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This past week has been a difficult one.

The smoke from the Camp Fire has consumed my thoughts and energy.

As my head pounds from the smoke, thinking about every human or animal who’s been displaced, the lost homes and the sheer amount of deaths and missing people makes it both difficult to focus and finish this issue on time.

I lived in Chico for about 10 years before I moved to Sacramento— during college and in my post-college years. As an only child, I loved taking drives to just get away from things and be by myself. I drove all over—short and long distances—for no reason. I can distinctly remember the times I drove up the Skyway to Paradise and Magalia, just to be up in the wilderness because it reminded me of growing up in the mountains—a small town, pine trees and tons of winding rural roads.

I’m torn up inside, knowing the destruction of the Camp Fire.

While I’m sad that beautiful town is gone, it hits home even harder because I know people whose homes have burned.

I feel like I’ve been inundated with being told ways I can help. I’ve heard people say to donate to personal Go Fund Me campaigns, donating your personal time, monetary things and/ or gift cards. I’m sure if you choose any way you can, it will help the people in need.

In our column “The Stream” on page 6, you’ll read about 11 concerts from Sacramento to Chico that are benefits for the Camp Fire. Also, a friend of ours put together a compilation album to raise money.

See our “Submerge Your Senses” section to learn more, on page 8.

And even local artist, Franceska Gámez, who we’ve feature in this issue—starting on page 24—has a solo show up at Sacramento State now though Dec. 13, and announced that 15 percent of any artwork purchased from the show will go to fire relief efforts.

My thoughts are not only with the Camp Fire folks, but with those in Southern California dealing with the Woolsey Fire.

It’s been a rough few years having known people affected by the fires that tore through my hometown of Weed, with the Boles Fire in 2014; the fire back in July that tore through Whiskeytown and parts of Redding, the Carr Fire; not to mention Santa Rosa’s Tubbs Fire, and the Mendocino Complex fire.

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When a disaster strikes, look for the helpers. In the wake of the most devastating and deadly wildfire in our state’s history, the Camp Fire, there has been an awe-inspiring amount of aid coming in from the entire Northern California community (and beyond) in the form of donations, volunteering and benefit events, not excluding the local music scene. Below is a list of just some of the many Camp Fire benefit shows and events that we were able to gather on short notice. Go to these shows if you can to help out, do your research and donate to legit outlets if you’re able, and lend a hand to those in need. Keep in mind that at this point, the most practical donations are gift cards to Target, Walmart, Safeway, Raley’s, etc., gas cards, Visa gift cards and obviously direct monetary donations are great, too. There seems to be an abundance of other goods, like clothes and such. Stay strong folks in and around Paradise and Chico! We’re here for you.

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 21 at Miners Foundry Cultural Center (325 Spring St., Nevada City) there will be a Camp Fire Benefit Jam featuring a family friendly hip-hop party with Secret Agent 23 Skidoo, along with Simrit and Friends, Boca Do Rio and many others. Plus food, a full service bar, silent auction and more. Starts at 3:30 p.m. and runs late.

SUNDAY, NOV. 25 at Berryessa Brewing Co. (27260 State Highway 128, Winters) join the community of Winters as they raise funds for our neighbors while jamming out to the sounds of Muddy Waders. Be sure to kick back a few pints of Thirst Responders Ale, all proceeds from which go to North Valley Community Fund’s Camp Fire relief. Starts at noon.

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FRIDAY, NOV. 30 at the El Rey Theater (230 W. Second St., Chico) check out Family Jam: A Shasta Fire Benefit with live music from The Mother Hips and Achilles Wheel. $25 in advance, $30 at the door. All ages, doors open at 7 p.m. (Please note this particular show is benefitting families impacted by the Carr Fire in Redding, who deserve just as much love and help).

Pub (1 E. 12th St., Marysville) local bands The Austin Mo Xperience and On the Fly are throwing a benefit show, where for $10 you’ll get entry to the party and food.

Starts at 8 p.m., 21-plus, free pool and air hockey!

SATURDAY, NOV. 24 at The Tackle Box (379 E. Park Ave., Chico) the band Decades is throwing their annual Thanksgiving show and are donating $5 from every ticket sold.

Starts at 7:30 p.m., 21-plus.

SUNDAY, NOV. 25 at The Torch Club (904 15th St., Sacramento) check out Helping Hands, an all-day music festival benefitting two specific Paradise families in great need, The Harper’s and The Cleary’s. Enjoy tunes from Joe Lev and Friends, Loose Engines, The Nibblers, Mind X and more, plus food and raffles. Starts at 3 p.m., 21-plus. $20 donation to get in.

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SATURDAY, DEC. 1 at The Stag Bar (506 Main St., Woodland) hit up Stomp the Fire! A Benefit for the Camp Fire Victims feat. performances from The Martin and Monroe Show, The Cash Prophets (a tribute to Johnny Cash), Kyle Rowland and others. No cover, but be sure to bring donations! Event runs noon to 7 p.m., 21-plus.

SUNDAY, DEC. 2 back at the El Rey Theater (230 W. Second St., Chico) the band Decades is part of another awesome benefit event along with the 20-plus member choir Doing It Justice, made up of singers from Chico and Paradise. Show will begin at 4 p.m., $20 donation at the door, but you won’t be turned away if you can’t donate that much!

Proceeds benefit not only Camp Fire aid, but also local nonprofit Safe Space, who partner with churches in the Chico community to serve upwards of 50–60 people per night during the coldest winter months.

MONDAY, DEC. 3 at Harlow’s (2708 J St., Sacramento) join Swell Productions and some of the finest blues musicians in the region while they celebrate the life of the late great Lazy Lester, while supporting his spouse, Pike Kaksonen, who lost her home and all of her and Lester’s belongings in the Camp Fire. Performing will be Rick Estrin, Lee Oskar, Mark Hummel, Rusty Zinn, Red’s Blues and many others. Doors at 5:30 p.m., $20 advance, $25 day of show, all ages welcome.

FRIDAY, DEC. 14 at Blue Lamp (1400 Alhambra Blvd., Sacramento) there will be a Butte County Fire Relief Benefit Show presented by Jscript Media featuring live bands like Arden Park Roots, Riotmaker, One Sharp Mind and others, plus a DJ, live art, food from BaconMania, raffles and more.

Doors open at 4:30 p.m., 21-plus. $15 in advance, $20 at the door.

THURSDAY, DEC. 20 we go back again to El Rey Theater (230 W. Second St., Chico), this time the venue itself is donating their space to host a giant benefit concert, featuring a soon-to-be-announced lineup of regional acts from varying genres. Mark your calendars! Will be $20 in advance, or $25 at the door. Keep an eye out at Facebook.com/ ElReyChicoCA for updates.

We did our best with this list in the time that we had, but we more than likely missed some important benefit shows. Feel free to email us if you have something to get on our radar: info@submergemag.com.

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THE OPTIMISTIC PESSIMIST THAT OTHER HOLIDAY BOCEPHUS CHIGGER bocephus@submergemag.com Did you know that there is another holiday between Halloween and Christmas? It’s called Thanksgiving, and it happens every year on the day before Black Friday. I don’t blame you for forgetting; the stores all went from costumes and candy to Christmas trees, reindeer and Santa overnight. I guess they couldn’t figure out how to sell us pilgrim costumes and candy corn for Thanksgiving, so they just gave up and moved on to the real holiday moneymaker: Christmas. That doesn’t mean that you have to do the same.

Despite what retailers would have you think, I’d argue Thanksgiving is the United States’ greatest holiday and completely worthy of your attention. This is one of the few major holidays that doesn’t have an explicit tie in with Christianity. Thanksgiving is open to everyone, which is almost never the case with other holidays. It’s supposed to be a time to reflect on the good that’s happened in our lives and to remind ourselves of what is really important. It’s a chance to heal severed ties and to come together under the auspices of one ridiculous meal.

For many, Thanksgiving is about the food and only the food, and it’s hard to blame them.

The turkey is synonymous with Thanksgiving and people are willing to travel great distance just to get a piece of that bird. A whole turkey roasted in the oven, deep fried, smoked or barbecued is a thing of beauty. It looks so delicious that they even make turkey shaped tofu for all my herbivores out there that don’t want to feel left out on the big day. Go ahead and get your Tofurkey on!

Turkey is great and all, but Thanksgiving is really about the sides. Everybody does them a little differently, but that’s just another reason to love this holiday. The classics like mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce and stuffing are all going to be in the mix, and you know you are going to need some gravy with that. You better leave room on your plate for the candied yams, roasted veggies, collard greens, creamed onions, mac and cheese, salad and rolls. Oh and don’t forget, there is pie! Is your mouth watering yet?

Thanksgiving is a holiday that aims to bring families together and not just to eat. It’s a way for us to learn from our relatives and gain perspective on the world around us. How often do you hang out with raving lunatics and racists besides Thanksgiving with your crazy SubmergeMag.com

Uncle Larry? You don’t have to agree with what Crazy Larry says (and you shouldn’t), but at least it allows you to get an up-close view of how people like him really think. You’ll be better prepared if you’re ever confronted by people of your uncle’s ilk in the future, and I’m sure you’ll be thankful for the lesson you learned that Thanksgiving if that happens.

Thankfully, not everyone at the table will be a nightmare there to teach you a terrible lesson.

Unless you were raised by a pack of assholes, there are probably at least a few decent people in your family. Thanksgiving is your time to share with them and to reminisce on the good times you’ve all had together. It’s also a time to forgive petty feuds with the ones you don’t get along with so well to come together as a family.

A successful Thanksgiving is one where people go home smiling with a full belly and enough leftovers to make one helluva sandwich the next day. It’s a day filled with funny stories and laughter, where tears might be shed, but they are tears of joy. At the end of a successful Thanksgiving, we all get to hug and kiss the ones that matter most to us.

An unsuccessful Thanksgiving, on the other hand, can be a real doozy. Fortunately, the biggest problems are easy to avoid. Traffic can ruin even the best planned turkey day dinner; so, give yourself extra time to get to where you are going. Once you get there, shouting about religion or politics is something that should be left off the menu. You don’t want to get crazy Uncle Larry started. Finally, make sure your turkey is fully cooked by using a meat thermometer. Nothing ruins a good Thanksgiving like a family trip to the ER to be treated for food poisoning from an undercooked turkey.

As you can see, pulling off a successful Thanksgiving isn’t hard. Basically you need to show up, talk, eat and leave, which is far less than is required of other holidays. That’s why I like it so much. It’s a low-pressure, chill holiday, unlike all of the others. You don’t have to buy a bunch of junk to make someone happy or spend hours decorating your house with lights for Thanksgiving. That’s what makes it the perfect holiday and one that is worthy of your attention. So, this year, don’t be in such a hurry to get to Christmas for the presents; take your time on Thanksgiving and appreciate what you already have.

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The Camp Fire in nearby Paradise has become the deadliest wildfire in state history. Though first responders have been nothing short of heroic in their efforts to contain the blaze, funds will be needed in order for survivors to rebuild their lives. Cameron Ford, a Chico-based musician, answered the call by compiling an album of 18 songs by various artists, available exclusively on Bandcamp. One such song, “Empty Empire” by Seattle’s Noonmoon, was written and recorded in just one day in order to make the compilation’s deadline. The album is available for a minimum price of $20, but you may pay more for the compilation if you’re able. All album sales will be donated to the Camp Fire Relief Fund, and Bandcamp reduced its processing fees so more of the money can get to where it’s desperately needed. You can purchase a copy of the album at Campfirehelp. bandcamp.com. For more ways to help or to donate, go to NVCF.org.

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Craft Your Own Gifts at Metal Arts Academy’s Holiday Jewelry Fabrication Workshops • Dec. 5–6, Dec. 8 & Dec. 12–13 Avoid hectic malls and shopping centers this holiday season (at least for a couple of days) and craft your own jewelry for that special someone in your life. Metal Arts Academy in Auburn (1039 High St.) is offering a few Jewelry Fabrication Workshops to not only help you check a few names off your holiday gift-giving list, but you’ll also be able to walk away with a few new skills and a rewarding experience.

For $150 per student, you’ll learn the basics of soldering, texturing, etc. and work with brass, silver and copper. Classes on Wednesday, Dec 5./Dec. 12 and Thursday, Dec. 6/Dec. 13 will run from 5–9 p.m.; and the Saturday, Dec. 8 class will run from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. For more info, go to Metalartsacademy.com.

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Local chef Russell Middleton cut his culinary teeth working with notable Sacramento chefs such as Submerge coverboy Brad Cecchi, Oliver Ridgeway and others. He’s recently returned to the City of Trees after a stint in Los Angeles in order to start Peridot. This moveable feast, as it were, will hold its second pop-up event on Saturday, Dec. 15 at 7 p.m. in the Garden Room at the Sierra 2 Center for the Arts and Community (2791 24th St., Sacramento). The new eight-course tasting menu features whimsically titled dishes such as the Steph Curry Cauliflower (carrot ginger puree, Cognac golden raisins, carrot top chimichurri and braised pistachios) and THE Avocado Toast (baguette tuile, salmon roe, frisee, radish, pickled mustard seeds and chili-cured egg yolk). The price of admission is $75 per person, and beer and wine pairings will be available for purchase at the event. To sign up, go to Eventbrite.com and search “Peridot.”

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Camille A. Brown & Dancers Make Their Mondavi Center Debut • Dec. 1 Camille A. Brown uses dance as an agent for empowerment. According to her website, “Her driving passion is to empower Black bodies to tell their story using their own language(s) through movement and dialogue. Through the company, Ms. Brown provides outreach activities to students, young adults, and incarcerated women and men across the country.” Brown’s work has been featured by the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and on Broadway, including the Tony Award-winning revival of Once on This Island. The Mondavi Center’s Jackson Hall will play host to Camille Brown and Dancers on Saturday, Dec. 1, and the company will bring along with them a collection of Brown’s works, including Mr. Tol E. RAncE and excerpts from ink and BLACK GIRL: Linguistic Play, which make up a “trilogy about culture, race and identity.” For more information and to order tickets, go to Mondaviarts.org.

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he best kind of gumbo is one made with fresh ingredients, a plethora of flavors, is slowcooked and highlighted with a soulful kick to create an authentic blend of southern stew. For New Orleans-born PJ Morton, his music is truly an artistic interpretation of the dish that originated in the heart of the Big Easy.

Morton’s touched many facets of the music industry; he’s toured with Erykah Badu, collaborated with Lil Wayne, is a full-time member of Maroon 5, recorded a Grammy-nominated track with Stevie Wonder and is now traveling the United States on a tour showcasing his recently released Christmas album, Christmas With PJ Morton. So how exactly did he get to this point?

PJ—like his father, famous gospel singer and pastor, Bishop Paul S. Morton—grew up with a passion for music that intertwined with faith. He began as an artist singing gospel music in the church that his father was the pastor of.

“It helped me understand music and to understand people and performing, it was all positive for me and set me up for where I am now,” Morton said over the phone prior to performing on the first night of his tour in New Jersey.

This passion for music was ingrained in Morton from an early age.

“I had been in school all my life for music,” he said. Which is why he went on to major in marketing at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia instead of pursuing a degree in music.

“Coming from New Orleans, where music is studied so much, I wanted to keep it an organic thing and I didn’t want to learn how to play music … I was already fully into music and I felt like marketing was something that I really wanted to learn about. I knew that would be more valuable to me as an artist.”

In 2002, while still in his junior year of college, Morton found early success, helping produce India.Arie’s Grammy-winning R&B album, Voyage to India. After graduating in 2003, his music career truly began taking shape. His first time touring was with Erykah Badu for her album Worldwide Underground.

“As soon as I graduated Morehouse, [Badu] needed a keyboard player that could sing and play some guitar and I did all of the above,” he said. The tour kicked off in Morton’s hometown of New Orleans and by the time the tour was finished, Badu’s talents had inspired PJ to begin working on his own music.

Following Badu’s tour, Morton started working in Atlanta with Jermaine Dupri as a member of his writing production team. During this time, he worked with a variety of established artists of the R&B and hip-hop community: mainly Monica, the group Jagged Edge and LL Cool J. This experience allowed him to grow as a producer and writer while developing important relationships in the industry.

These crucial years during and after his time at Morehouse College propelled Morton toward his “underground solo career,” as he described it.

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he talked about the naming of the album.

“I wanted to grow as a songwriter and talk about more things … about where we are in the world today, the tension, how divided we are as a country. It kind of felt like I was dumping a bunch of subject matter together and I made it in New Orleans so it sounded like Gumbo to me,” Morton told the outlet.

I asked him about that interview and how he remains positive despite the tense political climate that seems to have worsened since that quote.

“It’s counterproductive to be negative,” he explained. “I know it's heavy times; I know it’s rough, but we’re going to be OK. It’s been worse actually … we’ve been here before and actually came out victorious, so I just have to believe that we will again.”

Morton’s confidence in progress is rooted in his knowledge of history, citing artists and civil rights activists Nina Simone and Stevie Wonder as sources of inspiration for using his platform to discuss socially conscious issues.

“Anything prior to Gumbo I was always talking about love and relationships, but I felt a pull. I need to address this and let people know that they’re not alone in these thoughts,” Morton said about the evolution of his message.

Gumbo was critically acclaimed throughout the industry. Not only was the work nominated for a Grammy as Best R&B Album of the year, but the collection’s first song, “First Began,” was also nominated for a Grammy award.

The opening song is a soulful and beautiful representation of Morton’s ability to sing with emotional honesty. The album quickly changes pace with “Claustrophobic,” a bouncy hip-hop track that discusses his fear of being trapped in the small minds of those associated with mainstream music. Throughout the album, he goes back to his religious roots with several tracks including the aptly titled “Religion,” which talks about people using religion to justify the unjustifiable.

But when it comes to the messaging of his music, Morton said that he likes to keep it organic.

“I don’t know from one album or one song to the next what I want to say, it’s what I feel at the time is necessary to say,” he said. “I just want to be who I am in the moment and continue to evolve and be fluid.”

It feels like fate is a big part of Morton’s life— the timing of his early tours and solo albums revolving around Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, his audition with Maroon 5 and how that reinvigorated his solo career, working with Stevie Wonder and speaking with influential civil rights activists prior to the polarizing political landscape of late; all of this has led back to the thing that he grew up with: faith.

His brand new album, Christmas with PJ Morton, gets back to his roots of religion and positivity. Morton is performing the album for the first time ever on his current tour.

This time around, his version of gumbo won’t be served as a feature to other artist’s main course, but instead will be his own entrée to deliver to the masses. Grab a spoon, grab a bib and don’t forget your dancing shoes for Morton’s take on “church in the club.”

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After moving to New York shortly after Hurricane Katrina, he released his debut solo studio album Emotions in 2005, and later, Walk Alone in 2010.

These albums were applauded by music critics within the R&B genre, but never gained the commercial success that he seemed destined to achieve as a solo artist.

Later in 2010, Morton would receive a lifealtering phone call from Adam Blackstone, who had just become the music director for Maroon 5. With three shows left on his Walk Alone tour, Blackstone asked Morton if he would fly out to Los Angeles for an audition. Without hesitation, Morton cancelled the remainder of his tour and made the flight west for what would be his first and perhaps most important audition to date.

Coincidentally, this was the first time Maroon 5 had ever held an audition, looking for a keyboard player and background singer with soul.

“We just kind of vibed out and I think it was more about a personal connection,” Morton said.

“We connected on a different level.”

The timing couldn’t have been better; Morton said that his solo career made him “kind of burnt out from grinding” and that joining Maroon 5 re-energized his career with new life. Two years later, he became a full-time member of the group and eventually helped write and record Maroon 5’s Overexposed, which was released in June 2012.

If you examine Morton’s collaborative career up until joining Maroon 5, it’s clear that his ability to transcend genres is what separates him from his musical peers.

“I feel like I’ve had nine lives, “ Morton said.

Growing up, Morton listened to artists across all genres—his mom introduced him to The Beatles and James Taylor; his father raised him with gospel music, and his love for R&B (mainly Stevie Wonder, Donnie Elbert and Al Green) expanded upon his musical diet to produce a soulful appetite.

“I was always open to whatever made me feel something, which allowed me to branch off to these other genres comfortably because it was genuinely who I was,” Morton related.

But while authenticity and openness have always been at the heart of Morton’s life, it wasn’t an easy path for the musically gifted son of a preacher.

In 2009, just before joining Maroon 5, he wrote a book titled Why Can’t I Sing About Love?

The Truth About the Church Against Secular Music. In this book, he challenges an age-old argument: that religious artists who pursue musical careers outside of gospel music aren’t doing God’s work.

“The same fight Aretha [Franklin] was fighting was the fight I was fighting and the same fight that Sam Cooke fought 40 years before me was still going on, so I said I think it’s time to properly address this,” Morton explained.

The book proved to be a liberating experience for Morton, who received quotes from Aretha Franklin and Al Green for the work, as well as a contribution from his father who wrote the book’s foreword.

“God is love … why limit music to one genre that’s supposed to represent him,” Morton said.

People still thank Morton to this day for writing about this difficult topic, but to him, it was a necessary chapter in his evolution as a man and as an artist.

After working on Maroon 5’s 2014 album V, and releasing his own album New Orleans, which featured the Grammy-nominated lead single “Only One” with Stevie Wonder, he moved back to New Orleans in 2016. That year, he launched Morton Records, a label that he envisioned to be the “New Orleans Motown.”

In 2017, Morton released his next studio album, Gumbo. In an interview with AM New York

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t’s been nearly 25 years since Scott Kirkland and Ken Jordan emerged as The Crystal Method in the mid-1990s and landed on the scene with their special brand of noise-making, but the act’s brand of beat-heavy, layered sounds sprinkled with vocal currents is anything but old-fashioned. With their unique formula—a rich and vibrant tapestry of thick, driving beats interwoven by a fearless sense of experimentation—Kirkland and Jordan were part of an elite and innovative class of musicians who pushed the limits and redefined the synth-driven, electronic music of the 1980s.

“At the time I loved New Order and Depeche Mode,” Kirkland explains. “But I still had a deep appreciation for rock and metal, so I was bringing all of that with me. Then Ken and I started getting into the L.A. rave scene, and that led us to find our way into this whole new world where we didn’t have to produce for other people; we could go in and create our own noise, so we shifted. We had been working with rappers and a couple of singers, and our idea was to get into working behind the scenes and doing remixes and different things like that, but all of that shifted when the rave scene kicked off.”

When Kirkland and Jordan met in Las Vegas in the late ‘80s, both were already dabbling in the music world—Jordan was perfecting his skills as a DJ and Kirkland, who was also exploring the nuanced power of the wheels of steel, was experimenting with sound in the confines of his bedroom—but it was when the duo left the desert for the sunny beaches of Los Angeles that they exploded onto the scene and joined the ranks of fellow revolutionary acts like The Prodigy and the Chemical Brothers.

“We started working together in ‘89,” Kirkland explains. “I was sort of this bedroom producer, where I collected a guitar and a four-track and a drum machine and a synthesizer, and I was kind of just hammering away at putting my stamp on whatever it is that this combination of music is—and then eventually we put together a

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demo and that demo reached key people like Justin King and Steven Melrose just as they were starting their label City of Angels and they wanted our track ‘Now’s the Time’ to be their first track for their label, and it just kicked off from there.”

Their first full-length offering, simply titled Vegas (released in 1997), was the heartbeat to an explosion of sound that emerged from the waning grunge scene. Seeing that there was a void to be filled, the duo pushed the limits of their sound and tested the constraints of traditional radio. Drawing from a robust offering of talent, both inside and outside of the electronic sphere, Kirkland and Jordan began incorporating hard-hitting rock and metal elements by employing the creativity of talented artists like Rage Against the Machine and Stone Temple Pilots and weaving their digital footprints into their own ambient musical dialogue.

“When we went to release our second album in 2001, we understood that we wanted to do something different than we did on Vegas,” Kirkman explains. “We sort of pivoted to our instincts as far as the music that we grew up with so, we started to bring in the Tom Morellos and the Scott Weilands of the world to bring those two things together, [and] we created Tweekend.”

From there, The Crystal Method began to delve into other realms of the creative space—from contributing music to movies, like 1998’s cinematic reboot of the classic sci-fi adventure Lost in Space to providing the soundtrack to a generation of gamers who spent hours upon hours mastering video games like Gran Turismo 4 and Splinter Cell, the duo’s exposure to a large and diverse audience catapulted them out from the underground and into the mainstream.

While Jordan retired from the music industry in the latter part of 2016, The Crystal Method continues to explore the sonic world with Kirkland running the effort as a solo project and releasing the act’s sixth studio album, The Trip Home—a vivid, ambient exploration of The Crystal Method’s evolution that beckons the

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listener to trek on with the band from its early days and beyond.

The 12-track opus dives right into the band’s signature acidelectro style—Kirkman’s love for interweaving metal and rock elements with the grittiness of the industrial-techno vibe is evident throughout. The album also makes good on its title as it takes the listener on a journey through The Crystal Method’s evolution and staying power in an industry that tends to exalt artists’ as the second-coming only to cast them by the wayside as it moves on to the next hot thing.

Setting a chart for territories unknown is key to The Crystal Method’s success and lore as the behemoths of the electronic music scene. If you were lucky enough to catch Kirkman’s exhilarating and multi-dimensional performance at Concerts in the Park this past summer, you may have an idea of the power that the groundbreaking act manifests. With searing beats and a trance-inducing light show, the audience at Cesar Chavez Park received the full force of Kirkman’s passion for forging ahead after Jordan’s departure. It’s his insatiable craving for experimentation and breaking new ground that keeps Kirkman focused and looking toward the future.

“One of things that helped us maintain this longevity is the fact that we were desperate not to repeat ourselves,” Kirkman says of the act’s staying power. “And we were desperate to do something different that we hadn’t done before.”

If you’re kicking yourself because you missed out on Kirkman’s performance at the Concerts in the Park’s season finale last July, have no fear, you can get your electronic fix next month at Alt 94.7’s Electric Christmas when The Crystal Method takes to the dais on Thursday, Dec. 6 at the Golden 1 Center along with Thirty Seconds to Mars, Sublime with Rome, Matt and Kim and Elle King. For more info, go to Alt947. radio.com.

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listen to Lillian Frances’ “Bailamos con el humo” under the miserable, smoke-stained November skies in Sacramento and delight in the incongruity. The song snaps open like a can of effervescent joy, immediate and playful, starkly at odds with anything I’ve been spinning currently. Smoke creeps, it smothers, it infiltrates, poisons—I, too, like the songs title implies, would like to see it dance for once.

Such is the weightless sense of contentment purling through Frances’ recent offerings over the past two years, culminating most recently with the Timeism EP in May. Elastic bass, stuttering claps, clinking chimes, xylophones (and encouraging voicemails) provide the framework for her heartfelt yet cheeky musings on relationships, language and creativity. Songs like “Netflix and Chill” announce an unabashedly “millennial” perspective, reveling in the

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generational brand. The trappings of young life can seem frivolous, but the spirit of these songs reveal what the hearts of the late Gen-Y set crave: the recognition of universal experience in an overloaded social landscape.

Before taking on the music sequencer and opening a Pandora’s box of samples, quirkiness and layered elements, Frances was playing pared-down acoustic sets, solo voice and guitar, and it was not until two years ago that she made the jump to electronic. The transition was not completely natural and came at a time of crisis; tendonitis from overwork in the garden had left her unable to play her stringed instrument, leaving her artistically severed for the foreseeable future.

This crossroads is touched upon in her song “Phone Keys Wallet,” where she sings about making sense of her “acoustic amputation.” Another catalyst for her artistic about-face was seeing Sylvan Esso perform in 2014, which led her to pivot further away from indie-folk. That same year, she opened for them in Davis, but it would not be until 2015 that she began to learn the ropes of electronic production in earnest.

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Since then, the story of Frances’ evolution has been the story of all who’ve found some sort of salvation in going electronic: the discovery of many new limbs with which to manipulate sound; new possibilities to make people dance; the chance not just to tell a story, but to create an environment; the increased risk of new mistakes, but often ones that propel something novel into view.

Taking a fairly lengthy hiatus this year to walk and at times perform through Spain (Frances is fluent in Spanish, which will often wend its way into her lyrics like second nature), she is currently back to the drawing board for her next moves, with all avenues open, but without a treasure trove of samples lost in Europe. Temporary setbacks seem to be preceded by great leaps forward for Frances, so it won’t be long before the next round of her buoyant pop experiments rise above this wave of creative destruction.

In the following interview, we talked to Frances about her musical sea change in recent years and the everyday joys that percolate her songs with positive emotion.

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How much material did you lose in Spain, and how did it happen?

It was a three-month trip. I took so many voice recordings of everything—my walking sticks—when you drag them along the ground, they kind of stutter, like a hi-hat; the crickets along the path, all of these textures I took, and at the very end of the trip I lost my phone with all of this memorabilia on it. It was bound to happen. I just need to re-stock, but I was so stoked to have these textures from my trip infiltrate into my album.

How do you usually incorporate all these different samples into your work once you have them?

You have to do a lot of organizing. Last weekend I did a huge overhaul and reorganized all of my samples. I don’t even know how I made a song before this! I just got my shit together and categorized everything, so now I have my drums, my kicks, If I need a bell, I know where to get my bells. It’s so easy now! So that’s something new in my work approach—having a nice clean palette to dip your brush into and make musical landscapes with. I’ll put voicemails, things that I’ve collected from my environment into a song, things that put me in a particular place, mentally.

I try to make things timely and relevant to the daily experience. Something a friend told me was that, more importantly than the songs themselves, it’s important to bring people to a place—create a place with your music, and that’s what people opt into—this ecosystem that you create.

How did your approach to music change once you shifted to electronic music?

The main thing in moving from guitar to electronic music, all of a sudden, the walls crumbled and the whole world was mine. Absolutely limitless. That’s both dope and paralyzing. The other thing was that I had to learn how to think of music in rhythmic terms, because I’d always been a melodic person.

I can find a melody in any gust of wind. But to put that over a beat, and learn how to formulate that skeleton, is so different.

You can get so bogged down in making art that you end up having nothing to make art about.

So you gotta get out there and live and absorb all these experiences and influences. Then you can come back and sit down and let it flow through your fingertips. I love watching that process.

Seeing where the things I create came from. I’ll finish a song that I started six years ago, one day it’ll just complete itself. I don’t rush anything. It all comes to fruition when it’s supposed to. So that’s my timeline right now—I don’t have a timeline.

What was your gateway into music in general and electronic music specifically?

There’s so many evolutions of who I wanted to be. The best way to learn is to try and replicate what you love, and make it better in your own way.

Learn the rules, then break them in the best way possible. When I first started making music, I’d say Taylor Swift or The Avett Brothers, something acoustic-y and wonderful. Then, the first time I saw Sylvan Esso at a concert was in Pasadena in 2014. I didn’t know who they were, but a friend told me I’d like them. It hit me so hard. I’d never vibed with anything on that type of wavelength before. The first time I saw them, I thought, “That looks like the most fun a person can have, and that’s what I’m going to do.” It shifted everything.

I dropped my Econ major and started taking Music 101, electronic music classes. I was like, “I’m not gonna fuck around with anything that I can’t be self-motivated to do.” You gotta want it.

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It was a couple of months after I first saw them.

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So the thing about me getting tendonitis and not being able to play my guitar was that it pushed me to perform with Ableton Live, because, otherwise, it’s so easy to perform with a guitar. It’s your fifth limb. Then, transferring over into electronic music, there’s so many new ways to fuck up. Like, a couple of months ago at a set, I reached over to queue some track, and I hit the spacebar, which paused the song. It’s stuff like that, where if you fuck up, you can’t just keep going. That being said, everything I create that sounds good is a mistake, 100 percent. I’m not at the point where I can go, “Oh, I want to sound like this. I’ll just make that.”

I just fuck shit up the way I know I can, and if it sounds good, I keep it.

What are some life moments that immediately send you running off to write a song?

It happens all the time. I frequently find myself at parties going off into the corner to sing some vocals into my phone. I feel rude when I don’t have my pen and notepad, because If I don’t have them, I’ll just pull out my phone when I’m with my friends and start sending myself notes for later. I have to tell people I’m not texting, just trying to get these song lyrics down as they come in! They come in hot and fast, and a lot of times I’ll keep getting out of bed to write them down, losing sleep.

All of my favorite authors are really good observers, and that’s what I strive for. Being able to transform my observations into a feeling or place. And I know I’m pretty weird, but not so weird that my thoughts are unique. I know that whenever I’m feeling any sort of emotion, there’s a shit-ton of other people who have felt and thought the same things. I just need to find the best way for me to fossilize that and put it in a song, serve up that dish. It’s also kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy. I’ll be writing a song, and I’ll think, “Ah! That’s the new me. Cool.” I’m both informing my music of what it will be, and it’s informing me of what I am.

I listen back to a song after finishing it to get the news of my current state.

As a sound collagist and someone who wants to create an environment with your music, what snippets of life or specific feelings would you want to transform into songs if you could do so effortlessly and perfectly?

I’m particularly interested in the mundane. The texture of my day to day. The sounds, sights and routines that I will remember as the good old days.

My mother in the backyard with her binoculars spying goldfinches as they splash in the birdbath.

The yips my dogs make when they hear the metal clink of kibble in their bowls. The hush of the kettle just before the water boils. Music is all about translating the intangible. Fossilizing time.

I’m literally just trying to capture the air around me and liquify it, pour it in a glass, and welcome anyone to try.

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UNDERGROUND JOKE KING

COMEDIAN DEJAN TYLER FOUND HIS MOTIVATION AND HIS AUDIENCE…EVENTUALLY WORDS MICHAEL CELLA • PHOTO KUL BLACK

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veryone who knows Dejan Tyler knows two things about him: the dude loves comedy, and the dude loves food. The self-proclaimed “Underground Soup King,” Tyler is the host of the YouTube show Deez Eats, curator of the world’s most delicious Instagram and connoisseur of every restaurant within a 100-mile radius of the 916.

Name a barbecue joint you stopped by once wandering three miles off the freeway looking for cheap gas in Dixon, and he will tell you what to get and what day of the week they make pozole.

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So as Tyler left my house Sunday afternoon after a few hours talking and sharing a box of tissues (for the smoke, not the tears), I realized I’d forgotten to ask him the only question I had actually prepared. If he could only pick one, which would it be? Food? Or comedy?

“Comedy,” Tyler answers without missing a beat. “But I would probably just talk about how much I miss food.”

Much less clear to Tyler was how long he’d actually been doing comedy, but ultimately he remembered his mnemonic device for this question. “I know my career and my son are the same age … So yeah, 13 years,” he said in a voice that made me think his son could be anywhere from 10 to 23.

Thirteen years is a long time even in comedy, where careers seem to age in dog years, and Tyler is just now coming off the release of his first album, Get Rich or Diabetes.

“I’m a procrastinator,” Tyler explains.

It was a roundabout road just getting there, sometimes literally. Last year, Tyler entered the World Series of Comedy, a national comedy competition with satellites all around the country. Tyler’s first qualifying round was at Laughs Unlimited in Old Sacramento. On the way to the show, he got in a car accident. Another driver had cut him off and smashed into his car.

“She didn’t speak English, but I didn’t have insurance,” Tyler remembers.

The situation was not going to be solved anytime soon, making him late for the competition. Worse, the judges’ criteria included professionalism, so Tyler was being docked for every minute he was late.

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“When I finally got there, Joe Lowers [the WSOC executive producer] said, ‘I was gonna tell you to not even perform at all, because you lost so many points already.’”

Tyler won first place that night, but with the deductions he barely squeaked through to the next round. Over the next two weeks he eventually made it to the final round in Las Vegas, where he took second overall.

After the show, one of the judges, David Drozen, approached him. Drozen, a long time comedy producer, had produced albums for hundred of comics, including Richard Pryor, for which he won a Grammy. Now the CEO of Uproar Entertainment, Drozen asked Tyler if he would release an album on his label.

Tyler credits his humorous heritage to his grandmother.

“My grandmother was hilarious,” he says.

“She killed me. That’s where I get it from. She was a riot.”

trouble just as much as it got him out of it.

Tyler’s family had moved from Inglewood to East Palo Alto just after he was born.

“In the ‘80s when crack was poppin’ off, East Palo Alto was wild,” says Tyler. “I had a smart mouth. I would talk myself into shit, and fight my way out of it.

“This one kid, Raymond, had this crazy-ass buckwheat hair, and one day these girls were talking about him and said, ‘He’s so ugly he’s cute,’” he continues. “I’m like, ‘Nah, he just ugly.’ But I didn’t expect everyone to laugh that hard. And he was little and always had a runny nose, but was crazy in the face. He looked feral. This kid jumped on me, and I felt like he was in my clothes. He’s in my shirt biting and scratching. I didn’t know those were his cousins that were talking about him. I should have stayed out of it. But I just called Crazy Ray ‘ugly.’ And then I had to fight him every day. We fought at school. We fought on the bus.

not necessarily comedy.”

When he finally tried stand-up comedy for the first time, he was ready.

“My first time, I murdered it, because I didn’t know any better,” he says.

Now, he’s embraced the 13-year (probably) struggle to find his audience after that day in 2005, and the perils of being seen as a comic’s comic, a distinction that can be both a blessing and a curse.

“More comics are digging my work than audience members sometimes,” Tyler says.

“But the amount of exposure I’ve gotten being a procrastinator is probably the amount I deserve.”

Tyler knows taking the next step requires leaving Sacramento and his job in property management, which he says is tough because it’s both comfortable, and a great source of material.

“I’m in it for the experience,” Tyler says.

Tyler’s grandmother had an old school stereo/cassette player, on which he remembers listening to records like Richard Jeni’s Platypus Man and Robin Harris’ Bébé’s Kids.

“I would sit in front of the speaker and just listen to it over and over and over,” Tyler says of Bébé’s Kids. “I was like, I never heard nothing like this.’ The first time I heard it I was in tears. I couldn’t breathe.”

In school, Tyler’s quick wit got him into

Other kids would tell him where I was.”

Tyler survived his experience with Raymond to go on to play in marching band and orchestra in high school, as well as play football for the South Sacramento Vikings. But even before they became his living, words were always his primary weapon.

“I didn’t always wanna do stand-up, I just like entertaining people,” Tyler says. “I tell good stories. My base skill is communication,

“Shit’s crazy. It’s a lot of women. Being a young, black dude in that field, I know why I’m there. I’m always at the hood property, because they’re scared. I’m like, ‘It’s just drunkass Tony, man, chill out!’”

But the album and its reception in the last few weeks have served as huge inspiration for Tyler. He recorded it over five shows at Laugh Unlimited, which Tyler considers his home club, and it was his first headlining weekend there.

You ever see The Last Dragon, at the end, where they dunk him in the water and go, ‘Who’s the master?’ I’m like, you know what? I’m the master.” – Dejan Tyler “I really felt like this was a culmination of my journey in comedy thus far,” says Tyler, and it’s left him feeling like there’s a lot more he wants to say to the world.

“I’m a lot more motivated right now. I really see it,” he says. “You ever see The Last Dragon, at the end, where they dunk him in the water and go, ‘Who’s the master?’ I’m like, you know what? I’m the master, motherfucker.”

Dejan Tyler’s album, Get Rich or Diabetes, is out now on Uproar Entertainment. To give it a listen or to get yourself a copy, go to Uproarcomedycd.com. You can see Tyler live at Punch Line (2100 Arden Way, Sacramento) on Sunday, Dec. 2 with Zach Edlow, presented by Homegrown Comedy. For more info, go to Punchlinesac.com.

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11.21 WEDNESDAY

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

Blue Lamp Annual Thanksgiving Eve Party w/ Just Like Heaven, DJ Bryan Hawk, 9 p.m.

The Club Car The Double Shots, 7:30 p.m.

El Dorado Saloon Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m.

Folsom Hotel Saloon Vagabond Brothers, 9 p.m.

Fox & Goose All Vinyl Wednesdays w/ DJ AAKnuff, 8 p.m.

Goldfield Hellbound Glory, 8 p.m.

Holy Diver 7th Annual New Jack Fling w/ DJs CrookOne, Epik and Ben Johnson, 9:30 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/ Host Byron Colburn, 8 p.m.

Miners Foundry Cultural Center Camp Fire Benefit Jam w/ Secret Agent 23 Skidoo, Simrit & Friends, Boca Do Rio and More, 3:30 p.m.

Mix GetPlucked Thanksgiving Eve w/ DJ Peeti V, 9 p.m.

Momo Sacramento Bourbon & Blues: The Tropicali Flames, 5:30 p.m.; Janmondo, 9 p.m.

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

Old Ironsides Open Mic, 9 p.m.

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

Press Club Thanksgiving Eve Party w/ DJ’s Marcus Leonardo & Hunter Chollet, 9 p.m.

Streets Pub and Grub Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Torch Club Sean Lehe, 5:30 p.m.; Ghost Town Rebellion, Drop Dead Red, 9 p.m.

11.22 THURSDAY

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11.23 FRIDAY

Ace of Spades Municipal Waste, Toxic Holocaust, Haunt, 6 p.m.

Berryessa Brewing Co. Matt and George and their Pleasant Valley Boys, 5 p.m.

Big Sexy Brewing Co. Reggae Party w/ Easy Dub, 6 p.m.

Blue Lamp Soulful 4, 8:30 p.m.

Cache Creek Casino Gap Experience, 8 p.m.

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

Crooked Lane Brewing Co. Jayson Angove, 7 p.m.

El Dorado Saloon DJ Alazzawi, 9 p.m.

The Fig Tree The Djangonauts, 6:30 p.m.

Fox & Goose The Pressure Lounge, 9 p.m.

Golden 1 Center Fleetwood Mac, 7 p.m.

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

Harlow’s The Purple Ones (Prince Tribute), 8 p.m.

Holy Diver Wednesday 13, Davey Suicide, Tigerchrist, Blacksheep, 7 p.m.

Louie’s Cocktail Lounge William Mylar’s Hippie Hour, 5:30 p.m.; Grid, 9 p.m.

Miners Foundry Circus Tents, The Force, 7 p.m.

Mix Xochitl, 6:30 p.m.

Momo Sacramento So Much Light, Monsters and Thieves, Lillian Frances, 6 p.m.; DJ Oasis, 10 p.m.

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

Old Ironsides Danny Morris & the California Stars, Acme Soundtracks, 8:30 p.m.

Opera House Saloon Black Friday Holiday Jam feat. The Rock Monsterz w/ Members of Greg Golden, Great White, Danzig, YNT and More, 9 p.m.

SACRAMENTO PHILHARMONIC AND OPERA: MUSIC OF QUEEN Community Center Theater 8 p.m.

11.24

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

Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Placerville Public House Coyote Rattlers, 8 p.m.

Porchlight Brewing Co. Loose Engines, 7 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Cheeseballs, 10 p.m.

Press Club DJ Rue, 9 p.m.

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

Torch Club Dey Trippers, 5:30 p.m.; Elvis Cantu, 9 p.m.

Woodstock’s Pizza Davis Punksgiving, 9 p.m.

11.24 SATURDAY

Bar 101 Cosmic Strings, 9:30 p.m.

Berryessa Brewing Co. Bottom Dwellers, 3 p.m.

Blue Lamp Blasphemous Creation, Nexdeus, Unprovoked, Wurm Flesh, 8 p.m.

Cache Creek Casino Sue Rey, Chris Wong, 6 p.m.

Community Center Theater Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera: Music of Queen, 8 p.m.

Crest Theatre Raffi, 12 & 3 p.m.

Crooked Lane Brewing Co. Double Shots, 7 p.m.

El Dorado Saloon Island of Black and White, 9 p.m.

The Fig Tree Open Mic, 7 p.m.

Fox & Goose Dive Bar Bombers, 9 p.m.

Golden 1 Center Lindsey Stirling, 7 p.m.

Harlow’s Vista Kicks, Honyock, 8 p.m.

Harris Center for the Arts Steelin’ Dan (Steely Dan Tribute), 8 p.m.

Holy Diver Bret Bollinger & the Bad Habits, Riotmaker, Centersight, 7 p.m.

The Library of MusicLandria Sac Unplugged feat. Mary Sand, 6 p.m.

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

Luna’s Cafe David Houston & String Theory, Grub Mitchell, Little Arcs, 8 p.m.

Momo Sacramento Soulful Saturday feat. Big Mike Hart, 5 p.m.; DJ JB, 10 p.m.

MontBleu Resort Casino True Willie (Willie Nelson Tribute), 7 p.m.

Nicholson’s MusiCafe Free Ukulele Class, 1 p.m.; Paul Mars Black, 6 p.m.

Old Ironsides That Kid Raja & Charm the Riot, Black Yacht Club, Matthew J, 9 p.m.

Opera House Saloon Midnight Players, 9 p.m.

The Park Ultra Lounge DJ Peeti V, 10 p.m.

Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Sock Monkeys, 10 p.m.

Press Club DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m.

The Purple Place Simms Band, 9 p.m.

Red Hawk Casino Steel Breeze, 10 p.m.

Revival at the Sawyer Encore, 9:30 p.m.

Shady Lady Arlyn Anderson, 9 p.m.

The Silver Orange Short Trip, Life of the Afterparty, All is Fair, 6 p.m.

Skyroom at Country Club Lanes Tribute to God Father of Soul James Brown, 8:30 p.m.

Thunder Valley Casino Resort Rose Royce, GQ, 7:30 p.m.

Torch Club Ray “Catfish” Copeland Band, 5:30 p.m.; ZuhG, Moody Slough, 9 p.m.

11.25 SUNDAY

Ace of Spades Waterparks, I Don’t Know How But They Found Me, Nick Gray, Super Whatevr, 6 p.m.

Berryessa Brewing Co. Donation Drive for the North Valley Community Foundation Camp Fire Evacuation Relief Fund w/ Muddy Waders, 2 p.m.

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

Crest Theatre Nathan Carter, 7 p.m.

Elkhorn Country Saloon Steve Wall & Mark Wallendorf, 2 p.m.

Harlow’s Vista Kicks, Lauren Ruth Ward, Humble Wolf, 5:30 p.m.

Harris Center for the Arts Sacramento Preparatory Music Academy: 50th Anniversary of The Beatles’ White Album, 6:30 p.m.

Holy Diver Mac Zay, Andrew Wilson, The Jeffy Spaghetti Variety Show, 6 p.m.

LowBrau Throwback Jams w/ DJ Epik & Special Guests, 9:30 p.m.

Midtown BarFly Factor IX w/ DJ Bryan Hawk, DJ CarnieRobber and Guests, 9 p.m.

Mix DJ Schoeny, 9 p.m.

Palms Playhouse Birds of Chicago, Daniel Rodriguez, 6:30 p.m.

Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Placerville Public House The Moves Collective, 5 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Daniel Castro, 3 p.m.

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

Shady Lady Peter Petty, 9 p.m.

Torch Club Halping Hands: Paradise Fire Families Benefit w/ Joe Lev & Friends, Dana Moret, Loose Engines, Watt Ave. Soul Giants, Ten Foot Tiger and More, 3 p.m.

11.26 MONDAY

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

Harris Center for the Arts An Evening with Bruce Hornsby, 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.

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

11.27 TUESDAY

Blue Lamp Uada, Dead in the Manger, Gloriam Draconis, 8 p.m.

Holy Diver Travis Thompson, Harris Rudman, Lantern, 7 p.m.

Kupros Craft House Dylan Crawford, 5 p.m.; Open Mic, 7 p.m.

Nicholson’s MusiCafe Songwriters Group, 6 p.m.

Old Ironsides Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Live Band Karaoke, 8 p.m.

Torch Club Matt Rainey, 5:30 p.m.; Band of Coyotes, The Dark Whatever, 8 p.m.

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11.29 PECKER (ALBUM RELEASE) Harlow’s 7 p.m.

WEDNESDAY

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Ace of Spades The Devil Wears Prada, Fit For A King, ‘68, Up In Smoke, 6:30 p.m.

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

Blue Lamp Telekinetic Yeti, Toke, Endless Yawn, 8 p.m.

The Club Car The Double Shots, 7:30 p.m.

El Dorado Saloon Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m.

Fox & Goose All Vinyl Wednesdays w/ DJ AAKnuff, 8 p.m.

Harris Center for the Arts Django Festival All-Stars, 7:30 p.m.

Holy Diver Unearth, Fit For An Autopsy, The Agony Scene, I Am, Vice Versa, 6 p.m.

Kupros Craft House Ross Hammond, 5 p.m.

Louie’s Cocktail Lounge Live Blues Jam Session, 8 p.m.

Momo Sacramento Bourbon & Blues: The Tropicali Flames, 5:30 p.m.

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

Old Ironsides Open Mic, 9 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Andy Hawk’s B-Day Bash, 9 p.m.

Press Club Emo Night Sacramento, 8 p.m.

Sacramento State: Union Ballroom Nooner w/ Justin Farren and Brian Chris Rogers Duo, 12 p.m.

Streets Pub and Grub Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Torch Club Sean Lehe and Friends, 5:30 p.m.; Matt Rainey & The Dippin Sauce, 9 p.m.

Ace of Spades Testament, Niviane, Hatriot, 7 p.m.

Bar 101 J.W. Teller, 9:30 p.m.

Berryessa Brewing Co. Misner and Smith, 5 p.m.

Big Sexy Brewing Co. Andrew Castro, 6 p.m.

Blue Lamp Castle (Album Release) and More, 8 p.m.

The Boardwalk The Pat Travers Band, Ariminius, Never 4 Naught, 7:30 p.m.

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

Cordova High Performing Arts Center Symphony d’Oro Rancho Cordova Holiday Concert, 7:30 p.m.

Crooked Lane Brewing Co. Jasmine Bailey, 7 p.m.

El Dorado Saloon Petty Jack Flash Band, 9 p.m.

Fair Oaks VFW Oppressed Logic, Pisscat, Get Out, Good Shit, No More vs. The Sixos, 8 p.m.

The Fig Tree The Jebby Party, 7:30 p.m.

Fox & Goose The Storytellers, Empress Niko and The Lions Paw, 9 p.m.

Golden 1 Center Trans-Siberian Orchestra, 2 & 6:30 p.m.

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

Harlow’s JMSN, August 08, The Philharmonik, 8 p.m.

Holy Diver The Number Twelve Looks Like You, Rolo Tomassi, Arsonists Get All The Girls, Enter: Villain, Nail The Casket, Mustache Steak Sauce, 6:30 p.m.

Louie’s Cocktail Lounge William Mylar’s Hippie Hour, 5:30 p.m.; Tim Noxon Rockin’ Blues Band, 9 p.m.

Luna’s Cafe Red White Elephant, Yo and the Electric, 8 p.m.

Mix Ryan Hernandez, 6:30 p.m.

Momo Sacramento Julian Pierce, 10 p.m.

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

Old Ironsides Gonzo’s Birthday Show: Halcones, Watt Ave., Soul Giants, Last Action Heroes, 8:30 p.m.

Opera House Saloon Cherry Bomb (John Mellencamp Tribute), Invincible (Pat Benatar Tribute), 9 p.m.

Palms Playhouse Tish Hinojosa, 7:30 p.m.

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

Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Fleetwood Mask, 10 p.m.

Press Club DJ Rue, 9 p.m.

Red Hawk Casino Superbad, 9:30 p.m.

Shady Lady STRQ, 9 p.m.

Shine Instagon, Bl_ank, Doofy Doo, 8 p.m.

The Side Door Peter Case, Jessica Malone, 7 p.m.

Torch Club Jimmy Pailer, 5:30 p.m.; Afro Funk Experience, 9 p.m.

11.29 THURSDAY

12.01

ROSS HAMMOND Sofia Tsakopoulos Center for the Arts at B Street Theatre 7 p.m.

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Blue Lamp In The Whale, Ghost Mesa, Flight Mongoose, 8 p.m.

The Club Car Songwriters Showcase, 8 p.m.

El Dorado Saloon Tim Dierkes, 7 p.m.

The Fig Tree Saint June, DoubleShot, 7 p.m.

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

Harlow’s Pecker (Album Release), 7 p.m.

Harris Center for the Arts The Ten Tenors: Home for the Holidays, 2 & 7:30 p.m.

Holy Diver I See Stars, Nerv, 6:30 p.m.

Kupros Craft House Will Comstock, 8 p.m.

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

Momo Sacramento The Brevet, The Jacks, 7 p.m.

Mondavi Center: Ann E. Pitzer Center Jazz Bands of UC Davis, 7 p.m.

Old Ironsides Americana Dance Party, Sicky Betts and More, 7:30 p.m.

The Park Ultra Lounge Audien, 9:30 p.m.

Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Wild Turkey, 10 p.m.

Press Club 50-Watt Heavy, Failure Machine, Killer Whale, C. Larsen, 8 p.m.

Shady Lady Roselit Bone, 9 p.m.

Shine Jazz Jam, 8 p.m.

Thunder Valley Casino Resort Pilita Corrales, Sonny Turner, 7:30 p.m.

Torch Club Mind X, 5:30 p.m.; City of Trees Brass Band, Lucinda Belle, 9 p.m.

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12.01 SATURDAY

Ace of Spades The Dan Band, DJ Alexx Gold, 7 p.m.

Bar 101 Mike PZ Trio, 9:30 p.m.

Berryessa Brewing Co. Doc Tari, 3 p.m.

Big Sexy Brewing Co. Baby It’s Cold Outside Blanket and Warm Clothes Drive feat. Hans Eberbach, Alyssa Mattson, Justin James, 2 pm Blue Lamp N-Men Party w/ The Faction, The Boneshavers, 8 p.m.

The Boardwalk Gashi, Nate Curry, Bugbee and More, 8 p.m.

Cache Creek Casino Huong Lan, 7 & 10 p.m.

El Dorado Saloon Posterchild Band, 9 p.m.

Faith Presbyterian Church River City Chorale Christmas Concert, 7:30 p.m.

The Fig Tree Open Mic, 7 p.m.

Fountains at Roseville 7th Annual Sacramento Saxophone Christmas, 2 p.m.

Goldfield Cast Hope Benefit Show feat. Hot Water Music (Acoustic), Kevin Seconds, Cities You Wish You Were From, 6:30 p.m.

Harlow’s Sacramento Blues Society Holiday Party w/ Sugaray Rayford, 1 p.m.; The Pharcyde, Jake & Papa, IMQ, Shake Speare, 8 p.m.

Harris Center for the Arts: Stage 1 Voices of California: Merry and Bright!, 1 p.m.; Folsom Lake Symphony’s Holiday Spirit, 7:30 p.m.

Harris Center for the Arts: Stage 3 Sacramento Baroque Soloists: Christmas Concertos by Candlelight, 2 & 7:30 p.m.

Holy Diver Palaye Royale, Bones, Dead Posey, 6 p.m.

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

MontBleu Resort Casino Jonny Lang, 7 p.m.

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

Old Ironsides Lipstick w/ DJs Shaun Slaughter and Roger Carpio, 9 p.m.

Opera House Saloon Kenny Frye Band, 9 p.m.

Palms Playhouse William Z. Villain, Mori Mente, 7:30 p.m.

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

Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m.

PJ’s Roadhouse Enso Anima (Album Release), What Rough Beast, Gaslight, 8:30 p.m.

Placerville Public House Ticket To Ride, 8 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Grooveline, 10 p.m.

Press Club DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m.

Revival at the Sawyer Encore, 9 p.m.

Shady Lady Zorelli, 9 p.m.

Shine Guero, Stains of A Sunflower, 8 p.m.

The Side Door Lola Rose Band, 7 p.m.

Sofia Tsakopoulos Center for the Arts at B Street Theatre Ross Hammond, 7 p.m.

The Stag Bar Stomp the Fire! A Benefit for the Camp Fire Victims feat. The Martin and Monroe Show, The Cash Prophets, Kyle Rowland and More, 12 p.m.

Sunrise Mall 7th Annual Sacramento Saxophone Christmas, 5 p.m.

Torch Club Danny Morris & The California Stars, 5:30 p.m.; Sue Foley, The Breakers, 9 p.m.

12.02 SUNDAY

Ace of Spades Dom Kennedy, 7 p.m.

Berryessa Brewing Co. Jonny Mojo and Co, 3 p.m.

Blue Lamp Petaluma, Lillian Frances, Topograf, New Spell, 8 p.m.

Cache Creek Casino Simply the Best (Tina Turner Tribute), 4 p.m.

Crest Theatre Live and Let Die feat.

Tony Kishman (Paul McCartney Tribute), 7 p.m.

First Baptist Church River City Chorale Christmas Concert, 4 p.m.

Folsom Hotel Saloon Vagabond Brothers, 3 p.m.

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MANTRAS OF RESILIENCE

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Issue 279 • November 21 – December 5, 2018

Living With Ghosts

In Solitude

he women’s faces that emerge as representative shapes in Franceska Gámez’s otherwise abstract paintings are often composites. She likes the shape of one face, the lighting of another. Even though she borrows from random photos, or from strangers on the street, the portraits that arrive on the canvas sometimes end up resembling people she knows.

While they are archetypal in some sense, like the maidenhead on the prow of the ship, they could also be real people on the street, swept up in some kind of magic experience.

While Gámez would probably shirk descriptors like “feminine,” there is an undeniable vulnerability in her work.

“I’m just working it out,” she laughs. “It” is the complexity of the male/female dynamic in the context of the art world, and of course, the world at large.

She’s processing her traditional Filipino upbringing where men earned the dough and women kept the house, a stark contrast to her current culture in flux where the roles are breaking down and transforming.

Gámez is naturally an introvert, but her work definitely invites conversation. It would be fun, for example, to task a bunch of sci-fi writers with telling a story using her paintings as prompts. Her world has a structure, with bones underneath that are sometimes sharp and exposed. But the flesh floats and bleeds.

“I will sometimes go days without saying a word,” she says, almost startled by it herself. Many of her paintings have layers to them—defined crisp edges washed with translucent drips. She’s also fond of irregular canvases and resin-coated surfaces that make the colors pop.

Her sculptures are fabricated from found objects and scrap wood leftover from framing. She has a magpie fascination with miniature things. One sculpture, comically entitled PDA (Public Display of Affection), is constructed of wood in an architectural scaffold with a human heart wrapped around the front, clinging on for all it’s worth. Not a real one, of course, but it’s larger than life-sized and gives the impression of a naked, living thing, just cold and preserved.

The other universal struggle that often plays out on Gámez’s canvases is the tug-of-war between art and commerce, but that wouldn’t be obvious to anyone but her. In a city like Sacramento where artists have to fight for space and struggle to support themselves, Gámez is keenly aware of the inclination to do what sells. She wants beauty—needs it like food—but resists the idea of making her art palatable to define her “brand.”

She also observes conversely that when she’s done corporate commissions, the people who hire her are so hungry for inspiration, they seem like they are starving.

It got her thinking: What does it mean to construct an inner life? How do we value human connections over consumption and ownership?

These are some of the questions she is asking herself as she approaches her upcoming solo exhibit, Mind Over Matter, at Sacramento State.

“We’re all going through the same thing, and it’s so important we be candid with each other,” she says.

She’s not solving any particular problem, or making any concrete political statement; Gámez is seeking to evoke a relatable feeling, to comment on the hunger itself.

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Her paintings, murals, sculptures and wearable art tell stories without being literal, but she notes she’s also addressing things specific to her own life.

Her early biography is the classic American success story: An immigrant family arriving in a staggered fashion to the unfamiliar city of Hayward, California.

Her mother worked three jobs, busting hump to ensure a better quality of life for Gámez and her eight siblings, of which she is the youngest.

In the autobiography book her elementary teachers had her write, Gámez was supposed to say what she wanted to be when she grew up. She wrote “art” in pencil, then erased it, and wrote “math.” Growing up in the Bay Area, she never stopped creating, and from age 5 to the time she left for college, she witnessed the evolution of graffiti as it burst on the city streets only to get white washed away. The do-it-anyway moxie of those artists thrilled her, and when she became aware of Faith 47’s work out of South Africa, she was blown away: “A kickass chick did that.”

But art was not even a career consideration for Gámez when she got to Sacramento State. She gave the business degree the old college try. It was a joy-free academic year except for the fact that she got into an upper division art class. Her peers and teachers quickly made it clear to her that she had no business pursuing business. She changed her major first, then told her mom.

But of course, art-making as a career is also a business, and when Gámez graduated, she had the standard freakout.

“What am I doing, is this even possible? I had five backup plans,” she recalls.

But with the help of her partner and collaborator, Shaun Burner, and other working artists in her community, she learned how to budget, how to price and how to earn mural work—how the sausage is made.

Her entrepreneurial leap was a body of paintings that continued to sell. And the rest is history.

Support from other artists continues to figure in deeply when she describes becoming a full-time professional. The groundswell of recognition Gámez has experienced lately has come in large part from her collaborations with other women.

“The unspoken camaraderie,” she nods, “and the way we encourage each other, it’s so important.”

Even working with women business owners feels like a shared vision, so unlike the employer and contractor transaction that is a default feature of the corporate world.

Co-creation has produced some unexpected delights for Gámez, who worked with artist Erin Yoshi on a San Francisco mural last year that won the Beautification Award for 2018.

“Doing the mural was just amazing,” Gámez says.

“Winning the award was a total surprise.”

She was also invited to collaborate on a project called Behind the Barre put on by Capital Dance Project where dancers team up with visual artists and musicians to create new performances. The theme was “finding your inner child” and Gámez was paired with up with choreographer Julia Feldman. The dancers wore business casual with Gámez-designed sculptural headpieces that looked like pastel anemones.

The upcoming Mind Over Matter show uses the tagline “Our Mantras of Resilience Materialized,” which puts it in context. It’s a patient inquiry into the perception of female strength and weakness, a beautiful but melancholy exploration of what is pretty vs. what is true.

“I always straddle between darkness and elegance,” sums up Gámez.

Mind Over Matter includes 23 original works: paintings, mixed media sculpture and one large scale mural. The show is up now at Sacramento State's University Union Gallery and will hang until Dec. 13. Artist reception takes place on Nov. 29. The artist will donate 15 percent of the proceeds from the exhibition to Camp Fire relief efforts.

For more information, check her out on Instagram (@ewfrank) or at Franceskagamezart.bigcartel.com.

See gallery hours at Theuniversityunion.com/gallery.

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Issue 279 • November 21 – December 5, 2018

Two weeks after Election Day, and almost all of the races have finally come to an end. The Georgia governorship went, perhaps dubiously, to Republican Brian Kemp. After numerous recounts, everyone’s favorite state Florida finally announced half-lizard/half-man Rick Scott would be headed to the Senate over longtime Democratic incumbent Bill Nelson; and dude with the Trump-iest campaign ad ever Ron Desantis defeated rising political star Andrew Gillum to be the state’s next governor.

However, in a huge win for voter rights, the state passed a measure that would restore voting privileges to more than a million former felons.

just because a lot of the people I was rooting for won their elections, but because it showed that regular people had become more engaged in their democracy. People were fed up with just being mad about not being represented by their government and took matters into their own hands—not violently, but democratically, proving that the system is not as doomed as cable news will have us believe.

But then, of course, White Nationalism’s bae Steve King of Iowa is also headed back to Congress, so, you know, that’s probably going to be awkward what with all this new diversity on the Hill.

Nov. 6, which may seem like ancient history at this point, was a wild night. First, the much-ballyhooed Blue Wave seemed to be a non-event. Then it seemed like more a trickle than a tsunami. Then, by the end of last week, in order to just beat all the water analogies like a dead horse, it seemed like the dam broke as all the races that were too close to call broke decidedly for Democrats, who took back the House of Representatives by a healthy margin, currently holding, as per Politico.com, 233 of 435 seats with three, somehow, still yet to be settled.

What lessons could we take away from the last election? Well, nothing new, really. The two houses of Congress are as divided as the electorate. The results just further illustrated that we’re a land of contradictions: We elected a wide array of young, diverse candidates, many of whom were female, including Sharice Davids, an openly lesbian Native American woman (who joins New Mexico’s Deb Haaland as the first two Native American women in congress) who also happens to be an MMA fighter with sick guns (#bicepsgoals) … and she’s from Kansas of all places. Colorado also elected Jared Polis, who will become the first openly gay governor in the United States. We also sent Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who will be the youngest woman ever to serve on Capitol Hill, to the House, making her coronation as bae of the progressive wing of the Democratic party official.

So it was a good day. It was good, not

But of course, national politics has paled in significance in the wake of the horrific damage caused by wildfires ravaging California. This issue is filled with artists and musicians doing their part to donate their time and talents to help raise money for the victims of the Camp Fire in nearby Paradise.

Hopefully you’ll be able to support their efforts. Jonathan Carabba’s “Stream” column in this issue catalogs a host of events that are raising money for relief efforts, so be sure to check that out if for whatever crazy reason you jump to the back of each issue of Submerge just to read what I’m rambling about this time around (and, hey, if you do, thanks! You really know how to make a guy feel special … And might I add, you look good, too. Have you been working out?). Some of the events he highlighted are in Chico, where I lived for eight years and where I met our publishers Jonathan and Melissa (and our editor Ryan Prado as well), so it will always hold a special place in my heart. There are a lot of good people up there who care a lot about their community, and it’s reassuring not only to know that they’re OK, but that they’re doing what they can to help their neighbors who were not as fortunate. If you can make one of those events, great! If not, you can also donate to Camp Fire survivors at NVCF.org.

I hope you’re all doing well, even though the sky is basically a giant ashtray. Have a safe and happy Thanksgiving! We could all definitely use a holiday right now.

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FRI NOVEMBER 23 DJ OASIS FRI NOVEMBER 23

6PM | $7ADV | ALL AGES

10PM | FREE W/ RSVP | 21+

S O U L F U L S A T U R D AY :

BIG MIKE HART SAT NOVEMBER 24 DJ JB SAT NOVEMBER 24 5PM | $14ADV | ALL AGES

10PM | FREE W/ RSVP | 21+

BOURBON & BLUES:

THE TWILIGHT DRIFTERS WED NOVEMBER 28 5:30PM | $8 GA $28 SHOW & BOURBON FLIGHT

ALL AGES

THE BREVET THE JACKS

THU NOVEMBER 29 JULIAN PIERCE FRI NOVEMBER 30

7PM | $12ADV | 21+

10PM | FREE W/ RSVP | 21+

BOURBON & BLUES:

RED’S BLUES W/ SPECIAL GUEST JOHN COCUZZI

WED DECEMBER 5

5:30PM | $8 GA $28 SHOW & BOURBON FLIGHT

ALL AGES

BOURBON & BLUES:

NIKKI HILL BAND

W/ GUITARIST LAURA CHAVEZ

WED DECEMBER 12 ONOFF

5:30PM | $20ADV | ALL AGES

STELLAR: A TRIBUTE TO INCUBUS FOR THE KIDS

THU DECEMBER 13

7PM | $8ADV | 21+

BOURBON & BLUES:

STEVE FREUND TRIO WED DECEMBER 19 I’M GLAD IT’S YOU

5:30PM | $8 GA $28 SHOW & BOURBON FLIGHT

ALL AGES

NO BETTER, MILDURA

THU JANUARY 3

JAG SAT JANUARY 12

6PM | $8ADV | ALL AGES

6PM | $12ADV | ALL AGES

Tix & more info: MOMOSACRAMENTO.COM For booking inquiries email robert@momosacramento.com

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DIVE INTO SACRAMENTO & ITS SURROUNDING AREAS

NOVEMBER 21 – DECEMBER 5, 2018

1 1 CONCERTS

TO AID IN CAMP FIRE RELIEF PERIDOT POP-UP SUPPER CLUB

THE CRYSTAL METHOD RAVE DAZE

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FRANCESKA GAMEZ DARKNESS + ELEGANCE METAL ARTS ACADEMY DIY HOLIDAY JEWELRY WORKSHOPS

DEJAN TYLER THE COMIC’S COMIC

LILLIAN FRANCES A CERTAIN PLACE AND TIME FREE

PJ MORTON FREE HARLOW’S FOR THE HOLIDAYS