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SN&R news article was deceptive I received a letter this week from Jess Eagle of the Family Violence Appellate Project. The letter would have infuriated me even without all the recent news about the abuse women in our culture suffer. The November 2 article was headlined “Parental restraints.”

Here is an excerpt from the letter: Eric Nelson, quoted in the article, very recently lost a domestic violence restraining order appeal against his ex-wife. In the article, Nelson is described only as “a former police officer and a volunteer criminologist with UC Davis’ Department of Public Health Sciences,” indicating that his statements are professional opinions from someone with industry experience. But they are also the opinions of someone who had a restraining order issued against him—obviously affecting his opinion. Without this relevant context, readers might not be able to accurately discern Nelson’s credibility when he says “There isn’t an adult in California who couldn’t be given a domestic violence restraining order, and if you haven’t gotten one, the only reason is because your partner hasn’t taken you to the family court and said, ‘This guy was mean to me.’” and when he claims that “domestic violence restraining orders frequently get used ‘like a bludgeon.’”

Eagle is absolutely correct. She did not say this, but I will: By presenting a biased source as an objective authority, we violated our readers’ trust.

A review of the article and various court documents reveal that other relevant facts were omitted. The article—which otherwise presents a balanced picture of the situation—has been updated. We are making changes in our newsroom to ensure nothing like this happens again.

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“pipeline of stability” must be built in greater Sacramento to deliver the homeless from a dangerous life on the streets, to permanent housing solutions. The first step is top-notch shelters, with comprehensive services.

So believes Sacramento City Councilman Jeff Harris, who notes that state/federal monies can help pay for such a system.

“Now is our time to work with the homeless ... to start ending the cycle of poverty on the streets,” Harris said at the third annual Regional Affordable Housing Summit hosted by the Sacramento Housing Alliance (SHA) on Oct. 30. Nearly 300 people attended — the biggest turnout ever for the event, sponsored in part by The California Endowment.

Under the theme “All Hands on Deck: Solving Our Housing Catastrophe,” the guests included elected officials, developers, architects, business leaders, and the homeless and formerly homeless.

All shared ideas on how to resolve two crises in Sacramento County: the need for 62,000 new affordable homes to meet housing demands, and how to reduce the number of homeless, estimated at 3,600.

Sacramento County Supervisor Don Nottoli and Rancho Cordova Mayor Donald Terry.

Steinberg said recent housing bills signed by Gov. Jerry Brown will not solve “our problems.”

The bills, Steinberg said, are only a start-off that may have to be complemented by local bond measures that would require voter approval, perhaps in 2020.

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ATTEST TO THE STRENGTH OF OUR COMMUNITY’S RESOLVE TO FIND REAL, LASTING SOLUTIONS TO OUR LOCAL HOUSING AND HOMELESSNESS CRISIS.” Darryl Rutherford Director of the Sacramento Housing Alliance

Steinberg said the region is advancing in fighting homelessness.

“Many strategies” will have to be implemented, SHA Director Darryl Rutherford warned in his welcoming remarks. “We’re going to have to roll up our sleeves and get really dirty into this mess.”

Harris said one end of the pipeline he envisions will be in his own District 3, bringing the homeless to a winter shelter expected to open soon, with 300-plus beds, on Railroad Drive off Del Paso Boulevard.

The guests then heard a talk among Harris, Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg,

This was the second SHA summit for Shirley Darling, 65, a onetime homeless Sacramentan

Shirley Darling, 65, a onetime homeless Sacramentan, attended Sacramento Housing Alliance’s summit on Oct. 30.

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who enjoyed the workshops. “Homelessness is ... a trauma,” she said, praising the nonprofit SHA for advocating for the unsheltered.

Afterwards, Rutherford called it the SHA’s best summit.

“The number of attendees and the breadth of stakeholders present ... attest to the strength of our community’s resolve to find real, lasting solutions to our local housing and homelessness crisis,” he said.

Your ZIP code shouldn’t predict how long you’ll live – but it does. Staying healthy requires much more than doctors and diets. Every day, our surroundings and activities affect how long – and how well – we’ll live.

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Over the 10 years, residents, communitybased organizations and public institutions will work together to address the socioeconomic and environmental challenges contributing to the poor health of their communities.

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Ethics commissioners deserve respect Re “Paper watchdogs” by Scott Thomas Anderson (News, November 2): A recent SN&R article suggested the City’s new Ethics Commission, which the Council will soon empanel, is fated to be filled with “paper watchdogs” because the applicant pool is “dominated” by lawyers and lobbyists. This characterization is unfair to the dozens of Sacramentans who have volunteered their time to serve on this important commission.

Let’s get some facts right. The collection of applicants is exceptionally talented, experienced, diverse and qualified. It includes, for example, a policy reformer with a decade of experience working on government ethics; a senior attorney with the Fair Political Practices Commission; a professor who teaches election law and campaign ethics; a well-respected community organizer; and an attorney who represents lowincome communities.

Only one of the 42 applicants is a state lobbyist (and, as it so happens, that person, who represents state judges among other clients, would be very well-qualified).

The article neglected to mention that city lobbyists, who would pose the greatest risk of a conflict of interest, are prohibited from serving on the commission.

It is true that over half the applicants are attorneys. By law, three of the five commissioners must have a legal, ethics or local government background. The Commission is a quasi-judicial body, after all, with the duty to interpret the city’s ethics laws and impose fines for violations where appropriate. More importantly, there is no reason to think that any of these attorney applicants—who themselves reflect a diversity of legal experiences, from judging to fighting for healthcare access in immigrant communities—would not take their watchdog role seriously.

Sacramento should be pleased with the number, range and qualifications of the candidates who seek to serve our city and better assure that ethical practices prevail. We certainly are.

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Build the wall Re “What to do when ICE comes knocking” by Jeff vonKaenel (Greenlight, November 9): There comes a point of saturation when the existing resources can no longer support an endless influx of people who need massive amounts of assistance and offer nothing but crime and poverty in return. We have reached that point, and being on the giving side rather than the receiving side of the equation, I for one no longer want my hard-earned resources dispersed in this manner. So piss off with your entitlement agenda.

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Gun-violence prevention begins at home Re “It’s not just about the guns”

by Eric Johnson (Editor’s Note, November 9): “What is wrong with the American men who are making mass murder a common occurrence? How did the United States become such a hyper-violent nightmare? That’s what I want to know. These, to me, are much more important questions than, ‘how did he get the gun?’” Child abuse is one way to produce a violent child. Kelley learned to “take it like a man,” rather than behave like the frightened and sobbing

child—and adults—he killed. He was a troubled school kid, news reports say, and spent some time in local jail. He was raised to be an angry man. At what point in his life did his family or community take action to get him help ... were there any such resource available that he could turn to?

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Guns prevent crime Re “It’s not just about the guns”

by Eric Johnson (Editor’s Note, November 9): The problem is not and has never been guns. I have been around for a while. 71 years to be exact, and [I] don’t remember

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ever hearing about mass shootings like we’ve experienced in the last ten or fifteen years. It seems like what all the anti-gun people want to latch onto now are the mass shootings and use that as an excuse to punish the millions and millions of law abiding gun owners. Disarming law abiding gun owners is not the answer. By that reasoning we should outlaw cars and vans since that is what was used in the recent terrorists attacks in New York City. Do you realize how many crimes have been prevented by law abiding gun owners? I can’t count the stories I’ve read of crimes being prevented. And let’s not even count the man in Texas that stopped the perpetrator of that shooting. And what did he use to shoot the suspect? The very type of rifle that the anti-gun crowd wants to ban. I could go on about what I think the problem is but that would take a long drawn-out discussion. You said “Fuck the NRA.” Nice language by the way. So to stoop to your level, Fuck you. david KeLLef ante lo p e v i a s a c t o l e t t e rs @ne wsr e v ie w.c o m

Journalism vs. evil Re “It’s not just about the guns”

by Eric Johnson (Editor’s Note, November 9): Your article took that horrible scene in my mind to another level. Perhaps because I went to college in Texas and attended many tiny Churches of Christ over the years, I too balked at the photo of the church. I know those people without knowing them personally. I know their hope, their heart, their steadfast faith. Once upon a time, I would have disagreed with them only on baptism methods (immersion only), the fruit of the vine, and musical instruments in the

church. Now, I couldn’t agree with them on much anymore; on marriage equality, on women in the church, or even the existence of a god.

But, I know they didn’t deserve what happened to them on Sunday. Although I had been staying away from reading personal accounts because of the horror I didn’t want to accept, I loved your article. I loved your last line mostly.

Keep the good words flowing; as far as I am concerned, reporters and writers are saving this country from totalitarianism.

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Buster Keaton almost died here Re “Casting Sacramento” by Raheem Hosseini (Feature sidebar, November 9): Buster Keaton filmed Steamboat Bill, Jr. in Sacramento. The Sacramento River, though greatly less wide than the Mississippi, was Hollywood’s substitute for America’s mightiest river.

Steamboat Bill, Jr. has the most dangerous stunt in movie history.

The front of a two story building with a small open window on its second floor suddenly falls in a storm. The Keaton character ends up being just in the right spot such that he’s where the window is and isn’t hit by the obviously huge and heavy store front that would easily have killed him. tOM arMstrOng s a c r a me nto v ia ne wsr e v ie w.c o m

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Survivor shaming California woman puts state’s new defense for human trafficking victims to the test

by Raheem F. hosseini

an extended version of this story can be found at www.news review.com/ sacramento

The work starts most nights around 10 p.m., when Monroe drops her son at daycare and drives the nearly two hours to a cavernous UPS warehouse jutting out of the dark. Dressed in sweatpants and boots, she takes her place at the belt and waits for the gears to wake. If the conveyor starts churning before 2:45 a.m., she knows she’ll get a lunch. If it doesn’t, she knows she’ll be toiling through the arrival of the morning light.

She was lucky to get this job and is grateful to have it.

“If I go to work in a bitchy mood, I don’t have to talk to anybody,” Monroe said. “I get to be in a bitchy mood and just do my three trucks.”

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The work is hard but honest. And it’s better than what she did before.

In September of last year, Monroe was arrested in a Lathrop hotel parking lot on suspicion of loitering with the intent to commit prostitution. She’d wandered into the middle of a vice sting being conducted by the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office and spent the night in jail. Some of that time her hands rested on a pregnant belly.

Monroe doesn’t dispute what brought her to that parking lot; she followed a thread of texts sent by an officer masquerading as a john. But the real reason she was there, she says, is because her former pimp had tracked her down and threatened her and her family. He accused

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her of owing him thousands of dollars.

He vandalized her car and roughed up her body. (SN&R previously wrote about Monroe in 2015. The newspaper isn’t using her real name because of the threats against her.)

On September 26, 2016—17 days after Monroe’s arrest—Gov. Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 1761 into law. The legislation specifically extends what’s called an affirmative defense to victims of human trafficking. The gist is this: If someone is forced to commit a crime against their will, they shouldn’t be the ones held accountable.

“If you can get information that somebody is a victim, why would you

want to use resources to prosecute them?” said Stephanie Richard, the policy and legal services director at the Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking, or CAST, which sponsored the law.

But that’s what’s happening to Monroe, she and her advocates say. The San Joaquin County District Attorney’s Office is actively prosecuting Monroe for one count of misdemeanor prostitution, despite a letter from CAST identifying her as a human trafficking victim and urging the dismissal of charges.

If the case goes to trial, it will serve as a test balloon for the new state law—one that could show California’s trafficking survivors what the criminal justice system really thinks of them.

It’s not like Monroe hasn’t been here before.

A few years ago, she was working out of a Santa Rosa hotel for a pimp she’d known since middle school, according to interviews with Monroe and a four-page assessment of her case from CAST. Identified in the CAST assessment as “Cee,” the pimp groomed her for the streets by mixing sweet talk with cruelty.

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By the time she was working the Bay Area circuit, Monroe was earning $1,000 a night for Cee through a blur of dates, mostly arranged online. If the web traffic slowed, he put her on the streets. Monroe made sure the web traffic didn’t slow.

It felt like there was always another knock at the door. When Monroe went to answer it, she found a police officer standing there.

Monroe says she instinctively hung up on the pimp who was monitoring her outside. Cee stormed to the room and banged on the door, demanding to know why she abruptly ended the call. When the officer opened the door, she says her pimp told police he was just there to give her a ride.

Monroe was led away in handcuffs.

Cee was excused and kept his clean record. It was one of six prostitutionrelated arrests Monroe took in two years.

“The way I see it, they manipulate us [too],” Monroe said of law enforcement.

“I’ve never heard of a situation where it’s been helpful.”

That’s exactly what law enforcement shouldn’t want to hear, say CAST’s Richard and Assemblywoman Shirley Weber, who wrote AB 1761.

“You do wonder about all those who got caught up in the system,” Weber said of trafficking victims arrested for prostitution and other crimes. “We didn’t see that at the time. We saw them as criminals. We only knew that prostitution, in our minds, was wrong. What choices do they have?”

According to CAST’s assessment, Monroe only escaped Cee through the help of a client who later exerted his own dark control. Identified as “Jay,” CAST’s letter says he impregnated Monroe and told her she owed him $15,000. He didn’t care how she made it.

Monroe fled again, but Jay tracked her to her mother’s home. He “physically assaulted her and refused to leave until [Monroe] threatened to call law enforcement,” reads the CAST assessment, written by senior staff attorney Rita Patel.

“Despite suffering abuse at the hands of Jay, she continued to feel emotionally bound to him, and often felt she should return to him, an indicator of ‘trauma bonding.’”

She went back to work for him. Last September, she was arrested a seventh time. After she got out of jail, she gave birth to a son. Irate that she had blocked his calls, “Jay” left a venomous message that made it clear he still had power over her life.

“So, hmm, you want to get this kid Clara and Mountain View. She sorts thing all up out the way? Think about envelopes, shelves Amazon boxes and what the fuck you doing ho,” the man’s hefts rolled couches. She sweats. Six voice says. “Enjoy your day whore.” days a week, her kingdom consists of a Along with the CAST letter, Monroe’s conveyor belt, three trucks and her hands. public defender presented the San Joaquin “To me, my life is amazing right County DA’s office with the threatening now,” she said. “To get to go to work, text and voice mail messages. come home to my kids and sleep all day, “I don’t think there’s any question at it’s really great.” all that it’s conveying a threat,” said her The only thing holding her back is attorney, David Drivon. this case, she says. She, Drivon and On November 10, the DA’s office DiAngelo say the prosecutor is leaning returned with its offer: 90 days in jail hard on Monroe to identify and testify and three years on probation. The against her trafficker. Monroe says prosecutor wasn’t dropping she won’t risk the reprisals. its case.

He knows where she lives “They’re really and has already shown screwing her,” said what he’s capable of.

Kristen DiAngelo, And even though founder of the “Jay” isn’t named Sacramento chapter on her son’s birth of the Sex Workers certificate, she fears Outreach Project, he could lash out by which has worked suing for full custody.

Kristen DiAngelo with Monroe since After all, she’s the founder, Sex Workers Outreach 2015. DiAngelo one with the criminal Project—Sacramento was in the courthouse record, not him. conference room with Richard, with CAST, Monroe when Drivon came says California’s affirmative back with the offer. defense law for human traf“That’s after they heard the tapes and ficking victims wasn’t created to give know all she’s been through,” DiAngelo law enforcement an additional pressure added. “Now they’re upping the stakes. point to push.

It’s insane.”

“That system of forcing a victim to A spokesman for the San Joaquin testify by holding criminal charges over District Attorney’s Office didn’t him or her … in the long run creates the respond to multiple phone and email culture for traffickers to keep [victims] requests for comment. in a place of fear, given the coercion that takes place in those cases,” Richard said.

When monroe first broke free of her “And should we force, or use coercion, in Bay Area pimp in 2015, she scrambled the same way?” to Sacramento in a beat-up car with That question could get answered if her young daughter, a few bucks in her Monroe’s case goes to trial. Drivon says pocket and the clothes they wore. All the his client will have to testify. He says money she made, every piece of identithe prosecutor will almost certainly ask fication, had been surrendered to the life her to identify the man she’s running she left behind. It took months to string from. If she refuses, she could be held in together a semblance of stability. There contempt of court. were setbacks, some harsher than others.

Monroe says she doesn’t know what Eventually, Monroe got a job at a she will do. recycling plant. She caught a break when Asked what it would mean for the someone read her story in SN&R and prostitution charge to be dropped, the donated a used car. She started driving for 25-year-old answers quickly.

Uber. She came close to getting an airport “That I can breathe,” she said. “I can job in Oakland, but her record scuttled get a job anywhere. I can go to school and the security clearance. When the UPS job not have my record contradict me.” came through, she was elated.

Monroe says she’s still hoping to go to “I actually, to be honest, love the law school, to help women and girls who job,” she said recently. “I don’t know have experienced what she has. She’s not anybody’s problems. They don’t know running from her past, she says. mine and I’m fine.”

“I don’t want to hide it,” she told In the drafty warehouse two hours SN&R. “I just don’t want to be stuck from home, she feeds the empty cargo because of it.” Ω hulls of trucks bound for Fremont, Santa

“They’re really screwing her.”

When it comes to high school bullying in California, muslim students may be feeling the pain more than anyone.

That’s the finding of a new report from the Council on American Islamic Relations. The effort surveyed 1,041 muslim students between the ages of 11 and 18 at public and private schools across the state. About 10 percent of those students lived in Sacramento County. Comparing the findings to a similar 2014 survey, CAIR concluded that bullying of Muslim students was up in all categories, including cyberbullying, peer-to-peer bullying and discrimination from school administrators.

The CAIR report states that 36 percent of those surveyed said they faced harassment for wearing the hijab last year, an increase of 7 percent since 2014. The survey also found an increase in reported discrimination and bullying from school officials—20 percent in 2014, compared to 38 percent in 2016.

Saad Sweilem, a civil rights attorney with the Sacramento chapter of CAIR, said the donald Trump factor can’t be ignored. “We’re seeing the political rhetoric having an effect on our children,” Sweilem said. “Hate, in a lot of ways, has been emboldened.”

Sweilem helped conduct the surveys in the new report. She cautioned that a specific breakdown of local incidents was not performed, but said anecdotal evidence suggests islamophobia is present in sacramento schools as part of a larger statewide and national trend.

“It’s definitely something here in Sacramento that’s prevalent,” Sweilem said. “Kids were telling me the same stories here, whether it’s being called a terrorist, being called a monster, being called ISIS. It’s really awful things for children to have to deal with.” (Matt Kramer)

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A week before Sacramento city officials began putting the finishing touches on their approach to legal marijuana sales, county sheriff’s deputies were busting an alleged black market operator moving

pounds of illicit greens through the capital’s international airport.

According to the Sheriff’s Department, the incident occurred Sunday, November 5, at Sacramento International Airport. Deputies responded to a call from Transportation Security Administration agents about a suspicious suitcase flagged by their “explosive detection system.” TSA agents reportedly decided to give the suitcase a closer look, discovering 10 “clear, plastic vacuum-sealed packages” of marijuana wrapped inside of clothing, an incident summary states.

Arriving deputies noted that the suitcase had a bag-tag for a United Airlines flight from San Francisco to Denver, and then from Denver to Atlanta. The name on the bag-tag allegedly said Stacey Jernard Burgess of Scranton, S.C. The incident summary says the luggage’s 10 bags of marijuana weighed roughly 10 pounds.

Before boarding his flight, Burgess, 32, was arrested by deputies and booked into the county jail on charges possession and transportation of illicit marijuana.

The following week, the city’s Law and Legislative Committee began working to create an equity program aimed at helping people in minority and underprivileged neighborhoods tap into new financial opportunities within the legal, regulated marijuana industry.

City officials are billing the program as chance to help would-be operators navigate administrative barriers and learn to develop small business plans.

The city’s cannabis czar, Joe Devlin, said the program will help neighborhoods “most impacted by the Drug War.” (Scott Thomas Anderson)

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A large crowd armed with multilingual signs attended a November 2 rally in support of a new contract for the Sacramento City Teachers Association.

Photo by Matt KraMer

Strike none ‘Last minute’ deal averts teacher walkout affecting 43,000 Sacramento students

by Matt KraMer

The Sacramento City Teachers Association called off its strike last week after an 11th hour resolution was brokered

by Mayor Darrel Steinberg. The deal came in the wake of a November 2 rally that saw nearly 1,500 teachers, parents and students protesting for smaller class sizes and higher teacher pay, among other issues.

The deal, reached Saturday, November 5, represents an armistice after more than a year of acrimonious negotiations between the teachers’ union and Sacramento City Unified School District.

The tentative contract promises to raise teacher pay a total of 11 percent through next year, in part through retroactive salary hikes; expand access to arts and music programs; and monitor student progress without what the teachers’ union views as “unnecessary” testing.

The changes will come without cuts to medical benefits or increases in K-3 class sizes, according to a summary from SCTA President David Fisher.

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The agreement is something that both the teachers’ union and school district portrayed as an all-around win after coming to the precipice of the first mass walkout in 30 years, which could have affected some 43,000 students.

“In the near term, the win is for students because they didn’t have to go through a strike, which would have been disastrous for our community,” said Alex Barrios, chief communications officer for the district.

The road to resolution was long and uncertain.

According to the district, teachers were asking for a 16 percent salary increase and 273 more teachers, part of an offer packet that would have cost the district nearly $93 million.

By comparison, the district was offering a $25 million deal that came with a 6 percent salary increase and funding for additional school

psychologists and language, speech and hearing specialists.

An inability to bridge that gap over months of rocky negotiations prompted both sides to prepare for an indefinite teachers’ strike.

Grace Trujillo is relieved that didn’t happen.

Trujillo has a son with special needs who is attending 10th grade at a districtcovered charter school. She said she was glad to see the negotiation process bring certain financial issues to light, but still has concerns that the deal doesn’t address the steadily increasing expenses that she believes are the root of the district’s struggles.

“Over time we lost sports, classroom sizes got bigger, we lost band, we lost field trips,” Trujillo said. “Why is this happening? There’s these fixed costs that continue to go up. Every time a fixed cost goes up something has to be cut. … It seems like the costs in Sacramento are higher.”

Trujillo said she largely blames insurance companies for increasing health benefit costs, which must be paid out to the teachers who receive benefits.

Health care benefits played a hidden role in the contractual stalemate. In arguing for retroactive and future raises, the teachers’ union claimed its members were among the lowest paid in the region. The district countered—and a state mediator later agreed—that when the district’s health care benefits were considered, total compensation was on par with those other districts.

The district offers lifetime health benefits to employees after 15 to 20 years of service, as well as free health insurance to employees’ family members.

Those benefits will cost the district more than $100 million this school year, a budget report states.

“We owe $621 million in retiree health care costs,” Barrios said. “We are one of only three districts in this region that offers lifetime health insurance.”

The other two districts are in Elk Grove and Davis, he said.

While the tentative contract avoids messing with employee health benefits, both sides are hoping to make smarter insurance purchases in the near future to save money for additional teachers, with the goal of lowering class sizes to 24 students per teacher for fourth grade and up. The 24-to-1 ratio is already in play from kindergarten through third grade.

The two sides have also agreed to pursue a 2020 ballot measure to provide long-term arts and music funding.

For SCTA president Fisher, a second grade teacher, the biggest problem facing the district is teacher attrition, as more experienced personnel decamp for betterpaying jobs in neighboring districts.

“Our salary schedule is so weak that … we lose over 200 teachers a year in that range to surrounding districts,” Fisher said. “That’s not counting people that retire. … The turnover rate [is] not good for kids.”

There are more than 100 teaching vacancies, he said.

Barrios and Fisher said some of the deal’s final details are still being hashed out. The SCUSD Board of Education is expected to adopt the new contract at its November 16 meeting, but didn’t have a contract available for public review three days earlier. In a follow-up email, Fisher said that was due to the “last minute” nature of a pact intended “to avert the strike.”

“It’s not done,” Barrios said of the deal. Ω

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the complaints merited that level of severity.

When Sacramento police Chief Daniel Hahn “Sometimes it’s just training [the officer goes arrived at a November 1 community gathering through], which isn’t considered being disciabout armed robberies and home invasions, he plined,” Tournour noted. greeted the crowd in uniform, wearing a black One statistic police commanders felt reflected body camera noticeably strapped to his chest. It well was the small number of use-of-force inciwas an Axon Body 2—a new device for a new dents in 2016. Of the 14,000 arrests its officers era. As of this week, every officer working the made that year, only 117 encounters involved streets will be wearing one. force being applied. When those moments do Hahn’s command staff made that clear happen, from now on, they’ll be recorded, said on Monday to the Sacramento Community police Lt. Justin Risely.

Police Commission, answering questions about Risely gave commissioners an overview of newly released data on complaints against the both in-car police cameras and the new generation department. of body-worn cameras officers have been issued.

The complaint stats were put together Risely said the in-car cameras activate themselves by the Sacramento Office of Public Safety any time a rear door opens, emergency lights are Accountability. Its director, Francine Tournour, triggered, the cab’s shotgun’s released, told commissioners that between or the vehicle’s crash sensors go off.

January 2016 and June 2017, The body cameras, he explained, internal affairs had fielded 317 have a 12-hour battery life and allegations. The No. 1 type feature a wireless sharing of allegation within that “The expectation is system with the district 18-month period involved attorney’s office. a civilian or police officer that if you’re out there “It’s a hard three accusing a specific officer ... you’ll be using your second hold to [manually] of “neglect of duty.” camera.” turn it off,” Risely said Some 63 of the allegaof the body cam. “The tions involved neglect.

Lt. Justin Risely expectation is that if you’re “A great example of Sacramento Police Department out there doing enforcement neglect would be towing or investigative activities, your vehicle and the officer you’ll be using your camera.” didn’t leave you a tow form, Bernard informed commisor if we served a warrant on sioners that, in the few months the your house and didn’t leave the program has been in place, he was aware statutorily required paperwork,” said of only one incident when an officer had intenDeputy Chief Ken Bernard. “That would be a tionally not worn his body camera. Bernard said neglect of duty.” the issue with that officer was “being addressed The second most common allegation against through the process.” police was “discourtesy,” ringing in at 49 indiA much bigger complication, Bernard vidual complaints. The third highest complaint observed, was that Sacramento County Sheriff was classified as “improper tactics.”

Scott Jones had asked that city officers not Tournour said that 39 internal affairs invesactivate their body cams inside the county jail, tigations within that 18-month period are now where Jones holds jurisdiction. Jones’ reasoning, complete. Of those probes, 34 were sustained— the deputy chief said, is that the jail has its own or found true on some level—and four were network of cameras. deemed “unfounded.” One of the investigations “Up until the doors, we’re using our cameras,” was flagged as “unsustained,” meaning its truth Bernard emphasized. “We have access to [the jail couldn’t be determined. Tournour added that the video footage], but it’s not subject to our [public] 34 “sustained” findings led to 15 officers being release policy. … It’s not subject to release like a disciplined.

Sac PD video would be.”

When commissioner Kiran SavageA few seconds later he added, “It’s not our Sangwan asked why more officers weren’t issue.” Ω disciplined, Tournour explained that not all of

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Since they received the federal IV-E Waiver in October 2014, Sacramento County Child Protective Services, or CPS, has transformed their agency, investing more resources into supportive care and early intervention. These changes and impressive results have received little publicity but are changing the lives of Sacramento’s children in foster care.

According to CPS, since October 2014, there are now 398 fewer children in foster care in Sacramento County. CPS has been able to increase permanency—adoption, family reunification, or legal guardianship—from 19.8 percent to 31.4 percent, and they have decreased re-entries into foster care from 18.4 percent to 12.9 percent.

Before the 2014 IV-E Waiver, Sacramento County CPS received federal funding for children in foster care, but there was no money for preventive programs to help parents and children stay together. And if the children were reunited with their parents, as many of them are, these often fragile families received no funds for supportive services.

After seeing the positive results of the pilot programs in Los Angeles and Alameda Counties, Sacramento County also applied for the IV-E Waiver. This program changes federal reimbursement to a block grant for CPS services based upon past expenditures. With the block grant, the county has the flexibility to allocate resources where they believe they will be most effective.

The risk with this program is that if the county’s caseload increased or their preventative services were ineffective, it could not request more federal money. They would have to come up with the additional funds.

Instead of expanding their own programs, Sacramento CPS partnered with local nonprofits such as the Child Abuse Prevention Centers, Lilliput Children’s Services, Sierra Forever Families, and the STARS/Bridges

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Program to provide supportive and preventive services.

A major recipient of the waiver funds has been the Child Abuse Prevention Center’s Birth & Beyond program, which provides families with crisis intervention and supportive services, such as parenting workshops and school readiness programs.

According to President and CEO Sheila Boxley, “Only 2 percent of the families that have been served have ended up with a substantiated subsequent CPS case.” This program costs $700 per parent, while an open CPS case costs as much as $200,000. So in addition to keeping families intact, this program saves money.

For children who have been in foster care for more than two years and seem likely to stay in the system, the county contracted with Sierra Forever Families to manage an innovative outreach program that identifies relatives, a family friend or a neighbor with a connection with the child. Instead of the usual process of finding a foster or adoptive family, they request that these folks help out a child that they know.

These are often the most successful adoptions.

Sierra Forever Families CEO Bob Herne, who praised Sacramento County’s waiver program, told me that they had considerable success in finding good permanent homes for the children who were previously stuck in the system.

The Waiver Program is government working well. It uses funds for programs that support and build up families instead of taking kids away from their parents with often tragic outcomes. And it provides additional resources for hard-to-adopt kids.

While the IV-E Waiver program has been working, it ends September 2019.

It should be extended. Ω Jeff vonKaenel is the president, CEO and majority owner of the News & Review.

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Nuclear Family Forever I

n the middle of March, Farah Billah called her mom and said, “I hate my job.”

Billah worked for Kia Motors in Orange County, handling thousands of invoices from customers who wanted to be reimbursed for car parts that had been recalled. She took the job because her original shifts ran from 6 a.m. to 3 p.m., allowing her time in the evening to paint. But soon, Kia required her to work until 6 p.m., handling the work of “seven people,” she said. At the end of the day, all she had energy to do was eat, then sleep.

So she called her mom, who invited her to move back home. Now, no longer worrying about finances, Billah can build on her nascent art career that includes several sold paintings, a published book of poetry and a photography series—“Coriander Cats: Bengali Girls in the Wild”—that went viral for its novel cultural subversion and received coverage from multiple national media outlets.

“I have to sacrifice a lot of freedom to live at home,” she said. “But it’s definitely worth it because I would rather have this than live the life that I was living. And actually, my mom, today, just mentioned to me how happy she was that both her kids were at home.”

I could relate. I had graduated with honors, published an award-winning investigative report and remotely interned for a glitzy media outlet in New York, and yet, at the end of the summer of 2016, I couldn’t afford to continue living in the Silicon Valley while still doing the job that I liked. And with Sacramento’s rent and housing market skyrocketing, I never even considered apartment hunting. Instead, I moved in with two successful professionals who let me live rent-free, raid their fridge and had considerable investment in my health, education and happiness.

My mom was thrilled to have a chatting partner as my dad isn’t the most loquacious. Unstoppably helpful, she emailed me tips for stories. She bought me mortadella from Corti Bros.—my lunchtime favorite.

And she took me down to the Golden 1 Credit Union to deposit my grandmother’s Christmas check into an IRA. The teller told us I was the youngest person to open such an account. By far.

In exchange, I made dinner most nights, answered the pleading meows of our fickle cat when he wanted indoors at 11 p.m. and chopped wood for my dad so he would have plenty of fuel for his brick oven. (I got fresh-baked bread and pizzas in return, so it was a beyond-fair trade.)

Living with them felt much different than it had in high school. At one dinner party, my parents invited over a couple who told me the story of how they learned my mom was pregnant: She had turned down a glass of wine on vacation—an

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unprecedented decision. Living with my parents as an adult helped me see them as more human. I realized how much I liked these people I loved. And how silly I was for feeling a twinge of embarrassment that I lived with them.

Salvan Chahal, an author, performance poet and a creative director at Sol Collective said that he’s “always lived at home.” The son of Punjabi immigrants from Fiji, he said his parents originally had reservations about his art, as it’s “not the most economical career,” nor what they envisioned for their son when they came to this country. But after performing around the United States, getting his work seen in foreign countries and hosting events like the recent “Poets of Color,” he said there’s been a shift.

“Before they didn’t really feel like they related to or enjoyed some of the shows I put on, but they knew it meant something important to me,” he said. “So now, anytime I have a show, they always want to come out because they want to see me doing what I do best.”

Billah said the last time she performed at Sol Collective, Chahal’s mom brought samosas backstage. Billah, whose parents came from Bangladesh, said my unconscious embarrassment about living at home came mostly from America’s individualistic society. She said in Bengali, many children live at home until they’re ready to get married.

“It’s a collectivist society,” she said. “[Parents] take care of you until you can take care of yourself.

Then, when they get older, you take care of them.

Nobody lets their parents live by themselves in old age. Generations live together, then the grandmother and the great-grandmother can help with the kids.”

(It’s an arrangement my mom openly craves—but not, she stresses, until I’m much older.)

I moved out in April because I had saved money, accrued stable work and found an affordable apartment where I live with friends. But I still rely on my parents and visit at least once a week. My mom and I split bulk purchases of avocados and bananas. She recently bought me a pair of shoes. And I still sponge off the family cellphone plan. Should I ever need to move back, my parents say the door’s still open. Until then, if I want an invite to the next pizza night, there’s some wood that needs chopping. Ω

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tate lawmakers introduced more than 130 bills this legislative session to try to solve California’s housing affordability crisis, proposing everything from more 150 square-foot apartments to a $3 billion affordable housing bond.

But while many see the flurry of political activity as an encouraging sign, for millions of younger Californians, all the talk of infill development, CEQAreform and developer fees can be reduced to one simple question: Will any of this stuff finally help me move out of my parents’ place?

Nearly a decade removed from the depths of the Great Recession, a staggering 38 percent of California’s 18- to 34-year-olds still live with their parents, according to U.S. Census data. That’s roughly 3.6 million people stuck at home. Think of it this way: If “unlaunched” California millennials formed their own state, they would be entitled to more electoral votes than Connecticut, Iowa or Utah. If they formed their own city, it would be the third largest in the country.

And the trend appears to have accelerated over the past few years. Many researchers expected that so-called “boomerangers” of the recession would flee their parents’ domiciles once the economy recovered and the labor market started roaring again.

About these stories: This is an abridged version of the full package, which can be found at CALmatters.org, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.

But California has its lowest unemployment rate since 2007, and millennials still aren’t moving out.

“I would have thought and did think for a long time that as the labor market got better, more young adults would get jobs and the share of them living with their parents would start declining,” said Richard Fry, a senior researcher at the Pew Research Center. “But I’m increasingly thinking this is not a cyclical phenomenon.”

So what exactly is keeping California’s millennials from breaking free of their parents?

Part of the explanation is intuitive—California’s skyrocketing housing costs. But digging deeper into who exactly these stay-at-homers are, and how they’re different from younger adults from previous generations, shows other forces are also at play.

Wasn’t it common for previous generations to live at home?

No—not really.

At least not compared to today, or to the rest of the country at the time.

In 1980, when baby boomers were young adults, only 1 in 5 younger Californians lived with their parents. That fraction ticked up only marginally for more than two decades and roughly kept pace with what was happening in the rest of the country.

But since the turn of the millennium, the ranks of the stay-at-home have increased dramatically. Between 1980 and 2000, California saw about a 5 percentage point increase in its share of young people living at home. Between 2000 and 2015, that percentage grew by 14 points, outpacing the trend in the rest of the country.

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alf the state’s households struggle to afford the roof over their heads. Homeownership—once a staple of the California dream—is at its lowest rate since World War II. Nearly 70 percent of poor Californians see the majority of their paychecks go immediately to escalating rents.

Here’s what you need to know about one of California’s most vexing issues.

1. Just how hard is it to buy a home?

Hard. Really hard. Both compared to how hard it is in other states, and how hard it was for previous generations of Californians to buy homes.

While it’s always been more expensive to be a homeowner in California, the gap between us and the rest of the country has grown into a chasm. The median California home is now priced 2.5 times higher than the median national home. As of 2015, the typical California home costs $437,000, easily beating the likes of Massachusetts or New York (only Hawaii had more expensive houses).

Despite relatively low mortgage rates, exploding housing prices have caused California’s homeownership rate to dip significantly. Just over half of California households own their homes—the third lowest rate in the country, and the lowest rate within the state since World War II. It’s not just housing prices that are affecting homeownership rates. Studies have found that student debt loads, rising income inequality and changing housing preferences among younger Californians are also at play.

2. rents are soaring Rental costs across the state are some of the highest in the country. While listed housing prices dipped dramatically in the wake of the Great Recession, rents in California remained relatively stable before soaring in recent years in hot markets.

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3. Big Business also feeling the pinch The McKinsey Global Institute found that housing shortages cost the economy between $143 billion and $233 billion annually, not taking into account secondorder costs to health, education and the environment.

Much of that is due to households spending too much of their incomes on the rent or mortgage and not enough on consumer goods.

Even the attractive salaries and lavish perks of Silicon Valley struggle to overcome the local housing market, as young tech talent flees to the relatively inexpensive climes of Austin or Portland. Nearly 60 percent of Los Angeles companies in a recent University of Southern California survey said the region’s high cost of living was affecting employee retention.

4. it won’t get Better anytime soon The state estimates that it needs to build 180,000 homes annually just to keep up with projected population growth and keep prices from escalating further out of control. Unfortunately, for the past 10 years, the state has averaged less than half of that. In no year during that span did California crack the 100,000 barrier.

There’s fierce debate over how long it takes lowincome residents to benefit from the construction of new market-rate housing—a renter on the wait list for housing vouchers won’t take much comfort in the luxury condos being built in downtown Oakland or Los Angeles. While California faces an affordable housing gap at nearly all but the highest income levels, the low-income housing shortage is most severe.

According to the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office, helping just the 1.7 million poorest Californians afford homes would cost $15 to $30 billion a year.

5. housing can’t keep up From 2010 to 2017, the population of the state has grown 6 percent. That’s more than 2 million newly minted Californians, all with the nasty habit of wanting a place to live. Making matters worse, most are cramming themselves into our state’s large cities.

In fact, 75 percent of the state’s new residents have sprouted up in urban centers with populations over 50,000 (don’t be too hard on them—that’s where most of the job growth has been).

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Aging California parents and their adult children can take some solace in the fact that many of their outof-state relatives are experiencing the same type of overcrowded households they are.

California has the sixth highest rate of millennial stay-at-homers in the country. But we’re not close to touching New Jersey, where 47 percent of 18- to 34-year-olds live with mom and/or dad.

In keeping with what we know about income mobility patterns across the United States, young people in the “Plains States” tend to live more independently.

In North Dakota, an astonishingly low 14 percent of young people live at home. California does the worst out of all its West Coast neighbors, leading Arizona, Oregon, Washington and Nevada by a significant margin.

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Let’s focus on older California millennials still living at home—those in the 25 to 34 age range, who conceivably have had more time to complete schooling and enter the workforce.

According to a CALmatters analysis of American Community Survey data, about 1 in 4 Californians in that age range live with their parents—more than 1.3 million people.

The vast majority of this population is working or in school—most are not lounging around idly. About 70 percent of older California millennials living with parents reported being employed in 2015. About 20 percent also report being in school (those activities are not mutually exclusive). In fact, significantly more of these Californians are enrolled in school than their counterparts elsewhere in the country.

The problem lies in how much money these older millennials make. The median earned income for an older millennial living at home is around $21,000 (among those

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Across the state, the median rental price for a twobedroom apartment is about $2,400, the third highest in the country. But statewide figures water down how absurd the situation is getting in urban coastal markets, where the vast majority of Californians live.

The median rent for a two-bedroom apartment in San Francisco reached more than $4,000 this year.

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Where have all the workers gone? Theories abound: tighter immigration laws, a dearth of skilled labor, the opioid epidemic, depressed wages, coddled millennials not knowing the value of a hard day’s work. Whatever the cause, it all makes it that much harder for developers to build homes on the cheap and easy.

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with positive earnings). That’s not chump change, and it’s slightly more than what older millennials who live at home elsewhere in the country make (around $20,000).

But it’s not a lot, and it’s less than what younger people from previous generations of Californians used to earn. In inflation-adjusted dollars, median earnings for full-time working young adult Californians have dropped by 11 percent since 1990. That follows a national pattern of wage stagnation for younger Americans.

And leaner earnings are especially problematic for younger Californians because ...

They are in pricier parTs of The sTaTe More than 40 percent of all older California millennials living with their parents are in the greater Los Angeles metro area, one of the highest-cost rental markets in the country. Another 10 percent are in the San FranciscoHayward-Oakland area. According to the apartment rental listing site Zumper, a median one-bedroom apartment in Los Angeles goes for $2,090 a month, and in Oakland a one-bedroom goes for $2,060. While those prices are on the higher side of median estimates, both easily surpass the monthly take-home of the typical millennial at home with mom and dad.

Still, even more affordable parts of the state with concentrated poverty see a large number of stay-athomers. While sample size constraints make precise estimates unreliable, the El Centro metro area, where a quarter of the population fall below the poverty line, saw roughly 40 percent of its 25-to 34-year-olds live at home.

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BuT There’s more To iT Than housing It’s difficult to disentangle the decision to live at home from other major life choices—especially marriage.

Young people with a spouse are much more likely to live away from home than the unmarried. And the proportion of young unmarried Californians, much like elsewhere in the country, has grown significantly over the decades.

But are young people postponing marriage because they’re living at home, or are they living at home because they’re postponing marriage? It’s a chickenand-egg question for demographers.

“With one demographic factor you can explain pretty much the entire increase in young adults living at home—marriage,” said Fry, the Pew researcher. “But that’s not really satisfactory.”

The value of education in the workforce is also an important factor. Completing at least four years of college gives you an 83 percent chance of avoiding living with your parents in your late 20s and early 30s, about 8 percentage points higher than if you complete less education.

So even if legislators were magically able to reduce housing costs overnight, it will still be difficult for single, young adults with lower education levels to strike out on their own. Ω

Much—in many cities, most—of that money didn’t end up going into the construction of new housing, but was instead siphoned off to pay for broadly defined “administrative activities.” Still, with the end of redevelopment came the end of the single largest source of non-federal money for affordable housing in the state. And California lawmakers never plugged that hole.

In the meantime, temporary influxes of cash from recent bond initiatives—Proposition 46 (2002) and Proposition 1C (2006)—are nearly depleted. Excluding the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program, between 2008 and 2014, state and federal funding for affordable housing development in California has dropped by more than $1.7 billion, or 66 percent.

Does it matter? Wouldn’t simply adding more marketrate housing make all housing more affordable? Eventually. But according to one UC Berkeley study, it can take decades before new supply begins to push down rents on the cheapest places. In the meantime, it found, subsidized housing is twice as effective as new private development at allowing low-income residents to weather rising rents and stay within a region. Ω

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Caddy snack 19th Hole Cantina 9425 Jackson Road, (916) 362-1949 www.cordovagc.com/about-us-2/restaurant Good for: Beefy food while people-watching Westcomfort African, East Sacramento Notable dishes: Chubby Churger, loaded rib-eye fries

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Under the afternoon shade, I watched a man putt countless golf balls into a hole as far from him as my burger’s buns were from one another—which is to say, a miniscule distance for a golfer but a chunky size for a burger.

The Chubby Churger ($9) suits its name, and the Yelpers are doing backflips: “The (soon-to-be world famous) Chubby Churger (Burger) gets 5 stars by itself,” writes Adam J. V. of Texas, a state that knows its Tex-Mex. That’s what the new 19th Hole Cantina—opened this May—is all about: cowboy-friendly MexicanAmerican food with oodles of beef at the end of a divey golf course. On the restaurant’s outdoor tables, you can look out over the patchy greens and marvel at the languorous golfers who’ve paid less than $20 to play 18 unremarkable holes.

When my husband wears a beanie and sneakers with a suit, I call his look “scumbag GQ.” I mean this with affection: The Cordova Golf Course approximates this aesthetic with indulgent vacation vibes and well-worn equipment. You could languish for hours and briefly forget about traffic or Trump just by driving nearly to Mather and staring at some grass.

The other reason to come is that Chubby Churger.

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straight face.) The burger was stuffed with a beef-andchorizo patty that entertained the palate with its notes of garlic and chili. The meat itself was tender and juicy, and the baked bun was crisped golden. The guacamole and tomato cooled down the hot meat and mild spice.

Peeking out from the sides stretched an oversized circle of fried cheese in the style of Sacramento’s iconic cheese-skirt burger at Squeeze Inn. The menu—designed with the silhouette of a swinging golfer in a sombrero—features tacos, nachos, burritos and quesadillas. But it also offers straight-up American food like the standard-issue burgers, chicken strips and a rib-eye sandwich as a nod to the Lone Star State. As far as this cuisine goes, Sacramento has Nopalitos, Dos Coyotes and—what—Chevy’s? But the city doesn’t have many, if any, Tex-Mex restaurants that equally embrace the Texan side.

The loaded rib-eye fries ($9) remedy that with honking chunks of succulent beef that graze a Southwestern plain of cheesy fries, scattered with acidic jalapeños.

Sour cream and sweet BBQ make it craveable.

The fries reappear in the California burrito ($8).

Really, follow the beef on this menu: The steak was sweet, savory and thin, and it sopped the fries with unctuous goodness.

I was only let down by the fries when they were on the side of that Chubby Churger. The consistency was crisp, but the Cajun seasoning on certain fries became an unwelcome sand hill of salty cayenne.

And yet! The 19th Hole Cantina is a relaxing getaway if your idea of a good time involves biting into fried cheese the size of your face while eavesdropping on out-of-practice golfers. Ω

The sophisticate’s slushee White linen slush, ten ten rOOm Duck inside the new Ten Ten Room from frenetic 10th Street, and you’ll find a slice of calm and old-school decadence. The shotgun bar has leather booths, chandeliers and a smoking-room vibe. Happy hour lasts till 7 p.m., and it gets you a $6 daily cocktail or $1 off other drinks, including the White Linen Slush (normally $10). It’s classy with the floral flavors of Bulldog gin and elderflower liqueur and refreshing with hints of cucumber and lemon. But this cocktail doesn’t take itself too seriously: What slushee could? Forget that it’s cold outside and slurp on an ICEE worthy of a gentlewoman.1010 10th Street, http://tentenroom.com.

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Named for their resemblance to the shellfish, oyster mushrooms have a delicate flavor and smell a bit like anise.

They’re great in stir-fries and soups, and you’d never know they aren’t mollusks when you taste them in the mushroom po’ boy at Mother (1023 K Street). They’re magic mushrooms, too, producing natural statins to help reduce blood cholesterol.

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explosion of regional breweries, Folsom got passed over—something that will be rectified in early 2018 when Eric Schmid opens Red Bus Brewing Co. As the owner of the homebrewing supply store The Brewmeister (802 Reading Street), Schmid purchased more of his building to make space for his small-scale, seven-barrel brewery.

“I’m not looking to be the next big thing,” he said. “I’m looking to be the Folsom thing.”

A graduate of the American Brewers Guild, Schmid said he plans to sell 85 to 90 percent of his beer in the taproom. He has employed a few brewers who went on to run their own facilities, such as Zack Frasher of the award-winning Moonraker Brewing Co. in Auburn. He named Red Bus after his own refurbished Volkswagen, a machine somewhat similar to his well-traveled brewing system that he’s pretty sure started its journey at the Dixie Brewing Co. in New Orleans.

Saying that owning a brewery had always been in the back of

his mind, Schmid decided to go forward with the project to give Folsom residents a local watering hole, as almost all other other Sacramento-area suburbs have at least one place to drink craft beer.

According to Schmid, Red Bus will be the first Folsom production brewery since the 1800s.

Although still under construction, the brewery’s licensed space will include The Brewmeister, so homebrewers or those just curious about beer’s raw ingredients will be able to peruse his store while they sip. Schmid said he and co-brewer Nik Stevens both enjoy German beers, but will offer a diverse lineup on tap. He also plans to share his recipes so that homebrewers can give them a shot.

“There won’t be any secrets.

It’ll be a complete open book,” said the man who brews on Reading Street.

Butcher’s burrito: V. Miller Meats

(4801 Folsom Boulevard) has started offering breakfast burritos ($8) on the weekends from 10

a.m. to “12ish.” Depending on the day, they’ll be stuffed with either chorizo or chili verde as well as eggs, potatoes, cheddar and their “fancy” sauce made with tomatillos and hatch chilis.

To go along with the butcher’s rotating dinner for two ($25) on Thursdays, it debuted Taco Night on November 8, loading up corn tortillas with a beef brisket dressed in mole and topped with pickled onions, micro greens and cotija cheese (four for $10).

Pristine poultry: The Organic Coup

labels itself “America’s First USDA Certified Organic Fast Food” and recently opened its first location outside of the Bay Area in Sacramento (440 Howe Avenue).

The sourcing-conscious spot centers its menu around buttermilk-soaked, spice-battered fried chicken that goes in everything from sandwiches to wraps to bowls filled with spicy, snappy slaw (all $7.99). Ω

Charitable chili Four years ago, the River City Chili Cook-Off featured a handful of parents and chefs in the now-shuttered gym at Holy Cross College Preparatory Academy. Things done changed. This year, Ace of Spades (1417 R Street) will host 15 of Sacramento’s top restaurants—including The Golden Bear, Burgers & Brew and Café Bernardo—on November 18 from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. They’re all vying to best Dos Coyotes, which snagged top honors last year from both the judges and the crowd as the area’s best chili.

Tickets ($35) get you unlimited samples of chili as well as cornbread made by the parents of students at Our Lady of Grace School, the beneficiary of the event’s proceeds. There will also be Bloody Marys and margaritas ($7) that will blend Tito’s Handmade Vodka with mixes from Preservation & Co. Tickets can be purchased at the Ace of Spades box office or online at www.rivercitychili.com.

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by Shoka Dear family and friends of vegans: Isn’t it wonderful to have more places to dine with your plantbased-eating loved ones? Another to add to the rotation is Pho Fresh, a Vietnamese-fusion restaurant at 10673 Coloma Road in Rancho Cordova that opened earlier this year. It had a few vegan options but now has a full two-page separate vegan menu. The Vegan Lover’s Roll— rice noodles, lettuce, bean sprouts, avocado, fried tofu, fresh herbs in a rice paper wrap with peanuts and

peanut sauce—is flavorful enough to be a non-vegan lover’s roll, too. The pho is fresh, as advertised, and the broth is complex, herbal and savory.

Also on the abundant menu are baolike Tofu Belly Tacos, potstickers, Basil Popcorn Tofu, four non-boring salads, five kinds of banh mi, six pho noodle soups, six rice plates, six stir-fried noodle dishes, Tofu Mango Dessert, five golden rings—er, crispy faux eggrolls. It’s too early for “happy holidays,” but just fine for “happy pholidays.”

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In fact, EDBC’s popular Real Mountain Ale combines l Dorado Brewing Company is not only located in Gold both Old World (or European) hops and New World (or Country, its history is rooted in the Gold Rush: The American) hops for a bold but smooth taste. And their label first appeared in 1853, and the brewery produced flagship beer — Trailblazer Stout — blends dark crystal beer for the next 100 years. malts and roasted barley to produce a sweet chocolate The company and one of its logos were resurrected in the early 90s, and in 2005, the current brewmaster, Greg stout with a rich taste. Both are available on draft, in growlers and kegs, and will soon be in 22-ounce bottles.

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B Street Theatre continues its 23-year tradition of presenting an original play for the holidays.

This year, for its final production in its home on B Street before moving to new digs at The Sofia, the company stages A Moving Day, a moving play by Dave Pierini and Buck Busfield.

Set in Cleveland (for no obvious reason) in the present, the play tackles the problem of home foreclosures and homelessness through the story of Patrick Ignatius (the wonderful Greg Alexander) as he confronts two moving men, Frank and Casey (Kurt Johnson and Tim Liu) who have come to cart away his possessions. Although he has been away from the house for many years, it is his family home. He begs for one more night in the house to continue searching for an item from his childhood that is his connection to a departed sister.

Completing the cast are Stephanie Altholz as a spirited young woman linked to the house, and Jamie Jones in a cameo of sorts as Frank’s wife, Karen. Their marriage is in jeopardy because of a failure to adequately communicate thoughts and feelings.

Will the missing object be found? Does the girl stand a ghost of a chance? Can the troubled marriage get on its way to recovery?

It’s a B Street holiday show. What do you think? Ω

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4 Blithe Spirit Resurrection Theatre presents a solid production of an old chestnut—Noël Coward’s Blithe Spirit.

This is old-school theater—a playful comedy of manners set in the high-society parlor of an English socialite and novelist.

It’s a good time of year for a production of Blithe Spirit, since the play revolves around séances and ghosts—which explains two local theaters staging the play during the hallowed season: Woodland Opera House and Resurrection Theatre.

The storyline and upper-crust dialogue draw us into the rather snooty world of novelist Charles Condomine (Rick Schlussel), who invites a medium into his home so he can witness a séance—a plot line he wants to include in his next book.

The séance goes awry, bringing together Charles, a wacky psychic (Robin Southworth as Madame Arcati), and Charles’ first and second wives/battling spirits (Sara Lorraine Hanson as Ruth and Sabrina Fiora as Elvira).

Resurrection Theatre gives us a handsome play—an elegant Victorian-themed set, spot-on period music and costumes, clever production elements, all supporting a skilled cast with the three women leads (Southworth, Hanson and Fiora) stealing the show. The result is throwback theater—a simple plot, kooky characters, witty humor and sharp dialogue that all equal an enjoyable evening of entertainment.

—Patti RobeRts fri 8pm, sat 8pm; through 11/18; $20 general, $15 students/ seniors; resurrection theatre, california stage theatre, 1723 25th street; (916)491-0940, www.resurrectiontheatre.com.

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Playwright Jerry R. Montoya’s adaptation of Mary Shelley’s horror story gets a supremely satisfying production here, featuring a talented cast not that much older than the author (she was just 18 when she started the tale) and her compatriots when they challenged themselves to create the best monster story ever. Fri 8pm, Sat 8pm, Sun 2pm; through 11/19; $17-$22; Chautauqua Playhouse, La Sierra Community Center, 5325 Engle Road in Carmichael; (916) 489-7529; www.cplayhouse.org. J.C.

Capital Stage presents the Sacramento premiere of the LA Drama Critics Circle winner, Luna Gale, a dramedy that examines all sides of the question of what should happen to the infant daughter of two drug-addicted teens.

There is no good solution and the overworked social worker must choose what’s best for the baby. Thu 7pm,

Fri 7pm, Sat 2pm & 8pm, Sun 8pm, Wed 7pm; through 11/19; $17.50-$40; Capital

Stage, 2215 J Street; (916) 995-5464; http://capstage. org. B.S.

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This is a not-tobe-missed creative and innovative production of Peter Weiss’ esoteric play that pits the political and personal philosophies of French revolutionaries Jean-Paul Marat and Marquis de Sade against each other. A captive audience is led through various stage settings, eventually into the insane asylum. Thu 7:30pm,

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Gibraltar is a powerful drama that explores how we deal with grief. The play, written by Octavio Solis, explores the universality of love and death through multiple stories. It follows Amy, a San Francisco artist whose husband has died. With the help of the mysterious Palo, who is searching for his runaway wife, and through the stories of other people’s troubled relationships played out in Amy’s memory, she begins to shape her life without her husband.

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Gibraltar. Thu 7pm & 8pm, Fri 7pm & 8pm, Sat 7pm & 8pm, Sun 2pm & 8pm; through 11/19; $10-$18.50; Wyatt Theater, UC Davis, Arboretum Drive in Davis; (530) 752-2471, http:// arts.ucdavis.edu/event/gibraltar.

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ever on the verge of sliding into sketch comedy, but always pulled back by Gerwig’s emotional Sacramento native Greta Gerwig comes home in generosity toward her characters.

Lady Bird, writing and directing the story of a senior Lady Bird’s second-biggest asset, next to at a Catholic girls’ high school in Sacramento.

Gerwig herself, is Saoirse Ronan—Bronx-born, Christine McPherson (Saoirse Ronan), who has Irish-raised, and by now, at age 23, well on her endowed herself with the name Lady Bird, bridles at way to being one of the greatest movie actresses what she sees as the limitations of her hometown and of the 21st century. Already passed over for two the clueless smothering of her mother Marion Oscars, it’s easy to imagine her being (Laurie Metcalf). At 17, Lady Bird is nominated every seven or eight too young to know that there are two years, then (if she never wins) kinds of people in Sacramento— The movie finally getting one of those those who can’t wait to get life-achievement “Apology seems ever on out and those who thank God Oscars” like Deborah Kerr or the verge of sliding they’re back. She only knows Peter O’Toole. Her Lady Bird about the first kind, and she’s into sketch comedy but is perfectly self-named—we definitely one of them. see her tentatively testing her always pulled back by Lady Bird follows her plumage as she prepares to Gerwig’s emotional senior year at Immaculate Heart fly the nest.

High School (“Immaculate generosity toward her And third honors go to Fart,” she calls it) as she prepares Laurie Metcalf as Marion, an characters. to strike out as far as she can get awkwardly loving but harried from Sacramento and still speak the mother whose take-charge assertivelanguage. Not for UC Davis or any of ness blinds her to how her exasperation is the other driving-distance colleges her mother mirrored in her daughter’s rebellion. It’s probably chooses. “You should just go to City College,” the the role of Metcalf’s career, certainly her best exasperated Marion suggests sarcastically. “Y’know, with your work ethic just go to City College, and then since Roseanne.

By the end, Lady Bird, in college in New to jail, and then back to City College, and maybe you can learn to pull yourself up ...” This drives Lady Bird York, has become Christine again, with a new to jump from their moving car, then spend most of the understanding for her maladroit mother. As for movie with her arm in a pink cast that almost matches the old hometown … well, she’s still telling New Yorkers that she’s from … um … San Francisco. the painted red of her short-chopped hair.

Baby steps, baby steps. Ω Gerwig salts her script with funny lines that sound more like people living funny lives than actors saying funny things. As her episodic story follows Lady Bird through a budding interest in theater, experiments in love and lust and a brief, callous rift with lifelong pal Julie (a delightful Beanie Feldstein), the movie seems

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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 cameravomit like this), the movie is an example of the I-Hate-Christmas-Movie, 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-MomMovie and the I-Resent-My-Kids movie. Peter Gallagher, Wanda Sykes, Christina Applegate and Kenny G show up for pointless bits. J.L.

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Daddy’s Home 2

Co-fathers Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg are back in one of those we-made-toomuch-money-not-to-make-a-sequel-but-wedon’t-have-any-good-ideas movies. Ferrell and Wahlberg 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.

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The Killing of a Sacred Deer

Iconoclastic Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos (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.

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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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Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House

Another drab and lumpy fact-based drama from writer-director Peter Landesman (Concussion), this time about the veteran FBI agent who leaked Watergate information to the press, famously becoming known as Deep Throat. Liam Neeson sleepwalks through his starring role as Felt, a loyal and by-the-book agent passed over for the top job when J. Edgar Hoover dies. That puts him at odds with his new boss, a puppet for the Nixon White

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Last Flag Flying

In 2003, three former Vietnam War buddies (Steve Carell, Bryan Cranston, Laurence Fishburne) reunite after 30 years to escort the remains of Carell’s son, killed in Iraq, to his resting place in New Hampshire. Directed

by Richard Linklater and co-written by Linklater and Darryl Ponicsan (from Ponicsan’s novel) as a semi-sequel to Ponicsan’s novel The Last Detail and the 1973 movie made from it, this one has the turbulent mix of incisive drama and sardonic comedy that characterizes both the earlier movie and some of Linklater’s best pictures. The movie mulls over issues of friendship, patriotism, grief, family, guilt and memory; Linklater juggles the movie’s shifting moods expertly and draws moving, finely textured performances from his stars—especially Cranston and, in a touching cameo, Cicely Tyson. J.L.

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Murder on the Orient Express

Hercule Poirot (director Kenneth Branagh) investigates a murder on the snowbound train of the title. Branagh and writer Michael Green (adapting Agatha Christie’s novel) offer a passable remake of Sidney Lumet’s 1974 classic, suffering only by comparison to the original. It’s the difference between stylish (1974) and mannered (2017), elegant (1974) and ostentatious (2017). The original’s all-star cast (Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Martin Balsam, Ingrid Bergman, Sean Connery, John Gielgud, Anthony Perkins, Vanessa Redgrave, etc.) is replaced by one of slightly lower wattage (Penélope Cruz, Judi Dench, Johnny Depp, Josh Gad, Michelle Pfeiffer, Daisy Ridley, etc.) but still respectable.

Branagh lards Haris Zambarloukos’ cinematography with gratuitous CGI until it looks like Murder on the Polar Express. J.L.

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Thank You for Your Service

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 story-light, smart and observant but largely lacking in urgency and revelation. D.B.

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Thor: Ragnarok

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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I have not consumed any of the printed works by writer and illustrator Brian Selznick, so I’m somewhat stymied to explain why two of the greatest filmmakers of my lifetime have made bad movies from his books. Martin Scorsese’s pandering 2011 cinephile dog whistle Hugo adapted Selznick’s The Invention of Hugo Cabret, and while it garnered awards nominations and dutiful critical acclaim, a pervasive feeling of forced magic permeated that cluttered and overbearing film. Now Todd Haynes, the man behind Safe, Far from Heaven and I’m Not There, has turned Selznick’s 2011 illustrated novel Wonderstruck into a minor motion picture. In addition to the persistent pacing and framing issues, Wonderstruck inevitably becomes trapped by a back-and-forth structure that undercuts the momentum at every turn. The structure is so illconceived that most of the final half-hour gets devoted to the characters reading handwritten notes that fill in all the plot holes. D.B.

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98 Degrees; zero degrees of separation One-fourth of the ’90s boy band opens up about meeting his heroes and a new Christmas album

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shoot a video with him and hang out in his trailer where he had all kinds of musical equipment set up in there. And he had his harmonica with him the whole time and he couldn’t have been more gracious, and humble, and amazing. It was another dream come true. There were a lot of things that we got to do that were a real blessing to us and that’s one of them.

From left: Jeff timmons, Nick and drew Lachey and Justin Jeffre bring back that ’90s cheese by forgetting how to sit in chairs.

It was the golden era of boy bands, and 98 Degrees was unlike the rest. Other groups in the ’90s like ’N Sync and the Backstreet Boys had been assembled by major labels, but 98 Degrees formed organically: Brothers Nick and Drew Lachey, along with Justin Jeffre and Jeff Timmons, started the group with heavy R&B and soul influences. Then, 98 Degrees was discovered backstage at a Boys II Men concert when they sang a capella for a radio station. After that performance, the band signed to Motown records in 1998.

Timmons caught up with SN&R to share what followed for the group of friends: a duet with one of their biggest influences, Stevie Wonder, for the soundtrack to the Disney movie Mulan; a couple of opening gigs for Janet Jackson on her Velvet Rope tour; the platinum-selling album This Christmas. After a total of 10 million records sold, 98 Degrees went on a decade-long hiatus starting in 2003.

But now, the (boy) band is back together.

They’ve just recorded a new holiday album, Let It Snow—released on October 13—and launched a 31-day tour. SN&R chatted with Timmons about the group’s days on Motown, 28 | SN&R | 11.16.17

the innocence of the ’90s, and his love for hard rock music like Metallica and Guns N’ Roses.

How did it feel to get back in the studio with everyone to record Let It Snow?

We had an amazing time. This Christmas was an album that stood out in the past, and it was always a perennial success for us. We like holiday albums because we can step away from the pop-stuff and do a little bit more harmony-based music with cooler arrangements and a lot of orchestra. We really wanted Let It Snow to match the previous album, and I feel like we did it.

Boy bands were all pop in the ’90s. Was it hard to incorporate that genre into your music as an R&B group?

Our original record that we did when we were on Motown was very R&B as opposed to pop. Of course, the times changed, and then the Backstreet Boys came out and pop was more of the style as opposed to when we were originally out in the late ’90s, early 2000s. So, we sort of morphed our sound from R&B. ... We were really influenced by groups like the Four Seasons, the

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Temptations and Boys II Men. I think doing a Christmas album reflects more of that kind of sound. And on Let It Snow, we have all of it.

We have like a Beach Boys sound and even a Chuck Berry sound, so we feel like we have everything on it.

When you were first signed to Motown, who were you starstruck by?

When you think of Motown, you think of Berry Gordy, and you think of all these groups, but we were heavily influenced by Boys II Men. We wanted to be just like Boys II Men. We wanted to be on Boys II Men’s label and all that because they had that throw-back harmony. If you remember, they had a song called “It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday” out and it was an a capella song. We fell in love with that, and we were hoping we’d be discovered like that. And we got discovered at their concert when we were singing a capella. So, it’s a part of our history as well.

Tell me about the duet with Stevie Wonder.

It was an honor. But, not only that, it was Stevie Wonder with Disney. We got to

What’s changed in music since the ’90s for you?

I think the music in the ’90s was really great.

I mean, there was a mix of R&B and pop and this kind of this explosion with 98 Degrees, Backstreet Boys, ‘N Sync, Britney [Spears], Christina [Aguilera], and you had a bunch of great R&B music out there. But as far as like the innocence of the time, it was pretty cool.

It was pre-9/11, and the world has changed since then. I think the most important thing about it for me is those fans that were there for us in the late ’90s have evolved with us.

I carry a part of it with me in my career. I have fans that remind me of things all the time when they post stuff on Instagram with our frosted tips and our big, baggy jeans. You can’t escape it.

It’s no secret that 98 Degrees is in good shape. How many crunches do you do a day?

(Laughs.) Not enough. I was up all night working on some other music. I actually need to get back in the gym. Crunches, I’ve never been a fan of. I choose to not eat food instead. (Laughs.) It’s definitely not the healthier route.

Name a musician or band that would shock fans that you’re into.

We’re guys from the Midwest and Ohio, so we grew up with all these soulful groups. But we also grew up with Warrant and “Cherry Pie” and Quiet Riot. I think Metallica is one of my favorite bands that folks wouldn’t assume that a group like ours would like—or Guns N’ Roses. We’re, like, mad fans of those guys. Ω

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Izreal. Hosted by Mr. Black Sacramento 2017, Judah Dwight. 9pm, $15-$25. Pins N Strikes, 3443 Laguna Blvd. in Elk Grove. musician Richie Lawrence during the David Samuel Orr Fund for the Earth Benefit Concert. 7:30pm, $75. Geery Theater, 2130 L St.

hARVEst FEstiVAL ORiGiNAL ARt & cRAFt shOW: More than 300 of the country’s artists and crafters selling jewelry, specialty foods, ceramics and more for this 45th annual festival. 10am. $4-$9. Cal Expo, 1600 Exposition Blvd.

FLiGht MONGOOsE: With Enso Anima, The New Crowns, California Child. 6pm, $10-$12.

Holy Diver, 1517 21st St.

NOEL ViNtAGE hOLiDAY MARKEt: More than 40

GiADA VALENti: Venetian vocalist. 7:30pm,

vendors, live music, a bar and more. Rain or shine. 6pm. $5-$10. Placer County Fairgrounds, 800 All American City Blvd. in Roseville.

$31.50-$100. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.

JAsON DAVis: With DJ Sourmonkey, DJ Tam. A night of hip-hop and trap. 10pm, no cover-$5. Chaise Lounge, 1330 H St.

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Dear cancer, f--k you Various Venues, 7 p.m., $5-$20 People can’t agree on much these days. But if cancer was a person, everyone reading this would probably punch it Music in the nose and take its lunch money. Because—well—fuck cancer. That’s the premise behind Danny Secretion’s Lame-Ass Birthday Bash, the annual punk fest where local bands play to raise money for the American Cancer Society. Now in its 15th year, the five-night birthday party for The Moans’ guitarist has grown to include

SATURDAY, 11/18

GREG LOiAcONO GROuP: With Casual Coalition.

sAcRAMENtO AFRicAN MARKEtPLAcE: The

9pm, $12. Torch Club, 904 15th St.

showcase of African-American memorabilia, books, jewelry, skincare and more, every first and third Saturday of the month, has its Black Saturday sale. Noon, no cover.

Sojourner Truth Museum, 2251 Florin Road.

GuNs N’ ROsEs: Classic rock. 8pm, $125-$225.

Golden 1 Center, 500 David J Stern Walk.

thE sAchAL ENsEMBLE: The Pakistani ensemble play recreations of songs by musicians including the Beatles and Dave Brubeck, as well as traditional Pakistani folk songs.

7:30am, $24-$54. Harris Center, 10 College Parkway in Folsom.

EAst sAcRAMENtO hOLiDAY cRAFt shOW: Gift and household items including ornaments, skincare, jams, pottery and plants for sale.

9am, no cover. East Sacramento, 1209 54th St.

sEPARAtE sPiNEs: Album release party with guests There Will Be Monsters and Mutable.

The 100th person gets a door prize. 8pm, $5.

St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 1430 J St.

FRIDAY, 11/17 AsLEEP At thE WhEEL: Grammy Award-winning

6pm, $25. Ace Of Spades, 1417 R St.

KuiKAtL Music: Music practice with indigenous instruments, with musicians from Oaxaca, Berkeley and Sacramento. 1pm, by donation.

Sol Collective, 2574 21st St.

OFF With thEiR hEADs: With Iron Chic. 7pm, $15-$20. Holy Diver, 1517 21st St.

THURSDAY, 11/16 thE ABYssiNiANs FEAtuRiNG BERNARD cOLLiNs: With Reggae Angels. 9:30pm, $20-$25.

Harlow’s, 2708 J St.

thE LiQuE: Jazz/hip-hop group plays Audio Muse, a new monthly music series at the Crocker. 6:30pm, $8-$14. Crocker Art Museum, 216 O St.

GAREth EMERY: Electronic artist. 10pm, $15$25. The Park Ultra Lounge, 1116 15th St.

hARD WORKiNG AMERicANs: With Jerry Joseph.

7:30pm, $40. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.

MAYhEM: With Immolation, Black Anvil. 6:30pm, $25. Ace Of Spades, 1417 R St.

country band. 7pm, $35-$55. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.

BAD BOYFRiENDs: With Yogurt Brain, the Globs, VASAS. 8pm, call for cover. The Colony, 3512 Stockton Blvd.

GhOst cOLOR: With 3sd and Criminal Rock.

8pm, $10. On the Y, 670 Fulton Ave.

thE GOLD sOuLs: With Sometimes Warren.

8:30pm, $5. Fox & Goose, 1001 R St.

7:30pm, $24.95. Thunder Valley Casino— Pano Hall, 1200 Athens Ave. in Lincoln.

WicKED BEARs: With Rebel Holocrons and the O’Mulligans. 8pm, no cover. The Stag, 506 Main St. in Woodland.

SATURDAY, 11/18 A NiGht At thE OPERA: The Sacramento

Philharmonic & Opera performs. 8pm, $18-$50. Sacramento Convention Center Complex, 1400 J St.

JOsh hEiNRichs: With Arise Roots. 7:30pm,

AFROLicOus: With Knuff. 7pm, $15-$20. Auburn

MAtisYAhu: Hip-hop/reggae. 7pm, $29.50-$139.

cuFFLiNKs & chARM FAshiON & ENtERtAiNMENt shOW: A music and fashion experience with

$22-$58. Blue Lamp, 1400 Alhambra Blvd.

Ace Of Spades, 1417 R St.

Event Center, 145 Elm Ave. in Auburn.

an all-male fashion show and performances

by Chriscile Patterson, Chris Jones and

ALtERNAtiVE chRistMAs MARKEt: Gift options

from fair-trade vendors. 9:30am, no cover.

Fremont Presbyterian Church, 5770 Carlson Drive.

See event listing on 11/17. 10am. $4-$9. Cal Expo, 1600 Exposition Blvd.

MONDAY, 11/20 MOth WiNGs: With the Livelies, Sloome,

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Cardinal Sins, City Mural. 7pm, $7. Cafe Colonial, 3520 Stockton Blvd.

thANKsGiViNG hOLiDAY FOOD DRiVE: Nivano Health Clinic and corporate office opens its doors as a drop-off site for canned and nonperishable items for Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services. 8am, no cover.

Nivano Health, 1420 River Park Drive, Suite 200.

performs during the Thankful for Swing Party; 1950s dress encouraged and swing lessons starting at 7:30pm. 7:30pm, $10.

Midtown Barfly, 1119 21st St.

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OLD sAcRAMENtO hOLiDAY tREE LiGhtiNG: See event description on page 31. 4:30pm, no cover. Old Sacramento, K Street.

BAstARDs OF YOuNG: With Setting Sons, Riot

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

EMO NiGht sAcRAMENtO: This Thanksgiving edition includes Taking Back Sunday, Fall Out Boy, Brand New and more. 8pm, $5. The Press Club, 2030 P St.

FELiX cARtAL: With Benjam of Requiem Events

SUNDAY, 11/19

hARVEst FEstiVAL ORiGiNAL ARt & cRAFt shOW:

TUESDAY, 11/21 tYLER Rich: With Rachel Steele and Road 88.

See event listing on 11/17. 10am. $4-$9. Cal Expo, 1600 Exposition Blvd. for 11/17. 6pm. $5-$10. Placer County Fairgrounds, 800 All American City Blvd. in Roseville.

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SUNDAY, 11/19 GWAR: With Ghost, He is Legend, U.S. Bastards.

local hip-hop acts like Sparks Across Darkness and Hobo Johnson in addition to FC staples like the O’Mulligans. Last year’s fundraiser was the most lucrative yet, and Danny’s birthday wish is to raise $3,500 this year. It kicked off Wednesday in Folsom, but there are still opportunities to check out cool bands and support a cause we can all get behind. Various venues, www. facebook.com/themoans.

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and Lost in Groove 9pm, no cover. LowBrau, 1050 20th St.

FOOD & DRINK SATURDAY, 11/18 5th ANNuAL RiVER citY chiLi cOOK-OFF: A chili competition featuring more than a dozen local restaurants, including Cali Love Food

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tequila festival Ben Ali shRine CenteR, 11 A.m., $17.99-$26.99

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. 6:30pm. through 12/24. $19-$39. 2711 B St.

It’s five ’o’clock somewhere, am I right?! Grab a lime and get to fOOd and drink knockin’ back samples of delicious tequilas from around the world.

Chefs from various countries will also serve up bites to keep you fed and on your feet for Photo by JenniFer mccallum this day of libations. Ticket sales will benefit victims of the Mexican earthquake. So cheers to Mexico! Cheers to the musicians and the DJs. Cheers to … what were we celebrating again? Oh, yeah … tequila! 3262 Marysville Boulevard.

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monday, 11/20 gHOstbusters: The original comedy about a group of ghost hunters starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Rick Moranis. 7:30pm, $8$10. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.

Truck, The Porch and Stoney’s Rockin’ Rodeo. 6pm, $35. Ace Of Spades, 1417 R St.

HOps & Handlebars: See event highlight

on page 31. 5pm, no cover. Jackrabbit Brewing Company, 1323 Terminal St. in West Sacramento.

bOXing dOnkey anniversary party: The Boxing Donkey celebrates nine years in business with food, drinks, live music and more. 7pm, no cover. Boxing Donkey, 300 Lincoln St. in Roseville.

Queen & prinCess mOtHer daugHter dinner: Entertainment, a motivational speaker and dinner for a mother-daughter crowd. 6pm, $30-$40. Pins N Strikes, 3443 Laguna Blvd. in Elk Grove.

teQuila festival saCramentO: See event

comedy blaCktOp COmedy: Lit Up Script-ish Comedy. A blend of comedy and literature, where the cast reads page one of a local author’s work and improvises the rest. 8pm saturday, 11/18. $10. 3101 Sunset Blvd., Suite 6A in Rocklin.

luna’s Cafe & JuiCe bar: Madlibs with Allie Yada and Drew Kimzey. Local comedians play Madlibs on stage. 8pm saturday, 11/18. $5. 1414 16th St.

punCH line: Anthony Jeselnik. Pennsylvania comedian who appeared in the Comedy Central roasts of Donald Trump and Charlie Sheen. through 11/18. $30-$40. Free Space! Comedy Bingo. With Andrew Absher, Robert Berry, Shahera Hyatt and Saul Trujillo. 7pm sunday, 11/19. $14.30. 2100 Arden Way, Suite 225.

highlight above. 11am, $17.99-$26.99. Ben Ali Shrine Center, 3262 Marysville Blvd.

sunday, 11/19 barkHappy saCramentO barktOber friends— giving pawty: Dogs and their people are invited to party for a good cause: Chako Pitbull Rescue and Advocacy. Social time for the pups, a treat-eating competition and free gifts. 1pm, $12-$15. Big Stump Brewing Co., 1716 L St.

saCramentO COmedy spOt: Dystopian Idol. Three narcissists compete to rule the parallel universe, Dystopia, in this improvised character showcase hosted

by Julie Maginnis. 10:30pm saturday, 11/17. $5. Lady Business: Pajama Party!

Sacramento’s only all-female improv troupe uses audience and cast members’ stories to create a long-form improv show. 8pm saturday, 11/17. $5. 1050 20th St, Suite 130.

Film Friday, 11/17

saCramentO COmmunity Center tHeater: Trevor Noah. The host of The Daily Show comes to Sac. 7:30pm tuesday, 11/21. $49.50$99.50. 1301 L St.

girl rising: Celebrate the International Day of the Girl (November 11) with this film about nine girls overcoming great obstacles to obtain an education and change their fate.

6:30pm, no cover. Colonial Heights Library, 4799 Stockton Blvd.

tHe COlOnial tHeatre: DC Young Fly Comedy

sunday, 11/19 like water fOr CHOCOlate: A marriage in

Mexico defies tradition. 7pm, $8-$10. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.

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Show. Comedian/actor DC Young Fly performs in Sacramento for the first time, alongside Shift Leader Navv Green. 6:30pm friday, 11/17. $35. 3522 Stockton Blvd.

big idea tHeatre: Silent Sky. A show celebrating women, their impact on history and the power of love and friendship. through 12/16. $12-$22. 1616 Del Paso Blvd.

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

COsumnes river COllege: Chicago. See event

highlight below. through 12/9. $5-$15. 8401 Center Parkway.

Harris Center: Marat/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 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 Jesus of Nazareth, through the eyes of his betrayer, Judas Iscariot. through 11/25. $20. 607 Pena Drive in Davis.

luna’s Cafe & JuiCe bar: Izzy Lala—Poems Prose Stories. A performance by the local poet, writer and artist. 8pm thursday 11/16.

Call for cover. 1414 16th St.

mCkinley library: Magic of the Nutcracker.

A free preview of the Sacramento Ballet’s performance of The Nutcracker—a ballet and magic show—followed by a free ballet lesson for the little ones. noon saturday, 11/18. no cover. 601 Alhambra Blvd.

mClaugHlin studiO tHeatre: MTC’s Seussical Jr. Horton the Elephant, the Cat in the Hat and other favorite characters from the mind of Dr. Seuss spring to life onstage. through 11/19. $8-$15. 3470 Swetzer Road in Loomis.

OOley tHeatre: Fierce Femme November Show.

A variety show with comedy, music, dancing and more, all performed by folks who identify as female. 8pm saturday, 11/18. $5 suggested donation. 2007 28th St.

resurreCtiOn tHeatre: Blithe Spirit. The comedy follows the fussy, cantankerous novelist Charles Condomine as he’s haunted by the ghost of his first wife. through 11/18. $15-$20. 1721 25th St.

saCramentO tHeatre: Kings of America. A look at presidential figures throughout American history, their flaws, and the legacies they left behind, through the dreams of a teenage boy. through 12/10. $34-$38. 1419 H St.

tHeatre in tHe HeigHts: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised].

A performance of each of Shakespeare’s 37 plays—plus the sonnets—in just 97 minutes. through 11/19. $15. 8215 Auburn Blvd., Suite G in Citrus Heights.

tHree stages at fOlsOm lake COllege: Cinderella. The Tony Award-winning Broadway musical comes to the stage with an orchestra and incredible transformations like the pumpkin chariot and glass slipper. A sign-interpreted performance will be on Wednesday, 11/22. through 11/22. $49-$89. 10 College Parkway in Folsom.

tOwer tHeatre rOseville: Annie, the Live Musical. The popular musical based on the comic strip 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. 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.

throwing functional porcelain and his new single firing process. Discussion will cover philosophy, design, technique and making a living with clay. through 11/19. $250. 4675 Aldona Lane.

distillery: Dr. Sketchy’s Sacramento Fall Woodland Wonderland. A sketching experience with a live model. Games, prizes, drinks and more. 6:30pm saturday, 11/18. $8-$10. 2107 L St.

frOstad atelier fOundry and gallery: The Shapiro Collection. Eleven larger-than-life bronze sculptures with the theme “woman in a man’s world.” Opening reception at 6pm Saturday, 11/18. through 12/31. no cover. 855 National Drive.

gallery 48 at natOma: Teaching Art Inside.

Paintings and prints by James Carlson, former correctional art instructor, and work by incarcerated artists from the California State Prison in Sacramento. An opening reception will be held at 6pm Friday, 11/17. through 1/18. no cover. 48 Natoma St. in Folsom.

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. through 11/22. no cover. 521 1st St. in Davis.

latinO Center Of art and Culture: Masks, Memories and a Life Well-Lived. More than 50 traditional Mexican masks will be on display, along with Día de los Muertos images from Oaxaca by photographer Ruben Reveles. through 11/18. no cover.

2700 Front Street.

maidu museum & HistOriC site: Voice Exhibit. An exhibit highlighting the work of indigenous women artists. through 11/18. $2-$5. 1970 Johnson Ranch Dr. in Roseville.

saCramentO state: Photo & New Media Salon

art alpHa fired arts: Daniel Alejandro Trejo Slowly Doing the Splits. Ambiguous ceramic sculpture forms leave room for hidden emotions, attitudes or motivations to be projected by the viewer. through 11/18. no cover. Steven Hill Demonstration. A two-day workshop where the artist will demonstrate

Exhibit. A one-night exhibit of works from Sac State’s photography and new media students. 6pm. thursday, 11/16. 6000 J St.

saCramentO state’s rObert else gallery: Set in Stone—Incorporating Stone in Metal. An exhibit focused primarily on the art of stone cutting and lapidary techniques and their

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Chicago Cosumnes RiveR College, 7:30 P.m., $12-$15

Murder, music, babes and a whole lot of razzle-dazzle hit the Cosumnes River College stage with the opening On stage of the acclaimed musical, Chicago. Set during prohibition, the show centers on the rise and fall and rise again of murderous dames Roxie and Velma. With popular numbers like All that Jazz and Mr. Cellophane, an 18-member cast of Cosumnes River College theatre department students bring this Broadway hit to the intimate Black Box Stage. 8401 Center Parkway, www.crc.losrios.edu/theatre.

Photo courtesy oF danielle Weast

SATURDAY, 11/18

WTF (WOMEN, TRANS FEMME) NIGHT: A ride for

Hops & Handlebars Jackrabbit brewing cO., 5 p.m., nO cOver

Transgender Awareness Week, with flags to decorate your bike and make the group of trans folks and allies visible. 4pm, no cover.

Sacramento Bicycle Kitchen, 1915 I St.

It just wouldn’t be November without a moustache competition. ’Staches of all sizes and styles will bring FOOD AND DRINK their owners out for an evening of beers, music, food and the contest they’ve been preparing for. There’s no cost to attend, but the night is meant to raise awareness and funds to help prevent prostate cancer, so bring some money to donate. 1323 Terminal Street in West Sacramento, www.facebook.com/jackrabbitbrewing.

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SHEPARD GARDEN AND ART CENTER: Fine Silks and Tribal Art. Handwoven silk, cotton and hemp textiles from Laos and Vietnam. Through 11/19. No cover. 3330 McKinley Blvd.

SOUTHSIDE PARK: Sacramento Creative Communities Meeting and Potluck. Sac Creative Communities Meeting. A potluck and discussion about the challenges in the local creative industry. 2:30pm Sunday, 11/19.

No cover. 2115 6th St.

VERGE CENTER FOR THE ARTS: The Art Auction.

A live auction of works by more than 90 artists, who include Michael Bishop, Lynn Criswell and Christine Shields. 5:30pm Saturday, 11/18. $100. 625 S St.

MUSEUMS AEROSPACE MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA: Take Flight.

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

CALIFORNIA MUSEUM: Arte y Almas Dia de los Muertos 2017. A journey through life, love and death. Through 12/30. $9. Beauty and the Beast: California Wildflowers and Climate Change. A display of photographs

by Rob Badger and Nita Winter addresses the effects changing weather patterns have on a universal symbol of beauty: the wildflower. Through 1/28. $9. 1020 O St.

CALIFORNIA STATE INDIAN MUSEUM: Basketweaving Demonstrations. Tuolumne Mewuk will share stories, materials and techniques of basketweaving and teach guests about California Indian culture, history and art. 11am Saturday, 11/18. $3$5. 2618 K St.

CALIFORNIA STATE RAILROAD MUSEUM: Off The Clock. A playful new exhibit that focuses on the variety of sports clubs, teams and athletic competitions that kept Southern Pacific employees entertained in the earlyto mid-1900s. Through 6/1. $10-$15. 111 I St.

CROCKER ART MUSEUM: Kondos in Conversation.

An on-stage conversation between Capital Public Radio’s Beth Ruyak and artist Gregory Kondos, held in conjunction with the release of a 2018 limited-edition

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calendar featuring the landscape painter’s work. 2pm Saturday, 11/18. $20-$30. 216 O St.

TAKE ACTION SATURDAY, 11/18 THE COMMUNITY WANTS ITS MURAL BACK: Recently, a mural was created in Oak Park to show the names of Black folks who have been killed in police encounters. The mural was removed, but this group will discuss how to get the mural back up on the property. Noon, no cover. Guild Theater, 2828 35th St. PHOTO COURTESY OF STUDIO CARRE PHOTOGRAPHIE

Hoodslam is every third Monday, hosted by Broseph Joe Brody and the Hoodslam Band.

7pm, $15. District 30, 1022 K St.

DSA DUES RENEWAL PARTY: A Democratic Socialists of America party to renew, switch or start paying dues. 5pm, no cover.

Organize Sacramento, 1714 Broadway.

SUNDAY, 11/19 LET’S TALK ABOUT FAKE NEWS: Learn to navigate the current information crisis and get to the truth with guidance from political and journalistic experts. Panel includes professionals with the Center for Investigative Reporting, ABC10, Project for an Informed Electorate and Capital Public Radio. 1pm, no cover. Central Library Galleria, 828 I St.

POWERHOUSE SCIENCE CENTER: Dinovember.

Meet Trixie the Triceratops, Vera the Velociraptor and Bradley the Apatosaurus in this collection of dinosaur models, fossils, skeletons and dino egg replicas. Through 11/30. $7-$8. 3615 Auburn Blvd.

LGBTQ THURSDAY, 11/16 DRAG QUEENS ON ICE: Presented by Outword

SPORTS & OUTDOORS THURSDAY, 11/16 FREE YOGA NIGHT: A free yoga session—first half hour is for beginners, followed by yoga for all fitness levels. The class links body, breath and mind with focus on alignment.

7:30pm, no cover. Sacramento State University Union, 6000 J St.

SATURDAY, 11/18 A WALK FOR WARMTH: An hour-long trek along the American River Parkway which will serve as a sleeping bag and blanket drive to help our homeless neighbors stay warm this winter. New or gently used items will be accepted. 11am, $20 or donated item.

Discovery Park, 1600 Garden Highway (enter through El Camino side).

Magazine, this popular annual event will raise money for NorCal AIDS Cycle, Davis Pride and the Sacramento Rainbow Chamber of Commerce Scholarship Foundation. Featuring Sacramento’s hilarious, colorful drag personalities. 6pm, $6-$12. Downtown Sacramento Ice Rink, 701 K St.

SATURDAY, 11/18 ANNUAL TRANSGENDER DAY OF REMEMBRANCE:

MONDAY, 11/20 OAK PARK BLACK CHILD LEGACY CAMPAIGN: A Community Leadership Roundtable Action Session, where community leaders, parents, churches, residents, schools and the youth gather to bring solutions to the major causes of African-American childhood death in the county. 6pm, no cover. Fruit Ridge Elementary School, Room 11, 4625 44th St.

SACTENANTS BIMONTHLY MEETING: Organize

Transgender Day of Remembrance (11/20) is a tribute to those killed due to their actual or perceived gender identity and expression. A candle-light vigil will be held, with a guest speaker, followed by refreshments. 6:30pm, no cover. Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, 2620 Capitol Ave.

around issues including housing as a human right, the lack of rental housing and homelessness, rising rents, gentrification and more. 6pm, no cover. Organize Sacramento, 1714 Broadway.

SATURDAY, 11/18 BOOK PRINTING: Learn all about publishing your own book on the Espresso Book Machine.

Advanced registration required. 10:15am, no cover. Sacramento Central Library, 828 I St.

CARD-MAKING WORKSHOP: Learn paper crafting skills and make two or three cards, with most supplies provided. Bring scissors and adhesives. 2pm, $10. Raley’s Event Center (in store), 1915 Douglas Blvd. in Roseville.

LEARN TO SILKSCREEN: This class covers the basic fundamentals of screen printing, including how to create a stencil on a mesh screen and how to set up and print on paper stock or fabric. 10am, $50. Hacker Lab, 1715 I St.

SUNDAY, 11/19 PELVIC FLOOR TLC: Gain tools for alleviating pain in your pelvis, hips or lower back and develop a better understanding of how pelvic floor muscles work with your breath and abdominal muscles. 2pm, $35-$40.

Herself Mom, 3385 Lanatt St., Suite D.

PERSONAL DEFENSE CLASS: Develop skills to fight for your life and win, accessing your primal instinct for survival. Noon, $15. The Firehouse 5, 2014 9th St.

MONDAY, 11/20 IRISH FOLK DANCE CLASS: Folks of all ages and skill levels can learn traditional Irish folk dance. 7pm, $8. Sierra 2 Center, 2791 24th St.

TUESDAY, 11/21 FOOT REFLEXOLOGY: Take care of yourself at home with a lesson in reflexology: a holistic, all-natural way of treating the body without medications. 6pm, $15-$25. Tian Chao Herbs & Acupuncture, 2809 T St.

WEDNESDAY, 11/22 TASTE TEST: A drop-in improv class where you can meet new people, laugh and have fun.

Class covers basic improv skills and games for learners of all levels. Justine Lopez with the all-female improv troupe Lady Business instructs the class. 7pm, $6. Comedy Spot Training Center, 915 T St.

CAUSEWAY CLASSIC 2017: The big football game between Sac State and UC Davis. 2pm, $8$25. Sacramento State, 6000 J St.

PARKWAY LITTLE LEAGUE SIGN-UPS: A fundamentals clinic for kids ages 4 to 14, practicing basic drills, throwing, catching, batting and pitching. 10am, no cover.

Parkway Little League, 4701 Brookfield Drive.

SILENT DISCO: A unique evening of yoga, music and dance, where participants get a set of headphones for a personalized music experience. 6pm, no cover. ZUDA Yoga, 1515 19th St.

SUNDAY, 11/19 FIESTA EN PATINES SOBRE HIELO: A celebration of Hispanic/Latino heritage and culture, with skating, live music, prizes and family fun.

12pm, $6-$12. Downtown Sacramento Ice Rink, 701 K St.

MONDAY, 11/20 HOODSLAM SACRAMENTO: Wrestling. The Stoner Brothers, Super Beast, Brittany Wonder, Nurse Ratchet and others perform.

WEDNESDAY, 11/22

Old Sacramento Holiday Tree Lighting Old SacramentO, 4:30 p.m., nO cOver

Old Sac: It’s getting lit, and you and the family are invited. Bundle up, grab a cup of hot cocoa and gather ’round HOLIDAYS for the Holiday Tree Lighting Ceremony—the unofficial start to the holiday season in Sacramento. Capitol Dance Academy, Sacramento City College Choir and other groups will perform, followed by the opening performance of Macy’s Theatre of Lights.

Welcome to the most wonderful time of the year. K Street, www.oldsacramento.com.

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Michael Shay Trio, 7pm, $5

Young Ladies Performance Night, 6pm, no cover

The Taylor Chicks, 7pm, no cover

John Miller & Friends, 5pm, no cover

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

PopRockz ’90s Night Kickoff Party, 10pm, no cover

Ronnie’s Annual Birthday Drag Show, 8pm, call for cover

Spectacular Saturdays, 8pm, call for cover

Industry Sundays, 8pm, call for cover

Badlands’ 10th Annual Butterball Thanksgiving Eve Bash, 9pm, W, no cover

Bridget Marie Band, 9:30pm, no cover

Dave & The Box, 9:30pm, no cover

Josh Heinrichs, Arise Roots and more, 7:30pm, $22-$58

Wurdplay Official Release Party, 8pm, $10

Mac Mall and more, 8:30pm, $15-$30

Caliscope, Sunday School and more, 8pm, $10

The Garcia Project, 8pm, $24-$27

Tribute to Bonnie Raitt, 8pm, $20-$30

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Blue lamp

1400 alhaMbra blVd., (916) 455-3400

The BoaRdwalk

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Lucid, Reid Bartlett and more, 8pm, $10

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Manzanita, 8pm, call for cover

Matt Rainey, 8pm, call for cover

Placer Food Bank Fundraiser, 4:30pm, call for cover; Line Dancing, 9pm, call for cover

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Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

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Dragon, 10pm, $10

Absolut Fridays, 9pm, call for cover

Decades, 7pm, call for cover

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Andrew Little, 6pm, no cover

Four Barrel, 7pm, no cover

Frankie and the Defenders, 7pm, no cover

One Eyed Reilly (Drinksgiving), 6pm, W, no cover

fox & Goose

Chicken & Dumpling, 8pm, no cover

Michael B. Justis, 8pm, no cover

The Gold Souls, Sometimes Warren, 9pm, $5

Trail Blazers v. Kings, $22-$73

Guns N’ Roses, 8pm, $125-$225

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Will Hoge, Dan Layus, 7:30pm, $15

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College Night, 9pm, no cover

Groove Thang, 9pm, $5

Neon Playboys, 9pm, $7

The Abyssinians featuring Bernard Collins, 9:30pm, $20-$25

Tainted Love (The Best of the 80s Live), 9pm, $18-$20

Tainted Love (The Best of the 80s Live), 9pm, $18-$20

1630 J st., (916) 476-5076 5681 lonEtrEE blVd., rocklin, (916) 626-3600

haRlow’s

2708 J st., (916) 441-4693

The hideaway

2565 Franklin blVd., (916) 455-1331

Jarabe de Palo, 7pm, $35-$50

Janmondo, 8pm, W, $5

Sunday Morning Coming Down, 4pm, no cover

Karaoke, 8pm, M, no cover; Cactus Pete, 8pm, T, no cover; Trivia, 8pm, W, no cover

Flight Mongoose and more, 6pm, $10-$12

Off With Their Heads and more, 7pm, $15-$20

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Mr. Hooper, 9:30pm, no cover

Byron Colborn, 9:30pm, no cover

Kupros Quiz, 7:30pm, no cover

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

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Audio Muse Show 6:30pm Thursday, $8-$14 Crocker Art Museum Funk/jazz

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

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Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

Every Damn Monday, 7pm, M, no cover; Purgatory, 8pm, no cover

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Izzy Lala: Poems Prose Stories, 8pm, call for cover

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Bob Cheevers, Stephan Doster, 8pm, $15

Madlibs with Allie Yada & Drew Kimzey, 8pm, $5

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MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 11/20-22 Open-Mic Comedy with Jamie Fernandez, 8pm, T, no cover

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Fuck Cancer Benefit Show w/Skid Jones & the Moans and more, 7pm, $5-$20

Lipstick Dance Party, 9pm, $5

Guest Chef, 6pm, M, no cover ($5 plates)

3SD, Ghost Color and more, 8pm, $10

Saturday Night Karaoke, 9pm, no cover

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

Marcia Ball, John Maxwell, 8pm, $20-$25

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There is a boom of cannabis publications these days, and they do more than simply educate users about flower strains and commercial brands. They normalize the public discourse on cannabis, helping to make it an accepted part of our social fabric.

But it’s been a long journey.

In 1991, when Phil Kilv started Weed World in England, he said “the idea was a little more than taboo.” In 1997 he fought in court just to keep publishing. “I have seen global government attitudes ebb and flow towards cannabis,” said Kilv. After 26 years, he feels “the tide has well and truly changed.”

Culture magazine celebrated its 100th issue with a look back eight years at their beginning, when only 14 states had medical marijuana laws, and 60 percent of Americans were against legalization. Now, with features on cutting-edge celebrities like CNN’s Anthony Bourdain and the electro-dance duo Krewella, Culture is influencing how cannabis fits into our definitions of contemporary style.

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FOR THE WEEk OF NOVEMBER 16, 2017 ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Many people go fish-

ing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after,” observed Henry David Thoreau.

The spirit of Thoreau’s observation is true about every one of us to some extent. From time to time, we all try to satisfy our desires in the wrong location, with the wrong tools, and with the wrong people. But I’m happy to announce that his epigram is less true for you now than it has ever been. In the coming months, you will have an unusually good chance to know exactly what you want, be in the right place at the right time to get it, and still want it after you get it. And it all starts now.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I predict that during

the next ten months, you will generate personal power and good fortune as you ripen your skills at creating interesting forms of intimacy. Get started! Here are some tips to keep in mind. 1. All relationships have problems. Every single one, no exceptions! So you should cultivate relationships that bring you useful and educational problems.

2. Be very clear about the qualities you do and don’t want at the core of your most important alliances. 3. Were there past events that still obstruct you from weaving the kind of togetherness that’s really good for you? Use your imagination to put those events behind you forever.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You may be entertaining an internal dialog that sounds something like this: “I need a clear yes or a definitive no . . . a tender revelation or a radical revolution . . . a lesson in love or a cleansing sex marathon—but I’m not sure which! Should I descend or ascend?

Plunge deeper down, all the way to the bottom?

Or zip higher up, in a heedless flight into the wide open spaces? Would I be happier in the poignant embrace of an intense commitment or in the wild frontier where none of the old rules can follow me? I can’t decide! I don’t know which part of my mind I should trust!” If you do hear those thoughts in your brain, Gemini, here’s my advice: There’s no rush to decide. What’s healthiest for your soul is to bask in the uncertainty for a while.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): According to

storyteller Michael Meade, ancient Celtic culture believed that “a person was born through three forces: the coming together of the mother and father, an ancestral spirit’s wish to be reborn, and the involvement of a god or goddess.” Even if you don’t think that’s literally true, the coming weeks will be a favorable time to have fun fantasizing it is. That’s because you’re in a phase when contemplating your origins can invigorate your spiritual health and attract good fortune into your life. So start with the Celtic theory, and go on from there. Which of your ancestors may have sought to live again through you? Which deity might have had a vested interest in you being born? What did you come to this earth to accomplish? Which of your innate potentials have you yet to fully develop, and what can you do to further develop them?

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I predict that starting today and during the next ten months, you will learn more about treating yourself kindly and making yourself happy than you have in years. You will mostly steer clear of the mindset that regards life as a numbing struggle for mere survival. You will regularly dream up creative ideas about how to have more fun while attending to the mundane tasks in your daily rhythm. Here’s the question I hope you will ask yourself every morning for the next 299 days: “How can I love myself wth devotion and ingenuity?”

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): This may be the most

miscellaneous horoscope I’ve ever created for you. That’s apropos, given the fact that you’re a multifaceted quick-change artist these days.

Here’s your sweet mess of oracles. 1. If the triumph you seek isn’t humbling, it’s not the right triumph. 2. You may have an odd impulse to reclaim or recoup something that you have not in fact lost. 3. Before transmutation is possible, you must pay a debt. 4. Don’t be held captive by your beliefs. 5. If you’re given a choice between profane and sacred love, choose sacred.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The next ten months

will be an ideal time to revise and revamp your approach to education. To take maximum advantage of the potentials, create a master

plan to get the training and knowledge you’ll need to thrive for years to come. At first, it may be a challenge to acknowledge that you have a lot more to learn. The comfort-loving part of your nature may be resistant to contemplating the hard work it will require to expand your worldview and enhance your skills. But once you get started, you’ll quickly find the process becoming easier and more pleasurable.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Everything that

can be invented has been invented.”—Charles H. Duell, Director of the U.S. Patent Office, 1899. “Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.”—Lord Kelvin, President, Royal Society, 1895. “All the music that can be written has already been written. We’re just repeating the past.”—19th-century composer Tschaikovsky.

“Video won’t be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a box every night.”—filmmaker Darryl F. Zanuck, commenting on television in 1946. I hope I’ve provided enough evidence to convince you to be faithful to your innovative ideas, Scorpio. Don’t let skeptics or conventional thinkers waylay you.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Of all the

signs in the zodiac, you Sagittarians are most likely to buy a lottery ticket that has the winning numbers. But you’re also more likely than everyone else to throw the ticket in a drawer and forget about it, or else leave it in your jeans when you do the laundry, rendering the ticket unreadable. Please don’t be like that in the coming weeks. Make sure you do what’s necessary to fully cash in on the good fortune that life will be making available.

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

basketball, if a player is fouled by a member of the opposing team, he is given a “free throw.” While standing 15 feet away, he takes a leisurely shot at the basket without having to deal with any defenders. Studies show that a player is most likely to succeed at this task if he shoots the ball underhanded. Yet virtually no professionals ever do this. Why? Because it doesn’t look cool. Everyone opts to shoot free throws overhand, even though it’s not as effective a technique. Weird! Let’s invoke this as a metaphor for your life in the coming weeks, Capricorn. In my astrological opinion, you’ll be more likely to accomplish good and useful things if you’re willing to look uncool.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In 1991, Aquarius rock star Axl Rose recorded the song “November Rain” with his band Guns N’ Roses. It had taken him eight years to compose it. Before it was finally ready for prime time, he had to whittle it down from an 18-minute-long epic to a more succint nine-minute ballad. I see the coming weeks as a time when you should strive to complete work on your personal equivalent of Axl’s opus.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Thomas Edison

was a prolific inventor whose work led to the creation of electric lights, recorded music, movies, and much more. When he was 49 years old, he met Henry Ford, a younger innovator who was at the beginning of his illustrious career. Ford told Edison about his hopes to develop and manufacture low-cost automobiles, and the older man responded with an emphatic endorsement. Ford later said this was the first time anyone had given him any encouragement. Edison’s approval “was worth worlds” to him. I predict, Pisces, that you will receive comparable inspiration from a mentor or guide or teacher in the next nine months. Be on the lookout for that person.

you can call Rob brezsny for your expanded Weekly horoscope: (900) 950-7700. $1.99 per minute. must be 18+. touchtone phone required. Customer service (612) 373-9785. and don’t forget to check out Rob’s website at www.realastrology.com.

Sac’s biz diva of YouTube After declaring bankruptcy at 22, Tiana Burse did one of the hardest things anyone can—she asked for help. And much to her surprise, she was pointed down the road that would lead her to become a successful business consultant and businesswoman in her own right.

Burse is now CEO of District Media Press in Sacramento, and a proud “girl boss.”

You certainly seem to be a wearer of many hats—entrepreneur, businesswoman, public speaker, self-proclaimed social-networking sensation … So what exactly is it that you do?

I am a business consultant. I think I have the intuition of knowing how to convert that into the era that we live in, which is social media. So I think that’s the [role] that I play. And many people don’t understand exactly what I do because they see that I have the agency and Bar Talk and Coffee, and this and that. I’m just a consultant. I know how to get people’s attention.

Tell me about Bar Talk and Coffee and your Wear Your Purpose Proudly clothing line.

Bar Talk and Coffee is just my life in a nutshell. I was going through a challenging moment in my life when I launched [it] and I really in my gut knew that if I was going through that then someone else was as well. So I started to do that, just started to make videos every week based upon what I felt was my living truth and that started to go viral. The reason why I launched the apparel was to really spin off the messages I was delivering every single week.

What has your experience been as a ‘girl boss?’

My mentor always taught me there’s no emotion in business, so I’ve had to hide that because shit still gets to me. Things still upset me, but I can’t let the market see it. Also, I think, not being taken too seriously. I can say the same message as Joe Blow and Joe Blow might get the position as the business consultant. Also, men wanting to get into my pants … I had someone I did business with who definitely tried to do that. I feel like, and this is cliché to say, but as a minority woman in business, I feel like I have to work twice as hard to be half as effective.

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And why do you think that is in this day and age?

on a phone—which is mainly social media—then that is where you need to be putting your business content to get more customers and clients.

We live in a world where everybody is imperfect. We’re all so flawed. And social media has heightened that. It has shown a lot of insight on that, so we’re more aware of it when it happens … Yet we don’t shine light on everything that’s positive. We just pick out the negatives.

In your position, you have the ability to influence budding entrepreneurs.

What is the No. 1 piece of advice you can give them?

How did you get to where you are today, and what do you attribute your success to?

I don’t think that I’m successful by any stretch. I have so much room to grow.

There’s different levels and different forms of success. I think one thing that I’ve done really well is I’m really consistent and I don’t mind working really hard. I will put 16 hours in a day, every day, seven days a week if I have to. And I think that’s something that people don’t typically do. I think they try to do that as an entrepreneur as they go down that path and they realize ‘Oh, shit. This really is work. I really have to work hard.’ They lose the passion and when they lose the passion, they’re tapped out. It’s 60, 80 hours a week.

What role do you see social media playing in the ever-changing world of business?

It is the only thing that has everyone’s attention. If you’re just paying attention to basic human behavior, you’ll actually understand where eyeballs are. If you’re running a business, you’re looking for a client or consumer to walk through your door. So if the eyeballs are constantly

Innovation. If you’re not innovating yourself, you’ll be gone. Even with my company, we focus on getting creative strategies from a marketing standpoint and putting it on social media. Whether it’s videos or campaigns—whatever we decide to do based upon that client. We’re always going to constantly innovate. We’re already thinking about how we’re going to innovate what we do, when we don’t even need to think about that yet, but leaders think in decades.

What does the Sacramento business market look like for those hoping to make the leap to entrepreneurship?

I think it’s an interesting time that we’re in.

This is a bold statement, but it is getting really techy. It’s not going to compete with the Silicon Valley necessarily, but I think that over the next maybe five, 10 years, Sac is going to be the place for business, for tech, for revenue. Ω

bar talk and Coffee can be found on youtube at tiananicoleb, and she is @tiananicoleburse on Facebook. Contact her or check out her t-shirts at tianaburse.com.

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