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COVID-FRIENDLY EVENTs CALENDAR

While some venues are holding live events, remember to follow public health guidelines. Many events are still virtual due to COVID-19. Keep up to date and list events at sacramento.newsreview.com/ calendar.

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Blast away some zombies during the Heartstoppers Redemption

Think you’ve got what it takes to survive the zombie apocalypse? 2300 Mine Shaft Lane, variouS tiMeS, $20-$60

You may have seen haunted houses before, but what about a haunted drive? FEsTIVALs For three nights only, the owners and operators of the Heartstoppers Haunted House have transformed a section of road into the streets of Deadlands. Zombies will attack and you’ll have to blast your way through using either one or two laser blasters. Think you have what it takes to survive the zombie apocalypse? This event will surely test your skills to see if you’d survive a wasteland infested by ravenous zombies. Don’t worry about the real pandemic sweeping the nation; social distancing will apply and you’ll be safe inside your vehicle. This will be a family event; if you’re kids aren’t ready to take on hordes of undead, there will be trick-or-treat, scarecrow building and pumpkin carving contests. Make your way to the streets of Deadlands and experience a haunted street. 2300 Mine Shaft Lane, heartstoppershaunt.com.

FESTIVALS SATURDAY, 10/17 sINIsTER CYBER CON: Sinister Cyber Con is FRIDAY, 10/9 coming to the digital waves for the second time with guests including Miko Hughes TRUCK MANIA: Gas, diesel, 4-wheel drive, from Pet Sematary and New Nightmare,

SUVs, Jeeps, El Caminos: If you like a Monster Squad reunion and a live trucks, Truck Mania is for you. Social performance by Lindsay Schoolcraft. Get distancing and masks required. 5pm, your spooks in at this virtual festival. 5pm, $25-$400. Sacramento Raceway Park, 5305 no cover. sinistercreaturecon.com

Excelsior Road.

SATURDAY, 10/24SATURDAY, 10/10 TRUNK-OR-TREAT AT THE MOOsE: Trick-orDAD’s NOsTALGIC CAR sHOW & MUsIC FEsTIVAL treating may be out of the question, 2020: Maybe you don’t just like trucks. Maybe you like cars from before 1972. Well, the fellas organizing Dad’s Nostalgic but The Moose in Roseville is giving kids the experience in a safe way. 11am, no cover. Loyal Order of Moose, 506 Lincoln St.,

Car Show and Music Festival are just like Roseville. you. 5pm, $15-$100. The Wrangler Bar, 8945 Grant Line Road, Elk Grove. THURSDAY, 10/29 sELF DEsIGNs ART GALLERY COURTYARD 11TH ANNUAL EL PANTEÓN DE sACRAMENTO /

CONCERT: Self Designs Art Gallery presents DÍA DE LOs MUERTOs 2020: The 11th annual an outdoor Courtyard Concert featuring El Panteon de Sacramento will continue local artwork, poetry and live classical this year, reimagined as A Moonlit Slow music. 4pm, $20. 1801 L St. Drive-Through Remembrance held at The Latino Center of Art and Culture. Thursday 38 | SN&R | 10.08.20

through Sunday, experience this year’s centerpiece, a Mexican graveyard. 5pm, no cover. Latino Center of Art and Culture, 2700 Front St.

HEARTsTOPPERs REDEMPTION: Drive your way through the streets of Deadlands as you blast your way through the hordes of zombies. Trick-or-treating is available for kids as well. 7pm, $40. The Mine Shaft, 2300

Mine Shaft Lane, Rancho Cordova.

SUNDAY, 11/1 VINTAGE, VINYL, AND HANDMADE: Every first

Sunday of the month, local vintage clothing and accessory vendors, along with local makers from River City Marketplace, will be selling one-of-a-kind handmade things. 11am, no cover. Solomon’s

Delicatessen, 730 K St.

FOOD & DRINK

FRIDAY, 10/9 DUNLOE BREWING CURBsIDE BEER sALEs & FOOD

TRUCKs: Dunloe Brewing will sell beer every

Tuesday and Friday afternoon, featuring a rotating list of beers, IPAs, lagers and lots of sours, along with food trucks including tacos by Street Cravings. 4pm, no cover. Dunloe Brewing, 1606 Olive Drive,

Davis.

TUESDAY, 10/13 FOOD LOVE FARM sTAND: Shop for organic produce at Sierra Harvest’s Food Love Farm on Tuesday afternoons. Veggies, fruits and flowers are available. 4:30pm, no cover. Food

Love Farm, 16200 Lake Vera Purdon Road,

Nevada City.

COMEDY

EsTHER’s PARK: October Comedy Fest Night at

Esther’s Park is a 21-plus event hosted by comedian Dru Burks. 7pm, 10/10, $15. 3408 3rd Ave.

LAUGHs UNLIMITED: Inside Jokes Outside

Laughs (Silent Comedy). Inside Jokes

Outside Laughs is an outdoor comedy experience with a twist. You’ll be listening to the entire show through headphones, reminiscent of a silent disco. 8:30pm, Thursdays and saturdays, 10/8-10/31, $20. 1207 Front St. sTAB! COMEDY THEATER: The STAB! show.

Three comedians have a day to write their responses to five prompts and present them for the first time to the world. Jesse Jones brings together the funniest writers he can find and lets them loose. 8pm Thursdays, no cover. twitch.tv/stabcomedy.

ON STAGE

B sTREET THEATRE: Six Feet Apart Christina

Martin. The Six Feet Apart series by B

Street Theatre. Tune in Fridays this month to see the line-up: Ariadne Greif, Christina

Martin and Alexander Boldachev. They’ll be bringing their unique style of music to your home. 7pm, Fridays through 10/23, no cover. 2700 Capitol Ave.. OOLEY THEATRE: ACTUALLY by anna ziegler.

Amber and Tom meet within the first month of their freshman year at Princeton and have a night together that alters the course of their lives. They agree on the drinking and the attraction, but was there actual consent? The audience becomes the focal point as they share their sides of the story. Various times, 10/1-17, $10-$40. 2007 28th St.

sACRAMENTO THEATRE: Radium Girls. In 1926, radium was a miracle cure, Madame Curie an international celebrity and luminous watches the latest rage—until the girls who painted them began to fall ill with a mysterious disease. Inspired by a true story, Radium Girls traces the efforts of

Grace Fryer, a dial painter, as she fights for her day in court. Her chief adversary is her former employer, Arthur Roeder, an idealistic man who cannot bring himself to believe that the same element that shrinks tumors could have anything to do with what is afflicting the Radium Girls. Various times, 10/23-24. 1419 H St.

UC DAVIs: This Is How It Happened. A rippedfrom-the-headlines one-act play about race, police and friendship examines the search for truth after a white police officer kills a black man. “This Is How It Happened,” by

Sacramento native Anthony D’Juan, is being presented by Catalyst A Theatre Think Tank through the UC Davis Department of Theatre and Dance. 5pm, 10/15-16, no cover. 1 Shields

Ave., Davis.

ART

ELK GROVE FINE ARTs CENTER: 9th Annual Art

Tour. The Art Tour, hosted by Elk Grove Fine

Arts Center, features three sites with 15 participating artists showing a variety of media. Now in its ninth year, the show will feature artists including Linda Nunes, Raquel

Lushenko and David Peterson. 10am-4pm, 10/10. 9080 Elk Grove Blvd., Elk Grove. JOHN NATsOULAs GALLERY: Yoshio Taylor New

Work, 100 Years of Wayne Thiebaud, and Pat

Mahony. John Natsoulas Gallery will be hosting an exhibition featuring work from Yoshio Taylor, Pat

Mahoney and Wayne Theibaud. The exhibition will also celebrate Thiebaud’s 100th birthday and feature pieces by the famous artist. Various times, 10/21-11/28. 521 1st

St., Davis. KENNEDY GALLERY: The Twentieth “20-

Twenty” Exhibit. “20-Twenty” Exhibit runs through October, featuring works from more than 20 resident artists on three floors of open studios in the heart of

Midtown. Various times, through 10/31, no cover. 1931 L St.

PENCE GALLERY: Chris Daubert Firewood.

Chris Daubert’s installation Firewood creates an environment to observe multiple hand carved, wooden sculptures of solitary objects, each created out of a single piece of firewood. Each object is illuminated from within, and then partially obscured with layers of hanging semi-transparent fabric. Various times, through 11/29, no cover. If They Came to

Life Work by Caitlin McCarthy & Charlene

Reinhart. Uniting her interests in magic and art, Caitlin McCarthy’s drawings feature mystical women within otherworldly atmospheres. Various times, through 10/25, no cover. Sara Post This Is Not A Dream. This

Is Not A Dream is abstract painter Sara

Post’s meditation on the confinement caused by the pandemic. Various times, through 11/1, no cover. 212 D St., Davis. THE GARAGE ON THE GROVE: Vincent Pacheco

Smile Now, Cry Later. Artist Vincent

Pacheco opens Smile Now, Cry Later, an immersive installation of sound, color and, most importantly, piñatas. The piñatas include a nostalgic VHS tape of some favorite movies from his Chicano upbringing in

San Francisco and an oversized syringe— and artifact of family members who were active in the Mexican Mafia and the drug trade. 7pm. 10/10. No cover. 2287 Grove Ave.

Saturday & Sunday, 10/17-18 The internet just got a little more sinister Facebook.com/sinistercreaturecon, 12pm-6pm, no cover

Just because conventions have moved online doesn’t mean the Sinister Creature Con will

FesTivals be any less sinister. This year, the Sinister Cyber Con will stream live on the Sinister Creature Con Facebook page. The free event will go on for two full days and feature the most PHOtO COurtESy OF rOdrIX ParEdES wicked guests around. They include Miko Hughes, an actor from Pet Sematary and Wes Craven’s New Nightmare; CJ Graham, the actor who portrayed Jason Voorhees in Friday the 13th Part VI; and a Monster Squad reunion with Ryan Lambert and Andre Gower. Head online and experience the spooks with Sinister Cyber Con. facebook.com/sinistercreaturecon.

SPOrtS & OutdOOrS

FrIday, 10/9 CHeCKPOiNT CHalleNGes DisCOveRY PaRK:

Checkpoint Challenges is a physical and mental outdoor sport that can be enjoyed by active people of all skill and fitness levels. 9am, $5. Discovery Park, 1000

Garden Hwy. TaNGO Class WiTH MiGUel MaiN ROOM: Learn the Tango with Miguel, a longtime teacher and practitioner of Argentine tango. 7pm, $10. The Firehouse 5, 2014 9th St.

Saturday, 10/10 PUMPKiN PaTCH eXPRess aT RiveR FOX TRaiN:

Celebrate fall harvest on a train ride along the pumpkin patch and experience trickor-treating. Attendance is limited. There will be a private park with more trick-ortreating, gem mining, photo opportunities, pumpkin picking and a costume contest. The train ride will take place on our sanitary open-air cars with trick-or-treating one way only. Outside activities are spread out to maintain social distancing. This event recurs every Saturday and Sunday. various times, $10-$49. River Fox Train, 18095

County Road 117, West Sacramento.

MOnday, 10/12 MOUNTaiN BiKe MONDaYs: Self-guided trails are open exclusively to riders every afternoon. It is limited to 50 people and only to individuals who comply with safety guidelines. 4pm, $10. Deer Creek Hills

Preserve.

Saturday, 10/24 CaliFORNia GOlD RUsH RUN: This event is run entirely inside the Marshall Gold Discovery

State Historic Park, set in the foothills of Coloma along the south fork of the

American River. This is the site where gold was discovered in 1848, igniting the Gold

Rush and leading to California’s quick rise to statehood. 8:30am, $45-$60. California Gold

Rush Run, 310 Back st., Coloma.

CLaSSES

Saturday, 10/10 ClaY laB saTURDaY: Clay Labs are open to the public every Saturday morning. All ages and skills are welcome, but kids younger than 14 must be accompanied by an adult at all times. Verge will be conducting the class entirely outside to comply with COVID-19 safety precautions. 10am, $15-$25. Verge

Center for the Arts, 625 S St. seCReTs OF aNCieNT aRT: Participants will learn that before the end of last Ice Age our ancestors were creating amazing works of art using only materials they gathered from the natural world. Class participants using only natural materials and with tools they make themselves will create an array of art objects that span our human past. 11am, $120-$140. Blue Line Arts, 405 Vernon St.

Ste. 100 in Roseville.

WEdnESday, 10/14 WRiTiNG as HealiNG: A twice monthly writing group for anyone dealing with issues of illness, disability or recovery. Open to patients, caregivers, staff, community members and health-care providers. The intention of the workshop is to create a sense of freedom and excitement about writing as a tool for self-expression 6:30pm, no cover. UC Davis, 1 Shields Ave.

Saturday, 10/17 Q-PROM DiY MasK MaKiNG: Masks are becoming a part of our daily lives, so why not make a fun and spooky one? During this DIY Mask Making you’ll decorate your own face mask. There’ll be a showcase at the main event so make sure your mask is ready for the judges. 6pm, no cover. Sacramento LGBT Community

Center, 1927 L St.

tuESday, 10/20 sPOOKY laNe: Drink and paint at this event and create your own spooky decorations for Halloween. 5pm, $30. River City Brewing

Company, 6241 Fair Oaks Blvd..

tHurSday, 10/22 RiveRs laB laNDsCaPes THaT WORK FOR

BiODiveRsiTY aND PeOPle: Rivers Lab is a report reading and discussion group to break down the prestigious walls of academic papers to learn more about river systems and ask questions, discuss and enjoy each other’s company. Noon, no cover. South Yuba River Citizens League, 313

Railroad Ave.

Saturday, 10/24 HallOWeeN CHalK BaNNeR CRaFT: With

Halloween just around the corner, learn to make an adorable banner to add to your door or mantle for some pumpkin

every Thursday The best seat in the house is outside aLi Youssefi square, 7pm, $20-$40

Ask any drive-in theater aficionado: Watching movies Film outside is better than watching them inside. Whether it’s in a park, from your car or at tables inside Ali Youssefi PhoTo courTesy oF Tony shePPard Square, watching your favorite flick in the nighttime air enhances any movie-going experience. Crest Sacramento is hosting Movies Under the Stars every Thursday in October. Films including Scooby Doo, Ghostbusters, The Nightmare Before Christmas and Hocus Pocus will keep spooky times flowing this Halloween season. Bring your favorite people to socially distance with a movie under the stars. 705 K St., crestsacramento.com.

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vibes. 11:30am, $25. Broad Room Creative Collective, 1409 Del Paso Blvd.

wednesday, 11/4 STill liFE drawing (br): Practice your drawing skills and techniques. All ages and skill sets welcome. Still life display will be set up, and all materials will be provided. 4:15pm, no cover. Bear River Library, 11130 Magnolia

Road in Grass Valley.

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Thursday, 10/8 6 o’clocK dad rocK-STrEaming livE: Court and Cory talk about the music that some love and others cringe at every

Thursday. 6pm, no cover. STAB! Comedy

Theater, twitch.tv/stabcomedy. laToya ruby FraZiEr in convErSaTion wiTH

SamPada aranKE: Acclaimed photographer

LaToya Ruby Frazier, whose work features often unheard voices and perspectives, will talk to Manetti Shrem Museum scholar-in-residence Sampada Aranke.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Art and Art History’s Art Studio Visiting Artist

Lecture Series. 4:30pm, no cover. UC Davis, ucdavis.edu.

oFFicE HourS-STrEaming livE: Got a mountain of creative projects you want to do?

Got a little difficulty with structure and accountability? So did STAB! Comedy

Theater owner Jesse Jones, which is why he started STAB!s Office Hours! for himself and fellow creatives to knock out our work. 9:30am, no cover. twitch.tv/ stabcomedy. PodcaSTing 101 onlinE worKSHoP: Podcasting 101 is a workshop that focuses on how to create and produce a podcast, make it compelling and do it again. 6pm, $75. Darling

New Media, darlingnewmedia.com. ToP 10 liST: Each episode of the Top 10 List podcast features two guests competing to assemble a top 10 list on a new subject.

You can watch live on Facebook. Sac

Comedy Spot asks several viewers to participate each week and they always love your feedback and comments. 6pm, no cover. Sacramento comedy Spot, saccomedyspot.com/live. virTual SacTown urban daSH: The Active 20-30 Club of Greater Sacramento #1032 will be hosting its 4th annual Sactown

Urban Dash virtually this year. The virtual run will be 10.32 miles, and you have the entire month to complete it. This event benefits Single Mom Strong, Escape Velocity

Resources Foundation and the Active 20-30

Club #1032 Scholarship Program. 10am, $35$100. Sacramento, runsignup.com/Race/

CA/Sacramento/SactownUrbanDash5K

acTually by anna ZiEglEr: Amber and

Tom meet within the first month of their freshman year at Princeton, and have a night together that alters the course of their lives. They agree on the drinking and the attraction, but did they each consent? 7:30pm, $10-$40. ooley Theatre, 2007 28th St. PiFF THE magic dragon livE From laS vEgaS:

A hilarious, interactive magic show to entertain the entire family through Zoom.

Hot off his Vegas residency, Piff presents a completely new show created for online viewing. 7pm, $35.75. piffthemagicdragon. com.

PoP SurrEaliSm PainTing: Guest instructor

Yoli Manzo will teach about the work of Todd

Schorr, a self-described cartoon realist.

Afterward, examine works from other pop surrealists and lowbrow artists before creating a painting inspired by the best, worst and weirdest parts of pop culture.

Enrollment closes at 10 a.m., Oct. 6. 1pm, $95. Crocker Art Museum, crockerart.org. TwEEn comic booK club: Join librarians

Lindsey, Caitlin and Nate live for a Tween

Comic Book Club. They’ll talk about Ronin

Island, host a short trivia game, answer your questions and host an art activity inspired by the comic book. 4pm, no cover. Sacramento Library, facebook.com/ saclibrary.

saTurday, 10/10 bETwEEn THE covErS “STrangE lovE:”

Between the Covers, a new Sacramento

Public Library book group, invites romance readers to discuss a delightfully diverse collection of romance novels on the second Saturday of the month. The

October selection is “Strange Love” by Ann

Aguirre. 1pm, no cover. Sacramento Library, saclibrary.org. comEdy SPoT miXTaPE: Comedy Spot

Mixtape is an exclusive live-stream event featuring comedians and special guests doing stand-up, improv, sketch, videos, music, characters, games and more. Help keep the Comedy Spot open by buying a ticket. 8pm, $10 Sacramento Comedy Spot, saccomedyspot.com/mixtape. library aF booK club: Join us on the second

Saturday of the month for the Library

AF Book Club hosted by Katie on Zoom.

This month’s title is “This Is How You

Lose Her” by Junot Diaz, as we celebrate

Hispanic Heritage Month. 11am, no cover. Sacramento Library, saclibrary.org. SHElTErFEST: ShelterFest is an online, streaming music festival, designed and intended to encourage staying safe at home while raising money for local music venues. More in the story on page 32. 5pm, $20. Torch club, shelterfest2020.com.

virTual arT rX: Each month, people living with chronic pain, their family, friends, and caregivers are invited to explore the wonders of art and the creative mind. Via

Zoom, enjoy the simple pleasure of viewing art together, as a trained docent facilitates group conversations about select works.

No prior art knowledge is necessary. Art

Rx is presented in collaboration with the

Center for Pain Medicine’s Integrative Pain

Management Program, part of the UC Davis

Health System. 11am, no cover. Crocker Art

Museum, crockerart.org.

sunday, 10/11 Polo For cHangE virTual EvEnT: Polo for

Change, the festive, polo-themed hour hosted by ABC10 news anchor Keristen

Holmes, will be filled with entertainment courtesy of Sacramento Contemporary

Dance Theater, inspirational stories, messages of support and opportunities to help formerly homeless women and children served at Saint John’s. 2pm, no cover. Sacramento Convention Center

Complex, saintjohnsprogram.org/events. waynE THiEbaud 100: To celebrate the 100th birthday of Sacramento’s most renowned artist, the Crocker Art Museum presents Wayne Thiebaud 100: Paintings,

Prints and Drawings. Best known for his paintings of cakes and pies, Thiebaud has long been affiliated with pop art. This exhibition represents his achievements in all media, with pieces from the Crocker’s holdings and the Thiebaud family. 10am, no cover. Crocker Art Museum, crockerart.org.

Tuesday, 10/13 PionEEring womEn in rocK n roll!: In this 10week class, Verge will focus on pioneering women in rock’n’roll. Each class focuses on one artist and learning a selection from the artist’s catalog. In addition, each student will pick one artist to write a blog post about. 5pm, $285-$325. Verge Center for the

Arts, vergeart.com. random acTS oF SciEncE: Join Amy each week as she demonstrates a science experiment on Facebook Live. Then stop by the Grass Valley Library to pick up a kit to do the experiment. For ages 4-12. 4pm, no cover. Bear River Library, facebook.com/ nevadacountylibrary. STand-uP 101 wriTing baSicS-onlinE claSS:

Stand-Up 101 class will give you the skills, practice, feedback and motivation to perform a five-minute comedy set. This class provides constructive feedback, sharing time-tested lessons and tips. You will learn how to continue performing at the Comedy Spot and other venues. 6:30pm, $150. Sacramento Comedy Spot, 1050 20th

St., saccomedyspot.com/online. Tai cHi For bEginnErS: A four-week series ends Oct. 13. Tai chi is a meditative martial art that originated in China. You’ll learn warm-up exercises that include gentle stretching and movements that you can adapt to your level of mobility. No special equipment or clothing is needed. 12:10pm, no cover. UC Davis, ucdavisfoa.zoom.us/ webinar.

amiraH SacKETT and mr mic: Amirah Sackett is an internationally recognized hip-hop dancer, choreographer and teacher. She is widely known for her choreography and performance ensemble creation,

“We’re Muslim, Don’t Panic,” featured on

POPSUGAR Celebrity, The Huffington Post,

AJ+ and Upworthy. 5:30pm, $60. Mondavi

Arts Center, mondaviarts.org. THE bad FlicK SHow: Host Alex Shewmaker finds the worst clips from the worst movies and shares them with comedians.

Past guests have included Greg Proops, professional wrestler Colt Cabana and musician Tony Thaxton. 6pm, no cover. Sacramento Comedy Spot, saccomedyspot.com/live. imProv gamES: In this four-week online class, students will learn and play a variety of short-form improv games. This class is designed for the beginner, and no previous

Thursday-sunday, 10/29-11/1 Take a moonlit slow drive at this years El Panteon de Sacramento Latino Center of art and CuLture, various times, no Cover

COVID-19 won’t stop the 11th annual El Panteon de Sacramento Dia de los Muertos, hosted by the Latino Center of Art and Culture. This year’s festival has been adapted to be “A Moonlit Slow DriveThrough Remembrance” and will feature as its centerpiece an urban recreation of a candlelit Mexican graveyard, complete with FESTivalS an adjoining church. Twenty traditional altars created by family and communities of friends will celebrate and honor the lives of those who have passed, and Vidal Beltran will provide traditional artistic programming as well. Celebrate the Dia de los Muertos the right way—and the coronavirus safe way—at the Latino Center of Art and Culture. 2700 Front St., thelatinocenter.com.

improv experience is necessary. 7pm, $75. Sacramento Comedy Spot, saccomedyspot.com/online. virTual oPEn mic nigHT: Enjoy a night of music, poetry, dance, spoken word, comedy and storytelling, hosted by MC Denisha

“Coco” Bland. Interested in performing?

Mondavi Center is collecting pre-recorded videos to show. 7:30pm, $60. Sacramento convention center complex, mondaviarts.org. comEdic SToryTElling 101-onlinE claSS: This four-week class trains you in the art of comedic storytelling. Participants learn the basics for good story structure, then learn how to incorporate comedic strategies into their own personal narratives. 6pm, $99. Sacramento Comedy Spot, saccomedyspot.com/online. THiS iS How iT HaPPEnEd: A ripped-from-theheadlines one-act play about race, police and friendship examines the search for truth after a white police officer kills a black man. By Sacramento native Anthony

D’Juan, the play is being presented by

Catalyst: A Theatre Think Tank through the

UC Davis Department of Theatre and Dance.

Performances will be live-streamed free on

Oct. 15 and 16. 5pm, no cover. UC Davis, arts. ucdavis.edu/event/how-it-happened.

Friday, 10/16 rEgular EXcluSivE blEnd: Andy Sarouhan,

Ford Lawson, Jesse Jones and Jessica

Deprez are going to improv together from their homes over Zoom, with a special guest 7pm, no cover. STAB! Comedy Theater, twitch.tv/stabcomedy.

saTurday, 10/17 curaSol PrESEnTS mindFul rESiliEncE wiTH SwaTHy: In this slow-paced yoga class, Sol Collective will explore ways to connect mind, body and heart through gentle movement, mindfulness techniques, breathing exercises and guided meditations.

No prior yoga practice is necessary. 11:30am, $5-$20. Sol collective, solcollective. org.

SiniSTEr cybEr con: Join Sinister Creator

Con for its second edition of the Sinister

Cyber Con, hosted by The Horrific Network and sponsored by Vertical Talent Agency.

Guests include Felissa Rose, Miko Hughes and CJ Graham. 5pm, no cover. Sacramento

Convention Center Complex, sinistercreaturecon.com.

virTual villagE FEaST: Every year The Davis Village Feast celebrates the Sacramento

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Saturday and Sunday, 10/24-25 Sacramento Theatre Company presents Radium Girls Sacramento theatre company, VariouS timeS, $10

The story of the Radium Girls PHOtO FrOM WIKI COMMOnS is a tragic part of American On STaGe history. In the early 1920s, women in three factories owned by the U.S. Radium Corporation in New Jersey, Illinois and Connecticut painted watch dials with radium so they would glow green. Part of the painting process involved “pointing” the tip of the brush, which caused workers to ingest trace amounts of radium. The radioactive substance caused severe illness, but it took 10 years to hold the company accountable. In the meantime, several women died from radiation sickness. Sacramento Theatre Company, Young Professional Conservatory students will be performing the story of one of these women, Grace Fryer, as she fights for her day in court. sactheatre.org.

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region’s farm-to-fork season to enjoy and honor the bounty of the region’s local farmers. 1pm, no cover. davisfarmtoschool. org.

Sunday, 10/18 aLeXanDeR STRInG QUaRTeT: Celebrate

Beethoven’s 250th birthday with the

Alexander String Quartet performing String

Quartet No. 1 in F major, Op. 18, No. 1 and

String Quartet No. 9 in C major, Op. 59, No. 3. This year the quartet introduces a new member, violist David Samuel, joining cellist

Sandy Wilson and violinists Fred Lifsitz and Zakarias Grafilo. 2pm, $60. Mondavi

Center, mondaviarts.org.

FrIday, 10/23 SIX FeeT aPaRT aLeXanDeR BOLDaCHeV:

Alexander Boldachev, guest artist of Bolshoi

Theater and founder of the Harp Festival

Zurich, has been breaking the mold with virtuosity on both the concert pedal harp and the Salvi Delta electric harp. 7pm, no cover. B Street Theatre, bstreettheatre.org.

Saturday, 10/24 RaDIUM GIRLS: In 1926, radium was a miracle cure, Madame Curie an international celebrity and luminous watches the latest rage—until the workers who painted them became ill with a mysterious disease.

Inspired by a true story, Radium Girls traces the efforts of Grace Fryer, a dial painter, as she fights for her day in court. 2pm, $10. Sacramento Theatre, sactheatre. org/shows/radium-girls/. VIRTUaL aRTFUL MeDITaTIOn: Calm your mind and experience art in new ways with longtime meditation practitioners and instructors Matthew Roselli and Teresa

Sedano. 11am, no cover. Crocker art Museum, crockerart.org.

tHurSday, 10/29 CanDY CORn enGIneeRInG WITH GIRL SCOUTS:

Test your engineering skills using candy.

Join Girl Scouts and Extreme STEAM

Science Kids in this family event as they dive into the design process and complete a fun challenge. In this Halloween-themed activity, girls and their siblings will be able to build with their hands while working towards meeting an objective. 5pm, no cover. Girl Scouts Heart of Central California Webinar, extremesteamscience.com/girlscouts-candy-corn-engineering.

FrIday, 11/6 THe COMeDY OF eRRORS: The Falcon’s Eye

Theatre at Folsom Lake College presents

William Shakespeare’s hysterical farce about two sets of identical twins lost at sea. A wacky, pop art-inspired landscape is collaged together rather than being your average Zoom square. 7:30pm, $5. Zoom

Webinar, falconseyetheatre.com.

Saturday, 11/7 BOLD anD VIBRanT LanDSCaPeS WITH

JOe a. OaKeS: During the 90-minute demonstration, Joe A. Oakes will create a bold and vibrant landscape using acrylics. He will answer any questions about his process. 10am, $35. Sacramento

Convention Center Complex, sacfinearts. org. LOCaL aUTHOR SHOWCaSe WeBInaR KeYnOTe aDDReSS: Join Bear River Library for its third annual Local Author

Showcase, featuring authors from all over Nevada County and partnering with local bookstores. noon, no cover. Bear River Library, facebook.com/ nevadacountylibrary. SURFaCe HISTORY LaYeReD MIXeD MeDIa

PaInTInGS WORKSHOP WITH SaRa POST: Using mostly materials you have on hand, learn a variety of techniques for creating abstract, layered paintings through this Zoom workshop with artist Sara Post. Artists will work on mixed media or oil paper, adding and subtracting a creative mix of collage, drawing and painting. 9:30am, $225$250 Pence Gallery, pencegallery.org. THeaTRe LOVeRS CLUB: Theatre lovers of

Nevada County, join Bear River Library in this watch party to check out the latest releases from many different theaters. 2pm, Bear River Library, facebook.com/nevadacountylibrary.

The Rise of Plutocracy

How the Right Got Power and How the Left Can Take it Back

by Robert Speer robertspeer@newsreview.com

There’s an old saying among Democratic politicians: If you want to live like a Republican, vote Democratic.

Why, then, do so many working- and middleclass Americans vote Republican? After all, it’s been clear for at least 40 years that the GOP doesn’t have their interests at heart, but rather is doing the bidding of corporate and financial interests and the superrich.

Two recent scholarly books by well-regarded political scientists—Let Them Eat Tweets: How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality, by Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson, and Merge Left: Fusing Race and Class, Winning Elections and Saving America, by Ian Haney López—attempt to answer that question. They also offer a way to upend the toxic relationship between working-class voters and the superrich.

Incidentally, they provide a welcome respite from the flood of tell-all books about Trump. As much as the president has dominated the news during his tumultuous tenure, these writers “consider the tweeter in chief more consequence than cause.”

Hacker and Pierson say their book is “about an immense shift that preceded Trump’s rise, has profoundly shaped his political party and its priorities, and poses a threat to our democracy that is certain to outlast his presidency.”

That shift, they say, is “the rise of plutocracy— government of, by, and for the rich.” As they remind us, “The richest 0.1 percent of Americans now have roughly as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent combined.”

This wealth gives them the financial power to control the political process, but it’s not infallible. Ordinary Americans may not have vast amounts of money, but they do have democracy on their side, and for that reason are sometimes able to foil the superrich’s shakedowns. For four decades or more, the superrich and their allies in the Republican Party have sought to find ways to overcome this vulnerability.

For them, the key resides in the cohort of voters who occupy “the great middle” composed of independent working-class white voters. Deploying “dog whistles”—covert appeals to implicit racism—they instill fear and resentment in these voters and make them forget about the issues that really matter in their lives (education, health care, jobs) and turn for protection to the “law-and-order” party.

Early on that party turned to populist entities adept at ginning up racial outrage among its target audience—groups such as the National Rifle Association and the Moral Majority and conservative media provocateurs such as Rush Limbaugh and Fox News.

But as the GOP became increasingly dependent on these “outrage groups,” Hacker and Pierson write, it “increasingly lost the capacity to shape its own agenda and fight elections on its own terms.”

It also set itself up for takeover by Trump, “a true master of outrage.”

Let Them Eat Tweets is a highly readable political history of the past four decades. It does a superb job of showing how the Republican Party has sacrificed its moral authority in favor of a cynical power grab that puts plutocracy before people.

So where to from here? What can the progressive Left do to counter the plutocracy’s immense power?

That’s the question Ian Haney López, who teaches at UC Berkeley and is the author of Dog Whistle Politics, sought to answer when he launched the Race-Class Narrative Project.

For two years, a diverse group of activists traveled the country, interviewing and surveying thousands of voters in search of a way forward.

At the forefront of their research was the issue of how best to approach electoral politics. What left-wing appeal works best at attracting voters? They posited three possibles: 1. An appeal that is colorblind and speaks only to economic issues such as poverty so as not to alienate white voters. 2. A “race-forward” stance that emphasizes racial justice. 3. A cross-racial approach that speaks to progressive whites as well as people of color. Call it the solidarity option.

What Haney López and team learned surprised them: The groups surveyed strongly favored the solidarity option. They wanted to work together—white, black and brown—unconcerned about class and racial differences.

“For democracies under demagogic assault,” Haney López concludes, “the most effective defense is to vigorously promote social solidarity.” Merge Left is an invaluable guidebook to creating that solidarity.

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