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I had to transfer from one hospital to another, and I had to take a Lyft there. I was already sick, and the dude showed up with his whole car smelling like garlic. It was terrible. I could tell it was in his teeth, maybe still in the car. You know how it smells when it comes out of people’s skin?

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Planning for disaster Re “Expanding Elk Grove” by Michael Mott (News, February 15); “Oil and water” by Eric Johnson (News, February 15): Immediately following an article condemning oil exploration, we get this article about the annexation of 1,100 plus acres. For what? Building new freeways, homes, stores and gas stations! So which is it? Keep up urban sprawl and drill for more oil, or shut down needless growth and cut our use of fossil fuels?

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Thanks, Pres. Trump Re “Lies of a lying liar” by Ron Lowe (Letters, February 8): Ron Lowe does nothing but complain about President Trump, calling him a liar, and he blames the religious right for the attacks on clinics. He needs to understand that whether a person is pro-life or

pro-choice has nothing to do with what party a person is affiliated with. Also, Hillary Clinton has told her share of lies—the emails for one. Then in her first speech, she promised a $5,000 check for every one not on Obamacare to help with medical costs, but in the debates following she never said a word about that. Talk about breaking

a promise that she never would have kept had she been elected.

Ron needs to realize not everyone prospered during Obama’s term.

I did better during the Bush era than the Obama era, which cost me thousands. At least Trump is helping me get some back.

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Fighting music Re “Black Lives Matter Sacramento wants people to know it actually exists” by Raheem Hosseini (News, April 6, 2016): I truly appreciate the work that Black Lives Matter has done and the commitment to bring about injustices committed against all people of color. I am appalled and disappointed that a high-ranking official took time to call a yoga business owner, who employs all races, and advise her that she has a class (led by a white woman married to a Black man and raising two bi-racial

children) that played rap music in her yoga classes and demanded this cease immediately under threat of picketing and demonstrations. It was said that a black yoga instructor has the same type of rap yoga class and he felt offended that a white woman was offering the same class.

Music is music. It is universal and should not be censored. Should I not listen to country western because I am Black? I want to know your comments and the comments of your readers on this subject. I would like to know why Black Lives Matter entered into this area, a yoga class, no violence, no threat of violence, and a young mother playing and sharing music she enjoys with her students, where is the harm? Her classes were cut (because of the threat of picketing/ demonstration) for what reason?

Playing rap music while white? This is so wrong on so many levels.

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Located on the edge of Folsom’s historic district, the Loyal Order of the Moose Lodge is a touchstone from America’s past and the site of a bitter battle over financial transparency.

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organization—with the current administration, from the national level down to the local level—is corrupt.”

As Moose Lodges struggle for relevance, an internal battle engulfs Folsom chapter

by John Flynn

Inside the Loyal Order of the Moose Lodge in Folsom is a big dead moose. Well, what’s left of it anyway. Its head is mounted on a wall above a pool table, where its taxidermied eyes stare at nothing. As for the lodge in which the head resides, it, too, is eying a dim future.

Once boasting an illustrious membership of actors, athletes and even presidents, Moose Lodges are struggling as their bygone brand fades from relevance.

In May 2017, the Folsom lodge sought to reverse the aging process by electing a new leadership of Jeff Garcia and Bryan Greenwalt, two younger men with families, businesses and deep roots in their community.

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lodge’s longtime administrator Carl Murphy, who has retained the support of Moose International, despite 13 former lodge members claiming Murphy has failed to be transparent with hundreds of thousands of dollars handled by the lodge over the years.

“He doesn’t let anybody see [the finances],” Garcia said. “Doesn’t matter if you’re on the board. Doesn’t matter if you’re a member. They always said, ‘Anytime you want to see something, just ask.’ But when you ask, you get told to fuck off.”

The current leadership mostly declined to comment for this story, but maintained they’re acting appropriately and the allegations are a baseless attempt at vengeance from folks who weren’t Moose material. But the more talkative, expelled members said the old guard

white-knuckled their way of doing things and rejected reforms that likely gave the lodge its best chance at a resurgence.

Now, 130 years after the fraternal organization got its humble start in Kentucky, is Folsom’s Moose Lodge worth saving?

One of its most prominent former members doesn’t think so.

Folsom Mayor Steve Miklos said that, like many other lodge members, he’s written to Moose International on multiple occasions about Murphy. At the end of September, Miklos learned he had been suspended when his membership card no longer granted him entry into the lodge. So he said he cut it up and sent it to the headquarters outside of Chicago.

“The more we wrote, the more people got expelled,” Miklos said.

“I am absolutely convinced this

Moose International’s reach has been shrinking across the United States, Canada and Great Britain over the last few decades. According to figures provided by Darryl Mellema, associate editor of Moose International’s official magazine, the order went from having almost 1.8 million members in 1986 to approximately 1 million members in 2015.

“Numbers have slipped just a bit since,” Mellema wrote in an email.

Most of that slippage has come from the male side of the club, the figures show.

Even as the order sheds dues-paying members, Moose International’s nonprofit tax filings show that membership dues consistently yield $27 million to $30 million each year. Mellema said the group compensated through a combination of cutbacks and increasing dues.

Financial irregularities became a central issue at the Folsom lodge.

Hoping to reform the lodge from a perceived “good ol’ boys club” into a more dynamic nonprofit, lodge members elected Garcia as governor and Greenwalt as treasurer along with multiple new trustees in May 2017. The lodge reached a nine-year membership peak that summer, but Garcia, Greenwalt and others said

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“Mr. Murphy was belligerent, angry, disrespectful and bullying in his behaviors,” reads a letter signed by eight high-ranking members of the Women of the Moose, or WOTM. In the letter, the women accuse Murphy of repeatedly lying and, on one occasion, verbally assaulting former member Donna Bellinger Ryan.

The letter also stated, “no WOTM board member goes to meet with him alone. We always have a witness.”

On January 11, SN&R reached Murphy by calling the lodge.

“I’m not allowed to discuss lodge business with outsiders,” Murphy said. “I could get in trouble.”

But Murphy doesn’t discuss lodge business with insiders, either, say nine former and one current lodge member who spoke to SN&R, along with seven more who signed a letter detailing a chronology of complaints. These lodge members, many of whom have occupied leadership positions, stated that Murphy has never shown them full financial documentation for a lodge that collected $341,335 during the 2015-16 fiscal year—and ended with a balance of $46, according to the most recent tax filings.

Although it’s not rare for nonprofits to break even, lodge members suspect impropriety as they allege Murphy and loyalists like former governor Frank Martucci signed blank checks for unspecified expenses, excluded them from the moneycounting process and ignored reports that their bar was making roughly $9,000 less a month than it should have considering the amount of alcohol the bar purchased.

Lodge members also took issue with Martucci filing a six-figure lawsuit against the lodge’s insurance, while governor, after injuring himself by stepping on a wooden plank that they say he knew was loose. Martucci declined to comment.

Multiple lodge members also independently described a town hall meeting in July 2017, when Greenwalt produced a statement from the lodge’s bank account, which Murphy promptly snatched, crumpled and threw in the trash.

The former lodge members said they don’t know how the vast majority of the lodge’s money was spent, as little went to local charitable projects and none to repair a lodge that Sacramento State professor of engineering Mikael Anderson called “a total tear-down” due to his observations that parts of the foundation were uneven, rotting and infected with black mold.

To figure out the true financial state, Garcia appointed an audit committee. But before the work was completed, he was removed in July after a meeting with two

regional officers from Moose International. suspended members protested outside.

Current member Al Brown, a two-time Citing the protest, Moose International’s former governor who served on the board general governor Michael Leuer then for 11 years, didn’t approve of the changes permanently expelled Garcia, Greenwalt, that occurred under Garcia, who he felt Ryan and others from the organization. “poorly represented” the lodge. Brown When contacted by SN&R, Leuer said when members came to him with wrote in an email, “The former member complaints about Garcia, he told them to issues at Folsom Lodge No. 2009 have write letters to Moose International. been resolved appropriately, a number of (For what it’s worth, in December, months ago. I have no desire to discuss the Folsom city officials presented Garcia with matters further.” a resolution recognizing his nonprofit charHowever, in the August-September ity, Friends of Folsom, for orchestrating a issue of Moose magazine, Leuer made his turkey drive that delivered over 4,200 birds stance clear in an article titled, “Financial to families in need.)

Transparency Is Critical In Lodge In a more general sense, Operation.” Leuer wrote that the Brown called various lodge’s leadership must act allegations: “absolutely against an administrator false,” “absolutely who doesn’t answer ridiculous” and financial questions and an attempt “to stressed how even blacken the name rumors of financial of the Moose.” misconduct can do In a phone call damage. on January 19, he “This ugly situaalso vowed to sue tion has arisen many, Steve Miklos SN&R if it went many times and has mayor, city of Folsom ahead with this story. in many cases caused “You bet your ass,” irreparable damage to he said. While Brown what was once a proud and offered to set up a meeting productive lodge,” he wrote. between SN&R and the current board If Leuer was alluding to the Folsom members, he didn’t return two emails lodge, he may be right. As of February and a voice mail requesting the meeting.

16, the lodge was down more than 100 members from its previous summer high, When elected in may, former trustee Mellema’s figures showed.

Mike Ryan said he took over the lodge’s Miklos, for one, worries that the 50/50 raffle—in which 50 percent goes to Moose Lodge’s questionable reputation a winner and the rest goes to a charitable could tarnish other local nonprofits doing cause. Members were told it was a fundgood work. raiser to repair the lodge.

“My sole singular purpose for trying to After a bartender won half of the get this thing straightened out was to make $55,000 pot, Ryan said he learned it’s sure that this lodge didn’t cloud the effecagainst state law for an organization like tiveness of other service organizations that the Moose Lodge to run 50/50 raffles. It’s do such great work in this community,” the also against state law to send proceeds mayor said. “It’s all over this community outside of the state, yet Murphy proposed what’s going on down there.” to send much of the remaining funds That certainly hasn’t helped the lodge’s to the Illinois headquarters of Moose retention efforts.

International, said Ryan and Greenwalt.

“They’re all going away,” said former Still, even after Ryan raised these member Ryan, who left shortly after concerns to the lodge and the state attorney Greenwalt’s ouster. “You go over there general’s office, he said the raffle started some nights, it’s like a ghost town. We up again, under the exact same conditions. had to cancel things because we had no No action was taken by the state against participation.” the lodge.

Currently, Garcia, Greenwalt and Ryan On September 5, 2017, Greenwalt and still spend time right across the parking lot Ryan said they were suspended along from the Moose Lodge, where, astonishwith much of the board of trustees. Days ingly, there’s another lodge run by the later, Moose International promoted Fraternal Order of Eagles. When they look Murphy to deputy supreme governor, back, the Folsom lodge still looks more or granting him power over several lodges in less as it did during better days.

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“I am absolutely convinced this organization … is corrupt.”

Bars blocking benches. Spikes lining windowsills. Overpass sidewalks mysteriously “closed to pedestrians.” Last week, homeless advocates vowed to push back against certain design components around public spaces that they say subtly enforce social divisions and promote classism.

The conversation recently gained momentum when Kimberly Church, who operates a weekly safe space for homeless adults under 30, noticed a Regional Transit bench in Citrus Heights that had four bars across it. The bars allow people to sit on the bench, but make it torturous to lay on the bench.

Touring downtown Sacramento, SN&R observed other barladen benches at RT stops, including near the Sacramento Community Theater and Capitol Park.

Church and other homeless advocates plan to attend RT’s February 26 board meeting to call for a change of policy. “We have a lot of conversation about racism and sexism, but classism is completely invisible,” Church noted.

RT spokeswoman Wendy Williams told SN&R that roughly 25 of the agency’s 1,600 benches have bars across them. Williams said the controversial benches were installed five years ago by an official who’s no longer at the transit agency. Williams said RT no longer installs such benches because they’re “less comfortable” for customers. Williams added that she thought the RT board would be open to replacing the benches and that the facilities supervisor is testing to see how easily they can be adjusted.

Some Sacramentans experiencing homelessness say the problem goes beyond rt. Vestibules and breezeways across the central city are blocked off from being used as shelters, a move supported by the Downtown Sacramento Partnership. Even the recesses of some state buildings are obstructed with river stones.

David Andre, who lives on the streets and often speaks at council meetings, has become used to the messages that these obstructions send. “Most of the stuff just becomes everyday,” he said. (Michael Mott) This story was made possible by a grant from Tower Cafe.

stoppIng the fIre-starter Jamal Shehadeh has likely put his last smokestack over Sacramento’s sky.

The 59-year-old pleaded guilty February 10 to running an elaborate scheme to burn down local businesses on properties owned by him or his accomplices, all the while threatening lives in more than a half-dozen neighborhoods as he netted $1.5 million in fraudulent insurance claims.

According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Shehadeh’s pyropirating started in december 2009, when he secretly set ablaze a structure on E Street, which was owned by his relative, Saber Shehadeh. In every case, Jamal Shehadeh or people close to him had ownership ties and insurance policies for the properties, prosecutors say. Claims then went out to State Farm, AMCO Insurance or Century Surety Company.

A multicount federal indictment against Shehadeh also details how, in addition to committing the arsons, Shehadeh was clandestinely operating a phony construction company that would bill insurance providers for fixing the very fire damage that Shehadeh caused.

Prosecutors allege Shehadeh was aided in this ruse by “a disbarred attorney” named Brian Stone, who’s facing related charges.

Shehadeh and his accomplices were arrested during a joint investigation by the Sacramento Fire Department, the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District, the FBI and the IRS. Shehadeh was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison. (Scott Thomas Anderson)

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for hospitalizations or expensive treatments,” a county staff report states.

The program has been more successful at connecting patients to basic checkups and lower-priced medications, mostly thanks to doctors who work pro bono. Supervisors heard from physicians last week about women who received their first mammograms at age 50 and patients who, prior to enrolling in Healthy Partners, juggled multiple jobs to afford diabetes medication.

Undocumented immigrants over the age of 65 can have a notoriously difficult time obtaining health care. Many private insurers cap eligibility at age 65 under the assumption that aging adults will transition to Medi-Cal, the state’s version of Medicare. Undocumented immigrants aren’t eligible for those programs.

“They go off the cliff,” Ramirez told supervisors.

The county’s Health and Human Services agency initially pushed for a more conservative “pilot” expansion of the ILLUSTRATION BY SARAH HANSEL program—capping the number of 65-plus enrollees at 200, and admitting only those who were previously enrolled in Healthy Partners. Agency Director Sherri Heller told supervisors that staff would face challenges coordinating the additional care and Sacramento County expands health program for undocumented medications for a thousand new patients, immigrants following age discrimination outcry many of them older.

Age caps aren’t uncommon in healthcare programs serving low-income

by Felicia alvarez populations. The County Medical Services Program, which operates in 35 predominately rural counties in part of the population,” said David By the end of last year, 321 people For undocumented immigrants past California, restricts enrollment to adults Ramirez, a member of the Healthy were on the Healthy Partners wait list, retirement age in Sacramento County, the age 21 to 64. county data shows. One individual died only place to go for medical care is also the Partners Advisory Group. “These are In removing its age cap, Sacramento good people, people who work hard, while waiting to be enrolled. most expensive—the emergency room. joins counties such as Los Angeles and people who are adding more than color Supervisor Phil Serna, who led the Already ineligible for Covered San Francisco with health programs for to Sacramento.” county’s effort to reinstate basic California and Medi-Cal, undocumented undocumented immigrants 19 and older. health care services to immigrants who are 65 and older are Since May 2016, Medi-Cal has The county is home to an estimated undocumented residents also excluded from a Sacramento County fully covered health care for 56,000 undocumented immigrants, following the recession, program that provides basic medical undocumented children according to the Public Policy Institute expressed frustrabenefits to undocumented residents who up to age 19. tion at last week’s are low income. But that’s about to change. of California and UC Berkeley’s Center Healthy Partners, for Labor Research and Education. meeting. “I’m just The Sacramento County Board of which took effect More than 500 applications to the saying, let’s spend Supervisors last week removed age caps in May 2015, spent Healthy Partners program were denied what we budget from its Healthy Partners program, part $141,508 during its last year due to age, income or county for,” he said. of a broader effort to enroll a thousand inaugural fiscal year, of residence ineligibility, a county staff Part of the probmore undocumented adults in a program David Ramirez and $403,944 the report shows. Ten enrollees were kicked lem has been finding that currently has 3,000 members and member, Healthy Partners following year. Even off once they turned 65. medical facilities to spends little of the money in its budget.

Advisory Group with a goal of enrolling Despite heavy interest in the program, perform more complex The board’s unanimous vote came 1,000 new members this Healthy Partners has spent little of its $2.5 procedures, as volunteeramid calls from advocates to end what year, Healthy Partners is million budget. The program returned ing doctors sometimes must they considered age discrimination, and expected to stay well within its over the concerns of the county’s head of about $2 million to the county in the fiscal work out of smaller, less equipped budget. The county is projecting that year that ended June 30, 2017. clinics. “For some specialties, physicians Health and Human Services, the depart$900,000 will be spent on medical That money went unspent even as are not comfortable providing services, ment that oversees the program. services this fiscal year, leaving $1.6 hundreds waited to get into the program. since Healthy Partners does not pay “This is important to a significant million in the account. Ω

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Needles and the damage done As discarded syringes litter Sacramento, opioid coalition ponders a response

by Michael Mott

Dealing with gross stuff is part of the job for Santa Cruz counties requiring pharmaceutical Hector Ortiz, a garbage and recycling hauler companies and other syringe manufacturers to pay employed by Sacramento County. But a nationwide for their collection and disposal. Heidi Sanborn, opioid epidemic has added a perilous wrinkle to his council director, thinks the same should happen in work.

Sacramento.

On November 20, 2017, the senior collection “Why does our law enforcement and waste equipment operator was on his usual route in system have to pay for medical waste?” Sanborn Orangevale, when he saw a piece of foam stuck to posed. “Every year, the waste stream gets more his truck and pried it off. That’s when he felt the hazardous.” prick: a needle piercing his gloved finger.

The city of Sacramento passed an ordinance in Ortiz thought of his wife and four kids.

2010 requiring hospitals, medical offices, veterinary “I had to wait seven days for the results. That clinics and other needle suppliers to collect and was the most stressful thing,” Ortiz recalled. “It’s dispose of used syringes. Violators face fines scary, man. I’m thankful everything was negative. ranging between $250 and $25,000 per day.

But I have to go back and test six months later.

The problem, Sanborn said, is few syringeYou don’t know if something’s building up. You users, businesses and hospitals know of the don’t know.” requirement. The city was unable to immediately Ortiz, who dodged two more needles this say how many organizations comply with the month, isn’t the only collateral victim ordinance. of improperly discarded hypodermic Harm Reduction Services allows syringes. people to trade in their used Littered in alleyways, syringes for clean ones at its “Every year, the on hiking trails and along Oak Park location. Executive waste stream gets riverbanks, spent needles director Melinda Ruger said have become increasingly many who do so report being more hazardous.” visible around Sacramento, shooed away by hospital or Heidi Sanborn say politicians and regional pharmacy staff, who instead director, California Product parks and recycling officials. refer them to mail exchanges Stewardship Council The problem became so or faraway recycling facilities. prolific inside McKinley Park’s Ruger’s clinic disposes of public restrooms last fall that the thousands of pounds of needles Sacramento City Council spent $50,000 monthly. to install a needle grinder in the sewer system.

“For many people, the barrier is the door,” Meanwhile, the Sacramento County Board of Ruger said. “The city ordinance was like others in Supervisors is awaiting an official recommendation other cities—one passed without follow-up.” from its Opioid Coalition. In a February 2017 Ruger also serves on the Opioid Coalition report, the group of health, environmental and and has pushed for outdoor needle exchanges in waste staff told supervisors that what works the past to reduce the spread of Hepatitis B and in other jurisdictions is making disposal sites other bloodborne diseases. But the idea has faced abundant. The report recommended an ordinance resistance from local governments that portray the requiring take-back bins at pharmacies and exchanges as encouraging illegal drug use, she said. allowing clinics to offer needle exchanges, and is Sacramento County Supervisor Don Nottoli now researching what other counties have done. said he will follow up with the coalition. “The costs The law requires that used needles be placed are hidden for disposing of pills, sharps and other in puncture-proof biohazard containers. However, unsecured products,” Nottoli said. “We need to fix syringe-users—a population that spans diabetics to this in a cooperative fashion.” intravenous drug users—often don’t have an easy County spokeswoman Brenda Bongiorno said way to properly dispose of them. the coalition has been considering the issue since The California Product Stewardship Council, its 2015 inception. Ω which has supported efforts to make the makers of carpet, fluorescent bulbs and mattresses responsible Web extra: An extended version of this story is available at for the disposal of their products, has taken the www.newsreview.com/sacramento. same approach toward needle waste. The council backed successful ordinances in Alameda and This story was made possible by a grant from Tower Cafe.

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Sac Fashion Week has blossomed into a full week with more local interest and a handful of budding designers

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city known for its cultural diversity and rapid evolution, Sacramento does have its own sense of fashion, according to designer Hagen Valencia.

“Sac has such great style,” Valencia says. “I would say it’s urban-casual for women, and for guys it’s more streetwear.”

He adds that Sacramento is home to so many talented artists who oftentimes stud their streetwear and urban-casual fashions with pops of funky colors.

Valencia is one of more than a dozen local designers working and creating in the area who help to define Sacramento’s style. He crafts original looks inspired by street fashion and Thrift Town’s vintage clothing and antiques. For the past eight years, he’s honed his skills behind the sewing machine. Still, he says he wants to stay in Sacramento and help make this city a place for designers of all levels to stake a claim in the emerging fashion scene.

That scene is on full display at the upcoming Sac Fashion Week. The event started in 2006 with an idea from its founder and producer Duane Ram who noticed that the only fashion shows in town were hosted on the weekends at clubs and bars. With a mission to highlight the city’s talent, Ram—with the help of his partnering producer Ryan Brough and a couple of trusted photographers—wanted to create a polished fashion showcase modeled after the San Francisco shows that Ram had participated in.

When it first began, SFW was a two-day event that Ram expanded each year into the full-fledged fashion week it is today. Now there are days dedicated to fashion films, model boot camps, fashion forums and panels and of course, the runway showcases dedicated to seasonal collections.

“I don’t think Sacramento is ready to have two fashion weeks like New York and LA,” Ram says. “We’re not quite there yet, but eventually with the new arena and the downtown changing and all the new stores going in, that’s a possibility.”

This year, fierce models will walk the runway in original fashions by local designers as well as designers from India, Russia and San Francisco, all surrounded by the raw DOCO Plaza that is still under construction.

Ram says he hopes the unrefined backdrop will let the collections be the focus on the runway.

“I think we have a lot of great talent here, but they need some help and support to get them to that next level, and shows like Sacramento Fashion Week will help them get that international exposure that they need,” Ram says.

Each designer cast their own models to rock their latest collections. As they finalize fittings, accessories and months of stitching, it all leads up to the big reveal this week. designer hagen valencia and model lanis clark assemble an ensemble in valencia’s natomas studio.

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VINTAGE MODERN In an era when Cyndi Lauper and Madonna donned mesh half-tops and outrageously teased locks, Sacramento fashion designer Janelle Cardenas was raiding her mother’s closet and styling her three sisters in oversized T-shirts cinched with belts and accented with lacy socks.

These dress-up memories are still fresh as Cardenas sits beside her sewing machine inside her West Sac apartment that doubles as her workshop. Poster-sized photographs of high-fashion models wearing her brand, Love by Janelle Cardenas, line the walls of her living room next to images of Marilyn Monroe, Twiggy and Audrey Hepburn.

But Cardenas says her 5-year-old daughter, Anela, has been her constant muse and is the sole inspiration behind her Spring/Summer children’s collection “Love in Abundance.” It’ll premiere at Sac Fashion Week on Friday at DOCO Plaza where her daughter will also model her mother’s original designs.

“I’ve always wanted to be a designer as long as I can remember, but in my culture it was kind of frowned upon,” Cardenas “runway for days” says. “My family wanted me to be a doctor instead of an artist, but with my daughter by continued on page 18

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“runway for days” continued from page 17 See Janelle Cardenas’ and Hagen Valencia’s work at this year’s Sac Fashion Week Spring/Summer Designer Showcase on Friday, February 23 at DOCO Plaza (660 J Street) from 7 to 10 p.m. Visit www. sacfashionweek.com for more information on ticket prices and times for the weekend’s events.

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my side, she’s inspired me to push that envelope. She’s super feminine and loves dressing up, but she plays hard like a boy. A lot of the models I chose are also fearless, but they’re still very ladylike.”

Inspired by the ’50s and ’60s, Cardenas is usually known for her designs–– that hug feminine curves.

At the same time, she uses clean lines in her sewing techniques and plays with contrasting fabrics like lace and faux leather paired with prints like cheetah or polka dots. She says her women’s collections are sexy and classy—but with an edge.

Although this is the first time Cardenas is dedicating an entire collection to girls’ ages 4 to 8, she says she regularly designs her daughter’s birthday dresses and outfits when she goes out on modeling auditions. She also asked some of the girls from Anela’s dance class to walk in this year’s showcase.

“I met each little girl and tried to capture something from their personality or their style because ultimately when the model feels good, they’re going to give it their all,” Cardenas says. “I want them to have fun on the runway.”

Valencia peeks out from his Natomas workshop located inside his garage wearing a black silk kimono, red track pants, checkered Vans and a knitted gray beanie.

His brown eyes brim brightly behind a pair of thickrimmed, black glasses with chunky gold accents on either side of his face. He has that designer allure. His ensemble is busy, but it somehow works.

“For menswear, I feel like sometimes guys don’t know what to wear, and I feel like we’re in such a great time where a lot of people feel really liberated, and we can dress however we want,” Valencia says. “As guys, I think we can push it a little bit more, especially in Sacramento. There are so many different styles and cultures here.”

Valencia designs menswear under the moniker Gold & Thread. Ram notes that it’s hard to find a designer comfortable in that category because of its technical challenges. When he found Valencia, he says he immediately wanted to include his fresh and chic aesthetic with its busy patterns and functional designs on the runway. This year marks Valencia’s third appearance at SFW with his collection “Vision 9: organized chaos.”

The title succinctly describes Valencia’s latest designs. He took inspiration from ’70s fashion and implemented high-contrast with busy patterns like

paisley, houndstooth, camouflage and bold black-andwhite floral prints.

“I’m happy to see it. I’ve spent a lot of time looking for those kinds of designers, and it’s hard to find because men’s is hard to do,” Ram says. “I like what he’s doing a lot. It’s hip. Not really a suit-and-tie kind of thing but a hip, young look.”

Each piece is functional, like his take on a sporty coach’s jacket that is completely reversible with a solid black sleeve on one arm and a busy black-and-white pattern on the other. He also makes vests and hoodies that stay true to Sacramento’s streetwear style with a flash of fun via the inner lining’s busy print. There’s never a dull moment from shoulder to sleeve on Valencia’s pieces.

“Any time I go into a fabric store it’s, like, dangerous for me,” Valencia says. “I’ll be like, ‘I need 10 yards of it. I don’t know what I’m going to do with it, but I love it.’ I feel like sewing today is kind of my sculpture. I’m able to mend fabric or kind of manipulate things. It’s like modern-day sculpture, pretty much.” Ω

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Mozzy on the big screen The Oak Park rapper’s inclusion in Marvel’s Black Panther harkens back to his humble beginnings on Fourth Avenue

by EddiE GonzalEz

Around that time, that same Tim shot When I finally talked to Mozzy, he almost hoops in my driveway on a makeshift didn’t believe I was the person I said I was.

I explained to him that we grew up together, basketball hoop, fashioned out of a milk crate and a few crooked screws nailed to two houses down from one another. The the wall. That crate was the best we could details made sense, but skepticism still do, and it became a symbol for resilience, buzzed in the Oak Park rapper’s voice. resourcefulness and ambition for two Finally, he settled on a tidbit that fully young, impoverished kids in the most notoconvinced him. rious neighborhood in the city. Somehow, “Eddie?” he said, still incredulous. “In that symbol resurfaced on the biggest stage the pink house, with the crate attached to possible: Marvel’s Black Panther. the garage? Like a basketball hoop?”

The very first frame of Black Panther That was all it took. is a milk crate nailed to a piece of plywood The Mozzy I remember was a young, to make a basketball hoop for a group of adventurous and always-confident boy children in Oakland. The movie is ripe with named Tim who always had his cousin symbolism, and the milk crate isn’t hard to Eric—now more famously known as figure out. In the final scene of the film, the E-Mozzy—right behind him wherever milk crate basketball hoop returns, he went. Tim attended Oak Park’s and this time the soundtrack Father Keith B. Kenny for the moment is Mozzy’s Elementary, which “Sleep Walkin,” from his required uniforms that spectacular album 1 Up he wore as we ran Top Ahk. Once again, around the neighborthe hoop was meant hood after school. to embody struggle, We sported the hope and ambition, same hairdo back and Sac State graduthen, an unsightly ate and celebrated flat top with a young director Ryan rat tail hanging Coogler knew Mozzy behind, mine flowing was the perfect voice to untamed and Tim’s Mozzy attach to that moment. braided tightly. We were rapper “A nigga really just normal kids, even if genuinely in love with where the dangerous neighborhood I’m from,” Mozzy told SN&R lurked in the background. We’d about his propensity to return home despite scrounge up 50 cents on summer days to the danger in such a trip. “I’m just fatally go swimming at McClatchy Park, or walk attracted to it.” to the community center to shoot pool.

Mozzy made headlines and transcended to We’d point at the nice cars that drove down a new, unseen height for Sacramento rappers Fourth Avenue and proclaim, “That’s my with his inclusion on the Black Panther car.” Even at just 8 and 9 years old, Tim soundtrack, cosigned by Kendrick Lamar after wanted to rap, badly.

“I’m still hungry, still foaming at the mouth, but I’m beyond blessed and I can identify that.”

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Despite successes like his record 1 Up Top Ahk, pictured right, Mozzy’s still booking new gigs.

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a shout-out at this year’s Grammy Awards.

“Sleep Walkin” is the same track Mozzy challenged his fans to rap over, with the reward for the best verse being a spot on his tour last fall.

Now, it serves as the only song in the movie that wasn’t originally composed specifically for the soundtrack, quite the nod of respect from a director helming a $200 million blockbuster to dip into his own personal playlist to instill a little bit of West Coast authenticity into the film. With the screeching vocal sample repeating hauntingly in the background, Mozzy somberly rumbles through the track, remorsefully speaking on his life of crime and his desire to atone for it.

“My last trip to Quentin for that yicki really saved me,” he raps about his prison time on the track. “I was moving mainey every daily, on my baby.” It fit the moment in Black Panther—sonically, aesthetically and symbolically.

For Mozzy, it’s just the next step in his ascension towards superstardom: There are murmurs about his connection with Lamar’s Top Dawg Entertainment, and Mozzy even cites a chance meeting with Kendrick as the moment he felt like he finally made it.

“Kendrick Lamar, when that nigga started

rapping ‘Ima Gangsta,’ I felt like all the work paid off,” Mozzy said. “He spit me a bar, not even the hook, he spit me a bar from the verse and that shit just touched me. That shit was like, ‘Whoa.’ Not because he’s from the West Coast, but that’s Kendrick Lamar, that’s top dog in this rap shit.”

Still, despite the murmurs, he remains independent, with a new EP releasing in March on Empire Records titled Spiritual Conversations, and an album to follow.

“I got a hell of a team,” he said when asked about his major label affiliations. “My team work like a label.”

Still, with such humble beginnings, Mozzy is taking time to enjoy the fruits of his decades of labor.

“This shit right here is such a dream come true,” Mozzy said. “I’m such a humble soul, the smallest things fulfill me.

This shit is fulfillment. I feel like I’m there, like I can’t even go no further. I’m still hungry, still foaming at the mouth, but I’m beyond blessed and I can identify that.” Ω

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the superpower of representation Directed by a Sac State grad, Black Panther probes deeply into the black American experience

by Kris HooKs

You’d be hard-pressed to find adequate black representation in the DC and Marvel cinematic universes. Since the release of Iron Man in 2008, the franchises have released more than 40 superhero movies. Only one of those has had a black lead, and that was the recent release of Black Panther.

When I was about 8 years old, I watched a black superhero on screen for the first time: Robert Townsend in The Meteor Man. It’s the movie that I thought about most as I sat in the theater watching Marvel’s Black Panther.

In the earlier film, Townsend plays a 30-somethingyear-old substitute teacher in Washington, D.C., who is Chadwick Boseman plays Marvel’s Black Panther, king of the most technologically advanced country in the world. struck by a radioactive meteor and given Supermanlike powers. The movie came off as too comedic and, at times, too preachy. Ultimately, it wasn’t a good film.

On the other side of the world, in America, you have I didn’t fully comprehend it at the time, but having representation in a soon-to-be booming genre of film was Jordan as Erik Killmonger, the protagonist who had most black Americans briefly rooting for him because of his important. As a child, I saw a few black superheroes, but ideas of black liberation: Killmonger is a Wakandannone were ever the dress-up-for-Halloween types like American who grew up in Oakland and knows their myriad white superheroes. plight all too well.

I grew to notice that I needed something more— Killmonger’s idea of black liberasomething that represented what I felt growing tion is similar to those of the great up as a poor black kid in South Sacramento.

So Oakland-based revolutionaries So here I was, 28-years-old, sitting in here I was, in the Black Panther Party and a theater watching the very first black Black Lives Matter. It’s his superhero movie I could relate to more 28-years-old, sitting execution of liberation, which than superficially. in a theater watching is more like imperialism, that The movie was directed by leads to the movie’s central Ryan Coogler, a young black man the very first black conflict between Killmonger from Oakland who graduated from superhero movie I could and T’Challa.

Sacramento State University. The cast— The Black Panther characled by Chadwick Boseman, Michael relate to more than ter struggles between keeping B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o and Danai superficially.

Wakanda hidden from the rest of Gurira—is mostly black with the exception of the world or helping the millions of two supporting characters. Coogler even made oppressed people around the globe who sure to include the song “Sleep Walkin” by Oak look like them.

Park native Mozzy, who was enlisted as a feature on the However, look beyond the obvious message of movie’s soundtrack. conflict and you find a film that speaks directly to the Black Panther is unapologetically about the black idea of the bastardization of the black-Americans who, experience in a white-dominated world. centuries after their ancestors were taken from their Boseman plays T’Challa/Black Panther, the newly homes, ultimately lost touch with their African culture. crowned king of Wakanda, the most technologically The movie speaks to black America’s frustration in advanced country on Earth. Hidden from the rest of world more ways than one—and that’s what representation is for centuries, Wakanda hasn’t been subjected to European all about. Ω colonization and has thrived without white influence.

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My bloody Valentine the killer clown roaming the parking lot is freaking us out.

My wife Amy and I don’t normally celebrate Valentine’s Day, but we always joke about looking for unusual ways to make the holiday our own. That’s when we find out about Valentine Haunt, “sacramento’s only Valentine horror activity” from the creators of Ultimate Terror Scream Park. Near Citrus Heights, we park in the back of a lot and watch the clown accost people trying to make their way to the entrance.

“What if he’s just a crazy guy dressed as a clown? How do we know?” Amy asks. Everyone was acting so normal— laughing at this terrifying, possibly actually murderous creature.

It puts us both on edge.

Prior to this, our collective haunted house experiences amounted to a handful of runs through Disney’s Haunted Mansion and a pop-up Halloween haunted house where the biggest fright was a few witches who jumped out and said, “Boo.” In line, it’s only couples. The young pair in front of us embrace in a permanent hug. More wandering creeps emerge and target the girl. the menacing parking lot clown sniffs her hair, laughing maniacally. A woman dressed as a blood-soaked baby approaches her, and asks, “Wanna play?” She seems bemused.

At the entrance, we’re handed a fake flickering candle and pushed into the dark, haunted maze as the demon-lady at the entrance yells: “Fresh meat!”

The walls are dark, filled with spiderwebs. Images of gore surround us. We turn the corner and see a teddy-bear man in the wall, motionless. Once we pass him, he chases us.

A zombie-man sits on a toilet moaning at us, reaching for our brains.

“Hi kids!” he yells, like a host for a satanic saturday morning cartoon. We turn the corner into a post-apocalyptic bathroom scene where a zombie-man sits on a toilet moaning at us, reaching for our brains.

Characters come out from all sides: a killer cupid, demons, a human spider, a smiling maniac in horn-rimmed glasses (a serial killer?). Multiple characters chase us at once from different directions. Amy shouts at the monsters. She tells the human-spider to “git” like it was a scrappy, stray dog, while waving the fake candle at it like a sword. I laugh nervously the whole time.

As terrified as Amy is, she takes charge. She leads the whole way, grabbing my hand. Her instincts kick in and her top priority is to save my life. We know it’s fake, but our bodies don’t, just like when you take that first drop on a roller coaster, and for a split-second, you feel like you just might die. What makes this scarier than a ride is that you literally have to use your legs to escape. You feel like you’re going to freeze, but the adrenaline kicks in and doesn’t stop.

In no time, we are driving away in search of pizza. All we can talk about for hours is the haunted house, and how it feels to have such a massive chemical dump running through our veins.

“It’s therapeutic,” Amy says, in a much better mood than she was earlier that day. “i can see why people get addicted to

extreme sports.”

—AAron CArnes

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Fighting back tears, a parolee spoke at a recent public forum: He said he felt discarded when he went from prison to freedom in Sacramento, where he had never been before.

Paroled to this city after more than a decade behind bars, the man said no one awaited him when he arrived here. He had an address for a local place with a bed, but he had no clue how to get there by bus — and things got no better afterward.

The man made these emotional remarks at a recent public forum hosted by the Sacramento Community Reinvestment Coalition, or SCRC, which is financially supported by The California Endowment.

The broad-based SCRC is hearing people’s concerns about the criminal justice system, before asking the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors to reinvest in the formerly incarcerated and their families in the next fiscal year, which begins July 1.

“Those who hold solutions are often those closest to the pain,” said Ryan McClinton, community organizer for Sacramento ACT, on why the Sacramento Community Reinvestment Coalition wants to hear from victims of the criminal justice system.

After three forums, SCRC has identified three key issues that demand action in the county’s $4 billion-plus upcoming budget.

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Better “wraparound services” for parolees under the jurisdiction of the Sacramento County Probation Department,

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millions for Sacramento County, which controls local jails, McClinton said.

“The county has money ... to address systemic problems,” he said, but it isn’t spending enough to “keep people out of prison.”

The county’s Probation Department has good programs, McClinton said, including one in which young inmates take college classes while in juvenile detention, then enroll in community colleges upon release. But in some areas, he said, the department underperforms.

“We do our best to provide wraparound services for inmates returning from prison, but we agree there’s more work to be done,” said Lee Seale, the county’s chief probation officer.

Ryan mcClinton, community organizer for Sacramento aCT wants to hear from victims of the criminal justice system.

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Seale cautioned that some parolees may be under federal or state jurisdiction and would not be served by the county. He also said the county has recently made “important investments” to enhance parolee services.

The next SCRC forum will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, March 17, at Liberty Towers Church, 5132 Elkhorn Blvd., Sacramento.

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Cochinita pibil is a somewhat rare dish on Sacramento menus.

Crunchy, gooey goodness baCon breakfast sandwiCh, CaMellia Coffee roasters The newest business to join the WAL Public Market family is an open, minimalist coffee shop that serves a breakfast sandwich you could get addicted to. If you’re a fan of savory breakfast options (I am) and can’t always take time to cook yourself a hearty breakfast (I can’t!), the bacon breakfast sandwich is a lifesaver. It’s beautiful to look at and even better to eat: a generous portion of eggs with melted cheese, chives, three strips of bacon on a soft, flaky roll. At $8, it’s a filling morning meal that won’t leave you feeling weighed down. 1104 R Street, www.camelliacoffeeroasters.com.

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Searching for my lost shaker of salt Margarita’s Village 524 12th Street http://margaritasvillage.us Good for: free meals for the kids on Sunday Notable dishes: Cochinita pibil

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Having just returned from the sand and balmy breezes of Mazatlan, I was craving ceviche of the kind that I’d feasted on under a palapa adjacent to a beachfront coconut plantation. Instead, I had the ceviche at Margarita’s Village, which took over the spot previously belonging to the late, lamented 524 Mexican Restaurant in July 2017.

Much of what M.V. serves made me long for the flavorful comfort food of 524, but some things have been improved upon. Margarita’s has brightened up the interior. It has the feel of a tourist spot in Mexico, with bright fuchsia accents and lively music. The service has also been turned up a notch, with attentive servers eager to share the specials and deals on offer.

But the ceviche ($7) was a large, cold, pale pile of crumbly white fish that was dry enough that it seemed like it almost had sand in it, rather than evoking a beachy surrounding.

What was actually surrounding it was packages of saltines—no tostada platform on offer. Ceviche is sometimes served with saltines in addition to tostadas, but crackers-only is highly irregular. I ate maybe one third of this dish, which began my pattern of not finishing dishes at Margarita’s Village. This is unusual, as I’m usually more of a “clean plate club” gal.

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in the asada and the saucy, rich pastor lacked salt. The also-saucy enchiladas verdes ($13) tasted most strongly of crema, and the unrelentingly soft texture could be viewed either as ideal comfort food or TV dinner-like, depending on one’s number of remaining teeth.

I was stoked to see the somewhat locally uncommon dish cochinita pibil ($15) on the menu, but it was unfortunate that the whole habanero served as garnish hadn’t been chopped as salsa to give some heat. The mediumtender pork shoulder was bathed in a citrus sauce and yielded several satisfying tacos.

Yet another dish I didn’t finish was the guacamole ($5). If it was freshly made, the slimy texture did not reflect that, and it was uncomfortably reminiscent of a tub of Trader’s Joe’s house brand. Complimentary, bland red salsa made me crave the roasted red salsa and jalapeno-heavy pico de gallo served at 524.

My watery chile relleno ($13) was abutted by chalky refried beans, so those also went unscarfed.

True to its name, Margarita’s Village has a full liquor license. I sampled the “Piña-ta” ($9), looking forward to the divine combination of tequila and pineapple, but it tasted disappointingly of canned pineapple juice, although the chile salt around the rim was a nice touch.

Here’s where I feel compelled to say that the co-owner Ulises Ponce is so nice, and it was full at lunch, and… people love it on Yelp! He has a deal for kids to eat free on Sundays and an all-you-can-eat taco bar on Tuesdays, and has other daily specials and locally unusual dishes.

Mid-priced Mexican cuisine is a thoroughly covered niche in this neck-of-the-woods, so M.V. will have to bump up the flavors to the level of Chando’s Cantina and Cantina Alley to compete. Ω

Monster flavor Gorilla pale ale, kinG ConG brewinG Co. Making your way down Del Paso Boulevard, it’s tough to miss King Cong Brewing Co.: The massive silver tanks are visible through the front window, a recognizable sign for any craft beer lover to stop in for a drink. The Gorilla Pale Ale ($5.50) is a top costumer pick at this new North Sacramento brewery. The beer is a beautiful golden shade, with very little smell. At 5 percent ABV, it’s easy to drink with an enjoyable wheat flavor. The place gets bonus points for its playful “backyard”—a patio with big-kid Jenga, Connect Four and other games to enjoy with fellow beer lovers. 1709 Del Paso Boulevard, www.facebook.com/kingcongbrewing.

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Shoot me bean sprouts Hairy tangles of bean sprouts evoke a crunchy granola vibe, but our hippie relatives ate them for a reason. Sprouts and shoots are the babiest of plants, and they contain all the promise of the mature produce to come. That means lots of vitamins and nutrients. If you don’t want to put edible silly string on your sandwich, try topping risotto or pasta with a handful of broccoli or pea shoots. Toss bean sprouts into stir-fries at the last minute, just to warm them through. For a subtle zing, snip micro chives onto food as a final garnish.

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The lunchtime line is six deep at Pangaea Bier Cafe and moving fast. Anders Kindall is taking orders in polite, rapid-fire succession. He’s providing samples, asking for IDs and pointing toward the self-serve utensils. And he’s answering the phone from behind the counter, all in a controlled, multitasking whirl.

Pangaea is known for its mean burger, but the tavern in Curtis Park is more well-known for its revolving rotation of beers.

Last week’s sour offerings included Fruitlands from San Diego’s Modern Times, Bouffon from Austin’s Jester King, Ganache by Portland’s Allagash and Vanderghinste Oud Bruin by Brouwerij Bockokr, in the Netherlands, as well as Thribble Currant by Anderson Valley—there is always a sour on tap from this inventive Boonville brewer. Sours, obviously, are suddenly becoming popular.

“Beers turn sour due to spoilage and contamination, and it wasn’t really something that Americans brewed,” says Kindall, Pangaea’s general manager and beer buyer. “But there’s a long, long history of sour beer-making in Europe. Ten or 15 years ago, to my knowledge, the only one doing it in America was Jolly Pumpkin. But it just wasn’t a popular thing. It’s kind of a high-risk, high-reward thing. So many things can go funky.”

Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales in Dexter, Mich., was founded in 2004. It produces unfiltered and unpasteurized beers and was at the domestic forefront of the now ever-expanding sour beer phenomenon.

“Even when you are trying to make sour beers, there’s the potential for an off flavor. It’s not perfectly in control every single time as much as

you’d like it to be,” Kindall says.

Kindall, 28, began to study beer even before he was legally able to purchase it. He lived near Corti Brothers, the East Sacramento specialty foods and wine retailer, and often visited with the store’s experts.

“From the mid-to-late 2000s, the goal was to see who could get the most bitter—most hoppy—beer.

I think people just wanted to get the most bitter thing they could get.” Kindall references Stone, the Escondido brewery and its popular hoppy Arrogant Bastard Ale. And there’s Russian River Brewing Co., in Santa Rosa, and its legendary Pliny the Younger, which Pangaea will serve in a beer-paired dinner on February 26.

“There’s been a shift from, ‘What’s the most hoppy beer you have?’ to, ‘What’s most sour beer you have?’’’Kindall says.

Bitter beers use high levels of hops for a consistent taste. Sour beers use multiple varieties of bacteria and wild yeast.

“Sour beer isn’t an easy-to-define category,” Kindall says. “There are a lot of different styles under the sour beer umbrella, some more approachable, some more extreme. Some sours are good with certain kinds of food, some you don’t look for pairings. There’s just a huge variety of sour beers because the history is so long and so storied.” Ω Pangaea bier Cafe, at 2743 Franklin boulevard, will serve a beer-paired dinner with Pliny the younger on Monday, February 26. tickets for the sold out event are $100.{

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Everything to eat and drink will be doled out in $5 increments. For the amusement of the attendees, live music will be performed by Petaluma, SpaceWalker and Shaun Slaughter as well as art by Garrett Wildgust, A.J. Dell’Aringa and more TBA. Plus, the event offers face-painting, cornhole, ladder golf, a photo booth and a graffiti wall upon which guests will be able to spray-paint their mark.

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“There’s a lot of places where you can go get good quality beer, but not a lot of them where you can get food along with it, especially in this area,” he said. “We wanted to showcase that you can have really high-quality food, very seasonal stuff, without having to pay an arm and a leg for it.”

After working to advance sustainable food practices in prior jobs, Campbell has crafted straightforward new American cuisine like her take on a banh mi sandwich ($9) that places andouille sausage, pickled carrots/daikon, Sriracha and

Japanese mayo into a lightly toasted brioche bun. Andouille also factors into the popular mac-and-cheese balls ($8.50), that get covered in panko crumbs, fried and served with a chipotle crema and a sprinkling of cotija cheese.

Beer-wise, Trauman said he draws from his years running “a glorified craft beer of the month club” by the same name of his new taproom. From 16 taps, he pours beer from Sacramento and other cities, but reserves two taps for a cider and a nitro-infused brew. He also carries a solid selection of wine.

Along with their spouses/business partners, James Campbell and Katie Trauman, Rebecca and Todd plan to host a grand opening block party sometime in March, although the taproom’s been “casually open” since late January.

Hometown duo: The World Butchers’ Challenge determines which country cuts meat the best. And in our

nation of over 320 million, two Sacramentans have been chosen to represent America, Danny Johnson and Paul Carras from Taylor’s Market (2900 Freeport Boulevard).

Johnson said he was one of the Butchers of America’s original selections, who then persuaded the guild that his co-worker and protégé would be critical to the team.

“I said, if we wanted a good chance to win, we needed to take Paul with us,” Johnson recalled.

Team USA concurred and the duo will be part of the six-person squad heading to Belfast in March.

But before then, they’ll be hosting an event ($40 for tickets) with wine and light hors d’oeuvres at the adjacent Taylor’s Kitchen from 6 to 8 p.m. on February 26. All proceeds will go to the Butchers of America, and Johnson said he’s working on getting a butchery competition to come to Sacramento in the not-sodistant future. Ω

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Lyndsay Burch was inspired to write Gandhi!, which the B Street Theatre premieres this week, while in India working on a production about the heroic holy man. That play was a chronological telling of Gandhi’s life, designed for an audience familiar with the story. Burch’s Gandhi! brings its hero into this time and place, using a clever narrative and an original score featuring both hip-hop and Indian classical music.

Not exactly an Indian Hamilton, this is, at times, a rap musical about a political figure—and a kid he ultimately inspires.

The young Mohandas (he goes by Mo) is an American of Indian descent; he’s named after the activist who liberated his parents’ home country— and he couldn’t care less. “He is mainly interested in just integrating into American culture,” Burch says, “so it creates a sort of identity struggle.” Mo is getting into fights at school, and so is instructed to prepare a presentation about his namesake. As he reads, the story comes to life on the stage.

Burch says she hit upon the idea of turning this story into a musical almost immediately.

“Music and dance can be such relatable ways of telling stories,” Burch says. “I think even more relatable than just text, because music and dance can convey different types of emotion through a different kind storytelling.”

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It’s the grand opening of B Street’s new midtown location: the Sofia Tsakopoulos Center of the Arts. A simple, silly plot with this play: An out-of-work London skiffle player finds himself secretly working for two men at the same time.

Madness and hijinks ensue with a large cast of B Street regulars. Thu 8pm, Fri 8pm,

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directed nine Actors’ Equity Association productions, written and directed four touring productions and produced a three-city tour to India. This is her first musical as writer/director. “I did a ton of musicals as an actor,” she says. “And being in musicals helps you see the structure of musicals.”

Burch wrote the lyrics for Gandhi!’s 15 songs; the music was composed by B Street alum Noah Agruss, who is now based in Los Angeles. “I had a strong vision of where I wanted the songs to go,” Burch says, “and we worked together to create both this modern world, and then this very classic Indian world, and then those moments in which these worlds are integrated.”

Mehal Gulati, who plays Gandhi, says the music is key to the play’s feeling of authenticity. “It adds a cultural context,” he says. “By going into the Indian classical staples, pulling sounds from there, creating a fusion, it places us in both cultures.”

Gulati, who was born and raised in India and is based in Washington, D.C., resonates with elements of young Mo’s story—beginning with the young man’s refusal to use his full name. “Your name is such a basic thing for identity,” he says. “And when you travel to a different culture, that’s the first thing that gets destroyed by people unintentionally mispronouncing it.”

With a big grin, Gulati says he finds playing his home country’s hero “a big responsibility.”

“He’s a pretty big character in not just Indian history, but the history of the world, who changed the course of how we fight for things. I took to the teaching very early on, and I’ve been a big admirer of his philosophy. It’s so tough in today’s time, and I’m glad he’s still here living with us.” Ω

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Portraying a connection The Hilton sisters, who gained fame as a singing duo in the 1930s, were strongly attached to each other both emotionally and physically. Side Show The Musical, Green Valley Theatre’s newest production, lovingly and achingly traces the conjoined twins’ careers from abusive childhood to carnival acts to the vaudeville stage. Green Valley hits all the notes—from heartfelt portrayals to strong vocal performances to beautiful costumes, all backed up by a live 12-person orchestra. Fri 8pm, Sat 8pm, Sun 7pm. Through 3/11; $18; The Grange Performing Arts Center, 3823 V Street; www.greenvalleytheatre.com.

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with an unsuspected and embittered cousin, Erik Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan), who challenges him for the throne and plans to use Wakanda’s In Black Panther, Chadwick Boseman plays a miraculous technology to launch a worldwide race superhero. Actually, he’s been doing that for some time: war.

Jackie Robinson in 42 (2013), James Brown in Get on Coogler and Cole also provide our hero with an Up (2014), Thurgood Marshall in Marshall (2017). But extensive female support system: Queen Mother those movies, put together, probably didn’t sell as many Ramonda (Angela Bassett); superspy and sometickets as Black Panther during the first three hours of times lover Nakia (Lupita Nyong’o); General Okoye opening weekend, so I guess they don’t really count.

(Danai Gurira), head of his all-female royal guard; To today’s moviegoers, the achievements of heroes and and his sister Princess Shuri (Letitia Wright), briltrailblazers in real life are all well and good, but what liant guru of Wakandan weaponry and technology. really matters is what goes on in the Marvel universe.

At times this cadre of powerful women threaten to For people to whom comic book movies are the blow the estimable Boseman right off the screen. ultimate measure of validation, Black Panther T’Challa/Black Panther even gets that staple of will resonate beyond its flashy merits.

African American rom-coms, the token white Boseman plays T’Challa, king of buddy—in this case Martin Freeman as the African nation of Wakanda, CIA agent Everett K. Ross. Toss in Andy Black which—like Superman, Batman Serkis as auxiliary white villain Ulysses Panther has its and the rest of them—has Klaue (pronounced “Claw”) and the usual a secret identity. Beneath hundreds (if not thousands) of CGI artists social conscience Wakanda’s disguise as a to enhance the work of some 152 credited in the right mild-mannered Third World stunt men and women, and all the necesplace. country lies a magnificent world sary ingredients are in place. of the future, with a near-magical Coogler deploys all these assets—espetechnology beyond anything known cially that powerhouse cast—with efficiency to humankind, thanks to its monopoly of and aplomb, and the sense that it’s about time a the miracle metal Vibranium. The kings of Wakanda, superhero of color got a big movie of his own is transported by a magic potion during a rite of succesenough to compensate for all the usual clichés and sion, attain the standard array of superpowers usually paint-by-number action scenes. conferred by spider bites, lightning bolts, magic lanterns No comic book movie is ever as good as its fans or immigration from the planet Krypton. think or its box office take would suggest, but at There’s no reason a standard superhero story least Black Panther has its social conscience in the shouldn’t be embellished with elements of black right place. Ω empowerment, rituals echoing real or imagined African folklore and wish-fulfillment fantasies of a Garden of Eden under the canopy of an impenetrable rain forest.

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In the days following September 11, 2001, U.S. Army Special Forces under Capt.

Mitch Nelson (Chris Hemsworth) deploys to Afghanistan, riding horseback into battle with the Taliban. Doug Stanton’s nonfiction book The Horse Soldiers, adapted by Ted Tally and Peter Craig and directed by Nicolai Fuglsig, makes an enjoyable old-fashioned war movie, spruced up with the kind of graphic combat action that couldn’t be done back in the day.

Hemsworth, who grows in stature with every movie, makes a real-life action hero even more stalwart than his comic-book Thor, ably supported by Michael Shannon, Michael Peña and (as their Afghan ally) a scene-stealing Navid Negahban. The movie avoids ruminating on America’s Afghan policy, and ends before things get complicated, making it an upbeat movie about a downbeat war. J.L.

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The story of the biblical strong man from the Book of Judges is drably retold without a trace of style or showmanship, making Cecil B. DeMille’s 1949 Samson and Delilah (which was pretty good already) look like a masterpiece of great art by comparison. Somehow it took four writers (Jason Baumgardner, Galen Gilbert, Timothy Ratajczak and Zach Smith) and two directors (Bruce Macdonald and Gabriel Sabloff) to grind out something even this mediocre; maybe they should all look into another trade. As Samson, Taylor James alternately simpers like a Chippendale’s model and grimaces like a professional wrestler, failing to make much of an impression in either mode, while Caitlin Leahy’s Delilah is a cipher indistinguishable from the faceless women around her—just another of this puny little dud’s miscalculations. J.L.

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This gaseous, pompous, clumsily well-intentioned revisionist Western from writer-director Scott Cooper (Black Mass) offers all the hollow ponderousness of The Revenant without any of the technical exuberance. Christian Bale stars as Capt.

Joseph J. Blocker, an accomplished Indian killer nearing the end of his service who gets ordered to escort an old foe (Wes Studi) and his family to their homeland. Making their way through the blood-soaked moral wasteland that is Blocker’s legacy, the pair slowly reach an understanding while fighting off violent threats from all sides. Cooper made a decent, low-key debut with the Jeff Bridges vehicle Crazy Heart, but ever since then, he has wallowed in pointless violence and thunderously empty drama, and with Hostiles he has hopefully found his nadir. Bale plays hard-bitten terseness in the hammiest manner possible, but as a deranged survivor who joins the caravan, Rosamund Pike delivers the most embarrassing performance of the year. D.B.

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A popular but unhappy country music superstar (Alex Roe) returns to his small hometown and the girlfriend he abandoned at the altar (Jessica Rothe)—and a daughter he never knew he had (Abby Ryder Fortson). Director Bethany Ashton Wolf’s story (from Heidi McLaughlin’s novel) is lifted (no doubt unintentionally) from the forgotten 1956 classic Come Next Spring, but the movie staggers under its own clumsiness (also unintentional). Roe tries for tortured angst, but his character comes off as an unlikeable lump, while young Fortson is saddled with college-age dialogue and the kind of twee precocity that moviemakers seem to think is so cute. And the music isn’t all that hot either.

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A tribe of rabbit-hunting cave men, personified by the bravely stupid Dug (voiced by Eddie Redmayne), are routed by a technologically advanced Bronze Age tribe bent on exploiting the cavemen’s mineral resources. In a desperate ploy to preserve their independence, Dug and his tribe challenge the Bronze Agers to a winner-take-all match of that new game, soccer. At which point the movie runs into trouble—there’s never been an exciting movie about the game most of the world calls “football/fútbol,” and it’s safe to say that if director Nick Park and the gang at Aardman Animation can’t do it, it can’t be done.

Not that the movie doesn’t have its charms even for non-soccer-fans—though they may want to duck out for popcorn during the big game. Those who love the game can nudge the rating up a notch or two. J.L.

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Mary and the Witch’s Flower

Studio Ghibli veteran Hiromasa Yonebayashi adapts Mary Stewart’s 1971 children’s novel The Little Broomstick into this charming, entertaining, just-dark-enough GKIDS import. The story sutures together pieces from Spirited Away and the Harry Potter series: Mary, a bored but courageous orphan with wild red hair, bemoans her adventure-less life in the country, only to get unexpectedly whisked away to a school of magic in the sky. Acquiring short-term “powers” from a magic flower she finds in the woods, Mary bluffs her way through the school gates, but she is forced to become a hero when her lies put other people in danger.

Mary and the Witch’s Flower doesn’t possess the substance and seamlessness of When Marnie Was There, Yonebayashi’s previous effort: the in-scene pacing sometimes feels arrhythmic, and the characters rarely emerge from the plot clutter. However, this is still a compulsively watchable film with a strong female hero and a deluge of gorgeous images. pointlessness. D.B.

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Phantom Thread

Fractured masculinity and daddy obsessions have served as thematic pillars of the cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson ever since he debuted with Hard Eight in 1996.

But before the formula grew untenable and stale, the control freak Anderson veered off track with his cosmically shaggy detective story Inherent Vice in 2014. Anderson serves as his own director of photography on the impeccably groomed yet quietly unsettling fashion world romance Phantom Thread, and he also created his first true female protagonist (there’s even a mommy obsession in the mix). As the demanding 1950s fashion designer Reynolds Woodcock, the excellent Daniel Day-Lewis may get top billing, but the film belongs to Vicky Krieps as Alma, a beach town waitress who enters Reynolds’ orbit.

Phantom Thread often plays like a reverse Taming of the Shrew, with Alma determined to preserve her position in the House of Woodcock by cutting Reynolds down to size.

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The 15:17 to Paris

Director Clint Eastwood and writer Dorothy Blyskal tell the story of those three American tourists who helped foil a terrorist attack on a train from Amsterdam to Paris in 2015, with the three heroes (Spencer Stone, Alek Skarlatos, Anthony Sadler) playing themselves. The young men do quite well, and Eastwood delivers a polished product with a tightly staged climax. Only the inexperienced Blyskal drops the ball; her script (from the book by the three heroes and Jeffrey E. Stern) is slack and tedious, and glosses over the role of French and British passengers in subduing the attacker. Judy Greer and Jenna Fischer co-star as (respectively) Stone’s and Skarlatos’ mothers, and having the heroes play themselves allows for a newsreel cameo by French President François Hollande awarding them the Legion of Honor. J.L.

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Winchester

For whatever reason, 2017 was a strong year for movie ghost stories. Most on the nose was David Lowery’s A Ghost Story, but films as diverse as Personal Shopper, Your Name, Get Out and Coco also dealt with post-life presences unable to move on. If the dispiriting Winchester is any kind of bellwether for 2018, though, it won’t be long before the living envies the dead. All the feel-good phantasmagoria of 2017 turns to slime with this deadly dull film about Sarah Winchester (Helen Mirren), the real-life heiress who created the strange San Jose structure that became known as the Winchester Mystery House. Most of the blame goes to those meddling kids, the writing and directing team of Michael and Peter Spierig (Jigsaw), who spin this tattered yarn with all the gracelessness of an amusement park owner wearing a cheap monster mask. Marlon Wayans has made scarier haunted house films. D.B.

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Small-scale shredding Jake Shimabukuro plays ukulele till his fingers hurt

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Jake Shimabukuro’s fingers fly up and down his ukulele’s tiny, two-octave fretboard as nimbly as any rock guitarist with an ax. He’s more of a modest virtuoso—not one to lean on flashy over-embellishment of melodic phrases, but one who plays true to the song.

Indeed, much of Shimabukuro’s success over the years has been tied to his spot-on renditions of famous rock and pop songs. He shot to fame more than a decade ago thanks to his cover of the Beatles’ “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” one the first-ever viral videos on YouTube. Today, it has more than 15 million hits.

Some selections have been tricky to transpose to ukulele. For example, he struggled to arrange Queen’s rock-opera classic “Bohemian Rhapsody” for his 2011 album, Peace Love Ukulele.

“Finding the right key where all of the key changes and different parts would work dynamically, and getting the right timbre and tone color for each section—that was a real challenge,” he says. “But it was just so much fun; I love when I’m working on a piece, and I have no idea how I’m going to approach it. Through trial and error and sheer stubbornness, you just kind of get through it one note at a time, and the feeling at the end is just so good.”

The Hawaii-based Shimabukuro is at the outset of an extensive national tour—including a date at the Crest

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It’s actually tougher to shred on a tiny fretboard.

Theatre on February 23—to promote his forthcoming album, The Greatest Day. At this point in his career, he’s familiar with the grind of touring. On average, he plays between 110 and 130 shows a year. This inevitably results in some wearand-tear on his hands.

“When we have a lot of back-to-back shows, sometimes my fingertips get a little raw,” he says. “You really want to dig in and give it your all. So there are times when the fingers get tender, but when you start playing the adrenaline kicks in, and you feel no pain.”

Shimabukuro’s previous album, Nashville Sessions, was his first collection of all-original songs. His latest release is roughly half originals and half covers: The track list includes Jimi Hendrix’s “If 6 Was 9,” “Eleanor Rigby” by the Beatles, the Zombies’ “Time of the Season” and an island-reggae version of “Shape of You” by Ed Sheeran.

Aside from that, he says the biggest difference between the two records was a more focused approach in the studio.

“On Nashville Sessions, we went in the studio and just kind of jammed,” he said. “On this one, we tried to take that same free feeling, but tried to arrange the tunes more, be a little more concise, and be a little bit more open to having other types of instruments … everything from marimbas to auto harps, horns and strings and all kinds of stuff.”

Of course, Shimabukuro’s first love is the ukulele. He likes to tell kids who come to his shows to “find a passion and pour your heart into it”—because that’s what he did.

“I picked up the ukulele when I was 4 years old,” he says. “I just fell in love with it and I never had any desire to do anything else. It’s been a really scary obsession with the instrument to this day.” Ω

catch jake shimabukuro 7:30 p.m. friday, february 23, at the crest theatre, 1013 k street. tickets are $39-$69. Learn more at www.jakeshimabukuro.com.

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$10.50. The Tower Theatre, 2508 Land Park Drive.

wedding day, with free wine and food tasting, music and more. noon, no cover.

Hyatt Regency Sacramento, 1209 L St.

HUnting fiLM tOUR: A conservation-minded, fair-chase hunting film filled with amazing stories and cinematography. 7pm, $15-$18.

Guild Theater, 2828 35th St.

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a Raisin in the sun The stage is set and this weekend the curtains will rise on Celebration Arts’ first production in its new On stage theater at 2727 B Street.

The organization that has trained local actors, dancers and musicians for more than 30 years continues its legacy with A Raisin in the Sun. The American classic is centered on a black family in 1950s Chicago,

MUSIC THURSDAY, 2/22 JUniOR ReiD: With Yung Jr., Juju Reid, the One

Blood Band, the Reggae Generals. 9pm, $20$30. Harlow’s Night Club, 2708 J St.

tHe UniteD states naVY COnCeRt BanD: The

premier wind ensemble of the US Navy. 7pm, no cover. Cordova High School, 2239 Chase Dr. in Rancho Cordova.

FRIDAY, 2/23 aLO: Rock band Animal Liberation Orchestra with John Craigie. 8pm, $22.50-$25.

Harlow’s, 2708 J St.

tHe BOMBPOPs: With Yankee Brutal, Boss’

Daughter, Knocked Down. 8pm, $10. Cafe Colonial, 3520 Stockton Blvd.

YeaR Of tHe COBRa: With Chrome Ghost,

Catapult the Dead. 8pm, $10. Blue Lamp, 1400 Alhambra Blvd.

CaPtain CUtiePie: One-year anniversary show with Jesus & The Dinosaurs and Side Effect.

8:30pm, $8. The Colony, 3512 Stockton Blvd.

Lee ann WOMaCK: Texas country artist. 8pm, $34-$92. The Center for the Arts, 314 W. Main St. in Grass Valley.

PnB ROCK: With Lil Baby. 7pm, $31.50-$100. Ace Of Spades, 1417 R St.

SUNDAY, 2/25 MOLLY BURCH: With Mallard, the White Lighters.

6:30pm, $10-$13. Sol Collective, 2574 21st St.

RYanHOOD: With Justin Farren. 2pm, $15. The Acoustic Den Cafe, 10271 Fairway Drive, Suite 120 in Roseville.

SATURDAY, 2/24 BLaCK eXPO: A tribute to black labor, a hair

and fashion show, soul food and more. 11am, no cover. Cal Expo, 1600 Exposition Blvd.

Walk.

MOnDaVi CenteR: Eddie Izzard. In his Believe Me tour, Izzard delivers a funny and emotional show that reveals the man behind the stand-up. 8pm Wednesday, 2/28. sold out. Jackson Hall, One Shields Ave. in Davis.

BURLY BaCKYaRD BBQ: Barbecued sausage sandwiches and chili, craft sodas, floats and cocktails with music, art and family activities. 2pm, no cover. Burly Beverages Gift Shop & Tasting Room, 2014 Del Paso Blvd.

LaUgHs UnLiMiteD COMeDY CLUB: Deaf Puppies

to benefit the Sacramento Children’s Home.

BReWs & BOOKs intRO tO HOMe BReWing: A

citywide celebration with live music, historic displays, food trucks and family-friendly activities. 11am, no cover. Rocklin Quarry Park, 4000 Rocklin Road in Rocklin.

steaMPUnK BaZaaR: A gathering for those

with a love of steampunk. 10:30am, no cover.

Great Escape Games, 1250 Howe Ave., Suite 3A.

SUNDAY, 2/25 cover. Cal Expo, 1600 Exposition Blvd.

celebration with food and drinks, metal mariachi music and a parade. 10am, no cover. Denio’s Roseville Farmers Market & Swap Meet, 1551 Vineyard Road in Roseville.

LUnaR fLOWeR fest anD tet festiVaL: See event listing on 2/24. 10am, no cover Mack Road.

local home brewer will present a variety of beer styles, describing the evolution of pale ale from England to the U.S., with tastings of each. 6:30pm, no cover. Arden-Dimick Library, 891 Watt Ave.

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Standing finalist. through 2/24. $17.50$22.50. 2100 Arden Way, Suite 225.

tHe CenteR fOR tHe aRts: The People Need to Laugh! The four-part weekly comedy series features Auggie Smith. 2pm sunday, 2/18. $20-$22. 314 W. Main St. in Grass Valley.

ON STAGE B stReet tHeatRe: Gandhi! A middle school boy in detention learns deeper values in life when forced to read the life of Mahatma Gandhi. through 3/11. $11-$23. 2711 B St.

FILM

CLaRa: Stories on Stage Sacramento. See

SUNDAY, 2/25

event highlight on page 33. 7:30pm friday, 2/23. $10. McKeever School of Irish Dance.

BURn MOtHeRfUCKeR, BURn!: A documentary on the decades of racial tensions, injustice and a troubled relationship between the Los Angeles Police Department and the African-American community that led to the 1992 uprising. 2pm, no cover. The Brickhouse Gallery & Art Complex, 2837 37th St.

tHe Last BROWn BeRet: A powerful story of

BLaCK eXPO: See event listing on 2/24. noon, no

PUnCH Line: Rachel Feinstein. Last Comic

Kabir Singh. With Skill Hudson and Cuzin Sean. 7:30pm thursday, 2/22. no cover. University Union Redwood Room, 6000 J St.

TUESDAY, 2/27

ROCKLin 125tH anniVeRsaRY CeLeBRatiOn: A

Comedy present Sam Tallent. Featuring Saul Trujillo, Chelsea Bearce and Chris others. 8pm thursday, 2/22. 1207 Front St.

tHe UniVeRsitY UniOn at saC state:

Natoma St. in Folsom.

the Year of the Dog with a carnival games, traditional food and more in the heart of the Little Saigon district. 10am, no cover. 4562 Mack Road.

hosts a lively, humorous discussion of politics and top news stories with special guests. 8pm thursday, 2/22. $22.50-$97. 1013 K St.

Aggressive. Ventriloquist humor. 7pm Wednesday, 2/28. $47.50. 500 David J. Stern

Sacramento’s local breweries with a focus on the industry, its culture and impact on the economy. 6pm, $20-$50. UC Davis School of Medicine, 4610 X St.

5pm, $60. Folsom Community Center, 52

LUnaR fLOWeR fest anD tet festiVaL: Welcome

CRest tHeatRe: Lovett or Leave It. Jon Lovett

gOLDen 1 CenteR: Jeff Dunham Passively

aOaLe BReW Benefit: A showcase of

saCRaMentO CHiLDRen’s HOMe gUiLD CRaB feeD: A crab feed with a raffle and auctions

CaRnaVaL MaRDi gRas: A multicultural

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and kid chefs will create appetizers that guests can enjoy along with area wines. The event promotes food literacy for children.

6:30pm, $60. California Automobile Museum, 2200 Front St.

whose members have different visions of a better future as they await money from a life insurance policy. With Celebration Arts’ history of building community around performing arts and multiculturalism, the organization’s show selection brings poignant topics to this new stage. 2727 B Street, www.celebrationarts.net.

SATURDAY, 2/24

dinner, silent auction, raffle and a tribute performance. 6:30pm, $25-$225. St. Mel Parish Center, 4150 Temescal St. in Fair Oaks.

festa Di VinO: Local chefs, culinary students

Celebration arts theatre, 8 P.M., $10-$20

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four ex-Brown Berets, who gather for a funeral of a fifth Brown Beret after years of distance. 3pm, $25. Colonial Theatre, 3522 Stockton Blvd.

TUESDAY, 2/27 COnCeRt fOR geORge: This tribute performance

Top champions, cute beginners and dancers in between perform Irish step dances. Get tickets in advance at eventbrite.com. noon, 3pm, 6pm saturday, 2/24. $15. 1425 24th St.

CeLeBRatiOn aRts: A Raisin in the Sun. See

event highlight above. through 3/24. $10$20. 2727 B St.

HaRRis CenteR: Dublin Irish Dance: Stepping Out. Through favorite Irish melodies, traditional steps and Celtic instrumentals, this performance tells a story of the Irish Immigration to the United States after the Great Potato Famine of the mid-1800s. 2pm, 7:30pm. through 2/28. $18-$53. 10 College Parkway in Folsom.

created a year after George Harrison’s death features his songs and the music he loved, performed by Eric Clapton, Dhani Harrison, Ringo Starr and others. 7:30pm,

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Stories on Stage CLARA, 7 P.M., $10 suggested donAtion

It’s one thing to hear the emotion of fictional characters through an audiobook, but it’s another experience to see a short fiction come to life on stage. Stories on Stage Sacramento is a volunteer-run effort to present rich literary fiction read by actors. This kickoff to the 2018 season will feature Literature stories written by Anne Raeff (pictured), who often draws on her family’s history as refugees from the Holocaust, and Mira T. Lee, who recently published her first novel, PHOTO COUrTESy OF dENNiS HEarNE Everything Here is Beautiful. Stories on Stage readings are scheduled bi-monthly through October, with a showcase featuring Los Rios Writers in September. 1425 24th Street, www. storiesonstagesacramento.com.

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MONDaVi CeNter: Cudamani Gamelan and Dance of Bali. Explore Indonesian culture with Çudamani, one of Bali’s most respected Gamelan troupes. 8pm Saturday, 2/24. $20$40. 1 Shields Ave. in Davis.

exploration of women in 20th-century art history. From Fortune’s picturesque impressionism to Kent’s spiritually infused pop and Ringgold’s socially engaged quilts, explore the unique contributions these women and their sister artists have made to the history of American art. 1pm Sunday, 2/25. $60$80. 216 O St.

OFF BrOaDStreet: Who the Hell is Holly Miller?

GaLLerY 625: Nature in Transition. Paintings

Follow the rise of an unknown singing sensation—a small-town girl with big dreams. Closing weekend. through 2/24. $25-$28. Located at 305 Commercial St. in Nevada City.

OutLet COWOrKiNG: Stranger Things II—The

SaCraMeNtO tHeatre: Macbeth. One of Shakespeare’s most haunting tragedies, this show is a study in the corrupting power of unchecked ambition. through 3/15, $20$38. 1419 H St.

tHe CreSt tHeater: The Vagina Monologues. V-Day Sacramento’s annual benefit performance of Eve Ensler’s groundbreaking show that celebrates women’s sexuality and strength 7pm Saturday, 2/24. $20-$25. 1300 K St.

triNitY ePiSCOPaL CatHeDraL: Lutheran pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber. This tattooed, salty preacher redefines church. 7pm Friday, 2/23. $25. 2620 Capitol Ave.

uC DaViS: Pippin. A young man’s colorful journey finds him going to war, exploring sex, opposing his father’s political tyranny and possibly finding love while seeking his “Corner of the Sky.” through 3/3. $15. 1 Shields Ave. in Davis.

WiLLiaM J. GeerY tHeatre: Once More with Feeling. See event highlight on page 34. through 3/3. $15. 2130 L St.

and sculptures by West Sacramento artist Cheryl Gleason. through 2/27. 625 Court St. in Woodland.

Art Show. Closing night of the Menagerie.

exhibit. 7pm Saturday, 2/24. $10 suggested donation. 2110 K St.

PeNCe GaLLerY: Return to the Loire— Paintings by Marie-Thérèse Brown.

Paintings from the Loire Valley in France.

Closing weekend of the exhibit. through 2/25. No cover. 212 D St. in Davis.

tHe BriCK HOuSe: Tavarus Blackmonster Formal Delinquent. Closing reception and art talk by the featured artist for Black History Month. 6:30pm Friday, 2/23. No cover. 2837 37th St.

LiTEraTUrE Friday, 2/23 terrY SHaMeS BOOK reaDiNG: Mystery author shares a reading, discussion and book signing for A Reckoning in the Back Country.

1pm, no cover. Avid Reader, 617 Second St. in Davis.

BOYS iN tHe HOOD BOOK CLuB: An innovative

arT artHOuSe ON r: Featured Artist Shirley Hazlett. With Lucia Rothgeb, Rod Williams, Sue Chapman and Linda Heath Clark. through 2/25. No cover. 1021 R St.

literacy program for young kids to read and learn to play chess. 6:30pm, no cover. Escape Velocity Resource Foundation, Inc., 2251 Florin Road.

StOrieS ON StaGe SaCraMeNtO: See event

highlight on page 33. 7:30pm, $10. CLARA, 1425 24th St.

aXiS GaLLerY: Current Bodies. Works by Aida Lizalde, Doug Dertinger, Jamie Angello and Omar Thor Arason. through 2/24. 625 S St.

CrOCKer art MuSeuM: Women, Art and History: E. Charlton Fortune, Corita Kent, and Faith Ringgold in Context. An in-depth

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sunday, 2/25 Meyerstag 2018: See event listing on 2/24.

sunday, 2/25 geneaLOgy—using OnLine HistOriCaL bLaCK newsPaPers FOr geneaLOgiCaL researCH: An overview of the roles of black newspapers.

Professional genealogist Janice Sellers will discuss which newspapers are online, share access strategies and more. 1pm, no cover. Sacramento Public Library—Central Library, 828 I St.

10am, $125. Sacramento Freifechter: Historical European Martial Arts, 3349 J St.

nuts & berries: Meet exotic animals like a Capuchin monkey, an African crested porcupine and a crocodile, then get tickets for a raffle with more than $10,000 in prizes. noon, $5-$140. Wildlife Care Association of Sacramento, 5411 Luce Blvd.

HOnOring bLaCK HistOry MOntH: Lellingby Boyce provides a brief introduction to understanding the country’s race relations, including how government at all levels promoted sustained segregated neighborhoods. 2pm, no cover. Mary L. Stephens Davis Branch Library, 315 E. 14th St.

sports & outdoors Friday, 2/23 Saturday March 4th 6pm-Midnight Tickets $20 available on line, $30 at the door, VIP $65 (916) 261-0412 35265 Willow Ave Clarksburg, CA 95612 15 Minutes South of the Capitol

PedaL FOr tHe y: Join a 12-hour ride-a-thon to raise money for the Y-Assist Scholarship Program. Do the ride solo (you can opt for an hour, all 12 or any amount of time in between) or on a team. 6am, $20. YMCA of Superior California, 2021 W St.

saturday, 2/24 2018 saCraMentO undy runwaLK: A run to raise awareness about the third most commonly diagnosed cancer, colorectal cancer. Participate in a one-mile fun run or the 5K. 9am, $35-$40. William Land Park, 4215 Freeport Blvd.

Meyerstag 2018: Two days of workshops and training in longsword, rapier/side-sword, staff/pole-arms and more, presented by instructors from the Historical Fencing/Historical European Martial Arts community. 10am, $125. Sacramento Freifechter: Historical European Martial Arts, 3349 J St.

saCraMentO POLar PLunge: Take a chilly dip into the water to raise money for Special Olympics athletes in Northern California.

10am, $125 minimum. Sacramento State

Aquatic Center, 1901 Hazel Ave. in Gold River.

taKe action Friday, 2/23 daCa & reLated issues: Examine the current issues facing the fluctuating U.S. immigration policy with featured speakers including folks from the American Federation of Teachers, the White House Initiative for Educational Excellence, UndocuBlack Network, Zapatista Solidarity Coalition of Sacramento and more. 10:30pm, no cover. Folsom Lake College, Buckeye Hall, 10 College Parkway in Folsom.

monday, 2/26 iCe HOtLine resPOnder training: Get trained to be an ICE hotline responder, who are dispatched when Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are in the area. 6pm, no cover. SEIU 2015, 681 W Capitol Ave. in West Sacramento.

tuesday, 2/27 dOMestiC viOLenCe eduCatiOnaL FOruM: This safe-space community forum will educate and inform neighbors of how to spot and report instances of domestic violence, provide resources for victims and survivors and address questions and concerns.

6:30pm, no cover. Belle Cooledge Library, 5600 S Land Park Dr.

Pan-aFriCanisM—wHat it is and wHy it’s iMPOrtant tO aFriCa, aFriCans, and HuManity: An interactive seminar that explains Pan-Africanism as a solution for African people everywhere to address the problems of white supremacy, poverty and the patriarchal oppression of women.

6:30pm, no cover. SEIU 1000, 1325 S St.

Friday, 2/23

Once More with Feeling EmpirE Arts, 8 p.m., $15

for event schedule, guide and lodgind info visit TahoeSnowFest.org or call 530.583.7167

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There’s a divide when it comes to Buffy the Vampire Slayer. On one side, a handful of folks who think the 1992 film version—starring Kristy Swanson, Donald Sutherland Paul Rubens and Luke Perry—is a campy gem of the ’90s. (We’re a loyal bunch.) The rest of ya’ preferred the On stage series created, written and directed

by Joss Whedon and starring Sarah Michelle Gellar. And if this is you, you probably remember the musical episode, “Once More, With Feeling.” Rejoice geeks! The onstage version of this musical opens at Empire Arts this weekend with original choreography, featuring singalong performances during the late shows on 2/24 and 3/3. 2130 L Street, www.empireartscollective.com.

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Songwriters in the Round, 7pm, $5

Garcia & Medina, 7pm, $5

Madeline McArthur, Will Derryberry, 7pm, no cover

Ryanhood, Justin Farren, 2pm, $15

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

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PopRockz, 10pm, no cover

Fierce Fridays, 7pm, call for cover

Bebe Zahara Benet, 10pm, $15-$20

Dirty Work Drag Contest, 8:30pm, no cover

Trapacana, 10pm, W, no cover

Ken Koenig, 9:30pm, no cover

Dylan Crawford, 9:30pm, no cover

Year of the Cobra, Chrome Ghost and more, 8pm, $10

Slim Cessna’s Auto Club with George Cessna, 9pm, $12.50-$15

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Pine + Palm, Royals Die Young and more, 8pm, $10

Sufferer, Wolf & Bear and more, 7pm, $10

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Capitol Fridays, 10pm, free before 10:30pm, $5 after

Dinner and a Drag Show, 7:30pm, $5-$25

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Too many people have been victims of scams in which a criminal seduces a lonely person with luscious photos and promises of eternal love. In 2016, the FBI received more than 15,000 complaints of romance scams and confidence frauds with associated losses totaling over $230 million. But online imposters rarely, if ever, meet their victims in person. So if you are truly interested in getting to know a woman, don’t do it primarily by sleuthing online or establishing connections across a variety of platforms. Spend time together in person and see if you vibe.

Keep this in mind, too: Online dating sites provide a safe boundary around an intimate part of our lives—dating, love and sex. If you violate that boundary by seeing a profile online, swiping right, and then moving off-platform to pen a message you post on another, unrelated site (like Facebook messenger), you seem emotionally unbalanced. Is that the first impression you hope to make?

into me. I think he was about to ask me out, and I mentioned that I found him on Match. He has not responded to my DMs since. It’s been a few weeks now. I only mentioned Match because I wanted to stand out from all the women on that site and I wanted him to know I am single, too.

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There are about 16 states that don’t allow full plant medical cannabis, but they do have “CBD only” laws on the books. Most of the states don’t allow anyone to smoke cannabis, but they can use CBD oil. Texas just started a program, but the state’s having a hard time finding enough patients to make a go of it.

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For some patients, state-issued Medical Marijuana Identification Card is worth the hassle

by Ken Magri

After cannabis went legal for recreational sales, medical users changed from new brides into bridesmaids. Prices went up for them as well, and some ask whether doctor’s recommendations are still worthwhile.

For many, the answer is yes. Medical patients can possess more cannabis, grow more plants, and buy stronger edibles.

They can continue shopping at medicalonly outlets and are safe from any future federal prosecutions.

With an official California Medical Marijuana Identification Card (MMIC), patients are also exempt from the state’s 8.25 percent sales tax. The annual card costs $100, plus a doctor’s recommendation. One would need to spend $140 per month to break even. While you can still get medical marijuana with your recommendation, the MMIC is the only way to get a sales tax break, so it’s worth the hassle for some patients.

After downloading an application form, the earliest available appointment at Sacramento County Vital Records was six weeks away. “Do you want it?” they asked me. “Because the next one isn’t for another month. We only do this on Wednesdays and Fridays.”

I got lucky when someone canceled, so I drove to South Sacramento with my completed form, doctor’s recommendation, proof of residence and cash. Mara

from Vital Records invited me into the tiny “interview room” to double-check the paperwork and snap my picture.

Mara explained that after they confirm the recommendation with my doctor, I could come pick up the card on Friday.

“I need to come back again?” I asked.

“It’s almost like the state doesn’t want people to have a medical card.”

Excited to get the card, I drove down again on Friday, and … oh my god … I hate my picture!

Mara smiled, “We found it’s safer this way than mailing them out.”

Excited to get the card, I drove down again on Friday, and … oh my god … I hate my picture!

I paid a visit to Golden Health and Wellness, where they hadn’t seen the new ID cards. “Look, state-issued,” I told the security guard, but he still wanted to see a driver’s license. Julian the budtender noticed it didn’t have my name, just a number. Nevertheless, the card saved me nine bucks on sales tax, and for at least a few moments, I felt like a new bride again.

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FOR THE WEEk OF FEBRUARy 22, 2018 ARIES (March 21-April 19): When you’re playing

poker, a wild card refers to a card that can be used as any card the cardholder wants it to be. If the two of hearts is deemed wild before the game begins, it can be used as an ace of diamonds, jack of clubs, queen of spades, or anything else. That’s always a good thing! In the game of life, a wild card is the arrival of an unforeseen element that affects the flow of events unpredictably. It might derail your plans, or alter them in ways that are at first inconvenient but ultimately beneficial. It may even cause them to succeed in an even more interesting fashion than you imagined they could. I bring this up, Aries, because I suspect that you’ll be in the wild card season during the next four weeks. Any and all of the above definitions may apply. Be alert for unusual luck.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): If you gorge on 10

pounds of chocolate in the next 24 hours, you will get sick. Please don’t do that. Limit your intake to no more than a pound. Follow a similar policy with any other pleasurable activity. Feel emboldened to surpass your normal dosage, yes, but avoid ridiculous overindulgence. Now is one of the rare times when visionary artist William Blake’s maxim is applicable: “The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.” So is his corollary, “You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough.” But keep in mind that Blake didn’t say, “The road of foolish, reckless exorbitance leads to the palace of wisdom.”

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Have you ever had

a rousing insight about an action that would improve your life, but then you failed to summon the willpower to actually take that action? Have you resolved to embark on some new behavior that would be good for you, but then found yourself unable to carry it out? Most of us have experienced these frustrations. The ancient Greeks had a word for it: akrasia. I bring it up, Gemini, because I suspect you may be less susceptible to akrasia in the next four weeks than you have ever been. I bet you will consistently have the courage and command to actually follow through on what your intuition tells you is in your best interests.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “There is no such

thing as a failed experiment,” said inventor Buckminster Fuller, “only experiments with unexpected outcomes.” That’s an excellent guideline for you to keep in mind during the coming weeks.

You’re entering a phase of your astrological cycle when questions are more important than answers, when explorations are more essential than discoveries, and when curiosity is more useful than knowledge. There will be minimal value in formulating a definitive concept of success and then trying to achieve it. You will have more fun and you will learn more by continually redefining success as you wander and ramble.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): During World War II,

British code-breakers regularly intercepted and deciphered top-secret radio messages that high-ranking German soldiers sent to each other.

Historians have concluded that these heroes shortened the war by at least two years. I bring this to your attention, Leo, in the hope that it will inspire you. I believe your own metaphorical code-breaking skills will be acute in the coming weeks. You’ll be able to decrypt messages that have different meanings from what they appear to mean. You won’t get fooled by deception and misdirection. This knack will enable you to home in on the elusive truths that are circulating—thus saving you from unnecessary and irrelevant turmoil.

more metaphorical kind: a dream, a friendship, an opportunity.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): According to British

philosopher Alain de Botton, “Maturity begins with the capacity to sense and, in good time and without defensiveness, admit to our own craziness.” He says that our humble willingness to be embarrassed by our confusion and mistakes and doubts is key to understanding ourselves. I believe these meditations will be especially useful for you in the coming weeks, Libra. They could lead you to learn and make use of robust new secrets of self-mastery.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): During the next four weeks, there are three activities I suspect you should indulge in at an elevated rate: laughter, dancing and sex. The astrological omens suggest that these pursuits will bring you even more health benefits than usual. They will not only give your body, mind, and soul the precise exercise they need most; they will also make you smarter and kinder and wilder. Fortunately, the astrological omens also suggest that laughter, dancing, and sex will be even more easily available to you than they normally are.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The little

voices in your head may have laryngitis, but they’re still spouting their cracked advice.

Here’s another curiosity: You are extra-attuned to the feelings and thoughts of other people.

I’m tempted to speculate that you’re at least temporarily telepathic. There’s a third factor contributing to the riot in your head: People you were close to earlier in your life are showing up to kibitz you in your nightly dreams. In response, I bid you to bark “Enough!” at all these meddlers.

You have astrological permission to tell them to pipe down so you can hear yourself think.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Paleontologist

Jack Horner says that developmental biologists are halfway toward being able to create a chickenosaurus—a creature that is genetically a blend of a chicken and a dinosaur. This project is conceivable because there’s an evolutionary link between the ancient reptile and the modern bird.

Now is a favorable time for you to contemplate metaphorically similar juxtapositions and combinations, Capricorn. For the foreseeable future, you’ll have extra skill and savvy in the art of amalgamation.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Be stub-

born about your goals but flexible about your methods.” That’s the message I saw on a woman’s T-shirt today. It’s the best possible advice for you to hear right now. To further drive home the point, I’ll add a quote from productivity consultant David Allen: “Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind.”

Are you willing to be loyal and true to your high standards, Aquarius, even as you improvise to uphold and fulfill them?

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In her novel The

Round House, writer Louise Erdrich reminisces about how hard it was, earlier in her life, to yank out the trees whose roots had grown into the foundation of her family’s house. “How funny, strange, that a thing can grow so powerful even when planted in the wrong place,” she says. Then she adds, “ideas, too.” Your first assignment in the coming weeks, my dear Pisces, is to make sure that nothing gets planted in the wrong place.

Your second assignment is to focus all your intelligence and love on locating the right places for new seeds to be planted.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In April 1972, three

American astronauts climbed into a spacecraft and took a trip to the moon and back. On the second day of the 11-day jaunt, pilot Ken Mattingly removed and misplaced his wedding ring. In the zero-gravity conditions, it drifted off and disappeared somewhere in the cabin. Nine days later, on the way home, Mattingly and Charlie Duke did a space walk. When they opened the hatch and slipped outside, they found the wedding ring floating in the blackness of space.

Duke was able to grab it and bring it in. I suspect that in the coming weeks, you will recover a lost or missing item in an equally unlikely location, Virgo. Or perhaps your retrieval will be of a

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.

Surviving on faith When Nissen Mangel arrived at Auschwitz at 10 years old, he was the youngest child at the camp. Now 84 and an esteemed rabbi, scholar, author and philosopher, Mangel

travels the country telling the story of how he endured Auschwitz and four other camps, including near-fatal encounters with Dr. Josef Mengele, who performed horrific experiments on helpless prisoners. Mangel spoke with SN&R before a talk in Roseville. He told the 1,200-plus in attendance that some lose faith after experiencing horror. His faith only grew.

How were you brought to Auschwitz?

The Nazis came to Košice, the city I was living in, in Austria (now Slovakia), in 1944.

They started to take my father, mother, sister and I to Auschwitz. Miraculously, we escaped and went to the capital of Slovakia. We crossed the border, despite the SS (Schutzstaffel) seeing us, and hid.

Unfortunately, there were a few thousand Jews still there and eventually, the SS found us and took us to Auschwitz.

When we arrived, the “Angel of Death” Dr. Josef Mengele made the selection of who went to the gas chamber and who went to work. They sent any child who couldn’t work to die. I was 10 and obviously not capable of working. I said I was 17 since I had no chance. But 17 doesn’t look like 10. I wasn’t tall. Mengele burst up laughing, saying, “You don’t look older than 11.”

Nevertheless, he sent me to work with my father. I can’t explain why. He sent over a million children to the gas chambers. Why did he spare me? I cannot say.

What did you undergo there?

My work was braiding long strings into fuses from a barrel of fabric. One day, I felt my muscles, arms and whole body seize up. A guard punched and kicked me.

I was taken to a clinic, where Mengele and others thought I was contagious. They took me to a camp of hundreds of prisoners Mengele performed painful experiments on. There were many twins; after losing 10 million soldiers, Mengele wanted to know if he could make women have more than one baby. One day, Mengele wanted to see if he could send an injection from my neck to my brain. I screamed, “Experiment on monkeys, but not on me!” Mengele wasn’t used to defiance; he was like a demigod.

“This child defies Mengele?” he said, took out a revolver and shot me.

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would send me to the gas chamber. But I recuperated and went back to work.

Eventually, the Russians came to Auschwitz and I was forced into the death march.

I survived, and can only believe it was God’s intervention. Eventually, an American army liberated the next camp I was in. My father didn’t survive. But, my mother and sister did. Afterward, I studied in England with my sister until I came to Montreal. In 1961, I met a young lady in New York, where I’ve lived since.

Why do you share your story?

Germany in the 1930s was one of the most—if not the most—intellectually and scientifically advanced countries. And yet, it descended into an abyss humanity had never entered: A whole nation sent to kill a people for no crime whatsoever. Amongst the German-Jewish population were the world’s foremost thinkers. Einstein or Freud could have perished.

My survival—I can only attribute to a higher power. Their actions—I can only attribute to education without religion.

Intellectual pursuits, if you stop believing in God, can plunge humans into vicious animals. We must teach morality, ethics and religion. I spread these messages since you cannot have science without morality, or humanity without ethics.

People have drawn parallels to the rise of Nazi Germany and the current administration’s antiimmigrant sentiments. What do you make of that?

There is no comparison to how the government treats immigrants in the U.S. There is no threat of extinction. But there are strange things happening today.

Hitler wanted to wipe off the Jewish people. So does Iran today, with Israel.

Hitler’s main ambition wasn’t to conquer the world; it was to exterminate the Jews.

But they had to defeat the United States and others. If Iran has the atomic bomb, they can intimidate the whole world like North Korea. The only thing I can plead with countries is to stop the bomb. In our time, Iran is the replica of Germany.

Otherwise, look for the countries calling groups inferior. America is built on immigration; nearly everyone comes from somewhere else. The economy requires immigrants, like new blood. If immigrants can be terrorists, I understand vetting. But we must be careful of people calling whole groups “terrorists”—to call a whole nation “bad people,” that’s a problem.

How did you cope with your experiences?

Since I was always a believer, I always thought the world would turn to good.

Eventually, people came to their senses and came together. I believe there is someone that watches our path and will help bring us to the utopia of mankind and brotherhood I always hoped for. I firmly believe we can go from the biggest darkness to light and goodness in the world.

The night becomes darkest before the sun. We are at the end of the darkness.

This is my fervent hope: We will enter a new stage of humanity. Not only did my faith not go away; my faith in God grew stronger.

What should people do when the last Holocaust survivors pass away?

In Auschwitz, Washington and Jerusalem— throughout the world—there are museums that tell these stories. Some deny it ever happened; I saw it with my own eyes. I felt the pain. It will be remembered. We must remember. Without the memory, it can happen again. Why did it happen? If you only teach science without humanity, math without ethics or morality, even the most educated people can descend to the lowest levels. That’s what our testimony is. Ω

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