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Local leaders eager to combat institutional racism BY N ATA S H A VO N K A E N E L

n Friday, Jan. 15, over 100 government workers from around Northern California met in Oakland to discuss new ways to combat institutional racism. The meeting was put on by the Government Alliance on Race and Equity (GARE), a national network of government committed to evaluating practices and programs to ensure that all people, regardless of race or socioeconomic status, are treated equally. Combating institutional racism can seem like an impossible goal, where inequities hide behind bureaucratic language and tradition. But GARE’s toolkit helps public employees see, for example, that small things like missed garbage pickups, inequitable distribution of community funds, or light bulbs not being changed frequently enough, all contribute to a larger problem of poor community health. Francine Tournour, Director of the City of Sacramento’s Office of Public Safety & Accountability, says that despite the challenges, the room was fi red up, fi lled with an energy she says only comes around “every now and then.”

“People think that just because it’s not like it used to be, there aren’t issues. But in fact there are,” Tournour says.

“I DON’T SEE HOW ANY GOVERNMENT AGENCY WOULDN’T GET INVOLVED IN SOMETHING LIKE THIS.” Francine Tournour, Director of the Office of Public Safety & Accountability

Identifying and challenging inequities that come about through institutional practices is the focus of GARE’s Racial Equity toolkit. Funded in part by The California Endowment’s Building Healthy Communities initiative, GARE works with agencies to improve city and county services by including race and socioeconomic data when analyzing the success of government programs. By inserting this information into the agencies’ analysis, cities have found that it becomes easier for government workers to identify the complex problems of institutional racism.

Susan McKee, Chief of Staff for County Supervisor Patrick Kennedy, left the meeting with hope that the toolkit would give all government workers a voice in ﬁ xing this systemic problem. “Giving the people who actually work in government the power to talk about changes that need to be made … I think that’s really important,” she says.

Sacramento government workers, including Francine Tournour with the city’s Office of Public Safety & Accountability, were among those who were part of a Government Alliance on Race and Equity cohort in Oakland on Jan. 15. Photo by Kate Holtzen

Tournour agrees and hopes that the GARE toolkit will help the city tackle problems that have plagued Sacramento for years. “Immediately, homelessness comes to mind,” she says. “GARE gives you studies that have taken place nationally, so we are not in a silo.”

In 2010, The California Endowment launched a 10-year, $1 billion plan to improve the health of 14 challenged communities across the state. Over the 10 years, residents, community-based organizations and public institutions will work together to address the socioeconomic and environmental challenges contributing to the poor health of their communities.

Symptoms of institutional racism can be big and ugly, like police brutality or unfair prison sentencing, but they can also be small, and easy to miss or dismiss. “I don’t see how any government agency wouldn’t get involved in something like this,” Tournour says. “And see how they can make themselves better accessible to a community who may not even know how to access some of their services.”

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This is the anniversary of my sister’s murder. Her husband, who worked in a gun shop and had 42 weapons in his home, shot her. He didn’t have any kind of mental illness, was an honest citizen, had only been arrested once as a minor. I don’t know if stricter laws could have [helped]. … Maybe if he did not have so many guns.

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Yes. I think so. Police and hunters can have guns. … I don’t think it should be so open like in Texas, where you can go to a local park and people have their guns showing. … We can almost always resolve any conflict without a gun. People disagree, so fight it out, fist to fist, get it out of your system.

It is hard to say if making the laws tougher will fix anything because guns are so easy to come by, at least this is my impression. I don’t know if a background can check can be manipulated. … Guns are everywhere. It is such a sticky situation that has been going on for so long.

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Yes I do. We do need stricter gun control because all of these people could get guns at any time and kill people. You cannot just pick up a gun and feel that is OK to kill. We are teaching our younger children that it is OK. … I would make sure that gun purchasers would have extensive background checks.

sar ah Jane Johnson-Ford community activist

I do think we need stricter laws. We need to have a background check before people can buy bullets. It makes sure the right person is getting the ammunition for the right reason, not just having any idiotic person who just bought an illegal gun and now he is getting bullets.

Yes. … My brother was killed by his foster son by a gun with bullets he stole from a major store. He got a gun and I don’t know where. He ambushed my brother. This was in Alaska and a lot of people hunt there. He is a juvenile. I have worked with juveniles and they will follow anything if they think it’s cool.

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Price of city policy Re “Anonymous no more” by Nick Miller (SN&R News, January 14): How much has been spent on enforcing you-don’t-havethe-right-to-live laws against the homeless, plus costs for task forces and visits to smarter cities instead of just calling them on the phone? How much safe ground could have been bought, instead? How much economical shelter could we have bought instead? More than we think. Muriel Strand Sacramento

Ignorant letter Re “Dear RAHEEM” by Rusty Bongard (SN&R Letters, January 21): This ignorant, xenophobic, racist diatribe is what is wrong with the country, not people who have names that you can’t pronounce. The freedoms we enjoy today haven’t changed. You’re just upset of the fact that the president is black, so you’ve created some delusional, Orwellian fantasy in

your head that you’ve ruminated on for so long that you’ve actually come to believe it. Are you really going to make the connection between SN&R writer Raheem F. Hosseini’s name and “terrorists”? That’s still a thing? Get over yourself and your pseudopatriotism, Rusty. No one cares that you’re upset at the presence of brown people with “funny-sounding names.” Hamid Anthony Shahosaini Sacramento

ON THE FLARE-UP BETWEEN HOMELESSNESS PROTESTORS AND A COUNCIL MEMBER THAT LED TO THE SHUTDOWN OF A RECENT CITY COUNCIL MEETING: I watched the meeting and thought that the City Council was more afraid that the speakers were going to call them out—after all, they haven’t done much on homeless issues since the last Safe Ground discussion several years ago.

ALISON BRENNAN Homeless issues have had almost no funding/ support while the arena drains the city $$$ for amusement of the wealthy and/or connected few ......where is the morality in this?

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ON THE FBI FAT SHAMING AN ELK GROVE ROBBERY SUSPECT VIA THE NICKNAME “HEFTY HEISTER”: so i myself am a “big boned” gentleman.. and i found this HILARIOUS! the Hefty Heister is not only a rather weak description, but is barely fat shaming.. Its a double fail.. But Its still highly amusing.. Fat shame him all you want, hes a damn bank robber [tongue emoticon] As a side note, If you are overweight, and are touchy about it, get off your ass and exercise.. Im overweight, and I could care less, cause I like oreos and ice cream.. But im not gonna get all mad at Kohls for not having pants in my size.. Im certainly not going to get upset at the FBI for smack talking some portly peccant.

STEVEN BACK Right, clapping is only allowed when the Council shares your political position. Also, they give more speaking time if they like you. Yup.

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New Midtown Neighborhood Association President Angela Tillotson chats with member Ed Donaghy. PHOTO BY LISA BAETZ

The neighborhood force awakens Will new Midtown resident group go NIMBY or impact positive change? by Graham Womack

It began last year, with homeless people congregating after hours on the steps of a methadone clinic, making noise and leaving a mess. Angela Tillotson lives in and manages the Midtown apartment complex next door, near 21st Street and Capitol Avenue. The Caltrans employee by day started chatting with her co-workers and neighbors about her problem. Soon enough, talk turned of forming a neighborhood watch. 6 | SN&R | 01.28.16 Learn more about the Midtown Neighborhood Association at www.midtownsac.org.

Over a few months, Tillotson says she worked with police and city officials to resolve the issue outside the clinic. But something else happened along the way, too: She and her friends relaunched the Midtown Neighborhood Association, which had been dormant for a year. It’s no secret that neighborhood associations sometimes get a bad rap. Local government and business leaders often

complain about these groups, painting them as NIMBYs who whine and push self-serving agendas. Can the new MNA, one of the potentially most powerful neighborhood groups out of approximately 122 in the city (according to its website), break the mold, keep together and make a difference in Sacramento? And, for that matter, what should be the role of the neighborhood associations some three

decades after a small movement of them formed in the late ’80s? Despite the positive change by groups and associations, there remain critics. “I think they’re parochial,” said Sandy Smoley, who dealt frequently with neighborhood groups during her 20 years on the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors. “I think they’re defensive about their area that they live in, and they don’t think of the good of the city or the good of the county. They’re just interested in what their needs are.” But neighborhood associations also offer the potential for collective action and change, which someone like Tillotson could never tackle alone. They can unify and strengthen a neighborhood. They can also birth future city leaders; mayoral candidates Darrell Steinberg and Angelique Ashby each got their political starts in neighborhood associations. “One of the reasons I’m running for mayor is I want to elevate the neighborhood movement again in Sacramento,” said Steinberg, who founded the Tahoe Park Neighborhood Association before

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at meetings, Piner also explained, can be The NAG, Jacques explained, was pretty dry to an outsider. partly a venue for developers to present Take the recent meeting, which stretched ideas to residents. It stopped meeting after for two hours and included animated discus- the economic slowdown of the late 2000s, sion with Councilman Steve Hansen about around the time the city was making cuts to water rates. To a hardcore neighborhood Neighborhood Services. With the economy association member, these discussions could doing better, though, there’s more developlast for hours were no time limit in place. ment in the central city and a call once Hot button issues for Midtown residents again to have a citizen’s group watching include parking, the Sacramento Police over that growth. Department’s controversial bait bike Steinberg’s glad to see the Alliance program to catch thieves and safety at the reforming. He also would like to do more 19th Street Safeway. for Neighborhood Services if elected mayor. Obsessive fixation on relatively minor “Neighborhood Services is of course issues in the big scheme of things about safety and it’s about neighis perhaps the best and borhood preservation, but worst trait of neighborit’s also about bringing hood groups. Local back youth programs,” “I think they’re residents will Steinberg said. always have “It’s also about defensive about their area advocates for city parks and that they live in, and they don’t their issues, recreation. We think of the good of the city or no matter dramatically how small. “I increased park the good of the county. represented acreage in this They’re just interested in what a very intelcity. We haven’t their needs are.” ligent district,” kept up on Smoley said. maintenance.” former Sacramento County “They knew how There will Supervisor Sandy Smoley to lobby, and they always be another did it well, and they cause for residents were relentless.” to come together to Local politicians know fight, though that’s kind of to play nice with these groups. MNA’s legacy. Hansen, who attends many of these types of Jacques said the old MNA came about meetings, said he was pleased to see MNA organically through the late ’80s fight relaunch. “The energy in this room makes against turning the R Street Corridor into a great neighborhood,” Hansen told the a phalanx of high-rise office buildings. In meeting. squabbling with developers, Jacques said There’s a certain amount of altrulocal residents found that if enough of them ism among the different neighborhood came together, “we could win.” and business groups on the grid. Emily Much work remains for Tillotson and Baime, director of the Midtown Business her team. Nearly every seat was taken Association, let Tillotson hold MNA’s first during the recent meeting, and Tillotson will public meeting at her offices. Baime, like probably soon need a larger venue. She said Tillotson, believes in different interests Hansen and his staff have offered to help working together. “We all have the same her find one. In general, Hansen’s office has goal,” Baime said. “We’re trying to build been very involved with MNA so far, sendthe same incredible space in Midtown.” ing a representative to one of the informal Sean Manwaring of the Newton Booth neighborhood meetings Tillotson held in the Neighborhood Association, which covers fall at Kupros Craft House. the southeast corner of the central city, put Tillotson’s also enrolled in a city Tillotson in contact with Jacques while she management academy to learn how to was in the process of relaunching MNA. better navigate the city. She doesn’t appear Manwaring gave a report at the MNA to have broader political aspirations at this public meeting on January 13 for another point, though Ashby laughed knowingly newly reformed group, the Alliance of when asked if Tillotson reminds her of Central City Neighborhoods. herself 10 years ago. Tillotson’s been a Jacques said the Alliance is more regular at city council meetings lately, and or less a reboot of the Neighborhood she and Ashby sometimes stick around to Advisory Group. The NAG’s predecessor talk after. The topic’s come up. from the ’90s is the old Central City “Her heart’s in the right place,” Ashby Alliance of Neighborhoods which was said. “She’s trying really hard. She’s going folded into the city’s Neighborhood to be a difference maker for that community Services Department. and for the city.” Ω

It’s real trouble for a fake journalist. A Houston grand jury tasked with investigating a Planned Parenthood affiliate instead indicted the group that was throwing accusations. As the Associated Press reported on Monday: “David Daleiden, founder of the Center for Medical Progress, was indicted on a felony charge of tampering with a governmental record and a misdemeanor count related to purchasing human organs. Another activist, Sandra Merritt, was also indicted on a charge of tampering with a governmental record.” As co-founder of the anti-abortion CMP, the Davis-raised Daleiden infiltrated reproductive health clinics and conferences over a three-year period by posing as a tissue procurement middleman and secretly recording conversations. Daleiden and his accomplices, which included fellow activists and hired actors, wanted to show that Planned Parenthood illegally profited by selling aborted fetal tissue to biomedical research facilities. Despite some creative video editing, they failed. But the footage, released on CMP’s website, did prompt Republican-led congressional inquiries, state-by-state attempts to defund Planned Parenthood and increased hostility toward abortion providers and their allies, including death threats targeting a Placerville biomedical company’s CEO. Daleiden and his allies framed the group’s use of false identities and video espionage as the work of investigative journalists. But the Houston grand jury—as well as two federal lawsuits here in California—characterized the work as fraud. In July of last year, attorney general Kamala harris launched an investigation into CMP to determine whether it violated any registration and reporting requirements for charitable organizations. A spokeswoman wouldn’t comment on the status of the investigation. (Raheem F. Hosseini)

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And if they are allowed to continue, that means they think it’s OK.” The council member, who also ran the previous week’s meeting because the mayor was out of town, said there were also similar problems that night, too. He explained that adjourning was “the safest way in order to send a statement” to the protesters about how to behave. Otherwise, he said, he’d have to ask police to escort people out of the A protester yells after last chambers and to possibly cite them. week’s council meeting adjourned early because of Activists disagree with Jennings. what leaders described as a They said after the meeting that all “disruptive” audience. they wanted to do was applaud after each speaker. “There have been way more disruptive meetings in the The highlight of last week’s city council meeting past, especially over the Kings arena, and they was supposed to be a long-awaited and highdidn’t shut down the meeting,” protest organizer profile discussion of homelessness issues. Instead, James “Faygo” Clark told SN&R. “Tonight, they it exploded into a debate between protesters and a shut down the meeting over people applauding. council member—and was abruptly canceled. Applauding. That’s what people do when they like The night began quietly, with four speakers what they’re hearing.” taking their two minutes to criticize the city’s Clark argued that council shut down the meethomelessness policies. But when members of the ing because the city wants to silence the public. audience began shouting at council members and Jennings said he’s “going to do the same thing” complaining about not being allowed to at future meetings if there continue to be applaud after speakers, Councilman disruptions. “I’m hopeful that people Rick Jennings—who ran the will now start taking me seriously, meeting because Mayor Kevin that I will adjourn a meeting Councilman Johnson was absent—pounded even if it means I can’t hear Rick Jennings his gavel and abruptly the voice of the constituents,” adjourned. said he’s “going to he said. The councilman’s After council left for the do the same thing” at move prompted the few night, protesters remained future meetings if dozen protesters inside the in the chambers, chanting chambers to jump from their there continue to be “Recall Jennings” and seats. They began yelling and speaking out against the city’s disruptions. cursing at the council members homelessness policies. They as they packed up their belongings later moved to City Hall’s lobby and exited through a back door. Police before police cleared everyone out just formed a line between protesters and the before 9 p.m. council dais. The homeless protesters continue their occupaJennings spoke to SN&R via phone after the tion of City Hall grounds as of this past Tuesday, night’s unexpected end. “I tried to do everything I the 51st day of protest. They’ve set up tables and could to maintain control of the meeting,” he said. slept out front of City Hall since December 8 and “When things start to get out of control and are asking council members to repeal laws that individuals start to dominate the meeting—when they say criminalize homeless people. Police have they want to insult you … when they want to curse made at least two-dozen arrests and detentions at you—to me, those are inappropriate behaviors. since the occupation began, as of Tuesday. Ω

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tips stolen by Simon Chan and protested Not everyone wants to save Simon’s Bar when Simon Chan requested that she ‘pad’ & Cafe, the venerable Midtown dive that customer bills if he felt the bills were not could eventually be swallowed up by an high enough.” encroaching development of luxury lofts. The plaintiffs initially submitted Three former employees have sued complaints to the California Department the 16th Street mainstay and its renowned of Fair Employment & Housing. But that proprietor, Simon Chan, in an unfair busiappeared to be a formality on the path to ness practices lawsuit that’s potentially litigation, as Ludlow, Ho and Davis all headed for a summer trial, says plaintiffs’ received letters from the state on July 8, attorney Gaurav Bobby Kalra. 2014, notifying them their complaints were Kalra filed the suit on July 9, 2014, in closed “because an immediate Right to Sue Sacramento Superior Court. The 14-page notice was requested.” complaint alleges that Chan made servers Singh says courts often require employpay for customer credit card fees out of their ees to seek remedies through the state’s labor own pockets, garnished their tips to pay commission before filing suit, even if they undocumented workers under the table, and don’t see the process all the way through. fired or “constructively discharged” the three He believed the fact that all three plaintiffs plaintiffs after they protested. received their “Right to Sue” letters on the Attorney Shane Singh is representing Simon’s and its owner, and says those claims same date indicates they planned to take his client to court. are untrue. “We disagree with these allegaThe plaintiffs are seeking an unspecified tions,” he told SN&R. amount in restitution and compenTwo of the plaintiffs had worked satory damages, as well as at the restaurant for more than “A reimbursement of attorney a dozen years when they say fees. Singh revealed there they were forced out in lot of weird have been “some very December 2013. Heather things preliminary settlement Ludlow was a server for going on.” discussions,” but wouldn’t more than 15 years, while disclose figures. He says Betty Ho worked as one for Gaurav Bobby Kalra his client has engaged in the more than 12 years, until she plaintiffs’ attorney talks out of a desire to save says she complained about money, not guilt. not getting fully compensated While Chan owns the restaufor her hours, having to pay rant—and incorporated it in March 2013, customers’ credit card fees and pool tips. according to the complaint—the building in Referring to late 2013, the complaint which it operates is owned by the state and states: “Within the past several months, managed by the Capitol Area Development defendant Simon Chan became increasingly Authority. As first reported by The aggressive with staff indicating that they Sacramento Bee, CADA wants to eventually need to accept paying for business expenses, develop the site into apartments. But that like credit card fees, and if they didn’t like it hinges on the toxicity of the land beneath they were free to get the [expletive] out.” Simon’s, and determining that could take Reached by phone, attorney Kalra years. News of Simon’s possible fate drew declined to comment on the ongoing legal an immediate outpouring of local support, matter, save for a quick recap of his clients’ allegations: “A lot of weird things going on,” including a “Save Simon’s” Facebook page with more than 1,500 followers. he said. As for the lawsuit, a mandatory The third plaintiff, Mary Elizabeth Davis, settlement conference is scheduled for worked as a server between October 2011 March. Singh expressed skepticism that and April 2013. The complaint says she was the matter would ever see trial, saying “terminated after complaining she was not judges often encourage the sides to find being paid for all hours worked, was having their own resolution. Ω

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Darrell Steinberg darts across a quiet Tahoe Park street

toward a woman standing in her doorway. “You’ve got my vote, Darrell, I just wanted to say hi,” she yells from her porch. “Can I get a lawn sign, too?” he asks, deferentially, like a kid wanting a cookie. She obliges. “Count it!” he shouts to his canvassing sidekick, a law student from his alma mater, UC Davis. It’s an overcast weekend morning in January before noon—and some six months until Sacramento’s primary election. Yet here’s Steinberg, the antithesis of Jeb Bush energy, already hustling for votes. A man in his late 40s thanks Steinberg for stopping by, for his time. “I know you’re famous,” the man says.

“I don’t know about that,” Steinberg replies. “I call it minicelebrity—with an emphasis on mini.” Clearly Steinberg isn’t taking the mayor’s race for granted. When he’s not banging on doors each weekend, he’s meeting neighbors at coffeehouses or holding court at the farmers market. He seems to genuinely want to lead Sacramento. And experts say the mayor gig is Steinberg’s for the taking.

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“It’s his to lose,” said local political strategist Steven Maviglio, who guided Mayor Kevin Johnson’s 2008 campaign. “He’s got money, he’s got message and he’s got name ID. Those are the three ingredients to success.” He said the 56-year-old former state Senate leader is known around town as Mr. Nice Guy. “Darrell Steinberg doesn’t make enemies. That’s the key to his strength.” But what’s that saying about nice guys finishing last? Local consultant Matt Rexroad attended the recent debate between Councilwoman Angelique Ashby and Steinberg earlier this month at the Crocker Art Museum. Afterward, Rexroad said he’s “not convinced that the average voter would have said [Steinberg] was the frontrunner.” He described Ashby as folksy and real, and says in contrast Steinberg came across as political royalty. Esteem, money, vision—is Steinberg simply too qualified to be top boss of weak-mayor Sacramento?

The politician Steinberg sits at a high table in the back of an East Sacramento coffeehouse. It's a few days before Christmas, a suit-but-not-tie day, and he's sipping a cappuccino. He refers to his accomplishment at the Capitol affectionately, like one might about one’s children—his “work,” as he calls bills passed and initiatives

championed. It’s true that his was not the quotidian, boilerplate, here-you-go-constituents legislation. Frankly, many were landmark. His tenure at the state included four years as president pro tem of the Senate. In the majority party, that makes someone arguably the second-most-powerful politician in the state. After nearly 25 years in public office, including a stint on city council in the 1990s, Steinberg’s accomplishments and respectability are unequaled for a homegrown pol. The Wall Street Journal even christened him one of the 13 leaders to watch in the entire country a few years ago. So it’s difficult to see Steinberg, what with his Cal Ripken likeability and elite Rolodex, wanting to spend Tuesday nights at City Hall, perched behind the dais, banging a gavel, listening to Mac Worthy. Is mayor really his preferred career move? And about being too qualified for the job … “It’s funny. My wife and I watched a couple council meetings, and she’s asked me the same question,” Steinberg said. He doesn’t think people intend to be negative with the question—and they’ve definitely have asked it, a lot, since he jumped into the race in October. “But I think it’s a diss on Sacramento. Because what it says is that Sacramento is not big enough for me, because of my experience, and what I did at the state level. And that’s not true. I don’t buy it. “This is a great city.” Steinberg isn’t Schwarzenegger, or even K.J.-level famous. But he’s become a name in this city since he arrived in 1989. Tahoe Park was actually where he purchased his first home, near Eighth Avenue and 64th Street. Two years later, he founded the community’s first neighborhood group. And, in 1992, he was elected to City Council for the district, which he represented for six years. Steinberg remembers a different mindset in Sacramento some 25 years ago. He recalled a meeting with developers just after he was elected to council. They showed him renderings of shopping centers and housing complexes, but the question in the room wasn’t how to kickstart a thriving downtown. “The debate was whether or not there could be a housing market downtown,” he said. “We’ve come a long way.” During his years under the Capitol dome, his foremost accomplishment was Proposition 63, or the Mental Health Services Act, which he co-authored as an Assembly member. That law taxes millionaires, the state’s wealthiest 0.1 percent, and the revenue is spent on mental-health programs. Voters approved it in

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November 2004, and today it generates nearly $2 billion each year. It will likely be Steinberg’s legacy. “Mental health is the unattended issue of our time” is a kind of mantra. His other flagship achievement was Senate Bill 375, which passed in 2008 and that “changed the planning paradigm,” as he says, when it comes to suburban sprawl. SB 375 empowers the state to set emissions-reduction goals and incentivizes cities and counties to build housing and developments in the urban core or along transit corridors, with the goal of reducing vehicle-miles traveled. He’s also passed significant legislation in the areas of education, foster care, gun control, worker safety and the environment. Steinberg described his work as “eclectic,” which he says “used to frustrate [the governor’s office], because they thought that I had too many priorities.” It made it difficult to

cut a deal with him during negotiations, he said. He says his most significant moment was the state’s darkest hour: February 2009, California’s $42 billion deficit. He remembers marathon meetings in Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s office—they jokingly called it Gitmo. Republicans wanted to raise taxes. If not, there would be bone-deep cuts to social services. “Each of us four leaders stormed out at least once. There were a lot of F-bombs,” Steinberg said. The GOP leader at the time, Assemblyman Mike Villines, did not get along with Steinberg. “We were both competitive … like oil and water,” he said. But he helped to forge a budget deal, avoiding the fiscal cliff, and the two became close. Pretty much everyone this writer spoke with for this story said that Steinberg doesn’t have enemies. But that doesn’t mean his working relationships were always Regis and Kathie

Lee. By many accounts, his rapport with the Assembly, under Speaker John Perez, was often contentious. But Perez doesn’t describe it that way. “We had momentary disagreements,” the speaker emeritus told SN&R last week. “But we always figured out a way.” He described Steinberg as thorough, thoughtful, engaged, always prepared and very focused—with his biggest strength being his analytic approach. Does Mr. Nice Guy have any flaws? “He doesn’t have a sense of style, at all,” Perez joked. “We tried to step up his style game. But all things considered, that’s not a huge deficiency for the mayor of Sacramento.” Last year, Steinberg said he sought the advice on his future from Gov. Jerry Brown. “When I talked to him about my political choices, he said to me, ‘You oughta want to be a big city mayor. It’s a great job.’” Brown, of course, was mayor of Oakland before returning to statewide office and the governor’s mansion. And Steinberg speaks fondly of that career path, that third act. “I suppose, you

know, there are other political jobs that are great, too. But this city deserves great leadership. All the things that I’ve done, all the things that I’ve learned, to apply them to the city that I love, what could be better?”

The person A Camry pulls to the curb on 14th Avenue and out pops Steinberg, wearing a long coat and toting a coffee. Oh, and a small brown bag containing a hoagie roll and square of butter. This is breakfast. His power breakfast, which he snagged at The Nugget after an hour workout at the gym—elliptical plus weights, which he says he does seven days a week. Here he is, a high-powered attorney with offices at K and 12th streets, spending his Sunday morning eating bread and butter on the trunk of his car, readying to canvass his old neighborhood. In fact, he was out in this neighborhood the day before, too, knocking on doors with Councilman Eric Guerra.

“If he’s over at our house for dinner, that’s the same Darrell that you’re going to see behind the dais.” Rabbi Mona Alfi Steinberg gives the pitch to prospective volunteers on recent Saturday morning.

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very three minutes, a woman in the U.S. is diagnosed with breast cancer. Every 13 minutes, one of those women dies. The good news is that if caught early enough, the fiveyear survival rate is nearly 98 percent. Since 1982, the Susan G. Komen organization has been a champion for breast cancer patients. The nonprofit has raised $847 million for research and $1.8 billion for screening, education, outreach and support for patients and survivors around the world. Over the holiday season, Collective Giving combined the charitable efforts of several local medical marijuana dispensaries to raise money for Susan G. Komen Sacramento Valley, which provides access to breast health services throughout 19 Northern California counties, focusing

“We strongly believe in giving back to our community, giving back to research and promoting science and education.” Kimberly Cargile, Director of A Therapeutic Alternative on uninsured and underinsured women. Collective Giving is a charitable organization comprised of local medical marijuna collectives and businesses that come together twice a year to support local causes and to give back to their patients and patrons. “It’s important to help patients who need cannabis as medicine,” says Kelsi White, who founded Collective Giving in 2013. “I want to thank all of the dispensaries that participated in our fundraiser as well as Susan G. Komen organization for publicly partnering with us. It’s really exciting to work with a major well-known, well-branded organization in Sacramento because there is still a stigma around cannabis.” Medical cannabis has been used to help alleviate pain and nausea oftentimes associated with radiation and chemotherapy, giving cancer patients a better quality of life while undergoing treatments. Preliminary studies have also suggested that the chemicals found in cannabis may actually have anti-carcinogenic properties themselves. Unfortunately, its dubious legal status has deterred many civic and medical organizations, as well as patients, from benefiting from medical cannabis.

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“He’s still got that down-to-the-neighborhood feeling,” Guerra told SN&R of their time meeting with residents in Avondale and Tahoe Park. “He still has that connection from back when he was a neighborhood president.” Steinberg says he’ll personally knock on thousands of doors over the coming months. “Some people say, ‘I hope he doesn’t take this for granted.’ Some expect that I would rest on my laurels,” he said. “But I’ve got to run like I’m 10 points behind.” He says being out here, you get the pulse of the neighborhoods. You get to relearn the geography. He says it will make him a stronger mayor. (Not that kind of strong mayor.)

“I’m not convinced that the average voter would have said he was the frontrunner.” Matt Rexroad

local political consultant, on Steinberg debating Ashby at the Crocker Art Museum

“This could be the margin of victory in a close race,” he says while approaching the first door of the day. That’s pretty humble talk, especially considering that Ashby wants voters to believe that he’s out of touch with street-level Sacramento issues. That he’s a blast from the establishment past at a time when Sacramento needs to move forward. During a recent debate, when Ashby stated “or we can go backward,” she actually pointed at Steinberg. But his supporters are quick to shoot down her talking points. They say his true character, who he is when you peel away the politician, belies entitlement. “It’s pretty disingenuous to try and make him out to be PHOTOS BY NICK MILLER

a legislator from some ivory tower somewhere,” said County Supervisor Phil Serna. “He’s very steeped in the profession of policy-making, that’s part of who he is. But he doesn’t take himself too seriously.” Serna said that, if he had to pick just one character trait representative of Steinberg the person, not just the candidate, it’s humility. “Not to get to weepy about it, but I think it’s a pretty rare breed of politician that understands and embraces the need to continually humble yourself.” Yet still, who is Steinberg when the gears cease churning— if in fact they ever do? Does he let his guard down? “He does. With his close friends, and I’d like to think I’m one of them,” Serna said. “He really enjoys a good joke. But I will tell you, even if we’re doing something as simple as trying to get through nine holes at [William Land] Golf Course,” where they play on occasion, “it doesn’t take probably to the middle of the second hole to take the conversation back to the ‘what ifs’ of policy.” So, how’s his golf game? “His tennis game is great,” Serna quipped, then laughed. “That’s all I’m saying about that.” Apparently Steinberg’s golf skills are notorious. “Who says that Darrell knows how to golf?” former colleague Perez joked after an inquiry about his game. Sports were a crucial part of Steinberg’s upbringing. “I grew up in a middle class neighborhood in Millbrae, graduated high school the year before Prop. 13,” he remembered. “My childhood was rich, not financially rich, but rich in terms of community. There were sports, there was football, basketball, baseball.” The left-hander says he was too small by the time he got to high school, however, for anything but tennis. So, he became a championship player. And then he quit for 30 years, he says, but started playing again after he left the Senate. The point of his story, however, is that he’d like to see Sacramento reinvest in recreation programs for kids. “That was a

From top to bottom: Steinberg knocks on doors in Tahoe Park; speaks at a Legislature event with former colleagues; talks to Angelique Ashby after their debate alongside his wife, Julie; and readies to debate with Ashby.

public commitment to making sure that kids had what they needed, and a lot of that has frayed over the course of the last number of decades.” He says Sacramento has actually increased park acreage, but has not kept up with youth programming, so one of his top-three priorities as mayor will be to turn the tide. Steinberg says he likes to read while on the elliptical every morning. Lately, he’s into The Wrong War, about Afghanistan and Pakistan, and he just started a book about a Jewish teenager who shot a Nazi officer. And he’s reading the Robert Caro book on Robert Moses. He’s an iPhone guy. He and his wife, Julie, have a poodle. His kids are off at school. And, of course, he’s following the presidential race, but doesn’t subscribe to the idea that Democrats should want Donald Trump to win the nomination. (“It’s just too scary.”) So, who gets it? “I don’t know. I can’t predict it.” His wife works at Congregation B’nai Israel synagogue, as the cantor. “He cares about everybody,” her rabbi, Mona Alfi, says of Darrell. “My kids adore him because he talks to them like they are people, not just kids.” Alfi met Darrell and Julie years ago, before they had kids, when they first began attending her synagogue. She actually taught Sunday school with Darrell’s brother, who is a rabbi. Julie, as cantor, leads the congregation in singing and prayer. Can Darrell sing? “Oh no, oh God no. He enjoys singing, but he’s not somebody I would put a microphone in front of,” Alfi said. “He’d be better at stand-up than he would be at singing.” The Alfis and the Steinbergs are close. They do dinner together; Julie is a “wonderful cook,” she praised. “And if he’s over at our house for dinner, that’s the same Darrell that you’re going to see behind the dais,” she said. “He’s not pretentious. He’s who he appears to be. There’s no difference.

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“With Darrell, who you see is who you get.” What quality is memorable when Steinberg eases out of politician mode? “Humor,” Alfi shared. “He is a goofy, silly guy who loves humor. He and my husband will quote Woody Allen and Mel Brooks movies ad infinitum. “And nobody giggles harder at Darrell’s jokes than Darrell.”

The candidate Guests trickle into an auditorium inside the Crocker Art Museum. The occasion is the first mayoral debate of the year. Two candidates— Russell Rawlings and Tony “the Tiger” Lopez—weren't invited by the host, the Metro Chamber of Commerce. Ashby is backstage, but Steinberg is out in the seats, introducing himself to people and shaking hands. Mr. Nice Guy, indeed. Working a room is Steinberg’s wheelhouse. At a recent press conference inside a downtown affordable-housing complex, the room brimmed with some of California’s most influential lawmakers. But everyone wanted face time with the guy who no longer holds political office: Steinberg. He doled out high-fives and gave hugs. “Oh my God!” he exclaimed before embracing one woman. “Hey Darrell!” a man hollered across the room. The vibe that January evening felt like a family reunion, with mayoral candidate Steinberg as favorite son. But Steinberg came across as less in his element during the debate. And, as local consultant Rexroad said after, Ashby impressed. “She had some really good responses,” he said. “I think that he got more than he was ready for a couple times. His review should be ‘I shouldn’t tangle with her unless I need to.’” Rexroad also felt that Steinberg needed to be more mindful of Ashby’s credentials. “I felt several times Steinberg was up next to the line of becoming very arrogant and dismissing her.” Local strategist Maviglio also praised Ashby. “Let’s be honest, they’re both good candidates and have a lot of strengths,” he said. “But against Darrell Steinberg, Angelique just starts in a bad place. She has to introduce herself and go negative, and that’s a tough path.” He said that, save for an unexpected storm of voter apathy toward established, name-brand candidates, Steinberg should win it all in June. Steinberg’s No. 1 campaign issue is homelessness. Back at that press conference with the powerful legislators, he said that Sacramento’s homelessness problem is “worse than ever.” But what can he do as Sacramento mayor? It’s the county, not the city, that controls the purse strings to deal with homelessness issues.

“All the things that I’ve done, all the things that I’ve learned, to apply them to the city that I love, what could be better?” Darrell Steinberg “Doesn’t matter,” he said. “Homelessness is a city issue, it’s a regional issue and it’s a state issue. And the mayor of Sacramento must make this issue a priority.” His plan, which he and current state Senate Pro Tem Kevin De León announced at the event, is called the No Place Like Home initiative. The plan is for local governments to give 7 percent of Prop. 63 revenue back to the state. The state will bond against it and create a $2 billion capital fund for permanent supportive housing for homeless people. And Steinberg’s not talking about segregating low-income housing in one area. He envisions building developments with workforce, special needs, market rate and affordable housing all together, “so that you can’t tell one unit from the other.” “I think it would be the greatest single investment we have ever made to try to create a systemic solution to homelessness,” he said. It still has to pass the Legislature and earn the governor’s ink, let alone survive any legal challenges, but the plan also exemplifies what his “significant reach” would be as a mayor. Other mayoral priorities are myriad. He supports a $15 minimum wage, but also is serious about a high-wage employment base, which he says is critical for Sacramento if we want new housing and a sustainable tax base. Another goal will be to extinguish power struggles and drama at City Hall. “I don’t think it’s any secret, but I sense a significant dysfunction between the entities” at City Hall, he said. “And I’m not casting aspersion or blame. I’m not there. But if I’m fortunate enough to be elected, I’m not going to have it. Because it impedes progress.” Could be a challenge: Johnson and an ad hoc task force are working to hire a new city manager before the next mayor and council take office.

Or it could be easy. Councilman Guerra says that, with Steinberg’s experience uniting legislators as pro tem, working with council should be breezy. “And I also think it’s overblown, how much tension there is on the council,” he added. More big issues: Steinberg says the council will need to “revisit” the extension of Measure U’s sales tax. And he wants to “focus like a laser” on developing the waterfront. He calls the arena a good catalyst, “but it’s the beginning, not the end.” Recently, the candidate has increasingly discussed public transit. In December, he told SN&R that Regional Transit “has not nearly reached its potential.” But in January, at the debate, he gave transit a “needs dramatic improvement” grade and dinged light rail for being unsafe, dirty, inefficient and poorly operated. “It needs an infusion of energy, and it needs to see itself differently.” There is, of course, talk of Steinberg’s negatives. He boasts a significant fundraising lead, having raked in more than $1.4 million in an account to run for lieutenant governor. Most of this can be transferred to the mayoral race, even though many of these donations come from out-of-towners: Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, AT&T, Disney, Facebook, Time Warner, Verizon, Visa, Clorox, DirecTV, insurance companies, labor unions and so many more. Steinberg could raise more than any mayoral candidate in Sacramento history. Is all this money good for local politics? What do these donors expect in return from the mayor of little ol’ Sacramento? In the Senate, he passed a bill that was crucial to keeping the Kings in Sacramento: The law prevented environmental lawsuits from halting construction of the arena, a huge selling point to the

NBA owners. But critics dinged Steinberg for passing it in the 11th hour, a specialinterest gift that only benefited the Kings and its owners, something he’s done in the past for proposed NFL stadiums in Los Angeles, too. And some voters might remember 2006, when Steinberg sided with the Maloof brothers and backed their push for a tax to pay for a Kings arena in the railyards. Measures Q and R tanked at the ballot box. Steinberg also has deep ties to the developer community. He supported the arena and McKinley Village in East Sacramento, which Ashby voted against—and this might lose him votes in that neighborhood, as the “McVillage” remains unforgivably unpopular. Measure L, or strong mayor, wasn’t hot with voters, either. Steinberg endorsed it last year—and hasn’t ruled out pursuing the executive mayor model despite his predecessor’s shortcomings. “I believe in it. Essentially, it’s the same separation of powers that we see at the state level,” Steinberg said. “But the voters spoke. It’s not something that I’m going to seek to do, at least anytime soon.” Maviglio said he would “bet the farmhouse” that if Steinberg proposes a strongmayor initiative, it will pass. (The implication here is that the Measure L vote is about the person, not the policy.) And about K.J.: The two have been allies—again, the man apparently has no enemies. Both Ashby and Steinberg try to distance themselves from Johnson, but Maviglio pointed out how their policies align. “He’s been on same side as the mayor. Look at the key issues: arena, strong mayor, development. Steinberg and Johnson line up pretty evenly.” But Supervisor Serna insisted that Steinberg will be a vastly different leader than Johnson. For one, he’s looking forward to a mayor who will reach out to the county. “Boy, that would be something, that would be refreshing,” Serna said. He’s had great working relationships with council members. “I just haven’t had it with the current mayor.” He said Steinberg would represent “a new day” for how the city and county collaborate. “I’m not a borders or boundaries guy,” Steinberg said. “I’m at the state in my life where the petty does not matter to me. So I’m very excited, actually, about being a regional mayor.” But his pitch this spring will be to the city. “Sacramento deserves great leadership. It deserves it. It’s a city that is already—I hate to say it’s on the cusp, because that’s become a cliché. It’s already achieving great things. “And it deserves its next mayor to be somebody who has that reach, who has that experience. And who has that record of always delivering to lead it to its next chapter.” Ω

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Hall of fame 2016

SN&R’s 2016 Sacramento Area Music Award nominees list is live! It’s back: The only race that matters in 2016. Feel the Bern? Dump Trump? Who cares, it’s time to vote for your favorite local artists. We kid—in fact, we beg you to take the current election season very seriously—but there’s room for fun, too. And what’s more fun than honoring some of the most outstanding musical acts that the Sacramento region has to offer? In December SN&R put out a call for readers and local music experts to nominate their favorites across myriad categories. In return we received countless votes and invaluable insight into what makes this town’s scene so damn good. There’s inventive electronica and experimental music, heart-shredding metal and hardcore, provocative hip-hop and everything else one can imagine occupying space on the sound spectrum. And so here are the 2016 SAMMIES nominees. Check out the artists, listen to their music and catch them live. Oh, and stay tuned for news on some upcoming Sammies showcases. Voting is open now and ends March 7. The awards ceremony, which will feature a packed bill of local acts, will happen Thursday, March 24, at Ace of Spades (1417 R Street) for $10. In the meantime, visit www.sammies.com to pick your favorites for everything but the Hall of Fame category—that’s an award saved for acts who’ve already nabbed three Sammie wins. C’mon, it’s time to get out the vote.

—Rachel Leibrock

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Dog Party Ira Skinner James Cavern The Nickel Slots White Minorities

artist of tHe Year

Cam: www.facebook.com/camofgenx Chrch: www.facebook.com/chrchdoomca Element Brass Band: www.facebook.com/elementbrassband Graveshadow: www.graveshadow.com J-Kraken: www.facebook.com/jkrakenmusic Joseph in the Well: www.josephinthewell.com Some Fear None: www.somefearnone.com Zyah Belle: www.zyahbelle.com

americana / alt-countrY

50 Watt Heavy: https: //50wattheavy.bandcamp.com Chris Gardner Band: www.chrisgardnerband.com Delta City Ramblers: www.deltacityramblers.com F Street Stompers: www.facebook.com/FstStompers The Golden Cadillacs: www.thegoldencadillacs.com MerryGold: www.facebook.com/merrygoldband Million Dollar Giveaway: www.facebook.com/mdgcountry One Button Suit: http: //onebuttonsuit.com Saint Ashbury: www.facebook.com/saintashbury The West Nile Ramblers: www.thewestnileramblers.com

Blues

The Christian DeWild Band: www.christiandewildband.com The Hucklebucks: www.thehucklebucks.com Kyle Rowland Blues Band: www.facebook.com/the.kyle.rowland.band Matt Rainey and the Dippin’ Sauce: www.facebook.com/ Matt-Rainey-and-the-Dippin-Sauce-418891455537 Michael Ray: www.facebook.com/michaelray916 The Ranell Carpenter Band: www.ranellcarpenter.com Stillwood Sages: www.stillwoodsages.com Two Tone Steiny & the Cadillacs: www.twotonesteiny.com

cover Band

Apple Z: http: //applezband.com Cover Me Badd: www.covermebadd.net Groove Thang: www.groovethangband.com Hip Service: www.hipservice.com

The Lucky Seven: www.facebook.com/TheLuckySevenBand Thunder Cover: http: //thundercovermusic.com Tragically White: www.facebook.com/tragicallywhiteband

deejaY

Cue22: www.facebook.com/cue22music DJ Billy Lane: www.facebook.com/djbillylanespage DJ Nocturnal: www.facebook.com/DjNocturnal916 DJ Oasis: www.djoasis.com DJ Zephyr: www.facebook.com/zephyreos J-Kraken: www.facebook.com/jkrakenmusic Sam I Jam: www.soundcloud.com/sam_i_jam

electronic / experimental DoofyDoo: www.facebook.com/doofydoojams Gentleman Surfer: www.facebook.com/ Gentleman-Surfer-317326758284041 The Good Fortune: www.thegoodfortune.co I Am Strikes: www.iamstrikes.com Pregnant: www.danielispregnant.tumblr.com So Much Light: www.facebook.com/SoMuchLight SpaceWalker: www.facebook.com/interstellarbeats WiseChild: www.facebook.com/iniwisechild Young Aundee: www.facebook.com/YoungAundee

Eat, drink and fEEl supErior see niGHt&daY

BasicallY pErfEct pasta see disH

Bad pot karma? see tHE 420

tHE icE Boss see 15 minutEs

EmcEE

Brutha Smith: www.bruthasmith.com Cam: www.facebook.com/camofgenx Century Got Bars: www.centurygotbars.com Chuuwee: www.facebook.com/ChuuweeNCR Dre-T: www.facebook.com/Dre-T-270601059658204 Dylan Phillip: www.facebook.com/DylanPhillipOfficial Luke Tailor: www.luketailor.bandcamp.com Mahtie Bush: www.mb916.com Mozzy: www.vevo.com/artist/mozzy Soosh*e: www.facebook.com/hellasoosh

Folk Rock

Hannah Jane Kile: www.facebook.com/hannahjanekile Honyock: http://honyockisaband.com Joseph in the Well: www.josephinthewell.com Misner & Smith: www.facebook.com/MisnerandSmith Paige Anderson & the Fearless Kin: www.thefearlesskin.com Salt Wizard: www.saltwizardmusic.com Spangler: www.spanglermusic.com

Funk

Big Sticky Mess: http://bigstickymess.com Groovincible: http://groovincible.com Hans! and the Hot Mess: www.facebook.com/hansandthehotmess Ideateam: www.ideateamband.com

Joy and Madness: www.joyandmadness.com The Pressure Lounge: http://thepressurelounge.com

HaRd Rock

California Riot Act: www.facebook.com/californiariotact Heat of Damage: www.reverbnation.com/heatofdamage Misamore: www.misamore.com Roswell: www.roswellrocks.net Some Fear None: www.somefearnone.com Terra Ferno: www.facebook.com/terraferno

HaRdcoRE / IndustRIal / Post-HaRdcoRE Havenside: http://havensideband.com Kill the Precedent: www.facebook.com/killtheprecedent A Lot Like Birds: www.facebook.com/alotlikebirds Mercedes Avenue: www.facebook.com/MercedesAve Rad: www.facebook.com/RAD.Sacto White Knuckle Riot: www.facebook.com/WhiteKnuckleRiot

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Hip-Hop / Rap

The Beatknocks: www.facebook.com/thebeatknocks Blaquelisted: www.facebook.com/blaquelisted California Bear Gang: www.facebook.com/CALIFORNIABEARGANG DLRN: http://dlrn.co The Good Samaritans: www.facebook.com/TheGoodSamaritansBand Iconoclast Robot: http://iconoclastrobot.com Recorded Freedom: www.facebook.com/FreedomRecorded Tel Cairo: www.telcairo.com

indie

Desario: www.facebook.com/desarioband Epsilona: www.epsilonamusic.com Exquisite Corps: www.facebook.com/ excorpsmusic Life in 24 Frames: www.lifein24frames.com Sea of Bees: http://seaofbees.com Soft Science: www.facebook.com/ softsciencemusic Sunmonks: www.sunmonks.com Vasas: www.facebook.com/vasastheband Vinnie Guidera & the Dead Birds: www.facebook.com/vinnieguideramusic

Jazz

The Alex Jenkins Trio: www.alexdrums.net City of Trees Brass Band: www.facebook.com/ cotbb The Crescent Katz: http://crescentkatz.com Dank Ocean: www.facebook.com/ dankoceanband Element Brass Band: www.facebook.com/ elementbrassband Hot City: www.facebook.com/hotcityjazzband Jim Martinez Quartet: www.jimmartinez.com

Live peRfoRmeR

Cross Class: www.facebook.com/Crossclasssacramento Chrch: www.facebook.com/chrchdoomca Death Rogen: www.facebook.com/DEATHROGEN Drop Dead Red: www.facebook.com/dropdeadredmusic Hans Eberbach: www.hansrocks.com Kill the Precedent: www.facebook.com/killtheprecedent Race to the Bottom: www.racetothebottommusic.com Some Fear None: www.somefearnone.com Sea of Bees: http://seaofbees.com Zyah Belle: www.zyahbelle.com

metaL

Battle Hag: www.facebook.com/battlehag Chrch: www.facebook.com/chrchdoomca Defecrator: www.facebook.com/defecrator

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Embodied Torment: www.facebook.com/embodiedtorment Graveshadow: www.graveshadow.com Horseneck: www.facebook.com/horseneckmusic The Kennedy Veil: www.facebook.com/thekennedyveil Modraniht: www.facebook.com/ modranihtofficial Plague Widow: www.plaguewidow.com Psychosomatic: www.facebook.com/ officialpsychosomatic

new aRtist

Andrew Castro: www.andrewcastromusic.com The Good Fortune: www.thegoodfortune.co Little Tents: www.facebook.com/littletents916 Maddie Sipes & the Painted Blue: www.soundcloud.com/madisonsipes Modern Man: www.facebook.com/modernmansacramento Tell the Wolves: www.facebook.com/tellthewolvesmusic Well Dressed Mannequins: www.facebook.com/ Well-Dressed-Mannequins-159076544439331

pop / Rock

Bellygunner: www.facebook.com/pages/ Bellygunner/474205012610977 Cemetery Sun: www.cemeterysunband.com Drop Dead Red: www.facebook.com/dropdeadredmusic Fate Under Fire: www.fufmusic.com Hero’s Last Mission: http://heroslastmission.com Humble Wolf: www.humblewolf.com Once an Empire: www.onceanempire.com PointDexter: www.facebook.com/ PointDexterMusic

pRoduceR

Casey Groat Charles Albright Chris Woodhouse: www.thedockstudio.com David Jensen DJ Loot: www.facebook.com/djloot916 Joe Johnston: www.puscavern.com John Morris: www.tanglewoodstudios.com Pat Hills Sean Stack: www.fatcatrecording.com

punk / post-punk

The Bar Fly Effect: www.facebook.com/thebarflyeffect The Croissants: www.facebook.com/lecroissants The Enlows: http://enlows.com Ghostplay: www.facebook.com/ghostplay.music The Moans: www.facebook.com/themoans Nmbrsttn: http://nmbrsttn.com Rebel Radio: www.facebook.com/rebelradioband S.W.I.M.: www.reverbnation.com/swimsomeonewhoisntme

Zyah Belle

Mahtie Bush R&B / Soul

Cash Campain: www.facebook.com/CashCampainMusic JustKristofer: www.facebook.com/JustPlayJK Miss Mouthpeace: www.missmouthpeacemusic.com Rashell: https://www.reverbnation.com/rashell1 Zyah Belle: www.zyahbelle.com

Reggae / Jam

Element of Soul: www.elementofsoul.com Island of Black and White: www.islandofblackandwhite.com J Ras: www.facebook.com/JRasMusic King Hopeton: www.kinghopeton.com Massive Delicious: www.facebook.com/MassiveDelicious MAU: www.facebook.com/MAUBAND OneLegChuck: www.facebook.com/OneLegChuck Riotmaker: www.facebook.com/riotmakermusic Sacto Storytellers: http://soundcloud.com/sactostorytellers Simple Creation: www.simplecreationband.com

ReleaSe of the YeaR Chrch: Unanswered Hymns DLRN: Neon Noir (Deluxe) DoofyDoo: The Tourist Epsilona: Thinkers Graveshadow: Nocturnal Resurrection Joseph in the Well: Joseph in the Well Little Tents: Fun Colors Mozzy: Bladadah Sea of Bees: Build a Boat to the Sun So Stressed: The Unlawful Trade of Greco-Roman Art

Rock

The Diva Kings: www.facebook.com/thedivakings The Kelps: www.facebook.com/thekelpsmusic MindFlowers: www.facebook.com/mindflowersband Race to the Bottom: www.racetothebottommusic.com Sages: www.facebook.com/wearesages The Soul Shine Band: www.facebook.com/TheSoulShineBand Tell the Wolves: www.facebook.com/tellthewolvesmusic The Three Way: http://thethreewaymusic.com

RockaBillY

Frankie and the Defenders: www.frankieandthedefenders.com Hank Biggs & the Hardtops: www.hankbiggs.com The Infamous Swanks: www.facebook.com/theinfamousswanks The Left Hand: www.sonicbids.com/band/thelefthand Rockabilly Love Cats: www.rockabillylovecats.com Todd Morgan & the Emblems: http://toddmorganandtheemblems.com The Vintage Vandals: http://thevintagevandals.com

SingeR-SongwRiteR

teen aRtiSt

Altessa: www.facebook.com/AltessaOfficial Four Days Out: www.facebook.com/fourdaysout Heat of Damage: www.reverbnation.com/heatofdamage Urd-om: www.urdomrox.com

tRiBute Band

Cash Prophets: www.facebook.com/pages/ Cash-Prophets/182247055162317 Revolver: www.facebook.com/Revolver916 Steelin’ Dan: www.steelindan.com Stellar: www.facebook.com/stellartributeband SuperHuey: www.superhueylive.com Worlds Apart: www.atjourneysedge.com

woRld

Bomba Fried Rice: http://bombafriedrice.org Dinorah: www.dinorahmusic.com Halfpence and Haypenny: www.facebook.com/HalfpenceAndHaypenny Hollow Point Stumblers: www.thestumblers.com La Noche Oskura: http://lanocheoskura.com Nagual: www.nagualmusic.com One Eyed Reilly: www.1eyedreilly.com Rey y Kaye: http://reyykaye.com Solsa: http://solsaentertainment.com World Hood: www.facebook.com/worldhoodband Zorelli: www.zorellimusic.com

Andrew Castro: www.andrewcastromusic.com Christopher Fairman: www.reverbnation.com/christopherfairman Jayson Angove: www.jaysonangove.com Kevin Seconds: www.kevinseconds.org Rebecca Peters: www.facebook.com/ Rebeccapetersmusic Xochitl: www.xochitlofficial.net

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ongratulations! You made it through the first month of the year and you’re feeling super fit, frugal, organized and energetic, right? But you know what’s looking a little sad and floppy these days? Your drinking habit. Take it for a few laps around the track at these upcoming charity events—you know, so you can stave off the guilt of knocking a few back by contributing to terrific local causes: On Friday, January 29, at 8 p.m., Luna’s Cafe and Juice Bar (1414 16th Street) and Jen Rogar host the No more homeless deaths Benefit Concert, featuring live-music performances from John Gruber, Andrew Castro, Xochitl, Eric Everett and more. Tickets are $7 and proceeds will go toward purchasing winter supplies for those in need; visit http://jennrogar.com for more information. The next evening on Saturday, January 30, the Sacramento Ballet presents its annual fundraiser, Vaudeville at the memorial. Attendees will be met with a raucous night of entertainment—think old-timey SNL meets the circus— plus, libations and food. Tickets are $250 each or $2,000 for a table of 10—an investment, but attendees will help to ensure that the city’s premiere dance company keeps its curtain up. Top hats, canes, feathers and sequins are encouraged at the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium (1515 J Street); more information can be found at www.sacballet.org. Lastly, take your craft-cocktail experience to a whole new level with One Night stand, a cocktail competition hosted by V-Day Sacramento at the Shady Lady Saloon (1409 R Street) on Monday, February 1, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Local bartenders will be whipping up vagina-themed cocktails and competing for the Vagina Trophy. If that’s somehow not enticement enough, know that the proceeds will benefit the Gender Health Center, Community Against Sexual Harm and Sacramento Women Take Back the Night. Vagiña coladas? A womanhattan? The possibilities are endless. Tickets are $50; find out more at www.vdaysacramento.org.

REVEL WITH A CAUSE

The Art of Beer Invitational FRIDAY, JANUARY 29 Unlimited 4-ounce tastings from 37 breweries sounds like a fun recipe for a day of mayhem, but this event really is as elevated as it portends to be, with panels such as “Women in Beer” and “Bugs and Bacteria With Tony Rau of Odell”; food pairings from BEER Blackbird., among others; and beer-themed art for sale, the proceeds from which benefit families affected by autism. $15-$125; 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. at McClellan Conference Center, 5411 Luce Avenue in North Highlands; http://artofbeerinvitational.com.

—DeeNA DRewIs

Winter Tweed Ride & Picnic sATURDAY, JANUARY 30 When it’s raining, it’s hard to think about a nice bicycle ride and picnic, but that’s just what this group of Sacramento two-wheel enthusiasts OuTdOORs has planned, whatever the forecast. Join in with your old-timey bike and fancy tweed duds. There will be multiple contests (best bike, hat, picnic, etc.), and live music from the South Sac Jooks. Free; noon at the Coffee Garden, 2904 Franklin Boulevard; www.facebook.com/events/1006885319375203.

—LoRY GIL

Ramen workshop sATURDAY, JANUARY 30 I suspect there’s a soft spot in everyone’s hearts for a steaming Cup O Noodles, much as we like to think we’re into “authentic” ramen nowadays. But it does have enough sodium to rival a cup of the COOKING Dead Sea. In this workshop, learn to make broth from scratch, demo regional variations and create your own dream bowl of noodles. $49; 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op, 1900 Alhambra Boulevard; www.sacfoodcoop.com.

—DeeNA DRewIs

Quinceañeras Expo sUNDAY, JANUARY 31

Charity

$$$

There are milestones in every teenager’s life. But for Latinas, there are probably few days more important than her quinceañera. The event commemorates her 15th birthday with a megaparty. The Sacramento Quinceañeras Expo offers everything for the EXPO perfect event with dresses, decorations and even choreographed dance performances. $10; noon at McClellan Conference Center, 5411 Luce Avenue; www.quinceanerasmagazine.com.

—AARoN CARNes

dave Attell sUNDAY, JANUARY 31 Dave Attell is one of those comedians you don’t take your kids to see. He’s got a sarcastic worldview and doesn’t hold back the bawdiness. Maybe that’s the reason Entertainment Weekly named him COmEdy one of the funniest people in America. Join the former Insomniac with Dave Attell host for a night of cynical commentary, drinking and laughs. $30; 7 p.m and 9:15 p.m. at the Punch Line Comedy Club, 2100 Arden Way; www.punchlinesac.com.

—LoRY GIL

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IllustratIons by serene lusano

Tex-Mex pie CHAvez, federAliSt PuBliC HouSe There is a lot of excellent pizza in Sacramento, so picking any one place—or even one pie—as a particular standout can be difficult. Still, there are a few that are exceptionally noteworthy, and one of those is the Chavez ($15) over at Federalist Public House. It’s an addictive fusion of two excellent cuisines: Italian and Tex-Mex. A succulent smattering of pork carnitas is the star topping, backed up by red onion, cilantro, a drizzle of crème fraîche and a piquant salsa verde. Eschew pepperoni for a night and give this Southwestern pie a try. 2009 Matsui Alley, http://federalistpublichouse.com.

—gArrett mCCord

Morning beer Coffee milk Stout, Stone Brewing Co.

IllustratIon by Mark stIvers

Sweet surprise By Janelle Bitker

Long live cupcakes: Wait, aren’t cupcakes dead? Apparently not quite yet. Icing on the Cupcake opened a new Midtown outpost at (1730 J Street) last week, taking over a chunk from the former Gifted Gardener space. It’s been a long road for the Rocklin-based company. It launched in 2007 and once had five locations in the area before filing for bankruptcy in 2013. Under new ownership, it’s managed to reopen its Rocklin bakery, and recently opened another location in Folsom (2379 Iron Point Road). The Midtown edition feels a little sterile—plain pink walls,

you were a fan, there are a few locations still open in the Bay Area.

jan el l e b @ne w s re v i e w . c o m

checkerboard floor, no seating—and doesn’t exactly scream, “Come buy all these tantalizing sweets!” but there are tantalizing sweets all the same. Naturally, Icing on the Cupcake primarily sells cupcakes. They’re moist, loaded with buttercream and come in more than 10 flavors every day ($2.95-$3.35). Also available: minicupcakes known as “babybites” ($1), minipies ($3.45), cookie sandwiches ($2.75) and brownies and blondies ($3). Meanwhile, another bakery known for cupcakes closed in Pavilions: SusieCakes. SusieCakes’ layered cakes, whoopie pies and cheesecakes were wonderful, if a little pricey. If

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On the corner: If you’ve spent much time on the East Coast, you are very familiar with the bodega. For some reason, we don’t use the term over here for our convenient corner shops that stock us with booze, light grocery items and bad coffee. Prepare to meet an updated, hipper version at rotating pop-up shop Display: California (3433 Broadway). “The Bodega” will open on January 29, offering housewares, prepackaged food, flowers, gifts, a kombucha bar and loads of other local, artisanmade pantry goods. More at www.displaycalifornia.com. Yep, more poke: Wrap N’ Roll Sushi Burrito (1801 L Street) is slated to reopen on January 30 as Make Fish Poke & Sushi Burrito. Like its Elk Grove location, the Midtown spot will feature a redesigned aesthetic and build-your-own menu style. You can still get sushi burritos—or poke, nachos or salad—but you select among given proteins, sauces and unlimited toppings. Ω

Here’s a maybe surprising pairing: coffee and beer. Try the recent release of Stone’s Coffee Milk Stout. Brewer Brian Gallagher whipped up this formula using Englishstyle malts and coffee beans from the San Diego-based Ryan Bros. Coffee. Then, he added milk sugar to balance out the bitterness. The outcome is a creamy, light-bodied stout with a hint of sweetness—and the aroma and taste of quality coffee. Pick up a six-pack at BevMo, Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op and other places you’d find craft beer, for about $10. www.stonebrewing.com.

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To good health Pomelo Citrus trees are generous this year. Take your local pick—literally—of virtually any variety. One of the most unusual, though, is the pomelo. The pomelo, which looks like a large, soft grapefruit, isn’t quite as juicy as other citrus. It has a thick rind covering the greenish white-to-pink flesh. Pomelos make for a good addition to green salads, although they’re also traditionally eaten for Lunar New Year (February 8 this year). The Cantonese word for pomelo sounds similar to “prosperity,” so the fruit represents abundance and good health in the coming year.

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Old-school excellence By Garrett MccOrd

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HHHH 2801 Capitol Avenue, (916) 455-2422, www.biba-restaurant.com Dinner for one: $50 - $75 Good for: classic Italian home cooking Notable dishes: the entire pasta menu

There are way too many restaurant-scene posers in this city. You know who they are. The uber-chic foodies who are so over the word “foodie” that they ironically claim it as a badge of honor. They’re the types who make a reservation at a restaurant during opening week for bragging rights or a Yelp review, ignoring the fact that most places need at least three months to even begin getting their feet wet. They’re also the people who have likely ignored the culinary cornerstones of Sacramento. They’ve never sunk their teeth into a thick wedge of Zelda’s deep dish pizza or grabbed scoop at Vic’s Ice Cream. And they certainly haven’t experienced the glory of Biba’s. In summary: They know nothing. Biba’s opened in 1986 under the eponymous leadership of Biba Caggiano. Famous not only for her many cookbooks and her television cooking show, Biba’s Italian Kitchen, the restaurant became a cornerstone of Italian cuisine for the nation. It received glowing press from publications such as Gourmet, Wine Spectator and Travel + Leisure. In short, Caggiano established what Italian cuisine should and should not be long before the Food Network ever did. Now that construction at the nearby Sutter Medical Center has finished (and before construction on both a new hotel and the new B Street Theatre venue begins) it’s the perfect time to rediscover this pinnacle of fine dining or eat there for the first time.

Biba’s is a white tablecloth affair, so dig out your good tie or black dress. However, don’t think your meal will be stuffy; service isn’t only knowledgeable and engaging, but jovial as well. The best salads are those that are effortlessly balance and the insalata di finocchio, mandarini e rucola is an exquisite, seasonal example ($10.50). The reserved flavor of thinly sliced fennel paired with perky slivers of bright tangerine is lovely in itself, but the addition of sliced almonds, ricotta salata and briny green olives make it dazzling. A buffalo mozzarella salad ($14.50) takes a cue from winter, substituting fresh tomatoes with slow-roasted San Marzano tomatoes and a flood of some truly excellent olive oil. The result is musky and deeply earthy, but with still very present acidity. If you’re looking for luxury, the sautéed veal sweetbread is perfectly executed, soft and delicate in flavor. Yet, smoked pancetta and wild mushrooms bolster it into an umami bomb that echoes long after the finish ($16). The freshly made pasta, however, is the true draw here. House-made ricotta gnocchi is lighter than air, and on the night we tried it, it was served with fresh shrimp in a rich tomato sauce ($18.50). Still, it was the cavatelli that was by and far the resounding hit. Served with ocean-y scallops, garlic, a dusting of crunchy breadcrumbs and a hefty slathering of Calabrian chili oil, I’d sell my husband for another bite ($19.50). A slow-roasted beef short rib melted apart upon contact with a fork and easily slurped up the horseradish gremolata and polenta it was served with ($29.50). If there was a miss it was the veal medallions ($31), which were terribly underseasoned and wallowing in a drab mustard cream sauce that arrived lukewarm. However, the sautéed chard and pillowy mashed potatoes certainly kept the table’s attention. Somehow, we valiantly found room to share ricotta cannoli dressed in chocolate and punctuated with bits of candied orange ($10). It should not be missed. Nor, frankly, should anything else on the menu. Ω

Biba Caggiano established what Italian cuisine should and should not be long before the Food Network ever did.

Chocolate heaven Give me a warm blanket and box of chocolates, and I’ll require nothing else for a fabulous evening. Eating quality chocolate can be an exciting journey, with plenty of natural flavor profiles to explore: nutty, spicy, fruity, caramel, floral and earthy, among them. Dive deeper into caramel and reflect on each note: butterscotch, honey, milk, butter, molasses. Sounds fun, huh? There may be no blankets at the third annual Sacramento Chocolate Salon on Saturday, January 30, but there will be lots of chocolate to taste. Talk to chocolatiers, food experts, authors and chefs; attend a chocolaty seminar and discover your next favorite chocolate maker. Of course, there will be other confections and beverages available as well. The event takes place at Embassy Suites, 100 Capitol Mall, and tickets cost $20 in advance or $25 at the door. More at www.sacramentochocolatesalon.com.

—Janelle Bitker

Oh my Goddess By Shoka It’s the tryptophan. That’s the amino acid in sesame seeds that makes people want to pour Annie’s Goddess Dressing onto everything, not just salads. Tryptophan releases serotonin, a neurotransmitter, so, yes, Goddess is playing with our brains, and that’s why it tastes addictive. For a change of junkie pace, Bon Apétit has a recipe for a tumeric-tahini dressing. For a less sour yet punchier, spicy vinaigrette that’s equally as welcome on a

salad or rice bowl, try it with these alterations: a quarter-cup of tahini, one-third cup of rice or apple cider vinegar, 1 tablespoon of fresh lemon juice, 1 tablespoon of olive oil, half a teaspoon of ground turmeric, one-eighth teaspoon of cayenne, 1 teaspoon of ginger juice, and three freshly crushed cloves of garlic—or just one if you have a date. Mix it all with a bit of salt and pepper and release the goddess—and the serotonin. But not the addiction.

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Matt taibbi “Income inequality” is a buzz phrase that many politicians tend to throw around, particularly during election time—even Republicans have started using it. But what does it really mean? On the surface, the discussion is about America’s disappearing middle class, Lecture and how more people are struggling financially, while fewer people possess most of the country’s wealth. But is that really all there is to say about it? In the book Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap, journalist Matt Taibbi analyzes how the legal and justice system treats people differently based on their economic status. Rich people, Taibbi says, are virtually immune to punishment, while the poor are increasingly more likely to be harassed and imprisoned for minor offenses. The book covers how the prison population is bigger than ever, and yet crime statistics are on a downward trend. He argues poor people are imprisoned for being poor. Meanwhile, white-collar criminals not only avoid punishment, but retain wealth and status. Taibbi will visit the Mondavi Center as part of UC Davis’ Campus Community Book Project. He’ll discuss the book, his research and the idea that income inequality isn’t about just who gets to own stuff— it’s a human rights issue. $12.50$49; 8 p.m. Wednesday, February 3. Mondavi Center, 1 Shields Avenue in Davis; mondaviarts.org.

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Driving Miss Daisy

On stage and off How actor-director Benjamin T. Ismail’s packed schedule dominates the Sacramento theater scene Photo courtesy of sacramento theatre comPany

by Jeff Hudson

Janis Stevens and Michael J. Asberry star in this odd-couple drama about a crotchety old white woman and the African-American man who is hired to be her chauffeur. Stevens gives a bravura performance, slowing, weakening, seemingly shrinking as Daisy ages. Director Benjamin T. Ismail inherently knows what to do with this story, and what we see on stage is powerful and touching.

Th 6:30pm, F 8pm, Sa 2pm and 8pm, Su 2pm, W 6:30pm. Through 2/14. $34-$38. Pol-

lock Stage at Sacramento Theatre Company, 1419 H Street; (916) 443-6722; www.sactheatre.org. J.C.

Echo Location

St. Louis playwright Carter W. Lewis’ play is a one-act, 90-minute comedy with dark overtones. Directed by Buck Busfield, it revolves around Benjamin Rindell, an English professor, his AfricanAmerican fiancée Emmy, the unexpected arrival of Allison, a 15-year-old daughter he never knew he had, and Emmy’s former boyfriend, Bluetooth Atkinson, trying to get his woman back. There are problems with

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this play, starting with the lack of back story. The end is excessively brutal, too. Still, it may not be the “hilarious” show advertised, but thanks to fine performances it’s decidedly enjoyable. Th, F 8pm;

Boulevard; (916) 960-3036; www.bigideatheatre.org. P.R.

The Realistic Joneses

This theater-ofthe-absurd play presents the story of new neighbors who find out they share the last name Jones as well as other similarities none of them want to admit. Here, playwright Will Eno creatively plays with language and meaning to convey the heartache, frustration and melancholy mystery of how a degenerative mental disease affects people, relationships and day-to-day interactions. Presented in short scenes, this existential dark comedy uses non sequiturs, awkward give-and-takes, illogical patters and inappropriate outbursts. The reward is a fascinating delve into the hearts and minds of four people struggling with watching loved ones slip-sliding away. Th

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Tu, W 6:30pm. Through 2/28. $23-$35. B Street Theatre, 2711 B Street; (916) 443-5300; www.bstreettheatre.org. B.S.

The Motherf**ker With the Hat

Stephen Adly Guirgis’ raw, crass, brash, in-your-face play about members of the underclass striving to survive and a paroled drug dealer trying to stay straight, is intense, funny and full of fucks—both literal and figurative. The characters are all struggling in purgatory and hells of their own makings, but sincerely trying to better themselves. Jackie is just out of prison and trying to re-establish a relationship with his girlfriend Veronica, a street survivor who wants to “put the ghetto on hold” but is still caught up in her addictions. The impressive cast is flawless with a palpable chemistry between all of them. Th, F, Sa 8pm. Through 2/13. $10-$20. Big Idea Theatre, 1616 Del Paso

2pm and 7pm; F 7pm; Sa 8pm; Su 2pm; Tu, W 7pm. Through 2/6. $15-$35. B Street The-

atre B3 Stage, 2711 B Street; (916) 443-5300; www. bstreettheatre.org. P.R.

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Benjamin T. Ismail (right) in a production of The Mystery of Irma.

Benjamin T. Ismail is a busy fellow these days. He’s artistic director for Big Idea Theatre, the much admired small company that stages a heady mix of Shakespeare, edgy contemporary fare and even French existentialism. (Their summer production of JeanPaul Sartre’s No Exit drew crowds, contravening the dictum that you gotta do silly shows in Sacramento when the weather’s scorching.) Ismail is also directing elsewhere. He did the Sacramento Theatre Company’s well-mounted Driving Miss Daisy, which closes on February 14, and is on board for Capital Stage’s next show, Love and Information, a complex tale of technology and amour, told in a composite form. “The script is built of seven sections, with seven or eight scenes in each … some are 10 seconds long, some are six minutes … snapshots,” Ismail said of that production, which runs January 27 through February 28. “There’s never any punctuation or character description. It is very skeletal … but everything you really need to tell this very subtle story is in the script,” he adds. “It’s one of the coolest things I’ve ever worked on.” But there’s more. Once Love and Information opens, Ismail will set off to Florida to direct 4000 Miles at American Stage, a company led by former

Capital Stage artistic director Stephanie Gularte. Cap Stage staged a production of 4000 Miles in spring 2014. In the Florida production, Ismail will again be directing Janis Stevens (who plays the title role in Driving Miss Daisy). Then it’s back to Sacramento, where Ismail will act in Capital Stage’s production of Disgraced, from the 2013 Pulitzer winning script, running May 4 through June 5. Fast-forward to summer when Ismail will be back at Big Idea, working on the early summer production of A Bright New Boise, a dark American comedy from 2011, as well as a late summer production of Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra. (“Cleopatra is Shakespeare’s most interesting female,” Ismail says.) Ismail grew up in Memphis and attended college in Arkansas, settling briefly in Boston. In 2008 he arrived in the area to audition for a part in Bare that the now-defunct company Artistic Differences was staging. Once here, he kept auditioning for parts and then started landing gigs as a director. Lately, he’s been following that path more. “Directing is the thing I’ve been going for,” he says. Still, he adds, acting remains “near and dear” to his heart. “I would be sad if I didn’t have both in my life,” he says. Ω

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Realistic and still relevant In 1956, John Osborne shook up the British theater scene with his drama Look Back in Anger, a critique of society involving a realistic romantic triangle complicated by social tensions (one lover comes from an upper-class background, the other has working-class roots). This 60th anniversary revival, staged by EMH Productions and directed by E.M. Hodge, includes live music by Clifford Childers and Aaron Smith and features Dan Fagan and Elyse Sharp and veteran Loren Taylor in the cast. 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday; $20. Geery Theatre, 2130 L Street; (916) 214.6255; http://emhpros.weebly.com.

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Arthur Miller Syndrome: real people don’t talk like that, even if pretentious writers think they do. Craig Gillespie is a director who has spent his In February 1952, in a horrendous snowstorm with career missing the point. His clueless hand has hurricane-force winds, boatswain’s mate Bernard sunk movies as relentlessly as the Atlantic does the Webber of the U.S. Coast Guard and a crew of three Pendleton, including such flicks as Mr. Woodcock took a tiny motorized lifeboat into the 50-plus-foot and Lars and the Real Girl. Here he seems to have waves off Cape Cod to the SS Pendleton. The tanker had been more concerned with making sure everybody’s broken in half in the pounding seas, sending the captain Massachusetts accent is just right than with building and eight seamen to their deaths and stranding 33 others any tension or suspense. It falls to the movie’s CGI in the foundering stern section. With his own boat badly and sound effects to do that, and they often overdamaged, Webber rescued all but one of the Pendleton’s whelm the dialogue—but then, considering the lines surviving crew and brought them safely to shore. It’s a we do hear, that may be a blessing in disguise. story made to order for Hollywood, and it’s surprising Nothing but misguided instinct and directorial that it wasn’t filmed before now. malpractice can explain Chris Pine’s diffiNow it has been, and the result is The dent, hesitant, tentative performance. Finest Hours, directed by Craig Gillespie Pine is a star who’s also a real actor, Craig and written by Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy and we know he can do heroic— Gillespie is a and Eric Johnson, from the nonfiction this is a guy who has played director who has book by Michael J. Tougias and Casey Captain Kirk, Jack Ryan and Sherman. The book actually recounts Prince Charming. Here he seems spent his career two simultaneous rescue operations; to have aimed at making Bernie missing the other was to the SS Fort Mercer, Webber an ordinary guy who rises the point. also snapped in two by the storm to the task—the banality of heroism. 12 miles further out at sea. The movie But like the writers who saddled an concentrates on Webber (Chris Pine) and his actress with that awful line about learnin’ crew (Kyle Gallner, Ben Foster, John Magaro), and t’live, he confuses ordinary with uninteresting. on the Pendleton and chief engineer Ray Sybert (Casey The impression he leaves isn’t that of an everyday Affleck), who struggles to keep the stern afloat long Joe turned hero, it’s of an unknown actor who gets enough to run aground to relative safety. It’s just as well a shot at stardom in a big movie—the stardom that Gillespie and company didn’t take on the whole Pine already has, in a movie no bigger than he’s book, because they’ve made a pretty thorough botch of made before—and can’t deliver the goods. the half they did. Pine will be back, and he’ll wow us again. For The script simply bristles with clumsiness. When his miss here, I blame Craig Gillespie. Ω Webber’s fiancée (Holliday Grainger) turns on a short-wave radio to hear the progress of the rescue, a seaman’s widow discourages her. “Better learnin’ t’live not knowin’,” she says, in a line that has never passed human lips before this poor actress had to say it. It’s the

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13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

Director Michael Bay and writer Chuck Hogan, adapting Mitchell Zuckoff’s nonfiction book, recount the 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi that left four Americans dead, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens. The movie focuses on two CIA operatives caught in the battle: one of the slain, Tyrone Woods (James Badge Dale), and a pseudonymous survivor played by John Krasinski. Tense and riveting, here’s the movie some of us never knew Michael Bay had in him—the action, when it starts, is paradoxically both chaotic and clear. There’s a palpable sense of the sun-scorched uncertainty of the Lybian street, where the Americans are never entirely sure who is friend and who is foe. Dale gives what could, with luck, turn out to be a star-making performance, with Krasinski not far behind. J.L.

The Big Short

Director and co-screenwriter Adam McKay (Step Brothers) bungles a great opportunity to savage the architects of the 2008 financial crisis in The Big Short, wasting an A-list ensemble cast in the process. Steve Carell, Brad Pitt, Christian Bale and Ryan Gosling play various tenuously related members of the finance industry, men who made made a killing by betting against the housing market, which at that point had superficially swelled to record highs. All of the elements are in place for a lacerating satire, but almost every aesthetic choice in the film is bad, from the U-Turn-era Oliver Stone visuals to Carell’s sketch-comedy performance to the cheeky cutaways where Selena Gomez and Anthony Bourdain explain complex financial concepts. After a brutal opening half, it finally settles into a groove, and there’s a queasy charge in watching a credit-drunk America walking towards that cliff’s edge, but not enough to save the film. D.B.

The Boy

A young American in England (Lauren Cohan) hires out as nanny to an elderly couple’s 8-year-old son—only the “son” turns out to be a porcelain doll; the real boy died 20 years ago, and his grieving parents have lived this mad fantasy ever since. The nanny stays on out of pity and her own desperation—then begins to see signs that the doll might not be so inanimate after all. Writer Stacey Menear and director William Brent Bell get things off to a great start, with a genuinely creepy atmosphere, a strong performance by Cohan and a couple of well-placed jump-scares. Then they blow it in the last half-hour; the movie violates its own internal logic and dissolves into wornout slasher-flick tropes. Too bad; Menear and Bell had a bizarrely good thing going, but they couldn’t come up with an ending. J.L.

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The 5th Wave

An ordinary high school girl (Chloë Grace Moretz) finds her world torn asunder when aliens invade Earth, pursuing a methodical plan for exterminating humanity. Adapted by Susannah Grant, Akiva Goldsman and Jeff Pinkner from Rick Yancey’s novel, and directed (decently, if with little distinction) by J Blakeson, the movie begins as a novel twist on the alien-invasion formula, with a tough, determined performance from Moretz. Then it tips its hand, and our disappointment is palpable: Damn, it’s just another Hunger Games/ Divergent/Maze Runner clone, with the heroine torn between two lovers (Nick Robinson, Alex Roe) and joining a desperate Resistance made up of bravely hard-boiled teenagers. The book was the first of a series, naturally, so at least we know what Moretz will be up to for the next few years. J.L.

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In order to become fully realized on film, the harsh metaphysical whimsy of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman requires an equally visionary visual artist. Many critics loved Kaufman’s 2008 directorial debut Synecdoche, New York, but I could never get past the film’s pushy message-mongering and lead-footed visual sense, and felt that he deeply missed the cinematic panache of directors like Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich and Adaptation) and Michel Gondry (Human Nature and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind). In the strange and pensive stop-motion animated mind-blower Anomalisa, Kaufman finds another visionary collaborator in co-director Duke Johnson, best known for his work on Moral Orel. Kaufman and Johnson’s film is a heart-stopping masterpiece of emotional malaise and disconnection, vividly surreal and achingly real at the same time. D.B.

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Coming soon to Einar Magnus Andreas Wegener—who in 1930 became one of the first persons, maybe the very first, to undergo gender reassignment surgery. The movie focuses on the understandably complex relationship between Wegener/Elbe and his/her wife Gerda (Alicia Vikander), and Redmayne and Vikander share an earnest screen rapport. Hooper and Coxon honor Elbe (who died in 1931 from complications of her fourth and final surgery) as a pioneer of the transgender movement, but reverent as the movie is, it’s also rather dreary—the kind of embalmed, oversolemn opus where the actors whisper their lines slowly, one word at a time. J.L.

Dirty Grandpa

A strait-laced, dull young lawyer (Zac Efron) reluctantly agrees to drive his recently widowed grandfather (Robert De Niro) to Florida for spring break—ostensibly to bond and complete the grieving process, but really to get Grandpa laid by some obliging college girl. Nonstop partying, drug use, vandalism and kinky sex ensue. De Niro, with nothing left to prove, has wasted his talent on some pretty unworthy movies in the last few years, but he’s never made one as shoddy or as thoroughly inept as this. Almost nobody has. John Phillips’ script is moronic, Dan Mazer’s direction is beyond sloppy; the movie is ugly in every sense of the word (shame on cinematographer Eric Alan Edwards, too). It never rises to the level of garbage. Already we have the worst movie of the year—and maybe next year as well. J.L.

The Hateful Eight

Quentin Tarantino’s masterful Western/ murder-mystery hybrid The Hateful Eight is getting a lot of attention due to its limited, “road show” presentation, a three-hour theatrical experience projected on 70 mm film, with an overture of Ennio Morricone’s score and a 12-minute intermission. Therefore, audiences may be surprised that the widescreen photography in The Hateful Eight is much more focused on the contours of a single interior space than on wide-open exterior spaces. Long-time Tarantino leading man Samuel L. Jackson stars as Major Marquis Warren, a merciless bounty hunter in post-Civil War-era Wyoming waiting out a blizzard with a den of scoundrels (including

Kurt Russell, Tim Roth and Bruce Dern), all of whom seem to be concealing a secret. The first half is nearly perfect, a slow build of pinprick tension, and while the second half gets a little repetitive, it’s also where the brilliant Jennifer Jason Leigh is at her no-holds-barred, bloodsoaked best. D.B.

Kung Fu Panda 3

Panda Po (voiced by Jack Black) meets his long-lost father (Brian Cranston), just as yet another supervillain (J.K. Simmons) rises to conquer the world. The formula of this gaudy franchise is growing stale, and the dialogue by Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger bounces back and forth between pompous mumbo-jumbo and fart-poop-and-pee jokes. Still, the movie has its compensations. Like the first two, it’s stylishly pretty to look at, and the over-the-top fight scenes and visual humor (courtesy of directors Alessandro Carloni and Jennifer Yuh) are amusing. Also, the minotaur-like villain here is an improvement on the scrawny peacock of the first sequel. Once again, the all-star supporting cast (Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Jackie Chan, Kate Hudson, etc.) is largely wasted; the only voice we really remember is Black’s. J.L.

The Revenant

Much like the previous collaboration of director Alejandro González Iñárritu and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, last year’s Best Picture winner Birdman, the gruesome adventure The Revenant is heavy on visual gimmickry and pulses with an aggravating energy, but also feels strangely empty and unnecessary. Leonardo DiCaprio clearly suffers for his art here, whether submerging himself in ice cold water or climbing inside of a horse carcass for warmth, but although the film works as a visceral experience, on the whole it’s a frustrating mess. There are is a change jar of messages regarding the pitiless beauty of nature and the savagery of man, but Iñárritu only knows how to lay it on thick, so it amounts to a lot of puffed-up finger-wagging. More than anything, Iñárritu excels at hectoring and exhausting his audience, and The Revenant is no exception—he’s good at grinding you to a nub, and not much else. D.B.

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Hip-hop is a distinctly American genre— Brooklyn, if you want to get technical. Yet it’s traveled all over the world and has been digested into just about every possible culture. Los Rakas are one of the best examples of how naturally HIp-Hop hip-hop mutates in a totally different cultural context. The two emcees, Raka Rich and Raka Dun, were raised in Panama and later moved to Oakland. They blend classic hip-hop with Latin music, reggaeton and dancehall in a way that’s so perfect that it makes you think that’s how hip-hop should’ve sounded all along. Roach Gigz also performs. 9426 Greenback Lane in Orangevale, http://losrakas.com.

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Big Earl and the Cryin’ Shame

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony

TorCh CluB, 9 p.m., $8

Pull out your old bong shaped like the Grim Reaper and prepare your body to get progged all the way out to Mars with Eight Bells, a progressive black/doom band out of Portland, Ore. It’s hard to describe their sound without getting too weird about it, but let’s just say it’s dreamy, ethereal, crushing, groovy and it often surges with a Yes-esque energy; a band for fans of He Whose Ox is Gored and the local (waning). Underling, a Bay Area atmospheric black metal band, and Kyntallah, pRog METAL a local instrumental prog metal outfit, also perform. 1517 21st Street, www.eightbellsband.com.

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29 FRI

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Big Earl and the Cryin’ Shame celebrates its album release at the historic Torch Club for Live at the Gallo Center. As a BLUES band that bleeds ’50s Chicagostyle blues, it’s fitting that Big Earl and the Cryin’ Shame’s musical résumé includes supporting legendary talent like B.B. King, Charlie Musselwhite and Kim Wilson. Big Earl Matthew’s textured vocal style is reminiscent of the boisterous Howlin’ Wolf paired with a driving rhythm section provided by Ian Stambaugh on drums and Randall Niemann on bass. Eli Lester and Jason Finley share guitar duties that round out this feel-good blues band. 904 15 Street, www.facebook. com/BigEarlandtheCryinShame.

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Any day now, I expect to come across one of those “10 Reasons Sacramento is Actually a Place” listicles written by an East Coast transplant and find “Bone Thugs-NHarmony plays Ace of Spades a lot” listed as one of the city’s secret perks. Alas, that fringe benefit may be coming to an end; the iconic rap group out of Cleveland announced plans for a final HIp-Hop album, E. 1999 Legends, last year after a career that spanned more than two decades. (Of course, the group has disbanded and re-banded a number of times over the years, so don’t meet them at the crossroads just yet.) 1417 R Street, www.facebook.com/OfficialBoneThugs.

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Fans of dirty rock ’n’ roll with blazing solos, saucy hooks and more posturing than should be allowed can rejoice: Black Saddle Hookers are going to be rocking their favorite 10th Street haunt this weekend. The trio features a veritable who’s who of the local ROCK music scene, including T-Bone Hooker (vocals and bass), Gavin Zappatica (guitar) and John Cavanaugh (drums) and have been known to have special guests like Skid Jones join the fray when the spirit moves. Sacramento’s own rude-boy reggae outfit the Scratch Outs close out the night’s festivities. 1901 10th Street, www.facebook.com/ blacksaddlehookers.

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HarlOw’s restaurant & nIgHtcluB, 6:30 p.m., $17-$20

British-born Will Clarke boasts serious party-starting credentials. He trained in Ibiza, the island off the coast of Spain notorious for its nightlife that knows no parameters. The young deejay and producer favors old-school tracks from ’90s rave scenes, altering them into certified booty-shaking bass. He’s on tour with fellow Dirtybird artist Billy Kennedy for Will & Bill’s Excellent EDM Adventure, an homage to skateboards, dudes and time travel—with beats. It’s also the first official Sacramento stop for funky house label Dirtybird—via, of course, Requiem Events—which makes it all the more bodacious, duuuuuude. 1119 21st Street, www.dirtybird.com/willandbilltour.

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Ventura’s Kyle is launching his Happy Camper tour in our city to promote the release of SMYLE. Posi-rap Hip HOp abounds in the world of Super Duper Kyle. So parents, put those worries about sending your teens to an all-ages early-evening show at Harlow’s away. Kyle’s young-n-sprung style hinges on references to N64 gaming and sun-soaked memories. Well, worry a little, as “Sex & Super Smash Bros” is a far less coded Netflix and chill, while “Just a Picture” will invite attendees to look up from the glow of their screen and live in the moment. 2708 J Street, http://superduperkyle.com.

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Guitar genius Jesse Cook believes that location influences music. For the last 20 years, he’s traveled the world over, collaborating and recording with musicians far and wide. Even though he decided to make his 2015 album One World in his WORlD MUSiC home studio, the locales he has visited still shine through. The Flamenco guitar is front and center, sometimes jaunty and staccato, other times jazzy and contemplative, with wistful string melodies pulling it along. Each song unites Cook’s influences into a smooth and well-produced introspection of the interconnectedness of all music genres: thus, One World. 1013 K Street, www.jessecook.com.

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A-JAY KING, 8pm, $7

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KOREAN FIRE DRILL, THE ALPHA COMPLEX, MADISON AVENUE; 7pm, $10-$12

Everything Happens dancing and karaoke, 9pm, call for cover

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Joe Montoya’s Poetry Unplugged, 8pm, $2

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BALLYHOO!, B FOUNDATION, RIOTMAKER, KOSHA DILLZ; 6:30pm Tu, $12-$14

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Big Top Carnival with DJ Eclectic, 10pm, call for cover

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Absolut Fridays dance party, 9pm, $5-$10

Party Time dance party with Sequin Saturdays drag show at 9:30pm, $5-$12

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THE DEPTHS, MERDOG, CATHERINE DAYTON; 9pm, $5

THE TRIPLE 7’s, THE ROLLIN’ BLACKOUTS; 9pm, $5

Open-mic, 7:30pm M; Pub quiz, 7pm Tu; All Vinyl Wednesdays, 6pm W, no cover

Granger Smith After-party with DJ Rawhide, 10pm, no cover

Country DJ dancing, call for time and cover

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CALIFORNIA GROOVE, 9pm, $5

TRAGICALLY WHITE, 9pm, $5

Trivia night, 7:30pm Tu; Bingo, 1pm W

ABNEY PARK, DIEGO’S UMBRELLA; 10pm, $20-$25

Mania: The Live Beatles Experience, 6:30pm; PEACE KILLERS, 10pm

ACHILLES WHEEL, 5:30pm; THE SCOTT PEMBERTON TRIO, 9:30pm

DAVID HOUSTON AND STRING THEORY; 8pm, $6

Nebraska Mondays, 7:30pm M; Open-mic comedy, 8pm Tu

That Thing on Friday, 10pm, $5

Will and Bill’s Excellent Adventure with Will Clarke and Bill Kenny, 10pm, $15-$30

Salsa Wednesday, 7:30pm W, $5

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Homeless benefit concert with JENN ROGAR, 7pm, $7

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Record Club, M; Cactus Pete’s 78 RPM Record Roundup, 8pm Tu

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ROACH GIGZ, LOS RAKAS; 7pm, $20-$40

NATIVE SON, 5pm; CLUSTER PHUNK, 9pm, call for cover

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RIDERS IN THE SKY, 8pm, $30-$34

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MOODY SLOUGH, CURTIS RIELLEY, THE CULPRITS; 8:30pm, $5

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Real Live Comedians, 9pm, $10

Bacon Fest, 8pm, $5

THE SCRATCH OUTS, BLACK SADDLE HOOKERS; 9pm, $6

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seems viable, stand up for yourself. (“If someone I love doesn’t hear from me, it doesn’t mean I’ve stopped loving them. It means I’m busy taking care of necessary things for myself.”) Or set a boundary. (“I’m not interested in talking about that. I’ll let you know when, and if, I will be.”) Remember, you’re an adult in conversation with an adult. Act accordingly. At what point in dating can you stop looking perfect? I’m been dating a guy who is everything I want. But getting weekly mani-pedis, monthly bikini waxes and spray tans is so expensive. If I don’t keep it up, I’m afraid he’ll think I’m a slob. Please be specific in your response.

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FOR THE WEEk OF JANUARy 28, 2016 ARIES (March 21-April 19): Do you know Emily

Brontë’s novel Wuthering Heights? At one point, the heroine Catherine tells her friend about Edgar, a man she’s interested in. “He wanted all to lie in an ecstasy of peace,” Catherine says, “and I wanted all to sparkle and dance in a glorious jubilee. I said his heaven would be only half alive; and he said mine would be drunk: I said I should fall asleep in his; and he said he could not breathe in mine.” If you’re a typical Aries, you’re more aligned with Catherine than with Edgar. But I’m hoping you might consider making a temporary compromise in the coming weeks. “At last, we agreed to try both,” Catherine concluded, “and then we kissed each other and were friends.”

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): People turn to you

Tauruses for help in staying grounded. They love to soak up your down-to-earth pragmatism. They want your steadfastness to rub off on them, to provide them with the stability they see in you. You should be proud of this service you offer! It’s a key part of your appeal. Now and then, though, you need to demonstrate that your stalwart dependability is not static and stagnant—that it’s strong exactly because it’s flexible and adaptable. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to emphasize this aspect of your superpower.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): When winter comes,

pine trees that grow near mountaintops may not be able to draw water and minerals from the ground through their roots. The sustenance they require is frozen. Luckily, their needle-like leaves absorb moisture from clouds and fog, and drink in minerals that float on the wind. Metaphorically speaking, Gemini, this will be your preferred method for getting nourished in the coming weeks. For the time being, look up to obtain what you need. Be fed primarily by noble ideals, big visions, divine inspiration and high-minded people.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): We all go through

phases when we are at odds with people we love. Maybe we’re mad at them, or feel hurt by them or can’t comprehend what they’re going through. The test of our commitment is how we act when we are in these moods. That’s why I agree with author Steve Hall when he says, “The truest form of love is how you behave toward someone, not how you feel about them.” The coming weeks will be an important time for you to practice this principle with extra devotion—not just for the sake of the people you care about, but also for your own physical, mental and spiritual health.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): After fighting and killing

each other for years on end, the Roman and Persian armies agreed to a truce in 532 A.D. The treaty was optimistically called “The Endless Peace.” Sadly, “endless” turned out to be just eight years. By 540, hostilities resumed. I’m happy to announce, though, that your prospects for accord and rapprochement are much brighter. If you work diligently to negotiate an endless peace anytime between now and March 15, it really is likely to last a long time.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “I shiver, thinking how

easy it is to be totally wrong about people, to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole.” Author Lauren Oliver wrote that, and now I’m offering it to you, just in time for your Season of Correction and Adjustment. The coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to get smarter about evaluating your allies—and maybe even one of your adversaries, as well. I expect you will find it relatively easy, even pleasurable, to overcome your misimpressions and deepen your incomplete understandings.

last few months of 2015. And right now is when you can lay the groundwork for that future triumph.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Playwright Edmond

Rostand (1868-1918) had a lot of friends, and they often came to visit him uninvited. He found it hard to simply tell them to go away and leave him alone. And yet he hated to be interrupted while he was working. His solution was to get naked and write for long hours while in his bathroom, usually soaking in the bathtub. His intrusive friends rarely had the nerve to insist on socializing. In this way, Rostand found the peace he needed to create his masterpiece Cyrano de Bergerac, as well as numerous other plays. I suggest you consider a comparable gambit, Scorpio. You need to carve out some quality alone time.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “I opened

my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.” The preceding reminiscence belongs to a character in Khaled Hosseini’s novel The Kite Runner. I bring it up in hopes that you will do the opposite: Say the words that need to be said. Articulate what you’re burning to reveal. Speak the truths that will send your life on a course that’s in closer alignment with your pure intentions.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): According to

some traditional astrologers, you Capricorns are vigilant to avoid loss. Old horoscope books suggest that you may take elaborate measures to avoid endangering what you have accumulated. To ensure that you will never run out of what you need, you may even ration your output and limit your self-expression. This behavior is rooted in the belief that you should conserve your strength by withholding or even hiding your power. While there may be big grains of truth in this conventional view of you Capricorns, I think it’s only part of the story. In the coming weeks, for instance, I bet you will wield your clout with unabashed authority. You won’t save yourself for later; you’ll engage in no strategic self-suppression. Instead, you will be expansive and unbridled as you do whatever’s required to carry out the important foundation work that needs to be done.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “It seems that the

whole time you’re living this life, you’re thinking about a different one instead,” wrote Latvian novelist Inga Abele in her novel High Tide. Have you ever been guilty of that, Aquarius? Probably. Most of us have at one time or another. That’s the bad news. The good news is that the coming months will bring you excellent opportunities to graduate forever from this habit. Not all at once, but gradually and incrementally, you can shed the idea that you should be doing something other than what you’re doing. You can get the hang of what it’s like to thoroughly accept and embrace the life you are actually living. And now is an excellent time to get started in earnest on this project.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “Even nightingales

can’t be fed on fairy tales,” says a character in Ivan Turgenev’s novel Fathers and Sons. In other words, these marvelous birds, which sing sublimely and have long been invoked by poets to symbolize lyrical beauty, need actual physical sustenance. They can’t eat dreamy stories. Having acknowledged that practical fact, however, I will suggest that right now you require dreamy stories and rambling fantasies and imaginary explorations almost as much as you need your daily bread. Your soul’s hunger has reached epic proportions. It’s time to gorge.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In June 1942, the U.S.

Navy crushed Japanese naval forces at the Battle of Midway. It was a turning point that was crucial to America’s ultimate victory over Japan in World War II. One military historian called it “the most stunning and decisive blow in the history of naval warfare.” This milestone occurred just six months after Japan’s devastating attack on U.S. forces at Pearl Harbor. To compare your life to these two events may be bombastic, but I’m in a bombastic mood as I contemplate your exciting possibilities. I predict that in the second half of 2016, you’ll claim a victory that will make up for a loss or defeat you endured during the

You can call Rob Brezsny for your Expanded Weekly Horoscope: (900) 950-7700. $1.99 per minute. Must be 18+. Touchtone phone required. Customer service (612) 373-9785. And don’t forget to check out Rob’s website at www.realastrology.com.

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Skating by Ice, ice baby. Every year, for the past 24 years, winter in Sacramento has brought with it the Downtown Sacramento Holiday Ice Rink, where people can strap on some blades and take to the ice. Or, you know, fall trying. To celebrate the cold chill we’ve been having, SN&R caught up with Sureena Johl, events manager for the Downtown Sacramento Partnership that manages the ice rink, to talk about ice-skating movies, what she loves about downtown Sacramento and being Cupid.

How long does it take to set up the rink? So, we start construction mid-October every year. It takes us roughly between three to four weeks to not only get the site ready, but to make the ice on site. We basically will start with laying down all the rubber mats. It’s a lot of deliveries, a lot of coordinating things whether it’s with the city or with our vendors. And then it takes us really five days to make the ice itself. There’s just a lot of work on the back end.

What happens if it gets too warm? Here’s the interesting thing about an outdoor rink. Rain water is actually warmer than frozen water, right? Or even water out of the hose. So anytime we add water to the ice we have to do that at night, when it’s at the coldest temperature. So on days when it’s really sunny or we have a lot of wind, it causes the ice to melt faster. So there are days when, if you come out to the rink, you’ll notice that we have puddles. So, we either have puddles because it’s hot and the way the sun hits and reflects on our ice, there are definitely certain patches that will melt faster. But one of our little tricks is ... we keep foam pieces on site and we

will cover the patches … to reflect the sun basically, so to provide a shade covering so it’ll freeze faster.

was just as mesmorized as the kids all around me.

Hot cocoa or hot tea?

I’m learning so much about ice today.

Hot cocoa. I love chocolate.

I know, it’s so funny. I always laugh because I went to the Levi’s Stadium when they had the ice rink last year for the hockey game … and so I was just paying attention. I was like, “Oh, look at their coils. Oh, there are their chillers!” and my family’s looking at me like, “Why do you know what all of this is?”

If you could make one thing out of snow, what would it be? A snowman was my first thought, but an igloo would be cool too. Like the scene in Home Alone where he has to hide in the igloo.

What’s one of the weirdest things you’ve ever seen at the ice rink?

I’ve never ice skated before. Oh no! You have to come out.

It’s always when the little kids try to go under their parents’ legs. Like, that’s probably not the safest thing to be doing right now. … I always like coordinating proposals at the rink because I get to be the part of somebody’s … this huge moment in their life. The guy will call me and be like, “OK, I need to do this and we’re going to pull up in a limo and I have this song and I need to have it all coordinated.” So I get to kind of be their Cupid for the day.

Well, I’m scared. How often do people fall? Oh my God, I feel like people fall all the time. Every time you look there’s somebody falling one way or another. But, with that, our staff is really good at helping people get up, giving them the tools to feel confident and to get out on the ice. … I actually just fell a couple weeks ago and had to come up in the office covered in water.

That was my next question, asking about proposals.

Besides the ice rink, what’s your favorite thing to do in Sacramento during the holidays?

There you go.

My favorite thing to do during the holiday season, so specifically looking at winter events, is actually Theater of Lights in Old Sacramento. Part of it was, I had never really seen it until two years ago again when I started working for the organization, and by all means my birthday is Christmas Eve, and so I have this mindset of like, “Oh my God, here’s Christmas.” And I remember working that event and being in the center of K Street and looking up and I, as an adult,

What’s your favorite thing about living and working in Sacramento? For me, it’s being a part of the community and this bigger initiative. I think we can all agree that over the last couple years everyone’s desire to be in downtown Sacramento and be a part of it has definitely grown. So whether you’re looking at the music scene, just there’s a different set of appreciation for local arts and local music and the next chapter of specifically downtown Sacramento. Ω

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