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Brother knows best My brother Steve and I don’t have much in common.

For starters, there’s an eight-year age difference. He lives in Roseville with his pregnant wife and dog.

My husband and I keep our three cats close to the central city. I’m a bleeding-heart liberal, he’s a moneyminded Republican.

Still, we get along pretty well and can talk politics without resorting to verbal fisticuffs. He likes to tease me about Mitt Romney, I’m happy to serve as his personal politically correct fact-checker.

Ideological differences aside, however, my brother wants to make it very clear who’s not getting his vote in 2016. The GOP, he tells me during a recent phone conversation, has to get far, far away from Donald Trump.

“He’s the wrong candidate, for sure,” my brother said as we discussed Trump’s offensive comments on Mexico, ostensibly made under the guise of immigration reform.

“The U.S. has become a dumping ground for everybody else’s problems,” Trump said during an announcement for his political bid. “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. … They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.”

So far, Trump’s talking points have stirred up a media storm—and they’ve also rocketed him to the top of the polls.

“I don’t get it,” I said. “How can anyone take him seriously?”

My brother tried to reassure me that this would prove to be just a momentary bit of clowning in the three-ring circus that is politics.

“Donald Trump’s an idiot—the GOP needs the Latino vote,” Steve told me. “We don’t want anything to do with him.”

For once, I can only hope my brother’s right.

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“He asked me about foods I’d never heard of, about breads I didn’t know existed.”

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We had a philosophical difference. ... The drug and alcohol programs were basing success on how many people were going through the program and I was saying it should be based on recidivism. The interview got very uncomfortable.

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I hadn’t worked for three years. One day, something told me to go down to City Hall and they gave me the opportunity. I was nervous and I didn’t know what to say. I was trying to find the words for them and I wanted to sound intelligent at the same time. ... They hired me.

I was interviewing to be an educator. I was really nervous. I wasn’t prepared.

The next time I had an interview, I prepared.

I wrote down the questions they normally asked. I went through my answers. That went really smoothly.

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I was interviewing for the bakery department. I was so terrified. It was the first grocery store I ever interviewed for. The hiring manager was intimidating.

He asked me about foods I’d never heard of, about breads I didn’t know existed. I had no idea. I ended up getting the job.

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The employer I have now, he is 55 and has diabetes.

He wanted to make sure I was the right and honest person for him. He asked a bunch of questions about whether or not I had ever been in trouble. He asked if I had the time to spend with him and he was really demanding.

It was a private company.

They were selling knives. It was just some fat guy who was short who was asking me personal questions.

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Here’s what we now know about Mayor Kevin Johnson’s email: (1) The mayor and his staff use private Gmail accounts, labeled “OMKJ� for Office of Mayor Kevin Johnson, for a vast majority of public work. This according to former staffers and what is evidenced from the few public records we’ve acquired.

(2) The content discussed in these emails is a mix of public city business, private K.J. work, and also fundraising, initiatives, national business—and even campaign activity. The lines are thoroughly blurred.

(3) This use of Gmail is a coordinated and official top-down policy to avoid scrutiny from colleagues, the media and the public.

(4) The mayor does not use a city computer or cell phone.

All of this is no good. Yet the city attorney and city manager continue to ignore the problem. They hide behind ongoing litigation, currently in front of the California Supreme Court, which will rule on whether private emails should be public record.

SN&R sees K.J.’s email scheme differently: First, this isn’t about private email. This clearly involves a strategy by the mayor to hide public records, emails and documents. That’s very different than the case being heard by the state supreme court.

Second, the discussion at City Hall shouldn’t be about what’s legal and what is not. It should be about what’s ethical.

Let’s ask the city attorney and city manager this: Do you think it’s OK for any public servant, including the mayor, to dodge public-records law? If the answer is no, then they must compel the mayor to turn over all Gmail records now.

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In his recent The 420 columns, our resident cannabis expert Ngaio Bealum—who conceded that he is not a medical expert—wrote that weed use during pregnancy should be a personal decision. He rightly noted that, like all things marijuana, current medical research is insufficient.

We’d like to point out recent studies that show using marijuana while pregnant is probably not a good idea.

One study, under the umbrella of the National Institute of Health, says that “cannabis use both during pregnancy and lactation ‌ may adversely affect neurodevelopment, especially during periods of critical brain growth both in the developing fetal brain and during adolescent maturation.â€?

The reports also explained that marijuana use by the mother can lead to growth reductions in the fetus.

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Strong mayor reminder Re “It is what it is” by Cosmo Garvin (SN&R Feature Story, July 9): This is a perfect example of why Sacramento’s voters were 100 percent right in rejecting Johnson’s strong-mayor bid. We don’t need autocrats or would-be autocrats in public office. Johnson is showing weakness of character and temperament.

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Sac needs reform Re “It is what it is” by Cosmo Garvin (SN&R Feature Story, July 9): The good thing about the mayor’s lawsuit against the city and SN&R is that Sacramento is finally comprehending the depth and breadth of the city government’s recent bad behavior.

Hopefully, this means that city government will get long overdue reforms.

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K.J. smoke, K.J. fire Re “It is what it is” by Cosmo Garvin (SN&R Feature Story, July 9): Wanted to commiserate in your recent speaking truth to K.J.’s power.

I too once spoke up using my legally mandated responsibilities in dealing with one of K.J.’s many indiscretions—this time regarding his oldest known problem: keeping his hands to himself. How I was met—with threatening attorneys, categorical denials and personal attacks—feels eerily similar to what you are presently enduring. Keep the faith. I learned, in my time working alongside him, the more smoke he blows, the more you know you are close to real fire. Let him feel the burn of truth. Or least revel in a soon-to-be-coming covert attempt to pay you off!

Erik Jones former teacher at Sacramento High School

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Correction Re “Stingers down” by Rachel Leibrock (SN&R Essay, July 9): It was reported that The Sacramento Bee did not run a correction in print for its reporting of the K.J.-SN&R lawsuit. We were wrong; the Bee ran a correction. We also misspelled attorney Jeffrey Dorso’s name in that essay.

Re “Silly, not strong” by Jeff vonKaenel (SN&R Greenlight, July 9): I applaud Jeff vonKaenel and his staff for standing tall and not letting this city official bully you. I’m very glad you didn’t support him for strong mayor. I will support you all the way! online buzz Mike Mansch On hOw tO revive SacramentO’S Sacramento

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Jeff vonKaenel The grand reopening was a proud Sacramento moment. is the president, The day was hot. And the clothes were warm. As Winston CEO and would say, “This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time majority owner of the News & Review to dare and endure.”

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Lot’s of Mayor Kevin Johnson emails to pore through at SN&R headquarters this week. Here’s a sneak preview of what’s to come: On May 30, 2014, K.J. staffer Cassandra Jennings emailed chief of staff Daniel Conway. “To be perfectly honest,” she began, “I [feel we are] slighting the City business.” Oh, really? She then went on to list all the mayor’s side-projects and initiatives—the U.S. Conference of Mayors, National Conference of Black Mayors, the African-American Mayors Association, the NBA—as things she was doing instead of city work.

“While I love them all,” she wrote “I think it is my job to bring forward initiatives and opportunities to further the Mayor’s efforts to improve the fabric of our City.” OK, things definitely aren’t right when mayoral staff think they’re spending too much time on noncity business.

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K.J.’s email scheme How the mayor’s ‘bulletproof’ system to avoid public scrutiny might backfire “Gmail was our bulletproof method of communication, beyond the reach of the city and the public.”

That’s how R.E. Graswich, a former senior adviser to Mayor Kevin Johnson, described the parallel email system set up inside the mayor’s office to avoid California’s public-records law. “Our private little system,” he called it. (See page 14 for Nick Miller’s story on Graswich.) aRvIN G We knew Johnson’s staff routinely O SM CO by does city business using special “OMKJ” cosmog@ newsrev iew.c om Gmail accounts—for “Office of Mayor Kevin Johnson”—which are issued upon hire. In fact, Graswich estimated 80 percent of the work done by the mayor and staff was done using OMKJ emails, rather than official city of Sacramento accounts.

More troubling still, Graswich said the email accounts were used for a mix of city business and noncity business, involving the mayor’s various nonprofits and outside initiatives. They were also used to do political campaign work “on city computers and in City Hall,” he said.

If you’re thinking, “Gee, that sounds pretty illegal,” you may be on to something.

The mayor’s spokesperson Ben Sosenko has lied on multiple occasions, telling local media that the OMKJ emails are only “used for noncity business.”

We know that’s not true, however, because SN&R has in its possession plenty of emails from city employees doing city business with OMKJ email accounts—Sosenko in particular.

Sosenko has also said several times that all the noncity business being done on city time with city employees was “for the benefit of the city.”

Team K.J. wants it both ways: When they Read a Q-and-A with SN&R’s legal counsel want the public to foot the bill for the mayor’s for the K.J. email outside projects—including the ugly takeover lawsuit at of the National Conference of Black Mayors— www.news it’s all for the benefit of the city. But when the review.com. public wants a little scrutiny of those activities, suddenly it’s all private, noncity business.

Recently on Capitol Public Radio’s program Insight, Sosenko said the public can’t see the OMKJ emails because they include things “political in nature or campaign related.”

That’s another reason why the city needs to disclose the emails from the OMKJ accounts right now. If the mayor’s office is breaking city rules, or state laws, doing election business on city time, the evidence is probably in those OMKJ accounts.

Unfortunately, the city attorney and city manager are in denial.

SN&R has been trying for weeks to get City Manager John Shirey to address Johnson’s public-private boundary issues. Thanks to

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One email from city spokesperson Linda Tucker to Shirey about SN&R’s multiple interview requests reads: “Checking in w/you about whether we even reply or say something like ‘No, he’s too busy managing the City to read the tabloids.’”

Three weeks later, every newspaper in town, along with every radio and TV station, was asking for answers.

Since March, the city had been releasing some emails from the OMKJ accounts to SN&R in small batches. It was only through Johnson’s surprising lawsuit against SN&R and the city—seeking to block release of a category of emails he claims are protected by attorneyclient privilege—that we learned the mayor was actually hiding most of his emails from these OMKJ accounts. (See “It is what it is,” SN&R Feature Story, July 9.)

That’s because City Attorney James Sanchez revealed in court two weeks ago that the city is only providing emails that wind up, by chance, on city email servers, after being copied or forwarded to other employees’ CityofSacramento.org email addresses.

When SN&R reiterated our earlier publicrecords request, insisting all of the OMKJ emails were subject to the California Public Records Act, Sanchez said he couldn’t do anything about it.

“If those communications are not on a city server, they are not public and we cannot force the release of those documents,” he told SN&R. When SN&R pointed out that the OMKJ email accounts were clearly assigned to city employees for city work, Sanchez raised another excuse: Smith v. San Jose.

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. The Sixth District Court of Appeal overturned the ruling, and now the case is before the California Supreme Court.

“Those are the arguments currently before the California Supreme Court,” Sanchez said of SN&R’s objections.

We’re going to have to call bullshit. The San Jose case involves a comparatively limited scenario, involving messages on private devices and actual personal email accounts. The OMKJ email accounts are not “personal” accounts at all. No one using an OMKJ account would have any misunderstanding about the fact that it’s their “work email,” issued by their boss, to do city work. And now, we hear the OMKJ email system is the main email system for the mayor’s office.

The city attorney is using Smith v. San Jose as a cop-out. And it puts the city in a precarious

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position, says Thomas Burke, the attorney who helped SN&R handle the mayor’s lawsuit.

“This has enormous legal implications for Sacramento,” Burke says.

It’s not just a matter of denying citizens access to public records. It also means the city is helpless to access documents it may need to deal with any number of legal problems.

“Whether they be the [Fair Political Practices Commission], or document retention, or litigation against the city,” Burke explained.

If you’re thinking, “Gee, that sounds pretty illegal,” you may be on to something.

This also relates directly to city’s other big email scandal: The attempt to delete

50 million emails, over the objections of local citizen groups.

The city wants to be able to destroy emails after two years, and says we should trust procedures that are in place to sort out the “transitory” emails and archive the “important” ones.

We now know that policy is pretty much useless, because the city doesn’t even control a major portion of its emails. If the mayor isn’t going to obey the California Public Records Act, why would he follow the city’s records retention policy?

It’s K.J.’s scheme. But it should be dawning on the city manager and city attorney that they screwed up by letting this situation develop.

“They know now, through this lawsuit, that city business is being conducted by city employees on city time, and they don’t have the ability to access those records,” says Burke.

“Something has to change, and it needs to change immediately.” Ω

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The problem with condoms Sacramento sex workers are too scared to use them. But are their fears justified?

In a trend bristling with public-health implications, Sacramento sex workers are forgoing condoms because they fear they can be arrested for possessby Raheem ing them, say activists and clinic workers.

F. Hosseini “We have a huge epidemic of sex workers who are not using protection because of the police ra h eemh@ newsr eview.c om activity,” said Kristen DiAngelo, who heads up a local branch of the Sex Workers Outreach Project.

According to DiAngelo, multiple street workers relayed similar tales of intimidation: cops emptying their purses and photographing condoms as evidence, and even poking holes in their rubbers before handing them back while laughing.

DiAngelo and her partners recently published a report that surveyed 44 local sex workers and depicted high levels of victimization in the community. She said the pattern of condomharassment started to emerge when the survey was already underway. SWOP will need to conduct additional interviews before it can quantify to what extent workers in the area experience such behavior, she explained.

Thanks to a concerted crackdown on escort-friendly websites, SWOP believes that Sacramento’s streets are being flooded by a new generation of sex workers that is more vulnerable to violence, trafficking and disease.

Others who provide health and outreach services to sex workers have heard the same condom stories, and say it’s having a bottom-line effect: sex workers are reluctant to accept free prophylactics, increasing their exposure to sexually transmitted diseases.

“I can’t wrap my mind around it,” said Oak Park Outreach Services Executive Director Hurley Merical, a longtime liaison to the area’s sex worker community. “Instead of a ripple effect of prevention, we’re doing a ripple effect of harm.”

In recent years, Human Rights Watch documented condom-criminalization in several major cities, including San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Washington, D.C., and, in a more recent report, New Orleans.

According to the organization, hundreds of sex workers claimed officers threatened them with arrest for simply possessing condoms and, sometimes, confiscated their rubbers. That resulted in more sex workers abdicating protection, Human Rights Watch contended, which correlated with spikes in HIV/AIDS rates in New Orleans.

Clinic and outreach workers fear a similar wave here in Sacramento.

“If you want to make sure more people get infected, then do that,” said Rachel Anderson, who runs a needle exchange program in Oak Park called SANE, for Safer Alternatives thru Networking & Education.

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Last year, 165 county residents were diagnosed with HIV, the most in at least eight years, and also representing a 40.6 percent increase in new cases since 2010, according to data from the Department of Health and Human Services. The local rate of chlamydia infection continued its decline from 2011, though gonorrhea and syphilis in Sacramento County held some of their highest rates in four years, new data from the California Department of Public Health shows.

On Monday, the department reported that syphilis cases more than doubled across the state between 2012 and 2014, and that congenital syphilis, where a mother transmits the disease to her unborn child, more than tripled.

Anderson, who has a background in epidemiology, said it’s possible that one factor driving Sacramento’s high STD rates is sex workers’ fear of being detained with multiple condoms.

“That wouldn’t surprise me,” she said.

In September, Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation that makes it marginally tougher to use condoms to incriminate sex workers. Under last year’s Assembly Bill 336, prosecutors now have to seek written permission from the court before they can cite condoms as evidence of prostitution.

An earlier version of the bill would have completely banned condoms from being used as evidence of prostitution, but it failed to garner the necessary political support.

Upon its signing, health and sexworker advocates slow-clapped the extra paper hurdle that A.B. 336 introduced to the process. But those who provide direct outreach to sex workers say the workers remain too afraid to protect themselves.

SANE is one of several nonprofits operating inside of a converted, two-story residential structure in Oak Park. Oak Park Outreach, Priorities Clinic and the Joan Viteri Memorial Clinic, which is run

by UC Davis students, also hang shingles in the same building. Together, they provide basic care, clean syringes and free condoms to homeless individuals, drug users and sex workers—populations where there is much overlap.

On a recent Saturday afternoon, a glass bowl perched near the clinic’s main entrance brimmed with colorfullywrapped prophylactics, free for the taking, but appearing untouched.

“There is a reluctance among sex workers to take condoms,” Anderson acknowledged.

She and a small staff of employees and volunteers explain the benefits of condoms against disease and pregnancy, but don’t push them on their clients, who are already well-versed in sex ed.

“They know their lives. They know what the risks are,” she said of sex workers in particular. “They know what level of protection they’re going to take for which threat.”

By that, she and others contend that sex workers are more concerned with being locked up than they are of possibly contracting a disease in the future.

“Jail, that happens tonight,” said DiAngelo, a former sex worker.

In the days that DiAngelo worked the circuit, she remembers the cops had to have a price and an act before they could make an arrest. “Then they went from that to you don’t even have to commit the crime, you just have to be a known sex worker on the stroll and have three condoms on you and we can take you in,” she said.

California’s penal code is somewhat vague on the condoms question.

The section that defines loitering for the purpose of prostitution doesn’t specifically mention prophylactics. But it also provides wiggle room for interpretation: “[N]o one circumstance or combination of circumstances is in itself determinative of intent. Intent must be determined based on an evaluation of the particular circumstances of each case.”

In effect, that means that condoms can be one of the circumstances that is used to construe intent, along with other factors, like criminal history and the location where someone is detained. The frequency with which condoms are actually cited is purely a matter of officer discretion.

Both the Sacramento Police Department and Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department downplayed their use of rubbers to determine illegal activity.

“There’s a finite threshold of criteria for law enforcement to meet [in making a prostitution arrest],” said sheriff’s Sgt. Jason Ramos, “and there’s a number of ways for us to articulate that.”

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Teen moms Selena Morales was 15 when she discovered she was pregnant.

Although teen birth rates had been dropping steadily for several years, Morales was one of thousands in her situation: Young Latinas make up a majority of new and repeat teen moms, according to a newly released California Department of Public Health report on adolescent birth rates.

The latest data for Sacramento County put the teen birth rates for Latinas and blacks at about 45 per 1,000, far above the state average, and double that of whites or Asian/Pacific Islanders.

Raquel Simental of Planned Parenthood noted that barriers to accessing reproductive health services are often greater in communities of color.

Overall teen birth rates did trend down over the 2000-13 period covered by the state report, but the county shows a particularly dramatic drop after 2007 for all groups, especially Asian/ Pacific Islanders, which plummeted by half. Latinas and whites each dropped by more than a third.

Simental attributes that drop to a huge investment at the state level to reduce teen pregnancies, citing the Patient Access Care and Treatment program, which publicly funds access to reproductive health services for low-income teens, and grants in the early 2000s for aggressive contraceptive outreach in underserved communities.

Morales said some family members tried to talk to her about terminating the pregnancy, but the father’s family more readily embraced the idea of a baby. She attributes this contrast, in part, to their religious and social traditions. His family is Catholic; hers is nondenominational Christian.

“My family is more Americanized,” she said. “His family is from Mexico. It makes a big difference.”

Morales is due to deliver her second baby in December. She and the father are married. After finishing high school a semester early, Morales, at 19, has a year of college under her belt. Her goal is to attend medical school. (Brooke Purves) Fear of arrest and law enforcement harassment are driving sex workers to forgo condoms, say activists.

“Being in possession of condoms is not illegal,” said police Sgt. Doug Morse.

Public defender Joseph Cress said his office does sometimes see condoms “mentioned in reports as some evidence of sexual intent,” but not as probable cause for an arrest.

That’s not to say authorities haven’t heard the stories about how they supposedly target condoms.

“They’re like urban legends, and it’s just amazing how it proliferates,” said Detective John Sydow, who investigates human trafficking cases for the sheriff’s department.

Assistant Chief Deputy District Attorney Paul Durenberger suspects pimps and traffickers of fanning these rumors because their workers can make more money if they perform without protection. He said his first trafficking case, in the early 1990s, involved a 13-year-old girl who was forced by her exploiters to perform sexual acts without protection. When she was finally recovered, the young girl had syphilis of the mouth and gonorrhea in her lower cavities.

“That’s a real problem,” Durenberger said.

Of the women DiAngelo interviewed for SWOP, some admitted they didn’t use condoms because they could charge higher rates without them, or because their pimps wouldn’t let them. But fear of arrest was the more common answer, she said. And that fear overrode all others.

“ Being in possession of condoms is not illegal.”

Sgt. Doug Morse “It takes the sex workers’ power of negotiation away,” Merical explained.

In 2013, following the Human Rights Watch report, San Francisco completely banned the use of condoms as evidence against sex workers.

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surveys to determine whether this has made sex workers safer, said programs director Cyd Nova.

Kate D’Adamo, the national policy advocate of the Urban Justice Center’s Sex Workers Project, is hopeful the approach can work, as long as sex workers are informed about it. In Washington, D.C., for instance, cops handed out cards to to let sex workers know they wouldn’t be hassled for having prophylactics.

“It seems like it has been a positive shift,” D’Adamo said of San Francisco. “The other piece of that is people have to know these changes have been made.”

Local health and sex worker activists want to see a similar strategy employed in Sacramento, where D’Adamo says policing practices have been raised as a concern.

If the reports of law enforcement’s condoms-crackdown are overblown, then cops and prosecutors wouldn’t even notice the ban, activists say. But it would make a difference to those who need that protection the most. Ω

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During budget hearings last month, county officials proposed increasing the sheriff’s budget by nearly $21 million to $343 million, representing a 7 percent bump over last year.

But Jones, who had unveiled an ambitious patrol strategy meant to curtail slowing response times, said he needed an extra $9.8 million to painlessly transition his department to what he calls intelligence-led policing. “I’m asking for a lot of money,” he told supervisors on June 15. “I understand that.”

Here’s how it works: Rather than having a shifting deployment of patrol deputies and supervising officers assigned to different geographic sectors throughout the week, intelligence-led policing employs a team concept. It assigns a static platoon of patrol deputies, sergeants and a lieutenant to a single sector—day in, day out.

Jones argued that having the same supervisors to report to would make officers more accountable and build trust in neighborhoods that will come to know their cops.

“We … must move away from our normal enforcement efforts, which is saturation of neighborhoods, casting wide nets,” he said. “We now have the intelligence and data capabilities to be able to identify the 6 percent of people that are responsible for the 60 percent of crime.”

Supervisors were supportive of the strategy, but cowed with sticker shock. While no action was taken, they proposed augmenting Jones’ budget by an additional $4.7 million, approximately $5 million short of his request, when the county budget is voted on later this month. (Raheem F. Hosseini)

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The trust barrier K.J.’s former adviser reveals email and elections wrongdoing inside mayor’s office R.E. Graswich is more than Hawaiian-print shirts and local sports takes. For instance, after the by former Sacramento Bee columnist left the Nick Miller hive, and did a stint under Mayor Kevin Johnson at City Hall. ni ck am@ newsr evie w.c om From 2009 through 2012, Graswich was part of K.J.’s inner circle, as a senior adviser. He also briefly worked at Johnson’s nonprofit, Think Big, in 2013, where he focused on Kings arena matters.

Perhaps as much as anyone inside the mayor’s world, Graswich understands its ebb-and-flow. He reached out to SN&R last week to discuss K.J.’s email problem—his blurring of private and public business (and even elections work) inside his office.

Graswich says that, just days after he joined the mayor as “special assistant,” then-Chief of Staff Kunal Merchant (who now is a vice president with the Kings) set him up with a private Gmail account.

The mayor’s spokespeople have repeatedly stated that Johnson and staff use CityofSacramento.org emails for public business, and Gmail accounts (with the OMKJ label for Office of Mayor Kevin Johnson) for private work.

They insist that there is a separation, that the lines aren’t blurred, and they they follow all state, city and Fair Political Practices Commission rules.

Read Cosmo Garvin’s Graswich, however, painted a dissentcolumn on Mayor Kevin ing portrait of operations inside K.J.’s Johnson’s email City Hall. problem on page 11.

He told SN&R, for instance, that the mayor and staff used Gmail as their “main form of communication” for city work, private K.J. projects and campaign business. He says he did “more than 80 percent” of his communications via Gmail.

“Gmail was our bulletproof method of communication beyond the reach of the city and the public,” Graswich told SN&R via phone.

Why Gmail? He says that the mayor and senior staff had “a real paranoia” about keeping their conversations away from others at City Hall, especially fellow council members. “We really wanted to separate ourselves from the bureaucracy, from the apparatus. Nobody trusted the CityofSacramento.org.”

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Former mayoral adviser R.E. Graswich was known for Hawaiian shirts. Now, he’s speaking out about mistakes and wrongdoing during his time working for Kevin Johnson (pictured) at City Hall.

The mayor did not have a city-provided computer in his office, nor did he carry a city cell phone (he had two of his own personal phones), according to Graswich.

“He would not use any city equipment whatsoever.”

The former adviser says they never discussed using Gmail to avoid publicrecords inquiries. “It was an underlying motive, but it was never explicitly stated.”

“ I knew we couldn’t do campaign work on city computers and in City Hall.

But we did.”

R.E. Graswich former special assistant to Mayor Kevin Johnson He claims that mayoral adviser, attorney Jeffrey Dorso, advised that Team K.J. should “be careful” using Gmail, and that they shouldn’t assume their messages would remain private for ever. “‘Don’t do stupid things,’” Graswich says Dorso advised.

Indeed, California law rests in a gray area when it comes to public officials using private email for communications. “We didn’t really know what the law was,” Graswich admitted, adding that there was essentially a “cavalier attitude” that they could do whatever they wanted.

He reiterated that Gmail was the office’s main form of communication.

“It was either text or Gmail. We didn’t use city of Sacramento [email] at all. I certainly didn’t.”

The mayor has been dinged with record fines by the FPPC, which oversees state election rules and conduct, in the past. “And that was my biggest concern of all,” says Graswich. “I knew we couldn’t do campaign work on city computers and in City Hall. But we did.”

Graswich says the mayor had an office “across the street” from City Hall for campaign work, but that he and staff never followed state law, using “shortcuts” to save time, as opposed to crossing the street every time campaign discussions and work needed to be done.

“We used city equipment (desktop computers and cell phones, in some cases) to compose and send Gmail—and the content commingled city business with political/campaign business and

personal material,” Graswich wrote in an email to SN&R. “And that was double-sacrosanct. And we were violating [state law]. It was just sloppy.”

He admits to being uncomfortable with this, especially after then-City Manager Gus Vina circulated a memo reminding electeds it is forbidden to do campaign business on city time and inside City Hall.

Were those rules broken? “Absolutely, yeah,” Graswich told SN&R. He left the mayor’s office near the near the end of 2012 for a stint at Think Big. He calls the lines between the mayor’s private nonprofits and groups and his city work “very blurred.” He left Think Big after four months, he says.

There are rumors of a falling out between in him and the mayor. Is there bad blood? He says no. “I still believe in the things that [the mayor is] trying to do,” he said. “Do I have an ax to grind? No.” He chalked up the separation to not fully buying in to the so-called Church of K.J. “There’s an inner-sanctum of Kevin, and those are the people he trusts. And he trusts no one else. There was a final barrier that I never got through, and that was the trust barrier.” Ω

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upposedly Anthony is the heartthrob and Ian is adorkable. That’s exactly how the two Sacramentans come across on a Friday evening at their Beverly Hills studio, Ian in his quirky sneakers and Anthony exposing the waistband of his Calvin Klein briefs. Anthony occasionally dons man jewelry; Ian doesn’t really work out.

They’ve been friends since sixth grade and business partners since 2005. For four years they were roommates.

Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla are, in a lot of ways, like most 20-something best friends—the difference being that they’re millionaire stars of the most successful brand ever born on YouTube.

They’ve been posting short, PG-13 comedy sketches online, under the name Smosh, for 10 years. Fan art litters the walls and desks of one of their dedicated spaces inside the offices of parent company Defy Media, each homemade doll, gauzy illustration and gushing letter professing a middleor high-schooler’s undying adoration.

Smosh’s 3,000-plus videos have accrued 7.4 billion views. The global population is estimated at 7.3 billion.

Yet Hecox and Padilla, both 27 and both from Carmichael, didn’t enter the high-rise office through a service entrance, nor did they arrive in a tinted-window SUV. “It’s very different from being a traditional TV or movie celebrity,” Hecox explains. “People see them on billboards

Smosh’s Ian Hecox (on top) and Anthony Padilla.

and will be like, ‘Oh, you’re that famous guy! Can I get a photo, even though I don’t care about what you do?’ For a YouTuber, people don’t know who you are unless they actively watch your videos.”

Still, many watch their videos. Smosh’s original YouTube channel currently has 20.7 million subscribers, making it the fourth most popular channel on the site. (It has reached No. 1 three times in the last decade.) The brand’s collection of channels and websites has 34.7 million subscribers total and receives 5 million views daily. Income for the Smosh brand is unlisted, but it’s estimated to bring in $3 million to $5 million a year from YouTube ad shares alone. There’s also ad revenue from their independent site Smosh.com, plus funds from sponsorships and merchandise. Forbes figured that in 2013 Smosh earned $10 million—all of this from such trivialities as a skit about a drunk guinea pig, a fake ad concerned with selling tubed ground beef and a series of ballads about Boxman, who became part cardboard box following a horrific accident, and then ran for president.

Smosh now has five thematically distinct content channels, a separate network for fans’ own content, a blog, an app (1 million downloads), a video game (2 million downloads), four music albums, a robust merchandising division and a staff of writers, directors, producers and cast members.

The guys are currently producing a longer-form, serialized show under the new YouTube Originals umbrella. And at a glitzy event at Westwood’s Village Theatre on July 22, the day before the huge Anaheim YouTube conference VidCon, the megabrand will premiere its first film, SMOSH: The Movie.

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While other digital stars have surpassed Smosh’s YouTube subscriber numbers or make more money by retaining sole ownership of their sites, no other enterprise has built a brand as large, diversified and, if you’re under 30, recognizable.

Two bozos with a webcam are now a media empire. The movie isn’t a culmination for Smosh but rather one more arm of the beast. If the old Hollywood analogy involves climbing a ladder, the new one owes more to Walt Whitman—“Smosh is large.

Smosh contains multitudes.”—even if this is the only time the transcendentalist poet’s work will be used to sum up a couple of dudes who try to plunge a toilet with a doughnut.

Spoiler alert: They fail.

The movie chronicles Hecox and Padilla’s efforts to remove an embarrassing video from YouTube by literally jumping into the website.

Along the way, they run into other YouTube personalities, including Jenna Marbles (15 million subscribers), whose living room they land in. Hecox and Padilla play versions of themselves—their selves of four

years ago, aimless 23-year-olds, but without Internet stardom.

The film was shot in 18 days.

When asked if making a feature film will alienate Smosh’s DIY online fan base or discredit them as too Hollywood, Padilla responds that it wouldn’t be in the interest of producers or marketers to present them that way: “They want to capture the audience we already have.” The movie won’t be in theaters; it will be released digitally and eventually on DVD—which, believe it or not, the IRL-starved teen megafans have specifically requested.

“Yeah,” Hecox adds, “we’re not that good of actors. They don’t want us for our skill.”

In a survey commissioned by Variety last summer, 1,500 teens, ages 13 to 18, were asked a series of questions about 20 celebrities—10 traditional stars popular with teens and 10 YouTube stars. The celebs then were ranked to reflect their overall influence. Katy Perry came in ninth. The top five were all digital personalities.

Smosh was No. 1.

“That kind of validation point changes how the entire creative and advertising community views YouTube,” says Kelly Merryman,

vice president of YouTube’s content partnerships. “Smosh has helped redefine how massively popular an online star can be, and that impacts the entire community of creators.”

In the last few years, more and more traditional media outlets are scrambling for digital domain.

In 2013, DreamWorks bought AwesomenessTV for $33 million.

Last year, it sold just a quarter of the company to Hearst Corp. for more than $81 million—meaning the company’s value grew tenfold in about a year. Also last year, Warner Bros. Entertainment invested $18 million in Machinima, an online gaming-video outlet.

Disney paid $500 million for Maker Studios, which produces YouTube channels, among other services. And Viacom acquired an undisclosed minority stake in Defy Media, part of which is owned by Lionsgate, which last year formed an alliance with digital-content giant RocketJump Studios. The assumption a few years ago was that digital talent would be invading traditional media, but the reverse now seems to be true. And digital media welcomes the invasion, if only on its own terms.

“We aren’t trying to jump to traditional media,” Hecox is careful to clarify. “We just see it as another outlet, another way to expand what we’re doing already.”

Digital sketches are Hecox and Padilla’s native habitat. When Hecox joked about the duo’s poor acting skills, it was hyperbole, but not by much. The guys comedically overact, with screwball faces and boundless confidence, capitalizing on personality rather than finesse. Fortunately, a dedication to dramatic craft is not an essential ingredient in YouTube magic. In fact, it can be a detriment.

“We’re not making cinema,” Smosh president Barry Blumberg explains.

“We’re making content that connects with an audience.” He says the content itself “doesn’t need to be far out of reach of that audience’s capabilities”—especially since it aims to resonate “in a community where a lot of people think they’re also content creators.”

The guys don’t claim to want traditional fame anyway. “Not at all,” Hecox emphasizes. “Our situation is nice because we still have a level of anonymity.”

“Yeah, we’re kind of reserved people,” Padilla adds. “We don’t

Income for the Smosh brand is unlisted, but it’s estimated to bring in $3 million to $5 million a year from YouTube ad shares alone. want to be the life of the party and have people staring at us all the time.”

It may be too late. Madame Tussaud’s recently announced that Padilla and Hecox will be the first American digital stars immortalized in wax. They also have appeared on the 2014 Teen Choice Awards and on TMZ Live, and have an upcoming spot on MTV’s Ridiculousness.

The conclusion of last summer’s Variety survey, based on respondents’ comments, was that web stars topped the list because they are perceived as approachable, authentic and candid, whereas traditional celebrities are barricaded behind handlers and image consultants.

“Stylists?” Padilla parrots my question to make sure he heard it correctly. “Like, they pick your clothes? And haircut?”

Hecox interjects, “No, we don’t have that.”

“I think that’s silly, actually,” Padilla adds.

Hecox agrees. “Finding things to wear is what the Internet’s for.”

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Padilla: “You don’t have to do anything.”

Hecox: “Well, I want to, so …”

Padilla: “OK, you want to, then.”

Big time in the 916 In 2005, when Hecox and Padilla were in high school in Sacramento, they Googled their names and discovered that someone had taken a video from their MySpace page—of them lip-synching the Mortal Kombat theme song, the second of only two videos they’d made at that time—and posted it to a fledgling site called YouTube, where it had already accrued a couple thousand views and hundreds of comments.

The MySpace page, as well as the personal site Padilla created in 2002 as a community for their friends, was named “Smosh” after an inside joke about a buddy who mispronounced the phrase “mosh pit.” Excited about the free bandwidth on YouTube, Padilla opened a channel immediately and then polled Smosh’s MySpace fans to choose which theme song

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the guys would lip-synch for a third video. Pokémon won.

The now-legendary Smosh Pokémon lip-sync video, their first to blow up on YouTube, features scrawnier, even floppier-haired versions of Hecox and Padilla jumping around Padilla’s old bedroom in the Carmichael home where he grew up with his mom. Excluding a few props and sight gags, the humor is all energy and exaggerated gestures.

It’s the same stuff you did with your adolescent friends, except videotaped and made public—forever.

YouTube used to have a list on its homepage of recommended videos, and at first creators could promote their own clips. “I must’ve clicked the ‘recommend for front page’ button 200 times,” Padilla recalls. It hit the home page and then caught fire. So Hecox and Padilla posted more—first other lip-sync spoofs and eventually original sketches—almost all of which made the home page. With about $1,000 in donations from fans and $2,000 in T-shirt sales, the duo, who’d made everything on Padilla’s webcam, purchased a Sony Handycam and other essential equipment, and were able to leave Padilla’s bedroom.

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In 2007, publisher Shogakukan cited copyright infringement and forced YouTube to remove the Pokémon clip, which by then had more than 24 million views, making it the fourth most watched YouTube video at the time.

The year before, Blumberg, who’d recently left his post as president of Walt Disney Television Animation, saw a few of Smosh’s clips on YouTube. “I called them up in Sacramento and flew up there to meet a couple of weeks later.”

It wasn’t his plan, upon leaving Disney, to court and develop digital talent. “I just saw something in these two guys,” Blumberg says.

“Something about them was connecting with an audience, and I really liked the name. It was my feeling that, with a little bit of polish and some traditional-media knowledge, it could be grown into something bigger.”

Some of his first advice to the guys, according to Padilla: “Don’t just

do it whenever you’re bored or having fun. Create a schedule.’”

They’d just graduated from high school and had enrolled in community college. “Then the YouTube thing started taking off,” Padilla recalls, “and we were like, ‘Well, we can always come back to college. We can’t always come back to YouTube.’” So they quit to make videos full-time. “It was constant,” Hecox says. Padilla adds, “We were working every single day of the week.”

In 2007, with Blumberg’s help, Smosh was chosen to be one of the first channels in the YouTube Partners program, in which ad revenues are shared between the site and its content creators. (At the time, the new partners were paid an undisclosed rate; now each channel in the program receives 55 percent of all ad sales.) It was around this time that Blumberg starting taking a cut of the growing business. “He was in it for the long haul,” Hecox says. “He wasn’t looking for any sort of quick cashout.”

Once the guys had enough income to cover the bandwidth on Smosh.com—and move out of their parents’ places, into a house they shared—they started duplicating their video library on Smosh.com, which currently houses everything that they’ve posted on YouTube in addition to bonus, exclusive material. In 2010, they built out their independent platform to include a blog populated with articles and lists, a combination of original and aggregated content—think College Humor or BuzzFeed, but for high schoolers. Alloy Digital purchased Smosh in 2011, bringing Blumberg on as digital executive vice president. (Defy Media was founded when Alloy merged with Break Media in 2013.) The following year saw the development of three new channels: Shut Up! Cartoons (an animated series), Smosh Games (video game–related content) and El Smosh (Spanish-language versions of the main-channel sketches). Each channel launched in part due to fan demand. For example, El Smosh started when Hecox and Padilla discovered a user dubbing all of their videos—and then hired him.

That channel now has 1 million subscribers.

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Not everyone is a fan of Smosh. Two 27-year-olds who record themselves replacing the lyrics of Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus with “I just got my first boner� are perhaps perfect fodder for the mocking, anonymous trolls on the notoriously vicious 4chan message boards.

In December 2013, one 4chan user posted, “Lets [sic] fake a nazi video on their youtube channel, screencap it and spread it through twitter with #WTFSmosh.� Someone did just that.

A fake screengrab of the Smosh channel—titled “HITLER BRINGS BACK GOOD MEMORIES� and accompanied by an image of a Hitler-’stached Padilla next to a swastika—exploded on Twitter, along with fans’ heartfelt and shocked reactions.

4chan users also planted false reports that Hecox was accused of rape in high school and, most recently, doctored Smosh’s movie poster to include the Twin Towers, suggesting the film will be worse than 9/11.

While none of their other detractors are as ferocious, there are ample hater rants lurking in the comments, as well as in reaction videos and chat rooms. “We usually choose to ignore them because they are trying to bring you down,�

Padilla says. “There is no sense in letting it affect you.�

Smosh is exceptionally childish and dumb. But teens and children are their market, and that market regenerates. When asked why teen-focused digital content is so popular in general, Hecox replies, “People have a lot of time when they’re younger. Then they start getting jobs.�

Speaking of a lot of time, there’s even an “Ianthony� genre of fan fiction that depicts erotic escapades between the two stars. It floods Smosh fan sites. Much of it is far too explicit for tween eyeballs, and most of it appears to be written by women.

Occasionally, the duo posts videos of themselves performing dramatic readings of the works, not without occasionally gagging.

Superfans are no less obsessed with the duo’s real-life romantic endeavors.

Padilla and fellow online personality Kalel Cullen were the reigning Internet power couple for many years, and were engaged for about 18 months before calling it quits last year. The Smosh community is still devastated. Hecox is currently single, but earlier this month Padilla posted the first Instagram shot of his new alleged girlfriend. The post’s 4,800-and-counting comments read like an audience transcript from an “After the Rose� episode of The Bachelor: “I like her so much more than his ex�; “kalel is better and always will be�;

In a survey commissioned

by Variety last summer, celebs were ranked to reflect their overall influence. Katy Perry came in ninth. The top five were all digital personalities.

Smosh was No. 1.

“kalel didn’t really do anything (I think) she was lazy where as I think [this one] is actually hardworking�; “Damn we missed our chance.�

Toward the end of our Friday-evening chat at the Defy offices, one of Smosh’s press representatives, also a Defy employee, confirms with Padilla that the

restaurant hosting a business meeting that night has vegan options. Padilla moved here from Sacramento in March 2013 and has adjusted more readily to L.A. life than has Hecox, who took the plunge earlier this year and sheepishly says, “I’m slow to do everything, and L.A. is a different, scary place.�

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Their free time is rare, but when they have it, Padilla wanders around downtown L.A. (he rents a loft in the Jewelry District), while Hecox likes exploring the secret stairs in Silver Lake (where he owns a house) and Echo Park. Hecox jokes, “My hobby would be trying not to check emails.” They occasionally go dancing with friends at the Satellite because, Hecox says, “It’s not like a really douchey club, which makes it unique.”

After eight years of running Smosh out of Sacramento, the duo realized a move was inevitable. “We had this office here, Smosh studios here, our headquarters was here,” Padilla recalls. “It made sense.”

Defy has two offices. The creative office is more casual—not foosball-table and taco-truck casual, but populated by people wearing Chuck Taylors and decorated with quirky leftover props from shoots, such as 2-foot-tall replicas of the pixelated flowers in the Super Mario games. Almost all of the 350 employees work, at varying times, on all of Defy’s brands and productions. Smosh does have a dedicated staff, although its number of employees isn’t public.

A hefty amount of production still happens in Sacramento, where Defy owns a soundstage (containing a bedroom set and a kitchen set) as well as the “Smosh house,” the actual home shared by Hecox and Padilla when they moved out of their

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Hecox and Padilla fly upstate once or twice each month. Otherwise, everything is shot at one of the nine studios at Defy, at YouTube-owned soundstages in town or on location. The goal is eventually to move all production to L.A. The guys still give notes and sign off on every sketch slated for the main and second channels. They’re less involved with the cartoon and gaming channels (the latter has its own cast) but heavily engaged with the new, hush-hush YouTube Originals series—and, of course, are constantly in front of a camera for one shoot or another, not to mention making appearances at press and promotional events and at shareholder meetings.

Hecox says that if they hadn’t followed Blumberg’s advice years ago to diversify, hire a staff and outsource, “We wouldn’t be here. We’ve seen other YouTubers burn out.”

“There wasn’t even a formal scripting process 10 years ago,” Blumberg recalls.

“I gave them notes on paragraphs. I helped them as writers at the beginning, with structure and how traditional comedy works.

And they taught me how sketch comedy on YouTube works.” Blumberg even wrote many of Smosh’s first Facebook and

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Twitter posts, and still has teen Twitter followers on his personal account as a result. When asked if they were making it up as they went along, Blumberg replies, “Yes. We still are.”

Partly, Smosh is building a “family,” as the guys call their cast, staff and brand, because “If it’s you in front of the camera every day, that’s taxing,” Padilla says.

“Especially if you want to keep doing this at 40. We might be working more behind the camera by then.”

When Hecox and Padilla turn 40, in 2028, teens will no doubt still laugh at talking boobs. But will Smosh still be making videos about them? The brand’s sketches certainly are more adult now than they were 10 years ago.

“I just write what I think is funny,” Hecox says. “I don’t care who watches it.”

Even if the guys’ sensibilities outgrow their market—or vice versa—the Smosh brand might be diversified enough to adapt. Still, all of its digital bits and bytes are as fleeting as humor itself. Smosh is an empire built on ephemerality. What if it all disappears?

“I’ll take my money and go live on an island,” Padilla adds.

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“I’ll become a hermit,” Hecox jokes.

“I’ll go up into the mountains and just hunt rabbit for the rest of my life.”

And nothing will remain of Smosh.

Except those wax figures.

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he music industry has changed a lot in the Symbolic of what a weird state the music 24 years since the band CAKE first formed in industry is in, the band’s sixth album “Showroom of Sacramento. While many of its peers have Compassion” debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, disappeared into obscurity or continue to tour as despite selling only 44,000 copies in its first week nostalgia acts stuck in a specific place and — the lowest sales numbers for any album at time, CAKE has managed to stay the top of that chart. relevant. In August, the band will While CAKE has been able to return to the Sacramento area weather the storm of declining to headline City of Trees. record sales, it hasn’t been Lead vocalist and all roses either, according principal songwriter to McCrea. In fact, he John McCrea attributes says the band has been his band’s longevity nearly obliterated many to focusing on its craft, times. But despite while also ignoring an the bumps in the onslaught of coming road, McCrea is still and going music trends optimistic about the over the years. future and looks forward “We focused less on to returning to play in the JOHN MCCREA cultural expression, less on Sacramento area. lead singer-songwriter, CAKE the musical industry and the “I’m not that kind of fickle whimsy of things we can’t songwriter who’s capable of control, and just focused on what planning a route or destination,” we could control, which was an attention McCrea says. “I just kind of take it as it comes to detail on our music and how we produced it,” … That said, I still enjoy writing songs and playing McCrea says. “That’s all we could do. We put a lot music. I think the band has a few more years left, more focus on that. You can see that in the way and it doesn’t feel irrelevant to me yet.” we dress.”

“I’m not that kind of songwriter who’s capable of planning a route or destination.

I just kind of take it as it comes.”

CAKE will return to the Sacr headline City of T amento area to rees August 15.

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t started in 2013 with a shared love for decades-old feminist punk.

Chavez D’Augustine had asked new acquaintance Sunny Kenngott for a ride home from the Sacramento LGBT Center.

In the car, the pair quickly bonded over the music spinning in Kengott’s player. “‘Oh, hey, you like 1995 Bikini Kill, too?’” Kenngott remembers

D’Augustine asking. “We instantly became friends.”

Fast-forward to August 2014: D’Augustine had just bought his own car, and he and Kenngott were giving it a spin, cruising the back roads of Sacramento. The topic of riot grrrl music came up again and eventually turned to LadyFest, the community-based, nonprofit music-activism feminist festival that first launched in Olympia, Wash., in 2000.

Over the years, several cities followed suit: Amsterdam and Berlin. Albuquerque and Miami. New Orleans, Washington, D.C.

and San Francisco, the latter of which Kenngott had attended. As they talked, a realization dawned.

“We were like, ‘Why has Sacramento never had its own LadyFest?’”

D’Augustine says. “We thought, ‘We should do it. We should start it.’”

Sac LadyFest, featuring two nights of music, is scheduled to take place July 17 and 18 at Cafe Colonial.

In many ways Sac LadyFest was a natural fit for D’Augustine’s and Kenngott’s strengths and talents.

D’Augustine recruited local musician

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Leticia Garcia to help with the lineup.

Kenngott is a longtime activist. A former Peace Corp volunteer, she regularly works with Take Back the Night and by day is a grant writer for the Girl Scouts. The pair also recruited activist Keyko Torres-Oki, whom they’d seen emcee at a Take Back the Night event.

The initial concept for Sac LadyFest started big. They held weekly meetings for which they took minutes. They recruited volunteers and talked about how there would be bands and art exhibits, feminist speakers and workshops on topics such as queer politics and ending violence against women.

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“We had to scale it back and be more realistic,” D’Augustine says.

It was a matter of both practicality and philosophy, Torres-Oki adds.

“We wanted to do something smaller right, rather than do something bigger and have it go wrong,” she says. “We wanted to show this as feminism in action and then grow from there. We wanted to set our seeds down and grow up instead of take root without a strong foundation.”

While there are already plans to expand the scope of next year’s LadyFest and, hopefully, host smaller events and meetups throughout the year, the inaugural event will feature just a few interactive events as well as a tarot reader.

Mostly though, the organizers have zeroed in on the music. The lineup, which includes Butch vs. Femme as well as emcee Century Got Bars, folk singer Jenn Rogar, pop band Monster Treasure and slowcore punk band Night Children, includes acts that feature at least one woman. All bands but one are local.

Music, after all, has always been riot grrrl’s main conduit for change.

The underground feminist movement can be traced back to the early '90s music scenes in Washington, D.C., and the Pacific Northwest with acts such as Bikini Kill, Heavens to Betsy, Bratmobile and Sleater-Kinney merging punk, pop and folk with a new wave of feminism that addressed, among other topics, sexuality, sexual assault, domestic abuse and racism.

Although the Sac LadyFest organizers are too young to have experienced riot grrrl’s original incarnation, they say the movement still had impact, reaching through the years to shape their political and social beliefs.

Kenngott, 31, remembers being 14 and discovering Hillary Carlip’s 1995 collection Girl Power, which featured stories across the spectrum of feminist voices. With its essays and excerpts from various zines, it also introduced the El Camino High School student to the DIY zine network and, in turn, motivated her own activism.

Torres-Oki’s path followed politics to the music. The San Diego teen organized for immigrants workers’ rights in high school. It wasn’t until she moved to Sacramento to study English at Sacramento State, however, that she discovered riot grrrl’s history and music.

D’Augustine, 27, was a Dixon high school student when the drummer in his band gave his sister a Bikini Kill record.

D’Augustine listened and from there was hooked.

Garcia, 33, discovered riot grrrl while playing in her first band when she was 23.

“I didn’t really have anyone to play music for me,” she says of her youth.

It’s been more than 25 years since riot grrrl’s launch and 15 years since the first LadyFest. A lot has changed in that time. While the term “riot grrrl” may be, in some ways, a quaint relic of the '90s, its lasting impact on feminism has been profound.

“Well, for starters, Miley Cyrus identifies as a feminist,” D’Augustine says.

Beyonce, too, Torres-Oki adds.

They’re not being glib. If anything it’s getting easier to trace the line from early underground musicians such as Bikini Kill’s Kathleen Hanna to some of today’s biggest pop stars. It’s even rumored that Hanna and Cyrus may collaborate on album—this after the former Hannah Montana star Instagrammed photos of the “Suck My Left One” singer.

“Pop culture is embracing it in a way that I don’t think it’s been embraced before,” Torres-Oki says. “Before, to be described yourself as a feminist artist was putting yourself in a small niche, it was off-putting to other people. Now it gets conversations started.”

Check out sac ladyfest at 7 p.m. July 17 and 18, at Cafe Colonial, 3522 stockton boulevard. tickets are $10 for friday, $15 for saturday and $20 for both nights. learn more at https://www.facebook.com/ events/1462372804061065.

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There’s more inclusivity, too. Or at least the effort to make it less white, less straight, less any one thing and more of everything.

This ethos applies to LadyFest.

“LadyFest is so many voices, so many genres,” Torres-Oki says. “We have a wide range of voices from spoken-word artists who are male and female, black and white, young and old, queer and genderqueer. Everyone is different but we’re all under the same roof because we have that same fundamental belief.” Ω

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SCENE& HEARD Chill out, read up Three new novels by Sacramento area writers—well, technically, two of them are from Davis—provide excellent reading material this summer. What’s even more interesting is the similarity in themes—exploration, colonization, clashing cultures—in these otherwise very different novels.

First up is Davis science fiction legend Kim Stanley Robinson’s newest work, Aurora (July 7, Orbit, $26). It opens near the end of the colonizing flight to the titular planet.

The main character, Freya, is a young girl whose parents are heavily involved in keeping the ship’s various systems running—especially her mother, who is the unofficial chief of the engineers. As Freya grows up and the journey nears its end, we see just how difficult—materially, physically and psychologically—interstellar travel really is and how much it changes humanity, and that’s even with reasonable technological advances.

Robinson has written a fascinating and thought-provoking look into one possible future, and raises the question of whether or not human expansion into space is wise—or even possible.

If Robinson’s assessment of colonization outside the solar system is grim, it’s nothing compared to the historical epic that is William T. Vollmann’s Seven Dreams series of novels. The fifth volume, The Dying Grass (July 28, Viking, $55), focuses on the 1877 Nez Perce war. Melding official history with “visions,” Vollmann has written a poetic and grisly account of the Unites States’ extermination of the Nez Perce from what was then the Oregon territory and is now the states of Oregon, Washington and Idaho.

As always, Vollmann is nothing if not encyclopedic. The appendices alone offer testament to the research that went into this novel. Fortunately, the story—especially the excursions into the internal lives of the main combatants— is nothing short of brilliant, reading like a prose poem.

William The casual racism, unthinking T. Vollmann is acceptance of white America’s right to the entire continent nothing if not and the way in which the fallout encyclopedic. from the Civil War led to genocidal assaults on the natives of the West are all clearly on display. Also present—and it’s a relief—are depictions of native life as both struggle and joy.

In context with the other volumes of the Seven Dreams series, The Dying Grass offers the best of a good argument for Vollmann’s position as a front-runner for the next American Nobel laureate in literature.

The debut novel from Davis resident Naomi Williams, Landfalls (August 4; Farrar, Straus and Giroux; $26), is a literary re-imagining—also with detailed historical facts—of the French expedition to circumnavigate the globe in 1785, led by Jean-Francois de Galaup de Lapérouse. In chapters with alternating narrators, we see the various landfalls of the title, as well as the long and dangerous stretches of seafaring.

As a nautical novel, it’s fantastic; as a novel of cultural exchange and misunderstanding, it’s even better. The imprint of imperial desire and colonial ambition is never far beneath the surface of the voyagers’ scientific and ethnographic impulses, which means that it’s no surprise when contact with local peoples takes unexpected turns, causing no end of problems even before the shipwreck that ends the voyage.

That’s not a spoiler; it’s history. And even that end is deftly handled, in historically resonant ways.

All these books, sited in different centuries, bring together the persistence of the human impulse to go somewhere else, coupled with our outraged surprise when it’s not what we expected, and followed by the attempt to make every place over the way we want it to be. We’re only human, after all.

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For example, there’s opportunity to watch high-level athletes play rugby, soccer baseball and more—all in just the next few weeks.

World Team Tennis (a fourperson, coed game of tennis) returned to the Sacramento area with the California Dream starting its inaugural season this week. (Last year, the Sacramento Capitals moved to Las Vegas after 28 years in town, and six championships.)

The Dream will play home games at the Sunrise Mall, and the team features the Bryan brothers—arguably the best doubles players ever—among others. Check out the team’s full schedule, which includes four home games this week, at www.californiadreamtennis.com.

The Sacramento Republic FC played its first game under new head coach Paul Buckle on Tuesday (a “friendly” against the English Premier League team Sunderland), after former

head coach Predrag “Preki” Radosavljevic left to take a job in the United Kingdom last week.

This Saturday, July 18, it’ll play against another (even better) EPL team in Newcastle United.

Resale tickets are available at www.sacrepublicfc.com.

Eppie’s Great Race (www.eppiesgreatrace.org)

is a fun sports event for both spectators and participants.

Billed as the “World’s Oldest Triathlon,” it starts at 8 a.m. on Saturday, July 18, and takes anywhere between two and four hours to complete.

Still not enough sports?

Check out Sacramento River Cats (www.rivercats.com), who

start a four-game home stand against the El Paso Chihuahuas on Monday, July 20. Or, just wait a week for a doubleheader of international rugby matches at Bonney Field on Friday, July 24, as part of the Pacific Nations Cup tournament (http://usarugby.org/ tickets).

—Jonathan Mendick

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America is the land of the immigrants, and likely most of us don’t know much past who our grandparents—maybe great grandparents—are or what they were like.

HISTORY With modern technology, the power of genealogy is now at everyone’s fingertips—if you know how to use it. The California Museum, as part of their We Are All Californians exhibition, is offering an event for both novices and experts in the world of family history research. Free, 10 a.m. at the California Museum, 1020 O Street, www.californiamuseum.org.

Don’t expect to find eggs frying on sidewalks or meat cooking on dashboards at the annual Solar Cooking Festival. Instead, experts will demonstrate ways to safely cook with solar cookers. Bacon & Butter’s Billy Zoellin will go headto-head with Shady Lady Saloon’s Gerald Watts for bragging rights in a cook-off. Meet FESTIVAL Yard Crashers’ Ahmed Hassan, listen to the band Solar Punch, build a cooker and let the kids explore Sacramento’s largest outdoor kitchen. Free, 10 a.m. at William Land Park, 3800 South Land Park Drive; www.solarcookers.org/ events/festival.

This event will feature a plethora of talented individuals in an artistic battle. Come root for your favorite hairstyle, makeup or fashion statement. There will be many vendors on hand showing off and selling their wares and it’s a great way to find that new hairstylist you’ve been looking for. If HAIR/ FASHION there was ever a trade show worth attending for stylists, fashion and makeup experts—and customers alike—this would be it. $30-$125, 5 p.m. at the Scottish Rite Center, 6151 H Street, www.hairandfashion battle.com.

—Aaron Carnes

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Twisted Sacratomato Salon thurSday, July 23 You don’t always have to whisper when you go to an art museum— you usually do, but not this time at the Twisted Sacratomato Salon at the Crocker Art Museum. Based off the “salons” ART/ PARTY of the early 20th century that Paris artists would frequent, there will be weird games, pub trivia, storytelling, jokes, oddball art tours and, of course, drinks.

Lots of drinks. Free with admission, 6 p.m. at the Crocker Art Museum, 216 O Street; www.crockerart museum.org.

—Aaron Carnes

—Eddie Jorgensen

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What to do? Well, Wrap N’ Roll Sushi Burrito’s “loaded” Spam musubi— a cross between a plain musubi and a sushi burrito—has finally solved that problem. It has seaweed on the outside, with a delicious combo of rice, lettuce, Spam, green onion, an over-easy egg and spicy sauce inside. It’s a great deal at just $5.50, and it’s big enough for lunch.

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Barber booze: Spotlighted in the Los Angeles Times, Details Magazine and other publications, Bottle & Barlow (1120 R Street) was easily one of the most anticipated Sacramento bar openings in quite some time. The bar-slash-barbershop, located in the new Warehouse Artist Lofts building, is open now, with a grand opening scheduled for Saturday, July 18.

It’s the vision of megapopular barber Anthony Giannotti of Anthony’s Barbershop and San Francisco star bartender Jayson Wilde.

Wilde rose through the ranks at famous San Francisco bars Bourbon & Branch and Wilson & Wilson before recently returning to his hometown. Kimio Bazett and Jon Modrow (Hook & Ladder Manufacturing Co., the Golden Bear) round out the ownership team.

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The bar and barbershop are divided by a wall—and connected by the bathrooms—but both are beautiful, spacious destinations with a swanky, art deco design. It’s the work of Whitney Johnson, who also designed hot spots Hook & Ladder, Shady Lady Saloon and others. Barbershop patrons receive a free beer or—starting next week, cocktail—with an appointmentonly cut. Those cocktails aren’t as fancy or creative as what’s available in the formal bar area, but still: free Jayson Wilde-approved cocktail.

Considering the complexity and quality, bar-area cocktails are reasonably priced at $9-$12. The Ponzu Scheme boasted smoke and tang with scotch, lemon, ponzu, Cocchi Americano and orange marmalade.

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Get fancy: Localis, the concept replacing Trick Pony by the Broderick Roadhouse team, also opened last week at 2031 S Street.

Chef Christopher Barnum, most recently at Cibo 7 in Roseville, crafts stunning plates with European and Asian influences at this fine dining spot. Localis invited many area chefs for test dinners, serving plates such as rabbit roulade with root vegetables; cured white bass with soy and black garlic; pork belly with uni and apricot; and a farm plate of different vegetables in different preparations. Snag a table by emailing reservations@ localissacramento.com.

—AntHony Siino

Sunny days SunflowerS Possibly the cheeriest flower around, sunflowers are incredibly easy to grow in California. You can find entire sunny fields of them south of Davis and gobs of cut flowers at local markets.

They’re great for bees, and the seeds are higher in vitamin E and folate than most other nuts and seeds. The kernels are crunchtastic in salads, cookies, muffins and snack mixes. You can go old-timey baseball watchin’ with in-shell kernels, or go the easy route and buy them shelled.

And if you happen to save a dried flower head and scatter the seeds about your yard, you’ll have your own flowers next summer.

Alcoholic boba: If you’ve ever wished you could get drunk on tapioca milk tea, get ready to find fulfillment at Lazi Cow (407 G Street in Davis). The boba shop remodeled and reopened last month with a full kitchen—tacos, fried snacks, brick toast—and tapioca tea cocktails.

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Add a bit of ginger and I’m in, whether it’s candy, seafood platters, paint thinner, you name it.

Thankfully, we’ve got Kupros Craft House and their cocktails to keep me out of the house supplies. Take the McKinley Rose ($10), a mix of bourbon, ginger liqueur, a bit of lemon, fresh ginger and a dash of club soda. It’s sweet, but not overly so, and gingery in an herbal way without getting too bright and biting. With the lemon adding a nice curve of sour, it’s a well-balanced and briskly refreshing drink that makes for a good reading supplement while you’re out enjoying the sun on Kupros’ upper deck.

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seasoned. They’re served so hot that by splitting one open you could cook another samosa in the steam.

The mango chicken was the hit of the 6400 fair oaks boulevard in carmichael, night. A sweet, fruity sauce spiked with (916) 971-0115, www.tajbarandgrill.com cilantro and a bit of chili pepper nuzzles Dinner for one: $12 - $20 itself around meaty chunks of chicken. The Good for: classic indian cuisine dish is heady and intoxicating—first-date Notable dishes: mango chicken food at its finest.

A shrimp curry pulls off what can sometimes be impossible: perfectly cooked shrimp suspended in near-boiling liquid.

The kicker with seafood soups, stews and I rarely ever drive out to Carmichael curries is that the shrimp can go from because it is (to me) the same thing as drivsucculent to Super Ball in the time it takes ing to Maine: unreasonably far. However, to travel from kitchen to table. Here, the once in a blue moon I get word of a restaushrimp arrived plump and submissive and rant that must be experienced. So I climb remained that way for much of the meal into my car, say goodbye to my loved ones before eventual heat death set in. (Shrimp and make the arduous trek. + Heat + Time = Rubber is an immutable Recently, without provisions or Sherpa, equation in cooking.) The spicy curry I made my way up the winding road of Fair fanned a cayenne heat across the shellfish Oaks Boulevard. At one point, I was sure I and against the back of our throats. had abandoned all civilization to become The baingan bharta—seared surrounded by only chain restaurants eggplant mashed with peas, The and cheap fast food. Surely the herbs and curry—will food gods had forsaken me. mango convert any eggplant hater Suddenly, a neon yellow sign into a devout lover of welcomed me and guided chicken is the humble aubergine. me to the safety of Taj Bar It’s savory, smoky and heady and & Grill. sultry.

We entered and ordered intoxicating — A creamy lamb quickly from the extensive korma then took its turn menu, getting a bit of first-date food seducing the table. The culinary advice from the at its finest. korma—a cashew-based very friendly and knowledgesauce—was soft and velvety. able staff.

Possibly the best I’ve The pakoras arrived searing ever eaten. hot in a crispy chickpea flour jacket The tandoori chicken, if anything, was and laced with plenty of turmeric. A variety the one true miss of the meal. Lukewarm of dipping sauces also arrived with them: at best and barely seasoned. You would a refreshing and mild mint chutney, a be hard pressed to find bland tandoori but sweet tamarind sauce, and a dismal mango somehow Taj can find it. sauce that tasted like an off-putting Italian Overall, the food is phenomenal at Taj dressing. and I promised myself to come out again.

The garlic naan reeked of jarred By and far, it’s probably some of the garlic, and so we stuck to the comforting, most flavorful Indian food I’ve found in unadorned naan. the region, and certainly some of the best The aloo tikki—a type of spiced potato priced. Just a bit over $80 and we had more croquette—came to the table tender as can than enough food that everyone at the table be. It generously absorbed the tamarind took home leftovers for days. sauce and made for a fun Indian take on If you know what to order, then Taj fries and ketchup. offers some of the best Indian food for the The lamb samosas were rather disapbest deal. Gather your peeps, make the trek pointing creatures as the lamb was poorly and you won’t look back. Ω spiced and poorly bound. Best to stick with the potato and pea samosas, which here are shot with bit of turmeric and generously

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So far, my favorite cultivars include Green Zebra, Sun Gold and Mortgage Lifter. I know what you’re thinking, SN&R reader—and no, these aren’t new marijuana strains. All these somewhat silly names actually refer to different varieties of heirloom tomatoes, which people can learn more about at Sacratomato Week (July 20-25).

Hosted by Midtown’s Sutter District and the Midtown Business Association, the week culminates in the free Sacratomato Festival outside Sutter’s Fort State Historic Park (2701 L Street) at 4 p.m. on Friday, July 25. But first Sacramento will enjoy a week’s worth of tomato-themed foods and drink specials from Sutter District restaurants such as Biba, Centro Cocina Mexicana and Red Rabbit Kitchen & Bar. Then at the Sacratomato Festival, participants can watch a salsa-making competition, play games, listen to music, eat tomatoes and drink craft beer and bloody marys. Find out more at www.facebook.com/thesutterdistrict.

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The Italian frozen dessert normally consists of the same basic ingredients: fruit, sugar and water.

However, some have egg whites in them to give the already creamy treat a fluffier texture, like its dairy-inclusive cousin, gelato. The gelateria Zia’s (4364 Town Center Boulevard, Suite 110, in El Dorado Hills) house-made sorbettos all include egg. That’s too bad for vegans, but Devine Gelateria & Cafe in Midtown (1221 19th Street) is the

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Devine’s sorbetto is not only animal-ingredient-free, but the menu changes daily, and the flavor combinations are intriguing. Exhibit A: In the first week of July, its offerings included strawberry ginger, mango orange, champagne-poached pluot, strawberry pomegranate, blueberry lemon and roasted pineapple, among others. If you’re cheeky, mix all the flavors for a more sophisticated version of a suicide soda.

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Foundation Restaurant & Bar The Golden Bear Grange Restaurant & Bar Hook & Ladder Manufacturing Co. LowBrau Orchid Thai Restaurant & Bar Paragary’s The Porch Restaurant and Bar Pour House The Press The Red Rabbit Kitchen & Bar Shady Lady Saloon

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Ace of Spades Blue Lamp The Boardwalk Cafe Colonial The Center for the Arts Fox & Goose Public House Goldfield Trading Post Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub Harris Center for the Arts The Hideaway Bar & Grill Old Ironsides The Press Club Shine Starlite Lounge Sophia’s Thai Kitchen Third Space Torch Club

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s summer and the California State Fair gear up to close down, there’s still plenty of fun left in the Best 17 Days of Summer.

The Toyota Concert Series continues with a wealth of country artists while tomorrow’s stars enjoy Rock On Live Karaoke on the Groupon Stage. If your style is less rock-the-mic and more blend-into-the-choir, testify at the 20th Annual Colors of California Gospel feature (July 18), an interfaith tradition featuring more than 50 artists.

Also on July 18, tap into the Best of California Brewfest and sample from dozens of local beers that competed in the Fair’s commercial brewing competition. Held at the Miller Lite Racetrack Grandstands, you can sip suds while cheering on the high-purse Golden Bear Sprint Stakes Race.

In fact, horses have taken over the Fair’s last week with high-stakes racing, jaripeo y baile (Mexican rodeo and dance, July 26), and the American Quarter Horse Association show featuring ranch horses roping, cattle sorting and cutting (July 18).

Though if you prefer solder and bits over sinew and bone, buzz over to the Fat Shark National Drone Racing Championship (July 16–17) at Bonney Field, where pilots from around the country compete in races and obstacle courses.

Whether you’ve been chasing Chase Rice (July 24) or want one more go-round on the Ferris wheel before the summer sun sets, the final week of the California State Fair has saved the best for last.

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emember that time when the carnival was lit up on a warm summer evening, the smell of fried dough wafting through the air. You rode the Ferris wheel with that special someone, the whole Fair stretched out below your feet.

You knew this would be a moment you’d always remember – a memory that has brought you back to the California State Fair again and again.

Attending the Fair is an annual tradition for many families, inspired by countless happy memories. Maybe

it was the time your child milked a goat, your first deep-fried Oreo or the time your brother got picked for the hypnotist show. The chance to make new memories like these is what keeps us going to the Fair.

For Kimberly Lau, who attends the Fair with her husband and two sons, the part that she most looks forward to is seeing all of the farm animals.

Lau and her family stay late to watch live performances of favorite musical artists on the Golden 1 Stage. With all the intriguing things to eat and drink at the Fair, they have a tradition to always try something new. Last year, it was deep-fried watermelon.

“I don’t get much exposure to animals living in town,” she says.

“I think that I look forward to the

“There’s something for everyone,” Lau says. “We spent 12 hours at the Fair and still didn’t see everything.”

Some things never change – the simple pleasures of summer, wholesome family fun, and memories, old and new.

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petting zoo more than anyone else in the family — they usually just stand and watch.”

State Fair traditions can be a reminder of simpler times. When you step through the gates, you are transported to a place where children of every age can ride a carousel, wander a funhouse, or buy a fluffy bag of cotton candy.

When Megan Chan’s group of friends were all local to the Sacramento area, they would attend the Fair together.

As time passed, many of those friends moved away to other cities.

Fair season brings them back.

“I get to spend time with friends that I haven’t seen in awhile,” Chan says.

“My family brought me to the Fair first and I remembered it being a lot of fun, so I always wanted to go back.”

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It’s a little stressful being a Californian right now, what with this disastrous drought and the “If it’s yellow, let it mellow” philosophy that accompanies it. One day in the Art future, amidst a yard of river rock and succulents, some youngster will reflect on the absurdity of his or her ancestors having had extremely large patches of water-guzzling vegetation in their yards primarily for aesthetic purposes, and our fair state will have evolved and adapted. Right? Right.

But as we come to grips with the changing environs, take time to appreciate the lushness that is and was California. The Crocker Art Museum honors the work of two painters celebrated for their distinctive portrayals of the Golden State over the last century: Armin Hansen (1886-1957), renowned for his impressionist depictions of life on the Pacific coast, and contemporary realist David Ligare (whose oil painting “Penelope” is pictured above), known for his current yet classical take on still-life portraits and fertile, golden-lit landscapes.

The museum’s associate director and chief curator Scott A. Shields, who has authored books on both painters, will conduct a presentation, followed by a lecture and book signing with Ligare. The day’s events will take place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, July 18. Tickets range from $35-$42 with an option to preorder a lunchbox from the Crocker Cafe by Supper Club for $15. Armin Hansen: The Artful Voyage runs through October 11, and David Ligare: California Classicist runs through September 20.

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Chemical Imbalance: A Jekyll and Hyde Play

The Mystery of Edwin Drood Charles Dickens died in 1870, leaving his novel-in-progress The Mystery of Edwin Drood unfinished. So when songwriter Rupert Holmes—known for by Jeff Hudson his 1979 hit “Escape (the Piña Colada Song)”— wrote a 1985 Broadway musical based on Drood, Holmes adopted a clever device. At each performance, the audience gets the opportunity in the second act to pick an ending they’d like to see.

There are multiple possible outcomes and the cast mingles with the audience, collecting votes.

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This freewheeling, frequently physical farce retells Robert Louis Stevenson’s Gothic Victorian-era tale of good and evil through a satirical lens.

Humboldt County playwright Lauren Wilson does a comic burlesque of the Hollywood clichés that now surround this Victorian tale. F, Sa 8pm. Through 7/18. $12-$17.50. Kennedy Mine Amphitheatre, 1105 North Main St. in Jackson; www.mstw.org. J.H.

Next to Normal

Rarely does a musical tackle such a serious—and worthy—topic as Next to Normal does with the subject of mental illness. How one deals, or doesn’t deal, with loss, grief and depression are the downer subjects that get an upbeat and hopeful treatment here.

Next to Normal tells the story of a mother, Diane Goodman (consummately played by Andrea Thorpe) who struggles with bipolar disorder and the effect the disease has upon the rest of her family. Her husband Dan (Darryl Strohl-De Herrera, who possesses the finest lyric singing voice you could ask for), ushers her to treatment after treatment, drug regime after drug regime until she reaches a point of no feeling—at which point a therapist pronounces her well.

She is not, of course. Diane is plagued with the memory of a lost child to the point of ignoring her family that remains.

Kristina Dizon is Natalie, the ignored daughter, living always in the shadow of brother Gabe, played by charismatic Michael Roivas, who gives off a Roger Daltry vibe (particularly on the knockout “I’m Alive!”).

Tylen Einweck brings youthful innocence to Henry, a would-be suitor of Natalie, and Taylor Presnall plays two therapists with different approaches to Diane’s treatment.

Director Bob Baxter and Runaway Stage Productions, using the West Sacramento Community Center’s Black Box Theatre for this show, make real what can only be imagined. The musical is as hard-rocking as it is hard-hitting.

The smallish stage with audience seating on three sides creates an intimacy that is rare in a musical. But the seating creates a problem for some set changes, with rather large props being wheeled slowly and squeakily in tight quarters.

The sound, which sometimes is a problem at the company’s 24th Street Theatre location, was troublesome here, too. Opening night, a loud “whoom” of feedback came through the speakers more than once, and a couple of voice mics didn’t always work perfectly. But these were really the only drawbacks in an otherwise excellent production.

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Playwright Nell Benjamin’s farce is the kind of madcap comedy that B Street Theatre does better than anyone else. Buck Busfield directs an extremely talented ensemble cast in the broad comedy about an 1870s London men’s club of adventurers that is thrown into a tizzy when a woman is proposed for membership. Tu 6:30pm; W 2pm & 6:30pm;

The Mystery of Edwin Drood ; 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday (alternating with Twelfth Night); $15-$25. Veterans Memorial Theatre, 203 East 14th Street in Davis; www.shakespeare davis.org.

Through August 2.

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No Exit

A journalist, a postal worker and a socialite walk into a room. And never leave.

What sounds like the opening line of a joke is actually the plotline to Jean-Paul Sartre’s classic existential play. This is a wonderfully in-sync and talented cast, under the impressive and adept direction of Benjamin T. Ismail. Th, F, Sa 8pm. Through 7/25. $10-$20. Big

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The Sacramento Shakespeare Festival presents the classic tale of two star-crossed lovers the way theater was presented in Shakespeare’s day: with an all-male cast (since women were banned from the stage in the 16th century). There are also bare-bones sets and live minstrels, which is also reminiscent of the simpler staging of yore. 7/17, 7/25, 7/30,

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The tipsy midnight revels of Sir Toby Belch, and the gender-bending comedy when Viola (cross-dressing as the handsome young Cesario) gets caught up in misdirected romantic overtures, have kept audiences laughing for centuries. But there’s a dark side, too. Director Rob Salas adds a shipwreck-in-astorm pantomime, with twins desperately struggling as their vessel breaks up. Th, F 8pm; Sa 2pm

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& 8pm; Su 2pm (alternating with The Mystery of Edwin Drood). Through 8/2. $15-$25. Veterans Memorial Theatre, 203 E. 14th St. in Davis; www.shakespearedavis.org. J.H.

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The musical Drood is also a play-within-a-play. The audience sees a cast of English music hall performers staging a Victorian-era production drawing on Dickens.

In this Davis Shakespeare Festival production, veteran pro Matt K. Miller is delightful as the talkative, convivial Chairman—introducing each performer, and telling jokes between scenes.

And we meet a variety of oddball Dickens characters (with catchy Dickens names): Susanna Risser dresses as a young man and plays Edwin Drood (a tip of the hat to the British “panto” style). Kristi Webb plays Drood’s pretty girlfriend, Rosa Bud, who is also the object of the affections of the devious music teacher and opium addict John Jasper (played by local pro Matt Edwards, relishing the role). Lovely Martine Fleurisma, visiting from New York, plays the dubious Princess Puffer, who runs the opium den. Phil Ryder plays Durdles, a meandering drunk.

Director Gia Battista runs her cast through lots of physical comedy as well as song-anddance numbers. It’s a complex, entertaining show, with elaborate costumes and a large pit band. Incidentally, the original Broadway Drood picked up multiple Tony Awards in 1985 (including Best Original Score and Best Book of a Musical), and there was a Broadway revival in 2012. Drood was staged

by Sacramento’s Music Circus in 1988.

This Davis Shakespeare mounting, with two Actors’ Equity Association actors, is the first notable local production in 25-plus years. Ω

“Does anyone know how we’re going to end this show?”

Th, F, 8pm; Sa 5pm & 9pm; Su 2pm & 7pm. Through 7/26. $23-$35.

Idea Theatre, 1616 Del Paso Blvd.; (916) 960-3036; www.bigidea theatre.org. P.R.

Kevin Hart will also be talking about how laughing can improve your health during this show.

Kevin Hart’s What Now tour Kevin Hart wants you to know he’s “the first comedian with fucking fire” with What Now—and indeed, there are some serious pyrotechnics on the set of his 45-city stadium tour. Inspired by the flames Kanye and Jay Z trailed around with them on Watch the Throne, the comedy superstar wants to make sure everyone knows he’s hot. Earlier this year, he sold out three shows at Madison Square Garden and played in front of 68,000 in his hometown of Philadelphia. Sacramentans get it, too: For his appearance at Sleep Train Arena on Friday, July 17, Hart had to add a second show immediately following the original 7 p.m. show because the first sold out so quickly. So that means you better plunk down that $47-$150 per ticket quick, before you get burned (hey, he’s the comedian, not us). Kevin Hart, 7 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. Friday, July 17; $47-$150. Sleep Train Arena, 1 Sports Parkway; http://whatnowtour.com.

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Next to Normal; 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday; $18-$25. Runaway Stage Productions at the West Sacramento Community Center Black Box Theatre, 1075 West Capitol Avenue in West Sacramento; (916) 207-1226; www.runawaystage.com.

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The movie gives us Sherlock Holmes in surroundings at once familiar and strange. As any devotee of the stories knows, he’s retired to the Sussex Downs, tending his beloved bees. But he’s 93, and it’s 1947, more than half a century and two world wars away from the foggy, gaslit London with its cobblestones and hansom cabs where we are accustomed to seeing him.

As the movie opens, Holmes is returning from a trip to Japan—in those days a grueling undertaking for a 93-year-old—where he met with a Mr. Umezaki (Hiroyuki Sanada), a longtime admirer (or so he says) who offers to help Holmes find an elusive herb called prickly ash. This substance, which the two men find in the ruins of Hiroshima, interests Holmes for its supposed restorative qualities. The old detective is fast losing his memory, and he hopes to record his final case, which came to an unsatisfactory end some 30 years earlier, before time and his faculties run out on him.

It’s unsettling, the thought of Sherlock Holmes sliding into dementia, having to jot reminders (like the name of his Japanese host) on his cuff. A sympathetic doctor (played by Roger Allam) gives Holmes a diary, telling him to make a dot on every day that he forgets something; later we see the diary, and it has dots large and small on every single day. Mr. Holmes thus

has an elegiac lion-in-winter quality to it, as we see the celebrated sleuth quietly raging against the dying of the light, trying to tease the details of that last unsolved case out of the depths of his waning intellect.

In this he is aided by Roger (Milo Parker), the young son of his housekeeper, Mrs. Munro (Laura Linney), and the scenes between Holmes and Roger are the movie’s richest and most rewarding, as the boy’s plain, honest admiration sparks the old man’s spirit.

Mr. Holmes time-hops to tell four parallel stories. The central one is Holmes in 1947.

The secondary one is that old unsolved case, what Holmes’ late friend Dr. Watson might have written up as The Adventure of the Glass Armonica. In fact, Holmes tells us, Watson did write it, but as usual the good doctor fictionalized it and supplied a more satisfying ending than it had in real life.

The case involved a Mr. Kelmot (Patrick Kennedy), who consulted Holmes 30 years ago about his childless wife (Hattie Morahan); the husband feared that repeated miscarriages had unhinged her mind and driven her into the clutches of a phony spiritualist (played by Frances de la Tour). In the end, Holmes was unable to help, and it haunts him now; he must write the truth of it before the story is forgotten completely.

The third story involves Mr. Umezaki, who has ulterior motives for inviting Holmes to Japan. And the fourth concerns Mrs. Munro, who worries for her and Roger’s future when the day comes (soon, she fears) that Holmes is no longer around.

Mr. Holmes is a discreetly compassionate look at a unique talent near the end of his life.

Condon and cinematographer Tobias A. Schliessler give Mr. Holmes a verdant glow in its Sussex scenes, a sharp-edged grimness when the scene shifts to occupied Japan and an autumnal crispness to Holmes’ memories of the Kelmot case. Virginia Katz’s editing weaves the stories together, infusing suspense beyond what each would have alone.

Towering over it all, predictably enough, is McKellen, playing Holmes both considerably older and younger than his own 76 years. Like the movie itself, it’s a quietly stunning performance, making the “gentle fiction” that Sherlock Holmes really existed stronger than ever. Ω

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Rudd plays Scott Lang (so far, so good), an accomplished cat burglar (uh-uh) and hardened felon (nope) recruited by a reclusive billionaire to wear a magic suit that shrinks him to insect size (slightly more believable). If you’ve seen one Marvel Cinematic Universe movie, you’ve seen them all, so thank God we’re already slated to get several thousand more of them between now and 2020. Ant-Man doesn’t even try to break the mold, but at least it’s less busy and bombastic than most Marvel offerings, more focused on superpowers than firepower, with a solid supporting cast that far outshines leads Rudd and Evangeline Lilly. D.B.

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The Sundance Film Festival is a respected institution, a vital showcase and support system for independent cinema that has been operating for nearly four decades. However, a certain type of incredibly annoying American independent film has become synonymous with the festival over the years, to the point that the term “Sundance movie” is almost always used in a pejorative manner. Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s oxygen-deprived Me and Earl and the Dying Girl won both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, and while it’s relatively weightless and apolitical, the double win was inevitable.

This is just about the Sundance-iest Sundance movie that Sundance ever Sundanced, so aggressively quirky and needy and contrived that it makes The Spitfire Grill look like A Woman Under the Influence. Every line, gesture, story beat and camera move comes complete with post-ironic air quotes. It’s like Juno on crystal meth. D.B.

Bill Pohlad’s biopic about Brian Wilson takes a fairly bold approach, concurrently telling two stories of the Beach Boy’s troubled genius in two different eras, covering both his 1960s meltdown and his 1980s recovery.

It’s especially bold in that the two actors playing Wilson—Paul Dano in his youth and John Cusack in middle age—look absolutely nothing like each other, and yet they mesh seamlessly, like two instruments playing in different keys making an unexpectedly beautiful sound. Dano’s entire career of affected oddballs now feels like a mere warmup to playing the socially awkward young Wilson, and the scenes of Wilson crafting Pet Sounds, creating a masterpiece out of the sound collage of his subconscious, are utterly riveting.

The 1980s scenes aren’t quite as successful, but Cusack perfectly captures the ghostly sincerity of Wilson from that era, and there are fine supporting turns from Paul Giamatti and Elizabeth Banks. D.B.

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A dying billionaire (Ben Kingsley in a glorified cameo) pays a fortune for a radical (and secret) medical procedure to transfer his consciousness into a healthy young body (Ryan Reynolds)—then learns that the supposedly genetically engineered body comes with sporadic built-in memories of its

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Steven Soderbergh’s male stripper movie Magic Mike became a left-field hit in 2012, but the film’s runaway success was largely due to a shrewd marketing campaign that played up the girl’s-night-out sexiness, while Trojan horsing a smart, spare, deceptively stylish, distinctly Soderbergh-ian drama about workplace dehumanization. Gregory Jacobs’ cash-in sequel Magic Mike XXL, on the other hand, is the pandering, eager-to-please sex fantasy that most ticket buyers probably thought they were getting the first time around. Magic Mike is a film about stripping; Magic Mike XXL is a stripper.

All in all, Magic Mike XXL is still pretty fun for an unambitious cash-in sequel, more of a rollicking road comedy and omnibus performance movie this time, closer to an R-rated Step Up sequel than anything remotely Soderbergh-ian. The film coasts a long way on star Channing Tatum’s effortless charm; luckily, he has more than enough to spare. D.B.

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Director Asif Kapadia (Senna) constructs Amy, a heartbreaking documentary about the self-destructive chanteuse Amy Winehouse, almost entirely from existing footage, largely allowing Winehouse to tell her own tragic life story. Amy follows Winehouse from her early days as an out-of-time jazz singer through her extended “troubled ingénue” period and finally to her breakthrough superstardom and long public meltdown. Through it all, Winehouse’s lyrics serve as her voice, brutally sardonic autobiographical outlets for her demons and desires. Kapadia crafts a portrait of a fragile soul with a brash and outwardly confident personality, one that masked a self-loathing and vulnerability that was left easily exploited by her own inner circle. Although Amy isn’t quite the daring and dispiriting triumph of the recent and similar Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, it’s still an extremely powerful and emotionally resonant work, and a stirring testimony to the unique talent and unrealized potential of Amy Winehouse. D.B.

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The idea that one’s brain must be switched into sleep mode in order to appreciate a film is silly and offensive, but that shouldn’t prevent a fully switched-on brain from enjoying a deeply stupid movie like Jurassic World. Director and co-writer Colin Trevorrow injects the moribund Jurassic Park franchise with new life by pairing the usual dinosaurs-running-amok formula with a seductive, Westworld-style story hook. In a canonically respectful present, John Hammond’s dream of a dinosaur-themed amusement park has come to fruition, with thousands of thrill-seeking families streaming through the Isla Nublar gates every day. Unfortunately, corporations are inherently evil (this message brought to you by Coca-Cola, Verizon, Samsung, Brookstone and Mercedes-Benz), and soon enough the park’s newest, genetically enhanced “attraction” gets loose and starts— wouldn’t you know it?—running amok. Jurassic World offers one-dimensional characters, misused actors, nonsensical motivations, retrograde gender politics, insipid pseudo-science and a whole lot of fun. D.B.

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Inside an 11-year-old girl’s head, conflicting yet complementary emotions of Joy (voiced by Amy Poehler), Sadness (Phyllis Smith), Anger (Lewis Black), Fear (Bill Hader) and Disgust (Mindy Kaling) vie for control of “headquarters” when the girl’s family moves from Minnesota to San Francisco. The crisis and the conflict threaten to unravel the delicate balance of the girl’s personality, and how the emotions learn to adapt and work together form the core of the script by Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley, and co-directors Pete Docter and Ronnie Del Carmen. The result is joyously funny, as good as anything Pixar Studios has ever done. It explores subtle psychological concepts, playing with the limits of what children can absorb and, in the process, giving them—and adults—an insight into what makes them tick. J.L.

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Director Alan Taylor and writers Laeta Kalogridis and Patrick Lussier reboot the franchise, carefully incorporating bits and pieces of all the movies and TV series since James Cameron’s 1984 original, ironing out any conflicts by deploying that trusty old science fiction standby, time-travel paradox. Arnold Schwarzenegger is back, of course—it would hardly be a Terminator movie without him— adding a wry touch of deadpan self-mockery (the fact that this “robot” has aged 30 years is deftly explained away). Under Taylor’s briskly over-the-top direction, the movie is good fun, albeit complicated and not always logical. The real secret weapon here isn’t time machines or robots, it’s Emilia Clarke (of Game of Thrones) as Sarah Conner, tender and forceful as needed in a potentially star-making performance. J.L.

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The gauzy and stale World War I memoir Testament of Youth currently holds an 82 percent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, which only confirms my suspicion that 82 percent of film critics prefer to sleep through the movies that they review. Ex Machina robot Alicia Vikander plays real-life British writer Vera Brittain, a headstrong woman whose world is turned upside down when World War I starts calling away the men in her life, including an aspiring poet who becomes her fiancé (Kit Harington). BBC veteran James Kent makes his feature debut here, but the filmmaking is utterly embalmed, and Kent spends most of his time mooning over flower arrangements and curtain patterns, stranding his actors with the mustiest script in recent memory. Testament of Youth is an interior design spread masquerading as biography, nothing but a dainty and decorative pose of noble suffering, and it moves at roughly the pace of a waking death. D.B.

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Electronic producer-musician Dusty Brown explains his analog approach When local electronic producer Dusty Brown released the This City is Killing Me EP in 2010, he received several positive reviews—and numerby Aaron Carnes ous downloads in return. His biggest boost in sales, however, arrived in 2013, when soon-to-be YouTube sensation Karen X. Cheng used some of his music to accompany her time lapse video “Girl Learns to Dance in a Year.”

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parts live, and then crafts loops out of them.

Sometimes he takes computer-programmed beats, and runs them through an old spring reverb amp to give them a subtle, analog character.

“You layer things into it and the listener never hears it, but it’s just something that’s there that makes it a little different and unique,” Brown says.

Brown has been making electronic music since the late ’90s. His biggest influences include trip-hop acts such as Portishead and old school ’90s rap mainstays such as Wu-Tang Clan.

His creative goal, he says, is to marry the lower-tech sounds of these artists with the deep bass of the current EDM sound along with the moody, often melancholy—even angry—tone of ’90s trip-hop. Making beats then was difficult, he says. In those early days, Brown didn’t make loops, but instead started and stopped each beat himself.

By the early 2000s, he was an active part of the Sacramento electronic music scene. That’s when he met Scott Hansen, then new to electronic music, and now well-known as frontman for the electronic group Tycho.

The pair became good friends, and Brown showed Hansen a few tricks about performing live.

Later, Brown’s sister Jessica Brown and his cousin Zac Brown joined him and, for a short while, the trio played under the “Dusty Brown” moniker. His sister sang lead vocals while Zac played guitar. This lineup has since dissolved, with Brown now solo again. He says he likes it that way.

“I feel like I put on a good show by myself,” he says. “I like to be off the cuff.”

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Those extra sales were a boon. The money helped Brown replace some of his old instruments, no minor feat since he creates music in a personal studio filled with instruments—all of which he uses until they don’t work any longer.

Gear is meant to be used, not enshrined, Brown says. “I don’t treat my stuff like museum pieces. My stuff is old, everything is always breaking.”

It’s a matter of efficiency, the father of five adds. “I work a lot. That’s why I had to make this studio. I can come out here and not be a dad for two hours.”

Brown’s computer, of course, is his go-to instrument for beat production, but when an idea strikes to add a guitar line, a synth part, a piano— or even sample his own children singing—he can.

As music software continues to become more intuitive, Brown says he feels pressure to keep one foot in the realm of live instrumentation. As such, he gives himself a series of self-imposed rules and restrictions to keep creative.

This involves stripping away some of digital music’s overused crutches. “I’m always trying to take the computer out of electronic music,” Brown says. “The computer makes so many things easy, down to recording and performing.

You don’t have to be good at doing anything.”

The degree to which Brown melds live, organic instruments with electronics can seem staggering to someone who is used to cutting and slicing beats on his or her laptop. For starters, Brown generally plays all synth and guitar

“ I’m always trying to take the computer out of electronic music.”

Dusty Brown electronic producer-musician On or off the stage, Brown says there’s something creatively appealing about producing instrumental tracks. His tunes are jam-packed with emotions, but Brown says he prefers to express his feelings through the music—not words.

“Songs are a place where you get to be immature. It’s like the only place where it’s appropriate to be super in touch with your feelings even if they’re inappropriate,” Brown says.

“It’s all about finding that anger. On stage I have no problem acting like a 9-year-old, as long as it stays up there.” Ω

Darkness is as darkness does A Ghostplay by any other name: Over the course of two years and three drummers—four if you count the band’s first, a machine—Ghostplay is finally ready to strut its sound with the debut EP 33.

The album—two years in the making—renders a unique sound, without trading any pop hooks. In fact, even a neophyte can hear the delicate balancing act delivered in 33, which is entirely intentional.

Lead vocalist, keyboardist and guitar man Jason Hess, guitarist Leticia Garcia and drummer Armando Gonzalez had juxtaposition on their minds since the band began, even when it came to the name.

“We wrote a list of dark words and a list of lively, happy words and we picked two that went together well,” said Hess.

A name that almost made the cut?

Warlock Ferriswheel.

Hess and company settled on Ghostplay after a Google search led them to Urban Dictionary, which refers to “Ghost Play” as “a stealthy method of dry humping.” The double entendre and the fact that the title hadn’t been taken yet by another band sealed the deal.

Juxtaposition isn’t simply in Ghostplay’s name, but a common theme in its sound. Hess cites “Patience” as his favorite number on the EP, because it pairs heavy meaning with a psychedelic melody.

Balancing the ever-fickle themes of dark and happy is a task accomplished easily with Ghostplay’s drummer.

“His drumming is fun, fancy, uplifting,” said Hess. “We’ve got enough darkness in our sound without him.”

It’s difficult to disagree with Hess’s assessment, especially when listening to the second track, “My Halo.” It’s an ambient song that would be at home in a typical college freshman’s melancholy daydream, but the bridge’s drum and bass line is jaunty enough to groove to as well.

“New Monday” tricks the listener into thinking it’s going to be another ambient slow burner, but the catchy chorus is reminiscent of the kind of melodies Robert Smith cranked out in the mid-’80s.

Ghostplay’s debut shows plenty of promise, and will hopefully lead to a full-length album. Songs on 33 like “Science” or “Too Much” would fit in too well in a David Lynch film, played during a villain’s silent contemplation. And like a Lynch film, the members of Ghostplay pride

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The river’s edge: If you’ve never made the brief sojourn down the Garden Highway to visit Swabbie’s Restaurant & Bar (5871 Garden Highway) for an outdoor concert, you still have time this summer. This wonderful little restaurant and bar— one of the area’s worst-kept secrets— is located right along the Sacramento River and hosts some of the best local and regional tribute acts.

Last Saturday’s soiree was no exception as Riff Raff (an AC/DC tribute band), Whoville (a Who tribute band) and the particularly fun sidestage act Two20 (a band that pays tribute to modern rock from the ’80s and ’90s) certainly delivered the goods.

Whoville singer Jeffry-Wynne Prince donned a British flag shirt and got the crowd front and center for most of the set. And although the band was distracted by a couple of technical difficulties, most in attendance didn’t notice any inconsistencies. In true rock ’n’ roll fashion, Whoville brushed it off.

The night’s headliner Riff Raff has been a staple on the Swabbie’s calendar for quite some time and for very good reason. Not only does singer Mike Barnes book the talent at the riverside venue, but he does a great job delivering Bon Scott and Brian Johnson classics.

From the opening notes of “Bad Boy Boogie” through to Johnson-era classics like “Have A Drink On Me” and “Hell’s Bells,” the band exhibited no shortage of enthusiasm.

As the able rhythm section held it together, lead guitarist David Chapman worked the large outdoor crowd into a frenzy, aping every cool Angus Young move and then some.

Chapman, who also played with AC/DZ, is known by nearly every working tribute act on the scene for not only being a cool, easygoing dude, but a helluva showman. And while he spent most of the night standing on tables and sitting on fans while playing guitar, his antics left nearly everyone in the crowd smiling.

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Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub, 6:30 p.m., $8 While still in high school, brother and sister Tyler and Juliana Lydell crafted the impressive math-pop record Healthy Fears. The MATH-POP duo took keys, drums, complex rock chops and passionate hooky vocals, and created this terrific local release four years ago. Because they had two different colleges ahead for them (in Redding, Calif., and Austin, Texas, respectively) the band has been on hiatus for a while. That was until posts on their Facebook page emerged, announcing not only an upcoming show in Sacramento, but a new EP as well. Fans rejoice. This should be sure to please lovers of offbeat pop. 2708 J Street, www.thedreadeddiamond.bandcamp.com.

Davis Odd Fellows, 7 p.m., $15

Fox & Goose, 9 p.m., $5

Come on kids, get a clue: You’ve heard Los Angeles punks the Muffs before, even if you don’t think you have. The group’s cover of “Kids In America” cemented it into the brains of teenage girls everywhere when it was on the soundtrack for 1995’s Clueless. Fronted

by Kim Shattuck, the Muffs have been around the block since 1991, with tracks PUNK like “I’m A Dick,” “Rock ’n’ Roll Girl,” and “Weird Boy Next Door.” Last year saw the group’s most recent release, Whoop Dee Doo, its first album in 10 years.

Sacramento rock group Dog Party opens this Friday night show in Davis. 415 Second Street in Davis, http://themuffsband.blogspot.com.

—Willie Clark

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Ensemble Mik Nawooj Sol Collective, 8 p.m., $12

Any band that uses a washboard is one that’s guaranteed to play fun, upbeat music. F Street Stompers do exactly that. This acoustic band from Sacramento has been known to take circa-1900s ragtime music, update it, change some words here and there, add a bit, subtract a bit and jazz it up just enough for 2015 audiences. One might also hear some F Street versions of Merle Haggard at a live show. Also RAGTIME/BLUES on the bill is Melissa Ruth and the Likely Stories with original bluesy songs about folks who might be found in noir stories—a little bit ragtime, a little bit doo-wop twang. 1001 R Street, www.facebook.com/ FstStompers.

—Trina L. Drotar

Time for some highbrow hip-hop: Oakland’s Ensemble Mik Nawooj will celebrate its fifth anniversary with its first ever show outside HIP-HOP the Bay Area. Composer and pianist JooWan Kim will lead his ensemble—a lineup including flute, clarinet, violin and cello, plus two emcees— through reimagined pieces by Snoop Dogg, Wu-Tang Clan, J Dilla and Kendrick Lamar.

Those deconstructed works were commissioned by the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts—so yes, highbrow. Ensemble Mik Nawooj will perform some originals too, utilizing classical techniques—and jazz, indie rock and pop influences—in the hopes of summoning a new era of hip-hop. 2574 21st Street, www.ensemblemiknawooj.com.

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The Scouse Gits, which feature some of the area’s most talented dirty rock and blues purveyors, are back to separate the men from the boys. If you’re into smart, lo-fi fare and want to see ’em at a venue best suited for their style, this one is a win-win.

Take a listen to the blues-driven “Anytime” from their unreleased demo on YouTube or watch one of the few full shows they’ve released. Also featured on this wonderfully crafted bill are Drive-Thru Mystics (celebrating their third anniversary), San Kazakgascar and Kicksville Vinyl & Vintage’s GARAGE ROCK Tim Matranga, who has a better record collection than everyone reading this combined. 2565 Franklin Boulevard, www.facebook.com/SactoHideaway.

Sophia’s Thai Kitchen, 9 p.m., $5

Former Sacramento rapper Rasar blew more than a few minds this past May at a soldout Harlow’s show, opening for Joseph in the Well. It had been a couple of years since Rasar and his band Bread Fam had played Sacramento, and they were solid—cool, funky hip-hop grooves mixed with Rasar’s HIP-HOP/SOUL rapid fire, brainy flow. He’s coming back to town with something a bit different, the more low-key project called Camra, a duo between him and Las Vegas acoustic guitarist and soul singer Cameron Calloway.

It’s an interesting melding of hip-hop, soul and mellow folk guitar strumming. This is only one of Rasar’s many projects—the guy is versatile! 1016 K Street, www.tinyturl.com/ camraband.

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Elk Grove Regional Park, 8:15 p.m., no cover

Touring these days is hard for an indie band.

Not only are transportation costs high, finding a place to lay your head for a couple of hours is also daunting. Luckily, Los Angeles’ POP Northern American is on a West Coast tour anyway—promoting its fantastic new album Modern Phenomena which features some near perfect pop ditties. Check out the dreamy and ethereal “Somewhere Out There” or even the album’s strongest track, “Strange Behavior,” which shuffles and soars with its blissful harmonies and Brit-pop leanings.

Fans of Travis, Kent or anything close will adore what they hear. Also on the bill are Social Studies and Spectacular Spectacular.

129 E Street, Suite E, in Davis; www.facebook. com/NorthernAmerican.

The 28th annual Strauss Festival is local, live, family friendly and free. And it’s a fourday feast for the senses that runs through Sunday, July 26. There are the swirling colors of the costumes as dancers take to the stage CLASSICAL on Strauss Island (yes, there is such a thing— it was dedicated back in 1988) to perform waltzes, polkas and quadrilles as a live orchestra plays the compositions of Johann Strauss Jr. (pictured). The music soothes weary ears, an evening breeze cools the skin and for an evening, festivalgoers are transported to 19th-century Vienna. Arrive by 7:30 p.m. for the promenade of dancers. Elk Grove Regional Park, 9950 Elk Grove Florin Road in Elk Grove; www.straussfestival.com.

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Moxiecrush Variety Show, 8pm Tu, $10; ATARIS; 8pm M, $15; SHIFT, 8pm W, $7

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THE F STREET STOMPERS, MELISSA RUGH & THE LIKELY STORIES; 9pm, $5

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Throw in a six-plant or, say, 200-square-feet-per-home grow limit, and Bob’s your uncle. No muss, no fuss, and we can all kick back and blaze one in celebration. This shouldn’t be that hard to do, but we are talking politics.

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Sense was originally the name of the film and music soundtrack produced by the Talking Heads in the 1980s, and now it is the central theme of your horoscope.

I think your brain would benefit from a thorough washing. That’s why I invite you to scour it clean of all the dust and cobwebs and muck that have accumulated there since its last scrub a few months back. One of the best ways to launch this healing purge is, of course, to flood all the neural pathways with a fire-hose surge of absurdity, jokes and silliness. As the wise physician of the soul, Dr. Seuss, said, “I like nonsense. It wakes up the brain cells.”

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According to my analysis of the astrological omens, footnotes will carry crucial information that’s important for you to know. I mean this in a metaphorical sense as you live your life as well as in the literal act of reading books. Pay close attention to the afterthoughts, the digressions and the asides.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The English

word “quiddity” has two contrary definitions. It can refer to a trivial quibble.

Or it can mean the essential nature of a thing—the quality that makes it unique.

I suspect that in the coming weeks you will get numerous invitations to engage with quiddities of both types. Your first task will be to cultivate an acute ability to know which is which. Your second task: Be relentless in avoiding the trivial quibbles as you home in on the essential nature of things.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “A poet

must not cross an interval with a step when he can cross it with a leap.” That’s an English translation of an aphorism written by French author Joseph Joubert.

Another way to say it might be, “A smart person isn’t drab and plodding as she bridges a gap, but does it with high style and brisk delight.” A further alternative: “An imaginative soul isn’t predictable as she travels over and around obstacles, but calls on creative magic to fuel her ingenious liberations.” Please use these ideas during your adventures in the coming weeks, Cancerian.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): July is barely

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “People who

have their feet planted too firmly on the ground have difficulty getting their pants off,” said author Richard Kehl. That’s good advice for you in the coming weeks.

To attract the help and resources you need, you can’t afford to be overly prim or proper. You should, in fact, be willing to put yourself in situations where it would be easy and natural to remove your pants, throw off your inhibitions and dare to be surprising. If you’re addicted to business-as-usual, you may miss opportunities to engage in therapeutic play and healing pleasure.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “A failure

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once upon a time brought you anguish or woe will soon deliver its fully ripened teaching, enabling you to claim a powerful joy or joyful power.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The poet

Mary Ruefle describes reading books as “a great extension of time, a way for one person to live a thousand and one lives in a single lifespan.” Are there other ways to do that? Watching films and plays and TV shows, of course. You can also listen to and empathize with people as they tell you their adventures. Or you can simply use your imagination to visualize what life is like for others. However you pursue this expansive pleasure, Scorpio, I highly recommend it. You are set up to absorb the equivalent of many years’ experience in a few short weeks.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

Sagittarian rapper Nicki Minaj is not timid about going after what she wants. She told Cosmopolitan magazine that she’s “high-maintenance in bed.” Every time she’s involved in a sexual encounter, she demands to have an orgasm. In accordance with the current astrological omens, Sagittarius, I invite you to follow her lead—not just during your erotic adventures, but everywhere else, too.

Ask for what you want, preferably with enough adroitness to actually obtain what you want. Here’s another critical element to keep in mind: To get exactly what you want, you must know exactly what you want.

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

college basketball player named Mark Snow told reporters that, “Strength is my biggest weakness.” Was he trying to be funny? No. Was he a bit dim-witted?

Perhaps. But I’m not really interested in what he meant by his statement. Rather, I want to hijack it for my own purpose, which is to recommend it as a meditation for you in the coming weeks. Can you think of any ways that your strength might at least temporarily be a weakness? I can. I suspect that if you rely too much on the power you already possess and the skills you have previously mastered, you may miss important clues about what you need to learn next. The most valuable lessons of the coming weeks could come to you as you’re practicing the virtues of humility and innocence and receptivity.

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

Margaret Mitchell’s novel Gone with the Wind, Rhett Butler delivers the following speech to Scarlett O’Hara: “I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken—and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.” Your oracle for the near future, Aquarius, is to adopt an approach that is the exact opposite of Rhett Butler’s. Patiently gather the broken fragments and glue them together again.

I predict that the result will not only be as good as new; it will be better. That’s right: The mended version will be superior to the original.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Australian

actress Rebel Wilson has appeared in several successful movies, including Bridesmaids, Bachelorette and Pitch Perfect. But she didn’t start out to be a film star. Mathematics was her main interest. Then, while serving as a youth ambassador in South Africa at age 18, she contracted malaria. At the height of her sickness, she had hallucinatory visions that she would one day be “a really good actress who also won an Oscar.” The visions were so vivid that she decided to shift her career path. I foresee the possibility that you will soon experience a version of her epiphany. During a phase when you’re feeling less than spectacular, you may get a glimpse of an intriguing future possibility.

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The woman from the billboard It was a unique selfie that Xiomara Seide had taken. The busy working mom finally freed up some time to check out the billboard bearing her face, which was part of an anti-stigma campaign that Sacramento County’s Division of Behavioral Health Services rolled out three years ago. Using images of real folks, the campaign aims to dispel assumptions people form about those living with mental illness, which number approximately 355,000 in the county. Only, the campaign wasn’t always able to overcome stigma. In the early days, few volunteered to have their photos taken, meaning most of the billboard images came from stock images. Cut to three years later, and a bunch of mental-health consumers have stepped forward to be photographed, says county spokeswoman Laura MacCasland. One of those individuals was Seide. Stopped by the side of the road, she looked up at her face and the words beside it: “Mother.

Church member. Living with bipolar disorder.” Then she was recognized by a girl who requested a selfie. “To know that people with mental illness look just like your sister, your father, your neighbor, teacher or co-worker—that is huge,” she says. “Who wouldn’t want to support and advocate on behalf of their loved ones?” Here, the mental-health advocate discusses what prompted her to volunteer and what it’s like to be semi-famous.

What made you want to be part of this Stop Stigma campaign?

I live with bipolar disorder. However, after two of my three sons were diagnosed with mental illnesses, I knew I had to do something for them. When the opportunity to participate in the Stop Stigma billboard campaign came along, I jumped on it. |

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Did you have any reservations about being tied to such a public campaign?

Not at all! By the time I heard about this campaign, I was no longer “in the closet” regarding my own mental illness. My job as a family partner [with the Child Family Institute] requires that I have lived experience with mental illness. Working in the mental health field as someone who shares her own lived experience has been a part of my own healing process.

What was the photo shoot like?

It was fun! We went to Old Sacramento and took many pictures there. I was worried that I’d look like a poodle. It was a windy day and my supercurly hair was all over the place.

What was it like when you first saw it up close?

When I finally was able to check one of them out, I got out of my car and could not believe the size of my face! It was quite a shock to see myself up there and that huge. Once the initial shock was over, I was all smiles.

You were recognized, is that right?

I was taking pictures of the billboard, when a group of people who were gathered by started asking, “Oh my God, is that you?

That’s you, right?” I was a little bit bashful, and could only nod my head yes.

What happened?

One of the girls from the small crowd walked towards me and asked if I wouldn’t mind taking a selfie with her, with the billboard as a background. It felt weird, but fun at the same time, taking my picture with someone I’d never met. ... She touched my heart in a positive way. We all need an ego stroke once in a while, right? |

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Have you had any other “celebrity” encounters?

I’ve had friends and family call or text me, “Oh my God Xiomara! I swear I saw your face on a billboard.” I also get reactions from fellow church members, co-workers, clients from work and even one of my doctors. My son Alessandro said it’s weird to see me so big up there. I tell my sons that I’m literally watching them from up there, so they better not get into any mischief!

Have you run into any other billboard stars?

Yes, I have run into one of them at mental health-related meetings and conferences. We just smile at each other, but haven’t formally introduced [ourselves]. I need to make it a point to do so next time I run into her.

What’s been the best part of all this?

The best part is the billboards have become conversation starters regarding mental illness. A few people have asked me about bipolar disorder. I even had someone ask if he could catch it from me. Once we get into the subject of mental illness, I make it a point of telling them that I go to work, shop, participate in my kids’ activities, etc. In other words, I lead a normal life as long as I take care of myself.

What do you hope people take away from this campaign?

My No. 1 hope is that we all realize that mental illness is no different than other illnesses. For those who are ready to take the first step to get better (or help their loved ones get better), the billboards might prompt them to Google “Stop Stigma” and from there, obtain the resources needed to seek much needed services. In other words, I hope that for many, they’ll be the first step into healing. Ω

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