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Save the Bee Since the shooting of Stephon Clark, I have read the Sacramento Bee every day with increasing admiration. I believe the Bee has played a crucial role in helping this community navigate an impossibly difficult situation.

The newspaper’s immediate coverage conveyed the seriousness of the event without exploiting it.

A story about Clark’s family the following day was sensitive, smart and did not contain a whiff of pandering. When the police videos sparked impassioned protest, the Bee struck the right note, and coverage of the protests since has been impeccable.

Its response to breaking news has been consistently clear-eyed. Ambitious enterprise pieces have provided context. I wish I had space here to commend by name all of the reporters, photographers and editors who have contributed to this powerful body of work.

As of this writing, I am very hopeful that all of these people still have jobs. We got word this morning of a “massive” layoff at the Bee. I called Ed Fletcher, longtime Bee reporter and labor representative, who confirmed that the newsroom had been stripped of 14 positions—including his own.

“This will be the end of my 18-year run,” he said.

Fletcher and most local news-watchers knew something like this was coming, but nobody suspected it would be this bad. The Bee’s newsroom has already been decimated in recent months.

“It’s going to be a serious blow to the news operation at the Bee,” Fletcher said.

“This should be a wake-up call to people who think they can get their news for free because it’s on Facebook. News isn’t free.”

Spend some time on sacbee.com—they’ve made it easy to find the Stephon Clark coverage. While you’re there, check out Marjie Lundstrom’s investigative report about the victims of sexual harassment in the Capitol, which ran Sunday and Monday.

This is first-rate work that deserves your support.

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“ I greW up In the ’80s, so star Wars Is a bIg part of my lIfe.”

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What summer movie are you looking forward to?

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I am looking forward to Solo: A Star Wars Story. I grew up in the ’80s, so Star Wars is a big part of my life. I’ve been really happy with the current series. I don’t know why so many people didn’t like the most recent one. I thought it was amazing.

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Avengers: Infinity War, definitely. It’s tying everything together from these great lines of films, and it’s going to be awesome.

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Probably Incredibles 2 would be the one I most want to see. … I like animation. My son, who’s now in college, I remember seeing the first one with him, and that was a fun movie.

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The Solo movie. I’m a huge sci-fi buff … and I collect stuff from the original Star Wars. I have the original record album, the storybook, figurines, just various things.

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Generally, I just think it’d be a fun movie to see, and the first one really made me laugh.

Incredibles 2. It was one of my favorite Pixar movies when I was a child, and we were expecting a sequel much earlier. It comes now when I’m like, 10 years later, so now I’m 20 versus watching it when I was like 10 years old. … I’m just excited to see how the family is going to progress.

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Bring back brown weed Attn. Ngaio Bealum: I’m not alone in this; anyone who smoked throughout the 1970s and are alive and still smokin’ today remembers the bricked and baled weed that was smuggled here primarily from Central and South America. This was real smoking weed!

Legendary names such as Colombian “Santa Marta” Gold, Acapulco Gold, Panama Red. Marijuana that was yellow (“gold”), red and brown.

These were seriously spicy, tasty buds with ear-ringing, eye-watering, coughing-fit potency one doesn’t forget. Even littered with hella seeds, the crop grown closer to the equator, and at a certain elevation, ruled over

any domestic bud. I’m still waiting to see the return of genuine “smoking weed”… weed grown and cured with smoking pleasure in mind and not just effect.

The pot shops all feature a shelf or two covered with jars full of green buds. They say, “These buds are for vaping because smoking is bad for you.” Get real! Ninety-nine percent of buds sold anywhere are gonna be smoked. Only growers can afford to vape, and I personally feel vaping weed is disrespectful to the spirit of the sacred herb. None of these “cannabis experts” seem to understand anything about smoking

chlorophyll, the green in green buds.

Take tobacco. It grows green, and can be dried green, but you’ll never see green tobacco in a cigarette. Chlorophyll burns excessively hot, thus imparting a harshness if smoked. It’s simply not cool.

Marijuana, especially sativa, grown under the sun for a full season, will change color in the late fall like all other weeds and leaves. These fall colors are so tasty, even “smooth,” when smoked I promise you’ll never want to smoke green bud again.

I’ve been smoking pot daily since 1973. I have smoked all the

above mentioned and even tried the possibly extinct “African Black” sativa grown by the Pygmy tribes of the Utari Rainforest in deep Congo, Africa. I know great weed, and am disappointed that the time isn’t being taken yet to offer a truly pleasureable-tasting smoking weed.

A shop that offered the weed(s) I speak of would be an instant hit!

I think I’m waiting on the feds to de-schedule our holy sacrament.

Not only will this allow banks in on the money, it will open the importation of smoking weed from all over the globe. Let the prices reflect the supply and demand. Only then will Old King Cole have a merry bowl.

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Keeping up with the Jones campaign

else in common: Both are owned by TKC Holdings, LLC. The fact that this conglomerate is trying to get—or remain—in Jones’ good graces is neither new nor illegal. But money can be a clarifying construct, in that it informs and reveals values. And few are better at collecting money than Scott Jones.

Gun interests are helping Sacramento’s sheriff outraise his opponents, but will that support help or hurt this year?

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In September of last year, Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones accepted $3,000 in contributions from two distant companies wanting to do business in his jails. It was a weird time to be taking campaign money, as Jones wasn’t running for anything.

The previous year, Jones lost a close contest to reclaim Rep. Ami Bera’s congressional seat for the Republicans.

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campaign account, the sheriff announced he wouldn’t seek a third term in office.

In short, a politician was accepting money for a race he wasn’t running, and the donors were investing in a political campaign that didn’t exist.

Things have changed since then. In January, Jones’ preferred successor bowed out of the race and Jones stepped back in.

The out-of-state companies, meanwhile, will soon have business before the Sheriff’s Department.

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contract is up for reconsideration in June 2019. The company collected more than $4.3 million from inmates and their families last fiscal year, county documents show. The other company, Missouri-based Keefe Commissary Network, fell short in 2012 of landing a deal to charge Jones’ prisoners for basic goods while incarcerated. But the company that won that bid is currently on a month-to-month contract that ends this August, meaning Keefe will get another chance.

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If this year is different because of the Me Too and March for Our Lives movements, the money trail isn’t showing it. Through April 24, Jones’ campaign had raised $192,100 this year, twice as much as his closest competitor, California Prison Authority workforce development chief Milo Fitch, who got a late start in this race.

The reform-minded challenger announced his candidacy on March 8, and has managed to raise $95,100.24 since then.

Helping Fitch close the gap are the wives of Bay Area tech entrepreneurs: In recent weeks, San Francisco product designer Kaitlyn J. Trigger Kreiger, wife of Instagram co-founder Mike Kreiger, wrote $32,000 worth of checks to the Fitch campaign. Patty Quillin, a prison reform advocate and wife of Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, sent $10,000 from Santa Cruz.

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Jones, meanwhile, has raked in dough from corporations that frequently get or chase after his department’s business.

Through June 2017, Securus Technologies Group Inc. invested $15,000 in Jones, according to campaign disclosures.

The Texas-based company bid on a $5 million information technology jail contract in February 2017, but county supervisors selected another firm. Securus was also outbid in 2016 to replace ICSolutions, which has been making money off of local inmates’ phone calls since 2010, two years before Jones was first elected. Similarly, Alabama-based Global Tel*Link Corp., whose contract was claimed by ICSolutions, donated $1,500 in May 2017 to get back in the incumbent’s good graces. Also currying favor was Trinity Services Group Inc., a Florida-based correctional food services contractor, which gave $1,500 and may be eying a run at the lucrative jail commissary account coming up for bid this summer.

In a written statement, Jones said the companies’ money went into his annual golf tournament last summer.

As a candidate, Jones receiveth and giveth away. The sheriff spent more than $1,200 of his campaign donations on gifts for at least 13 employees, including Jones’ original pick to succeed him, Chief Deputy Kris Palmer, who received $100 worth of gift cards to Claim Jumpers and Regal Cinemas during the July 1-December 31, 2017, reporting period, which ended just days before he dropped out of the race.

Jones also made a $1,120 civic donation to the Make a Wish Foundation, while other campaign expenditures appeared more frivolous, like the $968.30 in “office expenses” Jones paid to Golf Digest.

Based on a review of California Fair Political Practices Commission documents, these dealings appear to be in line with election law. For instance, it’s legal to buy a gift with campaign money, as long as it costs less than $250. But they’re still worth watching, says Loyola Law School professor Jessica A. Levinson, who studies campaign finance and ethics.

“Absolutely,” said Levinson, who is also the president of the Los Angeles City Ethics Commission. “That’s the reason we have these disclosures. It allows people to decide whether he’s making wise or [appropriate] decisions.” that’s certainly the case with guns.

Jones has always favored an elastic

interpretation of the Second Amendment, being straight-up about his politics. and his recent campaign spending shows “He’s a pro-gun guy, Sheriff Scott that. Since January of last year, Jones Jones, and it makes sense that private gave nearly $4,200 in civic donations to retailers that want to keep selling guns are the groups Friends of the NRA and Gun [supporting his campaign],” said Amanda Owners of California.

Wilcox, the legislation and policy chair Jones also used political donations to of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun strategize his pro-gun policies. Campaign Violence’s California chapters. “They must filings show that he spent $140.87 on candithink he’s good for business.” date travel, lodging and meals for a May 11, But is the gun business still good for 2017, meeting with the San Diego County Jones? Wilcox thinks the political tide may sheriff “regarding state audit.” Both sherbe turning thanks to a youth movement iffs’ departments were audited over coming of voter age during the era their dispensation of concealed of mass shootings. Last month firearm permits, which she attended an anti-gunlater engulfed Jones violence rally in Rocklin, in a war of words where she recalls The sheriff has with State Auditor hearing a student raked in dough from Elaine Howle, who telling attendees how recommended that his mother made him corporations that Jones be charged promise he wouldn’t frequently get or chase with a misdemeanor intervene if an activeafter he released his shooter invaded his after his department’s response to the audit campus. “Imagine business. before the audit itself having that conversawas released. tion with your kid,” The district attorney’s Wilcox said. “The students office demurred on Howle’s are making their parents care, if request to file that charge, kickthey didn’t already.” ing the matter to the California attorney Julia Sidley is hoping voters do care. general’s office. Jones shared his side of The 15-year-old West Campus High School the public spat during a January 22 meeting student spoke at her campus walkout last with a civilian advisory commission, where month and says her generation isn’t willing he said his interpretation of state law is that to shrug off the next Parkland, Fla., school it doesn’t apply to the subjects of audits. shooting—or the many that preceded it.

“I didn’t violate any law,” Jones “The drills we all once believed to asserted. “And I don’t know her. I don’t be simple precautions for some improbknow her, I’ve never met her, I couldn’t able event have become preparation for pick her out of a line-up. But it’s certainly something that has just been accepted as her option whether she is going to reach out inevitable,” Sidley wrote in a statement to to the attorney general and try and get them SN&R. “The people we want protecting to prosecute. our streets should not be the ones that want “Whether the auditor is or will be, she them laced with weapons.” has not replied to me as I asked her to.”

In an emailed statement, Jones said he As of June 30, 2017, there were 9,130 didn’t think guns would play a factor in this active licenses to carry concealed firearms election, but that he supports the right of floating around Sacramento County. young people to speak out, “even if I don’t As Jones has been a big benefactor agree with their proposals.” to gun-sellers, they’ve returned the favor “Any tragedy should result in some come election season. Since last year, self-reflection—and certainly we should Sacramento Gun Club LLC loaded $5,000 examine what policy changes can make our into Jones’ campaign account; The Gun schools and the public safer,” Jones added.

Range and its manager Seth Astle donated “We clearly need a better way to handle $2,520; Just Guns retailer Joshua Deaser mental health issues, we need to increase submitted $4,370, which included a $1,500 security, and we must improve background auction item; and Gun Owners of California checks to ensure mentally unstable do not manager Sam Paredes gave $568. have access to firearms.”

Contributions have yet to show that While Sidley won’t be old enough to Jones is hurting himself with conspiracy cast a ballot in the June primary, she has a theories about professional Stephon Clark message for those who do. protesters or public statements supporting “I just hope those that can will underthe idea of arming teachers. Even those stand the perspective of young people such who disagree with the sheriff credit him for as myself,” she said in a follow-up email. Ω

Despite an invitation to speak on senior issues in the most populated city in his congressional district, rep. tom mcClintock’s seat remained empty at an April 11 town hall hosted by the California Alliance for Retired Americans at Maidu Park in Roseville.

At the forum, candidates running to dethrone the Republican congressman told a crowd of mostly seniors what they plan to do with regard to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. McClintock represents California’s fourth congressional district, which includes parts of 10 counties, encompassing most of the foothills and Sierra Nevada in the central portion of the state.

Jessica Morse, the Democratic front-runner from Pollock Pines, vowed to protect Social Security, broaden Medicare and expand the transportation system for seniors and the disabled if elected to Congress.

“Our health care system is fundamentally broken,” Morse said at the forum. “We need to get to universal health care.”

According to the Alliance for Retired Americans, mcClintock’s record on senior issues has been abysmal. The ARA gave the Elk Grove Republican a score of 0/100 on senior issues over the last two years and a lifetime score of 3/100.

McClintock has long supported the repeal of the Affordable Care Act. Rebecca Guinn, a retiree from Placerville, is worried about what repeal would mean for seniors who desperately need affordable health care.

“He’s [McClintock] always talking about the free market and repealing the ACA,” Guinn said. “There’s no way I could afford health insurance in a free market. If he keeps talking free market and privatizes Medicare, it will literally kill a lot of seniors. If you get cancer, you’ll make a choice: Do I want to deplete everything I have, and still maybe not live, or just deal with it?” (Dylan Svoboda)

Fire Sale Roseville leaders are continuing to bank on the vague hope of a downtown university—so much so that they’re practically giving away the public property their old fire station stands on.

Last year, the Roseville City Council agreed to sell the station and adjacent land on Oak Street, totaling about three acres, for $190,000 to the University Development Foundation. The UDF is headed by the son of developer angelo tsakopoulos and promised to build a graduate campus on the parcel for the university of Warwick. That plan later unraveled, though the UDF is still getting its sweet price.

Meanwhile, city leaders plan to spend roughly $7 million to build their new fire station while continuing to voice concerns about an annual budget deficit.

Laura Matteoli, Roseville’s acting economic development director, has defended the $190,000 price tag in public meetings, saying that a Rocklin firm, telling council shortly before the sale agreement in March 2017, had appraised the building for that much and that it had been “subject to a fair market value.”

The UDF announced in December that the University of Warwick was pulling out of its Roseville plans, which had garnered media fanfare for over three years. UDF project leader Michael Faust told reporters at the time he remained optimistic about bringing a different university to the fire station site.

But George Titus, president of Roseville Firefighters Union 1592, suspects the fire station land will ultimately host residential development. “I don’t think they were ever coming,” Titus said of the University of Warwick. “I think that’s just smoke and mirrors.”

(Graham Womack)

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Gabriell Garcia has priorities for District 1, including the repurposing of Sleep Train Arena and creating a detailed evacuation plan for Natomas if the Oroville dam breaks.

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Setting the stage Blue Lamp owner Gabriell Garcia looks to bring a reality check to the District 1 council race

by Scott thomaS anderSon

When Princeton University revealed last week that the city of Sacramento averaged five evictions per day in 2016, while the county averaged 15 per day, one person who wasn’t shocked was Gabriell Garcia.

That’s because the owner of the popular Blue Lamp bar in Midtown has recently seen a third of her employees displaced by catapulting, unaffordable rents. Garcia was mentored by personalities in the Sacramento bar business who think of their staffs as extended family.

Now that she’s an owner, her own small, adopted family—and a lot of people like them—are in trouble.

That’s one of the reasons Garcia says she’s running for the city’s Natomascentered District 1 council seat against incumbent Angelique Ashby, the only woman currently on the Sacramento City Council. Garcia says she’s tired of watching council meetings where people stand at the podium talking about evictions and homelessness and a lack of services for the disabled, while some

elected officials stare down at their cellphones or send glazed looks into outer space. As a small business owner, Garcia doesn’t have that option when a person whose livelihood depends on her arrives at work experiencing distress.

“If I were on the council, and you’re at the podium speaking, you better believe I would be looking at you, and watching your body language, and listening to the words you’re saying,” Garcia observed. “I think we need more citizen representation and less political representation in order to keep our city viable for our community.”

Garcia grew up in Sacramento. She moved to Los Angeles in her early 20s, where she worked as a production manager in the entertainment industry.

After her first daughter was born, she suddenly had an urge to get back home.

Garcia says she’s never regretted the move, though it led to a new direction in her professional life.

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With few entertainment industry options, Garcia started looking for a job with flexible hours for a single mother of a 3-month-old. She settled on bartending.

She worked at some of the region’s favorite pubs and restaurants, but it was her nine-year stint at the family-owned Limelight Bar and Café that really formed Garcia’s views about how to create a positive work environment. She wanted to be at the helm of a similar modest but meaningful establishment. In 2013, she teamed up with her husband to purchase the Blue Lamp on Alhambra Boulevard. This Halloween will mark Garcia’s fifth anniversary of owning one of the city’s last accessible stages for local artists.

Garcia has become an admired figure in Sacramento’s creative community, especially for her ongoing commitment to provide a venue for young, diverse performers. But it hasn’t all been a party. She says watching her employees get priced out of their apartments is painful.

Similar to District 5 challenger Tamika L’Ecluse and District 7 challenger Tristan Brown—and in juxtaposition to the current City Council—Garcia openly favors rent control. She says the council should craft a policy that allows landlords to get fair market value on their investments while stopping the greed-based evictions that have displaced thousands of Sacramento renters.

“We have landlords who have been slumlords for years, and have run-down apartments, and the people who have dealt with that are now getting 30-day notices to get them out of the place, so the landlord can charge two or three times more,” Garcia said. “I have a motto for our family at the bar, which is, ‘We all might be eating ramen together, but no one’s eating a steak while someone else is starving.”

Garcia is also convinced that the city’s affordable housing crisis is tied to what she views as Sacramento’s homelessness crisis. She volunteers in a program that brings free diapers to mothers living on the streets, as well as another program that provides free backpacks to homeless students. But Garcia says even if she didn’t have that background, just walking the streets of Midtown provides evidence of a brewing catastrophe.

“I see it on the streets, that the homeless are getting younger and younger,” she said.

Racial equity and police reform are additional components of Garcia’s platform. She told SN&R she’s baffled that Sacramento’s progressive council endorsed Republican District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert over Democratic challenger Noah Phillips. Much like the council’s resistance to rent control and a tenants’ bill of rights, Garcia sees the Schubert endorsement as a window into the way Sacramento’s political class rallies around itself and stays ensconced in a wagon circle of big campaign contributions from developers and unions.

“I’m just going to run a grassroots campaign—our average donation is $25,” Garcia stressed. “I’m also going to put my energy into voter registration drives. Win or lose, I want to have the highest voter turnout we’ve ever had. … The eyes of the whole nation are on Sacramento right now, so it’s really important that candidates care about more than where their next contribution is coming from.” Ω

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Health Program Will Extend Care to More County Immigrants

BY R O D N E Y O R O S C O County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to expand the Healthy Partners program from 3,000 to 4,000 patients and end an age cap that prevented residents 65 and older from participating. The program now serves residents ages 19 and up.

For Anna K., being enrolled in Sacramento’s County’s Healthy Partners Program is a relief.

“I am calm now because I know where to call in case I have a question or need to get an appointment,” the Sacramento resident and Russian native said.

The decision to remove the age limit and extend program enrollment was greeted with joy by those at the Supervisor’s meeting. “When the vote to extend the program was passed, there was a round of applause at the meeting,” Correa said.

The Healthy Partners Program provides primary health care to Sacramento County’s undocumented residents, including Anna.

Before Healthy Partners, Anna’s story was similar to many people who lack health insurance — she would take all her aches and pains to the local emergency room and sit and wait ... and sit and wait. Or, she would ignore the pain.

Now covered, Anna discovered that a regular visit to the doctor can be a life-changing experience. During a recent checkup, her doctor found a condition that if left unchecked may have lead to serious health issues and a trip to the emergency room.

“The Healthy Partners program is so successful because it finally gives people a place for stable medical care,” Sacramento Covered Project Manager Jasmin Correa said. “With this program, people are not dependent on the ER for health care anymore.”

Correa, who helps Sacramento residents navigate health insurance programs like Medi-Cal and Covered California, is “happy to see our clients get service.” Sacramento Covered receives grant support from The California Endowment’s Building Healthy Communities initiative.

During its February meeting, the Sacramento

MY DOCTOR IS SO CARING. I’M REALLY HAPPY WITH THE CARE FROM HEALTHY PARTNERS. Romalda O. Healthy Partners patient

In order to receive care under the program, residents must not qualify for any other health benefit program and they must be enrolled in restricted Medi-Cal, which is for residents without legal immigration status who have incomes up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level, Correa said.

While Correa was happy to see the enrollment cap be increased to 4,000, she is certain the limit will be quickly reached. Healthy Partners is now

Sacramento Covered Health Navigator Edith Cortez helps a client sign up for health coverage. Courtesy photo.

calling back the 300 people who had been on a waitlist to enroll.

“The program has such a positive impact on the community, it will just keep growing,” Correa said.

For patient Romalda O., the impact of the program was clear. “I used to avoid going to the doctor, and now thanks to Healthy Partners I can see a doctor every six months,” she said. “My doctor is so caring. I’m really happy with the care from Healthy Partners.”

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

Health Happens in Neighborhoods. Health Happens in Schools.

Health Happens with Prevention.

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BUILDING HEALTHY COMMUNITIES In 2010, The California Endowment launched a 10-year, $1 billion plan to improve the health of 14 challenged communities across the state.

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

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to clear up confusion about her office’s role in evaluating police shootings, but couldn’t answer basic follow-ups.

As one Twitter user wondered, “What was the point of this?” Good question. Here’s what we deciphered through the spin.

Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert gets ready to address reporters during a rare press conference.

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Questioning the prosecution DA Anne Marie Schubert invites press to discuss use of force, then declines to discuss use of force

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As we were ushered into a gray conference room on the fourth floor of the downtown building, each reporter was handed a glossy folder with a threeyear-old press release inside. Which pretty much sums up what Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert divulged about her office’s handling of use of force cases during a press conference last week.

Schubert called the April 18 presser exactly one month after two police officers chased a suspected windowbreaker into a residential backyard and shot the man dead. The officers, who have returned to modified duty, thought the person they were chasing had a gun.

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But Stephon Clark, a 22-year-old black father of two boys, just held a cellphone.

And most of the eight bullets that struck Clark entered through his back, a family autopsy found.

Feeling the pressure from weekly protests outside her building and facing an increasingly uncertain reelection bid, Schubert summoned the media in an effort to appear compassionate about the loss of another black life and shift focus onto intractable social ills that can’t be put on her. She called Clark’s death “a tragedy” and paid lip service to the “opportunity gap” in communities of color, but didn’t say much more about either. Likewise, she said she wanted

Schubert wouldn’t discuss Stephon Clark. Schubert expressed her sympathy for the Clark family, but wouldn’t comment on the case itself. That’s not unusual. The DA’s office rarely comments on pending cases, and Schubert said her office hadn’t yet received the case from the Sacramento Police Department, which is investigating the shooting involving its officers.

Does this mean Schubert will be more forthcoming after the Clark case is over?

Her record suggests otherwise.

Schubert wouldn’t discuss the past.

OK, so Schubert wouldn’t comment on the Clark case, but did she explain her office’s handling of past use of force cases? Nope.

When Capital Public Radio reporter Bob Moffitt asked Schubert about the decision not to charge the two officers who killed Joseph Mann in 2016, Schubert said she wouldn’t discuss it because her office’s review was online. When I asked her why no 2017 reviews were available online, she said she didn’t know. When I asked her whether her office has ever concluded that officers broke the law in using force but didn’t charge them anyway, she said she didn’t have the files in front of her and couldn’t answer. Wow. Schubert says the protests aren’t peaceful. Schubert declined a reporter’s offer to call the demonstrations outside her office unfair or misguided, but did have critical words for the enduring protests that brought barbecues, clashes with bicycle cops and thousands of pages of signed petitions to her doorstep. “If you were to see … what’s happening behind our building, when people try to leave to go home … and their cars are being surrounded and they’re being screamed at and cussed at and blocked, having their license plates be filmed, or when a victim or a witness is afraid to come into this building because they’re screaming, I think that’s not peaceful,” she said. Two days later, a fence had been erected around her office.

The DA’s office doesn’t actually investigate police use of force. The idea

that it does is a common misconception, and one that both law enforcement agencies and the DA’s office often let slide. Why? Because it makes the system sound more independent than it actually is. Here’s what really happens: Most of the time, the law enforcement agency employing the officer who used force is the one to investigate whether said force was justified. That’s because most cops are working their beats when confrontations happen. Once investigators wrap up their investigation, they send it to the DA for review. So basically the DA is just checking other people’s homework.

Schubert said her investigators have the authority to seek additional information and conduct their own interviews, but couldn’t cite an example where that’s actually happened. She said her staff could research the question and get back to me, which sort of happened.

On Tuesday, Schubert’s spokeswoman emailed me to say they weren’t going to provide specifics.

Does it have to be this way? No. Case in point: California Attorney General Xavier Becerra is reserving the right to review Schubert’s review of the Clark shooting. Schubert mentioned other proposals, including Assemblyman Kevin McCarty’s failed bill to create an independent state agency under the California attorney general’s purview, or a regional law enforcement team to investigate police violence. But she stopped short of supporting any alternative to the way things are now.

The same-old, same-old has created a system where Sacramento’s DA hasn’t prosecuted a law enforcement killing of a civilian in at least 30 years.

Longer, in fact, but Schubert’s office wouldn’t provide information about what happened before she was elected.

Fine then. Since taking office in 2015, Schubert’s office has cleared more than two dozen officer-involved shootings and deaths in custody. But hey, it could be worse, Schubert suggested.

“There is no legal obligation for any district attorney across the state, no legal obligation for us to conduct these [use of force] reviews,” Schubert said. “If the district attorney does not do these reviews, no one does. That’s the system that we have now.”

And Schubert is the DA Sacramento has. For now. Ω

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t’s September 14, 2016.

Local comedian Keith Lowell Jensen is perched on the modest Luna’s Café stage. Several comedians are lingering around the venue, including Johnny Taylor Jr., Cory Barringer, Jaclyn Weiand and Becky Lynn, who opened the show. The sold-out crowd waits in anticipation for Jensen’s first-ever performance of Not For Rehire, a collection of stories about his long string of shitty, menial jobs.

Jensen opens the set by asking audience members to raise their hands in the air and wave their fingers to “start the magic.” It feels like we’re in kindergarten, but it’s effective in loosening up the crowd.

Although he’s a seasoned storyteller-comic, this is a new realm for Jensen: a full hour of themed stories with a narrative arc and some serious and emotional moments that don’t stray from the most important component: comedy.

It’s an advanced level of performance for a comedian of any stature. And the stories are killing.

He does some KFC material where he recounts his antics with a co-worker and unlikely ally named Tony—a metalhead—as they take turns breading and deep-frying their fingers. One day Jensen ups the ante by sticking his entire breaded hand in the deep-fryer, using it to scare kids and earning Tony’s undying respect.

It’s rough, but it’s clearly an amazing hour of stand-up.

And I’m amazed at the speed at which it came together.

Not seven months earlier, I was at the taping of Jensen’s previous special, Bad Comedy for Bad People, itself a solid hour of thoughtful, mostly storytelling comedy.

Jensen works at a fast pace and has plans to continue to release an album a year. He’s hoping to build a fan base much the way indie rock bands do, rather than take the standard approach in comedy of moving to Los Angeles and getting some TV credits under his belt.

In 2016, Jensen says, his label, Stand Up! Records, stalled the release of Bad Comedy For Bad People. That in effect delayed the taping of Not For Rehire, and put his plans on hold.

Amid the frustration, two unexpected things happened: Comedy label 800 Pound Gorilla made a deal with him for a “greatest hits” record, and, even more surprising, he stumbled into a book deal. And now, here we are in the spring of 2018, and it’s all coming out. Bad Comedy For Bad People was released on March 30, Greatest Bits gets released in May (clips have been playing on SiriusXM’s Laugh USA for a few months—he was, “Featured Comic” in February), and his book Punching Nazis: And Other Good Ideas gets released on May 1.

As for Not For Rehire, Jensen will be performing that at Upstairs at The B on May 12, and it’ll probably be the next special to get taped. This sudden mad release schedule is preferable to Jensen.

“I want to constantly be putting things out,” he says.

“The Beatles made an average of two albums a year.

Woody Allen made a movie every year. I can do this.

I’m not as polished as some of the comedians that I like.

It’s like comparing punk rock to something that’s really polished and well-rehearsed. I like both, but I know what I am, and my stuff’s a little more rough. And I put out a lot of it. I’m Thee Headcoats of comedy (referring to the great British garage-punk band).”

This onslaught of material finds Jensen at an important moment in his career. At 46, he’s been doing comedy for more than 15 years, and has been the local “it” comic for

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much of that time, with obvious potential to go big. He’s already developed a cult audience in various U.S. cities, traveled to China to do comedy and had various other accomplishments. (He cites being on George Lopez’s late night show Lopez Tonight, impersonating Chris Rock for Chris Rock, as a personal favorite.)

He’s also encouraged several local comics who have gone on to big things, including Kiry Shabazz (who made a recent appearance on The Tonight Show), JR de Guzman, and the aforementioned Johnny Taylor Jr., who currently lives in LA and is working on a TV show called Sick Joke with visual artist Anousha Hutton.

“Keith was really the first person in the scene that gave me a shot,” says Taylor, who started doing comedy in Sacramento about seven years ago. “Keith is such a gifted storyteller. His latest special with Stand Up! Records is his best hour to date in my opinion. With the book and the greatest hits album, it could create Keith-mania! I’m excited for him to be recognized for what an amazing comic he is.”

NAZI STOPPER It’s the summer of 2017, and Jensen can’t believe he’s holding a signed contract and an advance from Skyhorse Publishing— that he’s being paid to write an actual book that people will be able to buy. It also terrifies him, and he spits out the first draft in three months in a state of panic.

“I can’t stop writing because I have to prove to myself that I can do it,” Jensen recalls. “I need that advance. I’m broke.

I’m like, ‘Holy shit they’re going to ask for this back.’”

After submitting the draft and waiting a few days for the editor to get back to him to tell him what she thought of it—she loved it—he nearly fell apart with relief and immense emotion.

“When I hung up, I went and bought a burrito and sat down and cried,” Jensen says.

Before Punching Nazis, Jensen had written a few books of first-person stories, but they were limited to small self-publishing runs and a couple of rejection letters. He first had dreams of being a writer in the fourth grade. Many years later, he wrote a book-version of Not For Rehire, which is much different than his stage performance, before he taped his first special To The Moon in 2009.

Writing has always been important to Jensen. In his younger years, he wrote for punk zine Flipside in high school and contributed to SN&R from 2001-2007;

when he interviewed other artists in these pages, he tended to insert himself in the stories quite a bit. He tells me a story with glee about interviewing a band and opening the resulting article by describing the stench of the cat litter box in the basement of the house where they rehearsed, a detail that annoyed the band.

Punching Nazis is a different kind of a book, and he’s a little uncomfortable with it. About half of it is first-person stories, mostly about his experiences in the late ’80s and early ’90s Sacramento punk and underground art scene, where he dealt first-hand with white supremacists.

That part, he’s happy with. The other half contains interviews and persuasive essays.

“I didn’t want to write this book at all,” Jensen says, immediately acknowledging that, “that’s probably a horrible thing to say to promote it.”

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“I’m a high school dropout and a heterosexual white cisgender male trying to write about social justice,” he says.

“I’m not sure that I’m qualified to do that. I’m just waiting for some really cool social justice hero of mine to fucking slam it and tell me what a moron I am.”

The book deal started out, oddly enough, with a fight on Facebook, something Jensen gets flack for, but feels vindicated about. It began following Trump’s inauguration, when out-and-proud white supremacist Richard Spencer got punched in the face while he was giving an on-camera interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The video clip of this punch went viral, sparking heated debates among liberals as to whether it is OK to punch white supremacists like Spencer, who is credited with coining the term “alt-right.” Jensen argued vehemently in favor of Nazi-punching.

“I’ve lost several friends over it,” he says. “I’m sorry, but they’re all white guys.

Anyone who’s actually faced any kind of racist or bigoted violence is sort of OK with not letting these alt-right guys play the game

of being civilized while they build strength.

I’m not telling anybody they should personally punch a Nazi, but they should shut the fuck up criticizing Antifa and other people that are punching Nazis.”

One of his friends, Carrie Poppy, host of skeptic-themed investigative podcast Oh No Ross and Carrie and the Disneyland-oddity podcast Hidden Mickeys, made a comment to Jensen about how he and everyone talking about punching Nazis had never met a Nazi. Jensen replied that—not-so-fast, he’d met quite a few. He’d even seen a guy a few days earlier at a science fiction convention with an exposed Nazi tattoo. No one seemed to notice or care. This guy took pictures with Captain America, who, as Jensen says with much disappointment, was not punching him. (“Not seeing white racism is a feature of white privilege.”)

Poppy was intrigued.

“I felt like most people talking about it, myself included, were kind of talking out of our asses,” she says. “We didn’t know what we’d do if we were confronted with that situation. Here was this person that said, ‘I’ve been there.’”

At the time, she was being offered a book deal by Skyhorse, but was too busy with other projects, so she suggested her friend Jensen, who, she said, was working on a book about punching Nazis. The publishers were interested, but Jensen wasn’t sure he was. In fact, he wasn’t actually working on a book about punching Nazis; he was just ranting about it on Facebook. The publishers were interested.

But Jensen wasn’t sure he was.

“At first he was like, ‘I really want to write this book about Christmas.’ I was like, ‘Keith, don’t write a book about Christmas, whatever you do,’” Poppy says. “It just seemed like he had this really specific, unique thing he could do.”

Jensen decided to give it a shot and wrote a proposal.

His book is a unique portal into America’s white supremacy problem, specifically the country’s short-term memory, and it’s done with a lot of humor. When Spencer first broke into the mainstream consciousness sieg heiling to a group of alt-righters and praising Donald Trump, many well-intended liberals were shocked. Even moreso later, when Jason Kessler rallied hundreds of white supremacists from around the country to Charlottesville, who showed up, unashamed, with nothing covering their faces and ready to march in the Unite the Right rally.

This is a problem that has existed long before Trump took office and Spencer showed up in the mainstream media. The punk scene, oddly, has been a place where

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Nazis regularly reared their ugly skinheads, and Darin Wood as Trash Film Orgy in 2001. despite getting overt push-back from people in Jensen hosted the events, which included sketch that scene. It served as a not-so-gentle reminder comedy, scantily clad women, crazy antics and, of how alive and thriving these toxic ideas actuof course, B-movies galore. ally are and have always been in the history of “We were driving motorcycles through this country. the theater,” Jensen recalls of the festival’s “That’s where fairly-privileged white dudes early days. “We had Mexican wrestling. We knew something that other people have been had guns go off—they were blanks, but we privileged not to,” Jensen says. still got the SWAT team called on us one One interview in the book reveals a story in night. After the move to the Crest, the rules early ’90s when several East Bay punk bands, were a little stricter. including Green Day, played a Sacramento He left Trash Film Orgy in 2003; Savage and show that was overrun by skinheads. It turned Wood continued on without him, and Jensen into a big fight, and the members of Green would make occasional guest appearances.

Day were chased around the streets. Soon Before leaving, he and some of the Trash Film after, their Slappy 7-inch EP came out, Orgy cast pursued an idea of his and started with a booklet that included the the sketch group I Can’t Believe phrase “Green Day won’t It’s Not Comedy. Somewhere play Sacto.” The band in that time, he also started refused to play here doing stand-up. until their Dookie His first-ever record came out paying gig, after only years later. doing four or five Many of open-mics, was at Jensen’s stories Laughs Unlimited. cover a different, He told a single but all too familiar 10-minute story, topic of American but it didn’t go racism: learning that well. (“I bombed seemingly nice white my dick off.”) So people might in fact he shied away from be white supremacists. storytelling comedy for Keith Lowell Jensen Jensen writes about meeta while, leaning toward ing an older man in a hotel absurd characters instead, lobby. They laughed and talked including Francois Fly, a house about movies and hit it off. As Jensen fly who told fly-related jokes. was leaving, the old man shocked him by saying He jumped head-first into stand-up after a something incredibly racist, oh so casually. weekend of shows at the Geary, opening up for Jensen writes: “This is where I discovered cult absurdist comic Brent Weinbach in 2003. It how invisible racism and racists can be to white was there that Jensen first started talking on stage people. They’re not always sporting white-power about atheism, giving what he felt was an honest tattoos. Sometimes they don’t even have goatees, expression of his viewpoint and sharing true or hipster Hitler haircuts. Sometimes they’re the snippets about himself. sweet old dude who discusses movies with you.”

“That was the night stand-up beat out sketch,” Jensen says. “I did material that was super near and dear to my heart, which is something OUT IN THE WORLD, AND BACK I always found easier to do in sketch than in stand-up. I really love stand-up, but I love a lot of TO sAC things. It was the one giving me the immediate Not For Rehire concludes with the first job reward.”

Jensen ever loved: Working for Spike and Mike’s The deeper he got into comedy, the more he Festival of Animation (and Spike and Mike’s worked to make Sacramento a comedy town.

Twisted Festival of Animation). Not For Rehire Weinbach credits Jensen with building the ends up being a bit of an homage to Spike and [scene] here.

Mike co-founder Mike Gribble, who was the first “If I wanted to do a show in Sacramento, he person to put Jensen in front of a crowd with a was the guy I would turn to,” Weinbach says, microphone—to introduce the show, and tell “because I knew he was really trying to cultivate jokes. a cool comedy scene there. I knew if he was He traveled with Spike and Mike in 1994 involved with putting on a show in Sacramento, and on and off again for the next decade. It was it was going to be a good show. He was defithrough this experience that he was inspired to nitely a man of the town.” make creative, amazing things happen when he Jensen and Weinbach stayed friends. returned to Sacramento.

Weinbach gave Jensen a shoutout last year He started the Tuesday Night Grindhouse during a game on the TV show @midnight with cult movie series at the Colonial Theatre in Chris Hardwick. A while back, Weinbach even 1999, which was moved to the Crest Theatre, tried building a bit around an announcer introre-branded and co-created with Christy Savage ducing “Keith Lowell Jensen” several times in

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variously increasing bizarre and exaggerated ways. (“His name has a ring to it.”)

On his first special, To The Moon, Jensen retold the 10-minute joke that he bombed on years earlier, and nailed it—the story was also called “To The Moon.” His second record, Cats Made of Rabbits, nearly got picked up by Comedy Central Records, but they took too long making up their mind, so he decided to release it himself in 2011.

“I’ve got a Jonas Brothers reference in here, Jensen explains. “I kind of have to put it out. It’s expiring.”

Bad Comedy for Bad People, his fifth record, is another step toward storytelling.

“I always loved the old man with stories to tell,” Jensen explains. “I think it’s a good idea for a comedian in his 40s to do a longer produced piece that has a common theme and a plot arc to the whole thing,” Jensen says. “Even in my 20s, I didn’t know if I’d ever have kids, but I wanted to be the uncle with good stories. I guess that’s sort of the uncle I am on stage now.”

The second half of the Not For Rehire show at Luna’s is rockier than the first, but it’s riveting, even with its flaws. I watch as Jensen struggles through delivering emotional material about his time with Spike and Mike’s Mike Gribble. Jensen cries at one point, recounting Gribble’s death, but it’s the pep talk that Gribble gives him a little before that scene that is its most potent.

He confronts Jensen about the way he’s half-assing everything in his life. He has him look around at the magic that he is creating— they are traveling around the world showing weird cartoons to eager fans—and invites him to either join his magic full-on or go create his own—but whatever he chose to do, to give it his all, and embrace life 100 percent. This had a profound effect, Jensen says, and fueled his work ethic, focus and drive in all aspects of his life.

There’s a part of Jensen that feels disappointed at the level his comedy career is at

all these years later, but he’s also proud at what he’s created while determinedly not leaving Sacramento for LA, and not living 365 days a year on the road, either, so he could be home with his family. As driven as he is, he never wanted comedy to dominate every aspect of his life, and he’s stubbornly stuck to that creed.

“I could space them out,” he jokes of everything happening right now. “No. Fuck that. Let’s just throw them all out there. I want to put as much out there as I can before Trump blows the world up or I die. Both of which are coming.”

What he’s really excited about is more than everything coming out right now, it’s that everything appears lined up for him to have the support so that he can finally be releasing new material on a consistent, annual basis.

He tells me that he has his next four projects already mapped out, and like Not For Rehire, they are all themed-storytelling concepts. As he tells me about each one in detail, he realizes that, in fact, he has his next five ideas already worked out. But first, he needs to tape Not For Rehire. Ω

Keith Lowell Jensen performs Not For Rehire Saturday, May 12, at 8 p.m. Upstairs at the B Street Theatre, 2700 Capitol Avenue. $ 12. For more information, go to www.keithlowelljensen.blogspot.com

A sketch of Keith Lowell Jensen, from Jensen’s CD/DVD Bad Comedy for Bad People.

IllustratIon courtesy of Jeffrey Brown.

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rguably, Sacramento has an inferiority complex when it comes to music festivals. “Where’s our Outside Lands?” the fans cry. “Even Napa has Bottlerock.”

So far, the area has hosted large-scale metal festivals (Aftershock), local-artist-focused affairs (First Festival, this year May 5-6) and midsized series that string out their headliners over the course of the summer (Concerts in the Park). From 2009 to 2015, TBD Fest featured household names like Chance the Rapper and Tears For Fears until it fizzled out under a lawsuit from nonpayment of vendors.

Now in its first year, Sol Blume (Cesar Chavez Plaza on April 28) enters the fray to fill an unmet desire: the boutique, curated R&B-focused festival. And the founders, Fornati Kumeh and Justin Nordan, say there’s no shame in Sacramento not having the equivalent of a Coachella. Most of those large festivals are getting bought up by Anschutz Entertainment Group and Live Nation anyway, erasing any independent touch they had to begin with.

“There’s something missing, which is a music festival that doesn’t have to be TBD, doesn’t have to be Coachella or Outside Lands,” Nordan

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Noodles, Rexx Life Raj. says. “It can be OK being a boutique, intimate That’s it, the entire lineup. vibe that allows people to feel like they’re gatherUnlike many festivals— ing with friends and watching a show in their which might mindlessly backyard and their favorite artists.” grope for the largest names So far, fans have responded. As of in a corporate, ticket-selling press time, Sol Blume had sold out of way—this curated list of only VIP ($168), Phase 1 ($70) and Phase 12 artists has the vibe of an 2 ($80) tickets, with only Phase actual human’s most played 3 ($85) left. Though they didn’t list on Spotify. In a way, it is. disclose exact numbers, the founders “This is what I actually hope to max out at Cesar Chavez listen to,” Kumeh says. “I’m a Plaza’s capacity—6,000 people. fan of every artist; it’s an amazThe ticket buyers are drawn to a ing feeling to brainstorm with them lineup with prominent R&B artists who and see how they react.” skew earthy, chill, electronic, alternaGoldlink The festival’s name hints at the tive: Jhené Aiko, Sabrina Claudio, The Photo courtesy of lloyd Pursall aura Kumeh and Nordan are hoping Internet, NAO, GoldLink, Smino, Xavier to construct: “Sol” stands for the sun as Omär, Kalin White, Berhana, Arin Ray,

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well as soul music, and “Blume” is the season as well as the volume.

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Mexican restaurant La Cosecha’s outdoor bar will transform into a VIP lounge, Nordan says, while the UK company Gypsy Shrine will bedazzle attendees with gemstone body art inside a Zen Den with plush chairs in earshot of the tunes. Expect to see plenty of natural decorations, too, like wood, trees and flowers.

With its easygoing attitude and female headliners, Sol Blume has attracted a majority of women: roughly 70 percent of the ticket buyers as of late March, according to Nordan. And most of the fans—more than 60 percent— are coming from the Bay Area, with a solid representation of out-of-towners overall. Sales had come from five different countries and 31 states.

It makes sense that the founders could attract such widespread attention: On top of Sol Blume, Nordan works fulltime on strategy for Eventbrite’s music clients, while Kumeh founded and runs ENT Legends Concerts.

“The key for me is, bring people into downtown and show them what we’re all about,” Nordan says. “People have their own idea about what Sacramento is. For me, it’s like, that’s my goal: I want to bring people down here with a cool event that makes a statement.”

Gabriell Garcia, owner of the Blue Lamp, says she’s excited to have an R&B-led festival.

Sacramento is a conservative town, she says, and she’s felt resistance to her hip-hop and R&B shows in the form of an increased police presence at her venue.

“I think it’s great to get music of all genres into the city—they want to be a world class city, and we have to go with the times and leave our conservative ways behind and grow,” she says. “I think it’s important to embrace and work with our musicians of

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color and give praise to everything that people of color have offered to the music we enjoy, whether it’s punk or rock or hip-hop, it comes back to roots. R&B are some good roots for Sacramento to be exposed to.”

Not only that, but Garcia says she and her fellow music fans have been traveling to the Bay Area for shows their whole lives—and with Sol Blume, that script has flipped.

Garcia says she’s noticed a shift recently as touring musicians have begun to skip over San Francisco because of its difficult parking and car break-ins that disappear valuable music gear. The musicians who play at Blue Lamp sometimes go from Santa Cruz to Sac to Oregon, she says.

After some thin years, Sacramento’s music scene is maturing, Nordan agrees. He’s noticed solid original artists across genres, citing Death Grips, Chelsea Wolfe and Hobo Johnson.

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Nordan and Kumeh hope to capitalize on the upward flow with Sol Blume, drawing Bay Area and out-of-town dollars into restaurants, hotels and entertainment downtown. But beyond that, they say they’re just pumped to share their personal mixtape with thousands of listeners. They’ve been working up to seven hours a day on top of their full-time jobs to pull it off.

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“I feel like a music festival is the ultimate playlist,” Nordan says. “The best feeling for me is that feeling of ‘Fuck yeah, we just did that,’ is always standing side stage at the headliner and looking out. It’s like a wedding: Some things won’t go like we thought they would—as long as we can look over the crowd and see all those people loving life, that’s why it’s worth it.” Ω

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“Sacramento is an interesting place because it ebbs and flows, and you never know where it’s going to be, it’s like gambling or doing drugs—you never know what’s going to happen,” he says. “There’s been a lot of great forward movement: Golden 1 opening, downtown and Midtown core is really starting to establish itself locally and nationally, Live Nation is now programming Ace of Spades, which has been wildly successful, Holy Diver opened up to take the place of the Boardwalk, Harlow’s programming has improved in the past few years, focusing on the really good indie acts.

There’s a lot of forward progress and good momentum.”

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Sometimes the restaurants you plan to review just don’t work out. While I watch the globe-trotting Instagram of the Pulitzer-Prize-winning writer Jonathan Gold with envy, and wonder what it would be like to do this full time (and also be a freaking genius), for many of us, writing is a side gig and creative outlet. Which is all to say I have to find time to investigate and write about new restaurants in addition to my full-time job.

Luckily, I have an eternal hankering for Laotian food, and a flash of insight led me to discover that despite being in existence for six years, Laos Kitchen had never been reviewed in these hallowed pages. Two feasts later, this review is practically writing itself and I have reminded myself of a favorite spot I need to visit much more often.

What you won’t get at Laos Kitchen is ambiance, unless duct-taped booths and episodes of Law & Order are the new Edison bulbs and succulents. You will get attentive service with a smile, which included the server’s cute A.F. toddler bringing me my water and menu on one visit.

You’ll also get addictive Lao-style papaya salad ($8.95), with lots of chili, sweet tamarind and MSG (the menu warns that dishes may contain this unfairly-maligned flavor enhancer). It’s sweet-sour-salty-hot and #uglydelicious, and you’ll want to soak up every bit of fishy brown juice with either the rice noodles served with or, even better, an order of glutinous sticky rice ($2).

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In this rock-themed seafood joint, guitars, skateboards and cassettes decorate the walls, with a Kings mural localizing the newest branch of the small chain. Rockin’ Crawfish joins 10 locations (from Oakland to Florida to Vietnam), delivering a simple menu packed with delicious seafood. My order of mussels ($9.99) came in a plastic bag, soaking in mild Rockin’ Combo sauce, along with my side of corn ($0.85). I was surprised when I dumped the dish onto my tray to find the corn, but it was tender and flavorful. Regretful I didn’t order two sides of corn, the large, pink mussels lifted my spirits with remarkable freshness. 6666 Stockton Boulevard, www.therockincrawfish.com.

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The kasoy, a Thai/Lao soup more commonly spelled khao soi ($10.75 for a large) is also a must-order. The deeply savory beef broth has its umami upped with fermented soy bean, and the unique, ultra-soft wide-andthin rice noodles soak up the broth and yield delicious bites interspersed with ground pork, strong, earthy cilantro and plump shrimp.

The pork-stuffed chicken wings ($8.95) can’t quite rival those of Vientiane Restaurant in West Sac, but the hit of lemongrass in each bite brought them to a close second.

The beef jerky ($8.95), also infused with lemongrass, is an unusual addition to the entrée menu. The Slim-Jim shaped juicy, chewy meat batons are flash-fried in the Lao style before serving. More meat mastery is on display with the Lao sausage ($7.95), perfectly browned and caramelized on the outside, bursting with pork flavor within. Pick up a massive, cheap package of frozen Lao or Hmong (labeled “XP” for “extra pepper”) sausage at the Samthong Meat Market next door, and you’ll be the queen at your next potluck barbecue.

Cornerstone Lao dish beef laap ($12.95) comes standard with tripe—which is mild and adds no barnyard flavor for those who are wary; toasted rice flour and cilantro dominate this dish. The flour cubes in tamarind broth called “klung fin” (which has tens of alternate spellings online) was completely new to me but a much remarked-upon favorite to Lao Yelpers. The jellied texture was fun, but it seems like a dish you’d have to be raised on to crave.

Whether Laotian dishes are new to you or as familiar as grandma’s cooking, order the papaya salad, kasoy and sausages at Laotian Kitchen and you’ll crave a return visit. Ω

The weather is already warming up, leaving locals wandering around Midtown in tank tops, searching for in tank tops, searching something refreshing to drink. If drink. If you’re near the Ice Blocks durduring a particularly hot day, drop into Pressed Juicery.

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Vegan food is not a trend Anthony Scuderi is antsy for tomatoes. The Hook & Ladder Manufacturing Co. chef is eager to use the warm-season fruit in his kitchen—especially for the restaurant’s vegan menu, which currently includes a chickpea fritter (his favorite) and an exquisitely garlicky spaghetti squash dusted with smoked paprika, almonds and asparagus. The vegan menu is placed on every table with the regular menu, and Scuderi estimates 15-20 percent of his diners order from it. The chef also offers Impossible Burgers—he said they’re “the closest thing to meat,” and sells about 40 a week—garnished with sautéed mushrooms and Miyoko’s Kitchen “cheese,” soon to be replaced by Davis-based cashew cheesemakers Jule’s Foods. Scuderi is genuinely excited about more plant-based food options, and as such, just added vegan poutine and mac and cheese dishes, using a cheese sauce from Jule’s. Try the whole vegan menu at 1630 S Street.

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Upper crust: At the soft opening of Real Pie Co. (2425 24th Street) on April 8, a line of hungry customers snaked around the block to Broadway, and owner and baker Kira O’Donnell was overcome with emotion. She had been planning on reopening her business ever since she closed the first Alkali Flat location a decade ago.

“I didn’t sleep the night before, and I was nervous and exhausted,” she said. “It feels like it’s never going to happen and suddenly, one day, it’s happening. The day of the soft opening, all these people floated in and I was crying.”

Through the years, her baking prowess and thoughtfully made pies helped her maintain a strong customer base even without a storefront. The latest seasonal menu includes jumbleberry pie ($5.25/slice) with blackberries, cherries, wild blueberries and raspberries; and Lindsey’s Almond, Ginger and Date Tart—named after Lindsey Shere, pastry chef at Berkeley’s storied Chez Panisse.

Clearly, O’Donnell is dedicated to her craft. She humbly calls herself

a self-taught baker, but she worked with the well-renowned pastry chef David Lebovitz at the very same Chez Panisse. She knew she wanted to strike out on her own, but after her pie shop had been open just a year, she scrapped it to spend more time with her young children.

In the intervening years, O’Donnell has continued to bake one-off pies for her customers in borrowed kitchens, with ovens provided to her courtesy of Corti Bros. and Paragary’s. “There’s a pretty warm camaraderie in the food scene in Sacramento,” she said. “People look out for each other.”

Once O’Donnell’s children were grown, she was itching to get back to baking, but it took two years of planning for the Curtis Park storefront to open. “I started feeling very depressed because it seemed like it was never going to open,” she said.

So she called up Chez Panisse, and the kitchen allowed her return for a stint. The restaurant reinforced its lessons: “If you’re working with beautiful ingredients, you just let them

talk. Let them do their thing—you don’t have to make things fancy,” O’Donnell said.

Now, once again, O’Donnell feels connected to her roots and her customers through pie. Her crust recipe reminds her of her grandmother, a farmer in Humboldt who instilled in O’Donnell a reverence for produce and for pie. The dessert tends to draw out nostalgia in her customers, too, she’s noticed.

“Pie evokes a lot of memories and a lot of feelings for people, and that’s always been the one thing I love to make and give to people,” O’Donnell said.

New noodle: Hailing from San Francisco, Super Pan (900 15th Street) has added a ramen option close to the Capitol. The menu includes such comforts as cheesy curry rice with tonkatsu ($10.99), beef brisket and dumplings ramen ($9.99), and Korean fried chicken wings ($7.99). Ω

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The central character of The Man of La Mancha is a man of mystery—to his cellmates accused of treason under the Spanish Inquisition, as well as the musical’s audience. Gradually, he reveals himself to be of two selves when he puts on a play for his fellow prisoners: He is both Miguel de Cervantes, accused traitor and author of Don Quixote, and his main character—the mad knight and visionary.

This 1964 musical adapted from Cervantes’ 17th century novel, and a subsequent 1959 teleplay, I, Don Quixote, presents Cervantes as a failed writer who, while awaiting trial, barters for his stolen possessions by acting out the fantasy adventures of Don Quixote.

Though the plot is a bit convoluted and hard to follow in the beginning, with the help of Sacramento Theatre Company’s cast, impressive sets and staging, and a live orchestra, eventually you get pulled into the bowels of a prison in Seville, as well as into the life of Cervantes and the exploits of his imaginary hero.

The songs: “Man of La Mancha” and “The Impossible Dream” are plusses.

Chris Vettel is captivating as Cervantes/Don Quixote, with a very theatrical performance and impressive vocal chops, backed by equally talented castmates: Nicole Sterling, as the hardened barmaid and love interest to both Cervantes and Don Quixote, Jake Mahler, as trusted wingman Sancho, Matt K. Miller as the Duke, and Michael RJ Campbell as the Governor. Creative staging includes simple wooden props that transform into a cantina, a confessional, and a windmill, as well as see-through iron horseheads, flowing costumes and energetic fight scenes. Ω

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4 Moving thoughts Living Under the Influence choreographer Pamela Trokanski set herself one tough task in creating the program for her Dance Theatre troupe’s spring concert: To illustrate through dance the ways external influences—obvious or unacknowledged— shape one’s actions and individuality.

Trokanski asks: “Who are we as individuals, when we aren’t being influenced by everything from lack of sleep to hormones to performance enhancers to television and social media? Also importantly, what influences us, not only as individuals but as a nation?”

Dances are accompanied by Trokanski’s narrative or by individual dancers’ “stories,” while some are set to particular musical numbers such as “Scars to Your Beautiful” by Alessia Cara. It is the choreographer’s regular practice to place her works against a combination of (often witty, provocative) spoken word and music.

Two segments stand out. In one, the troupe’s youngest and oldest dancers—9-year-old Asher Habicht, and 87-year-old Allegra Silberstein— dance a duet that mirrors their similarities of movement while making their physical differences obvious. In the other, the power of unknown influences is illustrated: Six dancers are paired into three couples, one dancer behind the other, directing the actions of the front dancerthrough gestures and hand signals, very much imitating a puppet-master.

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Living under the Influence: 7:30pm fri, 7:30pm sat. through 4/28. $12-$18. Pamela trokanski Dance Workshop, 2720 Del rio Place in Davis. (530) 756-3949, www.trokanski.org.

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Mothers and Sons

This 90-minute play by award-winning playwright Terrence McNally traverses many decades as well as many issues, pains, battles and triumphs of the gay community. It’s a story of a mother’s long-stemming resentment of her deceased son’s gay relationship and ultimate death from AIDS decades ago, played out by her unexpected and uninvited visit to her late son’s widower.

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more than Haigh’s previous two efforts. For all the emotionally muffled repression of the characters in Weekend and 45 Years, those films felt tightly Eighteen-year-old actor Charlie Plummer has credits wound, while the first half of Lean on Pete is the dating back to 2010, including a semi-recurring role on kind of wandering, navel-gazing, dime-a-dozen indie Boardwalk Empire. However, Plummer only stepped movie that critics charitably describe as “austere” or to the front of the stage in 2017 with a pair of profile“stark” or “exquisitely observed.” raising movie roles. First came a small but crucial part Charley is a miserable 15-year-old boy who was in Oren Moverman’s deservedly underseen indie The long ago abandoned by his mother and sentenced to Dinner, and then he played the kidnapped heir John a lonely life with his impoverished and promiscuous Paul Getty III in Ridley Scott’s surprisingly solid All the father. While out running one summer day, Charley Money in the World. meets a crusty, bottom-feeding horse trainer Now comes his brightest spotlight, named Del (Steve Buscemi), and accepts a the lead role in Andrew Haigh’s low-paying job tending horses, includhorse drama Lean on Pete. Wiry The first ing a rapidly deteriorating quarter and gaunt with pleading eyes, horse called Lean on Pete. half is the kind Plummer perfectly embodies Despite the advice of Del of wandering, navelCharley Thompson, the and a veteran jockey played film’s brutally neglected

by Chloë Sevigny, the boy gazing, dime-a-dozen protagonist. Plummer has a immediately forms a bond with indie movie that critics face that feels permanently Pete, and the attachment only torn, Carey Mulligan-like, intensifies when a jealous lover charitably describe as between breaking into tears puts Charley’s father in the “austere” or “stark” and breaking into an agonized hospital. smile. I don’t see a lot of or “exquisitely After the long, slow burn of carefree romantic comedies in the first half, Lean on Pete takes observed.” this kid’s future—he’s more like a a Walkabout-like veer into the desert less mannered Caleb Landry Jones, or void, and like an old horse getting a a more mannered Tye Sheridan. sudden shock, the film finally comes charging Following an extended stint as a film editor to life. Abandoned and abused by everyone who (he cut four Ridley Scott films, in fact), writer-director should be caring for them, Charley leads Pete Haigh broke through himself in 2011 with Weekend, an through an American heartland seemingly devoid of intimate and unforced romance about two gay men falltenderness. That the film earns the emotional catharing in love the day after their one-night stand. Following sis at the end of this miserable journey is a credit to his work on the well-received HBO drama and movie the craft of Haigh and the raw power of Plummer. Ω Looking, Haigh delivered another quietly devastating sucker-punch with 2015’s 45 Years, coaxing careerdefining performances out of Charlotte Gainsbourg and Tom Courtenay in the process.

Adapted from a novel by Willy Vlautin, Lean on Pete lacks the subtle ticking clock structure of Weekend Poor Fair Good Very excellent Good and 45 Years, so it’s not a surprise that the film meanders

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Another week, another serviceable story of Middle East intrigue co-starring an impassive Rosamund Pike. Unlike last month’s fact-based 7 Days in Entebbe, Brad Anderson’s Beirut offers a more Bourne-esque take on Bourne-esque themes from a script by Bourne franchise screenwriter Tony Gilroy. Jon Hamm stars as Mason Skiles (Beirut largely takes place during the Lebanese Civil War, with a story that traces over many actual events, but the name “Mason Skiles” alone is enough to establish the script as pure fiction), a professional arbitrator living the sweet life in 1970s Beirut. Mason’s world comes crumbling down when Palestinian terrorists crash his cocktail party, and his wife gets killed in the confusion. A decade later, Mason is a broken man soaking his sorrow in alcohol when he gets word that his friend has been abducted by Palestinians, and that the lead kidnapper specifically requested Mason return to Lebanon to serve as negotiator. D.B.

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Blockers

Three parents of teenage besties (Leslie Mann, John Cena and Ike Barinholtz), having gotten wind that their daughters (Kathryn Newton, Geraldine Viswanathan and Gideon Adlon, respectively) are planning to lose their virginity on prom night, launch a desperate campaign to stop them. The movie’s posters have the silhouette of a rooster, or “cock,” right above the title—“cock blockers,” get it? Hyuk, hyuk.

That’s about the level of humor struck by Brian and Jim Kehoe’s script and Kay Cannon’s direction, but things aren’t quite as crude as they might have been, for which we can all be grateful.

In fact, it’ll probably go unnoticed among all the penis and vagina jokes, but Barinholtz gives a very good performance as a rueful father whose bad choices have kept him from being the parent he wanted to be. J.L.

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Foxtrot

Originally positioned as a contender for Best Foreign Film awards, Israeli writer-director Samuel Maoz’s surprising Foxtrot was unsurprisingly phased out of the race in favor of films that are much worse (don’t get me started on In the Fade). Foxtrot stars Lior Ashkenazi and Sarah Adler as Michael and Dafna Feldman, a Tel Aviv couple who’ve hit with the news that their son Jonathan was killed while serving with the Israeli Defense Forces.

The film’s opening movement follows the Feldman family through the first few hours of an overwhelmingly emotional grief process, up until the military informs them that it was a different Jonathan Feldman who died and that their son is still alive. That powerful portrait of grief gives way to an ecstatic and absurdist midsection that follows Jonathan during his military service at a lonely desert roadblock, and there are still a couple more wallop-packing twists to come. D.B.

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Journey’s End

R.C. Sherriff’s venerable 1928 play about life in the trenches during World War I lives again in the hands of director Saul Dibb, screenwriter Simon Reade and a terrific cast: Sam Claflin as the captain driven to drown his horror in alcohol while somehow rising to his duty; Asa Butterfield as the naïve, idealistic youngster; Paul Bettany as the older lieutenant everyone calls “Uncle;” Toby Jones as the company cook (who provides merciful comic relief)—and those are just for starters. Dibb’s hyper-realism is a drawback at times—soft voices and regional British accents make some dialogue hard to catch, and the nightmarish confusion of combat tends to obscure what’s happening to whom.

But those are minor quibbles; the movie is very strong stuff, offering proof that Sherriff’s play is unjustly neglected. J.L.

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The Miracle Season

Director Sean McNamara and writers David Aaron Cohen and Elissa Matsueda tell the true story of the Iowa City West High School girls’ volleyball team, defending state champions in 2011 who had to battle back from

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Georgia-based Fun Academy Motion Pictures makes their first foray into feature-length animation with Richard Lanni’s deliberately oldfashioned Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero. Based on the true story of the heroic street dog who became mascot of the Yankee Division of the 102nd Infantry Regiment during World War I, forming a bond with doughboy Robert Conroy (Logan Lerman) and going on to save many lives, Sgt. Stubby is a mixed bag in almost every respect. The humans all look like different versions of the same dead-eyed automaton, but the character design for Stubby is excellent, his face and movements marvelously expressive yet perfectly natural at the same time. There are strong individual scenes, but the story structure is shoddy, with Robert’s unseen sister Margaret (Helena Bonham Carter, doing an Ashley Judd impression) narrating for no reason at all. For all the film’s faults, though, passionate voice performances might have pushed it over. D.B

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A Quiet Place

An outbreak (or invasion) of blind carnivorous creatures with super-sharp hearing forces the remnants of the human race to live in absolute silence, in isolated pockets with little means of communication. The script

by Bryan Woods, Scott Beck and director John Krasinski concentrates on one family: father (Krasinski), mother (Emily Blunt), son (Noah Jupe), and a daughter (Millicent Simmonds) whose deafness, under the circumstances, is even more of a handicap. The creatures are unexplained; when we see them, they’re generically bizarre, but sightings are wisely few.

The result is an old-fashioned horror movie, and a nerve-wrackingly effective one. Director Krasinski ratches up the tension and dread almost to the breaking point, knowing just when to let up and when to start tightening the screws again. J.L.

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Super Troopers 2

The forgotten-but-not-gone “comedy” troupe Broken Lizard (Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, Erik Stolhanske) is back in a sequel to their 2001 turkey about incompetent Vermont Highway Patrolmen—this time opening a station in an area of Canada that’s being ceded to the U.S.—and they’re just as unfunny and talentfree as they were back then. All five wrote the non-script, and Chandrasekhar provided the non-direction. The “boys” are all pushing 50 now, and what passed for youthful folly in 2001 now looks like sadly wasted lives. Brian Cox is back as their harried captain, Rob Lowe and

Emanuelle Chriqui play Canadian liaisons to the “invading” Vermonters, and Lynda Carter, Seann William Scott, Damon Wayans Jr., and Fred Savage all show up for oh-what-the-hell cameo appearances. J.L.

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Chasing Mavericks

In 1990s Santa Cruz, a budding surfer (Jonny Weston) persuades the old pro across the street (Gerard Butler) to train him to surf the gigantic Maverick waves of Half Moon Bay on the California coast. The life of surfer Jay Moriarty fits comfortably into the standard Hollywood sports-bio formula. A little too comfortably, in fact—the be-yourpersonal-best clichés tend to stick out all over Kario Salem’s script (from Jim Meenaghan and Brandon Hooper’s too-pat story), and we grow impatient to get to the big payoff we know is coming. The pace is sluggish, possibly due to a change in directors: Curtis Hanson had to drop out for health reasons, and Michael Apted took over. Still, while the movie tries our patience, it rewards it—acting is decent (including Elisabeth Shue as Moriarty’s mother), and the surfing scenes are terrific. J.L.

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Director John Curran and writers Taylor Allen and Andrew Logan reconstruct, first, the 1969 auto accident on Martha’s Vineyard involving Sen. Edward Kennedy (Jason Clarke) and campaign worker Mary Jo Kopechne (Kate Mara) in which Ms. Kopechne was killed; and, second, the aftermath as Kennedy, his family, and his political allies went into damage-control overdrive. Allen and Logan’s script sticks scrupulously to the documented record, with the result that the docudrama comes off as neither a hatchet job nor a whitewash, while Curran’s measured, unhurried direction infuses a feeling of authenticity. Performances are excellent, led

by Clarke and Ed Helms, who plays Kennedy’s cousin Ed Gargan (coming off as a poor-relation lackey). The movie is not unsympathetic to Kennedy, but he comes off none too well. J.L.

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“The album is done. I’ve been keeping it under wraps,” said Gums on Kapital Business. “One thing I didn’t want to do is have this dope album with all these dope features and just put it out without the right marketing behind it. That’s what the mixtape is for.”

On the business side, Gums has had his own imprint for over a decade now–Kome Wit It Mi$tuh G sits in his second home at Amplified Studios.

Entertainment. In recent years, he became affiliated with Sacramento underground hip-hop mainstay E-Moe, who runs The year is 1997.

Pay$tyle Music and has worked with notable homeKendall Gums was 7 years old and an only child town acts, including Mozzy, Brotha Lynch Hung and then. His mom—who frequently played Tupac X Raided.

Shakur’s “I Ain’t Mad At Cha” in the car—worked Gums began work on Kapital Business prior to plenty, so Gums spent much of his time with his that relationship. grandmother. Grandma spent most of her days work“I started working on the album before I linked up ing and taking care of Gums’ great-grandmother, with E-Moe,” said Gums. “We worked together for which left the East Sacramento native alone often. about a year. We felt each other out, did business, and Being a kid with no siblings, surrounded by it was all good after that. Then, he saw what I was adults, with much of your time spent with yourself… doing and said, ‘Let me sprinkle a little bit of this and it gets quiet. that on there,’ and got it mixed and mastered.

Gums took that situation as an opportunity That’s my OG.” to develop his writing. He started out as a Gums cites fellow Sacramento poet, putting pen to the page whenever rappers C-Bo, Brotha Lynch Hung, “With the he had free time. He wrote constantly and then Tupac, of course— oversaturation in his room, and this newfound thanks to momma Gums—as hobby stuck with him even when in music nowadays sources of inspiration growing his brother—who likes to dabble in up, and he wants to capitalize and ‘mumble rap,’ I rap, too—was born. on the foundation laid out by refuse to sell out to “I know how grimy and shady those who came before him. the industry can be,” said Gums on that.”

“With the oversaturation in his brother’s desire to rap. “There’s music nowadays, and ‘mumble Mi$tuh G a lot of fake-ass people in this game, rap,’ I refuse to sell out to that. I and I want him to stay away from that… just want to bring back that intricate, to just go to school, man.” precise, rawness to the game,” said Gums graduated college, but his real passion Gums. “I want people to feel the hard work put formed back when he was just that lonely child into the whole process.” accompanied by his own thoughts, with a notebook to 2018 belongs to Gums. He aims to build a lasting bring them to life. connection with fans the way his influences did with Writing was an outlet for a boy from Oak Park him. to speak out, and that talent spawned a desire to be a “When I listen to certain songs, they put me back musician. in moments I enjoyed,” said Gums. “I can remember Now, 27-year-old Gums is all in on his music. what I was doing, how I was feeling and what I was Better known in rap circles as Mi$tuh G, he’s going through at the time. I want people to have that fresh off the January release of his All G Mixtape, same experience when they listen to something I with three more projects due out before years’ end. made. I just want to make something memorable.” Ω The first is Local G’s Coolin’, an EP slated for

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include the Natalie Cortez Band, Would-Be Train Robbers, Bastards of Young and more. 7pm, $8. Old Ironsides, 1901 10th St.

JoY AND MADNESS: Local band performs fundraiser show for Albert Einstein Middle School’s arts, humanities and music programs. 8pm, $15-$18.50. Brookside Restaurant & Bar, 9819 Horn Road.

SCorPIo MooN: With Amina Elfiki, Justine

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Clay display Those with a love of ceramic arts may know that Northern California artists pushed the medium into new Art terrain in the 1960s. Artists like Robert Arneson, whose “Eggheads” sculptures are scattered throughout the UC Davis campus where he taught, left functionality behind to create more expressive artistic works. In that tradition, the California Conference for

art and diversity as well as soul and R&B artists including Jhené Aiko, The Internet, GoldLink and more. 12pm, $70-$85. Cesar Chavez Plaza, 910 I St.

SUNDAY, 4/29 Thrashzilla. 8pm, $5 - $10. The Colony, 3512 Stockton Blvd.

Ace Of Spades, 1417 R St.

MONDAY, 4/30

THURSDAY, 4/26 KEIKo MAtSuI: Renowned jazz pianist. 7:30pm, $42.50-$45. Sofia Tsakopoulos Center for

the Arts, 2700 Capitol Ave.

PEDrIto MArtINEZ grouP: Cuban band led by percussionist Pedrito Martinez plays shows through Saturday, 4/28. 8pm, $29.50-$59. UC Davis, 1 Shields Ave. in Davis.

WAtt AVE. SouL gIANtS: With Mezcal Aces,

Rockafellas. 8:30pm, $8. Blue Lamp, 1400 Alhambra Blvd.

XDS: With Loolowningen & the Far East Idiots, Gentleman Surfer. 7pm, $7. Cafe Colonial, 3520 Stockton Blvd.

FRIDAY, 4/27 DorothY LANE: With Perfect Score, Well Dressed Mannequins. 9pm, $7. Old Ironsides, 1901 10th St.

DWIght YoAKAM: With King Leg. 7:30pm, $69-

SATURDAY, 4/28 ANCIENt FuturE: Fusion/world music

$99. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.

ensemble. 8:30pm, $15. Watermelon Music, 1970 Lake Blvd., Suite 1 in Davis.

hot ButtErED ruM: With Diego’s

gEorgIA SAtELLItES: First show at Quarry

Umbrella. 9pm, $20-$25. Harlow’s, 2708 J St.

tItANIC—A MuSICAL JourNEY: A live event showcasing music as it was heard on the R.M.S. Titanic starring Adam Swanson, an acclaimed ragtime pianist. 7pm, $15-$20.

Stokes Music Studios & Event Center, 5011 Golden Foothill Parkway in El Dorado Hills.

toM rIgNEY AND FLAMBEAu: A blend of

Cajun, blues, and New Orleans style. 8pm, $18-$23. Palms Playhouse, 13 Main St. in Winters.

WIShBoNE ASh: Longtime prog rock band led

by Andy Powell on vocals. 7pm, $35. Sofia

Park. With Alastair Greene. 6pm, $32.99$69.99. Platinum Living Amphitheater at

Philharmonic & Opera perform movie melodies from blockbusters like The Godfather, Jaws and Star Wars. 8pm, $18$58. Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera, 1030 15th St.

hot ButtErED ruM: With Saint Ashbury. 9pm, $20-$25. Harlow’s, 2708 J St.

IF I CouLD turN BACK tIME: This musical tribute to the 1980s features 10 bands, each assigned a year to cover. Performers

celebration with bowling, virtual reality and arcade games, foosball, a buffet and more to support The Child Abuse Prevention Center’s programs. 5:30pm, $100. Punch Bowl Social Sacramento, 500 J St.

TUESDAY, 5/1

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8pm, contact for cover. The Colony, 3512 Stockton Blvd.

DArYL hALL & JohN oAtES AND trAIN: Full sets from both bands followed by a joint set.

7pm, $46-$640. Golden 1 Center, 500 David J. Stern Walk.

page 36. 11:30am, no cover. Knights of Columbus, 5961 Newman Court.

CArNItAS AND MArgArItAS: An annual carnitas feed with a no-host margarita bar, raffles and more. 5pm, $15-$35. Elk Grove PFSA, SES Portuguese Hall 118, 10428 E Stockton Blvd. in Elk Grove.

MIDtoWN FArMEr’S MArKEt: Weekly farmers market that features over 50 food and art vendors, monthly chef demos and free bike valet. 8am, no cover. Midtown Sacramento, 20th Street, between J & K streets.

works by Chopin, Schumann and Liszt. 7pm, $6.50-$38. Harris Center, 10 College Parkway in Folsom.

VLADIMIr FELtSMAN, PIANo: An exploration of the ways some of the greatest composers were influenced by those before them. This performance focuses on Bach, Haydn and Beethoven. 8pm, $22.50-$89. UC Davis, 1 Shields Ave. in Davis.

ZAYtoVEN: With special guests 8pm, $15-$20.

Harlow’s, 2708 J St.

SAC FrY FESt: Experience the creativity of local chefs as they put their culinary skills to the test with creative loaded fries. Day includes live music, fry-themed entertainment, cider and beer, a makers bazaar, kid’s zone and more. 3pm, $10.60$31.20. Roosevelt Park, 1615 9th St.

SIP, StYLE & ShoP: Local stylists share tips for assembling top fashions at a bargain. Light snacks and beverages will be available. 1pm, no cover. Goodwill, 2040 Alta Arden Expressway.

Quarry Park, 4000 Rocklin Road in Rocklin.

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prizes. 6pm, $20-$25. Kennedy Gallery, 1931 L St.

$15. Harlow’s, 2708 J St.

KEYBoArD CoNVErSAtIoNS WIth JEFFrEY SIEgEL: The American pianist performs

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to-face with more than a dozen Fortune 500 and industry-leading companies. 9am, no cover. Embassy Suites Hotel, 100 Capitol Mall.

SArtA SoIrEE: Wine, snacks, art and raffle

ZoLA JESuS: With special guests. 7pm,

WEDNESDAY, 5/2 Tsakopoulos Center for the Arts, 2700 Capitol Ave.

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thE LAWrENCE ArMS: With Red City Radio,

thE WAILErS: With One Sharp Mind. 7pm, $25.

the Advancement of Ceramic Art (CCACA) hosts its annual ceramic sculpture conference, where art lovers can explore more than 40 student and professional exhibits and gain insight through artist demonstrations, lectures and face-toface meetings with nationally recognized talents. 521 1st Street in Davis, www. facebook.com/ceramicsconference.

SATURDAY, 4/28

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CrIMINAL roCK: With Conserve, Lucky/You,

Sincere Engineer. 7pm, $17. Holy Diver, 1517 21st St.

Various DaVis locations, Various times, $173-$202

local employers who are offering summer internships. 10am, no cover. Sacramento State, 6000 J St.

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Haith, Temple K. Kirk and spoken word artists. 9pm, $5. Fox & Goose, 1001 R St.

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THURSDAY, 4/26 BLACK SoL: A gathering with music, healing vendors, food and more, focused on unifying community. 8:30pm. $7. Midtown Barfly, 1119 21st St.

from the area’s prestigious restaurants and wineries and place a bid in the silent auction in support of Make-A-Wish of Northeastern California and Nevada. 5pm, contact for cover. Sacramento Convention Center Complex, 1400 J St.

VErgE JuMBLE SALE: The Verge annual jumble sale. 11am. $5-$7. Verge Center for the Arts, 625 S St.

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meaning in life. Through 5/6. $20. 1723 25th St.

Sacramento SPCA Doggy Dash land Park, 8:30 a.m., $20-$45

more. Through 4/30. No cover. 820 Pole Line Road in Davis.

VERGE CENTER FOR THE ARTS: Capital

GALLERY AT 48 NATOMA: What Came First?

Storytelling Live Event. Folks share reallife stories with an audience. Participants include Suzi Byrd, Lauren Thompson, Shahera Hyatt and more. 7pm Thursday, 4/26. $3-$7. 625 S St.

Grab your laces and your leashes and head to Land Park with your favorite fur child this weekend SPORTS & OUTDOORS for the Doggy Dash. Your pupperoni can mingle with other four-legged friends during the 2K or 5K walking course, followed by a Bark in the Park Festival with dog demos, contests, food and vendor booths. Help the Sacramento SPCA care for more than 5,500 animals each year while enjoying a day with your own pet.

Sutterville Road and Freeport Boulevard, www.facebook.com/sacspca.

Artists Loretta Armstrong, Karen Hunziker and Mihalko Harbert display works relating to the chicken or egg question in this whimsical show. Through 5/3. No cover. 48 Natoma St. in Folsom.

JAYJAY: Monumental. An exhibit of large-

ART

scale works by artists including Suzanne Adan, Roger Berry, Anne Gregory and more. Through 4/28. No cover. 5524 B Elvas Ave.

1810 GALLERY: 3 Year Anniversary/New Location Grand Opening. 1810 Gallery celebrates three years and a new location. 6pm Saturday, 4/28. 215 14th St.

PENCE GALLERY: Bay Area Clay—A Legacy of

ACC ART GALLERY: The Asian-American Experience. Club photographers take cues from traditional and contemporary arts, past and present. Through 5/4. No cover. 7334 Park City Drive.

PHOTO COURTESY OF SACRAMENTO SPCA

SOL COLLECTIVE: Challenging Exclusion |

ALPHA FIRED ARTS: Larry Carnes—A Whale of

Humanizando la Deportación. An examination of deportation through the stories of those who have experienced it. Through 5/2. No cover. 2574 21st St.

a Show. Forty pieces of sculpture and pottery. Through 6/2. 4675 Aldona Lane.

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YELP’S BARKS & BITES: Complimentary bites, drink samplings, live music, photo booths and dogs. Fundraiser for Canine Companions for Independence. 1pm, $10. The Patriot Event Center, 6241 Fair Oaks Blvd. in Carmichael.

SUNDAY, 4/29 BEEF NOODO SOUP POP-UP: A pop-up featuring Taiwanese beef noodle soup and other goodies. Cash-only event, hosts will serve until 3pm or until food runs out. 11am. Taiwan Best Mart, 2219 10th St.

FILM FRIDAY, 4/27 FASHION ON FILM 2018 REDUX 2018: See event

highlight on page 36. 7pm, $12. Delta King, 1000 Front St.

I LEARN AMERICA: A documentary about five resilient immigrant teenagers coming together at a Lafayette high school as they struggle to learn their new land. 3pm, no cover. Sacramento State Multi-Cultural Center (Library 1010), 6000 J St.

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and more performs his standup. 7:30pm Sunday, 4/29. $39.50-$89.50. 1013 K St.

GOLDEN 1 CENTER: The Comedy Get Down. With Cedric “The Entertainer,” Eddie Griffin, D.L. Hugley, George Lopez. 7:30pm Thursday, 4/26. $30-$150. 500 David J. Stern Walk.

LAUGHS UNLIMITED: Swizz Comedy. With Paul Conyers, Sydney Stigerts and headliner Brad Bonar Jr. 8pm Thursday, 4/26. $15. Smile Out Loud. Headliner Alex Elkin, featuring Ryan Chan, Braden Murphy, hsoted by Curtis Newingham. 8pm Wednesday, 5/2. $15-$20. 1207 Front St.

PUNCH LINE: Sheng Wang. Writer for Fresh Off the Boat. Through 4/28. $17.50. Laughing Matter—A Benefit for NAMI Sacramento.

Alfonso Portela and Ellis Rodriguez perform to raise funds for the National Alliance on Mental Illness’ Sacramento affiliate. 8pm Sunday, 4/29. $20. 2100 Arden Way, Suite 225.

SACRAMENTO COMEDY SPOT: Neil Hamburger.

America’s funnyman brings his act and his comb-over to town. 8pm Thursday, 4/26. $18. 3-2-1 Sizzle Reunion Show. Burlesque and improv sketches. 9pm Friday, 4/27. $20. 1050 20th St., Suite 130.

COMEDY BLACKTOP COMEDY: Al Skinner—Comedian + Magic. The award-winning magician and featured performer on Carnival Cruise Lines comes to Sac. 8pm Saturday, 4/28. $15. 3101 Sunset Blvd., Suite 6A in Rocklin.

CREST SACRAMENTO: Nick Swardson—Too Many Smells Tour. Comedian/actor who has appeared on Reno 911, Grandma’s Boy

about larceny, stolen diamonds and revenge. Through 5/12. $20. 2007 28th St.

SACRAMENTO THEATRE: Man of La Mancha.

This classic Broadway musical brings the timeless character Don Quixote to life. Through 5/13. $30-$40. 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 AUDITORIUM AT CLARA: Stories on Stage Sacramento. Writers Elizabeth Tallent and Bob Sylva are featured. 7:30pm Friday, 4/27.

No cover ($10 suggested donation). 1425 24th St.

THEATRE IN THE HEIGHTS: Twelfth Night.

Shakespeare’s gender-bending comedy of unrequited love and romantic mischief. Through 5/12. $15. 8215 Auburn Boulevard, Suite G in Citrus Heights.

THREE PENNY THEATER: Uncle Vanya. Anton Chekhov’s story of two dissatisfied middleaged men who pursue the affection of a young, married woman. This show takes a comedic look at the quest for love and

AXIS GALLERY: Revision 1. Nick Shepard’s color still-life photographs of everyday objects in playful geometric compositions that challenge the perception of space. Through 4/29. 625 S St.

MUSEUMS AEROSPACE MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA: Coffee

BLUE LINE ARTS: Gambatte! Legacy of an Enduring Spirit. Photographs show the Japanese-Americans who were forcibly detained and put in internment camps, then and now. 5pm Saturday, 4/21. 405 Vernon St., Suite 100 in Roseville.

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.

GALLERY 1855: Landscapes with a Gist.

Conceptual landscapes by local artist Stasia Tikkanen include a night-anday series, an in-studio series and

with Carolyn. Meet Carolyn Russo, the photographer and longtime museum specialist at the National Air and Space Museum, whose work is currently on display. Tour the exhibit and ask the artist questions. 10am Thursday, 4/26. $15$20. 3200 Freedom Park Dr.

C.N. GORMAN MUSEUM AT UC DAVIS: Contemporary Prints. Several large Native American print portfolios will be featured, as well as gifts by individual artists and collectors. Through 6/15. No cover. 1316 Hart Hall, 1 Shields Ave. in Davis.

CALIFORNIA AUTOMOBILE MUSEUM: Crafting a Rebellion—Sacramento’s Customs & Hot Rods. An exhibit that demonstrates the culture that fueled the desire to customize and hot rod cars, the relationship between

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TOMMY T’S COMEDY CLUB: Comedian T.K. Kirkland. The performer featured on ComicView and Jamie Foxx Presents Laffapalooza comes to Sac. Through 4/29. $20-$30. 12401 Folsom Blvd. in Rancho Cordova.

BLACK FATHERHOOD: This award-winning documentary highlights fathers in many different parenting situations stepping up, going against the harmful stereotype of the absent, irresponsible black father.

A Q&A session will follow the film. 2pm, no cover. The Guild Theater, 2828 35th St.

OOLEY THEATRE: Jack of Diamonds. A comedy

Social Consciousness. Exhibiting works by internationally recognized artists including Arthur Gonzalez, Michelle Gregor, Marc Lancet, Lisa Reinertson and Wanxin Zhang. Through 5/7. No cover. 212 D St. in Davis.

ON STAGE B STREET THEATRE: Dry Powder. This comedic 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. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. The timeless story of four siblings in the magical world of Narnia, performed by two actors. Through 5/5. $18$23. 2700 Capitol Ave.

JEAN HENDERSON PERFORMING ARTS: Guys and Dolls. Classic oddball romantic comedy. Through 5/12. $20. 607 Pena Dr. in Davis.

SATURDAY, 4/28

Not Dead Zine Megamall Timeless Thrills, noon, no cover

There’s a new zine fest for folks to explore the work artists, photographers and writers from around the world. The Not Dead Zine Megamall FESTIVALS will feature more than 25 print publications, curated by the Richmond-based film photography platform, Nighted Life. These zines have been some of the favorites of Nighted Life artists as they’ve traveled to zine fests around the world.

Individual art will also be on display and 2WNTY3 will have a booth featuring cannabis products. Find your new favorite zine! 3714 J Street, www.facebook.com/ nightedlife.

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saturday, 4/28

FaLun daFa MedItatIon: Practice or learn

beer & brats KnighTs of ColuMbus hall, 11:30 a.M., no Cover

meditation practices to help relax the body, focus the mind and improve general health. 9am, no cover. Countryside Park, 8210 Meadowhaven Drive.

Ever try a monk-brewed beer?

You’ll have a chance this Saturday as the Knights of Columbus present Beer & Brats—a fundraiser Food & dRInk to help cover restoration costs for the Monastery di San Benedetto following a 2016 earthquake. The evening will exclusively feature Birra Nursia beer, brewed by monks with water from the Sibylline Mountains. Bring cash for a glass or a bottle to take home and for the brats and hot dogs. 5961 Newman Court, en.nursia.org.

saturday, 4/28 25tH annIveRsaRy sacRaMento spca doggy dasH: A dog-friendly 2K or 5K walk, with a large pet festival and expo featuring more than 100 vendors, food, games, contests and more. 8:30am, $25-$45. William Land Park, 3800 Land Park Drive.

eLk gRove FItFest: Celebrate fitness with a Kids’ Warrior Challenge obstacle course,

athlete competitions and more. 9am, no cover. Elk Grove Regional Park, 9950 Elk Grove Florin Road in Elk Grove.

geaR up FoR bIke MontH: Bring your bike and learn tune-up and maintenance tricks to keep you riding through May. 11am, no cover. OneSpeed, 4818 Folsom Blvd.

HoMe & gaRden touR 2018: View five homes

all aGes

caLendaR LIstIngs contInued FRoM page 35 customs and hot rods and their connection to racing. through 9/3. $5-$10. 2200 Front St.

saturday, 4/28 captuRe tHe staRs: Explore stop-motion techniques that space photographers use to show the phenomena of the universe. Star photographs on display through 4/29; stop motion activity held at noon Saturdays and Sundays. noon, no cover-$8. Powerhouse Science Center, 3615 Auburn Blvd.

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

Hand-crafted quilts made by artists from the Women of Color Quilter’s Network chronicles 400 years of significant events that have transformed social justice for African-Americans. through 5/27. $9. The Newest Americans. Portraits and interviews with new citizens from more than 20 countries reveal what the “American Dream” means to them. through 7/8. $9. 1020 O St.

caLIFoRnIa state aRcHIves: California Memoirs The William M. McCarthy Photograph Collection. Explore nearly 3,000 photographs that depict early-20th century travels through California and beyond. through 4/27. no cover. 1020 O St., Fourth Floor.

caLIFoRnIa state RaILRoad MuseuM: Weekend Excursion Train Rides. Historyrich weekend excursion trains riding six miles along the levees of the Sacramento River. Appropriate for all ages. through 9/23. $6-$24. 111 I St.

eL dÍa de Los nIÑos: A lively bilingual story time with songs and movement.

Face painting and a craft project will follow. 2pm, no cover. Sacramento Public Library—North Sacramento-Hagginwood Library, 2109 Del Paso Blvd.

supeRHeRo day: Celebrate National Superhero Day at Fairytale Town with arts and crafts activities, costumes and more. 10am, $6. Fairytale Town, 3901 Land Park Drive.

fun, with storytime, activities and giveaways each day of the week. A different story will be featured at noon each day, with craft activities inspired by the selected book. 10am, $5-$6. Fairytale Town, 3901 Land Park Drive.

tuesday, 5/1 Read to a dog: Children can practice their reading skills with an attentive, nonjudgmental and furry audience. 3:30pm, no cover. McKinley Library, 601 Alhambra Blvd.

Sacramento Underground Tours. A unique opportunity to explore what’s been hidden beneath the city for more than 150 years, while uncovering the facts and legends that lie below historic buildings and sidewalks. through 12/31. $10-$15. 101 I St. Tours. Guests to Old Sacramento can experience what it was like to catch gold fever. through 12/17. $6-$10. 1002 Second St.

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Lake wasHIngton saILIng cLub open House: Free sailboat rides, fascinating displays of sailing activities and more. 10:30am, no cover. Lake Washington, 2901 Industrial Blvd. at Boat House Road in West Sacramento.

poweRFuL poLLInatoRs: Learn all about the different creature forms pollinators come in, explore some the Nature Center’s insect collection and hike around to search for these busy critters in action. 10:30am, no cover-$5. Effie Yeaw Nature Center, 2850 San Lorenzo Way in Carmichael.

sunday, 4/29 accessIbLe yoga: An easygoing yoga class for all ages, abilities and disabilities.

Lender mats, props and chairs provided. 1pm, no cover. Mercy Housing, 720 7th St.

socIaLIst FeMInIst ReadIng gRoup: Explore the perspectives of women who influenced the American Communist Party from the 1930s to the 1950s. Works by Margaret Cowl, Mary Inman and Claudia Jones will be examined. 3:30pm, no cover. Old Soul Co., 1716 L St.

tuesday, 5/1 sacRaMento May day: A march through downtown, which kicks off with a Driscoll protest rally outside of Raley’s Supermarket in West Sacramento. 10am, no cover. SEIU 2015—681 W. Capitol Ave., Suite 100 in West Sacramento.

wednesday, 5/2 wonk wednesday councILMan Jay scHenIReR: A discussion about the policy issues impacting Sacramento’s District 5, the Broadway area and the city, with City Councilman Jay Schenirer. 7pm, no cover. New Helvetia Brewing Company, 1730 Broadway.

classes thursday, 4/26 sensoRy wIne tastIng: World-renowned wine maker and Sacramentan Robert Smerling will host an informative seminar on wine tasting and the senses. After the seminar, guests can sip wine and stroll the gallery. 6:30pm, $25. CK Art, 2500 J St.

saturday, 4/28 beekeepIng woRksHop: Aspiring beekeepers can become more knowledgeable about the craft. Instruction will be split between the classroom and the open hive. Learn about the life cycle, biology and development of honeybees, and more. 8am, $60. Soil Born Farms American River Ranch, 2140 Chase Drive in Rancho Cordova.

speaking English in a small group led by a trained facilitator. Discussion topics include everyday life, news, local things to do and more. Children are welcome. noon, no cover. Sacramento Public Library— North Sacramento-Hagginwood Library, 2109 Del Paso Blvd.

FIesta de abRIL—FLaMenco dance Lesson: The festival comes to a close with a Flamenco dance class. 4:30pm, no cover.

Sacramento Theatre Company, 1419 H St.

FRee yoga cLass: Experience the grounding, calming effects of yoga in this class intended for all skill levels. 1pm, no cover. Arden-Dimick Library, 891 Watt Ave.

scReen pRIntIng basIcs cLass: A beginnerlevel screen printing class, where you’ll leave with two T-shirts, one poster and a tote bag. noon, $80. Zenthreads T-Shirts, 2908 Franklin Blvd., Suite A.

sunday, 4/29 aRtIst bootcaMp How to docuMent youR sHow/space: A bootcamp for artists who need help organizing and documenting works for a website, portfolio or simply to share with others. A photography professor will cover topics like lighting, camera functions, capturing 2-D and 3-D work and more. Bring a tripod and camera if you have one. 1pm, $35-$45. Verge Center for the Arts, 625 S St.

geneaLogy—tHe top 10 skILLs eveRy geneaLogIst needs: This presentation by genealogist and archivist Nancy Loe will help participants identify the skills they need to develop to become a genealogist. 1pm, no cover. Sacramento Central Library, 828 I St.

wednesday, 5/2 cookIng MatteRs: A class for adults to gain the shopping and cooking skills to make healthy and family-friendly meals on a budget. Each week, participants will cook and eat healthy meals together and take home prizes like aprons, cookbooks and more. 4pm, no cover. Fulton-El Camino Recreational and Park District, 2201 Cottage Way.

cHILdRen’s book week: A week of literary

sacRaMento HIstoRy MuseuM: Old

sacRaMento vIsItoRs centeR: Gold Fever!

in Tudor and Craftsman styles, in addition to several unique gardens. Activities include live acoustic music, food for sale and more. Fundraiser for the Sierra 2 Center for the Arts and Community. 10am, $20-$30. William Curtis Park, 3349 W. Curtis Drive.

saturday, 4/28

engLIsH conveRsatIon gRoup: Practice

monday, 4/30

cRockeR aRt MuseuM: Photo Fête. Celebrate Sacramento’s inaugural Photography Month with an evening of pop-up exhibits, games, Instagram scavenger hunts, sneak peaks at the museum’s photo vault and more. 6pm thursday, 4/26. no cover-$10. 216 O St.

taKe action

Friday, 4/27

sports & outdoors thursday, 4/26 gaRden day!: Tour the Sacramento Food

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Bank & Family Services Demonstration Garden. 10:30am, no cover. Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services, 3308 3rd Ave.

Friday, 4/27

Fashion on Film Redux The DelTa King, 7 P.M., $12

In its closing weekend, the Sacramento International Film Festival presents a look at fashion through the lens of FILM several filmmakers. Fashion on Film Redux will showcase fashion-related short films, including a look at the Crocker’s ArtMix Masquerade event and a recap of Sac Fashion Week. More than a dozen films for $12 on the Delta King is a steal, and you may learn about local fashion or pick up some new summer trends. 1000 Front Street, www. facebook.com/sacfilmfest. photo courtesy oF james meyers

submit your calendar listings for free at newsreview.com/sacramento/calendar THURSDAY 4/26

FRIDAY 4/27

SATURDAY 4/28

SUNDAY 4/29

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 4/30-5/2

The acousTic den cafe

Songwriters in the Round, 7pm, $5

Keith Greeninger, Larry Diehl, Will Morebeck, 7pm, $20

Iola Rose, 7pm, $10

Brenda Carsey with Xochitl, Andrew Castro, 1:30pm, $5 suggested donation

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

Badlands

The Vixen Live, 7pm, $15-$25

Fierce Fridays, 7pm, call for cover

Spectacular Saturdays, 8pm, call for cover

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

Tapacana, 9pm, W, no cover

BaR 101

Steve Stizzo Trio, 9:30pm, no cover

Bongo Furys, 9:30pm, no cover

Wonder, 9:30pm, no cover

Blue lamp

Watt Ave. Soul Giants, Mezcal Aces, 8:30pm, call for cover

Destroyer of Light, Atomic Ape and more, 8pm, $10-$12

Live and Direct, 9pm, $10-$12

The BoaRdwalk

Girls Night Out (Male Revue), 8pm, $19.95

Something Heartfelt, Hatteras, Enso Anima, Burning Landscapes, 8pm, $10

J Stalin, 9pm, $20

capiTol GaRaGe

Capitol Garage’s Next Drag Superstar, 8pm, no cover

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

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

10271 FAIRWAY DRIVE, ROSEVIllE, (916) 412-8739 2003 k ST., (916) 448-8790 101 MAIN ST., ROSEVIllE, (916) 774-0505 1400 AlHAMbRA blVD., (916) 455-3400 9426 GREENbAck lN., ORANGEVAlE, (916) 358-9116 1500 k ST., (916) 444-3633

The cenTeR foR The aRTs

the wailers

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

faces

with One Sharp Mind 7pm Sunday, $25 Ace of Spades Reggae

2000 k ST., (916) 448-7798

RuPaul’s Drag Race screening, 5pm, no cover

fox & Goose

According to Bazooka, 7pm, no cover

Golden 1 cenTeR

Comedy Get Down, 7:30pm, $65-$80

halfTime BaR & GRill

College Night, 9pm, no cover

1001 R ST., (916) 443-8825 500 DAVID J STERN WAlk, (888) 915-4647

Trivia, 5pm, M, no cover; Open-Mic, 7:30pm, W, no cover Savage Master, Bewitcher, Serpents of Dawn, 8pm, $10

Johnny Cash and Patsy Cline Tribute, 8pm, $30-$40

Kenny Steel Student Showcase, 3pm, $12

Ballot Basics, 6pm, T, no cover

Decades, 8pm, call for cover

Sacramento Valley Bears Sunday Brunch Fundraiser, 10am, $9 (brunch buffet)

Every Damn Monday, 8pm, M, no cover; Noche Latina, 9pm, T, no cover

Daryl Hall & Joan Oates, Train, 7pm, T, $46-$126 Power Play, 9pm, $7

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

haRlow’s

Hot Buttered Rum, Diego’s Umbrella, 9pm, $20-$25

Hot Buttered Rum, Saint Ashbury, 9pm, $20-$25

Zola Jesus, Spellling, 7pm, M, $15; Prof and more, 5:30pm, T, $15-$20

hiGhwaTeR

1910 Q ST., (916) 706-2465

Cuffin R&B/Soul Party, 9pm, call for cover

HOF Top 40 Dance Party, 10pm, call for cover

Island Vibes Reggae Night, 10pm, call for cover

holY diVeR

Enuff Z Nuff and more, 7pm, $15-$20

Joyce Manor, awakebutstillinbed, 7pm, sold out

The Lawrence Arms, Red City Radio, Sincere Engineer, 7pm, $17-$20

2708 J ST., (916) 441-4693

1517 21ST ST.

kupRos

luna’s cafe & Juice BaR

7:30pm Thursday, $47.50 The Sofia Jazz pianist

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

momo sacRamenTo

The Storytellers, The Georgetown Orbits, Ryder Green, Zack Waters, 5:30pm, 7pm, no cover-$3 $10-$12

Danielle Mone Truitt, 5pm, $13-$20

old iRonsides

Green River Blues, The Damn Liars, 8pm, $5

Annual ’80s Tribute with Back Alley Buzzards and more, 8pm, $8

1414 16TH ST., (916) 737-5770 2708 J ST., (916) 441-4693

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

Instagon, Soft Off, 8pm, $8

Dorothy Lane, Perfect Score, Well Dressed Mannequins, 8:30pm, $7

LIVE MUSIC APRil 26 STEVE STIZZO TRIO APRil 27 BONGO FURYS APRil 28 WONDER MAY 4 DEACON FREE MAY 5 NICK IKEDA MAY 11 LEGAL ADDICTION MAY 18 ADAM JACOBS MAY 19 SHAWN WRANGLER MAY 25 YO! & THE ELECTRIC

33 BEERS ON DRAFT MONDAY PINT NIGHT 5-8 PM, TRIVIA @ 6:30 PM TACO TUESDAY $1.25 TACOS NOON – CLOSE WEDNESDAY OPEN MIC – SIGN-UPS @ 7:30 PM 101 MAIN STREET, ROSEVILLE 916-774-0505 · LUNCH/DINNER 7 DAYS A WEEK /BAR101ROSEVILLE

4/26 7PM FREE TIX ONLINE/$3 AT THE DOOR DISCOVER THURSDAYS:

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

David Houston & String Theory, 8pm, $6 Luca Stricagnoli & Antoine Dufour, 6pm, $25

Heath Williamson, 5:30pm, M, no cover; Karaoke, 9pm, T, no cover

COMING SOON

4/27 - 28 9PM $20ADV

HOT BUTTERED RUM 5/2 8PM $15ADV

THE SACRAMENTO STORYTELLERS, THE GEORGETOWN ORBITS

ZAYTOVEN

4/27 5:30PM $10ADV

RYDER GREEN FT. ZACK WATERS 4/28 5PM $13ADV

SOULFUL SATURDAYS: DANIELLE MONÉ TRUITT

4/30 7PM $15

ZOLA JESUS 5/3 8PM $10ADV

5/2 5:30PM

METAL STREET BOYZ

$8 BOURBON & BLUES: STEVE FREUND TRIO 5/4 6:30PM $8ADV

THE LIQUE (ALBUM RELEASE SHOW) SACRAMENTO’S FAVORITE DJS EVERY FRI AT 10PM

For booking inquiries, email Robert@momosacramento.com

Matt Rainey & The Dippin’ Sauce, 5:30pm, W, $8

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

2708 J Street www.momosacramento.com

The Trivia Factory, 7pm, M, no cover; Geeks Who Drink, 7pm, T, no cover

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

Kupros Quiz, 7:30pm, no cover

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

Keiko matsui

FRI & SAT 9:30PM - CLOSE 21+

Open-Mic Night, 7:30pm, M, no cover; All Vinyl Wednesdays, 8pm, W, no cover

Brickhouse, 9pm, $5

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

PHOTO cOURTESY OF lORI STOll

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

Scorpio Moon, Amina Elfiki, Justin Haith and more, 9pm, $5

Dirty Blonde, 9pm, $5

Top $helf Radio 1970s Throwback Show, 9pm, W, call for cover

5/1 5:30PM $15ADV

PROF (HEADLINER)

MAC IRV, CASHINOVA

5/4 6PM $18ADV

LISSIE

(HEADLINER) VAN WILLIAM

5/5 Sunny Sweeney & Ward Davis 5/6 Ekolu 5/9 Cheap Tissue & The She’s 5/10 Once and Future Band 5/11 Pedro the Lion 5/12 Built to Spill 5/13 Sinatra & the Rat Pack 5/15 Horse Feathers 5/16 Stephen Jay & Jim “Kimo” West 5/17 California Honeydrops 5/18 Jay Farrar Duo 5/19 Ideateam 5/20 03 Greedo 5/22 The Posies 5/23 Kuinka 5/24 Andy Frasco & the U.N. 5/25 Anuhea & New Kingston 5/26 The Purple Ones 5/28 Big Business

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submit your calendar listings for free at newsreview.com/sacramento/calendar THURSDAY 4/26

FRIDAY 4/27

SATURDAY 4/28

SUNDAY 4/29

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 4/30-5/2

ON THE Y

Open-Mic Comedy, 8pm, no cover

Focara, Visions of Ire and more, 8:30pm, $10

Gigan, Sunless and more, 8:30pm, $10-$12

Open 8-Ball Tournament, 7:30pm, $5 buy-in

Open 9-Ball Tournament, 6:30pm, M, $5 buy-in

Palms PlaYHOusE

Trio Da Kali, 8pm, $20

Tom Rigney and Flambeau, 8pm, $23

Mipso, Sera Cahoone, 8pm, $22

414 MAIN ST., PlAcERvIllE, (530) 303-3792

Thinkin’ and Drinkin’ Team Trivia, 6pm, no cover

Patrick Walsh, 8pm, call for cover

The Golden Cadillacs, 8pm, $5

Tiffani Lyn Shiro, 1pm, call for cover

Karaoke Wednesday, 8pm, W, no cover

POwErHOusE Pub

Tragically White, 10pm, $10

ZZ Top Tribute Band, 10pm, $12

Cole Fonseca, 10pm, $10

670 FUlTON AvE., (916) 487-3731 13 MAIN ST., WINTERS, (530) 795-1825

PlacErvillE Public HOusE

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With start-up costs and licenses ranging from hundreds of thousands to a few million dollars, the lack of capital drives small entrepreneurs out of business, or back to the unregulated black market. To tackle that problem, Cargile, Lisa Salaices, Tracy Saville and Mindy Galloway co-founded a new business called Khemia. Galloway calls it a “mother company” that will partner with other women-owned businesses to market cannabis products under a single license.

“By providing a licensed facility, financing, and business development, we want to focus on a new way of doing business that includes collaboration, support and empowerment,” said Galloway.

Saville explained that the umbrella corporation will feature 15-20 “women-led manufactured brands in today’s market that are aligned with Khemia’s purpose,” which leans toward health and wellness.

As controller, Salaices directs financial operations, and writes the proforma forecasts for investors. “Our investors are experiencing

a new dynamic, more authentic,” said Salaices. “How do women operate capitalism? We get to experiment with what that means.”

In this new era of recreational cannabis, Khemia remains serious about the medical side. “Cannabis is accelerating the integration of herbal medicine into our culture,” said Dr. Dianne Bennett, a Sacramento City College chemistry professor who sits on Khemia’s advisory board. “I am excited to help our community learn about the health benefits.”

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FOR THE WEEk OF APRIL 26, 2018: ARIES (March 21-April 19): Imagine you’re one

of four porcupines caught in frigid weather.

To keep warm, you all have the urge to huddle together and pool your body heat. But whenever you try to get close, you prick each other with your quills. The only solution to that problem is to move away from each other, even though it means you can’t quell your chill as well. This scenario was used by psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud as a parable for the human dilemma.

We want to be intimate with each other, Freud said, but we hurt each other when we try. The oft-chosen solution is to be partially intimate: not as close as we would like to be, but only as much as we can bear. Now everything I just said, Aries, is a preface for better news: In the coming weeks, neither your own quills nor those of the people you care about will be as sharp or as long as usual.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The Simpsons is

the longest-running American TV sitcom and animated series. But it had a rough start. In the fall of 1989, when producers staged a private pre-release screening of the first episode, they realized the animation was mediocre. They worked hard to redo it, replacing 70 percent of the original content. After that slow start, the process got easier and the results got better.

When the program completes its 30th season in 2019, it will have aired 669 episodes. I don’t know if your own burgeoning project will ultimately have as enduring a presence, Taurus, but I’m pretty sure that, like The Simpsons, it will eventually become better than it is in the early going.

Stick with it.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The coming weeks

might be an interesting time to resurrect a frustrated dream you abandoned in a wasteland; or rescue and restore a moldering treasure you stopped taking care of a while back; or revive a faltering commitment you’ve been ignoring for reasons that aren’t very high-minded. Is there a secret joy you’ve been denying yourself without good cause? Renew your relationship with it.

Is there a rough prize you received before you were ready to make smart use of it? Maybe you’re finally ready. Are you brave enough to dismantle a bad habit that hampers your selfmastery? I suspect you are.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The Hollywood film

industry relies heavily on recycled ideas. In 2014, for example, only one of the 10 top-grossing movies—Interstellar—was not a sequel, remake, reboot or episode in a franchise. In the coming weeks and months, Cancerian, you’ll generate maximum health and wisdom for yourself by being more like Interstellar than like The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Transformers: Age of Extinction, X-Men: Days of Future Past, and the six other top-10 rehashes of 2014. Be original!

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Long ago, in the land we

now call Italy, humans regarded Mars as the divine protector of fields. He was the fertility god who ripened the food crops. Farmers said prayers to him before planting seeds, asking for his blessings. But as the Roman Empire arose, and warriors began to outnumber farmers, the deity who once served as a kind benefactor evolved into a militant champion, even a fierce and belligerent conqueror. In accordance with current astrological omens, Leo, I encourage you to evolve in the opposite direction. Now is an excellent time to transmute aggressiveness and combativeness into fecundity and tenderness.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You sometimes get

superstitious when life is going well. You worry about growing overconfident. You’re afraid that if you enjoy yourself too much, you will anger the gods and jinx your good fortune. Is any of that noise clouding your mood these days? I hope not; it shouldn’t be. The truth, as I see it, is that your intuition is extra-strong and your decision-making is especially adroit. More luck than usual is flowing in your vicinity, and you have an enhanced knack for capitalizing on it. In my estimation, therefore, the coming weeks will be a favorable time to build up your hunger for vivid adventures and bring your fantasies at least one step closer to becoming concrete realities. Whisper the following to yourself as you drop off to sleep each night: “I will allow myself to think bigger and bolder than usual.”

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The bad news is that

60 percent of Nevada’s Lake Mead has dried up. The good news—at least for historians, tourists and hikers—is that the Old West town of St. Thomas has re-emerged. It had sunk beneath the water in 1936, when the government built the dam that created the lake. But as the lake has shrunk in recent years, old buildings and roads have reappeared. I foresee a comparable resurfacing in your life, Libra: the return of a lost resource or vanished possibility or departed influence.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I hope the next

seven weeks will be a time of renaissance for your most engaging alliances. The astrological omens suggest it can be. Would you like to take advantage of this cosmic invitation? If so, try the following strategies. 1. Arrange for you and each of your close companions to relive the time when you first met. Recall and revitalize the dispensation that originally brought you together. 2. Talk about the influences you’ve had on each other and the ways your relationship has evolved. 3. Fantasize about the inspirations and help you’d like to offer each other in the future.

4. Brainstorm about the benefits your connection has provided and will provide for the rest of the world.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Now is one

of the rare times when you should be alert for the potential downsides of blessings that usually sustain you. Even the best things in life could require adjustments. Even your most enlightened attitudes and mature beliefs may have pockets of ignorance. So don’t be a prisoner of your own success or a slave of good habits. Your ability to adjust and make corrections will be key to the most interesting kind of progress you can achieve in the coming weeks.

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

author Simone de Beauvoir was a French feminist and activist. In her book A Transatlantic Love Affair, she made a surprising confession: Thanks to the assistance of a new lover, Nelson Algren, she finally had her first orgasm at age 39. Better late than never, right? I suspect that you, too, are currently a good candidate to be transported to a higher octave of pleasure. Even if you’re an old pro at sexual climax, there may be a new level of bliss awaiting you in some other way. Ask for it! Seek it out! Solicit it!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Can you afford to

hire someone to do your busy work for a while?

If so, do it. If not, see if you can avoid the busy work for a while. In my astrological opinion, you need to deepen and refine your skills at lounging around and doing nothing. The cosmic omens strongly and loudly and energetically suggest that you should be soft and quiet and placid. It’s time for you to recharge your psycho-spiritual batteries as you dream up new approaches to making love, making money and making sweet nonsense.

Please say a demure “no, thanks” to the strident demands of the status quo, my dear. Trust the stars in your own eyes.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I believe it’s a

favorable time for you to add a new mentor to your entourage. If you don’t have a mentor, go exploring until you find one. In the next five weeks, you might even consider mustering a host of fresh teachers, guides, trainers, coaches and initiators. My reading of the astrological omens suggests that you’re primed to learn twice as much and twice as fast about every subject that will be important for you during the next two years. Your future educational needs require your full attention.

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Hip-hop in his bones Don’t sleep on Nate Curry. Even though he nonchalantly laughed his way through this interview in Christmas pajamas in the middle of April, his bars are self-made Bibles and mantras. Curry has been rapping and performing since the age of 3, while growing up in Davis, and later in the sprawling underground music lairs of Sac. Maybe inevitable, since his father and sometimes producer, who now performs as SBVCE, is the former N8 the Gr8, a member of the locally adored and notable hip-hop collective The CUF. Curry’s ethereal music can be bumped at 1 a.m. driving down I-80—say with his latest single, “Speakers Blown”—or can provide trap therapy during yoga sessions on a Sunday morning, as with his track “Balance.” Nate sat with SN&R to chat about mastering the business end of the music industry, writing lyrics that serve as his own medicine, his solid support system and the joy of live performance.

In terms of music and marketing, everything is online now. Back in the ’90’s and early 2000s, you had to do shows to be seen. Is live presence still as important as your internet presence?

So far I’m trying to work on that aspect.

There’s so many people out here doing other stuff than just making music that can help your music; throwing shows, taking pictures.

The internet works but communicating with people, showing them who you actually are, you know, that really sticks. That’s what makes people wanna support you every time. If you know people, and talk to people, it goes a real long way.

I really love your music. You’re making a sound that appeals to the current generation, but with a keen sense of self awareness. For instance, on “Cold Shoulder,” although it’s a somewhat fun song, there are many layers with regards to people trying to escape reality or numb themselves. Can you speak on that?

I just try to relate to my peers with stuff that I’m going through. In person, I don’t know how to explain the things I explain in songs. When I’m having a real conversation, I don’t know how to get that deep. But for some reason when I’m writing a song I can do it different. I’m just a weird guy. (Laughs.) That song, it’s kinda like a song of excuses. A lot of my stuff is either me telling on myself, or me trying to get good habits into myself.

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I don’t always take my advice, but sometimes I do. It’s really just reminders.

progress. I want to eat off of what I do.

I know I want to be big, but I want to make sure I’m mentally ready before I hit that.

That’s why I’m writing these songs, giving my self hints and preparing myself.

I have to say my favorite song is “Balance.” I like how you use sativa and indica as metaphors for the ups and downs of life. So how do you as an artist balance out work, life, bills, your relationships and finding time for creativity?

What is hip-hop right now? What would define hip hop to you?

(Laughs.) I’m not really good at that. That’s one of those songs too that is kind of a memo to me. I notice now that it’s actually helping. I do have my moments of keeping my balance.

And I’ve got my unhealthy routine. “Balance” is just me feeling everything out and what it’s gonna take.

So what’s your creative process after a long day of being human? How do you switch back into creative mode and create a song?

The way that goes is I’ll go over [to my dad’s] and just be kickin’ it, and pull up a beat, or start making a beat, and if it clicks it clicks. I’ll just start writing. I usually don’t write on my off time, I’ll just write when I’m in the studio.

Lately, I’ve been doing it at the house ’cause I’m getting better at production. I’m able to record here, but over here it’s more R&B, more soul. I’ve been producing for like 10 years. I’ve produced for a good amount of people. Chuuwee uses a lot of my beats.

It’s like a nervousness that triggers a dorkiness and creates my best performance.

Because I’m a dork, honestly. When I perform, I want everyone to be smiling; I want everyone to be happy. I make sure I hit all my notes, get all my words right. Book me—you’ll see.

You’ve been a part of Sac’s underground music scene for a while.

Do you enjoy that or would you love to be mainstream someday?

I don’t know if I would be ready to be huge.

I have so much anxiety. I definitely want to

I’ve been a hip-hop head since I was a kid.

Shit I listened to: A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Pharcyde, Rakim, just a lot of old school shit. I was a hip-hop purist. I hated everything else that wasn’t real hip-hop. But I don’t think that way anymore. Even if it’s a country song with trap beats, that’s still hip-hop. Ever since I learned how to sing, it changed the way I felt about music. Hip-hop is my religion. It’s just the way I’ve always been. Experimenting with this, trying this style or going this route. That’s what hip-hop is—making something out of what you have.

I’m not gonna lie, I don’t have guns or a lot of money. A lot of my fans are young, but I’ve also noticed it’s doing what I want it to do.

You don’t really brag in your music, which is a tendency in hip-hop, but in “Speakers Blown” you talk about how your value increases. Explain.

I really made it for me and all my art friends.

I know so many people that are artists and do so much dope shit, who are struggling.

You know, things are expensive. It costs a lot to paint. It costs a lot to do music. Most people that are in that scene are all artists that can’t pay for their friends’ stuff. So it’s like saying, “I know I’m gonna be great, and you can turn it down if you want, and that’s OK, that’s your fault, but the price is gonna go up. You could have gotten a $300 feature back then.” Ω

Hear nate Curry’s latest, “Speaker’s blown” and other favorites at Soundcloud.com/nate_curry or on all social media platforms including iTunes and Spotify. For bookings: n8takticz@gmail.com

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