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MELISSA WELLIVER melissa@submergemag.com In years past, we’ve put together lists of our favorite albums of the year. This year, we just didn’t. Maybe it seems a little cliché to do it every year. And perhaps it’s because the end of the year flew by between doing our Holiday Gift Guide then all the holiday madness that comes with hanging out with family and barely finishing our issue on time that falls between Christmas and New Year’s Day. But as I’m writing my column, two days before the new year, I felt a bit of nostalgia looking back at the year that was 2018! So I’d like to share with you my favorite moments of the past year. Heard: • Best new albums from local bands: 1) Th’ Losin Streaks, This Band Will Self-Destruct in T-Minus (who are featured in this very issue, see page 12) 2) Creux Lies, The Hearth 3) The Philharmonik, self-titled • Best new albums (not local): 1) Vince Staples, FM! 2) Pictureplane, Degenerate 3) Cold Cave, You & Me & Infinity • Best live shows: 1) Deafheaven, Drab Majesty and Uniform. Aug. 15, Goldfield Trading Post 2) Jupiter & Okwess, The Jack Moves. Oct. 18, Harlow’s 3) Tycho. May 15, B Street Theatre

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• Performance: 1) Capital Dance Project’s Behind the Barre: Made in Sacramento at Crest Theatre 2) The Siren Presents: Alternative Arts Extraordinaires at the California Auto Museum • Movie: Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade • Show: Netflix’s Glow, Season 2 • Most random thing I saw with my own two eyes: A rattlesnake swimming across the American River while paddling my kayak (maybe you saw the “viral video” on all the news stations or on the web?)! Read. Learn. Do even more rad things in 2019! – Melissa

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The 14th annual Dine Downtown Restaurant Week returns from Jan. 11–21 with 35 local restaurants participating and offering special three-course dining experiences for $35, with $1 from every meal donated to social services and food literacy programs. Get fancy at The Firehouse or Biba, or chill out at Skool Japanese Gastropub or Tapa the World. Some of the newest spots in town are on board with Dine Downtown, too, like Camden Spit and Larder and Tiger. Visit Godowntownsac. com to view menus and see a list of all 35 participating restaurants.

Our favorite rockin’ sister duo Dog Party are returning home on Jan. 16 to headline a big gig at Blue Lamp (1400 Alhambra Blvd.) alongside local indiefolk outfit Honyock and instrumental surf-rock group The Me Gustas, with Los Angeles’ indie-punk band The Gutter Daisies on the bill as well. Just $10 for four killer bands! What a deal! 8 p.m., 21-plus. Hit up Bluelampsacramento.com for advance tickets.

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For First Fridays on Jan. 4, the WAL Public Market (1104 R St., Suite 110) is hosting an opening reception for local photographer John Muheim’s new exhibit Right Place, Right Time, featuring awesome photos from the Sacramento music scene dating back to the 1970s. Over the years, Muheim’s photographed everyone from Slayer to Dead Kennedys to 7 Seconds and many others when they played in town. The reception is free and family friendly, and runs from 6–8 p.m. Look up Facebook.com/ WALPublicMarket for more info. Infinite scene cred points to anyone who can look at some of those old photos and say, “I was at that show!” The always fun and constantly rotating themed ArtMix series at Crocker Art Museum returns on Jan. 10 with Glow, featuring a blacklight party and performances by Obsidian Butterfly Fire Dance and Lorelei Bayne Project, along with DJ Pocket. Check out handcrafted wares from regional artists and take advantage of $6 drink specials all night from the Crocker Cafe by Supper Club. ArtMix is 21-plus and is $20 for non-Crocker members or $10 for members. The party runs from 6–9:30 p.m. and admission also grants you access to the entire museum and all of its exhibits, so don’t miss this opportunity to party in an art museum after hours! We’ve said it for years and we’ll say it again, ArtMix is hands down one of the coolest recurring events in Sacramento.

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Alex Ciavarelli and Rudy Marquez, aka The Django Shredders, are two young jazz guitarists who do, in fact, shred. After watching a few of their videos online, this lifelong guitar player was ready to up and quit! These kids are too good, and people are starting to take notice. They’ve held their own at DjangoVegas and the San Diego Gypsy Jazz Festival, and now the folks from Center for the Arts are bringing them through the area on Jan. 13 for another one of their OnTheGo shows at The Besemer Concert Hall (11417 Red Dog Rd., Nevada City). Check out Thecenterforthearts.org for more info and don’t miss your chance to see two young virtuosos in their element.

And finally, after taking 2018 off, one of our favorite local craft beer festivals, The Art of Beer Invitational, is returning on Jan. 25 to McClellan Conference Center (5411 Luce Ave.), and it’s promising to be better than ever. Thirty-plus breweries from around the country will be pouring unlimited 4-ounce tastings, and in many cases, you can meet the brewmasters or brewery owners. There’s also an Art Gallery section, and a Silent Auction benefiting Make-A-Wish. General admission is $60, VIP is $80. Check out Artofbeerinvitational.com for a list of breweries that’ll be pouring and to buy your tickets before they’re gone.

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BACK TO THE FUTURE BOCEPHUS CHIGGER bocephus@submergemag.com For most of you, 2019 is a real big mystery. What will happen to all the celebrities? What terrible things are in store for us in the coming year? What misguided fashion trends are we going to resurrect to make ourselves look ridiculous once again? What new gadgets will change the world? The future is full of uncertainties, unless you have a time machine like I do. Even though my use of it puts the very fabric of space-time and all of your lives at risk, I decided that your need to know about what’s in store this year simply outweighed any negative effects of time travel. I’ve confirmed the following events myself. Someone out there must have heard my prayers and decided to answer them in 2019, because by the end of the year, the Kardashian/Jenner/West klans will be no more. Their downfall will be the result of a horrific butt explosion. In a bid to out-booty her sister Kim, Kourtney will subject herself to an experimental hydrogen booty inflation procedure that ends in a ball of flame. While taking their annual holiday photo next December, Kourtney will accidentally sit on a thumb tack left out by North West, causing her to burst. The explosion will manage to take out Kim, Kanye, Kris, Caitlyn, Khloe, Kylie, Kendall and all of their kids. An E! camera crew will also perish in the explosion, leading to the cancellation of the show that made them all famous. Rob, as the sole surviving Kardashian, will inherit the fortunes left behind by his siblings and mother. Rob will use this money to purchase and shut down Twitter, putting an end to cyberbullying. In other good news, in a bizarre twist of the law, President Trump will finally be drafted for military service. Donald Trump originally avoided the draft by getting a doctor’s note from a tenant in one of his father’s buildings that said he had bone spurs on his feet. In 2019, a federal judge will rule that Trump must serve a four-year tour of duty in Iraq with the U.S. Air Force for lying to the draft board. Trump will be killed in action two days after landing in Iraq when his mega combover gets caught in the blades of a helicopter, pulling him to his death.

Not everything’s coming up roses in 2019, however. Fashion gurus are going to once again bring back a fashion fad that should have never been a thing in the first place. Corsets have come back en vogue in the last few years, and that got the big fashion houses thinking, “what other uncomfortable and impractical Renaissance-era garb can we force women to wear in 2019?” The designers will land on hoop skirts and elaborate undergarments for the gals and dickeys and longcoat tails for the guys. It’s going to be a real shit show out there, but at least we won’t be wearing tiny sunglasses or ugly dad shoes anymore. Speaking of shoes, in technology news, Google is going to come out with its response to the Apple Watch with the Google Shoe. The Google Shoe will have built-in navigation with turn-by-turn directions by everyone’s favorite sneakerhead, Chris Brown. The Google Shoe also comes equipped with odor control, surround sound, Google Assistant, selftightening laces, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 4K insoles, a bottle opener and lights in the heels that blink when you lift your feet. An early glitch will force those wearing the shoes to kick themselves in their own asses repeatedly, leading to several thousand injuries amongst fanboys and early adopters. To everyone’s surprise, the lawsuits will tank the company, leaving an opening for the resurrection of the search engine, Ask Jeeves. Don’t forget to check your JeevesMail! Yes, 2019 is going to be all that and so much more. I realize just how incredible all of this information is and how difficult it must be to accept. If I were prognosticating, I’d feel inclined to tell you how sure I was of my visions for ethical reasons if nothing else. However, thanks to my time machine, I witnessed these events with my own eyes. I could hardly believe these events myself, but they will happen. If they don’t, it will be because my warnings here have caused those involved to change their behavior so as to avoid these calamities. That says a lot for the popularity of this column. It looks like everyone will be reading the “Optimistic Pessimist” in 2019!

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OUTSIDE THE 9-TO-5 ROCK CLIMBING IN POPULAR CULTURE WORDS & PHOTOS ELLEN BAKER

Macarena Sanchez climbing in Yosemite Valley The emergence of rock climbing in popular culture has become extremely apparent in the past year. As a climber of almost two decades, I have watched the sport become discovered by the world outside of climbing. The sport has always had athletes “living on the edge,” but with the ease of access to media today, its recognition has exploded. More climbing gyms are opening up around the country, theme parks are investing in climbing walls and shows like American Ninja Warrior are bringing awareness to the athletic ability of rock climbers. With an influx of climbing culture meeting popular culture, I’ve decided it’s my turn to share my insights, knowledge and inspiration for future climbers or just anyone interested in why the hell someone would climb 3,000 vertical feet without a rope. Climbing films in popular media have been around basically since the birth of climbing, eventually leading to stunt men and reenactments of absolutely ridiculous climbing-like adventures. Think Cliffhanger with Sylvester Stallone. Following these movies led to the “based on a true story” genre of climbing movies, such as the famed 127 Hours (even though I wouldn’t technically call that a climbing movie, most people

referred to it as so). More recently, the job title of Adventure Filmmaker emerged, which brought to the scene documentary films following climbers and climbing expeditions. The most recent adventure films, which seemingly broke rock climbing into modern society, were The Dawn Wall and Free Solo. In January 2015, the New York Times got ahold of a significant climbing story and released the news of Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson free climbing The Dawn Wall on Yosemite’s infamous El Capitan. The reaction to this story in modern society pretty much blew away climbers as much as the story blew away the general public. Co-workers who didn't know a thing about climbing ran up to me at work exclaiming how the duo had just climbed El Capitan with no rope. Repeatedly, throughout the next month, I explained to people the difference between free soloing and free climbing. I won’t go into detail here as I may already be losing you, but the two men had a rope and protection in the rock in case of a fall. The movie documenting this feat came to theaters in 2018, shortly followed by a film about Sacramento native Alex Honnold free soloing the exact same rock, just on a different route

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(free soloing: without a rope, and no protection in the rock). Thanks a lot, Honnold! Right when everyone was starting to understand the concept of climbing, you had to go throw a curveball. Honnold—a once quiet, humble climber—has become the sports icon. Perhaps not by choice, but people love a good story that involves the possibility of death. I mean come on; life-defying actions are hard to come by, especially when put together by a professional team of filmmakers and climbers. Following the release of Free Solo,

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the word of climbing without a rope became rampant amongst TV news hosts, social media, families across the United States and probably the world. “What percentage of climbers climb without a rope?” “What is your probability of dying while free soloing?” “Is this the future of climbing?” In short, Honnold is somewhat of an anomaly in his quest of really hard free soloing. Many climbers dabble in free soloing, but few (none as of now) have taken it to the level he has. On that same note, free soloing has been going on since the birth of climbing, and there

are many people out there who have most likely been of some inspiration to Honnold—John Bachar, Peter Croft, Dean Potter, Timmy O’Neill to mention a few. Because climbing has been put into a light of extreme danger and adventure, it is key to remember that every climber at one point or another began as a beginner. Olympians do not achieve gold medals by stepping into the luge after three months of luging. The sport of climbing is similar to snow sports in the variance of opportunity it provides, so grab a pair of shoes and some chalk and adventure on!

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WORDS JACOB SPRECHER Dick Cheney is 5-foot-8. The end. Now here’s another 700 words. As much as many of us would like to turn the other way, gag and dash our brains out on the nearest rock at the mere mention of Dick Cheney’s name, he was and is a very real person whose actions continue to reap dire consequences up to the current minute. It is with this in mind that writer/director Adam McKay (The Big Short) put Vice into the world. Vice chronicles Cheney’s rise to shadowy power, beginning with his youthful, drunken postcollege-flunk-out years, whereupon he worked as a lineman in his home state of Wyoming. Cheney is played by master-of-shapeshifting Christian Bale, who packed on the pounds for the role and uses his best gravely Batman voice to accurately portray the gruff and Oswald Cobblepot-like VP. In the early goings, we’re also introduced to Cheney’s hardline spouse, Lynne

(Amy Adams), whose single-minded tenacity and certifiable political power is a heavy dose of new information for many viewers, including myself. (How often is the wife of a vice president put under the cinematic microscope?) Clipping along from his early 1970s Washingtonian roots as an intern for the young-ish Donald Rumsfeld (Steve Carell), we watch Cheney climb the internal ladder from congressman, to Chief of Staff under Gerald Ford, to Halliburton CEO, eventually spitting out as the unsuspecting running mate of George W. Bush (Sam Rockwell), which of course ultimately resulted in his vice presidency. Vice’s pitchfork is clearly aimed, casting Cheney as the diabolical mastermind of the Bush years, the backdoor architect of executive branch abuses of power and the unparalleled disaster of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The film also goes out of its way to give due attention to his home life, including an outspoken acceptance of his gay daughter, Mary, throwing Cheney into a somewhat humanizing light. Credit both Bale and Adams’ craft for nailing this aspect of Vice, as there’s genuine character development here:

You remember that the real-life villains they’re does Dick or Lynne Cheney, and the result is flat, portraying are in fact real people, not just New haphazard schtick. Yorker cartoons. But all is not lost, and I for one am not As for the rest of the cast and film, you going to condemn McKay for missing the mark. really can’t say the same. I can understand Adam Theatrically speaking, nobody’s really smashed McKay’s desire to recreate the formula that led the glass ceiling on the W. years as of yet (Lord to the runaway success of The Big Short, but knows Oliver Stone’s attempt was a joke). And there has to be a limit. From the standpoint of that may simply take time, as pretty much all writing and directing, Vice basically is The Big the key players are still alive. Tell-all political Short. With the same humor-first, docu-drama dramas seem to gain strength and perspective narrative stylings, quick-cuts and pop-culture at a certain distance from the content itself, cutaway non-sequiturs, it feels like a sequel of i.e. motherfuckers starting kicking off. McKay, sorts, only Vice often comes off as gimmicky, not at the very least, provides factual information poignant. The subject matter itself is simply too for the backbone of the film, and that alone grim to be asked to constantly chuckle at. By that can serve as an important reminder of the same token, there’s a misplaced aspect of buddyunmitigated and ongoing nightmare those comedy here that doesn’t work at all. Steve Carell, godforsaken good ol’ boys have sewn into the for example, misses in a big way as Secretary of very fabric of our world. Because it’s really Defense Rumsfeld, insofar as it’s just Steve Carell tempting these days to fantasize about prior acting like Brick from Anchorman with different presidential administrations with irrational lines. The same can be said for Sam Rockwell: whimsy, something to the affect of, “Ya know, I Yes he does a great George W. Bush, but in the n guess so-and-so really that bad …” g mawasn’t context of the film that’s all it is, an impression. n openi n Ruder e Well in this case they were, and nobody McKay makes no attempt to develop these h Step eet, all-too-real pivotal players in the same way he 1 R S t r tshould ever forget that. o

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Verge Center for the Arts is hosting a showing of Kusama Infinity, which follows the life and impact of Yayoi Kusama, the top-selling female artist in the entire world. Kusama has been a titan in the art world for six decades. Initially cast out by her peers and the powers that be in the art world, Kusama proved to be a visionary and an inspirational influence with her radical artistic ways, fueled by the vastness that is her mind. Kusama’s résumé is remarkably diverse: painting, installation art, literary fiction, sculpture, poetry and performance art and her mirrored “infinity rooms” have been featured around the globe. This film screening will take place on Thursday, Jan. 17 at the Verge Center for the Arts at 625 S St., Sacramento. The doors will open at 7 p.m. and the film will begin at 7:30. Tickets are $9 for general admission, $7 for students and seniors (65-and-over) and free for Verge members. There will be free popcorn (because what is a movie without popcorn?) and a cash bar. Fore more info, check out Vergeart.com.

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Birthed in 2013 in Compton, California, from the minds of Crip, Malachi “Chef Spank” Jenkins and Blood, Roberto “Sous Chef News” Smith, Trap Kitchen has changed lives and stomachs with five-star restaurant meals without the five-star prices. Spank and News have been given the opportunity to cater throughout Los Angeles, Inglewood, Las Vegas, Atlanta, New York City and they have even opened a food truck location in Portland, Oregon (8523 S. E. Stark St. to be exact should you ever be in the area). Trap Kitchen Cookout Tour will pass through Sacramento on Sunday, Jan. 23 from 7–10 p.m. at Blue Lamp (1400 Alhambra Boulevard). Tickets are $30 for buffet style and $75 for the “full meal deal,” which includes dinner, a cookbook and a T-shirt. Get tickets through Eventbrite. com and searching “Trap Kitchen” or visit the “Trap Kitchen” Facebook event page. Happy eating!

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Join San Francisco-based comedians and co-founders of Brain Space Comics, Jeremy Talamantes and Jordan Cerminara, as they roast five of their best thrifted/flea market/garage sale/street finds at the Sacramento Comedy Spot. Talamantes is a self-published comic book artist and showcased comedian at Big Pine Comedy Festival and SF Sketchfest. Cerminara is a published and award-winning cartoonist who has been featured at the Loony Bin Comedy Club and produces comedy shows across the nation. Together, Talamantes and Cerminara turn one man’s trash into another man’s comedy act. Tickets are $15 online and $20 at the door. The show is from 7:30–9 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 12 at The Comedy Spot at 1050 20th St., Suite 130, Sacramento. You can purchase tickets at Lowartforms.com. Bring in the new year with a laugh and even take some of this “trash” art home with you! SubmergeMag.com

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n spite of their name, Sacramento garage rock veterans Th’ Losin Streaks winningly just finished their third release, This Band Will Self-Destruct in T-Minus. Published with Slovenly Records, it was featured as Album of the Day on Bandcamp, a distinction only awarded to, well, 365 bands a year. It’s been 13 years since their last album dropped in 2005, a three-song EP called Beg, Steal or Borrow, preceded by their debut album, Sounds of Violence. So what took so long? On the cover of This Band Will SelfDestruct in T-Minus is a photo by Th’ Losin Streaks' guitarist Tim Foster of the band’s van parked on Broadway in North Oak Park. It was while living there that thieves watched Foster preparing to leave for Th’ Losin Streaks’ 2005 European tour, and biding their time broke into the house while he was away. The loss of expensive music gear was among the many incidents that contributed to a losing streak that would long term, yet temporarily disband Foster, Stan Tindall (bass), Mike Farrell (guitar) and Matt K. Shrugg (drums). Another major contributing factor to the breakup was Farrell’s on and off again struggles with drug addiction. Profoundly talented yet troubled as musicians often are, Farrell surrendered to the painkilling allure of heroin and other substances, making it difficult for his bandmates to keep the project going. Now sober for more than three years, Farrell believes that this time it’s going to stick. “I’m there to kind of just recondition myself,” says Farrell. While he was in rehab, Farrell spent a few years not touching a guitar. “The inspiration to start playing again came from wanting to play with these guys again,” he continues. “Eventually, I came around to the fact that this is who I am. I’m a musician and I’m an artist. I robbed myself of that, and then came to terms with it. I need to be playing music and move on.” Huddled around a patio table on a chilly winter evening, Th’ Losin Streaks hardly look like the arsenal of shredding that they are. Tindall and Farrell don Beatles-esque haircuts and quiet manners. Foster carries himself like a hip professional, wearing stylish eyewear and a clean cut. Shrugg, with quintessentially long rocker hair, is soft spoken and mellow. But when Th’ Losin Streaks take the stage, they start a riot. Muppety Shrugg explodes into a percussive fury while selfdubbed Ol’ Man Foster plays rhythm guitar, screams and spazzes, pacing and rolling around the stage. Farrell, often referred to as Sacramento’s best guitarist, defends his unofficial title with expert fretting and vocalizing, while Tindall jumps around singing and killing his bass riffs.

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Their high-energy garage sound and magnetic onstage presence earned them a spot on Burger Boogaloo in 2017, although they had broken up in 2010. It was this opportunity that got the band back together, reliving their psychedelic, garage-punk roots while also evolving into a ‘60s hard-driving, mod, freakbeat sound as they wrote new music. “It was a case of one thing led to another,” explains Farrell. “We got asked to do Burger Boogaloo and we wanted to just get together and play a couple shows. And then that led to recording the record and finally getting it done. While we were recording, that led to the tour.” In promotion of the new record, Th’ Losin Streaks just returned home from a European tour and will host an album release party at Harlow’s on Jan. 11. Leading up to their departure, they started to sweat it as their record barely arrived on time. “We got asked to do two festivals that were two weeks apart, so it made sense to do both,” says Foster. “This thing called the Funtastic Dracula Carnival in Spain—they’ve been doing it 13 years—they do this thing where only 1,000 tickets are for sale. The tickets literally sell out in 20 minutes. To get asked is very prestigious. The Trouble Makers [a band that Foster and Shrugg are also part of] actually headlined it five years ago, so we knew it was a crazy fun chance to play. And when they talked to us about playing, we felt we should really try to make this work. And then Pete from Slovenly Records also does a festival in Istanbul. We were like, ‘When do you get to go to Istanbul and play rock 'n' roll music?’ and it was two weeks before Funtastic, so we made it into a tour.” “It was mostly in Italy, our Italian friend Stefano from the Movie Star Junkies helped us book it. We did eight shows all over Italy,” adds Shrugg. They played the first four shows without Tindall, who was unable to get the time off work, but their friend Alex Adan volunteered to learn all the songs and did a fantastic job standing in. Tindall was then able to join the band in Italy, while Adan stayed on to help out. “He thought we were playing the Funktastic, so he started learning all our songs as slap bass, and we were like, ‘NO,’” jokes Shrugg. “He learned it all really quickly though; I was impressed.” While touring, they all do their own thing to stay sane. For example, Shugg enjoys chilling out and listening to music when they’re not playing, while Foster is obsessed with the history of each city he visits. “You can’t be in that close of quarters with four people for that long on no sleep without needing some alone time,” says Foster. “But we get along pretty well.” “I think lack of sleep is the biggest thing for me,” relates Tindall. “Staying up late for shows

then getting up early to travel can be tough.” Foster came down with strep throat the last four days of the tour and kept singing, but he says the worst part was the stomach flu that came with it, and hoping that everything would “stay where it belonged” during their live performances. Thankfully, it did. In Naples, they played with a band from Chile called ANMLS, a punk band that doubled as nice guys. Again, unexpectedly at another show, they ended up on a bill together. Foster was talking with the drummer and discovered that he was a journalist—Foster runs a journalism nonprofit. Crossing paths with this band from another part of the world twice was one of the highlights of the tour, and for Foster, he says that meeting rad people is one of the things that makes it all worth it. Foster also says that when Farrell and Shrugg are onstage, it’s like flipping a switch. “Its electric,” says Farrell. “I come alive. I think it’s the only time when I’m 100 percent there. A lot of times I’m spaced out and kind of aloof.” “The Aloof Brothers,” Shrugg adds. But they also love recording, and for the long-overdue record, they again worked with producer Chris Woodhouse, who has recorded noteworthy musicians like Thee Oh Sees and Ty Segall. It was mastered by Tim Warren of Crypt Records. Woodhouse told the band that he’d recorded 100 albums since they’d last worked together, so he’d learned a few things. They only had a week to make the record, but in spite of juggling work schedules and long hours in the studio, they focused, got an amazing product and it seemed pretty effortless. Now that this phoenix band has gotten a new album and tour under their belts, their next project is making some music videos. “We’re going to make our version of November Rain, like 15 minutes long, with an intro to it … I don’t want to reveal too much,” jokes Shrugg. “We’ve got Mike in the desert in the wind playing a solo …” It’s great to see Th’ Losin Streaks together laughing. Let’s hope this band doesn’t selfdestruct anytime soon, and let’s show them how much we’ve missed them. The band’s upcoming release show is sure to be an epic event that by way of ironic good fortune is happening right in our own backyard.

Don’t sleep on Th’ Losin Streaks’ triumphant return Friday, Jan. 11 at Harlow’s (2708 J. St.)! The Decibels are also celebrating an album release, and additional openers are The Snobs. Doors are at 8 p.m. and the show kicks off at 9. $10 in advance, or $12 day of show. 21 and over. For more info, visit Harlows.com.

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he older you get, the easier it is to forget events in your life. This applies to both the benign as well as important moments that helped shape you as a person. For Jake Desrochers—singer for local outlet Lonely Kings—it took an old friend to help remind him of who he once was. “My friend Pat, who I’ve known since I was a child, was always sending me these funky Christmas gifts,” remembers Desrochers. “Just weird stuff, old pictures of an old skateboard we owned or something like that. He mailed me this tape that I had made of Coercion. And I hadn’t listened it for forever because I didn’t have a tape deck.” To clarify, Coercion is the band Desrochers joined in 1996 with Good Riddance guitarist Luke

Pabich, as well as two other Good Riddance members. Coercion was an ill-fated project that lasted less than two years before ending with the band parting ways with Desrochers and then disappearing in a heavy Good Riddance workload. Coercion, unlike the punk sounds of both Good Riddance and Lonely Kings, is more heavy rock than punk. “[The band started] I believe in early 1996,” recalls Pabich. “The bass player and I conceived the band. The bass player of Coercion used to be in my other band, Good RIddance. He and I were friends, we knew how to play real well with each other. He had left Good Riddance, and he and I maintained our friendship, and we talked about wanting to start our own band with a little bit different style than what we’ve been

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doing playing just punk rock. So, we got together, started jammin’ out the riffs, we got our drummer, who was also the drummer of Good Riddance, he wanted to play drums with us. He said yes, and we started rehearsing at his house. Jake [Desrochers] actually rented a room in that house and heard us jamming through the walls, and just kind of popped in and asked if he could throw down some vocals, and the next thing you know we had a whole band.” As someone who had very little prior experience, the young Desrochers found himself in contrast with his more seasoned peers, and quickly learned that the rest of his band took things very seriously when it came time to lay down tracks in the studio. “We quickly put some songs together and then

went and recorded,” Desrochers says. “I hadn’t experienced any real time recording. I had just been doing demos before there were producers or songwriting or all of that or any kind of editing. Basically we just threw some jams together and played. So when we went and recorded, I didn’t even have lyrics written down. I was trying to make them up on the spot or jot them down on napkins or coffee filters when no one was looking. I quickly learned in the studio how serious Luke and Tom [Kennedy, bass] and Sean [Sellers, drums] were at the recording process. I want to say a couple of months later we played a party, and it was this cool house party, and it kind of floored people, if I remember correctly. No one would really say much to us because people were expecting punk and we delivered what we did.

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1400 ALHAMBRA SACRAMENTO There’s actually a couple of songs that we did “We just put a Facebook post about it, and that we’re still playing, and have made their way lo-and-behold one of my old buddies, Tony onto more recent stuff.” Palermo, who is the drummer of Papa Roach After about a year, Desrochers was dismissed now—I’ve known him since the mid-’90s; he’s from the band. Desrochers sees the experience played in punk bands and he actually played as having been quite devastating at the time, for a little bit with Good Riddance as a fill-in but says he learned a lot from the experience. drummer—he hit me up and said, ‘Hey, I’d love Following his departure, he spent some time to do it,’ Pabich says. “He had some off time of self-reflection and used the lessons learned with Papa Roach, we met in the studio and from experience and applied it to his new project, basically brought the songs together on the Lonely Kings, a project he had already been spot in the studio over the course of four days, working on that is still active today. then we recorded our EP Exit Wounds in 2016. “For me, I remember getting sort of ‘released’ It was like a time capsule. It was songs we had from active duty as a singer, because I wasn’t written in the mid-’90s, and we resuscitated showing up prepared,” Desrochers recalls. “I was them, put a few new twists on them, got some bummed out about that. It was a really important good production and great drumming from Tony, lesson. I used to refer to it as I got ‘Mustained,’ and we thought that was going to be it. Like, like Metallica. He got booted and it bummed him let’s go back and capture that moment and out and motivated him to get Megadeth going and close that door. But we found we wanted to see get that off the ground. So it if we could stick it out and really sparked the Mustaine make a little bit more of it, inside of me to get Lonely so here we are.” “For me, I remember Kings going and I learned Now, a few years after getting sort of ‘released’ they recorded Exit Wounds, a lot.” from active duty as a While Pabich continued Coercion is out with a singer, because I wasn’t new EP, Veritas, an album on to have much success with Good Riddance and of entirely new music. showing up prepared. had no reason for regrets, Since Exit Wounds, the I was bummed out he never really let go of the lineup has changed a bit: about that. It was a feeling that things weren’t drummer Palermo wasn’t really important lesson. finished with Coercion. Was able to stay on due to his I used to refer to it as he tired of straight punk Papa Roach commitments, I got ‘Mustained,’ like and wanted a new outlet? so drummer Anthony Garay Metallica. He got booted of Ghost Parade entered, Possibly, but whatever the reason, the itch to finish and the band added and it bummed him out what was started gnawed lead guitarist Jim Miner, and motivated him to at Pabich until it had him get Megadeth going and formerly of Death by reaching out to the former Stereo. But the band isn’t get that off the ground. participants. stopping with Veritas, as So it really sparked the “There were a few they are already working Mustaine inside of me to on new material and the conversations about this over the years,” Pabich says. possibility of touring—so get Lonely Kings going “Basically when Coercion long as if fits into their and I learned a lot.” split up in 1997, things just busy schedules. – Jake Desrochers on kind of fell apart. We had “We’re looking now at learning from the past doing a new album and kicked Jake out of the band and we were trying to find new music,” says Pabich. another singer. We just couldn’t find anybody “Looking to work a little more to try to find the nearly as good as Jake, and then the spirit died right [tour] that works. I don’t know if we can and me and Sean, the drummer at the time, were go slug it out in little shithole bars for a month pretty busy with Good Riddance. It fell apart, and straight or something, but if we were to get on we were all upset about it because for a short a leg of a decent band’s tour, we can definitely period of time we had this really awesome spark figure out a way to make it work.” of creativity. The whole band just felt really good. When it fell apart, it was hurtful. For a long time I was like, ‘Why did I let that go?’ … So, we all got Coercion’s Veritas is out now on older, we all got wiser, and more easygoing, and Bird Attack Records. You can see just started sending emails here and there.” the band live Thursday, Jan. 17 at The increased communication started to pay Harlow's (2708 J St., Sacramento) dividends and eventually the group decided it in support of 88 Fingers Louie. Also was time to revisit this failed project of the past. performing will be Decent Criminal. The only issue that remained was that one of the Tickets are $17 in advance and can be purchased through Harlows.com. founding members, drummer Sean Sellers, wasn’t Doors open at 7 p.m. interested. However, when Pabich put out feelers for a new drummer, an old friend came a-calling. SubmergeMag.com

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KATY KARNS EXPLORES THE BENEFITS OF MIXING CANNABIS AND YOGA WITH SYOGA WORDS MICHAEL CELLA

eanut butter and jelly. Cigarettes and coffee. Middle-aged white people and the Nextdoor app. All natural and organic pairings that complement each other nicely. The only other element necessary was the imagination to put them together. But cannabis and yoga? It might sound like a stretch. I tried it on my own once, back before yoga was legal. Took a hit, grabbed my mat and walked in on a class. I thought I would have some sort of epiphany or moment of enlightenment, but the problem was I’m not particularly good at either one—I’m a lightweight in weed and a heavyweight in yoga, the opposite of ideal. One time I smoked some weed and thought I was seeing double, but then I realized I was so high I had put both my contacts in the same eye. So when I attempted to do both at the same time, I just ended up spending a lot of time doing exercises in the wrong direction, trying to avoid the instructor’s glare that said, “Weird flex, but OK.” When I first heard about Syoga, a “cannabis-enhanced” yoga class at Hot Pot Studios, I was apprehensive. For anyone prone to social anxiety, it sounded like the scariest possible combination—getting stoned in front of people, and exercising in front of people. But when everyone is doing it, the fears just kind of … cancel each other out. Turns out it’s hard to be embarrassed when you’re already embarrassed! There are breaks, and snacks, and everyone is on the floor. Your brain isn’t super sharp. It’s like kindergarten in a lot of ways. The smell of herb even helps mask any yoga-related odors that might emerge. But make no mistake, this is a legit yoga class. We did all the moves I knew, and several I didn’t. We did a grueling ab workout. We did deep stretches. By the end I was sweaty, sore and very stoned. When the class concluded, I laid in Shavasana, my mind and body completely relaxed. I had achieved the feeling I was searching for some years ago. I was Warrior One with the universe.

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Neuromuscular therapy took its toll on her body, however. At one point she was too injured to do any more body work f or others. “That’s when I quit my job, moved into a bus and started doing yoga all the time,” Karns explains. Through yoga, she was able to heal her body and also gained the confidence to teach yoga on her own. She taught a couple of yoga classes (“non-high classes”) privately, and then got her Ganja yoga certificate from Dee Dussault, author of the aptly named Ganja Yoga. From there, she began formulating a plan to bring her idea to reality. When Hot Pot Studios first gave her the green light for Syoga, Karns was extremely nervous. Fortunately, her various skills and life experiences aided her in the endeavor. “I’m using everything I got to do this,” she says, and that covers quite a bit of ground. Karns also has her own photography side-business, performs burlesque and does stand-up comedy—in addition to her day job as an event coordinator. She’s been able to draw on each of these in one way or another—photography for doing her own marketing, burlesque for building body positivity, stand up for confidence in leading the class. “And I really fucking like it,” Karns says of Syoga. “It’s so much fun.”

But not everything has been easy. Cannabis may be legal, but regulations around marijuana-related business can get sticky. “No one wants to be the first people to test the boundaries with legal status,” explains Karns. “We can sell it and consume it, but only at our house. No lounges or events.” Besides public consumption laws, companies like Google and Facebook make it tricky to advertise on their platforms. Even the name “Syoga”—a shortening of “stoned yoga”—is intended to be inconspicuous. Municipalities continue to act as gatekeepers at the local level. While West Hollywood is set to open cannabis cafes and lounges as soon as 2019, it remains to be seen if other cities will follow suit. The tide is turning, but time means money. Here in Sacramento, Karns aims to create a culture of collaboration and community around cannabis yoga classes. “I don’t want to be the only one doing this,” she maintains. With others help, Karns wants to dismantle the stoner stereotype and replace it with a healthier and more accurate one. “We’re responsible people who want to have awareness in our body,” she says. “We’re not just these people who want to get fucked up all the time. We’re not lazy. There are so many professional stoners out there.” In the meantime, Karns’ next step is taking Syoga to tech companies, and on the road to states with friendlier legislation, like Colorado. She also hopes to package her yoga and therapy skills together to create wellness retreats which are financially accessible to the people who need them most. “A lot of the pain and suffering and chronic issues are not with the people making all the money and getting all the massages,” Karns says. “It’s with the people who are making your tacos, and cutting your hair, and giving the massages. We take advantage of these people.” Karns believes greater accessibility will lead to greater acceptance of cannabis-enhanced yoga as a concept, and a healthier view of cannabis itself. “It can be addicting and overused. It’s not a cure-all. It’s a tool,” says Karns. “I just like having an altered, positive sense of life, because I’m a very negative person. That’s why I needed yoga, and that’s why I needed meditation, and that’s why I’m trying to teach it to people in the way that I learned it, which is getting a little high.”

It turns out for any proper spiritual journey, you need a great guide. That’s where Syoga sensei Katy Karns comes in. It is Karns’ particular warmth, knowledge and insight that drive Syoga, all of which she developed along her own journey. Though Syoga has been around for fewer than six months, the idea has been brewing in Karns’ brain since she started practicing yoga seven years ago. “Yoga is how I changed my body. I was very unhealthy,” Karns admits. Getting started was the most difficult part. “Yoga is hard. It’s so much selfdiscipline,” Karns says. Since her first ever smoke sesh with high school friends at 16, Karns discovered she could use marijuana to combat her negative thoughts. “I realized I don’t have to feel the way I feel all the time,” she recollects. Karns used this as a tool to get over the hump her first time doing yoga. “The only way I could get started was to be a little high,” she says. “I would just smoke in my car and walk into this room. And I felt judged about it. But so many people were doing the same thing.” Soon after building up a healthy yoga habit, she had shed 60 pounds, and even grown an inch due to improved posture. Her interest in the body grew as well, and Karns decided to get her certificate in neuromuscular therapy. “So I could legally tell people to stretch,” Karns jokes.

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Issue 282 • January 2 – January 16, 2019

Holy Diver Storytellers, 7 p.m. Louie’s Cocktail Lounge William Mylar’s Hippie Hour, 5:30 p.m. Momo Sacramento Adam Block, Ross Hammond, 5:30 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Open Mic Night, 6 p.m.

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Press Club Hey Chels, Sad Girlz Club, Slumped, 8 p.m. Streets Pub and Grub Karaoke, 9 p.m.

and Stone Rose Band, 9 p.m. Shine Jazz Jam, 8 p.m. Torch Club Mind X, 5:30 p.m.; Matt Rainey and the Dippin’ Sauce, 8 p.m.

1.02 1.03 1.04 Torch Club Michael Ray Trio, 9 p.m.

FRIDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

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

The Boardwalk Mugshot, With Crows, Set Trip, Without Hope, Pacifists, 6:30 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. Kupros Craft House Ross Hammond, 5 p.m. Louie’s Cocktail Lounge Live Blues Jam Session, 8 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Acoustic Open Mic, 6 p.m. Old Ironsides Open Mic, 9 p.m.

Ace of Spades Nef the Pharaoh, OMB Peezy, 7 p.m.

The Club Car Songwriters Showcase, 8 p.m.

Bar 101 Todd Morgan, 9:30 p.m.

Fox & Goose Irish Jam w/ Stepping Stone, 8 p.m. Holy Diver Domino, The Gentle Ladies, Nate Curry, Robbie, Basi Vibe, Testagrossa, Lefty, Ryan Vettel, 7 p.m. Kupros Craft House Dylan Crawford, 8 p.m.

The Boardwalk Apollo’s Key, Chaos Mantra, Something Heartfelt, RepresA, The Never & Now, Tides of Tomorrow, 6:30 p.m. Capitol Garage Capitol Friday’s Reggae Night w/ DJ Veyn, 10 p.m. Crooked Lane Brewing Co. Anton Barbeau, 7 p.m.

Louie’s Cocktail Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m. Momo Sacramento I’m Glad It’s You, No Better, Mildura, 6 p.m. Palms Playhouse Trevor McSpadden, 7:30 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Bryan Keith

Old Ironsides The Backburners, Matthew J and More, 8 p.m. Opera House Saloon Backstage Pass, Unglued, 9 p.m. Palms Playhouse Coco Montoya, 7:30 p.m. The Park Ultra Lounge DJ JB, DJ Eddie Edul, 9:30 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Simple Creation, 9 p.m.

TODD MORGAN Bar 101 9:30 p.m.

Press Club DJ Rue, 9 p.m. Revival at the Sawyer Groove on Fridays w/ Guest DJs, 10 p.m. Shine Jesus & the Dinosaurs, Pink Frank, Melissa Schiller & the Baker-Miller Pinks, 8 p.m. Torch Club Jimmy Pailer, 5:30 p.m.; Elvis Cantu, 9 p.m.

1.05 SATURDAY

Fox & Goose Be Brave Bold Robot, Stummies, Adam Varona, 9 p.m.

Auburn State Theatre Muriel Anderson, 7:30 p.m.

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

Armadillo Music The Car Crash Hearts, Melissa Schiller & the Baker-Miller Pinks, 7 p.m.

Harlow’s The Seeds, Mondo Deco, 8 p.m.

1.04

Bar 101 Guero, 9:30 p.m.

Blue Lamp Drop the Mic Showcase, 8 p.m. Crooked Lane Brewing Co. The Inside Story, 6 p.m. The Fig Tree Open Mic, 7 p.m. Fox & Goose Working Man Blues Band, 9 p.m. Harlow’s Dark Signal (EP Release), Syns, 6 p.m.

Old Ironsides Lipstick DJs Present: The Strokes VS The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, 9 p.m. On The Y Camp Fire Benefit w/ Unprovoked, Zephira, Rage of War, Banger, Damaged Things, 8 p.m. Opera House Saloon One More Try (George Michael Tribute), Forever Whitney (Whitney Houston Tribute), 9 p.m.

Harris Center for the Arts: Stage 1 Christopher Cross, 7 p.m.

Palms Playhouse Jeffrey Foucault, 7:30 p.m.

Holy Diver Hoods, Farooq, Smack’d Up, Giving The Devil His Due, 7 p.m.

PJ’s Roadhouse Rob Ford Explorer, Find Yourself, Meet Cute, Leaph, 8 p.m.

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

Placerville Public House Jessica Malone Band, 8 p.m.

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

Powerhouse Pub Neon Playboys, 10 p.m.

Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m.

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Issue 282 • January 2 – January 16, 2019

Dive Into Sacramento & Its Surrounding Areas

1.11

1.08

MADISON HUDSON (EP RELEASE) Moonshine Crazy, Amanda Gray Goldfield 7 p.m.

YOUNG DOLPH Kap G Ace of Spades 7 p.m.

Press Club DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m. Revival at the Sawyer Encore w/ Guest DJs, 9:30 p.m. Shine Proxy Moon, Josh Jakubowski, 8 p.m. Torch Club Parlour Dames, 5:30 p.m.; RJ Mischo, 9 p.m. Two Rivers Cider Co. Rruhb, 7 p.m.

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

THURSDAY

TUESDAY

The Club Car Songwriters Showcase, 8 p.m.

Ace of Spades Young Dolph, Kap G, 7 p.m.

Fox & Goose Michael B. Justis, 8 p.m.

Kupros Craft House Kyle Rowland, 5 p.m.; Open Mic, 7 p.m.

Harris Center for the Arts: Stage 1 Kids Helping Kids 7th Annual Gala feat. Ben Rector, Tyrone Wells, 6 p.m.

Old Ironsides Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Kupros Craft House Dylan Crawford, 8 p.m.

Blue Lamp Radolescents, The Hajj, The O’Mulligans, 8 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Live Band Karaoke, 8 p.m.

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

Golden 1 Center California Rises: A Concert to Benefit the Victims of the California Wildfires feat. Pitbull, Common, X Ambassadors, Cold Weather Sons and More, 7 p.m.

Torch Club Bill Mylar, 5:30 p.m.; Sicky Betts, 8 p.m.

Momo Sacramento The Fontaine Classic, Sunset Scenarios, 8 p.m.

1.06 SUNDAY

Harlow’s Elvis & the Experience, 5:30 p.m. Harris Center for the Arts: Stage 3 The Great Composers Chamber Music Series Presents: Rising Stars of Chamber Music, 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. Mix We Rock With E-Rock, 9 p.m. Palms Playhouse Contra Dance w/ Sacramento Country Dance Society, 2 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Rick Estrin & the Nightcats, 3 p.m. Press Club Sunday Night Soul Party w/ DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m. Torch Club Blues Jam, 4 p.m.; Front the Band, 8 p.m.

1.07 MONDAY

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. SubmergeMag.com

1.09 WEDNESDAY

Bar 101 Open Mic, 7:30 p.m. The Club Car The Double Shots, 7:30 p.m. El Dorado Saloon Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m. Fox & Goose All Vinyl Wednesdays w/ DJ AAKnuff, 8 p.m.

Old Ironsides Of This Earth, Stoopkid, 7:30 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Chris Scoville, 9 p.m. Press Club Las Pulgas, Year Of The Fist, Krebtones, Spitting Roses, 8 p.m. Shine Jazz Jam, 8 p.m. Torch Club Mind X, 5:30 p.m.; Tropicali Flames, 9 p.m.

1.11

Harlow’s Th’ Losin Streaks (Album Release), The Decibels, The Snobs, 8 p.m. Harris Center for the Arts: Stage 1 Keyboard Conversations w/ Jeffrey Siegel: The Joyous Music of Beethoven, 7:30 p.m. Holy Ascension Russian Orthodox Church Old New Year Benefit Concert, 7 p.m. Holy Diver The Iron Maidens (Female Iron Maiden Tribute), SJ Syndicate, Evolution Revolver, 7 p.m. Louie’s Cocktail Lounge William Mylar’s Hippie Hour, 5:30 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Open Mic Night, 6 p.m. Old Ironsides Square Cools, Divine Blend, 9 p.m. On The Y Fight Till Death, Amenthes, Nothing But Losers, Pent Hate, 8 p.m. Opera House Saloon Press Play, Double Shot, 9 p.m. Palms Playhouse Lucy Kaplansky, 7:30 p.m. The Park Ultra Lounge DJ Elements, 9:30 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Placerville Public House Patrick Walsh, 8 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Island Of Black and White, 10 p.m. Press Club DJ Rue, 9 p.m. Revival at the Sawyer Groove on Fridays w/ Guest DJs, 10 p.m.

FRIDAY

Shine Roland Tonies, Henry’s Magic Family Band, Life of the Afterparty, 8 p.m.

Harris Center for the Arts: Stage 1 University of Notre Dame Men’s Glee Club, 7:30 p.m.

Ace of Spades The English Beat, La Noche Oskura, 7 p.m.

Torch Club Gillian Underwood, 5:30 p.m.; Coffis Brothers, Loose Engines, 9 p.m.

Kupros Craft House Ross Hammond, 5 p.m.

Bar 101 Octomalien, 9:30 p.m.

Harlow’s Mick Jenkins, Kari Faux, 6:30 p.m.

Louie’s Cocktail Lounge Live Blues Jam Session, 8 p.m. Momo Sacramento Bourbon & Blues feat. Kyle Rowland Blues Band, 5:30 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Acoustic Open Mic, 6 p.m. Old Ironsides Open Mic, 9 p.m. Streets Pub and Grub Karaoke, 9 p.m. Torch Club Sean Lehe, 5:30 p.m.; Frankie & The Defenders, 9 p.m.

Auburn State Theatre Ray Bonneville and Richie Lawrence, 8 p.m. Blue Lamp Victims Family, Nasalrod, The Freak Accident, Frack!, 8:30 p.m. Capitol Garage Capitol Friday’s Reggae Night w/ DJ Veyn, 10 p.m. Crooked Lane Brewing Co. Hans Anderson, 7 p.m. Fox & Goose Dirty Blonde, Sideshow, 9 p.m. Gaslight Company Two On Tuesday, 8 p.m. Golden Bear DJ CrookOne and Guests, 10 p.m. Goldfield Madison Hudson (EP Release), Moonshine Crazy, Amanda Gray, 7 p.m.

VFW Post 6158 (Fair Oaks) Menacing Glare, Impenitent Existence, Bob Plant, Defend, xHostagex, Barc, Hugo Sanchez, 7 p.m.

1.12 SATURDAY

Ace of Spades School of Rock Elk Grove End of Season 5 Show, 10:30 a.m. Auburn State Theatre Mountain Folk: Songwriters of the Sierra Foothills w/ Manzanita, Brotherly Mud, Jessica Malone, Jasmine Bailey, 7 p.m. Bar 101 Bongo Furys, 9:30 p.m. CONTINUED ON PAGE 22

Issue 282 • January 2 – January 16, 2019

Blue Lamp The Flesh Hammers, Ranchero, Super Nintenbros, Bad Patterns, 8 p.m. The Boardwalk Lioncourt, Abeyance, Warfront, 7 p.m. Crooked Lane Brewing Co. Tattered and Tied, 6 p.m.

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The Fig Tree Open Mic, 7 p.m.

Ace of Spades Reel Big Fish, Mest, Bikini Trill, 6:30 a.m.

Fox & Goose Natalie Cortez, Jackson Griffith, Christopher Cassels, 9 p.m.

The Besemer Concert Hall Center for the Arts presents Django Shredders, 7:30 p.m.

Goldfield Tomorrows Bad Seeds, 7 p.m.

Crocker Art Museum Classical Concert: TriMusica, 3 p.m.

Harlow’s Irishpalooza feat. One Eyed Reilly, The Pikeys, Stepping Stone, The McKeever School of Irish Dance, 5 p.m.; Paul Wall, Matt Briscoe, Guti. B, Dot Com, Errth, Big Juwap, J Sylioso, Ray Band$, DJ Essence, 9:30 p.m.

Harris Center for the Arts: Stage 1 Paris Combo, 1 p.m.; Branford Marsalis, 7 p.m.

Harris Center for the Arts: Stage 1 The Magpie Salute, The Stone Foxes, 8 p.m.

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Holy Diver Emo Night Sacramento (2 Year Anniversary), 7 p.m. Louie’s Cocktail Lounge Karaoke, 9 p.m. Momo Sacramento JAG, 6 p.m.

PJ’s Roadhouse TheNuminous, Down Hollow, Erik Childs, 8 p.m. Placerville Public House Loose Engines, 8 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Petty Jack Flash, 3 p.m.; Frank Hannon, 10 p.m.

Midtown BarFly Factor IX w/ DJ Bryan Hawk, DJ CarnieRobber and Guests, 9 p.m. Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m. Powerhouse Pub Laurie Morvan Band, 3 p.m.

1.14 MONDAY

Blue Lamp Mustard Plug, The Phenomenauts, Flip The Switch, 7:30 p.m. Dante Club Sacramento Jazz Cooperative Presents: Jim Martinez Quartet, 7 p.m. Fox & Goose Open Mic Night, 7:30 p.m.

Press Club DJ Larry Rodriguez, 9 p.m.

Holy Diver Mae, Matthew Thiessen, National Lines, 6:30 p.m.

Revival at the Sawyer Encore w/ Guest DJs, 9 p.m.

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

Shine The Draggs (EP Release), Marigold, Landline, 8 p.m. Stoney Inn Rockin’ Rodeo Groundwave, 9 p.m. Torch Club Acme Soundtracks, 5:30 p.m.; Peter Petty & His Double P Revue, 9 p.m.

Kupros Craft House Leo Bootes, 5 p.m.; Open Mic, 7 p.m. Midtown BarFly Sactown Swings w/ the Alpha Rhythm Kings, 7:30 p.m. Old Ironsides Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Torch Club Scott McConaha, 5:30 p.m.; Michael Ray, 8 p.m.

Torch Club Nick Moss feat. Dennis Gruenling, 4 p.m.; Front the Band, 8 p.m.

Pine Cove Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Harlow’s Howlin Rain, Garcia Peoples, 7 p.m.

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

Old Ironsides Damaged Goods, The East West North(ish), 8 p.m.

Palms Playhouse Ray Bonneville Duo w/ Richie Lawrence, 7:30 p.m.

Goldfield Corb Lund, 7:30 p.m.

Powerhouse Pub Live Band Karaoke, 8 p.m.

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

Opera House Saloon Locked n Loaded, 9 p.m.

Blue Lamp Super Unison, Slow Mass, Sick Burn, Las Pulgas, 8 p.m.

Holy Diver Nappy Roots, Erica Ambrin, 7 p.m.

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

On The Y Screams of Syrens, Indivision, 8 p.m.

TUESDAY

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.

1.16 WEDNESDAY

Bar 101 Open Mic, 7:30 p.m. Blue Lamp Dog Party, Gutter Daises, Honyock, The Me Gustas, 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 Nassah, 8 p.m. Golden 1 Center Elton John: Farewell Yellow Brick Road, 8 p.m. Harlow’s Sumac, Divide + Dissolve, Tashi Dorji, 7 p.m. Harris Center for the Arts: Stage 1 Ordinarius, 7:30 p.m. Holy Diver Violent J, Esham, 7 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 feat. Aki Kumar, 5:30 p.m. Nicholson’s MusiCafe Acoustic Open Mic, 6 p.m. Old Ironsides Open Mic, 9 p.m. Streets Pub and Grub Karaoke, 9 p.m. Torch Club Sean Lehe, 5:30 p.m.; Hopi Blues Band, Mojo Morganfield, 9 p.m.

Comedy Laughs Unlimited Saul Trujillo, Jennifer Alves, Taylor Evans, Adam Reyes & Chadd Beals, Hosted by Zach Edlow, Jan. 3, 8 p.m. Mark Christopher Lawrence feat. Connor McSpadden, Jan. 4 - 6,Fri. & Sat., 8 & 10:30 p.m.; Sun., 7 p.m.

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Alex Elkin feat. Priyanka Wali, Jan. 11 - 13, Fri. & Sat., 8 & 10:30 p.m.; Sun., 7 p.m. Luna’s Cafe Open Mic Comedy w/ Hosts Jaime Fernandez and Michael Cella, Tuesdays, 8 p.m. On the Y Open Mic Comedy w/ Guest Hosts, Thursdays, 8:30 p.m.

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Issue 282 • January 2 – January 16, 2019

Punch Line Ari Shaffir, Jessica Michelle Singleton, Michael Cella, Jan. 3 - 5, Thurs., 7:30 p.m.; Fri., 8 & 10:15 p.m.; Sat., 7 & 9:15 p.m.

Dive Into Sacramento & Its Surrounding Areas

LOLGBT+ Presents: An Evening of Queens & Comedy, Jan. 6, 7 p.m. Sacramento Comedy Showcase Hosted by Robert Berry feat. Shahera Hyatt, Ta Vi, Rick Boyd, Emma Haney, Jaclyn Weiand, Regina Givens and More, Jan. 9, 8 p.m. Really Funny Comedians (Who Happen to Be Women) feat. Carla Clay, Edi Gibson, Hosted by Ta Vi, Jan. 10, 8 p.m. Michael Yo & Edi Gibson, Jan. 11 - 12, Fri., 8 & 10:15 p.m.; Sat., 7:30 & 9:45 p.m. Sactown Comedy Jam Hosted by Morty “The Mortician” Stein, Jan. 13, 7 p.m. Sacramento Comedy Spot Open Mic, Sunday’s and Mondays, 8 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. 21st & X Streets Sacramento Antique Faire, Jan. 13, 6:30 a.m. - 3 p.m.

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

Blue Cue Trivia Night, Wednesdays, 9 p.m.

Sacramento Convention Center Easyriders Bike Show Tour, Jan. 12, 10 a.m. - 7 p.m.

Fox & Goose Pub Quiz, Tuesdays, 7 p.m.

The Boxing Donkey Trivia Night, Tuesdays, 7 p.m.

Sacramento Theatre Company Mary Poppins Jr., Jan. 10 - 13

Golden 1 Center Harlem Globetrotters, Jan. 11, 7 p.m. & Jan. 13, 2 p.m.

St. Rose of Lima Park Storytime at the Downtown Sacramento Ice Rink, Jan. 9, 11 a.m.

Community Center Theater Broadway Sacramento Presents: Waitress, Through Jan. 5 Country Club Plaza Certified Farmers Market, Saturdays, 8 a.m. - 12 p.m.

Late Night Leftovers Open Mic, Saturdays, 11 p.m.

Invasive Invaders, Jan. 6, 1:30 p.m. Hawk Talk, Jan. 13, 1:30 p.m.

Cage Match and Improv Jam, Thursdays, 8 - 10 p.m.

STAB! Podcast Panel Show, Fridays, 10 p.m.

Effie Yeaw Nature Center River Romp, Jan. 5, 10:30 a.m.

Pamela Trokanski Performing Arts Theatre Acme Theatre Company’s A Radio Show Murder Mystery: Lead Rings on the Merry-Go-Round, Jan. 6 - 20

B Street Theatre at The Sofia Tsakopoulos Center for the Arts House on Haunted Hill – The Comedy, Jan. 8 - Feb. 17

Shen Yun 2019 World Tour, Jan. 9 - 12

STAB! Comedy Theater Comedy Open Mic, Thursdays, 9 p.m.

Denio’s Farmers Market & Swap Meet Exotic Auto Experiences Presents: Autocross, Jan. 12 13, 8 a.m.

Mills Station Arts and Cultural Center Bricking Bad: Art Made from the Iconic Brick, Through Jan. 12

Sacramento Central YMCA Sacramento Kings Basketball Clinic, Jan. 12, 10 a.m.

Improv Taste Test and Harold Night, Wednesdays, 7 - 10 p.m.

Anti-Cooperation League, Saturdays, 9 p.m.

Crooked Lane Brewing Co. Trivia Night, Wednesdays, 6 p.m.

Crown of Antlers, Jan. 12, 10:30 a.m.

Harris Center for the Arts Robert Dubac’s The Book of Moron, Jan. 4, 8 p.m. Highwater The Trivia Factory, Mondays, 7 p.m. Historic Old Folsom Farmers Market, Saturdays, 8 a.m. - 1 p.m.

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

Crocker Art Museum Film Series: Norma Rae, Jan. 3, 6:30 p.m.

Kennedy Gallery Art Center Let It Snow Art Exhibition, Through Jan. 7

Sunrise Light Rail Station Certified Farmers Market, Saturdays, 8 a.m. - 12 p.m.

Duane Michals: The Portraitist, Through Jan. 6

Kupros Craft House Triviology, Sundays, 7:30 p.m.

ArtMix: GLOW feat. Obsidian Butterfly Fire Dance, Lorelei Bayne Project, DJ Pocket and More, Jan. 10, 6 p.m.

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

Two Rivers Cider Co. Cribbage Night, Tuesdays, 7 p.m. Trivia Night, Wednesdays, 7 p.m.

McKinley Library Tween Comics Club, Jan. 4, 3:30 p.m.

Jozalyn Sharp, Jan. 5, 7 p.m.

American Beauty and Bounty: The Judith G. and Steaven K. Jones Collection of NineteenthCentury Painting, Through Jan. 27

Various Downtown Sacramento Restaurants Dine Downtown Restaurant Week, Jan. 11 - 21 Yolo Brewing Co. Trivia Night, Tuesdays, 6 p.m.

Sommore, Jan. 11 - 13, Fri., 7:30 & 10:15 p.m.; Sat., 7 & 9:45 p.m.; Sun., 6 p.m.

Raymond Dabb Yelland: California Landscape Painter, Through Jan. 27

Midtown BarFly Salsa Lessons, Wednesdays, 8 p.m. Midtown Moxies Burlesque: Cover Girls!, Jan. 5, 7 p.m.

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During my frequent Instagram scrolls (which can last for a mere minute or so, or stretch nearly a half-hour) this past week, I’ve noticed a lot of people posting their adieus to 2018, which certainly was an eventful year. This was both a pro and con: As someone who regularly has to write about what’s going on, it was at least never difficult to find a topic; as a citizen of the planet Earth, there were more than a few times when I wanted to ask the conductor to stop this thing, because I wanted to get off. But hey, we’re all still here, right? That’s got to count for something. Most of the posts I’ve been seeing in relation to the turning of the calendars have

revert to the generally pleasant person I enjoy being (like, seriously, I’m a fucking delight). But it’s also a bad thing, because it takes me back to all the times I did act like a jerk but was too much of a jerk to realize it at the time, and I can’t really go back in time and tell myself, “Bro, snap out of it. Be mindful.” But who knows, maybe if I keep meditating, I’ll transcend my narrow concept of space-time and be able to give my past selves a good talking to. I’ll certainly want to talk to teenage me about his choice of haircut. I’ve also noticed how much I cringe when people throw around the word “journey.” (Now, here’s when I’m going to be a cantankerous

been brief (because, really, how can you fully encapsulate 365 days in a single Instagram post?) accounts of the personal journey the poster embarked upon in 2018—expressions of gratitude for those who have stuck by them as they’ve … er … journeyed. I’m sure, since the permeation of social media into just about every aspect of our lives, this sort of thing now happens every year. The positive hashtagging. The prayer hands emojis. This is the first time I’ve ever noticed so many of them. Maybe it’s because I’ve been on a bit of a journey myself this year. Don’t worry. I won’t spare you the details. I’m sure you’ve got enough going on. You’ve got your own things to be thankful for. I’m not going to pile any of my gratitude onto your full plate and sit here and watch as you shovel every last forkful into your mouth. We’ve packed on enough calories this holiday season as it is. But I have been working a lot on my mental and physical health this year. I’ve been regularly practicing meditation and yoga, and, from my novice understanding of the practices, it would seem that noticing things is part and parcel. If there’s one thing that I’ve noticed about 2018 it’s how much I’ve started noticing things. I’ve also noticed that, in the past, how much I hadn’t noticed things. Some times, not noticing turns out to be the better way to go. Ignorance is bliss, and all that. Like, in the past, sometimes I’d be a cantankerous prick when I was in a bad mood, but it was cool because I didn’t really notice. Now I do notice when I’m being a cantankerous prick, and that’s a good thing because I take a breath, slow my roll and

prick, but it’s cool because I’m noticing it.) It’s like a few years ago when people were overusing “epic” to describe everything from their trip to Iceland (which is almost worthy of the term) to the cheeseburger they had for lunch (I love burgers, but … OK, cheeseburgers are pretty epic). I get that you’re proud of all the personal growth you’ve done this past year. It’s cool that you ditched your usual morning ritual of black coffee and bacon-eggand-cheese for the healthier green tea and avocado toast option; or that you’ve decided to stop smoking blunts and switched to vaping instead. Great, but is that really a journey? I’m as quick to puff up my own importance in the grand scheme of things as the next person (case in point, I write a column), but can we all agree that in 2019 that, unless we’re trekking to Mordor to dispose of an evil ring, or spending a month in the Amazon tripping balls on ayahuasca and going on a vision quest with shamans, that we’re going to ease up on this whole journey thing? Let’s put it in perspective: As the clock strikes midnight on Jan. 1, 2019, Earth will have completed another full trip around the Sun, as it has done some 4.5 billion times before. It’s just doing its thing, orbiting and rotating and narrowly dodging asteroids (you can find a full list of times we were faced with cosmic peril on Wikipedia … humbling), floating in the Great Big Nothing for some reason or another that none of us have ever been able to decipher. We’re all just along for the ride. Which I guess is a journey in and of itself. I guess I just rebutted my own argument. Take that, you cranky prick!

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