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The tower is only part of a construction boom in downtown Sacramento that includes a bevy of private office, retail and residential projects.

The boom also includes several new state buildings, including an 11-story, 372,000-square-foot office building at 12th and O streets that is scheduled to open in February 2021 for 1,200 employees of Health and Human Services. There’s also a new 10-story office building for the Legislature and governor going up at 10th and O streets. Several other major state projects are in the planning phases, including a 1-million-square-foot office campus on Richards Boulevard.

The building spree is a big boost for Sacramento’s economy. Besides the construction jobs, it keeps state workers in town.

Downtown is still the region’s biggest job center, with a daytime population of more than 100,000, a little more than half of them state and other public employees, according to the Downtown Sacramento Partnership.

While the Golden 1 Center and more nightlife and dining options are drawing people from around the region at night, stores and restaurants downtown still bank on state workers during the day. That becomes clear if you’re in the central city on a state holiday, or remember what a ghost town it was on “Furlough Fridays” during the Great Recession starting in 2009.

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From the elliptical machine I use almost every day at the Capital Athletic Club, I have a great view of a hole in the ground being transformed into a new state office tower in downtown Sacramento.

It’s like watching a life-size Erector set going up. The pace of construction seemed pretty slow during the winter rains and preparation of the site, which takes up the entire block between 7th, 8th, O and P streets.

But work is picking up. Cranes were installed in early April, a milestone that allowed steel beams to start going up and the tower’s skeleton to take shape.

The state Department of General Services, which is overseeing the project, says it is ahead of schedule to open by September 2021.

The 21-story, $520 million tower is supposed to be super eco-friendly, as well it should be since it’ll be the new headquarters of the California Natural Resources Agency. It’s billed as zero net energy, will use 50 percent less water than a typical office building its size and will give workers natural daylight and filtered outside air.

The tower will house about 3,400 employees from departments including Conservation, Fish and Wildlife, Parks and Recreation and Water Resources, plus Cal Fire. Besides office space, the 875,000-square-foot building will include a 300-seat auditorium, a 120-space child care center and 6,000 square feet of retail space, including a food court.

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Thousands around the country will rally on May 4 When I left New Orleans and moved to Sacramento, I had no idea that I was leaving America’s most floodable city and moving to the city with the second highest flood risk.

Climate change is a mortal threat to the Big Easy, and it’s a mortal threat in Northern California, too. Ask any of the thousands who fled in 2017 when the Oroville Dam emergency spillway broke, or who lost their loved ones or their homes in the Camp Fire in November 2018.

The wildfire that destroyed Paradise was the most destructive in California’s history, sweeping across more than 150,000 acres, killing 85 people and causing an estimated $16.5 billion in damages.

It was the world’s costliest natural disaster in 2018—and experts are telling us that it’s going to get worse.

This year is likely to be the hottest on record, and 10 of the last 20 have broken the record. Science says if we don’t stop emitting greenhouse gases, we could be facing a global disaster on a scale that we have never seen.

While scientists are screaming, politicians are burying their heads in the sand. Although the science indicates impending doom if we don’t make better decisions, our federal government is rolling back environmental regulations and propping up fossil fuel energy including coal and fracked natural gas.

It is also cutting funding for education and scientific research; non-defense research spending is facing $10 billion, or 12%, in reductions if President Donald Trump’s 2020 budget passes.

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while our environment suffers, our leaders are undermining the science, education and human innovation that may be our only hope to save the planet. It’s time to take a stand for science, the environment and fact-based policy.

I march for science because I love New Orleans and I love California. I march because I don’t want to have to buy a N95 mask to breathe through the smoke this summer. What we do as a society should be based on facts not lies, and not based on what’s politically expedient or funded by an industry-backed super PAC. Whether it’s by water or by fire, our changing climate is threatening all of us, and it’s up to us to change things, not just to save our planet, but to save ourselves.

Join me in raising your voice at the third annual March for Science Sacramento on May 4. At River Walk Park, we will rally with inspiring speakers, live music and more. Then at 1 p.m., thousands of science supporters will march over the iconic Tower Bridge to Old Sacramento. If marching makes you thirsty, we’re doing a charity pub crawl for science at 2:30 in Old Sacramento. Ω

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My children certainly did not have that Before the sun rises, cars are already on experience. the freeway heading down to the Bay In 1980, my wife and I bought our first Area. In those cars are drivers who are home in Chico. We paid about the same unable to afford a home in the city where amount that my son now pays for one they work. After putting in a full day of year’s rent for a much smaller place in Los work, they will return to their homes, Angeles. long after the sun has set and their kids Young people entering the workforce have gone to bed. in 2019 do not have the same opportunities May Day, International Workers’ Day, that their parents did. Unfortunately, they commemorates a demonstration in 1886 face a world that looks more like the world that supported workers striking for an of the striking workers in 1886 than the eight-hour work day. The simple goal was world of their parents and grandparents. to be paid the same as the then-standard Home ownership is often not a possi10- to 12-hour day, but to work a more bility. A college education is not humane eight hours. In those always a good investment of days there was massive time or money. And even income inequality, a court Young people starting a small business system that consistently is a gamble with so ruled against working entering the much of our country’s people and a political workforce in 2019 profits going to a system controlled by a do not have the same small number of large small group of wealthy corporations. individuals and large opportunities that What does this corporations. There was their parents did. all mean for May Day a hard, and often violent, 2019? struggle of labor against Just as in 1886, young capital. people can no longer depend But by the end of World War upon their own efforts to secure a future.

II, it seemed that those days were behind Working hard will not guarantee success. us. By the time of my birth in 1951, it was What is needed, just as in 1886, is a different America. There was a growing political action to change the rules of the middle class with opportunity for home game. And just as in 1886, it is the labor ownership. It was a time when someone unions that are fighting this battle. It is who worked hard and obeyed the rules the unions that are fighting to eliminate could expect a secure life with a home, rich people’s tax breaks, to increase the enough food, good schools for their kids minimum wage, to change California’s and a reasonable work-life balance.

Proposition 13 limiting commercial propBetween 1945 and 1952, thanks to the erty tax rates, to increase environmental GI Bill, my father, who had been workprotections and to raise the standard of ing as an hourly worker at a steel mill, living for the working class. became a doctor and a parent without Like 1886, it is us vs. the one percent. incurring a cent of debt.

Or, perhaps, it is now us against an even Between 1969 and 1972, I put myself smaller group—the 1/10 of one percent. Ω through college without a scholarship, student loans or financial support from my parents. I even concluded my four Jeff vonKaenel is the president, CEO and majority years of college with a little money in owner of the News & Review. the bank.

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Carving a niche Over the years, the Capital Woodcarvers Association has grown, split, branched off and budded. The club has existed in one form or another since the mid-1970s, and its members are still passionately whittling away chunks of wood and bark. With around 70 active members, the club welcomes anyone interested in learning to release the sculptures hidden in blocks of wood. They offer carving instruction alongside years of experience. SN&R chatted with some club members in advance of their annual woodcarving show: Joe You, president of the club and member of the Caricature Carvers of America; Alison Cook, club secretary and cottonwood bark carver; Debora Remington, club member; and Shirley Koffelt, longtime club member and former cabinet maker.

Is it hard to keep a club going for 40 plus years?

You: It has its challenges, especially in this climate in California. You know, sitting down to carve wood for three or four hours, a lot of people don’t have that kind of time. So the people who are interested tend to have a lot more time on their hands.

How helpful is it having someone walk you through woodcarving, compared to learning in your spare time?

Koffelt: Trying to do it on your own just takes forever. But you work with someone who has experience, they know the things you should not do.

like about bark is, I think more than other kinds of wood, it actually helps direct what you do ... I had one piece of bark and I kept running into these little metal pieces and I finally showed one of our carvers … They said, “Oh, that’s buckshot.” …

So my piece of bark was probably on a tree and a target was put on the tree and they shot the target.

How did y’all get into woodcarving?

Koffelt: Well, I lived on the beach up in Washington state, up in San Juan Islands, and I used to find wood washed up on the beach. And I had my dad’s old, dull pocketknife, and did not have any success, but I really tried. And tugboats used to come in there and get loads, barges full of lime rock. One of the men off the tugboat befriended me and we’d sit on the beach and we would carve, and he made little spoons and little shovels, and they were so perfect and so beautiful that I wanted to do that. But I never could.

And then I started taking classes here at the club, and I found out how to sharpen and what good tools to get, and then I could do something. It was all those years, from when I was 10 years old up until when I was in my 40s probably, before I really found someone to show me what to do.

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Are there any commonalities between woodcarvers?

Remington: There’s a lot of comedy in wood carving, a lot of funny people.

Koffelt: They like to eat. Cookies and coffee.

Cook: I think the one characteristic is that they’re fascinated by wood, in some way. Whether they like different types of wood or that they’ve appreciated wood bannisters or wood mantles or something, but there’s something about wood that attracts them. Ω

How do you find what your next project is going to be?

Cook: I’m a bark carver, period. So for me, the

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A helping hand A nonprofit that serves people with developmental disabilities needs help of its own

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Malana Bell-Jones says her favorite part about working with Meghan is listening to her sing. When she sings, Meghan calms down, gets lost in the music and gets to be herself.

Bell-Jones spends 14 to 16 hours a day, six days a week with Meghan, one of more than 700,000 California residents living with a developmental disability.

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supported living services, independent living services and day services to people with disabilities.

“This world is a hard one to understand until you walk this path,” she said.

“The people we help, they’re awesome, like some of the best people I’ve ever met ever. They’re so positive. And a lot of them have had struggles.”

But Choices and its employees are facing their own struggles.

Even with the long hours, many of its case workers aren’t making a living wage. And because of the lack of state

funding, Choices executive director Nancy Chance says she can’t raise their pay and is having difficulty finding qualified employees.

The nonprofit hopes to raise at least $25,000 in the annual Big Day of Giving on Thursday, organized by the Sacramento Region Community Foundation for more than 600 nonprofits.

In the past three years, Choices received $5,200 from the 24-hour online fundraising marathon.

Chance says state funding rates for developmental services have been

stagnant for years. This year, the nonprofit received around $7.6 million and is currently operating at a deficit of $300,000. That prevents pay increases and could eventually lead to cut-offs in electricity or internet service or losses in rental space.

The nonprofit’s finances have been further affected by recent statewide initiatives to help workers, including paid sick leave, health insurance and increases in both overtime pay and the minimum wage.

In March, the California Department of Developmental Services released its rate study for 2019, which said that to provide adequate resources for people with developmental disabilities, the state would need to allocate $1.8 billion. The study also found that outside of the minimum wage and overtime increases, payment rates were relatively unchanged between 2003 and 2015.

Chance and Bell-Jones said the nonprofit is trying to make legislators understand the importance of their services and to make sure workers are compensated fairly and to add money in the 2019-20 state budget accordingly.

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aT sainT no more more choices for The disabled The 1969 Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act outlines the rights and responsibilities of Californians with developmental disabilities, and created regional centers to coordinate services and support for these individuals and their families.

Choices, which started in 1988, receives clients from 21 regional centers, including Alta California Regional Center in Sacramento. It operates on five principles, which include letting individuals choose where to live, creating a support system and involving the community.

Chance says that people with disabilities often aren’t given enough options.

“If somebody says, ‘Do you want a piece of fruit?’ And the only fruit you know about is an apple and a banana, you’re going to choose an apple or a banana. You don’t know that orange exists,” she said. “So you’re not really giving anybody a choice if they don’t know what all the options are.”

Chance has first-hand experience.

Her husband, Richard, suffered a traumatic brain injury in a 2006 car collision. Now, he lives with anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder. She

Sophie is a client of Choices’ day services program.

says that all she wants for him is to be feel comfortable embracing the fact that happy and to never feel scared.

I have these things but it’s not going to “It’s not about what I think Richard stop me from doing what I want to do should do. It needs to be what Richard in life.” thinks Richard should do,” she said.

Gus Garner is a program manager This shift toward “person-centered for Warehouse-916, a red brick studioplanning” began a year ago. Now, gallery in Elk Grove’s historic district all Choices staffers have been that allows Choices day program trained in the principles. clients to explore their They are also being creativity by producing incorporated into the art in a variety of “I wouldn’t have nonprofit’s day mediums. been able to last as services, which But he says the teach clients lack of funding long as I have if I didn’t vocational trainand low pay get those moments of bliss, ing, community could get in the like when you see a client that integration, way. “It’s hard self-advocacy, for me knowing has been struggling finally get self-expression that I make a something.” and functional livable wage. And living skills. these guys doing all Jesse Alford Choices offers the work that they do Choices instructor these services in Elk aren’t,” Garner said.

Grove, Loomis, Rancho Between Choices Cordova, Roseville, South and his work as a property Lake Tahoe and Truckee. manager, Warehouse-916 instructor Jermouneo Nixon, 26, a day service Jesse Alford works 65 hours a week. client in Rancho Cordova, says that At Choices, he makes $13 an hour, $2 thanks to the program, he’s reaching above the minimum wage. Alford said goals, his art has improved and he’s working both jobs is the only way to eager to try new things. make ends meet.

Choices takes “into consideration There is more compensation than that we have disabilities but we’re not just money, he said. “I wouldn’t have being babied because of it,” he said. “I been able to last as long I have if I didn’t get those moments of bliss, like when you see a client that has been struggling finally get something. You’re just like, ‘Good for you, you’re killing it.’ So to get those sparks along the way has definitely helped keep me around.”

Now, Warehouse-916 has one instructor for three clients, but that ratio may worsen as the program pushes to get more people involved to increase the rates received from the state.

“It’s hard to get good instructors in.

We’re lucky that we have good instructors,” Garner said. “But realistically the numbers don’t match up for us to keep going like we’re going. We are going to have to get more [clients] in. That in turn is going to be done without hiring more staff.”

Both Alford and Garner are hopeful that once more people see the difference that person-centered services can have, more funding will come.

“You know this is something that we can put money to because we can see the outcome from it,” Garner said.

“These guys are gonna give back to society through the skills that they gain.” Ω

An embattled figure from Sacramento’s nonprofit world recently stepped down from her leadership position after a 12-year run of helping homeless women and children with strategies that were increasingly scrutinized.

Saint John’s Program for Real Change CEO michelle steeb resigned following a decision to move to Texas, the charity announced April 26, one week before participating in Thursday’s big day of giving.

Steeb was responsible for developing a seven-month jobtraining program for homeless women that required sobriety before they could be accepted and sheltered, sometimes with their children. Offering counseling to domestic violence victims and family reunification assistance are also elements of the program that drew praise from some women who graduated from it.

But Saint John’s has also been in rocky financial waters in recent years, which several county reports suggest stems from the nonprofit’s high barriers and relatively low number of clients. Since 2017, Saint John’s lost some longtime grants from the county and missed out on other public grants. In late 2017, county officials also audited saint John’s over problems with its recordkeeping around grants for employment training.

Despite the turmoil, Saint John’s board chairman Phil Telgenhoff called Steeb’s departure a moment of “sadness and gratitude” in a statement, adding the organization was “deeply indebted for the legacy she leaves behind.”

In a public letter, Steeb reflected on her years of working with struggling women and children.

“We teach them to be positive parental role models for their families, how to gain and maintain employment and most importantly, how to become the people they were intended to be,” Steeb wrote. (Scott Thomas Anderson)

PrioriTy h20 Remember the California drought? On April 17, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation announced the Golden State was “out of the woods” when it comes to moving water through the central Valley Project.

Serving as california’s largest water conservation development under the federal government, the CVP extends from the Cascade Range in the north to the Kern River in the south. The project was built primarily to protect the Central Valley from crippling water shortages and menacing floods, according to the bureau’s website.

Combined with statewide conservation efforts and a generous amount of rain in February and March, Northern California’s reservoirs are in prime condition for summer. central Valley and southern california reservoirs aren’t as replenished.

“Though this year has been extremely rainy and the state has experienced significant precipitation, we still have restrictions on our ability to move water to the south-of-Delta area,” said bureau spokeswoman Lauren Meredith.

The south-of-Delta area includes larger cities such as Tracy, Los Banos and Santa Clara and smaller cities such as Avenal and Coalinga. It also includes large irrigation districts such as Westlands Water District and smaller individual family farms and federal refuges. The bureau was able to allocate only 65% of water to south-of-Delta service contractors this year.

Meanwhile, the federal government and California are in a pitched battle about those flows. On March 28, the U.S. Justice and Interior departments sued the State Water Resources Control Board over its allocations. The state has fired back that more government pumping could divert less water to state-run reservoirs, according to media reports. (Brody Fernandez)

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Amber DeLaRosa touches up Kaylynn Marisol during the Body Veritas show “Weightless.”

Photo by cASSIE WoRLAND

An inclusive runway American River College’s “Every Body Is a Model Body” casting call upends unattainable runway stereotype

by Vanessa Labi

American River college is holding its 18th annual fashion show May 4 in the Student center. tickets range from $10-$15 and are available at eventbrite.com.

Cellulite. Vitiligo. Age spots. Stomach rolls. These are some of the “imperfections”—or rather, real-life physical attributes—that are, at long last, being celebrated by some of the biggest brands in fashion and beauty. The age-old lament that fashion rejects “normal-” looking people is finally getting its due response. Are Sacramento’s taste-makers progressing alongside the zeitgeist, or being left behind?

Sometimes progress starts with a casting call.

American River College’s fashion show on May 4 is making a concerted effort to embrace all ages, body types and ethnicities with a casting theme called, “Every Body is a Model Body.”

The approach complements the show’s theme, “Homagony— Deconstructing Borders,” a nod to different cultures. ARC’s fashion show director, Rachel Maskell, said the intent is to represent the students on campus.

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“One of the things I love about American River College is the diversity,” she said. “There are all sorts of different people. Being a program of this school, it’s important to see that—all different shapes and sizes and ethnicities.”

Seeing oneself reflected on a stage is empowering, say those involved.

“Representation matters,” said ARC fashion student Niarobi Onwukwe.

“It’s important to see every shape and size represented. It’s important to inspire people to make people feel like ‘hey I can do this’ because they see people who look like them.”

As a designer for the spring fashion show, Onwukwe said she mostly cast models of African descent—both to tie into her Nigerian-inspired collection and to see herself represented—and with a variety of body types.

“I have a model who’s a size 12 and one who’s a size 5,” Onwukwe said. “I wanted to challenge myself as a designer.

I believe if you want to be successful, if that’s really your passion, you design for everybody.”

Sacramento Fashion Week went the traditional route with its 2019 call for runway models.

The annual promotional event for local designers, models and artists wrapped up its 13th year with a March 8 designer showcase at the Tsakopoulos Library. In preparation for last month’s finale, organizers held a February 2 casting call that listed typical requirements for height (minimum 5’7 for women, 5’10 for men), age (16-28) and body type (“healthy and in good physical shape”). Additionally, SACFW’s casting announcement required that bodies have “no obvious scars, and no excessive tattoos or piercings.”

A spokeswoman for Fashion Week suggested the casting requirements won’t change any time soon.

“We aim to do ‘high’ fashion shows which have very specific height and

weight requirements,” SACFW media coordinator Kaelyn Paprock wrote in an email. “However, all are welcome to audition for Sacramento Fashion Week, as long as they are within the requirements.”

While local displays of inclusivity fluctuate, Sacramento-based influencer Alaina Galenti is doing her part to shift the “highlight reel” ethos of Instagram to explore bold, unconventional beauty.

Galenti has recently expanded on her body-positive posts with a project called Body Veritas, a digital “safe space” with occasional art shows. (One illustrated post depicts a bunch of butts in varying shapes with the cheeky phrase: “perfect is boring”).

“I try to post on Body Veritas every other day if not every day so that people can have thought-provoking self-love reminders pop up in their feed on a regular basis,” she said.

Galenti takes self-love seriously, saying that the less-than-real images we’re exposed to on social media platforms like Instagram, which traffics in unattainable beauty standards and FOMO-inducing vacation spots, has a drastic impact.

“Trends will come and go, but the wounds created by the social stigmas created through non-inclusive media can last for a lifetime,” she said.

Galenti applauds local influencers such as Kaylynn Marisol (@kaylynnmarisol) and queer-positive businesses such as Strapping Store for promoting body awareness.

Comic Phoebe Robinson recently shared on her podcast So Many White Guys that it’s still commonplace to show up to a photo shoot in which she is the star, and be faced with wardrobe options where size 4 is the largest.

Such “callouts”—shining a light on standards that need updating—are making a difference. E-commerce clothing giant Revolve, which powers much of the aspirational Instagram beauty standard, was accused of lacking racial and body diversity last year. Although its feed still drips with unattainable sex appeal and impossibly cool-girl vibes, it now includes more body types and skin colors.

Haskell said that consumers need to realize they outnumber the taste-makers.

“We’re all impacted by fashion,” she said. “Although we may feel different, what’s the one thing that connects all of humanity? Besides the air that we breathe, we’re all buying clothes.” Ω

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In a quiet neighborhood on the outskirts of South Sacramento, the property looks like any other on the block: a single-story house that could use a new paint job, a large front yard that could use a little tidying, a chain-link fence around the lot.

The tenants inside have no complaints. They have a good relationship with the property manager, and broken things get fixed on time. But like millions of renters in this increasingly costly state, they say that if their landlord raised the rent, they couldn’t afford to stay.

State law doesn’t do much to protect against such a scenario. Because they rent a single-family home, they wouldn’t benefit from rent control even if Sacramento votes to adopt it next year. They could be evicted without being given a specific reason why.

The tenants—who declined to be identified for this story—were unaware their monthly rent checks were going to the wife of a man with significant sway over whether those state laws will change this year: state Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon.

A Democrat from Los Angeles, Rendon and his wife collect rental income from four properties: three single-family homes in Sacramento and a condominium in downtown L.A. Rendon declined to be interviewed for this story. A spokesman wrote via email that Rendon “is aware of the cost pressure that many tenants face and has voted for a host of tenants’ protection bills that have been before him in the Assembly.”

He emphasized that the speaker’s wife owned three of the rental properties well before marrying Rendon.

He’s not the only lawmaker to double as a landlord. A CALmatters analysis of state-required financial disclosure documents reveals that at least 30 lawmakers—more than 25% of the Legislature—own one or more properties that generate income from tenants. Six sit on one of the Legislature’s housing committees. Many are renting out multiple homes, receiving at a minimum tens of thousands of dollars a year in rent checks.

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“In a very real sense, they’d be taking money out of their own pockets,” said Elliot Stevenson of the Sacramento Tenants Union, an advocacy group for Sacramento renters.

Debra Carlton, a spokeswoman for the California Apartment Association, a prominent landlord interest group, said legislators who are also landlords aren’t necessarily biased against tenant legislation.

“I don’t know if it’s anything different than a legislator who has a tax benefit from owning a home,” said Carlton. “I think they just better understand what the issues are.”

Carlton’s group opposes pro-tenant legislation bills that a group of progressive lawmakers say will help California renters struggling to afford to stay in their homes.

Tenant advocates say that lawmakers who are also small landlords may be more easily swayed by the opponents’ narrative.

“The opposition is spinning this narrative to make it look like tenant protections would go after the poor, small mom-and-pop owner just trying to get by,” said Shanti Singh of Tenants Together, a statewide coalition of tenant advocates. “And I think when those legislators are small mom-and-pop landlords themselves, that probably resonates with them.” Ω

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The cast: From left, Jacqueline Laybourn, Elijah Muller, Madeline Pogue and Trinidad Reyes say they were all mistreated by a drama club advisor they call “Ms. G.” Photo by ElisabEth bayard-arthur

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lijah Muller, a teenage actor playing a foolactor, says his lines and steps backstage.

It’s premiere night, fall 2018, the first show of the new school year. Laguna Creek High presents A Midsummer Night’s Dream, William Shakespeare’s comic farce about mortal love and faerie magic and a play within a play. How fitting: This is the story about the ugly drama hiding within a prestigious high school setting.

Elijah ducks behind a block of stadium seats, exits the school’s Black Box Theatre and hustles through the cluttered workshop toward the classroom that doubles as the drama club’s green room. It’s already been a bad day, a bad month, a bad couple of years for the students in the school’s theater program. Tonight the tensions boil over.

Tonight the curtain lifts on a teacher the kids call Ms. G. Elijah remembered hearing the crying before he saw it. Then he opened the door.

“There are crying students everywhere.

There are students on time out in dressing rooms. There are students outside. But the common theme is they’re all distressed.

They’re all sobbing,” Elijah recounted. “This was pure and unchecked wrath.”

Elijah said that’s when he saw his teacher get in the face of a male student. He said he stepped between them, the teacher retreated to her office and shut the door.

You won’t hear from the teacher in this story. SN&R made multiple attempts to reach Sarah Goodenough, including a visit to her home on Saturday. Emails, phone calls and text messages all went unanswered.

Laguna Creek High and Elk Grove Unified School District officials also declined to be interviewed.

But the students and their parents provided the same composite sketch of a teacher they say preyed on her students’ vulnerabilities in mostly subtle ways—until the night of Oct. 27, 2018. SN&R interviewed four students and one parent who were present that night and gave similar accounts.

“The rest of the show was damage control,” remembered Trinidad Reyes, who played the part of Oberon.

“I just wanted to be like, ‘I’m sorry, we can’t carry on,’” added drama club president Madeline Pogue, who starred as Puck. “No one knew about what was happening.”

But before the night was over, the drama club students and their parents documented what Ms. G allegedly said and did to them.

Before the school year is over, the students’ refusal to stay quiet forced a high school with a carefully crafted image to confront troubling allegations of teacher abuse and administrative neglect.

Before this story is over, you will understand that tyrants can reign on the smallest of stages—but not without a little help.

On April 10-12, dozens of Laguna Creek High students protested the return of theater teacher Sarah Goodenough holding signs of things she or her adult assistants allegedly said to them.

Act I: VulnerAble students, sensItIVe InformAtIon Except for half a week in April, Goodenough hasn’t shown up to work in nearly six months, parents and students say. But there are some things we know about her.

According to the public employee database Transparent California, Goodenough, who is listed under her former married name Sarah Woodward, first started teaching in 2013 as a part-time middle school teacher in the Lodi Unified School District and a substitute for the Elk Grove Unified School District.

Goodenough went full time with Sacramento County’s largest school district in 2015, first teaching language arts to seventh and eighth graders. Goodenough joined Laguna Creek High the following year in the Visual and Performing Arts Department and took over as adviser of the LCHS Theatre Company.

As of 2017, Goodenough was the lowest paid of the five theater department teachers working for the district, Transparent California data shows.

Laguna Creek’s theater program isn’t so much a crown jewel as an afterthought at a school with an award-winning color guard and the district’s only International Baccalaureate program, students and parents say.

Most drama club members will never step foot on a Broadway stage. Instead the program, which includes elective theater classes and the theatre company, tends to attract misfit kids with rough home lives or tumultuous inner ones, as well as students who simply don’t want to go home after last bell.

“Theater classes are predominantly for nonhonors kids, kids who probably don’t want to be there, ’cause it’s like one of the classes they kinda just put kids into,” explained Elijah, 18, a senior who took theater his first three years and is currently a club officer. “So it’s hard to manage.”

Initially, some club members say they believed the energetic Goodenough, who was still Ms. Woodward then, was an ideal pick to manage it.

“When Ms. Woodward came in, she buckled up her bootstraps and she was ready to go,” Elijah said. “It was kind of a breath of fresh air at first, like, ‘OK, this is an adult who knows what they’re talking about and they’re gonna get stuff done.’”

“We were all like in awe of her,” added Lauren Sproul, 16, who joined the club as a freshman, the same year as her teacher.

That positive feeling soon faded.

SN&R interviewed five current students and one former one who took both theater classes and were members of the drama club while Goodenough ran the program. They all say she quickly made them uncomfortable by plying them for personal information through mandatory assignments and graded theater “games.”

And when some students declined to share those details, they say Goodenough tried to get personal details in other ways.

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“It never felt like it was up to us to open up to her,” said Laguna Creek High graduate Jacqueline Laybourn, 19. “It felt like she was digging it out of us. Privately, alone, trying to dig it out.”

Jacqueline said she made the mistake of sharing something about her then-rocky relationship with her parents during an interclub activity. While what students said during the activity was supposed to stay in the classroom, Jacqueline says Goodenough pulled her into her office after it was over and tried to find out more.

After Jacqueline demurred, Madeline says Goodenough started asking her about her friend’s home life.

“She asked me a couple of times. She asked me about her relationship with her parents,” Madeline said. “In doing so, she then told me what she knew.”

That was common, the students say.

Goodenough routinely shared what students privately revealed during other classes, the students and two parents say.

Students say they learned which classmates said they were abused at home, who had learning challenges, who might be in the closet or virgins, even who struggled with depression or self-harm.

Parents heard this gossip, too.

“I know things about them that I shouldn’t know,” said Gin Brewer, whose daughter takes theater and belongs to the drama club.

“She uses information about them in not-good ways.”

Amy Pogue, Madeline’s mother and a drama club volunteer, said it wasn’t unusual for Goodenough to vent to her about which students she hated. Pogue and several students say Jacqueline was the frequent object of her teacher’s loose talk.

“She would outwardly tell people that she didn’t like Jacqueline and that she was a terrible person,” said Maya Brewer, Gin Brewer’s daughter.

The teacher’s focus would soon shift onto Maya, the students say, with Ms. G using the 16-year-old junior’s most sensitive information as leverage—and then going farther.

Act II: A ‘thorough InVestIgAtIon’ Laguna Creek High and Elk Grove Unified released separate statements about their commitment to student safety.

In his email, Laguna Creek High principal Doug Craig wrote that the students’ allegations

“called into question our expectations regarding professional conduct and ethical behavior,” and prompted a “thorough investigation” that resulted in at least one change: The school will have a new theater teacher and director starting next year.

But Goodenough remains employed by the school, Craig confirmed. While her 2019-20 assignment is yet to be determined, the students and their parents worry that all their months of whistleblowing will accomplish is getting Ms. G a promotion of sorts, by moving her out of an elective and into a mandatory class such as English.

“What worries me—and this you can print—is she’s going to be put in another classroom with another group of kids. That does worry me,” Pogue said. “While I can feel somewhat for a person like that, that person should not be around children.”

Pogue and her daughter presented the principal’s office with a series of written statements that alleged verbal abuse by Goodenough and two non-fingerprinted adults she left students

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alone with during the Oct. 27, 2018 performance of Midsummer. That started the administration’s “thorough investigation,” but it didn’t include interviews with any of the students who provided those declarations.

SN&R reviewed copies of the statements, which include accounts that Goodenough told one student she was “too fat” to act.

“I mean, some of the things she said to these students,” said Pogue, who was at the performance selling tickets. “She came down on the kids like a bag of hammers.”

“She used everything in her arsenal,” Brewer added.

Parents also say the school district failed to fully investigate what happened.

“No one from the district office ever spoke to them,” Brewer said of the students.

“No one from the district office ever spoke to us. And all our attempts to tell them [what happened] have been met with, ‘Well, this is what we think is best for them.’ They do not care.”

In its statement, the district said it does.

“The District takes all complaints regarding student safety seriously,” Elk Grove Unified communications director Xanthi Pinkerton wrote in an email. “While the District cannot comment on confidential personnel matters, the District can confirm that all complaints regarding teacher misconduct are thoroughly investigated, and during an investigation of an allegation related to campus safety, the District’s practice is to remove the teacher from the classroom during the pendency of the investigation. Teachers who are deemed to pose threats to student safety are not returned to the classroom.”

The students and parents say that if the district actually listened to them, Goodenough might not be allowed to teach again.

Act III: ‘And then she slApped me’ Maya would have told officials some alarming things that they don’t know.

In the summer of 2015, Maya and her mom moved to the area from Southern California.

This was after Maya finished the eighth grade, a tumultuous year during which Maya experienced severe depression and was hospitalized following a suicide attempt, she and her mom shared with SN&R. That information was never supposed to be public, but then Goodenough got a hold of it.

Freshman year in a new city at a new school where Maya didn’t know anyone wasn’t shaping up to be an easy one. Brewer said she felt like her daughter needed an extracurricular activity that would foster social interaction and cameraderie with her peers. They consulted Maya’s therapist, Brewer recalled.

“That’s when I said, ‘Fuck it, you’re going into the theater program,’” Brewer said.

She half-regrets that decision now. “The kids in that program were amazing,” said Brewer, who is herself a teacher in the district.

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“The teacher in that program was derelict in her duties.”

Maya enrolled in theater the second half of her freshman year and joined the drama club at the start of sophomore year. Maya says she essentially became Ms. G’s personal assistant, told to take jobs away from drama students that Goodenough clashed with—like Jacqueline and Lauren—and becoming the keeper of her teacher’s classroom keys when Ms. G left early.

“The first time her keys were in my house, I was blown away,” Brewer said.

Maya wanted to quit the drama club. In February 2018, she sat up in the Black Box

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Theatre’s technical booth writing a letter to her fellow club members explaining her decision.

She remembers being called down to help with something and says Ms. G passed her on the narrow stairway leading up to the booth. A little while later, Ms. G summoned Maya to her office and showed her a photo she took with her cellphone. It was of the letter.

Maya says Goodenough told her that as a mandated reporter, she was required to report any threats of suicide or self-harm to the authorities. The letter didn’t contain any such threats, but Maya says Ms. G had already revealed to her that she had read her personal file and knew about her struggles during eighth grade.

She then sent Maya to go sit in the theater with the other kids. That’s when Maya says she learned her teacher had already told the other students about her “suicide” letter.

Maya hadn’t told her classmates about that part of her life because she didn’t identify with those feelings anymore or want to be identified by them. But her teacher had now put her private life onto a high school stage.

“Everyone sat around pretending nothing was happening,” Maya said. “Until a bunch of cops showed up.”

Two officers asked Maya to follow them into Goodenough’s office and made small talk until Maya’s mother arrived about 10 minutes later. Ms. G left the office, but mother and daughter said they still felt on display. The office is small with two windows looking out into the classroom, and its door wouldn’t close all the way with four people crammed inside. Ms. G and the remaining students sat in the classroom watching.

“She did nothing to hide the spectacle of this from any other human,” Brewer said. Brewer said one of the officers used his body to try to block the view, “becoming my second-favorite person that day.”

Her first favorite, the one who worked so hard to get better, fielded uncomfortable questions, telling officers that, yes, she once tried to take her life but, no, didn’t think about hurting herself anymore. The officers read the letter that Goodenough had reported. It wasn’t a cry for help. It was a resignation letter from the drama club.

“I 100% felt like it was done to discredit my daughter,” Brewer said. “I never felt like it was done out of any concern.”

Maya returned to drama club the next day pretending like nothing had happened. But she says she had gotten the message: Her secrets weren’t hers. Her teacher had them, and she would use them how she saw fit.

Maya started accepting more tasks from Ms. G. She cleaned the theater and locked up. She even babysat for her teacher. One time when she was left unattended in the theater, a boy at the school allegedly forced himself on her and kissed her. That incident resulted in reports to the school and police.

Ms. G told her classes they could no longer use the Black Box without adult supervision because Maya claimed she had been sexually assaulted, several students say.

By this time, Maya said it had become an almost daily occurrence for her teacher to “just scream in my face.” When Maya babysat, she says Goodenough often railed about drama club, left the house and returned in a fouler mood.

Maya says her teacher knocked the clutter off her tables and sometimes threw things that hit her.

One night in March 2018, Maya says, Goodenough was yelling especially loud. Her partner sequestered herself in the bedroom. Her son woke up and called for his mother. Maya says when she told her teacher she had woken up her son, she struck her.

“And then she slapped me,” Maya said.

She says her teacher’s partner drove her home that night. They didn’t talk. The babysitting offers petered out. When they did come, Maya says she made excuses. She didn’t tell anyone what happened, not even her mom. Not until the Midsummer nightmare.

Act IV: A stAtewIde blInd spot At least two other teachers accused of troubling behavior are still on Laguna Creek High’s payroll, including a special education teacher who’s currently being sued for allegedly punching a developmentally disabled student in September 2016, and a track coach who reportedly threatened two black football players who knelt before a game that same year.

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The special-ed teacher’s attorney doesn’t deny the specific allegation. Instead, in his answer to the claim, the attorney writes that his client acted “lawfully and with the degree of force necessary to prevent injury to him/herself and to others whom he/she was charged to protect and supervise.”

According to court documents, the plaintiff has failed to appear for two of the last four court hearings, incurring a $150 fine on April 4.

In California, information on teacher departures and firings is difficult to find.

Despite requiring schools to report reams of micro-specific data concerning student performance and demographics, the California Department of Education doesn’t ask some pretty basic questions about the educators, administrators and support staff who are paid to help them succeed.

That makes individual school districts the lockbox of this information. Like law enforcement agencies, districts are reluctant to disclose even basic figures about personnel suspensions and dismissals. Unlike law enforcement agencies, there isn’t a new law forcing them to provide information about substantiated misconduct. (Elk Grove Unified did not provide requested data on teacher suspensions and firings as of print deadline.)

What California does have when it comes to investigating and responding to teacher misconduct is the state Commission on Teacher Credentialing, which is the busiest it has been in at least four years.

The biggest reason is that there are just more people applying for teaching credentials, more than 2,800 applicants a month in the 2017-18 fiscal year.

At the same time, school districts and members of the public are leveling more complaints against teachers and other public school employees. The annual report of the commission’s Division of Professional Practices, released in September, attributed the sharp rise to “some highly publicized cases of misconduct” starting in February 2012, and also to its own user-friendly website.

In 2017-18, the division investigated the most complaints in four years regarding serious crimes or felonies (942), sex crimes against children (331) and adult sexual situations (110).

Elk Grove Unified has experienced a raft of these alleged crimes, with eight employees arrested on suspicion of sexual battery and other inappropriate conduct involving minors. Laguna Creek High was among the latest schools in the district to join this worrying trend. In January, Elk Grove police arrested Lucas Donovan Melville, a 24-year-old marching band volunteer, for statutory rape of a student.

On April 9, Melville was sent to jail following a court appearance. He faces 28 felony counts for statutory rape and other sex crimes involving a minor.

The teaching commission’s enforcement division had 5,895 open cases in 2017-18,

65% related to alcohol use or crimes, and says that number has steadily risen “based largely on an increase from applicants with a criminal history.”

The commission took disciplinary action in 894 cases in 2017-18, also the most in four years.

Neither Goodenough nor the accused specialed teacher have any adverse actions on their records from the commission.

One thing’s for sure: California is hiring more teachers.

Nearly 21,000 teachers were hired during the 2018-19 school year, compared to 13,000 in 201213, according to a report from the Commission on Teacher Credentialing. Sacramento County estimated 807 new hires this year, and Elk Grove Unified 243, including 27 in the English/Drama category, state education data shows.

Depending on how the rest of this story unfolds, the district could be seeking one more next year.

Act V: All silent on the district front The Midsummer Night’s show took place on a Saturday evening. The following Monday, Madeline and her mom delivered the student declarations to the principal’s office.

Goodenough didn’t show up to work that day. She stayed gone for five months. Then, on April 1, Craig sent out a brief email informing parents and guardians that Goodenough was returning from leave that Wednesday as a theater teacher, “but will no longer be the Drama Club Advisor.”

Maya’s father texted her mother: “Was it an April Fool’s joke?”

It wasn’t.

Maya remembers having a panic attack, then just shutting down when she learned Ms. G was coming back. “That was my biggest fear, having to see her again,” Maya said.

Her mom tried to pull Maya from the class, but Brewer says the district told her the only way to do that was to withdraw her daughter from school entirely, setting her back at least a half-year.

“Effectively your solution is to punish the victim,” Brewer said. “You’ve not only put them back in the room with an abuser, you’ve put them in a room with an abuser who has power over them.”

Amy Pogue, Madeline’s mother, says it can be hard for adults to remember that feeling of being trapped in a classroom.

“That’s an incredibly unfair place to put them in, especially when they were brave enough in the first place to come forward,” she said.

On April 3, Theater 3 was Maya’s final period of the day. Several drama club members entered the classroom together. Maya snagged a seat at an angle so her back was turned to Ms. G and refused to look at her for the entirety of the 90-minute class.

“She was mostly acting happy and bubbly,” Maya said. “She was acting like she used to.”

Ms. G taught for only three days. By the following Monday she was MIA again. She

One student said Ms. G told her she was “too fat” to act following an October 2018 production.

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hasn’t been back to class since April 8. But the students, especially the seniors who are graduating next month and students with younger siblings about to start high school, want a clear finale. They don’t want Ms. G back.

Students protested outside the school for three mornings the following week, holding signs with some of the things they say their teacher said to them. Dozens of students, not all of them involved in the theater program, joined in. Madeline says a teacher stood with them on the last day.

On April 23, Madeline addressed the Elk Grove Unified school board with 10 of her classmates standing behind her.

“I’d like this to get handled before I’m gone,” she told school board trustees. “If you recall in loca parentis, you know, we are supposed to trust the people there as if they’re our own parents. And we ask that we can trust

you again. We’re scared. We are asking for help, and we are asking that she no longer has the power to abuse that many children ever again.”

Madeline and the other students say they haven’t received a response from the board.

They say they’re pessimistic the district will listen to them. They’re starting to sound like the adults.

As for Maya, she’ll be back for senior year in the fall. Like all the other students SN&R interviewed, she had a mostly positive view of Laguna Creek High. She likes most of her teachers. She and the other theater kids raved about “Mr. Z,” the substitute who took over drama club from Ms. G. Maya said she’d only take drama again if he was the club’s advisor.

“The majority of it is good,” she said of her high school experience. “It’s just that the parts of it that are bad are really bad.” Ω

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the Star trek star dishes about lost hobbies, reporters’ stupid questions and a potential Star Wars role

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catch star trek II: the Wrath of Khan and the William shatner Q&a session at the mondavi center in davis on may 11 at 7 p.m. tickets are $27.50-$125. for more info, visit mondaviarts.org.

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illiam Shatner, an American James Bond. Famous for his portrayal of James Tiberius Kirk in the original Star Trek franchise, he’s made a career out of his unmistakable talent for performing.

SN&R chatted with the thespian—but not about Star Trek—in a self-referential discussion mostly about interviews. Shatner is on tour for a series of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan screenings, with a stop at the Mondavi Center in Davis Thursday, May 11. Once the credits roll, the questions and answers will commence, along with ticketed photo ops. Want a preview of how the man reacts to vapid questions? Read on.

Shatner: We’re talking about coming there on May 11, right?

SN&R: That is quite right, yeah.

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So I’ll be there and with a motion picture called The Wrath of Khan.

Exactly, yeah.

And they’ll play the movie on a big screen with the big sound and then I’ll come out and spend an hour or more with the audience having a good time.

Do you know the guy that you’re talking with afterwards, Chancellor Gary May? Do I know who he is?

Yeah, or have you ever met him before?

The chancellor of the—oh! No, but I have brought my dogs—I wonder if this helps any—I’ve been to Davis with some emergency on some of my dogs over the years, and they’ve helped considerably. That doesn’t count, right?

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Maybe not—who knows?

They’ve done a hell of a job on my animals is what I’m saying. … No, I don’t know the chancellor—why do you ask?

You’re having a conversation with him, I’m just curious.

Well the conversation is with the audience.

Sure, sure. … Fair enough. You have a lot of upcoming Q&As. Is there some aspect of your career you like to be asked about?

No, mostly I talk about other things. [This year] I’m going out on several weekends, one or two places, sometimes three places on a weekend. It’s great fun for me, great exercise, very difficult in that you’re asked to entertain in an improvisational way with an audience for an hour or more, keep them entertained. It’s quite a challenge.

How do you stay loose?

Say that again?

How do you stay loose on the tours?

How do I stay loose on it?

Yeah.

Right. Right, like in this instance … making an innocuous question interesting to answer.

Exactly. You know, if I desire to, I could go on about innocuous

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questions and how stupid some reporters are, and—but then my answers are stupid and they make them sound intelligent—and I could go on and on about it.

I get unusual things by the fact that I’m contacting people [who] have unusual things to give me that I can auction off for children and veterans that my charity benefits.

Right.

If you were offered a role in the new Star Wars franchise, would you take one?

So in the same way, your questions could be either penetrating or softball, depending on how you’re feeling that day.

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Right. Is there someone you would pay to have a photo taken with?

Oh, that’s interesting (laughs) … I can’t think of anybody off-hand that I admire enough to pay good money to have a picture, stand by them and have a picture taken, and then treasure that picture. I have horses and I have dogs that I want to do that with. I have children. But I’ve got lots of pictures of them ... I did an interview of Stephen Hawking a couple years ago, and if he were alive today, I would think I might say him. But then, I now have a picture of him that I didn’t pay for.

How-slash-why do you stay so active on Twitter?

It’s a way of communicating with the audience, staying alive. ... [Twitter] offers me a platform to advertise to publicize what it is I’m doing. ... For example, a charity that I run every year called the Hollywood Charity Horse Show, coming up in June, and I’m telling people, you know, if you want to contribute, that’s great. But I also have a large silent auction. And

It would depend on what it is. To appear just for the publicity of the movie or whatever it is—I have no interest in that. What I would be interested in is something meaningful that was written for me.

Is there a hobby of yours you’ve given up on over the years?

Well, I come from an athletic background. I played football, skied for my schools, and then I got into horses many years ago. So I’m still competing in horses. But I’m not playing football, and I gave up skiing when I face-planted into some wet snow and I couldn’t get out. I had some people passing by help me get up, and I thought, “Well that’s it, I’m not going to ski any more.”

Do you think of yourself as a living legend?

I’ve heard you described that way.

Do I think of myself as a living legend?

Yes. No, I think of myself as trying to put one foot ahead of the other. My back is bad. Uh, no, I don’t think of myself as a living legend. What is a living legend?

It’s a good question—I don’t know. Someone who’s just so good at what they do or who’ve seen so much.

Am I a living legend?

I don’t know—I don’t think it’s for me to say, but …

Well, you asked me—did someone give you the question?

No, no, no—I’ve heard you described as a living legend before is all.

Oh, you’re wondering what my reaction is? Like a little snigger, like a little sniggering laugh. Ω

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Fest in bloom Jessie reyez isn’t the best-known superstar, and that might be the biggest flaw in the sol blume festival’s mostly well-executed second year. The 28-year-old singer-songwriter didn’t headline Saturday’s boutique festival of hip-hop, new-soul and R&B. That honor went to Miguel, the Grammy winner who sang in front of thousands at Cesar Chavez Plaza. Organizers say 6,300-plus people attended this year’s festival, and 72 percent of ticket-buyers came from outside of the sacramento area.

Still, it felt like everyone came to see Reyez.

“This is the realest I’ve ever been—realest I’ve ever been,” she screamed during the song “Dear Yessie,” with images of President Donald Trump and news clips of his proposed border wall in the backdrop. “Bitch, a minority. They wouldn’t let me in. Bitch, a minority. Vexing your president. If I had a dick, then I might get some preference.”

Reyez’s black shirt simply read “IMPORTED”—calling to her latest single of the same name featuring 6lack. The message carried extra weight during most of her politically

charged set.

Sol Blume seems to have found its place in a season inundated with festivals. By remaining small and bringing in 16 artists who’ve made a large enough name for themselves, Sol Blume found a way to avoid comparisons to TBD Fest, the West Sacramento music festival that arguably grew too much and collapsed after its second year.

Other notable acts were rapper J.i.d and singer Ari lennox, both up-and-comers on J. Cole’s label Dreamville Records. (Lennox filled in for singer Summer Walker, who promoters said had to pull out because of a family emergency.) tierra whack and her mostly minute-long high-energy songs fixated the audience—either that, or Jessie Reyez. it was her stage graphic

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Well, that’s a good question. I guess confidence over the years of having done it enough. Like in an interview—how many times have you interviewed people and they say, “Yes,” and that’s the end of their answer, and you’re thinking, “Oh shit, what do I do now? How do I get them to expand on that answer?” And gradually as you, the reporter, or the interviewer, have experience, [you] begin to go with the flow and find ways of getting a better and longer answer from your interviewee.

In the same way, I, over the years, feel that I can make an innocuous question into something interesting by just roaming around.

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that gave a shout out to sacramento’s airport for having a “fire ass starbucks.” Social media sensation Queen Naija, creator of “Trap House Jazz” Masego, and Swedish songstress snoh Aalegra kept the crowd entertained midway.

Miguel was no slouch onstage either. The moonwalking crooner from los Angeles capped off the night by performing a mix of songs, including from his first big hit “Adorn” and his current chart-topper “skywalker.”

The only downside: the short slot times, which meant most artists played nothing beyond their radio hits.

Whether or not Sol Blume’s founders want to expand beyond one day, based on this year, it seems more of a possibility.

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That first conference was small, about 25 people, May says. Now, she expects many times that number, including returning attendees.

Compared to other writing conferences, the Gold Rush conference is intimate and laid back, following the same format each year: An afternoon party, a picnic supper, poetry in the library, workshops and readings and a Sunday brunch. This year, May, who recently became emeritus director, will focus on leadkathleen kent, a Texas-based historical novelist turned crime writer, is a featured speaker at this year’s Gold Rush Writer’s conference. ing a master class workshop limited to seven students.

The conference’s continued growth means it can attract marquee speakers such as this year’s headliners, Joe Quirk, a science writer and novelist, and Kathleen Kent, a Texas-based historical novelist turned crime writer.

Kent says she’s looking forward to the conference’s rustic, intimate setting.

“It’s a small group [that’s] passionate about learning the craft, so I’m on board,” said Kent, whose most recent book, The Dime, was shortThe annual Gold Rush listed for an Edgar Award in 2018.

Writer’s Conference As the Saturday night after-dinner speaker, she plans to discuss the craft of contemporary helps writers forge crime writing, including pacing, narrative voice literary mettle and engaging the reader.

“Some of these things I learned along the way and it took me a while,” Kent says.

Fourteen years ago, Antoinette May experienced a “When wrote the first 100 pages of my [first literary epiphany. The Foothills-based writer had crime novel] and turned them in, my editor’s recently sold her first novel, Pilate’s Wife: A Novel of feedback was that it needed to be better.” the Roman Empire, securing a sweet advance.

In short, she says she hopes she can help It hadn’t been an easy path to publication. others avoid the same pitfalls she While May had already enjoyed initially faced. “I was learning success with the New York Times how to jump and swim bestselling nonfiction book “It’s not upstream,” she says. “I’m Adventures of a Psychic, she going to be talking about competitive; it struggled to find a publisher my mistakes.” encourages people to for her debut novel. When It’s that level of she finally signed with exchange ideas, to learn frankness and guidance, HarperCollins, she knew she among other elements, what’s new.” needed to help demystify the that sets Gold Rush apart, writing and publishing process Antoinette May May says. Unlike other for others. founder, Gold Rush Writers conferences, there are “I thought: ‘If that can happen Conference no agents present—which to me, it can happen to other means less pressure to network people,’” May said in a recent phone and wrangle deals. interview. “I wanted to share my story.”

“There’s TLC,” May says. “It’s not She had hosted mini sessions in her house, but competitive; it encourages people to exchange now it was time to expand. In 2005, May launched ideas, to learn what’s new.” Ω the Gold Rush Writers Conference in Mokelumne Hill, a rustic ’49ers-era community, 11 miles southeast of Sutter’s Creek.

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Richard Jackson with his scultpure “Self Portrait.”

Kicking modern art

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Hanging latex work gloves bloated with colorful paint are a recurring object in Richard Jackson’s latest Crocker Art Museum exhibit. They represent the process, something the 80-year-old Sacramento-born artist cherishes.

There’s also a playful element: He likes to think those five-finger balloons could pop at any moment, making a vivid mess of the museum’s pristine floors.

“It makes them nervous,” he told SN&R, laughing. “The anticipation that something could go wrong, and they can’t control it.”

The “floor problem” exists everywhere in the art world, Jackson says. Plain flooring, usually white and uniform, fit the modern motifs he’s tried to combat through his art for decades: elitist, abstract and contentless.

Or, “decorative bullshit,” as he put it.

If that line resonates, you’ll enjoy BIG IDEAS: Richard Jackson’s Alleged Paintings, which opened at the Crocker on April 28. It’s “alleged” since many of the works are machines that Jackson built from scratch and that paint on their own. When hooked up to an air compressor, steel sculptures such as “Duck In A Bucket” and “Beer Bear” can ooze and spray primary colors from their duck and bear orifices.

BIG IDEAS shares works primarily from the last two decades. In “La Grande Jatte,” a pointillist painting by Georges Seurat is recreated with a pellet gun holes. Duck-face sculpture “Dick’s Big Duck” represents a list of Jackson’s favorite things. Pheasant hunting is one.

The duck’s eyes are breasts.

Jackson had his first solo exhibit at the Crocker in 1961. Since then, he has been celebrated internationally as an

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artist with unconventional approaches, sharp wit and humor that pokes fun at “fascist” art thinking. His primary message: Make your own rules.

“I encourage people to keep trying to change things, rather than move to Los Angeles and be part of it,” he says.

“Come to Los Angeles and kick the shit out of it. Question it. Try to upset it.”

In “1000 Pictures from 5050 Stacked Paintings,” Jackson painted exactly 1,000 canvases to form a wall, evidence of how he passes his time, he says.

“Up until not too long ago, I worked a job every day,” Jackson says. “I was doing all this on my time after work. ...

That’s what’s interesting to me is, how much can one person accomplish on their own.”

Then there’s the Little Girl’s Room.

In it, a rotating giant steel girl hugs a unicorn standing on its horn. Red, blue and yellow paint violently disrupts the room’s rainbow- and cloud-painted walls. A jack-in-the-box hangs with an upside-down smile, and a stuffed clown lounges with an erection. Attendees can view it from an open door, or from different angles on a monitor.

“What I’m most concerned about is that art’s becoming sort of an inbred language that only other artists and art aficionados ... can talk about or understand,” Jackson says. “I’m just trying to humanize painting a little more, so people can kind of react and relate to it a little better.” Ω bIG IDeas: Richard Jackson’s alleged Paintings runs april 28 to august 25. For more info, vist crockerart.org.

Fear and television Pitching new tunes for film and TV, Heather Evans overcomes a songwriter’s dilemma

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Heather Evans imagines her next song, “Glass Ceiling,” would fit swimmingly in a mermaid drama. The women’s empowerment anthem will be darker than her usual calm-drive acoustic pop.

When ready, she’ll pitch it to the producers of Siren, a television show set in a small fishing town terrorized by water nymphs.

The Sacramento musician is making a deep dive into writing music for film and TV, a market where eyes are kept colorless in lyrics to match any audience, Los Angeles talent agents are sick of love songs and new music is in high demand.

Evans hopes the music and lyrics of “Glass Ceiling” (“Can’t hold me down / Can’t put me out”) will front-line an epic moment onscreen.

Or it’ll at least move her closer toward a personal goal: writing 12 songs in 12 months.

“Glass Ceiling” will be her third, and after bouts with depression, anxiety and some therapeutic albums over the past decade, she’s looking outward to write songs for other people. She’s never felt more sure of her calling.

“I am hopeful that my music is a light in dark places for people,” she says.

Last year, her song “20 Years From Now” played during a heart-wrenching interview on So You Think You Can Dance? Her 2017 tune “Mom Life” appeared twice in Dancing with the Stars: Juniors and went semi-viral on Facebook, gathering more than 40,000 views and a handful of shares on popular mom blogs.

The successes are an antidote to what Evans and other local songwriters often experience: crippling fear and self-doubt. Her blog is a hopeful reminder to “Do it afraid,” as she puts it.

“That’s all you can do, is just move things forward even though you feel afraid,” Evans says.

She released her first song, “By My Side,” in March. Evans’ soft-light voice travels through reverb-laden acoustic guitar, harp and kicks. The song is being pitched for a Hallmark movie.

“By My Side” recommends not going alone, and as the co-leader of the Sacramento Songwriter Circle, Evans lives the lyrics.

Through monthly meet-ups and showcases in the basement of Fig Tree Coffee, Art, & Music Lounge in Roseville, about 35 local musicians reveal their unfinished work in a safe environment. The most fulfilling part is watching each artist bloom in confidence, Evans says.

“They’re getting better at their craft and not listening to the inner critic as much,” she says.

Her song No. 2, “Anything’s Possible,” is gentle encouragement bathed in a cloud of warm synth. It released April 4, and if her dream goes exactly as planned, you’ll hear it the moment an America’s Got Talent judge strikes the approval buzzer.

Each song tackles an uncharted topic, but the whole represents Evans’ new “season of life.”

When she released her first CD at 17 and first full-length album at 19, the songs were mostly introspective therapy, she says. That changed after she had a miscarriage in 2008.

“Something happened to me. I shut down emotionally, musically,” Evans says. Her next two albums, Songs of Healing and Out of Woods, were intended for parents who lost children, or listeners wrestling with depression.

“I saw a shift in my songwriting from those CDs,” she says. “And people were reaching out to me and saying, ‘Heather, this has gotten me through the worst season of my life.’”

With nine songs left to go to reach her goal, Evans is in her “season of empowerment.”

“Diving into this and going after it, it frees me up creatively,” she says. “I can just be crazy.

I don’t have to just be Heather Evans. I can create whatever I want.” Ω

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A “jukebox musical” with some of the best (and worst) songs of the 1970s is one huge cruise of enjoyable theater.

Michael Laun directs with admirable respect for both musical comedy and the disaster theme, mixing humor and groan-inducing obviousness (“Feelings,” anyone?) into one big hit.

Wed 7pm, Thu 7pm, Fri 8pm, Sat 2pm & 8pm, Sun 2pm; Through 5/12; $20-$38; Sac-

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The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic Society Murder Mystery is a farce about a dedicatedly inept theater group staging a murder mystery. For Theatre in the Heights, it’s a brave attempt at demonstrating how adventurous a young theater company can be. Fri 8pm, Sat 8pm,

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What’s this key for? Unlocking your mind … and also a door, probably.

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fri 7:30pm, sat 7:30pm, sun 2pm. through 5/12; $12-$20; falcon’s eye theatre, stage two at the harris center, 10 college Parkway in folsom, (916) 608-6888, harriscenter.net.

Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has always been a series of bizarre events. The Disney animated version of Alice in Wonderland made it kid-cool with the cute White Rabbit, the funny Mad Hatter and the mysterious Cheshire Cat. Then Jefferson Airplane recorded the 1967 hit “White Rabbit” that spotlighted the story’s subtle drug references and psychedelic trippiness as Alice eats cookies and mushrooms that make her shrink and grow.

Falcon’s Eye Theater has chosen the more hallucinogenic version for its adaptation, with creative production elements that include original music compositions, animated shadow puppets and video technology that shows Alice plunging down the rabbit hole and flying on a space ship.

Though this decision to make Alice a swirling imaginative stew is quite mesmerizing at times, it does greatly sacrifice the plot so the production comes across as a series of non-sequitur, eccentric vignettes instead of a cohesive story. And though there’s nothing provocative, it may prove confusing and frustrating for traditionalists and Disney-aged audience members.

The large cast consists of 30 performers and more than a dozen non-human animated characters. Kylie Adams is most impressive as Alice—who must juggle portraying a young girl while interacting with puppets, animation, video imagery and shifting props and sets.

The actors and production crew work as a team—all producing a hypnotic trip down the rabbit hole. Ω

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Lickspittles, Buttonholers, and Damned Pernicious Go-Betweens In this rhyming, Alexandrine verse play, Resurrection Theatre attempts to entertain audiences with comedy, tragedy, drama and melodrama all wrapped into one. Unfortunately, it takes more than an appropriate suspension of disbelief to accept jeans, Crocs and fanny packs in 1807. Fri 8pm, Sat 8pm, Sun

2pm; Through 5/12; $18-$20;

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5 Musical magic Lights up. A violin hums. A paper butterfly escapes from a book as young Amélie, clad in sparkly boots and a red skirt, innocently invites the audience to participate for a moment in her whimsical view of the world.

Based on the French romantic comedy Amélie, Green Valley Theatre Company’s production of this new musical is bursting with life, color and charm.

In the opening scene, we see Amélie as a child, played by the impressive Maggie McGoldrick.

She’s a dreamer, and her parents cannot see the world through her eyes. As we follow grown-up Amélie (Corley Pillsbury) on this mischievous journey to help others live with passion, we begin to see that she’s still as uncertain as a child—afraid to live her own life and fall in love.

Both McGoldrick and Pillsbury exude confidence and artistry. Kevin Borcz brings a brilliant dose of light-hearted fun to his characters Joseph, Lucien and Fluffy the goldfish, and Erik Catalan’s tender-hearted performance as Nino Quincompoix is delightful. The endearing cast works together between scenes in this fast-moving performance, always staying in character with high energy.

The brief audience interaction allows viewers to become even more enraptured in this idyllic world.

And the magical use of puppetry sprinkled thoughtfully throughout adds a silly and sweet element.

Be prepared to have your socks charmed right off with this one, and maybe even shed a tear for a pet goldfish.

—Tessa MargueriTe OuTland

amélie: friday 8pm, saturday 8pm, sunday 7pm; through 5/19; $20; green Valley theatre company at the roseville tower theatre, 417 Vernon street in roseville; (916) 234-6981; greenvalleytheatre.com.

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stage pick What do we want? Fair compensation for labor! When do we want it? Right after this musical number.

Snoozing on the job Sleepwear? More like sleep, where? Where can anybody sleep if they earn less than seven-and-a-half cents an hour? In The Pajama Game, the workers at the SleepTite Pajama Factory are just trying to earn a living, but negotiations between the union organizers and factory managers aren’t exactly a slumber party. Mix in a little forbidden romance between union member Babe and new superintendent Sid, and you’ve got yourself a classic musical rom-com that definitely won’t put you to sleep. Fri 5/3, 8pm; Sat 5/4, 8pm; Sun 5/5, 2pm; Through 5/19; $14-$18; Davis Musical Theatre Company, 607 Pena Drive in Davis; (530) 756-3682; dmtc.org;

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Humble pockets Pirozhki, euroPean DelicaTeSSen In North Highlands, there’s a supermarket called European Delicatessen, and its deli is a Russian smorgasbord. “It’s all Russian!” said the clerk with a smile. Let’s single out the pirozhki (round puff pastries) behind the glass: The cabbage and meat varieties ($1.99 each) make for a filling meal: Fiber from the cabbage (it’s vegetarian), protein from the chicken and pork, and substance from what looks like fried maple bar bread that surrounds each filling. Spices and onions in the center add to the deliciousness. One bite takes you from a soft, chewy cushion of dough and reveals the robust surprise inside. 4319 Elkhorn Boulevard, Suite B.

—miTch barber A feast is what to prepare for at Dali’s Kitchen: The Carne Asada plato, a Vampiro (right) and Tacos Dorados de Papa (above).

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Every Sunday in the ’90s was dedicated to cruising Franklin Boulevard. We’d pack into my Nino’s 1978 Cadillac with the S.O.S Band’s song “Just Be Good To Me” pouring out the convertible. We’d cruise through William Land Park and end up at Miller Park.

To stave off my gordita hunger, we’d almost always make a corn dog pit stop at Ford’s Real Hamburgers, a classic little diner with outdoor-only seating on Sutterville Road. Unfortunately, Ford’s closed after 25 years in business, but in 2017, the Magallons moved in.

Dali’s Kitchen, a family-run Mexican restaurant, now occupies the space and is owned by Dali Magallon with her daughter Melina Magallon as manager. Dali is from Jalisco, but her menu is more diverse. While there are the greatest hits: Enchiladas Verdes ($10.95), Quesadillas ($10.95) and Street Tacos ($2.65), Dali’s also lists some special items on its menu.

Tacos Dorados de Papa ($10.95) are deep-fried crunchy shells stuffed with chunks of potato and topped with shredded lettuce, queso fresco, sour cream and red salsa (which I ignored). The real beauty is its bright salsa verde.

Vampiros ($3.25), are found at very few taquerias— although I’ve ordered them off-menu at most taco trucks— but they are glorious. Cheese is fried on the flattop until it dances and turns crispy, a tortilla is placed on the cheese to adhere and the proteins are tucked into the cheese blanket 28 | SN&R | 05.02.19

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nice and calentita (warm). It’s finished with all the staple condiments found at taquerias (cilantro, diced onions, limes, chiles). If done right, they are crunchy, cheesy and hefty.

I decided to switch it up and make a combination that’s not commonly served together at taquerias, but is frequently found at the street vendors in the neighborhood. Dali’s cashier looked baffled by my request of carne asada and shrimp, but once I said they could charge me extra ($3), all doubts disappeared. Soon, plump shrimp appeared on top of finely chopped carne asada stacked on top of a layer of griddled cheese, on top of two corn tortillas complete with onions, cilantro and Dali’s zippy salsa verde. It was the stuff of dreams.

But, another dish caught me completely off guard: a simple Carne Asada plato ($14.95). Thinly sliced beef seasoned simply with salt, pepper and oregano was astonishingly tender. It’s served with grilled onions, a generous side of Spanish rice and creamy refried beans, garnished with queso fresco and a welcome side of hot tortillas stored in a plastic warmer.

Inside Dali’s, there are roughly 10 indoor tables and the outdoor patio has a scenic view of Land Park. But it also faces busy Sutterville Road, which means diners are on the receiving end of a lot of car exhaust. And even when you get there early, don’t be surprised if the micro parking lot is already full. The only real criticism I have is: I don’t care for the winged-shaped plates. It’s an attempt to be contemporary when it’s not necessary.

All in all, after chilling in the park waiting for the sun to go down, you can brunch with all the homies on the patio at Dali’s on a warm, Sunday afternoon. Have some cold cervezas, complimentary chips and salsa verde, a few Vampiros and people watch to your heart’s content. Ω

Tej is an Ethiopian honey wine, or mead, made with honey and Gesho Kitel, a variety of hops found in the highlands of Ethiopia. At Queen Sheba, you can find its signature Tej ($5.99 a glass), which is produced the same way, except this homemade honey wine uses locally produced honey rather than imported, making the wine particularly tangy-sweet. I enjoyed a tall glass of the lustrous goldenyellow Tej and marveled at how the drink went from nectarous to a pleasantly light sour within one sip. I’d heard some Tej could remind one of diesel fuel, but Queen Sheba’s blend is smooth and friendly, memorable without being off-putting. I1704 Broadway queenshebas.com.

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“Everything’s supposed to be vegan but someone brought real cheese,” she said. Upon realizing it was my offering under scrutiny, I showed her its packaging as proof that I hadn’t broken any potluck rules.

Made from cashews, this non-dairy cheese has a creamy texture and robust flavor. Available in five flavors —I like the zippy Green Peppercorn—it’s a thick, spreadable dip that pairs nicely with just about anything.

Scoop it up with crisp crackers or add it as a condiment to your favorite meatless burger. Spread a thin layer over roasted root vegetables or slather it on a crusty baguette. Pick some up at Nugget Markets, the Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op and Whole Foods locations. All delicious, all vegan potluck-approved. treelinecheese.com.

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Avocados are like California gold.

Enjoyed in salads and sandwiches, on toast and tacos or even plain with a pinch of sea salt, this versatile fruit not only brings rich flavor and silky texture to some of our favorite dishes, it’s also packed with healthy fats, fiber and vitamins.

Here in the farm-to-fork capital, it’s avocado season! From May through July the West Coast will see more and more alligator pears at farmers’ markets and local grocery stores. But according to Jan DeLyser, vice president of marketing with the California Avocado Commission (the state’s go-to source for information about the industry), avocados took a hit during its growing season, which is roughly from February through September.

“We’re dealing with a smaller crop than we had last year.

Basically, we’re expecting 175 million pounds of avocados compared to 360 million pounds

from the previous year,” DeLyser said. “When you think about the reasons behind the lower volume: Avocados are an alternate bearing crop. The trees work hard and take a bit of a break each season, but we also had extreme heat in the 115 to 120-degree range, which is very, very hot in California.”

California is the largest producer of avocados grown in the United States with more than 3,000 avocado cultivators predominantly along the coastal region from Monterrey to San Diego.

The good news is that in early April, California growers began harvesting fairly healthy volumes of avocados. DeLyser says about 9 to 11 million pounds are being harvested every week and despite the heat wave, she anticipates avocados to be in good supply through July, particularly since California farmers are choosing to ship closer to home instead of throughout the country.

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So when you see ripe avocados at the store or market, grab a few and know that you’re eating seasonally and supporting local farmers.

A ripe avocado will have a slight give when held in the palm of your hand. That’s when it’s prime for guacamole-making. Another helpful tip: Never press avocados with your fingers as it will bruise the fruit, and no one likes to eat those brown spots.

When asked how she prefers to eat avocados, DeLyser said she’s simple.

“I really love it two ways and you can call it breakfast-oriented, but I enjoy it at all times of the day,” she said. “On a piece of whole wheat toast, or I love avocados with eggs. I just think that’s a combination made in heaven.

Whether it’s poached or scrambled with chunks of avocados. I just love it.” Ω

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started using us for live plants and that made a big difference. We did lots and lots of model homes. Then the economy crashed; that all changed.”

Then Exotic Plants found a new niche: Houseplants for offices. (It provides plants for SN&R’s offices.)

“People became more aware of environmental issues,” Keppler said. “Plants clean the air; they produce oxygen. But they also promote improved working conditions.

They act as a sound barrier; offices can be noisy and plants help really well. But most of all, people like working—and living— with living plants. They enjoy the growth.”

Exotic Plants still has a healthy rental business, particularly for special events.

“We do a lot of parties, weddings, conventions,” said Keppler. Among her major clients are Golden 1 Center, UC Davis and CSU Sacramento.

“We also do a lot of moss walls and vertical [planter] walls,” she added. “They’re very popular right now.”

Keppler has seen an influx of younger customers as houseplants have become a favorite decorating accessory for millennials. “Anything on Etsy or Instagram, people look for it!” she said. “Succulents are booming. Big fiddleleaf figs, they fly out the door … Carnivorous plants—pitcher plants, Venus fly traps, cobra lilies—are very popular right now.”

Now 75, Keppler plans to keep on growing her Exotic Plants. “People say, ‘What are doing, opening a new store? You should be retiring,’” she said. “When people retire, they just sit and decay or they can do something they really enjoy. And that’s what I’m doing—something I really enjoy.”

A half century after hanging ferns and grape ivy seemed to decorate every California kitchen, houseplants are enjoying another moment in the sun.

“There’s more interest again; it’s like a renaissance for me,” Kifumi Keppler said. “It’s coming back.”

Keppler owns Exotic Plants, Sacramento’s go-to source for indoor gardening since 1972.

On Sunday, May 5, Exotic Plants will host a grand opening at a new location, packed with thousands of growing things adapted to indoor spaces.

No longer tucked into a strip mall on Howe Avenue, the new Exotic Plants sits on a one-acre Fulton Avenue site as a standalone store with a big bright patio and plenty of parking.

Keppler already has filled the new store with enticing plants. A forest of ficus stands next to tables packed with colorful bromeliads and orchids. Peace lilies and staghorn ferns vie for space with truckloads of succulents.

“People ask me, ‘What’s your favorite plant?’ Exotic Plants grand opening: 3-7 p.m., Sunday, May 5, 1525 Fulton Ave. Workshops, raffles, I love all kinds,” Keppler said. “I love orchids, music, refreshments from Mikuni Sushi and succulents, ferns; it’s so hard to choose! All Cultured Kitchen. Free entry, (916) 922-4769; have different personalities, different vibes.” exoticplantsltd.com. Ω Over 47 years, Keppler and Exotic Plants have rolled with the changes in the nursery industry and customers’ plant preferences.

“We’re the pioneer of indoor plant rental,” Debbie Arrington, an award-winning garden writer and lifelong she said. “When we started, model homes in gardener, is co-creator of the Sacramento Digs gardening blog and website. subdivisions were using plastic plants. They 30

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MUSIC THURSDAY, 5/2 BLuEs iN THE scHOOLs: Join Sacramentan student-musicians as they share their best performances in support of Blues in the Schools, a program that strives to bring education about blues music into schools. 6pm, $5. Stoney’s Rockin Rodeo, 1320 Del Paso Blvd.

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Cesar Chavez Plaza, 5Pm, no Cover

TicKET WiNDOW EELS Catch some tunes from the seminal 1990s band, famous for their song featured on the soundtrack of Shrek 2, “I Need Some Sleep.” Robert Ellis, Texas Piano Man will also perform. 5/14, 7:30pm, $40-$60, on sale now. Crest Theatre, crestsacramento.com

ELVIN BISHOP Performing with his

Big Fun Trio, Bishop will also be joined by Tommy Castro & The Painkillers for an evening of blues and rock. 5/25, 7:30pm, $35-$65, on sale now. Crest Theatre, crestsacramento.com.

RASCAL FLATTS Join the country

band as it stops in Wheatland to perform.

Bring your best country accent. 6/26, 7:30pm, $38.75-$98.50, on sale now. Toyota Amphitheater in Wheatland, concerts1. livenation.com.

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THE DODOs: The indie rockers may share their name with an extinct bird, but they share their sound with anything but an extinct bird—they’re a lot better. 8pm, $15$18. Harlow’s, 2708 J St.

KNOcKED LOOsE: Kentucky brought up this punk band, cutting its teeth on the Oldham County greenery. Straddling the state line and just on the outskirts of Louisville, Oldham County must have something about it that produces good punk bands. 5:30pm, $20. Ace of Spades, 1417 R St.

sHiDArA: The traditional Japanese Taiko

FRIDAY, 5/3 and Madness, a CIP staple. They’ll be coaxing funky soul sounds out of their horns, cooking up a feast of metaphorical eggplant Parmesan for the whole crowd to enjoy. Simple Creation, Heather Evans and DJ Eddie Z will also set the musical tone, and Ashton Bohm will paint.

Welcome to the season of outdoor music.

910 I Street, godowntownsac.com.

HELLA SUMMER With performances from YG, Tyga, Kid Ink and more, this is one Hella Summer performance that will make your summer especially hot. summer especially hot.

7/25, 7pm, $16.41-$400, on Center, sale now. Golden 1 Center,

hometown, Sacramento. Have you heard that Cake is from Sacramento? They are.

9/11, 7pm, $59.50-$279, on sale now. Golden 1 Center, ticketmaster.com.

MONTEREY JAzz FESTIVAL Don’t

miss miss the exhaustive lineup of jazz at the Monterey Jazz Festival. Catch the Diana Diana Krall, David Sanborn and more. more. 9/27-9/29, various times, $20-$435, on sale now.

Monterey Fairgrounds, montereyjazzfestival.org.

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LYNYRD SkYNYRD YNYRD Catch the “Freebird” band as it tours through the concert town of Wheatland.

MANá The pop band from

8/17, 6pm, $30-$200, on sale now. Toyota

Guadalajara, Mexico is getting ready to come to the farm-to-fork capital in November. 11/27, 8pm,

Amphitheater in Wheatland, Wheatland, concerts1.livenation.com.

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AriANA GrANDE: The singer-songwriter, social mediaite and star of Nickelodeon fame is coming to Sacramento on her Sweetener World Tour. Playing songs from that album along with ones from Thank U, Next, the pop star will perform. 7:30pm, $233-600. Golden 1 Center, 500 David J Stern Walk.

cONcErTs iN THE PArK JOY AND MADNEss: Check out the annual park-based event on page 32. This page. To the left. 5pm, no cover. Cesar Chavez Plaza, 910 I St.

EKOLu: From the volcano-formed island of Maui came Ekolu. They play reggae music, and will do so this week along with Two Story Zori, who come from the Pacific Northwest and also play reggae. 9pm, $20$25. Harlow’s, 2708 J St.

Don’t sweat it, just get it! Get a ticket, that is.

the hometown heroes heroes on their stop in their

with Chaos Mantra. Their genres are, respectively, metal and metal. 7pm, $10. Holy Diver, 1517 21st St.

drummers come to the Community Center Theater to perform their overpoweringly beautiful feats of beat alongside movement and with unparalleled energy. 7pm, $28$48. Community Center Theater, 1301 L St.

Emotions in the park As the weather gets warmer and the sun agrees to hang out longer, Concerts in the Park return to downtown.

Music You’re invited to join in the music, the beer and the food trucks, and while you may not have received a formal invitation on flowery stationary, consider this your official summons to the park. Kicking off the season is Joy

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Joy and Madness perform at 2017 Concerts in the Park.

cHAOs MANTrA: Malcolm Bliss will perform

$29.50-$239.50, on sale now. Golden 1 Center, ticketmaster.com.

cOLD sHOT: The 2019 SAMMIES-nominated band will be sharing covers of some of the most recognizable hits of all time. Request “Love Shack.” 6pm, no cover. The Davis Graduate, 805 Russell Blvd. in Davis.

THE ONLY cAsH TriBuTE BAND: Your credit cards and checks are no good, because this evening is Cash only. Actually, you may need to pay with a card or check, but you’ll get to enjoy this tribute to the music of Johnny Cash from this band. Sorry for the confusion. 7:30pm, $20-$40. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.

SATURDAY, 5/4 GrEEN MiLK frOM THE PLANET OrANGE: Japanese psychedelic rockers are coming to a venue near you to perform, as are Gentleman Surfer and Plum Adnerson. It’s

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an all-ages show. 6:30pm, $12. Harlow’s, 2708 J St.

LA DisPuTE: The Grand Rapids, Michigan posthardcore band will be performing. 7pm,

$30.50. Ace of Spades, 1417 R St.

MicKEY AVALON: Rapper-actor Dirt Nasty joins

the Hollywood rapper. 7pm, $25. Holy Diver, 1517 21st St.

rONNiE LAWs: If you want to hear some “Jazzma-tazz” from Ronnie Laws, Ron Burris, Kyron and Dasha McQueen, you’ll want to hit this show. 5pm, $35. The Guild Theater, 2828 35th St.

rYAN AHErN: Described on his website as a “champion pianist,” Ryan Ahern will take the audience on a keyboard excursion and “hang ten” fingers on the keys. 7pm, $49$64. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.

sEPiATONic: Do you like sepia-toned images and the music you might expect to accompany them? Your electro-swing evening awaits. 7:30pm, $15. Goldfield Trading Post, 1630 J St.

SUNDAY, 5/5 frEDDiE GiBBs: The rapper from Gary, Indiana, his home sweet home will be performing. 6:30pm, $22.50-$75. Harlow’s, 2708 J St.

rEiGN: Join Reign, Holehearted, I Am Her, Vice Versa, Up in Smoke and A Waking Memory at the Colony for some jaunty tunes. 7pm, $12. The Colony, 3512 Stockton Blvd.

MONDAY, 5/6 BEN HAGGArD & NOEL HAGGArD: The Haggards are certainly a country musical family, and Noel and Ben are two of Merle’s children committed to proving that at this show. 7:30pm, $25. Goldfield Trading Post, 1630 J St.

THE GriNNs: The band known as The Grinns plays shows and, according to their website, “kicks ass.” Mediocre Cafe and Boy Romeo will also play. 6:30pm, $8-$12. Momo Sacramento, 2708 J St.

WEDNESDAY, 5/8 sONGs & sTOriEs: Join Art Alexakis and more songwriters at this event, featured on page 35. 7pm, $27-$299. Ace of Spades, 1417 R St.

THuNDErsTOrM ArTis: Like many professional musicians, Thunderstorm Artis has been playing music for a long time. See what he’s managed to do in that time, across genres and with guitars. 7:30pm, $10. Goldfield Trading Post, 1630 J St.

FESTIVALS THURSDAY, 5/2 PArTY AND TiME cAPsuLE AT THE sOfiA: The Big Day of Giving is here. Have some fun with it as B Street Theatre buries a time capsule.

There will be food and drinks and music and more. 4pm, no cover. Sofia Tsakopoulos Center for the Arts, 2700 Capitol Ave.

SUNDAY, 5/4

May the 4th Fun Run new Helvetia Brewing Co., 11am, $10-$35

A few days from now in a neighborhood not far away … It is the fourth day in May. New Helvetia Brewing Company, coordinating with Sac Beer Week, has succeeded in planning a fun run. In the planning, they managed to secure performances from Tiny Sounds and Red Dirt Ruckus, SPORTS & OUTDOORS along with food trucks capable of feeding everyone that shows up. Parched from running 5 kilometers, participants dressed in Star Wars gear race to the 18th Street block party beerfest. Unbeknownst to them, local brewers are readying their beer for pouring … 1730 Broadway, newhelvetiabrew.com/beerfest5k.

in this place. Thursday 5/2, 6pm. $15. 8201 Freeport Blvd.

PUNCH LINE: Josh Wolf. Yet another alumnus of the talk show Chelsea Lately is coming to Punch Line. Join the comedian and comedy writer as he performs. Through 5/4. $23.50. Stay Silly Comedy. Has your life gotten a little staid for your liking? Get some silly comedy into your life with local comedians trying their collective hands at making you laugh. Wednesday 5/8, 8pm. $16. 2100 Arden Way, Suite 225.

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FRIDAY, 5/3 GEM FAIRE: Catch some gem vendors as they come through town vending more gems and baubles, trinkets and beads, the likes of which would make your head spin, your beaus bawl and your magpie overload. Noon, $7. Scottish Rite Masonic Center, 6151 H St.

SATURDAY, 5/4 AMADOR FOUR FIRES: Come revel in the wines of Amador County with local wineries and foods. There will be music, tasting and more. 11am, $40-$140. Amador County Fairgrounds, 18621 Sherwood St. in Plymouth.

BRICK FEST LIVE LEGO FAN EXPERIENCE: Celebrate the famous Danish interlocking bricks at this fan festival with all kinds of Lego attractions and activities. You can touch some Legos, participate in a mosaic and even race a Lego car against other Lego enthusiasts. 10am, $14.99$39.99. Sacramento Convention Center Complex, 1400 J St.

FREE COMIC BOOK DAY FESTIVAL 2019: Like comic books? Like free ones? Great—because those things, when put together, are what this festival’s about. Empire’s Comics Vault is giving away thousands of copies of some 50 unique comic book titles. Nick Dragotta, co-creator of the comic book series East of West, will be in attendance. 9am, no cover. Empire’s Comics Vault, 1120 Fulton Ave.

RIVER CITY MARKETPLACE: Join some fellow Sacramentans as they attempt to sell you their fine wares. With makers, craftspeople, creatives, artisans and other fun professions sharing their merch, you’ll see plenty of interesting goods. 11am, no cover. Fremont Park, 1515 Q St.

STAR WARS-THEMED SCAVENGER HUNT: Head down to Old Sacramento for a trip down Star Wars lane. It’s May the Forth, and four stations throughout the area will help you on your quest to scavenge, hunt and just be an all-around nerf-herding ruffian. You’ll taste some blue milk, Wookie Cookies and more. 11am, no cover. Evangeline’s, 113 K St.

SUNDAY, 5/5

a locomotive blast from the locomotive past. 10am, no cover. Old Sacramento Waterfront.

FOOD & DRINK SATURDAY, 5/4 RAINBOW BRIDGE CENTENNIAL TASTING!: The Rainbow Bridge is turning 100, and it’s celebrating by throwing a party on itself.

With food and drinks from Historic Folsom venues, the evening will be packed full of flavor, all in honor of the birthday bridge.

Remember to bring a gift for the bridge—it likes applique. 4:30pm, $125. Folsom Historic District, 929 Sutter St. in Folsom.

SUNDAY, 5/5 CAPITOL BREWERS DINNER: As the 10th Sacramento Beer Week comes to a close, there’s another event to celebrate: this dinner with our city’s best brewers and chefs. You’ll taste beers, taste food and mingle, then have some dinner. 6pm, $85$120. Beatnik Studios, 723 S St.

TUESDAY, 5/7 A TACO TUESDAY SPEAKER NOMINATION CREATIVE MIXER: Nothing says creativity quite like Taco Tuesday: an otherwise normal day associated forever with an alliterative food. In that vein, join this Tuesday with CreativeMornings Sacramento as they seek nominations for speakers as future events.

You’ll have beer, tacos and get to nominate a speaker. 5:30pm, $15. Urban Roots Brewery & Smokehouse, 1322 V St.

WEDNESDAY, 5/8

SAC ACTIVIST SCHOOL PRESENTS HEALTHY COOKING ON A BUDGET: Join Sac Activist School for some tacos de papas y zanahoria.

Carrots and potatoes, y’all. 6pm, $5-$10 donation. Sol Collective, 2574 21st St.

DAVIS CRAFT & VINTAGE FAIR: Join the artists and crafters of Davis at this fair, a fair that features live music and deathly-serious crafts. 11am, no cover. Davis Central Park, 3rd. & C St. in Davis.

WEDNESDAY, 5/8 COMMUNITY SESQUICENTENNIAL DAY: Take to the Old Sacramento “Waterfront” for this festival commemorating the big 150th anniversary of the Transcontinental Railroad. With outdoor activities, plenty of accurate historical information and more train-related fun, it’s guaranteed to be

surreal films. 7pm, $12. Delta King Theater, 1000 Front St.

MOVIES OFF THE WALL PULP FICTION: Did you know that in Paris, they don’t call it the Movies off the Wall Series at the Crocker?

They probably don’t talk about it much at all there, but that doesn’t stop the museum from showing Pulp Fiction this week. 7pm, $16. Crocker Art Museum, 216 O St.

FRIDAY, 5/3 SOUTH ASIA FILM FESTIVAL: Join UC Davis Middle East and South Asia Studies for this two-day film festival open to the public.

With new and old documentaries and films, including a documentary about Punjabi filmmakers in Northern California, it’s sure to be an interesting and powerful look at a community. Various times, no cover. UC Davis Alumni Center and International House, 530 Alumni Lane in Davis and 10 College Park in Davis.

WEDNESDAY, 5/8 MILDRED PIERCE-FILM NOIR SERIES: Catch Joan Crawford, back again as a mother whose life is thrown into shambles and chooses to start anew. Will her restaurant business succeed? Will her relationship with her daughter survive? All this and more in the 1945 film. 7pm, $10.50. The Tower Theatre, 2508 Land Park Drive.

COMEDY FREEPORT WINE COUNTRY INN & BISTRO: Comedy off the Vine. Join Marc Yaffee for some comedy in a winey environ. The eminent Native American performer has made people laugh all over and will continue to do so

CHALK PASTEL ART NIGHT: Join Kelsey Burke for this night of chalk pastel and food and drink.

It benefits the Firefighters Burn Institute, and participants will depict the Tower Bridge. 6pm, $45-$50. The Bank, 629 J St.

FILM THURSDAY, 5/2 NO MORE CHAINS 2 FILM SCREENING: Join Ari Squires for a presentation of this documentary, complete with a celebrity Q&A session and a social hour. 6:30pm, $20. The Guild Theater, 2828 35th St.

SURREAL CINEMA: Join the Sacramento Film Fest for an evening of bizarre, uneasy and

NEVADA THEATRE: M. Butterfly. The three-

SACRAMENTO COMEDY SPOT: RIOT and Kooky Pants. Improv from RIOT opens up this show, then Kooky Pants continue with some intense comedy and musical drama. Saturday 5/4, 8pm. $8. 1050 20th St., Suite 130.

TOMMY T’S COMEDY CLUB: Red Grant. Watch Grant as he shares his comedy, his laughter and even his observations about life with the audience. Through 5/4. $20-$30. 12401 Folsom Blvd. in Rancho Cordova.

WATERMELON MUSIC: Krista Fatka. Fatka’s spent more than 10 years performing in various ways and means. Join her as she shares her award-winning, competition-worthy performance with you, the ticket-holder. 8pm. Through 5/3. $10$20. 1970 Lake Blvd. in Davis.

ON STAGE BIG IDEA THEATRE: Ugly Lies the Bone. The horrors of war follow Jess home after her tour in Afghanistan. She finds solace in the worlds of virtual reality that help her heal emotionally. Through 5/25. $12-$22. 1616 Del Paso Blvd.

CAPITAL STAGE: The Other Place. Research, lectures, memories and more are some of the subjects of this play, featuring drama and intrigue in New England. Through 5/3. $25-$40. 2215 J St.

FOX & GOOSE: Trans Takeover V. Join Killer Couture, JJ The Messiah, Alice Luna, Morgan Summers and Temple K. Kirk in this evening of performance in benefit of the Gender Health Center’s NorCal AIDS Cycle fundraiser. Saturday 5/4, 9pm. $5-$10. 1001 R St.

GREEN VALLEY THEATRE COMPANY: AMÉLIE The Musical. Catch the sweet-as-sugar story about Amélie from Green Valley Theatre Company, and catch our review of it on page 26. Through 5/19. $20. 417 Vernon St. in Roseville.

act play written by David Henry Hwang is coming to Nevada City. Through 5/4. $15$30. 401 Broad St. in Nevada City.

WOODLAND OPERA HOUSE: Rumpelstiltskin.

The classic story about a bad guy with a hard-to-discover name comes to Woodland. Through 5/12. $5-$16. 340 Second St. in Woodland.

YOLO BREWING CO.: 2nd Annual SARTA Soiree.

Join the Sacramento Area Regional Theater Alliance for a Big Day of Giving party. There will be live performances, foods, activities and plenty more exciting things to do and see. Thursday 5/2, 6pm. $10. 1520 Terminal St. in West Sacramento.

ART JOHN NATSOULAS GALLERY: CCACA Ceramic Art Conference and Exhibition. Come celebrate the ceramicists of Davis and the surrounding areas with plenty of artwork and what can only be described as a treasure trove of sculpture. Through 5/5. No cover. 521 1st St. in Davis.

LEEANN BROOKE FINE ART: Deborah Bridges Environment and Exploration. Appreciate the encaustic art of Deborah Bridges, encapsulating landscapes in paint and sculpted forms in ceramic. Join Bridges on May 3 at 5 p.m. for an opening reception and talk. Through 5/31. No cover. 231 Broad St. in Nevada City.

MUSEUMS CALIFORNIA STATE RAILROAD MUSEUM: Gold Spike Lecture: Overview of the Creation of the Transcontinental Railroad. Get the low-down on the most high profile spike in railroad history. That’s right, dear reader, you’ll learn about the Transcontinental Railroad, including details on the Golden Spike used to finish it. Tuesday 5/7, 7pm. $7-$14. 111 I St.

CROCKER ART MUSEUM: Architecture Tour.

Go to the Crocker and appreciate the art of architecture scattered through the museum. You’ll get the deets on the baffling, the columnry, the modular

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SATURDAY, 5/4

Wonderful World of Worms Sierra 2 Center, 10am, no Cover

Worms—is there anything they can’t do? Well, they can’t work in retail, but otherwise, they do a whole lot for humans. Come join the Master Gardeners Compost Team for a pleasant morning CLASSES learning how you can put worms to work in your yard. You’ll learn how to house them, what the worms need and much more. The event also doubles as a brunch. Just kidding; don’t eat the worms, please. Do register in advance. 2791 24th Street, sierra2.org/events/category/learnery.

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Songs & Stories Ace of SpAdeS, 7pm, $27-$299

Have you ever heard the lyrics to a song and thought, “Hey, this song seems as if it was written about the exact details of my life!” Well, if that song was by Art Alexakis of Everclear, Chris Collingwood of Fountains of Wayne, Max Collins of Eve 6 or John Wozniak of Marcy Playground, today’s your lucky day.

MuSic You can hear those singersongwriters share their stories and play some songs in person at this event. 1417 R Street, aceofspadessac.com.

cALENDAR LiSTiNGS cONTiNuED FROM PAGE 33 deconstructionist vaulting and more. Sunday 5/5, 1pm. $8-$12. 216 O St.

OLD SAcRAMENTO STATE HiSTORic PARK: The Quest for the Gold Spike. With even more Gold Spike-themed events, you can catch a melodramatic performance of the events leading up to that spike of gold that commemorated the finalization of the railroad. Through 5/25. No cover. 1014 2nd St.

STANLEY MOSK LiBRARY AND cOuRTS BuiLDiNG: California and the Railroad. State Librarian Greg Lucas also is getting in on the 150year anniversary of the Transcontinental Railroad—did you think he would miss out? The State Library’s exhibit examines how those tracks helped California develop. Thursday 5/2, 5:30pm. No cover. 914 Capitol Mall.

SuTTER’S FORT: Tour by Chocolate. Head to Sutter’s Fort for some chocolate and history about Sutter’s Fort. 5:30pm. Through 5/4. $20-$25. 2701 L St.

sPORTs & OUTdOORs THURsday, 5/2 WATERFRONT YOGA: Stretch out your tight muscles out near the water—at the Old Sacramento Waterfront, of course. The Yoga Seed Collective hosts, and it’s all free. 6:30pm, no cover. Old Sacramento Waterfront, 1002 Front St.

saTURday, 5/4 BiRDS AND BiRDiNG AT THE KOOBS NATuRE AREA: Break out the binocs and head out to nature, because the Koobs Nature Area is focusing on birding. At this event, kids can make bird houses and participate in other bird-themed activities. 10am, no cover. Koobs Nature Area in Carmichael, 5325 Engle Road.

MAY THE 4TH 5K FuN RuN AND BEERFEST: Check out the beer-, running- and the Forcethemed event highlight on page 33. 11am, $10. New Helvetia Brewing Company Tasting Room, 1730 Broadway.

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TaKe aCTIOn THURsday, 5/2 KiNDNESS ROcKS: Join Sacto Cali Rocks to paint some rocks for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. Stop by any time until 7 p.m. and get rocking. 3pm, by donation. Tomato Alley Collective, 2014 28th St., Suite F.

saTURday, 5/4 MARcH FOR SciENcE: Walk around in support of a pretty good system on which to base our beliefs and challenge our hypotheses— science. You’ll walk from River Walk Park to Old Sacramento, hear live music, hear speakers and interface with other scientifically minded folks. Afterward, there’s a pub crawl. 1pm, no cover. River Walk Park, 651 2nd St. in West Sacramento.

SOuND THE ALARM cOMMuNiTY EVENT: Volunteer and help the American Red Cross install a whole bunch of smoke alarms in underserved communities for free. 7am, no cover. Cal Expo, 1600 Exposition Blvd.

CLasses THURsday, 5/2 VEGAN FiESTA: Get the preparation you need to feed a fiesta, with recipes for torta sandwiches, vegan chorizo, roasted cauliflower and many more foods. 6pm, $45$55. Community Learning Center & Cooking School, 2820 R St.

saTURday, 5/4 cODEX MAKiNG WORKSHOP: Learn how to make a codex, and learn about the history of the Mesoamerican codices. 11am, $20-$25. Sol Collective, 2574 21st St.

TuRNiP YOuR BAcKYARD GARDEN WiTH cHANOWK YiSRAEL: Get your backyard garden turned up to a whole new level. This week’s class deals with integrated pest management. 1pm, $25. The Yisrael Family Urban Farm, 4505 Roosevelt Ave.

WONDERFuL WORLD OF WORMS: Vermiculture is the name of the game, and worms are the players in that game. Come learn how you can turn your worm-free compost into a wormy paradise, featured on page 33. 10am, no cover. Sierra 2 Center, 2791 24th St.

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THURSDAY 5/2

FRIDAY 5/3

ArmAdillo music

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

Phantom Killer, 7pm, W, no cover

Fierce Fridays, 7pm, call for cover

Sabroso Cinco de Mayo with Shuga Cain, B.P.M. & Sunday Funday Remixed, 4pm, 10pm, $10-$20 call for cover

Trapicana, 10pm, W, no cover

BAr 101

Steve Stizzo Trio, 6:30pm, no cover

Billy Williams, 9pm, no cover

Toast & Jam, 9:30pm, no cover

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

Blue lAmp

1400 AlHAMbRA blvD., (916) 455-3400

Mondo Deco, Actionesse and Glosso!, 8pm, call for cover

Unprovoked CD release show, 8:30pm, $10-$12

Sourvein, -(16)- and Endless Yawn, 8pm, $10-$15

The Well and Blue Oaks, 8pm, M, $10

The BoArdwAlk

Felix Martin, Hedras, Sarah Longfield, Find Yourself and more, 7pm, $12

Destroyer, Abeyance and Red Velvet Kiss, 8pm, $12

cApiTol GArAGe

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

Dinner and a Drag Show, 7:30pm, $5$25; Karaoke, 9:30pm, call for cover

Boot Scootin Sundays, 8pm, $5

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

cresT TheATre

The Only Cash Tribute Band, 7:30pm, $20-$40

Ryan Ahern, 7pm, $49-$64

Spirited Away, 7pm, $7.50-$9.50

Cowboy Junkies, 7:30pm, W, $45-$65

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

1500 k ST., (916) 444-3633 1013 k ST., (916) 476-3356

with Linden Wood 7:30pm Thursday, $8 Goldfield Trading Post Country

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY 5/6-5/8

Poprockz 90s Night, 9pm, no cover

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

Hellbound Glory

SUNDAY 5/5

BAdlAnds

2003 k ST., (916) 448-8790

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SATURDAY 5/4

Dhalys Trinity & Brenden Tull, 7pm, no cover

FAces

Faces Karaoke, 9pm, call for cover

Absolut Fridays, 9pm, call for cover

Sequin Saturdays, 9:30pm, call for cover

FATher pAddY’s irish puBlic house

Karen Sanders, 6pm, call for cover

The Pikeys, 8pm, call for cover

Red’s Blues, 8pm, call for cover

Fox & Goose

Irish Jam Session, 8pm, no cover

Big Sticky Mess, Spacewalker and Knights of the Sound Table, 8pm, $10

Trans Takeover V w/ Killer Couture, JJ The Messiah and more, 9pm, $5

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

Sepiatonic, 7:30pm, $15

Ben Haggard and Noel Haggard, 7:30pm, M, $25

Let’s Get Quizzical, 7pm, T, no cover; Cornhole, 6pm, W, $10

2000 k ST., (916) 448-7798 435 MAIN ST., WOODlAND, (530) 668-1044 1001 R ST., (916) 443-8825

Golden 1 cenTer

Ariana Grande, 8pm, $233-$600

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

GoldField TrAdinG posT 1630 J ST., (916) 476-5076

Hellbound Glory and Linden Wood, 7:30pm, $8

hAlFTime BAr & Grill

College Night, 10pm, call for cover

Scoles & Young, 5pm, call for cover

Big Hair Don’t Care and Skid Roses, 9pm, $10

hArlow’s

The Dodos and Honyock, 8pm, $15-$18

Ekolu and Two Story Zori, 9pm, $20-$25

Green Milk from the Planet Orange and more, 6:30pm, $12

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

Every Damn Monday, 8pm, M, no cover

Freddie Gibbs, 7:30pm, $22.50-$25

Rob Vicious, 7:30pm, T, $18-$40

hideAwAY BAr & Grill PHOTO cOURTESY OF ANDY DE SANTIS

Shitshow Karaoke, 8pm, M, no cover; Record Roundup, 8pm, T, no cover

2565 FRANklIN blvD., (916) 455-1331

The Dodos

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with Honyock 8pm Thursday, $15-$18 Harlow’s Indie rock

holY diVer

Total Recall, 8:30pm, $5

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

Chaos Mantra, Malcolm Bliss, Rozu and Dreams of Madness, 7pm, $10

kupros

Live Music, 8pm, no cover

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

The hideaway Bar & Grill UPcoming eVenTs Kickstart Thursdays All Vinyl Dance Party

EvEry 1st & 3rd thursday

The Pine Box Bops, Kill The Precedent, Husky Burnette

Will Haven, Black Map, Among the First, Mickey Avalon, Dirt Nasty, Squarefield Brave Coyote and more, 6:30pm, $12-$14 Massive and more, 7pm, $25

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WeDnesDay

hot country college nights

Friday May 31 • $10

WeeKly eVenTs

industry night $3 U call it for industry guests

TUesDAy cactus Pete’s 78 RPm Record Roundup

FriDay & saturDay

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WeDnesDAy Twisted Trivia 8pM • Free

sATURDAy Happy Hour

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free line dance lessons 7pm dancing 8pm karaoke Up front 9pm

sunDay

2nD & 4TH sUnDAys Hippie Hour

18 and over college nights

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G Mo Skee, Kung Fu Vampire, Rought Neck Rydaz and eRRth, 7pm, $10-$12

Hot Mulligan, Belmont, Kayak Jones and more, 6pm, M, $15-$17

Triviology 101, 7:30pm, no cover

Jam Session and Open Mic, 5pm, T, no cover

live MuSic 5/3 5/4 5/10 5/11 5/17 5/18 5/24 5/25 5/31

billy williams toast & Jam banJo bones bongo furys samantha sharp nate grimmy dylan crawford Zach waters band sam peter

101 Main Street, roSeville 916-774-0505 · lunch/dinner 7 days a week fri & sat 9:30pm - close 21+

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1119 21sT sT., (916) 341-0277

frIDay 5/3

saTurDay 5/4

sunDay 5/5

Cinco de Mayo Party, 8:30pm, $12-$20

Midtown Moxies: May the Schwartz! A Mel Brooks Tribute, 7pm, $15-$25

Factor IX, 9pm, call for cover

MoMo sacraMento

MOnDay-WeDnesDay 5/6-5/8 The Grinns, Carpool Tunnel, Boy Romeo, Mediocre Cafe and more, 6:30pm, M, $8

2708 J sT., (916) 441-4693

old ironsides

Fashionista Boyfriend and It Looks Like a Black Hole, 7:30pm, $5

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

Bad Barnacles, Band Of Coyotes and more, 7:30pm, $8

Live Music with Heath Williamson, 5:30pm, M, no cover

Lipstick!, 9pm, $5

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The Dead and Buried Tour, 8pm, M, call for cover

670 fulTOn ave., (916) 487-3731

PalMs PlayHouse

13 MaIn sT., WInTers, (530) 795-1825

Placerville PuBlic House

414 MaIn sT., PlacervIlle, (530) 303-3792

PowerHouse PuB

614 suTTer sT., fOlsOM, (916) 355-8586

tHe Press cluB

Hell Dorado, 9:30pm, call for cover

Hot Club, 8pm, $12-$22

The Tiffani Shiro Band, 8pm, call for cover

Ghost Town Rebellion, 8pm, call for cover

Freshmakers, 10pm, call for cover

Wonderbread 5, 10pm, call for cover

Blues Jam, 6pm, call for cover

Karaoke, 8:30pm, T, call for cover; 98 Rock Local Licks, 9pm, W, call for cover

Pop 40 Dance with DJ Larry, 9pm, $5

Sunday Night Dance Party, 9pm, no cover

High Voltage! Rock and Roll Vinyl Night, 9pm, M, call for cover

College Night Wednesdays, 9pm, W, $5-$10

Desario, Did You Die and the Surrounded, 8pm, $8-$10

2030 P sT., (916) 444-7914

social nigHtcluB

1000 k sT., (916) 947-0434

stoney’s rockin rodeo

1320 Del PasO BlvD., (916) 927-6023

Country Thunder Thursdays, 8pm, no cover

swaBBies on tHe river

5871 GarDen HIGHWay, (916) 920-8088

tHe torcH cluB

Dyana and The Cherry Kings, 9pm, $6

yolo Brewing co.

A SARTA Soiree, 6pm, $10

904 15TH sT., (916) 443-2797 1520 TerMInal sT., (916) 379-7585

Contra Dance with Sacramento Country Dance Society, 1:30pm, $8-$12

Trevor McSpadden, 8pm, $18

CIP Afterparty, 10pm, no cover before 11pm

Mijangos, 10pm, no cover before 10:30pm

Hot Country Fridays, 7:30pm, $5-$10

Stoney’s Saturdays with Free Line Dance Lessons, 7pm, $5

Sunday Funday, 9pm, no cover 21+

Kalimba, 6pm, $13-$22.50

Ladies Who Rock the Blues, noon, $9-$12

Latin Touch and the Spazmatics, noon, $10-$13

Jake Nielsen’s Triple Threat and Control-Z, 9pm, $8

Nickel Slots & Danny Morris and the Ca. Stars, 9pm, $10

You Front the Band, 8pm, no cover

PHOTO cOurTesy Of POOneH GHana

La Dispute 8pm Saturday, $22.50 Ace of Spades Post-hardcore

Citizen Snips, 8pm, T, no cover

Free Yoga at Yolo, 11am, no cover

all ages, all the time ace of sPades

Knocked Loose, 6:30pm, $27.99

1417 r sT., (916) 930-0220

tHe colony

Whitey Morgan, 8pm, $27

La Dispute, 8pm, $22.50

Rival Sons, 8pm, M, $22.50

PHOTO cOurTesy Of HeaTHer POllOck

Cowboy Junkies

Abyssal, Pound, Chrome Ghost and Thrpii, 8pm, $10

3512 sTOckTOn BlvD.

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Evening of Dance, 6pm, $12-$15

West Side Story, 7pm, $15-$55

West Side Story, 7pm, $15-$55

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Shine Jazz Jam, 8pm, no cover

Car Crash Hearts, Manresa and Jereme Greene, 8pm, $7

Ant+Kenny, Corner Laughers, Nick Eng, Power Pop and Ras, 8pm, $8

10 cOlleGe PkWy, fOlsOM, (916) 606-6888 1400 e sT., (916) 551-1400

Youth Chamber Orchestra Spring Concert, 2pm, call for cover

Folsom Lake College Choral Concert, 7:30pm, T, $10-$15 Creation District Comedy Graduation Show, 8pm, W, no cover

7:30pm Wednesday, $45-$65 Crest Theatre Americana

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Bottles of flavored vape juice line the shelves at Topic Vape and Smoke on Fulton Avenue. At least, for now.

Photo by Ken Magri

city council approves flavored tobacco ban Concern about the rising number of youth attracted to candy and fruit varieties of e-cigarettes overrules adult-use freedom

by Ken Magri

Pushing back against protests from the vape industry and local merchants, the Sacramento City Council passed a ban on flavored e-cigarette cartridges and other flavored tobacco products, including menthol cigarettes, within city limits starting January 1, 2020.

On Tuesday, April 16, a 7-1 vote outlawed all candy- and fruit-flavored e-cigarette juices such as “Gummy Bear” or “Unicorn Pop!” commonly used in vape devices and quite popular among youth.

“We’ve got really powerful testimony from members of our community who say they are being targeted, that they are disproportionately affected,” said Councilman Steve Hansen.

“Evidence has shown that flavored tobacco products lure kids into smoking tobacco,” Councilman Eric Guerra wrote SN&R in an email. “What the council is banning directly leads to addiction in children.”

The flavor ban was combined with a reform of the city’s tobacco retail licensing policy to reduce the disproportionate licensing of tobacco stores “that congregate in places where people are vulnerable,” Hansen said.

But not everyone was in favor of the ban.

“History has taught us that prohibition does not work. What does work is education,” said Councilman Larry Carr, the only “no” vote on the measure.

Local tobacco distributor Samarjit Malmi also spoke against the proposal, telling the council that tobacco stores work to keep out minors. He cited a California Department of Public Health report that found a reduction in tobacco sales to minors, from 10.3% in 2016 to 5.7% in 2017.

At Tonic Vape and Smoke on Fulton Avenue, just outside the city limits, owner Samer Mansour said the ban will penalize adults for youth

behavior and the sins of tobacco companies.

“If this gentleman here wants to quit smoking, and there is a flavor ban, then the only thing I can sell him is tobacco flavor,” Mansour said as he helped a new customer who wants to quit cigarettes set up a vape unit. “Most people don’t want tobacco flavor, because they are staying away from that smell.”

Mansour pointed to his flavored nicotine bottles. “Eighty percent of our sales are this shelf, right here,” he said, arguing that banning flavors will force vape shops to close.

Sacramento’s move is part of growing national concern about the emergence of vaping.

“We didn’t predict what I now believe is an epidemic of e-cigarette use among teenagers,” former U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said in a press release last September.

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Gottlieb cited the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s 2018 National Youth Tobacco Survey, which showed a 78% increase in the use of e-cigarettes among 12- to 19-year-olds. The rise in use from 11.7% to 20.8% meant that more than 3 million American high school students used e-cigarettes in 2018.

He blamed flavored nicotine juices that mimic candy and other child-friendly tastes, and put the spotlight on five major vape juice manufacturers, telling them to fix the problem. In March, the FDA moved on its own to prevent gas stations and convenience stores from selling flavored vape products.

Tobacco companies own four of the five largest nicotine juice manufacturers.

The fifth is San Francisco’s Juul Labs, which sells a sleek, stylish vape device and flavored cartridges that resemble a long, USB flash drive that has achieved cult-like popularity among students. YouTube videos demonstrate how to refill the empty Juul pods with other flavored nicotine juices.

A Stanford University study published in January found that Juul’s “advertising imagery in its first 6 months on the market was patently youth oriented.” It also said Juul used “compensated influencers and affiliates” on social networks to boost popularity.

Teenage smoking is at its lowest point ever; 73% said in the CDC survey that they have never tried a vape product. But for those who have, the most common of many listed reasons (7.6%) was that “they are available in flavors like mint and candy.”

“Flavors are a complex issue,” said Josh Raffel, Juul’s vice president of communications. “We believe flavors play a critical role in switching adult smokers from cigarettes; we see the results in our own behavioral research.”

Nevertheless, Raffel said Juul has stopped distributing “non-tobacco/ non-menthol-based flavored pods” to traditional retail stores, allowing online sales only. This allows Juul to continue selling to adults through use of a thirdparty online age-verification system. Ω

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Life isn’t as easy as motivational speakers claim.

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By Ngaio Bealum

as k 420 @ne w s re v i e w . c o m

Good weed is good weed Just read that the indica/sativa distinctions most weed shops make are basically BS marketing stuff based on subjective experience of different varietals. That sound right to you?

—Rue D’Ralis v i a T w i t t er

like, and enjoy it. That’s it. None of the labels or the math or the categories mean anything. Good weed is good weed.

What do you think about hemp flower prerolls?

We have medical in Arkansas, hope to get my card, but we have a great little biz here in Jonesboro that rolls their own high CBD joints. They taste great and keep you nice a chill.

Peace bro!

Close. As we learn more about terpenes and their different effects, we learn that using terpene profiles is a better way to find the feeling you want to create, but that doesn’t mean that the terms “indica” and “sativa” are made up BS. —Woo Pig Generally, indica plants tend to be via Twitter shortish and very bushy. They also ripen in about 8 to 10 weeks. Sativa I love ’em! I will admit that I was plants tend to be long and tall and they skeptical at first. Why smoke weed with take seemingly forever (10 to 14 weeks) no THC? Isn’t THC the whole reason for to reach full maturity. consuming weed?

It was thought that indica plants Turns out, I was wrong. A high created a sort of body based high— CBD doobie is just the thing for aches “couchlock” is my fave descriptor for and pains. I know that TKO out this—and that sativas tended of Oregon is producing some to create a more “heady” great high CBD strains and buzz. However, we now selling them in prerolls.

A high CBD know that a plant high in And there are a bunch of myrcene (what makes doobie is just the Cali companies doing the Kush taste “kushy”) will same thing. And high CBD thing for aches probably make you a joints are also popular in and pains. little sleepy, regardless Switzerland. Go figure. of the strain name or how However, CBD is still long it took to grow. And technically illegal in the United the same thing for a plant high States. I mean, with all the CBD in pinene or limonene; one smells like lotions and unguents and edibles and pine, the other like citrus I’ll let you whatnot clogging the shelves in stores all guess which is which. Pinene rich over America, it’s probably impossible to strains will get you going, which is stop. I feel like a tested (it’s so hard to tell why sativa strains such as Trainwreck what items really contain CBD, and what and Jack Herer are very popular with is snake oil these days) CBD preroll is a overachievers. But you can also find a good deal for most people. Ω decent amount of pinene in Romulan, an old school indica known for pain relief and healing folks sleep, so who Ngaio Bealum is a Sacramento comedian, activist and marijuana knows? expert. Email him questions at Ultimately, none of this matters. ask420@newsreview.com.

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I think of myself as a kind-hearted and understanding person. But last week, I was at the grocery store and noticed the woman in front of me was very pregnant and had four young children with her. when it was time to pay I could see she was on public assistance. I got so angry that she gets help with necessities while I work a job I hate to cover mine. I’m surprised at myself having this reaction.

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Self-awareness is a gift and you have it. You projected a story on a pregnant woman in a grocery store, noticed and sought advice. We all concoct stories about other people, but we don’t all realize those stories reveal something about ourselves.

Here’s one insight: You are pregnant with possibilities for another way of life. After all, you can’t know the pregnant woman’s situation unless you ask and she opts to answer honestly.

A well-meaning adult, likely a She could have been babysitkindergarten teacher, taught ting. She might need public you about fairness. It’s an assistance to get through a essential skill, but one rough patch. Or maybe Fairness fraught with complexity her entire life has been a isn’t the real that many of us never rough patch. explore as we grow up. issue for you, None of that is any When we’re children, of your business. This though. Resentment learning to take turns is: You are unhappy and arose through old or to recite the rules of have the power to be a game after another kid wounds. happier if you change your cheats reinforces a basic, attitude and circumstances. though necessary, concept Consolidate debt, slash expenses of fairness. As we mature from and save everything you can. adolescence into adulthood, it’s easy Reimagine necessities. Consider moving to see that the world provides some overseas or to a less expensive city. Apply people with advantages. An individual’s for a new job. Be fair when assessing how birthplace, intellect, natural talent and to reinvent yourself. You’re never too old physical appearance—along with the to believe in your ability to birth a life that financial, emotional, psychological and thrills you. Ω moral makeup of their parents—create advantages that weigh life more favorably or less so.

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to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our bodies; how slow to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our souls!” wrote Henry David Thoreau. Your first assignment in the coming days is to devote yourself to quenching the hunger and thirst of your soul with the same relentless passion that you normally spend on giving your body the food and drink it craves. This could be challenging.

You may be less knowledgeable about what your soul thrives on than what your body loves.

So your second assignment is to do extensive research to determine what your soul needs to thrive.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I invite you to explore the frontiers of what’s possible for you to experience and accomplish. One exercise that might help: Visualize specific future adventures that excite you. Examples?

Picture yourself parasailing over the Mediterranean Sea near Barcelona, or working to help endangered sea turtles in Costa Rica or giving a speech to a crowded auditorium on a subject you will someday be an expert in.

The more specific your fantasies, the better.

Your homework is to generate at least five of these visions.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “We must choose between the pain of having to transcend oppressive circumstances, or the pain of perpetual unfulfillment within those oppressive circumstances,” writes mental health strategist Paul John Moscatello. We must opt for “the pain of growth or the pain of decay,” he continues. We must either “embrace the tribulations of realizing [our] potential, or consent to the slow suicide in complacency.” That’s a bit melodramatic, in my opinion. Most of us do both; we may be successful for a while in transcending oppressive circumstances, but then temporarily lapse back into the pain of unfulfillment. However, there are times when it makes sense to think melodramatically. And I believe now is one of those times for you.

In the coming weeks, I hope you will set in motion plans to transcend at least 30 percent of your oppressive circumstances.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You can benefit from always having a fertility symbol somewhere in your environment—an icon or image that reminds you to continually refresh your relationship with your own abundant creativity; an inspiring talisman or toy that keeps you alert to the key role your fecund imagination can and should play in nourishing your quest to live a meaningful life; a provocative work of art that spurs you to always ask for more help and guidance from the primal source code that drives you to reinvent yourself. So if you don’t have such a fertility symbol, I invite you to get one. If you do, enhance it with a new accessory.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I often speak to you about your personal struggle for liberation and your efforts to express your soul’s code with ever more ingenuity and completeness. It’s less common that I address your sacred obligation to give back to life for all that life has given to you. I only infrequently discuss how you might engage in activities to help your community or work for the benefit of those less fortunate than you. But now is one of those times when I feel moved to speak of these matters. You are in a phase of your astrological cycle when it’s crucial to perform specific work in behalf of a greater good. Why crucial? Because your personal well-being in the immediate future depends in part on your efforts to intensify your practical compassion.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “We are whip-lashed between an arrogant overestimation of ourselves and a servile underestimation of ourselves,” writes educator Parker Palmer.

That’s the bad news. The good news is that you are in prime position to escape from the whiplash. Cosmic forces are conspiring with your eternal soul to coalesce a well-balanced

vision of your true value that’s free of both vain misapprehensions and self-deprecating delusions. Congrats! You’re empowered to understand yourself with a tender objectivity that could at least partially heal lingering wounds. See yourself truly!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The country of Poland awards medals to couples who have stayed married for 50 years. It also gives out medals to members of the armed forces who have served for at least 30 years. But the marriage medal is of higher rank and is more prestigious. In that spirit, I’d love for you to get a shiny badge or prize to acknowledge your devoted commitment to a sacred task—whether that commitment is to an intimate alliance, a noble quest or a promise to yourself. It’s time to reward yourself for how hard you’ve worked and how much you’ve given.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scorpio poet Sylvia Plath wrote, “I admit I desire, / Occasionally, some backtalk / From the mute sky.” You’ll be wise to borrow the spirit of that mischievous declaration. Now is a good time to solicit input from the sky, as well as from your allies and friends and favorite animals, and from every other source that might provide you with interesting feedback. I invite you to regard the whole world as your mirror, your counselor, your informant.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In January 1493, Christopher Columbus was sailing his ship near the land we now call the Dominican Republic. He spotted three creatures he assumed were mermaids. Later he wrote in his log that they were “not half as beautiful as they are painted [by artists].” We know now that the “mermaids” were actually manatees, aquatic mammals with flippers and paddleshaped tails. They are in fact quite beautiful in their own way, and would only be judged as homely by a person comparing them to mythical enchantresses. I trust you won’t make a similar mistake. Evaluate everything and everyone on their own merits, without comparing them to something they’re not.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “I want what we all want,” writes novelist Jonathan Lethem. “To move certain parts of the interior of myself into the exterior world, to see if they can be embraced.” Even if you haven’t passionately wanted that lately, I’m guessing you will soon.

That’s a good thing, because life will be conspiring with you to accomplish it. Your ability to express yourself in ways that are meaningful to you and interesting to other people will be at a peak.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Using algorithms to analyze 300 million facts, a British scientist concluded that April 11, 1954 was the most boring day in history. A Turkish man who would later become a noteworthy engineer was born that day, and Belgium staged a national election.

But that’s all. With this non-eventful day as your inspiration, I encourage you to have fun reminiscing about the most boring times in your own past. I think you need a prolonged respite from the stimulating frenzy of your daily rhythm.

It’s time to rest and relax in the sweet luxury of nothingness and emptiness.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “The Blue Room” is a famous Picasso painting from 1901. Saturated with blue hues, it depicts a naked woman taking a bath. More than a century after its creation, scientists used X-rays to discover that there was an earlier painting beneath “The Blue Room” and obscured by it. It shows a man leaning his head against his right hand. Piscean poet Jane Hirshfield says that there are some people who are “like a painting hidden beneath another painting.” More Pisceans fit that description than any other sign of the zodiac. You may even be like a painting beneath a painting beneath a painting—to a depth of five or more paintings. Is that a problem? Not necessarily. But it is important to be fully aware of the existence of all the layers. Now is a good time to have a check-in.

A rolling moss gathers no moss.

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