Submerge Magazine: Issue 251 (October 23 - November 6, 2017)

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We’ve featured a lot of bands in our time. Being 251 issues deep, I can say with confidence that we’ve probably covered easily more than 800 bands. I bet at least half or more of that number were/are local musicians.

And having seen nearly that many local bands live over my years, I can easily say that one of my favorite Sacramento bands of all time was Red Host.

Red Host consisted of three members, Chelsea Wolfe, Ian Bone and Jess Gowrie. In our second issue, all the way back in early 2008, we even ran a show review for a gig Red Host played with Bright Light Fever at The Press Club. Shortly after that, Red Host parted ways, but nevertheless, I’d say it’s pretty obvious we at Submerge loved everything each one of them have done since. We interviewed Wolfe in 2010 around the release of her solo album The Grime and the Glow, and again in 2012 around the release of Unknown Rooms: A Collection of Acoustic Songs. We’ve featured Ian Bones’ Darling Chemicalia project in 2012. And we’ve featured the bad ass drummer that is Jess Gowrie in her projects I’m Dirty Too (2012), Happy Fangs (2015), and most recently this past February for the release of Horseneck’s album Heavy Trip.

Luckily for everyone’s ears, Wolfe and Gowrie have put their past behind them and became friends and bandmates once again, and collaborated on one hell of a heavy new Chelsea Wolfe record, Hiss Spun, which was just released on Sept. 22.

The tour promoting the album will be coming through Sacramento on Nov. 3 at Ace of Spades. I believe Chelsea hasn’t played Sacramento since her show at Harlow’s in 2012 so be sure to get your tickets to see her, because who knows when she’ll play here again.

In the meantime, read our interview with Chelsea Wolfe starting on page 22 and learn about the bond between her and Jess Gowrie, how insomnia and sleep paralysis play a role in her creative process, as well as what she plans on doing this winter to start working on new songs.

Read. Learn. Do rad stuff.

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IF YOU RELEASE IT, (HOPEFULLY) THEY WILL COME 5 UPCOMING LOCAL ALBUM RELEASE SHOWS TO LOOK FORWARD TO! For many local musicians, the all-too-rare “album release show” is likely the highlight of their year—hell, maybe even their entire gigging career.

To have not only written an entire album’s worth of material, but then to have gotten it recorded, mixed, mastered and printed/pressed, and then on top of all that to plan, promote and play an album release show at a local venue takes a lot of work, and that’s a major understatement.

So, in the spirit of supporting hardworking, dedicated local musicians, check out these five upcoming album release shows featuring Sacramento artists. Get out there and show them some love!

Local Americana/ folk duo According to Bazooka are celebrating the release of their new album Where We Are Now on Thursday, Oct. 26 at Fox and Goose.

Richard Urbino (vocals, guitar) and René Martucci (vocals, accordion) will be joined on stage for this gig by Jamie Knapp (vocals, upright bass). The record was produced by David Houston and recorded at Moon Studios in Sacramento. The release show is free, 21-plus, and starts at 7 p.m. Physical CDs available for $15, or download it from CD Baby for just $10.

Visit Accordingtobazooka.com for more info.

Sacramento’s gritty rockers The Ghost Town Rebellion are returning with the long-awaited release of their second full-length album, Silver and Gold. Half of the record was done with Joe Johnston at the famed Pus Cavern Recording Studio, and half was done by the band themselves at their own studio.

To celebrate, they’re throwing a free 21-plus show (and costume party!) on Saturday, Oct. 28 at Shady Lady. The party kicks off at 9:30 p.m. sharp with an opening set from Jacob Paul and the Heartbeat. You can pick up a limited edition CD at the show for just $10. Visit Theghosttownrebellionofficial.com to learn more about the band and to check out their sound.

With roots in both the Bay Area and the greater Sacramento area, Americana/ indie/folk duo Misner & Smith have made quite an impact in recent years with constant touring and five albums under their belts. Their latest offering, Headwaters, is their first cover album, comprised of tracks from artists that inspire them, from Neil Young, to The Band, to Dr. Dog. The duo—Sam Misner (guitar, vocals) and Megan Smith (upright bass, mandolin, vocals)—have a Sacramento release show planned for Sunday, Oct. 29 at Capital Stage at 7 p.m., where they will be joined by collaborator Josh Yenne (electric guitar, pedal steel). Tickets are $30 for the general public, $25 for Capital Stage subscribers. Learn more at Misnerandsmith.com or Capstage.org.

If you picked up our last issue, then you’re likely already familiar with local folk/rock/blues artist Blue Oaks, who were featured as one of our cover stories. If you missed our interview with Blue Oaks’ founder/creative force Brendan Stone, hit up our website (Submergemag.com) to give it a read. Blue Oaks’ album release show for To Be Kind is Sin is set for Monday, Oct. 30 at the CLARA Auditorium. They’ll be playing the new album in its entirety, and there will be plenty of “sinful festivities,” including tarot card readings, Seven Deadly Sins-inspired libations, and Roderick Carpio playing phonograph grooves.

Doors open at 7 p.m., 21-plus only, $5 suggested donation, black and blue clothing encouraged.

Visit Blueoaksmusic.com for more info.

Easily one of the most hypedup local artists right now is hip-hop/indie groovers Hobo Johnson and the LoveMakers.

In the last year or so, Hobo’s had several videos go viral on Facebook, landed a Submerge cover story, got written up in The Sacramento Bee and SN & R, won multiple SAMMIE awards, played Concerts in the Park to thousands of fans, and that’s just the beginning. Now he’s throwing an album release show at Harlow’s on Thursday, Nov. 9 that will feature other local heavy hitters JMSEY (aka James Cavern), The Philharmonik and Jordan Moore. The show will be all-ages with a $10 cover. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. Visit Facebook.com/ hobojohnson94Corolla or Harlows.com for more info.

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It’s supposed to be a day to celebrate the dead, but with everything that goes down, it feels more like a celebration of life to me.

That’s why you don’t want to fuck it up. The good news is that you only have to follow a few simple dos and don’ts for your Halloween to be spooktacular.

For many people, Halloween begins with trick-or-treating, and if you plan on passing out candy, you better make sure your sweets game is tight or you might ruin someone else’s night. If you want to be the best house on the block, full-size candy bars will make you a legend for sure, but you don’t have to shell out big bucks on candy bars to be one of the “good” houses. You can go the fun-sized route if that’s better for your budget, as long as you go with a variety pack of some kind to mix it up and keep the kids happy.

The kinds of treats you offer are up to you, but there are a few you should avoid, lest you want to face the wrath of angry trick-ortreaters. Any kind of fruit, besides caramel or candied apples, is a no-go. That kind of shit will get your house egged. Halloween is not the night to berate people about the downsides of candy. Same goes with coins of monetary value less than a dollar. Halloween is not a day to get rid of your loose change, and trick-or-treaters are not Coinstars. Keep it simple and stick with candy, just don’t get the wack shit.

For starters, your candy should have been made sometime in this century. I’m certain the world’s supplies of candy corn, Necco Wafers and Jujyfruit were all made in the 1950s. At this point, we are probably only halfway through our supplies, so I’d stay away from those for a while. Anything that tastes

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like licorice is going to be tossed by most people, so unless you are trying to make one weird kid’s night, I’d avoid that stuff, too. You also shouldn’t be the creep who turns an urban legend into real life by putting needles and razor blades in Snickers bars. I happen to like Snickers, so keep your grubby mitts off ‘em, ya jerk!

But enough about candy; that’s kid stuff. The real heart of Halloween are the costumes. Putting a costume together can be great if you have something you are looking forward to, but it’s kind of a pain in the ass if you get dragged into something by a friend.

Costumes can be expensive and good ones take planning. It’s difficult to throw something together at the last minute and pull it off without people asking you to explain your costume all night. Sometimes it works, but usually it just looks like you waited too long to get a costume together. So, if you want to do it right, put some thought into it!

As far as what you should dress up as, I think you should be what you want, with one limitation. If you are thinking of coloring your face to appear to be a different race or appropriating someone else’s culture, don’t.

You might think it’s funny, or that you’re being ironic, or that you have some other excuse that you’ve used to justify to yourself that blackface is OK in your case, but the rest of the world will see it for what it is: racist. So, don’t do it! Just don’t!

The last part of the Halloween experience that we must cover is scary stuff. Halloween is all about being scary, and there are many ways you can celebrate that aspect of this glorious holiday. Everyone loves a house decorated for Halloween, especially if it’s a haunted house. Not everyone can take it to that level, but we can all watch a scary movie or scare trick-or-treaters to celebrate. Just don’t go overboard.

It’s not cool to steal candy from kids, and Halloween is not about getting into fights.

That’s why we say, “Happy Halloween” not, “It’s Halloween, so fuck you, bitch!” Try to keep that and these few tips in mind and your Halloween is guaranteed to be a good one!

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Take a Day Trip Down to Steamboat Acres’ Cute-AsCan-Be Pumpkin Patch Sometimes it’s nice to take a breather from the hustle and bustle of Sacramento city life. What’s one of the best (and most affordable) ways to do that, you ask? Two words: day trip! Just last weekend, a few of us from Submerge headed south from downtown Sacramento for about half-an-hour, enjoying breathtaking views of the Sacramento River and many wineries along the way, and ended up at Steamboat Acres near the tiny delta town of Courtland. Mostly known for growing pears, Steamboat Acres also has a cute-as-can-be pumpkin patch open to the public on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays during the month of October. You can walk up and down rows of pear trees with hundreds of pumpkins to choose from scattered throughout the orchard. They’ve also got great food for sale like pumpkin pies, pear hand pies, sandwiches (pear bacon jam grilled cheese, anyone?), smoked lamb gyros, even craft beer and prosecco pear floats for those of drinking age. Check out draft horses and some awesome vintage farm equipment, take a hayride and get a tour of the farm, and pick up some farm-fresh honey. If you have kids, they’ll love it here! There’s a bounce house and a giant “hay pyramid” for them to climb all over. It’s truly one of the best imaginable day trips to take from Sacramento. Quick, easy, beautiful and fun!

Admission to Steamboat Acres’ pumpkin patch is free, but it’s $10 per car to park, so be sure to carpool.

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Festival of South African Dance Comes to Greater Sacramento Region for Two Shows • Nov. 8 & 9 Direct from Johannesburg, South Africa, comes a spirited ensemble of 20 dancers and musicians from two different troupes, the Gumboots and Pantsula Dance Companies, brought together on one stage for the Festival of South African Dance. Gumboots dancing, traditionally performed in rubber boots, was developed by black miners to accompany work songs and serve as a form of communication when talking and drumming were prohibited. Pantsula is a form of high-energy urban street dancing with quick and technical footwork that originated during apartheid in black townships. The Festival of South African Dance is currently on a nationwide tour and will be coming to the greater Sacramento region for two shows. Catch it live on Nov. 8 at the Harris Center in Folsom, or on Nov. 9 at the Center for the Arts in Grass Valley. Visit Harriscenter.net or Thecenterforthearts.org for more information and to snag tickets.

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Tony Award Winning Musical About Legendary Singer-Songwriter Carole King Opens New Season of Broadway Sacramento • Nov. 1–12 Every year, more than 150,000 people pack into the Community Center Theater to see and hear the sights and sounds of some of Broadway’s most popular productions, brought right here to our very own city via California Musical Theatre’s Broadway Sacramento series. The 2017-2018 season is kicking off in style on Wednesday, Nov. 1 with a 16-show run of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, a Broadway play that has received rave reviews from critics and fans alike, which is now in the midst of a North American tour. Beautiful tells the inspiring true story of King’s unbelievable rise to fame as one of the most successful songwriters and musicians of all time. Just some of King’s many accomplishments include selling more than 25 million units worldwide and winning four Grammys for her 1971 solo album Tapestry.

She was also inducted into both the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and is the first woman to be awarded the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song (which was presented to her by President Barack Obama at a star-studded White House gala). King has lived on a ranch in Idaho since the early ‘80s, and remains as relevant as ever today, not only through the success of Beautiful, but also by being actively involved with environmental organizations in support of wilderness preservation. The Sacramento stint of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical runs Nov. 1–12, so don’t miss your chance to see this amazing woman’s story come to life in front of your eyes. Community Center Theater is located at 1301 L St. Visit Californiamusicaltheatre.com/broadway-sacramento or call (916) 808-5181 for more information and to purchase tickets.

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As much as I love being on the move—road tripping, planning the next vacation, running to the bike trail after work to catch the last light of the day—sometimes all I want is an inexpensive but delicious glass of wine to end my day. Sacramento is becoming one of the more hip towns in California, if not in the entire nation. With that being said, I expect some of the best happy hours to be dabbled throughout the city. After searching and searching for “the best wine happy hour in Sacramento,” I came up with next to nothing. There are endless articles that talk about “the best happy hours,” but those span over 30 miles in distance and cover a large variety of drinks and eats. So, what’s a girl to do? This article differs a bit from my usual outdoor escapades, but as the final warm weather wave is upon us, I think it is necessary to enjoy those after-work patios with a large glass of red in a happy hand.

Commence thesis-level wine happy hour investigation. I made a list of all the wine bars, dive bars, fancy bars and restaurants in Sacramento proper that claimed to have a wine list on their happy hour menu. This process involved calling, networking, Google searching and diving deep into Yelp reviews.

Obsessive is a term too light for the research I was gathering. If becoming a self-proclaimed wine connoisseur is on your list of things to do, just attempt to create your own “best wine happy hour” list and you will not only gain a perfected palate, but as it turns out, you will also get loads of free wine in the process. This list is based off about 20 happy hours that I took part in—and I’ll tell you right now, I had more than a glass of wine at each of these venues. I’m awarding myself an expert happy-hour-goer for this achievement. Enough rambling, let’s get to the best wine happy hours in Sacramento (with nice patios, because this girl likes to be outside).

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T H E G R A N D | 1600 L St. Makes me happiest: Monday–Friday, 5–7 p.m., $5 glass rotating You know it, but most likely have never actually experienced this Sacramento gem. Not only is this one of the smallest wine bars in the entire United States, it is one of the oldest buildings on the block. The charm this place emanates makes my heart soar. Located on the corner of 16th and L streets, the patio is inconspicuous for its popular location, and a perfect place for people watching or chatting with the cute and friendly bartender. With many Mediterranean wines to choose from, The Grand is my favorite happy hour spot for wine in Sacramento.

5 8 D E G R E E S & H O L D I N G | 1217 18th St. Makes me happiest: Monday–Friday, 3–7 p.m., $5 glass of red, white or sparkling This one stole my heart with the experience. Immediately when walking in, the sommelier introduced herself, sat down and was more than willing to chat with us and share endless information on their selection of wines and bites of food. I started with a glass of red, followed with a glass of white and was convinced to finish with a glass of sparkling. Show up on Thursday with a date and get down on dinner for two and a bottle of wine for $40. Needless to say, I have been back.

L U C C A R E S T A U R A N T & B A R | 1615 J St. Makes me happiest: Monday–Friday, 3–6 p.m. (Thursday all night!) $5 glass When I am in happy hour mode, I am also in frugal mode. Taking one look at Lucca, I knew I would be spending a pretty penny. To my surprise, a glass of red followed the $5 trend of my favorite places and the quiet atmosphere calmed my work-induced, stressed mind.

R E V O L U T I O N W I N E S | 2831 S St. Makes me happiest: Tuesday–Friday, 3–6 p.m., $5 rosé and white, $6 red Hipsters and young folk, Temple coffee next door, Natural Foods Coop across the street. You get the idea. This laid-back venue is great for an after-work pick-me-up or cooldown. You can buy jugs of wine or bring back your jug for a refill. Wooden and well-lit with large windows, this one is high in my book.

T H E R I N D | 1801 L St., Suite 40 Makes me happiest: Er’ day, 3–6 p.m., $2 off Three words: wine and cheese.

Sit on the patio and plan your next vacation with a glass of red, white, rosé or sparkling, and until next time, adventure on.

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Sacramento has been labeled the “Farm-to-fork” capital, but you’ve been part of the movement for a some time now right?

Yeah, so I grew up in San Francisco and went to hotel and restaurant school there at City College, graduated, and was in San Francisco at a very exciting time in the early ‘80s, when the culinary revolution was happening. I’m glad you’re asking because farm-to-fork is like this “new” thing right? But it’s really not. I mean, it’s great that somebody branded it as such, and it’s something for Sacramento to grab onto. You know we exemplify the lifestyle here more than anybody, but in the ‘70s and early ‘80s, chefs in the city, like my cousin, Mark Miller, who ran the kitchen at Chez Panisse alongside Jeremiah Tower and Jean-Pierre Moulle—he even hired Judy Rodgers who became famous at Zuni—these chefs were all connecting with farms and buying fresh ingredients.

We changed our menus everyday based on what was market-driven, so that was the way it was happening. In that little epicenter is where it started and it eventually had this ripple effect across the country until people like myself who grew up watching that, and seeing that, left and brought it somewhere else.

And that’s when you took that style of cooking to Atlanta?

I went to Atlanta and thought that’s just what you would do there as well.

But I got there and I was like, “Who grows lettuce here?” And they were like, “What do you mean who grows lettuce?

We buy it from California.”

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ichael Tuohy is now entering year two inside Golden 1 Center as the General Manager of Legends Hospitality, and has been busy making sure that almost everything from the hot dogs to the house made nacho cheese sauce has been sourced from within 150 miles of Sacramento.

This goal may seem daunting given the scale at which food is served inside a professional sports arena, but Tuohy is no stranger to tracking down and sourcing the freshest local ingredients he can find. He recalls a time as a 20-something chef in Atlanta, when fresh produce wasn’t as abundant as one would think.

“There was a woman from the local newspaper, she had a friend and they were kind of growing some things, they would bring them to me at my restaurant,” Tuohy recalled.

As the women delivered homegrown produce, she asked if she could set up a meeting with Tuohy and a group of farmers.

“I was like, ‘Of course!’” Tuohy continued, “So we met in some dirt parking lot with these farmers in pickup trucks … who showed

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up with random [produce] in paper bags.”

Not long after their first meeting, the Georgia Grown Co-Op was formed, for which Tuohy sat on the initial board.

Whether in San Francisco, Atlanta, Napa or Sacramento, Tuohy has always sought out the freshest ingredients he can get his hands on, which was one of the main reasons he decided to move back to California in 2007 as founding executive chef of Grange Restaurant and The Citizen Hotel in downtown Sacramento.

“The real clincher for me to come and accept it was the fact that we have a farmers market across the street at Cesar Chavez Park from May through October. I was like, ‘Are you kidding me? There’s a farmers market right across the street from the restaurant?’” Tuohy said. “It was as good as having your own farm or even better maybe.”

Recently over coffee and Liege waffles, Tuohy and I discussed his farm-to-table roots, the tricky problems that arise when sourcing locally while feeding the masses and how the discovery of a farmers market in The Peach State moved him to tears.

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Wow, so what did you do? Was it hard to find fresh produce?

I was so happy when I found this one farmers market. It was this little tiny place that was jam-packed. It had sawdust on the floors, people crashing into each other with shopping carts. There was a frenetic energy there, but they had polenta, they had sundried tomatoes, olive oil and a lot of imported things. It brought tears to my eyes because I was like, “Yes! It actually exists here. This is great!” I was really happy, because all I knew is what we were doing out here in California, doing a Mediterranean style of cooking using fresh local ingredients.

So you are going into year two at the Golden 1 Center now.

Yeah, it’s very exciting! The first year was a monumental undertaking. I began the project three years ago, so I’ve been part of this from literally demolition, to excavation, to laying the foundation, to watching it come up. I was involved in a lot of the coordination and planning on the construction site.

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I was the guy on the ground for Legends Hospitality for over a year before I had my first hire join me. It was pretty intense.

From the very beginning you’ve been setting and meeting unheard-of goals when it comes to sourcing food for a professional sports complex.

We wrote a very ambitious sourcing and sustainability charter. It’s an amazing document, which I want to see if we can get framed and put up all over the building because it’s so compelling and powerful. It really does tell our story. It’s huge for an industry that’s notorious for not having good food or good practices.

Your goal is to have 90 percent of your food sourced from within 150 miles.

How is that even possible?

I spent a little time at Google a few years back and was very familiar with how they were sourcing and what they were sourcing. It was all of these great products and everything was from within 250 miles. So that was a pretty wide net in California, but still unprecedented. Sourcing from 250 miles to feed all their workforce there was very groundbreaking, but I said, “We can beat that. We’re in Sacramento!”

“I spent a little time at Google a few years back and was very familiar with how they were sourcing and what they were sourcing. It was all of these great products and everything was from within 250 miles. So that was a pretty wide net in California, but still unprecedented.

Sourcing from 250 miles to feed all their workforce there was very groundbreaking, but I said, ‘We can beat that. We’re in Sacramento!’”

—Michael Tuohy, General Manager of Legends Hospitality, on keeping the food at the Golden 1 Center locally sourced.

Currently you’re at 85 percent in the first year, what can you do to bring you up to 90 percent?

There’s some low-hanging fruit I’m looking to go after right now, like ketchup. So we have to do better. I think there’s an opportunity there for somebody to make a really good ketchup that is flavor-profiled similar to a Heinz that’s made closer to home, that is manufactured here creating another industry. A big compelling part of our story is how many things we’ve done with our program that has affected the economy locally in our region, whether it’s working with Rancho Llano Seco in Chico for all of our pork, or sourcing the cheese we use for our nacho cheese sauce from Petaluma Cheese.

Wow! Even the nacho cheese sauce?

Yeah, we get a custom blend of four different cheeses from Petaluma Cheese and we make the sauce in house.

Who supplies your other classic stadium options like hot dogs?

Schwarz supplies our hot dogs.

They’re made in Fairfield by [Engelhart Gourmet Foods], which is 43 miles away. When I grew up in San Francisco they were the hot dogs that I grew up

with. Schwarz Hot Dogs were a thing on Mission Street. Engelhart’s was actually down there too, so the two families had their separate businesses making sausages and cured meats and then in the ‘80s I believe the Schwarz family sold to the Engelharts.

was really about Sacramento and for Sacramento. The fact that the Kings’ vision was not only to do good, to make an impact, and to make Sacramento proud; they wanted local food and asked, “How can we be farmto-fork?”

What kind of changes are you experiencing or looking to make now that you are going into year two?

I’m looking to build on what we have in place, on what we’ve accomplished, but now I’m looking for what’s going to push us over 90 percent. Two of our local restaurant partners had menu items for which they were constantly buying vegetables out of season, so we have to get them from somewhere else, it doesn’t help our cause. I’d like to get them to swap out that summer squash—for example—with fresh peppers.

Where do you like to eat locally when you’re not at Golden 1 Center?

You know I’ve become a big fan of Binchoyaki and the food right now at the new Paragary’s—and I say this because Ryan O’Malley is the chef there, he was one of my opening sous-chefs at Grange and is really doing a great job. He’s focused, he has this nice Italian aesthetic going on. I’ve just had some really great meals there recently.

Why do you think it has taken this long for a sporting complex to focus on local and fresh food?

It’s getting better, it’s evolving, but it’s like trying to turn the Titanic, which is why a lot of chefs or food people never really went in that direction, because it just wasn’t appealing. This project was so different because it

Now that you’re not cooking in a professional kitchen on a daily basis, do you ever think about jumping back in one day?

I often think it would be a taco stand on the beach. You’re not dealing with the masses, and the public and all that stuff. If I had a taco stand on the beach, I could set my own hours, do one thing well and call it a day.

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he symbiotic relationship between skateboarding and the arts formed almost from the sport’s onset—the street culture that skating emerged from was one of such complete freedom of creativity that it was inevitable that art would eventually permeate every pore of the industry. The skill and dedication necessary for both are just as indistinguishable, from the tireless hours spent landing and perfecting a trick, to the focus, patience and imagination it takes to erect a piece of artwork, both disciplines seemed destined to unite.

For Stefan Janoski, a local legend of sorts who honed his prowess on the board on the streets of Sacramento with the likes of Brandon Biebel and Omar Salazar, these worlds collided decades ago, too. A professional skateboarder known for his effortless, laid-back approach to some of the gnarliest tricks in the book, Janoski has been painting and sculpting since before he landed his big shoe contract with Nike and launched his eponymous sneaker line in 2004.

“I was into art before I was even into skating,” Janoski admits. “When I was a kid and they

[asked], ‘What do you want to be when you grow up,’ I said I was going to be an artist. When my sister taught me that they’re called ‘starving artists,’ I would tell everyone I was going to be a starving artist.”

Thanks to the skate culture's voracious appetite for celebrity sneakers, and a solid deal with a titan shoe company, Janoski’s able to work on his artistic endeavors without having to rely on the local soup kitchen for sustenance.

Local skate fiends and art collectors unfamiliar with the professional skateboarder's artistic portfolio are in for a treat when Janoski unveils his new body of work, titled Nightmares of Normality, on Nov. 3 at Beatnik Studios in Midtown Sacramento. For Janoski, bringing this show to Beatnik is a homecoming of sorts—it’s only after departing Sacramento for Brooklyn, New York, in the early 2000s that he really began to focus on his artistic yearnings. Seeking refuge from the bitterly cold East Coast winters, Janoski hunkered down and reemerged with a prolific collection of work that many of his family and friends in Sacramento haven’t been privy to until now.

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AFTER A COLD WINTER’S WORK IN BROOKLYN, STEFAN JANOSKI BRINGS HIS ART BACK HOME WORDS LOVELLE HARRIS

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The bulk of the work in the upcoming show is from those prolific days in his Brooklyn warehouse—a space so massive in scale that the work born from its brick confines reflects the enormity of the space in which they were created.

“You know in New York the winters are very cold, so it’s a great place to do art if you want to stay inside for months,” he says with a chuckle.

“I was going on [tour] at the same time, but when I was there I would just be in the house making stuff. I started trying to make, like, really tall papier-mache guys, but that didn’t really turn out, so then I just started hanging huge canvases on the walls and just painting. I just had all of these funny little ideas and I thought they’d be even funnier if they were big.”

Janoski’s work is a menagerie of mediums, scales and techniques. He comfortably shifts gears from the skatepark to the music room—yes, he even finds time to write and play music—to the easel. But it’s the solitary nature of his work that fuels the creative process and breathes life into his creations—introspection, rather than inspiration serves as its catalyst.

“A lot of it’s what’s going on in my head, [and] of course reflective of what’s going on around me,” he explains. “I mostly just either think of something that I’ve never seen that I would love to see, or I have [a specific] idea or sometimes I make stuff for no real reason and then it ends up going together with something else. There’s lots of different ways my pieces emerge.”

With exhibitions in New York, London and Hong Kong, it’s only fitting that Janoski bring his work back home to share with those who have supported both his skating career and creative endeavors since way back in the day, especially with a body of work that shows the evolution of his mediums from sketches to painting to sculpture.

“I had always sculpted, but not very much. I was always much more into paintings and stuff, and then I just had these ideas that I thought would be better as sculptures,” Janoski says.

“When I made them, I was like, ‘I’m going to cast them in bronze and do the whole thing.’ Once I did that I loved it. Then all of my ideas became three-dimensional after that. I didn’t even have painting ideas any more. That’s all I’ve been doing for years. I mean, I still do the paintings and drawings and everything else, but mostly when I’m going out to the art room I just sit there and sculpt.”

From the expansive canvases that were born out of the frenetic energy of New York, to his growth in the sculptural arts, Nightmares of Normality will feature work that moves from his commentary on family, to more abstract themes dealing with religion.

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made the sculptures and then had to drive them to the foundry in Queens, and I’d be in the car holding this sculpture that’s wobbling around.

The roads in New York have the biggest potholes, so the whole drive me and my wife would be hectically trying to get there without ruining the whole thing. It’s pretty funny, but now I’ve gotten a lot better, so they’re pretty sturdy.”

The upcoming show will showcase seven or eight of the expansive pieces made within the frigid confines of his Brooklyn warehouse as well as a collection of bronze sculptures ranging in size from miniature to colossal. Nightmares of Normality will also feature the work of skateboarder-turned-artist Joe Castrucci, who collaborated with Janoski on several pieces.

Castrucci also happens to be of the owners of a skate company that sponsors the skater-cum-artist.

“It’s actually going to be a lot of art, and then Joe Castrucci, who is the owner and the artist behind Habitat Skateboards, made graphics of my sculptures,” Janoski explains.

“The art he did for the show is actually based on my art, so there’s going to be skateboards with his graphic interpretation of my sculptures, which is pretty cool.”

Setting up the show was a concerted effort between Janoski, Wes Davis of Beatnik and Castrucci. After all, Janoski currently resides in Los Angeles with his wife, so collaboration was an elemental component of bringing his work back to his native haunts. After delays in coordinating the effort, Janoski credits the team for finally enabling him to bring the work he has amassed during his time away from home.

“I was going to do an art show out here [earlier] but it fell through, so I was talking to Wes, who is my old friend, and [as] we started planning this show, I said, ‘Hey, I have all these paintings and all of these sculptures I did out in L.A. as well,’ so we just figured, like, ‘Hey, let’s just put it all in there.’”

Concepts can get heavy when you talk about art, especially when you’re dealing with the size of bronzed sculptures. But bringing a sense of levity to the work is an important component of the creative process for Janoski.

“I like to have a good sense of humor,” he admits. “I like to take things that are considered serious but show them in a way that shows they’re not serious if you [really] think about it.”

The opening reception for Stefan Janoski’s Nightmares of Normality will take place at Beatnik Studios (723 S St., Sacramento) on Nov. 3 from 6–9 p.m. For more info, go to Facebook.com/ beatnikstudiossacramento or Beatnik-studios.com. The exhibit will be on display until Nov. 22.

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THE GHOST IN THE MACHINE

RISING HIP-HOP STAR WIFISFUNERAL MAKES THE LEAP FROM INTERNET FAME TO A MAJOR LABEL DEAL WORDS CLAUDIA RIVAS

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he days of Limewire and Napster are behind us by at least a decade.

CDs are practically ancient artifacts. Catering to the music obsessions of the Millennials is nearly over, and business markets are looking to gratify the fixations of Generation Z. The tech savvy Generation Z are internet experts that don’t need either the confines of a physical copy or an illegal download to satisfy their ears.

Video platforms (YouTube), streaming services (Spotify and SoundCloud), social media (Snapchat, Instagram) and messaging services (Musical. ly) are all mediums where the latest music trends are shared.

With the internet being a hub for practically everything and anything awesome and uncomfortable, it’s hard to make this new generation squirm.

For this group, calling something weird or confusing has less of a negative connotation.

So what pushes the envelope for Gen Z in music?

All they really need is wi-fi and the world and its music are at their fingertips. Which brings us to an artist whose success comes from his loyal fan base and his use of the online world as a powerful tool: Bronx-born Isaiah Rivera, better known as Wifisfuneral.

“I wouldn’t put myself in a category with anybody, because I feel like I’m starting a whole name for myself. What I would describe my music as is very refreshing and new, very out of the box, in a nutshell,” commented Rivera on his style and sound during a recent interview with Submerge.

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Now hailing from Palm Beach, Florida, Rivera is a 20-year-old rapper whose art covers his experiences with depression, selling Xanax and his past with addiction.

Rivera has continued his viral success since the release of his album Black Heart Revenge, which landed him in the Top 100 on the iTunes hiphop charts. He has garnered more than 139,000 followers on SoundCloud, and is currently on a nationwide tour named after his latest work, Boy Who Cried Wolf.

With the dark corners of the internet displaying more and more reflections of humans’ internal psyche, artists on all platforms are deciding that now is an important time to share what’s going on in their minds.

When asked who paved the way for the mental honesty in his work, Rivera responded, “I think myself, because at the time [I started] I was really the only person even doing it.

“Honestly, people will talk about depression itself but not really get in depth with it,” he continued. “I guess you could say who sparked the idea was [Kid] Cudi, because he was like the only artist I saw really doing that. Just being first to express it honestly, it didn’t have to be about how he talked about it, just the fact that he was the only one to talk about it [a dark mental state].”

Rivera admits that he doesn’t see a stigma against presenting personal information on his mental state to the public. He believes that

the more an individual shares about himself, the easier the task is to spread awareness on mental illness.

As mental illness gradually becomes part of the public discussion, SoundCloud (a platform for creatives to share audio directly to listeners) has been a popular medium for a new wave of emotional rappers on the rise. With more than 70 tracks on SoundCloud, Rivera has gained much of his following on the site, but he would rather audiences not lump him in the category of “SoundCloud Rappers.”

“Well if everybody got their music from LimeWire, would they [the public] consider them LimeWire rappers?,” asked Rivera. “If everybody got it off BearShare you’d be considered a BearShare rapper. In the early ‘00s, the music you’d hear would be these exclusive Drake and Nicki Minaj songs.

They were like YouTube rappers when they first started. It’s just that people try to take it as something that it’s not and

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say things like, ‘They can only be called SoundCloud rappers because that’s the only thing that they produce their music on.’ Like obviously, bruh, because that’s the only place you’re going to fucking pay attention.”

SoundCloud is also known for the large success of other South Florida rappers: XXXTentacion, Ski Mask the Slump God and Lil Pump. But Rivera does not want to be categorized with these acts either. He wants to stand out on his own and is adamant that he sounds nothing like them.

With content that may be uncomfortable for some, his three projects (Black Heart Revenge, When Hell Falls, Boy Who Cried Wolf) specifically address his experiences with drugs—not to glorify the substances, but rather to display what he’s been through.

With more than 670,000 monthly listeners on Spotify and a co-sign from rapper/ producer Earl Sweatshirt, his fans hear what he’s saying.

On how his projects specifically distinguish themselves from each other, Rivera responded, “I mean if you listen to them they’re literally all completely different—like, sonically, the way I construct some of my songs—the intros and outros.”

Under a record label, artists have a 50/50 chance of flourishing into success or killing their dreams. Not all have great relationships with their acts. In past interviews, Rivera stated that he would never sign to a label, and would stay totally independent but he had a change of heart with his recent sign to Alamo/ Interscope in March.

He discussed how his choice was based on trusting the label with not only his career, but his vision. If the notion had not popped up in his head at that specific moment, he admits he’d probably still be independent right now.

“Half of America is just fucking followers. We don’t see someone do anything innovative or something that fucking inspires someone. You just realize that they don’t care. And then you’re like if they don’t care, why should you care?”

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When asked about whether he missed being independent, he commented, “Do I miss being independent?

Yes, because I actually had way more fun, but fuck it at this point.”

Chance the Rapper is an example of the success an independent artist can have, but there are obstacles and challenges in this path: touring, managing, figuring out whether a decision will work or not, and gaining a following. Parts of it are luck, success and talent of the artist among other factors.

But with Rivera, his insight today is that the quality of music doesn’t matter.

“People don’t appreciate music as much as they used to,” Rivera said. “But then again, I feel like everybody is at that mental state that nobody really gives a fuck about music. Like, everybody just gives a fuck about what’s happening right now.

“No one cares what’s going to happen two to three years from now especially on the music tip,” he continued. “For the most part, it’s like if you want to get rich quick, hey bro, here’s your golden ticket.”

With this new generation he describes the lack of authenticity in not only music but of young audiences themselves.

“Kids don’t act like themselves,” Rivera explained.

“Half of America is just fucking followers. We don’t see someone do anything innovative or something that fucking inspires someone. You just realize that they don’t care. And then you’re like if they don’t care, why should you care?”

As far as upcoming work, Rivera's scrapped his 27 Club project, and doesn’t plan on coming out with a debut album anytime soon. He continues to work on his craft with producer and friend Cris Dinero, but we’ll have to see if his music will reach as far as their internet connectivity, or disconnect.

See Wifisfuneral live at Holy Diver (1517 21st St.) on Nov. 8 at 7 p.m. Tickets are $17 in advance and can be purchased through Holydiversac.com. This is an all-ages show.

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THUNDERING HAZE CHELSEA WOLFE PARTS THE VEIL ON SIXTH STUDIO ALBUM, HISS SPUN

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cratch the surface of your being long enough and you’ll fall through into the abyss, a non-world without end, without up or down.

Stripped of all context, it is a place where one is left prey to all the wraith-ish antagonists of the psyche; to survive here, one must not only battle them, but create the very terrain on which to wage one’s battles.

It is a space Chelsea Wolfe, raised in Roseville and Sacramento, has returned to time after time in her work, from the charred sparseness of Apokalypsis (2011) to the poisoned synth melodies of Pain is Beauty (2013) and the stormy, distorted depths of Abyss (2015).

Taken as a whole, her stylistic arc is a gradually seething sojourn beyond the veil, gathering momentum and intensity, leading to the elemental fury and charged intimacy of her latest album, Hiss Spun (released Sept. 22).

Tagged over the past few years with everything from “goth” to “doom-metal,” Wolfe’s heavy aesthetic is grounded in delicate songwriting and haunting, siren vocals—half-lullaby, half-lament—which cut through the smoke and fire of her most abrasive songs. It’s no wonder she’s managed to simultaneously rivet the gaze of the criticosphere while cracking the Billboard 200 with her last two releases.

Hiss Spun, while emerging clearly from Wolfe’s previous meditations on themes dark and dreamlike, and the contrast between turmoil in the landscape and within the psyche, is the most scourgingly personal of her artistic statements thus far.

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She herself has described it as having an element of exorcism, and the suggestion of traumas corporeal and noncorporeal surge furiously to the surface of the lyrics at times. Such things can be gleaned by the listener; they refuse to be borne out in commonplace description, perhaps, but it is clear enough that they are used here as raw material to be sublimated through artistic excision.

Against the clinical white background of the album cover (inspired by Wolfe’s visits in her youth to sleep research facilities) she crouches, not so much against the coming purge but to the task of making pain express itself at her bidding. Song titles like “Vex,” “Strain,” “Welt” and “Scrape” underline the volatility of the subject matter, as if a reactor were needed to contain it all.

Outside of the psychological underpinnings of her work, Wolfe is an artist who rocks in the most brutal, primordial sense of the term. Further amping up her distorted grandeur by utilizing additional guitar and vocal work from Queens of the Stone Age’s Troy Van Leeuwen and Isis’ Aaron Turner on Hiss Spun, Wolfe’s succeeded in illuminating her ties to a grand tradition of soul-searing, head-banging music. If anyone can pull together the current demand for brutal emotional honesty and the newfound appreciation for the roar and hiss of black metal in 2017, it’s Chelsea Wolfe.

Fellow Sacramentans will have the chance to experience Wolfe at her latest creative height alongside pulse-shattering fright industrialists Youth Code at Ace of Spades on Nov. 3.

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Just in the first couple listens, I get the feeling that Hiss Spun has a lot to do with destruction—not in the sense of an apocalyptic end, but a destructive creation, reordering, making and unmaking. Did this play a big part in the work?

While I was writing this album, there was a lot I needed to finally heal from: my own selfdestruction and ill-health, my past and memories. There is a running theme in all my music of becoming stronger from getting through the difficult times—the forest needing the fire to regenerate—and it definitely continued on Hiss Spun.

You’ve said Hiss Spun is a host of small words and phrases with large meaning. What mindspace were you in to allow these terms to slowly gather together?

There are some keywords throughout that guide the album, and tie things together that may not otherwise seem connected. I was in a bad state while writing some of this album, but allowed myself to just be a mess and open up; allowed whatever needed to come out musically or lyrically to flow.

Listening to your discography in order, there is a clear building in anthemic intensity from one album to the next.

Is this mostly the means you have at your disposal as you progress, a build in confidence, a rediscovery of influences?

A build in confidence as I get older yes, and a rediscovery of influence—especially on Hiss Spun. Each album I make has its own catalyst, and for this one it was the reunion of my friend and drummer Jess Gowrie and I. We had a band in Sacramento years ago called Red Host, and she really taught me a lot about being in a band, being a good front-person, and just turned me onto a lot of great, heavy music. After I left to pursue my own project, there was seven years of separation. We didn’t see each other all that time but were pulled back together about two-and-a-half years ago.

As we became friends again it was clear that our musical chemistry wasn’t finished, so we started writing songs together. Those songs became the beginnings of Hiss Spun.

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Do you have any favorite films that fuel your visual input and leak into your music? If you could re-score a favorite film of yours, what would it be?

The Seventh Seal was an early influence for me. I saw it and then read Ingmar Bergman’s autobiography The Magic Lantern and was intrigued by his use of contrast and shadow. But also just the mood and concept of that film—the character of Death followed me for many years.

The album cover for my first album, The Grime and the Glow, was in tribute to that, shot by my friend Jessalyn Wakefield. As for re-scoring a favorite film, I don’t know. My favorites already have such great soundtracks—Encounters at the End of the World, Cold Mountain, Cry-Baby. I’d like to score something totally new.

Faith and spirituality seems to be on the wane, but our willingness to discuss and tackle trauma and the burdens we have as humans seems to have grown. Do we still need a connection to the supernatural in our lives? How can it help us?

Finding a connection to the self is very important these days. Sometimes the deepest spirituality can be found inward. Once you know yourself, you can be of use to others.

While making this album, I heard you got back into popular alternative artists from the ‘90s like Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson.

Around that time, it felt like there was a larger place for the willfully transgressive and “raw” nearer to the heart of popular music. Do you think we might be heading that way again in music as a whole?

Jess and Ben [Tulao, guitarist] and I would jam and write songs at my place, and then head to the dive bar down the street and play late ‘90s/early 2000s Nine Inch Nails, Soundgarden, Manson, Deftones and Queens of the Stone Age on the jukebox. I’d love to see that kind of music in a more present way again.

Like on SNL, for example, you rarely see rock bands anymore.

And there’s not a lot of room for it on the radio either.

I often find the verge between sleeping and waking, whether by day or night, is a really fertile wellspring for ideas— good and bad. Do you find this useful in your work?

And is there a way to make bad dreams/bad imaginative content “work” to benefit you?

I’ve been inspired by that state of mind for almost my whole life, without even realizing it most of the time. When I was a kid I had insomnia and bad night terrors. My parents took me to a sleep research facility where I was hooked up to all sorts of monitors and meant to fall asleep in a hospital bed in a small white room, to find what was wrong with me.

That actually became visual inspiration for Hiss Spun as well, in the album cover and in the video for “16 Psyche.”

Anyway, as I got older, I started having sleep paralysis regularly, but my version was not to be paralyzed, just waking up and the characters/ shapes from my dreams were still in the room with me, often moving toward me, so I’d lash out or scream. It takes a while to move on from that haziness, and it would follow me into my day as I wrote new music. I still deal with bouts of insomnia sometimes and sleep paralysis.

I’m not sure it’s something that ever goes away.

You’ll be coming up through NorCal and specifically Sacramento toward the tail end of fall. Is this your favorite time of year? What is your ideal natural setting?

Fall and winter are definitely my favorite times of year, yes.

Where I live now it snows in the winter and that quiet is unmatchable. I plan to spend this winter doing psychedelic experiments on myself and working on songs for my next album. Even though I’ve spent a lot more time in Sacramento lately since I moved back to Northern California, I haven’t played a show there since 2012 so I really look forward to coming back and seeing many friends and family!

It’s been a while, so be sure to give Chelsea Wolfe a warm welcome when she returns to melt our faces at Ace of Spades (1417 R St., Sacramento) on Nov. 3 at 7:30 p.m. with special guests Youth Code and Screature. Tickets are $22.50 and can be purchased through Aceofspadessac.com.

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Harlow’s Mario Spinetti, 5:30 p.m.

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Kupros Craft House Open Mic, 8 p.m.

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Bar 101 Open Mic, 7:30 p.m.

Cafe Colonial Here Knows When, Pastel Dream, Cardboard Houses, Meet Cute, 7 p.m.

Center for the Arts (Grass Valley) An Evening with Brett Dennen, 7:30 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.

Golden 1 Center Andre Rieu and his Johann Strauss Orchestra, 8 p.m.

Harlow’s Twiddle, Gene Evaro Jr., 7 p.m.

Holy Diver SWMRS, The Interrupters, Sharp/Shock, 6:30 p.m.

MOMO Sacramento Bourbon & Blues: HowellDevine, 5:30 p.m.

Mondavi Center: Vanderhoef Studio Theatre Open Mic, 6 p.m.

Nicholson’s MusiCafe Acoustic Open Mic, 6 p.m.

Old Ironsides Open Mic, 9 p.m.

Press Club Emo Night, 8 p.m.

Revival at the Sawyer Hump de Funk w/ DJ Ben J, 9 p.m.

Sacramento State: University Union Redwood Room Nooner w/ World Toor Beats, 12 p.m.

Shady Lady Dank Ocean & George Napp, 9 p.m.

Shine Naked Narratives Open Mic, 8 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.; Peter Petty and his Double P Revue, 9 p.m.

10.26 THURSDAY

Ace of Spades The Underachievers, Injury Reserve, Warm Brew, 6:30 p.m.

The Acoustic Den Cafe Jessica Malone, Ronhaar, Sam & Sarah, 6:30 p.m.

Bar 101 Karaoke, 7:30 p.m.

Berryessa Brewing Co. Doc Tari, 5 p.m.

Blue Lamp DJ Audio, Hennessy, Masyah, Kelly, T.K Stay Rokkin, Quincy Black, Guerra, Ree Realz, Tay West, JG by the Way, Young Hood, StuThaGreatHebrew, BiggMann, BamBAm, GetEmBob, 9 p.m.

The Boardwalk Raycito, Yung Cinco, All World X, Davey Dee, 8 p.m.

Cafe Colonial These White Pigeons, Amaya Lights, Bailey Zindel, The Herald, 7 p.m.

Capitol Garage Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Center for the Arts (Grass Valley) Joan Osborne: Sings the Songs of Bob Dylan, 8 p.m.

The Club Car (Auburn) Songwriters Showcase, 8 p.m.

Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m.

District 30 Barely Alive & Virtual Riot, 10 p.m.

Dive Bar Dueling Pianos, 9 p.m.

Fat City Bar & Cafe Live at 5: Michael Ray, 5 p.m.

Fox & Goose According to Bazooka, 7 p.m.

Harlow’s The Soft White Sixties, Dan Luke & the Raid, 8 p.m.

Holy Diver Fire Relief Event w/ Digital Rust, BOGL, Tha Fruitbat, Hollis and More, 7 p.m.

Kupros Craft House Stephen Yerkey, 9:30 p.m.

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

Mix DJ Eddie Edul, DJ Peeti V, 9 p.m.

Mondavi Center: Vanderhoef Studio Theatre Open Mic Night, 6 p.m.

Nicholson’s MusiCafe David Michael Acoustic Show & Open Mic, 6 p.m.

Old Ironsides Worthy Goat, The Variants, The Bottom Feeders, 8 p.m.

On The Y Karaoke, 10 p.m.

Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Locked N Loaded, 10 p.m.

Press Club Trash Rock, 9 p.m.

Revival at the Sawyer Tasty Thursdays w/ CrookOne, 9 p.m.

Rio City Cafe Live at 5: Simple Creation, 5 p.m.

Sacramento State Music Recital Hall Hot Jazz on a Cool Evening, 8 p.m.

SacTown Sports Bar & Grill Live at 5: Ariel Jean Band, 5 p.m.

Shady Lady Tropicali Flames, 9 p.m.

Shine Jazz Jam, 8 p.m.

Ten22 Live at 5: Alex Jenkins Trio, 5 p.m.

Torch Club Mind X, 5:30 p.m.; Brooker D and the Mellow Fellows, 9 p.m.

Veterans Memorial Theatre (Davis) Wand, Grave Lake, 7 p.m.

Wildwood Kitchen & Bar Ryan Hernandez, 7 p.m.

10.27 FRIDAY

The Acoustic Den Cafe Janet Noguera, Kat Gruvs, Forest Bailey, 7 p.m.

Bar 101 Broken & Mended, 9:30 p.m.

Berryessa Brewing Co. Polyrhythmics, 5 p.m.

Big Sexy Brewing Co. Sandra D, 4 p.m.

Blue Lamp FEA, Bruiser Queen, Las Pulgas, Krebtones, 8 p.m.

Capitol Garage Capitol Friday’s Reggae Night w/ DJ Veyn, 10 p.m.

Club Car Jenn Rogar, 9 p.m.

The Colony The Seafloor Cinema, Misha Allure, Hemispheres, City Mural, Nezumi Onna, 7 p.m.

Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m.

El Dorado Saloon Retro Metro, 9:30 p.m.

Folsom Hotel Saloon Posterchild, 9:30 p.m.

Fox & Goose Close To Normal, The Edna Garrett Experience, 9 p.m.

Golden Bear DJ CrookOne and Guests, 10 p.m.

Harlow’s The Purple Ones (Prince tribute), 9 p.m.

Holy Diver CKY, Kill The Precedent, ONOFF, Knocked Down, 7 p.m.; HOLY FXXX w/ DJs Shaun Slaughter, Adam Jay, Benjam, 10 p.m.

Kupros Craft House Neutral Spirits Trio, 9:30 p.m.

Mix Ryan Hernandez, 6:30 p.m.

Mondavi Center: Vanderhoef Studio Theatre Ballaké Sissoko & Vincent Ségal, 8 p.m.

Nicholson’s MusiCafe Open Mic Night, 6 p.m.

Old Ironsides M2 and the People, Double-O, 8 p.m.

On The Y The Dangaleros (Tom Petty tribute), 8 p.m.

Opera House Saloon (Roseville) Skid Roses, 9:30 p.m.

Palms Playhouse (Winters) Wake the Dead, 8 p.m.

The Park Ultra Lounge Konstantina Gianni, 9:30 p.m.

Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Harlis Sweetwater, 10 p.m.

Press Club DJ Rue, 9 p.m.

The Purple Place (El Dorado Hills) Simple Creation, 8:30 p.m.

Red Hawk Casino The Spazmatics, 9:30 p.m.

Sacramento Convention Center Diplo, Excision and More, 8 p.m.

Sacramento State Music Recital Hall CSUS Vocal Jazz Ensemble, 7 p.m.

Shady Lady Drunken Kung Fu, 9 p.m.

Shine PRVLGS, Analog Us, Cabbagehead, 8 p.m.

Sol Collective New Fame, DJ Skulz, J Ross Parrelli, Raza, Wrecluse, 7 p.m.

Strikes Unlimited (Rocklin) On The Fly, 9 p.m.

Thunder Valley Casino Resort Oingo Boingo, 9 p.m.

Torch Club Jimmy Pailer Band, 5:30 p.m.; Sam Pace and the Gilded Grit, 9 p.m.

Wildwood Kitchen & Bar Skyler Michael, 7 p.m.

Yolo Brewing Co. Doc Tari, 6 p.m.

Zinfandel Grille Jazz Gitan, 7 p.m.

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10.24 JESSICA MALONE Dive Bar 9:30 p.m.

10.25 SWMRS The Interrupters, Sharp/Shock Holy Diver 6:30 p.m.

10.26

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10.27 SAM PACE AND THE GILDED GRIT Torch Club 9 p.m.

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10.28 INAEONA Dreadnought Blue Lamp 8 p.m.

10.28 SATURDAY

Ace of Spades Yelawolf, Mikey Mike, Big Henri, Cookup Boss, 7 p.m.

The Acoustic Den Cafe Uprising, 3 p.m.; Daniel Champagne, Christie Lenee, Hussy Hicks, 7 p.m.

Bar 101 The Zach Waters Band, 9:30 p.m.

Berryessa Brewing Co. Home B4 Dark, 3 p.m.

Big Sexy Brewing Co. Sacramento Beer Enthusiasts 3rd Annual Halloween Party w/ DJ Ray Van Vision, 6 p.m.

Blue Lamp Dreadnought, InAeona, 8 p.m.

The Boardwalk Syco, The Elusive Fur’s, 24Gore, Tigerchrist, 7 p.m.

Cache Creek Casino Vince Neil (of Mötley Crüe), 8 p.m.

Capitol Garage The Corner w/ DJ Veyn & Guests, 10 p.m.

Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m.

El Dorado Saloon Apple Z, 9:30 p.m.

Folsom Hotel Saloon The Sock Monkey, 9:30 p.m.

Fox & Goose Cities You Wish You Were From, Children of the Grave (Black Sabbath tribute) and More, 9 p.m.

Goldfield Art Mulcahy and Roadside Flare, 7:30 p.m.

Harlow’s School of Rock Elk Grove, 12:30 p.m.; Petty Theft (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers tribute), 8 p.m.

Harrah’s Lake Tahoe Chris Botti, 7:30 p.m.

Holy Diver Earthless, Halcones, Astral Cult, 7 p.m.

Jean Henderson Performing Arts Center (Davis) Halloween Skary-oke, 7 p.m.

John Natsoulas Center for the Arts An Evening with Butterscotch, 8 p.m.

Kupros Craft House Harley White Trio, 9:30 p.m.

Luna’s Cafe David Houston & String Theory, 8 p.m.

Mix DJ Eddie Edul, 9 p.m.

MOMO Sacramento Freak Show Halloween Party w/ DJ JB, 10 p.m.

Mondavi Center: Ann E. Pitzer Center Rita Sahai, 7 p.m.

Mondavi Center: Vanderhoef Studio Theatre Ballaké Sissoko & Vincent Ségal, 8 p.m.

Nicholson’s MusiCafe Free Ukulele Class, 1 p.m.

Old Ironsides Annual Dead Rockstar Show w/ Marty Taters, Natalie Cortez Band, Back Alley Buzzards, 50-Watt Heavy, Drop Dead Red and More, 6:30 p.m.

On The Y Truth, The Delta Mystics, Proxy Moon, 9:30 p.m.

Opera House Saloon (Roseville) Locked n Loaded, 9:30 p.m.

Palms Playhouse (Winters) DonGato Latin Band, 8 p.m.

The Park Ultra Lounge DJ Peeti V, 9:30 p.m.

Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Spazmatics, 10 p.m.

Press Club DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m.

The Purple Place (El Dorado Hills) 8 Track Massacre, 8:30 p.m.

Red Hawk Casino Nathan Owens Band, 10 p.m.

Revival at the Sawyer Halloween Gatsby Gala w/ DJ Mano Gill, 7 p.m.

Sacramento State Music Recital Hall Sacramento State’s Piano Series Concert: John Hillebrandt, 7:30 p.m.

Sauced BBQ & Spirits Michael Beck Band, 9:30 p.m.

Shady Lady The Ghost Town Rebellion (Album Release), Jacob Paul and the Heartbeat, 9:30 p.m.

Shine Negative Press Project, 8 p.m.

The Silver Orange Fabis Gault, Fallout Kings, Kyle Tuttle and the Beginners, Ghost Color, The Stoneberries, Nova Sutro, Criminal Rock, Hannah and Justin, Rocky Kajimura and More, 3:30 p.m.

Sophia’s Thai Kitchen Kelly McFarling, West Nile Ramblers, 9:30 p.m.

Strikes Unlimited (Rocklin) Rebel Yell, 9 p.m.

Torch Club Overdraft, 5:30 p.m.; Halloween Party w/ Mind X, 9 p.m.

Wildwood Kitchen & Bar The Albertson Duo, 7 p.m.

Yolo Brewing Co. The Band Mask, 6 p.m.

Zinfandel Grille The Undulations, 7 p.m.

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Ace of Spades The Devil Wears Prada, Veil of Maya, Thousand Below, 6 p.m.

The Acoustic Den Cafe Ukulele Jam and Singalong, 11 a.m.

Berryessa Brewing Co. The Nickel Slots, 3 p.m.

Blue Lamp SmoovE, 9 p.m.

Cache Creek Casino Live Band Karaoke, 5 p.m.

Capital Stage Misner & Smith (Album Release), 6 p.m.

Club Car The Menace, 9 p.m.

The Colony Alcoholic Sex Detonation, 20K Lbs of Roadkill, BARC, Spicy Hot Death Cult, Thrashzilla, 7 p.m.

Distillery Karaoke, 8 p.m.

Folsom Hotel Saloon Acoustic Sundaze w/ Kent & Cavileer, 3 p.m.

Harlow’s Paul Cauthen, The Texas Gentlemen, 7 p.m.

Holy Diver Rittz, Sam Lachow, Eric Biddines, Rae Rock, 6:30 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.

Mix DJ Crooked, DJ Gabe Xavier, 9 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Shana Morrison, 3 p.m.

Press Club Sunday Night Soul Party w/ DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m.

10.30 MONDAY

Ace of Spades Alan Walker, 7 p.m.

Antiquite Maison Privee John Stein w/ The Dave Bass Trio, 7 p.m.

Blue Lamp Battalion of Saints, Oppressed Logic, The Cryptics, Frack!, 9 p.m.

CLARA Auditorium Blue Oaks (Album Release), 7 p.m.

Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Fox & Goose Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m.

Holy Diver Secondhand Serenade, Ronnie Winter-Defoe, 6:30 p.m.

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

LowBrau Motown on Monday’s w/ DJ Epik, 9 p.m.

Luna’s Cafe Nebraska Mondays hosted by Ross Hammond, 7:30 p.m.

Old Ironsides Heath Williamson & Friends, 5:30 p.m.

On The Y Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Shine The Free-4-All Improv Jam, 7 p.m.

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Sutter Creek Provisions Slade Rivers Band, 3 p.m.

Torch Club Blues Jam, 4 p.m.; Front the Band, 8 p.m.

Yolo Brewing Co. Dave Z-Say and Friends, 3 p.m.

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Revival at the Sawyer Tasty Thursdays w/ CrookOne, 9 p.m.

Shine Jazz Jam, 8 p.m.

Torch Club Mind X, 5:30 p.m.; Johnny Mojo Trio, 9 p.m.

11.03 FRIDAY

11.02 &11.03 DYLAN CRAWFORD Kupros 9:30 p.m. Bar 101 9:30 p.m.

10.31 TUESDAY

Country Club Lanes Beetlejuice Halloween Party w/ Mars, Joyzu, Denise, Brian Brotano, Elevener, Gamma, Nick Nyquil and More, 8 p.m.

Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Holy Diver Authority Zero, Mouse Powell, Another Damn Disappointment, 7 p.m.

Kupros Craft House Open Mic, 8 p.m.

Old Ironsides Karaoke, 9 p.m.

On The Y Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Papa Murphy’s Park at Cal Expo Odesza, Illenium, Sofi Tukker, Kasbo, 6 p.m.

The Park Ultra Lounge DJ Eddie Edul, 9:30 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Live Band Karaoke, 8 p.m.

Press Club Vinnie Guidera & The Dead Birds (Misfits tribute), Shotgun Sawyer (Black Sabbath tribute), Vvomen (Against Me! tribute), 8 p.m.

Revival at the Sawyer My Cousin Vinny, 7 p.m.

Shady Lady The Gold Souls, 9 p.m.

11.01 WEDNESDAY

The Acoustic Den Cafe Open Mic, 6:30 p.m.

Bar 101 Open Mic, 7:30 p.m.

Blue Lamp Narcotic Wasteland, Dreaming Dead, Wurmflesh, 8 p.m.

The Boardwalk Knockout Kid, Story Untold, Rivals, Lonely Avenue, Shpwrck, Cardboard Houses, 7:30 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 Sammy Johnson, Lea Love, 7 p.m.

Harris Center for the Arts Javier LimĂłn: The Paco De LucĂ­a Project, 7:30 p.m.

MOMO Sacramento Bourbon & Blues: Ray “Catfish� Copeland Band, 5:30 p.m.

Mondavi Center: Vanderhoef Studio Theatre Harold LĂłpezNussa Trio, 8 p.m.

Nicholson’s MusiCafe Acoustic Open Mic, 6 p.m.

Old Ironsides Open Mic, 9 p.m.

Revival at the Sawyer Hump de Funk w/ DJ Ben J, 9 p.m.

Sacramento State: University Union Redwood Room Nooner w/ The Albertson Duo, 12 p.m.

Shine Speak Out! Sacramento Open Mic, 8 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.; Night Animals, 9 p.m.

11.02 THURSDAY

Bar 101 Karaoke, 7:30 p.m.

Blue Lamp Mak7teen, Young Sick, 8 p.m.

The Boardwalk Stevie Stone, Hennessy, CYFYE, Jaded Jessay Diego Lewis, 7:30 p.m.

Cafe Colonial Somni, Petracore, Mercedes Ave, Tides of Tomorrow, 7 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 Irish Jam Session w/ Stepping Stone, 8 p.m.

Harlow’s Beatles vs Stones: A Musical Showdown, 7 p.m.

Holy Diver Parachute, Austin Plaine, 6:30 p.m.

Kupros Craft House Dylan Crawford, 9:30 p.m.

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

Mondavi Center: Jackson Hall Mariinsky Orchestra, 8 p.m.

Mondavi Center: Vanderhoef Studio Theatre Harold LĂłpezNussa Trio, 8 p.m.

Palms Playhouse (Winters) Tony Furtado Trio, 8 p.m.

The Park Ultra Lounge Dash Berlin, 9:30 p.m.

Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Ace of Spades Chelsea Wolfe, Youth Code, Screature, 7:30 p.m.

The Acoustic Den Cafe The Clay Dogs, 7 p.m.

Babe’s Lounge Stevie Mello, 8:30 p.m.

Bar 101 Dylan Crawford, 9:30 p.m.

Big Sexy Brewing Co. J Ras, 6 p.m.

Blue Lamp Vale of Pnath, Depths of Hatred, Virvum, Flub, Wastewalker, 8 p.m.

The Boardwalk Sages, GP, Once Said Twice, Tonic Zephyr, 7 p.m.

Capitol Garage Capitol Friday’s Reggae Night w/ DJ Veyn, 10 p.m.

Club Car Dream and the Dreamer, 8:30 p.m.

Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m.

El Dorado Saloon Mach 5, 9:30 p.m.

Golden Bear DJ CrookOne and Guests, 10 p.m.

Goldfield Stephan Hogan, 7 p.m.

Holy Diver Kurt Travis, Amarionette, Dwellings, Enso Anima, Anxious Arms, 6:30 p.m.

Kupros Craft House Soul Providers, 9:30 p.m.

Mix DJ Homicide, 9 p.m.

Mondavi Center: Ann E. Pitzer Center Mayumi Hama (Keiko Abe tribute), 7 p.m.

Mondavi Center: Vanderhoef Studio Theatre Harold LĂłpezNussa Trio, 8 p.m.

Nicholson’s MusiCafe Open Mic Night, 6 p.m.

Old Ironsides Sun Valley Gun Club, The Co Founder, The Hague Flourish, 8 p.m.

On The Y DirtykinG, Glug, Vincula, 8 p.m.

Opera House Saloon (Roseville) Cherry Bomb, 9 p.m.

The Park Ultra Lounge Kaskade, 9 p.m. (Sold Out) Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Caravanseri, 10 p.m.

Press Club DJ Rue, 9 p.m.

The Purple Place (El Dorado Hills) Ranell Carpenter Band, 8:30 p.m.

Red Hawk Casino Clean Slate, 9:30 p.m.

Strikes Unlimited (Rocklin) Straight Shooter, 9 p.m.

Sutter Creek Provisions Todd Day Wait’s Pigpen, 6 p.m.

Torch Club Jimmy Pailer, 5:30 p.m.; Tracorum, 9 p.m.

Toyota Amphitheatre Luke Bryan, Brett Eldredge, Granger Smith, 7 p.m.

Yolo Brewing Co. Ralph Gordon, 6 p.m.

Zinfandel Grille Sonny Fairley, 7 p.m.

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11.05 LECRAE Ace of Spades 6 p.m.

11.04 SATURDAY

Ace of Spades Aaron Watson, Brandon Lay, 7 p.m.

The Acoustic Den Cafe Ralph Famiglietti, Acoustic Blend, 6:30 p.m.

Bar 101 Scotty Mac, 9:30 p.m.

Blue Lamp Psychosomatic, Hatriot, Solanum, Severpull, 7 p.m.

The Boardwalk K-Ottic, Quen, Mr. Blap, Devious, B-Zo, J-Nuggz, TNOCJ, 7 p.m.

Cache Creek Casino Stephen Stills & Judy Collins, 8 p.m.

Capitol Garage The Corner w/ DJ Veyn & Guests, 10 p.m.

Center for the Arts (Grass Valley) Sam Bush Band, 8 p.m.

Club Car Private Criminals, 9 p.m.

Distillery Karaoke, 9 p.m.

El Dorado Saloon SuperBad, 9:30 p.m.

Harlow’s Foreverland (Michael Jackson tribute), 9 p.m.

Harrah’s Lake Tahoe Home Free, 7:30 p.m.

Holy Diver Orgy, Decipher, Terra Ferno, Tigerchrist, 7 p.m.

Kupros Craft House All the Pretty Songs, 9:30 p.m.

MOMO Sacramento The Groove Line: All Vinyl Party w/ DJs Epik and Platurn, 10 p.m.

Mondavi Center: Vanderhoef Studio Theatre Harold LópezNussa Trio, 8 p.m.

Nicholson’s MusiCafe Free Ukulele Class, 1 p.m.

On The Y Caliscope, At Both Ends, Redshift Pilots, 8 p.m.

Opera House Saloon (Roseville) Kenny Frye Band, 9:30 p.m.

Palms Playhouse (Winters) Jolie Holland and Samantha Parton, 8 p.m.

Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Frankie Ballard, McKenna Faith, 10 p.m.

Press Club DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m.

The Purple Place (El Dorado Hills) Skyler Michael, 8:30 p.m.

Red Hawk Casino Thunder Cover, 10 p.m.

Revival at the Sawyer Rooftop Tropics w/ Shaun Slaughter, 9 p.m.

Strikes Unlimited (Rocklin) Take Out, 9 p.m.

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Torch Club RJ Mischo w/ Paris Slim, 9 p.m.

WHIRED Wine Stevie Mello, 8 p.m.

Yolo Brewing Co. Rouge, 7 p.m.

Zinfandel Grille Jane Thompson Trio, 7 p.m.

11.05 SUNDAY

Ace of Spades Lecrae, 6 p.m.

The Acoustic Den Cafe Ukulele Jam and Singalong, 11 a.m.

Blue Lamp Papa Hip, Kate Livoni, Marty Taters, Banger, Linda Hardy & Julie Bruce, Dominic Garcia de Colores and more 3 p.m.

Cache Creek Casino Cripple Creek Band, 5 p.m.

Center for the Arts (Grass Valley) The Temptations, 8 p.m.

Crest Theatre Building Bridges Concert: Sacramento Youth Symphony’s Premier Orchestra, 5 p.m.

Distillery Karaoke, 8 p.m.

Folsom Hotel Saloon Amanda Gray, 3 p.m.

Holy Diver Hirie, Natalie Rize, Riotmaker, 7 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.

Mondavi Center: Jackson Hall UC Davis Symphony Orchestra, 7 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Tom Rigney, 3 p.m.

Press Club Sunday Night Soul Party w/ DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m.

Torch Club Blues Jam, 4 p.m.; Front the Band, 8 p.m.

11.06 MONDAY

Antiquite Maison Privee Carlos McCoy’s High Octane Latin Band, 7 p.m.

The Boardwalk Stacked Like Pancakes, 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.

10.26

FREE FILM SCREENING:

WONDER WOMAN Sacramento State: Union Ballroom 6:30 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.

Press Club Divided Heaven, Brian Marquis, 7 p.m.

Comedy California Automobile Museum Addicted to Americana with Charles Phoenix, Nov. 4, 6:30 p.m.

Center for Spiritual Awareness Sandra Valls, Nov. 3, 7:30 p.m.

Laughs Unlimited Adam Hunter, Tom Bomb, Johnny Casino, Carlos Rodriguez, Oct. 25, 8 p.m.

Real Live Comedians w/ Jason Mack, Jason Anderson, Alfonso Portela and More, Oct. 26, 8 p.m.

Tamer Kattan feat. Aaron Edwards Hall, Oct. 27 - 29, Fri. & Sat., 8 & 10:30 p.m.; Sun., 7 p.m.

Sin Fronteras: Comedia En Espanol w/ Lil Rob Robledo, Richard Villa, Fabrizio Copano, Nov. 1, 8 p.m.

Brad Bonar feat. Chris Riggins, Nov. 3 - 5, Fri. & Sat., 8 & 10:30 p.m.; Sun., 7 p.m.

Luna’s Cafe Open Mic Comedy w/ Host Jaime Fernandez, Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m.

Wino’s Halloween Weekend Pre-Game Show Hosted by Caleb Duffy, Oct. 27, 8 p.m.

On the Y Open Mic Comedy w/ Host Robert Berry, Thursdays, 8:30 p.m.

Punch Line Mo Mandel, Mike Betancourt, Raj Dutta, Oct. 26 - 28, Thurs., 8 p.m.; Fri. & Sat., 8 & 10 p.m.

Lance Woods, Oct. 29, 7 p.m.

Mark Normand, Tony Camin, Nov. 2 - 4, Thurs., 8 p.m.; Fri. & Sat., 8 & 10 p.m.

There Goes the Neighborhood Comedy Tour, Nov. 5, 7 p.m.

Sacramento Comedy Spot Open Mic, Sunday’s and Monday’s, 8 p.m.

Improv Taste Test and Harold Night, Wednesday’s, 7 - 10 p.m.

Cage Match and Improv Jam, Thursday’s, 8 - 10 p.m.

Anti-Cooperation League, Saturday’s, 9 p.m.

Tommy T’s 5 Comics for $5, Nov. 27 - 28, Fri., 7:30; Sat., 7 p.m.

LAFF Attack Comedy Tour: Dave Lawson, Terry Grossman, Tony Roberts, Nov. 3 - 5, Fri., 7 & 10:15 p.m.; Sat., 7 & 9:45 p.m.; Sun., 7 p.m.

Misc.

8th and W Streets Certified Farmers Market, Sunday’s, 8 a.m. - 12 p.m.

20th Street (Between J and K) Midtown Farmers Market, Saturday’s, 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Artisan Building Sacramento Storybook Festival, Oct. 28, 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.

B Street Theatre Mainstage Series: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Through Oct. 29 Big Idea Theatre Macbeth, Through Oct. 28 Blue Cue Trivia Night, Wednesday’s, 9 p.m.

Blue Lamp Jezebelle’s Army Burlesque & Variety, Oct. 24, 7 p.m.

Halloween Party w/ The Darling Clementines, Oct. 31, 8 p.m.

The Boxing Donkey Trivia Night, Tuesday’s, 8 p.m.

Capitol Garage Dinner and a Drag Show, Oct. 28, 8 p.m.

Capitol Mall Certified Farmers Market, Thursday’s, 10 a.m. 1:30 p.m.

Capital Public Radio Beyond Homelessness: CapRadio’s Place and Privilege PostCast, Oct. 25, 6 p.m.

Sacramento Reimagined: CapRadio’s Place and Privilege PostCast, Nov. 2, 6:30 p.m.

Center for the Arts (Grass Valley) 16th Annual “Read to Your Child” Halloween Book Giveaway, Oct. 31, 10 a.m.

Cesar Chavez Plaza Certified Farmers Market, Wednesday’s, 10 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

CLARA (E. Claire Raley Studios for the Performing Arts) Sacramento Ballet Presents: Beer and Ballet, Through Oct. 29 Stories on Stage Sacramento, Oct. 27, 7:30 p.m.

Colonial Theatre Sacramento Horror Film Festival Presents: Rocky Horror Picture Show Halloween Edition, Oct. 28, 10 p.m.

Community Center Theater Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Nov. 1 - 12 Country Club Plaza Certified Farmers Market, Saturday’s, 8 a.m. - 12 p.m.

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Crest Theatre Film Screening: The Exorcist, Oct. 26, 7:30 p.m.

Ballet Folklorico de Sacramento Presents: Ofrenda Dia de los Muertos, Oct. 27, 7 p.m.

Warren Miller’s Line of Descent, Nov. 3 - 4, 6:30 p.m.

Crocker Art Museum Art Exhibit: Richard Diebenkorn: Beginnings, 1942-1955, Now through Jan. 7 Davis Senior Center Armadillo Music & KDVS 90.3 FM Present: Vinyl & Music Fair, Nov. 4, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Eskaton Village Carmichael 22nd Annual EVC Craft Fair, Oct. 28, 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Florin Road & 65th Street Certified Farmers Market, Thursday’s, 8 a.m. - 12 p.m.

Folsom High School 14th Annual Folsom Fall Festival: Marching Band Competition, Nov. 4, 5:30 p.m.

Fox & Goose Pub Quiz, Tuesday’s, 7 p.m.

Gibson Ranch Regional Park Pumpkin Festival, Oct. 28 - 29, 10 a.m. - 7 p.m.

Golden 1 Center Disney on Ice Presents: Dream Big, Nov. 2 - 5 Green Valley Theatre The Rocky Horror Show by Richard O’Brien, Oct. 26 - 31 Harris Center for the Arts El Dorado Musical Theatre: Beauty and the Beast, Oct. 27 Nov. 5 Free Film Screening: Song of Lahore, Oct. 29, 7 p.m.

Highwater The Trivia Factory, Monday’s, 7 p.m.

Historic Old Folsom Farmers Market, Saturday’s, 8 a.m.

Kupros Craft House Triviology, Sunday’s, 7:30 p.m.

Luna’s Cafe Poetry Unplugged, Thursday’s, 8 p.m.

Marshall Park Midtown Halloween Festival and Pooch Parade, Oct. 28, 1 p.m.

McClatchy Park Oak Park Farmers Market, Saturday’s, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Midtown BarFly Salsa Lessons, Wednesday’s, 8 p.m.

Mondavi Center: Jackson Hall Reduced Shakespeare Company, Nov. 1, 8 p.m.

Kudiyattam, Nov. 3 - 4 New Hope Community Church 8th Annual Harvest Festival, Oct. 31, 6 p.m.

Nicholson’s MusiCafe Trivia Night, Monday’s, 7 p.m.

North Highlands Community Center Halloween Extravaganza and Costume Parade, Oct. 28, 10 a.m.

Oak Park Brewing Co. Trivia Night, Sunday’s, 8 p.m.

Old Sacramento Crawloween, Oct. 31, 8 p.m.

On The Y Movie Night w/ Jandy Barwench, Wednesday’s, 7 p.m.

Ooley Theater Toyer: An Unavoidable Tragedy, Through Oct. 31 Raley Field Dinger’s Drive-In Flick-or-Treat: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Oct. 28, 4:30 p.m.

Rio Linda Elverta Community Center Trunk-or-Treat Halloween Event, Oct. 28, 5:30 p.m.

Roller King Good v. Evil Outlaws Roller Derby Bout, Oct. 29, 6:30 p.m.

Roosevelt Park Certified Farmers Market, Tuesday’s, 10 a.m. 1:30 p.m.

Rusch Park Community Center 4th Annual Sunrise Craft Fair, Nov. 4, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Sacramento Convention Center Sacramento Arts Festival, Nov. 3 - 5, 10 a.m.

Sacramento SPCA Sacramento SPCA’s Roaring 20s Pawty, Oct. 28, 5 p.m.

Sacramento State: Union Ballroom Free Film Screening: Wonder Woman, Oct. 26, 6:30 p.m.

Sacramento Theatre Company How I Learned to Live Happily Edenafter, Oct. 26, 8:30 p.m.

Saint Mary School Oktoberfest, Oct. 28, 6 p.m.

Scottish Rite Center The Sacramento Mineral Society’s 81st Gem, Mineral & Jewelry Show, Oct. 28 - 29, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Shine Questionable Trivia, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.

Stellar Studios Rhythm & Poetry Hosted by Dyvacat, & Graffiti Bleu, Thursday’s, 8 p.m.

Streets Pub and Grub Pub Trivia, Sunday’s, 8 p.m.

Strikes Unlimited (Rocklin)Let’s Get Quzzical: Trivia Game Show Experience, Tuesday’s, 7 p.m.

WAL Public Market Gallery Opening Reception of Cubic Fruit Plate by Jon Bafus, Nov. 3, 6 p.m.

Wilkerson Theatre Birmingham Blues, Through Oct. 28 Yolo Brewing Co. Trivia Night, Tuesday’s, 6 p.m.

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THE SHALLOW END If you can remember your early teen years, you’re a lot younger than I am. My birthday is in a few days, and I feel as though I’m rapidly approaching the tipping point of two differing mindsets: bemoaning how many birthdays I’ve had versus wondering how many I have left. I got to thinking about my teenage years, though, because of an article I saw online about the unearthing of a teenage dinosaur fossil, uncovered in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah. “You may regret photographs of your awkward teenage years,� writes Klopa Robin for the peculiarly titled Deathrattlesports.com, “but at least they won’t be fossilized for people to dig up 76 million years from now.�

It’s true that while I can hardly remember much from my early teen years, I do know that very few photos of me exist from that time. I was extremely camera shy, and probably for good reason. I was a gangly, spindly sort of doofus back then (as opposed to the pudgy sort of doofus that I have become). The only photo I can remember of that time of my life came from a birthday party that my friends and

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family threw for me at my grandma’s house. I was there at the kitchen table, where my family and I ate so many plates of pasta and meatballs, posed with my grandma behind a birthday cake.

I was wearing a Soundgarden hat, a Sandman T-shirt and I had a ratty mass of long brown hair on my head. When I think about this photo as I write this, I’m reminded of the impermanence of things. My grandma passed away years ago, after living for well over a century of being awesome. That house we spent so much time in has been sold to another family who gathers at a different dinner table, I assume, and that bushy hair that once obscured my scalp is long gone (and I suppose you can say good riddance to that).

But let’s forget my remembrances of a one-story brick home in Staten Island, New York, and turn our attentions back to Utah where this teenaged dinosaur once roamed the ancient environs of what we now call Utah before even I was born. Its skeleton was found remarkably intact and is believed to be the remains of Teratophoneus curriei, a relative of everyone’s favorite tiny-armed prehistoric badass, the T.

Rex. On Oct. 22, the skeleton was airlifted to the Natural History Museum of Utah where it will be studied.

The fossil, believed to be 76 million years old, is about 75 percent complete, making it “the most complete skeleton of a tyrannosaur ever discovered in the southwestern U.S.,� according to Randall Irmis, the curator of paleontology at the Natural History Museum of Utah. The fossil was first discovered in 2015 by paleontologist Alan Titus, who says the Grand Staircase-Escalante Monument is a treasure trove of fossils for crocodiles, turtles, mammals, fish and all kinds of other stuff.

What’s interesting, too, is that this particular monument has been in the news recently for other reasons. Robin’s article mentions that it’s been somewhat in focus due to a battle in Congress regarding the 1906 Antiquities Act, which grants the President power to declare national monuments. The Trump administration is looking to curb executive power in this regard. “Every president since Teddy Roosevelt has used the Antiquities Act to name monuments,

though Republicans claim it’s been abused by recent administrations, specifically by Obama, who named the 1.3-million-acre Bears Ears National Monument in southern Utah just weeks before leaving office,� stated a recent article in the Salt Lake Tribune. It also mentioned that Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has called for shrinking both the Bear’s Ears as well as the Grand Staircase, which was appointed by President Bill Clinton under some controversy.

Oddly enough, the Grand Staircase also came into notoriety this past week when an elderly couple, the Bylers of Houston, had to be rescued from the national monument after being lost in the desert there for six days. It’s fascinating because it’s an area that seems to have maintained its relevance for tens of millions of years. A place that was a sort of downtown for teenaged dinos, doing their thing, and even now it remains a tourist destination and an item of contention among douche-y politicians. It seems to me those would be enough reasons to leave it as-is, but then again, I used to wear a mushroom cut and listen to grunge all day, so what the fuck would I know?

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