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It’s not just the guns What got me was the photograph of the church. I spent an hour Tuesday reading accounts of the massacre, and many of them were illustrated with a photo of the little white church. Each account I read contained more horrors, and with each click, another photo of the church.

I know why the church photo made the stories so much more painful: Just two months ago, on September 6, I sat in a church that looks just like it. I was in Dangerfield, Texas, another tiny town 400 miles from Sutherland Springs. I remember the date because it is my wife’s birthday, and it was her mother’s birthday, and we were at my mother-in-law Sara Hukill’s funeral. (I know.)

Over the past 20 years, I went to church with Sara only a dozen times or so, but still—reading the horrifying descriptions of the massacre, I can picture the scene pretty clearly.

And while Sara’s family is Church of Christ and not Baptist, the Texas church-people telling the stories feel familiar to me. They even speak with Sara’s accent.

“The frightened children made him angrier,” one of them said of the shooter.

What kind of man, when confronted by a terrified, sobbing 5-year-old, becomes enraged, looks her in the eye, and shoots her dead? What was wrong with Devin Patrick Kelley?

What is wrong with the American men who are making mass murder a common occurrence? How did the United States become such a hyperviolent nightmare? That’s what I want to know. These, to me, are much more important questions than, “how did he get the gun?”

And yes, of course we need stricter gun laws, and fuck the NRA.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger, because he was the governor of California. He was the most famous, for a time, person who lived in Sacramento.

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Timothy B. Schmit. He actually went to high school here and he’s a musician on the national scene, so I would have to say him. He actually went to the same school as my daughter, Encina High School.

Dr. Ernie Bodai. He is a physician and surgeon at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center. He invented the breast cancer stamp, he’s done a lot for women’s health and he actually oversaw my best friend’s medical care.

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Samantha Wellington.

She’s the only person I know who has ever changed my interpretation of Sacramento. She’s in the cannabis industry. She is actually a federal lobbyist for cannabis.

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SN&R: ‘No better than NYT and WaPo’ Re “Underreported” by Paul Rosenberg (Feature, November 2): Why didn’t you name your article “Stories about the Democrats the Main Stream Media Ignored”? It will be interesting to see how you cover Hillary’s involvement [in] the DNC. Also, the Russian nuclear deal and the Clintons. All the money that poured into the Clinton Foundation when Hillary was Secretary of State hoping that when she became president (oops) all the influence that would have. You are no better than the NY Times or the WaPo. Not once in your article on Army spending did you mention all the money Feinstein’s husband made from shady deals with the government. Why don’t you just come out and admit [that] you are no better than the MSM when it comes to reporting the true news. You are just like the other Main Stream Media that only goes after the GOP, and the Dems can do no wrong.

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Wikileaks is journalism “Read this carefully” by Eric Johnson (Editor’s Note, November 2): Mr. Johnson, you claim that “Russia and Wikileaks conspired ...” to promote the story of the DNC’s fraud and lies during the presidential primary. Please provide factual evidence to support your claim.

1. Specifically what “Russia”?

The Russian government?

The Russians who paid Bill Clinton $500,000 for a speaking engagement while Hillary was Secretary of State? People with accents like Boris and Natasha? 2. What exactly is meant by “conspired?” Did Daniel Ellsberg “conspire” with the Washington Post to expose the government’s lies about the

Vietnam War? Did investigative reporters “conspire” with the Chicago Sun-Times to expose the government’s lies and the truth about the raid on and execution of Chicago Black Panther Party leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark? Did the U.S. intelligence community “conspire” with the corporate media to promote the story of Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction? Wikileaks is a journalism platform. You should wonder why all those emails Wikileaks published weren’t first offered to the likes of the New York Times and the Washington Post. I don’t care if space aliens are the source of documents published by Wikileaks so long as those documents continue to be genuine and reported accurately. But apparently to you, anyone who criticizes or tries to promote the actual content of those documents when it is damaging to the DNC or HRC must be a communist sympathizer—er—a Russian agent.

Jan Bergeron S a c ra m e nt o v i a s act ol et t er s @ n ew s r e v i e w . c o m

DNC is for Democrats Re “Read this carefully” by Eric Johnson (Editor’s Note, November 2):

The job of the DNC is to ensure the election of Democrats, from municipality to president of the U.S. We Democrats in California and other places stayed focused on the policies of the two parties.

And Mr. Trump’s GOP did the same thing. If propaganda from Russia or U.S. sources can influence our vote, the propagandists are not the problem here.

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Federal violence Re “Food stamp benefits will be slashed in 2018” by Jeff vonKaenel (Greenlight, November 2): Thanks for the news ;-(.

The point of these exercises in poor-bashing is to remind the rest of the population that they had better behave. If they don’t take whatever crappy job is on offer ... If they don’t put up with their boss’ bullshit ... then they will suffer the indignities of poverty, even homelessness, and now, perhaps starvation.

Such population-wide torture is the whip in the hand of the plutocrats.

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by Alistair Bland (News, November 2): Thank you SN&R and Alastair Bland for your vigilance in reporting issues we face like this that are plaguing our society. I am also a father who was the victim of illegal and fraudulent use of a Domestic Violence Restraining Order.

These attorneys who claim that all instances or allegations of domestic violence need to be taken seriously is not something I disagree with. Absolutely we need to protect victims. The issue here in my mind lies with the court’s arbitrary and very liberal use of the temporary DVRO, however they refuse to do anything about the instances of false allegations.

When a false allegation is made often times irreparable damage is done to the person’s life who was falsely accused.

The best-case scenario one can hope for is what I was fortunate enough to experience and that’s the DVRO was vacated after months of hearings, fighting for my children, proving my innocence as the burden was on me not the accuser as the law actually requires, and financially destroying me by having to hire legal representation to fight the false allegations.

The issue with DVRO is it’s being used and abused as leverage in cases and not to actually defend/protect people. If it was about protecting people from abuse they would care about the person victimized by the false allegation with the same concern they cared about the victim of domestic violence.

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Re “Parental restraints”

by Alistair Bland (News, November 2): Abusers can actually not be aware of how abusive their behavior is. I can easily believe he thinks his actions aren’t harmful AND his wife is correct in perceiving threat.

The restraining order should allow for this wide definition and broad discretion. I would hope judges provide the accused parent a set of behavioral steps to follow, to demonstrate continued interest in parenting and ability to refrain from engaging the ex-partner. The ability of the accused abuser to follow these steps will be very informative about the whole case.

For the abandonment issue, the alienated parent should be able to check in with courts monthly or so to demonstrate interest in parenting while complying with any orders that prevent contact. Inability to consistently check in is also good feedback.

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Elaboration A few weeks back we reported that Chocolate Fish Coffee Roasters won a silver medal at the Golden Bean North America coffee competition. We failed to note that two other Sacramento coffee roasters, Temple and Old Soul, also were awarded at the big Portland showdown.

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Former Bar Rouse bartender Stephen Clark says he and his co-workers are still owed their last month’s wages following the Midtown business’ sudden closure in September.

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Nightmare kitchen Employees say they got stiffed when troubled Midtown bar suddenly closed

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Multiple employees say they are still awaiting final paychecks more than a month after the sudden closure of Bar Rouse, a cursed Midtown hotspot that has churned through owners, names and a pseudo-celebrity chef who was last seen in the mountains of Vietnam.

Owner Adrian Watson said he was evicted from the property on September 20, shortly after buying out his co-owner, Carina Lampkin, a local chef with reality TV aspirations.

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front-of-house manager Jenn Schaaf, who provided payroll records to SN&R showing what each employee earned during the last month the bar was open.

Schaaf says her management role meant she was in charge of keeping track of staff earnings at Bar Rouse. While Watson declined to authenticate the payroll records, four other Bar Rouse employees said they were owed what the records showed.

The time cards show Schaaf earned more than $2,000 for the hours she worked September 1 to September 20, an amount

she says she has never been paid.

Her ex-coworkers made similar claims, telling SN&R they were owed thousands of dollars for work they performed during the bar’s final weeks. Some said they were now scraping by.

“I literally have $2 to my name,” said Justin Richards, the former executive chef, whose time cards show he earned over $1,300. “I have had to borrow $200 from friends to survive.”

“A lot of us live paycheck to paycheck, which is the nature of the service industry,” added former bartender Stephen Clark,

who says he is also owed over $1,300.

“Everyone is scrambling for a job. We will pull out of this, but it’s wrong to fuck up [21] lives. For some, it means them being homeless. [They’re] one paycheck away from the curb.”

Reached by phone on October 19, Watson told SN&R that he’d mailed the final paychecks to his employees, but declined to provide evidence.

On Tuesday, Clark said he and his former co-workers had yet to receive “a single red cent.”

Watson’s alleged failure to pay his employees comprises another chapter for one of the most troubled restaurants in Sacramento.

Previously named Blackbird Kitchen & Bar, the high-profile business venture closed in similar, sudden fashion in October 2013. Then-owner John Thacker apparently paid the fired employees wages before the restaurant reopened with much of the same staff under Demetri Gregorakis in January 2014. But then, in May of the same year, a pipe burst and ruined the restaurant’s interior.

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pushiNg baCK After Lampkin reopened Blackbird in late 2015, the onetime executive chef and co-owner disagreed with her partners over the business’ direction and split for Oak Park Brewing Co. in 2016. A few months later, she bought out the previous owners, partnered solely with Watson, and rechristened the restaurant Bar Rouse as an attempt at a fresh start. Watson said he originally came in as an investor with an 8 percent stake that expanded to full ownership by the time of the eviction.

He said he and Lampkin both “put over $200,000 into the building,” from which he was evicted after he purchased Lampkin’s shares. He said his buyout of Lampkin violated a stipulation in Bar Rouse’s lease that no more than 25 percent of ownership could be transferred. Watson said he is contesting the eviction in court.

Lampkin declined to comment beyond saying that she has “moved on” from Bar Rouse and is now cooking in Vietnam.

On October 22, she posted a photo to her Facebook page at a yoga resort and training center in the country’s mountains.

The mohawked chef, who has competed on “Kitchen Inferno” and “Cutthroat Kitchen,” and is the granddaughter of the founder of USA Today, hasn’t always been so press shy.

Shortly before launching Bar Rouse, Lampkin recorded a promotional video pitching a reality show called “Raw Talent,” starring herself. The video, shot in front of the state Capitol, opens with a sepia close-up on Lampkin blowing a dandelion and cuts to a wide shot of her introducing Sacramento, Calif., with a karate chop to her crotch.

Saying she wants to show “how food is the medium of life,” Lampkin attempts to sell a travelogue where she traces local ingredients back to the farms they came from and stages pop-up restaurants outside of farmers markets.

“Sacramento is the farm-to-fork capital of the nation, so we could start here in my hometown,” she tells the camera. Referring to the name of her show, “Raw Talent,” Lampkin adds, “Because that’s what I am. I am raw talent and you fucking want me.”

In the two-and-a-half-minute clip, Lampkin also says she is the owner of three businesses—Blackbird, Oak Park Brewing Co. and the soon-to-open Bar Rouse, which technically replaced Blackbird.

“I manage $2 million a year. I manage 50 people. And I still manage to put on my chef coat and pour my love into every plate, every night,” Lampkin boasts in the video.

“Blackbird was about death and Bar Rouse is about life. And it’s the story of my life.”

ex-staffers say Watson pushed Lampkin “I’m not going to go personally to each out after she repeatedly acted unprofessionone of their houses and deliver a check or ally. In a brief phone interview with SN&R, call them up and say, ‘What’s your new Watson didn’t answer why he bought address? Let me walk over there,’” Watson Lampkin out of the business. said. “That’s not something that I’m responDuring his tenure as owner, former sible to do or going to do.” employees say Watson was difficult to Actually, he is, according to the reach and almost never visited the restauCalifornia Labor Commissioner’s Office. rant, leaving them to run it in his absence.

Labor spokesman Frank Polizzi said They said Watson’s most hazardous that in a case like Bar Rouse’s, employers demand was keeping the restaurant open must guarantee that employees are paid at until 4 a.m., often without a security guard. the time of termination. When a restaurant “If you are serving food after 2 closes, Polizzi said, an employer owes [a.m.], and you get the nighthis employees their final wages club crowd, you are going on their final day. For every to get treated like shit,” day that an employer said Logan Hesse, a doesn’t pay up, another former bartender. day’s wages are added “People who are to that total for up to wasted, coming 30 days, a time period in and wanting as former employees say much as possible has already elapsed. while paying as little To ensure that Stephen Clark as possible.” employees get what former bartender, Former bartender they’re owed, the Bar Rouse Clark said that he and Labor Commissioner’s one chef were routinely Office has the power to put the only employees working liens on private bank accounts those twilight shifts. One summer or other businesses owned by the night, on July 2, Clark said the low staffing employer, Polizzi explained. ratio and lack of security resulted in “the “A lot of these scofflaw employers worst bar fight I’ve ever seen in my life.” pretty much exhaust every method possible “There was like six dudes beating the to avoid payment,” Polizzi said. shit out of two people with barstools,” he Roughly 35,000 people file wage claims said. “They actually grabbed candle holders against their employers every year in and smashed them and were stabbing the California, Polizzi said. dudes with candle holders. That ruined me.”

Watson insists that he doesn’t owe his Police Department records show officers ex-staffers anything. responded to a felony assault at Bar Rouse’s “I’ve dealt with employees in the past address at 2:24 a.m. on July 2. who have banded together to make a claim Leaving work at dawn, Clark said he and, in the end, you’re vindicated,” he said. slept until 4 p.m. the next day, missing a “If a bunch of employees are disgruntled, or shift that he had promised to cover for a feel like they’re owed tips or something like co-worker. Watson informed him that he’d that, then they can contact you and say that been fired. Clark protested. it’s true. It doesn’t make it true.”

“I had an emotional breakdown and just Watson also said that he’s fighting legal turned my phone on,” he wrote in a text battles on two other fronts. He’s disputing message exchange he shared with SN&R. “I his eviction by the landlords of the Bar was at the bar cleaning up blood and teeth Rouse property. Meanwhile, his construcuntil 6am.” tion and real estate development company, “I have heard all about it Stephen,” Vector, is currently in arbitration over Watson texted back. “The circumstances are a dispute with Sactown Union Brewing extenuating.”

Co., which claimed Watson failed to live Clark said he had panic attacks and up to his contractual obligations during a “crazy anxiety” through the rest of July. But remodel, damaged property and broke into he returned for his next shift and continued their building after another contractor was working until the bar’s closure. Watson hired, according to Sacramento County either didn’t notice or mind. court records.

After he was asked for proof that he during a brief phone interview, Watson paid his employees, Watson referred said he mailed his employees their final further questions to his attorney, who checks, but didn’t confirm their addresses didn’t respond to SN&R’s request for beforehand. comment. Ω

“Everyone is scrambling for a job.”

When it comes to the rash of armed robberies and home invasions targeting Sacramento’s Asian-American community, one thing worrying police as much as the frequency of the attacks is the number that may be going unreported.

That was the message detectives emphasized at a November 1 community gathering at Freeport Boulevard. Investigators made it clear they can only stop the violence if victims call for help and then agree to testify.

“It’s a big deal,” said Detective John Fan, who made his presentation in English, Mandarin and Cantonese. “Lately we have seen more relatively elderly folks just walking home, and then they’re followed. A lot of times they’re forced into their house.”

Fan added that most of the robberies involve multiple suspects—usually young men—armed with handguns and with a getaway driver waiting nearby.

Police believe older asian-americans are being preyed upon because gang members now operate under the assumption such victims carry large sums of cash, are challenged by language barriers and are typically reluctant to cooperate with authorities.

Fan told the audience that, in his experience, one reason that some elders in the Asian-American community don’t call for help is they’re worried about over-burdening the police.

“It is not a bother,” Fan emphasized, with another officer who speaks Hmong ready to reenforce the point. “We want you to call.”

Sacramento police have arrested more than 50 people suspected of armed robberies and home invasions in the south city over the last year. (Scott Thomas Anderson)

eRasiNg bLaCK faCes A mural depicting seven black men killed by officers was scrubbed from the side of an Oak Park theater, sparking debate in a historically black neighborhood experiencing rapid gentrification.

Tracy Stigler, president of St. Hope Development Co., which owns the Guild Theater where the unsigned work was painted, told SN&R that the mural was removed because it was believed to be

“vandalism.”

Stigler added that it was only after the removal that his company learned the paintings were a memorial. “We want Oak Park to be a place of dialogue, but it’s got to be a controlled dialogue,” Stigler said. “This was no more than a property maintenance issue.”

The mural depicted the faces of Adriene Ludd, Dazion Flenaugh, Joseph Mann, Lorenzo Cruz, Desmond Phillips, Mikel McIntyre and Ryan Ellis, black men who have died following encounters with Sacramento area law enforcement. “#RestinPower” was painted above their images.

Black Lives Matter Sacramento held a September 22 block party to celebrate Ludd, two years after he died in a standoff with Sacramento County sheriff’s deputies.

“Immediately, people brought candles,” said chapter founder Tanya Faison.

A day or two later, the faces were covered by huge, crimson splotches.

Several residents penned an open letter arguing that the mural should never have been removed. Jac Taylor was one of the signers. “What was left was horrific—it looked like blood,” she said.

Black Lives Matter Sacramento is planning a November 18 rally at the theater to bring the mural back.

“It was a great place to mourn loved ones,” Faison noted. “But it also put something back in Oak Park that’s been taken away; black history and blackness have been erased.” (Michael Mott)

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Left in limbo Jury rules it’s OK to keep ticketing homeless people for being outside

by Raheem F. hosseini

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After the verdict had been read and the courtroom had mostly emptied, she drifted down the center aisle, in the tie-dyed shirt and headband she wore through most of the trial.

“I’m appalled,” Tracie Rice-Bailey whispered to no one in particular. “I’m appalled.”

On November 2, a jury concluded that the city of Sacramento doesn’t punish homeless people by enforcing a law against sleeping outside. The 9-3 decision came after less than a day of deliberations in a case that was nearly a decade in the offing. For Rice-Bailey and a handful of

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others who rushed to the courtroom to witness this moment, it felt like a stunning rejection of their right to exist.

“It is what it is,” Rice-Bailey said.

Back in the fall of 2009, dozens of homeless people who had been chased off riverbanks, fields and sidewalks accepted attorney Mark Merin’s invitation to establish a so-called “safe ground” on a rugged private lot downtown. Rules against drugs and violence were established. Tents and public restrooms went up. Religious advocates arrived in solidarity.

Together, they called themselves the “Safe Ground Pioneers.”

The city called them criminals.

Milton Henry Harris was one of the plaintiffs at the center of the dispute.

On October 26, Harris testified that he came to Merin’s property after the recession and drugs left him newly homeless. The military veteran and journeyman plumber spent two years on Sacramento’s hard streets. He says he would have clawed his way back indoors sooner, if not for the camping tickets he received.

Merin layered his case with such testimonials to show that the city only applies its anti-camping law to homeless people, not others who violate the ordinance.

Senior deputy city attorney Chance L. Trimm responded with a minimalist campaign—objecting rarely and presenting few witnesses.

But Trimm did his best work before the jury ever appeared for duty.

Previous rulings had already whittled down the case to a narrow legal challenge over how the city’s ordinance was applied, not whether the law itself was unconstitutional.

Heading into trial, Merin said he and his co-counsel (and wife), Cathleen Williams, were “never optimistic” about winning outright. But Merin says he did view the trial as an opportunity to publicly litigate Sacramento’s treatment of the homeless.

That sense of catharsis permeated the trial.

When Merin made his opening statement, Sister Libby Ferrnandez, a plaintiff and longtime crusader for homeless rights, discreetly golfclapped in her lap. When plaintiffs like Harris and Thomas Ashmore testified about what it was like to be outlaws because they had nowhere to go, they received congratulatory handshakes from those who felt the witnesses spoke for them, too.

Pacing in the lobby before last Friday’s verdict was announced, Rice-Bailey asked for prayers that the jury heard these stories. Her oldest son shared a July birthday with the start of the safe ground campaign, she said.

“I don’t want people to camp all over the street, but we should be allowed somewhere,” she added.

Referring to the two people who drew their last breaths just outside City Hall earlier this year, Rice-Bailey said it was a question of life and death.

Seventy-one homeless people died in Sacramento County last year, according to an annual compilation of coroner data by the Sacramento Regional Coalition to End Homelessness.

Homelessness-related deaths experienced a sustained increase over the past three years, contributing to a 15-year toll of 776 deaths—or about one person every week.

Less than half of the people who perished last year were connected to services, coalition founder Bob Erlenbusch noted. Some defenders of the anti-camping ordinance have argued that it allows police to refer homeless people to services. But those who work with homeless populations say the bottleneck for available resources is so great that those referrals are essentially meaningless.

Erlenbusch and other advocates cited the stark mortality report on Tuesday to convince the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors to invest $44 million in a city-devised plan to move thousands of homeless people indoors over the next three years. The money will come from a $127 million war chest of use-it-or-lose-it funding from the Mental Health Services Act, which Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg authored when he was in the state legislature.

In the meantime, homeless people and their advocates continue pressing local officials for answers about where they can legally stay until these longterm plans come to fruition.

Steinberg has repeatedly said he’s not in favor of repealing his city’s anti-camping law, which he initially opposed as a City Council member in 1995.

Merin says he isn’t done forcing the issue in the courts. “This [law] really prohibits homeless people from being in the city,” he said.

Joe Kaonai Liow was one of three jurors who agreed with that assessment. Identified as Juror No. 4 during trial, Liow said he was convinced the city discriminates against its homeless residents.

“Because you knew these people didn’t have anywhere else to go,” Liow said after the verdict. “And yet you kept going to their camps and telling them to move from place to place.

To me, that’s not applying the law equally.”

Then, turning to Merin, he added, “I’m sorry, I wish I could have done more. I wish there was more of us.” Ω

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ACCE has been leading a grassroots campaign Dreams of turning Sacramento into a “world to bring rent control to the city. Back in July, more class city” recently led local leaders into a worldthan 30 people lined up at City Hall—some with wide bidding war, launching virtual tours and coortears in their eyes—to implore council members dinated media events in an effort to land Amazon’s to support rent control in Sacramento before more new headquarters. working-class residents are displaced.

While jumping into the fanfare put While acknowledging a crisis, Steinberg has Sacramento on a national stage, some are expressed “serious concerns” about passing rent wondering if getting in bed with Amazon would control, even as he’s publicly campaigned to land cause the city more harm than good.

Amazon in a city with an estimated 2 percent Representatives for the capital region began rental vacancy rate. wooing Amazon’s $5 billion campus and 50,000 Fajardo told SN&R this week that city leaders connected jobs in mid-October, culminating in a “haven’t been receptive at all” on rent control.

Kumbaya press conference starring Sacramento “They’ve been very open about working with Mayor Darrell Steinberg, Roseville Mayor Susan Sacramento Housing Alliance on the affordable Rohan and Sacramento Kings owner Vivek housing piece,” Fajardo said. “But every conversaRanadivé in front of the Golden 1 Center. tion that’s been started has been ‘except rent That same week, Ranadivé was intercontrol’—that’s not on the table.” viewed about Sacramento’s prospects Another concern about the on CNBC. “Housing costs are a Amazon pitch involves possible quarter of what they would be in public subsidies. A recent the Bay Area,” Ranadivé said “Fifty-thousand analysis by Axios found that of Sacramento. jobs would … really the bidding war between Ranadivé’s reference change the economic cities could result in Amazon to housing prices was an getting as much as $10 inadvertent reminder of the landscape.” billion in tax breaks and warning from some Seattle Michelle Willard incentives. That seemingly neighborhoods. Last year, spokeswoman, Greater Economic puts the city of Sacramento, Aaron Terrazas, a senior Council of Sacramento which is already subsidizing economist at Zillow, told the the Golden 1 Center, at a huge Seattle Times that what renters disadvantage. call “the Amazon effect” is real: Questions about the regional bid Rental rates in some quarters of the were redirected to the Greater Economic Emerald City shot up between 11 and 24 Council of Sacramento, a public-private partnerpercent after the company’s first headquarters ship led by area CEOs. was anchored there. Terrazas said Zillow’s data The economic council’s proposal identified 12 indicated Amazon’s workforce played a role in sites in the region suitable for a campus. While the the escalations. council is not publicly releasing the details of its That’s a concern to housing advocates in proposal, spokeswoman Michelle Willard said its Sacramento, which has experienced some of the leaders worked directly with economic development highest year-to-year rent increases in the nation, directors for every city involved in the pitch. according to multiple studies. Those increases “Fifty-thousand jobs would have a huge influcoincided with the rise of “super commuters” ence on the communities in the region and really who moved to Sacramento to escape Bay Area change the economic landscape,” Willard said. prices, thus pushing local prices up through Craig Powell, whose organization Eye on supply and demand.

Sacramento sued the city in 2014 over arena “There is still a huge need [for affordable subsidies, agreed that Amazon could bring a housing],” said Jovana Fajardo, director for mighty stimulus to the region. In an email, Sacramento’s chapter of Alliance of Californians Powell said he’s personally supportive for now for Community Empowerment. “We’re seeing of the effort to land the giant, and that Eye on lots of tenants get rent increases. We literally Sacramento will defer commenting on incentives have people calling our office every day and and subsidies until it sees the details. Ω we’re just hearing story after story.”

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Starlight bathes the roses inside McKinley Park.

Under the sepia tones of nightfall, Saoirse Ronan, the Oscar-nominated actress, stretches out on the grass beside actor Lucas Hedges.

“You know you can touch my boobs, right?” she asks.

“I know,” he replies. “I just respect you too much.”

The actors are playing teenaged characters Lady Bird and Danny in one of the many belly laugh-inducing scenes from the solo directorial debut of Sacramento native Greta Gerwig, who also wrote the script. Already the subject of Oscar murmurs, Lady Bird releases publicly in Sacramento on November 10.

In McKinley Park, as Gerwig stood behind the camera filming, the ex who actually said those words—likely near the same rose hedges—stood just feet away from her. Connor Mickiewicz, the former beau and current friend, recalled the scene and others like it: “We spent a lot of time there, making out,” he says. “Poor thing. I feel so bad now.” As Danny does in the

film, Mickiewicz eventually came out to Gerwig as gay after dating her for a few years in high school. “The McKinley Park scene is deeply personal for me,” he says.

In Lady Bird, Gerwig has mined her childhood for material and crafted a bittersweet Valentine to Sacramento. She’s indie famous for her co-writing and starring roles in Frances Ha and Mistress America and appearances in wide releases including Jackie. She’s acted in a total of 25 films and co-written five. But it’s really in Lady Bird where Gerwig and her humble charm blossom. She has excelled as a director—a role still resoundingly dominated by men, her romantic partner Noah Baumbach among them.

Friends and former teachers credit Gerwig’s success to her ability to listen keenly, both in daily life and on stage.

From the opening scene of Lady Bird, it’s obvious that the filmmaker has paid close attention to her hometown. Under her direction, Sacramento sparkles like it never has on screen, both for its natural beauty and straightforward elegance.

Like actress, like director.

Saoirse Ronan, left, and Greta Gerwig on the set of Lady Bird.

Photo courtesy of A24

“We wanted it to look plain and luscious,” Gerwig told SN&R. “I had a really strong feeling of: Sacramento is beautiful; we don’t have to do anything to make it beautiful. We have to spend time there and we have to think about what it looks like and we have to shoot it honestly—and it will be beautiful because we shoot it honestly, just as these characters will be beautiful because they’re written and acted and shot honestly.”

Despite the city’s supple look, drama queen Lady Bird (given name Christine McPherson) can’t wait to leave. In the movie’s opening line, she self-consciously asks, “Do you think I look like I’m from Sacramento?”

“You are from Sacramento,” deadpans her mother, Marion, played by Laurie Metcalf.

After watching the highly naturalistic film, you’re left to wonder how much Gerwig identifies with Lady Bird. Like the title character, the director graduated from a Catholic high school in the early aughts, and her mother also worked in medicine. Where does the fiction cross-fade into reality? And how does she truly feel about Sacramento?

Homecoming screen A thread connects Gerwig with characters she’s written, and it’s difficult to untangle the fact from the fiction. Like Brooke in Mistress America, she’s a multidisciplinary artist—what with her writing, acting, directing, fencing and dancing—who admires others’ ability to cross-pollinate.

She left California to attend Barnard College in New York City. Her reason for going?

Well, first, Gerwig was rejected from UCLA’s musical theater department, she says. But she whisked away to New York because she was fascinated with the students at Barnard and their a la cart degrees.

“The girl who interviewed me was a double major in astrophysics and opera,” she says, “and I was like, ‘Who are you? How do I get in here?’”

Like the pirouetting protagonist of Frances Ha, Gerwig admits that she herself is sincere.

Plus, friends describe her as whimsical and kind, a graceful dancer yet a klutz. “She would come into a room and trip because it was

Greta,” says high school drama teacher Cheryl Watson. “Or just stumble a little and come up in a Greta way.” This mirrors the awkward gestures yet refined movements of the aspiring dancer she played.

She, like Frances and Lady Bird, left Sacramento for New York to make it in the arts.

“I had a pretty strong sense of needing to— feeling like I have to go prove myself,” Gerwig says. “That I have to go do this in another place and then I can come back.”

During college, Gerwig was cast in a small role in LOL, an indie film in the mumblecore genre that would continue to shape her dialogue-driven sensibilities as a filmmaker. In New York, she also met Baumbach, her future boyfriend and pivotal creative collaborator.

The two co-wrote Frances Ha in 2012—earning Gerwig a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress—and Mistress America in 2015.

And with Lady Bird, Gerwig has come into her own. Compared to her introspective co-written films, this script rips to the heart of relationships. She probes into icy motherdaughter rifts and deeply rooted friendships

with an openhearted humor that makes the ordinary tragedies sting with realness.

Poignant scenes, such as a son interviewing for the same job as his unemployed father, resonate in her hands, not for their florid banter, but for the silences in between the dialogue.

“I wanted the language of the script to be quotidian but also poetic, and that it felt like you would stumble into something beautiful,” she says, “and even though it’s teenagers bumbling and never saying exactly what they mean, or a mother and daughter fighting, that there was a way that you could somehow get to something that was beautiful without meaning to. And not trying to dress up language, but allow it to exist.”

The plot is as straightforward as the language. Lady Bird dreams of flying away to an East Coast school to become someone. Her nitpicky mother dotes on her while criticizing her every statement and thrift-store purchase.

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Saoirse Ronan and Laurie Metcalf in a scene staged at Thrift Town.

Gerwig behind the camera.

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Photo courtesy of A24

“Our hOm eg rOwn sta r” So Lady Bird colludes with her father to apply to the fancy East Coast colleges that would meet her mother’s disapproval. In the meantime, Lady Bird finds an outlet for her hammy personality in theater, falls in love, gets her heart broken—twice—dumps her best friend for the cool crowd and eventually makes right.

She realizes that, all along, she’s loved those things that nurtured and bugged her at the same time: her mother and her motherland.

It all sounds so normal, but many moments feel remarkable. During the Sacramento debut screening at the Tower Theatre on October 29—filled to capacity with Gerwig’s friends, family and other Sacramentans—viewers sniffled back tears in surround sound.

Upon reading her college application essay, one of the teacher-nuns remarks: “You clearly love Sacramento.”

After some back-and-forth, Lady Bird eventually realizes, “I pay attention.”

“Don’t you think maybe they are the same thing? Love and attention.” The words rippled through the audience with the warm flush of wonder.

Though the characters often fail at their small aspirations, the story elicits a stream of laughter. It ping-pongs us between a state of bemusement and reluctant recognition of ourselves in these characters.

For those of us who live in Sacramento, the film tugs even harder. Gerwig and cinematographer Sam Levy studied local painters Gregory Kondos (think: soft landscapes) and Wayne Thiebaud (pastel-colored diner food).

The palette reads just as they intended: plain and lush.

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two painters who really captured that Reckoning with the past Northern California palette, which is so specific, which is different from L.A., it’s I met Greta Gerwig inside the Ritz-Carlton its own world.” on the tippy top of Nob Hill in San For locals, the movie also offers a Francisco. She tells me that the night before, treasure hunt: she had gone out There’s the liquor drinking with friends store across from she’d met at Phoebe CLARA! The Hearst Elementary SN&R stand School in East outside a coffee Sacramento. Longtime shop! (Forgive the buddies, including self-promotion.) local art consultant The yellow Tower Tre Borden and Mat Bridge hovering Cusick, the founder like a timeless icon! of Q Arts Foundation, “I wanted to had crashed in her do a tip-of-the-hat extra room at the Ritz. to the scene in “Last night, I Manhattan where had four people I’ve they’re talking known since I was until dawn and you 6 years old at the see the Brooklyn screening, and it was Bridge, but I wanted so moving,” Gerwig it to be the Tower says. The lanky Bridge,” Gerwig filmmaker wore an says. “It was like artfully tousled bob their own cinematic and a drapey shirtfilmmaker and actress moment.” dress patterned with During the palm fronds. Even in screening at Tower a chilly and cavernous Theatre, the audimeeting room, she ence hooted each exuded ease. time a local landmark flashed on screen.

Borden remembers that Gerwig showed Though she has lovingly depicted signs of her future career in early elementary Sacramento, Gerwig grew up dreaming of school. “There was a talent show where she leaving her home, like Lady Bird. But how did ‘Yankee Doodle Dandy and tap-danced, does the relocated New Yorker feel about and it was epic,” he says. “She’s always been Sacramento today? a triple-threat kind of person.”

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Gerwig recalls Borden a little differently.

“Tre would tease me a lot, and I did not like it,” she says with a smirk. “I’m very easy to tease because I’m really sincere, and also I take things really personally, which, obviously, kids love that, and then they’re like, I’m just gonna razz you more.”

Borden says he probably teased her “for knowing everything.” Clearly, they’ve since made up.

Gerwig did know a lot of things early on: In addition to being a fencer and a dancer, she was a high-achiever academically. “Greta was such a cool geek,” says former drama teacher Watson. Her heavy load of extracurriculars continued on through high school at St. Francis in East Sacramento.

“She had her hand in every pot in high school,” Mickiewicz says. “A very smart student, very unlike Lady Bird.”

Gerwig credits St. Francis’ all-girl atmosphere with providing a haven where she could concentrate on her work, an environment she carried over into college when she chose to go to Barnard.

“I was the combination of a late bloomer and also kind of precocious, so it was an unfortunate combination,” she says. “Once I got to St. Francis, I felt this relief of not having to present yourself as a desirable object. All of the girls looked like hell for all four years—it was a wonderful thing.”

Thanks to brother-school Jesuit High in Carmichael, Gerwig was able to act in four theater productions a year. Gerwig says it was through these plays that she grew as an artist.

High school theater also is central to Lady Bird; through goofy warm-ups, student actors bond indelibly.

Casting Sacramento Before Lady Bird, the 916 pLayed Bit parts in these very different sCreen stories

by Raheem F. hosseini | raheemh@newsreview.com

I don’t know about you, but I always get a little giddy when Sacramento shows up on screen. Maybe because it’s so rare.

Occasionally we book a cameo gig, like when 2005’s Walk the Line brings the Johnny Cash story to Folsom Prison for the country legend’s famed live concert. But even these bit parts can be a little deflating. Take this year’s Mike White drama Brad’s Status, in which Ben Stiller plays the head of a Sacramento nonprofit who’s jealous of all his more successful college peers.

In case you’re missing the implication, the movie shorthands Sacramento as the city of the unfulfilled.

That’s why it’s so refreshing that actress Greta Gerwig cast Sac in a starring role with her critically lauded Lady Bird. But this town is no ingenue. Here are a few bit parts you might have missed:

other people (2016)

: Chris Kelly wrote and directed this semi-autobiographical tale of a gay man (Jesse Plemons) who returns to Sacramento (possibly Elk Grove) to be with his dying mom (Molly Shannon). I’ve heard this movie is an affecting showcase for its cast (especially Shannon, who earned raves for her performance), but I’ve yet to watch it because its subject matter cuts a little close to home. My brother loved it, though.

togetherness (2015-16): On for only two seasons on HBO, this wise, witty Duplass Bros. comedy about the compromises of adult life was based in Los Angeles. But in the first season finale, one of the main characters road trips up here with a group of charter school supporters—and is tempted by another man. Maybe that should be our water tower motto: “Sacramento—where public schools and marriages come to die.”

Ed Trafton, a drama teacher at Jesuit, remembers a performance that seemed to stop time. Gerwig played Dorothy in the musical The Wizard of Oz, but as an alto, she wasn’t able to hit some of the high notes in “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.” During practice, Trafton lowered the key to A flat—he still remembers—and asked her to imagine speaking it.

“She performed it beautiful and plaintively, and she moved everyone there,” Trafton says. “It became this incredible moment that she managed to make really open and vulnerable and really transparent.

That’s another thing that’s in her work now.

She’s simultaneously so strong and so full of steel, but she also is so tender, and she also has the capacity to convey delicacy.”

happy endings (2011-13)

: This quippy ABC series was set in Chicago, but I swear someone on the creative staff must have deep ties to Sacramento, because some of the show’s most scalding jokes were made at our expense.

The most sustained 916 burn came in the season three episode, “More Like Stanksgiving,” which unearths a never-aired season of MTV’s The Real World, set in, you guessed it, Sacramento. The city even gets the Real World opening credits treatment: As seven obnoxious strangers recite familiar lines about how real it’s all gonna get, we get quick-cut glimpses of famed Sacramento landmarks—the Tower Bridge. The state Capitol. Our … low skyline. … Downtown traffic. … A friggin’ light-rail train!? By the time the Tower Bridge makes another place-holder appearance, you’ll be tittering so hard it’ll hurt. And it will hurt.

frances ha (2012)

: The Noah Baumbach film, co-written

by Gerwig, is about a struggling dancer (Gerwig), whose aimless tranquility is upended when her best friend (Mickey Sumner) moves out of their shared Brooklyn apartment and onto the next phase of her life. The black-and-white charmer doubles as a wistful ode to female friendship, and an agonizing account of being lost in the wilderness of your early 20s. It also features one of the few cinematic examples of Sacramento getting to play itself: During one sequence, Gerwig’s character returns home for Christmas, and guides the viewer from our airport to our tree-lined neighborhoods and into our cozy living rooms. The dreamy detour is an early indication of Gerwig’s affection for Sacramento—and a pretty good illustration of what makes this place feel like home.

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When Gerwig rewatches videos of those early performances, she says, she cringes.

“When you see any child or teenager do something with incredible intensity, there’s just a slight amount of humor around it because it feels a bit like they’re play-acting being an adult,” she says.

Through high school drama, Gerwig also cemented some of her most lasting friendships, including with Mickiewicz and Rebecca Light, theater-director Watson’s daughter, who now lives in Southern California. Their real-life stories and friendships are echoed but not exactly copied in the film.

“I don’t think I ever laughed harder in my life than doing plays in high school,” Gerwig says.

Outside of school plays, Mickiewicz and Gerwig remained serious actors. They went to many school dances where they played dress-up, including as characters from The Great Gatsby and a French couple. (In Lady Bird, themed dances include cowboys and eternal hell.) One year, they thrifted for a 1920s ballgown, fedora and suspenders, Mickiewicz says. They were so committed to their roles that, when the backdrop for the couples’ photos was a cardboard cutout of a jukebox, the young couple moved the set piece because it had not yet been popularized in their chosen decade.

“She was totally committed to the moment,” drama teacher Watson says. “She was always in the moment on stage and

always present and real. It’s a gift that she has. She makes every moment her own, but in a way that supports everything around her.”

Gerwig consciously created memories outside of school as well, she says. She fondly remembers a pre-cellphone-era Sacramento, when she and her friends would drive between the now-shuttered True Love Coffeehouse and the still-open Willie’s Burgers looking for her crush. One time, she left her car parked at True Love and hitched a ride with her friend to cruise around town in pursuit of him.

“We got back to True Love, and the crush had left a note at my car, and I was like, ‘Noooo! I was thwarted!’”

Unlike the title character of Lady Bird, Gerwig says, she didn’t think Sacramento was uncool. She compulsively kept notebooks to hold onto her memories of home.

“There are many ways in which I’m not like this character,” Gerwig says. “I’ve always had a presentiment of loss, as Joan Didion puts it, and sort of nostalgia for what I’m experiencing now. So I kind of knew I was going to have these memories embossed. … I think I always knew that I was preserving it somehow, and I loved it.”

Now, Gerwig is recording Sacramento in a far more public forum, and as usual, she’s taking the role seriously. While the city grows, seemingly at a faster clip than in decades prior, she hopes to preserve it on film.

“It’s hard to see it change,” she says.

“There are little things that I know are fading, which was one of the nice things about shooting in Sacramento. There’s a ton of footage that’s not in the movie that I’m actually gonna try to cut together into something else—not a full-length movie, but just a piece of Sacramento because I feel like I want to get it before it’s totally changed over.”

At the Tower Theatre premiere, she announced her hopes to direct a quartet of films here.

Gerwig says she adores the people of Sacramento most of all, as it’s the place where her family and some of her closest friends live. She cites her mother’s friend who grows the majority of her own food in her backyard.

“If that was anywhere else, that person would make it their whole identity that they grow their food, and they would have an Instagram page about it and do all this stuff, and it would be so public—and she just does it in her backyard,” Gerwig says. “There’s something about that to me, not commodifying everything, that’s great about a place, that feels like Sacramento to me.”

But would she ever move back, or does success still require living on the East Coast?

“I would move back,” she says. “A lot of different filmmakers, you get to a point where you can live anywhere you want.” Ω

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I saw PRVLGS play a set at the Sactown Nachos Festival. They jumped between jazz, R&B and rock and played with high energy, filling in the gaps with the complexity of a ’70s prog-rock band. They did it all as an instrumental trio. But what linked everything together was a low-key looseness. They were up there having fun, messing around, despite their intricate songs.

After the set, The Philharmonik took the stage, and Gonzalez-Barajas and Hake backed him, along with David Baez on the bass. The Philharmonik’s music is slower and funkier. They sounded like a whole other band, and they looked just as easy-going, like they were having a blast.

“I trust Omar and David with my life,” says Christian Gates, stage name The Philharmonik. “Zach adds such a great interpretation to my tracks. Not only are they good musicians, but individual artists most importantly. They can keep a crowd from leaving after the artists they’ve come to see stop performing.”

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PRVLGS was his only project. Hake had moved to Sacramento only a couple years prior and joined Separate Spines for a few months, but that was it. This was before Garcia joined the band. They played with guitarist Tyler Simmons.

“It went directly from burned laptop to the disc without a whole lot of thought,” Hake says. “We write as we record sometimes. It worked for Common Language. It’s taking a lot longer with the new record.”

After a fun record release show, Simmons’ interest waned in the group. While Hake was still dealing with the trauma of the fire, they set PRVLGS aside.

“I think we rushed the record a little bit. Was kind of too much for everybody,” Gonzalez-Barajas says. At the same time, he says, “I’m glad we didn’t just scrap the whole thing.”

In no time, they became the Sacramento musicians of choice. It started with hip-hop group DLRN. GonzalezBarajas caught a DLRN set at Sol Collective, and told

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them they could use live drums—him. Then he recommended Hake as well. Soon folks were clamoring to have them in their band.

“They could play anything. They’re all so talented,” LaMarr says. “Together they’re a force, and then they go out into our scene, like they’ve been the glue for a lot of really dope projects.”

Backing other musicians inspired Hake and Gonzalez-Barajas to give their own project another shot: They had felt the chemistry they brought to other bands.

To start PRVLGS again, they tried out several bassists.

Most overplayed, trying to compensate for the lack of a guitar—except Garcia, who anticipated the flow of the band and played simply when the music called for it. She came recommended by Separate Spine’s Buddy Hale.

She had told Hale that she wanted to play in a “jazzy hip-hop group.” He told her he knew just the group.

A few months after joining PRVLGS, Garcia proved she was in fact a true member of the band by joining Petaluma—on the drums.

“Mel is more than just an incredible player,” Petaluma singer Rob Habel says. “She carries herself with the kind of calm and assured rock star demeanor.”

The second incarnation of PRVLGS has clicked even better. With this album, they hope to show what they have to offer as PRVLGS. “I remember our first time playing with Mel,” Hake says. “It was immediately clear that this was a band and that we could really add something to the music scene.

It’s that feeling where you start playing, and you don’t know where you’re going to end up, and before you know it you all wrote a song together.” Ω

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It’s raining grants A motley crowd of about a hundred artists, food enthusiasts and tinkerers huddled outside of Brickhouse Art Gallery on Monday morning to learn more about the $500,000 in grants they had just received from the city. Near Mayor Darrell Steinberg stood a gardener with a bouquet of handpicked wildflowers and a comic book artist wearing heart-shaped sunglasses atop his eye glasses.

Ever since applications closed for the Creative Economy Pilot Program at the end of July, the 481 applicants asking for a total of $7 million had been crossing their fingers. The call for grants asked for cultural projects “that stimulate economic development and activity, as well as social impact.”

Last week, winners were invited to watch the mayor speak in Oak Park. In total, 57 projects were funded, a 12 percent acceptance rate.

“I know there are some people in some groups that didn’t get grants in this round, who may be disappointed, understandably,” Steinberg said. “The granting of $500,000 represents the beginning—and not the end—of our investing in arts, entrepreneurship, innovation and the food culture here in Sacramento.”

Those winners this round received grants ranging from roughly $5,000 to $25,000. They include Danielle Vincent’s First Festival, which features local musicians and artists ($25,000), the 5th Annual Sacramento Black Book Fair ($10,000) and Oak Park Food Collective ($5,000), just as a sample. Most were local, but Sofar Sounds, a for-profit company headquartered in London, was awarded $25,000. Sacramento real estate manager Chinua Rhodes is listed as the recipient of Sofar Sounds’ grant.

Many of the grantees in Oak Park said they were jazzed.

Eben Burgoon, the comic book artist wearing the heartshaped glasses, received $5,000 to create eight free comic book workshops at a school in each city district.

“The arts are a lot of times tragically underfunded,” Burgoon said, “and it finally feels like the city at least is gonna go, ‘Hey, arts matter and a lot of diverse voices matter, too.

It’s not just downtown and the arena. It’s all over the city.’”

Grant recipient The Red Museum had previously struggled with getting its music-and-arts venue up to city code.

After temporarily shutting Allison Joe speaking in Oak Park. down this summer, it has since been given guidance by the city to meet safety requirements—and now, $5,000 to put on 18 art events in its warehouse space.

“Being in the art community, we know a ton of people with great ideas that applied, so hopefully like they said in the speeches, this is a catalyst,” said Red Museum organizer Jennifer Jackson.

“And once the community sees what a big difference $500,000 can make, there will be more funding for these kinds of efforts.”

Allison S. Joe, chief of staff in the city of Sacramento, said she wasn’t sure when her office would put out another call for cultural grants.

“A lot of them were really fundable, there just weren’t enough funds,” she said. “So that’s the next step, is to get more funds.”

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PRVLGS lurks in the shadows, at least compared to the groups they accompany. But they don’t want to hide in the back anymore. They’ve got big plans for 2018, starting with their long-awaited debut full-length record that’s still untitled and expected early next year.

“PRVLGS will always be the priority,” GonzalezBarajas says.

To whet listeners’ appetites, they’ll be releasing the first single “Lift” on November 16 on their SoundCloud page. Unlike their previous instrumental work, this song has vocals provided by Bay Area singer Leviathe, formerly of the experimental electro-pop band Genuis.

It’s a dreamy, jazzy R&B track that flirts with pop elements. While the opening minute seems too simple for a PRVLGS song, it evolves gradually into surreal territories as the tension builds.

The trio has been working on the record for nearly a year and a half. They recorded bits and pieces whenever they could, and added to or entirely changed tracks as they learned new tricks.

“I’m sitting behind the drums and watching how each band functions and bringing [it] back to PRVLGS and saying, ‘This may work,’” Gonzalez-Barajas says. “We keep growing as musicians live. We keep dialing in and really learning how each other plays.”

The group’s debut EP, Common Language (2015), was created under much different circumstances. Days after they finished recording it, Hake’s apartment caught on fire, and he lost instruments and his laptop—including the raw music files. They decided to just release the record. Thankfully, a few days before, Hake had done a test mix and master and saved it to his Google Drive.

Gonzalez-Barajas came to the project as the former drummer for Cove and Sister Crayon, but at the time,

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My entrée that woeful night, the slowbeer. Their rotating suds selection includes smoked brisket, showed up resembling two 12 mainstream beers on tap, though given the pieces of dry toast. The mashed potatoes were tag line of “No crap on tap” and the owners’ bland and thin. My “molten chocolate cake” was Cicerone-certified beer server status, I was surprised filled with thin chocolate syrup and topped with a to find a limited selection of local microbrews. melted puddle of canned whipped cream.

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Town, Jordan Minyard attaches a bolt to a cable as he prepares to hang the neighborhood’s newest sign: The Pour Choice (177 Sacramento Street).

Though the business models its logo after 19th century designs, its white insignia glistens with newness.

“We wanted to fit the charm of Old Town, but have newer, fun, unique flares to it, so it’s more current and different from what’s here,” Minyard says.

That seems to be a mission of the husband-and-wife team: To be unlike anything else in Auburn. Set to have its soft opening November 15, the “social watering hole” certainly looks different, with lustrous black tiles, Edison bulbs and marble countertops.

The menu is also unique to Auburn—heck, to Sacramento—with an obsessive focus on coffee and beer. On tap will be 18 craft beers (including heavy hitters like nearby Moonraker Brewing Co.), nitro coffee from Verve Coffee Roasters of Santa Cruz (as well as single-origin

brews)—and six kegs of wine. With the mix of uppers and downers, the storefront will be open 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. on weekdays and until midnight on weekends.

Small plates will include a build-your-own bratwurst dish and charcuterie plates sourced by the owner of Portland, Oregon’s Olympia Provisions, Elias Cairo—“a super good dude who spent six years in Switzerland and just learned the way that sausage is made from the oldworld approach to it,” Minyard says.

Minyard geeks out about the meaning of craft. His wife Melinda comes from a line of Napa Valley winemakers, and after reconnecting with that heritage by sampling the varietals around St. Helena, the two native Auburnites directed their entrepreneurial tendencies toward their love of food and drink. The couple’s research included a class at the American Barista & Coffee School in Portland. As for beer, Minyard and his brother have been experimenting with their own home brews.

“As you begin to introduce hops,” he says, “and realize there’s flavors in there I never knew ... could exist in beer—it opens up your world.”

Beyond the thoughtfully curated food and drink, the couple wants Auburn to have a social space for intimate conversations. “So, no TVs,” Minyard says.

As a young couple, the restaurateurs believe they understand their own target demographic. Minyard has noticed how often they feel the need to travel all the way to Sacramento to hunt for new flavors, sampling small dishes and drinks as they go. Now, they hope to capture some of that energy and business in Auburn.

“We feel like we need to retain the business that’s already here, that’s leaving right now, that’s going to Sac because Sac has all these amazing options,” he says. “We want people to be able to stay here and have some options as well, and we want people from Sac to come up here as well and realize: Man, Auburn’s an awesome place.” Ω

Coffee-slash-beer town In the last few years, craft coffee and beer have exploded in Sacramento and so, fittingly, there’s an event centered around combinations of the two beverages. The fourth Sacramento Coffee Beerfest will feature more than 20 brewers and their best coffee-infused beer from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. on November 10 at the Brickhouse Gallery & Art Complex (2837 36th Street). The mash-up originally stuck to obvious pairings like porters and stouts, said Scott Scoville, co-founder of Beers in Sac, but no longer: Two Rivers Cider Co. and New Glory Craft Brewery have worked coffee into a cider and a saison, respectively. But to prevent a “wrecking” of palettes with a bombardment of coffee flavors, Scoville said food will be available from Masa Guiseria and Cali Love Food Truck, and each brewery will also bring a straight-down-the-middle beer for contrast. Tickets ($30) for this quintessentially Sacramentan drinking event can be purchased at http://sacramentocoffeebeerfest.com.

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Falcon’s Eye Theatre’s production of The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade (Marat/Sade) is a stunning, innovative and powerful presentation. In their staging of playwright Peter Weiss’ play-within-a-play, director David Harris and designer Ian Wallace create a captive audience whose members are led through the asylum’s visitor’s center and ultimately into the bowels of the madhouse.

The audience members—limited to 50 people per performance—never enter the actual Falcon’s Eye Theater space, but instead are directed down a hallway and presented with visitors’ badges. They eventually find themselves in an insane asylum waiting room. The audience is seated along the wall while watching the glass-enclosed, imprisoned patients present their play about the bloody revolutionary propagandist Jean-Paul Marat, directed by the notorious libertine Marquis de Sade.

While keeping to the play’s theme of examining the issues of class and repression that was the French Revolution, as well as the debate between Marat and the marquis about personal versus societal changes, the creative team also incorporates modern issues that mirror the current divisive political climate.

It’s an amazingly creative and all-encompassing theatrical experience, enhanced by imaginative sets, costumes and lighting.

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by Brennan Villados as Marat and Steven Minow as Sade, backed up by equally talented cast that includes a chorus of deranged prisoners. This is a unique production not to be missed. Ω

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5 Kings of America Sean Patrick Nill’s first play is now on Sacramento Theatre Company’s Pollock stage, directed by Lyndsay Burch.

Noah is a brilliant but failing high school kid with a passion for history, especially American presidents, a passion he shares with his father. But Noah is going through an emotional crisis. His grades are failing and he is plagued by dreams of past presidents.

This is an unusual but riveting work where we see conversations between, for example, Bill Clinton and Thomas Jefferson, or Teddy and Franklin Roosevelt. The presidents argue with each other and with Noah, and comment on the world today (particularly funny is Jimmy Carter and JFK discussing the movie Twilight.)

The boy learns that the presidents are not the idols he has imagined them to be, especially in their private lives, but ordinary men faced with extraordinary situations. (The play even makes George Bush a sympathetic character!) In his dream conversations, as well as meetings with his therapist, Noah is able to face his problems and begin healing his current estrangement with his mother.

J’cyn Crawley, from STC’s School of the Arts, is outstanding as Noah. (He will be alternating in the role with Jacquez Cosby.) John Lamb, Will Springhorn and Jordan Stidham breathe life into 12 different presidents, most of whom are instantly recognizable.

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Wonderstruck Let’s play duck, duck, Julianne Moore.

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evade authorities and eventually meet a friendly protector. Ben befriends a museum employee’s son named Jamie (Jaden Michael), who gives the I have not consumed any of the printed works by starving boy some food and shelters him in a secret writer and illustrator Brian Selznick, so I’m somewhat room. An old book called Wonderstruck is Ben’s stymied to explain why two of the greatest filmmakonly connection to his father, but the longer that he ers of my lifetime have made bad movies from his stays in the museum, the more mysterious connecbooks. Martin Scorsese’s pandering 2011 cinephile tions to his family he finds. dog-whistle Hugo adapted Selznick’s The Invention In addition to the persistent pacing and framof Hugo Cabret, and while it garnered awards ing issues, the movie inevitably becomes nominations and dutiful critical acclaim, trapped in a back-and-forth structure a pervasive feeling of forced magic that undercuts the momentum at permeated that cluttered and overevery turn. The structure is so The movie bearing film. ill-conceived that most of the inevitably becomes Now Todd Haynes, the man final half-hour gets devoted behind Safe, Far from Heaven trapped in a backto the characters reading and I’m Not There, has turned hand-written notes that fill in and-forth structure Selznick’s 2011 illustrated novel all the plot holes. Meanwhile, that undercuts the Wonderstruck into a minor Haynes seems more interested motion picture. This is Haynes’ momentum at in indulging in empty, oldhighly anticipated follow-up to soul nostalgia—Wonderstruck every turn.

Carol, a film so icily precise and genuinely expects you to poop immaculate that interacting with it your pants in dizzy awe every time felt almost forbidden, so the clunky and someone watches a movie on celluloid or largely unappealing visuals of Wonderstruck drops the needle on a vinyl record. Like I said, come as a shock. Even the occasional black-and-white pandering, dog whistle stuff. cinematography looks murky and lacks texture and The biggest problem with Wonderstruck is the depth, although I suspect most critics will slobber at giant hole in the center of the film that should have that bell as well. been filled with Fegley. As much as the film tries to Preteen actor Oakes Fegley stars as Ben, a recently place us inside Ben’s head, he remains an emotional orphaned Minnesota boy who escapes to New York mystery. I hate to blame a child for the failures of a City to find the father he never met (Michelle Williams movie made by adults, especially since Fegley gave cameos as his dead mother). Ben was recently rendered a much stronger performance in last year’s Pete’s deaf by a freak accident, and in a side story set in 1927, Dragon, so I will continue to blame Haynes for this a deaf girl named Rose goes through almost the exact entire baffling misstep of a movie. Ω same journey, leaving a miserable life in New Jersey to seek out silent movie actress Lillian Mayhew (Julianne Moore) in New York.

All narrative roads converge at the American Poor Fair Good Very excellent Museum of Natural History, where Rose and Ben both Good

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All I See is You

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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A Bad Moms Christmas

Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell and Kathryn Hahn, having soiled themselves with last year’s loathsome Bad Moms, wade into more of the same, this time dragging Christine Baranski, Cheryl Hines and Susan Sarandon (as their respective mothers) down into the muck with them. Written and directed by the team of Jon Lucas and Scott Moore (raising the question of how someone can be so untalented that it takes two of them to come up with a pile of camera-vomit like this), the movie is an example of the I-Hate-ChristmasMovie, the most despicable genre this side of snuff films and Nazi propaganda. Not content with that, Lucas and Moore add more generous dashes of the I-Hate-Mom-Movie and the I-Resent-My-Kids movie. Peter Gallagher, Wanda Sykes, Christina Applegate and Kenny G show up for pointless (and thankless) bits.

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Daddy’s Home 2

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The Florida Project

Co-fathers Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg are back in one of those we-made-too-much-money-not-to-make-asequel-but-we-don’t-have-any-good-ideas movies. Ferrell and Wahlberg, whose star chemistry barely kept the first movie afloat, tread water gamely, but writers John Morris and Sean Anders give them nothing new to do.

In fact, all Morris and Anders come up with is to set things during the holidays and double down on the dads, adding one for Wahlberg (Mel Gibson) and one for Ferrell (John Lithgow). Yet another dad shows up in the person of wrestler John Cena for Wahlberg’s stepdaughter, making this extended family as confusing as a Shakespeare history play.

Hilarity fails to ensue. Anders is also credited as director, though there’s no evidence he did anything but turn the camera on and yell, “Action!” J.L.

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 forcefeeding 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.

Now, you can make a film on your iPad’s van Gogh filter.

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Loving Vincent

A year after the death of Vincent van Gogh, his postman’s son (Douglas Booth) sets out to deliver a recently found letter from van Gogh to his brother Theo. At first unwilling, the young man slowly warms to his errand, and it becomes an investigation into van Gogh’s life and death. This British-Polish co-production is well-acted and well-written (by Jacek Dehnel and co-directors Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman). It would have been interesting in any case; what makes it a sublimely beautiful experience is the technique Kobiela and Welchman adopt, replacing live-action footage with hand-painted animation, making the movie’s world look like van Gogh’s paintings come to life. The result is breathtakingly original, a reminder of both van Gogh’s unique vision and the tactile pleasure of hand-drawn animation. J.L.

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The Killing of a Sacred Deer

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Iconoclastic Greek director Yorgos Lanthismos (Dogtooth) makes his second English-language film with The Killing of a Sacred Deer, following up last year’s The Lobster. Colin Farrell again stars here as Dr. Steven Murphy, a skilled and successful surgeon with a beautiful and successful wife (Nicole Kidman), two accomplished kids and a dark secret from his past. That dark secret takes the form of Martin (Barry Keoghan), a gawky teenager who gloms onto Steven, inserting himself further and further into the surgeon’s family life before finally revealing the vicious magnitude of his plan. Lanthimos specializes in caustically, even sadistically absurd satires on human behavior, and while The Killing of a Sacred Deer certainly fits that bill, it mostly feels vapid and mean. In adapting his singularly airless style to slightly more conventional material, Lanthimos only exposes his own limitations. I still ate up all the Kubrick-ian camera moves, of course. D.B.

Dark undercurrents surface in a supposedly utopian 1959 suburb. As an African-American family moves in next door, a home invasion results in the murder of a housewife (Julianne Moore), terrorizing her young son (Noah Jupe), her husband (Matt Damon) and her twin sister (also Moore).

When the boy catches his father and aunt refusing to identify the culprits in a police lineup, the plot thickens. Originally written by Joel and Ethan Coen, then reworked by Grant Heslov and director George Clooney (who are no doubt responsible for the undercooked racism subplot), the movie is a limp example of an unhappy genre: bland satire. The only touches of wit come from the opening sequence, a clever mock-commercial for the community, and a brief appearance by Oscar Isaac as a venal insurance investigator. J.L.

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Thank You for Your Service

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Thor: Ragnarok

American Sniper screenwriter Jason Hall makes his directorial debut with this American Sniper-lite ensemble piece that follows a group of Iraq War veterans as they unsteadily reintegrate into society.

Based on David Finkel’s nonfiction book of the same name, Thank You for Your Service mostly focuses on Schumann (Miles Teller), a young father still reliving disturbing war experiences, and “Solo” (Beulah Koale), whose debilitating brain injuries begin to tear his life to shreds. Faced with insufficient medical and psychological care, as well as an apathetic home front, the soldiers’ untreated trauma wreaks havoc on their families. Hall certainly seems to grasp the mindset of the modern warrior, sensitively showing the way that steely exteriors can conceal deep rivers of pain and regret. But as might be expected from a screenwriter turned first-time director, Hall’s film is dialogue-heavy and storylight, smart and observant but largely lacking in urgency and revelation. D.B.

Thor (Chris Hemsworth) and Loki (Tom Hiddleston) unite uneasily for Ragnarok, a world-destroying battle with their evil sister Hela (Cate Blanchett). The movie would be better if it were a half-hour shorter—director Taika Waititi, stepping up from his quirky indies roots, keeps getting swamped by the scale and letting the numbing CGI battles get away from him. But when he asserts his impish side, the movie perks up; at it’s best it’s a knowing self-spoof that doesn’t take itself too seriously. Hemsworth is allowed to re-deploy the surprising gift for comedy he revealed in last year’s Ghostbusters, and the movie profits from it. Another plus is Tessa Thompson as a new character, Valkyrie, a sort of female Han Solo; she’s a much better match for Hemsworth than Natalie Portman in the first two films. J.L.

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A throat that sings on the inside and out.

There’s something intense about Tom Goyen. At first, I thought it was his tattoos, which cover his arms, legs and neck. But really, it’s his eyes.

The local musician stares at me as he talks and pauses after making a point. He doesn’t break eye contact.

Goyen says he creates music to honestly reflect his life. He wrote the song “Shining Star” in prison and still plays it to this day.

“I’ve overdosed three times—two of them I flatlined. I should be dead,” he tells me. He’s also lived under a bridge.

He’s been sober since February of 2016 and works selling and advocating for the herbal drug kratom through his company Kreative Kratom.

Music’s given Goyen a reason to live, he says. The older he’s gotten, the more he sees everything else as a roadblock between him and his passion.

“My relationship is with music,” he tells me.

“It’s almost unhealthy. It’s an addiction.”

A couple of years ago, Goyen was attending a cousin’s high school graduation and was suddenly struck by the cliché graduation speeches about “potential” and “following your dreams.”

“Shit, I’ve been graduated for seven years at the time. Look at how much potential I had at one time before I started doing all these drugs,” Goyen says. “That day I asked God to give me a sign if I should pursue my passion in music or stay with my girlfriend.”

He broke up with her that night after she got drunk and “did some stupid things,” he says.

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The couple of videos Goyen has released online are a sneak peek into his solo EP coming out soon. He builds songs with guitar loops, beatboxing and grunge-era vocals. It’s tattered and soulful.

He weaves in loungey guitar chords, jazzy solos and pained, poetic lyrics. A quiet ferocity builds.

Years ago, Goyen started a Queens of the Stone Age-style band—now back in the works—called Beautiful Strangers. He also played guitar in a live hip-hop band in Southern California, which he declined to name. He claims it was nominated as breakthrough artist of Los Angeles in 2010 at the “official pre-party of the MTV Video Music Awards.”

Goyen was kicked out a few weeks after that. His drug problem went from bad to worse.

He started playing solo, but couldn’t sing well—people would tell him that he couldn’t sing for shit. He persisted, even during homeless stretches and time spent in jail.

“I might just be really difficult to work with,” Goyen says. “That’s not a bad thing. It just means I’m so attached to my vision that anybody else adding or changing it leaves me in dissatisfaction. Kind of like a painter.”

Since Goyen was kicked out of the band, he tells me, he’s written 59 songs. His solo looping project is coming along well. He’s really excited about his group Beautiful Strangers, but that seems to be going a little slower, as working with others is more challenging.

“It’s a strange place to be, that you’re so attached to something that you’re scared of allowing anybody in there,” Goyen says. “You can wonder why I can’t even start a band. Shit, I couldn’t even date the girl of my dreams. That’s how independent I have to be about this whole thing. I don’t want anybody messing with it.” Ω

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THE TWILIGHT DRIFTERS: With Dyana and the

and veterans with ID get one free ticket.

10am, $10. Sacramento Convention Center

Cherry Kings. 9pm, $5. Old Ironsides, 1901 10th St.

Complex, 1400 J St.

YOLO MAMBO FUNDRAISER FOR FIRE VICTIMS: Yolo Mambo and Marty Cohen and the Sidekicks perform a benefit concert for fire victims in Napa and Sonoma. 7pm, $20-$25.

Watermelon Music, 1970 Lake Blvd., Suite 1 in Davis.

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Cal Expo, 4:30 p.m., $16-$18 It’s happening again: wreaths and ribbons adorn store shelves, holiday car sale commercials interrupt your shows and maybe Christmas lights already brightened the home of the overly enthusiHOLIDAYS astic neighbor on your block.

Don’t resist it—the holidays are here, and a sure sign can be seen twinkling along Highway 80: Global Winter Wonderland. Get lost with your family in a maze of glowing candy canes and reindeer in the North

Pole area, and see lit replicas of wellknown buildings from around the world.

Sip cocoa and lace up for the ice rink, and end the night with live entertainment performances by fire dancers, marching bands and contortionists. Whether you’re old or young, this display of lights and holiday spirit will leave you giddy. Global Winter Wonderland runs through January 7, 2018. 1600 Exposition Boulevard, www.globalwonderland.com.

SATURDAY, 11/11 THE BRODYS: With Jet Black Popes, Mezcal Aces.

9pm, $10. Old Ironsides, 1901 10th St.

THE SOCIAL STOMACH: With Grex, Stranger Than Fact, Speck. 7:30pm, $3-$5. The Morgue, 1919 Wahl Way in Davis.

THE HIT MEN: Legendary performers play their hits and behind-the-scenes stories about what it was like on the road and in recording sessions with some of rock’s greats. 2pm, 7:30pm $15-$65. Harris Center, 10 College Parkway in Folsom.

KHRUANGBIN: With the Shacks. 8pm, $15-$18.

THURSDAY, 11/9 AMERICAN CONTEMPORARY MUSIC EMSEMBLE (ACME): The renowned ensemble performs as part of the 40th Annual Festival of New American Music. 8pm, no cover.

Sacramento State, 6000 J St.

CITY FOLK: With Alisa Fineman, Kimball Hurd.

A Fundraiser for KVMR Community Radio 7:30pm, $25-$35. Nevada Theatre, 401 Broad St. in Nevada City.

FENAM STUDENT COMPOSERS COMPETITION: The 40th Annual Festival of New American Music continues with the student composers’ competition, featuring new works of music performed by Sac State students. 4pm, no cover. Sacramento State, 6000 J St.

FUNDRAISER FOR ENGAGE: See event highlight on page 30. 7pm, $10. Old Ironsides, 1901 10th St.

HOBO JOHNSON & THE LOVEMAKERS: With James Cavern, The Philharmonik, Jordan Moore.

6pm, $10. Harlow’s, 2708 J St.

FRIDAY, 11/10 916 JUNGLIST—BILLY’S JUNGLE VINYL THROWDOWN: DJ Billy Lane’s birthday set.

10pm, no cover. Trocadero, 119 Church St. in Roseville.

A GRAND NIGHT: Dueling piano show with music, cocktails and bites by Mikuni. Fundraiser for Blue Heart International. 7pm, $100. Rocklin Event Center, 2650 Sunset Blvd. in Rocklin.

DELTAPHONIC: New Orleans rock/funk duo

performs with Element Brass Band. 9pm, $8.

Torch Club, 904 15th St.

GUERO: With Be Brave Bold Robot. 8pm, $7.

Shine, 1400 E St.

R&B JAM: Michel’le, Adriana Marcel, Netta Brielle, Rocky Ramirez, Lecsi Tomorrow and Ayanna Charlene perform. 8pm, $30-$70.

Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.

ROUTE 91 STRONG BENEFIT CONCERT: A concert to raise money for those impacted by the Route 91 Harvest Country Music Festival shooting in Las Vegas. Performers include Elvis Monroe, Toryn Green of Fuel, Rudy Parris of The Voice and Granite Bay artist Ashley Barron. 6pm, $25-$50. Strikes Halftime Bar, 5681 Lonetree Blvd. in Rocklin.

SQUALUS: With Cormorant, xTom Hanx and more.

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

SWANK BASTARDS: With the Phantom Jets,

Danger Inc. 9pm, $8. Hideaway Bar & Grill, 2565 Franklin Blvd.

KIDS DAY: A day for the kiddos to have fun with cultural arts and crafts, theater performances, music and other healthy activities. Repeats every second Sunday.

2pm, by donation. Sol Collective, 2574 21st St. favorite cape and grab a camera for a celebration of comics, superheros and the characters that color your world. 11am, no cover-$7. Sacramento Marriott Rancho Cordova, 11211 Point E. Drive in Rancho Cordova.

SACRAMENTO ANTIQUE FAIRE: Three hunded vendors from California, Nevada and other neighboring states selling antiques and collectibles that are 20 years old and older.

Items include vintage clothing, military antiques, art, jewelry, lighting, glassware, silver, toys and furniture. Rain or shine.

6:30am. $3. 21st and X streets.

SACRAMENTO ANTIQUE SHOW: See event

listing for 11/11. 10am, $10. Sacramento Convention Center Complex, 1400 J St.

Harlow’s, 2708 J St.

WATERPARKS: Rock band out of Texas. 5:30pm,

HOLIDAYS

$17. Ace Of Spades, 1417 R St.

THE PINE BOYS BOX: With “Gentleman” Jimmy Hadley, Lester T. Raww’s Graveside Quartet.

9pm, $10. Hideaway Bar & Grill, 2565 Franklin Blvd.

SASQUATCH: With House of Broken Promises,

Astral Cult, Wolves in Argyle. 8pm, $12-$15.

Blue Lamp, 1400 Alhambra Blvd.

HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE: Peruse quick, local gift ideas, goodies, hand-dyed yarn and delicious treats. 4pm, no cover. Rumplestiltskin, 1021 R St. armed forces with a prelude by the Davis Brass Ensemble at 10:30am, a posting of colors and speakers. 11am, no cover. Davis Cemetery & Arboretum, 820 Pole Line Road in Davis.

SUNDAY, 11/12 THE MANHATTAN TRANSFER: Grammy Awardwinning quartet celebrates its 45th anniversary. 8pm, $35-$60. Harris Center, 10 College Parkway in Folsom.

VETERANS DAY COMMUNITY PARTY: Exercise classes, Sacramento Republic soccer clinic for kids, food trucks, live music and more.

Mayor Darrell Steinberg, Senator Richard Pan and others will speak. Fundraiser for Objective Zero, an organization that works to prevent veteran suicide. 9am, no cover.

McKinley Park, 601 Alhambra Blvd.

THREE BAD JACKS: With Greasehound, the

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

THE SEARCH: With Black Knight Satellite, North

By North, Eugene Ugly 9pm. Cafe Colonial, 3520 Stockton Blvd.

VETERANS DAY PARADE: A parade along one of Sacramento’s most scenic locations, Capitol Mall, to celebrate veterans. The event kicks off at 10am with a short program, Saluting Our Veterans, followed by the parade. 10am, no cover. Capitol Mall, 5th St. and Capitol Mall.

WEDNESDAY NOONER MR. HOOPER: Northern California hip-hop. Noon, no cover.

Sacramento State, 6000 J St.

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SATURDAY, 11/11 THE MIDTOWN BIZARRE MAKER POP UP: Find unique, local and handmade gifts and goods from Best Supply Co., Odd Petals and more.

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

SACRAMENTO ANTIQUE SHOW: Shop for antiques, vintage items and more in a show that appeals to everyone from collectors to the weekend browser. Service members

SATURDAY, 11/11

VETERANS DAY CEREMONY: A tribute to the

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SUNDAY, 11/12

RANCHO CORDOVA COMIC CON: Put on your

So Much Light, Adrian Bellue, The Seafloor Cinema and Benjamin Hecht. 6:30pm, $10$12. Holy Diver, 1517 21st St.

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THURSDAY, 11/9 BIG SEXY & SACRAMENTO SPCA COLLABORATION CAN RELEASE PARTY: Release party for Rescue Hop, a collaboration beer between Big Sexy Brewing and the Sacramento SPCA.

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A dollar of each four-pack sold will go to the Sacramento SPCA. 6pm, no cover. Big Sexy Brewing Co., 5861 88th St., Suite 800.

bEaSt + bounty PoP-uP dinnEr: Choose from a “beast” or a “bounty” menu in the first popup dinner from Block Butcher Bar. 5:30pm, 8pm, $75. Block Butcher Bar, 1050 20th St.

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cataLySt For cHanGE FundraiSEr: Craft beer, cider and wine along with Old Soul coffee, small plates and a chance to win raffle prizes. Fundraiser for the Alchemist Community Development Corporation. 5pm, $25-$30. Old Soul Co., 1716 L St (Rear Alley).

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cHamPionS oF FrEEdom aPPrEciation LuncHEon: A catered luncheon with an

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inspiring speaker and an entertaining performance for veterans. Guests are encouraged to bring service memorabilia to display during the event. 11:30am, no cover.

Casa Garden Restaurant, 2760 Sutterville Road.

Friday, 11/10 4tH annuaL SacramEnto coFFEE bEErFESt: Unlimited beer tastings from more than 20 West Coast commercial craft breweries.

Help decide on the best coffee beer. See page 23 for more about this event. 6pm, $15-$45. Brickhouse Gallery & Art Complex, 2837 36th St.

saTurday, 11/11 SacramEnto PortuGuESE HoLy SPirit SociEty crab and SHrimP dinnEr: All-you-can-eat

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crab and shrimp with all the fixings. 6:30pm, $45. Sacramento Portuguese Hall, 6676 Pocket Road.

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and some friends and enjoy drink specials, themed drinks, a costume contest and more at a handful of bars in Midtown. 4pm, $20-$30. University of Beer, 1510 16th St. Suite 300.

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monday, 11/13 bubbLES bEyond bordErS: A tasting of sparkling wines from around Spain, France, Italy, Germany and Napa. Snacks will also be served. 6pm, $25. Scott’s Seafood on the River, 4800 Riverside Blvd.

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outdoor moviE niGHt: A screening of The Secret Life of Pets. Popcorn will be served.

Event is weather permitting. 5:30pm, no cover. El Dorado Hills Town Center, 4364 Town Center Blvd. in El Dorado Hills.

saTurday, 11/11 120 dayS: A documentary about an undocumented father who was forced to sign a voluntary departure agreement after a traffic stop. Presented by the Latino Alumni Chapter, NorCal Resist, College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP) and the Dreamers Resource Center. 1pm, no cover. The Well at Sacramento State, 6000 J St.

wEStworLd and roLLErbaLL: A double feature of two classics of the dystopian future genre.

Dress up for the costume contest. 6:30pm, $12-$15. Colonial Theater, 3522 Stockton Blvd.

comedy bLacKtoP comEdy: Derek Sheen Live.

Comedian and contributor on the Nerdist podcast tours in support of his third album, Dissasterbation. 8pm Friday, 11/10. $10$15. 3101 Sunset Blvd., Suite 6A in Rocklin.

Luna’S caFE & JuicE bar: Capitol PUNishment.

A pun tournament, featuring comics from all over California. 8pm Friday, 11/10. $10. 1414 16th St.

momo SacramEnto: Stand-Up Comedy of Andy Bumatai. Hawaii-based comedian and actor performs. 7pm Sunday, 11/12. $20-$25. 2708 J St.

PuncH LinE: James Davis. Host of the Comedy Central show, Hood Adjacent with James Davis. through 11/11. $20. The Wildfire Relief Comedy Show. Fundraiser featuring local

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Unless you’ve got a heart of stone, you probably wish you could do more to help support some of our most vulnerable neighbors—young folks living on the street.

All it will take this weekend is muSic attending a show. Old Ironsides hosts a benefit shows for Engage, the nonprofit that runs Sacramento Safe Space for Unhomed Youth. Each Tuesday morning, Sac Safe Space opens its doors to young folks ages 16 to 30 to have a warm meal, a PhoTo courTesy oF alice anderson secure place to rest and, sometimes, pick up camping gear, clothes and other items. The day will feature spoken word artists Andru Defeye and Grace Loescher, and performances by local bands including Garble, Proxy Moon (pictured) and Be Brave Bold Robot. 1901 10th Street, www.facebook.com/sacsafespace.

Saturday, 11/11, Sunday, 11/12

SkiBomb Snow & Board Festival Cal Expo, 10 a.m., no CovEr-$50

Winter’s around the corner, and it’s gonna be sick, bro. We Sacramentans are lucky to live in a region rich with opportunities to play outside year-round.

As you gear up for winter, check out this year’s SkiBomb Snow & Board Festival, a traveling festival that brings two days of high-energy entertainment and plenty of ski and snowboard merchandise to equip you for the season. Go sky high with the climbing SPORTS AND OUTDOORS wall and get inspiration for sweet new tricks during the BMX/skate ramp show and athlete demonstrations.

Entry is free, but ticket upgrades include free lift tickets, and a VIP ticket gets you unlimited beer and wine tastings. 1600 Exposition Boulevard, www.snowbomb.com.

comedians Robert Berry, Ellis Rodriguez, Shahera Hyatt and Daniel Humbarger. 7pm Sunday, 11/12. $15. 2100 Arden Way, Suite 225.

On StaGE B STREET THEATRE: A Moving Day. B Street’s final show at its current location tells the story of a man who confronts the history and secrets of his family home when he is forced to move out. Through 12/24. $19$39. 2711 B St.

CALIFORNIA MUSICAL THEATRE: Beautiful—The Carole King Musical. Follow the inspiring true story of the Tony and Grammy Awardwinning musician, who becomes one of the most successful solo acts in the history of pop music. Through 11/12. $25-$97. 1510 J St.

CREST THEATRE: Shopkins Live! Musical and dance performances by your favorite Shopkins characters like Rainbow Kate, Jessicake and Shady Diva. 1pm, 4pm, Saturday, 11/11. $22.50-$98.50. 1013 K St.

HARRIS CENTER: Marat/Sade: The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum at Charenton Under the Direction of The Marquis de Sade. Revolution is the driving force of this tale, which asks the questions “Are the same things true for the masses and for their leaders?” And “Where, in modern times, lie the borderlines of sanity?” Through 11/19. $18.50-$36. 10 College Parkway in Folsom.

JEAN HENDERSON PERFORMING ARTS: Jesus Christ Superstar. A rock opera that retells the last seven days in the life of the social and political rebel Jesus of Nazareth through the eyes of his betrayer, Judas Iscariot. Through 11/25. $20. 607 Pena Drive in Davis.

MONDAVI CENTER: In Conversation with Samantha Bee. See event highlight on page 32. 8pm Saturday, 11/11. $22.50-$85. 1 Shields Ave. in Davis

OOLEY THEATRE: Daddy’s Dyin’ Who’s Got the Will? Family members with colorful personalities clash in this dark comedic drama about loss, love and family dynamics. Through 11/11. $17-$20. 2007 28th St.

disaster. Through 11/12. $13. 241 Vernon St. in Roseville.

SACRAMENTO THEATRE—CABARET STAGE: I’m the King of New York! A Salute to Showbiz Leading Men. The dynamic personalities of the leading men of show business—from the classics to contemporary favorites— are celebrated. The first of the theater company’s three cabarets this year. Through 11/12. $25-$30. 1419 H St.

THE BRICKHOUSE GALLERY & ART COMPLEX: Brickhouse Poetry. Featuring the Gurl Nexxt Door and hosted by Miss Marianna. 8pm Saturday, 11/11. $5. 2837 36th St.

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TOWER THEATRE ROSEVILLE: Annie, the Live Musical. The popular musical based on the Harold Gray comic follows Annie, who escapes to the wondrous world of New York City with the help of other girls in the orphanage. Through 11/19. $8-$20. 417 Vernon St. in Roseville.

UC DAVIS: Gibraltar. A drama that explores

how we tell the stories of grief. Through 11/18. $12-$18.50. 1 Shields Ave (Wyatt Pavilion Theatre) in Davis.

UC DAVIS: Death with Interruptions. In this

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opera, death is disguised as a beautiful woman and comes to claim the life of a cellist. 7pm Saturday, 11/11. $10-$20. 1 Shields Ave. (Anne E. Pitzer Center) in Davis.

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

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Marjorie Darrow, Paul Sanchez, Richelew Parker and Robin Tomlinson. A reception will be held at 4pm Saturday, 11/11. Through 11/30. 1880 Fulton Ave.

ARTSPACE 1616: Pink Week Art Show. A celebration of the annual Pink Week with a small art show featuring works by more than 60 artists that are 16 by 16 inches or smaller.

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see more events and submit your own at newsreview.com/sacramento/calendar Latino Center oF art and CuLture: Masks, Memories and a Life Well-Lived. An exhibition features over 50 traditional Mexican masks, images from Dia de los Muertos in Oaxaca, Mexico, by photographer Ruben Reveles and a memorial to Joanne Marie Sonn. through 11/18. no cover. 2700 Front St.

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PLaCerarts: PlacerArts Studios Tour. A weekend-long, self-guided driving tour of Placer County artists in the region who will show and demonstrate their work from Roseville to Auburn to Tahoe. In 2016, 77 artists in 40 locations participated. through 11/12. no cover. 910 Lincoln Way.

Saturday, 11/11. through 11/29. no cover. 1616 Del Paso Blvd.

aXis gaLLery: Opus. Works by Janice Nakashima, an artist who is primarily a painter and layers papers, acrylic medium, inks and paint together. through 11/26. no cover. 625 S St.

saCramento Fine arts Center: Visions 2017.

An annual juried photography exhibit.

Artist reception will be held at 5:30pm Saturday, 11/11, with refreshments and live jazz. through 11/19. no cover. 5330B Gibbons Drive in Carmichael.

CK art gaLLery: CK Art Gallery—Grand Opening.

The newest Midtown art gallery hosts a grand opening reception on Second Saturday. 6pm saturday, 11/11. no cover. 2500 J St.

sHePard garden arts Center: Art to Wear.

CroCKer art museum: ArtMix | Resist. Enjoy

Artistic clothing, unique jewelry and gifts and items for the home are up for grabs during this fashion show and annual sale.

Light refreshments and live music. through 11/12, no cover. 3330 McKinley Blvd.

music with a message and spoken word performances hosted by Andru Defeye.

Guests can enjoy the performances and share their own experiences during the open mic. 6pm thursday, 11/9. $10. Exuberant Earth: Ceramics by Ruth Rippon. Nearly 100 ceramic pieces show the evolution of work by Ruth Rippon, influential artist and educator from Sacramento. through 2/4. $8-$10. 216 O St.

soL CoLLeCtive: Manitas Art Show. A Colectiva Cósmica show with artwork that reflects on the sacred bond of sisterhood. Cósmica has curated a selection of artists based in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, San Antonio and Austin who make collages, painting, photography, film and other mixed media work. Opening reception will be held at 6pm Friday, 11/10. through 11/10. no cover. 2574 21st St.

JoHn natsouLas gaLLery: John Tarahteeff and Frank Damiano Post-Pop and A Long Trip 26 Years of Kiln Cast Sculpture by Mark Abildgaard. Exhibits run simultaneously, with an opening reception at 7pm Friday, 11/10. through 11/25. no cover. 521 1st St. in Davis.

tHe briCKHouse gaLLery & art ComPLeX:

saturday, 11/11

photographer Kent Reeves’ career shooting the western U.S. through 11/29. no cover. 2837 36th St.

in Conversation with samantha bee Mondavi Center, 8 p.M., $22.50-$65

tHe siLver orange: Second Saturday Art Walk Featuring Waylon Horner. Works by Waylon Horner and live painting by the artist. 2pm saturday, 11/11. 922 57th St.

tHe trade: Meet the Kennedys: A Celebration of Life and Art. A one-night showcase of 22 paintings by artist JM Knudsen. Photography

by Marc Kallweit and Erin Ross, live painting by Arturo Romero. 6pm saturday, 11/11. 2220 K St.

She’s done sketch comedy, political lampooning and was named on this year’s Time 100 list of influential people. Now, Samantha Bee is coming to Davis to share PHoto courtesy oF tHe mondavi center her experiences as an entertainer and news personality. Bee first discovered a love of entertainon stage ment in college and in 2003, she was hired on as the first female correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. She became the longest-running correspondent on the show before launching her own political news comedy, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee. Get a more intimate look at Bee’s life and political values in a conversation on the Mondavi Center stage. 1 Shields Avenue in Davis, www.mondaviarts.org/events.

verge Center For tHe arts: Pink Week Flash Mob Parade. A moving flash mob parade of pink in celebration of the 24th Annual Pink Week. Start at Verge to get costumes and masks on then parade down the R Street corridor, followed by a lightrail ride to ArtSpace 1616 on Del Paso Boulevard. 4:30pm saturday, 11/11. 625 S St.

museums aerosPaCe museum oF CaLiFronia: Veterans Day Free Open Cockpit Day. Free entrance for all visitors in celebration of Veterans Day. Enjoy the new Take Flight exhibit inside the museum and meet members of the Tuskegee Airmen local chapter. 10am saturday, 11/11. no cover. 3200 Freedom Park Drive.

CaLiFornia automobiLe museum: An Evening with Scott Pruett at the Auto Museum.

A dinner and conversation with race car driver and Roseville Native Scott Pruett. 6pm Friday, 11/10. $100-$145. 2200 Front St.

Kent Reeves Photography Exhibition: Where Mules Wear Diamonds. Images from

CaLiFornia state raiLroad museum: Free

team has produced, along with a discussion about the project’s goals, methods and challenges. 3:30pm tuesday, 11/14. 254 Old Davis Road in Davis.

Train Rides for Veterans. Veterans and active military personnel get a free steam train ride and admission to the museum.

They’re encouraged to wear their military uniforms. 11am saturday, 11/11. no cover$12. 111 I St.

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A screening of several of the videos that the Humanizando la Deportación project

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Meowga! a Cats and Yoga event The Yoga Seed ColleCTive, 2 p.m., $45

Cats and yoga. Yoga and cats. Sounds like a pairing that yogi-ailurophile dreams are made of, right? Well, set down your pumpkin spice latte and jump into your favorite pair of cat-print yoga pants for Meowga, a fundraiser for the Yoga Seed Collective and Happy Tails Pet Sanctuary, a no-kill animal shelter.

A one-hour, beginner’s level Fundraiser vinyasa class will be followed by an hour of feline time, where you can meet adoptable kitties and learn more about Happy Tails’ work. This may be the only time your downward dog is lovingly interrupted by kitty kisses—don’t miss it! 1400 E Street, Suite B, www.facebook.com/yogaseed.

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CaLendar LisTinGs COnTinued FrOM PaGe 32 the Sacramento SPCA. 10am, no cover. Watt & El Camino, 3430 El Camino Ave.

FRIday, 11/10 THe Far aWaY BrOTHers: A reading, discussion around and signing of The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life, by celebrated journalist Lauren Markham. 7:30pm, no cover Avid Reader, 617 Second St. in Davis.

saCraMenTO sPCa FaLL BOOK saLe: See event listing on 11/9. 10am, no cover. Watt & El Camino, 3430 El Camino Ave.

SaTuRday, 11/11 an eVeninG WiTH BesTseLLinG auTHOr JaneT FiTCH: The author discusses and reads from her latest novel, The Revolution of Marina M, with a reception following. 7pm, $15-$30.

CLARA—The Auditorium, 1425 24th St.

saCraMenTO sPCa FaLL BOOK saLe: See event listing on 11/9. 10am, no cover. Watt & El Camino, 3430 El Camino Ave.

Sunday, 11/12 saCraMenTO sPCa FaLL BOOK saLe: See event listing on 11/9. 11am, no cover. Watt & El Camino, 3430 El Camino Ave.

snOWBOMB sKi & BOard FesTiVaL: See event

highlight on page 31. 10am, no cover-$50.

Cal Expo, 1600 Exposition Blvd.

PurPLesTride saCraMenTO—THe WaLK TO end PanCreaTiC CanCer: Join those impacted by pancreatic cancer in this family-friendly 5K walk. 10am, $10-$30. William Land Park, Corner of Freeport Blvd. and Sutterville Road.

TaKE aCTIOn SaTuRday, 11/11 eMerGenCY OPen MeeTinG FOr BLaCK saCraMenTO: A Black-only space to discuss issues impacting Black residents and families. 6pm, no cover. Unitarian Universalist Society of Sacramento, 2425 Sierra Blvd.

saCTru WeeKLY MeeTinG: Help improve public transit in Sacramento County and beyond and learn how to get involved in the Transit Riders Union. 1pm, no cover. Organize Sacramento, 1714 Broadway.

CLaSSES THuRSday, 11/9 arTParTY: Create your own painted

SPORTS & OuTdOORS THuRSday, 11/9 THrOWBaCK TO THe 90s daY: Lace up your skates and relive the raddest of decades with ’90s-inspired outfits and tunes. 6pm, $6-$12. Downtown Sacramento Ice Rink, 701 K St.

masterpiece under the guidance of a professional instructor. Includes a complimentary drink, materials and supplies.

6pm, $40. Son of a Bean Coffee, 1029 Del Paso Blvd.

sTaMMTisCH: A gathering for folks interesting in expanding their German language skills.

All levels welcome, but you must know some German. Drinks served. 6pm, no cover.

Sacramento Turn Verein, 3349 J St.

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deni’s ride FOr VeTs: A motorcycle ride from

saC aCTiVisT sCHOOL HeaLTHY COOKinG On a BudGeT: Learn to cook a vegan vegetable

Folsom to Denio’s in Roseville, followed by a bike show/contest and live classic rock

by Daze of Reign. Fundraiser for American Legion Riders Chapter 383. 9am, $15-$20.

Folsom Harley Davidson, 115 Woodmere Road in Folsom.

pozole poblano. This class includes stepby-step instructions, affordable healthy ingredients, recipe, and shopping tips as well as a tasting sample. 6:30pm, $5-$10 (sliding scale donation). Sol Collective, 2574 21st St.

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submit Your caLendar Listings for free at newsreview.com/sacramento/caLendar THURSdaY 11/9

FRidaY 11/10

The acousTic den cafe

John Kirk, Trish Miller and friends, 7pm, $15

10271 FaiRwaY dRivE, ROSEvillE, (916) 412-8739

Badlands

#TurntUp Thursdays College Night, 8pm, call for cover

2003 k ST., (916) 448-8790

BaR 101

101 Main ST., ROSEvillE, (916) 774-0505

Blue lamp

1400 alHaMBRa Blvd., (916) 455-3400

J.Lately, DJ Nocturnal, Space Cadet and more, 8pm, $8-$10

The BoaRdwalk

9426 gREEnBaCk ln., ORangEvalE, (916) 358-9116

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J.Lately

314 w. Main ST., gRaSS vallEY, (530) 274-8384 4007 TaYlOR ROad, lOOMiS, (916) 652-4007

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with DJ Nocturnal 8pm Thursday, $8-$10.

Blue Lamp Hip-Hop

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

2107 l ST., (916) 443-8815

faces

2000 k ST., (916) 448-7798

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

Sunday Beer Bust, 4pm, no cover

$2 Tuesdays and Karaoke, 9pm, T, call for cover; Trapacana, 8pm, W, no cover

Trivia, 6:30pm, M, no cover; Open-Mic, 8pm, W, no cover

Squalus, Cormorant, xTomHanx and more, 8pm, $10

Sasquatch, House of Broken Promises and more, 8pm, $12-$15

Core10, Terra Ferno and more, 8pm, $12

Awells, Shelby Jo and more, 8pm, $12

Sam Peters & The Village, David Michael and more, 8pm, W, $10

Nano Stern, Joachim Cooder, 8pm, $24-$27

Dolores Film Screening, 6:30pm, M, $7-$10

Hold the Vibes Reggae Night, 9pm, $5

Unglued (Stone Temple Pilots tribute), 9pm, no cover

Spur Crazy, 9pm, call for cover

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

Absolut Fridays, all night, call for cover

Decades, 7pm, call for cover CD Release Party with the Pikeys, 7pm, no cover

Salvage Covers, 7pm, no cover

fox & Goose

Steve McLane, 8pm, no cover

SpaceWalker, CTRL-Z, Big Ethel, 9pm, $5

Goldfield

Anderson-Gram Acoustic Duo, 7pm, $5

Balance Trick, 9:30pm, no cover

Patrick Jordan, 9pm, no cover

1001 R ST., (916) 443-8825

MOndaY-wEdnESdaY 11/13-11/15

Imagine Music Instruction Student Performances, 1:30pm, call for cover

Todd Morgan, 9:30pm, no cover

faTheR paddy’s iRish puBlic house 435 Main ST., wOOdland, (530) 668-1044

SUndaY 11/12

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

Festival of South African Dance, 7:30pm, $12-$35

counTRy cluB saloon

SaTURdaY 11/11

Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

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

All Vinyl Wednesdays with DJ AAKnuff, 8pm, W, no cover

Hellbound Glory, Matt W. Gage, 7:30pm, $5

1630 J ST., (916) 476-5076

The Donner Party Reunion, 7pm, T, $30$65; Goya and more, 8pm, W, $10

Tal Wilkenfeld, 7pm, M, $15-$20

halfTime BaR & GRill

Route 91 Strong Benefit Concert For Las Vegas Survivors, 9pm, $25-$50

Rogue, 9pm, $7

Kenny Lattimore, 5:30pm, 9:30pm, $30-$35

Khruangbin, The Shacks, 8pm, $15-$18

Brand X, 6pm, $30-$35

Dead Boys 40th Anniversary Tour, 7pm, M, $15; Haas Kowert Tice, 5:30pm, T, $15-$18

hideaway BaR & GRill

Thee Swank Bastards, Danger Inc and more, 9pm, $8

The Pine Box Boys and more, 9pm, $10

Three Bad Jacks, Greasehound and more, 5pm, $8

Karaoke, 8pm, M, no cover; Cactus Pete’s Record Roundup, 8pm, T, no cover

Yvette Young

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with So Much Light 6:30pm Friday, $10-$12.

Holy Diver Indie pop

Yvette Young, So Much Light and more, 6:30pm, $10-$12

Stabbing Westward, Zeroclient and more, 7pm, $18-$20

’68, Stolas, Lucky/You and more, 6pm, $13-$15

Omen XII and more, 6:30pm, T, $15; Uno the Activist and more, 7pm, W, $20

kupRos

Stephen Yerkey, 9:30pm, no cover

Ross Hammond, Jon Bafus, 9:30pm, no cover

Hot City, 9:30pm, no cover

Kupros Quiz, 7:30pm, no cover

Open-Mic, 8pm, T, no cover; Ross Hammond, 7:30pm, W, no cover

Joe Montoya’s Poetry Unplugged, 8pm, $2

Capitol PUNishment (Pun Comedy Show), 8pm, $10

Victor Contreras & Nahual, 7:30pm, $7

5681 lOnETREE Blvd., ROCklin, (916) 626-3600

haRlow’s

Hobo Johnson & the Lovemakers and more, 6pm, $10

2708 J ST., (916) 441-4693 PHOTO COURTESY OF YvETTE YOUng

2565 FRanklin Blvd., (916) 455-1331 1517 21ST ST.

1217 21ST ST., (916) 440-0401

luna’s cafe & Juice BaR 1414 16TH ST., (916) 737-5770

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NASHVILLE COUNTRY ARTIST CRAIG CAMBELL, THE 27 OUTLAWS & MIDNIGHT RAILWAY FREE DANCE LESSONS NIGHTLY 9PM WEEKNIGHTS, 8PM FRI/SAT KARAOKE NIGHTLY UP FRONT AMAZING FOOD AND DRINK SPECIALS NIGHTLY STONEYS HAS BEEN VOTED BEST DANCE CLUB OF SACRAMENTO 2016!

www.momosacramento.com 11/9 5:30PM $10

SOULFUL SATURDAY OPEN MIC WITH HOST WILL WHITLOCK COMEDY OF ANDY BUMATAI

BOURBON & BLUES: THE SWITCHBLADE TRIO

1320 DEL PASO BLVD IN OLD NORTH SAC

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11/13 7PM $15 DEAD BOYS 40TH ANNIVERSARY TOURFEAT.

11/14 9PM $10ADV

11/15 5:30PM $5

CHEETAH CHROME AND JOHNNY BLITZ

11/10 5:30 AND 9:30 $30$45ADV

CAPTAIN 9’S & THE KNICKERBOCKER TRIO

KENNY LATTIMORE

11/22 5:30PM $5

BOURBON & BLUES: RED’S BLUES WITH ROCKIN’ JOHNNY BURGIN For booking inquiries, email Robert@momosacramento.com

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JMSEY, THE PHILHARMONIK, JORDAN MOORE

11/12 6:30PM $20ADV

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HOBO JOHNSON & THE LOVEMAKERS

11/11 9PM $15ADV

PURPLE PARTY FT. KOZMO, EYESEEU AND PK SOUND

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

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

2708 J Street NOMINATED BEST DANCE CLUB 2017

“Let’s Get Quizzical” Trivia Game Show Experience, 9pm, T, no cover

11/11 8PM $15ADV

KHRUANGBIN THE SHACKS

11/14 5:30PM $15ADV

HAAS KOWERT TICE (ALL AGES)

11/16 The Abyssinians 11/17 Tainted Love 11/18 Tainted Love 11/19 Jarabe de Palo 11/22 Janmondo 11/24 H.E.R. (sold out) 11/25 Vista Kicks 11/25 The Killer Queens 11/27 Tennis 11/30-12/2 Goapele 12/5 Valerie June 12/7 Flobots 12/8 Elvis Sings!

12/10 AJJ (SOLD OUT) 12/12 Santa Rhumba Extravaganza 12/13 Anuhea 12/14 Jim “Kimo” West & Ken Emerson 12/17 Rat Pack Christmas 12/19 Shane Mauss

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Engage Fundraiser with Garble, Proxy Moon and more, 7pm, $10

The Switchblade Trio, 5:30pm, W, $5-$25 Guest Chef, 6pm, M, $5 plates; Open-Mic Night, 8pm, W, no cover

670 fulton ave., (916) 487-3731

Exodus: Goth Industrial Nightclub, 10pm, $5

The Ellusive Furs, Swerve and more, 8:30pm, $10

Free Pool and Industry Night, 9:30pm, M, no cover

Palms PlaYHouse

California Banjo Extravaganza, 8pm, $25

13 Main St., WinterS, (530) 795-1825

PlacervIlle PublIc House

with Coldfront 8pm Saturday, $10.

The Colony Emo pop-punk

MonDay-WeDneSDay 11/13-11/15

Stand-Up Comedy of Andy Bumatai, 6:30pm, $20-$25 The Brodys, Mezcal Aces and more, 9pm, $10

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SunDay 11/12

The Twilight Drifters, 9pm, $5

1901 10th St., (916) 442-3504

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SaturDay 11/11

Friday Night Dance Party w/DJ Illest, 10pm, $10

414 Main St., Placerville, (530) 303-3792

Pint and Flight Night with Pizza Port Brewing Co., 6pm, no cover

Friends (Beatles tribute), 8pm, call for cover

Rockafellas, 8pm, call for cover

Tepid Club of Cool, 1:30pm, call for cover

PowerHouse Pub

Blackwater, 9:30pm, call for cover

Wonderbread 5, 10pm, $15

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FOR THE WEEk OF NOVEMBER 9, 2017 ARIES (March 21-April 19): Adriana Martinez and

Octavio Guillen got engaged to be married when they were both 15 years old. But they kept delaying a more complete unification for 67 years. At last, when they were 82, they celebrated their wedding and pledged their vows to each other.

Are there comparable situations in your life, Aries? The coming months will be a favorable time to make deeper commitments. At least some of your reasons for harboring ambivalence will become irrelevant. You’ll grow in your ability to thrive on the creative challenges that come from intriguing collaborations and highly focused togetherness.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I had pimples when

I was a teenager. They’re gone now, although I still have a few pockmarks on my face as souvenirs. In retrospect, I feel gratitude for them.

They ensured that in my early years of dating and seeking romance, I would never be able to attract women solely on the basis of my physical appearance. I was compelled to cultivate a wide variety of masculine wiles. I swear that at least half of my motivation to get smarter and become a good listener came from my desire for love. Do you have comparable stories to tell, Taurus? Now is an excellent time to give thanks for what once may have seemed to be a liability or problem.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The next two weeks

will be one of the best times ever to ask provocative, probing questions. In fact, I invite you to be as curious and receptive as you’ve been since you were four years old. When you talk with people, express curiosity more often than you make assertions. Be focused on finding out what you’ve been missing, what you’ve been numb to. When you wake up each morning, use a felt-tip marker to draw a question mark on your forearm. To get you in the mood for this fun project, here are sample queries from poet Pablo Neruda’s Book of Questions: “Who ordered me to tear down the doors of my own pride? Did I finally find myself in the place where they lost me? Whom can I ask what I came to make happen in this world? Is it true our desires must be watered with dew?

What did the rubies say standing before the juice of the pomegranates?”

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Things to say when

in love,” according to Zimbabwe poet Tapiwa Mugabe: “I will put the galaxy in your hair. Your kisses are a mouthful of firewater. I have never seen a more beautiful horizon than when you close your eyes. I have never seen a more beautiful dawn than when you open your eyes.” I hope these words inspire you to improvise further outpourings of adoration. You’re in a phase when expressing your sweet reverence and tender respect for the people you care about will boost you physical health, your emotional wealth and your spiritual resiience.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Are you working on solving

the right problem? Or are you being distracted by a lesser dilemma, perhaps consumed in dealing with an issue that’s mostly irrelevant to your long-term goals? I honestly don’t know the answers to those questions, but I am quite sure it’s important that you meditate on them.

Everything good that can unfold for you in 2018 will require you to focus on what matters most— and not get sidetracked by peripheral issues or vague wishes. Now is an excellent time to set your unshakable intentions.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Every one of us ex-

periences loneliness. We all go through periods when we feel isolated and misunderstood and unappreciated. That’s the bad news, Virgo. The good news is that the coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to make loneliness less of a problem. I urge you to brainstorm and meditate about how to do that. Here are some crazy ideas to get you started. 1. Nurture ongoing connections with the spirits of beloved people who have died. 2. Imagine having conversations with your guardian angel or spirit guide. 3. Make a deal with a “partner in loneliness”: a person you pray or sing with whenever either of you feels bereft. 4.

Write messages to your Future Self or Past Self.

5. Communicate with animals.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The drive for absolute

perfection could undermine your ability to create what’s very good and just right. Please don’t

make that mistake in the coming weeks. Likewise, refrain from demanding utter purity, pristine precision, or immaculate virtue. To learn the lessons you need to know and launch the trends you can capitalize on in 2018, all that’s necessary is to give your best. You don’t have to hit the bull’s eye with every arrow you shoot—or even any arrow you shoot. Simply hitting the target will be fine in the early going.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Remember the time, all those years ago, when the angels appeared to you on the playground and showed you how and why to kiss the sky? I predict that a comparable visitation will arrive soon. And do you recall the dreamy sequence in adolescence when you first plumbed the sublime mysteries of sex? You’re as ripe as you were then, primed to unlock more of nature’s wild secrets. Maybe at no other time in many years, in fact, have you been in quite so favorable a position to explore paradise right here on earth.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): As a

courtesy to your mental health, I minimize your exposure to meaningless trivia. In fact, I generally try to keep you focused instead on enlightening explorations. But in this horoscope, in accordance with astrological omens, I’m giving you a temporary, short-term license to go slumming. What shenanigans is your ex up to lately, anyway? Would your old friend the bankrupt coke addict like to party with you? Just for laughs, should you revisit the dead-end fantasy that always makes you crazy? There is a good possibility that exposing yourself to bad influences like those I just named could have a tonic effect on you, Sagittarius. You might get so thoroughly disgusted by them that you’ll never again allow them to corrupt your devotion to the righteous groove, to the path with heart.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In the coming

months it will be crucial to carefully monitor the effects you’re having on the world. Your personal actions will rarely be merely personal; they may have consequences for people you don’t know as well as those you’re close to. The ripples you send out in all directions won’t always look dramatic, but you shouldn’t let that delude you about the influence you’re having. If I had to give 2018 a title with you in mind, it might be “The Year of Maximum Social Impact.” And it all starts soon.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The punk ethic is

rebellious. It transgresses conventional wisdom through “a cynical absurdity that’s redeemed by being hilarious.” So says author Brian Doherty.

In the hippie approach, on the other hand, the prevailing belief is “love is all you need.” It seeks a “manic togetherness and all-encompassing acceptance that are all sweet and no sour— inspiring but also soft and gelatinous.” Ah, but what happens when punk and hippie merge?

Doherty says that each moderates the extreme of the other, yielding a tough-minded lust for life that’s both skeptical and celebratory. I bring this to your attention, Aquarius, because the punkplus-hippie blend is a perfect attitude for you to cultivate in the coming weeks.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I’m falling in love

with the way you have been falling in love with exciting possibilities that you once thought were impossible. Oh, baby. Please go further. Thrilling chills surge through me whenever you get that ravenous glint in your mind’s eye. I can almost hear you thinking, “Maybe those dreams aren’t so impossible, after all. Maybe I can heal myself and change myself enough to pursue them in earnest. Maybe I can learn success strategies that were previously beyond my power to imagine.”

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Making art work In addition to keeping a watchful eye on public arts funding, Trisha Jeanne Rhomberg curates new artists’ work at the Warehouse Artist Lofts’ (WAL) Public Market Gallery; co-owns Old Gold, which sells vintage and designer clothing in the WAL; hosts live music on the WAL rooftop; and connects artists to materials suppliers as Maker in Residence at Hacker Lab. The Midtown co-working space won a $125,000 grant in March to employ Rhomberg and Jake Elia, an Entrepreneur in Residence, to help artists, makers and creatives start their own businesses in the untamed gig economy.

Where did your arts activism start?

Bows & Arrows. That was my first shop, where I met 90 percent of the people I see today. We had a built-in live-music space and 1,000 square feet of retail, a gallery, cafe, bar and back patio where people ate brunch. This was pre-coworking spaces. I realized that art is the nucleus, the glue of the community.

The way we come together is through that expression—to have conversations about who we are.

What is Sacramento lacking?

Not having a place to share. Places around here are booked up. Red Museum [a performance and studio space] isn’t enough. We should have emerging artists’ spaces in every part of the city.

There’s so many subcultures. We don’t have enough welcome space for emerging artists to test out ideas and get feedback. There’s a few venues, like Fox & Goose, but only for folk bands; not for far out, crunchy punk. Ace of Spades isn’t for emerging artists. For how large our community is, we have so few places to share.

We’re seeing some resurgence of city artists’ support. Has that been neglected?

Under “Farm to Fork,” it makes it seem like our culture is only around food. Of course it’s important. For many artists, it pays the rent. That doesn’t mean it’s the only thing we need to feed our soul. Farm to Fork is about money. Restaurants are the only businesses that can pay $3 or $4 a square foot. I’ve been looking at property for the past few years and only one developer told me they will put artists over profit. That’s Ali Youseffi at WAL. We need a lot more. It all boils back to our

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How can we keep artists in the city as gentrification increases?

community’s appetite. People don’t treat art or music as tools for survival. I don’t know what I’d do without it; it feeds me.

Is there a local art appetite now?

If you don’t spend half your money on advertising, people won’t go. We don’t have a unified dining guide for art. We’ve seen a drop in arts coverage, too. The mayor knows having funds for creatives has an impact on jobs. It’s clear from the $500,000 in creative economy grants they awarded this year. But $500,000 is a drop in the bucket for the $70 million we get in hotel tourism dollars. Those micro-grants are what pay for people to come. We just learned who was awarded that funding, but it was late. Without the power or the funding to make any real change, it grays like hair and starts to wither.

What is the city doing well and notso-well?

The grants were great. They made it simple to apply for and tons of people applied. But most of those people, if they don’t see results, they can’t afford to wait and see. There’s a gap between the boots on the street—artists—and people who give out money. [Local historian] Bill Burg talks about having a “daytime” and a “nighttime” mayor. If you don’t have an artist on the payroll, you’re not helping emerging artists, because you’re not there. You need to pay someone to be the intermediary who meets all the artists doing cool shit. The city has assistants going to meetings all the time. They should for artists, too.

It’s affordable living. Create more housing, or another WAL, where 60 to 70 people can live and make art. Or, take one of the city’s vacant lots and turn it into an emerging artists space. Hold open-mics during the month, shows, stand-up and people will come. At Hacker Lab, my schedule is booked. People need help because they can’t connect or be helped by traditional economic development programs. People can’t pay for one-on-one consultant time.

To Bay Area transplants and other newcomers, what do you say?

Meet people who care. Be open-minded.

We have so much diversity in this town that going to one or two events won’t show everything that we have. Talk to someone who’s been around. Or a sound guy. Then, when you’re starting something, ask yourself, “How often do I go out and support others?” You need to open your mouth and start talking to people. There’s a shitload of nice-ass people who want to come and introduce you to people they love. And invite people. Always. Ω

Visit the Warehouse artist lofts’ Public Market, which features shops and restaurants, at 1104 R Street. Hacker lab has two locations, at 1715 i Street in Sacramento, and at 4415 Granite Drive in Rocklin.

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