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Frankly, it’s just been depressing as all hell lately with all this crazy shit happening what seems like every week, from the Orlando nightclub, to the unnecessary killing of black men in Baton Rouge and Minnesota, to the most recent terror attack on Bastille Day in Nice, France. My brain and heart feel like they are about to implode when trying to comprehend all of it, and I find myself wondering if society is only going to get worse, or will people come together and make a difference. It just seems so complex and overwhelming. Times like these, I love to get lost in the pages of a magazine or book, crank some loud music and/or watch movies that can take you to another place to help find sanity, even if it’s only for a few hours. This past week, I clocked in two major summer blockbusters, The Secret Life of Pets and Ghostbusters (which contributor Jake Sprecher reviewed on page 28). Both films have definitely helped me take the edge off. I highly suggest hitting my favorite place in town, the drive-in. Yes, it’s still in business. Or if you’re looking for some indoor AC action, the Crest has some great classic films coming up, like Weird Science and Lethal Weapon. Look for yourself, check out their ad here on page 4. How about going to see some live music to take your mind off things? My personal favorite is unwinding with a beer every Friday at Concerts in the Park. You can actually see the lineup on the next page, or check out hundreds of other regional shows in our calendar starting on page 24. There are some specific events highlighted in our Submerge Your Senses section (starting on page 12) that I guarantee will make you happy if you take part, like going to see Saturday Night Live’s Pete Davidson do stand-up in South Lake Tahoe (I just bought my tickets! Take it from me, there are plenty of good seats still available). Or how about indulging in the Sacratomato Festival? I hear there’s a homemade salsa competition! Perhaps get inspired to travel by reading Ellen Baker’s column about overcoming fear and traveling solo starting on page 11. Traveling always makes me love and appreciate the world. I’m sincerely not trying to downplay all the tragedies that have happened, but if you’re feeling like me and sometimes want to escape, I want to let you know there’s so much happening in our area to give you a glimmer of happiness. Enjoy issue #218, Melissa

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Bottle & Barlow Celebrates One Year of Slangin’ Some of the Best Cocktails In Town, Expands Barber Shop Hours to Seven Days A Week We wouldn’t be able to forgive ourselves if we didn’t take a moment to give a big shout-out and congrats to our good friends Anthony Giannotti, Jayson Wilde and the entire team at Bottle and Barlow, who just celebrated their one-year anniversary last week. Located at 1120 R Street in downtown Sacramento, this craft cocktail bar meets high-end barber shop has already been nationally recognized by such outlets as the Los Angeles Times, Details, Thrillist.com and others, and for good reason: They serve up some of the most complex, seasonally focused, lip-smackingly delicious cocktails in all of Sacramento. The barber shop end of the business is booming, too, as evidenced by their recent expansion in hours (they now take appointments seven days a week!). B&B’s recurring weekly events are always a blast: Keep it Classic Mondays offer great deals during their Late-Night Happy Hour that is set to well curated music from 8 p.m. to close; every Wednesday is their Hump Day! party featuring choice R&B and slow jams from 9 p.m. to close; and probably our favorite, Sad As F#ck Sundays, where you can get a healthy dose of loud emo jams along with drink specials from 8 p.m. to close. We also got word that B&B is hosting a big luau party on Saturday, Aug. 20, when they will be roasting a whole pig, so you might want to mark that on your calendar. Learn more at Bottleandbarlow.com, or by calling (916) 379-7719. Dive Into Sacramento & Its Surrounding Areas

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We can thank the ancient Greeks for this mess; they created the Olympics. Now, every four years a city is chosen to host the greatest athletes in the world for a few weeks of summer sports. We call it the Summer Olympics and being selected by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to host the event used to be a real honor. At some point though, things changed and agreeing to host the Olympics became more of a liability than it was worth. Now, most cities lose money hosting the games and are often left with significant infrastructure that is both expensive to maintain and of little use once the rest of the world packs it up and heads home. Part of the problem clearly rests on the IOC (who is in it solely for the money) and part of it falls on the cities themselves. Often, promises are made on both ends that are not realistic or were never meant to be carried out in the first place. There is no better example of the dysfunction that has become the Olympics than the upcoming 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. For starters, the country has been in an economic downfall for some time, which only grew worse when their president was removed from office for corruption a few months ago. Due to a crash in oil prices, the government is also basically broke and unable to pay police to protect the public. As a result, incidents of violent crime have gone through the roof. In fact, Brazil is now the murder capital of the world, so gold medal to them! Even Juma the Jaguar, the official Olympic mascot, was shot and killed after escaping her handlers. And then there are the other ways to die. By now, you’ve probably heard that the country is ground zero for the Zika epidemic and the World Health Organization has advised anyone who would like their lineage to continue to stay away. If the mosquitos don’t get you then perhaps a sip of water will. The bodies of water surrounding Rio also serve as its sanitation system, which means the lakes and ocean areas being used for the Olympics are full of shit, piss, garbage, super bacteria and, of course, a random human foot or two. To make matters worse, the local hospitals are running low on common medicines to treat the sick and infected masses that will soon be filling up triage centers hastily set up in their parking lots.

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In light of these obstacles and in the spirit of the games, the IOC decided to make a few changes to the sporting events taking place at this year’s Summer Olympics. Due mostly to necessity, the Canoe Slalom is being renamed the Douche Canoe. Medal hopefuls will no longer be required to maneuver around a series of poles placed throughout the waterway. Instead, paddlers will navigate the everyday filth and feces of Guanabara Bay while trying to locate at least one disembodied limb in the murky waters lying beneath before the time runs out. Finding the most hands, feet and heads will get you the gold. If the Douche Canoe doesn’t churn up something inside you, then perhaps the next new Summer Olympics event will. Synchronized Shitting combines the grace of swim dancing with the urgency of explosive diarrhea. The amount of water ingested by athletes in Rio’s aquatic events will be a big factor in determining who will compete for the gold. Montezuma’s revenge has never been so sweet, so grab your favorite toilet paper, cop a squat and prepare to be mesmerized. UPS has already agreed to sponsor the event. Go brown! You know what they say, if the bacteria don’t get you, the super bacteria certainly will. That’s the idea behind the next event debuting in Rio: Water Polio. The rules to Water Polio are similar to the rules of Water Polo (whatever those are), with one key difference. Teams are required to play in pools contaminated with 100 percent pure Brazilian dookie until someone contracts the polio virus. The team that lasts the longest is awarded an additional five points. Dying for your team is the ultimate sacrifice and shows real dedication to your sport. Polio players, the IOC salutes you! The Olympics are all about prestige, and it doesn’t get much more prestigious than submerging yourself in a pool of feces for a large chunk of semi-precious metal. At least that’s what the IOC would have you believe. The games used to be about bringing the world together in celebration of sport. Now they’re about the IOC, contractors and sponsors getting paid; safety for the citizens, athletes, trainers and visitors be damned! Congratulations IOC, you have created the shit show you deserve. Try not to swallow any of it!

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Overcoming Fear and Traveling Solo words & photos Ellen Baker

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“Have you seen the movie Hostel? You should probably watch it before you leave.” “If you walk around alone at night, you will get mugged.” “Why would you travel alone as a woman? You’re going to be so lonely.” “Maybe you can hire someone to protect you.” These, my dear readers, are real quotes I received from friends, family members and acquaintances, before heading to South America on a solo trip with nothing but a backpack and a one-way ticket. I was 22 years old at the time; naive, adventurous and broke ... not much has changed. I saved up a few paychecks from my serving job and put some money in my empty savings account (some money being somewhere around $2000. We’re talking about a shoestring budget here, people). Let me preface my story by stating, I believe that women (should) have political, social and economic equality with men. Too SubmergeMag.com

many women are timid, because there is a social construct that tells women they are not strong enough, smart enough, nimble enough or brave enough. But, we are. I bought my ticket on a whim—it was an idea that had been floating in and out of my mind for weeks, maybe months. I woke up one day and just like a haircut, I needed it now. I rolled out of bed and started looking at tickets. $500 one-way to Lima, Peru—sold. Before I knew it, college registration for the following semester had passed and I had no classes, but I did have a one-way ticket to South America. My confidence was through the roof. It wasn’t until these negative statements began rolling around that I started second-guessing my decision. I started getting nervous but pushed those feelings to the back of my mind. “It can’t be that bad,” I would tell myself. The flight to Guadalajara, my first layover, was fine. There were free tequila shots too—I was not opposed. I hopped on the next flight to Lima, and as we flew over the city preparing to land, I was suddenly engulfed

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in anxiety. I wanted to turn around. I felt anxious, nervous, sick to my stomach. I was alone, I barely spoke the language, I had no cell phone, no connection to anyone I knew— why was I doing this? These feelings ebbed and flowed for about three days when all of a sudden I was in paradise. I was free. There was no schedule, no one to please. I felt like a little sponge ready to soak in all this new information: a new language, new culture, new sights, new experiences. For the entirety of my trip, never once did I have a set itinerary. I would meet new people at hostels, travel with them for a while and move on to do my own thing. I have so many connections throughout the world now simply because I opened myself up this new place and new people. I hitchhiked, stayed with a family I met on the street, got a tour of a man’s favorite flea market, ate an abundance of coca leaves, hiked alone in the middle of the jungle and read three novels— more than I had read in about a year.

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As is life, nothing is perfect. I didn’t get to day three of my trip and feel euphoric for the remainder of my adventure. I did not “find myself” as many claim they do on solo adventures; I believe “finding yourself” is a lifelong journey. I did however, laugh, cry, scream, sing and find a deep appreciation for another culture. I look back on my trip today and take in all that I learned and experienced and I feel empowered. I encourage men and women alike to travel solo. Whether it’s to the beach for a day, to a new continent for a year or anything in between. It’s truly eye opening and holds the ability to teach you much more then what a textbook can. In the words of Mary Ritter Beard, I’ll leave you with this: “Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.”

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Saturday Night Live’s Pete Davidson is Coming to South Lake Tahoe on His First Ever National Tour Aug. 6

As Saturday Night Live’s “resident young person” for the last two seasons and the show’s first cast member to have been born in the ‘90s (he’s just 22!), you’d think that stand-up comedian and actor Pete Davidson would be all jokes about weed and dick pics. And yeah, maybe he’s got some of those on lock, but the dude’s got more depth, too. Transgender bathrooms, gun control, Trump; this critically acclaimed young comedian isn’t afraid to take on real issues, making us laugh uncontrollably during a time when we all know we need it. Lucky for us here in Northern California, Davidson—who was named one of the “Top 10 Comics to Watch for 2014” by Variety magazine—is taking his stand-up on a national tour for the first time ever, hitting Montbleu Resort Casino just up the road in South Lake Tahoe on Saturday, Aug. 6 for one show only. Come see why he’s one of “Weekend Update’s” shining stars and why box office giants like Trainwreck and productions like Bonnaroo Music and Art Festival have tapped Davidson for his comedy genius. Tickets start at $30, available online at Montbleuresort.com or by calling (775) 588-3515. Doors open at 7 p.m., show at 8 p.m. -JC

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Take a Moonlit Bike Ride That Raises Money for Children’s Charities at the Third Annual Lunar Lunacy July 23

Bike riding is the coolest way to stay in shape and have fun doing so. For those who like riding their bicycle all the time (insert Queen song here), this event will be held under the cover of darkness. You don’t have to like Norwegian black metal, but must have a wicked sense of humor and love for all things on two wheels. The third annual Lunar Lunacy Bike Ride serves multiple purposes but mainly seeks to heighten awareness of Sacramento Valley children in either foster care or support youth. My sister—a bigwig at an unnamed company everyone uses every day—raises three identical twin foster boys who were in dire need, but there are more being ignored every day. CASA Sacramento is this year’s event’s charitable partner, and funds will be raised to support their Making Memories program, “which funds extracurricular activities for foster youth including field trips, prom, sports, camp, driver’s ed classes and so much more,” according to the Lunar Lunacy Ride’s website. The entry fee for the race is $35 which is less than a ticket to your favorite metal, hip-hop, world or classical music fest. Visit Lunarlunacyride.com and make a difference. No more excuses. -EJ

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Catch the Premiere of the Locally Produced Documentary, Arnold Knows Me: The Tommy Kono Story • July 26 Tommy Kono’s story is one of great hardship and triumph. Although all of us have endured myriad ups and downs, this former weightlifter was a “two-time Olympic gold medalist, an Olympic silver medalist and six-time World Champion.” For those who love a good success story, this event will share the nitty gritty for all who wish to see. The fine folks at KVIE are hosting this Tuesday soiree and a special Q&A session with the director and producers Ryan Yamamoto and Suzanne Phan. Tommy Kono is a Japanese-American man who made an indelible imprint on the weightlifting sport as a whole and is a symbol of strength for countless Japanese and Japanese-Americans living here and abroad. Head on over to the gorgeous KVIE studios located at 2030 West El Camino Ave. in Sacramento. The event officially starts at 6 p.m. Submerge does not want to give too much away, but you can easily visit Tommykonostory.com to get the lowdown. And while the show is sold out, KVIE may release a few at the door. It as, after all, an Eventbriteticketed event. Hope to see you there. -EJ

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Celebrate All Things Tomato at the Sutter District’s Second Annual Sacratomato Festival • July 23

I hate plain tomatoes. There, I said it. Millions love ‘em, so it is wholly possible and probable I am dead wrong. In fact, I know I am. For those who love these red fruits (yes, fruits), the Sutter District’s second annual Sacratomato Festival will be an event to remember. This kid-friendly event is sure to have lots of awesome eats on the menu, local restauranteurs, specialty stores and vendors and, of course, everything related to this industry that you never really needed to know but want to. As luck would have it, the Sacramento Food Co-op will be hosting a special “Tomato University” featuring Blue Heron Farms that people of all ages can attend. The event is free and will be held at the pristine grounds of Sutter’s Fort State Historic Park located at 2701 L St. in downtown Sacramento. If you have some strength afterward, you could visit Lowbrau, Harlow’s, Blue Lamp, Old Ironsides, Ace of Spades or any other local music establishment. Expect a bevy of activities for the little ones and, more importantly, all the tomatoes your little ones can eat in one sitting. Buy some to take home as well. There will be plenty on hand. For more info, go to Exploremidtown.org. -EJ

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Don’t Miss the Buzzed About London-Based Post-Punk Band Savages When They Hit Ace of Spades! • July 26 We’ve said it before, we’ll say it again: If you ever hear anyone say anything along the lines of, “No good bands ever tour through Sacramento,” then please slap them upside the head and point them toward some of our area’s many amazing venues like, for example, Ace of Spades, who consistently brings national and international bands to town. Case in point: On Tuesday, July 26, one of the more buzzed about bands on the touring scene as of late, London-based post-punk rockers Savages, will hit Ace for a show that regional music aficionados are sure to be talking about for months (maybe even years) to come. “Savages’ intention is to create a sound, indestructible, musically solid, written for the stage and designed with enough nuances to provide a wide range of emotions,” states the manifesto on the band’s website, Savagesband.com. We’re just going to let it roll, because this shit is solid. “Savages are a self-affirming voice to help experience our girlfriends differently, our husbands, our jobs, our erotic life and the place music occupies into our lives. Savages’ songs aim to remind us that human beings haven’t evolved so much, that music can still be straight to the point, efficient and exciting.” Get your $25 advance tickets before they sell out, available now at Aceofspadessac.com or at Dimple Records locations. Opening will be A Dead Forest Index, all the way from Auckland, New Zealand. The show is all ages and kicks off at 7 p.m. Ace is located at 1417 R Street in downtown Sacramento. -JC

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Composer George Sarah Live Scores Passion of Joan of Arc at Crest Theatre Alongside String Quartet and Chamber Singers • Aug. 6 Anyone who doesn’t think that Yulya Burroum and her extended staff are doing a great job keeping the Crest tradition alive is not paying attention to her calendar of events. For the uninitiated, the 1928 silent film classic appropriately dubbed The Passion of Joan of Arc is a movie of great depth and fortitude. And while the $25 advance ticket price (not including fees) may scare many away, those in the know will be saving their Starbucks money for something a little cooler. Acted out by the Inimitable Renée Jeanne Falconetti, this show will be further augmented with the thoughtful live score composed and performed by George Sarah. Initially titled Le Passion de Jeanne d’Arc, this is easily considered one of the best films ever made by more than 100 critics (living or alive). Even Roger Ebert said in an earlier review, “In a medium without words, where the filmmakers believed that the camera captured the essence of characters through their faces, to see Falconetti in Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) is to look into eyes that will never leave you.” I’m sold (again). Are you? Good. Go to Crestsacramento.com for tickets. -EJ

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PeRfecT y a m n r o H Auburn Road Has Big Dreams, and the Talent to Make Them Reality Words James Barone • photo Kari Manhart

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e all kind of sound alike …” one of the young women of the pop/country trio Auburn Road admitted during our interview, as this interviewer, sheepishly, had difficulty differentiating their voices over the phone. That’s one possible reason why their voices soar to such great heights when they sing together. Paxton Martin, Alicia Paulson and Kristen Brown are more sisters than friends. The three practically grew up together in the surrounding Sacramento area (Elk Grove and Roseville), both literally and vocally. “Me and Kristen didn’t know, but we actually grew up together when we were like 4 years old,” Paulson recollected in a recent interview with Submerge. “We had a friend in common, and we would always go to her house together and go to the parties together, and we didn’t even know. Our parents didn’t even figure it out until we were older and we were like, ‘Oh! Hey!’ All of our families are really close.” By age 7 or 8, Paulson says, the trio was enrolled in music classes at the same singing studio. They cut their teeth performing as part of a larger group called Pop Academy. “We got to do a lot of fun things through there and get comfortable with performing,” Paulson said. “We got to go to Disneyland to perform. It was a great opportunity.”

The trio’s bond carried on into their teen years. In fact, two of the girls (Paulson and Brown) just graduated high school this spring. Martin is scheduled to do the same later this year in December. (“I’m actually graduating early,” she said with a hint of pride.) However, it was about two years ago, according to Brown, that Auburn Road really started to come to fruition. One catalyst for the group’s formation was meeting manager Michael Anderson, who Brown said the girls met in 2013 through a choreographer they were working with at the time. “He’s done everything for us. He’s done everything on the album and made all the decisions on the album,” Brown said, referring to Fancy, Auburn Road’s debut EP, which was released on Jan. 16, 2016. “He went down to Nashville when they recorded the music for us.” Though the girls recorded their vocals separately from the music, Brown, Martin and Paulson had serious country music clout behind them in the studio. From the crisp snap of the opening drum hits on Fancy’s opening track, the EP’s title song, it’s clear that this album isn’t just a hastily cobbled together demo, but a polished, professional product, aimed at catapulting three talented young people toward a bright and promising career.

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Backing Auburn Road on Fancy are members of Jason Aldean’s band, bassist Tully Kennedy, guitarist Kurt Allison and drummer Rich Redmond, who give these catchy and memorable pop/country songs serious punch, and a bit of a rock ‘n’ roll edge. “When we were writing music for the album, we knew that we needed a band,” Brown said about enlisting help from these seasoned pros. “After a lot of praying, we got really lucky. We had a couple contacts in common who hooked us up with them.” But it’s the voices of Auburn Road that are really upfront, as showcased in the stirring power ballad “Love of My Own,” which seems perfectly suited to raising your cigarette lighter at an outdoor concert to. It’s the melding of the trio’s voices that are the real hook here (as well as some kick-ass guitar solos), but that shouldn’t be much of a surprise. Though Brown, Martin and Paulson are young, they’re no strangers to singing with one another. Since they started at such a young age, they could almost be considered veterans in their own right.

“I think it really helps that we grew up together, singing together. I think it’s harder when you’re at this age and you’re put together as a group, and you don’t know each other. We always seem to be on the same page, so it’s really nice, especially when it comes to our harmonies, because we can read each other’s minds.” – Auburn Road’s Alicia Paulson on the group’s vocal harmonies “I think it really helps that we grew up together, singing together,” Paulson said of Auburn Road’s striking vocal harmonies. “I think it’s harder when you’re at this age, and you’re put together as a group and you don’t know each other. We always seem to be on the same page, so it’s really nice, especially when it comes to our harmonies, because we can read each other’s minds.” Though their vocal performance may border on intuitive at this point, the members of Auburn Road are eager to learn and grow as musicians. When Submerge contacted Paulson for our interview, she was on her way home from drum practice. Brown and Martin also reported that they were learning to play bass and piano, respectively.

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“We’re all trying to learn instruments right now.” Paulson said. “We’re not onstage performing with them quite yet, but eventually we’ll throw a couple of things in there into the show. It’s not necessarily what we do, but we would like to be able to play a little bit.” “Right now we’re in search of a band in Sacramento,” Martin added. “It’s really hard to find a younger band in Sacramento, and that’s what we’re looking for right now. Right now, we’re performing with backing tracks, which is fine. It works out OK … for now …” Auburn Road just recently had another dose of music industry education when they spent time during the Independence Day holiday week in Nashville. Submerge spoke to the group prior to their trip to Music City, and they were looking forward to sinking their teeth into the vibrant scene there. “We have a bunch of meetings set up, a photoshoot in the works, a couple of writing sessions,” Martin said. “We’re just going out there to network and meet people and get a sense of the music business out there. “We’re still young in life and in music,” she later went on to say. “Just to be around people who know so much and can show you different things with writing and how to take a song from one perspective and do it in another, so I think we just want to learn. We want to be great artists, and in order to do that, we need to learn from great people.” With high school almost behind all of them, the trio has its sight set on a career in music. Fancy is an emphatic first step forward toward that goal. “Our main concern right now is music,” Martin said. “One of our main goals is to live in Nashville and be able to do our music there. Our goal as a group is to tour and hopefully win a Grammy one day and travel the world singing for a bunch of different people.” While a Grammy may still be a little ways away, local fans can check out Auburn Road at the upcoming Country Fest at the beautiful Quarry Park amphitheatre in Rocklin, where they’ll be sharing the stage with American Idol finalist Kree Harrison and JT Hodges. When asked if it felt surreal to have had so much success and to be performing with people they admire at such a young age, Paulson answered with unflinching confidence. “It’s a little taste of the future for us.”

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Taste the Rainbow Metro Kitchen + Drinkery Celebrates a Healthy Anniversary at WAL Public Market Words Lovelle Harris Photos courtesy of Metro kitcken + Drinkery & lovelle harris

here’s a scene in the ’80s flick Valley Girl in which the lead character, Julie Richman, is working a shift at her parents’ health food store and completely loses her shit when the cool guy she’s dating walks into the joint. Because, as Julie proclaims in the movie, “Like, it’s not cool at all! Like, it’s all this stuff that tastes like nothing and it’s supposed to be so good for you. Why couldn’t they, like, open a Pizza Hut or something?” If Julie only knew that Pizza Huts would eventually give way to spots where the cool kids line up for quinoa power bowls with roasted veggies and turmeric-infused juices that have turned health food and juice shops into multimillion-dollar enterprises where, get this, you actually enjoy the food you are putting into your mouth. To Julie’s credit, it wasn’t too long ago that most of the people doling out their hard-earned cash for expensive, highpowered juicers while preaching to the

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masses the benefits of juicing, were labeled disciples of the raw-food movement or celebrities who were willing to go on juiceonly fasts, motivated by the belief that the key to achieving physical perfection was to adhere to a strict program of detoxification while sustaining themselves on extreme juice cleanses. Oh, by the way, we’re not talking about the frozen concentrated stuff procured from the local grocer but the rich, dense, nectar that can only come from pulverizing the flesh of ingredients like beets, carrots and spinach into a coldpressed elixir. But somewhere along the way, between the Hollywood set and the health-food junkies, the idea caught on and the people that didn’t originally subscribe to the trend started gulping it down when they realized that juice didn’t have to be an exercise in self-denial or part of some expensive cleanse and suddenly, cold-pressed juice morphed from a curiosity to an industry.

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Looking to squeeze their way into the burgeoning juice business in Sacramento, longtime restauranteurs, caterers and advocates of the juicing and organic food lifestyle, Lisa Musilli Johnson, her husband and business partner Keith Musilli Johnson and son, Benjamin Olmsted, founded Metro Kitchen + Drinkery in the Warehouse Artist Lofts Public Market. For this family, their business is an extension of themselves and their philosophy about food. It’s not just a fad but rather a lifestyle ingrained in their very being. “For me it was natural because of my upbringing,” Lisa explains. “My grandparents immigrated directly from Italy and [had] small gardens and farms. And when my children were young I cooked the way that my grandparents did and now all of my children are interested in a healthy, nutritional-based lifestyle.” The menu at Metro is an ever-evolving play on the seasons. For the triumvirate, sourcing ingredients from local purveyors is imperative in sustaining their mission of bringing foodstuffs to the table that have fed the region’s hungry bellies for hundreds of years. Namely, heirloom varietals that still carry the same wallop of flavor that they did hundreds of years ago with an orchard they have developed on Lisa’s family property in Lake County. “One of the things that really inspired our interest in cold-pressed juices and expanding that into Metro Kitchen + Drinkery is really our experience and interest in growing food and gardening,” Lisa explains. “There’s an orchard we established in anticipation of this sort of cafe and have multiple generations of family history of growing food and preparing food for the restaurant and cafe experience.” “In fact, it’s a little bit of an experimental orchard because we’re trying to grow there, heirloom plants,” Keith continues. “And I don’t mean heirloom meaning, like, they were popular in the 1960s or now, but like a French pair from the 1700s and really, really vintage, if you can say that … the trees aren’t that big yet, but can we get it to where we have some really unique heirloom things that we can feature here—it’s a hope one day to see if we can get there.” Until the fruits of their labor come to fruition at the orchard, the Musilli Johnsons have access to an abundance of fruits and vegetables with which to create their stunning selection of colorful salads, juices and soups. “We thought there’s such an opportunity just in this area because we have a number of friends who are farmers and have developed many more friends who are farmers so we have an incredible access to farmers growing food that we can pick up this morning and make into dishes just by this afternoon,” Lisa says. The dishes—like the sunny summer corn and squash salad bowl that boasts both raw and roasted corn, baby squash, juicy tomatoes, bright red peppers and sumptuous avocado, topped with a tangy lime vinaigrette or the sweet and savory organic peach and mozzarella sandwich drizzled with a balsamic reduction, perched on a bed of onion jam and nestled between soft pillows of whole grain bread, speak to their creator’s passion for food. While Keith SubmergeMag.com

tends to the food offerings, Olmsted takes the helm at concocting the perfect fruit and veggie combinations in crafting their cold-pressed juice selections. “I create the menus and design the dishes. Lisa and I, before doing this, had been doing catering for a long, long time—like 15 years, here and there—and all that time we used to speak about how it was really her passion and she loved being in food service and I was doing other totally different professional things and then we decided it was time that we start this,” Keith explains. But don’t let Metro’s cold-pressed, raw food, whole foods and organic-centric philosophy fool you—the eatery also caters to those who are more inclined to, well, a more carnivorous approach to sustaining themselves. With sandwich options that include ham and brie, curry chicken salad adorned with chewy golden raisins and a prosciutto offering slathered with organic sundried tomato tapenade, roasted red peppers and avocado. As the cafe celebrates its one-year anniversary at the WAL Public Market, the trio is looking to the future and launching in the coming months a new branding program and introducing their brunch menu along with a suite of juice cleanse options. According to Olmsted, Metro’s juice architect, being nimble is key to producing a product that is both delicious and rich in nutrients. “One of the things I do is keep up with the seasons, [for instance our juice], Summer Roots, fulfils an important role in the juice cleanse architecture,” Olmsted explains. “It has both red and purple phytonutrients in it—the micronutrients that come from plants—and so it’s important to have a juice that fills that role all year. But apples right now are both expensive and either from Washington or Chile and they’re not particularly good, so we’ve replaced the apples in the Summer Roots with watermelon and it lightens it up a bit, which is nice when the temperature gets to be in the hundreds.” At this eatery, patrons most certainly taste the rainbow—which just isn’t a tasty endeavor but, according to Olmsted, is a gateway to better health. “There are four key things to high-level nutrition that we follow,” Olmsted says. “One is balancing the macros—the fat, protein and carbohydrates—and the other three things are as you increase the percentage of calories from plants and decrease the percentage that come from animals, and increase the percentage of calories that come from whole foods and decrease the amount that come from refined foods, and as you increase the number of plant colors you eat per day you increase your longevity.”

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At A r m ’ s L e n g t h Post-hardcore supergroup Sianvar get lost, stay lost on debut LP Words Ryan J. Prado • photo Daniel DAre

f existing as a band separated by state lines, conflicting tour schedules and regular old life hiccups were big hurdles to leap, no one told Sianvar. The post-hardcore supergroup—consisting of Will Swan (Dance Gavin Dance), Donovan Melero (Hail the Sun), Sergio Medina (Stolas), Joe Arrington and Michael Franzino (A Lot Like Birds)—are without a doubt one of the hardest-working musical entities currently making the rounds not just in the Sacramento area, but probably in much of North America. When I catch up with Medina, he’s pulled over at a truck stop with about a two-day drive left to his home in Las Vegas from outside New York City, where his band Stolas has cut their sophomore record with producer Mike Watts. Medina is doing the long haul at a brisk pace in order to have enough time to relax and rehearse before Sianvar begins a month-long tour throughout the West Coast. On top of the rush between his recording with Stolas across the country and the impending Sianvar record release and tour, vocalist Melero recently completed a run of dates with Hail the Sun after finishing up the band’s third full-length, Culture Scars. Swan and Dance Gavin Dance have plans for a new record, as does A Lot Like Birds, both of which will almost certainly call for touring. It’s a maddeningsounding schedule that necessitates a lot of longdistance decisions for Sianvar. “I used to think ‘fuck, how would that work as a band?’” says Medina of Sianvar’s scattered members.

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“That didn’t seem like a way to function in my head. It’s been perfectly normal for us in Sianvar, though. For me it’s just something we gotta do to operate and continue, and to me it’s not very much a big deal.” Stay Lost, Sianvar’s debut LP, assumes a frantic pace not unlike what you’d expect the sum of each member’s other bands might coalesce into. Heavy guitar effects add sonic flourishes to progressive technicality on songs like the album’s first single, “Omniphobia,” a paranormal meditation set to caterwauling emo aggression. Fans of Melero’s Hail the Sun will revel in his Anthony Green-like range, while fans of post-prog giants like The Mars Volta will hang on every chord change and phrase manipulated by the Swan-Medina tandem. It’s a relentless kind of racket best served repeatedly for its full effects to become absorbed, like any good progressive band. The songwriting, according to Medina, and as you may well imagine, can be tedious. “Sometimes something will stick and I’ll want to change it and put it under a microscope and say, ‘Why did we do this? Why don’t we do this?’ explains Medina. “Will will say, ‘Why do you want to change it? It already feels good.’ I think as a musician I want to think something cool shouldn’t have sprouted that quickly. There were a lot of times when we were writing the album with those kinds of moments where we’d do something cool and then Will would get out his phone and we’d record very quickly so we wouldn’t forget it.”

Adding to the disjointed nature of the record is the fact that by virtue of the band’s schedules, they went in weeks apart for the recording sessions that resulted in Stay Lost. Far be it for you to be able to tell, though. Songs as frantic and ruthless as “Anticoagulant” or “Psychosis Succumbing” are testaments to the band’s innate songwriting chemistry—a melodic maelstrom made explicitly for the sordid corners of your psyche. Despite the extra effort obviously necessary for Sianvar to exist, Medina insists that the band member’s other groups are supportive. “It was a little delicate at first for A Lot Like Birds because it was their whole rhythm section playing in Sianvar,” admits Medina. “That quickly blew over, though. Stolas is the newest band out of the four of us, so we’re at the bottom, but anything that’s come from Sianvar has only helped us. My bandmates have always been cool with that.” It behooves Medina and the rest of Sianvar to strike out with their own identity, too. While the band can’t help but wear its incestuous influences on its sleeve, Sianvar is probably more concerned with being super good than being a supergroup. “Nothing we’ve come up with has been deliberately trying to be this or that,” says Medina. “It’s bound to happen that some parts end up sounding like DGD or Hail the Sun. But we definitely strive to make sure this band, not only musically but with the way we present ourselves, goes with Sianvar’s vibe and makes it different and makes it standout as its own other band,

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not just a side project of a bunch of musicians.” Produced by Dryw Owens at Roseville’s Little Russia Recordings, Sianvar embellished their lofty aural alchemy to huge heights, with Owens encouraging the copious use of pedals to propel the band’s strong rhythmic talents to wall-of-sound levels. Songs like “BedRoots” are practically void of dynamic shifts, approximating the kind of fantasy-prog decadence of Yes, Trans-Siberian Orchestra or the indulgent depths of black metal luminaries like Gorgoroth.

“It’s bound to happen that some parts end up sounding like DGD or Hail the Sun. But we definitely strive to make sure this band, not only musically but with the way we present ourselves, goes with Sianvar’s vibe and makes it different and makes it standout as its own other band, not just a side project of a bunch of musicians.” – Sianvar’s Sergio Medina on distinguishing Sianvar from the members’ other bands.

Interestingly, it’s probably safe to say that Sianvar’s muses were nowhere near any of the aforementioned artists, and it’s ironic that toward the end of “BedRoots,” some of the jazz fusion leanings of Swan’s DGD-compositions are finally unveiled a bit. The band’s fearless exploration of deafening squalls of sound is admirable, if only when it’s contrasted a bit by a spoonful of soulful sugar. With so much on the horizon for each member of Sianvar’s other bands, it’s unsurprising that it will be difficult to maintain the momentum for the group beyond the upcoming tour and release, being facilitated by Swan’s label, Blue Swan. “We don’t really think about it but kids at shows think it’s crazy that we’re all in a band together,” says Medina. “I don’t really think of it that much, but it is kind of a cool thing. It’s a very family-oriented work flow.”

Sianvar will be celebrating the release of their first full-length Stay Lost on Aug. 5 with a show at The Boardwalk, located at 9426 Greenback Lane in Orangevale. This all-ages show will get started at 6:30 p.m. with special guests My Iron Lung, Save Us from the Archon, Subtlety and A Foreign Affair. Tickets are $12 in advance, $14 the day of the show and are available online at Theboardwalkpresents.com.

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1810 Gallery Displays the Dynamic Ceramics of Clarissa Pezone in her Exquisite Corpse Collection Words Andrew C. Russell

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aroque” is a term of towering richness. Often, we take it as a descriptor for any number of classicist tropes, those that bring to mind images of ornate and harmonious displays of decorative order. But there is another, antiquated half of the definition, taken from an old jeweler’s term referring to pearls of irregular shapes. It describes the mineral’s tendency to transgress any imposed notions of order, to twist into any shape its inner life compels it toward. In the natural world, the baroque is something bizarre, even grotesque. It is the art of the coral reef, where strange creatures grow, bloom, burrow and colonize across any hospitable surface. I’m reminded of this when gazing at Black Widow, one of the newer earthenware sculptures by Clarissa Pezone. It is the torso of a woman, gesturing delicately upward in a state of repose, quite human-like, by way of the sea nymph or the arachnid. Her skin is blooming with plants, desert flowers, spiders and barnacles, and a dozen glowing-white eyes. It is an alien re-imagining of The Birth of Venus. Across the room, a cactus emerges from the protective cocoon of a human body; miniature vessels and mugs sprout rows of realistic teeth, jarring but elegant, like the anthropoid stand-in for pearls in an ancient inland kingdom. Each item in the showing is startlingly realized, even though Pezone is still in the thick of her own artistic discovery. Exquisite Corpse, the artist’s latest exhibit at 1810 Gallery, is a feast of different techniques she has been working on over the past year or so, all to success. The few constants in the items on display are the medium—ceramics and the mastery of texture. Some of her newer pieces eschew the phantasmagoria of her surreal work for a brilliant human realism, some of them the product of a workshop she recently took with world-renowned Tip Toland. Pezone is a true seeker, whose work is full of beauty, humor and otherworldliness in equal measure. We took the chance to visit the artist and her creations in person at 1810 Gallery, where they will be on display until the end of the month. We learned about the goals, themes and imagery that keep her artistic gears furiously whirring.

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How did you get your start, what materials do you use and how would you describe your style? I’ve been working with ceramics for about seven years. I got started at Humboldt State, kind of accidentally. I just went to a [sculpture] class and I really liked it. I use two different kinds of clay and firing processes, so the sculpture is first made with a low-fire sculpture clay, and then the high-fire stock is made of porcelain. I’d describe my style as surreal and figurative. I’m interested in texture and the process of making textures. In the work I’ve been making in the past year, I have been focusing mostly on surreal portraits—busts or half figures— that relate to the idea of growth and decay. I think there’s something interesting about an object being both beautiful and ornate, as well as grotesque, abject and off-putting. I am aiming for the gray area in-between.

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How did you pick the title for your show? Exquisite Corpse is a famous game that the surrealists used to play to generate ideas. It’s where you take a folded piece of paper and write or draw a story or picture fragment. You could draw a person, with the head, shoulders, and the rest of the body drawn by four different people, and come up with this weird monster of different elements, because you have no idea what was drawn by the person before you. The term just had a ring to it, and it seemed to make sense on some weird level, because it’s a bunch of wildly different works put together that might not make sense. They’re kind of alien sometimes.

What are you focusing on in your art in the near future? Right now I’ve been thinking more of portraiture and mixed media. I’d like to continue to get better at making the figure better and more realistic. I’m just trying to build things solid, and really hone in on making things convincing as a human body. I’m not that interested in making hyper-realistic figures, like Ron Mueck, where you walk in and it actually looks like a human body, and you’re like, “Whoa! That’s disconcerting!” I still want it to look like it’s clay. I like the idea that it’s convincing enough so you can look at it and relate on a human level, but not on an uncanny level. I’ll still keep it surreal.

The items that stood out to me at first were these coffee mugs with a human teeth design. How did these come about? The tooth mugs were one of the first things I started making in ceramics. The earliest ones I did were so shitty. They’re really funny to look at now. They don’t look like teeth—more like little piano keys. Just slowly over time, I started honing in on it. I just like teeth as objects, when you take them out of their context and put them somewhere else, they have the potential to look interesting. Also, when you drink coffee out of them, the coffee actually stains them like it would your teeth. It washes off afterward though!

What draws you to the themes of anatomy, and being taken over by other life forms? A lot of the images I look at are the anatomical drawings and medical cross-sections, especially with the older stuff, that was based more in drawing than in actually sculpting with three-dimensional objects. The “blooming” effect only came about in the past year, I think. I lived up north for about seven years, and for some reason I wasn’t making stuff with flowers or barnacles up there, and then I moved down here, and for some reason, the oceanic theme took over. I think it’s because I really admire the work of Jason deCaires Taylor, who makes cement casts of people and places them underwater—you might have seen them, like figures holding hands standing in a circle. I was looking at images of them after they’d been underwater for years, the amount of life that accumulated and how beautiful it was, so maybe that was part of the reason that my pieces started looking like they were being “taken over.”

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Do you have a favorite piece in Exquisite Corpse? I’m torn between the last two I made before the show. This one [bust of a grumpy man] is my favorite because it’s a new technique I’d never tried before, which I did in a workshop with Tip Toland, who’s one of my heroes. I really admire her, and it was fun to build in a different style, too. The other ones are all built using coils, so they’re hollow, but this one I built solid and hollowed out afterward. I was trying something new and working from a model, which is much better than trying to imagine anatomy. My next favorite is that one [cactus lady sculpture], which is more surreal. That was my first time doing mixed media, putting the nails on the surface of the cactus. The clay had a mind of its own, too. I was building the body for her and it was kind of slumping a bit, because I was trying to build too fast, and then I thought, hmm … “I kind of want to make that into a fat roll [laughs].” I trust my instincts.

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7.18 Monday

Cafe Colonial City Mouse, Strange Party, Dead Dads, 8 p.m. Cal Expo California State Fair: Styx, 8 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. Fox & Goose Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m. Harlow’s Culture Shock World, Inferno Friendship Society, 7 p.m. Louie’s Cocktail Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m. LowBrau Motown on Monday’s w/ DJ Epik, 9 p.m. Luna’s Cafe Nebraska Mondays hosted by Ross Hammond, 7:30 p.m. On The Y Karaoke, 8 p.m.

7.19 Tuesday

Cal Expo California State Fair: Matchbox Twenty Two, 8 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. Dive Bar Full Moon! w/ CFR, 9:30 p.m. Harlow’s Avery Sunshine, 5:30 p.m. Kupros Craft House Open Mic, 8 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Beginning Bluegrass Club, 6 p.m. Old Ironsides Karaoke, 9 p.m. On The Y Karaoke, 8 p.m. Pine Cove Open Mic Night, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Rock On! Live Band Karaoke, 8:30 p.m. Press Club Revolt w/ Dream In Red, James Perry, DJ Lady Grey, 9 p.m. Torch Club Lauren Wakefield, 5:30 p.m.; Michael Ray, Jette, Rich Corporation, 8 p.m.

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7.20 Wednesday

Bar 101 Open Mic, 7:30 p.m. Blue Lamp Keith Wallace, 8 p.m. Cal Expo California State Fair: Pointer Sisters, 8 p.m. Club Car The Double Shots, 7:30 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. Dive Bar Open Mic, 8 p.m. El Dorado Saloon Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m. Fox & Goose All Vinyl Wednesdays w/ DJ AAKnuff, 8 p.m. Mix DJ Gabe Xavier, Fashen, 9 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Acoustic Open Mic, 6 p.m. Old Ironsides Open Mic, 9 p.m. Palladio (Folsom) Summer Concert Series: Island of Black and White, 7 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Local Licks Free Music Series, 8 p.m. Shine Midtown Out Loud, 8 p.m. Sophia’s Thai Kitchen Open Mic, 7 p.m. Starlite Lounge Snuff Redux, Great Spiders, Beerwine King, 9 p.m. Torch Club Singer-Songwriter Showcase In the Round: Gavin Caanan, Jessica Malone, Jason McAlister, Alex Walker, 5:30 p.m.; Josh Windmiller, Sam Chase, 50Watt Heavy, 9 p.m.

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Ace of Spades P-Lo, Noodles, Caleborate, 7 p.m. Bar 101 Karaoke, 7:30 p.m. Berryessa Brewing Co. Abalone Grey, 5 p.m. Blue Lamp Mone’t Jezebelle’s Army, 8 p.m. Cal Expo California State Fair: Lincoln Brewster, 8 p.m. Capitol Garage Karaoke w/ Jeff Jenkins, 10 p.m. Club Car Songwriters Showcase, 8 p.m.

Concerts in the Park Some Fear None Cemetery Sun, Sages, The Heartbreak Time Machine, DJ Oasis Cesar Chavez Plaza 5 p.m.

Issue 218 • July 18 – August 1, 2016

Crocker Art Museum Jazz Night: Greg Chambers, The Bumptet, 5:30 p.m. Davis Odd Fellows Hall Jon Hatamiya and Kyle Athayde Big Band, 7 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. District 30 Jordan Suckley, 10 p.m. Dive Bar Dueling Pianos, 9 p.m. Fox & Goose The Mike Justis Band, 8 p.m. Harlow’s Calico the Band, 7 p.m. Lakeview Commons (South Lake Tahoe) Live at Lakeview w/ Vokab Kompany, Black Star Safari, 4:30 p.m. Louie’s Cocktail Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m. Mix DJ Eddie Edul, DJ Peeti V, 9 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Songwriter Showcase w/ Billy Buckman, 7 p.m. Old Ironsides Open Acoustic Jam, 8 p.m. On The Y Karaoke, 8 p.m. Owl Club Open Mic, 8 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Jeff Ricketts & Dirt Road Band, 9:30 p.m. Shine Sac’s Coolest Jazz Jam, 8 p.m. Sophia’s Thai Kitchen Madeline Kenney, Idea The Artist, Carly Bond, 9 p.m. Torch Club X Trio, 5 p.m. Village Park Fair Oaks Concerts in the Park: Matt Rainey and Dippin’ Sauce, 6:30 p.m.

Cesar Chavez Plaza Concerts In the Park: Some Fear None, Cemetery Sun, Sages, The Heartbreak Time Machine, DJ Oasis, 5 p.m. The Colony The Jim Kelly Kung Fu Orchestra, Adhdod, Internal, Illicit Trade, Cold Trap, 8 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. District 30 DJ DM, 10 p.m. Fox & Goose Yours Truly, Michelle w/ JonEmery, 9 p.m. Golden Bear DJ Crook, 10 p.m. Gold Country Lanes (Sutter Creek) C.T. Locke: DJ, Sing & Dance, 6:30 p.m. Harlow’s The Joy Formidable, 8 p.m. Kupros Craft House Tent City Christ, 9:30 p.m. Luna’s Cafe Singer-Songwriter Open Mic, 3:30 p.m. Mix DJ Slick D, 9 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Open Mic Night, 6 p.m. Old Ironsides The Machetes, Ebb Tide, Bailey Zindel, 9 p.m. On The Y Nothing But Losers, Broke Down Wasted, Worn Thin, 8 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub 8 Track Massacre, 10 p.m. Press Club DJ Rue, 9 p.m. Red Hawk Casino Popular Demand, 4 p.m.; Brodie Stewart Band, 9:30 p.m. Sacramento Piano Conservatory Geoffrey Keezer and Gillian Margot, 7 p.m. Shine Pine Street Ramblers, Scratchdog String Band, Shiloh & Marion, 8 p.m. Starlite Lounge Oryx, Isotope, 8 p.m. Swabbies on the River Garratt Wilkin & The Parrotheads, 6 p.m. Thunder Valley Casino Resort The Turtles, Chuck Negron, Gary Puckett and more, 7 p.m. Torch Club Keaton Simons, 5:30 p.m.; Aki Kumar, 9 p.m.

Ace of Spades Carcass, Crowbar, Ghoul, Night Demon, 6:30 p.m. Bar 101 Ken Koenig Band, 9:30 p.m. Berryessa Brewing Co. What’s Left, 5 p.m. Blue Lamp Boney Jay, Levi Moses, Nameless, Young Taxx, The Precipice, Fatz Ali, J Creep, Kombat W/A K, Thumperru, Darian Daily, Ase Royal, 8 p.m. The Boardwalk Husalah, 7 p.m. Capitol Garage Fyah Fridays w/ DJ Jaytwo, 10 p.m. Cal Expo California State Fair: Don Felder, 8 p.m.

Saturday

Ace of Spades Julieta Venegas, 7 p.m. Bar 101 Adrian Bellue, 9:30 p.m. Berryessa Brewing Co. Bluescasters, 3 p.m. Blue Lamp Slap Shot, Fang, Hoods, MDSO, Cold Trap, Black Saddle Hookers, 8 p.m. Cache Creek Casino UB40, 8 p.m. Cafe Colonial Dehumanized, Dysentery, Splattered, Newtdick, 8 p.m. Capitol Garage Feel Good Saturday’s w/ DJ Epik, 10 p.m. Cal Expo California State Fair: Joe Nichols, 8 p.m.

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Nacho Picasso Avatar Darko, Kurt Hustle, SneakGuapo, Scumbagz Blue Lamp 8 p.m.

Carmichael Park Todd Morgan and the Emblems, 6:30 p.m. The Colony Peace Killers, Greenriver Thrillers, Klaw, Crimson Eye, 8 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. Fox & Goose The Stummies, 9 p.m. Harlow’s Ghost of the Robot, Punchout, Radio Helmet, Metal Falcon, 5 p.m. Harveys Lake Tahoe Tim McGraw, 7:30 p.m. KBAR Z Rokk, 9 p.m. Kupros Craft House 4 Guys From Reno, 9:30 p.m. Luna’s Cafe Rich Driver, Julie Meyer, James Israel, 8 p.m. Mix DJ Eddie Edul, 9 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Free Ukulele Class, 1 p.m. Old Ironsides Chum, Asphalt Socialites, Avaleya and The Glitterhawks, 9 p.m. On The Y Karaoke, 9 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Lost In Suburbia, 10 p.m. Press Club DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m. Red Hawk Casino Thunder Cover, 10 p.m. Red Lion Woodlake Hotel Mindi Abair and The Boneshakers, 7:30 p.m. Shine Glass House, Love Mischief, 8 p.m. Sophia’s Thai Kitchen Grex, Pastel Dream, The Lurk, 9 p.m. Starlite Lounge Sama Dams, Deep Pools, Prvlgs, 8 p.m. Swabbies on the River Bump City ReUnion, 2 p.m.; Savannah Blue, 7 p.m. Thunder Valley Casino Resort Barenaked Ladies, OMD, Howard Jones, 6 p.m. Torch Club Rich McCulley, 5:30 p.m.; Mike Eldred Trio, 9 p.m.

7.24 sunday

Berryessa Brewing Co. Rogue Rage Duo, 3 p.m. Blue Lamp JP tha Hustler, Big Legion, Sly Z Wicked, Brett As Is, J. Terrible, Teo, Allworldx, Exodus Stray & DBoy Da Villain, Spittlez, Skrewface, 7 p.m. The Boardwalk The Acacia Strain, Oceano, Knocked Loose, Culture Killer, To the Wind, End the Fight, 6 p.m. Cache Creek Casino Asleep At The Wheel, 5 p.m. Cafe Colonial Spanish Love Songs, Reverse The Knife, Daydream, 8 p.m. Capitol Garage Karaoke w/ Jeff Jenkins, 9 p.m.

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7.25 monday

Cafe Colonial Spanish Love Songs, Reverse The Knife, Daydream, 8 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. Fox & Goose Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m. Louie’s Cocktail Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m. LowBrau Motown on Monday’s w/ DJ Epik, 9 p.m. Luna’s Cafe Nebraska Mondays hosted by Ross Hammond, 7:30 p.m. On The Y Karaoke, 8 p.m.

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7.27

Ace of Spades Savages, 7 p.m. Blue Lamp Nacho Picasso, Avatar Darko, Kurt Hustle, SneakGuapo, Scumbagz, 8 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. Dive Bar Johnny Gold Trio, 9:30 p.m. Kupros Craft House Open Mic, 8 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Third Place Band, 3 p.m. Old Ironsides Karaoke, 9 p.m. Pine Cove Open Mic Night, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Rock On! Live Band Karaoke, 8:30 p.m. Torch Club Richard March, 5:30 p.m.; Michael Ray, 8 p.m.

7.27 wednesday

Ace of Spades Belanova, 7 p.m. Bar 101 Open Mic, 7:30 p.m. Blue Lamp A. Payne (EP Release), 9 p.m. Cafe Colonial King Bloom, Hit Me Harold, 8 p.m. Center for the Arts Paul Thorn Band, 8 p.m. Club Car The Double Shots, 7:30 p.m. Crest Theatre The Yardbirds, 6:30 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. District 30 Billy Lane, 10 p.m. El Dorado Saloon Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m. Fox & Goose All Vinyl Wednesdays w/ DJ AAKnuff, 8 p.m. Harlow’s The James Hunter Six, 6 p.m. Harveys Lake Tahoe Keith Urban, Brett Eldrege, Maren Morris, 7 p.m. Ironstone Ampitheatre (Murphys) Sublime with Rome, 6:30 p.m. Mix DJ Gabe Xavier, DJ Peeti V, 9 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Acoustic Open Mic, 6 p.m. Old Ironsides Open Mic, 9 p.m. Palladio (Folsom) Summer Concert Series: Rebel Yell, 7 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Local Licks Free Music Series, 8 p.m. Sophia’s Thai Kitchen Open Mic, 7 p.m. Torch Club Singer-Songwriter Showcase In the Round: Gavin Caanan, Jessica Malone, Jason McAlister, Alex Walker, 5:30 p.m.; Jessica Malone, Caitlin Jemma & The Goodness, 9 p.m.

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Ace of Spades Ghostface Killah, Raekwon, 7 p.m. Bar 101 Karaoke, 7:30 p.m. Berryessa Brewing Co. Sactown Playboys, 5 p.m. Blue Lamp The Draft, 8 p.m. Capitol Garage Karaoke w/ Jeff Jenkins, 10 p.m. Club Car Songwriters Showcase, 8 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. District 30 Lunice, 10 p.m. Dive Bar Dueling Pianos, 9 p.m. Fox & Goose Chicken & Dumpling, 8 p.m. Gold Lion Arts Itasca, Sarah Louise, Ross Hammond and Dax Compise, 7:30 p.m. Harlow’s Richie Spice and the Element Band, 9 p.m. Lakeview Commons (South Lake Tahoe) Live at Lakeview w/ Jah Sun, Moonbase, 4:30 p.m. Louie’s Cocktail Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m. Mix DJ Eddie Edul, DJ Peeti V, 9 p.m. Owl Club Open Mic, 8 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Roadside Flare, 9:30 p.m. Shine Sac’s Coolest Jazz Jam, 8 p.m. Sophia’s Thai Kitchen The Mystery Lights, 9 p.m. Starlite Lounge Atriarch, Sabbath Assembly, Cura Cochino, Barren Altar, 8 p.m. Torch Club X Trio, 5:30 p.m.; Pine Street Ramblers, 9 p.m. Village Park Fair Oaks Concerts in the Park: The Lincoln Highway Band, 6:30 p.m.

7.29 FRIDAY

Ace of Spades Biz Markie, DJ Oasis, 7 p.m. Bar 101 Psykicks, 9:30 p.m. Berryessa Brewing Co. Comanche Joey, 5 p.m. Blue Lamp Green Jello Punk Rock Puppet Show, MAXXX, Hal Cones, Spacewalker, 8 p.m. The Boardwalk Letlive, Seahaven, Silver Snakes, Night Verses, 6 p.m. Cafe Colonial Alarms, Cross Class, Final Decay, 8 p.m. Capitol Garage Fyah Fridays w/ DJ Jaytwo, 10 p.m. Cesar Chavez Plaza Concerts In the Park: The Brodys, The J Band, Trapacana, The Heartbreak Time Machine, Joseph One, 5 p.m.

Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. District 30 Sharam, 10 p.m. Fox & Goose The Storytellers, Honey B & the Cultivation, 9 p.m. Golden Bear DJ Crook, 10 p.m. Gold Country Lanes (Sutter Creek) C.T. Locke: DJ, Sing & Dance, 6:30 p.m. Harlow’s Jonathan Richman feat. Tommy Larkins, 6 p.m.; Dirty Revival, 9 p.m. Kupros Craft House Economics, 9:30 p.m. Luna’s Cafe Emma Simpson, Samantha Valentine, Maddie Edel, 8 p.m. Mix DJ Slick D, 9 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Open Mic Night, 6 p.m. Old Ironsides Mondo Deco, Vasas, Monster Treasure, Okay Urge, 9 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Rockstar Parking, 10 p.m. Press Club DJ Rue, 9 p.m. Red Hawk Casino Kenny Frye, 4 p.m.; Night Fever, 9:30 p.m. The Sacramento Gateway Summer Concert Series: Nickel Slots, 6 p.m. Shine The Earls of Newtown, The Odd Job Ensemble, 8 p.m. Starlite Lounge NMBRSTTN, Separate Spines, MRJS, Not, 8 p.m. Swabbies on the River Foreigner Unauthorized, 6 p.m. Thunder Valley Casino Resort Vince Neil, Queensrÿche, Great White, 6:30 p.m. Torch Club Pailer & Fratis, 5:30 p.m.; Mojo Green, 9 p.m. Toyota Amphitheatre Dead & Company, 7:30 p.m.

7.30 Saturday

Ace of Spades Steel Pulse, 7 p.m. Bar 101 Inside Story, 9:30 p.m. Berryessa Brewing Co. The Hucklebucks, 3 p.m. Blue Lamp AP9, 8 p.m. Cache Creek Casino Tony Orlando, 8 p.m. Capitol Garage Feel Good Saturday’s w/ DJ Epik, 10 p.m. Carmichael Park Group Therapy, 6:30 p.m. Community Center Theater Gurdas Maan, 7:30 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. District 30 Billy Lane, 10 p.m. Ettore’s European Bakery and Restaurant Ava Lemert, 6 p.m. Fair Oaks Veterans Memorial Amphitheatre The New Christy Minstrels Benefit Concert, 6:30 p.m. Fox & Goose The Working Man’s Blues Band, Mango Jennings, 9 p.m.

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Harlow’s Albert Lee, Vikki Lee and Russ “The Muleskinner” Whitehead, 5:30 p.m. Helwig Winery Gregg Rolie Band, 8 p.m. KBAR Z Rokk, 9 p.m. Kupros Craft House Harley White Jr. Trio, 9:30 p.m. Luna’s Cafe David Houston & String Theory, Natalie Cortez, Grub Dog, 8 p.m. Midtown BarFly ZuhG, Big Sticky Mess, Smokey the Groove, 9 p.m. Mix DJ Eddie Edul, 9 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Free Ukulele Class, 1 p.m.; Nate Grimmy, 7 p.m. Old Ironsides Lights and Sirens, Tell the Wolves, Vinnie Guidera & The Dead Birds, 8 p.m. On The Y Toy Called God, Niviane, California Riot Act, 8:30 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Pins N Strikes (Elk Grove) Ray Goodman & Brown, Delfonics Revue, Patton Leatha, Shawn Raiford, 6 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Black Zepplin, 10 p.m. Press Club DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m. Red Hawk Casino The Spazmatics, 10 p.m. Shine Salt Wizard, Desario, Pierce & The Girls, 8 p.m. Starlite Lounge The Voodoo Dolls, Blame the Bishop, Empty Wagon, 8 p.m. Sticks Bar and Grill West of Leo, 8 p.m. Swabbies on the River Spazmatics, 1:30 p.m.; Maxx Cabello Jr., 5 p.m. Thunder Valley Casino Resort Papa Roach, Oleander, Some Fear None, 6:30 p.m. Torch Club Bob Woods & Pete Kmeto, 5:30 p.m.; Nickel Slots and The Californios, 9 p.m. Yolo County Fairgrounds (Woodland) Midnight Mass: The Mock Ups, Penny Ante, Thee Merry Widows, Cash Prophets, The RevTones, The White Barons, 3 p.m.

7.31 Sunday

Berryessa Brewing Co. Big Iron, 3 p.m. Cache Creek Casino Live Band Karaoke, 5 p.m. Cafe Colonial Caskitt, The Penske File, Dead Dads, Anime Aliens, 8 p.m. Capitol Garage Karaoke w/ Jeff Jenkins, 9 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 8 p.m. Fair Oaks Veterans Memorial Amphitheatre The New Christy Minstrels Benefit Concert, 6:30 p.m. Harlow’s Black Milk, Nat Turner, 8 p.m. Mix DJ Gabe Xavier, 8:30 p.m. Pear Fairgrounds (Courtland) Courtland Pear Fair w/ Jay Rollerz, Hip Service, Rachel Steele and Road 88, Mariachi Mi Tierra, 9 a.m. Powerhouse Pub Daniel Castro, 3 p.m. Press Club Sunday Night Soul Party w/ DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m. Red Hawk Casino The Corduroys, 1 p.m. Swabbies on the River Tres Hombres (ZZ Top Tribute), Lynette Skynyrd, 2:30 p.m. Torch Club Blues Jam, 4 p.m.; Front the Band, 8 p.m. Toyota Amphitheatre Brantley Gilbert, Justin Moore, Colt Ford, 7 p.m. William Curtis Park Music in the Park w/ Norman and the Boyz, 6 p.m.

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Bobby Lee, Butch Escobar, July 22 - 24, Fri. & Sat., 8 p.m. & 10 p.m.; Sun., 7 p.m. Sacramento Comedy Showcase, July 27, 8 p.m. Ian Bagg, Reggie Steele, Stephen Furey, July 28 - 31, Thurs., 8 p.m.; Fri. & Sat., 8 p.m. & 10 p.m.; Sun., 7 p.m. Sacramento Comedy Spot Open Mic, Sunday’s and Monday’s, 8 p.m. Improv Lab, Harold Night & Gordon Teams, Wednesday’s, 7 - 10 p.m. Cage Match & Improv Jam, Thursday’s, 8 - 10 p.m. Anti-Cooperation League, Saturday’s, 9 p.m. Tommy T’s Lil Duval, July 22 - 24 Kabir “Kabeezy” Singh, July 29 - 31

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8.01 monday

The Colony RAKTA, Cresca, Night Damage, 8 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. Fox & Goose Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m. Harlow’s BJ the Chicago Kid, Elhae, 6:30 p.m. Louie’s Cocktail Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m. LowBrau Motown on Monday’s w/ DJ Epik, 9 p.m. Luna’s Cafe Nebraska Mondays hosted by Ross Hammond, 7:30 p.m.

Misc. Comedy

Laughs Unlimited Best of Open Mic Showcase, July 19, 8 p.m. Say It Loud Comedy w/ Michael Calvin Jr., July 21, 8 p.m. Kermet Apio feat. Anderi Bailey, July 22 - 24, Fri. & Sat., 8 & 10:30 p.m.; Sun., 7 p.m. Eric Blake feat. Brent Pella, July 29 - 31, Fri. & Sat., 8 & 10:30 p.m.; Sun., 7 p.m. Luna’s Cafe Open Mic Comedy Hosted by Jaime Fernandez, every Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. Comix w/ Jamie Fernandez & Mike Cella, July 27, 8 p.m. Ooley Theater Comedy Night at the Ooley, every Thursday, 8 p.m. Punchline Comedy Club American Me Comedy, July 21, 8 p.m.

20th Street (Between J and K) Midtown Farmers Market, every Saturday, 8 a.m. Arden Fair Mall Elevate: An Art Exhibition Reveal Party feat. Garibaldi, Jon Reyes, Amber Delarosa and More, July 23, 5 p.m. Avid Reader (Sacramento) Wayne Pacelle Book Launch, July 20, 6 p.m. B Street Theatre Mainstage Series: Clever Little Lies, Through July 31 B3 Series: Constellations, Through July 30 Blue Cue Bar Bingo, Wednesday’s, 9 p.m. Blue Line Arts Gallery Art Exhibit: Membership Medley, July 15 - Aug. 20 The Boxing Donkey Trivia Night, every Tuesday, 8 p.m. Capitol Garage Geeks Who Drink Trivia Night, Wednesday’s, 9 p.m. Capitol Mall Greens Lunar Lunacy Ride, July 23, 7 p.m.

Carmichael Park Movies in the Park: Inside Out, July 22, 8:30 p.m.; Zootopia, July 29, 8:30 p.m. Colonial Heights Library Fenix Drum and Dance Company: Go for the Gold, July 28, 3 p.m. Colonial Theatre Cult Classic Summer Double: Hocus Pocus and The Lost Boys, July 30, 8 p.m. Crest Theatre Spirited Away (on 35 MM Film), July 23, 7:30 p.m.; July 24, 4 p.m. Strictly Ballroom, July 29, 7:30 p.m. Weird Science, July 30, 7:30 p.m. Crocker Art Museum Expression of Ink and Water: Student and Community Exhibition, Through Sept. 4 2016 High School Clean Air Contest, Through Sept. 4 Little Dreams in Glass and Metal: Enameling in America 1920 to the Present, Through Sept. 11 Ourselves Through the Lens: Photography from the Ramer Collection, Through Oct. 23 Fairytale Town Disney’s The Little Mermaid, Through july 24 Fox & Goose Pub Quiz, Tuesday’s, 7 p.m. Harris Center for the Arts Pamela Hayes Classical Ballet Theatre: Swan Lake Act II, July 23 & 24, 2 p.m. Historic Old Folsom Farmers’ Market, Saturdays, 8 a.m. Kupros Craft House Trivia with Triviology 101, Sundays, 7:30 p.m. Luna’s Cafe Poetry Unplugged, every Thursday, 8 p.m. Midtown BarFly Salsa Lessons, every Wednesday, 8 p.m. Nimbus Dam Recreation Area Standup Paddleboarding Demo Day, July 30, 9 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. Oak Park Brewing Co. Trivia Night, every Sunday, 8 p.m.

Pine Cove Trivia Night, Wednesday’s, 9 p.m. Pocket-Greenhaven Library Police Officer Storytime, July 19 & 26, 3:30 p.m. Press Club Flex Your Head Trivia, every Tuesday, 8 p.m. Renwood Winery Renwood Sip, Savor, and Sounds, July 30, 12 p.m. River Walk Park Off the Grid: Local Food, Brews, and Music, Sunday’s, 11 a.m. Sacramento State (CSUS) Junior Olympic Track and Field Championships, July 25 - 31 Southside Park Sactown Wings, July 31, 3 p.m. Sutter’s Fort State Historic Park Sacratomato Festival 2016, July 23, 4 p.m. Tommy T’s Fifty Shades of Men, July 27, 7 p.m. The Darling Clementines: Adult Variety Show, July 28, 8:30 p.m.

Tower Theatre Tower Classics: Batman, Aug. 1, 7 p.m. Track 7 Brewing Co. Chili Cook-Off, July 31, 12 p.m. Verge Center for the Arts Bangles by Lisa Rybovich Crallé; Rehearsals by Richard Haley, Through Aug. 21 Movie Night: Eva Hesse, July 21, 7 p.m. Veterans’ Memorial Center Theatre (Davis) Davis Shakespeare Festival Summer 2016, Through July 31 WAL Public Market Selections from the Short Center South, Through Aug. 3 Wells Fargo Pavilion Music Circus Presents: Cabaret, July 26 - 31 William Land Park Sacramento Shakespeare Festival 2016, Through July 31 Yolo Brewing Co. The Beer Yogis, July 31, 6:30 p.m.

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The grindhouse

Calm Down, It’s Just A Movie Ghostbusters Rated pg-13 Words Jake Sprecher It’s strange what gets politicized. A couple months ago, as I’m sure you heard, the Ghostbusters reboot became the center of a bizarre sexism controversy, with the voices of a small clique of weirdo, Internet male chauvinists leading the way for an outcry directed at the all-female cast. Which is completely insane. In fact, here are some things that would be considerably more sane than hating Ghostbusters on the merits of sexism: • Shaving your cat • Drinking lighter fluid • Moving to Modesto • Huffing Scotchgard • Listening to Kid Rock I, like most, can raise my hand as a fan of the original and still know that any intrinsic value or lack thereof from a reboot has nothing to do with gender and everything to do with acting and writing. Whoa … “intrinsic value?” We are talking about Ghostbusters, right? The tale of three broke pseudoscientists and their blue-collar buddy chasing ghosts around Manhattan in a 1959 Cadillac hearse called Ecto-1? I suppose I never fully grasped the inherent maleness of such fine art. Surely the feminine wiles of Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones could be no match for the comedic

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male genius of Paul Rudd, Ed Helms, Kevin Hart and … Jason Segel? YEEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOWWWWW! And after all that, after all the controversy and even a hot take from Donald Trump himself, Ghostbusters 2016 is finally available for public consumption. And you know what? There’s actually a lot of laughs! The premise borrows considerably from the original, with a trio of “scientists”—led by Erin Gilbert (Wiig) and Abby Yates (McCarthy) —seeking legitimacy after their first verifiable other-worldly encounter. At their side is Jillian Holtzmann (McKinnon), who, summoning parts Spangler and Venkman, is flat-out hilarious at times. Along the way the trio befriends Patty Tolan (Jones), an MTA employee with a knack for the city. Together they battle a nefarious janitor (Neil Casey) hellbent on releasing a smorgasbord of supernatural activity upon New York. If that doesn’t sound like rocket science, that’s because it isn’t. It’s three friends from SNL and a leading lady comedienne getting together to catch ghosts while hijinks ensue, which is both good and bad. The good part is the natural banter and humor the cast shares, likely stemming from familiarity and comfort. The writing itself isn’t great, but these women work so well with one another that they’re able to salvage even the flattest bits. The bad part is that with so much energy devoted to repartee, the story itself is muddled

and more or less an afterthought. And while movies like Ghostbusters are inescapably silly to begin with, there’s an unsung talent in presenting said silliness in a manner befitting semi-seriousness. This Ghostbusters has no Walter Peck antagonist, nor Dana Barrett protagonist. It’s basically gags, cameos and cool special effects. And if you’re really going to crack the nut in the PG-13, family friendly universe, you’ve gotta bring a little more story to the table. Case in point: Chris Hemsworth (Thor) as dumb hunk secretary Kevin. It was a cute bit at first, the reverse-sexism angle playing nicely. But they kept coming back to it, over and over, and Kevin quickly turned into Brick from Anchorman—a relentlessly stupid non sequitur. Take half the time spent on Kevin and put it towards the actual plot, and you’ve probably got an overall better product. That aside, this movie does not totally suck. It was never going to live up to the original, but franchise reboots never do, and to think that Ghostbusters was somehow immune or more sacred than any other yesteryear cash cow is ridiculous and unrealistic. And if it weren’t for all the deep-down misogyny and misplaced aggression harbored by a smattering of Neolithic half-wits, magazines like Submerge could publish movie reviews based strictly on merit without having to lean on sociopolitical issues. But until that time comes, let’s keep the conversation going.

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the shallow end Go Go Godzilla You may be running low on hope. I wouldn’t blame you. I can’t even keep track of all the tragic acts of violence that have been taking place over the past month. These range from an attempted military coup in Turkey; to yet another act of terrorism in Nice, France; to gun violence erupting all over the United States. It seems there’s no end to any of it. What’s compounding the situation is that no one seems to see eye to eye even on the little things, like Pokemon Go, which has become a lightning rod on Facebook for those who absolutely hate it so much they feel the need to post about, and those who must defend it at any cost. It’s this sort of environment we’re mired in as another presidential election is lurking on the calendar less than four months away, coiled in the deep like some giant sea serpent of legend, ready to strike at the sinking ship we know as humanity and gobble up whomever doesn’t die from drowning. With the major parties’ conventions just around the corner, we’re faced with probably the two most perfect candidates we could possibly have, given how polarized everyone seems to be. We’re left to choose between two people so polarizing that they’re polarizing the polarized. Creating … uh … like, even more polarization? I don’t know. It’s fucked up. That’s what I’m trying to say: Everything is fucked. Maybe that’s why it’s not surprising that in a recent poll by Public Policy Polling, as highlighted by Rachel Maddow, revealed that 13 percent of Americans would prefer a giant meteor hitting the Earth than voting Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump into the highest office in the land (while 7 percent, when asked to choose between the three, remained undecided). Given the direction we’re all going as a species, maybe a Giant Meteor wouldn’t be so bad. I’d imagine it would be a pretty quick and painless way to go. With all the satellites and telescopes we have, we’d probably have plenty of time to prepare ourselves for our impending doom. We could throw awesome barbecues and I bet there’d be some amazingly epic outdoor concert featuring every band ever, and they might even play for free considering all the money in the world won’t matter in the face of cosmic cataclysm. All of our petty differences would probably feel insignificant as Glorious Death rained down from above. It’s a thought anyway, but if you’d like to follow the Giant Meteor 2016

James Barone jb@submergemag.com campaign further, you can follow the latest developments on Twitter (@votegiantmeteor) and you can even buy a swanky bumper sticker, replete with its inspiring campaign slogan, “Just end it already,” from Amazon. I won’t be voting Giant Meteor in November, however. I know a simple vote won’t bring a world-destroying space rock down upon us (even if we probably deserve it). I only have one vote, and I don’t like to throw it away, which is why I never vote for the Green party candidate. I also like to think we’re not completely hopeless, even though everything is leading me to believe I should be. There’s gotta be someone who can save us, even if he’s not human. The other day, while walking down the street, I saw someone wearing a “Godzilla 2016” T-shirt and it made me chuckle. Not just because of the shirt’s great design (it was a simple graphic of a large campaign button with a headshot of Godzilla in the middle), but because of the man who was wearing it: He wasn’t a bearded hipster or even one of my stereotypically nerdy brethren, but a portly older gentleman in a jaunty cap, khaki shorts and white tube socks pulled halfway up his shins. Perhaps I was getting a glimpse of what I would look like in 25 years, but I digress. It got me thinking, though, that Godzilla would be a pretty electable candidate, even though he might not be eligible for the presidency being Japanese and all. Godzilla has a good deal of celebrity power behind him, which we see has worked for Trump, but I think he’d appeal to people on both sides of the political fence. As a giant fire-breathing monster who seems to be impervious to all human weaponry and capable of destroying entire cities by simply strolling through them, I’d wager he’d be pretty tough on terror. However, as a cautionary tale of humanity’s relationship and responsibility to be caretakers of the environment, I’d bet he’d be a champion for many environmental issues. And since he can only roar, his public addresses would certainly be brief and wouldn’t interrupt your regular television programming all that much. Gags like the Giant Meteor or Godzilla running for “president” are easy laughs, mostly because it seems every election leaves a good section of the populace disillusioned, which is bad, but at least there are some who can find the humor in it. That’s probably the only thing we can do. Until the meteor comes, of course.

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