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Kids, man. And in my case, I mean the four-legged ones. I love my two to death; Lola is our 14-year-old rescue tabby cat and Panda is our 7-yearold Boston Terrier, and I would do anything for them. Well, such is the case and once again, while on a deadline, that notion got put to the test when our wild child Panda (who just got over a bacterial ear infection only two weeks ago) decided to eat something bad this past weekend. The poor girl couldn’t keep anything down for a whole day, and even the next day she couldn’t keep water down. It was time to get her butt to the vet. Very little sleep and many hundreds of dollars later, the vet still had no clue what exactly it could have been. One thing is pretty certain: it’s looking like she doesn’t need surgery to remove any foreign objects she could have ingested. But still, right before I start helping deliver this issue, I’ll have had to take her in for one last round of X-rays, just to be 100 percent sure. Fingers crossed. On that note: can I get a shout-out for credit cards? AMIRIGHT!?! Geeze. Come to think of it, while I’m putting this issue to rest, I realized it is kind of an unintentional nod to pets. You see, one of our columnists, Bocephus, also has a fine tale of becoming a cat lover and how he had his own mishaps recently with his fur baby, Axel. Read it for yourself on page seven. Then we’ve got our two cover stories: Nashville electro-indie duo Cherub and local singer-songwriter Allyson Seconds. Lo and behold, they’re also dog lovers. And like myself, they take their “kids” everywhere. It just so happens they were both photographed with their pets! Allyson is pictured with her lab Hank on page 18. Thanks Kevin Fiscus for taking such great photos of them. And Cherub often tour with their French Bulldog George. You can see his cute scrunchy face up and to the left in our Table of Contents area and on page 15. And while our other featured artist, Elisabeth Higgins O’Connor, isn’t technically photographed with any pets, she does make these incredible, massive sculptures of animals using repurposed materials like cardboard, wood, paper, blankets, bedsheets, glue, thread, paint, etc. Check out her art and her story on page 20. We hope you dig this fine issue! I’m signing out now to go cuddle with my sick pup in bed and let my cat chill on my belly.

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During the nine days that it was open in February 2016, nearly 15,000 people toured Art Hotel, an ambitious temporary art project that took over the defunct Jade Apartments building in downtown Sacramento, filling the rooms hallways, and staircases with work from over 100 artists. Now the group behind Art Hotel, M5 Arts, is hinting at their next project, Art Street. Details are sparse as of yet, but we do know from a Facebook event page created by M5 that Art Street will take place Feb. 3–17, 2017 and that the group is throwing a Kickstarter launch party at The Red Museum (212 15th St.) on Wednesday, Nov. 2 starting at 7 p.m. We’re guessing there will be a big push to raise funds for the Art Street project, so if you’re the type of person that likes to see rad things happening in Sacramento, we suggest you either hit up the Nov. 2 event (tickets are just $10) and/or keep an eye out on M5’s website (M5arts.com) or their Facebook page (Facebook.com/m5arts) for more information on how to contribute. As of press time there was also an Art Street artist application form available to fill out on M5’s website, so if you’re an artist from Sacramento or beyond and would like to be a part of the project, we suggest you get your pitch submitted right away. You can also currently pre-order the official Art Hotel coffee table book through M5’s website for just $39 (pro tip: this would make an amazing gift for the art lovers on your holiday shopping lists!).

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Local Motocross Rider Qualifies to Race Against the World’s Top Pros at Red Bull Straight Rhythm on Oct. 22 An 18-year-old local motocross rider is Southern California-bound to compete against some of the top names in the world at the Red Bull Straight Rhythm event on Oct. 22. Dare Demartile from Lincoln, California, recently placed first in the Sacramento qualifier event and now gets to head to the Fairplex in Pomona to race against the likes of Ryan Dungey, James Stewart and many other internationally known riders. “Super pumped I made it again from NorCal to go race with the best in the world,” Demartile posted on social media, “Excited to see what I can do.” The Straight Rhythm event takes place on a unique track in that it has no turns; it’s just a 1/2 mile-long, head-to-head straight rhythm section where timing the jumps and going balls out all the way are key. Best of luck out there Dare, make us proud! Learn more about the event at Redbull.com/straightrhythm.

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The Optimistic Pessimist I wasn’t born a cat person. Felines were misunderstood in my house. It was thought that their sole purpose in life was to tease and annoy our two miniature schnauzers whose barking, I’m now sure, was a far bigger problem than any cat ever could be. I was lead to believe that cats were dirty tricksters that were not to be trusted, and that is what I thought until I ended up with one of my own. My first cat was not mine really. He was a fat fluff ball who belonged to my ex. He was very lazy, had an odd meow and left a trail of fur every wherever he went. I named him Leon, and despite his sloth-like nature and my prejudice against cats, we became fast friends. Losing him was the hardest part of ending my relationship with my ex, but as a consolation prize, I was left with a second cat we had managed to take in a few years before. Her name was Lily, and at first we did not see eye to eye. Lily was a stray white and grey domestic short hair that someone found in a field. She had not been spayed and was a little wild when she came into my life. She’d go into heat and meow nonstop while she held her tail high and waved her butt to and fro. Our pets had

always been fixed and this was not something I had dealt with before. It disgusted me and meant that our relationship took a long time to flower. Despite our differences, Lily and I were left to fend for ourselves when her brother was snatched away by my evil ex. It was a hard time for both of us, and we leaned on each other to get through it. Our relationship soon began to change. We were no longer standoffish toward one another. She started following me around whenever I was home. We’d play fetch with plastic water bottle caps that she would kick with her little paws. She loved music and would sit by the speakers whenever I’d play something. She even learned to chirp at the birds outside the window! Lily was an amazing cat and then she got sick. One day I noticed a lump forming on her face and it was only a matter of weeks before she was gone. It was the first time I had ever had to put an animal down, and it was heartbreaking. We had been through so much and to lose her like that didn’t seem right. I swore to myself that I would honor her memory by not replacing her with another cat, and I held out for a couple of years until loneliness set in. I had been living alone for some time and

The Story of Us Bocephus Chigger bocephus@submergemag.com missed the companionship that Lily and Leon had provided. By this time, I had lost almost all interest in dogs and decided that I was getting another cat. I went to four or five pet stores and kitten giveaways before finding Axel at the SPCA. Axel was six weeks old and gray with green eyes. In other words, he was adorable. When I first walked up to him he was jumping on his brother’s head like a maniac. I took him to a play room and he immediately charged up the kitty tree and boldly jumped off the top. I was enamored. The only real problem was his given name: Silly Cat. Obviously his name should be Axel because he was dark like axle grease and smooth like the song “Axel F” from Beverly Hills Cop. We hit it off right away. As a kitten, Axel would sleep on my shoulder like a parrot when I was in bed. He’d follow me around and come when I called his name. He’d greet me when I’d come home from school or work and comfort me when I was depressed, which he continues to do today. Axel and I have an understanding. I know that he likes me to hold my hand out so that he can pet himself, and he knows that I will leave my shoes out for him to try and put his head inside. No matter how old he is, he will always be my baby boy.

He reminded me of that just this last week when he got his foot caught in a fence. His poor leg was mangled pretty badly, but he is strong and I am hoping for a quick recovery. For now, I get to baby him like I did when he was a kitten all over again and it has brought us even closer than before. Though Axel doesn’t always agree, our lives were further enriched with the addition of his sister, Lily (no relation), aka Squilly, who moved in along with my girlfriend two years ago. Lily is afraid of everything, but once she gets comfortable around you, she is one of the sweetest cats there is. She loves to get under the covers and snuggle up next to you and she always purrs when you hug her. Like my first Lily, Squilly even occasionally chirps at birds when she isn’t hiding from them. What a fool I would have been to follow the path that my childhood had laid out for me. I cannot imagine how much less my life would be had it not been for these cats. They have enriched my existence by teaching me what real unconditional love means. They have made me smile when I didn’t believe I could. I owe so much to them that the least I could do is tell our stories, so that maybe you will learn of the joy that cats can bring. Don’t listen to your dog-loving parents; get a cat today!

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Say you’re looking to open your third eye, but you’re such a badass that you’d prefer to PRY IT OPEN … Well, check this out. The Yoga Seed Studio (located at 1400 E St., Suite B, in Sacramento) will play host to teacher Karl Cordtz’s Metal Yoga from 1–2:30 p.m. on Oct. 23. “The event is basically a vinyasa yoga class but set to metal music,” Cordtz told Submerge via email. “It will be unique in certain ways, but mostly it’s just a fun way to practice and hopefully gets some people to try yoga that gravitate more toward subcultures like metal music.” So if you’ve been contemplating giving yoga a try, but couldn’t stomach the idea of having to sit through an hour of sitar music or nature sounds or whatever playing soothingly in the background, this class may be the perfect fit for you. Metal Yoga will serve as a benefit for The Yoga Seed Collective, a not-for-profit organization that strives to “build healthy communities through financially and physically accessible yoga classes.” You can learn more about The Yoga Seed and register for Metal Yoga ($15 fee) by heading over to Theyogaseed.org and clicking “Workshops & Training.”

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Calidanza’s Family-Friendly Tribute to the Day of the Dead at Crocker Art Museum • Oct. 27 Looking for a scary good time for the whole family? Of course you are … It’s almost Halloween! Crocker Art Museum once again has you covered as Calidanza’s Noche de Muertos returns to delight audiences of all ages on Oct. 27, so your little ghoulies won’t even have to miss out on trick-or-treating. Calidanza’s mission is “to promote artistic excellence in Mexican folk and contemporary dance. Calidanza intends to make dance accessible to both audiences and participants,” according to the dance company’s website, and their tribute to Mexico’s Dia de los Muertos will be a truly multi-faceted event, featuring live music from Orgullo Regional, a fashion show by Rory Castillo, a liquid light show by George Holden (whose work has been featured onstage with The Grateful Dead) and, of course, plenty of dancing. “The evening will include the 2013 Noche de Muertos, a modernistic piece commissioned by the San Francisco Symphony; as well a new choreography of a traditional dance entitled “La Viejada;” the famous Deer dance; and more,” the Crocker website promises. So what are you waiting for? Space is limited, so head over to Crockerartmuseum.org to make reservations. Tickets start at $12 for members. For more on Calidanza, check out Calidanza.org.

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CJ Ramone Brings American Punk to Blue Lamp • Oct. 18 The name “Ramone” is pretty much synonymous with punk rock, and Blue Lamp is sure to be rocking Oct. 18 when CJ Ramone hits the stage. While CJ isn’t one of the original members of The Ramones, he logged seven years as the legendary group’s bassist/vocalist from 1989 until the band’s retirement in 1996. Over the past few years, CJ (nee Christopher Ward, an ex-U.S. Marine) has held onto the Ramone monicker, and has released a couple of solo albums. His most recent effort, 2014’s Last Chance to Dance was released on venerable punk label Fat Wreck Chords. This show will also feature special guests Toy Guitar and The Knockoffs. For more info, go to Bluelampsacramento.com, or to purchase tickets in advance ($13), go to Abstractpresents.com. Gabba gabba hey!

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Learn to Make Your Own Ramen and Soup Stocks at Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op’s Ramen Workshop • Oct. 18 If “cooking ramen” conjures memories of dunking plastic-y noodles into boiling water and flavoring it up with the mystery mixture contained within a foil packet, hey, you’re not alone. Let Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op help you step up your ramen game with their upcoming Ramen Workshop. Instructor Sawako Ama, born and raised in a Buddhist temple in southern Japan who also happens to be a dance artist, “will share the basic techniques and the best ingredients for perfect noodles and flavorful broth, and … discuss regional variations from Japan and how to customize your ramen,” according to the co-op’s website. Head over to Sacfood.coop/cookingschool/ and click “Class Calendar” to find a link to purchase tickets, which are $45 for co-op owners and $55 for the general public. The class will start at 6 p.m.—just in time for dinner!

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Holiday Weekender: Sand, Zombies and Quad Flipping words & photos Ellen Baker

I enjoy Halloween. There’s something about dressing up as something you’re not for a day that really gets me. You can act insane and no one questions your sanity. Some people hate Halloween, and I get that. Whether you’re searching for something to do for Halloween weekend this year or not, I highly suggest hitting the road and burying your toes in some sand in Fallon, Nevada. Be warned: this is not the kind of toe-burying you would do in the Galapagos. Sand Mountain is a place where people come together with giant RVs and campers hauling quads, RZRs, ATVs, dirt bikes and any other two- or four-wheeled motorized vehicles. Loud generators, loads of beer and the smell of barbecue float throughout the temporary city. It’s like a mix between Mad Max and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. This is not the usual adventure I partake in, but every once in awhile it’s good to explore outside of your comfort zone. This place was not in my comfort zone. Though I had no experience in

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driving any sort of vehicle besides a hearty four-wheel, dependable sedan, I had no hesitation in acting like I knew what I was doing when I got in the driver’s seat of the quad. The list of things to do while at Sand Mountain is as endless as is the imagination so here are a few things I learned to get you started.

How to Not Drive a Quad: No one told me you really shouldn’t drive sideways down a sandy mountain. You will flip and roll the vehicle. Yes, I flipped and rolled the vehicle but my passenger and I were both fine—one valuable lesson learned. RV Rooftops Make for Great Sunset Watching: Beers and rooftops. What could go wrong?

You will be Forced to Celebrate Halloween: If you go Halloween weekend, people will expect you to take part in the festivities. Be prepared to decorate your camping area and yourself or you will be ridiculed. Create Your Own Adventure: One afternoon we took a quad out for a stroll down the road, escaped the madness and enjoyed the sunset—it can still be peaceful. Comp Hill: Top of the mountain—let’s party!

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If you don’t have any of these expensive motorized toys, I would suggest finding someone who does, renting one or going to Sand Mountain another weekend when the crowds are smaller and you can explore without hundreds of vehicles whizzing by. Be forewarned, Halloween weekend is dangerous and there have been multiple deaths over the years. With that being said, a few months after returning home from Sand Mountain, I bought a motorcycle. It really is fun.

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When Songs Take Flight World-Touring Duo Cherub Reflect on Past Viral Success, New Album

Words Andrew C. Russell photo Ford Fairchild

ore than a decade after the completion of the Human Genome Project, the world’s best minds have only just begun to unravel the DNA of the pop hit. The combination of science, art and psychology required to craft a self-perpetuating earworm is far beyond the reach of most mortals. There is simply no telling when lightning will strike the bottle. This is exactly what happened to Jason Huber and Jordan Kelley of Nashville duo Cherub in the summer of 2014 when their crowdpleaser, “Doses and Mimosas,” already two years in circulation, hit the Billboard Rock Airplay and Alternative Song charts simultaneously, creeping across the country and later across the world from one house party to the next, becoming an international sleeper success. After two more summers of near-constant touring, with audiences in Paris and even the local crowds at TBD Fest singing along to their wry ode to champagne and cocaine, the duo is keen to add more substance to their multigenre cocktail of a sound. With 11 new tracks, including one with a guest spot from rapper T.I., Cherub’s new album Bleed Gold, Piss Excellence (out Oct. 14) aims to break through to the other side of their cult success. From start to finish, it sets out to revise their hedonistic vibe with an undertow of moody grooves, and succeeds in updating their sound—a digest of throwback party vibes recalling different eras (early ‘80s electro-funk, mid-‘90s trip hop, late ‘00s indie dance and current-era millennial club jams)—this time with more tonal shifts. Cherub will be hitting Ace of Spades on Nov. 9 in the middle of their ongoing 50-date tour, with the promise of new fall bangers alongside classic summer jams. Veterans of TBD 2014 can relive their steamy set from that sweltering fall so long ago, and find new to love in the next-level Cherub of the present day. We were able to drop a line to the duo between gigs in Arkansas, with Kelley temporarily without a voice and Huber taking the role of spokesman, giving his take on the phenomena of hit songs, meeting T.I. and the decision to go electronic.

What’s your take on the runaway success of “Doses & Mimosas?” The whole thing about that song is that we never picked it out to be a single. We originally recorded it for our record Mom and Dad, and when we released it, we put it out as one complete work from start to finish. We didn’t highlight a specific single. From that point, people started to react to that song. After we went out on tour, we thought that everyone had heard it, it wasn’t new anymore. Then all of a sudden people started playing it on the radio in California and it became more of a nationwide thing and widely recognized, as opposed to an underground, viral thing. Then the record label came into play and released it on this whole new scale, and then we had people in Paris start to play it. We got the opportunity to go over to Europe and tour internationally. There’s been multiple times throughout the lifespan of that song that Jordan and I have assumed that everybody has heard it that’s going to hear it and it’s old news, and then all of a sudden, it will grow another set of wings. It makes us realize how small our individual bubble is compared to the rest of the world, and it’s really cool to be able to have something as direct as that song to reach the world. How did you begin the follow-up to that initial success? When we were going into the studio to make the new album, we didn’t go in with any sort of preconceived notions or any one specific goal. We didn’t try to recreate the same magic that happened on previous songs. We’re really trying to go in and write some good music that first and foremost connected with us, but also connected with other people and played as a solid album, and not just a random collection of singles.

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“There’s been multiple times throughout the lifespan of that song that Jordan and I have assumed that everybody has heard it that’s going to hear it and it’s old news, and then all of a sudden, it will grow another set of wings. It makes us realize how small our individual bubble is compared to the rest of the world” –Cherub’s Jason Huber on the surprising success of the song “Doses and Mimosas” That’s always been our goal when we go into the studio, and we don’t think about too much other than that. We’re obviously inspired by our fanbase and the people that are coming out to shows and singing the songs, and the reaction that they’re giving us. But there isn’t really a specific goal going into the studio. It’s just about making some music and seeing what fits in. How did the collaboration with T.I. get started? It’s something that happened pretty organically, surprising as that may be. That’s pretty much how all our collaborations have happened; it’s not been something that’s been forced from our side or the other. It’s just us getting together and making music with people we enjoy spending time with. That specific collaboration happened when T.I. was introduced to [our] music randomly, and from that point he

became a fan. He made a point to come out to one of our Atlanta shows. He was super nice; he invited us out to dinner and bowling with his family the next day. Then we got into the studio tracking for what we hoped was going to be on of his releases. We came back down again a couple of months later and then we tracked for our record. It was a really cool, organic relationship. And it was an insane thing for us, because we had both grown up as fans of his music. At what point in your career did you have a “we’re making it” realization? Probably going into Columbia’s offices and seeing our picture on the wall in between Bob Dylan and Beyoncé, just seeing us at a major label being associated with the greatest of the greats, that was an awesome and very humbling experience. It’s especially awesome because we haven’t had that cliché major label horror story happen to us, where a band goes in and they feel like they have to compromise what they’re doing and change everything. Our process throughout the whole experience has been really unimpeded. They just kind of magnify what we’re doing as opposed to trying to change it. What was your first brush with electronic music? I really got into electronic music through college. I specifically remember going to see this show, the after party for a band with an electronic set, and just thinking, “This is really cool,” being able to produce music onstage that is unattainable sonically as a rock band. That experience, and going to a lot of music festivals really opened my eyes to how this music can be performed. It made me realize that people performing electronic music don’t have to worry as much about what can happen technically as they can worry about the audience experience and the entire show itself. Some people are sacrificing the show just to be doing absolutely everything instrumentally. Picking

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Singer Allyson Seconds Preps Release of New Album, Little World Words Justin Cox • Photo Kevin Fiscus

his month, Allyson Seconds will release her second solo album, a collaboration with homegrown songwriter and producer Anton Barbeau, whom she met as a teenager working at the Java City on 18th and Capitol. Barbeau is one of many local musicians with whom Seconds forged a musical bond during her time at the popular coffee shop/venue in the mid-‘90s. In addition to Barbeau, she met her husband, Kevin Seconds of the band 7 Seconds, and local booking legend Jerry Perry, who was recently tapped to book the live music for several massive Bernie Sanders rallies in Northern California this summer, including one at UC Davis where Allyson and her husband played in front of nearly 10,000 people. She’s an environmentalist and an animal lover who draws zero distinction between her personal life, her music and her politics. She made that clear during a recent phone call with Submerge, when the conversation dipped briefly into the election on the heels of the first debate. She is who she is, whether she’s singing, hiking trails, taking photos or running her fitness company. Her upcoming album, titled Little World, will come out on Oct. 21. She’ll play a release show at Shine the following day, with Barbeau and Kevin Seconds joining her on the bill. Seconds recorded the album while fighting off an illness she caught after flying home from a tour and descending into the smoke of last summer’s wildfireravaged hellscape. “It looked apocalyptic outside and it felt apocalyptic in my throat,” she said of the recording sessions in Barbeau’s father’s living room. “We embraced the edge of rawness in [Allyson’s] voice,” said Barbeau, noting that a casual listener likely wouldn’t notice a difference, but that an extra layer of authenticity could be found. We talked about everything from the importance of those early musical years in Sacramento to the recording of Little World which is layered with rich harmonies and anchored by catchy melodies. This is a playfully experimental collection of pop songs that will simultaneously stick in your head and keep you guessing from one verse to the next.

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How did you and Anton begin collaborating? I met Anton around town in the early ‘90s. I worked at Java City on 18th and Capitol when that was the only thing going on around town. There was nothing else going on except for, like, Cattle Club. There were staple folks, and Anton was definitely one of them. That’s actually where I met my husband and we started singing together. Anton’s songs always spoke to me. They just have a melodic aesthetic. What was the recording process like? Anton and I have a first CD that we did together in 2009 called Bag of Kittens. That came about because I was going to ask all of my favorite singer-songwriters in Sacramento to just write me a song because I had sung harmony with basically everybody. Everyone was like, “When are you going to do your own solo thing?” and I was like, “I don’t know. I suppose I should do that before I’m like 80 years old.” It’s scary to sing alone if you’re a harmony singer, but I like to push myself. I asked Anton to write me one song and he basically wrote me like 13. So that’s how the first album came about. He comes home [to Sacramento from Europe] every year to be with his dad. We’ve recorded both albums in his dad’s living room. The second album came about from us hanging out and going, “Hey, wanna do that again?” It was so nonchalant and kind of wonderful that way. What’s the living room studio space like? It’s a dusty Sacramento living room and it’s got Anton’s scrappy drum kit and laptop and Wurlitzer and microphones. We just make it work. We’ve recorded so much stuff there. On this album and the last album, the trumpet was recorded by Vince DiFiore from Cake in that living room. It’s not any sort of spiffy set-up at all. It’s so Sacramento. What’s it like harmonizing with yourself, as you often do on Little World? I have a weird voice dysmorphia and I have no idea what I sound like, or if it sounds good at all. I’m one of those people. Anton loves when I harmonize with myself in recordings and I’m like, “Really? Are you sure that sounds good?” He’s like, “I love it! We’re doing it!” I’m like, “I’m going to trust you!” What’s your approach to writing a harmony? I liken it to playing piano by ear. You kind of just play along until you find the right thing and you know it’s good or you know it isn’t. You go for the things that feel good. That’s how I do harmony with almost everybody I play with. Sometimes I sing with my husband and he’ll have kind of an idea in mind. I’ll try to do that and I‘ll morph it into something else and he’ll be like, “Aww yeah, that’s better!” It just depends. It’s mostly just finding what works. SubmergeMag.com

I read that you felt sick during a chunk of these recording sessions. How challenging was that? I was on an airplane coming back from being on tour with Kevin. I came back to the wildfires last year that were just horrendous. The air was visible. Those two things took a toll. We had a timeline for recording because Anton was leaving to go back to Europe, so we wanted to get it done. The album cover is a picture I took at that time, and it’s just hazy and looks so apocalyptic. When it came time to sing, were you able to settle in and find comfort? No, it was hard. There were a couple of songs where we were pushing my voice a little higher and some lower. Anton has an affinity for my lower voice. You are vocal about treatment of animals and the environment. How does that manifest itself in you as a person and as an artist? Nothing is separate at all. It makes sense that when Anton was writing these songs [the environment and nature] would be a part of it. He does a great job of thinking of me and who I am and what’s going on in my life. He did it for the first album as well. It’s all encompassing—an extension of me completely. How many dogs do you have? Two dogs. Lulu made both album covers and was the cover model for the last 7 Seconds album, so we’re kind of obsessed with our animals! How does the other dog feel about that? What’s great about Hank is he cares less about the limelight. He doesn’t care. Lulu just sounds like someone who would care more about the camera and will always pose for the camera. She’s a photographer’s daughter for sure. What’s the story behind the album cover? Anton picked that photo out. I had no idea what the cover would be, but he did a mock-up and surprised me and I went, ‘Whoa, that’s perfect!’ It really encompasses it. As apocalyptic as it looks, there’s still a bit of blue sky poking through. Where was the photo taken? It’s my favorite spot on the American River, behind REI and Costco. I don’t go there anymore because it got too dangerous with different run-ins. I’ve just sadly had to start going somewhere else, but I’m not giving up. I’m going to head back there because I love it so much. There has been less and less support for the homeless and a lot of programs got cut. I went there all the time because my dogs are barkers. I went there for years, daily. We’re talking 300 out of 365 days a year I’m at the river. I love it. I’m friends with several of the folks who live out there because I see them so often, but a whole other host of people have come out there

and it’s quite dangerous. So that’s the state of things now. You and Kevin played the Bernie Sanders rally at UC Davis. How did that come about? That was so exciting. We know Jerry Perry really well and he was booking all of those rallies. I’ve known Jerry since I was 15 probably. He asked Kevin and I to do the UC Davis rally, and that’s where I went to school, so that was really exciting. That was definitely a highlight of the year. Bernie really supports a lot of environmental issues that I also support. He’s for fair and humane treatment of everyone. We kind of knew it was a rough chance [for Bernie to win], but just to be able to support him by singing at a rally felt great. How did you feel when his candidacy ended? The way I feel about things now is that basically, in any way possible, we cannot and should not allow Donald Trump to be our president. That says it all. Whatever we can do to eliminate that chance of happening is what we must do. That’s how I feel. You said you met Jerry Perry back at Java City in Midtown as a teenager. What was it like being there back in the ‘90s? I feel grateful to have grown up in Sacramento. Lots of folks from different towns do not understand that statement at all. But if you were privy to that era of Sacramento music—the early ‘90s to early 2000s was a magical time. I don’t think I’m exaggerating that, because so many folks agree. It was a real boom time for music here. I was in my early 20s getting into bands and sharing stages and seeing shows. Knowing someone like Jerry since I was 15—it’s so familial. Everyone knows everyone and we’re all working for the same thing. We love music and community. I’m absolutely grateful to have grown up in a town that has such a rich music and art life. There were never a ton of venues in town, so you had to be active. Had to get shit happening. It’s almost like being music activists. I grew up in a time when we had to make our own flyers and staple them on posts. Sacramento is a small and tight-knit community. Everyone is just like two to three degrees from each other.

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Elisabeth Higgins O’Connor Explores Impermanence and Rummages Thrift Shops for Her Latest Exhibit Words Andy J. Garcia

In your childhood, were you interested in animals that take on human form? I think I’ve always been interested in animals, not to have them as pets necessarily, but they drive a narrative, and often times, morality tales or fables. Sometimes they’re thousands of years old, and they’ve been passed on through tradition or oral tradition; animals are often used to point out human foibles or society’s ills.

I think as a kid I was denied stuffed animals because I had a lot of allergies and asthma, I think about that a lot. I don’t think I’ve really told too many people that, but I was very jealous of kids that had lots of stuffed animals, and I kind of wonder about that; was that a seed that was planted, like, maybe I’ll make my own eventually. When did you discover a need to create or draw, was it at a young age? I don’t really remember, I think one of my earliest memories is drawing, and saying that I’m an artist, like in kindergarten or before kindergarten, and I don’t know exactly how that came about, but I always identified as an artist, even as a really little kid. And I was supported by my parents. My parents weren’t well-to-do, but they supported whatever we wanted to do … They never discounted any of our pursuits. Do you have gestures in mind for your sculptures before you start them? The three newest ones, yes, because they started from drawings, but for the older ones I don’t. They’re intentionally clumsy. Coming from that ceramic background, my work was really tight. I’m building them intentionally kind of clunky and awkward. Like, there are elements where they’re extremely elegant, like around the eyes and the mouth, there’s this precision of like very dainty things like a lot of that face is put together with quilting pins, and cut out really fragile paper and bedsheet bits, and then there are moments where it’s devolving into complete awkwardness and clumsiness. I think something about incorporating both ends of that spectrum in the piece are interesting to me. I’m not trying to hide how they are made, and I’m not trying to be a magician and have it look extremely tight all the way through.

his is Not a) Love Song is a new body of work by Sacramento artist Elisabeth Higgins O’Connor at Verge Center for the Arts. Sitting on a folding chair in the literal shadow of her sculptures, without the buzz and hum of the crowd from the opening reception, was surreal. It brings to mind the idea of sitting in a workshop of Disney animatronics, after-hours; skin peeled back to reveal the elaborate patchwork underneath. Higgins O’Connor creates large-scale, fantastical works, joining massive animal heads with bodies resembling that of a human. They are constructed with discarded domestic textiles and wood framing. Imagine a tornado ripping apart a house, and the entire contents reassembling themselves loosely in the form of these hulking, enormous fantasy structures. Their postures almost seem vulnerable or self-conscious. The artist makes no attempt to craft a slick or seamless sculpture, and in turn puts their inner workings on display. Bedsheets cut into thousands of pieces—hardened and dissected—form the skin of one. Colored cardboard tacked like shingling onto the exterior of another. It’s the sheer amount of hand carved materials painstakingly arranged that make the viewer step back in awe. The opening reception on Sept. 8 was a chance for the public to walk amongst Higgins O’Connor’s massive-scale, animal-like creatures, in a show with fellow UC Davis alumni Mathew Zefeldt, with his work titled Windows. Both of these are on display until Oct. 16, so make your way over to Verge before it’s gone. This show is the last of four shows celebrating the partnership between Verge Center for the Arts and the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at UC Davis, which will open on Nov. 13. On Tuesday, Submerge had a chance to sit down with the artist and ask some silly questions.

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CRAIG “I think as a kid I was denied stuffed animals because I had a lot of allergies and asthma, I think about that a lot. I don’t think I’ve really told too many people that, but I was very jealous of kids that had lots of stuffed animals, and I kind of wonder about that; was that a seed that was planted, like, maybe I’ll make my own eventually.” – Elisabeth Higgins O’Connor Was there a time when you feel like you wanted to move away from things being really tight to being more organic or loosely structured, or chaotic? Was it a gradual shift? Yeah, I think in the ‘90s I was very well known for bodies of work that were very tight ceramic work and they were kind of doll-like, you know with human bodies and animal heads, but porcelain, and very tight. And then 9/11 happened and the art market sort of fell apart temporarily. I was teaching at Cal State Long Beach, and something about, there was this break, there was this moment in time, there was this line in the sand where the world was rigid, and then 9/11 happened, and then the world was breakable. So something about that affected the work and me, so I think the language of destruction, the language of war-torn landscape. I think the work is born out of a lot of righteous anger with the system. I think I still find it mind-boggling that those buildings came down, you know, nothing is permanent, and ceramics are so permanent. We don’t even know how long ceramics can last. Fired clay doesn’t degrade, so there’s something really heroic about that, and I wasn’t interested in that anymore. I was interested in fragility, and I was interested in ephemera and interested in things not lasting forever, and things falling apart, and being put together, and things falling apart, and still being put back together. That notion of patching, and things falling and taking care of something, and it still falls apart but you still put it back together. SubmergeMag.com

Are there any artists that are inspiring you right now? I really like David Altmejd’s work. He’s a figurative artist; very strange figurative work that’s very, very, large scale, like the heroic male, but he’s using wigs and glass eyes, and the bodies have the cavities and caverns in them where they’re part landscape, they’re really fantastic. He’s a huge influence. And I also love the work of Joyce Pensato, who’s a painter who makes these rather expressionistic, super largescale portraits of cartoon characters, like Homer Simpson, or Mickey Mouse, or Donald Duck, but they look like they’ve been made with a giant paint sprayer. They’re very large scale. Sometimes she’s invited into these spaces where she’s painting or drawing on the wall, and it’s just like, splattered everywhere, it looks like a slasher movie mixed with Donald Duck’s face! It’s usually just black and white and charcoal, or black and white paint. There’s some amazing images of her studios over the years, with paint everywhere, just kind of that wonderful looseness, to be able to have that much freedom, and not have to worry about getting paint all over the floor, or ruining someone’s studio if you’re renting a space or even at home. That’s been holding me back, because for the past number of years I’ve been like a visiting artist at places or I will be installing work for over a month in a space, but you know, being in a place like this or in a place with black polished marble floors, or the space in Seattle, once the work got to the site there was

still a lot of things I had to do, but it had a heritage terrazzo floor, so I couldn’t like drip paint or anything in there. So thats been a hindrance, so it was really wonderful, to make, for the two months I was in Seattle, it was a metal fabrication building it was just filthy, but it was huge, and my space was huge, and I just had the ability to drip paint and splatter paint, and the landlord was fine with it, and because the place was so filthy from all this black dust from metal grinding, and industry over years, the paint actually made it cleaner, because the paint would just fall on the floor and pool up and dry up, and when you’d peel it up, because it was so dirty it would just peel up like a Biore strip off the floor, so I actually cleaned it up with my process. Is there another body of work you’re going to be working on in the immediate future? Immediate future, not right this second. The three (largest) pieces are going back to the Vancouver Art Center. I have an installation that will be at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco next fall. It’s a show that’s based on Jewish fables, so I’ve been invited to create some work as a response to the story of the golem. That’s the next body of work that I’m going to spend time on.

Time is running out to see Elisabeth Higgins O’Connor’s (This is Not a) Love Song at Verge Center for the Arts, located at 625 S St. in Sacramento. Her exhibit is being shown alongside Windows by Mathew Zefeldt until Oct. 16.

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Harlow’s The Helio Sequence, Genders, 8 p.m. Kupros Craft House Open Mic, 8 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe West Coast Songwriters Competition, 6 p.m. Old Ironsides Karaoke, 9 p.m. Pine Cove Open Mic Night, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Live Band Karaoke, 8 p.m. Press Club Tuesday Revival w/ Brendan Stone, 9 p.m. Third Space Time, Anxient Aliens, Leland Vandermeulen, 7:30 p.m. Torch Club Gavin Caanan, 5:30 p.m.; Adam Block, Don Cat, 8 p.m.

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Bar 101 Open Mic, 7:30 p.m. Cafe Colonial Iron Kingdom, ASD, Urd-Om, 7 p.m. Club Car The Double Shots, 7:30 p.m. Crest Theatre Ani DiFranco, Chastity Brown, 7:30 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. District 30 Matoma, Cheat Codes, Steve Void, Baynk, 10 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. Harlow’s The Good Samaritans, Xochitl, 8 p.m. Laughs Unlimited Karaoke, 8 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Acoustic Open Mic, 6 p.m.

Old Ironsides Open Mic, 9 p.m. Shine Humpday Funk! w/ The Bumptet, 8 p.m. Sophia’s Thai Kitchen Open Mic, 8 p.m. Torch Club Singer-Songwriter Showcase in the Round: Joe Kojima, Bobby Jordan, Grub Dog, Kevin Seconds, 5:30 p.m.; Jessica Malone feat. Switchblade Trio, 9 p.m. University Union Serna Plaza, CSUS Nooner w/ Mr. Hooper, 12 p.m.

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On The Y Haunted Garage, Nothin But Losers, Public Trash, 8 p.m. The Park Ultra Lounge DJ Spider, 9 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Alex Vincent (Album Release), 9:30 p.m. Press Club DJ Rue, 9 p.m. Red Hawk Casino Night Fever, 9:30 p.m. Shine Proxy Moon, Bob Bralove & Stephen Elliott Duo, Quietly Kept, 8 p.m. Starlite Lounge Rebel Rebel (David Bowie tribute), Plan 9 (Misfits tribute), Pine + Palm, 8 p.m. Torch Club Pailer & Fratis, 5:30 p.m.; Jette (Album Release), Mr. December, 9 p.m. UC Davis: Jackson Hall SFJAZZ Collective, 8 p.m.

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Dive Bar Dueling Pianos, 9 p.m. El Dorado County Fairgrounds Hangtown Music Festival: TAUK, Pimps of Joytime, Railroad Earth, Dead Winter Carpenters, 6 p.m. Fox & Goose The Mike Justis Band, 8 p.m. Golden 1 Center Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band, 8 p.m. Goldfield Tucker Beathard, 7 p.m. Harlow’s Maz (feat. members of Snarky Puppy), 8 p.m. Louie’s Cocktail Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m. Midtown BarFly Trash Talk, Antwon, Black Noise, 8 p.m. Old Ironsides Open Acoustic Jam, 8 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Adam Donald Band, 9:30 p.m. Raley Field Sactown Fin Fest w/ Garratt Wilkin and The Parrotheads, Mumbo Gumbo, 10 a.m. The Red Museum Black Marble, Ritual Howls, Grave Lake, 8 p.m. Shine Sac’s Coolest Jazz Jam, 8 p.m. Sophia’s Thai Kitchen Mall Walk, Kalm Dog, 9:30 p.m. Starlite Lounge Evan Bailey, Iska Dhaaf, 8 p.m. Torch Club X Trio, 5:30 p.m.; Reds Blues feat. Derek Irving, 9 p.m. UC Davis: Vanderhoef Studio Theatre Joey Alexander Trio, 8 p.m.

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Bar 101 Karaoke, 7:30 p.m. Blue Lamp Papa w/ Special Guests, 9 p.m. Capitol Garage Karaoke w/ Jeff Jenkins, 10 p.m. Center for the Arts Dom Flemons, Rattlin’ Bones, 7:30 p.m. Club Car Songwriters Showcase, 8 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m.

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Cache Creek Casino Yolanda Del Rio con Mariachi Colima, 9 p.m. Cafe Colonial Voice of Addiction, Rebel Radio, Not Like You, 8 p.m. Capitol Garage Fyah Fridays w/ DJ Jaytwo, 10 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. District 30 Louie Giovanni, Julian Pierce, 10 p.m. El Dorado County Fairgrounds Hangtown Music Festival: Medeski Martin & Wood, Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe, Nahko and Medicine for the People, Pink Talking Fish, Kate Gaffney Band, Ideateam, Whiskey Shivers and More, 11:45 a.m. Fox & Goose Death Party at the Beach, The Depths, Lauren Wakefield, 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 Cheryl Wheeler, 7 p.m. Mix DJ Craig Anthony, DJ Homicide, 9:30 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Open Mic Night, 6 p.m. Old Ironsides Garble, Riot Radio, RMF, 9 p.m. The Park Ultra Lounge DJ Elements, 9 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Superlicious, 10 p.m. Press Club DJ Rue, 9 p.m. Red Hawk Casino Audioboxx, 9:30 p.m. Shine Hans & The Hot Mess, Eugene Ugly, Item, 8 p.m. Starlite Lounge Brubaker, Hot Lunch, Pushy, Sonic Love Affair, 8:30 p.m. Torch Club Pailer & Fratis, 5:30 p.m.; Brandy Robinson, 9 p.m. UC Davis: Vanderhoef Studio Theatre Joey Alexander Trio, 8 p.m.

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Blue Lamp The Takeover w/ San Quinn, 9 p.m. The Boardwalk Andre Nickatina, Smoov E, 7 p.m. Capitol Garage Feel Good Saturday’s w/ DJ Epik, 10 p.m. Center for the Arts Kim Simmonds and Savoy Brown, 8 p.m. Crest Theatre Morris Day & The Time, 7 p.m. Discovery Park Aftershock Festival: Tool, Slayer, Primus, The Pretty Reckless, Anthrax, Baroness, Motionless In White, Deafheaven, Face to Face, Avatar, Death Angel, Letlive and More, 11 a.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. District 30 Miles Medina, DJ DM, 10 p.m. El Dorado County Fairgrounds Hangtown Music Festival: Railroad Earth, Incidental Animals, BoomBox, The Wood Brothers, Steve Kimock & Friends, Twiddle, Gene Evaro Jr., Carolyn Wonderland, The Infamous Stringdusters, Swamp Zen and More, 10 a.m. Fremont Presbyterian Church Sacramento Choral Society and Orchestra: Stained Glass Concert, 8 p.m. Harlow’s Foreverland (Michael Jackson tribute), 10 p.m. Harris Center for the Arts Folsom Lake Symphony Presents: Rhythmic Heat, 7:30 p.m. KBAR Z Rokk, 9 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Free Ukulele Class, 1 p.m.; Glenn Carter, 6 p.m. The Park Ultra Lounge DJ Peeti V, 9 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub The Cripple Creek Band, 10 p.m. Press Club DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m. Red Hawk Casino Audioboxx, 10 p.m. Shine Allyson Seconds (Album Release), Anton Barbeau, Kevin Seconds, 8 p.m. Sophia’s Thai Kitchen Damien Jurado, Tendons Fort, 9 p.m. Starlite Lounge Crematorium, Thanatology, Blacked, 9 p.m. Thunder Valley Casino Resort Reverend Horton Heat, 7:30 p.m. Torch Club The Stuff, 5:30

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Comedy Cache Creek Casino Resort Mike Epps, Oct. 22, 7:30 & 10 p.m. Crest Theatre Funny or Die: Jokes for Votes Tour w/ Demetri Martin, Jordan Rock,Thomas Dale and More, Oct. 10, 8 p.m. Fox & Goose Public House Fem Dom Com w/ Jaime Fernandez and Guests, Oct. 22, 9 p.m. Laughs Unlimited Ellis Rodriguez, Diego Curiel, Robert Omoto, Oct. 13, 8 p.m. Tony Baker feat. DJ Sandhu, Oct. 14 - 16, Fri. & Sat., 8 & 10:30 p.m.; Sun., 7 p.m. Best of Open Mic Showcase, Oct. 18, 8 p.m. Shaun Jones feat. Shane Murphy, Oct. 21 - 23, 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. Momo Lounge Comedy Burger w/ Ngaio Bealum, Oct. 16, 7 p.m. Mondavi Center: Jackson Hall continued on page 26

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The Passing Zone w/ Jon Wee and Owen Morse, Oct. 16, 3 p.m. Ooley Theater Comedy Night at the Ooley, every Thursday, 8 p.m. Punchline Comedy Club New Material Night with Mike E. Winfield, Oct. 12, 8 p.m. Carlos Mencia, Francisco “Sisqo” Duran, Oct. 13 - 15, Thurs., 8 p.m.; Fri. & Sat., 8 p.m. & 10 p.m. Emma Haney and Diego Curiel Present: Comedy Mix Tape, Oct. 16, 7 p.m. The CrabFeast Standup Tour, Oct. 19, 8 p.m. Lil Rey Howery, Dash Kwiatkowski, Oct. 20 - 23, 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 Faizon Love, Oct. 14 - 16 Luenell, Oct. 21 - 23

Misc. 20th Street (Between J and K) Midtown Farmers Market, every Saturday, 8 a.m. Arden Christian Center 4th Annual Farm to Every Fork (Part 1), Oct. 21, 5:30 p.m. B Street Theatre Mainstage Series: Speed-thePlow, Through Nov. 6 Family Series: The Garden of Rikki Tikki Tavi, Through Nov. 6 The Barn (West Sacramento) Friday Nights at the Barn: Food Trucks, Live Music and More, Oct. 14 & 21, 5 p.m. Blue Cue Bar Bingo, Wednesday’s, 9 p.m. Broadway & 3rd Avenue GATHER: Oak Park, Oct. 13, 5 p.m. The Boxing Donkey Trivia Night, every Tuesday, 8 p.m. Capitol Garage Geeks Who Drink Trivia Night, Wednesday’s, 9 p.m.

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Carmichael Park Falling Leaf Crafts Festival, Oct. 16, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. CLARA (E. Claire Raley Studios for the Performing Arts) Ode To Earth, Oct. 11, 7 p.m. Crest Theatre Sacramento International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Oct. 13 - 16 Eating You Alive, Oct. 20, 6 p.m. The Coming Convergence, Oct. 21, 7 p.m. Bride of Frankenstein, Oct. 23, 7 p.m. Crocker Art Museum Off the Grid: Taco Fusion Tuesday’s, Sept. 27 & Oct. 4, 5 p.m. ArtMix: Dance Macabre, Oct. 13, 5 p.m. 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 El Camino High School Spring intoMOTION: Cheer and Dance Clinic, Oct. 23, 8 a.m. - 7 p.m. Fox & Goose Pub Quiz, Tuesday’s, 7 p.m. Gallery 1855 at the Davis Cemetery and Arboretum Dia de los Muertos Celebration, Oct. 23, 11 a.m. 3 p.m. Haggin Oaks Golf Complex Ladies Night Out at the Golf Range, Oct. 15, 6 p.m. Harris Center for the Arts California Theatre Center: The Sleeping Beauty, Oct. 15, 1 & 3 p.m. Erth’s Dinosaur Zoo Live, Oct. 16, 1 & 4 p.m. Twyla Tharp Dance 50th Anniversary Tour, Oct. 20, 7:30 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. Memorial Auditorium 7th Annual Sacramento Signature Chefs Auction, Oct. 20, 6 p.m. Midtown BarFly Salsa Lessons, every Wednesday, 8 p.m.

Miller Park Smoke on the River, Oct. 15, 1 p.m. Oak Park Brewing Co. Trivia Night, every Sunday, 8 p.m. Palladio (Folsom) Whole Lotta Brews, Oct. 15, 6 p.m. Pine Cove Trivia Night, Wednesday’s, 9 p.m. Press Club Flex Your Head Trivia, every Tuesday, 8 p.m. River Walk Park Off the Grid: Local Food, Brews and Music, Sunday’s, 11 a.m. Sacramento City College Sacramento City College Open House and Fair, Oct. 15, 1 - 5 p.m. Sacramento Convention Center City of Trees Art & Ink Expo, Oct. 14 - 16 Sacramento News & Review Ask Joey’s 20th Anniversary Celebration, Oct. 20, 6 p.m. Sacramento State: University Union Ballroom Sacramento State Ski Swap 2016, Oct. 16, 9 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. Sierra 2 Center Festival of Flavors, Oct. 22, 6 p.m. Sol Collective Young Poets of Color Showcase, Oct. 14, 7:30 p.m. Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Church Armenian Food Festival, Oct. 22, 11 a.m. - 8 p.m. Various Midtown Cafes, Coffee Shops, Etc. Specialty Coffee Week 2016, Oct. 10 - 16 Verge Center for the Arts Art Exhibits: Windows by Mathew Zefeldt and (This is Not a) Love Song by Elisabeth Higgins O’Connor, Through Oct. 16 Vernon Street Town Square (Roseville) Friday Flicks: The Jungle Book, Oct. 21, 7:30 p.m. Oktoberfest Celebration, Oct. 22, 1 - 5 p.m. University Union Ballroom, CSUS An Evening w/ Mentalist Craig Karges, Oct. 13, 7:30 p.m. Chosen for Change - A Father’s Perspective: Lecture w/ Michael Brown Sr., Oct. 20, 7:30 p.m. WAL Public Market Art Exhibit: Steel Wire Art by Diana Dich, Through Nov. 2

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Monday Funday Branches, Before the Brave Harlow’s, Sacramento • Monday, Oct. 3, 2016

Words Haley Teichert | photos dillon flowers

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Sacramento on a Monday night. We had just had our first rain of the season, and it was starting to feel like fall. The streets were wet and the air was getting colder by the minute. Inside the warm and dimly lit nightclub at Harlow’s, 80-plus people were crowded together, celebrating the changing of the seasons with singing, dancing and clapping along to soulful alternative folk and indie rock played by out-of-town bands Branches and Before the Brave. Harlow’s is a not a small venue, but the crowd filled up the space, making it a cozy escape from the cool weather outside. Before the Brave, from San Francisco, started off the show with a set full of powerfully dynamic songs, driving drum beats and eerie vocal harmonies. Guitarist Jason Stevens sang lead vocals, which were enriched by strong supporting harmonies provided by guitarist Ryan Devisser and keyboard player Beth Garber. The band members (particularly Devisser) were dancing and moving the entire time. It was easy to tell that the musicians were having fun and were happy to be there. People were laughing and dancing along as soon as the band hit the stage, paving the way for the headliners to follow. Next up was Branches, who are based out of San Francisco and Los Angeles. Branches is made up of six people, most of whom were introduced to the audience throughout the course of the evening. The frontman is singer/guitarist Tyler Madsen. He had the crowd giggling, singing and clapping all night. Multi-instrumentalist Jacob Montague proved to be a humble performer who, from song to song, effortlessly switched between guitar, banjo and mandolin. (It was his birthday, but we didn’t sing for him because he’d really rather we didn’t.) Last but not least, there was Natalie Nicoles, who captured the audience with her elegant stage presence and allaround musical talent. “She’s our secret weapon,” Madsen told me after the show, a huge smile on his face. Nicoles consistently blew the crowd away with her haunting voice and her grasp of the array of obscure instruments that she

had surrounding her on the stage. In addition to singing beautiful duets with Madsen, she played the keyboard, the harmonium, the glockenspiel, the tambourine and jingle bells. Branches plays a lot of love songs, but “I Believe in a Thing Called Love” (a cover of The Darkness song) was probably the most anticipated of the evening. Everyone knew the words, or if they didn’t know them, they caught on quickly. The entire room (or what felt like it, at least) sang the uplifting chorus back to the band, loudly and with conviction. In case the feeling of love in the room wasn’t strong enough already, the evening ending with a surprise finale that only Branches and a few members of the audience were in on. There was a young couple in the crowd, two die-hard Branches fans who had been introduced to the audience earlier in the evening by Madsen. Before the last song of the evening, the band drew everyone’s attention to the couple once again. In the middle of the crowded dance floor, the young man got down on one knee, pulled out a ring and proposed. (She accepted!) The audience erupted with cheers, and the band topped of the evening with another soullifting song from their new album White Flag called “Tomorrow.” “Here’s to growing old together!” Madsen said, before Branches launched into their final song. Just about everyone in the room got caught up in the moment and were moving, dancing, singing and clapping along. Then, the show ended (right around 9 p.m., which was perfect for a Monday night) and everyone slowly ventured back outside into the cold to find their cars and make their way home. But everyone in that room took a little bit of love and warmth from the experience with them. “They were so good!” I heard someone say. “They were so fun!” a friend responded. “SO fun!” a third person chimed in. And that seemed to be the consensus of the evening.

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Golden 1 Center Hosts Rock Royalty for Debut Concert Paul McCartney

Golden 1 Center, Sacramento • Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2016

Words Jonathan carabba | photos melissa welliver It may be the Sacramento Kings’ new home, but for two nights this week the Golden 1 Center in downtown Sacramento belongs to rock royalty. Sir Paul McCartney hosted the first of two concerts at the brand new, half-billion dollar arena on Tuesday night with his “One On One” tour, playing for nearly three hours to 15,000-plus people, sprinkling in tunes that spanned his entire career including instantly recognizable hits from The Beatles’ era, all the way up to newer tunes released just last year. As the eager crowd trickled in, lines at the many local eateries like Paragary’s and Block Butcher Bar grew long, as did the lines at the vendor stands selling craft beer. So naturally this non-beer-snob bee-lined it to a cart selling “the cheap stuff” and snagged a couple tall cans of Blue Moon in about 30 seconds flat. As I took to my seats on the floor level, Kings owner Vivek Ranadivé was spotted in the crowd shaking hands and giving out hugs, clearly elated that his new arena was about to host a living legend in Sir Paul McCartney. At exactly 8:15 p.m., after a killer DJ had played tunes to the filling seats, McCartney and his four-piece band took to the stage and busted into “A Hard Day’s Night,” the crowd erupting with applause and singing along with every word. After the third tune—another Beatles hit, “Can’t Buy Me Love”— the charismatic frontman stopped and said, “Gotta take a minute just to drink it all in.” At 74 years old, McCartney is as charming as SubmergeMag.com

ever, and while his voice may have had a hint of raspiness on certain tunes, he’s certainly still a beast of a musician, switching off all night from bass, to piano, to guitar, back to bass and then to ukulele, showcasing his many talents. At some point after about the fifth or sixth song, it became apparent that this tour could just as easily have been branded “Story Time with Paul,” as he shared many personal memories from over the years, including a funny tale about when the late, great Jimi Hendrix opened a show with a ripping version of “Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band” just two days after its release. Other notable stories included bits about fellow Beatles John Lennon and George Harrison, both of whom received standing ovations upon mention. For the next hour or so, McCartney and crew continued to rip through hit after hit after hit, including “We Can Work It Out,” “Love Me Do,” “Band on the Run,” “Eleanor Rigby,” “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da," “Let It Be,” “Live and Let Die,” “Back in the U.S.S.R.,” “Hey Jude” and an epic solo performance of “Blackbird” with McCartney on acoustic guitar standing on an elevated portion of the stage, lifted 20-plus feet above the crowd. And that was all before the encore, even! After the band left the stage at around 10:35 p.m., the crowd demanded their return, and they kindly obliged. “Yesterday” was the first tune of the multi-song encore, which also included "Hi, Hi, Hi," "Birthday" and closer "Carry That Weight.” At one point during the encore McCartney brought fans

on stage who had been holding signs up all night, including a 12-year-old girl and her family from Truckee, California, and pretty much everyone on stage and the entire crowd were nearly in tears from the touching moment when Paul leaned down and kissed the young fan on the hand, sharing a group hug. All in all it was a legendary show, but there are a few things I wish would have happened. For one: a live horn section, as hearing saxophones and trumpets played via keyboards just isn’t the same. Same goes for a string section. I think McCartney could have afforded to get some guest musicians up there for a song or two, although I did appreciate his lean, efficient four-piece band, which he waited till the very end to thank.

“These boys can play,” he exclaimed. As the crowd filed out onto the streets and I headed down to Coin-Op for a post-show beer and slice of pizza, I stopped and chatted with a friendly police officer who was smiling ear to ear. She asked me how the show was and mentioned that she and her many colleagues on hand to keep an eye out for trouble had a very smooth night, sans incidents. Is Sacramento yet a world class city? I’m not sure, I think we’re still working on it. But was that a world class concert? You bet your ass it was, and I look forward to many more large-scale shows happening downtown in our fancy, new state-of-the-art arena.

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Ugh. Alright. So … Do we have to do this? Do we really have to do this? I didn’t want to have to bring it up, but, like … OK, so this Trump thing with the pussy grabbing. Ugh. Like, I just threw up in my mouth a little. I didn’t hear the audio. DON’T send me a link to the audio. Some things you just can’t unhear. Please. I’m not one of those people with a morbid curiosity complex. Back in the day, I never went to Rotten.com or whatever sites were out there where you could watch people get disemboweled by boars and stuff like that. Even before that, I never bowed to peer pressure and watched the Faces of Death video series, because, like, I don’t have to see any of that stuff to know it’s awful. I don’t see it as sheltering myself from the horrid truths of the world. I mean, maybe I am, but I’d just prefer to live in the Shire, I guess, where the only problems you have to deal with are orcs, ringwraiths and Sauron, but none of these things will really bother you as long as you don’t follow Frodo on a quest to return the One Ring to Mordor and cast it into the fires of Mount Doom. You see, life can be the Shire if you let it. So let’s pretend for a moment that a major party’s presidential candidate wasn’t caught on tape a bunch of years ago basically laughing about how easy it is to sexually assault women when you’re famous. Let’s see what else is out there … Uh, I saw something about Brexit. Remember when that was a thing? Oh, the United Kingdom is going to leave the European Union and we’re probably all going to be fucked because of it—like economically or whatever. Yeah, something new happened with that, but you probably don’t care. I don’t care. I don’t have stocks. I don’t invest. That’s probably why I’m broke, but it’s also why major global political upheavals only affect me in ways I don’t understand. That’s a good thing, right? Other stuff happened, too, this past week, but really the only thing anyone is talking about is this leaked audio of Trump being a dick. As if we didn’t know he was a dick already. I mean, plenty of people don’t know, or don’t care, because they’re defending him on Facebook like he’s a martyr, wrongly persecuted for his steadfast belief that having a lot of money entitles you to treating everyone else, especially women, immigrants and Ted Cruz, like utter garbage. I mean, Trump’s such a piece of shit, he had me sympathizing with Ted Cruz.

James Barone jb@submergemag.com

I really don’t want to write about him anymore, but I can’t stop. And that’s probably what he wants. He’s winning. We’re letting him win. I’m writing this on Oct. 9, the afternoon before the second presidential debate, but I already know that by the time I write my next column on Oct. 23, Trump will have said or done 12 other stupid things between now and then and no one will even remember this. We’ll just go on and on about the new thing, and that name will just fester in our minds FOREVER. Like didn’t it just come out that he didn’t pay a billion dollars in taxes or something? See! That just happened and I don’t even remember it! Is this a historical first? Have we ever had a guy like this running for president? I didn’t vote for Mitt Romney, but his very existence didn’t have me praying for Giant Meteor 2016 to dispatch its Cosmic Justice upon all of us. I just didn’t agree with his stance on a lot of things, and that’s OK. Same goes for just about everyone I haven’t voted for. Like, just because I don’t agree with you doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be president. Who the fuck am I to judge? I’m a fucking doofus. But this guy … I just want to understand what the draw is. I really do. I need someone to tell me why it would be a good idea to install this turd-faced rich boy as Leader of the Free World. Like, why was he a better choice than Jeb Bush for the Republican nomination? Or Marco Rubio? Or … the 40,000 other dudes who were seeking the presidency whose names escape me. How about one of those guys? How is it that even now as the Republican National Committee is in panic mode and everyone who didn’t back Trump, then backed Trump, and now can’t jump ship fast enough, that people are still supporting him? Why did I see one headline on Google News today calling tonight’s debate, the second presidential debate, a do-or-die for Trump? Seriously? Is it still even a question? I mean even without the pussy-grabbing thing (ugh), how is this still even happening? When will this nightmare end? How did we get here? How do we go back to how things were before? When was the “before” we’d want to go back to? Let’s find out. And if we can’t, maybe we should just all move to the Shire.

Dive Into Sacramento & Its Surrounding Areas

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Issue 224 • October 10 – October 24, 2016

Dive into Sacramento & its Surrounding Areas

October 10 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 24, 2016

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