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A media literacy lesson Last month, we received a package from Tripp Frank, campaign manager for District 4 congressional candidate Regina Bateson. It contained a one-sheet headlined: “Fact Checking Jessica Morse...”

In this game, we get opposition (“oppo”) research like this on occasion. It can make our jobs easier. Of course, we’re skeptical when reviewing stuff from a political campaign that has gone negative.

Our correspondent John Flynn has been reporting a bit about this year’s District 4 race. On Flynn’s request, Frank provided contact info for two sources. Flynn emailed both and heard nothing. He and I also viewed YouTube videos that allegedly contained whoppers. We decided the worst that could be said was that in some cases, Morse exaggerated to paint herself in the best possible light.

And cats eat birds.

Last week, as delegates were headed to San Diego for the Democratic Convention, we picked up the Bee to find an article on page one headlined “Résumé of McClintock rival stretches the truth.” My first thought was “Uhoh. What’d we miss?” I needn’t have worried. The article contained nothing to justify it’s page-one placement.

Touting a “deep dive by The Sacramento Bee into Morse’s background and America’s foreign relations bureaucracy,” the article concludes that some of Morse’s claims “leave the impression that she was a senior official making sweeping U.S. foreign policy decisions.”

They “leave the impression”? In other words: Bupkus.

This is one of the most important congressional races in California, and in the nation. I’m glad the California Dems ignored this nothing-burger and endorsed Morse. Find Flynn’s piece on page 8.

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We’re living in a society with low morals, and that happens to fit right into their lifestyle.

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Yes, it is exaggerated.

Compared to Stockton, there’s nothing going on here. I’m not ever worried about my safety here.

Sacramento’s gangs are nothing like the ones in Stockton.

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I didn’t know we had a gang problem. I’ve never been worried about my safety. So I would say it is definitely exaggerated.

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Yeah, it’s totally overblown.

I was afraid to wear my Buckeyes jersey when I got here because of the stuff I had heard; but now I wear it everywhere and the most I get is fans of other teams messing with me for liking the wrong team—it’s never about the colors. ... People are friendly.

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Grade point averages. Standardized testing results.

Student-to-teacher ratios.

Statistical data measures students’ educational attainment and schools’ efforts to teach them.

While a quality education has the potential to change the trajectory of one’s life, the social and emotional aspects of young people’s lives are equally important to their success. Such was the impetus behind #LifeDataMatters.

“As much as we put into academics … we also need to be aware of who they are as human beings,” said Marcus Strother, Sacramento City Unified School District coordinator of youth development. “As long as we are addressing the whole child, we can build them into being great human beings.”

Students in SCUSD’s Men’s and Women’s Leadership Academies (MWLA) are producing a docuseries called #LifeDataMatters to transform their educational system and make their voices heard. Strother said he hopes viewers will gain an understanding of the importance of addressing young people’s social and emotional needs.

The MWLA program helps young people develop secure social and emotional foundations upon which to build academic success. The goal is to empower students to be scholars of advocacy for self, culture and community through a social justice model.

“We’re definitely trying to build them academically, working with their study skills, tutoring in or outside of the classroom, but we’re also looking at how to build their identity, their cultural awareness, how to help them become community advocates,” Strother says.

The first of four films documents the MWLA youth council’s experiences in Washington,

D.C., and premiered at the Crocker Art Museum in October. After the film is released online on March 3, future episodes will feature the work behind WLA’s Girl Inspired conference, the upcoming Boys and Girls of Color Summit and the youth council’s travels to Peru.

“AS MUCH AS WE PUT INTO ACADEMICS … WE ALSO NEED TO BE AWARE OF WHO THEY ARE AS HUMAN BEINGS.” Marcus Strother SCUSD coordinator of youth development

“Many times young people will tell us, ‘Adults don’t listen to us. They don’t believe that we can offer real input,’” Strother said. “[MWLA] allows them to be in a space where they feel like they get to be heard and that their authentic voice will be a good contribution to what it is we are trying to do.”

Strother said The California Endowment is their strongest supporter, not just in terms of funding through their Building Healthy Communities initiative, but they’ve also supported the program with ideas and resources, including helping develop a stronger online presence, allowing students to better tell their stories.

“So long as we can tell our narrative right and get people to understand the work we’re trying to do, everything else falls into place,” Strother said.

Starting March 3, check out the MWLA series at www.YouTube.com and search #LifeDataMatters.

Students in the Men’s and Women’s Leadership Academies are producing a docuseries that looks at the importance of young people’s social and emotional needs. Photo courtesy of SCUSD

BUILDING HEALTHY COMMUNITIES In 2010, The California Endowment launched a 10-year, $1 billion plan to improve the health of 14 challenged communities across the state. Over the 10 years, residents, communitybased organizations and public institutions will work together to address the socioeconomic and environmental challenges contributing to the poor health of their communities.

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

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Un-Mooseworthy behavior Re “Fraternal disorder” by John Flynn (News, February 22): Wow—SN&R nailed it with this one. I was at the meeting where members demanded financial transparency, and Carl said we could not talk about it, according to Moose rules. He also used profanity, yelled, acted out of order, crumpled paper. And Carl supported this behavior as Mooseworthy. BTW, a live rat ran through the meeting, causing everyone to laugh that after raising $55,000 they had $0 to show for it for repairs. Where does the money go? Can anyone answer the question? Were investigative reporters able? There is none according to the tax documents. Where is it?

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Selfless service and leadership Re “Fraternal disorder” by John Flynn (News, February 22):

As a LOTM [Loyal Order of The Moose] member since 1989, early on I was encouraged not to run for leadership because I was a brown Latino and Native. Perhaps things have changed related to

implicit and institutionalized racism since then. The Redding Lodge—once known nationally for having the unique distinction for having the longest bar in the USA—had to close its operations and joined last year with the Anderson Lodge, 10 miles to the south. However, I believe that operational transparency and encouraging younger, thoughtful membership—and challenging leadership—should be higher priorities. While I have never felt comfortable running for leadership positions in a nearly 90 percent hyper-conservative Caucasian community, I still believe that being selfless in serving our public and our fellows should come from the top down. This article should be an important step in opening dialogue and due process rather than the opposite. Good service is an attractant. Bad service is aversive. This is good and brave reporting by Mr. John Flynn, and publishing by SN&R! (Gosh, I sure hope I am not expelled for my heartfelt First Amendment

expressions herein... I so love being a good servant to my public & fellows!)

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Sleep in the park, not on bus benches Re “Classic Transit” by Michael Mott (Beats, February 22): I would ask: What about compassion for the handicapped user or poor retail worker who just spent eight-plus hours on their feet? These benches are meant for those people, not for someone to crash out on. We have park benches for that.

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Dying homeless deserve compassion Re “A home before death” by John Flynn (News, February 15): This is a wonderful thing.

And a perfect solution to my boyfriend’s homelessness and life-ending traumatic brain injury.

Maybe my homelessness as well.

I am his caretaker and promised to be there for him till the end.

We have two friendly, loyal dogs we couldn’t bear to be without. I could volunteer eight hours a day of my time doing anything from cleaning, to secretary, to arts and crafts. Wonderful thing you are doing. Please do consider couples; no one wants to be alone. stAcy tErrEll

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Can the fourth district be flipped?

Dems tap Jessica Morse to unseat Tom McClintock despite last-minute ‘oppo-research’ attack

by John Flynn

Riding a wave of anti-Trump momentum following the 2016 election, three candidates in California’s fourth district—Jessica Morse, Regina Bateson and Roza Calderon—rose to the top of the heap to challenge incumbent Republican Congressman Tom McClintock.

Each pledged to run a positive campaign, and Morse quickly became the frontrunner, raking in endorsements and contributions. On February 22, on the eve of the California Democratic Party Convention, Bateson and Calderon joined forces and went negative—forming an alliance to deny Morse the crucial state party endorsement.

It didn’t work. Morse received the state party’s nod at the convention on Sunday, a crucial step to defeating McClintock.

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in our district to flip it,” Morse said Monday. “And we’ve got everybody unified and energized and focused moving forward. It also does feel a little like running a marathon and then having somebody say, ‘Great, run another one.’”

The fourth district spans Placer County through the Sierras down to the southern Gold Country, with its biggest population base in Roseville, Rocklin and Granite Bay. Morse’s clinching the endorsement was briefly in doubt last week following an article in The Sacramento Bee, sensationally headlined “This Tom McClintock rival is stretching the truth about her résumé, investigation finds.”

The article was partly about a blog post detailing opposition research by a supporter of Bateson’s campaign.

Following the article, Bateson and

Calderon signed a statement requesting that delegates vote “no endorsement” for their primary, writing that “new information is unfolding.” They framed the endorsement as allowing “money and party elites to dictate who we will ultimately see on the June ballot.”

Laura Lowell, the chair of the Calaveras County Democratic Party, speaking for herself and not the party, said the move was a “sign of a failing campaign, when they fall back to tactics like this.”

She also said Bateson and Calderon’s efforts damaged the prospect of a Democratic victory against McClintock, who won nearly 63 percent of the vote in 2016. In a reliably Republican district, fragmentation among Democrats could prevent them from running any candidate against McClintock. California election

law mandates that the top two vote-getters from the June primary, regardless of party, square off against each other in November for the congressional seat.

In a telephone interview from San Diego, Morse said consolidation was key to victory. “The path to victory is clear, but it’s narrow,” she said. “And we need to be able to get the resources and the energy consolidated against McClintock.

We can’t wait until June.”

Prior to the decision, Maia Pelleg, an adviser to Bateson’s campaign, said the endorsement process was “premature” and would deprive the district’s voters of a fair chance to support the candidate of their choosing. Claiming Bateson would have asked delegates for “no endorsement” even if the campaign expected to win, she noted the nearly 21 percent of District 4 voters who registered under “no party preference,” a share only 8 percent lower than those registered as Democrats. These unaffiliated voters will likely be crucial in the general election and may not be swayed by the state party’s endorsement, she said.

“If Democrats endorse a particular candidate, they basically deprive the overwhelming majority of voters from the opportunity to decide which two candidates should face off in November,” Pelleg said. “An endorsement process is

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Research shows an endorsement can boost a candidate’s share of the vote by 7 to 15 points, according to a forthcoming paper in Political Research Quarterly.

Lowell, a Morse-supporting delegate, took issue with the way she was characterized by Calderon and Bateson’s statement.

“The people who are here at the convention are grassroots activists,” she said. “These are not party elites. These are people who volunteer their time, who come to the convention on their own money. These are not people with a lot of money. These are people who care passionately about the party and state and are willing to do the hard work.” u.s. navy captain dave cutter, who was quoted in the Bee article that touted its investigation into Morse’s record, wrote a post on Medium criticizing the piece.

Cutter wrote that the article “attempts to minimize and dilute Jessica Morse’s work.” Morse’s former boss, Cutter gave Morse extensive credit for her work, reporting that she was in fact a member of a four-person team advising a four-star general, and that she was “the adviser who rewrote the India strategy” for the U.S. Pacific Command—both facts that were brought into question in the Bee article.

“Our community knows me,” Morse said. “Because we have built a campaign on integrity, people can see that and see through anything that’s misrepresenting who I am.”

Morse said the misstatements attributed to her were one-offs cherrypicked from countless speeches she’s given as a candidate—mistakes such as saying “the” adviser instead of “an” adviser.” President Barack Obama’s deputy national security adviser, Ben Rhodes, endorsed Morse on February 24.

Morse said this turn in the race was a distraction from the issues, as she had hoped to use this week to highlight Republican declarations that more guns are needed in schools following the shooting in Parkland, Fla., on February 14. As someone who spent a year in Iraq, Morse said that isn’t a solution.

“I’ve lived in a world where everybody’s armed and it’s called a war zone,” she said. “It’s not safer.”

Joanne Neft is a prominent political figure in District 4 who identifies as a moderate Republican, but helped prior

McClintock Democratic challenger Lowell said that for the last two Charlie Brown. Although she’s been weeks, Bateson’s campaign has made active in politics for decades in the a “ridiculous amount of phone calls to district, she said, she hasn’t paid much delegates,” which only entrenched their attention to this race as she is grieving support for Morse. Lowell applauded for her husband who recently passed Morse for sticking to her promise to run a away. As a result, she said, she would positive campaign, seeing it as a sign that “probably” throw her support behind she’d keep promises as a representative whomever the Democratic Party in Congress. But for now, the intraparty endorsed. bickering has brought back the familiar “The majority of people don’t know refrain that Democrats can’t get their [the candidates],” she said. “All they’re act together to beat even unpopular voting for when the time comes Republicans. is a D or [an] R.” “This kind of behavior Neft said she undermines the entire believes Calderon process,” Lowell “We need to has been “disruptive said. “It just makes be able to get the and distracting,” people look at the but that Morse Democratic Party resources and the and Bateson were and scratch their energy consolidated nearly equivalent heads. Like, ‘what against McClintock. We candidates. She are you guys wished they had thinking?’” can’t wait until June.” joined forces in one campaign morse said she was Jessica Morse against McClintock, open to working with Democratic candidate, CA-04 who has been seen Bateson and Calderon, as vulnerable due to whom she felt “honored” to his lockstep support of run alongside.

Trump and his failure to put forth Pelleg said in the past, all three any legislation that made a meaningful candidates had pledged to drop out of the difference in his district. race if the state party endorsed one, but McClintock has also penned 20 suggested that Bateson’s position might opinion pieces for the far-right media have “changed after meeting so many platform Breitbart (which published an people across the district.” article last week aggregating the Bee’s McClintock and Calderon didn’t reporting). respond to repeated requests for comment.

Instead of Morse, Bateson joined forces One positive for the Democrats came with Calderon, a candidate that has faced a day before Calderon and Bateson’s allegations of embezzling funds from statement. Flip the 14, a statewide the Placer Women Democrats (Calderon organization focused on defeating all denied the charge but returned the $1,900); 14 Republican members of Congress in carrying on a romantic relationship with California, and the Sacramento Central the leader of an ostensibly impartial Labor Council, or AFL-CIO, which political group; and accepting an improper consists of more than 100 labor unions campaign contribution from the CEO of a in Northern California, announced social media company. a strategic partnership to defeat Pelleg clarified that Bateson and McClintock.

Calderon’s partnership applies only Even with this momentum building, to “a shared view about this specific a lot will have to go right for the left if [endorsement] process.” She declined they hope to reclaim a seat they haven’t to comment on the campaign’s stance occupied since 1993. Morse seems ready regarding the Bee and SN&R’s reporting, for her second marathon. beyond saying that she believed people “McClintock only represents his should decide for themselves what they political party, and there’s a cost of make of the information. doing that to our community,” she said.

“The reporting’s out there,” she said.

“Whether it’s forest fires, workforce “And people can make a determination as housing, access to broadband, to how that weighs into their calculations healthcare, education—these are issues for how they evaluate a candidate. Let that impact every member of our people decide what matters to them or community, regardless of party, and not. And you know what? Maybe none of need a real advocate to be working on it does matter to any of them.” solving them.” Ω

Latino students continue to fall between the cracks of California’s education system despite composing 51 percent of the state’s overall student population, according to a study from the western division of the Education Trust.

The report found that the number of Latinos receiving associate’s and bachelor’s degrees doubled over the last decade, yet Latino adults continue to be “the least likely to have a college degree.”

The percentage of adults graduating college in that category only rose by 1 percent from 2005 to 2015.

The Education Trust is a coalition of groups advocating for greater higher learning participation, especially among people of color. The organization’s report identified a number of challenges when it comes to Latinos finishing college, including few Spanishfriendly or bilingual programs in preschools, a lack of access to classes that qualify students for state universities, and bias—knowingly or not—among teachers against steering Latino students toward rigorous coursework.

On the bright side, high school dropout rates for Latino students fell from 27 percent in 1994 to 13 percent in 2015.

State Sen. Ben Hueso said that California’s localized tax funding system for schools has created a “modern segregation system.” Hueso is a San Diego Democrat who leads the Latino Legislative Caucus.

“A working-class family can only afford a cheaper home—that means your school district gets less funding,” Hueso said in a phone interview. “If we really want to make education equal in the state, every system has to get the same money on a per-pupil basis.”

Regional universities have made some strides in Latino enrollment. Sacramento State’s Latino student population is on the cusp being the largest ethnic group of students. Across the 2016-17 school year, sac state’s total enrollment was 28 percent Latino, 29 percent white, 20 percent Asian and 5.5 percent AfricanAmerican. (Felicia Alvarez)

cLean ride As Uber and Lyft outrun public transit, more carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases get pumped into the air. It’s part of a wider commuting trend that is giving the capital region the eighth-worst air quality in the country, according to the American Lung Association. One state senator is convinced it’s time to turn ride-hailing services fully electric.

Sen. Nancy Skinner, a Berkeley Democrat, introduced legislation that sets a target for companies like Uber and Lyft to replace their fleets with clean-burning vehicles over the next 10 years. The bill would try to accomplish this by setting aside $300 million from the Clean Vehicle Rebate Program.

Not all transportation advocates are convinced of the ambitious bill’s merits. Joel Espino, legal counsel for the economic justice nonprofit Greenlining Institute, stressed that ridesharing services pull dollars from buses and light rail.

“We want to get folks out of cars and into high-occupancy transit,” Espino noted, adding that Skinner’s strategy would actively compete with public transit while dissuading car-pooling and increasing congestion.

Espino’s concerns don’t come in a vacuum: A 2015 study by UC Davis suggested that ride-hailing services do indeed pull ridership from public transit. But Matt Baker, land use and conservation policy director for the Environmental Council of Sacramento, said that Skinner’s bill would make good use of funds that are already meant to help California’s broader goal of putting million zeroemission vehicles on its roads by 2030. (Michael Mott) This story was made possible by a grant from Tower Cafe.

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Hedge-fund billionaire/left-wing activist Tom Steyer delivers the keynote speech at the California Democratic Party’s state convention.

Photo by Chris stone / Courtesy of times of sAn Diego

Tack left and boo Trump The California Democratic Party has just two unifying principles

by Ben Christopher

An extended version of this story is available at www.newsreview. com/sacramento.

CALmatters.org is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.

California’s Democrats left San Diego as they arrived: a party still fraying at the seams after the 2016 election, held together by one strong bond—a unifying dislike of President Donald Trump.

Split between their traditional moderate-to-liberal faction and lefterleaning progressives, the delegates refused to endorse in key races and snubbed a few of their own incumbents, notably longtime U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein. Their emotional differences over hot issues such as single-payer health care and rent control were on display. Yet through it all, dissing Trump was a reliable applause line.

“Let us find what unites us at this convention,” said Eric Garcetti, the mayor of Los Angeles who’s been discussed as a Democratic presidential prospect, on the opening evening. “Republicans and Internet trolls and Vladimir Putin [are] laughing every time we’re fighting with each other and not fighting against the Republicans.”

Congresswoman Maxine Waters of Los Angeles got some of the biggest cheers of the weekend by questioning the president’s loyalty and mental health, finishing with a

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rousing chant of “Impeach 45!”

For a party still smarting from a vicious 2016 presidential primary between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders—one that had escalated into a contentious party leadership battle last year—it’s nice to find something that everyone can agree on.

“Obviously we have a variety of different views. That’s what parties are about,” said state Sen. Richard Pan of Sacramento. “We have differences about how we look at things, but we’ve got to protect our country.”

Still, those differences could be important come June. In a number of toss-up congressional races, a surplus of leftof-center candidates threaten to split the primary vote, allowing two Republicans to progress to the November ballot.

Shutting Democrats out of contention in those races could jeopardize party plans to retake control of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Though the party had hoped to winnow some of the field this weekend by making endorsements in some of those seats, in the races to replace Southern California GOP

Reps. Steve Knight, Darrell Issa and Ed Royce, no such luck. Under party bylaws, the delegates were too divided to make an official choice.

Failing at those official channels, party chair Eric Bauman resorted to old-fashioned guilt from the convention hall stage on Sunday in an attempt to thin the herd.

“We have an overpopulation problem,” he said. And then to some of those surplus candidates: “Isn’t there some other way to express your public service? … The voters in those districts want to elect a Democrat [and] they’re tired of the right-wing hateful agenda of Donald Trump.”

Indeed, both party organizers and aspiring candidates aim to bring national news scandals to the local level.

“In 2016, Russians and Republicans were very good at sewing discord within our party, so I think we learned a lesson from that election,” said Andrew Janz, who is running to replace GOP Rep. Devin Nunes in his San Joaquin Valley district.

The lesson: stick together and focus on the common political enemy.

Outside the room where Janz’s endorsement by the party was to be voted on, one delegate, social activist Emily Cameron, complained about the candidate’s single-minded focus on his opponent. “If you look at his Twitter, it’s like every tweet is about Devin Nunes,” she said, arguing that the candidate should focus more on the economic interests of the Central Valley and less on the Russia investigation and the ties between Nunes and Trump. “It’s not what people care about!”

But evidently, enough delegates did.

Janz won the endorsement.

In a state where only a quarter of adults approve of the president’s job performance, emphasizing Trump above all else isn’t a bad strategy. Katharine Marrs, the party’s state field director for 2018, said opposition to Trump has been a “gateway” cause for bringing political neophytes into the world of left-of-center party politics.

But can party unity built around opposition to a single candidate last past a single election?

“What we’ve seen is that it’s sustainable for now,” said Marrs. Finding areas of common agreement is a “slower process.”

For now, the party base appears to be tacking left.

When the nearly 3,000 delegates voted to endorse the statewide races, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom won the top vote share in the gubernatorial contest. Together with the former state superintendent of public instruction Delaine Eastin, both of whom support

a state-funded single payer health insurance program, the progressive bloc captured 59 percent of the delegate vote.

Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who is skeptical of the state’s ability to implement or fund a single payer system and who has taken positions opposed by many organized labor groups, came in at 9 percent.

In the U.S. Senate race, state Senate leader Kevin de León received a majority of delegate vote over Feinstein, whom many delegates considered too hawkish on foreign policy and too dovish on Trump.

That de León didn’t clear the 60 percent threshold means that the party didn’t officially offer an endorsement— but the body as a whole clearly had a preference.

“Resistance doesn’t just mean saying no. You have to move on a parallel track with a positive proactive agenda,” said de León, suggesting progressive policies like a higher minimum wage and stronger environmental protections were needed. But he also warned against trying to “cajole” or “negotiate” with Trump, whom he compared to the scorpion in the fable of the scorpion and the frog—a malevolent force unable to control its own destructive impulses.

Rather than write him off, last year Feinstein expressed hope that Trump could learn to become “a good president,” to the chagrin of many on the California left. According to the website FiveThirtyEight, she has voted in line with the president’s preferred legislation 28 percent of the time, placing her roughly in the middle of all Democratic and independent senators. California’s junior senator, Kamala Harris, who also spoke at the convention and has been mentioned as a presidential contender, voted with the president just 15 percent of the time.

De León was careful to specify that he was not comparing his opponent in the senate race to a frog. But he did say that his unrelenting opposition to the administration made for a meaningful difference between the two of them.

In the end, of course, delegates to the convention may or may not accurately represent all Democratic voters statewide—not to mention independents inclined to vote Democratic. Feinstein knows that well, having been booed at her own party’s convention for declaring her support of the death penalty when she was running for governor in 1990. All the while, her campaign was gleefully filming the moment—turning it into a campaign ad to underscore her independence. Ω

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reported that 80 percent of prison inmates have As opioid deaths skyrocket and addiction keeps addiction issues. surfacing in crime trends, Capitol lawmakers North state counties like Humboldt and received some jarring testimony about the state Lassen claimed some of the higher rates of of treatment in California: According to experts, opioid deaths per their populations in 2016, a lack of regulation and the burgeoning business according to the California Opioid Overdose of “addict brokering” is standing in the way of Surveillance Dashboard, but Southern California better outcomes. counties like Los Angeles and Orange County The stark observations were made January earned the deadliest totals, with 605 fatal over30 before the California Senate Committee doses between them. on Health. Early testimony came from Albert In Sacramento County, 245 people were hospiSenella, CEO of Tarzana Treatment Centers. talized due to opioid overdoses in 2015, according Senella said that, while his Los Angeles-based to the surveillance dashboard. The poisonings were nonprofit abides by the same licensing, accreditaa result of both prescription opioid pain relievers tion and safety standards required of publiclyas well as heroin and opium, though the funded treatment centers, many private state didn’t include those who died outfits operate in a Wild West as a result of chronic drug use. atmosphere.

The following year, 51 people “I may not make some died of opioid overdoses in friends today with my the county. comments, but I think Sacramento was they need to be made,” home to nearly Senella told the 1.2 million opioid committee. “There is prescriptions in 2016. a substantial differThat’s a lot of ence between the potential customers public system of care for detox facilities to and the private system draw in. of care. … The overAnne Eowan During the January sight and accountability senior vice president, Association of California hearing, Sen. Richard in the public system of Life and Health Insurance Companies Roth held up a newspaper care, bar none, is leaps and story from the Orange bounds above what goes on County Register about 21-yearin the private sector.” old Dillon DeRita, who died of a Remarking that his center avoids heart attack just two days into treatment “hustling to get admissions,” Senella said at the privately run Pacific Coast Detox in Costa that’s a situation that state regulators don’t even Mesa. The Register reported that video from the look into when they visit. facility showed treatment workers checking on Senella was one of several treatment specialDeRita, finding him unresponsive and then walkists urging lawmakers to force private treatment ing away without calling for help. companies to meet higher standards.

“I don’t have to tell you that this is outrageous The stakes for addressing substance abuse in and can’t be allowed to continue,” Roth said.

California could scarcely be higher.

Senella agreed, saying, “Much of the abuse we hear about in the news has nothing to do with According to the Centers for Disease Control the public sector.” and Prevention, opioid addiction recently One person watching the testimony was elevated overdoses to the No. 1 cause of Thomas Renfree, deputy director of substance use accidental death in the United States, outpacing disorder services for the County Behavioral Health firearm mishaps and fatal vehicle accidents, Directors Association of California. Renfree told and ultimately reversing the trend for American SN&R this week that the problems with private life expectancy for two years running. In 2015, treatment facilities are no exaggeration. the National Council on Alcoholism and Drugs

“Folks are buying and selling these people as if they’re cattle.”

join the “You’ve got some bad operators in the private system,” Renfree agreed. “It’s an area that’s pretty much unregulated. … And, in many cases, when people’s insurance runs out, they’re quickly shown the door.”

But Renfree was also careful to point out that some private treatment centers choose to operate at high standards, even though they’re not required to.

“Undoubtedly there are some good private programs,” he added. “It’s a shame that some of them are giving a black eye to that entire system.”

One of the more brazen approaches taken by unscrupulous treatment providers, Senella explained, involves the rise of “addict brokering”—a process where marketing companies identify substance abusers with health insurance and then help recruit those addicts into private treatment centers in exchange for a fee.

The phenomenon often includes the brokering companies sending scouts to methadone clinics or approaching wealthier addicts under the guise of “life coaches.” In other instances, brokers use targeted advertising on social media. Senella said that, much to his dismay, Tarzana Treatment was getting numerous calls from addict brokers every month.

Lou La Monte, a Malibu councilman who also sits on the Los Angeles Commission of Alcohol and Drugs, didn’t even call the practice addict brokering, but rather “body brokering.”

“It’s becoming an overwhelming issue,” La Monte told the committee.

Pete Neilsen, CEO of the California Consortium of Addiction Programs and Professionals, testified that members of his organization considered such brokers guilty of “the despicable practice of selling clients.”

Senate Bill 636, by Gardena Democrat Sen. Steven Bradford, would ban addict brokering in California. The Senate Health Committee is scheduled to hear the bill in March.

One of the final speakers of the morning, Anne Eowan, senior vice president of the Association of California Life and Health Insurance Companies, stressed that private-sector treatment and addict brokering go hand-in-hand, because the former finds it easiest to work with the latter.

“They go to AA meetings, they go to jail, they go to any area where they think they can find vulnerable people that are looking for help,” Eowan said of the brokers. “They sign them up and get them in a group, and then they sell them to the highest bidder, and they sell them to these more unscrupulous providers. … Folks are buying and selling these people as if they’re cattle, which is reprehensible.” Ω Raheem F. Hosseini contributed to this report.

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Sheriff Scott Jones is beginning to gather an air of inevitability around his quest for a third term in office. And why shouldn’t he? After a discombobulated summer and fall, in which Jones: 1. announced his retirement, 2. watched his preferred successor bow out of the race and 3. leaped back into campaign mode, things are finally leveling out for a three-peat.

Thus far, two minor-league challengers are the only things standing in Jones’ way.

Milo Fitch could change that—if he decides to.

You may not know his name, but few people wearing badges have left their imprint on California’s criminal justice system the way Milo Fitch has. Fitch saw the failures of America’s drug war up close in the 1990s, then spent the next two decades as an unassuming change agent, trying to right what was so wrong. Fitch helped shoulder the paradigms to where they are now—at a critical juncture, between the rational forces that support sentencing and bail reform and the fearmongers who want to kick off a new prison industrial age.

That is the choice. Fitch and Jones come down on different sides of it.

Fitch is Jones’ onetime mentor—the Obi-Wan to the sheriff’s Anakin Skywalker. Where critics say Jones shifted right toward the dark side, Fitch’s supporters credit him with being the wise elder in league with the forces of good.

“He could change the trajectory of that office for a long time,” says Sacramento County homicide prosecutor Noah Phillips, This man loves horses. a candidate for district attorney who wants Fitch to run. “The criminal justice system swings on a pendulum. There is a window here.”

That window closes with the March 9 filing deadline. There are many who hope Fitch slips through it while there’s still some light left.

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From warrior to reFormer Fitch’s reputation wasn’t always as someone who wanted to change the system from the inside. In the beginning, he was still figuring out the best way to serve it.

“I think if you saw Milo’s background before he took over the jails, you would not think that he would be a guy to work with ex-offenders,” says Fitch’s current boss, Charles “Chuck” Pattillo, general manager of the California Prison Industry Authority, or CalPIA, an agency tasked with making sure inmates find the jobs that prevent them from returning to prison. “I mean, he spent the first 25 years of his career putting people away.”

Throughout most of the 1990s and early 2000s, Fitch worked assignments in internal

affairs, narcotics and gangs, where he became a recognized expert on white supremacist factions. (That’s in contrast to Jones, who spent little time on the streets before he started climbing the ladder from behind a desk.)

As Fitch rose in rank, he began to see how merciless tough-on-crime laws meant to prop up the drug war, such as three-strikes and mandatory-minimum sentences, turned low-level offenders into prison-packing commodities. In a May 2017 op-ed for SN&R, Fitch reflected on how he began to view the job differently.

“I was a soldier in the war on drugs,” he wrote. “I spent 33 years with the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department, six of those years as a sergeant in the Narcotics/Gang Division, where our mission was to arrest as many people as possible for drug-related offenses. Our mission had no regard for outcomes, other than prison as the solution.

“We now realize that arresting and imprisoning is not the solution to end drug addiction,” Fitch went on to write. “We are a great nation held back by how we handle substance abuse.

Some cite law enforcement as the problem, but I believe that we can lead the charge to the solution. It’s true that it requires a paradigm shift. But this 33-year veteran of the Sheriff’s Department is proof that hearts and minds can change.”

Those who know him say that’s vintage Fitch.

“That’s not make believe,” says Matt Powers, a retired Sacramento Police Department official who served as CalPIA’s GM before Pattillo.

“That’s an accurate reflection of who Milo Fitch truly is. He’s a good cop. He’s exceptionally well-skilled.

He’s making a big difference for men and women behind bars.”

That work started in earnest seven years ago, when Fitch took command of the Rio Cosumnes Correctional Center, or RCCC, the main custodial facility for people serving local sentences. Fitch became the jail’s captain a few months before Assembly Bill 109 redefined California’s penitentiary system, offloading hundreds of thousands of lower-tier inmates from overcrowded prisons to overwhelmed local jails.

Jones was one of many sheriffs to excoriate the state’s plan to avoid a federal takeover of its prisons. Fitch welcomed it as an opportunity: The offenders being rerouted to Sacramento County were local residents who were going to get out. Fitch wanted to make sure they got the help they

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THE OTHER ONES There’s no shortage of squires fantasizing about taking a run at the king. Here, we examine the field of would-be contenders to Jones’ reign and debunk the political gossip surrounding one of the most influential elected offices in Sacramento County—and California.

THEy’RE IN! The earnesT FirsT-Timer Retired sheriff’s Sgt. Donna Cox spent six years of her two-decade career leading the department’s K9 unit, but says it was the dogs on two legs who chased her and other female employees into early retirement. Now, the 49-year-old mother of two has crossed the thin bro line to confront what she says is a command structure that harasses whistle-blowers and rewards bullies.

“I know it’s true; I witnessed the stuff,” she says.

“How are the ‘Me Too’ people not here?”

The only woman in the race, Cox says she’s been “dumbfounded” at how quickly the political establishment has fallen in line behind Jones, considering he presided over the department’s nearly $7 million gender discrimination payout in the spring of 2016.

Cox says she was on the plaintiffs’ witness list for that trial, but wasn’t called to testify. Nevertheless, she says, her willingness to corroborate female employees’ stories of harassment blackballed her from further promotions. She left the department in August 2016. “I retired because of this,” she says. “I just had to get out of there.”

A first-time candidate, Cox admits she’s still learning the game, but says she has a set of life experiences that would make her a different kind of sheriff. She’s survived domestic violence, received government assistance while attending the academy

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and says she faced retaliatory internal affairs investigations for speaking up about the good old boys culture.

“I’ve been through a lot,” she says. “I’ve been a victim of a crime and a victim of law enforcement.”

While she recently nabbed the endorsement of Elk Grove Mayor Steve Ly, Cox knows she’s the dark horse in this race.

“If I lose, I lose,” she says. “But at least I can look in the mirror and say I tried.”

donna cox wants to clean up after the two-legged dogs in the department.

Citrus Heights Councilman Bret Daniels is making his fifth (fifth!) run at sheriff. An outspoken critic of department brass even when he was wearing a deputy’s uniform, Daniels was fired in 2000 following an internal affairs investigation into whether he abused his authority in tracking down an Arizona woman. Daniels has maintained his termination was political payback for daring to run against then-Sheriff Lou Blanas, saying he simply asked an Arizona cop to look up a friend, but ended up getting the info from the friend’s mother. Anyway, Daniels is now taking aim at the third benefactor of the Blanas-John McGinness-Jones patronage line. “He’s a totally flawed sheriff at this time,” Daniels asserts. “The lawsuits have been one after the other.”

A perennial fringe candidate, Daniels portrays himself as the choice for voters who consider Jones too much of a RINO on two of his most controversial platforms: Daniels wants to make it cheaper and easier to obtain concealed firearm permits and help the federal government deport undocumented immigrants who “prey” on innocent people.

Does Daniels stand a chance? He admits he’s never been a prolific fundraiser: The latest financial disclosures show he’s got about $1,200 in campaign cash— and $2,500 in outstanding debts. He’s actually gotten more votes each time he’s run for sheriff, but still lost by a considerable margin in 2010, his last run.

“It’s been a process,” Daniels says. “We’ve done better and better. I’ve very, very confident that we’ll get it done this time.”

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They’re ouT (for now) the Backup plan Chief Deputy Kris Palmer: It once looked like undersheriff eric Maness was being groomed to follow Jones into office. But a workplace retaliation lawsuit in which Maness was a starring defendant blew that succession Palmer ducked the muck of plan out of the water. enter the the sheriff’s race. clean-cut Palmer, who became Jones’ second-choice heir apparent after a recent promotion. The money and endorsements started flowing in—and then Palmer unexpectedly pulled out. rumors swirled that Palmer got wind Assemblyman Jim Cooper was coming for him and knew he’d lose. The running theory is that Jones reentered the race to keep Cooper from messing up his plans, and will set Palmer up to be appointed sheriff in a couple of years. “no, that’s not the case,” Palmer says with a chuckle. “That’s too funny.”

Palmer says the reason he dropped out really did come down to the boring cliché—family. he says he has an aging parent who needs more personal care, so he decided to stick with the job he has, where he manages the department’s security contracts with the Sacramento Superior Court, folsom Dam and elk Grove unified School District. Palmer says he hasn’t ruled out taking another run at being sheriff one day, but he’s in no rush.

“I love my job. I love my profession. I love the men and women I work with and work around,” he says.

the grass-isgreener guy Deputy Chief Ken Bernard: The Sacramento Police Department deputy chief filed placeholder paOn secOnd thOught, perwork back in December indicating bernard decided he was considering a run. (The title, “Ken he lOOked Bernard for Sheriff 2018,” tipped us off.) But a few pretty gOOd in weeks after Jones’ about-face announcement, spd blues.

Bernard told Sn&r in an email that he was “no longer considering running.” The Police Department veteran was one of 33 people to vie for his agency’s top job after Chief Sam Somers Jr. retired in the middle of the Joseph Mann shooting controversy.

But Bernard, who has been with the department more than a quarter-century, was passed over when city officials tapped rosevile Police Chief Darryl hahn to steer a department in transition.

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headhunted Fitch says he’s been doing yeoman’s work.

Pattillo calls Fitch “a very formidable executive” who nurtures a screamingly low recidivism rate (about 7 percent of the offenders Fitch oversees end up back needed so they wouldn’t come back. in prison). Fitch has also doubled the size of his divi“I think he really went down there on his own sion and almost tripled the amount of grant money request because he saw what was going on and he saw a coming from California Department of Corrections and way to help folks,” Pattillo says. “Milo got all that, and Rehabilitation. some people had to be drug along.”

“Bottom line, he knows how to run programs and he Where Jones fought to spend the millions of strings-free knows people,” Pattillo says. “Really the only thing I state cash on additional jail beds, Fitch fought to use the had to show him was where the bathrooms were, and he money on education, vocational and addiction programs. was good.”

He brought together jailers, judges, cops and probation Pattillo says his workforce development chief is officers with addiction specialists, vocational trainers regularly asked to serve as Gov. Jerry Brown’s consigliere and adult education leaders to sit on a “reentry counon local crime and justice matters. Such influence means cil” and devise strategies to help offenders succeed Fitch’s name frequently gets tossed around when Capitol in society. He instituted individualized needs assessinsiders draft picks in their political fantasy league. ments, and became a proponent of buzzy academic “I think he’s got a really good shot at making an concepts like evidence-based practices and cognitive impact,” says Jeff Raimundo, a retired campaign behavioral therapy. consultant who says he would get back in the game to “We wanted to deal with inmates as individuhelp Fitch run for sheriff. (Raimundo also used to cover als,” Fitch told California Forward, the bipartisan politics for the Sacramento Bee.) “There are a government-reform group, of his approach. lot of layered reasons why somebody like “The cost both to the county, the taxpayers Milo Fitch could successfully chaland then to humanity is far too great lenge Scott Jones.” just to lock somebody up and throw “if he Matt Powers agrees and away the key.” disagrees at the same time.

While plenty of officials decides to jump The retired police official parrot similar talking points, in the race, he will first knew Fitch by his sterling these aren’t empty platitudes to reputation as “a good, solid cop Fitch. Sacramento Councilman win the race. that is a with lots of experience,” then Steve Hansen learned this in cop’s cop.” got to know him personally 2012, shortly after beginning when Fitch was running county his first term. The main jail charles “chuck” pattillo corrections and Powers was was located in Hansen’s downgeneral manager, California guiding CalPIA. town district, and the freshman Prison Industry Powers, who now runs a politician wanted to get a handle Authority charter school for adults, thinks on AB 109’s impact on his constituFitch would make an excellent sheriff, ents. He started attending reentry but doubts he can unseat a formidable council meetings and found himself incumbent like Jones, who carries water in the pulled in by Fitch’s moral compass. suburbs and draws some of the highest vote totals of any “He seemed to be really interested in the right thing candidate in Sacramento County. But Powers actually has to do, rather than the politically expedient thing,” bigger designs for his old colleague, who has now toiled Hansen recalls. “He was really a phenomenal leader— on both sides of the correctional aisle. and a great partner.”

“I think we’d be wasting Milo’s talent if he ran for After Fitch retired, the reentry council quietly sheriff,” Powers says. “Down the road, I think he should dissolved. Hansen says he doesn’t even know who be secretary of corrections.” took over Fitch’s job within the department. The City Not everyone wants to wait. Phillips, Raimundo Council, which has adopted sanctuary protections for undocumented residents, has an icy relationship with and others think now is the time to strike against Jones, whose policies have put him out of step with the Me the current sheriff, who has criticized such policies.

Too movement, Californian’s stance on immigration and “His view is just really narrow,” Hansen says of Jones. “There doesn’t seem to be much to talk about.” shifting attitudes toward guns following the Parkland, Fla., tragedy. Hansen likes the idea of Fitch as the next Not all of Fitch’s initiatives died with him. sheriff, saying he “understands the department and can RCCC’s culinary training program served as a lead it through a changing time, and bring back some of model for the one CalPIA started, Pattillo says. And a the pride the department lost” under Jones. year before he retired, Fitch partnered with the Bureau Fitch, who is married to a criminal defense attorney of Land Management to create a unique program that and has two adult children working for the Sheriff’s teaches inmates to saddle-train wild mustangs. The Department, is reluctant to put his family in the crossadoption program has drawn widespread media attenhairs of a muck-throwing election, those close to him tion, usually without Fitch’s name attached, which is say. But Pattillo, for one, knows his workforce developprobably fine by him. ment chief is being lobbied hard to take a crack at Jones.

Jones’ jail captain wouldn’t allow one of the program’s And he’s OK with it. supervisors to speak to SN&R about Fitch’s role.

“I know he’s being recruited to run for sheriff, DraggeD into the spotlight and he would be the consummate professional in the sheriff’s job. He’s not a politician. He’s very honest.

Fitch declined to be interviewed for this story, saying he Very ethical. He understands how both sides of law didn’t want to detract from his current mission—which enforcement work,” Pattillo tells SN&R. “And I is just so damn typical of the approach that has allowed would be afraid for anyone running against him, if he him to fly under the radar while shaking things up. ever decided to do it. Because if he decides to jump in About a year ago, Fitch was tapped to oversee the career technical education division at CalPIA. The guy who the race, he will win the race. That is a cop’s cop.”Ω

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The flirT Assemblyman Jim Cooper: Since losing to Jones in 2010 by a measly 3,660 votes, multiple sources say, the former sheriff’s captain has been itching for another shot. Word is he’s the one who scared Palmer out of the No, he’s Not bitter race by hinting he was thinking about losiNg iN of coming for Jones’ little-known 2010. stop askiNg! establishment pick. It’s not that Cooper hasn’t done well for himself. Four years after losing by 1 percent to his arch-nemesis Jones, Cooper was elected to the state Assembly, where he represents a Sac County-heavy district. But the moderate Dem, who faces an easy reelection bid in California’s Assembly District 9, is widely believed to be pining for the election that got away. Like Jones, Cooper was accused of misconduct by a female Sheriff’s Department employee back in the day. Cooper’s people didn’t make him available for comment. Jones says Cooper told him directly he wouldn’t run this time. Let’s see how long that holds true.

MAyBE SOME DAy The TrAilBlAzer UC Davis Police Chief Joseph A. Farrow: The first Japanese-American commissioner appointed to the California Highway Patrol just got himself a cushy new job in academia, so it’s unlikely he’s mulling a run. But there is a precedent for a CHP commish becoming Sacramento County sheriff: Glen Craig was elected to the first of his three terms in 1986, a few years after leaving the Highway Patrol. The well-respected Farrow could do the same if he avoids controversy in his current post—which isn’t a given considering UC Davis is where the notorious pepper-spray incident occurred, and that Farrow ran the CHP during its botched handling of the 2016 Capitol melee, in which white supremacists were allowed to openly brawl with antifa demonstrators in full view of Farrow’s officers. One of Farrow’s first public actions in his new post cut a sharp contrast to Jones: He and the chancellor issued a letter declaring Like Rodney the university would block Trump’s depordangeRfieLd, faRRow is tation force from coming onto campus to back in schooL. hunt non-criminal immigrants.

The Boy scouT Inspector General Rick Braziel is the most intriguing potential candidate not named Milo Fitch. The chief of police in Sacramento from 2008 to 2012, Braziel literally wrote the book on Next time, he’ll community policing: Cop Talk: keep his plaNs Essential Communication Skills close to the bullet-proof vest. for Community Policing. Brainy and affable, Braziel commanded the police force at the height of the Great Recession, when staffing and crime both dropped sharply. Go figure. After retiring, Braziel joined the Police Foundation, a sort of think-tanky research body where he was tasked with parachuting into some of the highest-profile law enforcement incidents in modern times: the riots in Ferguson; the mass shooting in San Bernardino County; the accidental police shooting of a hostage/human shield following a Stockton bank robbery; and the 2013 manhunt for fired LAPD officer Christopher Dormer, who declared war on his former employer and killed four people in a rampage that ended with his death at a cabin in the San Bernardino Mountains.

After cranking out a series of white papers about what could be learned from each crisis, Braziel agreed to become Sacramento County’s inspector general, the only independent monitor of the Sheriff’s Department. Since filling the long-vacant seat more than two years ago, he’s been a prolific author of reports and recommendations that the sheriff has resisted, such as adopting body-worn cameras for his officers and tracking all uses of force by officers, not just shootings and in-custody deaths. Like Fitch, Braziel is a data nerd who supports transparency and thinks of law enforcement in customer-service terms. Braziel weighed a campaign for sheriff—he even mentioned the idea to Jones.

“He knew I was considering it because I talked to him about it,” Braziel says. Then Jones abruptly reentered the race and Braziel, an astute student of probability, decided the odds weren’t in his favor. Too bad.

The AlmosT sheriff Retired U.S. Marshal Albert Najera: The police chief in Sacramento from 2003 to the beginning of 2008, Najera pursued a community-policing model at the department and reformed its hiring process to get more women and people of color on the force. He famously accepted a pensioncushioning salary hike on his way out of police HQ, bad timing since the recession was on its way in. Najera considered running for sheriff in 2010, but instead accepted an Obama-era appointment to serve as the U.S. Marshal of California’s Eastern District. After chasing fugitives across three-quarters of the state for eight years, Najera recently stepped down and is now doing some consulting work, say friends. So, might the Wilton resident consider a real run at being sheriff? “Nah,” says Pattillo, who almost helped with Najera’s 2010 campaign. “He had a great run at the Marshals Office and I think his thing is, why would he want to get back into that? Because there’s a lot of stuff going on with Sac County, as you know. It’s a hard job.”

The reminiscer Former Councilman Darrell Fong: There’ve been whispers that the onetime police captain isn’t done with the law, mostly coming from Fong himself. Back when he was on the Sacramento City Council, Fong was fond of reminding everyone that he used to be on the job. He was so fond of it, in fact, that SN&R staffers covering City Hall considered basing a drinking game on Fong’s propensity for non-sequitur mentions that he used to be a cop.

But no one wanted to get alcohol poisoning, so the idea was quickly shelved.

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So, Garcia did the logical thing: She turned to the internet.

“Google,” she says with a laugh, remembering her on-the-fly political schooling. “I Googled: ‘How to run for office.’”

She’d thought about running for years.

In 2010, Garcia considered a bid for City Council, but as the mother of two and owner of the Blue Lamp nightclub near downtown, she didn’t have the time, much less political savvy, to devote to a campaign.

“Fast forward eight years and my kids are teenagers, the time is now,” says Garcia, who just launched a campaign for City Council’s District 1 seat. “I want to teach my daughters to stand up and run for things.”

Garcia’s not in it alone. She’s one of many women running for office this year, not just in California but across the United States.

Call it a political sea change, fueled in part by President Donald Trump’s win and the rise of the #MeToo movement. This year, 437 women are running or are expected to run for the House of Representatives, according to the Center for American Women and Politics.

In California, there are currently 53 bids for the House. And, the majority of them are Democrats: 47 compared to 6 Republicans.

Garcia’s also not alone at another fundamental level: In 2018, women everywhere are leveling up their support to maximize their political resources and impact.

From long-established groups like Emily’s List and Emerge California to relative upstarts such as Fem Dems Sacramento and groups founded post-election, like the New York-based Get Her Elected, women and nonbinary candidates are being aided via a vast network aimed at electing more women to office—not just in this year’s critical

midterm elections, but in 2020 and beyond.

Denise Tugade, Fem Dems president, says there’s a tangible sense of urgency and action.

“We’ve seen an unprecedented number of first-time candidates,” she says. “There’s definitely movement.”

Engage and equip Election night 2016: Tugade watched the numbers and worried. Trump was winning the most brutal presidential race in modern history.

Like countless others around the country that night, Tugade texted her friends. Gutted, they commiserated and consoled one another.

They also plotted change.

“We were so down in the dumps that night, so we turned around and planned a meeting for two days after the election,” Tugade remembers.

More than 300 people showed up to that Fem Dems gathering, held on Veterans Day at the Sierra 2 Center in Curtis Park. The show of support was heartening, but more importantly, Tugade says, she knew they had to capitalize on that momentum.

“We talked about, ‘What does this mean for us now to move forward?’” she says.

What it meant was taking that postelection depression, anxiety and fear and propelling it into change via feminist candidates capable of winning elections.

More than a year later, Fem Dems, founded in 2009, boasts hundreds of members—the group doubled its numbers in the months after the election and birthed a new group, too, Organize Win Legislate Sacramento, a grassroots coalition focused on field organizing.

Now, Fem Dems’ board is in the process of deciding upon endorsements for numerous candidates across a spectrum of races at the local and regional level. One of the group’s

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Record numbers of women candidates are tapping into a network of political support, in Sacramento and across the U.S. primary functions is to engage and equip those who want to get involved in politics, but lack the experience or are intimidated by the process.

Tugade’s own journey stemmed from her exasperation working within the political system, including a stint in Washington, D.C. “I was out there, feeling frustrated by the lack of progress [in my work],” she says. “I felt like I was buried in the details of policies that maybe didn’t reflect reality on the ground.”

Tugade ended up in Sacramento, working at the Capitol as a communications director and legislative aide, when she found herself at a bar one night, chatting with some women who told her about Fem Dems. Tugade joined and said she found not just a political gateway for herself but for those “who have not traditionally been engaged in this process.”

“A lot of party politics can be opaque— very technical, parliamentary proceduredriven,” says Tugade, who was elected president in March 2017. “We try to be accessible; we try to focus on the issues that really matter.”

Fem Dems does the usual political organizing things—fundraising, candidate endorsements—but it also offers hands-on learning for those who’ve maybe never toted a clipboard or walked neighborhoods to get the vote out.

The Advocacy Academy, for example, instructs on things such as lobbying and fundraising basics.

“We want to be able to hand folks the tools to go off and do something big,” Tugade says.

‘It’s so important to have that sisterhood’ When it comes to endorsements, Fem Dems adheres to its mission, focusing on intersectional feminist policy and candidates.

“That means representation, equity and inclusion,” she says.

Not all Fem Dem-approved candidates are necessarily women. Past endorsements include senator Richard Pan and City Council-member Jeff Harris, both in 2014, and Mayor Darrell Steinberg in 2016. Other nods have gone to Sacramento County District Attorney candidate Maggy Krell and Sacramento Charter Commission candidate Tamika L’Ecluse, the latter of whom just launched a bid for the City Council District 5 seat, challenging incumbent Jay Schenirer.

L’Ecluse, a member of the Women Democrats of Sacramento County, calls support from such groups critical.

“It’s already challenging for a women to run for office,” she says. “Having groups to mobilize the younger generation to run for office—to build that pipeline, that is a core value.”

Historically, women have not been encouraged to run, she adds.

“We have to be convinced, we have to put so many things in place, so having a group that says, ‘You’re enough,’ having groups that say, ‘We believe in you and will be with you until the end,’ that’s big. It’s so important to have that sisterhood.”

That sisterhood engages at all stages of a campaign, too—from big-picture policy to the day-to-day details. After the 2016 election, for example, freelance writer Lily Herman founded Get Her Elected. The New York-based initiative connects candidates with people who work pro bono with progressive women candidates at every level of U.S. government. That means anything from writing press releases and graphic design to data analysis and fundraising strategy.

With more than 2,000 volunteers, Herman says Get Her Elected’s goal is to make politics accessible for everyone.

“By having people with these backgrounds fill in these gaps for no charge, we level the playing field and allow progressive women candidates to focus on bigger issues,” she says.

Bridging the gap doesn’t start and end with formal organizations and channels, though. Sometimes it just takes a coffee date, an email, a phone call.

For example, when L’Ecluse learned that Garcia, the District 1 candidate, had launched her campaign, the more seasoned candidate reached out to offer advice.

“I’m here to lift people up around me,” L’Ecluse says.

For Garcia, the gesture was big, symbolizing the support and strength she says she’s always received from other women. As the founder of the Sacred City Roller Derby Girls squad, Garcia is used to relying on a strong network.

Now, she says, she’s ready to channel that support into something tangible.

“The time is now for women to take on some of those more powerful positions,” she says. “This is not a time to be complacent in order to make change within a community.”

Entering politics may be an unnerving process, she says, but it’s not impossible.

“I want to make it clear that you don’t have to be politician to run for office,” Garcia says. “It’s not as scary as you think.” Ω

“We want to be able to hand folks the tools to go off and do something big.”

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Carb lovers club Ravioli, obo’ italian table & baR In a time when it seems like most of my friends are ketogenic-diet-this and paleo-that, I feel like a rebel indulging in the simple pleasure of pasta. On that carboloaded note, OBO’ Italian Table & Bar’s no-fuss ravioli ($12.50) makes for a tasty act of resistance. Plump, doughy squares of pasta envelop creamy scoops of ricotta cheese, which would be wonderful enough on its own. It’s the salty tang of black olive butter—the ravioli practically swims in it—and the sharp bite of fresh green onions, though, that makes this seemingly humble mainstay seem extra indulgent. Make carbs great again? This dish wins that battle. 3145 Folsom Boulevard, http://oboitalian.com.

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Sometimes, California cuisine can be all flashy flaxseeds, no flavor. You might think that the new Backbone Cafe downtown follows that formula as it caters to paleo, gluten-free, ketogenic, raw and low-carb eaters.

The self-styled hippie restaurant is responding to the latest diets, yes, but its thoughtful dishes go beyond hitting all the trendy check boxes.

Owners Matt and Yvette Woolston also operate Matteo’s Pizza & Bistro in Carmichael and Supper Club, but it’s their sons and co-owners Joey and Tomas who really make up the backbone of Backbone in the kitchen and the front of the house. Tomas was there on my every visit, asking with genuine curiosity about how I enjoyed my food as if I was his grade-school buddy.

The fitness-conscious Joey planned the restaurant when he was stuck in bed after falling 30 feet from a tower at Burning Man and injuring his back, as SN&R reported previously. His menu is as obsessive about flavor as it is about health. It offers grass-fed beef burgers on Acme buns, vegan cauliflower steaks with organic thyme sauce, beef tallow and pork lard fries.

The restaurant bear-hugs vegans as heartily as it does carnivores.

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leaves and peacock feathers. The carmine red and yellow enliven an otherwise dull downtown block on J Street.

Inside, the walls are painted with a Lord of the Ringsstyle forest and, in a display of the restaurant’s mushy hippie heart, a community bookshelf allows visitors to drop off and pick up books for free.

The chicken power bowl ($13) was the best thing I tried there: Shredded chicken without any trace of tripe was warm against the comparatively cool rice, mint and cilantro. Roasted squash, zucchini, carrot slivers and spinach were bathed in the house “Mahogany sauce”—a chili-citrus combo that’s sweeter than it is spicy.

I also tried the Hippie Hemp Curry ($9) because, well, when in Rome. The curry sparkled with cumin, tempered with a creamy coconut milk sauce. Flecks of black hemp seeds added a fun crunch to the avocado-zucchini-squash medley.

Less exciting? The vegan carnitas verde tacos ($10.50),which were actually delicious on first bite. My only quibble is that, after eating three of them, my palate tingled with saltiness. To amp up the savory and umami qualities of the oyster mushrooms, a generous helping of salt is required, so this is forgivable.

It was exciting to see bone broth on a Sacramento menu, an offering you’d expect to only see inside a health-nut household. The chicken ($6 small, $9 large) was cooked down with carrots, celery, onions, oregano and thyme to create a purely liquid Thanksgiving feast.

The drink filled me up in a soothing, light way, and I began to believe in its supposed gut- and microbiomepromoting powers.

The cafe wears its heart on its backbone, and it’s strong look. If eating health-forward food always tasted this satisfying, I’d do it more than once a week. Ω

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Nutty and snappy Romanesco Vying for most mesmerizing vegetable at the market, Romanesco is related to broccoli and cauliflower. The chartreuse, distinctly knobbed flower head has a long history in Italian cuisine. It’s not quite broccoli and not quite cauliflower, but has a nutty flavor and snappy crunch. It’s a good non-banana source of potassium and provides significant vitamin C, too. Eat it like broccoli, or try roasting the whole head coated with garlicky breadcrumbs and olive oil. Cook it soon after purchasing to avoid wilting and use the striking color to good effect in salads and side dishes.

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Most breweries will hail from California and pour their best-selling flagships to make a good impression at this annual fundraiser for the Runnin’ for Rhett youth fitness program that aids area students and hosts a 5k for them. Tickets ($40 for general admission; $65 for VIP) to the beer fest will sell out and won’t be sold at the gate. So buy them online or at Der Biergarten (2332 K Street).

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Nearby culinary getaway: Much like Sacramento, Woodland has a reputation as a cow town that’s gotten more interesting over the past few years. In the food scene, things have really picked up in the last several months for the small city north of Davis.

While Sac has “Farm-to-Fork,” they have “Food Front”—a city rebranding effort launched in the fall.

“We’re pretty much as close as you can get when it comes to being farm-to-fork because the farms are jutting up against the town,” explains Hillary Niblock, manager of the Morgan’s Mill coffee shop that she helped to open last summer.

Niblock moved from Arkansas to California to launch the cafe with her husband Braden and the shop’s owner and Woodland native, James Morgan.

The fresh graduates had all attended college at Harding University and sought to combine their specialties in coffee, beer and business.

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in the town not just for specialty coffee, but also the ability to drink wine and caffeine and eat breakfast at all hours of the day. The menu includes funky waffles like cinnamon roll, meat lover’s, pizza and the goat waffle— grilled with green apples inside and topped with goat cheese, walnuts and honey.

Housed in a red-brick former rice mill, the interior has clusters of Edison bulbs, and for those looking to linger, it offers couches and nooks.

“You could barely even find a coffee shop before,” says Juliana Garcia, co-owner of House of Shah that opened on the Main Street around the same time.

Garcia and her husband, Selymon Shahsamand, opened their restaurant after she sampled her husband’s traditional Afghan dishes and realized how accessible, yet novel, they were to a place like Woodland.

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Their airy storefront features pastel plastic chairs and a chalkboard menu with friendly lettering selling fusions like Afghani Macaroni with tomatoes, beef stew and garlic yogurt. The restaurant is part of a series of new businesses near the historic, pioneerstyle Main Street, including boutiques and houseware stores opening up within the next few weeks.

Soon, Yolo Eats—the company that owns Morgan’s Mill as well as Morgan’s on Main and Maria’s Cantina—will open Lou’s Italian Eats at 423 First Street.

“It’s growing for the better,” Garcia says. “When we were first dating, at 8 p.m., we wouldn’t find anything to eat, we would go to Davis or Sacramento just to get food—and now, that doesn’t seem to be a problem.” Ω

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High up in the El Dorado Hills, at elevations ranging from 2,750 to 3,000 feet, you’ll find 85 acres organically farmed across three vineyards

by Maggie and Paul Bush for their two brands: Madroña, which focuses strictly on estate wines, and Rucksack Cellars, which sources grapes from other El Dorado sites.

The couple write his-and-hers blogs where they both have plenty to share about their winecentered lives. A visit to the outdoor tasting patio of Rucksack, adjacent to a newly planted vineyard in Apple Hill, offers views of the Crystal Range in the Sierras while you taste some lip-smacking wines and have a chat with the amiable duo.

Paul Bush planted his first vines when he was six years old, as part of the family business.

However, he’s no poster boy for the wine industry. “Having grown up in the family’s vineyards and winery, I couldn’t wait to do something—or anything—different. I did indeed graduate from UC Davis in 1989, but my degree is in macroeconomics.”

Paul Bush managed to escape the wine business for almost 25 years, and then, it pulled him back in. Today, the couple grows 29 different varieties, among them barbera, cabernet franc, riesling and nebbiolo. He loves them all, but feels barbera, with its abundant acid and low tannins, is the ultimate wine for pairing with meals.

“It’s like the red version of riesling—extremely versatile. You can embrace its acidity, or go for the plush, ripe style,” he says. Maggie Bush especially loves the bright, crisp barbera rosé

under the Rucksack Cellars label.

Cabernet franc has also captivated the pair.

There is something pure in these pulsating, thrilling red-hearted wines. Check out the fourpack of different franc impressions under the Madroña label.

Says Paul Bush: “I love growing grapes, and then finding the purest expression of our vineyards in the wine. Given the choice, my office would be a tractor and my time spent purely in the field—that is where the true quality of wine comes [from].”

Asked his thoughts on the 2017 vintage, Paul Bush says, “Overall, I’m finding a bit more richness, with lower overall alcohol levels, especially given the mature fruit characters.

Tannins on the reds seem to be a little more rounded, but I attribute that to some decisions in the winery rather than the vintage. I think the 2016 vintage may be more ‘classic,’ and the 2017 may be more approachable, especially at a younger age.”

Paul Bush adds that he’s really excited that 2017 yielded a lot of wines under 14 percent alcohol while exhibiting “phenolic maturity”— optimal ripeness—and good fruit. “As I get older, I tend to like the balance of a lower alcohol wine,” he says. “and I can have that second glass, too!” Ω

tastings at Madroña Vineyards are complimentary. from highway 50, head west on carson road (five miles east of Placerville) and turn right at high hill ranch. open 11am-5pm daily. tours by appointment. call (530) 644-5948.

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The Collection

Nobel-prizewinning British playwright Harold Pinter’s The Collection (1961) is a marvelous one-act from pre-psychedelic London, bearing his characteristic hallmarks. An anonymous 4 a.m. phone call launches absurd situations with menacing, jealous implications involving two couples (one gay, one straight) discussing an out-of-town encounter.

It quickly becomes tricky determining who’s telling the truth (and when), and who’s slept with whom.

This small, thoughtful production is both comical and sinister. Fri 8:30pm,

Sat 8:30pm, Fri 3/9 9pm.

Through 3/9; $15; Art

Theater of Davis, at Davis Arts Center, 1919 F St. in Davis; www.arttheater. org. J.H.

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Wed 7pm, thu 7pm, fri 8pm, sat 2pm & 7pm, sun 2pm. through 3/18; $15-$35; 1419 h street; (916) 443-6722; www.sactheatre.org.

For Sacramento Theatre Company’s production of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, director Casey McClellan says he drew inspiration from paganism and ancient ritual. This is clear from the beginning when the three witches, here representing the Triple Goddess (the maiden, the mother and the crone), perform a lengthy dance and chant before starting the famous “when shall we three meet again” dialogue. It is a dark and spooky scene, setting the stage for the story of an ambitious, power-mad man.

Rather than concentrate on the blood-and-gore aspect of the story, this production focuses on the mental torment experienced by the Macbeths. In fact, the only visible reference to blood was in one costume and in the lighting.

William Elsman, who has given STC many memorable performances, adds the role of Macbeth to his repertoire. As the character becomes giddy with the prospect of ascendancy, Elsman’s Macbeth becomes dark and brooding. The actor brings believability to the complexities of the king who’s hungry for power and simultaneously wracked with guilt. We watch his rapid transformation from an opportunist to someone who has destroyed himself and everything around him.

Atim Udoffia’s Lady Macbeth knows how to push her husband to grab the crown, and how to help him deal with what he must do to get it. “Leave the rest to me,” she says, taking charge of the plans for what must occur. As we later watch her descent into madness, we witness her coming to the realization that crime really doesn’t pay.

One of Shakespeare’s most popular tragedies, done to perfection by STC. Ω

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iconic family, 5 An and a new home Lorraine Hansberry’s iconic A Raisin in the Sun isn’t produced much these days—a shame since the play about an African-American family trying to traverse the social and racial issues of 1950s Chicago still resonates.

Thankfully, Celebration Arts chose this family and cultural drama to unveil their new theater space—transitioning from their old East Sacramento digs into one of B Street Theatre’s former spaces at 27th and B. On opening night, there was a distinct buzz and a sold-out house, with people being turned away. Those who did get in were able to witness not only a beautiful new space for a much-beloved company, but also a wonderful, heartfelt production with a talented cast, all under the direction of Celebration Arts founder James Wheatley.

This story of the Younger family is layered with familial, economic, racial, societal and cultural divisions. Matriarch Lena has to decide what to do with a $10,000 insurance settlement, and with money inevitably come decisions and drama. Mom wants to put a down payment on a house, son Walter wants to open a liquor store and daughter Beneatha is in need of medical school tuition.

Kudos to the cast, a talented group that works in wonderful unison: K.T. Masala as the matriarch, James Ellison III as son Walter, Brooklyn Solomon as his wife Ruth and Alexandra Barthel as Beneatha.

—Patti RobeRts

a raisin in the sun: fri 8pm, sat 8pm, sun 2pm. through march 24; $10-$20; celebration arts, 2727 B street; (916) 455-2787; celebrationartsacts@gmail.com.

Gandhi!

The B Street Family Series moves into its new 380-seat home with this original show, designed for American teens/ tweens and their parents.

It’s a historically-based hip-hop musical (think

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Hamilton) with dramatic scenes depicting Gandhi’s nonviolent campaign for India’s independence, and a racially polarized American high school today (with a white bully telling darker-skinned kids they don’t belong). It’s a well-integrated 90-minute show with a worthy message. The music (Noah Agruss) is strong, and the larger stage provides space for crowd scenes and dance numbers that weren’t feasible in the former 100-seat venue—a win/win for both artists and the audience. Sat

with a large cast of B Street regulars. Thu 8pm,

Fri 8pm, Sat 5pm & 9pm, Sun 2pm, Tue 6:30pm, Wed 2pm & 6:30pm. Through 3/11. $42$46; B Street Theatre’s mainstage at the Sofia Tsakopoulos Center for the Arts, 2700 Capitol Ave.; (916) 443-5300; www. bstreettheatre.org. P.R.

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Green Valley Theatre’s newest production lovingly and achingly traces conjoined twins—the Hilton Sisters—from abusive childhood to carnival acts to 1930s vaudeville stars.

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.

1pm, Sun 1pm. Through 3/11; $23 adult, $15 children; B

Street Family Series at The Sofia, 2700 Capitol Ave.; (916) 443-5300; www. bstreetheatre.org. J.H.

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One Man, Two Guvnors

Fri 8pm, Sat 8pm, Sun 7pm.

Through 3/11; $18; The

It’s the grand opening of B Street’s new midtown location: the Sofia Tsakopoulos Center for 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

Grange Performing Arts Center, 3823 V St. www. greenvalleytheatre.com.

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Austen powers Did theatre folks resurrect the Jane Austen Book Club or something? After a fine production of Pride and Prejudice at STC in 2014 and a lush Sense and Sensibility last season came an excellent imagined sequel to P&P called Miss Bennett: Christmas at Pemberley at Capital Stage. Now comes a new Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility at City Theatre. It’s the story of the Dashwood sisters whose happy lives hit hard times with the death of their father. It’s about family, honor, wealth—and, most importantly, love. Fri 7:30pm, Sat 7:30pm, Sun 2pm. Through March 18; $15-$18; City Theatre, Performing Arts Center at Sacramento City College, 3835 Freeport Boulevard; (916) 558-2228; www. citytheatre.net.

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They send Dominika on a new assignment: shadow and seduce American spy Nate Nash (Joel Edgerton), then discover the identity of the Russian The foul and flightless Red Sparrow is the seventh mole that Nash blew his cover by protecting. The feature film from former music video director Francis stuff about Dominika’s rerouted ballerina career Lawrence (I Am Legend; Water for Elephants; the and the Sparrow school is far-fetched and juvenile, last three Hunger Games movies), and the seventh but it’s compelling enough movie trash. However, unremarkably bad one to boot. It’s like Lawrence was there’s no reason (other than the usual sexism) to created in a laboratory by mad scientists who needed to spend so much time on Nate’s storyline, which is provide content for Crackle. given equal weight with Dominika’s narrative even A witless teenage sex fantasy dressed in the solemn though they don’t dovetail until the second half. tones of a John Le Carré-inspired spy movie, Red As a result, the film offers two undeveloped Sparrow stars Jennifer Lawrence as Dominika Egorova, halves rather than a fully developed whole, and the a Russian ballerina who suffers a career-ending injury overemphasis on fleshing out a nothing character during a performance. Three months after the like Nate prevents us from becoming fully invested accident, Dominika is recovering, but in Dominika’s dangerous journey. Of course, it she worries about providing care doesn’t help that Edgerton is distant and stiff for her ailing mother (Joely and lacks any chemistry with Lawrence, but Richardson). Desperate for even with a stronger actor in the role, the work, she takes a mysterious A witless teenage back-and-forth story structure would still assignment from her shady undermine the suspense. sex fantasy dressed Uncle Vanya (don’t get Along with Passengers and in the solemn tones of a excited, Chekhov fans, it’s mother!, Red Sparrow feels like the not anything), an ethically John Le Carré-inspired third wedge in an unofficial trilogy challenged Russian spy about awful males abusing Jennifer spy movie ... played by the always Lawrence (whereas Joy only abused the expressionless Matthias audience). Red Sparrow reteams Lawrence Schoenaerts. with the director who siphoned away all her The assignment turns out to be charisma over the course of three Hunger Games an assassination attempt, with Dominika films, and he still proves utterly graceless with used as unwitting bait, and receiving a horrifying actors. The contemporary setting of Red Sparrow baptism in blood for her troubles. After witnessing the at least allows a respite from the tacky CGI that state-sponsored murder, Dominika is given a choice: get usually overwhelms Francis Lawrence’s films, but murdered, or train to become a Red Sparrow, a superspy it only gives us more time to focus on his clunky schooled in the art of merciless and self-denying storytelling skills and inability to sustain tension. Ω seduction. Dominika dismisses the training as “whore school,” but her toughness quickly attracts the attention of her teacher (Charlotte Gainsbourg, better than this dreck deserves) and a high-ranking general (Jeremy Irons, exactly what this dreck deserves).

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12 Strong

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 oldfashioned 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 king of a technologically advanced African nation, who is also the superhero Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman), is confronted by an embittered cousin and rival for the throne (Michael B. Jordan), who wants to use the nation’s resources to foment a worldwide race war.

Writer-director Ryan Coogler (Fruitvale Station) and co-writer Joe Robert Cole, taking off from the Stan Lee/Jack Kirby comics, deploy the standard comic-bookmovie assets with aplomb and a worthy sense that it’s about time a superhero of color got a big movie of his own. That novel strain of black empowerment, and a powerhouse supporting cast (Angela Bassett, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Letitia Wright, Martin Freeman, Andy Serkis, Forest Whitaker) are enough to compensate for all the usual cliches and paint-by-number action scenes. J.L.

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Early Man

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 winnertake-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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Every Day

Teenager Rhiannon (Angourie Rice), after a wonderful day with her selfish boyfriend (Justice Smith), learns that he was really “A,” who mysteriously wakes up every morning in a different body, possessing that person for only 24 hours before moving on.

The two find themselves falling in love, so A makes the effort to find Rhiannon every day, while she must be on the lookout for him—or her, whoever A may be that day.

Writer Jesse Andrews and director Michael Sucsy adapt David Levithan’s novels Every Day and Another Day (one is written from A’s viewpoint, the other from Rhiannon’s), and the result is surprisingly enjoyable, an imaginative allegory for the physical and psychological changes involved in adolescence. The cast is generally good, but Rice’s appealing sweetness is the movie’s main attraction. J.L.

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Just grabbing a nice cuppa with all the voices in his head.

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Game Night

A couple who are virtually addicted to board-and-parlor games (Jason Bateman, Rachel McAdams), along with their usual game-night guests (Sharon Horgan,

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Have a Nice Day

Chinese filmmaker Jian Liu writes and directs the deliberate but gripping Have a Nice Day, a pitch-black animated feature set in a decaying city in southern China. Centered around a stolen briefcase full of money, the story melds elements of contemporary slow cinema into a twist-filled, 1990sstyle crime film, while also serving as a scathing indictment of the new Chinese capitalism. Low-level driver Xiao Zhang steals a bag of money belonging to aging crime boss Uncle Liu, who is busy waxing nostalgic while watching his childhood friend get tortured. When Xiao falls asleep in an internet café, a hammer-wielding inventor and his greedy girlfriend make off with the bag, while a black hat-wearing hit man cuts a bloody path towards the cash. Running a tight 75 minutes, with an oblique yet ultimately airtight story structure, Have a Nice Day feels like a film created to screen in Quentin Tarantino’s extended cinematic universe. D.B.

Billy Magnussen, Lamorne Morris, Kylie Bunbury), get in over their heads when a role-playing kidnap game turns into the real thing because of the host’s freewheeling, irresponsible brother (Kyle Chandler).

Mark Perez’s script has few surprises, but enough twists and complications to hold our interest. The direction by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein is unexceptional but inoffensive, and they manage to keep each other out of the way of McAdams and Bateman’s innate charm, chemistry and comic flair. A good thing, too, because McAdams and Bateman are the movie’s only real assets; they’re slumming, but they’re having fun, and it’s contagious. J.L.

unexpected news from her mopey husband Bill (Timothy Spall). Meanwhile, a lesbian couple (Cherry Jones and Emily Mortimer) learn that they are having triplets and a cocaine-snorting lawyer (Cillian Murphy) secretly plots revenge, while Janet’s acidtongued best friend (Patricia Clarkson) spews toothless one-liners. The writing is even more annoying than the lackluster visuals, just a series of lowbrow, laugh track-ready putdowns wrapped in the trappings of academia. Cramped and predictable and far less clever than it thinks, The Party feels like it was based on a play that I would also dislike, rather than an original screenplay by Potter. D.B.

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The 15:17 to Paris

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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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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.

Writer-director Sally Potter (Orlando) roped in a solid cast for this blessedly brief yet utterly annoying black-and-white drama set during a disastrous gathering of friends and secret lovers. Janet (Kristin Scott Thomas) has just been appointed to a high government position, but the party to celebrate her promotion is demolished by

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Storytelling through her sadness ZZ Ward’s soulful, hip-hop tinged take on the blues

by Howard Hardee

The blues have always been the soundtrack to ZZ Ward’s life. Growing up in Roseburg, Ore., her parents listened to greats such as Howlin’ Wolf, Robert Johnson and Big Mama Thornton, and she was drawn to the music’s raw expression. As a teenager, she’d often go over to the neighbor’s house and play sad songs she’d written on their piano.

“My neighbor, she would cry when she heard my songs,” she said. “From a young age, I could feel that the pure emotion coming out of my heart, and my soul was touching people. Feeling that gave me the confidence to know there’s something special about my gift and what I’m doing.”

Ward (real name Zsuzsanna Eva Ward) is a blueeyed blues player with a knockout singing voice and longstanding affection for rap and R&B. Speaking with SN&R from the passenger seat of her tour bus, the Los Angeles-based artist is set to play Ace of Spades on Tuesday, March 6. The white-hot rock ’n’ roll duo Black Pistol Fire opens.

Around the same time that she was regularly bringing her neighbor to tears with piano music, she started digging into her older brother’s 1990s hip-hop albums—stuff like Jay-Z and Nas. “I wasn’t supposed to listen to them because they had curse words, so I obviously would,” she said.

“I loved the beats, but I also loved the storytelling of hip-hop. Kendrick Lamar is one of my favorite

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She took that hat from a Blues Brother.

artists; I love that he’s telling stories that are real for him.”

As a matter of fact, Ward collaborated with Kendrick on her debut album, Til the Casket Drops (listen to “Crying Wolf”).

Her second album, The Storm, was released in June last year and promptly hit No. 1 on the Billboard Blues Albums Chart.

It’s a blues record, to be sure, but it’s also heavily laced with rap.

For an example, check out “The Deep” featuring rapper Joey Purp. The song is built around a sample of “As Long As I’ve Got You” by The Charmels, which is especially familiar to fans of old-school hip-hop because it was also sampled for the 1993 classic “C.R.E.A.M.” by the Wu-Tang Clan.

As for the song’s inspiration, Ward wrote it about an on-and-off relationship with an ex-lover.

“You keep going back, because in some ways it makes you feel good,” she said. “It’s hard to figure out if it’s making you feel better or worse in your life.”

Indeed, it’s pretty easy to understand what she’s singing about: “Every night I, I give you up/ Every time, I swear it’s too much/ But I ain’t tryna say it’s done/ ‘Cause gettin’ some is better than none.”

As for what’s next, Ward is touring heavily this year in support of The Storm. She doesn’t really get tired of the lifestyle: She always appreciates coming home, but gets restless for the road after a couple of weeks.

“I’ve always wanted to be a touring artist,” she said. “As a kid, I used to watch tour buses drive by on the freeway. I just wanted that life. I thought, ‘How cool would it be to wake up in a different city every day?’ And that’s what you get out here: a lot of playing on stage, meeting a lot of fans.”

And connecting with people and moving them with her music is why Ward got in the business in the first place.

“For me,” she said, “it always starts with a good story and real, authentic emotion.” Ω

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POP, ROCK & sOul sHOW: A Motown tribute featuring Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Tina Turner and Michael Jackson, followed by a tribute to Sly and The Family Stone.

10pm, $10. Country Club Lanes, 2600 Watt Ave.

RiVER CiTY CHORAlE: See event listing on 3/2.

7:30pm, $15-$20. Christ Community Church, 5025 Manzanita Ave. in Carmichael.

SUNDAY, 3/4 CuT CHEmisT: With El Dusty. 8pm, $20-$25.

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Send photos and reference materials to Calendar Editor Kate Gonzales at snrcalendar@newsreview.com.

SUNDAY, 3/4 nORTHERn CAliFORniA EGGsTRAVAGAnZA EGG sHOW & sAlE: See event highlight on page 33.

10am, no cover. Crowne Plaza Northeast, 5321 Date Ave.

WEDNESDAY, 3/7 sACRAmEnTO CAREER FAiR: Explore career opportunities in sales, retail, management and more. 9am, no cover. Embassy Suites Hotel, 100 Capitol Mall.

Harlow’s, 2708 J St.

lOnElY AVEnuE: With Internet Friends, He.Cried.

Wolf, Public School. 6pm, $10. The Colony, 3512 Stockton Blvd.

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MONDAY, 3/5 BROCKHAmPTOn: A live experience as part of

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the Love Your Parents Tour. 7pm, $35-$65.

Ace Of Spades, 1417 R St.

nO VACATiOn: With Hot Flash Heat Wave, Bear Call, Pierce and the Gals. 6:30pm, $13-$16.

CLARA Auditorium, 1425 24th St.

Sacramento, variouS timeS, no cover-$20 Got plans for Oscar Sunday? If you’re like many Sacramentans, you’ll be glued to your living room television Film with fingers crossed that Greta Gerwig will accept the award for Best Picture (one of five nominations for the Sac-centric film, Lady Bird). Whether you adored this story that follows an angsty, quirky teen through her senior year or thought it was a tad overrated, the excitement this movie has brought to

features a wide variety of our student ensembles performing, and is a great way to sample what we have to offer throughout the year. 3pm, no cover. Sacramento State, 6000 J St.

our city is undeniable. Revisit some of the spots you recognize from the big screen— the McKinley Park Rose Garden, the Fab 40s—with Lady Bird Tours organized by Sacramento Running Tours, which offers walking and running tours. Then, head to Club Raven, a dive bar featured briefly in the film, to enjoy Lady Bird-themed drinks while rooting on our homegrown star. 3246 J Street, www.facebook.com/ clubravendirtybird.

TUESDAY, 3/6 miRRORs FOR PsYCHiC WARFARE: With (waning), Limb Darkening. 8pm, $10-$12. Blue Lamp, 1400 Alhambra Blvd.

TlATZOTZOnAlOYAn inDiGEnOus musiC: Bring an indigenous instrument and learn how to play and create music the first Tuesday and third Sunday of each month. 7pm, no cover (donations accepted). Sol Collective, 2574 21st St.

ZZ WARD: With Black Pistol Fire. See story on

page 31. 7pm, $24-$99. Ace Of Spades, 1417 R St.

WEDNESDAY, 3/7 iCED EARTH: With Sanctuary, Kill Ritual.

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PATRiCK lAnDEZA HAWAiiAn BEnEFiT DinnER & COnCERT: A Hawaiian dinner followed by a concert performed by Patrick Landeza.

6pm, $40-$60. Sierra 2 Center, 2791 24th St.

THURSDAY, 3/1 JAniVA mAGnEss: With David Luning. 7:30pm,

THE RAGinG nATHAns: With Rebel Holocrons, Danger Inc. 8pm, Stockton Blvd.

$32.50. Sofia Tsakopoulos Center for the Arts, 2700 Capitol Ave.

THE KRYlOns: With The O’Mulligans, ¡Las

RiVER CiTY CHORAlE: This community choir performs music from famous Broadway musicals. 7:30pm, $15-$20. Christ Community Church, 5025 Manzanita Ave. in Carmichael.

Pulgas! and more. 8pm, call for cover. Press Club, 2030 P St.

ZACH DEPuTY: Southern soul artist. 8pm, $15$18. Harlow’s, 2708 J St.

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FRIDAY, 3/2 ARDEn PARK ROOTs: With Mookatite, D-One,

Luci. 7pm, $10-$12. Holy Diver, 1517 21st St.

THE liQuE: 6:30pm, $10-$15. Momo Lounge,

ADRiAn mARCEl: Oakland artist performs.

9pm, $20-$25. Harlow’s, 2708 J St.

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Philharmonic and Opera at Community

Center Theater 8pm, $18-$50. Sacramento Convention Center Complex, 1400 J St.

BlAmE sAllY: San Francisco-based folk group.

7:30pm, $27.50-$32.50. Sofia Tsakopoulos Center for the Arts, 2700 Capitol Ave.

COCO mOnTOYA: California blues artist. 8pm, $25. Palms Playhouse, 13 Main St. in

Winters.

HunGOVER: With Roland Tonies, Damian

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

THE mAmmAls: With Pine Street Ramblers.

8pm, $17-$20. The Center for the Arts, 314 W. Main St. in Grass Valley.

nOTHinG mORE: With The Contortionist, Big

Story, Kirra. 6pm, $20-$125. Ace Of Spades, 1417 R St.

6:30pm, $29.50. Ace Of Spades, 1417 R St.

FOOD & DRINK FRIDAY, 3/2 BAnAnA CREAm PiE EATinG COnTEsT: See event

highlight on page 34. 6pm, no cover. Fat City Bar & Cafe, 1001 Front St.

THE BAsH: An all-inclusive casino night with appetizers, games, music, dancing and raffle prizes! Must be 21 or older. 5:30pm, $30-$60.

The Falls Event Center, 240 Conference Center Drive in Roseville.

BEHinD THE CEllAR DOOR: Meet some of Amador County’s most acclaimed winemakers, taste food pairings and learn about the art and science of winemaking at more than 40 Amador wineries. 11am, $9.99-$125. Amador Cellars Winery, 11093 Shenandoah Road in Plymouth.

SATURDAY, 3/3 BEHinD THE CEllAR DOOR: See event listing

for 3/2. 11am, $9.99-$125. Amador Cellars Winery, 11093 Shenandoah Road in Plymouth.

CAPiTOl BEER FEsT: Sip beers from more than 125 breweries, enjoy live music and food all on Capitol Mall. 12pm, $40-$65. 5th and Capitol, 5th St & W Capitol Ave.

DOnuT DAsH: Run two miles to Marie’s Donuts, mash some donuts or donut holes in your face and run back. 8:30am, $20-$45.

Marie’s Do-Nut Shop, 2590 Freeport Blvd.

SUNDAY, 3/4 BEHinD THE CEllAR DOOR: See event listing

for 3/2. 11am, $9.99-$125. Amador Cellars Winery, 11093 Shenandoah Road in Plymouth.

FESTIVALS SATURDAY, 3/3 EDGE OF sPRinG CElTiC FAnTAsY FAiR: See event highlight on page 34. 10am. $4.95-$24.95.

Gold Country Fairgrounds, 1273 High St. in Auburn.

nORTHERn CAliFORniA EGGsTRAVAGAnZA EGG sHOW & sAlE: See event highlight on page 33.

10am, no cover. Crowne Plaza Northeast, 5321 Date Ave.

sACRAmEnTO CAnnABis JOB FAiR—mARCH 2018: Get a job doing what other people have been put in jail for—marijuana growing, processing, budtending and more. 11am, no cover. Hacker Lab, 1715 I St.

OKOnOmiYAKi POP-uP: Binchoyaki turns into Okonomiyaki for the night with a pop-up dinner. 5pm, $30. 2226 10th St.

FILM THURSDAY, 3/1 THE RETuRn: A documentary about the impact California’s Proposition 36, which shortened the sentences of some inmates, on families and the criminal justice system. Part of the Crocker’s California Fresh Film Series.

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saTURday, 3/3, sUnday, 3/4 northern california eggstravaganza show & sale Crowne Plaza northeast, 10 a.m., no Cover-$20

concert to Sacramento. 1pm sunday, 3/4. $20. 3522 Stockton Blvd.

green valleY THeaTre cOMpanY: Side Show The Musical. A show about the true story of conjoined twins and famed entertainers, Daisy and Violet Hilton. Through 3/11. $18. 3823 V St.

Harris cenTer: Buddy—The Buddy Holly Story.

Eggs—They ain’t just for eating. Check out eggs like you’ve literally never fesTival seen them—as intricate artwork in the form of animals, autos and really anything artists can dream up. This show features local, PHOTO COURTesy OF RebeCCa WHITe national and international egg artists who will exhibit and sell these unique pieces that have been delicately decorated through techniques that include etching, beading and jeweling. And if you care to be egg-stra, sign up for a seminar and learn egg art techniques. After this, you may never look at your breakfast the same. 5321 Date Avenue, www. norcaleggshow.com.

calendar lisTings cOnTinued frOM page 32 6:30pm, $6-$12. Crocker Art Museum, 216 O St.

saTURday, 3/3 sacraMenTO frencH filM fesTival’s WinTer sHOrTs fesT: Watch some of the short films nominated for César Awards (the French equivalent of the Oscars). 7pm, $12. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.

scHOOl daZe sing-a-lOng: Enjoy the movie, reminisce and be entertained as performers act and sing along with popular scenes from this Spike Lee film. 6:15pm, $25. Sierra 2 Center, 2791 24th St.

sUnday, 3/4 cluB raven Oscar parTY: See event highlight on page 32. 5pm, no cover. Club Raven, 3246 J St.

ladY Bird TOurs: See event highlight on page 32. 9am, $20. Various locations in East Sacramento.

King creOle: Elvis Presley plays a New Orleans nightclub singer dragged into the criminal underworld. 12:30pm, no cover. Sacramento Public Library, Central Library, 828 I St.

COMedy cresT THeaTre: Cap City Comedy Slam. The brightest comic stars in our region perform with headliner Kiry Shabazz. 8pm friday, 3/2. $25. Whose Live Anyway? A completely improvised 90-minute show of games, scenes and songs with stars like Ryan Stiles and Greg Proops. 8pm Wednesday, 3/7. $47.50-$57.50. 1013 K St.

laugHs unliMiTed cOMedY cluB: Sac Girls Rock 2018. A night of motivational words, poetry, music, comedy and free massages. 8:30pm Thursday, 3/1. $7-$10. Kabir Singh. Featuring D Tyler. Through 3/4. $10. A #BOMBCOMEDY Production presented by Tom Bomb.

Headliner Hannibal Thompson with Tom

Bomb, PX G Floro and more. 8pm Wednesday,

3/7. $12. 1207 Front St.

luna’s cafe & Juice Bar: STAB! Live Comedy Podcast. Writers, comedians and others partake in a smart, dark live comedy panel show. 8pm Wednesday, 3/7. $5. Capitol PUNishment. A pun tournament. 8pm friday, 3/2. $10. 1414 16th St.

The rock icon’s story explodes on stage in this musical. Through 3/4. $38-$78. Parsons Dance. A fusion of the movements of modern dance with the precision of a classical dance company. 7:30pm Tuesday, 3/6. $18$58. 10 College Parkway in Folsom.

MidTOWn BarflY: Midtown Moxies Burlesque.

A rock ’n’ roll-themed burlesque show. 7:30pm saturday, 3/3. $10-$25. 1119 21st St.

MOndavi cenTer: Compañía Nacional de Danza.

The dance company performs Carmen in this visionary retelling of mythical and universal elements of passion and violence. Through 3/4. $22.50-$75. 1 Shields Ave. in Davis. tragedy as seen through the iris of a Looney Tunes short. After a struggling composer collapses into a plate of pasta, he is diagnosed with a brain tumor and is forced to come to terms with his creative ambitions and the people in his life. Through 3/17. $20-$35. 401 Broad St. in Nevada City.

OOleY THeaTre: Fragile Things. An Iraqi War vet and the woman he inadvertently kidnaps become trapped not only with each other, but by their own personal demons, as the worst snowstorm in history isolates them in a cabin in the woods. Through 3/16. $40. 2007 28th St.

sacraMenTO cOMMuniTY cenTer THeaTer:

sacraMenTO cOMedY spOT: Cameron Esposito.

sacraMenTO THeaTre: Macbeth. One of

Los Angeles-based writer, actor and comic. Through 3/3. $20. 1050 20th St., Suite 130.

THe cenTer fOr THe arTs: The People Need

The Book of Mormon. See event highlight below. Through 3/13. 1301 L Street.

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.

to Laugh. The final week in a four-weekend comedy series features Alex Elkin. 2pm Wednesday, 3/4. $20-$22. 314 West Main St. in Grass Valley.

THree pennY THeaTer: 30th Annual Comedy Festival. An evening of short comedy plays, sketches and monologues. Through 3/18. $20. 1723 25th Street.

TOMMY T’s cOMedY cluB: Comedian Don “DC” Curry. Comedian known for his work on Next Friday and Friday After Next, Grace Under Fire and more. Through 3/4. $25-$35. 12401 Folsom Blvd. in Rancho Cordova.

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. 2700 Capitol Ave.

celeBraTiOn arTs: A Raisin in the Sun. The classic family drama revolves around the divergent dreams and conflicts within three generations of one family. Through 3/24. $10-$20. 2727 B St.

cOlOnial THeaTre: Imagination Movers in Concert. The Emmy-award winning group brings their interactive, family-friendly rock

an out-of-work skiffle player who becomes separately employed by two men who can’t learn the truth about one another. Through 3/8. $27-$46. 2700 Capitol Ave.

Tom DeLuca—Hypnotist. See your fellow students and friends get hypnotized. 7:30pm. Through 3/1. no cover. 6000 J St.

uc davis: Pippin. A young man’s colorful

verge cenTer fOr THe arTs: Space and Place

by Black Salt Collective. An exhibit of multimedia works, including video, sound, collage, performance and painting, that highlight the culture and work of black, brown and indigenous women. Through 3/18. no cover. 625 S St.

Feeling. For all the Buffy fans out there, a live, onstage performance of the only musical episode of the popular series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Produced and presented by Empire Arts Collective.

Through 3/3. $15. 2130 L St.

Wal puBlic MarKeT: Nude Cement. A solo show of works by Nevada City native Taylor Wordell. Opening reception at 6pm Friday, 3/2. Through 3/31. no cover. 1104 R St.

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WareHOuse arTisT lOfTs (Wal) residenT gallerY: First Friday Resident Gallery. A

arTHOuse On r: Cross Pollination. A group exhibit featuring Sierra Wax Artists. Closing reception at 6pm Friday, 3/2. Through 3/2. no cover. 1021 R Street, Second Floor.

cK arT: Earthen Abstracts. Contemporary art exhibit featuring works of Anthony Maki Gill, Sandy Parris, Julie Maren, Peter Foucault, Nick Lopez and Jonah Ward. Through 3/31. no cover. 2500 J St.

e sTreeT gallerY: X-Professors. Works by retired professors Diane Richey-Ward and Mick Sheldon. Through 3/4. no cover. 1115 E St.

sac sTaTe else gallerY: Palestine Unlimited.

Conventions. This display spotlights utilitarian wares, pop culture objects and more. Through 5/18. no cover. 6000 J St.

WilliaM J. geerY THeaTre: Once More with

Gifts of African American Art. An exhibit of recent acquisitions and promised gifts of art by African-American artists. Through 7/15. $10. Power Up: Corita Kent’s Heavenly Pop. This vivid exhibit bridges aspects of Corita Kent’s life as a nun, artist and activist. Through 5/13. $10. 216 O St.

Celebrating the whimsy of clowns. Through 3/3. no cover. 1931 L St.

sac sTaTe liBrarY gallerY: Concurrent/

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.

crOcKer arT MuseuM: Hopes Springing High

KennedY gallerY: Send In the Clowns.

An intriguing photographic look at the dayto-day lives of young Palestinians. The 10 photographers are finalists in the Karimeh Abboud Competition. A reception will be held at 5pm Thursday, 3/1. Through 3/7. no cover. 6000 J St.

THe universiTY uniOn redWOOd rOOM:

nevada THeaTre: A New Brain. A medical

puncH line: Tony Hinchcliffe. Comedian and podcaster performs in Sac. Through 3/3. $22.50. 2100 Arden Way, Ste 225.

THe sOfia: One Man, Two Guvnors. The story of

gallery of art from the artists living at the Warehouse Artist Lofts, held in the second floor community room. 6pm friday, 3/2. no cover. 1108 R St.

MUseUMs aerOspace MuseuM Of califOrnia: Art of the Airport Tower. A photographic journey around the globe, with 50 striking airport tower photographs. Through 7/6. $15. 3200 Freedom Park Drive.

califOrnia MuseuM: And Still We Rise: Race, Culture and Visual Conversations.

Dozens of story quilts chronicle 400 years of significant events that have

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Wednesday, 3/7

The Book of Mormon Community Center theater, 8 P.m., $40-$178

If you’re easily offended, maybe sit this one out.

But for all us humor-loving heathens, Book of Mormon is a hilarious musical centered on the Church of Jesus Christ of LatterOn sTage day Saints. When two straightlaced young men as white as their crisp, button-up shirts are dropped into Uganda as missionaries, it quickly becomes clear that these folks aren’t much in the market for spiritual saving. When you’re not laughing out loud at songs like “Man Up” and “H-E Double Hockey Sticks” you’ll be struggling to stifle your chuckles at the saltier points in this not-so-P.C. show. See it through 3/18. 1301 L Street, www. sacramentocommunitycentertheater.com/ events.

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FRIDAY, 3/2

LGBTQ

Banana Cream Pie Eating Contest Fat City Bar & CaFe, 6 p.M., no Cover

THURSDAY, 3/1 DRAG QUEEN BINGO: Play Bingo hosted by hilarious drag queens to benefit the West Sacramento Historical Society. 7pm, $15.

Mango’s Sacramento, 1930 K St.

Bet ya’ didn’t know March 2 is National Banana Cream Pie Day. What’s that, you ask? A whole day for banana cream pie. Is that really necessary?

Probably not, but since it’s a thing, why not celebrate as a spectator at the fourth annual Banana Cream Pie Eating Contest at Fat City PHOTO COURTESY OF SARAH HINES Bar & Cafe? Watch as folks wolf down as many pies as they can with their hands behind their back.

Come hungry, because there will be pies for sale, FOOD AND DRINK and you may be the one audience member invited to participate in the competition. 1001 Front Street, www.facebook.com/ fatcitybarandcafe.

9am, no cover. Sacramento Public Library—

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Central Library, 828 I St. transformed social justice for AfricanAmericans. Through 5/27. $9. Kokoro: The Story of Sacramento’s Lost Japantown.

Explore Sacramento’s old Japantown through rare family photographs. Through 3/11. $9. 1020 O St.

CALIFORNIA STATE RAILROAD MUSEUM: Off The Clock. This exhibit is focused on the variety of sports clubs, teams and athletic competitions that many Southern Pacific employees participated in during the earlyto mid-1900s. Through 6/1. $10-$15. 111 I St.

THE STORY OF YOUR LIFE—MEMOIR WRITING CLASS: An introduction to memoir as an art form and instruction on how to begin to write yours. Registration required. 10am, no cover. Arden-Dimick Library, 891 Watt Ave.

WEDNESDAY, 3/7 BOARD GAME NIGHT: Meet people, play games and get special deals if you purchase a board game during the event. 5pm, no cover.

Big Brother Comics, 920 20th St.

UC DAVIS DESIGN MUSEUM: It’s Bugged: Insects’ Role in Design. An exploration of the creative relationship between people and insects through this vibrant art and design installation. Through 4/20. No cover. Cruess Hall, 1 Shields Ave. in Davis.

SPORTS & OUTDOORS off by having your bike blessed. 11am, no cover. Harley-Davidson of Sacramento, 1000

BOOKS

Arden Way.

EDGE STUDIOS GRAND OPENING: Free classes for

AUTHOR EVENT—THISBE NISSEN AND JAY BARON NICORVO: Award-winning authors and husband and wife Thisbe Nissen and Jay Baron Nicorvo have a reading, discussion and signing of their two novels. 7:30pm, no cover. Avid Reader, 617 Second St. in Davis.

BOOKS BEFORE BEDTIME CELEBRATING DR. SEUSS: Celebrate Dr. Seuss’ 114th birthday with themed hands-on activities around the park, bilingual story-time, poetry and more.

6pm, $4.75. Fairytale Town, 3901 Land Park Drive.

the grand opening of Edge Studios. 8:30am, 10am, no cover. Edge Studios, 448 Howe Ave.

VOLUNTEER PROJECT: Help improve the 11-acre gem located on the lower American River Parkway. 9am, no cover. Camp Pollock, 1501 Northgate Blvd.

WEDNESDAY, 3/7 MCKINLEY PARK RUN CLUB: Runners and walkers

SATURDAY, 3/3 ROBOT RECYCLER: Families build a solarpowered robot using a Solar Recycler kit.

Attendees must bring either a clean and empty 12-ounce aluminum can, a 20-ounce plastic bottle or three CDs they don’t mind giving up. Call (916) 264-2920 to register.

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DINNER AND A DRAG SHOW: A cabaret-style performance from Sacramento drag queens paired with dinner specials. Bring ones to tip these hilarious queens. 7:30pm, $5-$25.

Capitol Garage, 1500 K St.

SPRING SOCIAL QUEER PEERS & BEER: OK, it’s hard cider, but you get the point—meet your fellow Queer Filipinxs, play games, listen to live music and enjoy food and cider.

Non-alcoholic drinks will also be available.

6pm, no cover. Two Rivers Cider Company, 4311 Attawa Ave.

SUNDAY, 3/4 MAMA’S MAKIN’ BACON: A speakeasy-themed buffet brunch with a drag show from some favorite local drag queens and kings. 11am, $7-$100. The Grand Ballroom, 1215 J St.

QUEER CRAFTERNOON: Share projects, skills and techniques with like-minded artists and crafters. Basic craft supplies provided but feel free to bring your own. 2pm, no cover (donations accepted). Lavender Library, Archives, and Cultural Exchange, 1414 21st St.

TRIXIE MATTEL: Meet the contestant from

SATURDAY, 3/3 DEMONSTRATION TO STOP DEPORTATIONS: A

TUESDAY, 3/6 CALIFORNIA TRIBAL WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP:

See event listing above. 8am, $350. The Scottish Rite Masonic Temple, Bruno Hall, 6151 H St.

demonstration to stand in unity with undocumented immigrants, and to take a stand against attacks on their communities.

2pm, no cover. Fruitridge and Franklin.

UPHOLDING JUSTICE, BE THE CHANGE: Dr. Yasir Qadhi will speak at this banquet hosted by the Muslim Legal Fund of America. 7pm, no cover (donations accepted). Freshmed, 1120 Fulton Ave.

SUNDAY, 3/4 ADVOCACY & POLICY CONFERENCE: The Faculty Association of California Community Colleges hosts keynote speaker Dolores Huerta, who was the recipient of the Alumni of the Year Award. 9am, $290. Faculty Association of California Community Colleges, 300 J St.

MONDAY, 3/5 ADVOCACY & POLICY CONFERENCE: See event

listing for Sunday, 3/4. 9am, $290. Faculty Association of California Community Colleges, 300 J St.

CALIFORNIA TRIBAL WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP: Native women leaders in California gather to meet and network with their peers, discuss their concerns and work on local solutions. 8am, $350. The Scottish Rite Masonic Temple, Bruno Hall, 6151 H St.

CLASSES SATURDAY, 3/3 AUDITION WORKSHOP—ACTING: International theater star Glenn Casale and California Musical Theatre’s artistic consultant hosts this acting class for people ages 9 to adult.

10am, $75. Wells Fargo Pavilion, 1419 H St.

BASIC GLASS CASTING: Explore the possibilities for using clay to create objects that can be cast in glass. Learn to make a mold, set up a kiln for casting and more. 10am, $475$510. Blue Line Arts, 405 Vernon Suite 100 in Roseville.

SUNDAY, 3/4 BASIC GLASS CASTING: See event listing for 3/3.

10am, $475-$510. Blue Line Arts, 405 Vernon Suite 100 in Roseville.

TURNIP YOUR BACKYARD GARDEN: An edible gardening course to empower community gardeners and city dwellers to grow their own produce. Attend one or all four weekly classes, from 3/4 through 3/25. 1pm, $25$85. The Yisrael Family Urban Farm, 4505 Roosevelt Ave.

RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars. 9pm, $20.

Badlands, 2003 K St.

TAKE ACTION FRIDAY, 3/2 BEER & ROSES: Discuss politics, activism, local

issues and more with fellow leftists. 7pm, no cover. Streets Pub and Grub, 1804 J St.

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JUSTICE FOR SACRAMENTO LETTER WRITING PARTY: Black Lives Matter Sacramento hosts this gathering to write letters to people in

SATURDAY, 3/3 BIKE BLESSING: Start the motorcycle season

FRIDAY, 3/2

SATURDAY, 3/3

jail. 6:30pm, no cover. Sacramento Public Library—Belle Cooledge, 5600 South Land Park Drive.

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can meet up, work out together and learn the elements of an efficient run form. First session is free. 6pm, no cover. McKinley Park, 3330 McKinley Blvd.

SATURDAY, 3/3

Edge of Spring Celtic Fantasy Fair Extravaganza Gold Country FairGrounds, 10 a.M., no Cover-$24.95

Up for a sword fight, or ready to get down to Celtic music? Eat, drink, dance and be dazzled as you step into a wonderland filled with fairies, vikings and music.

Come dressed in your medieval or FESTIVALS best fantasy garb, and watch a real armored sword fight between bites of meat pies and drinks of ale and rum. This is a family-friendly event, so don’t worry about getting a babysitter. The VIP tickets come with a handmade wand, custom tote bag and early admission for those who want the full experience.

1273 High Street in Auburn.

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The acousTic den cafe

Songwriters in the Round, 7pm, $5

Brett Rechtfertig, Nate Beltz, 7pm, $7

Hell Bent, Emily Kiddy, 7pm, no cover

Que Bossa, 2pm, no cover

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

Badlands

PopRockz, 9pm, no cover

BenDeLaCreme Live, 8pm, $15-$25

Trixie Mattel, 9pm, $20

Sunday Beer Bust, 4pm, no cover

Trapacana, 10pm, W, no cover

Nick Ikeda, 9:30pm, no cover

The Garage Chronicles Comedy Show, 9:30pm, no cover

Trivia, 6:30pm, M, no cover; Open-Mic, 7:30pm, W, no cover

Soulful 2, 8pm, $10 (no cover for women before midnight)

Gabriell Garcia Campaign Launch Party, 8pm, no cover

Cars & Trains, 8:30pm, M, $7-$10; Mirrors for Psychic Warfare, 8pm, T, $12

Easyfriend, The Stoneberries, 8pm, $15

War of Ages, Convictions, 8pm, $12

Capitol Fridays, 10pm, no cover before 10:30pm

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

10271 FAIRWAY DRIVE, ROSEVIllE, (916) 412-8739 2003 k ST., (916) 448-8790

BaR 101

101 MAIN ST., ROSEVIllE, (916) 774-0505

Blue lamp

Top-Shelf Radio Showcase, 9pm, $10 (no cover for women before 10pm)

1400 AlHAMbRA blVD., (916) 455-3400

The BoaRdwalk

9426 GREENbAck lN., ORANGEVAlE, (916) 358-9116

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cut chemist

1500 k ST., (916) 444-3633

The cenTeR foR The aRTs

Bristle (Electric) & Similar Fashion, 8pm, $17-$20

faces

2000 k ST., (916) 448-7798

RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars, 5pm, no cover

Absolut Fridays, 9pm, call for cover

Decades, 7pm, call for cover

faTheR paddY’s iRish puBlic house

Guy and Carol, 6pm, no cover

Roadhouse 5, 7pm, no cover

Schwamingos, 7pm, no cover

fox & Goose

Irish Jam Session, 8pm, no cover

Be Brave Bold Robot, Chowderheart, Scott Reeves, 9pm, $5

Kevin & Allyson Seconds, Natalie Cortez, Gillian Underwood, 9pm, $5

Golden 1 cenTeR

Nets v. Kings, 7pm, $12-$175

314 W. MAIN ST., GRASS VAllEY, (530) 274-8384

with El Dusty 8pm Sunday, $20-$25 Harlow’s Hip-hop/electronic

435 MAIN ST., WOODlAND, (530) 668-1044 1001 R ST., (916) 443-8825 500 DAVID J STERN WAlk, (888) 915-4647

The Mammals, 8pm, $15-$18

Jazz v. Kings, 7pm, $18-$198

halfTime BaR & GRill

Midget Mania Wrestling, 7pm, $20-$40

5681 lONETREE blVD., ROcklIN, (916) 626-3600

haRlow’s

Zach Deputy, 8pm, $15-$18

2708 J ST., (916) 441-4693

The People Need to Laugh! Comedy Matinee Series, 2pm, $20-$22 Noche Latina, 9pm, T, no cover; Purgatory, 9pm, W, no cover

All-Vinyl Wednesdays with DJ AAKnuff, 8pm, W, no cover Knicks v. Kings, 6pm, $20-$256

Pelicans V. Kings, 7pm, M, $20-$217 Let’s Get Quizzical Trivia Game Show, 7pm, T, no cover

Funk Rockers, 9pm, $7 Adrian Marcel, 8pm, $20-$25

Cut Chemist, El Dusty, Shortkut, 8pm, $20-$25

Ryan Caravero, 6pm, T, $10-$12; Anderson East, 7pm, W, sold out

hideawaY BaR & GRill

Banjo Bones, 9pm, call for cover

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

hiGhwaTeR

Total Recall (’90s covers), 10pm, $5

Trivia Factory, 7pm, M, no cover; Wednesday Comedy, 8:30pm, W, no cover

2565 FRANklIN blVD., (916) 455-1331 PHOTO cOURTESY OF SAlIHAH SAADIQ

Geeks Who Drink, 8:30pm, W, no cover

1910 Q ST., (916) 706-2465

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with Yeek 7:30pm Thursday, $15 Holy Diver Hip-hop

kupRos

Caleborate, Yeek, Jammy, 7:30pm, $15

1517 21ST ST.

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

luna’s cafe & Juice BaR

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

1414 16TH ST., (916) 737-5770

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Free will astrology

by Michael Mott

by Rob bRezsny

FOR THE WEEK OF MARCH 1, 2018 ARIES (March 21-April 19): On September 1, 1666, a London baker named Thomas Farriner didn’t take proper precautions to douse the fire in his oven before he went to sleep. Consequences were serious. The conflagration that ignited in his little shop burned down large parts of the city. Three hundred twenty years later, a group of bakers gathered at the original site to offer a ritual atonement. “It’s never too late to apologize,” said one official, acknowledging the tardiness of the gesture. In that spirit, Aries, I invite you to finally dissolve a clump of guilt you’ve been carrying . . . or express gratitude that you should have delivered long ago . . . or resolve a messy ending that still bothers you . . . or transform your relationship with an old wound . . . or all of the above.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The Committee

to Fanatically Promote Taurus’s Success is pleased to see that you’re not waiting politely for your next turn. You have come to the brilliant realization that what used to be your fair share is no longer sufficient. You intuitively sense that you have a cosmic mandate to skip a few steps—to ask for more and better and faster results. As a reward for this outbreak of shrewd and well-deserved self-love, and in recognition of the blessings that are currently showering down on your astrological House of Noble Greed, you are hereby granted three weeks’ worth of extra service, free bonuses, special treatment, and abundant slack.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): No one can be

somewhat pregnant. You either are or you’re not. But from a metaphorical perspective, your current state is a close approximation to that impossible condition. Are you or are you not going to commit yourself to birthing a new creation?

Decide soon, please. Opt for one or the other resolution; don’t remain in the gray area. And there’s more to consider. You are indulging in excessive in-betweenness in other areas of your life, as well. You’re almost brave and sort of free and semi-faithful. My advice about these halfway states is the same: Either go all the way or else stop pretending you might.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The Appalachian

Trail is a 2,200-mile path that runs through the eastern United States. Hikers can wind their way through forests and wilderness areas from Mount Katahdin in Maine to Springer Mountain in Georgia. Along the way they may encounter black bears, bobcats, porcupines and wild boars.

These natural wonders may seem to be at a remote distance from civilization, but they are in fact conveniently accessible from America’s biggest metropolis. For $8.75, you can take a train from Grand Central Station in New York City to an entry point of the Appalachian Trail.

This scenario is an apt metaphor for you right now, Cancerian. With relative ease, you can escape from your routines and habits. I hope you take advantage!

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Is 2018 turning out to be as

I expected it would be for you? Have you become more accepting of yourself and further at peace with your mysterious destiny? Are you benefiting from greater stability and security? Do you feel more at home in the world and better nurtured by your close allies? If for some reason these developments are not yet in bloom, withdraw from every lesser concern and turn your focus to them. Make sure you make full use of the gifts that life is conspiring to provide for you.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “You can’t find inti-

macy—you can’t find home—when you’re always hiding behind masks,” says Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Junot Díaz. “Intimacy requires a certain level of vulnerability. It requires a certain level of you exposing your fragmented, contradictory self to someone else. You running the risk of having your core self rejected and hurt and misunderstood.” I can’t imagine any better advice to offer you as you navigate your way through the next seven weeks, Virgo. You will have a wildly fertile opportunity to find and create more intimacy. But in order to take full advantage, you’ll have to be brave and candid and unshielded.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In the coming weeks,

you could reach several odd personal bests. For instance, your ability to distinguish between flow-

ery bullshit and inventive truth-telling will be at a peak. Your “imperfections” will be more interesting and forgivable than usual, and might even work to your advantage, as well. I suspect you’ll also have an adorable inclination to accomplish the half-right thing when it’s impossible to do the perfectly right thing. Finally, all the astrological omens suggest that you will have a tricky power to capitalize on lucky lapses.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): French philosopher

Blaise Pascal said, “If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.” American author Henry David Thoreau declared, “There is no remedy for love but to love more.” I would hesitate to offer these two formulations in the horoscope of any other sign but yours, Scorpio. And I would even hesitate to offer them to you at any other time besides right now. But I feel that you currently have the strength of character and fertile willpower necessary to make righteous use of such stringently medicinal magic. So please proceed with my agenda for you, which is to become the smartest, feistiest, most resourceful lover who has ever lived.

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

of Kansas has over 6,000 ghost towns—places where people once lived, but then abandoned.

Daniel C. Fitzgerald has written six books documenting these places. He’s an expert on researching what remains of the past and drawing conclusions based on the old evidence. In accordance with current astrological omens, I suggest you consider doing comparable research into your own lost and half-forgotten history. You can generate vigorous psychic energy by communing with origins and memories. Remembering who you used to be will clarify your future.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): It’s not quite a

revolution that’s in the works. But it is a sprightly evolution. Accelerating developments may test your ability to adjust gracefully. Quickly-shifting storylines will ask you to be resilient and flexible.

But the unruly flow won’t throw you into a stressful tizzy as long as you treat it as an interesting challenge instead of an inconvenient imposition.

My advice is not to stiffen your mood or narrow your range of expression, but rather to be like an actor in an improvisation class. Fluidity is your word of power.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): It’s the “produc-

tive paradox” phase of your cycle. You can generate good luck and unexpected help by romancing the contradictions. For example: 1.

You’ll enhance your freedom by risking deeper commitment. 2. You’ll gain greater control over wild influences by loosening your grip and providing more spaciousness. 3. If you are willing to appear naive, empty, or foolish, you’ll set the stage for getting smarter. 4. A blessing you didn’t realize you needed will come your way after you relinquish a burdensome “asset.” 5. Greater power will flow your way if you expand your capacity for receptivity.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): As you make

appointments in the coming months, you could reuse calendars from 2007 and 2001. During those years, all the dates fell on the same days of the week as they do in 2018. On the other hand, Pisces, please don’t try to learn the same lessons you learned in 2007 and 2001. Don’t get snagged in identical traps, or sucked into similar riddles or obsessed with comparable illusions.

On the other hand, it might help for you to recall the detours you had to take back then, since you may thereby figure out how to avoid having to repeat boring old experiences that you don’t need to repeat.

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.

Mayan hiphop power Tzutu Kan scrolled through the photos on his phone, naming subjects students in his art collective turned into paintings: a fish in a bottle; the cosmos; colonial conquest; banana companies; civil war; a woman as a guerrilla fighter protecting her town; a new generation growing flowers.

“This is power,” Kan said. He helped form the art and hip-hop collective in Guatemala in 2008 to teach kids history and culture. He also holds workshops on the Mayan calendar, the impact of climate change and how indigenous artists are using hip-hop to tell stories and preserve culture. He visited Sacramento earlier this month to lead workshops at Sol Collective and other organizations.

How did your groups get started?

We started Cabal Cultura in 2008 to help young painters. We started with a weekend of drawing and exhibition for 10 kids, asking them to do art on their surroundings. We just found a house and all pitched in $50 so we can run an arts collective and school.

Sometimes, they paint about a lake near our school being polluted by wastewater; sometimes, it’s murals on their culture or what the community wants. One midwife asked to paint herbs pregnant women should eat. All of it’s happening in the highlands to showcase our elders; to honor them; to paint them honorably as local heroes. I also helped start a hip-hop artists’ collective, Balam Ajpu, which means “Jaguar Warrior” and represents duality and how opposites complement each other. We teach kids to preserve their culture through the arts, the Mayan calendar and break dance with different animals and moves to preserve their history in their own ways.

Why hip-hop?

Our kids dance and sing in their native language. There was a wave in the ’90s of U.S. music and TV to Latin America. A Mayan hip-hop artist took off in the early 2000s. I met him and he said, “Keep doing this.” He’d quit since he needed to work as a carpenter to feed his family. We need to keep our culture alive to keep rising. There’s a growing movement of hip-hop artists performing in Mayan. In 2012, we collaborated on an album with 20 songs representing the 20 [sacred] days, or Nawals, of the Mayan calendar. Meeting with elders, we learned about the ceremonies of our ancestors. We brought flowers and incense, and started writing really fast as they spoke in trances.

We started touring after that, spreading the message of these 20 Nawals; even though most Guatemalans are Mayan, many

PHOTO COURTESY Of TZUTU KAN

don’t see their culture represented in the media. The calendar is naturally tied to the nine months a woman is pregnant; it’s the most natural calendar. So many bad things are happening to our Mother Earth.

We need to get more in sync with the world. And it’s working: One of our kids started singing and made a great recording.

Seeing his video, I thought, “This is what needs to happen.” Now, we teach 13 programs with up to 100 students.

Hip-hop has a strong culture of resistance. We love the gospel of hip-hop.

I found a statement by KRS-One on the culture of hip-hop and told my friends, “He is the teacher.” He’s a big influence. Globally, hip-hop is a platform to show our culture.

In the ’90s, it was rock ’n’ roll. Now, hip-hop helps native artists express themselves from Brazil to Africa. What connects us is everyone trying to preserve their local culture and community. That’s most important.

Why involve climate change?

It’s getting hot in places where it was cold, and colder where it used to be warmer.

People are bringing seeds from the coast to mitigate climate change, which we keep in seed banks. We’re losing agriculture and crops from how dry it gets.

The inequality is great in Guatemala: 95 percent have 5 percent of the land, which produces food for the whole country. But people are also planting small gardens to improve diversity, growing pumpkins, beans, even medical herbs. This is the way of native people—plant many things, maximize a little piece of land, do better by the environment.

The people who are causing climate change can pay to avoid it. Us without resources are the most affected by it.

Our local government is corrupted: Oil companies give a little to the government, which takes it instead of giving it to the people. We’re seeing climate change affect agriculture, upsetting the natural life cycle of corn. It’s getting harder to grow without chemicals. Farmers here get a subsidy to grow things; farmers in my country subsidize themselves to feed the country.

Has social media changed your work?

It’s allowing us to make greater change.

We’re using Facebook, SoundCloud— anything to get our culture out there and preserve it. Our work is going to universities.

Professors contact us to hear our music and talk about it. We’re going on tour to LA, Chico and finding other venues to do workshops. If we spread our messages as a collective, we can change more things.

How do you see your work fitting into the history of political and cultural resistance?

We need to start looking back. Humanity is not going the right way. There are ways to live without damaging the environment.

It’s also important [that] we speak our language—when I use it more, I understand more. Now, we’re living in a global world. We have hip-hop-modern and Mayan-ancient. So we can preserve our culture with others to survive in this world. Ω

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