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NINE YEARS OF PROVIDING YOU WITH LESS HEADACHES, MORE ARTS Melissa welliver melissa@submergemag.com The political climate over the last yearor-so has given me such a headache. And this past week, well, lets just say it’s gone full-on migraine, to the point where I feel sick and just want to curl up in bed until the feeling has passed. However, this isn’t going to pass. This goddamn migraine is going to last for four long, grueling years. Now I like to stay educated about things of that sort. I love to read other local publications like the Sacramento Bee and SN&R, as well as a blend of television shows from CNN to my weekly dose of John Oliver. I even like to hear other slightly more conservative viewpoints from radio shows like Armstrong and Getty. While I highly suggest staying educated and getting involved when you can, whether it be by protesting or writing/calling your congressmen, etc., now more than ever, I’d like to remind you that it’s probably in your best interest to fill your life with things that aren’t so political from time to time. That is if you’re like me and you want your migraine to subdue for short periods of time. Good news: Submerge is here for you! For free! Every other week! Never forget to fill your life with arts and entertainment! And just know, we have officially been here for YOU since 2008. This month marks NINE years that we’ve bringing you music, art, food and endless culture stories IN PRINT (and on our website) that all revolve around the best our city of Sacramento has going on. We are quite aware that cool shit has been happening here since before we were around, but we love how evolved our city has become over the past several years, which is the only reason this print publication has been able to stay around for so long, and we plan on being around for many more years to come. That is, if our shithead president doesn’t get us nuked. OK, dark jokes aside, keep showing us that you love Submerge by physically picking us up, or reading us online. And if you’re in the position to support Submerge through monetary means, please contact us to advertise your event, your band, your business, your restaurant, etc. We offer super affordable ad rates for any budget! Help us keep arts and entertainment coverage strong, allow us to tell the stories of the people we’re covering in our pages, and in turn support our contributing writers and photographers, thus keeping the circle of support alive and well. Thank you. Please enjoy issue 232. -Melissa
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New All-Ages Music Venue Holy Dive Bar to Open in Sacramento Sacramento-area concert goers in the 21-andunder crowd will soon have one more option for a night out with the opening of a new all-ages music venue in Sacramento. The team that brought us Ace of Spades, a popular, 1,000-plus capacity club in downtown Sacramento, plans on opening a new all-ages venue “sometime later this year,” according to partners Bret Bair and Eric Rushing. The new venture will be called Holy Dive Bar, and while details remain sparse at the moment, Bair and Rushing have confirmed with Submerge that they do have a location picked out. The new venue will be comparable in size to The Boardwalk, another former venue which the pair are no longer operating. Holy Dive Bar’s exact location will be announced in the coming months, but we can confirm that it is not downtown but somewhere “in the burbs.” By the looks of the venue’s Facebook page (Facebook.com/holydivebarsac) it looks to be somewhere in the area of Madison Avenue and Auburn Boulevard. According to Bair, Holy Dive Bar will “cater to the local scene as well as up-and-coming national acts,” going on to say, “We’re doing it for the kids!” This is huge news for the local music scene! We’ll keep our readers informed of updates on this new venue. In the meantime, check out Bair and Rushing’s other shows at Ace and Goldfield.
Prolific Sacramento Vocalist Kurt Travis’ New Band Eternity Forever Debuts First Single “Fantasy,” With EP to Follow in April It’s impossible to not love Kurt Travis. The Sacramento-based vocalist, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist has lended his talents to a plethora of incredible bands over the years: Five Minute Ride, No Not Constant, O! The Joy, Dance Gavin Dance and most recently A Lot Like Birds (not to mention his solo records). The dude just lives and breathes music, and even though he stepped away from his role in ALLB in 2016, he’s not slowing down. In fact, he’s busier than ever. He started and runs an indie label called Esque Records, and he’s currently working on a new solo album, There’s a Place I Want to Take You, which will be released sometime this spring. On top of all that, Travis is also in two brand new bands, a long-rumored side project called Push Over with Thomas Erak of The Fall of Troy, and another group called Eternity Forever (pictured above). The latter just released their first single online last week, called "Fantasy," to rave reviews. Eternity Forever features
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The Optimistic Pessimist Playing Loose with the Facts Alternative facts … that’s what we have to deal with these days. One of President <shudder> Trump’s horn blowers and former campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, went on Meet the Press recently and was asked why the new administration’s first press conference focused on spreading false information about the number of people that attended Trump’s inauguration instead of his plans for the next four years. Conway responded that the press secretary, Sean Spicer, was there to present “alternative facts” in response to press reports of a lower turnout for Trump’s inauguration. So, what are alternative facts? I’m not entirely sure. For as long as I can remember, we’ve been calling true things, “facts,” and any alternatives to those facts, “lies.” Up to now, there were no other things called alternative facts. From what I can gather, alternative facts are apparently whatever sounds good to Trump or a member of his administration at any given time of any given day. In consideration of that change, the category of lies should be narrowed down to things that aren’t true or that aren’t eventually made true by Donald Trump. It’s a hell of a way to live your life, believing whatever you think sounds right and calling the rest fake news. It takes a lot of willful ignorance and a heady ego to stay on the illusory path that an alternative fact lover creates for himself. Furthermore, it takes a special kind of psychopath to do it with the level of gusto that Trump and his minions have managed to muster thus far during their short time in power. Fortunately, the alternative facts game is not just for people like Donald Trump. You can try it too! Alternative facts can be anything you want them to be. If the real facts aren’t going your way, just make something up to change the script. It doesn’t have to sound good or even make sense. You don’t need proof or a source or really anything else to create alternative facts, but if pressed, you can say that you saw it on Facebook or Twitter. You can even make up alternative facts when you don’t need to, just like the president. When he lost the popular vote by 3 million people, Trump claimed that those millions of votes were all fraudulent. To back up his claim, he offered no evidence. Trump SubmergeMag.com
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Bocephus Chigger bocephus@submergemag.com could have just admitted that he lost the popular vote but won the electoral college and that’s all that really matters in our ass backwards process. Instead, he told us that those millions of votes were fake and that he would have won the popular vote if those fake votes were never counted. I understand that popular vote numbers may not be a situation that comes up often in your personal life, but you can apply Trump’s teachings to your miserable existence anyway. Next time you are late for work, tell your boss that the alternative facts are that you are on time and he is late. Better yet, tell him you are actually his boss now and that he is fired for insubordination. No proof should be needed so long as you are committed to the alternative truth. It’s just that simple. Here is another great example. Why pay rent when the alternative facts are that you already paid it for the rest of the year? Remember, you don’t have the burden of proving anything you say and you don’t have to change your position when presented with real factual evidence. With this mentality, you can have and do anything you want. That’s the beauty of alternative facts! Unfortunately, there are some downsides to alternative facts. For one, they are complete and utter bullshit. Second, they can be dangerous when taken seriously. Some of you out there may recall that alternative facts about weapons of mass destruction landed us in a second war with Iraq. I also can’t help but wonder what will happen when we start presenting alternative facts to alternative facts? What a shit show that will be! I’m not even sure where that wormhole goes or if it even has an end. Perhaps that's why society settled on the concept of facts long ago and defined them as those things that are proven to be true and not as those things we may want to be true. Maybe our wise ancestors knew that things can get messy when you just make shit up as you go, especially when you are an unimaginative, egotistical, orange-crusted man-baby with an axe to grind against anyone that has ever said anything negative about you. People like that should remember that lies, no matter what we may call them, hurt us. Only the truth can set us free.
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Hardest Hue to Hold Gold Rated r Words Richard St.Ofle After watching the trailer for Gold, I couldn’t wait to get to the theater. Matthew McConaughey and Edgar Ramirez seemed to have palpable on-screen chemistry, the film was directed by Stephen Gaghan (Traffic and Syriana) and written by John Zinman and Patrick Massett (known for their incredible work on Friday Night Lights) —what could go wrong? But I couldn’t find anyone to go with me. All of my regular movie partners inexplicably said it looked terrible. “It has a lower Rotten Tomatoes score than Donald Trump’s approval rating,” one friend told me. It’s hilarious that we as a society are literally working Trump into every conversation (and I guess I’m perpetuating it now), but I knew exactly what that meant: I shouldn’t be expecting much. Low ratings. Sad. Still I decided to Make the Moviegoing Experience Great (Again?) and go it alone to a film appropriately named after our new president’s favorite color. I looked around at the four other people in the theater (though it looked like a million-anda-half people) and sat down for the ride. SubmergeMag.com
The film follows slimeball conman Kenny Wells (a very bald and pudgy Matthew McConaughey, who wears a distractingly awful set of teeth) as he swindles his way into millions—or maybe billions—and then loses it all. Or does he? The problem with this film is that the script angles McConaughey into the kind of character no one would ever want to see succeed, and kudos to McConaughey, because his character is absolutely deplorable. So vile, in fact, that when he tastes success, it kind of feels nauseating (as a sidenote, and referencing the above, maybe this was the wrong time to make such a film—just sayin’). He cheats on his girlfriend, pawns her jewelry, swindles his business partners, lies to investors and spends an overwhelming portion of the film drunk (ahem, not that there’s anything wrong with that). The real bummer comes at the midpoint reversal, when Wells loses everything. We’re supposed to feel awful for him, and it’s just plain hard to do. What’s worse is the dizzying number of times McConaughey’s character goes from rags to riches. After inheriting his father’s mining company, Wells squanders it, until a dream leads him to a prospect in Indonesia led by geologist friend Michael Acosta. While there, he’s worse off than when he started. Out of money, sick and low on hope, Acosta
wakes Wells out of his malarial haze to announce that they’ve found gold. Not just some gold, but a lot of gold. Acosta stays behind in Indonesia while Wells heads back to the States to take meetings on Wall Street. What follows is a second act that’s almost entirely a montage of money and bad behavior. As the money is pouring in, the film doesn’t orient itself well enough to make any of this more than just watchable. Is it a cautionary tale? Satire? A character piece? An allegory for the Trump phenomenon? Apart from being beautifully shot and incredibly well-acted, this film doesn’t do enough in the first half, so when the midpoint reversal comes, casting doubt over all of the glory, we feel less like our hero was robbed and more like a wrong was righted. This complicates the second half of the film, which follows Wells and Acosta as they struggle to get back what was never really theirs. The film does end with a wild twist that’s actually a satisfying payoff of something that was planted much earlier, but by that time the murkiness and moral ambiguity of the rest of the film has already unravelled it beyond repair. In all, no one is in the mood to watch a flabby white dude with a combover as he fumbles from one tone-deaf bad decision to another. Sad.
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New App Launches in Sacramento That Will Deliver Booze to Your Door In One Hour or Less There are all kinds of apps out there: some are free, some cost you a bit of money, others, like Facebook, just suck away your precious time and energy like some digital vampire with an insatiable appetite. But do these apps really do anything for you that matters? No. They definitely don’t bring you booze. Luckily, Sacramentans can now employ their smartphones for a worthwhile cause with the recent launch of Saucey in Sacramento. The Los Angeles-based company promises home alcohol delivery in an hour or less and works much like ridesharing services like Uber, according to a Jan. 9 article on Sacbee.com. “Saucey’s couriers can see orders and sign up to handle that delivery,” the article stated. Orders are placed directly to the store, and, yes, valid ID is required before the order is completed (sorry, kids). You can download the app at Sauceyapp.com and connect with the company at Facebook. com/sauceyapp. Enjoy … responsibly, of course!
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Set Leonardo da Vinci’s Marvelous Inventions into Motion at the Aerospace Museum of California • Feb. 6–Sept. 4 Leonardo da Vinci is kind of a huge deal. Not only was he one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance, but he also had a brilliant—if not prophetic—mind for invention. For the first time ever, Sacramentans will have the opportunity to see his inventions come to life when the Leonardo da Vinci: Machines in Motion traveling exhibit comes to the Aerospace Museum of California (3200 Freedom Park Dr., McClellan Park). Machines in Motion features 40 replicas recreated by scientists from da Vinci’s own designs. These machines are hands-on and visitors will have the opportunity to set them into motion. According to a press release, the exhibitions are grouped together according to each of the four elements— earth, air, fire and water—and feature “visionary early inventions such as the helicopter, glider, armored tank, drive transmission, printing press, bicycle, robot and more.” This is a great exhibit for adventurous and inquisitive minds of all ages. Entrance is $15 for adults; $12 for children, seniors and students; and free for children under 5, museum members and active military service members (with ID). For more info, go to Aerospaceca.org.
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Singer-songwriter Jessica Malone stays open to possibility Words Robin Bacior |
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ost are familiar with the cliché “write what you know,” and while there’s definite truth to that, sometimes it’s best to write what you find, to be open to what can be learned. Singer-songwriter Jessica Malone has spent her musical life doing just that. The Sacramento transplant writes based on what’s speaking loudest, whether that’s writing a song on ukulele, guitar or within various collaborations that bring out more country flair or jazzy undertones. Malone always manages to find her own voice within her inspiration. “The music that I create is sort of a combination of all the things I’ve listened to in my life, and how that’s soaked in, and become part of who I am,” Malone said. Having grown up in a musical household, Malone has always been musically inclined, with an emphasis on singing. “I started playing instruments in general because singing is my favorite thing in the world, and I wanted to be able to accompany myself,” Malone said. By the time Malone was 10 she was playing the guitar, and over time began writing her own original music. Years later on a trip to Hawaii she was introduced to the ukulele. She casually began to play, which opened up a versatility within her songwriting. “I picked up the ukulele because when I’d go on road trips with some friends of mine, whoever was in the passenger seat of the car would have the ukulele and everyone else would sing,” Malone said. “I just kind of fell in love with it. It was a new instrument that I started playing later in life, and because I hadn’t been playing it for a long time, all this new stuff started coming out of it. I was able to write some really unique, really original stuff on it.” Malone moved to Sacramento somewhat recently, in July 2015. After having been based in the Mt. Shasta area as a musician for some years,
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the point I think. The point for me, anyway.” Though still relatively new to the city, Malone’s immediately immersed herself in the local music scene. “There’s a lot of community, and everyone is really rooting for one another, I can feel that. I was welcomed with open arms into Sacramento, and I’ve met so many great people. Everyone’s really supportive of one another,” Malone said. After two years of building her community and finding her original sound, Malone’s preparing to release her debut full length, Miles Left To Walk. While Lights Out aired more on the country-folk side, Malone’s new songs lie more in a singer/songwriter vein that centers around the simplicity of the songs themselves. Though the album is full-band arrangements, the instrumental additions are subtleties that highlight Malone as the sonic focal point; light horn melodies, bright background organ, expansive fiddle lines. The result feels like a cross of folk music with slight jazz nuance, mostly in Malone’s vocal delivery. The clearest comparison would be Norah Jones, one Malone gets often, though her influence extends far beyond one artist or style. Her sound is self-described as “California, gypsy-traveling folk,” but also simply as a pure feeling. “I try not to force anything,” Malone said “I try to be as authentic and organic as I possibly can be in my writing and performing.” Malone recorded and produced the record with John Morris at Tanglewood Studios in Folsom Lake, bringing in 11 musicians to fill out the sound. With all the extra hands, along with instruments and recording options available within the Tanglewood space, Malone focused on avoiding piling on extra sound and keeping the record simple. “The possibilities were endless,” Malone said. “It was hard to keep it simple because I could’ve done anything that I wanted to. [Morris] has so many different instruments, he has a hammond organ right in the studio. But I
like to keep things simple, I think that really lends itself to the kind of music I make, and also to the listener I think it’s nice. I went down the rabbit hole a couple times with electric guitar tones and things like that, but came back with a clean tone for the most part.” The title song, “Miles Left To Walk,” (Malone’s first song written on ukulele) focuses on the idea of not being too focused on an endpoint, but rather enjoying the adventure. “There’s a line in the song, ‘Get to the top, and the miles left to walk stretch out like the sea.’ It’s this visual, climbing up this album, you have this goal ahead of you, and you climb and you’re like ‘Oh, I’ve made it!’ But then as you look out, there isn’t that place that you make it to and you’re done, there’s always somewhere to go next. Just that concept of enjoying it as you go along, keeping your sights in the present moment and not so much that place that you’ll one day get [where] everything will be OK.” Over the course of February, Malone will be accompanied by a rotating cast of Sacramento musicians at her live performances, including Barry Eldridge (drums), Matthew Hevesh (guitar and violin), Brett Rechtfertig (guitar), Thomas Mackerness (bass), along with The Switchblade Trio (James Pace, Robert Sidwell and Larry Carr). Following the release of her album next month, Malone will be joining folk-artist Caitlin Jemma for a small regional tour. Accompanying each show, the two will be looking for the town’s favorite local bridge to snap a photo. Needless to say, she’ll be open to what she finds.
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Heavy Gets Horny
Horseneck’s Debut LP is a Dynamic Trip words Ryan J. Prado
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nthony Paganelli has been at a monster truck rally all day long with his son. When Submerge catches up with Horseneck’s guitarist/vocalist (affectionately called “Pag”), he’s slightly frazzled by the spectacle of the subculture drawn to such an affair, lamenting the unbroken yelps of a patron directly behind him for the entirety of the event. It’s an interesting anecdote, considering Paganelli’s notoriety as
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a bit of a screamer himself. The drain of the day’s events could be why most of the rest of Horseneck admit some confusion when our interview begins. “We cleaned the house for this phone interview, just so you know,” says guitarist Lance Jackman. Paganelli interjects, “Apparently I forgot to tell them this was a phone interview.”
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“This is for the cover of Rolling Stone, right?” adds Jackman. Levity is an undeniable ingredient in Horseneck’s auditory alchemy. The band— rounded out by drummer Jess Gowrie and bassist Lennon Hudson—are gearing up for the release of their first full-length album, Heavy Trip, which they are self-releasing. Unlike the somewhat spastic stoner thrashers of the band’s duo of 2013 EP releases, Heavy Trip was endeavored from the outset as a fuller, more realized artistic vision for Horseneck. “The two EPs were essentially early songs that I just wrote quickly and didn’t put too much thought into,” admits Paganelli of the Belly Full of Blood and The Worst People Ever EPs. Both EPs
were originally released only digitally via Artery Recordings, with whom the band cut ties shortly after. Consequently, neither EP can be heard online, save for a scant few YouTube clips. Heavy Trip, on the other hand, revels in its musical inclusivity. Writing as a group for the first time, Horseneck fortified its typically ferocious brand of sludge-y, riff-forward metal with more expansive instrumentation—namely lots of keyboards and horns. No, not devil horns. We’re talking brass here. Existing somewhere within the sonic field of Murder City Devils and Red Fang, Heavy Trip sounds like a band unafraid to push the coveted tenets of heavy music to more nuanced volumes. “We went into it with expectations of doing Dive Into Sacramento & Its Surrounding Areas
more,” says Paganelli. “Then we got silly and rock tropes are applied thickly, with Paganelli thought, ‘What if we put some horns on it? and Jackman’s guitar runs accenting musical Maybe some background singers?’” segues between song sections. Featured The result is no less abrasive on tunes like largely in the track are the backing vocals of “P.A.G.,” a particularly punishing exhibition of Sharlotte Gibson, who was once backup singer stoner-metal that folds in tasteful B3 organ for Whitney Houston. The contrast of the work, an accoutrement that levies new ciphers song’s churning thuds with Gibson’s soaring of sound into an otherwise brutish composition. tenor is a revelation, and just one of many “There are some songs, like ‘Hangman,’ things that makes Heavy Trip a remarkable where there is so much going on in it that album. Gibson was even nice enough not to no one would know unless they were here give the band too much guff about their song recording it with us,” says Jackman, who “Bobby Brown.” recorded Heavy Trip at his studio, The Dock. “She was like, ‘What’s this Bobby Brown “Hangman” is perhaps the record’s most song?’” said Jackman. “And I was like, dynamic track, blooming slowly from a droning ‘uhhhhhhhhh.’” mellotron/trumpet intro flourished by a Those keeping score at home may note the slide guitar lead before more organs, refined inclusion of one seemingly nepotistic song title drumming and thudding bass begin to open in “P.A.G.” (it’s about post-alcohol guilt), one a wormhole of impending noise. The song’s ode to one of Britain’s finest actors in “Michael shapeshifting is indicative of Horseneck’s Caine” (in reference to a web video of people varied musical inspirations, as well as their reading the words “my cocaine” and realizing desire to feature both the light and dark of it’s how Michael Caine says his own name) their nature as a band. and to one of R&B’s most notorious bad boys “We’re the band that every person in in “Bobby Brown.” a band wants to be in but can’t because “A lot of bands write a song and have a everyone is too serious all the time,” explains working title for a song until they finish it and Paganelli. “If we wanna put horns on our then they name it something serious,” explains record, we’ll put horns on our record. We’re Paganelli. “We just never change it.” just doing it for ourselves.” For their album “I think the record release show, Horseneck “We’re the only band like shows our lighter side a plans to perform the new us rocking Doobie Brothers. little, too,” adds Gowrie, record with everyone Half the time we go out to who also drums for who featured on it, our practice space and just Chelsea Wolfe. “We take including adding a horn jam on ‘70s tunes for hours.” section and keys for the the music seriously, but – Horseneck guitarist first time in a live setting. we don’t really take Lance Jackman Managing the release of ourselves seriously. In doing that I think it allows the record on their own, us to experiment with different sounds. So you they’ll have a limited run of cassette tapes, get to see both sides of the band.” followed by a digital release. With Gowrie “We’re the only band like us rocking Doobie bound to extensive touring commitments with Brothers,” says Jackman. “Half the time we go Chelsea Wolfe, and with Paganelli’s duties out to our practice space and just jam on ‘70s as guitarist in seminal Sacto noise-rockers tunes for hours.” Will Haven, Horseneck is likely to keep things Horseneck’s humorous side plays a big role regional for the time being. in their reputation. One needs only view the “If someone finds out about the record and band’s hilarious video for The Worst People wants to talk to us about it, we’ll probably talk Ever’s “Driving to Idaho Alone,” featuring the to them,” says Paganelli. “I feel like we can do band and a dozen other friends performing and most of the stuff ourselves. We’re not going on partying entirely inside of an RV. Their most tour 300 days a year, but we’re not opposed to recent clip, for Heavy Trip’s “Michael Caine,” touring either. follows the costumed foursome pillaging and “I don’t wanna fall into a category or partying in downtown Sacramento, dressed as anything, but … I don’t know what I’m talking forest creatures and haunting Old Ironsides, about. I’ve been at a monster truck jam all among other locations. day, man.” “We just like to get goofy and have fun,” says Paganelli. “Plus videos are easy to make. Horseneck releases Heavy Trip Just throw on a rabbit suit and do whatever Friday, Feb. 17 at Harlow’s you want to do and it looks good. The band (2708 J St.). Co-headlining and releasing their own new always had sort of an air of fun, like a party record are Kill the Precedent, band. But not everything I write about is about and opening are Peace Killers partying. The music isn’t party music.” and The Moans. Doors at 8 p.m.; show at 9 p.m. 21-andBesides, beginning with Heavy Trip over. 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intage Monkey is 6,500 square feet of fuck yeah. Fuck yeah includes a café, eclectic retail, motorcycle service/repair and a rotating museum exhibit of classic motorcycles that will leave you slack jawed. The moment you enter from seedy, industrial North 16th Street, you are transported into a state of awe where barrels full of rifle shells, larger-than-life light fixtures, a pregnant mannequin and WWII-era motorcycles on display are among the strange and beautiful eye candy that won’t stop slapping you in the face until you exit. “If you walk in and say ‘WOW!’ then my job here is done. We have the best customers on the planet and it’s a friendly and approachable atmosphere that is full of inspiration. I love coming to work!” beams Shasta Smith, the owner of Vintage Monkey, who is as strange and beautiful as her curated surroundings. Smith is beyond hood famous—she’s been featured on the cover of motorcycle culture magazines internationally, has had her own TV show and is kind of a big deal. So why set up shop in Sacramento? She humbly answers, “I was born in San Francisco. However, we moved
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to Sacramento when I was 8 years old. I’ve lived here ever since. I’m thrilled with my current location. I can say wholeheartedly that I am happy. But people outside of Sacramento probably know me better for my work than people who live in Sacramento, even though most of my work is done here. My hope is that Sacramento will fall in love with it the same way out-of-town visitors have.” Since Smith was old enough to drive a car, she’s been riding a motorcycle. She started resto mods at the age of 30, and has now been in the business of motorcycles for the past decade. Smith, who turns 40 this year, smiles, “I’ve been a motorsport lover all my life. I own a handful of motorcycles, but I hotdog around town most often on my 1972 CB175 racer.” As a young mother, Smith and her father witnessed a motorcycle accident, and someone died before their eyes before help could arrive. Her father asked her to stop riding, as can be understood after seeing something like that. Later, Smith had a non-motorcycle-related spinal injury that prevented her from being able to ride for a long, painful while (and still keeps
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her from enjoying long rides). But there was something magnetic about motorcycles that she couldn’t escape. Though she couldn’t ride, she still needed to be close to bikes and interact with them somehow. “That is when I started wrenching as mental therapy,” Smith recalls, and adds, “It is truly addicting.” Working on bikes quickly turned into creating architectural pieces, too—sometimes from salvaged metal parts, and always with a rock ‘n’ roll edginess that fits right in with the Vintage Monkey aesthetic. Smith is a thirdgeneration designer; it’s in her blood. “I have a strong background in architectural design, even having taught lectures at the college level and traveled to other countries for my work,” says Smith. “I’ve always specialized in large, eccentric builds, sometimes with complex engineering. Much of my work is very hands-on. My clients’ projects are all one of a kind, and I never repeat a concept.” Speaking of large and eccentric, Smith’s big project at the moment is a 24-foot circular bar that will host her café patrons, and hopefully beer and wine drinkers, too, pending licensure.
This insanely gigantic fixture will have brass rifle shells as the counter top, filled with clear epoxy to create a flat surface. The metal plates around the bar will have the Union Jack flag painted on them. A huge chandelier, that was salvaged from Sunrise Mall, eventually came into Smith’s possession. Modified with punk rock spikes and painted white, it hangs in the center of this masterpiece, which she plans to sell eventually for around $200K to a hotel, casino or estate. In the meantime, it’ll be the centerpiece for entertaining her customers. Smith was one of the original creators of Red Hot Design, which was purchased by A&E to launch their new network, FYI, a couple years ago. The show was based on her design/ build work here in Sacramento and is now in international syndication. Just like her shop, Red Hot Design focused on motorcycles and architectural design, and beyond being sexy and informative, was a huge inspiration to women who watched from all corners of the country and could witness a mega babe kick ass in a maledominated industry. Motorcycle Monday, a popular YouTube Dive Into Sacramento & Its Surrounding Areas
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orrential rains, forceful winds and the unbearable truth that we have a President Donald Trump have left many of us feeling down—not a feeling normally tied to the beginning of a New Year. Times like these call for a quick pick-me-up, a foolproof gift to lift the spirits that can be repeated over and over, preferably daily for the next four years without liver damage. According to the National Institutes of Health, evidence that chocolate provides uplifting power dates as far back as 600 B.C., to Mesoamerica. Chocolate, according to the NIH, has been eaten (or drunk) for thousands of years for its “amorous properties and exciting effects.” In 1684, Franciscus Foucault of the Medical Faculty of Paris concluded in a dissertation that chocolate “is very suitable for the body and soul.” Forward to today, and a paper published in the National Library of Medicine at the NIH notes that chocolate is now considered a “medi-food,” providing both sustenance and health benefits. Who are we to argue with science? So even as the constant rain on a late January weekend causes a mess of mud puddles and incapable drivers along Fair Oaks Boulevard, stepping under the giant chocolate dome awning, through the glass doors and into the sweet smelling Le Grand Confectionary is guaranteed to change moods for the better immediately. Glass cases are filled with hundreds more chocolate domes—smooth, shiny truffles neatly lined up and each hand-finished with
everything from piped hearts and sprinkled sea salt to marbled paint effects and dusted cocoa powder. Jack and Mary Shaw opened Le Grand Confectionary retail gift shop six years ago but have owned their wholesale manufacturing chocolate business for 20 years. Wholesale is their meat and potatoes. The Shaws’ truffles are found in dessert shops, grocery stores, amusement parks, gift baskets and wedding event company catalogs. “It hasn’t been an overnight success, but it’s been consistent,” Jack says. “Entrepreneurship is not for everyone but I grew up in a family of entrepreneurs so I was used to this.” Despite the feeling that Jack’s truffles could be a recipe passed down by generations, this was not his family’s business, but one he and Mary built over the last 30 years. “Back in the early 1980s, I had a passion for baking,” Jack recalls. “But at the grocery stores in Sacramento at that time, the only chocolate you could buy were Nestle or Hershey’s, unless I went to the Bay Area.” Jack started noticing the differences in the handmade, high-end candies of chocolatiers in San Francisco and decided to take some classes. He chose to make handdipped chocolate truffles, the kind found in confectionaries in Europe, as many shops were not making them due to their difficulty and time consuming process. He started selling his truffles in 1982, then in 1996, he moved to production and bought a factory off the Jackson Highway in Sacramento
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to manufacture his truffles for wholesale. “We became candy brokers,” he says, noting the shift included traveling across the country to fancy food shows to meet prospective customers and start initial longterm deals. But he and Mary still held their full-time day jobs in HR management for the state. The truffles almost seem to stand as an artistic escape, a void needing to be filled—in this case by ganache. “Once I was able to equal my salary at the state with the chocolate making, I quit my job to do this full-time,” Jack says of the transition. Mary continued working for the state up until about five years ago, when she retired after 35 years in HR. She now runs the retail shop and couldn’t be happier spending her days decorating for each of the holidays, handwrapping velvet boxes of truffles and other goodies and smelling of sugar. “When we first started I would drive out to the factory at night after work to help Jack, SubmergeMag.com
since we were the only two employees at the time,” Mary says. “We had this one-shot machine that fills the truffle molds—and like that episode of I Love Lucy, I’d be running to one end of the machine to package the molds and sometime I wouldn’t get there in time and a mold would fall off the table!” Jack and Mary played Lucy and Ethel for a few years before they expanded. Now, they have 12 employees and the latest chocolate manufacturing technology, capable of putting out 10,000 truffles at one time. The two now spend more time creating new seasonal flavors and keeping up with the latest food trends. “The single-source chocolate movement is growing, and people are more astute about food and the quality of the food,” Mary says, referencing the more expensive, richly packaged bars you can now find in some speciality food stores. The Shaws use 56 percent cacao Callebaut Belgian chocolate for all of their products, says
Jack, but they used to contract with Guittard, the Burlingame-headquartered chocolate couverture company that’s been around since 1868. “We prefer the flavor profile of Callebaut,” he says of the change. They’ve also been meeting more discerning customers looking for a higher cacao content, and have started stocking a 64 percent Guayaquil dark chocolate sourced in Ecuador but still provided by Callebaut. “When you start getting into the higher cacao that’s when you have a more developed palate,” Jack says. Despite the latest trends at Whole Foods, some of which can put you back $12 for a standard-sized chocolate bar, Le Grand Confectionary offers an element of tradition and nostalgia for the classic box of creamy cordials. The sweet thing is, the Shaws add their touch of refinement. It is an elegance that has been lost with the onset of cardboard hearts stacked at the corner store containing a stale semblance of chocolate.
The Shaws’ success has afforded them the opportunity to give back in meaningful, personal ways as well. They offer a charity tour event of their factory, for example, for the American Heart Association in honor of a grandchild who has a heart condition. “It’s important to give back,” Jack says, adding that he feels it is a responsibility of a local business to be engaged. As Foucault said, chocolate is good for the body and the soul. For the Shaws, it’s been good for fulfilling their lifelong dream, and for their community.
Le Grand Confectionary is located at 2580 Fair Oaks Blvd. #12 in Sacramento. It’s open 11 a.m.–6 p.m., Monday–Saturday. Find out more online at Legrandconfectionary.com.
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Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m.
Fox & Goose Marty Cohen & The Sidekicks, 8 p.m.
El Dorado Saloon Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m.
Gold Lion Arts Sporting, Invasive Species, 8 p.m. Harlow’s Cody Jinks, Paul Cauthen, 7 p.m. (Sold Out)
Harlow’s Henry Kapono, Blayne Asing, 5:30 p.m.
Louie’s Cocktail Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m.
Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m.
Laughs Unlimited Open Mic, 7 p.m.
Old Ironsides Karaoke, 9 p.m.
Fox & Goose Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m.
Nicholson’s MusiCafe Acoustic Open Mic, 6 p.m.
Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m.
Louie’s Cocktail Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m.
Old Ironsides Open Mic, 9 p.m.
LowBrau Motown on Monday’s w/ DJ Epik, 9 p.m.
Powerhouse Pub 98 Rock’s Local Licks Live, 8 p.m.
Monday
Blue Lamp The Spotlight: Open Mic, 9 p.m.
Luna’s Cafe Nebraska Mondays hosted by Ross Hammond, 7:30 p.m. Old Ironsides Heath Williamson & friends, 5:30 p.m.
Tuesday
Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. Harlow’s Felly, Gyyps, Adam Nystrom, 6 p.m. Kupros Craft House Open Mic, 8 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 Sun Valley Gun Club, Young Jesus, Ani Maul, Goon, 8 p.m. Torch Club Massive Delicious Duo, 5:30 p.m.; Boco de Rio, 8 p.m.
2.01 Wednesday
Ace of Spades Juicy J, Belly, 7 p.m. Bar 101 Open Mic, 7:30 p.m. Blue Lamp Brotha Lynch, 9 p.m.
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Dive Bar Dueling Pianos, 9 p.m.
Fox & Goose All Vinyl Wednesdays w/ DJ AAKnuff, 8 p.m.
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Club Car The Double Shots, 7:30 p.m.
Press Club MDL, Celestions, xTom Hanx, Beerlords, 8 p.m.
Powerhouse Pub 2 Steps Down, 9:30 p.m. Press Club Jailbreak: Classic Rock Vinyl w/ DJ Goldrush, 9 p.m. Shine Sac’s Coolest Jazz Jam, 8 p.m. Starlite Lounge Amarok, Battle Hag, 8 p.m.
Sacramento State Music Recital Hall The Mexico City Woodwind Quintet, 7:30 p.m.
Torch Club Mind X, 5:50 p.m.; Reds Blues, 9 p.m.
Shine Speak Out! Sacramento Open Mic, 8 p.m.
UC Davis: Jackson Hall Joshua Bell, Sam Haywood, 8 p.m.
Streets Pub and Grub Karaoke, 9 p.m. Torch Club SingerSongwriter Showcase In the Round, 5:30 p.m.; Marshall House, 9 p.m. University Union Redwood Room, CSUS Nooner w/ Roots Man Project, 12 p.m.
2.02 thursday
Bar 101 Karaoke, 7:30 p.m. Blue Lamp Willie Joe, Young Gully, Young Mezzy, Molly G, Chippass, Plus, Quincy Black, Stony Bobby, 9 p.m. Capitol Garage Karaoke w/ Jeff Jenkins, 10 p.m. Club Car Songwriters Showcase, 8 p.m. Crocker Art Museum Mexico City Woodwind Quintet, 6:30 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m.
2.03 friday
Ace of Spades Powerman 5000, Orgy, Death Valley High, Knee High Fox, Nothing But Losers, Zeroclient, 6 p.m. The Acoustic Den (Roseville) Amy Obenski, Celtic Heart, 6 p.m. Blue Lamp Candiria, Westfield Massacre, Sworn Vengeance, Kyntallah, Murderlicious, 7:30 p.m Brickhouse Gallery Ida Divine and The Reggie Graham Band, 8 p.m. The Davis Graduate Cold Shot, 6 p.m. Davis Musical Theatre Co. Performing Arts Center Decades: The Golden Oldies, 7 p.m. Cafe Colonial Club Respekt w/ Wiccid, Killer Couture, Dal Basi, Bino Prassa and More, 8 p.m. Capitol Garage Fyah Fridays w/ DJ Jaytwo, 10 p.m. Center for the Arts The Midtown Men, 8 p.m.
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2.04
The Langoleers Record Release Shine 8 p.m.
Amarok Battle Hag Starlite Lounge 8 p.m.
Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. El Dorado Saloon Patrick Walsh, 9:30 p.m. Fox & Goose Kevin Seconds & Guests, 9 p.m. Golden Bear DJ CrookOne, 10 p.m. Gold Country Lanes (Sutter Creek) C.T. Locke: DJ, Sing & Dance, 6:30 p.m. Harlow’s Cody Jinks, Paul Cauthen, 8 p.m. (Sold Out) Harrah’s Lake Tahoe Tower of Power, 7:30 p.m. Harris Center for the Arts Mexico City Woodwind Quintet, 7:30 p.m.
2.04 Saturday
Ace of Spades Pinback, Modern Man, Johnny Taylor, 7 p.m. Ann. E Pitzer Center (Davis) Empyrean Ensemble: Spectral Music, 7 p.m. Berryessa Brewing Co. Banjo Fiddle, 3 p.m. Blue Lamp San Quinn, 9 p.m.
Nicholson’s MusiCafe Free Ukulele Class, 1 p.m. Old Ironsides Lipstick!, 9 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Bob Marley Tribute, 10 p.m. Press Club DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m. Shine The Langoleers (Record Release), 8 p.m. Station 1 Cynthia Douglas, 7:30 p.m.
Cache Creek Casino Yoon Sooil, 8 p.m.
Torch Club Lolo Gervais, 5:30 p.m.; Tracorum, Joy Oladokun, 9 p.m.
Nicholson’s MusiCafe Open Mic Night, 6 p.m.
Cafe Colonial Deep State, Boy Romeo, Dog Rifle (Cassette Release Party), 9 p.m.
UC Davis: Ann E. Pitzer Center Empyrean Ensemble: “Spectral Music,” 7 p.m.
Old Ironsides The Hypnotic IV, Stories From Shamehill, Noah Nelson, 9 p.m.
Center for the Arts Holly Near, Tammy Hall, Jan Martinelli, 8 p.m.
Pence Gallery (Davis) Once An Empire, 7 p.m.
Chaise Lounge SAC of Donuts: A Dilla Tribute feat. Bap Notes, Sleeprockers, Bru Lei, DJ Fooders, DJ Epik, 9 p.m.
Kupros Craft House Byron Colburn Group, 9:30 p.m.
Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Voodoo Punks, 10 p.m. Press Club DJ Rue, 9 p.m. Shine Instagon’s 24th Anniversary Show, 8 p.m.
The Colony Invertebrate, JKKFO, ADHDOD, Torture Method, Khaos Assault, 8 p.m.
2.05 sunday
Berryessa Brewing Co. Achilles Wheel Trio, 3 p.m. Capitol Garage Karaoke w/ Jeff Jenkins, 9 p.m.
Starlite Lounge Lilys, Dead Heavens, Desario, Vasas, 8 p.m.
Davis Musical Theatre Co. Performing Arts Center Decades: The Golden Oldies, 2 & 7 p.m.
Station 1 Javier Ramirez, 7:30 p.m.
The Colony Spite, Words From Aztecs, Reign, Every Hand Betrayed, Enmity, Without Hope, Misha Allure, 6 p.m.
Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m.
Distillery Karaoke, 8 p.m.
El Dorado Saloon Six Strings Circus, 9:30 p.m.
Midtown BarFly Factor IX w/ DJ Bryan Hawk, DJ CarnieRobber and Guests, 9 p.m.
Streets Pub and Grub DJ Night, 9 p.m. Third Space Ghost Ship Benefit Show w/ Spines, Las Pulgas, Speck, 7 p.m. Torch Club Pailer & Fratis, 5:30 p.m.; The Nibblers, 9 p.m. UC Davis: Ann E. Pitzer Center Classical Chinese Music: Guqin, Erhu, Guzheng, 6:30 p.m.
Fox & Goose Blame the Bishop (Farewell Show), Kally O’Mally & the 8 Tracks, 9 p.m. Harlow’s Hip Service, 9 p.m.
Press Club Sunday Night Soul Party w/ DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m.
Harrah’s Lake Tahoe Tower of Power, 7:30 p.m.
Starlite Lounge Witch Ripper, Keres, Fell, 8 p.m.
KBAR Z Rokk, 9 p.m.
Torch Club Blues Jam, 4 p.m.; Front the Band, 8 p.m.
Kupros Craft House All the Pretty Songs, 9:30 p.m. MontBleu Resort Casino Brett Dennen, 7 p.m.
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Blue Lamp The Spotlight: Open Mic, 9 p.m. Cafe Colonial Eugene Ugly, Tarzandragon, The Brankas, The Bad Outlet, 8 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. Fox & Goose Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m. Harlow’s Ugly God, 6:30 p.m. Louie’s Cocktail Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m. LowBrau Motown on Monday’s w/ DJ Epik, 9 p.m. Luna’s Cafe Nebraska Mondays hosted by Ross Hammond, 7:30 p.m. Press Club Miserable, Grill Cloth, Kohinoorgasm, Rituals of Mine (DJ Set), 8 p.m. Starlite Lounge Uada, Miasmic, Gloram Draconis, 8:30 p.m.
2.07 Tuesday
Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. Dive Bar Erica Ambrin & The Eclectic Soul Project, 9:30 p.m. Harlow’s David Lindley, Peter Case, 5:30 p.m. Kupros Craft House Open Mic, 8 p.m. KVIE Studios An Evening with Ethan Bortnick, 7 p.m. Old Ironsides Karaoke, 9 p.m. Pine Cove Open Mic Night, 9 p.m. continued on page 26
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2.09
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Scarlet’s Saloon According to Bazooka, 8 p.m. Shine Sac’s Coolest Jazz Jam, 8 p.m.
The Cordovas Chris Hannigan Torch Club 9 p.m.
Powerhouse Pub Live Band Karaoke, 8 p.m. Press Club Wax Trax! Records Sessions Vol. 1 w/ DJ Katharos, Bino Prassa, Bolaspace, 8 p.m. Sacramento State Music Recital Hall Lucas Hopkins, 8 p.m. Torch Club Jessica Malone, 5:30 p.m.; Michael Ray, 8 p.m.
2.08 wednesday
2.09
Ace of Spades Ezale, DJ Eddie Z, 7 p.m.
Bar 101 Karaoke, 7:30 p.m.
Bar 101 ZuhG, Broken & Mended, 9:30 p.m.
Blue Lamp Jeff Turner, 9 p.m.
Crest Theatre Angie Stone, 6:30 p.m.
The Colony Escape From the Zoo, Pisscat, Get Out, Sonder, 7 p.m.
KVIE Studios An Evening with Ethan Bortnick, 7 p.m. Laughs Unlimited Open Mic, 7 p.m.
Cache Creek Casino Engelbert Humperdinck, 8 p.m.
Capitol Garage Karaoke w/ Jeff Jenkins, 10 p.m.
Club Car Songwriters Showcase, 8 p.m.
Harlow’s Ro James, 6:30 p.m.
Blue Lamp Wastewalker, Awaiting the Apocalypse, The Odious Construct, 8 p.m.
Cafe Colonial Garble, Hatchet Job, Square Cools, 8 p.m.
Club Car The Double Shots, 7:30 p.m.
Fox & Goose All Vinyl Wednesdays w/ DJ AAKnuff, 8 p.m.
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Center for the Arts Solas, 7:30 p.m.
El Dorado Saloon Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m.
2.10
University Union Redwood Room, CSUS Nooner w/ Brian Chris Rogers, 12 p.m.
Bar 101 Open Mic, 7:30 p.m.
Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m.
Torch Club Mind X, 5:30 p.m.; The Cordovas, Chris Hannigan, 9 p.m.
Cafe Colonial The Ghost Town Rebellion, Flight Mongoose, Emma Simpson, 7 p.m. Capitol Garage Fyah Fridays w/ DJ Jaytwo, 10 p.m. Center for the Arts Las Cafeteras, 8 p.m.
Crocker Art Museum ArtMix: Big Easy w/ Element Brass Band, City of Trees Brass Band and More, 5 p.m.
The Colony Aluk Todolo, Insect Ark, Dispirit, Not, 8 p.m.
Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m.
Community Center Theater Chicago, 8 p.m.
Dive Bar Dueling Pianos, 9 p.m.
Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m.
Fox & Goose Michael B. Justis, 8 p.m.
Fox & Goose Dyana & the Cherrykings, Que Bossa, 9 p.m.
Goldfield Silent Planet, Hail the Sun, Day Seeker, Ghost Key, 7 p.m.
Golden Bear DJ CrookOne, 10 p.m.
Nicholson’s MusiCafe Acoustic Open Mic, 6 p.m.
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Old Ironsides Open Mic, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Colour 21, Steve Mahoney Band, Broken, 8 p.m. Streets Pub and Grub Karaoke, 9 p.m. Torch Club SingerSongwriter Showcase In the Round, 5:30 p.m.; Jonny Mojo, 9 p.m. UC Davis: Jackson Hall Black Arm Band, 8 p.m.
2.10
Skyler’s Pool Album Release Jessica Malone Harlow’s 6:30 p.m.
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Old Ironsides The Brody’s, The Brangs, 8:30 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Pistol Pete’s (Auburn) Another First Festival PreParty feat. California Riot Act, Surviving the Era, The Cutbacks, 9 p.m.
2.11
TYSON GRAF TRIO Station 1 7:30 p.m. Gold Country Lanes (Sutter Creek) C.T. Locke: DJ, Sing & Dance, 6:30 p.m.
Cafe Colonial Vasas, Eddie Angel, The Arbiters, Dad Joke, Man Problems, 7 p.m.
Harlow’s Skyler’s Pool (Album Release), Jessica Malone, 6:30 p.m.; Saved by the ‘90s, 9:30 p.m.
The Colony Stranger, The Laughs, Night Damage, The O’Mulligans, 8 p.m.
Kupros Craft House The Stummies, 9:30 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Open Mic Night, 6 p.m. Old Ironsides Devon Galley, Shotgun Sawyer, Anarchy Lace, 8 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Take Out, 10 p.m. Press Club DJ Rue, 9 p.m.
Cozmic Cafe (Placerville) Cozmic Unplugged feat. Element of Soul, Sunsound, Benjamin Hecht, Ariana Brook, 8 p.m. Crest Theatre Steelin’ Dan: A Tribute to the Music of Steely Dan, 6:30 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. El Dorado Saloon The Island of Black and White, 9:30 p.m.
Shine Hard Luck Daddies, Commerce TX, 8 p.m.
Golden 1 Center Twenty One Pilots, 7 p.m. (Sold Out)
Starlite Lounge The Ink Bats, Roadside Memorial, Gamine Grey, DJ Chat Noir, DJ Bildo, 8 p.m.
Harlow’s Paul Barrere, Fred Tackett, 5:30 p.m.; The Brothers Comatose, Brandy Zdan, 9 p.m.
Streets Pub and Grub DJ Night, 9 p.m.
Harrah’s Lake Tahoe Presley, Perkins, Lewis and Cash, 7:30 p.m.
Station 1 Peter Petty, 7:30 p.m.
KBAR Z Rokk, 9 p.m.
Torch Club Loose Engines, 5:30 p.m.; The Rugs, Jake Nielsen, 50-Watt Heavy, 9 p.m.
Kupros Craft House Sactown Playboys, 9:30 p.m.
UC Davis: Jackson Hall Bruckner Orchester Linz, 8 p.m.
MontBleu Resort Casino Violin Femmes: Starring Bella Electric Strings, 7 p.m.
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Nicholson’s MusiCafe Free Ukulele Class, 1 p.m.
Placerville Public House The Ghost Town Rebellion, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Petty Theft, 10 p.m. Press Club DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m. Sacramento State Music Recital Hall Traditional Jazz Youth Band Festival, 8 a.m. - 8:30 p.m. Shine Debbie Wolfe & Halfmoon Highway, According to Bazooka, 7 p.m. Station 1 Tyson Graf Trio, 7:30 p.m. St. John’s Lutheran Church Christoph Bull, 2 p.m. Sun Grove Church (Elk Grove) The Afters, Jason Gray, Jonny Diaz, 7 p.m. Torch Club The Stuff, 5:30 p.m.; Afrofunk Experience, 9 p.m. UC Davis: Jackson Hall Bruckner Orchester Linz, 8 p.m.
2.12 Sunday
Cafe Colonial Such A Mess, Crooked Teeth, Nosedive, Hard Feelings, 7 p.m. Capitol Garage Karaoke w/ Jeff Jenkins, 9 p.m. Crocker Art Museum Classical Concert: Jacqueline Hairston, Henrietta Davis and Laurel Zucker, 3 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 8 p.m. continued on page 28
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Ace of Spades Sevyn Streeter, 7 p.m. Berryessa Brewing Co. Muddy Waders, 3 p.m. Blue Lamp Mustard Plug, The Phenomenauts, Gnarboots, 8 p.m. Cache Creek Casino Engelbert Humperdinck, 8 p.m.
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Such A Mess Crooked Teeth, Nosedive, Hard Feelings Cafe Colonial 7 p.m.
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Reel Big Fish Anti-Flag, Ballyhoo!, Direct Hit Ace of Spades 6 p.m.
Harlow’s Indivisible: A Concert, A Gathering, A Call To Action feat. Alex Nelson, Allyson & Kevin Seconds, Gabe Nelson, Jacob Golden, Jonah Matranga and More, 6 p.m.
Nick Youssef, Casey Ley, Trevor Hill, Feb. 2 - 4, Thurs., 8 p.m.; Fri. & Sat., 8 & 10 p.m.
Film Screening: Resistance at Tule Lake: The Defiant Japanese Americans of WWII, Feb. 11, 12 - 4 p.m.
Sacramento Comedy Showcase, Feb. 8, 8 p.m.
Midtown BarFly Factor IX w/ DJ Bryan Hawk, DJ CarnieRobber and Guests, 9 p.m.
Owen Benjamin, Emmett Short, Jane Harrison, Feb. 9 - 11, Thurs., 8 p.m.; Fri. & Sat., 8 & 10 p.m.
Sacramento Remembers: 75th Anniversary of Executive Order 9066, Feb. 12, 12 - 4 p.m.
Powerhouse Pub Mighty Mike Schermer, 3 p.m.
New Comics on the Block w/ Lance Woods and Guests, Feb. 12, 7 p.m.
Press Club Sunday Night Soul Party w/ DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m. Torch Club Blues Jam, 4 p.m.; Front the Band, 8 p.m.
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Blue Lamp The Spotlight: Open Mic, 9 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. Fox & Goose Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m. Louie’s Cocktail Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m. LowBrau Motown on Monday’s w/ DJ Epik, 9 p.m. Luna’s Cafe Nebraska Mondays feat. Tashi Dorji, Swimming in Bengal, hosted by Ross Hammond, 7:30 p.m. Comedy
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Cage Match and Improv Jam, Thursday’s, 8 - 10 p.m. Anti-Cooperation League, Saturday’s, 9 p.m. Sacramento State: Union Ballroom An Evening of Comedy w/ Erik Clark, G King and DC Ervin, Feb. 9, 7:30 p.m.
Film Screening: Frozen, Feb. 5, 4 & 7 p.m. 2017 Oscar Nominated Short Films, Feb. 12, 4 & 7 p.m.
Black History Month: A Celebration in Film Presents Shaft, Feb. 9, 6 p.m.
Tommy T’s Insane Wayne, Feb. 3 - 4
ArtMix: Big Easy feat. Live Music, Art, Dance, Food, Drinks and More, Feb. 9, 5 - 9 p.m.
Luenell, Feb. 10 - 12 UC Davis: Jackson Hall Bassem Youssef, Feb. 1, 8 p.m. Misc.
B Street Theatre Mainstage Series: Becoming Dr. Ruth, Through Feb. 26 B3 Series: The Christians, Through Feb. 11 Benvenuti Performing Arts Center Blackrock Dance Company: Looking Beyond, Feb. 10 11, 7 p.m. Blue Cue Trivia NIght, Wednesday’s, 9 p.m.
Luna’s Cafe Open Mic Comedy Hosted by Jaime Fernandez, every Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.
The Boxing Donkey Trivia Night, every Tuesday, 8 p.m.
Punch Line New Faces Showcase w/ Raj Dutta and Guests, Feb. 1, 8 p.m.
California Museum Art Exhibit: Kokoro: The Story of Sacramento’s Lost Japantown, Feb. 7 - May 28
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Film Screening: The Thing, Feb. 4, 7:30 p.m.
Thunder Valley Casino Resort Adam Carolla, Feb. 3, 7:30 p.m.
300 1st Ave. ArtStreet: Large Scale Art Experience feat. 100+ Artists From Around the World, Feb. 3 - 25
Erik Clark feat. Pete Giovine, Feb. 10 - 12, Fri. & Sat., 8 & 10:30 p.m.; Sun., 7 p.m.
Crest Theatre Film Screening: The Shining, Feb. 3, 7:30 p.m.
Crocker Art Museum Black History Month: A Celebration in Film Presents Selma, Feb. 7, 6 p.m.
Fox & Goose Fem Dom Comedy w/ Jaime Fernandez and Guests, Feb. 11, 9 p.m. Laughs Unlimited There Goes the Neighborhood Comedy Jam, Feb. 2, 8 p.m.
CLARA (E. Claire Raley Studios for the Performing Arts) Sacramento Ballet Presents: Beer and Ballet, Feb. 3 - 19
Starlite Lounge Robert Omoto Comedy Presents: Carlos Rodriguez and Guests, Feb. 11, 8 p.m.
20th Street (Between J and K) Midtown Farmers Market, Saturdays, 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Comedy Open Mic Showcase, Feb. 7, 8 p.m.
Adam Carolla “Endless Rant IPA” Bottle Signing Capitol Beer and Taproom 1 p.m.
Improv Taste Test and Harold Night, Wednesday’s, 7 - 10 p.m.
Crest Theatre Bobby Bones, Walker Hayes, Nikita Karmen, Feb. 10, 8 p.m.
Tom McClain feat. Ibo Brewer, Feb. 3 - 4, Fri. & Sat., 8 & 10:30 p.m.
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Sacramento Comedy Spot Open Mic, Sunday’s and Monday’s, 8 p.m.
Capitol Beer and Taproom Adam Carolla “Endless Rant IPA” Bottle Signing, Feb. 4, 1 p.m.
Prom 2017, Feb. 11, 8 p.m. Reuniting the Masters: European Drawings from West Coast Collections, Through Feb. 5 A Show of Force: Sculpture by Allan Houser (Haozous) feat. Recent Gifts from Loren G. Lipson, Through Feb. 26 Into the Fold: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics from the Horvitz Collection, Through May 7 Fox & Goose Pub Quiz, Tuesdays, 7 p.m. Harris Center for the Arts Russian National Ballet Theatre: The Sleeping Beauty, Feb. 8 - 9 Lenaea High School Theatre Festival, Feb. 10 - 12 Hiram Johnson High School Chinese Lantern Festival, Feb. 10, 7:30 p.m. Historic Old Folsom Farmers Market, Saturdays, 8 a.m. Hook and Ladder Manufacturing Co. American Whiskey with The Bourbon Babes, Feb. 11, 2 p.m.
Jill Solberg Performing Arts Theatre Hawkins School of Performing Arts: The Enchanted Forest and The Firebird, Feb. 4, 2 & 7 p.m. Kupros Craft House Triviology, Sundays, 7:30 p.m. La Sierra Community Center Sacramento Darwin Day, Feb. 12, 2:30 - 5 p.m. Laughs Unlimited The Ultimate Love Jones Experience: Live Music, Spoken Word, Comedy and More, Feb. 9, 8 p.m. Luna’s Cafe Poetry Unplugged, every Thursday, 8 p.m. Midtown BarFly Salsa Lessons, Wednesdays, 8 p.m. Oak Park Brewing Co. Trivia Night, Sundays, 8 p.m. Old Sugar Mill Port, Wine, and Chocolate Lover’s Weekend, Feb. 11 - 12, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. Sacramento Horseman’s Club 2nd Annual Crab Feed and Auction, Feb. 11, 5:30 p.m. Sacramento State: Union Ballroom Cirque Zuma Zuma, Feb. 2, 7:30 p.m. SCR Cell Block Sac City Rollers’ Jailhouse Brats vs Santa Cruz Derby Groms, Feb. 4, 12:30 p.m. Shepard Garden and Art Center I’m A Diva: Trendy Thrift Clothes Event, Feb. 4, 6:30 p.m. Sierra 2 Center 3rd Annual Crab Feed and Dessert Auction, Feb. 2, 6 p.m. Streets Pub and Grub Pub Trivia, Sundays, 8 p.m. Various Museums Throughout Sacramento 19th Annual Sacramento Museum Day, Feb. 4, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Verge Center for the Arts Current Exhibit: We Buy White Albums by Rutherford Chang, Through March 19 In the Groove: The Art & Science of Vinyl Records w/ Scott Soriano, Feb. 2, 7 p.m. Guys! Make a Valentine w/ Gioia Fonda, Feb. 9, 6 p.m. WAL Public Market Art Exhibit: (WAL)Flowers by Tyson Anthony Roberts, Through March 1 Warehouse Artist Lofts: Community Room Public Meeting of the California Arts Council, Feb. 2, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.
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It’s only been going on a week or so, and so far, the President Trump shitstorm has lived up to its billing. Surreal press conferences, drastic executive orders, hasty Twittering … it’s been as close to total chaos as I’ve ever seen, which was most likely what our new regime and all the anti-establishment yahoos that have come along with it, were banking on from the start. I certainly can’t catalog for you all these rapidly changing current events, especially not in a bi-weekly column in the back of an artsy-fartsy publication, but if you’re interested in a chronicle of our journey down the rabbit hole, you can check out my old colleague Matt Kiser’s aptly named blog, Whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday. com. In the meantime, I’ll just ramble on about something you might have missed while you were rage-watching cable news, fashioning puntastic protest signs or marching somewhere. Elon Musk. If you’re a weirdo like me and get a guilty pleasure from listening to Coast to Coast, you may be familiar with the name John Titor, a person who posted on online forums in 2000 for about four months before never being heard from again. Titor claimed to be a time traveler from 2036 and answered many pressing questions of the time. He said that CERN developed the basics of time travel and that GE built the first time machine in 2034; he also let us know that the world war we had in 2015 wiped out 3 billion people; and that the great U.S. Civil War of 2005 lasted 10 years, a 2015 Russian nuclear missile strike wiped out major U.S. cities and our nation’s capital was moved to Omaha, Nebraska. Oh, and in case you were worried, in 2036, yes, there is still a Post Office (despite all the civil war and nuclear fallout and such … Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night, indeed!). So it would appear John Titor, like most things on the internet message boards, was complete bullshit. Or, maybe he was just providing alternative facts for what was to come. Either way, we’re all still here, and Omaha is still just Omaha, which I’m sure suits Omahans just fine. But I think John Titor was really just a smoke screen for the real time traveller in our midst, Elon Musk. Musk, as you probably know, is the CEO of forward-thinking companies Tesla Motors, which makes the sexiest electric cars I’ve ever seen (their Model X car’s back doors flip up a la the DeLorean, which we all know is capable of time
travel (COINCIDENCE?!)), and SpaceX, which will one day send me into space, where I belong. Lately he’s been tweeting about tunnels and how much he hates L.A. traffic, and hey, who could blame him? In mid-December, the height of the holiday shopping season, he sent out a series of tweets that stated, “Am going to build a tunnel boring machine and just start digging,” and, “It shall be called ‘The Boring Company,’” and, bluntly, “I am actually going to do this.” Just over a month later Musk wrote on Twitter, “Exciting progress on the tunnel front. Plan to start digging in a month or so,” and then, just two days later on Jan. 27, he wrote, “And we start digging tonight,” linking to the @Hyperloop profile, a competition being held by SpaceX on Jan. 29 tapping other brainiacs to build some sort of swanky, high-speed, underground transportation pod that will zip people from one place to another via vacuum tubes. But is Musk really digging a tunnel as we speak under Los Angeles? You know, without permits or environmental reviews or concern about how this could affect people’s homes and shit like that, just to avoid sitting in traffic like the rest of us stupid earthlings? Like, does he have that much power? An article on Washingtonpost.com says yes. According to “a person familiar with his thinking,” “After tunneling in his own backyard, Musk plans to continue to drill through the earth beneath public city roads, said the person, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the details have not been made public. The person added the drilling is just a hobby; Musk is not planning to start a new tunneling company,” writes Elizabeth Dwoskin. I had to double check the page I was on 12 times to make sure I wasn’t on The Onion, or a page made up to look like the Washington Post’s website. I mean, it’s probably just some pithy comments made by a bright, influential dude that “just-so-happen” coincide with this Hyperloop thing and that people just took them way too literally. But maybe it’s not, and he knows something we don’t know, because he’s from the future. And I listen to too much Coast to Coast, and the world is so topsy-turvy right now that maybe it’d be best for all of us to just dig ourselves a big hole and wait for that great nuclear war of 2015 to come back around and wipe the slate clean.
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