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Letters to the future In December, world leaders will meet in Paris for the United Nations Climate Change Conference. This meeting could prove to be humanity’s last chance to address the crisis of our time.

Sound like hyperbole? Consider this: “The globally averaged temperature over land and ocean surfaces in 2014 was the highest among all years since record-keeping began in 1880,” according to the National Centers for Environmental Information which archives comprehensive oceanic, atmospheric and geophysical data.

The upcoming climate change discussion in Paris must be about more than just talk—it must compel action.

Will leaders agree upon and pass a global treaty aimed at reducing global warming?

Or will we fail—not just ourselves, but future generations, too?

In advance of December’s gathering, SN&R is soliciting messages written to future generations. Letters to the Future: The Paris Climate Project will feature missives from award-wining authors and artists, renowned scientists, politicians and activists that aim to address and predict the outcome of this global summit. The letters will be forwarded on to delegates and citizens assembling at the conference.

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e all make mistakes when we are young, although some mistakes carry greater consequences.

Some young people in our community face additional challenges in their most impressionable years.

Neglect and abandonment, abuse, sexual exploitation, homelessness and the death of friends from gun violence are just some of the harsh realities that many young people confront.

According to the National Research Council’s Panel on Juvenile Crime, children growing up in a neighborhood where there are high levels of poverty and crime are at higher risk of involvement in serious crime.

It’s a problem Greg King knows well. He’s the founder of Always Knocking, Inc., a nonprofit rehabilitation program in Sacramento that focuses on community interaction and life planning. King admits that there are many reasons why youth commit crimes, but if we want to help youth stop such activity and turn their lives around, we need to first show them compassion.

For many people with felonies on their record, attempts to move their lives forward are often stifled by an inability to obtain jobs, secure housing and access opportunities available to others. Not having access to these things makes it much more difficult to get back on their feet and stay out of trouble, King says.

In 2014, Proposition 47 — also known as the Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act — was passed to allow individuals with certain low-level felony offenses to reclassify those to misdemeanors.

King and his team at Always Knocking, Inc. are going to great lengths to spread community awareness about the legislation, thanks to grant funding from The California Endowment’s Building Healthy Communities initiative.

“We’re motivated to get this information out to the community,” King says. “We have a full street outreach team and we’re partnering with people throughout the city of Sacramento to host events and trainings to help people get started.”

Always Knocking is commemorating the one-year anniversary of Prop. 47 with an event from 1-3 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 4, at 2251 Florin Road, Sacramento. King says he is looking forward to celebrating the lives changed and spreading the word on how more people can get a fresh start thanks to Prop. 47.

“When their felonies go away, they won’t be hindered from getting good jobs and getting an education,” King says. “We all want to be successful, and this is going to enable them to move forward in life.”

“WE ALL WANT TO BE SUCCESSFUL, AND [PROP. 47] IS GOING TO ENABLE THEM TO MOVE FORWARD IN LIFE.”

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Greg King, founder of the nonprofit Always Knocking, Inc., is helping inform the community about Prop. 47.

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Always Knocking, Inc. has helped many people apply to reduce their felony convictions through Proposition 47. According to the Judicial Council of California, Sacramento County courts have received 6,872 petitions for resentencing and 1,398 petitions for reclassification.

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Re “What would Jesus say about poverty?” by Jeff vonKaenel (SN&R Feature Story, October 1): If Jesus came to my church, he’d see lots of expensive cars in the parking lot. He’d tell everyone with a car less than five years old to form a caravan and drive to CarMax in Rosweville and sell their car and buy a smaller, older used car and give the difference between the selling price and the purchase price to Loaves and Fishes or another legitimate charitable organization that helps the poor.

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have made it very clear that you like to call the Sac Brew Bike by the nickname “idiot-mobile.”

By comparing Downtown James Brown, a.k.a. a human being, down to the same level as something you’ve made clear is “idiotic,” in your opinion, you completely objectified and dehumanized a member of 9/24/2015 11:43:18 AM our community. Although it is

obvious the question was posed with attempted humor, let us all try to build up members of our community with human dignity rather than bring one another down.

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Do more for gangs Re “Ganging up” by Raheem F. Hosseini (SN&R News, September 24): Sacramento’s gang infestation should be taken very seriously by every lawabiding citizen in and around Sacramento. Gangs kill and destroy lives, cost taxpayers an enormous amount of money via the criminal justice system, generate medical expenses that often go unpaid, devastate communities, wreck home values and cause havoc in our schools and correctional facilities. Solutions to solving

the growing gang infestation begins with the parents. Parents need to take responsibility for the proper upbringing of their young ones. They need to know where their young ones are at all times and who their friends are. And prevent them from roaming the streets, especially at night. Furthermore, parents need to teach their young ones to respect others, be responsible, obey rules and how to avoid negative peers and bad situations. In addition, the benefits of an education should be taught and parents should be involved with their youth’s education as much as possible.

In the meantime, the mayor and city council should ensure and stress to parents the avenues available to them to better deal with troubled and incorrigible youths. We have already wasted precious time by not doing enough. It’s time we do more.

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WAGING WAR After months of work, will the mayor’s flagship minimum-wage ordinance fall apart?

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Sacramento City Council will soon vote on a contentious new minimum-wage plan—that is, if the deal doesn’t go to pieces beforehand.

It very well could: Labor groups, who want to raise the minimum wage, actually remain opposed to the ordinance, even though it would bump the city’s hourly pay for many workers to $12.50-an-hour by 2020.

And business interests, and in particular restaurateurs, halfheartedly endorse the plan—but some individuals told SN&R in private that they’re getting cold feet.

If it fails, it would mean that Mayor Kevin Johnson would not cash in on one of his major policy proposals of the year.

The proposal, which likely will go in front of council on October 20, involves increasing the city’s minimum wage for businesses with more than 40 employees, incrementally, until reaching that final $12.50 number.

Labor leaders have been against the ordinance since it was announced early last month. “It’s too low, and it’s too

slow. We’d like to see council do better,” says Fabrizio Sasso, the Central Labor Council’s executive director, who’s an advocate for a $15 minimum wage. Stasso actually sat on the mayor’s Task Force on Income Inequality, which set forth the minimum-wage-ordinance recommendation on September 2.

But stakeholders disagree on more than just dollars and cents. At the heart of Sacramento’s minimum-wage controversy is the idea of counting tips as part of wages, a concept otherwise known as “total compensation.”

Total compensation zeroes in on whether restaurants or businesses with tipped or commission-earning employees can count those monies toward total paid wages. State law says this is illegal—but Sacramento is proposing that employees who earn $15 an hour, including tips, be exempt from any minimum-wage gains.

Wage-equality activists say that this plan won’t hold water in court—and have threatened a lawsuit if council gives it the green light. Sasso told SN&R this special

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carve-out rule for businesses with tipped workers is “pretty dangerous.”

“The narrative out there is that your boss wants to steal your tips,” is how he put it.

The business community, including the Sacramento Metro Chamber of Commerce, says the ordinance is a no-go without total compensation—and they’re confident that it will survive any legal challenge. “We feel that the exemptions are critical,” Chamber President Peter Tateishi told SN&R. Sasso has criticized the task force for working behind the scenes with the California Restaurant Association on a “backroom deal” to include total compensation in the ordinance, a provision that has never made it into any wage law elsewhere in the state.

The CRA has been quick to fight back, however, pointing out that the ordinance does not allow business owners to steal or withhold tips—and actually contains language protecting tipped earners. “Nothing in this chapter entitles the employer to withhold gratuities from the employee,” the ordinance itself reads. The CRA also noted that, if total compensation is thrown out by a judge, the rest of the minimum-wage plan will still move forward—which would, of course, upset the Chamber.

“Absolutely, there’s a huge concern,” Tateishi said of total compensation failing down the road. “That is why a lot of folk wished that we didn’t” work on or support the ordinance.

Joe Devlin, chief of staff for task-force leader and minimum-wage-increase advocate Councilman Jay Schenirer, is optimistic that city leaders will find a workable solution amid this disagreement.

“I think the council is going to make it their own,” he said, adding that he anticipates a thoughtful discussion, one that focuses on “finding something that works for the city and for the workers of Sacramento.”

“I don’t think it falls apart,” he said.

The roaD To a raiSe This past July, Johnson convened the special task force to explore raising the city’s minimum wage. The group—which included two council members, labor and minority-group representatives, and business leaders—met for six weeks, including four well-attended public meetings. On the first Wednesday in September, they announced their recommendation: raising Sacramento’s hourly minimum wage to

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$10.50 in 2017, $11 in 2018, $11.75 in 2019 “That’s the problem with the city and finally $12.50 in 2020. council right now: We can’t get them to But there were exemptions: workers work together,” he said. under 18 would not get the pay bump, Jarosz, who operates multiple restaurants same for disabled workers; employers that in the central city and West Sacramento, provide sufficient health care to employees says he supports living wages and equity, would be eligible for credit against the but also thinks that total compensation is higher hourly pay; and businesses with “a good piece” of the plan that is fair to fewer than 40 employees wouldn’t have to businesses. He also reminded that, while pay the new wages at all. And, of course, this is an exciting time of development for the total compensation catch.

Sacramento, “we need to be very careful The city itself estimates that some 540 about our growth.” of its own workers will be impacted by the Devlin reiterated that coming to a minimum-wage increase. Plus, the city will consensus on minimum wage will be a have to hire three new full-time employees delicate process. “How do you balance this? to enforce the ordinance, at the cost of How do you help workers and raise the around $450,000. The city also estimates an minimum wage, as an island city?” meaning economic impact of $84 million during the that other cities surrounding Sacramento five years of pay increases. will not be increasing wages.

A staff report says that 19.2 percent “The fact that we’re going at this alone of all Sacramento County workers make made the task force conversations that much less than $10 an hour—a majority of them harder,” Devlin said. “It’s a challenge, women, and a majority of them between the but ultimately [Schenirer] sees raising the ages of 36 and 45. minimum wage is the right thing to do.”

Tamie Dramer, an activist If Sacramento fails to pull the with Raise the Wage, says trigger, the state might raise the city’s exemptions the wage itself next year. unfairly discriminate Sen. Mark Leno already against female has a bill, Senate Bill workers. “This 3, in circulation. This is targeting would bump the women,” she minimum wage in said. “Woman the Golden State are disproto $13 an hour portionately by 2019. low-wage workActivist and ers, and tipped labor groups also Fabrizio Sasso workers.” have threatened labor leader, on the city’s Businesses to put a minimumminimum-wage ordinance that apply for the wage measure on the proposal total-compensation November 2016 ballot, a exemption would have to prospect that Gov. Jerry Brown pay workers at least $11 an hour will want to avoid. The mayors of

by January 1, 2017, to qualify. They’d also Oakland and San Francisco are pushing for need to register with the city. a measure to raise the statewide minimum Council members Steve Hansen and Jeff wage to $15 by 2021. Some think that Harris, the latter who sat on the mayoral the governor will strike a deal with Leno task force, also have spoken out publicly and get a bill through both houses of the against aspects of the proposed ordinance.

Legislature and onto his desk sometime next Both would like to see the city dialogue year in order to avoid a ballot proposition. further on its minimum-wage plan and “Everybody feels that there is going to wait to see what the state does regarding be some push on the state level to equalize minimum wage next year. the minimum wage,” observed restaurateur It’s uncertain as to whether there are Jarosz. five council-member votes for its passage.

Yet, in an odd twist, both labor and the According to sources, only the mayor, mayor’s contingent agree that Sacramento Schenirer, and Council members Rick should control its own minimum-wage Jennings and Allen Warren are sure-thing destiny despite what happens at the Capitol. “yes” votes. Councilwoman Angelique “The city should take the lead in deterAshby has not shown her cards. mining what’s right for the city,” is how Restaurateur Chris Jarosz told SN&R labor leader Sasso put it. Ω that he’s worried the process is getting too political.

“It’s too low, and it’s too slow. We’d like to see council do better.”

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liGhT-rail TraNSfer Mind the sliding doors: light rail is about to inch toward a new administration. After eight years in the top post and almost four decades with Sacramento Regional Transit, Mike Wiley said he’d like to step down from his dual position as general manager and CEO in January 2017.

Wiley’s October 2 announcement sets in motion a national recruitment search for his replacement that is expected to take about six months, RT said in a news release. Whenever a new GM is hired, Wiley will transition into the role of special assistant to the board, and remain on-call through November 2017.

Since joining RT as service planner in 1978, Wiley has occupied several positions within the company. He’s been a member of the executive management team for the past 32 years, the release said.

In a statement, Wiley cited RT’s “critical juncture” with the impending Golden 1 center coming online one year from now.

“My decision to retire was not made lightly,” the statement said. “I remain fully committed to RT to ensure a smooth change of leadership. At the same time, I am looking forward to starting a new chapter in my life.”

In a separate statement, Congresswoman Doris Matsui credited Wiley with guiding RT to the other side of the economic recession, and adding light-rail and bus service in low-income areas. “With Mike’s decision to retire at the end of next year, Sacramento is losing a passionate, tireless transportation advocate,” Matsui said in her statement.

RT has yet to full recover from that recession, when it was forced to eliminate bus routes and transfers, and scale back nighttime light-rail service, shedding approximately 7 million annual riders. The system has coaxed back about 3 million, according to an SN&R story in March.

In August, RT unveiled just over 4 miles of new track to connect its Blue Line to cosumnes river college in south Sacramento. (Raheem F. Hosseini)

BreaThe ouT Tipsy drivers in Sacramento and three other California counties will have to keep huffing into their automobiles. On September 30, Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill extending the state’s ignition interlock pilot program for another 18 months, to July 2017.

The state wants more time to see if the program is working. Since it was implemented in 2010, the program has prevented 158,000 instances of impaired drivers being able to start their cars, according to Mothers against Drunk Driving.

In a release, MAAD said it preferred requiring ignition interlocks to license suspension, “because studies have shown that 50 to 75 percent of convicted offenders will continue to drive on a suspended license.” (RFH)

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But although money may buy you love, disgust with you in the front-running candidates for president. We’d better all of your money will not overcome watch out. The political reaction to your the stink of your immoral practices of excesses could leave us with a leader sticking it to the American people. who would actually make things even You’d like some examples? worse, for you, but more importantly, For example, allowing drug for all of us. companies to jack up the cost of Imagine: Donald Trump. Ω life-saving drugs. Recently, Turing Pharmaceuticals bought Daraprim, a 62-year-old drug used to treat parasitic infections. They raised the price from Jeff vonKaenel is the president, CEO and majority $13.50 a tablet to $750. The drug owner of the News & Review.

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And … enough. Just stop.

Like President Barack Obama and others have noted in the past week since the awful tragedy in Roseburg, Ore., thoughts and prayers won’t stop the next shooting. The next inevitable and probably too soon gun-violence incident won’t be avoided because of newspaper editorials on the need for better laws, either.

Or even excellent journalism, such as The New York Times feature from this past weekend on how shooters obtained their guns. Nothing seems to motivate the U.S. Senate to pass reforms, such as a gunbackground-check bill. Virginia Tech and Sandy Hook and Columbine and every gun tragedy ever hasn’t moved our leaders to do the right thing.

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All that’s left to feel is shame. And outrage.

Exit Afghanistan for real Last week’s horrific bombing of a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, by U.S.-led NATO forces is a reminder that the war in that country, now 14 years in the making, goes on despite major troop withdrawals. Bombs, drones, U.S. and international forces— they’re all there.

Twenty-two DWB staffers, doctors and patients (including three children) died in the bombing. Neither the U.S. or Afghani governments has issued a satisfying explanation. We worry that casual targeting of civilians is status quo in military operations in that country and elsewhere.

That there is no excuse. And that this was not a mistake.

The United States and NATO still have more than 13,000 troops in Afghanistan, including nearly 10,000 Americans. We’re still there, we’re still bombing and sending out drones. And it should stop. Ω

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The music indusTry is changing, again, wiTh apps like spoTify and apple music.

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Taylor Swift will survive. But does this mean other artists will get paid?

Life is but a stream

by Chris Parker

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Since its 1998 peak, the music industry has been tanking.

Global revenue from recorded music has halved from nearly $30 billion before leveling off to about $15 billion in the past few years. In the United States, recorded-music revenue suffered a similar free fall, cratering in 2011 at $4.5 billion before mildly recovering to $4.9 billion last year.

Now, for the first time since its Napsterinduced cliff dive, the industry is poised to grow faster than the national economy, at greater than 8 percent, according to New York’s New Music Seminar. Factor in the lower overhead implicit in digital delivery and this means far greater profitability.

Give streaming, notably Spotify, credit for the explosive anticipated growth. It debuted in America four summers ago and started taking off during the past 18 months.

In just the last year, it has grown worldwide from 40 million to 75 million active users, and doubled its paid subscriber base from 10 million to 20 million.

Spotify’s biggest global competitor, Deezer, recently bought AT&T’s Muve music-streaming service with its 2 million U.S. subscribers. By year’s end, Google is expected to debut its MusicKey paid service, built around YouTube and paired with its present streaming offering, Google Play. Meanwhile, Spotify announced in May that it will add video.

Others seem to join the fray each month. Jay Z teamed with other big-name musicians in the artist-friendly Tidal service. Clear Channel Radio (with its new branding as iHeartRadio) also has its own streaming service. Even Facebook is working to create a video-streaming platform.

Apple’s absence has been notable, if understandable. It feared a streaming service would cannibalize its download business, which controls two-thirds of the world market. Ultimately, it realized this would happen anyway, opening the door for Apple Music.

Apple arrives not as an innovator set to save music and revitalize itself as a lifestyle product. It is jumping aboard an emerging industry. Yet the company’s arrival is crucial, because it signals that streaming has become a mainstream phenomenon—which probably is what Apple was waiting for.

“[Apple has] developed a very mainstream customer base, and mainstream consumers aren’t early adopters.

Mainstream consumers do things much more slowly than most people—so they have to innovate at a pace that is appropriate to those users,” says industry analyst Mark Mulligan of MIDiA Research.

“What Apple does is make products ready for prime time. They don’t climb in new markets; they make markets by making it elegantly simple for less-savvy consumers.”

With a captive audience of more than 250 million iPhone and 800 million iTunes users, Apple’s reach is unprecedented.

When Apple’s free three-month teaser memberships run out after this month, the music industry will arrive at a crossroads: Is the product enticing enough to motivate people to pay for what they can get free? And if they won’t, what does this mean for musicians?

Streaming arrives From the moment he experienced Rhapsody, the first music-streaming service to debut in late 2001, industry analyst Mark Mulligan was sold. Thirty million tracks available at the push of a button seemed like a killer app to him and his analyst colleagues.

“We were converts and thought the digital music market will be all about streaming by 2007 or 2008,” he says, laughing. “We got it right but were completely wrong in terms of timing.”

Instead, downloads took off and stayed strong, held aloft in part by Apple’s control of the market. When the industry allowed Apple to protect tracks with its own digital rights management protocol, it effectively cordoned off the market. For years, only Apple devices could decode its DRMs, handcuffing people to the company’s devices and to its iTunes store.

“The download markets were so strong and so hard to break into because the vast majority of people who paid for digital music were—and to some degree still are— Apple customers, and Apple had them all locked behind a huge wall,” Mulligan says.

“Then, Apple launched its app store, opening the door into its castle, and suddenly everybody could get in.

“That’s why Spotify was able to build a business,” he says. “Suddenly, other people could sell music products directly to Apple customers. That was the inflection point.”

Several factors also had to coalesce for streaming to fully take off—bandwidth increased and got cheaper, smartphones grew ubiquitous and consumers became more familiar with streaming and its social aspects.

Spotify came along and gave away music on a free, ad-supported tier in the hope of converting listeners to a paid tier.

A little more than a quarter of its free users have upgraded to paid subscriptions.

It made an equity deal with music labels (rumored to be as much as a collective 20 percent stake), buying time for the plan to work. Labels could realize a tidy profit from a strong Spotify IPO, giving the labels an incentive their artists don’t have.

The result is a one-third industry boost in paid streaming subscriptions last year, with the possibility of the increase tripling or even quadrupling (to surpass Sirius/XM Radio’s 28 million users), depending on the success of Apple Music.

These days, streaming and vinyl are the only growing parts of the industry—downloads and CD sales have continued to fall, albeit at a much slower pace.

It is interesting that some of Spotify’s label contracts are said to be expiring in October, around the time that Apple’s threemonth trials convert to paid subscriptions.

It is easy to imagine a strong showing by Apple Music, putting increased pressure on Spotify. Early figures have 11 million users signing up for the trial. Apple’s potential success ultimately will lead, many experts say, to some limits on what is available at no charge.

“The amount of value being given away to the consumer at whatever price to Spotify will be extraordinarily pared back if you believe what the CEOs of all the major record labels are saying,” says Ethan Rudin, Rhapsody chief financial officer and head of label relations.

Of course, as shareholders, these CEOs won’t want to do anything rash.

“If they were to pull the rug out from under those rights, [they would be] damaging the value of their investment,” says Rudin, who previously worked on Wall Street. “But you definitely do see some movement away from full, free, on-demand streaming.”

Musicians get paid?

Musicians are doing their part to limit free’s appeal.

Artists such as the Black Keys, Taylor Swift, Bjork and Tool have kept or taken their catalogs off Spotify because they say it devalues musicians’ work. Selling CDs for below cost at Best Buy was one thing, but giving away music to all comers is something entirely different, even if streaming has been an essential step in neutering piracy.

“If things come to you for free, you just inherently don’t have respect for what went into them. It can be pretty daunting after all the effort that is made to make this music,” says Maynard James Keenan, frontman of Tool and Puscifer.

He says Spotify isn’t the only perpetrator.

YouTube has become the greatest global resource for new music, its viral charms minting stars by the dozens (from Lana Del Rey to Justin Bieber and Soulja Boy). It’s expected to average 8 billion views a day by the end of the year. YouTube is to young people what radio was to the American Graffiti generation, a free and ubiquitous source of entertainment.

The difference between YouTube and Spotify is that YouTube doesn’t pay royalties. Spotify finances all its streams on the paid and ad-supported levels, but at different rates because there isn’t much ad revenue. (Last year, 91 percent of the company’s revenue came from paid subscriptions.)

Though YouTube doesn’t distribute royalties, it has paid more than $1 billion from advertising revenue to rights holders over the past several years. YouTube parent Google is in the process of making the video hub part of a new music service, Music Key, that will merge YouTube into its current streaming offering, Google Play Music.

Rhapsody, like Apple, never offered a free tier (though it nearly has matched Apple Music by offering a three-month trial for $1). The company’s growth has been slow, steady and sustainable, though it benefited from the greater cultural awareness and acceptance afforded streaming because of Spotify.

“At any one time in the company’s history, we could’ve decided that we wanted to go raise the same amount of money Spotify did, strike those same deals with the record companies, and train

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Rhapsody’s Ethan Rudin says streaming gives consumers a helluva lot of value.

consumers that music is free,” Rudin says.

“That is not what we stand for, and that is not what we represent.”

Last November, when Taylor Swift pulled her catalog off Spotify, she called the company a “grand experiment … that I don’t feel fairly compensates the writers, producers, artists and creators of this music.” Prince and Garth Brooks are among other artists who pulled their music from streaming sites to protest the low rates, which range from $0.006 to $.0084 per stream.

But they may be blaming the wrong people.

Last month, Berklee College of Music’s Rethink Music initiative released a report on transparency in the music industry. It suggested that at least one in five royalty payments fails to reach the proper rights holder. (There is a variety of

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Prince and Garth Brooks are among other artists who pulled their music from streaming sites to protest the low rates, which range from $0.006 to $.0084 per stream.

Analyst Mark Mulligan says consumers need to pay for premium content.

Musician Roger Clyne says streaming contracts are too complicated for artists.

different royalty rates for songwriters and performers, depending on the medium.)

This unclaimed money ultimately is split among labels based on market share, even though the money more likely is owed to smaller companies representing lesser-known independent artists.

The lack of transparency ensures that the true scope of the problem is difficult to determine. Similarly, decoding lengthy royalty statements is difficult if not impossible. What is clear, according to the report, is that the system’s as opaque as National Security Agency surveillance, with the weight falling on artists.

“I think it’s purposefully set up to be a befuddling if not completely [unworkable] exercise,”says Roger Clyne of the band Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers. “It seems like almost a foregone stratagem that artists aren’t going to be able to disentangle this stuff so they’ll move along. They aren’t going to have the time to stop this train.”

‘Freemium’ problem Some worry that as long as there is a free option, freeloaders will dominate and subscriptions won’t gain steam.

In a speech this year, Universal Music chairman Lucian Grainge said free,

ad-supported music isn’t “particularly sustainable in the long term.”

Sony music head Doug Morris shares Grainge’s skepticism about Spotify’s ad-supported tier, but Morris is bullish on streaming’s overall effect on the music industry—because it’s projected that more than 15 million Americans will spend at least $120 each on streaming subscriptions this year.

In 1999, at the height of the traditional music business, the average music consumer spent $71 a year.

“I do think this change to streaming signifies a tipping point in the music industry. The [recorded-music business] has halved in the last 10 years,” he says. “I think this tipping point will bring it back to where it was before. [Spotify’s home country] Sweden is back to where it was 10 years ago. My guess is that, slowly, Europe and the U.S. will go the same way, and we will have an industry that is healthy, robust, and powerful.”

Spotify maintains that it will “stay the course.” In a May financial statement announcing $180 million in losses for 2014, the company said its subscriptiononly model had not yet “proven a path to profitability.”

The pioneer streaming firm is geared to always pay about 70 percent of its revenue to rights holders. But it’s presumed that the company’s overhead is relatively fixed, meaning as its subscriber base grows (and, by extension, its number of paid subscriptions), so will the value of the remaining 30 percent.

Similarly, if and when the number of paid subscribers triples/quadruples/quintuples, so will payouts to artists, to some degree alleviating musicians’ worries.

Warner Music Group’s Stephen Cooper sounded hugely upbeat during a May earnings call, which featured news that streaming had surpassed downloading in first-quarter revenue.

“The rate of this growth has made it abundantly clear to us that in years to come, streaming will be the way that most people enjoy music,” he said. “Not only that, we are also confident that streaming’s ongoing expansion will return the industry to sustainable, long-term growth.”

It’s because of Apple Music, of course, that so many are talking about what industry insiders call “freemium.”

It’s an enticement that a smaller company like Spotify can offer in lieu of the extensive ad campaigns that accompanied Apple’s iPod and iPad. In April, the firm’s valuation reached $1 trillion, close to 70 times the size of the global music industry’s worth. For Apple, music practically is the lighter sold at the conveniencestore register.

While lots of companies are getting into streaming, their long-term profitability is questionable. Rhapsody has had 14 years to cultivate its user base, but the smaller, newer entrants could have shorter shelf lives because of high up-front costs.

Contracts revealed by this year’s hack of Sony’s computer system show that Spotify paid $42.5 million up front just for access to the label’s music, not counting royalties.

“There’s quite a moat for people to jump to get into this business … but whether they can swim remains to be seen,” Rhapsody’s Rudin says. “We’re rooting for everyone because we truly believe that a rising tide [will float] all ships.”

Music as a museum Streaming forges a fundamentally different relationship.

Rather than retailing replicas, it provides a pass to the museum. The industry is moving from hawking ownership to offering unprecedented access—access that’s far more satisfying than what FM radio and MTV provide.

When Bjork released Vulnicura earlier this year, she told Rolling Stone that free streaming was “just insane” and wondered aloud why the music industry can’t replicate the video-streaming company Netflix: First a movie appears in a theater, and then it goes to Netflix.

Though movies are different, many have echoed Bjork’s thinking—that it makes sense for music to come out physically at first, shortly thereafter on paid streaming sites, and finally on free sites like Pandora and Spotify’s no-charge tier.

This way, artists could move music behind a subscription wall without limiting the material altogether.

“If you want to have the best music first, you need to pay for it,” Mulligan says. “This, in principle, sounds very straightforward and logical, but it’s actually fraught with complications.”

What is needed now, industry analysts say, is for labels and streaming services to agree at least on how to administer new music with different release windows— like the movie business does with its motion pictures.

But streaming services grumble because they pay dearly for exclusive rights to inventories.

“You would think that the music business would be able to follow the movie business to protect itself,” Rudin says, because when streaming is at full force, a system like the movie business’ would engender more money for everybody.

Says Tool’s Keenan: “Look, people are going out of their way to pay for the HD version of things. How the fuck does that not translate to music?” In other words, consumers will pay for getting music first through a convenient and superior system.

It’s uncertain how soon that system will arrive. But, until then, one thing is certain: The public’s thirst for music remains unquenched. Ω This story originally appeared in the Phoenix New Times.

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sex, guys & vi d eotape gay rights’ most dangerous benefactor loved living— and shooting pornography—in sacramento

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f you’re an aficionado of gay porn from the 1970s and ‘80s—and who isn’t?—then you may have noticed the sacramento river delta serves as a pristine backdrop to some spirited buggering.

For that, you have the late Chuck Holmes to thank. A titan of male-centric adult entertainment, Holmes also enjoyed a longstanding love affair with the 916 and its waterways.

“He shot a lot of movies in Sacramento,” said Michael Stabile, a journalist who made his feature-length debut with a new documentary on Holmes, which has its local premiere during the Sacramento International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival on Friday.

“From the early ’70s on, you would see these landscapes, these Sacramento landscapes,” Stabile said, before chuckling. “And that may well have been because it was a tax write-off.”

Sacramento is also where Holmes made his primary homestead during the final decade of his life, which ended in 2000 due to complications from HIV. But that’s just the epilogue to a fascinating story that intersects with

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critical moments of the early gay rights movement.

That story is the subject of Stabile’s Seed Money: The Chuck Holmes Story. It’s one of 24 feature-length and short films playing the 24th annual festival, which runs October 8-10.

The 71-minute film, which debuted at the Boston LGBT Film Festival in April, makes the case that Holmes is the most important gay rights benefactor whose contributions aren’t widely acknowledged, even within his own community. (In 2002, there was an uproar when a $1 million donation from Holmes’ estate led to his name being displayed over the entrance of a new gay and lesbian community center in San Francisco.)

In some ways, it’s easy to see why.

Holmes was a hard-nosed businessman who bucked the “model spokesperson” playbook by building his

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“ I often think of him as a gay Gatsby.”

empire on explicit depictions of gay sex.

He tangled with the FBI over obscenity charges and resisted using condoms in his movies during the AIDS epidemic.

That notoriety often made him a pariah among the political candidates and causes that accepted his money, but spurned the man.

“It’s almost about the limits of assimilation,” Stabile said of Holmes’ story. “This thing that you helped build

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… becomes so respectable that you’re left out.”

But Holmes also made sure his movies depicted gay men as successful boy-next-door types, putting forth a positive portrayal that was rare for the times.

“He was probably the most important pornographer of the 20th century,” Stabile said.

Due to adult content, SIGLFF President Michael Dennis said Seed Money will screen as part of the festival’s new Late Night With Todd program, named in honor of former board president John “Todd” Lohse-Edwards, who died from brain cancer last year. “I did not know Chuck Holmes story at all,” Dennis wrote in an email. “When we saw this film, we had to show it. It is a compelling story.”

Not much is known of Holmes’ early life in Indiana, where he was raised on a farm. As a consequence, when Holmes moves to San Francisco during the height of the sexual revolution, there’s something almost literary about the young man’s arrival.

“I often think of him as a gay Gatsby,” Stabile said. “Like Gatsby, his past is sort of a mystery.”

Let’s paint the scene: It’s the early 1970s and people are pouring into the city, one of the only places where pornography is legal to show and sell.

That created a kind of smut gold rush in San Francisco, or something akin to the first tech boom, Stabile says. There was money to be made, and Holmes knew how to make it.

Stabile heard different tales about how Holmes earned his living as a young man. Rumors swirled of shady business deals, money in mail orders and prefabricated houses in Indiana and Cincinnati, Ohio. Whatever the truth, Holmes was comfortable by the time he moved to the Bay Area. He was also a prodigious collector of pornography, which was damn hard to get your hands on at the time.

In most of the country, porn was treated like narcotics: illegal to possess, sell or send through the mail. As a result, it was trafficked like illicit Tupperware, during word-of-mouth gatherings inside hotel conference rooms or someone’s home. At one of these gatherings, Holmes told someone he was interested in getting into the porn business, Stabile says. The guy took one look at the clean-cut Holmes and told him, in so many words, that he didn’t have the sand for it. In San Francisco six months

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later, Holmes borrowed some money and started Falcon Studios in 1972.

Stabile says you can’t overstate the importance of Falcon Studios’ early films. At the time, peddlers were making easy cash with slapped-together 8-millimeter reels featuring street hustlers in grimy motel rooms. Unlike those pornographers, Holmes established a set of persnickety standards for his skin flicks, raunchy as they were. He demanded upscale settings and models who projected an all-American look— guys like him, in other words. They wore lacrosse shirts, piloted sports cars and speed boats, and lounged on yachts or frolicked on small islands speckled throughout the Sacramento River, a favorite spot of Holmes.

Stabile argues that this made them the “It Gets Better” promotional videos of their time, especially in small towns that the emerging gay culture hadn’t reached.

While Stabile says there’s no doubt that Holmes was driven by profit and personal peccadilloes (he hated dirty feet, for instance), “presenting a vision of gay life that was positive was important to him, exceedingly so,” he said.

But his drive for success sometimes made him an antagonist of the same community.

Holmes learned he was HIV-positive in the mid-’80s. It was a death sentence, Stabile said, “and he was terrified of dying.”

Despite his personal terror—or perhaps because of it—Holmes resisted mounting pressure to use condoms in his movies until around 1990. Stabile believes the decision was motivated both by profit—the general belief is that people don’t like seeing condoms in their sex flicks—and denial, the same kind that was sweeping through the greater gay community, the director says. In this way, Holmes puts a face on “gay history in sharper relief,” Stabile argued, in that his struggles paralleled that of the community.

Take his battles with the FBI. During the ’70s and ’80s, Stabile says the FBI was cracking down on pornography through federal prohibitions on mailing “obscene, lascivious, indecent, filthy or vile” materials.

The strategy was simple: FBI agents posing as buyers ordered movies through the mail, often having them sent to southern states where juries were more likely to frown on the gay lifestyle.

Holmes was indicted for mailing a movie to Tennessee that featured an interracial couple. Stabile says he spent a

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lot of money on getting the legal venue switched to San Francisco, which effectively squashed the case.

Many of Holmes’ contemporaries weren’t so lucky, and Holmes bought up their businesses at bargain prices, expanding his empire.

“He [had] a real sense of selfpreservation,” Stabile said.

That instinct factored into Holmes’ charitable giving, according to Steven Scarborough.

Scarborough met Holmes in 1976, becoming his romantic partner for life and business partner for seven years. He described Holmes as “a fervent Democrat” who emulated his grandfather’s politics. “But he also felt Democrats were less likely to prosecute someone in his business.”

That changed when Bill Clinton emerged on the political scene, Scarborough says. Like many in the gay community, Holmes saw in Clinton someone who would stand up for gay rights, Scarborough said. “And that really motivated him.”

The feeling wasn’t entirely mutual.

In 1992, then-candidate Clinton invited his top donors to fly out for a meet-and-greet. Holmes accepted the invitation, only to be ordered out of line during the gathering. “Events like those really crushed him,” Stabile said.

“Because of where his money came from, his checkbook was often more welcome than he was. And sadly, I think that is still the case.”

Stabile said his interview requests were declined by several individuals and groups who feared their reputations would be smudged by any association with Holmes.

SN&R sought comment from Human Rights Watch and the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund, on whose boards Holmes sat, without success.

Scarborough admits the rejections upset his partner. “But he was very pragmatic as well,” he said, adding that Holmes often reminded him that progress came in increments.

Later in his life, Holmes and Scarborough built two homes near the river in Sacramento, one for them and one for Holmes’ mother. And when he died, Scarborough noted, Holmes decreed in his will that half his ashes return home to Terre Haute, Ind., and that the other half be dispersed in the river that he loved. Ω Seed Money plays at 10:30 p.m. Friday, October 9, at the Crest Theatre. General admission tickets are $10.

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Humble particles Like ancient cave paintings, Craig Martinez’s sculptures are gestural and simple yet sophisticated. His figures of animals, including humans, are formed with pieces of discarded wood, wire and fiber that the artist describes as “considered worthless.” So the edges may be jagged and appear rough, but like SculpTure a circle that doesn’t completely close, the human eye fills in the gap, and the gaps are where we see the “bones” of the figure, its vulnerabilities and strengths. Also, like the paintings preserved on the walls of caves from long ago, Martinez’s color palette is earthy, and his figures—sometimes a combination of human and another animal—invoke Native American spirituality and mythology, overall, negating any worthlessness of his pieces’ humble particles.

Where: Tim Collom Gallery, 915 20th Street; (916) 849-0302; http://timcollomgallery.com.

Second Saturday reception: October 10, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Through November 7.

Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

“Sacred Ride” by Craig Martinez, mixed media, 2015.

Headcocking concepts The only appropriate place for a neon sign in Las Vegas is deconstructed SculpTure and placed in a quaint antique wheelbarrow. Perhaps not the only place, but Ronald Peetz’s sculpture of “Deconstructed Las Vegas Sign in Wheelbarrow” by Ronald Peetz, mixed media, 2015. glowing neon tubes in a rusty old barrow makes a striking visual argument that it should be. Peetz—a Lincoln-based artist who has shown his conceptual, head-cocking-followed-by-an-“oh!” sculptures in many Sacramento galleries over the years—consistently makes work that offers more than just eye candy, but food for thought. See what else he’s serving up in his solo exhibition Objects in the Mirror at Axis Gallery during October.

“Feeling Like Ophelia” by Leslie DuPratt, oil on linen.

The expectations of a woman Leslie DuPratt is often her own muse. She paints herself into many of her paintings.

They comment on femininity and glamour and the rigmarole and servitude of housewifeyness—like wearing a fancy cocktail dress with pink rubber gloves painTing and constantly reapplying lipstick, because it’s hard to keep a house clean and to maintain youth and beauty forever as a woman.

Where: Axis Gallery, 625 S Street; http://axisgallery.org.

Where: Sparrow Gallery, 2418 K Street; (916) 382-4894; www.sparrowgallerysacramento.com.

Second Saturday reception: October 10, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Through November 1.

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Fall Home Show FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, ThROUgh SUnDAY, OCTOBER 11 The 14th annual Sacramento Fall Home Show is on the horizon, which means it’s time to pay attention to the place you spend the most time outexpo side of work: your home. Those who haven’t been to one of these expos should be prepared to be bombarded by hundreds of vendors who’ve all seemingly found new ways to make your dwelling a little more pleasant. Think contractors and garage cabinet installers, pools, spas and interior design accessories. Break out the wallet: you’ll be hard pressed to find so many companies under one roof. $6, free for children 12 and under; noon to 6 p.m.

Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Sunday at Cal Expo, 1600 Exposition Boulevard; http://sachomeandgardenshow.net/fall.

—EDDIE JORgEnSEn

Fossil Fun SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, AnD SUnDAY, OCTOBER 11 Next to space travel, what’s the surefire science thing every kid’s excited for? Dinosaurs. This isn’t technically a dinosaur exhibit, but it’s Science close. In celebration of National Fossil Day, which is October 14, the Discovery Museum will present a fossil display designed for kids.

Bonus: Kids can take home a special souvenir fossil. Entry into this exhibit also includes admission into Space Quest!, the museum’s interactive interstellar exhibit. That’s a doubly amazing day for science-loving kids. $8, 12:30 p.m. at Discovery Museum Science & Space Center, 3615 Auburn Boulevard; www.thediscovery.org.

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psamantics Goes psycho SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10

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Sausages! And as might be expected when it comes to celebratory times specifically feting brews, Sacto’s going all-out this week.

Going on its 48th year, the oktoberfest at the Sacramento turn Verein (3349 J Street) is perhaps the most authentic

celebration in town; the festival will have actual Oktoberfest beer from Munich on hand, traditional German music from the Gruber Family Band, roaming accordionists, dancing from Alpentänzer Schuhplattler and a wide range of German grub.

The party goes from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. on Friday, October 9, and 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. on Saturday, October 10; adult admission is $20 and kids 6-12 are $5. More information can be found at http://sacramentoturnverein.com.

And in keeping with the city’s continual fascination with combining beer and bikes, there are two options for getting some fitness in with your fermented beverages: Sacramento century oktoberfest will host a bike ride Saturday, October 10, that starts at 500 Capitol Mall and goes as far as Isleton, depending on the route you choose. After the ride, the

festival takes place from noon to 7 p.m. on Capitol Mall between Fifth and Seventh streets and will have live music from Mumbo Gumbo and the City of Trees Brass Band, plus food trucks from Chando’s, Drewski’s and others. Tickets range from $10-$85 depending on the ride you choose (or if you choose to attend the festival only). Purchase tickets at www.sacramentocentury.com. Your other option for peripatetic partying is oktoberfest with off the chain Bike Bus tours on Saturday, October 10, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., wherein riders will help pedal a bike bus as they stop in at Yolo Brewing Co., Bike Dog Brewing Co. and Jackrabbit Brewing Co. Tickets are $35 and space is limited to 120 people; head to http://sactownbikebus.com for tickets and more info.

Meanwhile, over in Davis, the Aggies are ditching the Oktoberfest theme this year during their sixth annual uc Davis Brewfest and instead expanding to include 50 breweries pouring 90 different brews. The drinking begins at 1 p.m. on Saturday, October 10, and all tickets ($36-$40) include admission to the football game vs. Northern Arizona that starts at 4 p.m. Find out more at www.ucdavisaggies.com/ot/ucdavisbrewfest.html.

—DEEnA DREwIS

Horror movie fans should be delighted by this fun presentation of the music from Alfred Hitchcock’s eerie films by this local 30-person choir, Samantics.

Many, in fact, will recognize the music as Hitchcock directed some of the most iconic movMuSic ies of the 20th century. The Samantics choir did this program last year for this annual fundraiser for the West Sacramento Historical Society. Separated from the films, the music here isn’t creepy but, instead, elegant, romantic and even comedic. Hitchcock did work with Hollywood’s most talented composers, after all. $30-$35, 4 p.m. at West Sacramento Community Center, 1075 West Capitol Avenue; www.westsachistoricalsociety.org.

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Stick a Fork in it SUnDAY, OCTOBER 11 The Sacramento Stick a Fork in It bicycle ride may be the most Sacramento way ever to spend your Saturday: It starts at Preservation & Co., makes its way to Mulvaney’s B&L for some behind-the-scenes action before the Pigs on ICE pig roast later that night, heads to Del Rio Botanicals for a BiKe RiDe farm tour and lunch, stops by Bike Dog Brewing Co. and ends back at the pig roast—25 miles of bike-to-fork bliss. $55, includes all meals; 10 a.m. at 1717 19th Street, www.sacsafii.com.

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Island fever: Kit Syn only lived on the island of Maui for eight months, but he fell in love.

“What I really missed was the feeling of being there—the food, the culture, the laid-back family feel.”

In the five years since, he’s returned to Hawaii 12 times, launched a mobile Hawaiian barbecue business called Ben’s Huli Huli Chicken and, last month, opened his first brick-and-mortar restaurant, Ben’s Hawaiian Cafe (6610 FolsomAuburn Road, Suite 7, in Folsom).

Seven-year-old son Ben is Syn’s reason for opening the cafe—he wanted to spend more time with Ben, and remarkably, the food business is less demanding than the hotel business.

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At Ben’s Hawaiian Cafe, customers are greeted with “Aloha,” offered free pineapple water and seated at communal picnic tables. The menu is brief: Huli Huli chicken (marinated with pineapple, ginger, brown sugar and spices, then slow-cooked), char siu pork and garlic-pineapple shrimp. Proteins are thrown on the grill and served with coconut-topped jasmine rice, an Asian-influenced iceberg salad or traditional Hawaiian macaroni salad, which Syn just started offering last week. Syn is also extremely proud of his fried banana dessert and shave ice.

Hawaiian cuisine is vast—heavily influenced by immigrant workers from China, Japan, the Philippines— but Syn plans to keep his menu

simple. He foresees adding Spam musubi at some point—Hawaiian customers keep asking for the semi-ham sushi—and Hawaiian drip coffee. Then, he’ll freeze blocks of coffee for the razor blade—voila, a riff on Italian coffee granitas.

Syn estimates adding shave ice toppings like mochi, boba, red bean and condensed milk in a week or so.

He doesn’t make his own flavored syrups, but he’s confident that his shave ice’s texture is true to Hawaii: soft, luxurious, melt-in-your-mouth.

The fact that he doesn’t say “shaved” ice is a good sign.

Movement: Note that popular Roseville vegan cafe Baagan relocated to Rocklin (2620 Sunset Boulevard, Suite 1) last week, thanks in part to a crowdfunding campaign.

The bigger space and bigger kitchen allows Baagan to legally serve its grilled, baked and roasted items, which had become a county regulation problem in its former space a few months ago. Ω

As temperatures slowly (slooowly) start to cool, it’s time to start thinking of ways to safeguard your body against germs, which with all that dampness and cold, will inevitably try to kill you.

Here’s a recommended cup of strong medicine: the Sacramento Natural Food Co-Op’s G-Force juice ($5.25 for a 12-ounce drink). This zingy mix of carrot, apple and lemon juice is amped up with an ample dose of ginger, but don’t stop there—ask your juicer to add in even more of the spicy root and feel the cure settle into your chest like an on-call doctor. 1900 Alhambra Boulevard, www.sacfoodcoop.com.

—rAchel leibrocK

Vegetable mouse Kiwis The French name for kiwifruit (souris vegetales or “vegetable mouse”) accurately describes the fuzzy little ovals. Luckily, the fruits are perfectly vegetarian—and, in fact, are a kind of berry that grows on a vine. Almost all of the kiwi grown in the U.S. come from California, and early fall is harvest time. Look for firm fruits to slice and eat out of hand or to toss in salads.

If you aren’t squeamish, you can eat the skin for extra fiber.

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A second visit for dinner opened up the rest of the extensive menu to us. The pizzas ($12.95-$13.95) are all fantastic; the dough sweet with a crispy char and abundant toppings.

1800 15th Street, (916) 448-4488, The buffalo chicken egg roll ($8.50) seems like www.ironhorsetavern.net a novel concept, but the execution is a mess. First, Dinner for one: $20 - $30 the chewy, dry mess of chicken in the egg roll can’t Good for: chill bar food be properly sauced without losing the crunch of the Notable dishes: short rib stroganoff and cinnamon roll pancakes wrapper. Second, the blue cheese crumbled on top is simply impossible to eat with the egg roll. It just falls off. Third, the inconceivably utter lack of flavor. This dish is simply a fail on all fronts.

The brandy fried chicken nuggets ($8.95) are Iron Horse Tavern is another new addition to the kids’ food for adults, excellently cooked with large still booming R Street Corridor. It’s a glorious dark chucks of juicy chicken served with crispy, wellwood dining room covered in tile with a popular seasoned fries. They’re a bit greasy; but you come bar packed so tight that one must ostensibly throw into nuggets and fries knowing that and, by God, out good manners to breach the mass and put good they’re tasty. money down for a drink. It also possesses one of the Oh, and the beef rib stroganoff ($18.95). Here, most enviable patio dining areas in town. creamy stroganoff is tossed with mushrooms and The menu is huge, which may not be to Iron spinach, then topped with a colossal short rib so well Horse’s benefit, as in my experience if a restaurant cooked it melts apart. Now this is something I could makes everything, then none of it is done too well. come back for time and again when the weather In this review I barely cover even a fraction turns cold. of the menu, which is staggering, so one A smart menu addition is the selechas to wonder how well everything tion of mocktails. A good cocktail Iron Horse else is executed. bar knows how to make a few, At breakfast, an egg white feels like a but so few readily put them front frittata ($11.50) makes for the and center on the menu. The revamped version of a ultimate skinny girl meal: egg Watermelon Fizz ($3.95), was popular family-oriented whites baked with bland potatoes bright, and tasted like a Jolly and diced asparagus. None of the ’90s chain. A TGI Rancher, which was a plus and a vegetables seemed to have been minus at our table, depending who Friday’s dressed up seasoned before going into the you asked. in J. Crew. frittata so it was a never-ending spiral Lastly, we tried the red velvet of blah.

“Ho-Hos” ($7.50). This red velvet pastry A Korean fried chicken bowl ($14.95) had more chocolate tang than most I’ve lacks impact. The tasty morsels of sweet-andtried. However, the gravity well of cream cheese somewhat-spicy bits of fried and glazed chicken filling was so dense it threatened to collapse in on proved addictive, but the mushy rice and slimy itself and take half of Midtown with it. kimchi were more than off-putting.

In the end, Iron Horse feels like a revamped The cinnamon roll pancakes ($10.95), however, version of a popular family-oriented ’90s chain. A are things of beauty: fragrant with cinnamon, poofy TGI Friday’s dressed up in J. Crew: it looks fabulous as clouds and drizzled with frosting. and occasionally is, but more often than not the The green eggs and ham ($11.95) consist of a hemming is off and a button has gone missing. This slab of ham big enough to fight crime with and isn’t to say it’s bad. It’s a welcome and needed some scrambled eggs mixed with pesto. Hearty and addition to the corridor, offering large portion of complete. mass-appeal food in stomach-stretching portions for a (usually) good price. Ω

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No matter where you look, class is officially in session. That goes for your casual culinary education, too. Lucca Restaurant & Bar (1615 J Street) is hosting a multipart, weekly lecture series called Food 101, featuring a variety of food experts who aren’t your expected chefs or restaurateurs. One speaker delivers each day’s lesson over a meal prepared by Lucca’s chef Ian MacBride. For food photographer Debbie Cunningham’s lecture at 11 a.m. on Saturday, October 10, students will enjoy a four-course meal plus alcoholic beverage—why couldn’t college have been like this? Future teachers include Catherine “Miss Munchies” Enfield, blogger and creator of multiple food festivals; Mike Dunne, wine columnist and former food editor and critic for the Sacramento Bee; and Hank Shaw, James Beardaward winning cookbook author. There are only 50 seats available per event, and tickets cost $30. More at http://food101.brownpapertickets.com.

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Adapting a thick novel makes for a busy play, and that’s the case with the Sacramento Theatre Company’s Sense and Sensibility (based on the Jane Austen classic). The show has more scene changes than anything we’ve seen locally since 2014’s Anna Karenina (Capital Stage)—and actress Lenne Klingaman played the lead in both. But where Anna was a free spirit whose romances ran against social mores, Elinor Dashwood (Klingaman’s character here) is a prim-and-proper soul determined to marry for love (but nonetheless aware of her suitors’ finances).

Honorable Elinor pursues wooing and wedding by the rules, and also protects her more impulsive sister Marianne (dreamy Lindsey Marie Schmeltzer), whose Romantic Era ideals sometimes get the better of her.

Then there’s sister-in-law Fanny Dashwood (Tara Henry) who married for money. And there are the suitors: Col. Brandon (well played by David Campfield); the dashing Willoughby (Kevin Gish, striding onstage in a shooting jacket carrying a hunting rifle); and the shy, private Edward Ferrars (Teddy Spencer, who also plays Edward’s extroverted, egotistical brother Robert).

Director Shannon Mahoney adeptly choreographs (and better yet, makes emotional sense out of) the intricate comings and goings, confidential secrets and pledges of love, as the Dashwood sisters’ marriage prospects ebb and flow. Mahoney also brings moments of humor and spontaneity to the task (and genuine concern when young Marianne is stricken by a nearly fatal fever). Credit also to costumer Jessica Minnihan, scenic designer Renee Degarmo, and sound designer Beth Edwards, who carry us in to the 1790s with sights and sounds. It’s an enjoyable ride. Ω

5 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde In Victorian times, common belief was an individual was inherently and wholly good or evil, with only slight variations. And then came Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, which literally took a stab at presenting the duality of a person, a good doctor with an evil internal twin, the creation of the split-personality concept.

And what a split personality! Charming, intelligent and socially adept doctor by day, and an evil psychopathic murderer by night, the combined hero and villain of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a true horror story.

Here Big Idea Theatre has embraced a recent adaptation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by playwright Jeffrey Hatcher which adds a couple layers to this dark tale of gruesome murders and social mayhem, including a love interest and variations of Mr. Hyde brought out by rotating actors.

Under the imaginative direction of Benjamin Ismail, this dark production is presented by highly stylized and creative staging, strong and direct performances by a talented cast, and a stark minimalistic set that incorporates foggy streets, the laboratory of the good Dr. Jekyll and a Victorian parlor that hides the elusive and evil Mr. Hyde.

Zachary Scovel is a hauntingly charming Dr. Jekyll. Gina Harrower presents a realistic forgiving-but-confused lover of Mr. Hyde.

Russell Dow creeps as one of the more violent portrayals of Mr. Hyde. It’s a show that will shadow you as you leave the darkened theater into the even darker night.

—Patti RobeRts Dr. Jekyll and mr. hyde, 8 p.m. thursday through saturday, $10-$20. Big Idea theatre, 1616 Del Paso Boulevard; (916) 960-3036; www.bigideatheatre.org. through october 31.

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Three Sisters

Adrienne Sher directs this melancholic production of Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters at Sacramento City College’s Art Court Theater. Over four scenes, we watch the three sisters of the Prozorov family, and the others who inhabit the house, run the gamut of emotions, from the sheer joy of young Irina (Samantha Hannum) on the morning of her 20th birthday to the overwhelming depression of the whole household five years later. This is a powerful, moving, sometimes funny production with an excellent cast.

F 8pm; Sa 2pm and 8pm; Su 2pm. Through 10/18. $15.

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takes on some of the issues and challenges faced in each era, and in particular geographical areas, and dramatizes them through personal stories.Celebration Arts has staged most of the plays in this 10-story theatrical library, and now is tackling Gem of the Ocean, set in 1904 Pittsburgh, when slavery is still fresh in both the experiences and memories of its characters. The play presents many challenges along the way with its word-weighty script that often gets bogged down with lengthy, pontificating monologues.

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Michael Shannon does a tremendous slither as Ramin Bahrani became a hot property and a Rick Carver, an ethically challenged, cash-rich realGuggenheim Fellowship winner last decade after making tor making a killing on human misery and economic Man Push Cart, Chop Shop and Goodbye Solo in quick devastation, a 21st-century demon dressed in creamsuccession. That 1-2-3 punch pushed Bahrani to the colored suits and armored in black SUVs. Rick fore of a cinematic movement that A.O. Scott labeled evicts Dennis and then hires him, initially to clean “Neo-Neo Realism,” although it might be more accurate out empty houses, but eventually he takes the young to call the trio a 1-2-3 nudge, since nothing in Bahrani’s man under his vulture’s wing. work carries the impact of a punch.

“Don’t get sensitive about real estate,” says the Bahrani made his bones by crafting small-scale reptilian father figure Rick, but Dennis only cares portraits of decent people living on society’s margins about getting his home back, so he explores some of starring largely nonprofessional actors, so it’s no the more morally repugnant avenues of the big shock that he hit the critical wall with his booming foreclosure business, trading first star-heavy production, 2012’s At Any pieces of his soul for larger and larger Director Price. His follow-up film is the more paychecks. Dennis doesn’t tell his Ramin assured 99 Homes, an aggressively son or mother (Laura Dern) where topical drama set amid the 2010 the piles of money are coming Bahrani’s work housing crisis, but you can still feel from, a silly deception established passes inspection, Bahrani struggling to find intimacy only so that it can publicly spill but as a drama it’s and retain his identity while painting out later. on a larger canvas.

Unfortunately, that blow-up structurally 99 Homes premiered at Toronto scene is where things start to go unsound. in September 2014 but it’s just now south for 99 Homes, as a strong opengetting a wide release and an ostensible ing gets undermined by an increasingly awards push. It stars a surprisingly authentic incredulous and incongruous final act. As Andrew Garfield, liberated from Spider-Man purgatory an emotional tour of the housing crisis, Bahrani’s as Dennis Nash, a single father and often uncompenwork passes inspection, but as a drama it’s structursated day laborer willing to do anything to protect his ally unsound, increasingly relying on telegraphed family home, even if it means evicting other Orlando melodrama. His films are so wispy that Bahrani may homeowners. never hit a home run, but he seems to possess an The film opens on the dead body of an unidentified endless supply of infield singles. Ω homeowner who committed suicide in the process of getting evicted, and as Dennis navigates the world of deceptive banks and predatory retailers and unforgiving judges, we come to understand how a man with nothing left to lose can get to that point. Before they can file Poor Fair Good Very excellent an appeal, Dennis and his family are evicted from their

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He Named Me Malala

This middling media tour documentary from An Inconvenient Truth director Davis Guggenheim is another triumph of subject over substance and style. The film follows Malala Yousafzai, a smart, outspoken, thoroughly endearing Pakistani girl who in 2012 was shot by the Taliban for fighting for her educational rights. Malala survived, whisked to the West with her family and went on to write a bestselling book about her experiences, using it as a springboard to take on other causes related to female education. Guggenheim fits Malala’s story into a slick, press kit ready package, tossing in everything from animation to the obligatory Jon Stewart clip, and getting the most out of Erich Roland’s cinematography and a score by Skyfall composer Thomas Newman. We get a few glimpses of Malala the hormonal teenager behind Malala the Nobel Peace Prize winner, but this rarely feels like anything more than a press junket in movie form. D.B.

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The Intern

A retired widower (Robert De Niro) decides to go back to work, and lands a job as a “senior intern” at an online clothing retailer, where the workaholic boss (Anne Hathaway) wasn’t really sold on this internship idea to begin with. Writer-director Nancy Meyers (What Women Want, The Holiday) once again deploys her regrettable penchant for cute contrivances and cheap forced gags—Linda Lavin as De Niro’s man-hungry neighbor particularly suffers in that department, but nobody really escapes unscathed. An episode of De Niro and his co-workers (Adam DeVine, Zack Pearlman, Nat Wolff) breaking into Hathaway’s mother’s house to delete a nasty email is simply ridiculous. Meyers’ direction is careless, too—pacing is limp and shots don’t match. Hathaway and De Niro save the day; they’re wonderful together. J.L.

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Johnny Depp stars in Black Mass as the real-life 1970s crime kingpin James “Whitey” Bulger, a mass murderer allowed to run wild in the streets of South Boston for years due to his favored status as an FBI informant.

The script strains to paint Bulger as a scary but vaguely sympathetic grieving father, an emotionally wounded Nosferatu in a Member’s Only cowl (true to form, Depp allows his prosthetic teeth to do most of the acting), but that just leaves him at the center of a film without a center. A hilarious chowder rainbow of bad Boston accents aside, Black Mass is such a sturdily faceless production that it could have come from a kit labeled “Whitey Bulger Biopic”—director Scott Cooper just happened to assemble the pieces. If you’re interested in the Bulger story, Joe Berlinger directed a perfectly serviceable documentary last year; start there and skip this rote biopic. D.B.

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The Martian

When astronaut-botanist Mark Watney (Matt Damon) is struck by debris and presumed dead during an emergency evacuation of Mars, he’s stranded on the red planet with limited supplies and no means of communication, only surviving through scientific ingenuity. The Martian has an irresistible premise—Cast Away in space without the FedEx product placement— but director Ridley Scott and screenwriter Drew Goddard tell it in the most plodding and predictable manner possible. It doesn’t help that every character is a glib, Sorkin-lite sassypants devoid of emotional complexity, or that the best parts feel lifted from better movies. Most maddening, though, is the film’s compulsion to dumb down and overexplain, from Damon’s direct-to-camera video diaries to the abundance of onscreen titles to the copious establishing shots of Earth and Mars, just so we don’t get them mixed up. It’s a film that respects the concept of intelligence; I just wish it respected my intelligence. D.B.

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Coming Home

Once a firebrand dramatist from the post-Cultural Revolution “Fifth Generation” of Chinese filmmakers who was responsible for movies like Raise the Red Lantern and Ju Dou, director Yimou Zhang has been tied to more populist genres in recent years. He spent most of this millennium wrapped up in Wuxia with films like Hero and House of the Flying Daggers, and he’s also dabbled in international productions (the ill-conceived The Flowers of War) and reached beyond the Chinese borders for source material (the Blood Simple remake A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop). His latest film Coming Home is something of a return to his roots, a family drama seething with undertones of sociopolitical frustration, more reserved than his early work but with characteristic gushes of emotion. The incomparable Gong Li plays a damaged woman whose psychic amnesia prevents her from recognizing her own husband, a recently released political prisoner. D.B.

Hook (Garrett Hedlund) started out as best pals.

Let’s not mince words: This movie stinks. Jason Fuchs’ witless, charmless script is as ignorant of J.M. Barrie’s original as if he had never heard of it, while Joe Wright’s graceless direction and the gaudy, vulgar CGI fail to provide any real magic.

Young Miller is a cipher, Hedlund struts around like a bad Harrison Ford impersonator and Hugh Jackman camps it up as the villain Blackbeard.

Rooney Mara’s Tiger Lily preserves some dignity, but she fails to avoid the general train wreck.

Worst of all is the thought that this travesty (and its sequel) may pre-empt a movie of Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson’s Peter and the Starcatchers, which treats the same idea with all the wit and fun that’s missing here. J.L.

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Pawn Sacrifice

Director Ed Zwick and writer Steven Knight take us back to 1972, when the chess match between American challenger Bobby Fischer (Tobey Maguire) and Soviet world champion Boris Spassky (Liev Schreiber) transfixed the world and provided a bloodless battlefield in the Cold War. Maguire gives us Fischer’s fiery paranoid passion without his vulpine stare; it makes him more sympathetic than the real Fischer ever was. Meanwhile, Knight and Zwick raise provocative questions about the politics and people involved (including Michael Stuhlbarg and Peter Skarsgaard as Fischer’s support team), then decline to answer them. It’s ironic that a player as unconventional as Fischer should inspire such a thoroughly conventional biopic. Still, plain professionalism has its upside, if less spectacularly so than genius. J.L.

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Sicario

When a film works, the critical tendency is to praise the director and move outwards from there, but the palm-sweat intensity of Sicario feels more like a triumph of brilliant actors and collaborators over a gaseous auteur. Sicario was directed by Denis Villeneuve, and he brings the same heavy-handed pomposity to this story of an upright FBI agent (Emily Blunt) thrown neck first into the moral swamp of the Mexican drug war that he brought to Prisoners and Enemy.

And yet even as I was frequently annoyed by the film, I still found Sicario tense and nightmarishly immersive from its opening frames. Villeneuve

deserves credit for crafting some gripping sequences, but the film would be unimaginable without the vivid and tactile cinematography of Roger Deakins, the bruising Johann Johannsson score and the gripping performances of Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin and Benicio del Toro. D.B.

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by Alison Brie and Jason Sudeikis, writerdirector Leslye Headland’s raunchy rom-com (romch-com?) Sleeping with Other People was dumped into Sacramento-area theaters last Friday without any advance notice. It’s a shame, because while Sleeping with Other People does little more than update When Harry Met Sally for the “Netflix and chill” generation, it’s better than this summer’s lucrative and overhyped romchcom Trainwreck. Sudeikis and Brie play casual college hook-ups and mutual de-virginizers who reconnect later in life as sweetly self-destructive sex addicts. They have fantastic chemistry, and a close friendship quickly blossoms, but (stop me if you’ve heard this one before) can a man and woman really be friends without wanting sex? Headland writes the standard-issue surplus of subplots and scene-hogging supporting characters into the script, but a loose vibe and a cast of adept improvisers push it over. D.B.

In 1974, French tightrope walker Philippe Petit and a loose gang of accomplices secretly slung a wire across the just-completed World Trade Center in New York, and Petit walked the void between the Twin Towers for nearly an hour. This story has already been told to great satisfaction in the magical 2008 documentary Man on Wire, and Robert Zemeckis’ uneven biopic The Walk just runs its needle over the same narrative grooves. The Walk exists only to get to the Twin Towers sequence, where the technical mastery of Zemeckis and his special effects team takes over. That vertiginous, nearly real-time tightrope sequence is certainly lucid and entrancing, but Zemeckis spends 90 minutes grasping at straws to get us there. Zemeckis leans heavily on the charm and physicality of Joseph Gordon-Levitt, but his Pepe Le Pew accent wears down any goodwill. D.B.

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Vintage threads, vintage moves—the Trouble Makers keep their rock ’n’ roll real.

Check out The Trouble Makers at 7 p.m. on Thursday, October 15, at Harlow’s Restaurant and Nightclub, 2708 J Street.

Tickets are $20-$25.

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to be a major part of the thriving ’90s garage rock scene until the latter part of the decade when Cornelius temporarily moved to Milwaukee.

While garage rock has undergone a few revivals in the 2000s, this ’90s-era scene was completely different. The bands then shared a love for all things vintage but it wasn’t just about playing dress-up.

They also exhibited an unhinged presence and a 100 percent irreverence toward rock stardom. The Trouble Makers took this credo to the nth degree.

Over the years their live shows have brought in fans captivated by the band’s unpredictable stage presence. Glasses have broken and amps blown. Bars have been used as de facto stages and, often, Foster likes to dive into the audience itself, midsong.

Mummies drummer Russell Quan remembers feeling awe when he watched the band who’d once been inspired by his.

“The Trouble Makers would physically tear roofs off buildings,” Quan says. “’60s fashion didn’t matter when they played but that was their platform for destruction.”

The Trouble Makers say they saw themselves as ambassadors for all these old, long-lost ’60s bands.

“We were very acutely aware of all the PHOTO by viNz guyOT history. Now bands are more open-minded about stuff and they take their trash influences from wherever,” Foster says.

“They may not give a shit if they’re using a vintage guitar. They may or may not give a shit if they’re going to cover a song More than two decades in, the Trouble Makers continue to tear it up by the Kegs, but for us that was really important.”

Around the time that Cornelius moved

by AAron CArnes away, the group got a surprise call from German label Screaming Apple, which wanted to record a full-length. They titled it The Great Lost Trouble Makers Album obsessive reverence for ’60s garage rock, In 1991, they still didn’t know how The Trouble Makers played their first and released it in 1998. They followed and zaniness—the band members were, to play instruments, but a co-worker of show in March of 1993. The moment that with a European tour and, over the naturally, dressed as mummies.

Foster’s, Rod Cornelius, who had played had been a long time coming for the years, have returned many times, often “[It was] complete and utter chaos bass in a ’60s surf band, offered to show Sacramento garage rock band. Founders playing to much bigger crowds than they onstage. They were having a blast, and it them a few pointers. He soon became Tim Foster and Stan Tindall had been do in the United States. On its was a complete breath of fresh air from the group’s guitarist. Tindall trying to start a band as far back as 1987. most recent tour, the band the gazillion desperate-to-get-signed bands took up the bass, and But aside from owning stacks of ’60s headlined the Funtastic I’d seen,” Foster says.

“I said to Stan, Foster stepped behind garage and psychedelic records as well Dracula Carnival ‘Goddamn it. We’re starting a band.’” the mic as lead singer as trash rock comps put out by the likes Glasses have festival in Benidorm, More than two decades later, the and harmonica of Pebbles, Nuggets and Back From the broken and amps Spain, to a sold-out Trouble Makers still reign as one of player. Local rock Grave, the pair really had no direction, or crowd.

Sacramento’s best live bands, revered for drummer Brian blown. Bars have been even much musical know-how to actually “We have our their high-energy shows. The band will Machado joined go about doing it. used as de facto stages hardcore fans here, tear it up again, Thursday, October 15, at the band after “We could never really get anything and, often, Foster likes to but it’s not the same Harlow’s when it opens for Mudhoney.

Foster assured him going since we knew absolutely nothing as it is in Europe,” But, first, back to the moment in the they had no interdive into the audience about playing—we couldn’t tune, let alone Foster says. “We’re grunge-era ’90s. The Mummies weren’t est, or even ability play instruments,” Foster says now. itself, midsong. just up here fucking to get signed.

Then they found that spark of creative unskilled but the band’s collective musical around and having a great ability wasn’t priority. Rather, the San Following that first inspiration. In 1991, at the insistence of time and playing music we Mateo-based band gave Foster and Tindall show, they started booking a friend, the two drove to San Jose to would be playing if no one was insight into how to take their love for all numerous gigs, playing several check out a band called the Mummies. there. If you’re taking it seriously, you’re things ’60s, their ’80s punk rock roots, and times a month, mostly in Sacramento and Foster and Tindall were floored by doing it wrong.” Ω turn it into a loud ’90s rock ’n’ roll band. in San Francisco. The band proved itself their mixture of wild punk rock energy,

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Sonic disturbances Stethoscopic music: I walked up to Cafe Colonial at the beginning of NorCal NoiseFest’s third day and overheard the following: “Any time you can work in a penis pump, you know?”

That’s how you know you’ve stumbled into something far grander than yourself.

Last weekend’s NorCal NoiseFest, the 19th iteration in 20 years, saw a lot of musicians taking an approach to sonic disturbance that incorporated instruments some might call unconventional. The Acid King show on Saturday kept me from hearing whatever noises the penis pump made (from what I hear, Uberkunst made a wonderful mess of things that night), but it’s not like that was the only strange thing creating a ton of noise.

Regardless, I’m not certain that I’ve ever heard anything as incredibly loud as what I heard on Friday and Sunday. It was the sort of loud that makes you pull out your worthless earplugs in defeat, the sort that makes your vital organs quiver.

But what was it that was getting so loud? Stethoscopes on projectors and saxophones, broken (and whole) guitars, effect pedals, theremins, a turntable, tape players, singing bowls, buckets, screams and probably a penis pump or two.

There wasn’t much for people craving harmony, or traditional song structure. If you’re completely unfamiliar with noise music, imagine making ambient sounds from old dial-up tones matched with a buzzsaw.

Those into the good stuff were nothing if not rewarded. Nearly five hours of artists performed Friday, about nine on Saturday and seven on Sunday; marathon slabs of looping, crashing, shattering noise. Some artists twiddled knobs and smacked metal without expression, others contorted themselves with passion as they screamed. All remained completely in control of their sound, no matter how out-of-control it seemed.

What blew me away most was how many local acts played that I’d never heard of. (Disclosure: Aside from enjoying some Merzbow albums, I know little about noise culture.) I counted 13 acts from the greater Sacramento area. I never really understood how good we have it here

for noise until last weekend, but from here on out, count me in.

—Anthony Siino an t hon y s @ne w s re v i e w . c o m

Cavernous: After cloistering himself in his room all year, James Cavern finally emerged on stage last week with his new band and brand new material.

James Cavern & the Council disbanded at the end of 2014. Since then, Cavern has been in quiet, secluded writing mode. The result will be the six-song EP Lost and Found, due next spring.

In Sacramento State’s University Ballroom, Cavern debuted new faces—on keys, drums and bass— and his new-old sound. Compared to the polished, powerful sound we’ve gotten used to, Cavern embraced his naturally gritty, raspy voice.

When he auditioned on The Voice, coaches encouraged Cavern to shy away from that gruffness, but now, he’s actively pursuing what feels right.

Similarly, new songs feel a little more rockin’ and a little less R&B, while simultaneously simple and stripped-down. Lyrically, they sound more like modern pop songs than old soul standards, which complimented Cavern’s cover of Drake’s “Hold On, We’re Going Home”—a rich rendition that I would actually consider listening to now and again. Though, charming, groove-worthy crowdpleaser

“Something in Her Smile” from 2014 will be re-tracked for the EP. Cavern’s set was short but demanded attention from the crowd— mostly Sacramento State students eager for headliner the Mowgli’s upbeat indie pop. The band looked a bit stiff—no big deal, considering it was the group’s first time playing for an audience. Nervousness expected.

Anyway, good news is good news: Cavern is back.

Boo: TBD Fest is throwing Bleepy Hollow, a Halloween party with electronica acts Com Truise and Slow Magic at the sprawling warehouse that once housed the Hangar (1425 C Street).

Early bird tickets for Bleepy Hollow sold out the day they became available, making this the fastest-selling TBD event ever. At press time, $25 tickets were still available, but after that, the price jumps to $35.

—JAnelle Bitker jan el l e b @ne w s re v i e w . c o m

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Conflict (UK)

Mondavi Center, 8 p.M., $17-$58

tHird SpaCe art ColleCtive, noon, $20

Benefiting from a recently released studio album, Gates of Gold, and publication of Dream in Blue, a historical narrative ROCK of the band’s four decades together, Los Lobos brings to any stage a wide palette of music and ton of energy. Essentially a roots rock band with Latin influences, Los Lobos has earned the respect of critics of multiple genres, including blues, pop, garage rock, Latin cumbia, Mexican, world and more.

Their roots can be found in their songs and their story. The rock has always been part of their powerful stage show. Equally compelling songwriter and genre-bending Alejandro Escovedo is set to open. One Shields Avenue in Davis, www.loslobos.org.

—Mark Hanzlik

HarriS Center for tHe artS, 7:30 p.M., $35-$45

Bay Area singer-songwriter and producer Kyrstyn Pixton remixes and is remixed by the sort of artists who always perform at Burning Man. Her ethereal voice, piano and electronic beats create sonic landscapes for conscious exploration and dance parties alike. The one-woman-show utilizes live loops, including impromptu additions from the audience—like Burning Man, a Kyrstyn Pixton concert is for active cocreation, not passive consumpbeATS tion. Fittingly, she’s a headliner at the Goddess is Rising, a day-long event of workshops and performances that explore the power of the feminine. 946 Olive Drive in Davis, www.kyrstynsong.com.

Medium-roast hand-poured coffee may indeed be delicious, but you know what ’90s coffee shops had that our present singleorigin shrines don’t? A constant soundtrack of the Cranberries, Natalie Merchant and Shawn Colvin.

SINGeR-SONGWRITeR Despair not, Generation Y, for the latter, famous for her 1997 hit “Sunny Came Home,” is still very much around. Over a career that has spanned nearly three decades, three-time Grammy Award winner Colvin is presently on tour in support of Uncovered, an album of covers including Stevie Wonder and Tammy Wynette. Shannon Curtis opens up. 10 College Parkway in Folsom, www.shawncolvin.com.

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tHe preSS CluB, 8 p.M., $15 South England’s Conflict (UK) stormed the scene in 1981 and continues today through the perseverance of singer and activist Colin Jerwood. For most hardcore fans, this punk band practically defined and invented the small subgenre with 1986’s The Ungovernable Force. While the band is both ferocious and sloppy at times, its defense of animal rights and anti-war stance has garnered fervent followers who care not about small mistakes in the wake of a meaningful message. If epic revolt songs such as “Meat Means Murder” don’t hint at the band’s intentions, PUNK Colin and company will shove it down your throat at the live show. 2030 P Street, www.facebook.com/CONFLICT-28514492762.

—eddie JorgenSen

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The Boardwalk, 6:30 p.m., $20-$22 Norma Jean broke onto the post-hardcore scene more than a decade ago and combined genres like metal and noise to create its aggravated sound. This year marks the tenth anniversary of the band’s second album, O’ POST-HARDCORE God, The Aftermath, and although its latest tour will focus on songs from that album entirely, the guys still plan to release new material sometime in 2016. Norma Jean is no stranger to the darker realms of the industry because its rap sheet includes supporting the Prince of Darkness, Ozzy Osbourne, during Ozzfest. 9426 Greenback Lane in Orangevale, www.normajeannoise.com.

—STeph rodriguez

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harlow’S, 7 p.m., $20-$25

The jagged, opening riff of “Damaged Goods” on Gang Of Four’s 1979 debut, Entertainment!, signified a groundbreaking disturbance that ushered in post-punk. The Leeds-based political punks invented a sound that would resonate for years to come through bands like Fugazi, Rage Against the Machine and Bloc Party. Before Gang Of Four, dancing and maintaining a political stance weren’t mutually exclusive. While lead singer Andy Gill is the only original member remaining after the deparPOST-PUNk ture of co-founder Jon King in 2011, expect a journey through the oeuvre that includes 2011’s widely praised Content.

1417 R Street, www.gangoffour.co.uk.

creST TheaTre, 7 p.m., $8-$10

Before the name “grunge” got stuck to every heavy rock band coming out of the Pacific Northwest, the band everyone ALT ROCk in that scene flagged as “the next big thing” was Mudhoney. Its mixture of heavy sludge, garage rock and a ton of volume was intoxicating, and the band was actually pretty big in the late ’80s indie rock scene. Its first couple of records sound just as vibrant and fresh today. Mudhoney benefited to some degree from all the attention directed at Seattle in the ’90s, but mostly the members have been workhorses, building up a solid fan base the old fashioned way with excellent tunes and visceral live shows.

2708 J Street, http://mudhoneyonline.com.

—Blake gilleSpie

Not sure if the Strange Party is a “serious band,” but seeing them in the Crest Theatre lobby before a screening of Poltergeist will be serious pre-Halloween fun. The band has a garage/King Tuff vibe that will play nice with the smell of buttered popcorn.

MOVIE And then there’s Poltergeist, which I re-watched this summer, and it (kind of) holds up. Craig T. Nelson in “Oh snap, my kid disappeared in the TV” frantic mode, so classic. Until the corny tag-on ending with dead people coming out of the ground. And the heavy-handed anti-suburbia message.

Not that I’m pro-Roseville. Just gotta hate where you’re from, right? 1013 K Street, http://thestrangeparty.bandcamp.com.

—aaron carneS

—nick miller

2708 J Street Sacramento, CA 916.441.4693 www.harlows.com

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2003 K St., (916) 448-8790

THURSDAY 10/8

FRIDAY 10/9

#TBT and 5 Card Stud with throwback video requests, 8pm, call for cover

Fabulous and Gay Fridays, 9pm, call for cover

Spectacular Saturdays top 40 and high energy dance, 9pm, call for cover

CHRISTIAN DEWILD, 9:30pm, call for cover

ONE LEG CHUCK, 9:30pm, call for cover

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101 Main St., Roseville; (916) 774-0505

BLUE LAMP

1400 Alhambra, (916) 455-3400

THE INDEPENDENTS, BLACK CAT ATTACK; 8pm, call for cover

RAPPIN 4TAY, 8pm, call for cover

J. DIGGS, 8pm, call for cover

THE BOARDWALK

CARNIFEX, WITHIN THE RUINS, BLACK

SIANVAR, STRAWBERRY GIRLS, ORANGES, WOLF & BEAR; 6:30pm, $12

JONNY CRAIG, TRAVIS GARLAND, KYLE LUCAS, ZACH VAN DYKE; 6:30pm, $13

CENTER FOR THE ARTS

Open Studios Tour preview party, 6pm, no cover

THE ULTIMATE RAT PACK Frank Sinatra Tribute, 8pm, $28-$32

9426 Greenback Ln., Orangevale; (916) 988-9247 TONGUE; 6:30pm, $15 314 W. Main St., Grass Valley; (530) 274-8384

COUNTRY CLUB SALOON

CROP DUSTER, 5pm, call for cover; OLD TOWN BOYZ, 9pm, call for cover

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MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 10/12-10/14 Feel Good Mondays happy hour all night, M; Trapicana, W, call for cover Trivia Night, 6:30pm M, no cover; Open-mic night, 7:30pm W, no cover

RADIO HEAVY, STRAIGHT SHOOTER, BLOOD RED SKY; 7pm, call for cover

THE DRAFT, 8pm Tu; NHT CHIPASS, NUKE BANDZ; 8pm W, $18 NORMA JEAN, SLEEPWAVE, ONGOING CONCEPT; 6:30pm W, $16

MARTIN SEXTON, WALTER SALAS-HUMARA; 7:30pm, $27-$30

RIK AUGUSTIN, 7:30pm W, $25

CRIPPLE CREEK, 5pm, call for cover Second Wednesday Night Movies: Elemental, 6pm W, $3

DJ DM, 10pm, call for cover

2nd Saturdays with DJ Billy Lane, 10pm, call for cover

FACES

Everything Happens karaoke, dance and swim; 9pm-2am, no cover

Absolut Fridays dance party, 9pm, $5-$10

Deejay dancing and Sequin Saturdays drag show, 9pm, $5-$12

FOX & GOOSE

STEVE MCLANE, 8pm, no cover

ADAM BLOCK, 9pm, $5

UNITY ROOTS, PURE KIN; 9pm, $5

Open-mic, 7:30pm M; Pub quiz, 7pm Tu; All Vinyl Wednesdays, 6pm W, no cover

GOLDFIELD TRADING POST

BUCK FORD, 9pm, call for cover

Jon Pardi afterparty, 11pm, no cover

Open mic, M, no cover; Tacos and Trivia, 7pm Tu, no cover

HALFTIME BAR & GRILL

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

CLEAN SLATE, 9pm, $5

Trivia night, 7:30pm Tu; Bingo, 1pm W; Paint Nite, 7pm W

CIVIL TWILIGHT, DREAMERS; 9pm, $12-$15

JONI MORRIS Patsy Cline tribute, 7pm, $15-$18; DURAN DURAN DURAN, 10pm

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SUNDAY 10/11 Sunday Tea Dance and Beer Bust, 4-8pm, call for cover

Open-mic, 7:30pm, no cover

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1001 R St., (916) 443-8825 1603 J St., (916) 476-5076

5681 Lonetree Blvd., Rocklin; (916) 626-6366

Sunday Mass with heated pool, drag show, 2pm, no cover

EDM and karaoke, 9pm M, no cover; Latin night, 9pm Tu, $5

HARLOW’S

BIG MIKE AND THE RHYTHM SECTION, 8pm, $20-$25

THE HIDEAWAY BAR & GRILL

Trash Rock Thursdays, 9pm, no cover

LUNA’S CAFE & JUICE BAR

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

WIND Youth Benefit with JEN ROGAR, LINDA MICHELLE HARDY; 7pm, $7

Mythology Cafe, 5pm, $5; MARK CRISLER, HALF STEP DOWN; 8pm, $5

Nebraska Mondays, 7:30pm M; Openmic comedy, 8pm Tu; Celtic jam, 7pm W

MIDTOWN BARFLY

Stilldreamin’ with Unicorn Fukr, Lisa Rose, B Funky; 9pm, $5

That Thing on Friday, 10pm, $5

Midtown Moxies Burlesque Halloween Spectacular, 8pm, $15-$20

Salsa Wednesday, 7:30pm W, $5

2708 J St., (916) 441-4693 2565 Franklin Blvd., (916) 455-1331 1414 16th St., (916) 441-3931 1119 21st St., (916) 549-2779

Sunday Sinema, 8pm, call for cover

Record Club, M; Cactus Pete’s 78 RPM Record Roundup, 8pm Tu

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FRIDAY 10/9

SATURDAY 10/10

NAKED LOUNGE DOWNTOWN

GRAHAM VINSON, AMANDA ROSE JACKSON, DAVID JAMES; 8:30pm, $5

BANJO BONES, TOM RHODES, LIANI MOORE; 8:30pm, $5

JOURNEYDAY & BELLE, TODD MORGAN, SHELBY LANTERMAN; 8:30pm, $5

Jazz session with Naked Lounge Quintet, M, no cover; FORREST HORAN, W, $5

OLD IRONSIDES

Real Live Comedians, 8:30pm, $5

John Lennon Birthday Tribute Show, 8pm, $6

LAS PESADILLAS, DES NUITS, TEMPS, JAMES FINCH JR.; 9pm, $6

Guest chefs serve $5 plates, M; Karaoke, 9pm Tu; Open-mic, 9pm W

OUTLINED, ANIMISM, CHICK HABIT; 8pm, $5

Democratic Party Debate with live comedy and bingo, 6pm Tu, no cover

STREET URCHINZ, 8pm, call for cover

Karaoke, 9pm Tu, W, no cover

1111 H St., (916) 443-1927

1901 10th St., (916) 442-3504

ON THE Y

670 Fulton Ave., (916) 487-3731

THE PALMS PLAYHOUSE

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FOR ThE wEEk OF OCTOBER 8, 2015 ARIES (March 21-April 19): If I warned you not

to trust anyone, I hope you would reject my simplistic fear-mongering. If I suggested that you trust everyone unconditionally, I hope you would dismiss my delusional naiveté. But it’s important to acknowledge that the smart approach is far more difficult than those two extremes. You’ve got to evaluate each person and even each situation on a case-by-case basis. There may be unpredictable folks who are trustworthy some of the time, but not always. Can you be both affably open-hearted and slyly discerning? It’s especially important that you do so in the next 16 days.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): As I meditated

on your astrological aspects, I had an intuition that I should go to a gem fair I’d heard about. It was at an event center near my home. When I arrived, I was dazzled to find a vast spread of minerals, fossils, gemstones and beads. Within a few minutes, two stones had commanded my attention, as if they’d reached out to me telepathically: chrysoprase, a green gemstone, and petrified wood, a mineralized fossil streaked with earth tones. The explanatory note next to the chrysoprase said that if you keep this gem close to you, it “helps make conscious what has been unconscious.” Ownership of the petrified wood was described as conferring “the power to remove obstacles.” I knew these were the exact oracles you needed. I bought both stones, took them home and put them on an altar dedicated to your success in the coming weeks.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): George R. R. Martin

has written a series of fantasy novels collectively called A Song of Ice and Fire. They have sold 60 million copies and been adapted for the TV series Game of Thrones. Martin says the inspiration for his master work originated with the pet turtles he owned as a kid. The creatures lived in a toy castle in his bedroom, and he pretended they were knights and kings and other royal characters. “I made up stories about how they killed each other and betrayed each other and fought for the kingdom,” he has testified. I think the next seven months will be a perfect time for you to make a comparable leap, Gemini. What’s your version of Martin’s turtles? And what valuable asset can you turn it into?

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The editors of the

Urban Dictionary provide a unique definition of the word “outside.” They say it’s a vast, uncomfortable place that surrounds your home.

It has no ceiling or walls or carpets, and contains annoying insects and random loud noises.

There’s a big yellow ball in the sky that’s always moving around and changing the temperature in inconvenient ways. Even worse, the “outside” is filled with strange people that are constantly doing deranged and confusing things. Does this description match your current sense of what “outside” means, Cancerian? If so, that’s OK. For now, enjoy the hell out of being inside.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): We all go through phases

when we are tempted to believe in the factuality of every hostile, judgmental and random thought that our monkey mind generates. I am not predicting that this is such a time for you. But I do want to ask you to be extra-skeptical toward your monkey mind’s fabrications. Right now it’s especially important that you think as coolly and objectively as possible. You can’t afford to be duped by anyone’s crazy talk, including your own.

Be extra-vigilant in your quest for the raw truth.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Do you know about

the ancient Greek general Pyrrhus? At the Battle of Asculum in 279 B.C., his army technically defeated Roman forces, but his casualties were so substantial that he ultimately lost the war. You can and you must avoid a comparable scenario.

Fighting for your cause is good only if it doesn’t wreak turmoil and bewilderment. If you want to avoid an outcome in which both sides lose, you’ve got to engineer a result in which both sides win. Be a cagey compromiser.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): If I could give you a

birthday present, it would be a map to your future treasure. Do you know which treasure I’m referring to? Think about it as you fall asleep on the next eight nights. I’m sorry I can’t simply provide you with the instructions you’d need to locate it. The cosmic powers tell me you have

not yet earned that right. The second-best gift I can offer, then, will be clues about how to earn it.

Clue No. 1: Meditate on the differences between what your ego wants and what your soul needs.

No. 2: Ask yourself, “What is the most unripe part of me?” and then devise a plan to ripen it.

No. 3: Invite your deep mind to give you insights you haven’t been brave enough to work with until now. No. 4: Take one medium-sized bold action every day.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Galway Kinnell’s

poem “Middle of the Way” is about his solo trek through the snow on Oregon’s Mount Gauldy. As he wanders in the wilderness, he remembers an important truth about himself: “I love the day / The sun … But I know [that] half my life belongs to the wild darkness.” According to my reading of the astrological omens, Scorpio, now is a good time for you, too, to refresh your awe and reverence for the wild darkness—and to recall that half your life belongs to it. Doing so will bring you another experience Kinnell describes: “an inexplicable sense of joy, as if some happy news had been transmitted to me directly, by-passing the brain.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The last

time I walked into a McDonald’s and ordered a meal was 1984. Nothing that the restaurant chain serves up is appealing to my taste or morality. I do admire its adaptability, however. In cow-loving India, McDonald’s only serves vegetarian fare that includes deep-fried cheese and potato patties. In Israel, kosher McFalafels are available.

Mexicans order their McMuffins with refried beans and pico de gallo. At a McDonald’s in Singapore, you can order McRice burgers. This is the type of approach I advise for you right now, Sagittarius. Adjust your offerings for your audience.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You have been

flirting with your “alone at the top” reveries. I won’t be surprised if one night you have a dream of riding on a Ferris wheel that malfunctions, leaving you stranded at the highest point. What’s going on? Here’s what I suspect: In one sense you are zesty and farseeing. Your competence and confidence are waxing. At the same time, you may be out of touch with what’s going on at ground level. Your connection to the depths is not as intimate as your relationship with the heights. The moral of the story might be to get in closer contact with your roots. Or be more attentive to your support system. Or buy new shoes and underwear.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I haven’t planted

a garden for years. My workload is too intense to devote enough time to that pleasure. So eight weeks ago I was surprised when a renegade sunflower began blooming in the dirt next to my porch. How did the seed get there? Via the wind?

A passing bird that dropped a potential meal?

The gorgeous interloper eventually grew to a height of 4 feet and produced a boisterous yellow flower head. Every day I muttered a prayer of thanks for its guerrilla blessing. I predict a comparable phenomenon for you in the coming days, Aquarius.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The coming days

will be a favorable time to dig up what has been buried. You can, if you choose, discover hidden agendas, expose deceptions, see beneath the masks and dissolve delusions. But it’s my duty to ask you this: Is that really something you want to do? It would be fun and sexy to liberate so much trapped emotion and suppressed energy, but it could also stir up a mind-bending ruckus that propels you on a healing quest. I hope you decide to go for the gusto, but I’ll understand if you prefer to play it safe.

you can call Rob brezsny for your expanded Weekly Horoscope: (900) 950-7700. $1.99 per minute. Must be 18+. Touchtone phone required. Customer service (612) 373-9785. And don’t forget to check out Rob’s website at www.realastrology.com.

Bring it dead For Tom Riggins, working for the Old Sacramento Living History’s annual Ghost Tour is a dream job. The October tours, a collaboration with the Sacramento History Museum, make for the chance to dress up and relive Sacramento’s Gold Rush-era history—including a few deaths that were notorious or creepy or just plain weird. Or maybe all three. The tours launch this Friday, October 9, and Riggins took a moment to share a precious few spoilers and, perhaps more importantly, explain what a skulkin is.

So, what exactly does a ghost tour guide do?

The tour guide’s job is to escort the audience from scene to scene and maybe introduce a little of the scene, explain a little of it in character. It makes for an entertaining and educational experience.

We changed the [guide] character this year and this year we’re skulkins.

Skulkins?

It’s a kind of a nondescript character that lives in the cracks and the crevices of society. This year the skulkin is the bridge—the skulkins see dead people and if you walk with them, you’ll see them, too.

Can you give me a sneak peak of some of the dead people who will be part of the night?

A sneak peak? That would be blowing the script—that would be blowing the scene.

I can tell you that we do an interpretative historical walk, which means that what we try to work with actual people who lived or died in the Sacramento area or have some ties to the area. You’re going to see actual people—or at least personages of a type of person where you might not know the actual name, but you can look up [the event] in history.

C’mon, any spoilers?

No, but there are people who were historical and some of them who are going to be featured had an odd way to die.

Intriguing—does it get graphic?

We try to make this family friendly, it’s not a horror show, it’s not a paranormal show.

It’s a walk through history with an October Halloween side. But we do make it creepy; it will be kind of spooky. Last year we had a few screams and a few jump backs but mostly the [reaction] is chuckling. I guess it depends on your definition of graphic.

We don’t have any squirting blood. No one loses a head during the show—but they might have already lost their head. It’s more creepy than scary—that’s what we

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go for. Of course, everyone’s boundaries are different.

Define “interpretative” history.

To me history is a journey and it’s very difficult for us to know all the ins and outs of how an exact thing happened. We can study up on time or an incident to the best of our ability but when it’s interpretative, we just have to fill in the gaps with what we think is a plausible explanation of that event. We try to stay as close to what we know the history is, and fill in with plausible details to bring the characters alive. The fastest way to get a kid interested in history is to bring it alive. Or to bring it dead in this case.

Is this your day job?

No, everyone with the living history program is a volunteer. Everyone has a love of history or the love to be a ham.

Probably both. For me, I love interacting with people—a lot of times younger people—to see their eyes open, to see them get and passionate and I hope they bring it home. I was never interested in history through formal education, but when I started getting into and reliving the lives of people [here] I saw that Sacramento has a very rich history with unbelievable, fascinating stuff.

which got caught on her hoop skirt. The hoop skirt unwound until her head hit the rocks. She was the wife to a prominent businessman—it was death by fashion.

One boy was killed by a potato. You just can’t make that stuff up.

Ever experience anything weird during one of the tours? Ever get goosebumps?

Not for me—we’ve had really weird things happen, they just have to do with the local color of Sacramento. Sacramento is a very vibrant community and we are out in the public so when we’re doing stuff we’re moving past other people who may or may not be part of the tour. We often catch the attention of people who see us coming by.

Last year there were some reenactment of ghosts—it was the first year we were all doing makeup and costumes. This year we’re taking it up another notch with guides coming out [during the tour], walking around the street looking a bit pale and drained.

The million dollar question: Do you believe in ghosts?

Do I believe in ghosts? That would be an unfair question. Let’s just say I do this month.

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Favorite character?

The problem is that with that is there are so many interesting stories and characters and we can’t play them all; that’s why we try to do different ones every year. There’s one from last year that was interesting in a horribly tragic way: A woman fell backward off her horse,

Check out the Old Sacramento living History’s Ghost Tours every friday and Saturday night through October. Tours run from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., departing on the half-hour. Tickets are $10-$15 and can be purchased by calling (916) 808-7059 or in person at the Sacramento History Museum, 101 i Street. for more information, visit http://sachistorymuseum.org.

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