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A man once said, “Soup is the perfect food.” That man was Bill Simmons, who’s best known for being a sports columnist for ESPN, and was the editor-in-chief at Grantland. Last year he took a stab at hosting a weekly talk show on HBO called Any Given Wednesday. I thought it was one of the best sports shows I had ever seen. Granted, I don’t like sports talk, but this was something special because it blended pop culture; plus he always seemed to have rapper Vince Staples on. Anyways, long story short, in the commercials for his HBO show, he said, “I believe soup is the perfect food.” It was an odd thing to say for previewing a weekly sports show, but more so because there’s a billion other foods that I thought were way better to give a shout out to. I scoffed at his claim. I judged him and his meal of choice. But hey, that saying stuck with me or I wouldn’t be writing about it right now. Perhaps it was the gnarly winter we had, or that I finally came to my senses, or maybe it’s just that I’m finally comfortable ordering it at restaurants after all these years, but soup is the best, for all seasons!  Here are my six favorite soups in Sacramento, in no particular order because they’re all freakin’ delicious: 1. Garlic Shoyu Tonkotsu Ramen at Raijin Ramen House (1901 S St.) 2. Pozole Verde at Mayahuel (1200 K St.) 3. Sopa Azteca at Cielito Lindo (3672 J St.) 4. Seasonal Tomatillo and Cilantro Gazpacho at Zocalo (1801 Capitol Ave.) 5. Minestrone at Español Italian (5723 Folsom Blvd.) 6. Korean Kimchi at Boiling Avenue (943 Howe Ave.) Boiling Avenue, which was the last one on that list, is quite the experience. I discovered it last spring, but it wasn’t until my third or fourth time visiting the restaurant that I’m (kind of) comfortable with ordering off their extensive menu. There are so many ingredients and you can swap out only three per hot pot. Be sure to submerge the raw meat in the boiling broth to insure it’s cooked and you have to be patient while everything cooks in front of you. Trust me, it’s a tongue burner if it’s not done properly. I’ve wanted to feature this place for a while now in Submerge. So, we finally did. I was picturing it being a little more chilly outside, but it didn’t work out that way since all of a sudden the weather is a beautiful 70 degrees. Regardless, this place should be visited any time of year. You can learn more about Boiling Avenue starting on page 14. Now that I’ve professed my love for soup on paper, to thousands of people, please don’t judge me like I judged Bill Simmons. Soup is perfect. If you don’t agree, one day you will. In regards to non-soup related content in this issue, well there’s plenty of it: We’ve got a recap of Sac Fashion Week that just took place this past February starting on page 28; a feature on local EDM duo Joyzu, who performed at SnowGlobe this past year and are working hard on trying to make a place for themselves in this DJ-saturated world; and we had the opportunity to talk with reggae artist Chronixx before touring through Sacramento on March 21 at Ace of Spades. Enjoy soup! I mean, enjoy Submerge! Better yet, submerge yourself in soup after reading the issue! –Melissa

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Send regional news tips to info@submergemag.com If you’re anything like us, after all that rain in and around Northern California, you’re probably ready for some awesome outdoor concert vibes right about now. The good news is that in the greater Sacramento area, we don’t have to wait until summer to get our fix. Even early in the year there are great options for springtime music festivals! We’ve gathered some details on a few events that we think you should know about, because as Submerge readers, we know you’re all about surrounding yourself with as much music and art as possible, right? Great, now let’s go have some fun.

UnderRage Music Fest: April 8, 2017

First Festival: May 6–7, 2017

Eighteen of the area’s youngest bands will converge at Sacramento Rehearsal Studios on Saturday, April 8 for the second ever UnderRage Music Fest. Expect everything from punk to metal to reggae and more from groups like Tens Upon Thousands, URD-OM, Heat of Damage, Exiled From Grace, Sad Vegan, Short Trip, Sunder, Side Effect and others. There will also be an art show where local students have created works on recycled drum heads, a MusicBiz Experience for local youths, vendors and food from the delicious and popular local food truck, Culinerdy Cruzer. Did we mention this event is free? I don’t think we did yet, so here we go again: UnderRage Music Fest is FREE! Music starts at noon, so come on out and hang with the future of Sac’s music scene. SRS is located at 5749 88th St., Sacramento. For more info on the nonprofit behind this important event, and to see the entire lineup, visit Dmkcreativeyouth.org or Facebook.com/ underragemf. Word on the street is there’s an after-party starting at 8 p.m. at The Silver Orange (922 57th St., Sacramento) with an open jam session, pool tables, air hockey, board games, a snack bar and more. Learn all about this really cool new spot geared toward local teens at Thesilverorange.com.

The third annual First Festival, presented this year by 98 Rock, is shaping up to be the best one yet. Going down May 6–7 at River Walk Park in West Sacramento, First Fest aims to showcase the region’s thriving music, art and comedy scenes, along with plenty of food options, vendors, a VIP Lounge, silent disco, the whole nine. Get heavy with the likes of Oleander, Some Fear None, the Moans and Surviving the Era. Chill out with Arden Park Roots, Be Brave Bold Robot, National Lines, Jayson Angove, Xochitl and I Am Strikes. Get those hands in the air with Hobo Johnson and the Lovemakers, DLRN, Kennedy Wrose and Sparks Across Darkness. Dance your face off with My Cousin Vinny, SpaceWalker and Caliscope, plus so many others that we don’t have the space to mention here. There will be over 30 bands total across three stages, along with stand-up comics like Jason Anderson, John Ross, Robert Berry, Edgar Granados and others thrown into the mix, for good measure. The event will run from 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. both days and tickets are just $35 for a weekend pass, or $20 for a single day. Check out the schedule, map and more at Firstfestivalsacramento.com.

Fyah on the Water: April 20–22, 2017 To celebrate 420 weekend in the chillest possible way, look no further than Fyah on the Water, a multi-genre celebration of music, art, love and life going down April 20–22 at the beautiful Blue Mountain Event Center in Wilseyville, approximately two hours east of Sacramento (give or take a few). The lineup has been expertly curated and features the likes of The Crystal Method, Baby Bash, Don Carlos, Marlon Asher, Jah Sun, Mystic Roots, Junior Toots, One Leg Chuck, JRAS feat. Two Peace, The Good Samaritans and so many others. As with any good reggae music fest, Fyah on the Water will also feature camping, drum circles, fire dance performances, bonfires, swimming and plenty of good peeps. Find more info and a link to buy tickets at Fyahonthewater.com or Facebook.com/fyahonthewater.

Family Vacation: May 19–21, 2017 Bit Crusher Presents has been killing it up in the foothills lately, bringing rad shows to the Placerville area at spots like Cozmic Cafe and PJ’s Roadhouse. Now they’re entering music festival territory with a killer lineup for Family Vacation, going down May 19–21 at Nugget Campground in Placerville. The festival features mostly regional rock bands with headliners Strawberry Girls from Salinas (who are really blowing up lately; we saw ‘em on Last Call with Carson Daly not long ago!). Also confirmed are Kurt Travis, ZuhG, Find Yourself, Sunsound, A Foreign Affair, Pinnacles, Rubbidy Bubbidy, Worthy Goat and tons of others. Expect vendors, a taco truck, dips in the river, live painting, beer (it’s BYOB, just FYI), camping and more. Single-day passes will be $20, weekend pass will be $50. Check out all the details about Family Vacation at Facebook.com/bitcrusherpresents.

Spring Meltdown: April 20–22, 2017 If you’re looking for a less blissed-out, much heavier 420 weekend, head to South Lake Tahoe’s Hard Rock Hotel and Casino for Spring Meltdown featuring 50-plus metal and rock bands on three stages over three days, from April 20–22. Groups like Origin, Ghoul, Skinlab, Wastewalker, Alter Beast, All Hail The Yeti, Arkaik, The Kennedy Veil, WRVTH and So This Is Suffering will join awesome tribute bands, live art from Tony Koehl, karaoke, an air guitar contest, epic after-parties and much more. A three-day pass will run you $65 and single-day passes range from $15–$30, with all shows being 21-plus. Visit Hardrockcasinolaketahoe.com and click on “Entertainment” to find tickets and more info.

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Dr. Bocephus Chigger has a doctorate in law and a bachelor’s degree in psychology. He also minored in communications, so he knows how to talk to all of you people about your so-called “problems.” In the past, Dr. Bocephus has borrowed questions from illustrious figures in the advice column game like Carolyn Hax and Ask Amy, whose readers weren’t getting the help they desperately needed. In today’s column, Dr. Bocephus turns to the neglected readers of Dear Abby to alleviate their pain and set them on the path of happiness. Let’s see what’s wrong with these jerks! DEAR ABBY BOCEPHUS: Recently, while making a purchase at a local store and handing the cashier my money, she asked, “How many months along are you?” I was confused for a moment, until I realized she had assumed I was pregnant. (I’m not.) When I told her I wasn’t, she just shrugged and said, “Oh.” Abby Bocephus, my feelings were hurt. I will most likely never see that cashier again—and I do not know her—but I would like to know how to respond to this in the future. I don’t believe people should assume a woman is pregnant unless they know for sure that she is. What she said made me instantly want to lash out. However, I knew that responding with more rudeness would do no good. So, what should I say if this ever happens again? – NOT PREGNANT IN ALABAMA DEAR NOT PREGNANT: Are you sure you are not pregnant? Your desire to lash out at a woman who was only hoping for the best reminds me of the emotional rollercoaster that is pregnancy. Sure, it was wrong of this lady to associate your fatness with the joys of motherhood, but would you have preferred the alternative? What if instead of asking how far along you were she asked home many hamburgers you ate today? That would be much, much worse, now wouldn’t it? Would you have all the pregnant mothers out there be called fat just because you don’t want anyone assuming you are pregnant. How is that fair to them? The next time someone says this to you, thank them and say “six months!” while you give your belly a gentle rub.

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DEAR ABBY BOCEPHUS: I am 68 and my husband is 80. I just found out he is involved with a 40-year-old woman. He says it is not an affair, because they haven’t actually had sex! I don’t know what to do. Can you help me? –HEARTBROKEN IN NEW MEXICO

DEAR ABBY BOCEPHUS: My husband and I have been married for 11 years and we have a child together. Life used to be great. We are very wealthy and lived at the top of a tall gold building in a major city in New York in the summer and at a mansion on a golf course in Florida in the winter. He would lavish me with expensive gifts and supported me when I wanted to start my own jewelry line. It was a dream come true for me, but now my dream has become a nightmare. My husband recently started a new job in Washington D.C., and I think it is causing him to lose his mind. He is very angry and paranoid all the time and his hair is falling out much faster than normal. Covering his bald spots is becoming a real chore for his hairdresser. As part of his new job, Don … errr my husband has access to lots of guns and he has surrounded himself with very dangerous and racist people (including more than a few Russians). He grows more agitated every day and I’m starting to fear for my life. Should I take my son and flee to my family’s home in Eastern Europe to escape my crazy husband? –TRUMPED IN NEW YORK DEAR TRUMPED: Your husband sounds like he has become quite the maniac! I hope he is not in charge of anything too important. A guy like that can cause a lot of problems in a place like Washington D.C. He sounds like he has been a real jerk since you relocated and I can see why you would want to leave. I think we all would if we found ourselves in a similar situation. But, you did make a commitment when you married the man and you should try to honor that if possible. Maybe you could convince your husband to quit his new job and go back to his old life. That could be the safest thing for all of us!

DEAR HEARTBROKEN: This whole thing grosses me out. The good news is that your husband must be rich if he is pulling all this tail because no one hooks up with an octogenarian for the sex. The rest of the good news is that if your old ass husband keeps this up, he will probably die of a heart attack soon. That means that the most important thing for you to focus on is not your marriage, but making sure that your name shows up in his will. Once he kicks the bucket, you can go after all those 40-year-old spring chickens! Dive Into Sacramento & Its Surrounding Areas

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Ode to Hugh Jackman Logan Rated r Words Jacob Sprecher They all shoulda been like this. Venom. Punisher. Wolverine. Every Marvel antihero of the last however many years shoulda been just like Logan; which is to say uncompromisingly R-rated. Oh, I’m sure some would make a case for Deadpool. But Deadpool is cheeky and lame, and preppy Ryan Reynolds shan’t be confused with the brawn of Hugh Jackman. Lo! Hugh Jackman! Were I a jack-tar, I’d sing ye shanties of th’ sea whilst earnestly scrubbin’ yer washboard abs. Yes, he’s ruggedly built, handsome, theatrically trained and perhaps the greatest tough guy of the last 20 years. I’d even go as far as to say that nobody in the Marvel or DC film universe has done a better job with a recurring character than Jackman has as Weapon X. Since 2000, Jackman’s adamantium-clawed, ferocious and feared Wolverine has appeared in nine X-Men films, gaining a popularity rivaled only by Christian Bale’s Batman. But where Bale portrays the Dark Knight, Jackman is Wolverine. The coarseness of his chops; the growl of his voice; the intensity of his gaze. And if it sounds like I’m waxing poetic, that’s because I am. Jackman is just that good within the construct of the character, and Logan is the proverbial cherry on top. Set in 2029, the once-revered Wolverine has succumbed to the life of a down-andSubmergeMag.com

out, alcoholic limo driver, shuttling frat boys and sorority girls to and fro in El Paso, Texas. While still a deadly force, his power to heal continues to gradually fade as his body poisons itself from the inside out. He assists in the care of an ill-minded and sequestered Professor X (Patrick Stewart) out of sheer loyalty, his days of antihero valor in the rear view. But when a hunted, whirling dervish of a 12-year-old mutant named Laura (Dafne Keen) unexpectedly falls under his care, Logan, despite heightened misanthropy, can’t help but see it through to the end. That thread alone does not separate Logan from anything else under the umbrella of the X-Men franchise. This same storyline very easily could have been a safe and enjoyable bet at PG-13 and still made truckloads of money, like basically everything else. And to the credit of director James Mangold (Walk the Line; Girl, Interrupted) Logan takes full advantage of the R rating. You can taste the difference right out of the gate, as the film’s first fight scene bleeds like Sin City or 300. In that sense, Logan takes after many graphic novels-turned-Hollywood, as the violence isn’t so much realistic as it is brutal and unflinching. We’re not talking High Tension or anything, but this is a far, distant cry from Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man or anything Captain Snoozefest. Explicit violence alone is no badge of honor, but this is Wolverine we’re talking about! The very nature of comic antiheroes is their predilection for shooting first and asking questions later, and Weapon X, of all the good-hearted brutes, always fit

that mold to a tee. Which, to beat a dead horse, is the primary reason Logan stands out: This is how the character was meant to be played. For people that read or grew up reading comics, the very notion of something like Topher Grace’s Venom is tantamount to sacrilege. At the same time, Logan happens to be well-acted and engaging, taking a stab at some actual drama and not just platitudinous heartstrings. The Deer Hunter it ain’t, but people like Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart are real actors, that outside of the comic lexicon do real film and theater. Even a supporting cast member like Eriq La Salle, a consummate pro, goes a long way when you start comparing to the hackneyed doldrums of say, Thomas Jane’s Punisher. And as for young Dafne Keen … she’s a total badass! I can’t ever recall a person that age pulling off such a convincing action heavy. So can I bookend this with my love for Hugh? I tell you what, I’m going to miss ol’ H.J. as Wolverine. Not because I’m addicted to the franchise (which I’m not), but rather due to the fact that nobody these days— with the rationed exception of Daniel Day Lewis—can pull off swingin’-dick tough guy shit like Hugh Jackman. There’s a string of moments in the last 15 minutes of the film (one extra special in particular) that are so unshakably hard-nosed, it makes me smile just thinking about them. I mean, I know I’m just a sucker for hunky tough guys. They’re my crushes, and always have been. But give credit where credit is due. Here’s looking at you, Wolverine.

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Join Mindy Jovanovic of Peace, Love, and Soy Wax at Her Candle Making Workshop • March 26 In general, lighting candles really does make a house a home. Soy candles allow you to do so even more responsibly. They’re environmentally friendly, and they even burn longer (which, in the long run, is great for your wallet). Mindy Jovanovic of Peace, Love, and Soy Wax will teach you how to make your own at a special workshop on Sunday, March 26 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $25 and participants will leave the workshop with two 4-ounce candles. As an added bonus, the workshop will take place at the beautiful HI–Sacramento Hostel (located at 925 H St.). Check out Facebook. com/peaceloveandsoywax to find a link to the event page, where you’ll be able to purchase a ticket. To peruse Jovanovic’s own creations, go to her online shop at Etsy.com/shop/mycreationsbymindy.

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For more than 30 years, Louie Anderson has been making his mark on the world of stand-up comedy. He’s won three Emmys and has been named as one of the top 100 stand-up comedians of all-time by Comedy Central. But all accolades aside, Anderson is just genuinely funny and his career is as vital as ever thanks in part to his role as Zach Galifianakis’ mother on the FX dark comedy Baskets. Take advantage of this rare opportunity to see a master at work when Anderson plays Folsom’s Harris Center (10 College Parkway) on Thursday, April 6 at 8 p.m. An opening set will come courtesy of local favorite Keith Lowell Jensen. Tickets start as low as $20 (with premium tickets selling at $40) and can be purchased through Harriscenter.net. Dive Into Sacramento & Its Surrounding Areas

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Chef and Commercial Fisherman Christopher Wang to Teach “Sustainable Salmon—From Sea to Table” Cooking Class in Sacramento • March 22 We know Sacramento is the “farm to fork” capital of the United States, but how about a little … uh … river to fork (?) action to spice things up? Slow Food Sacramento will bring The Gypsy Fish Company’s Christopher Wang to Nido Bakery Café (1409 R St., Sacramento) on Wednesday, March 22 at 6 p.m. for a discussion and demonstration. Wang will talk about the sustainability of wild salmon, spin yarns about his life as a salmon fisherman and also show attendees how to prepare two dishes. You’ll even be able to purchase his salmon, which is usually only available in the Bay Area. Tickets to the event are $10, but if you order your fish in advance, your ticket is free. To reserve your seat, go to Eventbrite.com and search “Sustainable Salmon.” You’ll find a link on the event page to pre-order salmon. Enjoy! SubmergeMag.com

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My Pot Runneth Over

Boiling Avenue is a Feast for All Senses

Words Amy Serna • photos melissa welliver

ake a look around Boling Avenue, a hot pot restaurant located off of busy Howe Avenue, and you’ll see steamy windows, patrons’ glasses fogging up and a giant metal sign that reads, “Eat.” Though the Sacramento restaurant’s slogan is “mini fusion hot pot” the portions are anything but small, and each meal is like a simmering bowl of discoveries. Typically a hot pot sits at the center of the dining table, surrounded by small plates that are filled with different ingredients for your stew. But at Boiling Avenue, you get to have a boiling pot all to yourself.

The menu is heavily loaded with various options that will make the picky eaters and vegetarians happy. First, you will need to decide your level of spice—depending upon how much you want to clear your sinuses you might want to start off with mild. At first, the menu might seem a little bit daunting just because each pot, such as the Korean kimchi or the sesame tonkotsu, can include well over a dozen ingredients. And if what is offered on the menu isn’t stuffed with enough options for your meal, you can add or substitute (only three per pot) 34 other delicious items such as sliced pork belly, stuffed fishball, quail eggs and even Spam.

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Even the drink menu can take a while to read through. It’s easy to become awesomely overwhelmed with multiple tea flavors such as brown sugar milk and jasmine milk. Boiling Avenue offers the option to add your own boba or jelly. You can even choose how sweet you want your tea, ranging from 30 to 100 percent sweetness levels. My picks for the evening were cucumber salad, pot stickers, the No. 8 curry flavor and kumquat lemon green tea. The cucumber salad was served in Mason jars and featured giant slices of cucumber that were surrounded by carrots, onions and cilantro. The pot stickers came served in a mini deep fryer basket, and they were slightly crispy on the outside with warm fillings on the inside. The kumquat lemon green tea was refreshing, with a tart aftertaste and a slight pulp texture. The curry flavor is served with sliced pork

belly, stuffed fish ball, fish tofu cake, imitation crab sticks, konnyaku, cabbage, corn, tofu, enoki mushroom, king oyster mushrooms, potatoes, carrots, Korean rice cake, udon, green onion and cilantro. I decided to substitute the king oyster mushrooms with an egg. As a hot pot newbie, there were a few things on the menu that I’ve never heard of before, but that was the fun part— finding little surprises in my bubbling meal. The hot pot was served on top of my very own mini square cooker. Upon arrival, it almost seemed too beautiful to eat, the fresh ingredients were all perfectly arranged in the steaming vessel with an array of colors from the yellow corn to the red, thin slices of pork to orange carrot wedges, all topped with green onion and cilantro. The pots were so stuffed with food, the broth seemed to be on the brink of overflowing. As I admired the work of art, the server lit the mini cooker for me and informed Dive Into Sacramento & Its Surrounding Areas

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of broth at no extra cost. Each fusion hot pot ranges from $12–$16, with almost the guarantee of leftovers. Boiling Avenue offers a meal that is more of an experience, where you can discover the curry soaked potatoes and the mushrooms you forgot on the bottom of your bowl. It forces dinner time to slow down a little and makes you appreciate your surrounding company and warm food. When you are finished with your food art, take a look above you and you can read food inspired quotes. To sum up the boiling experience, one of my favorite quotes read, “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” Boiling Avenue is located at 943 Howe Ave. in Sacramento. For more info and to peruse their menu, go to Facebook.com/ boilingave.

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The New Chronology

Jamaica’s rising roots artist Chronixx spreads conscious love on North American tour Words Andrew C. Russell • photo Che Kothari

here is often a fundamental schism between the lovers and the makers of art. As a fan, there can be an urge to let your inner archivist run rampant; to discover obscure genres or codify new ones, deciding who belongs where. For journalists especially, the slightest hint of a new “scene” or “movement” is like blood in the water. That is not to say our intentions are hostile, but even so, our pronouncements can be limiting to the unfettered artistic mind. To declare what is rising or waning, to construct lines separating the “old” and “new,” can seem to the artist like an attempt to place toll on the limitless road of creativity. Chronixx is well aware of this. In the supercharged, creatively brimming musical climate of Jamaica, where success does not go unnoticed, the artist born Jamar McNaughton has found himself near the epicenter of a young generation of artists who make fresh music with a timeless spirit and are bringing attention back to a more conscious strain of reggae. Because of this, no interview, inquiry or thinkpiece he’s been involved with in the past four years has been able to ignore the alluring, exciting narrative of a “reggae revival” in his island nation, stirring a sea change

from the relentless, mammonic drive of dancehall to a renewed focus on roots, people and empowerment. As is always the case, there is a little bit of truth to all this, but the real story is both smaller in scale and deeper in reach. Chronixx, and fellow artists like Protoje, Jah9, Kelissa, Kabaka Pyramid and Jesse Royal (the list goes on), have no master plan to conquer the world. They would much rather make tunes together, show up at each other’s gigs, and genuinely affect people with music, whether it be one hundred or a hundred thousand. As he would put it, it’s about the love, not the likes. Chronixx’s roots denote more than his conscious stance and Rastafari lifestyle. He was born into a music family, spinning his name from his father’s own stage name, Chronicle. He’s had a hand in the studio and on the mixer since his early teenage years and was raised among a who’s who of Jamaican musical royalty. Though his diet may be strictly ital, he has a wildly omnivorous ear, soaking up the propulsive riddims of dancehall along with the music that came before it, and listening to the heavenly harmonies of Enya extensively while on tour.

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It’s always best to keep your tastes complicated and your approach simple, and Chronixx aims to do just that; building up to his proper debut album, Chronology, he has kept his humble, direct ethos intact on singles like “Smile Jamaica” and ‘Majesty” as well as his 2014 EP Dread and Terrible, even as they propel him towards global fame, including two recent appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. In the meantime, he continues to acknowledge the power of music to transcend political and mental stagnation while avoiding being overtaken by the hype that travels in his wake. Chronology in part refers to the rising spirit of the times, and of Chronixx and his musical compatriots. It is also an idea he gleaned from a history book: our ordering of history is often false, and where we have once assumed a lineal succession— one ruler coming after another, one dynasty toppling the last—we often find that, in reality, there were many rulers, reigning concurrently in relative peace. For Chronixx and his generation, I and I know the reign will be a long and fruitful one.

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Why do you think reggae has had and continues to have such a global appeal? Reggae music is deeply rooted in consciousness, and that for me explains the widespread appeal. Consciousness is something that cannot be contained. Even though reggae music has not really been accepted in the mainstream structure and the mainstream institutions, it is one of the only kinds of music in the world that doesn’t have to be in the top 100 in order to fill festivals with tens of thousands—hundreds of thousands—of people that come to watch every year. Regardless of the number, the people who come out are fully into the music, they know the lyrics and everything. Reggae provides something for people that they cannot find in any other kind of music, which is a comfort from the pressures of the system, a relief and a release from the pressures that society may inflict. Because it has that quality, it catches on naturally. People know what they want and even if it’s not given to them, they’ll find it. It’s not about the popularity or what is new, louder or faster, it’s the feeling. Yeah, it moves in a more organic fashion, and it moves slower— in terms of how popular the music gets, the months it takes to reach people in other genres and other countries. In those places, if a song doesn’t break in the first year it’s released, then that’s it, and you move on to the next thing. In Jamaica, you can have a song from 1985 that suddenly becomes very popular in 2017. And that’s the nature of music, the relevance never goes away. Sometimes it feels like it does, but the relevance keeps appearing and manifesting in new ways. How do you deal with success without compromising your spiritual beliefs? It happens when you don’t focus so much on success. I try to redefine success on an inner level. I know what success means in the world—I accept that. That is what the world perceives as success, but as far as me and my faith, I redefine it as having your music serve a purpose, which is to uplift and inspire people. Not having a specific number or amount—even if you inspire one person, lift up their life, on a soulful level, so that they are never left the same—I think that’s a very powerful thing. That can’t be considered unsuccessful by anyone who is trying to reach people. Do you agree that there is a “resurgence” or “revival” of roots reggae? As far as the resurgence of reggae music is concerned—let me tell you about that. I grew up in a music home, nah mean? My father is an artist, and I grew up listening to all different kinds of music. From when we were children, we considered ourselves to be musicians in training, like, we were always trying to learn new songs, trying new instruments. So from that stage I realized that music is just all in a continuous thing. I can tell you, I think reggae in every period, every year in Jamaica, it feel like the media says and does things for their own benefit. If you just write about the reggae artists, you can do it for a time, but then it becomes boring, so you have to write it in a different way, you have to say, “these brand new reggae artists who out of nowhere have come with a resurgence.” And if you’re gonna talk about a resurgence, I feel like you are now saying that there wasn’t great music being made all along. And there has been, for every single period of my life. The difference with our generation is just that we weren’t in the scene before now. The music just needed new artists, it’s not like it needed new reggae music—reggae wasn’t dead, it just needed new people with fresh ideas. Our music was already there for like 50 years. For music to survive, new birth have to take place. And for birth to take place, certain things have to happen. We can’t ride media waves, because media waves fade away. If you ride the wave that fades away, it will move on to something else, in the next two years or in the next six months. The greatest thing is to stay true to what you’re doing, and remember that you were doing it before people gave it a name or called it a movement. Just continue. SubmergeMag.com

Would you say the current musical environment is more about cooperation? Yeah, and we are still finding new ways to collaborate. The thing is, most of us are independent—we are challenged by our inexperience, we are challenged by our limited resources. These challenges are sometimes really positive: we have to be more creative and learn how to do more with less. We’ve always been collaborating, even sometimes when we are not trying to. Like, for instance, I’ll have a show in Jamaica, and even without trying, my performance end up having six to 10 guest musicians. And there’s all these other kinds of artists that come up in this [movement] —photographers, directors, guitarists, drummers, bass players, singers, writers, producers—who are now emerging, who collaborate sometimes without even realizing. How would you describe your album Chronology and the idea behind it? I consciously made the decision not to judge or have any expectations of this album in terms of my career—it wasn’t a career project. It’s just something that I really needed to do. And I guess the music will reflect that. I didn’t do this to celebrate what happened in the media a few years ago with the “resurgence of reggae music.” It’s not one of the albums that come out of that in any way. I didn’t put it out because I need to have something playing on the radio. [Laughs] It makes me nervous—I know people will appreciate it for sure, because all people want is inspiration. But in terms of the industry and the career aspect of it, I’m not sure how much my career will benefit from this. But it’s something I really needed to make, and that made it important. I did it and I enjoyed it, and I’ve never experienced such growth as a musician ever in my life. It’s called Chronology because I was reading a book showing history, from Egypt come to now. Basically, history keeps changing, and as we grow we keep hearing about planets that we haven’t heard about, we keep hearing about kings and queens from long ago that we didn’t hear about. There was a concept in the book called the new chronology, where some new scientists recently found that the kings of Egypt and the queens of Egypt, a lot of them were ruling concurrently, and not one after the other. A lot of the people that we thought were usurped or overthrew the other were actually ruling together, like five, six kings and their queens at the same time. I think in music, this whole thing of chronology is showing that yo, I didn’t really come after he, and he didn’t really come after me, and they didn’t really come before we. We all are doing this at the same time, we are carrying the energy and pushing it and Jamaican music forward. I say Jamaican music because we can’t overstate reggae, we can’t overstate ska. It’s the same thing. When you look at chronology, when you look at the history and art of Jamaican music, you’re saying, “Alright, it was ska, and then it was this, and then it was that.” But there was a time that ska and rocksteady were happening at the same time, if even for a short period. You have Toots [from Toots and the Maytals] who out of his performance of traditional Jamaican folk music mixed blues and funk, and all of those kind of music—he came up with reggae. And then you have a lot of Spanish music influence in our music on top of that. I personally have spent my whole life trying to learn the truth about our music, and this album reflects that 100 percent. So, it’s not for people that look up and listen to five songs and think they know what reggae is. This album is for you to humbly listen to music with your heart open. Don’t try to label Chronixx joins special guests Max Glazer and Jah9 it, you may just find out on Tuesday, March 21 at something very interesting. Sacramento’s Ace of Spades, Just open your heart and located at 1417 R. St. Tickets listen to the words and the are $24 in advance ($27 at the door) and available online instruments. You might at Aceofspadessac.com. just hear something that you never hear before.

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Issue 235 • March 13 – March 27, 2017

Bass to the Future

EDM Duo Joyzu Take Their Music to the Next Level Words Ronnie Cline •

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nly one year after creating Joyzu, Carson Willms and Quinton Pope have been making a name for themselves in the EDM scene by keeping their noses to the grindstone. It is instantly noticeable that both members are bursting with energy and anticipation of what the future has in store, and who could blame them? Despite releasing only a handful of songs, Joyzu’s popularity is quickly starting to skyrocket. Their track, “Hear You Say,” featuring Olivia Reid, is nearing 800,000 plays on Spotify. The guys are now set to play their first international show in Mexico later this month, followed by a festival appearance in Chicago at year’s end. While spending spring break helping college students make questionable decisions south of the border and jet-setting to the Windy City sound like a dream come true, Joyzu is staying focused and designing a plan to build a dedicated following through playing club dates whenever they can—which is a little tricky when one member lives in Sacramento and the other in Denver. The distance issue will soon be a thing of the past since Pope and Willms are planning on living together in Southern California in the near future. Feeling the pull of the road and dance floors across the nation, the guys in Joyzu are gearing up to leave their day jobs behind and solely devote themselves to creating catchy dance music. I recently got the duo on the phone to talk about how their love of dance music has kept them together through their high school days and into their college years.

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Are you guys originally from California? Carson Willms: We’re both actually from Sacramento, I currently live in Sacramento and Quinton moved to Denver for school. Quinton moved here when he was in middle school and I have lived here my whole life, but Quinton you were in Sac for how long? Quinton Pope: Almost 10 years. I moved to Denver to go to college and pursue music industry stuff. Are you planning on moving back to California? QP: Yeah, we’re waiting on some things to come through so we can move to L.A., but if that doesn’t happen, I think I’m still going to end up back in Cali-

fornia, in the Sacramento area until we can make the move down to Southern California. Joyzu has been together for about a year now, but you’ve been creating music together for a lot longer right? CW: We’ve been buds since middle school, and our love for dance music came about in freshmen or sophomore year of high school. We were getting into listening to dance music, and then we started DJing house parties in high school. That’s when we found the love for it. We weren’t really making music yet, and then eventually as we grew older, towards the end of our high school careers, we got into making music.

Did you guys have a name before Joyzu? CW: We had a few names that never worked or that we fell in love with, and then we kind of grew apart at the beginning of college, you know, because life happens. But, we came back together and created Joyzu because we had a whole bunch of music that we saw something in and felt we could see a future with. Have you decided if you are going to pursue Joyzu full-time? QP: Yeah, kind of. I think like just now we might be transitioning into doing it full-time. But we currently both have day jobs and we were going to school last semester. This semester we are kind of doing online classes, but

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It seems like when the single “Hear You Say” came out, things took off really fast. CW: Yeah and after we played the SnowGlobe music festival people started reaching out to us. QP: Yeah, SnowGlobe was great. And you guys now have a contract with Armada Music out of the Netherlands? QP: Yeah, it’s a record deal. They’re mainly focused in Europe but they definitely have a couple bigger American artist on their label as well. I guess it’s not too common that a lot of people do recording deals now, but we got offered it super early on. We put out one song and they wanted to work with us. It’s helping us, and they’re curating us since we are still kind of small and growing. It’s great to have such a large platform and label to help us get music out. Does that mean you guys will be traveling to Europe and playing shows and festivals over there? QP: We’re hoping! CW: Yeah, it’s in the works. We’ve only had three releases through them and we still have a SubmergeMag.com

two year contract and are hoping the more music comes out, the more we grow. Hopefully our fanbase grows over there and they can eventually get us out there. We’re more of a smaller artist on their label, so we’re trying to establish ourselves before we ask if we can head over and play. But there have been talks about us coming out there. They have a lot of artists playing all over Europe. That’s like the dream. Are you excited to play spring break in Mexico later this month? CW: Yeah, it’s our first international show! They handled all of the accommodations for us which is cool. They’re bringing us out there and giving us a whole bunch of guest passes, and we’re bringing some friends and are just going to have a good time. How do you think playing in Mexico will be different than here in the United States? QP: It’s all just a bunch of college kids so I don’t think it will be any different than any show we’d play here since we play a lot of college night clubs and shows around college areas. CW: But it’s going to be one of our biggest shows yet. It looks like you guys are starting to play pretty consistently, have you noticed a difference in your stage presence? QP: Carson has played more shows than I have since I can’t always fly out from Denver, but I think my stage presence has gotten better, and together we’re starting to vibe with each other a little more. It gets better every time.

How does your creative process work since you live so far apart? QP: It’s an ongoing calibration. Both of us are always creating, but yeah, there’s a lot of Skype calls, and FaceTime. CW: That’s one of the main reasons we want to move in together. We would be able to motivate each other and feed off of each other so much more. It’s definitely challenging to take care of things over the internet, and it’s challenging to not have Quinton at shows all of the time.

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yeah, we are really quickly going from working and going to school full-time to possibly not even having to work or go to school anymore. It’s been really fast. CW: Now we’re about to have the opportunity to fully live off music. Not a lot of people get that opportunity so we are very thankful and stoked about it. We still want to continue our education as much as we can, but music is the end all goal and dream. Putting school off for a semester or so and trying to grab at this while we have the opportunity makes more sense than sitting back and not taking it.

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March 23 you guys will be at District 30 right? QP: Yeah we have a big show. CW: The last time we played there we sold it out. We’re stoked to play District 30 again. I think it’s going to be bigger and better than the last time we played there. Where do you see yourself in a year from now? QP: Doing what we’re doing now. Hopefully we’ll have all this music out that we’re sitting on and getting into different cities. We have a good thing going right now, playing shows and festivals. Hopefully it gets bigger from here and we can meet some more awesome people on the road that appreciate our music.

Joyzu makes their return to Sacramento’s District 30 (1022 K St.) for a free show on Thursday, March 23 at 10 p.m. RSVP for the 21-plus show or purchase VIP tickets at District30Sacramento.com. Find out more about Joyzu at Joyzumusic.com.

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music, comedy & misc. Calendar

3.13 Monday

Blue Lamp The Spotlight: Open Mic, 9 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. Fox & Goose Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m. Harlow’s Isaiah Rashad, 3:30 & 6:30 p.m. (Sold Out) 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. Old Ironsides Heath Williamson & Friends, 5:30 p.m. On The Y Karaoke, 9 p.m. Press Club Iridium, Resurrection of Ruin, The Night Owl Collective, Zach Waters Band, 8 p.m.

3.14 Tuesday

Ace of Spades Social Distortion, Jade Jackson, 7 p.m. (Sold Out) Center for the Arts Altan, 7:30 p.m. The Colony LSDS, Write Or Die, The Bottom Feeders, 8 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. Kupros Craft House Open Mic, 8 p.m. Mondavi Center: Jackson Hall Aaron Diehl, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Adam Birnbaum, 7 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe West Coast Songwriters Competition, 6 p.m. Old Ironsides Karaoke, 9 p.m.

3.15 Wednesday

American River College Theatre ARC Vocal Jazz Ensemble, 8 p.m. Bar 101 Open Mic, 7:30 p.m. Club Car The Double Shots, 7:30 p.m. Colonial Theatre Norma Jean, Capsize, Comrades, Wolf And Bear, He Is Legend, Sages, 7 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. El Dorado Saloon Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m. Fox & Goose All Vinyl Wednesdays w/ DJ AAKnuff, 8 p.m. Harlow’s Pure Bathing Culture, 7 p.m. Laughs Unlimited Open Mic, 7 p.m. Mondavi Center: Jackson Hall UC Davis Concert Band, 7 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Acoustic Open Mic, 6 p.m. Old Ironsides Open Mic, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub 98 Rock’s Local Licks Live Series, 8 p.m. Press Club House Fusion w/ Nick Cecchi, Sam Gabriel, DJ NardX, Daryl Posnett, 9 p.m. Red Museum Gentleman Surfer, Light Thieves, Boy Romeo, 9 p.m. Sacramento State: Music Recital Hall Sacramento State’s Concert Band, 7:30 p.m.

Sacramento State: Redwood Room Nooner w/ Two A.M., 12 p.m. Shine Speak Out! Sacramento, 8 p.m. Streets Pub and Grub Karaoke, 9 p.m. Torch Club Singer-Songwriter Showcase in the Round, 5:30 p.m.

3.16 thursday

Ann E. Pitzer Center UC Davis Jazz Ensemble, 7 p.m. Bar 101 Karaoke, 7:30 p.m. Berryessa Gap Downtown Tasting Room Beans On Toast, Polyorchids, Matt Churchman, 6 p.m. Blue Lamp Remedy, 8 p.m. Capitol Garage Karaoke, 9 p.m. Center for the Arts Keola Beamer, Jeff Peterson, Moanalani Beamer, 7:30 p.m. Club Car Songwriters Showcase, 8 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. District 30 Alle Farben, 10 p.m. Dive Bar Dueling Pianos, 9 p.m.

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3.17 Conceived In Chaos, The Odious Construct, 8 p.m. Capitol Garage Capitol Friday’s Reggae Night w/ DJ Veyn, 10 p.m. Center for the Arts Davina and the Vagabonds, Jealous Zelig, 8 p.m. CLARA You’re All I Need: The Music of Motown Live w/ Casey Lipka and Guests, 7:30 p.m. The Colony Morgan Frikz, SinKontrol, Get Out, Rotten Bits, Public Trash, 8 p.m. Crest Theatre Five For Fighting w/ String Quartet, Marie Miller, 6:30 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. Downtown & Vine Paul Mars Black, 6 p.m. El Dorado Saloon Code Blue, 9:30 p.m. Fox & Goose 42nd Annual St. Patrick’s Day Celebration w/ The Pikeys, Tartan and Tweed, 4 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 The Purple Ones (Prince tribute), 9 p.m. Kupros Craft House Mud Folk, 9:30 p.m. Mix DJ Eddie Edul, 5 p.m. Mondavi Center: Corin Cortyard One Eyed Reilly, 5:30 p.m. Mondavi Center: Ann E. Pitzer Center Early Music Ensemble: Miserere, 7 p.m. Mondavi Center: Jackson Hall Dervish, Le Vent du Nord, 5:30 p.m. MontBleu Resort Casino Lake Street Dive, Joey Dosik, 7 p.m.; Shades, Ivy Lab, Oneness, Nas Ja, 10 p.m.

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Nicholson’s MusiCafe Open Mic Night, 6 p.m. Old Ironsides FUDI, Sacto Storytellers, Trip, Broken Speakers, 7 p.m. On The Y Resonance w/ Wiccid, DJs Nachtdoom, Inari Alchemist, Die Nasty, 9 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Saint Patrick’s Day Block Party w/ Spazmatics and More, 5 p.m. Press Club DJ Rue, 9 p.m. Red Hawk Casino Fresh, 9:30 p.m. St. Rose of Lima Park Malt and Mash Rockin’ St Patrick’s Day w/ House Party, The Nickel Slots, The Pikeys, 11 a.m. - 11 p.m. Starlite Lounge Jello Biafra and The Guantanamo School of Medicine, Black Crosses, Frack, 7 p.m. Station 1 The Firehouse 4, 9 p.m. Streets Pub and Grub DJ Night, 9 p.m. Thunder Valley Casino Resort Tony Orlando, 7:30 p.m. Torch Club St. Patrick’s Day Celebration w/ Mind X, 5:30 p.m.; Groove Session, 9 p.m.

3.18 Saturday

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Harlow’s Complicated Shadows (Elvis Costello tribute) feat. Peter Petty, Bellygunnner, Kevin Seconds, ICU Stringband, Allyson Seconds, Would-Be Trainrobbers and More, 6 p.m. Louie’s Cocktail Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Mike Allen, 6 p.m. Old Ironsides Open Acoustic Jam, 7 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Straight Shooter, 9:30 p.m. Press Club Smartboyz, Class System, Mob Rule, Enemy Fire, 8 p.m. Shine Sac’s Coolest Jazz Jam, 8 p.m. Starlite Lounge Rookaloti, Draper Good, CT, TNT, John Brooks, Corey B, 9 p.m. Torch Club Mind X, 5:30 p.m.; Vandellas, 9 p.m.

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Berryessa Brewing Co. Bottom Dwellers, 3:30 p.m. The Boardwalk Frank Hannon’s Kaleidoscope, Greg Golden Band, 8 p.m. Capitol Garage Wavy w/ DJ Eddie Z and Guests, 10 p.m. Center for the Arts: Off Center Stage Bootlegs, Pug Skullz, Slutzville, Black Crosses, Krebtones, 8 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. El Dorado Saloon The Ruckus Band, 9:30 p.m. Fox & Goose Fem Dom Com, 9 p.m. Harlow’s Will Whitlock, 8 p.m. Harris Center for the Arts Sacramento Baroque Soloists: A London Adventure, 7:30 p.m. Identity Coffees The Usual Haunts, Pierce and the Gals, 7 p.m. KBAR Z Rokk, 9 p.m. Kupros Craft House Jane Thompson Trio, 9:30 p.m. Luna’s Cafe Liz Ryder, Patrick Grizzell, Richard March, 8 p.m. Mondavi Center: Corin Courtyard Davis High School Chamber Orchestra, 6:30 p.m. Mondavi Center: Jackson Hall St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, 8 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Free Ukulele Class, 1 p.m.; Hilary Marckx 6 p.m. Old Ironsides Lipstick w/ DJ Roger Carpio and DJ Adam J, 9 p.m. On The Y Karaoke, 9 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Lost In Suburbia, 10 p.m. Press Club DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m. Red Hawk Casino Fresh, 10 p.m. Sacramento Community Center Theater Sacramento Choral Society and Orchestra Presents The Music of Downton Abbey, 8 p.m. Shine As Yet Untitled, Sicfus, 8 p.m. Starlite Lounge Truckfighters, Yawning Man, Peace Killers, 7 p.m. Torch Club Traveling Heartbreakers, 5:30 p.m.; Andy Santana, 9 p.m. Yolo Brew Co. Band in the Beer Hall: Whiskey Alley, 6 p.m.

3.19 sunday

Ace of Spades Dance Gavin Dance, Chon, Eidola, Vasudeva, 6 p.m. (Sold Out) Berryessa Brewing Co. Colin Cotter, 3 p.m. Blue Lamp The Scratch Outs, Shove It, The Flip Offs, 3 p.m. The Colony Beastmaker, Spell, Witchstone, Murderlicious, SophroSine, 7:30 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 8 p.m. Goldfield Geoff Tate, 7 p.m. Harlow’s G Love and Special Sauce, City of the Sun, 7 p.m. Harris Center for the Arts: Stage 3 Sacramento Baroque Soloists: A London Adventure, 2 p.m. Harris Center for the Arts: Stage 1 The National Symphony Orchestra Of Ukraine, 2 p.m.; The Kerry Voice Squad, Conner Reider, 7 p.m. LowBrau Throwback Jams w/ DJ Epik & Special Guests, 9:30 p.m.

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The Usual Haunts Pierce and the Gals Identity Coffees 7 p.m. Midtown BarFly Factor IX w/ DJ Bryan Hawk, DJ CarnieRobber and Guests, 9 p.m. Mondavi Center: Vanderhoef Studio Theatre Alexander String Quartet, 2 & 7 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Zola Moon, 3 p.m. Press Club Sunday Night Soul Party w/ DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m. Red Hawk Casino Two Steps Down, 1 p.m. Starlite Lounge Wrath of Tides, Misha Allure, Focara, MadorMaero and More, 8 p.m. Torch Club Blues Jam, 4 p.m.; Front the Band, 8 p.m.

3.20 monday

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 hosted by Ross Hammond, 7:30 p.m. Old Ironsides Heath Williamson & Friends, 5:30 p.m. On The Y Horde of Draugar, Drowning in The Platte-Nebraska, Ostracized, A Hand For Hire, 7:30 p.m. Press Club Plots, Mallard, The Co Founder, Patrick Nehoda, 7 p.m. Starlite Lounge Big Business, 8 p.m.

3.21 Tuesday

Ace of Spades Chronixx, Max Glazer, Jah-9, 6 p.m. Blue Lamp Adlib, Space Kamp, Oliver Spitts, 9 p.m. Center for the Arts Donavon Frankenreiter, Grant Lee Phillips, 7:30 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. Kupros Craft House Open Mic, 8 p.m. Mondavi Center: Corin Courtyard One Button Suit, 6:30 p.m.

Mondavi Center: Jackson Hall Del McCoury Band, Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn, 8 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Beginning Bluegrass Club, 6:30 p.m. Old Ironsides Karaoke, 9 p.m. On The Y Karaoke, 9 p.m. Pine Cove Open Mic Night, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Live Band Karaoke, 8 p.m. Torch Club Richard March, 5:30 p.m.; Michael Ray, 8 p.m.

3.22 wednesday

Bar 101 Open Mic, 7:30 p.m. Club Car The Double Shots, 7:30 p.m. The Colony Cold As Life, Hoods, Sworn Vengeance, Drowning and More, 7:30 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. El Dorado Saloon Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m. Fox & Goose All Vinyl Wednesdays w/ DJ AAKnuff, 8 p.m. Goldfield Josh Abbott Band, William Clark Green, 7:30 p.m. Harlow’s Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, 7 p.m. Laughs Unlimited Open Mic, 7 p.m. Mondavi Center: Vanderhoef Studio Theatre Danilo Brito Trio, 8 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Acoustic Open Mic, 6 p.m. Old Ironsides Open Mic, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub 98 Rock’s Local Licks Live Series, 8 p.m. Press Club Emo Night Sacramento, 8 p.m. Streets Pub and Grub Karaoke, 9 p.m. Torch Club Singer-Songwriter Showcase in the Round, 5:30 p.m.; Fontaine Classic, 9 p.m.

3.23 Thursday

Bar 101 Karaoke, 7:30 p.m. Blue Lamp HD (of Bearfaced), 9 p.m. Capitol Garage Karaoke, 9 p.m. Center for the Arts Beatles vs. Stones – A Musical Showdown, 8 p.m.

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Club Car Songwriters Showcase, 8 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. District 30 Joyzu, 10 p.m. Dive Bar Dueling Pianos, 9 p.m. Fox & Goose Chicken & Dumpling, 8 p.m. Louie’s Cocktail Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m. Mondavi Center: Vanderhoef Studio Theatre Danilo Brito Trio, 8 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Common Miner, 7:30 p.m. Old Ironsides Vasas, Me Pretty, 8 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub HighNoon, 9:30 p.m. Press Club High Fidelity: Vinyl Night, 9 p.m. Shine Sac’s Coolest Jazz Jam, 8 p.m. Starlite Lounge Tvsk, Owain, Battle Hag, Chrome Ghost, 8 p.m. Torch Club Mind X, 5:30 p.m.; Deltaphonics, 9 p.m.

3.24 FRIDAY

Ace of Spades Chelsea Grin, Ice Nine Kills, Gideon, Enterprise Earth, Up In Smoke, 6 p.m. Auburn Event Center The Rock Collection, 7 p.m. Bar 101 The Bongo Furys, 9:30 p.m. Berryessa Brewing Co. Muddy Waders, 5 p.m. Blue Lamp Kill the Precedent, Knightfall, Viqueen, 8 p.m. Cache Creek Casino Kenny G, 8 p.m. Capitol Garage Capitol Friday’s Reggae Night w/ DJ Veyn, 10 p.m. Center for the Arts Monophonics, Michael and the Machines, 8 p.m. The Colony Planned Parenthood Benefit w/ Sacto Storytellers, Wartribe, Mob Rule, Class System, 8 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. El Dorado Saloon SuperBad, 9:30 p.m. Fox & Goose Catchakaola, 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 Save Ferris, Vista Kicks, 7 p.m. (Sold Out) Harrah’s Lake Tahoe Indigo Girls, 7:30 p.m. Kupros Craft House Adam Block Trio, 9:30 p.m. Mondavi Center: Vanderhoef Studio Theatre Danilo Brito Trio, 8 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Open Mic Night, 6 p.m. Old Ironsides Ancient Sons, Sad Numbers, Sly Boots, 9 p.m. On The Y Beerlords, Hot Won’t Quit, Red Pills, 8 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Rock Steady, 10 p.m. Press Club DJ Rue, 9 p.m. Red Hawk Casino Big Bad Boogie Rock, 9:30 p.m. Shine The Silent Game, Bachelors Paradise, Doctor Striker, 8 p.m. Starlite Lounge Hatriot, Cemetery Legacy, Trinity Fallen, West Coast Fury, Vincula, 7:30 p.m. Station 1 Peter Petty, 9 p.m. Streets Pub and Grub DJ Night, 9 p.m. Thunder Valley Casino Resort Loverboy, 7:30 p.m. Torch Club Stephen Yerkey, 5:30 p.m.; Nick Schnebelen, 9 p.m. Yolo Brew Co. Band in the Beer Hall: JT & The Cheaters, 6 p.m.

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Armadillo Music The Ocean Party, 6 p.m. Bar 101 Third Stone Blue, 9:30 p.m. Berryessa Brewing Co. Sourdough Slim and Robert Armstrong, 3 p.m. Cache Creek Casino Kenny G, 8 p.m. Capitol Garage Wavy w/ DJ Eddie Z and Guests, 10 p.m. Center for the Arts Achilles Wheel, Keith Greeninger, Joe Craven, 8 p.m. The Colony Godstomper, Genocide, xTom Hanx, I Wanna Die, JKKFO, Hemorage, 8 p.m. Crest Theatre A Thousand Kisses Deep: The Songs of Leonard Cohen, 7:30 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. El Dorado Saloon Black Zeppelin, 9:30 p.m.

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Fair Oaks Park Kidtopia: Forever in Your Mind, Olivia Holt, Peyton List, Corey Fogelmanis, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. Fox & Goose The Gold Souls, Stoneberry, 9 p.m. Harlow’s Mouths of Babes, 5:30 p.m.; Bob’s Child Reunion Show, Broken and Mended, 9:30 p.m. Harris Center for the Arts Sacramento Guitar Society Presents: Festival of Four, 7:30 p.m. KBAR Z Rokk, 9 p.m. Kupros Craft House Harley White Trio, 9:30 p.m. Luna’s Cafe David Houston & String Theory, Dr Wagner, Stuart Walthall, 8 p.m. Mondavi Center: Vanderhoef Studio Theatre Danilo Brito Trio, 8 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Free Ukulele Class, 1 p.m. Old Ironsides Las Pesadillas, Radio Orangevale, The Hypnotic IV, Truck Fight, 8 p.m. On The Y Karaoke, 9 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Super Huey, 10 p.m. Press Club DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m. Red Hawk Casino Rock Monsterz, 10 p.m. Shine The Triple 7’s, Plugg Mentality, 8 p.m. Starlite Lounge Soft Kill, Ghostplay, Daydream Machine, Souvenir Driver, Pets, 8 p.m. Thunder Valley Casino Resort Tinh Xuan, Lam Anh, Thuy Nga, Van Ruy, Bang Kieu and more, 7 & 9:30p.m. Torch Club Reds Trio, 5:30 p.m.; Dennis Jones, 9 p.m. Yolo Brew Co. Band in the Beer Hall: Dr. Rock & The Stuff, 6 p.m.

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Berryessa Brewing Co. Achilles Wheel, The Deer, 1 p.m. Blue Lamp Afroman, 9 p.m. Center for the Arts Graham Nash, 8 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 8 p.m. Golden 1 Center Ariana Grande: The Dangerous Woman Tour, 7:30 p.m. Harlow’s Beatles vs. Stones - A Musical Showdown, 7:30 p.m. LowBrau Throwback Jams w/ DJ Epik & Special Guests, 9:30 p.m. Midtown BarFly Factor IX w/ DJ Bryan Hawk, DJ CarnieRobber and Guests, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Shana Morrison, 3 p.m. Press Club Sunday Night Soul Party w/ DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m. Red Hawk Casino Jessie Leigh, 1 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. Goldfield Nashville Pussy, Zeke, 7 p.m. Louie’s Cocktail Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m. LowBrau Motown on Monday’s w/ DJ Epik, 9 p.m. Luna’s Cafe Nebraska Mondays hosted by Ross Hammond, 7:30 p.m. Old Ironsides Heath Williamson & Friends, 5:30 p.m. On The Y Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Comedy Laughs Unlimited Say It Loud Comedy w/ Michael Calvin Jr., Lawrence Owens and More, March 16, 8 p.m. Sean Kent feat. Keenan Baker, March 17 - 19, Fri. & Sat., 8 & 10:30 p.m.; Sun., 7 p.m. Best of Open Mic Showcase, March 21, 8 p.m. Key Lewis feat. Jason Cheny, March 24 - 26, 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. STAB!, March 22, 8 p.m. Ooley Theater Max Rosenblum’s Condescending Hebrew Tour, March 25, 6:30 p.m. Punch Line Hella-larious Show w/ Carlos Rodriguez, Jonny Loquasto, Adam Reyes, Heidi Heaslet, Marci Maxey, March 15, 8 p.m. Rachel Feinstein, Jonny Loquasto, Diana Hong, March 16 - 18, Thurs., 8 p.m.; Fri. & Sat., 8 & 10 p.m. Lance Woods and Friends, March 19, 7 p.m. Sacramento Comedy Showcase Hosted by DJ Sandhu, March 22, 8 p.m. Hari Kondabolu, Liz Miele, Kaseem Bentley, March 23 - 26, Thurs., 8 p.m.; Fri. & Sat., 8 & 10 p.m.; Sun., 7 p.m. Sacramento Comedy Spot Open Mic, Sunday’s and Monday’s, 8 p.m. Improv Taste Test and Harold Night, Wednesday’s, 7 - 10 p.m. Cage Match and Improv Jam, Thursday’s, 8 - 10 p.m. Anti-Cooperation League, Saturday’s, 9 p.m. Tommy T’s Joey Guila, March 17 - 19 Ryan Davis, March 23 - 26

Misc. 20th Street (Between J and K) Midtown Farmers Market, Saturdays, 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. Avid Reader: Sacramento Speak Up: The Art of Storytelling and Poetry, March 23, 7 p.m. B Street Theatre Mainstage Series: Concussed: Four Days in The Dark, Through April 16

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Family Series: Going West: The Story of The Transcontinental Railroad, Through April 2 Blue Cue Trivia NIght, Wednesday’s, 9 p.m. Blue Lamp St. Patrick’s Day Moxie Crush Burlesque & Comedy Show, March 17, 8 p.m. Sacred City Derby Girls 10 Year Anniversary Party, March 18, 8 p.m. Jezebelle’s Army Presents: Aqua Fishnet, March 22, 8 p.m. Club Klymax Male Revue, March 25, 9 p.m. The Boxing Donkey Trivia Night, every Tuesday, 8 p.m. California Museum Art Exhibit: Kokoro: The Story of Sacramento’s Lost Japantown, Through May 28 Community Center Theater In the Mood: A 1940s Musical Review, March 16, 2 & 7:30 p.m. Sacramento Ballet: Peter Pan and Viva Vivaldi, March 24 - 26 Cordova High Performing Arts Center Lifted: Contemporary Dance Concert, March 24 - 25 Crocker Art Museum Kingsley Art Club Lecture Series: Lawrence Rinder: “Hippie Moderism; The Struggle for Utopia,” March 15, 1:15 p.m. Forbidden Fruit: Chris Antemann at Meissen, March 19 - June 25 Into the Fold: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics from the Horvitz Collection, Through May 7 Two Views: Photographs by Ansel Adams and Leonard Frank, Through May 14 JapanAmerica: Points of Contact (1876-1970), Through May 21 Fairytale Town Sutter Children’s Center Wellness Festival, March 25, 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. Fox & Goose Pub Quiz, Tuesdays, 7 p.m. Harris Center for the Arts CORE Contemporary Dance Presents: Redefined, March 17 - 18, 7:30 p.m. CHICAGO: The Broadway Musical, March 23 - 26 Historic Old Folsom Farmers Market, Saturdays, 8 a.m. Kupros Craft House Triviology, Sundays, 7:30 p.m. Luna’s Cafe Poetry Unplugged, every Thursday, 8 p.m. Drug Stories w/ Host Damian Harmony, March 15, 8 p.m. Sac United Poetry Slam, March 17, 8 p.m.

Stan Padilla: Anatomy of a Mural, March 24, 7 p.m. Midtown BarFly Salsa Lessons, Wednesdays, 8 p.m. Mondavi Center: Vanderhoef Studio Theatre Spoken Word Artist Shane Koyczan, March 16 - 18 Oak Park Brewing Co. Trivia Night, Sundays, 8 p.m. Old Sugar Mill Meet The Makers, feat. Winemakers from Due Vigne, Three Wines, Clarksburg Wine and Elevation, March 25, 11 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. Placer County Fairgrounds & Event Center 55th Roseville Gem, Jewelry, Fossil, and Mineral Show, March 25 - 26, 10 a.m. Sac City Rollers Cell Block Sac City Rollers vs Central California Area Derby, March 25, 1 p.m. Sacramento Marriott: Rancho Cordova Cork and Fork, March 17, 6:30 p.m. Shine Questionable Trivia, Tuesdays, 8 p.m. Sol Collective Sac Activist School: Art and Activism, March 15, 6 p.m. Grow: Poetry feat. Ausaru, Simone, Danté Goodrich Giray, Farah, Yeshahyah King Yisrael and More, March 24, 7:30 p.m. Storytelling and Paper Mache Doll Making Workshop w/ Ramona Garcia, March 25, 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. Sierra-at-Tahoe Vans Hi-Standard Series: Snowboard Jam, March 18, 8:30 a.m. - 7 p.m. Starlite Lounge The Darling Clementines: March Marvels Variety Show, March 15, 7:30 p.m. Streets Pub and Grub Pub Trivia, Sundays, 8 p.m. Tommy T’s Medium Cindy Kaza, March 20, 7:30 p.m. UC Davis Main Theatre: Wright Hall Zaccho Dance Theatre: Outside the Lines 2, March 16 - 18 Verge Center for the Arts Current Exhibit: We Buy White Albums by Rutherford Chang, Through March 19 Movie Night: Desperate Man Blues, March 16, 7 p.m. WAL Public Market Temporary Destinations by Bekah Wilson Smith and Adam Wever-Glen, Through May 3 William Land Park 37th Annual ZooZoom: Benefit for Sacramento Zoo, March 26, 8 a.m.

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DROP IT LIKE IT’S HAUTE

Sac Fashion Week Brought the Heat

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acramento seems to be covered in art these days. Sacramento Fashion Week was no exception. Dressed-to-impressed spectators swarmed the historic industrial space of Sacramento’s Railyards for the 11th annual exposition of local garment designers’ unbridled creativity. Fashion designers, photographers, models and hair and makeup artists collaborated to create inspired visual stories that encouraged their audience with aspirational, yet accessible, wearable art. Proceeds from Sac Fashion Week were dedicated to Wind Youth Services this year, which is an organization that provides assistance to youth experiencing homelessness. Working with local higher education institutions to develop talent, Sac Fashion Week is a platform that allows local aspiring designers to gain real-world experience in being a part of a large-scale fashion event.

Says Scatha G. Allison, designer of the gothic glamour line Miss Velvet Cream, humbly, “I am very particular about the models I work with … and I spend time with the models, as we collectively create the vision from idea to reality. The models are the diamonds of the collection—they make the work shine bright, so they need to feel the story and see the idea of the entire collection, as well as understanding their own part in it. For the SACFW show, all of my models were absolutely amazing. They were unique and receptive, they listened and connected as a whole to the vision.” Lace, sheer, paisley, floral and flowy forms were thematic in Friday night’s Spring/Summer Showcase. The color palette was dominated by red, white, black and midnight blue. On Saturday night, the Fall/Winter Showcase was a mix of mustard, black, white, burgundy and gold.

Eshonna Trice, Hagen Valencia and Thimoleon Rodriguez were among the designers that unveiled their hard work at the Railyards. Here, Hagen Valencia’s collection, comprised of male ensembles, was juxtaposed with Eshonna Trice and Thimoleon Rodriguez’s gender-bending, hardcore, romantic, ‘70s-inspired and sheer pieces. Models stormed down the runway with swishes of mesh, sways of form-hugging fabric, sleek hair and unflinching game faces. Friday night’s zeitgeist Spring/ Summer Showcase was followed by Saturday night’s forward-thinking Fall/Winter Showcase, but the whole week was lit with events at various locations, including a Launch and Boutique Showcase at Masonic Temple, Fashion Forum at the Art Institute of California, Model Bootcamp at Barbizon Modeling School, Emerging Next Showcase at Old Sacramento’s Holiday Inn, and

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Fashion on Film, hosted by Beatnik Studios. Fashion on Film blended movie magic with live fashion, and featured designers such as LOVE by Janelle Cardenas, De Lore/Yummy Honey, Christy Jahleah Jalou and Lataiya Gohlar. At Emerging Showcase, designers included Tatiana Gomeniuk, Oxana Artemencova, Janette Goss, Rong Ben, Manlin Song, Ceceil Lee and Lacey Taylor. Saphaktra Touch was born in Cambodia and came to the United States when she was 6 years old. Her Saloeut Spring Collection was inspired by vintage Hollywood glamor. “Sacramento Fashion Week 2017 was my first fashion show as a designer,” she said. “It turned out to be a large scale project that required extensive planning, timely execution and many late hours sewing to create 15 gowns.” For her first rodeo, Saphaktra Touch brought thoughtful execution and creativity to the table, in spite of the atmosphere of last-minute chaos, and somehow evoked a flowy, carefree feeling with her audience. “Backstage was the place where

all elements came together, some just moments before the show; models, makeup and gowns,” she went on to say. “Five minutes before runway, I was still making some final adjustments to get everything just right. It was an intense experience, but rewarding at the end as well.” As the models confidently stepped onto the runway, you’d never know the chaos from which they’d just emerged backstage. The rewards of hard, creative work, can be endlessly fruitful. Of her design process, Allison said, “Sometimes, an idea takes so much more time to be constructed than it appears in a sketch. The pattern and shape of pieces around the body, the ruffles, the layers and fabrics coming together, the ornamentation, appliqués and details, some of which are not evident until you look closer—all of these take time and attention. However, when a piece comes together, I can feel it, and it is a uniquely satisfying moment … This is the nature of the creative process.” Sacramento, you so artsy. Thimoleon Rodriguez | Photo by Henry Huynh

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the shallow end I hate spring. I know what you’re saying: Hating spring is like hating puppies. I love puppies, I assure you, but spring can go fuck itself. Sure, the blooming flowers are pretty or whatever, but then all that pollen gets released into the air, and it makes me be all, “slow your roll, Nature, I’m dying over here.” And what’s worse is this spring forward nonsense. There are plenty of people who love the added waking hour of daylight, but I’m not one of them. The days just naturally get longer anyway as the Northern Hemisphere gradually tilts closer to the sun. I’m not sure why we have to speed up the process by turning our clocks ahead and making everyone miserable for a week as we all try to “adjust.” I hate that every year, I fall into this weird paradox one late Saturday night into Sunday morning where it was just 1:59 a.m. and now suddenly it’s 3. Sure, you may say, “Hey moron, we get that hour back in November,” but I’d just answer, “Fuck you.” Like, what’s the point of keeping measurements if we can just arbitrarily change them whenever we feel like it? If that’s the case, let’s just stop keeping time altogether.

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Maybe we can come together and just agree to live in perpetual 5 p.m. on Friday and institute the Infinite Weekend. If we’ve already come to the conclusion that twice a year, we can alter the passage of time to suit our needs, then we might as well go all the way with it. Fuck showing up to work on time, because what does that even mean, dude? While we’re at it, fuck everything. Just fuck it. Fuck, I need more coffee. I should be used to this by now. It’s not like it’s a surprise. I’m 40. I’ve lived through a fair share of spring forwards, but they don’t get any easier. And as I get older and grumpier, they just make me feel older and grumpier. Like, thanks, America, you just made me an hour older for no fucking reason. I pay my taxes. What have I ever done to you?! Daylight Saving Time makes me so mad that it gets me doing crazy things—things I didn’t think I was capable of, such as finding myself in agreement with a Republican representative from Texas. Rep. Jason Isaac, a Republican from Dripping Springs, introduced a bill to the Texas House of Representatives that calls for

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ending what he calls an “archaic practice.” He hopes this will be the last time Texans will have to spring forward. “Do me a favor and tweet me a groggy selfie of yourself and hashtag ‘HB2400,’” Isaac told KXAN’s State of Texas, adding the clever tagline, “Because there should be only 24 hours in a day.” There is support for this idea on both sides of the aisle as a Texas Democrat (if such a thing exists, maybe unicorns do too) from San Antonio, José Menéndez, has introduced a similar bill to the Texas State Senate. KXAN.com points out that this isn’t the first time measures like these have been introduced, and noted that they’ve always failed. “Critics cite safety concerns, particularly for children heading to school while it’s still dark in the morning,” the article said. Everyone’s always worried about the children! Come on! What’s the worst that can happen? It’s common knowledge that the Boogeyman and other monsters who dwell under beds and in closets are only active from the hours of midnight to 3 a.m. Venturing out during school hours is totally safe, no matter how light

or dark it is outside. That’s not just my opinion. It’s science. I’m sure I could go back, though, and find stories like this from every year around this time. Some Grumpy Gus misses out on an hour of sleep and gets into a fender bender with his brand new Range Rover and gets all pissed off about it and starts blaming everyone but himself and ends up writing a letter to his congressperson to do something about it. Then idiots like me who have nothing better to do on a Sunday afternoon than search the Internet for stories about people who want to put an end to Daylight Saving Time latch onto it and go, “Yeah! See?! I’m not crazy! Some dope in Texas wants to put an end to this shit, too!” And then maybe a couple of people who are reading this will agree with me for a minute or two, but by the time Friday rolls around, and all the remarks like, “Wow! I can’t believe the sun is still up so late!” have finally waned, we all just go back to our day and find something else to get all riled up about. I guess that’s a good thing. Time is arbitrary, after all. And whether we’re springing forward or falling back, I guess it really is always 5 o’clock somewhere.

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