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Honoring the dead Nathan Bauer said of himself, in this week’s Streetalk: “I’m not really a person with supernatural inclinations.” But he was a “very spiritual person,” says his friend Luis Jimenez.

Luis and Nathan were colleagues at American River College. Both worked at the Current, the student newspaper, where Luis serves as editor-inchief. It was Luis—also a contributor to SN&R—who interviewed and photographed Nathan for this week’s Streetalk. It was through Luis that we learned Nathan, who was 33, died Sunday of a sudden heart attack.

Luis had known Nathan for only four months, since Nathan came to the paper. “But we saw each other four days a week,” Luis says, “and you know how a newsroom is—you become like an extended family.”

Nathan had told Luis and Rachel Leibrock—a former SN&R editor and now a professor at ARC who oversees the Current—that after years of trying a variety of majors, he had found his home in journalism. Having dealt with a spinal condition all his life that required him to use a wheelchair, he liked the fact that he could do his own reporting and writing without assistance. “He found his independence in journalism,” Luis says.

Here in the SN&R newsroom, we were stunned to learn of Nathan’s passing, even though none of us had ever met him. It did not seem right that his photo and quote should appear in our paper with no mention of his death. It also seemed somehow appropriate that we acknowledge him in this issue, which also includes a bunch of stuff about the celebration of death that is Día de Los Muertos.

In our Arts & Culture lead this week, some local Día de los Muertos artists explain why it’s important to honor the dead. In this small way, we want to honor Nathan Bauer.

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It’s all about culture. Some countries, like where I’m from [Guinea], don’t really mess around with ghosts.

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Honestly, I’m not really a person with supernatural inclinations, so I don’t really think there are such things as spirits or ghosts.

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Cannabis Community Pulls Together During Northern California Fires

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or Sacramentans who attend the annual High Times Cannabis Cup and Emerald Cup expos, Santa Rosa is an epicenter where they can connect with the entire Northern California community of cannabis growers and manufacturers.

This month’s fires, which devastated more than 200,000 acres in Sonoma, Mendocino and other Northern California counties, also destroyed over 30 cannabis farms. “A lot of people lost their crops around here,” said Amy Bomberger, a Sonoma cannabis trimmer who evacuated from her home. “You could smell it along with the putrid smoke.”

Early harvesters got their crops in, while those who needed more growing time lost everything or suffered smoke and fire-retardant damage that rendered their plants unsellable. Hundreds of cannabis employees are now out of work, while others are blocked from getting there because of closed roads. “I still have work,” said Bomberger, “but I work for an indoor grow house.” Outdoor growers and their employees were more severely impacted.

“Recovery will be especially difficult because cannabis is a dramatically underinsured crop,” according to a statement on the California Growers Association website. Legal complications with the federal government make growers ineligible for FEMA funds, nor can they obtain bank loans for rebuilding. It escalates into a loss of both home and livelihood in these particular cases, which compelled the CGA to create a Wildfire Recovery Fund on its website, calgrowersassociation.org/calfireaid.

“I don’t know any other business in which ‘competitors’ will come together to share resources to keep one another afloat” Ned Fussell, Co-founder, CannaCraft Sacramento’s A Therapeutic Alternative is accepting donations for the CGA recovery fund. Likewise, Forrest Heist at Green Solutions dispensary said, “We have been donating bottled water to evacuates in Santa Rosa, and plan more donations.” The Emerald Cup website added a page listing charities and GoFundMe links for those who want to help organizations and individuals.

CannaCraft lost several structures in the fires, including dry room space and greenhouses. They estimate losses at about $1.5 million in product alone. Photo courtesy CannaCraft

tion, so shortages aren’t likely once recreational sales begin. Nevertheless, Kimberly Cargile of A Therapeutic Alternative worries that some specifically known strains and brands that are currently on the market will not be available to their patients in 2018.

“The industry is in such flux right now,” added Bomberger. “I don’t know what will happen.”

Santa Rosa’s CannaCraft, makers of Absolute Extracts, donated $50,000 worth of products to displaced patients and opened up their office space to a 120-person Red Cross contingent.

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Sac still sucks Re “Sacramento can learn from Austin” by Jeff vonKaenel (Greenlight, October 19): This article’s comparison of Austin with Sacto omits two significant differences. First, Austin does not have to compete with municipal regions such as the Bay Area, Los Angeles and San Diego. Houston, Dallas and San Antonio do not match their allure. Second, Austin’s “weird” atmosphere is blessed by a large major downtown university.

Its proximity complements and fuels Austin’s tech and music scenes.

Sacramento lacks that centralized cultural core and does not match the attraction of California’s coastal cities.

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Re “Escape to Canada!?” by Raheem F. Hosseini (Feature, October 19): LOL Canada. I bolted for Australia instead. Way easier to get in.

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The U.S. sucks Re “Escape to Canada!?” by Raheem F. Hosseini (Feature, October 19): As a dual citizen, I feel justified and informed enough about both countries to say that the only country who should be building a wall at this point is Canada. ana bertoluCCi via Facebook

This party’s for suckers Re “White out” by John Flynn (Scene & Heard, October 19): [Forty-eight dollars] to bring your own dinner, dishes, beverages and blankets or furniture, just to wear white and feel special?

Whoever is running this has P.T. Barnum-level genius for fleecing suckers. I tip my hat to you. I mean, I’m all for fun and silly events, but wow. I hope the performers at least got paid. niCole Maron v ia Fa c e b o o k

Trump sucks Donald Trump continues to play to his white racist Republican crowd of Obama-haters as he tries to sabotage the successful and workable Affordable Care Act. Trump’s one-man-show and

Obamacare vendetta will destroy the hope and health care coverage for millions of Americans. The president is deluded, and it is time Americans stand up to, confront and build a wall around this obsessive degenerate. ron lowe ne v a d a City v ia sa c to le tte r s@ ne wsr e v ie w.c o m

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Re “Poor California” by Matt Levin (News, October 19): What do you expect, with an idiot as governor who creates crap for the rich to invest in and then uses that money [to fund] his private projects, while ignoring the real issues in this state. A poor state with a corrupt system of government. andy GriCe

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New apartments are being built at Q and 20th streets, near the soon-to-bedemolished Sacramento Bee parking lot.

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Last stand on 21st Street To prevent demolition, Casa de Chaos residents and fans are hoping to win landmark status

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“It’s like these three houses form a little island,” musician Mickie Rat notes over a cigarette, smoke drifting past the Doric columns of his century-old porch in Midtown. “We’re some of the last people who haven’t been pushed out yet. Most of my friends who lived here before now live in Oak Park or Southside Park, and are getting pushed farther and farther off the grid.”

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The trio of houses forming Rat’s conceptual island were built between the election of President William Howard Taft and the night the Titanic sank. Their white balusters, gabled dormers and broad colonial canopies are emblematic of what makes the central city picturesque.

But these three structures—at 1616, 1620 and 1624 21st Street—could be getting demolished to make way for newerstyle living units, ones that would likely

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resemble a major modern building project happening across the street. From where Rat sits, longtime residents of his neighborhood are evaporating just as quickly as its timeless ambiance.

The threatened houses on 21st Street stand one address away from the flat-brick facade and glass art déco cubes of the Press Club, a post-Victorian throwback to Old Sacramento’s nightlife. The house

that Rat’s been renting for 14 years is the most famous of them, known as Casa de Chaos, an underground music venue that launched dozes of rebel punk performers in the region.

“For those of us who have lived here, this house was always a place where there’s been a lot of art and a lot of music,” Rat said. “When we were bored, we’d just gather people together and go down into the basement to start a band.”

Together, the endangered houses reflect a history beyond the heyday of Sacramento’s musical underground.

Silvered photographs show trolley cars gliding by their porches months after Pearl Harbor was attacked. Records indicate one was a bustling fraternity house for Kappa Sigma back when Elvis Presley’s first hit came on the radio. For locals who love Midtown’s character, those memories still linger up and down the street.

However, change is coming. Developer Sotiris Kolokotronis is preparing to build 253 new apartment units at the corner of 21st and Q streets, on top of the former Sacramento Bee parking lot. The complex will be known as The Press and stand immediately next to the historic homes on 21st Street. For Sacramento officials

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Motions sickness wrestling with the supply-and-demand forces driving the county’s affordable housing crisis, this new inventory of living units is desperately needed.

Early renderings of The Press show a boxy, five-story complex of glass and steel. The Sacramento Planning and Design Commission has already approved its aesthetics, though the developer is working with city staff on minor adjustments.

Even though The Press brings an ultracontemporary look to the street, Sacramento historian William Burg is glad it’s going up on a parking lot rather than causing the demolition of historic structures or displacement of current renters in the area.

“If they do need to create more housing, then those types of empty spaces across the city are where it makes sense,” Burg said.

What does not make sense to Burg is tearing down the three homes next to The Press, and he’s been helping the nonprofit Preservation Sacramento try to stop that.

In August 2016, the real estate company that owns all three houses, Rohenco Inc., requested a city assessment to determine if the houses were eligible for demolition—something required by Sacramento’s zoning code, since they’re more than 50 years old. Burg said the owner of that firm, Ron Henry Jr., told Preservation Sacramento members that he wanted more “high intensity” housing on the properties. Henry confirmed to SN&R this week that his company had explored building a new project on the site, but said it hadn’t gotten very far into what that project might look like.

Preservation Sacramento conducted its own study of the houses and issued a 26-page report highlighting their rare architectural features, as well as their place in Sacramento’s turn-of-the-century “City Beautiful” design movement. Reviewing that research, outgoing Sacramento Preservation Director Roberta Deering deemed the three houses eligible to be included in the nearby Winn Park Historic District. But Deering retired weeks later, bringing the process to a standstill. Flash forward a year, occupants of the three addresses have been given no updates from City Hall.

This week, Kelli Trapani, a spokeswoman for the city’s Community Development Department, told SN&R the new preservation director, Carson Anderson, hopes to bring the nomination forward next year.

“The tenants should understand that the properties have been found eligible for landmark listing and we are treating the properties as historic resources based on

that,” Trapani wrote in an email. purchase the Marshall for a “full-service But Rohenco Inc. has a right to contest boutique hotel offering.” any historic designation. Henry said this Hyatt representatives have already week his company hasn’t yet made a deciturned in conceptual plans for their $56.6 sion if it will do that or not. million renovation of the Marshall, which Sean Decourcy, a board member of involves demolishing its interior, as well Preservation Sacramento, said if the issue as its east and south exterior. According becomes contested, the public’s voice could to the renderings, half of the Marshall’s matter a lot. “Bringing the process forward five-story exterior will remain, with another does gives people a chance to be heard,” five stories of an entirely new hotel rising Decourcy stressed. out its top. The addition will be built with Rat is holding out hope the public ultramodern architecture, presenting an would come down on the side of image of a new structure hatching out local history. “I really love of the top of an old one. these houses,” he said.

Burg said this tactic is “They “In the end, I just can’t called “façading,” and it’s imagine them not being considered a mixed bag demolished here.” by preservationists. “It’s all of the historic discouraged, because you neighborhoods preservation lose a lot of the energy Sacramento was formed and character of the downtown.” in 1972 during a time building that existed,” he William Burg when legacy buildings explained. local historian from Third Street to East City Council members Sac were falling apart. For are enthusiastic about the young professionals interested in Hyatt’s plan. At least, enthusiastic buying and fixing them up, it was no enough to help fill a $4 million funding easy task. Burg said that banks rarely gave gap in the project with public tax dollars. loans because the shabby vintage houses In September, the council voted to allocate were considered nearly valueless, and $3.6 million from the sale of properties it the city’s permitting policies encouraged owned at the 800 block of K and L streets owners to knock down old structures rather and 731 K Street to fill in a shortfall in the than restore them. Over time, the volunteers Hyatt’s investor pool. of Preservation Sacramento helped establish Given downtown’s dearth of historic many of the central city’s 33 historic authenticity, Preservation Sacramento districts. members, along with an array of local But for one quarter of town, it was business people, have been asking City Hall already too late. to create a Mills Act program, which would “They demolished all of the historic give the owners of historic structures a tax neighborhoods downtown,” Burg noted. break for agreeing to preservation efforts.

“There were entire neighborhoods down In most cities, Mills Act contracts run in there that just don’t exist anymore.”

10-year increments.

In 2017, shades of downtown’s “We’re one of the only cities this size yesteryear can still be seen in a dozen that don’t have a program,” Decourcy commercial landmarks. Some, such as observed. “It’s kind of an embarrassment the Elks Tower, the Masonic Hall and the that we don’t.”

Citizen Hotel, are thriving business hubs Downtown Councilman Steve Hansen again. Others, including the Biltmore Hotel has been working to create a Mills Act and Marshall Hotel, ultimately became proposal that his colleagues can eventually run-down, single-occupancy living centers vote on. Matt Read of Hansen’s office said for the lowest-income residents and people their team is confident that program will surviving on Social Security. The Biltmore become a reality some time next year. now sits empty due to a fire. The Marshall, From Burg’s perspective, between the which was vacated in 2014, displacing 57 development push around Sacramento’s people—many with physical and mental housing crisis and big money dreams disabilities—is now preparing for a attached to downtown’s revitalization, complete makeover. there’s no time like the present to get that The Marshall stands at the corner of program into place.

Seventh and L streets, neighboring the “It’s literally a win-win for everybody new Sacramento Kings practice facility involved,” Burg said. “And it’s about and the Golden 1 Center. According to maintaining that sense of walking through a city staff report, that proximity has led the past. That’s part of what makes great Hyatt Hotels to enter into an agreement to downtowns and great cities.” Ω

Inside a first-floor courtroom, tucked behind restrooms and past an idle vending machine, one of the most anticipated cases in sacramento history was off to an unusual start. After all, it’s not everyday that one of the lead attorneys might have to testify.

The case itself concerns whether a city of Sacramento ordinance that prohibits camping is discriminatorily applied to homeless individuals with no other place to go.

This particular legal challenge originated in the fall of 2009, when attorney Mark Merin allowed nearly a dozen homeless individuals to set up camp on a private piece of property he owned downtown.

Police came and rousted the campers multiple times over a course of weeks, resulting in citations and arrests.

Merin is now representing the surviving members of the shortlived camp in a lawsuit that has the potential to either upend or codify a local law that the u.s. department of Justice has criticized.

During an October 23 procedural hearing, Merin argued why opposing counsel shouldn’t be permitted to call him to the stand as a material witness. “It’s potentially prejudicial,” he told Sacramento Superior Court Judge Christopher E. Krueger. “Whether it’s for the good or the bad, frankly, I don’t know. I would assume if the jury loves me … that’s gonna benefit the plaintiffs’ case.”

The attorney hired to defend City Hall leveled a half-dozen motions intended to dilute the plaintiffs’ case before it ever went before a jury. Among them, the attorney, Chance Trimm, wants to question Merin about his motives for allowing the camp.

Trimm also submitted motions asking the court to prevent testimony about “the plight of the homeless,” the number of homeless residents, the vulnerabilities they face, and the services or resources available to them.

The judge took these and other motions under advisement.

One motion both sides did agree to involved dismissing two of the plaintiffs from the lawsuit. The reason? The two homeless men died.

“Unfortunately, it’s a rather common experience for persons who are living outside,” Merin noted. (Raheem F. Hosseini)

BlaRe oF Bullets Reacting to a spate of summer deaths, the Sacramento City Council last month expanded its ShotSpotter acoustic gunfire detection system into an unspecified area of Oak Park.

ShotSpotter is a collection of audio sensors that activate whenever gunfire erupts. Those recordings get relayed to a company facility in the Bay Area, where the sound is examined to determine if it’s actual gunfire and, if so, where it came from. Sacramento police officers get an alert and GPS coordinates within 60 seconds.

It could be a while before the technology is up and running in Oak Park, acknowledged police Sgt. Bryce Heinlein. The department spokesman said there are still “logistical differences” being worked out with the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department, since the expanded ShotSpotter will likely be in a high-crime neighborhood sometimes known as “the Fruitridge finger,” where city and county boundaries overlap.

Even though neighborhoods like the Fruitridge finger can cause jurisdictional confusion, ShotSpotter CEO Ralph Clarke told SN&R his company’s technology gives officers valuable intelligence in real time.

Clarke also addressed concerns about his technology’s ability to overhear conversations in neighborhoods. “We’re looking for impulsive noises that represent gunshots, and that’s the only thing we’re interested in,” Clarke said. “In terms of surveillance, it’s extremely narrow and very specific on an illegal act.” (Luis Gael Jimenez)

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Michelle Hurst lifts her daughter Taylor up to ring the bell that announces she has finished with radiation treatment.

Seven-year-old Taylor Hurst, following an MRI session in May of this year, four months after she finished radiation treatment for her leukemia.

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Do no extra harm Kids with cancer receive treatments designed for adults. Will a new law change that?

by Faith Lewis

The American Girl doll that 7-year-old Taylor Hurst holds in the living room of her Rocklin home is bald. Taylor’s own hair is, just now, long enough to curl around her ears again, but she already has big plans for when it grows back. She wants to donate it to be made into a wig for other pediatric cancer patients.

Diagnosed at 5 years old with T-cell leukemia on January 16, 2016, Taylor became one of the nearly 15,000 people under the age of 20 who contract cancer every year in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

According to the Coalition Against Childhood Cancer, 4 percent of the National Cancer Institute’s budget is dedicated to pediatric cancer research.

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enough when you consider how much life these children stand to lose.

Treatment options for children afflicted with cancer have been stagnant for decades, with only three new drugs developed specifically to treat childhood cancers since 1980, compared to the 190 new treatments that have been approved for adults in the last 20 years alone.

The Research to Accelerate Cures and Equity for Children Act that was signed into U.S. law August 18 aims to change that.

The RACE for Children Act is an update to the 2003 Pediatric Research Equality Act, or PREA, a federal measure that required pharmaceutical companies to ensure medications designed for adults are safe and effective in treating

children. Because children are often afflicted by different types of cancers than adults, PREA did not cover many treatments, putting that R&D burden on nonprofit organizations.

However, recent research suggests that pediatric cancers show some of the same molecular targets as adult cancers. Therefore, it’s likely that the pharmaceuticals being researched for adults will be able to target pediatric cancers after more focused research, according to the office of Sen. Michael Bennet, who sponsored the new law.

The RACE law intends to close the loophole in research regulations and ensure that these new findings are being put to use.

“Childhood cancer patients face some unique challenges in addition to those that adult cancer patients have,” said Dr. Kent Jolly, a pediatric hematologist-oncologist at the Kaiser Permanente Roseville Medical Center.

“Some specific cancers occur exclusively in children, so only specific pediatric research will improve the treatment of those diseases. … Many new drugs also lack the data on effectiveness, safety and proper dosage for use in children, because the pediatric testing process simply hasn’t been done.”

For Michelle Hurst, Taylor’s mother, there’s no question that the lack of pediatric cancer treatments was a calculated decision by pharmaceutical companies, which she thinks stand to lose money by creating more effective oncology treatments for kids.

“With the advancements in technology these days, there is so much that can be done, but everything is just money,” Hurst said. “The pharmaceutical companies think that children are not profitable. Kids would get significantly lower dosage amounts than adults.”

As it stands now, Taylor has been on the same treatment regimen that her grandfather was when he was diagnosed with cancer in his 50s. And Taylor’s case is not the exception—many pediatric cancer patients are subjected to treatments that are not designed for a child’s developing body.

According to Dr. Jolly, these harsh treatments leave pediatric cancer survivors with a number of lasting side effects, “such as decreased fertility, a weakened heart, increased risk of obesity and more frequent secondary cancers.”

This was the case with Taylor Steele, 17, who died in 2011, two days before she would have started her senior year as student body president at Liberty Ranch High School in Galt.

Diagnosed at 3 years old with nephroblastoma, a type of kidney cancer known as Wilms tumor, she survived treatment, only to be diagnosed with ovarian cancer at the age of 12.

Pediatric cancer research has largely become the responsibility of nonprofit organizations that depend on fundraising and private donations to fund their work.

Among them are St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, St. Baldrick’s Foundation, the American Childhood Cancer Association and Unravel.

“They’re all private,” Hurst said.

“They’re getting bigger, but that’s only because more kids are getting cancer.”

In California, at least, Hurst’s claim holds true.

In 1988, when the state Department of Public Health’s cancer registry began to track the number of cancer diagnoses, 1,344 California children ages 0 to 19 were diagnosed with cancer, a rate of 15.9 of every 100,000 children. In 2014, the latest year for which records are available, the number peaked at 1,884 pediatric cancer diagnoses, or 18.4 of every 100,000.

In 2014, 66 of those cases occurred in Sacramento County, compared to 51 in 1988.

Still, the state doesn’t currently have any government agencies that oversee cancer research, says Shannan Martinez, a spokesperson for state Sen. Richard Pan, a doctor.

While it remains unclear when the RACE law will start to generate change, the prospect of more focused pediatric research is giving parents, survivors and their doctors hope that safer, more efficient treatment options are on the way.

For Hurst, who wore the gold ribbon that has represented Childhood Cancer Awareness Month for 20 years, the journey is personal.

“Nobody wants to see kids suffer … but I think that it’s our responsibility when we’re thrown into this, that we have to wake people up and open their eyes,” the mother said. Then, referring to the difference in public awareness between breast cancer and pediatric cancer, she added, “Everyone knows pink. Nobody knows what gold is.” Ω

Hack market Two Placer Women Democrats officials accuse congressional candidate of deleting financial info

by John Flynn

Sharleen Finn, treasurer for the Placer Women Democrats, says she woke up from a nap on October 12, while recovering from a cold, to find that her online accounting ledger had been hacked and permanently deleted.

The hack came on the day that SN&R published an article about Roza Calderon, a political newcomer running for a seat representing District 4 in the U.S. House of Representatives. In the article, PWD presents evidence that Calderon, during her own short stint as treasurer of the organization, spent nearly $1,900 of PWD’s money on concert tickets, movies and other personal uses. The article goes on to show that Calderon returned PWD’s money after receiving a demand letter.

Following the October 12 hack, Finn said she believes Calderon was responsible. She says Calderon was the only person other than herself to ever have access to PWD’s online accounting ledger. PWD president Susan Gutowsky said Calderon had set up email addresses for PWD members, including the one that Finn had been using to access the accounting software.

Finn said she filed a complaint with the Roseville Police Department on October 20.

Roseville police spokeswoman Dee Dee Gunther confirmed receiving a report “regarding fraud.”

“The entire evidence of [Calderon’s] embezzlement” was deleted, Gutowsky said.

“And someone other than our treasurer deleted the account. That seems suspicious to me.”

Calderon didn’t respond to SN&R’s requests for comment before print deadline.

In the same October 12 article that detailed Calderon’s alleged embezzlement, SN&R presented evidence that Calderon was romantically linked to Paul Smith, a controversial Placer County political activist. This relationship was seen as significant by political leaders in congressional District 4 because Smith’s organization, which calls itself Indivisible CA-04, claims to be neutral with regard to the congressional primary race, but seems to be supporting Calderon.

This is where the story begins to resemble a scene from Monty Python’s Life of Brian, in which the members of the Peoples Front of Judea are appalled to be mistaken for members of the Judean People’s Front.

The CD-4 Indivisible Network, which unlike ICA-04 has the backing of the national Indivisible organization, cites Smith’s favoritism toward Calderon as one of the reasons for their mass departure from his group. Smith has vehemently denied these accusations.

So: One day before the PWD hack, a person using the name “John Findel” sent a Facebook message to the leaders of the groups aligned with the CD-4 Indivisible Network. In his message, “Findel” attacked Democratic candidate (and Calderon opponent) Regina Bateson and accused her of double-counting campaign donations.

Maia Pelleg, Bateson’s campaign manager, said the “allegations reflect a fundamental misunderstanding of how to read FEC filings.” Rob Pyers, research director for the California Target Book, confirms that Bateson’s filings were legal.

To make this claim, “Findel” referenced an email that had been sent in August to multiple parties, including SN&R, by the anonymous address “FECanalyzer@gmail.com.” Brad Hill, a former ICA-04 member and self-described “tech guy,” presented SN&R with evidence that has led him to conclude that FECanalyzer is Paul Smith.

He and other Placer political activists also believe that “Findel” is Paul Smith.

Responding to questions from SN&R via email Tuesday, Smith denied forging both identities.

“I, like most other group leaders across CD4 received emails from an account named fecanalyzer@gmail.com. I also received Facebook messages from a Facebook account named ‘John Findel.’ I do not know who could be behind these messages. After receiving these messages I did have questions, so I sent an email to Regina Bateson and copied a select group of local leaders requesting clarification. I got the answers I was hoping for and now the matter is resolved. Regina Bateson’s FEC reporting is fine.”

As he has in the past, Smith, apparently ignoring the fact that the national Indivisible Guide has renounced his group, claimed that, using metrics from Twitter and Facebook, “Indivisible CA-04 is now the largest Indivisible organization in the country, dwarfing groups in LA, NYC, SF, San Diego Miami, Chicago, Seattle, and the entire state of California. To put this in perspective, we now have more Facebook followers than every single Republican, Tea Party, and Libertarian group in the district COMBINED.” Ω

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Unsilent—a majority?

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the coming days that it is appointing an independent Nanette Farag was a new staffer in the state investigator to look into complaints.

Capitol, an eager 25-year-old who aspired to a But the women who are leading the bipartisan career in politics. So she quickly obliged when a anti-harassment campaign known as We Said fellow aide—a man with a lot more seniority— Enough say current policies are insufficient. They suggested they walk up to his office for a meeting. call for taking the responsibility for handling Once they were alone in an empty stairwell, she complaints out of the hands of the Legislature recounted, he grabbed her rear end—and then, itself—instead advocating the creation of an moving closer, said he just couldn’t stop himself from touching her. She punched him. Then she ran independent entity to receive and investigate reports. They also want whistleblower protections away. What she did not do, ever, was report the enshrined in law to help ensure incident to the Rules committhat people who file complaints tees that run operations within won’t face retribution. the Legislature.

Under the current system, “It was just kind of known: legislative employees are You don’t want to be one of supposed to report problems those girls who say these things to either the Assembly or happen,” she explained, recallSenate’s Rules Committee— ing what happened 15 years two powerful panels of ago. “The girls who make these lawmakers and their staffs that accusations don’t get ahead. I function as the Legislature’s was young and ambitious and I administrative arms. wanted to be taken seriously.”

Unlike state government Farag, who now works Photo courtesy of calmatters employees, people who work for the Assembly Republican for the Legislature are not caucus, is among those sharing covered by the California Whistleblower Protection her story for the first time as scores of women Act. For four years, GOP Assemblywoman Melissa who work in Sacramento call for an end to what Melendez of Lake Elsinore has carried a bill that they describe as a culture of sexual harassment would give such protection to legislative employees. that permeates the male-dominated state Capitol.

And for four years in a row, the bill has passed out They have come forward with stories of being of the Assembly with bipartisan support, only to propositioned, groped and assaulted by male be killed through a secretive process in the Senate colleagues and bosses—including fellow staffers, Appropriations Committee. lobbyists and, yes, legislators. A common theme “It’s ironic to me that the Legislature passes is the belief that they can’t identify their attackers laws that are very specific to what employers can for fear that doing so will harm their careers. and can’t do, but doesn’t want to impose the same What unleashed this torrent of revelations rules on itself,” said Melendez. “What is that?” was an open letter signed by some 150 female No one who’s complaining about the Capitol’s lawmakers, lobbyists, consultants and political culture believes there’s an easy fix to stop harassstaffers in the wake of mounting sexual assault ment. But Farag, the staffer who never reported allegations against Hollywood mogul Harvey being attacked in the stairwell 15 years ago, said Weinstein. a law giving legislative employees whistleblower The letter has ignited an impassioned debate in protection could help.

Sacramento: Do Capitol employees have enough “It could go a long way toward adding a layer protection to believe that they can report sexual of security and comfort to those individuals who harassment or assault and maintain their careers? feel like they want to come forward but are afraid For four years in a row, the Democraticto,” she said. Ω controlled Legislature has quietly buried a bill—sponsored by a Republican assemblywoman—that would give legislative staff expanded calmatters.org is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture whistleblower protections. Legislative leaders now explaining california policies and politics. say they’re reviewing procedures to see if they can Web extra: an extended version of this story is available at www.newsreview.com/sacramento be improved; the Senate is expected to announce in

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Our mOrbid histOry

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We

know Sacramento as a place in process. Low-rent motels become luxury suites, a worn-out mall becomes

a high-tech arena; even the “City of Trees” water tower now reads “Farm-to-Fork.”

But a legacy of horrific crimes is also baked into Sacramento’s foundation, as deeply as any other qualities a politician might tell

you we have.

Try to forget as we may,

murderers,

we still can’t escape history.

At one point, it was commonly said that 15 percent of all the nation’s serial killers operated in or around Sacramento in the period between 1971 and 1992.

To that end, let’s take ourselves on a short walk through the cemetery and visit some of our notorious neighbors.

The Vampire Killer ‘The morTician ... goT sick when he saw Those bodies!’

When it comes to casket-crushing gusto, no local murderer matches Richard Chase, the “Vampire Killer.”

He started in his mid-20s with rabbits. He had been drinking and taking drugs for a while already, and between the LSD, the alcoholism and whatever was going on with his mind before any of those things, he became convinced that his blood was turning to dust. The only way to survive was to inject himself with a fresh supply. That’s how he ended up in the hospital with a case of blood poisoning, as rabbits don’t usually have blood to match our own.

He was often seen covered in blood, thought to be from self-inflicted wounds but later revealed to be blood from all the birds he was decapitating with his teeth. Word around town was that he was blending up animals’ organs for life-restoring smoothies as well. Soon enough, he turned to victims closer to his blood type.

In 1977, he killed a man in a drive-by shooting. He then killed a young pregnant woman, disemboweling her for her blood. The event inspired deeper investigations that started tying together the murders with a series of burglaries and discoveries of drained animal corpses.

Not too long after all that, he destroyed an entire family, entering their home, removing their entrails and taking back choice bits that were found in his refrigerator when he was captured soon after. The remains came to the morgue so mangled that Karen Greenlee, a former apprentice embalmer with her own dark appetite (more on that later), had this to say to author Jim Morton about the stories she

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RichaRd chase, The VampiRe KilleR

heard around the mortuary: “The mortician who embalmed the bodies said he hardly ever got queasy about anything, but he got sick when he saw those bodies!”

Chase killed himself with a stockpile of his own medication in prison, ending his life in December 1979 with six known murders on his hands.

The Golden State Killer 40 years afTer This sTring of grisly rapes and murders, fbi conTinues hunT.

You may know him as the Diamond Knot Killer. Or perhaps as the Original Night Stalker.

Today, we call him the Golden State Killer, firmly broadening his scope beyond just one region. He became known for his sickeningly brutal methods of harassing lone women, couples, families and even entire neighborhoods, through the slow and methodical torture of body and mind.

It’s speculated that he started as a burglar in the mid- ’70s, advancing to rape as early as 1976. It started with reconnaissance, calling planned victims before launching his attack in their very homes. At first, he preferred assaulting single women, but then he found that he got more pleasure in striking couples, forcing them to bind each other before executing his plans.

Reports from survivors indicated that he took a leisurely pace with his deeds. Afterward, he would take a memento as a way of extending the pain, something like a ring or half of a photograph.

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There’s even a recorded case involving a community meeting about him: As neighborhood residents gathered to alert one another to his hideous presence, one man announced in disbelief that nobody could be brazen enough to rape a woman in the same bed as her husband, according to a 2016 article in Crime Watch Daily.

Months later, that man and his wife became victims—indicating that the killer was among those at the meeting, quietly adding names to his list.

He racked up more than 50 rapes in three years, earning him the name the East Area Rapist. Why East Area? Because all of these crimes took place in areas east of Sacramento proper: Rancho Cordova, Carmichael and Citrus Heights.

A couple caught him peering into houses, and the encounter ended with their deaths, the first of what would become a long and bloody tally. Soon after, he moved on to new areas, such as Modesto and Goleta, increasing the ferocity of his crimes.

Because he was always able to stay a step ahead of investigators, it was theorized that he was a member of the law enforcement profession. Much of this story is held together by conjecture, though, as he was never caught. Two decades after the trail went cold, authorities are trying to thaw it.

Last year, the local FBI bureau in Sacramento unveiled new sketches of what they think his face looks like, and announced a reward of up to $50,000 for information that leads to his capture.

Folks who think they have first-person knowledge of who this killer may be are encouraged to visit https://tips.fbi.gov.

“We’re not quite sure where that person is who has that key piece of information that will break this case wide open,” says Gina Swankie, an FBI spokeswoman.

In the meantime, the trauma lingers.

Queen of the Dead Karen Greenlee: ‘The UnrepenTanT necrophile.’

No pantheon can be complete without a tragic lover. And who better for that role than noted necrophile Karen Greenlee, Sacramento’s own Queen of the Dead?

Greenlee loved her work as an apprentice embalmer at Sacramento Memorial Lawn mortuary, so much so that she’d give certain corpses extra attention after-hours.

The job provided both access and cover for her interests—aspects that she claimed make necrophiles in mortuaries more common than one might think, not unlike arsonists in fire departments.

In 1979, she took a loaded hearse headed for a funeral and changed course, disappearing for two days before being found post-failed suicide attempt with the body and a four-and-a-half page note confessing her morgue-rat ways. This was a time when there weren’t any laws against necrophilia, leaving her to be charged with illegally driving a hearse and interfering with a funeral, for which she received 11 days in jail and paid a $255 fine.

Then the family of the dead man she drove off with sued in civil court, a case which was settled for more than $100,000.

The incident, lurid enough to draw headlines from The Sacramento Bee such as “She Admits Sex With Dead,” didn’t end her torrid affair with the deceased. In 1987, Greenlee gave an interview to Jim Morton

for a book called Apocalypse Culture, and her comments went far further than necessary to earn her section’s title: “The Unrepentant Necrophile.”

Sparing the details, it’ll suffice to say that Greenlee held nothing back about the mechanical aspects of loving the dead. (It’s worth noting that only 1 in 10 necrophiles are women, which adds value to such a candid piece.)

Greenlee changed her name and disappeared some years ago. What won’t leave us, however, are the questions about life, death, love and lust that her story inspires, questions that she seemed close to finding an answer to when she said this in her infamous interview: “I had a gay friend who, when he found out I was a necrophile, said, ‘You can go to hell for that.’ After 1979, when I was put on probation, part of the probation requirement was that I seek therapy. I had a really nice social worker. She was cool.

Very nonjudgmental. The more I talked to these people, the more I realized necrophilia makes sense for me. The reason I was having a problem with it was because I couldn’t accept myself. I was still trying to live my life by other peoples standards.

To accept it was peace.”

The Unabomber Ted KaczynsKi’s firsT mUrder vicTim was in sacramenTo; o; he received eiGhT life senTences aT The federal coUrThoUse rThoUse here.

Ted Kaczynski, whose intellect is as certified as his murder convictions, scored his first homicide ever in Sacramento when he killed the owner of a computer store, John Hauser, with a homemade bomb in 1985. At this point, Kaczynski had been building bombs and delivering them around the country for years as part of his anti-technology eco-terrorist crusade, but not one had actually killed until then.

Sacramento wouldn’t get another taste of the Unabomber until his trial at the federal courthouse here in 1997. He got eight life terms for three murders and 10 counts of bomb-making activity, and we get the tenuous right to add his star to the streets we spit on daily.

Killer on F Street police foUnd seven corpses in her bacKyard. There were more elsewhere.

There’s one name that nobody seems to have forgotten: Dorothea Puente, that innocent-looking lady who ended up in prison until her 2011 death, for a formal body count of three, and an informal count of nine or more possible murders.

By now, even the freshest of Midtown newbies know the story: While running a boarding house at 1426 F Street, Puente would cash the Social Security checks of her tenants until she decided they weren’t worth the effort. Then she’d poison her roomie-victims and deposit their bodies in the backyard.

Police dug seven corpses from the soft soil in 1988, but Puente wasn’t immediately considered a suspect—that is, until she fled. A bit after she took flight, authorities found her in Los Angeles after a pensioner who she chatted up in a bar recognized her from TV reports.

The story of the woman who provided her tenants a deeply permanent home by dumping their bodies in our (and her) backyard has fascinated Sacramentans for decades, so much so that the new owners of her house, Tom Williams and Barbara

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Holmes, gave tours of the place in 2015.

More than $5,000 in proceeds of said tours were donated to Francis House Center.

They bought the house in 2010 for its “good bones” and decent neighborhood, Williams writes in an email interview.

Williams, who lives there to this day, also slightly enjoys the notoriety of the building.

“The history of the house holds a particular allure for us, but when it comes right down to it, it’s just our home,” he writes. “It is definitely the most interesting house we’ve ever owned.”

The Gruesome Butcher Beheaded farm animals, Bloody money and dark rituals.

Gina Knepp knows what I’m going to ask as soon as she picks up the phone.

“You’re calling me about the beheadings,” says Knepp, the manager of Front Street Animal Shelter. “I’m so glad they stopped.”

Knepp is referring to a bizarre series of animal killings that took place in the first half of 2015. A wide variety of corpses— chickens, goats, cows, animals with sacrificial connotations—were found on the Sacramento Bike Trail and Reichmuth Park, among other places, as early as January of that year. Reports from the Bee indicate that the animals weren’t dismembered as precisely as they could be, indicating a real hack job with a cheap saw.

But the presentation proved disturbing enough to go beyond stray animal murder.

Most of the time, the animals would be found in a paper bag with the heads delicately placed nearby, or in a box

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with a bit of bloody money. Knepp was quoted at the time as saying that “beheaded chickens were found in the city cemetery with these bowls of what was described as bloody oatmeal.”

The depositing of mutilated bodies continued for months, ramping up to an incident every day of the first week of March, Knepp says. She worked with the Police Department as detectives investigated a variety of angles. The most compelling seemed to be religious ritual.

“When I look at some of the evidence, and things like burnt candles, money— dollar bills with blood on them—those are symbolic. We see that in the Afro-Caribbean religions when they use animals,” Knepp says. “I’m certainly not an expert. Whoever was doing it definitely wanted to make it look like that, if it wasn’t indeed that.”

And then, as quickly as it started, it stopped. No arrests tied to the corpses, no suspects named. All became quiet again.

Quiet, that is, until late June 2015, when somebody laid the body of a goat on lightrail tracks on 26th Avenue near Franklin Boulevard in broad daylight. The incident had a reported witness, fuzzy surveillance video, the whole nine. After that, the bizarre cases stopped appearing in the papers, leaving no conclusion. So what happened?

Investigators did reach out in 2015 and 2016 to a couple of people who may have been involved, says Sgt. Bryce Heinlein, a spokesman with the Sacramento Police Department. In an email, he notes, “[T]hey were not arrested, but detectives did speak with them about their religious beliefs and sacrificial activities.”

As for the dumping of animals, no further incidents have occurred since 2015, aside from a goat wrapped in a tarp, found in a dumpster this year—neck intact.

Our Bloody Founding Father He was a killer, He was a bigot … and He was a real loser.

Of all the historic rapists, murderers and outright villains in Sacramento, there could be no greater king of them all than the big man himself, John Sutter.

The less-curious among us may simply know him as the guy who built that fort we keep forcing third graders to tour. Those of us who paid attention in class know him as the man responsible for this city being where it is.

And one step above them on the scale of condescension are those of us who haven’t forgotten how much of our city is sculpted by his avarice and bloody idiocy.

Sutter was born in Germany and married into money, only to blow all of that capital and abandon his wife and five kids to start again in the United States in 1834.

Through a series of upward failures not worth mentioning here, the man who insisted on being called “Captain”

eventually established in 1841 the colony that became Sacramento. Of course, this isn’t the sort of project one man takes on alone. These things go much more smoothly when greased with the blood of indigenous people, and to that end, Sutter took to murdering and enslaving them to take their lands, forcing them to build his fort and suffer as his servants.

Through the denial of food, coerced labor, murder and the rape of girls as young as 12, Sutter ensured his legacy as one of the greatest men in Sacramento history, achieving fame and glory—only to be utterly undone by the discovery of gold that summoned hordes of prospectors. He died alone in Washington, D.C., at the fruitless end of 15 years of petitioning the federal government to pay him for his self-inflicted ruin.

No wonder Sacramento has a complex about what it means to be successful: One of the most important figures in our city’s mythology created a pattern when he turned this land into an Indian burial ground, setting the scene for our fair city, and then still couldn’t figure out how to not die a failure. Of all the freaks we could be idolizing, never forget that the ones after whom we name our streets are almost always the Ω most gnarled and despicable.

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rtist John S. Huerta’s vivid memory takes him back to a time when he and his younger sister were playing outside in the canopy of Tempe, Arizona’s heat. The siblings were running around when his sister suddenly stopped.

They heard a rattling sound. Within seconds their grandfather ran around the corner of their home, slid down to the ground and picked up what resembled a belt. It turned out to be a rattlesnake.

“He killed it. He slammed the head of the rattlesnake on a rock,” Huerta says.

Sitting in the living room of his home in Natomas, Huerta points to a vibrant acrylic painting of a man with long, black hair and a single rattlesnake playfully coiled around his neck. Huerta created the artwork, titled “Snake Charmer,” to honor his late grandfather, and it’s one of many of his originals that ornament his walls.

“In the eyes of that one it shows strength. That snake’s not giving him fear whatsoever,” Huerta says.

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the losses of his dear family members, the most difficult being his younger sister Rosemary when he was 35 years old.

Overwhelmed with grief, he turned to Día de los Muertos and his array of paints.

For Huerta and a few other artists in Sacramento, the holiday represents a way of life as well as a livelihood.

Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, is widely celebrated in Mexico to honor loved ones who’ve passed. The holiday begins on November 1, a day devoted to deceased infants and children, and continues November 2 to celebrate adults. Revelers decorate handmade altars with photographs, candles and offerings like grandpa’s favorite tequila or a mother’s favorite dish.

“It’s a fun, festive holiday,” says local artist Lila Solorzano Rivera. “We bring memories of the people that have passed away.

We drink. We party. We dance. We tell stories. It’s not sad. It’s not a funeral. We give to the dead, we put pan de muerto, or we make their favorite meals and we put it out on an altar because we believe the spirits come back and they celebrate with us for a couple nights and it’s really nice.”

To Huerta, Day of the Dead artistry is part catharsis, part career.

“Painting is very therapeutic for me to deal with the passing of my family members,” Huerta says. “When I explain to people why I do it, then they associate it with a loved one who’s passed, and then they get it. Maybe a color or a certain flower or certain eye colors, anything can signify someone who made an impression in your life who was important to you.”

Huerta has worked as a full-time artist for eight years, and his paintings pop off the canvas. His skeletal figures, outfitted in strikingly colorful dresses and mariachi uniforms, sell for

upwards of $5,000. Huerta also uses bold colors to depict deceased artists like Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera and musicians like Selena and Prince.

Throughout the years, Huerta noticed the uptick in popularity of the Mexican holiday. Almost a decade ago, Día de los Muertos festivals were scarce, he says. Passersby were mystified at the sight of Huerta’s booth, and he remembers one woman was even angry at the nature of his work with its well-dressed skeletons.

But Huerta took the time to explain its significance.

“I explained to her why I do this, and then she pretty much told me she lost her son, who was shot,” Huerta says. “It got to a point where we were just conversing and then she started breaking down and then she realized why I do my art.”

The men and women Huerta paints all have one thing in common: the eyes. He usually starts there and works his way outward; for him, the eyes set the mood. Although the almondshaped eyes within his paintings are intensely detailed, Huerta softens them with the use of flower petals or butterflies to keep the viewer’s attention.

“When I paint, nothing else matters,” Huerta says.

BITTERSWEET SKULLS When Disney calls, you answer. Sacramento sugar-skull artist Rob-O says he couldn’t believe an email he received earlier this year from an Imagineer asking him to create an original sugar skull to be exhibited at the Epcot’s Día de los Muertos display at the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida.

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— Rob-O, artist — of sugar and decorated with hand-mixed royal icing—and sent it to Florida the day before Hurricane Irma hit. It safely arrived and will be on display for the next five years.

“They commissioned three or four artists from all over the world to make art pieces for the Día de los Muertos exhibit,” Rob-O says before joking, “I guess if you’re going to die, you sell to Disney, right? That’s what George Lucas did.”

Nine years ago, Rob-O’s wife, a first generation MexicanAmerican, suggested the two celebrate Día de los Muertos after his mother passed away. Determined to turn an unfortunate situation into a positive memorial, Rob-O and his wife created a large altar in their garage and invited 25 of their closest friends over to celebrate not just Rob-O’s mother, but also their respective loved ones.

“Everybody brought pictures and their loved ones’ favorite dishes and we all decorated sugar skulls and put them on the altar and played games, and it really helped me get through it,” Rob-O says.

Easygoing Rob-O has a knack for creating friendly conversation. When he’s not busy during October and November exhibiting in galleries or participating in festivals, Rob-O spends time visiting various K-12 schools from Sacramento to the Bay Area, teaching students about Día de los Muertos.

He shares dozens of blank, hand-crafted sugar skulls for the classes to decorate.

“This is a really important holiday. When I go to schools, how do I know one of those kids hasn’t lost a parent and maybe they’re on that path of, ‘Screw the world,’” Rob-O says. “For kids, it gives them something to look forward to in a positive way. As Americans, we look at death as, ‘Poor me.’ It is ‘poor you’ to a point, but there’s also a point where you need to remember the people who’ve passed on.”

Rob-O’s been working as a full-time sugar skull artist for seven years. This year, he purchased 1,500 pounds of sugar to meet the demands of his art workshops held in museums and at schools. By the time Día de los Muertos arrives, he will have molded more than 1,300 skulls along with the help of his wife’s parents.

His most enduring works are the intricately decorated candy craniums coated with resin, encased in an oak frame and protected by UV glass. These pieces have graced gallery walls at the California Museum and even Mayor Darrell Steinberg’s office and can weigh up to 35 pounds.

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“My hope is these will last 500 years because I want them to be passed on through generations,” Rob-O says.

When November passes, Rob-O says he focuses on testing his skills and pushing the medium to new heights.

Next year, he plans to create a model of the Golden Gate Bridge out of sugar. But it’s his work with youth that rekindles his inspiration with the sweet medium.

“They’re just excited. It’s made out of sugar,” Rob-O says. “I think they’re all amazed that it’s made out of sugar and it’s a three-dimensional piece. It’s not just, ‘Let’s put some macaroni on a piece of paper and paint it.’ If somebody would have [brought sugar skulls] into my high school art class I would have been interested.”

BRIGHT SIDE OF DEATH On a Sunday morning in Marysville, women adorned with black-and-white face paint—in the style of calaveras catrinas—resemble elegant skeletons. They browse colorful vendor booths slinging bow ties and earrings stamped with images of Frida Kahlo.

Inside the Celebration of Souls art show, event curator Lila Solorzano Rivera points vendors to open spaces where they can set up shop. Her glossy, brown eyes stand out behind her own calaveras-style face paint. This show may be Rivera’s first time as curator, but it’s certainly not the artist’s first exhibition.

Six years ago, Rivera began looking into the meaning behind Día de los Muertos, a tradition she says she hadn’t grown up with as a second-generation Mexican-American. She was searching for a healthy way to cope with the death of her only grandfather.

“This time of year I always feel like he’s closer to me and I feel like all of this, everything I do, is because of him, because he’s bringing me that luck and he’s watching over me,” Rivera says. “It’s his way of showing that he is proud of what I’m doing.”

Rivera’s vivid watercolor and pastel portraits of glamorous Hollywood icons like Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn add pops of color to the gallery’s gray walls. Each deceased starlet is graced with her own calaveras catrinas face paint.

Rivera says she hopes those who stop by to appreciate her artwork walk away with a better understanding of the age-old tradition. It’s a rarity in American culture: a buoyant way to memorialize the dead.

“My fireplace is one big altar right now. I have pictures of my grandpa and Frida Kahlo,” Rivera says. “I put a bottle of tequila and I just bought a cigar, so I’m going to have that on there too. I also buy pan dulce [sweet bread] and then we make beans because he always made the best beans.” Ω

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Rhymes with a reason “Monday through Thursday blues. Friday we get f---ed up. Saturday we get f---ed. Sunday we ain’t alive,” poet Alex Cuevas stated firmly.

The second annual Young Poets Of Color show was lit.

The energy was so elevated, it was more of an essence.

Looking at the audience of more than 100 people inside Sol Collective, I could see the ’hood of South Sac, the ’burbs of the Fabulous 40s and generations of ancestors’ wildest dreams—all in the same room.

My friend Lydia and I hadn’t seen each other in forever and decided that watching Sacramento’s youth in action would create the perfect bonding moment. Beautiful shades of brown surrounded us—#BlackGirlMagic and #BlackBoyJoy were in full effect. Before the young’uns came out, the DJ took us on a trip through time with Mac Dre. We threw up our “T” hand signals with hyphy tracks. I damn near

sweat my hair out before the real show even started.

Then, poets Khaya Osborne and Kali Ausselet exclaimed, “Why are you so concerned about the hair on my body in places you’ll never see?”

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I’ve been waiting for an event like this where young voices of color are heard.

left their hearts on the stage one by one as they spoke on life and society in today’s world.

I’ve been waiting for an event like this where young voices of color are heard. The poets wove unapologetic and genuine words and the crowd was ready to listen.

Author Salvin Chahal spoke about what it means to be a man and be vulnerable, and Kari Jay shared a gorgeous piece about recently murdered youth activist Brandon Harrison. My favorite part was seeing all of the different shades of skin dropping knowledge on each other about the world from their points of view.

The artists from this year and last performed in the name of poetry and out of love for Sol Collective. The first event raised $1,500 and put Sol that much closer to owning the building they’ve rented for almost 11 years, and this year, the shows at 7:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. both sold out.

Spoken word artist Chahal said he curated the event to provide a platform for powerful, young voices.

“I’m just doing the same thing people did for me,” he said. “I’m trying to do the same for my peoples and change the lives around me.”

—Taylor Desmangles

Celebrate with the Latino Center of Art and Culture during its eighth annual Panteón de Sacramento, a Día de los Muertos celebration, on October 28-29 at 2020 J Street. www.thelatinocenter.com.

See Aztec dance ceremonies, decorate community altars and pick up some original artwork from Lila Solorzano Rivera during Souls of the City, 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.

November 4 in front of the Sacramento History Museum (101 I Street). www.solcollective.org.

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“Have you ever been served by a vampire before?”

Shannon McCabe asks me with a sly grin on her face.

I pause. “No. This is a first.”

We are sitting at McCabe’s dining room table at her home. I fumble with the butter knife as I attempt to portion myself a modest dab of cheese from the serving tray that one of her vampire servants is holding. I’m feeling underdressed. McCabe and her two vampires look elegant. I’m in the same shirt and shorts I wear to every interview.

“Thank you,” I say to the vampire servant. She leaves. No response.

When I agreed to interview McCabe to talk about her annual Vampire’s Ball, which will be celebrating its ninth year this Halloween weekend, I didn’t imagine I would come face-to-face with actual vampires. Here they are, and they’re friendly, relatively speaking.

McCabe is apparently one, too. Unlike the two other women, she doesn’t have vampire teeth, though at one point she tells me she’s 1,000 years old.

The Vampire’s Ball has evolved into one of the biggest Halloween parties in Sacramento. Part of the proceeds benefit children at UC Davis and Shriners Hospitals for Children. Currently at the California Automobile Museum, it draws roughly 1,000 people, most of whom are dressed as vampires, or are vampires. There will be music, dancing, cocktails and vampire-themed everything.

A stage show with an elaborate plot changes every year. This time, a coven of witches attempt to take down Klaus Mikaelson, the original vampire. “He’s the one who made everybody,” McCabe says.

Other characters, stories and horror-themed shopping aren’t confined to the stage. Part of the fun is finding it sprinkled throughout the museum.

“It’s not just dancing in front of the DJ all night,” McCabe says. “You truly couldn’t experience everything that we have to offer. There’s no way. It’s ongoing, all over the place, all the time.”

McCabe got the idea for the party from vampirethemed wine. The first year, she held it at Vega’s with a Twilight theme, and 120 attendees came. For the next two years, she moved the ball to the Crescent Club (now Graciano’s) and packed the place with 400 people. Demand grew and, for the next three years, McCabe threw the event at the Placer County fairgrounds, bringing roughly 700 people each time.

Three years ago, she decided to migrate the party to the California Automobile Museum because it became challenging to manage such a large space at the fairgrounds. Interest is so high now, she doesn’t even seem stressed about selling out the 1,000-person capacity.

The vampire servants return with Bloody Marys. I take mine reluctantly, not certain that they were made with tomato juice.

Klaus, the original vampire, also enters and takes a seat at the table. His real name is Jason King, and he’s dressed in business casual with the smug demeanor of a Silicon Valley tech millionaire.

His presence prompts McCabe to bring up the witches’ desire to kill Klaus.

“This epic battle has been long overdue,” McCabe says. “I really don’t think they have a chance. I’m also very biased. It’s going to be interesting to see how it plays out on the stage show. He’s been around for thousands of years. It’s not going to be very easy to kill this guy.”

We all stare at Klaus, nursing his Bloody Mary.

“I’m not concerned in the least,” he says. Ω

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This summer, several Thai eateries opened up within miles of each other in South Sacramento. I tried three, and the winner was obvious. Thai Asian Bistro creates a symphony of flavors and textures that balance right at that narrow edge of near-perfection. The ever-present waitress doesn’t even have to be friendly, but she is.

She’ll smile and laugh throughout dinner, confidently suggest what you should order and help judge the singers on the Thai version of The Voice that’s buzzing on TV. The restaurant resides in a South Sacramento strip mall with above-average excitement: Driving there at night, I almost hit arguing teenagers who lurched into the street and a rave dancer in a crosswalk. Once inside, the shotgun space exudes calm. Southeast Asian artworks shimmer with gold, and orchids and wine racks surround the cashier’s checkout.

With clear and helpful photography, the menu boasts Thai and Laotian staples like papaya salad and larb beef, but also twists and lesser known meals, like crab pad thai and curry cream puffs (similar to Indian samosas).

The appetizers list includes shrimp in a blanket and Lao sausage. Several salads (clean noodle and squid!) and soups (chicken coconut and kao-poon!) entice.

The entrees are divided into stir-fried, curry and “chef recommended.”

The kitchen rocks at texture. I knew I wanted to review Thai Asian Bistro after I tried the kao nam tod ($8.95). The pork salad appetizer rivals the popular version of the dish at Oakland’s Champa Gardens.

The lettuce, freshly chartreuse and dewy with droplets, cupped crunchy fried rice cooked in savory oil. The pork sausage tasted of shallots, basil and chili, but its meatiness still shone through. This dish flirted with the give-and-take of soft and crisp consistencies to create an interplay that entertained with each bite.

The cooks at Thai Asian Bistro also know how to balance flavors. The tom yum noodle soup ($9.95) smelled aromatic with lemongrass, cilantro and green onions. It was sweet with peanuts and sugar, offset with the sourness of kaffir lime leaves and fish sauce and the ginger-like spiciness of galangal. This dish felt like a study in the power of acid to kick up every other flavor profile. A spoonful contained a prism of craveable tastes.

Lastly, this place has finesse. Slurp the shrimp mango curry ($12.95), and you’ll encounter a broth that’s creamy with coconut milk, a touch savory and only subtly sweet. Instead of the starchy potatoes found in many yellow curries, the mangoes are a surprise of fructose with the feel of edible satin. The shrimp are hefty bass clefs fresh enough to remember the song of the sea.

Go there, but not now. Until November 14, Thai Asian Bistro is closed due to a family emergency, according to its phone recording. But on November 15, I’d suggest recording the Kings v. Hawks game and shopping for your turkey brine another day. There’s something far more delicious to try. Ω

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Aside from beer, the saloon offered two mixed drinks, a Bloody Mary and the Creamsicle. The latter ($4.50) was straightforward and tasted like—howdy—an orange creamsicle. Pinnacle whipped vodka, triple-sec, whipped cream and OJ make it easily downed like a shot and sweet enough to enjoy as a cocktail. And aside from the outlaw, the bar staff and patrons were warm!

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Filipino sit-down: When TV personality and chef Anthony Bourdain heralded Filipino food as the next big thing in America, he was criticized for “Columbusing,” or claiming to discover something that’s been there all along. Filipino food has been a part of Sacramento’s dining scene for decades—Starbread Bakery, anyone?—but on September 26, we gained what’s possibly our largest sit-down Filipino restaurant.

To support his proclamation, Bourdain talked up the cultural cachet of eateries such as Washington, D.C.’s Bad Saint. The upscale Filipino restaurant dresses up dishes like banana hearts and tofu-skin salad, aspects of a cuisine that were previously considered too sour for American palates.

In contrast, Bistro Filipino (7909 Bruceville Road) serves classic meals inside a polished yet humble space in South Sacramento.

“We just do the traditional whatyour-grandma-used-to-cook, but with a little twist,” says co-owner Marilou Abenojar. “We’re not very culinary [where] your food is 6 feet high, full of decorations.”

The menu caters to the nearby Kaiser Permanente center, where lunch breaks give workers a limited window of time to wait for food.

This week, the family-owned restaurant added a $8.95 lunch special that’s ready in a matter of minutes: a rice plate with your choice of two entrees, including ampalaya (bitter melon) with beef and pork binagoongan that’s tossed in shrimp paste and tomatoes.

The kitchen offers multiple recipes for chicken, beef, pork and seafood and a few vegetarian entrees. There’s even a halo-halo dessert—a stacked parfait of shaved ice, ube ice cream, jackfruit, evaporated milk, toasted rice ... the ingredients go on.

So far, the lumpia and chicken adobo are a hit, says Marilou’s brother and co-owner Lito Abenojar.

“Our chicken adobo, it’s just—” he pauses to make an Italian finger kiss. “We put a lot of love into it.”

Unlike other, soupier renditions, this chicken adobo absorbs the broth, Lito says. The recipes are concocted by third sibling and chef

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Arsenio Abenojar, who’s lived in Sacramento for roughly 30 years.

To start the restaurant, Lito and Marilou moved from Seattle to Sacramento. They retired from electrical utilities and government work, respectively. Inside his new business, Lito shows off the ongoing use of his engineering skills: The bar is decorated with restored barn wood.

He points to an uneven spot in the woodwork. “I’m not a carpenter, but I am mechanically inclined.”

“Ha-ha,” says the teen idling in front of the kitchen.

“This is my son, Jordan, he likes to sit around.”

His sister had dreamed about becoming a waitress before she went to work in Social Security administration. Now, Marilou says she’s eager to share family recipes stateside.

“We have so many, so many recipes that [have] not reached here, still in the Philippines, and they are good food,” she says. “They are authentic food that needs to be shared here.” Ω

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by Shoka “If you were stranded on a desert island, would you eat meat?” This clichéd question may get asked on Thanksgiving, since some folks consider “Turkey Day” more about eating a bird corpse than gratitude.

As an alternative, JD’s Bakery & Cafe Restaurant in Rocklin (3700 Midas Avenue) is hosting a new monthly vegan cooking class series, so vegans can bring something to the table. For $35, get a hands-on lesson on a Thanksgiving-themed appetizer, entree and dessert, with

a Caribbean twist on either Sunday, November 5, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., or Monday, November 6, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Owner Wolete “Sunny” Atherley said her Rastafarian background played a big role in JD’s offering vegan menu options, and that she wants to share those cooking skills with others. Turns out, there’s vegan food on the desert island, too. Visit www.facebook.com/jdbakerycafe for more info. Ω

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To celebrate its one-year anniversary, The Jungle Bird (2516 J Street) will be throwing itself a luau on October 28. The way it works: Buy a tropical cocktail, and you’ll get a ticket that entitles you to a bit of the whole pig spit-roasting in the backyard. Complete with Polynesian dancers and live music, the event will kick off at noon and run until 1 a.m.—the pig comes off the spit in the midafternoon. To mark the occasion, resident mixologist Buddy Newby has concocted two cocktails: The Polyanna—made with rum, grenadine, pineapple juice and all-spice dram—and the Swedish Moon—made with vodka, amaro, apricot liqueur, dark Jamaican rum, lime and passionfruit juice. To help guests remember the all-day affair, the Jungle Bird will also be selling a commemorative tiki mug ($25) that’s a replica of an 8-foot statue inside the restaurant.

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We never see the title character of Capital Stage’s excellent new production, Luna Gale, the infant who has been rushed to the emergency room by her meth-addicted parents. This grim dramedy, written by Rebecca Gilman and directed by Michael Stevenson, is an indictment of the system and how it can fail a child. There are no good guys and bad guys, just people who have Luna’s welfare in mind. But all disagree on what should happen to her. Everyone has their own personal prejudices and histories that shape their views of what’s in the best interest of the baby.

Amy Resnick gives a remarkable performance as Caroline, the compassionate but overworked social worker who decides the baby should be put in the temporary care of her grandmother (Shannon Mahoney) until parents Karlie (Lauren Hirsch) and Peter (Ian Hopps) can get their act together. But as the parents begin to follow the rules, unforeseen problems erupt with grandma, who is determined to adopt the child herself, with strong support from her evangelical pastor (Peter Story). Meanwhile, Caroline’s boss (Aaron Wilton) just wants to put the baby in foster care so she is no longer a drain on the system.

Jezabel Olivares plays the smaller role of Lourdes, one of Caroline’s success stories. She has just graduated from foster care to live on her own. She is Caroline’s shining example of the kind of future Luna might have.

The ultimate solution for Luna is unexpected but hopeful, though given everyone’s history, we wonder if it is as bright as it seems to be.

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3 Frankenstein It was a dark and stormy night in Lake Geneva, Switzerland, in 1816, when 18-year-old Mary Shelley (Mary Goodwin at the time) and four others challenged themselves to create a superscary ghost story. Mary goes first, egged on by the taunts of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron that a woman can’t possibly tell a tale as well as a man.

Also there: Mary’s sister-in-law Claire Clairmont and Lord Byron’s personal physician, Dr. John Polidori.

As Mary’s tale unfolds—and it’s a doozy—the others assume roles of characters in her story, illustrating a drama of scientific inquiry, alchemy and the search for immortality. That such immortality will come through the “creation” of life through the reanimation of the dead is the kicker that makes Frankenstein the horror story it is.

Playwright Jerry R. Montoya adapted the story; John Walck directs this production. The cast, not that much older than the author and her friends at the time, features Ariel Elliott as Mary, Jason Kaye as Percy, Jason Titus as Lord Byron, Shoana Hunt as Claire and Chris Jensen as Dr. Polidori (and, memorably, Dr. Victor Frankenstein). As a unit, they completely embrace the style and spirit of the production.

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Suburbicon it’s a hand grip kind of year.

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Suburbicon was written by Joel and Ethan Coen, Grant Heslov and George Clooney, who also directed.

In the credits, ampersands indicate that Joel and Ethan collaborated, and, independently, so did Grant and George. Which team originated the script and which worked it over hardly matters; the fact is, even with names as high-pedigree as these, there’s still such a thing as too many cooks.

Suburbicon gets off to a witty start with a clever, almost pitch-perfect pastiche of a promotional film for the movie’s eponymous suburb, a 1959 model of bourgeois Stepford perfection, lauding its manicured lawns, clean streets and wholesome, well-fed middle-class families who have migrated from all over these great United States and cheerfully urging us to bring our families to Suburbicon too.

After that impish opening, the wit dries up for quite a while.

We are introduced to twin sisters Rose and Margaret (both played by Julianne Moore) and Rose’s son Nicky (Noah Jupe). Rose forces Nicky to play with the son of a new African American family in the neighborhood, a family whose presence will enrage the lily-white inhabitants of the town. This will eventually mushroom into a race riot in which these northern suburbanites make the Ku Klux Klan look positively polite. But it’s really just a subplot that gets out of hand. (I don’t think we can blame this narrative thread on the Coens; frankly, it has George Clooney’s smug limousine-liberal fingerprints all over it.)

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The main plot gets underway with the low-key entrance of Matt Damon as Nicky’s father, Gardner Lodge, who gently wakes Nicky up with, “Son, some men are here; you have to come downstairs.”

It’s a home invasion by two men, fat (Glenn Fleshler) and skinny (Alex Hassell). They terrorize Nicky, his parents and Aunt Margaret, then tie them up and chloroform them. With Rose, the chloroform proves fatal.

When Nicky sees his father and Aunt Margaret refuse to identify the culprits in a police lineup, Suburbicon veers away from its hectoring lecture in Racial Tolerance 101 and back into undeniable Coen brothers territory. As the plot thickens, the wit of the opening sequence flickers briefly back to life with the arrival of Oscar Isaac as an insurance investigator who smells a rat; in his brilliantine, vulpine way, Isaac slyly evokes Edward G. Robinson’s Barton W. Keyes in Double Indemnity, albeit with a venal blackmailing edge. But alas, it’s only a tease; Isaac’s scenes are too short and too few, and Suburbicon lapses back into the humorless plod that director Clooney has established (evidently, when George Clooney isn’t preening in front of a camera he doesn’t know what to do with it).

Suburbicon has a surface gloss, but at heart (if that’s the right word) it’s a specimen of an unhappy genre—a bland satire. Ω

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Genre journeyman Marc Forster (World War Z) directs this moody and impressionistic psychodrama about a blind woman re-evaluating her life after receiving surgery to help her see again. Blinded by a childhood car accident that killed both her parents, Blake Lively’s Gina largely depends on her husband James (Jason Clarke), a doting but dull accountant working out of Bangkok.

When corrective surgery slowly restores her sight, a less dependent Gina starts growing dissatisfied with the world she sees and begins to question her life with James. Meanwhile, an increasingly emasculated James, fearing that Gina has lost interest, begins to undermine her treatment. Rather than the pulp thriller you might expect, Forster and screenwriter Sean Conway leave the film on a low, sexy simmer, and the attempts to show us the world that the blind Gina sees are quite creative. Only an absurd finale keeps the film from being fully recommendable. D.B.

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Blade Runner 2049

Possibly the least provocative provocateur in contemporary cinema, director Denis Villeneuve (Prisoners; Arrival) is the modern master of empty, thundering portent, and the dystopic future cinematic universe of Blade Runner gives him a gigantic space to practice his darkly didactic arts. So long, mystery and sensuality! Hello, world-building mythology and plot, plot, plot! More a straight sequel than a reboot, Blade Runner 2049 takes place 30 years after the original, in a world where a new messianic technocrat named Niander Wallace (Jared Leto, bad) has replaced Tyrell, creating an updated breed of obedient replicants. Earth remains a rain-swept, neon-lit shithole, a refuse pile for the remains of humanity unfit for off-world colonization, and blade runners still hunt and “retire” rogue old-model replicants. Ryan Gosling plays a young blade runner named “K,” sporting an updated model of Harrison Ford’s brown trench coat, and living out a similarly lonely and booze-soaked existence. D.B.

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Andy Serkis doffs the mo-cap suit to direct Breathe, an old-fashioned period biopic about the British disability advocate and longtime “responaut” Robin Cavendish (Andrew Garfield). While his devoted wife Diana was pregnant with their child, Robin became paralyzed from polio and was only kept alive through a mechanical respirator. Although initially suicidal, Robin eventually left the hospital, defying medical precedent by living a comparatively comfortable existence at home with his wife and son. With the assistance of Diana and his friend Teddy Hall, an Oxford professor who helped develop a wheelchair with a built-in respirator, Robin traveled the world and became an advocate for the severely disabled.

As lovingly produced by Robin and Diana’s son Jonathan, Breathe doesn’t offer much more than auburn-tinged hero worship (Robin always seems to be wheeling into a standing ovation). Devoid of fully realized characters, Breathe feels like an awards campaign in search of a film. D.B.

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Geostorm

A satellite network set up to control global weather starts going haywire, sending freezing winds through Afghan deserts, hundred-foot tidal waves into Dubai, and Volkswagen-sized hailstones down onto Tokyo, and just about everything else on a CGIgeek’s wish list. Only one man can fix things, the prickly genius who designed the system (Gerard Butler)—but he’s checked out of the business since being fired by his bureaucrat brother (Jim Sturgess). The script by Paul Guyot and first-time director Dean Devlin putters around with leftover parts from disaster movies that were badly written in the first place, stranding a decent cast (Abbie Cornish, Andy Garcia, Ed Harris, Mare Winningham, Richard Schiff) with nothing to do but try to get a word in edgewise between some of the cheesiest effects in years. J.L.

There’s trouble in cotton candy-colored paradise.

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The Florida Project

The best film of the year so far, a dreamlike slice-of-life from Tangerine director Sean Baker, The Florida Project follows a mischievous group of kids led by foul-mouthed 6-year-old Moonee (a startlingly natural Brooklyn Prince) over the course of a summer. Moonee and her train-wreck mother Hailey (Bria Vanaite) live in candy-colored squalor on the outskirts of Disney World, denizens of a run-down budget motel managed by a tough but fair cipher named Bobby (an outstanding Willem Dafoe). While Moonee and her ferocious young playmates gambol through the kitsch-strewn landscape like a modern-day Tom Sawyer and friends, Hailey’s life slowly disintegrates. Without ever judging, preaching or force-feeding the narrative, Baker and his uniformly brilliant cast create a cinematic universe that is utterly absorbing and alive.

The world of The Florida Project feels tangible, lyrical, forbidding and magical all at once, a boundaryless playground for kids and a quicksand prison for everyone else. D.B.

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A snotty college sorority sister (Jessica Rothe) is murdered on the night of her birthday, then wakes up again that same morning, living it—and dying—over and over while she tries to solve the mystery of who keeps killing her. Writer Scott Lobdell and director Christopher Landon have the cast-iron gall to make one character say, “This whole thing reminds me of Groundhog Day”—their rip-off is as shameless as that. Needless to say, Rothe’s character hasn’t seen the Bill Murray classic, or (presumably) any of those slasher flicks where killers run around wearing creepy masks; that may be her whole problem right there. Rothe is the closest thing to a saving grace here; she has presence and wit and looks. If she can manage to drag herself clear of having to do junk like this, she may even have a future. J.L.

After portraying James Brown and Jackie Robinson on screen, actor Chadwick Boseman continues his tour of AfricanAmerican icons from the 20th century with this courtroom drama-cum-biopic about Thurgood Marshall. Prolific TV director Reginald Hudlin (House Party) makes his first feature film in 15 years with the deliberately old-fashioned Marshall, featuring a story pulled from the eventual Supreme Court justice’s early years as a confident and crusading NAACP attorney. The film centers on a real-life incident that occurred in Connecticut in 1941, when a black chauffeur named Joseph Spell (Sterling K. Brown) was wrongly accused of rape and attempted murder by a wealthy white socialite (Kate Hudson). Marshall raced to Greenwich to defend Spell, but was forced to defer to local attorney Sam Friedman (a surprisingly adequate Josh Gad) during trial. The courtroom aspect feels conventional and the film lacks real insight, but it’s professionally handled and Boseman does solid work. D.B.

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The Meyerowitz Stories

More acridly intellectual extended-family comedy from writer-director Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale; Mistress America), this time structured as a series of short stories revolving around the embittered family of a forgotten sculptor. Dustin Hoffman plays Harold, a prickly artist whose greatest claim to fame is having one of his works buried somewhere in the Whitney, although he still manages to entangle his embittered children from his various marriages in his many mini-dramas. Adam Sandler plays Harold’s oldest son Danny, a failed musician and loving father prone to eruptions of anger, while Ben Stiller plays the prized son Matthew, far more financially successful but just as volatile and unhappy. It’s not as cohesive (or corrosive) as Baumbach’s best work, but even in second gear, no one depicts the tender malice of family better. The film offers a powerful reminder that Sandler and Stiller are otherwise wasting their careers on crap. D.B.

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The Snowman

A maverick Norwegian police detective with a drinking problem (Michael Fassbender) investigates the disappearance of a woman who may be the latest victim of a serial killer. Adapted by Peter Straughan, Hossein Amini and Søren Sveistrup from Jo Nesbo’s bestselling thriller and directed by Tomas Alfredson, the movie is simply a God-awful, incoherent mess. Characters and subplots pop in at random and nothing makes any sense. Two of the best editors in the business, Thelma Schoonmaker and Claire Simpson, seem to have assembled the footage blindfolded wearing boxing gloves, and a world-class cast (Fassbender, Rebecca Ferguson, Charlotte Gainsbourg, J.K. Simmons, Val Kilmer) makes no impression at all. Dion Beebe’s cinematography comes off best, but it only adds to the off-putting Nordic coldness of it all. J.L.

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“Eli was weird on purpose.

This band isn’t anything on purpose. It’s just good music,” Jenkins says. “It’s pretty standard rock ’n’ roll: Palatable and aggressive.”

They have also been really smart about building an audience. Experience will do that.

A big point in their favor is not overplaying Sacramento: Their third show was out of town. The upcoming show at Fox & Goose will be the band’s fifth at home.

“We’re a working band and intend to stay that way. And the work for a rock band is on the road,” Jenkins says. “If you play more than 10 times a year, even your friends are going to stop coming.”

The group’s musical dynamics have earrned them audiences in San Francisco and Portland, but also off-the-grid in Clovis, where they say they had a surprisingly good reception in July.

Though the band plays straightforward rock, there is a wow-factor to such a full sound with just two members. Jenkins has Little Thunder pickups that allow him to separate bass and guitar signals. One pickup sends sound to his guitar amp, and another sends low-end sounds to his bass rig without sounding murky. It actually sounds like a bassist is following along with Jenkins’ guitar playing.

“Being a fan of bands like Local H and Black Keys and White Stripes, and all these other twopieces, I always thought, Oh, the only thing that’s missing is the low end,” Jenkins says. “People, 9 times out of 10, have no idea how we make the sound that we make.”

That’s really as complex as it gets. The group plays with clean and distorted channels and loud and quiet parts, but doesn’t really experiment beyond that.

“When people are doing intellectual masturbation, you’re like, ‘OK, we get it, you’re smart,’” Jenkins says. “I just wanted something that kids would like, my mom would like and the dirtbags I grew up with would like. In that sense, it’s probably the poppiest band I’ve ever been in.” Ω

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Elijah Jenkins, the guitarist and singer for Sacramento’s Cities You Wish You Were From, has a few ideas of what his band name could mean.

“Manifest the sort of person you want to be, not the person you actually are,” Jenkins says, then adds: “Maybe it’s more of a dig at people who don’t embrace where the fuck they’re from.”

The name comes from one of their lyrics: “Don’t you wish you were like the trees in the cities that you wish you were from.” Jenkins and drummer Tyler Downie were getting ready for their first show last December and went with this phrase.

Downie wasn’t sure what to think. “When he first said the name, I thought, ‘That’s too long of a name.’ After we said it a couple of times, it kind of stuck.”

It stuck for other people, too. In under a year, the group has released one EP, played close to 30 shows along the West Coast and had a sold-out EP release show at the Hideaway on July 29. They hope to release new music next spring.

That first show was in Jenkins’ living room, and they managed to bring out 40 people. They rocked with a moody blues sound and riffs that veered off into eerie guitar-noodlings.

A month later, the group played its first public show at Old Ironsides. Word spread around town thanks to the popularity of Jenkins’ other band, Eli and the Sound Cult, who are currently on hiatus.

People loved those early shows last year, and have continued to show support. The band members feel a little surprised. Cities is quite different than Eli and the Sound Cult. Cities’ blues-rock sound is nothing like Eli’s eclectic, anything-goes ethos.

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CITIES YOU WISH YOU WERE FROM: Halloween party with Children of the Grave and Surviving the Era. 9pm, $5. Fox & Goose, 1001 R St.

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page 39. 6:30pm, $5. Old Ironsides, 1901 10th St.

gemstones, meteorites and more in this longrunning show that’s fun for the whole family.

Food for sale and trick-or-treat stations to celebrate the season. 10am, no cover-$6.

The Scottish Rite Temple, 6151 H St.

DREADNOUGHT: With InAeona and more. 8pm, $8-$10. Blue Lamp, 1400 Alhambra Blvd.

EARTHLESS: San Diego jam band. 8pm, $15.

Holy Diver, 1517 21st St.

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HALLOWEEN COVER SHOW: VVomen, Rex Means

event celebrating favorite storybook characters, with music, art, books and entertainment. Part of the Trick-or-Treat on the “Boo”levard event in Old North Sacramento. 9am, no cover. The Artisan Building, 1901 Del Paso Blvd.

King, Lucky/You, Murderbots and more pay tribute to your favorite punky bands from high school, including Blink-182, Against Me! and Green Day. 7pm, $5. The Morgue, 1919 Wahl Way in Davis.

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Dance with the dead Midtown, 11 A.M. SAt., 8 A.M. Sun., no cover Many of us aren’t often encouraged to think about, or celebrate, death. But through the MesoDAY OF THE DEAD American tradition of Día de Los Muertos, the living honor passed loved ones with cemetery visits and altars holding the dead’s favorite foods and beloved earthly items. The Latino Center of Art and Culture’s annual El Panteón de Sacramento brings the heart of these

celebrations held in Mexico’s small cemeteries to the capital city. The Day of the Dead event spans the weekend with folkloric dancing, street altars, a procession of “walking altars” and a Saturday evening parade with giant paper mache puppets, or Mojigangas, all in the heart of Midtown.

Find the beauty in the fate we all face. 2020 J Street, www.thelatinocenter.com.

LOS PISTOLEROS: Monster Mash show with

SUNDAY, 10/29

Midnight to Six (Clash tribute), and the Evaleros. 9pm, $5. Hideaway Bar & Grill, 2565 Franklin Blvd.

81ST ANNUAL SACRAMENTO GEM, MINERAL AND JEWELRY SHOW: See event listing on 10/28.

10am, no cover-$6. The Scottish Rite Temple,

SPAZMATICS: Party band plays the Halloween bash. Enter the costume contest for a chance to win $300. 9pm, $15. Powerhouse, 614 Sutter St. in Folsom.

SUNDAY, 10/29 THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA: With Veil of Maya,

THURSDAY, 10/26 BARELY ALIVE: With Virtual Riot. 10pm, $5-$15.

District 30, 1022 K St.

THE UNDERACHIEVERS: With Injury Reserve, Warm Brew. 6:30pm, $18-$85. Ace Of Spades, 1417 R St.

LIVE AT FIVE: Old Sacramento restaurants and businesses host free shows during happy hour every Thursday in October. This week’s lineup: Michael Ray at Fat City Bar & Cafe, Simple Creation at Rio City Cafe, Ariel Jean Band at Laughs Unlimited Comedy Club and Lounge and Alex Jenkins Trio at Ten22. 5pm, no cover. Old Sacramento, 1124 Second St.

FRIDAY, 10/27 ANTSY MCCLAIN: Antsy and the Trailer Park Troubadours play their acclaimed annual Halloween Bash. 7:30pm, $32-$34. Auburn Placer Performing Arts Center, 985 Lincoln Way in Auburn.

CKY: With Kill the Precedent, ONOFF, Knocked Down. 7pm, $18-$20. Holy Diver, 1630 J St.

DIPLO: With Excision, Ganja White Night,

Valentino Khan and more. 8pm, $52-$82.

Sacramento Convention Center Complex, 1400 J St.

FEA: Halloween punk rock party with Bruiser

Queen, Las Pulgas and Krebtones. 8pm, $10.

Blue Lamp, 1400 Alhambra Blvd.

KIRK FRANKLIN AND LEDISI THE REBEL, THE SOUL AND THE SAINT TOUR: Goldenvoice at

Community Center Theater 7:30pm, $38.50-

Complex, 1400 J St.

NEW FAME: With DJ Skulz, J Ross Parrelli and

more. 7pm, $5-$7. Sol Collective, 2574 21st St.

PRIVILEGES: With Analog US, Cabbage head.

8pm, $7. Shine, 1400 E St.

THE SEAFLOOR CINEMA: With Misha Allure, Hemispheres, City Mural and more. Goingaway party for Cafe Colonial/The Colony staff member Anthony OnFire. 7pm, no cover (donations accepted). The Colony, 3512 Stockton Blvd.

SATURDAY, 10/28

SpaceWalker, Vinnie Guidera & The Dead Birds, Andru Defeye, the Joy Pops and more.

6pm, no cover. The Red Museum, 212 15th St.

ALL STRUNG UP: Guitar-driven performances by Daniel Champagne, Christie Lenée and Hussy Hicks. 7pm, $20. 10271 Fairway Drive, No. 120 in Roseville.

Park after dark and hear the scary and disturbing details of pioneer life in the 1800s.

6:45pm, $5-$10. Sutter’s Fort, 2701 L Street.

MESSY HALLOWEEN CRAFTS: Make pumpkin Play-Doh, monster putty, marbled spider webs and spooky paintings. 3:30pm, no cover.

McKinley Library, 601 Alhambra Blvd.

RITZZ: With Sam Lachow, Eric Biddines, Rae Rock. 6:30pm, $25-$75. Holy Diver, 1517 21st St.

OFRENDA DIA DE LOS MUERTOS: Ballet Folklórico

MONDAY, 10/30 BLUE OAKS: Album release party, with palm and tarot card readings, libations and more.

8pm, $5. CLARA Auditorium, 2420 N St.

Battalion of Saints: With Oppressed Logic, The

Cryptics, FRACK. 7pm, $12. Blue Lamp, 1400 Alhambra Blvd.

performs a dance illustrating the magic and mysticism of Day of the Dead. Live musical accompaniment by Coríma. 8pm, $11-$26.

Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.

WINO’S HALLOWEEN WEEKEND PRE-GAME SHOW: Juggling, magic, yo-yos, music, dancing, games, wine and prizes. 8pm, $5-$10.

Luna’s Cafe & Juice Bar, 1414 16th St.

SATURDAY, 10/28 HAUNTED FORT: See event listing on 10/27.

6:45pm, $5-$10. Sutter’s Fort, 2701 L Street.

TUESDAY, 10/31 AUTHORITY ZERO: With Mouse Powell. 7pm, $13$15. Holy Diver, 1517 21st St.

VINNIE GUIDERA & THE DEAD BIRDS: Halloween cover show with VGDB as Misfits, Shotgun Sawyer as Black Sabbath, VVomen as Against Me! Costumes encouraged. 8pm, $8. The Press Club, 2030 P St.

ODESZA: Seattle electropop duo. 7:30pm, $57-

BOO AT THE ZOO: Daytime trick-or-treating with games, stage shows and more. 11am, $16.

Sacramento Zoo, 3930 W. Land Park Dr.

CLUB SÉANCE HALLOWEEN PARTY: A tribute to The Cure in the back room, obscure death rock, punk and more in the front. 9:30pm. $4-$5.

Midtown Barfly, 1119 21st St.

COMICS & COLLECTIBLES HALLOWEEN BASH: Comics, sales, candy, music, artists, special guests and a costume contest. 11am, no cover. Comics & Collectibles, 1904 Fruitridge Road.

$65. Bonney Field, 1600 Exposition Blvd.

WEDNESDAY, 11/1 Narcotic Wasteland: With Dreaming Dead and

HOLIDAYS HAUNTED FORT: Tour Sutter’s Fort State Historic

HOBO JOHNSON: A show celebrating love with

Defoe. 6:30pm, $20-$24. Holy Diver, 1517 21st St.

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FRIDAY, 10/27

Thousand Below. 6pm, $22. Ace Of Spades, 1417 R St.

SECONDHAND SERENADE: With Ronnie Winter-

$83.50. Sacramento Convention Center

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more. 7pm, $12. Blue Lamp, 1400 Alhambra Blvd.

CRAFT FAIR: Decorations, jewelry, holiday gifts and more. 10am, no cover. Eskaton Village Carmichael, 3939 Walnut Ave.

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night of creation for kids eight and older and adults. Escape a puzzle room, launch pumpkins, participate in the DIY costume contest and more. 6:30pm. $10-$25.

ReCreate, 8417 Washington Blvd., Suite 135, in Roseville.

Halloween Festival & PoocH Parade: See event highlight at right. 1pm, no cover.

Marshall Park, 915 27th St.

Halloween Haunt: A safe alternative to Trickor-Treating for families with young children.

Costume contest, harvest maze, face painting, games, music and more. 11am, $5.

Safetyville USA, 3909 Bradshaw Road.

Costume contest, dance music by DJ JB and more. 10pm, $10-$15. Momo Lounge, 2708 J St.

scary, creePy, science!: Go wild with gourds and test the physics of flying objects with the pumpkin slingshot. 11am, no cover-$8.

Powerhouse Science Center, 3615 Auburn Blvd.

sHannon mccabe’s 9tH annual vamPire ball: The flavor and mystique of New Orleans comes to Sacramento, with DJs, drinks, fire dancers, psychic readings, street performers and more. 8pm, $25-$65.

California Automobile Museum, 2200 Front St.

sPooKomotive train ride: Family-friendly Halloween-decorated train rides. Each weekend has a theme and costumes are encouraged. This weekend’s theme is “Hocus Pocus.” 11am, $3-$15. California State Railroad Museum, 111 I St.

sPooKy science nigHts: Interactive science activities include finding clues for a space alien landing and exploring a UFO crash site mystery. 6pm. $10. Explorit Science Center, 3141 Fifth Street in Davis. than 20 Old North Sacramento businesses will hand out treats and offer entertainment for kids in costume. 11am, no cover. Old North Sacramento, Del Paso Blvd.

trunK-or-treat & cHili cooKoFF: A night of cars, candy, carnival games, costumes, a creepy haunted house and chili tasting.

5:30pm, entry with donation. Rio Linda Elverta Recreation and Park District, 810 Oak Lane in Rio Linda.

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Alert! This is not a drill: there will be pups of all types and sizes struttin’ their stuff in costume this Halloween weekend. The dogs day will include a pop-up dog park for your pet to make new pals, a costume contest, activities like face painting for the non-furry kiddos and live music. The pooch PHoto courtesy oF asHley unexPected parade takes off at 2:30 p.m. This is the one time of year when it’s acceptable to admire dogs that have been clothed and adorned—don’t miss it! 915 27th Street, www.exploremidtown.org/midtown-halloween-festival.

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midtown Halloween Festival & Pooch Parade Marshall Park, 1 P.M., no cover

11am, $16. Sacramento Zoo, 3930 W. Land Park Drive.

el Panteon de sacramento/dia de los muertos: See event highlight on page

37. 8am, no cover. Parking lot, 2020 J St.

scary, creePy, science: See event listing

on 10/28. 11am, no cover-$8. Powerhouse Science Center, 3615 Auburn Blvd.

sPooKomotive train ride: See event listing

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bowling, laser tag and video games, an indoor movie theater and more. 8pm, $35-$45.

2600 Watt Ave.

Halloween sPooKtacular: Trick-or-treating at Town Center businesses and a costume contest for kids and dogs. 3pm, no cover. El Dorado Hills Town Center, 4364 Town Center Boulevard in El Dorado Hills.

Haunted HeadligHts tour: Exhibit tours reveal strange, creepy and gory stories from automotive past. 6pm. $18-$20. California Automobile Museum, 2200 Front St.

Food & drinK Friday, 10/27 siPs & sPirits tHe train ride: Cocktails and entertainment by a mad scientist and his Monster Mash dancers. Fundraiser for the California State Railroad Museum and the future California Railroad Technology Museum. 6:30pm, $60. California State Railroad Museum, 111 I St.

saturday, 10/28 beer bruncH: Chicken and waffles from Cowtown Urban Eatery, beer-llinis and beer-mosas. 11am, no cover. Jackrabbit Brewing Company, 1323 Terminal St. in West Sacramento.

dinner and a drag sHow: The premiere Dinner and a Drag Show will feature cabaret-style performances from Sacramento drag queens, including Apple Adams and Mercury Rising. Dinner or show-only options available.

7:30pm, $5-$25. Capitol Garage, 1500 K St.

Halloween Pub crawl: A Halloween pub crawl with a costume contest. 4pm, $15-$20.

Midtown Sacramento (location provided upon registration).

sacramento sPca’s roaring 20s Pawty: Live jazz entertainment, casino games, food and drink tastings and more support Sacramento SPCA. 5pm, $75-$175. Sacramento SPCA, 6201 Florin Perkins Road.

tHursday, 10/26 tHe eXorcist: A screening of the classic horror film. 7:30pm, $8-$10. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.

wonder woman: A costume contest followed by a screening of the 2017 superhero movie and a panel discussion. 6:30pm, no cover.

Sacramento State, 6000 J St.

Friday, 10/27 beetleJuice: Enjoy this favorite from Tim Burton with tasty brews and a costume contest. 8pm, no cover. Jackrabbit Brewing Company, 1323 Terminal St. in West Sacramento.

saturday, 10/28 Harry Potter and tHe sorcerer’s stone: Pre-movie trick-or-treating, games and prizes, followed by the screening at 6pm at “Dinger’s Drive-In.” 4:30pm, $4 - $6. Raley Field, 400 Ballpark Drive in West Sacramento.

sunday, 10/29 beacH Party: The first of several Beach Party movies, which helped define the image of California in the 1960s. Refreshments included. 2pm, $10. Italian Center, 6821 Fair Oaks Boulevard in Carmichael.

song oF laHore: A documentary about the extraordinary roots of the Pakistani Sachal Ensemble, which will perform in November at the Harris Center. 7pm, no cover. Harris Center, 10 College Parkway in Folsom.

tuesday, 10/31 tHe nigHtmare beFore cHristmas: This is Halloween—literally. Enjoy Tim Burton’s story of Jack Skellington and Halloween Town. Costumes encouraged. Bike in and get $1 off your first cider. 7pm, no cover. Two Rivers Cider Company, 4311 Attawa Ave., Suite 300.

on 10/28. 11am, $3-$15. California State Railroad Museum, 111 I St.

tuesday, 10/31 Halloween nigHt Party: Country Club Lanes hosts a Beetlejuice-themed Halloween party with four dance areas, blacklights, free

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COMEDY TOMMY T’S COMEDY CLUB: 5 Comics for $5. A roster of comics including Kinellia Stradwick, Corey Calvert, Ryan Chan and Hitman Thorton. 7:30pm Saturday, 10/28. $5. 12401 Folsom Blvd. in Rancho Cordova.

BLACKTOP COMEDY: Teen Slasher. An improvised horror comedy show where actors and comedians draw inspiration from franchises like Halloween and Scream, as well as audience suggestions. Through 10/31. $10. 3101 Sunset Blvd., Suite 6A in Rocklin.

COMEDY SPOT: STAB! Writers, stand-ups and others to partake in a darkly intelligent live comedy panel show. 10:30pm Saturday, 10/28. $5. Three-Minute Comedy Competition. Some of Northern California’s best comedians compete for a whopping $40 prize, telling their best jokes in three minutes. Hosted by Robert Berry. 8pm Friday, 10/27. $8. 1050 20th St, Suite 130.

LUNA’S CAFE & JUICE BAR: Wino’s Halloween Weekend Pre-Game Show. Juggling, magic, yo-yos, music, dancing, games and prizes. 8pm Friday, 10/27. $5-$10. 1414 16th St.

PUNCH LINE: Mo Mandel. Comedian and host of Comedy Knockout performs. Through 10/29. $15. 2100 Arden Way, Suite 225.

SACRAMENTO THEATRE: Rabbi Dave. Grass Valley Rabbi tells jokes to raise money for Fresher Sacramento, a nonprofit he started to bring healthier food to low-income communities. 8:30pm Thursday, 10/26. $26. 1419 H St.

ON STAGE B STREET THEATRE: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. Edward Albee’s award-winning dark comedy reveals a middle-aged couple’s volatile relationshiop over the course of a night. Closing weekend. Through 10/29. $9$39. 2711 B St.

BIG IDEA THEATRE: Macbeth. Shakespeare’s classic tragedy of unchecked political ambition, supernatural forces and a lust for power comes to the stage. Inspired by the Hammer horrors of the 1950s and ’ 60s. Closing weekend. 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.

stage. Through 11/19. $19-$21. 5325 Engle Road, Suite 110.

COLONIAL THEATER: The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Don’t dream it, be it! A screening of the musical with a shadow cast. Costumes strongly encouraged. 10pm Saturday, 10/28. $20-$45. 3522 Stockton Blvd.

CREST THEATRE: Ofrenda Dia de los Muertos. A life dance performance by Ballet Folklórico illustrates the magical moments from the Day of the Dead festivals as they are celebrated in Mexico. 8pm Friday, 10/27. $11$26. 1013 K St.

CROCKER ART MUSEUM: U-Nite. See event

highlight on page 41. 5pm Thursday 10/26. $5-$10. 216 O 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. Stories on Stage Sacramento. Short fiction read by actors, featuring prize-winning author Josh Weil with a story from his new collection.

With Peggi Wood and readings by Blair Leatherwood and Ethan Ireland. 7:30pm Friday, 10/27. $10 suggested donation. 1425 24th St.

OAK PARK: The Intersection. An art free-forall with poets, rappers, musicians, dancers and performers of all kinds. No sign-ups, no rules. 7pm Monday, 10/30. No cover. 35th and Broadway.

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?

Closing weekend. Through 10/31. $20. 2007 28th St.

THE HOUSE OF OLIVER WINE LOUNGE: Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. The chilling take 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. Tickets include a drink and an appetizer.. Through 10/29. $49. 3992 Douglas Blvd., Suite 140 in Roseville.

MONDAVI CENTER: Dorrance Dance. The art of tap dancing is revitalized through furious rhythms and adventurous choreography. 7pm Sunday, 10/29. $12.50$64. Reduced Shakespeare. A world premiere of a (phony) lost masterpiece. 8pm Wednesday, 11/1. $12.50-$45. 1 Shields Ave. in Davis.

SAC STATE PLAYWRIGHTS’ THEARE: In the Time of the Butterflies. With music, dance and animated images, this is the story about the Mirabal sisters, whose assassinations in the

CHAUTAUQUA PLAYHOUSE: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. The creation of literature’s most memorable monster plays out on

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There’s only one party this weekend where you could dance with Prince or have shots with Amy Winehouse: Old Ironsides’ Annual Dead Rock Star Show.

Seventeen bands including Drop Dead Red and 50 Watt Heavy will MUSIC have you dancing all night.

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by Michael Bishop continues to explore concepts of place, identity, time and power.

By careful choice of visual vocabulary, Bishop creates narrative where beauty and danger coexist on an equal ground. through 10/28. no cover. Skull. A group show featuring over 15 artists, curated by renowned gallerists Pamela Skinner and Gwenna Howard. through 11/5. no cover. 1616 Del Paso Blvd.

CaLendar ListinGs Continued From PaGe 39 1960s Dominican Republic led to a worldwide movement. through 10/29. $10-$18. 2007 28th St.

aLPHa Fired arts: Daniel Alejandro Trejo: Slowly Doing the Splits. Trejo’s ceramic sculpture forms are ambiguous, leaving room for hidden emotions, attitudes or motivations to be projected by the viewer. through 11/18. No cover. 4675 Aldona Lane.

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 who can relate to his troubles. through 10/31. $20. 2007 28th St.

artistiC edGe: October 2017 Exhibition. Three

wiLKerson tHeater, saCramento: Birmingham Blues. A gritty dark comedy about a disgraced doctor who becomes homeless, and her journey toward redemption. through 10/28. $20. 1725 25th St.

decades of work by visual artist Cheselyn Amato. through 10/31. 1880 Fulton Ave.

CaLiFornia museum: Arte y Almas Dia de los Muertos 2017. Contemporary installations by artists’ collectives from Mexico and California artists Luis Campus-Garcia and Oscar Magallanes. A journey through love, life and death. through 12/30. $9. 1020 O St.

art artHouse on r st: Celebration. A solo art exhibit highlighting and celebrating the life and work of Sacramento artist Zbigniew Richard Kozikowski, who died in August of cancer. through 11/7. No cover. 1021 R St.

Ceramics by influential artist and educator Ruth Rippon. through 10/29. $5-$10. 216 O St.

davis Cemetery distriCt & arboretum:

Bishop Exhibit in artspace1616. In her recent works, Lynn Criswell explores the relationship between the past and the present. The portraits of the primary school class from 1965 are altered, collaged and printed on a traditional Turkish felt. Titled “Neither

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. through 10/31. no cover. 820 Line Pole Road in Davis.

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Memories and a Life Well-Lived. More than 50 traditional Mexican masks will be on display, along with Día de Los Muertos images from Oaxaca by photographer Ruben Reveles and a memorial to Joanne Marie Sonn, who died in 2014 from breast cancer. through 11/18. no cover. 2700 Front Street.

maidu museum & HistoriC site: Voice Exhibit.

An exhibit highlighting the work of indigenous women artists. through 11/18. $2-$5. 1970 Johnson Ranch Drive in Roseville.

soL CoLLeCtive: Día de Los Muertos Art Exhibit. An exhibit highlighting the beauty of Mexican culture and to honor the friends and relatives who have died. through 11/3. no cover. 2574 21st St.

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

museums aerosPaCe museum oF CaLiFornia: Take Flight.

CroCKer art museum: Exuberant Earth.

artsPaCe1616: Lynn Criswell and Michael

Latino Center oF art and CuLture: Masks,

Exhibit shows the history and evolution of flight. through 1/9. $8-$10. 3200 Freedom Park Drive.

saCramento History museum: Old Sacramento Underground Tours. Come see and learn how Sacramento lifted itself up out of the flood waters during the 1860s and 1870s. Tour guides explain how the streets and buildings were “jacked up” to avoid further flooding as visitors explore two spaces that were created by the city’s successful

saturday, 10/28

iFbb/nPC sacramento Championships Sacramento memorial auditorium, 9 a.m., $15-$55

Most of us see a gym visit as a chore, but these people never skip leg day.

Body builders from the Sacramento area will compete at the amateur (NPC) and professional (IFCC) levels, striking poses for categories like bodybuilding, sPorts & outdoors bikini and physique. Watch the owners of these impressive bods show off the fruits of their labor in the form of tight, tanned abs. 1515 J Street, www.spectrumfitnessproductions. com/sacramento.

raising process. This historical tour includes hollow sidewalks, sloped alleyways, and the Underground spaces themselves. The colorful cast of guides ensures no two tours are ever the same. through 10/29. $10$15. Living History Ghost Tours. As part of the interpretive Old Sacramento Living History Program, the eerie and ever popular one-hour Ghost Tours return. Guests will have the opportunity to relive 19th century lore, as guides (and ghosts) relate tantalizing narratives about the deaths of colorful citizens from Sacramento’s history. through 10/28. $10-$15. 101 I St.

sPorts & outdoors Friday, 10/27 HaLLoween yoGa: Come show off your corpse, crescent moon, and (black) cat pose this Halloween with 40 minutes of Halloweenthemed yoga. A Halloween party with music, snacks, games and more follows. Costumes encouraged. 7:30pm. The Yoga Seed Collective, 1400 E St., Suite B.

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SATURDAY, 10/28 CARING FOR KIDS RUN 2017: A 5k and 10k run or walk benefiting the religious nonprofit, xHope. 8:30am, $10-$35. Elliott Ranch Elementary School, 10000 East Taron Drive in Elk Grove.

HOPE FOR HEARING HALLOWEEN RUN: A 1k fun run and a timed 5k to support children with hearing loss and families in need of mental health services. Post-run festivities include music, a costume contest and trick-or-treating for kids. 8am, $15-$45.

William Land Park, Freeport Boulevard and Sutterville Road.

IFBB/NPC SACRAMENTO CHAMPIONSHIPS: See

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Memorial Auditorium, 1515 J St.

PUBLIC SALMON TOUR: A float trip down the lower Yuba River to see spawning salmon.

Put-in at Parks Bar under the Highway 20 bridge between Grass Valley and Yuba City.

Take out is at Sycamore Ranch Park. 9am, $50-$75. Parks Bar, Beneath Hwy. 20 bridge in Grass Valley.

SUNDAY, 10/29

TAKE ACTION SATURDAY, 10/28 EMERGENCY OPEN MEETING FOR BLACK SACRAMENTO: Black Lives Matter Sacramento hosts its second monthly meeting for Black Sacramento to work together in the face of local problems. 6pm, no cover. Unitarian Universalist Society of Sacramento, 2425 Sierra Blvd.

CAIR-SACRAMENTO VALLEY BANQUET: Celebrate civil rights advocacy in our region with local Muslim leaders, government officials and interfaith representatives. 5pm, $50.

McClellan Park, 5411 Luce Ave.

MONDAY, 10/30 2017 SACRAMENTO REGIONAL AFFORDABLE HOUSING SUMMIT: More than 200 developers, builders, architects, elected officials and community and business leaders share innovative solutions to the regional housing and homelessness crisis. 8am, $80-$100.

Holiday Inn Sacramento Downtown—Arena, 300 J St.

WTF NIGHT: A ghost ride around town to several sites in downtown Sacramento that people say are haunted. No shop time this month, just the ride, which departs at 6:30pm. 6pm, no cover. Sacramento Bicycle Kitchen, 1915 I St.

Christian Singles Network. Costumes encouraged. 7pm, $15-$20. Roseville Veterans Memorial Hall, 110 Park Drive in Roseville.

DIY DESIGN CLASS—HALLOWEEN CENTERPIECE: Create a festive, spooky centerpiece with fall flowers. Supplies provided. 10am, $40.

Relles Florist, 2400 J St.

THE GREAT PUMPKIN SUCCULENT WORKSHOP: Craft your own fall-themed living centerpiece with pumpkins, moss, branches and succulents. 10am, $50. Sierra 2 Center—The Learnery, 2791 24th St.

SOULS OF THE CITY SUGAR SKULLS CALAVERA WORKSHOP: Learn to decorate sugar skulls—a traditional Day of the Dead offering—using icing, foil, glitter and colorful sugars. 11am, $5-$10. Sol Collective, 2574 21st St.

TUESDAY, 10/31

ThURSDAY, 10/26 U-Nite CroCker Art MuseuM, 5 p.M., $5-$10

Get your fix of performance art, visual art and discussions in this collaboration between Sacramento State and Crocker Art Museum. U-Nite celebrates the college’s arts and humaniPhOTO COURTESY OF CRAIg KOSChO ties with diverse dance and music performances and readings from authors Joshua McKinON STAGE ney, Doug Rice and more. Discover the diverse talents tied to Sac State while surrounded by the museum’s inspiring collections. 216 O Street, www.crockerart.org.

SPOOKY FIGURE DRAWING STUDIO: A Halloweenthemed figure drawing class. Adults only.

6pm, $10-$15. Verge Center for the Arts, 625 S St.

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FOR THE WEEk OF OCTOBER 26, 2017 ARIES (March 21-April 19): I share Vincent Van

Gogh’s belief that “the best way to know life is to love many things.” But I also think that the next 12 months will be an inspiring time for you to be focused and single-minded in your involvement with love. That’s why I encourage you to take an approach articulated by the Russian mystic Anne Sophie Swetchine: “To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.”

Halloween costume suggestion: a lover celebrating a sacred union to the love of your life, to God or Goddess, or to a symbol of your most sublime ideal.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Yes, We Have No

Bananas” is a silly novelty song that became a big hit in 1923. Its absurdity led to its wide use for humorous effect. For example, on the kids’ TV series The Muppet Show, puppets made out of fruits and vegetables sang parodies of the tune. That’s why I find it droll that the “No Bananas” songwriters stole part of the melody from the “Hallelujah Chorus,” the climax of classical composer George Handel’s religious oratorio Messiah. I’d love to see you engage in comparable transmutations, Taurus: making serious things amusing and vice versa. It’s a time when you can generate meaningful fun and playful progress through the art of reversal. Halloween costume suggestion: a tourist from Opposite Land or Bizarro World.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In the next two weeks,

you may have to navigate your way through careless gossip, distorted “facts,” superficial theories, hidden agendas, fake news and official disinformation. To prevent problems in communication with people who matter, take advantage of the Halloween spirit in this way: Obtain a bicycle helmet and cover it with aluminum foil. Decorate it with an ace of clubs, a red rose, images of wrathful but benevolent superheroes, and a sign that says “No Bullshit Allowed.” By wearing this crown, you should remain protected. If that’s too weird for you, do the next best thing: Vow to speak the whole truth and nothing but the truth, and ask to receive the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Watch out for a fake

pizza-delivery driver who’s actually trying to issue you a legal summons. Be careful you don’t glimpse a blood red sky at dusk, in case it’s a prophetic sign that your cell phone will fall into a toilet sometime soon. Beware of the possibility that a large bird carrying a turtle to its nest accidentally drops its prey into a rain puddle near you, splashing mud on your fancy clothes. JUST KIDDING! All the scenarios I just described are stupid lies. The truth is, this should be one of the most worry-free times ever. You’re welcome, of course, to dream up a host of scary fantasies if you find that entertaining, but I guarantee that they’ll be illusory. Halloween costume suggestion: an indomitable warrior.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): What is the material object

you want most but don’t have? This is an object that would serve your soul’s highest purposes, although not necessarily your ego’s. Here’s another question: What evocative symbol might help keep you inspired to fulfill your dreams over the course of the next five years? I suggest that you choose one or both of those things to be the inspiration for your Halloween costume.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Did you get a chance

to go to circus school when you were a kid? How about magic school? Or maybe detective school or time-travel school or superhero school?

Probably none of the above, right? Much of your education revolved around what you HAD to learn rather than what would be fun to learn. I’m not saying it was bad that you were compelled to study subjects you felt ambivalent about. In the long run, it did you good. But now here’s some sweet news, Virgo: The next ten months will be a favorable time to get trainings and teachings in what you YEARN to learn. Halloween costume suggestion: a student.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Now is an excellent

phase in your cycle to scour bathrooms, scrub floors, shampoo carpets and wash windows.

But the imminent future will be an even more favorable period to purify your motivations, tonify your emotions, purge your less-than-noble

agendas, calm down your monkey mind and monkey heart, disinfect the moldy parts of your past and fact-check the stories you tell about yourself.

So which set of tasks should you focus on? It may be possible to make great strides on the second set as you carry out the first set. But if there’s not enough time and energy to do both, favor the second set. Halloween costume suggestion: a superhero who has wondrous cleaning powers; King Janitor or Queen Maid.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “You never sing the

same song twice,” said chanteuse Billie Holiday.

“If you sing it with all the same phrasing and melody, you’re failing your art.” That’s an extreme statement, but I understand what she was driving at. Repeating yourself too much can be debilitating. That includes trying to draw inspiration from the same old sources that have worked in the past. I suggest you avoid this behavior in the coming days. Raise Holiday’s approach to a universal principle. Fresh sources of inspiration are available! Halloween costume suggestion: a persona or character unlike any you’ve ever imagined yourself to be.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): How can you

enjoy the lavish thrills of rebirth later unless you die a little inside now? It’s the trickiest phase of your cycle, when your energies are best used to resolve and graduate from the unfinished business of the last 10 months. I suggest that you put the past to rest as best as you can. Don your funniest sad face and pay your last respects to the old ways and old days you’ll soon be leaving behind. Keep in mind that beauty will ultimately emerge from decay. Halloween costume suggestion: the mythical phoenix, which burns itself down, then resurrects itself from its own ashes.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): There are

no such things as magic healings, miraculous redemptions and impossible breakthroughs.

Right? Hard evidence provided by science precludes the existence of exotic help coming from spiritual realms. Right? Well, no. Not right.

There is in fact another real world that overlaps the material world, and it operates according to different laws that are mostly imperceptible to our senses. But events in the other real world can have tangible effects in the material world.

This is especially true for you right now. Take advantage! Seek practical answers and solutions in your dreams, meditations, visions and numinous encounters. Halloween costume suggestion: white-magic sorcerer or good witch.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Many years

from now, in your last hours on Earth, you will have visions that show you how all the events in your life were crucial to your life story. You will understand the lesson that was provided by each twist and turn of your destiny. Every piece of the gigantic puzzle will slip into place, revealing the truth of what your mission has been. And during that future climax, you may remember right now as a time when you got a long glimpse of the totality. Halloween costume suggestion: the happiest person on Earth; the sovereign of all you survey; the wise fool who understands yourself completely.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You might be able

to pass for normal, but it will be better for your relationship with yourself if you don’t. You could try to tamp down your unusual urges and smooth your rough edges, but it will be smarter to regard those urges and edges as fertile raw material for your future happiness. Catch my drift?

In the coming weeks, your main loyalty should be to your idiosyncratic intelligence. Halloween costume suggestion: the beautiful, interesting monster who lives in you.

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She and her team recently received a $3.7 million grant to continue their study on impulsivity.

You are currently studying changes in impulsivity and self-control in teens and young adults over time.

That seems difficult to quantify.

How do you study it?

We use rating scales and questionnaires that the volunteers and their parents complete on the volunteers’ behavior; several behavioral tasks assessing impulsivity and response to reward [would you rather have $1 now or $20 in a week, for example]; and we assess brain activity while they are performing behavioral tasks. We also ask them about their everyday behavior in relation to impulsivity and risk taking: “Do you wear a helmet when riding a bike?” “Do you wear a seat belt?” “Have you driven a car while drinking alcohol or texting?”

Are you at all concerned that your subjects will exhibit less impulsivity—or perhaps more—because they know you are looking for it? How do you combat that?

Yes, I am very concerned about this issue, and we have devoted years to choosing measures and procedures to try to minimize the effect [of] the artificiality of the laboratory. For example, our volunteers have the opportunity to earn cash on the day of testing, and there are data showing that persons who are more impulsive are likely to be influenced by knowing the cash is immediately available.

Why is impulsivity such a concern in the first place? Isn’t it just a regular part of growing up?

Impulsivity is associated with major problems, including much higher accident rates, substance-use disorders, poorer academic and occupational functioning and many more issues. Impulsive behavior is on a spectrum, however, and our recent

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project is specifically evaluating how the degree of impulsive behavior changes with development, and how the degree of impulsivity relates to real-world outcomes.

What is your goal with this study?

The long-term goals of the project are to inform our understanding of development during this critical period, and identify those who are at risk due to impulsive decision-making—to inform targeted prevention and intervention strategies to reduce impulsivity and improve long-term outcomes for those at risk for harm.

development likely completes in ADHD. We now know that in typically developing individuals the brain completes most of its development by 26 years of age, but it is unknown when brain development completes in [people with] ADHD …

How are ADHD and impulsivity related?

Some individuals with ADHD have a significantly higher rate of impulsivity. Not all individuals with ADHD have impulsivity, but many do. Impulsivity and poor academic functioning are two primary reasons that persons come in for treatment of ADHD.

How did you come to be awarded this grant?

With great teamwork! I work with a wonderful group of bright, innovative, tremendously hard-working individuals, including many laboratory members, faculty and students at UC Davis. Much of the best science today requires teamwork, and I am honored to work with so many talented, smart [and] devoted researchers. I also am very grateful to the volunteers and families who give their time to participate in our research.

What will this mean for your study?

With this new funding, we will continue to follow the original volunteers for five years up to early adulthood, whereas before most of our testing stopped during the teen [years] through about 25 years of age. We will now be able to work with volunteers during a developmental period associated with greater emergence of psychological problems, emotional instability and self-harm behaviors. Also, we will be able to identify at what age brain

ADHD seems to be an increasing concern of parents and educators.

Can you shed some light on this?

First, there is a greater recognition of ADHD and its negative outcomes; second, there is greater appreciation that ADHD occurs in other groups who were not associated with ADHD in the past [females; adults] and those with the inattentive type of ADHD; third, there is greater pressure and competition for students to perform in the academic setting. I am also concerned that evaluations for ADHD are not sufficiently thorough. Ω

The UC Davis MIND Institute is looking for volunteers with ADHD between 16 and 27 years of age; volunteers with problems with impulsivity (not as severe as ADHD) between 15 and 27 and typically developing males between 16 to 27 years of age.

Research volunteers will be reimbursed for their time and receive a T-shirt with an image of their own brain. Email hs-airlab@ucdavis.edu or call (916) 703-0294.

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