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I’ve been editing alternative newsweeklies for many years, but I still get a thrill every time I pick up a new issue of the SN&R, or as we sometimes call it, “the Weekly Miracle.”

I’m especially thrilled by this issue.

It has three strong news features that readers will find intriguing, beginning with Scott Anderson’s terrific investigation into the incredible case of a couple whose encounter with Bank of America was like a nightmare out of Kafka.

Their story of being bullied and abused by a corporate giant is hardly unique. During the recession, the bank and its affiliates sold toxic mortgages like hot dogs—so many that they ended up forced into a $16.65 billion settlement with the government.

The second feature I want to mention is Raheem Hosseini’s close-up look at what happened to Nandi Cain, whose story of being accused of jaywalking and beaten by a Sacramento police officer has dominated local news for days. It turns out the beating was only the beginning. If Cain and his attorneys are to be believed, the abuse continued at full force in the jailhouse. Raheem brings you the inside story.

Then there’s Sasha Abramsky’s beautifully wrought portrait of Kevin de León, the Democratic leader in the state Senate. The story describes how de León grew up in a poor family in San Diego, became friends with former Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez in high school, and went on to become one of the most powerful politicians in California.

The story’s title is “Point man,” in reference to de León’s leadership in the state’s fierce resistance to the diktats of the Trump administration. They say the times find the man (or woman), and this is definitely de León’s time.

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concentrating them in an open camp and calling it the “outdoor solution” has very creepy overtones from days past. Shame on us, if this is our answer. Hundreds of millions for the destitute basketballers; Sacramentans can be generous to a fault, sometimes…

Have we been cheated?

Re: “A potholed California,” by Ben Christopher (News, April 13): I would like to see a summary by year of how many of our state tax dollars over the last 20 years we approved for road repairs versus what the government actually spent. No doubt we have been cheated, is my bet.

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A ‘creepy’ response Re: “Down and out in suburbia,” by Scott Thomas Anderson (News, April 13): I’m glad someone wrote about the human wreckage that washed out with the rest of the physical debris. Solid story, had to be told, but it’s never enough.

My job occasionally puts me in close proximity with the

“homeless campers.” Rather quickly, the horror dawns on you that most of these folks aren’t lazy slobs who won’t get up and go to work, but are suffering from mental illness. It robs them of the ability to socialize on a competitive level, something we take for granted.

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Back in 1996, I entered the Sacramento Area Music Awards. I submitted my Latin Jazz Project demo in the Latin category and was nominated for voting in the awards. So where did it disappear to today? I was disappointed not to see a Latin jazz category in 2017.

Let’s understand one thing: Latin jazz was originated in New York City by Tito Puente and other Puerto Rican musicians.

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Put up or shut up On Earth Day, in response to the March for Science, President Trump said, “My administration is committed to advancing scientific research that leads to a better understanding of our environment and of environmental risks.”

That’s a welcome response, but the real test is whether you actually fund science. I say, put your money where your mouth is. Funding science can indeed help America become great and create jobs.

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And it is time that we acknowledge that, given the global population dilemma, no more humans, nor human activity, are needed anywhere on the planet! And please, dear politicians, quit pretending to care a nick about global warming or other environmental issues, however serious they might be.

J.t. MayR v ia Fa c e b o o k In what universe should it be the property owner’s responsibility to pay for a tenant to find another apartment or house to rent. There already is a 60 day notice requirement. If an owner needs to move into her rental property, there is a usually a dire situation related to that.

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Foreclosure hell Sacramento judge says Bank of America stalked and bullied family into losing home

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The young boy playing piano inside his house suddenly looked up. A man he’d never seen before was peering at him through a sliding glass door. The man began pounding on the glass, yelling at the boy to let him inside. The 10-yearold raced down the hall in a fit of tears.

For the boy’s parents, Erik and Renee Sundquist, this encounter with a stranger was about to morph into an ongoing nightmare. According to a federal bankruptcy judge’s ruling last month, the Sundquist family was “stalked” throughout the summer of 6 | SN&R | 04.27.17

2010, with people watching them from parked cars for hours at a time, tailgating them through their neighborhood before speeding off, peering through their windows and sometimes lurking around their house to the point the Sundquists called personal security.

But even more startling is who was employing these shadowy figures.

According to the 109-page ruling from U.S. bankruptcy Judge Christopher Klein, it was one of the nation’s largest financial institutions, Bank of America. And the bank’s

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tactics were part of an extraordinary, years-long effort to bully the Placer County couple into foreclosure during the height of the economic recession, the judge asserted in a ruling that has dropped jaws around Sacramento’s legal community.

Terence Kilpatrick, a local attorney who works in bankruptcy and foreclosure law, called Klein’s opinion “truly a blockbuster.” “[T]his is just one example of what the big banks did to people during the economic downturn,” Kilpatrick, who

wasn’t associated with the case, wrote in an email. “The Sundquists are the only ones to my knowledge who have succeeded in taking their case to trial and to a judgment that exposes such actions.”

But the couple’s travails aren’t over. And the financial regulations that are meant to protect people like the Sundquists are starting to erode under the Trump administration.

Following a lengthy civil trial, Judge Klein assailed Bank of America for hounding the Sundquists to the point that Erik considered suicide and Renee suffered a stress-induced heart attack. The judge awarded the family more than $1 million in damages, then tagged Bank of America for another $45 million in punitive fines—decisions that the bank is appealing.

When Klein tried to encapsulate the existential “nightmare” he believed the Sundquists experienced, he reached for a specific literary allusion, one where average people are crushed by faceless, nameless forces that strike from an absurdist labyrinth with dizzying traps of deceit.

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tHe cAstle The Sundquists were raising their young twins in Loomis in 2008 when the economy tanked. Erik owned a construction business and tried to stay ahead of the building industry’s collapse by downsizing. He and Renee set their sights on a more modest dwelling in Lincoln.

They had a $125,000 down payment, but the monthly mortgage rate was still out of their price range. There was also an all-cash offer from another buyer.

A broker working for the Sundquists assured them that they could refinance or modify the loan immediately.

Erik and Renee took out the loan on the new property while its note and deed came under the ownership of Bank of America. The Sundquists never missed a payment, though they were barely keeping up. Later, according to the judge’s findings, when the Sundquists contacted BofA for their loan modification, they were given startling news: Bank officials said they’d consider changing the loan only if the Sundquists defaulted on three months of payment in a row. For the couple, who had a credit score above 800 at the time, the demand made no sense.

“They’d never paid a bill late,” said Denise Henderson, the Sundquists’ attorney. “It was astonishing to them when they were told to stop paying.

That sounded insane and, as it turned out, it was insane.”

The Sundquists followed the bank’s advice and stopped paying. Henderson’s case files lay out what happened next: UPS receipts, tax records and third-party letters show some 20 successive attempts by the increasingly desperate Sundquists to comply with BofA’s loan modification process. The applications they sent, starting in 2009, were repeatedly lost by the bank or sent back with confusing notes or deemed stale by the time bankers got around to looking at them.

Meanwhile, BofA started a foreclosure process on the family—even as other bank employees were allegedly informing Erik and Renee that they could still modify their loan. A series of vacate notices eventually forced the couple to file for bankruptcy. By law, that filing should have put the foreclosure process on hold. But bank officials admitted seizing the Sundquist house on June 15, 2010, one day after they

received notice of the Chapter 13 filing, had a $20,000 bill for nonpayment and Judge Klein wrote in his ruling. fines from their homeowners associa“[It was] apparent to anyone at Bank tion, after Bank of America employees of America who cared to look,” Klein neglected to keep up those obligations. wrote of the company’s violation of “All that sadness came back,” Renee bankruptcy law. “Nobody at Bank of wrote in her journal, “all that pain of America cared to look.” leaving, losing, sickness.”

For the Sundquists, the real nightmare SN&R contacted Bank of America hadn’t started yet. Over the summer of about the host of accusations against 2010, strangers began following them its employees and representatives, all and constantly attempting to serve them of which Klein legally determined had with illegal eviction notices. When, on happened. BofA spokesman Rick Simon August 19, 2010, a BofA representative responded in an email, saying, “The brought the Sundquists a three-day loan in question goes back nearly a notice to leave the property, he decade, and the foreclosure at the center reportedly did so by throwof the claim to 2010, at the earliing the papers so hard est stages of the economic against the door crisis. The processes in “they ricocheted place at the time were some three feet.” subsequently modi“It was such fied; regrettably our “Bank of America’s a loud bang I performance in this misconduct strayed across could hear it in particular case was my kitchen,” the civil-criminal frontier.” unsatisfactory.”

Renee wrote Simon’s only Judge Christopher Klein in a journal comment about the United States Bankruptcy Court, entry that was findings related to Eastern District of California admitted into deception, harassevidence at trial. ment and stalking “I just stood shakwas, “We believe ing and could barely some of the court’s call Erik. … BOA rulings are unprecedented steals another night from and unsupported.” my family.”

At this point, Henderson’s law firm tHe metAmorpHosis intervened.

“Every time they got served, it A day after her mother died, in 2012, was another stick hitting them,” the Renee found another eviction letter. former public defender said of her Bank of America’s enveloping tactics clients. “They stopped having friends were overwhelming the family. Erik over. They were very isolated. It was fell into a suicidal depression. Renee very much like being in an abusive suffered nonstop headaches and, accordrelationship.” ing to evidence presented at trial, a Henderson confronted BofA officials stress-induced heart attack. The fear in about the unlawful foreclosure. Their their kids’ eyes, the pity and resentment response, according to both Henderson from neighbors, the bizarre monitoring and Klein’s ruling, defied belief. from strangers, were all taking a toll.

The bank returned the ownership Henderson filed a lawsuit against the of the house to the Sundquists without bank on behalf of the Sundquists that telling them or their attorney. The ultimately landed in federal bankruptcy Sundquists had already moved out court that same year. That made it due to the threat of being removed by Henderson’s turn to experience the law enforcement. It wasn’t until seven Kafkaesque ordeal. She told SN&R that months later that Erik discovered, by BofA’s attorneys engaged in “a pattern checking county records, that he indeed of defense and coverup,” including owned the house again. And he also failing to provide discovery evidence owed BofA money again. and the names of employees she wanted The bewildered couple returned to depose until the court compelled to the premises of their abandoned them. Henderson said what was handed home to discover their cook-top oven, built-in refrigerator, washer and dryer had all been stolen. Their landscaping “foreclosure Hell” was long dead. Even worse, they now continued on page 9

More than 400 people filled the South Sacramento Christian Center last week for a summit meant to address the shocking rate of black child deaths in the region.

“African-American children in Sacramento County die at twice the rate as any other ethnicity throughout the county,” Kindra Montgomery-Block, a program director for Sierra Health Foundation, told the audience. “There are a few reasons: third-party homicides; child abuse and neglect; prenatal conditions; and infant sleep-related deaths. … Today is about action.”

Her words officially launched the new black child legacy campaign, a community movement designed to bring public servants, private residents, health-care providers and faith organizations into one broad-reaching coalition aimed at lowering the number of black infant and child deaths in Sacramento. According to the county’s Child Death Review Team, the numbing mortality rates are concentrated in a handful of areas, including Valley Hi, Meadowview, Arden-Arcade, Del Paso Heights, Oak Park, North Highlands and neighborhoods along Fruitridge and Stockton boulevards.

One of the keynote speakers was Dr. Flojaune G. Cofer, a women’s health epidemiologist who works for the Davis-based public Health Advocates. Cofer reviewed scores of data for Sacramento County and argued that unstable and trauma-prone communities are directly affecting the health of those living in them. Cofer said this dangerous trajectory is especially pronounced in utero.

“The challenge is when the stress never goes away,” Cofer said, “and it’s the kind of stress associated with the communities we’re living in.” (by Scott Thomas Anderson)

mArcH mAdness May Day is shaping up to be yet another large national demonstration against the Trump administration, but this occasion may come with an economic bite. May 1 marches for workers’ rights are being planned around the country with calls for an economic shutdown that would convey to President Donald Trump the importance of America’s immigrant population.

The Labor Council for Latin American Advancement and Sacramento Central Labor Council are among the groups spearheading a local march from southside park to the west steps of the state capitol, where a large screen will prompt those assembled to take specific actions such as dialing a congressional representative’s number to support Senate Bill 562, which would provide health care to all californians, whether they are documented or not. Attendees may also be asked to boycott driscoll’s, a large berry distributor accused of mistreating workers.

“This is a direct-action march,” said Desiree Bates-Rojas, chairwoman of the march committee.

Bates-Rojas said she has been both impressed and left wanting by earlier demonstrations against the Trump administration, including the Women’s march and last week’s march for science.

As popular as they were, Bates-Rojas contends these social mediadriven events lacked diversity and didn’t carry over into specific actions once the crowds dissipated. The veteran organizer said groups have cast a wide, inclusive net themed around workers.

The march itself will include stops at the Wells Fargo building and Capitol Mall office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which immigration advocates have accused of stepping up enforcement raids under the Trump administration.

According to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, monthly filings of civil immigration lawsuits were up 40.5 percent in March compared with the same period a year ago under the Obama administration. (Raheem F. Hosseini)

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and trusting you to treat your customers fairly.’”

Klein’s $46 million judgment against Bank of America is one of the largest affirmations that the Wall Street powerhouse hasn’t always treated its customers fairly. However, the judgment is also an outlier, according to Renata Pumarol of the Committee for Better Banks.

“Unfortunately, these victories do not happen often,” Pumarol told SN&R in an email.

over tended to be the same over-redacted documents as before, just filed in a different order.

Henderson even wanted one BofA official fined for perjury and contempt of court. That didn’t happen.

But what did happen is that, after five years of delays, the Sundquists got their day in court.

“They did everything they could to try to stop The JudgmenT this case from being heard,” Henderson said of In an over-lit, sixth-floor courtroom in BofA’s lawyers. “And trials are about someone Sacramento, Judge Klein swivels behind the bench finally being heard.” with his chin resting on his palm. Sitting below Renee allowed her personal life to be laid him, on one side, are the Sundquists. On the other, bare by admitting her journal into evidence. Erik two BofA lawyers. Today, April 18, is the moment broke down on the witness stand. Later, throughthe lending titan officially begins to appeal the out his written opinion, Klein noted that he penalties Klein handed down. The judgment found both plaintiffs highly credible, while also stipulates that the bank pay $1,074,581 in damages referencing myriad documentation that backed directly to the Sundquists and more than $40 up their accounts. Klein wrote that BofA’s million in punitive damages into legal education misconduct, at one point, “strayed across the and consumer rights organizations, including the civil-criminal frontier,” adding that, “in contrast, National Consumer Law Center, the National the Sundquists have clean hands.”

Consumer Bankruptcy Rights Center and The Sundquists are one family five public law schools operated by in a pool of thousands that saw University of California. their financial lives evaporate In April, BofA filed papers to under the practices of Bank have Klein’s ruling reviewed of America during the by an outside court. The bank recession. also defended its reputation The judgement stipulates In 2014, President in its correspondence with the the bank pay more Barack Obama’s Justice SN&R, saying, “Bank of Department compelled than $40 million in punitive America helped more than the lending giant into a 2 million homeowners avoid damages. $16.65 billion settlement foreclosure through industrywith federal and state leading modification and officials for the mass selling refinancing processes.” of toxic mortgages on the eve The statement made no of the recession. The settlement reference to its 2014 settlement with against BofA was for actions it the Justice Department on behalf of engaged in, along with those of its thousands of consumers. subsidiaries, Countrywide Financial Corporation Yet, it’s only the Sundquist family Judge Klein and Merrill Lynch. has to consider. He looks down at Erik and Renee, What a difference three years makes. In then reminds the bank’s attorneys that—should their February, President Donald Trump announced attempt to upend his ruling fail—BofA will have to his intention to roll back the Dodd-Frank Wall cover the Sundquists’ additional legal costs.

Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, Preparing to move the case to a new judge, which lawmakers crafted to rein in threats to Klein explains in his breezy voice, “If the judgment the financial system, especially the practices stands, even in the amount of one dollar, Bank of that obliterated middle-class savings, retirement America is going to pay their attorneys fees.” accounts and equity during the meltdown. Trump BofA attorney Jonathan Doolittle gives a also sent an official memorandum to the U.S. quick acknowledgment. Henderson, who so far Labor Department ordering it to consider repealhas handled the Sundquists’ case on contingency, ing the Fiduciary Rule, which requires stock quietly digests how long it will take to get five brokers to act in their clients’ best interests over years of legal bills paid. Klein says little else. He the brokers’ own personal gains. summed up his take when he typed the ruling.

“It’s a signaling issue,” said Justin King of “Bank of America’s actions tell a story that New America, a Washington, D.C., think tank smacks of cynical disregard for the law,” the that advocates for low-income and middle-class judge wrote. “In the calculus of reprehensibility, families. “If these rules are rolled back, it sends a Bank of America’s intentional conduct adds up sign to the business and financial sector that says, to reckless and callous disregard for the rights ‘We’re going to be taking the cop off the beat of others.” Ω

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Nandi Cain’s bad day Civil rights attorneys claim black Sacramentan was beaten in the streets, then abused at the county jail

by Raheem F. hosseini

an extended version of this story is available at www.newsreview. com/sacramento

His nose broken and one eye swollen shut, Nandi Cain lay naked and sobbing on the concrete floor of a Sacramento jail cell as men with badges made fun of the way he smelled and ridiculed him for “crying like a bitch.” At least, that’s the way Cain’s attorneys described what befell their 24-year-old client after he rebuffed a Sacramento police officer’s attempts to stop him on his way home from work earlier this month in Del Paso Heights.

The accusations of “sadistic” treatment within the Sacramento County Main Jail represent the latest development in a firestorm controversy that started the evening of April 10 with a young black man, a white police officer and a neighbor who recorded their violent encounter on her cellphone.

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On Sunday, Oakland civil rights attorney John L. Burris filed a federal civil rights complaint against the city and county of Sacramento and named Anthony Figueroa as the police officer who took Cain to the ground and punched him more than a dozen times when Cain refused to be detained for alleged jaywalking.

While videos of Figueroa pummeling Cain’s head and face as his legs flopped on the ground have gone viral, Cain’s attorneys say their client’s pain and suffering didn’t end there. Once at the jail, the complaint asserts, Cain wasn’t medically treated for his injuries prior to his booking. The complaint also says that Figueroa insisted Cain be placed in a segregated cell for suicidal inmates, despite Cain’s saying he wasn’t suicidal.

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cell, the complaint alleges, Figueroa and unidentified sheriff’s deputies “used their knees to pin his body against the floor, while forcefully stripping his clothes off.”

The complaint asserts in dramatic fashion that Cain “was frightened that his sadistic attackers were preparing to sexually assault him. He clenched his buttocks muscles with all his might, in a feeble attempt to prevent an anticipated sexual assault.”

Cain was ultimately released after police determined there was insufficient evidence to charge him with a crime. The department is also conducting criminal and administrative investigations into Figueroa, a two-year veteran who remains suspended with pay since the incident.

The in-car camera from Figueroa’s patrol vehicle recorded the officer giving his version of events to someone outside

the car as Cain sat in the backseat, handcuffed and with his legs in restraints.

“I just wanted to talk to him,” Figueroa tells someone. The officer claims that he put hands on Cain only after Cain moved toward him, which the video doesn’t show. The officer also says that Cain “sort of like pushed me” when the two were on the ground. Asked if he deployed his Taser, Figeroa answers, “No, no, just a couple of punches.”

Figueroa reenters his squad car. Cain, who had been crying with his face turned to the backseat, tries to compose himself.

“I’m hella mad right now,” Cain says.

“First off, first off, sir, what’s was your probable cause for arresting me? What was your probable cause for pulling me over, huh?!”

The video ends without a response.

In an email, sheriff’s spokesman Sgt. Tony Turnbull said the department was aware of the accusations against its jail staff. “This case will be handled just as any other allegations we receive and it will be investigated accordingly,” he wrote. “I would like to reiterate that these are only allegations, and before people jump to conclusions, let the investigation speak for itself.”

Turnbull didn’t respond to questions about whether Cain’s time in the jail was filmed. That point remains unclear.

While the downtown jail runs on a principle of robust surveillance, it’s an old facility with outdated technology and potential blind spots. Additionally, areas where inmates disrobe are statutorily prohibited from video monitoring, explained Inspector General Rick Braziel, who reviews complaints against the sheriff’s department. “That way, nobody has video of naked people.”

Braziel told SN&R he will be conducting an independent review of the department’s internal investigation, upon request from Sheriff Scott Jones.

Standing not far from where it all happened on an overcast Monday morning, Cain stared at a bank of modest homes as his attorneys described to reporters, in vivid detail, the worst day of his life.

Cain himself was soft-spoken during the press conference, telling reporters he’s been having nightmares and experiencing depression since the incident. He also said he has trouble remembering the actual confrontation, which one of his attorneys said was because of his concussion. Cain said he didn’t see a doctor until hours after he was released from the jail, around 2 a.m. the next day, and called his girlfriend.

“I thought I was going to stay in there,” Cain said. “But had my neighbor not released the video, I’d probably still be in there.” Ω

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Wyant has begun teaching urban bicycling In 2015, a bicyclist was killed on an unlit section classes (often to less experienced riders) to raise of Marconi Avenue while riding against traffic, at awareness of these laws, such as bicyclists currently night, without lights or a helmet. It was the sort being allowed to ride on all sidewalks. In the future, of accident that makes the Vision Zero initiative, the city may prohibit riders from some sidewalks, Sacramento’s goal of having no one die on its roads but they will be clearly marked with signs and by 2027, a bit difficult to achieve. approved only if there’s a “low-stress bikeway� “This guy was crazy,� said Dan Klinker, the available and a “demonstrated or probable conflict� county’s alternative-modes coordinator, at the SN&R between pedestrians and bicyclists, she wrote in a April 20 meeting of the City County Bicycle 1/5think page color follow-up email.

Advisory Committee. “That’s why I don’t The classes also highlight city codes on equip5.16 x 3.9 we’ll ever get to zero.� ping lights and reflective gear, wearing only one The bicyclist was one of five killed in unincorporated Sacramento County, four of whom weren’t Run Date: headphone while listening to music and riding in the direction of traffic on the right side of the roadway. wearing helmets, according to a report on3`bX[ ͚ bicyclist The education is necessary as, according to the injury collisions in those areas for 2015. county report, bicyclists were at fault 76 percent of In the incorporated city, four bicyclists and the time in the 244 crashes recorded. In 61 percent eight pedestrians were killed by vehicles in 2015, Production: of cases, they were riding on the wrong according to police figures. Those numbers side of the street. This tended to result doubled last year, with eight bicyclists Morissa Rubin in slower-speed crashes by turning and 18 pedestrians killed. mrrubin@ucdavis.edu drivers who don’t expect bicyPolice recorded the most 530-752-0999 clists to be going the opposite recent bicycle accident in the “I don’t think we’ll direction of traffic or on the city on April 13: At 7:25 a.m. wrong side of the road. (City ever get to zero.� on Arden Way, a bicyclist figures were unavailable.) sustained minor injuries after Dan Klinker To accomplish Vision being struck by a vehicle. The alternative modes coordinator, Zero’s goals, Wyant is driver initially left the scene, Sacramento County interested in crosswalk stings, but returned after realizing in which plainclothes police damage had been done to her officers enter an intersection on vehicle, police say. foot, then give any unyielding cars a Jennifer Dolon Wyant, the city’s warning or a ticket. active transportation program specialist, is In the unincorporated county, 40 pedestrians still committed to achieving Vision Zero’s ambialso died in vehicle-related collisions between tious goal. For a report that will be available this 2012 and 2014—33 at night and 30 that were summer, she has begun analyzing modern data to partly the pedestrian’s fault. (Klinker speculated generate countermeasures that diminish the greatest jaywalking may have been largely responsible.). threats. But she admits these projects are contingent Klinker said the county already has three projects upon transportation funds, which she said are less “on the books,� costing $7 million, to heighten available than in comparably populated cities such safety by fixing gaps in the sidewalks, among other as Oakland. improvements.

At last week’s meeting, Klinker noted that the Still, the county report left room for doubt three fatalities in the county report involved rearendings—two were felony hit-and-runs, in which he about Vision Zero. The fifth recorded fatality of 2015 occurred during heavy rains when a helmeted suspects the drivers may have been under the influbicyclist collided with a pickup truck after they ence. The other crash occurred because the driver turned into a lane at the same time. Both parties was on the phone. All three put the driver at fault. thought there had been a break in traffic—the type Another explanation for these collisions of misread that seems almost inevitable as long as may be confusion. In a phone interview, Wyant humans are steering their transportation. Ί explained that many drivers and bicyclists aren’t fully aware of the specific rules of the road, one of which holds that drivers are supposed to merge into the bike lane before making a right turn. “It’s not an improper movement, but actually legal and The next urban bicycling class is 6 p.m. April 27 inside City Hall. preferred,� she noted.

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Some days I think I have problems. But last Monday, at the Transitions Clinic, I heard about the difficulties of going through drug withdrawal and the challenges of living on the street with no job and needing a massive amount of money for a drug habit.

After hearing doctors, addicts and homelessness advocates speak for a couple of hours to elected officials about the challenges facing homeless addicts, I had a different perspective.

Located in the unrevitalized part of Oak Park, the Transitions Clinic building is like a car with more than 300,000 miles on it. It may need a lot of repairs, but it is still running.

We met on Monday in the waiting room. There were two tables. At the first were three Sacramento elected officials: Mayor Darrell Steinberg, Supervisor Phil Serna and Assemblyman Kevin McCarty. At the other table were the experts, including Dr. Neil Flynn and Dr. Alinea Stevens from Transitions Clinic and Tahiri Kraft from Sacramento Self Help Housing.

Dr. Flynn began the meeting by explaining how poverty and homelessness breed hopelessness. The number of homeless people struggling with addiction has increased dramatically.

But now there are new, more effective drugs available to treat addicts.

Dr. Flynn is a big supporter of Buprenorphine, which is more familiarly known as Bup, or Subutex. Most experts believe it is more effective than other drugs in treating addiction.

It is less likely to be abused and easier to take, but it is also more expensive than methadone.

There are challenges to overcome.

One is the limit on the number of patients a doctor can prescribe this drug to, and another is the fact that only a limited number of doctors are qualified to prescribe it. To make things worse, the pharmaceutical company Reckitt Benckiser, which

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These problems seemed overwhelming. Then a middle-aged guy, Steve Hanzelic, stood up and told his story. He had never taken an opiate before he suffered a shoulder injury and began taking prescription pain pills. In time, he became addicted to them. Later, he switched to heroin because it was cheaper than illegal prescription drugs. His life went to hell. He described withdrawal as like having “fire ants crawling in your veins.” But, immediately after taking Buprenorphine, his life changed for the better. No more cravings. Back to normal.

Hanzleic’s story brought hope into the discussion. Supervisor Serna asked why it was so easy to prescribe opiates but so difficult to prescribe medication to treat opiate abuse.

Steinberg talked about his plan to find more housing for the homeless.

After the meeting, McCarty told me about his Opioid/ Heroin Addiction Prevention and Rehabilitation Act, Assembly Bill 1512, which would fund prevention programs through a small surcharge on each opiate sale. Unfortunately, for the bill to pass would require twothirds of state legislators to stand up to the pharmaceutical companies.

I also heard about a plan to buy houses that recovering addicts could stay in. This program would be run

by Sacramento Self-Help Housing.

There is a lot to do. Those of us at the meeting gained some understanding of the opiate addiction and homelessness problem here in Sacramento, and we heard about some small steps that could be taken toward a solution.

But even small steps would mean so much to the people helped. Ω Jeff vonKaenel is the president, CEO and majority owner of the News & Review.

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On April 10, a church employee confronted a transient man who was reportedly masturbating near the church’s bathroom, according to a Sacramento police log. The man responded by allegedly challenging the employee to a fight, but then walked off into Southside Park, where police found and booked him for public intoxication. Please tell us this isn’t who Travel + Leisure readers had in mind.

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n the early 1990s, Fabian Núñez and Kevin de León once found themselves spending the night sleeping on the floor of a high school gym along with several busloads of immigrants. They were traveling from Los Angeles to Sacramento to lobby for more money for a grant program that taught English as a second language and provided other services to immigrants seeking to naturalize.

The two community organizers were in their mid-20s and itching for new experiences.

Núñez, who had grown up in a poor home, one of 12 siblings, had studied at UC San Diego in the late 1980s before taking a break from academia. He was now, after a period doing odd jobs, starting a stint as an organizer with the One Stop Immigration and Education Center, a Los Angeles-based group that helped immigrants prepare for the citizenship application process.

De León, who had gone to UC Santa Barbara, had also taken a break from his studies and, now, like his friend, was working at One Stop.

A few years earlier, in 1986, Republican President Ronald Reagan had signed a sweeping immigration reform bill, granting amnesty to some 3 million undocumented residents and creating a pathway to citizenship for these men and women. One of the requirements was that they learn English.

At the time of de León and Núñez’s trip to Sacramento, California was experiencing a bitter anti-immigrant political moment, and voters were gearing up to pass Proposition 187, a ballot measure that was designed to deny the undocumented access to all public services, including schools.

Republican Gov. Pete Wilson was planning to run for a second term in 1994, de León remembers, and was hard at work scapegoating immigrants “to help drive him to re-election.”

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For a young, somewhat idealistic activist, it was a sobering experience. “You had politicians scapegoating and pitting one group against another.”

The trip to Sacramento took a fateful turn when de León and Núñez ran into Willie Brown, then the speaker of the California Assembly, in the halls of the Capitol building.

They told the politician why they were in town, and he invited them into his office to discuss immigrants’ rights and resources.

The young men were impressed. After the meeting, de León turned to his friend and, Núñez asserts, said “Wow! Look at this place, this Capitol, where they make all these decisions. Where we live we can’t make these decisions.”

It was an encounter that would profoundly shape both men’s lives—and ultimately place de León at the center of an historic conflict that he didn’t create but isn’t shying away from.

From humble origins Núñez and de León had known each other since their high school days in San Diego. Both came from hardscrabble backgrounds, and both were raised by single mothers who picked up housecleaning and other work to keep their families afloat. Both also were involved in politics from a young age.

While de León admits he wasn’t a particularly good student, he had been vocal, as a teenager, in his opposition to America’s dirty wars in Latin America. And both youths were deeply into sports, playing basketball, baseball and, especially, track, a sport in which they competed against each other in the 400- and 800-meter races at the city championships.

As a kid, de León bounced around, from one low-end rental unit in the Logan Heights

area of town to the next. He recalls that in one of the apartments, people were sleeping in the bathroom. At one point, his mother had to house the family—Kevin, his two half-sisters, some aunts and the kids’ grandmother—in a basement, with padlocked doors entering into walled-off areas that served as makeshift bedrooms. The toilet and shower were in a small building off to the side of the bigger house. The kitchen, too, was separate from the apartment they lived in.

What struck Núñez, when he came around to visit, was the water leaking into his friend’s flat from the floor above. “Someone was taking a shower, and the water was dripping in, and he had to get a bucket,” Núñez recalls. “He’s had a taste of what it’s like to be poor.”

When they were teenagers, Núñez and de León both worked as dishwashers in neighborhood restaurants, spending what little money they saved on trips to ball games and occasional journeys south of the border, where, says Núñez, once in a blue moon they treated themselves to lobsters in the restaurants of Ensenada.

A generation later, Núñez is a Sacramentobased consultant, having spent several years as speaker of the Assembly. De León, now 50, served four years in the Assembly and then moved over to the state Senate, where he became a protégé of Democratic Sen. Darrell Steinberg (whom he calls “The Big D”). In 2014, Steinberg termed out and de León succeeded him as Senate president pro tempore, or pro tem, the highest-ranking member of the upper house.

As a result, de León is one of the most important politicians in a state that has done a political U-turn since the dog days of the early 1990s, not least because of the work of a generation of activists like himself in bringing Latino voters into the political process.

Today the state Legislature is firmly under Democratic control and is positioning itself as the focal point of progressive resistance to all things Trump.

De León continues to be a fan of Sacramento. He loves the greenery, he says, the trees, and the diversity of the populace. He enjoys going to see movies at Tower Theater and jogging in Land Park. And, of course, he likes the fact that his old friends have also made the city their home away from home.

He and Núñez get together frequently, often at Núñez’s condo in Fair Oaks, where his wife cooks for de León, or they head out for a restaurant meal at Andy Nguyen’s or Jamie’s Broadway Grille, a little Irish restaurant on the western end of Broadway.

Sometimes they are joined by another old friend from their Southern California youth, state Sen. Ricardo Lara, who has recently been pushing for California to adopt a singlepayer health-care system.

The three men also go to the Academy Training and Performance Center gym, on F Street, early mornings to work out together.

Lara and Núñez have been trying, so far without success, to convince their friend to enroll with them in spin classes. They rib him, gently, that perhaps his legs are no longer strong enough for such strenuous exercise.

thwarting trumP But if de León’s gym legs aren’t quite what they used to be, his political legs are sturdier than ever. His office is peopled by a strong, disciplined staff who know how to close political deals and bring legislation to fruition.

The pro tem has come into his own at a critical moment in the country’s history. On one issue after the next, de León has staked out

attempts to limit the entry of Muslims and refugees into the country.

Those bills—on clean energy, on creating mechanisms to help low-income Californians save for retirement, on providing protections to immigrants, on turning all of California into a sanctuary state—are rolling out of his second floor office in the Capitol at a fast clip these days. There is a sense of urgency to de León’s politics, a sense that without action to stem the Trumpian tide, bad things will happen, and happen at speed.

In his office foyer is a prominently displayed poster commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Japanese internment during World War II. It speaks to something the pro tem feels strongly about: the dangers of using the might of the government to go after vulnerable minorities. That the country elected a man whom he considers to be a bigot as president rattles the usually smooth senator to no end.

“Just the threat Trump represents to many hard-working families is extremely unsettling,” he says.

The absurdity of a billionaire racist masquerading as a friend of the workingman is personal for de León. After all, he grew up firmly on the wrong side of the tracks, poor enough that he’d never had a birthday party as a kid—never got to wallop piñatas and watch the candies showering down. That was something put off until he was in his 40s, when his friend Lara heard that he’d never had a birthday party and decided to throw him a surprise one, piñatas, barbeque and all.

De León knows the real-life stories behind the stereotypes that Trump likes beating up on. “I know Kevin as the person who still feels vulnerable,” says Lara. “He didn’t have that proper upbringing. His mom died when he was young; he didn’t know his dad. Where do we fit in the broader society? We are the children of immigrants who weren’t supposed to succeed.”

The pro tem makes a statement in support of passing Sen. Lara’s Health for All Act, which would give health care coverage to all immigrant children regardless of citizenship.

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The pro tem has come into his own at a critical moment in the country’s history. On one issue after the next, de León has staked out a position intended to thwart President Donald Trump’s signature policies.

a position intended to thwart President Donald Trump’s signature policies.

He has pushed his colleagues to pass legislation dramatically limiting state law enforcement’s cooperation with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. (On a related note, he recently went public with the fact that his mother—who died of cancer in the early 1990s—was herself originally an undocumented immigrant.) He also has moved to shore up the state’s already cutting-edge environmental regulations and climate change policies. He has put the state’s muscle behind increasing the minimum wage and protecting expanded access to health care.

De León has promised to push legislation requiring that Californians vote on a referendum before any work on a U.S.-Mexico border wall begins on California land. And he has spoken out forcefully against Trump’s

A multi-front bAttle Since his January 20 inauguration, the president has snarled about federally “defunding” cities and states that oppose his agenda by, for example, declaring themselves “sanctuary” spaces for the undocumented. He has called California “out of control” and has explicitly threatened to use federal dollars as a “weapon” intended to get the Golden State to bend to his political will.

At the same time, Republicans in Congress and Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, are looking for ways to neutralize California’s strong environmental regulations. Despite the recent defeat of Paul Ryan’s health-care legislation, congressional Republicans still have the Affordable Care Act squarely in their sights—and no state stands to lose more from its rollback than California, which has

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Last but not least, the federal Labor Department is now controlled by people who oppose an increased minimum wage and are deeply suspicious of rigorous workplace safety and other regulations—all of which California, which is moving toward a $15-per-hour minimum wage, has embraced wholeheartedly in recent years.

As a result, de León, Rendon, Attorney General Xavier Becerra and Gov. Jerry Brown have become an outspoken quartet in opposition to Trump’s attempt to remake the nation’s politics and priorities, and in support of protecting California from whatever vindictive paybacks Trump may attempt. “The greatest threat to our state is the incoming head of state,” de León charged during Becerra’s confirmation hearings, a couple days before Trump’s inauguration. He called on Becerra to use his platform to aggressively take on “an administration that doesn’t know about the rule of law or care for it. The task at hand is momentous.”

It is also daunting at times. The state’s political leaders are all too aware that they are walking a tightrope—and that a man of Trump’s temperament is entirely capable of using his power to go after and punish those individuals and regions he regards as his enemies. Their best defense, they have concluded, is to play hardball—to make Trump’s team all too aware that California’s economy is too large to play around with, and that attacks aimed at undermining the state will ultimately serve as a serious drag on the country as a whole.

And so the state’s political leaders have decided to push back as hard as they can.

They are continuing to work to bring the state’s large undocumented population out of the shadows by, for example, looking at ways to expand health care access and legal representation, even as Trump’s team unleashes ICE deportation squads on immigrant communities in L.A. and elsewhere.

“There is,” said de León at the Becerra hearings, “a lot of angst, a lot of panic, a lot of frightened families who don’t know what’s going to happen.” His legislators would, he promised, work “incredibly hard” to protect these migrants. So, too, they would work to protect the state’s gold-bar environmental standards even as a Pruitt-led EPA scrambled to unravel federal protections.

De León, who represents the 24th District in downtown and East Los Angeles, isn’t thinking small. Sitting in his large Capitol office, with its baseball paraphernalia on shelves and walls, he’s immaculately dressed in a dark suit and pressed shirt, his dark hair parted to one side, and his right wrist adorned with a brown bead bracelet.

He wants, he explains, to “move forward policies I really do believe truly improve the human condition. For example, SB 350, my clean-energy bill—we have created real jobs that are tangible and verifiable.”

Right man foR the moment Because of this rolling set of political battles, Sacramento has started to come out from under the shadow of more internationally recognized California cities. There’s an air of resistance in the city these days—as seen in the vast crowds that flooded the center of the city for the Women’s March on January 21; seen in the volatile March 28 immigration

undermine our progressive values as a state. The whole world identifies with California in this struggle.”

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forum where de León cross-examined Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones and interim ICE Director Thomas D. Homan over their enforcement practices; and witnessed on a near-daily basis in hearings and speeches at the Capitol, where the Democrats are using their super-majority to push through some of the country’s most progressive policies.

Because of his position, de León has his hands in all of it.

“It puts Kevin right at the pinnacle of leading the opposition to this Trump regime,” Lara argues. “And being able not only to defend our American constitutional values, but also forging a California Legislature that’s not going to allow this one election to define who we are.”

For de León’s predecessor, the wrong moment has found the right man.

“I’m happy to see Kevin having this opportunity during this time,” says Steinberg, now Sacramento’s mayor, as he sits in his City Hall office eating Chinese take-out. “His

own history and his own path, becoming pro tem of the Senate after growing up with a lot of challenges and obstacles, is really what the broader debate is about. Are we going to have a politics of hope or of fear? You don’t choose the time; the time chooses you.”

As he prepared to board a plane to participate in L.A.’s Earth Day march for science last week, de León reflected on the road ahead, miles away from where he started as a poor kid in a leaky tenement. The Senate leader says that he is more optimistic now than he was in those first dark days after Trump’s election.

“We are resisting policies that undermine our progressive values as a state. The whole world identifies with California in this struggle,” he averred, three months to the day after Trump’s inauguration. “I know we’re doing the right thing. It’s awesome to see civic action in real time.”

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here comes a time each year when hundreds of professional and budding artists visit downtown Davis to transform retail spaces

and offices—even a historic mansion and log cabin—into dozens of pop-up galleries for an entire weekend.

All of this hustle and bustle celebrates the boundless possibilities of one medium: clay.

Twenty-nine years ago, gallery owner John Natsoulas founded the California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Art. Since then, the annual symposium has grown to host more than 50 colleges and universities from Southern California to Southern Oregon. It’s fitting, as ceramic art went from a primarly crafty medium to a well-respected and sought-after form of expression right in the heart of this active college town.

At the big event April 28-30, participants will showcase work, swap ideas, scout potential degree programs and attend demonstrations and lectures.

But really, it’s three days for ceramics devotees to nerd out on new techniques and bond over their affinity for the tactile medium. General passes for the entire weekend, which include access to demonstrations and lectures from award-winning artists inside the John Natsoulas Gallery, are $202, with student passes running $183. Still, there is plenty of free eye candy to explore from Odd Fellows Hall (415 2nd Street) to the Dresbach-Hunt-Boyer House (604 2nd Street). More than 50 exhibitions will be open to the public.

Natsoulas says the annual conference was created to pay homage to a community that’s deeply rooted in Davis. During the 1950s and ’60s, the funk art movement was an outlet for Northern California artists to express their disdain for abstract expressionists. Unlike their counterparts, funk artists did not care for public morality, so works included sexual vulgarity,

irony or controversy to make bold statements.

“What’s so wonderful about ceramics is that it’s a very close community because they’re all working with a material that is so complex, and there is this huge history that exists in Northern California—not in Southern California, not in New York [and] not in Chicago,” Natsoulas says.

For artist Ianna Nova Frisby, the funk movement was a period of rebellion, a time when creators like the late Robert Arneson, who started the ceramic-sculpture program at UC Davis in the ’60s, used humor and oftentimes kneaded controversy into his pieces. He made a lot of bawdy toilets.

“Funk art is supposed to be like waving your middle finger at fine art, really,” says Frisby, a Sierra College ceramics professor and longtime CCACA attendee. “I really appreciate the humor that they allowed people to have because Jackson Pollock was not funny,” she says with a laugh.

At a time when clay was not recognized in the world of fine arts, Arneson shattered its “crafty” reputation and showed the world that ceramic sculpture is a medium with a lot to say.

For nearly 30 years, working out of a metal, corrugated building called TB-9, Arneson taught UC Davis students how to shape clay. The building still houses the university’s ceramics program.

Arneson’s former pupil Arthur Gonzalez says it’s no mistake that the conference’s initials phonetically read as “caca.” It’s simply his teacher’s influence.

“I remember when I was a student and Arneson said there were two stereotypes [of] why people use clay.

One stereotype is because when you were a child your mom never let you play with your feces,” says Gonzalez, who has worked as a ceramics professor at the California College of the Arts for the past 26 years. “The other reason is your mom let you play with your feces. The title itself is almost like an homage to Arneson.”

During CCACA, each pop-up gallery will often house artwork from up to four schools. Students install the displays, plan receptions and staff each exhibition that’s just a short stroll away from the others in the middle of downtown Davis.

What’s more, the John Natsoulas Gallery will host private demonstrations and lectures for ticket holders led by nationally and internationally recognized artists such as Lisa Clague from North Carolina and Kenjiro Kitade from New York, among others. These superstars elevate the reputation of the local artists exhibiting alongside them.

This year, more than 20 students from Sacramento City College will showcase around 30 pieces that range from hand-held skulls, colorful rocket ships and hyperrealistic artichoke hearts. Mark Boguski, Sac

City professor of ceramic sculpture, has witnessed many of his students find their voices within the medium during the eight years he’s taught at the school. For Boguski, CCACA is a time to see innovative works that cover everything “from the sublime to the ridiculous.”

A former student of Boguski’s, Lindsey Dillon, says when she first attended CCACA as student three years ago, she felt as though she had finally found her people. This year, Dillon looks forward to unveiling her latest work, titled “Venetian Rumor,” inspired by the epic poem The Aeneid.

In it, a tall, bird-like creature has as many eyes, ears and mouths as there are people on the ground—a personification of rumors.

“I like the idea of embodying an experience like that,” Dillon says.

During a weekend at CCACA, those with a love for or passing interest in clay can expect to witness art that is fresh and challenging. More important, it’s three days to find your people, happen upon cutting-edge exhibitions, or simply pay tribute to a late artist who paved the way for ceramic art to thrive in Davis.

“The medium is a social medium; we share experiences,” Natoulas says.

“It really reminds me of family.” Ω

“Funk art is supposed to be like waving your middle finger at fine art, really.”

Ianna Nova Frisby, ceramic artist

The California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Art will be held April 28 – 30.

Learn more about the pop-up galleries free to the public in downtown Davis at www.facebook.com/ ceramicsconference. Visit www.natsoulas.com for schedule information and to purchase tickets to the demonstrations and lectures held inside the John Natsoulas Gallery (521 First Street, Davis).

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Artist lecture THURSDAY, APRIL 27 Queer and transgender Sacramento State alumni will come together for 10 Queer Years, a retrospective of the past decade. The art exhibit Art spotlights graduates Peter Benson, Rob Fatal and Jamil Moises Liban-Ortañez and features artworks that represent how Sac State’s PRIDE Center has influenced the campus. The gallery will run through May 18. Free; 5 p.m. at the University Union at Sac State, 6000 J Street; https://theuniversityunion.com/gallery/show/10-queer-years.

—LoRY GIL

Kids Ninja Warrior & Healthy Family Fest SATURDAY, APRIL 29 Elk Grove is the town to be in this weekend. If your kids aren’t into the inflatable obstacle-course contest, the Healthy Family Fest also has a BMX bike stunt show, live entertainment FEStIVAL and speakers. Free or $20 for contest entry; 9 a.m. at the Elk Grove Regional Park, 9950 Elk Grove Florin Road; www.yourcsd.com/672/ Kids-Ninja-Warrior-and-Healthy-Family-Fe.

—EDDIE JoRGEnSEn

Sacramento Queer Country SUnDAY, APRIL 30 Country dancing doesn’t immediately bring queerfriendliness to mind, but a new monthly dance party might change that. Sacramento Queer Country will go down the last Sunday of every month.

DANCE The debut will start out with a two-step lesson, followed by open dancing. All genders, ages and levels are welcome. No cover, one drink minimum; 6 p.m. at Public House Theater, 5440 14th Avenue; www.facebook.com/sacqueercountry.

—JAnELLE BITKER

May Day march MonDAY, MAY 1

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n May 2, 1967, a group of 30 Black Panthers marched into the State Capitol carrying shotguns pointed at the sky. The protest would end in arrests and, the next morning, photos blanketing the front pages of newspapers around the country.

For many people outside of Northern California, May 2 marked their introduction to the Panthers and their cause.

On this coming Tuesday, May 2, the local chapter of Black Lives Matter will host a 50-year anniversary march at noon at Southside Park (2115 Sixth Street), eventually making its way to the State Capitol. Community members are welcome to gather to discuss this historic day and continue the fight for equality.

Also of interest: Black Lives Matter Sacramento is throwing a sign-making party at 6 p.m. Saturday, April 29, at Colonial Heights Library (4799 Stockton Boulevard). Get pumped over art supplies. For more details on the party and the march, visit www.facebook.com/ BlackLivesMatterSac. If you’re interested in learning more about the Panthers, a related artist talk is going down at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at UC Davis (254 Old Davis Road) at 2 p.m.

Sunday, April 30. Artist Sadie Barnette and her father Rodney Barnette will discuss family history, politics, identity and art—and in particular, the FBI file that documents Rodney’s surveillance while a Black Panther. Rujeko Hockley, assistant

curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, will moderate the conversation, titled “the past is the present.”

Afterward, walk through the Shrem to explore Sadie’s exhibit, Dear 1968,....

Per usual, entrance into the museum is free. Learn more at www.facebook.com/ manettishrem.

For another way to support the local black community, check out the inaugural Black Family Day on the main quad at Sacramento State University (6000 J Street). From 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, April 29, there will be live entertainment, guest speakers, food and more, all aimed at celebrating African-American culture and promoting inclusivity. More at http://csus.edu/saseep/mlk/bfd.

—JAnELLE BITKER ILLUSTRATION BY KYLE SHINE

Workers of the world unite for a May Day march to resist the Trump machine. Led by Sacramento’s Labor Council for Latin American Advancement and the Sacramento Central Labor Council, attendees will walk to the Capitol building for an ACtIVISM afternoon of rallying. Break out your white T-shirt and draw a sign to support labor. Free; 10 a.m. at Southside Park, Eighth and T streets; http://calaborfed.org/may-day-2017.

—DAvE KEMPA

Cheryl Strayed WEDnESDAY, MAY 3 “Forward is the direction of real life,” writes author Cheryl Strayed in Brave Enough, her new book.

Strayed has become an unlikely inspiration to folks all over the world. Before her blockbuster LECturE memoir Wild, she was an advice columnist and a novelist. $35-$75; 8 p.m. at Community Center Theater, 1301 L Street; www.cherylstrayed.com.

—AARon CARnES

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Soup for you! souP, V. Miller Meats Eric Miller of V. Miller Meats is no soup nazi. He happily ladles out housemade soup to all comers on Wednesdays. Since it’s a butchery, expect meaty favorites like a recent dish made with lamb from Yolo County’s Skyelark Ranch and beluga lentils. “We fail epically when we don’t put meat in the soup,” Miller admits. For $12, you’ll get a quart of soup that may serve two—unless you’re like Miller, who says he can kill a quart by himself. Then put yourself on the list for the next BBQ Bonanza dinner ($25), an occasional event complete with sides. 4801 Folsom Boulevard, Suite 2; www.vmillermeats.com.

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“We’re a blessed family,” he Brotherly grub: Local chefs said. “And we want to give back.”

Jonathan and Matthew Burgess Before they became pseudoappeared on the Home Shopping celebrity chefs, they were just Network on April 19 in a widely two brothers trying to make better watched (if slightly cheesy) live barbecue and more consistent segment showing off their barbecue cornbread. sauce and cornbread mix.

In 2014, they grew tired of But marketing those products sprucing up a premade sauce. So has taken them away from running working from scratch, Matthew their restaurant, Burgess Brothers’ substituted tomato paste for Burgers (2114 Sutterville Road). So ketchup and within 45 minutes they’re going to sell the business had finished the first draft of their for $1 after selecting from applicasignature recipe that contains no tions that can be submitted from gluten, preservatives or highApril 23 to May 1. fructose corn syrup.

They’re hoping to find a “People look for those ingrefamily-oriented owner with dients now when they check out a restaurant experience, but without label,” Jonathan said, adding that the means to open a place on their even barbecue hasn’t been immune own. As the brothers strive to put to modern dietary demands. a franchise in every state capital, Later, they started prepacking Jonathan said they may continue their own cornbread mix. And with this style of selection.

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since most store-bought packets taste like sawdust, they decided to start selling their own blend: It doesn’t require eggs and gets cooked on a waffle iron in three minutes until golden brown on the outside and tender in the middle.

They even trademarked the term “Churwaffle” to describe a cornbread waffle spiced with cinnamon and sugar. On air, they dolled it up with caramel, pecans and whipped cream. Jonathan said they’re in talks with Disneyland after ensuring their novel dessert will be at the next California State Fair.

“It’s going to make the funnel cake look like it didn’t exist,” he said.

Produce oasis: The Avenues community of south Sacramento has been described as a food desert—a neighborhood that lacks easy access to fresh produce. At least in one section, the drought has ended with the recent opening of Prime Time Nutrition (3821 41st Avenue), a Southern California chain that exclusively sells fresh, healthful foods and will accept payment from federal assistance programs. Ω

Ordering wine at a basketball game feels a little bourgie, right? That’s what I was in the mood for recently at the Golden 1 Center, however, when I ordered a glass of MacMurray Estate Vineyards Pinot Noir ($12). This Russian River Valley vintage pours a gorgeous deep ruby red and reveals itself to be complex and full-bodied.

There are hints of dark cherry and boysenberry but the overall takeaway is its lovely notes of chocolate and vanilla. Don’t want to feel bourgie buying it by the glass at a game? It retails for $28 a bottle. www.macmurrayestatevineyards.com.

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Wee sprouts Pea shoots Spring has sprung (sort of), but it hardly feels like it. One clue that life continues despite the deluge is the appearance of pea shoots at the market. The mature peas won’t be ready until summer, but you can enjoy the baby sprouts and leaves now. They’re packed with vitamin C—seven times more than blueberries!

Use them raw to garnish a spring risotto, or as they do at Hook & Ladder Manufacturing Co., perched atop bright green pea hummus. Up your garnish game and perch a clingy tendril on the edge of a fruity cocktail.

—ann Martin rolke

Food truck finale Food trucks have become an integral aspect of the dining scene. Established restaurants like Buckhorn Grill have taken to the streets, while Chando’s Tacos and KoJa Kitchen (coming soon to K Street) have moved into permanent shops.

On April 29, Sacramento’s pioneering organizer of these mobile eateries, SactoMoFo, will be hosting these three trucks along with 33 others at its tenth annual—and final—free block party in the Downtown Railyards (between Fifth and Seventh streets). There will be tons of sweet and savory food, live entertainment and a beer garden with six local craft breweries to benefit the Front Street Animal Shelter, which will also put on a fashion show starring adoptable pets. SactoMoFo owner Paul Somerhausen says his organization is shifting to smaller, more specialized events, but he wanted to have one last shebang for the event that got many Sacramentans into food on four wheels. Learn more at www.sactomofo.com/sactomofo-10/about.

—John Flynn

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by Shoka Nourish Health Bar and Cafe NorCal is hard to find. The vegan, soy-free, gluten-free, organic food cafe is in an abandoned-looking strip mall at 7433 Greenback Lane in Citrus Heights next to Bubba’s Car Wash. But the signage says Life Foods, which is the production facility and Hawaiibased parent company next door that makes its veggie burger patties, gluten-free buns, kimchi, dressings and kombucha—all of which may be purchased prepackaged at Nourish. Its menu is burger-centric with

eight sandwiches, and even the salad and quinoa bowls come with a patty.

The quinoa bowl was half wild rice with only a smattering of sautéed vegetables; ’twas not enough veg and overall dry. There are several on-tap kombucha flavors, including strawberry mojito, ginger turmeric and green mint basil, plus jars and growlers for filling. Now that The V Word can find Nourish, it’ll try the Chocolate Superfood nutmilk (almond, macadamia, dates and mesquite powder) and avocado toast next.

Banquet in the ’burbs

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combo you won’t find just anywhere. Inside the chewy rice-noodle wrapper, the mix contained more than described: Shrimp and cabbage added to the flavorful blend of juices infused through3860 Truxel Road, (916) 621-3737 out the seafood. http://yuehuangdimsum.com Other shrimp dumplings also satisfied, including the fried shrimp balls ($5.50) Meal for one: $15 - $25 surrounded with ethereally crispy ribbons in Good for: long dim sum brunches with the whole family or a big posse haphazard shapes like Medusa’s hair. They Notable dishes: scallop and parsley dumplings, shrimp balls and came with a sweet-and-sour sauce that compleegg cream buns mented the large balls of minced shrimp on the inside. The steamed shrimp dumplings ($4.50) were also juicy, but the rice-noodle wrappers were a bit starchy and thick.

Behind the deceptive Italian facade of a former The traditional baked barbecue pork buns Johnny Carino’s in Natomas, you’ll find an ($3.50) offered chewy, glazed golden buns with ornate slice of Hong Kong. a dessertlike sauce that softened the tender strips The atmosphere at Yue Huang mirrors a of meat. These beat out the crispy barbecue pork traditional Cantonese banquet hall: Elaborate buns ($4.50), a new special. The sugary sauce interiors and round tables fit the whole family, and vanilla buns made for a cloying combinaeven distant cousins. Every day until 3 p.m., tion, and a confusing one with the sprinkling of carts of steamed dumplings weave through the parsley throughout the bread. room to spark impulsive orders. Plush chairs lull But the egg desserts were on point. The egg you to melt into the upholstery after eating too cream buns ($4.50) came with pillowy, bubblemany small plates that sneakily add up. patterned steamed buns—a heavenly The restaurant opened last light counterpoint to the creamy egg summer, giving Natomas and on the inside. The Portuguese egg north Sacramento a sorely white tarts ($5.50) offered the needed dim sum restaurant.

Macau-style of torched egg The dim sum also Sacramento at large has custard, burned to a carameltastes lighter and solid grab-and-go dim sum like sweetness inside a flaky, options—like Lam Kwong buttery crust. healthier (read: you can Deli & Market downtown and The dinner menu gave fit even more in your ABC Bakery in the Pocket— few reasons to return at night belly). and the greasy-delicious time, though. The clay pot banquet of King Palace in south of braised tofu with fish fillet Sacramento. But this family-style and pork belly ($12) had overly brunch place offers something else: crisped pork and a sweet gelatinous An elegant room that makes you feel at glaze that tasted too subtly of ginger home to chow down for an hour or more. The and garlic. The Fairview Tofu ($10.50) was dim sum also tastes lighter and more healthful tastier with a salty mushroom flavor throughout (read: you can fit even more in your belly). the soft fried tofu. The accompanying oyster Stacked woven bamboo baskets contain mushrooms had a refined earthiness, but the side steamed dumplings, and plates on carts present of Chinese broccoli came out on the tough side. baked and fried, savory and sweet treats. The Instead, come early to Yue Huang, when you dinnertime menu lists pages upon pages of can score the freshest dim sum baskets of the Cantonese banquet plates, including white abalone day. And bring a cousin or three, just because and crab ovaries, sea cucumber soup and congee. you can. Ω Among the steamed dumplings, the dried scallop with parsley ($3.50) stood out as a tasty 04.27.17 | SN&R | 23

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6:30 p.m. thursday, 8 p.m. friday, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.. saturday, 2 p.m. sunday. $12-$35. sacramento theatre company, 1419 h street, (916) 443-6722; www.sactheatre.org. through may 14.

The Donner Party, a new American musical with music by Eric Rockwell, book and lyrics by Margaret Rose, is making its world premiere at Sacramento Theatre Company, under the direction of Michael Laun and Margaret Rose. It is wonderfully appropriate that it be presented just walking distance from Sutter’s Fort, the final destination of the ill-fated Donner party.

By the third song, “Wagons Roll,” most audience members will likely be holding their breath, whispering “Wow!” This is a beautiful show with an outstanding cast, primarily the party’s leaders, the Donners (Jerry Lee and Maggie Hollinbeck) and the Reeds (Michael RJ Campbell and Vivienne Cleary), with exceptional work by Noa Solario (alternating with Monique Ward Lonergan) as Tamsen Donner’s daughter Virginia.

The music is stunning, with anthemic songs mixed with humor, as in the women’s trio performance of “He’s the Man I Chose.”

The farther west the group travels, the rougher it gets, with deaths along the way, starting with Sarah Keys (Martha Omiyo Kight), who becomes the lead of a growing ghost-chorus that follows the group throughout.

The first act ends as the group realizes it must spend the winter in the snowy mountains, so we know that the second act will not be a lot of fun.

While this is a beautiful show, it is not without problems. Thirty-four musical numbers is too

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many. Act One is in serious need of tightening.

Songs like “Wagons Roll,” while wonderful, are too long. By the time the first half of the show ends, one literally feels the pain and suffering of the party’s members. All in all, however, this is an impressive premiere for STC. Ω

4 Treatment Treatment, a new comedy from the B Street Theatre, is about a journey through life’s rough terrain, with its attendant heartache and loss, all made bearable by love and friendship.

Conceived, written and acted by Stephanie Altholz, Amy Kelly and Tara Sissom, the story shows that you don’t have to lose your mind to lose your way, but often it takes a little help from others to get out of the woods and back on track.

Treatment takes place on a girls camping trip, as longtime friends Jayne, Patricia and Roxanne (Sissom, Kelly and Altholz, respectively) have come together to catch up on each other’s lives— and to scatter Jayne’s mother’s ashes. Before that solemn event can take place, however, the threesome fills a potty bucket, empties a few whiskey bottles, trades some “camping contraband” for food and bonds like never before.

Treatment is funny—very funny, sometimes almost-wet-your-pants funny.

—Jim Carnes treatment; 8 p.m. thursday, 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. saturday, 2 p.m. sunday, 6:30 p.m. tuesday, 2:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. $33-$38. B street theatre, 2711 B street, (916) 443-5300, www.bstreettheatre.org. through June 4.

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by Gail Dartez. Carissa Meagher plays the title role, with Scott Divine as King Creon and Maggie Upton as the blind prophet Tiresias. It’s a tight, 90-minute drama with no letup. 8pm Th-Sa. Through 5/6. $12-$22. Big Idea Theatre, 1616 Del Paso Boulevard. (916) 960-3036, www.bigideatheatre .org. J.C.

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The beauty of this loosely autobiographical Tennessee Williams 1944 classic lies both in the playwright’s powerful, poetic prose and in his understated portrayal of his relationship with his histrionic mother and emotionally delicate sister.

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pm; F 8pm; Sa 2pm and 8pm Su 2pm; W 6:30pm. Through 4/30. $15-38. Sacramento Theatre Company, 1419 H Street; (916) 443-6722; www.sactheatre.org. P.R.

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Everyone’s favorite con man returns to River City to sell kids’ bands and sweet talk the librarian to keep her from figuring him out. This show has a very large cast with some exceptional performances.

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Community Asian Theatre of the Sierra connects with this witty, wise retelling of an ancient Chinese fable, replete with live music, costumes and gorgeous, eye-appealing visuals. Worth going out of your way to see. 7pm Th, 8pm F, Sa, 2pm Su. through 5/6. $15-$25. Nevada Theatre, 401 Broad Street in Nevada City; http://catsweb.org. J.H.

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On the nose Falcon’s Eye Theatre in Folsom marks its 10th anniversary with Edmond Rostand’s evergreen 1897 classic Cyrano, about the larger-than-life raconteur. The protagonist here is, of course, instantly recognizable for his huge nose and plumed hat—as well as for the way he amazes by improvising rhyming verse while winning a duel with his blade.

Throughout, he hides the torch he inwardly carries for the beautiful, unattainable Roxanne. Romance and tragedy, poetry and swordplay abound in this venerable chestnut.

The show runs through May 14. 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 28 and Saturday, April 29, 2 p.m. Sunday, April 30. $12-$18. Harris Center at Folsom Lake College, 10 College Parkway in Folsom. (916) 608-6888, www.falconseyetheatre.com.

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Their Finest Don’t look back—there lies nostalgia.

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News to no one, but there is a major nostalgia problem at the movies. Remakes, sequels, premakes, prequels, three-makes, three-quels and any sort of semirecognizable brand names dominate the multiplex. Only one director is currently permitted to make money-is-noobject, off-brand, “thinking person’s” blockbusters, and sadly, it’s Christopher Nolan. And the art house theater, once a bulwark against Hollywood myopia and vapidity, in all but a handful of American cities exclusively delivers the same sort of pandering and auburn-tinged fixes as the big-budget junkyards.

The latest simpering nonsense is Lone Scherfig’s Their Finest, two godforsaken hours of buttery drivel smothered in rancid nostalgia. Based on a novel by Lissa Evans, the film tells the story of fledgling writer Catrin (Gemma Arterton), who teams with and falls for her male superior Tom (the thoroughly uninteresting Sam Claflin, doing a Nicholas Hoult impression and failing to pull off even that meager trick) on a British government-sponsored propaganda picture. Arterton and Claflin have little chemistry, and there’s no spark in the writing, but the soundtrack insists that their characters are made for each other, so off we go.

Along the way, the picture picks up a narcissistic ex-star (Bill Nighy), a lunkhead American celebrity soldier (Jake Lacy), and a vast number of government-mandated subplots and cuts. As with most portrayals of “classic” Britishness, Their Finest is not designed for British audiences as much as for foreign anglophiles, and as such it’s certain to please the “By Jove!” aficionados in its intended audience.

by Daniel Barnes

But to anyone who isn’t instantly tickled by the nonstop fetishizing of reductive and redundant stiff-upper-lip-ism, Their Finest feels like one long Keep Calm and Carry On meme.

The problem with this sort of phony nostalgia isn’t that it’s obsessed with the past, but that it’s obsessed with lying about the past, with decontextualizing the past, with making the past inferior and unthreatening, like an animal at the zoo. Their Finest chuckles with superiority at the studio demand for “clean moral lines,” but still jumps through half a dozen moral hoops to justify Catrin’s snogging Tom instead of her husband.

It’s a film that clucks its tongue at the shocking… just shocking notion of government intrusion into the movies, even though the opening credits read “The Welsh Government Presents.” But perhaps it’s merely a hilarious coincidence that the fictional propaganda film they’re making also features Welsh heroines? I don’t mind that Their Finest is wrong; I mind that it’s full of shit.

But adrift in the dross, two life lines: Nighy, of course, rapidly approaching international-treasure status, here playing a fading and egomaniacal actor as only he could—as both a tribute to classically dashing leading men and as a self-lacerating satire of that same classical dash. Then there is the liquid steel of Arterton, an actress so outrageously beautiful she almost never gets credit for combining strength and vulnerability in such a consistently interesting manner. They rise above the nostalgic muck, but when will we? Ω

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The Fate of the Furious

Honeymooning in Cuba, our hero Dom (Vin Diesel) falls into the hands of a ruthless terrorist (Charlize Theron) and is forced to turn on his wife (Michelle Rodriguez) and pals (Tyrese Gibson, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, et al.) by abetting her evil plans for world domination. The morphing of the Fast and the Furious gang from drag-racing toughs into a Mission: Impossible-style special ops team is now complete, with Dwayne Johnson, Kurt Russell and Jason Statham along for good measure. The nonstop action is so blatantly implausible that there’s not a second’s worth of genuine excitement in the whole two hours and 16 minutes. Director F. Gary Gray, despite all the incessant mayhem he marshals, fails to conceal the fact that the movie moves at a leaden, excruciating crawl, and runs at least 20 minutes too long. J.L.

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Free Fire

After last year’s bloody, disturbing social satire High-Rise, Ben Wheatley and Amy Jump’s (he directs and co-writes; she co-writes and edits) single-set action film Free Fire feels less substantial, yet remains just as claustrophobically engrossing. In 1970s New York, Cillian Murphy and his gang of Irish criminals seek to purchase guns from a squawking arms trader played by Sharlto Copley (cinema’s CHAPPiE), while the group’s respective go-betweens (Brie Larson and Armie Hammer) try to keep the peace. After a couple of hotheaded underlings fight and shots are fired, the rest of the film turns into a chaotic, gruesome and borderline slapstick gun battle in the center of an abandoned factory floor. The hard-boiled, insult-comic dialogue might sometimes lean a little closer to Guy Ritchie than Quentin Tarantino, but the energy and momentum are undeniable—the film has a way of relentlessly slicing forward every time you expect it to stagnate. D.B.

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Ghost in the Shell

In a future megacity that makes Blade Runner’s Los Angeles look like a ramshackle frontier town, a weaponized cyborg (Scarlett Johansson) pursues an elusive terrorist (Michael Carmen Pitt)—while being haunted by flashes of her forgotten life before she was repurposed by a sinister robotics corporation. Director Rupert Sanders and writers Jamie Moss, William Wheeler and Ehren Kruger remake Mamoru Oshii’s 1995 anime cult classic, shamelessly currying Asian audiences even as they recast many of the characters with Caucasians (Johansson, Pitt, Pilou Asbæk, Juliette Binoche, Peter Ferdinando), and needlessly complicating a straightforward story by gussying it up with dazzling CGI. It’s slick and entertaining, but time will tell if it stays in the mind the way Oshii’s original did; personally, I’m dubious. J.L.

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Gifted

A boat mechanic (Chris Evans) is raising the 6-year-old daughter (McKenna Grace) of his late sister. When the girl shows signs of having inherited her mother’s genius for mathematics, it catches the attention of the grandmother she’s never met (Lindsay Duncan). This in turn leads to a custody struggle between mother and son, who have been long estranged because he blames her for the suicide of the girl’s mother. Got all that?

Tom Flynn’s script has enough soap opera, maudlin sentimentality and button-pushing melodrama for a dozen Lifetime Channel movies of the week. Director Marc Webb marshals a good cast (including Jenny Slate doing double-duty as Grace’s teacher and Evans’ love interest, and Octavia Spencer underused as a caring neighbor), but the movie is too slick and manipulative for its own good. J.L.

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Three retirees who’ve lost their pensions (Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Alan Arkin) decide to turn outlaw and rob the

Shocked by the sight of something cuter than itself.

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Born in China

The latest Disney nature documentary ventures into the plains, mountains and forests of China, telling parallel stories of a snow leopard and her two cubs, a golden snub-nosed monkey suffering sibling jealousy of his newborn sister, a doting giant panda mother and her daughter and the birthing migration of a chiru antelope herd. Director Chuan Lu and a battery of photographers too numerous to name capture some amazing footage, even if the stories seem to have been contrived in the editing room and the English-language narration (by David Fowler and Brian Leith, read by John Krasinski) occasionally becomes cloying and platitudinous. Still, that’s a minor point. The footage really is fascinating, even mind-boggling, and at a swift, economical 76 minutes, the movie hardly has time to wear out its welcome. J.L.

bank that brokered the dissolution of their retirement fund. Writer Theodore Melfi and director Zach Braff remake the 1979 caper comedy that starred George Burns, Lee Strasberg and Art Carney; it starts out as just another shambling vehicle for over-the-hill stars (think Last Vegas or Grumpy Old Men), then gets better as it goes along. There are traces of substance under the formulaic surface, and the formula itself perks up considerably, keeping us amused and guessing right up to the climactic Big Reveal. A couple of bonuses: Ann-Margret as a love interest for Arkin, and a young actress named Annabelle Chow, who steals the show with a five-minute cameo that ought to make her a star. J.L.

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Lost City of Z

In the early years of the 20th century, soldier-explorer Percy Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam) becomes obsessed with finding a great civilization that he’s convinced once existed deep in the Amazon jungle. Writerdirector James Gray, adapting David Grann’s nonfiction book, has produced a refreshingly old-fashioned movie, hearkening back to the likes of Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and Mountains of the Moon (’90)—not as good as those, but good enough. Hunnam plays Fawcett with stiff-upper-lip idealism, matched by Sienna Miller as his smart, spirited wife. Cinematographer Darius Khondji and Gray etch a vivid picture of the Amazon and its unfamiliar inhabitants. Gray never quite pulls us into Fawcett’s obsession, but his respectful, respectable picture keeps us watching, interested if not deeply involved. J.L.

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Power Rangers

In this reboot of yet another toy franchise, five high-school students (Dacre Montgomery, Naomi Scott, RJ Cyler, Ludi Lin, Becky G.) are recruited by the disembodied Zordon (Bryan Cranston) to carry on the eons-old struggle against the evil Rita Repulsa (Elizabeth Banks). Misfit teenagers become superheroes and save the universe; The Breakfast Club meets The Avengers. This movie certainly knows its target audience, and, actually, it’s not bad; the cast is attractive, director Dean Israelite keeps things popping and Cranston and Banks (both barely recognizable behind their CGI disguises) add a dash of

grown-up gravitas. It’s cheesy but endearing; there are worse things for teenagers to spend their allowance on. J.L.

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Your Name.

At first glance, the plot of Makoto Shinkai’s Your Name. seems like a bodyswitch comedy concocted for the lowest-rung Wayans siblings: a small-town girl and a big-city boy suddenly find themselves switching bodies, meddling in each other’s lives and gradually falling in love. But the result is more like a Studio Ghibli version of an emotionally loaded, apocalyptically metaphysical mindfuck like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind or Donnie Darko. Your Name. is Shinkai’s fifth feature film, based on his novel of the same name, and although only 44 years old, Shinkai has also been active in the worlds of commercials, short films, video games and manga.

Given that prolific output, it’s stunning that he could produce something filled with so much honesty and integrity. It’s the rare work of art that can base an extraordinarily powerful moment of emotional catharsis on compulsive boob-squeezing, but that’s the miracle of this movie. D.B.

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Unforgettable

When a woman (Rosario Dawson) moves in with her fiancé (Geoff Stults), she unwittingly steps into the crosshairs of the man’s passive-aggressive, mentally unstable ex-wife (Katherine Heigl). The script, by Christina Hodson and David Johnson, is strictly boilerplate madwoman-on-the-warpath stuff, populated by stick figures standing in for characters, long on melodrama and short on dramatic logic.

Even the title makes no sense—but then, Basic Instinct, Fatal Attraction and Hell Hath No Fury were already taken. Denise Di Novi’s direction is dutiful but flat, without style or suspense.

She is more to be pitied than censured; Hitchcock himself couldn’t have pulled off this schlock. The cast—including Isabella Kai Rice as Stults and Heigl’s daughter and Cheryl Ladd as Heigl’s ice-queen mother—flounders. J.L.

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Besides his parking lot gig, David teaches at The Zion Academy of Music and directs the music at The Congregation of Zion, both founded by his pastor father. He credits playing gospel and contemporary songs at church services for making him want to pursue music professionally.

“That’s where I really learned to play the piano,” he said. “You have a regular gig at least once a week, where you have to learn songs and play in front of people.

You really get the chance to grow The most soulful songs make you close your eyes. in that setting as a performer and as a musician.”

He prides himself on his production after studying composition at University of the Pacific’s Joshua David had just finished cleaning a parking Conservatory of Music. This education allows him lot when he talked to SN&R about his upcoming occasionally to work on arrangements for horns, four-song EP, And And And And. An employee of strings and orchestra for other artists. And when he a maintenance company started by his grandfather, writes songs, he usually comes up with the melody David had good reason for both taking the day job first, then finds where the words “fit in.” and making the album: his special lady.

As Stockton’s go-to soul act, he plays consistent “After my first time meeting her face-to-face, I gigs in the city’s growing downtown scene and has thought about stepping to her,” he said. “But I felt opened for names like Anthony Hamilton, who like she wouldn’t want to waste her time with me listened to one of David’s former bands in if I didn’t have some things together.”

2013. Backstage, after David’s set, the They’re locked into a serious respected R&B singer asked him relationship now, but this original if he was signed (he’s not), then nervousness inspired the Stockton complimented his music. native’s first single, “Hot Damn,” “That, for me, was one for the EP that will be released of those life checkpoints,” at Fox & Goose Pub on April David said. “[It was] 29. Laid over meandering, then confirmation I’m doing the bouncy keys, David’s crisp right thing—that I’m on vocals sell the emotion behind the right path and I got to wanting to woo this woman keep going.”

Joshua David with his self-improvement. He To make money along the singer-songwriter showed her the song a couple of way, he’ll continue his family weeks into their relationship, and traditions. The maintenance job she soon had it “on repeat.” may reveal how “gross” people can “She’s from South Africa, so all of be, but he appreciates the contrast to the her friends from South Africa were calling mild ego trip he experiences onstage. me ‘Mr. Hot Damn’ for the next few months,” he “It keeps me humble and grounded,” he said. “I said with a little laugh. enjoy it. I was having a good time today, just blasting Lyrically, David likes the clever, thoughtful music in my headphones, cleaning up stuff. It was instincts of Motown, but he genre-hops sonicool.

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And on “Immeasurable” he channels the chilly minimalism of James Blake—showcasing the eclectic vibes that wiggle around the edges of his pop-soul sound.

Listen to Joshua David’s new EP at 9 p.m. April 29 at Fox & Goose Pub (1001 R Street). James Cavern is also on the bill. tickets are $10.

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Poppy introspection Undo button: You can find a metaphor for the human condition in every set of Windows shortcut keys, but Life in 24 Frames reserved the best one for its new album title, CTRL+Z. It’s the “Undo” function on your computer, and it’s the one that unfortunately doesn’t exist in reality. CTRL+Z might as well be the remorse function for the past.

The indie rock four-piece performed the entirety of their new record, released last month, at Harlow’s Nightclub & Restaurant on Saturday night. While their openers, Sac’s Doombird and Eyes on the Shore from the Bay Area, formed a sound palette of indie and electropop meant for dancing, nightclub courtship and getting laid, Life in 24 Frames’ set provoked smooth waves of introspection.

Old ghosts could have easily surfaced in “November (heartbeats),” when the electric guitars twinkled eerily like wind chimes to an upbeat surf rock rhythm that would remind you of songs by R.E.M. or The Police. Life in 24 Frames’ frontman Kris Adams narrated past moments and their karmic results, sometimes in whispers or in warm vocals harmonized with bassist-vocalist Jason Brown: “Should be a blessing / Feels like a curse / Lay back on my steps, see them in reverse / I know I’ll get what I deserve.”

The 12 songs, one for every month of the year, are both poppy and complex, but they don’t try to steal your attention. Instead, they wrap you in a lifejacket or bind you to a surfboard, something buoyant that will help you realize the flow of the sea around you. You could notice these effects in the crowd of 50 or so that night, who danced less than they were still, and appeared caught up in their own awakened reflections.

You can’t change the past, but with albums like CTRL+Z, you can at least give it the soundtrack it deserves.

—Mozes zarate

A sludgy sendoff: A heavy bass drone under searing guitar riffs washed over the crowd at Record Store Day at Dimple Records in Folsom, creating a sonic scape of unrelenting doom metal. On Saturday, April 22, Sacramentobased doom outfit Astral Cult closed out a show with the final performance of cofounding member and guitarist Ryan Musser, who is leaving the band for other pursuits.

The high holy day for vinyl collectors, Record Store Day drew hundreds of deal seekers and music fans to Folsom. As the day wore on, collectors grabbed exclusive releases, food trucks served their grub, and a genre-spanning outdoor concert capped it off with eight acts that played, among others, hip-hop, pop-punk and straightforward rock ’n’ roll. Onlookers gathered under a darkening sky that reflected the festival atmosphere once the doom metal act hit the stage.

Astral Cult, founded in 2011, has gone through several lineup changes over the years. The two constants of the band since its inception have been bassist Stefan Henskens and Musser, who have released two independently produced albums— the eponymous Astral Cult in 2014 and The Sacred Flame, their first album with singer Alexandre Lapuh, in 2016.

On Record Store Day, new drummer Cristian Gonzalez’s furious beats knocked off a cymbal during the second to last song of the band’s set. Gonzalez handled this without missing a beat. He waited for the opportune sonic lull to reattach his rig before coming in again strong.

Musser gave a top-notch final performance that culminated in a gritty cacophony of sludgy riffs and solos reminiscent of ’70s-era Black Sabbath, while the stack of amps behind the band shook with Henskens’ bass riffs.

After the set, Astral Cult fan Jeff May commented that Musser will be difficult to replace.

Lapuh bid farewell to the crowd at the end of his set and thanked Musser for his final performance, eliciting a cheer from the loyal cadre of fans that remained through this incarnation of Astral Cult’s final set.

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Would-Be Train Robbers is a modern day tribute to past decades of the blues, punk and the complexities of psychedelROCK ic rock. Although WBTR are commonly associated with glam rock and protopunk (think: the nerve of T. Rex paired with the rich guitar tones of Johnny Thunders of the New York Dolls), this three-piece group takes the best elements associated with the genres and amplifies it without the glitter or the tight pants. The band’s music is raw, punchy and filled with full-bodied arrangements that transport listeners to a time when rock music was king. 1001 R Street, www.facebook.com/wouldbetrainrobbers.

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Being separated by colleges in Long Beach and San Luis Obispo doesn’t stop sisters Gwendolyn and Lucy Giles from performing together in their hometown of Sacramento.

The release of the rock ’n’ roll outfit’s fifth full-length album ’Til You’re Mine propelled the duo’s music career to new heights as they garnered an opening spot on tour with Grammy Award-winning punks Green Day. Now, Gwen and Lucy look forward to performing their upbeat-style tunes with a strong punk rock backbone for PUNK familiar faces. The Croissants and Plugg Mentality will also perform. 922 57th Street, www.facebook.com/dogpartylive.

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North Carolina’s stoner metal merchants Weedeater are back as part of a totally stacked bill that includes The Obsessed, Primitive Man, Fatso Jetson and Karma to Burn. Nearly every genre is on the menu, including (but not limited STONER METAL to) stoner metal, doom, desert rock, punk and even instrumental fare. Weedeater’s Dixie Dave is a sight to behold, looking much like a Duck Dynasty character and playing bass at a ridiculously loud volume. He also has an affinity for cough syrup (which he chases with hard liquor). If the Weedeater boys are in town, you know it’s going down. 1517 21st Street, www.weedmetal.com.

Have you still not checked out Sacramento’s new and only dedicated jazz venue yet? Get on with it already. Nagual, one of Sacramento’s best Latin bands, presents a prime opportunity to scope out Station 1’s sound system and enjoy some genre-bending jazz. Saxophonist Scott Anderson, guitarist Victor Contreras, congero Harold Muniz, drumLATIN jAzz mer Ron Ochoa and bassist Paul Relvas all contribute to an exploratory spirit that readily dives into progressive jazz, rock and blues. This should be a rewarding evening for jazz enthusiasts bored by jazz standards. 317 Third Street in West Sacramento, www.nagualmusic.com.

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There’s a McDonald’s-themed Black Sabbath band, a pizza-themed Velvet Underground band and an all-bluegrass AC/ MeTAL DC tribute band. All these wacky groups pale in comparison to the one and only Okilly Dokilly: a metal band featuring five Ned Flanders. They call their genre “Nedal,” but really it’s brutal groove-based metal licks created by five obvious life-long metal fanatics who also happen to be into dorky sweaters and mustaches. Unlike most of the weirdo-themed bands out now, Okilly Dokilly doesn’t rely on covers. It’s just a great metal band that pays tribute to America’s favorite Christian conservative.

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If one’s life has been devoted to one instrument, eventually the energy passed between it and player becomes a bond as intimate as any human relationship. The long-term affair of passion, patience and playfulness comes through in guitarist Sir Richard Bishop’s latest solo album Tangier Sessions, improvised one night in Morocco with a guitar of mysterious origin found in a small shop in Geneva. The outcome of that night was bright, evocative songs rich with the styles of Middle Eastern, Gypsy, American folk and Indian exPeRiMeNTAL music. 2733 Riverside Boulevard, www.sirrichardbishop.com.

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Horror Vacui is an Italian death rock band blazing a path of darkness through the West Coast. They rock the most purely goth sound since the genre’s inception. This band seriously sounds like it came from the past, in a good way. The dreamy guitar riffs GOTH and thick bass drones are heavily inspired by the likes of Bauhaus, but the band doesn’t rest in the past. You can hear dark wave dissonance dripping from every note, and the group clearly has both feet firmly planted in punk rock. You can listen to their discography on Bandcamp and get into the groove. 3520 Stockton Boulevard, https://horrorvacuilegion.bandcamp.com.

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Lil Peep boasts 157,000 followers on Soundcloud. Double that following on Instagram. This is the currency in 2017 that sends a 20-year-old on a headlining tour.

No radio play, just a Pitchfork Rising feature that announces the next generation of talent. Lil Peep declares parts unknown, but he’s linked with a digital community that shoegazes, showers infrequently RAP and tattoos their alabaster faces.

Imagine Bieber with a ketamine addiction; that’s Lil Peep. The music is emotionally damaged, suicidal, drug-addled and yet serene in its melancholic production. 2708 J Street, https://soundcloud.com/lil_peep.

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No more After 15 years, I’m ready to end my relationship with my partner. We barely speak except about mundane things.

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FOR THE WEEk OF APRIL 27, 2017 ARIES (March 21-April 19): I have misgivings when

I witness bears riding bicycles or tigers dancing on their hind legs or Aries people wielding diplomatic phrases and making careful compromises at committee meetings. While I am impressed by the disciplined expression of primal power, I worry for the soul of the creature that is behaving with such civilized restraint. So here’s my advice for you in the coming weeks: Take advantage of opportunities to make deals and forge win-win situations. But also keep a part of your fiery heart untamed. Don’t let people think they’ve got you all figured out.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “One of the

advantages of being disorderly,” said author A. A. Milne, “is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.” I wouldn’t normally offer this idea as advice to a methodical dynamo like you. But my interpretation of the astrological omens compels me to override my personal theories about what you need. I must suggest that you consider experimenting with jaunty, rambunctious behavior in the coming days, even if it generates some disorder. The potential reward?

Exciting discoveries, of course.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): According to my

reading of the astrological omens, it’s time for you to take a break from the magic you have been weaving since your birthday in 2016. That’s why I’m suggesting that you go on a brief sabbatical. Allow your deep mind to fully integrate the lessons you’ve been learning and the transformations you have undergone over the past 11 months. In a few weeks, you’ll be ready to resume where you left off. For now, though, you require breathing room. Your spiritual batteries need time to recharge. The hard work you’ve done should be balanced by an extended regimen of relaxed playtime.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Apparently, a lot

of kids in the United Kingdom don’t like to eat vegetables. In response, food researchers in that country marketed a variety of exotic variations designed to appeal to their palate. The new dishes included chocolate-flavored carrots, pizza-flavored corn and cheese-and-onionflavored cauliflower. I don’t recommend that you get quite so extreme in trying to broaden your own appeal, Cancerian. But see if you can at least reach out to your potential constituency with a new wrinkle or fresh twist. Be imaginative as you expand the range of what your colleagues and clientele have to choose from.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In speaking about the ardu-

ous quest to become one’s authentic self, writer Thomas Merton used the example of poets who aspire to be original but end up being imitative.

“Many poets never succeed in being themselves,” he said. “They never get around to being the particular poet they are intended to be by God. They never become the person or artist who is called for by all of the circumstances of their individual lives. They waste their years in vain efforts to be some other poet. They wear out their minds and bodies in a hopeless endeavor to have somebody else’s experiences or write somebody else’s poems.” I happen to believe that this is a problem for nonpoets, as well. Many of us never succeed in becoming ourselves. Luckily for you, Leo, in the coming weeks and months you will have an unprecedented chance to become more of who you really are. To expedite the process, work on dissolving any attraction you might have to acting like someone other than yourself.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): On numerous occasions, French acrobat Charles Blondin walked across a tightrope that spanned the gorge near Niagara Falls. His cable was three and a quarter inches in diameter, 1,100 feet long, and 160 feet above the Niagara River. Once he made the entire crossing by doing back flips and somersaults. Another time he carried a small stove on his back, stopped midway to cook an omelet, and ate the meal before finishing. Now would be an excellent time for you to carry out your personal equivalent of his feats, Virgo. What daring actions have you never tried before even though you’ve been sufficiently trained or educated to perform them well?

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Ready for some sub-

terranean journeys? They may not involve literal explorations of deep caverns and ancient tunnels

and underground streams. You may not stumble upon lost treasure and forgotten artifacts and valuable ruins. But then again, you might. At the very least, you will encounter metaphorical versions of some of the above. What mysteries would you love to solve? What secrets would be fun to uncover? What shadows would you be excited to illuminate?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Why would you

guzzle mind-clouding moonshine when you will eventually get a chance to sip a heart-reviving tonic? Why spoil your appetite by loading up on non-nutritious hors d’oeuvres when a healthy feast will be available sooner than you imagine?

I advise you to suppress your compulsion for immediate gratification. It may seem impossible for you to summon such heroic patience, but I know you can. And in the long run, you’ll be happy if you do.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “You’ll

always be my favorite what-if.” Many years ago, I heard that phrase whispered in my ear. It came from the mouth of a wonderful-but-impossible woman. We had just decided that it was not a good plan, as we had previously fantasized, to run away and get married at Angkor Wat in Cambodia and then spend the next decade being tour guides who led travelers on exotic getaways to the world’s sacred sites. “You’ll always be my favorite what-if” was a poignant but liberating moment. It allowed us to move on with our lives and pursue other dreams that were more realistic and productive. I invite you to consider triggering a liberation like that sometime soon.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I’d love to see

you increase the number of people, places and experiences you love, as well as the wise intensity with which you love them. From an astrological perspective, now is an excellent time to upgrade your appreciation and adoration for the whole world and everything in it. To get you in the mood, I’ll call your attention to some unfamiliar forms of ardor you may want to pursue: keraunophilia, an attraction to thunder and lightning; cymophilia, a fascination with waves and waviness; chorophilia, a passion for dancing; asymmetrophilia, a zeal for asymmetrical things; sapiophilia, an erotic enchantment with intelligence.

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It’s high time you did so.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Among America’s

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Make sure you gather insight and wisdom from the very best sources. That’s how you’ll avoid behavior that’s irrelevant to your life goals.

That’s how you’ll attract experiences that serve your highest good.

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.

Splitsville Richard M. Abdallah has his work cut out for him. Marriage licenses in Sacramento County have steadily increased over the last 10 years (9,613 total in 2016), and national statistics show that 50 percent of those will likely end in divorce. SN&R had a chat with the Arden-Arcade family law attorney about divorce trials, what makes California’s laws unique, and why the scorchedearth approach isn’t always the best style of separation.

You often hear about when the best age is to get married. When’s the best age to get divorced?

Ha! I don’t know about age, but I would say as soon as possible after you get married, if it’s going to happen. The longer you stay married, the longer you get entwined together, the greater chances you have children together, which complicates things. … So, if somebody says the best age to get married is 25 and you’re going to get divorced, I would say 25 and a half.

Say I’m thinking of settling down.

How can I prepare for the worst?

Well, a premarital agreement. People now know it as a prenuptial agreement. … When people say preparing for the worst, they’re usually thinking finances.

So, there’s certain things that you can contract with your future spouse so that if something were to happen … you’ve kind of laid the groundwork … whether or not there’s going to be spousal support paid, whether or not the business you already own is going to remain your separate business, or whether or not a house that you already own will remain your separate house.

Anything unique about California divorce law?

Well, California is a “community property” state. … It’s also a “no fault” state.

“Community property” means whatever’s acquired during the marriage is 50-50.

And “no fault”?

Some people come in and they’ll want to get a divorce because their spouse cheated on them, and they want to make sure they don’t have to pay spousal support. … In California, it doesn’t matter why you’re getting [a] divorce. … The laws remain the same whether somebody did something wrong or nobody did something wrong.

When do you usually get the phone call?

I get a fair number of calls from people contemplating divorce. Or getting ready to pull the trigger and they want some advice

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on how to proceed, or they’re tire-kicking to see how much it’s going to cost them. I also get some, “Hey, my spouse just filed for divorce and I have to go to court in three weeks. I need an attorney.”

How much do divorces cost, on average?

It’s a wide range. … In a simpler divorce where it’s slightly contested, where maybe there’s a couple court hearings for child custody along the way, you may be looking at around $7,000. … And then in cases you can read about in the news, those can be in the hundreds of thousands. It wouldn’t be completely unusual for a case here in Sacramento that’s contested and goes to trial to be in the $30,000 range.

And how long do they usually take?

[After filing an initial petition] You have to wait six months to be divorced in California. Some of them can be completed before six months. … Those are best-case scenarios. … I would say the average case is about a year.

What’s the most challenging part of the process?

Managing people’s emotions and expectations. People come in, they’re highly charged because it’s a very emotional time, especially as it relates to children.

Some people also have the idea, “Well, I’m going to hire an attorney, and I’m going to get every single thing I want,” and that’s not necessarily the case. It’s not like you grab the little bottle of magic and everything goes your way.

I’ll give you an example: Let’s say a man or a woman comes into my office, and the other party has been the breadwinner the entire time, and they’ve been married for 30 years.

The breadwinner decided to clean out [their] bank accounts and move out, and they’re not paying the other person a penny, and this person is basically homeless. To be able to go to court and get some financial relief for that person, that’s a fantastic feeling.

Are you married?

Yes, I am.

How has your job affected your views on marriage?

It hasn’t really affected my views, [but] you see how things get ugly. One thing I’ve learned is if you do get divorced … try and divorce peacefully and amicably. I tell this to all my clients: You can fight tooth and nail, try to scorch the earth through a trial and spend tens of thousands on attorney fees, and it’s very likely that the result will be something that you should have just agreed to in the beginning. That’s really because the laws [in California] are so clear on what the parties’ respective rights are. … But, feelings get hurt. Emotions run high. There’s anger.

Sometimes, there’s cheating that takes place, and one party is scorned and they want to punish the other party. If you can try and do it peacefully out of court, then it’s better for everybody. Who really makes money fighting things in court are the attorneys. Ω

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