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Let’s have true justice “When people are willing to transform and change their lives, they shouldn’t be punished for it forever.” Common Sense—that’s what the rapper/actor/activist now known as Common used to call himself. He said the above to the Sacramento Bee’s Matt Kawahara on day one of a three-day campaign to bring some common sense to the state house. His message: The mass imprisonment of people of color must end. The Capitol Mall rally Monday night, during which Common was joined onstage by a dozen fellow-traveling artists and activists, kicked off two days during which he would meet with lawmakers to discuss pending legislation regarding crime and punishment. The event also signified the beginning of a movement. “Moments are important, but movements are more important,” said Van Jones, the author, CNN commentator and former Obama adviser. “This march marks the beginning of the end of mass incarceration in the United States of America.” Common was drawn to Sacramento by three bills. Senate Bill 394 would give people sentenced as juveniles to life without parole a chance to be released after 25 years of incarceration. SB 395 would require police to allow minors to consult with an attorney before waiving their Miranda rights. SB 10 would have an even more powerful impact: Aimed to fix a legal system that targets poor people for prison, it would “ensure that people are not held in pretrial detention simply because of their inability to afford money bail.” Young people of color and lowincome people of any color have reason to believe that the criminal justice system is biased against them. These bills would go a long way toward changing that.

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t first, Ivan Caballero delivered the news seven days a week. He had a newspaper route, dropping off morning dailies at hundreds of homes in Sacramento’s Greenhaven sector. Now, as an Access Sacramento neighborhood news youth correspondent, he covers the news himself and delivers his reports online about once a week. “I want to someday be an actual journalist,” said Caballero, 18, a recent John F. Kennedy High graduate bound for Sacramento City College. “I enjoy doing local stories, stories that matter to people.” Access Sacramento, a nonprofit publicaccess television/radio station, launched its Neighborhood News Youth-Correspondents Program in 2013. Since then, it has trained nearly 50 youths in the basics of broadcast journalism, from shooting and editing videos to writing on-air scripts. On average each correspondent works four months, for $10.50 an hour. The program, funded in part by The California Endowment, is directed by Isaac Gonzalez, who views his role with a sense of urgency now that Donald Trump is president. Trump’s ongoing attacks on the media — think “fake news” and “enemies of the state” — make it imperative that a new generation of reporters be trained to pursue the truth and give a voice to the voiceless, Gonzalez suggested.

He hires the correspondents based on commitment, not their equipment. “The most important part is attitude and eagerness to learn,” Gonzalez, 36, said. “If someone says he has five years’ video editing experience but has a chip on his shoulder, there’s no reason for me to hire him.” If someone has no internet access, yet craves to learn, “that’s the guy I want,” he said.

“Through journalism, i have seen so much ThaT is wrong wiTh The world. aT The same Time, i have seen The sTruggle … To make The world a beTTer place.” Bruce Tran Neighborhood News Youth Correspondent

In July Gonzalez supervised four correspondents, who assembled for weekly production meetings in their newsroom — the garage of Gonzalez’ Tahoe Park home. With his car gone, the garage is dominated by a massive table where the correspondents discuss their latest projects and debate local and national issues for podcasts. Their website, accesslocal. tv, averages about 3,000 visits monthly.

neighborhood news youth Correspondents Bruce Tran and Ivan Caballero say telling stories that matter can change the world. It’s what inspired their interest in journalism. Photo by Edgar Sanchez

Correspondent Bruce Tran, soon to be a senior at JFK High, said: “Through journalism, I have seen so much that is wrong with the world. At the same time, I have seen the struggle … to make the world a better place.” Tran, 17, who has also written for the Land Park News, hopes to effect positive changes through his stories — changes that would help “children of color” and the poor, among others.

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The human watering hole Re “Fountain of truth,” by Michael Mott (News, August 10): Our back patio overlooks a leaking above-ground water-main valve (maybe 50 feet away), and with a little wiggle room that allows for enough water that street people can fill jugs and even bathe right on the sidewalk. The valve is between several camps in Discovery Park and businesses they frequent for whatever. It attracts a considerable number of these people 7/24/365, and from my perch is strikingly like watching herds searching for water in the dry Serengeti on some nature program. It almost feels like I’m looking back through time at humans moving and hunting as we once did. In fact, the scene is such a study of humanity that I am seriously considering setting up a live cam. We think that such a live feed would put a real “face” on these faceless people. Seeing these people as people and as they are is the most basic step of all in addressing this very real problem. Oh, and for God’s sake, they are not to be feared. I talk with them, sometimes just a polite greeting (almost always reciprocated with equal respect). There but for the grace of God go we. If only for that reason, this must be addressed.

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End intolerance of nazis Re “Fight nazis with non-violence,” by Eric Johnson (Editor’s Note, August 17): Charlottesville played out the same scenario as the election, in that a group of self-righteous Americans would not tolerate the view and beliefs of another group of Americans. Moreover, they thought they were doing “the right thing” when in fact they were denying the constitutional rights of others to freedom of speech and the right to peaceful assembly. Like the election, there was an imbalance in reporting the news over all the Fake News stations. The media never shows or discusses both sides because they lack the balls to get at the truth. Donald Trump was the first person I’ve heard on the news to admonish both sides of the riotous protesters in order to show fairness. The keyword is intolerance. The media fosters intolerance because of the shadow government it serves.

There will never be a meaningful debate until good manners and respect for each other’s inalienable rights are respected. We need to stop shouting over each other [and] race-baiting. Maybe then we can make America great again. Otherwise, “a house divided against itself cannot stand.”

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Yeah. Right. Re “Fight nazis with non-violence,” by Eric Johnson (Editor’s Note, August 17): Lol. Good luck with that.

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Arm homeless with reporter’s notebooks Re “New editor is deluded,” (Letters, August 17): I was very pleased to see Faygo’s outstanding, well-in-

formed letter published in SN&R this week. While I am not in the mix on homeless matters to the extent of Mr. Clark, I do know enough about issues relating to homelessness such to say that I believe Faygo to be fully correct in what he writes about Mayor Steinberg. If you have ever read some of the Sherlock Holmes stories that Arthur Conan Doyle wrote, you would be aware of the Baker Street Irregulars—boys that Holmes and Watson utilized to get vital information to aid in solving puzzles at the center of mysterious events. In order to craft better articles, I am hopeful that SN&R will utilize Faygo and other thoughtful and serious homeless people as resources for its articles such that SN&R pieces are as accurate and excellent as they can be.

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Rancher Sondra WestMoore is appealing her county’s approval of a rock quarry and aggregate plant that would extract up to 5 million tons of rock near her Ione home. Photo by Michael Mott

Gold diggers Quarry venture with ‘passive’ ties to billionaire Democratic donor sparks fight with foothill ranchers by Michael Mott

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Sondra West-Moore slipped on her work boots and gazed out over the 40 acres of rolling grassland and heritage oaks her father, a retired Marine colonel, looked after for decades. The acidic, nutrientpoor soil supports rare species of manzanita and buckwheat, some of which are found nowhere outside this region. Col. Fraser E. West was one of those rare species. A man known for his pitbull spirit, course wit and forceful dedication, West was also known to care as much for his neighbors and community as he did the champion longhorn cattle he bred. After earning the Silver Star and Purple Heart in World War II, the world-class roper and skier spent a life building rodeo arenas,

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attending fairs and, eventually, raising longhorns in Ione—a tiny town 34 miles from the Capitol. In his last days, Col. West urged his daughter to keep up another fight, without him. “‘Got to. Have to,’” West-Moore recalled him saying. “I told him, ‘We’ll keep going.’” West-Moore, a corporate negotiator for HP, is engaged in a four-year legal battle over whether a 278-acre rock quarry should be built on Newman Ridge, an oak-studded hill a stone’s throw from her home. The industrial development would include the quarry and, just down the road, a 113-acre gravel, concrete and asphalt plant.

If constructed, the Newman Ridge quarry and Edwin Center North plant would operate for at least 50 years. According to a 2012 Environmental Impact Report, residents would see increased truck traffic, and thousands of tons of emissions—nearly double the threshold set by the Amador Air District. The EIR also found that that the project would have “significant and unavoidable” impacts on wildlife. The Amador County Board of Supervisors approved the project. Birds trilled as West-Moore patted a stocky longhorn after walking through the brush and oak woodlands. “This valley has always been agriculture,” she said. “This project affects 23

family-owned, legacy ranches. We just want to do what we do here.” In 2006, developers William Bunce and John Telischak, along with Farallon Capital Management, a $20 billion investment firm, bought 13,000 acres including the project site for $90 million. According to an article in the Sacramento Business Journal following the purchase, the tract was intended for a multiple-use development including mining, housing, conservation and grazing. The Nature Conservancy preserved a piece of the land, which straddles Sacramento and Amador counties, in 1999. (That property is famous locally because it once belonged to Charles Howard, who owned the racehorse Seabiscuit). The Amador County portion wasn’t included in the conservation easement. Throughout her involvement with the project, West-Moore has pointed to Farallon’s founder and former CEO, Tom Steyer. The billionaire hedgefund manager, one of California’s top Democratic political donors, has devoted himself to funding environmental campaigns and other philanthropic work since stepping down as Farallon’s CEO in 2012. His nonprofit political action committee, NextGen America, has backed climate change-supportive candidates

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uNliceNsed sleepovers and launched campaigns to register voters. He is said to be considering a run for California’s governorship in 2018. Questioned about this project, launched five years before he gave up day-to-day management of Farallon, Steyer’s team would not make their boss available, and would not answer specific questions about the project. In response to a series of questions asking Steyer to square his position as a high-profile environmentalist and his company’s involvement with this controversial project, Aleigha Cavalier would only say that Steyer is a “passive” investor. “Tom Steyer has no stake in this project,” Cavalier said via email, adding that the deal was conceived as a real estate project. “Tom Steyer left Farallon at the end of 2012 and sold his management stake.” The case pitting West-Moore and the project opponents against Amador County and the developers may soon come to a conclusion. The Third District Court of Appeals is expected to set a court date in the next several weeks. in october 2012, 40-plus residents, ranchers, developers and community members filed into the Amador County government center to weigh in on the development. The meeting was the first for West-Moore’s Ione Valley, Land, Air and Water Defense Alliance, or LAWDA. Supporters and opponents argued environmental conservation and jobs in the economically-depressed county. The county planning commission approved the EIR a few months earlier, despite comments from state agencies pressing for more details on the industrial facility’s impacts. The Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board called for a report on the project’s impacts on groundwater, likely drought-stricken; Caltrans and the city of Ione requested studies on traffic; the county’s environmental health department requested clarity on why water demands differed in parts of the report; and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers asked for more on the project’s wetland effects. The state Office of Mining Reclamation indicated “a number of serious deficiencies” in the project’s reclamation plan, to be used after the rock was mined. The then-state Department of Fish and Game suggested more mitigation efforts and also called for more information. The county’s air pollution officer, Michael Boitano, didn’t comment, except

to approve deferring the project’s mitigadon’t see them anymore,” he said. “You tion of toxic air contaminants until after go down any road in western Amador the EIR, when developers apply for an County and you’ll see an open pit” from air permit. Developer Bunce contends unreclaimed mines. those mitigation plans were deferred appropriately. after the county’s approval, laWda filed “The air board is the only regulatory a lawsuit claiming the project failed to agency with that jurisdiction,” said comply with state law around EIRs. Bunce, who contended other mitigation Two years after it took up the case, measures were extensive. the Amador Superior Court agreed with Foothill Conservancy, an environmenLAWDA: The EIR was fully de-certified, tal nonprofit, said the county should have given insufficient studies on traffic and seen and addressed those plans rail infrastructure. Yet, instead of before project approval. reviewing the entire EIR, the The EIR states longcounty only recirculated term emissions of one chapter related to PM10, a mixture of traffic and rail travel, “We have materials including not their effects on air homicide, genocide smoke and soot, quality or other enviand prostitution in our would be up to ronmental effects. 679.06 pounds The county was history also, but you don’t per day after able to do so legally: see them anymore.” mitigation efforts, As the project’s lead nearly double the agency, it can decide Jim Scully 384-pound threshold which parts to recircuIone wheat farmer considered acceptable late. After the additional by the Amador Air studies were done, in 2015, District. N0x, nitrogen supervisors re-approved the oxide, would be 6.8 times its partially-changed EIR. threshold. LAWDA challenged the decision The EIR states those emissions levels by going to the voters with a ballot would be “significant and unavoidable.” referendum, receiving over 2,000 signaLAWDA’s attorney, Doug Carstens, tures, nearly double what was needed. acquired via the Public Records Act If passed, the county would have had an email to Boitano from an air quality to change the zoning from industrial to consultant, Ray Kapahi, who said cumula- residential-agriculture, change its General tive emissions would be more significant Plan amendment and question the mine’s due to other quarries nearby. The suit reclamation plan. alleges those figures were incomplete and Supervisors could have reversed their were not cumulative. decision to approve the project or let the Asked about emissions, Bunce said ballot referendum go to a vote. Instead, the county carefully reviewed the mitigathey chose a third route: Suing Westtion measures and was later affirmed by Moore and LAWDA. the courts. The project was also moved The county won the lawsuit; the court several hundred feet to accommodate said that there was no legal precedent for air quality concerns, though the Public a citizens’ group to challenge a mineRecords Act-secured email notes that air reclamation plan. LAWDA appealed. quality risks could be a concern up to 2 Later, the state changed its reclamation miles around the center. regulations to allow public challenges like In 2012, supervisors voted nearly the one racing toward a conclusion. unanimously against appealing the EIR. West-Moore now questions whether “We all know why gas in California Amador County’s decision complies with is so high. We have more regulations and the state’s new groundwater legislation, taxes than any other state,” Supervisor and whether the EIR was complete. Ted Novelli said. “We have a possibility The county says only that the trial court here to bring jobs to the county.” affirmed its position. Heritage came up, given the region’s Back at her ranch, West-Moore history of mining. Jim Scully, a wheat glanced at a magazine article that featured farmer and one of 26 Ione residents who her father under the headline: “Marine for brought his concerns to the meeting, said all seasons.” some things should remain buried. “He told me, ‘You’re going to have “We have homicide, genocide and to do this.’ When a colonel tells you that, prostitution in our history also, but you you do it.” Ω

A troubled way station for children awaiting placement in foster care or group homes has been ordered to shut its doors by the end of next month. Acting as an entry point for children brought into the foster care system, Sacramento County’s Centralized Placement Support Unit leases an office from the Children’s Receiving Home of Sacramento. Problems first surfaced in February of last year, when the California Department of Social Services cited the county-run intake unit for “operating as an unlicensed shelter due to the extended stays of youth in the CPSU,” the state agency said in documents obtained by SN&R. The state found that children brought to the CPSU often stayed for extended periods of time, slept on the floor and went unsupervised. The state also noted that the office’s location in a high-crime area made children vulnerable to recruitment efforts by sex traffickers. In May, the San Francisco Chronicle broke the story about what was occurring at the CPSU. Last month, the state issued the county a letter telling it to close the intake office by September 30. Don Nottoli, chairman of the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors, acknowledged that supervisors knew of the problems for nearly a year, but decided against going public until a plan was in place to address them. The CPSU was established in 2010 with a stated goal of conducting comprehensive assessments for each child before deciding where to place them. It occupies an office on the Auburn Boulevard property of the Children’s Receiving Home, which issued a statement on its website distancing its operation from the intake unit. According to county data, the CPSU hosted a total of 1,705 children over a 13-month period ending in May of this year. While 64 percent of the youths were placed in a foster or group home setting within 24 hours, the average length of stay was 38.5 hours, with some staying as long as 30 days. Nottoli says the board will consider short- and long-term solutions during a public meeting before the state’s September 30 deadline. (Matt Kramer)

this old biG house “Severely outdated” was how Sacramento County’s chief of corrections described the Rio Cosumnes Correctional Center in Elk Grove. It was July 25, and David Torgerson was updating the Board of Supervisors about an $89 million plan to overhaul the aging custodial jail that houses some 3,500 inmates on the county’s rural outskirts. Torgerson, chief of correctional services at the Sheriff’s Department, which runs the jail, told supervisors that RCCC has been struggling to provide adequate services to its inmate population since realignment of the state prison system began redirecting nonviolent offenders to local jails in 2011. “It is literally falling apart,” Torgerson said. “What this project will do from a medical and mental health services standpoint is … to provide better and more services to the inmates at RCCC.” The need for psychiatric services within the jail is expansive. According to Jeff Gasaway, the county’s deputy director of general services, 42 percent of RCCC’s inmates—approximately 1,500 individuals—require mental health services. The Board of State and Community Corrections awarded Sacramento County $80 million in lease-revenue bond financing under California’s Construction of Adult Criminal Justice Facilities Program. The county is kicking in $8.89 million in “match” funding. Construction is slated to begin in March of next year, and be completed by april 2020. (M.K.)

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A supervising officer with the Sacramento Police Department attempts to explain “our perspective” to Zityrua Abraham, a pregnant woman who fell to the ground during a July 9 raid of the wrong home.

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Copology A Sacramento police supervisor apologized to a pregnant woman. It didn’t go over well. by Raheem F. hosseini

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Zityrua Abraham was understandably upset. On July 9, police officers in pursuit of a suspected automobile thief mistakenly kicked in Abraham’s apartment door and detained her mother’s boyfriend. In the struggle, a police officer yanked the pregnant Abraham, who fell to the ground. According to body camera footage released last week by the Sacramento Police Department, the resulting apology wasn’t accepted. The mistaken raid was one of two non-fatal police encounters last month the department released partial video of. Reviewed together, the footage illustrates a level of transparency that other law enforcement agencies haven’t adopted, but also shows how police officers can leave behind sour impressions when their attempted mea culpa rams up against their training to assert control over every situation. Earlier, police had rounded the corner into a sun-blanched courtyard and rushed a red door where a man matching their suspect’s description had

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entered a row-house apartments and locked himself inside, they say. Footage from one of four body-mounted cameras released August 17 show Abraham—her face pixelated, dressed in a red top that hugs her small, pregnant belly—wedging herself between the door and officers. “Come on, wait a minute, my son is in there!” she shouts. Barking at her to move, a tall officer pries her from the door by her right arm. Abraham continues to protest as the reflection in her apartment window briefly captures her tumbling to the ground. In a statement accompanying the release of police video, the department stated: “She refused to follow officer’s [sic] commands to move, so an officer grabbed her arm and pulled her to the left of him and out of the officers’ path to the doorway. After the officer let go, it appears her momentum took her from the paved walkway to the uneven grass surface. She lost her balance and fell to the ground.” Abraham had a different take, alleging that officers needlessly roughed her up without apologizing or providing

their badge numbers, as she requested. Internal Affairs is conducting an administrative investigation. A police official later arrived on the scene and did apologize to Abraham. But the recorded exchange, between a supervisor trying to get his side out and a frustrated civilian needing to vent, mixed like oil and water. The conversation never strays too far from debate. Abraham starts to vent and the supervisor interjects, saying he wants to explain things from “our perspective.” “We got information that a guy that looks very similar to the gentleman sitting out here, that has a felony warrant, that has a very violent past, OK?” he says. Abraham is still too wound up to hear him. She stands and turns toward her neighbors. “They came up here and pulled guns out. They pulled guns out and came in there and busted my door open and pulled a gun out and my son is sitting there,” she says, the words rushing through a spigot. The supervisor holds out his hand. “Could I finish my side of the story please?” he says. “Ma’am? Ma’am, can I finish my side of the story? That’s all I want to do.” He sounds frustrated. So does Abraham. Her nerves are still raw. She has things she needs to say, about how the guns scared her, about how she was worried about the son indoors and now about the child in her. “I absolutely apologize for that, OK?” the supervisor says stiffly. “It was a mistake in good faith.”

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academy, says Francine Tournour, director of the city’s Office of Public Safety and Accountability. But dealing with the public is not something cops really learn until they hit the streets. “It’s nothing you can teach. It really is on-the-job experience. Because no situation is ever the same. It’s so dynamic,” said Tournour, who is monitoring the investigation by police. “Sometimes you have to shut up. But cops are very Type A. You want to explain your side of things.” Tournour is well acquainted with both sides of this coin. A former Bay Area cop, Tournour decided to go into law enforcement when she was just 8. That’s when Tournour saw two Oakland cops chew out her mother with rancid stereotypes for requesting help with a mentally unstable teenage son. “My mom works three jobs, even to this day,” Tournour said. “That’s when I decided I wanted to do something in law enforcement.” Tournour used to help teach a course in Sacramento’s police academy that focused on community interactions, especially within black neighborhoods with legitimate historical grievances against men in badges. Tournour says those lingering sentiments aren’t personal, and that every officer has an opportunity to change that narrative with each new interaction—not just for the people living in the neighborhoods, but for the next officer who responds to a scene needing the public’s help. Ω

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lex Honnold was scrambling. This was five years ago, five years before the 31-year-old from Carmichael accomplished the greatest feat in rock-climbing history. It was mid-summer, 2012, and Honnold was on North Palisade in the eastern Sierra Nevada, in trouble. The fourth-highest summit among the 15 peaks in California with 14,000-plus-feet of elevation, North Palisade isn’t considered particularly technical. But it’s challenging—especially when something goes wrong. Honnold’s plan had been to negotiate all the California 14ers in a two-week span. But he got sidetracked when he pulled off a big chunk of rock, and it was heading his way fast. He recalls the occasion over breakfast at the recent Outdoor Retailer trade show in Salt Lake City. He’s done thousands of climbs, but his issue on the Southern California mountain was still fresh in his mind. “Basically, this rock was falling on me, and I sort of Super Mario-styled it, and triple-jumped down some ledges, and I stuck this ledge,” he says. “It was six feet, then 5 feet, then four feet farther. The rock went down my arm and scraped my leg. But I was fine. I was a little shaken up and a little concerned. But I didn’t fall off the mountain. That kind of stuff happens sometimes.” Through his 20 years in the sport, Honnold has had other near misses. But they’re infrequent. In free soloing, the climber uses no ropes, no harness and no protective gear. The percentage of accidents is small, because a mistake of any consequence is likely a climber’s last. At least 13 prominent climbers have fallen to their deaths while free soloing since 1980. Although he confronts death as a vocation, Honnold doesn’t dwell on it. “It’s unusual, or else I wouldn’t solo as much,” he says, without apparent emotion. He says free solos on long, steep walls make up about 5 percent of his treks. “But there have certainly been plenty of occasions when something unexpected happens.” Honnold is famous in the world of outdoor sport, where he is often referred to as “NBD:” No Big Deal. When, in 2011, he became the first climber to free-solo Half Dome, he might have high-fived a friend or two. But there’s no chest-beating, primal screams or overt gesturing of any kind. For him, that isn’t part of a sport in which reaching a mountaintop is the celebration. It requires no further embellishment.

the height of heights In his first decade as a professional climber, Honnold has set records in several disciplines: sport-climbing, bouldering, single-pitch and, especially, big-wall. You name it, he’s won it. On June 3, he surpassed all of that: His free solo ascent of El Capitan was the first in history. Most agree that it stands as one of the crowning achievements of climbing, and some have called it the greatest achievement in the history of sports. Some context: The iconic granite wall in Yosemite, which rises just less than 3,000 feet, generally takes advanced climbers using ropes and other equipment four days. After studying the route known as Freerider for more than a year and climbing the wall several times with ropes, Honnold cpmpleted the climb in three hours and 56 minutes. He drank two liters of water, urinated often, and ate energy bars and electrolyte chews he’d previously stashed in crevices on the wall. When he finished, Honnold galloped on an easy descent route for an hour on the other side of the peak. He grinned as he told me he arrived where he’d started with most of the day remaining and considered doing the climb again. It wasn’t bravado, just exuberance. No big deal. “I felt amazing,” Honnold recalls. “When I got to the top, I said something like, ‘I could go down and do it again if I had to. I feel so good and so strong.’ Actually, I did my normal training routine that afternoon.

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ROCK Honnold clearly feels more at home on rocks than most humans do in the suburbs. And El Capitan is his favorite rock. “I feel extremely comfortable on the wall, he says. “Climbing on a mountain like El Cap, there are probably less objective hazards than there are while driving. The mountain is a more stable medium than the highway. That’s not true for all mountains; some have avalanches and stuff happening. But El Cap is like such perfect rock. The air is clean and the Sierra has a perfect climate.” Word has gotten out about the wonders of the Sierra. El Capitan and the many other routes in Yosemite have become climbing nirvanas. In the past 20 years, the American Safe Climbing Association and other organizations have replaced hundreds, if not thousands, of bolt-like anchors on Yosemite climbs. Route details, climbing difficulty, pitch classifications, weather norms and live cams are all readily available online. But it’s not Honnold’s way. “There’s this typical route that everyone who climbs El Cap takes, and the route is limited to where there’s protection,” he says. “That has a lot to do with how they did the first ascent, and where they drilled the bolts, and so that’s how you protect yourself. I sort of realized about a month-and-a-half before I soloed El Cap—I didn’t need to limit myself to where the protection, because the way I was going to climb, I didn’t really have any protection. “People often feel when you are climbing with a rope you don’t mind doing a really hard move if there’s a bolt right in front of you. I realized all those hard moves that have bolts right there—I was going to go around them. I started broadening my gaze a little bit and looking on either side, 30 feet to one side, 50 feet to the other side. Nobody else has ever looked. Anybody else is out there with a rope. Nobody has ever been up there thinking about free soloing.”

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Bringing Up alex Honnold family legend includes tales of a shy, thin boy sitting on top of the refrigerator at age 2. Young Alex advanced to outdoor ascents to the family’s roof within a few years. Honnold’s mother first took her son to the Rocknasium in Davis when he was 5. When he was 10, Honnold’s father began taking him to Granite Arch Climbing Center in Rancho Cordova as often as five days a week. “They used to make fun of my dad,” Honnold remembers. “I would climb to the top, come down and climb again. My dad was the belayer [holding the rope]. He would have this epic loop of rope stretched across the floor. It was like a joke at the gym, but he would be like ‘whatever.’’’ With the young Honnold’s skills quickly improving, he traveled around the state with his father for junior competitions. Mainstream sports were never part of Honnold’s youth. He remembers P.E. classes and running some, but he had little interest in anything except climbing. Team sports were never a consideration because “I’m not really a team sports kind of guy,” he says. Honnold’s mother, Dierdre Wolownick, a long-distance runner and former language teacher at American River College, wasn’t immersed in her son’s youth climbing although she climbed as a youngster. She retuned to the sport in 2009 and now climbs often, training at local indoor facilities. Honnold says they do “good little adventures” together, but that she’s not much of a climber. “No, she’s not very skilled, not at all,”

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he says, chuckling. “By any measure—she’s done marathons and climbs—she’s amazingly fit. But in the climbing world, if you’re looking at elite performance, no.” Wolownick laughs while recalling her son’s early curiosity with heights. “It was very difficult to raise a kid like that because he was dedicated to getting vertical when he was born, just as he is now,” she says. “If I had known what he was going to wind up being, it would have been easier. “Alex and his sister kept wanting to go up on the roof and I was saying ‘no, no, no.’ He was only 5. Who lets their 5-year-old go up on the roof? I knew he did it. He went up and he came down and he was safe. So I said, ‘The next time you go up there, get all the leaves out of the gutters.’ So now every time he comes home, he goes up on the roof and cleans out my gutters.” The little adventures Honnold and his mother share will reach a new level next month when they visit El Capitan together to celebrate Wolownick’s birthday. They visit a different location every year, and it will be her first time visiting the spot where her son made history. “You have to go with the gift,” Wolownick says. “He was going to get vertical no matter what I wanted. It was going to happen anyway, so you might as well get the good out of it.” After graduating from Mira Loma High School in 2003, Honnold attended UC Berkeley for one year but dropped out to become a full-time climber. His parents had divorced and within a year his father, who taught English as a Second Language at ARC, died after suffering a heart attack. Traveling seemed like the best option, so Honnold set off in his family’s 2002 van. He remained nomadic in the same vehicle for nine years, traveling to climbing locations around the country and logging nearly 200,000 miles. He was a professional climber by definition but often made less than $1,000 a month. He talks about his days visiting Walmart for 69-cent bags of pasta and being perfectly content at dinnertime. Until recently, Honnold officially used his mother’s Carmichael home as his base. But in recent years, he’s visited less frequently, sometimes only a few days a month. This spring, Honnold purchased a home in Las Vegas where he lives with his girlfriend, Sanni McCandless. A new customized Dodge Ram Promaster has replaced the family relic. In a recent video for Outside Magazine, Honnold extolled the simplicity of living out of a van. While giving a tour of the comfort and convenience of his tiny house on wheels, he holds up a plastic container. He explains that when having to visit the bathroom in the middle of the night, it’s usually far across the room. He smiles, holds the bottle up to the camera and says, “This is a lot more convenient.”

Home Sweet Gym Honnold visits the climbing facilities of his youth when passing through Sacramento, often while en route to and from the Bay Area. He’s well-known to regulars and staff and he’s a celebrity to others who’ve viewed his videos or television appearances. Robert Hallworth and Isha Lloyd were working out one recent Saturday afternoon in Sacramento Pipeworks, the indoor climbing center located in a massive 94-year-old building on North 16th Street, where steel pipe was once manufactured. Hallworth, a yoga and meditation instructor, and Lloyd, a paramedic for the Sacramento Fire Department, are veteran recreation climbers who understand the difficultly of Honnold’s accomplishments. “When I first met him, he was probably 16 or 17,” says Hallworth. “He was shy, actually. He was quick in his workout 16 | SN&R | 08.24.17

and just got it done. He didn’t waste any time with talk, which a lot of people seem to do, myself included. But when he started to get some notoriety, he never talked it up. He was always mellow. It’s a quality I admire in him. We need more people like that. “He might not agree with me on this, but I think Alex has the most meditative awareness, focus and concentration of any person I’ve ever known. He can focus on a single thing for two, three or four hours. I think he has remarkable physical ability and strength, but more than all of that is the mental thing, the meditative awareness.” Lloyd adds: “He’s just a normal person. He doesn’t show off at all. But if you don’t look fast, he’s done his workout and he’s gone.”

Fame In 60 mInuteS Honnold’s under-the-mainstream-media-radar life changed shortly after a 13-minute segment about his solo free-climbing prowess appeared on 60 Minutes in October 2011. The show set up his ascent of Half Dome, a two-hour free solo trek which was a world’s first at the time, and has not been duplicated since. The broadcast, with Lara Logan as the interviewer, was compelling and vertigo-inducing —too difficult for some viewers to watch. Cameras from a half-mile away showed him as a speck on the wall. Additional cameras positioned in several places along his route showed a focused, relaxed athlete composed enough to smile and even whistle. An up-close view showed Honnold with a look on his face that beamed, “I got this.” Honnold said the segment, which aired three times, had a viewership estimated at 20 million. “At the time, the producer was like, ‘This is going to change your life,” Honnold recalls during breakfast. “I was like, ‘No way. How can a TV program change your life?’ And it kind of did change my life. All of my social media exploded. [And] I did get a lot of corporate and public- speaking-type offers. All of a sudden, I just had a lot more public exposure.” That explosion of fame is likely to be repeated next year. The climber’s El Capitan effort was filmed for a full-length feature film by National Geographic. With a working title of “Solo,” it’s scheduled for national release next summer. Honnold has five sponsors, including a five-year contract with The North Face. “I love the stability of it because being a professional athlete is inherently an unstable job,” Honnold says, seemingly without knowing the irony of his words. “I’m an independent contractor with all of these companies and they can drop you at any time if they need to. If I got hurt or injured, they might hang on to me for a year or two, but it’s really up in the air.” Success has helped Honnold support his philanthropic ideals. He reportedly gives one-third of his income to the foundation he began five years ago. Its mission is to “seek simple, sustainable ways to improve lives worldwide. Simplicity is the key; low-impact, better living is the goal.”

Honnold is renowned as much for his laid-back, generous spirit as for his fearlessness. Photo courtesy of the North face/ claytoN Boyd

Before he fell in love with rock, Honnold loved climbing. He visits Sacramento’s Pipeworks when he’s in town. PhoTo CourTesy of The norTh faCe/ ClayTon Boyd

it can take advanced climbers using ropes and anchors four days to climb El Capitan. alex Honnold completed his free solo ascent in three hours and 56 minutes.

As his climbing stature grew, he says he decided to use his bigger platform for “something positive.” His goal is to fund sustainable environmental programs to help people get out of poverty, with another program to preserve public lands, The Honnold Foundation supports a program that puts solar panels on off-the-grid homes in the Navajo Nation, and is creating an entrepreneurship program that will be self-sustaining. Another project delivers solar power to remote areas in Kenya (one of Alex’s climbing destinations). Closer to home, his foundation’s funding helped GRID Alternatives install more than 550 photovoltaic solar energy systems in the Central Valley. And Honnold’s New Dream project “seeks to cultivate a new American dream—one that emphasizes community, ecological sustainability, and a celebration of non-material values.” “Basically, my foundation is to do something good in the world,” he says. “Obviously, I care about preserving wild space and protecting the outdoors. I care about public lands. I spend all of my time on public lands. So I use my platform as athlete to talk about that and sort of push protecting public space.”

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climbing shoes and other outdoor equipment and apparel is featuring Honnold and his close friend, the famed climber Tommy Caldwell, in a meet-and-great and autograph session. It’s late afternoon and the climbers have both remained 45 minutes longer than their one-hour commitment. Honnold had already spent two hours across the aisle in the same role for another sponsor. The next morning during breakfast, before another day of business obligations, the climber explained his generosity. “In general, I always figure if someone is willing to wait in line for more than an hour, I’m willing to wait the few extra seconds to sign their poster or say hello or whatever,” he says. “I aspire never to be the guy who’s looking at the clock to leave, especially if there’s a line. If they’re psyched, then I’m psyched.” Honnold has attended his share of outdoor conferences and corporate speaking engagements. At Outdoor Retailer, he greets fans, the CEOs of sponsoring companies, and even journalists with in-the-moment enthusiasm. He’s a gentler version of the scientist Christopher Lloyd played in Back To The Future. Or perhaps the climber is constantly viewing a personal performance of Cirque du Soleil no one else can see. He carries 155 pounds on a 5-foot-11 frame dominated by a muscular upper back, perfectly unkempt dark hair and darker eyes. During his 60 Minutes interview, much

was made of Honnold’s large hands. They aren’t that big. But his fingers are wide and his distal joints, crucial for gripping rock where there’s little to grip, are muscled and calloused. Free solo mountain climbers are often viewed as eccentrics with a death wish—limelight-seekers and daredevils. Honnold doesn’t care. “I’ve gotten comments like that over the years,” he says. “People have said that they shouldn’t be paying for search and rescue for idiots like me who are going to get themselves killed. In reality, most of the ssearch and rescue money is spent on obese people who rolled their ankle or forgot to take water on their hike. It’s always because they weren’t prepared or they weren’t really in shape.” Beyond defending his sanity and motivation, Honnold is repeatedly asked a simple, but hard-to-answer question: What’s next? Climbers often keep goals private to lessen outside expectations. Honnold has never even told his mother his free solo plans. “I don’t know; I’ve been trying to focus on more difficult, harder climbs and more principle,” he says. “We’ll see. I have the opportunity to climb in the Dolomites in September. I’ve always wanted to go there. It’s historic and good climbing. But one of the reasons I don’t really know is that after doing El Capitan, well ... it’s only been a month and a half. I need some hunger to return.” Ω This story was made possible by a grant from Tower Cafe.

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ne of the more remarkable aspects of the craft-beer craze is the brew-guzzler’s tireless dedication to hunting down hoppy treasures. We live in this age of stream-it-now TV and get-in-mahbelly dinner delivery, yet some beer fans dedicate hours venturing to places like the far-flung reaches of Rancho Cordova for a fix. For instance, family-operated Claimstake Brewing Co. sits tucked away in a 5,000-square-foot facility on a side street in a Rancho neighborhood otherwise dominated by pick-and-pull auto-part hawkers and nondescript warehouses. It’s out there. But on Wednesdays, when Claimstake releases special canned hoppy beers, co-owner and head brewer Brian Palmer told SN&R, they’ll sell out several dozen cases “pretty damn fast.” In fact, Palmer says that he and his father-in-law, owner Mike Ryan, can hardly keep up with demand. “I just never imagined that we would be running out of beer,” he explained—and they don’t even sell beer in the supermarkets.

But while these smaller community breweries flourish, other more veteran Sacramento establishments struggle—or are closing shop. For instance, beer drinkers can’t stop talking about the closure of venerable Rubicon Brewing Co., which operated a brewpub in Midtown for decades. The industry will unpack these issues and more during next month’s third annual California Craft Beer Summit, when a majority of the state’s estimated 750 breweries will converge on downtown’s convention center for three days of guest lecturers and generous imbibing. The gathering culminates with one of the largest beer festivals in the country, when more than 100 breweries will post up on the Capitol Mall on Saturday, September 9. Tom McCormick, who leads Sacramento-based advocacy group the California Craft Brewers Association, explained that there’s a “point of differentiation” between the Claimstakes and the Rubicons of the beer world. The former category, which is a smaller “living room” or “nano” taproom, serves neighborhoods and turns a profit by selling fresh beer over their own bar. “But once the breweries are trying to get product on the grocery store shelf, it changes very dramatically, and that world is becoming incredibly competitive,” McCormick observed. Palmer with Claimstake described the summit as an occasion to hear sage advice firsthand from the experts at bigger breweries like Firestone Walker and Russian River, and to learn from others’ mistakes when it comes to growth. “It’s also an opportunity to showcase, as a new brewery, what we can do,” he added. “There’s still a ton of people who don’t know who we are.” At this year’s summit, a prominent theme will be that it takes a helluva lot more capital to compete in the current craft industry, much more than it did even a couple of years ago, McCormick said. And yet, even more players keep entering the fray. “The future of craft beer is very bright,” he said of this growth. “The question is, ‘Who’s going to own it?’” The concern is that “Big Beer” continues to encroach on indie brewers. McCormick says global alcohol beverage suppliers, such as Anheuser-Busch InBev, which owns Budweiser, will be more aggressive than ever to disrupt independent breweries. For instance, he cited how A-B InBev-owned Golden Road Brewing, based in Los Angeles, plans to open a taproom in Midtown, part of what he described as a scheme to “further dupe the public” into thinking that Budweiser’s offshoot brands are in fact friendly independent breweries. A consequence of this cutthroat marketplace has been “a lot of sadness,” McCormick admitted. In the past year, elder statesmen of the brew world, such as San Francisco’s Anchor Brewing, have enacted exit strategies and sold to larger “macro” competitors, in this case Sapporo. And here in the Sacramento region, home to approximately 10 percent of the state’s breweries, the closure of Rubicon sparked disappointment and concern among longstanding brew fans. Brian Palmer gets to control what’s on tap at his family brewery.

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“I always said that we’d see good breweries fall,” explained Mike Mraz of Rubicon, and also American River Brewing Co, which shut its doors this month, as well. His namesake company, Mraz Brewing Co. in El Dorado Hills, was one of the first “new wave” spots to open, nearly five years ago, and he says the scene has transformed. “There’s not always an open tap handle for craft beer anymore,” he added. Mraz explained that, like Claimstake, he never wanted it to be an enormous brewery and is leery of going into debt. When Mraz has expanded, it has been out of necessity, not ambition. The upside is that the lifestyle allows him to be a father to his three kids. And he’s also achieved a certain level of notoriety: Mraz recently brewed an anniversary beer for San Francisco’s Toronado, one of the oldest and most esteemed beer bars in the country (he bottled a Belgian blonde with raspberries, black currants and tart cherries). In fact, his brew is increasingly popular in the Bay Area, landing on shelves and tap handles even though Mraz does not contract with a third-party distributor. “It could always be better,” he said of his growth and exposure. “But it could also be crazier.” Ken Hotchkiss, who owns the popular Capitol Beer and Tap Room in Arden-Arcade, and the soon-to-open Capitol Hop Shop downtown on I Street, says he sees new breweries enter the market all the time. They now face a stark choice: “Do they want to be small, like Brian [Palmer, with Claimstake]? Or are they going to try to get big, and compete in the grocery store?” Hotchkiss emphasized that it’s truly a battle to get kegs on draft at local restaurants and bars. For instance, his two businesses will feature 60 taps, yet he regularly turns away great beer because there’s no room. “It’s difficult now. You can’t put everybody on. It’s just tough.” It’ll be tougher during the summit. Sacramento is rolling out the red carpet. Hotchkiss says he’s hosting out-of-town breweries at both of his locations on several nights, including

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a Los Angeles County Brewers Guild party at the Capital Hop Shop on September 8. Empress Tavern is welcoming Urban Roots Brewing on September 7 and will pour collaborations between this soon-to-debut brewery and heavy hitters Alvarado Street Brewery, Three Weavers Brewing Co. and Cellarmaker Brewing Co. The yearly summit has put Sacramento on the map, and it’s not like the city’s beer aficionados are suffering. Long gone are the days of pilgrimaging to City Beer Store in San Francisco to load up on new and untried brews. Despite the recent closures, it remains very much a golden era of beer-drinking in the River City. Meanwhile, even more fresh faces arrive. Claimstake will surely be one of the newbies in the bustling summit crowd next month. But Palmer speaks as if the success and growth isn’t going to his head. Sure, his brewery is thriving, which has even forced them to revisit their original business plan. But the ultimate goal is stay small, and “to some day pass this off to our kids and grandkids,” he explained. That’s how he likes it. “I think our nickname around the community is that we’re a family brewery,” Palmer said. “People know us as ‘the family.’” The california craft brewers association’s annual summit comes to sacramento september 7-9. Learn more and purchase tickets at californiacraftbeer.com.

Exploited artists I’ve spent a good amount of time working in the nonprofit industry, so naturally, I’ve worked on a number of fundraisers. They are a vitally important part of donor relations and keeping nonprofits fiscally sound. But the part I always dreaded was the auction, which often left me rife with guilt and anxiety. The reason? Auctions at fundraisers may sometimes prey upon artists, though without malice. The organizations take advantage of personal connections and put creative workers in the uncomfortable position of potentially refuting a worthwhile organization or a patron. Any artist can tell you how often they’ve been hit up with charitable asks. Yet it’s often artists who can’t afford to donate. Add to that the steady increases in the cost of living and art materials, and asking the stereotypical-but-often-true starving artist to give, give, give is impractical, if not insulting. The artist can only write off the cost of supplies. The hours, days or weeks of time? Not so much. And while some artists can bust out a work on canvas in a single afternoon, others’ works may require painstaking detail or costly materials, meaning the auction had better deliver the right audience. In addition, if a piece sells under value in such a public forum, it can be both embarrassing to the artist and devalue their overall work and reputation. Of course, the artist also has the opportunity to gain. They can get their work in front of the eyes of hundreds of new patrons and potentially jump-start a burgeoning career. A number of local artists have seen the asking prices of their work explode at the right auctions. So what can the philanthropic community do? Nonprofits might consider commissioning or donating a set percentage to the artist. If the piece does well, then the artist can earn more than having sold it in a gallery. Saint John’s Program for Real Change, for example, commissioned a joint original piece from local artists Maren Conrad and David Garibaldi. The nonprofit publicized the piece through numerous channels. Before the auction, a mini-documentary was shown about the inspiration for and development of the work. The result was a piece that sold for $10,000. (In fact, one smitten audience member commissioned another piece to be made for an additional donation of $10,000.) In larger cities, patrons often purchase a piece directly from the artist, retain it for a set amount of time and then donate it to the nonprofit to auction off. In this scenario, everyone wins. However, this method raises the question: Are there are enough willing patrons in a medium-sized city like Sacramento? In the end, it comes down to open communication. What are the goals of both the organization and the artist, and how can they be mutually met? Dialogue is key to ensure that all parties gain.

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California Cambodian: South Sacramento is known for its Vietnamese food—not so much its Cambodian. Adding to the two existing Cambodian restaurants in the neighborhood, Cambodia Restaurant (6035 Stockton Boulevard) might elevate Sacramento’s reputation for this other Southeast Asian cuisine. The eatery opened on August 2 with an expansive menu of tamarind and lemongrass stir-fries, young coconut juice and coffee with condensed milk, dry vermicelli and oh-so-many noodle soups. That is what sets the new restaurant apart from the fusion-style Taste of Angkor and Bamboo Noodle House: Cambodia Restaurant serves purely Cambodian food, for now. It hones in on soups with offerings unavailable at the two other places, such as clear

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says. His wife and four kids begged him to come home, he says, so he agreed to open up another business in California. He found Sacramento to be more affordable than Fremont, where his family lives. Growth at the new restaurant has been slow; Lee says that not too many Cambodian people live in the area. He says he might cater to the tastes of the surrounding area by adding Vietnamese and Chinese food. Regardless, he’s keeping one meal without a doubt. “Cambodian noodle soup is very famous, and even in Vietnam and China, they love it,” he says. “You go anywhere, they have it.” Patriotic pasta: You might know restaurateur Chris Jarosz from his burger-centric Broderick Roadhouse. Starting this week, you can try pizza and seafood at his latest venture, The Patriot in the Milagro Centre (6241 Fair Oaks Boulevard in Carmichael). The restaurant’s executive chef, David Dein, most recently whipped up farm-to-fork food at Yolo County’s Park Winters. At least this Patriot seems fit for the job. Ω

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chili peppers in the sauces and soups. It also tends to be quite meaty—including goat as one of the usual offerings. The two appetizers make a good start. Meat pies ($3.99) look like extra-large empanadas. Soft, rather than flaky, crust encloses a fairly bland filling of ground beef, giving your taste buds an easy intro. The second is suya ($6.99)—chicken or beef kebabs rolled in chili powder and ground peanuts, then grilled. Originally from northern Nigeria, they are a typical street food. The beef version has an interesting nuttiness without an overpowering spice. Next, you choose entrees based on their starch: beans, yams, rice or plantains. All contain meat and/or fish, in varying proportions. We tried jollof rice ($12.99), cooked with tomatoes, onions and quite a bit of chili. The menu lists the spice level as 2/5, which seems similar to canned chipotles. The generous portion comes crowned with slices of crisp-fried plantain to temper the heat and your choice of meat: beef, chicken, goat or fish. Another option is the beans and casserole ($11.99), made with black-eyed peas and meat stewed in a tomato-based sauce. We chose goat and got some tender ribs and larger bony pieces with plenty of meat. Despite the listing of crayfish in the beans, they tasted little of seafood. A stronger fish flavor came through in the yam porridge ($14.99), a stew of boiled yams with crayfish, tomatoes, onions and chilis. The ubiquitous tomato-sauced meat comes on the side, this time very tender goat riblets. Similarly, a plantain meal ($11.99) pairs boiled or fried plantains with tomato-sauced meat. It’s all quite flavorful—just a bit repetitive. Ecowas feels like a family restaurant. It’s hearty and warm, but not especially diverse in its offerings. That’s not to say it isn’t worth exploring. If you’ve never tried West African food—and particularly if you have—Ecowas is as welcoming as a long-lost relative. Ω

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While strapped for ingredients, Mexican chef Ignacio Anaya created nachos during World War II. The simple dish lends itself to customization and so, to showcase the many ways chips can be topped, the Sactown Nachos Festival will feature over 40 different recipes on August 26 from 2 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in Cesar Chavez Plaza (910 I Street). Mayahuel, La Cosecha and Chando’s Tacos will each put their own spin on traditional nachos while OMG! Yogurt will make dessert nachos out of frozen yogurt and ice cream cone chips. New eatery 19th Hole Cantina will put together some barbecue rib-eye nachos as well as a beer garden featuring Corona and Modelo. Local band PRVLGS will play live music and proceeds from tickets ($10 in advance, $15 at the door) will benefit lowincome students and the homeless through Project Optimism. In sum, it’s nacho average festival. (I promise the offerings will be less predictable, but even cheesier than that pun.)

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idtown Sacramento looked a bit different about a decade ago. When Sean de Courcy and his wife, Meg, met in the late 2000s, there were far fewer breweries and restaurants for date nights. The pair often gravitated to Rubicon Brewing Company, just a few blocks from her apartment. The brewery would have celebrated 30 years in business this November. But in early August, owners announced on Facebook they would close permanently near the end of the month. “My wife lived down the street when we started dating,” de Courcy said on Facebook. “Some of my fondest memories were dinners on the patio. We even did our taxes there a couple of times. Such sad news.” De Courcy was one of hundreds who responded on Facebook with unique memories of Sacramento’s oldest brewery. Many have been Ray Ballestero enjoying Rubicon’s beer, food and Home brewer atmosphere since it opened. De Courcy best remembers Rubicon as a great summer spot with a shaded patio area. A historian, de Courcy worked with a construction crew on a nearby historic renovation years back. Every Tuesday after work, the group would stop by Rubicon for the Tuesday special at the time: $2 a pint. Over the years, the brewery has also influenced and helped out homebrewers like Ray Ballestero. In the early ’90s, Ballestero was a member of the Gold County

Brewers Association, the only home brewing association around at the time. Phil Moeller, former head brewer at Rubicon, was also a member. Ballestero says Moeller’s expertise helped elevate the group. “He’d bring us into the brewery. Anybody who was really passionate about beer he invited in and would help us formulate beers,” Ballestero remembers. “He would evaluate beers and eventually encourage a lot of us to become nationally certified beer judges.” Ballestero says Moeller, now retired, was committed to using high-quality ingredients and had a knack for experimentation. He would offer new brewers samples of grain, and he was responsible for new styles, like the West Coast IPA. He says Rubicon attracted beer lovers and enthusiasts from all over. “For people involved in the beer culture, it was a gathering place,” he says. “It was the brewery in Northern California. They were the first ones, and it’s kind of sad to see them go.” Like others, Ballestero hopes someone will purchase the business and keep the name alive in Sacramento. “It’s been such an anchor there for so long,” says de Courcy. “Losing places like Rubicon … each one chips away a little bit of the character of the neighborhood and people’s memories.” Rubicon Brewing Company will continue to serve beer until the end of the month, or until the beer runs out.

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There are a lot of lost souls swimming about, looking for safe harbors in Water by the Spoonful, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Quiara Alegría Hudes, now being staged by Big Idea Theatre. Two groups of seemingly unrelated characters are isolated, wounded individuals desperately and diligently looking for some sort of human connection—in family, in person or online. Water by the Spoonful is the second in a trilogy by Hudes—the first is Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue and the series concludes with The Happiest Song Plays Last—all three centered around the struggles of Elliot Ortiz, a young Marine returning home from Iraq. In Water by the Spoonful, audience members are introduced to Elliot (Russell Dow) after he returns stateside shadowed by war ghosts, and doesn’t quite know where he now fits in with his Puerto Rican family, in society or in his future. The story then flashes to a strange, disjointed group who turns out to be an online Alcoholics Anonymous group. In the beginning, the two storylines and groups of characters feel disjointed and disconnected—as designed by the playwright. There’s a plot-twist reason for the seemingly separate groups, but it can be a bit frustrating for the audience. However, once the story and actors gel, the audience gets pulled in and is rewarded with a satisfying payoff throughout the second half. Director Chloe King is faced with the challenges of bringing both story and cast together, but she’s pulled together a group of talented actors and a strong production team who successfully meld the storylines into a cohesive, emotionally heart-tugging finale.

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4The Crucible Talk about timely: Director Susan McCandless invokes the Salem Witch Trails—held 325 years ago—with this well-planned revival. John Proctor, a linchpin character in this play, was executed on August 19, 1692. The real subject of this famous drama by Arthur Miller remains relevant— it shows how aggressive, bullying political leaders deliberately fan mass hysteria with baseless accusations, then run roughshod over common sense and fair legal procedures, blithely sending innocent people to jail or their death. The playwright was thinking of the demagogue Senator Joe McCarthy when he wrote this script, but the contemporary parallels are obvious. The Crucible, which won the 1953 Tony Award for Best Play, never goes out of fashion, because the danger of autocraticgovernment-run-amok is always with us, alas. This small-but-sturdy production by Main Street Theatre Works is staged outdoors, at night, which adds to the sense of gathering menace. There are good performances by Sacramento regulars Brandon Lancaster (John Proctor), Lynn Baker (Elizabeth Proctor), Devon La Bar (the teenage Abigail Williams), Don Hayden (the egotistical Deputy-Governor Danforth) and Jim Lane (Francis Nurse). —Jeff Hudson

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This original musical transfers Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew to 1930s Paris with all the attendant fashion, financial dealings—and, of course, romantic intrigue. F-Su 8pm. Through 9/17. $6-$18. Veterans Memorial Amphitheatre, 7991 California Avenue. (916) 966-3683, www.fairoakstheatre festival.com. J.C.

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familiar, and the movie’s first surprise comes when we meet its owner: Thomas’ new neighbor W.F. Gerald (Jeff Bridges). Gerald gently shoulders his way into Thomas’ life, becoming a rumpled, boozy amalgam of a therapist, guru, and surrogate father. Directed by Marc Webb and written by Allan Loeb, Thomas needs the guidance; his life, without The Only Living Boy in New York is a movie that losing its diffident aimlessness, is about to get messy. sneaks up on you, surprises you just when you think Again like Ben Braddock, he drifts into sex with a you’ve figured it out and makes you love it all—the woman far more worldly than he—only this time it’s sneaking, the figuring out and the surprises. not his girlfriend’s mother, it’s his father’s mistress. For the first half-hour or so, it feels like we’re in for Her name is Johanna (Kate Beckinsale), and a sort of 21st-century rehash of 1967’s The Graduate Thomas spots his dad nuzzling her across a crowded (using a Simon & Garfunkel song for the title couldn’t nightclub. He begins following—well, stalking—her. possibly be a coincidence). We meet Thomas But this impulse to protect his mother soon Webb (Callum Turner), a college graduate becomes more complicated. Johanna slouching around Manhattan’s Lower confronts him (he’s not subtle about his East Side wondering what to do surveillance); she more or less invites He rejects with his life. Like The Graduate’s him to seduce her, and he complies. Ben Braddock, he rejects his his Upper West Up to now Loeb and Webb (the Upper West Side privilege while Side privilege while director, not the character) have wallowing in it when he’s in the unfolded their story like a wellwallowing in it when mood. His publisher father Ethan constructed novel. This is where (Pierce Brosnan) makes it clear that he’s in the mood. we think we’ve figured it out, and Thomas’ aimlessness is trying his it’s where they start trotting out the patience. Meanwhile, Thomas’ mother surprises. Some are plot points I won’t Judith (Cynthia Nixon) trembles with a disclose, but the big one is the movie’s fragility borne of some unspecified crisis in evolution from its neat literary constructs to the the past. messy disorder of real life. At one of his parents’ upscale dinner parties, The Only Living Boy in New York may be Thomas reflects that “New York has lost its soul”— studded with echoes of Simon & Garfunkel, Bob really just a deflective way of saying that he’s trying to Dylan (“Visions of Johanna”), The Graduate, find his own. Wherever his soul is, he thinks it’s found Woody Allen and Sundance TV, but it manages its mate in Mimi (Kiersey Clemons, who like Turner to synthesize all that into a personality of its own. is definitely going places). Thomas is besotted after There’s a kind of magic in that, and it’s a pleasure a one-night stand while she has withdrawn into the to watch it happen. Ω no-man’s-land of can’t-we-be-friends. The Only Living Boy in New York opens in a literary manner, with a God’s-eye-view narrator introducing the characters and telling us their inner thoughts. The Poor Fair Good Very excellent Good voice, growly with smoke and whiskey, sounds vaguely

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The Dark Tower

A teenage boy (Tom Taylor), haunted by the death of his firefighter father, has mysterious visions of a Dark Tower, a Gunslinger and a Man in Black. His mother worries that he’s unhinged by grief, but it’s all true—as he learns when the Man in Black (Matthew McConaughey) tries to kidnap him and he escapes to another dimension where he meets the Gunslinger (Idris Elba). The script by Akiva Goldsman, Jeff Pinkner, Anders Thomas Jensen and director Nikolaj Arcel is based on Stephen King’s eight-novel series (which King considers his magnum opus, incorporating elements from different genres and his other books). Maybe the story makes sense at 4,250 pages. At 95 minutes it’s just a messy sci-fi-horror-fantasy salad; King’s elements become mere clichés. The actors and special effects crew do their best. J.L.

Good Time

To his credit, Robert Pattinson has made some bold decisions in the last few years, choosing to work with outsider directors instead of cashing in on his Twilight fame. Unfortunately, even when working with the likes of David Cronenberg, James Gray and Werner Herzog, Pattinson continued to exude a lowenergy indifference that felt all too reminiscent of his days as a sleepy-eyed teen idol. That all ends with Pattinson’s ferociously brilliant turn as Connie, the morally screwy criminal at the center of Josh and Benny Safdie’s outrageous New York City nightmare Good Time. After a bank robbery gone wrong lands his developmentally disabled brother Nick (co-director Benny Safdie) in jail, bottle-blonde con man Connie schemes to acquire his bail money by any means necessary. Good Time matches the doanything relentlessness of its lead character, making for one of the most visceral and exciting movie experiences of the year. D.B.

The Glass Castle

Two free-spirited parents (Woody Harrelson, Naomi Watts) raise four children in a most unconventional way, first as road-vagabonds camping out at night, then in the father’s ramshackle West Virginia hometown. Director Daniel Destin Cretton (co-writing with Andrew Lanham) brings gossip columnist Jeannette Walls’ memoir to life in vivid if occasionally exasperating fashion, time-hopping back and forth among Walls’ adulthood (played by Brie Larson), childhood (Chandler Head) and adolescence (Ella Anderson). Cretton and Harrelson portray Walls’ father as an irresponsible, self-deluded, emotionally abusive, drunken blowhard—which tends to make her retrospective affection for him look like a case of Stockholm Syndrome. Still, it’s an unusual story unusually well-told, and performances are first-rate. J.L.

The Hitman’s Bodyguard

A bodyguard who’s fallen on hard times since losing an important client to assassination (Ryan Reynolds) gets a chance to redeem himself by escorting a notorious killer (Samuel L. Jackson) to testify in the Hague against an international criminal (Gary Oldman). Tom O’Connor’s script doesn’t know when to quit (half an hour earlier would have been smart); Jake Roberts’ editing is sloppy; and director Patrick Hughes seems just along for the ride. But Reynolds and Jackson deliver the goods; their chemistry is strong, and their scenes crackle, even when O’Connor gives them nothing to say but empty profanity. And you have to hand it to Jackson, he looks terrific for 68; he’s like an African American Cary Grant without the savoir faire. Elodie Yung adds sex appeal as Reynolds’ ex-lover and fellow bodyguard. J.L.

Leap!

In 19th century France, an orphan waif (voiced by Elle Fanning) escapes from her country orphanage with her best friend, an aspiring inventor (Nat Wolff in the U.S., Dane DeHaan elsewhere), to become a dancer with the Paris Ballet. Splat! would have been a better title; this dreary, lifeless little Canadian animated feature falls flat on its face time and again.

The only thing scarier than a pointed gun is a man dressed in all-white in the winter.

Wind River

Sicario and Hell or High Water screenwriter Taylor Sheridan makes his directorial debut with Wind River, a dour murder-mystery set on the desolate Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming. Jeremy Renner gives a perfunctory lead performance as Cory Lambert, a grieving father employed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as a predator hunter on the reservation. While tracking a family of mountain lions in the snow, Cory stumbles across the frozen body of a dead Native American girl, a discovery that rekindles repressed memories of his own deceased daughter. Cory assists the woefully unprepared FBI agent (Elizabeth Olsen) who gets sent to investigate, but he may be harboring his own vigilante agenda. Wind River builds slowly, and a little of Sheridan’s klutzy predator-prey symbolism goes a long way, but he also shows a genuine knack for steadily building tension, finally allowing it to explode in an excellent final act. D.B.

Writers Éric Summer (who also directed with Éric Warin), Laurent Zeitoun and Carol Noble haul out all the moldy clichés of the Follow Your Dream Movie (Pre-Teen Division), cobwebs and all, and combine them with a total lack of story sense and an appalling grasp of history. The result is a sort of Flashdance for the Teletubbies set, not as obnoxiously atrocious as The Nut Job 2 (let’s hope that record stands for a while), but really no better. J.L.

Menashe

Documentarian Joshua Z. Weinstein co-writes and directs this intimate but drab family drama set in Brooklyn’s insulated Orthodox Jewish community. In a story largely based on his own life, newcomer Menashe Lustig stars as the title character, a recently widowed shop clerk who struggles to meet the personal and religious expectations of his family. A consummate loser, Menashe is confronted with his inadequacy at every turn—his boss routinely humiliates him in front of customers and co-workers, his piously contemptuous brother refuses to lend him any more money and he’s not even allowed to host his own wife’s memorial. Compounding these routine humiliations, Menashe’s son has been removed from his home until he remarries, a situation that slowly pushes him toward a breaking point. The Yiddish-language Menashe wants to highlight the universality of thorny family dynamics, but it’s better at highlighting the universality of drearily well-intentioned Sundance drama clichés. D.B.

In This Corner of the World

A hand-drawn animated epic based on a Japanese manga, Sunao Katabuchi’s In This Corner of the World concerns Suzu, a daydreaming teenager from Hiroshima married off to a young naval clerk in the early days of World War II. Suzu is forced to relocate to a nearby naval town to live with her husband’s ungrateful family, slowly settling into her role but still carrying a torch for the gruff boy back home. As the tide of war turns and her new hometown becomes a daily target for air raids, Suzu finds her strength, even employing ancient methods to stretch their food supply; meanwhile, we wait

for the inevitable nuclear horror to hit. Fascinating and frustrating in equal measures, In This Corner of the World offers a compelling look at life in Japan during and directly after wartime, with a rich female character at the center, but it’s also maddeningly choppy. D.B.

Step

This intimate and emotionally affecting documentary from director Amanda Lipitz follows several senior girls on the step dance team at Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women. A relatively new school with a student body largely composed of African-American girls from low-income families, the BLSYW began with a single sixth grade class, and the film covers the senior year of those founding students. The strength of these girls is inspiring (although many family backstories are left tastefully vague), but the highs and lows they experience on the way to the film’s inevitable “big game” finish are haunted by the ghost of Freddie Gray, the African-American man who was killed in 2015 while in Baltimore Police custody. His specter lends an extra level of gravitas to the routines (the most powerful of several electrifying step dance scenes is a tribute to Black Lives Matter) and an additional significance to the report cards. D.B.

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

When a mysterious force threatens a vast space station where many intergalactic species exist in harmony, a team of bantering special agents (Dane DeHaan, Cara Delevigne) are sent to investigate—but nothing about the case is quite what it seems. Writer-director Luc Besson (adapting comic books by Pierre Christin and Jean-Claude Mézières) goes crazy with an intoxicating array of creatures and wondrous effects. (Think The Fifth Element cubed.) The story is slight but sufficient, and the fun keeps coming. Amid all the magic some performances stand out: DeHaan has the boyish charm of the young Tom Cruise, and Delevigne adds spicy star-making sauce. Clive Owen as a sinister soldier and Ethan Hawke as a pimp have their moments too, and there’s a poignant cameo by Rihanna as a shape-shifting “entertainer.” J.L.

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TOM PeTTY & THe HearTBreaKerS: Iconic American rock band performing with The Shelters. 7:30pm, $120. Golden 1 Center, 500 David J Stern Walk.

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MUSIC THURSDAY, 8/24 CHICKeN & DUMPLING: This duo made up of Charles the chicken on guitar and Julia the dumpling on bass will deliver down home blues while you enjoy a pint and a Shepherd’s Pie. 8pm, no cover. Fox & Goose, 1001 R St.

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band as part of Summer on the Green. 6pm, no cover. Davis Commons, 500 First St., Davis.

MINNeSOTa: Midwest transplant and electronic DJ Minnesota performs as part of District 30’s electronic show series, REVERB Thursdays. 10pm, no cover. District 30, 1022 K St.

SATURDAY, 8/26 BrOKeN: UK alternative metal band playing with Roswell and Stalin. 9pm, $6. Old Ironsides, 1901 10th St.

CLUB SÉaNCe: a SÉaNCe FOr JULeS: See event highlight on page 37. 9:30pm, $5. 1119 21st St.

THe KOMINaS: Self-described as “Weird brown dudes in a band,” the San Francisco group will perform with SETI X, Sol Life artists Wisechild and DJ El Indio as part of Global Local Presents. 7:30pm, $10. Sol Collective, 2574 21st St.

FRIDAY, 8/25 THe BaND ICe CreaM: San Francisco-based garage rock band performing with Sacramento Vasas, Mallard and the Bottom Feeders. 8pm, no cover. Cafe Colonial, 3520 Stockton Blvd.

COUNTrY IN THe ParK 2017: Country stars Justin Moore, Frankie Ballard, Drake White & The Big Fire, LANco, A Thousand Horses and Jordan Davis perform in this country showcase hosted by KNCI 105.1. 4:30pm, $27. Cal Expo, 1600 Exposition Blvd.

DeBOP: Sacramento-based modern jazz duo perform modern interpretations of jazz standards. 5:30pm, no cover. Downtown & Vine, 1200 K St., Suite 8.

DUST & DIeSeL: Cover band performs country favorites during Monster Energy Party & Country music night. Drink specials include $4 Monster Balls and Monster Vodkas. 8pm, no cover. Country Club Saloon, 4007 Taylor Road in Loomis.

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songwriter William Mylar and guest musicians as they perform music spanning many genres. A Sacramento staple, Mylar’s Hippie Hours have been held at Torch Club, Old Ironsides and Starlite Lounge. 5:30pm, no cover. Louie’s Cocktail Lounge, 3030 Mather Field Road in Rancho Cordova.

PaT BeNaTar & NeIL GIraLDO: The ’80s pop-rock icon and her longtime guitarist, collaborator and husband perform with Toto. 7pm, $39.95$169.95. Thunder Valley Casino Resort, 1200 Athens Avenue, Lincoln..

SWINGIN’ UTTerS: Longtime Bay Area punk rockers with songs celebrating their blue collar roots. Performing with San Diego band Western Settings. 9pm, $15. Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub, 2708 J St.

SWITCH BLaDe TrIO: Sacramento jazz trio that covers modern pop tunes with ’60s-style groove. 9pm, no cover. WHIRED Wine Bar, 410 L St.

SPOTLIGHTS: New York City dream sludge band. Performing with Shadow Limb and Astral Cult. 8pm, $8-$10. The Press Club, 2030 P St.

TUESDAY, 8/29 DeaD CrOSS: Hardcore punk supergroup consisting of current and former members of Faith No More, Slayer, Retox and the Locust. 7pm, $25. Ace Of Spades, 1417 R St.

WEDNESDAY, 8/30 reaGaN YOUTH: Hardcore punk band performing with Hoods, Yankee Brutal, Human and Nature. 8pm, $10. Blue Lamp, 1400 Alhambra Blvd.

SIMPLe PLaN: Performing with Set It Off and

Patent Pending. 6pm, $30.50. Ace Of Spades, 1417 R St.

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Reno. 9pm, $10-$12. Harlow’s Restaurant & Nightclub, 2708 J St.

Cameron Betts and Cristian Amaral host a night of performance, chats with comics and a sensational musical guest. 10:30pm. Sacramento Comedy Spot, 1050 20th St., Suite 130.

reD-eX VOL.1: Red Museum benefit show. Performers include: No Age, Hobo Johnson & the Lovemakers, Drug Apts. and more. Local art, food and this month’s performance of The Latest Show, a Sacramento take on late night variety shows. 3pm, $15 - $20. The Red Museum, 212 15th St.s

THe SaCTOWN eXPerIMeNTaL MUSIC SHOWCaSe: Performers incude: Gentleman Surfer, Find Yourself, The Seafloor Cinema, Akaw!, Surrounded By Giants and Rob Ford Explorer. 7pm, $8. The Colony, 3512 Stockton Blvd.

MYLar’S HIPPIe HOUr FrIDaY: Join singer-

BrvndonP and Mission perform with Kennedy Wrose, Izreal Graham, Winrow the Square and DJ Kool Kuts. 8pm, $10. Blue Lamp, 1400 Alhambra Blvd.

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HIGH aNXIeTY VarIeTY SHOW: Cory Barringer,

of bars and restaurants. The event, billed as intentionally-perturbing public art, will then return to its carnival for a screening of Romero’s Night of the Living Dead. Professional makeup artists, food trucks and live entertainment will all be part of the mix. 940 P Street, www.facebook.com/ saczombiewalk.

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STePHaN HOGaN: Sacramento-area country

rocker. 7:30pm, $7.43. Goldfield Trading Post, 1630 J St.

Y&T: Bay Area hard rock band. 6:30pm, $25. Ace Of Spades, 1417 R St.

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FRIDAY, 8/25 HOPPeD aUGUST NIGHTS: Car show with prizes, food trucks and drink specials. 5pm. No cover. Sactown Union Brewery, 1210 66th St., Suite B.

SATURDAY, 8/26 GLOBaL LOCaL MerCaDO: Local and global vendors offer handmade arts and cultural goods. Food and music. 12pm. No cover. Sol Collective, 2574 21st St.

SaCraMeNTO aFrICaN MarKeTPLaCe: Familyfriendly shopping experience, with handmade items for sale including skincare, African fashion and jewelry and food vendors. 10am. No cover. Sojourner Truth African American Museum, 2251 Florin Road.

SUNDAY, 8/27 BraZILIaN DaY SaCraMeNTO STreeT FeSTIVaL 2017!: Celebrate Brazil’s independence with live music by Bossa Nova, folkloric Brazilian dancing and samplings of the country’s cuisine. 12pm. No cover. MARRS District, 20th street between J and K streets.

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More than 60 local artisans including painters, wood workers and sculptors offer their wares. Live music, food trucks and a petting zoo. 10am. Curtis Park, 3349 W. Curtis Drive.

Community Concert Association presents the Vinyl Jazz, A Century Celebration performance. 2pm, $42. Harris Center, 10 College Parkway in Folsom.

ZYaH BeLLe: With Tey Yaniis, Ki Woods, Brian Cade, Cloeykaboom, Charitte, 3LE and Julie’A.

6pm, $15. Momo Lounge, 2708 J St.

MONDAY, 8/28 JIM MarTINeZ QUarTeT: A Longtime pianist and

OUr LaDY OF GUaDaLUPe CHUrCH FeSTIVaL: Mariachi and ballet folklorico performances and children’s activities. Traditional Mexican and Latin foods like tacos, elotes, flautas and pupusas served. 8am, no cover. National Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, 711 T St.

Sacramento native performs. 7pm, $25. CLARA Auditorium, 1425 24th St.

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Food & drinK tHursday, 8/24 2017 Lord oF rice cuLinary cHaLLenGe: Watch top-rated chefs compete for the title as they create delicious rice-based dishes using secret ingredients. Small bites, beer and wine tastings included. 5pm, $49. Ten22, 1022 2nd St.

saturday, 8/26 Gourmet wine & cHeese Faire: Gourmet foods, barrel tastings, cheese and wine demonstrations, music and entertainment. 10am, $29.50-$40. Old Sugar Mill Wineries, 35265 Willow Ave. in Clarksburg.

behind the barre: made in sacramento Crest theatre, $25-$30

What do you get when you combine the talents of Sacramento dancers, visual artists and musicians? The CapiPHoto courtesy oF caPital dance Project dance tal Dance Project presents its third annual Behind the Barre: Made in Sacramento, a showcase of nine unique performances built on the imaginations of Sacramento creatives and CDP’s nine resident choreographers. New Helvetia Brewing Co. will be selling beer during the performance, with proceeds going to the Capital Dance Project. 1013 K Street, www.capitaldanceproject.org.

midtown Farmer’s marKet: Weekly farmer’s market with more than 50 food and art vendors, monthly chef demos and a free bike valet. 8am, no cover. 20th St., between J & K streets.

sactown nacHos FestivaL: Enjoy more than 40 different kinds of nachos. Beer and alcohol, street performances and a children’s game area available. Proceeds benefit the nonprofit Project Optimism, which fills community needs including homelessness. 2pm, $10-$25. Cesar Chavez Plaza, 10th and J streets.

taLes & aLes brewFest Fundraiser: Local craft breweries will pour unlimited beer tastings and food trucks will have food for sale. Music by AKAlive. Familyfriendly. Proceeds benefit Fairytale Town’s educational programs and park improvements. 5pm, $30-$50. Fairytale Town, 3901 Land Park Drive.

sunday, 8/27 6tH annuaL Jamaican cuLture day bbQ: Celebrate all things Jamaica at this annual barbecue event, with a kids zone, jump house, talent contest and Dominoes tournament. 12pm, no cover, $5 park fee. Discovery Park, 221 Jibbom St.

Gourmet wine & cHeese Faire: See Saturday event description. 10am, $29.50-$40. Old Sugar Mill Wineries, 35265 Willow Ave. in Clarksburg.

Film saturday, 8/26 movies under tHe Pines: tHe biG LebowsKi: Outdoor summer film series at Pioneer Park and the Nevada County Fairgrounds. This week: the Coen brothers classic starring Jeff Bridges as Jeffrey “The Dude” Lebowksi, a Los Angeles slacker and avid bowler who has a mix-up with a more affluent person of the same birth name. 7pm, $5-$20. Pioneer Park (Bandshell), 421 Nimrod St. in Nevada City.

tuesday, 8/29 LiFe aFter LiFe: Documentary that follows the stories of three former inmates as they return home from San Quentin State Prison. After spending most of their lives incarcerated, Harrison, Noel and Chris are forced to reconcile their perception of themselves with a reality they are unprepared for. Each struggles to overcome personal demons and reconstruct their fractured lives. Showing is followed by a panel discussion featuring one of the

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film’s subjects, Harrison Seuga. 5:30pm, no cover. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St.

wednesday, 8/30. $15. 2100 Arden Way, Suite 225.

tommy t’s comedy cLub: Michael Mancini.

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Three-time winner of the World’s Funniest Cop competition. through 8/26. $20$30. 12401 Folsom Blvd. in Rancho Cordova.

bLacKtoP comedy: Femprovised Shakespeare And Improvised Comedy. Features an allfemale cast. The company takes suggestions from the audience and creates an hourlong play in the style of the Bard of Avon on the spot. through 8/26. $10. 3101 Sunset Blvd., Suite 6A in Rocklin.

csZ sacramento: ComedySportz Improv Comedy. Two teams compete for laughs by creating scenes based on audience suggestions. Similar to the show Whose Line Is It, Anyway? 8pm saturday, 8/26. $10-$12; Dual Duel Improv Comedy Tournament. Twelve two-person improv teams compete for a $200 prize. 10pm saturday, 8/26. Free with 8pm show ticket. 2230 Arden Way, Suite B.

comedy sPot: Karaoke Fundraiser. Annual, all-day karaoke to raise money for the Sacramento Comedy Foundation, which operates the Comedy Spot. 10am saturday, 8/26. $5 per song; Anti-Cooperation League. Each week, the league interviews a special guest and uses the information gathered from the interview as inspiration for improvised comedy scenes. 9pm saturday, 8/26. $10; YOU! The Musical. Improvised musical inspired by the audience’s suggestion of a title. Everything in the show is made up on the spot—lyrics, music, dancing ... everything. 8pm saturday, 8/26. $8.50. 1050 20th St., Suite 130.

LauGHs unLimited comedy cLub: Justin Rivera. Filipino-American comedy magician. Performing with Ron Josol. through 8/27. $10-$20. 1207 Front St.

Luna’s caFe & Juice bar: Open-Mic Comedy. Held weekly. Hosted by Jaime Fernandez. Sign-ups at 7:30pm. 8pm tuesday, 8/29. no cover. 1414 16th St.

PuncH Line: Nate Bargatze. He’s appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Wrote for Spike TV’s Video Game Awards. Just debuted an hour-long Comedy Central special in May, titled Full Time Magic. Through 8/26. $15-$22.50; Lance Woods and Friends. Local comic performing a periodic show. 7pm sunday, 8/27. $15; Carlos Rodriguez Presents Hella-larious. Rodriguez has been named SN&R’s Best Comic in the past. He’ll introduce some up-and-coming new comics to audiences during this show. 8pm

on staGe b street tHeatre: Bloomsday. In Steven Dietz’s new love story, time travel and James Joyce help illuminate the lives of Robbie and Cat, who meet in Ireland. through 9/10. $27-$39; The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey. One actor portrays every character in a small Jersey Shore town as he unravels the story of a tenaciously optimistic and flamboyant 14-year-old boy who goes missing. through 9/9. $19-$39; 2711 B St.

biG idea tHeatre: Water By The Spoonful. Quiara Alegría Hudes’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play is centered on two sets of seemingly unrelated characters. This story of family and connection is the second part of the playwright’s trilogy. through 9/9. $12. 1616 Del Paso Blvd.

bLue LamP: The Darling Clementine’s Burlesque to the Future. Sci-fi themed burlesque show. Pole dancing, live music, booze, spoken word poetry and comedy. 7pm thursday, 8/24. $10-$15. 1400 Alhambra Blvd.

caLiFornia musicaL tHeatre: Sister Act. Based on the 1992 film starring Whoopi Goldberg, this uplifting musical comedy is a sparkling tribute to the universal power of sisterhood, with a score by Tony and Oscarwinning composer Alan Menken. through 8/27. $45-$89. 1510 J St,

crest tHeatre: Capital Dance Project and the Sacramento Kings Present A SensoryFriendly Dance Performance. Sacramento’s first-ever sensory-friendly dance performance is designed to ensure everyone, particularly individuals on the autism spectrum feel comfortable, safe and accepted in a theater environment. Traditional theater rules will be relaxed, allowing for children with special needs and their families to enjoy a theater experience in a climate of understanding, acceptance and inclusion. through 8/25. $5; Behind the Barre: Made in Sacramento. See event highlight above. through 8/27. $25-$30. 1013 K St.

GREEN VALLEY THEATRE COMPANY: The Robber Bridegroom. A bluegrass musical set in 18th century Mississippi. Tells the story of Jamie Lockhart, who seeks to romance (but not necessarily wed) the daughter of wealthy landowner Clement Musgrove. Clement is married to the vicious Salome, who is jealous of her beautiful stepdaughter Rosamund. Mistaken identities, hidden motives and thwarted romance. Through 8/27. $18. 3823 V St.

KENNEDY MINE AMPITHEATRE: The Crucible. Arthur Miller’s fictionalized drama about the hysteria around the Salem witch trials. This winner of the 1953 Tony Award for Best Play is presented and performed by Main Street Theatre Works. Through 9/9. $12-$20. 1127 N. Main St. in Jackson.

TOWER THEATRE: The Music Man. Follows fast-talking traveling salesman Harold Hill as he cons the people of River City, Iowa, into buying instruments and uniforms for a boys’ band that he vows to organize this, despite the fact that he doesn’t know a trombone from a treble clef. His plans to skip town with the cash are foiled when he falls for Marian, the librarian, who transforms him into a respectable citizen by curtain’s fall. Through 8/27. $8-$20. 417 Vernon St. in Roseville.

VETERAN’S MEMORIAL AMPHITHEATRE: SHREW! A Jazz Age Musical Romp. An original adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, set in 1930s Paris against a backdrop of competing fashion houses and swing jazz. Through 9/17. $12-$18. 7991 California Ave. in Fair Oaks.

VILLAGE GREEN PARK: A Midsummer Night’s Dream. An outdoor performance of Shakespeare’s classic. Through 8/27. $10. 3141 Bridgeway Drive in Rancho Cordova.

THE WILKERSON THEATRE INSIDE THE CALIFORNIA STAGE COMPLEX: Gidion’s Knot. A grieving mother and an emotionally overwhelmed primary school teacher have a fraught conversation about the tragic suicide of the mother’s son, the teacher’s student, Gidion. As his story is slowly uncovered, the women try to reconstruct a satisfying explanation for Gidion’s act and come to terms with excruciating feelings of culpability. Through 9/2. $15$20. 1721 25th St.

WOODLAND OPERA HOUSE: My Fair Lady. World famous phonetics expert and British upper-class bachelor Henry Higgins is willing to wager that he can pass off a Cockney flower girl in high society as a duchess just by teaching her to speak proper English. 7:30pm. Through 8/27. $7-$25. 560 Main St. in Woodland.

arT BEATNIK STUDIOS: Condensed Exhibit Featuring the Artists of Wide Open Walls. group show featuring the artists of Wide Open Walls. Some of the muralists include Franceska Gamez, Roy Gonzalez and Demetrius Washington. Through 8/24. No cover. 723 S St.

CONGREGATION B’NAI ISRAEL: “This Is Hunger” exhibit. Housed in a big-rig, this 45-minute interactive exhibit gives people a glimpse into the lives of everyday Americans who struggle with hunger. Guests will come face-to-face with hunger in America through this exhibit, which aims to change the way people look at their city and neighborhood. Through 8/30. No cover. 3600 Riverside Blvd.

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CROCKER ART MUSEUM: Full Spectrum: Paintings by Raimonds Staprans. Born and raised in Riga, Latvia, Raimonds Staprans likes to say that his personality is Latvian but his paintings are purely Californian. For six decades he has called Northern California home, and many of his paintings showcase the landscape and architecture of the Golden State. Through 10/8. $5-$10; Turn The Page: The First Ten Years of Hi-Fructose. A collection of 51 contemporary art pieces featured in the first decade of the low-brow art magazine. Through 9/17. $5-$10. 216 O St.

FE GALLERY: Tiny Monsters. Enjoy this show themed around all things that go bump in the night, with more than 90 pieces of 2-dimensional and 3-D monsters. A prize drawing will be held for the piece “The Evolution of the Pink Zebra did not go well!” by JoMur, with raffle tickets available through 9/22. Proceeds benefit Fe Gallery’s Senior High School 2018 Art Scholarship Fund. Through 9/29. No cover. 1100 65th St.

HIGH HAND GALLERY: Evocative Dimensions. An exhibit of works from award-winning artists in various mediums that aim to evoke an emotional connection to the observer. Through 8/27. No cover. 3750 Taylor Road in Loomis.

SMUD ART GALLERY: MATRIX Revisited. MATRIX, a women’s artist group of the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s celebrates their July reunion with this exhibit. Through 9/11. No cover. 6301 S St.

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SPARROW GALLERY: Dissent Group Art Show. Created as a platform for the artists to express their concerns to recent current events. Promised not to be the typical “Anti-Trump” show. The artists cover events and topics that cross political and social lines. Through 8/19. Free. 1021 R St.

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Memoirs The William M. McCarthy Photograph Collection. William and Grace McCarthy, native Californians born in the late-19th century, pursued their passion for both photography and travel for many years. The end result is a collection of nearly 3,000 photographs mounted in 11 albums that provide rare pictorial documentation of the couple’s early-20th century travels through California and beyond. 9:30am. Through 8/31. No cover; Behind-the-Scenes Tour. Browse collections of maps, architectural drawings, photographs, video and audio recordings in this cool encounter with California history. These documents are kept at 68 degrees year-round, so it’s a great way to beat Sacramento’s summer heat. Through 8/25. No cover. 1020 O St., Fourth Floor.

CALIFORNIA STATE RAILROAD MUSEUM: A World on Wheels. Five vintage automobiles are on display to highlight how innovative train technology and design paved the way for the emergence of the automobile. The five automobiles on loan from the California Automobile Museum will include the following: a 1914 Stanley Steam Car, a 1932 Ford Model B Station Wagon, a 1937 Cadillac Series 60 Sedan, a 1940 Lincoln Zephyr and a 1953 Chevrolet Bel Air. 10am. Through 9/4. Small Wonders: The Magic of Toy Trains. California State Parks and the California State Railroad Museum & Foundation have recognized August as Toy Train Month. To celebrate, the museum will debut the rare, pastelcolored “Lady Lionel” Train Set. Originally manufactured in 1957 and considered a flop at the time, this product was intended to appeal to young girls at a time when toys didn’t cross traditional gender lines. Through 8/31. $6-$12; Off The Clock. This playful new exhibit focuses on the variety of sports clubs, teams and athletic competitions that attracted Southern Pacific employees in the early- to mid-1900s. Through 6/1/18. $6-$12. 111 I St.

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The concept for the Unity Center was born in 1999 in response to a series of Northern California hate crimes. This weekend, California Museum will finally open MUSEUMS its doors to that PHOTO COURTESY OF ROBERT DURELL idea—a permanent exhibit celebrating California’s diversity and activist history—at a time when the need for unity is strong. The event includes free admission to the exhibit, a civil rights panel discussion with labor activist Dolores Huerta, Sacramento Police Department Chief Daniel Hahn, Senator Holly Mitchell and LGBTQ activist Stuart Milk of the Harvey Milk Foundation. The day also includes live music, spoken word poetry and dance performances, food trucks, a beer garden, hands-on activism demonstrations and kids activities. 1020 O Street, www.californiamuseum.org/unity-party.

SACRAMENTO HISTORY MUSEUM: Old Sacramento Underground Tours. Hidden beneath the city for more than 150 years, Old Sacramento’s underground has long been the capital’s best-kept secret. Explore excavated foundations and enclosed pathways while guides recount tales of devastation, perseverance and determination that led to California’s only successful street-raising project. Through 9/24. $10$15. 101 I St.

BOOKS THURSDAY, 8/24 THE CROCKER BOOK CLUB: MY NAME IS RED BY ORHAN PAMUK: Discuss this breakout novel by Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk, which centers on miniaturist artist of the Ottoman Empire in 1591, and swirls together murder, romance and philosophical puzzles. Conversation led by a museum educator, followed by a gallery activity. 6pm, $10 nonmembers. Crocker Art Museum, 216 O St.

FRIENDS OF ARDEN-DIMICK LIBRARY “POP-UP” FICTION SALEs: End-of-summer pop-up sale of hundreds of hardback and paperback fiction books. Book sales in cash only, $5 for a bag of books. 4pm, no cover. ArdenDimick Library, 891 Watt Ave.

SPORTS & OUTDOORS SATURDAY, 8/26 FLOYD MAYWEATHER VS. CONOR MCGREGOR VIEWING: Watch this professional boxing

match known as “The Money Fight.” 6pm, $25-$200. Corner Pocket Sports Bar, 7777 Sunrise Blvd., Suite 1400 in Citrus Heights.

RACE FOR THE ARTS: Enjoy this 5K Run/Walk as well as a Kids Fun Run, which raises funds and awareness for California nonprofit organizations that promote the visual, performing, cultural and literary arts. Entertainment throughout the course and a free Arts Festival following the race. 8am, $15-$35. William Land Park, 15th Ave. and Land Park Drive.

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33. 4pm, no cover. Roosevelt Park, 940 P St.

SUNDAY, 8/27 ZUMBATHON, BEAT THE HEAT WITH FIREFIGHTERS BURN INSTITUTE (FFBI): Take photos with firefighters, dance with Zumba instructors and make unforgettable memories while raising money for burn survivors and the Firefighters Burn Institute. 10am, $20-$50. Orangevale Community Center, 6826 Hazel Ave. in Orangevale.

LGBTQ SATURDAY, 8/26 SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY’S ANNUAL STOCKTON PRIDE FESTIVAL: Celebrate in prideful style with live performances, family and arts areas, a beer garden, dancing and more than 150 food and shopping vendors. 11am, no cover. Weber Point Events Center, 221 N. Center St. in Stockton.

SUNDAY, 8/27 END OF SUMMER BBQ: Say farewell to summer with the folks at the Sacramento LGBT Community Center. Meals will be available for meat and vegan eaters. Event is open to all LGBTQ and allied youth ages 13 to 23. 1pm, no cover. 1927 L St.

WEDNESDAY, 8/30 SACRAMENTO PRIDE AWARDS: Join the Sacramento LGBT Community Center in recognizing individuals and businesses whose compassion, generosity and service create a safe and welcoming community. 5:30pm, $125-$1,500. Tsakopoulos Library Galleria, 828 I St.

TAKE ACTION SATURDAY, 8/26 HABITAT RESTORATION WORKDAY AT THE COSUMNES RIVER PRESERVE: Discover and enhance the wild, beautiful sections of the Cosumnes River Preserve, home to several different ecosystems. Meet

PRESERVE OUR LEGACY: ADVANCING AFRICANAMERICANS IN NURSING CONFERENCE: This second-annual event includes a panel discussion on the need for African-American nurses in communitiess, free health care screenings and education, a presentation on pediatric health care and more. 9am, no cover. UC Davis School Of Medicine, 4610 X St.

SACTRU (SACRAMENTO TRANSIT UNION) WEEKLY MEETING: Get engaged with the effort to improve public transit in Sacramento County and beyond. 1pm, no cover. Organize Sacramento, 1714 Broadway.

UNITY CENTER BLOCK PARTY: See event highlight on page 36. 10am, no cover. California Museum, 1020 O St.

participate. 7:30am, no cover. Florin Creek Park, 7460 Persimmon Ave.

SUNDAY, 8/27 AERIAL HOOP CLASS: Take a leap into the world of aerial arts with this aerial hoop, or lyra, course. Build upper-body strength and learn tricks and transitions as you become more comfortable on the hoop. 4:30pm, $20. The Firehouse 5 2014 9th St.

BEER YOGA: Love yoga and local beer? Earn your Sunday beer with a one-hour yoga class first. 11am, $20. Big Stump Brewing Company, 1716 L St.

PERSONAL DEFENSE CLASS: Learn personal combat hand-to-hand techniques needed to quickly disable and escape from an attacker. Students gain confidence as they build personal power and learn to access primal instincts for survival. 12pm, $15. The Firehouse 5, 2014 9th St.

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PRISONER SOLIDARITY NIGHT: LETTER WRITING:

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Support those on the inside and explore alternatives to incarceration in this weekly gathering of folks who write letters to those who are incarcerated. Supplies provided, but guests are welcome to bring food, extra stamps and related reading materials. 6pm, no cover. Lavender Library, 1414 21st St.

CLASSES SATURDAY, 8/26 BONSAI FOR BEGINNERS CLASS: Local bonsai expert Matt Born instructs this handson course. Each student leaves with a Trident maple planted in a glazed ceramic bonsai pot, along with tips for training and maintaining their new bonsai. 10am, $45. The Plant Foundry, 3500 Broadway.

CALIFORNIA DAY OF PREPAREDNESS SURVIVING THE WILD WEST: Experience a variety of disaster readiness demonstrations including a mobile earthquake simulator. See the skills of search and rescue dogs in action and learn invaluable emergency preparedness skills and lessons. Course also includes food and music. 10am, no cover. Old Sacramento, 1002 2nd St.

INTRODUCTORY CUED BALLROOM DANCE CLASS: Enjoy this fun and easy way to learn ballroom dance, as a “cuer” announces the steps as the dance proceeds. Just focus on the beat and the feet, and leave the choreography to the pros. 6:30pm, $7 Community of Christ Church, 4044 Pasadena Ave.

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WEDNESDAY, 8/30 COLORS OF SUMMER ABSTRACT ART CLASS: See description on 8/28 listing. 6pm, $175$200. Verge Center for the Arts, 625 S St..

THE PLAYGROUND: AN IMPROV COMMUNITY: Play improv games modeled after the television show Whose Line is it Anyway?, craft characters and scenes. 7pm, $10. Ooley Theater, 2007 28th St.

SATURDAY, 8/26 Club Séance: A Séance for Jules Midtown Barfly, 9:30 p.M., $5

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FOR THE WEEk OF AUGUST 24, 2017 ARIES (March 21-April 19): Welcome to Swami

Moonflower’s Psychic Hygiene Hints. Ready for some mystical cleansing? Hint #1: To remove stains on your attitude, use a blend of Chardonnay wine, tears from a cathartic crying session, and dew collected before dawn. Hint #2: To eliminate glitches in your love life, polish your erogenous zones with pomegranate juice while you visualize the goddess kissing your cheek. #3: To get rid of splotches on your halo, place angel food cake on your head for two minutes, then bury the cake in holy ground while chanting, “It’s not my fault! My evil twin’s a jerk!” #4: To banish the imaginary monkey on your back, whip your shoulders with a long silk ribbon until the monkey runs away. #5: To purge negative money karma, burn a dollar bill in the flame of a green candle.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): A reader named

Kameel Hawa writes that he “prefers pleasure to leisure and leisure to luxury.” That list of priorities would be excellent for you to adopt during the coming weeks. My analysis of the astrological omens suggests that you will be the recipient of extra amounts of permission, relief, approval and ease. I won’t be surprised if you come into possession of a fresh X-factor or wild card. In my opinion, to seek luxury would be a banal waste of such precious blessings. You’ll get more healthgiving benefits that will last longer if you cultivate simple enjoyments and restorative tranquility.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The coming weeks will be an excellent time to cruise past the houses where you grew up, the schools you used to attend, the hotspots where you and your old friends hung out, and the places where you first worked and had sex. In fact, I recommend a grand tour of your past. If you can’t literally visit the locations where you came of age, simply visualize them in detail. In your imagination, take a leisurely excursion through your life story. Why do I advise this exercise? Because you can help activate your future potentials by reconnecting with your roots.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): One of my favorite

Cancerian artists is Penny Arcade, a New York performance artist, actress, and playwright. In this horoscope, I offer a testimonial in which she articulates the spirit you’d be wise to cultivate in the coming weeks. She says, “I am the person I know best, inside out, the one who best understands my motivations, my struggles, my triumphs. Despite occasionally betraying my best interests to keep the peace, to achieve goals, or for the sake of beloved friendships, I astound myself by my appetite for life, my unwavering curiosity into the human condition, my distrust of the status quo, my poetic soul and abiding love of beauty, my strength of character in the face of unfairness, and my optimism despite defeats and loss.”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The Witwatersrand is a

series of cliffs in South Africa. It encompasses 217 square miles. From this area, which is a tiny fraction of the Earth’s total land surface, humans have extracted 50 percent of all the gold ever mined. I regard this fact as an apt metaphor for you to meditate on in the next 12 months, Leo. If you’re alert, you will find your soul’s equivalent of Witwatersrand. What I mean is that you’ll have a golden opportunity to discover emotional and spiritual riches that will nurture your soul as it has rarely been nurtured.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): What I wish for you

is a toasty coolness. I pray that you will claim a messy gift. I want you to experience an empowering surrender and a calming climax. I very much hope, Virgo, that you will finally see an obvious secret, capitalize on some unruly wisdom and take an epic trip to an intimate turning point. I trust that you’ll find a barrier that draws people together instead of keeping them apart. These wonders may sound paradoxical, and yet they’re quite possible and exactly what you need.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Psychologist James

Hansell stated his opinion of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud: “He was wrong about so many things. But he was wrong in such interesting ways. He pioneered a whole new way of looking at things.” That description should provide good raw material for you to consider as you play

with your approach to life in the coming weeks, Libra. Being right won’t be half as important as being willing to gaze at the world from upsidedown, inside-out perspectives. So I urge you to put the emphasis on formulating experimental hypotheses, not on proving definitive theories. Be willing to ask naive questions and make educated guesses and escape your own certainties.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You’re entering a

phase of your astrological cycle when you’ll be likely to receive gifts at a higher rate than usual. Some gifts could be big, complex, and catalytic, though others may be subtle, cryptic, or even covert. While some may be useful, others could be problematic. So I want to make sure you know how important it is to be discerning about these offerings. You probably shouldn’t blindly accept all of them. For instance, don’t rashly accept a “blessing” that would indebt or obligate you to someone in ways that feel uncomfortable.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You are

currently under the influence of astrological conditions that have led to dramatic boosts of self-esteem in laboratory rats. To test the theory that this experimental evidence can be applied to humans, I authorize you to act like a charismatic egomaniac in the coming weeks. JUST KIDDNG! I lied about the lab rats. And I lied about you having the authorization to act like an egomaniac. But here are the true facts: The astrological omens suggest you can and should be a lyrical swaggerer and a sensitive swashbuckler.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I invite you to

eliminate all of the following activities from your repertoire in the next three weeks: squabbling, hassling, feuding, confronting, scuffling, skirmishing, sparring, and brawling. Why is this my main message to you? Because the astrological omens tell me that everything important you need to accomplish will come from waging an intense crusade of peace, love, and understanding. The bickering and grappling stuff won’t help you achieve success even a little—and would probably undermine it.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Stockbrokers in

Pakistan grew desperate when the Karachi Stock Exchange went into a tailspin. In an effort to reverse the negative trend, they performed a ritual sacrifice of ten goats in a parking lot. But their “magic” failed. Stocks continued to fade. Much later they recovered, but not in a timely manner that would suggest the sacrifice worked. I urge you to avoid their approach to fixing problems, especially now. Reliance on superstition and wishful thinking is guaranteed to keep you stuck. On the other hand, I’m happy to inform you that the coming weeks will be a highly favorable time to use disciplined research and rigorous logic to solve dilemmas.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In the coming days,

maybe you could work some lines from the Biblical “Song of Solomon” into your intimate exchanges. The moment is ripe for such extravagance. Can you imagine saying things like, “Your lips are honey,” or “You are a fountain in the garden, a well of living waters”? In my opinion, it wouldn’t even be too extreme for you to murmur, “May I find the scent of your breath like apricots, and your whispers like spiced wine flowing smoothly to welcome my caresses.” If those sentiments seem too flowery, you could pluck gems from Pablo Neruda’s love sonnets. How about this one: “I want to do with you what spring does to the cherry trees.” Here’s another: “I hunger for your sleek laugh and your hands the color of a furious harvest. I want to eat the sunbeams flaring in your beauty.”

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Mighty Morphin STEM hacker Nicholas Haystings, 27, wanted to be one of two things growing up: a Power Ranger or an engineer. Unfortunately, the former is just a character from a ’90s TV show now being used to tug at millennial heartstrings in attempts to make a new movie franchise. Fast forward a decade: Haystings and two of his engineering colleagues—Christina Carter-Brown and DJ Mponte—are getting kids into science, technology, engineering and math through their nonprofit Square Root Academy.

How’d this all come together? Me and DJ met at NSBE, when we were both a part of the National Society of Black Engineers. Me and Christina, we met when we were volunteering at a Code for Hood event when I was an intern for Hacker Lab at that time. We just hit it off. [We were] both like-minded and wanted to give back to our community. Pretty nerdy and techy at the same time, and we just made this thing happen.

So where did the name come from? I mean, save from the obvious ‘It’s a mathematical sign’ answer. (Laughs.) So Square Root was something else originally. It was this automated, indoor hydroponics thing that me and a few other engineers made. So the name was kind of cool, and we just stuck with it and created Square Root Academy.

Why change it to a STEM nonprofit? It’s not a diverse field.

How so? I think the statistic is about 20 percent women, 7 percent Latin Americans and 6 percent African-Americans in STEM. For us to be as diverse as we are, particularly here in Sacramento, any educator in the realm of STEM should be embarrassed by those numbers. We have a moral responsibility to fix this, because it’s obviously a problem. Diversity drives innovation. If there is no diversity, there almost cannot be any innovation.

So how do you fix it? We empower and expose these kids to pursue a future in the STEM realm. We make it appealing to them. We make the concepts relatable to what they would actually do in [the] industry, not just talk at them and tell them the theories. … Sometimes

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it’s just as little as being present. From talking to my students, they don’t have many teachers that look like me. I’m a 27-year-old black man with dreadlocks that just so happens to have a degree in engineering and have some industry experience and know what I’m talking about with this stuff. Not a whole lot of that running around.

How do you get kids, and even parents, to get active? It’s kind of like that cliché thing, “If you build it, they will come.” That’s literally what happened. We had this great program and we wanted to make sure that we ensured accessibility. So we would go out into the communities that we served and do it at no cost. We’d remove as many barriers as we possibly could. Outside of that, we’re reflective of the demographic we’re serving. We look like them. Why? Because we were them. We are them. The first sites that we served were in Meadowview. I grew up right across the street from the Meadowview Park. Like, I lived right there. I know these people. That’s something that not a lot of people can speak to, and I think it makes a huge difference in actually getting them to believe that you’re there for them.

can’t afford stuff,” and then slap a $300 price tag on it. It makes no sense. It’s contradictory, so we just don’t do that.

You’re in South Sacramento now. Where’s next? We want to break more into the Oak Park community. We feel like that’s a demographic in a place that could really benefit from what we’re doing. I’m also thinking about Twin Rivers Unified School District as well. The Del Paso Heights area—I think those kids could really use something to rally behind and I think this could possibly be one of those things.

Oak Park is where your event is, right? Yes, 5000 Watts. That’s taking place in Oak Park. It’s very tech-infused, but it’s getting the community involved in a way where they’re comfortable with the technology they’re seeing because it’s an art-tech showcase. We’re partnering with the Brick House—lots of collaborators on this. We’re being very strategic about our growth because we want to make sure that it’s executed to a certain level of excellence. Ω

You mentioned barriers… Yes, I want to be clear: At no point do we charge our students or their families. We don’t do that because, like I said, we want to ensure accessibility, and we’re not going to say, “Hey, this is for people that

Square Root Academy’s art and technology event, 5000 Watts, will take place from October 19 to 21 at the Brickhouse Art Gallery in Oak Park. For more information, visit squarerootacademy.com

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