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Issue 123 • November 5 – November 19, 2012
November 5 - 19
Dive in The Stream Submerge your senses capital capture
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mangia! Iliza Shlesinger chuuwee woodward tahoe Don McKinney CALENDAR the grindhouse
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dive in if you’re bored you’re boring... Melissa welliver melissa@submergemag.com The other week a friend of mine, Shawn Peter from the band A Single Second, posted on Facebook something along the lines of, “If I hear another person say Sacto’s boring…you probably don’t go to shows, socialize, see art, ride on our bike trail, hang out in downtown or Midtown, etc. ‘cause Sacto rocks!” I couldn’t agree more with Shawn. As the summer is behind us and the days are getting way shorter, sometimes people start to get a bit negative. There are burgeoning music, art and comedy scenes in Sacramento. We also have some of the best restaurants and chefs, bartenders and bars, (both old and new), and you should be proud to live in the same town as they do. And when you think about sports or fitness, with all the rafting, kayaking, snowboarding, skiing and biking in our area, you’re covered once again. So if you’re not out enjoying all of these things, you are probably doing something wrong. On that note, Submerge is one of the few publications where you can learn about cool things to do in our region, so please continue to turn to us for Sacramento-area entertainment info. On the cover of this issue and on page 18 we have featured local hip-hop artist Chuuwee who talks about his successes as an artist above and beyond Sacramento. And one upcoming show not to be missed will be the Undwrld Fest 2 at Sol Collective, where you can see Chuuwee perform, on Friday, Nov. 9. Also featured in this issue is comedian Iliza Shlesinger who will be coming to Sacramento to headline a series of dates from Nov. 15 through 17 at Punchline. On page 14 you can learn about where she’s at since winning Last Comic Standing in 2008. She’s got the looks, the smarts and she gets the laughs. Don McKinney’s art exhibit at Sacramento State’s University Union Gallery, titled Work from the Last 20, will be on display until Nov. 15. It’s free to check out, and his art is really great, so why not go see for yourself? On page 22 you can learn about the man making art his life after he joined the United States Army during Vietnam and how teaching art continues to help him grow. From the owners of Paesanos, a new breakfast and lunch spot called Mangia! is now open for your eating pleasure. On the corner of 18th Street and Capitol Avenue, Executive Chef Jason Sondgroth crafted up a menu where you can get bagels, sandwiches and paninis, all while still offering quality coffee if you’re missing the former business that occupied the space, Java City. Learn more about what Mangia! offers on page 12. As far as features go in this issue, the last one I have to briefly tell you about is our back cover piece on Woodward Tahoe. This new addition to Boreal Mountain Resort is a super training facility that just opened to the public after their summer camps wrapped up a couple months ago. Whether you’re a snowboarder, skier, skateboarder, BMX rider or simply a fitness enthusiast, you can be sure to have a good time training here and pushing yourself to be better at your favorite sport. Or heck, just jump and flip on some crazy trampolines and land upside down in a giant foam pit. Everyone should do that at least once in their lives. Look folks, proof! There is so much to do here and in the surrounding areas of Sacramento. If we didn’t believe it, we wouldn’t be making Submerge every other week.
Please enjoy issue #123. And go do something fun! Melissa-Dubs
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What would Sacramento do without our beloved Danny Secretion (of local punk legends The Secretions)? I, for one, do not want to imagine what our music scene would be like without people like him that are so passionate and dedicated to promoting good punk rock bands, both local and touring. Every year for the past several years Danny has put together a big-ass weekend of shows to celebrate his birthday and to also raise money for The American Cancer Society. For Danny, these shows are personal. “Cancer took my father from me a little more than five years ago,” he recently told Submerge. “Cancer has affected so many of my friends and their families. Doing these shows for the past several years has been so unbelievably therapeutic for me.” This year the shows will go down on Friday, Nov. 16 and Saturday, Nov 17 at Luigi’s Fungarden, both start at 8 p.m. and are all-ages. And the final show on Sunday, Nov. 18 will be at Press Club (21-and-over) starting at 5 p.m. There is a cool twist to this year’s event: all of the bands will be performing tribute sets! “I always love ‘themed shows’ like this,” Danny said. “Bands picked a band to cover and I think it will lead to a very special and fun night for the folks who come out to support. You’re going to see local bands covering everything from Black Flag to Billy Bragg.” Some notables: The Left Hand will do a Misfits set, Dead Dads will cover Alkaline Trio songs, The Community are doing Bad Religion tunes and Cold Heart Re-Press are playing Murder City Devil tracks. Can you say “awesome!” and “yes please?” All proceeds from the shows and from the limited edition T-shirts that Danny has made will go directly to The American Cancer Society, so come out and hear some local bands play familiar tunes all for a good cause. For details on when certain bands will be playing, visit Facebook.com/ secretions/events.
Sneeze Attack is a cool new-ish female fronted garage-y/lo-fi pop-punk band from Sacramento that we’ve been keeping an eye on. Made up of seasoned local musicians Dino the Girl (Little Medusas) on guitar/vocals, Hans White (The Croissants) on bass and drummer Christine Shelley (Knock Knock, The Pizzas), Sneeze Attack’s debut Aurora EP is being released at a killer show at Midtown Village Cafe on Friday, Nov. 9, that will see them playing with La Sera (Katy Goodman from The Vivian Girls’ fantastic new project) as well as San Francisco’s Dreamdate. Show is all-ages and starts at 8 p.m. For more information or to sample some tunes, visit Facebook. com/sneezeattack and start with the catchy, fuzzy goodness of “Big Shadow.” A quick shout-out and congrats are in order for our hardworking friends at the ZuhG Life Store in the Downtown Plaza. They will be celebrating their second anniversary of selling local music, art, clothing and more with a free, all-ages concert outside the store on Saturday, Nov. 10 starting at noon. Performing will be Dylan Crawford, Awkward Lemon, JR Halliday, Michael Tobias, The Nickel Slots and Adrian Bellue. There will be sales inside the store and plenty of friends and family hanging out having a good ol’ time. The after-party will go down that night at Pour House starting at 9 p.m. and will see more live performances by Jesi Naomi, Brian Rogers, The Old Screen Door, Mac Russ and more. That event is 21-and-over and will be $7 at the door. For more information on the store, visit Facebook.com/zuhglife.
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Sacramento’s own Cole Cuchna, formerly of The New Humans, will be showcasing some of his latest compositions at his senior recital at Sacramento State’s Capistrano Hall, room 151. A guitarist turned pianist, Cuchna is a contemporary composer who cut his teeth creating rock and pop music. For his senior recital, he will be joined by musicians such as Ryan Sulieman, Erina Satio and Vincent Antolini. This exciting night of original compositions is free, and will begin at 7 p.m. A reception will follow the event. For more info on Cuchna, go to Colecuchna.com.
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It’s that time of year again! Red Bull Flugtag is an awe-inspiring mesh of aviation and lunacy. Following in the footsteps of the founding fathers of flight, 33 teams will hurtle their human-powered aircrafts down a 30-foot ramp and attempt to slip the surly bounds of Earth. Inevitably all of them will succumb to gravity and crash into the chilly waters of the Bay, but for brief moments, some of them may actually succeed. Hangars will open at 11 a.m. and “flights” are scheduled to run from 1 to 3:30 p.m. with an awards ceremony to follow. For more info, go to Redbullflugtagusa.com.
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So you love wine. How about puppies? If you answered no to that last question, you should probably take a good long look in the mirror and figure out what went wrong with your life. On Saturday, Nov. 10, Old Sugar Mill will host the second Pups and Pinot event in association with Happy Tails pet sanctuary. This is a great way to loosen up and make a new furry addition to your family. All pups will be available for adoption; they’ll be spayed/neutered, tested, vaccinated and microchipped. All that’s left is for you to give them a good and loving home. Pups and Pinot runs from 1 to 5 p.m. This event is potentially dangerous, because after a couple glasses of wine it may be impossible to say no to any of these already irresistible puppies. For more info, call (916) 556-1155 or email purrball@happytails.org. Or, go to Happytails.org.
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Capital Capture Give me the Breakdown Emily Bonsignore
One of the biggest reasons why I love dressing for fall is the layering. You can never go overboard because the weather necessitates the excessive accessorizing. However, with so many dominant pieces in one look, standouts—including blouses, shoes and bags—tend to get lost in the winter-y warmth. Thus, while on campus this week I asked people to remove their coats, scarves and hats to highlight what outfits lie beneath the bulk.
Sierra Maytorena Sierra Maytorena’s outfit is quintessential cool. Her burgundy jeans are the focus and extremely on trend for fall. Lately, I’ve been seeing shades of wines, burgundies and ox bloods all around campus, but her jeans are definitely a unique piece. Another great aspect of Sierra’s ensemble is her multi-colored yarn headscarf. As a girl, doing one’s hair is a painstaking process, which is only to be ruined by a hat. However, a headscarf is a great solution to keeping your ears warm and your hair pristine. One of my favorite pieces of Sierra’s outfit is her jacket. Although it appears to be a black vest over a gray sweatshirt, it is in fact one item. I love the illusion it gives off and makes getting ready in the morning that much simpler. Finally, Sierra tops it off with black leather booties, which is a definite staple for the cold-weather season!
Kajya Arndt-Truong Underneath Kajya Arndt-Truong’s purple coat was this wonderfully abstract print outfit. Her sweater has this almost claw-like design that sets it apart from the traditional cable knit sweaters we tend to see in the fall. The dueling colors are a nice complement to her torn jeans, which I am obsessed with. I think everyone should have a pair of ripped up jeans in their closet for those occasional rebellious days. Another great detail to Kajya’s look are her worn, yet with character, combat boots. She ties them half way up her calf setting her a part form the crowd. Finally her backpack is this colorful Southwestern pattern with dark leather trim. Finding a stylish backpack is not the easiest task, but I think they are a great investment piece because you never need to worry about matching your backpack to your outfit; it’s really just there as a statement piece.
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The Optimistic Pessimist State of the Disunion Bocephus Chigger bocephus@submergemag.com
My fellow remaining Americans, the state of the union is very…interesting. A little more than two months ago you elected me, Willard Mitt Romney, as your President and Commander in Chief. Some of you have been complaining that you haven’t received the million dollars I promised for those who voted for me. Allow me to clarify by saying that what I meant was you would feel like a million bucks if you chose the Romney/Ryan ticket. Please accept my sincerest apologies for the confusion, friends. I also want to put your fears to rest regarding the status of Vice President Ryan. Shortly after taking office, I downloaded his collective knowledge into my hive mind, freeing him to take the next four years to reread Atlas Shrugged one more time. This task is vital to our new economy, and it is one that a mindless Paul Ryan is particularly well suited to undertake. We wish him well on his quest. We also would once again like to thank Donald Trump for stepping up and serving as the tiebreaker in the Senate. Give ‘em heck, Donald! I am glad to be surrounded by so many familiar faces. It was an unpleasant bit of business “voluntarily” deporting those who didn’t see things our way, but the remaining 3 million of you are real Americans through and through. As promised, things are much better without the Latinos, African Americans, incurable gays, lower class liberals, Muslims, Arabs and women around to ruin everything. My, with all of them gone, we have even achieved full employment for the first time in our nation’s history! And that’s not the extent of our accomplishments: we’ve also managed to shrink government in a way that’s never been done before. We’ve eliminated our poorly managed public education system, wiping out those pesky teachers unions in the process. With only conservative lower and middle class people left, we’ve been able to make drastic cutbacks to Medicare, Welfare and Social Security by labeling all three programs as Socialist/Communist. The budget for the Department of Transportation has been severely reduced as well, as us 1 percenters have taken to the airways in private jets and helicopters. Sorry Detroit, but I warned
you to get your act together back in 2008. Finally, with Obamacare repealed, we can rest assured that our medical problems will be handled in the best way possible: bankruptcy. Thanks to these efforts, and my experience at Bain Capital, we’ve rebuilt the economy into the nearly collapsing shell corporation that I secretly promised each of you before I was elected. I want to remind you all that you have until March 1 to move your cash to the recommended offshore banks before we sell off America’s remaining assets, lower the debt ceiling and default on all of our loans to China. Not to worry: our repeal of the Dodd-Frank Act has reinstituted rampant gambling on Wall Street, and we are all set to make quite a bit of money when the economy goes over the fiscal cliff. It’s not all about politics, though. My administration has solved some of the greatest social issues of our time. Poverty and inequality have been all but eliminated through my voluntary deportation program. Those remaining minorities are here on work visas and have no rights whatsoever. To further the degradation they face, we’ve required that those here on work visas speak English and change any foreign sounding names to good old-fashioned American names like Smith, Jones and Reince Priebus. We’ve eliminated other ills as well. Swear words and blasphemy have been outlawed and replaced with good wholesome expletives like, gosh, dang, golly and gee whiz. Congresswoman Bachman’s husband has also helped out a great deal in reprogramming the nation’s gays. To ensure that they don’t revert, we’ve made homosexuality an offense punishable by death, and we’ve also paired each former gay with a single parent of the opposite sex, solving yet another one of society’s woes: broken homes. This is only the beginning, America. Over the next four years, we will continue with our bold approach to governance. We expect both abortions and unions to be outlawed by the spring, voter ID laws to be firmly in place by the midterm elections and a Chick-Fil-A on every corner by next summer. The future is bright, our nation is strong and as soon as I drop these bombs on Iran, all of our troubles will be gone! God bless you all, and God bless America!
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New Kid on the Block
Paesanos Gives Birth to a New Child and Names it Mangia! Words & photos Natalie Basurto
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he original Paesanos in Midtown has a new neighbor, and it’s a part of the family. Opened Sept. 14 of this year, new sandwich joint Mangia! (1800 Capitol Avenue) has joined the six other locations owned by Paesanos’ David Virga and Mark Scribner that span Sacramento and its outlying areas like Davis and Elk Grove, including eateries Pronto and Uncle Vito’s. Paesanos’ director of operations, Dana Scarpulla, said that when Java City, previous leasers of the space, were leaving, they jumped at the chance to open a new establishment in such close proximity to the original restaurant. Conveniently located right next door to the original Paesanos, old meets new in the historical building that once housed a grocery store and then a pharmacy. Mangia!’s menu centers around their hot sandwich selection, all thought up by Executive Chef Jason Sondgroth. He’s not only responsible for the food at Mangia!, he’s the residential “food guy” at all of the locations. He began planning the Mangia! menu with 30 sandwiches in mind and even brought in focus groups to narrow down the selection to the best and most popular. “We took that opportunity to hone in…and we bought a $5000 smoker,” Sondgroth said. “It was a new toy so we pretty
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much experimented with everything under the sun and we came up with those two items that we liked the best and we ran with it.” The two he’s talking about are the beloved specialty house smoked barbecue beef brisket, present in the Capitol Grinder sandwich and the house cured pastrami, which is offered in both the Hot House Pastrami and Hail Mary! sandwiches. If you’re steering clear of carbs, you can have a sandwich’s contents served over a bowl of lettuce. Gluten-free bread and plenty of vegetarian options are also available. “We have always tried to offer people with special needs diet options. We spent a lot of time last year creating a gluten free menu and gluten free pizza crust next door at Paesanos… It’s really important for us to have options for those people,” Scarpulla explained. Other diet friendly options include the entree salads they offer, including Scarpulla’s favorite seasonal salad, the Fall Harvest. It includes roasted beets, green apples, candied walnuts, marinated carrots, dried cranberries and goat cheese on top of mixed greens with a honey-dijon vinaigrette. “I can’t stop eating it,” she said. Walk into the open-floor planned restaurant and right away friendly faces greet you, eager to take your order. Mangia! has a two-step ordering system that has been designed to streamline the order, Scarpulla said. First, you will be greeted by a hostess. She will take your order, which will then reach the kitchen on colorful karabiners attached to a taut wire. Next, you pay at the register and receive a buzzer that vibrates when your meal is ready. “In many cases by the time the customer actually finishes paying, the food is either done or near done,” Scarpulla said. This system is a way of expediting the customer’s order, SubmergeMag.com
making it a quick spot to grab lunch when you need to head back to the office in a hurry. Besides their wide selection of meat and vegetarian sandwiches, they also feature great breakfast options like their bagels stuffed with either veggies or smoked salmon, rightfully named the “loaded bagel” for their generous portions. Or, opt for the Mangia! Mia Breakfast Panini that starts with scrambled eggs and ends with your choice of toppings. Eight ounce cups of a selection of deli salads are only $2.75 and their new creamy tomato basil and white bean minestrone soups are offered at $2.25, perfect for rounding out your sandwich enjoying experience. Maintaining a low price point has always been an important staple throughout Paesanos’ restaurants. “We want to be the kind of places that people can visit several times a month instead of just once. Keeping prices friendly for consumers is really important to us,” Scarpulla said. Sondgroth explained that offering quality affordable food is “second-nature” to him. Making everything from scratch is also something he finds imperative to creating excellent dishes. “We make everything in-house; everything except the mayonnaise and mustard,” Sondgroth said. On two occasions I had the pleasure of dining there. Both times my meals were piping hot, fresh and flavorful. The first time, my friend and I grabbed brunch there. I ordered the Veggie Fire! loaded bagel, which was filled to the brim with fresh veggies. But diners beware: this is not first date food. I had sandwich fillings falling onto my plate and fingers, which I then gladly finished off, savoring every last piece. I envied my brunch companion who had the smarts to order the smoked salmon loaded bagel. Luckily she let me have a bite, and for a moment I was in heaven. The salmon was incredibly
flavorful and was complemented with cream cheese and salty capers. For $5.95, the strong temptation to go back for more doesn’t leave me feeling guilty for my wallet. On my second trip to Mangia!, I enjoyed the Pesto Panini, which was brimming with grilled veggies and cheeses; it was so hot it almost burnt my tongue! I could have easily split the sandwich with a friend it was so big, but luckily no one was around to steal the other half. I looked forward to every bite. I also enjoyed a vanilla latte an employee suggested to me. He said it was his favorite, and I’m glad I took his word for it. I was very impressed with the balance of espresso and vanilla flavoring as well as the creamy foam that topped it. Since Java City sat at this spot for so many years, Scarpulla said they wanted to fill the coffee shop void. By offering delicious hand-crafted espresso drinks and drip coffee, they do just that. The space hasn’t changed much from the previous inhabitants. Scarpulla said they didn’t have to do much more than cosmetic changes. They added a food production line and a space for the deli case and not much more to transform the former coffee shop into a grab and go dining experience. The exposed brick wall on the far side of the restaurant is adorned with paintings by local artist Ted Weldon. They feature three of Sacramento’s iconic landmarks: The clock at Cesar Chavez Park, Memorial Auditorium and the Capitol. Weldon is also responsible for the large mural on the Uncle Vito’s in Davis as well as the one on the back of Jack’s Urban Eats. No matter what you’re in the mood for, be it lunch, brunch, or coffee and a muffin, Mangia! has it covered. And when the prices are this low, it can’t hurt to try it out. Mangia! means simply “eat!” in Italian. Follow those instructions and you won’t be disappointed.
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Singled Out!
Comedian Iliza Shlesinger moves from reality show fame to rise the stand-up ranks Words James Barone
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alent, hard work and confidence—and a dash of luck—are needed to nurture any career in entertainment, and Iliza Shlesinger has been fortunate enough to have all these ingredients in abundance.
The winner of Last Comic Standing 6 back in 2008, Shlesinger is the
only female comic to take the title, though even that wasn’t an easy road. She staved off elimination multiple times in order to take the prize. It’s an accomplishment to be sure, but it’s not something she has ever hung her hat on. “It’s a cool thing for sure, but I think other people are more impressed with it than I am,” she says. “I would be a real tool if I rested on those laurels and still talked about it.” While it’s not her sole accomplishment, it certainly gave her a quicker start than others in the field. Still, it’s what she’s done since that’s entrenched her as a force in stand-up. “I know comics who have been doing it longer than I have,” Shlesinger says. “I know comics who have been doing it for 10 years, and they’re still featuring, and there’s nothing wrong with that. That’s the way it is. I’ve had the luxury of skipping a lot of the BS that stands between opening and being a headliner. I’m very fortunate to have been able to do that, but there’s also lot of hard work that I’ve put into it. “I don’t brag about it, because I know what I did. As we get farther and farther away from it, I don’t want to be the guy who’s like, ‘Remember how good I was at football in high school?’” Her journey in comedy began before Last Comic Standing. She says her first loves were sketch comedy and improv. She wrote for a troupe while she was in college, but then one day, she wrote a one-woman show, which, probably more so than her victory in the popular TV show, laid the roadmap for her current career. “I was the only girl in my troupe who wrote stuff, and then it hit me, why am I writing stuff for other girls who aren’t writing for themselves?” she explains. “Why don’t I throw my thoughts in linear form on to paper and write them for myself? I just started writing paragraphs. It’s a weird answer, but I moved to Los Angeles, and it didn’t seem like a stretch to start doing stand-up comedy. Someone gave me some stage time, and they asked me to come back the next week. I just kept coming back and getting asked to do other shows, and it just became something I was obsessed with, I guess.” Shlesinger says that she always knew she would be “funny for a living.” She was so single-minded about that inevitability that she “just didn’t think about anything else.” For years, she hosted The Weakly News, a news satire show for Thestream.tv in addition to touring as a stand-up comic. Armed with striking good looks and an even sharper tongue, she has recently made the jump to more traditional airwaves, hosting the syndicated dating show Excused, which has recently been picked up for a second season. Shlesinger discussed her latest endeavor, how success as a stand-up comic hasn’t necessarily Tickets are available at LiveNation.com and select Walmart locations. Charge by phon (800) 745-3000. Limit 8 tickets per person. All dates, acts and ticket prices are subject to change without notice. All tickets are subject to applicable service charges.
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When I Googled your name, the second thing that popped up was “Iliza Shlesinger feet.” I wasn’t sure if you were aware of that. I don’t know why. It’s very odd. Everyone mentions it to me. I don’t have a foot fetish, I don’t know people who have feet fetishes. People are just creepy. It’s because of that one video you did, right? For The Weakly News where you showed your feet because you injured one of them. I guess, but it’s not like billions of people watch it, but I’ve done plenty of videos where my arms are showing, and people forget about that. That’s just the one that happened to catch on. Yeah, people are sick. How did you get hooked up with Excused and how has the experience been so far for you? I wish I got hooked up with it. I auditioned for it. Do little girls dream of hosting a dating show when they grow up? No. [Loud car horn] Sorry. [To another driver] For real?! Oh my God! I’m sorry, this one person is ruining my life single-handedly. Give me one second. Is it bad that I believe she should be put in jail for being that bad of a driver? My whole thing is like, if you’re driving and this is a simple turn that you can’t complete, what poor decisions are you making in everyday life that are affecting the rest of us. You’re an animal. You shouldn’t be allowed out if you can’t make a left hand turn. Anyway… It’s a late night dating show, and I got the gig, and I was like, I either do it my way or I don’t do it at all. I make up all my own jokes on the spot. There are no writers, there’s nothing like that. I’m fortunate, because most stand-up comedians get a gig, and they have to read lines…but for me, they really let me say what I wanted to say. I’ve seen a few clips from the show, and you really don’t pull any punches with the contestants. There are things that I want to say that they won’t let me say. Then you watch it, and because of standards and practices, they edit out a lot of things. Even though it’s a late night show, in some places it’s syndicated at 4 in the afternoon, and it’s like, really? It’s weird what will fly and what won’t. Last night, I made a gay joke on the show, and they kept that in, but I’m not allowed to say, “douche bag.” It’s like, OK, let’s offend the gay community, but not douche bags. Were you into dating shows when you were younger? No. I loved Blind Date when I was in middle school or high school. I don’t remember, but this is the same producer who did Blind Date. Everyone liked Blind Date. I remember, of course, watching Singled Out. I really liked Jenny McCarthy, and I always thought she was great on that show. It’s kind of ironic that I looked up to this blonde woman with big boobs who was funny and crazy, and now I do that for a living. I don’t think I look like Jenny McCarthy at all, but it’s funny how things come full circle.
“I think people are starting to realize that women are just as funny. It’s not about the fact that you have a vagina. Don’t get me wrong, there are plenty of unfunny women, but there’s also plenty of unfunny guys. In fact, there are probably more unfunny guys.” – Iliza Shlesinger SubmergeMag.com
Has the show affected your views of the dating pool or the dating scene? No. It’s such a microcosm. You’re going to get creepy guys and gold diggers and douche bags no matter where you go or what you do, so the fact that we condense that world down to 19 minutes and put it on display, I’m not disheartened or anything like that. It’s a TV show, so everything’s exacerbated. I look for very specific things in mates, and I don’t think I’ve found it on my show, so I don’t like to judge them because different people like different things. I’m trying to be as political about this statement as possible [laughs]. Is writing something you’d like to get more into? For TV shows? No. The people who love writing, all they want to do is be writers, just like teachers or nurses or whatever. I find a lot of times for stand-up comics, you write because it’s a gig that you can get that you’re good at, but if you had your druthers, you’d write for yourself or do your own thing. I’ve been very fortunate that I’ve never had to take any sort of job in comedy that I didn’t want because of these small successes that I’ve had. Writing for my own show would be one thing, but I don’t really have an interest, other than for a friend or a really cool project, in sitting in a writers’ room and writing for someone else. It’s hard to do once you’ve done stand-up. It spoils you for a lot of things. Is it the singular control you have over it? Kind of. I could imagine any writer would be like that. When you write a joke, you want to have it said a certain way, and depending upon your director or your producer with his two cents, the actor may say it differently. For me, I don’t think I would want to have the challenge of writing for someone else’s voice. I’m always impressed when writers can do that. Being a stand-up comic is a weird thing, because when you’re on stage, everyone loves you and you’re a star. And then the next day, when you go out on an audition for like girlfriend No. 3, you walk in the room and no one knows who you are. Someone will be like, “Oh, have you tried stand-up?” and you’re like, “Yeah, I’ve tried, and I’ve bought a house with that money.” One art form doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll be good in another art form or recognized in one, so it’s a real mindfuck for lack of a better term. Sometimes I’ll see stand-up comics who I really like, and they’re in a commercial for like two seconds, but I know them by name. Right, right. It’s weird. Even just from an appreciation standpoint, you go to a club, you’re there for the weekend, they pick you up in a car, your fans come. You want to go to these casting directors and say, “I have fans.” People ask me for my autograph, and you want me to show me your profile so I can read this horribly written thing about being a sexually frustrated neighbor. Give me a break. It’s the weirdest thing ever. Is it tough to find good roles for women in comedy? I think it’s getting easier and easier. I think people are starting to realize that women are just as funny. It’s not about the fact that you have a vagina. Don’t get me wrong, there are plenty of unfunny women, but there’s also plenty of unfunny guys. In fact, there are probably more unfunny guys. Pretty much everything I read is, “You’re the quirky neighbor who just wants to have sex and doesn’t understand relationships.” I’m like, I don’t really know a ton of women like that, but OK. A lot of them are written in a very similar voice. One network will get a show that’s a hit so every network will copy it. I think women are gaining more Iliza Shlesinger will play Punch and more. You look Line in Sacramento Nov. 15–17. around at movies You can buy tickets for the show and TV shows, and through Punchlinesac.com. To keep up to date on Iliza, you can women are getting follow her on Twitter at Twitter. more of a chance to com/Iliza, where, amongst give their opinions, other things, you can view and I think that’s daily pictures of her freakishly great. adorable dog Blanche.
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The Tale of Two Schools Chuuwee bridges the old and new on his latest mixtape Words Andrew Bell
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s far as rap goes there are two schools: the old and the new. There is still a dedicated cross section of die-hard boom bappers who will forever hold their Kangols over their hearts and pledge allegiance
to the four elements while the new school swags out. In a sea of rappers
who are either one or the other, Sacramento’s Chuuwee finds his balance centered directly in the middle of the two. His latest release, Wildstyle, a ‘90s tribute album, is a voyage back to the future as the fresh-faced lyricist takes fans on a brand new trip down memory lane. Wildstyle is refreshing when you consider the fact Chuuwee is only 22. This isn’t another old rapper on some “glory days” hype. This is an unrequited love affair with the music and culture of a generation. It’s sort of how Led Zeppelin went back and borrowed from great blues players. The obvious influences of everyone from Wu-Tang, Black Sheep, Bone Thugsn-Harmony, 3X Crazy and Nas come across purely as tribute throughout Wildstyle as Chuuwee manages to pay homage to his influences without doing any cheap impersonations or getting tritely nostalgic. Although it is 20 tracks of all original production (and we’re just talking about side A), Wildstyle still had to be considered a mixtape due to label restrictions regarding sample clearance, thus bumping it into the category of mixtapes, making it free for listeners and placing even more pressure on the upcoming release of his first official album, 3rd Coastin. In March of 2012 Chuuwee inked a deal with indie label Amalgam Digital who also represents powerhouse group Slaughterhouse and up-and-comer Curren$y who have both been making waves with their latest releases. With his first album, 3rd Coastin, stylistically falling smack dab in the middle of trap and boom bap, we caught up with Chuuwee to talk about the old school, the new school, “taking it back” and the birth of boom trap. You just opened for T.I. What was that like? Any good T.I. Stories? It was incredible. It was me, T.I. and Big Country King for FSU’s Homecoming. It was epic. The only good T.I. story I have is that he stayed in his tour bus the whole time, so when they showed me his dressing room I took the Sun Chips out of it. Everyone confirmed he wasn’t going to eat them so I snatched them bad boys up. What are the best and worst parts of life on the road? The best parts of being on the road are that exactly. Being on your way to somewhere you haven’t been before to perform. Being around label mates. Actually having label mates. Just being able to even travel at all solely off the fact you make music is a very good feeling. The worst parts are being cramped in whatever vehicle you’re in for long ass periods of time but the good outweighs the bad.
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Folks are saying you’ve made it. Do you feel like you’ve made it? I feel like I’m definitely in shoes other people can’t tie up, but I don’t think I’ve overall made it. I still have a lot of work to do and I’m not satisfied with where I’m at. You’ve made it when you don’t have to hustle on the side even though elsewhere people think you’re a baller. I still don’t have a car. How did rocking shows in Sacramento prepare you for life on the road? It honestly got me in the “No one gives a fuck who you are, just do your thing and get off stage” mentality. A lot of cats in Sac think because half of their high school friends are “yes” men that they’re killing the game. You have to remember there are cities and towns that have never heard of you before regardless of what you think you did or done.
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Do you feel like you get more love or hate out here in your hometown? I definitely get more hate here… And don’t get me wrong it’s turning around. People show way more support now than they did before whether it’s genuine or not, but the point is that it is turning around. See, here in Sac doing well for yourself makes you a target. If someone feels like they did you a favor then they’re definitely going to ask for something in return whether you even needed their help in the first place. Then when you refuse to buy in or when you’re not loaning your connections to someone it’s an issue. Then they don’t want to support you anymore. As far as the fans, it’s just really hard to grasp a Sacramentan’s attention. It’s always been that way. Sac doesn’t really support much of anything I’ve come to find.
What’s more fun to write/record/perform, trap or boom bap? It’s all fun. It’s my craft. I take pride in being able to do both, and all styles of music. It’s not really about what’s more fun to me, it’s more so when people understand and accept both styles in one sitting. That’s what makes it fun because it’s like, “Yo! He can spit some hip-hop shit and he can still make a point on some fun party shit.” I feel like I’ve mastered the art of songwriting. What’s the difference between Wildstyle and every other rapper “takin’ it back?” Wildstyle was the ‘90s era. No question about it. It sounds exactly like 1990 to ‘96, and if it didn’t, please let me know, but the project is my authentic attempt at ‘90s music. A lot of people feel like rapping over a 90’s style beat or saying that you’re reminiscent of the ‘90s makes your music such, but it doesn’t. I spent
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5 years studying and trying my hardest to find production that sounded like my favorite classic songs revamped for my day and age. Anyone can call a chicken a duck, but if it doesn’t swim it’s not a duck. When can we expect the B-side to Wildstyle? The B-side is dropping around December. It’s partially completed. It’s just that ever-so wonderful feature game I have to play. Has the release of Wildstyle been everything you thought it would be after five years? It isn’t what I thought it would be only because I don’t set expectations. I set general goals or achievements to reach and then try to reach them. There is definitely an improvement in the amount of fans, the support, the [number of] downloads and the overall acceptance of my sound and style but I still need more. I’m capable of way more.
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“I feel like I’m definitely in shoes other people can’t tie up, but I don’t think I’ve overall made it. I still have a lot of work to do and I’m not satisfied with where I’m at. You’ve made it when you don’t have to hustle on the side even though elsewhere people think you’re a baller. I still don’t have a car.” – Chuuwee Is 3 Coastin more trap or boom bap? 3rd Coastin is "Boom Trap," which is actually a style of music I created with the homie Swoots out of Wisconsin. It focuses on teaching you something while using that more popular sound of southern hip-hop and beats that people love today. It’s a message through the bullshit we love to support and endorse. rd
Wildstyle (side A), released Oct. 9, is now available for download at Chuuweeoftus.bandcamp. com. Stay tuned for side B, due out in December. See Chuuwee perform live at Undwrld Fest 2 at Sol Collective (2574 21st Street, Sacramento) on Nov. 9 with Abstract Ninjaa, Keno, J.Good, Konkwest and others. The show starts at 8 p.m. and costs $10.
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HOODIE ALLEN MON • NOV 5 • 7:30P • UNIVERSITY UNION BALLROOM Hip hop concert, + special opening guest SOOSH*E, Tickets are $10 for Sac State students/ $15 general public. Tickets on-sale at the Sacramento State Ticket Office or www.csus.edu/sfsc/ticketoffice
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FREE: brass group of the United States Air Force Band of the Golden West, in support of the Festival Of New American Music.
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Global leader in action sports training and summer camps opens Woodward Tahoe Words Jonathan Carabba •
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ake one step into The Bunker, a massive 33,000 square-foot action sports and gymnastics training facility at the recently opened Woodward Tahoe, and you’re immediately teleported into a Willy Wonka land for athletes. Boys, girls, men, women, all jumping and flipping on olympic-sized trampolines, tumbling on a gymnastics spring floor, perfecting inverted tricks on skateboards and bikes off steep ramps, landing in one of three giant “foam pits,” which are huge eight-to-twelve-foot deep pits filled with chunks of soft foam for athletes to attempt new maneuvers into without the dire consequences of concrete or hard packed snow. There’s an indoor skatepark with steep transitions off to one side of the building and six trampolines all tiered on multiple levels of the other. If you walk in here and don’t get an action sports sensory overload, or at the very least a genuine urge to jump on one of the tramps, check your pulse. This place appeals not only to skateboarders, skiers, snowboarders, BMX riders and gymnasts, but also to any other adventure seeker or fitness enthusiast. It’s a progression paradise that will no doubt help propel countless athletes from the Tahoe region and beyond to the next level in their sports. This is unlike anything seen before in California. This is Woodward Tahoe. Undeniably the global leader in action sports training and summer camps, the name “Woodward” is synonymous with some of the most impressive skateparks and training facilities in the world. In 1970, Woodward started out as a gymnastics-only camp in Pennsylvania, but they soon expanded into skateboarding, BMX and other action sports, noting the similarities between gymnastics and such activities. Now all these years later, Woodward has four massive campuses in the United States and one overseas, providing diverse opportunities to young people: from action sports, gymnastics and cheerleading, to instructional programs in digital media, photography, videography, dance, graphic arts, design and music—basically all of the cultural activities surrounding the action sports lifestyle. Athletes of all ability levels, from beginners to pros, have trained at the original Camp Woodward in Woodward, Penn.; Woodward West in Tehachapi, Calif.; Woodward at Copper in Copper Mountain, Colo., Woodward
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Beijing in China, and as of this summer you can add the newest member of the family to that list: Woodward Tahoe. Nestled neatly at the base of Boreal Mountain Resort in Soda Springs, Calif., Woodward Tahoe’s sprawling campus is impressive to say the least. It ought to be considering how much money went into it. “Seven million dollars for the full build out,” says Jon Slaughter, marketing director at Woodward Tahoe and Boreal. Turns out the company that owns Boreal, Powdr Corp., which also owns the aforementioned Woodward at Copper as well as Park City Mountain Resort in Utah, Mt. Bachelor in Oregon and a number of other ski resorts, acquired Woodward last year after seeing the success of their Copper Mountain operation. Powdr Corp. looked at Woodward as a huge opportunity to reach out to the youth. “Basically in the ski world we are losing baby boomers out the back end every day,” Slaughter said. “Baby boomers are getting older and stopping skiing, so John [Cumming, CEO of Powdr Corp.] wanted to figure out a way to infuse more youth into the sport and saw Woodward as just a great opportunity. He went out there to Camp Woodward in Pennsylvania and checked that out and just fell in love with it and saw what was going on at Woodward at Copper and just thought that it was brilliant, so he actually bought Woodward.” Woodward Tahoe is the first expansion of “The Woodward Experience” since the Powdr Corp. and Woodward’s partnership came about, and our guess is it won’t be the last considering Powdr Corp. owns so many other ski resorts. When Submerge paid Slaughter and Woodward Tahoe a visit last Tuesday afternoon, we took an in-depth tour of The Bunker that ended with an introductory training session that saw us tumbling on padded mats, flipping off trampolines into foam pits and strapping into “parkboards,” a sort of skate/snowboard hybrid developed by Woodward Tahoe and Burton Snowboards for athletes to train on indoors and/or during the off season. “They flex, they pop, they feel like you're snowboarding when you’re on it, or more a combination between skateboarding and snowboarding just because of the wheels. But it’s very similar to snowboarding,” Slaughter said of the parkboards. Dive Into Sacramento & Its Surrounding Areas
They also have “park skis” for those who prefer skiing. Same concept as the parkboards, they’re basically just skis with wheels. Slaughter remembered a park ski encounter with a fellow Sacramento journalist: “We took Brian Hickey from KCRA, he’s a rippin’ skier, but he had never been on those park skis. He came up here and within an hour-and-a-half he was dropping from the top ramp,” Slaughter pointed to a steep drop-in ramp at the far end of the building that propels riders at numerous ramps, boosting you into a foam pit or if you choose, onto a harder-yet-still-forgiving “resi-landing.” The drop-in ramp is easily 30 feet from the ground level, and probably a 30 degree angle. It’s steep, and it’s fast. “It just shows if you know the fundamentals of skiing or boarding you can just jump right into it,” Slaughter said. That is, after proper training. Unless you’re a big name seasoned pro stopping by for a shred session, it’s all about working your way up to the bigger stuff. “Everything in here is built with progression in mind,” Slaughter said. “So starting one place to go to the next. Spring floor before you head to the tramps, then take the tramps into the foam pit before heading to the parkboards, things like that.” The parkboards and park skis are sure to get a lot of attention from Woodward Tahoe campers and visitors simply because of their uniqueness, but the groundbreaking innovations don’t stop there. The largest of their trampolines, the 14-by-14-foot Red Bull SuperTramp, is “next level” according to Slaughter. “It’s built with action sports in mind,” he said. “It’s a softer, slower bounce. You won’t get bucked, it almost re-centers you.” Because of this, Slaughter said jumpers can reach at least twice as high, helping with air-awareness for athletes training in multiple sports. Adjacent to the drop-in area, trampolines and all of the foam pits lies the indoor concrete street skatepark, and true to Woodward form, it too is unique. “It’s a creative park,” said coach/supervisor Alex Dorszynski, who helped show us around the building. “I haven’t quite seen one like it.” After we made our way up to the GoPro Tower with Dorszynski, offering a killer bird’s-eye view of the entire facility with beanbag chairs and flat screens for maximum chill factor, we headed to the Digital Media room with Paul Heran.
Heran has been shooting and editing snowboarding for 13 years and teaches campers at Woodward Tahoe the ins and outs of photographing, filming and editing. “This is a really good environment for kids to jump into,” he said, standing amongst an array of Apple desktop computers. “Eventually they will want to go film out in the urban environments or whatever, but coming here they have access to all the campers, and they’re doing every sport pretty much right here in this building and on our campus. The BMX trails, skiing and snowboarding on the hill, they can film everything.” Heran and other Woodward Tahoe photographers teach campers everything from the basics of photography to video editing and wrapping up final products. Both Heran and Slaughter mentioned that the Digital Media campers tend to be some of the more popular kids during summer camp weeks. “Sometimes by the end of the week we would end up getting a few more campers because kids would come in here and see it and say, ‘I want to do this!’” said Heran. “This place is just full of content,” Slaughter said, chilling on a couch in the Mezzanine area after our tour was over. “You’ve got the digital media kid and a skater who’s doing something cool, so you’ve automatically got someone filming, connecting those dots and just making connections. And it’s funny, because the digital media kids just become like the more popular kids at camp,” he said with a laugh. Imagine being an aspiring photographer and having the ability to shoot multiple sports all day long, and not only fellow campers and amateurs athletes, but huge named pros as well. Legendary skateboarder Tony Hawk has been to Woodward Tahoe twice already. Travis Pastrana showed up this summer too. Olympic snowboarder Hannah Teter trains there up to three times a week, according to Slaughter, and she’s trying to learn a new trick that he says will almost undoubtedly take her to the top of any podium once she perfects it. You never know who you will run into at Woodward Tahoe, or what sort of progression you’ll see go down. “We’re going to be developing world class athletes,” Slaughter said with confidence. “We’re basically talking to teams right now and letting them know like, ‘If you guys aren’t training in here, you’re going to get left behind.’ It’s going to have to be the standard now. These kids that are going to competitions, you’re going to quickly figure out who’s been in here training and who hasn’t.”
“We’re going to be developing world class athletes... These kids that are going to competitions, you’re going to quickly figure out who’s been in here training and who hasn’t.” - Jon Slaughter, Woodward Tahoe SubmergeMag.com
The Bunker at Woodward Tahoe is currently open for public drop-ins from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. seven days a week. It will stay that way through the winter and all the way up until April 14, 2013, when Woodward Tahoe will close down to the public to welcome groups of campers throughout the summer. For more information on how to get in on the action, call (530) 426-1114 or visit Woodwardtahoe.com.
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Culture in Chaos
Don McKinney’s Mind-Bending Abstract Art Comes to Sac State Words Ryan J. Prado
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ometime around 1971, Don McKinney was still mired in the post-adolescent fog of indecision. Aimless. Directionless. But after joining the United States Army during Vietnam and working as an intelligence officer, McKinney met and befriended a group of fellow soldiers, some of whom were artists. Until then, McKinney explains he possessed only a vague interest in art as a medium for his then-fledgling creative expression. That meeting, however, proved to be one of the catalysts for what is now a 30-plus year career as a professional working painter, sculptor and printmaker for the Orange County artist. “I just had no direction at all in my life, and I didn’t know where I was going to go,” says McKinney. “[The artists I met in Vietnam] talked me into going back to college, so I went back and majored in art. By the time I got my master of fine arts, I had so much time committed to the arts that I had to stay in.” Since that decision, McKinney’s work has been shown throughout the United States in group, competitive, invitational and solo exhibitions, and he’s been the recipient of a laundry list of awards and honors, including two APSP (Association of Pool and Spa Professionals) International Design Awards for commercial work in aquatic environmental sculpture. McKinney’s work is dominated by largescale abstract acrylic paintings that explore the dynamics and tension of light, color, movement and iconographic mythology. The malleability of its composition has resulted in his work being sought after internationally by both private and institutional collectors. The development of this personal aesthetic, for McKinney, has been one of intense personal exploration, giving way to portrayals of abstract, mind-bending visuals
and textures through a hard-edged architectural psychedelia. As for most artists, process, refinement, reductionism and ritual are key to the pursuit of achieving a satisfying outlet. As McKinney explains, it’s a process that hasn’t stopped evolving just because he’s been in the game for five decades. “You develop a personal aesthetic over your lifetime,” explains McKinney. “This is a reductionism of everything I’ve ever done to the point I am right now where I’m dealing with a language that I’ve developed in light. I’m working diligently on my own personal aesthetic every day. Because I’m older, I’m really driven to work. I’m producing more now than I have in a long time.” McKinney’s current exhibition—Works from the Last 20—is showing at Sacramento State’s University Union Gallery through Nov. 15. The pieces that are included in the show are from three separate series that McKinney worked on, but almost immediately sold. Most of the work has never been exhibited due to that, much less been in the same room with the rest of the series as a complete artistic vision. “They were scattered all over,” says McKinney. “About 15 of the pieces that are [at Sacramento State] are parts of private collections that I was able to go around, collect and get them all together for one exhibition.” The process of reuniting all these pieces was therapeutic for McKinney.
“It’s like seeing your children after they’ve been gone for a long time,” he laughs. “A painting is like a child; they’ve got to live by themselves. They’ve got to survive on their own, but it’s nice to see them again. I’m glad they’re out there.” Beginning with daily routines of what McKinney calls “automatic drawing,” his work sets off on a journey from the pits of his subconscious in distracted and fussy layers of labyrinthine light and color. It’s a busy, hypnotic jigsaw puzzle that McKinney likens to composing music. “It’s almost like a writer who knows when to finish his book or when a musician knows when the song is finished,” says McKinney. “There is a sense of completion of a certain pursuit. It is intuitive and it is proof of the aesthetic.” McKinney cites three pieces in particular for the Sacramento State exhibition that hold personal importance to him, including an homage to the recently passed Northwestern painter Glenn Berry, a former mentor of McKinney’s, titled Very Glenn Berry. Another tribute piece in the exhibition, Thinking of Giorgio, is inspired by Italian surrealist painter Giorgio de Chirico, and is a pristine example of McKinney’s dalliances with cartoonish panoramas of color, texture and a Tim Burtonesque wonderland of fun visuals. It’s because of that animation cell-like appearance that McKinney is routinely asked questions about how much of his work was produced by a computer. The truth is a majority of the pieces in Works from the Last 20 were
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completed before the computer became such a ubiquitous part of contemporary art. “I think some people look at those and think maybe they were on Photoshop or something,” says McKinney. “But these were all done way before that was available to the art student.” McKinney’s subconscious process is also a byproduct of the hands-on iterative means he’s been fortunate enough to pursue through a lengthy list of lecturing and teaching gigs at colleges throughout his career. McKinney is currently the Instructor of Art at Irvine Valley College in Irvine, Calif., and will be revisiting his
American Kanji sculptural roots next spring as the instructor of a course focusing on three-dimensional design. “A lot of time while I’m teaching it also clarifies my own process for me,” explains McKinney. “There’ve been more times than not when I’m lecturing that in the Don McKinney’s Works from the Last 20 is showing at the back of my mind I’m like, ‘I gotta University Union Gallery at do something; I gotta do it right Sacramento State through Nov. 15. Gallery hours are Monday– now because that just triggered Friday 10:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m. and something.’ It’s a circular process. Wednesday–Thursday from 5–8 I feel teaching is giving back, but I p.m. Admission is free. For more information about Don McKinney’s learn, too.”
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Haven Underground Y La Bamba, Exquisite Corps, Sweet Anomaly, 9 p.m.
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Marilyn’s Yellow Jacket Motel, 8 p.m.
Jean Runyon Little Theater Martin Sexton, The Sun Parade, 7:30 p.m.
Ace of Spades Gwar, Devil Driver, Cancer Bats, Legacy Of Disorder, 6 p.m.
Midtown Village Cafe Midtown Out Loud, 8 p.m. Mix DJ E-Rock, 9 p.m.
Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. Marilyn’s Hot Club de Carmichael, 5:30 p.m. Midtown Village Cafe Open Mic Night, 8 p.m. Old Ironsides Karaoke, 9 p.m. Pine Cove Battle of the Musicians, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub College Night w/ DJ Rigatony, DJ Alazzawi, 10:30 p.m. Shine Jazz Jam w/ Jason Galbraith & Guests, 8 p.m. T2 Nightclub & Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m. Torch Club Wingnut Adams, 5:30 p.m.; Lew Fratis, 9 p.m.
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The Boardwalk Vintage Jimmy, Crowbar Noir, RAIDD, Madi & Cici, Kreepalicious, Fancy Lohan, 7 p.m. Club Car The Double Shots, 7:30 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. District 30 Return of Blizzard w/ InkdUp & Z-Rokk, 7 p.m.
Level Up Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m. Marilyn’s Rock On Live Band Karaoke, 9 p.m.
Old Ironsides Open Mic, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Playboy School, Are We Human, Color the Sound, 8 p.m. Sacramento Community Center Theater Kristen Chenoweths, 7:30 p.m. Torch Club Acoustic Open Mic, 5:30 p.m.; Howell Devine, 9 p.m. UC Davis: Jackson Hall Philharmonia Baroque, 8 p.m.
Mix DJ Eddie Edul, DJ Peeti V, 9 p.m. Old Ironsides DJ Krave Deez, 9 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Press Club Yankee Brutal, Sic Waiting, 8:30 p.m. Shine The Polymers, Little Brave, Lucky Laskowski & The Liar’s Choir, 8 p.m. Stoney’s Jason Buell, 9:30 p.m.
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Fox & Goose Austin Quattlebaum, John Gruber, 8 p.m.
Bows and Arrows Classical Revolution feat. Cellist Jia-Mo Chen, 8 p.m.
Laughs Unlimited Karaoke w/ KJ Ryan, 8 p.m.
Clark’s Corner The Vintage Vandals, 9 p.m.
The Boardwalk The Andromeda Project, Afraid of Falling, Without Concussion, Salythia, 7 p.m. Bows and Arrows Orca Team, Nacho Business, Bad Daddies, 8 p.m. Callison’s Bar & Grill The Ostrich Theory, 9 p.m. Capitol Garage Get Down to the Champion Sound w/ Ranking Joe, DJ Esef, I-Lone, 10 p.m. District 30 DJ Louie Giovanni, 9 p.m. Elkhorn Saloon Karaoke, 6:30 p.m.
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Torch Club Pailer & Fratis, 5 p.m.; The Alkali Flats Ten Year Anniversary Show, 9 p.m.
Golden Bear DJ Crook, 10 p.m.
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Guild Theater Pete Escovedo Y Su Orchestra, 7 p.m. Harlow’s Hip Service, 10 p.m. Level Up Lounge Hot Pants w/ DJ Rock Bottom, 9 p.m. Luigi’s Fungarden Talkdemonic, Jel, Young Aundee feat. Dusty & Jessica Brown, 8 p.m. Luna’s Cafe Deven Farren Band, Myler and Starr, Mike Diaz, 8 p.m. Marilyn’s Hans Eberbach, The Three Masons, 9 p.m. Midtown Village Cafe La Sera, Dreamdate, Sneeze Attack (Album Release), 8 p.m. Mix DJ Elliott Estes, 9 p.m. Old Ironsides Tulpa Effect, Inferno of Joy, Man in the Planet, 9 p.m. The Park Ultra Lounge DJ Shift, 9 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Apple Z, 10 p.m. Press Club DJ Rue, 9 p.m. Shady Coffee and Tea Open Mic w/ Robert Brundage, 7 p.m. Sol Collective Chuuwee, Abstract Ninjaa, KENO, J.GOOD, Konkwest, Dceased, Swain, Flash Kid, Mr. Dibia$e, John Robinson, 8 p.m. Stoney’s Hired Guns, 8 p.m.
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Ace of Spades Some Fear None, Terra Ferno, Overwatch, Zen Arcadia, New Fang, 6:30 p.m. The Boardwalk Self Proclaimed, Vanishing Affair, Forever at Lexington, Maid of the Mist, Straight Jacket Strippers, 7 p.m. Bows and Arrows Golden Cadillacs, The Royal Jelly, Perpetual Drifters, Railflowers, 8 p.m. Cache Creek Casino Hye Eun Yee, 8 p.m. Cal Neva Resort KRS-ONE, Logic-One, Golden Gloves, Dirty Rhythm, Venomous Ink, Deep City, DJ Mince, 8 p.m. The Cave Organs, The Enlows, Synnova, 8 p.m. Center for the Arts The ManzarekRogers Band, 7 p.m. Clark’s Corner The Inversions, 8 p.m. District 30 DJ Billy Lane, DJ Cakes, 9 p.m. Elkhorn Saloon Stephen Yerkey, 6:30 p.m. Fox & Goose March Into Paris, Solwave, Autumn Sky, 9 p.m.
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Powerhouse Pub Alice In Wonderland, 10 p.m.
Harlow’s Diamond Rings, Gold Fields, 7 p.m.
Press Club DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m.
Harrah’s Lake Tahoe The Dan Band, 7:30 p.m.
River’s Edge Bar & Grill C-Dubb, Sav Da Moneymaker, So Sik, Point 5 , B-Nutti, Gfn & R3d, Fast Life, 9 p.m.
Level Up Lounge Guest DJs, 9 p.m. Luigi’s Fungarden Angora Debs, Shark, Godspeed 209, Ennui Trust, 8 p.m. Luna’s Cafe Turnbuckle Blues Review, 8:30 p.m. Marilyn’s Irishpalooza w/ Whiskey and Stitches, BlackEyed Dempseys, Stout Rebellion, Pikeys, One Eyed Reilly, 7 p.m. Midtown BarFly Barry Weaver, Bobby Martinez, Mr Jon, Funksion, Gavin Varitech, 9 p.m. Midtown Village Cafe Mikey Muffins, The Adventure Fun Squad, 6 p.m. Mix DJ Mike Moss, 8:30 p.m. MontBleu Resort Casino Workin Minerva, Knowledge Lives Forever, Seasons Of Insanity, 8 p.m. Naked Lounge Downtown Aberzombies, Curing Adam, Tiger Streaks, 8 p.m. Old Ironsides Fascination, 9:30 p.m. The Owl Club Stillwood Sages, 9 p.m. The Park Ultra Lounge DJ Peeti V, 9 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m.
Sacramento Community Center Theater Sacramento Youth Symphony, 3 p.m. Shine David Houston, Manzanita Falls, With Eyes Set Forward, 8 p.m. Sleep Train Arena Eric Church, Justin Moore, Kip Moore, 7:30 p.m. Torch Club Val Starr & the Blues Rocket, Jeramy Norris & the Dangerous Mood, Sky O’Banion Blues Band, Used Blues Band, 2 p.m.; RJ Mischo, 9 p.m. UC Davis: Jackson Hall Joshua Bell (violin), Sam Haywood (piano), 8 p.m. ZuhG Life Store 2 Year Anniversary w/ Adrian Bellue, The Nickel Slots, Awkward Lemon, JR Halliday, Michael Tobias & the Acidic Swamp Band, ZuhG, 11 a.m.
11.11 Sunday
Capitol Garage Karaoke w/ Jeff Jenkins, 9 p.m.
Distillery Karaoke, 8 p.m.
Luna’s Cafe Nebraska Mondays hosted by Ross Hammond, Lisa Mezzacapp, LA Jenkins, 7:30 p.m.
Harlow’s Gospel Groove Session w/ Daughters of Christ and Samona J, 6 p.m.
Old Ironsides The Nuance, 7:30 p.m.
Mix DJ Gabe Xavier, 8:30 p.m.
Powerhouse Pub Karaoke, 9 p.m.
The Park Ultra Lounge DJ Scene, DJ Peeti V, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Rick Estrin & the Nightcats, 3 p.m.; Open Blues Jam, 7 p.m. Press Club Sunday Night Soul Party w/ DJ Larry & DJ Hailey, 9 p.m. Shine Rachel Lomax, Aaron Zimmer, Billy Patton, 8 p.m. Sleep Train Arena Wiz Khalifa, Juicy J, Chevy Woods, Lola Monroe, Berner, Tuki Carter, 6:30 p.m. Torch Club Blues Jam, 4 p.m.; Wingnut Adams Band, 8 p.m.
Sol Collective Microphone Mondays, 8 p.m. Townhouse Open Mic, 9 p.m.
11.13 Tuesday
Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. Luigi’s Fungarden Belgrado, Bellicose Minds, Effluxus, Crude Studs, 7 p.m. Marilyn’s Ken Koenig, Dirt Nap Band, 5:30 p.m.
11.12
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Monday
Pine Cove Open Mic Night, 9 p.m.
The Boxing Donkey Open Mic Variety Night, 8 p.m. Davis Bike Collective Nucular Aminals, White hOle, Genuis, 8:30 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m.
Powerhouse Pub College Night w/ DJ Rigatony, DJ Alazzawi, 10:30 p.m. Shine Jazz Jam w/ Jason Galbraith & Guests, 8 p.m. T2 Nightclub & Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m.
Fox & Goose Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m. Luigi’s Fungarden Sera Cahoone, The Parsons Red Heads, 8 p.m.
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11.14 wednesday
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The Blue Lamp The Session, 9 p.m.
Ace of Spades The Faint, Trust, Casket Girls, 7 p.m.
The Boardwalk Removal, Slaves of Manhattan, Vegas Divided, Theory of Our Kind, Against It All, For All Ive Done, 7 p.m.
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Thursday
Club Car Songwriters Showcase, 8 p.m. The Coffee Garden Open Mic Night, 8 p.m.
Fox & Goose Steve McLane, 8 p.m. Harlow’s Brothers of the Baladi, 5:30 p.m. Laughs Unlimited Karaoke w/ KJ Ryan, 8 p.m. Marilyn’s Love and a .38, 8 p.m. Mix DJ Gabe Xavier, DJ Peeti-V, 9 p.m. Old Ironsides Open Mic, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Lonely Kings, Porter Project, Horseneck, Losing All Pride, 9 p.m.
The Boardwalk J. Stalin, Playah K, Mommy’s Monsters, No Mutiny Cliq, Mark Snipes, 8 p.m. Capitol Garage Get Down to the Champion Sound w/ DJ Esef and special guests, 10 p.m.
Luna’s Cafe Out Of Place, Alyssa Cox & the Flatland Band, 8 p.m. Marilyn’s Glass Elevator, Smirker, Children of the Young, 8 p.m. Miami Beach Club DJ Essence, 9 p.m. Mix DJ Elliott Estes, 9 p.m. Old Ironsides Bright Faces, Desario, Jem & Scout, 9 p.m. The Park Ultra Lounge DJ Eddie Edul, 9 p.m.
11.17 Saturday
Ace of Spades Halestorm, In This Moment, Eve To Adam, 7 p.m. The Blue Lamp Joe Buck Yourself, The Hootin Hallers, The Peace Killers, 9 p.m.
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Harlow’s Tainted Love, 10 p.m.
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Haven Underground The Cairo Gang, Joshua Abrams Natural Society, ALAK, 9 p.m.
Sacramento Community Center Theater Sacramento Opera: The Barber of Seville, 8 p.m.
Elkhorn Saloon Delta City Ramblers, 6:30 p.m.
Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m.
Torch Club Acoustic Open Mic, 5:30 p.m.; Buster Blue, 9 p.m.
Press Club Blowfly, Crazy Ballhead, Mom, DJ Flower Vato, MC Ham, 8:30 p.m. Stoney’s The Brodie Stewart Band, 9:30 p.m.
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Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m.
Powerhouse Pub Led Zepagain, 10 p.m.
Level Up Lounge Hot Pants w/ DJ Rock Bottom, 9 p.m.
Midtown Village Cafe Red Union Blue, 8 p.m.
Bows and Arrows Pregnant, Ascetic, Religious Girls, 8 p.m.
Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m.
Old Ironsides Bluegrass Acoustic Jam, 7:30 p.m.; DJ Krave Deez, 10 p.m.
Marilyn’s The Jon Mulvey Band, 9 p.m.
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Level Up Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m.
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Luigi’s Fungarden Danny Secretions Lame-Ass Birthday Bash Fuck Cancer Benefit Night #1 w/ Dead Dads (covering Alkaline Trio), Urban Wolves (Bouncing Souls), Left Hand (Misfits), Enlows (The Queers), 8 p.m.
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University Union Redwood Room, CSUS Nooner w/ James Cavern, 12 p.m.
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Cache Creek Casino Richard Gomez, Rico Puno, Patricia Javier, 4 p.m.
Luna’s Cafe Keith Lowell Jensen’s Comedy Night, every Wednesday, 8 p.m.
Capitol Garage Karaoke w/ Jeff Jenkins, 9 p.m.
Po’Boyz Bar & Grill (Folsom) Comedy Open Mic, every Monday, 9 p.m.
Distillery Karaoke, 8 p.m. G Street WunderBar Typhoon, Laura Gibson, Lost Lander, 9 p.m. Mix DJ Gabe Xavier, 8:30 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Pinkie Rideau, 3 p.m.; Open Blues Jam, 7 p.m. Press Club Danny Secretions Lame-Ass Birthday Bash Fuck Cancer Benefit Night #3 w/ Cold Heart Repress (covering Murder City Devils), Dogfood (Circle Jerks), Scowndrolls (Adicts), Moans (Ramones), 5 p.m. Sacramento Community Center Theater Sacramento Opera: The Barber of Seville, 2 p.m. Torch Club Blues Jam, 4 p.m.; Golden Cadillacs, 8 p.m. UC Davis: Jackson Hall UC Davis Symphony Orchestra, 7 p.m.
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Ace of Spades Woe Is Me, Chunk! No Captain Chunk, Our Last Night, Secrets, Capture The Crown, The Seeking, 6 p.m. The Boxing Donkey Open Mic Variety Night, 8 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. Fox & Goose Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m. Harlow’s Walk The Moon, Family Of The Year, 7 p.m. Luna’s Cafe Nebraska Mondays’ 3 Year Anniversary w/ Ross Hammond, Nagual and Tony Passarell, 7:30 p.m. Old Ironsides The Nuance, 7:30 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Karaoke, 9 p.m. Sol Collective Microphone Mondays, 8 p.m. Townhouse Open Mic, 9 p.m.
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If you’ve tracked RZA’s music career at all, you’d know his affinity for classic marshal arts movies. The man behind the Wu-Tang Clan’s signature sound, RZA made a name for himself crafting gritty, Hong Kong cinema-inspired beats that not only shaped the formidable hip-hop group's music, but also its mystique. Since around the turn of the millennium, he’s become more involved in film, first teaming up with indie icon Jim Jarmusch to create the jaw-dropping soundtrack for his samurai flick Ghost Dog (in which RZA also acted) and later teamed up with fellow Asian cinema enthusiast Quentin Tarrantino to compose for Kill Bill Vol. 1. It’s the latter that leads us to The Man with the Iron Fists, which combines elements from all manners of kung fu classics, but unfortunately leaves a lot to be desired. RZA serves as writer and director and also the film’s star, and his impact is felt immediately as Wu-Tang’s “Shame on a Nigga” fittingly thumps behind The Man with the Iron Fist’s opening fight/title sequence. It sets the film up for success and serves as a reminder that a lot of current hip-hop stars just can’t hold a candle to the Wu. Sadly, that’s one of this film’s few bright spots. As the Blacksmith, a conflicted man who yearns for peace yet makes weapons for Jungle Village’s warring clans so he can one day escape his twisted corner of the world with his girlfriend Lady Silk (Jamie Chung), RZA looks lethargic. His expression hardly changes as the Blacksmith faces many difficult trials, like being forced to make weapons, expressing his romantic feelings or walking in on his battered girlfriend. No matter the situation, he wears the same weary expression. Around him, though, is a decent cast. Russell Crowe plays Jack Knife, a rogue British soldier with lascivious appetites. This is perhaps the film’s most charismatic character; however, he doesn’t really do much except make quips, have sex with prostitutes and occasionally guts someone with his knife/
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gun weapon. But he’s a good guy. Sort of. Lucy Liu plays the Jungle Village’s madam, and as per usual, she’s fantastic. At one moment seductive, the next icy cold and the next perfectly charming, Liu steals the show in the seemingly scant moments she’s on camera and also looks the most accomplished in her few fight scenes. The Man with the Iron Fists doesn’t suck for lack of trying. There are some really cool characters here, imbued with a video game-level of ridiculousness. Each one is saddled with his/ her own outlandish weapon, hairdo and costume. Pro wrestler Dave Bautista, for example, plays the hulking Brass Body, an intimidating brute made even more so by the fact that he can turn himself into a nearly impervious metal colossus at will. Other characters such as the Gemini Killers (Grace Huang and Andrew Lin) provide the most cinematically pleasing fight sequence with their colorful unison attacks; and the ladies of Jungle Village’s whorehouse double as cunning assassins. But for all its flash and gore (there’s plenty of that), The Man with the Iron Fists is surprisingly boring. Other than the game show host swagger of the film’s primary heel Silver Lion (played by Byron Mann), The Man with the Iron Fists is largely humorless despite being so epically over the top. The fight scenes, heavily relying on “wire-fu” techniques made popular on these shores in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, also fall flat. However, unlike the aforementioned foreign film, the cinematography shies from sprawling, beautiful shots and instead utilizes a jagged, frenetic approach that makes it kind of difficult to discern what’s going on. Speaking of difficult to discern, the plot really doesn’t make that much sense either. Back story is reveled, then forgotten. And as the seeming endless cavalcade of characters were paraded on and off screen, I often found myself asking, “Wait, what’s the deal with that guy again?” I probably should have taken more drugs beforehand. You live and you learn, I guess. It’s a shame that this is such a mess, because I was really hoping to enjoy myself. Oh well, at least Wu-Tang Clan still ain’t nothing to fuck with.
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the shallow end Of Mice and Jedis James Barone jb@submergemag.com I’ve heard a lot about how shitty the economy is. I’m sure you have too. To be sure, it could be better, but you’d never know there was such a thing as The Great Recession looking at Disney. The happiest entertainment giant on Earth seems entirely undaunted. Over the past six years, they’ve bought up a bunch of highprofile brands and have now added yet another one to the fold. Back in 2006, the corporation purchased Pixar, in 2009, they gobbled up Marvel Comics and just recently, they acquired George Lucas’ Lucasfilm Ltd., which now makes Disney the majority holder of all of my fondest childhood memories. As we know, the economy is rough, but Disney still managed to spare a cool $4.05 billion (billion!) to land Lucasfilm, including Indiana Jones and the merchandising behemoth of a film franchise, Star Wars. It’s become somewhat fashionable in nerd circles to talk shit about George Lucas, and I’ve been guilty of it too. Though people went out in droves to see the digitally tweaked re-leases of the original Star Wars films, it left a sour taste for some of the crotchety old die-hards out there. I only saw Return of the Jedi in the theater when it was first released (I’m old, but I’m not that old), so I was stoked to see the whole trilogy on the big screen. All the added computer-generated bells and whistles didn’t really enhance my experience at all. I thought they were fine the way they were, but they didn’t turn me off to the franchise. The subsequent avalance of merchandizing, however, did become wearisome. Especially since I worked at a comic book store at the time, and there’s nothing like getting into shouting matches with grown dudes about the price of action figures. Then came the prequels, and like a good zombie, I was there opening night for Episode I, aka The Phantom Menace, and grimaced through a couple hours of total sucktitude. Most of the ire was understandably focused on the much-maligned Jar Jar Binks, who many fans used as a scapegoat for “ruining the franchise,” but really the man to blame was Lucas for making such an awful piece of shit. Even Natalie Portman was terrible in that movie, as much as it pains me to actually type that (sorry, Nat, te amo).
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The Clone Wars wasn’t any better, Yoda going off on Count Dooku with a lightsaber notwithstanding. I still haven’t even seen Episode III. I skipped it in the theater, on principal of course, and the DVD that my parents purchased me for Christmas one year still sits sealed in a drawer. I keep telling myself I’ll watch it. One day. It’s just... You know, it’s still just too painful right now. You know, though, I wouldn’t have been so upset if I didn’t love the jerky bastard so much. I mean, Lucas created Indiana Jones! Luke Skywalker! R2-fuckin’-D2! My life would be much sadder than it already is if it wasn’t for these characters, so I’m forever grateful. And it’s nice to see Lucas pass the torch on to another generation. Plans for a new Star Wars movie are already underway, with Lucas serving as a consultant, but producer Kathy Kennedy will be entrusted with the beloved franchise, according to Foxnews.com. The same article stated that Lucas will be putting his future efforts into smaller, more personal films, and will also spend more time working on his educational foundation (The George Lucas Educational Foundation), which is dedicated to improving the K through 12 learning process. The sale of Lucasfilm will in part benefit the organization, which makes me feel like a big ol’ jerk for talking smack about the man. So everyone wins, right? Education benefits, Lucas gets to make films that mean something to him and Disney mutates even further into a media creature akin to Tetsuo at the end of Akira. But one writer for The Deal wondered whether or not the purchase made sense for Disney. As it was a privately held company, Lucasfilm did not bring with it a glut of shareholder funds. Was it worth the money? The writer of the article seems to think it will pay off in the long term. But I’m not sure this is something that can really be measured in money. I mean, Disney now employs Mickey Mouse, Spider-Man and Darth Vader. With an impressive lineup of inspiring characters like that, they should easily be able to float a deadbeat like Jar Jar Binks, not to mention a whole shit-ton of Ewoks.
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