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SOLID GOLD MELISSA WELLIVER melissa@submergemag.com Damn, we have some solid reads in this issue! Our four large features are so good, I wish they all could be covers. I particularly enjoyed this issue, because of the different genres of music we touch upon. I enjoyed reading Robin Bacior’s feature on Marquis Hill, because it’s not every day we feature a jazz musician. Hill, from Chicago, now living in New York, will be coming to UC Davis’ Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts for four shows starting on Oct. 10–13. Starting on page 20, you can learn how Hill discovered his love for jazz, how he moves through stages of composing music, plus read up on how living with Sun Ra’s drummer, Marvin “Bugalu” Smith, inspired is latest album. Local band Güero, who is featured in this issue on page 12, blew my socks off at the Cosmic Family Gathering this past Labor Day weekend. Keyboardist Shea Ritchie reached out this summer to let me know about their October release and told me, “We are just five dudes who love to play music together … AND we have no idea what we are doing!” He really down-played things, because when I caught them, I thought they were fantastic and they are now one of my new favorite local bands! Read Daniel Romandia’s feature to learn how the band formed from two roommates and grew to five members, lead vocalist and guitarist Rik Krull’s ties to the Spanish language and the name Güero, plus you can even learn about how opposite a couple of them are yet understand why it creates a balance that works. You have four chances to catch them perform: SacYard Community Tap House on Sept. 30, Old Ironsides on Oct. 13 (that’s their album release show), Moonraker Brewing Company on Oct. 19 and Bar 101 Eats and Drinks on Oct. 20. When music, noise, performance art and weirdness collide, you get Crank Sturgeon. Crank will be performing at this year’s NorCal Noisefest, which runs Oct. 5–7. Starting on page 16, read Grant Miner’s feature story to get a feel of what you can expect if you catch him live, how he went from being in a punk band back in college to a full on noise genius and how he ended up releasing his latest recording, Mash Annoys, on Massachusetts label Love Earth Music. Last but not least, Richard St. Ofle’s Q&A with veteran photographer, Duane Michals, made me smile from ear to ear when reading it. Starting on page 18, you can read how humble this talented man is, how he calls out bullshit photograph cliques and discusses how he became a photographer by mere chance from one trip back in 1958 to Russia. His exhibit, The Portraitist, is currently at the Crocker Art Museum through Jan. 6, 2019, but on Oct. 7 there will be an artist discussion with Michals that you should probably catch. Solid reads, I tell you! Read. Learn. Do rad things. – Melissa

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6th Annual Farm-to-Fork Festival This free, family friendly, two-day festival is a great way to end summer on a high note. Friday’s hours are 4–9 p.m. with live music from The Wood Brothers, Logan Brill and IdeaTeam. Saturday runs 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. with music by Dawes, Magic Giant, Sunny War and Jessica Malone. Obviously, there will be an abundance of food and drink options, plus cooking demos, interactive exhibits and much more. Takes place on Capitol Mall. Visit Farmtofork.com for more info.

SUNDAY, SEPT. 30

Sacramento Blues Society’s Hall of Fame Ceremony and Showcase Celebrate this year’s inductees AJ Joyce, Andy Santana, Jimmy Morello and RW Grigsby, with a two-part event! Awards ceremony takes place from 1–5 p.m. at Harlow’s, showcase starts at 6 p.m. at Torch Club. Hit up Sacblues.com for more info, lists of performers and a link to buy tickets.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 29

Oak Park Roots & Branches Walkabout & Free Concert

Enjoy a free afternoon of history, live blues, jazz and Americana at multiple Broadway Avenue venues like Brickhouse Art Gallery, Arthur Henry’s, Old Soul at 40 Acres and more. Get your free passport stamped at each locale, check out historical photos and then end the evening with a giant outdoor concert featuring The Annie Sampson Band at the Sacramento Food Bank’s parking lot. Free, all ages, runs 3:30–9 p.m. Find more info at Oakparkrootsandbranches.com.

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Jam out to local bands performing on various porches all around the beautiful Boulevard Park neighborhood in Midtown Sacramento. Snag a list of artists, locations and set times at the corner of H and 21st streets, then choose your own adventure. Free event, all ages, runs from 1–8:30 p.m. Look them up on Facebook or Instagram for updates (@SacPorchFest).

The historic Colonial Theatre will once again host this allday fright-fest full of carefully selected film screenings (both shorts and feature lengths), horror-inspired live performances and more. Runs from 1 p.m. to midnight. Tickets are $20 for general admission, or $35 for VIP. Check out Sachorrorfilmfest.com for more.

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One of Crocker Art Museum’s newest recurring events, Audio Muse expertly pairs musical acts with visual artists. This installment will feature live tunes from local electro/ funk/hip-hop sensation The Philharmonik, local indie/pop/ rock darlings Sunmonks and illustrator Alex Trujillo, who will brighten the night with a new LED light-sculpture show. Starts at 6:30 p.m., and is $10 for Crocker members, or $20 for non-members. All ages welcome. Visit Crockerart.org for more.

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SUNDAY, SEPT. 30

Berryessa Brewing Company’s Anniversary Party and Concert The good folks at Berryessa Brewing Co. out in Winters are marking seven years of producing amazing beer and six years since their tap room opened with an all-day concert featuring The Mother Hips, Achilles Wheel, The Casual Coalition and the City of Trees Brass Band, with none other than Peter Petty serving as master of ceremonies! All ages are welcome, $15 in advance, $20 cash only at the door. Kids get in free. Proceeds go to Winters Schools Music Boosters. Event kicks off at 12 p.m. Hit up Berryessabrewingco.com/events for more.

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Gentleman Surfer’s Record Release Show at Blue Lamp Local experimental rock band Gentleman Surfer are throwing a record release party for their new album Hard Pass and are bringing along pals Pregnant and Meet Cute. Vinyl and cassettes available (both come with digital download), plus special visuals from artist David Stone, creator of Hard Pass’ cover art. $10 at the door, 21-plus, 8 p.m. More at Gentlemansurfermusic.com.

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The world’s longest running noise festival returns to Luna’s Cafe as well as the (unfortunately) soon-to-beclosing “Colonial Complex,” which includes Cafe Colonial and The Colony. Come celebrate these two DIY venues’ local legacy in the best way possible: by making your ears bleed! Check Norcalnoisefest.com for full lineup and more info.

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Rituals of Mine

It’s tough for us to curate each issue of Submerge. These days, there is just so much going on in and around Sacramento that it makes it difficult to pick and choose what we want to write our larger feature stories on. We hate it when cool events and things we think you should know about slip through the cracks, so that’s where this particular column comes in. Check out these quick, easy-to-skim-through write-ups on 10 killer upcoming Sacramentoarea events, and be sure to mark your calendars or set reminders! We’ve highlighted everything from concerts, to food festivals, anniversary parties and more (and if you have an event to get on our radar, please email us to: info@submergemag.com). Remember our motto: Read. Learn. Do rad things.

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From grade school through the first few years of high school, I began my day with a bowl of cereal, preferably Cinnamon Toast Crunch, a cup of coffee and a rerun of Sanford and Son or What’s Happening!! on BET. It was a great way to start my day until one day it wasn’t. All of a sudden, the morning lineup on BET flipped to boring Benson reruns and the dreadful reboot, What’s Happening Now!!, coffee started to make my stomach hurt, and I became lactose intolerant. Eventually, I found something else to watch on TV and switched to drinking hot tea, which suited my stomach just fine, but I just couldn’t shake the lactose intolerance. This condition still afflicts me today and probably will for the rest of my life. If anything, my body’s reaction to dairy is worse now than it was at the beginning. It’s a real shame because, morally, I am quite tolerant of lactose. I’d welcome it into my mouth with nothing but love in my heart. My body, however, is under the belief that lactose is a 500-pound cluster bomb for my gut. I’ve tried to change this for many years, but the brain and body just can’t agree on our relationship with dairy. What’s my body’s problem anyway? Things with milk in them are usually delicious. Milk chocolate, ice cream, various cheeses, pizza, cream soups and the aforementioned cereal are a few of my favorite things and they all cause my belly to fill with gas bubbles. These foods all taste great going down, so I’m not sure where the problem starts, but once it begins, I know there’s gonna be hell to pay. Millions of people suffer from this affliction and know exactly what I mean, but for those of you who don’t carry this terrible burden, let me explain how horrible lactose intolerance can be. It starts with a light rumble in your stomach that steadily increases in intensity and frequency as that delicious triple cream brie that you couldn’t turn down works its way through your system. The rumbles soon grow to growls and come with cramps that twist your stomach into knots. The pressure builds up in your bowels and requires immediate attention before your horribly smelly farts turn into sharts. Hopefully, you get all that funky brown butt water out in one shot, but chances are you’ll be back soon.

Luckily, there is hope for our busted guts and it comes from science! The reason we are lactose intolerant is because our lousy bodies have stopped producing the enzyme, lactase. Lactase’s one job is to break down the lactose found in dairy products into digestible sugars and without it, you’re fucked. Some pharmaceutical company eventually got wise and started selling lactase pills to counteract the effects of lactose on us poor souls. It was revolutionary. I am no shill for Big Lactase, but I would happily accept their money or a lifetime supply of lactase pills if they want to hook me up. I wholeheartedly endorse these products if dairy gives you the bubble guts. It is truly wondrous as long as you remember to take the pill with your first bite or drink of a dairy product. There are no short or long term side effects from taking lactase since it is an enzyme your body should be making anyway. The only real problem is that you have to keep a supply of lactase pills close by whenever you think you might eat or drink dairy. This is a pain in the ass. Therein lies the rub. It’s nearly impossible to be prepared for every occasion. Sometimes you have to get emergency ice cream or a tea latte with real fucking milk for once. If you find yourself without a pill, you either have to throw out your treat or prepare yourself for a wild ride. Sometimes this can be a tough decision and it’s one that I don’t think we should have to make in this day and age. Fortunately, some of you readers out there can change that. Restaurant owners: My lactose intolerant friends and I need your help! If you sell any food or drink products that contain dairy, make lactase pills available upon request. Hell, you could leave a bowl of pills on the counter if you want. I don’t need it to be fancy; I just need it to be there so I can enjoy your food. There is virtually no liability risk involved since lactase pills are harmless to all and helpful to many. It might even convince some of us to get that second scoop of ice cream and put a little more money in your pocket. Our guts and loved ones would thank you profusely if you could help us all out! #saveourguts

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are the infinitely rewatchable stuff of legend. Just look up “Norm Macdonald Moth Joke” or “Norm Macdonald Carrot Top” for just a sample of the laugh-filled rabbit hole you can fall into. His ability to tell a meandering story joke that ends with a shocking, simple, silly punchline is without parallel, but his off-the-cuff quips are equally amazing. This was put to great use in Norm Macdonald Live, a series of YouTube podcasts that ran between 2014–2017 and was the prototype for what is now his Netflix series. NML was a laughably low budget affair that featured Macdonald and hapless, bumbling sidekick (and manager of The Comedy Store) Adam Eget interviewing celebrity guests and fellow comedians. Macdonald would throw both silly questions and thoughtful philosophy at his guests in an engaging and hilarious manner that made it an unpredictable and rewarding experience. The show would often close with pre-written jokes that he and the guests would read that were often horrifyingly funny. One episode with Nick Swardson featured Macdonald reading a joke, “Jetblue Airlines ranked first in customer satisfaction among all North American airlines. But you know who ranked least in satisfaction? 9/11 Airlines. What a terrible name for an airline, it reminds me of that tragedy.” As his co-host chuckles (and Swardson hides his face) Macdonald adds, “I try to tell him not to laugh. I walked through blood and bones in the streets of Manhattan trying to find my brother.” He waits a beat and continues with a straight face, “He was in Northern Canada.” So that’s the kind of joke that will determine whether you love or hate Norm

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There’s never been an Oktoberfest of this magnitude in Midtown. The upcoming street party, thrown by the folks of Der Biergarten, took three years to negotiate and promises to be one hell of a good time. Ins and outs are encouraged so as to allow attendees to patronize neighboring restaurants. Dust off your lederhosen and prepare to taste delicious German beer and cuisine while taking in live music by The City of Trees Brass Band and The Alpenmeisters. Although there’s no free beer, the event itself is free for adults over 21 on Saturday, Sept. 29 from 3–11 p.m. Riding your bike or taking Uber is encouraged for obvious reasons, including the fact that it will be tricky to find parking anyway. The block party is situated on 24th and K streets near Der Biergarten, Golden Bear, Skool, Flamingo House, Cantina Alley and many other awesome, locally owned haunts. For more info, go to Beergardensacramento.com. The Graduate

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The Sacramento Outdoor Film Festival returns to Fremont Park at 15th and Q streets for its second year, and it’s got another lineup of classic and acclaimed films promised to make it a series of good times. The events begin at 5 p.m. each night. On Friday, Sept. 28, Sacramento Outdoor Movies will screen The Graduate. Saturday, Sept. 29 will be Sixteen Candles. On Friday, Oct. 5 you can catch Boyz in the Hood and on Saturday, Oct. 6 see Greta Gerwig’s Ladybird while basking in hometown pride. Beer, wine and food trucks will keep your belly full and thirst quenched while you watch. Proceeds from beer and wine sales will go to the Front Street Animal Shelter. The events are all free and only open to those over 21. You can find the event on Facebook to learn more.

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Camilo and Federico Gaitán Quintero are internationally renowned artist-siblings that fell in love with Nevada County and circle back to it annually. And for this trip around the sun, the Quintero Brothers return to invite students of all skill levels to discover their inner artists at a comprehensive contemporary art and sculpture workshop. Spanning six three-hour afternoon sessions in October on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, participants will explore abstract drawing, composition and sculpture using simple materials such as paper. The workshop will have a translator present for English-speaking students as the instructors only speak Spanish. Presented by Center for the Arts OnTheGo, completed work will be shown in the Fall Colors Open Studios Tour. Tickets are available at the Center for the Arts Plaza box office in Grass Valley or on the website, Thecenterforthearts.org.

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Touring the United States in promotion of the release of his new album, Immortal Americans, Austin Lucas is bringing his introspective and sometimes dark brand of Americana to Sacramento. Following a battle with alcoholism and helping his partner fight cancer, this album explores those struggles through honest and vulnerable lyricism, set to stripped-down twang that at times gets heavy and raucous. Influenced by punk and mountain music, Lucas grew up in Bloomington, Indiana, and has risen to fame. Immortal Americans is his 14th release and by far the most meaningful record he’s put out. Catch him while you can at the Torch Club (904 15th St., Sacramento) on Wednesday, Oct. 10. Tickets are only $8 and three opening acts will support Lucas: The Brangs, Chad Price and Michael Dean Damron. Get your tickets at the door or on Eventbrite. Swing by Torchclub.net for more info.

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e all need that extra push at times. Every person on this planet knows what it’s like to need encouragement to put themselves out there. That’s what Rik Krull, lead vocalist and guitarist for local indie-folk band Güero needed to put his music out into the world. If it wasn’t for friend and eventual bandmate Wes Davis giving Krull the push he needed, Güero wouldn’t exist. “It took a while to get Rik interested in playing out,” said Davis. “It’s like, ‘Let’s take this out somewhere!’” The friends and then roommates decided to play some open mics around the city and the band finally got started in the early 2010s. Since Davis gave Krull that initial nudge, Güero has grown into a five-piece, and the band’s music has carved out a unique niche for itself. Today, Krull and Davis are joined by Mike Ruiz on drums, Russell Volksen on bass and Shea Ritchie on keyboard. They are set to release their self-titled debut album and are celebrating its release Oct. 13 at Old Ironsides. It took some time for the music that appears on that record to be ready for wide release. The band had to go through a few changes that were nearly a decade in the making. “Before [Ruiz, Ritchie and I joined Güero], it was Wes and Rik. It was different,” said Volksen about the original iteration of the band. “It was just acoustic and banjo. It had a totally different feel. You bring in bass and drums and it kind of gives it more of a pulse.” Volksen was the first to join Davis and Krull after Davis kept insisting that Volksen needed

to come play bass with them. Then came Ruiz because the three were interested to see what the songs would sound like with drums, and he became vital to the project. Ritchie joined after the four asked him to help with recording their music. He hopped on keys and has been with Güero ever since. That different feel Volksen mentioned comes from the evolution of these songs. Before the band started, Krull had written a huge amount of songs that were never intended to be heard by anyone else. “When we lived together, [Krull] brought out this archive of songs that he had written that hadn’t seen the light of day,” said Davis. The guys in Güero say that Krull has even more—“a book full”—of songs that no one has

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ever heard. It’s easy to assume that some of the band’s debut is made up of those old songs that Krull has been keeping in his back pocket for years; but according to Volksen, the band is always working on new music. And sometimes, the lyrics are sung in Spanish. “[Krull] has his degree from UC Davis in Spanish,” reported Davis. “He’s spent many a summer in Barcelona. That’s where the name Güero came from because his nickname was always Güero.” The term güero is slang used in Mexico used to describe someone who is Mexican and has pale skin. The song “Camino,” which appears on the album, is a six-minute tale about a Greyhound bus trip Krull once took from Northern Mexico back home to Sacramento. If the song’s description on Bandcamp can be trusted, Krull met a man named Red who used a vacuum to suck the change out of vending machines. If you aren’t Spanish bilingual, and don’t understand all the lyrics from the band’s Spanish tracks, don’t worry; neither do Krull’s bandmates. “We understand the meanings of the songs and some of the words,” said Davis.

“It’s funny, [Krull] used to [sing in Spanish] a little more because it’s easier to rhyme because a lot of the words end in a similar way,” said Volksen. “There are a couple of lines in that song that I don’t know what they mean, and I’ve been meaning to ask him. It’s been years now!” The 11-minute epic “Stamp” is a definite highlight of what the band has released thus far. It’s a lush, vibrant composition and comes with more structure than is typical of the standard jam-band fare. It begs the question of where Güero lies in terms of genre. Their Bandcamp page tags them as “baroque pop” and “synthpop,” while their Facebook will have you believe that the band plays “indie skate rock,” a term Davis and Volksen are pretty sure Submerge coined in a previous issue. None of that is enough to describe the scope of what Güero is employing in their songs. Davis plays the banjo and the charango, but they aren’t playing bluegrass or traditional Colombian music. Volksen, like many musicians, played jazz band in high school, but that’s not the only influence on his playing. Krull’s voice has been said to be reminiscent of both Jeremy Enigk of Sunny Day Real Estate and Colin Meloy of the Decemberists. That’s the thing about Güero; all those influences are evident in what the band creates because every member believes in experimentation and taking their own path. That alone, however, isn’t what defines the music. It has its allegiances in terms of sound and genre, but Krull and company made this music because it means something to them. Davis and Volksen would say that much of the focus for their music is on Krull’s voice. “[Krull] just has a really unique voice and he has a really good ear for cadence,” said Davis. “He’s just naturally gifted.” “He’s got such a great voice,” continued Volksen. “It’s pretty mind-blowing if you don’t know what you’re expecting. It’s like, ‘Damn, this guy can really sing!’” Despite that bravado, Güero is a band full of modest members. The songs may start in Krull’s notebook, but the end result is a group effort. “[Ritchie] is the most gung-ho out of all of us,” said Davis. “[Ritchie] just wants to give it his all,” said Volksen. “It’s funny because we have opposite ends of the spectrum,” continued Davis. “[Krull] is not on social media at all. He’s got, like, zero ego. He’s not trying to self-promote. I have to go over to his work to tell all his colleagues about our shows because he’s not telling them. On the opposite side, you’ve got [Ritchie] who’s trying to do all the promotion and the rest of us fall into the middle somewhere.” It’s a balance that has become integral to the band. That balance and love can be heard in their tracks. Like the band wrote on their Facebook page, “doesn’t matter where or when; garage or venue ...as long as we are together we will continue to do what we love.”

Catch Güero live at Old Ironsides (1901 10th St., Sacramento) Saturday, Oct. 13 to celebrate the release of their selftitled debut CD! Also performing is Dylan Crawford, and André Fylling. Show starts at 9 p.m. $7 at the door and CDs are $8. Güero also hits the stage on Saturday, Oct. 20 at Bar 101 (101 Main St., Roseville) for free! 9:30 p.m. start time. Check out Facebook.com/guerotheband for more info.

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CRANK STURGEON BRINGS HIS WILD AND WONDERFUL ENERGY TO NORCAL NOISEFEST WORDS GRANT MINER

t’s a warm night in Roanoke, Virginia, and a man wearing a ghillie suit is shuffling down the street. His pants, taped around his legs, are bulging and leaking with water, while the trash bag hat he’s wearing is newly inflated with air from the gas station down the street. Suddenly, a police car’s light illuminates him, as well as the small crowd gathered around him. The cop is confused (as likely you are, too), “Don’t worry,” the man tells him. “It’s an art thing.” This is the mad, loveable genius of Crank Sturgeon. The piscine-themed noise/ performance/visual artist that calls himself Crank Sturgeon (Crank, for short) first started operating sometime around 1992. As the man himself puts it in his painstakingly kept, 20,000 word-long autobiography on his website, the genesis of this alter-ego “was something of a crazy little breech-birth, an odd fingerling formed and seduced out of its primordial goo.” It was the combination of the idea of a never-stopping, always-cranking coffee with the, well, oddness, of a sturgeon. From that point on, he’s been traveling the world, rubbing bespoke contact mics over every surface he can for audiences both large and small. As for his musical style, it varies wildly. On many tracks, his sound samples are harsh and metallic. On others, vocal tracks are layered over and over, while still others involve string instrumentation. Because he’s been active for so long, his discography is huge, with more than 250 titles listed on his website, and that doesn’t even include his online releases, or physical releases that have escaped him. When it comes to Crank’s process, painstaking curation is the rule, rather than the exception. “The one thing that’s ingrained into our heads in art school is document, document, document,” Crank said of his extensive record-keeping, “I have notebooks filled with tons

of sketches, and recordings that nobody gets to hear because much of it’s terrible. Filing cabinets full of cassette recordings, DAT tapes and CDs. It’s vital, like this is your friggin’ history!” The latest of this long history is Marsh Annoys, which released on label Love Earth Music in May 2018. The album’s sound, to quote Crank, is “brutal,” partially in respect to +DOG+, the label’s premiere noise act and the personal project of its owner, Steve Davis. “He’s really the harsh-head of harsh-heads,” Crank said. “When I listen to it, I’m like, ‘Ho, ho, ho, man,’ 47 minutes later. It’s a little punishing. A wild ride.” The fact that you can buy this record (physical only) online makes it one of the more easily accessible items of his discography. Most of the titles on his page are—outside of the perennially mixed bag that is the Discogs marketplace— unavailable to anyone who becomes newly interested. Much of the rest is either not online and unlisted, or scattered about on various labels’ streaming sites, all of which are very much worth a listen. While many noise musicians have a relatively high output (see Merzbow’s more than 400 albums), one of the most impressive things is the sheer amount of work he puts into not only his music, but his visual art, too. It isn’t just his goofy, fishhead-like hat he wears to shows. Many of Crank’s performances either start with some performance art component, or take place in and around his already constructed installations. For some, he even takes some time off between/during tours to set up more permanent pieces. One of my personal favorites that can be found online is his “Hoboplane,” a giant, swinging airplane made out of hobo signs. A photo of the occasion depicts him adjusting in-flight goggles and smiling wildly, and on another, the front panel of his

would-be flying machine urges audience members to throw pocket change at him. “A lot of my stuff is from found objects, which really fits into the touring schedule,” Crank joked. “Sometimes I want to just chill and work with my hands, not have to worry about bus or train schedules. It’s where all those drawings in my sketchbooks can manifest themselves. Doing work in galleries is fun because you don’t have to deal with sound equipment—but then you have to deal with art patrons!” He’s also got quite the YouTube presence, too. While activity on his channel has dropped off a bit, he still has more than 250 videos, which range from harsh minute-long noise samples with a silent-film background, to stop motion animation, to videos of Crank biking with a bag over his head. What became abundantly clear talking with Crank was that, while these disparate projects might seem scattered, the live shows are where this creative energy comes together and becomes more than the sum of its parts. Remember: It’s not just a man walking down the street with flooded pants; it’s a man with flooded pants who just performed a noise set. For Crank, it’s the thrill of trying and (sometimes) failing, over and over again, the process, that is the art project itself. “Someone once said to me, ‘It’s great to see you doing your thing, because it feels like I’m watching something be created,’” Crank said. “And that hit me in the heart—like that’s it! It’s the experimentation. I’m floating around and navigating the waters of an archipelago I’m trying to create.” So how did Crank come to have one of the most impressive oeuvres of any noise musician, at least in terms of raw artistic output? In his earliest surreal histories, he remarks that his pre-Crank days were filled with a “bunch of art school nude ballets (with chainsaws).”

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deep from his predecessors in the avant-garde. Visually, his goofy fish mask is a throwback to costumed greats like The Residents, as well as a childhood passion of “just going out into the woods and wishing I was a crocodilian superhero.” Similar to Schwitter’s concept of “Merz”—a fantasia on German “kommerz” (commerce) —Crank has Huso, an “entity that shall not be named” that embodies his aesthetics and artistic animus. True to form, it’s just a pun off of the latin name for the beluga sturgeon, otherwise known as Huso huso. One of his largest theoretical influences is Allan Kaprow, an American artist whose “Happenings,” or performance art spectacles, redefined the way people thought of art as more than just a finished product, but as an experience itself. More than anything, this is what I felt clarified Crank’s intentions, and is why any profile of him can’t just talk about the music, or art, or videos, or even the array of home-made microphones he sells. Because, for Crank, all these different things are really all part of the same thing,

under the same umbrella. In a show in 2015, one of his audience members asked him “what it all meant,” an obvious joke to which he responded with some ironic pretentiousness about “dialectics.” But talking with Crank, one gets the sense, at least a little, of what it really is all about. He said that, now and as a kid, one of his biggest influences was Wile E. Coyote, and the idea of zany planning, experimentation and setbacks. “Wile E. Coyote is a being of persistent failure,” Crank said. “Not trying to fail on purpose, but the idea of self-overcoming, self-immolation. Sometimes you can use a banana as a soundboard, and sometimes you get electrocuted. Kaprow said art is child’s play, so I guess you could say I’m playing around. It’s how I let myself be me.”

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Originally from Maine, Crank actually went to the prestigious Massachusetts College of Arts and Design, where he was a part of their Studio for Interrelated Media. While he was originally a visual artist and didn’t have much of a background in music besides the occasional punk group (he’s still working on his guitar), he knew that he wanted to incorporate audio into his shows. “I was sick of being in punk bands, and I knew I wanted to do something noisier, but I didn’t want to tell other people what to do” Crank said. “I just didn’t have the vocabulary yet. When I got to MassArt, I was like ‘ah,’ this is Japanese noise, this is John Cage, this is [Kurt] Schwitters. Studio for Interrelated Media was really the goldmine of inspiration, although at the time I was more into running around naked.” The latter two are just a few of the many more “classically” avant-garde influences he mentioned throughout our talk. Like Merzbow, who takes his name from Dada-reject Schwitters’ art project Merzbau, Crank has drank long and

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Click the other thing, put the dial on 16 when you’re outside and you put the other thing on 500. That’s what I did. It’s so simple. The trip changed my life and my exposures were amazingly good! But your work is so great. If it’s simple as that, what differentiates you—is it your taste? First of all, I didn’t go to photo school so I didn’t learn the photo rules. When you go to school they have to teach you something, and the teachers teach you what they do and the rules and you learn to worship the photo gods. I never learned any of that, so I didn’t worship at the altar. One day, I just decided I was a photographer and that was it.

uane Michals’ work is so incredibly full of life. There’s the playful portrait of Joan Didion, for one, looking through a smoked glass pattern on what must be an airport security door in such a way that it seems her eyes are playing peek-a-boo with the rest of her face. There is also the portrait of Johnny Cash, slouched solemn-like in a chair, with Michals’ own reflection, camera in hand, superimposed, blocking out the light from outside of what must be a glass door. Michals’ work is incredibly complex in its simplicity; creep-master Stephen King behind a spider web, ever-androgynous Tilda Swinton admiring her reflection as she’d dressed—backward, as a 19th-century English gentleman. Michals is always at play and doesn’t take himself seriously, but what he lacks in pretense, he makes up for in passion. “Whoever said a picture is worth a thousand words is the biggest bullshitter ever,” Michals said. “A picture is such a small part of it.” He often takes the time to write on his photos, to, as he puts it, “enhance the story” with witty quips like, “Johnny Cash was hotter than a pepper sprout,” or opaquely poetic musings like, “In Germany I named my tank ‘c’est si bon’” on a portrait of Eartha Kitt. I didn’t know Michals before this interview, but his is the name I’ll say next time someone asks me what living person I’d most wanna invite for dinner. He’s jovial, funny as hell and he has stories about all of your favorite people—and at 86, he’s hung out with a lot of the people we never will, so in that way, wishing for Michals is like wishing for more wishes, and talking to him was a dream come true. So how spontaneous are these photos? In talking to you, it seems like you’re kind of playing with the moment all the time. It’s true, I am. I read that you never had a studio, is that right? I never did. I didn’t like studios. If you like milk, buy the cow. So we needed a studio, but I never wanted to be a business. I never wanted to have a staff of 10 and that stuff. I always saw myself as working on a small scale. I still do. I don’t see myself in any way being a big time, big shot. Is it a way of just being humble? No, it’s just the way I am. I guess I’m humblish … I just want to do the work and don’t owe anybody money and just have a lot of sex.

Those are great goals! Yeah, and make the sex first on the list. So I read that you’re completely self-taught. How could that be possible? No, I went to Russia when I was 26 in 1958—don’t do the math! I borrowed a camera because I didn’t have one. I’d taken a little photography course once, but it didn’t amount to anything and I didn’t think of photography as a destination. So I borrowed a camera and figured it out. That’s why I’m so angry about photo schools. I gave a talk at the graduation of the New School, and I asked the kids what they spent—something like $200,000 on photography school? Are you nuts? Give me that! That trip was literally my photo education. You put the thing in the camera.

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With Instagram, everybody kind of fancies themselves as a photographer. Do you see that changing photography at all? Yeah and actually everybody is a photographer—it doesn’t mean they’re good. And listen, I love digital—fuck film! Digital is so great. It just makes taking pictures so much easier. I’m not interested in what something looks like, more like what it feels like. If I see an old lady crying, I want to know what her grief feels like.

Do you have to develop a relationship with these people before you photograph them? Never! That’s the greatest bullshit I ever heard! It’s total nonsense. So then they reveal themselves to you as you take pictures? No, nobody reveals themselves to me. Why would they reveal themselves to a stranger? No, that’s bullshit, too! It’s photo lore bullshit. It really is! Then where’s the romance and playfulness come from? Your photos seem so intimate. I don’t know, it comes from … I have a quotient of childishness, I think. I’m happiest if I’m saying something totally ridiculous! I can’t stand photographers who are serious. Essentially I’m just a big bullshitter, as you can see. But I never look down on jobs—any job. I did all kinds of jobs, you would be surprised. These celebrity portraits, travel photos, I’ve done Life Magazine covers, political campaigns, I did that album with the Police. I saw that! Could you tell the story behind that album cover? I know nothing about rock music. I was showing something, and I had an opening and this guy called—whoever the contact was—and he brought Sting to the opening.

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I never heard of Sting and he seemed nice and so they asked me to do the album cover. I didn’t know who they were, and as I was driving to meet them in the studio, I heard what I thought was the Police on the radio. So when I got there, Sting asked me if I knew their music, and I said I think I heard a song of theirs which sounded very nice. He asked which song it was and [I] started singing “Do You Really Wanna Hurt Me?” That was Boy George. He was nice and said, “No, we didn’t write that one.” That was very embarrassing, but we got along really well. It was one of my best assignments. I got paid a lot of money, they were nice and up for doing anything. It was great. Can you contrast this show at the Crocker with your first show—that was the Russia show, right? Yeah, what happened was I came to New York when I was in the army. I was a second lieutenant in Germany. I did a book called The Lieutenant Who Loved His Platoon. It was about, well, it’s a long story, but being gay in the military wasn’t easy. Anyway, you should read it; it’s a good book! Anyway, I went to New York because I wanted to—I love books. You know, I only spend money on books and magazines. And so I didn’t know where to go and I had a degree from the University of Denver. I could teach art in Denver high school. When I got there [New York] , I went to Parsons for a year and dropped out. It was a disaster, and I got a job working on a small dance magazine, $50 bucks a week—can you imagine that? I found out you could go to Russia at the time—and that’s at the height of the cold war. Nobody was talking to the Russians. No one was going there. So, it cost $1,000 to go on this trip, and I was making $50 a week, so $1,000 was a big deal. So I borrowed $500 from my mother and father and I saved up for six months, saved up $500, borrowed a camera from someone, and I said to my friends I’m going to Moscow. They said, “Fuck you, you’re not gonna go.” and I said, “No, fuck you,

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but even now. Not having a studio makes you dependent on a lot of other factors. Can you tell me more about the portrait book? Yeah, one of my favorite ones is the one of my mother. It’s a picture of my mother, sitting and looking out the window and the sunlight is coming in and you see a reflection. There’s moisture out there and it’s very still. I wrote a caption on it and it says, “Mother after father died.” And she’s sitting there and you only see her reflection and she looks very sad, and she looks like she’s tapping her fingers. Like she’s counting the time, watching time go by and to me, that’s the most profound out of the portraits because it suggests, and any good thing can only be suggested. You can’t put everything in there. You can reproduce someone’s lips or wrinkles or their nose, or whatever, but important things can only be hinted at. Grief is something that you can’t photograph. I can tell you what it looks like—tears tell you what grief looks like. Lighting or whatever, but these are all formal elements, they’re not grief. Do you have anything important you want to say that I’m missing? Not at all. You’re very nice. Thanks for talking to me for this long.

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THE AMERICAN LED ZEPPELIN Duane Michals' exhibit, The Portraitist, is currently on view at the Crocker Art Museum (216 O St., Sacramento) through Jan. 6, 2019. On Sunday, Oct. 7 at 2 p.m., the Crocker will host Michals in conversation. This event is $25 for members and $40 for the general public. For more info, go to Crockerart.org. Duane Michals, Hell Grace Fool of Merry (Grace Coddington), 2016. Gelatin silver print with hand-applied text, edition 3/5, 4 5/8 x 7 in. © 2018 Duane Michals | Courtesy of DC Moore Gallery, New York

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e could all stand to slow down and listen a little more closely. That’s been a key component for the creative growth of Marquis Hill, a New York City-via-Chicagobased trumpeter who has a knack for insightful work, spinning silken trumpet lines wrapped in form-fitted melodic harmonies and quick, rich beats. His most recent record, Meditation Tape, is a multi-faceted collaboration, incorporating elements of hip-hop and blues with a soft delivery surrounding interludes of dialogue from Marvin “Bugalu” Smith discussing mediation. “It’s all connected, especially hip-hop, jazz, rock, blues; they’re all connected to me,” Hill said. “When I write music, I’m not necessarily trying to write a jazz tune; I’m just trying to write a good song. I think of myself as part of this continuum. I don’t see myself any different from Miles Davis; I’m trying to build on that. Meditation Tape is me making a big melting pot of jazz and hip-hop and the spoken word, and the energy that Bugalu was discussing and trying to mix it all together.” Hill grew up in Chicago, a city known for many things, one being its rich jazz history. “I was raised in a household where my mom played this great black music—Motown, Marvin Gaye—but I’d never heard jazz ‘til I joined the band in fourth grade,” Hill said. “The way that I got into jazz was my elementary school jazz director. She gave me my first jazz record.” The director was Diane Ellis, and the record was Lee Morgan’s Candy, one that resonated deeply with Hill and pointed him straight toward a destiny in jazz. “At that time, I’d never heard anything like that,” Hill said. “My mind was blown. It’s my belief I fell in love with the trumpet sound in jazz in that moment. I was hooked after listening to that record.” Hill went on to study music education at Northern Illinois University, followed by DePaul University’s School of Music, where he received a masters in Jazz Pedagogy. When he began working as an educator, he was also working on his own project, releasing albums and eventually winning the 2014 Thelonious Trumpet Competition,

which landed him a recording contract with Concord Records. “My mentors, they engraved in me at a very young age that [for] this music specifically, performing and teaching go hand in hand. It’s just the lineage of the music,” Hill reported. “The best performers are the best educators; they pass that information down generation to generation, and that’s how [jazz] is kept alive.” For Hill’s 2016 Concord debut, The Way We Play, he formed his ensemble, The Blacktet, comprised of altoist Christopher McBride, vibraphonist Justin Thomas, bassist Joshua Ramos, drummer Makaya McCraven and special guests Christie Dashiell, Vincent Gardner, Juan Pastor and Harold Green III, respectively, on voice, trombone, percussion and spoken word. Though Hill fronts the project, he very much writes from a collective perspective, staying in tune with each voice in the band. “In jazz specifically, if you go back through the history— [like the] Miles Davis Quintet—those specific members brought that specific vibe to the group,” Hill informed. “I think it’s important to acknowledge individual musicians, because that music would be completely different without that unique voice. Dive Into Sacramento & Its Surrounding Areas

I keep in mind the music doesn’t actually happen until we get into a rehearsal room and play. Something I compose can sound completely different once we get into a musical situation. I think that’s the beautiful part about it.” That fluidity is palpable in so many ways through Hill’s music. His melodies move with the conversational phrasing that often lends itself to jazz, but Hill creates and executes them in a way that feels almost intuitive. “I can be reading a book or a magazine and a phrase will pop out to me and I’ll jot it down and come to it later and try to make music out of it,” Hill explained. “Lots of the time, I have my titles before the actual music. Sometimes I’m thinking more from a rhythmic aspect; I’ll hear the bass line

“The best performers are the best educators; they pass that information down generation to generation, and that’s how [jazz] is kept alive.” – Marquis Hill SubmergeMag.com

before I hear the melody, or the drum groove before the bass line. The songs come in different ways. In 2017, Hill moved to Harlem and landed in an apartment with Marvin “Bugalu” Smith, a jazz percussionist known for his work with Sun Ra, among others. “It’s just one of those crazy New York stories where I ended up moving into an apartment with a legendary jazz drummer,” Hill said. “He’s a Buddhist, and he talks about spirituality and the universe pretty much everyday all day, so every morning we would sit and have coffee and breakfast and end up in these amazing conversations. It just kind of came to me I should start documenting this. I would record our conversations because he was just dropping so much knowledge, and one day I started to compose beats around the things he was expressing.” Though barely half-an-hour long, Hill created a world on Meditation Tape that not only harnesses Smith’s insights on the power of meditation, but expresses Hill’s own message through thoughtful jazz and hip-hop textures, stacked precisely. “I’m a firm believer that meditation comes in many different forms,” Hill imparted. “When I’m on stage, that’s a form of meditation for me, personally. Every time I’m trying to connect with people through my music, that’s also a form. When I was composing these melodies, I just had that in mind. I was trying to play what would complement what Bugalu was saying, and what I felt in that moment.” Over the summer, Hill re-released Meditation Tape featuring MCs Mic We$t and King Legend, which added a kind of buoyancy to the tracks without overpowering their calm essence. Hill will be releasing a new album, Modern Flows Vol. II Oct. 19, featuring Josh Johnson, Joel Ross, Junius Paul, and Jonathan Pinson with special Guests M’Reld Green, King Legend, Braxton Cook and Rachel Robinson. Though it might not surround meditation, there’s no doubt Hill will be in tune.

Marquis Hill Blacktet will play Mondavi Center for Performing Arts (1 Shields Ave., Davis) on Oct. 10, 11, 12 and 13. Tickets are available by visiting Mondaviarts.org. For more information about Marquis Hill, visit Marquishill.com.

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9.26 WEDNESDAY

Ace of Spades Hippie Sabotage, 7 p.m. Bar 101 Open Mic, 7:30 p.m. Blue Lamp SensaMotion, Ital Vibes, Natural Revolution, 8 p.m. Central Park (Davis) Picnic in the Park: Hambone Slim & The Blues Dues, 4:30 p.m. The Club Car The Double Shots, 7:30 p.m. Dave’s Pumpkin Patch Nashville In the Neighborhood: Granger Smith feat. Earl Dibbles Jr., Chase Rice, Jimmie Allen, 4:30 p.m. El Dorado Saloon Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m. Fox & Goose All Vinyl Wednesdays w/ DJ AAKnuff, 8 p.m. Harris Center for the Arts Kaumakaiwa Kanaka’ole, Shawn Pimental, 8 p.m.

Kupros Craft House Ross Hammond, 5 p.m. Louie’s Cocktail Lounge Live Blues Jam Session, 8 p.m. Momo Sacramento Blues & Bourbon feat. Selwyn Birchwood, 5:30 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Acoustic Open Mic, 6 p.m. Old Ironsides Open Mic, 9 p.m. Palms Playhouse Eliza Gilkyson (CD Release) w/ Nina Gerber, 6:30 p.m. Press Club Emo Night Sacramento, 8 p.m. Red Hawk Casino DJ Alexx Gold, 7 p.m. Revival at the Sawyer Liquid Wednesdays Night Swim w/ Guest DJs, 8 p.m. Sacramento State: Union Serna Plaza Nooner w/ Drunken Kung Fu, 12 p.m. Streets Pub and Grub Karaoke, 9 p.m. Torch Club Sean Lehe, 5:30 p.m.; Kara Grainger, 9 p.m.

9.27 THURSDAY

Ace of Spades Sofi Tukker, Lp Giobbi, Crush Club, 7 p.m. Blue Lamp Work Dirty, D-Lo, The Gatlin, Keidra, Slick Pimpin, JMC Buggati, 9 p.m. The Boardwalk War of Ages, Capsize, Ghost Key, Royals Die Young, The Last Titan, 6:30 p.m. The Club Car Songwriters Showcase, 8 p.m. Crest Theatre Iron & Wine, 6:30 p.m. Crocker Art Museum Audio Muse w/ The Philharmonik & Sunmonks, 6:30 p.m. El Dorado Saloon Tim Dierkes, 7 p.m. Fox & Goose According to Bazooka, 7 p.m. Goldfield Shonen Knife, Fornis, The Decibels, 7:30 p.m. Harris Center for the Arts Stephen Stills & Judy Collins, 7:30 p.m. Heritage Plaza (Woodland) Souled Out, 5 p.m. Holy Diver Set It Off, Chapel, De’Wayne Jackson, 6:30 p.m.

Kupros Craft House Alyssa Matson, 8 p.m. Legends at Woodcreek Wrong Side of 40, 6 p.m. Louie’s Cocktail Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Chris Scoville, 9:30 p.m. Press Club Jesus & The Dinosaurs, Las Pulgas, Unsteady Heights, The Me Gustas, 8 p.m. Shady Lady Hot City, 9 p.m. Shine Jazz Jam, 8 p.m. Torch Club Mind X, 5:30 p.m.; City of Trees Brass Band, 9 p.m. Toyota Amphitheatre Jason Aldean, Luke Combs, Lauren Alaina, 7:30 p.m.

9.28 FRIDAY

Ace of Spades Candlebox, Aeges, Max Fite, 7 p.m. Benvenuti Performing Arts Center Jazz at The Ben w/ The Tim Metz Trio, 7 p.m. Berryessa Brewing Co. Shakey Hand String Band, 5 p.m. Blue Lamp Goddamn Gallows, Gutter Demons, The Strikers, 8 p.m. Capitol Garage Capitol Friday’s Reggae Night w/ DJ Veyn, 10 p.m. Capitol Mall Greens Farm-to-Fork Festival: The Wood Brothers, Logan Brill, IdeaTeam, 4 p.m. Crooked Lane Brewing Co. The Double Shots, 7 p.m. El Dorado Saloon Petty Jack Flash Band, 9 p.m.

Fox & Goose Kally O’Mally & the 8-Tracks, James Israel, 9 p.m. Golden Bear DJ CrookOne and Guests, 10 p.m. Helwig Winery The Car Tunes Band, 5 p.m. Highwater Actors, Creux Lies, DJ Stacey, 8 p.m. Holy Diver Angra, Scarlet Aura, Graveshadow, Niviane, 7 p.m. Legends at Woodcreek Rockology, 6 p.m. Louie’s Cocktail Lounge William Mylar’s Birthday Bash!, 5:30 p.m. Momo Sacramento Fendi P AKA Corner Boy P of JetLife, 6 p.m.; DJ JB, 10 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Open Mic Night, 6 p.m. On The Y Firebug, 8 p.m. Opera House Saloon Rhythm City Allstars, Zach Waters Band, 8 p.m. Palms Playhouse Hannah Jane Kile, 7:30 p.m. The Park Ultra Lounge Borgeous, 9:30 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. PJ’s Roadhouse PolyFunktion, DJ Zephyr, 8 p.m. Placerville Public House Loose Engines, 8 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Wiz Kid, 10 p.m. Press Club DJ Rue, 9 p.m. Red Hawk Casino Island of Black & White, 9:30 p.m. The Sacramento Gateway Clean Slate, 6 p.m. Shady Lady The Golden Cadillacs, 9 p.m. Shine The Classic Jazz Organ Trio, 8 p.m.

Sutter Creek Provisions Bear Market Riot, 6 p.m. Torch Club Hot Roux, 5:30 p.m.; Jeff Crosby, Walter Salas-Humara, 9 p.m.

9.29 SATURDAY

Ace of Spades Amanda Miguel, Diego Verdaguer, 7 p.m. Berryessa Brewing Co. Anniversary Party Pre-Party feat. Miss Lonely Hearts, Danny Morris and the California Stars, Doc Tari, 12 p.m. Blue Lamp Gearfest feat. Woolly Bandits, Tilli, Color TV, The Infamous Swanks, Public Eye and More, 12 p.m.; RocDaMic Showcase, 9 p.m. The Boardwalk Fayuca, Of Good Nature, Never 4 Naught, Alonis, 7 p.m. Capitol Mall Greens Farm-to-Fork Festival: Dawes, Magic Giant, Sunny War, Jessica Malone, 11 a.m. Crooked Lane Brewing Co. Tattered and Tied, 7 p.m. El Dorado Saloon DJ John Bosch, 9 p.m. The Fig Tree Open Mic, 7 p.m. Folsom Hotel Saloon Rockology, 9:30 p.m. Fox & Goose Henry’s Magic Family Band, JIGO, 9 p.m. Harlow’s Saint Ashbury, Katie Knipp, 6 p.m.; Zepparella, 9:30 p.m. Harris Center for the Arts Gary Vecchiarelli Productions of Las Vegas 1940s Battle of the Big Bands, 2 & 7 p.m.

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Helwig Winery The Guess Who, 8 p.m. Holy Diver Kingdom Come, Scott Allen Project, Blue Fiction, 7 p.m. Louie’s Cocktail Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m. Momo Sacramento Kid Cadaver, Breakup Shoes, Locus Pocus, Carpool Tunnel, 6 p.m.; New Wave Society (Classic ‘80s New Wave) feat. DJ Keyz, DJ David V, 10 p.m. MontBleu Resort Casino Graham Nash, 7 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Free Ukulele Class, 1 p.m. On The Y The Wooden Nickel Band, 8 p.m. Opera House Saloon Fleetwood Mask (Tribute to Fleetwood Mac), 9 p.m. The Park Ultra Lounge Konstantina Gianni, DJ Peeti V, 9:30 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Placerville Public House The High Water Line, 8 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Spazmatics, 10 p.m. Press Club DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m. The Purple Place Hey Monkey, 9 p.m. Red Hawk Casino Skid Roses, 10 p.m. Revival at the Sawyer Encore w/ DJ Lady Kate, 9:30 p.m. Shady Lady The Bumptet, 9 p.m. Shine Salt Wizard, Emerald Pools, Your Local Cemetery, 8 p.m. Thunder Valley Casino Resort Dave Wang, Ivana Wong, 7:30 p.m. Torch Club Jimmy Pailer & Co., 4 p.m.; The Coffis Brothers, 9 p.m.

MontBleu Resort Casino Skynnyn Lynnyrd (Lynyrd Skynyrd Tribute), ZZ Tush (ZZ Top Tribute), 7 p.m. On The Y Amuse, Banger, Knocked Down, 8 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Placerville Public House Island of Black & White, 5 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Shari Puorto, 3 p.m. Press Club Sunday Night Soul Party w/ DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m. Shady Lady Peter Petty, 9 p.m. Torch Club Blues Jam, 4 p.m.; Sacramento Blues Hall of Fame Showcase, 6 p.m.; Front the Band, 8 p.m. Toyota Amphitheatre Deep Purple, Judas Priest, The Temperance Movement, 7 p.m.

10.01 MONDAY

Blue Lamp Wurm Flesh, Roadrash, Soul Grinder, Aften, 8 p.m. Fox & Goose Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m. Holy Diver Revocation, Exhumed, Rivers of Nihil, Yautja, Wastewalker, 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. Press Club High Voltage, 9 p.m.

9.30 10.02 SUNDAY

Berryessa Brewing Co. Anniversary Party feat. The Mother Hips, Achilles Wheel, The Casual Coalition, City of Trees Brass Band, 12 p.m. Blue Lamp Exmortus, Hatchet, Cultural Warfare, Tyrannocannon, 7:30 p.m. The Colony Fake It, Flourish, The Co Founder, Kevin Nichols, C. Larsen and The Fractures, 7:30 p.m. Crest Theatre Benise, 6 p.m. El Dorado Saloon Gene Barnett, 12 p.m. Folsom Hotel Saloon Acoustic Sundaze w/ Cynthia Renee & Co., 3 p.m. Freeport Wine Country Inn & Bistro New Jazz Quartet, 4:30 p.m. Golden 1 Center Nick Cannon Presents: Wild ‘N Out Live feat. The Game, Waka Flocka and More, 6:30 p.m. Goldfield Crsb, 7:30 p.m. Harlow’s Sacramento Blues Society Hall of Fame Awards feat. Daniel Castro Band, 1 p.m.; Geographer, Madi Sipes & the Painted Blue, 7 p.m. Harris Center for the Arts The Kingston Trio, 2 & 7 p.m. Holy Diver Assuming We Survive, Rivals, Riot Child, Knockout, 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. Mondavi Center: Vanderhoef Studio Theatre Alexander String Quartet, 2 & 7 p.m. SubmergeMag.com

TUESDAY

Ace of Spades Lecrae, Andy Mineo, Wordsplayed, Whatuprg, Nobigdyl, 6:30 p.m. Crest Theatre Amos Lee, Caitlyn Smith, 7 p.m. Goldfield Rituals of Mine, So Much Light, Destroy Boys, 7:30 p.m. Harris Center for the Arts DakhaBrakha, 7:30 p.m. Holy Diver Fat Nick, DJ Scheme, Teddy, 7 p.m. Kupros Craft House Alyssa Matson, 5 p.m.; Open Mic, 8 p.m. Old Ironsides Karaoke, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Live Band Karaoke, 8 p.m. Torch Club Scott McConaha, 5:30 p.m.; Michael Ray, 8 p.m.

Harris Center for the Arts The Simon & Garfunkel Story, 6:30 p.m. (Sold Out) Holy Diver The Lacs, Hard Target, D-One, 7 p.m. (Sold Out) Kupros Craft House Ross Hammond, 5 p.m. Louie’s Cocktail Lounge Live Blues Jam Session, 8 p.m. Momo Sacramento Blues & Bourbon feat. Peter Petty w/ His 4 Piece Mercen-Aires, 5:30 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Acoustic Open Mic, 6 p.m. Old Ironsides Open Mic, 9 p.m. Porchlight Brewing Co. 1st Wednesday Acoustic Jam, 5:30 p.m. Revival at the Sawyer Liquid Wednesdays Night Swim w/ Guest DJs, 8 p.m. Sacramento State: Union Serna Plaza Nooner w/ The Color Wild, 12 p.m. Streets Pub and Grub Karaoke, 9 p.m. Torch Club Gavin Caanan, 5:30 p.m.; Dey Trippers, 9 p.m.

10.04 THURSDAY

Ace of Spades Machine Head, 7 p.m. The Club Car Songwriters Showcase, 8 p.m. El Dorado Saloon Patrick Walsh, 7 p.m. Fox & Goose Irish Jam Session w/ Stepping Stone, 8 p.m. Golden 1 Center Journey, Def Leppard, 6 p.m. Goldfield For Peace Band, 7:30 p.m. Harlow’s Dry Branch Fire Squad, MerryGold, 7 p.m. Holy Diver Dying Fetus, Incantation, Gatecreeper, Genocide Pact, Wurm Flesh, 6:30 p.m. Kupros Craft House Dylan Crawford, 8 p.m. Louie’s Cocktail Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m. Mondavi Center: Jackson Hall Rising Stars of Opera feat. San Francisco Opera Adler Fellows and UC Davis Symphony Orchestra, 8 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Jason Thurston, 9:30 p.m. Press Club Pets, The Heartlights, Monster Treasure, 8 p.m. Shine Jazz Jam, 8 p.m. Torch Club Mind X, 5:30 p.m.; Matt Rainey and The Dippin’ Sauce, 9 p.m.

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Ace of Spades Chief Keef, 7 p.m. Bar 101 Open Mic, 7:30 p.m. Blue Lamp Young Hunter, Astral Cult, Silent Game, 8 p.m. Central Park (Davis) Picnic in the Park: Pleasant Valley Boys, 4:30 p.m. The Club Car The Double Shots, 7:30 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 California Guitar Trio, Montreal Guitar Trio, 7 p.m.

FRIDAY

Ace of Spades Seven Lions, 8 p.m. Berryessa Brewing Co. The Golden Cadillacs, 5:30 p.m. Blue Lamp Gentleman Surfer (Album Release), Pregnant, Meet Cute, 8 p.m. Capitol Garage Capitol Friday’s Reggae Night w/ DJ Veyn, 10 p.m. Crest Theatre Graham Nash, 6:30 p.m. Fox & Goose Michael Ware’s Birthday Bash w/ The Working Man’s Blues Band, 9 p.m. CONTINUED ON PAGE 24

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10.06 SATURDAY

Ace of Spades Eden, Kacy Hill, 7 p.m. Berryessa Brewing Co. Achilles Wheel Trio, 3 p.m. The Boardwalk Kottonmouth Kings, 6:30 p.m. Cafe Colonial & The Colony Norcal Noisefest: Uberkunst, Humanfluidrot, Actuary, Filthmilk, XOME, Thirteen Hurts, War Hippy, Burnt Dot, Instagon, Chopstick, Mincing and More, 2 p.m. Congregation Bet Haverim Chamber Players, 7:30 p.m. El Dorado Saloon Jax Hammer Band, 9:30 p.m. The Fig Tree Open Mic, 7 p.m. Fox & Goose Spacewalker, CTRL Z, 9 p.m. Harlow’s Dazz Band, 5:30 & 9:30 p.m. Harris Center for the Arts Classic Albums Live: Led Zeppelin II, 8 p.m. Holy Diver E.N Young, Rudemon, Empress Niko and Lions Paw, 7 p.m. Louie’s Cocktail Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m. The Melon Ball Natalie Cortez Band, According to Bazooka, 7:30 p.m. Momo Sacramento Arin Ray, 6 p.m.; Rewind: ‘80s and ‘90s Party, 10 p.m. MontBleu Resort Casino Super Diamond (Neil Diamond Tribute), 7 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Free Ukulele Class, 1 p.m. Opera House Saloon Locked-NLoaded, 8 p.m. Palms Playhouse Dennis Johnson and the Mississippi Ramblers, 7:30 p.m. Papa Murphy’s Park at Cal Expo Timbiriche, 8 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Placerville Public House Steven Graves Band, 8 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Skid Roses, 10 p.m. Press Club DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m. Revival at the Sawyer Encore w/ DJ Lady Kate, 9 p.m. Sutter Creek Provisions The Coffis Brothers, 6 p.m. Torch Club Kally O’Mally & The 8 Tracks, 5:30 p.m.; Gino Matteo Band feat. Jade Bennet, 9 p.m. Toyota Amphitheatre Dierks Bentley, Brothers Osborne, Lanco, 7 p.m.

Gibson Ranch Regional Park Alma West Premier Latin Food and Music Festival w/ Karol G, Frankie J, Play N’ Skillz, Lunay and More, 12 - 10 p.m. Harlow’s Terry Bozzio, 6 p.m. Harris Center for the Arts Aida Cuevas, Mariachi Juvenil Tecalitlan, Totalmente Juan Gabriel, 2 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 I’m With Her, 7 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Placerville Public House Out of the Blue, 1 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.

10.08 MONDAY

Ace of Spades The Front Bottoms, Great Grandpa, 7 p.m. Fox & Goose Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m. Harlow’s Dale Watson, Wayne “The Train” Hancock, 6 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. Masonic Temple Joe Gilman Trio, 7 p.m. Old Ironsides Heath Williamson & Friends, 5:30 p.m.

10.09 TUESDAY

Ace of Spades Kyle, Marc E. Bassy, Tobi Lou, 7 p.m. Crest Theatre Get the Led Out (Led Zeppelin Tribute), 6:30 p.m. Harlow’s Monks of Doom, Las Pesadillas, 7 p.m. Harris Center for the Arts Soweto Gospel Choir, 7:30 p.m. Holy Diver Max, Nina Nesbitt, IshDARR, 6:30 p.m. Kupros Craft House Michael Ray, 5 p.m.; Open Mic, 8 p.m. Old Ironsides Karaoke, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Live Band Karaoke, 8 p.m. Torch Club Bill Mylar, 5:30 p.m.; Sicky Betts, 8 p.m.

10.07 10.10 WEDNESDAY

SUNDAY

Berryessa Brewing Co. Sourdough Slim and Robert Armstrong, 3 p.m. Blue Lamp Vitamin X, Slow Code, Sick Burn, Years of Aggression, 8 p.m. Cafe Colonial & The Colony Norcal Noisefest: Big City Orchestra, Klowd, Noisepsalm, Liver Cancer, Juice Machine, Ustam, Eddie Honeyeater, Skunk Puppet and More, 3 p.m.

Bar 101 Open Mic, 7:30 p.m. Central Park (Davis) Picnic in the Park: The Sharks, 4:30 p.m. The Club Car The Double Shots, 7:30 p.m. El Dorado Saloon Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m. Fox & Goose All Vinyl Wednesdays w/ DJ AAKnuff, 8 p.m. Goldfield Dylan Schneider, Jay Allen, 7:30 p.m. Harlow’s Ty Segall, White Fence, 7 p.m.

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Holy Diver The Birthday Massacre, Ghost Feeder, 6 p.m. Kupros Craft House Ross Hammond, 5 p.m. Louie’s Cocktail Lounge Live Blues Jam Session, 8 p.m. Momo Sacramento Blues & Bourbon feat. The Terry Hanck Band, 5:30 p.m. Mondavi Center: Vanderhoef Studio Theatre Marquis Hill Blacktet, 7 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Acoustic Open Mic, 6 p.m. Old Ironsides Open Mic, 9 p.m. Revival at the Sawyer Liquid Wednesdays Night Swim w/ Guest DJs, 8 p.m. Sacramento State: Union Serna Plaza Nooner w/ J Ras, 12 p.m. Streets Pub and Grub Karaoke, 9 p.m. Torch Club Sean Lehe, 5:30 p.m.; Austin Lucas, Michael Dean Damron, Chap Price, The Brangs, 9 p.m.

Comedy Community Center Theater Tom Segura, Oct. 6, 8 & 10:30 p.m. Foothills Event Center (Grass Valley) 43rd Annual San Francisco Comedy Competition – Final Round!, Sept. 28, 8 p.m. Harris Center for the Arts Rita Rudner, Sept. 28, 8 p.m. Laughs Unlimited Tris & Them Comedy Show feat. Aziza Jones, Shaun G, Dan Smith, Mel B, Sept. 26, 8 p.m. Daniel Weingarten, Sept. 27, 8 p.m. Mike Marino feat. Marco Assante, Sept. 28 - 30, Fri. & Sat., 8 & 10:30 p.m.; Sun., 7 p.m.

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PRO-AM Comedy Night Showcase Hosted by Ellis Rodriguez, Oct. 2, 8 p.m. The Underpaid Hilariously Funny Tour w/ Steph Sanders, DJ Chillz, Drea Myers, Tristan Johnson and More, Oct. 3, 8 p.m. Carlos Rodriguez feat. Matt Broome, Oct. 5 - 7, Fri. & Sat., 8 & 10:30 p.m.; Sun., 7 p.m. Yoshi, Matt Byrd, Jimmy Earll, Oct. 10, 8 p.m. Luna’s Cafe Open Mic Comedy w/ Hosts Jaime Fernandez and Michael Cella, Tuesdays, 8 p.m. The Melon Ball Comedy Night Palooza w/ Keith Lowell Jensen and Friends, Sept. 29, 7:30 p.m. On the Y Open Mic Comedy w/ Guest Hosts, Thursdays, 8:30 p.m. Punch Line Really Funny Comedians (Who Happen to Be Women) feat. Ta Vi, Irene Tu, Krista Fatka, Kelly Pryce, Shannon Murphy (Host), Sept. 26, 8 p.m. Andrew Schulz, Sept. 27 - 29, Thurs., 8 p.m.; Fri., 8 & 10:15 p.m.; Sat., 7:30 & 9:45 p.m. Comedy Juice, Sept. 30, 7 p.m. Kyle Kinane, Oct. 3, 7:30 p.m. Josh Blue, Oct. 4 - 6, Thurs., 8 p.m.; Fri. & Sat., 8 & 10 p.m. Sacramento Comedy Showcase, Oct. 10, 8 p.m. Sacramento Comedy Spot Open Mic, Sunday’s and Mondays, 8 p.m. Improv Taste Test and Harold Night, Wednesdays, 7 - 10 p.m. Cage Match and Improv Jam, Thursdays, 8 - 10 p.m. Anti-Cooperation League, Saturdays, 9 p.m.

Sacramento State: Union Ballroom 43rd Annual San Francisco Comedy Competition, Sept. 27, 7:30 p.m. STAB! Comedy Theater The Apple Tree Comedy Competition, Sept. 28, 9 p.m. The Reps: A Weekly Drop-In Improv Workshop, Thursdays, 7 p.m. Comedy Open Mic, Thursdays, 9 p.m. STAB! Podcast Panel Show, Fridays, 10 p.m. Tommy T’s Mark Curry, Sept. 28 - 29, Fri., 7:30 & 10:15 p.m.; Sat., 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. 24th and K Streets Midtown Sacramento’s Free Oktoberfest Street Party, Sept. 29, 3 p.m. Amador County Fairgrounds The Big Crush Harvest Wine Festival, Oct. 5 - 7, Fri., 6 p.m.; Sat. & Sun., 11 a.m. Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church Sacramento Greek Festival, Oct. 5 - 7, 11 a.m. B Street Theatre at The Sofia Tsakopoulos Center for the Arts Sacramento Ballet: Telling Stories, Sept. 27 - 29 Bella Vista High School BVHS Car & Community Show, Sept. 29, 3 p.m. Arts and Craft Fair, Oct. 6, 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. Blue Cue Trivia Night, Wednesdays, 9 p.m.

The Boxing Donkey Trivia Night, Tuesdays, 7 p.m. Cal Expo Sacramento Aloha Festival, Oct. 6, 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. California Automobile Museum The Siren Presents - Pop Up Event #1 feat. Burlesque, Variety, Comedy, Drag, Circus Arts and More, Sept. 29, 6:30 p.m. Filipino Fork 2018, Oct. 4, 6 p.m. Cameron Park Lake Thunder In The Park Car Show, Oct. 6, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Capitol Garage The Darling Clementines: Capitol Cabaret, Sundays, 7 p.m. Capitol Mall Greens Farm-to-Fork Festival 2018, Sept. 28 - 29 Central Park - Davis International Festival Davis 2018, Oct. 7, 12 - 5 p.m. Country Club Plaza Certified Farmers Market, Saturdays, 8 a.m. - 12 p.m. Crest Theatre Sacramento Film and Music Festival, Sept. 26 - 30 A Place Called Sacramento Film Festival, Oct. 6, 7 p.m. Crocker Art Museum Testament of the Spirit: Paintings by Eduardo Carrillo, Through Oct. 7 The Elaine and Sidney Cohen Collection: of Contemporary Ceramics, Through Nov. 18 Nature’s Gifts: Early California Paintings from the Wendy Willrich Collection, Through Dec. 31 Crooked Lane Brewing Co. Trivia Night, Wednesdays, 6 p.m. Don Baggett Theater at Nevada Union High School Chinese Warriors of Peking, Oct. 2, 11 a.m. & 7:30 p.m. Effie Yeaw Nature Center NatureFest 2018, Oct. 7, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Fairytale Town ScholarShare Children’s Book Festival, Sept. 29 - 30, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Florin Road & 65th Street Certified Farmers Market, Thursdays, 8 a.m. - 12 p.m. Folsom Community Center Folsom Family Expo, Oct. 6, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Fox & Goose Pub Quiz, Tuesdays, 7 p.m. Franklin Community Library Franklin Friends Craft Faire, Sept. 29, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Fremont Park Sacramento Outdoor Film Festival 2018, Sept. 28 - 29 & Oct. 5 - 6, 5 p.m. Fulton Avenue CruiseFest 2018, Oct. 6, 3 p.m. Granite Beach at Folsom Lake Sacramento Water Lantern Festival, Oct. 6, 2 p.m. Highwater The Trivia Factory, Mondays, 7 p.m. Historic Old Folsom Farmers Market, Saturdays, 8 a.m. Historic Folsom Live Art Experience, Sept. 30, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Kupros Craft House Triviology, Sundays, 7:30 p.m. Laughs Unlimited The Sacramento Community Awards, Oct. 4, 7 p.m. Luna’s Cafe Poetry Unplugged, Thursdays, 8 p.m. Mahon Ranch Mahon Ranch Hops and Brew Festival, Sept. 28, 4 - 10 p.m. McClatchy Park Oak Park Farmers Market, Saturdays, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Midtown BarFly Salsa Lessons, Wednesdays, 8 p.m.

Old Sacramento Waterfront Embarcadero Free Waterfront Yoga Series, Mondays, 12 p.m.; Wednesdays, 6:30 a.m. Palms Playhouse Sacramento Country Dance Society’s Contra Dance & Lessons, Oct. 7, 1:30 p.m. Rio Linda Depot Park 6th Annual Rio Linda-Elverta Country Faire, Oct. 6, 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. Roosevelt Park Fall Fest Beer & Wine Festival, Oct. 6, 1 p.m. Royer Park Romanian Festival Centennial Celebration, Sept. 29, 12 - 7 p.m. Sacramento Convention Center Sacramento Women’s Expo 2018, Sept. 29, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. 21st Annual Sacramento Reptile Show, Sept. 29 - 30, 10 a.m. Sacramento State: Union Ballroom Free Movie Night: Incredibles 2, Oct. 4, 6:30 p.m. Sacramento Marriott - Rancho Cordova 11th Annual Pig Bowl/Guns and Hoses Wine, Brew and Food Festival, Sept. 29, 6 p.m. Southside Park Holi Festival of Colors, Sept. 29, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. Squeeze Burger (Roseville) Cruise Nights, Oct. 4, 5 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 Light Rail Station Certified Farmers Market, Saturdays, 8 a.m. - 12 p.m. Vernon Street Town Square City of Roseville Family Fest, Sept. 29, 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. Yolo Brewing Co. Trivia Night, Tuesdays, 6 p.m.

Issue 275 • September 26 – October 10, 2018

THE SHALLOW END In a few days, a bunch of old white dudes are going to do everything in their power to discredit a woman who claims that, as a teenager, a man who’s a few footsteps away from a lifetime appointment to the highest court in the land sexually assaulted her at a high school party. I can’t say for sure what will come out in the hearings, but I’m reasonably certain it’s going to be ugly. Until then, though, we look toward the great state of Maine (I’ve never been there, but I’ve seen pictures, and it looks really nice), not because it’s home to Republican Senator Susan Collins, one of the few in the GOP who may bar Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s path to the Supreme Court, but because Maine state health inspectors are investigating a restaurant that used marijuana to help their lobsters chill out. Lobsters kind of get the short end of the stick. Unfortunately for them, they taste amazing when doused in melted butter (but then again, what doesn’t?). They’re one of the only things we eat that we actually purchase while it’s still alive. Then we bring them into our homes and toss them, still wriggling, into a pot of boiling

ROCK(ED) LOBSTER JAMES BARONE jb@submergemag.com

water. Even more unfortunate for lobsters is that they’re ugly as fuck. There used to be stories of people breaking into scientific laboratories and rescuing all the test rats and bunnies. I mean, of course, those things are fuzzy and cute; however, I’ve never heard of anyone strolling into a Safeway and “liberating” a gang of lobsters. That would be way easier to do, but I’d have to imagine that no one does this because there’s nothing appealing about snuggling with a lobster. They’re so messed up looking that I’d like to find the first human who happened upon a lobster and thought, “Wow, I want to try to eat that,” and ask them what the hell they were thinking. I don’t mean to talk shit about lobsters here. I do feel empathy toward them, as freaky looking as they are. And I haven’t eaten lobster since I was a teenager … not because I feel bad for them, though, but because I’m allergic to shellfish. But I do feel bad for them. Do a Google image search for “lobster.” The first results aren’t photos of lobsters doing lobster-shit in the wild; instead, you see them boiled red, claws hugging small cups of butter, laid out on platters. Poor ugly fucks.

I’m glad I’m not the only one who’s Team Lobster, though. Take Charlotte Gill, for example. She’s the owner of Charlotte’s Legendary Lobster Pound in Seawall, Maine. Sure, as the name of her eatery may suggest, lobster is on the menu at Charlotte’s, but Gill has a heart. She gives her lobsters the courtesy of a hot-box before they take the plunge. Gill tried this out for the first time on a lobster she named Roscoe, and was pleased with the result. “Roscoe seemed to enjoy his first time getting high—he was much calmer when he was put back in the tank with other lobsters,” noted a story on CBSNews.com. “As a reward for his participation in the experiment, the lobster was returned back into the ocean.” The article quoted Gill as saying, “If we’re going to take a life we have a responsibility to do it as humanely as possible.” In case you were wondering, marijuana is legal in Maine. Gill, in addition to being a restaurateur, “holds a marijuana caregiver license and grows her own … plants,” according

to CBS. Patrons to the Legendary Lobster Pound have the option to request their lobster gets stoned before cooking. However, health inspectors have put Gill’s sedation practices on hold for the time being. “After being contacted by the state, and upon reviewing its present laws and codes applicable to this arena, and then making a few minor adjustments to our procedure, we are completely confident that we will be able to proceed as planned,” Gill told the Portland Herald. “Keep in mind this meat is presently not available, and we don’t expect it to be for a little while longer under the circumstances. … Soon though.” I hope everything works out for them. I think a society should be judged on how well it treats its food. I mean, just let the poor lobsters get high, man. Who knows if they actually do get stoned, but I know if I was doomed to a life in a cramped fish tank until some douchebag picked me to be his dinner, I’d deal with it a lot better if I had a bit of a buzz going on. We owe the lobsters the same courtesy.

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Issue 275 • September 26 – October 10, 2018

DIVE INTO SACRAMENTO & ITS SURROUNDING AREAS

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