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Economic justice is his job

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“We’re going to persevere in If you care about economic justice in Sacramento, you need to know Michael inclusive economic development because it’s the right thing to do,” he Jasso. told me during an interview this month His official title is assistant city in his City Hall office. manager in charge of innovation, According to Jasso, everything is economic development and community on track—the creation of an investment development. He’s the point person committee of experts and of a commufor City Hall’s renewed effort to create nity advisory panel, plus the selection jobs in poor neighborhoods—and, if of consultants. They will help draft an all goes as planned, he will help Mayor inclusive economic development plan Darrell Steinberg keep promises that the to go before the City Council by June.

Measure U sales tax increase will make But he also acknowledges that Sacramento more prosperous and fair.

Sacramento faces challenges. Outside I first met Jasso on his second day experts have already listed some on the job, at an April town hall for of them. The city is lagging Project Prosper, the city’s behind in creating higherneighborhood investment wage jobs in growth plan. It was in the “We’re going industries. The wage works well before to persevere in gap has widened police killed between AfricanStephon Clark in inclusive economic Americans and Meadowview in development because whites and Asians.

March, but became it’s the right thing to Too many residents a much bigger deal don’t go to college, afterward when do.” and too many protests resurrected Michael Jasso college graduates are long-festering assistant city manager leaving the area. complaints in many Everyone, rich and minority neighborhoods poor, will start paying the that they had been left out of additional half-cent sales tax in Sacramento’s riches.

Sacramento on April 1, and the city That was the situation Jasso stepped will start receiving the money in June. into when he arrived in Sacramento Despite criticism that the additional from Chicago, where he held several local government jobs, most recently as $50 million a year has been promised several times over, Jasso says there economic development chief for Cook will be enough money to attract County. private and other investments to make Jasso says while Clark’s death is a significant progress on jobs, housing “traumatic event” for Sacramento, the and youth programs. tragedy also creates the opportunity to Announcing Measure U last June, push harder for helping “disconnected” Steinberg asked: “Why does a third people and improving the quality of grader living in South Sacramento have life in disadvantaged neighborhoods. less of a chance in life than a third He also knows about the distrust grader living in East Sacramento?” from those who say City Hall has Good question. To give kids in all broken far too many promises on neighborhoods a fair shot, this may be economic development. How does he the best chance in a generation. The plan to deal with that? “Living up to city can’t blow it. Ω our promises” and listening to voices outside City Hall, he said.

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Bad lessons Re: “Monuments to monsters” by Maxfield Morris (Feature, January 10): I appreciate Maxfield Morris’s reviewing of the monuments to figures from California’s history with less than savory histories. I suppose it’s necessary to bring the subject up every few years since the context of their acts is no longer taught in the schools these days. However, I attended Freeport Elementary School in the early ’60s. And I can still remember my history lessons from those early grades, to wit: Columbus brought the scourge of religion (Catholicism) to North America, Junipero Serra brought infectious diseases along with conversion by force to native Californians, Charles Goethe was a Nazi sympathizer, John Sutter was a slave driver. Oh, and Executive Order 9066 was a shameful act by an otherwise worthy president. My teachers taught it, I remembered it. But I fear that along with civics, unadulterated history is no longer taught in public schools. And it seems we need to be reminded that these people and their ideas are dead. Tearing down monuments to people we no longer honor removes the teaching lesson from future students that may not receive those lessons in class.

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History in context Re: “Monuments to monsters”

by Maxfield Morris (Feature, January 10): The piece asked very poignant questions about how we acknowledge Sacramento’s history. He is not the first person to question how local monuments to historical figures and structures in Sacramento have become sanitized of offending historical facts. The historical background and context of the men and women who had a hand in developing Sacramento are often times glossed over for the sake of brevity.

In the 21st century, this is not an excuse for not challenging some of the myths and urban legends surrounding historical events and individuals. But neither is it grounds for a wholesale removal of plaques, monuments and statues sprinkled throughout Sacramento.

The article inadvertently highlighted one of the core missions of the Sacramento Historical Society. Our monthly programs revolve around bringing a historical background and context to the people and events who have shaped Sacramento. Our November 2018 program featured a discussion about Chinese sojourners in California and the misunderstanding, and outright hostility they met. The December 2018 meeting reviewed the many African-American pioneers who are resting in the Historic Sacramento Cemetery.

The society’s January program focused on William Leidesdorff—a mixed-race U.S. citizen whose entrepreneurial, financial and diplomatic genius led to his becoming the first Gold Rush millionaire in the American West. In February, our attention turns to the real John Sutter and who he was.

At the Sacramento Historical Society, we are trying to bridge the gap between the elementary school historical mentions and the fuller treatment of these historical figures by historians. We welcome all historical perspectives and encourage a vigorous public discussion about the facts and myths surrounding these individuals.

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GOP must speak out Re: “Return of the Copperheads”

by Scott Thomas Anderson (News, January 10): People who display the Confederate flag feel that people who have dark skin aren’t full people. If the Sacramento County Republican Party has “no statement” on the flag’s use on a float in the Wilton Winter Festival, well that’s like backing into a planer in wood shop.

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What would you invent? dAvid gull company owner

I’m going lightsaber or teleporter … If I had to pick one, I’d probably pick the teleporter. I think it’s way more useful than a lightsaber.

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Some way [for everyone to easily] purify water. It could have multiple uses, especially in developing countries where water is so difficult to get but also when you’re camping.

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I’m stuck in traffic a lot. Uninventive as it might sound, I would like to invent—before Elon Musk comes out with it next year because I think he’s doing it—the floating car or the flying car.

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Chinese food burrito drive-thrus. Cause sometimes you want Chinese food and you’re driving in your car. You can’t just break out a fork or chopsticks and eat in your car.

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An app that tells you where the best public restrooms are. That’d work really well in San Francisco.

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You know how they have the 3-D printers? I wonder ... if there’s an invention where you could say, “This is what I want to eat,” and it just appears in front of you.

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Let’s get serious about our war on drugs

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There is little correlation between With more than 70,000 Americans dying tougher sentences and reduced drug from drug overdoses each year, with use. It may be just the opposite. That 20 percent of the 2.3 million in prison is what Portugal found in 2001 when it there for drug offenses and many more became the first country to decriminalfor drug-related crimes and with drug ize the possession and consumption of cartels to blame for many of Mexico’s all illicit substances. Rather than being 29,000 murders a year, it is time we got arrested, those caught with drugs might serious about our war on drugs. be given a warning, a fine or sent to a Let’s find solutions that actually local commission made up of a doctor, work in the real world, instead of a lawyer and a social worker to learn taking the politically expedient path. about treatment and support services.

Calling for increased law enforcement The result over the last 17 years has been a and longer prison terms has been used significant drop in drug use and HIV. by countless elected officials of both Wainwright also writes parties. Police officers, prison about Switzerland’s guards, prosecutors and drug approach to dealing agents may be dedicated, with 3,000 hardcore hard-working and There is little addicts. While brave, but unfortuthey represented nately their efforts correlation between 10 percent to are not effective, tougher sentences 15 percent of and in fact may be and reduced drug use.

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It may just be the accounted for 60 In Narconomics: opposite. percent of heroin use.

How to Run a Drug By providing them Cartel, Tom Wainwright, with free heroin under previously a reporter for supervised conditions, the the Economist in Mexico City, government reduced the number brilliantly explains the absurdity of of robberies by 90 percent, and many much of our current drug policy. addicts stopped selling drugs as well—a For example, the United States double win for public safety. As a result spends billions of dollars in South of this change in policy, Switzerland’s America to eradicate coca plants. illegal drug market collapsed.

Wainwright explains that even if this Compare that to our criminally effort tripled the cost of coca plants, focused drug wars. We are spending this represents only 1 percent of the billions of dollars each year to lock up street price of cocaine. So this program drug offenders. But every dollar spent has almost no impact on our cocaine on drug treatment is 48 times more problem. effective than the same dollar spent on And instead of using incarceration prisons. Let’s spend money on solutions as an opportunity to treat addictions that really work. Ω or teach job skills, prison can become a training ground for crime and an employment pool for crime organizations. Increased penalties have not solved the drug abuse problem, even in states with three strikes laws, such as Jeff vonKaenel is the president, CEO and majority California. owner of the News & Review.

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Zhuo Dan Ting and Joshua Thompson in their newly renovated studio—it used to be a real estate office.

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Folsom gets fresh ink Zhuo Dan Ting has a knack for getting under people’s skin. Specifically, under the epidermis and above the dermis. Ting—known in the biz as Ms. Ting—deals in ink and its directed application into permanent, highly portable works of art. Tattoos. Ting has been drawing her entire life, first put needle to flesh canvas in 2001 and founded Shanghai Tattoo in Shanghai, China in 2007. It’s still running with a team of artists. Now, she and her husband,

Joshua Thompson, have set up a second location—on Sutter Street in Historic Folsom.

Limiting herself to no more than one tattoo a day, the artist specializes in photorealistic portraiture and traditional Chinese art. We sat down with Ting and Thompson and talked about the move to Folsom along with some of their history.

Are you still involved in running the Shanghai shop?

Thompson: Yeah, we’re running it still. We’re

was like, “Well ... I want to visit you in China.” And it pretty much worked out like that. Pretty crazy.

What kind of tattoos do you have?

Ting: I have all [kinds] of tattoos, but all of different styles. I’m not like all my customers. They want some tattoo they plan for a long time. Most of the time, I just sit on a chair first, I decide I want a tattoo today.

What kind of qualities do you look for in artists?

Ting: Of course we need to look for good artists.

Better do all kinds of styles, too, not [everybody’s] the same.

Thompson: Ting’s more into realism, as you can see. All the tattoos on the wall, Ting’s done. She does a lot of black and grey to color realism and Asian traditional. But we’d like to find other artists, eventually have a full house of artists, all doing different art from each other.

Who’s your favorite artist?

Ting: I have a lot of favorite artists, but one of them on top is Paul Booth, living in New York. He’s really good—I love his style. And actually, I got a tattoo from him.

Are you doing different tattoos here?

running everything, as much as we can do from a distance, and we have a full team over there running the in-house operation. I’m actually talking to someone just now about booking a tattoo in Shanghai.

Ting: Same. Same. Because in Shanghai, most of

How did you end up here?

related to art, related to drawing, that I’m interested in.

Thompson: We’ve been looking for about two years now, for [a place in] California. We were originally looking at downtown Sacramento ... My uncle lives in Folsom, and he saw a property that was coming up for availability. We came down here and saw Sutter Street, and we were like, “Holy crap!”

How did you two meet?

Thompson: We were just friends on Facebook, I was basically her fan. I found out she was coming to San Francisco on vacation, it was her first time in America, and I was like, “... Let me show you around!” Basically, she ended up hitting me up. I was like, “OK, cool!” From there, we hung out 10 days in a row, she went back to China. I

my customers are foreigners, actually.

What was it about tattoos that spoke to you?

Ting: Since I saw it, I just feel like it’s something

But why not paint, or … ?

Ting: Because that’s too normal. In those days, in China, I never ever heard of tattooing. Drawing on people’s skin? And painting, drawing, that’s always happening in life. It’s not special. Those days, when you see tattoos, it’s very different. Ω

Get some ink at Shanghai Tattoo’s Folsom location at 718 Sutter St., Suite 208, or check it out online: instagram.com/shanghaitattoo916, facebook.com/ ShanghaiTattoo916 and shanghaitattoo916.com.

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The small business strip Exotic dancers are the latest pulled into clash between gig economy and American labor

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Nine months after the California Supreme Court issued a landmark decision about the future of “the gig economy,” the state’s largest collective of exotic dancers is joining a loud chorus of voices who claim that workers’ freedoms are being trampled.

Even as Big Labor backs what’s known as the Dynamex decision, the Independent Entertainer Coalition is the latest trade group to begin protesting the mandate that reclassifies contract workers across dozens of industries in California. The ruling requires that any person who wants to work for a company as contractor prove they’re free 10

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from that organization’s control; that they’re performing work outside that company’s typical business; and that their trade represents work that’s not regularly performed by employees of the company.

When the Dynamex decision came down in April 2018, it was immediately followed by headlines about tattoo shops emptying and salon owners rushing to get lawyers. Sacramento’s Bottle & Barlow barbershop reportedly lost every stylist overnight. Now, some exotic dancers say they’re feeling the pain as club owners are coming under increasing pressure to reclassify them as employees.

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“This has been devastating for us dancers in so many ways,” Katie Figueroa, a member of the coalition, said via email this week. “Before, we controlled where, if, when, and how we performed. Now, we have a ‘boss’ who can tell us when to disrobe and for whom we dance nude … I find it appalling that in this day and age, I can choose to have an abortion, but I cannot choose how I am paid for making money from my body.”

Brad Shafer, an attorney representing Déjà Vu Services and Nightclubs, says the Dynamex ruling is uprooting dancers from the state. “There are entertainers

who have left California and gone as far as New York,” he said.

The Dynamex ruling, however, didn’t happen in a vacuum. Economists and labor force experts have become increasingly concerned that the gig economy— largely fueled by Silicon Valley—is becoming a global race to the bottom.

Gig workers have few rights, and many have little stability or retirement prospects. As the titans of tech continue to skirt on investing in employees, many are seeing their profits soar. That, along with Dynamex ruling, is leading to an inevitable clash in the state Capitol.

Lauraine Bifulco, CEO of Vantaggio Human Resources and an expert on employee classification, says it’s completely unclear where this legislative showdown is heading.

“This is an extremely complicated issue,” she said. “There’s nothing black and white about it.”

The fuTure of work In dozens of U.S. industries, the social contract between employers and employees is changing dramatically.

About 2 million Californians consider themselves as independent contractors.

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extra time on soccer Nationally, about 1 in 14 workers are companies, the chamber is urging state freelancers. lawmakers to limit the ruling to only the In 2018, Google—when valued at nearly Dynamex workers. $800 billion—had more contract workers Shannon Liss-Riordan, a labor than employees for the first time in its attorney who’s handling litigation against history, Bloomberg News reported. These Uber, Lyft and Postmates, says that as contractors have been called Google’s important as the Dynamex ruling is, “shadow workforce” because they lack job there’s a reason that the public has not security and basic benefits. Facebook— seen a change in how Big Tech operates. valued at more than $500 billion—also uses “So far, the companies have really an army of contractors. From Uber and Lyft been able to limit the impact by using to Instacart and GrubHub, tech start-ups clauses to force workers into arbitration,” are driving a major shift in how Americans Liss-Riordan said. “That’s how the think of work. And that’s given Wall Street companies have been able to head off any a reason to seriously rethink the value of real change. There’s just a lot of power employees altogether. they have to avoid these arguments being Matt Jepson, a researcher for JobGetter, fleshed out in court. As a practical matter, recently noted what this means. “The presit will take a long time to sort out.” sure is always on gig workers to lower their giants of prices,” he wrote. “Driving down prices means that workers are constantly minimisnoncompliance ing—not maximising—their earnings.”

Cash-rich corporations may be temporarily The Wild West of independent contractwarding off the Dynamex effect, but many ing was suddenly lassoed in the Dynamex smaller businesses in Sacramento aren’t. case. The court’s decision has its roots in a Bifulco, who has been advising companies shake-up at a Los Angeles-based delivery on employee classification for years, says company in 2004. Dynamex Operations while some corporations that built West had previously classified its contract workers into their fleet of drivers as employees, core business model but decided to reclassify are still trying to them as independent ignore the ruling, “This has been contractors, shiftother businesses ing all vehicle devastating for us dancers are trying to expenses, fuel in so many ways. Before, we comply. costs and tax “We’ve controlled where, if, when, and paperwork onto had a flurry them. Two how we performed. Now, we have of clients drivers sued a ‘boss’ who can tell us when to saying that and eventually this is what disrobe and for whom we dance prevailed it took to before the nude.” convince state’s justices. them to change Katie Figueroa, The California their practices,” Independent Entertainer Coalition Labor Federation Bifulco told SN&R. hailed the ruling as a “They’ve made the victory. “This will address decision that the risk is the common practice in many just too great now.” industries of a company forcing That risk was recently brought home an individual to act as an independent for Déjà Vu Services and Nightclubs business while the company maintains the when several dancers sued in San right to set rates, direct work and impose Diego County Superior Court. The discipline,” the federation’s legislative dancers allege they were misclassified advocate Caitlin Vega wrote in August. as contract workers and are pressing for “Because [the ruling’s criteria] is clearer and easier to enforce, it will give millions of back wages.

But in the course of representing misclassified workers the chance to become Déjà Vu Services, Shafer says he employees. This will mean fewer workers will be forced to rely on the safety net when believes it’s “a handful” of dancers trying to get financial settlements at the they are sick, laid off, or hurt at work.” cost of destroying the autonomy most of The California Chamber of their peers cherish.

Commerce, on the other hand, warned “A lot of the entertainers don’t want that the decision would devastate busito be employees,” Shafer said, since nesses. Along with Uber, Lyft and other

they already made healthy tips and a percentage of a club’s dance fees before the ruling.

Figueroa of the dancers’ coalition agrees. “[Now] we have a set schedule, a biweekly paycheck and limitations on when and how often we can work,” she said. “We have lost all freedoms, tax deductions and benefits of being a dancer.”

The coalition is hoping to bring Stormy Daniels, the political iconoclast and adult entertainment star, to the state Capitol in February to publicize its protest of the Dynamex ruling. Daniels had agreed to stand with the dancers, but had to reschedule at the last minute.

In December, Assemblywoman Melissa Melendez, a Republican from Riverside County, introduced Assembly Bill 71, which would thwart the Dynamex ruling by establishing more flexible criteria for contract work.

Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, a Democrat from San Diego, has introduced AB 5, which would enshrine the decision into unambiguous state law.

Yet while it’s early in the legislative session, no bills have been introduced that would protect small businesses from the impacts of Dynamex while holding major corporations accountable for exploiting workers through misclassification. That type of protection was built into Proposition C, the San Francisco ballot measure approved in November to raise $300 million a year to help the homeless through a 0.5 percent tax increase that only applies to businesses with more than $50 million in annual revenues.

Labor attorneys say such “carveouts” will only work in the gig economy, however, if there’s a way to prevent large corporations from gaming the rules by setting up smaller, intermediate shell businesses.

Battles around labor independence are playing out on the national front, too. An element of the Workplace Democracy Act that U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders introduced in May 2018 would essentially make federal law for contract workers follow the Dynamex ruling.

For labor experts, there are too many legal developments happening to know where the chips will fall. “There’s just a lot to be watching right now,” Bifulco said. “But if we continue in this direction, it really could be the death of all freelance work.” Ω

Since becoming Sacramento’s mayor, Darrell Steinberg has made a habit of making news at the annual State of Downtown event.

At his first one in 2017, he proposed a new plan for expanding the Sacramento Convention Center but also investing in other attractions to make Sacramento a bigger visitor destination. In 2018, he called for aggressive action to build more housing for the homeless, not merely manage the crisis.

On Tuesday, he did it again. The mayor announced that southern california billionaire ron Burkle will become lead investor in Sacramento Republic FC, which should boost its bid to get a Major League Soccer franchise. Burkle, co-owner of the Pittsburgh Penguins of the NHL, previously was a “whale” investor who tried to buy the Sacramento Kings.

Sacramento’s MLS hopes took a big hit last year, when it didn’t get an expansion team. This year, Sacramento is expected to have to compete with Detroit, St. Louis, Phoenix and other cities for the final available franchise.

Steinberg also said that Burkle will buy the potential site in the downtown railyards for a 20,000-seat soccer stadium, plus 14 surrounding acres, to create an entertainment district. the mayor again promised that there will be no direct public financing, but he proposes that the city waive development fees, partner with Republic FC on new electronic sign revenue and establish an infrastructure finance district in the railyards.

The soccer stadium is supposed to be an anchor for the railyards, a 240-acre site that is as big as the central business district but has been mostly vacant for nearly three decades. Another key piece for railyards development is a state-of-the-art, 1.3-millionsquare-foot medical center planned by Kaiser permanente, which also announced Tuesday that it is finalizing its land purchase. Last year, the state appropriated $460 million to build a new Sacramento County Courthouse on the edge of the railyards. (Foon Rhee)

seeKing cultural equity At the same time that “economic justice” is a buzzword these days, there’s also more attention to “cultural equity.”

The two principles are linked in some ways. This year, the city is putting together a plan for inclusive economic development that lifts all neighborhoods and ethnic groups. Last year, the city councii adopted a creative edge plan that calls for providing arts education to all Sacramento children and youth, advancing cultural equity for all groups and infusing all neighborhoods with arts and culture.

At an all-day event on January 16, more than 150 artists, public officials and leaders of arts groups and nonprofits gathered at Clunie Community Center to discuss how to take cultural equity from an idea to action. One session examined how to go from marketing and outreach to actual engagement with underrepresented groups.

Another focused on approaches to diversity and inclusion.

Priscilla Enriquez, chief impact and strategy officer at the sacramento region community foundation, told them that the arts are important to the economy, but that entire ethnic groups are largely excluded. To stay relevant, she said, arts organizations must fix that, attracting a wider group of patrons and supporters.

While Sacramento prides itself as being one of the most ethnically diverse cities in America, it’s very difficult to tell if you attend performances of many major cultural groups.

The group at Clunie also heard from an embodiment of diversity—Khalypso, the sacramento arts commmission’s youth poet laureate, whose self-description is “fat, black, neurodivergent, queer and an agender badass.”

She read two poems on black women and diversity. She got a standing ovation. (F.R.)

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A triple homicide trial inside Sacramento Superior Court may have been heading for a hung jury before its judge intervened.

Elijah Johnson was sentenced to life in prison as an accomplice.

Photo courtesy of jamilia land

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The holdout A juror didn’t think Elijah Johnson should go to prison for three murders he didn’t commit. Then a judge replaced her.

by Raheem F. hosseini

At this moment, Elijah Johnson’s future is to die behind bars for three murders the 24-year-old didn’t directly commit. That is not in dispute.

On January 4, Johnson was sentenced to multiple lifetimes in prison, along with David Thuan Nguyen, a 27-year-old marijuana dealer who actually pulled the trigger on a father and his two adult sons during an April 2016 home invasion that Nguyen orchestrated.

Johnson’s fate was almost different.

According to court transcripts, one juror refused to send Johnson to prison for the slayings. Identified as Juror 1, the woman told the court she was being pressured by her peers to vote against her conscience.

The juror’s comments surfaced during a behind-the-scenes inquiry into whether she was following the judge’s instructions. How the matter was settled ensured Johnson’s guilty verdict—and may become part of an appeal under a new state law that limits who can be convicted of murder.

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consider only the facts of the crime, not the possibility of a lifelong sentence.

Juror 1 countered that four jurors discussed aspects of the case outside the full panel’s presence, also against the judge’s instructions.

In October, Sacramento Superior Court Judge Maryanne G. Gilliard called jurors into her courtroom to sort out the dispute. Gilliard told each juror to answer only the questions she posed so she could avoid interfering with their deliberations. Jurors occasionally slipped, revealing a majority leaning toward guilt following a grueling trial and lengthy deliberations.

During her time on the witness stand, an emotional Juror 1 told the judge that she grew up like Johnson, who was abandoned when he was young and intercepted late by foster care.

“I stated that he shouldn’t go [away] for the rest of his life for not murdering somebody he didn’t murder,” she said, according to the transcript. “One of them is guilty of something, but not the other one. I did say that. But I never said nothin’ about laws being changed.”

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Juror 1 denied having a problem with the judge’s instructions, but asked to be released for a scheduled vacation early, she said, “because once … I’m back in that room, they’re just going to keep pressuring and pressuring me. And I might just go—just go to go along.”

Defense attorneys pressed for a mistrial.

Instead, Judge Gilliard replaced the holdout juror with an alternate, but let the others stay, even though she determined they violated her instructions and vented about the stress of the case outside the full jury.

Days later, Nguyen and Johnson were found guilty of the murders.

Gilliard defended her decision before sentencing the men on January 4, in carefully worded remarks she anticipated an appeals court would review.

“Was there juror misconduct? Yes. There was juror misconduct,” the judge said. But, she added, “It did not rise to the level that either defendant incurred any type of prejudice such as would require a new trial.”

Juror 1, on the other hand, Gilliard said, claimed she told a bailiff something none of the bailiffs could remember—that she

recognized one of the people who attended the trial.

“At that point I was faced with eight or nine jurors and an alternate that were all saying basically the same thing and Juror No. 1 who was shown to have demonstrably engaged in a falsehood with the court,” Gilliard said.

The defendants’ attorneys quietly accepted the denial of their fourth motion for a new trial, but indicated they would appeal.

“You don’t have to be in Mr. Johnson’s presence long to realize he’s not Dillinger,” attorney Olaf Hedberg told SN&R following his client’s sentencing. If the public could take anything away from this case, Hedberg added, “Please take a moment and think twice about foster children. Because it’s a tough and lonely life when you’re abandoned at 11 and have to make your way in the world.”

Hedberg filed his notice of appeal on January 11.

Johnson, who took part in the robbery, was convicted even though Gilliard instructed the jury to consider a pending state law restricting who can be convicted of murder. Before January 1, people could be charged with first-degree murder if they participated in any aspect of certain felonies that resulted in death, even if they didn’t kill anyone. The justification for California’s long-standing felony murder rule was that people involved in serious crimes should know that the loss of life is a likely outcome, and are therefore just as culpable as those who pull the trigger or draw the blade.

But critics found the rule too broad, applied to defendants who were caught by surprise when violence erupted.

“California’s murder statute irrationally treated people who did not commit murder the same as those who did,” state Senator Nancy Skinner, the Berkeley Democrat who authored Senate Bill 1437, said in a statement following its signing. “SB 1437 makes clear there is a distinction, reserving the harshest punishment to those who directly participate in the death.”

Juror 1 was leaning toward that interpretation before she was replaced.

For Jamilia Land, who took Johnson into her home seven years ago and came to think of him as a son, Juror 1’s dismissal sealed her boy’s fate.

“It was just way too easy to say this juror was the problem,” Land told SN&R. “But she wasn’t the problem. She was the problem for the other jurors.” Ω

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Chang is also one of only five non-white Republicans in the Legislature, all of whom are Asian American or Pacific Islander. Of the nearrecord-low 30 Republicans in the Legislature, 21 are white males. There are no Latino, African-American or openly gay or lesbian GOP legislators.

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Women make major gains, but California trails Even with six new Latino lawmakers elected other states. After a year in which sexual in November, they account for just about 20 misconduct allegations led to calls for both percent of the 2019 legislative class. parties to run more female candidates, As of 2017, nearly 40 percent of all women made significant gains in The Californians identified as Latino. the November election.

Those awaiting a more visiCalifornia opens 2019 with Legislature ble presence of the “sleeping 36 women in the Legislature—a looks more like giant” of California politics near record (the previous high the California of 30 can take partial solace in the was 37 at the end of 2006). state’s demographic future.

Nearly 60 percent of all newly years ago than the Non-Hispanic whites still elected California lawmakers California of make up a larger proportion of are women, mirroring a surge today.

Californians older than 18 than in successful female candidacies do Latinos. But Latinos in their across the country.

20s, 30s and 40s outnumber whites in But California’s statehouse still falls the same age groups, as do Latinos under the far short of equal gender representation. While age of 18. women account for 31 percent of legislators, they Roughly 40 percent of California’s votingmake up a little more than half of voting-age age population is under the age of 40. But state Californians. lawmakers tend to skew significantly older.

Male-dominated politics are hardly unique.

Only 14 percent are in their 30s, and none are More than 75 percent of the new Congress in their 20s. is male. But California still trails many other Another noticeably absent bloc of Californians states, including some of its more conservative from state office: people who make less than six neighbors. Oregon and Arizona each have a figures. California has the highest compensation higher proportion of women in their legislatures for state legislators of any state in the country, at than California, while Nevada recently made $107,000 per year. The 2017 median income of a history as the first state to elect a legislature with California household? $70,000. Ω a female majority.

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Gabby Trejo is the executive director of Sacramento Area Congregations Together.

A few chAnges At sn&R Starting with this week’s SN&R, readers will notice a few changes.

All the opinion articles are grouped together. This includes letters to the editor, our Streetalk feature, the 15 Minutes interview, Jeff vonKaenel’s Greenlight column and an expanded editor’s note.

This also includes more voices from the community— local leaders, advocates and residents. This week, we’re offering a selection of several different essays on local issues.

Think of it as a front porch at home, or the water cooler at work, where people talk about what’s on their minds.

Also starting this week, there will be more coverage of the local arts scene. To make room, we will no longer be running reviews of widely released movies—information that is readily available elsewhere. We will still have stories about film, but focused on trends and the local scene.

In the coming months, you’ll also see some other tweaks to make SN&R easier to read.

What will not change is our mission or commitment to become more essential if you want to know what’s happening in Sacramento and the region.

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tRAnspARency, AccountAbility And heAling

by GAbby Trejo

Law enforcement must rebuild trust with the community

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n March 2018, Sacramento police officers shot and killed Stephon Clark, the latest in a string of law enforcement killings of unarmed black men.

This fractured the community and galvanized mass protests, vigils and attendance at City Council meetings all invoking two basic demands: more accountability and transparency at the Sacramento Police Department, Sacramento Sheriff’s Department and the District Attorney’s office.

As the community awaits the findings on the officer involvement in Clark’s death, it is imperative that these demands are met in order to rebuild community trust. Even in the midst of so much pain, grief and anger, the community has worked together at different levels to bring about healing, hope, change and justice.

Organizations began to put their best thinking together to strategize and reimagine a future where black families thrive, where children don’t have to be taught at a young age not to wear hoodies and where mothers don’t fear calling law enforcement when a loved one is going through a mental health crisis.

This tragedy gave birth to coalitions such as Build Black that are committed to proactively invest in restorative transformation for black communities. They focus on uplifting black youth voices, health equity and access, justice and policing in black communities and investment in black neighborhoods and businesses. Build Black brings hope to a community that has suffered multi-generational trauma.

One notable response from Sacramento ACT was the development of Safe Black Space healing circles in collaboration with several partners. This has resulted in 10 healing circles, the training of more than 20 facilitators and a video for county mental health workers on culturally competent, traumainformed care. Healing circles are expanding to other communities (Latino, Asian Pacific Islander and youth). The circles help participants move from individual pain to a collective pain that calls all of us to talk about healthy communities and community-law enforcement relations.

In addition, H.E.A.T (Hiring, Equipment, Accountability, and Training) was designed to

facilitate trust-building conversations among faith leaders, impacted communities and the Sacramento Police Department.

One goal of this group has been to identify and implement reforms to improve relationships. The trust building also helped strengthen the momentum in the community to hold Sheriff Scott Jones accountable regarding independent oversight of his department by the Office of the Inspector General. It demonstrated that Sacramentans expect everyone to abide by a simple concept that “no one should be above the law”—not even law enforcement.

Sacramento, as the rest of the nation, is at a moment of truth in relations between law enforcement and impacted communities. Will we choose the status quo? Or will we choose accountability and transparency?

Sacramento ACT is committed to working to ensure that there is accountability and transparency from law enforcement. Only then will we be able to rebuild its trust with the community. Ω

Keep Sacramento affordable

by Steven Lee

The cost of living is spiraling out of control.

Gentrification is making it worse.

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Steven Lee is a clerk at Goodwill Industries in Sacramento.

definitely believe that Sacramento is changing to become very expensive for many people, including myself.

In 1996, apartments rented for only about $500 a month. In 2018, rents are averaging $1,500 a month.

The cost of everything just seems to be going up, but our wages aren’t.

Now with the rise of gentrification, the cost of living has spiraled completely out of control. Residents are getting wrongfully evicted because of landlords wanting to raise rents to outrageously expensive levels. In addition, the cost of homes have dramatically increased. Twenty years ago, people could buy for $100,000. Now, those same homes cost $500,000.

We are now seeing many of the poor being completely pushed out of the Sacramento region. In many cases, only the wealthy can afford to live here, especially in neighborhoods such as downtown, Midtown, Alkali Flat, South Land Park, East Sacramento, Boulevard Park, McKinley Park, the Handle District, Freeport and now even Oak Park.

And very little seems to be done by local governments to address this problem.

As a society, we should collaboratively work toward creating more jobs that offer a living wage and toward building more affordable housing. Our society should not be systematically engineered for only the wealthiest to afford. We need to create a society that is fair, just and equitable for everyone.

Another area our region needs to improve is the public transportation system. Sacramento Regional Transit does not serve enough areas with light rail, and its bus routes are in need of great improvement. Many bus routes offer only very limited service and often run late. And fares are prohibitively expensive; an adult monthly transit pass costs $100.

Many people cannot afford that, including myself.

I hope that we find all our opinions and suggestions helpful. And I hope that we as a community can collaboratively work toward solutions to these societal problems. Ω

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Tiffani Sharp is the founder and executive director of Willow Tree roots, a Sacramento nonprofit that runs an incubator for entrepreneurs.

Value black female entrepreneurs Sacramento’s Sacramento’s success depends on women on women of color in business

by Tiffani Sharp

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omen of color are the bedrock on which our community stands, especially as entrepreneurs.

They often start their own business because the traditional workplace is not set up to accommodate women who are often caregivers with a non-standard schedule.

Many women of color also go into business because they are tired of the gender pay gap. While white women in California earn 79 cents for every $1 earned by white men, black women only get 59 cents. And many black women entrepreneurs want to avoid unaddressed microaggressions that our society too often accepts in workplaces.

Businesses owned by women of color benefit the community by serving other disadvantaged or underrepresented segments. Our own studies show that their business proposals are focused on the health and wellness of others in their communities.

But women of color often have different needs than white female entrepreneurs, yet get lumped in with them. When this happens, the needs of women of color get pushed to the bottom and are not addressed.

This is a problem for Sacramento.

What’s so important about women of color who are entrepreneurs? While the number of female-owned businesses grew by 114 percent from 1997 to 2017, firms

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owned by women of color increased by 467 percent.

This is an amazing opportunity for Sacramento that has gone unrecognized and is undervalued.

Institutions that cater to entrepreneurs often lack the knowledge to recognize and understand the special needs of businesses started by women of color. Their very distinct needs are swept away in the generalities.

In April 2018, the Brookings Institution released a study commissioned by the city that concluded that Sacramento is on an upward trajectory for economic prosperity, but that one factor jeopardizing this growth is a lack of racial inclusion.

Investing in women of color entrepreneurs can ease this concern.

Our own studies show that, when asked what barriers to success they face, women of color cite the difficulty of being female in maledominated industries. More than a quarter of those surveyed said they wanted a mentor to show them the ropes of creating and succeeding in business, and others identified a lack of access to funding.

Recognizing these needs and increasing resources to make businesses owned by women of color successful will make Sacramento more economically successful as a whole. Ω

Thomas J. Meagher of Sacramento is an engineer and former solar contractor.

SMUD iSn’t aS green aS yoU think The utility should change its rates to reward conservation

by ThoMaS J. Meagher

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acramento wants to become a greener city.

Unfortunately, the Sacramento Municipal Utility District has antiquated rates with a high monthly fixed charge that hurts poor people and that discourages energy conservation and rooftop solar.

We all agree that SMUD needs to recover fixed costs such as energy transmission and distribution, but how it does so should be fair and create the right incentives.

Residential customers pay SMUD a fixed charge of $20.30 a month for distribution lines, meters, customer service and billing. It’s the same amount for a one-bedroom apartment or for a large home. This results in a high effective rate for people who don’t use a lot of electricity. For example, I paid an effective rate of 30 cents per kilowatt hour in a recent month, but if I used more electricity my effective rate would go down.

This is the opposite of what modern utility policy should be; customers should not pay less the more electricity they use.

SMUD’s rate structure is also different than California’s other big utilities.

Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric have no fixed charges, and the California Public Utilities Commission has rejected their requests to add fixed charges.

The CPUC requires these other utilities to spread fixed costs so that bills are proportional to electricity use. For example, a PG&E customer who cuts their energy use by 50 percent saves 50 percent on their bill. But a low-use SMUD customer who reduces their use by 50 percent saves less—in my case, only 16 percent. So why bother to conserve?

SMUD’s rate structure is bad for the environment. Contractors say the fixed charge reduces the cost effectiveness of solar because they can’t reduce the fixed charge.

Getting rid of the fixed charge would reduce energy use and be fairer. And it would cost SMUD zero.

Fixed charges are opposed by the Sierra Club, the Union of Concerned Scientists, the Natural Resources Defense Council and consumer organizations.

But SMUD seems disinterested, untouchable and unaccountable.

SMUD is developing new rates this year; Its board met this week to discuss the issue. It should lower or eliminate the fixed charge and try to help Sacramento’s green future. We should not accept a dinosaur utility. Ω

Clear-CUtting SaCraMento’S Crown jewel Conservation group blasts PG&E for removing trees on American River Parkway

by STephen green

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he American River Parkway is the “crown jewel” of Sacramento County’s park system.

But since late October, PG&E has been clear-cutting corridors in the parkway along its power line easements, removing many healthy, mature trees and ripping out vegetation including elderberry bushes, home to the threatened Valley elderberry longhorn beetle.

This unprecedented clear-cutting operation, which is essentially complete, is the most destructive project we have seen on the parkway.

Save the American River Association, Trees for Sacramento, the California Native Plant Society and the Sierra Club all called on PG&E and Sacramento County to halt the tree removals until PG&E showed that it was complying with environmental requirements and other safeguards. The association repeatedly asked PG&E to produce evidence of an environmental review or permits for removing trees and disturbing protected plant and animal species. PG&E only offered vague and general assurances.

Ground that has been cleared is being rapidly colonized by an invasive thistle.

We still have seen no plan for restoration or mitigation. Damage already done must be properly mitigated within the parkway, not in some far-off place. But with PG&E headed into bankruptcy, it seems unlikely it will do any restoration.

Our parkway is far too important to

the community for county officials to turn a blind eye to this “scorched earth” approach to removing vegetation. Officials are supposed to protect the parkway and its fragile and rare riparian habitat. On January 15, we went to county supervisors, who told staff to schedule a hearing on what has happened and on what actions should be taken.

Other communities, with local government support, have been able to persuade PG&E to be reasonable in tree removals.

But it appears Sacramento County has not even tried to prevent the removal of trees and other vegetation that pose no fire safety threat.

Power lines have been in the parkway since the 1940s without any history of damage from fires. In many areas, power lines are far above the treetops, and there is no possibility that a falling tree would hit them. In addition, the parkway is far more accessible to firefighters than other areas of California where wildfires have occurred.

PG&E must modify its practices to better balance protection from fires and conservation of irreplaceable natural resources.

We hope that our groups, along with the concerned public, will force change at both PG&E and the county to ensure future tree clearing is done in a much more protective manner. Please join us in standing for the protection of our parkway and let your representatives know we must find a better path to providing sensible fire protection. Ω

Stephen green is the president of the Save the american river association.

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Color and space confined

by Reid FowleR

reidf@newsreview.com

Edge through a narrow walkway in Bruce Nauman’s Blue and Yellow Corridor, a Manetti Shrem exhibit with works by the UC Davis alum One of two sculptures on view at the exhibit from Bruce Nauman’s MA project at UC Davis, Cup and Saucer Falling Over (1965).

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Is it possible to feel color? I wonder as I slowly step ... step ... step, my body shifted slightly diagonal, sidling through a gap between two walls. I’m keenly aware of my leather jacket’s squeak and the swish of my jeans. The static colored light plays tricks, bathing me in dizzying, disorienting sensations.

It’s my second time in Blue and Yellow Corridor, artist Bruce Nauman’s one-way maze, conceptualized through a short series of sketches in 1970-71, about five years after he received his master’s degree from UC Davis. It was never built until now. “[The exhibit] brings the piece full circle,” says Randy Roberts, deputy director at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art. Blue and Yellow Corridor has been so popular since it opened in September that it’s being extended through April 14. The exhibit will reopen Sunday, January 27.

At first appearance, it’s simple: A three-sided wall presses perfectly into the room—walls encasing it, leaving a 12- to 18-inch gap between itself and the outer wall. Yellow, blue, and (again) yellow light tubes emit a soft glow in the dark room. Aptly named, the combination creates a blue and yellow corridor, but together, the two hues converge and splash new colors on the walls—pinks, purples and cheery peachy hues.

The only other props are two cameras peering down at the participants, and a pair of boxy TVs on the ground facing either end of the corridor, displaying the corridor’s ends via closed-circuit video. If you look back just as you’re turning the corner, you can catch a glimpse of yourself turned sideways, further disorienting you.

The deceptively simple piece hides its own surprises. When you first enter the room, the calm, colorful light gives off a playful glow. But as soon as you step into that narrow space, those same playful elements start to feel ominous and jarring. There is a larger hand at play, an authoritative hand.

Nauman is an interdisciplinary conceptual artist whose pieces travel beyond conventional boundaries. He initially entered UC Davis’ art program as a painter, but after experimenting with manipulating materials such as

Bruce Nauman’s participatory Blue & Yellow Corridor, on view at the Manetti Shrem Museum at UC Davis.

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Clothed in a vintage-print, floral tailcoat adorned with pearls on the back—dazzlingly arranged to spell “gucci loves elton”—and wearing thick, green-rimmed glasses, John described the difficulty in choosing a set list for the tour. There are so many songs he’d like to sing, and not enough time for them all. John proves he truly means this by playing the living hell out of every single song for nearly three hours.

He’s 71 years old, and this is his final tour, but he seems like he could keep doing this forever.

John pays tribute to the people who have made his life meaningful—his lyricist of 50-plus years, Bernie Taupin; the woman who covered “Border Song” early on in his career, Aretha Franklin; and his tireless band members. ray Cooper, one of the band’s

“Fine, I’ll play 10 more songs!”

the audience. And when he mugs, he mugs with confidence that you’re going to love what’s coming next. He smirks and throws his head back, pulling faces, never missing a beat. At the end of each song, he stands up, often emphatically lifting the lid of the piano and slamming it down, “that’s how you play a song!” At one point he rides the piano

around stage like a lawnmower.

The evening starts with “bennie and the Jets” and goes through the Elton John songbook. The hits get paired with compelling videos that, with the talent and energy of his band, more than make up for any decline in John’s voice. Especially moving are “tiny dancer” as the backdrop to a series of vignettes of life in Los Angeles, and an animated waltz through a bizarro-world riddled with pills and nightmarish Captain Fantastic creatures for “Someone Saved My Life Tonight.”

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fiberglass and rubber, his focus shifted to sculpture.

Taught and inspired by other local art heroes including Wayne Thiebaud, William Wiley, Manuel Neri and Robert Arneson, his work explores a range of disciplines such as sculpture, painting, performance, video, photography and printmaking. He often combines media for his pieces, making them difficult to categorize.

Working with themes such as space, language and movement, Nauman views the human body as “something you can manipulate” and treats it as a medium of sculpture. Though he uses sculptures and installations in his performances, in his absence he invites you to become the performer in his place, making you acutely aware of the space and your occupancy in it.

The exhibit also includes a selection of some of Nauman’s early works, including Manipulating the T Bar and Sound Effects for Manipulating the T Bar (1965), shot in Nauman’s own studio at UC Davis, and his master’s degree project Cup Merging with its Saucer and Cup and Saucer

Falling Over (1965). Guest curated by Ted Mann, who’s worked with Nauman multiple times, the show encompasses much of what the Manetti Shrem Museum does.

As part of the UC Davis campus, the museum opened in November 2016 with the goal to uphold the legacy of many of the artists who started their career while studying there. Those include Thiebaud, Nauman, Arneson and current students.

Some of their pieces are included in UC Davis’ fine arts collection, which contains more than 5,000 works.

The exhibit coincides with Nauman’s retrospective being held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Blue and Yellow Corridor’s reopening will be juxtaposed with the opening of a new exhibit, Xicanx Futurity, showcasing the work of six Chicana artists. Xicanx Futurity will be held in the same space as Blue and Yellow Corridor.

Attempting the corridor is not for the claustrophobic. But if you’re up for a participatory experience, the piece serves as a beautiful, yet haunting abstraction of not only the space but also ourselves.

“It’s fun,” Roberts says. “And it’s been really interesting because we’ve had all kinds of people come through to see the piece, students and alumni and often visitors will spend a long time in [the exhibit] and some even come back a second time.” Ω

the veil of smoke sits petrified in spotlights, barely circulating. Thousands of lungs hold onto their payloads, bated in anticipation of a last look at an icon of the stage—the end to a final evening with Sir elton John on his Sacramento stop of the farewell yellow brick road tour. His two-part encore arrived, beginning with “Your Song,” which he dedicated to his Sac fans.

John is a performer. Undeniably, he’s in his element when on the piano. He’s a salmon swimming upstream, following intuition with unmatched commitment. He sparkles under the light, wearing shimmering scales and mugging infectiously to

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percussionists, is a star. He’s irresistible; a tambourine in his hands is all he needs to steal the show, bobbing and weaving, howling and halting for emphasis—he seems like an extension of John. the final encore is “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road,” and gold-colored confetti explodes down from the rafters, showering the crowd in paper confetti. They land on shoulders, heads, coating seats because nobody is seated. John boards a railed platformescalator and ascends, alone, into the back of the stage. He’s gone. See you, Sacramento—it’s time for John to say goodbye to scores more cities across five continents.

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“Lady, you need to give up your seat,” the driver yells to the back of the bus. Silence. We’re locked in an antique Sacramento Transit Authority bus for a reenactment of the birth of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

“I paid my fare, I can sit here,” says Darlene Tellis, playing Rosa Parks. It’s unsettling to watch. They argue, she holds her ground and he threatens to call the police before storming off. The scene ends with Tellis walking to the front of the bus in song, filling the aisle with her voice in “Still I Rise” by Yolanda Adams.

The boycott lasted 381 days, Tellis tells the crowd of kids and parents, and tens of thousands of dollars in public transit revenues were lost every day before a 1956 U.S. Supreme Court decision declared that Alabama’s segregated bus laws were unconstitutional.

“It shows what you can do when people get together and think on one accord,” Tellis says.

Once off the bus, we joined thousands bustling inside the Sacramento Convention Center at booths, stages, crafts stations and dining tables. The performance was part of the annual Diversity Expo, the destination Monday of the March For the Dream celebrating the life of Martin Luther King Jr. Historical preservation was a key theme of the event, and there was a lot to learn in one afternoon.

At a booth for the Buffalo Soldiers Motorcycle Club, who have more than 100 chapters in the United States, members chatted about the 150-year old Army regiment that fought in both world wars. On a side stage,

a Morehouse College classmate of King preached the importance of hard work to preserve the progress of the 20th century as others seek to dial it back, and a genealogist gave advice on how to figure out your ancestry.

“There’s an education piece, an activation piece, and piece of inspiration that we want people to walk away with,” said Paul Willis, an artist and advocate who curated the main-stage entertainment. “We know every year that we get people who come from all different types of backgrounds who may or may not know those different parts of the civil rights legacy.”

On a main stage, a bill of extraordinary Sacramento artists performed in short sets. Some highlights: The Genesis Church Choir spurred the crowd with electric gospel songs. Rapper Consci8us, with the charisma of a youth leader and rap star, carried a message of perseverance in his song “Black Lives Shatter.”

Sixteen-year-old Carly Rhoades did justice to “I am Changing,” originally sung by Jennifer Hudson in the movie Dreamgirls. Hip-hop artist Saevon and R&B/ soul-singer KaJohnna delivered a sweet and somber acoustic duet, and Willis closed the afternoon with masterclass rhymes punctuated by freestyle hip-hop dance from Jah’Soul Amaru and sax melodies by Masud Kiburi-Cunningham.

“I think it’s important that the arts matched the message for the day,” Willis said. So that’s how we start. Identifying artists who, in the music, share the same values as MLK.” History was made outside the convention center on Monday. There were two marches—the March For the Dream, led by MLK365, and the separate Reclaim MLK march, led by Black Lives Matter Sacramento.

Willis said the marchers represent two different philosophies in achieving racial justice: reformation from the inside, and revolution from the outside.

The marches typically converge in a show of solidarity, interacting mostly through chants. This year, march leaders, MLK365’s Sam Starks and BLM Sac’s Tanya Faison, joined each other on stage. It was their first public conversation, Willis said.

“It was an opportunity to build an understanding,” Willis said. “We see you, we know where you stand, and the other side saying the same thing.” Ω

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“It’s never too late to disappoint your grandma.”

So says Lillian Frances, the Davis singersongwriter with an ear for electronica and an affinity for saucy language.

Frances, who performs Saturday January 25 at Beatnik Studios, is considering what her grandmother might think of her mew single “Super Bowl Party,” which boasts lyrics such as “fuck the patriarchy” and “I’m really horny.”

“My grandmother had an issue when I released [the song] ‘Bitch, I’m Aphrodite,’—she called me, really sad about my use of expletives,” Frances remembers. “I said, ‘I can’t censor myself for you. I can’t censor myself for anyone.’”

While Frances says that her grandmother ultimately understood and supports her music, it should be no surprise she’s protective of her art. She’s spent years finding her musical voice.

As a child, Frances, 27, played guitar and piano, dabbling in folk with a love for the Avett Brothers and Sufjan Stevens. Her tastes expanded to encompass electronica. One experience at a festival left a particular impression.

It was the summer before her senior year at Occidental College when a friend convinced her to attend a festival in Pasadena. It’s there Frances first heard Sylvan Esso, an electronica duo known for its sultry beats.

“I’ve never had music vibrate so deeply inside of me,” she says. “I was high for days off music.”

It wasn’t just the music, though. It was the idea of being a musician. It seemed amazing up there, up on that stage.

“It was in that audience, looking up at them that I was like, ‘That looks like the most fun someone can have, that’s what I want to do,’” she says.

By this point, Frances was thinking more seriously about music. A 2012 vacation to visit her sister in Madrid unleashed a new wave of creativity, inspiring her to write her first song.

There were other creative pushes, too. Initially, Frances majored in urban environmental policy with a double minor in Spanish and economics. That Sylvan Esso festival experience left an indelible mark, however, and Frances eventually dropped the econ minor and signed up for recording classes at Occidental.

She quickly became disillusioned with its staunch boys club vibe.

“I wasn’t allowed to be in the studio by myself— which is bullshit on so many levels,” she says. “Why do I have someone else pressing the buttons for me when I know what I want and I want to be by myself?”

She later enrolled at L.A.’s Beat Lab Academy, where she learned about engineering and music production. This, coupled with a few more expeditions to Spain, and Frances emerged with a sense of musical confidence.

The journey is evident between her first EP, Gravestone Feel, in 2017 and her second, Timeism, in 2018. The former is sparse and laid back. Timeism, which at six tracks is double the length of its predecessor, is notably more complex. Songs such as “Netflix and Chill” and “For a Good Time Call” are bright, layered with beats and dance-worthy melodies.

“I’m getting so much closer with every song to finding my honest self with music,” says Frances, who is now writing songs for a new album. “[But] as much as I like Timeism, there’s still a barrier between my honest self-essence and the music being created.”

It comes down to tools and skills, she says, and a willingness to experiment.

“Everything I make that sounds good is an accident,” she says. “That is my only job: not to censor myself in the studio.” Sometimes, Frances says, she has to remind herself of that.

“I’ll say, ‘Don’t think, Lillian, whatever you do, don’t think ...’” she says. “All you have to do is experiment and mess stuff up … There’s so much beauty in mistakes.” Ω Photo courtesy of lillian frances

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thu 8pm, fri 8pm, sat 8pm, sun 2pm. through 2/3; $10-$20; celebration arts, 2727 b street, (916) 455-2787, celebrationarts.net.

Martin Luther King Jr. weekend was a most appropriate time for Celebration Arts to debut its outstanding production of Rick Foster’s Abolition.

Foster’s hero—one of a pair in this two-man play—is Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave who devoted his life to securing the freedom of all who were held in bondage, and doing it nonviolently. Along with the much-credited Mohandas Gandhi, Douglass surely inspired King’s approach to protest.

The other icon in this struggle for freedom is a white, Bible-quoting Puritan named John Henry.

He saw slavery as a government war of oppression and, in the manner of Malcolm X decades later, advocated “whatever means necessary” to end that evil. He was willing to give his life (and did) to provoke the war that would end slavery.

Foster has written more than a dozen plays dealing with social conflict (including Friendly Fire about the genocide of Native Americans) and he demonstrates an unusual ability to understand and relate true human emotion and intention.

Foster directs this excellent production, which stars newcomer Levi Lowe as Douglass and Equity actor Thomas F. Maguire as Brown. Ω

4 Ireland in turmoil This month marks the 100th anniversary of the start of the Irish War of Independence—a three-year, guerrilla uprising against British rule. And in 1924, Irish playwright Sean O’Casey debuted his play Juno and the Paycock, focused on the fractured footsteps left behind on the Boyle family, struggling in the squalor of a Dublin tenement.

Though Juno references the upheaval, this is a personal play about how politics, poverty, poor choices and limited options tear a family apart.

California Stage’s production captures this play’s heart and heartbreak with a strong cast and a beautifully rendered production.

The matriarch of the family is Juno Boyle, who tries to keep family and finances afloat—played with fierce, fiery determination by Michele Koehler.

Edward Claudio softly slides soul and sentiment into his portrayal of her sad-sap husband, Jack, while the rest of the dozen talented actors skillfully individualize each of their unique characters.

It takes a while for this production to find the right rhythm—both in the pacing and in the Irish accents. But once it does, the audience is effectively pulled into the family drama and dynamics— helped along with period-perfect sets and costumes, and sweetly spiced up with Gaelic songs and —Patti RobeRts storytelling.

Juno and the Paycock: fri 8pm, sat 8pm, sun 2pm; through 2/17; $15-$20; california stage, 1725 25th street; (916) 451-5822; calstage.org.

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Martin Luther King Jr. and the Sound of Freedom is playing now as an installment of B Street Theatre’s family series. Returning to the Sacramento stage before a stint on Broadway is Jahi Kearse, portraying King in this work written and directed by Jerry Montoya. Set in 1960s segregated America, King narrates the struggle for racial equality. You’ll meet other leaders of the civil rights movement, including John Lewis, Fannie Lou Hamer and Claudette Colvin. Take in the stark reality of racism in the United States—and while you’re here, consider some of Kings’ words: “Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.” Sat 1/26, 3pm; Sun 1/27, 1pm & 4pm; Sat 2/2, 1pm; Sun 2/3, 1pm. Through 2/3; $19-$24; B Street Theatre, 2700 Capitol Avenue; (916) 443-5300, bstreettheatre.org.

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Sacramento Vegetarian Society president Glenn Destatte (left) and Chili Smith Family Foods owner Steve Smith hold some of Smith’s heirloom beans and rice in front of the McClellan Conference Center, the new home of this year’s SacTown VegFest.

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It’s hard not to notice the many fast-food restaurants flanking Watt Avenue on the route to the SacTown VegFest at its new location. The vegan festival, now in its fourth year, has relocated out of the city center to the McClellan Conference Center for the first time, next to the closed Air Force base.

The event, put on by the Sacramento Vegetarian Society, happens on Saturday, January 26, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 5411 Luce Avenue.

It hosts food and lifestyle vendors who cater to the vegan crowd and also has speaker presentations and cooking demos.

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SVS president and organizer Glenn Destatte said he scrambled to find a place when he found out in the fall that the festival’s former venue, Sacramento Charter High School on 34th Street, was not an option.

“SacTown VegFest is a great event, and we have been proud to host it in the past,” Kari Wehrly, chief of schools for St. HOPE Public Schools, said in an email. “Unfortunately, it didn’t work out for us to host it this year, but we will look for future opportunities to partner on this important initiative.”

But Destatte made that lemon into agave-sweetened lemonade.

“Losing the old venue is a blessing

by Twyla Teitzel, who will also be at in disguise,” he said. At the school, he the festival. While Chili Smith is not an said, would-be festivalgoers told him exclusively vegan venture, Smith said, they would circle around trying to find “We were one of the original people at parking, then give up and leave. The the Farm-to-Fork Festival,” and “we’re conference center has 2,000 parking committed that we support the local spaces. shows and plant-based community.”

While parking may be plentiful, Yolanda’s Tamales is another the new venue is costing a lot more, nonexclusively vegan company that Destatte said. So for the first time, has participated at every VegFest SVS is charging admission, which may and found success in the plant-based be purchased in advance online or at market. Andres Yanez, son of namethe door. Tickets range from $2.50 to sake Yolanda Yanez, said his mom $5, with free entry for kids under 6 began selling tamales out of her van years old. in 1988. She brought the company to Weather permitting, the plan is to Sacramento in 1996, and has been sellhave a “rescue animal area” on the ing at local markets, such as the Oak grassy area by the conference center’s Park Farmers Market. entrance. Animal rescue organizations “A lot vegan and vegetarian people Blackberry Creek Animal Sanctuary always asked for a vegan menu, then and Harvest Home agreed to bring VegFest came up… and [Destatte] animals with whom people can get up gave us the opportunity,” Yanez said. close and personal. Asked if he was So the company had a “menu worried that having essentially shakeup,” and has sold out a petting zoo would conflict every year at the festival, Many with some attendees’ including 1,000 units last values of how humans year. It even got hired to of the 40 use animals, Destatte cater a vegan wedding. or so vendors replied, “The organizaWhile no one in the confirmed for this tions that we talked to family-run company say they were willing. If is vegan, they stand year’s event they are saying it helps by their plant-based are local. promote the cause, we’re food—tamales, tacos, good with it.” tostadas, berry lemonade, Destatte, SVS president almond-milk horchata and mintsince 2011, said he “became vegan by cucumber-lime aguas frescas—and marriage” in 2006, when he married enjoy eating it themselves.

Mary Rodgers, who co-organizes the “Every year the event has surprised VegFest. SVS stepped up in 2016 to us,” Yanez said. He said their herbiput on the festival when the Del Paso vore customers “are our most passionBoulevard Partnership, which previously ate,” and they are grateful to the vegan hosted the VegFest, stopped presenting community. This year, Yanez said the event after 2015. he and his family plan to bring more Many of the 40 or so vendors supply to try their best not to sell out. confirmed for this year’s event (as of “Vegans have been good for busiJanuary 22) are local, such as vegan ness,” Yanez said. gelato company Conscious Creamery And not just for local businesses. and Bambi’s Vegan Tacos food truck, Recently, even some of those fast-food and others are from afar, such as chains on that stretch of Watt Avenue Southern California vegan clothing and introduced vegan and vegetarian accessory company Cowhugger. menus at some of their U.S. locations, A new vendor is Chili Smith Family such as Carl’s Jr. using the Beyond Foods from Carmichael, which will be Meat burger patty. Maybe more will selling rice and beans, chili dogs and join the trend in time for the fifth chili sauce. Owner Steve Smith began VegFest next year. Ω selling locally grown heirloom beans and rice online, and around April 2017 Join the Sacramento Vegetarian Society for the settled into a brick-and-mortar storefront, Sactown VegFest on January 26 at the McClellan Conference Center, 5411 Luce avenue. Visit vegevents. where he hosts cooking classes. Two com/events/sactown-vegfest-2019 for tickets and each month are plant-based and taught more info.

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Toward the back of the venue, Denise Chelini, another organizer of Audio Waffle, wrangled up two flavors of waffles from scratch: classic and the month’s special, holiday spice.

Chelini swears the secret ingredient in her waffles is love. (It’s actually flaxseed.) But the waffles were so tasty and hit that Sunday-nostalgia button so well (even for this atheist), they may as well be made from an omniscient love. The selection of toppings such as whipped cream, butter, syrup and peanut butter easily out-wowed any youth group’s measly offering of donuts and danishes. I grabbed a plate and a mug and found an empty spot on a bench to enjoy my afternoon breakfast to the tune of … well, would there be any tunes?

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As churchgoers finish their Sunday services and head out for family brunches or youth group activities, another kind of group congregates at the Red Museum for their own invocation of sorts.

Misfits, introverts and musicians come with the lure of homemade waffles and piping hot coffee every third Sunday. But they stay for an array of noise artists, clashers of metal, makers of trash instruments and lovers of dissonance. This is Sacramento Audio Waffle, or as co-organizer Lob Instagon prefers “church for outsiders.”

During an early winter showcase, the venue had a welcoming, inclusive vibe. Attendees filled large, bench-like pews and an array of mannequin parts (that could pass as a choir) were displayed on a back-lit balcony as a group of straggly musicians hunched over their noise contraptions as if preparing their sermons. Audience members spoke in hushed tones and quietly sipped store-brand coffee from thrift-store mugs. Everyone exuded an air of casual reverence. The more

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“song,” but really that’s just noise decibels flirting with your ears. I was constantly almost hearing a melody with each performance, whether it was the solitary guy sitting with his guitar on his lap, striking and, at times, caressing the strings with different sizes of metal measuring cups, or the dude shooting a toy space laser, hitting a wood block and shouting a hearing exam into the microphone.

Although it’s difficult to explain the appeal, noise art hits the eardrums in an extra special way. Like people speaking in tongues, we hear a line of logic amid total chaos. It’s easy to write it off as nothing more than watching people fiddle with things.

But there is art at play here. It’s a personal experience expressed as performance. Emotion distilled down to noise. Noise that gets you lost and yet keeps you firmly rooted in the moment.

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MUSIC THURSDAY, 1/24 CiTiZEn SniPS: Also at play are Fonty—a lo-fi rock ’n’ roll band—and the Countermen, an indie rock group from Placerville. Citizen Snips is a folky indie rock band with a bit of a Futurama reference going on. 7:30pm, $5. Old Ironsides, 1901 10th St.

GLoBAL rHYTHMS ConCErT: The Crocker gets cooking with some Brazilian música. Join Sandy Cressman and Homenagem Brasileira for this evening of vibrant, electrifying cultural music. 6:30pm, $10-$20. Crocker Art Museum, 216 O St.

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SERENgETI The Chicago hip-hop artist will be performing with So Much Light, Sparks Across Darkness and Comfort Creature. 2/18, 7pm, $10-$15, on sale now.

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MUSE The superstars from Devon,

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FRIDAY, 1/25 cannabis business owner will perform, and may very well mention or reference marijuana in his show. I don’t get his name, though. 7pm, $35. Ace of Spades, 1417 R St.

dAViS JAZZ niGHT: The jazz night is nigh,

the VIP ticket grants early access at 5:30 p.m. and puts you on a whole other plane of beer. There’s not just beverages, though: You can see some curated artwork and participate in an auction. You can nosh on food tastings paired with your beverages of choice, or just go as a designated driver and mingle with brewers. 5411 Luce Avenue, artofbeerinvitational.com.

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meaning you’re in for a monthly, free, 12-piece jazz experience with the New Harmony Jazz Band. Don’t miss it for the life of you. 7pm, no cover. John Natsoulas Gallery, 521 1st St. in Davis.

THE SPEEd oF SoUnd in SEAWATEr: The Elk Grove rock band has a funky and emotionally vulnerable sound and will be performing—but you probably want to know what the actual speed of sound in seawater is. The University of Rhode Island’s Discovery of Sound in the Sea website clocks that speed at around 1,500 meters per second—about five times faster than sound travels in air. 6:30pm, $10-$12. Holy Diver, 1517 21st St.

WiLLiAM FiTZSiMMonS: Crafting heartbreaking tribulations during the AIDS epidemic travels to Sacramento for Broadway on Tour. 3/12-3/17, various times, $26-$90, on sale now. Community Center Theater, my.broadwaysacramento.com.

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CHAYANNE The Puerto Rican pop icon will leave no doubt as to his talent and vocal capacity on the Desde El Alma Tour. 4/14, 7pm, $59$350, on sale now. Golden 1 Center, ticketmaster.com.

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how you like your folk rock—from New Zealand—then you aren’t going to want to miss the didgeridoo-heavy Like a Storm, from Auckland. Royal Tusk and Afterlife also join the show. 6:30pm, $15. Holy Diver, 1517 21st St.

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Jeff Lynne, can boast of producing songs by the Beatles? A number of people, but how many of them are also talented artists?

Fewer. 6/22, 8pm,

$45.94-$666, on sale now. Golden 1 Center,

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songs based on heartbreaking situations, Fitzsimmons will share his deeply personal music. Eddie Berman will also be around. 7pm, $35. Sofia Tsakopoulos Center for the Arts, 2700 Capitol Ave.

SATURDAY, 1/26 BEETHoVEn FESTiVAL PArT 2: The second part of the festival is finally here—it feels like a week since part one happened. This time, the Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera will perform Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, “Choral Fantasy” and “Gloria, Sanctus, Benedictus from Mass in C Major.” 8pm, $18-$75. Sacramento Community Center Theater, 1301 L St.

BLAZE YA dEAd HoMiE: The horrorcore rapper who performs as a reincarnated gang member will be sharing the stage with ABK, a Native American rapper who also

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performs with Psychopathic Records. 7pm, $15-$18. Holy Diver, 1517 21st St.

CLUB SEAnCE: L’Avenir and Tuxedo Gleam are the electronic offerings of the evening. Both are billed as minimal synth bands, promising to do the most with the least. Dance, rinse, repeat. 8:30pm, $10-$12. Midtown Barfly, 1119 21st St.

HEArTLESS: The tribute to the band Heart joins forces with Invincible, a tribute band to Pat Benatar. It can be assumed, therefore, that it will be a night of rocking music. 6pm, $12$15. Harlow’s, 2708 J St.

JoE CrAVEn: The irrepressible Craven brings the Sometimers along for a night of rollicking, rocking, rolling and hot licks. 7pm, $35. Sofia Tsakopoulos Center for the Arts, 2700 Capitol Ave.

SUNDAY, 1/27 YoLo MAMBo: 2018 SAMMIES winners and current SAMMIES nominees are playing a show, bringing you the best 2018 had to offer in Latin jazz, Irish music and other genre polymerization. Will they be the best in 2019? Your votes determine that. 6pm, no cover. KetMoRee Thai Restaurant, 238 G St. in Davis.

JoE MAZZAFErro QUinTET: The Midtown Vanguard Jazz Series at CLARA brings the Mazzaferro quintet to Midtown. It’s a night full of original jazz pieces and a fourmovement suite. 6:30pm, $10-$20. CLARA, 2420 N St.

MONDAY, 1/28 GLACiEr VEinS: The Portland indie punk band Glacier Veins will be playing, as will Fake It (Sacramento indie rockers) and Captain Cutiepie (Sacramento punk rockers). 6:30pm, $8-$12. Momo, 2708 J St.

TUESDAY, 1/29 JJ GrEY & MoFro: Soul rockers from Florida will perform their deeply soulful music and trademark groovy, gravelly tones. 8pm, $30$35. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.

TriTonAL: The electro-pop duo from Texas, David Reed and Chad Cisneros will hit R Street and may make people want to dance. 7pm, $25-$30. Ace of Spades, 1417 R St.

WEDNESDAY, 1/30 MArSHA AMBroSiUS: Liverpudlian and singersongwriter, Ambrosius sings rhythm and blues music with a voice like a gas-powered streetlight—powerful and bright, as well as evocative of another time. 7pm, $26$99. Ace of Spades, 1417 R St.

rEVErEnd HorTon HEAT: The rockabilly/ psychabilly band of Jim Heath features wailing guitars, deeply unsettling lyrics and delightful tastes in jackets. Big Sandy, Voodoo Glow Skulls and the Delta Bombers will also perform. 8pm, $32.50-$38. Harlow’s, 2708 J St.

FRIDAY, 1/25

Challenger Community Mission powerhouSe Science center, 6pm, $20

Do you have what it takes to make it in the world of simulated spaceflight? Only one way to find out—join in the mission of Martian space travel management. Set in the MUSEUMS year 2076 where a lab has been established on the red planet, you and a team will work to bring spacecraft to land safely, to send exploratory probes to Mars’ moons and more. Aimed at those over 9 years old and requiring a parental participant, show up and get spaced out. 3615 Auburn Boulevard, powerhousesc.org.

FESTIVALS

FRIDAY, 1/25 HOFBRAU BEER TASTING 4-COURSE DINNER: Get

FRIDAY, 1/25 ART OF BEER INVITATIONAL 2019: Check out the event highlight for this beer festival on page 26. 7pm, $65. McClellan Conference Center, 5411 Luce Ave.

SACRAMENTO HOME & LANDSCAPE EXPO: If the name Gary Brown means something to you, then you may already be planning on attending the Home and Landscape Expo— as Gary Brown enterprises are presenting the three-day selection of home and landscape products. Thinking of improving your home? New windows, re-roofing? Come to the one place in town that gives away a free door every day. Noon, $10. Cal Expo, 1600 Exposition Blvd.

SATURDAY, 1/26 1ST SACRAMENTO BLACK COLLEGE EXPO: Sacramento State hosts many colleges and universities, including top Historically Black Colleges and Universities and other state schools. Bring a transcript and find a school that fits your education goals. 9am, no cover. California State University, 6000 J St.

SACRAMENTO SLIME TIME: Check out the slime event highlight on page 29. Do you like slime?

Then you’re not going to want to miss this. Noon, $20-$45. Four Points by Sheraton Sacramento International Airport, 4900 Duckhorn Drive.

SACTOWN VEGFEST: The Sacramento Vegetarian Society brings you your annual fix of vegan and plant-based festivals. Hopefully you eat vegetables year-round—but even if you don’t, you should come see what edible plants Sacramento has to offer.

There will be guest speakers, food samples, food demonstrations, rescue animals and more, all in a new, larger venue than previous years. Get even more deets on page 24. 10am, $4-$5. McClellan Conference Center, 5411 Luce Ave.

your German beer and German food all in one convenient location—and no, I’m not talking about Germany. It’s this night of decadence, featuring four different beers and courses of dinner. There’s an omnivorous option as well as a vegan food option, so don’t delay. Register in advance. 6pm, $25. Knobs & Knockers, 1023 Front St.

SUNDAY, 1/27 SACRAMENTO CHOCOLATE SALON: Have a sweet tooth for a certain chocolate-flavored food? Is that food chocolate? Then come on down to the Citizen Hotel for a salon of cocoa. There’s chocolate tasting, talks from premier chocolate savants as well as exclusive chocolate for you to peruse and pursue. 11am, $14.95. The Citizen Hotel, Metropolitan Terrace.

TUESDAY, 1/29 FOOD LITERACY CENTER OPEN HOUSE: Come celebrate the place that helps Sacramento kids become more food savvy—the Food Literacy Center. It’s an open house that will let you meet the people behind the services, tell you about the status of the Broccoli Headquarters project urban farm and more. Free beverages and appetizers abound. Register on Eventbrite. 5:30pm, no cover. Food Literacy Center Office, 2973 3rd Ave.

UNIFIED WINE & GRAPE SYMPOSIUM: Join industry leaders at this wine and grape symposium. Symposium—there’s a word I understand. With all manner of breakout sessions on issues affecting the industry as well as plenty of equally exciting wine tastings, wine-making workshops and more, this is the one stop shop for the state of the viticulture union. 11:30am, $55-$755. Sacramento Convention Center Complex, 1400 J St.

FILM

FOOD & DRINK THURSDAY, 1/24 2019 GLOBAL TEA INITIATIVE COLLOQUIUM: What’s a colloquium, you ask? Apparently, it’s a fancy name for an academic seminar—and this is one of those, centered around tea.

Open to the public, it has speakers from leaders across the world of tea, including local kombucha business owners, doctors specializing in tea as well as tea tastings, showcases and more. Register in advance, then steep yourself in the collegiate world of tea. 10am, no cover. UC Davis Conference Center, 550 Alumni Lane in Davis.

FRIDAY, 1/25 WILDER THAN WILD: This film details some of the fires that have swept across California over the last 10 years and their devastating effects, as well as measures that are being taken to reduce risks of fires. See how fires have historically affected California and witness a discussion after the screening of the film. 6:30pm, $10. Contact American River Conservancy for location in Coloma.

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was saying these lines, it might not work, but Davidoff could say anything with his alternating loud and quiet desperation of a delivery. Through 1/26. $22.50. Invisible Disabilities Comedy Show. Nina G is the headliner of this night of comedy featuring folks telling jokes about their own personal disabilities. Other comedians include Kelley Nicole, Sureni Weerasekera, Nicole Tran and more. Sunday 1/27, 7pm. $16. 2100 Arden Way, Suite 225.

a family torn apart despite miseries. See our professional reviewer’s review on page 23. Through 2/17. $15-$20. 2215 J St.

CAPITAL STAGE: Slowgirl. The story of a teenager fleeing the United States to Costa Rica.

It’s directed by Jennifer King and stars Tim Kniffin and Stephanie Altholz. Through 2/24. $22-$42. 2215 J St.

CREST THEATRE: BSM VI. It’s the sixth installment of Bhangra State of Mind, featuring dance teams from all over the country performing the colorful, Punjab harvest dancing.

Ticket prices go up at the door. Saturday 1/26, 5:30pm. $15-$40. 1013 K St.

SACRAMENTO STATE: Comedy Night. Jen Kober, Shahera Hyatt and Wendy Lewis perform in this free night of comedy. Thursday 1/24, 7:30pm. No cover. 6000 J St. PHOTO COURTESY OF NASA/JPL/USGS

troubling story of the rise of Nazi Germany, starring James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan. 12:30pm, no cover. Central Library, 828 I St.

COMEDY 24TH STREET THEATRE: Hawaii’s Favorite Comedian, Augie T. Augie T, clearly billed as Hawaii’s favorite comedian, will give a performance unlike any other. I’ve checked out his stuff briefly, and he seems like an endearing personality. Also, he’s won music awards and other popularity honors. Saturday 1/26, 7pm. $30. 2791 24th St.

CREST THEATRE: Steve Trevino. The nationally touring Trevino and writer for Mind of Mencia is coming to town for one night only. Friday 1/25, 7:30pm. $28-$48. 1013 K St.

HARLOW’S: Hannibal Buress. This very funny person is pretty undeniably funny—instantly captivating audiences and delivering clever, sometimes subdued lines. It’s no wonder the shows all sold out. Through 1/28, sold out. 2708 J St.

LAUGHS UNLIMITED COMEDY CLUB: Tamer Kattan. Like many, many comedians, Kattan makes fun of himself, his upbringing and the way he looks. Don’t miss the very, very smiley laughmaker. Through 1/27. $10. 1207 Front St.

PUNCH LINE: Dov Davidoff. Davidoff has a number of very comedic aspects to his act: his delivery as well as his vocal quality. It goes all over the place, like some recent college graduates, and if anyone else

JEAN HENDERSON PERFORMING ARTS: Disney’s

TOMMY T’S COMEDY CLUB: Jerry Law. The

The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Davis Musical Theatre Company brings you the story of Quasimodo, Disney style. There are songs by Alan Menken with lyrics by Stephen Schwartz—which are two great things that should certainly go great together. Through 1/27. $20. 607 Pena Drive in Davis.

Oakland comedian tells stories about his life and his opinions about things. He’s worked with Deon Cole, Mike Epps and Dave Chappelle. Through 1/26. $15-$25. 12401 Folsom Blvd. in Rancho Cordova.

ON STAGE

SACRAMENTO THEATRE: Murder for Two. If

B STREET THEATRE: Martin Luther King Jr. & The Sound of Freedom. Experience the power and history of Martin Luther King Jr. and other heroes of the civil rights movement. Check out SN&R’s stage pick on page 23—in the stage section of our little paper. Through 2/23. $19-$24. New Play Brunch Presents Our Father. Have some complimentary brunch and drinks to go along with a play reading. The play is Our Father, a comedy, apparently, about a father in a coma, a wife with dementia, sons with their own issues and more. Sunday 1/27, 11am. $12. 2700 Capitol Ave.

BLUE PRYNT RESTAURANT: The Dinner Detective Murder Mystery. Participate in a fun murder mystery—where you get to eat dinner that someone else makes, and it’s all fake. Not the food, though. Friday 1/26, 6pm. $59.95. 815 11th St.

CLARA: Stories on Stage Sacramento. Tom Barbash will be sharing a passage of his new novel The Dakota Winter and Shelley Blanton-Stroud, a Sacramento writer, will share a short story. Additionally, actors Ian Hopps and Jessica Laskey will perform readings. Friday 1/25, 7:30pm. $10 donation suggested. 1425 24th St.

CALIFORNIA STAGE THEATER COMPANY: Juno & the Paycock. During the 100th anniversary of Ireland’s independence, California Stage offers this drama set in Dublin in 1919 about

two-person musical comedies are your cup of tea, then heat up a hot pot of coffee and drink up. It’s a whodunit madcap vaudevillian work of high energy. 8pm. Through 2/10. $34-$38. 1419 H St.

THE WILKERSON THEATRE INSIDE THE CALIFORNIA STAGE COMPLEX: The Guardians. Jayna Anderson writes and acts in this world premiere directed by Aerin Morneau and following the exploits of Camille, a 52-year-old single mother planning for the worst even in the best of times. Through 2/16. $18-$20. 1721 25th St.

WOODLAND OPERA HOUSE: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Likely the second most popular entry into the American Lexicon of Classic Spelling Bee stories—the first, of course, being my young adult novel that I’m still working on.

Catch this comedy, though, while it’s still around. Through 2/3. $7-$25. 340 Second St. in Woodland.

ART BEATNIK STUDIOS: R.Ariel Art Installation + Performance. R.Ariel joins forces with Kafari, Spacewalker and Lillian Frances to perform music alongside an art installation.

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SATURDAY, 1/26

Intro to Urban Backyard Beekeeping AmericAn river rAnch in the SchoolhouSe, 1pm, $25

Have you always wanted to harness the awesome power of bees, but lacked the basic understanding of apiaries? Come to this primer course on how to get your colony started. You’ll learn how to CLASSES avoid some of the common pitfalls and some of the necessary lessons, including how to talk to your neighbors about the hobby, how to select a hive and other basic beekeeping instructions. 2140 Chase Drive in Rancho Cordova, soilborn.org.

THE MORTAL STORM: Take in a classic matinee

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There will be light food and drinks served.

Check out the Phoenix musician, novelist and all-around creative individual that is R.Ariel. Friday 1/25, 7:30pm. $10 sliding scale. 723 S St.

CroCKer art museum: Arte Extraordinario.

This recent acquisition exhibit at the Crocker features a broad spectrum of Spanish-speaking artists from the Americas, including Carlos Almaraz, José María de Servín and more. They vary in mediums as well as subjects, but all have ties to the Latinx communities of the Western Hemisphere. through 3/24, $12. 216 O St.

davis arts Center: Mini Quilts and Sharing Lost Secrets. Quilts are the fabric of the art world. Karen Richardson’s work is featured in Mini Quilts and Robert Kennerdy’s photography makes up the Sharing Lost Secrets section of the exhibition. through 1/26. no cover. 1919 F St. in Davis.

Kennedy GaLLery: Naked Nights Exhibit. With metalwork from Sally Shapiro and paintings

by Gabriel Garbow, you’ll hopefully learn why this exhibit is called Naked Nights—because I’m curious. through 2/2. no cover. 1931 L St.1.

tim CoLLom GaLLery: Winter Garden. Emily Swinsick and Randy Won are featured in this January exhibit. Come soak up the garden of the season and all of its thematic sensory experiences, with sculpture and fabric. through 1/31. no cover. 915 20th St.

uC davis desiGn museum: Weaving & Woodwork, A Scandinavian Design Partnership. The work of UC Davis design professor Helge Olsen and his wife Birgitta Olsen is displayed. Helge designed wood furniture and Birgitta created wall tapestries. They are Scandinavian in design and aesthetics, and mesh well as a combined exhibit. through 4/21. no cover. Cruess Hall, #124 in Davis.

Jan sHrem and maria manetti sHrem museum oF art: Exhibition Xicanx Futurity.

Six Xicana artists are the subject of this exhibit, described as an intergenerational dialogue around themes of community, ceremony and emerging artistic practices. The focal artists are Celia Herrera Rodríguez,

Felicia Montes, Gina Aparicio, Gilda Posada, Margaret “Quica” Alarcón and Melanie Cervantes. through 5/5. no cover. 254 Old Davis Road in Davis.

muSeumS CaLiFornia state raiLroad museum: It’s All Aboard for Story Time! with Local TV Anchor & Reporter Dina Kupfer. The California Railroad Museum is quite literally powered by volunteers—come spend some time with a high profile one. Dina Kupfer, of Good Day Sacramento reporting and anchoring fame, will be reading a children’s book at the museum—but that’s not all. Kupfer will read the story aloud for young children to appreciate. Come hear a train story in a several-story train museum. monday 1/28, 11am. $6-$12. 111 I St.

FoLsom History museum: 39th Annual Quilt & Vintage Fashion Show. There’s a reason there are two quilt shows going on simultaneously—and my theory is that it’s winter, and it’s cold; hence, quilts. Prove me right by attending this highly visual show about specialized fabric quilts. through 4/21. $4-$10. 823 Sutter St. in Folsom.

PowerHouse sCienCe Center: Challenger Community Mission. Do you know a nineyear-old or older kid interested in studying the moons of Mars? They’ll take a simulated space mission and struggle to launch probes in the year 2076. Now that is some scintillating programming, folks! See event highlight on page 27 for more information. Friday 1/25, 6:30pm. $20. 3615 Auburn Blvd.

SPorTS & ouTdoorS Friday, 1/25 25tH PBr unLeasH tHe Beast: The Professional Bull Riders are coming to town this weekend for three days of bull-riding excitement.

If you’re looking for people holding onto animals for dear life, this is your jam.

Sponsored by Monster Energy Drinks—it gives you wings. 7:45pm, $15-$25. Golden 1 Center, 500 David J. Stern Walk.

Through SaTurday, 1/26

Jersey Boys Harris Center, various times, $48-$92

Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons lend their story to this musical about some boys from Jersey. This national on staGe tour production is not recommended for young ages and features “profane Jersey language” as the group of singers hits the big time. Now that’s a ringing endorsement—and potentially what’s missing from most theatrical works.

Take in the jukebox musical with hits like “Walk Like A Man,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry” and more. Shows are selling out fast. 10 College Parkway, harriscenter.net.

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Sacramento Slime Time Four Points sheraton, noon, $25-$45

Are you slimy? Do you like the way squishy things feel? Well, you’re not alone—come spend FeSTivalS time with folks who create slime on Instagram and post with it. There’s a number of VIP slime afficionados to meet and interact with, including Mermaid Slimez, Slime Designers, Slimey Pallets and more.

There are games, competitions, raffles— everything you need to feel oddly satisfied and indulge the slimiest parts of your soul. 4900 Duckhorn Drive, eventbrite.com/e/sacramento-slime-time-tickets-52962639681.

WEdNESday, 1/30 a DaY iN THe liFe OF a SalMON STReaM: Get unique insight into the daily life of a fish: the salmon. John Kipping, local naturalist, will lead the discussion about the many aspects of the fish’s daily comings and goings.

Contact the ARC for information. 6:30pm, $5-$10. American River Conservancy, 348 State Highway 49 in Coloma.

LGBtQ tHurSday, 1/24 QUeeR aNiMe SOCial: The subject of the evening: watching queer anime. No further explanation needed—but bring some snacks. 6pm, no cover. Gender Health Center, 2020 29th St., Suite 201.

taKE aCtION tHurSday, 1/24 CReaTive eCONOMY MeeTiNG: If you’re concerned about the creatives in Sacramento, show up and discuss the ways to push for creative economic investment in the future. The Creative Edge was one commitment this group received from the city last year—see what’s in store for the coming one. 5:30pm. No cover. The Atrium 7300, 7300 Folsom Blvd.

FrIday, 1/25 PUBliC GOOD aPP HOUSe DeMO BReaKFaST SaCRaMeNTO: Share in this discussion about using apps to create social innovation.

There will be breakfast, like-minded folks and some unstoppable flow of innovative, synergizing biz-qualitations that even the most tech-savvy blockchainers can benefit from. 10am, no cover. The Urban Hive, 1601 Alhambra Blvd.

Saturday, 1/26 FUNDRaiSeR FOR NaTalie CORONa MeMORial FUND: Sudwerk Brewing Co. hosts this benefit for the Natalie Corona Memorial Fund, in honor of the fallen Davis police officer. One hundred percent of the taproom proceeds benefit the fund to support the family and future scholarships.

Doc Tari and Julie and the Jukes will be performing. 2pm, no cover. The Dock Store, 2001 2nd St. in Davis.

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BlOCK PRiNTiNG WORKSHOP: Sol Art leads this workshop. Following their precise instructions, you’ll find yourself thinking in terms of blocks, making block prints for every occasion, opening up a store to sell block prints and eventually hosting your own block printing workshop—so this class is a worthwhile investment. 11am, $25. Sol Collective, 2574 21st St.

An Evening to Remember Now accepting Valentine’s Day Reservations

FlUiD aCRYliCS: This paint pouring class led

by Wende Obata is cathartic, as you’ll be pouring paints and letting fluid dynamics do all the heavy artistic lifting for you.

Science. 11:30am, $70-$80. Pence Gallery, 212 D St. in Davis.

iNTRODUCTiON TO URBaN BaCKYaRD BeeKeePiNG: Having trouble keeping the bees that follow you around happy and healthy? Well, check out the event highlight on page 28. 1pm, $25. Soil Born Farms, 2140 Chase Drive in Rancho Cordova.

KeNNY THOMaS BaSKeTBall aCaDeMY: Former NBA player and former Sacramento King Kenny Thomas leads a basketball academy for youths. Thomas was on the Kings roster when they last went to the playoffs—in 2006. 9am, $75. American River College Theatre, 4700 College Oak Drive.

PiZZa MaKiNG ClaSS: Pizza-making may seem like an art form that has a high barrier to entry, but that’s not exactly true! Chef Ben will tear down those troublesome preconceptions about the round, doughy delights, and replace them with productive notions about wood-firing pizza. Wow, look at you go! 1pm, $55. Porchlight Brewing Company, 866 57th St.

WEdNESday, 1/30 HOW TO CleaN aND PRePaRe RaW FleeCeS: Get the lowdown on how to deal with raw fleeces from step one all the way to the final step, No. 40. You’ll learn to clean, to skirt and prepare the material for your end goals. 10am, $75-$100. The Tin Thimble, 3750 Taylor Road in Loomis.

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SATURDAY 1/26

SUNDAY 1/27

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 1/28-1/30

Monique Heart, 8pm, $15-$30

Spectacular Saturdays, 7pm, call for cover

B.P.M. & Sunday Funday Remixed, 4pm, call for cover

Trapicana, 10pm, W, no cover

BAr 101

Zach Waters Band, 9:30pm, no cover

Nate Grimmy, 9:30pm, no cover

Blue lAmp

RocDaMic Showcase, 9pm, call for cover

Haunt, Idle Hands and Hell Fire, 8pm, $10-$12

ArmAdillo music

Busy Lighthouse, 7pm, no cover

207 F ST., DAvIS, (530) 758-8058

BAdlAnds

Poprockz 90s Night, 7pm, call for cover

2003 k ST., (916) 448-8790 101 MAIN ST., ROSEvIllE, (916) 774-0505 1400 AlHAMbRA blvD., (916) 455-3400

Reverend Horton Heat with Big Sandy and more 8pm Wednesday, $32.50-$38 Harlow’s Psychobilly

Soft Nerve, Balms, VGDB and Oh, Lonesome Ana, 8pm, T, $10

Wolf Skin, Artisans, Nail the Casket, Atomic Flounder and more, 7pm, $10

cApiTol GArAGe

1500 k ST., (916) 444-3633

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

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

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

cresT TheATre

Steve Trevino, 7:30pm, $26.25-$48

Bhangra State of Mind VI, 5:30pm, $15-$40

JJ Grey and Mofro, 8pm, T, $30-$35

1013 k ST., (916) 476-3356

FAces

Ashley McBryde, Leah Turner, Elana Jane and Kaylee Starr, 8pm, W, $20

Thirsty Thursdays and Trivia Night, 7pm, call for cover

Absolut Fridays, 9pm, call for cover

Sequin Saturday, 9:30pm, call for cover

FATher pAddY’s irish puBlic house

Ralph Gordon, 6pm, call for cover

Papa Day Blues, 8pm, call for cover

High Card Drifters, 8pm, call for cover

Whiskey Pairing Dinner, 7pm, T, call for cover

Fox & Goose

BlueSoul, 8pm, no cover

Backburners and Back Alley Buzzards, 9pm, $5

Nagual and Salt Trio, 9pm, $5

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

500 DAvID J STERN WAlk, (888) 915-4647

Professional Bull Riders, 7:45pm, $15-$125

Professional Bull Riders, 6:45pm, $25-$350

Golden BeAr

Something 2 Do, 10pm, call for cover

Back Bar Saturdays, 10pm, no cover

1001 R ST., (916) 443-8825

Golden 1 cenTer

2326 k ST., (916) 441-2242

GoldField TrAdinG posT hAlFTime BAr & Grill

College Night, 10pm, call for cover

hArlow’s

Teedra Moses, 9pm, $18-$48

2708 J ST., (916) 441-4693

JJ Grey & Mofro

hideAwAY BAr & Grill

8pm Tueday, $30-$35 Crest Sacramento Southern Rock

hiGhwATer

Reverend Horton Heat, Big Sandy and more, 8pm, W, $32.50-$38

Heartless and Invincible, 6pm, $12-$15 Happy Hour, noon, call for cover

1910 Q ST., (916) 706-2465 1517 21ST ST.

Let’s Get Quizzical, 7pm, T, no cover; Cornhole, 6pm, W, no cover

Brian Lee Bender, 9pm, call for cover

2565 FRANklIN blvD., (916) 455-1331

holY diVer

Professional Bull Riders, 1:45pm, $15-$350

The Darling Clementines Variety Show: Hot & Steamy, 7pm, $15-$20

1630 J ST., (916) 476-5076

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

Tatianna’s Birthday Bash, call for time and cover

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

2000 k ST., (916) 448-7798 435 MAIN ST., WOODlAND, (530) 668-1044

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The MOANS, the Afraid, Defected Drones and Get Out in Sac, 7:30pm, $10

The BoArdwAlk

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

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Stoner duo Jay and Silent Bob from the movie Mallrats hang out in front of a pet store as Silent Bob tries to use his Jedi mind tricks to levitate a cigarette. “Adventure. Excitement. A Jedi craves not these things.”

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not to brag, but i consider myself something of a bad movie aficionado.

A connoisseur of crap, if you will. As co-host of the Dare Daniel podcast, I’m routinely called upon to watch and review the worst movies imaginable, so I’m fluent in dregs of all genres. That said, there’s probably no cinematic subgenre with a higher fail rate than the “stoner film.” Hallmarks include clueless heroes, horny adolescents, toilet humor, pervasive drug use and gratuitous sexuality. Good and great stoner movies form a diverse group that includes Friday and Dazed and Confused, but you’re far more likely to stumble upon an unwatchable bag of schwag. As far as the nine films listed, well, they’re basically the brown weed of stoner cinema.

Bio-dome (1996) The below-the-line cast is fascinating in this abrasive “jerk gene” comedy, which features key supporting turns from Kylie Minogue, Henry Gibson, pre-Scream Rose McGowan and William Atherton (playing a pompous scientist, of course), not to mention cameos from Roger Clinton, Patty Hearst and Tenacious D. Unfortunately, the above-the-line stars are the utterly unlikable Pauly Shore and Stephen Baldwin as Bud and Doyle, two numbskull buddies who accidentally get sealed in the titular science lab for a year after mistaking it for a mall. The molargrinding hijinks that ensue are aptly described by one character as “a nonstop moron-athon.” Baldwin has claimed that he gets recognized for his role in Bio-Dome more than anything else he

has ever done, so ouch for Baldwin’s entire career.

Bongwater (1998) Adapted from a Michael Hornburg novel, the rightly forgotten Bongwater is a dreary and shallow dramedy focusing on a repellent posse of Portland potheads, addicts and art world phonies.

The plot jumps between Luke Wilson as a slacker drug dealer and Alicia Witt as his tempestuous ex-girlfriend, and the questionable casting decisions only continue with Jamie Kennedy as a heroin-addicted punk rocker, Jack Black as an LSD-dispensing hippie and Scott Caan as anyone. Aside from the stoner angle, there is not much separating this film from the dime-a-dozen, Generation X ensemble comedy bummers that

There is a segment of the viewing public that holds an apparently bottomless appetite for horror, as even the most despised and neglected films seem to inspire legions of sequels. Take the Evil Bong franchise, a series of dirt-cheap horror comedies centering on Eebee, an all-powerful bong who traps smokers in an alternate dimension strip club. By the time of last year’s Evil Bong 777, though, Eebee had become one of the “good guys” and she spends most of this film making sassy, profane commentary during a ribald road trip to Las Vegas.

Lowlights include a visit to Versnatchy’s XXX Fuppet Theater, a sequence that culminates with a 15-foot-tall Elvis puppet ejaculating Silly String onto an ecstatic audience. And you thought cinema was dead.

leprechaun in the hood (2000) Another insanely low-rent horrorcomedy sequel, this was the fifth of Warwick Davis’ six appearances as Lubdan the Leprechaun, a magical monster forever on a homicidal search for his stolen gold. In this installment, Ice-T plays Mack Daddy O’Nasses, a pimp who becomes a record mogul when he entombs the leprechaun as a statue and steals his golden flute. This leads to numerous scenes where Ice-T shouts the word “flute,” which for my money is comedy gold, and I’ll kill anyone who tries to steal it. When a bumbling hiphop trio accidentally unleashes Lubdan, the leprechaun bogarts Mack Daddy’s joint and exclaims, “A friend with weed is a friend indeed.” For further study on leprechauns in the hood, consult the 2003 follow-up Back 2 tha Hood, in “schwag cinema” continued on page 35

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Any film that opens with an animated joint voiced by Mystikal exhorting the audience to “spark that shit up” seems destined for greatness, but this heavy-lidded high school comedy runs out of ideas fast. The film stars Wiz Khalifa as straitlaced, straight-A student Devin, while Snoop Dogg plays 15-year senior Mac. When Mac feeds Devin a potent pot brownie, the valedictorian turns into a hardcore stoner, but the duo still manages to impress “the scholarship guy from Yale” by creating an alternative energy source that uses cannabis as a catalyst. The second half of Mac & Devin Go to High School is essentially a succession of music videos, and the film’s 75-minute running time is padded out with over 10 minutes of outtakes and behind-thescenes footage.

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Ripped (2017)

A high-concept, straight-to-Netflix stoner movie about a couple of slow-witted stoner bros who fall asleep in 1986 and wake up in the present day. When their van breaks down on the way to a Run-DMC concert, Harris and Reeves smoke some “secret CIA weed” grown at Area 51 and pass out for 30 years, waking up as pot-bellied, middle-aged burnouts played by Russell Peters and Faizon Love. Any potential in that setup for satirizing overgrown adolescents gets buried under an avalanche There’s probably of witless jokes and shapeless scenes. no cinematic subgenre There are a few with a higher fail rate than laughs scattered the “stoner film.” Hallmarks throughout, mostly thanks to Love, but include clueless heroes, horny it’s not worth the adolescents, toilet humor, effort to find them.

Many have commented on writer-director Kevin Smith’s recent “stoner period,” a string of movies that includes Tusk pervasive drug use and and Yoga Hosers Sex Pot gratuitous sexuality. and coincides with (2009) Smith’s personal embrace of marijuana In a list filled with barrelas a creative crutch. Of scrapers, writer-director Eric course, Smith never needed an Forsberg hits rock bottom with this excuse to make a lazy, sloppy, bleary-eyed perfectly vile gross-out comedy. The film comedy, as attested by this execrable stars Rollin Perry and Seth Cassell as sophomore effort. The film stars Jeremy Spanky and Mert, horny teen virgins who London and Jason Lee as T.S. and Brodie, find some “African magic grass” with pop culture-barfing douchebags trying to aphrodisiac qualities inside a “Caribbean win back their girlfriends by sabotaging porno” and decide to use it to trick women a dating game show. Naturally, Jason into sex. Despite the sub-porn production Mewes and Smith show up as loveable values of Sex Pot, Forsberg goes for it drug dealers Jay and Silent Bob, who help in all the worst ways, trying to outdo the the sabotage by getting the show’s male pastry sex scene in American Pie with a contestants stoned. veritable food orgy, while a later scene involving a malfunctioning penis pump Puff, Puff, Pass (2006) tries to outdo the zipper scene in There’s Something About Mary. Add in a foulThis pathologically unfunny stoner mouthed toddler and some incest and you comedy was directed and produced by have one of the most depressing madcap Mekhi Phifer, who should have done comedies ever created. Ω

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What’s the fastest, most efficient way to clean your pipes and bongs? My mom is coming over and I want to have everything spotless.

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Pour some rubbing alcohol into your bong. I love the 90-percent stuff, but the 70-percent also works. Pour in some salt.

Some folks like a coarse or a kosher salt.

It doesn’t really matter. Seal the holes in your bong. Shake vigorously (The bong, don’t shake yourself.) Your bong should really clean in about two or three minutes.

Rinse well and enjoy. I have heard that some people like to heat up their alcohol in the microwave before pouring it into their bong, but I don’t think it will

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For the week oF January 24, 2019

the difference between love and sex

by JOey GARCIA

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I dated a man for months before he I’ve always had jobs, friends, admitted he is married. I’m gay and want opportunities and women drop into my a committed relationship, so I broke it off. lap. I’ve never actually thought about recently, he asked to be friends. we hung what I wanted, never proactively made out and it was nice. My father became ill anything happen. I want to do that and I had to fly home. My friend offered me now but feel overwhelmed by fear of a ride to the airport. as I thanked him, he rejection or failing hard, and never leaned over and gave me a long, deep kiss. recovering. advice?

I froze and walked away. he texted that he Telling yourself that everything wants us to be together. I asked if he was happens to you means you’re a victim. Be leaving his wife. he said he is all she has, honest: Have you really been passive? Or and they don’t have sex. She has no idea do you protect yourself from admitting he’s gay, by the way. he can’t offer what to power? Each one of your accomplishI want, but I think about him all the time. ments prepared you to accept who how do I get him out of my system? and what came next. For every job or Detox from the stories you tell yourself relationship you stepped into, there were about love. Much of what we learn and others you refused. Those refusals may accept as fact, isn’t true. An intense and have been indirect, but they were refusals delicious sexual connection doesn’t nonetheless. We all curate our indicate we’ve found real love lives when we say yes or or a soul mate. We’re just no or maybe. When you having awesome sex. accept this, you’ll also An intense and Longing isn’t romantic, discover ways that you delicious sexual but songs about longing have already pushed try to convince us connection doesn’t through rejection or otherwise. And a man failure. At that point, indicate we’ve found who stashes you isn’t falling down six times real love or a soul torn between two lovers. but rising up seven He’s commitment phobic. mate. will become the natural You deserve better. rhythm of your life. Ω When your mind distracts you with memories of your cheating ex-boyfriend, redirect your thoughts back to the present. When your MedItatIon oF the week body thrums with memories of fabulous sex, intervene. Clap your hands or say “Love takes off masks that we “No!” out loud. Do something physical to fear we cannot live without interrupt the flow of feelings. Remind yourand know we cannot live self that he refused to offer you everything within,” wrote James Baldwin. you love in a relationship: commitment, When do you show the face you compassion, honesty, boundaries and had before you were born? trust. Shout, “Thank you, next!” if it helps.

Remind yourself that he violated the agreed boundary of friendship by kissing you at a time you were particularly vulnerable. He wasn’t thinking of you when he stuck his Write, email or leave a message for tongue down your throat. He was thinking Joey at the News & Review. Give of himself, of what he desires, of what was your name, telephone number (for verification purposes only) and question—all best for him. It’s exactly how he behaves correspondence will be kept strictly confidential. in his marriage. So get him out of your system by making your goal of a committed Write Joey, 1124 Del Paso Boulevard, Sacramento, CA relationship a priority. When you do, letting 95815; call (916) 498-1234, ext. 1360; or email go and moving on will be a breeze. askjoey@newsreview.com.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): We might initially be

inclined to ridicule Stuart Kettell, a British man who spent four days pushing a Brussel sprout up 3,560-foot-high Mount Snowden with his nose.

But perhaps our opinion would become more expansive once we knew that he engaged in this stunt to raise money for a charity that supports people with cancer. In any case, the coming weeks would be a favorable time for you, too, to engage in extravagant, extreme or even outlandish behavior on behalf of a good or holy cause.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The Taurus guitar wizard known as Buckethead is surely among the most imaginative and prolific musicians who has ever lived. Since producing his first album in late 2005, he has released 306 other albums that span a wide variety of musical genres—an average of 23 per year. I propose that we make him your patron saint for the next six weeks.

While it’s unlikely you can achieve such a gaudy level of creative self-expression, you could very well exceed your previous personal best in your own sphere.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Novelist Arthur Conan Doyle created Sherlock Holmes, a fictional character who personifies the power of logic and rational thinking. And yet Doyle was also a devout spiritualist who pursued interests in telepathy, the occult and psychic phenomena. It’s no surprise that he was a Gemini, an astrological tribe renowned for its ability to embody apparent opposites. Sometimes that quality is a liability, and sometimes an asset.

In the coming weeks, I believe it’ll be a highly useful skill. Your knack for holding paradoxical views and expressing seemingly contradictory powers will attract and generate good fortune.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): In 2006, a 176-year-old tortoise named Harriet died in an Australian zoo owned by “Crocodile Hunter” TV personality Steve Irwin. Harriet was far from her original home in the Galapagos Islands. By some accounts, evolutionary superstar Charles Darwin picked her up and carried her away during his visit there in 1835. I propose that you choose the long-lived tortoise as your power creature for the coming weeks. With her as inspiration, meditate on questions like these: 1. “What would I do differently if I knew I’d live to a very old age?” 2.

“What influence that was important to me when I was young do I want to be important to me when I’m old?” 3. “In what specific ways can my future benefit from my past?” 4. “Is there a blessing or gift from an ancestor I have not yet claimed?” 5.

“Is there anything I can do that I am not yet doing to remain in good health into my old age?”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): John Lennon claimed that he generated the Beatles song “Because” by rendering Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata” backwards. Even if that’s true, I don’t think it detracts from the beauty of “Because.” May I suggest you adopt a comparable strategy for your own use in the coming weeks, Leo? What could you do in reverse so as to create an interesting novelty? What approach might you invert in order to instigate fresh ways of doing things?

Is there an idea you could turn upside-down or inside-out, thereby awakening yourself to a new perspective?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The Tsonga language is spoken by more than 15 million people in southern Africa. The literal meaning of the Tsonga phrase I malebvu ya nghala is “It’s a lion’s beard,” and its meaning is “something that’s not as scary as it looks.” According to my astrological analysis, this will be a useful concept for you to be alert for in the coming weeks.

Don’t necessarily trust first impressions or initial apprehensions. Be open to probing deeper than your instincts might influence you to do.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The old Latin verb crescere meant “to come forth, spring up, grow, thrive, swell, increase in numbers or strength.”

We see its presence in the modern English, French and Italian word “crescendo.” In accordance with astrological omens, I have selected crescere and its present participle crescentum to be your words of power for the next four weeks. May they help mobilize you to seize all

emerging opportunities to come forth, spring up, grow, thrive, swell and increase in numbers or strength.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): When animals hibernate, their metabolism slows down. They may grow more underfur or feathers, and some add extra fat. To conserve heat, they may huddle together. In the coming weeks, I don’t think you’ll have to do what they do. But I do suspect it will be a good time to engage in behaviors that have a resemblance to hibernation: slowing down your mind and body; thinking deep thoughts and feeling deep feelings; seeking extra hugs and cuddles; getting lots of rich, warm, satisfying food and sleep. What else might appeal to your need to drop out of your fast-paced rhythm and supercharge your psychic batteries?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): When people tell me they don’t have time to read the books I’ve written, I advise them to place the books under their pillows and soak up my words in their dreams. I don’t suggest that they actually eat the pages, although there is historical precedent for that. The Bible describes the prophet Ezekiel as literally chewing and swallowing a book. And there are accounts of 16th century Austrian soldiers devouring books they acquired during their conquests, hoping to absorb the contents.

But in accordance with current astrological omens, I suggest that in the next four weeks you acquire the wisdom stored in books by actually reading them or listening to them on audio recordings. In my astrological opinion, you really do need, for the sake of your psychospiritual health, to absorb writing that requires extended concentration.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Among the top “how to” search inquiries on Google are “how to buy Bitcoin,” “how to lose belly fat fast,” “how to cook spaghetti in a microwave” and “how to make slime.” While I do think that the coming weeks will be prime time for you to formulate and launch many “how to” investigations, I will encourage you to put more important questions at the top of your priority list. “How to get richer quicker” would be a good one, as would “how to follow through on good beginnings” and “how to enhance your value” and “how to identify what resources and allies will be most important in 2019.”

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): A motivational speaker and author named Nick Vujicic was born without arms or legs, although he has two small, unusually shaped feet. These facts didn’t stop him from getting married, raising four children and writing eight books. One book is entitled Life Without Limits: Inspiration for a Ridiculously Good Life. He’s a positive guy who has faith in the possibility of miracles.

In fact, he says he keeps a pair of shoes in his closet just in case God decides to bless him with a marvelous surprise. In accordance with current astrological omens, Aquarius, I suggest you make a similar gesture. Create or acquire a symbol of an amazing transformation you would love to attract into your life.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): About 11 percent of the Philippines’ population is comprised of Muslims who call themselves the Bangsamoro. Many of them resist being part of the Philippines and want their own sovereign nation. They have a lot of experience struggling for independence, as they’ve spent 400 years rebelling against occupation by foreign powers, including Spain, the United States and Japan. I admire their tenacity in seeking total freedom to be themselves and rule themselves. May they inspire your efforts to do the same on a personal level in the coming year.

You can call Rob Brezsny for your Expanded Weekly Horoscope: (900) 950-7700. $1.99 per minute. Must be 18+. Touchtone phone required. Customer service (612) 373-9785.

And don’t forget to check out Rob’s website at realastrology.com.

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