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Melissa welliver melissa@submergemag.com The other week the U.S. Department of Justice attorneys announced that they were going to crackdown on medical marijuana dispensaries. This announcement has really hit home, and it’s affecting not only us here at Submerge, but several people (and businesses) we know personally.

This aggressive crackdown is leaving thousands of people unsure if they’re going to have jobs, if they’re going to be able to pay their mortgages, rent, car payments, etc., in a time when people are still struggling to find jobs and stay employed.

During a time when our economy is a fickle beast, one thing is for sure: the dispensaries have been creating new jobs and revenue in a time when people (and our city) need it the most. We at Submerge can honestly say that if it wasn’t for these dispensaries supporting us via advertising, we don’t think we could have survived past 2009.

By no means are we experts on the matter. The laws and regulations seem extremely complicated, but the scare tactics that the Fed is putting upon all the dispensaries right now are a bit ridiculous. They claim to be targeting “significant commercial operations,” but that’s not what I’ve been hearing from people we know in the local medical marijuana community.

And according to local lobbyist Max Del Real who was recently on Insight on Capital Public Radio on Oct. 13 discussing this issue, his clients in the Sacramento region are in fact following all the laws and they are licensed, legit dispensaries but are still being sought after and are being threatened to be shut down.

All in all, I get it. Like with any community, there are some bad seeds out there that need to be weeded out (pun intended). Yeah, sure, go after the people who are breaking the laws and abusing the California mandate. But instead of this aggressive attack strategy (I say fear mongering), we wish the federal government and the medical marijuana industry could work together to create regulations and federal mandates so that everyone who is being affected by this can get a sense of stability once and for all.

Whether or not you use marijuana for medical reasons or for recreational purposes, or even if you don’t use it at all (I personally don’t), there is no denying the fact that these dispensaries are creating real jobs and real revenue for the city (via fees, taxes, permits, etc.), so why would the government want to crack down on a growing sector of the economy? It frankly just doesn’t make any sense and there are surely far more important matters our U.S. attorneys could be looking into. If you agree, take action!

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In what may be the most bizarre story ever involving a local musician, J.P. Hunter of the local sleaze-rock outfit Get Shot! went on record early last week admitting that he was in fact the man who threw the infamous hot dog at Tiger Woods at the Frys.com Open golf tournament last weekend in San Martin, Calif., a stunt that made national news. Hunter did numerous radio interviews including one that I caught on Oct. 11 on the widely listened-to Mark & Brian program, where he explained that his band had a show in Reno, Nev., the night before and that he’d been “drinking Jameson all day” and that he and a band mate got free passes to the tournament from some girls while hanging out at a Starbucks.

“I just kept on drinking and drinking,” Hunter told Mark & Brian. “I was surprised I got past security,” he said. The interview lasted a few minutes and was rather light-hearted and funny and Hunter got to, of course, plug his band while explaining why he allegedly threw a wiener at the world’s most famous golfer. Where this story takes a weird turn, as if it isn’t already odd enough, is that just a couple days later a multitude of legit news outlets from all over started reporting that the hot dog thrower wasn’t Hunter of the band Get Shot! at all, it was instead 31-year-old Brandon Kelly of Petaluma, Calif.

Numerous sources confirmed it and Kelly did a number of interviews himself where he shared that the movie Drive, of all things, inspired his hot dog chuck at Tiger. After scrounging up video of the incident on YouTube (search “Spectator throws hot dog at Tiger Woods”), it’s quite apparent that it’s not Hunter throwing the dog.

The dude on the video is husky and has a full head of hair; Hunter is skinnier and has a shaved head. Either way, hot dog toss or not, you’ve got to admit that it was a pretty genius way for Hunter to plug his band and get tons of free press via major radio outlets. Catch Get Shot! live on Friday, Oct. 28 at Distillery alongside The Number 13, The Left Hand, The Crunchees and Stalking Distance. Show starts at 10 p.m., is $6 and only 21-and-over are allowed. Expect things to get weird, as they tend to do during Get Shot! shows. Hunter told Mark & Brian during his (fake) interview, “At our shows, we throw a lot more than hot dogs at the crowd.” And there you go, Get Shot!, even more free press.

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Sacramento producer and recording engineer Jay Trammell, who owns and operates Fat Cat Recording Studio, recently landed parts of his dub step track called “Behemoth” in a TV trailer ad for the upcoming film In Time starring Justin Timberlake. And if that wasn’t enough, Trammell also has two of his tracks (“Behemoth” and “Tactical Dominance”) in a trailer for the highly anticipated Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 video game. Basically, Trammell is killing it and we here at Submerge could not be more stoked for the guy. He’s a great producer and an even better all-around dude.

One of Sacramento’s best rock bands (not metal, screamo, or indie, just straight up rock), Prieta, is apparently calling it quits after many years and many dollars spent trying to get their name out in this region and beyond. In late September the band posted on their Facebook page that they are “tired” and “cranky,” saying that they are like “If a grumpy old man were a band.” They continued with, “So we’re going to step back for a while. Maybe forever. Don’t worry, we’re all fine, we’re still good buddies, but there’s other things for us to try and experience.” They had originally scheduled their farewell show at Harlow’s for an October date, but due to a band member’s recent injury they have pushed it back to December.

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October is the perfect month to check out some horror films and there’s a few good ones coming out soon (or that have already premiered) in theaters.

The Thing opened last week (Antarctica research site, frozen alien craft is discovered, some sort of crazy alien monster is awoken), Wrong Turn 4 comes out on DVD and Blu-ray on Oct. 25 (group of friends go snowmobiling on winter break, take a “wrong turn” and get lost and presumably suffer grotesque, unthinkable deaths), Paranormal Activity 3 drops on Oct. 21 (set in 1988, two young sisters Katie and Kristi befriend an invisible entity who resides in their home and all hell breaks loose), and Red State also comes out on Oct. 21 (set in Middle America, a group of teens receive an online invitation for sex, but they soon encounter fundamentalists with a much more sinister agenda).

Whether you’re taking a date or a group of your buddies, get out there and enjoy a scary flick or two this month!

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There’s also a 100-seat “ScreamMax” theater where you can catch a 25-minute 3-D movie featuring “spectacular 3-D effects and a frightful soundtrack.” There really is something to scare everyone, even you tough guys out there, at this hell-ish (in a good way) theme park. Claustrophobic? You might want to avoid Blackout!, where you really can’t see shit and there are “hidden scares.” Hate clowns? Stay the heck away from the Psycho Midway! All Fright Planet cast members—there are a whopping 150 of them—have to go through a formal audition process and attend “Scare School” before they step foot into a haunted house to scare you and your friends. Their set painter is even a retired Disneyland artist, so everything looks realistic. Fright Planet is open now until Nov. 2, check their website for times and for tickets (which range in price from $19.95 to $35) call 1-866-666-1313 or visit Frightplanet.com.

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Grab some pumpkins to carve and get lost in a giant corn maze at Dave’s Pumpkin Patch Dave’s Pumpkin Patch in West Sacramento is just minutes from downtown Sacramento and is the only full-sized themed corn maze in the area. Grab some pumpkins to take home and carve and stay past sundown and venture into the corn maze. Every Friday and Saturday night in October, Fright Night will even “haunt” the maze with some of their actors all dressed up in character, as if getting lost in a giant corn maze when it’s pitch black isn’t freaky enough. Don’t forget your flashlights (unless you are really hardcore). Also notable: Oct. 21 is their movie night, Oct. 22 is their costume contest and on weekends they do their “Punkin’ Chunkin” every so often where they cannon pumpkins over 500 yards through the air! Take an old-fashioned hay ride, get your little ones’ faces painted, watch pig races and more. Dave’s Pumpkin Patch is located at 3010 Burrows Avenue, West Sacramento and can be reached at (916) 849-9450 or online via Davespumpkinpatch.com.

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Things that Go Bump in the Night The Sacramento Horror Film Festival returns to swallow your soul Words Amy Serna

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amsters can make the perfect family pet. They are very cute, very fuzzy and very thirsty for human flesh. The fluffy monsters will kill your friends and terrorize your neighborhood as they cackle and stare into your soul with their beady red eyes. If you turn your back on them, they will eat you from the inside out, showing no mercy. At least they will according to Tim Meunier’s favorite short horror film, Night of the Hell Hamsters. This cheesy horror film, along with hundreds of other frightening flicks, is part of the Sacramento Horror Film Festival, a four-day event that is ready to kick off Halloween. But this is not your average film festival; not only is it fully loaded with independent films, it also contains shorts, documentaries, music videos, animations, live music and even the Zombie Beauty Pageant.

Since 2007, Meunier, the founder, director, programmer and head of staff of the popular growing festival, somehow finds time

to work a full-time job and view every single horror film that is entered into the festival—all 4,800 of them!

“I watch every film that rolls through the doors and as soon as the festival is over, I start accepting entries again. So it’s a yearlong process,” Meunier said over the phone after working a long, “chaotic” day. “Of course a lot of people wait until the last minute so it gets a little hectic.”

Throughout the year of watching those flicks, Meunier’s trained eye looks past the blood, guts and killer hamsters to catch the numerous aspects of each film. He watches for production quality, editing, acting, direction and most importantly originality of the storyline.

“My goal in the festival is to show entertaining films that you are going to remember and to promote new talent that can hopefully move on to make bigger films,” he added. “Every movie in the festival I am a personal fan of and I think that somebody

will like it because I liked it.”

But in a dwindling economy, this horror film lover struggles with cash flow. After five years of finding cash sponsors to support the event, this will be the first year that the entire four days of horror will be funded by Meunier himself. He and his staff also struggle to find appropriate places to advertise for the event.

“We’ve been turned away from some businesses because of the type of event. We get treated like the unwanted child of the film festival community,” he said.

Advertisers might be hard to find these days, but the fans are not. Meunier and his staff have garnered a following called the “little horror family” in the Sacramento area. The turnout for the festival has ranged from 1,000 to 2,500 people for one weekend. “It’s like a reunion every year for some of these people and it feels good. We have some die-hard fans.” Every year the staff can expect to see the same faces returning to

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support the festival. In the past, one Sacramento resident parked his RV in the parking lot in order to be the first person in line for the films and entertainment.

“Our crowd is the Horror Film Festival. I don’t know what it is or if it’s something they put in the popcorn, but we have very vocal crowds, they are very boisterous. It’s almost like all day is a midnight screening,” Meunier said. “It’s not your typical film festival environment.”

The Sacramento Horror Film Festival is one of the many horror related events that have a similar fan base in the Sacramento area, including Trash Film Orgy, Vampire Ball, Rocky Horror Picture Show and Evil Dead: The Musical. “I wouldn’t be able to be doing what I’m doing today without the support of a lot these other groups. I give them props and shout outs,” Meunier said. “Without them I don’t know if I would have had a following. My fans are their fans and their fans are our fans.”

The horror family for the film festival has found a “cozy little joint” to call home at the historical Colonial Theatre. The atmosphere of the old venue speaks for itself. “It’s a one-screen theater, and they have pro-wrestling matches there every month. So sometimes the concrete is a little red-stained from whatever matches they had. It has a creepy, rough environment, so it’s very fitting.”

In the beginning, the idea of the festival started off with Tim doing a little research and asking questions of film festival directors around the country, including Greg Ropp, president of the Eerie Horror Film Festival in Pennsylvania and Nathan Schemel, local director of the Sacramento Film and Music Festival. “When I first started I didn’t know there wasn’t a horror film festival in town,” Meuinier said. “I just Googled stuff. I wasn’t involved in the film community that much, I didn’t know if there was a demand for it.

I didn’t know if five people were going to show up or 500 people were going to show up.” As a former paranormal activity group member, Meunier found friends that were willing to help out with the cause and after five years he has kept the majority of the same staff members. Over the years, the 32-year-old has learned that some of the best independent or big screen horror flicks have some of the lowest budgets behind them. “A lot of these films require using friends and family. It’s like, ‘Hey mom, do you want to get killed in this scene?’ Even the big Hollywood horror films are

nowhere near the budget of the Avatar’s. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a $150 million horror film,” he said. “But it’s great practice for independent filmmakers to make low-budget films, because they are still going to have to cut corners, even if they make it big.”

Whether it’s Nightmare on Elm Street or Night of the Hell Hamsters, the Sacramento Horror Film Festival wants to leave you with one thought: that horror films are made for an audience to scream at, jump at and even laugh at. “When I get scared I love it.

It’s like a drug to me. I don’t drink, I don’t do drugs, I’m addicted to horror. It should never be taken seriously. To me it’s the fun house mirror of society. It’s taking real issues and giving a funny take on it, a unique take, splashing some fake blood on the situation, or amplifying the situation to make it easier to deal with. That’s what the horror film is.”

“When I get scared I love it. It’s like a drug to me. I don’t drink, I don’t do drugs, I’m addicted to horror.”

– Tim Meunier, Sacramento Horror Film Festival

The Sacramento Horror Film Festival takes over the Colonial Theatre from Oct. 20–23. Tickets for each event can be purchased a la carte at the door for $10 or an all-events pass will cost just $30. For a full rundown of all that the SHFF has to offer, or to purchase an all-events pass, go to Sachorrorfilmfest.com.

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The Optimistic Pessimist Popular Uprisings Bocephus Chigger bocephus@submergemag.com There’s a war going on outside that no man is safe from. The rich have destroyed the economy, eliminated jobs and hoarded cash.

Now the jobless masses created by the rich have begun demonstrating on Wall Street and in other cities across America. Fox News has officially proclaimed it class warfare, and we are deep in the shit.

The rich have done everything they can so far to cut off any source of funds for the poor to use in their struggles. They’ve laid us off, sent our jobs overseas, prevented their banks from lending us money, gouged us with fees and foreclosed on our homes. In retaliation, the poor have asked the president to raise taxes on people making more than $1 million per year and to enact some laws that will prevent another economic collapse. Clearly the poor have overstepped their bounds and have welcomed the wrath of the right.

Members of the Tea Party have come out against this class warfare because it’s Socialism, damn it! If only there was a lesson from history where a country was born out of a struggle between classes over freedom for every person, whether they be white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant or male. You know, something that maybe 234 years later, a group of real patriots could get together and name themselves after.

The Boston TEA PARTY of 1773 was essentially class warfare. The revolution that led to the founding of this country in 1776 began as a protest against excessive taxes, taxes that the colonists felt were being used to prop up the monarchy (the “wealthy”) while the lowly commoners (the “poor”) toiled away for the king. The colonists recognized they weren’t receiving their fair share and did something about it. So they got a bunch of guns, formed an army and killed lots of British people.

Less than 100 years later we had another class war. By 1860, many Americans had forgotten how shitty it was to be controlled by others. The wealthy landowners had imported nearly one-third of the total U.S. population to work as slaves. The country was torn over whether the practice should be allowed to continue. The Civil War was a war about class.

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Sure, it was about freeing slaves, but it was also a check on the upper classes’ blatant exploitation of the poor. A million deaths later and the country was still here.

The wealthy couldn’t literally own people anymore, but they could do almost all the same shit if they shelled out a nowhere near livable wage to each employee. When they weren’t paying their employees chump change, the wealthy factory owners were doing everything in their power to squeeze another penny out of the available workforce. Adults too expensive? Try using children! Why have eight-hour shifts, when you can literally work people to death 24 hours a day in dangerously toxic environments? Everyone claims to hate unions now, but without them, the poor would still be working under these conditions today.

This latest round of conflict has us once again asking why the haves have so much while the have-nots have so little. The Tea Party actually began with this question, but seems to have quickly lost sight of the prize.

While the Tea Baggers focus on whether we should get rid of our government, our Mexicans and/or our gays, the supporters of #OccupyWallStreet have gathered in several cities to ask that the concerns of 99 percent of the country be addressed.

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Don’t Mind the Dark

Garrett Pierce taps the healing powers of lyrics on his new EP Words Jenn Walker • photos Christopher Greco

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nvision sitting on a boat along a murky jungle river in a downpour of a storm in Guatemala, watching the river boat captain try to navigate the boat, except for the fact that he is lost.

This wouldn’t seem like a time for laughter.

But for semi-local songwriter Garrett Pierce, the moment could not have been more perfect.

“I just started laughing. It’s one of those epiphany moments where things that were built up from my time in San Francisco were just kind of built up and went down that water,” he remembers.

These are the heavy emotions that often play out in Pierce’s songs.

This October, Pierce is releasing a four-song collection on the EP Everybody Breaks under Narnack Records, which will be followed by his full-length City of Sands, which is set for release in January or February 2012.

Everybody Breaks is both melancholic and uplifting. At times it feels like reading a diary in the gray of winter. “In Silence” is sung over the sound of a warped organ, while “Shape Us Like Waves” is a rich composition in which Pierce sings, “We are people of the coast, so we know that the waves can break if we make it so,” in a dreary ode to the Bay. What has been a constant is Pierce’s passion for writing. His musical beginnings were fostered in Southern California, starting when his dad bought him his first acoustic guitar around age 12.

“The first thing I did was write, which was very strange. He wanted me to take lessons and learn blues guitar, but I had no interest in shredding, I guess. I just wanted to write,” he said. “It hasn’t really changed since then.”

Growing up in what is considered either the armpit or artistic mecca of California, depending upon your outlook, Pierce has immersed himself into music from a young age.

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First he went through a grunge phase that morphed into a hard rock phase by the time he joined a rock band in high school.

Pierce remembers when he first dabbled with writing acoustic-based songs after moving back to Los Angeles.

“Everybody was trying to be Jewel or John Mayer or something on the acoustic guitar, and it was a terrible time for me because I had all these songs. I just didn’t feel like I had an audience yet,” he said.

It was during this time that a friend invited Pierce to move to Davis to start playing music.

He laughed at the question and asked, “Why on Earth would I move from L.A. to Davis?”

As it turned out, he said it ended up being the best move of his life. He established his roots as a songwriter and connected with the likes of Davis experimental indie band Sholi as well as Michael Leahy, a KDVS host and founder of Crossbill Records, which would eventually put out Pierce’s first two albums, Like a Moth and All Masks.

“L.A. was not the place for me, there was just all these people trying to cut you record contracts down there,” he said.

Davis provided something that L.A. didn’t. There was a tight-knit musical community and he could play his songs where people would listen to him as a songwriter. And it was at this time that other lyrically creative, acoustic-based performers like Joanna Newsom and Devendra Banhart began to garner attention in the music world.

“That was just a totally great time to be playing music,” he said.

Nowadays, Pierce finds himself again adjusting to new territory, this time in Sonoma.

When Submerge caught up with Pierce over the phone, he had just gone for a five-mile run through the oaks and pines.

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It sounds like you’re an advocate of having strong lyrical content.

Oh yeah, that’s the biggest thing for me. It doesn’t mean I don’t listen to music that doesn’t have lyrics. Thirty Three is one of my favorite bands, and they don’t have a singer.

For me, it’s really important that people who are interested in my music think of it first as a lyrically based form, that writers are my biggest influences, taking from people like Steinbeck and Richard Wright, they are my biggest influences… Lyrics are huge, and shaping the right mood of the song around the lyrics is the most important thing.

Everybody Breaks struck a chord with me, both the EP as well as the song. You said some of these songs are older, but I was interested in knowing what you were feeling at the time you wrote “Everybody Breaks.”

That’s a tough one. I was talking to Nathan, our publicist, and just describing the songs to him, and I realized that the EP sounds pretty and it sounds uplifting even at times, but the lyrical content is on the darker side. I was thinking of long-term relationships and thinking about the body breaking down and all these dark feelings started coming together into one mass.

I was listening to a lot of John Jacob Niles, an old soul folk singer, and my buddy who is Ellie Fortune, they both have this really nice, rootsy, folk guitar playing style. So I based the vibe of the song around this sparse guitar picking, and then the lyrics were just trying to lift me out of a funk of just thinking about the end of things.

And what about “A Bus in Africa?”

I was listening to NPR, and I heard this horrendous story, about—I think it took place in Uganda, if I’m correct—about this group of people in a bus who got pulled to the side by child soldiers, and pulled out of the bus and taken out at gunpoint, and people were put underneath the bus, and the bus driver was [forced] to get back in and run over the people, over and over. It was the most disturbing thing I had heard all year, and I couldn’t get it out my head, the image was terrifying to me.

For me, it’s harder to talk about those things sometimes. You don’t just want to bring it up in a conversation like that with your friends.

So I take myself to a place where I can find out what was really happening in the minds of some of those people on the bus. It’s a firstperson account, for some reason it’s the only way I could think to write it, and the chorus, like a lot of my songs, it’s not purely dark.

The chorus has this amazing, positive chant, “That’s what love is for.” And it sounds very strange in juxtaposition to the lyrics that talk about these bandits that are killing everybody.

But this person [has] this mantra of love for his family and why you need to have love so you don’t turn into these monsters that were taking the lives of people around them.

“For me, it’s really important that people who are interested in my music think of it first as a lyrically based form, that writers are my biggest influence, taking from people like Steinbeck and Richard Wright, they are my biggest influences… Lyrics are huge, and shaping the right mood of the song around the lyrics is the most important thing.”

– Garrett Pierce You were in an experimental noise band, 60 Watt Kid… [Laughs] You have done some pretty good research. Where did you get that information from?

It’s amazing the things you find online. It looks like you were the drummer, and I listened to it, and I thought, “Man, what prompted this drastic change from you being in an experimental noise band to being a folk singer/songwriter?”

Well, actually those were concurrent. I was still playing plenty of solo stuff, but my whole goal when I moved to San Francisco was to be able to play my own music and kind of make a living from it… I just ran into them randomly at a bar in Oakland, and they said they were looking to hang out with new people and play music. He and this guy Derek had started this band 60 Watt Kid, and I invited them to play a couple shows with me. They were looking for a drummer, and I said, “Hey, I think I know how to play drums. And I’ll play with you guys until you find somebody.” And we just ended up clicking really well. The songs actually started more acoustic-based. We were like a lot of people at the time, we were listening to a lot of Animal Collective and it definitely showed in some of the earlier recordings.

And then it just kind of got crazy… We would play characters on stage too, and dress up in sparkly weirdness. And I would kind of go caveman crazy on the drums. I was playing all four toms and a cymbal, and a tambourine around my ankle. It was not very complicated drumming, it was that caveman tribal stuff. It was so good to be physical, and we would break stuff and yell at each other’s faces. It was more Andy Kaufman, honestly. It was wild and it was so much better than standing with an acoustic guitar for me, for a little bit. It was a performance aspect I had missed since I was in rock bands in high school.

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That’s Amore Devine Gelateria and Café 1221 19th Street, Sacramento Words Adam Saake photos nicolas wray

Devine Gelateria and Café has real charm. Not plastic charm or something diluted and painted on, but genuine warmth that is defined by the people (and pets) that run the business. When you enter through the heavy wooden doors and Emma, the “retired” dachshund-turned-Devine-greeter, trots to meet you and owners Elizabeth and Brian MeCleary smile and offer you a sample of their house-made gelato, you know you’ve arrived at someplace special.

The path to Devine began roughly two years ago when husband Brian suggested to his wife, who was already an experienced self-taught baker, that she should attend a school in Italy he had read about that offered courses in how to make gelato.

“It’s called Carpigiani [Gelato University] and they’re a leading manufacturer of the production equipment used to make gelato,” says Elizabeth.

It wasn’t baking, but a bakery wasn’t something that Elizabeth was looking for. The hours for that kind of undertaking weren’t very attractive. Brian encouraged her, saying that “it’s not baking but you’ll at least get a little formal training and who knows what you’ll learn.” That and her arm need not be twisted too far to go spend a month in Italy, immersed in gelato. She took her mother, with whom she lived in an apartment, and for a month she enjoyed the Italian lifestyle, learned how to make highquality gelato and studied what Italy was doing in their cafés.

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“When I was over there, I visited a lot of the gelateria, or what they call bars and we call cafés,” says Elizabeth. “They were offering typical café [fare] , which is panini sandwich and soup, gelato, some sort of baked good and coffee. So I thought, you know what, I’m going to open an authentic, basically a gelateria, or Italian bar that offers these four main items and bring them to Sacramento.”

Two years later, after careful planning and hoop jumping, the doors opened to Devine and the vision of what her bar would be became exactly that. Inside the historic building, exposed beams and bricks lay way to a deli case full of 15-some-odd flavors, depending on the day, that range from the classic mascarpone to pistachio to chocolate salty peanut with caramel. Every flavor is good; I mean every one. Elizabeth handed sample after sample over the counter, each one so authentic and rich in flavors and made fresh that day. Gelato tends to be more intense in this way because it has a lower fat content than ice cream, so you get less coating in the mouth feel and more depth to the flavors.

Something like the ricotta honey fig isn’t just like eating an ice cream cone; each bite is an experience and Elizabeth’s ideas just keep growing. Look out for a seasonal pumpkin cheesecake, a blackberry raspberry port or a sure-to-be Sacramento hit, dark chocolate and whiskey with a raspberry puree.

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made—or doing well.

“I’m really trying to get people to know that I’m more than just gelato,” says Elizabeth.

Her baking roots have also found a home, and peppered along the counter are pie cases full of fresh baked goods like different biscotti, Meyer lemon bread pudding, almond frangipane, shortbreads, cookies and tarts. A cappuccino made from local coffee roaster Temple can accompany your visit, or if you’re a bit more hungry, Devine has freshly made soups and a panini line that was created special for the shop. The soups change daily but expect to see all the seasonal goodness of fall and winter including a cream of mushroom that was bursting with thyme and bay leaf and made the rainy afternoon seem bearable.

Devine is a comfortable place to hang out, too, with a quiet and secluded back patio that is only interrupted by the Sacramento sounds of passing trains. The state workers and busy weekend night life that flock to Zocalo, 58 Degrees, Paesano’s and many others in the area will undoubtedly become devout followers of Elizabeth’s tasty confections. This may sound corny, but there’s something to be said about food that’s made with love and each item at Devine is packed with lots of it. It’s what makes Elizabeth and her business what they are.

“I love it when people love what I make,” says Elizabeth.

And no doubt, Sacramento will feel the love.

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Dirty Work

DJ Whores keeps the Grimey party live at the Townhouse Words Blake Gillespie • PHotos Nicholas Wray

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Both clubs are infamous alternatives to the posh world of dress codes and bottle service.

At Townhouse, or Toho as some call it, the beer’s cheap, the drinks are stiff, the tagged-up bathrooms are claustrophobic and the entire interior is low-lit to obscure seedy behavior. It’s the only spot in town suitable for a dubstep and bass night called Grimey. Being coined by a local DJ who goes by Whores is just another notch in its anti-glamour esteem.

On his birth certificate, Whores is Daniel Osterhoff. He’s Dan to those who knew him before he was Whores. We met at his apartment on the north side of Midtown a few hours prior to Grimey. He does not live in a high-rise loft or a gutted warehouse that doubles as a skate park.

He lives like the rest of us, in a modest complex with carpeted floors and enough space to stretch. Two fellow DJs, one of which was Jubilee just flown in from Miami, and Grimey resident photographer Eric Two Percent were hanging out. The walls were like those you'd find at any graf-writer/graphic designer’s abode; dozens of pieces from abstract to lowbrow with the exception being a giant rusted-red W mounted on the wall.

“Russell Solomon of Tower told me the letters were lying around on the roof of Tower Café,” Whores said. “So one night I climbed up there and took the W.” While grabbing me a Red Bull from the fridge he apologized for the hair on the kitchen floor. A stylist friend that was hanging out had sharpened Whores’ close-cut before my arrival.

We stepped outside for a cigarette and chopped it up. It was not long before James Blake's controversial quotes to the Boston Phoenix that caused a stir in dubstep were discussed. An uber-popular British electrosoul and dubstep artist, Blake railed the genre’s burgeoning “frat-boy market,” which is being labeled “bro-step.” His rant was widely publicized for statements like, “It’s a million miles away from where dubstep started,” and “It’s been influenced so much by electro and rave, into who can make the dirtiest, filthiest bass sound, almost like a pissing competition, and that’s not really necessary. And I just think that largely that is not going to appeal to women.”

Periodically throughout the night, Whores and his fellow DJs coolly reminded me that it’s neither their taste nor in step with the identity of Grimey.

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attention to taste, which can be misperceived as snobbery, but should not be construed as such. Even when resident DJ Jay Two approached Whores with the idea of a dubstep night, Whores was interested but hesitant due to a feeling that dubstep had reached its high water mark.

An attendee of Grimey is not given the opportunity to gripe “not this damn song again,” because its resident DJs (Whores, Jay Two and Crescendo) are intent on remaining ahead of the curve by playing records acquired on advance or playing the newest tracks they think need to be heard. It’s a dedication to the cutting edge that is scarce in the local clubs that rely on Top 40 or are just held down by stubborn old dogs disinterested in new tricks.

“I just hold steady with playing what I think people would like,” Whores said. “I’ve attended a lot of different dance nights everywhere from New York to Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco and Oakland. From the most underground to the most mainstream clubs, and I’ve taken little elements from each. But once you get the word out there, the word kind of does it itself.”

Much like fellow local veteran DJ, Shaun Slaughter, Whores is well traveled. He started DJing in 1997 as part of 916 Junglist before moving away in 2000 to Portland. Each move, he connected with different crews in Portland and Seattle before moving back to Sacramento in 2005. “Most people don’t know that about me,” he said. “They just think I came on the scene or think I’m from Portland, but I’m born and raised in Northern California.”

I reconvened with Whores outside of the Townhouse around 9:30 p.m. He was talking with Matt B of Bass Science, who had arrived in a rental from Tahoe. Whores was quick to share his knowledge on Bass Science, practically orating a short bio. “He started the whole glitch hop scene basically,” Whores said. “When Glitch Mob was starting out and Lazer Sword, he was right there.

This guy’s got quite a big history in the newer EDM alternative craze.”

All professions have a language and despite my familiarity with Grimey and its music, talking to the actual artists involved meant brief interruptions to ask if they were saying “IDM” (intelligent dance music) funny, only to learn that EDM translates to electronic dance music—the domain in which the sub-genres operate. The confusion then sparked the two DJs into weighing the blurring sciences between EDM and IDM. “Some of it is [IDM] though nowadays,” Whores said. “Some of the juke stuff. Machinedrum’s new album.”

“The Lazer Sword,” Matt B added. “It’s intelligent footwork basically.”

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“EDM is basically a very blanketed term,” Whores continued. “Nowadays everybody plays a little bit of everything because people’s attention spans are about this small [makes his index and thumb nearly touch]. So if you play one genre of music, you’re pretty much pigeonholing yourself and boring the shit out of the crowd.”

Whores stepped into the booth at 10 p.m. The bar was filling out and overflowing onto the dance floor with more than just gangly dudes having acid flashbacks from the Jungle club days. Whether it’s the Whores hype, the distancing from “bro-step” and “filthy bass” or just a misnomer, Grimey is never short on female attendees. By 10:30 p.m. the dance floor was gaining steam with a few girls entertaining each other, but come 11 p.m. to 2 a.m. the floor was a grinding, thrusting hot box of sweaty bodies—sweet, sweet uninhibited decadence.

Whores neither bores the crowd nor himself when he DJs. He keeps a folder of over 10,000 tracks on his computer at all times and does not practice a strict set. “It’s a lot more fun freestyling sets,” he said.

“Sometimes when I record the sets and go back to listen to them, it’s like, ‘Man, that mix really worked.’

Others it really didn’t work, but what it comes down to is if you’re a professional, you can treat it like a jazz musician and play out of it. It’s all what you do with an error. Some DJs don’t know how to bounce back, they flop or they panic and that shows. That’s the difference between me and some DJ who took it up two years ago.”

Back outside we resumed our interview session in hopes of a quieter haven, but Grimey is the dance night with just as many attendees milling about the roped-off outdoor smoking section and back parking lot as there will be jammed into the dank of The Toho.

Whores clearly enjoys the popularity of Grimey, but he lamented that its success led to the compromise of his HUMP night on Wednesdays opposite Grimey. Originally called Warpaint Wednesdays with Terra Lopez, Whores came on to assist with the DJing and teach her techniques. Once Lopez began Sister Crayon, she forked over the night to Whores who renamed it HUMP. “It used to be a popular night,” he said. “When Grimey came around it took the spotlight. I’ve been bringing around a lot of relative and instrumental electronic artists and musicians to try to bring it back.”

It was none of my business, but Whores willingly broke down the financial losses he's incurred in the past two months that’s led to HUMP’s demise. DJs that

are not conveniently touring the West Coast are flown into Sacramento and given hotel accommodations on Whores’ dollar. If no one shows, it means he bites the bullet.

San Francisco electronic artist EPROM and Frite Nite’s Salva, two rising beacons in the West Coast, are booked for HUMP at the Press Club this week. After that it’s the anniversary party with locals only in November, including Dusty Brown’s Little Foxes project, which is quite possibly also HUMP’s night of eulogy.

With Fuck Fridays dissolved, the Toho was in need of a new Friday night event, and Shaun Slaughter was back on the market for work. Rather than compete for the local crown, Whores and Slaughter teamed up to create Heater, an exclusive once-a-month party that combines glitter and gutter. “It’s more like HUMP with an open format,” Whores said. “We can play anything from house to electro to Baltimore to indie to dubstep and bass n’ breaks, whatever. It’s just straight party.”

The party debuted last month with the two DJs performing separately, and then trading off tracks for the last hour. “There’s always been an odd tension between us, but we’ve always been super-friendly with each other. I’ve been super-supportive of his nights and he’s been super-supportive of mine. The odd tension was because it’s a small town and he’s held the crown for quite a while. I think we’d really benefit if we did more stuff together, which is why we’re only doing it as a monthly.”

Our vibrations are in good hands with the Grimey residents. It’s a rare event where making requests is the greatest faux pas. “I don’t think it’s common knowledge that people know it’s rude,” he said.

“Believe it or not, I have one job and one job only and that’s keep the vibe going. As soon as I stop to talk to someone and they go into detail about what they want to hear and why they want to hear it, all of a sudden they take me out of the groove I’m in, which takes away from the vibe. The next mix I do will be less involved and the crowd will notice, believe it or not. They won’t necessarily think about it like, ‘That mix sucked,’ but just have a moment to consider going out for a smoke.”

Put your trust in Grimey gets down at the Whores, kids.

Townhouse every other Tuesday night at 9 p.m. ($10 cover). DJ Whores and Shaun Slaughter’s Heater happens one Friday per month, also at the Townhouse, the next night being Oct. 21.

It’s free to get in before 10 p.m. with an RSVP. You can also catch DJ Whores at the Golden Bear on Saturday nights.

“Sometimes when I record the sets and go back to listen to them, it’s like, ‘Man, that mix really worked.’ Others it really didn’t work, but what it comes down to is if you’re a professional, you can treat it like a jazz musician and play out of it. It’s all what you do with an error. Some DJs don’t know how to bounce back, they flop or they panic and that shows. That’s the difference between me and some DJ who took it up two years ago.” – DJ Whores

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Old Beast Learns New Tricks Mastodon thunders across the United States on strength of The Hunter Words James Barone • PHoto cindy frey

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ver the past decade, Mastodon has established itself as one of the premier forces in American metal. Among critics and fans, the Atlanta-based band has become as huge and monolithic as its name suggests. In 2009, Mastodon showed once again that it had brains equal to its brawn with the release of Crack the Skye, a soaring concept album (in a string of concept albums) in homage to drummer Brann Dailor’s sister Skye who took her own life when she was just 14. Crack the Skye was lauded by critics, and the accolades translated into sales as well. The album debuted at No. 11 on the Billboard Top 200 and also afforded the band the opportunity to tour Europe with Metallica, hit the road with grunge icons Alice in Chains as well as conduct their own headlining tours here and abroad. How would Mastodon follow up the success? Shake up the establishment, of course. They hired a producer better known for hip-hop than progressive sludge metal and ditched their penchant for high concepts to create their most straightforward and accessible album to date, The Hunter, released on Reprise Records Sept. 27, 2011. For those afraid that Mastodon may have Bob-Rocked themselves like their afforementioned European tour mates, fear not. This is not the Mastodon you know and love, but it packs just as mammoth a punch.

You won’t find a lot of math for math’s sake on The Hunter, but Mastodon’s sound is unmistakable. Opening track “Black Tongue” is the Mastodon you remember, just condensed into a roughly three-and-a-half minute burst of ferocity. From there, the album takes a sharp turn into “Curl of the Burl,” where Dailor and crew ditch the intricate progressions and time signature manipulations for heavy-riffed southern-fried rock. What follows is space-age weirdness (“Stargasm”) seated at the same table as beautifully wrought metal epics (the title track). What becomes apparent from listening to The Hunter is that Mastodon are as capable as ever, even when they’re not going out of their way to flaunt their impressive chops.

Submerge had the opportunity to interview Dailor while the band was in preparations for their upcoming headlining U.S. tour, which kicks off Oct. 25 in Austin, Texas. Dailor says that the band will be unleashing perhaps “the longest set list that we’ve done” at stops on the tour.

“We’re probably doing six or seven songs off the new record, and then a whole bunch of other ones,” he says. “I think we’re doing 23 or 24 songs total.”

Now five albums deep, Dailor says that the band has a lot of material to choose from making the decision of what makes the cut live more difficult, but the band doesn’t just take themselves into account when they hit the road. He explains that he and his band mates keep tabs on fan chatter on message boards and elsewhere to see which songs are getting the most reaction.

“When we’re writing an album, that’s for us,” Dailor explains. “We just try to concentrate on what we like. I feel like the show is more about the fans. It’s about us as well, we want to play the songs we like, but we make sure that we love the songs first and foremost when we put them on the record, but what people are responding to, we make sure to play those live.”

Mastodon will bludgeon through Sacramento on Nov. 2. In anticipation of the upcoming show, Dailor took some time to converse with us about The Hunter and gave us some insight into the making of it.

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I wanted to take it back to 2010 when you guys did the Jonah Hex soundtrack. I read in an interview that you said that was the first time you tried a spontaneous recording process like the one you tried with The Hunter. You said that it gave you guys the confidence to work that way. Why did you go more spontaneous with the Jonah Hex project as opposed to what you’d done in the past?

We didn’t have time to do anything but. We had two weeks in Los Angeles, in a studio, and we were just going in there every day and seeing what we could come up with. That was the plan from the beginning with that, because we really didn’t have time. We were on tour…we were in Europe for three months with Metallica, and we were pretty much fried. We had three weeks off between tour, and those three weeks were supposed to be us going home and chilling out because we’d just run ourselves through the wringer in Europe. Instead, we headed to L.A. …

There wasn’t a lot of time to sit and work stuff through for six months. It just wasn’t that type of thing. It was a lot of fun doing that, because you get used to doing things a certain way, and I don’t know if it’s superstition or whatever, but you get used to it because it’s worked in the past. We wanted it to be something that we dug and were proud of, but when you’re writing for a movie soundtrack, it’s not something you can get married to, because it’s not your decision if it gets used or not. It’s a different thing. You have to sort of write music and let it go. We were providing some riffage for their movie and handing it over, so to speak.

So it definitely wasn’t the same mindset you’d go into the studio with when you make a Mastodon record?

No, and that’s not to say that we weren’t going to put our stamp of approval for it, because we did enjoy some of the stuff that came out. But it wasn’t the same thing. A Mastodon album is a different thing. Even though I talked about the new record being more spontaneous—and it was, and I think the Jonah Hex thing did give us some confidence in ourselves that we could just write stuff on the spot and have it come out good—but it wasn’t the same thing. A lot more work went into The Hunter, obviously.

Some of The Hunter was written on the road with Alice in Chains. Was that something new for you guys?

Yeah, kind of. It’s happened a couple of times before. There have been some things that have been written that have come together in sound checks and stuff like that. Somebody will start jamming something and someone will start playing along, and we’ll all say, “Hold on, what’s that? Let’s make sure we don’t lose that. Are you going to remember that? Maybe we can record it real quick, because that’s awesome.” But this time wasn’t the first time, but it seemed like it was happening a lot more often. We had road crew that would go and grab the practice amps and set them up, and they’ll just be back there with a guitar plugged in ready to go… When Brent [Hinds, guitar/vocals] or Bill [Kelliher, guitar] wander back stage, and there’s a guitar and an amp set up and ready to play, they just pick it up and start playing. That started happening every Dive Into Sacramento & Its Surrounding Areas

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Crest Theatre Orla Fallon, 6:30 p.m.

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Naked Lounge Downtown The Solicitors, Doug Cash, Katie Hellwig, 8:30 p.m.

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Sol Collective Beats and Lumpia II w/ Digital Martyrs, Keno, Verbal Taktiks, PC & Kilo (of KNGDM), Ant Cheda of Anak, DJ Rated R, DJ Mr. Vibe, DJ Jun, Iso Skratch, DJ Flow, 6 p.m.

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UC Davis: Jackson Hall Rising Stars of Opera w/ UC Davis Symphony Orchestra, Adler Fellows, 8 p.m.

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Ace of Spades Zed’s Dead, Boggan, Crescendo, 7 p.m.

Black Sheep Casino Good Ol’ Boyz, Keak Da Sneak, San Quinn, Foothill Fam, California Bear Gang, Jon Wayne, Seanessy, Lyrical Vision, 8 p.m.

The Blue Lamp Petty Theft (Tom Petty tribute), Cherry Bomb (John Mellencamp tribute), 9 p.m.

The Boardwalk Kingdom Of Giants, June Breaks Bright, Social Syn, Early on the Morrow, The Will The Way, Maleya, 7 p.m.

The Boxing Donkey Ryan Hernandez, 9 p.m.

Center for the Arts Ludi Hinrichs’ ChickenBonz, 8 p.m.

Digitalis Studios Raw Dog, The FlipOffs, The Beer Lords, 9 p.m.

Distillery Chronaexus, Ninth Moon Black, Descendent, Cura Cochino, 10 p.m.

District 30 DJ Nate D, 9 p.m.

Fox & Goose The Bell Boys, The Paper Dolls, Gillian, Underwood, 9 p.m.

Golden Bear DJ Whores, 10 p.m.

Harrah’s Lake Tahoe Frank Sinatra Jr., 7:30 p.m.

Jackson Rancheria Casino The Marshall Tucker Band, 8 p.m.

John Natsoulas Gallery Davis Jazz & Beat Festival Roof Top After Party w/ Chikading!, Garage Jazz Architects, DJ Mike Rodriguez, 9:30 p.m.

Laughs Unlimited Fog (Friggin Old Guys), 4 p.m.

Luigi’s Fungarden Arts & Leisure, Nacho Business, Dreamdate, 8:30 p.m.

Luna’s Cafe Bob Woods w/ Pete Kmeto 8 p.m.

Marilyn’s The Ricky James Project, Iconoclast Robots, Zebulon, 9 p.m.

The Momo Lounge DJ Katz, 10 p.m.

Naked Lounge Downtown The Crash, Thimbles, Greenhouse/ Angela Davies, 8:30 p.m.

Old Ironsides Bucho!, In the Know, Crossing the River, 9 p.m.

Plea for Peace Center Symbolik, Toy Called God, Cast Iron Crow, Sound of War, Beyond All Ends, 7 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Superlicious, 10 p.m.

Press Club DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m.

Red Hawk Casino ESP Trio, 5 p.m.; Busta Groove, 10 p.m.

Shenanigans Mark Gilmore Benefit w/ Restrayned, Larisa Bryski, Turning Point, Self Centered, First Class Citizen, Andrus-Shively, 7 p.m.

Shine To Write Love On Her Arms Benefit w/ Autumn Sky and Friends, 7 p.m.

Swabbies on the River Rocktoberfest, 3 p.m.

T2 Nightclub & Lounge DJs & Dancing, 9 p.m.

Torch Club Johnny Guitar Knox, 5 p.m.; Midtown Creepers, 9 p.m.

Vega’s Stephanie Michelle, The Memphis Murder Men, Sour Diesel, 9 p.m.

ZuhG Life Store Jesi Naomi, Bad Connection, Shawn King, ZuhG, 1 p.m.

10.23 Sunday

The Blue Lamp The Soft Bombs, The Dramantics, Leilujh, 8 p.m.

The Boardwalk Impending Doom, Revocation, Nightmare in the Twilight, Awaiting the Apocalypse, Before You Fall, 6:30 p.m.

Capitol Garage Karaoke w/ Jeff Jenkins, 9 p.m.

Center for the Arts Alek­sey Igudes­ man and Hyung-ki Joo, 2 p.m.

Crocker Art Museum Classical Concert w/ Oni Buchanan (Piano), 3 p.m.

Distillery Karaoke, 8 p.m.

District 30 Sip Sundays w/ ZuhG, 9 p.m.

Laughs Unlimited Four Barrel, 3 p.m.

Naked Lounge Downtown Kris Tiner & Tinbag, Ross Hammond, 8:30 p.m.

Power Balance Pavilion The Lord of the Rings In Concert, 6 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Jimmy Warren, 3 p.m.; Blues Jam, 7 p.m.

Press Club Sunday Night Soul Party w/ DJ Larry & DJ Hailey, 9 p.m.

Red Hawk Casino Dave Russell, 7 p.m.

Sleep Train Amphitheatre Chris Brown, Bow Wow, T-Pain, Tyga, 7 p.m.

Torch Club Blues Jam, 4 p.m.; Johnny Guitar Knox, 8 p.m.

UC Davis: Jackson Hall UC Davis Concert Band: Causeway Youth Band Festival, 7 p.m.

ZuhG Life Store Community Drum Circle, 2 p.m.

10.24 Monday

Ace of Spades Tech N9ne, Krizz Kaliko, Kutt Calhoun, Jay Rock, Flawless, Americaz Mozt Haunted, 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 Man Man, Grandchildren, 7 p.m.

Luna’s Cafe Nebraska Mondays w/ GE Stinson and Phillip Greenlief Duo, Jon Bafus’ Genetic Makeup, hosted by Ross Hammond, 7:30 p.m.

Naked Lounge Downtown Jazz Session w/ The Joe Mazzafero Quintet, Featuring Ryan Robertson, 8:30 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Sol Collective Open Mic, 6 p.m.

The Stoney Inn Karaoke 9 p.m.

10.25 Tuesday

Barcode Nightclub & Lounge Cosmic Gate, 9 p.m.

The Boxing Donkey Trivia Tuesdays, 7 p.m.

Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Fox & Goose Pub Quiz hosted by Morgan, 7 p.m.

Harlow’s That 1 Guy, 8 p.m.

Laughs Unlimited Karaoke w/ Jeff & Dawn, 8 p.m.

Old Ironsides Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub DJs Rigatony, Alazzawi, 10:30 p.m.

Press Club FFFreak w/ CrookOne, DJ Hailey, Dogtones, 9:30 p.m.

Red Hawk Casino Weird Science, 7 p.m.

Shenanigans Halloween Industry Party, 8 p.m.

The Stoney Inn Blue Bird Lounge Singer/Songwriter, 5 p.m.; Karaoke Contest, 10 p.m.

T2 Nightclub & Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Torch Club Alex Nelson, 5:30 p.m.; The Dippin Sauce, 9 p.m.

ZuhG Life Store Open Mic Night, 6 p.m.

10.26 Wednesday

Club Car The Double Shots, 7:30 p.m.

Crest Theatre David Garibaldi Live, Wesley Avery, Stevie Nader, 6:30 p.m.

Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m.

District 30 Masters of Style Weekly Fall Fashion Series w/ DJ Tina T, 9 p.m.

Fox & Goose Steve McLane, 8 p.m.

Harlow’s Ryan Montbleau, 7 p.m.

Laughs Unlimited Karaoke w/ Jeff & Dawn, 8 p.m.

Marilyn’s Chi McLean, 8:30 p.m.

Mix Nice-N-Nasty Halloween Bash w/ DJ Gabe Xavier, 8:30 p.m.

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Naked Lounge Downtown Arbor Pointe, Garbage Jazz Architects, Odd Moniker, 8:30 p.m.

Old Ironsides Open Mic w/ host Lare Crawley, 8:30 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Trackfighter, Allinaday, In Flight, Horseneck, 9 p.m.

Red Hawk Casino Weird Science, 7 p.m.

Shenanigans Acoustic Night, 9 p.m.

Torch Club Acoustic Open Mic, 5:30 p.m.; Keri Carr Band, 9 p.m.

Uncle Vitos (Davis) Boom Bip w/ The Flower Vato, 10 p.m.

University Union Redwood Room, CSUS Beetlejuice, 12 p.m.

10.27 Thursday

The Blue Lamp The Sleeprockers, DJ Extravaganza, CrookOne, RiffRaff, Kodac Visualz, 9 p.m.

The Boardwalk Black Blood Dead Dreamer, Enmity, Make it Reign, The Antioch Synopsis, Lifeforms, Still Fighting, 7 p.m.

Club Car Songwriters Showcase, 8 p.m.

The Coffee Garden Open Mic Night, 8 p.m.

District 30 I Love House w/ DJ Dan, Rick V, 9 p.m.

Dive Bar Dueling Pianos, 9 p.m.

Fox & Goose John Shipe, 8 p.m.

Golden Bear DJ Shaun Slaughter’s Revolving Party, 10 p.m.

Luigi’s Fungarden Charles Albright, Babs Johnson Gang, Buk Buk Big Ups, 8:30 p.m.

Mix Justin Martin, Sukh Banwait, 9 p.m.

Plea for Peace Center The Story So Far, Second to Last, 9:00 News, Final Last Words, Quiet Game Starting Now, 6 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Buck Ford, 9:30 p.m.

Red Hawk Casino Weird Science, 7 p.m.

Shenanigans College Night, 9 p.m.

Shine Open Mic Night, 7 p.m.

The Stoney Inn The Brody Stewart Band, 10 p.m.

Studio 21 Tommy Green (Sleeping Giant), Jacob Thomas, Galatia, Knives at the Park, Love Is More, 7:00 p.m.

Thunder Valley Casino Resort Bridget Marquardt’s Halloween House Party w/ DJ Dwrek, Tone Loc, 8 p.m.

Torch Club X Trio, 5 p.m.; Harley White Jr. feat. Aaron King, 9 p.m.

UC Davis: Quad Finish Ticket, 12 p.m.

10.28 FRIDAY

Ace of Spades Matt Nathanson, Scars On 45, 7 p.m.

Beatnik Studios Playboy School, Full Melt, Estaban Villa, 8 p.m.

Blue Cue Live Band Karaoke, 9 p.m.

The Blue Lamp City of Vain, Bastards of Young, Riot Radio, Setting Sons, 9 p.m.

The Boardwalk Throwdown, Havenside, Carnifex, Suffokate, First Blood, Chernobog, And Came Back Brutal, 6:30 p.m.

Bows and Arrows Nakatani Gong Orchestra, Chad Stockdale, 8 p.m.

The Boxing Donkey Adam Donald, 9 p.m.

Capitol Garage Get Down to the Champion Sound w/ DJ Esef and special guests, 10 p.m.

Colonial Theatre Roach Gigz, Mango Mob, Terin Thompson, DJ Epik, Bueno, C-Plus, Status Goes, M-Denas, Playah K, R.Dot.Carter, Rick Mo, 7:30 p.m.

Distillery Get Shot!, The Number 13, The Left Hand, The Crunchees, Stalking Distance, 10 p.m.

District 30 Eyes Wide Shut Costume & Lingerie Masquerade Ball w/ DJ A-1, DJ Benji Lugo, 9 p.m.

Fox & Goose TSLOS, Nice Monster, Musical Charis, 9 p.m.

Golden Bear DJ Crook, 10 p.m.

Luigi’s Fungarden Rocky Horror Picture Show w/ Live Band, 8 p.m.

Luna’s Cafe Afternoon Teacup Collection, 8 p.m.

Marilyn’s Zach Deputy, 9 p.m.

Mix DJ Elliot Estes, 9 p.m.

MontBleu Resort Casino Game, DJ Backline, Mic Rob, DJ Mr. Wilson, Quette Daddie, 8 p.m.

Naked Lounge Downtown Blame the Bishop, Glowbox Lemonade, 8:30 p.m.

Old Ironsides French Cassettes, The Isaac Howl, Black Hole What?, Black Market Sunday, 9 p.m.

On The Y Awaiting the Apocalypse, Gary Busey Amber Alert, Dismemberance, 8 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Tainted Love Halloween, 10 p.m.

Press Club DJ Rue, 9 p.m.

Red Hawk Casino Ryan Hernandez, 5 p.m.; Decades, 10 p.m.

Shenanigans Halloween Show w/ Misamore, Fallrise, Sixes and Sevens, Hot Pot Studios Fusion Bellydance, 9 p.m.

Thunder Valley Casino Resort Midnight Star, A Taste of Honey, Janice-Marie, 8 p.m.

10.29 Devin the Dude Doey Rock, Chuuwee, N Croud, Quette Daddie, DJ Mr. Wilson The Boardwalk 7 p.m.

Torch Club Pailer & Fratis, 5:30 p.m.; The Coalition Halloween Party, 9 p.m.

ZuhG Life Store Autumn Sky, Adrian Bourgeois, Gabriella Ruiz, Brian Jennings, 4 p.m.

10.29 Saturday

Ace of Spades Alesana, A Skylit Drive, Sleeping With Sirens, Attila, Memphis May Fire, Serianna, 5:30 p.m.

The Blue Lamp Warp 11, 9 p.m.

The Boardwalk Devin the Dude, Doey Rock, Chuuwee, N Croud, Quette Daddie, DJ Mr. Wilson, 7 p.m.

The Boxing Donkey Skippy & The Bowl Junkies, 9 p.m.

Cal Expo Exotic Halloween Ball, 8:30 p.m.

Distillery South Lot, 10 p.m.

District 30 The Pirates Ball w/ DJ Este, 9 p.m.

Fox & Goose Todd Clouser’s A Love Electric, Ross Hammond Trio, 9 p.m.

Golden Bear DJ Whores, 10 p.m.

Jackson Rancheria Casino Thompson Square, 6 p.m.

Luna’s Cafe David Houston & String Theory, Christopher Fairman, 9 p.m.

Marilyn’s Children of the Grave, 9 p.m.

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Dive Into Sacramento & Its Surrounding Areas

Miners Foundry Fright Night 2011 Halloween Bash w/ Albino!, Buck Love and the Humperheads, Achilles Wheel, 8 p.m.

Mix Haunted Rooftop w/ DJ Mike Moss, 9 p.m.

Naked Lounge Downtown Not For Profit, Pushtonawanda, Honyock, 8:30 p.m.

Old Ironsides Puzzletree, Face 4 Radio, Isaac Bear, 9 p.m.

The Park Ultra Lounge What Gives You the Creeps w/ DJ Peeti V, 9 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Spazmatics, 10 p.m.

Press Club DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m.

Red Hawk Casino Ryan Hernandez, 5 p.m.; Decades, 10 p.m.

Shaker’s Pub Astrozombies, Drive in Ghouls, 101, Switchblade Frankie, 9 p.m.

Shenanigans Arden Park Roots, Dogfood, 9 p.m.

Shine Skip Heller, Debora Iyall (of Romeo Void), 8 p.m.

The Stoney Inn 4th Annual Halloween Bash, 9 p.m.

T2 Nightclub & Lounge DJs & Dancing, 9 p.m.

Torch Club Johnny Guitar Knox, 5 p.m.; Halloween Howler w/ KB & the Slingtones, The Revtones, The Vintage Vandals, 9 p.m.

UC Davis: Jackson Hall Hilary Hahn, 8 p.m.

ZuhG Life Store Graham Vinson, Orange Morning, 2 p.m.

10.30 Sunday

Ace of Spades Of Mice and Men, I Wrestled A Bear Once, I See Stars, For The Fallen Dreams, Abandon All Ships, That’s Outrageous, 6 p.m.

Auburn Event Center Wayne Hancock, Leroy Virgil & the Executors, Cash Prophets, Cockfight Kings, The Afterlife, 5 p.m.

Beatnik Studios Jason Webley, Fierce Creatures, Musical Charis, Julie the Bruce, 7 p.m.

The Blue Lamp Kathryn Calder (of The New Pornographers), Anomie Belle, 8 p.m.

Capitol Garage Karaoke w/ Jeff Jenkins, 9 p.m.

Digitalis Studios The Left Hand, The Lurking Terror, Tit Pig, 9 p.m.

Distillery Karaoke, 8 p.m.

Luigi’s Fungarden Kelps (CD Release), Reggie Ginn, 8 p.m.

Old Ironsides Dead Rock Stars Halloween Show w/ I Scream On Sundae, Diciembre Gris, Ricky Berger, Sureshot, Denver Piledrivers, Crazy Ballhead, Be Brave Bold Robot, Virtue Vices, Blame The Bishop, The Hot Tar Roofers, Noah Clark’s Sharp Dressed Men, 8 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Kenny Blue Ray, 3 p.m.; Blues Jam, 7 p.m.

Press Club Sunday Night Soul Party w/ DJ Larry & DJ Hailey, 9 p.m.

Red Hawk Casino Desert Thunder, 7 p.m.

Shenanigans Halloween Masquerade Ball w/ Urban Fire, Selekta Lou, 9 p.m.

Torch Club Blues Jam, 4 p.m.; The Nibblers’ Halloween Party, 8 p.m.

UC Davis: Studio Theatre Sō Percussion, 2 p.m.

ZuhG Life Store Community Drum Circle, 2 p.m.

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10.31 Monday

The Blue Lamp The Dirty Hand Family Band, Viva Le Vox, 9 p.m.

The Boxing Donkey Open Mic Variety Night, 8 p.m.

Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m.

District 30 The Pirates Ball w/ David Carvalho, 9 p.m.

Fox & Goose Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m.

Naked Lounge Downtown Jazz Session w/ The Joe Mazzafero Quintet feat. the Real Kenny G, 8:30 p.m.

The Park Ultra Lounge DJ Crooked, DJ Eddie Edul, 9 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Karaoke, 9 p.m.

The Stoney Inn Karaoke 9 p.m.

Comedy Community Center Theater Bill Cosby, Oct. 29, 8 p.m.

Laughs Unlimited Best of Open Mic Showcase, Oct. 18, 8 p.m.

Daniel Dugar, Jackie Fabulous, Oct. 20 - 23, Thurs., 8 p.m.; Fri. & Sat., 8 p.m. & 10:30 p.m.; Sun., 7 p.m.

Sean Peabody, Shuler King, Oct. 27 - 30, Thurs., 8 p.m.; Fri. & Sat., 8 p.m. & 10:30 p.m.; Sun., 7 p.m.

Luna's Cafe Keith Lowell Jensen's Comedy Night, every Wednesday, 8 p.m.

Memorial Auditorium Chris Tucker, Oct. 22, 7:30 p.m.

Po'Boyz Bar & Grill (Folsom) Comedy Open Mic, every Monday, 9 p.m.

Punchline Comedy Club OUT-Landish Comedy Show w/ Nico Santos, Ronn Vigh, Natasha Muse, Loren Kraut, Casey Ley, Oct. 19, 8 p.m.

Edwin San Juan, Oct. 20 - 23, Thurs., 8 p.m.; Fri. & Sat., 8 p.m. & 10 p.m.; Sun., 7 p.m.

Zhangster, Oct. 26, 8 p.m.

Dwayne Perkins, Oct. 27 - 30, Thurs., 8 p.m.; Fri. & Sat., 8 p.m. & 10 p.m.; Sun., 7 p.m.

Doug Benson, Oct. 30, 4:20 p.m.

Sacramento Comedy Sportz Mayhem Improv Comedy, every Thursday, 9 p.m.

ComedySportz, every Friday & Saturday, 8 p.m.

Sacramento Comedy Spot Improv 1 Continuous, Harold Night, Oct. 19 & 26, 7 p.m.

Improv 1 Continuous, Cage Match, Oct. 20 & 27, 7 p.m.

Stand Up Shoot Out, Pop Comedy w/ Jesse Fernandez, Oct. 21, 8 p.m.

In Your Facebook, Anti Cooperation League, Oct. 22, 8 p.m.

Open Mic Scramble, Oct. 23 & 30, 7 p.m.

Johnny Taylor Presents Comedy Kill w/ Mary Van Note, Daniel Humbarger, Eve David, Allan Dagio, Oct. 28, 9 p.m.

Improv Showcase, Anti Cooperation League, Oct. 29, 8 p.m.

The Stoney Inn Comedy Open Mic, every Monday, 8 p.m.

Tommy T’s Ruben's Comedy Showcase & Variety Show to benefit Toys for Tots, Oct. 29, 7:30 p.m.

Michael Mancini, Oct. 20 - 23, 7:30 p.m.

The Miserable Men of Comedy feat. Anthony K and Friends, Oct. 26, 7:30 p.m.

Jason Resler, Oct. 27 - 30, 7:30 p.m.

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Barnes and Noble (Arden Way) Book Signing: Ozzy Osbourne, Oct. 21, 7 p.m.

Benvenuti Performing Arts Center CORE Dance Collective’s The Doorway, Oct. 21 - 22 & Oct. 27 - 29 Blue Cue Trivia Night, every Wednesday, 8 p.m.

Bows & Arrows Cosmo Cathedral by Jose Di Gregorio, now through Nov. 3 The Boxing Donkey Trivia Night, every Tuesday, 8 p.m.

California Museum Riding Concrete: Skateboarding in California curated by Z-Boy Nathan Pratt, now through March, 2012 Colonial Theatre Fifth Annual Sacramento Horror Film Festival, Oct. 20 - 23 Crest Theatre The Trash Film Orgy Zombie Halloween, Oct. 21 - 22, 11 p.m.

Crocker Art Museum Monster Mashup: Retro horror shorts, Q&A w/ Sacramento Horror Film Festival Founder and Director Tim Meunier, Oct. 27, 7 p.m.

Fox & Goose Pub Quiz, every Tuesday, 7 p.m.

Golden Bear Random Knowledge Trivia Night, every Wednesday, 8 p.m.

Harrah’s Lake Tahoe South Shore Room Adam Richman (from Man vs Food), Oct. 29, 7:30 p.m.

John Natsoulas Gallery The Poetry Night Reading Series w/ Ruby Ibarra, Oct. 20, 8 p.m.

Armadillo Records and KDVS Record Extravaganza, Oct. 30, 9 a.m.

La Raza Galeria Posada Dia de los Muertos Film Screenings, Oct. 20 & 27, 7 p.m.

Luna’s Cafe Poetry Unplugged, every Thursday, 8 p.m.

MAIYA Gallery The Artober Celebration feat. works by C!nder, Bob Miller, Sean Randall, P.Y. Simpson, David Wiley and more, through Oct. 30 Memorial Auditorium TNA Wrestling Presents: IMPACT World Tour, Oct. 28, 7:30 p.m.

Naked Lounge Downtown Documentary Night: 9/11 Facts 9/11 Fiction, Oct. 25, 7 p.m.

Power Balance Pavilion Disney On Ice: Treasure Trove, Oct. 26 - 30 Powerhouse Pub Trivia Night, every Monday, 8 p.m.

Sacramento Convention Center 14th Annual Sacramento Reptile Show, Oct. 29 - 30 Shenanigans Watch it Live! UFC 137: St-Pierra vs Condit, Oct. 29, 6 p.m.

Shine Poetry with Legs, every 2nd and 4th Wednesday, 7 p.m.

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UC Davis: Vanderhoef Studio Theatre Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, Oct. 24, 7 p.m.

University Union Ballroom, CSUS Lecture w/ Michele Norris, Oct. 20, 7 p.m.

Lecture w/ Seth Grahame-Smith, Oct. 27, 7:30 p.m.

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The grindhouse A Dream Deferred The Ides of March

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Words James Barone A cynic might say that hope is a four-letter word. It’s a wonderful thing to be sure, perhaps one of humankind’s most beautiful emotional states. But when hopes don’t manifest themselves in reality, they can fast become tragedies. The elation and optimism in the wake of President Obama’s election in November 2008 seems to have soured quickly: partisan bickering has put a quick end to the hope of a newly united nation eager to move forward. Suddenly, the question of “What’s next?” has taken ominous underpinnings.

In The Ides of March, director George Clooney takes an almost Empire Strikes Backstyle look at hope and American politics. While its finale may not be quite as bombastic as Luke Skywalker’s penultimate showdown with Darth Vader, it cuts as deeply as a light saber through a prone wrist.

This is Clooney’s fourth turn at the helm of a feature film, and the result is more similar in tone to his classic historical drama Good Night and Good Luck than the quirky Americana of his most recent effort, the football/buddy picture Leatherheads. The Ides of March is a dizzying political thriller, but is also something of a war film—a war of a different sort. Though Clooney also stars in the film, its central figure is Stephen Meyers, played by Ryan Gosling. Meyers is an it-boy in the political campaign world. He’s a media genius, savvy with reporters and wholeheartedly driven to support his candidate Mike Morris (Clooney), a progressive governor from Pennsylvania who stands to win the Democratic presidential nomination if he can get another key primary win. In Morris, Meyers sees a candidate he can really believe in, one he feels must become president if the country is to improve.

Morris is an Obama-like figure. His detractors on the right call him a “socialist.”

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Even his campaign posters mimic Shepard Fairey’s iconic “Hope” image. By all accounts, Morris is beyond reproach. He refuses to make the sort of concessions made by presidential candidates who have come before him, solely for the sake of getting themselves elected. He’s a good family man who isn’t afraid to speak his mind or face his opponents. Meyers believes in him completely; however, as the pivotal Ohio primary approaches, Morris may or may not be the person Meyers thought he was. And as it turns out, perhaps neither is Meyers.

The leaves are changing, so Hollywood is pulling out all the stops as far as top-flight casts are concerned, and The Ides of March is a sure sign of that. It seems to have taken a page from the Contagion playbook, rolling out star after star. Clooney and Gosling are joined

by Paul Giamatti and Philip Seymour Hoffman, who are both fantastic as battling campaign directors. Female stars include Marisa Tomei in a small but vital role as a New York Times reporter covering the primary, and Evan Rachel Wood, an intern in the Morris campaign and an actress who really needs to be in more stuff.

Her romantic scenes with Gosling pop not only in heat but in cleverness, and as a casualty of America’s political machinery, she’s deeply sympathetic as perhaps the film’s most tragic character.

Wood’s character precipitates Meyers’ decline from hopeful idealist to stone cold killer (politically speaking) —or his turn to the dark side, if you’re so inclined. However, this is the one chink in The Ides of March’s armor: Gosling excels at the puppy-dog-eyed, energetic force of good, and is chilling as the steely political assassin, but the actual turn in his character is difficult to pinpoint.

Still, you could do worse than watching such a fine group of fine actors getting their hands dirty in material so current and topical.

Just don’t expect to leave the theater with a renewed sense of faith in your leaders. Your faith is probably better directed elsewhere anyway.

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Album Spotlight That Thing They Do The Happy Medium All Smiles (self-released)

Words Steph Rodriguez

Doo-wop, jazz and indie rock—who knew?

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, in Midtown, indie rock bands multiply faster than Gremlins exposed to water. And I mean it. If you, like me, are tired of listening to the same whiny, boring dime-a-dozen bands that spend way too much time on their appearances and not enough time in the studio, which seems to continue to plague my ears and the local music scene as of late, the guys of The Happy Medium are your ears’ saving grace. A refreshing segue of musicians sent to restore your trust back into local music.

When longtime friends brought their past musical experiences to the table, which include Drew Walker’s (percussion) orchestra background, William Hal’s many years of songwriting and Addison Quarles’ training in jazz bass, all are apparent qualities within The Happy Medium’s new All Smiles EP, just released last Friday at their EP release show at Luigi’s Fungarden.

These old friends found music, then each other, and have since formed The Happy Medium, resulting in a wide array of sounds ranging from jazz, doo-wop, surf and the classic sounds of the garage bands from the ‘50s.

The second track, “Don’t Leave Your House,” is the gem of the album in terms of musicianship. The song starts off sweet, dreamy, almost circus-tempo-like at times, and is reminiscent of the type of band from SubmergeMag.com

an old ‘80s movie, dressed in frilly, pastelcolored tuxedos playing a high school dance with an under-the-sea theme. “Don’t Leave Your House” showcases the overall musical background of each member all wrapped up in a few minutes. Still confused? Think of the movie, That Thing You Do with the band The Wonders, but with a less annoying, less highmaintenance vocalist. Now, replace that with Hal’s doo-wop charmed vocals. There’s plenty of perfectly pitched oos and aahs, and your parents may even dig it. Keyboards twinkle lightly, provided by Matt Stocks, and ample crescendos give the song a dramatic appeal thanks to guitarist Corey Bakarich.

If you’re in need of new music, let the guys of The Happy Medium take your hand, guiding you through their album that radiates dreamy qualities blended with plenty of rock ‘n roll reminiscent of the '50s. These guys capture the classic sounds of the past, presently; but they’re not ripping off bands like The Strokes or The Platters, they have created their own identity and presence. One should take this album on a long drive to the middle of nowhere and keep pushing repeat.

Or maybe you’re a bicyclist; an early bike ride against the sun accompanied by All Purchase The Happy Smiles would be Medium's All Smiles the perfect morning at Thehappymedium. bandcamp.com. The sixpick-me-up. track EP is just $5.

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the shallow end Getting married seems simple enough. You meet someone you like, love blooms or you just get tired of looking or whatever, and then you get married. According to numbers compiled by the Centers for Disease Control in their National Vital Statistics Reports published in August 2010, the marriage rate per 1,000 total population was 6.8 in 2009. Seems innocuous enough. On the other hand, the divorce rate stood at 3.4 per 1,000 total population. Getting married is easy, it would seem, but staying married is rather difficult.

If it’s tough on those of us common folk, imagine how hard it must be for rock stars to stay hitched. Most of us have nothing better to do than get shacked up with some other poor shlub until death does the parting. What do you do anyway?

You work, you come home and you watch TV. Not that there’s nothing wrong with that, I’m just saying. We lead pretty boring lives. But it’s better languishing through the malaise of everyday life with someone in the Bark-O-Lounger beside you than going it on your own. That’s how serial killers are born. Rock stars, on the other hand, have shit thrown at them all the time. Travel, booze, sex, drugs. You get to do all kinds of crazy cool stuff that you probably, through no fault of your own, forget that you’re married. It’s a volatile life. That’s why you get Kurt and Courtney.

Sure those didn’t end in divorce, but the dissolution of that

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marriage might even have been messier if they had.

But then you have Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon, who up until now have defied the odds. The two of them are the main figures in Sonic Youth, my favorite band, which formed in 1980.

The two got married in 1984 and have been together ever since, that is until Oct. 14 when the long-time couple and two of rock music’s truly seminal artists decided to separate. A statement issued by Sonic Youth’s label, Matador Records, read as glumly as you’d expect: “Sonic Youth, with both Kim and Thurston involved, will proceed with its South American tour dates in November. Plans beyond that tour are uncertain. The couple has requested respect for their personal privacy and does not wish to issue further comment.” Sonic Youth’s South American tour wraps up Nov. 14 in Sao Paolo, Brazil, at the SWU Music and Arts Festival. This is purely speculation (and hyperbole), but that could very well be the last Sonic Youth show. Two weeks later, Moore heads to Europe to tour in support of his most recent solo album, Demolished Thoughts. And so, as they say, it goes.

I took the news pretty hard. Sonic Youth had been my favorite band since I saw them play Late Night with David Letterman in 1992. They played “100%” and at the end, Moore and second guitarist Lee Ranaldo ended the song’s howling feedback denouement in a heap on the floor.

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James Barone jb@submergemag.com

I’d only seen them live once not too long ago, after years of trying. It was an off-cycle show, outdoors in the summertime.

I’d happened upon the show by accident. I happened past the venue when a scalper asked me if I wanted to buy tickets for a concert. I refused, but before I was out of earshot, I turned and asked who was playing out of curiosity, and he answered, “Sonic Youth.” I ran to the nearest ATM. They played a lot of deep cuts—songs they wouldn’t normally play. Some were so deep I barely recognized them, but it was such a trip to finally see them after wanting to so badly for so long. I thought the songs Gordon sang were the strongest, which is odd since I always find them hit or miss on the recordings. During “Drunken Butterfly,” she screamed, jumped, twirled and danced. With his hair over his brow, hiding the age of his face, Moore looked like the same gangly dude I saw rock NBC so many years before. I was in awe of the both of them. I thought, “Wow, if they could make it and still be this cool together, I guess there’s hope for all of us.” Well, so much for that.

It’s selfish of me to be torn up about this because of a band.

Moore and Gordon were a family after all and had a 17-yearold daughter, Coco, who I wish the best to. Everything ends eventually, that’s nothing new, but it’s usually sad when it does.

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