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Fight nazis with non-violence It’s a horrifying fact that our president won his office by courting and fueling white rage. He and his chief policy consultant, Steve Bannon, are heroes to the white nationalists who precipitated murder in Charlottesville last week. To my way of thinking, the blood of the Charlottesville murder is on both of their hands.

It’s despicable that it took the president two days to lay blame for this heinous violence at the feet of ultra-right thugs and their white nationalist ideology. Obviously, tragically, Trump did not want to alienate his base of support. That’s a disgusting thing to consider, but it is true.

For Bannon, white nationalism is not a side project—he has spent years spreading the pernicious lie that America’s true heritage is white and European, and spreading fear that Western civilization is under attack. He made Breitbart “News” into the alt-right movement’s most powerful tool via fear-mongering and hate-mongering. That is precisely why Trump made Bannon his righthand man. It was Bannon who helped craft Trump’s message of fear and hate, and it was Bannon who helped orchestrate the 2016 Trump rallies that frequently turned violent.

With the sudden ascendance of the alt-right under the Trump/Bannon regime, we now have nazis marching in our streets. And in Charlottesville, as in Sacramento, we witness them facing off against armed and armored anti-fascist foot soldiers.

I understand the Antifa movement’s motivation. There’s a part of me that would love to bash some fascists’ skulls in, too. But that’s not the best part of me. And we need to confront this demonic uprising with our best selves.

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New editor is deluded Re “The most basic need,” by Eric Johnson (Editor’s Note, August 10): Thank you for drawing attention to the city’s lack of access to water.

For years we have addressed this at city council meetings, only to be ignored. However, I am appalled by your delusions concerning [Mayor Darrell] Steinberg. He says a lot of good things, but his actions go the opposite direction. He has done nothing to resolve the homeless situation and is following KJ’s plan on the issue while trying to claim credit for it.

In reality, he has actively been working to further criminalize our existence and resisted any ideas that would have an impact that doesn’t benefit his developer buddies. I guess when you live inside he looks great. Stop letting his gaslighting convince you of his merit.

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Spend the money now Re “Fountain of truth,” by Michael Mott (News, August 10): The city just received a huge grant for homeless initiatives.

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Don’t break nice things Re “Fountain of truth” by Michael Mott (News, August 10): I’ve always joked that by building the Golden 1 Center, we are aiming for Rome, but if we don’t take care of the people of this metaphorical Rome, then history will repeat itself. On the other hand, the people need to stop breaking all the public property in town.

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David Engberg and James Clark cling to their independence by a thread.

Both men were born with cerebral palsy and live off Supplemental Security Income, or SSI—a stipend that puts them under the federal poverty line. So far, they’ve managed to keep a roof over their heads by splitting the cost of rent. But since the affordable housing crisis hit, the roommates have been priced out of two apartments in just two years.

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people with disabilities. Advocates such as Schmidt are becoming increasingly alarmed by the way skyrocketing rents are affecting Sacramento County’s 14,000 disabled residents.

Several independent surveys suggest Sacramento is experiencing some of the largest rent increases in the nation.

Few feel those tectonic market shifts more intensely than people with severe disabilities. Experts say it’s becoming next to impossible to find them accessible, affordable and safe apartments.

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renters—the government-issued housing voucher—is quickly losing its value.

In the case of Engberg and Clark, InAlliance was able to help them move into their current flat at the Sycamore Square Apartments in Rancho Cordova.

Engberg says he is barely keeping afloat at a complex that frequently draws police visits.

“The main problem with apartments is that the rents keep going up, and my SSI only covers the rent,” Engberg said. “But then I don’t have any money left for food.”

Existing on the outer edges of the housing crisis, people like Engberg are among the first to fall through the cracks.

Arborelle Apartments in Citrus Heights.

Like two of her neighbors, she was born with cerebral palsy and has spent her life in a wheelchair.

Ketterling was cared for by her grandparents. By 1993, they’d become too elderly to care for themselves, let alone her. Ketterling found herself forced to live in a skilled nursing home.

“It was horrible,” Ketterling said. “I got numerous infections. The place was not sanitary. It was closed down, thank goodness. Nobody should be subjected to that kind of living.”

By 2000, Ketterling was on her own, juggling the rent through a combination of her SSI and a Section 8 housing voucher. It worked for a time. In 2011, a rent increase priced her out of her apartment.

For Ketterling, looking for a new place was a three-fold conundrum that many people with severe disabilities must navigate. First, she had to find an

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“It was so hard to find a place that accepts a housing voucher,” Ketterling said. “It had been a nightmare.”

With the help of Options In Supported Living LLC, a local nonprofit, Ketterling was eventually able to move into a cozy spot in the Arborelle. Ketterling and OSL Director Paul Wurst say the Arborelle has been remarkably accommodating for renters with disabilities, with its management installing wall-guards and special flooring for sanitation, and allowing OSL to remodel several bathrooms.

But the Arborelle is an outlier: Not only are its managers sympathetic; it was built through a state bond program that keeps its rents low, and it still accepts SHRA-issued Housing Choice vouchers (formerly Section 8 vouchers).

It’s Wurst’s understanding that there are currently more than 240 people on the waiting list to get into the Arborelle.

One of Wurst’s disabled clients has been in line for a unit there for more than eight months. Wurst says the situation in Sacramento County is getting more dire.

“We have an aging population of parents in their 70s, 80s and 90s whose [disabled] kids are living with them, and at some point they won’t be able to,” Wurst said. “It will be very difficult to find anything for them in this current climate.”

More than 70,000 Sacramento County residents are currently waiting for a voucher. In January, elected officials ordered SHRA to seek a balance between maintaining disabled families’ place on that list and also creating room for homeless people getting on the list for the first time. The proposal left many advocates worried that recalibrating the voucher system even slightly might put homeless people and disabled people in a cruel lottery against each other.

After more than six months of radio silence, SHRA spokeswoman Angela Jones addressed the confusion this week.

“Disabled families will continue to be a priority to be served with the Housing Choice Voucher program,” Jones told SN&R in an email. “While the Board of

respiratory treatments someone with Supervisors prioritized ‘turnover vouchers’ for homeless individuals and families, cerebral palsy can undergo outside of a hospital; but he still beams his signature disabled families will also continue to be smile, enjoying the clear skies and a cool prioritized on the waiting list.” summer breeze.

That’s one of the rare pieces of When Wurst first met him in 2000, good news disabled Sacramentans have Compo was being institutionalized against heard in the last few years. Yet Options his will. He’d been taken into conservaIn Supported Living, InAlliance and torship, an administrative process that Housing Now—a nonprofit helping resimade him a ward of Sacramento County. dents with developmental disabilities— For Compo, who has a sharp mind and a have all told SN&R that getting landlords passion for music and visual arts, being to accept the Housing Choice vouchers is shut away in a care facility was a becoming extremely difficult. virtual prison.

Andrea Croom, director Compo can barely speak, of InAlliance, says the but given enough time, he more apartments that gets the words out. stop taking SHRA “They abused me,” vouchers, the more Compo managed. her clients are forced It was Options In into vulnerable living David Engberg Supported Living that situations in high-crime local renter with cerebral helped Compo find the areas, as well as apartpalsy attorney who eventually ments where they can’t emancipated him. Compo access Regional Transit’s now spends his days writing Paratransit Service, a vital to friends on social media, chatshuttle service for the disabled. ting with people on Skype and Facetime, Schmidt, one of Croom’s case managand attending church and community ers, told SN&R she’s had to move three events in his neighborhood. different clients out of their apartments Unfortunately, for Wurst and his in the last six months after landlords changed their policies and stopped accept- colleagues, Compo is becoming a miracle client for another reason—he’s one of the ing SHRA vouchers. severely disabled people in Sacramento Jones says SHRA officials are workwho can still afford his rent. ing to create a new Flexible Supports Wurst emphasized that Compo’s Rehousing Program, which will fund case situation is only stable because the managers to help families with vouchers Arborelle was part of a bond program, connect with landlords who accept them.

“We continuously outreach to landlords to has exemplary management and still accepts housing vouchers. As the rental participate in our program,” she wrote.

Patti Uplinger, a volunteer for Housing crisis intensifies, Wurst knows the stars won’t align for some of his other clients.

Now, feels part of the challenge around And there’s no county or statewide safety the vouchers is perception. “It’s because net for severely disabled renters who get the Housing Choice vouchers used to be priced out of their housing. called Section 8 vouchers and are still For people in that position—especially associated with the term,” Uplinger said. those who don’t have nonprofits looking “We need to reframe that, because there’s out for them—some could end up homesuch a stigma attached.” less. According to Sacramento County, Engberg, who doesn’t have a voucher, 2,715 disabled residents were signed up says renters don’t have to be part of the for a little-known CalFresh program that embattled SHRA program to feel that allows recipients to use their benefits at stigma, at least from the landlords who participating restaurants. Nearly 300 of look at a rental application and see only those were both disabled and homeless. an SSI income.

Even those disabled renters who don’t “We’re people too,” Engberg said. end up on the streets have to worry about “We’re a special population, but we want being forced into the kind of care facilito be competitive with everybody else.” ties Compo fought to escape. Gliding his Wearing his Dean martin fedora with a wheelchair under the afternoon clouds, he Star Wars backpack on his wheelchair, struggles to tell SN&R what it means to Jesse Compo rolls through the Arborelle have his freedom, friends and a commuapartment complex nodding at people nity. Finally, he mustered the words: he knows. Moments earlier, Compo “I’ve gotten a second life.” Ω completed one of the most arduous

“We’re people too.”

Before he left to become a police chief in Roseville and before he returned to accept the job here in Sacramento, Daniel Hahn was a police sergeant taking a call from an unhappy citizen—his mother.

In a sit-down interview with SN&R, Hahn said his mom had called him years ago to complain about an officer who ticketed her neighbor for riding a bicycle the wrong way on a sidewalk in their Oak Park neighborhood. Mary Jean Hahn went on to tell her son that, at the same moment the officer was issuing the citation, a drug dealer was slinging his product in plain view just 40 yards away.

“I said, ‘Mom, he’s a traffic officer. He doesn’t deal with drugs,’” Daniel Hahn recalled. “And she said, ‘I don’t care what kind of officer he is. The man getting the ticket doesn’t cause any problems to my neighborhood. That drug dealer is absolutely killing my neighborhood.’”

Hahn told SN&R he started thinking a lot about the difference

between stat-driven police work and purpose-driven police work after that conversation with his mother, a white woman who adopted the African-American Hahn when he was 3 months old.

Standing in front of 1,200 people last Friday inside Sacramento State University’s Union Ballroom, the city’s new police chief indicated one of his top priorities will be making sure the most challenged neighborhoods are not left behind. He went on to challenge community members and law enforcement personnel alike to be “less concerned about who has the power and who gets the credit,” and instead work together to make “every corner, every street” a place where kids are safe to grow up.

Ending his August 11 address to a standing ovation, Hahn then made his way back to the woman who taught him something about being a good cop. (Scott Thomas Anderson)

BanKing on BungaloWS A cure for a blighted area is how county officials are describing the recently approved destruction of the mather field Bungalows.

The 40 studio apartment-style units have stood on Bleckely Street since the 1940s, originally built for u.S. air force personnel.

On July 25, the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors voted 3-0 to approve a plan to demolish the bungalows by September, which will cost $302,062 in tax-exempt bond proceeds.

Supervisor Susan Peters abstained from the vote because of property she owns nearby.

In 2005, the bungalows were used to temporarily house relocated Hurricane Katrina survivors. Even then, the buildings were falling into disrepair, said county Program Manager Clark Whitten.

The bungalows were most recently used as a location to train guide dogs for the blind.

“We did what we could with them,” Whitten said.

When asked if the county considered fixing up the bungalows as an emergency shelter for the homeless—rather than an unofficial one for squatters—Whitten stressed the units are uninhabitable and infested with mold. Even if money were no object, he said, the bungalows are beyond repair.

So why did it take so long to approve demolition?

Whitten said the county initially wanted to secure an “end user” to develop the property before moving forward with destruction.

But officials changed their minds as the bungalows continued to deteriorate and offers proved scarce. Now they’re hoping the demolition will make the land more attractive to investors.

“It puts it in a better position to attract a business to come there and buy the land and create jobs,” Whitten said. (Matt Kramer)

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Protesters gather outside the Yolo superior Court in Woodland to voice their support for the “Picnic Day 5” defendants inside.

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In defense of the defense ‘Picnic Day 5’ told detectives they didn’t know they were fighting cops

by Luis GaeL Jimenez

Immediately following the April 22 melee in which three police officers were injured, a member of the so-called “Picnic Day 5” told Davis police Detective Kimberly Walker that he unknowingly swung at a an extended version plainclothes officer after seeing him strike of this story is a black man. available at Walker recalled her interview with www.newsreview. defendant Elijah James Williams while com/sacramento testifying during a preliminary hearing on Thursday, August 10.

Williams, Antwoine Rashadek Perry, Alexander Reide Craver, Iszir Daquan Price and Angelica Monique Reyes face multiple felony counts of assaulting a peace officer and resisting arrest in what the Police Department initially characterized as an ambush on the officers—the department rescinded that account after an eyewitness video appeared to contradict it.

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undercover officers and only answered force with force. Over two days of testimony last week, police officials called to the stand say the defendants largely told them the same thing.

The Yolo County District Attorney’s Office and Davis PD maintain that the defendants knew or should have known they were dealing with officers.

According to testimony and eyewitness video presented in court, Officers Ryan and Sean Bellamy (who are brothers) were both dressed in T-shirts and shorts. Officer Steve Ramos, who was the last to engage with the rowdy crowd, wore a tactical vest with “POLICE” inscribed on the back, but was otherwise not in uniform. All three officers wore their badges on necklaces that defendants claim they didn’t see until it was too late.

A chaotic sequence of events toppled like dominoes from the moment the

officers responded to a call regarding a crowd blocking traffic. In the video, the unmarked police van can be seen rolling up on a throbbing crowd, which was gathered across from the university’s campus.

Dressed in a T-shirt and shorts, a man exits the passenger side and appears to shove a man in an orange T-shirt. The man runs and violence erupts.

The man dressed in the orange sports jersey was Perry, who had approached the passenger side of the van where Officer Ryan Bellamy sat. According to Detective Walker, Bellamy told her Perry made “a startling movement” to his pants pocket and that’s why he opened his car door and grabbed for Perry.

That was portrayed as an inciting incident for the violence that ensued.

In her August 10 testimony, Walker said Williams told her he entered the rumble after seeing a man attack an

African-American member of the crowd.

Walker testified that Williams said he immediately stopped fighting and ran once that man identified himself as an officer.

Asking Williams why he ran, the detective testified that Williams told her, “‘I didn’t want to get shot or something.’”

Similarly, Walker testified that Craver said he only intervened after watching Officer Ramos punch Reyes and place her in a headlock. Craver told Walker that seeing a man striking a woman triggered traumatic childhood memories and forced him into action, Walker testified.

Craver then told her he knocked Ramos to the ground and tried to put the officer in a chokehold, but was unable to, Walker said. As soon as Ramos announced he was an officer, Craver said he let Ramos go and surrendered, Walker testified.

The next day, police Detective Joshua Helton testified that Reyes told him she blacked out after being punched in the head and only learned she had been in a street fight after friends informed her.

Showing a previously unreleased eyewitness video in court, Deputy District Attorney Ryan Couzens asked Helton to describe what it showed. The detective said the clip appeared to show Reyes kicking Officer Ramos in the head as Craver locked him in a chokehold.

Helton testified that when he asked Reyes if she had kicked the officer, she responded, “‘I never touched anyone.’”

The Bellamy brothers weren’t the only siblings in the mix that day. Price, who is Perry’s brother, said he ran to the scene from a fraternity party around the corner after receiving a phone call that Perry had been jumped, Officer Nicholas Peel testified on August 11.

Peel testified that he arrested Price a block and a half away, wearing only one shoe. Asked why he ran, Price told the officer, “‘I’m not trying to fight a police officer,’” Peel testified.

The preliminary hearing stretched over two days and will continue for three more at the end of this month in Yolo Superior Court, an unusually long stretch for a criminal proceeding that just needs to show enough evidence to justify a jury trial.

As the proceedings unfolded, a small crowd gathered outside the Woodland courtroom to protest the charges against the five defendants, all of whom are people of color.

The city has appointed an independent investigator to review the Police Department’s handling of the case. Ω

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Backed by the Africa USA International In 2014, two private prison corporations made Chamber of Commerce, California Black Chamber separate offers to open a residential reentry facility of Commerce and California Black Agriculture for federal inmates on the site. Both bids, from a Working Group, the “farm incubator� could subsidiary of The GEO Group, Inc., and Corrections “repurpose the center into a positive thing,�

Corporation of America, were ultimately rejected project manager Michael Harris told supervisors due to community opposition. last month. “We’re looking at putting crops in the The most recent proposal fizzled in ground the first of the year, depending on the 2015, when All About Equine Animal weather,â€? added Harris, who chairs Rescue, Inc., a horse rescue and the California Black Agriculture rehabilitation nonprofit, withWorking Group. drew its bid after being unable Board of Supervisors to agree on lease terms with Chairman Don Nottoli, in the county. whose district the ranch lies, General Services said the agriculture center Director Michael Morse “presents a fairly grand expressed measured opportunity.â€? optimism that Carson Creek If that opportunity would finally break the Boys Don Nottoli becomes reality, it would Ranch curse, telling SN&R chairman, Sacramento County end a string of failed attempts that the county was doing its Board of Supervisors to retool the former juvenile “due diligence ‌ to ensure that work camp. But much depends Carson Creek FAC is formally estabon whether the venture’s backers lished and has adequate financial backing can secure enough private capital to begin in order to follow through.â€? agriculture production.

Morse said he expected a formal proposal by “Our team is exploring financial investors and the end of September, but emphasized that this educational institutions who will offer in-kind was only a guess. contributions, loans, and grants to make sure our Supervisors authorized staff to enter negofinal plans are supported,â€? Harris said in a followtiations with the nonprofit, which is seeking a up email. Harris’ email also promised “a showcase five-year lease. Morse’s department is looking of our Sacramento rural agricultural heritage.â€? to set a rent price that will offset some of the Opened in 1960, the Boys Ranch housed up $490,000 the county has been paying annually to to 120 boys, typically for six to 12 months, a staff keep the property maintained and pay down its report says. Intended to reintegrate troubled youth debt service. into society by offering them agricultural and life Located southeast of suburban Rancho Cordova skills in a farm environment, the juvenile camp in the rural outpost of Sloughhouse, the camp courted trouble over its 50-year history. In 1998, covers 140 acres and is pocked with dorms, classthe Sacramento County grand jury reported that a rooms, a kitchen, gymnasium and other mothballed lack of actual farmland and agricultural programs facilities. One of the program’s first milestones is to coincided with a third of the wards escaping work perform site clean-up and soil analysis. crew assignments. Jurors also chronicled unsanitary Harris told supervisors his team is developing housing conditions, poor medical facilities, and a STEM program with UC Davis and an urban dormitories and recreation rooms that lacked agriculture one with Cosumnes River College. â„Ś adequate fire sprinklers and smoke alarms.

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“Kicking the Can Down the Road,” Hmm. I wrote her back, asking Frost argued that the county budget how we could set aside more money should have a larger reserve. She said if we were not cutting services or a county our size should have $407 increasing fees. million in reserve. So, over time, She responded, in another email, we would need to add another $319 that in next year’s budget there might million to our reserve fund. be completed projects that would no I have mixed feelings about this. longer need to be funded, such as I certainly agree that we should have “computers for our Vote Centers a larger reserve fund. And now, or the Sheriff’s intelligence when the economy is doing led policing.” well, is the natural time Well, of course to be adding to such there will be some old a fund. However, I’d like to programs that will no I fear that elected challenge our longer need funds, officials are not county supervisors but there will also concerned about be important new reserve funds when to think a bit more endeavors that will I see them giving tax creatively. need new funding. breaks to corporations And right now, we’re and the wealthy, then dealing with this year’s trotting out this concern budget. If we’re going to as an excuse to cut social increase the reserve, we’re going to programs. need solutions now.

It’s easy to say, “Let’s be fiscally I’d like to offer two ideas for responsible.” But it’s harder to take the county’s consideration. The the political heat for actually being first is a no-brainer. Like the city of fiscally responsible. For example, Sacramento, the county could allow Democrats and Republicans agree that cannabis cultivation and/or sales, and California’s roads are in bad shape. start collecting millions of dollars But many of these same politicians in fees. Or, like many other councome out against a higher gas tax. ties, they could save an estimated Do they offer an alternative source of $50 million in incarceration costs revenue for fixing the roads? No. by adopting a pretrial risk assessSo I wanted to find out where ment program that allows low-risk Supervisor Frost felt the money nonviolent offenders who cannot should come from to eliminate make bail to be released on their own the county deficit. What programs recognizance. should we cut? What fees should be I’d like to challenge our county increased? Or did she embrace new supervisors to think a bit more sources of revenue to help solve the creatively. Ω problem? I emailed her my questions.

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holding everybody below him in line— When it comes to protecting and to make things right if they don’t. construction workers in the underground General contractors on taxpayereconomy, the history of California has funded public works projects have been found that the buck stops . . . nowhere. doing this for years, and they’ve had little Most of the cheating, most of the trouble enforcing wage standards lower rip-offs, most of the theft of workers’ down in the construction food chain. wages takes place two or three rungs Now it’s time to extend this force of down from the general contractors at the law to their counterparts in the private top of the construction pyramid. There’s sector. so much of it that the overwhelmed state A 2014 study by the Economic Department of Industrial Relations can’t Roundtable found that one-sixth of the keep up on the enforcement end. The state’s construction industry work force outcome: tens of thousands of construcis hired on an “informal” basis. That tion and other blue-collar workers are means that unscrupulous employers paid denied hundreds of millions of dollars some 144,000 workers cash under the a year in lost wages, while the state table—if they paid them at all—with is shorted somewhere between $8.5 no Social Security, tax, workers billion and $28 billion a year by comp, disability or other employers who don’t pay withholdings. their taxes.

This is the world It’s a situation of the underground studied to death by Making sure economy. academicians while that workers get The same lawmakers have study revealed hesitated to throw paid for their labor that workers in up the stop sign. is as bedrock as it this dog-eat-dog Finally, someemployment market body in Sacramento gets. made about half the is doing something earnings of their aboveabout it. Assemblyman board brothers and sisters.

Tony Thurmond has taken While they shorted construction the lead, and if his colleagues in workers $1.2 billion in the underground the Legislature follow it, we might soon economy, the same employers who have a mechanism to crack down on the either ran off with the ill-gotten gains cheating. or went out of business also cheated the Thurmond, a Democrat from state out of $774 million in taxes, the Richmond, is the author of Assembly study found.

Bill 1701, a simple but powerful If the provisions of this bill might piece of legislation that will bring force some general contractors to work a accountability to the private construclittle harder to keep tabs on their subcontion industry. The bill maintains that tractors, we say good. If it prompts them if you are the general contractor on to put forth a little more due diligence in a construction project, and if your examining the solvency of the smaller sub-contractors—or even their “subbusinesses they do business with, we say subs”—stiff a worker out of his or her better. If it means that the subcontractors pay, you are liable. End of story. must post a bond to ensure that workers Making sure that workers get paid for get paid, we say it’s about time. Ω their labor is as bedrock as it gets when it comes to old-fashioned American labor-management relations. Under Robbie Hunter is president of the State Building Thurmond’s bill, it will be the employerand Construction Trades Council. in-chief who will be responsible for

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The evasive

AmericAn DreAm Former DACA recipient defies the odds to win national poetry awards and a Harper Collins contract

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arcelo Hernandez Castillo had never seen such opulence. Inside a domed ballroom in New York City, a crystal chandelier twinkled and purple light splashed across every wall and gown. Bow-tied waiters swiveled around the merriment with trays of hors d’oeuvres. Tickets to enter the Park Avenue room were $500 a head on that night in March 2016, and these high-paying guests were all there to celebrate him.

But Castillo spent most of the night in the bathroom, he says, sobbing to the attendant who handed out mints and towels.

“I was telling him how bullshit all of this was,” Castillo recalls. “I just wanted none of it.”

Castillo—along with poets Christopher Soto and Javier Zamora—had just won the Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award.

They were the founders of Undocupoets, a movement to petition first-book-award contests to cease requiring proof of U.S. citizenship. Many prizes would only consider poets with papers. These included the prestigious BOA Editions’ A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, which Castillo won this spring. As a result of that award he will publish his first full-length book of poems, Cenzontle, in 2018.

The sprightly 29-year-old poet taught at Sacramento State University until this summer, and he usually speaks through a glowing smile. As the first undocumented writer to graduate from University of Michigan’s Master in Fine Arts writing program in 2014, he has become something of a poster child for poets who lack citizenship. Since then, his career has blossomed.

After he snagged those awards, publishers got into a bidding war over his memoir. HarperCollins, one of the “Big Five,” won the battle this spring.

But Castillo’s rising stardom has come at a personal cost. The young poet has struggled with his immigration status throughout his schooling, and his ascendant career occasionally whisks him away from his family. On the other hand, he’s also been forced to take breaks from his work to fight bureaucratic or political skirmishes on behalf of his relatives. In the midst of all of this, he questions whether he should relish any of his fortune while his family fights to live here. He’s so preoccupied, he says, he frets about being truly present for his loved ones. Sometimes, he even doubts whether he enjoys the act of writing.

On that evening in New York, none of the pomp and prestige mattered to Castillo because he had just spoken on the phone with his mother. She had returned to Mexico to retire

and reunite with his father. Castillo says this was a kind of death. No longer could he lean on his mother’s shoulder or comb her hair. She didn’t have U.S. citizenship, so her move to Mexico was final, and he remembers that she sounded so distant on the phone.

He later beseeched a mentor who had delighted in the festivities on Park Avenue.

“How can you enjoy this?” Castillo asked the poet, who had also come from humble beginnings. “How do you live with yourself knowing that you’re out here, posh in this Park Avenue building with attendants in the bathroom and attendants everywhere and the food was amazing—how do you live with yourself?”

the page, sometimes beginning in the middle, sometimes inching toward the right edge. In his poem “Origin of Drowning or Crossing the Rio Bravo,” Castillo memorializes all who have crossed the border before and after him.

Like a bittersweet dream, he imagines lovers settling down at the bottom of that river where so many have died by trying to live. This tragic couplet bubbles up in the center of the page: “Let’s keep waking underwater / until one of us gets it right.”

He probes the subject of immigration for its universal resonance. In the same poem, he writes, “If they can kiss you, / they can kill you.” That’s as true of a nation as it is of a lover.

will. The title of his upcoming collection is Cenzontle—“Mockingbird”—and his words flutter off the page: “Because the bird flew / before there was a word / for flight / years from now / there will be a name / for what you and I are doing.”

He writes about other winged things, including butterflies and bees, enviably free creatures unbound by the ground or their passports. He returns to honey, miel, with erotic sensuality, often contrasting that pleasure with pain.

In grade school, for example, a young boy called him “wetback.” He addresses that boy all these years later in a poem by shoving honey down his throat and gifting him with a morbid present: “I made him a necklace out of the bees that have died in my yard.” Mind you, Castillo’s allergic to bees. The poet flirts with the razor’s edge of danger in surreal scenarios where he’s safe—at last.

“There’s a dreamlike quality to the way he makes a scene or imagery,” says Eduardo Corral, another mentor and the first Latino writer to win the Yale Series of Younger Poets award. “It’s very intense and intimate and they’re calm, but they have such an emotional truth to them. They resonate. A lot of Marcelo’s work is the emotion of feeling broken and accepting brokenness of the human condition, and pleasure in being fragmented and pulled in different directions.”

Castillo has been torn between Mexico and the United States, between feeling welcome and unwanted. He began writing to suppress his alienation and discovered that poems were the perfect escape from reality. He writes, “Perhaps the butterflies are mute / because no one would believe their stories.” Poetry was the only place where he felt protected, where he didn’t need a Social Security number, as he wrote in a 2014 essay for BuzzFeed: “I made myself invisible in my poems.”

“This is a young, ambitious writer with some obstacles in front of him, but he’s finding ways to move beyond what’s in front of him. No matter if he had the right quote-unquote papers, he’s gonna write.”

Eduardo C. Corral, poet

As he recalls, his mentor responded bluntly: “‘You’re an asshole if you think that your mom wouldn’t want you to be here. Do you think she wants you to be out on the street, or out working on the fields?’” And Castillo had to admit that he agreed: “Yeah, it’s right, she wants you to be here, exactly. That shook me to my core.”

Now, nearly a year-and-a-half later, Castillo still chafes at success like an ill-fitting suit. By the time his memoir will be released in 2019, he must learn to wear it.

Poetics of a dreamer Castillo’s poems reveal his slippery sense of time. The stanzas come unglued from the left margin and their indentations drift around

Joshua McKinney, poetry professor at Sacramento State and a mentor to Castillo, reveres this quality in his former student’s writing.

“I sometimes become annoyed at identity politics in literature,” McKinney says.

“Marcelo taps into his cultural experience, and that’s an integral part of his work, but I never feel he foregrounds that in a way that is sensational. It’s just who he is. And he had interesting and difficult struggles as a result of his experience coming into the United States, and language is linked with that in an integral way. Language—English—became a kind of tool for protecting himself from questions that people might ask about his status.”

For someone who learned English as a second language, McKinney says, Castillo has a remarkable faculty for manipulating it to his

Pushing the limits The poet was only 5 years old when he crossed the border on foot from Tijuana to California. Castillo remembers going momentarily blind with worry while waiting for the go-ahead from a coyote. His mother was five months pregnant with his brother. She led Castillo across the desert, and when he

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GrowinG pains Castillo and his new wife moved not just from sunny California to frigid Michigan, but to Ann Arbor—“the whitest town,” he says. There was no precedent at the school for someone who was undocumented.

Castillo had been accepted on the merit of his poems, and he told the faculty of his citizenship status only once he got in.

“They didn’t know what to do with me.”

To enable him to get in without papers, they gave him a scholarship so he wouldn’t have to teach, he says.

Although it was a financial relief, it introduced soul-crushing moments. “My [program] director said, ‘You know, the only reason you got the first-year fellowship is because we couldn’t put you to work.

We had to give it to you because it’s a private fellowship because you didn’t have a Social,’” he says. “I felt terrible. I was like, OK, you didn’t have to tell me that.”

It was Castillo’s cohort of fellow writers who helped him grow, he says. His fondest school memory: On the lawn in the springtime, he and Rubi laid out on a blanket with his friends Brit Bennett—who’s since published the New York Times-bestselling novel The Mothers—and poet Derrick Austin—winner of the same poetry prize as Castillo, the year before him. Castillo guzzled most of a warm bottle of gin. He recalls traipsing down the hill with abandon and breaking his toe.

The tightknit group of writers traded books, and Castillo became exposed to “contemporary black, brown, Asian poets—because that was not my experience in college.” They also watched lots of

RuPaul’s Drag Race; Castillo named his small white dog after one of his favorite drag queens on the show, Kim Chi. These friends finally gave him “permission to be glamorous,” so much so that he wore a tight purple dress one snowy Halloween.

“I feel like I’ve been denied glamor all my life, especially being a Latino man, and with my father’s very complicated ideas around masculinity. I always have to wear boots, jeans and a tucked-in shirt—that was his idea of masculinity.”

Castillo began to drape himself in elegant scarves. Then, within the comforting cocoon of his cohort, Castillo finally began to express his queerness on the page.

Although he’s monogamous with his wife, Castillo explores his sexuality through the sensuality of words: “I close my eyes and lick your beard / and the salt of your cheek / tastes like batteries and liver. / You are the first man I have ever kissed.”

After his first-year fellowship ran out, Castillo was worried about being able to pay for school. He legally couldn’t teach.

Then, former President Obama passed the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program just in time for Castillo to stay in school and start lecturing at Michigan.

A year later, Castillo was granted a special visa to visit Mexico for the first time since he was 5. He says he was looking for “the zero,” as poet Galway

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couldn’t keep up, his older sibling hoisted him on his back.

The family’s reason for crossing the border was simple: “My mom, she knew hunger, and she didn’t like it.”

Before they moved to the states, his parents had worked here seasonally, picking strawberries in Washington, asparagus in Stockton. They decided to move to Yuba City because Castillo’s aunt had settled there, and she sheltered the family until they saved enough money to move out. Despite giving them a place to stay, his aunt—now deceased—sparks bitter memories. “She treated us like garbage,” he says. “She wrapped all of her furniture in plastic as soon as we came because we were dirty.”

The six children hid in their room.

His mother worked at a prune factory off Highway 113, but Castillo says his father never worked a steady job. Then, in 2003, his dad was deported. “Little did I know how strongly that would affect me later on in life,” he says.

Castillo has been jumpy around authority since, afraid of getting deported over the smallest clerical errors. He says undocumented people are always living 10 seconds into the future. “We’re always mapping an escape route. We’re always living in that near distant future, which doesn’t give us the luxury to just chill.”

To contain his anxiety, he started writing poetry at Yuba City High School. Castillo read the early iambic pentameter to his future wife, Rubi. Sometimes, he would shove Spanish poems in her locker.

“That’s kind of when I knew he was serious about being a poet,” Rubi recalls. “He’s dedicated to it. He’s never been lazy about it or ever thought about giving up, even when it’s been hard.”

Rubi was and is the “Sagittarius queen” to Castillo’s “triple Aquarius,” he says—in other words, they both agree that she’s level-headed while he spins in circles with wild ambitions. When he speaks, words trip out of his mouth all at once like the Three Stooges stuck in a door. She pauses to consider the perfect thing to say. “I never walk on ground, I’m always in the air,” Castillo says. “She’s been like—cliché—but been like my rock.”

They studied together at Sacramento State. There, Castillo met professor McKinney and read many of the books he mentioned in class, even those in passing, McKinney says.

“I’ve taught now for 25 years at the university level; I think it’s fair to say that Marcelo has shown the most rapid progress,” the professor says. “When I first read his poetry he was solid, but it didn’t wow me, to be candid. But by the

time he graduated, it was like talking to a colleague.”

McKinney encouraged Castillo to apply to MFA programs. Corral, too, says he reached out to advise Castillo: Let the poems speak for themselves.

“He wanted to write a book of poems and write a novel,” Corral remembers of their first conversation. “I remember thinking: This is a young, ambitious writer with some obstacles in front of him, but he’s finding ways to move beyond what’s in front of him. No matter if he had the right quote-unquote papers, he’s gonna write.”

Without that support, Castillo says, he doubts he would have taken the leap. Inside a Starbucks one day, he opened the email of acceptance from the University of Michigan, and he and Rubi began to scream and cry.

“I said, ‘This is it! Our problems are over!’” Castillo recalls, unleashing a belly laugh as he plunks down his coffee mug.

Anyone who’s considered an MFA might know to cue the laugh track at those words.

For Castillo, the odds were even worse: He was an undocumented student about to enter a school that had no handbook to support him.

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Marcelo Hernandez Castillo with his wife, Rubi, in Michigan.

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Nevada’s Learning Curve

What the Golden State can learn from the Silver State’s quick rollout of recreational cannabis

by Ken Magri

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ou probably saw news stories about the long lines and shortages at Nevada cannabis dispensaries after recreational sales began on July 1. “It was real,” said one Reno customer, standing in a much shorter line three weeks later. “I gave up and went home the first time.” Media reports cited distribution problems more often than the real reason: Dispensaries simply didn’t stock enough product.

“Some weren’t ready for the July start,” said Kyle, a budtender at Sierra Wellness in Reno. Despite Sierra’s expansion plans, their current selection was down to four flower strains, and a handful of concentrates, drinks and CBD products. “That’s just temporary,” explained Kyle, who said more inventory arrives each day, now that the initial surge has subsided.

“That story was mostly media driven,” said budtender Emma Coombs, at Reno’s The Dispensary, a chain with sister stores in Las Vegas and Henderson. Because Nevada requires all cannabis to be grown in-state, many dispensaries couldn’t restock with outside suppliers. Coombs said their Reno dispensary remained fully stocked by coordinating with the southern Nevada stores.

Could similar shortages happen in California? It is unlikely, due to the sheer size of the cannabis industry. “We are producing too much,” said Hezekiah Allen of the California Growers’ Association, at a recent Sacramento Press Club panel. He refers to the estimate that California currently grows (legally and illegally) far more cannabis than dispensaries will ever need.

“The Bureau does not anticipate any shortages.

We’ve learned from the experiences of other states.”

Alex Traverso, California’s Bureau of Medical Cannabis Regulation

After a wobbly start, Nevada dispensaries are now fully stocked. Photo by Ken Magri

patients is shorter. Californians who bring their local doctor’s recommendation can qualify by filling out a simple form. Meanwhile, slow permitting keeps Carson City dispensary Rise from fully expanding into recreational until January.

“Sorry, Medical Only” reads the sign out front. It’s all part of Nevada’s learning curve.

“The Bureau does not anticipate any shortages,” said Alex Traverso, at California’s Bureau of Medical Cannabis Regulation. “We’ve learned from the experiences of other states, and hope to have a regulatory framework … that will allow California’s cannabis industry to thrive.”

Despite the wobbly start, Nevada’s regulators did a few things very well. New product labeling includes harvest dates, test dates, the product’s potency and a breakdown of terpene potencies. Using sealed, double zip-lock envelopes, the packaging regulations go beyond mere child-resistance to discourage customers from opening products on the way home.

Like Colorado, Nevada dispensaries sell both medical and recreational cannabis in the same store. The difference is an 18 percent tax on recreational sales, and the line for medical

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Kinnell calls it—his point of origin. When Castillo found the horseshoe-shaped edifice in Tepechitlan, Zacatecas, that had been his childhood home, he says he wanted to tear off his clothes and rub his naked body against the walls and the dirt. But his father was watching, so he simply touched everything in the dilapidated shack.

Still, he couldn’t access a feeling of comfort. To this day, neither Mexico nor the states feel quite like home, he says. All the same, Castillo applied for U.S. permanent residence. His interviewer inspired one of the more absurd poems in Castillo’s book, “Immigration Interview with Jay Leno.”

“What is your objective?” a talk-showhost-turned-immigration-official asks. “To return all the children / hidden behind the street lamps,” answers an immigrant. “How long do you plan on staying here? I don’t understand / the question.”

Castillo plans on staying in the states indefinitely—he got his green card in 2014.

When an immigration official granted his permanent residency, she said, “Welcome to the United States!”And Castillo thought, “I didn’t just get here. I’ve been here for 21 years.” He also dwelled on his less fortunate relatives. “There are so many people that need this more than me,” he says. “I felt kind of empty when I got it.”

to respond to Emma Lazarus’ sonnet on the Statue of Liberty (“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”). In a briefing on immigration reform a few days earlier, the White House downplayed the poem’s significance to the statue’s construction. In response, Castillo told Levine, “When I came undocumented into this country, I wanted to learn English so that I could be considered ‘enough.’ But after this terrible year, it’s been solidified in me that maybe, that’ll never be reached.”

poems, which he had written throughout the past seven years. He’s afraid he wrote them for the wrong reasons: to suppress his dread, to keep “the mad dogs on the leash,” to please his professors and readers, but never himself.

“Actively looking for joy in your poems, it doesn’t come for free,” he says. “I feel like you have to give something up.”

The poet knows what he has given up so far. His wife often tells him that he cares more about work than spending time with her, Castillo says. If inspiration strikes, he’ll

Bittersweet fruit Last year, just a month after the poet’s mother retired to Mexico, he says, his dad was kidnapped and held for a ransom. His family did everything they could think of to rescue his father. Castillo put his work on the back burner to prioritize his loved ones. Then, after 45 days, he says, his father returned to safety, and the U.S. government allowed his parents to move to the states and apply for asylum.

They’ve since returned to Yuba City, minutes away from their son.

In Castillo’s home office in Marysville, a photo is pinned to his bulletin board showing the relieved poet with his arms engulfing his mother, his head leaned against her shoulder. His eyes are shut in quiet bliss.

Rubi admires the image and says, “He was so happy to see her.”

Under President Trump, it might not have been possible—new policies have made it harder to apply for asylum. A February 2017 memo from the Department of Homeland Security states that asylum seekers should be moved into the country “sparingly.” Castillo says he’s nervous about losing his parents again. “I’m trying to stay positive about it, but I know how difficult it’s going to be.”

Earlier this month, New York Times reporter Alexandra S. Levine asked Castillo

The poet and his father in Mexico in 2015.

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Recently, Castillo pulled his car into a farm field off Highway 113, the same road where his mother packed prunes. He called up his poet friend Austin to tearfully confess that he doesn’t find pleasure in writing.

“I get joy in the moments before, like when you get that little pain,” he told his friend, “and the moments afterward when you’re finished. But the grind? When you’re in the grind, I don’t enjoy that.”

Castillo says he felt alienated from his

wake up at 2 a.m. to rush to his office. Rubi doesn’t admit to feeling neglected, but says pausing her undergraduate studies to move to Michigan was lonely, at times.

Now that Rubi is six months pregnant with a boy—due around the same time that his chapbook of poems is set to be published—Castillo feels the pressure to be more attentive. So that he’ll be more mindful for the birth of his son, he’s scrawled a reminder across a whiteboard in his home

office: Slow down. “One of my biggest fears is that I’m never present; I’m always absentminded even when I’m talking amongst friends or we’re grilling with my family,” he says. “I’m always somewhere else. So I don’t really feel like I’m going to be there for him.”

Though he keeps telling himself to chill out, he says he has no real intention of doing so in the scheme of his life plans. He’s applying for tenure-track jobs around the country.

Already, he’s dreaming up a second book of poems, and this summer, he taught five literature classes at UC Davis for Upward Bound, a program for low-income high schoolers.

In front of a dozen students, it becomes apparent where Castillo feels at home. He sits atop a desk and dangles his white Converse.

When students contribute insights, he excitedly paces around the room and exclaims “Yes!” with big eyes. He looks and acts like these teens, with his references to emojis and Orange Is the New Black. One student mentions some “bros or friends” who’ve drifted apart, down a bad path, and Castillo grants him poetic license: “You can write about that, too!”

After reading poems like “Pluto Shits on the Universe” by Fatimah Asghar and “The Double Blind,” a lyrical treatise on sexual assault by Tafisha A. Edwards, his students have learned to open up about the details of their lives. Diana Morales, 18, says she wants to start writing poetry again after Castillo’s class.

“He’s passionate about everything he teaches, and then it’s contagious,” Morales says. “Whenever I thought about poetry, I thought ‘old white people,’ for some reason.

Now I’m thinking literally anyone can be a poet. It can be young and an immigrant, or an old white dude, too. He gives me confidence.”

In class, one student shares a poem about her father who left the family. “Dad? No, more like coward,” she writes. After she finishes reading it, another student asks: Why did she include the internet slang “LOL” in the poem? The teen poet answers, “It’s kinda like a laugh to keep from crying.”

What Castillo says next might as well be the tagline of his life.

“A lot of the most successful poems exist in that space between laughing and crying.”

In poetry, Castillo has found the language to articulate his sanity and the world’s madness, allowing both to coexist in the white space between the lines. On the page, it’s possible to desire and reject your fortune at the same time.

“If they can kiss you, / they can kill you.”

Later that day, Castillo returns to Marysville, surrounded by poetry. He surveys the hundreds of years of effort on his bookshelf, the many voices from Frank O’Hara to Audre Lorde to C.D. Wright to his own friend, Austin.

He pulls out a manuscript and tosses it in the air. “This is seven years of work, right?

What does it weigh?” Ω

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t’s a hot Saturday afternoon when the members of Riddiance take the stage at Ace of Spades. Outside it’s blazing bright but inside the lights are dim, the crowd ready and the mood 100 percent rock ’n’ roll.

Haley Pierce, 14, adjusts her guitar, Shelby Kelso, 14, steadies herself behind the drums, and Haley Leming, 16, waits with her bass as Veronica Hankins, 16, steps up to the microphone. After a quick introduction from an emcee, the band launches into a post-punk riot grrrlesque anthem with a hooky earworm of a chorus: “You can’t tell me what to say / I’m not your / not your babe.”

A few minutes later and they’re done.

Just one song—but it’s executed with fevered polish and flawless delivery. The crowd erupts in cheers as the girls exchange smiles then hurry to make way for the next band, Summer Snow.

Less than a week ago these band members didn’t know each other, much less know how to play their instruments.

Now, after five days in Girls Rock

Sacramento, a day camp for teens, they’re seasoned rock stars.

Summer Snow finishes and local singer-songwriter Xochitl steps behind the mic. The 20-something musician can hardly contain her joy with the show.

“I’m a million years old and have played a million times,” she says. “But I loved this so much; these girls killed it.”

Go back in time 24 hours and the scene is decidedly more chaotic, with the campers working hard to prep for the spotlight.

The members of Riddiance are cramming in a post-lunch practice in the multipurpose room at the Met Sacramento High School as other musicians put the finishing touches on silk-screened T-shirts. Nearby, several girls have grabbed hula hoops to blow off energy and nerves.

As the band makes its way through numerous false starts, the room swells with a girlish energy that roller-coasters between serious concentration and a gleeful sense of camaraderie forged through songwriting, missed notes and flubbed chords.

Finally, Riddiance plays the song in one take. Afterwards, a young girl balancing a hula hoop on her hips calls out to the band. “Your song is amazing,” she says. “I want more.”

That’s the same feeling Girls Rock Sacramento co-founder Emma Simpson remembers. She was 10 when she participated in her first camp in Portland, where the inaugural school launched under the name Rock ‘n’ Roll Camp for Girls in 2007.

“I loved it and always wanted to do something here,” says the bassist, now 22.

Simpson found a kindred spirit in her one-time vocal coach Larisa Bryski, who had experience working with teens as the director for Skip’s Music’s annual Stairway to Stardom summer program.

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When Simpson asked if she was interested in launching a local Girls Rock chapter, Bryski didn’t hesitate.

“I just dropped everything I was doing,” Bryski says.

In 2016 the pair hosted two half-day sessions; one camp for preteens, the other for older girls. They finished with a show at Bryski’s studio space.

They enjoyed it so much they decided to expand to a full week. In addition to another minisession for preteens, this year’s camp brought together 22 girls, ages 12-16, for a week with coaches and volunteers to learn instruments and collaboration.

The women also received guidance on how to navigate what’s still a very maledominated music world, with workshops on health and sexuality (the parents sign waivers), self esteem, self defense and body image.

“We want to stress empowerment,” Simpson says.

The same issues and stereotypes she faced when starting out persist today.

Some of them are just annoyingly sexist: sound engineers who are surprised she can play or want to help lug her gear.

Other concerns are more insistent: the real dangers a woman faces, for example, leaving a gig at night.

“Girls Rock gives young girls a place for empowerment,” Simpson says.

That empowerment, she adds, finds its strength in numbers.

“It takes so many women, a network of women,” she says.

It takes a rock ‘n’ roll village: Girls Rock Sacramento is a fiscally sponsored nonprofit. Bryski and Simpson are working on obtaining independent 501(c) (3) status and would like to implement sliding-scale tuition. For now, the camp largely relies on the generosity of others.

Tuition is $350 per student but doesn’t cover the entirety of operational expenses, Bryski says. To supplement, the team solicits donations and aid. The Met donated use of its space, local restaurants supplied free lunches and a volunteer squad of musicians and music-minded people led instruction.

A lot of work, but worth it. For X Spearmint’s Bella Bright, 14, and Rio *, 13, the camp’s been a totally not-boring way to make friends and try something new.

“My parents told me about the camp, they said it was run by girls and I said, ‘Cool I’m in,’” Soluaga says. “Then they told me it’s just girls and I said, ‘I’m definitely in.’”

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“My parents told me about the camp, they said it was run by girls, and I said, ‘Cool I’m in.’”

Rio Soluaga camper, Girls Rock Sacramento

Soluaga, who plays clarinet in her school’s marching band, now plays bass.

Bright spent the week learning guitar.

“It’s cool, my fingers have gotten tougher,” she says, showing off the calloused pads of her fingers like trophies.

Unlike other similar camps, Girls Rock isn’t a contest. There are no judges, no prizes at the end.

This, Bryski says, is essential.

“I believe it takes a tremendous amount of pressure off of them,” she says.

“They’re all so much more relaxed, it’s like, ‘We’re all in this together, my girls are up front and onstage.”

Next summer Bryski and Simpson hope to expand to include workshops, simple hangout time and more campers— they’d love to grow it to 30 girls.

“The girls want more time to bond,” Bryski says. “They just want to spend more time together.”

Back in the multipurpose room, Liz Salmi watches this bonding in action and smiles. The former Luckie Strike drummer has spent the last week mentoring young drummers. She says it’s been a while since she played in a band—about 15 years, actually—and this week at camp has given her perspective.

“I wish there’d been something like this when I was [younger],” she says. “I

only got the chance to play with boys, and when you’re playing with boys, you have to insert yourself into that boys’ club.”

Allie Bogetich, 14, says the camp’s given her confidence to explore making music on her own. The teen plays drums in her high school’s jazz band, now she wants to lead her own garage rock band.

“I already have a name for it— Sabertooth—and I’ve picked out the album art,” she says, pulling up a photo of a cat on her phone as evidence.

“This has been really fun,” Bogetich adds. “Chill, no pressure.”

That’s part of the magic, the organizers say.

“The girls are supportive of each other,” Bryski says. “Egos are put aside.

They work out their challenges through songs.”

The next day at Ace of Spades, Girls Rock Sacramento’s 2017 season officially closes as any good camp does, with a sing-a-long. The stage fills with dozens of girls and volunteers, all holding hands, kumbaya-style, as their voices rise to fill the club.

“This is a place where we all belong,” they sing. “We rock!” Ω

The mood is laid-back inside the William A. Carroll Amphitheater. A woman on stage loops her flute riffs. a lone pagan dancer shrouded in shiny gold fabric leaps to and fro. A quartet takes to the stage, armed with a saxophone and a didgeridoo, and plays music that shouldn’t work but somehow does. Hippie jazz, I think. Dig it! Technically, the 10th annual Fire Spectacular has already started, but the evening is young.

About a dozen troupes dance with fire on August 12, and roughly 100 people congregate to watch them for $15 per adult. What started a decade ago as a loose collection of dancers exploring movement and performance art has blossomed into a full cast of talented artists working together, using fire as a means to connect to a deeper sense of self and to practice control and humility. Learning to feel comfortable with fire is learning to feel comfortable with oneself. Also, spinning fire looks really, really cool.

I amble over to the vegan food kiosk and order nachos. A stickthin kid scoops a greenish muck into a tray: “That’s the nacho ‘meat,’” he says. I say thanks and sit, politely munching on my not-nachos while an aztec dance troupe performs a sacred fire dance.

They light a small flame at the front of the stage and dance around it. Fire!

At the front gates, a giant plume of flames shoots into the sky. A stocky man with a cigar has crashed the party with his own incendiary contraption: hot dogs on a wire. “Want a dog?” he calls to me, pulls a lever and sets fire to the sausages.

He sticks one in a bun and thrusts it at me. I guiltily scarf it down, hoping the vegans aren’t watching.

Back at the amphitheater, night has come, and dancers are spinning orbs of fire. Unfortunately, the action feels too far away, causing a disconnect between the awe of fire play and the audience that wants to vicariously enjoy it.

The final act, Obsidian Butterfly seems to sense this disconnect, so they cavort among the people, swallowing flames and breathing billows of fire into the night sky. The crowd collectively sits taller, their eyes widening as they feel the heat on their faces. Obsidian Butterfly has everyone’s full attention.

I’m as rapt as everyone else. Obsidian’s boardwalk sideshow culminates into a cornucopia of lit lassos, hoops, fans, flame throwers, torches and phoenix wings. It is a truly spectacular spectacle.

As the flames die out, the crowd cheers, and we are left again with the lonely dark. I make my way out of the gates, musing about the relationship we humans have with fire. We may have learned to use fire to our benefit, but it certainly holds a mythical power over us.

Behind me, a vegan is confronting the guy with the cigar setting hot dogs on fire. “Hot dogs are evil,” he says.

I don’t hear how the cigar man responds. If he’s smart, he’ll blame the mysterious nature of the fire spirits.

Learning to feel comfortable with fire is learning to feel comfortable with oneself.

—Amy Bee

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sat on his pub’s rapidly filling patio on August 9. Two days earlier, as the owner of Rubicon Brewing Co., he had announced the closing of this nearly 30-year-old Midtown institution. He said those past two days had been the busiest in the brewery’s history by far.

Phillips tightened his lips and called the recent support “bittersweet” as he was cycling in and out of meetings regarding the future of the brewery, which will likely shutter by the end of August.

“Monday was one of the hardest days of my life,” he said. “[Rubicon] is my dream.”

Phillips said business suffered following an influx of nearby taprooms and dozens of regional

breweries. The craft beer industry’s recent emphasis on bolder flavors also juxtaposed with Rubicon’s more balanced beers, like the Monkey Knife Fight Pale Ale or Rubicon’s IPA, which astonished judges at the Great American Beer Festival with its hoppiness and won gold medals in 1989 and 1990. Now, those brews seem tame compared to modern hop bombs.

“I’m really proud that we’ve always made good, clean beer,” he said. “By today’s standards, some of them are not as exciting as others. But, you always knew what to expect when you purchased a Rubicon beer.”

Jennie Simpson, who worked at the brewery from 1997 to 2000, said she’ll miss the “chill flow” of the pub. She ordered an amber ale

for herself and her mother Nancy, just as they had done 20 years ago.

Jennie said she fell in love with beer at Rubicon and grew apoplectic upon noticing the absence of the neon Rubicon sign out front.

“It’s totally not cool at all that this is happening,” she said. “It’s a knife to the heart. I can’t imagine these beers just being gone.”

After owning the brewery for 12 years, Phillips said there are multiple paths for him to take, some “not so good,” some “pretty good” and some “really nice.” For now, he’s focused on the present, but apparently, the brewery’s fate isn’t completely sealed yet.

“I’m mostly concerned with letting our good customers have that last pint,” he said as he left for another meeting. “And, you know, maybe somebody might buy it.

We’ll see.”

Another one: Founded in 2012, American River Brewing Co. of Rancho Cordova closed on August 8. The brewery won a gold medal at the 2016 California State Fair for their Coloma Brown ale. Ω

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Simmer them in cream and and sprinkle with pepper for an an indulgent treat. Or shuck shuck and boil them to serve in a salad with cherry tomatoes and abundant herbs. Beans grow easily in in this area and help fix nitrogen nitrogen in the soil for winter crops. For fun, crops. For fun, try heirloom varieties like tongue-of-fire or Christmas limas and revel in their lovely mottled colors.

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Why must our food have a soul? American consumers increasingly demand that our food not just be locally grown, but have a meaningful origin story. It’s not enough to have clovers from the backyard delicately sprinkled atop poached eggs. Ideally, the chef grew up cultivating clovers.

She cares about those damned clovers like little children. Above all, the chef must be singular and human—and not a corporation.

I bring this up because I am guilty of this line of thinking. I went into Barnes & Noble Kitchen in Folsom—the bookstore’s third full-service restaurant in the country—with every expectation of disliking it. Surely a big-box peddler of books can’t know how to properly grill salmon on a plancha.

Reader, I was wrong.

In the past few years, the once-giant bookseller has posted sluggish sales as it competes with Amazon and other online retailers. The business stole a move from those nimble tech entrepreneurs and pivoted last June. The first restaurant-slash-bookstore opened in Eastchester, New York, and next in Edina, Minnesota. Both are affluent suburbs. The brick-and-mortar stores offer something Amazon can’t: an “experience,” according to the press release.

In Folsom, past the tables of bestselling fiction, a circular cafe presents its drinks on an overhead menu reminiscent of a scrabble board, a subliminal temptation for the store’s word nerds.

That day’s New York Times and San Francisco Chronicle hang from sticks, ready for perusing.

Couches and single-serving benches call out to book-browsers to plop down with a novel, only

to discover they can—why not?—get a seasonal fruit crisp. Wooden nooks display blank books to signify a literary lifestyle that is in fact a simulacra.

But let’s not blame that on the food.

Executive chef Sheamus Feeley—a restaurant consultant with the Santa Monica-based Branstetter Group—created the trendy menu. In a siren call for local consumers, wines and beers from the region are on offer, including Gold Digger from Auburn Alehouse and grenache blanc from Lodi. The lunch and dinner entree list is refreshingly short, with summer spaghetti ($12), a brisket burger ($16), grilled cheese ($14), brick-cooked chicken ($17) and that planchacooked salmon ($22). There are also standardissue salads, housemade dips and three breakfast items including lemon-ricotta pancakes ($10).

These dishes feel unambitious. They play it safe. After all, the name of the restaurant is “Kitchen”—how plain can you get? No one will be surprised by its take on avocado toast ($12) or chicken. But they might be taken aback by how thoroughly delicious they are.

A steel brick weighs down the chicken on the grill and traps its juices in even layers of tender meat. It’s eerily perfect in its consistency, as if a robot made it.

Does it matter if a corporation cooks your food if soulless excellence tastes good?

Herbed with just tarragon, pepper and salt, the chicken is surefooted in its simplicity. It’s surrounded by a mote of potato purée that is lavishly buttery and spiked with bitter watercress.

And that brisket burger.

Melted cheddar glistens and cabbage flashes with the freshness of chartreuse. The ground beef fuses fat and pepper on its crisp edges. A soft, sweet brioche bun frames it. The accompanying crispy potatoes are not overly fried, but they were the weak point—if anything, these were too salty.

For a business that trades in imagination, Barnes & Noble’s food lacks it, and yet, despite myself, I still enjoyed it. When you can peruse magazines, newspapers and latest-release books for free, your menu requires less creativity. What remains to be seen is whether the retailer can be the author of its own turnaround story. Ω

For a business that trades in imagination, Barnes & Noble’s food lacks it.

For the first time in almost 20 years, the pink flamingos that greet visitors at the pink flamingos that greet visitors at the Sacramento Zoo (3930 W Land Park Drive) gave birth to six chicks. To see Park Drive) gave birth to six chicks. To see these gangly, fluffy birds and to celebrate the Zoo’s celebrate the Zoo’s 90th birthday, try the 33rd annual all-you-canall-you-caneat Ice Cream Safari on August 19 from 4 to from 4 to 8 p.m. The exhibits will remain open later later than usual as guests have their choice of choice of flavors from Bayview Farms ice cream cream (Save Mart’s generic brand) including including espresso chip, cookies-and-cream and and rainbow sherbert that can be topped will with the usual sundae fixings. There will sugar be options for those who don’t do sugar a or dairy as well as face-painting and a Tickets “GiRaffle” for zoo-related prizes. Tickets children, and the cost $24 for adults and $18 for children, and the general maintenance of proceeds will raise money for general maintenance of to turn those flamingo chicks pink. the animals, including enough shrimp to turn those flamingo chicks pink.

—John Flynn

Recently, SN&R reviewed Selland’s Market-Café’s new spot at 915 Broadway, but today, lettuce focus on its vegan offerings. That’s right, it’s all about salads—though not all of them have lettuce. Of the nearly two-dozen items on Selland’s vegetarian menu, only seven are identified as vegan, and three of those are green salads.

The remaining are premade cold salads: roasted beet, roasted cauliflower and chickpea, roasted broccoli

and red pepper, seasonal fruit salad and Asian Noodle. The menu in the cafe doesn’t indicate vegetarian or vegan items as it does online, so plant munchers will have to use their memories—or smartphones—to confirm when ordering. Or ask the staff, which The V Word did when ordering the Asian Noodle salad as part of the Salad Trio ($9) and was told the noodles had egg in them. Say what now?

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The San Francisco Mime Troupe has staged socially relevant theater, leavened with music and earthy humor, since the 1950s. The acclaimed group is touring the region this weekend with performances in Nevada City, Davis and Sacramento.

Its latest production covers a timely topic.

Titled Walls, it follows an Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agent who falls in love with an undocumented immigrant, says Edris CooperAnifowoshe, the show’s co-director. “I’m married to an immigrant who recently became a U.S. citizen,� Cooper-Anifowoshe says. “For years and years, we never worried about it.

But now, a lot of people are in a panic because of Trump.� The characters include immigrants from Ireland, Somalia and Mexico. Written by Michael Gene Sullivan with music by Michael Bello and lyrics by Piero Amadeo Infante, the show also features a three-piece band.

Cooper-Anifowoshe, who got her first professional job in the theater with the San Francisco Mime Troupe in the 1980s, also worked at the Sacramento Theatre Company for several years.

She has since performed all over the country.

A word of note for those who’ve never seen the San Francisco Mime Troupe perform: Don’t expect silent mime. The troupe favors the classical definition of mime—“the exaggeration of daily life in story and song.� Ί

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It is surprising how well the current Fair Oaks Theatre Festival production of Shrew! works. Set in the fashion world of 1930s Paris, the original Jazz Age musical version of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew features many vintage songs (“What Is This Thing Called Love,� “Lovely to Look At,� et al.) while hewing to the Bard’s tale: A mother attempts to marry off her elder, contrarian daughter to make a more profitable match for her younger, sweeter offspring. The Taming of the Shrew was one of the first productions under festival artistic director Bob Irvin, who died last September, and this production of Shrew! was a long-held dream of his. He started writing the book for it before his death; it was finished by playwright Jennifer Longo based upon Irvin’s notes. Directed by Beth Duggan, the festival’s new artistic director, the play features three of Irvin’s great divas: Deane Calvin (as Baptista, head of the Baptista Minola fashion house), Brianne Hidden-Wise (as lovely daughter Bianca) and Analise Langford-Clark (as the strong-willed Kate). Eddie Voyce plays Kate’s suitor, Petruchio and Dan Slauson plays Lucentio, Bianca’s tutor and suitor. There have been stronger productions in the 35-year-history of the festival, but none more passionately pursued. —Jim Carnes

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Time bends Steven Dietz’s tale of love found, lost and remembered as a young American meets an Irish “Joyce Tour” leader who changes his life.

Elisabeth Nunziato directs an outstanding cast of four.

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Th, F 8pm, Sa 5pm and 9pm, Su 2pm, Tu 6:30pm, W 2pm and 6:30pm. Through 9/10.

This irreverent, fastmoving spoof of Sherlock Holmes features three energetic actors, bad wigs, fake beards and crossdressing guys with falsetto voices playing the women.

It’s one-part Arthur Conan Doyle, one-part silly satire of cinematic cliches, and two-parts Monty Python.

Well-performed, though a bit formula-driven, the production alternates in repertory with Love’s Labour’s Lost. Sa, Tu 7:30 pm. Through 8/21. $27-$99. Sand Harbor, Lake Tahoe Nevada State Park, 2005 Highway 28 in

$27-$39. B Street Theatre Mainstage, 2711 B Street; (916) 443-5300; www.streettheatre.org. J.C.

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Come Back to the Five & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean John Ewing meticulously directs a strong cast in this comedy-drama about respect and acceptance denied to those who are “different” in any way. Set in two time periods in the same West Texas diner, the

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Set in 18th century Mississippi, this bluegrass fairy tale is filled with eccentric characters and lively music as the Bandit of the Woods is faced with an uncomfortable dilemma when he falls for the nice girl he happens to kidnap.

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Rich Hebert gives an unforgettable performance in B Street’s production The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelky, directed by Jerry Montoya. As detective Chuck DeSantis, Hebert recalls the decade-long case of a 14-year-old boy, reported missing and then found dead, the victim of a bullying incident gone terribly wrong. Hebert plays the roles of all the residents of the small town, as he discovers what an impact the young boy made on everyone. The play is both funny and heartbreaking. The show runs through September 9. 7 p.m. Thursday, August 17 and Friday, August 18; 8 p.m.

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struggling single father, while Driver plays Jimmy’s one-armed brother Clyde and Riley Keough slings attitude as their gearhead sister Mellie.

When 50-year-old Steven Soderbergh announced his When Jimmy gets fired from his job at the retirement from film in 2013, most people scoffed.

Speedway, he ropes Clyde and Mellie into a plan The notion that a talent as restless and curious as to rob the stadium’s vault. Due to the construction Soderbergh was ready to hang up his jodhpurs and join around the stadium, the vault’s seismic sensors the shuffleboard set seemed ridiculous. As it turned out, will be disabled, meaning the would-be robbers Soderbergh was hardly a bingo-night regular during his just need to break in and blow up the safe. four-year sabbatical—he directed twenty episodes of Unfortunately, the only explosions expert they The Knick, helped Spike Jonze with Her, posted strikknow is a bottle-blonde pyro named Joe Bang ing re-edits of movie classics on his website, served (Daniel Craig, getting a rare chance to cut up), who as cinematographer on Magic Mike XL and produced is currently incarcerated. More complications come three other series, including an adaptation of from Jimmy’s blonde moppet daughter, and his own The Girlfriend Experience. from a fatuous race car promoter unrecSoderbergh did more (and better) ognizably played by Seth MacFarlane. work in his retirement than most Logan As with any halfway decent heist people do during their entire careers, film, the fun comes from watching is one Lucky and now he returns to feature filmthe characters create and execute of Soderbergh’s making with Logan Lucky, which a seemingly impossible plan, with is like last year’s Hell or High deceptively all the setbacks, double crosses and Water rebooted as a gregarious audience misdirects that entails. lightweight genre heist movie. Logan Lucky stars In that respect, Logan Lucky is a excursions.

Channing Tatum and Adam Driver as roaring success, endlessly entertaining likeable ne’er-do-well brothers who rob as a process movie without sacrificing Charlotte Motor Speedway to pay their any of its good-natured swagger. But the bills. The screenplay is credited to Rebecca film is also overstuffed with broad character turns Blunt, who was recently revealed to be fictitious, seemingly borrowed from a Coen Brothers reject and some think Blunt might really be Soderbergh (he pile (Dwight Yoakam is a marvelous exception as a already serves as his own director of photography stubborn prison warden), and while amusing in the under the pseudonym Peter Andrews). moment, it feels a little flimsy in retrospect.

Logan Lucky is one of Soderbergh’s deceptively Logan Lucky is certainly a sharp-looking lightweight genre excursions, and he borrows elements vehicle, even if there’s not much going on under from previous works ranging from the Ocean’s the hood. Ω trilogy to Magic Mike to Out of Sight. Soderbergh often struggles to find a balance between following his clinical inclinations and fulfilling commercial expectations, but Logan Lucky hits a sweet spot. Tatum gives a sturdy star performance as Jimmy Logan, an Poor Fair Good Very excellent Good unemployed West Virginia construction worker and

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Atomic Blonde

Stunt coordinator David Leitch makes his directorial debut with Atomic Blonde, a graphic novel series adaptation set in Berlin during the waning days of the Cold War. Charlize Theron stars as Lorraine Broughton, a British spy dispatched to Germany to investigate the death of a colleague, and to secure a list of undercover agents before it falls into the wrong hands. Lorraine is greeted at the airport by unnamed assassins, and the bloody mayhem gushes on from there, with most of the action scenes set to 1980s Europop. The script by 300 scribe Kurt Johnstad is decidedly unclever, and Leitch works way too hard to invest a familiar story with new life. It’s mostly wasted energy, merely an exercise in vapid style, but Theron makes for an extremely compelling kung fu cipher, and there is one extended action scene set in an apartment building that almost justifies the entire endeavor. 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. 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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The Dark Tower

A teenage boy (Tom Taylor), haunted by the death of his firefighter father, has mysterious visions of a Dark Tower, a Gunslinger and a Man in Black. His mother worries that he’s unhinged by grief, but it’s all true—as he learns when the Man in Black (Matthew McConaughey) tries to kidnap him and he escapes to another dimension where he meets the Gunslinger (Idris Elba). The script by Akiva Goldsman, Jeff Pinkner, Anders Thomas Jensen and director Nikolaj Arcel is based on Stephen King’s eight-novel series (which King considers his magnum opus, incorporating elements from different genres and his other books). Maybe the story makes sense at 4,250 pages. At 95 minutes it’s just a messy sci-fi-horror-fantasy salad; King’s elements become mere clichés.

The actors and special effects crew do their best. J.L.

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

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The Glass Castle

Two free-spirited parents (Woody Harrelson, Naomi Watts) raise four children in a most unconventional way, first as roadvagabonds camping out at night, then in the father’s ramshackle West Virginia hometown.

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Frolicked through the hills: check.

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In This Corner of the World

A hand-drawn animated epic based on a Japanese manga, Sunao Katabuchi’s In This Corner of the World concerns Suzu, a daydreaming teenager from Hiroshima married off to a young naval clerk in the early days of World War II. Suzu is forced to relocate to a nearby naval town to live with her husband’s ungrateful family, slowly settling into her role but still carrying a torch for the gruff boy back home. As the tide of war turns and her new hometown becomes a daily target for air raids, Suzu finds her strength, even employing ancient methods to stretch their food supply; meanwhile, we wait for the inevitable nuclear horror to hit. Fascinating and frustrating in equal measures, In This Corner of the World offers a compelling look at life in Japan during and directly after wartime, with a rich female character at the center, but it’s also maddeningly choppy. D.B.

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by Brie Larson), childhood (Chandler Head) and adolescence (Ella Anderson). Cretton and Harrelson portray Walls’ father as an irresponsible, self-deluded, emotionally abusive, drunken blowhard—which tends to make her retrospective affection for him look like a case of Stockholm Syndrome. Still, it’s an unusual story unusually well-told, and performances are first-rate. J.L.

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Kidnap

When a mother (Halle Berry) sees her son being kidnapped from a fairground, she roars off in hot pursuit, forgetting her purse and cell phone in the heat of the moment.

Written by Knate Lee and directed by Luis Prieto, the movie is basically a one-character, mama-bear version of Taken. Berry’s character has a run of luck, plowing through a lot of highway mayhem without attracting much attention; the one cop who tries to pull her over is conveniently disposed of by the kidnappers, who keep slowing down to let Mom catch up. Prieto has trouble finessing the shift from early sugary-sweetness (in scenes evidently meant to pad the movie’s modest running time) to demolition derby for the rest. It’s efficient but unsubtle; Lee and Prieto don’t know the difference between real suspense and mere tension. J.L.

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The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature

When their town’s corrupt mayor sets out to transform their beautiful park into a grotesque money-grubbing tourist trap, the squirrels (voiced by Will Arnett and Katherine Heigl) and their animal pals swing into action to thwart his nefarious plans. Featurelength animation hits rock-bottom yet again with this who-cares sequel. It has all the traits that made The Nut Job so completely pointless—complicated non-story, dull characters, lame sight gags, lamer puns—then ups the ante with an in-your-face nastiness, stomping and bellowing at the top of its obnoxious voice, that

amounts to a sadistic form of audience abuse (especially in 3-D). Directed by Cal Brunker, who co-wrote with Bob Barlen, Scott Bindley and Daniel Woo. Remember those names, and be warned: they’re already at work on The Nut Job 3. J.L.

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Step

This intimate and emotionally affecting documentary from director Amanda Lipitz follows several senior girls on the step dance team at Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women. A relatively new school with a student body largely composed of AfricanAmerican girls from low-income families, the BLSYW began with a single sixth grade class, and the film covers the senior year of those founding students. The strength of these girls is inspiring (although many family backstories are left tastefully vague), but the highs and lows they experience on the way to the film’s inevitable “big game” finish are haunted by the ghost of Freddie Gray, the African-American man who was killed in 2015 while in Baltimore Police custody. His specter lends an extra level of gravitas to the routines (the most powerful of several electrifying step dance scenes is a tribute to Black Lives Matter) and an additional significance to the report cards. D.B.

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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.

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their first full-length album From Underground, Crap sings, “When there’s no room in hell / we’ll take the bible belt,” in front of a thrashing series of guitar riffs and a pulsing drumbeat. The chorus galvanizes an anthemic feeling that you can’t help but bang your head to: “The Moans are here to stay, The Moans won’t go away,” And The Moans haven’t gone away. From 2011 to 2012, the band released four self-recorded demo EPs. “Our early recordings sound very much like a garage When horror punks won’t let you enjoy your dang brunch. rock band that was still trying to find its groove,” Secretion says.

Then in 2013, they took to a studio to record When I say that The Moans draw heavily from an From Underground, followed by two EPs, Arrested attitude of having fun, I mean something like this: For Possession and Graveyard Sale. “Over time, When they formed in 2011, their original name was our sound has become solidified and amplified,” “The Shitty Ramones,” and they billed themselves Secretion says. as a “Ramones karaoke tribute band” before introThe music is unmistakably punk, but it isn’t ducing original songs about vintage horror movies. necessarily angry in the way many folks might They’ve since developed into a fully original and believe punk rock has to be. Instead, it’s raw and refreshing punk group in the Sacramento scene. enthusiastic, and therefore more accessible. You What’s not to love about an origin story like that? can thrash around in the pit to this, but their Comprised of singer-bassist Matt Crap, style also lends itself to listening for drummer Jeff Reset and guitarist-punk enjoyment’s sake. veteran Danny Secretion, The Despite their motives for just Moans play songs about vintage having fun and playing music, “It’s crazy how horror tropes such as zombies, The Moans are in for a big fast it went from Frankenstein and vampires in the couple of months. On August style of 1970s, proto-pop punk. being a side project 23, the band is opening for Yet The Moans’ music the internationally known to the band I wanted never feels gimmicky. If British act The Adicts, everyone to see.” anything, their conceptual along with the Los Angeles focus grants the band immunity group Igor Spectre at Ace of Danny Secretion from falling into the realm of Spades.

Then in September, guitarist, The Moans self-seriousness. It maintains an air they are on the bill for the City of fun. “You can try really hard and of Trees festival, with Blink-182 have a good time while your doing it,” as the headline act. explains Reset.

“It’s crazy how fast it went from The group’s focus is the music. “I love the style being a side project to the band I wanted everyone of music,” says Secretion, “It’s just down strokes to see.” Secretion says. The Moans also have been and eighth notes.” At the same time, they don’t back in the studio working on a new project of seem all too concerned with giving themselves original songs. With all their recent and upcoming a specific label. “We’ve never shot down what successes in mind, Reset gives me the final word someone wants to call us. Horror-punk, nerdy, on The Moans’ philosophy: “As long as we get to vintage pop-punk, whatever we are to that person, have fun and play music, I’m happy.” Ω that’s what we are,” says Crap.

Digressing from theories of how concept Check out the moans 7 p.m. August 23 at Ace of spades. the Adicts and igor affects attitude, The Moans have found a great spectre are also on the bill. tickets are $20. sound. On the track titled “Theme Song” from

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LOUDER THAN LOVE: Tribute show for the late rockers Chris Cornell and Chester Bennington, who both passed away this summer. Cornell was most known for singing in Audioslave and Soundgarden, and Bennington in Linkin Park. Some of the bands performing include A Foreign Affair, A Demon In Me, and Pacific Skyway.

A portion of the proceeds will benefit the National Alliance on Mental Illness. 7pm, $15. Ace Of Spades, 1417 R St.

MYLAR’S HIPPIE HOUR: The long-running show was held at Old Ironsides and Starlite Lounge over the past five years. Now, William Mylar’s weekly free-form music night, along with it’s tradition of having guests spanning all genres, has moved to a new venue. 5:30pm, no cover. Louie’s Cocktail Lounge, 3030 Mather Field Road.

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that mix-and-match painted canvases of body parts. A jolly spaghettiman marches onward, unfazed by the fork in its skull.

Together, these demons ask: Where is the line between scary and cute? More than 60 artists are selling their 2-D and 3-D beasts of varying frightfulness. 1100 65th Street.

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local music showcase begun by Danielle Vincent, who founded First Festival and the equally-cool local music calendar app, #ShowUpSacramento. This week’s band is the local experimental rock group, which mixes looped guitars with Neil Young-esque vocals and electronic sounds. 8pm, no cover (or $5 donation). The Purple Place Bar & Grill, 363 Green Valley Road in El Dorado Hills.

saTurday, 8/19 THE ALARM: The ’80s British new-wave band will perform with Sac American rock troupe The Ghost Town Rebellion. 8pm, $20-$25. Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub, 2708 J St.

BURNING LANDSCAPES: Album release show for the local alternative rock band.

Performing with Death Party at the Beach and Desario. 8pm. Blue Lamp, 1400 Alhambra Blvd.

DAHLIA FIEND: Sacramento multiinstrumental electronic artist. Performing with Blue Oaks and DJ Lady Grey. 6pm, $8-$10. Momo Lounge, 2708 J St.

GIN BLOSSOMS: Twenty-year-old Arizona jangle-pop-rock band known for songs like “Hey Jealousy.” 8pm, $47-$62. Harris Center, 10 College Parkway in Folsom.

THursday, 8/17 HANNAH JANE KILE: Auburn acoustic folksinger. Performing with Josiah Gathing and Lili St. Anne. 8pm, $5. The Acoustic Den Cafe, 10271 Fairway Drive, Suite 120 in Roseville.

JOHNNY HELL PROMOTIONS PRESENTS: A SHOW FOR WOUNDED VETERANS: Hardrock/metal benefit show for the Vet-Traxx Project Inc., a music nonprofit for disabled vets.

Some of the bands include: Surviving The Era, Rex Means King, Ghost Color and Stars of the Party. 8pm, no cover ($5 suggested donation). Cheers, 321 Merchant St. in Vacaville.

RAY OBIEDO: Part of the Crocker Art Museum’s summer jazz concert series.

Mellow out to the smooth Latin sounds of the Bay Area guitarist and composer.

During intermission, enjoy dinner at the cafe, listen to Jazz Chats with Carolyne Swayze and an Art Spotlight talk, or wander the museum’s galleries. 6:30pm, $8-$14. Crocker Art Museum, 216 O St.

friday, 8/18 COCO MONTOYA: Stratocaster-fueled

Southern blues singer and guitarist. 8pm,

$20. Palms Playhouse, 13 Main St. in Winters.

THE DECEMBERISTS: Portland indie-rock band touring a new record titled What a Terrible World. They’ll perform with British folksinger Olvia Chaney, who’s collaborated with the Decemberists in a recently released album called Offa Rex. 8pm, $24.50-$179. Mondavi Center, 1 Shields Ave. in Davis.

DOYLE BRAMHALL II: Son of the Texas music legend. A leftie who plays a guitar stringed for a right-hander but flipped backwards.

Longtime collaborator with Eric Clapton and the Vaughn brothers. 8pm, $24$27. The Center for the Arts, 314 West Main St. in Grass Valley.

HOBO JOHNSON & THE LOVEMAKERS: SAMMIEwinning “sad boi” hip-hop artist back from a West Coast tour. Performing with Destroy Boys (also won SAMMIES this year), Benjamin Hecht and Worthy Goat. 6pm, $9. The Band Room, 175 Placerville Drive in Placerville.

JOY & MADNESS: Sac soul-funk nine-piece performing with Mama’s Gravy, a funk rock troupe celebrating their 20 year anniversary. 9:30pm, $10-$13. Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub, 2708 J St.

perform with San Diego electronic artist Kyle Flesch. 9:30pm, no cover before 10pm, $5-$15 afterward. The Park Ultra Lounge, 1116 15th St.

REGGAE NIGHT: Held every third Saturday of the month. Performing this time: Grass Valley reggae artist Kurrency King. 8:30pm, no cover before 10:30pm, $5 afterward.

Queen Sheba, 1704 Broadway.

Performing with Rochester, New York indie rockers Joywave. 7pm, $27.50. Ace Of Spades, 1417 R St.

MILO (RAPSMITH): Milwaukee, Wisconsin alternative hip-hop artist. Performing with Sparks Across Darkness, Randal Bravery, Signor Benedick The Moor and Kenny Segal. 8pm, $10. Cafe Colonial, 3520 Stockton Blvd.

WedNesday, 8/23 THE ADICTS: Clockwork Orange-esque clad ’80s British punk band. Performing with horror punks The Moans and Igor Spectre. 7pm, $20. Ace Of Spades, 1417 R St.

DEFECRATOR: Death metal from Sacramento.

Performing with Panzergod and Gloam.

8pm, $10. Blue Lamp, 1400 Alhambra Blvd.

THE DOOBIE BROTHERS: San Jose blue-eyed

soul rock group, popular in the ’70s. 8pm, $65-$125. Community Center Theater, 1301 L St.

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performing with The Outcome. 7pm, $7.

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PETER PETTY & HIS DOUBLE P REVUE: Singer and actor who fronts an entertaining swing band. 9pm, $6. Torch Club, 904 15th St.

fesTiVals friday, 8/18 THE BANANA FEST INTERNATIONAL: Stockton’s version of the annual fest celebrating the giant berry. Live music. Art. A parade with banana-themed floats and banana-themed food. 10am, $8-$10. San Joaquin County Fair Grounds, 1658 South Airport Way in Stockton.

saTurday, 8/19 dozens of varieties of locally grown heirloom tomatoes. Tomato-eating and recipe contests. A carnival, a classic car show, live entertainment, a food court, tomato-related vendors, children’s activities, and beer and wine. 11am, no cover. Tomato Alley, Jefferson and Texas St. in Fairfield.

34TH ANNUAL SACRAMENTO SCANDINAVIAN FESTIVAL: See event highlight on page Center, 6151 H St.

FATE UNDER FIRE: Sac alt-pop group.

Performing with Civil Youth, National Lines and Caliscope. 8pm, $10. Blue Lamp, 1400 Alhambra Blvd. thrash band. Performing with WORWS, VVOMEN and The Challenge. 8pm, $5. Hideaway Bar & Grill, 2565 Franklin Blvd.

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the “three tenors,” the well-known and respected culinary experts Darrell Corti, David Berkley and Mike Dunne. Additionally, as guests sample grub from select restaurants, wineries and brewery, they are encouraged to vote for their favorite pairing for the People’s Choice Award.

Performances by the Rio Americano Small Jazz Ensemble, Kitty O’Neal, Kurt Spataro and the Capital Dance Project. 6pm, $40$50. California State Railroad Museum, 111 I St.

sunday, 8/20 ForK it over: Join Slow Food Sacramento at its August fundraiser. Slow Food’s Chef’s Alliance and American River College culinary students will create fork-sized bites from locally sourced ingredients.

Chef and owner Ed Roehr will discuss how restaurants strive to provide good, clean fair food for all. 6:30pm, $10-$35. Magpie, 1601 16th St.

Great adobo CooKout: Sinag-tala Filipino Theater and Performing Arts Association presents a taste test of a slew of adobo recipes, with entertainment and karaoke. Vote for your favorite. Adobo is a popular Filipino dish and cooking process in Philippine cuisine that involves meat, seafood, or vegetables marinated in vinegar, soy sauce, and garlic, which is browned in oil, and simmered in the marinade. 11am, $5-$15, kids ages five and under are free. Sinag-tala Studio, 4200 82nd St., Suite E.

of an indie film about a brother’s travel through time to find out what happened to his missing sister. 6:30pm, $12. The Guild Theater, 2828 35th St.

saturday, 8/19 eLeven: A documentary sharing stories from the veterans of Air Group 11, who flew off the USS Hornet and were stationed at Guadalcanal during World War II. A newly located member of Air Group 11 will be attending the showing. 2pm, no cover.

Sacramento Public Library – Rancho Cordova Branch, 9845 Folsom Blvd. in Rancho Cordova.

sunday, 8/20 Cory’s CuLt CLassiCs: saLad days, FiLmaGe: Held every third Sunday. This month, a showing of two punk documentaries. Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington DC examines the early DIY punk scene in the nation’s capitol with bands like Bad Brains, Minor Threat and Fugazi.

Filmage: The Story of the Descendents follows the Manhattan Beach punk band that influenced Dave Grohl (Nirvana, Foo Fighters), Mark Hoppus (Blink-182) and Brett Gurewitz (Bad Religion). 7pm, no cover. Cafe Colonial, 3520 Stockton Blvd.

west side story: A showing of the classic musical blending Romeo and Juliet with street gangs in New York City, starring Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer. 7pm, $7.50-$9.50. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.

LauGHs unLimited Comedy CLub: Say It Loud Comedy Show. Headliner B.T. Kingsley has been featured on Comedy Central shows, including Kevin Hart’s Hart Of The City. 8pm thursday, 8/17. $20. Vince Morris. Performing with Cris Sosa. Morris has appeared on BET’s Comedy Jam and HBO’s Def Comedy Jam, to name two shows. through 8/20. $20. 1207 Front St.

momo saCramento: Comedy Burger with Ngaio Bealum. Monthly stand-up show featuring the News & Review pot columnist, activist, actor, publisher of the West Coast Cannabis magazine and host of the Cannabis Comedy Festival. 7pm sunday, 8/20. $$10-$25. 2708 J St.

PunCH Line: Kelly Pryce. Pryce has written for the TBS’s Lopez Tonight and the TV Guide pilots Hollywood Buzz and Date Night. As a stand-up, she’s performed with Louis C.K., Bill Burr, Dave Attell and others. 8pm thursday, 8/17. $15; Tony Rock. The younger brother of Chris Rock. You may have seen him on the show Everybody Hates Chris or the film Think Like A Man. through 8/20. $18.50$22.50; Mike E. Winfield. New material night for the local comic. 8pm wednesday, 8/23. $15; The Hodgetwins. Twin comics who host a popular YouTube series that blends comedy with life advice. through 8/22. $25. 2100 Arden Way, Suite 225.

tommy t’s Comedy CLub: Gary Owen.

Currently stars in the BET docuseries The Gary Owen Show. through 8/19. $30-$40. 12401 Folsom Blvd. in Rancho Cordova.

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comedy 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 every thursday. $6; Dystopia News Network.

Sketch comedy that parodies a newscast.

DNN provides unparalleled access to the latest on current events from across parallel universes. It’s news, whether you like it or not. 10:30pm saturday, 8/19. $5; Lady Business. Sacramento’s only all-female improv troupe uses true stories to create a long-form improv show. This month’s theme: the news. 8pm every third saturday. $8.50. 1050 20th St., Suite 130.

Dietz’s new love story, time travel and James Joyce help illuminate the lives of Robbie and Cat, who meet in Ireland. through 9/10. $27-$39; The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey.

One actor portrays every character in a small Jersey Shore town as he unravels the story of a tenaciously optimistic and flamboyant 14-year-old boy who goes missing. through 9/9. $19-$39; 2711 B St.

CaLiFornia musiCaL tHeatre: The Sister Act. See event highlight above. through 8/27. $45-$86. 1510 J St.

CHautauQua PLayHouse: Screwtape.

Follows a mid-level Satanic beauracrat, Screwtape, who is training a young demon, Wormwood, to lure his first soul, named Mike, into a pit. The demons seek to trip

Bridegroom. A bluegrass musical set in 18th century Mississippi. Tells the story of Jamie Lockhart, who seeks to romance (but not necessarily wed) the daughter of wealthy landowner Clement Musgrove.

Clement is married to the vicious Salome, who is jealous of her beautiful stepdaughter Rosamund. Mistaken identities, hidden motives and thwarted romance. Through 8/27. $18. 3823 V St.

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SIERRA 2 CENTER: Darkside. Musical featuring songs from and thematically based on Pink Floyd’s album, The Dark Side of the Moon.

Through 8/20. $20. 2791 24th St.

THE WILKERSON THEATRE INSIDE THE CALIFORNIA STAGE COMPLEX: Gidion’s Knot.

A grieving mother and an emotionally overwhelmed primary school teacher have a fraught conversation about the tragic suicide of the mother’s son, the teacher’s student, Gidion. As his story is slowly uncovered, the women try to reconstruct a satisfying explanation for Gidion’s act and come to terms with excruciating feelings of culpability. Through 9/2. $15$20. 1721 25th St.

TOWER THEATRE: The Music Man. Follows fast-talking traveling salesman Harold Hill as he cons the people of River City, Iowa, into buying instruments and uniforms for a boys’ band that he vows to organize this, despite the fact that he doesn’t know a trombone from a treble clef. His plans to skip town with the cash are foiled when he falls for Marian, the librarian, who transforms him into a respectable citizen by curtain’s fall. Through 8/27. $8-$20. 417 Vernon St., Roseville.

VETERAN’S MEMORIAL AMPHITHEATRE: SHREW! A Jazz Age Musical Romp. An original adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, set in 1930s Paris against a backdrop of competing fashion houses

Dream. An outdoor performance of Shakespeare’s classic. Through 8/27. $10. 3141 Bridgeway Drive in Rancho Cordova.

WOODLAND OPERA HOUSE: My Fair Lady. World famous phonetics expert and British upper-class bachelor Henry Higgins is willing to wager that he can pass off a Cockney flower girl in high society as a duchess just by teaching her to speak proper English. 7:30pm. Through 8/27. $7$25. 560 Main St in Woodland.

SOUTHSIDE PARK: Walls. A politically-charged show about U.S. immigration by the San Francisco Mime Troupe. 5pm Sunday, 8/20.

No cover. 2115 6th St.

ART 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. Through 9/17. $5-$10. 216 O St.

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WIDE OPEN WALLS: A mural festival featuring local and international artists. Takes place at over 40 locations in Sacramento.

Learn more about it by reading SN&R’s story, “Wide Open Walls: Art in the street” published July 27. Check out a map of the murals at www.wow916.com. Through 8/20. No cover; Condensed. A group show featuring the artists of Wide Open Walls.

Some of the muralists include Franceska Gamez, Roy Gonzalez and Demetrius Washington. Through 8/24. No cover. Beatnik Studios, 723 S St.; The Wall Ball. Benefit party for arts education. Artisan chefs.

Craft cocktails. Visual and performance art. Music by Royal Jelly And DJ Shaun Slaughter. 8pm Saturday 8/19. $100. 1425 C St.; Wall Wrap Picnic Party. Closing party hosted by the Power Inn Alliance. Food from Squeeze Burger. Beer from Beers in Sac. Music by the City of Trees Brass Band. A petting zoo. Shuttle tours of the Power Inn District murals. 11am Sunday, 8/20. No cover. Granite Regional park, 8181 Cucamonga Ave.

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SMUD ART GALLERY: MATRIX Revisited.

MATRIX, a women’s artist group of the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s celebrates their July reunion with this exhibit. Through 9/11. No cover. 6301 S St.

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SPARROW GALLERY: Dissent Group Art Show.

Created as a platform for the artists to express their concerns to recent current events. Promised not to be the typical “Anti-Trump” show. The artists cover events and topics that cross political and social lines. Through 8/19. Free. 1021 R St.

SOL COLLECTIVE: Our Times, Our Resistances, Our Autonomies. A printmaking exhibit by artists based in the United States and Mexico. Through 9/2. No cover. 2574 21st St.

MUSEUMS 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.

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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 Cadillac Series 60 Sedan, a 1940 Lincoln Zephyr and a 1953 Chevrolet Bel Air. 10am. Through 9/4. 111 I St.

SUTTER’S FORT STATE HISTORIC PARK: Hands on History: Frontier Medicine – Sacramento’s First Hospital. Fort guests can see demonstrations provided by several physicians and a midwife showing many aspects of 19th century medicine, including dentistry and homeopathic cures. Artifacts will be on display, such as

Solar Eclipse THE SKY 9:02 a.m.

Nobody knows why the moon and the sun appear to be exactly the same size in the sky.

There is no scientific explanation for this bizarre coincidence. And even though the odds against such NATURE a thing are (ahem) PHOTO COUTRTESY OF NASA/HINODE/XRT astronomical, no one gives it much thought. That will change when the pair perform a pas de deux resulting in a total solar eclipse. In parts of North America, the sun’s aurora will show itself and the stars will come out. Here in Sac we’ll see about 70 percent of the show—still literally awesome. 9:02-11:39 (peak at 10:17).

—ERIC JOHNSON

an amputation kit circa 1870, bleeding and cupping implements, tooth extractors, an ether mask, wooden splints, early medications and more. Plus, Fort docents will lead demonstrations where visitors can get involved and participate as “volunteer victims” to learn more about Gold Rush medicine practices. 10am Thursday, 8/19. $5-$7. 2701 L St.

SPORTS & OUTDOORS SATURDAY, 8/19 “209BEATDOWN III” EXTREME CAGE FIGHTING: Several Stockton brawlers will defend their titles against cage fighters from everywhere else in California. 6pm, $20$70. Stockton Memorial Civic Auditorium, 525 North Center St. in Stockton.

5TH ANNUAL FXR’S OF CALIFORNIA EVENT: A day of drag bike racing, stunt shows, wheelie contests and more. 11am, $20.

Sacramento Raceway Park, 5305 Excelsior Road.

SACRAMENTO RIVER CATS VS. ALBUQUERQUE ISOTOPES: 7:05pm, $10-$63. Raley Field, 400 Ball Park Dr.

GUIDED PADDLE TOUR: Join the Cosumnes River Preserve for a leisurely paddle up the river. You’ll likely see forest birds, maybe even a beaver. Bring your own boat (canoe, kayak, SUP), paddle and PFD. No experience necessary.

Meet at the Cosumnes River Preserve Visitor Center Parking lot at 8:30 a.m.

Register on Eventbrite.com. 8:30am, no cover. Cosumnes River Preserve, 13501 Franklin Blvd. in Galt.

IPF INTERNATIONAL PUMP FEST 2017 USA, CALIFORNIA: A state tournament for an arcade rhythm game similar to Dance Dance Revolution. Compete in the female speed, male speed and freestyle divisions. 1pm. Strikes Unlimited, 5681 Lonetree Blvd. in Rocklin.

SAC REPUBLIC FC VS. RENO 1868 FC: 8pm,

$17.75-$90.75. Cal Expo, 1600 Exposition Blvd.

TWF ALL IN: Local wrestling league. The

main event is a four-way match. 7pm, $8.

Colonial Theatre, 3522 Stockton Blvd.

SUNDAY, 8/20 IPF INTERNATIONAL PUMP FEST 2017 USA, CALIFORNIA: See Saturday event

description. 1pm. Strikes Unlimited, 5681 Lonetree Blvd. in Rocklin.

NORCAL’S 2ND ANNUAL BARBER BATTLE: See

event highlight on page 37. 1pm, $24. Ace of Spades, 1417 R St.

WTF (WOMEN, TRANS, FEMME) NIGHT: Work on your bike, then go for a 2.5 mile ride to Gunther’s Ice Cream to enjoy a frozen treat and tell bike stories. The ride is at 7pm. 5pm, no cover. Sacramento Bicycle Kitchen, 1915 I St.

MONDAY, 8/21 MONDAY NIGHT HOODSLAM: Popular Oakland underground wrestling show hits Sacramento. Just remember: don’t bring your f’n kids. 7pm, $15. District 30, 1022 K St.

SACRAMENTO RIVER CATS VS. ALBUQUERQUE ISOTOPES: 7:05pm, $10-$63. Raley Field, 400 Ball Park Dr.

SOLAR ECLIPSE: See event highlight above.

TUESDAY, 8/22 SACRAMENTO RIVER CATS VS. ALBUQUERQUE ISOTOPES: 7:05pm, $10-$63. Raley Field, 400 Ball Park Dr.

WEDNESDAY, 8/23 SACRAMENTO REPUBLIC FC VS. SWOPE PARK RANGERS: 8pm, $17.75-$93. Bonney Field, 1600 Exposition Blvd.

TAKE ACTION THURSDAY, 8/17 STORY CIRCLE AFFORDABLE HOUSING: Capital Public Radio’s upcoming documentary, The View From Here: Place and Privilege, explores the history, politics and economics of housing affordability in California’s capitol. In collaboration with community partners, CPR is hosting a series of intimate storytelling gatherings that bring diverse residents together to share experiences, listen to one another and explore solutions. Sign up required online. 5:30pm, no cover. Women’s Empowerment, 1590 N A St.

TUESDAY, 8/22

19TH AMENDMENT 97TH ANNIVERSARY RALLY:

AWAAZ: RECRUITING THE NEXT GENERATION OF SIKH & SOUTH ASIAN PUBLIC OFFICIALS:

A rally that’s intended to unite women from all walks of life to honor those who have worked in the suffrage movement since the mid-19th century. Noon, no cover. California State Capitol, 1315 10th St.

SATURDAY, 8/19 LEGALIZE DEMOCRACY HOUSE PARTY FILM SCREENING & DISCUSSION: Screening of a mini-documentary about the movement to pass the We the People Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which is intended to end corporate personhood and get money out of politics. Post-film, there will be a discussion that will include opportunities to learn more about the Move to Amend movement and get involved locally. 7:30pm, no cover. Organize Sacramento, 1714 Broadway.

PEOPLE’S CONGRESS OF RESISTANCE BBQ FUNDRAISER: Come enjoy food and hear updates from speakers about the People’s Congress of Resistance and ongoing local struggles in the anti-racist and immigrant rights movements, the struggle against police terror, the LGBTQ and disabled rights movement, the fight for healthcare and the defense of science. 6:30pm, $5 suggested donation. 2860 Florin Road.

WALK FOR WISHES 2017: Spend your Saturday morning walking with friends, family and co-workers for this MakeA-Wish fundraiser for children with life-threatening medical conditions. 8am, register and donate online. California State Capitol, 1315 10th St.

SUNDAY, 8/20 ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE - A MORAL ISSUE: An opportunity to engage with other faith traditions in the work of improving the sustainability of the environment.

The outcome will be the formation of the Interfaith Environmental Justice Committee comprised of Sacramento community members, primarily from the organizations of Sacramento ACT. 1pm. Unitarian Universalist Society of Sacramento, 2425 Sierra Blvd.

Join the American Sikh Public Affairs Association for this day-long forum to discuss why under-representation of Sikh and South Asian representation in legislature exists, how can we fix it and which strategies can be implemented to recruit the next generation of lawmakers and community leaders. 10:30am. California State Capitol, 1315 10th St.

CIVIC ENGAGEMENT DINNER - AMERICAN SIKH PUBLIC AFFAIRS ASSOCIATION: An annual dinner that brings together elected officials, community leaders and Sikh civic leaders from across the state. Keynote speeches will be delivered by California Congressman Ro Khanna (17th District) and California State Assemblyman Ash Kalra (27th District). 6pm, $50$75. Mirage Banquet Halls, 2159 El Camino Ave.

CLASSES SATURDAY, 8/19 BEYOND DICE IMPROV FOR ROLE PLAYING AND TABLE TOP GAMES: Learn improv to strengthen and embody your characters, improve your storytelling and world building craft, enhance your team work and collaborative play, manage and enjoy those unexpected situations when plans go awry, unlock your ideas and enhance your creativity. 1pm, $20. CSZ Sacramento, 2230 Arden Way, Suite B.

JOURNEY TO AWAKEN KIRTAN: Yoga of sound.

Music, mantra, chants and bhajans from Hindu, Buddhist , Kundalini and Western traditions. No experience is required. 7pm, $10 suggested donation. Lion’s Roar Dharma Center, 3240 B St.

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THURSDAY 08/17 The acousTic den cafe

Hannah Jane Kile, Josiah Gathing, Lili St. 10271 fAiRWAY DRivE, ROSEvillE, (916) 412-8739 Anne, 6pm, $5

mONDAY-WEDNESDAY 8/21-8/23

Hillary Scott, 7pm, $10

Ukulele group, 11am, no cover

Open-Mic, 6:30pm, W, no cover

Fridays Are a Drag, 8pm, call for cover

Spectacular Saturdays, all night, call for cover

Industry Sundays, 8pm, no cover

Half-off Mondays, 8pm, M, no cover; Trapacana, 10pm, W, no cover

Blue lamp

1400 AlHAmbRA blvD., (916) 455-3400

State of Krisis, L3FTY, Nena Kapone and more, 9pm, call for cover

MoxieCrush Burlesque Comedy Show, 8pm, $10

Burning Landscapes, Death Party at the Beach, Desario, 8pm, call for cover

Civil Youth, Fate Under Fire, National Lines, Caliscope, 8pm, $10

Panzergod, Gloam, Defecrator, 8pm, W, $10

The Boardwalk

Awells Birthday Show, 9pm, $12

Represa, California Child, Dead Celebrities, A Hero To Fall, 8:30pm, $10

Battle of the Boardwalk w/ Delta Heavy and more, 8pm, $15-$20

The cenTer for The arTs

Doyle Bramhall II, 8pm, $24-$27

314 W. mAiN ST., GRASS vAllEY, (530) 274-8384

with Josiah Gathing 6pm Thursday, $5.

The Acoustic Den Cafe, Roseville Americana pop

SUNDAY 08/20

Yo! And The Electric, 1pm, no cover; The Time Warps, 7pm, no cover

#Turntup Thursdays College Night, 8pm, no cover

9426 GREENbACk lN., ORANGEvAlE, (916) 358-9116

Hannah Jane Kile

SATURDAY 08/19

Badlands

2003 k ST., (916) 448-8790

PHOTO COURTESY Of EmilY O’NEil

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Pokey LaFarge, 8pm, $22-$27

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Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

Karaoke, 9pm, M, Tu, W, no cover

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Dragon: New Wave Tour, 9pm, $25-$30

Western Line Dancing, 7pm, no cover

Decades, 7pm, call for cover

Sunday Funday Pool Parties, 3pm, call for cover

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

fox & Goose

Stepping Stone, 8pm, $5

Rollin’ Blackouts, Gillian Underwood & The Lonesome Doves, 9pm, $5

Scotty McConaha and others, 9pm, $5

2107 l ST., (916) 443-8815 2000 k ST., (916) 448-7798 1001 R ST., (916) 443-8825

Goldfield TradinG posT

Cuco, 7pm, W, $12

1630 J ST., (916) 476-5076

halfTime Bar & Grill

5681 lONETREE blvD., ROCkliN, (916) 626-6366

harlow’s

2708 J ST., (916) 441-4693

“Let’s Get Quzzical” Trivia Game Show Experience, 7pm, Tu, no cover

Karaoke Happy Hour, 7pm, call for cover

Live DJ and Karaoke, 9pm, call for cover

Groove Thang, 9pm, $5

Tyrone Wells, Mike Annuzzi, 5:30pm, $15-$18

Joy & Madness, Mama’s Gravy, 9:30pm, $10-$13

The Alarm, The Ghost Town Rebellion, 8pm, $20-$25

The hideaway Bar & Grill hiGhwaTer

On The Low, 9pm, call for cover; Eric & Juan, 10pm, call for cover

1910 Q ST., (916) 706-2465

luna’s cafe & Juice Bar

Sac United Poetry Slam, 6:45pm, no cover

1414 16TH ST., (916) 441-3931

memorial audiTorium 1515 J ST., (916) 808-5181

Bring It! Live, 8pm, $32.75

Tussle, 10pm, Tu, call for cover; Only The Good Stuff, 10pm, W, call for cover

Frank Joseph G, PuddleStomper, Old & Grey, 8pm, $6

Comedy Showcase w/ Jaime Fernandez, 8pm, W, no cover

Rancid, Dropkick Murphys, 6:30pm, $45-$50

The Doobie Brothers, 8pm, W, $65-$125

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with Death Party at the Beach 8pm Saturday, call for cover.

Blue Lamp Alternative rock

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Music Night: Open Acoustic Jam, 7pm, no cover

Trouble Makers, Control Freaks, Sell Woods, 9pm, $7

Lipstick Dance Party, 9pm, $5

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

Exodus: Gothic Industrial Nightclub w/ DJ Nacht DOOM, 10pm, $5

Not Like You, 8pm, call for cover

Dahlia Fiend, Blue Oaks, DJ Lady Grey, 5:30pm, $8-$10

2708 J ST., (916) 441-4693

670 fUlTON AvE., (916) 487-3731

See How They Run, Ricky Berger, 6:30pm, Tu, $8-$12

Salty Saturday, 9pm, call for cover

Burning Landscapes

1901 10TH ST., (916) 442-3504

Adrian Bellue Project, Chad Wilkins, 5:30pm, $15-$20 Kill The Shark, WORWS, VVOMEN, The Challenge, 8pm, $5

2565 fRANkliN blvD., (916) 455-1331

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

www.momosacramento.com

Karaok “I,” 9pm, Tu, no cover; Open-Mic Night, 7:30pm, W, no cover Open 8-Ball Pool Tournament, 7:30pm, $5 buy-in

8/22 6:30PM $8ADV

8/17 5:30PM $15ADV

8/19 5:30PM $8ADV

SEE HOW THEY RUN

TYRONE WELLS

DAHLIA FIEND, BLUE OAKS & DJ LADY GREY

(CD RELEASE) RICKY BERGER (ALL AGES)

MIKE ANNUZZI (ALL AGES)

8/20 6:30PM $10ADV

COMEDY BURGER

8/18 9:30PM $10ADV

RICH CORPORATION

MAMA’S GRAVY

8/25 8PM $15

JOY & MADNESS

SWINGIN’ UTTERS

WESTERN SETTINGS

SPILLER 8/23 7PM $7

MICHAEL RAY TRIO

8/19 8PM $20ADV

THE ALARM

THE OUTCOME 8/24 7PM $7

THE GHOST TOWN REBELLION

ADDVERSE EFFECTS (FROM PORTLAND) THROBAQ 8/27 6PM $15ADV

ZYAH BELL SACRAMENTO’S FAVORITE DJS EVERY FRI & SAT AT 10PM

For booking inquiries, email Robert@momosacramento.com

Rich Corporation, Spiller, 7pm, Tu, $7

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

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

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HOSTED BY NGAIO BEALUM 8/22 7PM $7

Comedy Burger w/ Ngaio Bealum, 6:30pm, $10-$25

8/26 8PM $10ADV

THE GREG GOLDEN BAND

8/20 5:30PM $15ADV

ADRIAN BELLUE PROJECT CHAD WILKINS

8/27 7PM $12.50ADV

TALKING DREADS

(REGGAE TRIBUTE TO TALKING HEADS)

COMING SOON 08/31 Ryder Green 09/01 Com Truise / Nosaj Thing 09/02 Parsonfield 09/04 George Kahumoku Jr. 09/05 Gangstagrass 09/07 Martin Moreno 09/08 Martin Barre 09/09 Joel the Band 09/10 Danielle Mone Truitt 09/12 The Church 09/13 Marshall Crenshaw y Los Straitjackets 09/14 Geographer 09/15 Dead Winter Carpenters 09/16 Kawika Kahiapo 09/17 Pup 09/18 Robbie Fulks 09/19 Andrew Belle 09/20 Curren$y 09/21 Willie Walton 09/22 Tennyson

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Reggae Festival September 2nd-3rd International Food & Merchandise Vendors Artists Performing:

Enjoy a Billiant sampling of local foot hills wines & food at 20 locations throughout Downtown

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TICKETS: sierravintners.com or at the Nevada City Chamber of Commerce 132 Main Street, downtown Nevada City nevadacitychamber.com (530)265-2692

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The Decemberists with Olivia Chaney

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13 MaIN ST., WINTERS, (530) 795-1825

Placerville Public house

414 MaIN ST., PlaCERvIllE, (530) 303-3792

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FRIDaY 08/18

Nicola Són, 8pm, $17

Coco Montoya, 8pm, $20

Pint & Flight Night: Anderson Valley Brewing, 6pm, no cover

Powerhouse Pub

614 SUTTER ST., FOlSOM, (916) 355-8586

The Press club

SaTURDaY 08/19

SUNDaY 08/20

MONDaY-WEDNESDaY 8/21-8/23

Dana & Woody, 8:30pm, no cover

Good Samaritans, 8:30pm, no cover

Left of Cool, 1:30pm, no cover

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

Rock Monsterz, 10pm, $10

Retro Metro, 10pm, $10

John Clifton, 3pm, $10

2030 P ST., (916) 444-7914

The Fruitbat, Halcones, Brotha RJ, Crush, 8:25pm, call for cover

social nighTclub

SNBRN, 10pm, no cover before 11pm, $4

Joseph One, 10pm, no cover before 11pm, $5

Romeo Reyes, 10pm, no cover before 10:30pm, $5

sol collecTive

DANZA, 6:30pm, call for cover

Wide Open Walls panel, 6pm, call for cover

Escritores del Nuevo Sol meeting, 10am, no cover

1000 K ST., (916) 947-0434 2574 21ST ST., (916) 585-3136

Vinyl Exam: Lesson 45, 9pm, M, call for cover; Emo Night, 8pm, W, call for cover

soPhia’s Thai kiTchen

1320 DEl PaSO BlvD., (916) 927-6023

Bobby Zoppi & The Corduroys, 11pm, no cover

swabbies on The river

5871 gaRDEN HIgHWaY, (916) 920-8088

PHOTO COURTESY OF SaRaH PHENIX

Line Dancing Lessons, 8pm, no cover; 18 & Over Country Dance Night, 9pm, $5-$10

Barb’s Da Bomb Birthday Bash, 7pm, $5

Hot Country DJ Dancing, 9pm, no cover 21+, $5 ages 18-20

Third Friday Reggae w/ Mystic Roots, Marla Brown, 6:30pm, $10

Appetite 4 Destruction (Guns ’N’ Roses Tribute), 7pm, call for cover

Third Sunday Country w/ Rachel Steele, Whiskey Dawn, 1pm, $10

Thunder valley casino resorT 904 15TH ST., (916) 443-2797

Mind X, 5:30pm, no cover; Blue Lotus, 9pm, $6

Jimmy Pailer, 5:30pm, call for cover; Lew Fratis, 9pm, $7

Loose Engines, 5:30pm, call for cover; Daniel Castro, 9pm, $10

wildwood kiTchen & bar

Ryan & Kaz, 7pm, no cover

Jayson Angrove, 7pm, no cover

Hanz Eberbach, 7pm, no cover

Band in the Beer Hall: Cloudship, 6pm, no cover

Band in the Beer Hall: Digisaurus, 6pm, no cover

MASK, 7pm, call for cover

556 PavIlIONS lN., (916) 922-2858

yolo brewing comPany

1520 TERMINal ST., (916) 379-7585

Destroy Boys

West Coast Swing & Taco Tuesday, 7pm, Tu, $5

with Hobo Johnson 8pm Friday, $9.

The Band Room, Placerville Punk

Ramon Ayala, Chiquis Rivera, 7pm, $49.95-$179.95

1200 aTHENS avE., lINCOlN, (916) 408-7777

The Torch club

Luna Yoga, 8pm, M, call for cover

West Nile Ramblers, 9:30pm, $5

129 E ST., SUITE E, DavIS, (530) 758-4333

sToney’s rockin rodeo

Kuikatl music workshop, 1pm, call for cover

Monterey Pop Festival tribute show, 4pm, Mudfolk, 9pm, Tu, no cover; Peter Petty, call for cover 9pm, W, $6 Whiskey on the Wood: Nikka Japanese Whiskeys, W, call for time & cover Band in the Beer Hall: Wonder, 3pm, no cover

Live Blues and Cornhole, 4pm, W, no cover

NorCal’s 2nd Annual Barber Battle, 1pm, $24

Cold War Kids, 7pm, M, $27.50; The Adicts, The Moans, Igor Spectre, 7pm, W, $20

Films: Salad Days, Filmage: The Story of Descendants/All, 7pm, no cover

Milo, Randal Bravery, Sparks Across Darkness and more, 8pm, M, $10

all ages, all the time ace of sPades

Louder Than Love: A Tribute to Chris Cornell & Chester Bennington, 7pm, $15

cafe colonial

Union Hearts, Bastards of Young, Trinidad Silva, Flip Offs, 8pm, $6

The colony

3512 STOCKTON BlvD., (916) 718-7055

At Both Ends, United Defiance, Surface Report, 8pm, $5-$7

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Nzuri Soul Band, 8pm, $15

1417 R ST., (916) 930-0220 3520 STOCKTON BlvD., (916) 718-7055

1400 E ST., (916) 551-1400

Bitter Inc., Killer Couture, Corroded Massacre, 8pm, $5-10 sliding scale

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Chemical State, Exposure, Dying For It, Crucial Measures, 8pm, $7 Sacramento Video Game Ensemble, 8pm, $10

Joy & Madness with Mama’s Gravy 9:30pm Friday, $10-$13.

Harlow’s Funk, soul

All Ages Welcome!

1417 R Street, Sacramento, 95811 • www.aceofspadessac.com Sunday, auguSt 20

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One trend is toward minimalism that borrows from the clean Bauhaus style of the 1920s. Companies like Nug, TOK Concentrates, SCLabs and hmbldt have adopted the philosophy that “less is more.”

Hmbldt’s look is particularly austere, with no letter spacing and lowercase letters in Carousel type face.

“The team pulled from cues in the wellness space to ensure the entire brand experience communicates safety, efficacy and quality,” says hmbldt’s Derik McCarty.

New York artist Mark Sarosi spearheaded hmbldt’s visual identity with muted colors and white to create a sophisticated look.

On the other end of the graphic spectrum are companies with irreverent designs, like Diggity Dabs’ dripping right-side brain, and Shaman Extracts, which features a high priest using a dab-rig. Unregistered Extracts also parodies the dabbing experience inside the Great Seal of California — a grizzly bear sits back smoking while Minerva protects the oozing concentrate.

One of the most recognizable cannabis mascots is the Korova three-eyed cow, drawn by Sacramento tattoo artist Corey Bernhardt of Reclamare Studio. “Most of my illustrations start with a series of sketches,

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by Rob bRezsny

FOR THE WEEk OF AUGUST 17, 2017 ARIES (March 21-April 19): “To disobey in order

to take action is the byword of all creative spirits,” said philosopher Gaston Bachelard. This mischievous advice is perfect for your use right now, Aries. I believe you’ll thrive through the practice of ingenious rebellion -- never in service to your pride, but always to feed your soul’s lust for deeper, wilder life. Here’s more from Bachelard: “Autonomy comes through many small disobediences, at once clever, well thought-out, and patiently pursued, so subtle at times as to avoid punishment entirely.”

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Congratulations! I

expect that during the next three weeks, you will be immune to what psychoanalyst Joan Chodorow calls “the void of sadness, the abyss of fear, the chaos of anger, and the alienation of contempt and shame.” I realize that what I just said might sound like an exaggeration.

Aren’t all of us subject to regular encounters with those states? How could you possibly go so long without brushing up against them? I stand by my prediction, and push even further.

For at least the next three weeks, I suspect you will also be available for an inordinate amount of what Chodorow calls “the light of focused insight” and “the playful, blissful, allembracing experience of joy.”

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The coming days

would an excellent time to celebrate (even brag about) the amusing idiosyncrasies and endearing quirks that make you lovable. To get you inspired, read this testimony from my triple Gemini friend Alyssa: “I have beauty marks that form the constellation Pegasus on my belly. I own my own ant farm. I’m a champion laugher. I teach sign language to squirrels. Late at night when I’m horny and overtired I may channel the spirit of a lion goddess named Sekhmet. I can whistle the national anthems of eight different countries.

I collect spoons from the future. I can play the piano with my nose and my toes. I have forever banished the green-eyed monster to my closet.”

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Your education may

take unusual forms during the coming weeks.

For example, you could receive crunchy lessons from velvety sources, or tender instructions from exacting challenges. Your curiosity might expand to enormous proportions in the face of a noble and elegant tease. And chances are good that you’ll find a new teacher in an unlikely setting, or be prodded and tricked into asking crucial questions you’ve been neglecting to ask.

Even if you haven’t been particularly street smart up until now, Cancerian, I bet your ability to learn from uncategorizable experiences will blossom.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “If you love someone, set

them free,” said New Age author Richard Bach.

“If they come back, they’re yours; if they don’t, they never were.” By using my well-educated intellect to transmute this hippy-dippy thought into practical advice, I came up with a wise strategy for you to consider as you re-evaluate your relationships with allies. Try this: Temporarily suspend any compulsion you might have to change or fix these people; do your best to like them and even love them exactly as they are.

Ironically, granting them this freedom to be themselves may motivate them to modify, or at least tone down, the very behavior in themselves that you’re semi-allergic to.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In 1892, workers

began building the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York. But as of August 2017, it is still under construction. Renovation has been and continues to be extensive. At one point in its history, designers even changed its architectural style from Neo-Byzantine and Neo-Romanesque to Gothic Revival. I hope this serves as a pep talk in the coming weeks, which will be an excellent time to evaluate your own progress, Virgo. As you keep toiling away in behalf of your dreams, there’s no rush. In fact, my sense is that you’re proceeding at precisely the right rate.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In accordance with

the astrological omens, I hereby declare the next two weeks to be your own personal Amnesty Holiday. To celebrate, ask for and dole out forgiveness. Purge and flush away any nonessential guilt and remorse that are festering inside you. If there truly are hurtful sins that you

still haven’t atoned for, make a grand effort to atone for them -- with gifts and heart-felt messages if necessary. At the same time, I urge you to identify accusations that others have wrongly projected onto you and that you have carried around as a burden even though they are not accurate or fair. Expunge them.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): How many countries has the United States bombed since the end of World War II? Twenty-five, to be exact. But if America’s intention has been to prod these nations into forming more free and egalitarian governments, the efforts have been mostly fruitless. Few of the attacked nations have become substantially more democratic. I suggest you regard this as a valuable lesson to apply to your own life in the coming weeks, Scorpio.

Metaphorical bombing campaigns wouldn’t accomplish even 10 percent of your goals, and would also be expensive in more ways than one.

So I recommend using the “killing with kindness” approach. Be wily and generous. Cloak your coaxing in compassion.

A fabled stable

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You know

At Fairytale Town, Evanne Harrison takes care of a mythic cast of animals. The assistant animal keeper spends her days with Eeyore, an occasionally melancholy donkey, Maddie, a red-haired cow that allegedly jumped over the moon, and Charlotte, a friendly tarantula that lives next to a hive of bees that make honey and lip balm for the gift shop. There are also three little pigs, three billy goats gruff, a rabbit named Peter and his sisters.

In addition to providing a tangible illustration of some familiar fables, these Fairytale Town creatures are often the first members of their species that children meet, helping to instill within them a gentler disposition toward animals for the rest of their lives. I remember my first visit well.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Here’s a defini-

How did you get this job?

about the Ten Commandments, a code of ethics and behavior that’s central to Christianity and Judaism. You may not be familiar with my Ten Suggestions, which begin with “Thou Shall Not Bore God” and “Thou Shall Not Bore Thyself.”

Then there are the Ten Indian Commandments proposed by the Bird Clan of East Central Alabama. They include “Give assistance and kindness whenever needed” and “Look after the well-being of your mind and body.” I bring these to your attention, Sagittarius, because now is an excellent time to formally formulate and declare your own covenant with life. What are the essential principles that guide you to the highest good?

tion of “fantasizing” as articulated by writer Jon Carroll. It’s “a sort of ‘in-brain’ television, where individuals create their own ‘shows’ -- imaginary narratives that may or may not include real people.” As you Capricorns enter the High Fantasy Season, you might enjoy this amusing way of describing the activity that you should cultivate and intensify. Would you consider cutting back on your consumption of movies and TV shows?

That might inspire you to devote more time and energy to watching the stories you can generate in your mind’s eye.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In 43 cartoon

stories, the coyote named Wile E. Coyote has tried to kill and devour the swift-running flightless bird known as the Road Runner. Every single time, Wile E. has failed to achieve his goal. It’s apparent to astute observers that his lack of success is partly due to the fact that he doesn’t rely on his natural predatory instincts. Instead, he concocts elaborate, overly-complicated schemes. In one episode, he camouflages himself as a cactus, buys artificial lightning bolts, and tries to shoot himself from a bow as if he were an arrow. All these plans end badly. The moral of the story, as far as you’re concerned: To reach your next goal, trust your instincts.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You temporarily

have cosmic permission to loiter and goof off and shirk your duties. To be a lazy bum and meander aimlessly and avoid tough decisions. To sing offkey and draw stick figures and write bad poems.

To run slowly and flirt awkwardly and dress like a slob. Take advantage of this opportunity, because it’s only available for a limited time. It’s equivalent to pushing the reset button. It’s meant to re-establish your default settings. But don’t worry about that now. Simply enjoy the break in the action.

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

I interned here when I was in college. I was an animal science major, originally. Then I ended up switching majors to wildlife conservation biology. I decided I didn’t want to do the whole vet school thing: lot of schooling, very competitive, lot of indoor stuff and I like being outside.

What is that construction crew working on?

The chicken coop, or Little Red Hen’s House.

We currently have four chickens and we are getting 11 more little chicks towards the end of this month. The chickens are really popular because we let them out and they get to roam around and dig for worms over by the Crooked Mile.

Were these chicks, um, conceived here?

Our rooster is really old, so no...he doesn’t help our hens lay fertile eggs.

Why does the cow have long, red hair?

Maddie is a miniature Scottish Highland Cattle. When we first got her, she was mistaken for a yak, a dog and a pony. She’s going on nine months old. So she’s still a baby and she’s very friendly, very affectionate. She’ll stand there and lick your arm for an hour if you let her. Her tongue feels like a cat’s so it freaks people out at first because it’s very raspy.

Is it important to get animals when they’re younger?

We work really hard to socialize them just to make sure that everyone has a good experience. Having people petting you and touching you all day can be stressful. But we

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Which of the three billy goats gruff is the biggest troublemaker?

make sure that they’re used to it.

Are all these animals smaller than usual?

All, but one [a Flemish rabbit] are miniature.

That makes them very approachable to the kids. They’re about their same size. They’re not some huge animal.

Does the donkey share the disposition of his literary namesake?

Actually, yes. He can be a bit ornery and he just stands in his corner looking mad at the world. But he’s a love—he has his moments where he’ll come up and let kids pet his cheeks and stuff. He’s just got a grumpy seeming disposition. Sometimes, we all need to hang out in the corner.

And you’ve got tarantulas?

We have quite the collection. We’ll actually take out Charlotte, a Chilean rose-haired tarantula, and let people hold her. She’s really friendly. Some of these other ones are not friendly. Like the bird-eating tarantula.

Not super friendly. But they’re still really cool to look at. We feed them Madagascar hissing cockroaches, really big cockroaches that we let kids pet and hold.

Do kids want to pet and hold the cockroaches?

Yeah. Most kids, surprisingly, aren’t as afraid of bugs as adults. Most kids think bugs are cool. Just because they’re so different from most of the animals you see in your daily life. Most of the time, it’s the parents that don’t want to see the tarantulas or hold the cockroaches.

Fregley, a miniature Nubian, he’s the troublemaker. He puts his front hooves on their little house and he eats the moss and pulls off the shingles in the process. There’s no stopping him. He doesn’t usually get to come out because he chews on people’s jackets and sweaters and steals walkie-talkies and phones—classic goat, trying to eat whatever he can.

Besides shingles, are there any special treats these animals enjoy?

The donkey and the cow both love banana peels, of all things, so a lot of the staff members will give them their leftover banana peel. And the cow loves watermelon this time of the year. The cafe serves watermelon. So we’ll get the watermelon rind. And the pigs love that too. Well, the pigs love anything. These guys are funny because we’ll bring them out and they’re so food-oriented that the entire time, they’ll just be sitting there eating grass and they don’t even notice the kids petting them.

Why is it important to have kids interact with the animals?

In an urban environment like Sacramento, a lot of kids don’t even know what these animals are before coming here. There’s kids that have never seen a cow before. But it also teaches them to approach animals and be friendly because the little kids just want to smack them or jab them really hard.

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