Submerge Magazing: Issue 242 (June 18 - July 3, 2017) by Submerge Magazine

Dive into Sacramento & its Surrounding Areas June 19 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; July 3, 2017

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Here at Submerge, we love and take great pride in highlighting some of best arts/ entertainment taking place in our city. As you likely know, we mostly focus on Sacramento and its surrounding areas. Other than Sacramento, we also love to sprinkle in coverage of things happening up north in places like Nevada City, down south in the towns around the Delta, west to Davis and towns east of Sacramento like Folsom and Placerville. There’s a good amount of things happening in the outlying towns that we feel deserve coverage as well, but there aren’t a ton of outlets offering it. I’d say 99.8 percent of the time, we cover what I just described as our region and rarely cover events happening in the Bay Area, mostly because I feel like there are a lot of magazines, newspapers and blogs that do a good job of focusing on that area already. But, on the super-rare occasion, we’ve jumped on the opportunity to interview artists to preview Bay Area events, like bands playing Outside Lands, Noise Pop, Treasure Island, etc. In our current issue, we are beyond excited to have an interview with comedian, television host and super nerd, Chris Hardwick! We set this one up because he’s organizing and hosting the first ever ID10T Music Festival and Comic Conival on June 24 and 25 at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View. I’ve been a huge fan of Hardwick for years. To age myself, I even remember when he co-hosted MTV’s Singled Out. However, I think he is really in his prime right now with his hilarious show @midnight on Comedy Central; his in-depth, dissectionlike cult shows Talking Bad, Talking Dead and Talking Saul on AMC; and his weekly Nerdist podcast, which is one of my favorite podcasts to listen to as of late. Considering how busy Hardwick is, I was surprised we were able to snag some time with him for this issue. You can read our Q&A with him starting on page 18. Don’t worry, the rest of the features in this issue are super regional. First, we have an interview with one of our favorite local bands, Sunmonks. They just released their new album, Two Play, on June 15 and will be one of the many bands performing for free on June 24 at the R Street Block Party and Maker’s Mart. Our writer sat down with Sunmonks this past month to talk about their musical upbringing, different genres, how they sometimes get labeled as “world music” and how they achieved such great brass sounds on their new album. Read up starting on page 22. On June 24, at the block party mentioned above, you’ll also be able to support some of the best regional artisans. A favorite amongst many is Megan Taber of Among the Flowers, a modern-day beauty apothecary line that was formerly called Fig + Moss. Our writer caught up with Taber to discuss the opening of her new shop in Placerville, Midnight Kin; how she utilizes natural resources collected from her land located between Camino and Pleasant Valley to create her products; and how she partnered with the retailer Urban Outfitters. Learn more about this successful local entrepreneur starting on page 20. While we unfortunately don’t always have room to do large features and interviews with bands around their EP or album release, when they’re really good, we are just forced to feature them a few months late. Damn space constraints! Anyways, we’re so stoked to feature another one of our favorite new local bands in this issue, Sunday School. Learn about this young band starting on page 14 and be sure to see them for free at Concerts in the Park at Cesar Chavez Plaza on June 30. Enjoy the reads, –Melissa

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On Wednesday, June 14, Mayor Darrell Steinberg held a rally of sorts to make a series of announcements that promised to “ignite Sacramento’s arts and culture scene,” according to a flier promoting the event. A crowd of a couple hundred local artists, city leaders, street performers and arts enthusiasts gathered outside the Warehouse Artist Lofts on R Street, Sacramento’s current hot-spot for arts and nightlife. After some introductions and performances, Mayor Steinberg took to the mic and got down to business. “We aren’t just the capital city, we’re a city bursting with capital,” he exclaimed. “We are in the process of establishing a new identity, our own identity, that maintains all of the things that have made Sacramento great, but says we intend to grow. We intend to thrive. We intend to be modern. And we intend to make this a destination city. A big part of doing so is to continue to reinforce and to build our reputation as an arts and cultural mecca.” Over the next 30-or-so minutes Mayor Steinberg would go on to make six announcements relating to local arts, some of it new news, some of it stuff he’s talked about in the past that we frankly expected to hear. Anywho, here goes … Announcement One: Steinberg wants to “re-stimulate and encourage the art of busking in Sacramento.” In other words, he wants to see more street performers around the City of Trees. “It is a protected first amendment right to speak, to perform, to demonstrate and to share,” he said, pointing out that S.M.A.C. (or Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission, more on them later) now has an ad hoc committee co-chaired by David Sobon and Cecily Hastings, who will work with would-be local buskers to create a set of guidelines for street performers in Sacramento, and bring them back to the city to get things rolling. Announcement Two: The city will increase contributions to S.M.A.C. over the next two years to the tune of $500,000. “Unfortunately, during the recession, the city had to cut back its contribution to S.M.A.C. and as such, to our arts community,” Steinberg said. “These were

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very tough times, but today we begin to fix that.” The Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission is a long-standing public agency that supports, promotes and advances the arts in the region. Learn more about all of the important work they do at Sacmetroarts.org. Announcement Three: The Mayor wants to put a heavy focus on arts education in city schools. “We’re going to ask S.M.A.C. to take as much of that increase as possible and to work with our school district partners, work with the broader community and let’s develop not only a road map, but the beginning of implementation in a much more robust arts education in our city schools,” he said. “We must take this issue of arts education seriously.” Announcement Four: The application period for the Creative Economy Pilot Project, which we have previously reported on in Submerge, is officially open. This city initiative has allotted $500,000 (that’s in addition to the S.M.A.C. budget increase!) and will give out micro-grants up to $5,000 and larger grants up to $25,000 to “support projects such as pop-up events, art installations and street performances in Sacramento’s neighborhoods,” according to Steinberg. He urged local artists to “please apply,” adding that, “This will enable us to test, experiment and inform future city investments in arts, culture and economic development.” Visit Innovatesac.org to learn more about the guidelines and to apply for a grant. The deadline is July 30, 2017. Announcement Five: The city and its partners are going to create a concrete, tangible “Cultural Plan,” or as Steinberg put it, “a blueprint for strategic investments in arts and culture here in Sacramento.” He went on to say, “The blueprint cultural plan will help us get the data for where to invest, how to build cases to leverage by the way corporate and personal philanthropy. We shouldn’t spend public dollars unless it’s matched in most instances two or three to one, especially when it comes to destination Sacramento.” And finally, Announcement Six: The city

has hired a new “arts leader,” Jonathon Glus, who for the last 10 years has been the president and CEO of the Houston Arts Alliance in Houston, Texas, and before that ran an arts program in Pasadena, California. “This is a big one because, you know, it takes leaders to implement the vision,” Steinberg said. “We have successfully lured him back to California with an opportunity to create an arts capital right here in Sacramento.” “Who says we don’t steal jobs from Texas?” joked the mayor. Glus will be on board in mid-July to “help shape the arts and cultural plan and to build on all that we are celebrating here today,” according to the mayor. Our new arts leader, Jonathon Glus, then said a few words about a recent visit to Sacramento and how much the city has changed (for the better) since he was last here many years ago. “This town is amazing. The energy is unbelievable,” Glus said. “It is a gem, and arts and culture are the soul of it. I am so privileged to have the opportunity to work with you all to advance our city.” After the mayor wrapped things up by giving a key to the city to legislator, lobbyist, activist and longtime supporter of the arts, Dennis Mangers, I caught up with local musician Dean Haakenson, who happened to be standing right next to me during the entire event, to see what he thought about everything the mayor had said. “I think arts education is really important,” Haakenson said. “I grew up in Citrus Heights and there wasn’t a lot of funding in arts, and I wish that there would have been. I didn’t get to play music until after high school … It was nice to see all our regional leaders here, I liked it a lot.” We’ll do our best to keep Submerge readers informed of future developments with the Creative Economy Pilot Project, the mayor’s push for arts education in local schools, what our new arts leader Jonathon Glus is up to and more. Feel free to email us with any news tips, thoughts, questions, ideas, rants, etc., to info@submergemag.com or find us on social media (@SubmergeMag) and message us on there.

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Bocephus Chigger bocephus@submergemag.com Something is definitely amiss. This whole Trump/Russia thing is not going away for the president and it seems only to get worse by the day. The entire country is waiting with baited breath to find out if Trump and Vladimir Putin are conspiring to destroy the United States. It certainly seems that way with the picks Trump has made to run his various government agencies so far, but he is not a very bright man, so maybe the Donald just picks shitty people. He has been doing that for years on The Apprentice, so I guess it’s sort of to be expected at this point. The funny thing is, I was almost starting to believe there was no grand scheme going on here. The man is incapable of having a coherent thought and speaks in free-flowing micro rants, so how can he be expected to pull off espionage of this caliber? Our political system is certainly a mess right now, but it has weathered more than its share of idiots like Trump. He almost had me convinced until I saw something that changed my mind. Salt was on TV the other day, and it got me to thinking about Trump. In the movie, Angelina Jolie plays a spy named Evelyn Salt who works for the CIA. At least that is what we are led to believe until it is shown that Salt is actually a Russian spy. It turns out that she was raised in Russia and trained from a young age for her mission: to kill the president of the United States and take over the country for Mother Russia! There are more plot twists to follow and a lot of ass kicking, but you get the idea, so there is no need to ruin the rest of the movie for Trump’s sake. Now I am not saying Trump is Evelyn Salt exactly. Salt was better trained, more disciplined, smarter, stronger and more politically savvy than Donald Trump could ever hope to be. Trump also hasn’t killed the president, but he has murdered the level of respect for the office of the presidency. Given his foibles, I’d say Trump is more like Baby Salt, or better yet, Lightly Salted, but he may share parts of his background story with Salt. Trump may have been secretly trained in Russia by the KGB where he met his friend Vladimir Putin. Unlike Salt, the Russians didn’t raise Trump to be a sleeper spy. He was not

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a child when the KGB got to him, but Trump does have the mind of a child, so he was easy to brainwash anyway. The KGB probably picked him up on one of his many trips to Russia in search of ever-younger, prettier wives. I imagine that Putin psychologically tortured him with things like stair-step machines, pictures of Rosie O’Donnell, bald heads and repeatedly being called a loser. Trump’s feeble mind wouldn’t stand a chance to that level of abuse for long. The KGB probably cracked his head wide open like an egg and filled it with hatred for everything that makes this country great, like immigrants, upward mobility, minorities, women and LGBTQ folks. The Russkies taught him how to play the fake news game to trick people into voting for him. Once elected as president, Trump proceeded with his mission and began dismantling the country piece by piece. There are ways to tell that the president has been compromised. Putin taught Trump to sustain himself on McDonald’s and other fast food, because he believed all Americans loved eating Big Macs. Hamburgers would help Trump fit in better, which is why we always see Trump eating them. There were other dietary missteps in this grand ruse. Trump was taught that all pizza should be eaten with a fork and knife, which is probably how they do it in Russia, but clearly not how it’s done here. Trump also eats his steaks well done like some kind of maniac. No one with any love for this country could ever do that to a good steak on purpose. Fortunately for us all, Trump is a complete and total train wreck, so he is bound to reveal his true self at some point. We just should keep our eyes and ears open for signs that he is cracking. In the movie, despite everything else that happens, Salt ends up saving America from a game of Global Thermonuclear War. It was a welcomed outcome to a tense situation and part of Salt’s redemption. Maybe Trump will snap out of his haze and save us all too someday. Then again, the guy is a brainwashed psychopath, so we probably shouldn’t risk it. Let’s just get rid of ol’ Agent Orange before it’s too late!

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The City from a Distance words & photos Ellen Baker

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The sunset at Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area A crawdad lurking in a pond Just a 10-minute drive from the heart of Midtown rests the Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area. You probably know it as the ever-flooded rice plains along Interstate 80 between Sacramento and Davis. With more than 16,000 acres of land, the wildlife is abundant—even with the picturesque Sacramento skyline emerging behind. More than 200 species of birds inhabit the space and lifted dirt roads that remind me of mini levee roads meander along the wide open space. This spot is best explored at sunrise or sunset—with or without a car but definitely with a camera.

The Sunrise Trip If you plan to experience the sunrise out there, a viable option is to get down with the van life trend and stay the night before. The gates open at sunrise and close at sunset, but the closer you sleep to your destination, the easier it will be to get there in the morning. Awakening just beyond the city limits to soft light dancing on your skin while birds gently chirp as they dust the sky, is refreshing to say the least. The hubbub of the rising city beyond is noticeable but trivial, and it is surprisingly soothing to watch the golden light slowly engulf the city. You can drive or walk down the dirt roads, but if you want to venture out into the less-traveled land, I suggest driving. The egrets lounge about but they know you’re there—get within a quarter of a mile to them and they take off. I’ve dabbled in nature photography and I can tell you from first-hand experience that it’s hard. Especially trying to capture the irritable ones. Recently the gates remained closed due to flooding but now that they have reopened, the Yolo Bypass at sunrise makes for an even more picturesque scene then usual. Bring your pour-over coffee maker, and soak up the nature that Sacramento has to offer. You could even do this before heading into work—not too bad Sactown, not too bad.

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The Sunset Trip Pack a beer and a camera for this one. Before the sun begins to set, head out to East Chiles Road off the highway. Park at the dirt pull out as the gates may already be closed and walk down the hill. (As a reminder, this is just a small portion of the vast landscape. It is a small but mighty stop.) Under the bridge, if you’re patient and quiet, there are loads of crawdads lounging in the dark waters. Whether you’re a fisherman or you just want to peer into the lives of these underwater creatures, pull up a chair and watch them zoom about. Beyond the bridge are open fields with small ponds scattered about. Surrounding these ponds is where you will likely find a heronry of egrets, appearing nonchalant and calmly evacuating when you just start getting close enough to take a photo. There are fields of small flowers with spider webs whirling off the stems as the deep red sun sets behind.

Stick around for dusk because that is when the bats evacuate their homes for an evening feeding. Underneath the bridge, thousands of bats reside during the day to escape the sunlight. Once the sun has almost completely faded, a cloud of bats exits their “cave” and shoots out into the sky, dancing together and flying higher and higher until they disappear into the atmosphere. This exiting of the abode lasts for at least 30 minutes as the colonies of bats disperse in waves. As the sun fully sets, the bats go on about their night and there is just enough light to walk back to the car without a flashlight or lantern. This quick trip is ideal to take the edge off before or after work, maybe with a loved one or a new Tinder date, as a solo outing or with the family. The quietness is refreshing—even though the highway is close by, it’s hardly noticeable. Wander down the roads and explore the open land. Please pick up trash as you see it, give the birds their space and enjoy the setting sun on our beautiful city. Dive Into Sacramento & Its Surrounding Areas

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If It Ain’t Baroque …

Local Power Pop Group Sunday School Looks to Build Upon Their Sound After Debut EP Words John Phillips • photo Steven Hayashida

f you log onto Spotify, you can pretty easily locate the artist page for local band Sunday School. On that page, you will find their recently released self-titled EP, a single from 2016 entitled “That’s Reasonable (I’m Not),” and a three-track single for a German house band from the mid-‘90s. This article isn’t about the German house project. “That’s when we were big in Germany,” laughed Will Heimbichner, singer of the local, more recent Sunday School. “What’s kind of funny about that band is for a while our whole goal for a minute was just to be the

Sunday School that showed up above that, so we could say, ‘Hey, we’re on Spotify,’ ‘Wait, you’re a German house band?’” Maybe they can organize a tour in Germany someday and hilarity will ensue. Heimbichner and guitarist Alex Giddings met in high school at the age of 14. They formed an almost immediate friendship due to a mutual interest in video games, and, over time, that grew into a bond over music. “I had on a Halo shirt,” recalled Heimbichner. “A really cool Halo shirt that I special ordered, and Alex came up to me and told me

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that he thought the Halo shirt was super cool, and I was like, ‘Yeah, uh, do you want to go play Halo?’ and that was pretty much it.” “We still play Halo,” added Giddings. “That never stopped.” The two friends have played in numerous acts together over the years since they were teenagers—recently in projects The Cosmonauts and Manos Hand of Fate. “ [The Cosmonauts] was pretty funny,” said Heimbichner. “We dressed up as superheroes, but that’s pretty much finished for now. And there were a couple of other little stints in there

somewhere. This is so far the best stint.” A few years ago, Sunday School began to take shape. Heimbichner ended up going to school at Sierra College and meeting bass player Zachary Green, and recruited drummer Cameron English when he was working at a local call center. Despite being the one putting things together, Heimbichner is very explicit about his relationship with Giddings: “I guess I’m always the mastermind behind this stuff … I guess you could look at it that way,” Heimbichner said.

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“But, I never have any success with anything without Alex also in the band. I can’t really write songs well without Alex there to help do it. It’s the truth.” “We do have matching tattoos,” Giddings added. “I wouldn’t say deeper than blood, but it’s pretty deep.” “We’ve pretty much been in all but a couple of bands [together],” said Heimbichner. “We were the same consistent people, not the same kind of music or anything, just different adventures. We just work really well together.” Sunday School held an EP release show on April 14 for their self-titled debut. The album was recorded at Fat Cat Recording with local heavy hitter Sean Stack. While the band currently has a catalog of a dozen or so songs for live shows, they wanted to whittle it down to just the hits. “Those were the strongest ones,” said Heimbichner. “They fit really well. We had different music video ideas and made a music video for one of them. Just sort of lumped together with a few things, what we felt would sound good on the radio. That kind of was a deciding factor.” “We talked about it when we recorded [the EP] with Sean,” said Giddings. “How this is kind of like our resume to people that don’t know us.” The album is a fabulous four-track power pop effort, with some lovely nods to bands from the late ‘90s in particular. A quick perusal of local journalism blurbs regarding Sunday School from their short history will quickly produce some of the associated acts people tie together with the band’s current sound: Built to Spill, Supergrass, and most notably, Weezer. “Alex and I, we both really loved Weezer growing up,” said Heimbichner, “and obviously

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that can be heard in our music. Especially with ‘Hold your Breath,’ you can totally hear it, the influence from Pinkerton.” But with direct comparisons and music, while being told that you sound like a band you admired growing up is an honor to many—if not most—there’s always the instinctive desire to be seen as individuals, to have your own sound. “I want to personally move past that [late ‘90s sound],” said Heimbichner. “There’s a ton of great music from that era, and I love Built to Spill and Supergrass and Weezer, that was a great band. But, I think for our next stuff, I kind of want to move away from the power chord-y guitar and maybe into some more complex stuff. Baroque pop would be super cool to do … I’ve always wanted to make a full baroque pop album, with harpsichords and stuff. I don’t know if it will happen, though.” And Heimbichner isn’t just joking or spitballing when it comes to the idea of moving toward a baroque pop sound. He’s dead serious. “I feel like there aren’t many baroque pop masterpieces in the world,” Heimbichner continued, “and I would like to add to the catalog. A lot of bands delved into that in the ‘60s, but not very many people play straight-up baroque rock. From time-to-time, we’ll cover ‘Time of the Seasons’ by the Zombies live, and we do it a little different style-wise … It feels

like a logical step.” The key to deciding their evolutionary path lies in decisiveness, which, Heimbichner admits, is not something he comes by so easily. “I honestly get pulled in a lot of different directions when I start thinking about what I want to do,” said Heimbichner. “As a songwriter, it usually starts with me, I mean, we all get involved with it, but … I have trouble sticking to one thing. I listen to a lot of different music, and I’m like, ‘Now I want to make a country album and a synth pop album or something.’ I need to pick something and move forward with it.” For now, though, the guys from Sunday School really love how the EP turned out, and are currently focused on promoting that, and over the next year or so they will strategize where to go next. “We’re looking at playing up and down the coast this summer,” said Heimbichner, “but I think we’re still looking for shows outside of this area … maybe down south in the L.A. area. Maybe Portland or Seattle. As far as writing a new album, I have a ton of ideas, as far as a deadline for myself, by the end of the summer to have that figured out, and probably by the end of the year to have everything written. It will probably be 2018 when we start recording.” No word on whether or not they will consider a tour of Germany.

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Here, There and Everywhere

Chris Hardwick Brings the ID10T Festival (and a Lot More) to Shoreline Words Jacob Sprecher Photo MJ Kim

hris Hardwick is The Flash. He performs simultaneous sets at comedy clubs on opposite coasts. He guests on Fallon and Kimmel on the exact same night. He does phone interviews three at a time by talking out of both ears. He stirred your morning coffee and scrambled your eggs. He’s actually sitting next to you right now. Or at least, he was. But really! Chris Hardwick may well be the hardest working man in comedy these days. You might know him as the host of Comedy Central’s @midnight. Or NBC’s game show The Wall. Or AMC’s Talking Dead. Or mastermind of the Nerdist podcast. Or as a prominent stand-up comedian. Or … as The Flash. And as if all that wasn’t enough to keep Hardwick satiated like a stoner at IHOP, well, he’s already moved on to the next plate of chicken and waffles—organizing/hosting the debut ID10T Music Festival and Comic Conival. ID10T (pronounced I-D-ten-T) will take place June 24 and 25 at Shoreline Amphitheater, and will feature music from the likes of Weezer, Girl Talk, Lord Huron, Crystal Castles, TV On The Radio, OK Go and Animal Collective, as well as the comedy of Demetri Martin, Michael Che, Garfunkel and Oates, Nikki Glaser and Michael Ian Black, to name just a select few. But Hardwick’s rise to comedic prominence was a long and winding one, starting way back in the seemingly distant era of early 1990s MTV as the co-host of Singled Out. (Yes, that Singled Out, starring Jenny McCarthy.) He took his lumps along the way as a heavy-drinking, out-of-work gamer, before kicking booze and turning that same obsessive energy toward his craft. To say it’s been an about-face would be an understatement: his Nerdist podcast has more than 5 million subscriptions alone, at this point. In hopes of digging a little deeper, Submerge caught up with Hardwick while he enjoyed a little downtime at his home in Los Angeles.

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You’ve been in the comedy game for a long time now. Does the fact that you can now blend a major festival with all of these things you’re interested in, from music to Comic-Con, speak to the current state of comedy? It speaks to the state of comedy, but it also speaks to the state of, for lack of a better term, nerd culture. Pre-2000 it was considered too niche to cross over into anything else other than regional comic-con, so I think it says a lot of culturally where we’re at. And there’s also a renaissance of comedy happening right now. Because we’re in an age where you don’t need one of three big networks to determine whether or not you’re funny enough. We have social media, podcasts, YouTube, Snapchat and a million ways for people to get their voice out there. I think part of what we traded for that was when I was growing up there was really just super comics. You know, Richard Pryor, Robin Williams, Sam Kinison, Steve Martin! We don’t have that quite as much now because there’s so much more comedy available, but I think it’s worth the trade-off. It’s certainly something we try to do on @midnight. We’re proud of the fact that we show you 16 comedians every week … It’s very important for me to create platforms to put more comedy into the world. What’s your relationship with political humor in the current climate? Personally, I kind of live by it. I need to get Colbert in several times a week; I need to make jokes about death and dying; black humor. But I know that’s not for everyone. My stand-up is not political at all, and part of the reason is because everything I do with Nerdist, Talking Dead, The Wall is very inclusive. And unfortunately we live in a time when anything political immediately divides people. But I do think that comedy is such a valuable tool to subvert authority and shine a spotlight on things you’re not happy with. In some cases, comedy is the only weapon

we have—a good non-lethal weapon. There’s a sort of humor backdoor into people’s brains where if a joke is funny enough, it can actually create more understanding and conversation than if somebody just came up to you on the street and started talking to you. Particularly you’ve seen a shift in late-night—Colbert and John Oliver and Samantha [Bee] and Trevor [Noah]. It really is what’s powering our culture right now. But I’m not a political comedian. My voice just isn’t [one] that has a particularly great take on political stand-up. And the other reason is that there’s a very short shelf life on political comedy. If you put up your comedy special and it’s all political or current events, a year later no one can really watch it because the references are all stale. I didn’t know that you had to get sober until I read a Wired piece from a few years back. I had to get sober too, and I was intrigued by your personal story. I was hoping you might talk a bit about your past lifestyle and what got you out of it. The only thing I ever did was drink. I smoked weed a couple times in college and I never liked it because it just made me paranoid. I was already such an anxious person. I could never do cocaine because if my heart started beating fast, I would fucking go right to the hospital. But I drank a lot; I am an alcoholic. I do not have a healthy relationship with alcohol. But the truth of the matter is that label is only part of the story. That is a symptom of what is really obsessive behavior. So after several years of sobriety, what I realized was that things that

I was doing in my own life, [be it] relationships that were particularly dramatic, or creating conflict and having to deal with it, it was like “Oh this is a recurring pattern of a personality disorder.” It has a little bit to do with drinking, but the drinking was just one manifestation of that. So I really do have to stay on top of it and go, “I think I’m obsessing about this thing the way I do,” unnaturally or catastrophizing. It’s something I will always manage. It’s debatable whether or not I can say to myself “I conquered it!” I’m OK with that. And because I respect that it has more power than I do, I’m always aware of what it is. And in some cases I try to use it to my advantage, which is probably why I work as much as I do. It is what it is. I don’t know if it’s nature or nurture, or maybe a little of both; it’s just the way some of us are wired. It absolutely is. Getting back to your career, I think you’re a really excellent MC and host. But in the spirit of honesty, while I have nothing but good things to say about The Walking Dead, I always found the concept of something like Talking Dead overload, like a symptom of the 24-hour news cycle or something. But now I view it more like the postgame show of a baseball game. What’s your view of a show like Talking Dead and all the spinoffs that come with it? I think we’re in this age of cultural narcissism where we are so accustomed to getting exactly what we want whenever we want it, that if [people] don’t like something they just think it shouldn’t exist for anyone. My feeling for a show like that is it’s really all about pulling the community

of fans together who wanna talk about and celebrate and decompress from the show. It’s true that I’m not critical of the show like, “Well why did they do that? What the fuck?!” There’s a million places you can see negativity. One of the tweets I get sometimes is like “You’re just sucking AMC’s dick ‘cause they pay you! You don’t wanna talk shit!” I don’t do that about anything! They never told me I can or can’t say something! I love the show, I’m a fan of the show, I’m friends with everyone on the show, so let’s talk about stuff that we like. Let’s celebrate fandom. It’s not a takedown show. And if that’s what they want, great! There’s a million other places you can get that. For me it’s about allowing the community of people who’ve just seen something that might be very emotionally upsetting or disturbing to them, talking them back into their lives and celebrating things that we like … I used to call my friends after Lost all the time and go “What the fuck was this?” It’s water-cooler stuff. I think there’s a knee-jerk reaction from people like myself where we might assume that producers at major networks are looking for anything they can do to bolster ratings, while we may not realize that the people running the show are into it, because clearly you’re actually into the content. I am into the content, and I think that’s one of the reasons the show works. I wanted this job really bad. I [asked myself] after I’d been sober for a few years, what do I want to do in my career? I was just auditioning for jobs to survive, and most of them were terrible. So I was like, “You know, I’m already not working, so I’m just going to pursue

“I wouldn’t devote this much of my life to something if I didn’t care about it. It makes me happy that we live in a culture where that’s an option, because it wasn’t always. So there’s no grand conspiracy. No one is fucking with you. Everyone’s doing the best they can.” – Chris Hardwick on being called a “fake nerd.”

jobs that make me happy.” So I did that and I started Nerdist and all that. For the first several years there was a lot of “you’re a fake nerd, this isn’t real, you’re capitalizing” conspiracy theories. I honestly think it’s because you’re good-looking and don’t fit the stereotype. I think I’m an average white guy. I wouldn’t devote this much of my life to something if I didn’t care about it. It makes me happy that we live in a culture where that’s an option, because it wasn’t always. So there’s no grand conspiracy. No one is fucking with you. Everyone’s doing the best they can. Of course a TV network wants to get ratings because that’s how they stay on the air, but at the same time they can get ratings without having this evil plot to take advantage of you. I think people look at a network or a company or a website and they just see this faceless entity that is only there to take advantage of them. [But] I really see the human element. This is not a twodimensional thing. These are people, they have emotions, they care about things just like you and I care about things. And I think that’s ultimately what I try to do. I wanted to end on something tasteless. If you could sleep with one superhero, who would it be and why? [Laughs.] Boy, that is a tough question. It might be Professor X, because he could trick your mind into thinking it was the best orgasm you’ve ever had in your life. I feel like he could really do amazing things and it would be [an] emotional experience.

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Issue 242 • June 19 – July 3, 2017

Simple and Pure

Megan Taber Grows Her Own DIY Success Story, Among the Flowers Words Lovelle Harris • photos Sam Ithurburn

he DIY game is a hustle. Any local creative will tell you that between having to muscle your way into markets previously reserved for well-established corporate types and juggling the creative process with the drudgery of everyday business operations, if you’re looking to make your mark in this burgeoning maker’s market, it takes more than just a cute Etsy site to land at the top of DIY heap. The hustle is real—just ask Megan Taber, owner of the modern-day beauty apothecary, Midnight Kin, in Placerville and creator of Among the Flowers, an all-natural, locally sourced, organic skincare line, formerly Fig + Moss, whose meteoric rise to the top of the

local makers food chain involved a golden opportunity to partner with the internet mega-site Urban Outfitters while juggling life as a young mother and newlywed. “Among the Flowers basically started as a hobby when I was pregnant and wanted to do everything completely natural and organic,” she explains. “I cleared out all of the toxins from my house and started making natural products for me and my family.” Taber’s creative philosophy is deeply rooted in her love for her family. As a young wife, just married and looking to settle near her hometown of Placerville, she

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and her husband stumbled upon a 3-acre plot of land nestled between Camino and Pleasant Valley, instantly fell in love with its wild charm and began working the land—a passion both Tabers have pursued since their college days. It didn’t take long for Taber to extract from her new home its inherent ability to provide the resources for her new enterprise. “This space had a perfect place for a garden with a creek running through it,” she explains. “We’ve always gardened and there were a lot of plants here already, but we’ve been adding to it ever since we moved here. We have huge lavender bushes that have been here and are established,

so we harvest a lot of lavender [as well as] sage, cedar and roses.” It didn’t take long for her natural products to begin taking up residence in local medicine cabinets and vanities around her hometown—friends would be gifted with some of Taber’s creations and soon they began asking her to create gift sets for them to bestow upon their loved ones. From there, well, let’s just say that after her products found their way into boutiques on the shores of New Jersey and the mountains of Colorado, Urban Outfitters came calling in 2016. “I had a few stores that I was selling my stuff out of; we [were selling in] a store in New Jersey and a few

other places,” Taber explains. “That was huge for me at the time—they were boutiques, so [they weren’t] massive [retailers], but for a one-person business it was a big deal,” Taber says. “Then in the summer, after I had my second son, we were contacted by Urban Outfitters and they wanted to do an order, like an initial order, then they loved everything and were ready to place their holiday order in September.” At that moment, Taber’s company soared into the upper echelon of the DIY stratosphere. No small feat for the young mother, wife and entrepreneur whose scientifically curated and preservative-free products were being

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forged out of the garage of her home with the help of a few last-minute hires and her incredibly supportive husband. “We weren’t familiar with how orders work—they were like, ‘How much can you manufacture?’ We had to make over 8,000 soaps,” Taber explains. “Actually, it all worked out and we’ve just continued to grow since then.” Although Taber is focused on the growth of her own enterprise, she is quick to say that she is still closely tied to the small community that helped her land on the DIY map—notably the organizers of Sacramento’s Maker’s Mart, Beth Pellegrini and Trisha Rhomberg. As she and her her fellow makers gear up for the R Street Block Party and Maker’s Mart on June 24, Taber is excited for the continued evolution of the maker’s revolution. “They are amazing, and it’s such a complementary relationship because I feel that [what] they’re adding to

Sacramento is something that I totally believe in and stand behind,” she says. “I’m so excited to see its growth. The selection of people they put together is so cool. I love that market. I’ve participated in other ones and I will always support the Maker’s Mart—it’s just the way Beth and Trisha support the makers, there’s no other market that supports the makers quite like they do. I hope more people get involved and are more aware of it. And the people who come through, it’s such a cool crowd. We’re honored to be a part of that every year, we’ll always go. It is a movement, and it’s powerful.” Like the wild flora and fauna that blossom unfettered on the Taber property—the land that also provides many of the ingredients that coalesce into Taber’s luscious products— growth is a key theme in the budding entrepreneur’s life. From moving operations out of the garage and into

the new work and studio space that Midnight Kin moved into just this past April to her increasing exposure to the masses who are looking for products that are sustainably made and toxinfree, yet luxurious both in the bottle and on the skin, Taber is also looking to include other, carefully curated, makers’ product lines into her own brick and mortar establishment. “Midnight Kin represents a collective—a collection of made things we find from other makers, so we’re trying to support that too,” she explains. Taber’s product ethos is simple; it permeates every pore and petal that her products meet: Among the Flowers delivers nontoxic, luxurious yet simple products made from ingredients that are completely natural, sustainable and provide the body’s largest organ—that’s the skin, by the way—vital nutrients that are

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free of fillers and preservatives. This ethos is echoed when you peruse the displays at Midnight Kin or cruise through the pages of the Among the Flowers website. “I kind of had an aesthetic in mind—I wanted to keep the styling of the logo and the label pretty simple because a lot of the products, like the flowers and ingredients are really beautiful themselves so I wanted to keep the labels minimal so that it would highlight the ingredients rather than being crazy and taking away from the natural beauty,” she says. “Simple, clean, natural—that’s the style.” While Taber is focused on expanding her growing business, she remains true to the small, homegrown approach that inspired her all-natural operation in the first place. From the preserved lavender and rose buds that adorn their gift kits, to the sumptuous body butters, velvety body oils and

refreshing facial mists imbued with aromatherapies that not only refresh the skin but the spirit as well, Taber’s product line is basic in a good way: simple and pure. “We still do use a lot of things from our garden, but we obviously have to source other ingredients elsewhere, but we are small batch, so everything is made in our studio on Main Street,” she says. “It’s just a natural, smallbatch, sustainable little operation that we have going.”

Among the Flowers will be among the 40-plus makers taking part in the R Street Block Party and Maker’s Mart on Saturday, June 24, from 3–8 p.m. on R Street between 11th and 13th streets in Sacramento. Check out Among the Flowers' line of products at Amongtheflowers.com, or visit Megan Taber at her storefront, Midnight Kin, at 464 Main St. in Placerville.

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Issue 242 • June 19 – July 3, 2017

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Down to the Sacred Wave

Sunmonks on New LP, Two Play, and Music as Soul-Sustenance Words Andrew C. Russell Photo KEVIN FISCUS

he enduring trope of the NorCal-SoCal cultural divide is a perfectly entertaining way to play up the superficial aesthetic differences of our state’s major urban centers, but neglects the far richer patchwork of the Californias that reside along the margins. The Sierra Nevada foothills is one such kingdom unto itself, where the red state/blue state mentality dissolves into a more purplish tint, spiritual seekers of the traditional and new age varieties rub shoulders together, and rich veins of artistic ferment contribute to an embarrassment of musical wealth, among which the musical entity known as Sunmonks is counted. The duo, made up of Alexandra Steele and Geoffrey CK, grew together out of the close-knit musical community of Auburn; both came from families where religion and music were intertwined; both received training from an early age, and have retained a sharp ear for melody and an insatiable appetite for all genres. To date, their output has combined earnest lyrics, instrumental and rhythmic complexity, impeccable harmonies and a swirl of influences (among them pop, choral, West African highlife, samba, math rock and jazz). Such chameleonic deftness provides a wealth of possible moods with no single, descriptive brush to paint them with. This may lead to confusion among label strategists, but has only contributed to the band’s growing, eclectic audience. The 11 tracks on their recently released album, Two Play, act as a catalog of Sunmonks’ artistic evolution over the past several years. Forgoing the traditional retreat, record, release approach to crafting their songs, they’ve tempered their arrangements in full view of their audiences, basing their song selection on the chemistry that can only be captured between the performer, the viewer, and their shared, inexpressible vibe. “We develop everything in public,” explains Geoffrey. “In real time, by looking at faces, you can make decisions about what they like and don’t like. Without that, you’re just making stuff in a vacuum.” In their music practices and their day-to-day lives, the duo seek a balance between the mystical plane and the real world. Alexandra trains horses, and Geoffrey finds additional inspiration in the countless mysteries afforded by people-watching—from the self-appointed guardian he encountered protecting his beach from encroaching tourism outside a nearby coastal recording studio, to the weathered character who can be perpetually found biking on any given day down the length of the American River. Hovering between a love for the mystical and the mundane, the two have found ways to transform both into fantastically uplifting songs, but never without a drop or two of skepticism—a quality that adds a nervy, new wave intellect to their mellifluous melodicism. All of these shades are on display on Two Play, out as of June 15, and a perfect record to kick off the euphoric daze of early summer in Northern California. For some surreal scenery to introduce newcomers to the Sunmonks aesthetic, catch their recent, very Jodorowskian video for “Cannibal Wit.” We sat down with the two to discuss the source of their musical awakening, the constant battle to escape the confines of “genrefication,” and the endless quest to find a wholly new sound. SubmergeMag.com

Tell us about your musical upbringing. Alexandra Steele: I grew up with music in my family—it was a very family-oriented thing. It was never something that I considered to do professionally in any way, it just brought pure joy to me and I just grew up singing around the piano and once I met Geoff, who also played music for fun, but always had a goal in mind for it, that changed how I thought about it. Getting more technical about how I sing and a purpose for how it comes out, and how I want it to be portrayed—focusing on the very minute movements of my voice, that was super exciting for me— that’s what pulled us together. We wanted to do it big. Or try, at least. Geoffrey CK: We both had a super-religious American upbringing. She comes from the Church of the Nazarene, from the second great awakening, when a bunch of American religions were kind of splintering off of European denominations, and my family was Mormon, which popped up around the same time. And that kind of culture doesn’t lend itself to using music as a commodity or utility. It’s just like eating—it’s something you do that is its own reward. It’s also part of that hill folk mentality that comes from Nevada County. And in that area you have people like Daniel Trudeau from Pregnant, so many different artists; people who breathe music and art as a part of themselves rather than some kind of at-armslength representation of themselves. Would you say there’s still a hymnal quality in your work? AS: For me, I purposefully changed the way that I sing a bit away from that. My grandmother, who taught me how to sing, she was the leader for the church musical department. I had a lot of vibrato in my voice. I could sing the other way, but that was what I liked to do, like opera. I moved on to jazz stuff, but I think I’ve totally changed how I sing from when I was younger. I think it was difficult to just find my voice instead of attaching it to my favorite singer and trying to mold myself after them. It was part of how I learned to sing, but now it’s about what I sound like, and what I’m comfortable at, how can I tweak and manipulate it to get what I want out of it. GCK: I think we’re just very conscious of the practical uses of music in different genres. Choral music—experiencing it multiple times a week in church, you really start to understand the emotional effect it has on yourself and an audience. So you can kind of cherry pick those effective musical elements. There’s quite a variety of different instruments and genre elements put together in your music. Do you have a way to categorize it, or do you avoid that? GCK: The original scheme for this project was to form a band around it, like a big ensemble. My dream was like Fela Kuti, not the music, or even the sentiments in his music necessarily, but the idea of this rollercoaster sound that’s generated by this giant collection of people. We wanted to make, especially with this record—which might have been overambitious—we wanted to make something that didn’t exist. Part of that came from wanting to be excited by what we were doing, to feel that this is something that, when people hear it, they won’t be able to say “Oh, I know exactly who I should bill them with.” But we’re also running into very practical challenges, where we’ll take a meeting with a label and they’ll say, “This is fantastic, but I have no idea what I would do with this or who the market is.” People don’t know what the DNA of this music is, so we’ll often be billed as “world music” or with “world” bands. I don’t really like “world music,” I just happen to like Fela Kuti. I don’t even like that phrase. Tony Allen, Fela Kuti’s drummer for years, basically called it a racist term, because it simply meant anything that wasn’t from England or America. It essentially groups the world into

two poles. It doesn’t create an open door for cultural give-and-take, or a recognition of the difference between genres in different regions. They’re just billed together. Sometimes we’ll run into the opposite, where people hear more of the indie rock instincts that we may have, Arcade Fire-y kind of elements, and they’ll bill us with a straight up guitar-bass-drums rock band, and that always confuses me a little bit, because when I go see a show I want to see a bunch of different things. That’s why festivals are so successful, because you can curate your own experience. You can genre-hop. Do you think it’s more common these days for listeners to just scrape along the surface when it comes to music? GCK: It’s frustrating to see a lack of nuance in the way people listen to music. For instance, the opening song of the new album is called “The Monk,” and it’s about art movements and a personal conversation that I imagine artists have with themselves about why they make or don’t make certain decisions, and there’s a lyric that goes “Dada, Dada,” and it’s a reference to the Dada art movement of the 20th century. This blog I’d submitted to at one point got back to me, and they basically said about that part, “We don’t like the bubblegum vamping. The daa-daas, it just sounds too bubblegum.” But it’s not just mindless. Nothing is an accident. How did you get all the great brass parts on your album? Was it hard to find musicians to play the parts you wanted? AS: Part of the struggle is just finding people that can switch their mindset and play with different feels, because people get stuck in the routine of what they’re used to playing, and they hear something and might automatically associate it with what they were playing before, but we push them to go just a little bit off that path. GCK: Oh yeah, it’s a struggle especially in Sacramento, because there are so many fantastic musicians here, but most of ones who have the technical capability to do some of this stuff, they’re older, work state jobs, versus big cities that have more hustle-type musicians who are open to it and really good, who have the same thirst. Recording the brass stuff for this record, we talked to two different brass ensembles, bringing them the sheet music and the songs, and both of the band leaders got back to me and basically said, “This is wrong.” Like, “Technically, this is wrong.” I had to go back through the sheet music because I’m self-conscious. I’m willing to take criticism, so I assumed I must have done something weird. I combed through it all trying to see if I’d written something out of range for a specific saxophone and nothing was out of range. It just stretched the technical capacity of these instruments. We eventually we got this one guy, Jacob Gleason, who plays all these instruments, including any kind of saxophone that you could think of, and he took one look at the sheet music, and was like, “Oh yeah, no problem.” And just slayed it the whole day. I think we tracked four saxophones for five different songs in one day that he had gotten the sheet music for only a week or two before. How would you compare the live experience to Sunmonks on record? GCK: I think that people like our Catch Sunmonks alongside Doombird, recordings, but the way that Salt Wizard, Rituals of Mine (DJ set) this band has always generated and more on Saturday, June 24, as interest has been through part of R Street Block Party and Maker’s Mart from 3–8 p.m. on R people coming to see us, and Street between 11th and 13th streets you’ll see it in people's faces, in Sacramento. The block party will where they have these kinds also feature more than 40 local of “Aha!” moments where it all vendors, live art, food, beers, a makes a little more sense. It kids zone and more. Find more info at Rstreetblockparty.org. Stream translates better. Sunmonks’ debut album, Two Play, at Sunmonks.bandcamp.com.

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6.19 Monday

B-Side Night Move Mondays w/ Average Joe, 9 p.m. Blue Lamp Open Mic, 9 p.m. CLARA (E. Claire Raley Studios for the Performing Arts) Margie Baker Quartet, 7 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 Karaoke, 9 p.m.

6.20 Tuesday

B-Side West End Blues w/ Harley White Jr., 9 p.m. Blue Lamp Cosmonauts, The Bottom Feeders, Pyrite Sidewalk, The Machetes, 7:30 p.m. The Colony Kilroy, Side Effect, Free Candy, Marigold, 8 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. Golden Bear For the Heads w/ DJ Nocturnal, 10 p.m. Harlow’s Raekwon, WurdPlay Official, Bru Lei, 8 p.m. Kupros Craft House Open Mic, 8 p.m. MontBleu Resort Casino AtYyA, Goopsteppa, Sharu, Benjah Ninjah, Beatkarma, 9 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. Press Club Track Scars, Killer Couture, DJ Katharos, Bino Prassa, 8 p.m.

Torch Club Richard March, 5:30 p.m.; Mayeux & Broussard, Mitchel Evans, 8 p.m.

Oak Park Brewing Co. The Jahari Sai Quartet, 7 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/ Statedlife, Nick Cecchi, Alex Hernandez, Mike Paz, Daryl Posnett, Pumatron, 9 p.m. Sophia’s Thai Kitchen Open Mic, 8 p.m. Streets Pub and Grub Karaoke, 9 p.m. Torch Club Singer-Songwriter Showcase in the Round, 5:30 p.m.; Chili Sauce, 9 p.m.

6.21 6.22 Wednesday

Ace of Spades Kehlani, Ella Mai, Jahkoy, Noodles, 7 p.m. (Sold Out) B-Side R&B Sides w/ DJ Satapana, 9 p.m. Bar 101 Open Mic, 7:30 p.m. CLARA (E. Claire Raley Studios for the Performing Arts) Busk n Blues: Fete de la Musique, 4 p.m. The Club Car (Auburn) The Double Shots, 7:30 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. El Dorado Saloon Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m. Fox & Goose All Vinyl Wednesdays w/ DJ AAKnuff, 8 p.m. Goldfield Jacob Whitesides, 7 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Acoustic Open Mic, 6 p.m.

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Ace of Spades P-Lo, Rexx Life Raj, 7 p.m. B-Side Throttle Thursday w/ DJ Hells Bells, 9 p.m. Bar 101 Karaoke, 7:30 p.m. Blue Lamp The Brevet, Drop Dead Red, House Of Mary, CJ Strum, 7:30 p.m. Cache Creek Casino Sara Watkins, Langhorne Slim, 8 p.m. Capitol Garage Karaoke, 9 p.m. The Club Car (Auburn) Songwriters Showcase, 8 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. Dive Bar Dueling Pianos, 9 p.m. Fox & Goose According to Bazooka, 8 p.m. Golden 1 Center Maxwell, Common, Ledisi, 7 p.m.

Goldfield Hail The Sun, Capsize, Eidola, Limbs, 7 p.m. Harlow’s Metal Street Boyz, 8 p.m. Heritage Plaza (Woodland) Thursday Night Live at the Plaza feat. Gator Nation, 6 p.m. Historic Old Folsom Twilight Thursday Summer Concert Series feat. Gumboot Blues, 7:30 p.m. Louie’s Cocktail Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m. Old Ironsides Connie Bryan and Friends, 7 p.m. On The Y Karaoke, 10 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Honky Tonk Boom Box, 9:30 p.m. Press Club Shotgun Sawyer, Sparks Across Darkness, Vinnie Guidera and the Dead Birds, The Moans, 8 p.m. Shady Lady Tropicali Flames, 9 p.m. Shine Sac’s Coolest Jazz Jam, 8 p.m. Sophia’s Thai Kitchen Latin Night, 9:30 p.m. Stone Vintage Music Boutique Stone Songwriter Showcase, 7 p.m. Torch Club Mind X, 5:30 p.m.; Sam Ravenna, 9 p.m. Yolo Brewing Co. Cloudship, 6 p.m.

6.23 friday

Ace of Spades Dokken, Zach Waters, Anarchy Lace, Nova Sutra, Fallout Kings, 7 p.m. B-Side Vibrations w/ Shaun Slaughter & Adam Jay, 9 p.m. Bar 101 Working Man Blues Band, Jay Cavileer, 9:30 p.m. Blue Lamp Crazy Town, Sharp Tongue, Revolver (Rage Against the Machine tribute), Dead Till Monday, The Club, 7:30 p.m. The Boardwalk Babylon A.D., Blackwater, Sons of Men, 7:30 p.m. Cache Creek Casino Aegis, 9 p.m. Capitol Garage Capitol Friday’s Reggae Night w/ DJ Veyn, 10 p.m. Center for the Arts Cat Power, 8:30 p.m. Cesar Chavez Plaza Concerts in the Park: Mad Caddies, ADD, Destroy Boys, DJ Nocturnal, 5 p.m. The Colony Disvein, Deras Krig, Dissidence, Runespoor, Barc, 8 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. Fox & Goose Spacewalker, Catchakoala, Control Z w/ Emcee Zealous, 9 p.m. Golden 1 Center Tool, 6:30 p.m. Golden Bear DJ CrookOne and Guests, 10 p.m. Gold Country Lanes (Sutter Creek) C.T. Locke: DJ, Sing & Dance, 6:30 p.m.

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Issue 242 • June 19 – July 3, 2017

Dive Into Sacramento & Its Surrounding Areas

6.24

Soundz of Norcal Showcase Finale

Priest/DC Save and Continue, Pushing the Sun, The Ghost Town Rebellion, Sour Flowers and More The Boardwalk 7 p.m. Goldfield The Walcotts, Hamish Anderson, 7 p.m. Harlow’s !!! (Chk Chk Chk), 8 p.m. Kupros Craft House The Stummies, 9:30 p.m. Luna’s Cafe David Houston & String Theory, Frank Joseph G, Nolan, 8 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Open Mic Night, 6 p.m. Old Ironsides Riot Radio, Garble, Radio Orangevale, Witch Mask, 8 p.m. On The Y FrankenPunker: M.D.L, Captain Cutiepie, Straight Through, 8 p.m. Opera House Saloon (Roseville) PointDexter, Burning in Blue, 8 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Tommy Castro & The Painkillers, 10 p.m. Press Club DJ Rue, 9 p.m. Red Hawk Casino Brodie Stewart, 9:30 p.m. Shady Lady Vintage Vandals, 9 p.m. Starlite Lounge Cobalt, Null, Body Void, Endless Yawn, 8 p.m. Station 1 Sol Jazz, 9 p.m. Streets Pub and Grub DJ Night, 9 p.m. Swabbies on the River Superhuey (Huey Lewis & the News tribute), 6 p.m. Torch Club Natalie Cortez Band, 5:30 p.m.; Hot Roux Trio, Evaleros, 9 p.m. Yolo Brewing Co. Matt Rainey, 6 p.m.

6.24 Saturday

B-Side Love Sensation w/ MC Ham, 9 p.m. The Band Room (Placerville) Wandern, RepresA, With Wolves, Astral Cult, Vincula, 6 p.m. Bar 101 Broken and Mended, 9:30 p.m. Blue Lamp Sages, North by North, The Search, Tigerchrist, 7 p.m. The Boardwalk Soundz of Norcal Showcase Finale: Priest/DC, Save and Continue, Pushing the Sun, The Ghost Town Rebellion, Sour Flowers and More, 7 p.m. Cache Creek Casino Aegis, 8 p.m.

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Cafe Colonial Silent, 13th Sky, Memphis Vampires, Diahgonal, Mother Blood, Facexhuger, DJ Katharos, Schem, Rodo, Bolaspace, 7 p.m. Capitol Garage Wavy w/ DJ Eddie Z and Guests, 10 p.m. Center for the Arts Matt Schofield, 8 p.m. The Colony ImmaLoser, Brahman, Mo, Bathtub Burnout, 8 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. Fox & Goose Mallard, OverState, OddMoniker, Temple K. Kirk, 9 p.m. Glenn Hall Park Pops in the Park w/ Unsupervised, 6 p.m. Hagginwood Park District 2 Multicultural Festival feat. Midnight Players, Tom Browne, Karyn White and More, 11 a.m. 6 p.m. Harlow’s The Weight Band, Moonalice, 7 p.m. Hughes Stadium The Moonlight Classic: Drum and Bugle Corps Show feat. The Academy, Blue Knights, Mandarins and More, 6 p.m. Kupros Craft House Harley White Jr. Trio, 9:30 p.m. Momo Sacramento Lucid, Caliscope, PointDexter, 7 p.m. MontBleu Resort Casino Taj Mahal and Keb’ Mo’, 7 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Free Ukulele Class, 1 p.m. Old Ironsides Art & Leisure, Vasas, The Ex-Rippers, 9 p.m. On The Y Karaoke, 9 p.m. Opera House Saloon (Roseville) BlackWater, 9 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Pitch and Fiddle Funk Shui, 9:30 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Ariel Jean, 10 p.m. Press Club DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m. The Purple Place (El Dorado Hills) Revolution Beat (Beatles tribute), 9 p.m. Red Hawk Casino Nathan Owens Band, 10 p.m. The Red Museum Imaginary Tricks, Madeline Kenney, Pregnant, 9 p.m. Shady Lady The Bumptet, 9 p.m. Sophia’s Thai Kitchen Bomba Fried Rice, DJ Trop’A, 9:30 p.m. Starlite Lounge Corky Laing Plays Mountain, Droids Attack, Sweeper, 7 p.m. Station 1 Tom Peron, 9 p.m. Strikes Unlimited (Rocklin) On The Fly, 9 p.m.

6.25

Kristeen Young Madi Sipes & The Painted Blue Momo Sacramento 8 p.m.

Swabbies on the River Afterglow, 2 p.m.; Joy Ride (The Cars tribute), Heartless (Heart tribute), 4:30 p.m. Torch Club Red’s Blues, 5:30 p.m.; The Nibblers, 9 p.m. VFW Post 6158 (Fair Oaks) Vetstock Festival w/ Riotmaker, Decipher, Goodwood, Cash Cartell Band, Tonic Zephyr, Southbound, Circus Runaways, Graybar Hotel, Roswell, Banjo Bones, White Minorities, Dust & Diesel, Malcom Bliss, Korean Fire Drill, The Pikeys and More, 10 a.m. - 9 p.m. WAL Public Market R Street Block Party feat. Doombird, Sunmonks, Meet Cute, Salt Wizard, Mondo Deco, Rituals of Mine (DJ Set), 3 p.m. Yolo Brewing Co. KTalon Band, 6 p.m.

6.25 sunday

B-Side Butter Funk w/ DJ Nocturnal & Hey Zeus, 9 p.m. Cache Creek Casino Mr. Donald Cheung & Ms. Judy Yang, 1 & 4 p.m. Cafe Colonial Conserve, Jesus & the Dinosaurs, The Publiquors, Public School, 8 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 8 p.m. Harris Center for the Arts Jeffrey Siegel, 1 p.m. Harvey’s Lake Tahoe Paul Simon, 8 p.m. Hot Italian Brunch Beats w/ DJs Shaun Slaughter, Satapana & Adam Jay, 12 - 3 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. Momo Sacramento Kristeen Young, Madi Sipes & The Painted Blue, 8 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Laurie Morvan, 3 p.m. Press Club Sunday Night Soul Party w/ DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m. Red Hawk Casino Honky Tonk Boombox, 1 p.m. Shady Lady Peter Petty, 9 p.m. Sol Collective Synthphonik Sundays: Producer Open Mic, 8 p.m. Starlite Lounge Flub, Apotheon, Seren, Vow of Volition, Tethys, 8 p.m.

Swabbies on the River Vagabond Brothers, 1 p.m.; Greg Golden, 3:30 p.m. Torch Club Blues Jam, 4 p.m.

6.26 monday

B-Side Night Move Mondays w/ DJ Average Joe, 9 p.m. Blue Lamp 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 WhiskeyDick, Archer Nation, Billy Hood, 9 p.m.

6.27 Tuesday

B-Side Revival w/ Brendan Stone, 9 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. Dive Bar Leo Valentine and Friends, 9:30 p.m. Golden Bear For the Heads w/ DJ Nocturnal, 10 p.m. Kupros Craft House Open Mic, 8 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 Mike Rainey, 5:30 p.m.; Michael Ray, 8 p.m.

6.28 wednesday

Ace of Spades Jacquees, 7 p.m. B-Side Sound Dust w/ Roger Carpio, 9 p.m. Bar 101 Open Mic, 7:30 p.m. Blue Lamp The Scene, 8:30 p.m. Cafe Colonial Product of Hate, IKILLYA, Salythia, Severpull, 7 p.m. continued on page 26

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7.02

6.30 7.01

Pomegranate (EP Release) Nice Monster, Jem & Scout Old Ironsides 8 p.m. The Club Car (Auburn) The Double Shots, 7:30 p.m. The Colony 916 Pride Show feat. The Bottom Feeders, Nezumi Onna, Killer Couture, The Spleenagers, Picturesofgrey, Danny Gray, 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 SK8, Dice Soho, 6 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. Shady Lady Musical Mash Up, 9 p.m. Sophia’s Thai Kitchen Open Mic, 8 p.m. Starlite Lounge (Waning), Barrows, Saint Apostate, 8 p.m. Streets Pub and Grub Karaoke, 9 p.m. Torch Club Singer-Songwriter Showcase in the Round, 5:30 p.m.; Element Brass Band, 9 p.m.

6.29 Thursday

B-Side Wes Anderson Themed Night! w/ Shaun Slaughter, 9 p.m. Bar 101 Karaoke, 7:30 p.m. Blue Lamp YID, T Milli, Lingo, 8:30 p.m. Cafe Colonial The Lucky Eejits, Coyote Bred, Sitting & Waiting, 8 p.m. Capitol Garage Karaoke, 9 p.m. The Club Car (Auburn) Songwriters Showcase, 8 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. District 30 J.Phlip, 10 p.m. Dive Bar Dueling Pianos, 9 p.m. Golden Bear Cruex Lies, Track Scars, DJ Leapyear, 9 p.m. Harlow’s Stars of the Party, Dawgyz, Public School, 7 p.m. Heritage Plaza (Woodland) Thursday Night Live at the Plaza feat. Achilles Wheel, 6 p.m. Historic Old Folsom Twilight Thursday Summer Concert Series feat. Cash Profits, 7:30 p.m. Louie’s Cocktail Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Nicholson’s MusiCafe Mina Alali, 7 p.m. Old Ironsides Grub Dog, 8 p.m. On The Y Karaoke, 10 p.m. Palms Playhouse (Winters) NRBQ, 8 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Lucas Hoge, 9:30 p.m. Press Club The Metro w/ DJ Nachtdoom, 9 p.m. Shine Sac’s Coolest Jazz Jam, 8 p.m. Torch Club Mind X, 5:30 p.m.; Shari Puorto, 9 p.m.

6.30 FRIDAY

Ace of Spades Tiger Army, Murder By Death, Tim Barry, 6:30 p.m. B-Side Flower Vato, 9 p.m. B Street Theatre The Skivvies, 9:30 p.m. Bar 101 Billy Williams, 9:30 p.m. Blue Lamp K-Ottic (Album Release), Quen, Ferow Picasso, Jarron & Johnny, TMOCJ, B-Zo, Riot Craig, 8 p.m. Capitol Garage Capitol Friday’s Reggae Night w/ DJ Veyn, 10 p.m. Cesar Chavez Plaza Concerts in the Park: Vista Kicks, Hobo Johnson & The Lovemakers, ONOFF, Sunday School, My Cousin Vinny, 5 p.m. Chaise Lounge Joyzu, SourMonkey, Chase Me, Codik, 9 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. Fox & Goose Working Man’s Blues Band, The Gold Souls, 9 p.m. Golden Bear DJ CrookOne and Guests, 10 p.m. Gold Country Lanes (Sutter Creek) C.T. Locke: DJ, Sing & Dance, 6:30 p.m. Harlow’s Felice LaZae, Said the Shotgun, 5:30 p.m.; Solsa, 9:30 p.m. Harvey’s Lake Tahoe Rebelution, Nahko and Medicine for the People, Collie Buddz, Hirie, DJ Mackle, 5:30 p.m. Kupros Craft House Shiner, 9:30 p.m. Luna’s Cafe Alex Jenkins Quartet, 9 p.m. Marco’s Cafe (Lotus) Sunsound, Worthy Goat, Benjamin Hecht, 7 p.m.

Billy Woods Henry Canyons, PremRock, Fresh Kils, Sparks Across Darkness, Telly McLean Cafe Colonial 8 p.m.

Russ Memorial Auditorium 7 p.m.

Nicholson’s MusiCafe Open Mic Night, 6 p.m. Old Ironsides Pomegranate (EP Release), Nice Monster, Jem & Scout, 8 p.m. Palms Playhouse (Winters) Austin Lounge Lizards, 8 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub WonderBread 5, 10 p.m. Press Club DJ Rue, 9 p.m. Red Hawk Casino The Spazmatics, 9:30 p.m. Streets Pub and Grub DJ Night, 9 p.m. Swabbies on the River Night Moves (Bob Segar tribute), Toto Too (Toto tribute), 6 p.m. Torch Club Jimmy Pailer and Sean Barfly, 5:30 p.m.; Dana Moret & Mr. December, 9 p.m. Yolo Brewing Co. Sissy Brown, 6 p.m.

7.01 Saturday

Ace of Spades The Midnight Players (40th Anniversary Show), Hipper Than Hip (Tower of Power Tribute), Sugar High, 7 p.m. The Band Room (Placerville) AKAW!, Pac & Seep, Grex, Benjamin Hecht, 8 p.m. Bar 101 Bad Mother Nature, 9:30 p.m. Blue Lamp Young Chops, Baby Gas, 8:30 p.m. The Boardwalk James Aaron Band, 7 p.m. Capitol Garage Wavy w/ DJ Eddie Z and Guests, 10 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m. Goldfield This Wild Life, 7 p.m. Harlow’s Phora, 6:30 p.m. (Sold Out); Suga Free, 10 p.m. Kupros Craft House Tigertail Rooster, 9:30 p.m. Memorial Auditorium Russ: The Wake Up Tour, 7 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Free Ukulele Class, 1 p.m. Old Ironsides Lipstick w/ DJs Shaun Slaughter and Roger Carpio, 9 p.m. On The Y Karaoke, 9 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Roadside Flare, 10 p.m. Press Club DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m.

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Sophia’s Thai Kitchen Cuddle Magic, Madeleine Kinney, 9:30 p.m. Starlite Lounge Castle, Portrayal of Guilt, 8 p.m. Station 1 Joe Mazzaferro, 9 p.m. Strikes Unlimited (Rocklin) Groove Thang, 9 p.m. Swabbies on the River Riff Raff (AC/DC tribute), Cherry Bomb (John Mellencamp tribute), Take The Money & Run (Steve Miller Band tribute), 7:30 p.m. Torch Club Damaged Goodz, 5:30 p.m.; Earles of Newtown, 9 p.m.

7.02 Sunday

Blue Lamp The Dollyrots, Kepi Ghoulie, Dog Party, 8 p.m. Cache Creek Casino Bobby Zoppi & the Corduroys, 5 p.m. Cafe Colonial Billy Woods, Henry Canyons, PremRock, Fresh Kils, Sparks Across Darkness, Telly McLean, 8 p.m. Distillery Karaoke, 8 p.m. Harvey’s Lake Tahoe Sammy Hagar and the Circle, 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. Momo Sacramento Perfect Giddimani, 9 p.m. On The Y DJ Nachtdoom, 10:30 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Mick Martin, 3 p.m. Press Club Kill the Precedent, Modern Man, xTom Hanx, 5 p.m.; Sunday Night Soul Party w/ DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m. Starlite Lounge Helion Prime, Niviane, Stormfall, 7:30 p.m. Swabbies on the River Spazmatics, 1 p.m., Groove Thang, 3:30 p.m. Torch Club Blues Jam, 4 p.m.; Front the Band, 8 p.m.

7.03 monday

B-Side Night Move Mondays w/ DJ Average Joe, 9 p.m. Blue Lamp Bop Alloy (Substantial & Marcus D), Greenspan, Alex Salveson, JCreep, Max Bundles with No Name, Calvacade, SouLar, 8 p.m.

The Colony Craig Brown Band, Wayne Jetski and More, 8 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 Karaoke, 9 p.m. Press Club Ignorant, 9 p.m.

Comedy Laughs Unlimited Best of Open Mic Showcase w/ Guest Hosts Ellis Rodriguez, Shane Murphy, Kul Black and More, June 20, 8 p.m. DJ Sandhu’s Birthday Bash feat. Carlos Rodriguez, Lance Woods, Steph Garcia and More, June 21, 8 p.m. The Black List of Comedy w/ Kul Black, Leaf, Drea Meyers, Betsaida LeBron, June 22, 7:30 p.m. Tony Dijamco feat. Dustin Nickerson, June 23 - 25, Fri. & Sat., 8 & 10:30 p.m.; Sun., 7 p.m. Carlos Rodriguez Presents: Hella-Larious Show w/ Paul Conyers, Dane Madden, Lucas Kwin, Stacie Shoob-Allen and More, June 28, 8 p.m. Smile Out Loud w/ Sean Peabody, Saul Trujillo, Marcus Peverill, Parker Newman, Hosted by Curtis Newingham, June 29, 8 p.m. Heath Harmison feat. Aaron Woodall, June 30 - July 2, Fri. & Sat., 8 & 10:30 p.m.; Sun., 7 p.m. Black Greek Comedy Showdown Hosted by E Clark, July 2, 9:30 p.m. Luna’s Cafe Open Mic Comedy w/ Host Jaime Fernandez, Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m. On the Y Open Mic Comedy w/ Host Robert Berry, Thursdays, 8:30 p.m. Punch Line Jerry Rocha, Gary Anderson, Hosted by Joe Gorman, June 22 - 24, Thurs., 8 p.m.; Fri. & Sat., 8 & 10 p.m. Lance Woods and Friends, June 25, 7 p.m. There Goes The Neighborhood Comedy Tour w/ The Reverend Bob Levy, June 29, 8 p.m.

Reggie Steele, Conor Kellicutt, Hosted by Andrew Orolfo, June 30 - July 2, 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. Sacramento Stand-Up Competition, June 23 - 24, 7 p.m. Tommy T’s Ellis Rodriguez, June 23 - 24, 7:30 p.m. Shane Murphy, June 25, 7 p.m. Kym Whitely and David Arnold: He Said She Said, June 30 - July 1, 7 & 9:45 p.m.

Misc. 8th and W Streets Certified Farmers Market, Sundays, 8 a.m. - 12 p.m. 20th Street (between J and K) Midtown Farmers Market, Saturdays, 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. Arden-Dimick Library The Wonder of Us: Writing Workshop w/ Author Kim Culbertson, June 30, 4 p.m. B Street Theatre Hand to God, Through July 23 Blue Cue Trivia Night, Wednesday’s, 9 p.m. The Boxing Donkey Trivia Night, every Tuesday, 8 p.m. California State Capitol - West Steps Yoga at the Capitol: Celebrating International Yoga Day, June 21, 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. California State Library Author Talk w/ Margaret C. Bowen, June 20, 12 p.m. Capitol Mall Certified Farmers Market, Thursdays, 10 a.m. 1:30 p.m. Cesar Chavez Plaza Certified Farmers Market, Wednesdays, 10 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Colonial Theatre 4th Annual Love Horror Short Film Festival, June 24, 8 p.m. Country Club Plaza Certified Farmers Market, Saturdays, 8 a.m. - 12 p.m. Crest Theatre SuicideGirls: Blackheart Burlesque, June 19, 8 p.m. Film Screening: Selena (1997), June 22, 7:30 p.m. Film Screening: Moonrise Kingdom, June 30, 7:30 p.m.

Dive Into Sacramento & Its Surrounding Areas

Now – July 9 Jack and the Beanstalk Sutter Street Theatre

Monterey Pop 50th Anniversary, July 1, 7:30 p.m. Crawdads on the River Paddle 4 DART, June 24, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Crocker Art Museum Open Poetry Night in the Gallery, June 29, 7 p.m. Forbidden Fruit: Chris Antemann at Meissen, Through June 25 Turn the Page: The First Ten Years of Hi-Fructose, Through Sept. 17 Esquire IMAX Theatre Trash Film Orgy Presents: Badass Monster Killer Release Screening, June 29, 10 p.m. Fair Oaks Veterans Memorial Amphitheatre Reefer Madness The Musical, Through July 23 Fairytale Town A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Crystal Ice Cream Fantasy, June 24, 5 p.m. International Celebration: Brazilian Cultural Center, Kyla’s School of Highland Dance, Folklorico Aztlan de Sacramento, Fenix Drum & Dance, Khmer Ballet of Stockton and More, July 2, 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. Florin Road & 65th Street Certified Farmers Market, Thursdays, 8 a.m. - 12 p.m. Fox & Goose Pub Quiz, Tuesdays, 7 p.m. Fremont Park Certified Farmers Market, Tuesdays, 10 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Sacramento Outdoor Film Festival: The Big Lebowski, June 24, 6 p.m. Gallery at 48 Natoma (Folsom) Folsom Arts Association Artist Demonstration: Susan Hayne, June 20, 6 p.m. Harris Center for the Arts El Dorado Musical Theatre: Best of Broadway feat. High Voltage, June 21, 7 p.m. El Dorado Dance Academy Presents Summer Concert 2017: Portraits, June 24, 10 a.m. & 5 p.m. Highwater The Trivia Factory, Mondays, 7 p.m. Historic Old Folsom Farmers Market, Saturdays, 8 a.m. Jean Henderson Performing Arts Center Legally Blonde The Musical, Through July 8 Kupros Craft House Triviology, Sundays, 7:30 p.m. L & 18th Streets Sacramento Kings Draft 17 Block Party, June 22, 4 - 9 p.m. Luna’s Cafe Poetry Unplugged, every Thursday, 8 p.m. SubmergeMag.com

McClatchy Park Oak Park Farmers Market, Saturdays, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. McKinley Park River City Marketplace, June 24, 10 a.m. 4 p.m. Free Movie Night: Labyrinth, July 1, 6:30 p.m. Midtown BarFly Salsa Lessons, Wednesdays, 8 p.m. North Natomas Library Basic Composting Workshop w/ UCCE Master Gardeners of Sacramento County, June 24, 1 p.m. Oak Park Brewing Co. Trivia Night, Sundays, 8 p.m. Old Soul at the Weatherstone Paint on the Patio w/ Local Artist & Instructor Cara Emilia, June 24, 3 p.m. Papa Murphy’s Park (Cal Expo) Sacramento Republic FC vs. San Antonio FC, July 1, 8 p.m. Pence Gallery (Davis) Createfest feat. Teen Art Market, Live Music, Films, Food and More, June 24, 5 p.m. Quarry Park (Rocklin) GATHER: Artisanal Food, Vendors, Live Music and More, June 22, 5 p.m. The Red Museum The Latest Show: Late & Bake feat. Interviews, Comedy, Music and More, June 22, 8 p.m. Roosevelt Park Certified Farmers Market, Tuesdays, 10 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Sacramento Fine Arts Center 6th Annual Focus on Fiber Exhibit, Through June 25 Sacramento State - Hornet Stadium USA Track and Field Outdoor Championships, June 22 - 25, 10 a.m. Sacramento Zoo Off the Grid: Sacramento Zoo feat. Food Trucks and More, Thursdays, 5 - 9 p.m.

Shine Questionable Trivia, Tuesdays, 8 p.m. Shriner’s Hospital For Children Northern California A Tropical Affair Fundraiser Event feat. Food, Dancers, Silent Auction, Live Music and More, June 24, 6 p.m. Soil Born Farms American River Ranch Composting Workshop w/ Tyler Stowers, June 28, 5:30 p.m. Sol Collective Sac Activist School: The Art of Healthy Cooking on a Budget, June 21, 6 p.m. Film Screening: Major!, June 28, 6 p.m. Starlite Lounge 2nd Annual Booty Worship w/ The Darling Clementines, June 21, 7:30 p.m. Streets Pub and Grub Pub Trivia, Sundays, 8 p.m. Strikes Unlimited (Rocklin) Let’s Get Quzzical: Trivia Game Show Experience, Tuesdays, 7 p.m. Sunrise Mall Sunrise Summer KickOff feat. Classic Car Show, Vendors, Kids Zone, Food Trucks and More, June 24, 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. Sutter Street Theatre Jack and the Beanstalk, Now through July 9 Sylvan Oaks Library Tuesday at the Movies: Arrival, June 20, 3 p.m. Autism-Friendly Family Movie: Sing, June 24, 10 a.m. University Art - Midtown How to Make Money as an Artist: Your Art Marketing Blueprint for Success w/ Jennifer Laurel Keller, June 24, 10:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Verge Center for the Arts The Brightsiders Group Art Show Curated by Adam D. Miller, Through Aug. 20 Nasty Women Artists’ Salon, June 22, 5:30 p.m. Village Green Park Cordova Council Friday Moonlight Movies, June 23 & June 30, 8:30 p.m. WAL Public Market R Street Block Party & Maker's Mart feat. Handmade Vendors, Eats, Drinks, Performances, Kids Zone and More, June 24, 3 - 8 p.m. Wells Fargo Pavilion Music Circus Presents: Beauty and the Beast, June 20 - July 2 William B Pond Recreation Area American River Parkway Foundation Presents: Summer Solstice Dinner and Auction, June 24, 6 p.m. William Land Park 9th Annual Team Hope Walk 2017, June 24, 8 a.m. - 2 p.m. Yolo Brewing Co. Trivia Night, Tuesdays, 6 p.m.

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Girls Gone Wild Rough Night Rated R Words Daniel Romandia It’s been nearly 10 years since The Hangover was released, which means we’ve been subject to a steady stream of “crazy night out” comedies for the better part of a decade. Rough Night is certainly part of that long-winded trend, but it’s more of a crazy night in for the female cast. The movie starts out in formulaic fashion with four best friends leading very different lives after they all graduated college. Scarlett Johansson plays Jess, who is running a failing campaign for state senate and is set to marry Peter, played by Paul W. Downs or Trey from Broad City. Jillian Bell is Alice, a school teacher and overbearing friend planning Jess’s bachelorette weekend. Ilana Glazer is Frankie, essentially Ilana from Broad City with more maturity and more politically active. Blair, played by Zoë Kravitz, doesn’t seem to have much going on outside of her custody battle. Finally, Kate McKinnon plays Jess’s best friend from her semester abroad in Australia, Pippa. A weekend trip to Miami before a wedding seems like the average night out for a group of women celebrating their friend’s upcoming vows. However, Jess is in the middle of a campaign and just wants to have an early night. After a few bumps of coke and your typical slow-motion nightlife sequence, the ladies come back to their borrowed Floridian mansion made of glass. In short order, the group accidentally kills a stripper and Jess has become your average politician. This isn’t a movie about plot, however. Rough Night exists to showcase the talents of its cast and to get its audience laughing. That’s not hard to do when you have Ilana Glazer playing her usual, feminist self and noted national treasure Kate McKinnon in any role. The movie’s shortcomings start coming through as the story progresses. There’s a simultaneous bachelor party that Peter is having—a much more relaxed affair in the form of a wine tasting.

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Downs is a great actor and he’s surrounded by other great actors like Eric Andre and Davis native Hasan Minhaj, but no one is utilized. Andre and Minhaj maybe have 10 lines between them, which just isn’t enough for the two. Bo Burnham makes an appearance at the bachelor party as well, which sounds like it would be rather charming. However, this movie doesn’t give room for any of these established personalities to be themselves. The movie as a whole would have benefited from more focus on the B-story and the great talent they put together for a few minutes of screen time. Rough Night loves its main cast, as it should. All the women should be stars in their own right, and that will soon be the case if there is any justice in the world. We’re all pulling for you, Ilana. This just isn’t the movie that’ll jettison them into the spotlight. It’s dick jokes galore, but they’re good dick jokes. There’s also plenty more laughs than just a dead body wearing sunglasses with a dildo for a nose, but there needs to be more than endless jokes for this to be a truly good movie. Zoë Kravitz is great as Blair, but her character is underwritten. She doesn’t do much outside of her one-note backstory and a scene where she gets eaten out by Demi Moore. Jillian Bell has proven that she is a great comedic force, but she is written into her usual role—the single best friend who tries to convince everyone to eat penis-shaped pasta. If you’ve taken a look at Rough Night’s Rotten Tomatoes score, then you’ve gotten an idea if this movie is actually worth your time. As of publication, it has a 49 percent rating. It’s a very middle-of-theroad type of experience. The movie didn’t try reinventing the wheel or making a socio-political statement that some may have expected looking at the cast and director. This had the potential to be a defiant, forward-thinking affair with hints of wit straight from Broad City. Instead, the creators of Rough Night opted for a fun hour and a half that you’ll maybe end up watching only a handful of times. Just be on the lookout for the cast in the future. Everyone here will continue to be in more projects and we should all be very happy about that. Dive Into Sacramento & Its Surrounding Areas

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I’ve never stepped foot inside of a Whole Foods. However, that doesn’t preclude me from having strong opinions about it, all of which are harsh and baseless. You might think that makes me a bad person, and you may very well be correct. And hey, maybe I’ve been missing out all these years. Maybe artisanal asparagus water would change my life and allow me to fart rainbows and poop unicorns. But then I wouldn’t be able to ride around on my high horse denouncing something I, for no reason other than I think it makes me edgy, find to be totally excessive and elitist. Now I’ll take a few moments to bask in my own irrational indignation as it has sold itself out to online retail giant Amazon. The Whole Foods brand, of course, isn’t going anywhere, though. It seems that brands never die, no matter how bad they fail or how tarnished their reputations become. (Hey, even Bill Cosby managed to eke out a mistrial, so there’s that.) They just change and become more watered down until they become some shade of beige with a logo slapped on top of it. It wasn’t even four years ago that Whole Foods was riding high on the grass-fed, antibiotic-free hog. Its stock price maxed out at $65 per share. They were seen as a pioneer in the world of organic food grocers. But it didn’t take long for the rest of the food world to catch up with them. Other larger retailers got hip to the trend toward organic foods. Whole Foods was then rocked by a couple of overpricing scandals and shareholders started to jump ship. Whole Foods’ stock lost more than half of its value by the end of 2016. This would be kind of a bummer if Whole Foods’ CEO John Mackey wasn’t a total prick. Like, I never met the guy or really know that much about him, but it’s probably safe to assume he is. Mackey has the sort of rags-toriches story that might lead you to believe the American Dream isn’t dead and gone. He opened his first organic grocery, Safer Way, in Austin, Texas, in the late ‘70s after living in a vegetarian commune named Prana (oh, that’s sooooo cool). Eventually, Whole Foods grew to become a national giant, with stores all over the country. When the company opened a megastore in New York City, people lined up outside just to be the first ones to shop there. Why anyone would be that excited about a grocery store is beyond me, but maybe quinoa is the only reason they get

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out of bed in the morning. I think that’s sort of sad, but who am I to judge? With Whole Foods stock prices in the tank, a hedge fund named Jana Partners (I bet they’re a bunch of jerks, too) bought up 9 percent of the company’s shares in an effort to “pressure the company to either overhaul its business or sell itself,” according to an article on Texasmonthly.com. “These people, they just want to sell Whole Foods Market and make hundreds of millions of dollars, and they have to know that I’m going to resist that,” Mackey later said in the same article. “That’s my baby. I’m going to protect my kid, and they’ve got to knock Daddy out if they want to take it over.” It didn’t seem like Daddy put up too much of a fight. Amazon purchased Whole Foods for $13.7 billion, which seems like a steal considering that much would probably only get you a head of romaine lettuce and a bushel of strawberries at most Whole Foods locations. Amazon, the flaming pile of dicks they are, bought Whole Foods in an attempt to give a big fuck you to Walmart, also a corporation of douchebags. Walmart had already purchased Jet.com, which I honestly never heard of, in order to challenge Amazon’s online retail dominance. And it’s not enough for Amazon to be the kingpin of peddling things on the internet, so they’ve bought Whole Foods in order to challenge Walmart’s dominion over the brick-and-mortar world. Will it work? Believe it or not, 56 percent of Walmart’s $486 billion in profits last year came from grocery sales, according to Reuters. Amazon plans to change Whole Foods’ image a bit by lowering the grocer’s prices. So Walmart may have a serious battle on its hands, but even so, what’s the endgame here? How much more can Amazon and Walmart have? How long is it before they absorb one another to become the amoebic Walmazon Multi-Corp, a hydra-like monster made up of douche-y CEOs and dick-y entrepreneurs gobbling up whatever’s in their path? I guess I should feel bad for Mackey. Even though I prefer to believe he’s a steaming pile of garbage, Whole Foods was his life’s work, and he had to let it go. I’ll just think of him dabbing his tears with hundred dollar bills if that inclination ever arises.

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