Submerge Magazine: Issue 276 (October 10 - October 24, 2018) by Submerge Magazine

DIVE INTO SACRAMENTO & ITS SURROUNDING AREAS

OCTOBER 10 – 24, 2018

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EVENTS TO GET YOU IN THE HALLOWEEN SPIRIT

THE MIDNIGHT DIP GO YOUR OWN WAY YOUR SMITH & RHYE COME TO ACE OF SPADES

JUPITER & OKWESS THE SPIRIT OF KINSHASA

PICK YOUR PUMPKIN AT BOBBY DAZZLER’S THE CURIOUS MIND OF

ALIE WARD

LA LUZ

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OCT 20

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Tuesday 7PM $16adv

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Wednesday

WELSHLY ARMS

NOV 16 +NOV 17

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NO PLACE IS HOME TOUR

THE GLORIOUS SONS, CHARMING

HOUSE OF FLOYD PINK FLOYD LASER SHOW

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Issue 276 • October 10 – October 24, 2018

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JEFF AUSTIN BAND

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RAINBOW GIRLS

LOCAL H JEN KIRKMAN (COMEDY)

SOUTHERN CULTURE ON THE SKIDS

THIS WILL DESTROY YOU CLARICE JENSEN

DEAP VALLY

THE CROISSANTS

TAINTED LOVE

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FRONT COVER PHOTO OF LA LUZ BY CHONA KASINGER BACK COVER PHOTO OF BRAD CECCHI BY WES DAVIS

Discovering new music is something I’ve always enjoyed. When I was growing up, I learned a lot from watching 120-Minutes on MTV or Much Music (a Canadian music video station that we got via satellite, because I grew up in the freakin’ sticks). In college, I loved discovering new music through college radio, friends, working at Tower Records and going to shows. And nowadays I continue to discover music by going to shows, the internet, talking with people I’ve met over the years through Submerge and taking the time to look over the ads in Submerge from promoters who I respect day in and out because they make Sacramento’s music scene great. Last year, I discovered La Luz, the surf punk band gracing our front cover, because our writer Niki Kangas’ former band Dirty Denim opened for them the last time they came to town. While we didn’t have room to feature them then, we do now! Read our feature on page 23 and catch them at Blue Lamp on Oct. 27. A few weeks ago Brian McKenna, who is the man/promoter behind Abstract Entertainment, booked Jupiter and Okwess for his birthday show on Oct. 18 at Harlow’s. McKenna mentioned they were one of his favorite bands at High Sierra Music Festival this past year, so I knew they had to be good! I found a 40-minute YouTube video from a past performance and fell in love with their sound of African music with hints of American soul and funk. At that moment I knew I wanted to attend their Sacramento show, but I also reached out to see if we could set up a rare interview with Jupiter, aka Jean-Pierre Bokondji. Though we needed a translator, it all worked out. So be sure to not only catch them live, but read our feature starting on page 16. Submerge is sponsoring a Rock the Vote event in Davis on Oct. 20, at the Davis Commons. You can catch live bands, and if you haven’t yet registered to vote, you can do it there before the deadline. Davis Live Music Collective booked an awesome lineup. There was a band in particular that I’d never heard of—The Midnight Dip—so one afternoon I looked them up. Luckily they had a Facebook page that pointed me right over to their Bandcamp page to hear their new EP, i hear voices. Before I knew it, I listened to their whole EP and absolutely loved it. Read our interview with frontwoman Liz Kat starting on page 12. There’s also another opportunity to catch them live on Oct. 24 at The Torch Club in Sacramento. I also love discovering new restaurants and podcasts! One of my favorite new restaurants in Sacramento that debuted just a year ago was Canon. Check out our interview with Chef Brad Cecchi starting on page 18. Congrats on hitting the one-year milestone. Cheers to many more to come. Our writer Ronnie Cline loves his podcasts. He mentioned to me a while back that his favorite podcast was Slumber Party with Alie and Georgia. But then recently informed me that his new obsession is Ologies. Both of these podcasts feature Alie Ward. He happened to get interviewed by Ward for the Ologies podcast, because he is a museum collections manager for California State Parks, aka a museologist. He happened to return the favor, as he’s also a contributor for us here at Submerge! Check the feature out starting on page 24. Now go do some discovering of your own! Read. Learn. Do rad things. – Melissa

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KYLE WILLIAMS

WED • OCT 17 • 12P • UNIVERSITY UNION REDWOOD ROOM

WED • OCT 24 • 12P • UNIVERSITY UNION REDWOOD ROOM

FREE: R&B/ soul concert

FREE: soulful acoustic pop concert

ONE BOOK DAY

THUR • OCT 25 • LECTURES AT 12P & 7P | PANEL DISCUSSION AT 230P • UNIVERSITY UNION BALLROOM FREE: Sacramento State ONE BOOK DAY will feature NICOLE MAINES and WAYNE MAINES discussing their experience as detailed in Amy Ellis Nutt’s book Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family, the story of Nicole Maines, who was assigned male at birth but knew early on she was a girl. The book explores how she and her family contended with both personal and institutional discrimination against transgender people

SOLD OUT CONCERT

NOONER

ELLA MAI

AMBER ESSENCE

THUR • OCT 18 • 730P • UNIVERSITY UNION BALLROOM

WED • NOV 7 • 12P • UNIVERSITY UNION REDWOOD ROOM

Concert, plus special opening guests KYLE DION and MONA V.

FREE: R&B concert

MOVIE

THUR • OCT 30 • 630P • UNIVERSITY UNION BALLROOM FREE: special movie screening

CONCERT

JESSE MCCARTNEY THUR • NOV 8 • 730P • UNIVERSITY UNION BALLROOM concert, plus special opening guests THE COLOR WILD, $18 Sac State students, $20 general. Tickets will be available at the ASI Student Shop on campus and www.SacStateUNIQUE.com.

NURTURE

EXPLORING WHAT IT ME ANS TO NURTURE AND BE NURTURED

AN ONGOING SERIES OF WORK BY EMILY DILBECK

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WED OCT 1O • 6PM

and RAD HORROR

FRI OCT 26 • 7PM 4

ALBUM RELEASE PARTY!

THU OCT 11 • 7PM

The Losing Kind

TUE OCT 16 • 6:3OPM

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DIZZY

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STORY UNTOLD BEARINGS BETWEEN YOU & ME PERFECT SCORE

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WITH SPECIAL GUESTS

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DEC 14: SAVING ABEL NOV 24: BRET BOLLINGER DEC 15: ADELITAS WAY & THE BAD HABBITS [FROM PEPPER]

NOV 25: MAC ZAY, ANDREW WILSON

DEC 17: SEAWAY / TROPHY EYES DEC 21: TENFOLD

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DEC 29: ARDEN PARK ROOTS

NOV 3O: THE NUMBER 12 JAN 11: IRON MAIDENS LOOKS LIKE YOU DEC 1: PALAYE ROYALE

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SUN NOV 18 • 6:3OPM

BLACKSHEEP

FRI NOV 23 • 7PM

DEC2: SQUIRREL NUT ZIPPERS

FEB 4: BADFISH [TRIBUTE TO SUBLIME] / TOMORROWS BAD SEEDS

DEC 3: MAGIC SWORD

Issue 276 • October 10 – October 24, 2018

MAR 29: ULI JOHN ROTH

THE STREAM SPOOKY SACRAMENTO-AREA EVENTS TO HELP GET YOU IN THE HALLOWEEN SPIRIT JONATHAN CARABBA

THURSDAY, OCT. 11 • ArtMix: Zombie at Crocker Art Museum Crocker’s monthly ArtMix series teams up with Sacramento Zombie Walk for a night of horror and fun with movie shorts, live performances and DJs, make-up artists, an apocalypse photo booth, zombie bingo and more. 21-plus, 6–9:30 p.m., $10 for Crocker members, $20 for non-members. Crockerart.org for more.

FRIDAY, OCT. 12 • Dia de los Muertos Fiesta at The California Museum Check out the brand new exhibit Celebracion de Almas: Día de los Muertos 2018 with appearances by artists Francisco Franco, John S. Huerta and I Love Sugar Skull’s Rob-O. Plus, a ceremonial blessing and performance from Maquilli Tonatiuh Aztec Dancers, bites and drinks from Mayahuel Restaurant & Tequila Museo, live music from Conjunto Liberacion, face painting and more. 6–10 p.m., all ages welcome, $10 in advance, $20 at the door. Californiamuseum.org for more.

FRIDAYS AND SATURDAYS FROM OCT. 12–27

Ghost Tours: Mayhem in the Museum at Sacramento History Museum On these one hour guided walking tours, who knows what you might find as you make your way through the creepy dark halls of Old Sacramento, hearing spooky stories from the past about how people lived (and died) in our city. Tours are $15 per person, and kids under 8 are not recommended. Tours start every half hour from 6:30–9 p.m., from Oct. 12 –27. Reserve your spot at Sachistorymuseum.org.

SATURDAY, OCT. 13 AND SUNDAY, OCT. 14

Sinister Creature Con at Scottish Rite Center This year’s guest appearances at the fall installment of Sinister Creature Con are off the hook: Sheryl Lee (Twin Peaks), Ray Wise (Twin Peaks, Robocop), Sherilyn Fenn (Twin Peaks, Wraith), Bam Margera (Jackass, Viva La Bam), The Ladies of The Evil Dead and too many more to list. Check out Sinistercreatureconsacramento.com for tickets and to learn what to expect.

Sheryl Lee

SUNDAY, OCT. 14 • Screening of Nosferatu with Live Score at The Red Museum Wear black and get ready for some truly dark vibes as you watch the legendary 1922 horror film Nosferatu while “gothic kosmische” duo, Venetian Veil, performs a new original score live! DJ Lady Grey will also be spinning before the screening. 8 p.m., $5 cover. Keep an eye on Facebook.com/theredmuseum for more.

SATURDAY, OCT. 20 T THURSDAY,

OCT 11

AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON STARRING DAVID NAUGHTON,

Sacramento Rocktoberfest 2018 at Two Rivers Cider Company

The folks from The Silver Orange—a local nonprofit, multi-purpose art space and rec room for teens— are throwing their 2nd annual Sacramento Rocktoberfest, and Two Rivers Cider Company is hosting the shindig with two stages, visual artists, a haunted alley, costume contest, cider (obviously), food and more. Performing will be Tom Goyen, Roland Tonies, The New Crowns, A Waking Memory, Isaac Morris and others. $5 to $10 sliding scale, runs 2–9 p.m. Loop up Facebook.com/silverandorange for more info.

DOORS 6PM MOVIE 7PM $8 - $10

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OCT 12 OCT 14 THURSDAY,

OCT 18

BENT: SACRAMENTO LGBTQ FILM FESTIVAL REI AND TETON GRAVITY RESEARCH PRESENT

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Haunted Fort at Sutter’s Fort State Historic Park

Don’t miss this rare opportunity to explore Sutter’s Fort State Historic Park under the moonlight. Docents dressed in historic attire will share spooky stories from pioneer life in the 1800s at interactive stations throughout the fort, so bring your kids to remind them how good they really have it. Members from B Street Theatre will even be performing mini-plays inspired by the history of this iconic landmark. Check out Suttersfort.org for more info on times and ticket prices.

DOORS 6:30PM MOVIE 7:30PM $10 - $20

SKI & SNOWBOARDING FILM PREMIER SATURDAY,

OCT 20

WILLIAM PETER BLATTY’S

THE EXORCIST DIRECTED BY WILLIAM FRIEDKIN

FRIDAY,

OCT 26

HENRY ROLLINS

FRIDAY, OCT. 26 • Nekromantix Tricks No Treats Tour at Goldfield

DOORS 6:30PM SHOW 7:30PM $8 - $10

With song titles like “Who Killed the Cheerleader?” and “Gargoyles Over Copenhagen,” it’s no wonder that psychobilly greats Nekromantix are known for their horror-themed lyrics and tunes. Don’t miss your chance to catch them live this close to Halloween! $16 in advance, all ages welcome, doors at 7:30 p.m. Hit up Goldfieldtradingpost.com for more.

DOORS 6:30PM SHOW 7:30PM $33 - $173

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 31 • Halloween Cover Show at The Press Club

TRAVEL SLIDESHOW TOUR SUNDAY,

OCT 28

BEETLEJUICE

1013 K STREET DOWNTOWN SACRAMENTO (916) 476-3356 • CRESTSACRAMENTO.COM

Chrome Ghost

STARRING MICHAEL KEATON, ALEC BALDWIN & WINONA RYDER

DOORS 6PM SHOW 7PM $8 - $10

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Local bands get dressed up and cover some of your favorite groups on Halloween night! Get down to Vinnie Guidera and the Dead Birds performing as Misfits, Chrome Ghost as Nirvana, and Shotgun Sawyer as The Doors! 21-plus, $10 cover, 8 p.m. Check out Facebook.com/vinnieguideramusic for more. Be sure to check out our calendar section later in this issue for even MORE regional event listings! You can also check out our listings online at Submergemag.com/calendar. Dive Into Sacramento & Its Surrounding Areas

THE OPTIMISTIC PESSIMIST

1400 ALHAMBRA SACRAMENTO

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BOCEPHUS CHIGGER bocephus@submergemag.com The world may be going to hell in a handbasket, but you don’t have to go down with it. There is a way out, and it’s available on Netflix right now! That’s right, the human race has a savior and his name is Bob Ross. Yes, that Bob Ross—the painter with the afro. You may laugh at first, but I invite you to watch the available episodes and learn the truth for yourself. Everything we need to grow as human beings is contained therein. Prepare yourself to be amazed by the journey and the miracles performed along the way, my friends. Ross’ shows and paintings often took on a spiritual nature, thanks in part to Ross’ near-whisper delivery. Today, we know it as Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response or ASMR, but, back in the ‘80s and early ‘90s it was just Bob Ross being Bob Ross. His delivery was smooth as silk with a cadence that brought nothing but comfort to the listener. He could have said something terrible in that voice and I doubt anyone would have even batted an eyelash. It was almost hypnotizing. That voice could soothe even the most wild of beasts. In fact, it does. It turns out that Bob was like a modern day St. Francis of Assisi. Ross regularly showed off the brood of wild animals under his care. There was a squirrel named Pea Pod that loved hanging out in his pocket. I saw him hanging out with a crow in one episode! Bob said the crow lived in his backyard, because of course it did. I even saw him cuddling with a baby deer that looked like Bambi the other day. All of these animals were hurt or abandoned, and Bob was nursing them back to health, like the saint that he was. It was all part of Ross’ plan; he was there to lead the way on the path to becoming a better person. If the man had written a bible, the Gospel of Bob 1:1 would be, “It’s your world; you can do whatever you want with it.” He encouraged you to try your hardest and to not be disappointed when things don’t turn out the way you had envisioned because, “There are no mistakes; just happy accidents.” Ross said that everything in the worlds he paints was happy: the trees, the mountains, the bushes and even the rocks.

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I’ve got to say that I am inclined to believe him since the end results of each episode look pretty good to me. I’d be happy to be there, too. The short time it took for him to throw together these paintings was enough for me to believe that Bob Ross possessed some sort of mystical powers. The way he painted trees was simply mesmerizing and appeared to be a work of magic. That was only the beginning though; Ross had performed other miracles. You’ve already heard about a few of the animals Bob has saved, but his healing effects extend beyond the animal kingdom. I’ve witnessed this myself. No matter how anxious or upset I am, if I put on Bob Ross, calm and sleep will come to me. I’ve seen him have the same effect on others. The man was clearly more than just a painter. It’s not just me who thinks so. I’m but one of many followers of Ross. Some of us watch his shows or take his classes, while others teach his techniques. No matter how we came to Bob Ross, we all can agree that we love him, want to live by his teachings and spread his good word to others. We all want to build our own worlds where we can be exactly what we want to be. Ross has shown us a way to do that and all we really have to do is remember to clean our dirty brushes by beating the devil out of them from time to time. We continue to do so in his honor. Ross’ presence was so great that his quick retirement in 1995 and sudden death in 1996 came as a shock to all of his disciples. His 22-year absence left a hole in our lives that until recently could not be filled. But now Bob is back. Thanks to Netflix, Bob Ross’ resurrection is complete and at a time when we seem to need him most. There might only be 52 episodes right now, but it’s enough to show us the way out of this mess. All we have to do is let those happy trees take root in our hearts and minds and encourage them to grow. I hope you all enjoyed this one. From all of us here I’d like to wish you happy painting … and God bless, my friend.

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FRIDAY

ULRIKA SPACEK

OCT 12 9 PM

SATURDAY

OCT 13 8 PM

TUESDAY

OCT 16 8 PM

SHRINE OF THE SERPENT

SUNDAY

OCT 21

GLORIAM DRACONIS, EXPAIN+MORE

8 PM

CARDIAC

TUESDAY

MINT FIELD

OCT 23

THE LION’S DAUGHTER

WEDNESDAY

PEASANT HANDS, NIHIL FUTURUM

MURDERTHROAT, FOCARA, SMACK’D UP, PECKER

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WILD MOCCASINS

OCT 24 8 PM

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POOR MAJESTY, LA TOUR, THE ROOMY DEPTH, KENNEDY WROSE

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OCT 18 8 PM

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OCT 19

RINGWORM

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SATURDAY

GRIM REAPER

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Your Smith and Rhye at Ace of Spades • Oct. 20 It is an exciting night for music lovers in Sacramento as Rhye and Your Smith showcase their first projects in five years. Rhye, headed by Toronto singer-songwriter Mike Milosh, released their second album, Blood, at the beginning of the new year. Any fan of Milosh’s beautiful, breathy tones over calm, melodic beats on Rhye’s first album, Woman (2013), knows this project is long overdue. The same sentiment for overdue projects applies to Caroline Smith, now known as Your Smith. The Minneapolis native moved to Los Angeles in the five years since her previous release, Half About Being a Woman (2013), and in those years, she found herself and her voice. Thus comes her latest EP, released in August 2018, Bad Habit, full of feel-good vibes and amazing vocals. Don’t miss out on this show that will surely put you in a trance. This all-ages show takes place at Ace of Spades (1417 R St., Sacramento) on Oct. 20. Doors open at 7 p.m., and tickets are $29.50 and can be purchased at Aceofspadessac.com.

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Interested in great food and great culture? Then make a stop at the Sacramento Armenian Food Festival that has been blessing the area since 1947. Armenia is one of the oldest civilizations in Western Asia and since 1919, Armenians have been residing in the Sacramento area, adding to the diversity of the region. The festival will include foods from the Byzantine period, and this year a new Mezzeh menu is included where you can get tasty Armenian foods for only $5 after 5 p.m. The St. James Armenian Church organizes this mouthwatering event at Trinity Cathedral Great Hall at 2620 Capitol Ave., Sacramento from 11 a.m.–8 p.m. on Oct. 20. Don’t miss out on this cultural event. Tickets are only $5 and kids 12 and under get in free! For more information, visit Armenianfoodfest70.org.

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and complete their first lap around the sun. The following June, when the cubs are about a year and a half, mama bear becomes suddenly intolerant and chases the cubs away. It is now time for them to fly on their own as mama will again reproduce. What’s with the glowing waterfall in February? In February, Horsetail Falls becomes illuminated only if all the conditions are perfect: enough water, bright red and orange hues in the sky, and a correctly angled sunset. Sometimes called the Firefall, this term actually refers to a tradition that went on for nearly 100 years, in which burning campfire coals were pushed off the edge of Glacier Point, creating what looked like a “firefall.”

The fires in California seem to be subsiding and Yosemite is back in action. It’s no longer 100 degrees in the valley, leaves are changing colors and you may even need a sweater in the morning and evenings. Ahhh, fall. After a recent trip to Tuolumne Meadows with my mom, she had many questions for me regarding the national park that I felt I should know, not only as an outdoor enthusiast, but especially as an avid Yosemite attendee. So, with my combined love of Yosemite Valley and trivia nights, I bring you Yosemite Trivia. When and how did Yosemite become a national park? Let’s start with the longest story. Note: This recollection of history is a vague representation of the birth of what we know today as Yosemite National Park. Perhaps more than 6,000 years ago, humans inhabited the region we know today as Yosemite Valley. Named by Native Americans for what it appeared to be, the valley was originally called Awooni (Ahwahnee), meaning gaping large mouth. The tribe that inhabited the main valley called themselves the SubmergeMag.com

Ahwahnechee, or “dwellers of Ahwahnee,” but were called by other tribes as Yos s e’meti, which, legend has it, translates in Miwok to, “those who kill.” The Ahwahnechee tribe had a bad rap, though all in all, things were good. In 1849, the Gold Rush brought thousands of “nonIndians” to the scene. When money is involved, usually killing is, too, and by 1851, theft and murders of the native people continued, resulting in the Mariposa War. The Ahwahnechee village was lit to flames by the white men and the tribe was forced to

relocate to a reservation near present-day Fresno. The valley was then dubbed Yosemite—an American take on Yos s e’meti (remember that one? Those who kill?). Shit was going down in the worst way possible for the Native Americans, but things looked bright for the white men and their new land. While on its way to demolition by cattle, commercial businesses and tourists, the land became safeguarded when Abraham Lincoln signed the Yosemite Grant in 1864, placing Yosemite under the protection of the State of California.

Twenty-six years later, 1,500 square miles of “reserved forest lands,” not including the valley itself, became known as Yosemite National Park by U.S. Congress. John Muir, an advocate for wilderness preservation (to say the least), wasn’t quite satisfied, so he embarked on a camping trip with President Theodore Roosevelt in 1903 and convinced him to include Yosemite Valley in the national park boundaries. His wishes were granted in 1906 and the park became all of what it is today.

How long do baby bears hibernate with mom? American black bears, found in Yosemite, mate during spring. Mama bear prepares for hibernation and begins her deep sleep. Keep in mind, a bear’s hibernation is milder than rodents, as they can be easily awoken. In midwinter, baby bears are born in the den (barely the size of squirrels!) and overdose on milk and naps until it’s time to exit the den in mid-March. Cubs learn all about the perils and excitements of life from mom during that first spring and summer, re-enter the den,

Why did some of the historic property names change in Yosemite? In 2016, Delaware North, the parks concessioner for two decades, lost their contract with the park and Aramark took over the job. Somewhere in those 22 years, Delaware North trademarked the names of select properties, without the park knowing. The trademarked names include: The Ahwahnee, Wawona, Badger Pass, Curry Village, and they even threw in Yosemite National Park. Requiring $51 million from the park, Delaware North and the National Park are currently battling it out in court for what could be years to come. If there is one thing I learned from all this, it is that kindness can be scarce. Be kind to others and adventure on!

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here is a sonic boom happening among women of all mediums and industries. Whether through art, politics or music, females are owning their truth and expressing it unapologetically without shame, guilt or insecurity. Submerge got the chance to interview one such inspirational female contributing to this era of woman power, Liz Kat, a multi-talented vocalist, keyboardist and frontwoman of Davis band, The Midnight Dip. Kat chatted with us about bringing The Midnight Dip together, their new EP and the power of turning negatives into positives. The genres and sounds The Midnight Dip explores would be hard to put into any box. In my first interaction with their tunes, my impression of The Midnight Dip was of a gypsy-esque variety, with an array of contrasting instruments such as accordions and banjos, among others. I imagined it as the perfect music for steampunk events or hipster circuses. But Kat describes their music style as, “A mixture of sweet and salty with a bit of everything in between.”

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While my ears continued through their kaleidoscope of sound, I heard classic funk, jazz and psychedelic thrown in. Their discography offers powerful lyrics and original music written by the frontwoman herself. And above all, The Midnight Dip hopes to inspire others, give people a voice, and contribute positively through the power of noise. For seven years, Kat had been a part of bands with people she admired and linked up with in the local music scene. However, after her last experience, she was left deeply unsatisfied. This was due to the lack of mutual respect in the band and the irritating machismo attitudes that one can experience when being the only woman in the group. When asked about her experience Kat replied, “I’ve been in tons of bands with musicians and friends I know in the community here. But then I was with this all-men band that had a strange resistance to having a woman contribute equally creatively. They lacked the respect for me that they’d give to each other … I decided right then and there that I wanted to work for myself with my own band.”

She admits starting her first band wasn’t easy, but so far she has created a group that has gained quite a buzz in less than a year’s time. Through musical acquaintances, friends and Craigslist, she was able to form the group. David Jacobin on guitar and banjo was her first to join. He’s been good friends with Kat for years. Then Patrick Langham from Big Sticky Mess introduced Kat to Kim Nguyen, who is also on keys. “Patrick told me he knew someone who was awesome on keys. He said I’d really like her, so Kim and I met up and we spoke about art for hours,” Kat detailed. With the rest of her crew, including bassist Alex Reiff and Zehrin Sims on drums, Kat’s made the same types of connections. What is even more impressive, though, is that within a short time of playing together, The Midnight Dip has already released an EP titled, i hear voices. i hear voices is Kat’s brainchild (with help of the band for arrangement) and covers an intense and difficult breakup in Kat’s life. Dive Into Sacramento & Its Surrounding Areas

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Make sure to catch The Midnight Dip at these upcoming shows: They’ll be playing the free Rock the Vote event in Davis on Oct. 20 (at Davis Commons, 500 First St., from 11 a.m.–7 p.m.) and at The Torch Club (904 15th St., Sacramento) with The Dirty Chops Brass Band on Oct. 24. This 21-and-over show is $6 and starts at 9 p.m. For more info, go to Torchclub.net. You can listen to i hear voices at Themidnightdip.bandcamp.com.

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The collection of songs goes through a process of love, loss and pain, and ends with redemption. The opening track, “Crazy Woman,” begins with delicate acoustic strings that pull the listener into a memory the subject is about to reflect on. Then the drums slowly roar and join in rhythm. “Crazy Woman” specifically focuses on a moment in the abusive relationship where Kat’s exboyfriend chose to call her crazy while in a fight. At that particular moment, Kat felt shame and anxiety. She always assumed crazy had to only have a negative connotation. But then she thought, “OK, I am crazy but in the best way possible. I decided to make the word positive and made this song as a way for me to accept the word as a positive thing. I wanted to put that aggression and realization into something powerful, so I put it in this song.” The five-song EP is full of relatable gems a breakup album should consist of, especially in its honesty of how we all can act when heartbroken. Kat admitted, however, her music specifically targets a female audience on this EP. “After going through the wave of all these stages—love, loss, pain, acceptance—by the end I’ve finally gone through the wave and I’m finally ready to move on,” Kat explained. While envisioning the concepts for i hear voices, Kat took much inspiration from comedian Hannah Gadsby. In her standup, Gadsby uses comedy to cope with pain. Kat explained that in this way, Gadsby is owning her pain and owning her story and that inspired her. As for the cover art, painted by Will Durkee, it hints at the contents of the album entirely. Durkee’s piece offers a beautiful female figure in purples and blues exiting a body of water. While including swirls and waves within the piece, the women has a noticeable illustration of an eye on the small of her back. Kat describes how impressed she was with Durkee after he took her description of what she wanted and made the cover art as the result. “I wanted a woman in water but I wanted her to be a part of the water in a way. I wanted it to all flow. He did so well that he is now my go-to artist for everything,” Kat said. While she wishes they all practiced more, for now Kat says The Midnight Dip practices at least once a week. While the bandmates individually lead their own lives, they are all dedicated to the same goal. Above all, Kat will always adhere to this goal: “I want to run a band with as much transparency and fairness as possible,” she said. “Even if I write all the songs, I want everyone to have an equal opinion and be happy with the decisions we make.” Though the the inner workings of social media and finances can be a difficult task, Kat is up for the challenge, frequently staying up late figuring out how to more successfully promote herself and The Midnight Dip. As for what’s next, Kat said The Midnight Dip will release a full-length album in a year or two after getting their feet wet with this first EP.

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ean-Pierre “Jupiter” Bokondji is, as he will tell you, a curious man. Born not long after the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)’s independence, Bokondji was raised as the son of a diplomat—spending much of his youth between Tanzania and divided Germany. He was destined to be educated in Europe, to either rise up the political network in his country as a leader, or—like many—to leave Africa behind altogether for a theoretically better life elsewhere. The possibility that he would reject all of this, and instead dedicate his life to the street music of the sprawling, destitute Congolese capital of Kinshasa, was unthinkable. And so, as a young man, he was thrown out of his father’s house. He was destined, then, to be a man of his own invention. If Europe had offered Bokondji anything, it was a glimpse of Africa through a prism. The land to the north could be just as provincial as anywhere else. He recalls being seen as a curiosity by schoolchildren in East Berlin, being struck with the irony that, while he was free to travel to either side of the wall separating two worlds, those who gawked and pointed were the true oddities, sealed off in a socialist bubble. But Europe was also the crossroads through which he encountered American soul and funk records. By the time he returned home, he realized that, within all the songs and rhythms he’d heard abroad, he could hear a raw, untapped form in the music of his own country. From then on, he would spend his life as close as possible to this beating, musical heart of the world. The fantastic 2006 documentary La Danse de Jupiter might be the best introduction into understanding Bokondji’s undying love for Kinshasa, with its chronic power outages and decidedly un-peaceful transitions of government power. Between performances by Jupiter and his longest-running band, Okwess International, it shows a vibrant, inventive metropolis making the best of things while stuck between the gears of history and politics. There are no breathtaking vistas here—Kinshasa is not a place to look at; you must listen for it, as Bokondji says, in the endless combinations of music styles encountered from one street corner to the next. There are more than 400 ethnic groups residing here from

every corner of the Congolese interior, each with their own language and rhythm particular to their culture. For Jupiter, their artistry is the true wealth of the land—far more valuable than the physical resources for which so many have suffered, and with so little to show for it. Jupiter and Okwess have gone truly international in the years since La Danse was released; a 2012 tour in support of the London Olympics, in which dozens of musicians from around Africa and the United Kingdom collaborated, sparked new connections and interest in the band, leading to their debut album release, Hotel Univers (2013), a spot at Glastonbury that same year, another world tour, and this year’s international release of their second album, Kin Sonic. While no recording could contain the dynamic and immediate power of Okwess, the albums are still triumphant, documenting a band at the top of their game after nearly three decades of existence. Kin Sonic, while having star guest spots from the likes of Damon Albarn (of Blur) and Robert Del Naja (of Massive Attack, who supplied the cover art), is most of all a distillation of Jupiter’s primary concerns: elevating and showcasing the teeming cultural mix of Kinshasa (almost every song on the record is sung in a different language) and pushing forward the spirit of “bofenia rock” (a fusion of Congolese popular music, native rhythms and Western rock). The record is filled with timely messages, but like the best African proverbs, it does not speak truth directly to power, but dispenses its urgent messages inside universal truths. It is this universality that gave Jupiter the foresight to continue when he was thought of as a fool and a dreamer for pursuing music. Unlike other natural resources, music can travel long distances without losing the character of where it came from; it bridges divides that cannot be crossed by boat or plane; it makes one wealthy in more ways than one. On Thursday, Oct. 18, Jupiter and Okwess will bridge the distance from Kinshasa to Sacramento with what’s sure to be an amazing set at Harlow's. We were able to get a few words (translated, by phone) from Jupiter himself.

You’ve talked about how many people in Kinshasa don’t see native music or music of the streets as a great form of wealth for the Congo. Now that you have released two albums, toured the world and collaborated with big global artists in the years since then, are more people recognizing the potential of the music? How do people treat you/view you back home now? Yes, more people understand my approach that has lasted more than 30 years, trying to open their ears. Now there is a new generation looking up to me. When I go home, I am more respectfully considered. You’ve talked about listening to Western music, music from all around the world, and hearing the music of the Congo in its DNA. When was the first time in your life that you realized how much influence African music had, and how did that change you? I realized that traditional music was the basis of world music when I returned to the Congo in the 1980s, listening to the traditional music in its raw state. This made a rebel of me, and it pushed me to explore more and expose it and to my fellow citizens who did not know it. It’s rare for someone to gain fame and retain their love and commitment to their home and their roots as you have with Kinshasa. What advice do you have to people who would stay home, support and build up the music and the people where they live? [Fame is mean]. If you put it in your head, it’s negative. The only advice is that you have to stay yourself and natural.

Many people don’t know about the election in DRC coming up at the end of this year. With half of the country younger than 25, is there a sense that young people will soon begin to change things in the country? Is there more optimism or pessimism for the next generation? There is always optimism for the next generation, and especially if the multinationals leave us in peace and collaborate equitably without corrupting governance. For most people in the places you tour, your concert will be the closest they come to experiencing Kinshasa. What is the most important thing you would want to communicate to the global audiences you perform for? By the vibration and the rhythm, we try to relieve the stress of the people, and that brings us closer. Because of the language barrier, it is especially in this way that we joyfully and positively communicate the energy we bring from Kinshasa. Much of the songs on Kin Sonic have lyrics in different languages from the peoples of the Congo; What changes each time when expressing your music in another language? What are the common things that connect all of these people’s music? Each language helps to give us a melody; each language has its own characteristic music. We try to go from one to the other to create our own style that I call “bofenia rock.” What is next for Jupiter and Okwess? We want to continue to explore this inexhaustible music, then we just open the door for the next generation.

You do not want to miss Jupiter and Okwess as they take the stage at Harlows (2708 J St.) Thursday, Oct. 18. Opening the show is The Jack Moves. Tickets are $20 and available by visiting Harlows.com. Doors open at 7 p.m. and show starts at 8 p.m. 21 and over. For more information on Jupiter and Okwess’s music, visit Jupiterandokwess.com.

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CHEF BRAD CECCHI ON ACCESSIBLE FOODIE EXPERIENCES AND AN UPCOMING MENU OVERHAUL WORDS NUR KAUSAR • PHOTO WES DAVIS

anon, arguably the most talked about new restaurant in Sacramento, celebrates its oneyear anniversary this week. The philosophy of Canon is to use top quality, seasonal ingredients to create unique dishes and cocktails. Some late summer/early fall examples include confit tomatoes with smoked provolone and basil, and a pistachioinfused rye cocktail with peach and celery bitters. The restaurant has stepped away from the trend of writing out where each cut of meat or each herb sprig originates—just take their word for it that it’s what you want. Chef and co-owner Brad Cecchi dropped some big and potentially devastating news for Canon die-hards during our interview at the end of September—the most loved items on the dinner menu are being removed. “It’s like shedding a skin,” Cecchi says, sipping ice water on the Canon patio. “I’m excited for the challenge. Our menu is not stagnant, our vegetable dishes rotate quite a bit, but there are things that have been on since we opened.” Specifically, Cecchi is talking about their ribs, drumsticks and mole tots. “I’m happy people have fallen in love with them, but we have more surprises up our sleeve,” he says. “And you’ll still be able to get them, just not at dinner. We’ve been on our first release, and now I’m anxious to go on to year two with a year two kind of feel. It’ll be our sophomore album.” Cecchi sat with me during a busy time of new menu creation and Tower Bridge Dinner prep to share his experiences and creative process, his take on the last 20 years of fine dining in Sacramento and Canon’s long-term goals.

You come from a restaurant family. Did you work in restaurants as a kid? My grandparents owned diners and restaurants but I didn’t work there. I was just the kid at the counter drinking milkshakes and eating hot dogs. When I was in high school they retired here and I would spend a lot of time with my grandpa in the kitchen. The food he cooked was not fine dining or avant garde by any means, but it was a good excuse for the family to get together. You have lived and worked in other cities around the country, including Cleveland. Being from California, what was it like moving there? What was the food scene like? I think there is a lot of California we take for granted. From a food perspective, we are used to walking into grocery stores and seeing all kinds of vegetables. That’s not

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always the way it is everywhere. I wouldn’t say we have a more healthy culture, but there is an awareness of different foods that may be considered healthy that are not readily available elsewhere. When I lived in Cleveland, you couldn’t walk into a grocery store and find quinoa. But here you can walk into a Safeway and buy quinoa. The food scene is different there. It’s richer, it’s beef and pork and chicken, and even the vegetarian is a little bit more rich. On the same side of it, there are restaurants there doing fine dining and they are doing it well. They don’t have the playground of ingredients we have so there is more manipulation of ingredients. Like in the winter, they don’t just get to let apples shine; they have to do stuff to them, especially if they are locally grown apples. And then there is the whole issue of winter. When we moved there, we had the polar vortex, and it was never above zero degrees day or night for two months. That brought a different kind of culture—people went to restaurants and bars as community gathering spaces. Ultimately though, I missed California and wanted to come back. With your travels, and your experiences in wine country working at Michelin-starred Solbar, what did you take from it all to come up with your concept for Canon? We have done a good job of achieving what we set out to do. I took what I learned from my travels, from an employee perspective to how to manage a restaurant, from a foodsourcing perspective, to incorporating the fine dining experiences I picked up from working in Cleveland and working for six years at the Citizen and then at Solbar. I wanted to take those quality checkpoints and institute them into what we were doing here. At the same time I wanted to make the food, our beverage program, everything, accessible to everybody. And, yeah, that comes from price point. We are an inexpensive restaurant. We dial our portion sizes down so it doesn’t break the bank, and we try to be creative in how things get shared, and the sharing concept allows for more accessibility for the clientele and also makes for a more casual environment. It was really important that we bring good quality food with a focus on ingredientdriven dishes and ingredient-driven cocktails, and that we invite everybody as they are, from somebody coming in from the gym next door in their yoga pants to someone making this a destination for their birthday or anniversary. What happens if Canon gets awarded a Michelin star or wins a James Beard award? I think we would keep it the same. Obviously those are some of our goals and with that would come some sort of change in the way our business operates. We might get different clientele coming in or more clientele coming in so we make adjustments, whether that’s buy more china or hire more people. But I don’t think we would focus on all of a sudden requiring dress code or increasing prices. We would keep our SubmergeMag.com

intentions for how people eat here. You can come in and sit at the bar and order drumsticks and tater tots and spend $13, or you can order the lamb and sides with six people and spend a few hundred dollars. As long as you’re here to get those big flavors and well-made food, that’s our goal. We are happy for anybody to be here. How do you think Sacramento has changed since your time working in other restaurants here? Since my days at the Citizen, or even when I helped open Mulvaney’s, there were very few fine dining restaurants. At that point it was the Waterboy, Biba and Paragary’s. And the steakhouses were still doing a lot of business. Then 2006 to 2008, you had Mason’s open at that time, Ella was opening, and then Grange opened, and the scene started to get bigger but all of those restaurants were all kind of the same contemporary, Mediterranean, California cuisine, at the end of the day. Now what you see is different, lots of new restaurants opening and creative chefs like Patricio Wise at Nixtaco, Craig Takehara at Binchoyaki and Chris Barnum-Dann at Localis—they are doing different kinds of food. The main difference now is, whether it be young people or people who have lived here forever, palates are changing, too, and people are in for more exciting foodie experiences. Sacramento used to be the place you would go because you knew your favorite steak was on the menu and you knew your favorite bartender was working and you knew your favorite server was working and that’s why you went to those restaurants. Now, it’s almost like a punch card of restaurants: have you been to this place, have you tried this here, what are they going to do next? So, we are going to change our whole menu and that’s a way to help ourselves evolve. Things that have been favorites of our clientele and have been on the menu for the last year are going to go away, because we want to develop that foodie culture and we want people to look at Canon as a place they can go to have a new, exciting experience every time. I’ve heard you describe being a chef as being like an artist. When you come up with the new menu, what inspires you? How do you decide what gets on the plate? I read a quote that said, “A chef is only as good as their pantry,” so my creative process starts with looking at ingredients and then looking at the other components of those ingredients, like preserving, whether it’s preserved lemons or canning tomatoes or fermenting vegetables, and creating a pantry of items. Then I start putting things into columns: how many vegan, gluten-free, chicken, lamb and seafood dishes I need. Then I can compartmentalize and see within those lines. We are going to roll this new menu out at the end of October, but I’ve already created those lines for myself and now I’m trying to color inside of them.

You’re celebrating a successful one year this month. Have you had any bad days? My wife and I had a baby the day before Canon opened. My daughter was born Oct. 9 and Canon opened its doors Oct. 10, so there have been hard times when I’ve needed to be here and present for the sake of the business and I’ve missed out on a little bit at home. But we opened this business to be able to provide for our families and create an environment where our families are welcome. Those are the hardest moments, missing out at home, because she’s a 1-year-old, so you miss something everyday. Even if you’re successful—successful restaurants are still hard businesses to run. What was your most memorable moment this year at Canon? When we were validated by Kate Washington in the four-star review in the Sacramento Bee, that was pretty memorable. We look at those kinds of benchmarks, and we were still pretty young at that time. We’ve been in other publications but to get four stars from her told us we were doing it right. What we told staff that day was this just allows us to keep striving for the goals we really want to achieve, including national awards. At the end of the day, why you strive for those national awards is because it allows your business to continue to be successful, and we want to have a place in Sacramento that’s in business for the next 20 years. Another restaurant that’s a canon among the great Sacramento restaurants, like Biba, Waterboy, Mulvaney’s, The Kitchen, all those places that have been open for 20-plus years. They’re doing something right to be open for that long and ultimately that’s our goal. You grew up in this area. Where did you like to go and what did you like to do? I grew up in Carmichael so I spent summers on the American River, floating or kayaking. And like with anyone living in their hometown, you end up being your best self there, whether you know the best way during traffic to get somewhere or the best hole-in-the-wall burger place or you know where to go on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving to see all your friends. I am my best self here. I like living downtown, and I like seeing people I know all the time. I think that’s what Sacramento needs to be. We have the proximity to the river, to the City and Tahoe, and I think the grid offers a level of accessibility that doesn’t exist in cities of comparable size. And I love the way the city has embraced the farm-to-fork label and its support for not just restaurants but the agricultural community. It’s a very kind of prideful city. Where do you like to eat in town? I eat at Binchoyaki as much as I can. He’s open late so sometimes I can run over there after I’m done here. And I’m a big proponent of Jimboy’s TaSwing by Canon and cos. Outside the sample their new menu, region it’s debuting this month. not something Canon is located at 1719 you find. th 34 St., Sacramento.

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10.10 WEDNESDAY

Bar 101 Open Mic, 7:30 p.m. Blue Lamp Decrepit Birth, The Odious Construct, Symbolik, Tyrannoncannon, 8 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 Nassah, 8 p.m. Goldfield Dylan Schneider, Jay Allen, Dire Lane, 7:30 p.m. Harlow’s Ty Segall, White Fence, 7 p.m. 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. Press Club Teenage Dirtbag (‘90s House Party), 9 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/ J Ras, 12 p.m. Sophia’s Thai Kitchen Open Mic, 7 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.

10.11 THURSDAY

Blue Lamp The Von Tramps, Space Monkey Mafia, Violet Island, At Both Ends, 8 p.m. The Boardwalk Sworn In, Noble, Desolist, Sleep/Speak, Smack’d Up, 6:30 p.m. The Club Car Songwriters Showcase, 8 p.m. El Dorado Saloon Jerry Martini and Frankie Sorci, 7 p.m. The Fig Tree Purl Rede, Saint June, 7 p.m. Folsom Hotel Saloon Karaoke Night and DJ Matty B, 9:30 p.m.

Fox & Goose Michael B. Justis, 8 p.m. Harris Center for the Arts: Stage 1 Jeffrey Siegel: Chopin In Paris, 7:30 p.m. Holy Diver Noirre (Album Release), The Usual Haunts, 7 p.m. Louie’s Cocktail Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m. Momo Sacramento Brothers Gow, Sea Legs, 7 p.m. Mondavi Center: Vanderhoef Studio Theatre Marquis Hill Blacktet, 8 p.m. Mulvaney’s B & L Sacramento Has Soul: Specialty Coffee Week Benefit Concert w/ Madi Sipes & The Painted Blue, Jessica Malone & Giorgi Khokhobashvili, Red’s Blues, 7 p.m. On The Y Karaoke, 9 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Press Club Mos Generator, Lord Ellis, 8 p.m. Shine Cowboys and Frenchmen, Triism, 8 p.m. Torch Club Mind X, 5:30 p.m.; Indian Goat, 50 Watt Heavy, 9 p.m.

10.12 FRIDAY

Ace of Spades Digable Planets, Bru Lei, 7 p.m. Berryessa Brewing Co. Tracorum, 5 p.m. Big Sexy Brewing Co. A Summer Alive, Occupy the Trees, Rob & Trevor (of Face the Horizon), The Cold Mountain, 6 p.m.

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Blue Lamp Ulrika Spacek, Mint Field, 9 p.m. Cafe Colonial The Walking Dead, Coyote Bred, Sitting & Waiting, 8 p.m. Capitol Garage Capitol Friday’s Reggae Night w/ DJ Veyn, 10 p.m. The Colony He Who Cannot Be Named, The Moans, The O’Mulligans, Knockout, 7 p.m. Cooper’s Ale Works Toxic Positive, Animal 13, Uncle Dad, Split Jaw, Embodied Greif, 8 p.m. Crooked Lane Brewing Co. Ian Rasmussen, 7 p.m. El Dorado Saloon DJ Alazzawi, 9 p.m. The Fig Tree Litany, Jake Middleton, 7 p.m. Folsom Hotel Saloon Playback, 9:30 p.m. Fox & Goose Kevin & Allyson Seconds, 9 p.m. Golden Bear DJ CrookOne and Guests, 10 p.m. Goldfield Taylor Phillips, 7:30 p.m. Harlow’s The Stone Foxes, Tango Alpha Tango, 7 p.m. Harris Center for the Arts: ScottSkillman Recital Hall Duo Klavitarre, 7:30 p.m. Holy Diver Aftershock Pre-Party: Hyro Da Hero, Among the First, 7 p.m. John Natsoulas Center for the Arts 11th Annual Jazz and Beat Festival: Jean Paul Bourelly with Broun Fellinis, Tony Passarell Trio, 7 p.m. Louie’s Cocktail Lounge William Mylar’s Hippie Hour, 5:30 p.m.; Tim Noxon Rockin’ Blues Band, 9 p.m. Momo Sacramento That Kid Raja, Charm The Riot, Skyler’s Pool, M.E.R.K. 1 & R.A.N.S.O.M, 6 p.m.; Louie Giovanni, 10 p.m. Mondavi Center: Vanderhoef Studio Theatre Marquis Hill Blacktet, 8 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Open Mic Night, 6 p.m. On The Y Support Da Underground, 9 p.m. Palms Playhouse Led Kaapana and Mike Kaawa, 6:30 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Press Club DJ Rue, 9 p.m.

Red Hawk Casino Clean Slate, 9:30 p.m. Shine Katie Knipp Band, The Freebadge Serenaders, The Weird Kids, 8 p.m. Torch Club War Elephant, Simon Feck, 5:30 p.m.; Alex Nelson Band, Highway Poets, 9 p.m. Veterans Memorial Auditorium (Grass Valley) Center for the Arts Presents: Pop Rocks, 9 p.m. VFW Post 6518 Sacramento Witches’ Ball feat. Lipshock, O’Craven, Discordia, Midtown Moxies, Verbatim Dance, 7 p.m.

10.13 SATURDAY

Ace of Spades St. Lucia, The Night Game, 7 p.m. Berryessa Brewing Co. Red Dog Ash, 3 p.m. Blue Lamp The Lion’s Daughter, Peasant Hands, Nihil Futurum, 8 p.m. The Boardwalk The Zach Waters Band, The Imported, Flight Mongoose, 7 p.m. Cache Creek Casino Min Hae Kyung, 8 p.m. Cafe Colonial D Mickey Sampson’s 62nd Birthday Party w/ Mickey and the Blonde Girls, Mama Mia D ‘Bruzzi, Killer Couture, Bite and More, 7 p.m. Crooked Lane Brewing Co. Tropicali Flames, 7 p.m. Discovery Park Aftershock Festival: Deftones, Godsmack, Gwar, 311, Shinedown, Monster Magnet, Action Bronson, Underoath, Emmure, Jonathan Davis, Asking Alexandria, Sevendust and More, 11 a.m. El Dorado Saloon Press Play Band, 9 p.m. The Fig Tree Open Mic, 7 p.m. Folsom Hotel Saloon Rhythm City AllStars, 9:30 p.m. Fox & Goose Amina Shareef-Ali, Finley, Faye Safiro, 9 p.m. Harlow’s Petty Theft (Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Tribute), 8 p.m. Harris Center for the Arts: City Studio Theater Harmonica Slapdown feat. Mitch Kashmar, Aki Kumar, Gary Smith, Andy Santana, 7 p.m.

Holy Diver Polyphia, Hail The Sun, Covet, 7 p.m. John Natsoulas Center for the Arts 11th Annual Jazz and Beat Festival: Jean Paul Bourelly with Broun Fellinis, Richard Loranger, Thin Air Ensemble, Alex Jenkins Trio, World Toor Beats and More, 2 p.m. Kick N Mule MelloSmoove Band, 10 p.m. Louie’s Cocktail Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m. Momo Sacramento Back in the Day: Old School Hip-Hop and R&B, 10 p.m. Mondavi Center: Corin Courtyard Cahersiveen, 6:30 p.m. Mondavi Center: Jackson Hall Julie Fowlis, 8 p.m. Mondavi Center: Vanderhoef Studio Theatre Marquis Hill Blacktet, 8 p.m. MontBleu Resort Casino Elvin Bishop, Roy Rogers, Marcia Ball, 7 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Free Ukulele Class, 1 p.m. Odd Fellows Hall The Mendocino Quartet, 7:30 p.m. Opera House Saloon Ariel Jean Band, 9 p.m. Palms Playhouse The Deer, 7:30 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Polish American Community Hall Duo Klavitarre, 6 p.m. Press Club DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m. Raley Field Sax on the River Presents A Smooth Jazz Concert for the Cure w/ Candy Dulfer and the Peet Project, 4 p.m. Red Hawk Casino Branded, 10 p.m. Revival at the Sawyer Encore w/ DJ Lady Kate, 9:30 p.m. Sacramento Bicycle Kitchen Flip The Switch, Electric Baby Jesus, The Surrounded, 6 p.m. Shine Anton Barbeau, Allyson Seconds, 8 p.m. Sophia’s Thai Kitchen Tanukichan, Smokin Ziggurats, 9:30 p.m. Torch Club The Lique, Element Brass Band, 9 p.m.

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10.14 SUNDAY

Ace of Spades Allen Stone, Nick Waterhouse, 7 p.m. Berryessa Brewing Co. Mike Blanchard and the Californios, 3 p.m. Cache Creek Casino Frances Yip, 1 & 4 p.m. Cafe Colonial Destripados, 7 p.m. CLARA Auditorium Shirley, Lena, and Me feat. Virginia Ayers Dawson, 7 p.m. Crocker Art Museum Classical Concert Series: Leslie Sandefur, 3 p.m. Discovery Park Aftershock Festival: System Of A Down, Alice In Chains, Everlast, Incubus, Slash feat. Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators, The Fever 333, At the Drive In, Seether and More, 11 a.m. Folsom Hotel Saloon Acoustic Sundaze w/ Mic.T.Music, 3 p.m. Goldfield Aftershock Post-Mortem Party: Amigo the Devil, 9:30 p.m. Harlow’s Ferron, 7 p.m. Harris Center for the Arts: ScottSkillman Recital Hall The Great Composers Chamber Music Series, 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. UC Davis Mondavi Center: Jackson Hall Sir James Galway and Lady Jeanne Galway, 7 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Placerville Public House Tiff, Hugh, & Lisa, 1 p.m. Press Club Sunday Night Soul Party w/ DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m. The Side Door Cache Valley Drifters, 3 p.m. Sutter Creek Provisions Darin Sexton & HWY 49 Band, 3 p.m. Torch Club Albie Aware Benefit: Home Before Dark, 3 p.m.; Front the Band, 8 p.m.

10.15 MONDAY

The Boardwalk Capture, Earth Groans, Apollo’s Key, Shorelines, Artisans, Hemispheres, 6:30 p.m. Crest Theatre Basia, 6:30 p.m. The Fig Tree Monday Night Blues, 7 p.m. Fox & Goose Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m. Harlow’s Jay Rock, Reason, Trouble, 7 p.m. Holy Diver Vinyl Theatre, The Catching, The Color Wild, Internet Friends, 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, 7:30 p.m. Masonic Temple Amos Hoffman and Noam Lemish Quartet, 7 p.m. Momo Sacramento Choir Boy, Creux Lies, Fearing, 7 p.m. Old Ironsides Heath Williamson & Friends, 5:30 p.m. Press Club Plots, The Most, Anime Aliens, Spiller, 8 p.m.

10.16 TUESDAY

Ace of Spades Tom Misch, Rob Araujo, 7 p.m. Blue Lamp Aceyalone, Poor Majesty, The Roomy Depth, La Tour, Kennedy Wrose, 8 p.m. The Fig Tree Irish Session, 6:30 p.m. Harlow’s Curren$y, Larry June, 8 p.m. Harris Center for the Arts: Stage 1 Fifth House Ensemble: Journey, 7:30 p.m. Holy Diver Michale Graves, Argyle Goolsby, Nim Vind, Suburban Paranoia, The Losing Kind, 6:30 p.m. Kupros Craft House Open Mic, 8 p.m. Old Ironsides Karaoke, 9 p.m. On The Y Karaoke, 9 p.m.

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Powerhouse Pub Live Band Karaoke, 8 p.m. Torch Club Richard March, 5:30 p.m.; The Big Poppies, 8 p.m.

Shine Jazz Jam, 8 p.m. The Side Door Mark Stuart’s Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash, 7 p.m. Sofia Tsakopoulos Center for the Arts Stanley Jordan, 7 p.m. Torch Club Mind X, 5:30 p.m.; Johnny Burgin, 9 p.m.

10.17 10.19 WEDNESDAY

Ace of Spades Sabrina Claudio, Snny, 7 p.m. Bar 101 Open Mic, 7:30 p.m. Blue Lamp Ringworm, Sworn Vengeance, Sowers of Dissent, Ctrl All Delete, Wurm Flesh, 8 p.m. Cafe Colonial Decades In, Taking Fox Hollow, Ambers Wake, Bears Among Men and More, 7 p.m. Central Park (Davis) Picnic in the Park: The Regal Beezers, 4:30 p.m. The Club Car The Double Shots, 7:30 p.m. Crest Theatre Beatles vs. Stones, 7 p.m. El Dorado Saloon Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m. The Fig Tree Sacramento Songwriter Circle Hosted by Heather Evans, 7 p.m. Folsom Hotel Saloon Open Mic Jam, 9 p.m. Fox & Goose All Vinyl Wednesdays w/ DJ AAKnuff, 8 p.m. Holy Diver Hirie, Tenelle, Lowtops, 7 p.m. Kupros Craft House Ross Hammond, 5 p.m. Louie’s Cocktail Lounge Live Blues Jam Session, 8 p.m. Luna’s Cafe Jazz Jam w/ Byron Colburn, 8 p.m. Momo Sacramento Blues & Bourbon feat. The Gary Mendoza Band, 5:30 p.m. UC Davis Mondavi Center: Jackson Hall SFJAZZ Collective: Music of Antônio Carlos Jobim and Original Compositions, 7 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Acoustic Open Mic, 6 p.m. Old Ironsides Open Mic, 9 p.m. Red Hawk Casino DJ Bobby Brown, 7 p.m. Revival at the Sawyer Liquid Wednesdays Night Swim w/ Guest DJs, 8 p.m. Sacramento State: Union Redwood Room Basi Vibe, 12 p.m. Sophia’s Thai Kitchen Open Mic, 7 p.m. Streets Pub and Grub Karaoke, 9 p.m. Torch Club Sean Lege, Merle Jagger, 9 p.m.

10.18 THURSDAY

Ace of Spades Mayday Parade, This Wild Life, William Ryan Key, Oh, Weatherly, 6 p.m. Blue Lamp The Atlas Moth, (Waning), Battle Hag, 8 p.m. The Club Car Songwriters Showcase, 8 p.m. The Colony Born Sick, Brown Dynamite, HUGOxSÁNCHEZ, SplitJaw, 8 p.m. El Dorado Saloon Jessica Malone, 7 p.m.; DJ Uncle Hank and Karaoke, 9 p.m. The Fig Tree Purl Rede, Jake Carleton, 7 p.m. Folsom Hotel Saloon Karaoke Night and DJ Matty B, 9:30 p.m. Fox & Goose Stephen Ruderman (Simon & Garfunkel Tribute), 8 p.m. Harlow’s Jupiter & Okwess, The Jack Moves, 7 p.m. Harris Center for the Arts: Stage 1 Keola Beamer, Jeff Peterson, 7:30 p.m. Holy Diver Like Pacific, Roam, Story Untold, Bearings, Between You & Me, Perfect Score, 6:30 p.m. Louie’s Cocktail Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m. Midtown BarFly American Music Series: The Hucklebucks, 8 p.m. Momo Sacramento Animals in the Attic, Spooky Mansion, 7 p.m. Palms Playhouse Gurf Morlix, Blackie Farrell, 7:30 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Press Club Danger Inc. (EP Release), Lightweight, Sad Girlz Club, Tastebudz, 8 p.m. Raley Field Nelly, Bone Thugs-NHarmony, Fat Joe, 6 p.m.

FRIDAY

Ace of Spades Elefante, 7 p.m. Berryessa Brewing Co. Five Letter Word, 5 p.m. Big Sexy Brewing Co. Big Sticky Mess, 6 p.m. Blue Lamp Aye Tee, DJ KeDD-e , Kingdom, Aynata Payne, Bosnian Trouble, MrGas.10 & Just Is, D. Hooks, Celsius, 9 p.m. Capitol Garage Capitol Friday’s Reggae Night w/ DJ Veyn, 10 p.m. Crest Theatre Steeven Sandoval Sentimientos Mexicanos, 6:30 p.m. Crooked Lane Brewing Co. Anton Barbeau, 7 p.m. The Dew Drop Inn Grass Roots Music Fest: Hellbound Glory, Jenny Don’t and the Spurs, Merle Jagger, Jonemery and the Stuntkickers, Margo Cilker and More, 5 p.m. El Dorado Saloon Nothin’ Personal Band, 9 p.m. The Fig Tree Wade Graves, Knights Landing, 7 p.m. Folsom Hotel Saloon Lucky Seven, 9:30 p.m. Fox & Goose The Roa Brothers, 9 p.m. Golden Bear DJ CrookOne and Guests, 10 p.m. Harlow’s Jeff Austin Band, 8 p.m. Holy Diver Myles Parrish, 6:30 p.m. Louie’s Cocktail Lounge William Mylar’s Hippie Hour, 5:30 p.m.; Radio Billionaires, 9 p.m. Momo Sacramento Jerm Deezy, FFMB Malc, Duxe Ru, Rehbands, 6 p.m. UC Davis Mondavi Center: Ann E. Pitzer Center Kyle Bruckmann, 7 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Open Mic Night, 6 p.m. On The Y Carneficina, 24Gore, Bavmorda, Pent Hate, 8p.m. Opera House Saloon Savannah Blue, 9 p.m. Palms Playhouse Duo Quartet, 7:30 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Press Club DJ Rue, 9 p.m. Red Hawk Casino The Spazmatics, 9:30 p.m. Sofia Tsakopoulos Center for the Arts Laurie Lewis, 7 p.m. Sutter Creek Provisions BSOJC, 6 p.m. Torch Club Empty Wagon, 5:30 p.m.; Laura Rain & The Caesars, 9 p.m.

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Ace of Spades Rhye, Your Smith, 7 p.m. Berryessa Brewing Co. The Twilight Drifters, 3 p.m. Big Sexy Brewing Co. Ska Night w/ Flip The Switch, At Both Ends, 6 p.m. Blue Lamp Steve Grimmett’s Grim Reaper, Haunt, Crimson Eye, 8 p.m. The Boardwalk ¡CUMBIATRON! (ElectroLatin Dance Party), 9 p.m. Burly Beverages Burly Backyard BBQ: Drop Dead Red, The Phantom Jets, Mondo Deco, PRVLGS, Vinnie Guidera, MC Ham, 2 p.m. Cafe Colonial Rebel Holocrons, Build Them To Break, One Armed Joey, The Bitters, 8 p.m. Capitol Mall Greens Downtown Chowdown: X Ambassadors, Sheila E., Chris Janson, 11 a.m. The Colony Godstomper, Haggus, Dysphoric, Mucid, Papercut, Hugo Sanchez and More, 7 p.m. Community Center Theater Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera: Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto, 8 p.m. Crooked Lane Brewing Co. Richard March Band, 7 p.m.

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>> Issue 276 • October 10 – October 24, 2018

Davis Commons Solomon’s, Davis Live Music Collective, Submerge Mag & KDVS Presents: Rock the Vote Event w/ King Dream, Black Yacht Club, Bomba Fried Rice, Jessica Malone, Las Pulgas, The Midnight Dip, KDVS DJs, 11 a.m. - 7 p.m. The Dew Drop Inn Grass Roots Music Fest: Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash, Carolyn Sills Combo, High Country, Miss Lonely Hearts, Travis Hayes, The Bitter Diamonds and More, 12 p.m. El Dorado Saloon Superbad, 9 p.m. The Fig Tree Open Mic, 7 p.m. Folsom Hotel Saloon Takeout, 9:30 p.m. Fox & Goose The Taylor Chicks, K. Talon Band, 9 p.m. Harlow’s The Dream Syndicate, Matthew Sweet, The Nickel Slots, 7 p.m. Harris Center for the Arts: ScottSkillman Recital Hall Judith Linsenberg, 7:30 p.m. Harris Center for the Arts: Stage 1 Folsom Lake Symphony presents Brilliant Masterworks, 7:30 p.m. The Hideaway Beerlords + Elder Abuse + Light the Way, 8 p.m. Holy Diver Syml, Dizzy, 7 p.m. Louie’s Cocktail Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m. Momo Sacramento Anxious Arms, Soft Nerve, Slumped, 5:30 p.m.; Champion Sound (Reggae, Dancehall, Hip-Hop) feat. DJ Soul-Jah, 10 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Free Ukulele Class, 1 p.m. On The Y Tonic Zephyr, Pink Awful, 8 p.m. Opera House Saloon Screamfest Costume Party w/ Remix, 9 p.m. Palms Playhouse Crying Time, 7:30 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. PJ’s Roadhouse Bit Crusher Presents 3 Year Party w/ Standards, Floral, Mookatite, Find Yourself, What Rough Beast, LEAPH, The Seafloor Cinema, Worthy Goat and More, 7 p.m. Press Club DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m. Red Hawk Casino What the Funk, 10 p.m. Revival at the Sawyer Encore w/ DJ Lady Kate, 9 p.m. The Rink Studios Kennedy Wrose (Music Video Release Party) w/ BrvndonP, Marc Stevens, Izrael Graham, 6:30 p.m. The Side Door Doug Pauly & Jeanne Munoz, 7 p.m. Sofia Tsakopoulos Center for the Arts JD Souther, 7 p.m. Sophia’s Thai Kitchen Tino Drima, Lapel, 9:30 p.m. Torch Club Loose Engines, 5:30 p.m.; Sam Pace & The Guilded Grit, 9 p.m. Two Rivers Cider Co. Sacramento Rocktoberfest w/ Tom Goyen, Roland Tonies, The New Crowns, A Waking Memory, Isaac Morris and More, 2 p.m.

10.21 SUNDAY

Ace of Spades Billie Eilish, Childish Major, 6 p.m. (Sold Out) Berryessa Brewing Co. Matt Rainey and the Dippin’ Sauce, 3 p.m. Blue Lamp Shrine of the Serpent, Gloriam Draconis, Expain, 8 p.m. Cache Creek Casino Edgardo & Candela, 1 p.m. The Dew Drop Inn Grass Roots Music Fest: Billy Don Burns, Darci Carlson, Jesse Daniel, Laura Benitez and the Heartache, The Bow Ties, California Stars, Wolf Creek Boys and More, 12 p.m. Folsom Hotel Saloon Acoustic Sundaze w/ Barnstormers, 3 p.m. Harlow’s John Paul White, Jessica Malone, 7 p.m. Harris Center for the Arts: ScottSkillman Recital Hall Judith Linsenberg, 2 p.m. Harris Center for the Arts: Stage 1 The New Chordettes, 2 p.m. Holy Diver ¡Mayday!, 1TON, D.U. Ivan, Optimiztiq, SsappyY, Ac3, Kassette & JJ, 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. Palms Playhouse Sunday Afternoon Jazz: Nik Bärtsch’s RONIN, 2:30 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Issue 276 • October 10 – October 24, 2018

Press Club Sunday Night Soul Party w/ DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m. The Red Museum Sacramento Audio Waffle: Buk Buk Bigups, Shaking the Asphalt, Tulpa Effect and More, 12 p.m. Scottish Rite Masonic Center Mariachi Festival de Sacramento, 3:30 p.m. Torch Club Blues Jam, 4 p.m.; Front the Band, 8 p.m.

10.22 MONDAY

Ace of Spades Insane Clown Posse, Clownvis, 6 p.m. Cooper’s Ale Works Ex-Cult, Steady Static, Little Zebra, 9 p.m. The Fig Tree Monday Night Blues, 7 p.m. Fox & Goose Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m. Louie’s Cocktail Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m. LowBrau Motown on Monday’s w/ DJ Epik, 9 p.m. Luna’s Cafe Nebraska Mondays, 7:30 p.m. Masonic Temple Steve Homan Quartet, 7 p.m. Old Ironsides Heath Williamson & Friends, 5:30 p.m.

10.23 TUESDAY

Ace of Spades BØRNS, Twin Shadow, 6 p.m. (Sold Out) Blue Lamp Cardiac, Murderthroat, Focara, Smack’d Up, Pecker, 7 p.m. The Fig Tree The Fox & The Sparrow, Savanna Lee, 7 p.m. Kupros Craft House Open Mic, 8 p.m. Old Ironsides Karaoke, 9 p.m. On The Y Karaoke, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Live Band Karaoke, 8 p.m. Torch Club Quinn Hedges, 5:30 p.m.; Gabe Carpenter Trio, 8 p.m.

10.24 WEDNESDAY

Ace of Spades Tech N9ne, Futuristic, Dizzy Wright, Krizz Kaliko, 6 p.m. Bar 101 Open Mic, 7:30 p.m. Beatnik Studios The Rimsky-Korsakov String Quartet, 7 p.m. Blue Lamp Wild Moccasins, 7 p.m. Central Park (Davis) Picnic in the Park: The Notorious Shank Brothers, 4:30 p.m. The Club Car The Double Shots, 7:30 p.m. Crest Theatre Pat Metheny, Antonio Sanchez, Linda May Han Oh, Gwilym Simcock, 6:30 p.m. El Dorado Saloon Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m. Folsom Hotel Saloon Open Mic Jam, 9 p.m. Fox & Goose All Vinyl Wednesdays w/ DJ Nassah, 8 p.m. Harris Center for the Arts: Stage 1 The United States Army Field Band Concert Band & Soldiers’ Chorus, 7:30 p.m. (Sold Out) Holy Diver Cane Hill, Sharptooth, Afterlife, Ambers Wake, The Measure, 6:30 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. Two Tone Steiny & The Cadillacs, 5:30 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Acoustic Open Mic, 6 p.m. Old Ironsides Open Mic, 9 p.m. On The Y Open Mic, 7 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 Redwood Room Nooner w/ Kyle Williams, 12 p.m. Streets Pub and Grub Karaoke, 9 p.m. Torch Club Sean Lehe, 5:30 p.m.; Dirty Chops, The Midnight Dip, 9 p.m.

Comedy Big Sexy Brewing Co. Stand Up Comedy Night, Oct. 18, 6 p.m. Boys & Girls Club: Raley Branch Comedy Night Fundraiser w/ Steph Garcia and David Lew, Oct. 12, 8 p.m. Cache Creek Casino Resort Ken Jeong, Oct. 20, 6 & 8:30 p.m. Community Center Theater Carol Burnett: An Evening of Laughter and Reflection, Oct. 16, 7:30 p.m. Laughs Unlimited Say It Loud Comedy w/ Jozalyn Sharp, Big Tree, Danny Minch, Hosted by Michael Calvin Jr., Oct. 11, 8 p.m. All Ages Comedy & Magic Show w/ Justin Rivera, Oct. 14, 1 p.m. Bryan Ricci feat. Diego Curiel, Oct. 12 - 14, Fri. & Sat., 8 & 10:30 p.m.; Sun., 7 p.m. Swizz Comedy Showcase w/ Wendy Lewis, Braden Murphy, Aja Mae, Steven Milani and More, Oct. 17, 8 p.m. Jay Hollingsworth feat. Jay Whittaker, Hosted by Matt Curry, Oct. 19 - 21, Fri. & Sat., 8 & 10:30 p.m.; Sun., 7 p.m. Smile Out Loud w/ Dennis Gaxiola, Kristen Frisk, Frankie Marcos, Hosted by Curtis Newingham, Oct. 24, 8 p.m. Luna’s Cafe Capitol PUNishment: Awktoberfest, Oct. 12, 8 p.m. Open Mic Comedy w/ Hosts Jaime Fernandez and Michael Cella, Tuesdays, 8 p.m. MontBleu Resort Casino David Spade, Oct. 20, 7 p.m. On the Y Open Mic Comedy w/ Guest Hosts, Thursdays, 8:30 p.m. Punch Line Sacramento Comedy Showcase, Oct. 10, 8 p.m. Carly Aquilino & Casey Ley, Oct. 11 - 13, Thurs., 8 p.m.; Fri., 8 & 10:15 p.m; Sat., 7:30 & 9:45 p.m. Lance Woods and Friends, Oct. 14, 7 p.m. There Goes the Neighborhood Comedy Tour, Oct. 17, 8 p.m. Brian Posehn, Oct. 18 - 20, Thurs., 8 p.m.; Fri., 8 & 10:15 p.m; Sat., 7:30 & 9:45 p.m. Mike E. Winfield and Friends, Oct. 21, 7 p.m. Really Funny Comedians Who Happen to Be Women: Bike Laugh Heal Benefit, Oct. 24, 8 p.m. Roseville Theatre Comedy Night w/ Dat Phan, Oct. 13, 8 p.m. Sacramento Comedy Spot 8th Annual Sacramento Comedy Festival, Oct. 11 - 14 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 Mad Chad Taylor, Oct. 11, 7:30 p.m. Sactown Union Stand-Up Comedy Showcase Hosted by Pete Munoz, Oct. 14, 7 p.m. STAB! Comedy Theater Capitol PUNishment: Daniel Humbarger Back in Sac, Oct. 13, 7:45 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 Capone, Oct. 12 - 14, Fri., 7:30 & 9:45 p.m.; Sat., 7 & 9:45 p.m.; Sun., 7 p.m. Jeremy Curry & Friends, Oct. 18, 7:30 p.m. DeRay Davis, Oct. 19 - 21, Fri., 7:30 & 10:15 p.m.; Sat., 7 & 9:45 p.m.; Sun., 6 p.m. VFW Post 8762 VFW Comedy Night w/ Krista Fatka, TaVi, Ian Levy, Hosted by Becky Lynn, Oct. 12, 6:30 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. B Street Theatre at The Sofia Tsakopoulos Center for the Arts Ironbound by Martyna Majok, Through Oct. 28 The Boulevard (Del Paso) Del Paso Boulevard Fall Street Faire, Oct. 20, 12 p.m. The Boxing Donkey Trivia Night, Tuesdays, 7 p.m. Broadway & 3rd Ave GATHER: Oak Park, Oct. 11, 5 - 9 p.m.

California Automobile Museum 6th Annual Paws to Party: Benefit for Front Street Animal Shelter, Oct. 12, 6 p.m. California Museum Dia de Los Muertos Fiesta 2018, Oct. 12, 6 p.m. Country Club Plaza Certified Farmers Market, Saturdays, 8 a.m. - 12 p.m. Crest Theatre An American Werewolf In London, Oct. 11, 6 p.m. Bent: Sacramento LGBTQ Film Festival, Oct. 12 - 14 REI & Teton Gravity Research Present: Far Out Ski & Snowboard Film Premier, Oct. 18, 6:30 p.m. The Exorcist, Oct. 20, 6:30 p.m. Crocker Art Museum ArtMix: ZOMBIE feat. Carnival of the Dead, Make-Up Artists, Trash Film Orgy Video Lounge, Undead Entertainment, Deadly Disco and More, Oct. 11, 6 p.m. 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. Elk Grove Regional Park Stay Alive: Elk Grove Zombie Tag, Oct. 13, 7 p.m. Florin Road & 65th Street Certified Farmers Market, Thursdays, 8 a.m. - 12 p.m. Folsom Sports Complex Whole Lotta Brews, Oct. 20, 6 p.m. Fox & Goose Pub Quiz, Tuesdays, 7 p.m. Geery Theatre Errant Phoenix Productions Presents: Constellations, Oct. 12 - 21 The Handle District Brew Street, Oct. 13, 2 p.m. Harris Center for the Arts The Panto Company USA Presents: Pinocchio, Oct. 20, 1 p.m. Highwater The Trivia Factory, Mondays, 7 p.m. Historic Old Folsom Farmers Market, Saturdays, 8 a.m. Holy Ascension Russian Orthodox Church Russian Festival, Oct. 13, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. Kupros Craft House Triviology, Sundays, 7:30 p.m. Laughs Unlimited The Sweet Spot Burlesque: Masquerade Edition, Oct. 18, 8 p.m. Luna’s Cafe Poetry Unplugged, Thursdays, 8 p.m. McClatchy Park Oak Park Farmers Market, Saturdays, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Midtown BarFly Salsa Lessons, Wednesdays, 8 p.m. Mondavi Center: Jackson Hall Company Wang Ramirez, Oct. 23, 7 p.m. Ballet Folklórico de México de Amalia Hernández, Oct. 24, 7 p.m. Our Lady of the Rosary American Lebanese and Middle Eastern Music and Food Festival, Oct. 13 - 14, 11 a.m. Pagoda Building The BALL: Music, Burlesque, Dancing and More, Oct. 13, 8 p.m. Sacramento Convention Center Stamp and Scrapbook Expo, Oct. 19 20, 9 a.m. SAC Comic-Con, Oct. 21, 10 a.m. Sacramento Theatre Company The Crucible, Through Oct. 21 Sacramento Turn Verein Oktoberfest, Oct. 12 - 13, Fri., 6 p.m.; Sat., 3 p.m. Sierra 2 Center Opening Doors’ 5th Annual Festival of Flavors, Oct. 13, 6 p.m. St John The Baptist Church Oktoberfest Craft Fair, Oct. 13, 9 a.m. - 4 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. Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Church 71st Sacramento Armenian Food Festival, Oct. 20, 11 a.m. - 8 p.m. Township 9 Bike Park Rio Velo: A Sacramento Bicycle Festival, Oct. 13, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. West Sacramento Community Center Arts In the Heart: A Celebration of Arts and Diversity in West Sacramento, Oct. 13, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. Yolo Brewing Co. Trivia Night, Tuesdays, 6 p.m.

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LUZ YOURSELF

LA LUZ’S DREAMY SURF PUNK RETURNS TO SACRAMENTO WORDS NIKI KANGAS • PHOTO CHONA KASINGER

ince 2012, La Luz has been making music together that is truly unique in a world where it seems like everything’s been done before. Their ghostly, hypnotically dreamy, organ-driven, steely, fuzzy, twangy, doo-woppy, surfy punk rock sound is unlike that of any band you’ve ever heard before. And on Saturday, Oct. 27, prepare to get lit at Blue Lamp when La Luz returns to their stage. Originally formed in Seattle, La Luz relocated to Los Angeles, the perfect backdrop of smoggy sunsets, palm trees, glamor and squalor for their one-of-a-kind stereophonics. Their fifth release and third fulllength album, Floating Features, dropped earlier this year through Hardly Art Records and demonstrated once again the continual evolution of their sound and distinctiveness of each of their records. In 2013, just after releasing their debut full-length record, It’s Alive, they survived a brush with death; after a show in Boise, Idaho, and on their way home to Seattle, their tour van was hit in a highspeed collision with a semi truck that slid on a patch of ice. All of them sustained injuries and all of their gear was destroyed. Since then, they’ve resiliently played even more aggressively, while never quite being able to shake the fear of being in cars—which is a lot considering how much they travel for shows. The band is comprised of total babes with a tomboy-ish appeal— Shana Cleveland shreds on guitar and vocals, Marian Li Pino slays on drums, Alice Sandahl kills it on keyboard and Lena Simon slaps the bass (she replaced original member and bassist Abbey Blackwell in 2014). Each member contributes to the haunting, complex harmonies that elicit goosebumps as much as an uncontrollable urge to hesh. If you’ve seen any of their music videos, you’d know that they’re also total weirdos—in a cool way. There’s always a psychedelic, ‘60s cult film feel to them which is also a signature style they’ve developed. Their newest video for “Cicada,” is a must-watch montage of “WTFam-I-watching?” But nothing beats seeing them live, and their upcoming show is a can’t-miss Halloween weekend event. Despite La Luz’s punishing tour schedule, Cleveland made time to answer a few interview questions for Submerge in the midst of stomping all over Europe, prior to making their way to the West Coast. SubmergeMag.com

What’s it like being on tour so much? Nice work if you can get it. Touring so much is hard—it’s hard on your body, your personal life and your psyche in a lot of ways. But playing music for a living is a dream. What are some of your favorite cities you’ve played in? We played in London last night and that’s definitely one of our favorites. Chicago and Austin are always amazing. Montreal was really killer last time we were there. But the West Coast is our home turf, so every stop along that route is fun. What keeps you coming back to Sacramento and Blue Lamp every year? Seems like we got some fans there and the shows are always really fun, so as long as that continues we’ll keep coming back! How did you find your unique, dreamy surf punk sound? What other types of music have you explored as you learned and grew as musicians? It’s evolved over the six years we’ve been playing together. We all bring different influences to our playing. For La Luz, I’ve been mostly inspired by music with twangy guitar, early country, ‘60s American, Asian and Latin American rock and roll.

And bands with sick vocal harmonies like doo-wop and the Everly Brothers and lowrider tunes.

love more than anything, so you’ve got to follow the path as it’s revealed and hope for the best.

Who are some of your favorite bands you’ve played with? The Australian and New Zealand tour we did last year was great because it was a traveling festival of amazing bands: King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Kikagaku Moyo, Orb, Mild High Club.

Your videos are awesome. What’s your favorite one you’ve made? I love the video for “Cicada.” For that one, we just chased down every idea any of us had and mashed them all together into a bizzaro soup theme opening sequence: ATV chase, hospital deathbed scene, forsaken love story, psychic reading, Alice as good/evil twins and so on.

What are some of your individual hobbies and interests outside of playing music? I paint quite a bit and spend a lot of time walking around the wilderness. When were you all able to quit your jobs and dedicate yourselves to music? Or do any of you still work when you’re not on tour? We all still work at side gigs here and there, [and play in] other music projects and whatever else comes up. But probably three years ago or so is when we all stopped trying to maintain steady/non-music jobs. How do you hope your lives as professional musicians ultimately plays out? I’ll always play music, but it’s hard to have any expectations. It’s a risky business, obviously. It’s what we all

What does your perfect day together look like? It’s great when we have some time to walk around and explore the city we’re in a bit. So ideal day: We’d get to town early and find a good swimming hole, go for a swim, explore a castle, eat a good dinner that we didn’t have to pay for somehow, meet some cool kids and then play a show where we all lose ourselves for an hour.

Trust us, you want to see La Luz live on Saturday, Oct. 27. Opening will be Shy Boys and Honyock. The show is open to anyone over 21. Tickets are $12 in advance or $15 at the door. Tickets to the show are available at Bluelampsacramento.com.

Issue 276 • October 10 – October 24, 2018

RENAISSANCE WOMAN

ALIE WARD FINDS HER VOICE BY CELEBRATING HER CURIOSITY WORDS RONNIE CLINE • PHOTO JUSTIN ZANGERLE

ou can easily see the diversity of Alie Ward’s career by turning on the television and flipping through the channels on a Saturday morning. If you stop on the Cooking Channel, you might see her crisscrossing the country, consuming tasty treats on a rerun of Unique Sweets or road-tripping with her buddy Georgia Hardstark on Tripping Out with Alie and Georgia. If you keep surfing, you’ll find Ward doing even more traveling, this time for the children’s science shows Innovation Nation on CBS and her brand new series Did I Mention Invention? on the CW. Ward also has two more science shows coming to Netflix in the near future, as well as a podcast titled Ologies, where she interviews different –ologists every week. It is here, in the world of science communication, where Ward shines. Being a museologist by trade, I found myself on Ward’s podcast Ologies talking about the ins and outs of the museum world while exploring everything from mummies to hot dogs. It was while being interviewed that I became curious and asked to interview the interviewer. In doing so, I discovered that Ward has lived many lives. From a student studying biology, to becoming an actress on a popular late ‘90s Don Johnson vehicle; from being a newspaper illustrator to a science communicator, Ward always goes after what she wants, just as long as she can bring her voice with her. Ward was born in the Bay Area, but has called most of Northern California home at one point or another due to her father’s career as a journalist. “We started in San Francisco, then we moved up to Tahoe for a while,” said Ward. “We lived in Sacramento, El Dorado Hills, Cameron Park and then moved back to the Bay Area.” After graduating high school, Ward headed off to college in Santa Barbara where she studied biology, film and photography. “I wasn’t sure if I wanted to go into the arts or the sciences, then I had this moment studying crayfish mouth parts in a library and I was like, ‘OK, I like this, but I don’t know if I want to do this forever,’ Ward said. “So I decided to transfer.” From there, Ward headed back to San Francisco where she focused her studies. “I got my degree in film. When I was working in film I started to do some acting up there,” said Ward. “And then, there was a show called Nash Bridges, and I got a part on that and that paid

for a lot of my college, so I moved down to L.A. right after graduation.” While in Los Angeles, Ward started to read for and get roles, but they all seemed to have one thing in common. “I was reading for parts where I was always the victim,” she said. “Crime shows were really big—there were like 50 different Law and Orders, so the roles you would get would be a one episode arc where someone would throw your body in a dumpster.” Those roles started to hit too close to home for Ward who became a victim herself in 2002. “I got mugged in real life by two guys with knives,” Ward said. “After that I just … women as victims, as entertainment really started to fuck with me. It was starting to mess with me and I didn’t want to be doing that for money. I didn’t want my voice as a woman to be a plot point. I thought this isn’t me using my voice. This is me using someone else’s voice. I had a real breakdown where I just didn’t know what I was doing.” That was when Ward started to express herself through painting. “I realized it was kind of like a therapeutic hobby. I also realized I could say a lot with my paintings about women’s empowerment and feminism, and the conflicts between your role as a woman versus your voice as a human being,” she said. Ward’s skills as a painter led to her becoming an illustrator for LA Weekly. She eventually started writing for the paper and discovered a career in journalism. “I felt like I went from not having a voice to having my voice being my identity and my job, which was really gratifying,” said Ward, yet she still felt that there was something missing. “I’ve always longed to get back to science. I liked writing about art and events, and music and nightlife, which is what I was doing for the L.A. Times and LA Weekly, but I really missed having a foot in science.” While Ward started to feel the lure of the science world, she and friend Georgia Hardstark started making videos of their cocktail creations, one of which went viral. “That led to my career in doing drink shows, which eventually led to a show on the Cooking Channel,” Ward explained. “It always felt like a little bit of a shtick. It was fun, I got to travel and I got to learn all about TV, but people would leave comments on my Instagram and Facebook about drinking and I was like, ‘fuck man, I really worked my ass off in school.’

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Dive Into Sacramento & Its Surrounding Areas

I really tried to make a career for myself and my identity and what I’m putting out into the world was a drunk lady in a dress. I was like, once again I’m using my voice and it’s a little subversive, but it didn’t feel authentic.” Of all places, Ward’s authenticity sat in a Google doc titled in all caps, “THINGS I WOULD LIKE TO DO.” “It was this repository for all of these projects I wanted to work on,” she said. “Ologies was at the top of the list. I also put in there that I wanted to work on a TV show that had to do with science and kids and travel and algae. I wrote this in 2007 and I ended up volunteering at the [Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County] and getting offered a job to be a correspondent on Innovation Nation. For the very first episode I ever shot for them, I traveled to interview a 17-year-old who worked with algae as a bio fuel. I was like, ‘this is literally the thing I wrote!’” And from that point on, Ward hasn’t looked back. “I was really lucky that within a year of starting to volunteer at the museum I got that job,” she said. “It has really let me explore my voice as a science writer and a science host. I remember when I first started posting things about the museum I was like, ‘Fuck this is really going to alienate the audience who knows me as the girl who wears fancy dresses and makes cocktails.” Ward continued, “I was like, ‘I’m going to lose all these people that’s supposed to be my brand or whatever.’” But that didn’t stop Ward from following her heart and pursuing a career in the science field. This is further evident when she began to tackle the project on the top of her “THINGS I WOULD LIKE TO DO” list: Ologies. Ward recently celebrated the oneyear anniversary of her podcast as it keeps gaining steam and climbing the charts. On Ologies, Ward has explored everything from volcanoes and fear to bees and beer, and with each episode comes a fascinating world that many never knew existed. “It never gets old making Ologies,” she said. “Every time I make an episode, I’m learning something new, and that helps me with my other science communication. When I’m going into an interview for TV, or if I’m pitching a show, or punching up scripts for another science show, I have this weird encyclopedia of Ologies knowledge that I would never have had a year ago.” If there’s one word I would use to describe Ward, it would be “curious.” She’s not afraid to dive right into an interview and, as she puts it, “ask smart people dumb questions.”

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“Being who you truly are is the best thing you can do. Me as I am, dressed like a lumberjack and chasing down tarantula hawks, is way more me than ‘nightlife writer Alie’ or ‘whiskey-shooting cocktail girl.’ It all comes down to having a voice, especially as a woman. Having a voice that’s authentic, and using that voice to contribute to culture and society.” – Alie Ward “It has been so liberating to go into a science situation and say, ‘Yeah, I don’t know this,’” said Ward. “And how could you know the same things that someone who’s been working on spaceships for 10 years knows, or someone who’s a 30-year veteran of toad research? You’re not going to know that stuff, so why not ask?” Ward has made it a point to spur curiosity, not just in the children that watch her weekly on Did I Mention Invention?, but in everyone that watches her on television or listens to her podcast. “It’s not knowledge that should be celebrated, but it’s curiosity that should be celebrated,” exclaimed Ward. “Without curiosity we wouldn’t have knowledge. I think that curiosity carries with it unlimited potential, and knowledge is pretty finite. You know what you know.” Throughout the many stages in her career, Ward has searched for and found her voice and it has evolved from a voice of expression to one of inspiration. “Being who you truly are is the best thing you can do,” said Ward. “Me as I am, dressed like a lumberjack and chasing down tarantula hawks, is way more me than ‘nightlife writer Alie’ or ‘whiskey-shooting cocktail girl,’” said Ward. “It all comes down to having a voice, especially as a woman. Having a voice that’s authentic, and using that voice to contribute to culture and society.” Check out Ronnie Cline's episode (Museology) or all episodes of Ologies at Alieward.com.

Issue 276 • October 10 – October 24, 2018

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JAMES BARONE jb@submergemag.com It’s been difficult finding reason to smile the past two weeks. I caught up with an old friend this weekend, and he said that he doesn’t watch HBO’s Last Week Tonight even though he thinks host John Oliver is funny and brilliant. He said, “There’s nothing funny about the state of the country right now,” and he’s right. I’m finding it more and more difficult to laugh at the absurdity of the day-to-day machinations of our government and all the reminders that no matter how much we like to think we’ve evolved, we really haven’t. I think Google News, with its sophisticated algorithms, was able to read my growing disillusionment and eroding faith in our country’s institutions and decided to throw me a bone … er, a sword. This past July, an 8-year-old SwedishAmerican girl named Saga was doing little kid things in Lake Vidöstern near her family’s summer house in south Sweden (must be nice!). Somewhere in the lake’s floor, she made an amazing discovery: an ancient sword, remarkably preserved considering its age. There’s so much awesome involved here. Firstly, the girl’s name is Saga. SAGA!!! Her name literally means epic. I don’t know much about her parents (other than being very envious of them for having a summer home in Sweden), but as far as baby names go, they really fucking nailed it. It’s just so metal, you know? So, not only is that cool on its own, now add to it that someone named Saga hoisted an ancient sword out of a lake … in freakin’ Sweden no less. A dungeon master couldn’t devise a better backdrop for his/ her D&D campaign. The second layer of fuck-yeah to this story is what Saga did when she found the sword. According to her dad’s Facebook post, she held the sword over her head and exclaimed, “Daddy I found a sword!” This tugged on the few heartstrings I have left. I imagined to myself how I would react if I were to have a daughter and she said the same thing to me. I’d probably make a big scene. I’d get down on my knees and open my hands to the heavens and bellow things like, “The prophecies have been fulfilled!” and, “It is now up to you to

unite the kingdoms and slay the wicked!” and, “The Ancient Gods have spoken!” I guess it’s probably a good thing I don’t have children. The reason why this story is just getting around now is because the family kept it a secret at the behest of the Jönköpings Läns Museum, who feared that if word got out that the lake was filled with ancient swords, treasure hunters might have raided the area of its further historic artifacts. The museum has made a couple other passes of Lake Vidöstern and found a fibula that dated back to 300 or 400 A.D. The sword, which is estimated at around 1,500 years old, was found complete with a scabbard made of leather and wood. Saga’s family stayed true to their word and kept their find quiet until recently when they were given the OK, which is also kind of neat. HONOR BEFITTING OF A TRUE KNIGHT. Sorry, but it’s just so cool. I know there are way more important things going on right now in the world at large. We’ve suffered through a vicious and divisive news cycle in a series of vicious and divisive news cycles. It feels as though our democracy, which seemed unflappable, is slipping further and further away. I know stories like these are just distractions, that maybe I should have utilized this space to rail about my feelings on the Kavanaugh hearings and how he was forced through to the Supreme Court despite legitimate concerns about his background, character and temperament. I was going to, but I thought, “what’s the point?” Maybe that’s a cop-out. But reading stuff like Saga’s story reminds me that, sure, the world at large sucks, but there’s plenty of reasons to make sure it doesn’t go entirely to shit. It’s neat that there are still lakes that hold ancient swords and that young girls with awesome names find them and hoist them triumphantly over their heads. It’s neat that something so old, despite all the odds, was so strong that it survived the ravages of time and the harshness of the elements. There’s probably a lesson in there somewhere, but even if there isn’t, old swords are metal as fuck. Rock on, Saga. \m/

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