s-2017-06-15

FREE

K i l l ing mom 12

A terminal cancer patient wants to die. Will California’s end-of-life bureaucracy let her go? By Raheem F. hosseini

PuBlic housing agency’s whistleBloweR leaKs | pg. 6

oaK PaRK gets new geRman gRuB | pg. 23

RaPPeR Kennedy wRose weaRs a halo | pg. 32

Sacramento’S newS & entertainment weekly

|

Volume 29, iSSue 09

|

thurSday, June

15, 2017

|

newSreView.com

2 | SN&R | 06.15.17

EditoR’S NotE

juNE 15, 2017 | Vol. 29, iSSuE 09

04 05 06 10 11 12 20 23 29 30 32 34 42 49 59

06 25

32

29

Our Mission: To publish great newspapers that are successful and enduring. To create a quality work environment that encourages employees to grow professionally while respecting personal welfare. To have a positive impact on our communities and make them better places to live.

Interim Editor Robert Speer News Editor Raheem F. Hosseini Arts & Culture Editor Rebecca Huval Assistant Editor Anthony Siino Staff Reporter Scott Thomas Anderson Calendar Editor Mozes Zarate Contributing Editor Rachel Leibrock Contributors Daniel Barnes, Ngaio Bealum, Janelle Bitker, Alastair Bland, Rob Brezsny, Aaron Carnes, Jim Carnes, Willie Clark, John Flynn, Joey Garcia, Lovelle Harris, Jeff Hudson, Dave Kempa, Matt Kramer, Jim Lane, Kel Munger, Kate Paloy, Patti Roberts, Steph Rodriguez, Ann Martin Rolke, Shoka, Bev Sykes

Design Manager Lindsay Trop Creative Director Serene Lusano Art Director Margaret Larkin Production Coordinator Skyler Smith Designers Kyle Shine, Maria Ratinova Marketing/Publications Designer Sarah Hansel Web Design & Strategy Intern Elisabeth Bayard Arthur Contributing Photographers Lisa Baetz, Evan Duran, Adam Emelio, Lucas Fitzgerald, Jon Hermison, Kris Hooks, Gavin McIntyre, Shoka, Lauran Fayne Worthy Advertising Manager Paul Corsaro Sales Coordinator Joanna Graves Senior Advertising Consultants Rosemarie Messina, Joy Webber, Kelsi White Advertising Consultants Matt Kjar, Cierra Hamilton Larrabee, Paul McGuinness, Michael Nero, Wendy Russell, Manushi Weerasinghe Lead Director of First Impressions & Sales Assistant David Lindsay Director of First Impressions Hannah Williams Distribution Director Greg Erwin Distribution Services Assistant Larry Schubert Distribution Drivers Mansour Aghdam, Andy Barker, Kimberly Bordenkircher, Daniel Bowen, Heather

Brinkley, Allen Brown, Mike Cleary, Lydia Comer, Rob Dunnica, Chris Fong, Ron Forsberg, Joanna Gonzalez-Brown, Lori Lovell, Greg Meyers, Mark Fox, Sam Niver, Gilbert Quilatan, Lloyd Rongley, Lolu Sholotan, Eric Umeda, Zang Yang N&R Publications Editor Michelle Carl N&R Publications Associate Editor Kate Gonzales N&R Publications Writer Anne Stokes Senior N&R Publications Consultant Dave Nettles Marketing & Publications Consultant Steve Caruso, Christopher Martin, Brian Taylor President/CEO Jeff vonKaenel Director of Nuts & Bolts Deborah Redmond Nuts & Bolts Ninja Leslie Giovanini Executive Coordinator Carlyn Asuncion Director of People & Culture David Stogner Project Coordinator Natasha vonKaenel Director of Dollars & Sense Nicole Jackson Payroll/AP Wizard Miranda Dargitz Accounts Receivable Specialist Analie Foland Sweetdeals Specialist/HR Coordinator Courtney DeShields Developer John Bisignano, Jonathan Schultz System Support Specialist Kalin Jenkins

STREETALK LETTERS NEwS + beAtS gREENLighT ScoREKEEpER FEATuRE SToRy ARTS&cuLTuRE DiSh STAgE FiLm muSic cALENDAR ASK joEy ThE 420 15 miNuTES

covER DESigN by mARgARET LARKiN

1124 Del Paso Boulevard, Sacramento, CA 95815 Phone (916) 498-1234 Fax (916) 498-7910 Website www.newsreview.com Got a News Tip? sactonewstips@newsreview.com Calendar Events www.newsreview.com/calendar Want to Advertise? Fax (916) 498-7910 or snradinfo@newsreview.com Classifieds (916) 498-1234, ext. 5 or classifieds@newsreview.com Job Opportunities jobs@newsreview.com Want to Subscribe to SN&R? sactosubs@newsreview.com Editorial Policies: opinions expressed in SN&R are those of the authors and not of Chico Community publishing, Inc. Contact the editor for permissions to reprint articles, cartoons or other portions of the paper. SN&R is not responsible for unsolicited manuscripts or review materials. email letters to snrletters@newsreview.com. All letters received become the property of the publisher. We reserve the right to print letters in condensed form and to edit them for libel.

Advertising Policies: All advertising is subject to the newspaper’s Standards of Acceptance. the advertiser and not the newspaper assumes the responsibility for the truthful content of their advertising message.

SN&R is printed at bay Area News Group on recycled newsprint.

Circulation of SN&R is verified by the Circulation Verification Council.

SN&R is a member of Sacramento Metro Chamber of Commerce, CNpA, AAN and AWN.

Dying with dignity?

Every day dozens of people die in Sacramento. Some go easily, others slowly and painfully. Our cover feature this week, “Killing Mom,” is about one of those deaths.

Her name was—still is, her family would say—Elisabeth Katharina Hosseini. She was a German immigrant married to an Iranian immigrant, and she had three sons. One of them is Raheem F. Hosseini, this newspaper’s associate editor.

It’s never easy to write about the death of a loved one, and it’s especially difficult when that death was made unnecessarily painful by bureaucratic incompetence and legal obstacles.

Raheem worked on his story for months following his mother’s death, wrestling with memories that were sometimes wrenching.

Elisabeth Hosseini wanted desperately to take advantage of California’s aid-in-dying law. She’d used holistic methods of her own choosing to fight multiple myeloma, a blood cancer, for more than 22 years. When death finally approached, she wanted to keep control. “I don’t want to suffer,” she told family members.

However, as Raheem’s story reveals in several vivid and disturbing scenes with hospital officials, hospice workers and physicians, the aid-indying law’s principle purpose isn’t so much to allow dying people to exit painlessly and with dignity, but rather to protect the doctors and medical bureaucrats who implement the law.

This is an important story. It shows in graphic detail how a well- intentioned law can end up being onerous to those whom it was meant to assist. More than that, though, it’s a vividly drawn portrait of a remarkable woman and her family as they faced one of life’s most challenging events with courage and love.

—RobeRt SpeeR b o b s@ ne wsr e v ie w.c o m

A SALUTE TO THE

COEN BROTHERS PRESENTED BY HOPPY BREWING COMPANY

JUNE 10

JUNE 17

JUNE 24

SERVING WHITE RUSSIANS

FREMONT PARK - GATES OPEN 6:00PM MOVIES BEGIN 9:00PM - 21 AND OVER ONLY FOOD TRUCKS - BEER & WINE GARDEN

NET PROCEEDS FROM BEER AND WINE SALES DONATED TO FRONT STREET ANIMAL SHELTER

SACRAMENTO

06.15.17 | SN&R | 3

“I don’t thInk I would have wanted to let her go any earlIer.”

asked in old sacraMento:

Could you pull the plug on a loved one?

Melba Hinojosa

danielle rodriGue z

nurse

child development specialist

I do think people should have the right to determine their own end within the parameters. If they have to go to another state to end their lives ... then they can.

As a nurse, I take care of people. Some people in the medical profession may take matters into their own hands and I don’t believe in that.

I have had to make that decision with pets. I think it is similar. I think having someone, a pet or someone, suffer, is wrong. I think if I had to do it for a loved one it would be easier because it is humane. When you love someone so much, then you don’t want to see them suffer.

10FREE DAYS of

CAR WASHES

Ger ald jackson

saMantHa alvar ado

semiretired

paraeducator

Under some extreme circumstances, I think yes.

If a loved one asked me, I would do everything in my power to make them comfortable ... I would consider their wishes. It would be humane. If you are terminally ill, you could still enjoy life, but if you were brain-dead, you are not enjoying life.

cHris infantino

brendon rodriGue z

construction worker

My aunt had suffered a stroke. ... Her body was giving up, physically. She was drifting in and out, mentally. This woman went to University of Texas, Austin, and was an English major and had studied abroad. She was a genius. In the end, a machine was pumping [her] oxygen.

business analyst

I had a grandmother who was in hospice care, dying of cancer. It was pretty rapid. It was hard to see her go, but she was in good spirits most of the time. I don’t think I would have wanted to let her go any earlier. I would only hope that I could carry out the will of my loved one.

JULY 6-15

If it was their wish, then, yes, I could execute that. ...

For me, I wouldn’t make a choice for someone else, only if they asked. Right now, in this moment, I picture myself with my mother, and if she wasn’t asking, and she was a vegetable, I wouldn’t do it. I would hold on and keep praying.

Rocklin

COMING SOON !

A new Quick Quack is coming and we are celebrating with

Antelope

FREE CAR WASHES! Folsom (Prairie City)

Grand Opening Celebration

Folsom (Iron Point)

ON !

COMING SO

Cal Expo

1120 Exposition Blvd.

Sacramento, CA 95815 MING SOON !

CO

COMING SO

ON !

Text

SNREX PO to 555888

888-772-2792 4 QQ_SNR_618CalExpo_10Days_10x5.16_FINAL.indd | SN&R | 06.15.17

1

6/8/17 12:49 PM

ONLINE BUZZ

Email lEttErs to sactolEttErs@nEwsrEviEw.com

All together now

Vermilion is A-OK Re “Vermilion, Not Pittsburgh,” by Jeff vonKaenel (Greenlight, June 8): Jeff’s article, however interesting, paints a terribly bleak picture of a town where the situation has never been so bleak. The reason for the change in politics has more to do with the misrepresentations of reality of the person who became the “idiot in chief.” I believe the politics will change in the future when the dust settles and the realities sink in.

In the meantime Vermilion doesn’t need the great prevaricator for anything. The town was, is and always will be well. Heavy manufacturing was doomed from the start. Times have changed, and Vermilion is actually out in front.

ron TarranT v er m i l i on , o h i o

Done diligence

news and perspective not always available elsewhere.

It is so vital to a better informed community and electorate. Thank you for your commitment.

Re “Children in debt,” by Matt Kramer (News, May 18): I want to compliment the SN&R reporters, editors and publishers for their diligence in delivering such significant

Re “Rogue state,” by Robert Speer (Editor’s note, June 8): Once again Robert Speer is on the mark in pointing out that we must “make the planet great again.” Faced with global climate change, global pollution and a global economy, national decisions increasingly impact all of the Earth’s peoples. “National sustainability” is an oxymoron.

We must keep our eyes on the Earth’s ability to support life. Our national self-interest dictates that we demonstrate concern on a global level. We are all in this together. evan Jones s a c ra m e nt o

the discrepancy between the actual counts of homeless people versus using the number of people getting a state benefit—fraud/abuse in the benefits program. The workers could be undercounting the actual homeless by 80 percent, or we have fraud/abuse on the CalFresh program of 80 percent.

I tend to think the 80 percent fraud/abuse number is the correct one—just like I believe the number of disabled parking placards is about 80 percent fraud/abuse.

How is the CalFresh program audited? The state seems to do a horrible job of auditing all of its other benefits programs.

WOnDer WOmAn reDux: Lazy effort by SnR, par for the course these days. This town needs a better class of alternative weekly.

BoBBy Gosal v ia Fa c e b o o k

@SacNewsReview

Maybe because SNR’s movie critics suck.

Facebook.com/ SacNewsReview

Ben eCkerT v ia Fa c e b o o k

@SacNewsReview

FAreWell tO FIsh:

online Buzz contributions are not edited for grammar, spelling or clarity.

And no one will care because everyone reading this will be dead in a century, so as long as there is still salmon and trout to eat “bring on the nigiri!”

Bill BixBy sa c ra me nto

It’s fraud and abuse

Read more letters online at www.newsreview .com/sacramento.

Re “Count down,” by Raheem Hosseini (News, May 18): Interestingly, there is another possible reason for

reBeCCa ann v ia Fa c e b o o k

!

S OB S! J T JOBS! econo lube n’ S I VIISSTT JOB I T IVVIST JOBS! tune & brakes AAACCCCTTTIIV ACTIVIST JOBS! SUMMER JOBS! $1698 $30 off fREE Charlene Jones sacr a m e nt o

We offer complete automotive service & repairs

LubE, OiL & FiLtEr

WORK WITH GRASSROOTS CAMPAIGNS ON BEHALF OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION! WORK WITH GRASSROOTS CAMPAIGNS, INC. ON BEHALF OF THE ACLU TO FIGHT FOR LGBT RIGHTS, PROTECT A WOMAN’S RIGHT TO CHOOSE AND FIGHT DISCRIMINATION. EARN$420-$600 PER WEEK, FULL-TIME /CAREER

CALL CAMERON AT (916) 446-1100

Your Downtown Service Shop SMOG CHECK

3175

$

(reg $49.75) most cars.

Call for details. Same day.

Fast In/Out

OIL

CHANGE

2699

$

Call for details.

$60 EMISSIONS DIAGNOSTIC w/repairs at time of service. (reg $120) most cars.

For renewal reg. only.

Call for details.

$3 addition for multi-grade oil. Good at Fulton location only. Most vehicles savings of $6. $2 Disposal fee.

M-F 7:30-5:30 Sat 8-4 sacsmog.com

chEck EnginE Light ScAn* *Most vehicles

Mon-Sat 8-6 • Sun 9-4 • www.ardeneconolube.com • EXP 3/8/17

BEST CAR WASH SPECIALS EXPRESS EXTERIOR WASH ONLY • Priority Lane $ 99 9 * • Avoid Lines WITH COUPON

NORMALLY $13.99 Use your smart phone QR reader for more specials

Call for details. Good at Fulton location only.

1700 Fulton at Arden Way, Sacramento • 481-1192

• No Delays

916 554-6471 2000 16th St Sacramento

brAkE SPEciAL

*Expires 06/29/17 • Coupon Code 405

PREMIER WASH 20.99 Full Service Wash including 8.00 5.00 1.00 6.00

interior vacuum & wipe down Triple Foam Wax Underbody Rust Inhibitor Air Freshener ONLY Sealant

$40.99 VALUE

*Expires 06/29/17 • Coupon Code 158

2299*

$

WITH COUPON

1901 L Street • 916.446.0129

(on the corner of 19th and L) •

www.harvscarwash.com 06.15.17 | SN&R | 5

Former SHRA employee Laura Cedidla stands in front of the courthouse where she’ll face the agency on July 7.

Photo by Evan Duran

Houses of ill repair Witnesses say public housing agency has been retaliating against whistleblowers

by Scott thomaS anderSon

sc o tta @ ne wsr e v ie w.c o m

Child Protective Services to an SHRA property as the reason she’s being kicked out.

Now, as one local politician openly talks about dissolving the housing authority, its executive director is stressing that her team faces the most uniquely demanding landlord responsibilities imaginable—responsibilities SHRA must tackle in the wake of added challenges and dwindling federal funds.

Hall never expected public housing to be

On July 7, Laura Cedidla will walk into a courtroom to make her case against the Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency. With her will be reams of documentation she claims proves that the public housing agency fired her for doing her job—looking out for the region’s most vulnerable tenants.

Better known as SHRA, the institution that employed Cedidla is a joint powers authority in control of all cityand county-owned affordable rentals— a last stop before homelessness for thousands of Sacramentans paddling 6 | SN&R | 06.15.17

against the tide of a major housing crisis. Cedidla worked for SHRA for a decade. Two years ago, she says, she started blowing the whistle on what she viewed as unsafe conditions. And that, Cedidla alleges, got her terminated.

“They’re all about image now,” Cedidla said of SHRA. “And they’ve lost sight about what we’re supposed to be doing for the residents.”

Meanwhile, tenants in three apartment complexes operated by SHRA are reporting widespread crime and safety issues, which they say are ignored by

the agency’s managers. These residents live in different neighborhoods and don’t know each other, but they all agree on two things: SHRA’s public housing is badly managed; and the only employee who took their concerns seriously was Cedidla.

One tenant, Gina Hall, says she’s being evicted by SHRA for the same reason she believes its managers fired Cedidla—demanding properties be safe and bad actors held accountable. Hall’s eviction notice cites her tendency to call sheriff’s deputies, firefighters and

perfect when she moved into SHRA’s Orangevale apartments on Main Avenue in 2008. But that doesn’t mean she expected another tenant to try recruiting her into his drug dealing business around the complex.

“I said, ‘Absolutely not,’” Hall remembered. “Well, to a gang member, you just don’t say that.”

Hall says she was soon being menaced. Hall reported her concerns to SHRA management. She and another witness say those concerns were repeatedly ignored.

SN&R RecommitS to the aRtS See GReeNLiGht

10

ShaRia Law pRoteSt a biGGeR diSappoiNtmeNt thaN Shia Labeouf See ScoReKeepeR

11

beatS

Rt SecuRity maKeoveR In 2012, Hall moved to a new SHRA-operated complex on Elkhorn Boulevard in Rio Linda. She said it was more crime-ridden than the Orangevale location. Hall told SN&R she witnessed an ongoing parade of drug-dealing, theft, assaults, domestic violence and animal abuse. From Hall’s perspective, the criminal activity originated from a small group of tenants. Yet no matter how many times individuals complained to on-site management, no action was taken, Hall charges.

That’s not hard to believe for Noel Hopkins, who lives in an SHRA property in a different part of Sacramento County. Hopkins said those residing in his complex on Cypress Street have long witnessed vehicle burglaries and thefts, drug-dealing and assaults. One night, Hopkins says, he saw a woman stumble out of a nearby apartment, her face drenched in blood and screaming.

When Hopkins reported the tenant connected to that incident, nothing happened, he says. He claims the same is true for other crimes he and his fellow residents have reported.

“The complaints went to deaf ears,” Hopkins said. Managers, he added, seemed “detached from reality.”

Marilyn Gorst says she has also witnessed crime thrive in her SHRA complex on Redwood Avenue. Yet, for Gorst, it’s the basic, unaddressed safety issues that shock her.

Gorst says she and her neighbors have suffered through waterlogged walls and flood-damaged carpets for six months at a time. Equally perturbing to Gorst is the fact that SHRA managers keep one of her complex’s three gated entrances locked at all times, forcing elderly and disabled residents to walk extra distances.

“Every time the tenants have asked, we’ve been told that gate is locked to keep out a bad element,” Gorst noted, rolling her eyes. “Even though there’s already drug dealers, strangers and ladies of the night all through the place.”

People renting from SHRA are supposed to have a unified voice through resident advisory boards. But one tenant who served on the advisory board at the Redwood Avenue complex told SN&R the boards are summarily ignored by management. That includes when the boards raise concerns about drug dealing and methamphetamineaddled strangers stalking through the premises.

SHRA uses for affordable housing.

For Hamilton, that doesn’t explain a track record he claims to have witnessed of SHRA hiring and protecting bad managers, especially ones who ignore disruptive tenants.

“SHRA’s mission statement is to provide safe, decent and affordable ShRa executive director LaShelle dozier housing. And it’s affordable, but it’s acknowledged that some maintenance anything but safe and decent,” Hamilton issues could have been fixed observed. “When you look at sooner, but strongly all of the gang activity, disagreed that her drug dealing, theft managers don’t and prostitution, the take resident managers don’t safety seriously. get paid anything Dozier said extra to take that when one care of those tenant reports problems, so another for it’s easier for suspected a lot of them crimes, to just act like SHRA’s they don’t see managers are it. They tend to Alex Hamilton barred from have an attitude former SHRA housing technician discussing the that, ‘Well, it’s investigations that good enough for follow, probes that can public housing.’ And that take months. is just wrong.”

“In many cases, evicting our one employee who believed in ShRa’s tenants leads directly to homelessness, mission was Cedidla. However, over the so the system is set up to require a high years, she says, she became convinced burden of proof,” Dozier explained. the agency was providing the least “Often the actions we’re trying to take amount of service it could get away are invisible to the resident who made with. the complaint. And a judge can block Cedidla told SN&R—and will make the eviction, too.” the same argument during a court hearing Dozier added that the job of housing next month on a restraining order—that vulnerable clients in some neighborSHRA managers regularly ignore tenant hoods already plagued by crime, addicconcerns, communicate with residents tion and disinvestment breeds a tough balancing act for her property managers. in demeaning ways, file incomplete paperwork with the federal Department “With the nature of the housing of Housing and Urban Development, we provide, they’re often in between foster a hostile work environment and tenants who don’t get along,” she said. make confrontational statements about the But Alex Hamilton, who worked county employees’ union. as an SHRA housing technician for 23 Conversely, Cedidla’s own work has years, says the residents of these varibeen lauded by tenants. Hall, Hopkins ous properties are not exaggerating the and Gorst—who live at different conditions—or the danger.

SHRA addresses and don’t know each Hamilton says SHRA has gradually other—all described Cedidla as the decreased its maintenance budgets for most professional and effective SHRA public housing while steering more funds employee they’d encountered. into city and county development projects.

The former member of the Redwood That’s because, in 2012, California elimiAvenue complex’s resident advisory nated funding for redevelopment agencies, board had the same glowing impression which caused local leaders to heap the of Cedidla. burden of renovating districts, reinvigoratFed up with what she viewed as ing blighted streets and recreating micro SHRA’s dysfunction, Cedidla contacted business climates onto SHRA’s plate.

At the same time, Sacramento’s elected officials voted to allow developers to pay “houSeS of iLL RepaiR” coNtiNued oN paGe 9 a far smaller share into the trust funds that “Management is supposed to be keeping that stuff out and they don’t,” said the former board member, who requested anonymity for fear of being evicted for speaking out. “And there are a lot of seniors living there that can be intimidated.”

“If you stand up to them, they try to get rid of you and they try to discredit you.”

Commuters pushed past the podium at the 16th Street light-rail station, oblivious to the scrum of transit leaders and press waiting to hear about Sacramento Regional Transit’s planned security makeover.

SacRT officials announced June 9 that 30 new transit agents were being hired, following two years of public outcry surrounding the agency’s contract with private security firm G4S Security Solutions, the third-largest employer in the world.

A combination of factors—including SacRT’s light-rail image, expiration of the G4S contract, pressure from a union that wanted those security jobs back and activist groups that criticized G4S’ human rights record abroad—seemed to lead to the decision.

According to Amalgamated Transit Union 1575 President Ralph Niz, the RT Board of Directors approached his union about making the shift. “We still have a ways to go, but at least we’re in the right direction,” Niz said.

Dozens of groups lobbied RT to cut ties with G4S for nearly two years. The company has been repeatedly accused of human rights violations at for-profit prisons and migrant detention centers in the United States, United Kingdom, Palestine and elsewhere.

Last week, RT announced its separation from the global security firm, whose local employees were assigned to Sacramento’s lightrail trains to report misdeeds and act as visual deterrents. These security agents lacked the authority to write tickets, however, and RT’s union staff objected to the privatization of its security workers.

RT’s decision to build up its in-house security personnel will provide increased fare enforcement and is estimated to save $200,000, say officials. A smaller, local security company was also hired in May to provide supplemental guards.

At the press conference, safety was touted as a key reason for the changes.

Additional surveillance, totaling 2,000 cameras, and a new public announcement system were also announced. The PA system allows RT staff to interact with riders in real time if they see something amiss on security feeds, or want to pass along information.

“We’re bringing a little voice of God here,” quipped RT board member Jay Schenirer, a Sacramento councilman. (Michael Mott)

dyiNG befoRe the heat The old cliché about crime rising with the heat proved all too true for Sacramento homicide detectives, who have now stood over 10 bodies in the last six weeks.

The fatal events started May 1 in Rio Linda, when sheriff’s deputies responded to the 6700 block of West Second Street to find an 18-year-old male dying from stab wounds to his chest. According to sheriff’s officials, the teen had been involved in a fight with 18-year-old Nicholas Joseph Scott, who allegedly pulled a blade.

Scott was arrested for murder.

On May 22, the warming trend reached the city of Sacramento, where two men were discovered with gunshot wounds inside a house in Del Paso Heights. One died of his injuries.

Over the next two weeks, city detectives fielded three more homicides—one a stabbing victim on Mack Road in the south city, another a shooting victim found in a burning car on 24th Street, and the third a man shot dead on 33rd Street in Oak Park. Councilman Jay Schenirer announced a community meeting following the last homicide, which occurred June 12 in his district.

No arrests have been announced in the above cases.

Sheriff’s investigators are looking into two more fatal shootings this month. (Scott Thomas Anderson)

06.15.17 | SN&R | 7

SAT JUNE 17 KICKOFF 8PM

vs

100 TICKETS HELD FOR WALK UP SALES

FREE SABA BIKE VALET AND REPAIRS

OVER 20 BEER LABELS ON TAP

GET YOUR TICKETS TODAY AT

8 | SN&R | 06.15.17

$20

STARTING TICKET PRICE

42nd Annual CBA Father’s Day Bluegrass Festival

Check out this year’s lineup!

Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver Bobby Osborne & Rocky Top X-Press Molsky's Mountain Drifters Tony Trischka Territory Becky Buller Band Mipso Piedmont Melody Makers Sawmill Road The Freight Hoppers Darin and Brooke Aldridge

“houses of ill repair” conTinued froM paGe 7

already ruled there’s no evidence of that.

Hamilton, who worked alongside Cedidla for a decade, says he is sure she’s being retaliated against for holding SHRA’s managers accountable.

“If you stand up to them, they try to get rid of you and they try to discredit you,” Hamilton told SN&R. “And they’re trying to do that to Laura now. They’re going to try to paint her as a crazy person—and she’s not. She’s competent and she cares about the residents.”

Dozier told SN&R that city and county policy prevents her from commenting on active personnel disputes. Similarly, the rules around public housing bar Dozier from discussing Hall’s pending eviction. Dozier did say that the mold, asbestos and lead-based paint hazard Cedidla told OSHA about was fixed shortly after the fact, as was the unrelated bed bug infestation Cedidla reported. In terms of whether her managers are responsive to complaints, Dozier says she’s been holding monthly meetings where the residents can speak to her directly.

“In one of those meetings I learned about some food insecurity at the complex on Redwood Avenue,” Dozier recalled, “and we were able to get food drops there by one of our local food banks.”

This is a challenging time for Dozier’s embattled agency.

County Supervisor Patrick Kennedy has publicly expressed concerns about SHRA’s oversight and financial transparency. The District 2 representative even suggested dissolving the agency, which would task the county and city with managing affordable units.

But tampering with SHRA’s joint-power structure essentially means launching a housing experiment at the same moment Sacramento is taking a spotlight in California’s affordable-housing crisis.

According to new data released by the California Housing Partnership, Sacramento County

needs more than 62,000 affordable rental units to meet the needs of its lowest earners. The report also indicates rents in Sacramento are up 18 percent since 2000, while household incomes are down 11 percent in the same period. Even some tenant advocacy groups like the Sacramento Housing Alliance, which has a strained relationship with SHRA, favor overhauling the agency rather than disbanding it.

Dozier says it’s hard to articulate to the public everything her agency does, from running public housing to getting more affordable and market-rate units built, to spurring economic development where local leaders determine it’s needed.

“It’s a lot,” she said. “But I think we have passion for it and we work really hard.”

As for Hamilton, he still believes in SHRA’s basic purpose, but he has serious misgivings about a political will to reform it.

“The maintenance on the housing stock has been so neglected,” Hamilton offered. “And they just make it such a terrible place to work.”

For tenants like Hopkins, things have actually improved in recent months. He says a new manager at the Cypress Street complex is working to address some crime and safety issues. But after hearing about what happened to Cedidla, he says he’s worried how the story will end.

“As far as Laura goes, that’s someone I’d trust with my life,” Hopkins said.

When she’s not thinking about it, Cedidla still speaks as if she’s part of SHRA’s team. But she’s not. Next month, she’s scheduled to face SHRA officials in Sacramento Superior Court, where she’s trying to lift the restraining order her previous employer filed against her. After that, the next step will be filing a wrongful termination suit, she says.

Asked about Kennedy’s tough talk on SHRA, Cedidla replied, “As sad as it is to say this, we probably shouldn’t exist, because of the level of service we provide.

We probably don’t deserve to.” Ω

Barefoot Movement

The Blue Js

Plus: CA Showcase Bands: Crooked Jades The Brombies David Thom Burning Heart Bluegrass Matt and George and their Pleasant Valley Boys

As always, there will be mulƟple stages, Luthiers’ Pavilion, great food and drink, craŌs, workshops, plenty of acƟviƟes for youths (including Kids on Bluegrass!), and of course nonstop jamming beneath the pines!

June 15-18, 2017 Nevada County Fairgrounds, Grass Valley, CA For info: www.fathersdayfestival.com, or www.cbaweb.org or ph 209-483-4311

Save $10

Save $10 per Gate Ticket (up to 2) with this coupon.

(Not valid with any other offer)

SNR17

the Sacramento County Grand Jury in August 2015 to suggest it assign an independent watchdog to investigate management’s handling of safety issues and legal procedures.

In January of this year, she filed a complaint with her union, Local 146 Sacramento County California Employees, about dangerous mold, asbestos and lead-based paint in SHRA’s employee office on Redwood Avenue. Weeks later, she filed an identical compliant with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The same month, Cedidla filed a complaint with her union about a neglected bed bug infestation in the Redwood Avenue apartments.

In March, Cedidla says, a manager asked her to transport documents with tenants’ personal information to another SHRA office. Cedidla says she refused because her SUV didn’t have a secured compartment to protect the identifiers, which the agency called for with its double-lock and key policy.

When she declined, Cedidla claims, the manager “violently” pulled the paperwork out of her hands and yelled at her. Cedidla says she quickly reported the incident to her union and requested that SHRA transfer her or that manager to a different office. She said the request was denied. Four weeks later, SHRA served Cedidla with a restraining order and began the process of terminating her employment.

For Cedidla, the paperwork that outlines why she’s being fired is stranger than fiction. It cites her possessing a utility knife and pepper spray, both of which are legal. It also cites a cartoon that Cedidla doodled while in a staff meeting—a sketch portraying one of the managers as a ticking time bomb. At least, that’s Cedidla’s explanation of the drawing.

SHRA’s restraining order charges it was a literal bomb threat against the agency.

SHRA also accused Cedidla of making an offhand remark with threatening tones at a work lunch, though a judge assigned to the restraining order hearing has

Father’s Day Rose Ceremony Remembrance A FREE COMMUNITY EVENT

Sunday, June 18th 4:00 PM Sacramento Memorial Lawn, 6100 Stockton Blvd.

This unique and inspiring program supports loss of parent, loss of child, and general loss.

Register for this FREE program by calling Outreach Coordinator, Ursula Hebert, at (916) 421-1171 or by visiƟng our website: www.smlĬ.com.

The Father’s Day Rose Ceremony Remembrance is part of many acƟviƟes and events conducted throughout the year by Sacramento Community Outreach, a program of Sacramento Memorial Lawn located at: 6100 Stockton Blvd License #’s FD974, COA621, CR287 Sacramento, CA 95824 (916) 421-1171

06.15.17 | SN&R | 9

Spotlight on local music and art by jeff vonkaenel

THE SPAZMATICS THE ULTIMATE NEW WAVE 80’S SHOW SATURDAY JUNE 17 | 9PM $15 TICKETS MUST BE 21+

RESERVE ONLINE AT

HARDROCKCASINOLAKETAHOE.COM Live Entertainment Tax of 9% not included in ticket price.

844.588.ROCK

50 HIGHWAY 50 STATELINE, NV 89449

10 | SN&R | 06.15.17 JOB #: HRT-10312 AD TITLE: SPAZMATICS AMPLIFIED SUMMER

#THISISHARDROCK @HRHCLAKETAHOE

je ffv @ ne wsr e v ie w.c o m

encouraged them to have concurrent On Thursday, June 15, the Sacramento openings on the Second Saturday of News & Review will celebrate the each month. We published a monthly 25th anniversary of the Sacramento art guide and a Second Saturday map.

Area Music Awards. Ten Sacramento This combination of art and media bands will perform in a celebration created Second Saturday. of the Capital City’s music scene.

Media can shine a spotlight The doors will open 6 p.m. at Ace of on artists. Once in the spotlight, Spades, and the music will start at 7. excitement and energy grow. People When the SN&R first rolled off come out to the shows. And this the presses in April 1989, our city helps create a revenue stream for the had many great musicians but few places to play. The road to music was artists. Money for rent, for food, for child care so they can continue to Interstate 80 west to the Bay Area. practice their art. The media spotlight The conventional wisdom was that helps to support the art scene.

Sacramento would never be able to Recently, The Sacramento Bee develop a music scene being so close laid off nearly all of their talented to San Francisco. arts reporters, including food The SN&R envisioned and beer writer Blair the SAMMIES as a way Anthony Robertson, to put the spotlight on theater critic Marcus musicians. It worked.

The media Crowder, music Our first show at the critic Chris Macias, Crest was a sellout spotlight helps and food and and a wonderful to support the travel writer Allen celebration of all Pierleoni. This is kinds of music, from art scene. a huge blow to the country to classical.

Sacramento arts scene.

After the success of The Bee’s decision to that show, we created drop so much of its arts the Summer SAMMIES coverage will create a vacuum.

Concerts in the park in front of In the past, The Bee put a focus on City Hall, where SAMMIES nomicertain types of coverage and our nees and winners played before large smaller publication filled in the gaps. audiences on Friday nights through But now things have changed. the summer. Many people warned We at the News & Review need me that I could never get a crowd to to adjust our arts coverage to reflect come downtown after 5 p.m. But we the new reality. Our reborn calendar did. The concerts were great. section is the first step toward that At that time The Sacramento goal. How to expand our arts coverage Bee was focused on the Bay Area and continue to make ends meet is music scene. The staff at the SN&R something we will have to figure out. wanted to build up the local scene.

But I believe we can. Just as I believed So we wrote about local musicians.

25 years ago that we could help grow We provided a music calendar and the Sacramento music scene. pages for bars to advertise. More Enjoy the SAMMIES show, and people went out to the local shows. support local musicians and artists. Ω More bars added music. Our calendar expanded. And Sacramento’s music scene grew and grew.

A similar thing happened with the Jeff vonKaenel is the president, CEO and majority visual arts scene when we brought owner of the News & Review. local art gallery owners together and

’S mento SacraerS and winn S—with loSer ry pointS ra arbit

hn by jo

flyn

n

Sharia Showdown More than 300 people congregated in Roseville on June 10 as part of the March Against Sharia (Law), along with a couple hundred counter- demonstrators who came out because they thought the demonstration had anti-Muslim undertones. Mairaj Syed, a Religious Studies assistant professor at UC Davis, told The Sacramento Bee there’s a general misunderstanding of Sharia, as protesters highlighted antiquated or extremist practices such as child marriage and genital mutilation. Regardless, the anti-Sharia protesters—many of whom wore Trump-brand red caps—aren’t scaring terrorists. Their fear-mongering just makes life more difficult for peaceful members of our country’s most persecuted religious minority.

-300

comey TeSTifieS Fired FBI Director James Comey went before a Senate committee on June 8 and testified that President Donald Trump told him, “I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go,” in regard to the investigation of the documented ties between Russia and former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn. In response, puppy-eyed starver of the poor Paul Ryan downplayed the borderline obstruction of justice by saying the president is “new at this.” After crawling into bed with Trump, Republicans aren’t done being the little spoon.

Free introductory class given by a regional speaker followed by optional free vegetarian lunch and discussion Sunday, July 2nd, 12 noon • Sierra 2 Center, Curtis Hall 2791 - 24th St. • Sacramento

916-492-2671 • www.santmat.net illuStration by maria ratinoVa

whATeveR floATS youR voTe Sacramento County announced plans on June 6 to make voting more accessible. In addition to expanding vote-by-mail ballots, regional vote centers will open starting 10 days before the election. By Election Day, there will be 77 open centers located “based on specified demographics and public input to ensure the greatest access for all voters.” The change will further democratize elections and save the county $4 million.

-1776

+77

AnchoRS Aweigh

SudSy SucceSS

After about 20 years each at Channel 10, dale Schornack and cristina mendonsa—anchors so prototypical that they seem like the results of a lab experiment—signed off for their final broadcast on June 8 and 9, respectively, after their contracts were not renewed by the station. Schornack will become the public information officer at the California Department of Public Health, and Mendonsa is writing a book about the “evolution of media,” which, in this case, favored lower costs over competency.

On June 5, Assemblyman Kevin McCarty named Track 7 Brewing Co. his 7th District’s small business of the year. The craft brewery’s flagship Panic IPA won Best in Show at the 2014 California State Fair. And they’ve developed a reputation for experimental brews, exemplified by their June 10 release of Chasing Rainbows kettle sour with passion fruit, orange and guava—which really pushes the limit of what “beer” tastes like.

-20

+7

Need VeteraNs disability CompeNsatioN beNefits or Help witH aN appeal? law offiCe of steVeN H. berNiker,apC (916) 480-9200

2424 ardeN way, suite 360, saCrameNto, Ca 95825 Veteran adVocate: camie Jo decker-Laske Veterans assistance is our #1 Priority “ On the battlefield, the military pledges to leave no soldier behind.

As a Nation, let it be our pledge that when they return home, we leave no Veteran behind.”

– Dan Lipinski

06.15.17 | SN&R | 11

Killing MoM

by Raheem F. hosseini rah e e mh@newsrev i ew.c o m

Elisabeth Hosseini in her least favorite place in the world— a hospital room in Kaiser Permanente. My mother was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 1994. In September, her cancer became terminal.

Photo courtesy of hamid hosseini

12 | SN&R | 06.15.17

A terminal cancer patient wants to die. Will California’s end-of-life bureaucracy let her go?

Past the double sets of sliding doors and a pharmacy bustling with gray-faced patients, up one floor and across from the pediatric specialties department, Elisabeth Hosseini shifts on a crepe paper mat waiting to learn how much time she has left. Sitting on an exam table, my mother gestures to a row of glass waste containers standing at attention in the corner of her oncologist’s small office.

“Those are for me,” she says, trying to lift our spirits.

Dad and I wear sandbagged expressions. We’re a tough audience.

It’s September 7, 2016. In 45 days, my mom will be gone.

But we don’t know that yet.

For almost as long as I can remember, my mother has been fighting for her life. In 1994, she was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a blood cancer that warps the protein cells inside bone marrow like a sweeping zombie plague. The cells stop producing necessary antibodies. Bones rot and crack from the inside. Organs falter. There is no cure.

That was more than 22 years ago. By rejecting traditional cancer treatments and embracing holistic remedies, my iron-willed German mother quadrupled the average life expectancy and confounded her physicians.

“Raheem, I will beat this,” she used to tell me, her eyes crackling with a blue-green fire. Defiance always looked so beautiful on her.

But every heroine’s story ends eventually. And while my mother had been preparing her own final chapter for years, a wellintentioned bureaucracy was about to stand in her way.

A month earlier, Mom’s cancer sank to new depths. A mysterious fluid began filling her abdomen, constricting her lungs and heart and whipsawing us into emergency rooms in search of relief and answers. Her body was taking on water like a ship with a burst hull. But the doctors didn’t know where to find the leak or what it portended.

We had our suspicions, but no one wanted to utter them. No one wanted to believe that Elisabeth Katharina Hosseini—daughter of Tornow, Germany, crosser of oceans, uniter of cultures, woman of our dreams—was mortal after all.

The door opens. Dr. Philip Sardar enters with a file folder in his hand and pinched jowls. Mom starts to ask a question about her liver, but he interjects.

“Just listen to me for a second,” the longtime Kaiser Permanente oncologist says in a thick voice. Sardar says something about the yellow brine they’ve been pumping out of her, how it’s rich in

protein that should be coating her blood vessels. But instead, he says, “Your liver is weeping.”

I’ve never heard something so terrifying put so poetically.

Then Sardar breaks the news. “It’s going to be hard for you to sustain living like this for more than a few months,” he says.

This cluttered room with its walls closing in suddenly feels like a trap we should have seen coming. I want to scoop Mom up and take us far from this hopeless world of pastel waiting areas, vampiric needles, sour smells and inscrutable terminology that never means anything until it means you’re finished. But Mom doesn’t budge.

She’s always been the brave one.

“So how many more months is it?” she asks, point-blank.

Sardar has a hard time looking her in the eyes. He’s grown fond of this stubborn woman who never listens to him. He wants to believe she’ll prove him wrong again, like she did so many times before, he tells her. But down deep he knows better. “My concern is, no matter how strong you are, nobody can survive like this more than two, three months,” Sardar parses out gradually.

“Well, there’s the end-of-life pill, right?” Mom says.

“Pardon?”

“You can choose end of life,” she says.

“Yes,” her doctor says.

“Because I don’t want to suffer,” my mother says.

A mother’s journey Long before her myeloma crossed the terminal threshold, Mom knew how she wanted to end her life. She spoke often and clearly about her desire for a medically assisted death that was both quick and painless.

As was typical for Elisabeth, who flouted Jim Crow laws as a lovestruck girl in segregated South Carolina before cutting a proto-feminist path westward, my mom was ahead of her time.

In March 2014, for instance, right before being told her latest bone marrow exam indicated her “smoldering” myeloma had reached a feverish tipping point, Mom mused on the distance between her home in Folsom and Washington and Oregon, the nearest states with euthanasia laws at the time.

“That’s a long journey,” she observed. “Wow.” When she later learned that those states required at least six months of residency before a patient would even be considered

“KILLING MOM” continued on page 14

06.15.17 | SN&R | 13

“KILLING MOM” continued from page 13

Hamid Hosseini inventories $5,000 worth of unused vitamin supplements, balms and teas, his wife’s last, desperate attempt at a natural cure.

14 | SN&R | 06.15.17

Law of disadvantages Dr. Wayne McKinney is running out of time.

A retired physician with terminal bladder cancer, McKinney lives in an area of Southern California where the hospitals refuse to participate in the state’s aid-in-dying law.

“I’m fighting like hell to get it available locally,” he says.

“But I realize that I may not be able to do that before I go.”

As drafted by legislators and signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown in September 2015, the California End of Life Option Act, or ELO, doesn’t mandate the participation of hospitals or individual physicians.

According to the pro-euthanasia nonprofit Compassion & Choices, 498 health care facilities have opted into the law. By my count, there are some 866 hospitals and health care systems scattered through California. On the blacklist, California’s entire portfolio of Catholic-affiliated medical providers, which represents approximately 13 percent of the state’s hospital network, including five Dignity Health hospitals here in Sacramento.

Their lack of participation makes some sense, as faith-based health care operations are notoriously moralistic when it comes to what services they’re willing to provide their patients. That extends to the dying process.

“We’re going to do nothing to hasten a person’s death,” says Lori Dangberg, vice president of the Alliance of Catholic Health Care, which represents the state’s Catholic hospitals. “The proponents of this law have set up a false narrative that you either die in absolute pain and suffering or your only option is assisted suicide.”

Plenty of secular medical providers have taken that view.

“We were opposed to the legislation, but it’s what we call the ‘soft oppose,’” said Jan Emerson Shea, of the California Hospital Association, a not-for-profit corporation that lobbies on behalf of nearly 400 hospitals and health systems. “We had members on all sides of the issue.”

Photo by Raheem F. hosseini

eligible, she was deflated. “Furchtbar,” she said in German.

“Terrible.”

Some time later, I dropped by to check on Mom before heading to work. Her immune system had long abandoned her. Pneumonia visited her as often as the common cold, searing aches crawled up her ear canals and down her sides like poltergeists, and sleep was a lottery she never won.

Now, her heart was threatening to give out, in more ways than one.

Confined to her bed, my mother confessed that her sister Ellen was socking away sleeping pills on her behalf.

“I can’t do it anymore,” she cried helplessly.

“I know, Mom, I know,” I said.

Grieving there together, Mom promised there would be a party. The guest list would be exclusive: the little sister she followed to America; the son she brought across the Atlantic; the Iranian husband who broke through her armor; the two boys they made together—all those eccentric pieces that fit just so. I wiped at my face and said how nice that would be. And I told her I wanted to reserve the spot closest to her. She squeezed my hand and said of course.

On my way out, I passed through the kitchen. On the table, prominently displayed, was the October 27, 2014, issue of People magazine, the one with Brittany Maynard on the cover, sporting a Mona Lisa smile and standing confidently beside the headline, “My Decision to Die.” The next year, California passed its own aid-in-dying law, joining Oregon, Washington, Montana (sort of) and Vermont as the states that offered terminal patients a ceiling to their suffering. It would be nine more months for the California End of Life Option Act to take effect, but its mere existence soothed my mother’s anxiety. At long last, she knew how her story would end. We thought we did, too.

That entrenched ambivalence—the law is currently the subject of a lawsuit—has created a patchwork system for desperate patients and families of the terminally ill. It’s especially created problems for communities with concentrated senior populations, says Matt Whitaker, Compassion & Choices’ director in California and Oregon. Whitaker points to the town of Rancho Mirage, where Eisenhower Medical Center has expanded its euthanasia prohibition by buying up smaller private practices throughout the Coachella Valley.

“Not only do they have the hospital, but they have 65 clinics in that area that they operate,” he says. By monopolizing health care, Whitaker says, Eisenhower has “effectively cut off access to a whole region of people.”

Dr. McKinney is one of those people. His story drew attention when his Desert Hot Springs newspaper published two of his op-eds last year. The three secular hospitals in his area, including Eisenhower, don’t allow their physicians to comply with the ELO Act. McKinney thinks he knows why.

“They don’t want anyone missing all that chemotherapy and radiation,” he tells SN&R. “I do not want to have to die a painful, agonizing death because of the greed of the hospital CEOs. I should not have to go through it.”

In an emailed statement, Eisenhower’s vice president of medical affairs, Dr. Alan Williamson, echoed the Catholic Alliance’s position.

“Eisenhower’s mission recognizes that death is a natural stage of the life journey and Eisenhower will not intentionally hasten it,” the statement read. “While physicians may not participate in the Act in any Eisenhower Medical Center facilities, they may provide information and refer patients to other sources. They may participate outside of Eisenhower’s facilities and may prescribe medications privately.”

That compromise has been no help to McKinney. He says there is no list of sympathetic outside doctors for Eisenhower physicians to refer him to. “So how are they going to refer the patient?” he asks. “There’s a lot of bullshit going on.”

Add to that the medical center’s clinic acquisitions, and McKinney has found himself stranded in the desert of Coachella Valley, eclipsed by his area’s death-with-dignity blackout.

McKinney continues to lobby his local hospitals for mercy despite his illness. But time is not on his side.

On hospice care for approximately nine months now, he’s already informed his caregivers of his second- and thirdchoice options.

“All I’ve authorized them to do is snow me under with pain medication when, you know, the pain really starts in something fierce,” he says. “And then, as a backup, I can simply stop eating. And more than likely would be dead in 10 days to two weeks. That’s my final option.”

It’s certainly not an ideal one, Whitaker notes. “It’s not as gentle and peaceful as medical aid in dying,” he says. “You take medication and you’re asleep in five minutes. And your heart stops beating in like an hour. You’re unconscious and you die in your sleep essentially.”

Even in areas where the law is embraced, however, invisible hurdles put the terminally ill in a cruel race against the clock.

To be eligible for ELO Act consideration, patients can have no more than six months to live—and no fewer than two weeks, Whitaker says. Within that narrow span, patients must navigate formal written applications and two separate diagnostic appointments to reconfirm that they’re actually dying, are of sound mind and can muster the strength to administer the fatal doses when the time comes.

Meanwhile, there’s nothing in the law that says how soon terminal patients must be seen once they’ve requested assisted

Elisabeth’s scrawling signature on her request for medication under the End of Life Option Act. It took more than a month to receive the application after she requested it.

GrievinG there toGether, MoM proMised there would be a party. the Guest list would be exclusive.

Photo by Raheem F. hosseini

dying. And with most physicians opting out, a very tight bottleneck exists even at the most sympathetic hospitals.

“All these different things can effectively make it impossible for a person to get through the process if they don’t start early,” Whitaker cautions. But Whitaker has some good news.

Kaiser Permanente, through which my mother is insured, “is really the gold standard when it comes to implementing the law,” he says.

Then why do I have such a bad feeling?

The audiTion Dr. Suicide wears Toms.

I’m distracted by Greg Naughton’s summery footwear as my dad guides the youthful physician through the foyer.

Taking a seat in front of a hibernating fireplace, the earnest doctor gives us a rundown of why he’s here this morning.

In truth, nothing could be clearer in our minds.

It’s October 21, 2016, more than six weeks after my mom asked her oncologist to initiate the end of life process. It took more than a month just to get the paperwork delivered, which Valerie Booker, our end-of-life coordinator at Kaiser,

insisted had to be physically mailed despite a downloadable version on the state’s website. After her assistant twice (!) forgot to send the application, Booker drove a copy to my parents’ doorstep.

By then, our mother could barely sign her name.

That wasn’t the only hurdle, either. Initially, we received mixed messages from Kaiser and Snowline Hospice about which entity needed to kick-start the process to the next phase. A week passed. After that was ironed out, our coordinator had to reach out to three different doctors before she found one willing to conduct that first consultation. Each one had three days to respond, letting more sand fall through the glass. And then, when my 95-pound mother could no longer stand, we debated the meaning of “bedridden” as we tried to get Kaiser to schedule a house call.

Through it all, we received heartfelt apology after apology.

But there seemed to be a baffling lack of urgency.

Dad explains this all to Naughton. This is his wife’s last wish. But the red tape has strangled our hopes of her moving to the next round.

“Maybe she’s not able to respond the way you want her to,” Hamid offers hesitantly. “And I didn’t want to take that [choice] away from her.”

It’s “a valid concern,” Naughton acknowledges. Death does not yield for bureaucracy, after all.

Naughton is one of the good guys. The problem is there are so few doctors like him.

I will later ask Kaiser and Sutter Health how many of their terminal patients fall short of their dying wishes due to delays in the process and a lack of participating doctors. The health networks will refuse to answer, referring me to the California Department of Public Health, which tracks the law’s implementation. But the agency doesn’t ask how many patient requests result in denials, a spokesman will tell me.

Maybe the state doesn’t want to know.

“Let’s go over there and see her,” Dad says.

We pad softly into the bedchamber where Ellen sits at the foot of her sister’s bed, keeping a permanent vigil. My younger brother Ali hangs outside the door, unable to watch.

Dad bends down and introduces Naughton.

“Do you understand what I’m saying, love?” he prods.

She musters up a haggard “yes.” It plummets like a lead balloon.

Naughton sets his already boyish voice a few octaves higher.

“Hi, dear,” he chirps. “My name’s Greg Naughton. I’m one of Kaiser’s doctors. Are you able to talk to me for a few minutes?”

“I don’t know,” she sighs.

“KILLING MOM” continued on page 17

06.15.17 | SN&R | 15

BUILDING A

HEALTHY S A C R A M E N T O

Asian Youth Center Keeps Kids on the Right Path

BY E D G A R S A N C H E Z

L

eesai Yang has two jobs. In one, he deals with adults who have crossed the line into the criminal justice system; in the other, he counsels teenagers never to cross that terrifying line.

employee program will grow. For now, it remains a sort of tiny vessel navigating the waters 85 miles from its mothership in Oakland, which has a 41-year history and 130 employees.

To be more specific: As a Sacramento County Sheriff’s deputy, Yang works at County Jail, monitoring inmates. At the East Bay Asian Youth Center in Sacramento, he guides youth toward productive, law-abiding lives.

“IF THE WORLD HAS GIVEN UP ON YOU, EBAYC HAS VARIOUS WAYS TO HELP YOU.”

“I prevent young people from making bad decisions,” said Yang, 29, of his part-time post as director of the EBAYC Sacramento program.

The local EBAYC program is an offspring of the EBAYC of Oakland, which has an ambitious goal: Help young people become lifelong builders of a just and compassionate multicultural society.

EBAYC Sacramento, which receives funding from The California Endowment and the City of Sacramento Gang Prevention and Intervention Task Force, offers services including afterschool tutoring, career preparation and gang-diversion counseling. Shunning drugs also is emphasized to the boys and girls.

“I tell the young people I’m a typical Hmong guy,” said the Fresno-born Yang, whose parents are from Laos and Thailand and who holds a degree in criminal justice from Sacramento State University. “I’m not special.”

In Sacramento since 2014, the nonprofit moved into new offices on Franklin Boulevard in January. Clearly in its infancy, the four-

Dexter Niskala Participant in East Bay Asian Youth Center

“We have been trying to build organizations in Sacramento and Fresno,” said David Kakishiba, an alumnus of Sacramento’s McClatchy High and EBAYC’s executive director.

Most of the teens in EBAYC Sacramento are Hmong students who attend nearby Luther Burbank High.

“EBAYC is a home away from home for youth,” said Dexter Niskala, 18, who, after graduating from Luther Burbank this week, is bound for Sacramento State to study mechanical engineering. “If the world has given up on you, EBAYC has various ways to help you.”

Last year, Niskala became civically involved.

He and other EBAYC youth campaigned for Measure Y, which would have generated a new tax to fund youth programs in the city.

From left, EBAYC Sacramento Program Director Leesai Yang and Dexter Niskala, 18.

Photo by Edgar Sanchez

Last June, voters narrowly defeated the measure. “It was very sad,” Niskala said.

“It was almost heartbreaking. But I learned a lesson, that persistence is the key.”

Niskala went on to campaign for Measure G, another initiative that would have imposed new taxes for local youth services. It too, was barely rejected in the November election.

“We made phone calls and went door-to-door,” he said.

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

Health Happens in Neighborhoods. Health Happens in Schools.

Health Happens with Prevention.

In 2010, The California Endowment launched a 10-year, $1 billion plan to improve the health of 14 challenged communities across the state.

Over the 10 years, residents, communitybased organizations and public institutions will work together to address the socioeconomic and environmental challenges contributing to the poor health of their communities.

For more information on the East Bay Asian Youth Center, visit www.ebayc.org.

PAID WITH A GRANT FROM THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT 16 | SN&R | 06.15.17

BUILDING HEALTHY COMMUNITIES

www.SacBHC.org

“KILLING MOM” continued from page 15 lights flicker, seeing how long they’ll hum. I caress her arm. It feels like wax paper. Naughton catches our plaintive eyes.

“Maybe we can talk outside the room real fast,” he whispers.

It’s over.

As Naughton steps out into the hall to break the news, I hang back and feel my lips stick to a damp forehead. “OK Mom,” I say, “no more questions.”

“What?”

“You did good, Mom,” I whimper.

“No more questions?” she asks.

“No more questions.”

She starts to say something else. “I don’t want, I don’t want to go …” The rest crumbles into dust.

Outside, my father’s broken heart comes out in angry shards.

He begs for clemency. But the law is the law. And the governor isn’t taking requests.

What to expect When you’re expecting

A final moment between mother and son.

Photo by Raheem F. hosseini

“You’re pretty tired.”

“Yes,” she says.

“Do you know why I’m here?”

“Yes,” she answers quickly.

Naughton asks Mom to describe her illness, but the request doesn’t penetrate whatever fog has subsumed her. I try. “What do you think is happening right now?” I say.

“The end of life,” she says.

“OK, good,” I say.

Naughton tags in. “I understand from your family that this is important for you,” he says. “But to move forward with the process, it’s very important that you’re able to talk with me and answer a few questions.”

She slurs a thread of clumped vowels that Naughton can’t assemble. But I can. She says, “Yeah, I want to know what took you so long.”

My dad pleads for simpler questions. Naughton is sympathetic, but the law’s requirements are strict. He needs “meaningful” answers.

Mom whirrs like a skipping record. “I just want to know why—why it took so long,” she groans.

“I’m sorry it took so long,” Naughton says.

“Yeah, me too,” she murmurs.

“And I don’t have a good answer for that,” he says. “But we’re here now.”

Pressing on, Naughton starts his line of questioning at the top.

Can she summarize her illness and describe the end-of-life law?

She answers fitfully. She gets the year wrong. She says it’s 1969.

He slogs past that one. “Can you tell me what’s happening to your body?” he says.

“It’s starting,” she says.

He asks if she remembers seeing Dr. Sardar. She does. What did he tell her, Naughton asks. There’s a long pause. I wonder if she’s fallen asleep. Then she speaks. Her voice goes high, like she’s done something wrong.

“That I was dying,” she says.

I stroke my mother’s threadbare back. I hate our roles here.

We should be protecting my mom from this guy, not helping him interrogate her. She can’t even sit up.

Naughton gives us a transparent look. “I think,” he starts, “I think we’re in the difficult situation where her disease has progressed to the point where she might not qualify for this law.”

Reeling, I try one last time. She doesn’t know this strange doctor or his unfamiliar voice. But she knows me. She knows her son.

“Do you want the end of life pills?” I ask, my voice betraying me.

“Yeah,” the wisp of a voice says. “I’m in pain.”

“What do you think the end of life pills will do for that pain?”

I stare at her, trying to summon the words. They come unstuck one by one.

“I cannot take it anymore,” she says.

Silence. We sit there listening to her lungs rattle. It’s like she’s operating on backup generators and we’re watching the

Hours rearrange the night. A pale gray light finds me sunk into a medical bed. The rubbery mattress screeches with every shift I make, so I roll myself off and scan the room. Mom coos like an injured bird under rumpled sheets. Ali is gone. I hear Dad sniffling outside. I find him on a couch in the alcove. I set myself beside him and absently rub his shoulder.

“What are we going to do without her?” he says.

I stare blankly at the front doors, two heavy steel gates the color of coal.

“I don’t know,” I say.

Hamid met Elisabeth when she briefly took a hostess job at the Sacramento restaurant where he was a waiter back in the mid-1970s. Two immigrants from different parts of the world, brought into each other’s orbit by vastly different circumstances. A single mother of a 13-year-old son, Elisabeth had given up on love. But there was something about this man. He was handsome and dark skinned, just as she pictured he would be when she was a girl. But he was also kind and generous and so ebullient. He must have told her his whole life story on that first dinner date.

A few years later, they eloped to Reno. Lis sobbed the whole way. She couldn’t help it. When they exchanged wedding vows in that empty little chapel, Lis placed a paper wedding band around Hamid’s finger. They were so broke back then.

In 1994, after that first bone marrow test, they sat together in the hospital parking lot and cried. They knew it was bad news.

Whatever it was, they would face it together.

She called him “Hah-mit.” And because she did, so did everyone else. “My Hah-mit,” she would say.

“Poor girl, she’s suffered so much,” Dad says into the new dawn.

Something is said. Maybe I say it. Dad has a forlorn reply.

“We’re killing your mom,” he weeps into his hands.

I rub his back. “I know,” I say. “We have to.”

A few hours later, the day nurse arrives. A poker-faced young woman, Lydia tells us we’re in the final stretch, but can’t say for how long. Could be hours, could be days. A cold shiver in my guts.

“It won’t be pretty,” she warns.

I ask what we can do to make sure Mom doesn’t suffer like she did the previous night, after Naughton left. Ali and I rushed

“KILLING MOM” continued on page 19 06.15.17 | SN&R | 17

18 | SN&R | 06.15.17

“KILLING MOM” continued from page 17

to the house, bidden by our dad’s SOS text, to find Mom whimpering and moaning. The medications they gave us did nothing. We climbed into bed and begged her to give us the pain, but it was no use.

Lydia tells us to keep dosing her with morphine and diazepam, increasing the frequency as needed. Don’t hold back, she counsels. They didn’t give you enough to kill her anyway.

That’s not what I want to hear.

When I rush into the room a few hours later, Mom has already been carried to the hospital bed by my two brothers. Her head is twisted to the left while spasms rock her matchstick frame. Quick, shallow breaths, strangled through a wetness in her throat. Sights and sounds I can’t forget.

“What do we do?” I ask. The faces that turn toward me are helpless, scared. No one knows. I sink into a folding chair at her side and take her hand. I keep touching her—petting her ballpoint shoulder, smoothing her hollow cheek, laying an upturned palm gently against a shimmering forehead. I wonder if the woman I love is there. I pray she is and she isn’t.

Ali makes a call. Thirty minutes later, a Snowline kid rolls in a moped engine on wheels with a plastic tube attached to it. He instructs us how to use the suction machine like he’s practicing a book report in front of the mirror. He’s either a sociopath or just a young kid who didn’t expect to be officiating some strange family’s medical emergency this Saturday.

After he leaves, Ali cranks the guttural motor and gently works the tube into the hollows of Mom’s cheeks. It makes a terrible sound. Yellow froth whips through the clear plastic straw.

But the machine does nothing to alleviate her distress. They told us it would be ugly. But this.

Ali strokes her head, thinking of all the things he wanted to tell her. He planned to put it in a letter, but the fire spread too quickly. “Mom,” he says, barely choking the word out.

Ellen coos to her big sister in German, urging her to go. “Ich komme bald,” She promises. “I’ll come soon.”

I wrap my hands around hers and bow my head against this crucible of fingers. I beg her to go. I beg her to die. I make her a silent promise and wait.

When it finally happens, the stillness that shudders through the room feels sacred, like a thought taking flight. There is a silence that has nothing to do with sound. Nothing at all. I plunge my face into her side and howl an ancient song. Strange hands find my back.

By the time I come to, Dad is standing opposite me. His hand reaches out tentatively, like a boy who wants to wake a parent after he’s had a bad dream but is afraid to. When his mouth opens, it’s like a levee breaking.

“Lissy, you left me all alone,” he sobs.

Ali shakes his head and rises. “No, no,” he says. “No, you’re not.”

A son goes to his father. I find my legs in this new world more slowly. We huddle together, the three of us, like space rocks orbiting a fading star.

It’s Saturday, October 22, 2016. She was 76. It’s lovely outside.

Terminus The rest of the day fades into a watercolor delirium. A hospice nurse named Susan appears with a black luggage roller in tow. She records the official time of death two hours after my mother’s actual passing.

Ali says goodbye.

Photo by Raheem F. hosseini

Death is a house guest that overstays its welcome.

Susan then goes about collecting all the medications Mom barely touched. Ali shows restraint, pocketing one orange bottle with about 15 tablets of lorazepam before leading the woman to the rest of Mom’s supply. No point in letting perfectly good hospice drugs go to waste.

I watch as Susan takes a wet washcloth to my mother’s body. She speaks to her softly, words I cannot hear. This is her job, every day, to enter homes like ours and toil on the periphery of death. She does so with a gentleness that breaks my heart.

Susan tells us that she experienced the same thing with her father. We’re now part of a secret society where the members recognize each other by the thousand-yard stares. Seeing ours, Susan reassures us that death looks worse to the observers than it feels to those going through its jagged door.

Ali and I ache to believe her. Dad is a little better at finding succor in Susan’s words.

“I’m very happy that she went this way. I don’t think she would have ever reached the point that she took those pills,” he says quietly, as if not to wake his wife. “This was on her own time and she did it.”

“Gorgeous woman,” Ali chimes in.

“She always did it the right way,” Dad says.

Some time later, two men in rumpled suits and rumpled faces arrive in a black van. They’re from Simple Traditions Inc., a Carmichael crematorium whose website promotes dignity, affordability and the company’s female ownership.

Mom would have approved.

Dad and Ali have many questions for these modern-day ferrymen on the river Styx. I only half-listen as I sit with her, primping the covers to make sure she doesn’t get cold. The one who talks promises to text Ali as soon as they arrive at the crematorium. My brother sucks in sharply as he signs the name his mother gave him to a form releasing her to strangers. And when the men return with the stretcher and body bag, he will drop to his knees.

Unable to watch, I escape into the backyard to see the sun set behind a suburban skyline of shingled roofs, ropy fir trees

and a final swirl of colors that only gets this vivid right before it all goes dark.

In the weeks that follow, there is much debate over what my mother experienced during those long, final hours. Securing the end-of-life option for her was to be my final gift to the person who loved me and my brothers more than anyone else ever would.

Sometimes I ask her whether she felt it, her death, whether it harmed, and whether I let her down. I don’t get an answer.

This is strange to me. In the simplest sense, I cannot fathom my mother’s nonexistence. It’s a darkly miraculous thing to toss my puny mind at, and so I stumble forward like a broken soldier unable to recall the mission.

I find myself wandering my mother’s closet for smells and fabrics that still hold some keepsake traces of her.

It’s as if I’m the one who died, and now I’m haunting the spaces my mother no longer lives in.

I listen over and over again to recordings I made of our breakfasts together, following her terminal diagnosis. She would regale me with stories from a past I wasn’t alive for—her earliest memories, scenes from a destitute, postwar village; the witch who taught her the forest’s secrets; the ghosts she saw; the people she loved and forgave.

“One thing I have to say is, I always had great friends in my life,” she told me one morning, two weeks before she died. “I was a cute girl. People loved me. They’d always say, ‘Elisabethchen, come here!’ Yeah, they loved me.”

And later, there was the man she met, the love they made and their own breakfasts, seated at a sun-splashed kitchen table with a slumbering newborn between them.

She didn’t think she wanted more children. “But then this feeling just came over me. … I was so happy.”

I was starting to understand what she meant, I told her. I had this glimmer of a future I don’t yet own, with a daughter as spirited and brave as her grandmother.

Together, we stole time that did not belong to us.

And when I rose to leave, she always offered me more toast and eggs. Because she’s my mom. And she always will be. Ω

06.15.17 | SN&R | 19

V T r o f t w o o n e h sh T r n CA o r A

by A

nes

k l ta

The show is supposed to start at 8 p.m., but like any good DIY, no-budget show, it’s running behind schedule. Everyone in the Red Museum is a little unsure what exactly to expect with this local late-night talk show experiment, including hosts Michael Cella and Shahera Hyatt, who nervously pace around the venue. Other random crew members scramble around holding clipboards and setting up instruments. The audience of roughly 50 people sits on old benches that face the stage, which is set with a red velvet couch, a small coffee table and a gaudy flower-covered chair. In other words, this is the punk rock version of a late-night talk show.

Cella and Hyatt say they created the series to make a platform for Sacramento fame, whether it’s through music, art, comedy or activism. Other live show series, like High Anxiety Variety Show!, operate more as a voice of the cutting-edge artists you might never have heard of before. Cella and Hyatt want not only to make getting on their stage a badge of honor, but also to create a judgment-free zone to talk about the political and social issues in Sacramento that affect us all.

It’s called The Latest Show, and it has much in common with your tried-and-true after-hours talk show format, à la Jimmy Fallon and Stephen Colbert: The two hosts are comedians. During breaks, a house band plays, plus they’ll interview guests like Sex Positive Sacramento sex educator Heather Woodford. After an opening monologue, the debut show eventually features comedy bits by Mike E. Winfield and musical guest Hobo Johnson.

Although a camera’s rolling, the monthly production isn’t airing anywhere. Everything is quite literally for the studio audience.

“It’s not a TV show. It’s certainly a take on a TV show, but it’s not made for that. The focus is live,” Cella says. “All kinds of stuff is going to go wrong. And I don’t mind if it does. That’s where we’re going to be able to seize on stuff.”

20 | SN&R | 06.15.17

Photo BY JoN hERMISoN

local p u s prop w o and t sh s s e n t a a i ed sues s i m The L o s c u , serio cians t i a s u k m loo lens o t d e s t t is thear activ h g i l gh a throu

Shahera Hyatt, right, demonstrates the proper way to address someone who hasn’t offered his chair—in this case, Michael Cella.

Pretzel Pairings see OFF MenU

23

righteOUs raPPer swears OFF sins see MUsiC

32

sister-in-lOst see asK JOeY

The first show, which took place on May 25, goes surprisspace for multiple musical acts with a digital projector. ingly well—despite the 8:30 p.m. start. The biggest technical Plus, the venue comes with a built-in community of regudifficulty comes during the opening monologue, when Cella lars who are music and comedy fans. and Hyatt deliver jokes accompanied by images projected “The whole Red Museum team was super encouraging on the wall, similar to how it’s done on The Daily Show. But of the idea,” Hyatt says. “I’m stoked that they were, espeCella never seems to land on the right slide. The hosts improcially on an ongoing basis.” vise, turning the projector flubs into cringe-worthy laughter.

The two comics decided that there wouldn’t be a lead After the opening segment, the flow only gets better. host and sidekick. They each offered something unique, so Cella and Hyatt find their groove as hosts. Their first guest, it would be an equal partnership. “It happens all the time Winfield, has appeared on Late Show with David Letterman on podcasts,” said Cella. and is impressed with what they’ve done on such a grassCella, an Iraq war vet and a substitute teacher, has a roots level. comedic style that plays off of his weird, awkward inse“This has big potential,” Winfield says. “I feel like they’re curities and non sequiturs. Hyatt, when not doing comedy, already doing it at a high level. I could see it on a cable directs the California Homeless Youth Project. Her network. I had a great time. I would do it again.” delivery is wry, soft-spoken, and an odd mix of silliness The format may be familiar, but the local focus is and braininess. unique. All three guests are from Sacramento. There aren’t Their stage energy has a nice counterbalance to it. a lot of late-night talk When they interview shows out there that cater hip-hop artist Hobo to specific cities.

Johnson, Hyatt asks “One of the things we a detailed, thoughtful talk about is cultivating question about the period Sac fame,” Hyatt says. of time Johnson spent “Having a nighttime talk being homeless, living show to feature local artists in his car. Cella follows is a cool way to help put it up by asking if he people on the map in a could teach him how to really authentic way.” rap—but not now.

Even many of the jokes Before Johnson’s in the opening monologue appearance, they comment on Sacramento interview Woodford, news that only locals would who discusses the topic fully understand. Cella of sexual consent, which told one about how homeseems obvious—but isn’t less people are using the always. So she performs library bathrooms, which a demonstration for the racked up $150,000 in audience using puppets. shahera hyatt extra costs for the libraries.

This diversity of guests co-host of The Latest Show Mayor Darrell Steinberg keeps the approximately commented on the situation hour-and-a-half long by asking: “If not here, show moving smoothly. where are people to go?”

“We do open-mic “So is the problem that comedy sometime,” homeless people are using the library bathroom or that we’re Hyatt says. “You’re there for two hours and people get using the bathroom library?” Cella joked during the show. very fatigued listening to one form for so long. It helps to “I mean, until Sacramento has more public bathrooms than be able to strike a bunch of different tones. We’re going libraries, maybe those of us with a place to live can just pull to talk about things that are super important, but also ourselves up by our bootstraps and go to a bookstore.” with a comedic flair. I think there’s such a hunger to be The idea for the show started earlier this year, when Cella engaged more with the community, especially post this did one solo Latest Show in January at a different venue. One most recent election.” of his guests was Hyatt, and she loved it. After that, she was While they don’t plan to air the video of the show—it’s determined to do her own late-night talk show and told any mostly being recorded for the hosts—Walker plans to take friend of hers who would listen. the audio recording and upload the show in podcast form Cella enjoyed his performance, but didn’t feel like the so that people who don’t make it can give it a listen. venue was a good fit for his idea because it didn’t have the What form the show will ultimately take, no one resources to make it as big of a production as he wanted it to knows. But no matter what, Cella and Hyatt have achieved be. He and Hyatt were hanging out one day, discussing their something spectacular: They host an actual talk show. mutual love for doing a talk show, when it occurred to them “That’s the endgame for so many comics. That’s the that they could join forces. dream,” Hyatt says. “It’s cool to do a super DIY, local “We cheered with some sake,” Shahera says. version.” Ω They got more people involved, like musicians Drew Walker and Damien Verrett, who agreed to be the house Check out The Latest Show at 8 p.m. Thursday, June 22, at the Red band. The game-changer was the involvement of the Red Museum, 212 15th Street. Tickets are $10. Learn more at Museum, which offered just what they needed: a viable www.facebook.com/TheLatestShow.

“We’re going to talk

about things that are super important, but also with a comedic flair.”

42

the hUlK atOnes FOr OUr nightMares see 15 MinUtes

59

Hunger for a homeland I suggest reading Donia Bijan’s The Last Days of Café Leila with a box of tissues and a snack. The snack is for when you hit the pages that describe Spanish potato cakes or piroshki, and the tissues are for the tears you may or may not shed. (If the latter, said tissues can be used to clean up snack crumbs.)

Bijan was at the Carmichael Library last week to discuss her debut novel. She spoke to an audience of about 30 people in a frigid room. Old friends came with flowers and showered Bijan in hugs, while others asked what her name was.

“Seeing readers all in one place makes me so happy,” Bijan said as she took to the podium as part of sacramento Public library’s “let’s talk about: immigration and Californians” events.

Her novel centers around a woman who leaves California to go back to her native Iran, where her father owns and operates Café Leila. Though the novel takes place in tehran, and Bijan left her native Iran in 1978, she made it clear that she isn’t making a political statement through her book.

“I’m not a reporter and I don’t want to give authority on Iran just because I wrote a book “Life is a that takes place there,” said party, and you Bijan. Instead, her focus is on love, family that breaches just have to show up biology, and friendships that and be interested and thrive under tyranny. interesting.”

And the writing process wasn’t easy: “Process is far Donia Bijan too dignified a word for what chef and author I did,” Bijan said. She explained that novels don’t write themselves, and anyone who tells you differently is lying. haunted by the characters, Bijan took three years to create Café Leila.

Had she known how hard writing would be, would the Cordon-Bleu-trained-chef-turned-author have hung up her apron? No. Was it worth it? Yes. Bijan wrote a piece of fiction that transports readers to a small but ordinary cafe quite effortlessly. If you’re looking for a hard, historically accurate, political investigation into Iran, this isn’t it … but it isn’t supposed to be.

During her talk, Bijan didn’t press immigration in audience members’ faces or take any political sides, but emphasized a memory that inspired her novel. When she was about 8 years old, her grandfather hosted a meal in Tehran at a restaurant for her whole family. The meal took longer than three hours—as they often did in Tehran—with her grandfather toasting the family and smiling. Once the bill was paid, he went to the hospital because he had tripped and broken his arm before the meal. No one had suspected a thing.

The takeaway? A broken arm did not stop this man from enjoying his gathering.

“Life is a party, and you just have to show up and be interested and interesting,” Bijan said. “Let’s keep the lights on, let’s not be suspicious of the new guests, let’s be open for business and let’s show up because love is about showing up,” Bijan ended her talk.

I’m all for showing up and enjoying life, but I do suggest an immediate visit to the doctor if a limb is suspected to be broken.

—Caroline Minasian

06.15.17 | SN&R | 21

s u n i o J NER

N I D R O F

Enjoy globally inspired dishes & cocktails

SALAD THAI PRIKING TACOS • JAMAICAN JERK CHICKEN • BRAZILIAN ARITA MARG EAST AFRICAN VEGGIE BURGER • BLACKBERRY BASIL CHILEAN FALL • LYCHEE MOJITO • RASPBERRY SAKE MIMOSA

TOWER CAFE

1518 Broadway • Sacramento • 916.441.0222 • towercafe.com

Breakfast • Lunch • Dinner • 7 Days a week serving international beer & wine, cocktails & dessert 22 | SN&R | 06.15.17

IllustratIons by saraH Hansel

Maximum banana vic’S Banana ice cream Fancy flavors like bourbon-cornflake bring out the hipsters, but for summertime cones, fresh banana seems more kidlike. Vic’s Ice Cream features its banana flavor only for the summer months, letting the fruit overripen slightly to bring out the sweetness. Then they puree it. Part of the fun comes from matching it with Chocolate Mousse or Peanut Butter Cup in a double scoop ($5.25). Or how about amping up a banana split ($8.75) with it and covering the whole shebang in caramel? Calories be damned! 3199 Riverside Boulevard, http://vicsicecream.com.

—ann marTin rolke

Pineapple punk The BiTTer PineaPPle, B-Side

IllustratIon by Mark stIvers

Kin of kraut

By John Flynn Double down: Encouraged by the success of their Mexican restaurant La Venadita, biracial brothers David and Tom Schnetz opted to honor their German heritage by opening Oakhaus (3413 Broadway) less than 500 feet away. After weeks of soft-opening, their latest restaurant entered full-service mode on June 7.

When asked if there are any similarities between the cuisines, Tom laughed and replied, “No connection at all.”

Still, Tom, the kitchen-oriented brother, will share chef duties with co-owner Matt Ridgeway, who worked with the brothers on La Venadita and co-owns a Mexican restaurant with them in the Bay Area.

Oakhaus aims to take old-timey measures like boiling their pretzels ($4.25) before baking them. But they’re not chained to tradition

and are willing to experiment with items like kraut balls ($3.75)— spheres of sauerkraut, onion and carrot, dusted with spices and breadcrumbs that get fried and served with curry-ketchup and honey-mustard.

“David got hung up on these kraut balls, and we thought it was a fun little challenge,” Ridgeway said. “And actually, we pulled off making it a vegan dish.”

Oakhaus will bake four styles of their own bread. And Karen Henderson, a Cupcake Wars champion, will supply German chocolate and Bavarian cream cupcakes (starting at $3.75).

The requisite-for-Sacramento beer selection features 14 taps.

Four will be from Germany, and the other 10 will lean toward Sacramento-area or West Coast

beers. If that’s not enough, the restaurant will also stock more than 30 cans and bottles. When they get fully rolling, Ridgeway said they’d like to do some prix fixe dinners featuring beer pairings.

The modern space has an outdoor biergarten that’s about as spacious as the interior and offers views of Broadway. All the better to soak up the surrounding Oak Park neighborhood, which reminds Tom of his home in Oakland.

“We love the area,” he said. “It has such a great history. And it’s just so inclusive and has such a diverse mix of people. To me, this is the most exciting neighborhood in Sacramento.”

Espresso barbecue: For Father’s Day,

Chocolate Fish Coffee Roasters has partnered with Allspicery and V. Miller Meats to make a singular spice-blend (10 oz. for $16) that includes espresso, cumin, cayenne, cinnamon and dark brown sugar.

Matt Davis, butcher at V. Miller Meats, said he’s tried the mix on pork, beef and chicken and concluded it works on “pretty much anything.” Ω

If there’s a rule that tropical drinks must be cloying and tacky, B-Side has torn it up. The Bitter Pineapple ($9, off menu) might sooth the angst-ridden soul who stashes a Margaritaville hat in her closet.

Bitter Campari complicates a sweet mix of pineapple rum and fruity Cocchi Vermouth di Torino. This twist on a Negroni was concocted by bartender Chad Brown, who won the national 2017 Star of the Bar in May. Though you can’t order his winning Bitter Sweet Cocktail at B-Side, you can taste his knack for bitterness in a place where it’s least expected: an island escape. 1430 S Street, (916) 706-1830.

—reBecca huval

Peachy prunes aPricoTS Botanically, they’re known as Prunus armeniaca, signifying their relation to prunes, peaches and cherries.

Apricots appear earlier than peaches, and the best ones ripen on the tree before picking. Brought to California in the 18th century with Franciscan friars, apricots continue to thrive here today. Find the sherbet-colored fruits at farmers markets now, ready to eat out of hand. Halve them and warm slightly on a grill, then nestle some burrata in the middle for an indulgent treat.

Or, cook them down with sugar and lemon verbena for a spreadable nectar.

—ann marTin rolke

06.15.17

|

SN&R

|

23

seven deadly scoops Bring in r this ad fo

scoops • sundAEs • floAts

rAtEd HAndc ll in smA Es bAtcH

f 1/2 of ge a lar e sunda

locAl ly sourc E ingrEd d iEnts

322 3rd st., W. sAc • www.dEvilmAycArEicEcrEAm.com • 916-572-0456

BLAIR “MINT” PROJECT • CEREAL KILLER • DOUGH-NALD TRUMP SILENCE OF THE HAM • GIRL SCOUT MASSACRE

2648 WATT AVE #117 DONUTMADNESS.com OPEN TUE-SUN 5AM-1PM

BUY 1 GET 1 1/2 OFF Buy any dinner entree at regular price, get the second for HALF OFF! Must present coupon, cannot combine with other discounts. One per table. Valid Mon-Thu only. Expires 06/21/17.

the

Happy Hour

Monday–Friday 3–6pm 1315 21st St • Sacramento 916.441.7100

issue Sandwich ON STANDS JUNE 22

24 | SN&R | 06.15.17

Midtown’s Cantina Alley

Meal for one: $10 - $15 Good for: Instantly feeling like you’re in Mexico City Notable dishes: Crispy potato taco, ceviche, al pastor taco

“TO DIE FOR”

Vote Us #1

by Ann MArtin rolke

2320 Jazz Alley, (916) 970-5588 http://cantinaalley.com

DONUTS

Voted “Best of Sacramento” 3 years in a row!

Bonita cantina

This is California, so we’re no strangers to Mexican food. In Sacramento, we have upscale and downscale, regional and Americanized Mexican restaurants. What we didn’t have—until now—is a traditional cantina.

Co-owners Art Aguilar and Max Archuleta have cleverly recreated a Mexican-style, open-air cantina right on Jazz Alley. It seems incongruous to wander down a residential back street to stumble upon the raucous, brightly painted Midtown’s Cantina Alley.

But there it is—slightly sanitized, perhaps—and full of charm and people and a million things to look at. From bright orange walls to life-sized murals and Day of the Dead iconography, the place teems with atmosphere.

Like a traditional cantina, though, there isn’t a large menu. This is Mexican bar food, using a few ingredients in a multitude of ways.

You’re really there to drink or socialize, although what they do have to eat stands on its own.

Almost everything comes with expertly crafted, housemade corn tortillas. They’re browned from pan cooking and nicely chewy.

Try them wrapped around al pastor, skirt steak or fried fish. These are street-sized, so you’ll want at least two at a time, and they’re minimalist—so quality counts.

We especially liked the al pastor taco ($3.25), rich with spiced achiote sauce and topped with onions and pineapple rojo sauce. All the sauces are fairly spicy; get them on the side if you have gringo taste buds.

The beer-battered fried snapper in the fish taco ($4) comes with two salsas:

mango-avocado, adding a burst of sweetness, and jalapeño-cilantro for heat.

Only the crispy papa taco ($2.50) arrives in a fried tortilla, the better to corral the succulent mashed potato within. Topped with shredded cabbage and cotija cheese, it amps up with a fiery green cantina salsa. It’s also great with a few chunks of wayward arrachera (skirt steak) nestled on top.

The chicken flautas ($7) must be popular, because the kitchen occasionally runs out of them.

If they are on offer, expect five or six crispy rolls, halved and topped with green salsa cachanilla and salsa roja, whose spice subtly escalates. While we really enjoyed them, it’s not a lot of food.

More filling is the pozole verde ($8) made with chicken rather than the usual pork. Tender shreds of meat float in a flavorful broth with red onion, hominy, radishes and cilantro. While it doesn’t pack the oomph of Bravos Taco Shop’s pozole, this lighter version comforts even in warm weather.

The most recent addition seems to be ceviche ($9), served like tostadas on mini tortillas. Bits of mango and onion dot the mound of fish, topped with avocado and salsa roja.

They’re like something you’d find seaside, rather than 85 miles inland.

Despite the traditional food, Cantina Alley exists more as a bar. Except for weekends, they don’t open until 3 p.m. and they stock hard-to-find Mexican micro brews like Harry Polanco red ale ($7) and a slew of mezcals.

Or go with a group and order an enormous La Sandia margarita ($23) mixed in a hollowed-out watermelon.

A short cocktail menu includes a signature margarita ($9)—one of the better ones locally— and a unique Michelada Puerca ($7) garnished with chicharrones and house spice mix. Get it with the standard Corona upended on top or choose one of the beers on tap.

So far, with beautiful weather, the open-air dining room makes an ideal locale. While the space has misters and some shade tarps, scorching heat and rain seem like potential issues. But because the cantina stays open until 2 a.m. Friday and Saturday, the fiesta is sure to continue all through the summer nights. Ω

Almost everything comes with expertly crafted, housemade corn tortillas.

ON STANDS JUNE 22

—John Flynn

Plant-based meat market

by Shoka So you’ve transitioned to a vegan lifestyle but decided there’s one last thing you’re putting into your mouth that’s not plant-based: your lover. Of the plenty fish in the sea, how does one efficiently find a vegan partner?

Signing up for Veg Speed Date on Saturday, June 17—4:30 p.m. at Pause Wine Bar, 1666 Market Street in San Francisco—is one option. This speed-dating company caters to vegetarian and vegan singles, but for those who prefer to find romance closer to the 916, request Veg Speed

Date hold an event in Sacramento by emailing info@vegspeeddate.com or filling out the survey found via https://tinyurl.com/vegspeeddate survey. Or take matters into one’s own hands: Another Burger Patch pop-up is happening on Thursday, June 22, at 1801 L Street from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m., and there’s sure to be a turnout in the hundreds again. Just walk down the queue asking cuties who’s vegan for a little DIY speed dating. That’s right, it’s a plant-based meat market if you want it be!

Sandwich issue

Starting in the 1750s, the Acadians in the Louisiana bayou learned from Native Americans who used rods baited with deer meat to catch tiny, lobster-looking crustaceans. Today, crawfish is a $120 million industry and synonymous with Cajun cooking. If you’re curious about the fuss, visiting chef Austin Kirzner returns for his second year of hosting a crawfish boil at the Old Sugar Mill (35265 Willow Avenue) on Saturday, June 17, from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., scored

by Sacramento’s City of Trees Brass Band. For a $20 ticket, the chef will show participants how to select and prepare seafood and how to craft their own New Orleans “magic” spices, before he conducts a classic shrimp and crawfish boil, rounded out with local produce. And rest assured, he’s an authority on the matter. Born in New Orleans, Kirzner learned one-pot cooking from his grandmother and is now the executive chef of the French Quarter’s esteemed Red Fish Grill.

the

Who’s your crawdaddy?

BfraomktehedHeart hand-squeezed meyer lemon bar available at:

Broadway Coffee Co. (3200 Broadway) holiday catering orders?

call (916) 803-5452

FRESH,

ORGANIC & S! DELICIOU T L PLAN ALL-NATURA BASED FOOD

Mon-Sat 8am-8:30pm, Sun 9am-7pm

2620 Sunset Blvd., #1 • Rocklin, CA • 916-824-1688 • www.ZestVeganKitchen.com

TO ADVERTISE CALL (916) 498-1234.

06.15.17 | SN&R | 25

a paid advertising supplement

SN&R’s

TAP MAP

AUBURN

65

7

ROCKLIN

49

ROSEVILLE

99

PLACERVILLE

5

CITRUS HEIGHTS 5

Find the region’s best craft brews at these breweries, tap rooms and bottle shops.

1

FOLSOM

3 SACRAMENTO

2

6

80

50

4 1

RANCHO CORDOVA 16

5

logan’S & alaSkan 3

99

snrsweetdeals.newsreview.com

ELK GROVE

Beer pairing

2

 craft  beer —cocktails —pub

farm to fork focused gastropub 38° cooled taps // live music

2645 El camino avE // serpeNtiNefoX.com 26 | SN&R | 06.15.17

Course 1: Appetizer Smokin’ hot grilled wings. Paired with hopothermia double ipa. iBu: 70 aBv: 8.5% Course 2: sAlAd wedge Salad w/housemade ranch, bacon, tomatoes, bleu cheese crumbs & green onions.

Paired with Summer ale. ibU: 18 abV: 5.3% Course 3: entree Slow roasted Tri-Tip w/baked potato. Paired with amber alt Style ale. ibU: 18 abV: 5.3% Course 4: dessert Your choice of double berry cheesecake or Triple chocolate cake. Paired with raspberry wheat. aBv: 6.5%

july 21St @ 6:30pm ticketS $30

inclUdeS alaSkan brewing goodie Bag

happy hour! mon - fri

2-6/9-cloSe • cocktailS • draft beer • appS 3698 n. freeway Blvd. • Sacramento, ca • 916-419-8100

get more, spend less.

You love beer.

Here’s where to drink it.

80

a paid advertising supplement

SN&R’s

TAP MAP

4

Last year’s Placerville Bell Tower Brewfest attracted more than 1,800 people to downtown Placerville. This year’s event will be held June 24.

Photo by bill Robinson, couRtesy PlaceRville Downtown association

8704 La Riviera Dr Sacramento, CA 95826 916.548.4848 Everyday 11am-2am

5

More than a Passing trend

Keeping Beer re a l

Bell Tower Brewfest celebrates Placerville’s brewing community

awarD winnEr

GREG’S EXCELLENT RED ALE!

B y KaT e G o n z a L e s

Downtown Association, which began hosting the brewfest efore the rise of the small-scale craft beer industry, in 2000. While it’s her first brewfest with the association, a group of local homebrewing enthusiasts were well she is no stranger to the event. ahead of the curve.

“Because of the Bell Tower Brewfest, I’ve found a Beth Zangari and her husband, Craig, caught the bug couple of great beers that I still love today,” she says. in the ’90s when they happened into a homebrewers A variety of breweries will be on hand, including big supply shop in Placerville, where they live. Beth Zangari northern California names like Sierra Nevada and those says she loves cooking and craft beer, so combining the just getting established this year, such as Solid Ground hobbies made sense.

Brewing and Outbreak Brewing Co. The brewfest will also “I like baking bread and it was a very similar feature local favorites like endeavor,” she says. “I like sponsors Jack Russell and El to take things down to their Dorado brewing companies, finest components and build which were both established them back up.” in the 1990s.

They soon realized they “Beer has always been weren’t alone. In the early popular but right now we’re 1990s, less than 15 years really seeing a boom in the after home brewing was beer industry,” Gularte says. federally legalized, Placerville“I applaud Placerville and area hobbyists including the the beer-loving folks for really Zangaris formed the Hangtown starting that early on.”

Association of Zymurgy While trends come and Enthusiasts (H.A.Z.E.). Soon go, the Placerville area has after, H.A.Z.E. organized a Alisyn Gularte been a haven for beer enthucelebration of the craft beer Marketing Director, siasts, whether they brew for scene. Now known as the Placerville Downtown Association themselves or make a go of Placerville Bell Tower Brewfest, it professionally. Gularte sees the event is held each year on that passion continuing.

Main Street, centered around “We have a winery map, but now I think we should have downtown’s distinctive feature: the historic bell tower. a beer map because there’s plenty of breweries,” she says.

The brewfest returns to Placerville Saturday, June 24, with more than 50 craft beers, live music, free entry for Tickets to the Placerville Bell Tower Brewfest are available at Sierra designated drivers and the opportunity to gain insight Mountain Outdoors, River City Bank and Cuppa Coffee and More, all from brewers at all levels. on Main Street in Placerville, online at nightout.com/ca/placerville, “People are truly interested in what they’re drinkor get discount admission at snrsweetdeals.newsreview.com. For ing, so they’re asking questions and being engaged,” more information on H.A.Z.E., visit hazeclub.org. says Alisyn Gularte, marketing director for Placerville

B

“ We have a winery map, but now I think we should have a beer map because there’s plenty of breweries.”

traDitional ingrEDiEnts for livE musiC & EvEnts /ElDoraDoBrEwingCo

6051 EntErprisE Dr. #102, DiamonD springs, Ca • www.ElDoBrEw.Com • 530-558-4188

Collaboration/ release party

6

+ June 24 @ 3pm only at: 1217 21st St • 916.440.0401 www.KuprosCrafthouse.com

7

THE BREWERY YOU SHOULD KNOW ty of Our Brew mast er team has craf ted a varie rs of Aubu rn exem plar y beer s infu sed with the flavo

536 Grass Valley Hwy • Auburn, CA • 530-878-5232 06.15.17 | SN&R | 27

THE CENTER FOR THE ARTS PRESENTS

SEUN KUTI & EGYPT 80 • TOMMY EMMANUEL PETER YARROW • NATTALI RIZE • ETANA DAKHABRAKHA • KEITH SECOLA • ALASH MARIACHI FLOR DE TOLOACHE • PAMYUA JOAN SORIANO • BETSAYDA MACHADO LEYLA MCCALLA • SUPAMAN • FÉMINA MARTHA REDBONE ROOTS PROJECT LOS HERMANOS ARANGO • MAGIC GIANT VILLALOBOS BROTHERS • FEDERSPIEL EARTH GUARDIANS • PINE LEAF BOYS RANKY TANKY • NORTHERN ROOTS BUMPER JACKSONS • LA MISA NEGRA JOE CRAVEN & THE SOMETIMERS • SIMRIT

OVER 50 BANDS ON 7 STAGES!

WARREN G FRIDAY JUNE 30 | 10PM

$30 EARLY BIRD TICKETS MUST BE 21+

YOGA • CAMPING • WORKSHOPS FAMILY & KIDS ACTIVITIES WORLD FOOD & ARTISAN MARKETPLACE CONSCIOUS LIVING VILLAGE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES VILLAGE

530.274.8384

RESERVE ONLINE AT

HARDROCKCASINOLAKETAHOE.COM 844.588.ROCK

50 HIGHWAY 50 STATELINE, NV 89449

28 | SN&R | 06.15.17 JOB #: HRT-10221 AD TITLE: WARREN G

#THISISHARDROCK @HRHCLAKETAHOE

ReviewS

Now playiNg

5

Lungs

The great puppet caper

by Patti RobERts

Photo courtesy of B street theatre

discover we’re in a church basement and the puppeteer is young Jason (Ryan Borses), a teen participating in a puppet production practice.

Two other teens are working on their puppets— innocent-looking, sweet-voiced Jessica (Stephanie Altholz) and teen troublemaker Timmy (Andrew Mazer)—all under the resentful and not-so-watchful eye of Jason’s emotionally unstable mother Margery (Elisabeth Nunziato). They’re attempting to give soft-spoken, well-meaning Pastor Greg (Dave Pierini) a Sunday-school-appropriate puppet show.

The standout performance is by Borses, who masterfully delivers two vastly different roles and voices simultaneously, as timid teen Jason and his devil-in-puppet-form Tyrone. The rest of the cast is spot on, cleverly delivering graphic secrets and brazen scenes.

Plot turns feel fast and furious, so come prepared to be both thoroughly shocked and entertained. Ω

2pm and 7pm, F 7pm; Sa 8pm, Tu, W 7pm. Through 6/18. $25-

$35. B Street Theatre, 2711 B Street; (916) 443-5300; www .bstreettheatre.org. B.S.

1 fouL

4

The Open House

Outstanding acting by two exceptional actors makes this story about love, marriage and children in our modern age of uncertainty gripping. One minute the play is funny, the next poignant. Always, it’s captivating. This is a play for millennials that the 50-something-and-over set can also find meaningful. Th

Janis Stevens directs an especially strong cast in Will Eno’s family drama about a dysfunctional family that disintegrates, literally disappears, and is seemingly reconstituted.

Lew Rooker is frighteningly authentic as the mean, sarcastic, cruel patriarch.

Th-Sa 8pm. Through 6/24. $12$20. Big Idea Theatre, 1616 Del Paso Boulevard; (916) 960-3036; www.bigidea theatre.org. J.C.

short reviews by Jim carnes and Bev sykes.

2

3

4

fair

gooD

WeLL-Done

5 suBLiMe– Don’t Miss

Mastery, on point When the puppet shows up in the same skirt as yours.

Hand to God

4

8 p.m. thursday and friday, 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. saturday, 2 p.m. sunday, 6:30 p.m. tuesday, 2 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Wednesday; $26-$38. B street theatre, 2711 B street; (916) 443-5300; https://bstreettheatre.org. through July 23.

On opening night of B Street Theatre’s production of the dark comedy Hand to God, some regular theater members left at intermission, audibly not happy with a play that contains rather raw language and shocking storylines. Understandably so, since B Street’s regular patrons are used to mainstream productions on the company’s Mainstage, with more provocative plays presented on its B3 Series stage. Still, most of the audience stayed and found themselves hopelessly laughing at totally inappropriate-yet-uproariously-funny dialogue, unexpected plot twists and pounding puppet sex—presented by a demonic puppet, his rather perturbed-and-disturbed teen handler and other sundry characters.

Robert Askins’ Hand to God starts off with a monologue by a foul-mouthed puppet spouting off frustrations with life, love, God and Jesus—dotted by salty swear words.

The puppet is poking out of a small puppet theater, so it’s a shock when the lights come up and we

This weekend’s Modern Masters is the final program of the Sacramento Ballet’s 2016-2017 season, and it promises to be a doozy. Not only does it feature George Balanchine’s ground-breaking masterpiece The Four Temperaments and Focus Point, a new piece by Ashley Walton featuring moving light props, but it will also highlight what is likely the last original dance created for the company by Ron Cunningham, the troupe’s co-artistic director who is set to depart at the end of the company’s next season.“[The Seven Deadly Sins] is something I’ve wanted to do for some time,” Cunningham said as he began work on the new piece.

“I always have to have a point of view about what my dance is going to say,” he said, adding that as he started this piece, all he knew was that he wanted to say “something about humanity.”

Creating the new piece led Cunningham to much thought about the nature of man, the concept of sin and why seven sins in particular are considered “deadly.” Pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath and sloth each will be portrayed in the piece.

“It will be very gritty—and possibly shocking,” Cunningham said. “How the hell I’m going to do this, I don’t know for sure.”

At an isolated Alaskan cabin that’s home to a solitary woodsman, a woman in a wedding dress mysteriously appears at the door. A snowstorm confines these odd, lonely refugees from civilization, as Brilliant Traces explores the sometimes dark psyche of each character. This Ovation Stage production, written by Cindy Lou Johnson and directed by Lori Russo, features versatile locals Carissa Meagher and Brandon Lancaster and runs through July 9. 8 p.m. Friday, June 16, and Saturday, June 17, 2 p.m. Sunday, June 18; $15-20. Three Penny Theatre, 1721 25th Street; (916) 606-5050; www.ovationstage.com.

—Jim Carnes

—Jeff Hudson

Even a good actor can’t pretend to enjoy fake soup.

Photo courtesy of ovation stage

Snowbound

Modern Masters; 7:30 p.m. friday, 2 and 7:30 p.m. saturday and 2 p.m. sunday; $50-$65. harris center for the arts, 10 college Parkway in folsom; (916) 608-6888; www.harriscenter.net. through June 18.

06.15.17 | SN&R | 29

Summer Savings! $9,738 $750

SALE PRICE $ 2013 Certified Preowned

Plus Fee Nmac Cash

8,988

• 7 year/100,000 miles power train coverage from in service date • Towing assistance • Car fax used history report

T ABLE A 3 AVAILOFFER! IS TH

One more lap

*Must finance with NMAC on approved credit

• 167 point vehicle inspection • Car rental assistance • 24 hour road side assistance • Some have HOV stickers

% 100 !

Electric

Scan this code with your smart phone to view our inventory.

STOCK# P23026 / VIN# 423666, STOCK# P22923 / VIN# 423047, STOCK# P22959 / VIN# 416400 *Combined inventory of Future Nissan of Roseville & Future Nissan of Folsom. Prices do not include government fees and taxes, any finance charges, any dealer document processing charge, any electronic filing charge and any emission testing charge. All vehicles subject to prior sale and credit approval. Sale prices good through 01/03/17 only.

877-599-6799

12610 Auto Mall Circle • Folsom, CA www.FutureNissanOfFolsom.com

EXOTIC

PLANTS

Pick your own discount!

Savings from

10% - 50% off

plants & containers In-store only.

No double discounts.

Some exclusions apply.

Expires 6/30/17.

916.922.4769

exoƟcplantsltd.com 30 | SN&R | 06.15.17

Make this Father’s Day a live one with living916.922.4769 exoƟc plants!

1833 Howe Ave, Sac exoƟcplantsltd.com

1833 Howe Ave Sacramento, CA

Cars 3 Old cars prefer staring contests to races.

3

by Jim Lane

Recuperating back in Radiator Springs, Lightning refuses to step aside for the new guys, but his sponsor (Nathan Fillion) pressures him to retire gracefully Cars 3 gives a comforting sense that Pixar Animation while his name is still marketable. They compromise Studios is once again firing on all cylinders. It’s a on one more race, the Florida 500—if Lightning relief after Cars 2 (2011), Pixar’s first out-and-out beats Storm in that one, then he’ll earn the right to stinker. Almost anything after that would have been retire when he’s good and ready. Along the way, an improvement, and if this second sequel never quite he picks up a young trainer, Cruz Ramirez (Cristela reaches the gleaming heights of the original Cars, at Alonzo), who may be more hindrance than helper. least it corrects some of No. 2’s missteps.

The seven-handed script (by Kiel Murray, Bob The biggest misstep was shifting the limelight Peterson, Mike Rich, Ben Queen, Eyal Podell, from hotshot race car Lightning McQueen (voiced Jonathon E. Stewart and director Ben Fee) sets up

by Owen Wilson) to the hillbilly tow truck a showdown between Lightning and Jackson Mater (Larry the Cable Guy); Mater was Storm, and we think we know where too obnoxious and annoying to carry a things are headed—so it’s no small movie all by himself, and this time thing that the movie still manages he’s back to simple comic relief. to surprise us. One surprise is the It’s no small Better yet, the new movie relationship between Lightning thing that the brings back the late Paul Newman and Cruz, the little yellow car that as Doc Hudson, Lightning’s wise movie still manages became a trainer when she realized old mentor. Doc, like Newman, is she didn’t have the stuff to be a real to surprise us. no longer with us (the actor died in racer. Another is the climactic race, 2008), but he appears in flashbacks which keeps us guessing nearly all the from the original Cars (plus a few way to the checkered flag. spots where the voice may be that of It remains to be seen whether Lightning Corey Burton). In any case, seeing Doc again, McQueen’s midlife crisis will resonate with and hearing Newman’s avuncular growl, reminds us the small children who make up Cars 3’s target how much the character and the actor added to Cars audience, but director Fee and his writers deserve and how much both were missed in Cars 2, even if audacity points for bringing it up at all. Besides, we couldn’t quite identify what was missing. there’s the customarily dazzling Pixar animation, Ironically, Doc is on Lightning’s mind now especially in the race scenes, which sparkle like because Lightning finds himself sliding into Doc’s new toys under the Christmas tree. There’s no age status as elder statesman of the racing circuit. limit on enjoying that. Ω Younger, faster cars are coming along, including Lightning’s nemesis Jackson Storm (Armie Hammer), who deals Lightning a series of humiliating defeats, including a devastating crash, that leaves people—er, vehicles—wondering if Lightning is washed up.

Poor Fair Good Very excellent

1 2 3 4 5 Good

fiLm CLiPS

1

It Comes at Night

As a strange, virulent plague decimates the human race and ravages civilized society, a man (Joel Edgerton), his wife (Carmen Ejogo) and their teenage son (Kelvin Harrison Jr.) eke out a precarious living in their secluded house. Then the arrival of a desperate young couple (Christopher Abbott, Riley Keough) seeking refuge with their toddler son upsets the tenuous equilibrium of the household, leading to fear, distrust and paranoia.

Writer-director Trey Edward Shults’ second feature is an unusual mix of horror movie (it seems about to devolve into a zombieapocalypse flick any minute, though it never does) and masochistic survivalist fantasy. It’s grim, bleak, uncomfortable and certainly no fun—but the performances are excellent and Shults’ atmosphere of soul-corroding terror is hard to dismiss. J.L.

3

Megan Leavey

A Marine corporal (Kate Mara) bonds with her canine bomb-sniffing partner during two tours in Iraq; when a roadside bomb nearly kills them both, she sets out to adopt the dog, which has been returned to active duty. Director Gabriela Cowperthwaite delivers the goods in the surefire scenes in country, as the two partners sweep roads, buildings and vehicles looking for explosives (it’s hard to muff setups like that), and Mara holds the movie together with a strong performance. But the script by Pamela Gray, Annie Mumolo and Tim Lovestedt is slapdash and choppy, leaving plot threads dangling undeveloped; major scenes seem to be missing. The movie is pretty good, but it’s hard to escape the feeling that there’s a much better movie in Megan Leavey’s true story, one that never got off the drawing board. J.L.

2

The Mummy

Tom Cruise stars in The Mummy as Nick Morton, an ethically suspect ex-soldier who is illegally searching for Iraqi treasure when he stumbles across an inexplicable Egyptian tomb. The tomb was created centuries ago to imprison Ahmanet (Sophie Boutella), a dark sorceress who tried to take over the world once, and now gets a second chance. The Mummy never connects—it’s both brainlessly simple and pointlessly complex, a film that never starts but never stops. It has the bones of an old-fashioned adventure yarn, but the brain of a bored toddler and the heart of a heartless studio exec. If that’s not bad enough, The Mummy is sloppily positioned as the keystone of a new monster-based cinematic universe meant to compete with DC and Marvel. Remember the scene in Dawn of Justice where Batman sends Wonder Woman an email explaining the plot of the next film? That’s the entire second act here. D.B.

V101’s Summer Jam: I love the 90’s (06/17): $79.95 tickets; You pay $51.97 Sebastian Maniscalco (06/23): $71 tickets; You Pay $46.15

The Book of Henry

At last, after The Lovely Bones and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, we receive the third part in a reprehensible triple feature of revoltingly smarmy and overstylized tragedies about precocious children and grief.

Jaeden Lieberher stars as Henry, a genius-level 11-year-old who runs the household for his flaky mom (Naomi Watts) and Ewok-esque younger brother (Jacob Tremblay), while keeping one eye on the molester next door. Director Colin Trevorrow (Jurassic World) and screenwriter Gregg Hurwitz are hopelessly out of their depths dealing with bullying, molestation, abuse and all the other deadly serious subjects that they want to compose inspirational bumper stickers about. A first half of magical treehouses, Rube Goldberg contraptions, brassy best friends and half-witted intelligence is bad enough, but a midpoint twist flips The Book of Henry into a Manic Pixie Rape Revenge movie. The film has an ugly core utterly at odds with the gauzy, apple-cheeked exterior. D.B.

3

BY DANIEL BARNES & JIM LANE

Sublime with Rome (07/28): $65.35 tickets; You Pay $42.48 Buddy Guy & Jonny Lang (07/29): $65.35 tickets; You Pay $42.48 Soul Fest ‘17 (08/05): $72.50 tickets; You pay $47.12

The wine is orange! They’ve been poisoned!

3

Beatriz at Dinner

Director Miguel Arteta and screenwriter Mike White, who previously collaborated on Chuck & Buck and The Good Girl (as well as the HBO series Enlightened), team up again for the low-key satire Beatriz at Dinner.

It seems that their ambitions have tempered over the years, as Beatriz at Dinner, while smart, observant and well-acted, is an almost excessively minor culture-clash drama. Salma Hayek stars as the titular dinner guest, a healer stranded at the home of a wealthy client and awkwardly invited to stick around for the meal. The guest of honor is the rapacious Doug Strutt (John Lithgow), a conservative boogeyman figure presented as an amalgam of Donald Trump, Bill O’Reilly and every Cialis-popping piece of shit who kills endangered animals for “sport.” Naturally, Beatriz and Doug butt heads, highlighting the differences between the wealthy and the working class, and shooting other fish in a barrel in the process. D.B.

2

My Cousin Rachel

In 1830s England, a young man suspects that his beloved cousin has been murdered by his wife (Rachel Weisz), whom he has never met. But when he does meet her, he falls under the spell of her charms. Is she really guilty—and does she plan to make him her next victim? Adapting Daphne Du Maurier’s novel (filmed before in 1952 with Olivia de Havilland and Richard Burton), writerdirector Roger Michell makes a low-camp hash of things. His script is coarse, his direction clumsy, with shots ill-composed and out of focus; he misses entirely the atmosphere of simmering Gothic mystery in the story, and the result is often unintentionally comic.

Claflin plays a callow character but also gives a callow performance; only Weisz and Iain Glen (as Claflin’s godfather) show signs of having actually read the book. J.L.

2

Paris Can Wait

At the age of 81, Eleanor Coppola makes her narrative feature directing debut with the lightweight Paris Can Wait, starring Diane Lane as a 50-something woman unhappily married to a film producer (Alec Baldwin). While her husband jets from Cannes to Budapest, Lane’s Anne accepts a ride to Paris from one of his associates, a cuisine-obsessed Frenchman named Jacques (played with a conspicuous absence of charm by Arnaud Viard). Instead of driving straight to Paris, Jacques takes Anne on a Manic Pixie Dream Pierre food-and-wine tour of the French countryside, constantly diverting from the main road to walk among ruins, visit cheese shops, dawdle in museums and hold impromptu picnics; meanwhile, Anne gently contemplates her place in the world. There’s very little imagination on hand, so naturally Jacques is the sort of walking cliché who drools lines like “We French have a different idea of marriage than you Americans.” D.B.

2

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

Don’t get snookered by that misleading title—dead men monologue almost nonstop throughout this fifth installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean film franchise. Everywhere you turn, some ghost or ex-ghost starts blathering about their tortured and confusing back story, while also providing answers to questions that you couldn’t possibly be boring enough to ask. One of the major reveals in Dead Men Tell No Tales: the origin story of Captain Jack Sparrow’s disgusting dread jewelry.

Seriously. Of course, Johnny Depp returns as Captain Jack, still a shambling alcoholic with a surprising zest for derring-do, still barely hanging on to his ragtag band of snarling idiot pirates, but the effete drunk shtick feels utterly mirthless and obligatory. In its ability to spin mindless fun into heavy-handed bombast, the Pirates franchise is matched only by the Transformers films, and Dead Men Tell No Tales doesn’t have the guts to be an exception. D.B.

2

Wonder Woman

Amazon princess Diana (Gal Gadot) is lured away from her island home by the distant thunder of World War I, joining the fight against Germany and Austria, in whose aggression she sees the hand of the evil god Ares.

This latest comic-book movie’s chief asset is the charismatic Gadot—no wait, scratch that, she’s its only asset. The back story is a subliterate garbling of Greek mythology, while the foreground story is all but nonexistent; there are too many villains, none of them dramatically strong enough to be much of a threat, and the most interesting characters get killed off too soon (to say more would enrage the Spoiler Police). Director Patty Jenkins is hopelessly out of her depth; her first and biggest mistake was in not telling Allan Heinberg, Zack Snyder, and Jason Fuchs that their script stinks. J.L.

Gabriel Iglesias (08/12): $76.15 tickets; You Pay $49.50 Chicago (09/01): $76.15 tickets; You Pay $49.50 Sinbad’d Funk Fest ‘17: $69.50 tickets; You Pay $45.18 Rewind Fest Lost 80s Live (09/03): $76.85 tickets; You pay $49.95 Credence Clearwater Revisited & Three Dog Night: $63.30 tickets; You Pay $41.15 Il Divo with Leann Rimes: $76.15 tickets; You Pay $49.50

SAVE ON THUNDER VALLEY CONCERT SERIES Save on the summer fun with SN&R Sweetdeals. You don’t have to break the bank to go to the best events, shows and festivals in the area! Get discount tickets and gift certificates with no service fees. Spend less for the fests!

TO PURCHASE BLACKBIRD GIFT CERTIFICATES GO TO: SNR.SWEETDEALS.COM

SNRSWEETDEALS.NEWSREVIEW.COM

SUMMER

CUSTOMER APPRECIATION

PARTY

June 23, 2017 4pm to 8pm

Introducing

“THAT GUY” Eyewear is having its summer customer appreciation party, Trunk Show and Sale

by Andy Perez.

Let “That Guy” tighten up your #eyedrobe this summer

Once again we will feature Kim Montgomery of Jonathan Cate Fodder & Libations lovingly provided by D’s Smokin’ Pit, To The Bay & Back Cheesecakes The Greg King Blues Trio

Look good. See well. Pay

wholesale.

2203 del paso blvd • 916.226.0257 • thatguyeyewear.com 06.15.17 | SN&R | 31

Wholesome beats Rapper Kennedy Wrose gives up his vices for rhymes

by Rachel leibRock

rachell@newsreview.com

Photo BY LAURAN WoRthY

on point. It helped me as a songwriter.”

Wrose released his first mixtape in 2013, but it didn’t really go anywhere. He blames that on his poor marketing skills.

Eventually he hooked up with a local marketer who advised him to get out on the scene. Wrose decided to sign up for an open-mic show at the Blue Lamp and treated it like a legit gig, promoting it, inviting everyone he knew.

He crushed it—so much so that the booker invited him to Rocking that gray streak better than Rogue. enter a contest.

What happened next reveals a telling bit about Wrose. In person he is fresh-faced It was 2008, and Kennedy Wrose was in a dark place. with a gray streak in his hair and very soft-spoken.

Don’t be fooled. He is also confident and even Drinking. Too many women. Too many parties. competitive.

“I really made a lot of bad decisions,” he Wrose’s second-place win in that contest, for says.“I felt like my heart wanted one thing, but my example, left him disappointed. Angry, even. body wanted another.”

“I was mad,” he says. “Second place was Then, he says, God stepped in. “[He told me,] ‘Remember what I told you when you were 18, just disheartening.”

It wasn’t fruitless, however: The contest led to give it all to me? I can still help you with this,’” another competition, and this time he came in first Wrose recalls now. “He told me ‘I’m still here.’” and won a cash prize that helped him finance a That divine intervention pushed Wrose to website and music video. He also worked relocate to Texas for a church internship. on sessions for a batch of songs that There, he fell in with a different never made it outside of the studio. crowd, quit drinking and focused on Finally, in 2016, Wrose released his music. his full-length debut. Abstract Eventually he moved back to Heart reflects the artist’s dedicaCalifornia, and now the rapper, tion and poise. The hook-laden born Eugene Kennedy Clarke, tracks here are symphonic and writes and plays melodic lyrically thoughtful with a nod Christian-focused hip-hop.

Kennedy Wrose to his faith that’s undeniable but Nominated for several SAMMIE hip-hop artist never heavy-handed.

Awards including Artist of the “I feel like God’s giving me Year, Emcee and Live Performer, a message in a way that people can he’ll perform at the SAMMIES Award understand, but that’s not too preachy,” he Show at Ace of Spades this Thursday, says. “God made me a truth teller.”

June 15.

When he’s not making music, the Sacramento Music has always been an integral part of his State grad works part-time, and he’s contemplating a life. As a kid growing up in South Sacramento career in environmental studies or urban planning. in the ’90s he was big into rock, influenced by For now, he and his wife are expecting a son his babysitter’s tastes: Nirvana, Green Day, and looking to the future. The baby, he says, Soundgarden, Deftones and Bush. has made him “a lot more intentional” about his “I wanted to be Gavin Rossdale,” he says now. artistic purpose.

High school opened him up to hip-hop—as did “Music is my minister,” he says. Ω a friend who pushed him to flex his freestyle chops

2708 J Street www.momosacramento.com

6/17 6pm $7adv

Petaluma 6/24 • 6pm • $7adv

lucid

caliscope, pointdexter 7/2 9pm $15adv

Perfect Giddimani 8/13 6pm $15adv a night of UkUlele with

andrew molina & corey fujimoto 8/13 6pm $15adv

LIVE MUSIC JUN 16 JUN 17 JUN 23 JUN 30 JUl 01 JUl 07 JUl 08 JUl 14 JUl 15 JUl 21 JUl 22 JUl 28 JUl 28 aug 05

RIDGWAY THE MICHAEL RAY TRIO WORKING MAN BLUES BAND BILLY WILLIAMS BAD MOTHER NATURE QUE BOSSA JASON WEEKS THE LARK & THE LOON VANILLA COAST JAYSON ANGROVE SECOND TIME AROUND TODD MORGAN THE HIGHLIFE BAND ORION WALSH

33 BEERS ON DRAFT

a niGht of ukulele

MONDAY PINT NIGHT 5-8 PM, TRIVIA @ 6:30 PM TACO TUESDAY $1.25 TACOS NOON - CLOSE WEDNESDAY OPEN MIC – SIGN-UPS @ 7:30 PM

sacramento’s favorite djs every fri & sat at 10pm

101 MAIN STREET, ROSEVILLE 916-774-0505 · LUNCH/DINNER 7 DAYS A WEEK

with andrew molina & corey fUjimoto For booking inquiries, email Robert@momosacramento.com

32 | SN&R | 06.15.17

FRI & SAT 9:30PM - CLOSE 21+

/BAR101ROSEVILLE

“God made me a truth teller.”

as they drove around town.

Initially Wrose hesitated, but he soon learned that the car made for an ideal musical vehicle.

“I’d just keep going and focus on the road,” he says. “And then when I wasn’t driving, I was

Check out Kennedy Wrose at Sammies Award Show on thursday, June 15, at Ace of Spades, 1417 R Street. Doors are at 6 p.m. and tickets are $10.

Learn more at www.facebook.com/KennedyWrose.

foR the week of JUNe 15

by mozes zarate

snr c a le nd a r @ ne wsr e v ie w.c o m

Post events online for free at www.newsreview.com/sacramento online listings will be considered for print. Print listings are edited for space and accuracy. deadline for print listings is 5 p.m. Wednesday. deadline for nightlife listings is midnight sunday. send photos and reference materials to calendar editor mozes Zarate at snrcalendar@newsreview.com.

Fri

Photo courtesy of Jean-claude lother, synecdoche and artemis Productions

16

Catherine Jacob in This Is Our Land (Chez Nous), a political drama headlining the Sacramento French Film Festival.

French resistance

Wizard World sacramento Comic Con saCraMento Convention Center, 4 p.M., $40-$80

Wizard World’s touring Photo courtesy of WiZard World comic convention hits Sacramento Friday through Sunday, giving locals the chance CONVeNtiON to ask Kevin Sorbo what exactly made him think God’s Not Dead was the ticket back to an almost respectable career. Other notable figures coming along for this nerd bash include Kate Beckinsale, Val Kilmer, Jon Heder and Adrienne Barbeau. 1400 J Street, http://wizardworld.com/comiccon/sacramento.

—anthony siino

NeCrOmANCY: Dance night with goth, industrial

and Lindsay Ell. 7pm, $39-$154. Toyota Amphitheatre, 2677 Forty Mile Rd. in Wheatland.

Crest theatre and esquire iMaX, 7 p.M., $11-$75 If you’re looking to get more cultured in Trump’s America, what’s more openminded than seeing a Film Fest French film that not-sosubtly bashes Marin Le Pen and the Front National? Last month’s French presidential election is the subtext for This Is Our Land (Chez Nous), where a struggling nurse gets recruited as a mayoral candidate by the RNP, the film’s fictional

friday, 6/16

nationalist party. It’s one of 17 stateside premieres at the 16th Annual Sacramento French Film Festival, which this year showcases films in a mix of genres, like dramas and comedies, and where women play prominent roles. The festival runs from June 16 to June 25, with a reception and closing party on either night. 1013 K Street; 1211 K Street; www.sacramentofrenchfilmfestival.org.

and dark electropop. 9pm, $5. Midtown Barfly, 1119 21st St.

CONCerts iN tHe PArK: This week’s lineup: ZuhG., The Lique, Simple Creation and Zephyr. 5pm, no cover. Cesar Chavez Plaza, 910 I St.

DeAD PreZ: New York City rap duo known for political lyrics focused on socialism and social justice. 9:30pm, $20 - $25. Harlow’s, 2708 J St.

iNANimAte eXisteNCe: Bay Area atmospheric tech/death metal band. Also performing: Reaping Asmodeia, Cyborg Octopus and The Odious Construct. 8pm, $10 - $0. Starlite Lounge, 1517 21st St.

JOel tHe BAND: Sacramento Billy Joel cover

band. 5:30pm, $10 - $12. Harlow’s, 2708 J St.

mODerN mAN: Sacramento psychedelic black

music thursday, 6/15 DAWN & HAWKes: Miranda Dawn and Chris Hawkes are an indie-folk-Americana band and songwriting duo from Austin. They competed in Season 6 of The Voice. Also performing: indie rock duo Inland. 7pm, $15.

The Acoustic Den Cafe, 10271 Fairway Dr. # 120 in Roseville.

it Gets lit lit sUmmer CirCUit: Part of a fivecity hip-hop tour. Performances by Domz , Dylan Phillip, Triiyp and more. 9:30pm, $10$25. 7431 W. Stockton Blvd., Suite #100.

JOsHUA JAmes: Nebraska neo-folk country artist. In March, Rolling Stone included James on their list of the “10 New Country Artists You Need to Know.” 5:30pm, $15-$18.

Harlow’s, 2708 J St.

lA WitCH: Stoned post-punk trio from Los Angeles. Also performing: Portland’s Deathlist and Sunbathe. 8pm, $10. The Red Museum, 212 15th St.

tHe mOANs: Sacramento horror punk trio featuring members of The Secretions. Also performing: The Queers-inspired punk rockers Jerk, from Las Vegas. 8pm, $5 - $10.

The Colony, 3512 Stockton Blvd.

NiCOlAs BeArDe: Nashville’s Nicolas Bearde kicks off Jazz Night at the Crocker summer concert series with a vast repertoire of improvisational blues, jazz, soul and swing.

6:30pm, $8-$14. Crocker Art Museum, 216 O St.

sN&r’s 25tH ANNUAl sAmmies (sACrAmeNtO AreA mUsiC AWArDs sHOW): SN&R’s Sacramento Area Music Awards (a.k.a. the SAMMIES) is celebrating its 25th year! Join us at Ace of Spades to honor this year’s best bands and musicians in the Sacramento area. On top of the awards show, legacy bands like Las Pesadillas and The Brodys will share the stage with some of this year’s nominees. 7pm, $5 $10. Ace Of Spades, 1417 R St.

tHUrsDAY NiGHt liVe At tHe PlAZA iN WOODlAND: Free weekly concert series at Heritage Plaza in Woodland throughout June. This Thursday’s band: Salsa and Latin

group Conjunto Liberation. 6pm, no cover.

Hertiage Plaza, 701 Main Street in Woodland.

friday, 6/16 3rD FriDAY reGGAe: Monthly reggae concert at Swabbies On The River. June’s artist: Jamaican Rastafari and reggae veteran Capleton. Kids get in free. 6pm, call for cover.

Swabbies on the River, 5871 Garden Highway.

7tH ANNUAl DAVis mUsiC Fest: Davis’s own SXSW-style, “no headliners” festival downtown from June 16 to 18. Over 40 performers spread across eight venues.

Also an annual fundraiser for the Davis School of Arts Foundation. Friday’s lineup includes The Polyorchids, The Nickel Slots, Boca Do Rio and more. 5pm, $30 - $42.50.

Downtown Davis, 600 2nd St.

AliCe COOPer: The shock rock legend performs with ’80s heavy metal band Skid Row. 7pm, $68-$131. Thunder Valley Ampitheatre, 1200 Athens Ave. in Lincoln.

BrAD PAisleY: The country music star will perform with Dustin Lynch, Chase Bryant

grind band. Also performing: local poprockers Meet Cute. 9pm, $5. Hideaway Bar & Grill, 2565 Franklin Blvd.

VVOmeN: Yuba City math rock band performing with Bay Area alt-rock group Slumped and pop punk band Hard Feelings. 7pm, $5. The Morgue, 1919 Wahl Way in Davis.

saturday, 6/17

PetAlUmA: Experimental alternative rock band recording a music video for their last show of the summer. 6pm, $7 - $10. MOMO Sacramento, 5776 Broadway.

rAVeN FeliX: Female emcee who’s part of rapper Wiz Khalifa’s entertainment company, Taylor Gang. 6:30pm, $13 - $15.

Harlow’s, 2708 J St.

terrA FerNO: Sacramento hard rock show.

Terra Ferno is releasing their third CD Zero Hour. Also performing: Some Fear None, Zen Arcadia and Among The First. 8pm, $10 - $12. The Boardwalk, 9426 Greenback Lane in Orangevale.

tODD mOrGAN & tHe emBlems: 2017 Sammies nominee. They play Pop, rock, blues jazz, funk and rockabilly. 8pm, no cover.

Fountains at Roseville, 1013 Galleria Blvd. in Roseville.

tOWer OF POWer: Famed Americana R&B based horn section and band from Oakland. 8pm, $35-$55. Cache Creek, 14455 State Highway 16 in Brooks.

UNDerrAGe mUsiC Fest #2: Teenaged music festival at a local rehearsal studio with two stages, food vendors and art. 11:30am, Free. sacramento rehearsal studios, 5749

7tH ANNUAl DAVis mUsiC Fest: See Friday event description. Saturday’s lineup includes Hannah Jane Kile, Sun Valley Gun Club, Ideateam and more. 5pm, $25$92.50. Downtown Davis, 600 2nd St. in Davis.

88th st.

sunday, 6/18 7tH ANNUAl DAVis mUsiC Fest: See Friday event

BAND iN tHe Beer HAll At YOlO BreWiNG COmPANY: Americana Rock and Roots band

Hair of Dawg performs. 6pm, no cover. Yolo Brewing Company, 1520 Terminal St.

tHe HeY-NOWs!: Yolo County Folk rock/ acoustic pop group playing Saturday Nights at The Barn, a weekly event series that also includes interactive art, street food and dancing. 6:30pm, Free. The Barn West Sacramento, 985 Riverfront St.

description. Sunday’s lineup includes Golden Gate String Quartet, West Nile Ramblers, Glug and more.

rOseVille CONCerts iN tHe PArK: Beatles tribute band Mania performing. Enjoy food truck grub and a beer garden. 6:30pm, no cover. Vernon Street Town Square, 311 Vernon St. in Roseville.

CAleNDAr listiNGs CONtiNUeD ON PAGe 34

06.15.17 | SN&R | 33

see more events and submit your own at newsreview.com/sacramento/calendar

sunday, 6/18 the bunker

voted best dance club in sacramento! Kcra

daily specials

KaraoKe in the front bar tuesday - sunday

TACO & TEQUILA TUESDAY $1 tacos, $2 well tequila, $5 Bartender’s Top Shelf choice

amazing food with $10 ribeye steaK dinner thursdays at 6pm $10 prime rib fridays at 6pm till they run out... tuesDay west coast swing night, lesson at 7pm

WING & WHISKEY WEDNESDAY 75 cent wings, $2 well whiskey, $4 Jameson, Jack or Sailor Jerry $3 THURSDAY $3 select draft, tall cans, and well drinks

WeDnesDay hot college country dancing, lessons at 9pm

LADIES NIGHT & FIREBALL FRIDAY Ladies $1 off all drinks, $3 Fireball

thursDay country dance night dance worKshops 8pm FriDays 18 & over country dance night, lessons at 7pm

SPORTS team SATURDAY $1 off for wearing a jersey of a team playing that day

saturDay 21 & over country dance night, lessons at 7pm

SIP IT SUNDAY $4 all wine, mimosas & Bloody Marys

sunDay FunDay 18 & over college dance night, lessons at 9pm

everyday Vets & Local service 20% off happy hour 4-7pm Tuesday - Friday over 100 beer selections!

texas banD rich otoole June 23rd

916.442.2682 2019 O St Sacramento, CA

916.402.2407

ER

FE

NEV AD

&

A

SI

Join us for this Scent-sational event!

RA

monday, 6/19 margie baKer Quartet: The Sacramento Jazz Co-op presents jazz singer Margie Baker at the CLARA Auditorium. She’ll sing a collection of songs paying tribute to the history of black music from 1920s to the present, honoring Billy Eckstine, Earl “Fatha” Hines and Joe Williams. 7pm, $25.

CLARA Auditorium, 1425 24th St.

tuesday, 6/20 raeKwon: Wu-Tang Clan member and rap legend. Also performing: Sacramento rappers Bru Lei and Wurdplay Official. 8pm, $25-$30. Harlow’s, 2708 J St..

S T I VA L

Sunday, June 25 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Downtown Sparks, Nevada Victorian Ave, from Pyramid to 10th St. sæ,AVENDERæ æHONEYæPRODUCTS sæ'UESTæSPEAKERSæ æDEMONSTRATIONS sæ!RTSæ æCRAFTSææææsæ%VENT THEMEDæFOODæ æDRINKæ sæ#REATIVEæ+IDZæ:ONEææææsæ,IVEæMUSIC sææ3IGNATUREæBEERæFROMæ'REATæ"ASINæ"REWINGæ#OMPANY

LavenderAndHoneyFest.com Western Nevada College

SPECIALTY CROP INSTITUTE

tHe blues broads at Clara: The Broads are four female singers that boast a range of blues styles. 7pm, $25-$50. E. Claire Raley Studios for the Performing Arts, 2420 N St.

JaCob wHitesides: Tennessee indie-pop R&B singer who started his career making the first cut on The X Factor. Also performing: Castro and Taylor Grey. 7pm, $18-$20.

Goldfield Trading Post, 1630 J St. playing Starlite Lounge for their Second Annual Booty Worship, a show in support of their Southwestern U.S. tour, called NAKED Phase 1. 7pm, $10 - $15. Starlite Lounge, 1517 21st St.

Festivals Friday, 6/16 wiZard world saCramento: Return of the annual nerd fest, with a cosplay costume contest, celebrity panels, autograph signings, photo ops, vendors and gaming tournaments. Some of this year’s notable speakers: Kate Beckinsale, Val Kilmer, Edward James Olmos and Nichele Nichols.

10am, $39.95-$399. Sacramento Convention Center Exhibit Hall, 1400 J St.

saturday, 6/17 4tH annual big solano brewHaHa: Enjoy unlimited sampling of craft brews from around the region, local food, live music and fun activities. See the homebrewing demonstrations and participate in a raffle.

Proceeds benefit Child Haven, Inc., serving vulnerable children in Solano County.

12:30pm, $35-$65 Al Porter Plaza, 411 Davis St. in Vacaville.

Carnaval de verao in saCramento: Features live music, a dance competition for $500 and the title of Queen of Carnaval, a costume contest and more. One free drink for all in Carnaval attire or with masquerade mask.

3pm, $0-$20. Brazilian Center for Cultural Exchange, 2420 N St.

SN&R

|

06.15.17

Food & drink Friday, 6/16 sunset siPPin’: Every Friday night on Boeger Winery’s picnic grounds: music, wine by-the-glass (or bottle) and snacks for sale in the tasting room. Performing this Friday: The Don Gato Latin Band. 6pm, $10. Boeger Winery, 1709 Carson Road in Placerville. local restaurateurs, breweries and wineries offering food at Blue Anchor Stage & Park area. 6:30pm, $50-$75. Blue Anchor Stage, 3640 Taylor Road in Loomis.

saturday, 6/17 lodi Craft beer festival 2017: Taste over 100 varieties of craft beers from 50 plus California area breweries. Music by classic rock band Donnie and the Wayrads. Food vendors and games like cornhole, giant jenga and flip cup. 3pm, $10-$60. Lodi Lake Park, 1101 West Turner Road in Lodi.

Pints and Poses fundraiser at woodland farmer’s marKet: Yoga classes with a pint of Blue Note Brewery beer. This is a fundraiser for the local Woodland Farmers Market.

10:30am, $20 - $25. Blue Note Brewing Company, 750 Dead Cat Alley in Woodland.

wednesday, 6/21 food truCK safari: Every third Wednesday of the month. Vendors Include: Smokin’ Hot Pizza, Chando’s Tacos, Honest Pie, Gameday Grill, Wandering Boba, Drewski’s Hot Rod and more. 5pm, free. Folsom City Zoo Sanctuary, 403 Stafford St. in Folsom.

tHe nortHern California Pirate festival: Join thousands of costumed pirate enthusiasts on the Vallejo waterfront. Meet Blackbeard and Poseidon. Listen to live music by sirens and pirate-themed bands. Watch a shipto-shore battle. 10am, $0-$12. Northern California Pirate Festival, 289 Mare Island Way in Vallejo. every first and third Saturday of the month.

Vendors sell handmade natural soaps,

|

African-American memorabilia, jewelry, self-defense products, hand bags and more.

10am, free. Sojourner Truth Museum, 2251 Florin Road.

taste of loomis: Wine expo with more than 40

saCramento afriCan marKetPlaCe: Held

34

Part of an international same-day reading series of forgotten plays onstage by black playwrights, the Crocker teams up with the Brickhouse Art Gallery and Celebration Arts for a staging of Yellowman image courtesy crocker art museum

by Dael Olandersmith, a Pulitzer-nominated drama that examines class tensions and racial discrimination in a small Southern town. 216 O Street, www.project1voice.org.

wednesday, 6/21

Planet booty: Oakland electro-funk trio

1320 Del paso blvD in olD north sac

Stoneyinn.com

Calendar listings Continued from Page 33

Project1voiCe: yellowman CroCker Art MuseuM, 3 p.M., no Cover

Film Friday, 6/16 16tH saCramento frenCH film festival: A collection of 17 premieres representing the best of current French cinema, plus two rare classics and 19 short films. Opening Friday: political drama Chez Nous (This is Our Land). Reception with food on that

night. Separate ticket needed for reception.

Special French guests and post-screening discussions. Art exhibit curated by M5 Arts.

6pm, $11 - $95. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.

saturday, 6/17 16tH saCramento frenCH film festival: See Friday event description. Showing Saturday: A Woman’s Life (period drama), Back to Mom’s (family comedy), Things to Come (drama), The Unknown Girl (social thriller) and Personal Shopper (supernatural thriller starring Kristen Stewart).

sunday, 6/18 16tH saCramento frenCH film festival: See Friday event description. Showing Sunday: Full Speed (action comedy), The Odyssey (biopic of Jacques Cousteau), 150 Milligrams (pharmaceutical drama) and From The Land of the Moon (romance drama starring Marion Cotillard).

comedy PunCH line: Amir K. Recently starred on the reboot of MADtv and the MTV prank show, Jerks with Cameras. 10pm. through 6/16. $10-$15. 2100 Arden Way, Suite 225.

tommy t’s Comedy Club: Willie Barcena.

Award-winning Latin comic who’s appeared on The Tonight Show. Known for his jokes about growing up poor in East L.A. and working blue-collar jobs to make ends meet. 7:30pm. through 6/18. $20-$30. 12401 Folsom Blvd. in Rancho Cordova.

on stage 24tH street tHater: Cooking with the Calamari Sisters. Two over-the-top plussize Italian sisters from Brooklyn are stars of their own fictional cooking show. 7pm. through 8/26. $45 - $65. 2791 24th St.

California musiCal tHeatre: Beauty and the Beast. Tony-Award winning stage adaptation of the Disney film. 7:30pm. through 7/2. $45$83. 1510 J St.

Crest tHeatre: Suicide Girls Blackheart Burlesque. A geeky burlesque act filled with pop culture references and choreographed strip teases that pay tribute to Star Wars,

Calendar listings Continued on Page 35

Tuesday, 6/20

Beauty and the Beast Wells Fargo Pavilion, 7:30 P.m., $45-$83

Fresh off of the Emma Watsonstarring feature film released earlier its Musical year, Music Circus is premiering their take on the stage adaptation of the Disney classic next week, featuring composer Alan Menken’s Academy Award winning score and songs like “Be My Guest.” Shows through July 2. 1419 H Street, www.californiamusical theatre.com.

calENDaR lisTiNGs cONTiNuED FROM PaGE 34 A Clockwork Orange and more. 9:00pm.

Monday, 6/19. $25 - $125. 1013 K St.

cROcKER aRT MusEuM: Project1Voice “Yellowman.” Part of an international event featuring staged readings that revive neglected works by black playwrights.

This year’s reading: Yellowman, by Dael Olandersmith, a play that examines racism in a small Southern town. 3:00pm. sunday, 6/18. Free. 216 O St.

DaVis Musical THEaTRE cOMPaNY: Legally Blonde The Musical. Follows a sorority sister named Elle, whose plan to win back her Ivy League boyfriend involves her getting enrolled into Harvard. 8:00pm. Through 7/8. $9-$18. 607 Pena Dr. in Davis.

HaRRis cENTER: Modern Masters: Seven Deadly Sins. Sacramento Ballet artistic director Ron Cunningham premieres his final show with the company after 30 years: his take on the seven deadly sins. 7:30pm. Through 6/18. $56-$71; Best of Broadway. Two hours of some of the best from classic and current Broadway musicals. 7pm. Through 6/21. $22-$40. 10 College Parkway in Folsom.

OVaTiON sTaGE aT THE THREE PENNY THEaTRE: Brilliant Traces. In the Alaskan wilderness, Henry Harry unexpectedly encounters Rosannah, a woman decked in full bridal attire who’s just skipped her own wedding. 8:00pm. Through 7/9. $10. 1723 25th St.

THEaTRE iN THE HEiGHTs: Just Say Yes! A selfhelp guru looks to get his career back on track by propping up the world’s biggest loser. 8:00pm. Through 6/25. $15. 8215 Auburn Blvd., Suite G in Citrus Heights.

phoTo courTesy of charr crail

age 86. 11:00am. Through 7/29. Free. 5524 B Elvas Ave.

sacRaMENTO FiNE aRTs cENTER: 6th Annual Focus on Fiber. Exhibit on fiber arts, which involves creative processes such as dyeing, painting, printing, stitching, embellishing, quilting, weaving, knitting, felting and paper making. 11:00am. Through 6/25. Free. 5330B Gibbons Drive in Carmichael.

MuseuMs MaiDu MusEuM & HisTORic siTE: Night Out at the Maidu Museum. Part of a monthly event series. This month features a conversation with Frank LaPena, a contributing editor at News From Native California Magazine, and more. Indigenous art gallery on display. 6:30pm . saturday, 6/17. Free. 1970 Johnson Ranch Drive in Roseville.

suTTER’s FORT sTaTE HisTORic PaRK: Hands

arT caliFORNia MusEuM: Art & Advocacy. A new exhibit of original works by developmentally disabled artists residing across California. 10:00am. Through 9/17. $0 - $9.

1020 O St.

JaYJaY: Loved to Death. The exhibit features ceramic artist Maria Alquilar’s body of work, left behind since her death in 2014 at

Coming Soon

on History: War in California. Part of a monthly interactive series. Guests will see a display of Fort artifacts including 19th century coins and maps, can participate in history-themed scavenger hunts and watch black-powder weaponry in action, including the firing of Sutter’s cannon. 10am . saturday, 6/17. $0-$7. 2701 L St.

6/15 5:30PM $15AdV

6/17 6:30PM $13AdV

Joshua James

raven Felix

all aGes sacRaMENTO ZOO: Sac Zoo’s 90th Birthday Party. Games, crafts, activities, bounce houses and a chance to meet Herkimer, a desert tortoise and the Zoo’s oldest resident, also turning 80. 9am. saturday, 6/17. $9.95 - $14.95. 3930 W Land Park Drive

VETERaN’s MEMORial aMPiTHEaTRE: Reefer Madness. A musical comedy adaptation of the 1936 anti-marijuana propaganda film. 8:30pm. Through 6/18. $12 - $18. 7991 California Ave. in Fair Oaks.

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

sporTs & ouTdoors

6/20 8PM $25AdV

reakwon

6/16 5:30PM $10AdV

WuRdPLAY oFFICIAL

Joel the BanD

friday, 6/16 NiTRO NiTE OF FiRE: Drag racing, funny cars, dragsters, door slammers, drag bikes and more. 5pm, $15 - $20. Sacramento Raceway Park, 5305 Excelsior Road.

saTurday, 6/17 FOlsOM WiNE RuN: 5k fun run with scenic trails. Past the finish line: a post-race

calENDaR lisTiNGs cONTiNuED ON PaGE 36

6/16 9:30PM $20AdV

DeaD Prez dJEPIK

6/22 8PM $10AdV

metal street Boyz

06/23 !!! (Chk Chk Chk) 06/24 The Weight Band 06/28 SK8 06/30 Felice Lazae 06/30 Solsa 07/01 Phora (SoLd ouT) 07/01 Suga Free 07/06 Soulful Collection Vol.1 07/07 Jelly Roll 07/08 Tainted Love 07/11 Ying Yang Twins 07/12 Kindred the Family Soul 07/13 dada 07/21 The Sword 07/25 Jared & The Mill 07/26 The Iguanas 07/30 delta Rae 07/27 Flamin’ Groovies 07/29 Pallbearer 08/11 Sonny Landreth 08/19 The Alarm 08/27 Talking dreads 09/15 dead Winter Carpenters

06.15.17

|

SN&R

|

35

sEE MoRE EvENts ANd sUbMit yoUR owN At newSreview.com/Sacramento/calendar

cAlENdAR listiNGs coNtiNUEd FRoM PAGE 35

wedneSday, 6/21 2017 cUltivAtiNG cHANGE sUMMit: A three-day

festival with wine and music. 8am, $15 $65. 101 Parkshore Drive in Folsom.

NitRo NitE oF FiRE: See Friday event description.

sAcRAMENto REPUblic Fc vs. vANcoUvER wHitEcAPs Fc 2: 8pm, $17.75 - $365. Papa Murphy’s Park, 1600 Exposition Blvd.

sAcRAMENto RivER cAts vs. AlbUQUERQUE isotoPEs: 7:05pm, $10 -$40. Raley Field, 400 Ball Park Dr.

global agriculture conference that features workshops, expert panels, networking mixers and keynotes from prominent agriculture LGBT and ally industry leaders.

Runs through 6/23. 8am, $0 - $250. Capitol Plaza Ballrooms, 1025 9th St.

claSSeS Saturday, 6/17 coFFEE & clAy - iNtRo clAy clAss: Wheel

taKe action Saturday, 6/17 NAsty woMEN sAcRAMENto: A fundraiser modeled after the original Nasty Women exhibition, which was held in January at the Knockdown Center in Queens, New York.

The exhibition featured donated works of art from female and female-identifying artists, with all proceeds from sales going to Planned Parenthood. 11am, Free. Verge Center for the Arts, 625 S St.

Sunday, 6/18 NAsty woMEN sAcRAMENto: See Saturday description.

tueSday, 6/20 stAtE oF tHE stAtE oF JEFFERsoN: Powerpoint presentation on the latest developments regarding the Great State of Jefferson movement. 7pm, Free. Lincoln Christian Life Center, 1200 California 193 in Lincoln.

throwing and sculpting class. 9am, $10.

Sincere Ceramics, 5931 Power Inn Road, Suite B.

PAiNt oN tHE PAtio At old soUl At tHE wEAtHERstoNE: 1 hour class for artists of all levels. All painting materials are provided including a 16-inch-by-20-inch canvas. The reservation also comes with one beverage of your choice from Old Soul. 3pm, $45. 812 21st St.

tueSday, 6/20 FiGURE dRAwiNG At vERGE: Every Tuesday night. A nude model will be present at each session and Verge provides all basic drawing materials. 6pm, $10 - $15. Verge Center for the Arts, 625 S St.

wedneSday, 6/21 bioloGy iN sPAcE - EXPloRiNG tHE MicRobioME: Part of a monthly public science education series, with short talks from local experts in the sciences. This week’s guest: UC Davis microbiology researcher Dr. David Coil.

One research project he’s working on: how microbes compete in space compared to on Earth. 6pm, Free. Streets Pub and Grub, 1804 J St.

Saturday, 6/17

UnderRAGE Music Fest No. 2 Sacramento rehearSal StudioS, 11:30 a.m., no cover

This daylong festival sounds like a good chance to see what the city’s young musicMUsic FEstivAl makers are up to.

Here’s the gist: 16 teenage acts rock two stages at Sacramento Rehearsal Studios, with food vendors and art.

Check out hard rock band URDOM (pictured), the humbly named reggae-alternative rockers Nothin’ Special and skate pop-punk group Free Candy. 5749 88th Street.

36

|

SN&R

|

06.15.17

Photo courteSy of urd-om

subMit your calendar listinGs for free at newsreview.coM/sacraMento/calendar Badlands

2003 K St., (916) 448-8790

thURSday 06/15

FRiday 06/16

#Turntup Thursdays College Night, 8pm, no cover

F.A.G. Fridays (Fabulous & Gay), 7pm, no cover

Bar 101

1400 alhaMbRa blvd., (916) 455-3400

Askultura, Sacto Storytellers, DJ Cherry Baby, 8pm, call for cover

The Boardwalk

9426 GReenbacK ln., oRanGevale, (916) 988-9247

Cooper’s ale works

235 coMMeRcial St., nevada city, (530) 265-0116

CounTry CluB saloon Photo coURteSy oF denniS Scott

ZuhG. Concerts in the Park 6:30pm Friday, $10.

Cesar Chavez Plaza Funk rock

Karaoke, 8pm, no cover

4007 tayloR Road, looMiS, (916) 652-4007

Island Of Black And White & TAP IT Brewing Pint Nite, 8pm, call for cover

disTillery

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

FaCes

Dragon, 10pm, $10

2107 l St., (916) 443-8815 2000 K St., (916) 448-7798

FaTher paddy’s irish puBliC house 435 Main St., Woodland, (530) 668-1044

Fig Tree CoFFee lounge

Monday-WedneSday 6/19-6/21

Spectacular Saturdays, 9pm, no cover

Sunday Tea Dance & Beer Bust, 4pm, no cover

Half-off Mondays, 8pm, M, no cover; Karaoke, 8pm, Tu, no cover Trivia & Pint Night, 6:30pm, M, no cover; Open Mic, 7:30pm, W, no cover

MoxieCrush Burlesque Comedy Show, 9pm, $10-$20

Lil Blood, 9pm, call for cover

Burning in Blue, 8pm, $10

Terra Ferno CD Release Party w/ Some Fear None and others, 8pm, $10-$12

Third Stone Blue, 9pm, $5

Curse of Cretins, 9pm, call for cover

Western Line Dancing, 7pm, no cover

Lee Dagger of Bimbo Jones, call for time and cover

Stepping Stones, 7pm, no cover

Side Wheeler String Band, 7pm, no cover

Open Mic, 9pm, M, no cover; Cosmonauts and more 7:30pm, Tu, $12

Sunday Funday Pool Parties, 3pm, call for cover

Every Damn Monday, 7pm, M, no cover; Noche Latina, 9pm Tu, call for cover Trivia Night, 6pm, M, no cover

222 veRnon St., RoSeville, (916) 771-7010

Dawn Shout: An Acoustic Tribute to the Women of Rock, 7:30pm, no cover

Songwriter Showcase: Missy Russ and Westley Rose, 7:30pm, no cover

Open Mic, 7:30pm, no cover

Fox & goose

Chicken & Dumpling, 8pm, no cover

Mr. Hooper, P Chill, The Great Peso 131 and more, 9pm, $5

Rich Corporation, Silk Animus, Kally O’Mally & The 8-Tracks, 9pm, $5

goldField Trading posT

Supersuckers, 7:30pm, $15

halFTime Bar & grill

Halftime Idol Karaoke Contest, 7pm, $5

The Reflex (’80s cover band), 9pm, $5

Rogue, 9pm, $7

“Let’s Get Quzzical” Trivia Game Show, 7pm, Tu, no cover; Bingo, 1pm, W, $10

harlow’s

Joshua James, 5:30pm, $15-$18

Joel the Band, 5:30pm, $10-$12; Dead Prez, 9:30pm, $20-$25

Raven Felix, 6:30pm, $13-$15

Raekwon, 8pm, Tu, $25-$30

1001 R St., (916) 443-8825 1630 J St., (916) 476-5076

5681 lonetRee blvd., RocKlin, (916) 626-6366 2708 J St., (916) 441-4693

hideaway Bar & grill Photo coURteSy oF biaGGio d’anna

SUnday 06/18

Ridgway, 9:30pm, no cover

101 Main St., RoSeville, (916) 774-0505

Blue lamp

SatURday 06/17

Jacob Whitesides, 7pm, W, $18-$20

Modern Man, Meet Cute, 9pm, $5

2565 FRanKlin blvd., (916) 455-1331

Open jam, 4pm, no cover

Modern Man

highwaTer

with Meet Cute 9pm Friday, $5.

Hideaway Bar & Grill Metal

1910 Q St., (916) 706-2465

On The Low, 9pm, no cover; Loveless, 10pm, no cover

Well Dressed Mannequins, 10pm, call for cover

Salty Saturday, 9pm, no cover; Eric & Juan (live music), 10pm, no cover

kupros

Adam Varona, 9:30pm, no cover

Mudfolk, 9:30pm, no cover

Drunken Kung Fu, 9:30pm, no cover

luna’s CaFe & JuiCe Bar

Poetry Unplugged, 8pm, $2

Sac United Poetry Slam, 6:30pm, no cover

1217 21St St., (916) 440-0401 1414 16th St., (916) 441-3931

Open Mic, 7:30pm, M, no cover; Pub Quiz, 7pm, Tu, no cover

Heavy Mondays, 10pm, M, no cover; The Trivia Factory, 7pm, M, no cover Kupros Quiz, 7:30pm, no cover

Ross Hammond, 7:30pm, W, no cover

The Inside Story: World Beat, 8pm, $5

Nebraska Mondays, 7:30pm, M, $10; Open Mic Comedy, 7:30pm, Tu, no cover

06.15.17

|

SN&R

|

37

suBmiT your cAlEndAr lisTings For FrEE AT nEwsrEviEw.com/sAcrAmEnTo/cAlEndAr tHursDAY 06/15

FriDAY 06/16

sAturDAY 06/17

sunDAY 06/18

MonDAY-WeDnesDAY 6/19-6/21

Midtown Barfly

SUBspace Presents: 1 year anniversary party ft. QUIX, 8pm, $20

Salsa & Bachata, 8:30pm, $8

Necromancy, 9pm, $5

Wizard World Afterparty, 9pm, $3-$5

Salsa & Bachata, 7:30pm, W, $5

naked lounge downtown 1111 H st., (916) 443-1927

Halteras, Hard Feelings, Swing Away, Ramonda Hammer, 8pm, $5

Sam Choee, The Clearwings, Evan Lanham & The Live Oaks, 8:30pm, $5

Nick Foster, Alex Walker Band, 8:30pm, $5

old ironsides

Open Mic Acoustic, 7pm, no cover

Mahtie Bush, Kel C, Live Manikins, DJ Rated R, A.R.G., 8:30pm, $7

670 Fulton Ave., (916) 487-3731

Open Mic Stand-up Comedy, 8:30pm, no cover

Wiccid, Klank, PerfectNightmare w/ DJNachtdoom, 9pm, $6

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

PalMs Playhouse

The Freight Hoppers, 8pm, $17

Phoebe Hunt & the Gatherers, 8pm, $17

Blair Crimmins & The Hookers, 8pm, $15

414 MAin st., PlAcerville, (530) 303-3792

Knee Deep Brewing Co. (Pint & Flight), 6pm, no cover

Jason Weeks, 8:30pm, call for cover

Powerhouse PuB

Moonshine Crazy, 9:30pm, no cover

Remix, 10pm, $10

1119 21st st., (916) 549-2779

1901 10tH st., (916) 442-3504

on the y

13 MAin st., Winters, (530) 795-1825

Placerville PuBlic house PHoto BY stePHAnie BouzArD

Element Brass Band

614 sutter st., FolsoM, (916) 355-8586

10:30pm Friday, no cover.

G Street Wunderbar in Davis New Orleans jazz

the Press cluB

Authorities, Surrogate Brains, Riot Radio, Mob Rule, 8pm, $8

shady lady saloon

Harley White Jr. Orchestra, 9pm, no cover

2030 P st., (916) 444-7914 1409 r st., (916) 231-9121

starlite lounge

Switchblade Trio, 9pm, no cover

Heath Williamson, 5:30pm, M, no cover; Karaok “I”, 9pm, Tu, no cover ’80s Industry Night w/ DJ Nachtdoom, 10:30pm Sun, call for cover

Free Pool & Karaoke, 9pm, M, no cover; Movie Night, 7pm, W, no cover

Mavis Bacon, 8:30pm, call for cover

The Scott Walshaw Band, 1:30pm, no cover

Taco Tuesday & Game Day, 11am, M, no cover

Inspector 71, 10pm, $10

Ray Catfish Copeland Band, 3pm, $10

Live Band Karaoke, 8:30pm, Tu, no cover; 98 Rock Local Licks, 9pm, W, no cover

Pop 40 with DJ Larry Rodriguez (2017 SAMMIES nominee), 9pm, $5

Sunday Night Dance Party w/ DJ Larry, 9pm, no cover

Track Scars, Killer Couture and more, 8pm, Tu, $5

Current Personae, 9pm, no cover

Alex Jenkins, 9pm, no cover

Inaminate Existence, 8pm, $10; Mylar’s Hippie Hour, 5:30pm, no cover

1517 21st st., (916) 704-0711

New Balance, Jake Tittle, Steven Denmark, Josh Lane, 8:30pm, W, $5

Abrams, 8pm, $7

Planet Booty, 7pm, W, $10-$15

stoney’s rockin rodeo

Bobby Zoppi & The Corduroys, 9pm, no cover

Country dancing, Karaoke, 9pm, $5 - $10

Country dancing, 8pm, $5

Karaoke, 9pm, $5

Country dancing, 9:30pm, Tu, W, $5 - $8; Karaoke, 9pm, W, $5-$8

torch cluB

Mind X, 5:30pm, no cover; Deltaphonics, City of Trees, Matt Mejia, 9pm, $6

Hank Biggs & The Hard Tops, 5:30pm, no cover; Jordan Matthew Young, 9pm, $8

Loose Engines, 5:30pm, no cover; Afrofunk Experience, 9pm, $8

Blues Jam, 4pm, no cover; You Front The Band, 8pm, no cover

Mayeux & Broussard and Mitchel Evan, 8pm Tu, call for cover

ace of sPades

SN&R’s 25th Annual SAMMIES, 7pm, $5-$10

1320 Del PAso BlvD., (916) 927-6023 904 15tH st., (916) 443-2797

All ages, all the time 1417 r st., (916) 448-3300

cafe colonial PHoto courtesY oF kAYlA FAutt

3520 stockton BlvD., (916) 736-3520

Kehlani (SOLD OUT), 7pm, W, $27 Cassette Idols, Jesus and the Dinosaurs, Kill the Cute, 8pm, $6

Cafe Colonial Art Showcase, 6pm, $10

Terra Ferno

the colony

with Some Fear None 8pm Saturday, $10-$12.

The Boardwalk Rock

3512 stockton BlvD., (916) 718-7055

The Moans, Jerk, Black Crosses, 8pm, $5 - $10

Tides of Tomorrow, Destroy Paige, Call Me James and more, 7pm, $5

GLUG, Toy Called God, From the Ruins, Worn Thin, Hand of Fire, 7pm, $10

shine

Open jazz jam, 8pm, no cover

Proxy Moon, Tara Velarde, According to Bazooka, 8pm, $7

The Pacific, Mobilities, Worthy Goat, 8pm, $7

Speak Out Sacramento (Open Mic), 8pm, W, no cover

30 Second Band, Cardboard Houses, Elijah Egbert, 6:30pm, $5

Kilroy, Floral Caves, Stay Out and more, 6pm, M, $5

1400 e st., (916) 551-1400

the silver orange

922 57tH st., (916) 228-4169

Xome, Instagon, Filthmilk and more, 8pm, $6

Kilroy, Side Effect, Free Candy and more, 8pm, Tu, call for cover

ALL AGES WELCOME!

1417 R Street, Sacramento, 95811 • www.aceofspadessac.com THURSDAY, JUNE 15

25TH ANNUAL SAMMIES

THURSDAY, JUNE 22

P-LO.

REXX LIFE RAJ FRIDAY, JUNE 22

DOKKEN ZACH WATERS - ANARCHY LACE NOVA SUTRA - FALLOUT KINGS WEDESDAY, JUNE 28

JACQUEES TIM BARRY FRIDAY, JUNE 30

TIGER ARMY/ MURDER BY DEATH TIM BARRY

38

|

SN&R

|

COMING

SATURDAY, JULY 1

THE MIDNIGHT PLAYERS HIPPER THAN HIP - A BAY AREA TOWER OF POWER TRIBUTE - SUGAR HIGH TUESDAY, JULY 11 FAT TIRE PRESENTS TOUR DE FAT

HOLLIS BROWN FRIDAY, JULY 14

PLAYBOI CARTI

SATURDAY, JULY 15

SAVED BY THE 90’S SUNDAY, JULY 16

REEL BIG FISH THE EXPENDABLES - THE QUEERS TUNNEL VISION

SOON

06/21 07/22 07/26 07/27 07/28 07/29 07/30 08/01 08/03 08/04 08/05 08/10 08/14 08/16 08/21 08/23 08/26 08/29

08/30 08/31 09/07 09/08 09/09 09/12 09/15 10/03 10/05 10/11 & 12 12/12 10/17 10/20 10/21

TICKETS AVAILABLE AT ALL DIMPLE RECORDS LOCATIONS AND WWW.ACEOFSPADESSAC.COM 06.15.17

Kehlani SOLD OUT! IAMSU! Trevor Hall Maxi Priest Lukas Nelson & Promise of The Real + Nick Bluhm SOB x RBE David Allan Coe Taking Back Sunday SOLD OUT! Firehouse Lucent Dossier Experience Girls Rock Sacramento Show Atmosphere SOLD OUT! One OK Rock 2 Chainz Cold War Kids The Adicts Y&T Dead Cross- Featuring: Mike Patton, Dave Lombardo, Justin Pearson & Michael Crain Simple Plan August Alsina Minus The Bear Quiet Riot Magpie Salute Against Me! Reverend Horton Heat Dope / Hed PE Shooter Jennings Cafe Tacvba Chris Robinson Brotherhood The Kooks Paul Weller Brujeria w/Voodo Glow Skulls

“THE PARTY PEOPLE” UPCOMING EVENT

TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE THUNDER VALLEY BOX OFFICE, TICKETMASTER.COM, OR WORLDONEPRESENTS.COM 06.15.17 | SN&R | 39

join the

team

• advertising Consultant • marketing & publiCations Consultant For more inFormation and to apply, go to www.newsreview.Com/jobs.

SN&R is an Equal Opportunity Employer that actively seeks diversity in the workplace.

Oriental Magic Hands

Print ads start at $6/wk. www.newsreview.com or (916) 498-1234 ext. 5 Phone hours: M-F 9am-5pm.

All ads post online same day.

Deadlines for print: Line ad deadline: Monday 4pm Adult line ad deadline: Monday 4pm Display ad deadline: Friday 2pm

Jason Shimomura CMT 601-1292 (9am-9pm daily)

Online ads are

STILL FREE!*

*Nominal fee for adult entertainment. All advertising is subject to the newspaper’s Standards of Acceptance. Further, the News & Review specifically reserves the right to edit, decline or properly classify any ad. Errors will be rectified by re-publication upon notification. The N&R is not responsible for error after the first publication.

The N&R assumes no financial liability for errors or omission of copy. In any event, liability shall not exceed the cost of the space occupied by such an error or omission.

The advertiser and not the newspaper assumes full responsibility for the truthful content of their advertising message.

ENGINEER Vision Service Plan has an opening for a Senior SAP Analyst in Rancho Cordova, CA. Develop, create, and deliver SAP technical solutions for highly complex problems within a business functional area. TO APPLY: Go to https:// career4.success.com/ career?company=VSP and search: 1167.131.

PAID IN ADVANCE! Make $1000 a Week Mailing Brochures From Home! No Experience Required.

Helping Home Workers Since 2001! Genuine Opportunity. Start Immediately! www.IncomeStation.net (AAN CAN)

40 | SN&R | 06.15.17

Roommate for Modern Sacto House $525 incl all utilities & Xfinity cable TV & WiFi; furnished large BR 10’x15’ w/ 32” flat TV; share house w/ gay man & strght couple; drivwy parking; no couples, no pets, no smoking inside; N Laguna/S Sacto; call 916-228-4380, no txting.

ALL AREAS Free Roommate Service @ RentMates.com.

Find the perfect roommate to complement your personality and lifestyle at RentMates.com!

(AAN CAN)

MAKE THE CALL TO START GETTING CLEAN TODAY Free 24/7 Helpline for alcohol & drug addiction treatment. Get help! It is time to take your life back! Call Now: 855-732-4139 (AAN CAN) YOGIRAj GuRu SuN LuCK RAjA Yogi Disciple of Sri Yogiraj Swami Satchidananda Tibetan Healing Therapy by appt only (916) 807-1317 donation to Living Shrine of Manjushri Bodhisattva of wisdom OM TAT SAT

Delightful massage from a Latin expert Special rates for seniors.

By appt only in Fair Oaks *82-916-961-3830

adult

Livelinks - Chat Lines Flirt, chat and date! Talk to sexy real singles in your area.

Call now! (877) 609-2935 (AAN CAN) 48 PILLS + 4 FREE! VIAGRA 100MG/ CIALIS 20mg Free Pills!

No hassle, discreet shipping.

Save now. Call today 1-877-621-7013 (AAN CAN)

PREGNANT? THINKING OF ADOPTION? Talk with caring agency specializing in matching Birthmothers with Families Nationwide. LIVING EXPENSES PAID. Call 24/7 Abby’s One True Gift Adoptions.

866-413-6293. Void in Illinois/ New Mexico/Indiana (AAN CAN)

CASH PAID FOR DIABETIC TEST STRIPS Up to $30 a box. Fast pickup.

One-touch Freestyle and other brands bought. Call Rachel (916) 505-4673.

SENIOR MALE, slender, healthy, good personality, seeking lady for occasional romance. 707-815-3640

WWW.GOLDCLUBCENTERFOLDS.COM

PURE GOLD

Always FREE to listen and reply to ads!

TOTALLY NUDE SHOWGIRLS

$5 OFF ADMISSION

#1 PER N&R GREAT FOOD

W/AD $5 OFF AFTER 7PM 1 DRINK MINIMUM EXP 6/30/17. NOT VALID ON UFC FIGHT NIGHTS

LUNCH SPECIALS

STORE OPEN 10AM CLUB OPEN 5PM

JILLIAN JANSON 240 XXX MOVIES

FATHER’S DAY JUNE 18TH XXX MAGS

WED JUNE 14 – SAT JUNE 17

Playmates or soul mates, you’ll find them on MegaMates

WHO ARE YOU AFTER DARK?

Try FREE: 916-480-6200 More Local Numbers: 1-800-700-6666 redhotdateline.com 18+

SCORE $699 HIGH SOCIETY $899 BARELY LEGAL $1369 CLASSIC DVD’S $899

DANCER AUDITIONS

5 PACK DVDS

$9.69

DAILY 3000 SUNRISE BLVD. #2 W/COUPON REG. $12.69 AD EXPS 6-30-17. 1 PER CUSTOMER

Sacramento:

2014 BEST NEW STARLET, 2015 BEST FEMALE PERFORMER, 2016 AVN BEST POV SCENE. STAGE TIMES:

(916) 273-8207 www.megamates.com 18+

RANCHO CORDOVA, CA

916.631.3520

Wednesdays & Thursdays 10pm & 12:30am Fridays Noon, 9:30pm, 11:30pm & 1:30am Saturdays 9:30pm, 11:30pm & 1:30am

STORE SIGNING FRI & SAT 6-8PM AMATEUR CONTEST/AUDITIONS EVERY MONDAY

10:30 PM - $450.00 CASH PRIZE

FRIENDLY ATTRACTIVE DANCERS CONTRACTED DAILY. CALL 858-0444 FOR SIGN UP INFO

FREE ADMIT w/Ad $5.00 VALUE

Valid Anytime With Drink Purchase

25,000 ADULT DVDS $0.49 - & UP

WE BUY USED ADULT DVDS BACHELOR / DIVORCE PARTIES 916.858.0444 FULL SERVICE RESTAURANT

OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK

SPORTS ACTION ON OUR GIANT SCREEN TV

11363 Folsom Blvd, Rancho Cordova (Between Sunrise & Hazel)

858-0444

M-Th 11:30-3 • Fri 11:30-4 • Sat 12-4 • Sun 3-3 Gold Club Centerfolds is a non-alcohol nightclub featuring all-nude entertainment. Adults over 18 only.

06.15.17 | SN&R | 41

ADVERTISE HERE

by JOEY GARCIA

REAL PEOPLE, REAL DESIRE, REAL FUN.

If you are interested in advertising with us, please contact CLASSIFIEDS at 916-498-1234 ext. 1338.

Try FREE: 916-480-6227 More Local Numbers: 1-800-926-6000

Ahora español Livelinks.com 18+

ADVERTISE HERE If you are interested in advertising with us, please contact CLASSIFIEDS at 916-498-1234 ext. 1338.

THE BEST MASSAGE YOU CAN GET

NEW STAFF!

5 OFF

$

• 7 Days a Week 10am–10pm • Sauna & Shower Available • Free Chinese therapies • Reflexology • Deep Tissue • Swedish

@AskJoeyGarcia

Bundle of lies

My brother-in-law thinks he and my sister are trying to have a baby. My sister is secretly using birth control because she wants a baby, but isn’t sure she wants a baby with him. I’m close to both of them and hate feeling like the forecaster of an upcoming sh*tstorm. My brother-in-law and I were in a fraternity in college. He met my sister through me. And my sister, well, she’s family. Is there a way for me to get out of this without losing one of them?

Encourage your sister to come clean with her man. But don’t be her confidant.

She needs to mature in her capacity for honesty. Tell her to be still and listen to her inner wisdom. Encourage her to meet with a therapist or to pen a pro/con list—anything that will fire up the courage she needs to become truthful and trustworthy.

Moving forward is essential because by not deciding what she really wants, she keeps herself, her relationship and her life off-kilter.

When her husband discovers her secret, he’s bound to feel betrayed. Let that drama remain between them by refusing to get involved.

Otherwise, when things fall apart, they’re both likely to blame you.

Change begins with understanding.

Start here: Our brains have evolved to prefer unconscious decisions, especially those that temporarily reduce stress, even if it means giving in to a decision that’s lousy in the long-term. (Yes, like running back to a man you don’t need in your life.) Our brains are also designed to conserve energy. So altering habituated behavior requires conscious decision-making, and that sucks a lot of physical, emotional and mental energy. Be sure to rest, exercise and eat well during your transformation.

Self-care is also the fuel you need to replace lies you’ve believed about love and relationships. Take this medicine and repeat it to yourself daily: Love begins in me.

I’m attentive, kind, honest, and loving toward myself because that’s what I deserve. I am brave and protect myself—mind, body, heart and soul—from harm.

Gradually, you will see that what you had with this man wasn’t a relationship. It was chaos and will continue to be until you let go. A 12-step group, such as Co-Dependents Anonymous, can help. Ω

Let that drama remain between them.

*this is a model

GOOD DAY SPA

916.395.7712 7271 55th St. #D

Sacramento 95823

All Credit Cards Accepted

For five years, I was with a man I was afraid of. He was controlling, and mean.

Out of the blue he breaks up with me, saying he loves someone else. I should have been happy, but I wasn’t. When things get bad between him and his new girlfriend, he calls and I go back to him.

They make up and he dumps me again.

What is wrong with me?

There is nothing wrong with you, honey. But your belief system is flawed and must be dismantled. It no longer serves you. Your experiences have taught you to believe that staying with someone who abuses you is better than the pain of being alone, or of trying to leave, getting caught and dealing with the consequences. That might have been true in the past, but you’re free now. Push yourself to choose short-term discomfort for long-term serenity.

42 | SN&R | 06.15.17

MedITATIOn OF THe Week “The only way to know how long you are lost in the darkness is to be saved from it,” writes Colson Whitehead in The Underground Railroad, winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize. Have you shined a light on your shadow lately? Or are you more fascinated by other people’s dark sides?

Write, email or leave a message for Joey at the News & Review. Give your name, telephone number (for verification purposes only) and question—all correspondence will be kept strictly confidential.

Write Joey, 1124 Del Paso Boulevard, Sacramento, CA 95815; call (916) 498-1234, ext. 1360; or email askjoey@newsreview.com.

SN&R’s

What’s inside: The 420 49 Product Review 53 Capital Cannabis Map 57 For More deals, updates & Listings Visit

and the at newsreview.com

06.15.17 | SN&R | 43

SN&R’s

420 MED EVALUATIONS $ 45 $ 35

NEW PATI E NTS ON LY VA LID A T 1800 21

ST

PATI E NT RE N E WAL S O N L Y VA L I D A T 18 0 0 21 ST .

ST .

ST

VAL I D T HR O U G H 0 6 /2 1 /17

V A LID TH RO UGH 06/21/17

W I N N E’13 R 4 YE ARS IN A ROW!

B E ST M E D I CAL MARIJ UANA CLI N I C - SACRAMENTO NEWS AND REVIEW READERS’ POLL ’13

’13

’13

’13

’13

’13 ’14

GET APPROVED OR NO CHARGE! • 24/7 VERIFICATIONS! HIPAA COMPLIANT • 100% DOCTOR/PATIENT CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE TO CONSUMERS: The Compassionate Use Act of 1996 ensures that seriously ill Californians have the right to obtain and use cannabis for medical purposes where medical use is deemed appropriate and has been recommended by a physician who has determined that the person’s health would benefit from the use of medical cannabis. Recommendations must come from an attending physician as defined in Section 11362.7 of the Health and Safety Code. Cannabis is a Schedule I drug according to the federal Controlled Substances Act. Activity related to cannabis use is subject to federal prosecution, regardless of the protections provided by state law.

2 1 ST S T .

R ST .

LITTLE WAIT TIME!

1800 21 ST ST • (916) 476-6142 • MEDEVAL420@GMAIL.COM • 420MEDEVAL.COM OPEN MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY 11AM TO 6PM • OPEN SUNDAY 11AM TO 5PM

44 | SN&R | 06.15.17

SAturDAy

TOP SHELF 1/2 OUNCE eighth SpeciAl with any $40 min donation

FREE DELIVERY IN SACRAMENTO COUNTY {50 DOLLAR MIN}

munchie monDAyS ........buy any 2 edibles get 1 (free of equal or lesser value) top Shelf tueSDAyS ....$10 off all top shelf 1/8ths weDneSDAyS ...................$10 off $40+ concentrates hAShtAg thurSDAy ......all bubble hash is only $15 per gram free j friDAy ..................get a free joint with any $10 min donation SunDAy funDAy ..............4 gram 1/8ths all day Cannot be combined with other offers. Strain determined by HHWC. Expires 06/21/17.

SS gle

hin

50

Rd

d k RParking on

c ro

4020 Durock rD, Ste 1 • Shingle SpringS, cA (916) 757–0980 • open monday – friday 10am to 8pm • saturday 10am to 8pm • sunday 10am to 6pm Du

Oakmont Drive

Compliant with California Proposition 215, S.B. 420 & Attorney General Guidelines. Must have doctor’s reccomendation and California ID to join.

OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK 10AM TO 10PM

WWW.DOJAEXCLUSIVE.COM • 916.416.0077

@DOJA.EXCLUSIVE.916

FREE 1/8TH,

Never Rushed.

Always Organic.

FOR NEW PATIENTS

DAI LY SPEC IALS EVERY WEEKDAY Text RHOUSE to 71441 to receive offers, gifts, specials and more.

OPEN EVERY DAY 9AM-7PM GIF TS FOR NEW PATIENTS & REFERRALS!

8848 FRUI TRIDGE RD | SAC RAMENTO | 91 6.381.3769

VETERAN/RETIRED FIRST RESPONDERS DISCOUNT 15% OFF 4G 1/8THS SEE OUR MENU AND IN HOUSE PHOTOS 100% guaranteed to match our products on weedmaps Greenleafdelivery916 CHECK OUT OUR MENU ON WEEDMAPS

Text or call 916-905-0991 • Cash Only Email patriotfarmsdelivery@gmail.com

OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK! Delivery Hours: 8AM-Midnight MOST deliveries in under an hour. $45 minimum donation.

“IF WE WON’T USE IT OUR SELVES YOU WONT FIND IT ON OUR SHELVES.”

06.15.17 | SN&R | 45

SN&R’s FASTEST EVALUATIONS IN TOWN.

$35

* NO LINES * BEST PRICE * MOST OPTIONS *

cap

$25

on all waxes*

Not Government ID

7

Renewals EXPIRES 06/22/17

BEST VALUE

33 PLANTS/2 LBS. $55 66P & 99P ALSO AVAILABLE

916.572.5215 1506 Sproule Ave, Sacramento, CA 95811 Open Mon-Sat 11am - 6pm

$5 off

any wax*

$5 off

any purchase*

ask about our Mobile Vip club o p e n 7 day s a w e e k • 9 a m - 9 p m *with coupon, while supplies last. exp 06/21/17

6666 fruitridge rd, #c • sacramento • 916-476-4431 • 916thc.com

MUSIC • VENDORS • DEMOS

FREE PRODUCTS FOOD CONCENTRATES

SAVE THE DATE | SUNDAY 7.9.17 9AM - 9PM 46 | SN&R | 06.15.17

GIFT BAGS*

*min. $25 don. while supplies last

4 grams for $55

concentrate

special 06.15.17 - 06.21.17

$10 cap on All grams flower and hash

promo:

vendors welcome Mon-Thurs 12-4pm

916.254.3287

temple extracts & vet cbd Fri 6/16 4-7pm

135 Main Avenue • Sacramento CA, 95838 • Open Mon-Sat 10AM–7PM • Now Open Sun 12-5 06.15.17 | SN&R | 47

6x

SN&R’s

all $40 wax

concentrates

3 for $100

8112 Alpine Ave Sacramento, CA 95826

916-739-6337 • Open Mon - Sun: 10am-8pm

TOP SHELF BUDS RECREATIONAL

MINIMUM DELIVERY YOU GET 1/8 OZ. TOP SHELF OR 1/4 OZ. MID SHELF OR 1 OZ BOTTOM SHELF WHOLESALE AVAILABLE FOR COLLECTIVES, DISPENSARIES & GROUPS

$30

VANDERBILT COLLECTIVE

916.267.8919 • MON-SAT 9-5

C

O

48 | SN&R | 06.15.17

N

S

4 for $100

plus tax, exp. 6.28.17

concentrates

plus tax, exp. 6.28.17

all $30 wax

BEST OF WINNER

CE

NTRA

T

E

Get a job

Bring in any competitor’s coupon* and we’ll beat it by $5 *That is CA Medical Board Standards Compliant.

Must present competitor’s ad. Some restrictions apply.

When do you think marijuana will be removed from pre-employment drug screen tests in states where it’s legal?

—P. Cup Who knows? California is an “at will” state, so you can be fired for damn near anything, not just cannabis use. There are currently no laws that will protect you. Oregon tried to get a law passed this year, but it died in the Senate. I don’t know if any states protect cannabis users’ employment rights. It’s tricky.

Cannabis is still illegal under federal law, and many insurance companies require employers to have a “drug-free workplace” (whatever that means) before they will insure a business. It’s not like folks don’t go to work zooted up on xannies or oxy, but hey, marijuana is bad, mmmkay?

The problem, of course, is that THC stays in the system even after its effects have worn off. There’s no real way to tell if someone is high at work, other than how they act or maybe how they smell. Heh. Don’t hold your breath waiting for new legislation to protect you.

Either find a new job or borrow some urine from your square cousin if you have to take a test. Good luck.

How scientific is hybridization these days? Is it still fairly random?

How do they develop new strains?

—Ekoms Sibannac Good question, It’s not very random at all these days. Most breeders still do it the old-fashioned way: sprinkling pollen collected from select male plants onto the flowers of select female plants to create hybrid seeds. After these new hybrid seeds have been planted and raised into adulthood, the best and most consistent plants are bred with each other to create a uniform new strain. Creating new strains takes time and patience, but the results can be There are fantastic. Pretty much every strain you’ve currently no ever smoked, with the exception of the ancient landrace strains like Durban Poison laws that will or Oaxacan, is some sort of hybrid. protect you.

Of course, this being the 21st century, there is definitely a worry that Big Agriculture (Monsanto and the like) will try to take over the seed production industry and introduce all kinds of “GMO Frankenweed” flavors. We aren’t really at that point yet (the feds would have to legalize before any really big programs could start), but I would start creating an all-natural seed bank, just in case.

This question is to settle a bet: Is it “strain” or “strand”?

—Lord Weedleroy A nug by any other name would smell as sweet. Who cares? I would say that “strain” is the more common way to refer to a particular cannabis phenotype, but “strand” has seen an uptick in usage, especially on the East Coast. But does it matter? Whether you say strain, strand, flavor, pheno, style, kind, whatever, most people will know what you mean. Context is everything. Words are secondary. So don’t strain yourself over which strand to smoke. Ω

VOted best 420 physician in sac! ’15

420 MD Medical Marijuana evaluations

spring coMpassion special

34 44

$

$

reneWals reneW rene Wals W als

MUST Bring Ad.

Limit one per patient. Some restrictions apply.

neW ne W patients MUST Bring Ad.

Limit one per patient. Some restrictions apply.

916.480.9000 2 convenient locations to serve You

2100 Watt Ave, Unit 190 | Sacramento, CA 95825 | Mon–Sat 10am–6pm 2633 Telegraph Ave. 109 | Oakland, CA 94612 | 510-832-5000 Mon–Sat 10am–6pm | Sun: 12am-6pm recommendations are valid for 1 year for qualifying patients Walk-ins Welcome all day everyday 420 md operating in compliance With the medical board of california

Your information is 100% private and confidential Visit our website to book your appointment online 24/7 at

Ngaio Bealum is a Sacramento comedian, activist and marijuana expert.

Email him questions at ask420@newsreview.com.

www.420Md.org 06.15.17 | SN&R | 49

SN&R’s

Why wait in line?

Get top shelf flower delivered to your door!

65

2201 Northgate Blvd, Sacramento, CA 95833 *No coupon stacking, not valid for @sherbinski415 & @the_real_king_cookie strains ** some exclusions apply *** of equal or lesser value. exp 6.21.17

Buy 3 1/8ths

GET ONE

where the real growers buy their clones

buy 3 edibles

FREE* 4th FREE and get the

*

Zen garden wellness -

Home of the $10 1/4 gram sheeZy cartriges

GODS GIFT

MENTION THIS AD RECEIVE A

FREE EDIBLE & A GRAM OF TOP SHELF FLOWER 3 1/8ths for $100 New Patients receive free gram of top shelf flower 10+ Top shelf Strains Vip Members buy 7 1/8ths get 8th free

Text or call 916.472.4194 potkings916.com potkings916

GRAND OPENING COME SEE US TODAY! NEW PATIENTS

real cookie fam sherbenski strains sold here exclusively

DAILY SPECIALS Monday

Patients Choice Choose from any daily special

Tuesday

Thursday

Saturday

Free Gram w/donation towards any 1/8th

Free Gram w/donation towards any 1/8th

Shatter Day 15% off all concentrates**

Vape Day 15% off all vape products**

Free J Friday w/min donation of $30

Donate towards 3 edibles, get the 4th free!***

Wednesday

www.ZEN916.com | 916.292.8120 @ Zen_Garden916 follow us open 10am-9pm 7 days a week 50 | SN&R | 06.15.17

Friday

Sunday

STRAWBERRY BANANA

While supplies last. Cash only.

$

GELATO

PATIENT RENEWALS

$50 $40

CALIFORNIA Medical Evaluations TELEMED PHYSICIANS WALK-INS WELCOME • APPOINTMENTS AVAILABLE

916-476-5410 • 7275 E Southgate Dr. #303 • Mon-Sat 10a-6p, closed Sun

06.15.17 | SN&R | 51

SN&R’s

e e r F h t h g i e

e* th fre 4 e h t et buy 3, G

4 Grams O f S h at t e r f O r $1 0 0 *

Free

e d i b l e w / $3 5 M i N . d O N at i O N *

exp. 06/21/17

9 1 6 . 4 6 9 . 9 1 8 2 • 1 404 28t h St re e t • w w w.G re e nSo lut io nsSa c .c o m Corner of 28th & N, Midtown Sac • Open 10am-9pm 7 days a week /greensolutionssac

/greensolutions420

H T E Y B L E P S M I S ED CONSULTAT T

M 0 42 GROW S LETTER BLE AVAILA LIFIED TO QUA TS PATIEN

$35 renewal

with copy of ad

$45

IONS

NEW patients

GET APPROVED OR NO CHARGE! one step evaluation process • walk-ins welcome

WE’LL ATCH ANY LM O C CLINIC AL SPECIAAD L! W/ COPY O THIS AD F

NOTICE TO CONSUMERS: The Compassionate Use Act of 1996 ensures that seriously ill Californians have the right to obtain and use cannabis for medical purposes where medical use is deemed appropriate and has been recommended by a physician who has determined that the person’s health would benefit from the use of medical cannabis.

Recommendations must come from an attending physician as defined in Section 11362.7 of the Health and Safety Code. Cannabis is a Schedule I drug according to the federal Controlled Substances Act. Activity related to cannabis use is subject to federal prosecution, regardless of the protections provided by state law.

DOWNTOWN SACRAMENTO 2015 Q STREET, 95811 • (916) 706-1150 OPEN Monday through Saturday 11am to 6pm • CLOSED SUNDAY • valid through 6/14/17 52 | SN&R | 06.15.17

Photo by anne stokes

Revive Organics Restore to Life Cannabis Salve

FREE GIFT FOR NEW PATIENTS

F R EE SERVICES FOR MEMBERS

MONDAY SPECI A L: 10 % OF F A L L E DI B L E S

TUESDAY SPECI A L:

by Daniel barnes

1 F R EE GR A M OF BU BBL E H A SH W HEN PA T I E N T H A S A S U B T O T A L OF $ 10 0

Soothing Relief

WEDNESDAY SPECI A L: G E T A F R E E 5 D O S E K O R O VA W H E N A PA T I E N T H A S A S U B T O T A L OF $ 8 0 O R M O R E

Revive Organics Restore to Life Cannabis Salve

Discretion ..............★ ★ ★ ★ ✩

10 % OF F A L L C B D R IC H M E DIC I N E

FRIDAY SPECI A L: G E T A F R E E C A R T R I D G E W H E N A PA T I E N T H A S A SU BTOTA L OF $ 250 OR MOR E

Potency .................★ ✩ ✩ ✩ ✩

O

ne medical cannabis testimonial that you hear again and again, especially from new patients, is the way the plant instantly and naturally addresses symptoms after years of ineffective over-the-counter and prescription treatment. Medical cannabis has even made exciting inroads in the field of skin care, offering an organic alternative to the oily and chemical-laden products currently filling shelves.

We have reviewed numerous cannabis skin care products, but the Revive Organics Restore to Life Cannabis Salve is probably the best and most effective product that we’ve tried to date. As with all Restore to Life products, it’s made with only organic ingredients, including sunflower oil, beeswax and “cold water” cannabis.

Revive Organics Cannabis Salve is an off-yellow, dirty lemon custard color, which doesn’t give off a particularly strong smell until you dig into the waxy stuff, at which point the cannabis

Revive Organic’s Restore to Life Cannabis Salve is probably the best and most effective product that we’ve tried to date.

More than just a moisturizer, the salve (which retails for $25) also works on acne, rashes, sunburns, sores and chapped lips. Restore to Life even claims to help with psoriasis, herpes, joint and back pain and even skin cancer. If you need something more intoxicating than lip balm, Restore to Life also sells edibles and potables, as well as pre-rolled joints made with lab-tested cannabis and rolled in raw papers.

S AT U R DAY SPECI A L: GET A 4 GR A M TOP SHEL F 1/ 8T H

SUNDAY SPECI A L: GET A F R EE HOUSE PR E -ROL L W HEN YOU H AV E A S U B T O T A L O F $ 5 0 O R M O R E “Hello! I wanted to thank ATA for the great service I have always received there.

The staff, the products and the environment have all contributed to very positive experiences for me, without exception. I know that doesn’t just happen, but is the result of caring and dedicated staff. From the moment the door opens I feel I am in a caring and responsible place. Love it! Thank you.” - John

3015 H Street • Sacramento, CA 916.822.4717 • 9am–9pm Everyday www.ATherapeuticAlternative.com *

Doctor’s recommendation & CA I.D. required

G St

Alhambra

Value .....................★ ★ ★ ★ ★

THURSDAY SPECI A L:

dankness makes an appearance. I used the salve on my dry hands, cracked heels and chapped elbows and ankles with encouraging results right away.

BUS-80

Review

Ease of Use ...........★ ★ ★ ★ ★

H St

Produced by the Custom Publications division of News & Review.

06.15.17 | SN&R | 53

SN&R’s

GET EVALUATED TODAY

FREE

AND RECEIVE A

LAMINATED REC & ID CARD!

Get Your Recommendation!

North Of Hwy 50 @ Bradshaw & Folsom Blvd ReNewalS

40 $50

Photo ID

$

available for

$15

w/ couPoN exP. 06/21/17 SNR

New PatieNt

24/7 VERIFICATION • 100% CONFIDENTIAL WE BEAT ANY COMPETITORS PRICE

- Mon-Sat 10am-6pm Sun 11am-5pm NOTICE TO CONSUMERS: The Compassionate Use Act of 1996 ensures that seriously ill Californians have the right to obtain and use cannabis for medical purposes where medical use is deemed appropriate and has been recommended by a physician who has determined that the person’s health would benefit from the use of medical cannabis. Recommendations must come from an attending physician as defined in Section 11362.7 of the Health and Safety Code. Cannabis is a Schedule I drug ’14 according to the federal Controlled Substances Act. Activity related to cannabis use is subject to federal prosecution, regardless of the protections provided by state law.

w/ couPoN exP. 06/21/17 SNR

50

Routier

Bradshaw

Blvd om Fols

’13

caNN-Medical

9719A Folsom Blvd. Sacramento, CA 916-822-5690 • www.cannmedical.org

s program d r a w e r t n Patie buy 3 1/8ThS get one

free*

20%

10%

aNy EdIbLE*

aNy cONcENTRaTE*

off

off

*Exp. 06/21/17. caNNOT bE cOmbINEd W/ aNy OThER OffER.

scan the QR code to score a freebie from Two Rivers

TWO RIVERS WELLNESS • 315 NORTh 10Th STREET, SacRamENTO /TWORIVERSSac 916.804.8975 • TWORIVERSSac.cOm

/two_rivers

54 | SN&R | 06.15.17

MEDICAL MARIJUANA DELIVERY

Fast Faster Fastest QUICK DISCRETE DELIVERY

Featured Strains Exclusive home of Four County Farms Flower

Sherbet {Indica}

Gorilla Glue {Sativa}

Chocolate Hashberry {Hybrid}

530.333.7642 • www.herbish.org •

First time patients will receive 2 pre-rolls AND 1 free gram of any Four County Farm flower

@herbishdelivery

Sign-up, view menu, and order online $30 min. delivery

$35 Min.

3X SNR DELIVERY WINNER

FREE DELIVERY TO Sacramento • Roseville • Folsom • Elk Grove • Davis Open everyday 10am-8pm • 916-661-7324 • eztree.com

FREE DELIVERY W/ MIN. DONATION

sign up now!

THE BEST FIRST TIME PATIENT DEALS IN TOWN!

To get the latest info, coupons & deals text weed to 42828

EXTREME TOP SHELF: Gorilla Glu #4, Platinum OG, Presidential OG

TOP SHELF: Lemon Kush, Rascal OG & Bubba K

MIDGRADE: OGK

TOP QUALITY MEDICINE • COMPASSION PRICES • FREE DELIVERY W/ MIN DONATION ASK US ABOUT: NEW SHATTER • KIVA CANDY BARS • COCOA MED BARS • VAPE PENS & REFILL CARTRIDGES • KIEF

capital cannabis newsletter

The Premier DISPENSARY EXPERIENCE

Diverse Selection • Large CBD Variety • Knowledgeable Staff Convenient Location • Easy Parking SKIP THE LINE & ORDER ONLINE! ABATINSACRAMENTO.COM

UPCOMING EVENTS GUILD EXTRACTS • 06.15 - 4PM-6PM JETTY EXTRACTS • 06.16 - 4PM-7PM GRASS VALLEY ORCHARDS • 06.17 - 12PM-3PM OLIVE OIL • DEMOS & SPECIALS LEGION OF BLOOM • 06.22 - 4PM-7PM • MONARCH

2 1 0 0 2 9t h St r e et • 91 6.82 2 .5699

O P E N 7 D AY S A W E E K 1 0 A . M . T O 8 P. M .

06.15.17 | SN&R | 55

SN&R’s

BOGO Free Eighths!

Buy one eighth & get one free. Mix n Match.

Equal or lesser value.

* ALL BUD PREMIUM QUALITY * QUICK & DISCREET * NO LIMIT ON BOGO ORDERS

916.365.5868 • tootalltrees.org $50 minimum for free delivery

JUNE 24TH

7323 HOME LEISURE PLAZA

SACRAMENTO 10:00AM X 10:00PM

LIVE MUSIC BY MENDO DOPE X LOS MARIJUANOS REAL ONE X PERE PRESSURE & MORE

FOOD VENDORS ALL DAY LONG

CANNABIS

city of Sacramento iS now accepting cultivation and cup applicationS Abdallah Law Group, P.C.

• Cannabis Compliance Attorney • Conditional Use Permit (CUP) applications for cultivation & manufacturing facilities • Cannabis business applications • Consultations available • Track & Trace Compliance

call the firm (916) 446-1974

555 Capitol Mall, Suite 766 Sacramento, CA 95814

Pure Bliss.

VENDORS & CONTESTS

06/21/17 OR SCAN THESE

TO GET TICKETS

BE A VENDOR

BE A SPONSOR

join our vip club text cc101 to 71441

56 | SN&R | 06.15.17

WATT AVE.

EL CAMINO AVE.

FULTON AVE.

ARDEN WY.

21 ST ST.

16 TH ST.

1

19

11 7

AUBURN BLVD.

HAZEL AVE.

RALEY BLVD.

NORTHGATE BLVD.

25

160 60 18

C ST.

GREENBACK LN.

80

26 24

12

WHITE ROCK RD. J ST.

17

5

2

50

FAIR OAKS BLVD.

4

80

13

FOLSOM BLVD.

6 FRUITRIDGE RD.

15

24TH ST

3. A THERAPEUTIC ALTERNATIVE 3015 H St

22

99 FLORIN RD.

23

14 20

9 8

16 FLORIN PERKINS

2. 515 BROADWAY 515 Broadway

3

POWER INN RD.

1. 1841 EL CAMINO 1841 El Camino

5 12 Th ST.

CAPITAL CANNABIS MAP

21

10

4. ABATIN 2100 29th St

12. HIGHLANDS HEALTH & WELLNESS 4020 Durock Rd

5. ALL ABOUT WELLNESS 1900 19th St

13. HORIZON COLLECTIVE 3600 Power Inn Rd

20. S.A.S. 8125 36th Ave

6. ALPINE ALTERNATIVE 8112 Alpine Ave

14. HOUSE OF ORGANICS 8848 Fruitridge Rd

21. SAFE CAPITOL COMPASSION 135 Main Ave

7. AMC 1220 Blumenfeld Dr

15. FLORIN WELLNESS CENTER 421 47th Ave

22. SOUTH SAC CARE CENTER 114 A Otto Circle

8. CC 101 6435 Florin Perkins Rd

16. GREEN DOOR METRO 6492 Florin Perkins Rd

23. THC 6666 Fruitridge

9. CLOUD 9 5711 Florin Perkins Rd

17. GREEN SOLUTIONS 1404 28th St

24. TWO RIVERS 315 N 10th St

10. DOCTOR’S ORDERS 1704 Main Ave

18. NORTHSTAR HOLISTIC COLLECTIVE 1236 C St

25. VALLEY HEALTH OPTIONS 1421 Auburn Blvd

11. GOLDEN HEALTH & WELLNESS 1030 Joellis Way

19. RIVER CITY PHOENIX 1508 El Camino Ave

26. ZEN GARDEN WELLNESS 2201 Northgate Blvd 06.15.17 | SN&R | 57

SN&R’s

58 | SN&R | 06.15.17

FRee will aStRology

by Raheem F. hosseini

by Rob bRezsny

FOR THE WEEK OF JUNE 15, 2017 ARIES (March 21-April 19): You have to admit

that salt looks like sugar and sugar resembles salt. This isn’t usually a major problem, though.

Mistakenly sprinkling sugar on your food when you thought you were adding salt won’t hurt you, nor will putting salt in your coffee when you assumed you were using sugar. But errors like these are inconvenient, and they can wreck a meal. You may want to apply this lesson as a metaphor in the coming days, Aries. Be alert for things that outwardly seem to be alike but actually have different tastes and effects.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Here’s a possible

plan for the next 10 days: Program your smartphone to sound an alarm once every hour during the entire time you’re awake. Each time the bell or buzzer goes off, you will vividly remember your life’s main purpose. You will ask yourself whether or not the activity you’re engaged in at that specific moment is somehow serving your life’s main purpose. If it is, literally pat yourself on the back and say to yourself, “Good job!” If it’s not, say the following words: “I am resolved to get into closer alignment with my soul’s code— the blueprint of my destiny.”

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Actress Marisa

Berenson offers a line of anti-aging products that contain an elixir made from the seeds of a desert fruit known as prickly pear. The manufacturing process isn’t easy. To produce a quart of the potion requires 2,000 pounds of seeds. I see you as having a metaphorically similar challenge in the coming weeks, Gemini. To create a small amount of the precious stuff you want, I’m guessing you’ll have to gather a ton of raw materials.

And there may be a desertlike phenomena to deal with, as well.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): There are three

kinds of habits: good, bad and neutral. Neutral habits are neither good nor bad but use up psychic energy that might be better directed into cultivating good habits. Here are some examples: a good habit is when you’re disciplined about eating healthy food; a bad habit is watching violent TV shows before going to bed, thereby disturbing your sleep; a neutral habit might be doing sudoku puzzles. My challenge to you, Cancerian, is to dissolve one bad habit and one neutral habit by replacing them with two new good habits. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, cosmic forces will be on your side as you make this effort.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Dear Dr. Astrology: Good

fortune has been visiting me a lot lately. Many cool opportunities have come my way. Life is consistently interesting. I’ve also made two unwise moves that fortunately didn’t bring bad results. Things often work out better for me than I imagined they would! I’m grateful every day, but I feel like I should somehow show even more appreciation. Any ideas? -Lucky Leo.” Dear Lucky: The smartest response to the abundance you have enjoyed is to boost your generosity.

Give out blessings. Dispense praise. Help people access their potentials. Intensify your efforts to share your wealth.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Years ago, a fan of my work named Paul emailed to ask me if I wanted to get together with him and his friend when I visited New York. “Maybe you know her?” he wrote. “She’s the artist Cindy Sherman.” Back then I had never heard of Cindy. But since Paul was smart and funny, I agreed to meet. The three of us convened in an elegant tea room for a boisterous conversation. A week later, when I was back home and mentioned the event to a colleague, her eyes got big and she shrieked, “You had tea with THE Cindy Sherman.” She then educated me on how successful and influential Cindy’s photography has been. I predict you will soon have a comparable experience, Virgo: inadvertent contact with an intriguing presence.

Hopefully, because I’ve given you a heads up, you’ll recognize what’s happening as it occurs, and take full advantage.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You’ll never get

access to the treasure that’s buried out under the cherry tree next to the ruined barn if you stay in your command center and keep staring at the map instead of venturing out to the barn.

Likewise, a symbol of truth may be helpful in experiencing deeper meaning, but it’s not the same as communing with the raw truth, and may even become a distraction from it. Let’s consider one further variation on the theme: The pictures in your mind’s eye may or may not have any connection with the world outside your brain.

It’s especially important that you monitor their accuracy in the coming days.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Maybe it wasn’t

such a good idea to go gallivanting so heedlessly into the labyrinth. Or maybe it was. Who knows?

It’s still too early to assess the value of your experiences in that maddening but fascinating tangle. You may not yet be fully able to distinguish the smoke and mirrors from the useful revelations. Which of the riddles you’ve gathered will ultimately bring frustration and which will lead you to wisdom? Here’s one thing I do know for sure: If you want to exit the labyrinth, an opportunity will soon appear.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Over the

years I’ve read numerous news reports about people who have engaged in intimate relations with clunky inanimate objects. One had sex with a bicycle. Another seduced a sidewalk, and a third tried to make sweet love to a picnic table. I hope you won’t join their ranks in the coming weeks.

Your longing is likely to be extra intense, innovative and even exotic, but I trust you will confine its expression to unions with adult human beings who know what they’re getting into and who have consented to play. Here’s an old English word you might want to add to your vocabulary: “blissom.” It means “to bleat with sexual desire.”

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Your life in

the coming days should be low on lightweight diversions and high in top-quality content. Does that sound like fun? I hope so. I’d love to see you enjoy the hell out of yourself as you cut the fluff and focus on the pith … as you efficiently get to the hype-free heart of every matter and refuse to tolerate waffling or stalling. So strip away the glossy excesses, my dear Capricorn. Skip a few steps if that doesn’t cause any envy. Expose the pretty lies, but then just work around them; don’t get bogged down in indulging in negative emotions about them.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Inventor, architect and author Buckminster Fuller lived to the age of 87. For 63 of those years, he kept a detailed scrapbook diary that documented every day of his life. It included his reflections, correspondence, drawings, newspaper clippings, grocery bills and much other evidence of his unique story.

I would love to see you express yourself with that much disciplined ferocity during the next two weeks. According to my astrological analysis, you’re in a phase when you have maximum power to create your life with vigorous ingenuity and to show everyone exactly who you are.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You have a cosmic

license to enjoy almost too much sensual pleasure. In addition, you should feel free to do more of what you love to do than you normally allow yourself. Be unapologetic about surrounding yourself with flatterers and worshipers. Be sumptuously lazy. Ask others to pick up the slack for you. Got all that? It’s just the first part of your oracle. Here’s the rest: You have a cosmic license to explore the kind of spiritual growth that’s possible when you feel happy and fulfilled.

As you go through each day, expect life to bring you exactly what you need to uplift you. Assume that the best service you can offer your fellow humans is to be relaxed and content.

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.

The apologetic Hulk Most people probably know Lou Ferrigno from his ’70s starring roles in the body-building doc Pumping Iron or The Incredible Hulk TV series.

But not me. I know Lou Ferrigno from my nightmares. As a child with chronic ear infections, I was visited

by Lou Ferrigno almost nightly. The fever dream goes like this: I’m fleeing through a cobwebbed Victorian mansion with Medusa (in all her snake-locked glory) hot on my trail.

I cast a frantic glance in front of me just in time for Lou Freaking Ferrigno—wearing green body paint, cloudy contact lenses, that Tina Turner fright wig—to bellow that unmistakable Hulk roar and crush me between monstrous biceps. The dream tormented me as a child. I was a bed wetter until I was 7 and a virgin until I was—scratch that. The point is, Lou Ferrigno scarred me. So when my coworkers learned that he would be appearing at this weekend’s Wizard World Comic Con, they urged me to confront my childhood monster. Mostly, I think they just wanted to see me pee my pants.

PHOTO cOurTesy Of Wizard WOrld

Are you in the Charles Bronson role?

Kind of. I’m the lead. … It’s a great film.

So I’ve been busy with that. I have my competition called the Ferrigno Legacy, in Palm Springs. And also I’m involved with a company my daughter and I call FerrignoFit.com.

Do you still work with various sheriff’s departments?

Yeah, I’m a certified deputy in Los Angeles and San Luis Obispo [counties]. I went through the academy. I’m the real deal.

You get to do that still?

I’m going to get right to it. You scared the hell out of me as a kid.

Oh, yeah. I do a lot of search and rescue.

Oh, my God. I’m sorry about that.

One time I went down from the helicopter to help this woman because I think she broke her leg. When she saw me she fainted. When she found out who I was, she cried and [screamed]. And I said to myself, “Now I got another problem.”

Have you heard that before?

Many, many times. I’ve heard kids getting scared. Or they’re ripping up carpets, clothes, wearing green makeup, their mothers all hating me for it.

[I describe recurring nightmare in obnoxious detail.]

Oh, my God. Well, I hope you don’t have any more of those. (laughs.)

No, but I saw you at a comic book convention a few years back and couldn’t approach you. My legs wouldn’t let me.

Wow. Are you going to come down to the show?

I think so.

Well, come over and say hi. I won’t bite ya.

OK. Glad we got that out of the way.

What are you up to these days?

Well, I got four films coming out. My movie just came out two weeks ago from Sony Pictures—and can also be available online at Amazon.com—called Instant Death.

It’s a British film, kind of like a remake of Death Wish.

At the convention next weekend, are you doing signings?

Yeah, I’m in the booth. I’ll have my beautiful posters. I take pictures. I do autograph signings. We have a professional photo op, a meet and greet, Q&A. So basically, all the people come to my table, they leave with a smile on their face. … I love connecting with my fans.

Any crazy fan encounters?

One time a girl came up to me, said she wanted to take a picture with me. She had two Hulk pictures and my signature tattooed on each one of her thighs.

That’s amazing.

Any hairy situations?

Also, I do the voice of the Hulk for The Avengers [movies and animated series] so I’m still involved with the Hulk franchise.

I can totally tell.

Have you ever thought of running for office? We’ve had a body builder as governor and now we have a big scary guy as president, and you’ve done both.

You know, to be honest with you, I’d rather stick with the sheriff’s department. I have no interest in politics. I don’t want to have to put a suit on and get stabbed in the back all the time. I’ll let somebody else do that.

You were the first hearing-impaired celebrity that I remember as a kid.

What did that mean to you?

Well, growing up, my life was about overcoming adversity. I see a lot of people come over to me, a lot of young, deaf people, so I show my support. … Because of what I’ve done, they feel like they have a chance in life, too.

Yeah, I’m still involved with the Hulk. … I’m in the new Thor movie and there will be some surprises. … I know how the Hulk thinks and feels. … Basically I know how to bring the sensitivity to the Hulk.

Did the green paint stain?

No. … It had to be retouched [over] 13 hours, 14 hours a day. I was the first one on the set, the last one to leave. It was brutal after 90 episodes. The character’s beautiful—I love playing the Hulk—but the makeup was a bitch.

What about the contacts?

Today you can wear contacts like that for 11 hours. Back in my time it was only 15 minutes. So periodically, we had to take them in and out because it’s very painful.

No wonder I was so pissed. Ω

Make your own nightmares with lou ferrigno by visiting http://wizardworld.com/comiccon/ sacramento.

06.15.17 | SN&R | 59