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Unnatural disaster After a summer of record-breaking heat, California is on fire.

This is definitely not the first time that statement has appeared in print.

But this summer was hotter. And these fires are worse. And those facts are definitely connected. And this is not an accident.

I have been writing about forest fires in the West for 30 years.

Scientists have been predicting that forest fires would worsen as a result of climate change since before I began.

The first U.S. Senate Committee hearings on the topic of “Ozone Depletion, the Greenhouse Effect, and Climate Change” took place in June of 1986. They were convened not by the newly elected Sen. Al Gore, but by Sen. John H. Chafee, a Republican.

“This is not a matter of Chicken Little telling us the sky is falling,” Chafee said at the hearing. “The scientific evidence … is telling us we have a problem, a serious problem.”

As everybody knows, science has gotten much better at proving the situation has gotten much worse. Last October the National Academy of Science made news with a study showing that fully half of the increased fire activity could be blamed on global warming. The New York Times’ story was darkly poetic: “Residents are forced to flee, homes are incinerated, wildlife habitats are destroyed, lives are lost.” While that exact scene played out here in Northern California this week, EPA chief Scott Pruitt announced the repeal of the Clean Power Plan.

The following night in Davis, Hillary Clinton read passages from the victory speech she never gave. She had a comprehensive plan for fighting climate change, and a strategy for winning Republican support. I miss centrist Dems like Clinton and liberal Reeps like Chafee.

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Killer story Re “Blood on the tracks” by Scott Thomas Anderson (Feature, October 5): I’ve been reading SN&R for probably 10 years, and this is the best article I’ve read. Four years ago, a friend and I were going around the rail yard interviewing and spending time with railhoppers while researching for a screenplay we wanted to write. Then this happened, and all of the sudden the wanderlust and curiosity was tainted by the uncomfortable fact that this lifestyle is dangerous. Having been born and raised in Roseville, hearing the trains clanging from my bedroom every night, this story hit home.

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Fear the bums Re “Blood on the tracks” by Scott Thomas Anderson (Feature, October 5): Let this be a lesson to SN&R readers. Having romantic illusions of life as a nomad, and slumming with marginal people, can kill

you, as happened to Josh Alpert.

And so many of the people in these and other subcultures are not “disenfranchised” or victims; they are in fact the perps.

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Prop. 13 had help Re “How Prop. 13 helped cause the housing crisis” by Jeff vonKaenel (Greenlight, October 5): No, Prop. 13 didn’t cause the housing crisis. It exacerbated it.

Tenants were already organizing against high rents and egregious treatment in the mid-1970s. But we also have to look at the disinvestment/reinvestment strategies of [finance, insurance and real estate] industries (going back to the Panic of 1907) and the increasing levels of real estate subsidies.

In Sacramento, we have to note the nearly instant disinvestment/ reinvestment scheme that enabled

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Re “Going viral” by Raheem F. Hosseini (News, October 5): Thank you for drawing attention to this very serious issue. It is appalling, the lack of response from the city and county. I’m glad to hear they will be getting vaccines out to people, but people can still get infected after being vaccinated. It should also be noted that of the 460-plus cases in San Diego, only 69 of them were unhoused people. Ultimately the best way to prevent an outbreak is to open the bathrooms.

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While denying that his political organization was favoring the candidacy of Roza Calderon, and denying that they were in a relationship, Paul Smith appears to have admitted the affair in a series of texts to another lover. photo ILLUStRAtIoN by MEG LARKIN

House of cards, part II Former colleagues say Congressional candidate Roza Calderon and wannabe political player Paul Smith pile deceit upon denial

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While watching Maroon 5 perform at BottleRock, a Napa Valley music festival in late May, Roza Calderon snapped a photo and uploaded it to her Instagram page, @ElectRoza2018. The post urged festivalgoers to “say hello to the future Congresswoman of [California’s Fourth District]” who was “enjoying the sun and the amazing line-up.”

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of the Placer Women Democrats—a group organizing against the incumbent congressman, Tom McClintock. The $790 that paid for the festival tickets was part of nearly $1,900 in allegedly embezzled funds, which Calderon later returned to the organization, where she had served as volunteer treasurer.

Calderon returned the money after the group’s leaders accused her of repeatedly using the organization’s credit card for her personal use—bank records show that the BottleRock tickets and multiple other unapproved purchases were charged to that

card. PWD’s current treasurer Sharleen Finn, a professional accountant, claimed that Calderon disguised 19 purchases, avoided meetings with the group’s board members and failed to provide more than “two or three” receipts for five months’ worth of expenditures.

“We find Ms. Calderon’s actions, denials, and falsehoods a sad betrayal of trust to those she purported to serve,” read a statement provided by the PWD board.

Calderon did not reply to numerous requests for comment until press time, when she emailed a statement calling the

PWD’s charges “allegations made up or manipulated to seem serious or truthful.”

She responded directly to several of the allegations. She said the festival tickets “were mistakenly applied to the PWD credit card because of an error in Apple Pay. The charges posted to the wrong account after a lengthy delay. When the error was discovered, there was never any question about payment.

“The bulk of the remaining expenses were for operational costs of the club. It became impossible, however, to deal with the PWD board on these issues because they stopped communicating with me and leveled personal attacks.”

Finn, who said she and Calderon had been friends before any of this, said it is impossible for Calderon’s account to be true. After she left the organization, Calderon asked Finn to be the treasurer for both her campaign and PWD, Finn said.

Finn said she didn’t feel politically experienced enough to join Calderon’s campaign and so declined the invitation. But PWD’s board soon approved her as the treasurer.

When Finn reviewed the club’s finances, she said she discovered that Calderon had

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“When a transaction comes into the accounting system, it’s not set up for any sort of category yet,” Finn said. “You have to give it a category. She went in and gave it a category, which means it wasn’t an accident.”

According to bank records, Calderon started using the card on January 17. By the time she left her position as PWD’s treasurer, members say, Calderon had spent nearly half their account at her own discretion on gasoline, movie downloads and other items. She also made out a $409.33 check to herself and entered the charge into the accounting system as payment for “GoDaddy” and “meals and entertainment,” according to PWD. The organization alleged that after Calderon avoided meetings with board members for weeks, PWD sent her a demand letter with these conditions: send a check for $1,871.81 and remove any mention of PWD from her campaign page—particularly the listing of herself as a co-founder, as the group had been founded before Calderon joined. Calderon eventually refunded the amount to Finn and deleted any connection to PWD from her campaign website.

Calderon said the fact that she paid the money does not prove that she had taken it.

“I grew tired and frustrated by the situation and decided to write a check to the club and be done with it.,” she said. “I know it cost me money I shouldn’t have had to pay, but writing a check and getting rid of the negativity and backbiting and hurt feelings was a great personal decision.”

“She was crying as she was giving me the check, crying on my shoulder,” said Finn. “And in my head I was going, ‘Oh my god, I’m being played, and I’m falling for it.’ It tears me up. I want to care about her, but she plays you. She’s really good at it.”

Although they’re yet to officially endorse anyone, PWD said they continue to support female candidates who will run against McClintock, whom they believe is vulnerable to losing his seat during the 2018 election, despite winning 63 percent of the vote in 2016.

Since the election, Congressional District 4 has seen an upsurge in activism.

Calderon’s primary opponents include national security strategist Jessica Morse and MIT political science professor Regina Bateson, both of whom have raised tens of thousands of dollars, marshaled dozens of campaign volunteers and earned national media coverage.

On October 24, PWD will be hosting

a candidate debate in Rocklin. Calderon “magnificent assholes,” and then issued a is not invited. threat: “Don’t do it by the end of the day Placer Women Democrats members tomorrow, and [SN&R’s] story will get a say, they couldn’t reach Calderon just LOT more interesting.” weeks into her tenure because she had Smith directed them to forward any shifted her efforts to co-found another follow-up questions from SN&R to him, so political group, the Indivisible Citizens of that he could draft their responses. They all California’s Fourth District, along with declined this arrangement.

Paul Smith, a novice activist and former Meanwhile, SN&R was contacted by Apple marketer. a woman with evidence that Smith and In its name, and in statements on Calderon were romantically linked. The its website and social media, ICA-04 woman, who asked for anonymity, said continues to present itself as part of the that she was also involved with Smith. nationwide Indivisible movement. In The woman sent screenshots of multiple fact, the Indivisible Guide threw text conversations with Smith, Smith’s group out back in in which he goes into detail June. (See “The divider,” about the relationship.

July 20).

Calderon sent SN&R “We find Ms. Calderon left an email that opened Calderon’s actions, ICA-04 when with two intriguing she declared her hypotheticals. denials, and falsehoods candidacy because “IF, ICA-04, the a sad betrayal of trust to its bylaws state that group I co-founded those she purported no candidate for and worked very office can be a board hard to build, was to serve.” member. But in June, created to elevate my Placer Women Democrats Calderon returned profile as a candidate, to ICA-04 after Smith what would be wrong ignited the controversy that with that?” she wrote. “IF, got the group banished by the I were dating Paul, a divorced national Indivisible Guide. The 10 man, what is wrong with that?” remaining ICA-04 board members resigned When asked, Calderon didn’t answer her and started another group, the CD-4 own questions.

Indivisible Network, which is backed by the On June 17, Calderon held a campaign national organization. event explicitly “sponsored by” the Soon after Calderon started working San-Francisco-based social media startup with ICA-04 again, the group began posting company SayBubble, which purports to links to events, donation pages and positive “power communities of action.” Jerome news coverage of Calderon’s campaign.

Naidoo, SayBubble’s CEO, hosted the event Smith faced accusations that he was using and made a pitch to Calderon’s supporters ICA-04 to further Calderon’s candidacy, in about his company after being introduced as violation of its mandate to remain neutral a man who had given a “hefty donation” to regarding political races. Responding to the her campaign. criticism, Smith emailed SN&R that the “If SayBubble is paying for the cost of group’s “equitable” treatment of each candi- a fundraising event for a federal candidate, date was critical to it remaining “viable.” which is open to the general public, then On the first article SN&R wrote about it would be making a prohibited corporate ICA-04 in July, an anonymous commenter contribution,” said campaign finance lawyer claimed that Smith and Calderon were Carol Laham of Wiley Rein LLP. romantically linked, making it difficult for According to FEC filings, the CEO him to remain impartial. Shortly thereafter, gave the maximum individual contribution: Smith drafted an email for the former board $2,700—although, for whatever reason, his members of ICA-04 to send to SN&R charname is listed as “Maidoo” on the forms. acterizing his and Calderon’s relationship.

Calderon says she refunded Naidoo’s Smith offered to repair their fractured contribution “[b]ecause it was important relationship if the board members stood to me that there was not even a hint of a behind this statement: “Paul and Roza were, conflict of interest.” If true, that refund will if nothing else, good friends. Whether or not appear on the FEC report that comes out they had a romantic relationship is unknown on October 15. to everyone on the team. I’ve had my suspiBack in late June, Smith had emailed cions, as have the others, but we really don’t SN&R saying he hoped to turn his know. They did, and apparently continue to ICA-04 leadership position into “gainful spend a good amount of time together.” employment.” A month later, Smith Also in the preface, Smith called announced the organization would start a the resigned members of the board partnership with SayBubble. Ω

President Donald Trump may be continuing his mission to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, but thousands of women across the Los Rios Community College District are already without access to health care services on campus—and they’ll remain so for the foreseeable future.

In March, Women’s Health Specialists, a nonprofit clinic that had partnered with Los Rios, shuttered its Sacramento branch.

The closure left the district’s campuses without a female-centric health provider. Since then, American River College, Sacramento City College, Cosumnes River College and Folsom Lake College have all scrambled to replace these services.

Women’s Health Specialists announced it was ending local services in December due to low medi-cal reimbursement rates. The development is now compounded by the Trump administration’s decision to let employers opt out of providing contraceptive health care on religious grounds. As of now, the only contraception services that American River College can offer students are condoms and a referral to an outside clinic.

American River College student Elena DeNecochea used the lack of services to start a club on campus: Feminists united. “I think it’s crazy that they charge you for tampons but they give you free condoms,” DeNecochea said. “They will put more money into funding a new stadium or a gym, but not for women’s health care.”

The Feminists United Club went as far as attempting to donate money directly to the school to reinstitute pap smears.

“Legally they couldn’t take the money,” DeNecochea observed, adding the school said her group could purchase pregnancy tests and donate them to the health clinic. “Ideally, I would like to help out our campus,” she said, “but I just don’t know if they are going to let me at this point.” (Luis Gael Jimenez)

ring oF Fires A ring of flames closed around the Sacramento region this week, as more than a dozen wind-whipped wildfires stampeded across Northern California and left public safety officials searching for new superlatives to describe a fearsome trend.

“We’re seeing conditions we haven’t seen before,” Chief Ken Pimlott, director of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire, said during an October 9 press conference in Mather.

Those words proved prescient 24 hours later, when the death total rose from 13 to 15 as Pimlott was addressing reporters for a second straight day about a series of fires that mysteriously sparked around the same time Sunday night. The fire chief told reporters Tuesday that when the stories are told of what happened, he expects to hear of people asleep in their homes as the flames raced down in ambush.

Speaking from the state Office of Emergency Services’ local command center, Pimlott told reporters and those watching a live Facebook feed of his address that 17 major fires were devouring property and lives across the North Bay and Sacramento Valley areas. “When you look at the destruction, it’s literally like it exploded,” Pimlott said. “This is just pure devastation.”

The hardest hit communities were in Napa County, where three active fires had torched 53,000 acres as of late Tuesday morning.

Events on the ground forced state and federal officials to revise the figures of destruction. As of October 10, some 2,000 homes and other structures had been destroyed and 115,000 acres torched across a North Bay region known for its scenic wine country.

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In 2014, as wildfires ravaged drought-parched California, the federal court system was discussing reducing the state’s inmate population of roughly 115,000 men and women. Because inmates provide a critical source of labor as firefighters, state leaders balked. Lawyers in the office of then-Attorney General Kamala Harris said that releasing too many prisoners “at this time would severely impact fire camp participation—a dangerous outcome while California is in the middle of a difficult fire season and severe drought.”

Harris, now a U.S. senator representing California, told Buzzfeed back in 2014 that she was “shocked” when she read about her attorney’s argument in the media.

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sentences and managing inmates as a source of cheap labor.

Three years later, this state’s parched scrubland and forests are again burning on the tail end of a record hot summer and, as they have for decades, about 4,000 convicted criminals are facing the flames.

“When you hear that a fire has been 50 percent, or 100 percent, contained, that’s inmate firefighters doing the job,” said Bill Sessa, a spokesman for the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

The inmates, who roughly equal the state’s civilian firefighting forces, don’t fly helicopters, drive bulldozers or handle hoses. What they primarily do, Sessa explains, is clear brush to create 6-footwide strips of bare earth called fire breaks, meant to halt advancing wildfires.

For each day in the program, Sessa says, an inmate has two days knocked off his or her sentence.

The inmates also get paid for their work, though not much. They receive $2 per day for their time spent in any of the state’s 43 inmate firefighter camps, and an extra dollar per hour while on a fire line.

“It’s very cost-saving for the state,” said Scott McLean, a spokesman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire.

Some activists have decried the program as an abuse of power over a vulnerable sector of the population.

David Fathi, director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s National Prison Project, has warned that employing prison inmates, in general, opens the door to potential abuse of the incarcerated

population. To him, the 2014 statement from the attorney general’s office highlights the risks associated with prison labor.

“It’s appalling that the state would argue that people should be kept in prison not because they’re dangerous, but so they can continue to provide cheap labor,” Fathi said. “The purpose of incarceration is to protect public safety, not to provide a captive labor force for the government.”

Though dangerous—three inmate firefighters have died on the job in the past two years, and five in eight decades— Sessa says many inmates consider the camps preferable to the steel and cement of a prison cell.

“The environment is a lot more appealing than one in a jail yard behind an electrified fence,” he said. “Every inmate serving in the firefighting camps raised their hand and said they want to be there.”

Digging fire breaks is preceded by several weeks of training. Some inmates wind up serving several years as firefighters—gigs usually terminated by their release from prison. McLean, at Cal Fire, feels the program offers a service to inmates hoping to improve their lives.

“Hopefully, we’re helping them,” he said.

It definitely helps the state.

California saves millions in would-be wages by deploying the inmates. Once freed from prison, McLean says, his agency screens job applicants in an effort to avoid those with criminal backgrounds. That means years of service on firelines can essentially mean nothing once a person’s prison sentence ends.

Gayle McLaughlin, former mayor of Richmond, recently reached out to media outlets to argue that the state is taking advantage of one of California’s most vulnerable populations.

“They’re volunteering to work, but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be getting a fair wage,” said McLaughlin, who is running for lieutenant governor in 2018.

“This is abuse of incarcerated individuals.

A dollar an hour to stand at the frontlines of a wildfire is slave labor.”

Sessa said such comments originate from people “who know nothing about this program,” which was initiated in the 1930s. He points out that inmates have no living expenses to cover. “The state’s taxpayers already pay $76,000 per year per inmate to support these people,” he said.Ω

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Homelessness on trial Brewing for 10 years, legal challenge may finally put Sacramento’s camping ban before a jury

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By contrast, Merin says, the Tommy After close to a decade, Sacramento’s Clinkenbeard Legal Clinic at Loaves & Fishes anti-camping law is headed for what could be a welcomes 50 to 60 homeless people a month historic trial. Civil rights attorney Mark Merin said seeking free legal counsel for infractions and his long-gestating legal challenge, Allen v. City of misdemeanors connected with their inability to find Sacramento, is scheduled to go before a jury on housing.

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An SN&R review of jail logs showed that The civil lawsuit originated in late 2009, after 95 bookings for unlawful camping were issued Merin allowed nearly two dozen homeless people this year throughout Sacramento County through to take up residence on a vacant piece of property October 3. (The numbers cited are much higher, as he owned in a light-industrial area of the city, the superior court recorded nearly 800 violations according to appellate court documents and a phone of just the city’s law during a shorter span of interview with Merin. Merin gave them his written time.) In 70 of the 95 cases reviewed by SN&R, permission, brought in portable latrines and two service providers to offer care within the confines of no addresses were listed for the persons given the citations or their addresses were listed as “homethe fenced lot. The deal was that Merin’s 22 guests less” or “transient.” Even the cases with addresses could stay until they qualified for shelter. don’t necessarily indicate someone is housed.

Police officers enforcing the city’s ban on At least four unlawful camping tickets urban camping rousted the camp’s occuwere issued to people who gave 400 pants with citations and the confiscaBannon Street, in Sacramento, as tion of their gear, which included “We’re going their home address. That’s the tents and bed rolls. The campers to show that nonaddress for the Union Gospel returned, only to be cited again.

Mission, a homeless shelter.

The third time they came back, homeless people are Merin’s is just one of the they were arrested. routinely allowed to lawsuits around the country Merin filed the lawsuit camp.” that have challenged the arrests on behalf of his homeless and citations of people without guests, one of whom the suit Mark Merin shelter as violating the Eighth was named for—Matthew civil rights attorney Amendment’s ban on cruel and Raymond Allen. Allen v. City of unusual punishment. Judicial precSacramento alleged the city violated edent has tipped in recent years toward the homeless plaintiffs’ constitutional the view that local governments violate rights to sleep and due process. the rights of their most vulnerable residents when A Sacramento Superior Court judge determined enforcing laws against sleeping outside. that Merin’s side failed to establish why his homeMayor Darrell Steinberg acknowledged the lack less clients lacked shelter and dismissed the case. of shelter to accommodate the growing homeless Merin then filed an appeal to the state’s Third population. But he disputed the characterization District Court of Appeals, which upheld most of the that the city law was applied unfairly. “I’ve always lower court’s ruling, except for one critical aspect: believed and continue to believe that we should not Merin and his clients could move forward with a criminalize homelessness and I know that we do not request for declatory relief based on the argument criminalize homelessness,” he told SN&R in July. that the city’s anti-camping law was being selecMerin, who also plans to file a companion tively enforced against homeless people. lawsuit in federal court, expects the upcoming More than two years after that February 2015 trial to open people’s eyes. “We’re going to ruling, that’s what Merin aims to do. “We’re going really describe what it’s like to be homeless in to show that non-homeless people are routinely the city,” the barrister said. “It’s gong to be a allowed to camp,” Merin said. public event.” Ω That’s certainly been the experience of Jeremy Robert Nevis, a 29-year-old collector who told SN&R he has frequently camped out overnight in front of local stores in anticipation of Nintendo product launches and never been approached by Web extra: An extended version of this story is available at www.newsreview.com/sacramento law enforcement.

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would have done well when social Most days I think I have a difficult job rights activist Lateefah Simon told her publishing three alternative newspapers, at a time when giant internet corporations personal story about being a teenage mother in and out of the justice system, are gobbling up the advertising revenues and described her work with young, that used to support independent journalmarginalized women of color in the ism. But last week I attended the conferBay Area. The audience was moved by ence of the County Welfare Directors UC San Francisco physician Margot Association, a nonprofit association of Kushel’s stories about providing health California human services directors who services to the population of aging homeoversee welfare, food stamps, Medi-Cal less people in San Francisco. They heard and Child Protective Services. My job how Child Protective Services is shifting suddenly seemed pretty easy. its philosophy to moving children out of Nothing in my job compares with group homes and into homes with foster running a navigation system that helps parents who maintain a relationship people in need find government with the biological parents, services, such as emergency but recruitment has been a housing. Nothing compares problem, particularly for with making life-changolder foster children. ing decisions about We should Only those who whether a child should celebrate those care deeply about be removed from his what they do would or her parents’ home who are willing to sit through three with only limited work with people in days of sessions on information about crisis. such technical topics the present and future. as “Recruitment of Nothing compares with resource homes and trauma helping those suffering informed practice in schools” from severe mental health or “Collaborating and connecting issues wade through complex housing partners to serve families government paperwork that would be a experiencing homelessness.” What these struggle even for someone like myself, human services directors are doing is a college-educated man who is not incredibly difficult and so important. currently suffering from hallucinations.

We have been reminded recently of Their challenges include the opioid the dangerous work of our nation’s first epidemic, the rising costs of housing, responders. These individuals, at great increasing income inequality, and the personal risk, willingly rush into the fire anger that is being directed at our or toward the gunfire to save lives. We society’s most helpless. are so lucky that there are brave people At a convention with 900 people who take these risks for others. But I engaged in the same field, one gets a feel was reminded at the CWDA convention for the group: What they are like, what that we should also celebrate those who jokes make them laugh, who they admire are willing to help people in crisis, 24/7. and how engaged they are. This was They deal with emergencies that are my first CWDA convention. I was there just as critical, and they are tasked with because our publications division has helping people who are marginalized and created eight-page newspapers for many vulnerable. I have just two words to say: of the county agencies. As I attended the Thank you. Ω workshops and sessions, I was repeatedly struck by the empathetic audience response to the stories about people Jeff vonKaenel is the president, CEO and majority overcoming obstacles. owner of the News & Review.

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In late August, Wells Fargo admitted to opening 3.5 million accounts without customers’ approval. Some accounts incurred fees, which were passed on to the victims, who learned they couldn’t sue the bank due to a contract stipulation for their “legitimate” account.

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240,000 individuals face food insecurity in Sacramento County, according to the Sacramento Regional Community Foundation, which just established a fund to lower this number by partnering with the Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services. The program will streamline the local emergency food system. The foundation is acting on the recommendations of a report it helped produce that offered ways to get the area’s ample produce to all of its residents. More stuff like this will get Sacramento to embrace its new city slogan.

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steban Villa still remembers the moment art came into his life.

He was in the first grade when he lifted the wooden lid of his desk to uncover something he’d never seen.

“There was this big, beautiful box of Crayola crayons,” he said. “And I said, ‘Wow.’” Villa was born in Tulare during the Great Depression. His parents were farm workers who spent summers traveling with their nine children, following crops from Southern California to Washington. The whole family worked. His parents didn’t read or write, so pencils, crayons and paper were new tools for the young boy.

“I still remember the aroma of the crayons,” he said. “How they have that waxy smell.”

Later in life, his most important work required a team: the Royal Chicano Air Force.

Although Sacramento has recently seen a resurgence of murals in pop-up events such as Wide Open Walls, Villa’s group proves that this form of public art has much deeper roots in the city. The Royal Chicano Air Force is a nearly 50-year-old artist and activist collective formed on the Sacramento State campus in the early 1970s. Led

by Villa and a fellow teacher, the late José Montoya, and supported by a network of students, artists, writers and politicians, members painted murals that have come to define the Sacramento cityscape, taught free community classes and started a bookstore. They also printed political posters and raised money for the United Farm Workers.

Originally the more directly named Rebel Chicano Art Front, some

thought RCAF was an abbreviation for the Royal Canadian Air Force.

It became a joke that stuck, and the Royal Chicano Air Force was born.

The collective’s most tangible mark on the city comes in the form of painted walls, some providing a bright backdrop to countless events, like the popular RCAF mural at Southside Park. Others are faded in color but still rich with meaning. “Metamorphosis” on Fourth and L streets, near the Macy’s in what was once Downtown Plaza, is filled with indigenous imagery of Earth, humans, animals and the cosmos existing in harmony.

Hidden gems include a camouflaged fish rising from blue waves or a bull charging out of the clouds. Both were painted in the 1970s.

At the time, the works filled an artistic void in the city—before RCAF, there were few if any murals to speak of. Depictions of Chicano history were especially rare, but art education made RCAF’s work possible.

Villa and Montoya met at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland in the 1960s. They shared a similar background. Both enrolled through the GI Bill after serving in the Korean War, and Montoya’s parents were also farm workers from Mexico. They both became high school art teachers, and after 10 years of teaching, pursued master’s degrees in fine arts.

They attended Sac State and were later hired as professors. At the time, staff were required to do a community service project. Villa established the Barrio Arts Program, where students taught free art classes and painted murals throug hout the city.

“The list is endless of students that took our barrio art classes and brought the university to the streets of Sacramento. And that was new,” Villa said.

Noticing a lack of Chicano literature in the Sac State’s Hornet Bookstore, Montoya and Villa opened an off-campus bookstore focused on Chicano literature and history, La Raza Bookstore on F Street.

Rudy Cuellar, Tere Romo, Louie Gonzales and Phil Santos were the students and early RCAF members who helped found and expand the bookstore. Cuellar, who studied art at Sac State in the early ’70s, remembers road-tripping through California to buy Chicano books to sell. They found interested customers, and the space grew to include a gallery.

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Sacramento’s new art scene. The group allied with Joe Serna, who would become Sacramento’s mayor in 1992, and advocated for the arts in planning commissions.

“We didn’t study history,” Villa said. “The RCAF made history.”

Ella Diaz, an ethnic studies professor at Cornell University, grew up in Sacramento and recently released her book, Flying Under the Radar with the Royal Chicano Air Force. In the book, she chronicles RCAF’s history of artistic activism through a sociopolitical lens.

It wasn’t until Diaz was on an airplane heading to college on the East Coast that she first heard of the collective.

Like many kids from Sacramento, Diaz went on shopping trips with her mom to Downtown Plaza, walking through the tunnel with the vibrant RCAF mural “Laserium” painted on the walls, without knowing who made it.

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Femiknotsies Chicana raised in California public schools, she had never heard of the group. She decided to study the RCAF in college, returning to California to research the group and form relationships with its surviving members.

Their work motivated her to document their history, and she said they continue to inspire artists and activists today. Some local artists have gotten heat for participating in art events like Wide Open Walls, which some see as going hand-in-hand with gentrification projects. But that’s not the position of the RCAF. “The RCAF artists who are still alive would be the first to say, ‘Put your art up on the wall,’” Diaz said.

And she’s right. Neither Villa or Cuellar will speak critically of muralists in Sacramento today. They see the fresh paint on Sacramento walls as a continuation of their work.

“It’s art that’s going to bring the attention to Sacramento,” Villa said.

“It’s going to give Sacramento its character.”

The RCAF continues to be part of that character. Their most recent project is a colorful mural that will go into the new Golden 1 Center, just a block from where Villa’s “Metamorphosis” still lives.

Villa, now 87, spends most days sketching folks he sees in the same few bars or coffee shops in Midtown.

He paints in his Elk Grove studio, plays music and puts out albums.

Alone, Villa has created thousands of artworks.

“The RCAF had its day, it did its job. It left Sacramento and the rest of the world a better place,” Villa said.

“There’s more jobs, more opportunity, more beauty, more color.”

By continuing to share their stories, Villa and Cuellar hope to see the next generation of artists, writers and creatives build on the work of RCAF and construct their own narratives.

“I want the next generation to make history—their way,” he said. Ω

Rudy Cuellar and American River College professor Dr. Ricardo Catón will give a presentation on “Día de Los Muertos and Chicano Identity.” The Day of the Dead Oak Park event will be held at 6 p.m. Wednesday, October 18, at La Venadita restaurant as part of Day of the Dead Oak Park.

“I feel like my vagina should have more hair,” said Megan Nguyen, a recent UC Davis graduate wearing a sun hat at night. “Celebrate the hair.”

Nguyen was not speaking of her own body part—rather, the cloth she was embroidering with the word “UTERATI” above a uterus. She was one of about a dozen women and one man who had congregated at Bottle & Barlow last Wednesday to stitch hoops for Fembroidery, a participatory project put on by the art advocacy group the Cliterates.

At the end of their cycles, the vaginal awareness artworks will be displayed at the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art in Davis from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. on October 13 and auctioned off to benefit a local women’s organization.

When I first joined the outdoor picnic table, participants were shy. But after a few happy hour beers and pink cocktails, we had embroidered sassy sayings like “We Grab Back” surrounded by whiskers, a vagina fashioned into an air balloon, and simply “Happy Pussy”—this last one by the lone man. We sang along to Sia and Beyonce on a Bluetooth speaker and clinked glasses to toasts including, “The clit is lit.” When learning how to create a split stitch, an embroiderer shouted, “We should call it a clit stitch!” The group broke out into snickers every few minutes.

Passersby would often do double-takes. “Everyone’s doing something cool tonight,” a woman lamented as she was ushered by her date inside the bar. Another interloper listened to an explanation of the project, and then simply cheered, “Pussy power!” before walking off.

The host of the event, Belinda Huang, is one of the Cliterate’s several local artists organized by UC Davis professor Glenda Drew. In April, they exhibited their vagina-themed embroideries at the Nasty Women Oakland show and auctioned the pieces off for Planned Parenthood. At the bar, Huang’s piece-in-progress showed a red vagina above the word “flora”; the male participant initially thought it said “flow.”

“We chose embroidery as our medium because it’s traditionally domestic,” Huang explained, “but we thought it would be a good idea to reclaim that lost art and embroider something that has a lot of shock value—which it shouldn’t have! The vagina’s a body part.”

I meditated on that thought One participant’s while stitching vaginal tubes, using interpretation of a pussy. minimal gestures to reveal their outlines. The uterus, a triangle; the fallopian tubes, two squiggles bookended by little ovarian circles. Altogether, it looked akin to a fist making a hang-ten symbol, so underneath, I embroidered “tubular.” Now, the vagina seemed as ordinary as a hand.

Meanwhile, I overheard another stitcher say, “Don’t underestimate the power of a good orgasm.”

Huang surveyed the two rows of concentrated faces.

“The sense of community is really beautiful,” she said.

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The first exhibit featured prints by Mexican artist Jose Guadalupe Posada, and La Raza Bookstore y Galeria Posada was born. Today, it is known as the Latino Center of Arts and Culture on Front Street.

“We had photography, we had silkscreen, we had theater in there,” Cuellar said. “It was that big of a space. … There [was] this little pot of gold, and little by little more people would come in.”

The group carved out opportunities to build community. They established the Centro Artistas Chicanas, the RCAF nonprofit and physical space where they hosted classes, hand-printed thousands of posters and served food through their Breakfast for Los Niños program, which was modeled after a Black Panthers program.

The RCAF played an integral role in bringing the traditions of Día de los Muertos, Cinco de Mayo and Mexican Independence Day celebrations into California’s capital city. They were at the forefront of legitimizing

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Kabab Hut does have a good selection of kebabs served African, East Sacramento Good for: West Tandoori fish, veggie samosas, chicken tikka masala on sputtering-hot metal plates and billowing steam like meaty, fragrant fireworks. The char-grilled kebabs tended toward the dry side, but I found a few other items on the Pakistani, Rocklin $$$ menu more compelling.

The kitchen takes a creative approach to standard pillars of subcontinental cooking, such as lamb korma and chicken tikka masala, as well as a wide array of fish dishes.

Winning Pakistani food in Rocklin? Absolutely.

Haider’s tandoori fish made with huge chunks of tender Nestled in an unassuming shopping center at the grilled fish and piled high with smoky bell peppers, onions corners of Fairway and Stanford Ranch, you’ll find an and cilantro was especially seductive paired with his crisp, equally unassuming little restaurant called Kabab Hut pillowy naan. (spelled with two A’s, or your maps app won’t find Perhaps the most comforting dish on the it). Clean and friendly, it emanates the fragrance Make menu is the chicken tikka masala, which is of grilled chicken and Pakistani-Indian spices. anything but standard here. A creamy, highly sure you After opening in June, Kabab Hut is perhaps seasoned tomato sauce hides a treasure save room for a Rocklin’s best kept dining secret. trove of whole pistachios, providing a satisWalking through the door, guests are little somethingfying crunch, something most chefs seem to greeted by simple but warm decor and the something after forget when producing this Indian mainstay. grinning face of chef-owner Guddu Haider, The savory fare is well worth the trip, but dinner. famous in San Francisco for opening a series of there is one other aspect of Kabab Hut some popular restaurants. diners may miss: the selection of down-home While the offerings at Kabab Hut are a mix of Pakistani-Indian desserts, dishes you normally would Pakistani and Indian cuisines, Haider himself is from not find anywhere but your Pakistani auntie’s kitchen Pakistan, so his fare leans more heavily toward the table. With housemade rice pudding, vanilla custard with meat-friendly side of the subcontinent. The menu’s Indian fruit chunks, sweet cheese dumplings soaked in cream and influence provides a generous vegetarian selection, which cardamom, and Indian-style ice cream, make sure you save includes the ubiquitous veggie samosas and an intensely room for a little something-something after dinner. comforting daal masala. Spicy-food-lovers will be happy It’s exciting to see a diversity of flavor becoming more here, though the kitchen will tone down the heat for more available east of Sacramento, where locals deserve an sensitive guests. Two house sauces on every table—creamy impressive meal on par with those found in dining capitals yogurt-mint and sweet tamarind—add flavor while like San Francisco. Ω

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Much like a Caesar salad or a Pavlova meringue, these peppers bear the name of an actual person. Jimmy brought pepper seeds with him to the United States from Italy in the 19th century and nurtured his plants, eventually donating them to the Seed Savers Exchange. Later on, the long Italian sweet pepper variety was inducted into Slow Food USA’s Ark of Taste as an heirloom. Taste the glory of fruity Nardello peppers raw or fried, or string them up to dry and save some seeds for your own garden.

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Canon fodder: As the sous chef at Mulvaney’s B&L, then the chef de cuisine at Grange, Brad Cecchi garnered rumblings of acclaim. But when he reached for the next rung on the ladder, he found none.

“It became obvious to me around 2010 that there wasn’t a job for me here,” Cecchi said. “[Grange] was locked in. Ella had a chef. The Kitchen had a chef.

Mulvaney’s has Mulvaney. The Waterboy has Adam [Schulze]. So there wasn’t a job for the kind of ambition that I had.”

After several resume-building years away in Cleveland and Calistoga, Cecchi returns to Sacramento to oversee the kitchen at Canon East Sacramento (1719 34th Street), which opens to the public on October 10. The upscale tavern-style restaurant will offer a boutique beverage program and

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dishes designed to be shared, the way pizza or sushi is split at other restaurants, Cecchi said.

On the second iteration of a menu that will change with the seasons, he offers hearty plates like ciderlacquered smoked salmon with chicharrón and celery-root mousse ($32); and two pounds of slow-roasted lamb, complete with pickled raisins, mint yogurt and flatbread ($31). Starters include local squash in red curry ($10), house tots topped with mole sauce ($8) and chicken drumsticks seasoned with the smoky-sweet urfa chile pepper from Turkey ($8).

“If you’re not doing farm-to-fork, you’re irrelevant,” he said. “But we’re using fish sauce and garam masala and fermented black garlic and dried chilis from South America and the Middle East. We’re using the ingredients others brought to this region and painting our own picture with it.”

Canon’s owner, Clay Nutting, experienced some legal issues surrounding payments to vendors at his ambitious and now-discontinued TBD Fest. Nutting admitted the music festival “didn’t work out,” but he and Cecchi add that their investors are all “feeling good” about the restaurant.

And not without reason. Before the grand opening, Cecchi said he sold out three invitation-only dinner services of 140 people in less than two hours.

With his wife due to have a baby any day, Cecchi seems ready to settle into a kitchen with space for his ambition.

“The name of our restaurant is our road map of how to operate,” he said. “Across the board, we wanted to offer the canon of what we thought was cool and delicious.

And I want to be among the canon of chefs in this town.” Ω

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Shopping in the dark Farmers markets have proliferated within the Sacramento region, allowing shoppers to peruse an open-air market on almost any day. But at night, the opportunities for this social experience are scarce. To remedy this—at least for one night in Davis—The Good Scoop partnered with Sudwerk Brewing Co. to bring out some of the region’s finest vendors in an under-the-stars celebration of local artisans. Hosted at Sudwerk (2001 Second Street) from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. on October 14, the Davis Night Market’s food options will include pizzas from Hot Italian, fresh fish from Zumapoke & Lush Ice and tasty bites of Japanese fusion from the Koizora food truck. To mark the debut of a potentially reoccurring event, Sudwerk will be pouring its Estate Lager, brewed with hops grown on its own property. The event will also bring out the Bakuhatsu Taiko drumming club from UC Davis, so even if Davis residents can’t smell the market, they’ll hear it.

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garnish. Other herbivorous items are a side of sautéed snap peas or cauliflower for $6; The Grill salad— greens, tomato, red onion, avocado, cucumber, radish, sunflower seeds, vinaigrette—for $13; and the Seasonal Quinoa Bowl— spinach, blistered tomato relish, mushrooms, fresh vegetables, grilled avocado—for $18. That’s right, an $18 quinoa bowl. But it’s $16 during lunchtime.

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Macbeth; 8 p.m. thursday, friday and saturday; $12-$22. Big idea theatre, 1616 Del Paso Boulevard; (916) 960-3036; www.bigideatheatre.org. through october 28.

“Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble,” chant the three witches in William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, famously, as they conjure up prophecies of succession. It’s these three shadowy figures who inspired Big Idea Theatre to stage the Scottish play during the dark and spooky Halloween season, according to Director Scott Divine.

The haunting imagery is apparent as soon as you walk into the already darkened theater and are greeted by a large tree adorned with skulls, cobwebs and flickering lanterns. There’s a full moon, as well as video clips of movies and TV shows including The Twilight Zone, The Adams Family and Night of the Living Dead. Though the clips set up the production to be campy, this is still a dead-serious play—emphasis on “dead”—the fate of most the characters.

The cast of this Macbeth is fully committed, with a powerful Steven Campbell as Macbeth, who reminds us that you don’t want to mess with this general guided by raw ambition and poked along by a plotting wife. Campbell commands the stage and makes Shakespeare’s dense language

When the Sacramento Ballet opens its 2017-18 season Friday with its annual Beer & Ballet program, it will be the first opening night performance Ron Cunningham has missed in 30 years. Cunningham, co-artistic director of the dance company with wife Carinne Binda, said it may even be the first performance he’s ever missed in his 30 years here.

In a telephone interview from Dayton, Ohio, where he is staging his Great Gatsby ballet for the Dayton Opera, Cunningham said the dancer-created program is one of his proudest achievements with Sac Ballet.

“More than half the company [15 of 27 dancers] is creating world-premiere works for the program,” he said. As usual, the styles vary from classical to experimental—“wherever the choreographers want to go. Carinne and I basically try not to watch them work. You don’t want the ‘boss’ looking over your shoulder.

Some people feel the necessity to ‘help’ the dancers, but we want the raw talent.

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—Jim Carnes

Beer and Ballet; 7 p.m. friday-saturday, 2 p.m. sunday; $54. fry-Paoletti stage at cLara, 2420 n street. (916) 552-5810; www.sacballet.org; through october 29.

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Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Edward Albee’s searing drama is about a middle-aged couple’s marriage that is careening toward a cliff, driven by alcohol and a mutually agreed-upon deception that unravels late one night in the presence of a younger, seemingly more innocent couple. In the hands of B Street Theatre actors Kurt Johnson, Elisabeth Nunziato, Jason Kuykendall and Dana Brooke, as directed by Dave Pierini, it is devastating and breathtakingly brilliant.

Th, F 8pm, Sa 5pm and 9pm, Su 2pm, Tu 6:30pm, W 3pm and 6:30pm. Through 10/29. $27-$39. B Street Theatre, 2711 B Street; (916) 443-5300; www.bstreettheatre.org.

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“Time Warp” time Just in time for Halloween, Green Valley Theatre Company is presenting The Rocky Horror Show 2017. This has come to be a Sacramento tradition, and this year’s theme is psychedelic. A newly engaged couple get caught in a storm and seek shelter in the home of the mad transvestite scientist Dr. Frank-N-Furter. The all-time cult classic inspires audience members to participate in the fun onstage. Yes, it’s time to do “The Time Warp” again. 11:59 p.m. Friday and Saturday; additional shows 8 p.m. October 21, 28 and 29; 11:59 Tuesday, October 31; $18. Green Valley Theatre Company, 3823 V Street; https://greenvalleytheatre.com.

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up “loose ends” from the original. More a straight sequel than a reboot, Blade Runner 2049 takes place 30 years later, in a world where a new messianic technocrat named Niander Wallace (Jared It took me more than two decades to fully Leto, bad) has replaced Tyrell, creating a breed of appreciate Blade Runner, Ridley Scott’s 1982 sci-fi obedient replicants (i.e., slave-labor robots with game-changer. I was flummoxed by the film when I artificial intelligence) to replace their first saw it as a teenage cinephile, partly because star revolutionary forebears.

Harrison Ford’s studio-mandated narration was and Meanwhile, Earth remains a rainswept, neon-lit remains atrocious, and partly because the film’s bloated shithole, a refuse pile for the remains of humanity reputation didn’t prepare me for such a minimalist and unfit for off-world colonization, and blade mercurial mood piece. Where I expected runners still hunt and “retire” rogue epic chases and fight scenes, I got epic old-model replicants.

Vangelis and meditations on memory Ryan Gosling plays a young blade and existence. runner named “K,” sporting an Director Denis As Scott released one Blade updated model of Harrison Ford’s Runner recut after another over Villeneuve is the brown trench coat, and living out a the years, excising the tin-eared modern master of similarly lonely and booze-soaked narration and ending the story on existence.

K shares his home empty, thundering a much harsher note, my appreciawith a female companion named tion for the film began to grow. portent.

Joi (Ana de Armas), but I’m not By the time he made it to The Final supposed to talk about that.

Cut in 2007, I was fully on board, and In fact, according to a “Studio while I don’t consider it a masterpiece, Directives” list passed out to critics, there I am an unabashed Blade Runner fan. I are many things I’m not supposed to talk about. appreciate Ridley Scott’s 1982 original at least well One directive forbids me from mentioning the enough to recognize the blunt, turgid travesty that is defining trait of the protagonist, a “spoiler” revealed Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049. in the opening minutes. I might be stepping over Possibly the least provocative provocateur in the line by even mentioning that Blade Runner contemporary cinema, Villeneuve (Prisoners; Arrival) 2049 has a protagonist, or that the protagonist is the modern master of empty, thundering portent, and has been an essential element of drama since the the dystopic future world of Blade Runner gives him Greeks. a gigantic space to practice his darkly didactic arts. So I’ll play the game and preserve the plot of Blade long, mystery and sensuality! Hello, world-building mythology and plot, plot, plot! I am reluctant to dismiss Runner 2049, but it will take me at least another two decades to appreciate it. Ω any macro-budget Hollywood production with more on its mind than franchise management, but I don’t think that’s the case with Blade Runner 2049.

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When his fiance is murdered in a terrorist strike, young Mitch Rapp (Dylan O’Brien) launches a one-man vendetta. This brings him to the attention of a CIA exec (Sanaa Lathan), who recruits him for training under a veteran cold warrior (Michael Keaton). Directed

by Michael Cuesta and adapted by Stephen Schiff, Michael Finch, Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz from the novels of Vince Flynn, the movie is an efficient intro to a new franchise, though it can’t avoid a sense that no matter how well it’s all done this time—the globe-hopping, the explosive set pieces, the we’re-not-sodifferent-you-and-I villain, the apocalyptic climax—we’ve seen it all before. Still, O’Brien has an acceptable (albeit modest) level of charisma, Keaton adds gritty gravitas, and Cuesta keeps it all clipping along. J.L.

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American Made

Tom Cruise stars as real-life pilot Barry Seal, who ran drugs for the Medellín Cartel in the 1970s and ’80s, went undercover for the DEA when he got busted, and was murdered by the cartel in 1986. In director Doug Liman and writer Gary Spinelli’s telling, Seal works not for drug money, but at the shadowy behest of the CIA (in the oily person of Domnhall Gleeson); Seal himself is just an allAmerican guy-next-door going with the flow— and while he’s at it, raking in more cash than he knows what to do with. At 55, Cruise still does “impish charm” pretty well, and there’s no denying the rollicking energy he and Liman bring to bear. The last act is overloaded with dots for us to connect (Iran-Contra! CIA! Oliver North! George H.W. Bush!), but the movie—like Seal’s shady career—is fun while it lasts. J.L.

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Dolores

Peter Bratt directs this passionate but by-the-numbers documentary about Dolores Huerta, the labor leader who helped form the nation’s first farm workers union in the 1960s. Although frequently misidentified and dismissed as Cesar Chavez’s “assistant” or even his “girlfriend,” the twice-divorced mother of eleven was just as instrumental as Chavez and the rest of the movement’s male leaders in organizing workers and forming the union. The story of such a bold and brave human being deserves a similarly bold and brave documentary treatment, but Dolores rarely strays from its prosaic template, offering little more than a rote, bullet-point biography of a Great Woman. There are some genuine moments courtesy of Huerta’s children, many of them still emotionally raw from a childhood spent on her sidelines, but despite (or perhaps because of) the cooperation and participation of Huerta, the film only occasionally feels personal. This is more a monument than a movie. D.B.

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Flatliners

A promising young medical intern (Ellen Page) persuades several colleagues (Diego Luna, Nina Dobrev, James Norton, Kiersey Clemons) to join her in a dangerous experiment to investigate near-death experiences; those who are “killed” and then resuscitated find themselves haunted by frightening visions and hallucinations. Hard to believe it’s been 27 years since Joel Schumacher’s sci-fi thriller with Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts and Kevin Bacon, but it has. This loose remake (directed

by Niels Arden Oplev, with writer Ben Ripley overhauling Peter Filardi’s original) updates the visions with state-of-the-art CGI, and the result is satisfyingly creepy. The new cast injects some new blood (no pun intended), and Sutherland makes a sporting cameo appearance. Nothing special, perhaps, but no disgrace either. J.L.

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Home Again

Recently turned 40 and separated, a woman (Reese Witherspoon) moves back to Hollywood with her two daughters.

Complications arise when three aspiring filmmakers (Pico Alexander, Nat Wolff, Jon Rudnitsky) move into her guest house and her husband (Michael Sheen) turns up looking to reconcile. Writer-director Hallie Meyers-Shyer,

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Pony Princess Twilight Sparkle and several of her adorable pals set out to protect their land from the evil Storm King. The meandering plot is merely a framework to involve as many Hasbro toys as possible and separate little girls from their parents’ money. There are some catchy (if forgettable) songs to get toes tapping, but the animation looks like something doodled with colored pencils in an elementary school notebook. And considering that this cutesy-pie drivel couldn’t possibly interest anyone over the age of 7, letting it babble on for an hour and 39 minutes is sheer madness. Blame director Jayson Thiessen and writers Meghan McCarthy, Joe Ballarini, Rita Hsiao and Michael Vogel. Leading voices are mostly unknown, but Emily Blunt, Kristen Chenoweth, Zoe Saldana and others turn up in support. J.L.

the daughter of Nancy Meyers and Charles Shyer, turns out exactly the kind of slick, shallow comedy that Mom and Dad used to make—glib rather than funny, coy rather than subtle, leaning heavily on the kind of talent it needs but doesn’t deserve, and all sparkling with a spotless gleam that makes the Hallmark Channel look like film noir. The story moves with the predictable monotony of a Swiss clock that cuckoos every five minutes, and cheap jokes and wasted actors abound. J.L.

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Kingsman: The Golden Circle

When a massive missile strike all but wipes out the Kingsman super-secret service, the lone surviving agent (Taron Egerton) and support tech (Mark Strong) investigate, leading them to Statesman, an allied American agency, and putting them all on the trail of a megalomaniacal, 1950s-nostalgic drug trafficker named Poppy (Julianne Moore) deep in the South American jungle. This sequel to 2014’s Kingsman: The Secret Service is even more enjoyable than the original—though like that fun-filled spy-fest, it could profit from trimming 15 or 20 minutes.

The best news: Colin Firth’s Harry is back from the dead, and the Statesman staff includes Jeff Bridges, Halle Berry and Channing Tatum.

Director Matthew Vaughn and his co-writer Jane Goldman expand on the Mark Miller/Dave Gibbons comic books in high style. J.L.

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The LEGO Ninjago Movie

In the city of Ninjago, young Lloyd (voiced by Dave Franco) is scorned and bullied because his deadbeat dad is the evil Lord Garmadon (Justin Theroux); nobody knows that whenever Garmadon attacks the city, it’s Lloyd, disguised as the Green Ninja, who leads the counterattack. When Garmadon conquers the city, Green Ninja and his band embark on a quest to retake the city—and bridge the chasm between father and son.

The LEGO movie franchise may be reaching a point of diminishing returns. Cranked out by an unruly mob of three directors and nine writers, this third outing is of interest only to kids ages five to seven—and any parents with serious daddy issues. MVP goes to Jackie Chan, who introduces the story in a live-action framing

sequence, voices Lloyd’s guru and choreographs the LEGO martial arts fights. J.L.

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Mother!

Darren Aronofsky has cast such a long shadow over cinema for the last two decades, it’s hard to believe that Mother! is only his seventh feature film. Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem star as a couple sequestered in a suspiciously Edenic mansion. He is a famous writer struggling to get started on a follow-up book, while she is a hopelessly devoted, self-denying earth mother meticulously rebuilding their burnt mansion piece by piece.

Much to her horror, interlopers enter the surreal mansion and make themselves right at home, increasing in number and fervency the closer the devotion-hungry writer gets to finishing his next book. Religious allegories ensue.

This is about as self-contained as a movie can get, but it’s also a stupendously tense, disturbing and powerful piece of filmmaking, with Aronofsky in full command even as the world seems to spin off its axis in the final half hour. D.B.

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The Mountain Between Us

When bad weather strands them at the Salt Lake City airport, two strangers, a neurosurgeon (Idris Elba) and a photojournalist (Kate Winslet), charter a private plane to fly them out—only to have the plane crash and leave them injured and marooned high in the Rockies. Adapted by Chris Weitz and J. Mills Goodloe (from Charles Martin’s novel) and tensely directed by Hany Abu-Assad, it’s essentially a two-person survival drama leaning heavily on the chemistry of the two stars (Beau Bridges as their ill-fated pilot and Dermot Mulroney as Winslet’s fiancé barely amount to cameos). The final few scenes ramble on a bit longer than they need to, and the ending flirts with outright hokum, but Elba and Winslet come through—likewise the deadly/beautiful mountain scenery, sharply photographed by Mandy Walker. J.L.

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ost NBA bosses would not bother showing up for a meaningless preseason game, but Sacramento Kings majority owner Vivek Ranadivé sat courtside at the Golden 1 Center last Monday during his team’s debut. He surveyed the hardwood with inscrutable eyes, sporting a baggy dark-colored sweatsuit and purple polo. General manager Vlade Divac towered to his right as the duo evaluated its new-look roster, which includes 10 players age 25 or under. The Kings went all-in on a youth movement this summer, and fan sentiment is that, in the ling run, the Kings better succeed with this rebuild or die trying.

Top brass finally slammed the reset button this summer after 11 straight seasons in which the team missed the playoffs (two on Divac’s watch) while never surpassing 33 wins. A miserable stretch by any professional-sports standard, replete with enough drama to rival the entire seven seasons of Game of Thrones (which I will mercifully not rehash).

Anyway, on October 2, fans so dedicated as to make an appearance in the half-filled arena (still that new-car smell!) actually witnessed a victory, complete with impressive hustle. It was merely a notch on the pre-season belt, and against a vacation-mode San

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Antonio Spurs. But the young regime flashed reasons for optimism.

Near the end of the first half, and with the shot clock hemorrhaging seconds, rookie Justin Jackson—the 22-year-old “veteran” of this year’s draft class—encountered Manu Ginobili up in his grill. Jackson swung the ball to back-up point guard and fellow initiate Frank Mason III, who is 23. This sub-6-footer flipped the rock toward the rim, where 7-foot-1-inch bruiser Georgios Papagiannis—in his third year but still under the legal drinking age—emerged from the scrum like the Greek god Hermes. “Big Papa” delivered a savage throwdown over Spurs defenders, a veritable Lob City moment that drew feverish applause from a smattering of Golden 1 faithful thirsty for highlight-reel moments.

That alley-oop jam was a peek at the team’s promise—a glimpse that’s proven fleeting during the past 15 seasons.

Just ask Grant Napear, longtime sports-radio host and Kings play-by-play announcer. The 2017-18 season marks his 30th year covering the franchise, which means he’s been down the “rebuild” and “youth movement” roads many times over. And yet Napear, known for his no-bullshit take and rabid dissent, feels the Kings franchise finally turned things around.

“The whole atmosphere is night and day from what it’s been in the recent past,” Napear told me during a recent phone chat.

How is it, then, that the very franchise ridiculed a mere eight months ago by the NBA talking heads—and even fellow ownership and brass—has steadied course? “I think it’s really simple,” Napear explained: “DeMarcus Cousins isn’t here any more.”

It’s no secret that, if given the right team environment and leadership, Cousins could be a premier big man. But in Sacramento, the all-star was malnourished by a revolving door of coaches and steady diet of losing. Cousins also never kicked the on-court bickering and behind-thescenes ego trips. And inside the organization, there was polarity as to Cousins’ future: folks who wanted to ink him to a max deal, and those urging divorce.

Ranadivé eventually balked at signing a $200 million-plus check, and Divac moved Cousins to New Orleans hours after last year’s All-Star game in a deal that, at the time, was widely ridiculed.

“But that deal has aged very well,” at least according to Sacramento-based reporter and founder of Hoop-Ball.com Aaron Bruski, who’s covered the Kings for more than a decade. This past summer, the team received comparable value in its trade for Cousins as Chicago did for Jimmy Butler or Indiana for Paul George.

And “there hasn’t been any drama with the Kings for the first four or five months,” Bruski said, adding that, at the team’s media day earlier this month, the organization seemed “calm and relaxed.”

Is it possible? Are the Kings no longer the most dysfunctional franchise in U.S. sports?

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The YouTh MoveMenT There’s an irony to the Kings’ newfound zen, of course, given its roster dotted with unproven teenagers and 20-somethings, including newly minted franchise-bearer De’Aaron Fox, the 19-year-old No. 5 pick out of the University of Kentucky.

At last Monday’s debut, Fox exuded this calmness while racking up 16 points on sevenfor-eight shooting. It’s a minuscule sample size, but it fulfilled the summer’s widespread hope, and fuels predictions that the rookie could be the best of his draft class.

Napear said he’s chatted with Fox on several occasions and praised the hopeful’s precociousness. “When you speak to him, you would swear that you’re talking to someone who’s 29 years old,” he said, specifically citing Fox’s clear-headedness.

“He told me, ‘I don’t let things that I can’t control affect me,’” Napear said. Those are refreshing words for fans hoping the teen phenom will deviate from the path of Cousins, who seemingly never climbed a hill he wouldn’t die on.

The good news for the faithful is that the team’s destiny by no means hinges on whether Fox blossoms into the next Russell Westbrook.

Again, there are nine other teammates under the age of 25.

Buddy Hield, whom the team acquired in the Cousins deal, likely won’t manifest as some kind of perennial all-star.

But this season will be a benchmark for the 23-year-old’s development.

Forward Skal Labissière, 21, exhibited flashes of fast-paced, vertical brilliance last season, and Bruski claims he now looks an inch taller and even stronger. Harry Giles, another 19-yearold, was a marquee high-school player and top-five prospect before tearing both his ACL and MCL in 2014. Now, he’s court-ready for the first time in a long while.

In a best-case scenario, swingman Jackson will emerge as a shutdown perimeter defender who can face off against elite scorers. Malachi Richardson, 21, is a fan favorite already, what with his long-range skills and speed. And there’s Bogdan Bogdanovic, the 25-year-old who dominated in Europe—and could be a sleeper force in America.

Bruski says one of the biggest obstacles to the development of these young hopefuls might simply be time on the floor. “There are frankly too many players and not enough minutes,” he observed.

He’s right: None of these 10 has so far cracked coach Dave Joerger’s starting lineup, and the organization is paying older veterans Vince Carter (40), George Hill (31), Kosta Koufos (28), Zach Randolph (36) and Garrett Temple (31) some $57 million, nearly twothirds of the Kings’ active-roster salaries. It’s unclear how Joerger will juggle the old-new mix—and how soon he too will ride or die with the young Kings.

Napear, Bruski and most reporters that cover the team agree that fans should temper expectations for this season. “The Kings aren’t trying to win now,” Napear said, a concession that was difficult for Ranadivé during his nascent ownership.

Bruski expects a controlled style of play, with the “slightest signs of development” being a premium over wins. He said the defense will feature some “major holes,” and there will be those brutal blowout nights that leave fans running for the big rabbit outside the arena.

So goes the reboot. But Napear recalled how, five years ago, “the Golden State Warriors were the Sacramento Kings”: That team in the Bay had just traded its best player, Monta Ellis, and its owner was roundly booed during public appearances.

“And look what happened to them,” Napear said. They developed into a champion “not because they signed all these free agents, but because they drafted well.”

Las Vegas oddsmakers predict no more than 27 wins for this year’s Kings, a number that would perpetuate the franchise’s recent legacy of cellar-dwelling. Bruski’s eyeing 35. Napear said he’d wait until after the preseason to prognosticate this year’s ignominious shortcoming.

Like many OG fans, though, his eye is on a different prize, something just beyond this season’s horizon. And he reserves the right, after all these bad years, to keep up hope: “In the NBA, these things change in a hurry.” Ω

De’Aaron Fox, who may be NBA Rookie of the Year, hits his first shot of the preseason. photo by Kimani oKEaRah/ @nbalEnsfacE

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A reigning Euroleague champ, Bogdanovic combines crafty dribbling, deep shooting range and bottomless self-confidence into a complete game. Having signed him to the fattest rookie contract ever, the Kings like this flashy import.

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A first-ballot Hall-of-Famer, Carter transitioned from hyper-athletic phenom to savvy veteran with exceptional grace.

Still a capable shooter, Carter can occasionally dust off a highlight-worthy move, but he’s most valuable as a role model and player-coach.

After the DeMarcus Cousins trade, Cauley-Stein exhibited signs of promise with his springy blocks, relentless motor and thunderous dunks.

Surrounded by speedy youth, his staunch defense will be the key to unlocking a free-flowing transition offense.

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Already among the fastest players in the league, Fox will inject a little flair into the franchise as a fast-breaking floor general who could eventually become an All-Star—if he gets his jump shot working. This year’s lottery pick, Fox holds the Kings’ future in his hands.

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Giles left high school as one of the top prospects in the nation, drawing comparisons to Chris Webber. Then injuries struck.

If he can stay on the court, this agile big man with a soft touch could richly reward the front office’s calculated risk of drafting him.

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John Flynn is a serious Kings fan. Here he is mouth agape at age 6.

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The apple of owner Vivek Ranadivé’s eye, Hield played his way into Rookie of the Year discussions last season with his speed, grit and gorgeous jumper. He’ll need to improve his consistency, but his work ethic and sunny disposition are tailor-made for the Kings’ new era.

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Hill is the current best player on the Kings. He should contribute leadership, tough defense and solid shooting while setting an example for the young’uns as a consummate professional. If the team follows his lead, this rebuild will be headed in the right direction.

Justin Jackson This rangy, reigning NCAA champion is a versatile wing player who can defend multiple positions and space the floor on offense. Jackson needs to get a bit more beefy, but his hustle, unselfishness and high basketball IQ could turn him into a valuable Swiss army knife.

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Why do you Still root For thiS team?

by JoHn Flynn

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bout the time I started rooting for the Kings, my mom sat me on her lap and read me The Carrot Seed—a book about a little boy who plants a seed in the ground and patiently waters and weeds around it while people tell him repeatedly, “It won’t come up.” And yet, the boy keeps watering and weeding, certain that one day his efforts will pay off.

As the Sacramento Kings enter their 12th season without a playoff berth, I can relate.

Growing up in the early 2000s, I fell hard for the fancy-passing team that dueled with the pretentiously dominant Los Angeles Lakers and played with a love for the game, each other and Sacramento. Then Chris Webber blew out his knee. And the front office replaced the Kings’ winningest coach, Rick Adelman, with Eric Musselman, who promptly got a DUI, marking the first flurries of an incoming blizzard of rotten luck and abysmal decision-making.

And so, I spent my formative years devoted to a hopelessly bad NBA franchise. The happy memories hinge on flimsy justifications and appear amid stretches of desolation.

So with another rebuild commencing after a dozen years, nine coaches, two owners, one All-Star and 577 losses, I asked three very different fans: why do you still root for this team?

“It’s real as fuck to stick with something that’s really difficult to stick with,” said rapper and Kings fan Harris Rudman. “That love, that perseverance, that vulnerability can bring you to a place that other things can’t. It’s fortified my sense of

loyalty to what I’m about and what I believe in.”

Rudman has lived in Sacramento for all but one year of his life, the year the team almost moved to Anaheim. In a dorm room at the University of Texas, he watched longtime broadcasters Grant Napear and Jerry Reynolds sign off for what could have been the final time with tears in their eyes and frogs in their throats. With the Kings as good as gone, Rudman stared silently in disbelief as a remote, yet cruel possibility neared reality. He said the only comparable feeling came on November 8, 2016.

Rudman admits it’s a bit much to compare what he sees as a devastating presidential election to the potential loss of a sports franchise.

But I can relate.

“Kings fan” has always been part of my identity. As a kid, I shaved my head to look like Jason Williams. I’ve listened to Napear and Reynolds talk more than anyone outside of my immediate family. And I still have Webber’s autograph from when he made a random, unannounced visit to my basketball game at the Salvation Army in Oak Park.

The Kings helped me spend countless hours bonding over a mutual interest with my parents.

I’ve maintained long-distance friendships simply through discussing draft prospects. I unabashedly welled up with pride when I saw the Golden 1 Center, a physical symbol of hope that things would improve—both for the franchise and Sacramento—in a way that seemed impossible only a few years before.

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Vice Mayor Rick Jennings decked out in Kings gear.

Sporting the NBA’s wispiest hairline, Koufos will be a dependable backup center that can bang with burlier players.

Armed with solid touch and court awareness, Koufos specializes in grabbing rebounds, setting hard screens and knocking down baby hooks.

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It might be hokey to tie together a franchise and its city. But that’s how the two exist in the minds of many. Taro Arai, owner of Mikuni Japanese Restaurant & Sushi Bar, came to Sacramento as a 15-year-old in 1985, the same year as the Kings. Since then he’s bonded with players over sushi, none more than DeMarcus Cousins, who Arai said could be unfailingly counted on for checks toward charity.

When he got traded, Cousins held a goingaway party at Mikuni where he choked back tears and said that even though he would no longer wear purple professionally, “every soul in this city matters to me,” reflecting the loyalty that die-hard fans feel toward players who are often the biggest celebrities in town.

“There’s a core group that, through ups and downs, still stick with the Kings,” Arai said. “I’m one of those stupid guys. This is the only team we have. It’s ’til I die.”

During the recent back-to-school season, Vice Mayor Rick Jennings and Kings coach Dave Joerger orchestrated a 500-backpack giveaway to needy students. He tells this story to illustrate that the team doesn’t have to win in order to have an impact on the community.

Jennings, a former Oakland Raider, loves sports in general and has been a Kings season ticket holder for the last decade. An optimist, he sees borderline delusional promise in the current Kings squad.

“They’re starting to build a nucleus that understands what winning is all about,” he said. “And they’re going to bring an NBA championship in the next five years.”

Bold prediction. But after a decade of the front office seeming to spin its wheels before making any decision, there does seem to be a coherent vision of the Kings’ future. Of course, I convinced myself that we could compete last year. And the year before. And so on.

Still, as I watched the new players congeal during the preseason, I couldn’t help but fantasize about eventually returning to the playoffs. I get chills thinking about Sacramentans unleashing years of pent-up pride during nationally televised games, screaming about being the best city— however ludicrous that idea is when talking about much other than urban canopies or our proximity to fresh produce.

For now, I take solace in the end of The Carrot Seed, when a carrot sprouts out of the ground that’s so big the little boy needs to carry it home in a wheelbarrow. Like him, I can’t help but remain devoted to Sacramento and the Kings—janky, imperfect and in-progress as both are. Because to me, there’s nothing better than seeing signs of life in a place where most believed nothing special could ever come up. Ω

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The consensus best player in the NCAA last year can provide speedy consistency off the bench. If his insane 47 percent three-point shooting during his senior season can carry over, he’ll be a critical component of the pace-and-space Kings.

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The Sacramento Kings play 82 games this season. They will lovably lose most of them, but even those games will be worth watching as the NBA features more drama and talent than ever before. So when you’re undecided between tuning into a game and doing literally anything else with your life, consult this pullout schedule for a mini-preview of each opponent. Plus, it’ll look great on your fridge.

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Smokin’ Ballers League response to Zach randoLph arrest indicates shift in attitude toward marijuana

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orward Zach Randolph, who was arrested in August for marijuana possession just weeks after signing with the Kings for his 17th NBA season, was sentenced to community service. “I’m not speaking a lot about it, but I felt that I was wrongfully arrested,” Randolph told the media.

On whether he expects a fine or suspension from the NBA, Randolph says, “No. I didn’t do anything wrong.”

One month after Randolph made those comments, it appears the NBA may agree, as it has yet to mete out any punishment. That silence speaks volumes about a dramatic shift in its attitude toward marijuana.

On ESPN’s NBA Countdown this past December, former Boston Celtics point guard Chauncey Billups said, “I honestly played with players—I’m not gonna name names—but I wanted them to actually smoke. They played better like that.”

Billups’ remarks came on the heels of a public admission from Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr: “I

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personal view is that it should be regulated in the same way that other medications are if the plan is to use it for pain management. And it’s something that needs to be discussed with our Players Association, but to the extent that science demonstrates that there are effective uses for medical reasons, we’ll be open to it. Hopefully there’s not as much pain involved in our sport as some others, so there’s not as much need for it.”

Try telling Vince Carter, who signed with the Kings this offseason at age 40, how much pain there is. For Carter, though, any change would come too late to affect his day-to-day routine for pain management. “If it’s not [legal], guys have to figure out how to subside the pain without using it,” Carter told me in the locker room following Monday’s preseason opener against the Spurs. “At this point I’ve been playing for ...” he laughed and stopped short of saying the number—Carter is entering his 20th NBA season. “I’ve been playing for all these years and it wasn’t there. So now you get to the end of your career, and I just know one way. It’s gonna be tough.

They have a decision to make.”

Kings guard Garrett Temple may have a voice in that decision. This summer, Temple was elected to a three-year term as a vice president of the NBA Players Association. After the Spurs game Monday, Temple told me, “Honestly, I think it’s gonna be legal very soon. The NBA being one of the most progressive leagues in the country, I’m not surprised we’d be the first to actually legalize it.” (The NHL and MLB do not test for marijuana.) “Some people it does help

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with different ailments. It’s up to Adam, if he decides to do that or not.”

Players like Larry Sanders, whose promising career was cut short in part due to failing four drug tests in five years, have been ostracized for their marijuana use despite an outspoken belief in its medical benefits. “I will deal with the consequences from it. It’s a banned substance in my league,” Sanders told NBA.com. “But I believe in marijuana and the medical side of it.”

Now, only a few years removed from Sanders’ exodus, Randolph and other NBA players stand to benefit from the league’s newly progressive attitude. Ω

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Hall of Fame coach Phil Jackson, who conceded he smoked marijuana after his own back surgery, agreed. “We have tried to stop [marijuana use] in the NBA,” Jackson told CBS.” I don’t think we have been able to stop it. I think it still goes on and is still a part of the culture in the NBA. It is something that we either have to accommodate or figure out another way to deal with it.”

The man tasked with figuring it out is NBA Commissioner Adam Silver. Right now, NBA players are subjected to four random drug tests throughout the season.

“It’s our strong preference that our players do not consume marijuana. We believe it will affect their performance on the court,” Silver told GQ magazine in 2014. “That said, marijuana testing is something that’s collectively bargained with the players’ association, and we adjust to the times.”

Those times may be nigh. In August, Silver retreated a bit from his earlier stance. “I would say it’s something we will look at. I’m very interested in the science when it comes to medical marijuana,” Silver told a reporter. “My

A big body in the paint, the 20-yearold Papagiannis needs to develop his post moves, court vision and defensive versatility. Barring a tremendous leap, he’ll probably shuffle between the end of the bench and the Reno Bighorns.

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The type of player that any team would be happy to have, Temple keeps both sides of the floor humming and almost never makes the wrong play.

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This unexpected cohesion inspired her to put together a release. Rather than wait for another half dozen songs to do another full length, she wrote one more original (“Damn”) and recorded an alternative version of an old song.

This is not only the first time she’s released an EP, but also her most concise recording. Miles Left To Walk features different backing bands (Switchblade Trio on some tracks and her current band on others). The genres Hearing melodies in the wind. jump between jazz, folk, pop— really all over the place.

“That’s where I feel at home,” Malone says.

Jessica Malone was go-go-go during the recording “When I moved to Sacramento. I met a lot of great of her second album, Miles Left To Walk. She musicians that had different musical influences. I recorded every Monday and Tuesday last fall, and was playing with all these people and I was explorduring the rest of the week, she would gig and take ing my sound. I love some of the places I went care of every other task. with it.”

She finally finished her album. On the Monday Malone has played music since she was a child after, she found something she hadn’t growing up in Mount Shasta. She later moved experienced in a while: free time. around to Humboldt, Arcata and Portland, where “I just sat down, and I wasn’t thinking about she joined bands, mostly Americana groups. songs I’d written,” Malone says. “I had this Through it all, she was always a singermoment where I could think about somesongwriter. When she moved to thing else.”

Sacramento two years ago, she That night she wrote the song decided she wanted to be a solo “The Waiting Hours,” or rather, as “This feels like act focused exclusively on her she puts it, the song wrote itself. the beginning of own music.

It focuses on the beauty of the “This feels like the me really following my little stolen moments in between beginning of me really all of our obligations when we dreams to following my dreams to the finally get to do nothing. the fullest.” fullest,” Malone says.

“Those quiet moments. It can The musician is settling be just five minutes, it can be a Jessica Malone into her sound and style. whole night, it can be a couple singer-songwriter That’s not to say she’ll be days. If you can get that time for playing Americana roots forever, yourself, that’s great,” Malone says. despite how natural she says it This song inspired her next release, a currently feels. She’s always changing five-song EP also called The Waiting Hours, which and evolving, and the one constant that’s always she’ll release at Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub linked her music is her voice. It goes cross-genre. on October 15. The whole record poured out “I couldn’t think of anything else I wanted to quickly; she released Miles Left To Walk only this do with my life other than sing,” Malone says. “It February. doesn’t change too much from context to context. It’s The theme of time pops up on several of just how I sing. It’s kind of unwavering.” Ω the songs, not necessarily on purpose. It was something Malone noticed after she’d written three songs: “The Waiting Hours,” “Porch Swing Sundays” and “Right On.” (“Put it all on the line, Check out Jessica Malone at 6 p.m., Harlow’s Restaurant and Nightclub, 2708 J Street. Tickets are $10-$12. For more information, go to / let it grow on the vine, / let it change with the www.jessicamalonemusic.com. times.”)

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SACRAMENTO BICYCLE KITCHEN SECOND SATURDAY CONCERT SERIES: Desario, Electro

SENIOR HEALTH & LEISURE FAIR: A

Group, The Surrounded. 6pm, no cover.

Sacramento Bicycle Kitchen, 1915 I St.

SACRAMENTO WOMEN’S CHORUS BIRTHDAY BASH: A fall concert to celebrate 30 years of the Sacramento Women’s Chorus. 7pm, $25.

The Center at 2300, 2300 Sierra Blvd.

CARMICHAEL PARK FARMERS MARKET FALLING LEAF FESTIVAL: Games for kids, dog costume

Surfer. 6pm, $15. Harlow’s, 2708 J St.

SUNDaY, 10/15 COREY FELDMAN & THE ANGELS: Meet and greet available. 6:30pm, $24.15-$82. Holy Diver, 1517 21st St.

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Local shopping experience with handmade clothing, art and more. Family-friendly. Bring non-perishable food for a Loaves and Fishes food drive. 4pm, no cover. Hideaway Bar & Grill, 2565 Franklin Blvd.

DJ DAN: The legendary DJ Dan performs

poolside party, with a free barbecue. 2pm, no cover. Faces, 2000 K St.

INTI-ILLIMANI: Chilean ensemble celebrates 50 years of bringing traditional folk sounds of Latin culture and messages of social change.

8pm, $12-$54. Harris Center, 10 College Parkway in Folsom.

JESSICA MALONE: Manzanita, Xochitl. 5pm, $10$12. Harlow’s, 2708 J St.

Jake, Get Dead and more on the Punk in Drublic Fest. 1pm, $39-$99. Papa Murphy’s Park, 1600 Exposition Blvd.

MONDaY, 10/16 SUN VALLEY GUN CLUB: With Hard Girls, VVomen

Coffee never fails us, so take the time to show coffee the appreciation it deserves during Specialty Coffee FOOD & DRINK Week—which brings tastings, workshops and competitions to Sacramento coffee shops. Sip coffee cocktails in the Battle of the Brews (at Bottle & Barlow), take a palate development class or become the best barista you can be. Show your friends you can

MUSiC THURSDaY, 10/12 CAFE TACVBA: With Mariachi Flor De Toloache.

7pm, $49.50. Ace Of Spades, 1417 R St.

TAKE ME TO THE RIVER LIVE: Inspired by the award-winning documentary of the same name, this performance brings together blues, soul and R&B on stage—Grammy winners William Bell, Bobby Rush and Charlie Musselwhite, backed by an all-star Memphis band. 7:30pm, $25-$55. Harris Center, 10 College Parkway in Folsom.

IAMSU!: Rapper, songwriter and producer.

7:30pm, $12-$15. The University Union

Ballroom, 6000 J St.

LIVE AT FIVE: Old Sac restaurants host shows during happy hour Thursdays in October.

Ross Hammond performs at Fat City Bar &

brew a mean cup during the Sacramento Aeropress Competition (Chocolate Fish Coffee Roasters), or take part in the Coffee Infused Dinner Fundraiser (also Chocolate Fish), which raises money for Guatemalan school projects. Coffee fuels your life; take this week to show it some love. Bottle & Barlow: 1120 R Street, Chocolate Fish Coffee Roasters, 4749 Folsom Boulevard, and more locations, www.specialtycoffeeweek.com.

Cafe; Love and Honey at Rio City Cafe; The Bumptet at SacTown Sports Bar & Grill; Jessica Malone at Ten22. 5pm, no cover. Old Sacramento, 1124 Second St.

TAUK: With Klozd Sirkut. 7pm, $12-$15.

Harlow’s, 2708 J St.

FRiDaY, 10/13 BILLION DOLLAR NIGHTMARE: Alice Cooper

tribute. 9:30pm, $15. Opera House Saloon Roseville, 411 Lincoln St. in Roseville.

CHRISTIAN SCOTT: With Shawn Thwaites Rebel

Quartet. 8pm, $17-$20. Harlow’s, 2708 J St.

GALANTIS: The Aviary Tour. 9pm, $30.

Memorial Auditorium, 1515 J St.

SOL LIFE SHOWCASE: Sol Life artists Dre-T and The Philharmonik, and sets by SpaceWalker and Hobo Johnson. Fundraiser for rescue/ rebuilding efforts in Puerto Rico. 7pm, $7$10. Sol Collective, 2574 21st St.

SaTURDaY, 10/14 10TH ANNUAL JAZZ AND BEAT FESTIVAL: Poetry contest and live readings with performances

by Bobby Bradford Quartet, The Year of the Trumpet, Alex Jenkins Trio and more. 2pm.

No cover. John Natsoulas Gallery, 521 First St. in Davis.

ANDREW CASTRO: With The Philharmonik.

6:15pm, $5-$8. Momo Sacramento, 2708 J St.

BAVMORDA: With System Assault, Years of Aggression, Slutzville, Death Glam, Las Pulgas and Spitting Roses play Breast Cancer Bitchfest Benefit. 8pm, $10. The Colony, 3512 Stockton Blvd.

GONE SOFIA: With New and Used, Paige Felkins.

6pm, $5. The Silver Orange, 922 57th St.

NATALIE CORTEZ: Folk-pop singer-songwriter.

5:30pm. Torch Club, 904 15th St.

and pumpkin carving contests, chef demos, farmers, food and drinks. 9am, no cover.

Carmichael Park Farmers Market, 5750 Grant Ave.

HANDMADE N HOOCH CRAFT FAIR AND SHOW:

NOFX: With Flogging Molly, Goldfinger, Less Than

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comprehensive event for seniors with exhibits, prizes and more than 60 booths on health and financial concerns of older Americans. 10am, no cover. Crowne Plaza Sacramento Northeast, 5321 Date Ave.

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8pm. The Press Club, 2030 P St.

MONDaY, 10/16 MLK 50TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION: A commemoration of Dr. King’s 1967 speech at Sacramento State University. Selma film screening, speakers including Tavis Smiley, a march for empathy and more. 9:30am, no cover. Sacramento State, 6000 J St.

FOOD & DRiNK THURSDaY, 10/12 DINING OUT FOR LIFE: Eat at a local restaurant to raise money for a good cause.

Restaurants donate a portion of sales to Sunburst Projects, a Sacramento organization assisting youth living with HIV/ AIDS. Participating restaurants are Adamo’s Kitchen, Badlands, BJ’s Restaurant and Bar, Chipotle, Kupros, Lucca Restaurant, New Helvetia Brewing Co. and Pushkin’s Restaurant. 5pm, no cover. Sacramento.

wEDNESDaY, 10/18 ROBBEN FORD: Guitar virtuoso performs.

7:30pm, $30-$45. Harris Center, 10 College Parkway in Folsom.

JOE BONAMASSA: Legendary blues guitarist.

8pm, $89-$149. Memorial Auditorium, 1515

J St.

GEORGE CLINTON AND PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC:

Dealers of funk. 7pm, $39.50. Ace of Spades, 1417 R St.

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FRiDaY, 10/13 50TH ANNUAL OKTOBERFEST: See event highlight on page 37. 7pm, $5-$40. Turner Hall, 3349 J St.

SaTURDaY, 10/14 50TH ANNUAL OKTOBERFEST: See event highlight

SaTURDaY, 10/14 HISTORIC FOLSOM ANTIQUE AND VINTAGE MARKET: Treasures for antique hounds, vintage collectors and pickers. 8am, no cover.

Folsom Historic District, 915 Sutter St. in Folsom.

THE MIDTOWN BIZARRE MAKER POP UP SHOP: Shop for unique items from local makers.

10am, no cover. Identity Coffees, 1430 28th St.

PUERTO RICAN CULTURAL EXHIBIT: Puerto Rican artist, poet and activist Charles “Carlito” Sano hosts an exhibit of art, history, photos and books. 1pm, no cover. Arthur F. Turner Community Library, 1212 Merkley Ave. in West Sacramento.

RIVER CITY MARKETPLACE: Artists, crafters and small business owners sell unique, local items. 11am, no cover. Fremont Park, 1515 Q St.

on page 37. 7pm, $5-$40. Turner Hall, 3349 J St.

8TH ANNUAL TREK FOR TERISA PUB CRAWL: Pub crawl followed by a barbecue lunch, live music and a raffle. Fundraiser for One Less Worry, which raises money to help ease the burdens of people undergoing cancer treatments. 9am, $35-$40. Club 2-Me, 4738 J St.

BEER TRAIN: A 2.5-hour train ride with Northern California breweries, live music and open-air cars. 6pm, $45-$75. West Sacramento Boarding, 400 N. Harbor Blvd. in West Sacramento.

CURTIS PARK WINE TASTING & SILENT AUCTION: Local wineries, breweries and restaurants

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downtown CHowdown: Music and food collide

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with performances from Salt-N-Pepa, Chase Bryant and Phillip Phillips, a craft beer garden and over 40 food trucks. 11am, $20$75. Capitol Mall, 3rd St. and Capitol.

Halloween tHUrsdaY, 10/12 Community Part ii dirty HaLLoween Party: Dress to impress for this sexy Halloween party. 9:30pm, $2-$7. Midtown Barfly, 1119 21st St.

FridaY, 10/13 direworLd sCare ParK—Friday tHe 13tH: A special night DireWorld Scare Park, rated “R” for crude sexual content, language, bloody violence and drug use. 7pm, $5-$69.

Fairgrounds in Roseville, 800 All America City Blvd. in Roseville.

tHe Haunted HaLLoween mansion: Two-day Halloween celebration with games, music, pool/hot tub, a masquerade ball and more.

8pm, $25-$550. Location provided upon ticket purchase.

saCramento witCHes’ baLL: Divinators, live music, midnight burlesque performance, absinthe bar, food and more. 8pm, $20-$25.

VFW Grounds, 8990 Kruitof Way in Fair Oaks.

uLtimate terror sCream ParK: Sacramento’s most outrageous haunted house. 7pm, $2550. through 11/11. Ultimate Terror Scream Park, 4909 Auburn Blvd.

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of pop culture, with a lineup of horror actors, writers, artists and creators, including Marky Ramone of The Ramones. Cosplay encouraged. 11am. $20-$60. Scottish Rite Masonic Center, 6151 H St.

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sUndaY, 10/15 Cory’s CuLt CLassiCs CreePsHow i & ii: A double-screening of the cult films and a raffle of horror memorabilia. 7pm, no cover.

Cafe Colonial, 3520 Stockton Blvd.

comedY CsZ saCramento: ComedySportz Improv Comedy. Hilarious, spontaneous, interactive improv comedy, similar to the show Whose Line Is It, Anyway? through 10/28. $10$12. 2230 Arden Way, Suite B.

Comedy sPot: Comedy Exchange. Stand-up comedians Emma Haney and Jason B. perform five-minute sets, then improvisers create scenes inspired by the jokes. 8pm, 10/13. $8. Third Wheels! with Cory and Jaclyn. A real-life power couple antagonize their comic friends with intrusive questions.

This month: Rhoda Ramone, Ben Rice and Ray Molina. 10:30pm, 10/14. $5. 1050 20th St., Suite 130.

PunCH Line: The Mexico Earthquake Relief

Comedy Show. 8pm. through 10/18. $15. 2100 Arden Way, Suite 225.

on staGe ameriCan river CoLLeGe tHeatre: Beauty and the Beast: The Broadway Musical. Disney’s

FridaY, 10/13

día de Los muertos Fiesta California MuseuM, 6 P.M., $10-$20

Celebrate those who have passed with your living friends and neighbors. Sacramento celebrates Day of the Dead (November 1) with art parades, vibrant art, music and altars to commemorate the dead. Celebrate this tradition with the California Museum’s annual Día artworK coUrtesY oF oscar maGallanes de los Muertos Fiesta, with performances and a blessing by Aztec dancers, a sugar skull decorating workshop, a Mercado de Los Muertos (Market of the Dead) with art for sale and a costume contest. Enjoy food and drinks from Mayahuel Restaurant & Tequila Museum, and see the grand opening of Arte y Almas: Día de Los Muertos 2017 (Art & Souls: Day of the Dead 2017) exhibit. 1020 O Street, www.californiamuseum.org.

FRidAy, 10/13 & SATuRdAy, 10/14

50th Annual Oktoberfest Sacramento turn Verein, 6 P.m., $5-$20

For 50 years, the Turn Verein has hosted Sacramento’s largest annual Oktoberfest celebrations. So they’ve had time to get it right. The German FOOD & DRINK cultural club brings PHOTO COuRTESy OF SACRAmEnTO TuRn vEREin beer- and brat-loving crowds live music, traditional German folk dancing and singing, authentic food, children’s activities and, of course, wine and the biergarten. 3349 J Street, www.sacramentoturnverein.com.

classic stuns with a live orchestra, vibrant settings and costumes and a 35-member cast. Through 10/22. $10-$18. 4700 College Oak Dr.

ART COURT THEATRE: The Servant of Two Masters. Carlo Goldoni’s comedy follows Truffaldino, who outwits masters, mistresses and lawyers in this precursor to the modern farce. Set in 1980s New Jersey. Through 10/15. $10-$18. 3835 Freeport Blvd.

BIG IDEA THEATRE: Macbeth. Shakespeare’s tragedy about unchecked political ambition, supernatural forces and a lust for power.

Inspired by Hammer horrors of the 1950s and ’60s. Through 10/28. $12-$22. 1616 Del Paso Blvd.

CAPITAL STAGE: Luna Gale. A longtime employee with the Department of Human Services discovers the unspoken motives of people in the lives of Luna Gale, a baby born to troubled teens. Through 11/19. $17.50$40. 2215 J St.

E. CLAIRE RALEY STUDIOS FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: Beer & Ballet. Feed your spirit with compelling dance created by Sacramento Ballet artists and quench your thirst with Ruhstaller beer. Through 10/29. $54. 2420 N St.

HARRIS CENTER: Go, Dog. Go! The adventures of PD Eastman’s book come to life in a frolicking musical dog party. 1pm Saturday, 10/14. $11.50-$18. 10 College Parkway in Folsom.

OOLEY THEATRE: Toyer. In this mystery thriller, a woman is in over her head while a violent criminal is on the loose. Is it the man she’s just met and is now in her living room? 8pm.

Through 10/31. $17-$20. 2007 28th St.

SACRAMENTO POETRY CENTER: The Way Back book reading. Writer Mike Owens’ book of poems depicts his journey from an abusive childhood to a life behind bars, showing resilience, hope and compassion. 6:30pm Monday, 10/16. 1719 25th St.

SAC STATE PLAYWRIGHTS’ THEATRE: In the Time of the Butterflies. With music, dance and animated images, this is the story about the Mirabal sisters, whose assassinations in the 1960s Dominican Republic led to a worldwide movement. Through 10/29. $10-$18. 6000 J St.

SACRAMENTO PUBLIC LIBRARY — CENTRAL LIBRARY: The Civil War in Poetry and Music.

A three-part series that tackles the most compelling aspects of the American Civil War. 1pm Sunday, 10/15. No cover. Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything. Author Nate Pedersen offers a fascinating guide to the most astonishing, weird and sometimes outright dangerous medical practices throughout human history.

Book sale and signing following the author presentation. 6pm Wednesday, 10/18. No cover. 828 I St.

SACRAMENTO THEATRE: The Diary of Anne Frank.

A play dramatizing one of the most famous books of all time, the journal of a Jewish girl who is hiding with her family and others from the Nazis. Signed-interpreted performance is October 13. Through 10/22. 1419 H St.

SUTTER STREET THEATRE: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. Alexander’s struggles with life’s daily dramas will entertain and educate young audiences. 1pm. Through 10/15. $13-$17. 717 Sutter St. in Folsom.

THE HOUSE OF OLIVER WINE LOUNGE: Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

The chilling tale of a vindictive 19th-century London barber, wrongly imprisoned by a corrupt judge, who exacts his grisly revenge with the help of a creative culinary accomplice. Ticket includes a drink and an appetizer. Through 10/29. $49. 3992 Douglas Boulevard, Suite 140 in Roseville.

UNDERGROUND BOOKS: Poet City book release tour. A sketchbook based on hosting open mics. 4pm Saturday, 10/14. 2814 35th St.

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ARTHOUSE ON R ST: Celebration. A solo art exhibit highlighting the work of Sacramento artist Zbigniew Richard Kozikowski, who died in August of cancer. Second Saturday Opening Reception at 6pm Saturday, Oct. 14. Through 11/7. No cover. 1021 R St.

ARTSPACE1616: Skull. A group show featuring over 15 artists, curated by renowned gallerists Pamela Skinner and Gwenna Howard.

Preview reception at 5pm Thursday, Oct. 12 and opening reception Saturday, Oct. 14. Through 11/5. No cover. 1616 Del Paso Blvd.

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ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE DE SACRAMENTO: UC Davis Art Studio in France. The Alliance Française de Sacramento collaborates with UC Davis art students who lived for the summer in France to bring you this unique and visually stunning art exhibit. RSVP by Oct. 12. 4pm Saturday, 10/14. No cover. 2420 N St.

ALPHA FIRED ARTS: Daniel Alejandro Trejo: Slowly Doing the Splits. Trejo’s ceramic forms of the sculptures are ambiguous, leaving room for hidden emotions, attitudes or motivations to be projected by the viewer. Through 11/18. No cover. 4675 Aldona Lane.

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see more events and submit your own at newsreview.com/sacramento/calendar Saturday, Oct. 14, with a live metalsmithing demonstration. through 11/24. no cover. 1100 65th St.

Frostad ateLier Foundry and GaLLery: Woman in a Man’s World. Eleven life-size bronze sculptures by Sally Shapiro. Opening reception at 6pm Saturday, Oct. 14, with a live bronze pour at 8pm.. through 11/25. no cover. 855 National Drive, Suite 105.

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Good. 4pm. through 10/14. No cover. 1880 Fulton Ave.

sHimo Center For tHe arts: Borderless. An artistic expression of culture, society, time and language, with painting, experimental film and sculpture. Includes artists Gabriel M. Sanford, Lin Fei Fei and more. Opening reception at 6pm Saturday, Oct. 14. through 10/20. no cover. 2117 28th St.

CLara braZiLian Center: Second Saturdays with the Creative Alliance. Live muralists, open mic, wine and food. 5pm saturday, 10/14. 2420 N St.

CaPitaL PubLiC radio: CapRadio’s Second Saturday Artist Reception & Open House.

Photography from CapRadio’s newest documentary, The View From Here’s Place and Privilege, which explores housing affordability in Sacramento. Complimentary wine and beer provided. 4pm saturday, 10/14. no cover.

7055 Folsom Blvd.

soL CoLLeCtive: Día de los Muertos Art Exhibit opening reception. An exhibit to highlight the beauty of our cultures and honor the loved ones who have passed. Opening reception at 6pm Saturday, Oct. 14, includes a panel on the tradition. through 11/3. no cover. 2574 21st St.

CroCKer art museum: ArtMix | Dark Cabaret.

surFside Kids dentaL Land ParK: Surfside’s

ArtMix delivers a variety show with performers from Kat Robichaud’s Misfit Cabaret. Shop the Bizarre Bazaar, check out cult films and dance to DJ Katharos. 6pm thursday, 10/12. $10. 216 O St.

Temporary Tattoo Drawing Competition.

Create and submit entries for a temporary tattoo design. Deadline is Oct. 15, submit to marketing@surfsidekidsdental.com or drop off your entry at any Surfside locations. through 10/15. no cover. 2615 Riverside Blvd.

davis Cemetery distriCt & arboretum: Reflect and Repeat Images from the Gladding, McBean Factory. Nationally recognized photographer Gene Kennedy’s photos of the historic Gladding, McBean & Co. ceramics factory in Lincoln. Opening reception Sunday, Oct. 15. through 10/31. no cover. 820 Line Pole Road in Davis.

uC davis desiGn museum: Instinct Extinct: The Great Pacific Flyway. A multidisciplinary art installation celebrating the beauty and biology of the Pacific Flyway. through 11/12. no cover. 1 Shields Ave, Davis.

Fe GaLLery: Heterogeneous. Group art show.

Friday, 10/13 through sunday, 10/15

museums CaLiFornia auto museum: Paws to Party.

Sample regional wine, beer and food to support the animals at Front Street Animal Shelter. 6pm Friday, 10/13. $60. 2200 Front St.

sacramento international LGbtQ Film Festival Crest theatre, times vary, $10-$70

CaLiFornia museum: Día de los Muertos Fiesta. Day of the Dead party. See event description on page 36. 6pm Friday, 10/13. $10-$20. 1020 O St.

CaLiFornia state raiLroad museum: Spookomotive Trains. Family-friendly Halloween-themed train rides take you along six miles of the Sacramento River.

Each weekend has a theme—this weekend is Superheroes & Villains. Dress up in costume! through 10/29. $8-$15. 111 I St.

For 26 years, the Sacramento International LGBTQ Film Festival has brought films that honor the lives of LGBTQ people and activists to the big screen. Friday kicks off with Alaska is a Drag, about an aspiring drag star working in a fish cannery (7 p.m.). The Death and Life of Marsha FiLm P. Johnson, which examines the story of a trans-woman in New York who fought for trans rights and was killed in the 1990s, opens Saturday’s screenings (1 p.m.). The festival concludes Sunday with The Lavender Scare (6:30 p.m.), a documentary about the federal government’s effort to fire gay employees. This powerful film festival shows the progress we’ve made and inspires us all to continue the fight for LGBTQ acceptance and rights. 1013 K Street, www.crestsacramento.com.

saCramento History museum: Living History Ghost Tours. The eerie one-hour Ghost Tours, where guests relive 19th century lore, returns for three weekends this month, beginning Friday the 13th. Learn about the deaths of colorful citizens from Sacramento’s history. through 10/28. $10$15. 101 I St.

all ages anteLoPe CrossinG sPooKtaCuLar: Tricks, treats, live entertainment, carnival games, face painting, a costume contest and more. 11am, saturday, 10/14. no cover. 7867 Lichen Dr. in Citrus Heights.

Community day at tHe saCramento adventure PLayGround: Children can

10/14. no cover. Station 60, 3301 Julliard

activities include mud play and slide, bike riding, bubbles and painting. 11am saturday, 10/14. Maple Neighborhood Center, 3301 37th Ave.

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PumPKin niGHts: See event description on page 39. Gold Country Fairgrounds, 1273 High st. in

Fire station oPen House: Tour the station,

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climb aboard a working truck or engine and meet Sparky the Firedog. 2pm saturday,

use their imaginations to create play structures with everyday items. Other

Opening night reception and party at 6pm

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sPLasHinG PumPKins: A Halloween-themed event, where you can get the chance to swim to your choice of pumpkin. noon saturday,

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sTAR WARs ReADs DAY. Kids can make light sabers, construct starships and craft Star Wars key chains. 3:30pm Friday, 10/13. No cover. McKinley Library, 601 Alhambra Blvd.

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Learn about their work, meet new people and head to True: Totally Recycled Urban Exchange on K St. for drinks, snacks and Second Saturday. 3pm, no cover. Truitt Bark Park, 1818 Q St.

RIO VelO: A celebration of bikes for recreational riders, seasoned cyclists or those who just like to watch others ride and perform tricks.

10am, no cover. Township 9 Bike Park, N. 7th St. and Richards Blvd.

AMeRICAN RIVeR 5K: A run along the American River raises money for Children’s Receiving Home of Sacramento. 9am, $35.

Sacramento Bar Park, Pennsylvania Ave.

HOMeCOMINg FesTIVAl AND gAMe: Free Homecoming Festival for the Sac State Hornets, with arts and crafts, a jump house and games for kids at the Harper Alumni Center and a tailgate party. Cheer on the Hornets as they play the Idaho State Bengals.

3pm, festival; 6pm game. $0-$25. Sacramento State—Harper Alumni Center, 6000 J St.

JOHNNY CAsH TRAIl FUN RUN AND RIDe: The Johnny Cash Trail Grand Opening Celebration includes a run and bike ride on the trail, and a free outdoor festival with live music.

9:30am, $10-$50. Johnny Cash Trail, 200 Stafford St. in Folsom.

OKTOBReWFesT: A 5K and five-mile run followed by beer, music and more. 5pm, $37-$45.

Community Park, Covell Blvd. and F St. in Davis.

PAWs FOR A gOOD CAUse: Gather with your dogs at Truitt Park to meet employees with WEAVE, Inc., a provider of crisis intervention services for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault in Sacramento County.

2017-18 FAN FesT: See the full Kings team take the court and get ready for the new season during the 2017-18 Fan Fest. 12:30pm, no cover.

Golden 1 Center, 500 David J Stern Walk.

TRY ROlleR DeRBY: Recruiting session for Sacred City Derby Girls. No previous experience required, skates and gear provided for tryouts. 10am, no cover.

Sacred City Warehouse, 1501 N. C St.

SaTUrday, 10/14 IMAgININg AMeRICA CONFeReNCe: See event

listing on 10/12. 7:30am. UC Davis, 1 Shields Ave. in Davis.

to conservatives. 9:30am, no cover. Reason Center, 1824 Tribute Road, Suite A.

sACRAMeNTO YOUTH TOWN HAll #2: Invitation for youth ages 14 to 24 to speak with Mayor Darrell Steinberg and City Council Members about issues that matter to you and your community. 9am, no cover. Robertson Community Center, 3525 Norwood Ave.

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IMAgININg AMeRICA CONFeReNCe: Three-day conference starts with a free public event on Friday featuring interactive presentations and art installations addressing issues like climate change and history. Highlights include site visits to farms, galleries and clinics, a performance of the one-woman show, Tubman, workshops and presentations.

7:30am. UC Davis, 1 Shields Ave. in Davis.

Legal Observer training. 6pm, no cover.

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NATURAlIZATION INFORMATION sessION: A free workshop led by Sai Chang with the U.S. Department of Citizenship and Immigration.

Topics include the naturalization process, test and rights and responsibilities of U.S. Citizenship. 2pm, no cover. Franklin Community Library, 10055 Franklin High Road in Elk Grove.

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Pumpkin Nights Gold Country FairGrounds, 6:30 P.M., no Cover-$20

Halloween lovers young and old will light up at Pumpkin Nights, a glowing spectacle of more than PHOTO COUrTESy OF PUmPkin nigHTS 3,000 hand-carved pumpkins. As you stroll along a pumpkin-lined pathway, stop by the Pumpkin Passage (but watch out for pirates!), enjoy a mariachi band and All Ages sugar skulls in the Día de los Muertos area and take a trip underwater to the Great Pumpkin Reef, filled with bubbles, mermaids and coral. Activities like games and movie screenings will be available to the whole family, and food and drinks will be sold. 1273 High Street in Auburn, www.pumpkinnights.com.

sOUls OF THe CITY ReTURNs TO OlD sACRAMeNTO FOR DIA De lOs ON MUeRTOs: Sol Collective brings the tradition of Día de los Muertos to visitors through a series of workshops. Honor loved ones with a Day of the Dead mini-altar and magnets workshop led by Florentina Favela. Bring a small personal photo and other items that remind you of your loved ones. 11am, no cover, donations welcome. Sol Collective, 2574 21st St.

SUnday, 10/15 KUIKATl MUsIC: Music practice with indigenous

instruments. 1pm. Sol Collective, 2574 21st St.

WEdnESday, 10/18 IMPROV TAsTe TesT: Want to have some fun, laughs and maybe meet new people? Justine Lopez, performer with improv group Lady Business, hosts the weekly drop-in improv class that focuses on beginning-level skills.

7pm, $6. Comedy Spot, 1050 20th St, Suite 130.

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Outword Magazine’s Liquid Therapy Happy Hour Mixer, 5pm, no cover

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

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Jeff Keith’s Ride for Reason After-Party, 1pm, $25

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Christian Scott, Shawn Thwaites Rebel Quartet, 8pm, $17-$20

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The Stummies, 9:30pm, no cover

Sactown Playboys, 9:30pm, no cover

Kupros Quiz, 7:30pm, no cover

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As a result, farmers had to resort to chemical fertilizers at great expense. Water pollution increased. Marine life suffered because of the river’s diminished nutrients. I hope this thought will motivate you to carefully think through the possible consequences of decisions you’re contemplating. I guarantee that you can avoid the logic of failure and instead implement the logic of success. But to do so, you’ll have to temporarily resist the momentum that has been carrying you along. You’ll have to override the impatient longing for resolution.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Are you primed to

seek out new colleagues and strengthen your existing alliances? Are you curious about what it would take to infuse your best partnerships with maximum emotional intelligence? From an astrological perspective, the next nine weeks will be a favorable time to do these things. You will have opportunities to deepen your engagement with collaborators who cultivate integrity and communicate effectively. It’s possible you may feel shy about pursuing at least one of the potential new connections. But I urge you to press ahead anyway. Though you may be less ripe than they are, their influence will have a catalytic effect on you, sparking you to develop at an accelerated rate.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “I was satisfied with

haiku until I met you,” Dean Young tells a new lover in his poem “Changing Genres.” But Young goes on to say that he’s no longer content with that terse genre. “Now I want a Russian novel,” he proclaims, “a 50-page description of you sleeping, another 75 of what you think staring out a window.” He yearns for a story line about “a fallen nest, speckled eggs somehow uncrushed, the sled outracing the wolves on the steppes, the huge glittering ball where all that matters is a kiss at the end of a dark hall.” I bring Young’s meditations to your attention, Gemini, because I suspect that you, too, are primed to move into a more expansive genre with a more sumptuous plot.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Statistical evidence

suggests that Fridays falling on the 13th of the month are safer than other Fridays. The numbers of fires and traffic accidents are lower then, for example. I find this interesting in light of your current situation. According to my analysis, this October’s Friday the 13th marks a turning point in your ongoing efforts to cultivate stability and security. On this day, as well as the seven days before and seven days after, you should receive especially helpful clues about the future work you can do to feel even safer and more protected than you already do.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Too much propaganda

and not enough real information are circulating through your personal sphere. You’re tempted to traffic in stories that are rooted more in fear than insight. Gossip and hype and delusion are crowding out useful facts. No wonder it’s a challenge for you to sort out the truths from the half-truths! But I predict that you will thrive anyway. You’ll discover helpful clues lodged in the barrage of bunkum. You’ll pluck pithy revelations from amidst the distracting ramblings. Somehow you will manage to be both extra sensitive and super-discriminating.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): A journalist named

Jenkin Lloyd Jones coined the term “Afghanistanism,” which he defined as “concentrating on problems in distant parts of the world while ignoring controversial local issues.” I want to urge you Virgos to avoid engaging in a personal version of Afghanistanism. In other words, focus on issues that are close at hand, even if they seem sticky or prickly. Don’t you dare let your attention get consumed by the dreamy distractions of faraway places and times. For the foreseeable future, the best use of your energy is HERE and NOW.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “I am more interested

in human beings than in writing,” said author Anais Nin, “more interested in lovemaking than in writing, more interested in living than in writing.

More interested in becoming a work of art than in creating one.” I invite you to adopt that perspective as your own for the next twelve months, Libra. During this upcoming chapter of your story, you can generate long-lasting upgrades if you regard your life as a gorgeous masterpiece worthy of your highest craftsmanship.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scorpio actress

Tara Reid told the magazine Us Weekly about how her cosmetic surgeries had made her look worse than she had been in her natural state. “I’ll never be perfect again,” she mourned. I bring this up in the hope that it will inspire you. In my astrological opinion, you’re at a tuning point when it’s crucial to appreciate and foster everything about yourself that’s natural and innate and soulfully authentic. Don’t fall sway to artificial notions about how you could be more perfect than you already are.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I didn’t go

to work today. I woke up late, lingered over a leisurely breakfast, and enjoyed a long walk in the autumn woods. When I found a spot that filled me with a wild sense of peace, I asked my gut wisdom what I should advise you Sagittarians to attend to. And my gut wisdom told me that you should temporarily escape at least one of your duties for at least three days. (Escaping two duties for four days would be even better.) My gut wisdom also suggested that you get extra sleep, enjoy leisurely meals, and go on long walks to spots that fill you with a wild sense of peace.

There you should consult your gut wisdom about your top dilemmas.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A snail climbed

to the top of a big turtle’s shell as it was sleeping under a bush. When the turtle awoke and began to lumber away in search of food, the snail was at first alarmed but eventually thrilled by how fast they were going and how far they were able to travel. “Wheeee!”, the snail thought to itself. I suspect, Capricorn, that this little tale is a useful metaphor for what you can look forward to in the coming weeks.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “If these years

have taught me anything, it is this,” wrote novelist Junot Díaz. “You can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in.” That’s your plucky wisdom for the coming weeks, Aquarius. You have arrived at a pivotal phase in your life cycle when you can’t achieve liberation by fleeing, avoiding, or ignoring. To commune with the only kind of freedom that matters, you must head directly into the heart of the commotion. You’ve got to feel all the feelings stirred up by the truths that rile you up.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): J. Allan Hobson is a

scientist of sleep who does research at Harvard.

He says we dream all the time, not just at night.

Our subconscious minds never stop churning out streams of images. During the waking hours, though, our conscious minds operate at such intensity that the lower-level flow mostly stays subliminal. At least that’s the normal state of affairs. But I suspect your dream-generator is running so hot right now that its stories may leak into your waking awareness. This could be disconcerting. Without the tips I’m giving you here, you might worry you were going daft. Now that you know, I hope you’ll tap into the undercurrent to glean some useful intuitions. A word to the wise: The information that pops up won’t be logical or rational. It will be lyrical and symbolic, like dreams.

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Building brotherhood People aren’t surprised when Michael Lynch gives the stat: 68 percent of black men who don’t graduate high school go to prison by age 35, according to the Brookings Institution. For whites, it’s less than 10 percent. That’s evident in Sacramento, where nearly half the felony juvenile arrests in 2014 were of young people of color, according to UC Davis’ Center for Regional Change.

Lynch was fortunate. After growing up with a supportive father, he graduated from Valley High School, earned two college degrees and went to work in the state legislature. A few years later, Lynch and his former football teammate, Michael Casper, returned to Valley to help.

Their nonprofit, Improve Your Tomorrow, has seen great success: Since 2013, 70 students have graduated from the program, and all have gone to college. The program has grown from the first class of 17 students at Valley four years ago to more than 600 across several high schools. Lynch said work remains.

“High school graduation rates have increased. But in comparison to our peers? We’re nowhere near equitable,” Lynch said.

How did Improve Your Tomorrow come about?

My graduation class in 2006 was primarily African American, and very few men of color went to college—I want to say less than 10, total. I wanted to come back to my neighborhood and help change that.

For both myself and Michael, college was a gateway to a more stable life.

Many of our friends weren’t ready or didn’t have the resources. As an athlete, I had specialized tutoring and coaches that were invested in us. For my friends who weren’t into sports, we wanted to help them get through college, too. Our program is unique, since we serve young men all the way through college, a 12-year commitment since middle school. And we hire students to work on staff once they’re in college.

What’s the program like?

We turn a classroom into an office space and assign students mentors who meet weekly to talk college and be a big brother and life coach. We have college workshops and go to two or three a year. Tomorrow we’re going to [University of the Pacific].

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They’ll see two or three a year and in the summer can join an internship where we partner with the mayor’s Thousand Strong initiative or a couple of employers that hire college and high school students. Our program is about providing the brotherhood mentality. We work to improve the whole circle of friends. Our mentors are student advocates who form relationships with teachers who will go with the student to make a plan with teachers if they missed class time from problems at home.

about cultural competency. A lot of teachers don’t come from similar backgrounds or cultures as their students. If I’m a Latino male, there’s certain things I do teachers might not understand, or see as threatening, but in reality, the teachers need more training to be effective. The best teachers form relationships with kids. They care beyond the classroom. The more positive adults a young person has in their life, the better. It takes a community to raise a student.

What challenges do young men of color face that others may not?

You mentioned fatherlessness. Why are mentors so important? Did you have them?

One, poverty is really prevalent.

Fatherlessness, too. The third challenge is communities have been marginalized: We operate in some of the most violent neighborhoods here. There’s a movement to support young men of color led by the Sierra Health Foundation, the My Brothers Keeper collaborative. We meet on a monthly basis to go beyond service, whether it be pushing the state or school board to improve equity issues. I run our program at Valley, and I still see the same stuff as when I went to school. Too many young men get involved in the criminal justice system.

For me it was my dad. I was one of the rare black males with a dad at home. He modeled this behavior my whole life, giving constant service to others: I saw it on a daily basis. I see myself as a product of those who helped me. Often, students are great apples that haven’t been picked yet. Now, my parents bring food to our gatherings and support us and know the impact they had.

What’s the future of IYT? And how can people help?

We’re holding our fall fundraiser “Harvesting Dreams to Reality” on November 3. We’ll offer a silent auction, art sale, appetizers, no-host bar, live performances, spoken word and more to help break the school-to-prison pipeline.

We’re at five schools now. I would love for it to spread across the region and eventually, the nation. Ω

You’re seeing astonishing growth and success. Why is that?

It was never intended to be this big.

But schools and districts saw a solution in addressing education equity issues facing young men of color through us. It’s very much like a brotherhood. Once our students get into it, they’re on a special path of success.

What can schools do better?

They can do better for young men of color by not suspending them so often. There’s a better way to deal with discipline. School leadership is key. For me, it’s really all

Harvesting Dreams to reality, a fundraiser for Improve your Tomorrow, takes place on november 3, 6 p.m. to 10 p.m., at antiquité Maison Privée, 2114 P Street, $50.

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