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his month we celebrate our 20th year of publishing. When my husband and I made the decision in 1996 to start our first publication, Inside East Sacramento, we had no idea where this journey would ultimately lead us. We started publishing our second edition, Inside The City (now called Inside Land Park), in 1998. We added Inside Arden in 2000 and Inside Pocket a year ago. When I was a young college student, both my mind and my heart were in the world of design. I studied product design, along with interior and graphic design. While I never designed products, I worked for a decade in commercial interior design before going into publishing. And for the past two decades, my graphic design skills have been put to use. But honestly, design alone would have left me unfulfilled over time. I’m grateful that while working in interior design, I was introduced to the world of sales and sales management by my husband, with whom I worked at the time. This
skill is crucial to our publishing business, which is solely supported by advertising sales. And while the world of graphic design can be wonderful and creative, it also would have not been enough to keep me working in that field for 20 years. Looking back, I am very grateful for my mother who—while never having a paid career—made huge contributions to her community as a volunteer. Recently, while cleaning out my library, I came across a book on the history of the Detroit neighborhood where we grew up. I vaguely recalled that the book was written while I was an adolescent. I read the book’s forward and was stunned: It was a beautiful thankyou from the author to my mom for her diligence and hard work as a volunteer organizing the history and getting the book published. Someplace deep inside me, a seed had been planted that ultimately grew into our publishing business. My job as publisher came without a job description. I had worked as an editor for another neighborhood newspaper for two years and saw the basics of publishing being undertaken by the owner. I got that job solely because of my work founding a neighborhood association. My writing skills were marginal at best, I was told. But with practice and lots of reading, they improved. When the owner put his business up for sale, I asked about buying it. He declined and told me to start my own newspaper. For the entire time I worked for him, I shared my ideas to improve the design and content of the paper. He rejected almost all of them.
So I started with a playbook of sorts on what we wanted to create to serve the neighborhood. My husband Jim serves as our chief financial officer and handles the accounting, contract management, printing, distribution and technology. As publisher, my job is to manage the community relations, ad sales, editorial, design and monthly production of the paper. Our different personalities and unique set of complementary skills helped us find success in a difficult business. Reflecting back, I want to share the lessons my husband and I have learned in this venture.
QUALITY MATTERS Our team members are all sticklers for quality in everything we do. Whether it is our writing, editing or design we insist on the best. There are so many details in this business, and our entire staff treats them with artisan-type precision. We are proud that our staff has successfully developed a streamlined approach to a complicated business. We strive for perfection on every page. But with millions of words and hundreds of pages each month, errors happen. Accepting that our staff is human is important. I rarely have to beat anyone up over errors as they do it to themselves first!
STAY FOCUSED Over the decades, we have tried a couple other business ideas beyond just publishing what you are reading. At the time they seemed like good ideas. But none ever proved to be good. A few years ago, we decided to simply pursue our main mission,
which is delivering a high-quality publication of local content to our readers each month.
NO COMMENT In the past decade, the idea of anonymous readers commenting to articles posted online grew dramatically and then proved to be somewhat disastrous for publications as discourse fell into the gutter and brought grief to the writers. This idea never appealed to me, so we never did it. I get an occasional nasty anonymous email. But if a reader takes the time to respond thoughtfully to anything I or our writers have written, we reply in kind. One thing I’ve found is that oftentimes readers are critical of things that were actually never written.
TREAT EMPLOYEES LIKE FAMILY We have a staff of 15, and most work part time. And we contract with dozens of writers and artists whose contributions are essential. A good portion of our staff have been with us a decade or more. We work out of offices in our home garage and basement, but most have the option of working at home and do so often. That we have created these jobs and a comfortable working environment is extremely meaningful to us. We not only hold our staff members in the highest regard, but we treat them like family. We have discovered that if we take our time to hire people and evaluate them over probationary periods, we make good decisions. PUBLISHER page 10
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PUBLISHER FROM page 9 In the past decade, we had a few hires that didn’t work out. In all cases, it was our fault for not adequately checking references or properly identifying their personality and character profiles. Another lesson is to fire quickly once you have lost faith in an employee, rather than expecting the employee to change.
DELIVER TO EVERYONE Probably the single smartest decision we ever made was when we decided 20 years ago to direct-mail our publications to the homes in an entire neighborhood we serve. It is very costly and in the beginning took a huge chunk of our budget. But it has proven to be the key to bringing a neighborhood together. And since our advertisers pay all the bills associated with the cost of production, it helps their ads become very effective at reaching their prospects. Most small businesses reach customers in a five-mile radius. Our delivery strategy gets them deep into their surrounding neighborhood.
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When you sit and look at one publication, it is hard to realize the collective impact of 68,000 copies a month we publish. My husband calculated that we printed 5,350,000 total pages last month alone.
TECHNOLOGY HAS BEEN OUR FRIEND We have embraced every technology breakthrough as it was developed, and there have been huge strides in the past 20 years. We want our team to have every tool imaginable to do their jobs as easily as possible. Being small has made this easier as we can decide quickly to make changes to enhance productivity.
SUPPORT THINGS THAT MATTER I especially love the arts, animal welfare and neighborhood volunteerism. So over the years, we have spent considerable money helping sponsor costs of advertising for these types of nonprofit organizations. It is our way of
contributing directly to help these organizations grow and prosper. My mission in life is to help bring neighborhoods and communities closer together. While we may not have started with this exact goal, it certainly grew out of the experiences we’ve had in the past 20 years. And it will remain our mission as long as we are able.
IN SOLIDARITY We stand in solidarity with the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo after 12 members of its staff were savagely murdered by Muslim extremists in its Paris office last month. The publisher expanded its weekly print run for the first issue of Charlie Hebdo after the terror attack to 7 million copies. Its normal circulation is 40,000.
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Green Hair? SALON AN EARLY PARTICIPANT IN THE INDUSTRY’S ECO-FRIENDLY MOVEMENT
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nip, clip, chop and crop. Then sweep it all up and toss it in the trash. But wait. That’s so ’90s! We’re talking about hair. Is the trash really the best place for leftover locks? Carmichael’s Melissa Burgoon and Erin Banville of the hair and clothing salon Hourglass, at Five Points shopping center at Arden Way and Fair Oaks Boulevard, are doing their part to turn hair salons across the nation a bright shade of eco-friendly green. Their salon has just been certified “green.” The co-owner sisters are teaming up with the international group Green Circle Salons in an effort to not only make hair beautiful, but keep the Earth that way, too. “When we opened our shop we realized it was so wasteful to see everything get thrown away on a daily basis,” Burgoon said. “So we did a little research, took it upon ourselves to get educated and found a Canadian company to help us figure out how to do this. “Now we recycle everything from our color cans and unused color to hair, which helps clean up oil spills.
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Hourglass Salon in Carmichael is helping to lead the nation’s charge in making beauty salons sustainable
We’re one of 50 salons in the U.S. that are leading the charge, which is crazy considering there are over 300,000 salons in the United States.” She and her sister find themselves physically breaking apart the cans
used for hair dye in order to separate the plastic parts from the metal. It’s more work. But hey, “We were born in the recycle age. We’ve been recycling all our lives. This is what we do,” Burgoon said.
Even the wispiest of hair that falls to their floor could be employed for an environmental purpose, so they sweep it up and send it off to Green Circle. It turns out synthetic hair can only be used once to clean up an oil spill. Real hair works time and time again. “We send the company all the color we’d normally wash down the drain and they separate the water out of it,” Burgoon explained. Green Circle Salons’ mission is to make the North American salon industry sustainable by 2020 by connecting salon owners with sustainable supplies and products designed specifically for the beauty industry. That means Burgoon and Banville are using or selling nearly everything from eco-friendly shampoos to hairbrushes and plastic combs made from recycled material. Even their light fixtures and chairs specific to hair salons are environmentally friendly. The young entrepreneurs’ salon is one of only four salons in California signed up with Green Circle. “We are proud to be on the cutting edge. We like the message,” Banville said. Hourglass is at 5128 Arden Way in Carmichael. Since the salon-boutique opened several months ago, it now offers the services of an esthetician who specializes in facials, waxing and brow shaping. For more information about the salon, call 640-8181 or email mel@ stylebyhourglass.com
A NOVENA OF GRACE Imagine committing to an exercise program and a special nonfat diet
for nine straight days. Then imagine the changes it might produce on our bodies and overall sense of well-being. Now take that same idea of working out the body and consider what might happen if we did something comparable for our hearts, our souls and our minds. That’s the concept of a special nineday program of prayer and reflection the Sacramento Jesuit community is offering this month. Fathers Phil Ganir and Ray Allender will present Hearts on Fire: A Novena of Grace, beginning Feb. 19 at St. Ignatius Loyola Parish, 3235 Arden Way. The free program is intended for people from all faiths and religious backgrounds. “You don’t have to be Catholic. Whatever your religious beliefs are, you are welcome,” said Tina Bonilla, Sierra Oaks resident and a volunteer for the program. “You might not have any religious beliefs. You might just need time to reflect. “Think of it as a little mini retreat for nine days. You won’t walk away feeling bad. It’s so easy
to get wrapped up in our everyday lives. But with this, we can we step outside of that and see there might be something else out there, a bigger picture.” Hearts on Fire coincides with the beginning of Lent. “Rather than viewing Lent as the time of year when we give something up such as a favorite food or electronic vice, this special series is presented as a busy person’s way to jump-start Lent and to reflect on the things which truly set our hearts on fire,” Ganir said. “How many hours a day do we watch TV, gossip in the parking lot, shop on eBay or stream 20 of our favorite episodes on Netflix?” asked Bonilla. “What we are really doing is zoning out. This is like zoning in. Do we ever spend 50 minutes just with ourselves in reflection?” The program offers three different times each weekday and Saturday for participants to choose from: 8 a.m., 12:10 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. On Sunday, the free program includes Mass at
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COLLAGE, ANYONE? Have you longed to learn something new but that nagging voice in your head says you’re too old? Not talented enough? Maybe taking up slalom or Mandarin is not in the cards. But what about watercolor painting? Making collages? Writing with art? Arden resident Margaret Sarantis, founder of Sacramento Art Classes, offers a variety of classes for all ages designed to help you tap into your creative juices in ways you never thought possible. Take, for instance, a class called SoulCollage created by Seena Frost. Sarantis is a SoulCollage certified teacher who helps students access their intuition to create a deck of cards with deep personal meaning. The deck is then a tool intended to help the creator answer life’s questions and handle transitions. “It’s a simple process in which you find and cut out magazine images to create a deck of cards,” she said. SoulCollage is offered Mondays in February from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. at 3400 Cottage Way, Suite G. Other courses offered include Acrylic Painting on Wednesdays, Art Journaling on Tuesdays, Geisha Painting, Jewelry Making, Wine Glass Painting, Book Binding, Oil Painting and a Fairy House class. For more information, go to SacramentoArtClasses.com or call Sarantis at 802-5830.
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There’s a very good reason Coldwell Banker’s Viki Benbow is sometimes called a house huntress. A 300-pound reason. When she’s not hunting for houses for her clients, this 66-year-old grandmother of five is out looking for big game. This season Benbow took down the biggest trophy of her 16-year deerhunting career. (Yes, that means she took up deer hunting when she was about 50!) With a single shot Benbow felled a 300-pound buck at 297 yards. We know what she’ll be eating for a while …
It’s one thing to be a 66-year-old grandmother and a full time real estate house hunter with Coldwell Banker. It’s quite another to be that same gal and hunt down wild game in Northern California. Viki Benbow recently brought down a 300 pound buck at 297 yards. And oh, yeah. It took just one clean shot.
But that didn’t stop the trio from developing the NannyMe app, which is now available at the Apple app store. They dreamed up the idea, raised start-up money, hired a designer and
launched their app a couple of months ago. It works like Uber, allowing users to request a nanny. It then pings to the nanny employees who can either accept or decline the job. Credit card numbers are stored, and at the end
There’s nothing like waiting for that bun in the oven. Susie Cakes, a national bakery chain, is opening in the Pavilions courtyard. Stay tuned for what it promises to be “home-style dessert favorites baked entirely from scratch.” (Don’t you just hate it when the top layer is store-bought?!) Seems the bakery craze is heating up with pastries galore in the Gourmet Gulch. Ettore’s (of course!) is celebrating more than 25 years offering the gold standard in desserts that are as pretty as they are delectable. Nothing Bundt Cakes is still going strong at Loehmann’s Plaza. And now Susie Cakes will be going pie-to-pie with Cafe Bernardo just a few doors down in Pavilions. I can see the needle move on the bathroom scale just writing about this!
BLOWBACK IS GOOD BUSINESS Remember the days your grandmother used to go once a week to the beauty parlor to have her hair “set”? Welcome back to the future. We don’t exactly “set” our hair anymore. But who would complain if somebody else blew our hair dry, then curled and coifed it all while we lazily spoiled ourselves, closed our eyes in a comfy chair and dreamed about things like caviar and sailboats? Blow-dry-only salons are all the rage in big cities and making their way to Sacramento. No cutting. No perms. Just straight wash, blow, style and go. After 22 years in the hairstyling business, Carmichael’s Sandra Bailey opened My Blow Dry Studio at the Pavilions shopping center, where clients who are tired of bad hair days can start their day (or night!) with her instead. “In New York, Chicago and L.A. they have dry bars with 10 chairs, and they’re just cranking out the blowouts,” she said. “This is the new shampoo and set of the modern millennium.” For bachelorette party girls to high-powered attorneys with a giant caseload, maybe it’s about time to blow off our hair. For more information, email myblowdrystudio@gmail.com or call 614-0163.
NEEDLING THE KNIT WITS Interested in learning to knit? Or are you one of those people who needs a little needling to finish that old knitting project? Fret no more. Arden and Carmichael resident knitters, otherwise known as The Knit Wits, are clicking their needles away every Friday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Carmichael’s public library on Marconi Avenue. Another knitting group meets at 12:30 p.m. on the first Wednesdays of each month at St. Ignatius Loyola Garden Room, 3235 Arden Way. All are welcome. For more information, email Marilyn Fischer at fischerm302@gmail.com
SOFTBALL SIGN-UPS The Fulton-El Camino Recreation and Park District is holding spring softball team sign-ups beginning in February. A season consists of eight games, with the top four teams entering the playoffs. Cost for one team is $430. For more information, visit fecrecpark.com Arden Park Recreation District will begin sign-ups Feb. 23 for spring adult men’s and co-ed teams, with games beginning in April. These teams play at the C/D recreational level, and new teams are always welcome to join. Visit aprpd.org for more information.
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GOLF TOURNAMENT MEETING An informational meeting about the upcoming U.S. Senior Open Championship will be held Tuesday, Feb. 3, at 6 p.m. at Del Paso Country Club. The meeting is designed to help residents and business owners understand how the June event will affect the neighborhood. For more information, go to 2015ussenioropen. com
CELEBRATING 20 YEARS I have had the pleasure of working at Inside Publications in advertising sales for more than two years, after writing for the publications for nearly a decade. It has been the best career I could ever have imagined for myself. And I am most grateful to Cecily and Jim Hastings and what they have created for our communities. There are a few things about them that I’d like to share. One of Jim’s first jobs was as a teenage paperboy on a bicycle. Later, as a very young father, Jim strung together jobs, working seven days a week to support his family. He often toted his baby son in a basket tied to his handlebars. He went on to serve in the Marine Corps, becoming a captain, and after active duty in Korea, he sold typewriters for IBM. While working, he put himself through the University of Miami with a degree in accounting. At IBM, he became a leader in sales, marketing and management in a career spanning almost three decades.
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make the community stronger, give it a sense of identity and help local businesses stay profitable. Twenty years later, they have made their mark. What’s made the paper such a standout? Cecily organizes the content into a clean and friendly layout, creating a stylish and smart product. She believes that people don’t have enough good design and art in their lives. The paper always has a beautiful piece of art on the cover. Readers tell me they have trouble throwing it away. I am proud that we have become the city’s largest monthly. Our advertisers know this and understand how we reach their target. Get either Jim or Cecily alone and they’ll each tell you why the paper is such a success. He says it’s her. She says it’s him. And both generously credit their entire team. The bottom line: I love my job! Duffy Kelly can be reached at dk@ insidepublications.com n
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Slices of History CARMICHAEL AREA’S FIRST FAMILY VIEWS VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPHS
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arking his 85th birthday, Russell Deterding was among the first customers at the new Carmichael Cafe and Deli. His celebration included several generations of Carmichael’s oldest clan, whose ancestors Mary and Charles Deterding farmed San Juan Meadows (now Ancil Hoffman Park) before Daniel Carmichael established his Carmichael Colony. Russell Deterding, a U.S. Marine and retired businessman, calls being Mary Deterding’s grandson “one of the great honors of my life. Woman’s lib would have come as a complete shock to grandmother,” he laughed. “When she had a tough time, she fended for herself and just got on with things.” Deterding is father to eight sons and daughters. He has 28 grandchildren and greatgrandchildren, many of whom still inhabit Carmichael. Sixteen family members kept the party going at the Carmichael cafe. The restaurant features Deterding ancestors, and other area legends, as part of a “Carmichaelabilia” décor. Cafe owner Burnie Lenau commissioned many large
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Scion of the Carmichael colony’s oldest clan, Russ Deterding (front and center) celebrates his birthday with family and restaurant owner Bernie Lenau (center, back). Relatives include Becca and Carrie Deterding, DeAnna Rabbitt, Donna Deterding and Grace Bunting. The photographs are among vintage photos in Carmichael Cafe and Deli.
A great blue heron surveys nature’s buffet on the American River Parkway
reproductions of historic Carmichael photographs to offer an educational experience as customers enjoy his down-home cuisine. Images range from the early colonists and
their makeshift dwellings to aerial shots of vintage and contemporary Carmichael. Daniel Carmichael is also portrayed in old photos with a
thumbnail history of the founder’s extraordinary career. “I’m learning about Carmichael from the pictures,” enthused thirdgeneration Clark Avenue resident Lenau, 56. “My grandfather, Judge Walter Rice, came here in the 1940s. I’ve always loved the area’s history and traditions.” A former Carmichael Chamber of Commerce president and owner of the Lawnman landscaping company, Lenau is also an experienced caterer. “It was my dream to someday open a cafe,” he said. “Providing the kind of food you’d serve a family, in an environment that makes you think of home, was part of that. I wanted my customers to be proud of the unique place Carmichael has in Sacramento history.” Having 16 members of the Deterding family chowing down for their patriarch’s birthday, said Lenau, was the crowning event of his first week in business. “Seeing the Deterdings here reminds me of the example pioneers provided for Carmichael,” he said. “They were hard workers, committed to family and community. That’s the legacy people like the Deterdings gave us. Lenau’s food is as reminiscent of vintage America as the pictures on the walls. Seated at the Daniel Carmichael, Van Alstine or Carmichael Presbyterian tables, guests can munch on Angus beef burgers (from $7.99). From the sandwich menu, managing chef Simon Mantell recommends the New York Rueben for $10.99. Breakfast is served all day and daily dinner
Collectors Faye Wolfe (left) and Susan Rhoades display some of the thousands of intriguing buttons that can be admired or purchased at the Sacramento Button Club’s show on March 7 in Carmichael.
specials include prime rib, pork chops or corned beef and cabbage. For history buffs, Lenau has written information explaining each old Carmichael picture. Credits note the Deterding, Graves and Gibbons families as assisting with old photographs. “It’s an honor for Deterdings to be included here,” said Russ Deterding’s daughter, former Carmichael Mayor Donna Deterding. “Seeing my grandmother and her barn reminds me of what a small and brave woman she was. It’s a wonderful idea for a café to remind people of Carmichael’s foundations.” Carmichael Cafe and Deli (4314 Marconi Ave.) is open seven days for breakfast, lunch and dinner. For more information, go to carmcafedeli.com
BREAKFAST AT EFFIE YEAW There is more to ornithology than binoculars and obliging birds. Add a nature preserve resonant with avian song, throw in an expert docent, garnish with breakfast fit for a kingfisher. You then have the Effie Yeaw Nature Center’s popular spring event. Bird and Breakfast is served on March 21 and 22 at the center’s facility in Ancil Hoffman Park. Reservations are required; the two-day fundraiser sells out every year.
Having attended, I guarantee a jaunt full of fun. Supporters will likely see 40 or more species and no bird gets left behind; your Sacramento Audubon guide get as excited about finches as rock-stars like the great blue heron, a snowy egret and—yes, it’s just possible—a bald eagle. The raptor has recently been spotted in Gold River, so in our Carmichael Parkway stretch, we can baldly dream. Equally fascinating is watching birds home-building and brooding during their most industrious season. Because Audubon folk locate nests more easily than they find their own vehicles in parking lots, visitors will likely see the abodes of wrens, hawks, woodpeckers, and titmice. Higher and harder to spot, some hummingbirds will have nested by March. The endearing scenario is enhanced by on-site viewing scopes. A 25-year spring tradition, the $40 ($35 for American River Natural History Association or Audubon members) safari is followed on Saturday, March 21, by a gourmet breakfast. Saturday’s foray does not accommodate children. Familyfriendly Sunday, March 22, includes kids for $10 ($8 for ARNHA or Audubon tykes). On Sunday, Carmichael Kiwanis will serve a pancake breakfast. A silent auction of bird-related goodies will accompany breakfast. Proceeds assist the nature center.
Effie Yeaw staffer Betty Cooper promises, “It’s a rare opportunity to experience animal lifecycles and study the things you often pass by.” Neither excursion is recommended for very young children. Participants should wear comfortable shoes and bring binoculars. Bird and Breakfast begins at 8 a.m. both days. To learn more about the fundraiser, call 4894918.
HOOKED ON BUTTONS Some of the most eye-popping antiques are also the smallest. At the Sacramento Button Club’s March 7 expo in Carmichael, you might snag a Civil War tunic fastener for under $50. If you lust for Thomas Gainsborough-style portrait pieces, be prepared to unbutton your billfold. Via such nubbins, artisan glory of centuries past will be displayed in miniature. And if you just want a button to replace one that popped off a shirt, one of 25 vendors will surely have a deal for you. What astonishes at such bazaars is, among poke-tray plastic bargains, the availability of seriously old stuff. A 1700s painted dog under glass bears a $1,000-plus tag. Snipped from long-ago rotted garments, some
are thumbnail masterpieces. Gemcrusted, some might have bribed Bastille guards during the French Revolution. “We often look at old buttons and imagine the stories they could tell,” says Button Club treasurer Susan Rhoades. Georgian dandies risked having exquisite furbelows snatched from their vests in the streets. They were traded, stolen and handed down in families. Says Rhoades: “Lives were lost in making them; pearl dust is toxic and mercury (for gold plating) killed many. You learn so much about history, art and manufacturing from buttons.” At first ornamental, the ingenious use of buttons to keep cloth in check came to Europe with returning Crusaders. Manufacture took off. Mediaeval guilds protected button makers and master artisans were sought by popes and princes. With servants to hook them up, the rich sported hundreds of buttons per garment. Portraits, pets and landscapes were painted on the tiny tidbits. Pearls, gold or diamond buttons studded stomachers. No material was too grand for the button makers’ art. When the widowed Queen Victoria IN TUNE page 18
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IN TUNE FROM page 17 took to wearing jet specimens, society followed. Black cut glass is still in haute button vogue. Though poppers, zippers and Velcro revolutionized 20th century fastening, nifty little buttons have never been undone. “People come to our show seeking that one perfect item,” says Faye Wolfe. “One lady brought a vest she’d sewn; she wanted matching buttons in front. In the end, she chose four, each quite different. Who says they have to match? Our button world is full of eccentricity.” The Button Bazaar runs from 10 am to 5 pm on Saturday, March 7, in the La Sierra Community Center (5325 Engle Road). Admission is by donation. Docents will be on hand to appraise antique specimens. The Sacramento Button Club meets on the second Saturday of each month at Sam’s Hof Brau, 2500 Watt Ave.. For more information, call 489-1785.
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Doing business in the same streets where Daniel Carmichael first sold real estate, Ron Greenwood rejoices in his election as 2015 Sacramento Association of Realtors president
REALTORS ELECT CARMICHAEL LEADER Carmichael Colony founder Daniel Carmichael began the Sacramento Association of Realtors in 1908 and took the president’s chair in 1910. Almost 105 years later, the 5,800-member organization has installed Carmichaelite Ron Greenwood as its leader. “Daniel Carmichael’s vision resulted in a fantastic organization,” considers the 2015 president. “It’s a kick to think I’m selling real estate in some of the same streets that our founder trod with his own for-sale signs.” Born in El Paso, Greenwood studied at the University of Texas and moved to California after graduation. He held an Orange County banking job before choosing sales as a career. Executive roles for several men’s apparel companies were followed by a 1992 jump to real estate. Greenwood has been a top producer for Coldwell Banker for 18 years. The agent has served the Sacramento Board of Realtors since 1996. In 2008, Greenwood was elected to the Carmichael Water District board;
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Savior of the Effie Yeaw Nature Center and wildlife protector, the American River Natural History Association will be honored as nonprofit of the year
he took the presidential gavel in 2010. The Sacramento Regional Water authority named him its 2014 chair. He also serves on the Sacramento County Local Agency Formation Commission. In his volunteer hours, Greenwood, 67, is chief financial officer for the nonprofit Carmichael Park Foundation and is an active member
of Carmichael Kiwanis. Married to San Juan School District speech therapist Cleo Greenwood, he worships at Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church on Walnut Avenue. The Greenwood family has occupied the same Carmichael home for 31 years.
Carmichael Chamber of Commerce members have named the community leaders they will honor at the March 27 Person of the Year Gala. Because of the principal honoree, homegrown baseball legend Dusty Baker, the event will be named Rooting for the Home Team. The chamber began its annual salute to local achievement in 2010. Past honorees have included Sheriff John McGinness, County Supervisor Susan Peters, broadcaster Kitty O’Neal, sports commentator Jerry Reynolds and District Attorney Jan Scully. Staged at the La Sierra Community Center, the chamber fundraiser will also celebrate other community leaders and benefactors. They are: Mercy San Juan neonatologist Doctor Carolyn Getman (physician of the year), Milagro Centre developers Allan and Nancy Davis (business people of the year), Inside Publications owner Cecily Hastings (media person of the year) and the American River Natural History Association (nonprofit of the year). One of Carmichael’s most highprofile events, the event is usually attended by elected legislators and local celebrities. Music, raffles and networking opportunities are part of the program, and Sacramento Metro Chamber of Commerce executive Peter Tateishi will take the live auction gavel. A portion of the proceeds will benefit Effie Yeaw Nature Center, whose educational programs are sponsored by ARNHA. Festivities begin at 6 p.m., and the $65 ticket includes a three-course dinner and no-host bar. Sponsors include Milagro Properties and SMUD. Event and table sponsorships are available. For more information, call the Carmichael Chamber of Commerce at 481-1002. Susan Maxwell Skinner can be reached at sknrband@aol.com n
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Partnerships Thrive FOR THIS BALLET DIRECTOR, IT TAKES A VILLAGE TO BRING A CLASSIC TO LIFE
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f anyone knows what it takes to be part of a team, it’s Ron Cunningham. Since 1991, the Sacramento Ballet’s artistic director has shared the title with his wife, Carinne Binda, whom he affectionately calls “my co-director and slave driver.” This strong leadership partnership has seen the Ballet through more than 20 seasons, an economic recession that threatened dozens of local arts groups, 40 Sacramento premieres of new work and 38 world premieres. (They’ll add another to that tally this month when Cunningham’s brand-new production of “Peter Pan” opens on Feb. 13.) But there’s more to success than choreographic output, as Cunningham well knows. He understands that in order to make enduring art, each element must come together equally— collaboratively—and he’s willing to wait until it does. “I’ve wanted to do ‘Peter Pan’ for a long time,” Cunningham says. “There are certain ballets I’ve had in my head for a long time, and for this one I had never liked any music I’d heard for it. For me, if I don’t have the music to support the drama, it never works.” The years of waiting paid off when a friend introduced him to the music of contemporary Italian composer Silvio Amato, who has written tunes for a variety of media, from sitcoms and soap operas to documentaries and live theater. “Amato wrote music for a production of ‘Peter Pan on Ice’ for Italian TV,” Cunningham says. “When I heard the music, those
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Local painter Stephanie Taylor has created artwork to be projected onto the backdrop during "Peter Pan"
beautiful melodies, I thought it was just delightful.” It turned out that Amato had recently moved to California from Boston, where Cunningham and Binda met as young dancers. So Cunningham contacted him and an artistic relationship was born. Amato even granted the choreographer the right to move the music around (a rare occurrence during these times of copious copyrights), which serves the ballet best when it’s finding its footing in the rehearsal room. Finally satisfied that he had the music that would make “Peter Pan” fly, Cunningham turned his attention to the other artistic details that were necessary to make the show soar. The Ballet is borrowing the “physical production” (the scenery and props) from Eugene Ballet Company, which produced its own version of “Peter Pan” in 2013. But Cunningham decided that he wanted
to add an extra, unique element to his piece: original paintings to be projected onto the backdrop during one very important scene change. “I’d seen projections done in other productions for the transition
going from a real place—the Victorian bedroom—to the fantasy of Neverland,” he says. “You want some kind of transition so the change doesn’t seem so harsh. So I started
thinking, ‘Gee whiz, how would I do it?’” To solve the scene change challenge, Cunningham asked Sacramento arts patron Marcy Friedman to recommend an artist. Friedman suggested local painter Stephanie Taylor, a fourth-generation Sacramentan whose resume includes stints as the art director and creative director for advertising agencies in Los Angeles as well as large-scale commissions for Disneyland Hotel in Paris, Shoji Corporation in Kyoto, Japan, Bally’s Casino in Las Vegas, Crowne Plaza in New York and MGM Studios in Los Angeles. She has also done lots of local projects including installations at Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento Public Library, California State Railroad Museum and many others. It was her deep connection to Sacramento and her extensive work with Disney that sold Cunningham. “It’s right up her alley,” he says. Taylor has a sentimental attachment to the piece that made her even more eager. “My mom took me to see Mary Martin as Peter Pan on Broadway when I was 10 years old,” Taylor recalls. “I remember thinking that the song ‘I've Gotta Crow’ was such a celebration of self-esteem. That’s a wonderful thing for a child, and it’s something my mom gave me. I have an appreciation of the traditions of ballet as well, so my part in providing this transition is to honor that tradition and keep it simple. Plus, Ron and I hit it off right away.”
Dancers from “The Nutcracker” spend time with a kitten from the Front Street Animal Shelter
Taylor’s involvement as an outside artistic resource is not unprecedented for the Ballet, which has long relied on the support and interaction of the community to survive and grow. For this particular season (the Ballet’s 60th anniversary), Cunningham and Binda have been more focused than ever on bringing disparate groups together for a common artistic cause. Case in point: their wildly successful partnership with Front Street Animal Shelter for December’s production
of “The Nutcracker,” Cunningham’s trademark Christmastime classic. While the presence of a four-legged friend has long been a staple of the production’s opening scene, Cunningham decided to go all in this year and feature a different canine cast member for every performance. “It started with a lovely boy, Chandler, who had cerebral palsy and appeared in ‘Nutcracker’ for me for 10 years or more,” Cunningham says. “In the last couple of years, he
acquired a service dog and asked if he could bring him out onstage. I thought, ‘Why not?’ You could hear the reaction in the audience when that dog came out, so this year we worked with Front Street to include dogs that were up for adoption. We even added a cat to the party scene. I have two cats, so why not have cats, too? It was wonderful marketing for us.” BALLET page 22
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BALLET FROM page 21 Bobby Mann, the public relations ambassador for Front Street, echoes Cunningham’s sentiments. “Our goal was to try to show shelter animals in a different way,” Mann says, “to present them in a way they’ve never been presented. We featured a new adoptable animal in every show, and we were in the lobby with six to 12 animals at any given performance. Every animal we brought—51 of them—was adopted.” It wasn’t just the cats and dogs who benefited: The Ballet saw a significant bump in ticket sales thanks to Front Street’s strong social media presence. The partnership was a great success all around, a trend that Cunningham hopes to continue when “Peter Pan” takes flight this month. “Collaborating with another artist is a wonderful thing to do,” he says. Wonderful enough to make you want to crow. For tickets and more information on “Peter Pan” and the Sacramento Ballet, visit sacballet.org n
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Fit for Life SENIORS HELP THEIR INSTRUCTOR MOVE TO A NEW EXERCISE FACILITY
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or the seniors in Paul McCarthy’s fitness classes at the YMCA on Eastern Avenue, it was the worst possible news: The doors of the YMCA were closing. Although rumors had circulated for some time that the facility would fold, there was real distress when the class schedule began tapering down. Some of the students had been attending the Y for more than two decades. When the doors finally closed last August, however, a plan had been hatched. The plan included all of McCarthy’s devoted students, and it envisioned no discontinuation of their relationship with him. “What Paul did for us was just amazing,” says Julie Lavine, 81, who has attended his early-morning balance ball classes religiously. “He had such a profound influence on all of us that unquestionably anybody would follow him.” The 60 or so students in the senior balance, weight and aerobics classes— ranging in age from 55 to 90—found McCarthy a new workout studio on Marconi Avenue just past Eastern, then packed, drove, schlepped, hauled, lifted, cleaned and organized his new space.
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Paul McCarthy runs Fit4U with the help of Linda Martin
“The place needed a lot of work,” recalls McCarthy, “and I wasn’t financially able to do what needed to be done. But as a family we cleaned this place. They cleaned bathrooms, scrubbed floors. We’re talking people in their 70s and 80s.” He shakes his head in disbelief. “Even today, I have individuals who come in to dust and empty the trash. How often do you have a business where people pay to be members, and then they come in to empty the trash?” The mastermind behind the scheme was Linda Martin, one of McCarthy’s most dedicated followers. “Linda is like my right hand,” he says. “She has been a godsend.” Martin found the new location (next to Tricks Gymnastics), took McCarthy to see it
and challenged him to think big. “She said, ‘What if we … ?’ She knew that I needed help to do it, so she set up a volunteer list, got everybody to sign up, organized the workers and just made it happen.” That McCarthy generates this degree of loyalty is no surprise to those who know him. He has worked for years as a personal trainer, helping athletes improve their mental and physical condition, as well as a health and wellness coach for individuals at all stages of life and health. Five years ago, he was approached by the managing partner at Ellis Law Group to run a training program for the firm’s lawyers. “I had coached his kids in soccer, and he needed a personal trainer,”
says McCarthy. “He told me that he was moving his firm to a new building and he asked me, ‘How about if we put a gym in there for the employees? They sit in their offices a lot of hours.’ They can come in on their lunch hours or before they head home, work out for a half hour, shower and get back to work.” McCarthy continues to train the lawyers, but now he has his own business, called Fit4U, to run. That business is made possible by a group of seniors for whom he is the difference between wellness and decline, both physically and mentally. “When I started at the YMCA, I saw that they didn’t have aerobics or other classes that this group needed,” HEROES page 26
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Lean University will be a 10-week class on healthy eating. High school and college students can take part in speed and agility training, and there will be off-season training for athletes. Recognizing the benefits of exercise for aging brains, he intends to offer classes for seniors suffering from Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia. He will hire additional trainers, but the senior classes will remain with him. “They share what’s going on with them, and I share what we can do,” he says. “We collaborate. I formulate classes based on what’s going on with them. I’ll be their lifeline to health and fitness. I wasn’t put on this planet for myself, only for others. I’m inspired to see them doing it. I want to be where they’re at when I’m 75.” Fit4U is at 4440 Marconi Ave. For more information, call 487-1945 or go to thefit4u.com Terry Kaufman can be reached at terry@1greatstory.com n
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Circle the Wagon PARK FOOD EVENTS KEEP ON TRUCKIN'
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clientele is now as mobile as the eateries. Rudy’s Hideaway’s truck, The Cruzin’ Crustacean, has an online following. Patrons follow the scent of lobster sliders from markets to college campuses and festivals all over Sacramento County. For the record, truck dining is not cheap. Its popularity nevertheless reflects a rage to combine eating with hanging out in cool places. No one gripes about waiting; lining up is part of the social experience. Live bands, face painting and children’s inflatables ease delays and provide apres-dinner entertainment.
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Bringing Hope and Help HEALTH CARE CEO AIDS THE POOREST AMONG US
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our decades removed from Kilkenny, Ireland, and the banks of the River Nore, Elizabeth Cassin still speaks with the light, lyrical rhythms and firm consonants of her birthplace. And while her Irish accent charms a Sacramento ear, her voice rings with the authenticity of someone who came from a place far away, someone who never can be indifferent or wholly indigenous in her adopted home. Being an outsider has formed the baseline of Cassin’s mission in Northern California. As CEO of Elica Health Centers, a nonprofit serving our region’s poorest and least secure residents, Cassin brings professional medical treatment to immigrants, homeless people and their children. In other words, to Sacramento’s outsiders. Using tents and backpacks and empty 5-gallon buckets for chairs, or rolling around in a new, $380,000 bus that serves as a medical clinic on wheels, Cassin and her doctors and nurses move beyond their brick-andmortar clinics in Midtown and West Sacramento and go where the need is, from homeless camps and transient
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motels to school parking lots in Arden Arcade. “The people we deal with often can’t get where they need to go for medical treatment,” Cassin says. “For many of them, it’s extremely challenging to get across town.
Doing things we take for granted is essentially impossible. So we bring the services to them.” It’s an old idea: street-corner, neighborhood-based medicine and mobile clinics, providing care
to underserved residents and communities. But even such obvious ideas can be remarkably hard to move from concept to reality. After meeting up with four Sacramento-area physicians who inspired her with their willingness to carry their skills to where the need was, Cassin spent a dozen years lining up federal authorizations to fund and sustain Elica Health. Highly educated (she graduated from l’Universite Paris-Sorbonne in comparative legal studies and taught at UC Berkeley), Cassin faced one vexing bureaucratic hurdle after another. There were days when she wondered if she would ever succeed. “The holidays were hardest,” she says. “We would have spent so much time and energy working for approved status during the year, but the holidays would arrive and we never knew if we had to wait another year.” Two summers ago, federal authorities at last decreed Elica Health Centers qualified for service reimbursements. Cassin was overjoyed. Floating on a sense of relief and filled with appreciation, she wanted to thank the person responsible. But she had no idea whose hand she should shake. “It’s strange, but there was no single person or agency to thank,” she says. “There were so many of them. I thought it was important to express our thanks to someone, but the only person I could think of was the president of the United States. I thought I should go shake his hand if I ever got the chance.” A grateful Cassin has not had the opportunity to shake President Obama’s hand, but the work of Elica
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Where Sacramento Gets Engaged! require her to dismantle cultural barriers, especially among Slavic and Eastern European communities in Sacramento. Today, she converses in five languages. The language of poverty is Cassin’s true fluency. When she speaks of serving homeless people, the mission to bring health care to camps, shelters and motels becomes a passion revealed in soft Irish vowels. She has delivered medical services to homeless communities since meeting two rough sleepers at a coffee shop in West Sacramento. “I offered them coffee and doughnuts and we began to talk,” she says. “One day, they asked me to help their friend. I went to their camp and saw she was dying, and she did die that day. They have incredible needs but very little ability to ask for help.” With Cassin and Elica Health, outsiders don’t have to ask. R.E. Graswich can be reached at reg@graswich.com n
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Solar and More CHANGES AHEAD FOR SUTTER’S LANDING REGIONAL PARK
BY STEVE SWINDEL BUILDING OUR FUTURE
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t was once industrial wasteland, an asphalt-covered patch of dirt over construction debris. But thanks to the efforts of former city councilmember Steve Cohn and the city’s Recycling and Solid Waste Division, it is now home to a solar array providing clean, renewable energy to SMUD customers. The solar project, located in Sutter’s Landing Regional Park is, according to Mike Gravely of the California Energy Commission, “a great example of how you can get what you want [and] produce power on land that would otherwise not be usable.” Gravely spoke at the ribboncutting ceremony celebrating the completion of the solar array project on Oct. 27. The nearly $5 million project, built by the German company Conergy, produces 1.5 megawatts of power from three kinds of collectors. A ground-mounted array, the largest of the structures, produces about 1 megawatt. A shade structure over a parking lot and “solar trees” located in the adjacent off-leash dog park provide the remainder. Both the shade structure and the solar trees provide much-needed shade in a park that has little shade to offer. The solar project is part of a much larger plan to redevelop the former landfill for recreational and habitat uses. Cohn said the project provides the city “an opportunity to repurpose an industrial site, reclaiming it for habitat and recreation.”
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A foggy morning at Sutter's Landing
The ground-mounted array presented some special problems in design and construction. The land it is built on is constantly shifting and settling, making typical concrete support piers unusable. The solar panels are instead mounted on “ground screws” that remain stable even as the earth shifts and that won’t damage the landfill cap. Partial funding for the solar project was provided by grants from the U.S. Department of Energy and the California Energy Commission. Long-term financing for the project came from Washington Gas Energy Systems, which will also operate the system. SMUD has agreed to buy the energy produced from the solar project for 20 years. Conergy’s David Vincent called the project “truly remarkable.” The Sutter’s Landing solar park is only one of a number of projects in the pipeline for the park. There is also a plan to enhance habitat on the riverbank within the park, introduce
The solar project, located in Sutter’s Landing Regional Park is, according to Mike Gravely of the California Energy Commission, “a great example of how you can get what you want [and] produce power on land that would otherwise not be usable.”
interpretive features and extend the paved bike trail. In short, the city intends to establish Sutter’s Landing Regional Park as a prime gateway to the American River.
The paved bike trail will begin at the end of the current Sutter’s Landing Bike Trail, where it intersects with the levee adjacent to the skate park. It will extend from that point to the railroad trestle just
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sharing the space on the top between maintenance trucks and cyclists, runners and walkers may result in some dangerous interactions. However, Verpeet noted, the lower option will require additional permitting, cost and time to complete. Verpeet presented the latest plans for development of Sutter’s Landing at a public meeting in late October.
Verpeet said the interpretive features will be graphic but will employ elements that “are not signs,” such as faceted face sculptures, winding steel bands embossed with images of wildlife and history and a meandering seat wall depicting the river. Topics will include the area’s history, its ecosystem and the possible future effects of climate change on the park. People attending the meeting voiced a need to create a greater sense
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The Curse of the Kings ONCE RIDING HIGH, OWNER VIVEK RANADIVE IS ITS LATEST VICTIM
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ings owner Vivek Ranadive is a math guy who understands numbers and percentages. He’s never been stopped by long odds stacked against him. That’s his trademark. As a teenager in Mumbai, India, he won admission to one of the most selective schools in the world, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He convinced the Indian government to support his move to Boston. He arrived in the United States essentially broke but studied hard and eventually built a very successful data company, Tibco. In 2013, in hot pursuit of the Kings, Ranadive challenged the CEO of Microsoft, a man whose net worth runs to several billion dollars. They fought for ownership of a basketball team that bounced through four cities, one of the worst franchises in pro sports. The Kings sold for a record price. Ranadive won. Or did he? Today it’s time for a tantalizing question: Now that he’s nearing the end of his second year as owner of the Kings, how is Ranadive doing? It’s an important question, one that runs deeper than the win-loss record of the Kings.
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Kings owner Vivek Ranadive chats with former Kings player Vlade Divac
Three events—the clumsy, earlyseason firing of coach Mike Malone, Ranadive’s exit from the CEO suite at Tibco, and a lawsuit by former partner Darius Anderson—indicate the Silicon Valley engineer is slipping down the familiar path taken by his predecessors. Which, if you’re like me and want to see Ranadive succeed with the Kings, is not good news. Since their birth in the Depressionera snow banks of Rochester, N.Y., the Kings have developed an alarming habit of devouring their owners— pulling them in and crushing their spirits, depleting their wallets, dominating their interests to the neglect of other affairs and generally leaving them wondering why they ever got hooked up with the franchise
in the first place. The team, you could say, is cursed. The franchise founder and guiding spirit, Les Harrison, won an NBA championship—still the Kings’ only title—but ended up moving and selling out when fans in Rochester turned their backs and stopped buying tickets. In the next city, Cincinnati, owners were forced to sell when government authorities took exception to the cozy relationship between the club’s management and Las Vegas mobsters. The management’s company was called Emprise. A federal jury convicted Emprise of conspiracy involving an ownership deal with a Vegas casino. The team changed its
name and started fresh in Kansas City. The Kansas City owners were always short of cash. They hung on for several years, content with mediocrity, until a reasonable offer arrived from a precocious young Sacramento land developer and dream merchant named Gregg Lukenbill. The offer—$4.5 million in cash, $4.5 million in deferred payments, plus $1.5 million when the team moved—looks ridiculously low 32 years later. Even so, Lukenbill didn’t have the money. He had to partner with a bigger developer, Joe Benvenuti. I won’t waste more than a few words on the next two owners, Jim Thomas and the Maloof family. It’s SPORTS page 36
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enough to say things went bad for both of them. Thomas was dependent on his partners for cash flow, and when the partners grew tired of writing checks for the Kings, Thomas had to beg and borrow from the city. The Maloofs blew through their family fortune while trying to hang onto the team. This brings us to Ranadive, who, like Thomas in the early going, has the benefit of very wealthy co-owners. Ranadive may need some assistance, thanks to his divestment from Tibco. Not long after Ranadive bought the Kings, Tibco’s value began to falter. Some investors complained the boss was spending too much time on his NBA fun. Ranadive gave up the Tibco chairmanship. He exited with about $290 million, nice but not exactly a sum that impresses NBA owners these days. (The Maloofs sold their interest in the Kings for $347 million.) I wanted to speak to Ranadive and ask how the Tibco affair would impact the time he spends on the Kings. I asked the team, but they just sent me a press release. As for Malone’s firing, Ranadive was unable to explain the move with clarity worthy of a CEO. Apparently, Malone was sacked by a committee of guys whom Ranadive identifies by youthful nicknames: Petey, Mullie and Bratzy (general manager Pete D’Alessandro, senior adviser Chris Mullin and junior adviser Mike Bratz). It’s not clear if Ranadive was an instigator, collaborator or spectator. And there’s the Anderson lawsuit, which claims Ranadive helped cheat Anderson out of an equity position with the team. The Kings say the suit is “frivolous.” Whatever else he may be, Ranadive is a brilliant engineer. But there’s another discipline that should interest anyone who invests with the Kings: historian. R.E. Graswich is the author of the book “Vagrant Kings: David Stern, Kevin Johnson and the NBA’s Orphan Team.” He can be reached at reg@ graswich.com n
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Sunshine on a Stem NOW’S THE TIME OF YEAR TO CELEBRATE THE COLOR YELLOW
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his is the time of year when splashes of bright yellow flowers punctuate an
awakening landscape. This color of distilled pure sunshine is not my favorite in later spring and summer, when vivid yellow clashes with more subtle pastel palettes. It seems to hog the spotlight. “Look at me! Look at me!” it shouts. Much as I love summer’s sunflowers, I tend to avoid hot colors in my garden during Sacramento’s sizzling heat. In late winter and early spring, however, yellow is just right. Acacias are one of the first plants
to bloom each year. Their puffy, lemon-yellow flowers are spectacular but hated by many who blame them for allergies. Experts say that’s unfair. Acacias produce and drop copious amounts of pollen, but the grains are large and don’t blow in the wind like pollen from deciduous trees and grass. Some people are sensitive to acacia’s fragrance. If your eyes are red and you are sneezing, don’t blame the pollen of these beautiful yellow Australian trees. Late in February, forsythia’s bare, arching branches suddenly
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and in great mounds along the
sunshine to your landscape.
blossoms. Its display lasts just one
highways.
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Daffodils may be the quintessential
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the poet Wordsworth celebrated and
City Cemetery. They are usually
moment of glory.
that artists feature on Easter cards.
deep gold, or even orange, in color.
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last spring, I was unaware that
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Lady Banks roses clamber up trees
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such as California goldfields, that
pollinators. Bees don’t see red at all,
create large, bright, sunny patches on
but they do perceive yellow, blue and
meadows and hillsides.
ultraviolet light as they seek sources
Some pretty yellow flowers in
is no scientific reason for there being
weeds. Dandelions, of course, bloom
so many yellow spring flowers. Maybe
just about all year long. In winter
they just bloom to make us happy and
and spring, Bermuda buttercup, an
to give us hope for many sunny days
oxalis, is exceptionally attractive, with
ahead.
shamrock-shaped leaves and clusters California considers it a nuisance, however, because it spreads so readily by underground bulbs and is hard to eradicate. I’ve got it in my
Anita Clevenger is a Sacramento County UC Master Gardener. For answers to gardening questions, call 875-6913 or go to ucanr.edu/sites/ sacmg
garden despite my husband spending many hours trying to remove it. You probably have it, too. In the Napa Valley, mustard billows between the rows of vines, a breathtaking sight. Nearly as pretty, but quite invasive, is the Scotch broom that infests much of California’s wildlands.
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A Singular Crop LOCAL MUSHROOM FARMER GROWS FUNGI THAT ARE SOUGHT AFTER BY CHEFS
as a hobby. In 2000, she launched Dragon Gourmet Mushrooms out of a warehouse on North B Street. A year ago, after retiring, she bought property in Sloughhouse and decided to “go big,” as she says. Life as a mushroom
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grower could be lonely. There are no big tractors making noisy passes
E
ven the most adventuresome foodie has to admit that some types of mushrooms look too
weird to just pop into your mouth. That is, until they meet Roxana Walker. Walker describes herself as a farmer, but really, she’s more of a mushroom evangelist who grows an amazing variety at her Dragon Gourmet Mushrooms farm in Sloughhouse. She invited us for a visit on “bagging day,” when the farm was buzzing with activity. As we stepped out of the car, she immediately launched into a sermon about the benefits and culinary delights of mushrooms. We were instant converts. Hallelujah. Walker is a scientist by trade. She retired from the state after working for 30 years as an air-quality chemist. About 20 years ago, she became fascinated by the health benefits and the use of mushrooms in Eastern medicine. Following a class in mycology and learning how mushrooms remove toxins from soil, she began experimenting with growing oyster and shiitake varieties
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through fields. No birds to chase out of the crops. No bands of farm workers harvesting the fields. Walker, though, is surrounded by family members and friends who help with the day-to-day duties. We followed along as she clomped through the mud from shed to hoop house, checking on
Roxana Walker, owner of Dragon Gourmet Mushrooms, holding a shiitake mushroom log
her crops and explaining her growing process. She follows a Chinese method she learned from her mentor in Washington. “Bagging day is a busy time,” Walker explained. “We grow the mushrooms in a mixture of untreated, hardwood sawdust reclaimed from a molding shop. It is mixed with other growing materials, then pasteurized with steam and placed in plastic bags about the size of the Sunday newspaper. Mushroom spawn (seed) is added. The bags are sealed with a ball of cotton and moved to growing sheds we call hoop houses.” The hoop houses, which she built herself, look like Quonset huts with
heavy canvas covers. Currently she
growing rooms to be dark, but Walker
has four houses and plans to add
explained that mushrooms like soft
more this summer. Walker explained
light, not darkness. The air felt damp
that when the pins (sprouts) begin
and smelled woody. “We spray the
to form, she cuts the bags open or
room with misters similar to the ones
removes the cotton-ball plugs so that
used at grocery stores,” she explained.
the mushrooms can fruit through the
“Mushrooms don’t like to be wet.
openings.
But they do like dampness, so we
She pulled open a door to one of the hoop houses and invited us to step inside. It was a truly amazing
spray between the rows to keep the humidity high.” Once mushrooms begin to grow,
sight. There were well over 8,000
they are harvested daily. Recently,
bags, all stacked neatly on wooden
Dragon Gourmet Mushrooms
shelves higher than my head. Perfect
celebrated one ton of oyster
blue oyster mushrooms sprouted
mushrooms harvested in a single
from nearly every bag. I expected the
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618 52ND ST $460,000 1380 45TH ST $1,425,000 5311 SPILMAN AVE $535,000 5260 MINERVA AVE $485,000 5224 CARRINGTON ST $330,000 4851 T ST $435,000 5314 SANDBURG DR $455,000 820 45TH ST $980,000 17535 1ST ST $229,000 5301 S ST $305,000 5101 H ST $461,500 424 40TH ST $640,000 1530 54TH ST $327,000 143 FERN CT $345,000 461 46TH ST $549,000 5717 MODDISON AVE $432,000 54 PRIMROSE WAY $345,000 5200 CALLISTER AVE $431,000 5843 O ST $325,000 5408 MONALEE AVE $468,000 1448 47TH ST $705,000 4201 D ST $765,000 4100 FOLSOM BLVD #4A $397,000 1900 48TH ST $252,500 5214 C ST $355,000
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3744 HUFF WAY $203,000 3340 BLUEGRASS RD $204,000 3027 KERRIA WAY $289,000 3434 WHITNOR CT $409,000 3509 CHADSWORTH WAY $383,000 3017 TAMALPAIS WAY $185,000 2660 HOWE AVE $83,000 3564 LARCHMONT SQR LN$130,000 2581 HOWE AVE $220,000 3905 HILLCREST LN $333,000 2836 AVALON DR $273,500 3401 POPE AVE $720,000 4200 LYLE ST $304,000 3708 WILLIAM WAY $255,000 4513 ROBERTSON AVE $281,500 2471 ROLAND RD $183,500 2871 ASHBOURNE DR $790,000 2905 GREENWOOD AVE $305,000
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5441 MICHAEL WAY 3245 TORRANCE AVE 6743 GOLF VIEW DR 63 PETRILLI 4945 VIRGINIA WAY 1156 ROSA DEL RIO WAY 5204 MONTEREY WAY 4140 MULBERRY LN 30 QUASAR CIR 1460 68TH AVE 747419TH ST 2711 5OTH AVE 2120 BERG AVE 2341 KNIGHT WAY 7551 32ND ST 6137 HERMOSA ST 1419 HOPKINS 1408 WACKER WAY 2405 34TH AVE 7470 HITHER WAY 2159 55TH AVE 2194 MONIFIETH WAY 7057 21ST. ST 1533 69TH AVE 7551 24TH ST 1717 68TH AVE 1135 DARNEL WAY 1429 WACKER WAY 6724 GOLF VIEW DR 2796 GARDENDALE RD 2141 65TH AVE 2142 STOVER WAY 1651 BELINDA WAY 7414 BALFOUR WAY 2097 20TH AVE 7516 CANDLEWOOD WAY
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2909 CRESCENT CT $286,000 863 WOODSIDE LN #9 $87,500 3230 CASITAS BONITO $183,000 812 DUNBARTON CIR $319,000 5 COLBY CT $284,900 2105 BYRON RD $190,000 2201 WOODSIDE LN #9 $76,000 2201 BYRON $120,000 2022 UNIVERSITY PK DR $305,000 923 COMMONS $318,000 1513 GANNON DR $202,500 1326 OAK TERRACE CT #7 $80,000 2320 WYDA WAY $152,000 891 E WOODSIDE LN #2 $157,500 2340 CORTEZ LN $191,500 500 DUNBARTON CIR $342,500 1840 BELL ST $142,000 2294 WOODSIDE LN #15 $70,000 524 WOODSIDE OAKS #8 $94,000
2316 WYDA WAY $185,000 1224 COMMONS DR $660,000 641 WOODSIDE SIERRA #6 $87,500 730 WOODSIDE LN #10 $94,000 2328 BARCELONA WAY $120,000 2313 LAREDO RD $224,900
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795 PORTUGAL WAY 730 HARVEY WAY 547 LEEWARD WAY 6960 GALLERY WAY 777 BELL RUSSELL WAY 315 ROUNDTREE CT 7287 RUSH RIVER DR 7479S LAND PARK DR 1 GALLEY CT 6541 LONGRIDGE WAY 1012 EILEEN WAY 462 WINDWARD WAY 305 ROUNDTREE CT 880 SHORESIDE DR 15 ASSAY CT 6759 SWENSON WAY 66 RAMBLE OAK 18 IRON RIVER CT 6616 SURFSIDE WAY 6484 OAKRIDGE WAY 7707 RIO ESTRADA WAY 216 ROUNDTREE CT 7542 MYRTLE VISTA AVE
$396,000 $210,000 $187,100 $280,000 $546,500 $125,000 $270,000 $412,500 $245,000 $350,100 $449,000 $310,000 $123,000 $335,000 $378,000 $410,000 $355,000 $389,000 $165,000 $389,000 $640,000 $135,000 $339,000
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Everyday Heroes AMERICAN RED CROSS HONORS PEOPLE WHO TOOK MATTERS INTO THEIR OWN HANDS
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he American Red Cross recently paid tribute to community members who performed extraordinary acts of courage at its 14th annual Heroes Luncheon at Woodland Community & Senior Center. The annual event honors everyday heroes who went above and beyond. The honorees were nominated for such selfless deeds as saving lives, performing first aid or CPR, and providing support to military veterans. Here are the heroes: Renee Lancaster (Animal Rescue) took in 11 neglected Rottweilers confiscated from an animal facility and nursed the dogs back to health. Donna Cameron (Adult Good Samaritan) performed CPR when her husband, Dan, collapsed of a heart attack in their home. Judy Vera (Senior Good Samaritan) cared for and supported her four grandchildren and helped others in need. Skylar Berry (Youth Good Samaritan) performed lifesaving hands-only CPR on a boy who was pulled unresponsive from the bottom
of a pool. She has started a club called Staying Alive to teach others how to perform hands-only CPR. Maggie Burns (Law Enforcement Hero), an officer in the El Dorado County Probation Department, noticed a youth acting strangely. After attempting conversation, she learned he had just tried to commit suicide. She remained with the boy until additional help arrived. Christopher Williams (Military Veteran Hero) performed the Heimlich maneuver on a choking woman at a restaurant. Chris Lundin (Workplace Hero), an employee at Davis Athletic Club, performed chest compressions and rescue breathing on a 2-year-old boy who stopped breathing after falling into the pool. Alena Anberg (Spirit of the Red Cross), a Red Cross volunteer, provides assistance to many people struggling with poverty, delivering care packages filled with basic household supplies such as soap, toilet paper and laundry detergent to families once a month. Sean Tatum (Hero of the Year), a California Highway Patrol officer, came upon a multivehicle accident with one victim trapped inside a burning vehicle. Tatum pulled the woman to safety. The American Red Cross shelters, feeds and counsels victims of disasters, provides nearly half of the nation’s blood supply, teaches lifesaving skills and supports military members and their families. The organization depends on volunteers and the generosity of the public.
For information about donating or volunteering, go to redcross.org/ goldcountry
CHRISTMAS CHEER During the holiday season, more than 100 local residents donated 130 stockings and 192 gifts through Koinonia Family Services and New Morning Youth and Family Services. Dozens of volunteers with United Way’s Women in Philanthropy wrapped the gifts. Women in Philanthropy (a United Way member) brings together local women to help foster youth. To learn more, go to yourlocalunitedway.org/womenphilanthropy
GRANT FOR THE DISABLED United Cerebral Palsy’s Community Living Arrangements Services and Program (CLASP) received a $15,000 grant from Bank of America to help people with developmental disabilities find affordable housing and develop financial skills. “Too often when someone is diagnosed with a disability, society assumes the only option is to forever lock that person into a life of dependency, which can be a drain on society and on the spirit of that person,” said Doug Berman, president and CEO of United Cerebral Palsy. “We are grateful to Bank of America for recognizing that people with disabilities can live life without limits when they are empowered with the right tools.”
CLASP serves 52 people each month. They receive individualized instruction in personal and social development, financial management, affordable housing, health, nutrition, cooking, public transportation, navigating the health care system, household management and selfadvocacy. According to UCP, helping people with disabilities live independently reduces state costs by up to two-thirds. For more information, go to ucpsacto.org
EMPOWERING HOMELESS WOMEN Women’s Empowerment received $25,000 from Save Mart CARES to help homeless women in Sacramento find homes and jobs. The organization’s eight-week program addresses homeless women’s basic needs such as health, mental health and housing while preparing them to become ready for work. For more information, go to womensempowerment.org
DEADLINE FOR GRANT APPLICATION Sierra Sacramento Valley Medical Society Alliance raised more than $65,000 at its Art of Medicine auction and dinner last April. The alliance provides grants of $2,500 to $10,000 to local nonprofit organizations for programs relating to the advancement of community health or health education. Applications for grants are now being accepted. Visit ssvmsa.org for information and an application. DOING GOOD page 53
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Beautiful 3 Bed/2 Bath in Land Park. Features hardwood Áoors, updated kitchen with granite countertops and a spacious master suite. $499,000 Michael Glascock (916) 600-9689
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3 Bed/2 Bath in a very desirable neighborhood close to the American River bike trail. Large master suite with Àreplace and updated kitchen and baths. $425,000 Julie Reardon (916) 799-0246
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Adorable 2 Bed/1 Bath Bungalow/cottage in the heart of East Sac. $330,000 Sharon Sanguini (916) 316-8558
Rare opportunity! Great location in Arden Arcade area, 4/2 1700 sq. ft. on almost 1/4 acre with a pool! Call LA Brenda Siravo (916) 300-4996
Location - Location - Location! Campus Commons beauty with views to Largest Greenbelt- Kitchen has wood Áooring, white cabinets and Corion counters. $325,000 Barbara Frago (916) 425-3637
Excellent 3 Bed/2 Bath home with lots of super updating. Newer kitchen, updated bathrooms, dual pane windows, hardwood Áoors and tile Áooring too. $289,000 Gloria Knopke (916) 616-7858
Wonderful location in Carmichael on a very quiet street! This 3 Bed/2 Bath has updated Áooring with beautiful tile and newer carpet! $275,000 Levon Khachatryan (916) 541-9269
Darling Randy Parks home offers 3 Bed/1 full Bath, updated bathroom, nice outdoor patio for entertaining and open Áoor plan! $229,000 Tom Phillips (916) 799-4571
A beautiful 3 Bed/1 Bath remodel. So many upgrades. New roof, new HVAC,. Dual pane windows. Gorgeous laminate Áooring throughout. Custom made kitchen cabinets with stainless appliance $197,900 Diana Leles (916) 730-0570
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1. Sacramento County Supervisor Susan Peters visits the Carmichael Chamber of Commerce. Sacramento Metro firefighter Michelle Cummings, Milagro Centre developers Nancy and Allan Davis, and Sacramento Board of Education trustee Eleanor Brown greet the supervisor. 2. Ron Greenwood (second from right) was elected Sacramento Association of Realtors president. Fellow officers are Ed Anderson, Paula Swayne and Franco Garcia. 3. Boosting funds with a spell in the slammer, Assemblyman Ken Cooley supports a country- style fundraiser at Armor Mini Storage. 4. Carmichael Singer Todd Morgan (front row) hosts a videoviewing event at The Wilkerson Theatre in Midtown. 5. Baseball hero Dusty Baker visits Carmichael Kiwanis. Among his fans is Carmichael Chamber of Commerce executive Linda Melody. 6. Carmichael resident Rose Kenney reached the century mark. 6. She shows a 1940s photograph of herself and her husband, Larry.
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KIDS LEARN THE JOY OF GIVING Students from Merryhill Preschool participated in the holiday giving season by delivering toys for patients in the Child Life Program at UC Davis Children’s Hospital. The school
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Brave New World THE FACT MOM WAS ONCE A TEEN IS IRRELEVANT
When she opened it revealing my youthful image, there was a different boy in the locket with me. “Oh. Wait. That’s actually Skip.” I was poised ready to explain that, yes, unbelievably, there were boys in my life before Daddy.
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n a time long before phones became wireless and televisions became flat, and when downloading a song meant buying a 45 record that you walked to Tower Records to purchase, I was a teenager. This is very, very hard for my own teenage children to believe. In their world, where the Internet has always existed, a rotary telephone artifact from the attic is recoiled from like a live World War I grenade, and they have never in their life had to walk up to a television to turn the channel or straighten the bunny ears for a better picture, Mom came into this world as a fully developed mother. To recall elementary school crushes, middle school angst or high school drama of my own is to my children as real or interesting as an old black-and-white musical starring dead actors they’ve never heard of. To even insinuate I was ever a girl causes them to affectionately chuckle and say, “You’re so funny, Mom!” before dismissing me to retreat back into their smartphones. Sadly, I can see why it’s hard for them to believe. Not because I’m so
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old and soccer-momish that I can’t be fathomed as a young beauty worthy of leaving a trail of broken hearts. (Just go with it.) It’s because the world has changed so much that I don’t even recognize it. This Valentine’s Day, elementary school kids won’t be home making construction paper hearts out of doilies for their classmates as in my youth. They’ll be buying prepackaged Valentines from Walgreens with the candy already attached and Googling “doily” because they won’t believe their mother that it’s a real thing. Or they might just post a picture to Instagram wishing their friends Happy Valentine’s Day. Middle school girls won’t be feeling bold and daring for giving that cute boy in class the candy heart that says “Let’s Kiss,” their hearts racing as they wait to see if he notices. Instead, they’ll give each other modernized candy hearts that say “Text Me” and “Tweet Me” or just casually Snapchat a picture of the flirty message and send it.
Gone are the days when high school boys couldn’t wait to get their driver’s license on the day of their 16th birthday, mainly so they could take a girl out on a date without having their parents drive. Now they have to wait a full year after they get their license to drive another teen, so they just go with getting dropped off by parents in packs to the movies. Or they’ll have someone come over to watch a movie streamed over the Internet on Netflix. Really, they won’t even need to see each other in person: They’ll just video chat on FaceTime. Recently, my 13-year-old daughter and I were going through some of my vintage jewelry for a friend’s ’80s-themed party. (That one of the best decades of my life has been relegated to a costume party for laughs is another story.) When she found my locket, I said, “Oh, I bet that has a picture of me and my old boyfriend Bobby in it,” thinking the artifact would be a perfect way to prove that I once was an actual teenage girl with relatable dating experience.
“When you accidently have the wrong boyfriend in your locket. #ThatAwkwardMoment.” Instead, my daughter burst out laughing like she’s just watched a funny scene from a romantic comedy. “Wow, Mom. You had so many boyfriends you can’t keep count? My mom’s a player!” which she then posted to Twitter with a picture of the locket. As if that wasn’t demoralizing enough, she added one more Tweet: “When you accidently have the wrong boyfriend in your locket. #ThatAwkwardMoment.” So I still don’t have the respect of being able to provide valuable advice from my own teenage experiences. But apparently I do provide great Twitter fodder for this brave new world. Kelli Wheeler is a Sacramento mother of two and author of “Momservations—The Fine Print of Parenting.” She can be reached at Momservations.com n
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GALLERY ART SHOWS IN FEBRUARY
Red Dot Gallery presents a themeoriented group exhibition called California Scape: Beyond the Snapshot. Participating artists include Tim Mulligan, Margarita Chaplinska, Susan Ballenger, Leslie Philpott, Bud Gordon and Matt Bult. Shown left: “Highway 101” by Margarita Chaplinska. 2231 J Street, Ste. 101
An exhibit of the work of Trent Burkett, a potter, sculptor and professor of art, will be at Jay Jay Art. Show runs through Feb. 28. Shown above is a detail of a work by Burkett. 5520 Elvas Avenue; jayjayart.com ARTHOUSE on R presents “Popstractions” featuring the work of Sid and Donine Wellman. Exhibit runs Feb. 14 to March 10. Shown left: “Fly” by Sid Wellman. 1021 R Street, sidwellman.com
Artspace1616 will exhibit paintings by Alejandro Rubio and sculpture by Numan Begovic in February. Shown above: A work by Alejandro Rubio. 1616 Del Paso Boulevard
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Animal House is the10th Annual Juried Fine Art Exhibition of Animal-themed Artworks at the Sacramento Fine Arts Center from Feb. 18 to March 8. Shown above: “Ahi” by Sandy Lindblad. 5330B Gibbons Drive, Carmichael
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Master Class A CREATIVE INTERIOR DESIGNER SHOWS HOW THE MAGIC HAPPENS BY JULIE FOSTER HOME INSIGHT
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f you’ve ever felt overwhelmed when choosing a new paint color for your living room from the dozens and dozens of shades of blue available, imagine the decisionmaking required when planning the interior of a five-bedroom, threeand-a-half-bath home that’s been stripped down to the studs.
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“We love that we were able to maintain a lot of the signature components of the home while celebrating a modern style,” says Kelly.
Interior designer Kerrie Kelly recently completed work on just such a project: a 3,100-square-foot East Sacramento home built in 1933. Next Generation Capital, which purchased the house as an investment, tapped Kelly for the project. The remodel, the third she has worked on for the company, took her two months. She was tasked with
retaining the home’s classic East Sac charm while layering in contemporary elements that would appeal to the greatest number of buyers. “We love that we were able to maintain a lot of the signature components of the home while celebrating a modern style,” says Kelly.
“I love it that you can move into a house with so much personality and everything works.” Creating an interior that flows gracefully from room to room requires looking at the big picture. A very abbreviated list of the items Kelly needed to choose included paint colors for doors, walls and trim; kitchen cabinets, hardware, backsplash tiles
and appliances; light fixtures and carpeting; floor and wall tiles; and plumbing fixtures for the bathrooms. Kelly, who calls her business a design lab, assembles all her choices on a large table. “We lay out everything so we can begin to see the flow, color, textures, lines and shapes of things and even how easily things can be maintained,” she explains. One Home Construction performed the major renovations, which were complete by the time Kelly and her team began. The house was rewired and replumbed. An energy-efficient Nest thermostat system and new windows will help keep energy bills under control. The kitchen’s Leviton switch plates can be configured as regular outlets or USB ports and can be easily removed and run through the dishwasher when culinary grime becomes an issue.
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HOME FROM page 59 “I love it that you can move into a house with so much personality and everything works,” says Kelly. “You don’t have to worry about whether the outlets work or any efficiency issues.” In the dining room, modern furnishings, new wainscoting and a dramatic paint color (SherwinWilliams’ Folkstone) complement the original built-in hutch and its leadedglass doors.
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Kelly’s attention extended to the smallest details, such as the kitchen cabinet door pulls. She chose simple, wide handle pulls because they won’t show fingerprints and will extend the life of the cabinets’ paint finish. The kitchen cabinet’s clear glass panels with wire mesh detail mimic the dining room hutch doors, melding the new and old. Counter tops are sleek Silestone that make for easy cleanup, while the wedge-shaped backsplash tile captures the eye.
The kitchen’s peninsula-shaped counter and seating area extends into the family room, linking the two spaces. A commodious pantry with a wine rack provides additional storage. A wall-mounted television suspended above a rectangular gas fireplace creates a cozy gathering area. Two sliding doors offer access to the refreshed backyard. The three full bathrooms and the downstairs powder room are
especially luxurious. Kelly wanted a jewel-box effect in the powder room since it was a space guests would use. Shimmering geometric wallpaper, sconces, beveled tiles and a marbletopped vanity with chrome fixtures evoke classic style. Kelly notes that the house, which she calls a traditionally tailored Tudor, contains many beautiful finishes and high-tech features. “You can get a high-end look by saving on
money on tile and other finishes from Home Depot, then splurge on signature light fixtures,” she explains. The house’s exterior also received a facelift. A new concrete patio and pergola off the back of the house provide more usable living space. In the front, concrete steps are tucked into the grass. A sliding door off the kitchen nook allows for easy access to the front porch. “This home now has the modern amenities Interior designer Kerrie Kelly
everyone wants combined with the style of an older home,” she says. “Now is the time to layer on the artwork and just live here.”
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Vows of Love LET ME DIE IN YOUR ARMS
BY NORRIS BURKES SPIRIT MATTERS
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s a minister, I officiate at dozens of picturesque weddings with a pageantry of limos, gowns and tuxedos. During these ceremonies, I stand before a couple as they publicly proclaim poetic promises accompanied by an elegantly performed love song. It’s easy to see the exchange of vows as the most beautiful part of the ceremony. But as a chaplain who’s been doing this marrying-burying thing for more than 30 years, I can tell you that nothing matches the beauty of watching those same vows being fulfilled by people who meant what they said when they promised “for better or for worse … till death do us part.” To this day, I’ve never heard a love song as beautiful as the serenade that came from the room of a 45-year-old cancer patient in 1991, when I was serving as a chaplain intern at UC Davis Medical Center. The song drew me down the hallway toward the room. Several staff members were gathered outside the door. Inside the room lay a jaundiced patient with a liver that was clearly failing. All of his organs
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Becky and Norris Burkes exchange vows in a January 1980 ceremony
were failing. Doctors were measuring his life in days, if not hours. So into his bed came Anne, his wife of 22 years and maybe all of 98 pounds. She nuzzled alongside him, stroking his face, as he strummed a John Denver medley on a guitar. After about 10 minutes, he switched chords and nodded toward
his eavesdroppers as if to ready us for his finale. His wife took her cue by sitting up in bed with crossed legs, brushing her hair behind her ears and wiping her tears. Then she stared deeply into his dark eyes as if going toward a preplanned rendezvous with his soul. She clearly knew what was coming. For it was her song, “Annie’s Song.”
“Come let me love you, let me give my life to you,” he began with a crackling voice. He stopped for an unwritten rest beat, forced a smile and pushed further into what seemed a prayer set to music. Let me drown in your laughter / Let me die in your arms Let me lay down beside you / Let me always be with you Come let me love you / Come love me again While a few of the staff members held their professional composure through the songs, it’s a safe bet that our stoicism didn’t last through the entreating lyrics, “Let me die in your arms.” The physical and spiritual intertwining I witnessed in this couple sharing a hospital bed will always recall for me the scripture from Genesis that says, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh….” It’s a wonderful moment when couples pledge their togetherness with “until death do us part,” but it was a sacred moment to behold this couple turn their “I do” vows into a goal-line declaration of “We did.” Brother, that’s love. Sister, that’s pageantry! Thirty-five years ago this month, my wife and I said, “I do.” And by the grace of God and our love for each other, we still do. Happy anniversary, sweetheart. Note to readers: If you’ll share your love story of lifelong commitment, I’ll post it on my website, thechaplain. net. Please send your story to ask@ thechaplain.net or P.O. Box 247, Elk Grove, CA 95759. Leave your recorded comments at (843) 608-9715. n
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The Sleep Whisperer AFTER CURING HER OWN INSOMNIA, SHE FIGURED OUT HOW TO HELP OTHERS
BY TERRY KAUFMAN MEET YOUR NEIGHBORS
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anna Chin can put people to sleep—literally. She is so diminutive that a gust of
wind could blow her over but so good at what she does that busy professionals seek her out and gladly pay for her expertise. Chin is an expert on insomnia because she knows exactly what her clients are going through. Not that long ago, she was exactly where they are. A classically trained psychotherapist, she burned the candle at both ends counseling people and internalizing their stories. “I was working 60 hours or more a week, driving all over Sacramento,” she says. “I didn’t know how to take care of myself. I was worried and stressed all the time. I couldn’t sleep.
Janna Chin started a company called Sweet Dreams to More Success
I absorbed the energy of the work I was doing. My life was totally out of
that I can help professionals be more
get at least seven hours a night, it
Sweet Dreams regimen consists of five
balance.”
effective.”
affects your cognitive ability. When
two-hour sessions.
According to Chin, her program
your judgment is poor, you can’t be a
“When people come to me, they
came to the point where I had just
is for busy working people who can’t
visionary. If you’re tired all the time,
don’t know where to begin,” she says.
burned myself out,” says Chin. “I had
relax when it’s time to sleep. “We
you won’t like your life.”
“They’re always overwhelmed, not
fibromyalgia, aches and pains all over
need to turn off the mad chatter
my body. I couldn’t get out of bed.”
The camel’s back finally broke. “I
She cites a movement initiated by
effective. I’m most proud that I can
that’s going on in our heads,” she
Arianna Huffington of The Huffington
take someone from being hopeless
She saw a number of doctors and tried
says. “It’s critical for sleep. We beat
Post. “She travels the world and
in their first session to seeing real
different approaches before she finally
ourselves up, listening to that chatter
speaks about the importance of
change by their second session.”
learned to take care of herself and get
throughout the day, and we’re not
sleep,” says Chin. “She’s working
to sleep.
very effective. People spend so much
with companies to change lifestyles.”
Chin started a company called Sweet Dreams to More Success, and
time spinning in circles that they just can’t get anywhere.
each night and regularly falling asleep
coping skills, lifestyle—and fashions
at his keyboard during work hours.
an “epidemic” in this country. “Sleep
a customized strategy. Unlike
Overweight and struggling to keep his
is essential. People who don’t get
traditional therapy, which can go
business afloat, he routinely woke up
enough sleep suffer from diabetes,
on for weeks, months, or years, the
late every day.
Chin calls lack of adequate sleep
always had a passion for helping people be more successful,” she says, “and now as an entrepreneur I love
obesity, Alzheimer’s. If you don’t
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picture—mind, body, environment,
an entrepreneur was born. “I’ve
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Chin looks at a client’s whole
She had a client who suffered from sleep apnea for 20 years, waking up
“Six months later, he was going on
the last one,” she says. “Each success
and on about how well he was doing,”
builds on the last success. It’s specific
she says. “Now he sees two clients
and it’s strategic. When we create
before 9 a.m., he’s eating healthy and
a structure and change our belief
has lost 17 pounds, and he’s making
system, we can change our lifestyle
more money than he ever made. Most
and acquire a success mindset.
importantly, he looks forward to going
“Because I had such difficulty
home every day and interacting with
sleeping, I know exactly what they’re
his wife. On the weekends, he’s doing
going through. I give my clients
yard work. Before, he would simply lie
everything: my undivided attention,
around.”
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Chin believes that other therapists could adopt her Sweet Dreams program. “Every session builds on
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Streetcars of Desire? IT’S NOT SURE THESE ‘PEDESTRIAN ACCELERATORS’ REALLY DO THE JOB
BY WALT SEIFERT GETTING THERE
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acramento, West Sacramento and government transportation agencies are planning to bring streetcars back to Sacramento. The proposed $150 million line would run from West Sac’s Civic Center past Raley Field and across Tower Bridge to Sacramento’s train station/ transportation hub and down K Street. The 3.3-mile route would then head into Midtown as far as 19th Street, looping around the convention and community centers on J and L streets. Funding for the venture is set to come from the federal government, the state, Sacramento County, the two cities and an annual assessment of property owners near the line (if approved by their vote). Construction could start in 2016. On K Street, sleek, modern streetcars would replace light-rail trains. To get buy-in and appease K Street business owners who feel that long light-rail trains block access to their properties, Regional Transit would move light rail off K and onto H Street at an additional cost of $17 million. Apparently, whatever is done to fix K Street, it’s never enough.
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During the first half of the 20th century, Americans got there in droves by streetcar. They commuted, shopped and went to amusement parks by rail. In Brooklyn, streetcars were so ubiquitous that the local baseball team (now in Los Angeles) was named after the people dodging them. Sacramento, much more compact then, had streetcar lines blanketing its urban and residential core and beyond: through Midtown to East Sac, Land Park, Curtis Park, West Sac, North Sac, Rio Linda and the evocatively named Joyland in Oak Park. Sacramento joins many cities across the United States that have reintroduced streetcars or are now
planning for them. Not all the streetcar systems in the United States have been successful. While some have met or exceeded passenger goals, others have underperformed. Proponents hail streetcars as engines of economic development, spurring investment in districts close to the tracks and boosting property values. The argument is that the permanence of the track infrastructure provides certainty. Developers and property owners know rail transit service will continue. Bus routes can disappear overnight. Physically, and maybe psychologically, streetcars are more attractive than bus service. A
streetcar can carry more passengers in greater comfort than a bus. Some view riding a bus as a last resort, something done only by the transitdependent. Streetcars are used by “choice” riders who have the means to get around in other ways. Streetcars seem to offer more fun and panache than a bus. Vintage streetcar systems, such as the cable cars in San Francisco and New Orleans’ St. Charles line, certainly attract tourists. To be truly successful, streetcars have to appeal to more than visitors with a yen for nostalgia. They have to provide meaningful everyday transportation for residents. Sacramento’s old streetcar routes GETTING THERE page 69
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Counting the Birds ANNUAL EVENT RELIES ON CITIZEN SCIENTISTS TO COLLECT DATA
BY DR. AMY ROGERS SCIENCE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD
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hen I lived in Minnesota, we envied the birds that flew south before the onset of our frigid winter. The first robin to return home was always a happy harbinger of spring. This explains my particular delight here in Sacramento when I see an entire flock of red-breasted birds—in January. But there’s more than robins in my yard. Have you seen the birds in Sacramento in winter? You probably notice crows or pigeons, but what about the birds that flit past the corner of your eye, that roost in the trees or hide in the shrubbery, or gather in the water around Yolo Causeway? Have you ever taken a few minutes to really look at them? You should. Sacramento is a hub of bird activity in the winter. Tens of thousands of birds come to town, rather than leave, drawn by our mild temperatures and wetlands. These avian tourists arrive from as far away as the Arctic Circle, traveling a superhighway in the sky known as the Pacific Flyway. The flyway stretches all the way from Alaska to South America. Like any freeway, it has rest stops along the way, places
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where weary birds can eat and regain their strength. The Sacramento region is a major rest stop, or even winter home, for migratory birds. The Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area around Interstate 80 between Sacramento and Davis hosts thousands of traveling birds, including many species of ducks that feast on leftover rice in the fields and high-flying snow geese, white with eye-catching black wing tips. The Cosumnes River Preserve (south of Elk Grove just off I-5) is noted for its sandhill cranes, impressive birds with a 6-foot wingspan and distinctive call. National wildlife refuges at Stone Lakes (south on I-5), Colusa (40 miles north of Woodland, off I-5) and
Sacramento (another 25 miles north of Colusa) are bustling with waterfowl and other bird species in the winter. Birding (the term aficionados prefer over “birdwatching”) in these places requires nothing more than time. Part of the fun, though, is identifying particular species. There is a scavenger-hunt kind of thrill to checking birds off a list. It’s easier than you might think. Just grab a pair of binoculars, print a page of bird pictures specific for our area (such as “What’s This Bird?” at SacramentoAudubon.org) and head out. The visitor centers at Cosumnes and Yolo also offer bird guides. Or carry a smartphone app, which will give you photos and recorded birdsong
to help with identification. Merlin Bird ID (free) and iBird (not free) are both great for beginners. You don’t have to leave your own neighborhood to identify remarkable birds. Jenner Junghans, education chair of the Sacramento Audubon Society, says, “When people who are not birders see photos of our local birds for the first time, they’re often stunned. They had no idea we have local birds with such bright colors and bold patterns. People feel like they’re looking at photos of birds from someplace like South America.” Some local birds are even international celebrities. Every day in SCIENCE page 71
GETTING THERE FROM 66 got people from neighborhoods to downtown jobs and shopping. They facilitated social trips. Today, jobs and shopping are more dispersed than they were a century ago. The proposed Sacramento system has been called a pedestrian accelerator, useful for trips within the urban core. Critics of streetcars question their cost-effectiveness in providing transportation. Sacramento’s line will cost $50 million a mile, with the potential for the same cost overruns that bedeviled light rail’s construction downtown. Streetcar vehicles cost more than buses and require specialized storage. Since streetcars run in “mixed flow” traffic on streets along with vehicles, streetcars can’t move any faster than buses and other traffic. A Missoula, Mont., study estimated average streetcar speeds at 8 to 12 mph. Breakdowns, crashes or roadwork can block streetcars because of their lack of maneuverability. Plans are for the streetcars initially to run every 15 minutes.
That infrequent schedule, coupled with operation in traffic, means that pedestrians may not be “accelerated” very much. It’s difficult to know if streetcars have spurred economic development in other cities. Growth may have occurred anyway. In many places, local governments subsidized development with financial incentives in the same locations the federal government subsidized the streetcar systems. While tracks in the street provide a sense of permanence, the narrow gaps along the tracks pose a tire-catching hazard for bicyclists. Portland, which has lots of both streetcars and bicyclists, has experienced many track-related crashes. There are less expensive alternatives to streetcars, including regular buses, electric rubber-tired trolleys, bus rapid transit and bicycle facilities. I’ll discuss those in next month’s column. Walt Seifert is a bicyclist, driver and transportation writer. He can be reached at bikeguy@surewest.net n
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Artful Pair THESE MURALISTS WANT TO BEAUTIFY SACRAMENTO BRIDGES, HIGHWAYS AND MORE
BY JESSICA LASKEY
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ARTIST SPOTLIGHT
hen you first meet Sofia Lacin and Hennessy Christophel—the “L” and “C” behind LC Studio Tutto, formerly LC Mural & Design—you might be struck by how young and lovely they both are. But take a moment to get to know them and you’ll quickly see that they’re much more than pretty faces. In fact, the dynamic duo is taking the Sacramento art scene by storm.
“There’s a real hunger for art here. It’s been a great place to start our business and make significant contributions to this art landscape.” “We love working on all kinds of projects as long as they’re creatively challenging and contribute to our city’s authentic growth,” Lacin says. “Tutto translates to ‘all’ or ‘everything’ in Italian, which captures our desire and mission to integrate fine art into daily life.” Lacin and Christophel are the ambitious artistic forces behind large-scale public art projects that give new life to Sacramento’s most blighted neighborhoods. One of their current projects, Bright Underbelly,
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Muralists Sofia Lacin and Hennessy Christophel
is transforming the underside of the W/X freeway at 6th Street where the Sunday farmers market takes place into a colorful canopy of natureinspired imagery. Another, Hanging Mist, is an installation made up of 72 perforated aluminum panels painted in soft layers of color mounted on the walls of the inner courtyard of Warehouse Artist Lofts at 11th and R streets. Their project Contagious Color covered the bridge structure at 12th and C Streets in vibrant abstract murals. “This project has been so exciting because of the dramatic transformation,” Christophel says. “It’s amazing to be able to change someone’s daily commute from dreary and depressing into something inspiring.”
This desire to change the world through art is an interest the two women have shared since they first met at Mira Loma High School. They were classmates in advanced art as part of the rigorous International Baccalaureate program, where their working relationship began. “We always dreamt of working together,” Christophel says. “We’re a good mix within our artistic skills. I’m more detail-oriented; Sofia is more big vision.” “And our artistic personalities translate as business personalities,” Lacin adds. “I like to brainstorm about the future, take meetings and be the contact person. Hennessy loves to present to big groups and keep track of records and details. We divide tasks business-wise but do everything
together creatively, which is why we’re able to work in public spaces. We have two perspectives.” Both Lacin and Christophel come from creative backgrounds: Lacin’s parents own a commercial photography studio; Christophel’s mom is an artist. So it might seem only natural that the two would follow in those footsteps. But their artistic perspective is all their own. “We’re both interested in designing environments that connect you to your space,” Christophel says. “The large-scale nature of our work helps it become an environment that you move through and walk through. We started doing murals, but our canvases aren’t just walls anymore. They’re water tanks, underpasses and freeways.”
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“As artists, we’re idealistic,” Lacin says. “Everyone should be able to experience art, so when we’re choosing a site, we aim to have very diverse audiences.” “That way everyone can experience it,” Christophel continues. “That’s part of the challenge of the scale that we love: It becomes a communal experience.” LC Studio Tutto is involved in each project from its inception until the last brushstroke, which means that Lacin and Christophel are responsible not only for dreaming and drafting, but also getting down and dirty for their work. “We walk the line as designers with our modern, cool studio in the River District, but at the same time we’re kind of like construction workers,” Christophel says, “riding scissor lifts and eating carrots, sitting on the sidewalk covered in paint and dirt. Our job is never the same and always active. It’s fun to be dirty.” “We have to reintroduce ourselves to people sometimes,” Lacin says with a laugh.
The grime is clearly part of the appeal, as is the community they work in. “When we were younger, we didn’t imagine staying in Sacramento,” Christophel admits. “But we found we were getting so many interesting projects here. There’s a real hunger for art here. It’s been a great place to start our business and make significant contributions to this art landscape.” “It’s nice to be in a city where people are interested in art and very collaborative,” Lacin concurs. “Everyone wants to be together to create.” Their ultimate goal, however, might surprise you. “Our dream for when we’re older and not climbing around on scissor lifts like monkeys is to open a B&B,” Christophel says. “It would be a combination art experience and luxury experience. We love giving people beauty and novel experiences.” For more information on LC Studio Tutto, go to lcmuralanddesign.com n
my Arden neighborhood, I see large, beautiful, black-and-white birds with long tail feathers and striking yellow beaks. This seemingly common bird is in fact a rarity. The yellow-billed magpie is not found anywhere on Earth except California’s Central Valley. February is the perfect time to give birding a try. Feb. 13-16 is the Great Backyard Bird Count, a worldwide annual event that anyone can participate in. GBBC is an important scientific research project that relies on ordinary people to collect data. It’s quite simple. For 15 minutes, count all the birds you see, whether you’re gazing out your kitchen window, walking downtown or hiking through a nature area. Submit your location and number of each species you saw to gbbc.birdcount. org. With data collected by a large number of people in a variety of places, scientists are able to track bird populations and migration patterns. Over time, this information helps scientists see trends and determine
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how bird populations are affected by development, habitat loss, disease and climate change. Scientists can then make recommendations to conserve and protect habitat and birds, all because of the combined efforts of citizen scientists—people like you. If you’d like to join in the bird count but don’t know a meadowlark from a mockingbird, the enthusiastic, experienced birders of the Sacramento Audubon Society invite you on two birding trips dedicated to the GBBC. Birders will meet on Friday, Feb. 13, at 8 a.m. at William Pond Park and on Saturday, Feb. 14, at 8 a.m. at Discovery Park. The Audubon Society offers beginning birder events throughout the year and also has new birding trips and activities especially for kids. Visit SacramentoAudubon. org for the latest information.
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‘Peter Pan’ Premiere SACRAMENTO BALLET’S RON CUNNINGHAM TO SHARE INSIGHTS ON HIS LATEST WORK
By Jessica Laskey RIVER CITY PREVIEWS
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f you’ve been lucky enough to see Ron Cunningham’s stunning original productions at the Sacramento Ballet throughout the years, make sure to mark this month on your calendar. His production of “Peter Pan” will have its world premiere Feb. 13 through 15 at the Community Center Theater, and themed events all month long will make you want to crow. Learn about the hard work and endless imagination that went into creating this masterful piece when Cunningham himself hosts “Inside the Director’s Studio: The Making of Peter Pan” at 6 p.m. on Feb. 6 at the ballet’s studios at 1631 K St. To purchase tickets, call the ballet box office at 552-5800, ext. 2. Then, on Feb. 13-15, join Peter, Wendy, Tinker Bell, Tiger Lily and everyone’s favorite villain, Captain Hook, for Cunningham’s familyfriendly ballet. The production will be presented with George Balanchine’s “Stars and Stripes,” so you’ll be able to get into a patriotic American mood just before flying off to Neverland.
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Don't miss the world premiere of Sacramento Ballet's "Peter Pan" Feb. 13 through 15 at the Community Center Theater
Interested in seeing what happens behind the scenes? The ballet is offering a rare chance to observe an open rehearsal, for free, from 4 to 5 p.m. on Second Saturday, Feb. 14, at its midtown studio. Don’t miss the chance to get a sneak peek at what it truly takes to make ballet magic! If all this talk of fantasy is making you yearn for a piece of the Peter Pan action, don’t miss the “Take Me to Neverland” Gala from 7 to 11 p.m. on Feb. 21 at the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium. Delectable
food, signature drinks and fabulous entertainment will whisk you away to the island of your imagination. Feel like dressing the part? Costumes are “admired, but not required,” as the ballet puts it. Tickets are $250 each—80 percent of which may be tax deductible—and table sponsorships are available. For tickets or more information, call 552-5800. The Sacramento Memorial Auditorium is at 1515 J St.
For “Peter Pan” tickets and more information, call 808-5181 or go to sacballet.org The Community Center Theater is at 1301 L St.
THE DAY AT THE MUSEUM If you’ve been holding off on exploring some of Sacramento’s fascinating cultural sites due to a tight budget, make sure you take
advantage of Sacramento Museum Day on Saturday, Feb. 7. Now in its 17th year, this exciting event offers free or reduced admission to 30 of our capital’s coolest cultural sites, thanks to a partnership between the Sacramento Association of Museums (SAM) and the Sacramento Convention & Visitors Bureau. Discover the wealth of art, history, science and wildlife that abounds all over our fair city. Due to the popularity of Sacramento Museum Day, some locations must limit the number of admissions for safety reasons, so event coordinators suggest selecting no more than two or three sites to visit to maximize the time you have to “ooh” and “aah.” The event is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., but the last guests will be admitted at 4 p.m. For more information as well as a map of participating locations, go to sacmuseums.org
AMERICA THE TUNE-FUL Hear a melodic tour of American history when the Sacramento Children’s Chorus (SCC) presents its annual mid-winter concert, “Après Le Noël: Our American Journey,” at 7 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 8 at St John’s Lutheran Church. The SCC’s advanced and high school choirs, Cantoris and Capella, will perform under the direction of Lynn Stevens alongside special guest group the Reconciliation Singers Voices of Peace, under the direction of Jennifer Reason. The program will feature all kinds of music from America past and present, including hymns, barbershop, ragtime, spirituals and patriotic songs such as Stephen Foster’s “Hard Times,” Randal Thompson’s “Choose Something Like a Star” and selections from Aaron Copland. For tickets and more information, call 646-1141 or go to sacramentochildrenschorus.org St. John’s Lutheran Church is at 1701 L St.
THE ART OF LOVE There’s no better way to celebrate a day of romance than to take in an art show entitled “Valentine’s Love,” which opens Feb. 14 at the Bon Vida Art Gallery. Maybe throw in a bottle of champagne for good measure … Featuring artists from Northern California, this show is part of Bon Vida’s mission to display Latino, Chicano and Outsider Art with Mexican art themes in its Franklin Business District gallery to introduce the work both to the underserved Latino community of Franklin as well as to the Sacramento art community at large. For more information, call 5191200 or 400-3008. The Bon Vida Art Gallery is at 4429 Franklin Blvd.
LA VIE MODERNE What do Henri de ToulouseLautrec, improv comedy, cello music, prom and prints have in common? They’re all part of a funky February at the Crocker Art Museum guaranteed to rock your socks. The exhibition “Toulouse-Lautrec and La Vie Moderne: Paris 18801910” starts the month off with a bang on Feb. 1 and will be on display through April 26.
Hear a melodic tour of American history when the Sacramento Children’s Chorus (SCC) presents its annual mid-winter concert, “Après Le Noël: Our American Journey,” at 7 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 8 at St John’s Lutheran Church
As the Modernist movement descended on Paris in the late 1800s, artists such as Henri de ToulouseLautrec and adherents to the Naturalist, Symbolist, Incohérent and Nabi art schools were at the forefront of a movement that sought to leave the French Academic standards behind and usher in a new period of excitement found in the cafés, concerts, circuses and theaters of Montmartre. Explore the artists, writers, performers and musicians
The exhibition “Toulouse-Lautrec and La Vie Moderne: Paris 1880-1910” starts the month off with a bang on Feb. 1 and will be on display through April 26 at the Crocker Art Museum
who made this era enthralling. This exhibition is organized and circulated by Art Services International of Alexandria, Va. Experience your own little bit of Paris at the Twisted Sacratomato Salon at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 5. Described as a “weird combination of a bar quiz night and the famed salons frequented by writers and artists of Paris in the early 20th century,” the event promises games, storytelling, art tours and lots of laughs provided by the Comedy Spot’s AntiCooperation League and its members’ impressive improv skills. A cash bar will be available for aperitifs. The event is free for museum members and free with general admission for nonmembers. To get you in the musical mood for the Toulouse-Lautrec exhibit, check out the Classical Concert at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 8, featuring the San Francisco Munich Trio with Rebecca Rust and Dmitriy Cogan on cello and Friedrich Edelmann on bassoon. The talented trio will perform pieces such as Georges Enesco’s Sonata No. 1 for Cello and Piano, which was composed in 1898 and first performed by Pablo Casals in Paris in 1907. Space is limited, so reserve your tickets early by calling 808-1182. Tickets are $6 for museum and Capital Public Radio PREVIEWS page 74
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members, $10 for students/youths and $12 for nonmembers. For many of us, prom was the highlight—or, for probably more of us, the nadir—of our high school existence, so why not experience it from the adult perspective at the Crocker’s Art Mix Prom Night from 5 to 9 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 12? Don your best prom duds and dance the night away to live music with DJ Kaprisun, get inked with some temporary tattoos, have your hairstyle touched up by Deeda Salon, design your own studded leather bracelet and browse the DISPLAY California pop-up store for that extra accessory to complete your ensemble. Drinks are under $5 all night and tickets are free for museum members, $10 for nonmembers and $2 off for college kids. The exhibition “Of Cottages and Castles: The Art of California Faience,” on display Feb. 22 through May 17, is the first of its kind to display the work of ceramic engineer William Bragdon and his business partner, potter Chauncey Thomas. After meeting as classmates at Alfred University in New York, the two talented artists joined forces in the early 1900s to create California Faience, a company that created decorative tiles, vases and sculpture and was commissioned by architect Julia Morgan to create a complete tile environment for William Randolph Hearst’s famed home and grounds in San Simeon. The exhibit will feature some of those very tiles, as well as the work the dynamic duo completed in the Arts and Crafts, Art Deco and Moderne styles. Keeping in the same vein of never-before-seen art on exhibit, “The Nature of William S. Rice: Arts and Crafts Painter and Printmaker” opens Feb. 22 and runs through May 17 and will feature rare pieces from the collection of artist and naturalist William S. Rice. Rice was a prolific painter of the California landscape when he moved West in 1900, but he’s perhaps best known as a printmaker and the author of two definitive books on the classic Japanese art of ukiyo-e
See it here first! Check out emerging artist Timothy Mulligan’s first solo exhibition “Raw, Real & Re-imagined” at the Alex Bult Gallery from Feb. 12 through March 7. After graduating from California State University Sacramento, Mulligan studied as a printmaker and started experimenting with watercolors, pastels and pencil drawings. He has exhibited at the Crocker Art Museum, the Haggin Museum in Stockton, the California State Fair and other local galleries, and he’s won dozens of awards in national and regional art competitions, including first place in the California Gold category of the KVIE Art Auction. Hobnob with Mulligan in person at the preview reception from 6 to 8 p.m. on Feb.12 or at the Second Saturday opening reception from 6 to 9 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 14. For more information, call 476-5540 or go to alexbultgallery.com The Alex Bult Gallery is at 1114 21st St., Suite B in midtown.
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Check out emerging artist Timothy Mulligan’s first solo exhibition “Raw, Real & Reimagined” at the Alex Bult Gallery from Feb. 12 through March 7
(woodblock printing, or “pictures of the floating world”). Is the chilly winter weather getting you down? Why not boogie the blues away with Tom Rigney & Flambeau in concert at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 26? The groovy group specializes in fiery Cajun and zydeco two-steps, low-down blues, and funky New Orleans tunes that have made them a definitive favorite at the Sacramento Music Festival for years. Need a drink to loosen up your dancing feet? Enjoy Happy Hour before the concert at the Crocker Cafe by Supper Club from 4 to 6 p.m. Tickets are $12 for museum members, $18 for students/youths and $20 for nonmembers. For tickets and more information on all Crocker events, call 808-1182 or go to crockerartmuseum.org The Crocker Art Museum is at 216 O St.
MUSICAL MÉLANGE Where can you hear the floating notes of flutes as well as the toe-
tapping tunes of Gypsy Jazz? Sacramento Community Concerts offers both in one dynamic, kooky concert at 3 p.m. on Feb. 8 at Westminster Presbyterian Church. Part I will feature the Camellia City Flute Choir, under the direction of Marty Melicharek since its founding in 1998. Lend an ear to its haunting, unusual and unique collection of contrabass, bass and alto flutes. Part II will get your blood flowing with a performance by Hot Club Faux Gitane, an acoustic Gypsy Jazz-style swing band that specializes in traditional Gypsy tunes, jazz standards and original compositions. The group is composed of five talented musicians who play guitar, acoustic bass, mandolin, bassoon, clarinet, melodica and saxophone. For tickets and more information, go to sccaconcerts.org Westminster Presbyterian Church is at 1300 N St.
CLASS OF ’65 Calling all alumni of the Sacramento High School Class of 1965! As you’ll be celebrating your 50th class reunion this year, get a head start on the festivities and check out the reunion website to find out more and connect with old classmates before the official reunion on Oct. 24 and 25 at the Red Lion Woodlake. Reunion organizer Gail Harris Thearle is trying to get in touch with all SHS Class of ’65 alumni, so give her a call at call at 215-8042, go to classreport.org/usa/ca/sacramento/ shs/1965 or email her at gail.thearle@ gmail.com The class reunion will be held from 6 p.m. to midnight on Saturday, Oct. 24, followed by a brunch the next day. The Red Lion Woodlake is at 500 Leisure Lane. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com. Please email items for consideration by the first of the month, at least one month in advance of the event. n
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Thru Feb 14 Big Idea Theater 1616 Del Paso Blvd. Sac 960-3036 Cloud Nine is about relationships between women and men, men and men, women and women. It is about sex, work, mothers, Africa, power, children, grandmothers, politics, money, queen Victoria and sex. A sharp comedy, it is provocative and an amusing study of sexual politics. It unlocks the imagination, liberates the mind and leaves you weak with laughter.
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Thru Feb 22 Geery Theatre 2130 L St. Sac WJGeeryTheater.com No one forgets their first love. Andrew wrote his first letter to Melissa to tell her she looked like a lost princess. They were both seven years old. For the next fifty years, through personal triumphs and despair, through wars and marriages and children and careers, defied a fate that schemed to keep them apart, and lived ---through letters.
5 SONGS by Jack Gallagher Thru March 1 B Street Theatre (Mainstage) 2711 B St. Sac 443-5300 Bstreettheatre.org The actors and stage managers employed in this production are members of the Actors Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
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football to more college football, and you’ll still find a shuffleboard table and a row of dartboards. But you’ll also find a bar stocked with fine wines, craft beers and the fixings to make exquisite cocktails. The most surprising thing, however, is a menu that—while not too creative at first glance—pays off with expert preparation and fine ingredients. A dish of fish and chips gets a bump with housemade tartar sauce and hand-cut fries, and the panfried chunks of snapper are a welcome treat.
Burgers are finely crafted using a beautiful ground beef mix and ethereal fresh buns. Wings are well above average and come with your choice of sauce: traditional American hot sauce or something more international like spicy Thai or Vietnamese sauce. The standout is the Full Court Press, a 32-ounce bloody mary garnished with an entire meal of skewers. The perfect one-stop brunch order, this titanic treat starts with a quart-sized Mason jar filled with spicy blend of tomato juice and vodka.
Then, a handful of pickled green beans and asparagus is thrown in the mix. A skewer of pearl onion, olive and cherry tomato is added, along with a skewer of shrimp and pickled egg. Next, a bacon-wrapped sausage is skewered and added to the party. Finally, a petite hamburger—a slider—is set atop yet another skewer and proudly driven into the beverage like a Spanish flag planted by some mustachioed conquistador in a bygone age. The whole thing costs $18 and
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La Trattoria Bohemia 3649 J St. 455-7803 L D Wine/Beer $-$$ Italian and Czech specialties in a neighborhood bistro setting
Les Baux 5090 Folsom Blvd. 739-1348 BLD $ Wine/Beer Unique boulangerie, café & bistro serving affordable delicious food/drinks all day long • lesbauxbakery.com
Opa! Opa! 5644 J St. 451-4000 L D Wine/Beer $ Fresh Greek cuisine in a chic, casual setting, counter service
Nopalitos 5530 H St. 452-8226 B L $ Wine/Beer Southwestern fare in a casual diner setting
Fair Oaks Boulevard & Arden Way • 916.485.2883
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local casual ways to celebrate with your Valentine! elegant dinner menu served February 13-15 from 5 pm
sweetheart breakfast served February 14-15, 8 am - 2 pm reservations suggested - regular menus available
Selland's Market Cafe 5340 H St. 473-3333
Grange 926 J Street • 492-4450
B L D $$-$$$ Wine/Beer High quality handcrafted food to eat in or take out, wine bar
B L D Full Bar $$$ Simple, seasonal, soulful • grangerestaurant.com
Star Ginger
Hock Farm Craft & Provision
3101 Folsom Blvd. 231-8888 Asian Grill and Noodle Bar • starginger.com
Istanbul Bistro 3260 J Street 449-8810
1415 L St. 440-8888 L D $$-$$ Full Bar Celebration of the region's rich history and bountiful terrain • Paragarys.com
Claim Jumper
L D Wine/Beer $$ Mediterranean-inspired cuisine in cozy neighborhood bistro setting
1111 J St. 442-8200
DOWNTOWN
Mikuni Restaurant and Sushi Bar
Foundation
400 L St. 321-9522 L D $$ Full Bar American cooking in an historic atmosphere • foundationsacramento.com
L D $$ Full Bar Upscale American in a clubby atmosphere
1530 J St. 447-2112 L D Full Bar $$-$$$ Japanese cuisine served in an upscale setting • Mikunisushi.com
Parlaré Eurolounge 10th & J Sts. 448-8960
Chops Steak Seafood & Bar 1117 11th St. 447-8900 L D $$$ Full Bar Steakhouse serving dry-aged prime beef and fresh seafood in an upscale club atmosphere • Chopssacramento.com
Downtown & Vine 1200 K Street #8 228-4518
BELLA BRU bellabrucafe.com
Carmichael 485.2883 Natomas 928.1770 El Dorado Hills 933.5454
Wine Bar, Event Center & Retail Sales, 36 wines by the glass, beer on tap • downtownandvine.com
Ella Dining Room & Bar 1131 K St. 443-3772
L D $$$ Full Bar Modern American cuisine served family-style in a chic, upscale space • Elladiningroomandbar.com
Esquire Grill 1213 K St. 448-8900 L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Outdoor Dining Upscale American fare served in an elegant setting • Paragarys.com
Estelle's Patisserie
901 K St. 916-551-1500 L D $$-$$$ French-inspired Bakery serving fresh pastry & desserts, artisan breads and handcrafted sandwiches. EstellesPatisserie.com
Fat City Bar & Cafe 1001 Front St. 446-6768 D $$-$$$ Full Bar American cuisine served in a casual historic Old Sac location • Fatsrestaurants. com
The Firehouse Restaurant
Buy one entrée and get a second entrée FREE!*
1112 Second St. 442-4772 L D $$$ Full Bar Global and California cuisine in an upscale historic Old Sac setting • Firehouseoldsac.com
Frank Fat’s *$16 maximum value. Seniors 55 and older, must present proof of age. Coupon required. Offer valid 1-1 through 3-31-2015. Not valid February 14, 2015 (Valentine’s Day.) May not be combined with any other offer or Fat Tuesday discount. Tax and gratuity not included.
1001 Front Street, Historic Old Sacramento 916-446-6768 www.fatcitybarandcafe.com
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806 L St. 442-7092
L D Full Bar $$-$$$ Chinese favorites in an elegant setting • Fatsrestaurants.com
Il Fornaio 400 Capitol Mall 446-4100 L D Full Bar $$$ Fine Northern Italian cuisine in a chic, upscale atmosphere • Ilfornaio.com
D $$ Full Bar Relax with drinks and dinner in this stylish downtown space
Rio City Café
1110 Front St. Old Sac 442-8226 L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Seasonal menu of favorites in a setting overlooking river • Riocitycafe.com
Ten 22 1022 Second St. 441-2211 L D Wine/Beer $$ American bistro favorites with a modern twist in a casual, Old Sac setting • ten22oldsac.com
LAND PARK Freeport Bakery
2966 Freeport Blvd. 442-4256 B L $ Award-winning baked goods and cakes for eat in or take out • Freeportbakery.com
Iron Grill 13th Street and Broadway 737-5115 L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Upscale neighborhood steakhouse • Ironsteaks.com
Jamie's Bar and Grill 427 Broadway 442-4044 L D $ Full Bar Featured on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. Dine in or take out since 1986
Riverside Clubhouse 2633 Riverside Drive 448-9988 L D $$ Full Bar Upscale American cuisine served in a contemporary setting • Riversideclubhouse.com
Taylor's Kitchen 2924 Freeport Boulevard 443-5154 D $$$ Wine/Beer Dinner served Wed. through Saturday. Reservations suggested but walk-ins welcome.
Tower Café 1518 Broadway 441-0222 B L D $$ Wine/Beer International cuisine with dessert specialties in a casual setting
Willie's Burgers 2415 16th St. 444-2006 L D $ Great burgers and more. Open until 3 am Friday and Saturday n
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