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Reporting while black being an african-american journalist in the age of stephon clark can be toxic for the psyche by Kris HooKs

’ve come to the conclusion that my job is bad for my mental health. That, as a Black man living in the United States, working in digital media and reading daily comments about how Americans truly despise people who look like me, is causing me to feel mentally ill. I sat at my desk Monday holding back tears as I watched a video of Stephon Clark’s grandmother, Sequita Thompson, describing what she heard in her backyard as two Sacramento police officers shot at her unarmed grandson 20 times, killing him. She stood at a podium in City Hall surrounded by family, lawyers and organizers. Tears poured from her eyes as she cried out for some form of justice in Clark’s death. “And now my grandbabies don’t have their daddy,” she said, shaking in frustration. “Because they didn’t even—why didn’t they just shoot him in the arm? Shoot him in the leg. Send the dogs.” I’m a digital producer for a local television station so, as I’m required to do, I clip the video and post it to Facebook. The comments come flooding in. Some people offer their condolences. They’re unaware that Sacramento-area police have killed 16 people since 2016, so they wonder how something they see happening in Missouri and Baltimore and North Carolina can happen so close to home. Others question why the two officers would nearly empty their clips, hurling bullets at a 22-year-old Black man who might have broken some windows. But without fail, sitting there at the top, are comments berating a grief-stricken woman who lost her grandson to the people who took an oath to protect him. “Maybe he should have been raised to respect officers and their authority,” one commenter wrote. “He did this to himself!!! Now mama I feel continued on page 4

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you really do miss your son but to me your (sic) really going full force on this just to get money!!!” another commenter wrote. And finally, “Shut up!! You aren’t even crying! I’m sorry you lost your loved one, but maybe if [he] wasn’t an idiot it wouldn’t have happened!” I knew these comments would come. I knew it because every time a Black man or woman is killed by a police officer, people offer their unsolicited criticisms as if they know what it’s like to be a person of color living in a country that has historically hated your existence unless it could profit off your body. These criticisms don’t just come from back-the-blue-flag-wearing conservatives, but also the people who call themselves progressive allies right up until the point they’re inconvenienced because a protest for Black lives is preventing them from getting into a Sacramento Kings game. These are people who often have the convenience of not having to worry if their unarmed children will walk away from a police encounter because the color of their skin is not perceived as being a threat. Stephon Clark did not have that convenience. Joseph Mann did not have that convenience. Dazion Flenaugh did not have that convenience. Mikel McIntyre did not have that convenience. I do not have that convenience. There’s this idea in news media that you have to be impartial in order to be a good journalist. So I sit at work everyday feeling increasingly depressed reading comments about how people believe that men who look like me deserved to die because they had a mental breakdown or their cellphone somehow resembled a gun. I see people justify these deaths by saying, “If he would have complied,” knowing that I can’t tell them that Freddie Gray was in handcuffs when he was killed by officers who failed to safely place him in a police wagon. I see people telling a suffering grandmother that she should’ve raised her grandson to respect people, knowing that I can’t tell them that Tamir Rice was just 12 years old when an officer killed him at a park less than five seconds after pulling up in a patrol car. I can’t tell them these things, because, although the thought that I could have been Stephon Clark is rolling around in my head, I’ll cease being seen as objective the moment I offer my opinion. So instead, I sit at my desk. I read the comments. And I wait to upload the next video. Ω 4 | SN&R | 03.29.18

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His brother’s keeper Following the police killing oF Stephon clark, brother Stevante clark wreStS control oF the mic. by Raheem F. hosseini r aheem h@ n ew s r ev i ew . com

tevante Clark does not want your sympathy. Or, to be more precise, at this moment he doesn’t want mine. It’s late Monday afternoon, barely a week since his younger brother Stephon Clark was gunned down in their grandmother’s backyard for holding a cellphone at night. Almost on a whim, Stevante caravanned to SN&R’s office on Del Paso Boulevard with a small entourage of longtime friends and two Vice News video journalists from Brooklyn. Before I can mumble an introduction, Stevante throws an arm around my neck and holds out a phone with a pulsing red light. “Say, ‘I am Stephon Clark,’” he commands. I oblige. “Again.” I say it again. “Again.”

And again. This goes on for a while. I lose count of how many times I see my white face in a smudged screen saying, “I am Stephon Clark.” I register the Vice guys in the distance and wonder what they must think. A reporter, ceding control of an interview to a subject, becoming part of the story he’s supposed to cover objectively, without any emotion or opinion. But Stevante already knows that’s a myth. We all live in the same world. And either we’re all human or we ain’t. So I say the words until he’s heard enough. This interview came together suddenly. But

“suddenly” is Stevante’s life right now. A little after 9 p.m. on Sunday, March 18, two Sacramento police officers realized the worst possible outcome of the broken-windows strategy of law enforcement. Responding to reports that a tall, thin man had smashed some car windows

along the 7500 block of 29th Street, Officers Terrence Mercadal and Jared Robinet chased the person they thought responsible into a residential backyard and opened fire. The officers reportedly mistook the cellphone in Stephon’s hand for a gun. They fired 20 rounds on that assumption. The city of Sacramento has been seized by an intense reckoning ever since. The vigils came first. Then the marches. Then the press conferences and the listening sessions and Tuesday’s announcement that the California Department of Justice would oversee the criminal probe into the shooting. It’s all happened fast, at a breakneck pace, at the speed of 20 bullets flying toward a 22-year-old man standing outside his home. The death of Stephon Clark has continued on page 6

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become a national story—his name signaling the kind of tale America knows all too well: Unarmed black man dies by police firing squad. Leaves behind two daughters, a mom, his siblings, his grandparents and all those who gave a damn about Stephon Clark long before the country started paying attention. Community rages. Politicians promise. Life sneaks on. Until the next tragedy. Stevante Clark is here to upend that stale, sickening narrative. Since his brother’s killing, Stevante has been assigned a slew of roles he never asked for—grieving brother, social activist, avatar of injustice, symbol of the resistance. He wears those robes uneasily. “Sacramento was put on my back,” Stevante says. “Like, I didn’t ask for this. I just got a raise at my security job. I was happy. You know what I mean? I was getting it, dude. I was getting mine. I was gonna get my car out of the shop next week. I was happy. And then all this shit happened. And I didn’t even get my car out of the fucking shop.” Against his will, Stevante starts to cry. Doing as they’ve been instructed, his friends shout at him to stop. Stevante Clark won’t give the world his tears. So he sucks in his breath and rages instead. Dressed in a black hoodie bearing his brother’s

likeness, Stevante hides his expressive eyes behind dark sunglasses and burns down a couple of blunts while seated at the head of a long conference table. Meek Mill’s “We Ball” echoes from a blue-tooth speaker. He says it’s the one song getting him through. He used to be an artist, too. He was a rapper that didn’t trade in gangland cliches. He performed under the name Pharoah Davinci and had the local label, Black Market Records, backing him. He says he could go wherever he wanted in this city, because he didn’t claim a gang that chopped up Sacramento into territories. But now, he’s lost the taste for his art, among other things. As far as he’s concerned, life has no more worlds for him to conquer. “I don’t wanna talk to you about this,” he makes clear. “I used to make music. I want to talk to you about my album or some shit, you know what I mean? … I don’t want to come here about this. It reminds me of 20 times.” Stevante pounds the table. “Twenty times.” When Stevante was 13 or 14, he says, he went door to door selling subscriptions for the Sacramento Bee. He managed to squirrel away a couple hundred bucks to buy Stephon’s way into Pee Wee football. “Because he loved football,” Stevante says. Stevante wasn’t much interested in sports. Music was his passion, but he always held down jobs, too. He says he spent time in the foster care system, where he learned to rely on himself. “I’ve always worked. I’ve always been trying to get it for them. I always tried to take care of them,” he says. “Because they have no good examples. That’s why I’ve never been to jail. That’s why I’ve never done any drug in my life but smoke and drink. That’s why I’ve never got a girl pregnant or really been 6 | SN&R | 03.29.18

unemployed. Because I’ve always known that if I fuck up, what is that going to look like to them? We’ve already lost a big brother.” Stevante doesn’t get specific, but others close to the family say his older brother was a victim of gun violence. He had a sister who died either during or shortly after childbirth, too. His was a family already carrying too much, and now it’s carrying this, too. There are already fake crowdfunding sites (the real one: https://www.gofundme.com/ justus4zoe) and merchandising fraudsters, who have slapped Stephon’s image on T-shirts or in music videos without the family’s permission. And there’s still even more bizarre nonsense. Stevante says he’s been mistakenly called his brother’s name in interviews, and that his photos have been mistaken for Stephon’s. It’s like he’s entered an alternate reality where he was the one who died, while a caricatured portrayal of his brother is what survives to peddle for the masses. “Every time people see me, they see pain,” Stevante explains. “They don’t see me, say, ‘Oh, he’s cool.’ No, they see me, they wanna cry. They wanna cry. And I’m the one always gotta be like, ‘Be strong, be strong.’ Knowing damn well my heart is just shattered.” I ask Stevante when he tends to that broken heart. “Never,” he says. “Sleep when you’re

dead. Only thing that come to a nigga that sleeps is a dream. If you slept longer than 15 minutes, you slept too long enough. You hear me? Take care of myself,” he scoffs. “I got nephews I gotta look after. I don’t got kids myself. I’m irrelevant.” Stevante removes his glasses and glares.“I’m Stephon Clark now.” Sequita Thompson recognized the explosions

instantly. Stephon and Stevante’s grandmother was inside the house when the shooting occurred, sitting at her computer in the den, she said during a Monday press conference. When the shooting happened, Thompson went to the ground and scrambled to the 7-year-old granddaughter sleeping on a couch. Thompson had already lost one grandson to gun violence, and wasn’t going to let the city steal one more of hers. She yanked the girl to the floor and the two of them crawled along their bellies into a bedroom. “They shooting,” Thompson called out to her husband, wondering who “they” were this time. Later, detectives came to the house and told them not to go outside. Thompson feared the worst. She said she told them she hoped they hadn’t killed one of her grandkids, “because they come through the back.” That’s where they get her husband’s attention through the window so he can open the garage door

for them. She thought of the grandson she saw earlier that day. Stephon’s birthday was coming up in August. Then she learned he would be frozen at 22 years old forever. “But they didn’t have to kill him like that. They didn’t have to shoot him that many times,” she said Monday in a voice hoarse with grief. As her pleas for justice dissolved into soft cries, Thompson was led out of City Hall’s atrium and taken back to her baffling new reality. Community leaders opened up the conference to questions from the media. Before a second one could be answered, Stevante manifested at the podium, seemingly out of nowhere. Puckishly kissing two women from the NAACP on their cheeks, Stevante mock-grinned at the cameras. Then he lead an impromptu call-and-response chant of his brother’s name with an emotional observer. Then he disappeared. He does stuff like that. His friend and manager Darron Powe cracks that he’s probably the only person who has hung up on the Rev. Al Sharpton and missed a call from Sean Combs, Puff Daddy. “Who do you know who hangs up on Al Sharpton and misses a call from Diddy?” Powe bellows. “Diddy!” Maybe Stevante just wised up to the game. He recognizes that he’s in the eye of manmade hurricane, one in which historical injustice flings shocking horrors that are now even easier to view on our mobile devices. He knows this is a culture that binges on tragedy, that vomits out the last one to make room for the next. Stevante is rebelling against the constraints of that process. It’s about the fourth or fifth time that he mentions his plans to build a community library that I finally understand there’s a plan. Actually, Stevante is the one to explain it. “When a president leaves office, what does he get?” A library. “And that says something, right?” It sure does. Stevante turns his attention to one of the friends he brought with him, the ones who knew him before this and will know him after. The ones who have lost people like he’s lost people. “Nigga, we all we got,” he says. “Nobody has ever loved us. Ever. And now all these [people] here trying to exploit our pain. You see how they come through, see our pain? Now they wanna come down? Oh we gonna give them something to see, alright? And we gonna get this community together and we gonna do this for my brother, a’right? Because he was the shit. He loved Sacramento.” Ω

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The whole world is watching Maybe Stephon Clark didn’t die for nothing. Let’s hope and pray that his death, at the of hands of two young Sacramento police officers, will lead to changes in the way police agencies work in AfricanAmerican communities. It’s not impossible. The eyes of the nation are on Sacramento right now. Networks from CNN to Vice are in town. The blood-chilling videos of are being watched worldwide. Activists from throughout the nation are demanding justice—demanding that Sacramento do something. Maybe it will happen. Watch the Sacramento Bee’s video of Darryl Scarbrough, pastor of the Clark family’s church. “Sacramento’s in a perfect position to do something America has never seen—to find a long-term solution to this ongoing conflict,” Scarbrough says. “There’s relationships [here] that you do not see in most places. There’s a diversity. There’s a police chief who called me the next day, to check on the family, even though things are going crazy for him. “I believe after the dust settles a little bit we’ll be able to pull off something [that] could be an example for the whole country as to how to handle these moments. And how to prevent them from happening.” Our police agencies must develop protocols to de-escalate situations like the one that led to Stephon Clark’s death. We need Chief Daniel Hahn to make that his top priority. We need him to do it to protect the lives of black men in Sacramento and throughout the nation.

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In the November 2016 presidential election, nearly 25 percent of California’s registered voters did not cast ballots — and thousands didn’t even register. The non-voters were from all races. In this year of midterm elections, Sacramento County will make it easier to vote, both in the June 5 primary and the Nov. 6 general election. Four other counties will also streamline the process under the 2016 Voter’s Choice Act, designed to modernize voting in the Golden State. Starting the week of May 8, all registered voters in Sacramento County will be mailed a ballot, which can be returned by mail or to any of 52 VoteBy-Mail Ballot Drop Boxes or at Vote Centers, which will be open in advance of Election Day. Sixteen Vote Centers will open May 26; another 62 will open June 2. Those who prefer voting in person will choose the center where they want to vote.

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Locally, some of the voter outreach is being done by Hmong Innovating Politics (HIP), a Sacramento nonprofit with a history of getting people to vote, with the support of The California Endowment. “The right to vote means the power to make your voice heard,” Mai Vang, a HIP community organizer, said recently. “Regardless of who we are, our voice matters and we can’t” allow others to choose our elected officials and policies for us. She and HIP Executive Director Cha Vang (no relation) were born in Thai refugee camps after their families fled

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I listened to a lot of Harry Nilsson today, so I’m feeling some Harry Nilsson vibes. He was in that drinking club, Hollywood Vampires with John Lennon, so if I could have one of those days with drunken debauchery with John Lennon that would be pretty cool.

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I guess Joe Strummer when The Clash started, because it’s kind of a shot fired around the world, that time period. For me that was like the best music ever. … I’d want to see things happening, something come to fruition.

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One of my main inspirations as a young person was Kathleen Hanna from Bikini Kill. For some reason her energy and everything she said just made sense to me at that moment. So I think if I could somehow enter her mind and know what she was thinking, maybe circa 1992, that would be my fantasy.

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It would have to be somebody from before social media and all the new stuff. That way they wouldn’t be influenced by all the shit that goes on, and they don’t have to live under this image and they just get to make the music they want. … There was something more pure about music back then.

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Labor movement lives The 2018 Cesar Chavez March for the Right to Organize and Protect our Families [10 a.m. Saturday, March 31, Southside Park, 7th and T streets] brings back movement memories of the first organizing committee meeting I attended, with Al Rojas, in 1999, sponsored by the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement, Sacramento Chapter, AFL-CIO. Rojas, a fellow state worker and past organizer for the United Farm Workers, helped build extensive coalitions for campaigns in Pittsburgh, Pa., and Yolo County. I joined SEIU in 1997-98, and in early 2002, I began interviewing Rojas for the Regional Oral History Office of The Bancroft Library, as part of a larger Latino Leadership series at U.C. Berkeley. As a memoirist in the program, Al recounted his commitment to the farmworkers movement and his active involvement in local and national support committee activities, with a critical eye for the house of labor. We focused on his sharp organizing skills that enabled him to win organizing drives and strikes, and to build extensive coalitions for campaigns he led all across this county and Mexico. More than a state holiday, the Chavez march is relevant today given the upcoming midterms, “sanctuary” cities, the border wall, mass deportations and a return to exploitation of labor in the form of a modern-day guest worker program.

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Scott Jones betrays constituents Re: “Trump’s inside man” by Raheem F. Hosseini (News, March 22) So [Sheriff Scott Jones] doesn’t work for us? Looking for a bigger job? Gosh, who knew. Maxine Milner KrugMan via Facebook

Where was he when Russian bots were immigrating here to steal the presidency? Muriel Strand via Facebook

He needs to be booted out of office. Kevin McKenna via Facebook

Too much power Re “Armed with a cellphone” by Raheem Hosseini (Beats, March 22): Is there any other country in the world where law enforcement

personnel have taken on any more tyrannical power over citizens, any more trigger-happy, allowed to EXECUTE citizens with multiple shots (rather than just enough to stop the citizen/s), using the most deadly ammunition available, given immunity from prosecution and from lawsuits, given FAVORED status in our justice system, allowed to kill citizens that are in NON-attack mode who are only carrying a telephone, and get PAID VACATION for what would be genuine murder if any citizen/s had done the same? HerMan lenz S u mne r , i a v ia u .S . Ma il

New defense bill: ugly background Re “Bloat” by Dennis Myers (Feature, March 8): It was Democratic president Woodrow Wilson who, in 1918, said that our responsibility and role in the world was to “make

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The American River Grange hall in Rancho Cordova is one of dozens throughout California that is at the center of a legal custody battle.

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Farmers fighting farmers National Grange wins $2.4 million and ability to reclaim seven Guild halls across Northern California by Michael Mott

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After drawing comparisons to an authoritarian takeover, a Sacramento trial judge began the process of transferring millions of dollars in money and property from a state organization pledged to represent small farmers to a national one supporting industrial agriculture. The March 21 ruling also means the loss of the Sacramento headquarters of the California Guild, which used to be California’s chapter of the National Grange. In a victory for the Guild, though, Sacramento Superior Court Judge David I. Brown revised the National Grange’s proposal so the national entity cannot enter peoples’ homes to reclaim Grange property, while also ruling that most local chapters won’t be affected by a transfer of power he deemed “somewhat totalitarian.” “It kind of has a Brownshirt quality to it,” Brown said, comparing the Grange’s receivership proposal to the paramilitary militia that helped Adolf Hitler rise to

power. “And I don’t mean that in the way of the Nazis, but it does. It feels like it’s overreaching.” The National Grange is the oldest farmers’ advocacy group in the United States, predating the Civil War. Farmers organized local chapters with Grange Halls built and paid for by members to serve as the center of rural communities. A legal battle split the California chapter from the National Grange in 2015. The National Grange maintains the state chapter wasn’t following its bylaws and didn’t appeal getting kicked out. Last week’s court hearing could put as many as 89 granges and guilds in play for rural communities struggling to stay afloat as farms consolidate and residents move to urban areas. The battle stems to 2009, when small farmers began restoring long-dilapidated grange buildings in California’s rural communities and dissenting over the National Grange’s support of

genetically-modified crops and larger farms. Tensions peaked in 2012, when the National Grange sued to oust its California chapter, which was forced to change its name to the California Guild following the divorce. Individual granges had to decide which organization they wished to associate with. While members were allowed to switch, the dispute came down to who owned what property—the California Guild or the National Grange. The courts ultimately decided the case resembled cases where small churches separated from national congregations, sparking property disputes. Like those cases, the courts ended up supporting the national entity, despite small farmers’ claims that they bought and paid for the halls. At last Wednesday’s hearing, Brown called the courtroom to order to appoint a “receiver,” an officer of the court tasked with carrying out the prior ruling, which he did. Six defunct halls owing the

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National Grange money—and the Guild’s Sacramento headquarters—will enter into the transfer process. However, Brown also amended the National Grange’s motion, preventing it from being able to enter homes to take possession of its property. The judge’s ruling found that 83 active community chapters that switched over may be affiliated with the California Guild, but are not owned by it. The California Guild and its affiliates contend that the local halls belong to local chapters, which paid property taxes and maintained them for decades. Brown said his main concern was that local chapters could play a shell game, trying to hide assets or property that belongs to the National Grange. “The problem is if the receiver doesn’t get the books and has to come back to me and says, ‘The [asset] is being hidden every time I look,’” Brown said, calling for regular reporting to ensure that doesn’t happen. Attorney Eli Underwood, representing the Guild and joined by six other lawyers representing other chapters, said all they cared about was ensuring due process. “Let’s start with an accounting. It begins with a request for our books,” Underwood said. Brown ultimately appointed the receiver and ordered him to produce a list of the Guild’s assets due to the National Grange, which includes $2.4 million. As for the properties, the National Grange can now absorb six Guild halls, including two in Lake County and one apiece in Stanislaus, Merced and Tehama counties. The National Grange also has claim to the Guild’s local headquarters on 3830 U Street. The building is approximately 4,600 square feet and worth $701,566, according to the Sacramento County Assessor’s Office. The Guild noted in a release that the receiver will now draw up a list of which properties will be handed over, though collection of the properties will be determined at another hearing on April 13. In a statement, a Guild supporter said the judge’s ruling may make it too difficult for the National Grange to collect. “Though the [Sacramento] Superior Court has directed the receiver to produce a list of traceable assets of the California Guild, which the Grange feels it is due, it has denied the Grange its reach for our local chapters,” wrote David Zink of the Guild Legal Co-op. “For that, it seems the Grange will have [to] pursue each local Guild chapter in its county court— which [is] not likely to occur until well after the April hearing, if at all.” Ω

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There are many great musicians in Sacramento. For the past 26 years, we have spotlighted them with our annual SAMMIES awards. The concept is simple. After gathering input from readers and experts, we nominate musicians in 20 to 30 musical genres. And then, the voting begins. Thousands of votes come in. Finally, we announce the winners and write about the latest in Sacramento’s growing music scene. A SAMMIES nomination can provide a much-needed boost to an artist or a band. Many musicians have told us how their SAMMIES award helped them get additional bookings or make connections. Shining a light on the Sacramento music scene has made local bands a bigger draw and encouraged bars to book more local music. The popular downtown Friday night concert series, which draws thousands of people to Cesar Chavez Plaza all summer, began as the News & Review SAMMIES Concerts in the Park. In the years it was run by the News & Review, the performing bands were all SAMMIES award winners. In addition to covering stories ignored by the mainstream media, SN&R has worked since 1989 to support arts and culture in Sacramento. We worked with local art galleries to launch Second Saturday, which we supported for many years with an arts supplement and a Second Saturday map to the galleries. We launched the JAMMIES awards for local high school musicians, and showcased their music at the Crest Theatre and Mondavi Center. These events and, more importantly, our arts coverage, have helped support the local arts and music scene. But much more is needed. In years past, the Sacramento Bee arts coverage focused on the more traditional arts organizations and larger acts, and the News & Review focused more on the smaller music venues and local artists. Now, with the Bee’s cutbacks of their

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The Winners The musical diversity of the artists and bands represented in our 2018 Music Issue is no surprise—our 29 categories reflect the broad range of contemporary popular music. What is surprising—mind-blowing, really—is that Sacramento, at this moment, is producing so much high-quality music of so many kinds. For 26 years now, SN&R has documented the local music scene as it has evolved and, for the most part, grown. And, of course, there was a vibrant scene long before we got here. The artists in these pages are part of a proud Sacramento history. As many of you know, there are a bunch of deserving local artists and bands who chose not to be in these pages—they are boycotting this year’s SAMMIES. Most of these folks have been involved in years past, and I trust and sincerely hope all of them will be back. To the winners: Congratulations. We know you worked hard to get here, and we’re glad you did. —Eric Johnson ericj@newsreview.com

Artist of the Year

Jessica Malone

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Malone explains that the last song on the EP—“Damn”—is about the end of a relationship. The lyrics (“Here I go again, / out on my own again, / right where I started off before our paths even crossed”) are melancholic, but Malone’s genuine voice is comforting. Malone’s meaningful lyrics often mediate on nature. As a child in Mt. Shasta and Humboldt, she grew up with a deep connection to the mountains. When she feels stuck in a creative block, she likes to go to the American River or think of vast scenery. “I love the grandness of nature, of looking at a huge ocean and seeing outside myself,” Malone explains. Enter her love of elephants, which remind her of ancient beings. Malone’s feeling settled in Sacramento and good things keep coming her way. Since the end of last year, she has played a show at Rockwood Music Hall in New York City (bucketlist: check) and been endorsed by Kremona guitars. Malone is also set to record a live album with her band—including a few new original songs—that’s set to release this fall. They’ll play at Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub on June 6, and in Nevada City at Crazy Horse on June 9. The band will also be on her fulllength album in 2019. In late March, Malone is embarking on a tour with Nick Foster of Manzanita. Their Wild Town Tour features songs about deserts and ecosystems. The fourteen-show journey starts March 24 at Gaslight Company in Folsom. Ω

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he teaches music, is inspired by elephants and gives genuinely warm hugs—and this is just the surface of folk-Americana singer-songwriter Jessica Malone. Her appetite for music came early; an 11-year-old Malone sang Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On” in front of a crowd in Mt. Shasta, California. This is the moment Malone realized she was doing what she loved (thanks, Titanic). She followed this passion and joined bands in Humboldt, Arcata and Portland before landing in Sacramento a couple years ago to focus on her solo career. Music is a full-time gig for Malone here—if she’s not performing and working on her own stuff, she’s teaching voice lessons. And she praises the music scene: “It can be really competitive, but around here, people are doing it right,” she says. “People are so supportive, and there are enough shows for everyone.” In 2017, Malone released her album Miles Left to Walk and followed it up with her EP The Waiting Hours. The latter features a four-person band: Brett Vaughn (electric guitar), Giorgi Khokhobashvili (violin), Thomas Mackerness (upright bass) and Barry Eldridge (drums). Malone met Eldridge at The Torch Club, and the others fell into place through friends and random encounters. “These people are so talented. Where they play music from is the right place,” she says. The band adds a spark to her EP that creates cohesiveness between all five songs. Malone’s vocals mixed with the violin in “Porch Swing Sundays” call to mind fireflies dancing on a warm summer night.

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ast year, local singer Levi Moses released a song called “Moan” that got a lot of great feedback. It was selected for a Sacramento Black Music Award and a Northern California Music Award. It’s a slow jam that doesn’t sound like much of what is on R&B radio these days. The track is sexual and sweet at the same time. “It’s a love song,” Moses says. “I think the song connected with people because I was being real in there, just 100 percent honest and vulnerable. If you want to set the mood for somebody that you really like and not someone you’re trying to get a one night stand with, you’d have to go back 20 years to find the vibe that I created.” He was so happy with this song that he created an entire album around it, called The Moan, which was released on Valentine’s Day this year. “Putting it out on Valentine’s Day seemed appropriate,” he says. Moses has been playing music in some form or another for more than a decade. Originally a rapper, he found out some years ago that people were reacting more positively to his slowjams. So he was already shifting his

focus in that way. “Moan” just kind of solidified that. “I did pop. I started off rapping. I tried to do club stuff, whatever. As soon as I started doing this type of music, the slow-jam-like sexual type of music, I got the best feedback. So yeah, I made a whole project off of it.” He attributes this move, to some extent, to the fact that for much of his career, women have taken a bigger interest in his music than men have. A funny thing happened when he released The Moan: He’s seeing a lot more guys taking an interest in his music. “It’s something that they’re saying if their girl is around, they want to put it on,” Moses says. “A lot of people get into the mood with the significant other with it.” Prior to this year, Moses had uploaded a couple of mixtapes to his SoundCloud, and has put out some random singles. He feels like The Moan is his first official release though, because it’s out in the world, for sale. “There’s a lot of progression in my music in 2017. And this year’s continuing to be good,” Moses says. “Guys like Ty Dollar $ign, really uptempo, that’s what’s trending right now. I got no problem with that, but that’s not what I want to do.” Ω

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What’s a big musical inspiration that would most surprise your fans? A big musical inspiration would be that both my mother and aunt sing. They inspired me to do the best at what I love; and with hard work comes reward. I always had someone to help me practice and to perform for, and that has helped mold me into the artist and performer I am today.

What drives you to keep playing even though the music industry can be so harsh?

How do you describe your music to people? I describe my music as a vibe. Whatever mood you are in at that moment, I want to have a song that goes with it. Music transitions depending on what mood you’re in or what is inspiring you at that time, and I want to showcase what mood or inspiration I had at the moment this song was written.

What’s your favorite jam from the ’90s? “Don’t Let Go” by En Vogue, “Tonight” by Xscape and “No, No, No, Pt. 2” by Destiny’s Child.

Name a pet peeve.

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A pet peeve of mine is when things are unorganized. Everything has a place, and I like everything to be seen.

What did you want to be when you were 7? Ha, trick question … I wanted to be a singer; a superstar! Ω

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I was born with a gift, and to many it sounds cliché but ever since I was a little girl, I knew I belonged onstage, and I have a voice that is meant to be shared with the world, and I speak words that can heal many souls, and that’s what I want to do: heal souls with my words. I want to touch those who can relate to my music and experiences shared through it.

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he music from this veteran trio is difficult to categorize but not so hard to enjoy if you’re in the mood for some unadulterated harmonies, gentle strumming and picking. Marty Cohen calls what his band does “urban folk,” which probably serves them well in the venues where they’ve found their most responsive audiences. If you listen closely to their renditions of Cohen’s songs, you’ll hear the underpinnings of Americana and pop music as well. The band’s most recent release, No Grudges, is an accomplished production, sounding fresh and sincere and as if the musicians were discovering the music for the first time when

they entered Steve McLane’s 3 Seal Studios. Cohen’s inspired storytelling comes to life, drawing from a variety of source material, including the current state of the nation, which informs the title track. He turns out a lovesick song, of sorts, name-checking familiar geography on “Highway 99.” As the lead vocalist, Cohen guides the Sidekicks through smart arrangements. Ken Rabiroff’s guitar accompaniment is tasteful and restrained, while bassist Jeff Sears anchors the trio’s tight sound. Both sidemen contribute vocal harmonies that fit like a comfortable jacket. While Cohen and his cohort are no strangers to the Sacramento music scene, the band performs throughout Northern California, generally triangulating around Nevada City, Lodi and

Benicia, where they play nightclubs, restaurants, wineries and music stores. They even gigged at the Sacramento International Airport, where they were twice part of the Sacramento County Holiday Music Series. Cohen’s musical journey began in 1973, when he arrived in Sacramento after hitchhiking from the East Coast. He’s one of a handful of performers, along with Mike Justis, who played at the Fox & Goose back in the day, and continue to return to that famed venue regularly. Cohen describes the relationship between bandmates: “We’re like a three-legged stool, but more musical.” The band returns to live performing in April after a winter of musical hibernation.

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y first encounters with Peter Petty were from a distance. At last year’s SAMMIES awards show, he performed a highenergy staple from swing history, “The Man from Harlem,” his black tux fronting a gang of white suits armed with saxophones, trumpets, violins and a double-bass. Petty matched the big sound with a bigger voice and stage presence, flailing his baton and comb-over as he told the story about a charismatic dancer

from Upper Manhattan. I saw him again outside Ace of Spades at the end of the night. He took that same stage character with him in his walk, sauntering down R Street like a prohibition-era made man. Was Peter Petty an act? Recently, I got a chance to ask him up close. A court reporter by day and band leader by night, Petty is turning a new page as a local front man. In September last year, he released his debut album, Ready, Petty, GO!, a 16-track swing jazz romp of 11 covers and five originals recorded with his band

the Terpsichoreans (it means “dancers”). Turning 50 this year, Peter Petty, which is his real name, is hoping to break out of the city. “I’m trying to spread my wings and fly,” Petty said. And it’s a long time coming. Petty sang with the Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera for eight years and fronted the Harley White Jr. Orchestra for five. On top of the jazz and opera gigs, he was an aspiring actor ever since high school—he starred in a 1993 feature film, Jump Cut. He even has an appreciation for epic, anthemic rock: Every year, he hosts a

Jesus Christ Superstar party in his backyard. Petty inhabits a mash of genres that he coins “hep-hop-era.” Think swing (or “hep”) and opera (“era”) with a hip-hop attitude. “Because back in the day, swing music, especially in the beginnings of jazz, when it was still African-American—before it was co-opted by my people—it was dangerous,” Petty said. “It was like the hip-hop of its day, essentially. Parents did not want their kids going to no jazz clubs or swing clubs, because they’d come home high or drunk or pregnant, maybe all three.” A self-proclaimed “Tasmanian Devil in a tuxedo,” Petty sings, dances and chatters with the audience as a sweating caricature of a 1920s big band leader. He says his theatrical and musical shows satisfy many of the desires he has to express himself. “And really, it’s pretty vainglorious,” Petty said. “Especially in some songs, really emotional ballads ... And I apologize to the crowd, too. ‘Thank you for allowing me that criminal act of self-indulgence, man. But it’s not like people hate it, so that’s a good thing, too.” But where does the show end and the real Petty begin? I asked about that night at the SAMMIES. He said his demeanor isn’t an act. Well, sort of. “It’s something that developed in me, so at this point in my life, this seems to be who I am,” Petty said. “So the rhythms and cadences of my speech, people always ask, ‘Where are you from?’ Well, South Sacramento. It’s just me. It’s what I can do. It’s what I do.” Ω

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“i tend to wear my inf luences on my sleeve.”

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Hard Rock

GeNre: Punk

WiNNiNG CateGory: Teen

lead singer/guitarist, California riot act

MeMbers/ iNstruMeNts: Skyler DiMoraFranklin (guitar/ vocals), JuSTice azcaraTe (bass/vocals), DaMian WhiTTaker (drums/ vocals).

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Songs from Auburn

by MozeS zArAte | moze sz@ n ew s r ev i ew . com

Ben herte

California Riot Act

S P SammieS you are looking at from the outside as being great and wonderful, something to look forward to. And then you go into that situation, you get to the state of California, and there’s a lot wrong there. There’s a lot that you didn’t expect, and it can be disappointing, to say the least.” Herte says he often uses music as an outlet for anger. The song “A Measure of Man,” written soon after the 2012 U.S. presidential election, lays out his frustration with national politics. He wrote it thinking about Mitt Romney, but says it’s very applicable to Donald Trump. “How people were celebrating all this excess of money and power in certain individuals, and acting like that somehow qualified them to be making decisions for all of us,” Herte says. From the start of his music career, when he saw Pearl Jam perform “Alive” on Saturday Night Live as kid, Herte has been on a journey to discover his sound, he says. He’s not there yet, and meanwhile, he calls the pen his therapist. “I’m pretty close to it now,” Herte says. “But I still think there’s more to do. It’s nothing tangible. I can’t put my finger on why I have to do it. I just have to.” Ω

What was the first song you learned to play? The first original song we learned to play together was called “Just Typical.”

What’s a big musical inspiration that would most surprise your fans?

What drives you to keep playing even though the music industry can be so harsh? Even if the music industry is harsh from time to time, we’re just out there having a good time, and that’s what matters.

Our musical inspirations differ slightly. Skyler’s biggest influence is definitely Green Day. Justice’s biggest influences are Les Claypool and Flea, along with the bass player from Rancid. And Damian’s biggest influences are Travis Barker and Dave Grohl.

What’s your favorite local artist/group?

Who is your secret star crush?

How do you describe your music to people?

I heard Skyler has a celebrity crush on Tiffany Alvord…

Easily relatable.

There are so many amazing local bands out there, it’s hard to pick one. But Free Candy, Flight Mongoose and Short Trip are full of amazing people and amazing music. Y’all should check ’em out.

Name a pet peeve. Big egos. Not like Eggos, the frozen waffles. “Egos,” like people who are full of themselves.

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Herte also plays in Whoville, a tribute to you-know-who. “When I’m writing, I get in certain moods, what comes out comes out, and I don’t try to funnel it any way. I’m squarely a rock guy, but it does tend to cover a lot of ground.” Herte, a guitarist/vocalist/songwriter, started Riot Act in 2012 after a three-year music hiatus recovering from carpel tunnel syndrome. He quickly recruited bass player Travis Houston, an old friend with whom he’d played with since high school 20 years ago. Herte and Houston sought to rebuild what they started with PS Chambers, a fairly big local band in the late ’90s. A third album is on the way, which Herte says won’t be as thematically dark as Welcome to California, which isn’t actually about California. “It’s ten o’ clock in West Coast time,” Herte sings in the album’s title track, over a somber acoustic guitar riff. “And I’m starting to believe / I feel it might get better now / and I need a reprieve.” The album is really about a difficult breakup, Herte says, and the song lyrics aren’t literal. “California is kind of a metaphor,” he says. “For something that

Knockout

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hen it comes to live music, Auburn doesn’t get enough love. Thirty miles northeast of Sacramento, the tiny Gold Rush town has a handful of venues that regularly host shows, including the Club Car, the Auburn State Theatre and Pistol Pete’s Brew & Cue. Among some bigger name bands, you’ve got Shotgun Sawyer (Zeppeliny rock ’n’ roll), Nova Sutra (old school metal) and Trichome (weird circus rock). The most notorious is California Riot Act, a four-man troupe that blends all-things ’90s rock, but not only. Their last album, 2015’s Welcome to California, explains it better: There are staple introspective love songs accompanied by steel string twang, pop-punk strummers, but also some sounds you might hear in a New Wave of British Heavy Metal track out of the 1980s, such as dueling guitar melodies. The project is the baby of Pistol Pete’s show booker Ben Herte, and this baby is all over the place. “I tend to wear my influences on my sleeve,” Herte says, mentioning Pearl Jam and The Who in particular.

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Wa t e r s ’ a c r o b a t i c guitar playing is not wasted on audiences ...

& A

GeNre: Rock

WiNNiNG CateGory:

Blues

IndIe

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The Zach Waters Band

MeMbers/ iNstruMeNts: Jace (rhythm guitar/vocals), chase (lead guitar), LeoncIo (drums), caRLos andRes (bass).

Flight Mongoose What was the first song you learned to play? “Woolly Bully” by Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs.

What’s something most of your friends don’t know about you? That we’re in a band.

Name a pet peeve. When someone uses too much saliva on the joint.

What’s a big musical inspiration that would most surprise your fans? Silver Boy.

What drives you to keep playing even though the music industry can be so harsh? Corn dogs.

Guitar hero

What artist or band are you a little embarrassed to love, and why? New Kids On The Block. We’re not even embarrassed.

What’s your favorite local artist/group? Cardboard Houses.

What’s your favorite jam from the ’90s?

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PROFILE

By Mark Hanzlik

ach Waters is the definition of a locally grown musician. Born and raised in Roseville, he graduated from Woodcreek High School last Spring while at the same time he was fearlessly performing his own brand of ’70s influenced rock and blues in front of seemingly awestruck audiences throughout Northern California. With his bandmates, drummer Lou Wallace and bassist/keyboardist Roger (the “Mudshark”) Shimoff, Waters is currently completing his first the Pacific Northwest tour, sharing the trip with Rachelle DeBelle and the Jamfest Miracles. He returns home to

Sugar Ray.

Name a recent personal food trend. Tide Pods!

Sacramento with a Torch Club gig on April 8. Waters was introduced to the guitar at age 10 and after a short round of lessons, began his own passage of musical exploration which continues to this day. In front of a growing number of listeners, the young guitarist/vocalist was playing covers of his favorite classics, but as he gained more confidence, began sharing more of his own compositions. His current set lists are now dominated, by originals. Waters’ acrobatic guitar playing is not wasted on audiences, as his adroit fingers work the fretboards of his Fender Stratocaster or Gibson Les Paul Gold Top. Motivated by what he calls “old school rock ’n’ roll, blues

and a Bay Area psychedelic kind of thing,” his numerous influences are easily discernable. Some of his motivation came from his guitar heroes: Eric Clapton, Peter Frampton, Steve Miller, Ronnie Montrose and Joe Satriani. Waters claims Jimi Hendrix is his biggest musical influence, fueled by “his innovative approach and fearless attitude toward music.” His view of the Sacramento music scene remains positive despite, as he points out, the loss of the long-standing Sacramento Music Festival. Waters believes the scene will continue to get stronger as more artists work together to support one another and owners of venues follow suit. Ω

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Producer

Matt Thomas

A sound pit of his own

S P SammieS

& A

Exiled from Grace

Genre: Metalcore/ Deathcore

WinninG CareGory:

nomination CateGories:

members/ instruments:

artist of the Year; Metal; Music ViDeo

John tiMMons (Vocals), GerarD aGuilar iii (bass), alex loVato

Music ViDeo

(Guitar), Dru Wallace (Guitar), MollY Wallace (DruMs)

by Mozes zArAte | m o z e s z @ne w s re v i e w . c o m

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att thomas remembers Disney on ice at Arco Arena. Unlike most kids, then 5-year-old Thomas was awed by a different magic-maker who worked offstage, conducting in a dark pit below the balcony where Thomas and his family sat. Framed by the lit buttons and knobs which he tinkered with on his console. The sound guy. It’s one of Thomas’ earliest memories of his fascination with how music is made behind the scenes. Now, the 31-year-old is a rising producer/ songwriter. He plays in two bands, no usa el Dark Signal (his “serious” en r se project) and Korean Fire Drill by (purely for fun). And he has a sound pit of his own: Thomas is the front-ofhouse engineer/stage manager at Holy Diver in Midtown. “And then whatever’s left of my personal life,” Thomas said. “I have a wife [laughs], so I try really hard to do what I can without ruining that.” SN&R sat down with Thomas on a weekend afternoon before Holy Diver opened. There, he spelled out a life surrounded by music projects. The biggest is Ash Tone Audio, his umbrella brand for everything that isn’t a band. “I can do live sound,” Thomas said. “I can record, engineer and mix songs and records.” He also directs music videos, trains musicians with equipment, such as in-ear monitor rigs for performing, and writes songs for bands he produces. The pride of his recent work is the self-titled debut album by locals Among the First. Think hyper-polished, verse-chorus tunes by folks like Papa Roach. Thomas calls it by its radio-format name—“active rock.” It’s a loose term for bands that adapt their sound to popular tides, and it’s what Thomas wants to gain a reputation for in NorCal: The region’s go-to producer for big, 28 | SN&R | 03.29.18

commercially viable hard rock and metal. The Among the First record was a step in that direction. “It wasn’t just a band coming in to record,” Thomas said. “It was a band that was debuting, so [it involved] having to define a sound that wasn’t defined yet.” Between upstarting Ash Tone from his home studio in Sac, making sure bands sound good at Holy Diver, and developing Dark Signal, an active rock group that he started in high school, which got rebranded several times and released its first single in September, life can be stressful, Thomas said. His outlet is Korean Fire Drill, a slapstick comedy/party rock band he formed four years ago. “There are two types of bands,” Thomas said. “There’s a band that you put together with people that end up becoming friends [Dark Signal], and then there are bands that you put together with your friends. Korean Fire Drill is a band I made with my friends.” There’s no defined sound with KFD, just a mix of originals about things like “spider activism” and covers of nu-metal, postgrunge and rap tunes from the late ’90s and 2000s. One is a rock cover of Tupac’s “California Love.” “People get it, like ‘I’m not supposed to take this seriously, this is stupid,’” Thomas said. “It’s almost like a drug. I just do it and it makes me a feel a lot better.” (If you’re convinced by their YouTube videos and would like to de-stress in a similar way, they’re playing a Ghostbustersthemed black light party on April 7 at Holy Diver.) But for Thomas, the juggle is all for a dream: to eventually transition to music production full-time. “I’d get to be in the comfort of my zone, my home, my studio,” Thomas said. “And I’m running the show. I’m the man in charge.” Ω

What was the first song you learned to play? Timmons: “The Beautiful People” by Marilyn Manson. Molly Wallace: “You Really Got Me” by The Kinks. Dru Wallace: “Here Comes the Sun” by The Beatles. Aguilar III: “In The End” by Black Veil Brides. Lovato: The first song I learned was “Smoke on the Water” by Deep Purple, like so many other guitarists before me.

What drives you to keep playing even though the music industry can be so harsh? Timmons: I think for me, it’s exactly because it’s so harsh that it drives me forward. I’m a very spiteful person, for better or worse, and it gives me a source of pride knowing that I’m doing something that not everyone wants to do, and not everyone who wants to do it even can do it. It takes a tremendous amount of work ethic from all of us, and I’m very fortunate to have found people like this to share this experience with. I definitely couldn’t do it without them. Lovato: I’ve been playing in the local scene for almost five years now, and every time I am asked that question, I give the same answer. The reason I do this is because from day one, all I’ve wanted is to make music that makes people feel things. Whether that be elation, sadness or that feeling that makes you want to throw a chair across the room. Whatever it is, that’s what I want and what I strive for. Not money or recognition. Molly Wallace: I guess it just makes me feel good. Like, it makes me feel really good when I get one of the difficult kick patterns down perfectly, or when

I see people breaking their ankles or getting hurt in pits because they enjoy our music. Like, I helped create that music, and it makes me proud that it can impact people both physically and emotionally.

What’s your favorite local artist/ group? Timmons: HellHeart. I mean, I have a tattoo of their logo on my arm, so I pretty much have to say them, otherwise I’m a poser. Aguilar III: The Mustn’ts. Lovato: Whitewolf, Desolist, The Last Titan, HellHeart, Hemispheres, Shorelines, Wastewalker, Dark Signal, Heat Of Damage, the Jim Kelly Kung Fu Orchestra, the Odious Construct and xTom Hanx.

How do you describe your music? Timmons: Instrumentally, we are heavy, fast, aggressive and easy to headbang and mosh to. Lyrically, I think I just sing about my experiences and how I feel, and if nothing else, hopefully some pissed-off kid who gets told every day to “lighten up” and “get better” hears them and knows that it’s okay to be pissed off, because the world sucks and has plenty of reasons to give you to be pissed off. Aguilar III: Catchy, groovy, heavy. Ω

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GeNre: Outlaw americana rOck

WiNNiNG CateGory: rOck

MeMbers/ iNstruMeNts: Shawn Peter (vOcalS/guitar/ trumPet/banjO/ laP Steel/keyS), mike Shivley (vOcalS/guitar/ laP Steel), Steven martin (drumS/ PercuSSiOn), jacOb crain (baSS), jOel caSe (vOcalS/Organ/ keyS).

What was the first song you learned to play? As a group, we learned our first single “Poverty Ridge.”

Young, Solanum, Arthur Mulcahy & Road Side Flare, Psychosomatic, Sages and Adam Roth.

What’s a big musical inspiration that would most surprise your fans?

What did you want to be when you were 7?

Frank Sinatra.

How do you describe your music to people?

What drives you to keep playing even though the music industry can be so harsh? Music industry? What’s that?

What’s your favorite local artist/group (other than yourself, smartypants)? Too hard to pick just one, but our favorites at the moment are Drop Dead Red, Shotgun Sawyer, ONOFF, 50-Watt Heavy, Whoville, Cities You Wish You Were From, Kill The Precedent, The Pine Street Ramblers, Sacramento Story Tellers, Bastards of

PROFILE

The Ghost Town Rebellion

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To be in a rock band.

Grit rock. Grungy, bluesy and swamp with a bit of country/ Americana.

What’s your favorite jam from the ’90s? “Smells Like Nirvana” by “Weird Al” Yankovic.

Name a recent personal food trend. Water and bread.

What’s something most of your friends don’t know about you? We suffer from complete happiness while creating and performing! Ω

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Mozzy

World conqueror by Bansky Gonzalez

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he first recorded words of timothy Patterson’s rap career are oddly prophetic: “Stay true to what you do, no matter what they say.” Patterson rapped those words on a track “I Heard,” by his uncle and Sacramento rap legend GP The Beast, as an 11-year-old way back in 1999. Patterson, credited at the time as Lil Tim, rapped in a squeaky child’s voice, but now, all these years later, he’s a 30-year-old man, and as Mozzy, he’s taken Sacramento rap further than it’s ever been. The only question that remains in his career is just how far he’ll take it. Mozzy has reached his current heights doing just that: staying true to himself. Now, he’s forged a small empire out of that unique identity, and he’s captivating the entire rap world. Mozzy’s brand of gangster rap doesn’t glorify the violence of his lifestyle, rather it simply reveals it in an unrefined candor, letting the listener suffer through the same pain as the rapper, as his vocal inflections shift from exuberant to pained the deeper he delves into his graphic past. In fact, Mozzy talked so openly about his life in the streets, it may have ignited a gang war that stemmed in the city for years, and depending on who you believe, still carries on today even as he’s moved to Los Angeles. While life in the streets infamously tugged at Mozzy, he remained true to what he does, and dedicated himself to his music. “I always rapped,” he told Noisey in early 2016. “I used to stay at

home from school and write raps, stay home from school [and] go to the studio. Sell dope, go to the studio. I was a kid doing this shit. Sixteen, 17 we start shooting, doing drive-bys and shit, stealing our grandmothers’ guns, stealing guns from breaking in houses and shit, but at the time I was writing and I was rapping about this shit.” Mozzy’s work ethic, and that documentary feel to his lyrics, launched him into the national spotlight in 2015, when a release from jail spawned a motivated release schedule that included four solo albums in eight months and several collaborative efforts as well. He churned out music at a breakneck pace, rivaling the legendary work rates of 2 Pac and Lil Wayne, and his breakthrough album Bladadah, which Rolling Stone recognized as one of the best rap albums of the year. Complex proclaimed Mozzy had rap’s best run of 2015. But that success hasn’t quelled Mozzy’s work ethic, even as he made the leap from national internet curiosity to burgeoning star with the release of his stellar and long-awaited album 1 Up Top Ahk last summer. He’s widely recognized as rap’s most promising blue chipper, even as he nears his 31st birthday, and he’s already followed up that album by appearing on the soundtrack for Marvel’s blockbuster film Black Panther and releasing with two EP’s, including this month’s Spiritual Ω Conversations.

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Vinyl forever After Russ Solomon’s death and changes at Dimple Records, it’s the end of an era by Rachel leibRock

When Russ Solomon died last month, it felt like the official end of an era, the passing of the record store. That heyday faded more than a decade ago, of course, when Solomon and his Tower Record cohorts filed for bankruptcy and liquidated the company’s record, book and video store empire. Tower is long gone, as are the other behemoth chains—Borders Books & Music, Wherehouse Records, Sam Goody, et al. Even so, the record store somehow persists, in physical presence and in spirit. In the age of streaming, it’s a relic, sure, but one whose dusty heart still beats. Locally, Dimple Records has expanded to fill the void left by Tower. With six stores in the region, the franchise offers shoppers a wealth of goods, including new and used CDs and vinyl. More importantly, it offers shoppers an experience: the pleasure of browsing, of picking up a record to check out its album art; pulling out the vinyl to examine for scratches and carrying it to the counter to chat with the clerk about which was better, the band’s first album or its last? (Hint: When talking to record store clerks, it’s almost always the first record). Dimple, long owned by Dilyn and Andrew Radakovitz and occupying one of the original Tower Record locations, plans to sell a significant stake in its company to an outside investor, but not because the franchise is struggling. “We want to grow,” Dilyn Radakovitz says. The time is right, she adds, pointing to a March 22 report from the Recording Industry Association of America. For the first time time since 2011, according to the RIAA, Americans spent more on CDs and vinyl than digital downloads.

“It’s exciting news,” Radakovitz says. If the sale goes through, she adds, the couple intends to retain a day-to-day role in Dimple’s operations, which in addition to music, include books, film and video games. Going forward, she says, they hope to signal boost Dimple’s online presence. “If [the sale] works out, we would have the opportunity to do more,” she says. Whatever the outcome, Sacramento needs Dimple Records and its like. Old school brick-and-mortar stores give us a place to find ourselves, sonically speaking. Once, when I was 16, I wandered into the Tower on K Street and listened as the unmistakable nasal twang of Michael Stipe’s voice gave way to the unmistakable nasal squeak of Madonna’s. The guy behind the counter must’ve noticed my excitement over hearing the as-yetreleased “Papa Don’t Preach” single because he motioned me over, waving a copy of the record. “Do you want this?” he asked, holding up True Blue. “It’s a promo, I can’t sell it.” At the time, I had no idea what a promo record was. I just knew I’d struck musical gold. A free record. Before any of my friends had heard it. Magical. There were other destinations: the Beat—both in its original H Street shop (albums purchased: The Pixies’ Surfer Rosa, Billy Bragg’s Talking with the Taxman about Poetry), its second spot on Folsom Boulevard (The Cocteau Twins’ Heaven or Las Vegas, Liz Phair’s Exile in Guyville) and its final resting place on J Street (Throwing Muses’ University). These and all the other stores make up the chapters of my life, a story chronicled in songs and album covers, listening booths and, always, asking the person behind the counter, “What’s good?” Ω

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“Christian rap has, honestly, up until the last seven years, been kind of corny. But now we want to give people truth, and not just replace every F-word on the radio with the name Jesus. Now it’s about the message, giving who you are and seeing how people respond.” This is the aim of Eugene Kennedy Clarke, more and more well-known as Kennedy Wrose, a rap and hip-hop artist who grew up in Sacramento. Though most of us know how we feel about Christian rock, we probably haven’t heard enough Christian rap to form a strong opinion. The most I’ve heard about religion on 102.5 lately was in “God’s Plan” by Drake, which doesn’t really count. Kennedy Wrose has set out to change this. He wants his music to be a kind of truth we’ll crave, with a message we can resonate with. On his album B.A.E., released in September of 2017, and Abstract Heart from 2016, Wrose weaves themes of trusting God and finding truth through every song, in an exceptionally unpreachy way. His songs make you feel cool driving in the car with your friends and sunglasses on, like most great rap songs do, while also keeping you grounded and motivated. “I fell in love with East Coast rap—it was so heavy with metaphors and punch lines and deep concepts,” Wrose recalls. “I was so intrigued by it, I started breaking it down thinking, ‘Why is this cool? Why does this stand out to me or other people?’ That sparked my interest to really do my own thing and see how it worked.” Wrose’s thing is rapping with fearless honesty, and living in truth and positivity every day, and it’s definitely working. On Abstract Heart’s “Can’t

Save Myself,” he raps: “No matter how hard I try, I end up with my hands in the sky” and “Addiction to the past makes your visions somewhat hazy, so I focus on my future.” Wrose’s first mixtape from seven years ago, Destined to Rule, is a hidden gem that can only be downloaded from his Facebook page. Though the tape is less polished than B.A.E. or Abstract Heart, it feels so natural. “I learned how to rap in high school and a bunch of my friends were all decent rappers. I was really bad, but I could write way better than all of them. They couldn’t sit down and write, but I could. So I thought, ‘Let me try to do both.’” In his song “Son of A King,” Wrose tells us: “I don’t rap for fun, I rap cuz I’m called to.” This simple statement reflects a mature understanding of what Wrose wants for his life and why. Listening to more of the songs on Destined to Rule, I pictured Wrose as a high school dreamer first finding rap, sitting in the car with his friends, writing and freestyling a few bars at a time. Wrose says he wants rappers like himself and others from Sacramento to feel they can aim high. “I would love to be able to bring something back home to the city, a Billboard Award, or a Grammy, so that people and artists from Sac can see that it’s possible. I don’t feel like we’re any different from Atlanta or other places superstars come out of.” If Wrose continues with music that’s unapologetically his own, with the sense of authenticity, I believe his success is something Sacramentans can look forward to. Ω

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played their first show. “What they did in Reno was very notable,” Redford said. “They built a whole community there around the hardcore scene.” “Their overall message is one of coming together and building together,” Redford added. “And that is as relevant of a message today as it’s ever been.” In 1988, Seconds returned to Sacramento, and the city embraced 7Seconds as its own. They’ve since been inducted into the SAMMIES Hall of Fame after winning voter’s choice for Best Punk Band in 2000 and 2001. For years, Kevin Seconds has also performed as a folk singer-songwriter both solo and with his wife, Allyson Seconds. They’ve both earned SAMMIES individually for their music, and ran the Love Cafe venue from 2001 to 2004. He celebrated his 57th birthday with a Saturday night show at Luna’s Cafe & Juice Bar, where he couldn’t hold back tears while playing an acoustic version of the 7Seconds song, “Leave a Light On.” “It’s a shame they have to pack it in, but I totally get it,” said Frederiksen, adding that punk rock takes a toll on the body. “My hat’s off to them. Nothing will ever take away what they accomplished.” “They’ve kept going for love of each other, the love of the music and the love of the punk rock community,” Redford said. “We are very lucky to have had them for as long as we did. It’s very rare.” There are new, unrecorded songs Seconds had written for the band, but they may never get to play them together. “Look, if tomorrow Troy and Steve said, ‘We’re feeling great and we’re healthy, let’s do this,’ I’d do it in a heartbeat.” Ω

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Working on his documentary about early East Bay punk, filmmaker Corbett Redford asked the founding bands and volunteers at Berkeley’s iconic 924 Gilman venue to name their influences. One band was named across the board: 7Seconds. 7Seconds: a band that was melodic and heartfelt, fast as hell and one of the first to call themselves hardcore. Part Reno, part Sacramento, 7Seconds had an early impact on the punk bands that young ears like mine grew up listening to. “I owe an incredible amount to bands like 7Seconds for giving me the opportunity and paving a way for my band to make music,” said Lars Frederiksen, guitarist/ vocalist with Rancid and frontman with Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards. “They’re such humble dudes, they probably don’t even realize the mark they’ve made.” Last week, after nearly 40 years of writing, recording, touring and hustling, Kevin Seconds announced they’re calling it quits. “None of us ever wanted to make a ‘we quit’ announcement,” Seconds posted on the band’s Instagram page. “Well shit … I’m here to very sadly and regretfully announce that the band is officially calling it a day.” Seconds cited health issues as the main reason for the split—his brother and bassist, Steve Youth, is in recovery for addiction issues and with wrist injuries; drummer Troy Mowat can’t play at the same intensity without further damage. “I can’t see the band without the four of us,” including guitarist Bobby Adams, he said. “It felt like the right time.” Around 1979, Seconds was on the hunt for band members and found brothers Tom Munist and Dim Menace. On March 2, 1980, in a little redneck bar, 7Seconds

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Live jazz lives in Sac There’s plenty of jazz to go around in the city, a longtime arts critic writes by MarcuS crowder

The guitarist Charlie Hunter once told me a music scene needs three elements: musicians to play the music, a venue where they can be heard and an audience that will come and support the musicians. Hunter might have added a fourth element that observers of any scene understand is also crucial: presenters who want to facilitate the scene. Outside of New York, the most successful presenters of jazz in cities like Sacramento have become nonprofit organizations dedicated to or at least interested in featuring the music. Nobody’s making money presenting jazz. Yet locally, the music is clearly experiencing an exciting upward trend. Leading the way with consistent monthly programming is the Sacramento 34 | SN&R | 03.29.18

Jazz Co-op, which maintains a regular schedule of mostly local or Bay Areabased classically mainstream performers. The Co-op has moved its events around the city, currently using the Masonic Temple on J Street for most of its shows. Adding energy to the scene is the infusion of new talent through saxophonist and composer Jacam Manricks, who has a contemporary and progressive mentality that has been illustrated through his last two recent shows. In the first, he played in a duo with pianist Joe Gilman showcasing

music the pair had recorded in the fine album Gilmanricks. In the second concert, Manricks added world-class players—bassist Matt Penman (SFJAZZ Collective) and drummer Clarence Penn (Dave Douglas Quintet)—for a blistering night of music following a recording session the quartet had completed at Manricks’ East Sacramento home studio. It was as fine a night of jazz as has been here in a long time. Both shows were at the Midtown CLARA Studios. Following soon after was an equally sparkling set by the saxophonist and

Jazz in Sacramento is all over the map.

composer Mike McMullen performing his original music from the recently released CD Picture Book. The performance at Antiquité Midtown also featured pianist Gilman along with veteran stalwarts guitarist Steve Homan and drummer Rick Lotter, who never sounded better. Local musicians such as Darius Babazadeh, Joe Mazzeferro, Alex Jenkins, Beth Duncan, Dave Bass, Tom Peron, Byron Colborn and Vivian Lee, to name just a very few, are continuously performing in various formats, sometimes producing their own shows. Sac Prep Music Academy is also hosting the Midtown Vanguard Jazz Series, a monthly series of shows featuring both established and younger musicians at the CLARA. In May, the Harris Center features guitarist Larry Carlton and then trumpeter Herb Alpert and vocalist Lani Hall (already sold out). The Mondavi Center continues to bring the A-list talent: a still vital Chick Corea waking up the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra last week, and the politically woke and explosive trumpeter Terence Blanchard in April. Of course, these larger listening halls at the edges of the region are hosting the shows only they can bring, and it still feels like there’s a gap in the city center for national touring jazz musicians. The guitarist Ross Hammond has quietly done his part booking internationally known artists such as Myra Melford and Ben Allison to perform at his Gold Lion Arts Studio. The improvisational music showcase Hammond founded, Nebraska Mondays, maintains an active presence at Luna’s cafe. The sparkling new Tsakopoulos Center for the Arts in Midtown holds mouth-watering promise. SBL Entertainment is booking the venue with Cubanismo!, Keiko Matsui, and the Pete Escovedo Latin Jazz Orchestra already scheduled. Me’Shell NdegéOcello will play there soon, and while she’s not exactly jazz you can’t be mad about it, SBL brings the Bill Frisell Trio to the Crest in June. Jazz in Sacramento is all over the map—mainstream, avant-garde, smooth and edgy. It is happening—perhaps not at the progressive depth some want, but still—there are venues, there are musicians and there is an audience. Ω

Marcus Crowder has written about music and theater in Sacramento for more than 20 years.

The music is waiting From a veteran Sac music writer: The city’s scene is at an all time high. Help keep it that way. by Chris MaCias

On a recent Saturday night, among an industrial stretch of South Sacramento, the chunka-chunka sounds of metal careened from a tucked away warehouse. The thrash favorites Municipal Waste had booked this Sacramento gig on just a week’s notice, the kind of hasty timeline that usually causes anxious palpitations for promoters. Once inside, stage divers sailed over the nearly sold-out room, sometimes crashing on the cement below, while mosh pits swirled around the room. This Sacramento crowd had stepped up in a big way on short notice, with a thirst for live music that ended with some bloody noses and bruised limbs. The wild ebb and flow of the night was like a mirror of Sacramento’s own music scene. Sometimes there’s so much energy it can barely be contained. Other times, especially as venues shut down or the same ol’ bands get played out, the whole thing goes splat on the floor. But right now, these are the good times for Sacramento music, especially in terms of talent. Our homeboy Hobo Johnson is a viral hit with more than 7.6 million views of “Peach Scone,” his lovingly low-budget video submission to NPR’s 2018 Tiny Desk Contest. Meanwhile, the precocious punkers Destroy Boys were namechecked in Rolling Stone magazine and reached headlining status at Berkeley’s legendary 924 Gilman Street. And of course, there’s Lady Gaga Mozzy, who rose from the mean streets of Oak Park to the blockbuster Black Panther soundtrack and the Grammy Awards podium via a shout-out from Kendrick Lamar. Some grumpy Gen-Xers still moan about the downfall of the Cattle Club and reminisce about the 1990s as if that’s the only time that mattered in Sacramento music. Here’s an idea: Get off the couch and go to a gig. It’s certainly not hard to find one in 2018. All-ages crowds—the lifeblood of any music scene—have options that rival even the flannel flying days of the 1990s. The recently opened Holy Diver has hosted a string of packed shows with artists ranging from glam-rock stalwarts L.A. Guns

to hip-hop icon KRS-ONE. The under-21 crowd can also depend on Café Colonial and The Colony on Stockton Boulevard for regular shows on the indie, punk and metal tip. The Boardwalk in Orangevale remains a dependable spot for the too-young-todrink crowd in the ’burbs, while back downtown, Ace of Spades is going into its seventh year as an epicenter for all-ages shows. Music is resonating all across the local spectrum, from Sacramento’s nooks and crannies to its largest civic projects. The Sacramento area still knows how to keep it indier-than-thou, whether it’s house shows in Davis at The Morgue and Turtle House, or bands bands like Drug Apts and Modern Man melting faces at Midtown’s true-to-janky Red Museum. At the same time, the parade of A-list talent coming through Sacramento has never been this concentrated. In just a four month span of 2017, downtown’s Golden 1 Center hosted almost twice as many shows compared to its busiest summer from the Arco Arena/Sleep Train/ Power Balance Pavilion days. Now, it’s just about a given that megastars like Jay-Z, Metallica and Lady Gaga will put Sacramento on its tour routing instead of treating the city like a cowtown afterthought. But, we need to be careful through all this rah-rah. It’s no secret that Café Colonial and The Colony have faced hard financial times and risked shutting down. Sacramento’s jazz scene also tends to sputter with crowd and venue support, even with a community of excellent musicians. So, let’s not take this moment in Sacramento music for granted. Musicians and venues can’t survive by good intentions alone. They need your support—and without it, the scene risks another flailing slam to the floor. Whether it’s molten thrash metal in a steely South Sac warehouse, or a crowd cozied-up to improv jazz at Luna’s Cafe, the music is waiting for you. Ω

Chris Macias is a former Sacramento Bee reporter who’s covered the region’s music scene for two decades.

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Wake up and eat the roses calendula We don’t always think of eating flowers, although that’s what we’re ingesting when we have broccoli and capers. Many edible flowers aren’t just pretty—they may have medicinal properties as well. Calendula is a great example: Its petals are peppery in salads, make a soothing tea and can be infused into oil for a healing ointment. You might steam your face with calendula blossoms or bake them into scones. Sometimes called “pot marigold,” calendula adds vitamin A and color to soups and stews. Plus, if you plant some in your garden, it can repel flying pests from nearby plants!

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Forget the dyed eggs— hunt for brunch If you’re all about bunny day, finding the right Easter Brunch event is its own egg hunt: On Sunday, April 1, there’s a champagne brunch buffet at Fat’s Asia Bistro Folsom ($44 per adult) that includes dim sum, sushi, seafood and made-to-order omelets; a vegetarian, three-course prix fixe brunch at VEG in Midtown for $25; and an egg hunt accompanied by live music and brunch by Rayna’s Gourmet Catering at Miner’s Leap Winery in Clarksburg ($40 per adult)—and, of course, champagne. But for my money, I’d check out the $6 per adult, $4 per child, Pancake Breakfast and Easter Egg Hunt at the Clunie Community Center (601 Alhambra Boulevard). The reasonable ticket gets you unlimited pancakes, fruit, sausage, juice and coffee from 7 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., so come hungry for more than just those dyed Easter eggs.

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Peach scones: A review by Rebecca Huval

Avocado-toast rebel beverage by SHoka For readers who won’t spend $4 on a beverage for the same reason they’re abstaining from buying avocado toast—to save for a house down payment instead (which would take 20 years)—Rebbl isn’t for you. But for readers who are fine with fronting four Washingtons, these bottles of coconut-milk-based elixirs are sweet and creamy, spiked with beneficial herbs and extracts. Rebbl, a company from Emeryville, Calif., emphasizes its environmental and social consciousness in its business

model, using ethically sourced ingredients and donating a portion of sales to a human-trafficking nonprofit, which is all great. Maybe that makes the Ashwagandha Chai flavor taste a little spicier or the Maca Cold-Brew a little richer or the Dark Chocolate Protein a little more indulgent. Eight of its 11 flavors are vegan-friendly, and they are available at local natural food grocery stores and Raley’s. Check rebbl.co for specific locations. Buy a few avocados while you’re there, rebel. Ω

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By now, you probably know that Hobo Johnson’s “Peach Scone” music video has gone viral with 7.6 million views and counting by the time this paper went to press. What you might not know is where to get a peach scone in Sacramento. Rest easy—I’ve done the legwork for you. But first, a bit more about Johnson. The 23-year-old Oak Park rapper has been steadily rising, and this video submission to NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert is only his latest win. And it’s solid: With his signature folk-punk yelps to hold back from crying, Johnson tries to confess his affection for a love interest, but he gets nervous and distracted. It doesn’t bode well that she’s got a boyfriend: “Are you in love? If so, what type? / Is it just platonic, strictly just as friends / Or the type that ties you two together til’ tomorrow’s end?” Because he risks losing her, he downplays his feelings to guard against vulnerability: “I love the thought of being with you / Or maybe it’s the thought of not being so alone.” And he avoids his emotions with whatever fleeting thought he can grab: I just wanna tell you real quick I love these scones, just the diversity between the selection The raspberry, the blueberry, the strawberry, pumpkin even,

Which is basically a fucking squash How do you even make a scone out of a freaking squash? It blows my mind, oh man Then, later: But she is just so sweet and she cared about me a lot when no one else cared about me and I think that’s really nice You know, she’s just a peach She’s a peach scone Scones. I don’t know too many people who go gaga over the baked good. They’re often a dense, dry mouthful of crumbs. So I set out to find the best here, one worth singing about—maybe even one that makes you see hearts, in the manner of Hobo? The Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op (2820 R Street) has an impressive assortment of scones ($2.75) baked in-house every day: lately, chocolate chip coconut, lemon lavender, apple cinnamon walnut, vegan cranberry orange and maple pecan. The maple pecan was choice: crisp on the outside, not too dry. But it wasn’t the stuff of love songs. Yellowbill Cafe (1425 14th Street) had a delightful strawberry lemon scone ($3.25) with chunks of strawberries, a lemon latticework of glaze and a soft, thin disc of dough.

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Fox & Goose Pub (1001 R Street) practically cheats on this contest with its topping of Devonshire cream ($1.75) that would disguise even the driest scones with a heavenly cloud of sugar. The halved olallieberry scone ($3.75) balanced a crisp exterior with a butter-soaked middle. But where are the all-important peach scones of Johnson’s verses? Out of season, that’s where. I did find one: In frozen dough at Fat Cat Scones in South Sacramento. I raced home to bake their peach passion and popular lemon drop scones ($15 for three, one-pound tubs of dough). The scones were (at last!) moist and packed with flavor. In a “highly scientific” survey, I asked SN&R staffers to anonymously rate the lemon vs. the peach, using Johnson’s lyrics. The lemon came out on top, with an overall rating of 8.25 and the kind of love like “Not being so alone.” The peach was a cool 7.1 and most commonly rated “Just platonic, strictly as friends.” But one commenter connected with the peach on the level that Hobo Johnson has, writing on the survey, “I wanna take this scone out to my backyard on a cool, sunny morning with a cup of coffee in my porcelain mug and write in my journal so I don’t feel so alone.” Finally, a scone worth dating. Ω

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thu 7pm, fri 8pm, sat 2pm & 8pm, sun 2pm, Wed 7pm. through 4/30; $15-$38; sacramento theatre company, Pollock stage, 1419 h street; (916) 443-6722; www.sactheatre.org.

A sour, dour woman stands in the middle of the stage, rigid in her stance, frigid in her emotions. She’s gazing ahead of her, not making eye contact with the man she’s come to visit. So begins Mothers and Sons by award-winning playwright Terrence McNally, a story of a mother’s long-running resentment of her deceased son’s gay relationship, following his death of AIDS decades ago. Katherine has dropped in uninvited and unexpected on her late son’s widower, Cal, who is now happily married and has a child. This award-winning 90-minute play being staged at STC’s intimate Pollock Stage explores the past, present and future of this small cast of characters—mother Katharine (Lori Russo), Cal (Casey McClellan), his husband Will (Cole Winslow) and their young son Bud (Miller Traum). It traverses many decades as well as many issues, pains, battles and triumphs in the gay community. Katharine is still uncomfortable about her son’s gay life, as well as the social progress that has happened since his death. But Cal has moved on and embraced his new life—another in a string of Katharine’s resentments. The STC cast works well together to create believable characters in this compact, heart-tugging story, which takes place all in one long scene, including Russo’s challenging portrayal of a not-too-likable figure, with McClellan’s expert volleying of her ever-changing emotions. Winslow gives us a sympathetic and realistic husband, while Traum is a rare young actor who reacts like a child.

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4 Race, justice and murder John Grisham’s first book, A Time to Kill, was made into a movie in 1996. Now it is brought to the stage in an adaptation by Rupert Holmes and presented by the Chautauqua Playhouse under the direction of Dean Shellenberger. This courtroom drama takes place in a small town in Mississippi and deals with the changing racial politics of the 1980s. Tarig Elsiddig is powerful as Carl Lee Hailey, an African-American man whose 10-year-old daughter has been raped and nearly murdered by two racist rednecks. Hailey is so filled with fury that he takes matters into his own hands and murders the men in the courthouse. Tim Yancey is Jake Brigance, the attorney who will defend Hailey. He’s not quite Atticus Finch, but he is passionate in his desire to get this man off on an insanity plea. Vincent Keene gives an electric performance in the not-verylikeable role of prosecuting attorney Rufus Buckley, and Sam Ademola is quite good as the sheriff, Ozzie Walls. Jennifer Russell is excellent as the judge who presides over the trial. A lot of suspension of disbelief is necessary for this play (how does Hailey get an assault rifle into a courtroom?). There are many scenes, and while the movement of set pieces to delineate different locations goes quickly and smoothly, it does have a choppy feel. Still, it’s an enjoyable production, well done by the Chautauqua players. —Bev SykeS

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Lyrics that predate the U.s. Constitution!

Grace and power Amazing Grace is a recent musical—opened on Broadway in 2015, now touring—based on the life of John Newton (1725-1807). An Englishman who was the captain of a sailing ship that carried slaves from Africa; he underwent a change of heart and became an abolitionist. Newton is the man who wrote the words to the famous hymn (also this show’s final number) in 1779. This week is the musical’s first appearance in this area. Thu 7:30pm, Fri 2pm and 7:30pm, Sat 2pm & 7:30pm, Sun 2pm. Through 4/1; $49-$89 general; Harris Center, Folsom Lake College, 10 College Parkway in Folsom; (916) 608-6888; www.harriscenter.net.

—Jeff HudSon a time to Kill : fri 8pm, sat 8pm, sun 2pm. through 4/22; $19-$21; chautauqua Playhouse, 5325 engle road, suite 110 in carmichael; (916) 489-7529; http://cplayhouse.org.

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prologue, several more explanatory scenes and a musical interlude with Japanese boy drummers. Anderson haters will go bonkers within seconds, but While many of the other major directors of his to me, it felt as pure and reassuring as hearing the generation mutated over time, the cinema of Wes spine break when beginning a new book. Anderson often feels hermetically sealed. Just look Another Anderson masterwork of world-building, at how the youthful explosiveness of Paul Thomas Isle of Dogs is set in the fictional Megasaki City, a Anderson’s early work has grown increasingly internal Japanese seaport run by the cat-loving, dog-hating and terse with each new release, or the way that Kobayashi clan. With the city’s canines beset by Quentin Tarantino has graduated from darkly comic dog flu, Mayor Kobayashi (Kunichi Nomura, who crime films to epic genre pieces. also receives a co-story credit along with Anderson’s Yet for all his seemingly left-field forays into stopreturning collaborators Jason Schwartzman and motion animation (The Fantastic Mr. Fox), star-crossed Roman Coppola) decrees that all dogs will be romance (Moonrise Kingdom) and historical banished to Trash Island, a sprawling archifantasy (The Grand Budapest Hotel), it pelago of refuse not unlike the junkyard still feels like Wes Anderson is making suburb of Kurosawa’s Dodes’ka-den. different versions of the same immacuMayor Kobayashi volunteers his lately constructed cuckoo clock. As ever with own “family dog” Spots (voiced That’s not to say his films don’t vary by Liev Schreiber) to be the first Anderson, the in quality—The Darjeeling Limited is canine exile, but months later his still hard to swallow, no matter how adopted nephew Atari (newcomer delights are in the lovely the design of the teacup, while Koyu Rankin) steals a plane and details. The Grand Budapest Hotel resonates makes a daring rescue attempt. stronger with each passing year. Atari crash-lands on the island, But if the Russian nesting doll narrawhich is now teeming with dogs, tives, the diorama-inspired visuals and an including a gossipy group of abandoned overall tone of droll melancholy in Anderson’s pets (Anderson regulars Edward Norton, Bill work haven’t charmed you before, his latest film Isle of Murray, Jeff Goldblum and Bob Balaban) and an Dogs will do nothing to change your mind. However, if edgy stray named Chief (Bryan Cranston, doing his Anderson’s blend of clinical skill and warming sadness best work since Breaking Bad). has always hit you in that Nick Drake sweet spot, the The incredible journey that follows is a classic “stop-motion animated” (although that term doesn’t do Anderson mix of impeccable craftsmanship and this intensely tactile film justice) Isle of Dogs is another messy emotional payoffs, only with talking dogs this elaborately embossed tchotchke for your cinematic shelf. time around. Ω As ever with Anderson, the delights are in the details, and the details in Isle of Dogs mostly concern talking dogs, so I was on the hook from the very beginning. True to form, before we even officially begin part one of Isle of Dogs, we have already made it through a Poor Fair Good Very excellent

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Pacific Rim: Uprising

Here’s a nutty idea: What if they made a based-on-a-true-story historical drama that didn’t end with images of the real-life people portrayed in the film? Dare to dream. Brazilian director José Padilha (Elite Squad) instead dutifully continues this unfortunate trend in 7 Days in Entebbe, splicing actual footage of Israeli hostages returning home into the ending of his workmanlike political thriller. Of course, that moldy grace note is hardly the only shopworn element in 7 Days in Entebbe, a competently crafted and acted but largely unoriginal take on a story that has already been filmed several times (once in Israel and twice for American television). In fact, the only unique element that Padilha brings to the film is an unexpected obsession with politically charged interpretive dance. It’s not exactly what I was hoping for, but you take what you can get. Despite the film’s many shortcomings, it remains watchable. D.B.

Dogs of warmth

isle of Dogs

7 Days in Entebbe

With blockbuster cinema now fully owned by brand names like Marvel and Star Wars, you can add grungy crime films to the list of genres ceded to the independents. Nash Edgerton’s darkly wacky Gringo is the sort of proudly profane, twist-filled story of amateur criminals and sensitive hitmen that came out every other week in the 1990s, and while no new ground gets broken here, the film has enough energy and nerve to carry you through the underwhelming end. David Oyelowo heads a strong ensemble cast as Harold Soyinka, a born loser with a cheating wife and a tenuous job at a pharmaceuticals company. When Harold learns that his boss Richard (Nash’s brother Joel Edgerton) has set him up as the fall guy in a Mexican drugrunning scheme, he fakes his own kidnapping and demands ransom, but the plan gets upended by a largely rote series of doublecrosses and misunderstandings. D.B.

A teenager (Bella Thorne) with xeroderma pigmentosum, a rare genetic disorder in which exposure to sunlight can be fatal, finally meets the neighbor boy she has loved all her life from the safety of her bedroom window (Patrick Schwarzenegger). Directed by Scott Speer and written by Eric Kirsten (adapted from a 2006 Japanese film), the movie—basically a moony, rather maudlin teen tearjerker—gets off to a rocky start, mainly due to Thorne’s jittery, mannered acting. In time, though, both she and the movie settle down, and even manage to become endearing. Young Schwarzenegger, son of Arnold and Maria Shriver, has inherited his mother’s chiseled Kennedy looks and his father’s ease on camera, and his presence seems to exert a calming influence on Thorne, as does Rob Riggle as her devoted father. J.L.

I was largely left cold by Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water, but I remain an unabashed fan of his 2013 monster mash Pacific Rim. That story of human-controlled robot “jaegers” defending the planet against enormous “kaiju” beasts was everything I ever could have wanted from the Transformers movies, offering a thoughtful and progressive take on the genre without skimping on the action and destruction. The monster mush sequel of Steven S. DeKnight’s Pacific Rim: Uprising is more in line with what the Transformers movies already are: a brainless orgy of bad jokes and PG-13 violence that never stops cutting to the chase. Set 10 years after the original as those pesky kaiju invaders launch another attack, Uprising strips away del Toro’s cinematic zest and humanity in favor of non-stop robot punching. It certainly satisfies on a base level, even though Uprising often feels like a straight-to-VOD fugitive. D.B.

by Daniel Barnes & JiM lane

The Party

Ready Player One

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 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.

In 2045, people take refuge from dystopian reality in a mega-level video game called the OASIS—where its late, eccentric creator (Mark Rylance) has hidden the secret to inheriting his vast fortune, including the OASIS itself. Two Columbus, Ohio, teenagers (Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cook) embark on the virtual-reality quest, which is more real-world dangerous than they know. Director Steven Spielberg is back in fun mode—which may be what he does best, and is certainly what he does better than almost anybody. The script by Zak Penn and Ernest Cline (from Cline’s novel) provides ample fodder for a dazzling display of CGI; a mere mortal would instantly lose control, but not Spielberg—he keeps the action focused on Sheridan and Cook (and their digitized avatars) and the sweet romance blossoming between them. J.L.

Sherlock Gnomes

The Someone is stealing the garden gnomes of London—but never fear, Sherlock Gnomes (voiced by Johnny Depp), Dr. Watson (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and lovers Gnomeo and Juliet (James McAvoy, Emily Blunt) are on the case. The sequel to 2011’s borderlinewretched Gnomeo & Juliet takes the wretchedness way beyond the border, lining up a stellar cast of voices (others include Michael Caine, Maggie Smith, Ozzy Osbourne, Julie Walters, Mary J. Blige) and giving them not one interesting syllable to say. Even with five credited writers (Ben Zazove, Andy Riley, Kevin Cecil, Emily Cook, Kathy Greenberg), the movie has nothing—no story, no wit, no excitement, no ideas, no suspense, nothing but a lame pun for a title (come to think of it, just like Gnomeo & Juliet before it). How did such drivel ever get a green light? J.L.

Unsane

A stressed-out stalking victim (Claire Foy) unwittingly commits herself to an asylum for observation—then begins raving that her stalker is one of the institution’s male nurses (Joshua Leonard). Foy harrowingly sheds her royal image as Elizabeth II in TV’s The Crown, and director Steven Soderbergh, shooting the whole film with digital iPhone cameras, gives the movie a jumpy, disorienting energy, looking somehow wide-angle and claustrophobic at the same time. That’s the good news. The bad news: Jonathan Bernstein and James Greer’s script is a low-schlock thriller, patently implausible and tipping off its “secrets” much too soon. It’s exhilarating to see Soderbergh, with nothing to prove, still willing to experiment, and Foy’s performance is riveting, but they’re essentially putting lipstick on a pig. J.L.

foR the week of MaRch 29

by kate gonzales

snr c a le nd a r @ ne wsr e v ie w.c o m

Online listings will be considered for print. Print listings are edited for space and accuracy. Deadline for print listings is 5 p.m. Wednesday. Deadline for NightLife listings is midnight Sunday. Send photos and reference materials to Calendar Editor Kate Gonzales at snrcalendar@newsreview.com.

Post events online for free at

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SUNDAY, 4/1

cover. Providence Church Sacramento, Tahoe Elementary School, 3110 60th St.

ion: With Modern Man, Exulansis. 8pm, $8. Blue Lamp, 1400 Alhambra Blvd.

FOOD & DRINK

TUESDAY, 4/3 Ground cHucK’s BirtHdaY sHow: With Sowers

of Dissent, Omnigul, Killer Couture. 8pm, $5-

$10. The Colony, 3512 Stockton Blvd.

sadGirl: With Bruiser Queen, Pets, Krebtones. 8pm, $8. The Press Club, 2030 P St.

tlatZotZonaloYan: Learn and create with

wed

PHOTO COURTESY OF EMILY BUTLER

Puddles Pity Party is coming to Sac.

THURSDAY, 3/29 an eveninG witH JMseY: Sacramento-based indie/soul songwriter. 7:30pm, no cover. Sacramento State, 6000 J St.

BanJo Bones: Americana artist. 8:30pm, no

cover. Scarlet’s Specialty Saloon, 614 Sutter St.

clarinetist KatsuYa Yuasa: The first clarinetist to win the Mu Phi Epsilon International Young Artist Competition performs. 8pm, no cover. Capistrano Music Hall, 6000 J St.

current JoYs: With La Tour, Munechild.

6:30pm, $10-$15. sol collective, 2574 21st st.

settinG sons: With Cold Trap, Mob Rule, Enemy Fire. 8pm, call for cover. The Press Club, 2030 P St.

tHe lil sMoKies: With Mapache. 8pm, $15-$17. Harlow’s, 2708 J St.

FESTIVALS

FRIDAY, 3/30

6:30pm, no cover. in front of the california state railroad Museum, 111 i st.

tHe avett BrotHers: North Carolina folk/rock

band. 8pm, $69.50 (sold out). The Community Center Theater, 1301 L St.

cHrcH: With Usnea, Un, Occlith. 8pm, $10-$12. Blue Lamp, 1400 Alhambra Blvd.

fliGHt MonGoose: With Short Trip, Denim Genie, Shoobies and Acceptable Losses.

7pm, $5-$10. The Colony, 3512 Stockton Blvd.

MaMuse: Folk duo with Fula Brothers. 7:30pm,

$22. Palms Playhouse, 13 Main St. in Winters.

MooKatite: With Alyssa Mattson, Tonic Zephyr. 4pm, no cover. Big Sexy Brewing Co., 5861 88th St., Suite 800.

SATURDAY, 3/31 Be Brave Bold roBot: With Tiny Sounds, Chris Cotta. 9pm, $10. Fox & Goose, 1001 R St.

cassette idols: With Watch Jenny Die, Rebel Holocrons, Love For Fire (Alkaline Trio tribute). 9pm, $10. On the Y, 670 Fulton Ave.

SATURDAY, 3/31 annual easter eGG Hunt: Family-friendly

$30. The Sofia, 2700 Capitol Ave.

isaac Morris: With Damian Whittaker of Knockout, Jolie Crockett. 6pm, $5. The Silver Orange, 922 57th St.

la sePtiMa Banda: With Alfredo Olivas. 5pm, $58. Papa Murphys Park, 1600 Exposition Blvd.

Morris daY & tHe tiMe: The band formed as the soul/R&B side of Prince’s alter-ego performs. 8pm, $55 - $125. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.

saint asHBurY: With Richard March and Tyler

Ragle. 7pm, $7. The Acoustic Den Cafe, 10271 Fairway Drive, Suite 120 in Roseville.

tHe sHell corPoration: With Bastards of Young, Vinnie Guidera & The Dead Birds, Thieves These Days. 8pm, $10. Old Ironsides, 1901 10th St.

FRIDAY, 3/30 tHe dinner detective interactive Murder MYsterY: An interactive murder mystery dinner, with a prize awarded to the person who gets closest to the truth. 7pm, $49.95. DoubleTree, 2001 Point West Way.

norcal aids cYcle fundraiser: Support Team Ladybugs, the Gender Health Center’s NorCal AIDS Cycle team, when you eat at Capitol Garage between noon and 8pm. Money raised goes to local organizations that offer HIV services. noon, no cover. Capitol Garage, 1500 K St.

taps will be taken over by delicious Belgianstyle ales, paired with four artisan cheeses and an assortment of nuts, grapes, olives, crackers, berries and jam. 11:30am, $25. Jackrabbit Brewing Company, 1323 Terminal St. in West Sacramento.

dinner and a draG sHow: Weekly cabaret-style

event with egg hunts, arts and crafts, visits with the bunny and a pancake breakfast. The egg hunt will be held rain or shine and promptly begin at 10am. 9am, no cover. Carmichael Park, 5750 Grant Ave. in Carmichael.

performance by Sacramento Drag Queens paired with a special dinner menu (or the standard menu at regular prices). 7:30pm, $5-$25. Capitol Garage, 1500 K St.

fountainHead BrewinG coMPanY second anniversarY: Celebrate the Curtis Park

tHe diva MarKet: Meet and buy from vendors selling art, jewelry, unique fashion, gourmet food and more. 11am, no cover. the diva

Market, 1817 del Paso Blvd.

GHanaian indePendence celeBration: Food,

brewery’s second anniversary with music, food, giveaways and beer. 2pm, no cover. Fountainhead Brewing Company, 4621 24th St.

Guided tastinG and BrewerY tour: Love beer

cultural performances and dancing. Music by DJ Xander. 6pm. $35-$70. Doubletree Hotel, 2001 Point West Way.

cHerYl wHeeler: With Kenny White. 7:30pm,

the best wine of the night. 7pm, $35. 58 Degrees & Holding Co., 1217 18th St.

BelGian invasion and cHeese PairinG: Four

group performs and invites folks to join.

has risen to fame singing pop songs from artists including ABBA and the Pixies. Puddles’ collaboration with Postmodern Jukebox on a cover of Lorde’s Royals earned him widespread attention in 2013, as did his appearance on America’s Got Talent where, sadly, he was cut after a performance of the same song. Bring some tissues and join the pity party at the Crest. 1013 K Street, www.crestsacramento.com.

wine Battle of BarBera: Taste and vote for

SATURDAY, 3/31

BacHata BlocK PartY KicK off: Latin dance

Crest theatre, 8 P.M., $32.50-$102.50

MUSIC

WEDNESDAY, 4/4

FRIDAY, 3/30

clown in town Clowns. For creatures who are intended to deliver joy to every child, they sure are some of the most divisive Music characters we’ve created. Many people would rather eat glass than cross the path of a clown. Some of us are curious (does that white makeup go all over the body, or stop at the bust?). Others are delighted by these strange, often sad beings. For them, there is Puddles Pity Party—the clown who does not speak but

indigenous instruments every first Tuesday of the month (7pm to 8pm) and third Sunday of the month (1:30pm to 3pm). 7pm, no cover (donations accepted). Sol Collective, 2574 21st St.

THURSDAY, 3/29

HelicoPter eGG droP: Booths for face painting, crafting, the Easter Bunny and games. Eggs will drop at 9am. 9am, no cover North Natomas Regional Park, 2501 New Market Drive.

and want to know more about it? Join in for an intimate, guided tasting of 11 ales, cheese pairings and tour of Jackrabbit brewery. 1pm, $45. Jackrabbit Brewing Company, 1323 Terminal St. in West Sacramento.

FILM

neruda festival: A one-night multicultural event in California, where poets and artists gather to celebrate the legacy of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. 5:30pm, no cover. Todo Un Poco Bistro, 9080 Laguna Main St. in Elk Grove.

underwater eGG Hunt: A not-so-traditional Easter egg hunt for kids ages 12 and younger. Event will be canceled if it rains. 1pm, $3. Fruitridge Community & Aquatic Center, 4000 Fruitridge Road.

THURSDAY, 3/29 straws: Straw Free Sacramento (it’s a thing!) and Sierra Club present this film that shows the history of the straw and shows the problems caused by plastic pollution. 6:45pm, contact for cover. Shepard Garden & Arts Center, 3330 McKinley Blvd.

FRIDAY, 3/30 tHe rooM: A strange movie from a strange

SUNDAY, 4/1 sactown’s 2,000 eGG easter eGG Hunt: Sacramento’s largest Easter egg hunt, with a free barbecue lunch, photo booth with the Easter Bunny and more. A family day service begins at 10:30am, egg hunt and celebration begins at 11:30am. 10:30am, no

man, and the inspiration for The Disaster Artist. 7:30pm, $8-$10. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.

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tuesday, 4/3 Calendar listinGs Continued from paGe 41

saturday, 3/31 dolores: An outdoor screening of this film about activist Dolores Huerta. Fundraiser for the Democratic Socialists of America Sacramento Labor Committee. 7:30pm, $3-$10 suggested donation. Organize Sacramento, 1714 Broadway.

monday, 4/2 tHis is parKdale: A 30-minute documentary

Thai Food & gluten free options

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about how working-class members of the Toronto neighborhood went on strike to protest rent increases, organized and won. A discussion with the Sacramento Tenants Union will follow. 6pm, no cover. Organize Sacramento, 1714 Broadway.

tuesday, 4/3 Hitler v. piCasso: Revealing the Nazi obsession with art, this film offers viewers a rare look at condemned works that have finally come to light. 7pm, $10.50. The Tower Theatre, 2508 Land Park Drive.

Ground Chuck’s birthday show The Colony, 8 P.M., $5-$10

When Ground Chuck breaks a hip at a punk show, we step up and support musiC him. And when he has a birthday, we party. The local punk rock legend, musician and chalk artist PHoto courtesy oF nicK miller is turning 49 this year and celebrating with a show. MDL (GC’s band), Sowers of Dissent, Omnigul and Killer Couture are on the lineup, and in staying with The Colony’s aim to make all-ages show affordable, it’s a sliding scale of $5-$10 to get in. He’s at all the shows, so show up for him. 3512 Stockton Boulevard.

saCramento tHeatre: Mothers and Sons. A grieving mother sets off on a treacherous path toward forgiveness and reconciliation. through 4/29. $34-$38.

1419 H st.

tHe benvenuti performinG arts Center:

comedy

’17

Best Thai Food

Harlow’s: April Fools Comedy Tour. Featuring Cory Polster, Stephen Furey, Matt Billon, Hormoz Rashidi. 6pm friday, 3/30. $15$20. 2708 J St.

10 BEERS ON TAP HAPPY HOUR 4:30-6PM $3 BEERS, WINE & APPETIZERS 1110 T ST. SACRAMENTO, CA 95811 | 916-822-4665

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punCH line: Godfrey. The comedian/actor who has appeared in films like Soul Plane and Zoolander comes to Sac. through 3/31. $17.50-$22.50. 2100 Arden Way, Suite 225.

saCramento Comedy spot: Sydney Stigerts’ Birthday Show. The soon-to-be 22-yearold celebrates with some laughs, featuring Sarah Rooker, Andrea B., Elisia Gonzales and Drew Shafer. 7:30pm friday, 3/30. $10. An Evening with Johnny Taylor, Jr. A local favorite returns to Sacramento from LA. Hosted by Robert Berry. 8pm Saturday, 3/31. $8-$15. 1050 20th St., Suite 130.

tommy t’s Comedy Club: Sinbad. The

actor/comedian performs. through 3/31. $35. 12401 Folsom Blvd. in Rancho Cordova.

trutH sports lounGe: Alex Thomas. Longtime

drunken noodle

touring comedian performs. Hosted by Lucky Dollaz. 9pm saturday, 3/31. $35$60. 1968 Fulton Ave.

•Midtown•

on staGe b street tHeatre: Dry Powder. This comedic

6 BEERS ON TAP

drama is set in the world of high finance, where the CEO of an enormous private equity firm desperately needs a deal to come through to save him from a public relations nightmare. through 4/29.

$9-$41. 2700 Capitol ave.

California staGe: Balm In Gilead. The bleak world of young exiles and outcasts in New York’s upper Broadway region is illuminated in this story centered on two people—Joe and Darlene—who seem to have the strength to persevere. through 4/7. $15-$20.

1723 25th st.

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tHeatre in tHe HeiGHts: Belles. A story of six Southern women told in two acts and 35 phone calls. through 4/8. $15. 8215 auburn

boulevard, suite G in Citrus Heights.

william J. Geery tHeater: Julius Caesar & Macbeth (Two Plays/One Show!). Four actresses will perform all the roles in a one-act version of Julius Caesar, then will pull off the same feat for Macbeth after intermission. Through 4/7. $18.37. 2130 L St.

art aCC art Gallery: The Asian-American Experience. A photography exhibit focused on immigration. through 5/4. no cover. 7334 Park City Drive.

artHouse on r: City Spaces, Favorite Places.

Thai Food & Gluten Free Options

Peace On Your Wings. A musical inspired by Sadako Sasaki, who was 2 years old when the American atomic bomb was dropped on her Hiroshima home, and the story of her thousand origami cranes. Young performers from Northern California and Hawaii will explore Sadako, who died at age 12 from leukemia, while exploring universal themes present in young people’s lives. Through 3/31. $15-$35. 4600 Blackrock Drive.

CHautauQua playHouse: A Time to Kill. The drama based on the bestselling John Grisham novel about race, crime and family in small-town America. Through 4/21. $19-$22. 5325 Engle Road, Suite 110 in Carmichael.

Contemporary oil painter Jim Leland shows his cityscapes. through 3/31. no cover. 1021 R St.

artistiC edGe Gallery: March Exhibit. Works by Ron Hall, Diana Ormanzhi, Jonathan Lowe and Carol Brown. through 3/31. no cover. 1880 Fulton Ave.

aXis Gallery: Leaves, Series II Dixie Laws. An exhibit featuring new linoleum and monotype prints based on the leaf shape by gallery artist Dixie Laws. through 4/1. no cover. 625 S St.

CK art: Earthen Abstracts. Contemporary artwork by Anthony Maki Gill, Sandy Parris, Nick Lopez, Julie Maren and more. Through 3/31. No cover. 2500 J St.

CroCKer art museum: E. Charlton Fortune— The Colorful Spirit. Works by the late California plein-air painter. Through 4/22. No cover-$10. Hopes Springing High 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.

manetti sHrem museum of art: Wayne Thiebaud 1958-1968. Trace the iconic painter’s emergence as a mature artist with a singular style. through 5/13. no cover. 254 Old Davis Road in Davis.

lGBtQ saturday, 3/31 sprinG fever: An evening of games, fun, food, and community for LGBTQ youth ages 13 to 23. 5pm, no cover. The Sacramento LGBT Community Center, 1927 L St.

trans day of visibility: A day celebrating and honoring the trans folks in our community begins with a mural unveiling at Lavender Library. The mural, by artists Jessica Sabogal and Shanna Strauss, honor Chyna Gibson, a trans woman from Sacramento who was killed in New Orleans. After the unveiling, a picnic will be held at McKinley Park beginning at 3pm. 1pm, no cover. Lavender Library, Archives, and Cultural Exchange, 1414 21st St.

taKe action saturday, 3/31 18tH annual Cesar CHaveZ marCH and rally: Join the march for farmworker rights, the right to unionize and other causes related to workers rights and intersectionality. 10am, no cover. Southside Park, 2115 6th St.

wednesday, 4/4 free tHe Csu: Tell Governor Brown and the state legislature to #FreeTheCSU by providing the funding needed to stop yet another tuition increase at California State University campuses. 10am, no cover. California State Capitol, 1315 10th St.

saCramento Handmaids meetinG: The Sacramento Handmaid Coalition will meet to discuss fundraising, community liaisons and outreach, group policy objectives and more. 6pm, no cover. Sac City Brews, 3940 60th St.

submit your calendar listings for free at newsreview.com/sacramento/calendar THURSDAY 3/29

FRIDAY 3/30

SATURDAY 3/31

SUNDAY 4/1

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 4/2-4/4

Songwriters in the Round, 7pm, $5

One Button Suit, 7pm, $20

Saint Ashbury & Richard March with Tyler Ragle, 7pm, $7

Ukulele Jam and Singalong, 11am, no cover

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

2003 k ST., (916) 448-8790

#ManCandy with the Papi Boys, 10pm, call for cover

Spectacular Saturdays, 9pm, call for cover

Sunday Tea Dance & Beer Bust, 4pm, no cover

Trapicana, 10pm, W, no cover

BaR 101

The Bongo Furys, 9:30pm, call for cover

AC McKinney Band, 9:30pm, call for cover

Blue lamp

Chrch, Usnea, Un, Occlith, 8pm, $10-$12

Teknical with Erik Lobe and more, 9pm, $10

The BoaRdwalk

CES Cru, G-mo Skee, 8pm, $20-$25

Uncharted Waters, Somni, Blackrose and more, 8pm, $10

Kash’d Out, Tunnel Vision and more, 8pm, W, $10-$12

Next Drag Superstar, 8pm, call for cover

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

Dinner and a Drag Show, 7:30pm, $5$20; The Corner, 10pm, call for cover

Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz, 8:30pm, no cover

2000 k ST., (916) 448-7798

Ru Paul’s Drag Race All Stars, 5pm, no cover

Absolut Fridays, 9pm, call for cover

faTheR paddY’s iRish puBlic house

Lucy’s Bones, 6pm, call for cover

Rhythmnaires, 7pm,

Restrospecs, 7pm, call for cover

fox & Goose

According to Bazooka, 7pm, no cover

Loose Engines, Mutineers and Diva, 9pm, $5

Be Brave Bold Robot, Tiny Sounds, and Chris Cotta, 9pm, $5

Golden 1 cenTeR

Pacers v. Kings, 7pm, $9-$145

The acousTic den cafe

10271 FAIRWAY DRIVE, ROSEVIllE, (916) 412-8739

Badlands

101 MAIN ST., ROSEVIllE, (916) 774-0505 1400 AlHAMbRA blVD., (916) 455-3400 9426 GREENbAck lN., ORANGEVAlE, (916) 358-9116

capiTol GaRaGe PHOTO cOURTESY OF RAY PATRIck

anxious arms Cafe Colonial Benefit Show 7pm Friday, $5-$10 Cafe Colonial Emo/hardcore

1500 k ST., (916) 444-3633

faces

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

5681 lONETREE blVD., ROcklIN, (916) 626-3600 2708 J ST., (916) 441-4693

Turkuaz, 7:30pm, $18-$22

hiGhwaTeR

1910 Q ST., (916) 706-2465

holY diVeR PHOTO cOURTESY OF SEHER SIkANDAR

Sailor Poon, Slutzville, Las Pulgas and more, 8pm, T, call for cover

Every Damn Monday, 9pm, M, no cover; Noche Latina, 9pm, T, no cover

Open-Mic Monday, 7:30pm, M, no cover

Funk Shui Band, 9pm, $5

Agent, 9pm, $7

Let’s Get Quizzical Trivia Game Show, 7pm, T, no cover

April Fools Comedy Tour with Cory Polster and more, 6pm, $15-$20

Bob’s Child, 5:30pm, $15-$20

The Lil Smokies, 7pm, W, $15-$17

Cuffin R&B/soul party by Good Company, 9pm, $5

HOF Saturdays, hip-hop/R&B, 9pm, $5

1517 21ST ST.

Death Party at the Beach, Surviving the Era and more, 6:30pm, $5

Chaos Mantra, Criminal Rock and more, 6:30pm, $10-$12

Austin John Winkler of Hinder, 6:30pm, $12-$14

kupRos

Dylan Crawford, 8pm, no cover

Instagon, 8pm, no cover

Harley White Jr. Trio, 8pm, no cover

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

Ion, Modern Man, Exulansis, 8pm, $8

Warriors v. Kings, 7pm, $70-$506

halfTime BaR & GRill haRlow’s

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

Island Vibes Reggae Night, 10pm, call for cover

The Trivia Factory, 7pm-9pm, M, no cover Riff Raff, Afterthought and more, 6:30pm, M, $23-$60

Kupros Quiz, 7:30pm, no cover

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

too short

luna’s cafe & Juice BaR

7pm Saturday, (sold out) Ace of Spades Rap

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

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

Tracy Automatic with Keith Cary and more, 8pm, $6

momo sacRamenTo

Boostive, CTRL-Z, 9pm, no cover

Friday 3-For-All with DJ JB, 10pm, $10

New Wave Society, 9pm, $5,

Golden State Lone Star Blues Revue, 5:30pm, W, $15-$40

old iRonsides

Grub Dog Presents: Music Night, 8pm, $5

The Brangs, King and Natalie Cortez, 9pm, $8

Vinnie Guidera & the Dead Birds, Shell Corporation and more, 8pm, $10

Live music with Heath Williamson & Friends, 5:30pm, M, no cover

2708 J ST., (916) 441-4693

1901 10TH ST., (916) 442-3504

Free dance lessons most nights karaoke up from Wednesday through sunday

sunday industry night

$3 drinks and food for industry friends plus $1.50 Wells 8pm-10pm no cover over 21 1320 Del paso blvD in olD north sac

Stoneyinn.com

916.402.2407

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And, pride? Really? Let’s flip that script, too. Begin here: Be grateful that you enjoy a sense of satisfaction about yourself and your accomplishments. If pride kept you from crawling back to your ex, cherish your pride. It protected you from re-entering a relationship that you had evolved beyond. Seeing our own growth is not always easy, but it is a courageous act of self-love. That’s nothing to be ashamed of. Shame means you think you are a bad person. Not true. You’re a woman who did not want to deal with a man’s addiction to drugs and alcohol. I know you said you don’t see yourself moving on from heartbreak. Trust me. You will. In between crying jags, practice a new perspective. Visualize yourself as you long to be: serene, happy, open and trusting. That’s what it means to grow from this. If you love yourself, focus on the future, not the past. In time, you will heal and find love again, in yourself and in the world. Ω

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Editor’s note: This is part one is a three-part series on women in cannabis. Advocates since the early years of unregulated medical cannabis, Aundre Speciale, Lanette Davies and Kimberly Cargile are also among Sacramento’s first dispensary owners. Aundre Speciale was living in Venice Beach when her neighbor, Jack Herer, invited her to join his traveling legalization effort. “Jack really gave me a place and a cause, a purpose to fight,” said Speciale. In 2004, then a single mom, she opened the nonprofit Capital Wellness with the idea that cannabis belonged within the larger community of alternative health. She has since opened six more dispensaries, including Abatin Wellness. Lanette Davies doesn’t use cannabis. Her entrance to the industry in 2005 was inspired by her daughter’s rare bone disease, chronic recurring multifocal osteomyelitis. With no known cure, the family’s persistence and Christian faith eventually took them to Palo Alto. “Stanford Hospital gave us the first pediatric recommendation to use cannabis,” said Davies, “and Canna Care was born.” Cannabis saved their daughter, and Lanette became a local advocate. Kimberly Cargile studied cellular molecular biology, psychology and social justice at Humboldt State University, working through college as a fitness trainer and cannabis cultivator. “I was learning more about natural medicine, studying it,” said Cargile. After working for Speciale in 2007, Cargile soon realized her own holistic vision for a dispensary, A Therapeutic Alternative.

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by James Raia

by ROb bRezsny

FOR THE WEEk OF MARCH 29, 2018 ARIES (March 21-April 19): A few years ago,

a New Zealander named Bruce Simpson announced plans to build a cruise missile at his home using parts he bought legally from eBay and other online stores. In accordance with current astrological omens, I suggest you initiate a comparable project. For example, you could arrange a do-it-yourself space flight by tying a thousand helium balloons to your lawn chair. APRIL FOOL! I lied. Please don’t try lunatic schemes like the helium balloon space flight. Here’s the truth: Now is a favorable time to initiate big, bold projects, but not foolish, big, bold projects. The point is to be both visionary and practical.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The Finnish word

kalsarikännit means getting drunk at home alone in your underwear and binging on guilty pleasures. It’s a perfect time for you to do just that. The Fates are whispering, “Chill out. Vegetate. Be ambitionless.” APRIL FOOL! I told a half-truth. In fact, now is a perfect time to excuse yourself from trying too hard and doing too much. You can accomplish wonders and marvels by staying home and binging on guilty pleasures in your underwear. But there’s no need to get drunk.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Actor Gary Busey is

very sure there are no mirrors in heaven. He has other specific ideas about the place, as well. This became a problem when he was filming the movie Quigley, in which his character Archie visits heaven. Busey was so enraged at the director’s mistaken rendering of paradise that he got into a fist fight with another actor. I hope you will show an equally feisty fussiness in the coming weeks, Gemini. APRIL FOOL! I lied, sort of. On the one hand, I do hope you’ll be forceful as you insist on expressing your high standards. Don’t back down! But on the other hand, refrain from pummeling anyone who asks you to compromise.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): In the Scots language

still spoken in parts of Scotland, eedle-doddles are people who can’t summon initiative when it’s crunch time. They are so consumed in trivial or irrelevant concerns that they lose all instinct for being in the right place at the right time. I regret to inform you that you are now at risk of being an eedle-doddle. APRIL FOOL! I lied. In fact, the truth is just the opposite. I have rarely seen you so well-primed to respond vigorously and bravely to big magic moments. For the foreseeable future, you are king or queen of carpe diem.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Paul McCartney likes to

periodically act like a regular person who’s not a famous musician. He goes grocery shopping without bodyguards. He rides on public transportation and strikes up conversations with random strangers. I think you may need to engage in similar behavior yourself, Leo. You’ve become a bit too enamored with your own beauty and magnificence. You really do need to come down to Earth and hang out more with us little people. APRIL FOOL! I lied. The truth is, now is prime time to hone your power and glory; to indulge your urge to shine and dazzle; to be as conspicuously marvelous as you dare to be.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The coming days will

be an excellent time to concoct an alchemical potion that will heal your oldest wounds. For best results, mix and sip a gallon of potion using the following magic ingredients: absinthe, chocolate syrup, cough medicine, dandelion tea, cobra venom, and worm’s blood. APRIL FOOL! I mixed a lie in with a truth. It is a fact that now is a fine time to seek remedies for your ancient wounds. But the potion I recommended is bogus. Go on a quest for the real cure.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I expect you will soon

receive a wealth of exotic and expensive gifts. For example, a benefactor may finance your vacation to a gorgeous sacred site or give you the deed to an enchanted waterfall. I won’t be surprised if you’re blessed with a solid gold bathtub or a year’s supply of luxury cupcakes. It’s even possible that a sugar daddy or sugar momma will fork over $500,000 to rent an auditorium for a party in your honor. APRIL FOOL! I distorted the truth. I do suspect you’ll get more goodies than usual in the coming weeks, but they’re likely to come in the form of love and appreciation, not

flashy material goods. (For best results, don’t just wait around for the goodies to stream in; ask for them!)

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): There’s a narrow

waterway between Asia and Europe. In the fifth century B.C., Persian King Xerxes had two bridges built across it so he could invade Greece with his army. But a great storm swept through and smashed his handiwork. Xerxes was royally peeved. He ordered his men to whip the uncooperative sea and brand it with hot irons, all the while shouting curses at it, like, “You are a turbid and briny river.” I recommend that you do something similar, Scorpio. Has Nature done anything to inconvenience you? Show it who’s the supreme boss! APRIL FOOL! I lied. The truth is, now is an excellent time for you to become more attuned and in love with a higher power, however you define that. What’s greater than you and bigger than your life and wilder than you can imagine? Refine your practice of the art of surrender.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Fifteenth-

century Italian painter Filippo Lippi was such a lustful womanizer that he sometimes found it tough to focus on making art. At one point, his wealthy and politically powerful patron Cosimo de’ Medici, frustrated by his extracurricular activities, imprisoned him in his studio to ensure he wouldn’t get diverted. Judging from your current astrological omens, Sagittarius, I suspect you need similar constraints. APRIL FOOL! I fibbed a little. I am indeed worried you’ll get so caught up in the pursuit of pleasure that you’ll neglect your duties. But I won’t go so far as to suggest you should be locked up for your own good.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Now is a

favorable time to slap a lawsuit on your mom in an effort to make her pay for the mistakes she made while raising you. You could also post an exposé on social media in which you reveal her shortcomings, or organize a protest rally outside her house with your friends holding signs demanding she apologize for how she messed you up. APRIL FOOL! Everything I just said was ridiculous and false. The truth is, now is a perfect moment to meditate on the gifts and blessings your mother gave you. If she is still alive, express your gratitude to her. If she has passed on, do a ritual to honor and celebrate her.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Aquarian author

Alice Walker won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Color Purple. She has also published 33 other books and built a large audience. But some of her ideas are not exactly mainstream. For example, she says that one of her favorite authors is David Icke, who asserts that intelligent extraterrestrial reptiles have disguised themselves as humans and taken control of our planet’s governments. I bring this to your attention, because I think it’s time that you, too, reveal the full extent of how crazy you really are. APRIL FOOL! I half-lied. While it’s true that now is a favorable time to show more of your unconventional and eccentric sides, I don’t advise you to go full-on whacko.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Warning! Danger!

You are at risk of contracting a virulent case of cherophobia! And what exactly is cherophobia? It’s a fear of happiness. It’s an inclination to dodge and shun joyful experiences because of the suspicion that they will disappoint you or cause bad luck. Please do something to stop this insidious development. APRIL FOOL! I lied. The truth is that you are currently more receptive to positive emotions and delightful events than you’ve been in a log time. There’s less than a 1 percent chance you will fall victim to cherophobia.

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Pedaling together Michael Sayers and Julie Young have been riding bicycles together off and on for more than 30 years. Their professional careers took different routes, but the two long-time friends who competed at the highest levels of the sport are pedaling together again as co-founders and partners of Dai Endurance. The Midtown fitness studio, opened last June, extols the benefits of endurance for everyone. The emphasis is on busy professionals of all levels who have limited time but who seek workout programs to improve their fitness. Sayers, a former 15-year pro and Olympic coach, lives in Fair Oaks with his wife and 11-yearold son. Young, director of the Kaiser Permanente Endurance Lab located at Golden 1 Center, was a 12-year pro who had victories around the world. She residents in Truckee and Auburn.

When did the idea start for you to own a business together? Young: We’ve been talking about this for about seven years, back and forth. We’d visit it again, and then Mike would go away to Europe and I would be doing my thing. And finally, I think, it was about two years ago, I was like, ‘Do you want to do something?’ And we were both like, ‘Let’s do something.’ It took that long to find a location. We weren’t sure. Sayers: Sacramento from an endurance sports perspective is interesting now. There are a bunch of people moving here who are tied to the industry in some way or have been tied to the industry. I think there are a lot of people moving to town because Sacramento has a lot to offer. And it’s relatively affordable to live here.

Did your careers overlap? Young: We came up together. Mike was at Jesuit and I was at St. Francis (where she was also a skilled golfer). We were training partners on river rides and on different teams. Sayers: I kind of started cycling my last two years of high school. I think I did my first race as a senior when I was transitioning out of ski racing.

Mike, you’re married and a have a son. Julie, you are not married and don’t have children. What’s it like as a man and woman owning a business together? Sayers: I think it does. In a businesses like this, I think it’s really important to have a female influence. Generally, endurance sports, although it’s getter better, have been male-dominated. Or at least the media pays attention to the male side of it. But if you

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ask anyone in the cycling industry and likely the running industry, their biggest markets are females, and it’s their more important market. I don’t think this facility could happen if there were two guys running it. Young: I think running has figured out how to tap into the women’s market. Cycling is still struggling, but the women’s market has the greatest potential. The industry is tapping into women and getting more involved in the sport. I like the dynamic of working with Mike. I think we balance each other well.

Combined, the two of you have 27 years as professional athletes. Has that completely helped the business. or have there been any downsides, like maybe you know too much? Young: I think there’s something to that. Our market is for busy professionals. We are trying to embrace all abilities, all interests. There might be a little perception of intimidation because of what we bring to the table. But that’s not what we want to portray. And that’s why we are downtown for the busy professionals. They have a finite amount of time. We want to make sure that people understand that’s it about elite athletes.

What has been it been like to have a business like yours in Midtown? It’s unique to this part of the city. Sayers: The Folsom area is where a lot of the cycling events in this area happen, so it’s somewhat overpopulated with cycling businesses. There’s a large number of

cyclists who work in Midtown and historically, a lot of the training rides have started in Midtown. The business side of Midtown is growing, but there’s clearly a lot of housing, and the city is addressing it with the high-rises going in. So we want to tap into that population. But we have struggled with that because our business plan is a little bit unique. But I think the sport is continuing to grow but more as an adventure sport.

You guys have experience, you’ve traveled the world, you have a lot of knowledge, but has there been anything about owning a small business that’s surprised you? Young: Since I have been in business, I knew it wasn’t going go be easy. When I first started, I remember thinking I had a name and I’ve accomplished so much. It should just happen. And it doesn’t. Business is hard, and you have to work for it. I think that’s what Mike and I are figuring out. We believe in this concept, and we know it has legs. Sayers: We’re not here to compete against other bike shops. There’s plenty of business to go around. Everybody has their niche. We are really trying to show people, and it’s been a challenge. We’re not here to steal customers. We’re not here to take, take and not give anything back. We really want to try to create a sense of community. Ω Dai endurance offers classes in cycling, strength and conditioning, yoga and more, and they cost around $15. To book a class, or become a member, visit http://daiendurance.com or call (916) 376-7590.

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