Submerge Magazine: Issue 221 (August 29 - September 12, 2016) by Submerge Magazine

Dive into Sacramento & its Surrounding Areas august 29 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; september 12, 2016

# 221 Calling All Caped Crusaders Crocker Con is Back!

Ira Flatow The Sound of Science

The Golden Pony Caps Off Another Great Summer of THIS Midtown

tech n9ne KC Rap Royalty

Ways to Celebrate Regional Food + Beer

molly ringwald coming home

Sac Open Studios Art, Behind the Scenes

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$12 Comedy Mashup combines all forms of comedy into one hilarious show. This show will feature improv, stand-up, and sketch comedy performers from all over the country. 10 PM

Festival Sketch Showcase

$10 This sketch comedy showcase will feature Sacramento Comedy Spot’s house troupe, Secret Handshake Society, Tiny Muscles from Los Angeles, CA, and Nameless Numberhead from Charleston, SC.

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6 PM | Festival Improv Showcase | $10 This improv showcase features CHAD from San Francisco, CA and Mediocre Tongue Work from Reno, NV.

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$10 The Stand-Up New Talent Showcase features new stand-up comedians from Sacramento and surrounding areas. These new comedians have been impressing audiences across Sacramento.

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Some of the best stand-up comedians from around the country perform in one great show. Hosted by Sacramento’s favorite stand-up host, Robert Berry. 9 PM | Anti-Cooperation League | $12 Anti-Cooperation League (ACL) is the Comedy Spot’s flagship improv show. Information gathered from an interview with a special guest serves as inspiration for improvised comedy scenes. Special guests range from Hollywood directors and actors to local business owners and people with unique jobs. 10:30 PM | Festival

Musical Improv Showcase | $10

You like improv? You like musicals? See the Sacramento Comedy Spot’s house musical improv team YOU! The Musical and Flash Mob Musical in one great show.

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221 2016 Submerge: an independently owned entertainment/lifestyle publication available for free biweekly throughout the greater Sacramento area.

august 29 – september 12

Geek-O-Meter = Extremely High! Melissa welliver melissa@submergemag.com cofounder/ Editor in Chief/Art Director

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Setting up this issue, I couldn’t believe we were able to pull off these interviews. I mean, we have an interview with Molly Ringwald, from Pretty in Pink and The Breakfast Club fame; an interview with Ira freakin’ Flatow, NPR’s Science Friday God; and finally one of the hardest working rappers in the country, Tech N9ne! I’d like to think I’m a bit of a pop culture nerd. I’m familiar with most of the celebrities that are from here or have lived here like Tom Hanks, Greta Gerwig, Jessica Chastain, etc., but somehow I wasn’t hip to the fact that Molly Ringwald is originally from the Sacramento region. A couple years ago I was eating dinner at Zinfandel Grille on Fair Oaks Boulevard and our waitress was telling us about how jazz musician Bob Ringwald (Molly’s father) plays there regularly. She was encouraging us to come back to see him and also let us know that sometimes around the holidays, Molly returns to play with her dad. Since discovering that Molly plays jazz, I’ve never seen any official shows announced where she’s playing in our area. Well that was until this spring when we got word of Rocklin’s new Concerts at Quarry Park lineup. Lo and behold Molly and her father will be performing Saturday, Sept. 17 at Rocklin’s awesome new outdoor venue. Please check out our interview starting on page 20 to read about how jazz is her comfort music, why she chose acting over music and also learn a little about a new movie she’s in which will probably be coming out this fall. I always listen to the radio. I find myself to listening the same shows week in and week out, one of those being Science Friday on Sacramento’s NPR station, Capital Public Radio. So when I heard host Ira Flatow was coming to UC Davis, I thought I’d give it a shot and see if he’d take the time to do an interview with this li’l arts and culture rag. What do you know, I got an email back from Flatow personally saying he was interested! So please be sure to read our Q&A starting on page 22, then get your tickets for a live recording of Science Friday at the Mondavi Center at UC Davis on Sept. 24. Last but not least, our third large feature story is on Kansas City rapper Tech N9ne. In the eight-and-a-half years we’ve been publishing Submerge and the countless times he’s toured through Sacramento, it’s hard to believe we’ve never interviewed him. That’s only because his shows literally always sell out. So this time we jumped the gun a month before his show in order to feature him and as of press time, there are still tickets to see him at Ace of Spades on Tuesday, Sept. 27. Read up on what Tech N9ne’s got going on these days and why his music career is so successful. Here’s a hint: he writes what he knows and he makes sure to give back. Now flip to page 18 and take it in for yourself. Enjoy issue #221, Melissa

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Just as we were starting to really fall in love with them, it looks like Sacramento pop-punk band Little Tents is already hanging it up. Guitarist/ co-vocalist Lys Mayo (who plays in other bands like Dead Dads and is really a big part of the local punk scene) is unfortunately moving away from Sacramento at the end of September, but luckily for all of us, Little Tents has one last show on Sept. 9 at Blue Lamp with Success from Seattle, Broadway Calls from Portland and locals Bastards of Young. In just around two short years of being a band, Little Tents not only landed a cover of Submerge, but their seven-song debut Fun Colors also found its way onto our “Top Albums of 2015” list (at number four no less!). They were also nominated for two SAMMIES awards, earned a highly coveted slot on this year’s Concerts in the Park lineup opening for Authority Zero and Another Damn Disappointment, and they even made some waves outside of our little Sac bubble

by getting on the San Francisco-based indie music blog Thebaybridged.com’s “10 Sacramento Bands to Keep Your Eyes On” list. I was going to try to describe Little Tents’ sound, but I’ll just let Submerge contributor Josh Fernandez do it for me: “Little Tents is pop punk in the way Jawbreaker was pop punk—melodically interesting, catchy, lyrically expressive, yet just hard enough to make your conservative uncle say, ‘What the fuck is this shit?’” I fucking love that description. Anywho, if you personally know Lys or not (I actually don’t, I’m just a fan of all her work) the Sept. 9 show at Blue Lamp would be a good one to come out to. It kicks off at 8 p.m., it’s 21-and-over only and tickets are available for just $10 in advance at Punchandpiefest.com. Learn more about Little Tents at Facebook.com/littletents916 and listen to their super rad album at Littletents.bandcamp.com. Best of luck Lys, thanks for all the sweet tunes! Dive Into Sacramento & Its Surrounding Areas

The Optimistic Pessimist The Olympics have finally come to a close. The torch is extinguished and the Olympic flag has gone to Japan for the Tokyo Games, but not everything has passed. For Olympic gold medal swimmer and American hero, Ryan Lochte, the Rio Games just keep lingering like the green water he swallowed in the pool. There was an incident involving Lochte toward the end of the Games. If you were to ask Lochte what happened, he’d tell you that, while out celebrating with his teammates, he heroically tore down a dangerous sign, disarmed a ticking soap dispenser, drop kicked a menacing door and put out an exterior wall fire with his gold medal urine at a gas station in Rio. You know, basically your standard hero-level shit. And what did Ryan get for his heroism? He got robbed by a fake cop that hated swimming and America. Total buzzkill! Of course there are always two sides to every story and if you were to ask the Brazilian authorities what happened, they’d tell it a little differently. The Rio police believe that Lochte and Aqua Team America decided to trash a gas station on their way home from celebrating at

the bars like a bunch of bros. Supposedly, there wasn’t even a robbery. The police claim that a security guard stopped them and demanded money to cover the damages caused by the swimmers at the gas station. “Jeah right!” says Lochte, but that perfectly adequate answer wasn’t enough for the media to let the story die. Per usual, the press is on a mission to destroy another young white man’s life and they aren’t interested in letting the truth get in their way. They’ve spread the lies of the Rio police and made it so no one believes Ryan anymore, but Lochte is not going to allow this character assassination to continue unabated. The man that killed Bin Laden is no gas station pisser! You read that right, pal! Ryan Lochte is in the Navy SEAL Reserves and is a member of SEAL Team Six. Lochte was instrumental in Bin Laden’s capture, death and burial at sea. Up to this point, Ryan has remained quiet and humble about his covert adventures outside of the pool, but now that his character is under attack, he has decided it’s time to come clean about his time in the Middle East in an exclusive

The World According to Lochte interview with Submerge. You didn’t really believe that Osama Bin Laden was killed at his compound in the mountains of Pakistan, did you? According to Lochte, Bin Laden was captured in Pakistan and taken back to an aircraft carrier for questioning. Thinking the battle was won, the Navy invited a group of entertainers to the ship to perform at a celebration for the ship’s crew, but the performers turned out to be mercenaries under the direction of Al Qaeda and the ship’s crew was captured. The mercenaries freed Bin Laden and planned to escape via submarine, but their plans never came to fruition thanks to Navy SEAL Lieutenant Commander Ryan Lochte. Lochte posed as a cook on the ship during the mercenary attack to avoid being locked up with the rest of the SEALs. As Lochte tells it, he was then able to sneak up to the top deck and leap into the ocean to avoid capture. Lochte later emerged from the cold depths onto the deck of the enemy submarine just as Bin Laden was closing the hatch to make his escape. Ryan was able to flip the hatch open and pull Osama out by his beard just before the sub began its descent into the murky depths. In a final move

Bocephus Chigger bocephus@submergemag.com of desperation, Bin Laden squeezed a shot off from his pistol at Lochte’s head. Fortunately, Ryan was wearing his trusty diamond grill and the bullet ricocheted off his teeth and into the skull of Bin Laden, whose corpse sank into the sea forever. The real story was hidden from the makers of Zero Dark Thirty for Ryan’s protection, but now that the Rio Olympics are over, Lochte said it’s cool if we tell you all the truth. He’s not here for the glory, he just wants you to understand what kind of man he is. He is the kind of hero who isn’t interested in the fame that comes with heroism. Humble, kind, caring and patriot are the words that describe Ryan Lochte, not gas station pisser or door kicker. But haters are gonna hate and the Lochtenator knows the deal. Lochte once said, “You could literally be perfect and people would still hate you for being perfect,” and that’s the real story here. This isn’t about a 31-year-old grown man and professional athlete getting drunk and trashing a gas station in a foreign country like a dipshit, this is about tearing down a perfect man out of jealousy for his accomplishments. Just ask Ryan Lochte. He will tell you the truth.

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Take a Look Inside Local Artists’ Processes During the 11th Annual Sac Open Studios Tour • Sept. 10-11 & 17-18 If you’ve ever wanted to know what it looks like inside regional artist’s studios and workspaces, here’s your chance. Verge Center for the Arts is presenting the 11th Annual Sac Open Studios, a free, self-guided tour that spans across two weekends, Sept. 10–11 and Sept. 17–18. Upwards of 150 contemporary artists from the area are opening up their spaces for anyone and everyone to roll through, so be sure to pick up your free copy of the official Sac Open Studios guide (available now at many local businesses) to start planning out your own personal tour. Think of it as a choose-your-own-adventure art experience! You can interact with the different artists and purchase work directly from them in an intimate setting. There is also a big kick-off party at Verge (625 S St.) on Sept. 8 that will double as the opening of solo shows from Minneapolis artist Mathew Zefeldt and Sacramento artist Elisabeth Higgins O’Connor. Learn more at Vergeart.com.

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Capes and tights, oh my! It’s time to bust out your best superhero getup and head to Crocker Art Museum’s ArtMix Crocker Con! The museum’s fourth annual celebration of comic culture is going down on Thursday, Sept. 8 from 5–9 p.m. and will feature (you guessed it) an epic costume contest and tons of other fun things to look at and interact with, like mind-blowing “tape art” from Tapigami, dozens of vendor booths, local comic book artists and writers, independent game designers, character karaoke, a scavenger hunt, a masquerade parade and so much more. Sleeprockers will be spinning tunes all night, plus there will be drink and food specials as well. ArtMix goes down every second Thursday with creative rotating themes, and they’re usually geared toward adult audiences, but for Crocker Con it’s all-ages, so bring the whole fam! Sacramento Area Bicycle Advocates always provide ArtMix patrons with free bike valet, so feel free to ride to the event and be worry-free knowing your bicycle is under close watch. The event is free to Crocker members and just $10 for adults, $8 for college students, $5 for kids ages 7–17, and free for children 6 and under. For more information, visit Crockerartmuseum.org, call (916) 808-7000 or simply stop into the museum located at 216 O St. to chat with the front desk attendant. Dive Into Sacramento & Its Surrounding Areas

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NYC DJ Duo the Golden Pony to Headline the Final THIS Midtown Second Saturday Block Party of the Summer • Sept. 10 Time sure flies when you’re having fun. Summertime is unfortunately coming to an end and with it one of our favorite local concert series must close out as well. THIS Midtown, the beloved free Second Saturday block party that goes down on 20th Street in between J and K, is wrapping things up on Sept. 10. Headlining the final shebang will be the ultra-danceable, super-good-vibe bringers The Golden Pony, a house/ disco duo on tour all the way from Brooklyn, New York. They’re known for lighting up dancefloors with their funky remixes and killer originals, and they’ll probably still be covered in white dust when they play at THIS, because they have a few sets scheduled at Burning Man before they head our way. Providing support on Sept. 10 will be local groovers The Good Fortune, a great live band that you may have read about in Submerge in the past, as well as local DJs and original gangsters Shaun Slaughter and Adam Jay. Did we mention this party is free and allages? Because it is! No excuse to not come dance your faces off. Beer, wine and cocktails on site for those 21-and-over. Great eats all up and down the block too, along with a plethora of artists and vendors to support. THIS is basically a rad music festival that happens once a month and Submerge is happy/proud to (full disclosure) be one of the sponsors of it for the past three years. Past performing artists have included national acts like Yacht, Goldroom, Classixx, French Horn Rebellion plus many other credible touring bands and DJs, and there’s always locals on the bill too. The music starts at 5 p.m. so we’ll see you on 20th Street on Sept. 10 for the final block party of the summer! Visit Facebook. com/thismidtown for more details.

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2) Ginger Elizabeth is hosting a Custard Day event on Saturday, Sept. 3 where you can enjoy silky and delicious custard desserts prepared in cute little jars for just $6.50 each. GE is located at 1801 L St. You can call orders ahead of time up ‘till Thursday, Sept. 1 at (916) 706-1738. Learn more at Gingerelizabeth.com.

3) The California Craft Beer Summit is around the corner and brings three days of industry trade shows, tasting events, tap talks with brewery legends and much more. It all wraps up with a giant beer festival on the Capitol Mall. The whole thing runs Sept. 8–10 with more info and tickets available online at Californiacraftbeer.com.

4) Enjoy a reception and four-course dinner on the grounds of Sutter’s Fort State Historic Park at the Feast at the Fort event on Saturday, Sept. 10. Enjoy bites from local restaurants like Hock Farm, Hook & Ladder and more, plus drinks from New Helvetia Brewing Co., Bogle Vineyards and more. Runs from 6:30–10 p.m. and tickets are $85 per person.

5) On Sept. 24 head down to the Capitol Mall for the free Farm-to-Fork Festival from 11 a.m.–6 p.m. Food, wine and beer will be available to purchase from regional eateries and farms, plus there will be live music, interactive booths, live cooking demos and much more. Find information at Farmtofork.com.

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Words & photos Ronnie Cline Wanting to explore the elegant side of happy hour deals, I was in search of a restaurant known

happy hour menu, such as the cucumber bramble

Next came the Bag O’ Lucky Dog Ranch

reminded me that the dishes at Lucca were

(gin, lemon, cucumber and blackberry brandy),

Beef Jerky. This was indeed the first time I have

made with finesse—which was briefly forgotten

Don Quixote (tequila, aperol, lime and jalapeno)

ever had the option to order beef jerky from a

while chomping on jerky.

and the cosmonaut (vodka, triple sec, raspberry

restaurant and was expecting a small artisanal

and lime) but I opted for a Ruhstaller 1881 Red

paper bag filled with the dehydrated meat. To

attentive waitress placed a plate of sliced bread

Ale ($5), which paired well with the variety of

my surprise, my waitress arrived at the table

on the table, nonverbally letting me know that

items I was about to order.

offering three options of beef jerky (original,

said bread was solely there to be submerged in

Right before my final dish arrived my

Though a bit hesitant, I stayed true to the

teriyaki and peppered) packaged in the familiar

the briny, buttery, garlicky goodness that would

goal of getting the most bang for my happy hour

resealable plastic bags we all know. I went with

soon arrive; and though the mussels did arrive at the table quite a bit later than all of the other

to serve food that was slightly upscale; a place

buck; so as the waitress glided to the table I

the peppered variety and ripped open the bag

that wasn't necessarily known for being a bar.

promptly opened my Yelp app and “checked

as if I were leaving a convenience store—I’m not

bites, they ended up being a great way to cap

Since I was going to a place that was slightly

in” to receive a complimentary order of zucchini

going to lie, it was pretty fun. Right away I could

off a happy hour at Lucca.

more expensive, I bumped my spending limit up

chips. Always feeling a bit awkward when using

taste the superior quality of Dixon’s Lucky Dog

from the traditional Happy Hour Hound budget of

coupons or discounts, my waitress didn’t bat an

Ranch beef. The jerky was thick and had just

$20 to $25. True, that’s not a large increase, but it

eye and seemed more than happy to supply the

the right amount of tenderness. After realizing

Lucky Dog Ranch beef burger ($7) and shishito

allowed me to get that one extra dish to put this

pile of the veggie crisps. I also ordered the ricotta

how well beef jerky pairs with an ice cold beer,

peppers and halloumi ($6.50). Lucca’s happy

outing over the top.

gnocchi ($6), steamed mussels ($6) and of course

I’m surprised more restaurants don’t have it on

hour does get crowded fast and is first come first

the Bag O’ Lucky Dog Ranch Beef Jerky ($6) which

the menu.

serve so arrive early, be patient, and you will be

It didn’t take long to find many great options that were within walking distance from my house in Midtown, and after examining menus, I

brought my total to $23. The zucchini chips came out first, and

After the beef jerky arrived the food

instead of being haphazardly thrown onto a plate,

playgoers in search of a pre-show dinner before

one of those places that I have known about for

the deep-fried veggies arrived cascading out of a

heading around the corner to the Wells Fargo

years, yet for one reason or another have never

metal container lined with white butcher paper.

Pavilion. This wasn’t a problem since I was

actually been to. I find that dropping in on a nicer

Well worth the self-conscious Yelp check-in, the

content swigging back my drink while casually

restaurant during happy hour is a great way to

chips were slightly salted, perfectly crispy and a

gnawing on jerky and enjoying the atmosphere.

experience all they have to offer without breaking

great alternative to potato chips, providing that

Before I knew it the ricotta gnocchi arrived.

the bank.

much needed base layer when consuming happy

Well worth the wait, the soft starchy pillows

hour drinks.

smothered in a bright marinara sauce quickly

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rewarded with an upscale happy hour experience.

service slowed a bit due to the flood of hungry

decided on Lucca on 16th and J streets. Lucca is

Lucca has some great cocktails ($6) on their

There were many other items on the happy hour menu that I look forward to trying, like the

Happy hour at Lucca is 3–6 p.m. Monday–Wednesday, 3 p.m.–close on Thursday, 3–6 p.m. on Friday and 12–6 p.m. on Saturday, and is available in the bar area only. For more info check out Luccarestaurant.com or call (916) 669-5300.

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Tech N9ne Keeps it Real on the Road to Success Words Andrew Scoggins • Photo Dennys Ilic

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discovered Tech N9ne in the same way I imagine a lot of suburban kids did in 2006: drinking crappy beer in a friend’s bedroom, laughing while a friend butchered the staccato machine gun chatter and the bombastic call-outs from Tech N9ne’s first certified gold record “Caribou Lou.” “Get the party jumpin’/Keep the hotties humpin’/I like ‘em thick and juicy /So don’t pilate nothing,” my friend would be shouting, sloshing his beer out onto the floor, his eyes far away, envisioning bouncing around on a stage somewhere. And I think that was it. We weren’t drinking Caribou Lou (the rumbased cocktail referenced in the song), we weren’t at a jumping party, there were no hotties humping and we certainly weren’t famous rappers. But with that song shaking the walls and likely annoying the hell out of his parents, it felt like everything in the song was possible. It felt real, tangible, and now, 10 years later, the world is starting to catch onto the reality Tech N9ne has been weaving. Riding high off the success of the radio-smash party banger “Hood Go Crazy” —a collaboration with Two Chainz and B.o.B—Tech N9ne is yet again embarking on a national tour and will be playing in Sacramento at Ace of Spades on Sept. 27. The single can easily be defined as the spiritual successor to “Caribou Lou.” Tech N9ne even drops a shout out to the old “Boulou.” The difference here is that “Hood Go Crazy” has a music video with Lamborghinis, the finger snaps are crystal clear and the production has been buffed to a glossy sheen. Tech N9ne roars on the last verse, “This Kansas City, shit’s ran gritty/ In the summer time, the chicks be damn pretty/Born in the projects, then to the ‘Ville /Then I did a deal with Travis and made mills/This is celebration, this is elevation.” It’s Tech N9ne’s delivery that pulls the verse up from simple rap bravado to a real chest-thumping moment of triumph. While a lot of rappers rap about the money, guns, bling and girls, Tech is rapping about celebration, about sharing his victory so other people can experience it and join in. It comes from a real place and it’s something he acknowledges himself. “You know, when you’re weird like me to a lot of people, you think that nobody is listening,” Tech N9ne said, speaking by phone from the recording booth in Kansas City. “But then when Lil Wayne says something out of the blue like, ‘I’d like to work with Tech N9ne,’ and I’m like ‘What? Who? He knows me?’ it lets me know that real music always shines man.” But it’s obvious by now that the Missouri-based rap mogul is not just coasting on weird, off-kilter theatrics to become successful. In 2015, Forbes estimated Tech N9ne’s net worth at $8 million and valued his label Strange Music at $20 million. There are a couple surface reasons for why he’s done that well. Things like he tours endlessly; his fans still buy his merchandise; his painted face image is cool, but deeper than that; there’s this infectious energy and passion that bleeds through his lyrics and into everything he does. In our interview, there were moments where the rapper would break into some of his verses, or simply rhyme his words together like he was a scatting beat poet. SubmergeMag.com

It’s an affectation that would come off as grating or disingenuous if Tech N9ne himself wasn’t such a genuine force of energy and good nature. “I feel like real music is your real life,” Tech N9ne said. “Write what you know and people will forever feel you. What we have in common are our emotions. So if you know how to let loose your emotions in your music then that’s what real music is. Everyone’s reality is different but you’re going to have people who connect with you because we are one human race.” Even from just skimming Tech N9ne’s big hits, it’s obvious that he raps from a very real place. Even though his radio hits are big club bangers, cruising through the jazzy, bluesy groove of “Fragile,” it’s easy to feel the tension and fire bubbling over toward the borderline incompetent music critics (well, hello there). There are deeper emotions here instead of the same old tropes. “Fragile” went gold and not just because of Kendrick Lamar’s verse (though that certainly didn’t hurt). It went gold because of the production, the delivery and the endless passion streaming off of it.

life, no fiction, you know? No smoke and mirrors, yaddida? “The darkest song I had on my last album was called ‘Shroud,’ I did with Joseph Bishara. But this darkness is happening because my angel died, my mom. So I’m like, ‘Darkness black as ever like shabba/Thick and oozing like lava/See this room like my Prada, dadda/Must’ve came from my father/ Cause my momma was an angel/But this thang grow insane bro.’ Ya’ know? It sounds real mad and dark and horrific, but it’s real.” His passion and this commitment to writing about the reality of life have brought Tech N9ne huge success and now he’s focused on giving back. He’s currently involved in a project called the “Warrior Built Emcee Contest,” where he put out a song called “PTSD” and left the last verse open. Now, people from all over the United States are sending in their verses and the winner will be flown out to Kansas City to record their verse professionally and do a professional rap video, with all of the proceeds going to the Warrior Built program, a program providing support to war veterans.

“I feel like real music is your real life. Write what you know and people will forever feel you. What we have in common are our emotions. So if you know how to let loose your emotions in your music then that’s what real music is. Everyone’s reality is different but you’re going to have people who connect with you because we are one human race.” –Tech N9ne on staying connected with fans. There are the obvious pitfalls to unleashing these kinds of forces, especially when, as an artist, you are unafraid of delving into the deeper and darker elements of the human experience. Even his stage name itself seems to act as a kind of deterrent against people who are only going to scratch the surface of the art. “I’m the complete technique of rhyme, I’m Tech N9ne,” he said. “Nine is the number of completion: nine months of pregnancy, cat has nine lives, the whole nine yards; it’s completely everything. But when MTV and BET got what we were trying to do, and we were trying to get our videos on their stations back in the day, they were like, ‘No, your name is a gun, sorry.’” Which is maybe for the best. People who can’t handle the complex anguish of an artist reeling from the loss of his mother or the dissolution of his marriage might just be better off listening to Drake. There is aggression in the music—violence in his words—but these are means to an end. In the same way that American Psycho’s Patrick Bateman uses violence as a substitute for connection, Tech N9ne uses the symbolism as a pathway to connection, empathy and personal catharsis. When asked about how Wikipedia has him listed as a “horrorcore” artist, Tech N9ne said, “No no no, it’s like my song called ‘Fear,’ about my mom dying from Lupus. It sounds really creepy. Evil brain, angel heart, it sounds like something horror, but it’s talking about me. It’s me; I’m good and bad. I just sum it up with music is my

“This is how we give back,” Tech N9ne said. “Do this song with me, who’s the hardest? Come to Kansas City let’s record it, let’s shoot a video. It’s about sharing and finding new people I mean, I started my label and it was just me and now I’ve got over 14 artists on it because we’ve steadily tried to help others go forward as well. So why not somebody not even in our circle? Why not do it for the troops as well? People who make it possible to live safely, while we’re over here frolicking while they’re over there fighting. It’s just such a beautiful thing to offer this much to these people because they gave us so much.” At the end of the day it’s about sharing this human connection however and whichever way you can. If you wanna drink beer and shout about thick women, do that. If you wanna shout down the critics, do that. If you wanna rap faster and better than anyone else in the world, you should give Tech N9ne’s contest a go. Like he says at the end of “B.I.T.C.H,” “Extreme, you know what I’m saying, like fuck what everyone is doing, we’re doing this. Fuck you, you on bullshit. We’re going this way.” Stevie and Tech N9ne have it right, sometimes you just gotta go your own way and don’t Tech N9ne, with special Pilate nothing. guest Optimiztiq, returns to Sacramento on Tuesday, Sept. 27 at Ace of Spades, located at 1417 R St. Presale tickets for the all-ages, 6 p.m. show are $38 ($42 the day of the show) and are available at Aceofspadessac.com.

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Molly Ringwald and Her Lifelong Love Affair with Jazz

Words James Barone • Photos hussein katz

oles in the films Pretty in Pink and The Breakfast Club pretty much granted Molly Ringwald permanent icon status. But before she became a whole generation of teen boys’ first crush, she was a singer. From right here in Sacramento, in fact. Daughter of local musician Bob Ringwald, Molly was weaned on jazz from an early age. “I think singing was almost pre-verbal for me,” she told Submerge in a recent interview. “Apparently … before I could even talk, my brother noticed I would make up songs and I would be singing to the animals. It was something I was always doing. When I was 3, I started to sing with my dad. My first performance in front of an audience was at the California State Fair. I still remember it. I did a lot of performing around the Sacramento area … It was something I always remembered doing and enjoyed doing.” Though she recorded an album with her father when she was a child, Ringwald released her adult debut, Except Sometimes, a warm and romantic collection of standards for stalwart jazz label Concord Records, in 2013. She also recently finished recording a live album at New York City’s landmark club, Birdland, and has a few shows lined up for this coming September, including a homecoming of sorts at Quarry Park in Rocklin, where she will be performing with her father. “My dad is much more traditional than I am,” Ringwald said of her and her father’s differing takes on jazz. “I like oldtimey jazz. Anybody who listens to jazz or sings jazz knows it’s not contemporary pop music, but I think my sound is more hard bop and my dad is more straight-up Dixieland.” In anticipation of her upcoming concert, Submerge spoke with Ringwald about a range of topics from growing up in the Sacramento area to passing her love of music to her own children. And she didn’t even seem to mind when this writer totally geeked out and gushed about how The Breakfast Club changed his life. I mean, it really did. Thanks, Molly.

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I saw that you grew up in the Roseville area. Do you get back there often? My parents live above Sacramento in the Gold Country. I don’t get back there as often as I like, but I usually come around Thanksgiving. My kids were just there visiting their grandparents, and I have a lot of family in Sacramento.

in writing music, but there are a lot of different things I do. I sing, I act, I write books and essays. There are so many things to do. There are so many things I want to do, it’s just a matter of finding the time. Also, my family just bought a house, so we’re fixing up the house and unpacking boxes. There never seems to be enough hours in the day.

Sacramento has really grown a lot in recent years. Have you noticed a lot of the changes over the years? Oh yeah, definitely. When I was younger, the theater, the Music Circus, was just sort of this old tent. It wasn’t really very good. I loved going, but it’s become a real theater now. And of course the venues have grown, and there’s fashion, everything.

I think moving must be the most stressful thing in the universe … Yeah, that’s what everyone says. I think it’s right up there with divorce. I would say moving is much worse, though [laughs].

You usually perform songs out of the Great American Songbook, but you’ve written books in the past. Have you dabbled in your own songwriting or lyric writing before? A little bit, but the writing that I tend to do right now, I’m still focused on fiction. I’m interested

Yeah, I heard it was in the top three: Death, divorce and moving. Having a teenage daughter should be up there too. That’s probably in the top five. Your father is a well-known jazz musician, and you got into jazz through his influence, I would imagine. Have your own children shown interest in music? They’re all very musical. My elder daughter—I had a ukulele that I’d always intended to learn and I

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didn’t get around to it. It was just in the closet. She found it and within two weeks she was walking around playing ukulele. She’s very musical. They all can sing really well, and they all have their particular tastes in music. They’ve listened to jazz because of me, but I think they’re all going to find their way into music, and they all have their distinct tastes. Do you have your fingers crossed that they’ll get into jazz and sort of carry the torch? [Laughs] Um, I really don’t care. I’ve introduced them to the music, so I think they’ll know about it. Like with me, jazz is my comfort music. Even though I listen to all kinds of music, I think that’s what jazz will be like for them—whenever they listen to it, it’ll make them think of me.

really thought at the time that I couldn’t do both. I had to choose one, and I chose acting. It’s kind of silly, but that was the time. I sang with my dad’s band and I also sang with a rock band called the Ray Bops, and I would do special things like that, but I was never encouraged to record my own album as a teenager. It wasn’t the direction I was going. I remember around that time that Eddie Murphy made an album, and there was this attitude, like, Oh, now he’s got to make an album … Like, he’s already a big movie star. It was looked at like a vanity project. Even if people could sing, it was like oh yeah, Bruce Willis is recording an album. It wasn’t taken seriously.

30 years later, but I loved the script. I thought all the actors who were in it werereally good, and we were good in it together. It was a movie that I really wanted to see, but you never know if what you like is going to catch with a larger audience. Do you mind the fact that people still bring it up or would you rather not talk about it? It’s fine. I like to talk about other things, but … I realize it’s such an iconic movie. I know people have a deeper connection to it that goes way beyond me … I’m cognisant to the fact that there’s still a lot of interest in those movies, but it’s not all I want to talk about, which is pretty understandable since I’ve done a lot of things since then.

“Like with me, jazz is my comfort music. Even though I listen to all kinds of music, I think that’s what jazz will be like for them—whenever they listen to it, it’ll make them think of me.” – Molly Ringwald on passing her love of jazz on to her children

Did you ever want to pursue a different genre of music since your dad was so established as a jazz musician? Oh yeah. During my teen years … I sang it a little bit with my dad, but I was really into more contemporary music. At that time, I never really thought that I would be performing jazz professionally at all. I think when you’re a teenager, you want to go and do your own thing, but I found my way back to it, of course. When your movie career started picking up steam in the ‘80s, there were all these big pop stars like Cyndi Lauper and Madonna. Since you had a singing background, was there any outside pressure like, you’re becoming such a popular figure in all these movies that are striking a chord with teenagers, let’s try to capitalize on that? It was sort of a unique time. Like, in the golden age of Hollywood, people were expected to sing, dance and act and be a triple threat, and it’s really sort of come back to that now. But when I was coming up, it was not done that much. The only person I can think of who was doing that was Barbra Streisand. I SubmergeMag.com

Was that something that influenced your decision to not pursue music? Yeah, I guess. It wasn’t something I was into. I think my interests at the time were elsewhere. In the back of my head, I thought, “Oh, I’m going to put together a jazz group,” but I didn’t know I was going to record or anything. It was just something I was going to do under the radar, for fun … But it’s kind of hard, once you’re a celebrity, to do anything under the radar. It turns into something else. But it’s been great for me. It’s been really enjoyable. Even though I’ve been singing my whole life, even just from my first album to the one I just recorded, I think I’ve grown a lot. It’s been a real interesting musical journey for me. I’m sure you’ve gotten this a lot, but The Breakfast Club was one of those movies that really shaped my life. I really like it, too. It’s become such an iconic film, but when you were making it did it feel like it was going to be something special? I thought it was really special. Of course, I didn’t imagine that I’d still be talking about it

Just recently you came out with a film, King Cobra, which was at Tribeca Film Festival this year. Yeah, and I think it’s having a general release in September. Can you talk a little about that one? It’s about the murder of a gay porn producer, so that must have been a pretty striking script. It was based on a true story. It was based on a Rolling Stone article about this murder that had happened. I just thought it was a really interesting treatment of this seedy world, but the director really managed to humanize these characters. I play someone who doesn’t have to do with the industry. I play the sister of the main pornographer, who’s played by Christian Slater. It was a good project to be involved with.

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very Friday across America, those looking for coverage of the latest developments and discoveries in science turn to a decidedly lessthan-cutting edge device: the radio. Now in its 25th year, Science Friday is a weekly call-in show covering science and technology heard by 1.5 million public radio listeners every week, with hundreds of thousands more tuning in via podcast. Hosted by the inimitable Ira Flatow, Science Friday’s roster of past guests reads like a who’s who of modern mainstream science: Elon Musk, Neil Degrasse Tyson, Jane Goodall. The show is produced by Public Radio International and broadcast on more than 370 public radio stations across the United States, including Sacramento’s Capital Public Radio, which is partnering with the Mondavi Center to bring Flatow and Science Friday to the UC Davis campus Sept. 24 for a live taping of Science Friday. Flatow has been the host of Science Friday since the program’s inception in 1991. Before that, he was the host of the Emmy-winning PBS show Newton’s Apple and a science reporter for CBS This Morning and NPR’s All Things Considered. But Flatow does more than just lend his instantly

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recognizable voice to the show; as founder and president of the Science Friday Initiative—the nonprofit behind both the radio show and it’s growing online presence—he’s also the driving force behind Science Friday’s longterm mission of increasing the public’s access to science and scientific information. Among other things, this means he gets to pick the locations for the handful of yearly tapings of Science Friday outside of the show’s usual New York City studio. “About four times a year, we go on the road,” Flatow said by phone from New York, about the show’s upcoming event in Davis. “It’s very difficult to decide, a lot of people want us to come visit them so it’s a tough choice sometimes.” During the course of a 30-minute question-and-answer session, Flatow still sounds genuinely excited about getting behind the microphone every week, even as Science Friday prepares to celebrate the program’s silver anniversary. Especially when it comes to taking Science Friday to new audiences through social media and podcasting, Flatow exudes an infectious curiosity for science and technology which has helped make the show into an institution.

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Have you been out to Davis before? We have. A few years ago we did the program from UC Davis and we took a tour of the campus and the special gardens they have there. California being such a special place, with so many natural events taking place, we thought it was time for another visit. How is Science Friday different when you’re doing it from the road? Our show on a normal week is from a studio where we do it all live. When we go on the road, we will pre-tape our show with a local audience of people coming in to view it live and we add extra, added attractions. We’ll do something where the audience participates and we’ll do about a 90-minute, live-audience program with audience participation. Then we’ll take the best part of that 90 minutes, cut it down and we’ll make that one hour of our Friday show. For the second hour, we’ll go to KQED in San Francisco and do a live radio show like we normally do every Friday, just from San Francisco instead of New York for that other hour. I would imagine that having the live audience makes the show a little more interesting to put together. It’s like old-time radio. Radio is certainly not done very much in front of a live audience anymore. It’s got elements of a stage production. It’s a feeling … as someone who’s been in front of audiences, having worked in lots of television and in radio and on stage, when we have an audience live, it’s such a different kind of vibe in the room. You always hear actors talking about doing theater and how much they can feel the audience there with them, and that’s very much true when I’m sitting on stage with my guests and there’s 1000 people out there. You can feel them there, they laugh, they react, they applaud. So I really love that feeling of being with the live crowd. It’s very organic.

Has that been a challenge for you, to stay on the leading edge of all these new social media technologies? Well I have a staff that does that now [laughs]. But in the early days, I helped write HTML code for our website. So did our director, Charles Bergquist; he actually created our first, very crude website. But now we have dedicated people working on it. We have a couple of social media people who are Tweeting and Facebooking and keeping our social media efforts going all day long. If you join up and follow us on Twitter or Facebook, you’ll see new things happening almost every minute, new content. Is it hard, especially on social media, to distill some of the complicated subject matter that you cover on Science Friday? It’s a challenge, but I’ve been in this business of science reporting for over 40 years. And I’ve worked at all the media: I’ve worked in radio, TV, and online. It is a challenge, and I enjoy the challenge, of finding ways to describe in layman’s terms some of the complex ideas that we deal with sometimes. And It’s really a lot of fun to do that, to find a way to do that, finding ways to do that and finding experts who are skilled in boiling down concepts. What’s very surprising, we have social media running while we’re on the air—we’re Tweeting at the same time the program is going—and sometimes we think that some topic we take, maybe it’s physics, maybe it’s quantum mechanics, we think that we’re getting too much into the weeds on some of these things and getting into so much detail. But it’s amazing to see the spike in the audience. You can literally, in real-time, see the spike in the social media audience that’s eating this stuff up. They love that kind of detail. They love to hear about how the world works and the more detail we can give them, the more they love it. We realize that not everybody is a geek and not everybody is into social media as much as some of these people, so we try to find a balance.

“They’re not quite sure how science works and what scientists do, but they love to talk about it. They love to hear about it. When you can give it to them in a way that they understand it, and understand the implications of it, they love to discuss it. Because really, science is talking about the big issues in our lives. Science is talking about the same things that theologians and philosophers have been talking about for centuries and that is where did we come from and where are we going?” – Science Friday host Ira Flatow on confronting the idea that the public doesn’t like science. You’ve been doing Science Friday for 25 years. What’s changed over the years? When we first started 25 years ago, first of all, there was really no internet. I mean, there was an internet but there was no world wide web, there was no web browsing or anything like that. In fact, we did a show in 1993 called “What’s This Thing Called the Internet?” and we actually broadcast it on the internet. We did the program from New York and sent it out to Xerox PARC in Palo Alto. They digitized and sent it out on the internet for those few people in laboratories that could listen to it in those days. We were the first show to podcast on public radio. We were basically the first national show to ever be carried on the internet. We’re a science show, so we figure that because we report on cuttingedge news, we should do cutting-edge things. Whenever there’s an opportunity to do something new, like social media, we do that. We also were in a virtual reality called Second Life. I’m not sure if you’re familiar with that? Definitely. We had a whole presence in Second Life. We broadcast a show in Second Life, and we had all these avatars that would come in their garb and sit in a circular, made-up virtual reality place in Second Life and actually ask questions. Then we moved to Facebook; we have Twitter. We have, if not the largest, one of the largest social media communities of any public radio show.

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Bar 101 Karaoke, 7:30 p.m. Blue Lamp Spacewalker, Michael Ray, Hobo Johnson, So Much Light, 8 p.m. Camp Pollock Riverside Concert w/ Remedy 7, 6 p.m. Capitol Garage Karaoke w/ Jeff Jenkins, 10 p.m. Club Car Songwriters Showcase, 8 p.m.

The Colony Government Flu, Cross Class, Slutzville, Hatchet Job, 8 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. District 30 Arty, Alexx Adam, 10 p.m. Dive Bar Dueling Pianos, 9 p.m. Fox & Goose Marty Cohen & The Sidekicks, 8 p.m. Harlow’s Charles Bradley & His Extraordinaires, 8 p.m. Harris Center for the Arts In the Mood, 7 p.m. Louie’s Cocktail Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m. Mix DJ Eddie Edul, DJ Peeti V, 9 p.m. Old Ironsides Karaoke, 9 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub The Lil’ Smokies, 9:30 p.m. Shine Sac’s Coolest Jazz Jam, 8 p.m. Sophia’s Thai Kitchen Y La Bamba, Sparrows Gate, 9:30 p.m. Starlite Lounge Mars Red Sky, (Waning), Pinnacles, 8 p.m. Torch Club X Trio, 5 p.m.; Blue Lotus, 9 p.m.

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Blue Lamp Broken, Anarchy Lace, 8 p.m. Capitol Garage Fyah Fridays w/ DJ Jaytwo, 10 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. Dive Bar Family Jewels w/ My Cousin Vinny, Mike Diamond, Ajotta, 10 p.m. Fox & Goose Adam Block, Natalie Cortez, Jackson Griffith, 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 Tracy Cruz, BakariThaBridge, Adrian & Staci, Classic Chris Jones, 9 p.m. Harris Center for the Arts In the Mood, 2 & 7 p.m. Harveys Lake Tahoe Stevie Wonder, 7 p.m.

Kupros Craft House Byron Colborn Trio, 9:30 p.m. Midtown BarFly Taiki Nulight, Cosmo Coyote, Chase Me, HellaRyan and More, 9:30 p.m. Mix DJ Slick D, 9 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Open Mic Night, 6 p.m. The Park Ultra Lounge DJ Elements, 10 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Thundercover, 10 p.m. Press Club DJ Rue, 9 p.m. The Red Museum KUTZ FM Presents Half-Fest: Boy Romeo, Lather Machine, House Show, Matthew Mora, So Much Light, Elijah Mead, 8 p.m. Shine The Mat Marucci Quartet, 8 p.m. Starlite Lounge Revolver (Rage Against the Machine tribute), Steal This Band (System of a Down tribute), Blaquelisted, 8 p.m. Swabbies on the River Superlicious, 6 p.m. Thunder Valley Casino Resort Australian Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin 2 tribute, 7 p.m. Torch Club Pailer & Fratis, 5:30 p.m.; Steven Roth Band, 9 p.m. Toyota Amphitheatre Journey, The Doobie Brothers, Dave Mason, 7 p.m.

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Berryessa Brewing Co. Element Brass Band, 3 p.m. Blue Lamp Good Vibes w/ DJ Nocturnal, 10 p.m. Cache Creek Casino Jed Madela, Lani Misalucha, 8 p.m. Capitol Garage Karaoke w/ Jeff Jenkins, 9 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 8 p.m. Harlow’s Tell the Wolves, Sages, Ghost Parade, 7 p.m. Memorial Auditorium Shreya Ghoshal, 7 p.m. Mix DJ Gabe Xavier, 8:30 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Sacramento Blues Society Spectacular, 3 p.m. Press Club Instagon, Curse League, Electic Snorkel, Plots, 5 p.m.; Sunday Night Soul Party w/ DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m. Shine The Corduroys, 1:30 p.m.; Rogue, 5 p.m.; Greg Golden Band, 6:30 p.m. Starlite Lounge Phobia, Nomads, Colombian Necktie, Augurs, Rad, 7 p.m. Thunder Valley Casino Resort Rewind Fest: Lost ‘80s Live feat. Flock of Seagulls, Wang Chung, Tommy Tutone, Animotion, Martha Davis and the Motels, Nu Shooz, Farrington and Mann, 6 p.m. Torch Club Blues Jam, 4 p.m.; Front the Band, 8 p.m.

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Bar 101 Karaoke, 7:30 p.m. Blue Lamp Young Gully, DJ Kedd-E, 8 p.m. Capitol Garage Karaoke w/ Jeff Jenkins, 10 p.m. Club Car Songwriters Showcase, 8 p.m. Crocker Art Museum ArtMix Crocker Con w/ Sleeprockers and More, 5 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. Dive Bar Dueling Pianos, 9 p.m. Fox & Goose Steve McLane, 8 p.m. Harlow’s Honey C, 6:30 p.m. Louie’s Cocktail Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m. Mix DJ Eddie Edul, DJ Peeti V, 9 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe The Mechula, 7 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Moonshine Crazy, 9:30 p.m. Shine Sac’s Coolest Jazz Jam, 8 p.m. Sophia’s Thai Kitchen Whiskerman, Cave Clove, 9:30 p.m. Starlite Lounge Monolord, Beastmaker, Sweat Lodge, 8 p.m. Torch Club X Trio, 5:30 p.m.; Igor Prado, 9 p.m.

9.07 wednesday

Bar 101 Open Mic, 7:30 p.m. Club Car The Double Shots, 7:30 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. El Dorado Saloon Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m. Fox & Goose All Vinyl Wednesdays w/ DJ AAKnuff, 8 p.m. Laughs Unlimited Karaoke, 8 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 w/ Hit Parade, 7 p.m. Shine Midtown Out Loud, 8 p.m. Starlite Lounge Sirena Victima, RMF, Spitting Roses, Glass House, 8 p.m. Torch Club Singer-Songwriter Showcase in the Round, 5:30 p.m.; Matt Woods, 50-Watt Heavy, 9 p.m.

9.09 FRIDAY

Ace of Spades Camila, Anna Padilla, Lucy Lopez, 7 p.m. Blue Lamp Success, Broadway Calls, Bastards of Young, Little Tents (Final Show), 8 p.m. The Boardwalk I The Mighty, Day Shell, Artifex Pereo, Picturesque, Sages, 6:30 p.m. Capitol Garage Fyah Fridays w/ DJ Jaytwo, 10 p.m. Center for the Arts Brazilian Independence Day Party feat. Boca Do Rio, Big Sticky Mess, DJ Delphi, Samba Dancers, 8 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. District 30 Nate Davit, Julian Pierce, 10 p.m. Fox & Goose According to Bazooka, Banjo Bones, James Israel, 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. Kupros Craft House Jane Thompson Trio, 9:30 p.m.

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Ace of Spades Jake Bugg, Syd Arthur, 7 p.m. Berryessa Brewing Co. Million Dollar Giveaway, 3 p.m. Blue Lamp Riotmaker, Wasted Noise, Skunk Funk, Two Peace, 8 p.m. The Boardwalk Good Riddance, Another Damn Disappointment, 6:30 p.m. Bonney Field City of Trees 2016: Weezer, Panic! At The Disco, Phantogram, Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness, The Struts, 888, The Unlikely Candidates, The Rebel Light, Kungs (DJ Set), Arden Park Roots, The Color Wild, Cemetery Sun, Young Aundee, Trophii, Zephyr, Druskee, Joy and Madness, Pacific Skyway, Joseph One, DJ Oasis, 1 p.m. Cafe Colonial UnderRAGE Music Fest w/ Heat of Damage, URD-OM, Control, Fortress United, Tens Upon Thousands, As We Know, 3:30 p.m. Capitol Garage Feel Good Saturday’s w/ DJ Epik, 10 p.m. The Colony UnderRAGE Music Fest w/ Simpl3Jack, Nothin’ Special, Exiled From Grace, Bootlegs, Side Effect, End the Fight, 3 p.m. Crest Theatre 4th Annual Princeology feat. The Purple Experience, 7:30 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. Fox & Goose Grub-dog’s Birthday Celebration w/ Loose Engines, Alex Walker, and Jimbo, Johnnie, & Junior, 9 p.m. Goldfield Adam Donald and His Band, 8 p.m. Harlow’s Tainted Love, 9 p.m. Harris Center for the Arts Cherry Poppin’ Daddies: Salute the Music of The Rat Pack, 8 p.m. KBAR Z Rokk, 9 p.m. Kupros Craft House Hot City, 9:30 p.m. McConnell Estates Winery (Elk Grove) Blue Collar Men (Styx tribute), 6:30 p.m.

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Blue Lamp Good Vibes w/ DJ Nocturnal, 10 p.m. The Boardwalk Stick To Your Guns, Stray From The Path, Expire, Knocked Loose, With Wolves, 6:30 p.m. Cache Creek Casino Los Pasteles Verdes, 5 p.m. Cafe Colonial Walter Etc, Blowout, So Much Light, Brave Season, Forget It, 7 p.m. Capitol Garage Karaoke w/ Jeff Jenkins, 9 p.m. Crocker Art Museum Classical Concert w/ Carrie Hennessey, 3 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 8 p.m. Harlow’s J.Sirus, Self Provoked, Ouida, Young A, Joesph, Siv, 6:30 p.m. Mix DJ Gabe Xavier, 8:30 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Bird Dogs, 3 p.m. Press Club Sunday Night Soul Party w/ DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m. Swabbies on the River Garratt Wilkin Trio, 1 p.m.; Beer Dawgs (30 Year Reunion), 3 p.m.

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2016 High School Clean Air Contest: Student & Community Exhibit, Through Sept. 4 Little Dreams in Glass and Metal: Enameling in America 1920 to the Present, Through Sept. 11 Glass for the New Millennium: Masterworks from the KaplanOstergaard Collection, Through Oct. 2 The Luster of Ages: Ancient Glass from the Marcy Friedman Collection, Through Oct. 16 Ourselves Through the Lens: Photography from the Ramer Collection, Through Oct. 23 Fox & Goose Pub Quiz, Tuesday’s, 7 p.m. Fremont Park Chalk It Up, Sept. 3 - 5, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Ginger Elizabeth Chocolates Custard Day, Sept. 3, 10 a.m. Harris Center for the Arts Calidanza Dance Company Presents: Mi Mexico, Sept. 11, 3 p.m. Historic Old Folsom Farmers’ Market, Saturdays, 8 a.m. Howe Park The Fulton-El Camino Recreation and Park District and Fishing in the City Present: Fishing Day at Howe Park, Sept. 3, 8:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. Kupros Craft House Trivia with Triviology 101, Sundays, 7:30 p.m. Laughs Unlimited The Big Showstopper Spoken Word Competition, Sept. 1, 8 p.m. Little Relics Boutique & Galleria Art Exhibit: Elizabeth Wocasek and her Menagerie of Animals, Sept. 1 - 30 Luna’s Cafe Poetry Unplugged, every Thursday, 8 p.m. Midtown BarFly Salsa Lessons, every Wednesday, 8 p.m. The Midtown Moxies Burlesque Presents: Dead Rock Stars, Sept. 3, 9 p.m. Oak Park Brewing Co. Trivia Night, every Sunday, 8 p.m.

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Issue 221 • August 29 – September 12, 2016

You probably didn’t notice, but Submerge is no longer capitalizing internet. This is in accordance with this year’s AP Stylebook. In April 2016, AP Standards Editor Thomas Kent told Poynter.org that the change was made to “reflect a growing trend toward lowercasing both words [refering to “web,” which also used to be a proper noun as it referred to the outdated term World Wide Web], which have become generic terms.” We found out about it because our amazing editor and professional knower-of-things Daniel Taylor pointed out to the rest of us. This sort of stuff is probably only interesting to grammar nerds and other editors, but I think it’s telling for how something that had the potential to be awesome, and still does, I guess, has turned into something pretty banal. Language changes every day. Like, no one uses terms like “verily” anymore. Maybe one day it will come back (I hope it does). It’s a good thing it does changes and grows to meet the needs of the people who use it or it will die, like Latin. My wife just asked me what I was writing my column about, and I told her that it’s about how internet is no longer being considered a proper noun. She said, “Oh, I didn’t realize that it used to be capitalized.” I’m guessing that’s why AP decided it was finally time to make the change, like when they struck the hyphen out of email. It’s interesting, though, that “internet” was ever capitalized in the first place. I mean, it’s a thing, to be sure, but it’s not France, let’s say. When I think of France, I see a flag and the Eiffel Tower and beautiful women smoking cigarettes out of long onyx holders, eating bread slathered in butter and beguiling you with their wit and intelligence. (I’ve seen Before Sunrise like a billion times.) But France has been around a really long time, much longer than the internet. France has sort of become generic, I guess, in the same way anything that’s been around a really long time can, but I’d never imagine them not capitalizing it. It just wouldn’t seem right what with that tower and all, and all those beguiling, imaginary women I just mentioned. When I think of the internet, I don’t really picture anything. Where is it? What is it? It can’t even eat a baguette and lecture me on the virtues of Marcel Proust, though I’d imagine there’s a site somewhere that has cobbled together a

James Barone jb@submergemag.com bunch of Proust stuff. (I just on a whim typed Marcelproust.com into my web browser, but all that came up was a 404 error, which I think is pretty sad.) Kent told NPR in June 2016 that the internet “never was trademarked. It’s not based on any proper noun. And I think the best reason for capitalizing in the past may just have been the term was new. I read that at one point people, capitalized phonograph, so maybe it was something like that, but now it’s a routine part of daily life.” I remember when the internet was new. I remember going into chat rooms and thinking that it would be great to meet people from all around the world. It was exciting to be online. Exciting with a capital E. Now being online kind of sucks. Maybe it’s because it’s a lot easier now than it used to be. I don’t have to sit in front of the AOL welcome screen and wait to see if the modem would find a number that wasn’t busy and make that unmistakable sound that I’d just been granted access to the World Wide Web (capitalized here for nostalgia’s sake). Now you don’t even have to think about it, like taking a poop but not even half as satisfying. It was a lot more of a personal place, too. People would make all these websites on like GeoCities or whatever that were fansites for various comic books or anime or whatever. It’s strange that back then, when there weren’t personal profile sites or social networking as we know it today, that everything felt almost handmade. Back then you might know someone only by their screen name, usually suffixed by a string of random numbers, but whatever content they produced was most likely their own. Now on the internet, even though everyone’s more upfront about sharing their “real lives,” most of what we see are hyperlinks to formulaic lists or retweets or articles with headlines that tell me how I’m supposed to feel about something. Rehashed this, generic that. Definitely lower case “i” material. It occurs to me from reading over the previous paragraph that I’m becoming a grumpy old man who’s completely out of touch with the world around him. I apologize, but please understand that I’m only a couple months away from turning 40, and it’s scaring the shit out of me.

Dive Into Sacramento & Its Surrounding Areas

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Issue 221 • August 29 – September 12, 2016

Dive into Sacramento & its Surrounding Areas

august 29 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; september 12, 2016

# 221

Tech N9ne

Calling All Caped Crusaders Crocker Con is Back!

Ira Flatow The Sound of Science

The Golden Pony Caps Off Another Great Summer of THIS Midtown

Molly Ringwald Coming Home

KC Rap Royalty

Ways to Celebrate Regional Food + Beer

Lucca Restaurant and Bar

high-class happy hour

Sac Open Studios Art, Behind the Scenes

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