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Support Sacto’s artists This week’s SN&R features two stories that overlap tragically.

The first is the cover feature previewing the Wide Open Walls festival.

I’m told it is the biggest art event to happen here in quite some time—and arguably one of the most important.

Key among its virtues is the inclusion of so many local artists, something that did not happen in last year’s inaugural festival.

Waylon Horner, who has been making large-scale paintings in Sacramento for the past decade, is one of 23 local muralists participating in the festival. They will be joined by 27 visiting artists, among them superstars in the world of contemporary public art.

This will be a breakout event for Horner, who taught himself to paint as a child and went on to receive an AA from American River College.

Unfortunately, Horner appears in a news story on page 8. In the weeks leading up to the WOW fest, while he was preparing for his biggest artistic challenge to date, the young painter was forced to evacuate his studio. For the past couple of years, he’d worked along with a couple dozen fellow artists in a warehouse dubbed Panama Pottery. They all lost their workspaces when the city’s code enforcement division found the place to be unsafe.

Talking to SN&R’s Rachel Leibrock, Horton uttered a simple truth: “Arts are becoming so important in Sacramento,” he said, “[and] artists need space to create.”

Amen. While we celebrate the arts during the highly visible WOW fest and appreciate the economic vitality that the local art scene helps foster, let’s commit to some serious efforts to really make Sacramento artist-friendly.

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May the Force … heal us all Re “Anakins of Sacramento” by Flojaune G. Cofer (Essay, July 20): When the first three movies came out we didn’t know why [Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader] was the way he was; but you have brought up episodes 1, 2 and 3—so we do know what he went though. As do in-universe characters like Yoda and Obi-Wan. So we can ask “What’s wrong with you?” He was twisted to the Dark Side, which turns out to be a good thing, as we find out later on, as do in-universe characters.

As for being taken away from their mothers—yes, this would have a huge impact on real-world children. And fighting in a war would as well, and we need to stop this from happening in the real world. But in Star Wars, Anakin was redeemed and brought back to the light by the love of his son.

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I am not a crook Re “The divider” by John Flynn (News, July 20): “Paul Smith, the selfdescribed president of a group

he still calls the Indivisible Citizens of California’s Fourth Congressional District, hasn’t told his 12,000-plus Facebook followers that the national Indivisible organization

revoked the group’s registration weeks ago.”

I did not feel the need to perpetually remind everyone who follows the page that Indivisible had removed our group from their website. The departing team did a good job of that when they hijacked the page, and for 12 hours, pinned a post announcing the fact. Perhaps John Flynn and the editors of SN&R would be satisfied if I permanently pinned a post to the top of the page announcing the fact.

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A senior for rent control I am a senior citizen who can not afford to retire. I have been living in the same apartment for almost 28 years. When I moved to the Midtown area I paid $385 a month. Now I pay $850. My rent was raised $75 last year. I now spend more than half my income on rent. My rent has [once again] been increased, by $100 this time.

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Jerry Kaplan brought his hydrogen-fueled Toyota Mirai to the AltCar Expo in Sacramento this April as part of the state’s push to increase zero-emission vehicles.

Photo by Michael Mott

Smog and mirrors On world’s climate stage, Sacramento chases electric vehicle market and a new-economic identity

by Michael Mott

an extended version of this story is available at www.newsreview .com/sacramento. this story was made possible by a grant from tower cafe.

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An array of touch-screen lights flicker to life. The seat belt clicks and the driver’s seat drifts into place. As the pedal eases down, a wave of invisible electric torque floats the car forward without a sound. After rounding the block, Jerry Kaplan glided his hydrogen-powered Toyota Mirai to a stop.

Along with a dozen other alternative-fuel cars, the one with a Japanese name meaning “the future” was brought to the Capitol that April 19 to offer test drives and convince the public they were worth buying.

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largest collection of electric cars ever assembled. During the showy event, state Senate leader Kevin de León referenced the range of buyers’ options, saying that climate change can, in fact, be profitable.

On the same day, at the Golden 1 Center, Mayor Darrell Steinberg promoted a different aspect of the evolving automotive industry—one which, he believes, might turn Sacramento from a government town into a world-class city of tomorrow.

It was the first press conference of the Autonomous Transportation Open Standards Lab. A consortium including state and local political leaders and,

prominently, King’s owner and tech multimillionaire Vivek Ranadivé, ATOS aims to help automakers speed up the development of driverless cars—and base that work in Sacramento. “[Sacramento] is the perfect petri dish to not only test this technology, but to show how it can be brought to scale,” Steinberg told reporters as Rep. Doris Matsui and Ranadivé sat nearby.

“Under Darrell, Sacramento will be the next great American city,” Ranadivé later proclaimed.

Local leaders are pushing hard to turn Sacramento into Detroit 3.0—i.e.,

an industry town for manufacturers of future-tech vehicles. While couching their ambitions in the context of climate change, elected representatives and business interests appear to be motivated by more than social conscience.

Bruised by past industry slights from the likes of Tesla and eager to cash in on the Volkswagen scandal, the city that launched some of the country’s first railroads in the 1800s may again herald a new era of transportation. Yet it remains uncertain how much the auto industry might profit from a new market of vehicles, promoted as eco-friendly and subsidized by taxpayers, or what it will mean to public transportation if that future is embraced.

So is environmental stewardship or world-class ambition driving Sacramento’s lobbying efforts—and can it be both?

“We’ve got a lot of room to grow our economy,” Steinberg said at a City Council meeting last week. “And we are primed.”

More than a dozen Los Angeles supporters packed into Riverside County’s government center in March, outnumbering the advocates from other cities across the state, all of whom were

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After being caught cheating on emissions tests by the California Air Resources Board, German car company Volkswagen committed $2 billion in reparations, the largest fine of its kind. The money will be doled out in $300 million increments until 2026, to be spent on electric-charging infrastructure nationwide and increasing access to zero-emission vehicles, or ZEV, in California.

Called the Green City program, the latter initiative promised $44 million in electriccharging infrastructure and car-sharing programs to the California city with the best proposal.

That’s what brought dozens of political stakeholders to the Riverside County building, where the California Air Resources Board weighed their pitches. But VW had already made its preference known—it wanted Sacramento to get the money.

Having been chastised for its misdeeds, VW is using its legal troubles as a springboard for a new market. It created a private subsidiary, Electrify America, to act as the bank for the Green City initiative that CARB is administering.

For Electrify America, the initiative is a profit-minded enterprise to be sustained by a new generation of eco-conscious consumers. A major advertising campaign is also planned to encourage people to buy electric vehicles, which haven’t fully caught on due to issues of range and cost.

Meanwhile, VW stated in its investment plan to CARB that it wanted Sacramento to be awarded the first chunk of Green City funding. But the decision is still up to CARB, and other city representatives were not backing down.

“I personally love the city of Sacramento—it’s wonderful—but we all know that is not where the need is,” said Genevieve Gale of the Central Valley Air Quality Coalition in Fresno.

After the meeting, Gale told SN&R that air pollution accumulates farther south, increased by dairies, power plants, biomass incinerators, and oil and gas fields.

While the CARB meeting ended without a decision, the consensus was that Sacramento had all but secured the first wave of VW money. A later report detailing how 35 percent of the initiative would help disadvantaged residents again listed Sacramento as the top choice.

Hasan Ikhrata, director of the Southern California Association of Governments, told SN&R that Sacramento’s geographic smallness made the choice easy. His organization represents 191 cities and pitched Los

Angeles as having greater environmental needs, as well as providing the perfect stage to launch electric vehicles just before the 2024 Olympics in LA. “Sacramento didn’t have to push anything to be chosen,” Ikhrata said. “We’re very conscious of the fact that SoCal got less than our fair share.”

That’s different from what happened in 2014, when Tesla chose not to build a “gigafactory” for batteries there. Nevada gave the company $1.25 billion in tax breaks over 20 years to entice it to move to Sparks, along with a speedy permitting and regulatory process. It now employs more than 1,000 people.

Sacramento also lost out on Atieva last louis stewart said it’s time sacramento year for similar reasons. The Silicon Valley became “more than a government town.” start-up, backed by a Chinese billionaire The city’s newly-anointed chief innovaand looking to compete with Tesla, instead tion officer has been commuting to the bay moved to Arizona. to convince companies to move to Broome, whose job used the river city. On top of that, to be attracting businesses his office has organized to Phoeniz, Ariz., says grants to spur entrepreSacramento has to do “I personally love the neurs and artists, and everything it can to is moving the ATOS court these kinds city of Sacramento—it’s initiative forward. of companies. He wonderful—but we all know “Will there be advocates building a that is not where the another Silicon research park. need is.”

Valley? No. Does John Boyd, a Genevieve Gale Sacramento need to New Jersey consultant Central Valley Air Quality Coalition operate on a global level? who helps corporations Yes,” Stewart said. choose where to move But will these efforts help to, says a Green City the environment? ATOS will designation would be a huge work with companies that mostly deal in step forward in Sacramento’s brandelectric autonomous vehicles, Stewart said. ing efforts.

A bill by state Sen. Nancy Skinner would “The significance of being first out of have required self-driving cars to produce the gate, ahead of LA, has incalculable PR zero emissions, but was held up in commitvalue,” Boyd said. “The electric vehicle tee for further study. industry is in its infancy. This placemaking In a city with the eighth-worst air in the is an opportunity to remind executives why nation, according to the American Lung the market is attractive with lower costs, Association, curbing greenhouse-gas emisproximity to policy and Silicon Valley and sions isn’t just good messaging, especially a large amount of tech workers.” in low-income communities that feel the Boyd added there was untold real estate greatest impact. potential for Sacramento, already the hottest While Sacramento pledged to use market in the state, if autonomous vehicles some Green City funds to shuttle homeeliminate the need for parking. less people to services and connect CARB’s final say on the Green City low-income workers to transit, economic funds could come this week. Meanwhile, branding appears to be driving local the city is moving forward with pilot projefforts to remake the city into an attracects to create curbside charging stations and tive industry hub. car sharing within low-income communities Stewart hails from the economic develin partnership with the state. opment world in the governor’s office. So At a July 18 City Council meeting, does Barry Broome, president and CEO of Sacramento leaders discussed the developthe Greater Sacramento Economic Council. ment of their electric vehicle infrastructure.

Broome is pushing for an industry-led They were also already thinking about research center, which would require a $50 how they would spend the VW money, million private investment to get built. At which could bring up to 600 zero-emission least one German company has committed vehicles and another 100 electric shuttles $1 million, Broome says, though he was to the city. unwilling to reveal its identity because the “This is the future and we either get in project is pending. front of it, or behind it,” Steinberg said.

Broome added that the city could “As we invest in these technologies, let’s become a new hub for high-tech manunot forget we have a great opportunity to facturing near the airport, drawing a new establish an economic job-creation center industry of electric vehicle manufacturers around alternative fuels in Sacramento.” Ω and thousands of jobs with it.

Mark Reichel and Linda Parisi are facing a serious investigative challenge: More than a year after political chaos and bloodshed engulfed the state Capitol, the veteran defense attorneys will have to hunt for witnesses to an event that involved hundreds of protestors, two law enforcement agencies and several semi-underground activist networks. But that’s what it will take to prove that their clients acted in self-defense when they clashed with neo-Nazis during a blur of violence that hospitalized 14 people last summer.

Reichel is representing Porfirio Gabriel Paz, a left-leaning Long Beach activist who was picketing a permitted rally by the white nationalist traditional Worker Party at the Capitol on June 26, 2016, when a fight erupted between the two sides. Parisi is defending Michael Allan Williams, another leftist protestor involved in the ensuing melee. Both Paz and Williams are charged with assault with a deadly weapon and inciting a riot, as is leftist Berkeley organizer and schoolteacher Yvonne Felarca, who often calls herself Yvette and is scheduled to be arraigned next month.

William Scott Planer, a reported white supremacist, is also charged with assault with a deadly weapon. News that three progressives and one white nationalist were being charged with crimes rattled Sacramento’s activist community this week.

While the Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office hasn’t explained its reasoning for charging the individuals it has, police told SN&R in the weeks after the event that victims and eyewitnesses declined to help their investigators identify assailants. The California Highway Patrol ended up sending a 2,000-page investigative report to the DA’s office in March, which included hours of video footage from numerous sources and recommended charges for more than a hundred people.

On July 24, Williams and Paz appeared for separate arraignment hearings before Sacramento Superior Judge Joseph Orr. Parisi and Reichel acknowledged after the hearing that the yearlong wait for charges in a case involving so many pieces would test their years of legal experience.

“We’re going to have a very aggressive defense for these people,” Reichel said. “This was mutual combat that was coming right at our clients.” (Scott Thomas Anderson and Raheem F. Hosseini)

dress-uP mess-uP Not everyone’s favorite holiday should be Halloween.

The Sacramento-based Judicial Council of California has found itself in a storm of controversy since images from an office costume party leaked earlier this month that the NAACP and other groups have deemed offensive.

The Judicial Council is responsible for crafting policies that affect the California court system, the largest in the nation. It falls under the purview of California Chief Justice Tani Gorre Cantil-Sakauye, who has been sent complaint letters by the NAACP and Sacramento chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, which describes itself as the oldest racially integrated bar association in the nation.

“It is deeply disturbing and confidence-shaking to see photos and read stories about a Halloween party … in which Judicial Council staff dressed as inmates, decorated workspaces as a prison, and wore blackface,” the NLG letter states. “The event raises serious questions about the culture of the Judicial Council, a body charged with advancing impartiality of the judiciary, and the role of the Council’s leadership in fostering that culture.”

A Judicial Council representative called the costume contest “insensitive and unacceptable.” The body was scheduled to consider updates to trial court funding this week. (RFH)

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artist Dave Davis is the manager of Panama Pottery Studio on 24th Street. photo by Scott thomaS anderSon

Panama finale Dozens of Sacramento artists scrambling in wake of code enforcement studio closure

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Looking back, Miguel Paz says he should have known it was too good to be true.

Still, the South Sacramento-based ceramic artist couldn’t resist the cheap rent and ample work space his Panama Pottery studio afforded him. “[The landlord] painted a wonderful picture [and said] this is going to be great for ceramics,” Paz said. “It didn’t turn out that way at all.”

Paz, along with more than two dozen artists, is now scrambling to find a new place to make art after the city’s housing and code enforcement division deemed the 103-year-old building unsafe for occupation. According to the list of infractions, Panama Pottery, located on the outskirts of Hollywood Park, has myriad violations including inadequate exits, unpermitted 8

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construction and modification, and unsafe and unapproved electrical equipment. The city’s case also noted a complaint that the space was possibly being used as living quarters.

All tenants were ordered to vacate the premises by July 24.

Owner Dave DeCamilla disputes that any artists were living in his building, but acknowledges he didn’t go through the right channels when making changes to the sprawling factory space he bought in 2006. Over the years, the two-story warehouse has been divided into numerous work studios, some of them enclosed with doors and some with an air conditioning and heating option. Now, in addition to working with the city to bring the electrical and plumbing up to code, DeCamilla says he has also hired

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an architect to make structural changes to the building.

“It’s not a ‘Ghost Ship,’ but it was dangerous,” DeCamilla said, referring to the Oakland warehouse that operated as an illegal artist live-work space that also hosted concerts; 36 people died in a fire there in December. “I didn’t ask permission because I didn’t think I would get it.”

Paz wishes DeCamilla had. From the start, he said the space seemed “incredibly unstable” and questioned changes the owner made. Paz, who rented a space when the building first opened to artists in 2006, says DeCamilla had good ideas when it came to studio modifications, but never followed through to ensure safety and long-term viability.

“Eleven years is a long time to go without getting permits,” he said.

Waylon Horner, another displaced artist, says the eviction has put him on the search for another affordable studio—but he’s not sure how easy it will be to match Panama’s price or vibe. Horner, who was paying $350 for his space, started renting there two years ago. He never felt unsafe, exactly, although a 2016 burglary did leave him “paranoid” and hesitant to work at the studio after dark.

“What we were doing was basically illegal,” Horner said of the unpermitted modifications. “[But] I felt like Dave had the best of intentions. He wanted art to happen so he created something beautiful.”

The artist said the timing “couldn’t be worse.” As he prepares for Wide Open Walls, (see “Art in the streets,” page 13), Horner has been forced to turn to friends to store his materials and works, which include bright, large-scale, mind-bending illustrations.

“Arts are becoming so important in Sacramento … [and] artists need space to create,” he said.

Melissa Uroff rented space at Panama for years until the 2016 burglary left her in the hole with thousands of dollars’ worth of equipment stolen. Still, even though the building’s security measures and insurance options—there were none—left a lot to be desired, she still misses its gritty spirit.

“It’s a little magical,” Uroff said. “It has a heartbeat. A lot of studios there are clean and quiet—I need a little punk rock and grime in my life.”

For his part, DeCamilla says he intends to make it a cheap place for artists once more—and he hopes the city will look to find common ground.

“If we want to foster the arts, then there has to be nuance and flexibility so that these kinds of artistic enterprises can flourish,” DeCamilla said.

But, he adds, if Panama Pottery does reopen there is a good chance artists will return to more expensive, albeit safer, studio spaces. “We may have to raise the rents,” he allowed. “It depends—nothing is going to pay for itself.”

For Uroff, however, this could all just be a sign that it’s time for something new to take hold.

“Maybe it’s the end of an era,” Uroff said. “Panama came for a brief moment, [but] now its artists might have to break apart, and each place that they go to next will be rad.” Ω

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Women and children last Sacramento’s biennial homeless census overlooked families this year

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families were located this year, and it isn’t a If her math is right, the 28-year-old Nikki Jones positive one. has been experiencing homelessness for about half In 2015, the last year the count was of her life. Her three young sons? They started even performed, family-oriented service providers like earlier.

Women’s Empowerment, Maryhouse and the Jones says she’s mostly been living on her own Mustard Seed School were directed to survey since she was 14. Currently, her two oldest boys their guests the morning after the PIT survey, are in the custody of her father, while Jones and her to make sure any families and kids who were youngest shuttle between friends’ spare couches. missed the night before got counted.

“I’m between a few different places right now,” That didn’t happen this year, says Women’s Jones said.

Empowerment Executive Director Lisa Culp.

The recent census that showed Sacramento There isn’t a great reason why. Culp, who County’s homeless population rising 38 percent in sits on Steps Forward’s advisory board, says she two years didn’t account for people like Jones. asked about it the night before the PIT count, but One of the tiniest glimmers of hope from this that it may have simply fallen through the cracks month’s otherwise demoralizing report was that this year. “By the time it went through all the there were slightly fewer families and young people channels, it just didn’t happen,” Culp said. located on county streets when canvassers Meanwhile, a little-known CalFresh conducted their biennial point-in-time program that allows eligible recipihomeless count during a night this “The key ents to use their food-assistance past January. benefits at participating According to this year’s to their safety restaurants had 13,245 homeless count, the number of and the safety of people signed up for it in May, unaccompanied homeless their children is to according to a Sacramento individuals age 24 and County official. younger dropped from 303 to hide.”

That’s a hell of a lot more 242 in two years. Canvassers Lisa Culp people that the PIT survey also found 22 percent fewer executive director, Women’s found. homeless families—with 186 Empowerment Likewise, even if the morningfamilies totaling 572 people after audit had been conducted this counted on January 25. Only six year, Culp says it still wouldn’t have of the families were unsheltered; the come close to approximating the real number rest were in shelters or transitional housing, of homeless families. “The key to their safety and according to the report by Sacramento State the safety of their children is to hide,” she noted.

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For moms like Jones, staying under the radar Those numbers aren’t close to being true. can be key. The friends she and her 4-year-old son These biennial point-in-time, or PIT, counts crash with often let her do so without their landare widely considered to underestimate the true lords’ permission. Jones says she’s been looking for scope of any community’s homeless population, work for the past two years without luck. “There’s as they’re conducted on a single night and adhere not enough help for homeless families,” she said. to the federal Department of Housing and Urban Jones said she used to have a “fantastic frigDevelopment’s strict definition of homelessness. ging navigator” through Steps Forward, someone Researchers from Sacramento State’s Institute who is supposed to help her access services that for Social Research, who were brought on this year lead to housing. But he stopped returning her calls to improve the count, acknowledge this, writing in last year. She doesn’t know why. Two months their report that it’s “likely that the PIT methodolago, Jones called Steps Forward to ask for help ogy is systematically undercounting unsheltered once again. families staying in vehicles and tents.”

“No one called me back,” she said. Ω As for young homeless adults and unaccompanied minors, the report notes that they “intentionally avoid canvassing teams,” making for inaccurate findings.

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than residential, commercial property How can we solve California’s housing owners have been paying less and crisis? Obviously, we need to build less of their fair share of property tax. more houses—roughly 100,000 Before Prop. 13, residential owners more houses each year than we’ve paid 55 percent of all state property been building over the last decade. taxes and commercial property owners Otherwise we will continue to endure paid 45 percent. Now residential out-of-control housing prices and everowners pay 72 percent and commercial expanding homelessness. owners only 28 percent.

So we need to move heaven and Prop. 13 has also significantly earth and, even more difficult, variincreased housing costs in California. ous elected officials at every level Faced with lower property tax revenue, of state government to build more cities and counties have adopted poliaffordable housing. cies to encourage retail development The problems are complex: Lack of so they can get sales tax revenue to land, particularly in the coastal areas; cover their revenue shortfall. If a strict environmental and zoning laws; city allows a mall on a piece a skilled-labor shortage; and a of property, rather than a booming tech industry that housing development, the constantly needs more city gets new sales-tax workers. These are few The biggest revenue without having of the problems. problem with to support residents But the biggest housing is with expensive problem with housing services. is political. And as with political.

This is one reason any political problem, we have an excess of there are winners and auto malls and a shortage of losers. housing.

I happen to be one of Also, knowing that new housing the winners in this current unfair will not generate enough property tax system. My wife and I bought our to pay for services, cities and counties 1,700-square-foot home in 1994 for impose developer fees to pay for new $225,000. Without any major remodelroads and schools, significantly raising ing, we have seen our house triple in the cost of new housing. And when value over the last 23 years. Because new housing costs go up, the cost of all of Proposition 13, we pay only $3,862 surrounding housing goes up as well. in annual property taxes. Prop. 13 It now costs more to build a house bases taxes on what you paid when you in California than people can afford to bought your house and only allows a pay. So developers do not build enough maximum 2 percent annual increase. houses, because not enough people will My neighbors, who bought their home buy them. So we have a shortage of in 1950, pay even less: $1,048 in houses, which then drives up the price. annual property taxes. But my neighWe can fix this problem. But it’s a bors on the other side, who bought political problem, and there will be a their home recently, fork over $11,264 new set of winners and losers. Ω each year. This is crazy. We all receive the same services, but one neighbor pays one-third what I pay, and my other neighbor pays three times that.

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On the opening night of the State Fair, Cal Expo police officers cuffed 17 year-old Shanita Minor, then threw her to the ground. Minor told The Sacramento Bee that the officers accused her of “loitering”—at an event where all anybody does is loiter. Video footage appears to show two officers putting weight on the 5-foot tall, 114-pound teenager, who was recently accepted to both UC Santa Barbara and UC Santa Cruz. She suffered a concussion and a fractured thumb. A petition to fire the officers had collected more than 18,000 signatures from across the nation.

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avid Sobon, the local-arts-impresario-slash-nonprofitauctioneer, is on a quest to brighten the urban landscape—and bring cutting-edge contemporary art to everyone in Sacramento.

The Wide Open Walls mural festival, which Sobon founded and directs, will see 50 muralists, including homegrown artists and international talent, creating 40 huge pieces in every corner of the city. In sheer square footage, this will be the largest mural festival ever mounted on the West Coast.

Sobon says the festival was created to give every resident direct access to the depth of styles and unique perspectives of artists who are just as diverse as the city’s residents.

“Everybody’s not going to go walk into a museum; everybody’s not going to walk into a gallery,” Sobon says. “But anybody can walk or drive or bike down the street and look at beautiful art. My goal is to paint every single district in the city, and that will happen in due time.”

While he was working with the owners of local buildings to secure the walls, Sobon brought in Warren Brand of Branded Arts, an LA-based art company that creates large-scale installations for municipalities, corporations and nonprofits. Brand then worked with the building-owners to pair them with leading wall-artists from around the country and the world, including 23 local painters (seven of whom of whom are profiled here).

“It was exciting to learn about each owner’s vision and aesthetics, and to select artists based on that criteria,” he says.

Brand sees the WOW festival, and his company’s mission, as part of a hallowed history.

“People have been organizing to create public art for centuries,” he says. “Think of the sculptural installations and statues in cities around the world—somebody had to organize that. We’re doing the same thing, but on the cutting edge of contemporary art.”

The contemporary mural movement is rooted somewhat in the graffiti scene that erupted in New York in the early 1980s, and evolved alongside the birth of hip-hop. That scene gave the world artists including Keith Haring and Jean Michel Basquiat, both of whom later moved into the studio with huge success, and somewhat less well-known but no-less brilliant artists such as Dondi, Futura 2000 and Lady Pink.

Brand is clearly happy that the street art movement is now being recognized by the smart people in the legitimate art world, and thrilled to be part of WOW fest.

“This is a really important thing,” he says. “Some of the best muralists in the world are coming to Sacramento. I’m so proud.

It’s insane.”

For Sabon, this festival, the second in what he hopes will be an ongoing event, continues an effort to make Sacramento a destination for lovers of outdoor art. Since conceiving of this idea, and before and after last year’s mural festival, Sobon and his wife, Anna, have traveled to various countries to check out outdoor art.

“We went to Mexico City and saw some of the most famous murals in the world.” he says. “We went to Los Angeles and did the same thing. Last year we took mural tours in Barcelona, Rome and Venice.”

Five years from now, will there be mural tours of Sacramento?

“There will be mural tours of Sacramento starting August 10.”

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The Wide Open Walls festival takes place Aug. 10-20 at 40 locations around Sacramento. For more info, visit www.wow916.com.

Okuda, whose work is beloved on four continents, will be creating a three-story mural as part of the Wide Open Walls festival. photo courtesy of wide open walls

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hrough intricate details wrought with fine brush strokes, Molly Devlin and S.V. Williams aim to transfix viewers and transport passersby into another world with a mural soon to be located on 11th Street, across from Amaro Italian Bistro & Bar. Devlin, known for her acrylic paintings of ominous masked figures and otherworldly creatures, says she was inspired to paint a giant squid. The concept developed to include animals from land and sea along with Williams’ painting of a pelican trying to escape the tentacles of the eight-armed sea creature.

“We both are attracted to organic movement, animals and nature,” Devlin says. “We both like to take things less literally than the way they’re portrayed in real life.

We just want to make it fun, vivid and energetic and make you think, ‘Where am I?’” Williams’ resume includes an early background in graffiti and knack for creating magical, underwater worlds with boldly detailed sea life. Together, the two artists have created dozens of projects over the past four years, from an installation at ArtStreet to large paintings on slabs of wood at music festivals. While they enjoy painting for any occasion, the two prefer outdoor murals.

“Our piece has a lot of action and it’s very large,” Williams says. “We hope people will walk up to it and see all the different details and bursts of magic and textures. I think we just wanted to paint something really bold and detailed—something that could really draw people in.”

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emetris Washington will never forget his first mural.

He was a high school senior living in Stockton when he received $500 to paint an image of the school’s mascot in the boy’s locker room. Since his move to Sacramento in 2009, Washington’s painted more than 20 murals throughout the city under the name BAMR, which stands for Becoming A Man Righteously. But, before he brightened many of the city’s walls with color, Washington recalls a time when blank surfaces beckoned to be painted.

“When I first came to Sacramento, I remember seeing so many bare walls everywhere,” he says. “To me, those walls looked like candy.”

Now, his list of works include a black-and-purple basketball mural for the Sacramento Kings and a 120-footlong panorama depicting a bounty of fresh fruits and vegetables. Now he’s got his eye on South Sacramento. It was the first neighborhood he called home, so it’s a fitting location for the mural he will create during the Wide Open Walls festival.

Although he’s kept most of the details about the mural secret, the concept is based on unity. The piece will be visible to all cars that travel along Highway 99.

“Unity is a very powerful word. There’s so much to be said about the word with people coming together and putting their heads together, specifically,” he says.

“I enjoy painting as it is. I feel like it was what I was born to do, but when I can attach a purpose to it, it’s that much greater.”

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raiye “Ray” Thomas-Haysbert believes too many minority students have been suspended for allegedly violating school rules.

Punishment, she says, puts students of color on the school-to-prison pipeline.

During her junior year, Ray, who is gay and African American, argued with a teacher. She was removed from the class and subsequently failed to meet a requirement for admission into statefunded universities.

In June, Ray graduated from Hiram Johnson with straight As. This fall, she will become the first in her family to attend college — at Oklahoma’s Langston University, majoring either in political science or social work.

While excited about attending a historically black campus, Ray said her preference would have been Sacramento State University, to be near her family.

“My altercation cost me an opportunity” to enroll at Sac State, Ray said. “I could attend a two-year community college in Sacramento, but my mom … wants me to go to a four-year university.”

Her message to keep K-12 kids in school was heard this May, when she and 250 other youth descended on the State Capitol. Their mission: to urge support for key bills before the Legislature.

The visit was part of Free Our Dreams, an effort to strengthen the youth movement in California by cultivating a network of youth leaders. Sponsored in part by The California Endowment’s Building Healthy Communities (BHC) initiative, visitors to the Capitol represented Youth Leaders and Adult Allies from 14 BHC sites statewide.

“ My altercation cost Me an opportunity.”

Araiye “Ray” Thomas-Haysbert Free Our Dreams participant Ray never will forget these annual visits to the Capitol. Walking the halls of power, the students met with legislators from both sides of the aisle and with support staff, some of whom provided special insights.

“When our young people go to the Capitol to speak with our state Legislature about why we need these policies in place and connecting their personal stories, that’s powerful,” said Nakeya Bell, BHC Sacramento’s youth engagement coordinator.

Bell, Ray’s mentor, said she admires her protégé. In May, the Senate passed SB 607, which would eliminate willful defiance as grounds for suspension/

araiye “Ray” Thomas-Haysbert, 18, is an advocate for eliminating willful defiance suspensions and expulsions in K-12 schools. Photo by Edgar Sanchez expulsion for K-12 students, unless they disrupt school or commit other blatant acts. The bill, introduced by Sen. Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley) faces likely approval in the Assembly.

Though she wasn’t expelled from school, Ray proudly backed SB 607 so that what happened to her “won’t happen to others like myself.”

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f Anthony Padilla didn’t have to eat or sleep, he says, he would paint 24/7. Working under the name Kinetik Ideas, Padilla’s laid color on the horizons of Sacramento since the ’90s. Often times he wakes up to paint one mural and is seen finishing another in the evening. So, it’s no surprise to learn he’s taking on two walls during the WOW festival.

One mural, located at 14th and C streets and sponsored by the California Endowment, is inspired by health awareness and access to nutritious foods. The other project blends the ideas of nature and technology and will also incorporate a metal structure resembling a poppy, which Padilla built. Its leaves are made out of solar panels, and a fruit-shaped battery will store energy from the sun, allowing passersby to use it as a phone-charging station.

“It’s something that I want to put in every park and college in California,” Padilla says. “At night, it provides light, which makes it a safer place, and it also makes a statement about renewable energy because it’s all self-contained.”

A Sacramento native who’s watched the flux in graffiti and aerosol art through the years, Padilla sees murals as opportunities not only to make the city’s surroundings more colorful, but also to encourage independent thought.

“I’m all for big art outside,” he says. “I’ve been doing graffiti for 22 years and there was a time where you couldn’t paint on walls. Now, it’s just become more accepted. As time goes on, people accept things because true art doesn’t go away.”

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n a trip to Bali, Maren Conrad witnessed a group of women admiring a koi pond inside one of the island’s temples. The women, who were all dealing with cancer, visited the temple to gather water from the koi pond that Conrad says is rumored to have healing powers.

“It was one of the most powerful things I had ever witnessed,” she says. “It was this really heavy moment in my life, and it was so visibly beautiful.”

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“They represent prosperity through perseverance,” Conrad says. “If you fight long and hard enough you can become something much greater than you ever imagined. It’s such a wonderful symbol for artists.”

For the past decade, Conrad’s painted 30 pieces that pay homage to her spirit animal. She plans to further its legend of perseverance by painting two large koi on the 360-foot-long by 30-foot-high wall on the entire back of the MARRS Building in Midtown.

“I’m going to be on this giant scissor lift, and I have 10 days to knock this out,” Conrad says. “And I’m really looking forward to challenging myself artistically.”

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hese two artists met in the third grade, when teachers still referred to them as Neal Bergmann and Ernie Upton. They bonded over hip-hop and video games, and remember times when they would draw Super Mario and Ninja Turtles characters for fun. By age 15, they transitioned from illustrating on paper to painting outdoors as Lopan 4000 and Ernie Fresh.

“We would paint big walls with a large background and everyone would do their own graffiti,” Bergmann says. “That’s where I met [S.V. Williams] too, and he was probably the best in our crew artistically.”

The two will combine their childhood appreciation for giant robots and ’80s sci-fi movie posters for the Wide

Open Walls festival, with a retro outer space aesthetic for their mural located at 12th and B streets.

With more than 20 years tag-teaming murals, Bergmann and Upton have bombed walls in Reno and the Bay Area, the latter being a place of inspiration given its rich mural and graffiti culture that raged throughout the ’90s.

“We don’t need to explain what we’re talking about with each other,” Upton says. “Typically when he shows me an example of something I always say yes. And when anybody else does—I don’t know, man.”

Both men hope their latest piece inspires young people with the same misfit spirit that drove them to pick up a can of spray paint.

“When I was growing up, seeing art on walls was inspirational to me and it helped shape who I am today,” Bergmann says. “I would hope to do something like that for someone else or for the younger generations to see and also feel inspired.”

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Horton drew his favorite comic book characters as a child, and for him, comics and graffiti go hand in hand. For the last decade, he’s kept busy painting commissioned murals on the interiors and exteriors of Sacramento businesses, and he recalls times when clients preferred paintbrushes to rattle-cans.

“In the last five years it’s been completely acceptable to use spray paint, but I used to be expected to do everything by brush,” he says. “It’s really cool to see the flipside where murals are being well received and drawing artists from all around the world.”

His latest mural was finished in early July and features a trio of astronauts wearing vintage pressure helmets. The mural displayed on 19th and P streets combines pixelated shapes and patches of vivid color blended with both hard and soft line work.

For Wide Open Walls, Horton landed a 92-footwide concrete surface on 20th and I across from Maverique Style House.

“The wall is black so I’ll be using a lot of teal, purple and pink, and a lot of those vibrant, neon colors,” he says. “It’s going to be a portrait of a woman who’s abstracted with cool patterns. I think that it will open people’s eyes to a different style of futuristic artwork that we don’t really have here.” Ω

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wo days after the Fourth of July, Mone’t Ha-Sidi hosted Sacramento’s first Black Arts Matter meeting at Blue Lamp on Alhambra Boulevard.

She had high hopes to address the lack of diversity in the city’s art community, vent about discrimination against artists of color by certain venue owners and local cops, and provide a safe space for anyone involved in the scene.

Or try, at least. The problem was, two people showed up.

Blue Lamp co-owner Gabriell Garcia and Sac Black Lives Matter activist Irina Beffa sat in with her that night. The message was received, but it’s not something that Ha-Sidi, an outspoken activist and one of Sacramento’s only black burlesque dancers, seems ready to accept.

“Sometimes I feel like the lone wolf, and it shouldn’t be that way,” Ha-Sidi said. “The things I’m upset about, you should be upset about too.”

But Ha-Sidi, who proudly identifies as a “stripper,” is losing hope that her hometown is the right place for her.

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She described a city with a segregated, sometimes racist arts scene, where the more accepting venues are shutting down and the remaining ones are not interested in her unapologetically fringe, black sideshow. Can Ha-Sidi make an impact in Sacramento?

Hairstylist by day, stripper by nigHt Ha-Sidi works as a hairstylist at Pure Lounge on Truxel Road. She also leads Jezebelle’s Army, a burlesque revue she founded around 2008 that features a rotating cast of local and Bay Area dancers. She performed as part of the Sacramento Horror Film Festival for nine years, has trained in and taught burlesque and pole-dancing for just as many, and she once danced in local troupes like the Midtown Moxies and Sizzling Sirens Burlesque Experience. To top an impressive resume, she was recently tapped to compete nationally in Burlypicks, a burlesque competition held in Denver this August, after

winning the regionals in the “Master of Lip Sync” and “Master of Improv” categories.

She described her style as “outside the box,” mixing “ratchet, nerd-culture and black girl magic” elements in her routines. She dances as Darth Vader, as Brad from The Rocky Horror Picture Show, even as Mr. T. The routines are usually lighthearted and satirical, like traditional burlesque, but she doesn’t shy away from choreographing darker stories and creating heavier variety shows such as Lithium, an art mixer held at the Sidetrax LGBT bar that centered around mental health awareness.

In January, Ha-Sidi performed during Louder Than Wolves, a variety show focused on sexual assault awareness. Her act purposely lacked the smoothness of your average burlesque number. In it, Ha-Sidi symbolically overcame her bouts with suicide and trauma as a sexual assault survivor, crudely ripping off her top and wig as she cried.

“For what I’ve been through, by all means, I shouldn’t even be here,” Ha-Sidi said. “My existence is an act of defiance in some ways.”

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backed out once she saw a video showcasing her rendition of the Saturday Night Live parody song, “Dick in a Ha-Sidi’s developed a renowned passion Box.” The same performance had gotten her on for speaking out against racism in the arts the BurlyPicks nationals for “Master of scene. Last year, she rallied to protest a Lip Sync.” Ha-Sidi sued Nadile, arguing Starlite Lounge show by a touring circus there was a breach of contract, and she sought troupe known as the Mystic Circus. damages totaling $43, the cost of the fliers The company had gotten press in the she printed out to promote the two past for performing in blackface. The shows. She lost. owner, Rush Hicks, denied being “The judges said, ‘Your routine racist, excusing himself on Twitter was inappropriate [for the venue],’” because it was performance art Ha-Sidi said. “It’s a burlesque show. and he “slept with two black women I’m not doing this at a daycare or Chuck [that] year.” After the club’s ownership E. Cheese.” found out about the planned protest, they She said the televised hearing canceled the show. focused on sensationalizing her “[Starlite] was one of the few venues in which profession and that the panel of three the owners would actually pay attention or care judges ignored what she considered to be about what type of artist they’re housing in anti-black behavior by Nadile. their space,” she said of the club, which Of course, Nadile said she felt the judges closed last month. were fair in the case. She said that while Despite her acclaim outside of she tentatively scheduled the shows, Sacramento, Ha-Sidi, a plus-size, 39-year-old which would have been the first-ever black woman who uses her nearly nude body burlesque events at the theater, she never to tell stories, said she gets the opposite approved the creation of the fliers. After response from venue owners, peers seeing Ha-Sidi’s version of “Dick in a and patrons in town. And, in her Box,” she was so disgusted, particularly by estimation, the arts scene largely Ha-Sidi’s use of a dildo in the film, that she ignores the problem it may have with canceled the shows. She also says Ha-Sidi racial discrimination. overreacted.

“I live in a completely different Sacramento “I said, ‘There’s no way this is approthan anybody else,” Ha-Sidi said. priate for my venue,’” Nadile said. “Then Her complaints about the scene, which she pulled the race card on me and said it was focused on racism, run the gamut. Despite teachbecause she was black, which was absolutely ing pole classes at conventions in Las Vegas not true.” and Atlanta, she has trouble renting space in Nadile claimed that other local studios here. Though she gets uproarious venues complained about similar applause in other cities like San Francisco, experiences. where she performed for the popular “Probably 70 percent of my customers Hubba Hubba burlesque revue, local were black or gay,” Nadile said. “I had two venues have canceled shows after watching black bartenders, for Christ’s sake. She was footage of her routines. mOne’t ha-sidi just butthurt because I canceled her show. …

“If somebody’s resume has all this expeI appreciate that she’s an advocate for black burlesque rience, I don’t understand why you wouldn’t people, but you pick your battles. I never pull a perfOrmer consider them an asset to your company or gay card, for crying out loud.” business,” she said. “So then for me, I have to look Despite the troubles, Ha-Sidi soldiers on. She at all these other factors, like who owns the place, what said that Black Arts Matter isn’t dead and that she type of people are going there and what their values are … wants to create a hub to advertise shows and network I’ve been doing [burlesque] for nine years, and I don’t have with artists of color. She’s planning a variety show for the same support or recognition from people that have been September. The theme will pay homage to the phrase “by any [performing] for less time.” means necessary,” an excerpt taken from a famous Malcolm In 2014, Ha-Sidi was fired from a Midtown hair salon. She X speech. said management had asked to see a video of her burlesque, Her end game is to integrate Sacramento’s art scene across and that before she was let go, her co-workers expressed fear every identity, art medium and genre. That is, if that commuof being sexually assaulted by her after watching her routines. nity is willing to show up.

This year, Ha-Sidi found herself in court and on television But Ha-Sidi has also thought about moving to another city. after suing Jackie Nadile, owner of the Public House Theater She likened being a black artist and activist in Sacramento to on 14th Avenue, which also closed this month. She was fighting an “uphill battle on ice.” featured on the syndicated civil court show Hot Bench, in an “I’m exhausted with having to repeat myself,” Ha-Sidi episode titled “Burlesque Artist or Strip Teaser?! ...,” which said. “There’s no reason we should even still be seeing what is aired in May. happening. I hope this will be the time for people to stand up She claimed that Nadile, after first agreeing to have and say enough is enough.” Ω Ha-Sidi perform two shows in the beginning of the year,

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Street corner prophets “In a few years it’ll be a crazy story to tell of how you could come to a corner in Sac and see all those artists in the same place for free,” ZFG founder Andru Defeye told me after the first-ever Intersection, the latest guerrilla entertainment event put on by the ZFG hip-hop collective.

Over the course of the first two Intersection events— every Monday just outside of Old Soul at 40 Acres since July 10—many of Sacramento’s biggest names in a capella hip-hop, poetry and spoken-word stopped by to perform including Hobo Johnson, SpaceWalker, The Philharmonik, Paul Willis, AndYes, Dante Pelayo and many others.

The idea behind Intersection is simple, yet entirely unfamiliar: It’s an outside open-mic with no host, no signup sheet and no order, except for whatever gets created by the community. It represents everything ZFG is about, wrapped up into one fun, ongoing get-down.

The artists and audience made a circle around the concrete planter next to Old Soul’s patio area. The performances were mostly intense. During a piece at the first Intersection, rising hip-hop artist the Philharmonik said, “Of course, the media always The Philharmonik be the quickest to hip-hop artist blame ‘em, like blackPhoto caption italics on-black crime ain’t Photo credit white man’s orchestration.” On the second week, a young man named Cam stood up on concrete planter and delivered some powerful words: “They cracked whips back in the day that ripped through generations. And they took our reparations and they gave it to the natives, successfully made us hate us.”

Person after person took a turn shouting-singing-rapping about institutional racism, personal gut-wrenching pain and sticky relationship drama. Passersby and Old Soul patrons huddled around to enjoy the free entertainment, participating in the call and responses whenever the artists decided to directly engage the audience. The entire event was spontaneous and unexpected, a natural fit into the fabric of Oak Park.

Some folks who’d stumbled upon the event even joined in. One woman on the second week asked, “You guys do this every Monday? Can anyone go?” After some encouragement, she spit out an unexpected hardcore rap she wrote: “You bitches think I’m playing with you hoes, but you playing with you nose.” Someone in ZFG jokingly called her a “gangsta rap mom,” a title she loved.

Since so many of the performers were at such a high caliber of talent, several of the amateurs seemed intimidated to join in. In fact, that first week, there were hardly any nonmale performers of spoken word. AndYes called for a timeout and asked if any woman or nonbinary artist was willing to take a turn. It took a moment, but a girl who’d been sitting there since it started pulled out her phone and nervously delivered a poem she’d written.

Everyone in the circle applauded wildly.

“The media always be the quickest to blame ’em, like black-on-black crime ain’t white man’s orchestration.”

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by Rebecca Huval Chimi-no-no: Mexican food is so much more than tacos and burritos.

Ulises Ponce proves it at Margarita’s Village (524 12th Street), his restaurant that opened in Alkali Flat in late June.

“That’s the beautiful thing about Mexico,” he says, dabbing sweat from his forehead after cleaning out a trash bin in a button-down shirt.

“We don’t have just one culture— it’s many different things.”

Ponce showcases the cuisine of his native central Mexico on the menu: There are the fried, cheesy wedges of tlacoyos and tacos dorados with a hard shell. “It’s crunchy, but it’s not crunchy like Taco Bell,” he explains. The tortilla is carefully warmed, dried and held together with a toothpick before going into the frier to give it a pliant crispiness.

“If you ask for chimichangas in Mexico City … the best thing to do is run,” Ponce jokes. “In Mexico it has a double sense. I don’t want to tell you. It’s part of the body, so …”

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In addition, there are meals from coastal areas like Yucatan and its fish and cochinita pibil (pork)—both cooked in the earthy sauce of achiote. And, yes, even those familiar Chicano dishes like burritos.

Ponce and his business partner Francisco Peña hope to create a different kind of Mexican restaurant from the norm in Sacramento: One that isn’t a cantina.

“My concept is more a family place … not the big, loud stuff,” he says. “I have kids, and it’s difficult to find a place to go with your family.”

Still, you’ll find beer, wine and, with a name like that, you bet there are several margaritas. Ponce draws the line—or the Tex-Mex border—at chimichangas, which you won’t find on the menu.

Noodling around: Regulars of Shoki Ramen House, take a deep breath: The menu has changed. But really, the 10-year-old eatery (1201 R Street and 2530 21st Street) has returned to its roots. Instead of offering your choice of noodles, broths and bowl sizes, the kitchen now serves seven standard ramen dishes, including two new options. The good news is that they’ve reverted back to their original prices, an average of $1 less for a regular-sized bowl, including the sought-after Tan Tan Men that’s now $7.90. Exhale and slurp on.

Creamy coffee: Philz Coffee, popu-

lar in the Bay Area for its made-toorder, hand-poured coffee, opened its first Sacramento location at 1725 R Street on Friday. In this heat, its iced mint mojito coffee is worth a try. Ω

Say what you will about Serpentine Fox Prohibition Grille’s aesthetic, a bar with your standard reclaimedwood-and-shiny-metal approach to match its obligatorily obtuse name. That would do the place a disservice, as the staff is cheery and helpful, adding a nice community vibe. And, most important, the drinks are good. A touch of lightly mashed mint graces the top of the rummy Dark and Stormy ($9), and liberal use of Burly Beverages ginger syrup give it a fierce bite unique to Sacramento.

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Forage for weeds Purslane Once you recognize it, purslane turns up everywhere—farmers markets, your garden, cracks in the sidewalk. It’s a hardy succulent often treated as a weed, but actually worth foraging since it’s chock-full of omega-3 fatty acids.

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Whenever I think of cafeteria food, a scene from Billy Madison comes to mind: A lunch lady shovels a bun carrying a horrendous mound of meat and plops it onto kids’ plates with a horror-show cackle. She slurs, “Have some more shloppy joes!

I made ’em extra shloppy for ya.” In pop culture, cafeterias are terrifying, boring or both. But not at The Getaway Cafe.

As customers approach the cashier, he listens closely, recognizes them by their voices and asks about their families. He’s Jesse Lopez, the owner of the restaurant who landed his current gig through a state program that connects blind workers with food jobs.

On my third visit, Lopez asks, “You’ve been here before, right?” Once I agree, he says, “Cool deal.”

He works inside a dowdy building that looks like it would contain a sad cafeteria. In fact, it was once deemed the worst state building, according to a 2015 governmental study.

For a decade, the windows of California’s Resources Building went unwashed—and to begin with, the exterior was the color of algae.

But on the sidewalk, a bright chalkboard of food specials greets the more than 2,000 state workers before they enter those gray halls.

Since the end of 2015, Lopez’s eighth floor cafeteria—aptly named The Getaway Cafe—has served greasy spoon breakfasts and diner-style lunches with a Mexican flair. The restaurant does so without much of a kitchen to speak of, and at prices that dare you to find a better deal downtown.

To enter the building, you fill out a nametag and show your driver’s license near a display of

poorly worded governmental pamphlets, such as “Terrorism: What Can I Do to Help?” Walk down the long eighth floor hallway toward the open doors on the left, and the menu appears on a series of ever-changing whiteboards.

For breakfast, take your pick of eggy burritos with potatoes, chorizo or a few kinds of sausage, including turkey and veggie. There are also breakfast combo plates with wide-ranging options like biscuits and gravy, pancakes and quesadillas with eggs. Lunchtime fare includes chicken sandwiches and rotating daily specials, like tri-tip on a hoagie, tacos or a bacon mushroom burger. If you still want a snack, there are three kinds of pretzels.

Meanwhile, Lopez’s mother, chef Jerlen Lopez, whips it all up without any ovens or stoves.

Instead, she uses crockpots and electric grills.

Still, the chorizo breakfast burrito ($4.75) came out with perky eggs infused with the smoky spice of chorizo. The bits of the pork sausage released a rush of chili and garlic. Courtesy of the George Foreman-like grill, the tortilla comes uncharacteristically stiff with jailhouse stripes that taste of sweetly crisped flour. Be sure to slather on the housemade red salsa made of boiled and blended serrano peppers, tomatoes and onions.

These dishes are Mexican, yes, but they’re also Sacramentan. Jerlen Lopez inherited her recipes from her mother, whose parents were from Placer County.

This singular heritage makes for unfamiliar dishes that seem so natural, it’s as if you’ve eaten them since childhood. The spicy chicken sandwich ($6.75), for example, puts a twist on a deli classic. Simply by sprinkling the creamy chicken mix with serrano peppers, a comfort food turns on you and nips your tongue.

It’s the best kind of betrayal.

My biggest disappointment came from the special of biscuits and gravy ($5.85). The decadent gravy was livened up with chunks of fried pork, and the biscuit crumbled with freshness. But the accompanying turkey sausage lacked the full oomph of umami.

At this oasis from bureaucracy, it’s the CaliMex dishes that make for the real getaway from boredom. Ω

These dishes are Mexican, yes, but they’re also Sacramentan.

Only 50 years ago, many chefs regarded chicken wings as essentially useless.

Then, in 1964, Buffalo bar owner Teressa Bellissimo made food history when she split the appendages in half, dropped them in a deep fryer and coated them in butter and hot sauce. To showcase the breadth of wing-based cuisine, Sactown Wings will serve more than 40,000 of them on July 30 at Southside Park from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. during their fourth annual, eponymous festival. The fest will feature chicken from local eateries like Barwest, Kupros Craft House as well as Adamo’s Kitchen, which will offer lemon pepper, barbecue and extra-spicy “Ass Fire” hot wings. Tickets cost $10 in advance or $15 at the door, then guests can purchase as many tickets as they please for wings ($1) and beer ($5 for 14 ounces). There’ll be a wing-eating competition, live music from Top 40 cover band Groove Thang and plenty of shade thanks to the tall trees in one of Sacramento’s prettiest parks.

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“I opened the company somewhat blindfolded, since I Sterne’s penchant for experimentation exploded didn’t have any experience making cider. I just kept at it.” last year when Two Rivers opened their tasting room But this year, Two Rivers Cider Co. is celebrating 21 in Hollywood Park. One of the hidden gems of the years in business. In that time, Sterne has learned the Sacramento fermentation scene, the cidery features techniques and used local ingredients to craft the quality a rotating array of exclusive flavors. Sterne presses cider his company is known for. grapefruits grown in Land Park, In the pre-Wikipedia 1990s, watermelons purchased in Oak there was little information on Park and plums from an organic hand, so Sterne took a crash grower in West Sacramento. course in cidermaking. He travTwo Rivers even offers a eled to Europe to meet old-world triple-hopped cider called THC. experts, conducted “a long trial “That’s a cider we make for the of yeast and fermentation experibeer drinkers,” says Sterne. “I think ments” and learned how to make we’ve converted a lot of non-cider wine (cider generally gets lumped drinkers, because our ciders are into the beer sphere, but the dryer, not as sweet, so they’re easy fermentation process has more in to drink.” common with winemaking).

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alifornians are five months away from recreational cannabis stores and still imagining how it will work. Will medical dispensaries handle the sale of recreational cannabis too, or will they be sold separately? As regulators debate over the “one-stream vs. two-stream” systems, each has its own pros and cons.

“The bureau is currently working on regulations with the goal of having them finalized this fall,” said Alex Traverso, at California’s new Bureau of Medical Cannabis Regulation, who admitted that “some details are still taking shape.”

In Oregon’s system, dispensaries accommodate the two different buyers within different sections of a single store. But stores are regulated by two different state agencies: Medical cannabis is overseen by the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) and recreational sales by the Oregon Liquor Control Commission (OLCC).

Canna Royal, a mom-and-pop recreational store in Veneta, Oregon, nevertheless takes a responsible approach that mimics medical dispensaries. Their smell-proof exit bags have a child-resistant “pinch-andslide” design. Every purchase includes a print-out on the test results of each product, and a warning about keeping cannabis away from kids and pregnant women.

“It’s one product, and should be regulated by the same bureaucracy.”

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Kimberly Cargile, A Therapeutic Alternative As for California, “I don’t think you’re going to have two separate markets,” says attorney George Mull of CannAccelerate, a Sacramento cannabis consulting firm. “I think the only distinction will be a key on the cash register.”

“It appears that [California bureaucrats] intend to allow for both sales at the same location,” said Kimberly Cargile from A Therapeutic Alternative. “It’s one product,” she says, “and should be regulated by the same bureaucracy.”

state that they use these drugs out of necessity.”

California could end up having the one-stream system that Mull and Cargile theorized, but with several dry counties banning recreational sales outright, “which is a trend right now,” Cargile added. Will we see a time when stoners at the recreational counter brag about how wasted they get, across from a medical patient discreetly looking for pain relief? We should know by fall.

Cargile says that recreational sales are less complicated and don’t require the same level of educated staff.

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This play from The Daily Show writer David Javerbaum is thoughtfully funny, though still tackling issues and material with pointed humor that more pious folk may frown upon. The show is basically a monologue by the Almighty, who comes out to address the audience about various subjects, including proposed new commandments, an explanation on what really happened during his seven-day creation mania, clarifying the Adam, Noah and Abraham stories, and commenting on contemporary issues. Nick Cearley plays God. Th, F 7pm, Sa 8pm,

Su 1pm, T, W 7pm. Through 7/29. $27-$39, B Street Theatre, 2711 B Street; (916) 443-5300; www.bstreettheatre.org.

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The Comedy of Errors

“Who are you calling stock characters?”

Love’s Labour’s Lost

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7:30 p.m. Thursday, Saturday, Tuesday and Wednesday; Sand Harbor in Lake Tahoe Nevada State Park, 2005 Highway 28 in Incline Village, Nevada; $15-$99. (800) 747-4697; http://laketahoeshakespeare.com. Through August 27.

This “battle-of-the-sexes” Shakespeare comedy is staged less frequently than the better-known Much Ado About Nothing or Taming of the Shrew—but in the right hands, it can be just as funny. Modern-day audiences sometimes find Love’s Labour’s Lost easier to enjoy, especially the ending, in which the women unequivocally get the better of the men.

This Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival version alternates in repertory with The Hound of the Baskervilles.

The story involves the handsome, single King of Navarre and three lords who, good-looking and available, pompously renounce wine, women and song, in favor of three years of philosophical study and fasting. But this is a summer comedy with college boy overtones, and soon these randy young royals start straying from their lofty vows.

Especially when the cute and single Princess of France and three young, attractive ladies come a-calling, seeking romance.

There are several stock characters: a verbose, foppish foreigner (a Spaniard, well-played by Lynn Robert Berg); the clownish fool Costard (Jeffrey C. Hawkins, in a strong performance); a dimwitted constable (named Anthony Dull, played with laconic wit by Joe Conley Golden); the sexpot country wench Jaquenetta; and stuffy professor Holofernes.

The eager guys have a particularly silly scene disguised as dancing Muscovites with obviously fake Russian accents; they are easily outwitted by the ladies. With 14 Equity actors (mostly from New York and Chicago) in the cast, the show is smooth and glossy, and the score (’60s pop, mostly) pairs well with the frivolity of summer courtship.

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Sacramento theater audiences are familiar with fast-paced spoofs at the B Street Theatre, in which a small cast (aided by crazy wigs, fake beards, kooky hats and men-in-drag) send up a familiar standard. Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival’s The Hound of the Baskervilles applies this well-worn approach to Sherlock Holmes, using a tidy trio of talented leading men, who vamp across the stage for two hours in perpetual motion, with rapid costume changes and jokes delivered at a breakneck pace.

Lynn Robert Berg plays Watson—who helpfully points out that he should be treated as the star of the show, since he has the most lines. Dougfred Miller plays the redoubtable Holmes, as well as several supporting characters. Jeffrey C. Hawkins, a regular at Tahoe during the last few summers, plays just about everybody else. Director Charles Fee keeps them running on and off throughout, with punch sound cues for added emphasis.

Purists who prefer their Arthur Conan Doyle done straight should be advised that this campy, hyperactive version is entirely irreverent. It’s not what you’d call elegant or elevated humor. But the performances are sharp, the punchlines timed perfectly. The audience of summer vacationers at Lake Tahoe gobbled up this frothy, sugary show like hungry diners at an all-you-can-eat buffet.

Those who are seeking more nutritious theatrical humor should check out the company’s other show, Love’s Labour’s Lost.

—Jeff Hudson The Hounds of the Baskervilles; 7:30 p.m. Saturday; Sand Harbor in Lake Tahoe Nevada State Park, 2005 Highway 28 in Incline Village, Nevada; $15-$99. (800) 747-4697; http://laketahoeshakespeare.com.

Through August 23.

Shakespeare’s comedy about two sets of identical twins and the havoc wreaked when each is mistaken for the other is directed by Luther Hanson, whose sense of comic timing and rapid-fire scene

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changes elevates the play.

It’s presented in repertory with All’s Well That Ends Well. Th 8pm, Su 6pm. Through 7/30. $15-$18. Sacramento Shakespeare Festival, William A. Carroll Amphitheatre in William Land Park. www.sacramento shakespeare.net. J.C.

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The Three Musketeers

This recent adaptation by American playwright Ken Ludwig is a fun, fastmoving adventure-comedy.

In this version, D’Artagnan shares the stage with a plucky younger sister (who also wields a sword), adding girl power, and the exaggerated villains are entertaining. Swords clash throughout, disaster is narrowly averted (again and again), and the Musketeers are as handsome as matinee idols. Alternates in repertory with the musical Wonderful Town. Th, F, Sa 8 8 pm, Su 2pm. Through 8/6. $15-$25.

Davis Shakespeare Festival at Davis Veterans Memorial Theatre, 203 E. 14th Street in Davis; (530) 802-0998; www. shakespearedavis.org. J.H.

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Wonderful Town

The musical, based on the stories of Ruth McKenney, was first produced as the play My Sister Eileen by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov. It tells the story of the Sherwood sisters Ruth (Gia Battista) and Eileen (sister Gabby Battista), who have left their childhood home in Ohio and come to New York for all of the opportunities they feel it offers. Ruth is an aspiring writer, while Eileen wants to break into show business.

The Battistas are absolutely wonderful in their roles, and their homesick duet “Ohio” is as smooth as velvet. Both women also get their own chance to shine in a solo number. Th, F, Sa 7pm, Su 2pm. Through 8/6. $27-$39, $15-$25. Davis Shakespeare Festival at Davis Veterans Memorial Theatre, 203 E. 14th Street in Davis; (530) 802-0998; www.shakespeare davis.org. B.S.

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What a way to make a livin’ Sacramento’s Music Circus revisits 9 to 5—originally a 1980 film comedy with Dolly Parton, Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin; reincarnated as a Broadway show in 2009, with Parton composing the score. Things may have changed somewhat for women in the workplace but the long-suffering characters here still resonate as they scheme to find a way out of their boring office jobs and into a better way of life. 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Thursday, July 27, 7:30 p.m. Friday, July 28, 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, July 29, 3 p.m. Sunday, July 30. $45-$89. Wells Fargo Pavilion, 1419 H Street; (916) 557-1999; www.californiamusicaltheatre.com.

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Timeless haunting

a Ghost Story nothing says “friendly ghost” like a white sheet.

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by Jim Lane

I know, I know. A guy in a sheet with two eyeholes cut in it? What is this, Casper the Friendly Ghost: The Movie? And yet, and If 2017 brings us another movie as good as writeryet—Lowery’s mere simplicity of storytelling director David Lowery’s A Ghost Story, it will be a universalizes his story. We don’t know the marvelous year indeed. A Ghost Story will not win names of any of the characters who pass before the Oscar for best picture; it will not be the year’s top us, but their names don’t matter. In a sense, moneymaker. But years from now, when whatever they are us. Words are sparse, revealing little won or cleaned up at the box office way back in ’17 is while suggesting much. The most sustained a trivia question few can answer, people will still be passage of dialogue comes midway, as the ghost watching, studying, marveling at and thinking about wanders unseen at a party in his old house. One Lowery’s quiet, profoundly haunting masterpiece. of the party people, identified in the credits as It’s hard to imagine who Lowery was “Prognosticator” (Will Oldham), rambles making A Ghost Story for, or how he on, slightly drunk, about time and the pitched it to the money people who urge to endure. It’s Lowery’s theme, gave it the greenlight. I can only The movie yet it’s presented casually, as if surmise that he made the movie for overheard by accident. A Ghost unfolds in layers himself (the greatest moviemakers, Story is a movie so deeply and that you are better like the greatest novelists, don’t keenly observed that the sight of, make movies they want to sell, they left to discover for say, Rooney Mara sitting on her make movies they want to see), and kitchen floor eating a pie can be yourself. that somehow he communicated this freighted with inchoate meaning passion, this curiosity to see where the and glimpses of eternity. story would go, to everybody else—as I’ve changed my mind. I’ll share one he, in fact, communicates it to us. moment I didn’t know about going in. Our I will share only what I knew about this movie ghost spots another sheeted spirit in a neighboring before I saw it—not because there’s some astonishing house. They communicate silently, in subtitles. turn of the plot that can’t be revealed, but just because “Hello,” says the other ghost. the movie unfolds in layers that you are better left to “Hi.” Pause. discover for yourself.

“I’m waiting for someone.”

A young man (Casey Affleck) is killed in an auto “Who?” accident outside the rural house where he lives. His Another pause. “I forget.” spirit, still wearing the sheet that covered his body in You will not forget seeing A Ghost Story. Ever.Ω the morgue, returns to the house and lingers around the woman—wife? girlfriend?—with whom he lived (Rooney Mara). He, or it, continues to haunt the house even after she has moved away—as others come and go, the house is bulldozed and replaced, into an Poor Fair Good Very excellent Good unknown future and back into an unremembered past.

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Baby Driver

The getaway driver for a bank-robbing gang (Ansel Elgort) wants out, especially after he meets a pretty waitress (Lily James)—but his boss (Kevin Spacey) doesn’t believe in early retirement. Writerdirector Edgar Wright’s movie shifts gears as deftly as its hero—from rock ’n’ roll derby to profane comedy to goo-goo-eyes romance and back, and all set to a pounding soundtrack of the pop tunes streaming from Baby’s iPod. Wright glosses over some plot points in the interest of getting on with things, but the car chases are the point, and they’re terrific. This steering-wheel prodigy drives the way Gene Kelly used to dance—thrusting, twisting, lunging—and Wright and editors Jonathan Amos and Paul Machliss assemble these roaring ballets accordingly. Not that it matters, but the performances are good too. J.L.

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The Beguiled

Sofia Coppola writes and directs this lovingly mounted yet strangely feeble adaptation of Thomas Cullinan’s novel, which was previously brought to the screen by director Don Siegel in 1971. That version benefited from the inherent tension of a masculine pulp auteur like Siegel shepherding a sexually charged Civil War-era costume drama, but this take on The Beguiled is exactly the sort of disaffected fashion show that we’ve come to expect from Coppola. Nicole Kidman stars as a repressed headmistress waiting out the war in the Virginia wilderness with a handful of girls, among them Kirsten Dunst and Elle Fanning. The discovery of a severely injured but charismatically manipulative Union soldier (Colin Farrell) upends their quiet lives, as his very presence seems to spur a sexual awakening in the women. Coppola surgically removes everything potentially “problematic” (i.e., interesting) about the material, then shoots what’s left through ten thousand layers of gauze. D.B.

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The Big Sick

If you’re a stand-up comedian in a movie, it’s only a matter of time before you’re suffering a sad, unfunny, baggagespewing nervous breakdown on stage. In Michael Showalter’s The Big Sick, the comedian on the brink is Kumail Nanjiani, playing himself as a Pakistan-born man torn between worlds.

Kumail’s traditional family tries to push him into an arranged marriage, but he instead dates strong-willed white therapist Emily (Zoe Kazan) on the sly, before his surplus of secrets pulls them apart as well. The entire situation becomes exponentially complicated when Emily goes into a coma. There is a lot to like about The Big Sick, especially the charismatic performances of Nanjiani and Kazan, who are given sturdy support by Holly Hunter and Ray Romano. But at 119 minutes long, it may be too much of a good thing—I have rarely been so aggravated by such a funny and heartwarming film. D.B.

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Dunkirk

Christopher Nolan ascended from indie unknown to the crown prince of PG-13 darkness, but in recent years he has become low-hanging fruit for mockery—his heaviness, his humorlessness, his lead-foot ponderousness, his duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duhBWAAAAMP-ness. But just when the diminishing returns of The Dark Knight franchise and the philosophical emptiness of Interstellar seemed to cement his irrelevance, along comes Dunkirk to remind us what Nolan does so well.

Nolan is a master of escalating and sustaining tension across multiple dramatic planes, and the outwardly simple yet slightly fractured structure of Dunkirk affords him the ideal canvas to practice his art. You’re stuck in Nolan’s grasp within minutes, and he only keeps squeezing tighter, the pinprick tension growing more unbearable, with the phony dramatic crescendos kept to a relative minimum. Nolan does himself a favor with his own terse script,

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Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

When a mysterious force threatens a vast space station where many intergalactic species exist in harmony, a team of bantering special agents (Dane DeHaan, Cara Delevigne) are sent to investigate—but nothing about the case is quite what it seems. Writer-director Luc Besson (adapting comic books by Pierre Christin and Jean-Claude Mézières) goes crazy with an intoxicating array of creatures and wondrous effects. (Think The Fifth Element cubed.) The story is slight but sufficient, and the fun keeps coming. Amid all the magic some performances stand out: DeHaan has the boyish charm of the young Tom Cruise, and Delevigne adds spicy star-making sauce. Clive Owen as a sinister soldier and Ethan Hawke as a pimp have their moments too, and there’s a poignant cameo by Rihanna as a shape-shifting “entertainer.” J.L.

largely laying off the blockhead exposition and instead crafting a fingernail-obliterating cinema experience. D.B.

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Okja

The life of Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis (Sally Hawkins), who worked in obscure poverty, stooped and gnarled by childhood arthritis, until fame found her a few years before she died in 1970. Hawkins is the best reason to see this sluggish, pinched, claustrophobic little biopic; whenever it threatens to grow dreary, which it does often, the spunky light in her eyes draws us back. Otherwise the movie rings false; Sherry White’s script is uneven and unconvincing, Aisling Walsh’s direction plods as doggedly as Maud painting one of her pictures, and Ethan Hawke as Maud’s husband Everett is so foul-tempered and abusive that he makes Maud look like a dimwitted masochist—thus undercutting the movie’s message of two outcasts redeemed by love. Guy Godfree’s starkly beautiful cinematography is another plus. J.L.

Premiering on Netflix and receiving a limited theatrical release, the entertaining Okja offers more high-energy genre subversion from South Korean writer-director Bong Joon Ho (Snowpierecer; The Host), who this time uses a Spielberg-ian children’s fantasy template to bluntly satirize issues related to animal rights, environmental destruction and corporate greed. Snowpiercer supporting player Tilda Swinton gets a co-producer credit here, and a plum part as the CEO of a Monsanto-like conglomerate, but its Jake Gyllenhaal who delivers the biggest, broadest deal-breaker of a comedic performance, squawking like a strangled clown and flapping about in cargo shorts and black crew socks.

Okja offers a lot of the same elements that made Snowpiercer so successful, but it misses that film’s irrefutable narrative progression, especially in an out-of-control second half. The film finally lands on an incredibly beautiful final shot, albeit one that feels divorced from the previous hour of tonal and thematic chaos. D.B.

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Transformers: The Last Knight

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War for the Planet of the Apes

Once the psycho wunderkind who gave up some of his salary to buy an extra explosion for Bad Boys, and the most aggressive cinematic purveyor of “the cuck stops here” machismo ever since, 52-year-old Michael Bay might be softening with age. The central conflict in Transformers: The Last Knight involves refugee aliens immigrating to Earth from a violent homeland, and Bay seems to side with the besieged immigrants rather than the travel ban crowd. There are multiple heroic female characters with little drooling objectification, a vaguely eco-friendly message about coming together to “heal the planet” and if that’s not enough, count a French-accented Transformer among the Autobot good guys.

Bay tones down the rhetoric, but not the bombast. At a certain point, I simply surrendered to The Last Knight. I don’t think I had a choice.

The film had me surrounded, and I just wanted to see my family again. D.B.

The rebooted Planet of the Apes franchise continues with War for the Planet of the Apes, a fitting final wedge in the trilogy, although there are apparently already plans for a sequel. Like the previous entry Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, War was directed by Matt Reeves, who delivers a technically immaculate but ultimately grim and heartless entertainment. The action picks up two years after Dawn, with the increasingly humanlike apes keeping a tenuous peace, while the infected remains of humanity struggle for survival. A mysterious mercenary named Colonel McCullough (Woody Harrelson) accidentally assassinates the son of ape leader Caesar (motion-captured Andy Serkis), sending the simmering simian on a quest for revenge.

The special effects are amazing, and the long takes and measured pace give War the flavor of an old-school impossible-mission epic, but there’s something sociopathic about the way the film portrays the eradication of humanity as heroic. D.B.

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But really, she MacGyvered her kit to fit into their sedan. In the place of a bass drum, there’s a floor tom; in place of a floor tom, a high tom.

Slutzville has also streamlined the team: The couple has dumped former bassists who were both bandmates and lovers. Gradually, they say they’ve isolated themselves and developed a DIY ethos that features as the title of their 2014 EP, D.I.Y. or Die. They’ve been burned too many times by bookers who underpay them, by exes who’ve stolen from like the outfit says, they’ve got radness in spades. them, by promoters who ask them to open for less-experienced acts. So, they actually try to DET, Do Everything Themselves, from making their own merch to labeling each CD. Onstage at the Colony, drummer Natalie Thompson “It’s hard being a female in a band,” Thompson sings “fuck you” so many times that her face reddens says.

“It’s hard being a female in general. You get the like a mean tomato. In between Thompson’s yelps, shit end of the stick every single time, and you have singer and guitarist Jessi Permenter spells out their to constantly fight. And I know that’s why a lot of band name in a playful counterpoint: “S-L-U-T-Zfemales have great lyrics.”

V-I-LLE.” They spew fury from the depths of their Do they ever. Slutzville makes being pissed off diaphragms. Once it’s done, they beam love at each sound fun as hell, and they preach social justice with other with goofy grins. swagger: “I won’t change who I am, / I won’t hide That’s because these two have made an adorwhat I think. / I’ll scream till my voice gives out / and able, married queer punk duo—in sickness and in take another drink.” anger—since they got hitched on the Santa Cruz About that drink. After years of heavy boardwalk in 2015. But the band’s story boozing, they cut it out last year began much earlier than that. when Permenter nearly died from a When Permenter was in high “She almost septic abscess. At first, the shock school in Grass Valley, she scrolled of almost losing her wife made died, and I’m through porno titles with her Thompson pound even more ex-lover-slash-bassist. That’s how throwing my life Pabst Blue Ribbons per day, the band name Slutzville, um, away—she was watching but then she had a realization. sprang up. Since 2003, Permenter “She almost died, and I’m me kill myself.” has been the only constant in the throwing my life away—she group, imbuing it with her sense Natalie Thompson was watching me kill myself,” of feisty fun and feminist ideals. drummer, Slutzville Thompson says. “I want to live She says she’s cycled through enough for her.” drummers and bassists that a sizable Permenter grins and whispers, chunk of Grass Valley’s smallish punk “So sweet.” scene can claim former membership.

Sobering up has shaped them into more profesFast-forward to 2011, when Thompson’s brother sional musicians, they say. Slutzville has been showed her Permenter’s MySpace page, and playing a few shows a week lately while penning new Thompson said, “I like this chick.” He introduced material. But when I ask if Permenter feels or acts the two at a show, and they immediately agreed to differently after her health scare, Thompson answers jamming—but flirted with the idea of more. Soon for her: “No! She’s still ornery.” after, without a practice space, they sneaked their And it shows in their music. Here’s a nonalcoequipment onto a steep hill behind a Safeway holic cheers to that. Ω parking lot.

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Over time, they tightened up their sound, quite literally. Thompson now has a drum set with a higher register than most, making for snappy beats with a

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CItIES YOU WISH YOU WERE FROM: Sacramento biker rock band’s EP release show. Performing with rapper Sparks Across Darkness and punk troupe Alarms.

8pm, $5. Hideaway Bar & Grill, 2565 Franklin Blvd.

GRaVESHaDOW: Metal show. The Sac band will perform with Dawn of Morgana, Stormfall and Don’t Tell Her. 8pm, $10. On The Y, 670 Fulton Ave.

JERRY GaRCIa aLL-StaR BIRtHDaY BaSH: Tribute show for the late Grateful Dead frontman. 7pm, $15-$25. Auburn Event Center, 145 Elm Ave. in Auburn.

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Dog is love This week holds two events for cynophilists to savor. First is the annual Splash Dogs competition at the California State Fair.

The dock jumping event sees big dogs catch bigger air as they launch into HOUNDS a pool to fetch a toy. The athletes are judged by the length of their leap, the national Splash Dogs record last year being around 24 feet. Competitions run

MUSIC THURSDAY, 7/27 aRtY: Electronic dance music show with a popular Russian DJ. Also performing: CAZZETTE and Michael Becker. 9:30pm, $9. The Park, 1116 15th St.

tHE BaND PERRY: World-touring country

sibling trio. 8pm, $80-$90. Jackson Rancheria Hotel and Casino, 12222 New York Ranch Road in Jackson.

BILL KIRCHEN & JIMMIE DaLE GILMORE: Kirchen is the founding member of Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen. Helped define the roots rock genre. Performing with pedal steel legend Bobby Black.

tour for their third album, titled Heartless.

Performing with local doom rockers Chrch.

9pm, $16-$18. Harlow’s, 2708 J St. Performing with soul-pop trio SHAED. 7pm, $10-$12. Goldfield Trading Post, 1630 J St.

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8pm, $22. Palms Playhouse, 13 Main St. in Winters.

JOHN MaYER: Blues pop singer-songwriter.

7pm, $32-$55.50. Golden 1 Center, 500 David J Stern Walk.

SCREatURE: Sacramento psych, goth rock.

Performing with HIDE and Silence in the Snow. 8:30pm, $8. Blue Lamp, 1400 Alhambra Blvd.

MaXI PRIESt: Jamaican reggae

legend. 7:30pm, $30. Ace Of Spades, 1417 R St.

DEaRHEaRt: Emo and post-hardcore show with a Seattle based headliner. Performing with Subtlety, Lost Things and Swing Away. 7pm, $10. The Boardwalk, 9426 Greenback Lane in Orangevale.

FRIDAY, 7/28 LUKaS NELSON & PROMISE OF tHE REaL: American rock group led by the son of country music star Willie Nelson.

Performing with Nicki Bluhm. 7pm, $27. Ace Of Spades, 1417 R St.

SUBLIME WItH ROME: Long Beach ska legends.

Performing with Magic! 7pm, $32.95$159.95. Thunder Valley Casino Resort, 1200 Athens Ave. in Lincoln.

tIM MCGRaW & FaItH HILL: Married country pop stars on tour. 7:30pm, $96. Golden 1 Center, 500 David J Stern Walk.

SATURDAY, 7/29 BUDDY GUY: Chicago blues guitarist and singer. Performing with Johnny

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medical patient cannabis and business expo. Educational seminar panels, live speakers and music, camp-outs, hippy hangouts, comedy, a graffiti contest, a vintage Volkswagen village, a chili cook off and more. 2pm. $15. San Joaquin Fairgrounds, 1658 South Airport Way in Stockton.

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Thursday through Sunday at the Miller Lite Racetrack Grandstand on the fairgrounds.

But what about play for your pup? Second is the grand opening of the Truitt Bark Park. The long-planned Midtown dog park will celebrate Saturday with an unveiling of its 7-foot tall “BARK” art display, pooch portraits and contests. 1600 Exposition Boulevard; 1818 Q Street in Midtown.

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long fest for electronic dance music.

Performers include: Borgeous, Morgan Page, SNBRN, JOYZU and more. 1pm. $45. Weber Point Events Center, 221 North Center St. in Stockton.

SIR SLY: Los Angeles indie pop band.

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Australian experimental artist David West.

Performing with Donald Beaman and The Andrew Diamond Henderson Band. 8pm, $5.

B Street Theatre, 2711 B St.

and wine costume party themed after Shakespeare’s comedy. Think fairy wings and semi-formal attire. Full masks are not allowed. 9pm. $5. The Falls Event Center, 8280 Elk Grove Blvd. in Elk Grove.

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Jersey Doo-wop legends. 7:30pm, $65.

Sacramento Community Center Theater, 1301 L St.

Cat & tHE FIDDLE MUSIC FEStIVaL: Two-day

PEtER PEttY: Swing jazz showman and band leader. Self-described as a “Tasmanian Devil in a tuxedo.” 9pm, no cover. Shady Lady Saloon, 1409 R St.

family music fest on the Mother Goose Stage at Fairytale Town. 11am. $5.75.

Fairytale Town, 3901 Land Park Drive.

PSYCHIC FaIR: Have your gut feelings checked at the Berkeley Psychic Institute’s fair of spirit guides. 1pm. $15. Berkeley Psychic Institute, 5260 Elvas Ave.

MONDAY, 7/31 ¡LaS PULGaS!: Punk show. Lo-fi surf rockers performing with JABB and Slutzville.

SUMMER CHaLK aRt FEStIVaL: Chalk-a-thon

aVENGED SEVENFOLD: Huntington Beach

at Southgate plaza, with awards. Enjoy music, face painting, a balloon artist, magic tricks and more. 9am. No cover.

Southgate Plaza, 4242 Florin Road.

8pm. Cafe Colonial, 3520 Stockton Blvd. metal band. Performing with metalcore group A Day to Remember. 6:30pm, $36$66. Golden 1 Center, 500 David J Stern Walk.

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BEtH DUNCaN QUINtEt: Jazz show lead by an award-winning broadcast journalist and vocalist. 7pm, $25. Antiquite 2114 P St.

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10,000 MaNIaCS: ’80s alternative rock band.

7:30pm, $30-$45. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.

Saturday description. 11am. $5.75.

Fairytale Town, 3901 Land Park Drive.

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ED SHEERaN WItH JaMES BLUNt: British singer-songwriter performing with James Blunt. 7:30pm, $75.71. Golden 1 Center, 500 David J Stern Walk.

taKING BaCK SUNDaY: Emo, alternative rock band performing with Every Time I Die and Modern Chemistry. 10:30pm, $29.50. Ace of Spades, 1417 R St.

1pm. $15. Berkeley Psychic Institute, 5260 Elvas Ave.

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Food & drinK tHUrsdaY, 7/27 gatHer Quarry parK: A unique take on the city as a dining table. Communal tables for outdoor dining, a craft beer area, artisanal food vendors, designers, food demos, interactive art, live music and a modular kids park. 5pm, no cover. Quarry Park, 4000 Rocklin Road in Rocklin.

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neil diamond GOLDEN 1 CENTER, 8 P.M., $36-$146

aXis gallery: #Resist. From Axis Gallery: politically charged mixed art exhibit inspired by the election and the popular hashtag. through 7/30. 625 S St.

sUndaY, 7/30 45tH annual courtland pear fair: A festival that celebrates the Bartlett pear harvest. Arts & crafts fair, a fun run, kids area, parade, live music all day, food and lots of pears. 9am, no cover. Pear Fair Grounds, 180 Primasing Ave. in Courtland.

Film satUrdaY, 7/29 casablanca: Showing of the 1942 film about the effects of war on the human condition, starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. 7:30pm, $7.50-$9.50. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.

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Entertainer, Patti LaBelle and Earth Wind & Fire. Also performing: Geoff Brown, Andre Covington and Evan Lionel. 8pm thursday, 7/27. $20; Ellis Rodriguez. Boston comic performing with Los Angeles’ Connor McSpadden. through 7/30. $20. 1207 Front St.

puncHline: Bill Bellamy. Def Comedy Jam comic who allegedly coined the phrase “booty call.” through 7/30. $25; Lance Woods & Friends. Sacramento comedian doing his monthly gig at Punchline. 8pm wednesday, 8/2. $15. 2100 Arden Way, Suite 225.

tHe bricK House: Commit To The Bit: Comedy Takes America Tour. A comedy routine featuring two Chicago comics onstage at once: Tyler Ross and Dylan Scott. 7pm thursday, 7/27. $8-$10. 2837 37th St.

tommy t’s comedy club: Kountry Wayne.

A viral comic and social media star, King Kountry Wayne (also known as Wayne Colley) touts himself as a humble guy just looking to support his seven children and two businesses in Millen, GA. through 7/30. $20-$30. 12401 Folsom Blvd. in Rancho Cordova.

blacKtop comedy: Open Mic Mix. Ninety minutes of comedy with a twist: Open Micers will perform with the best comedians in Sacramento. 7pm sunday, 7/30. $5. 3101 Sunset Blvd., Suite 6A in Rocklin.

csZ sacramento: ComedySportz Improv Comedy. Two teams compete for your points and laughs by creating instant sketches based on your suggestions.

Similar to the hit show Whose Line Is It, Anyway? 8pm saturday, 7/29. $10-$12; Improvivor 11. Improv comedy mixed with the TV show Survivor. Challenges, tribes, immunity and jokes. 10pm friday, 7/28. $8. 2230 Arden Way, Suite B.

comedy spot: Cage Match. Two improv teams each have 20 minutes to perform a longform improv show using any structure.

The audience votes for the winner. 8pm thursday. $5; Twit-prov Trivia. What do you get when you make up trivia questions, create the answers and then tweet? Find out in this audience interactive comedy show. 10:30pm thursday, 7/29. $5. 1050 20th St., Suite 130.

laugHs unlimited comedy club: The Kinda Famous Comedy Tour. Bay Area comic Daniel Dugar headlines this show made up of rising (read: semi-successful) comedians. Dugar’s opened for acts like D.L. Hughley, Damon Wayans, Cedric the

the media and her rival cellmate, Velma Kelly, by hiring Chicago’s slickest criminal lawyer to transform her crime into a barrage of sensational headlines. through 8/3. $20-$38. 401 Broad St. in Nevada City.

sutter street tHeatre: Harvey. A Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy about a man and his invisible friend, a six-foot-tall rabbit. through 8/13. $15-$23. 44 Main St. in Sutter Creek.

tHe acting company: Wizard of Oz. A Kansas farm girl’s quest to find a wizard who can send her back home. through 8/12. $13$18. 815 B St. in Yuba City.

tHe red museum: The Latest Show: One Night Gender Bender. See event spotlight on page 39 . 9pm thursday, 7/27. $10. 212 15th St.

tHe tHree penney tHeatre inside tHe california stage compleX: La Victima: A Bilingual Play. Teatro Espejo, Sacramento’s longest running Latino theatre company, presents a classic play that explores Mexican immigration to the United States in the 1930s. through 8/13. $10. 1721 25th St.

tHeatre in tHe HeigHts: Love’s Labour’s

on staGe auburn placer performing arts center at tHe state tHeatre: Guys and Dolls. A musical set in the 1940s. Follows Nathan Detroit, who turns to fellow gambler Sky Masterson for the cash to float the biggest craps game in town. When the dolls get involved, especially a straitlaced missionary named Sarah Brown, the term “high stakes” applies to both love and money. through 8/5. $10. 985 Lincoln Way in Auburn.

california musical tHeatre: 9 to 5. A comedy about friendship and revenge in the office place, based on the 1980 movie. through 7/30. $45-$89. 1510 J Street.

capital stage: Graham-A-Rama. A summer cabaret show by local composer, music director and producer Graham Sobelman. 8pm saturday, 7/29. $25$30. 2215 J St.

nevada tHeatre: Chicago. Set in the 1920s.

Tells the story of Roxie Hart, a chorus girl who murders her lover. Desperate to avoid a conviction, Roxie dupes the public,

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california museum: Art & Advocacy.

Yessir, Sacramento’s officially not a flyover city for major music acts. Let this week be proof alone: John Mayer, Melissa Etheridge, Sublime with Rome, Ed Sheeran and, by God, even Avenged Sevenfold wants a taste of Sacramento in the next few PHoto coUrtesY oF neal wHiteHoUse PiPer music days. But who’s the most deserving of your cash in exchange for lavish floor seating? Seniority says Neil Diamond. At 76, The Solitary Man is celebrating his 50 years of pop-rocking on tour this year, and you most certainly can, too, on Wednesday. 500 David J Stern Walk, www.neildiamond.com.

midtown farmer’s marKet: Weekly farmer’s market that features more than 50 food and art vendors, monthly chef demos and a free bike valet. 8am, no cover. Midtown Sacramento, 20th Street, between J & K streets.

Bower paints aerial views of the Sacramento Delta, Clark Johnson paints local scenes and Holton-Hodson uses pastels to capture area landscapes. through 8/4. no cover. 3193 Riverside Blvd.

Lost. Shakespeare’s comedy Follows King Ferdinand of Navarre and his three feckless friends, who take an oath to immerse themselves in their studies, swearing off contact with women for three years. through 8/6. $15. 8215 Auburn Blvd., Suite G in Citrus Heights.

veterans memorial center tHeater: The Three Musketeers. This modern adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ novel is chockfull of humor and swordfights. Part of the Davis Shakespeare Festival. through 8/4. $25; Wonderful Town. Ruth and Eileen, two sisters from Ohio, embark on a risky adventure to make it big in the even bigger city of New York. Also part of the Davis Shakespeare Festival. through 8/5. $25. 203 East 14th St. in Davis.

william a. carroll ampitHeatre: The Comedy of Errors. This Shakespeare play tells the story of two sets of identical twins who were accidentally separated at birth. Part of the Sacramento Shakespeare Festival. through 7/29. $15$18; All’s Well That Ends Well. Another one of Shakespeare’s twisty journeys of love and lust. Also part of the Sacramento Shakespeare Festival. through 7/30. $15$18. 3901 Land Park Drive.

An exhibit of original works by developmentally disabled artists across California. It marks the 40th anniversary of the Lanterman Act (AB 846), the 1977 law giving developmentally disabled Californians the right to services and supports they need to live independently. through 9/17. $9. 1020 O St.

california museum: 10th Annual California Hall of Fame Artifact Exhibit. A collection of artifacts, which include Harrison Ford’s Indiana Jones costume from Raiders of the Lost Ark, George Takei’s Hikaru Sulu costume from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Isabel Allende’s Presidential Medal of Freedom for Literature awarded by President Barack Obama in 2014 and more. 10am. through 9/10. $9; Light & Noir Exiles & Émigrés in Hollywood, 1933-1950.

Highlights the history of émigrés in the American film industry who fled Europe as refugees of Nazi persecution and their legacy in American cinema through the film noir genre. The exhibit features rare artifacts and memorabilia from 16 iconic films. through 10/15. $9; Patient No More People with Disabilities Securing Civil Rights. Chronicles the lives and legacies of the courageous Californians whose activism launched the American disability rights movement. through 11/15. $9. 1020 O St.

crocKer art museum: Turn The Page The First Ten Years of Hi-Fructose. A collection of 51 contemporary art pieces featured in the first decade of the lowbrow art magazine. 10am. through 9/17. $5-$10. 216 O St.

JayJay: Loved to Death & Creatures of the Fire. Loved to Death is the late sculptor Maria Alquilar’s body of work left behind since her death in 2014 at age 86. Creatures from the Fire serves up a menagerie of wildlife in this exhibition of Joe Mariscal’s recent ceramic sculpture. 11am. through 7/29. no cover. 5524 B Elvas Avenue.

Kondos gallery, sacramento city college: MATRIX Revisited. MATRIX, a

california state arcHives: California

women’s artist group of the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s, celebrates their reunion with exhibits in two separate galleries. through 7/31. no cover. 3835 Freeport Blvd.

smud art gallery: MATRIX Revisited. See

Kondo’s Gallery even description. through

9/11. no cover. 6301 S St.

sacramento fine arts center: Celebrating the Figure. Features drawings, paintings and sculpture by the Friday Morning Figure Studio Group. through 8/13. no cover. 5330B Gibbons Drive in Carmichael.

verge center for tHe arts: The Brightsiders. An exhibition that brings together paintings and sculptures from eighteen artists based in Los Angeles, inspired by the city. 11am. through 8/10. no cover. 625 S St.

Memoirs The William M. McCarthy Photograph Collection. William and Grace McCarthy, native Californians born in the late-19th century, pursued their passion for both photography and travel for many years. The end result is a collection of nearly 3,000 photographs mounted in 11 albums that provide rare pictorial documentation of the couple’s early20th century travels through California and beyond. 9:30am. through 8/31. no cover. 1020 O St., Fourth Floor.

california state railroad museum: A World on Wheels. Five vintage automobiles are on display to highlight how innovative train technology and design paved the way for the emergence of the automobile.

The five automobiles on loan from the California Automobile Museum will include the following: a 1914 Stanley Steam Car, a 1932 Ford Model B Station Wagon, a 1937

vic’s cafe: California Landscapes in Watercolor and Pastels. Vic’s Café is featuring the artists Elaine Bowers, Linda Clark Johnson and Ruth Holton-Hodson.

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stories KVIE GALLERY, 9 A.M., NO COVER

One has to appreciate the way Jared Konopitski titles his pieces, which read like plotlines to early childhood dreams, fitting because the art looks just as otherworldly.

The illustration pictured art on the right is called “He harvests the tree orbs during the neon storms so that he has the best of the crop.” Like what you see? It’s one of 12 surreal PHoto coUrtesY oF Jared KonoPitsKi pieces showcased in the local artist’s new exhibit opening this week at KVIE Studios. The exhibit runs through September 29 with a reception at 6 p.m. on August 17. 2030 West El Camino Avenue, www.kvie.org/events/kvie-gallery.

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calendar listings continued from Page 37 Cadillac Series 60 Sedan, a 1940 Lincoln Zephyr and a 1953 Chevrolet Bel Air. 10am. through 9/4. 111 I St.

sacramento History museum: A Secret History of American River People. An exhibit of photos, artifacts and narratives that showcase the past river travels of Santa Cruz Artist Wes Modes on his homemade houseboat as he meticulously documented the people he met along the way. 10am. through 7/30. $5-$8. 101 I St.

Think of your favorite band. Imagine that riff they do, the one you love so much that the memory of it keeps you awake as you’re trying to sleep.

Feeling it? Good. Now’s the time to let you know that your favorite band sucks and that Pallbearer is better. It’s a band with emotive, soaring and crushing funeral doom that’s grown into prog, psych, rock music and so much more. Easy on the palate for metal neophytes and heavy enough for true heads. This band is getting big and you won’t get another chance to see them in a venue so intimate. Go. 2708 J Street, http://pallbearerdoom.com.

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state Fair every day tHe blacKsmitH eXPerience: Watch

iron turned into works of art. multiple showtimes, starting at 1pm. Kaiser

Permanente Farm.

california fine art: Visual art exhibit with around 180 paintings, sculptures and more by artists across the state. open all day.

Expo Center, Building 7.

farmyard follies: Hang out with animals from the Great American Petting Zoo. Goats, sheep, llamas, and the infamous spotted donkey, Fiona-No-No. multiple times, starting at 2:30pm. Tractor Supply Co. Big Barn.

live tHorougHbred Horse racing: In the

style of the Kentucky Derby. thursday through sunday, starting at 1:45pm, 2:15pm on fridays. Miller Lite Racetrack Grandstand.

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sPlasH dogs: Dog jumping competition where canines leap for a toy into a pool of water. thursday through sunday, starting at 11am, $25-$37. Miller Lite Racetrack Grandstand.

trace adKins: Country rock star. Also won as a contestant on NBC’s The All-Star Celebrity Apprentice, where he raised around 1.5 million dollars for the American Red Cross. 8pm, $25-$37. Golden 1 Center Stage.

Friday, 7/28 belinda carlisle: Former Germs drummer and lead vocalist of The Go-Go’s. As a solo artist, big for songs like “Heaven is a Place on Earth.” 8pm, $20-$32. Golden 1 Center Stage.

saturday, 7/29 cornHole cHamPionsHiPs: Also known as bean bag toss. More than 50 two-person teams will compete in this round robinstyle event. Two competitive divisions: “Serious” and “Social.” 8pm, $50 per team of two. Miller Lite Racetrack Grandstand.

tHe marsHall tucKer band: ’70s Southern

rock band from South Carolina. 8pm, $15$27. Golden 1 Center Stage.

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second tradition of American bull riding, this form of Mexican rodeo requires riders to keep going until the bull stops bucking completely. The event includes music, horse racing, horse dancing and intricate costumes. 3pm, $15-$40. Show Arena.

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melissa etHeridge: Grammy-winning blues

rock singer. 8pm, $25-$37. Golden 1 Center Stage.

sPorts & outdoors tHursday, 7/27 sacramento river cats vs. round rocK eXPress: 7:05pm, $10-$40. Raley Field, 400 Ball Park Dr.

Friday, 7/28 sacramento river cats vs. round rocK eXPress: 7:05pm, $12-$65. Raley Field, 400 Ball Park Dr.

saturday, 7/29 autofest: Truck and exotic car show. Sister event to the Bump Festival running at Weber Point the same day. Roll-in starts at 7am and ends at 11am without exceptions. noon, $5-$15. Weber Point, 221 North Center St. in Stockton.

sacramento river cats vs. new orleans baby caKes: 7:05pm, $10- $63. Raley Field, 400 Ball Park.

wednesday, 8/2 fisHing on tHe farm: Monthly fishing night at the Wakamatsu Colony Farm in Gold Hill. Try your hand at casting techniques, catch a few bass and enjoy the serenity of the eight-acre lake at the historic farm. Participants must have a valid California fishing license. Adults only. 6pm, $10-$16. American River Conservancy, 348 State Highway 49 in Coloma.

taKe action tHursday, 7/27 lgbtQ HealtH and advocacy townHall: The Sacramento Healthcare Townhall will address the growing concerns that

changes to the Affordable Care Act will have on members of the LGBTQ+ community. Through a panel of experts and personal stories, you’ll receive legislative updates, hear from key members of the community who work directly with LGBTQ+ individuals and families and from community members who’ve had first hand experience with the benefits of having access to the Affordable Care Act. 7pm. The Sacramento LGBT Community Center, 1927 L St.

saturday, 7/29 “it’s our time”: forum from criminal Justice to community reinvestment: Learn about the impact our criminal justice system has on Sacramento County’s budget, discuss your experiences and vision for investments that transform lives. Light lunch provided. Reentry and community resource tables available.

10am, no cover. Fruitridge Elementary School, 4625 44th St.

sactru (sacramento tranist riders union) weeKly meeting: The Sacramento Transit Riders Union is an independent, democratic, member-run union of transit riders organizing for better public transit in Sacramento County and beyond. 1pm.

Organize Sacramento, 1714 Broadway.

sunday, 7/30 Prisoner solidarity nigHt - letter writing: Every Sunday night, the Prisoner Solidarity Network writes letters to people who are currently incarcerated. Supplies provided, but bring extra stamps, a computer or notepad, loose cash to donate to the space and any reading material on prison issues. 6pm, no cover. Lavender Library, 1414 21st St.

classes tHursday, 7/27 badassery 101: A Spiritual Life Center workshop based on the best-selling book You Are A Badass by Jen Sincero.

The Latest Show: One Night Gender Bender THE RED MUSEUM, 9 p.M., $10

FRiDAY, 7/28 WOMEN’S SELF DEFENSE: Self defense for adults, teenagers and young women headed off to college. 6pm, $24-$40. ACC Senior Services Center, 7334 Park City Drive.

SATURDAY, 7/29 REBUILDING YOUR DREAMS AFTER THE STORM: A WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT CONFERENCE AND LUNCHEON: A daylong conference designed to provide women with the tools they need to put the past behind them and step into their best light. Speakers include radio emcee Lady Charmaine Charlena Henderson, Assemblymember Shirley Weber and more. 9am, $55-$65. Holiday Inn Express & Suites, 9175 West Stockton Blvd. in Elk Grove.

SUnDAY, 7/30 AERIAL HOOP: Learn acrobatics on a lyra, or a metal hoop suspended in the air. Like most circus acrobatics, the class requires a little upper body strength, depending on your ability. Beginners welcome. 4:30pm,

$20. 2014 9th St.

BEER YOGA: Earn a Sunday beer with a Yoga class first. Twenty bucks gets you an hourlong yoga class and a Big Stump cold brew after. 11am, $20. Big Stump Brew Co, 1716 L St.

WORLD WAR I LECTURE: Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis, Carlton F.W. Larson, JD, presents a lecture on American security and civil liberties during the first world war. 1pm, no cover.

Sacramento Public Library - Central Library, 828 I St.

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PHOTOGRAPHY 101: Learn the basics of working with a digital camera, including composition, lighting and the rule of thirds. 10am, $85-$90. Blue Line Arts, 405 Vernon St., Suite 100 in Roseville.

TUeSDAY, 8/1 BEGINNING TANGO CLASSES: Learn the fundamentals of Argentine Tango: the embrace, the posture and moving with a partner in simple steps. 6:30pm, $15-$50.

Tango by the River, 128 J St.

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`FIGURE DRAWING AT VERGE: A nude model will be present at each session. Verge provides all basic drawing materials. 6pm, $10-$15. Verge Center for the Arts, 625 S St.

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

THE HEALING PATH SERIES: A free series of bereavement workshops, intended to provide support to those in the Sacramento community who have experienced loss. Each meeting is approximately one hour in length. Weeks one through five (7/11-8/8) are held in Rodda Hall South 176. 4pm, no cover.

Sacramento City College, 3835 Freeport Blvd.

WOMEN OF WEALTH RETREAT 2017: Annual event that includes interactive sessions and exercises for professionals. Keynote speakers include Shea Vaughn (Founder and Co-CEO of the Women’s Broadcasting Television Network), Endyia KinneyStearn (Former VP of Programing for the O Network) and more. 2pm, $400-$750.

Embassy Suites by Hilton Sacramento Riverfront Promenade, 100 Capitol Mall.

SPROUTING CHEFS SUMMER FAVORITES: Hands-on class with a vegetarian menu, designed for children aged 6 to 9. Make rainbow wraps with beet hummus and veggies, macaroni salad and watermelon strawberry coolers. 10am, $30-$35.

Community Learning Center & Cooking School, 2820 R St.

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THE BOOK LAB: Do you have a story to tell?

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FOR THE WEEk OF JULy 27, 2017 ARIES (March 21-April 19): Are you feeling as

daring about romance as I suspect? If so, I’ve composed a provocative note for you to give to anyone you have good reason to believe will be glad to receive it. Feel free to copy it word-forword or edit it to suit your needs. Here it is: “I want to be your open-hearted explorer. Want to be mine? We can be in foolishly cool drooling devotion to each other’s mighty love power. We can be in elegant solid-gold allegiance to each other’s genius. Wouldn’t it be fun to see how much liberation we can whip up together? We can play off our mutual respect as we banish the fearful shticks in our bags of tricks. We can inspire each other to reach unexpected heights of brazen intelligence.”

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You still have a

wound that never formed a proper scar. (We’re speaking metaphorically here.) It’s chronically irritated. Never quite right. Always stealing bits of your attention. Would you like to do something to reduce the distracting power of that annoying affliction? The next 25 days will be a favorable time to seek such a miracle. All the forces of nature and spirit will conspire in your behalf if you formulate a clear intention to get the healing you need and deserve.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In his poem “The

Initiate,” Charles Simic speaks of “someone who solved life’s riddles in a voice of an ancient Sumerian queen.” I hope you’re not focused on seeking help and revelations from noble and grandiose sources like that, Gemini. If you are, you may miss the useful cues and clues that come your way via more modest informants. So please be alert for the blessings of the ordinary.

As you work on solving your quandaries, give special attention to serendipitous interventions and accidental luck.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): For many years, the

Tobe Zoological Park in China housed a “praying panther” named Ato. The large black feline periodically rose up on her hind legs and put her paws together as if petitioning a higher power for blessings. I suggest we make her your spirit ally in the coming weeks. I hope she’ll inspire you to get your restless mind out of the way as you seek to quench your primal needs. With the praying panther as your muse, you should be able to summon previously untapped reserves of your animal intelligence and cultivate an instinctual knack for knowing where to find raw, pristine satisfaction.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Do you really have to be

the flashy king or charismatic queen of all you survey? Must all your subjects put on kneepads and prostrate themselves as they bask in your glory? Isn’t it enough for you to simply be the master of your own emotions, and the boss of your own time, and the lord of your own destiny?

I’m not trying to stifle your ambition or cramp your enthusiasm; I just want to make sure you don’t dilute your willpower by trying to wield command over too wide a swath. The most important task, after all, is to manage your own life with panache and ingenuity. But I will concede this: The coming weeks will be a time when you can also probably get away with being extra worshiped and adored.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Dear Hard Worker:

Our records indicate that you have been neglecting to allot yourself sufficient time to rest and recharge. In case you had forgotten, you are expected to take regular extended breaks, during which time it is mandatory to treat yourself with meticulous care and extreme tenderness.

Please grant yourself an immediate dispensation.

Expose yourself to intensely relaxing encounters with play, fun, and pleasure—or else! No excuses will be accepted.

craziness that surrounds us. And even if aliens don’t appear, I bet you will serve as an inspiring influence for more human beings than you realize. Does being a role model sound boring?

I hope not. if you regard it as an interesting gift, it will empower you to wield more clout than you’re used to.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): During the four

years he worked on painting the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo never took a bath. Was he too preoccupied with his masterpiece? Modern artist Pae White has a different relationship with obsession. To create her fabric art pieces, she has spent years collecting more than 3,500 scarves designed by her favorite scarf-maker. Then there’s filmmaker James Cameron, who hired an expert in linguistics to create an entire new language from scratch for the aliens in his movie Avatar. In accordance with the astrological omens, Scorpio, I approve of you summoning this level of devotion—as long as it’s not in service to a transitory desire, but rather to a labor of love that has the potential to change your life for the better for a long time.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers,” wrote author James Baldwin. Even if you’re not an artist, I encourage you to make that your purpose in the coming weeks. Definitive answers will at best be irrelevant and at worst useless. Vigorous doubt and inquiry, on the other hand, will be exciting and invigorating. They will mobilize you to rebel against any status quos that have been tempting you to settle for mediocrity.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You’re in

a phase of your cycle when the most useful prophecies are more lyrical than logical. So here you go: three enigmatic predictions to help stir up the creative ingenuity you’ll need to excel on your upcoming tests. (1) A darling but stale old hope must shrivel and wane so that a spiky, electric new hope can be born. (2) An openness to the potential value of a metaphorical death will be one of your sweetest assets. (3) The best way to cross a border is not to sneak across bearing secrets but to stride across in full glory with nothing to hide.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Aquarian novelist

James Joyce had a pessimistic view about intimate connection. Here’s what he said: “Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another’s soul.” My challenge to you, Aquarius— in accordance with the astrological omens—is to prove Joyce wrong. Figure out how to make your soul virgin again so it can cast itself out into the ocean of another’s soul. The next eight weeks will be prime time to achieve that glorious feat.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Years after he had

begun his work as a poet, Rainer Maria Rilke confessed that he was still finding out what it took to do his job. “I am learning to see,” he wrote. “I don’t know why it is, but everything enters me more deeply and doesn’t stop where it once used to.” Given the current astrological omens, you have a similar opportunity, Pisces: to learn more about how to see. It won’t happen like magic. You can’t just sit back passively and wait for the universe to accomplish it for you. But if you decide you really would like to be more perceptive—if you resolve to receive and register more of the raw life data that’s flowing towards you—you will expand and deepen your ability to see.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): If extraterrestrial

beings land their space ship on my street and say they want to meet the creatures who best represent our planet, I will volunteer you Libras.

Right now, at least, you’re nobler than the rest of us, and more sparkly, too. You’re dealing smartly with your personal share of the world’s suffering, and your day-to-day decisions are based more on love than fear. You’re not taking things too personally or too seriously, and you seem better equipped than everyone else to laugh at the

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Master of disguise Seven years ago Dawn Cornsilk’s daughter needed a period costume for a field trip to Bernhard Museum in Auburn. A state worker by day, Cornsilk saw a business opportunity to offset some financial worries by making costumes to sell to her daughter’s classmates that needed 1889 attire for the museum’s Living History program. The costumes sold themselves as parents and schools began commissioning Cornsilk to make costumes for their kids, plays and themed parties. In 2015 she partnered with her mother to open a costume rental store named Costume Junction in Roseville to support the business she was running out of her house. “I always joke with my mom when she has to open up the shop every day that this is her own fault,” Dawn says of her family trade. She’ll be 50 this year, eligible for early state retirement, and is looking to pursue costume design full-time. With that comes ideas for expansion, but still she says her bread-and-butter is period pieces for school programs.

What was the first costume?

At the time I was on furlough and a single mom. I had every Friday off and lost 15 percent of my income. I felt like if I sewed some of these I could sell them and thought that would be end of it. If you asked me 10 years ago if I wanted to own a costume shop, I’d say you’re crazy. Since there’s really no one else up here, I found a niche. I just kept on going with it.

Creatively, what has been fulfilling about costume design?

Quite often I hear the kids say, “Oh my gosh, this is the best costume I’ve ever had.”

That is just really rewarding. From my adult customers I just get so many compliments when they come into the store. Up in Placer County there’s really not many resources.

Or people will buy from the internet and it doesn’t fit. So it’s nice to be there “to the rescue,” if you will.

Is there an era you specialize in?

For the kids’ programs it’s really all eras.

With the adults now, it’s mostly themed parties. The Roaring ’20s parties are huge.

People have these murder mystery parties.

With those they have various themes, mostly 1800s, Western themed.

Most difficult request?

One time I got a request for a Pumba from The Lion King. That was for a school program. I ended up hand-making a

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headpiece. It wasn’t necessarily difficult.

It was just a rare request. It went great, though. He stole the show.

The business began with making costumes for your daughter. Has she outgrown it yet?

She is a teenager now. I think that at first it was really fun for her. Over the years I’ve asked her to try on lot and lots of costumes. Now she’s like, “Oh, Mom!” Last year, I don’t think she dressed up for Halloween. My one thing is I grew up watching my mom do costumes. My hope is that someday, once she has her own kids, she’ll want to make their costumes. Or come to me to make them.

In making these looks across many eras, what have you learned about the evolution of fashion?

I don’t know that I think of it in that way. I’m totally intrigued. American River College has a fashion design program, and I’d love to take some classes. For costumes you’re just trying to imitate a look. You can do that without it being precise. There are some people that are down to the nitty-gritty details, like I can’t have zippers. I don’t worry so much about that as long as it’s a good imitation.

Certain situations, a docent at a historical venue, I can see them wanting it precise. For me, I’m not doing costumes for docents. I’m doing it for the visitor for one day.

Did your parents train you in the craft, or did you pick it up through osmosis?

I think it was more a natural thing just growing up around it. My mom also had

an arts and crafts business in the 1970s.

I’d tag along with her to art shows. When I was in kindergarten, I was crocheting candy canes for the holiday shows. My mom always made our costumes, and now I make my kids’ costumes. It runs in the blood.

What’s the best way to prevent constantly pricking yourself with a sewing needle?

There’s a lot of good how-to videos on the internet. I didn’t have anything like that when I was a kid, but now I go to the internet all the time to learn things. Some say that sewing is a dying art. On the other hand there’s things like cosplay and steampunk that has people trying to create their own costumes.

Do you ever have folks asking you for help with cosplay?

In my shop currently I have a lot of great pieces that you could use for cosplay.

I find with cosplay there’s always new characters. It’s very specific and detail oriented. Being in the rental business that’s a challenge. It’s not where my focus has been, but that’s why I want to get in the retail part of it. Being in retail I can better serve that cosplay community. It doesn’t help to have a character in my inventory that’s good for one season. Ω

Learn more about Costume Junction at www.costumejct.com.

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