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I don’t even know where to start. As we were working on this issue, we got word that one of Sacramento’s most beloved artists and DJs had passed away—Dan Osterhoff, known to many as DJ Whores. It all seemed to happen so fast and seems like it came out of nowhere. I am still in shock and probably will be every time I’m at an event and won’t see his smiling face.

I don’t remember the first time I officially met Dan, maybe it was around the time he painted the sign at Anthony’s Barbershop, or maybe it was at Press Club after dancing my face off at his Wednesday night party called HUMP. It was probably around 2008 or 2009, and it feels like a lifetime ago. I will always remember the numerous encounters I was lucky enough to have with him whenever it was that we broke the ice, which seemed like every time we saw each other. He was everywhere, and I mean everywhere: birthday parties, art exhibits, block parties, Dan was always there supporting his homies and Sacramento’s creative community.

I think when we started Submerge, I didn’t want to be the person who became best friends with everyone in town, just because of what I was doing, making Submerge. I wanted to have a more journalistic approach, to tell stories and not be biased. However, when a friendship forms organically, and you discover who someone really is beyond their music, beyond their art and you truly enjoy running into them and sparking up conversations every single time to shoot the shit, that’s someone I can genuinely call a friend and one I hold dear to my heart. My husband and I had that sort of friendship with Dan. Dan was beyond special. As a visual artist, he was probably the most talented lettering guy I’ve ever met. I remember when I was going to school for graphic design, it was so frustrating drawing an ampersand over and over to prefect it. So I had nothing but admiration for all the signage Dan has done around town: Sail Inn, Dad’s on S Street, his collaboration with Shaun Burner on the side of Dimple on Broadway and so many others.

As a music lover, Dan was always telling me who he was listening to at the moment, trying to turn me onto new stuff. He was true to himself, too, because when he wasn’t feeling his Press Club night, he stopped it to do something he was feeling, and that was the dubstep night at Townhouse called Grimey. He was always talking about local up and comers, trying to mentor them along the way. He was seriously always chopping me up about his homie Jurts.

As I’m typing this I can’t help but be sad that Sacramento lost such an amazing guy, and am super bummed that when I saw him at the ArtStreet exhibit last month I didn’t go chop it up with him. I guess that will be one regret I’ll always have.

However, I will go forward knowing the impact and friendships he also had with so many others, and judging from the amount of love being shared on social media, I think he was a genuinely nice guy to everyone in town.

Rest in peace my friend, –Melissa

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From the dark and intense electronic vibes of local heroes Rituals of Mine (formerly known as Sister Crayon), to the legendary MC skills of Del the Funky Homosapien, to ska-punk staples Mad Caddies, to the genre-bending R&B stylings of R.LUM.R, CIP’s 2017 lineup is a seriously legit blend of touring national artists and established local bands.

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Johl went on to say, “This season is going to be an unforgettable experience for everyone, on and off the stage. I’m especially excited about everything we’ve planned to expand on and complement the music. From artists to makers, retailers and vendors, Concerts in the Park is going to be the best local festival in town, every Friday in the park.”

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The Optimistic Pessimist Us old people remember a time when we could listen to music and news on this thing called a radio. There were two flavors, FM and AM, where the former usually played most of the music and the latter was the domain of the talk shows. While most people my age listened to the music, few of us messed with the shows relegated to the AM portion of the dial. We used to call that talk radio, and it was the worst.

I shunned talk radio back when I still bothered to listen to radio at all. I thought it was corny, boring and, above all, a waste of my time. So, when radio execs started repackaging the same crap and calling them podcasts in the early 2000s, my initial reaction was to stay away. Armstrong and Getty sucked on the radio, so why would they be any better on the internet?

I held that belief for a number of years and would have continued to do so had it not been for my girlfriend. She showed me that podcasts were so much more than talk radio could ever be.

These shows weren’t about a bunch of assholes talking. These podcasts were funny and weird and interesting. There were gems to be discovered every day and, with each new podcast, my world expanded just a little bit further.

I was so grateful to my special lady friend for showing me the light on podcasts. Now I want to pass some of that knowledge along to you. There are so many podcasts to explore once you get your footing, but here are a few that I like to get you started.

I love podcasts about movies, and How Did This Get Made? is my favorite of them all. In each full episode our hosts, Paul Scheer, Jason Mantzoukas and June Diane Raphael dissect a different horrible movie and mine those turds for nuggets of comedic gold in their quest to discover how these shit shows got made in the first place.

Many of the episodes are recorded with a live audience and the hosts interactions with the crowd are often the best parts of the episodes. My girl and I like this one so much that we have even started watching some of these craptastic flicks just so we can follow along.

If Hollywood dirt is what you’re after, there is no better podcast than You Must Remember This, hosted by Karina Longworth. This podcast focuses on early Hollywood, which turns out to be a pretty scandalous place, through the late ‘70s. There are plenty of drugs, alcohol, rape, suicide and murder to keep even the most unstable of us satiated.

Casting a Wider Net Bocephus Chigger bocephus@submergemag.com These crusty celebs really knew how to do some dirt and hide it from the rest of us! But not from Longworth; she finds the truth and weaves it into a captivating story time and time again.

Podcasts are a window into another world, be it Hollywood or just another regular person’s life. My next favorite podcast uses vinyl records as portals into peoples’ souls. It’s called Phonographic Memory and it’s hosted by my boy and sometimes Submerge contributor, Corey Bloom. Corey invites people to bring their favorite records and tell a story about their relationship to that record. The stories run the full range from funny to sad, and they are all unique and thoughtful. Like the presenters, the music is quite varied, but always worth a listen. Corey is really on to something with this one!

The catalogs on our first three podcasts are deep, but there are brand new podcasts that are just as great. One that I recently started listening to is called Crimetown. It’s hosted by Marc Smerling and Zac Stuart-Pontier and comes from the creators of HBO’s The Jinx about everyone’s favorite psychopath, Robert Durst. In this first season of Crimetown, Smerling and Stuart-Pontier look at government corruption and organized

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It’s called S-Town, which stands for Shit Town and it’s hosted by Brian Reed, a reporter for another excellent podcast, This American Life. Shit Town is the crazy story of John B. McLemore and his life in Woodstock, Alabama. There is murder (or is there?), clocks, hedge mazes, racists, money grubbing relatives, buried treasure, grand theft, shady police activity, thick Alabama accents and even a lawyer named Boozer! What more could you possibly want?

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Critically Acclaimed Post Funk Band The Main Squeeze Bring Their Without a Sound Tour to Goldfield • April 21 The Main Squeeze started as a party band at Indiana University back in 2010, but they’ve come a long way since then. The young band (which can be described as a blend of soul, hip-hop, funk and rock) got attention from mainstream audiences when they won the Rolling Stone/Volkswagen Super Band Contest back in 2013, which landed them the opportunity to perform at the Rolling Stone Super Bowl Party with acts such as The Roots and Jane’s Addiction. In addition, The Main Squeeze took home first place at the Venetian Macau International Jazz and Blues Competition in Macau, China, and their accomplishments also include putting out an album with well-known producer Randy Jackson. They have played at a growing list of music festivals, including Bonnaroo, Electric Forest and High Sierra. The Main Squeeze recently moved to Los Angeles and are currently on tour with their new album Without a Sound. On April 21, The Main Squeeze will be playing at the Goldfield Trading Post in Sacramento. The show starts at 7 p.m., and all ages are welcome to attend. Expect a vibrant blend of genres, and prepare for a thoroughly danceable and energetic set. Tickets are available on Goldfieldtradingpost.com. -HT

Sacramento State to Host Free Screening of Hit Film Get Out Followed By Panel Discussion April 27

There’s going to be a free showing of the new Jordan Peele horror film Get Out, open to the public, on Thursday, April 27. Producer and director Jordan Peele is best known for his role in the Comedy Central series Key and Peele, and Get Out is Peele’s directorial debut.

The film was first shown at Sundance Film Festival in January 2017 and was released in theaters soon after. It has received outstanding reviews from critics, and the general consensus on film-rating sites is that Get Out is funny, entertaining and satisfyingly scary. It has been nominated for numerous MTV awards, including Movie of the Year, Best Villain, Best Comedic Performance and Best Fight Against the System. Following the showing of Get Out, members of the audience will have the opportunity to participate in an interactive panel discussion centered around the storyline and some of the thought-provoking topics that the film touches upon. The discussion will be lead by Dr. John Johnson, Ph.D. (director of the Multi-Cultural Center, the LGBT Center and the Women’s Center at Sacramento State), Dr. Davin Brown, Ed.D. (Sac State Director of Student Engagement and Outreach) and Dr. Michele S. Foss-Snowden, Ph.D. (professor of communication, rhetorical criticism and media criticism). Get Out will be shown in the University Union Ballroom at Sacramento State, starting at 6:30 p.m., with discussion to follow. The event is open to all ages, but the film is rated R for violence, bloody images and language including sexual references, so young children and people who don’t enjoy horror movies should most likely not attend. For more details, go to Theuniversityunion.com/unique. -HT

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Pizza and Wine? Yes, Please! OneSpeed and Vino Noceto to Host Pizza Pairing • April 17 Is there anything in this world better than enjoying a delicious slice of pizza with a nice glass of wine? Trick question. Of course there isn’t. On Monday, April 17, you can indulge with both at one of our favorite local pizza joints, OneSpeed, as they host a pizza pairing with local winery Vino Noceto. Sample four different wines perfectly paired with four different slices. The event will run from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m., so you can stop in whenever you want and do things at your own pace. It’ll be $40 at the door, or you can get tickets ahead of time on Eventbrite for $35. Must be 21 or over. OneSpeed is located at 4818 Folsom Blvd. Learn more at Onespeedpizza.com or at Facebook.com/onespeedpizza. -JC

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Sample Honey from Around the World at UC Davis’ Honey and Pollination Center • April 18 Honey is sweet and tastes delicious, but it also has a spectacular abundance of health benefits. Throughout history, honey has been used all over the world for its astounding healing properties. However, not all honey is created equal. Depending on its region of origin, floral source and a handful of other factors, different honeys can dramatically vary in quality and taste. On April 18, you can take part in World of Honey: International Honey Tasting, where you will learn the basics on how to detect subtleties in the flavor while tasting a selection of unique and exciting types of honey from around the world. The event will feature incredible miracle-working Manuka honey from New Zealand, stingless bee honey from South America, lavender honey from France, and wildflower honey from Cuba. The tasting will be accompanied by a short educational lecture about native bees. The event takes place at 6:30 p.m. at the Honey and Pollination Center at the Robert Mondavi Institute in Davis. All ages are welcome. Register at Registration.ucdavis.edu. Students (with valid student IDs) and UC Davis affiliates are eligible for discounted tickets. -HT

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One age-old and wildly successful technique to creating a winning combination is adding good beer to the mix. Paints and Pints consistently pairs local brews with inventive art projects to create engaging one-of-a-kind events, and their upcoming class is no exception. At Paints & Pints’ special “Paint a Skateboard!” event on April 24, you can experience firsthand what happens when you combine craft beer, paint, skateboards and artistic expression in the comfort of a pizza parlor. Ten percent of all ticket sales will be donated to the Interactive Art Connection, which works to improve the lives of hospitalized children through the exploration of art and creativity. The event will take place from 6–8 p.m. at Old Town Pizza and Tap House in Elk Grove. Everyone who attends will receive a blank 8-inch skateboard deck, supplies to use while you’re there (paints, brushes, an easel, an apron, etc.) and a drink ticket for your first pint. All ages are welcome (participants under 21 will receive a drink ticket for soda instead of beer). Tickets are $35, and you can check out Facebook.com/paintsandpints for more info. Space is very limited, so please sign up ahead of time if you’d like to be a part of this unique and imaginative gathering.

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Torch Club Will Host Local Blues Musician Michael Ray’s EP Release Show • April 14 Michael Ray has had a helluva year. The local blues musician has seen his popularity skyrocket due not only to his enjoyable sound, but because of his hard work, tireless promotion and frequent gigs around town. Whether he’s hosting an open mic at a small bar or opening for a national touring act in a 1,000-plus capacity venue, Ray always brings his A-game. One of his usual haunts, the legendary Torch Club in downtown Sacramento, will host Ray’s upcoming EP release show on Friday, April 14. Dope, Ray’s second EP and first on Radiant Soul Records, will contain six original songs featuring some of the best players in the region.

Come on out to the show and see what all the fuss is about! Todd Morgan and Element Brass Band will also perform (they are both also featured on Dope). Doors open at 9 p.m. and it is 21-andover only. If you can’t make the Torch gig, catch Ray at Kupros on Saturday, April 22. Learn more at Michaelrayblues.com or at Facebook.com/michaelray916. -JC

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The Ex-Rippers Are as Excited About Their New EP as They Are About Being Best Buds Words Alia Cruz • photos wesley davis

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veryone introduce yourselves, and I’ll lavish you with praise,” The Ex-Rippers’ founding member/guitarist/ singer Julian Elorduy tells his three band brothers. The only thing The Ex-Rippers love more than crafting sonic slappers, is each other. Submerge recently spoke with the self proclaimed “rock ‘n’ roll sweethearts of Sacramento” about their new EP titled, Ex-Tra Natural, and their unapologetically endless affection for one another.

“Gabe is the sweetest guy you’ll ever meet. He is the Ripper!” gushes Elorduy of keys/guitarist Gabe Merriman, who retaliates with some good ol’ reverse dap.

“Julian is the man. I love the guy,” Merriman says.

“He has endless energy and creative ideas.” Essentially, the entire interaction with this band consisted of the four guys encouraging and appreciating each other, with the occasional dash of Misery movie references and fanboying over other local bands.

The Ex-Rippers just finished their first EP, Ex-Tra Natural, a true labor of love that was recorded in drummer and backup vocalist Thomas Castillo’s basement in the last year.

Castillo and Elorduy have a super-retro friendship dating back to when they were just 16 years old. A little under two years ago, when Julian moved back to Sacramento from the Bay Area, he and Castillo reunited and formed what was first called The Rippers.

“The name The Rippers kind of started off as a running joke,” said Elorduy.

“Every town has a band called The Rippers, so we figured we’d give Sacramento their very own.”

However, when a wellknown Italian band called The Rippers (who have played with popular local bands in the past) got wind of the name doppelgänger, they called them up and said something along the lines of, “This does not please us,” causing Elorduy and Castillo to make a change. They then became the technically different—The Ex-Rippers.

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Elorduy says of his drummer and longtime friend, “Thomas is literally the heartbeat of the band, so poised and solid as a rock, the glue of our band … He also lets us practice at his house.”

Bassist Dwain Navarro agrees, adding, “Everyone really loves and admires Thomas’ mustache as well.”

Ex-Tra Natural plays out as a sort of romantic rock ‘n’ roll adventure set through a sepia lens. Elorduy is inspired by the classic songwriting styles of Tom Petty and the composition spirit of power pop god Dwight Twilley. The band is inspired by stuff like jazz, disco, ‘80s synth pop, Orange Juice and Screature to scratch the mere surface.

The EP is lyrically roused by the “idea of modern lovers,” and a, “personal history documented in the style of the band The Church,” says Elorduy, who writes most of the songs, and the band builds around those lyrics.

wander through some sort of beautiful landscape.

There is even a great music video for “In This Life,” in which band friend Zack Raske is walking down Franklin Boulevard in sweltering 100-plus degree heat while wearing a head-totoe, scary-ass dog costume; finally taking off the dog head to enjoy a milkshake from Scott’s Burger Shack. The video was shot in 8MM format

by Julian in what he calls, “Sex, Lies and Videotape style.”

The delightfully pop-y and deceivingly sad love song, “Misery,” is a direct reference to the movie of the same name starring Kathy Bates and James Caan. The band says it is about how the ones that treat you the best and admire you the most tend to hurt you the worst.

The most defining lyrics being, “Don’t get caught up in your love/No, no, no,” and, “Have you seen Misery? Do you know what I mean?/Kathy Bates taking shots at someone she loves.”

and short interviews, all shot in 8MM video format. This has made it so that the band was able to completely selfrelease, while simultaneously celebrating other music acts.

“I am pretty thrilled with the activity in the music scene,” says Merriman. “I love Dog Rifle and Lather Machine!”

As for the future? The Ex-Rippers already have another EP recorded and ready to release in May. They also plan on coming out with a fulllength album and touring after the summer when the weather is comfortable.

“In the future, I wouldn’t mind continuing to enjoy nights on Thomas’ porch just hanging out and listening to records and dancing. I love hanging out with these guys,” says Elorduy.

Merriman seconds that comment while adding, “Also, just musically growing with each other. I have learned so much about music in the course of a year by working with this group.”

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“Essentially, we would really like to be the next E Street Band in like eight years,” Castillo says only semi-joking.

The band, despite their diverse music palettes and backgrounds, come together to build a beautifully cohesive body of work. It has a dusty garage feel that is romantic and cool.

The EP opens up with the song “In This Life,” a lightweight, melancholy jammer about the reality of one’s own existence—a heavy subject that makes for pleasurable listening. The songs starts with, “Do you ever wonder what it’d be like to be someone else?/You know you don’t have to be yourself.”

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The lyrics are looped over some tight, cascading guitar riffs and illuminating drum beats.

“Misery” is a personal favorite of bassist Navarro, because, he says, “I like the the musical changes in it and I think that Julian’s lyrics pair with the music perfect and provide great mental imagery.” It should be noted that this is the first band Navarro has ever been in, and he actually learned how to play bass from being in the band. He kills it on the EP, and holds his own in the experienced group.

Elorduy also has a mini-media empire of his own called Obsolete Media under which The Ex-Rippers are releasing Ex-Tra Natural. It’s an enterprise that does small tape runs, sets up shows, does write-ups for bands and has a little YouTube channel that features local live performances

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Strange Days

National Geographic Photographer Jodi Cobb Looks Back on Groundbreaking 40-Year Career Words Justin Cox • photos jodi cobb

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ith the windows blacked out in her Washington, D.C., office for the second straight day, Jodi Cobb was hunkered down at her computer, editing photos as one last snowstorm had its way with the city outside.

To get the color and composition just right, Cobb likes to eliminate all outside light.

The storm was underperforming, but it was enough to warrant sustained screen time in her personal cave.

“You can tell I haven’t been talking to people very much,” she said, noticeably acclimating to the back and forth of our phone conversation. “You’re the first person I’ve spoken to today. Maybe yesterday, too.”

Cobb was one of the first female photographers on staff at National Geographic, where she worked for about four decades.

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The magazine has only had four female staff photographers in its 125-plus year history. She’s currently two years into the editing process of a book project that will feature the best of her work from over the years.

Cobb will give a presentation called Stranger in a Strange Land, at the Mondavi Center in Davis on April 26. Similar to the book she’s currently working on, the talk is billed as a “whirlwind retrospective” of her 40-year career, which she spent exploring and photographing societies largely hidden from rest of the world.

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offers up intimate glimpses of the people who make it up.

“I’m less interested in photography as a form of self-expression,” she said. “I’ve always wanted to be sort of an interpreter of the human condition.”

Cobb attributes this to her childhood growing up as an American abroad in Iran, even if she didn’t know it was shaping her at the time.

“My childhood was spent trying to understand a culture that was very foreign to me,” she said. “My talk is called Stranger in a Strange Land because that’s how I’ve felt my entire life.”

When her family moved back to the United States as she entered high school, she realized she was constantly recounting stories from her childhood spent abroad. That led her to

journalism school at the University of Missouri, where she didn’t take a photography class until her final semester. She took a liking to the class, so her dad bought her a Nikon as a graduation gift. In short order, she returned to school for a master’s in photography.

As she took her first jobs out of college, Cobb dreamed of landing somewhere like Rolling Stone, which was young and culturally tuned in to her generation. National Geographic—which she respected, but described as being somewhat stodgy at the time—later assigned her a trial job in the Owens Valley of California. Her task was to capture seven photos that would be featured in someone else’s piece, but she ended up with a 30-page spread. And like that, her sprawling career was in motion.

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Going Places Cobb has photographed everything from geishas in Japan to Bedouin women in Saudi Arabia, as well as documented the tragedy of human trafficking in one of National Geographic’s most popular online pieces ever, “21st Century Slaves,” a story that was published before human trafficking began receiving the widespread attention it does today.

Over time, Cobb found that she was particularly drawn to global social issues and cultural traditions, particularly those pertaining to women.

She’s fascinated by the ways in which isolated cultures form their customs, and the ways in which we process them from the outside.

For example, the large disk-like lip plates worn by the Mursi women in Ethiopia are believed to be a tradition that has carried on since the days of “A good photograph is universal. The basic human instincts and slavery, when women were deliberately disfigured so as to be less attractive to passions and desires and wants and needs are the same all slave traders. The lip plates persist, even over the world. It startles me how alike people are.” though the reasons for the tradition have – Photographer Jodi Cobb largely waned.

Cobb is particularly struck by how many cultural traditions seem to maim, shipment was to get lost or damaged, or “Mainly because nobody told me how bind or inhibit the movement of women if the plane were to go down, the much easier it was,” she said. “I saved one in particular, citing Mursi lip plates and foot surviving package would still contain a of my cameras from every iteration. I used binding in China as just two examples. decent representation of the trip from start Nikons my whole life, since my dad gave “It’s only recently that there’s been this to finish. amazing cross-fertilization of cultures,” me one for college graduation.”

That massive archive of National Cobb said.

Not only has digital replaced film, but Geographic photos is what Cobb is currently it’s also blown up the whole industry, with navigating in her blacked-out apartment.

A Sh a r e d L a n g u a g e quality cameras now readily available on Slides, transparencies, black-and-whites cell phones and social networks that can “A good photograph is universal,” Cobb said. and more. deliver images to the world instantaneously.

“The basic human instincts and passions and “I could swear I’d never been to some of It’s a far cry from mailing out the odds and desires and wants and needs are the same these places until I saw the actual evidence!” evens in separate packages. all over the world. It startles me how alike she said of the archives. “Tastes have “People are telling their own stories people are.” changed so much in photography. Some of rather than having an outsider come in,” Her career has sent her to more than the things not chosen at the time are now she said simply, neither enthusiastic nor 65 countries and yielded 30 feature stories sort of fresh and interesting. Some that got bitter about it. “What we need now is in National Geographic. She estimates that picked have a dated feel.” curation. All of these pictures are out there, an average story, before things went digital, but what’s good? And what’s real?” required about 1,000 rolls of film.

Everybody’s a Cobb’s presentation at Mondavi Center The process in the early years was to P h o t o g r a ph e r is a chance for an audience to explore number every roll and then divide them Now, of course, everything is digital. Cobb four decades of world culture and human into two packages, one with the odd herself made the transition years ago, numbers and one with the evens, before history through her lens, from long trips to although she says she was one of the last mailing them across the world to the corners of the world shrouded in mystery to switch.

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Pressing Onward, Bouncing Back

Big Freedia poised to attack with renewed TV show, cookbook and national tour Words Andrew C. Russell • photo Koury Angelo

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Bounce ambassador, twerk azz-assin extraordinaire.

Yas gawd, from St. Claude to the Third Ward. The purveyor of pussypop, booty-whop and twerking so dangerous, they’ve been known to call the cops (more on this later).

A multifaceted performer imbued with the indomitable spirit of her birthplace and artistic stomping grounds in New Orleans, the artist born Freddie Ross has also shared with that city her fair share of tragedy and setbacks, only to re-emerge from the waters of despair once again as undisputed queen of her domain (and in this case the preferred pronoun is “she,” but she doesn’t put too fine a point on it. She lets people please themselves).

An in-depth chronicle of Freedia (pronounced “Free-duh” like Frida Kahlo) and her rise to international stardom can be found in the pages of her 2015 autobiography, God Save the Queen Diva!, which charts her beginnings navigating the bounce music scene (the dance oriented hip-hop offshoot sprung out of the NOLA region that gave birth to twerk as we know it). She started out in the late ‘90s under the tutelage of luminaries like Katey Red, the first trans performer in the genre, and by 2010 was becoming a word-of-mouth icon of ass-shaking empowerment across the country from appearances at major music festivals and videos like “Y’all Get Back Now,” which shows her in true form—larger than life, stomping through the city skyline with her twerk team, enthralling people of all backgrounds and granting them the power to let it all go.

The next four years saw Freedia’s full-scale invasion of the media, with an appearance on HBO’s post-Katrina drama Treme, several short-form documentaries on Pitchfork.tv and the debut of her acclaimed FUSE TV show, Big Freedia: Queen of Bounce, which introduced the world to both her onstage and off-stage families,

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including her radiant mother, Vera Ross, who sadly passed away from cancer in 2014. Meanwhile, Freedia’s star continued to rise, bringing tribulation as well as triumph.

Early last year, one of her shows in Mississippi was preemptively shut down by a Taliban-esque state organization known as Mississippi Alcohol Beverage Control, which rolls in to bust heads whenever the dangerous convergence of liquor and nasty dancing appears. Still, the Freedia machine took the publicity in stride (there’s still some T-shirts for sale referencing the event as “Twerkloose”).

Another roadblock shot up a few months later, when she was brought into court for accepting federal housing vouchers for some time after leaving the required income bracket behind. Narrowly avoiding jail time, she had no time to slow down, and by the end of the year had done a bounced-out commercial for a local law office, and dropped a present on the world in the form of her Christmas album, on which you can learn from Rudy the big-booty-reindeer how to “make it jingle.”

Always up-to-the-minute, Freedia’s biggest moment is always the next one. Now, her profile has exploded with a guest spot on Beyonce’s biggest release to date, Lemonade. There’s also a cookbook in the works—sure to be stuffed with down-home Louisiana favorites. She acknowledges some of the turbulence in her rise to fame in the new title of her TV show for it’s sixth season, Big Freedia Bounces Back, and the title of her forthcoming album, Pressing Onward, but despite the dips and turns in the journey, the queen diva shows no signs of slowing down. On April 26, she’ll appear at Harlow’s, giving Sactown the chance to experience the force of nature that is her live show.

During a recent interview, we talked to Freedia about her positive philosophy, her various passions and the power of bounce.

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30 How would you describe the new titles of your around the world. And I’m very excited about work, Pressing Onward and Bouncing Back ? it because I have a passion for cooking, and it Well, you know there was some things that takes time to do it, but it comes so effortless, I went through last year, or whatever ... But so I’m just excited about the whole journey of I’m not letting anything stop me. Through the cookbook, so people can see how I like to adversity is the light that come ... and I’ll never get down in the kitchen. fall off with anything—I’ll bounce back even harder and stronger from all those things that What can people learn from Big Freedia and I went through, and just continue to move from New Orleans itself about bouncing back? forward, stay in a positive mind-frame, keep They can learn from the culture out here. You positive energy all around me. When you have know, we all bounced back from Katrina, which all the positive things around you, all the was something very hard. We’re a familynegative things can’t help but fall off. What oriented city, and we love to help each other I want people to take away from my show is out, and we know how to get through change to be able to go through their everyday lives and rough times, the adversities of life. People and know that, whoever we may be, we'll all can learn from where we’ve been in general go through things in our lives that we can because we’ve all gone through something get through. My strength that can allow us to help “My strength helps people someone else in their helps people get through some of their everyday life get through some of their journey, to help them situations, you know, being everyday life situations, bounce back. out and being gay, losing my you know, being out and If you had to quit twerking mom, dealing with family being gay, losing my mom, today, which of your issues, career issues, taking on things that some people dealing with family issues, side passions would you feel are impossible; the career issues, taking on concentrate on? strength I show being on TV Probably my interior things that some people design, because that’s can help the people to see feel are impossible; the these things. It encourages my other passion. But them to know that anything strength I show being on between that and my is possible, especially where restaurant that I’m TV can help the people I come from. working on, something to see these things, it along that line. But most Is it hard to keep your circle encourages them to know likely it would be the tight at this level of fame? that anything is possible.” interior design, because Sometimes it gets a little I get to bring so much – Big Freedia on the wild, because some people joy to people. That and upcoming season of have a wild mind-frame, or cooking both bring people they’re not seeing the vision Big Freedia Bounces Back. joy. Bringing people food of where you’re trying to go. full of soul—anything that But it’s important to have your family support, still helps people to get through their everyday which is my biggest support, and that’s the lives and give them some type of happiness main goal for me, making sure that my circle stays kinda small, and keeping the people What is next for Big Freedia: Queen of Bounce ? that’ve been around me for awhile. Even Any big changes in the next season? though I’ve been through some changes within Well, you’re gonna have to watch the show, myself, I still keep things very positive and see what’s happening this year. You know I very professional. can’t give out too much but this new season is going to be juicy and hotter than ever. We Do you think bounce music could go are exploring new things, I’m in a different international? Do you think it already has? mind-frame and a different income bracket in Well, I think it’s already on that stream, you my career, I’m elevating to the next level, and know, I’ve been to a lot of countries, I’ve been I’m steady working super hard, so it’ll be juicy to just about every state in the U.S. It’s steady and hot, and everybody’s gonna be glued to on its journey, it’s steady on its ride. There is the TV. Trust me. some places that I do want to go to, continue to meet the music and the culture, so yeah, I How should first-timers prepare for your want it to go as big as it can go. Yes, I want performance out here? to see them in Tokyo bouncing, I want to see Just be ready to experience something really them in Africa bouncing, I want to see them awesome, and wear something loose for y’all in places where people don’t think that it will to come dance in. Just come down, and we reach. So I’m still on my path to keep opening will bring that door. everybody Experience Big Freedia for together yourself on Wednesday, April What can you tell us about your through the 26 at Harlow’s, located at new cookbook? power of ass.

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The Onus of Being Nick Offerman

Actor and Comedian Brings One-Man Show to Cap City Comedy Weekend Words Ryan J. Prado photo Shayd Johnson

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n an era where ubiquitousness is as necessary for an entertainer as actually being talented, a guy like Nick Offerman has a lot going for him all at once. The beloved, deadpan, multidisciplinary actor has parlayed his post-Parks and Recreation role as the now-iconic Ron Swanson into a rollercoaster of film gigs (his portrayal of Dick McDonald in The Founder was exceptional), multiple viral video campaigns (have you seen the yule log video of a silent Offerman drinking whiskey in front of a fireplace for 45 minutes?) and a steady stream of live performances with and without his wife Megan Mullally of Will and Grace fame.

Despite that dizzying omnipresence, Offerman’s stranglehold on the pantheon of the uber-American male is anchored in a kind of modesty. Viewers of his Netflix special American Ham will remember Offerman’s steady barbs delivered with eloquent―if not raunchy―poise, always through a piercing, stoic gaze.

As more of a one-man show than a stand-up comedy special, Offerman deals in hilarious folk-country ditties he’s written, expounding upon the voracity of his middle-aged sex life, and extolling the virtues of living a prosperous, handcrafted life away from the trappings of modern technology. His is a message of salvation from the ultra-progressive pathos, despite Offerman’s off-stage liberal leanings.

In short, Nick Offerman is probably the most likeable personality in the United States right now, and he seems to be enjoying every second of it. He’s also somehow still able to spend most of his time woodworking at his East Los Angeles woodworker’s collective, the Offerman Woodshop.

Offerman’s well-known affinity for working with his hands is even being utilized for an upcoming NBC reality competition series dubbed The Handmade Project, in a reunion with with Parks and Recreation star Amy Poehler.

And things don’t appear to be slowing down anytime soon. On May 19, Epix will air a recording of one of Offerman and Mullally’s performances from their 2016 tour, Summer of 69: No Apostrophe.

Offerman and Mullally also recently obtained the film rights to the best-selling George Saunders book Lincoln in the Bardo, after Offerman was part of the narration team for the audiobook.

When Submerge caught up with Offerman, he was in the passenger’s seat with his dad at the wheel, driving from Kalamazoo, Michigan, to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for a gig. The two turned the Midwest dates into a father-son road trip, and if that doesn’t convince you of the Offerman appeal, then I just don’t know what more to say. Offerman will headline Cap City Comedy’s Weekend of Unlimited Laughs along with David Koechner (Saturday Night Live, Anchorman) Sunday, April 23 at Memorial Auditorium.

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Last year you were touring the country with your wife Megan Mullally on the Summer of 69: No Apostrophe show, and I understand your show in Sacramento is solo. Could you talk a bit about the pros and cons of performing solo as opposed to performing with another person— especially your wife—on stage in a comedy show.

It depends on who you can get to be your other person. In my case, my other person is incredibly beautiful and sings better than any angel I’ve heard. That takes a great deal of pressure off of me. Many people have seen our show together and were surprised to hear I was on stage with her. That’s preferable. When I’m alone, there’s a lot more onus on me to entertain the crowd and carry the show. So Megan and I, we’re kind of like an old-fashioned showbiz couple, where we have a great rapport between us, and we sing a lot of songs together.

When I’m alone I get more personal, where it’s my own singular philosophy, morphed into a sense of humor, interlaced with much more mediocre-sounding music.

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Julian Lage & Chris Eldridge | Aoife O’Donovan > The latter is much more likely. A list like that never really shrinks, although there is one I’ll weigh in on. I think it might have been number four, and that was “Eat red meat.” I still very mondaviarts.org much enjoy red meat, but I’m older now and I’ve come to realize in conversations with my cardiologist that my circulatory system is not that of a fictional comedy character, but in fact exists in the real world. So I might amend number four to “Eat red meat … on occasion.” In this day and age, I could probably tour another show with a second 10 tips that would all just involve good manners, and standing by one’s word. “Don’t grab people in the genitals.” Things Submerge that you would think would be obvious, but DUE: Production: Erin Kelley 530.754.5427 apparently not everyone knows these points of Run: APR 10, 2017 etiquette. No. 17: Spend a weekend at the White House once in awhile instead of golfing. There’s 4.8 h x 5.5 w a great tip for success.

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Did you have any additional information you wanted folks in Sacramento to know about your show?

I’m terribly excited; I haven’t played Sacramento before, and looking at the weather patterns and my own improving health situation, the Sacramento show will be the pinnacle of my touring career. So I wouldn’t miss it if I were them.

Cap City Comedy’s Weekend of Unlimited Laughs will run from April 21–23 at venues around town including Punch Line and The Comedy Spot.

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What can you tell me about the new reality competition series that yourself and Amy Poehler have in the works, The Handmade Project? Is Amy experienced in the handmade world?

Well, I’m really excited about the show. It’s a really fun celebration of people who make things with their hands. Those are my favorite kind of people, so to do this show on a big platform

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Submerge covers a lot of music, locally and nationally, and with music being a big part of your performances, I wondered what you most enjoy listening to that maybe people may not expect? I know you’re a big fan of Wilco …

My dad used to listen to this radio station when I was a kid called WJJB, and they played old oldies from the ‘30s and ‘40s. Being down in his basement shop, where the wood stove also was, it gives me very warm memories connecting working in the shop to the Mills Brothers. I still listen to the Mills Brothers a lot, and the Andrews Sisters, and other similar acts that weren’t related to each other. It’s interesting because Megan’s band Nancy and Beth, she also loves that kind of music, so they do a couple of Mills Brothers songs that I find quite fetching. I also love jazz, specifically John Coltrane and Thelonius Monk—they get a lot of play at the woodshop.

There’s an early hip-hop side to my catalog.

The Greatest Hits of Kool and the Gang is one of our favorite records in the shop. It’s very rousing music, so after lunch when we feel like we’re ready for a nap, we put on Kool and the Gang and that gets us bouncing back over to the table saw. Also in that category would be the Gap Band, the Dazz Band, Parliament, Sly and the Family Stone. Old-school funk, I guess. Also the early records of The Meters from New Orleans; their stuff really gets my fanny bumping.

like NBC thrills me to death. When I’m touring, I always include as part of my spiel encouraging people to get off their phones and their video games and make things with their hands. It’s a much better way to say “I love you” to your friends and family than showing them your high score on Call of Duty. The show was the idea of Amy and her production company, which means it’s going to be way better than if I was in charge. I’m really excited to see how it turns out, and I’m very grateful that they invited me to be a cheerleader on the show. I love meeting people who are exceptionally talented, and I love the notion that we’re going to encourage a large audience to make things, because that makes us better citizens.

Amy is a self-proclaimed novice when it comes to crafting, but she’s a huge fan. She’s always been surrounded by people making things. So she has said she’s really excited to have this close-up view of the ingenuity of crafting people, and undoubtedly some of it will rub off. I’m sure she’ll be making quilts for everybody by Christmas.

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So you and your dad are doing the traditional road trip kind of thing? Stopping in little towns and stuff?

Yeah, I have a show tonight, so Dad had a beer for lunch and he let me have one sip of it. It was an Irish stout, and it was the highlight of my day so far.

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Dive Bar Dueling Pianos, 9 p.m.

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Goldfield Michigan Rattlers, 7 p.m.

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Louie’s Cocktail Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m.

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On The Y Karaoke, 10 p.m.

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Powerhouse Pub Locked & Loaded, 9:30 p.m.

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Dorrian Foster & Friends, April 12, 8 p.m.

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UC Davis Picnic Day, April 22, 9 a.m.

Verge Center for the Arts Getting Out There: Promote, Develop, and Market Your Art and Your Brand, April 19, 6 p.m.

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We Need to Taco

Teleporting to Mexico in Midtown’s Cantina Alley Words Niki Kangas • photos evan e. duran

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idtown just got even better. The long-awaited Cantina Alley, located in Jazz Alley right behind Skool and the soon-tocome Flamingo House, has opened its beautiful wooden doors. Although they’ve done no marketing outside of social media and have yet to announce their grand opening, they are packed wall to wall each day with chill, happy patrons.

Opened by partners Max Archuleta and Art Aguilar, Cantina Alley is more than a restaurant. It instills a sentiment with an atmospheric experience that harkens vacation, relaxation and a slower pace of life.

And it evokes memories of Mexico.

“We’ve had an overwhelming response from the community.

We’ve noticed people coming here aren’t in a big hurry, they’re happy hanging out and enjoying themselves,” says Archuleta of the overwhelming response to the soft opening.

A mural by Shaun Burner and Miguel Perez, inspired by Mexican artist Jorge Gonzalez Camarena, sprawls on the outside wall of the cantina, which was a new construction from the ground up that took much longer than anticipated; the opening had been slated for November 2016. Their soft opening took place on March 16, and their upcoming grand opening block party will take place on Cinco de Mayo. For now, they’re opening at 3 p.m. to get their staff trained before it gets crazy, and soon they’ll be open for lunch, brunch, and

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have happy hour specials wherein, between 2 and 4 p.m., you’ll get a free botana, or little Mexican appetizer, when you buy a drink. The ingredients of the food are locally sourced, and the tortillas made fresh every day. Their chef, Angel Sienfuegos, seeks to reveal the variety of Mexican street food.

“We wanted to showcase food from Mexico. It’s not just one kind of food in Mexico,” says Archuleta. “Typically what you get in Mexican restaurants is food from just one area. A lot of people don’t realize that Mexican food is vast, and much like the U.S., the food in the South is different from the food back East, which is different from the food on the West Coast. We are doing a small menu of street food inspired fare, and we’re focusing on different regions throughout the year. There’s a small menu that stays the same throughout the year, but throughout the year, we want to highlight food from certain regions.”

The beer scene in Mexico is experiencing a renaissance, too, as is true in the United States. Burgeoning craft brewers are creating a wide range of beer styles throughout Mexico, but it’s not easy to find these brews in the U.S. Cantina Alley is the only restaurant in Northern California that is offering as many Mexican craft beers as they do—in fact, they have to go through a Southern California distributor to get their hands on them. When I visited Cantina Alley, there were five different Mexican craft beers on draft: two IPAs, a Saison, a Stout and a Pilsner. They also have about 15 different Mexican bottled beers.

“That’s the fun part of the job, a little research and development,” smiles Archuleta. “We’ve gone to Mexico six or seven times in the last few years to do our homework. We found some great breweries down there.”

And their cocktail menu, again, showcases the range of what Mexican spirits have to offer. “It’s not just tequila in Mexico.

“A lot of people don’t realize that Mexican food is vast, and much like the U.S., the food in the South is different from the food back East, which is different from the food on the West Coast. We are doing a small menu of street food inspired fare, and we’re focusing on different regions throughout the year.” - Cantina Alley’s Max Archuleta on highlighting the diversity of Mexican food with the restaurant’s menu.

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Mezcal has become really popular, too. We want to match our drinks with the different regional foods and marry them together. A new hire we have is Oscar Escobar, we brought him in from Mayahuel, and he’s one of the most well-versed people in the area on Mexican liquor. He’s expanded our drink menu.”

Explains Escobar, “I’m certified in tequilas, mezcales and distilled agave by the consul that regulates tequila in Mexico. I’ve been working in town for about 10 years creating successful drink programs. I worked for Celestin’s back in the day, and I worked at Azul which is where I really started getting creative. People were like, ‘Why are you putting chili in the drinks?’ and I was all, ‘Just let me do it!’ and right off the bat it became really popular. And I worked at Mayahuel for about six years. Here at Cantina Alley, there is a lot of passion, to showcase Mexico at its best.” Their cocktail program includes a hibiscus mezcal cocktail, and a margarita made with just 100% blue agave, fresh squeezed lime juice and agave nectar.

I ordered the taco arrachera with arrachera meat, onions, cilantro and a soy sauce marinade, and it arrived at our table briskly. The meat was tender, juicy and spicy, and the handmade flour tortilla was slightly crispy while retaining doughiness. The Baja fish taco with huachinango, a house white sauce, mango avocado salsa, and a jalapeno cilantro salsa was mouthwatering and wonderful. The red snapper was cooked to an outer crisp, and flavorful and juicy when you sink your teeth in. The jalapeno cilantro salsa gave it a pleasant kick.

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commented that something with beans and sauteed vegetables might be more flavorful and protein-rich. Another vegetarian offering at Cantina Alley is their elote, which is an ear of corn with mayo cream, cotija cheese and Mexican spices, and next time I go—and I most certainly will return many times—I’ll be ordering this for sure.

A hand-drawn chalkboard sign lists the rotating craft brews on draft. In the spirit of getting a good feel of slowed down patio life, we tried four out of the five available drafts. The Perro Del Mar IPA was a bit more malty than hoppy, rich and sweet. The Astillero IPA was effervescent, bright, hoppy and refreshing. The surprisingly well-executed Hann Zomer Saison was a contender with its Belgian counterparts, and the Sirena Pilsner was a crisp, fresh beer that would be perfect for sipping in the hot Sacramento summer sun.

In sum, the food was bomb, I mean, really, really good. But what really shines at Cantina Alley is that good patio sunshine. And the palpable passion that went into creating the experience, as well as the camaraderie amongst the management, the staff, and the patrons. It’s only going to get better. Archuleta discloses, “We want to work with the other businesses, Biergarten, Golden Bear, Flamingo House, possibly Tres Hermanas, to do some street closures, maybe a summer kick-off party.”

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The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

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April is Amazon pilot season, which is the super secret and strange process by which Amazon lets you watch and vote on the TV pilots they’re considering for a full-season order. While Amazon doesn’t say exactly how influential the voting system is in their decision, or even whether or not Putin has a hand in hacking this one, it’s fun to be a small part of the process.

So with that in mind, I watched this year’s five pilots with my girlfriend to see which have the best “Amazon and chill” vibes, which is just like “Netflix and chill,” but you know, on Amazon (if you don’t know what “Netflix and chill” means, have your grandchildren explain it to you).

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The Legend of Master Legend (30 min/Comedy)

Girlfriend’s verdict: This is lame.

It doesn’t start well. It’s the future, things look ugly in a sort of cross between Alien and Mad Max, and that’s not the worst of it—within minutes, there’s a ham-handed call to Judeo-Christianity as the solution to all of their problems. Everyone’s sexuality is their own, but dystopian futures and the Bible don’t do it for me. As the plot unwinds, it gets better, but it’s still not great. With so much good sci-fi out recently, this one is pretty low on the list.

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Girlfriend’s verdict: It’s entertaining and I like the female empowerment aspect. It’s so hard being a woman in comedy—even now.

Look, this is probably a wellmeaning show, and it was developed by a group of people who should be trusted for good TV (Amy Sherman-Palladino of Gilmore Girls and Daniel Palladino from Family Guy) and while it evokes the same sort of visual nostalgia that shows like Mad Men and Boardwalk Empire exploit, none of these are the reason it’s so good. This pilot is really funny, awfully warm-hearted and incredibly well-written. I hope it gets picked up even though comedy is terrible to make out to.

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Girlfriend’s verdict: This is really ugly.

I don’t like hating on someone else’s art, but it takes a lot of effort to refrain here. “Amazon and chill”wise, this one is pretty effective birth control. We actually laughed a lot, but the cringe-worthy moments were so cringe-y, and the un-funny parts were so wooden that it kind of undid the funny by the end, and the line blurred between laughing with and at the jokes. I think Amazon is going after the Rick and Morty crowd, but they don’t quite get there. The genius of Rick and Morty is that the framework allows for literally anything to happen, which doesn’t translate well to a cartoon that takes place within the walls of some big corporation.

Girlfriend’s verdict: The music is really good and it really has something profound to offer.

Watch this pilot. Real-talk, it’s probably terrible for “Amazon and chilling,” but that’s only because it’s really worth the watch! This is about a guy who puts it all out on the line to do the right thing as a real-life homemade vigilante superhero, and gets ruined for it. A broken marriage, a storage unit for a living space and a failing handyman business is what he gets for being idealistic. He’s a laughing stock, but we love him for it. If this show gets picked up, we’re all in for another big deal cult show like Stranger Things or Breaking Bad.

Budding Prospects (30 min/Comedy)

Girlfriend’s verdict: We hardly watched this one, I can’t even tell you what it’s about.

This is sort of Silicon Valley awkwardness meets High Maintenance drug culture jokes.

Perfect make-out material, I had to watch it again when I was alone so I’d have something to write here. As a personal complaint, we spend the entire pilot in San Francisco, but the breadth of the series presumably takes place in the woods. It feels like clumsy TV writing and doesn’t exactly instill the kind of confidence you’d like to have in your storyteller to completely give up and dive in, but the jokes are funny enough and the on-screen chemistry of actors seems to work well. Even without much of an idea what this show would look like. This show could do for our generation what Marvin Gaye did for our parents.

Amazon pilot season ends April 30.

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the shallow end Perhaps this scene is familiar in your own home: “Hey, what are you watching?” I asked my wife innocently.

“This Is Us,” she quietly replied while pensively hugging a cup of coffee close.

“Oh,” I said. “How is it?”

She didn’t answer right away. She took a thoughtful sip.

“It’s really good,” she said.

I made room for myself on the couch and sat down next to her. She was quiet. I was quiet. I made a couple of snarky comments to break the palpable silence. We snickered … Sort of. But there was really no escaping it. This Is Us is probably the most frightening show on television.

I kind of miss the days when horror movies used to scare me. They still do, in the moment. I jump and scream like a teenage girl at all those cringe-y “boo!” moments, but they don’t linger in my brain like they used to. My first horror movie, Poltergeist, freaked me out so much that I had a hard time going to the bathroom by myself for weeks after. The Exorcist freaked me out so bad that I’d stay

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awake until the sun came up and it felt safe to go to sleep. And even later in life, Ju-on: The Grudge left me with a sticky feeling of dread that I couldn’t shake for days after.

It’s OK to be afraid of ghosts and demons, though, because there’s a good chance these things don’t exist (though my superstitions won’t allow me to write them off entirely).

Supernatural entities are safe to be afraid of, because you’re probably never going to encounter one, and if you do, then the solution is simple: just run or douse yourself in holy water or whatever. I mean, it’s really all you can do. This Is Us is a much more difficult kind of scary.

First off, and this is just generally speaking, but emotions are scary. Like, seriously, feelings are just too much to bear sometimes.

Especially when you’re just trying to spend a lazy Saturday afternoon, lounging around in your pajama pants and streaming stuff on Hulu. You’re not looking to feel anything. Like, if you wanted to feel something, you would have decided to put on real pants and leave the house. Instead, you chose the warmth and security of putting off reality for as long as you

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So there you are, just sitting there, trying to be a robo-zombie, and then you get the first twinge of emotion. For example, you have Sterling K. Brown trying to keep his anxiety at bay while dealing with his high-pressure job, his familial obligations and his biological father suffering through terminal cancer. If that wasn’t enough, you see flashbacks of Mandy Moore and Milo Ventimiglia’s relationship before he passed away. You see them be happy, or sad, or struggle with whatever, but you know in the present that the dude is dead and you’re like, just cherish what you have, god damn it! It’s not going to last forever!!!

And then you look over at your spouse and—if Eeyore is your spirit animal, like he is for me—you realize that this is going to happen to you one day.

Sure, it may not be today or even for another 20 years or so, but it’s inevitable. There’s no escaping this. Sort of like that ghost lady from Ju-on, once you step foot in that house, you’re a goner, and that little blue boy is going to find you even if you’re having lunch with your friend in a crowded

restaurant in broad daylight.

And then I realize that I’m 12 years older than my spouse, and that I’m probably going to be the one to go first. Her hobby is yoga; mine is whiskey. And then I think, yeah, I’m probably going to go first, but doesn’t that mean I’m the one who’s getting off easy? That is if we’re the lucky ones who make it to the whole “‘til death do we part” thing. She’s going to be saddled with my final expenses and soldiering on alone after being married for so many years. I mean, even the title of the show, This Is Us, it’s telling you all this shit is going to happen to you at some point. It’s fucking frightening.

So, I guess what I’m saying is watch it at your own risk, especially if you’re like me and live with a perpetual rain cloud hovering above your head.

Look at the bright side and remember that Netflix’s revival of Mystery Science Theater 3000 is due to debut on April 14, and that show is so goofy and silly that there’s surely nothing bad that could come from watching that—until you remember that the show last aired in 1999, which was 18 fucking years ago. Oh, is there anything that will halt the cruel march of Time?!

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