries. Are there any resources you’re not using? Any advantages you’re not capitalizing on? Any assets you’re ignoring? If so, fix the problem.

have no objection to your devoted concern (I won’t use the phrase “manic obsession”) with security and comfort. But there are rare phases in every Taurus’s life cycle when ironclad stability becomes a liability. Cruising along in a smooth groove threatens to devolve into clunking along in a gutless rut. Now is such a phase. As of this moment, it is healthy for you to seek out splashes of unpredictability. Wisdom is most likely to grow from uncertainty. Joy will emerge from an eagerness to treasure the unknown.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): It will

soon be that time when you are halfway between your last birthday and your next birthday. I invite you to make this a special occasion. Maybe you can call it your anti-birthday or unbirthday. How to celebrate? Here are some ideas: (1) imagine who you would be if you were the opposite of yourself, (2) write a list of all the qualities you don’t possess and the things you don’t need and the life you don’t want to live, (3) try to see the world through the eyes of people who are unlike you, (4) extend a warm welcome to the shadowy, unripe, marginal parts of your psyche that you have a hard time accepting, let alone loving, and (5) are there any other ways you can think of to celebrate your anti-birthday?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

As I climb the first hill along my regular hike, both sides of the path are dominated by a plant with glossy, three-lobed leaves. They’re so exuberant and cheerful, I’m tempted to caress them, even rub my face in their bright greenery. But I refrain, because they are poison oak. One touch would cause my skin to break out in an inflamed rash that would last for days. I encourage you, too, to forgo contact with any influence in your own sphere that is metaphorically equivalent to the alluring leaves of the poison oak.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): There

may be a floodlike event that will wash away worn-out stuff you don’t need any more. There might be an earthquaketype phenomenon that only you can feel, and it might demolish one of your rotten obstacles. There could be a lucky accident that will knock you off the wrong course (which you might have thought was the right course). All in all, I suspect it will be a very successful week for benevolent forces beyond your control. How much skill do you have in the holy art of surrender?

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

Today the French Capricorn painter Henri Matisse (1869-1954) is regarded as a foremost pioneer of modern art. Some critics say his innovative influence on painting nearly matched Picasso’s. But during the first part of the 20th century, his work often provoked controversy. When a few of his paintings appeared at a major exhibition in Chicago, for example, local art students were shocked by what they called its freakishness. They held a mock trial, convicted Matisse of artistic crimes and burned his painting Blue Nude in effigy. I don’t expect that you will face reactions quite as extreme as that in the coming weeks, Capricorn. But it will make sense to express yourself with such forceful creativity and originality that you risk inciting strong responses.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): What is

your biggest excuse? Or rather, what is your thickest, sickest, most debilitating excuse? We all have one: a reason we tell ourselves about why it’s difficult to live up to our potential; a presumed barrier that we regard as so deeply rooted that we will never be able to break its spell on us. Maybe it’s a traumatic memory. Maybe it’s a physical imperfection or a chronic fear. In accordance with the current astrological omens, Cancerian, you’d be wise to do an audit and reassessment of your own lamest excuse. I suspect you now have insight about it that you’ve never had before. I also think you have more power than usual to at least partially dismantle it.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):

Leonardo da Vinci had skills in many fields, ranging from botany to engineering to cartography, but he is best known as a painter. And yet in his 67 years on the planet, he finished fewer than 40 paintings. He worked at a very gradual pace. The Mona Lisa took him 14 years! That’s the kind of deliberate approach I’d like to see you experiment with in the coming weeks, Aquarius. Just for a while, see what it’s like to turn down your levels of speed and intensity. Have you heard of the Slow Food Movement? Have you read Carl Honoré’s book In Praise of Slowness? Do you know about Slow Travel, Slow Media and Slow Fashion?

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): If you were a

supporting character in a popular TV drama, the producers would be cooking up a spin-off show with you in a starring role. If you were in an indie rock band, you’d be ready to move from performing at 300-seat venues to clubs with an audience capacity of 2,000. If you have always been just an average, egocentric romantic like the rest of us, you might be on the verge of becoming a legend in your own mind—in which case it would be time to start selling T-shirts, mugs and calendars with your image on them. And even if you are none of the above, Leo, I suspect you’re ready to rise to the next level.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Modern

movies don’t scrimp on the use of the F-bomb. Actors in The Wolf of Wall Street spat it out 569 times. The word-thatrhymes-with-cluck was heard 326 times in End of Watch, while Brooklyn’s Finest racked up 270 and This Is the End erupted with an even 200. But this colorful word hasn’t always been so prominent a feature. Before 1967, no actor had ever uttered it on-screen. That year, Marianne Faithfull let it fly in the film I’ll Never Forget What’s’isname. In the coming weeks, Pisces, I invite you to break a taboo that’s maybe not as monumental as Faithfull’s quantum leap, but still fabulously fun and energizing. Be a liberator! End the repression! Release the blocked vitality!

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Free at last!

Free at last! Thanks to the Lord of the Universe or the Flying Spaghetti Monster or a burst of crazy good luck, you are free at last! You are free from the burden that made you say things you didn’t mean! You are free from the seductive temptation to rent, lease or even sell your soul! Best of all, you are free from the mean little voice in your head—you know, the superstitious perfectionist that whispers weird advice based on fearful delusions! So now what will you do, my dear? You have escaped from the cramped, constricted conditions. Maybe you can escape to wide-open spaces that will unleash the hidden powers of your imagination.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “To me, there

is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first,” says Libra actress and activist Janeane Garofalo. I can think of other ways to measure bravery, but for your immediate future, her definition will serve just fine. Your ultimate test

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I usually

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Filming the impossible The Sacramento Kings were outta here. Seattle bound. It was over. But not really. And video director Rusty Prevatt and his team at Franklin Pictures documented it all: media frenzies, from City Hall to New York City; RV road trips; fist-bumping phone calls with Mayor Kevin Johnson and more. Say what you want about arena subsidies or Vivek Ranadive’s moves, Prevatt’s Playing To Win documentary is a heart-on-sleeve throwback to that moment when Sacramento’s sports community did something most of us thought was impossible. SN&R chatted via email with the very busy director, who often works on commercials and ad campaigns across the globe, in advance of his film’s premiere.

What one movie inspired you to be a director? I can’t point to a single movie that inspired me to want to direct, but I can quote Top Gun almost word for word. Does that count?

Sort of. The movies that inspired me growing up were movies like Tombstone, Braveheart and The Shawshank Redemption. But probably the most influential was The Matrix.

Your favorite recent TV commercial? This is an easy one. I have two favorites: the Volkswagen Darth Vader spot back in 2012 was brilliant. Perfect writing. Flawless execution. The second is the Nike 2010 World Cup ad, “Write the Future.” So much energy, such good story telling. I can watch it over and over and over.

What’s the crappiest commercial? I’ll take the Fifth on this one. There’s a bunch out there though.

Boo! What bugs you most about bad stuff? My biggest pet peeve is bad audio. What most people—even those that call themselves professionals—fail to understand is that audio is more important than video when you’re trying to communicate something to someone. Blair Witch Project is a great example of this. It was shot by what looks to be a first-grader, but the audio was done so well that nobody cared. If you were to reverse that, it wouldn’t work.

Great point. Who’s your fav director? Christopher Nolan. I love his style of nonlinear storytelling and his commitment to shooting in camera, meaning he would prefer to build an actual set, or use scaled models, than try to recreate it by shooting on green or blue and relying on CG. It’s the difference between the first Star Wars |

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trilogy and the second. There’s no contest. Nolan’s way is organic and real, and it can’t be substituted. George Lucas initially did it that way because the technology wasn’t quite there to use CG, but Nolan chooses to do it that way even now, in a time where we can do some pretty amazing things in a computer. I’m not saying I don’t like CG, but there’s a time and place. I love Toy Story, Wall-E.

If you could work with any client for a project, who and why? This is so easy, and yet so hard to answer. I’d have to go with Nike or Apple. They are both such powerhouses in our industry, willing to take risks, yet extremely thoughtful in their approach. That being said, a straight-up fun client would be Geico. Think about it: What commercial spots are most talked about around the water cooler? “Hump Daaay!”

If you weren’t a video director, what would you be? A rock star. A drummer, to be exact.

Will the Kings make the playoffs next year? Even with the somewhat rocky season we’ve had, we’re starting to show signs that we could in fact be a playoff team in the near future. Next year might be a stretch. But, hey, for the first time since [Rick] Adelman, we actually have a top-tier coach who will have the entire off-season to get the team where he wants them. It is very possible.

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What’s your next project? We have several on the books right now, some of which I can’t discus. But at the beginning of last week, we shot a regional campaign for Jiffy Lube, then I hopped on a plane to New York City and produced and directed a six-day commercial shoot for a design product company named Stikwood, in collaboration with WeWork. We’re also gearing up for a huge season with Sacramento Republic FC. As I already mentioned above, we’re incredibly grateful and blessed to be doing the work that we do. We can only pray that it continues for years to come. Ω The saving-the-Sacramento Kings documentary Playing To Win premieres this Wednesday, April 29, at the Esquire IMAX Theater as part of the Sacramento Film Festival. The film will have a limited run beginning May 9 at the Esquire IMAX and the Studio Movie Grill in Rocklin. Learn more about Prevatt’s company, Franklin Pictures, at www.franklinpictures.com.

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