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Remembering Michael Re “Soldier of dignity” by Scott Thomas Anderson (SN&R News, December 8): Michael Israel epitomized the concept of a purpose-driven life. I first met Mike in 2011, when I interviewed him for the Amador Ledger Dispatch about an event he was planning called “Punks Against Poverty” to raise funds for the AmadorTuolumne Community Action
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Sacramento son Kevin Johnson left the mayor’s office with a political victory last week, one he’s so far kept secret. ILLUSTRATION BY SERENE LUSANO
K.J.’s shadow coup Former Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson left office with a huge political victory—so why haven’t you heard about it? by Raheem F. hosseini
An extended version of this story is available at www.newsreview .com/sacramento.
Kevin Johnson wasn’t used to watching the big game pass him by from the bench. But with Darrell Steinberg standing in the wings to be sworn in as Johnson’s replacement, the suddenly lame-duck mayor ended his arena-building, shadowgovernment-installing, two-term run in quiet fashion on December 13. Calling to order a special council session by playfully banging his gavel so hard the city clerk chuckled out a warning, Johnson appeared loose and cheerful last Tuesday night. He accepted two final tributes, both protected against misuse—an honorary badge wedged in cut glass and a fire helmet in the Kings’ purple and black—and endured one last free-form-jazz lecture from perennial council attendee
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Mac Worthy. And then it was all but over, with Johnson offering one final message before calling it a political career in his prodigal town: “Sacramento, I want to say thank you for all the unbelievable support. All city staff, you guys rock. To my colleagues on the council, you are the best. I am just a phone call away if I can ever be helpful. God bless you, love you.” Humble. Gracious. And making zero mention of the huge political victory Johnson scored hours earlier. On that very same day, several states over, a federal bankruptcy court in Georgia removed the final hurdle blocking Johnson’s multiyear campaign to dismantle the historic—and historically
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troubled—National Conference of Black Mayors and replace it with a version more to his liking. The attorney for the losing side confirmed to SN&R that the ruling spelled the end of an epic legal tussle for the soul of a national political alliance steeped in civil rights lore and badly mismanaged into a vulnerable financial state, ripe for the overtaking. And it began like so many K.J. stories do—with Johnson trying to expand his political reach beyond Sacramento. “It all started because Kevin Johnson and some of the people with him wanted to take over the organization,” said Kenneth Muhammad, a Georgia attorney who presided over the last gasps of the historic NCBM. “And the plan ended up working
because the people who were fighting it ended up running out of money.” That self-described “coup” that Team K.J. had drawn up more than three years ago, using city staff and resources to advance a noncity power grab? Yeah, it worked. So why haven’t you a heard a peep about it? The attempt to forestall bankruptcy and save the NCBM was mounted on the grounds that Johnson got himself fraudulently elected president in 2013 only to tank the struggling nonprofit so he could replace it with a version under his control and sharing his corporate education goals. The ruling comes about two months after a separate judgment in an Atlanta circuit court against Vanessa Williams, NCBM’s former executive director and Johnson’s chief adversary in trying to keep the black mayors conference alive. In both cases, the rulings were based less on the merits of Team K.J.’s legal arguments and more on the fact that the other side simply stopped fighting. In his 19-page order issued last week, U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Paul Baisier ruled that the effort to stop the liquidation from going forward was “moot,” as the bankruptcy trustee had already sold NCBM’s assets and naming rights for
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In the motion, Muhammad portrays Johnson as speaking out of two sides of his mouth during much of 2013—claiming publicly that he wanted to save the venerable conference while working behind the scenes to bring it toppling down so he could replace it with an entity that would push his charter schools agenda without interference from Williams and others opposed to the idea. Muhammad formally withdrew himself from that case over the same payment issues that stalled the bankruptcy one. About two months ago, the court issued a $630,000 judgment against Williams and her co-defendants in that case, Daluz said, for personal expenditures that were made from NCBM’s accounts while Williams was the executive director. “We think the two [rulings] together should put this case to rest,” Daluz said. Williams told SN&R that state court judgment was issued by default, after she and her fellow respondents missed a court date they hadn’t been notified of. She says her new attorney has already filed a motion to vacate the ruling, but Daluz said the period for an appeal has passed. SN&R was unable to confirm that. A representative of the Fulton County court didn’t respond to a request for information prior to deadline. Meanwhile, electronic communications—obtained by SN&R following a yearlong public records legal battle with Johnson—illustrate to what lengths the former mayor was willing to use city resources to expand his influence far beyond Sacramento. For instance, it was then-K.J. staffer Aisha Lowe who drafted Williams’ termination letter for her boss, cheekily suggesting the subject line, “Why don’t you just leave already?” Copied on the August 2013 email were other Johnson staffers Mariah Sheriff, Stephanie Mash and Cassandra Jennings, among others. In April 2014, Johnson led the NCBM into bankruptcy. A month after that, he founded the AAMA, appointing Mash its executive director. Daluz says the media has heaped too much of the credit for NCBM’s demise on Johnson, forgetting that other mayors voted with him to dismantle the organization after nearly a year of trying to hold it together. “Yes, calling anything a ‘coup’ is an unfortunate use of terminology and not one that I think directed the strategy in any meaningful way,” Daluz added. “People can say he planned this, but all the facts were already on the table. This company was crippled by debt.”
Mash declined an interview with SN&R, and instead sent a press release crediting Johnson and Ballard Spahr for their work, and announcing that the AAMA now holds “the exclusive rights to the unified history of the NCBM and the AAMA.” Johnson is still listed as a member of the AAMA, which also counts the American Federation for Children on its associate business council. The federation is a big supporter of charter schools, and has written talking points in support of President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for education secretary, Betsy DeVos. Williams stressed that her group, operating under the name Conference of Black Mayors, would appeal judgments in both circuit and bankruptcy courts—with the help of new legal representation and a developing legal fund. “I think it’s imperative that the truth be told about what actually happened,” she said. Muhammad says she has a formidable case, and expressed disappointment that he wasn’t able to carry it further. Indeed, last week’s bankruptcy victory relied on a tried-and-true K.J. tactic—applying a shock-and-awe legal arsenal against anyone standing in his way, from girls and women accusing him of sexual misconduct to this newspaper, which recently prevailed in a costly public records lawsuit that Johnson filed to keep NCBM-related emails secret. Nikki Moore, an attorney with the California Newspaper Publishers Association, noted the parallels. “It seems as though the SNR case is not out of character for our former mayor,” she wrote in an email. “He has exhibited willingness to use the legal system—which is expensive, slow, and rewards the heavypocketed—to accomplish goals: whether that’s gaining power or stifling speech.” A Sacramento Superior Court judge recently ruled against SN&R’s motion to collect more than $100,000 in attorney fees from its victorious legal defense. As for where Johnson heads next, that’s anyone’s guess. As Steinberg lifted his palm to take the mayor’s oath inside the California State Railroad Museum last Tuesday night, Johnson got lost somewhere in the massive sea of well-wishers. At some point during the inauguration, he disappeared, pocketing one of the biggest victories of his polarizing political career. Williams, for one, can’t let that go. “He just goes away in the night to live his life while he destroyed everyone else’s,” she said. “I trusted him to help me with this organization.” Ω
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drugs, small weapons, cellphones and other contraband to inmates held within Sacramento County correctional facilities. Reacting swiftly to a request from the sheriff’s department, which operates the two local jails and highlighted the security concern, the board of supervisors approved a drone-detection pilot program on December 6. Three days later, in an unusual 11th hour twist, the sheriff’s department spiked it. What gives? A lack of clarity over electronic surveillance laws and how they relate to emergent drone technology, according to sheriff’s Capt. Darin Griem, commander of the Rio Cosumnes Correctional Center in Elk Grove. Supervisors initially granted the law enforcement agency’s request to enter into a cost-free memorandum of understanding with skysafe inc., which was offering to test its drone-detection technology at RCCC, the county’s primary custodial facility. Contacted by SN&R, sheriff’s spokeswoman Sharon Chow was the first to confirm that the program, while approved by supervisors during a procedural vote, would not move forward after all. It turned out the agency had put the cart before the horse, signing onto a solution without an actual problem. But the SkySafe request wasn’t rescinded because a lack of a problem. It was pulled for legal reasons. Griem told SN&R that an unspecified attorney had advised his undersheriff that California Penal Code 1546.1, better known as the electronic Communications Privacy Act, might conflict with allowing the SkySafe program. Griem remains convinced smuggler drones will soon be coming to a penitentiary near him. “Once the laws are worked out … you’ll probably see it at every prison,” Griem said. “I think this company [SkySafe] is on the forefront.” (Matt Kramer)
Missing oPPortunitY An 80-year-old man briefly went missing on November 29 before being reunited with his family, according to the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department’s Twitter feed. Two weeks earlier, the Sacramento Police Department returned a 72-year-old man to Sutter Memorial Hospital, which the dementia-sufferer had wandered away from on November 15, police tweeted. Both agencies have used social media to post “silver alerts” to find lost folks experiencing memory loss. Now, there’s an app for that. The Missing Senior Network was recently unveiled by Home Instead Senior Care, to help caregivers locate missing loved ones diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia. Located at www. missingseniornetwork.com, the app is free to the public. “It’s a free tool that would allow caregivers to alert a network of friends, family and businesses via text or email—using social media platforms to get the word out,” said Blair Sepeta, director of home care services for the company. To set up the app, caregivers are asked to enter information about their senior and the contact information of the network of people who might interact with them. If their loved one goes missing, they can log into the app and press a button to alert the network. According to the Alzheimer’s Association, three out of five people living with Alzheimer’s or dementia will wander. And if an individual with memory loss is not found after 24 hours, there is only a 50 percent chance they will be found alive or without serious injury. (Corey Rodda)
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second highest year-to-year rent increase in the For Darryl Rutherford, November 10 took a turn nation. for the surreal. But the plan council members approved last Rutherford, executive director of the Sacramento month not only fixed the affordable housing share Housing Alliance, spent that day hosting a summit at 6 percent, it gave developers the option to vacate focused on preventing low-income and workingconstructing half of those units by simply donating class people from being priced out of the capital. a total of three acres of land to the joint city and The event’s keynote speaker was then-incoming county agency that oversees low-income housing. Mayor Darrell Steinberg. The Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Just after 12:15 p.m., Rutherford watched Steinberg deliver a rousing speech about the need to Agency, would then build 300 of the affordable units itself on the three acres, adding an additional push back against an escalating affordability crisis burden on local taxpayers rather than the developer. in the city. Just after 6 p.m., however, Rutherford Yet, SHRA commissioner Dana Simas acknowlwatched as the Sacramento City Council—the ranks edged that a three-acre donation probably wouldn’t of which Steinberg joined last week—allowed be enough for even 300 units. “Most affordable the largest urban infill development west of the housing developers we work with agree they typiMississippi to move forward with a middling cally need more than one acre to develop 100 requirement to leave only 6 percent for units,” Simas told council members. affordable homes. District 1 Councilwoman The vision that developers “It was Angelique Ashby and District 3 and elected officials share for Councilman Jeff Harris noted the so-called railyard project hard for me to that the former railroad yard’s includes a 20,000-seat major even go home that level of chemical contaminaleague soccer stadium, a night.” tion makes it difficult for any sprawling Kaiser Permanente developer to get the numbers to health facility, a historic Darryl Rutherford pencil out. business district and a maze of executive director, More than a month later, interconnecting bike trails that Sacramento Housing Rutherford said he’s still in a surround 10,000 new housing Alliance daze about the missed opportunity. units. Council’s approval of 19 “It was very disheartening,” he told separate entitlements means only 600 SN&R. “I was just at the summit, and it of those homes, at most, will be offered was great to hear Steinberg talking about homelessat prices that the servers, baristas, janitors, ticket ness and affordable housing, but then to walk into clerks, security guards and office staff working in the council meeting the same night and see hardly the new wing of the city can realistically rent any discussion—and for them to pass a plan that or buy. everyone who works on affordable housing feels is The city’s project manager for the railyard, completely inadequate—well, it was hard for me to Richard Rich, downplayed concerns about that even go home that night.” before the vote. “The road to tonight has included a At his December 13 inauguration, Steinberg deep reach into the community,” he assured council emphasized that building affordable homes and members. sheltering local homeless are among his top prioriA number of housing experts implored the ties. The new mayor said he plans to help the city council not to grant the entitlements unless 10 to 15 bring hundreds of new units online for low-wage percent of the project could accommodate workingearners during his first months in office, with a class Sacramentans—within the range of what the related goal of building 2,000 permanent housing city required of its developers just three years ago. options for the homeless before his term is up. How A recent study by the California Housing will he do it? Partnership Corporation, a policy research group, “Stay tuned,” Steinberg said with a smile after said Sacramento County needs more than 59,000 being sworn in. Ω affordable rental homes to properly shelter the region’s lowest-income residents. A separate report from RentRange, a market intelligence firm, An extended version of this story is available at suggested that in 2015 Sacramento suffered the www.newsreview.com/sacramento.
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care about cops or civilians—not both. Gaines In a recent op-ed for the Carmichael Times, pushed that binary choice in his column, arguing Republican Sen. Ted Gaines wrote himself into a that anyone who gets upset about questionable false equivalence by arguing the public can’t care police killings—many of which have been recorded equally about dead cops and killed civilians. and shared on social media—is putting officers “Driven by the media’s hysterical coverage of in danger. Red Ted even offered a name for his any shooting death that fits their political narrative hypothesis: the “Ferguson effect.” of minority oppression at the hands of police, we’re “Police around the country, fearful of becoming trending into and [sic] upside down world where the a media story, or tired of the jeering, snarling mobs protectors are viewed as predators,” Gaines wrote that now surround and confront them in the course in the guest commentary, which he titled (surprise) of their duties, have predictably began interacting “Blue Lives Matter.” “That’s wrong. It’s the open, more cautiously and less frequently with the public, politically inspired murder of police that is the real to dire effect,” Gaines wrote. ‘hate crime’ epidemic.” Gaines’ “snarling” rhetoric and lack of compasUm, Ted? Yeah, Math would like to meet you sion for anyone who doesn’t look like him is the at Camera 3. real problem here. According to the Washington Post’s It’s true that ambush attacks on law database on police shootings, 925 enforcement are on the rise—from people have been shot and killed by three in 2015 to 14 so far this year, law enforcement officers so far Gaines’ according to the National Law this year. Enforcement Officers Memorial By comparison, Officer “snarling” Fund. Yet, overall law enforceDown Memorial Page says rhetoric and lack of ment deaths are down 14 62 peace officers have been compassion for anyone percent since 2006, according killed in gunfire attacks to Officer Down. this year. That’s not a small who doesn’t look like As someone with relatives number, but it puts the two him is the real who wear and wore the badge, epidemics in perspective. Or problem here. I’m all for making the job safer. should, anyway. But that goal doesn’t have to come Doubling down on Gaines’ at the expense of holding bad cops flawed logic, Assemblyman Jay accountable. In fact, I’d argue we make Obernolte introduced legislation on law enforcement more dangerous when we let its December 5 that would extend hate-crime crooked operators dodge justice. That’s how an protections to California peace officers. But the entire profession gets labeled corrupt, when its Hesperia Republican’s bill could have far-reaching machinery knowingly protects actors who have consequences. violated the public trust. California’s current hate crime law allows up That means there’s common ground for the to three additional years in state prison for anyone good cop just trying to do her job and the unarmed convicted of targeting a person who belongs to black male just trying to stay alive: They should (or is thought to belong to) a protected class. But both fear bad police. the law doesn’t just apply to felonies, it extends to But Gaines would rather divide and conquer. misdemeanors, too. And why shouldn’t he? His side won with that Under Obernolte’s proposal, what happens if someone from the LGBTQ community resists arrest cynical tactic. He’s shoveling the same shacklesand-jackboots rhetoric that helped elevate Donald while protesting, or an activist has some choice Trump to the White House despite historically low words for officers raiding a homeless encampment? crime rates. Hell, what happens when a privileged white male But even in this post-facts, post-ethics mouths off about a speeding ticket? Will the cops world—where “stop and frisk” could be the be able to ladle on a hate crime charge? name of our p---y-grabbing perv-in-chief’s dating Obernolte’s bill doesn’t say. philosophy—that doesn’t make them right. It Instead, he and his brother from another makes them bullies. Ω chamber would rather engage in a tired game of wedge politics, by pretending that we can only
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Wow, what a time for Whoville—what a tremendous year for Grinches. Normally SN&R keeps its annual Grinches Awards list strictly local but, let’s be frank, there was nothing normal about 2016. We had no trouble, in fact, coming up with the year’s top bad hombres, nasty women and everything in between. Behold SN&R’s annual Grinches Awards where the winners are really yuge, bigly losers. Was 2016 the year the Grinches won? Read on, decide for yourself and remember that 2017 is, thankfully, almost here.
A mostly no-good, horrible, terrible yeAr Is it over yet? Not to put too fine a point on it but the last 12 months have sucked. Philosophers, historians and media outlets, in fact, are already speculating that 2016 could go down in history as one of the worst years ever. Ever. It started out barely a fortnight into the new year with David Bowie’s death on January 10, and from there it seemed as the last vestiges of goodness and common decency that were holding the universe together were blown to smithereens and then shattered into space. Since then it’s felt as though everything’s been spiraling out of control, and fast. Shocking political upsets. Violence, unrest and devastating acts of nature. Untimely celebrity deaths. Trump and Brexit; the Pulse nightclub shooting, senseless police shootings and the senseless shootings of police. The devastating Oakland warehouse fire. More K.J. scandals (pie!) and Nazi rallies at the state Capitol. Ever-worsening climate change, the war in Syria. Trump. So much Trump. Good riddance, 2016—don’t let the new calendar hit you on the way out. (R.L.)
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Kevin Johnson is no longer at City Hall. And for the
entirety of 2016, he was a lame-duck mayor. Yet Johnson’s fundraising prowess went unscathed during his final stint in office: This year, for instance, he raised more than $1 million. How does K.J. do this? After resurgent sexualmisconduct allegations last year led to a decision to not run for a third term, how did Johnson still find people to give him money? In a word: behests. As SN&R wrote this past June, a behest is “when a group or person donates money to an elected official’s private organization or nonprofit.” These donations aren’t campaign contributions, and the money can be given in unlimited amounts. And, for his eight years in office, Johnson’s had a small network of private groups that have taken in millions—and it hasn’t been easy to keep track of how this money was spent. Johnson raised more cash than any city politician in Sacramento history. He raked in $2.4 million to his private groups and nonprofits in 2015 alone, and more than $1.02 million this year—and this is just the money that we know about, according to city records. What’s really interesting is that K.J. took in more than $1.7 million in behests since last October, when the video of a teenaged girl accusing him of molestation re-emerged. So, who still gave money K.J. in 2016? It’s a long list of usual suspects, many of them with business at City Hall: Golden 1 Credit Union, Republic FC owner Kevin Nagle, Angelo Tsakopoulos, Buzz Oates, Mark Friedman, the Walmart Foundation, Wells Fargo, Vanir Construction. It’s important to note that behests aren’t necessarily a bad thing; nonprofits can use this money to do good in the community. But after eight years, it’s clear that the millions of dollars given to Johnson’s groups have done more to amplify one thing above all else: Kevin Johnson. (N.M.)
Sacramento’s political class solidified its Grinchiness by sticking to its guns on anti-camping policies this year. A slice of the bAnAl Say what you will about infamous Kevin Johnson and Sean Thompson showdown, it’s clear the real Grinch here is the coconut cream pie. Did Thompson cross a line in the way he protested Johnson’s lack of attention to homeless issue? Absolutely. Did Johnson jump over an even wider line by punching Thompson repeatedly and so hard that the protestor needed stitches? Oh, definitely. But what about the pie’s culpability? Store-bought, messy and so comically cliché. C’mon, political pie, you can do better. (R.L.)
hip, professionAl snobbery There’s nothing inherently wrong with placemaking from an urban planning standpoint. Revitalization is great. We should encourage people to utilize their public spaces. But 2016 brought out more people calling themselves placemakers—like, professionally. And with them came an intense, elitist and
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There’s no excuse for this one. We all saw Donald Trump coming a mile away. The guy spent the past year loudly monologuing his evil plans like a comic book supervillain—complete with a radioactive Agent Orange skin tone—and still won! The morning after Election Day was like waking up in Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and realizing that nearly half the voting populace had been taken over by something alien and insidious. Numerous think pieces have attempted to categorize the ways in which Russian hackers, fake news, voter suppression, blue-collar anxiety, unexcited Democrats, an archaic Electoral College system and a resurgent spike in overt racism and sexism catapulted a legit hatemonger to the White House. We’d add in an Instagram culture that has whittled the public’s attention span to that of a fruit fly watching gifs, making facts obsolete and the “feels” all that matter. While those are all worthwhile questions to examine, they also let adults off the hook. Not us. Nearly half of you threw your lot in with a trust fund bully who thinks it’s OK to denigrate women and minorities, cozy up to white supremacists and wipe his bronzed backside with the Constitution. You can lie to yourself that he didn’t really mean those awful things he promised—and is in the early stages of carrying out—or that you yourself are not the sexist, racist xenophobe that our next commander in grief is. You can also try convincing ducks that they’re really kimono dragons. But while you Trump stumpers keep insisting on your patriot swagger, history will remember you for the good Germans you really are. This was the year that your misguided self-interest won out over doing the right thing. Is this America? (RFH)
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I-care-more-about-Sacramento-than-you attitude palpable at city events and in newspaper op-eds. I apologize, placemakers, but no matter how much you promoted Bright Underbelly as a placechanger and regardless of how much the mainstream media gobbled it up, the skylike mural under the freeway didn’t suddenly push anyone to shop at the Sunday farmers market on a regular basis. People aren’t hanging out there on Tuesday afternoons. Don’t get me wrong: The mural is lovely, but the fanfare and language surrounding it implied that the market wasn’t already a worthy destination. We didn’t need to make the market great again. And don’t even get me started on the placemakers at City Scout Magazine. (J.B.)
Criminal against Creatives It’s easy to hate spineless thieves, especially when the victims are working artists, adding creative spark to the city and just getting by financially. In August, someone—or a group of people—kicked doors down and ransacked Panama Art Factory, where 30 locals worked on their craft and hosted exhibits, classes and performances. Art pieces weren’t stolen, rather, tools to make art: welders, cameras, saws, musical equipment and more. Reports vary, but the thieves made off with somewhere between $15,000 and $30,000 worth of stuff—enough to put a serious halt on the lives of artists who were left with nothing. (J.B.)
still too damn high In 2016, Sacramento’s lack of a rent control policy became a central issue. The city has only mustered 255 new units to a 2.2 million resident market this year. In August, research by AppFolio reported that Sacramento led the nation in rent increases at a whopping 11 percent increase. Compare that to the situation in San Francisco, which was only at 4.1 percent, and it’s alarmingly obvious why this is a big deal. (B.G.)
thin blue slime On the July morning that police gunned down a mentally ill homeless man on a North Sacramento sidewalk, the public saw a tale of two very different law enforcement philosophies. In one corner, we had the first officers on scene, responding to calls of an armed man behaving erratically in the area. Showing commendable restraint and an ability to juggle competing responsibilities, these officers initiated contact with the 50-year-old Joseph Mann, debunked that rumor that he was armed with a gun and followed him from a safe distance—keeping the dialogue open and the chances for a peaceful resolution within reach.
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This was the year that your misguided selfinterest won out over doing the right thing. In the other corner, we have veteran officers John C. Tennis and Randy R. Lozoya, who raced onto the scene and tried to run over Mann twice—scuttling the careful work of their colleagues and dangerously escalating a situation that could have jeopardized the very public they were sworn to protect. After wielding their patrol cruiser like a heat-seeking missile, Tennis and Lozoya exited their car with one promising, “We’ll get him.” Seconds later, both cops unloaded their service weapons into a visibly confused Mann, who was walking away from the threat they posed. In the released audio, Mann could be heard moaning from the 14 bullets that tattered his body. SN&R wasn’t the first media outlet to obtain video footage showing Tennis and Lozoya’s shocking actions. Facing mounting community pressure, the police department blitzed the media with three dash cam viewpoints and a silent surveillance video on the same day. But SN&R was the first to report that the two officers expressed a premeditated desire to do Mann harm upon approaching the scene. The national media quickly took notice, elevating Joseph Mann to a pantheon of troubling police killings, recognizable by the dead men’s names: Michael Brown. Tamir Rice. Walter Scott. Freddie Grey. Philando Castile. Alton Sterling. On and on, with more than 900 this year, according to the Washington Post’s police shootings database. Mann and Dazion Flenaugh are among Sacramento’s contributions to this year’s tally. Welcome to the club, gentlemen. (RFH)
dope-ioid Whoever sold that slew of counterfeit pills masking lethal
doses of fentanyl, prompting 13 lethal overdoses in Sacramento and Yolo counties earlier this year, congratulations. You’re both an incompetent drug dealer and a mass murderer. (RFH)
talk about a Cop-out The job of the police is, ostensibly, “to protect and serve.” But what that adage leaves out is who the police claim to protect and serve—and from whom. Certainly that was unclear this past June when a cadre of white nationalists and skinheads, including members of the Traditionalist Worker Party, a group in solidarity with Trump supporters, held a rally at the state Capitol’s grounds. The events that unfolded that day at the government building were disturbing, to say the least, and due to their location, seemed all the more unreal—forcing one to reckon with a disillusionment with authority and its priorities, namely brought upon by the lack of any significant police presence during the violent 20-minute exchange on the grounds of one of California’s most visible landmarks. As the groups of white supremacists approached the Capitol building, they were met with a large assemblage of anti-racist protesters, some affiliated with groups, others not, but all hoping to put an end to the neo-Nazi congregation early; what occurred was a bloody melee that left 10 injured and seven wounded—mainly protesters, and leaving many questioning what the 100-plus police officers decked out in riot gear could have done to prevent the violence that ensued. (KRA)
ungodly behavior In the early hours of June 12, Omar Mateen killed 49 people and wounded many more at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla. As the sun rose, pastor Roger Jimenez of Verity Baptist Church praised Mateen for cleansing this world of so-called “Sodomites.” Sacramentans immediately rallied against this hateful dirtbag, protesting outside his church before his landlord asked him to take his congregation elsewhere. The trick had worked, of course: His name and his odious words of loathing made their way into countless papers across the
country, including this one. Jimenez got the attention he desired, and by singling him out as a Grinch, he’s getting one more moment to remind us all that untold human suffering remains celebrated by a certain class of scumsuckers. (A.S.)
Not so restful The Sacramento Police Department and City Manager’s office wasted no time screwing over poor people in 2016. Before midnight on New Year’s Day, more than four dozen cops prepared to raid and dismantle the “Right To Rest” protest encampment at City Hall. By 12:30, 52 officers—many donning “riot gear” equipment—detained seven protesters and ended up arresting four of them. The others were awoken on a freezing January night, rousted from their tents and sleeping bags. Legal observers say police used unnecessary force, such as throwing one vocal activist to the ground. After the incident, all eyes were on the Right to Rest protest at 915 I Street. And people were keeping watch on police, too. (N.M.)
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JourNAlism’s sputteriNg eNgiNe Calling Comstock’s magazine a Grinch seems a poor fit, since at least the denizens of Whoville are aware of the Grinch’s existence. But Grinchy is as Grinchy does, and Comstock’s earned this distinction with two hot takes. The first was a hip-shot from the publisher, Winnie Comstock-Carlson, describing her first experience riding light rail with “unsavory” citizens on her way to her luxury suite at the Golden 1 Center to see Paul McCartney. Her fear of using public transit had her so shook that she called her mother beforehand for reassurance. That wasn’t the only time Comstock’s ran an opinion piece that every normal person cringed
at. In May, Rich Ehisen wrote about how much “less interesting” Sacramento would be once Kevin Johnson left City Hall. Already bad on its face considering that “less interesting” could be a euphemism for “less grabby,” but it gets better-worse: He called Hizzoner “the political equivalent of a Ferrari” while describing his predecessor Heather Fargo as a used Honda. Sexist connotations aside, it’s hardly an apt comparison—after all, when was the last time you heard of a Ferrari being repeatedly accused of sexual assault? (A.S.)
mArket force politics “Money talks and Uhler walks” is a refrain sometimes heard in Granite Bay, where the district’s 14-year supervisor Grinch continues to ignore a popular community plan to preserve the town’s remaining elements of rural life. When it comes to scrapping Granite Bay’s low-density zoning areas, Placer County District 4 Supervisor Kirk Uhler may face vocal opposition from
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Speaking of which, Sacramento’s political class solidified its Grinchiness by also sticking to its guns on anti-camping policies this year. Despite the Obama administration’s justice and housing arms declaring these local laws inhumane—and indisputable evidence that arresting homeless residents who get caught sleeping outdoors only anchors them deeper in poverty—local leaders proved stubbornly unmoved by the plight of their most vulnerable. Instead, we got to hear demeaning, condescending comments from the dais from council members Steve Hansen and Larry Carr, and bullshit PR platitudes from a city web page explicitly designed to spread propaganda against the Right to Rest movement. Don’t believe the hype. City Hall has more in common with our coldhearted president-elect than it wants to admit. (RFH)
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“THE GRINCH WHO STOLE 2016” continued from page 15 his constituents, but he has major support from the development companies and real estate firms that regularly finance his reelection campaigns. And Uhler has been fairly open with reporters about believing “market forces” rather than residents should determine if Granite Bay’s last open spaces vanish. During the 2016 election, Uhler also admitted to hiring controversial blogger Aaron F. Park to work on his campaign. Park then created web postings about Uhler’s opponent, Victor Bekhet, that many viewed as having racist undertones. Though Uhler said that’s not what he specifically hired Park to do, he also declined to strongly condemn the inflammatory posts. Hmmm. Sound familiar? Uhler staved off an effort to recall him from office in 2010, and defeated the virtually unknown Behket by a less than impressive margin this year. Residents have now formed a grassroots organization called Defend Granite Bay, mainly aimed at combating Uhler’s tendency to get projects done for the same special interest groups who are funding him. Until they figure out how to do that, this Grinch keeps giving big developers a very happy Christmas. (STA)
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behemoth is scheduled to parachute onto the corner of L and 19th streets sometime next year, in the form of a Golden Road Brewing brewpub. Why is this Grinchy? Because Budweiser, now owned by AB-InBev, is losing revenue to the craft-beer world. And, in response, it’s swooped up and purchased formerly independent
breweries like Golden Road as part of its plan for world craft-beer domination. In Sacramento, Golden Road would become the largest and highest-profile beer destination on the grid. So, all the more reason to pour a pint of Track 7, Bike Dog or New Glory this holiday season. (N.M.)
SeaSonal elite It finally happened in 2016: The local farm-to-fork movement sat on a knife. First, the overlords of the annual weeklong celebration in September inked McDonald’s as a flagship sponsor—because nothing says locally grown like a Chicken McNugget. And, of course, the annual Farm-to-Fork Bridge Dinner sold out faster than you can say “rigged economy.” But there was also a new F2F-style bourgie dinner, in October, the Diner En Blanc: An elite dining experience at a super-secret location (which ended up being the new arena, natch), where guests paid big bucks to don all-white duds and nibble on high-priced picnic fare. It’s seasonal asparagus, people! (N.M.)
not a lion’S fair Share Sacramento’s Flaming Grill gets a nod for occasionally selling African lion burgers. It’s important to note that they get their lion meat from legal game farms and not the Serengeti; and they only serve it once or twice a year. That said, the menu stunt puts Northern California in the same category as places like Illinois, Florida and Arizona, all of which now have culinary destinations normalizing the consumption of a threatened species. African lions are on the verge of extinction in the wild—a development that caused the United States to officially classify them as endangered in 2015. Even though restaurants like Flaming Grill don’t get their meat from the wild, if the broader trend of eating lions becomes dramatically more popular—nationally or internationally—it could also have unintended consequences in Africa’s black market. Overall, the Flaming Grill has a good reputation for food, service and business practices, and this Grinchy behavior can easily be addressed with some friendly customer feedback. (STA)
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Some Grinches take a licking but keep on ticking—and collecting a massive paycheck. Such is the case with former UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi. In April, UC President Janet Napolitano suspended Katehi while an outside firm investigated allegations of, among other things, misspending student funds and nepotism—and trying to rewrite her professional history. The latter was discovered when intrepid reporters from The Sacramento Bee uncovered evidence that UCD had paid various firms upwards of $500,000 to whitewash Katehi “off the Google” following the university’s pepper-spraying of students in 2011. And then there was the news that Katehi had taken a paid board position with the for-profit DeVry University, and also received big bucks for serving on the board of textbook publisher John Wiley & Sons. She resigned from those positions and apologized—and yet remained in the university’s employ. When Katehi was finally pressured into stepping down from her chancellor post, she could rest easy knowing she still had her faculty professor gig. Must be nice to have such job security regardless of, you know, crappy Google results. (R.L.)
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Radio daze After Kanye West’s Golden 1 Center meltdown, Hot 103.5 program director Justin “JayMarZZ” Marshall banned West from the station’s playlist. During an on-air stunt, he played part of the single “Fade” and declared that incomplete listen to be the final moment on his airwaves because during his Sacramento stage rant, West said, “fuck radio.” Repeatedly. Marshall didn’t care about West’s vulnerable moment of mental instability or eventual hospitalization for “exhaustion.” Marshall’s act was only about two things: grabbing headlines and “saving” radio. “You’re going to go into Sacramento and say ‘F radio,’ really bro? Really? You’re the same guy 15 years ago that was begging radio to play you. And they did and they gave you a shot,” Marshall said in his own rant. “Without radio you didn’t blow up to be the artist that you were. That you were, because you’re no longer that artist anymore.” So, a guy suffers a public meltdown and all you can think about is payback? Talk about a heart several sizes too small. (B.G.)
Playing a bad hand The owners of the Casino Royale card room— James Kouretas and Will Blanas—have been longtime Sacramento serial Grinches, though recently their business slipped down a proverbial snowbank into a crevasse. In 2013, the card room owners spoiled the season for residents of the Woodlake community by using big political names to get their gambling operation moved from Auburn Boulevard into the Red Lion Hotel on Leisure Way—despite the protests of many neighbors living in the area. According to state investigators, in 2014 Kouretas got even Grinchier by setting up a business apparatus that failed to pay winners in the card room money that was owed to them.
Casino Royale’s state and city gaming licenses were revoked. Blanas sued his partner for alleged fraud. He then proved in 2016 his own mean streak wasn’t over when he helped convince the Sacramento City Council to alter gaming ordinances in a way that would make it easier to move his troubled facility yet again, this time to a challenged part of South Sacramento. Several months ago, Casino Royale’s ongoing story of lawsuits, license suspensions and neighborhood outcries ended with Blanas and Kouretas finally selling their business interests altogether. (STA)
losing heR Religion We’re well-accustomed to charlatans who gain trust and power by professing themselves to be on a mission from God. Does the fact that it’s unsurprising lessen the nausea induced when one of these people is found out? Not at all, if Jenny Williamson and revelations about her company Courage Worldwide are to be believed. Despite her efforts to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars in the name of protecting underage victims of sex trafficking, her shelter Courage House shut down after multiple citations suggested that care was not the norm. Among the alleged violations: rubbing oil into the forehead of a girl who drew satanic images and reciting religious verses before telling her that she had to be Christian to continue receiving help; and displacing clients from the home in order to conduct company business and give donors tours. The list goes on, of course. And yet Williamson pushes on, claiming that the challenges to her work are little more than the state trying to force Satan upon her and the kids. If this is her interpretation of God’s love, maybe she could use a little Satan. (A.S.)
social media insecuRity Everyone’s a critic. But sometimes it’s easier (and safer) to leave the rabble-rousing to the professionals and seasoned boat-rocking vets. Enter Snarkramento, Sacramento’s foremost social media crank, with his Twitter takedowns on everything from K.J. to the bait bikes planted in South Sacramento. Shortly after sparring with a Sactown Royalty blogger on Twitter over the merits (or lack thereof) of political pie throwing, Snark found himself at the intersection of sarcasm and boneheaded vigilante justice when, one night in September, an anonymous fist came flying at the back of the head of the unsuspecting social media pseudo-celeb. The random act of violence highlights only one moment of many in an increased melding of our binary and physical worlds; one act which I’ll go ahead and title: “140 Characters of Kung Fu.” The culprit jumped Snark, and did so when his back was turned—taking time to attribute the assault to attention the social media critic allegedly paid the attacker’s “girl.” Attacking someone when they have their back turned is, obviously, cowardly. Moreover, emotions tend to run hot and high on social media; it’s an echo chamber for outrage and the nexus of our new curated narcissism. The guy who beat up Snarkramento just proved that social media and real life have at least this in common: They’re both places where adults can prove they are babies. (KRA)
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a year that often felt like a nightmare, the simulated dream of the movies was especially alluring, while the medium’s potential for transcendent empathy became more important than ever. In that spirit, SN&R critics Daniel Barnes and Jim Lane each compiled lists of the best (and worst) films of 2016. From a Hong Kong hospital to a Morro Bay aquarium, from 1930s Korea to 1970s Los Angeles, from stories of heroes and nihilists to stories of witches and giants, these are the dreams they couldn’t shake.
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The Handmaiden: Park Chanwook’s aesthetically immaculate symphony of seduction and misdirection, set in a Japanese-occupied Korea heightened to the point of surrealism. Wonderfully strange and erotic, with dazzling performances from Kim Min-Hee and Kim Tae-Ri.
Three: A genre-bending, Hawksmeets-De Palma-meets-10,000energy-drinks blast of action, intrigue, ethical ultimatums and escalating tension from Hong Kong legend Johnnie To, culminating with the most satisfying set piece of the year. The Witch: Insidious horror, Puritan anthropology, gripping drama and caustic social commentary from writer-director Robert Eggers, who turned his lifelong obsession with witches into this story of a family falling apart on the edge of the wilderness. American Honey: Like a documentary about a dream, Andrea Arnold’s road movie is more dizzyingly alive than any other 2016 film, saturated with a surprising blend of desperation and hope. Star Sasha Lane deserves a brilliant career.
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The Salesman: A moral tale of sickening elegance from Iranian auteur Asghar Farhadi (A Separation), who slowly weaves a spider web of shame, rage and world-crumbling dread from outwardly innocuous words and gestures.
Krisha: Trey Edward Shults’ debut feature feels like the family dinner scene from Punch-Drunk Love stretched to feature length. As the titular black sheep protagonist leads herself to Thanksgiving slaughter, the film practically vibrates with nervous energy.
Elle: Paul Verhoeven’s first film in a decade (the reality show byproduct Tricked hardly counts), and it’s the most Verhoeven-y thing you could want: perverse, cheeky, disturbing, penetrating, accessible, inscrutable and insane. This is Isabelle Huppert’s world, we’re all just visiting.
The Wailing: The biggest surprise of the year, a treacherously intense supernatural serial killer mystery about a slightly bumbling small-town cop (a sublimely over-the-top Do Won Kwak) whose daughter contracts a mysterious sickness blamed on a forest-dwelling foreigner.
WoRSt films of the year 1. independence day: resurgence 2. ghostbusters 3. now you see me 2 4. allegiant 5. Birth of a nation —d.B.
Moonlight: Short on subtle symbolism but overflowing with empathy, beauty and love, Barry Jenkins’ tender drama uses three different actors to portray its bullied homosexual protagonist, but Mahershala Ali still walks away with the film as the boy’s tragically compromised mentor.
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Right Now, Wrong Then and Paterson (tie): Korean director Hong Sang-Soo’s shoegazing anti-romance and Jim Jarmusch’s New Jersey-set slice-of-meditative-life occupy opposite sides of the globe, but they share the same delicately wise balance of human frailty and mystical optimism.
Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight is tender and tragic.
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B a c k to R eality True crime, class structures and obscenely rich people: SN&R film critic Daniel Barnes highlights five films that stuck to real life to tell a compelling, unforgettable story.
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cameraperson:
Kristen Johnson pours her soul into this highlight reel-cum-memoir, challenging our notions about documentary film making while offering profound insights into mortality, poverty, war, narrative structure, power structure, racism, sexism, violence and motherhood.
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o.J.: made in america: The O.J.
Simpson murder trial collided race, class, justice and celebrity in a manner that continues to fascinate and nauseate, but the trial doesn’t even start until roughly halfway through Ezra Edelman’s thoroughly engrossing eight-hour American panorama.
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Craig Atkinson directs this distressingly relevant examination of the militarization of American police, and the disproportionately violent force exacted on black communities as a result. Skin-crawling terror that puts most horror films to shame.
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Tickled: David
Farrier and Dylan Reeve’s take a tabloid-ready tale (the world of “competitive tickling”) and turn it into something thematically rich and unexpectedly emotional, finally forming a portrait of obscene privilege running amok.
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gorgeous and powerful neorealist documentary that contrasts the immigrant crisis on the Italian island of Lampedusa, where thousands of African refugees wash up every year, with the relatively sleepy day-to-day lives of the island residents.
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Arrival: You needn’t have read Ted Chiang’s short story, “Story of Your Life,” to enjoy this alien-visitation drama, but it would help you appreciate how masterfully writer Eric Heisserer and director Denis Villeneuve adapted it. This movie reminded us that science fiction can be more than adolescent space opera.
went mainstream to film M.L. Stedman’s novel. He should do it more often; his original scripts for Blue Valentine and The Place Beyond the Pines only fumbled for the depth, resonance and eye for telling details that he achieved here; Stedman must have made the difference.
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The BFG: This magical masterpiece may have been too good not to flop. Never mind, its audience will find it eventually. Steven Spielberg and writer Melissa Mathison didn’t just film Roald Dahl’s kid-lit book, they transformed it; if only Dahl and Mathison had lived to see it.
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Eye in the Sky: The moral and political implications of drone warfare got a wringing-out in this, a philosophical examination disguised as a thriller tense enough to make Jason Bourne hang his head. Fine performances all around, including the great Alan Rickman’s final one.
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Finding Dory: Less a follow-up to Finding Nemo than a fulfillment of it (the way Toy Story 2 was for Toy Story), this was probably the sweetest and most purely entertaining movie of the year; writer-director Andrew Stanton (also the man behind Toy Story 2, A Bug’s Life, WALL-E and the underrated John Carter) may be Pixar’s secret weapon.
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Hacksaw Ridge: Mel Gibson may be persona non grata in Hollywood—but damn, that man knows how to put a movie together when he’s
Ryan Gosling (left) and Russell Crowe are The Nice Guys.
on his game. This war drama was brilliant on every level—including Gibson’s direction and the towering performance he drew from Andrew Garfield as war hero Desmond Doss.
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Hunt for the Wilderpeople: This quirky, offbeat buddy picture about two unwitting fugitives from justice in the wilds of New Zealand was the pleasant surprise of the year, with roughand-warm performances from veteran Sam Neill and newcomer Julian Dennison.
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The Light Between Oceans: Writer-director Derek Cianfrance, the current darling of the art-house set,
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The Nice Guys: Was this movie’s $36.2 million box office enough to turn a profit? I hope so, because it was a swell buddy mystery-comedy, with Russell Crowe and (especially) Ryan Gosling as a hilarious team. Writer-director Shane Black paid wry tribute to the sun-bleached LA of The Rockford Files, TV’s greatest detective show.
1. Batman vs. superman: dawn of Justice: And, also, the death of fun.
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3. dirty Grandpa: The absolute low
Risen: Roman centurion Joseph Fiennes searches for the body of the crucified Jesus so he can prove he hasn’t risen from the dead. Faith-based filmmakers, take note: This is how it’s done! Fine acting, intelligent script (by Paul Aiello and director Kevin Reynolds), good production values and a soft pedal on the preaching. This movie made it look easy.
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Sully: Director Clint Eastwood, writer Todd Komarnicki and stars Tom Hanks and Aaron Eckhart were never better than in this telling of 2009’s Miracle on the Hudson. Eastwood and Komarnicki found a suspenseful angle on a story everybody knows, and Hanks and Eckhart vanished into their characters. Movie craftsmanship at its highest.
Billion-dollar box office or not, it stank. No doubt the next one will too.
2. Ben-hur: Perhaps the least-necessary remake ever, this maiming of Gen. Lew Wallace’s novel never rose to the level of insignificance.
point of Robert De Niro’s career. Zac Efron’s, too (and he was in both of the Neighbors films).
4. max steel: With this, Mattel
unwisely followed Hasbro into movies. How bad do you have to be to make the Transformers series look good? Now we know.
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drama last even a week in theaters? Inept and amateurish, it looked like it was photographed with an iPhone.
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the Night After Christmas Party monday, december 26 Revelers overdosing on family can escape down at the Press Club. Jason Welt, Danny Secretion and Andrew Harrison will bring the PArtY tunes, Johnny Taylor Jr. will be a funny sonuvabitch and—get this—all door proceeds benefit Loaves & Fishes. $6-$10 donation; 8 p.m. at Press Club, 2030 P Street; www.facebook.com/ thepressclub.
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Davis conductor Matilda Hofman is coming off a hectic week. She just finished six different rendezvous with the Sugar Plum Fairy—four in San Francisco, where she conducted sets for the San Francisco Ballet’s production of Nutcracker, and locally where she led the Sacramento Ballet’s version, Ron Cunningham’s The Nutcracker, for two productions. And she’s not done with the iconic ballet yet: Hofman will conduct two more performances with the Sacramento Ballet on December 23. For Hofman, the production is more than just a December mainstay, it’s a family affair of sorts. Hofman’s husband Christian Baldini, also a conductor, recently led the Camellia Symphony Orchestra and Bellissima European Dance Academy through selected Nutcracker highlights. It’s not the first time this “two baton” couple has found each partner studying the same music. “I can tell you which pieces we’ve both studied, because those are the pieces we have multiple scores of,” said Hofman. “Elgar: Enigma Variations. Stravinsky: Rite of Spring. The late Tchaikovsky symphonies.” Still, Baldini stresses, this time, the shared process has been somewhat different. “I think this is the first time we’ve both been conducting performances of essentially the same music during the same week,” he said They haven’t been doing precisely the same scores, of course. The San Francisco Ballet, which has a full-sized orchestra, does the original Tchaikovsky orchestration while the Sacramento Ballet conducts a chamber-orchestra version. Meanwhile, the Camellia Symphony Orchestra performed excerpts, not the entire show. Each of the three productions also features different cuts, different
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choreography and different tempos. The husband and wife have very different experiences and backgrounds with the holiday ballet. Hofman grew up on The Nutcracker as a girl in England, and says she still remembers feeling awe the first time she witnessed it at age 7. “It must have been the Royal Ballet in London,” she said. “I do remember the scene with the rats, and being very scared. They were very realistic, or so I thought at the time. And they were so big.” Baldini, who grew up in Argentina, has only become familiar with it more recently. “It’s not done as much in South America … it’s not something I grew up with,” he said. “But it’s something I’m [now] seeing our children grow up with.” The Nutcracker originated in Russia in 1892 and eventually became a hit. The first complete performance outside of Russia happened in London in 1934, and the first complete American performance was in San Francisco in 1944. After that, the ballet started catching on, with annual productions in San Francisco, then London and then New York, with the famous George Balanchine production starting in 1954. Soon, The Nutcracker became a behemoth. “Almost ever ballet company in America is doing it this month,” Baldini said. Not surprisingly, the couple’s young sons—a firstgrader and a second-grader—have grown up with The Nutcracker. “I took them to see the Sacramento Ballet’s production two years ago … they loved it,” Hofman said. “The Russian Dance (Trepak) is their particular favorite.” And earlier this month, Baldini, fresh off a flight back from Argentina, where he had been conducting an opera, took the children to catch the Sacramento Ballet’s production again. “I took them so they could see Mommy conduct, they were very excited,” Baldini said. “It’s a familytype piece, and there is magic in the story. Ω Ron Cunningham’s Nutcracker; 7 p.m. Thursday, December 22. Live music performances with conducting by Matilda Hofman, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. December 23; $22-$88. Sacramento Community Center Theatre, 1301 L Street; www.sacballet.org.
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This is a hilarious British pantomime version of the beloved fairy tale, with song, dance, buffoonery, slapstick, crossdressing, in-jokes, topical references, mild innuendo and audience participation. In other words, there’s enough action for the youngest child and plenty of double entendres for the adults. Th, F 7pm Sa 2pm and
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Robin and his merry men swing through the Sherwood Forest, fighting the evil Sheriff of Nottingham in this delightful one-act play from the B Street Theatre. The show, which features five talented B Street regulars performing multiple roles, is recommended for all ages. Sa, Su 1 pm and 4 pm. Through 12/24. $18-$23. B Street Theatre, 2711 B Street; (916) 443-5300; www.bstreettheatre.org. B.S.
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Denzel Washington’s film adaptation of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Fences will no doubt spark a fresh round of opinion-slinging about the need to “open up” a stage show for the movie medium. No matter how well-intentioned, these sorts of reductive debates only serve to seal simple-minded concepts of what a film can be into tiny, airless boxes, when the true magic of cinema is that it can be anything (or nothing) at all. For what it’s worth, the film adaptation of Fences largely fails the “opening up” test—it’s not self-consciously stagy in the vein of Dogville or Double Suicide, but it mostly sticks to a single location, and indulges the actors in leisurely paced scenes loaded with Wilson’s loquaciously common language. But that so-called staginess is also bracingly cinematic in its way, and the film works (and occasionally doesn’t work) for presumably the same reasons that the material worked (and occasionally didn’t work) on stage. Fences is the sixth play in Wilson’s “Pittsburgh Cycle,” a run of 10 plays mostly set in the same African-American neighborhood, with each production taking place in a different decade of the 20th century. Fences takes place in the 1950s, and Washington plays Troy Maxson, a garbage collector and former Negro Leagues ballplayer still bitter over the shot he never got. Troy doesn’t share the optimism of his comparatively sensitive sons, certain that the rigged system will fail his boys as it failed him, and maybe even secretly hoping that it will. He unleashes his resentment, often in the form of braggadocio and tall tales, on the people around him— his saintly wife Rose (Viola Davis), his best friend
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Bono (Stephen Henderson), his brother Gabriel (Mykelti Williamson) and his sons Lyons (Russell Hornsby) and Cory (Jovan Adepo). The action occurs over a series of weekends across several years, with Troy holding court on Friday night as a bottle gets passed around the porch, while on Saturdays he slowly constructs a backyard fence whose symbolic value gets explained to death. Fences is the third feature directed by Washington, and it feels like those two earlier, minor efforts were mere warmups for eventually tackling something as prestigious as August Wilson. Washington hardly rewrites the book, but the filmmaking is fluid and patient and tasteful-in-a-goodway, and the images captured by cinematographer Charlotte Bruus Christensen (Far from the Madding Crowd) convey a modern American mythology without resorting to sepiatoned shtick. The acting here is uniformly good … and such generous portions! None of the scenerychewers go home hungry. Washington and Davis starred together in the Tonywinning 2010 revival of the play, so their chemistry is easy and unquestionable. Denzel reaches for the rafters for his performance, but it’s still a treat to watch him in tour-de-force mode. Davis is practically incapable of sounding a false note—she only seems to get more real and honest the closer the script forces her toward cliché. Her passion, grace and subtle physicality perfectly complements and grounds Washington’s bigness and broadness. Ω
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Collateral Beauty
When a grieving father (Will Smith) remains almost catatonic two years after his daughter’s death, his friends and business partners (Edward Norton, Kate Winslet, Michael Peña) resort to desperate measures. To say more would be spoiling things (the movie’s trailer is a masterpiece of misdirection). Suffice to say this would-be tearjerker from writer Alan Loeb and director David Frankel is too slick and pat by half; its symmetrical smoothness is its own worst enemy. Heartstrings resist such clearly calculated tugging; good tearjerkers tend to be a bit more messy. Still, it’s a divertingenough anecdote, well-acted by an aristocratic cast: Keira Knightley, Helen Mirren, Jacob Latimore and Naomie Harris are also along. The most interesting performance is a cameo by Ann Dowd as an unorthodox private eye. J.L.
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Why Him?
A doting father (Bryan Cranston) meets the new boyfriend (James Franco) of his precious daughter (Zoey Deutch); he dislikes the guy on sight, and his antipathy grows by leaps and bounds over an uncomfortable Christmas weekend. Warning to the prudish, the squeamish and those easily offended by sex-and-potty jokes and rampant profanity: this is not the movie for you. For the rest, proceed with confidence, because raunchy and undisciplined as it is, it’s pretty damn funny. Cranston shows an unsuspected (though not surprising) flair for comedy, and a freewheeling chemistry with Franco, Megan Mullally (as his wife) and the underrated Deutch. Cedric the Entertainer, Zack Pearlman and Griffin Gluck round out the main cast. Written by Jonah Hill, Ian Helfer and director John Hamburg, it’s lowbrow but energetic. J.L.
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Man Down
A coffee-shop barista and aspiring actress (Emma Stone) and a frustrated jazz pianist (Ryan Gosling) meet, fall in love and struggle against the dream-killing city of Los Angeles, even as their careers pull them in opposite directions. Writer-director Damien Chazelle’s movie begins as an exuberant musical comedy (with clever songs by Justin Hurwitz, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul) and ends as a bittersweet reflection on what might have been. The transition isn’t always smooth; the movie sags in the center as the songs grow sparse. But there are virtues, too—chiefly the proven screen chemistry between Stone and Gosling. (Their songand-dance chops aren’t half-bad, either.) Linus Sandgren’s luscious cinematography is another plus, along with a pervading sweetness imparted by Chazelle’s affectionate direction. J.L.
Shia LeBeouf became an omnipresent nuisance on movie screens throughout the 2000s, but give him credit for going cold turkey from franchise dreck ever since 2011’s Transformers: Dark of the Moon, and for working with more interesting directors. The performances and the films are gradually getting better, but they can’t all be winners. Man Down premiered at the Venice Film Festival in September 2015, where it was greeted with largely negative reviews, and, unlike a fine wine, the film did not improve with age. Director and co-writer Dito Montiel casts LeBeouf as Gabriel Drummer, a troubled veteran searching for his child in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, while flashing back to prewar life with his wife (Kate Mara), and to wartime sessions with an army therapist (Gary Oldman). LeBeouf works his tail off, but too many scenes are meandering and shapeless, with only the puzzle box structure of the story left to hold our interest. D.B.
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Australian director Garth Davis makes his feature debut with this drastically uneven biopic of Saroo Brierley, an Indian-born man who was tragically separated from his family as a child, only reconnecting with his roots after an exhaustive, years-long internet search. The first half of Lion, which follows young Saroo as he boards an empty train that tragically whisks him thousands of miles away, tracking his nightmarish experiences alone on the streets of Calcutta, is rote but riveting stuff. Unfortunately, nearly the entire second half is devoted to the adult Saroo’s obsessive scouring of the internet for his real family, and the net effect is an hour straight of Dev Patel playing with Google Earth, while Nicole Kidman goes awards-slumming in an awful wig as Saroo’s adoptive Australian mother. Davis and screenwriter Luke Davies aggressively strum the heartstrings, but the film falters as it focuses more on product placement than people. D.B.
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Natalie Portman stars as Jacqueline Kennedy in this contemplative but shallow biopic from Chilean director Pablo Larraín. The film largely takes place in the immediate aftermath of the 1963 Kennedy assassination, as Jackie deals with the trauma of her husband’s death and struggles with how to properly honor his legacy, even as she’s getting edged out of her home by the new administration. As with the other Larraín-directed biopic released this year (the Chilean Oscar submission Neruda), Jackie has a dreamy tone and flowing structure that both get undermined by a groaner narrative framing device. All the perfectly manicured technical elements assembled by Larraín—Stéphane Fontaine’s lyrical cinematography, Jean Rabasse’s flawless production design, Mica Levi’s haunting score, even Portman’s heavily mannered performance—are the reasons to watch Jackie, even as they overwhelm a slight and not particularly revealing story of strength and grace under the world’s microscope. D.B.
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Miss Sloane
A ruthless, workaholic Washington lobbyist (Jessica Chastain) takes on the NRA over a background-check bill making its way through Congress. First-time writer Jonathan Perera appears to have come down with a bad case of Aaron Sorkin Disease—his script is a fervid manifesto masquerading as a political thriller, ringing false from the title on down (does anybody even say “Miss” anymore outside of beauty pageants?), and bristling with dialogue that sounds like bumper-sticker slogans cribbed from the Huffington Post gift shop. Chastain stomps around barking at everybody—she practically has “ball buster” tattooed on her forehead—while director John Madden and his cast (Sam Waterston, John Lithgow, Mark Strong, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Alison Pill, etc.) struggle to bring all these glib stick figures to life. J.L.
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A Chicago IT company manager (Jason Bateman) and his dipsy-doodle boss (T.J. Miller) decide to throw a huge holiday party—in defiance of the boss’ mean sister (Jennifer Aniston), who also happens to be the CEO. Two directors (Josh Gordon, Will Speck) and six writers (Justin Malen, Laura Solon, Dan Mazer, Jon Lucas, Scott Moore, Timothy Dowling), and all they had to do was find an excuse for the kind of party scene that happens only in lame-brained movies like this. Is this the best they could come up with, really? Well, the party’s there if that’s what you’re looking for; all that’s missing is a swimming pool full of 20-somethings pretending to be high school kids. Bateman and Aniston discharge their duties dutifully and doggedly, followed by Olivia Munn, Courtney B. Vance, Kate McKinnon and others. J.L.
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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
A young woman (Felicity Jones) is recruited by the Rebel Alliance to find her father (Mads Mikkelsen), the turncoat who designed the Death Star, which is about to be unleashed against the Alliance. If you’re inclined to identify the Star Wars movies as “episodes,” think of this as Episode 3.99, since it ends about 45 minutes before Episode IV: A New Hope begins. It’s pretty routine, but Star Wars faithful should find it plenty good enough; director Gareth Edwards keeps things moving well enough for the modest needs of the script (by Chris Weitz, Tony Gilroy, John Knoll and Gary Whitta). The most interesting performance is by the late Peter Cushing, who returns as Grand Moff Tarkin thanks to the magic of CGI. That’s right—the best acting is done by an actor who’s been dead for 22 years. J.L.
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The Palms returns After months of uncertainty, the longtime Winters venue will reopen with a fresh perspective by Justin Cox
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ometimes we hold ourselves back because we cannot find the right state of mind. In the book Super Rich: A Guide to Having it All, Russell Simmons has a chapter called Poverty Mindset. I swore to myself that he was not talking to me, but I knew many people I would share the chapter with. And yet, I found that he is talking about me. I did not want to read this book for the second time. Been there, done that! But the message within this chapter is worth sharing. “Stop suffering needlessly because you believe you have been ‘shut out’ from making it. You feel shut out because of your race, your economic situation, your sex, your sexuality, your social standing of even your physical appearance. No matter what it stems from, when you have a poverty mindset you’re going to believe that the object that will make you happy is always outside of your grasp.” It’s time to get free from a lifestyle that is holding you down and find the courage to embrace a lifestyle that uplifts you. You simply have to be willing to move forward and face your fears. The
catch is that you have to do it over and over again. People think that it’s impossible — that it just can’t be done. I have heard that so many times. Whatever challenge or difficulty that comes along, you just have to handle it. Situate the situation. Consistency is the way to win at this. In order to experience a more abundant life, you must be consistent with changing your habits and pushing past the fear. As you work on yourself and begin to acknowledge your power, you will begin to make the strides to achieve your goals. Winning and losing comes a dime a dozen. You can’t measure the wins and losses — you have to measure success in life by the progress you are making toward your dreams. This is the lesson learned over the last year. Freedom and happiness are found in the consistent flexibility through which we as individuals and communities move through change. I wish all that see this prosperity in 2017. Namaste, ya’ll. Respect and peace, -Leo
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“That’s right—you’re frickin’ powerful,” funk bassist and frontman Tony Glaser shouts to the crowd in a live performance of his song, “Don’t Suck (Be Cool).” He turns to the guitarist, and they proceed to get funky. The crowd cheers and Funk-Rock wildly waves their arms. By the end of the song, everyone is getting down, and Glaser declares he has converted them all to optimists. There’s no denying that Glaser’s fat bass grooves and staccato melodies turn frowns upside down and get a body moving. These tunes turn a regular night into a full-on dance party. 1400 E Street, www.tonyglasermusic.com.
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Write a personal note in a beautiful blank card. Pair it with a thoughtful gift that shows you’ve been paying attention to the things your crush enjoys. You can also give her the kind of item you might bring to a dinner party at a friend’s home: a bouquet of flowers, a bottle of wine or an exceptional box of chocolates. Keep the purchase under $25. It’s simple: You haven’t yet met the man That probably answers your question, who is looking for you. Trust me, he’s but just in case, here are other timelines to out there wondering where the conscious consider. The trickiest dating period is one women are, and why he doesn’t feel a to three months, because you’re not excluconnection with the women he’s meeting. sive or serious yet, but one of you probably Hopefully, he’s not putting those women wants to be. Missteps include love bombing down because that wouldn’t be in alignment a crush with gifts that are too romantic or with an evolved consciousness, right? expensive. That’s a sign you’re pushing the So when you meet a man, how do relationship to the stage your mind fantayou know he’s awake? A core quality of sizes about, instead of allowing love to consciousness is the ability to unfold naturally. Redirect your communicate honestly and to focus to a gift certificate for manage conflict respectfully. playful activities neither of A conscious person is you are experts in. Think driven by the desire to rowing, kayaking, indoor When you meet a grow, so he willingly skydiving, outdoor ice man, how do you tackles any relationship skating or a cooking class. issues that arise. When know he’s awake? The couple that plays the going gets tough, together discovers the healhe engages in difficult ing power of laughter. conversations without yelling And since I’ve been talkor name-calling or running ing to a lot of bickering couples away. He’s open to your feedback, let me add that, for them, the best gift recognizes his responsibility and handles it. is one that’s a reminder of happier times. Ω A conscious man wants to be understood and he seeks to understand. He’s authentic and ready to share responsibility for the care and nurturing of the relationship. MedITaTIon of The Week It’s easy to imagine that a conscious “As long as we are not relationship will be a happily-ever-after ourselves, we will try to be story. Yes, there’s love and beauty. But what other people are,” writes there will be fear, too, because a conscious Malidoma Patrice Somé. The relationship will inspire you to play big in greatest gift we can give the your life, to love with abandon and to be Divine and the world is to be seen. If you desire a conscious man, align ourselves. What do you need to shed to be more you? your energy—start living as if you are already in love with him. In the process, you’ll see and can change any attitudes or Joey co-hosts The Salve behaviors that might be pushing away the podcast with Bethany Crouch: man you desire. www.joeygarcia.com/salve. What’s the holiday gift protocol for a girl I like but haven’t dated that long? I’ve been given advice from my mom and some others but I wonder what you think. Thanks. If you’ve been on between one and four dates with someone and think the relationship has long-term potential, keep it classy.
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FOR THE WEEk OF DECEMBER 22, 2016 ARIES (March 21-April 19): NPR’s Scott Simon
interviewed jazz pianist and songwriter Robert Glasper, who has created nine albums, won a Grammy and collaborated with a range of great musicians. Simon asked him if he had any ”grand ambitions” that people discouraged him from pursuing. Glasper said yes. He’d really like to compose and sing hip-hop rhymes. But his bandmates just won’t go along with him when he tries that stuff. I hope that Glasper, who’s an Aries, will read this horoscope and take heart from what I’m about to predict: In 2017, you may finally get a “Yes!” from people who have previously said “No!”
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Humans have drunk
hot tea for over two millennia. Chinese emperors were enjoying it as far back as the second century B.C. And yet it wasn’t until the 20th century that anyone dreamed up the idea of enclosing tea leaves in convenient one-serving bags to be efficiently brewed. I foresee you either generating or stumbling upon comparable breakthroughs in 2017, Taurus. Long-running traditions or customs will undergo simple but dramatic transformations that streamline your life.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “What you do is what
counts and not what you had the intention of doing,” said Pablo Picasso. If I had to choose a single piece of advice to serve as your steady flame in 2017, it might be that quote. If you agree, I invite you to conduct this experiment: On the first day of each month, take a piece of paper and write down three key promises you’re making to yourself. Add a brief analysis of how well you have lived up to those promises in the previous four weeks. Then describe in strong language how you plan to better fulfill those promises in the coming four weeks.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): During the campaign
for U.S. president in 1896, Democratic candidate William Jennings Bryan traveled 18,000 miles as he made speeches all over the country. But the Republican candidate, William McKinley, never left his hometown of Canton, Ohio. He urged people to visit him if they wanted to hear what he had to say. The strategy worked. The speeches he delivered from the front porch of his house drew 750,000 attendees and played an important role in his election. I recommend a comparable approach for you in the coming months, Cancerian. Invoke all your attractive power as you invite interested parties to come see you and deal with you on your home turf.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Poetry is a way of knowl-
edge, but most poetry tells us what we already know,” writes poet Charles Simic. I would say the same thing about a lot of art, theater, film, music and fiction: Too often it presents well-crafted repetitions of ideas we have heard before. In my astrological opinion, Leo, 2017 will be a time when you’ll need to rebel against that limitation. You will thrive by searching for sources that provide you with novel information and unique understandings. Simic says: “The poem I want to write is impossible: a stone that floats.” I say: Be on the lookout for stones that float.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The Economist
reports that if someone wanted to transport $10 million in bills, he or she would have to use eight briefcases. Sadly, after evaluating your astrological omens for 2017, I’ve determined that you won’t ever have a need for that many. If you find yourself in a situation where you must carry bundles of money from one place to another, one suitcase will always be sufficient. But I also want to note that a sizable stash of cash can fit into a single suitcase. And it’s not out of the question that such a scenario could transpire for you in the coming months. In fact, I foresee a better chance for you to get richer quicker than I’ve seen in years.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): For a bald eagle in
flight, feathers are crucial in maintaining balance. If it inadvertently loses a feather on one wing, it will purposely shed a comparable feather on the other wing. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, this strategy has metaphorical meaning for your life in 2017. Would you like to ascend and dive, explore and scout, with ease and exuberance? Learn from the eagle’s instinctual wisdom.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In August 2012,
a group of tourists visited the Eldgja volcanic region in Iceland. After a while, they noticed that a fellow traveler was missing. Guides organized a search party, which worked well into the night trying to track down the lost woman. At 3 a.m., one of the searchers suddenly realized that she herself was the missing person everyone was looking for. The misunderstanding had occurred many hours earlier because she had slipped away to change her clothes, and no one recognized her in her new garb. This is a good teaching story for you to meditate on in 2017, Scorpio. I’d love to see you change so much that you’re almost unrecognizable. And I’d love to see you help people go searching for the new you.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In 2017, you
will be at the peak of your ability to forge new alliances and deepen existing alliances. You’ll have a sixth sense for cultivating professional connections that can serve your noble ambitions for years to come. I encourage you to be alert for new possibilities that might be both useful for your career and invigorating for your social life. The words “work” and “fun” will belong together! To achieve the best results, formulate a clear vision of the community and support system you want.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorn
writer Edgar Allan Poe has been an important cultural influence. His work appears on many “must-read” lists of 19th-century American literature. But during the time he was alive, his best-selling book was not his famous poem “The Raven,” nor his short story “The Gold-Bug,” nor his novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. Rather, it was The Conchologist’s First Book, a textbook about mollusk shells, which he didn’t actually write, but merely translated and edited. If I’m reading the astrological omens correctly, 2017 will bring events to help ensure that your fate is different from Poe’s. I see the coming months as a time when your best talents will be seen and appreciated better than ever before.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “My goal is to
create a life that I don’t need a vacation from,” says motivational author Rob Hill Sr. That’s an implausible dream for most people. But in 2017, it will be less implausible than it has ever been for you Aquarians. I don’t guarantee that it will happen. But there is a decent chance you’ll build a robust foundation for it, and thereby give yourself a head start that enables you to accomplish it by 2019. Here’s a tip on how to arouse and cultivate your motivation: Set an intention to drum up and seek out benevolent “shocks” that expand your concepts of who you are and what your life is about.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The birds known
as winter wrens live in the Puget Sound area of Washington. They weigh barely half an ounce, and their plain brown coloring makes their appearance unremarkable. Yet they are the avian equivalents of the opera star Pavarotti. If they weighed as much as roosters, their call would be ten times as strong as the rooster’s cock-a-doodle-doo. Their melodies are rich and complex; one song may have more than 300 notes. When in peak form, the birds can unleash cascades at the rate of 36 notes per second. I propose that we make the winter wren your spirit animal in 2017, Pisces. To a casual observer, you may not look like you can generate so much virtuosity and lyrical power. But according to my analysis, you can.
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Forget what you learned While some youngsters may not give too much meaning to the finger paints or crayons that they play with, Sonya Fe has known she’s wanted to be an artist since she was little. Fast-forward to today, and Fe’s new exhibit, Passion of Color, is now open at the SMUD Art Gallery, and will be running through January 4. SN&R caught up with her to talk about the city’s relationship with artists of color, creativity in publicly funded art and sheep.
How’s it feel being in the SMUD gallery? Oh, I feel good. I mean, I’ve been showing a long time, so it’s just like another little feather in my cap.
What’s most important to you in your own art? What’s important to me is to create works of art that are new for me. If they’re new for me, they’re going to be new for other people. And I like to create work that makes the people think and feel in another way of looking at something beside the old, cliché way of looking at things, if that makes any sense. … For instance, there’s a[n] artist named Horace Pippin, and he’s long-gone dead, he was a slave artist. Self-taught. He would paint the human face with no specific training, no technical training, but he would paint and it was his own vision. And then you compare it to a[n] artist who is well-trained, and the differences are so different. … When you create, forget all that you learned and let it just come from you.
What is the local art scene missing right now? It seems like that’s what we show a lot of is New York school, that modern stuff, which
is fine, but it’s not all that there is. And we show a lot of the old European standards of work, which is fine, but that’s not all there is. Let’s show some black [artists] and some Latinos and Asians, or somebody else. … A lot of it is like stuck in the New York school in the ’60s and ’70s. That’s how I see it. We got to get more to 2017.
It’s a shame just to see a whole city stuck in one style. You know why they’re stuck in that one style? Because the powers that be own Sacramento and that’s what they like. Uh-oh, I’m going to get in trouble now. (Laughs.)
What can the city do to support the arts in underrepresented communities? They have preconceived notions as to what art should be, and they live and they try to exhibit those views and those visions. But art is constantly being recreated and reinvented, you know? And it seems like we don’t give people that do work like that a chance, because a lot of it’s just raw work and if something’s new to you and you’re not comfortable with it, many times you’ll reject it. … For example: work by minority artists. … They have different views, different experiences, different visions. So, they create artwork, [and] a lot of times, or many times, it’s looked upon as, ‘Well, we don’t understand this, and it’s not the mainstream,’ so it doesn’t get the backing as the mainstream stuff that everybody is familiar with. Does that make sense?
“Oh, yeah, yeah, genius, it’s this, it’s that,” but you know, they needed the applause or the push in the beginning. It’s just like when I was teaching on the Hoopa Indian reservation years ago. … There was this one little boy, he was doing a portrait and his was completely different from everybody else in the classroom. And I sat down with him … because they were laughing at his work, and I [said,] “Let me tell you something, you have guts doing yours like that, because basically everybody’s a bunch of sheep, they’re just going to copy and do what feels good and what’s familiar. You’re doing something that’s not familiar and that takes guts to put it out there.’”And so later on I’m walking around the class and I hear him tell some little kid, another student, “Oh, you’re a sheep.” (Laughs.)
That’s hilarious. Yeah, so that was good, I’m glad he learned.
Any favorite things about working in Sacramento? To be honest with you, it doesn’t matter. … Sacramento or Los Angeles, when I’m in my studio I do not know where I’m at but in my studio. And I like that world. In that world, I feel a cool breeze running all through my body and my face. And I know that sounds crazy, but you can ask a lot of other artists, I’m sure they feel the same thing, but when I’m painting the skin on my face gets extremely cool, and I don’t know if that’s a form of meditation or what, but I really enjoy that high. Ω
Yeah. It’s sad to hear, but it makes sense. And then when someone who is in that small group breaks though and everyone starts understanding their work, they go,
Visit the SMUD Art Gallery at 6301 S Street, and learn more about Sonya Fe at www.artistsonyafe.com.
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