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4 Outword Magazine September 12, 2019 - September 26 • No. 632 outwordmagazine.com Robert L. Lavelle 1926-2019 By Jim Carlson met Bob when the movie Beginners starring Christopher Plummer came out. It was the story of a man who lost his wife Iafter many years of marriage and who soon came out as a gay man to his son, his friends and the world. Bob, who had lost his wife of many years, said the film was his story. He joined many gay groups and hosted many gay events. Particularly popular were his mid-summer pool parties for Prime Timers and California Men’s Gathering at his home in Land Park. My own acquaintance with Bob UC-Berkeley. He started in advertising began at Lemon Grass at a Prime and ended his professional life in social Timer’s dinner. I was taken with this services, a perfect fit for a man who was older gentleman’s all about service. In addition to feeding intelligence and sartorial choices the hungry on Saturdays he made -Brooks Bros. shirts and his signature regular jail visits to those who were argy le socks. When I visited his home I incarcerated and served on several met his two daschunds who looked like boards. He was a true Franciscan and canine reincarnations of Laurel and Christian. Hardy. I used his pool and left my He had framed cartoons from Uncle clothes by the pool. When I picked Newt along with an extensive art and them up they were urine-soaked. Chief book collection. Nearly all of these items suspect: Louie the alpha dog who didn’t were sold in an estate sale when he sold seem to care much for my presence. his house and moved to the Chateau, a Later I went with Bob to his beloved St. senior living facility. This occurred at the Francis of Assisi church where a priest same time he had to give up driving. He blessed the dogs on the church steps. made all these changes with good grace Louie’s behavior toward me seemed and without complaint. greatly improved after the blessing. The He re-created his life at the Chateau to church steps also served as the site of include movies, stage plays (his favorite Bob’s Saturday 5pm ritual of serving B Street Theatre moved right next-door the hungry who came in from the to him), and Wednesday noon concerts. streets. His new wheels was a scooter that got We had the opportunity to attend an him everywhere in congested midtown International meeting of Prime Timers even his favorite Biba’s where Biba in Palm Springs. Bob enjoyed the always treated him as a celeb. He hosted ambience and Hollywood connection to a monthly book club. In Bob’s company this area. He also had answered the one never needed to ask Google. Just ask ageold question of what do men in kilts Bob. wear under them. This was a new life Note: It is with some sadness that I for Bob and he swallowed every don’t see the obituary that Bob had moment. composed for himself in the Bee. The Bob was very proud of his newspaper memoriam does not include Sacramento heritage, pioneer Irish the self-acknowledgments made late in settlers. He was proud of his uncle who his life. He was proud to have done that had designed the State and wanted to share and encourage Capitol grounds as well as “Uncle others as he had done in a locally- Newt”, the well-known Sacramento Bee produced video called “It Gets Better.” cartoonist. He was a graduate of Contributions may be made to the LGBT McClatchy High School and Center in Sacramento.

outwordmagazine.com September 12, 2019 - September 26 • No. 632 Outword Magazine 5 Out & About With Matt by Matthew Burlingame ut away the swim trunks and get out the leaf blowers because Autumn is on the horizon! Let the harvest festivals, Pcostume fittings and trips to Apple Hill commence! This is such a beautiful time of year in Sacramento and we are reminded why we are the city of trees. Join us for this month’s Outword for celebration on September 21 for trans and Liquid Therapy Monthly Happy Hour at non-binary folks and their families to come Badlands, 2003 K St. on September 13! together and hold space. The event which The Rainbow Chamber’s premier yearly was created by trans and non-binary folks, scholarship fundraiser Boas & Bow Ties for trans and non-binary folks will include returns on September 19 at the Sacramento music, food, games, and entertainment at Hilton Arden West, 2200 Harvard St. This Southside Park. fancy dress evening will feature Rogue Music Sacramento Pagan Pride celebrates their Project, Anthony Avery, a keynote address by 20th annual Harvest Festival September Reichen Kuhl and Master of Ceremonies 14-15 at the VFW Post 6158, Fair Oaks Kory. there’s also an auction so bring your Center Township, 8990 Kruitof Way, Fair checkbook! rainbowchamber.com Oaks. Some entertainment will include a September 18 is National HIV/AIDS and pizza eating contest, full moon ritual, live DJ, Aging Awareness Day. People with HIV are firedancers, plus plenty of crafts, booths and living longer thanks to treatment with HIV merriment. All donations collected will go medicines. An estimated 47% of people in toward supporting veteran needs. the United States with diagnosed HIV are Sacpaganpride.com aged 50 and over. Older adults may be less Can’t get enough RuPaul’s Drag Race? aware of the importance of testing to detect Come see the Werq The World tour HIV in its earliest stages. In 2016 the CDC September 20 at the Sacramento Memorial reported that a high percentage of people Auditorium, 1515 J St. Mission leader Asia aged 55 and older receiving an HIV O’Hara is on a journey to save the universe diagnosis had advanced to full blown AIDS with the help of her intergalactic queens status. Learn more at hiv.gov including Kameron Michaels, Kim Chi, Those of us who love music from the Naomi Smalls, Plastique Tiara, Vanessa 1980s and 90s need to grab their tickets for “Vanjie” Mateo, & Season 11 winner Yvie Air Supply and Wilson Phillips at Thunder Oddly! sacramentoconventioncenter.com Valley Casino Resort, 1200 Athens Ave., Those looking forward to this year’s Lincoln CA, on September 20 at 7 p.m. Pineapple Classic will be disappointed to thundervalleyresort.com learn the event has been cancelled due to The Sacramento LGBT Center has lack of participation. Those who already paid relocated to 2012 K Street in order to meet for the September 28 event will receive a the urgent need for more space to serve refund. clients while still trying to purchase a Happy birthday to Jason Lindo, Robert permanent home for the Center. The 6,000 Berquette, Emma Haney, Tabitha Stout, Rob square foot temporary space will Williams, Scott Smoot, Jen Ikemoto, Ginny accommodate all of their current programs McReynolds and Penny Kline. Also special and provide a larger Q-Spot youth center happy birthday wishes to Outword’s Ron while offering more confidential and Tackitt! community meeting space. Want a tour? Got events, birthdays, anniversaries or did Reserve a spot on a Get Centered tour by something awesome happen to you recently? contacting the Center. Saccenter.org Let Matt know at matthew.burlingame@ The Melanin Movement and Latinx Sin gmail.com. Check out his books at Fronteras are hosting a Trans Family Day JustKissTheGuy.com Women’s March Foundation Launches Back To School Nationwide Voter Registration! omen’s March Foundation (WMF) launches Back To School Nationwide Voter Registration initiative focusing on youth. 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what-you-get kinda guy. from food chemistry to unusual and But that’s not the whole story. This chef interesting ingredients and how they play off loves food and he is talented! He is a other foods, to wine pairings and creative graduate of the California Culinary Academy presentations. He has developed a program in San Francisco and developed his skills in with a small local farm to provide Scott’s some very prestigious kitchens, including the with specific produce that will work with our Grand Hyatt San Diego, the Southwestern Yacht Club and the Intercontinental Hotel in Meadows Century City where he worked with such continues on page 26

14 Outword Magazine September 12, 2019 - September 26 • No. 632 outwordmagazine.com Yellowtail and Caviar Crudo Eating Behind Bars By Liz Blum n a room with fluorescent lights overhead and no windows, our class sits in a circle on blue plastic chairs. We arrange our bodies to prepare for a group Imeditation, focusing all our will power on letting the loudness of outside fall away, to focus on breathing deeply, and feeling our feet on the floor. At Folsom Women’s Facility, we violation of basic human rights, The sounds, smells, air, and meet every Saturday morning, people incarcerated are extremely sunlight embrace us. Fifteen growing food inside the prison creative with cooking good meals, beautiful people, who may have walls while learning about food combining commissary items to made a mistake ten to twenty systems and environmental science. cook on makeshift stoves, and years ago, who were given the Today we are watching Food Inc., sharing meals that remind them of rare privilege of being in this discussing industrial agriculture, home. Often, their food ‘options’ are program, proceed to tend to the and I am told stories of what far distant from meeting their basic garden. We harvest some eggplant individual’s diets used to be like nutritious necessity. And even and divide it evenly, eating it raw before they were locked up. “I was worse, they are the only non-moldy because it cannot leave walls vegetarian” one student said, as we thing to eat. Imagine battling surrounding our garden, returning STARRING watched brutal footage of factory back into the grey cement covered farms, “but in here, it’s impossible.” yard. We nourish our bodies with Lady Prison food is notoriously bad, small bites of cucumbers, and some would argue that it If one is working tomatoes, and herbs, closing our Bunny should be. While there is growing eyes and wishing this could be attention on the welfare of people on rehabilitating reality forever. who are incarcerated in the If one is working on Sacramento region, there is little themselves, rehabilitating themselves, healing discussion of what food looks like from their past trauma, and behind prison walls and how that healing from improving their mental and affects one’s mental and physical their past trauma, physical well being, one must be health. nourishing their body. Behind “We’re always hungry in here”, and improving bars, without consistent access to Janice stated. Janice is elderly and nutritious food, there are long- is one of the frailest people in their mental and term health consequences. The prison. There is little to no data physical well Prison Policy Initiative reported available on the type of food that just one year in prison takes provided in California Department being, one must be two years off an individual’s life of Corrections, and after visiting expectancy. HOSTED BY many California state prisons, have nourishing their Research has shown that food found that each prison has it’s own body. provided in California jails and WooWoo policies around the food they prisons is not just gross, also it is provide. There is rare independent nutritionally inadequate. When Monroe oversight to ensure that safe and people incarcerated in California nutritious food is provided on a jails and prisons do not receive daily basis. One person in Folsom physical or mental health issues the minimum requirements of Women’s Facility described her without access to nutritious food. fruits, vegetables, protein, and experience working in the kitchen, When we leave the classroom at whole grains, how does that affect explaining that the boxes with Folsom Women’s Facility and their ability to sustain physical Friday meat products often read ‘not fit for venture into the garden, we’re and mental wellness? How can human consumption’. welcomed by butterflies and the we expect “rehabilitation” without Friday9/13 8PM Despite the daily negligence and bright colors of flowers and fruits. providing adequate nutrition? 2003 k street, sacramento 9/13Badlandssac.com 9PM

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16 Outword Magazine September 12, 2019 - September 26 • No. 632 outwordmagazine.com he Farm to Fork edition of Outword In Memoriam... would be incomplete Photo Credit: Jason Sinn Photography T without a tribute to the one and only Biba Caggiaino, 82, who passed away at the end of August after battling both Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. What Alice Waters is to Berkeley and the Bay Area, Biba was to Sacramento: a beloved celebrity chef, author and restaurateur. Biba, the Italian restaurant on Capitol Avenue named after her, set the bar for fine dining in Sacramento for decades, and is still going strong today. Caggiano was a fixture in her restaurant, both in the kitchen and out front in the dining room where she loved to interact with patrons. She will be greatly Biba Caggiaino missed. Grazie, Biba!

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riverterraceinn.com | 707-320-6900 1600 Soscol Avenue, Napa, CA 94559 outwordmagazine.com September 12, 2019 - September 26 • No. 632 Outword Magazine 17 “RENT” Lights A Candle In Folsom Ty Herndon’s “So Small” Video Debuts inner of a Pulitzer Prize and four Tony Awards, Jonathan Larson’s “RENT” is an inspiring message of joy and Whope in the face of fear. “RENT” continues to speak loudly and defiantly to audiences across generations. This 20th Anniversary presentation involves many of the creative team from the Broadway production and will perform at Harris Center the weekend of Sept. 27-29, 2019. For more information, please visit www.harriscenter.net/

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heck out the new video for “So Small” (a song originally co-written and sung by Carrie Underwood) from Grammy- Cnominated country singer-songwriter (and Outword fave) Ty Herndon, who just released his highly-anticipated album of covers, “Got It Covered.” The video features the youth of The Rainbow Squad, a Nashville-based group that provides a safe space and community resources for LGBTQ+ kids. Watch Ty Herndon’s “So Small” video at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGpcuspZK6U&feature=youtu.be Don’t Miss Ken Burns’ “Country Music” on PBS By Chris Narloch ans of real country music won’t want to miss the must-see TV event this month, a new documentary by the great Ken FBurns, who previously directed such highly-acclaimed non- fiction films as “Baseball,” “The Civil War” and “Jazz” for PBS.

An image from Loretta Lynn’s 2004 album “Van Lear Rose,” produced by Jack White. “Country Music” chronicles the highs and Parton, Merle Haggard, Emmylou Harris, lows of the genre’s early days and then Garth Brooks and many more. follows its evolution over the course of the Blessedly, “Country Music” concludes in 20th century as it emerges to become 1996, before the rise of bro’-country acts like “America’s Music.” Blake Shelton and Florida Georgia Line. This riveting Burns feature also focuses on Burns’ sixteen-hour series on the history of the biographies of the fascinating trailblazers country music will air in two-hour who created and shaped country music, installments over eight nights, Sept. 15-18 including Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, Johnny and 22-25. For more information, visit Cash, Loretta Lynn, Willie Nelson, Dolly www.kvie.org. 18 Outword Magazine September 12, 2019 - September 26 • No. 632 outwordmagazine.com

“Between Riverside And Crazy” is Crazy-Good Theatre By Chris Narloch f you only have time for one play in Sacramento this month, “Between Riverside And Crazy” at Capital Stage is the one to Isee. A dream cast, skillful direction and a great script combine to make this darkly funny drama a must-see theatrical event.

(From L to R) Aaron Wilton, James Wheatley and Kelley Ogden The distinguished local actor and director make Pops a settlement offer he can’t refuse James Wheatley (who runs Celebration Arts) – or can he? anchors the production with a towering Also along for the ride are a mysterious performance in the role of a lifetime. Church Lady (Dena Martinez) and the Wheatley plays Pops, a crafty, older recovering addict Oswaldo (Nestor Campos, African-American man between a rock and a Jr.). Both Martinez and Campos, Jr. make hard place who attempts to keep his shaky strong impressions during their characters’ future from falling apart after his wife dies brief time on stage. and he is injured in an accident. Director Judith Moreland does a superb Pops is a retired cop who lives in a job keeping all the “craziness” real, and her rent-controlled apartment he shares with his first-rate cast and playwright Stephen Adly son, Junior (a very good James R. Ellison, III), Guirgis’s terrific story and dynamite dialogue who is recently released from jail. do the rest. There is no end to the drama once Junior’s The Capital Stage production of “Between pregnant girlfriend (the funny Viktoria Luna) Riverside And Crazy” plays through Sept. shows up and then a couple of cops (Kelley 29. For more information, visit www. Ogden and Aaron Wilton, both excellent) capstage.org. Jason Momoa Muscles His Way Into Sacramento ason Momoa, who rocketed to Jsuperstardom on the big screen in “Justice League” and “Aquaman,” has been added to the list of talent scheduled to appear at Wizard World Sacramento, set for Sept. 20-22, 2019 at Cal Expo. The event marks Wizard World’s return to California, and first time at Cal Expo. Momoa will appear on Saturday, Sept. 21. For more information, visit www.wizardworld.com/ comiccon.

20 Outword Magazine September 12, 2019 - September 26 • No. 632 outwordmagazine.com You’ll Be Scared “IT”-less By Chris Narloch By Chris Narloch he new horror ‘sequel’ to “IT” will no doubt scare up a ton of money at the box office, but if you don’t care to be scared I have several Tother big screen recommendations for you this month. IT Stephen King’s most horrific creations, and I say enough already with the bloated actor Bill Skarsgard is just as creepy (if not sequels that are twice as long as they need to more so) in the newer movies as Tim Curry be. The fine young actors in the first chapter was at playing Pennywise in the inferior TV of “IT” made that movie work, despite its version of “IT.” over-reliance on jump scares, but the second Brittany Runs A Marathon chapter is an overlong disappointment. If you’ve ever felt physically and/or Several of the adult actors don’t match up mentally out of shape – I know I have – then with their younger counterparts, and the this funny comedy about an overweight entire movie is padded and stretched out to single gal who dreams of running the New an absurd length (2 hours and 50 minutes) York City Marathon is for you. that would hobble even the finest of horror I was thoroughly entertained by the movie, films. which is based on a true story and stars the Scary movies need to be lean and mean so very talented (and edgy) comedic actress the suspense doesn’t leak out (and so we Jillian Bell as Brittany, a pudgy party girl don’t have time to think about how who decides to turn her life around. ridiculous the whole thing is), but Warner “Brittany Runs A Marathon” is playing at Bros. gave the filmmakers a ton of money Sacramento’s Tower Theatre. after the success of the first movie, and the The Peanut Butter Falcon result is this overstuffed sequel. If you can find a theater that is still The new “IT” isn’t a total dud, however, playing this terrific little movie starring Shia and hardcore fans of the material will find LaBeouf and Dakota Johnson, do not miss it. Bill Skarsgard plays Pennywise in “IT: Chapter Two.” several successful sequences to enjoy. For LaBeouf totally redeems himself with an from start to finish. religion, and anti-Semitism against a modern one, I will never look at a fortune cookie the extremely moving performance as an outlaw Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles backdrop of radical social change that same way after the film’s Chinese restaurant who helps a runaway with Down syndrome I haven’t seen this documentary yet, but addressed gender roles, sexuality, and race. scene, and a later sequence involving a (Zack Gottsagen) realize his dream of the film is getting rave reviews for its Those themes are all still relevant today, disembodied head that turns into a spider is becoming a wrestler. examination of the legacy of the timeless and that is why “Fiddler on the Roof” will genuinely shocking. With that potentially sappy story, the film musical classic “Fiddler on the Roof.” probably always resonate with audiences. Also, there is no denying the fact that shouldn’t work, but against all odds “The When “Fiddler…” opened on Broadway in “Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles” opens at Pennywise, the killer clown, is one of Peanut Butter Falcon” is a total charmer 1964, it explored themes of tradition, Sacramento’s Tower Theatre on Sept.13.

outwordmagazine.com September 12, 2019 - September 26 • No. 632 Outword Magazine 21 ZD Wines…A New Perspective! words and image by Diana Kienle ust the other day I was doing some “heavy” lifting, picking up some orders I had placed on line for wine Jat properties in the valley. It was a tough day, yes, but someone has to do it! I drove up Spring Mountain to Pride, and to Spottswoode in St. Helena. With all that work, I knew I needed a tasting. It was that time of the day! ZD Wines came into sight as I came afternoon sun was gorgeous. The expanse northbound on the Silverado Trail. As my of vineyards looking out to the West set a memory served me, it was a winery that perfect view to enjoy the wines. This did not require an appointment so I pulled renovation that opened up the patio space right on in. Upon walking into the tasting took place just three years ago. Seated, room, it was clear a lot had changed since looking out over the vineyard, I enjoyed my last visit. The front tasting area was two Chardonnays, a Pinot Noir (which was now expansive with an open glass wall to an homage to their founding father), a new the barrel room. The entire area was venture of Grenache and the current modern with a bar to the side. Real Cabernet release. You can add to your renovation had taken hold. taste and beautiful view time with an I was welcomed and my visit started additional pour of their Cabernet Reserve. with a lovely Chardonnay in hand. This This, in my estimation, is a perfect setting wine had always been one of my favorites to enjoy the beauty and the wine of Napa of their portfolio. My tour guide escorted Valley. me upstairs to the open patio area with ZD was a pleasant surprise and stops along the hallway at various pictures exceeded my past expectations. Kudos to which depicted the winery’s history. ZD is the deLeuze family for making the family owned and operated for the last 30 changes. Their wines have graced the years, by three generations of the deLeuze tables of three presidents since the family. This is a remarkable beginning and this may be the opportunity accomplishment on its own and is a quaint to have them grace yours. aspect of the beauty of the Napa Valley. Visit them online at www.zdwines.com. ZD Wines in the Napa Valley. The open patio seating area in the Enjoy!

22 Outword Magazine September 12, 2019 - September 26 • No. 632 outwordmagazine.com ood times and great cocktails were in plentiful supply this past Rainbow Festival weekend, Gas you can see from these pictures! Thanks to everyone that posed for the camera and a huge Thank You to the folks that made Rainbow Festival happen. Photos by Ron Tackitt

outwordmagazine.com September 12, 2019 - September 26 • No. 632 Outword Magazine 23 New Aaron Wilder Art Installation in Lavender Heights ay Area-based artist Aaron Wilder’s “Expletive Chapel: Lavender Heights” is an art installation designed to create Ban intersection between interior and exterior worlds through relatable, queer experiences. The InsideOut in Sacramento’s Lavender Heights neighborhood is a space that cannot be entered, but can instead be experienced directly from the street. Wilder has transformed it into a sacred space out of his own as well as communal experiences with what can be considered the most profane: derogatory slurs.

Expletive Chapel by Aaron Wilder

This installation is a spatial experiment holy rituals, relics, and saints. Instead, Wilder extending from the artist’s ongoing project is creating a chapel sanctified by the history “Expletive,” an investigation into the of Lavender Heights and the current possibilities of healing through the struggles and triumphs of the Lavender aestheticization of derogatory labels. Wilder saints who make it their home. Throughout employs vividness, repetition, and the form the period of the installation, Wilder will be of text to disempower slurs used everyday by adding relics symbolizing the lived obscuring the word through the stacking of experiences of those in the Sacramento its letters on top of each other. What remains queer community. is an aesthetic and geometric arrangement of Wilder seeks to transform the space into a shapes. Wilder is acutely aware of the impact visual reflection of local queerness with an of derogatory slurs aimed at those in the impact greater than the power of spoken queer community based on his own slurs. The resulting sacred space can be experience growing up in a conservative thought of as a centering place where the evangelical environment. cosmic planes of heaven, earth, and hell are Wilder has transformed two of The all in contact. At the center of the installation InsideOut’s windows into reversed stained is a phantasmagorical mirror where the head glass beacons through the deconstruction of of the artist and the head of the viewer are four of the most common slurs applied to combined through a shared experience of individuals within the queer community. As perseverance through suffering. Wilder’s these are reversed stained glass windows work aspires to be a setting embedded in the with their light source emanating from Sacramento queer community for new inside, their beauty is characterized by what rituals that make us larger than our they illuminate in the exterior world, not the individual selves through a shared pride of origins of the deconstructed slurs. They belonging. emphasize the beauty of the human rainbow This installation is viewable from the street that is the community of Lavender Heights. and sidewalk on 21st Street just south of I In the inner space, viewable only through Street 24 hours a day, 7 days a week from the remaining, central window, Wilder has September 14 to November 1, 2019. This created a chapel of sorts that will evolve over includes two receptions coinciding with the duration of the installation. 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Meadows continued from page 14 menus. He developed an All California Beef program with Harris Ranch Certified Angus Beef, who is now our exclusive beef provider. He has brought new life to the kitchen, working with his staff to refresh their approach to the job, to involve them with menu changes and improvements at Scott’s on the River. He and his Chef De Cuisine Scott Longman have brought a number of new dishes to the menu from a more casual Shrimp Po’Boy to a Cajun Shrimp and Grits, a creative take on the southern standard, with unique variations on Brunch, Lunch and Dinner menus and an amazing Barramundi entrée with Herbed Couscous and a Coconut Chili Broth. In our recent Caviar celebration, he featured a Yellowtail and Caviar Crudo with avocado mousse, jalapeno mint pesto, finger lime caviar and Passmore Ranch Reserve Caviar. Delicious! Brandon has a special place in his approach to food for those guests who have allergies, as his daughter Zahira developed a life-threatening allergy to nuts early on. He has brought a new mindfulness to us all, leading our staff in an allergy awareness training, helping us to understand just how important it is to listen and pay attention when the word allergy is spoken by a guest. It is refreshing to work with someone like Brandon, whose passion for what he does challenges the people he works with to be better, to try harder and to remind us why we are doing what we do. Serve great food, serve it well to our guests, make sure they leave satisfied and they will keep our families fat and happy.

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