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America THE IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE DEFINES US

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he American experience is by and large the immigrant experience.

Millions of people from all over the world have come to our great nation in order to find opportunity and freedom and to pursue happiness. Those last two things are unique to America. Our founders enshrined the phrase “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” in the Declaration of Independence.

A few months ago, I was honored to receive a dinner invitation from Dr. Robert Nelsen, the president of Sacramento State University.

He also invited the university’s provost, Dr. Ching-Hua Wang, who had been on the job about a year. Over Mexican food at the new Zocalo off Fair Oaks Boulevard, Nelsen shared Wang’s amazing immigrant story with me. When I couldn’t get enough of the great story, Wang filled in the details.

As provost (the university’s second-highest position), Wang oversees the Office of Academic Affairs. It’s the largest unit on campus and includes the university’s seven academic colleges, the library and the continuing-education college.

Before coming to Sac State, Wang served as the dean of the School of Health and Natural Sciences at Dominican University of California. There, she was also

a professor of immunology and microbiology, and she managed all extramural grants for the school.

Before that, Wang was one of 13 founding faculty members at CSU Channel Islands.

“While at Channel Islands, I led the development and implementation of eight science and health science programs and worked closely with colleagues in starting, advancing and growing the university,” said Wang.

She was born in Beijing, the oldest of four children. “While growing up, I experienced one of the darkest periods of Chinese history,” she told me. “I witnessed tremendous turmoil and devastating hardships. My family was split into pieces, and I was sent to Inner Mongolia to get ‘re-educated.’

“When I was living in Inner Mongolia, I served as an elementary teacher at a one-room schoolhouse. My interactions with students from extremely poor families left an indelible impression on me.”

In China, Wang earned a master’s degree in immunology and a medical degree. In the winter of 1981, she went to Ithaca, N.Y., to get her Ph.D. in immunology at Cornell University. “I had been so isolated and had no idea what Americans dressed like,” she recalled.

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“Both my suitcase handles broke because—rather than bringing clothes—I dragged along all my treasured books. I only had two $10 bills to my name—the maximum amount of cash the Chinese government would let us exchange.

And I spent one of the bills to tip a porter who helped me with a cart for my suitcases at the airport.”

While living in the United States, Wang and her husband, Nian-Sheng Huang (a historian and published author who specializes in Early American history), had two children.

The couple held green cards and remained Chinese citizens until the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing in 1989. “With thousands being murdered for expressing their desires for freedom, we knew for certain that we’d never return there with our children,” Wang said.

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“to teach students who are mostly first-generation college students and come from humble backgrounds,” Wang said. “People just like us.” After moving to California, Wang and her husband became proud U.S. citizens.

Her favorite thing about this country? “Freedom!” she said enthusiastically. “I will never forget the amazing sense of disbelief that I felt when I first walked free on the campus of Cornell. I had never known anything like it. There were so many choices and so many opportunities!

“Later on, I had the joy of learning about the history of our country and the millions of U.S citizens who gave their lives for freedom—not just of our own citizens, but to literally save the world from tyranny.

“To this day, I am still filled with an overwhelming sense of gratitude for what our country provides to both our citizens and the entire world.

It left me with a desire to give back for what was given to me. That will remain my pledge as long as I am alive.”

After we finished dinner, Nelsen turned to me, smiled and said, “I guess you have already figured out why I wanted this woman as a leader on our campus. She totally understands what many of our students are going through.”

Here at Inside Publications, one of our loveliest employees is photographer Linda Smolek, who was born and raised in Malmo, Sweden.

We hired her after she graduated from Sac State, where she earned a double major in photography and communications—an education that she fully funded herself.

After high school, Smolek, an only child, stunned her parents by making all her own arrangements to attend Sac State as an international student.

Arriving on her own at Sacramento International Airport, she took a taxi to her dorm room.

In her freshman year, she met and fell in love with Jay Gerkovich, who later became her husband. They now have two children, who speak both English sand Swedish. I asked her

recently why she became a U.S citizen in 2013, after more than a decade as a green-card holder. “I wanted a voice in our country’s governance. I wanted to vote and be a part of decision making in our country,” she said.

Her mother is Swedish, her father Croatian. “I had already dealt with the immigrant experience growing up in Sweden, which is a very homogeneous country,” she said.

“In fact, the only discrimination I ever felt in my life was growing up in Sweden as the child of an immigrant father. Nothing like that has ever remotely happened to me in America.”

As you celebrate a joyous Fourth of July this month, please remember these two immigrant stories and the simple statement “Freedom Is Not Free” engraved into one wall at the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Cecily Hastings can be reached at publisher@insidepublications.com. n

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Sierra Oaks native Martha Hudson lives and works in a school bus, traveling to beaches for her custom swimsuit business.

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ierra Oaks native Martha Hudson has taken something itsy-bitsy and turned it into a gigantic success, all with the help of a school bus, a knack for sewing and a head full of dreams about living at the beach.

Hudson, a custom bathing suit maker, converted an 18-foot-long school bus into a rolling seamstress studio. She literally drives business by, well, driving to business.

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“I love secret beaches and swimming,” she says. “And I’ve been sewing since I was 5, making purses and dresses during college. I was having a really hard time finding a suit that would fit my body that I could swim and play in, so I made a custom suit for myself. I posted a picture on Instagram and people started buying them.”

Hudson was at a crossroads after graduating from UC Santa Cruz. “I was sitting in my tiny house that I was paying way too much Bay Area rent for, wondering what kind of a job would allow you to live in the most beautiful places with no payment for housing, offer unlimited travel to any destination you could dream of, allow you to stay wherever you

wanted for as long as you wanted, provide an outlet for creativity, all while providing a steady, reasonable income?”

And then it hit her. Not like a Mack truck, but like something a little more elementary.

She decided to sell custom bathing suits from a small school bus that she purchased and fixed up with curtains she sewed herself. “It’s really nice inside and comfortable,” says Grace Gardner, a childhood friend. “She just parks it at the ocean, she and her dog, throws on her bikini, whips out her sewing machine and starts sewing.”

Her custom swimwear business is called Luv Martha.

“Martha is unique,” says Gardner.

“She feels every body is a bikini body.

That’s not a quote. It’s a movement that she focuses on. She makes suits for all body types, not just the skinny model. She’s expanding traditional beauty standards.”

“Our bodies are not defined by a number and are not meant to be confined by one-size-fits-all,” Hudson explains. “Our bodies are equally beautiful and important. We all deserve a bikini we feel absolutely fabulous in.”

Hudson stows a wide selection of fabrics in school lockers that she installed in the bus. Customers can choose from one of her styles or show her a photo. She can do just about anything. Want some intricate lace detailing? A strappy back? A high neck? A swim skirt? You name it.

Customers provide their measurements. “Make a note of how much booty coverage you’d like: all the cheek, just a peek, etc.,” she says.

Her sewing machine takes up a third of the bus. That leaves her with enough room for a small refrigerator, an even smaller stove, an outdoor propane shower, one kitchen cabinet and a bed that triples as a couch, chair and horizontal item to hide things under. “I love to cook and thought it would be hard to not have a full kitchen, but you narrow it down to spices you use regularly,” she says.

“Buy some fish, fruits and veggies and use them in the next two days. I eat a lot of nut butter and beans.”

And since she’s at the beach so much of the time, getting washed in the waves and pumiced the natural way, there’s no need for an indoor beauty bar. “My whole toiletry collection fits in one little box.”

Her German shepherd, Romi, is part bodyguard, part pin cushion, part playmate, part boss. “He lets me know when it’s time to take a break from sewing and go for a hike to get exercise,” Hudson says. “We go everywhere together. He makes it easier to meet people who end up being my customers. We love small, hidden towns where I ask the locals about the secret beaches and special swimming holes.”

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and Donner lakes.. She has a three-month waiting list for online customers but always keeps time in her schedule to make suits for people she meets at her beach stops. “I could meet you on the beach and in less than two hours, you could be wearing your new suit,” she says. She keeps tabs on her social-media orders every day, parking near coffee shops that have Wi-Fi. Hudson’s bus is equipped with a battery bank that allows her to use her sewing machine for two or three days. When she runs out of power, she pops into a friend’s house to trade the discharged batteries for fresh ones.

Somehow, it works. “I used to worry about breaking down or things like carpentry. But when it comes, I just do it. It’s not really scary at all.”

When Hudson was growing up in Sierra Oaks, her favorite place was the beach. Her family spent their

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summers at a Santa Cruz beach house perched at the edge of the sand. She loved the simple life, spending days on end in her bathing suit, making castles in the sand, collecting sand dollars and jumping in the waves.

She hated when the family had to pack up and head home. She dreamed of a time when she would never have to leave the ocean. That time is now.

“It’s not a traditional life and sometimes it’s not Pinterest worthy,” she says. “But it’s working in a very expensive and beautiful place to live.

If it was not for the bus, I would not be able to do business here.”

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CARMICHAEL PARK TO HOST FREE CONCERTS Carmichael Park will host 10 free concerts in July and August.

This month’s fun starts on Saturday, July 7, with the classic rock band On Air. On Sunday, July 8, Carmichael Kiwanis Swing Band will perform.

The concert series will conclude on Sunday, Aug. 26, with a performance

by John Skinner Band.

Concerts start at 6:30 p.m. on Saturdays, 5 p.m. on Sundays.

For a list of all performances, go to carmichaelpark.com.

Carmichael Park is at 5750 Grant Ave.

Keep your children safe in the water this summer. There are vest borrowing stations at local fire stations and along Sacramento’s waterways.

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earing a life jacket while boating on the river is the smart and safe thing to do.

If you don’t have one, you can borrow one along Sacramento’s waterways and at local fire stations.

There are borrowing stations for life jackets for children and adults at Discovery Park and for children only at Ancil Hoffman Park, River Bend Park and the river access points at Watt Avenue and Sunrise Recreation Area.

Under California law, children younger than 13 must wear a Coast Guard-approved life jacket on a moving recreational vessel.

For more information, go to regionalparks.saccounty.net.

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PARADES, FUN AND FIREWORKS On Wednesday, July 4, ArdenArcade will hold its annual parade starting at 9:30 a.m. at the Sacramento County Building, 2700 Fulton Ave. Carmichael’s Independence Day celebration will kick off with a pancake breakfast from 7 to 11 a.m. at Carmichael Park Clubhouse. The 60th annual Elks Club Parade will start at 10:30 a.m. at the corner of Marconi Avenue and Fair Oaks Boulevard.

That evening, a fireworks display will be held at La Sierra Community Center, 5325 Engle Road, starting at approximately 9:30 p.m. At 7 p.m., the center will have music, food and children’s activities.

cybersecurity presented by the FBI at Mission Oaks Community Center.

The FBI gave tips and tricks on how to keep safe when online. The program was designed for people 12 and older.

For more information about the FBI’s efforts to combat cybercrime, go to fbi.gov and click on the “What We Investigate” button.

The American River Parkway is an asset worth protecting. Demonstrate your support by purchasing a yearlong unlimited Parks Pass.

The pass costs $50 and allows one vehicle to enter any Sacramento County park. It pays for itself after 10 visits.

Proceeds go to regional parks.

For more information or to purchase a pass, go to arpf.org/visit.

SHERIFF CANINE INJURED IN LINE OF DUTY Jedi, a 3-year-old German shepherd and a K-9 member of the Sheriff’s

FBI PRESENTS CYBERSAFETY WORKSHOP On May 29, more than 150 people attended a community workshop on

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Department, was injured in the line of duty in May. His human partner, Deputy Javier Bustamante, was attempting to arrest a parolee wanted in connection with a domestic violence incident. The parolee said he was armed with a gun. After a sheriff’s deputy struck the parolee with one round from a bean-bag shotgun, Jedi was sent to apprehend the parolee. The parolee stabbed Jedi multiple times.

The parolee was subsequently taken into custody and Jedi was transported to a local animal hospital for treatment of wounds to his head and around one eye. The dog received sutures to his eyelid and around his eye. Jedi also sustained a scratched cornea and an injury to an internal portion of his eyelid.

Jedi was later released to recuperate with his family. The dog is expected to return to full duty.

The parolee was booked into the Sacramento County Jail on charges pertaining to violating his parole and felony assault on a police animal.

MORE FLIGHTS AT SAC INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT Additional flights have been added at Sacramento International Airport, including daily service to St. Louis, Austin and Orlando on Southwest; seasonal service to Boston on JetBlue; daily service to Vancouver on Air

Canada; and seasonal service to Cabo on Alaska Airlines.

Based on flight schedules, Sacramento International Airport expects to serve more than 11.5 million customers in 2018, breaking its own record for yearly traffic. In 2017, the airport served 10.9 million passengers, surpassing the previous record of 10.7 million set in 2007.

SMF offers more than 155 daily nonstop flights on 11 domestic and international carriers to 35 destinations. The regional economic impact of the Sacramento County airport system is more than $4 billion annually. For more information, go to smf.aero.

ALCOHOL BANNED ON THE PARKWAY FOR THE FOURTH On the Fourth of July, there will be a complete ban on alcohol consumption and possession both on land and in the water within the American River Parkway between Hazel and Watt avenues. An exception exists for Ancil Hoffman Golf Course.

The ban will also be in effect on the Labor Day holiday weekend.

EPPIE’S GREAT RACE FINALE The long-running Eppie’s Great Race (otherwise known as the world’s

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oldest no-swim triathlon) will come to an end on Saturday, July 21.

Founded by the late Sacramentoarea restaurateur Eppie Johnson in 1974, the race became an annual summertime tradition for elite athletes, fitness enthusiasts and families.

This last contest will feature a 5.82-mile run, a 12.5-mile bike ride and a 6.1-mile kayak paddle along the scenic American River Parkway. It starts and finishes at William B. Pond Recreation Area.

The primary beneficiary of the race is the county Department of Regional Parks’ Therapeutic Recreation Services, which provides recreational opportunities for individuals with disabilities. To date, the race has raised more than $1 million.

The race is ending because of a continuing decline in participation due to the competing number of running events in the area. The Johnson family decided it was

appropriate to end the Great Race after its 45th year, noting that Eppie Johnson was 45 years old when he started the event. The foundation will continue to sponsor Eppie’s Kids Duathlon, featuring running and bicycling for children ages 3 to 13.

For more information, go to eppiesgreatrace.org.

RECYCLE WITH CARE TO REDUCE CONTAMINATION Most recycled material on the West Coast is shipped to China. But a new Chinese government policy is clamping down on the percentage of material being accepted due to contamination. That is putting pressure on local recyclers to make sure all soiled debris is cleared out from recycled materials before being shipped overseas. Sacramento County’s Department of Waste Management and Recycling is asking

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The Sheriff ’s Homeless Outreach Team was recently recognized by the Board of Supervisors.

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Adding a greasy pizza box, Styrofoam, dirty used paper napkins or a plastic bag to a recycle bin full of clean, acceptable items will contaminate the bin. When a contaminated bin is added to a load, that contaminates the whole truck.

The county’s current contamination rate is 25 percent. We need to lower it: China requires a 1 percent contamination rate. A failure to lower our contamination rate could lead to an increase in county waste pickup rates.

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The Art of Giving Back KERRI WARNER USES HER ARTISTIC SKILLS TO HELP LOCAL NONPROFITS

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erri Warner’s website describes her as a mixed-media artist, but that doesn’t tell the whole story. Warner is indeed a celebrated mixed-media artist known for collage, sculpture, mosaic and portraiture, but she’s also a deeply devoted community member who has held leadership positions at nonprofits such as Sacramento Ballet, HandsOn Sacramento and California Conservation Corps Foundation. And she’s donated her artistic skills to dozens of community projects.

“I had never thought of using my art to give back to the community,” says Warner. “I really credit Michael Smith at Teichert for connecting those dots and opening the door for me.”

Warner met Smith during her year with Leadership Sacramento, a program of Sacramento Metro Chamber that develops business and civic leaders through monthly classes and community-service projects. Smith initially asked for Warner’s artistic help on a volunteer project for River City Food Bank & Family Services, which was being rebuilt after a devastating fire. Warner created sculptures, refinished chairs and decorated the new lobby with portraits of Food Bank clients for her “Faces of Hunger” series. The originals were

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auctioned off to raise funds for the facility, and copies now adorn the lobby walls to make the space more inviting.

“It was great to be able to work with the clients directly to hear how they wanted to present themselves,” Warner says.

Since the Food Bank project in 2011, the Natomas resident has crafted artwork for 916 Ink’s The Imaginarium, Plates Cafe, Roberts Family Development Center and more. She’s also designed logos for NorCal Services for Deaf & Hard of Hearing.

“All of these diverse projects give me the opportunity to learn something new,” says Warner, who got her start volunteering for Children’s Receiving Home as a teen and building sets, props and costumes for a community theater founded by her father and grandfather. “If someone says can you build a fence?, I say I don’t know and then figure out how to do it. Luckily, my husband has a lot of tools.”

Warner credits her work with the Metro Chamber for introducing her to so many interesting organizations.

“They do a great job of connecting the business community with nonprofits,” Warner says. “I get exposure to all of these groups doing wonderful things, and I get to help in my own way.

I’m a firm believer in the idea that a little is enough if enough people do it.”

For more information on the programs of the Metro Chamber, visit metrochamber.org. To see Warner’s work, visit kerriwarner. com.

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Honorees Edie Baker, Sheree Johnston with Inside Publisher Cecily Hastings

Adventure Capitalists TWO WINNERS OF THE WOMEN WHO MEAN BUSINESS AWARDS TALK SHOP

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n April, Sacramento Business Journal announced the 14 winners of its 23rd Annual Women Who Mean Business awards. The winners were honored at the Hyatt Regency

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on June 15 for their leadership, entrepreneurship, perseverance, passion and commitment to their industries and communities.

I recently spoke to two winners who own businesses across from each other on Folsom Boulevard in East Sac: Edie Baker, owner of Chocolate Fish Coffee Roasters, and Sheree Johnston, president and owner of East Sac Hardware—to find out what it really takes to be a woman who means business.

Both women were nominated by Inside Publications publisher Cecily

Hastings, who won the award in 2017.

“I championed both of these women because they have found great success in the retail sector. These days that is very challenging,” said Hastings.

“Additionally, they both have been successful in fields that have been traditionally male-dominated.”

Both Baker and Johnston are active members of the East Sacramento Chamber of Commerce. Johnston was a major donor to Friends of East Sacramento’s effort to save the Clunie Community Center and the McKinley Rose Garden in 2012.

What does this award mean to you?

Edie Baker: I’m really honored.

It means that our business is making a positive contribution to our local community and people are happy with our coffee and our business as a whole.

Sheree Johnston: I’m very humbled to be one of the group chosen. On July 1, it will be 10 years since I took over the operation of East Sac Hardware at the height of the recession. We were at a fork in the road: close the store or forge a new

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path. With the help and hard work of my employees, family, trade reps and local tradespeople, we were able to achieve a new vision. It’s nice to be recognized.

Why do you think it’s important to support womenowned businesses?

EB: I believe it’s important to support all our local businesses. It’s important to keep us all sustainable so our communities continue to grow and stay economically viable.

SJ: I know the struggles women face to be business owners. However, I don’t want to be looked at as a successful woman business owner. I want to be looked at as a successful business owner.

Do you see a change in the business landscape in Sacramento?

EB: I think there’s a great diversity of business owners here. It’s not just a young person’s game. More owners have had previous careers and are bringing those talents to their new businesses. There’s a great

camaraderie. When one business is successful, we’re all successful.

Why do you love being a business owner in Sacramento?

EB: Sacramento has been changing over the years and becoming a place on the map for so many things.

We’re excited and proud to be part of this development. This venture has opened our lives to many different experiences, and we feel very lucky that Sacramento has embraced our business with such gusto.

SJ: Over the past 30 years, it’s become harder and harder to stay in business in California. However, when all is said and done, the thing I love about being a business owner in Sacramento is being able to give back to my community. It’s very satisfying to see so many people enjoying themselves at an event your business helped sponsor.

Any exciting projects on the horizon?

EB: We’re continually growing our wholesale business—you’ll notice Chocolate Fish Coffee in many more

restaurants and espresso bars. We recently opened our third location in Land Park, and there’s even more that I can’t talk about just yet!

SJ: We’re currently doing a 10-year update. We’re refining our product mix to better serve our customers’ needs and launching a new store-within-a-store concept.

We’re also continuing to work on The Grommet @ESH, which has helped more than 2,500 makers, inventors, entrepreneurs and small businesses launch innovative consumer products over the past two years. We’re always working to have the latest and coolest products alongside the old standbys.

Chocolate Fish Coffee Roasters is at 4749 Folsom Blvd., 400 P St. and 2940 Freeport Blvd. For more information, go to chocolatefishcoffee. com.

East Sac Hardware is at 4800 Folsom Blvd. Visit eastsachardware. com.

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Royal Way Forward REFLECTIONS ON THE WEDDING OF PRINCE HARRY AND AMERICAN MEGHAN MARKLE

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n a sunny day in 1981, as a reporter for a New Zealand newspaper, I watched Diana Spencer marry Prince Charles.

A few weeks ago, their son, Prince Harry, was also blessed with a sunny wedding day. There the similarities ended. Thirty-seven years have passed, and times sure have changed.

Little boys when I last saw them, bridegroom Harry and his brother, Prince William, now have balding Windsor pates. Two of William’s

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children were among bride Meghan Markle’s junior attendants. Kate Middleton’s middle-class family exuded more allure than their royal in-laws, and celebrity wedding guests garnered more attention than anyone.

Even the soprano who sang at the wedding claimed that meeting George Clooney was the highlight of her day.

With a showbiz bride at the altar, Hollywood did indeed meet Holyrood. But what defined this event was an unapologetic decree that multiculturalism would rule in a marriage that mirrors much of Britain’s Commonwealth. Wearing a tiara that had belonged to Queen Mary (Harry’s great-greatgrandmother), the bride walked alone down the aisle of ancient St George’s Chapel. Through a

last-minute arrangement, she held Prince Charles’ arm for a few steps—stagecraft that cleverly evoked a future king’s blessing. The word “obey” was absent from her vows. Markle began as she meant to continue.

This wedding indicated a nonnegotiable path for a modern duchess (and duke) and an apparently accepting royal family.

Markle’s road to a splendid marriage was more strewn with thumbtacks than rose petals. She hails from a crisis-prone clan. She’s American and divorced. If this were enough to rule out Wallace Simpson as a bride in 1936, times again have changed. Embarrassing baggage is now more common than coronets among the royal family’s ranks.

Markle might be a TV star, but the happiness she has brought to Princess Diana’s son is not an act: His wedding-day tears were real.

Moreover, she promises to be an unprecedented weapon in the royals’ fight for popularity. Arcane traditions like divine right survive only through a monarch’s adaptability, and Elizabeth II’s energetic new duke and duchess will increase royal relevancy.

As an actress, Markle will smile her way through a life sentence of tedium. As humanitarians who bring attention to good causes, she and her besotted husband will be fantastic ambassadors for “the firm,” as the royal family is jocularly known.

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Where’s the Cream?

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ndrea Seppinni loves dessert. About two years ago, she founded Conscious Creamery with her husband, Kevin.

Their company makes artisanal gelato without dairy, eggs, mixes, artificial fillers, emulsifiers or stabilizers. Rotating crops of flavors are crafted from cashew cream, sugar and fresh, usually local fruit.

On a recent visit to the company’s commercial kitchen on Bell Avenue, Kevin is sitting in front of a computer. The “gelato trike,” which the couple’s daughter, Olivia, rides at local events, is parked behind him.

Besides peddling gelato, Olivia handles socialmedia duties and helps out when needed.

Splashes of the company’s signature robin-egg blue brighten the walls. Customers can tour the facility and pick up pints of gelato after placing their orders online.

The focus here is on Andrea and the kitchen, where she spends most of her time. This native Sacramentan moves fast and talks even faster.

She’s petite, with wiry biceps. When she isn’t in motion, she balances on one foot as if in a yoga tree pose. The couple is putting everything they have into the business. “It’s a passion for me,” she says. “This is what we do.”

Organic strawberries purchased from Terra Firma Farm in Winters are cooling in racks after being sprinkled with balsamic vinegar and a pinch of cane sugar and slowly roasted.

Roasting intensifies the flavor, caramelizes the fruit and removes moisture. This batch will end up in Andrea’s roasted-strawberry gelato bars—frozen confections that give ice cream serious competition. She processes 11 pounds of strawberries at a time, yielding 8 quarts of gelato or 90 bars. She’s also tempering luscious chocolate (cocoa butter and 70 percent chocolate), which is the dip for chocolatecovered bars.

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Almost everything is done by hand, although a small Emery Thompson machine churns the gelato in the “dairy” room. (Even though their gelato does not contain dairy, they are required to have a dairy room.)

The plan is to install more and bigger machines to meet product demand, but even with ET’s help, making gelato is a labor-intensive process.

Andrea came by her love for food organically. Her dad was in the wholesale food industry, and she remembers going to work with him.

Now 81 years old, he pitches in when he’s not at Lions Club meetings. “He knows how to prep,” she says.

She’s always been interested in cooking, but turning her passion into a career took time. Eventually, she ended up at Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Sacramento (it closed in 2015) and became a classically trained chef.

While working as a head cook at a residential care facility, she created a plant-based menu to address health issues like diabetes and dementia. She was disheartened when she found out the management was interested only in sugar-free desserts and dressings.

For a time, she owned a catering business, and she also worked with a doctor to treat pain patients with a plant-based diet. She blogged about food and she taught cooking classes.

The couple became vegans about 10 years ago. She was having digestive issues and had osteoarthritis. Pain medications made her feel worse.

“The light bulb went on,” she says, when she realized that a plant-based

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diet was the way to go. Her health has improved. Kevin had cholesterol and blood pressure issues, and his health improved as well. “I don’t tell anybody what they should do,” she says, but she believes that vegan food should taste good and that anyone can enjoy it.

Despite an impressive list of culinary accomplishments, something was missing. She found it on a trip to Europe when she and Kevin were celebrating their 30th anniversary.

In Vienna, they discovered a gelato shop called Veganista and fell in love, going back a few times to sample the product. When they got home, she started working on recipes. Kevin became her designated taster. Pop-up events at Identity Coffees and Burly Beverages helped her to refine her recipes and perfect the gelato. For six months, they gave away a lot of samples.

“There’s no school [you can go to] to learn how to make vegan gelato from scratch,” Andrea says. She developed her own recipe for making the cashew-milk base. It has a neutral taste and creamy consistency. Andrea buys local fruit whenever possible, often from farmers markets. She uses fair-trade vanilla beans and vanilla extract, and she pays top dollar for premium ingredients. Customers can also expect to pay more for Conscious Creamery’s gelato. Some people are not going to care about the cost, Andrea says, and those are their customers. “It’s a treat and it should be a treat,” she says.

What does she envision for the future of the company? Short term, they need to hire more employees.

Long term, they hope to open a retail storefront. And she’d like to make more custom flavors, like port-roasted fig. For now, she’s doing what she loves. “We’re thankful that people have been so wonderful to us,” she says.

Conscious Creamery gelato is available at Compton’s Market, Identity Coffees, Burly Beverages and other locations. For more information, go to consciouscreamery.com.

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ast July, we had 11 triple-digit days, some topping 105 degrees.

Such hot weather makes me want to stay inside, close the shades and sip a cool drink. However, gardeners know that plants need attention now more than ever. July is the peak time for water to evaporate from the soil and transpire from the plants, so we must be vigilant about watering. We also need to protect plants from heat and sun, monitor for pests, remove spent flowers, keep rampant growth in check and harvest regularly.

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are delightful, with temperatures in the 60s and brilliant blue sky overhead. If you can’t haul yourself out of bed before it gets unbearably hot, evenings offer some relief. You can even don a headlamp so that you can examine your garden hands-free after dark.

There are some strategies for keeping your plants hydrated. Several inches of mulch will slow evaporation and keep roots cooler. Run sprinklers in the wee hours of the night or very early in the morning. Check whether soil is dry with a moisture meter or by digging into the soil, and adjust watering schedules and amounts accordingly.

Potted plants need special care because their roots can get very hot and dry out quickly. Be sure that water is penetrating and moistening the soil, and consider repotting a plant if water runs out too quickly. I prefer a planting mix that contains coconut fiber, known as coir, which retains water well while still promoting drainage and aeration of the soil. Light-colored pots reflect heat and keep roots cooler than dark or black containers.

What should you do if a plant wilts during the day? First, see if the soil is dry. If it is, water immediately. If there is enough moisture, evaluate other causes. Sometimes plants wilt because they have gotten too much water or have developed a disease.

Many plants require full or partial shade and will wilt and burn in the sun no matter how well they are watered.

Even sun-loving plants can be injured when the heat and sun are especially intense. Protect fruit tree trunks by painting them with diluted interior white latex paint. Tomatoes, peppers and other fruit often get sunburned, developing brown, leathery patches. Tomatoes can also develop green shoulders or solar yellowing when it’s hot and sunny.

To avoid sun damage, maintain a vigorous leaf cover on the plants and use shade cloth or screening to block some light. Temperatures alone can affect your crops. Tomatoes may stop setting fruit when temperatures are above 90 degrees during the day or below 55 degrees at night. Last year, many of my purple eggplants were a bright, sickly yellow. I was afraid that were unsafe to eat, so I

threw out at least 20 of them. After spending many hours scouring the internet to identify the problem, I finally decided that the hot weather had suppressed development of the purple pigment in the skin and that the color change was just cosmetic.

As soon as temperatures dropped, the eggplants once again grew in a glossy black color.

Summer is a great time to be a bug. We humans have to stay on the lookout for tomato hornworms and other pests that suck, chew, rasp or pierce plants. Spider mites love hot, dry conditions. They will drape webs on branches and suck juice from leaves, creating a stippled appearance.

Blast them off with water, making sure that you hit the underside of the leaves to knock off their eggs.

This technique also works to control aphids. You need a magnifying lens to see mite eggs, but clusters of yellow or orange bug eggs are clearly visible. Pick off the infested leaves and destroy them. Pick off immature and adult bugs by hand, or knock them into a bucket of soapy water.

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Remove spent flowers to promote continued bloom. Pinch back Thai or Italian basil frequently and remove flower spikes to encourage bushy leaf growth. Keep tucking tomatoes into their cages or tying them onto supports. Harvest vegetables regularly to ensure continued production and quality.

Can you do all of this and stay out of the heat and sun? Just in case you can’t tear yourself out of the garden as the day gets hotter, be sure to don a hat and sunglasses, put on sunblock and take along some water whenever you go outside. Periodically get into the shade or retreat inside. Pay attention to yourself, not just your plants.

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Bardis the Builder YOUNG DEVELOPER HAS HER EYE ON HOMES FOR MILLENNIALS

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he Mill at Broadway ticks all the boxes of a successful development: an environmentally conscious infill project providing affordable, entrylevel housing while bringing life and activity to an underused corridor.

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puts The Mill in millennial, with firsttime homeowners in their 20s and 30s making up 90 percent of its residents.

That was by design, says Katherine Bardis of Bardis Homes, the developer behind The Mill at Broadway. A millennial herself, Bardis was her own target demographic.

“I was 25 at the time [we began The Mill at Broadway], and I wanted to live somewhere but couldn’t afford anything,” she admits. “The same went for all my friends. We were all tired of renting but we had no place to go, so I thought I’m going to build what I want.”

An audacious task, since she and her cousin, Rachel Bardis, had founded Bardis Homes only the year before. It was 2012, and the cousins initially started the company as a hobby while Katherine Bardis finished law school.

Bardis laughs that nobody sane starts a development company during law school, but she was drawn by its dynamism. “In development, every day there’s an issue you have to solve, and a continual sense of satisfaction,” she says.

As a developer, she experienced quick success. In 2012, Bardis Homes developed four vacant lots in the Pocket neighborhood, and a year later the company was building the first 200 of The Mill’s 1,000 homes. The project is located on the site of the old Setzer Forest Products plant, just south of Broadway between 3rd and 5th streets.

“We went from four homes to 1,000,” laughs Bardis. She acknowledges that her family’s reputation helped secure the project.

Bardis’ father is longtime developer Chris Bardis of Reynen & Bardis Homes.

“Probably the only reason why the owners of The Mill were willing to take a risk on these two girls who had only built four homes was they knew we had the infrastructure behind us with our family, and they knew we

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“When people are young, they want to make a name for themselves. But for me, it was never about making a name but living up to the name that I was given,” she says. “My family did so much for me, so I just want to work hard and do right by them.”

She’s on the right path, at least.

The Mill at Broadway is now in its second phase, which will see the construction of 200 additional condos, priced from the mid-$200,000s to more than $600,000. Bardis hopes to create community in a market that hasn’t been kind to new homeowners.

“The median price for homes in Sacramento is high—in the $400,000s, $500,000s,” says Bardis.

“And when we started, there was nothing, at least from a new-home standpoint, that you could really buy under $400,000.”

Which is why Bardis Homes is building not just for millennials but also for Sacramentans.

“Sacramento should never be a commuter town,” she continues. “I hear so many developers say we need to be like the Bay Area. But why do we need to be like someone else? We have such a great and passionate community here. It’s one thing to build a home. It’s another thing to build a community, and we want to build an environment outside of the home as much as the home itself.”

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Though Bardis has found initial success with The Mill at Broadway, she is also proving that a young developer isn’t bound to build just for millennials. Bardis has been the project lead for The Grounds, a Reynen & Bardis Homes development near UC Davis Medical Center.

“Every time we release a home over there, it sells that day,” says Bardis.

Bardis Homes is also developing Fair Oaks EcoHousing, a cohousing community that includes a common garden and a clubhouse for shared meals. The project includes 30 town homes and flats with two to four bedrooms, priced from $300,000 to $600,000. By May, 25 units had already been sold.

It’s safe to say that Bardis is finding her groove in an industry that typically has been dominated by older men.

“It is hard to find young people passionate about the industry,” says Bardis, admitting that she’s been mistaken for an assistant even at conferences where she’s been invited to speak. She and her cousin are proof that young developers do exist. And in a city that’s currently dealing with its own housing shortage, a new outlook may be exactly what Sacramento needs.

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s a teenager in Richmond, Letitia Bradford knew she wanted to go into medicine.

During a summer program for high school students at UC San Francisco, she decided she would study there—not realizing it was the most competitive public medical school in the country.

She got in.

Then, as a medical student at UCSF, Bradford decided to specialize in orthopedic surgery. A male adviser told her that orthopedic surgery is only for “strong guys.”

She’s been practicing orthopedic surgery for 13 years.

“Men will tell you that it’s all about brute strength,” Bradford says, “but it’s really all about technique. I get it done.”

Bradford has always been good at getting it done, whether that was studying for her medical board exams with a newborn (“I don’t recommend it, but I got through it,” she says) or traveling from her home in the Pocket area to King City—a three-and-a-halfhour drive from Sacramento—two weeks a month to practice at the only community hospital for 100 miles.

“Medicine is hard,” Bradford admits over a secret-menu tea concoction at Starbucks. “It’s long

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hours. You’re never on time for anything. You’re always rippin’ and runnin’.”

Growing up in the foster care system, she played as many sports as she could, including volleyball, basketball and softball. That introduced her to the idea of studying sports medicine.

While earning her bachelor’s in physical education at UC Berkeley, she participated in campus organizations like the Student National Medical Association. (She served as president of the local chapter and regional director.) She also played club basketball. A torn ACL deepened her commitment to becoming a physician.

“My doctor had a horrible bedside manner,” Bradford recalls. “He treated me like a piece of meat. I vowed that I would never treat my patients that way.”

In medical school, she was one of only five African-American females in training in the country. After completing her residency at UCSF, she moved to Yuba City in 2005 to be closer to her ex-husband and share custody of their now-21-year-old son.

As a locum physician (a doctor who works temporarily to fill gaps in care), she was asked to work a stint at Mee Memorial Hospital, a community hospital and rural health clinic in King City.

“It’s incredible to work in such a small community,” says Bradford, who is now the hospital’s director of orthopedic services. “You spend so much time nurturing relationships with people that they really become part of your family. You hold their

Dr. Letitia Bradford hands to calm them down. You care for multiple generations of the same family. You go to services for them when they die. A lot of people think we look at patients as just a problem to be solved, but they really mean something to us.”

Bradford encourages others to pursue their doctoring dreams. When her 6-year-old son became interested in the animated Disney Junior TV show “Doc McStuffins” (whose main character is an African-American girl who wants to be a doctor), Bradford saw an opportunity to reach future female physicians of color.

“Here was this little brown girl talking about medicine,” Bradford says. “My friends and I started talking about how we’re all like reallife Doc McStuffins.”

They formed an informal group called We Are Doc McStuffins, and Disney Junior aired “We Are DocMcStuffins” shorts featuring

several real-life female physicians, including Bradford. She also helped found Artemis Medical Society, an organization of more than 2,500 female African-American physicians and medical students representing 39 states and six countries. In her work with Artemis and as a member of The Perry Initiative, which mentors young women to be leaders in medicine and engineering, Bradford hopes to inspire girls to greatness.

“So much was given to me that I need to give back,” Bradford says.

“The village helped me get where I am today, so now I’m going to help the village.”

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Pastor, Get Your Gun FANNING THE FEARS THAT GROW IN THE DARK

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he very first time anyone ever called me “Pastor” was during the early 1980s at First Baptist Church of Hopland, Calif. For 52 Fridays in 1981, I left my seminary classroom in the Bay Area and drove 100 miles with my wife, Becky, to my weekend pastorate.

Parishioners often hosted us in their homes, but eventually they converted a Sunday-school classroom into a kind of bed-minus-breakfast room for their newlywed pastor. The church ladies strove for a homey feel, covering our poster bed with doily pillowcases and a homemade quilt.

They welcomed me as their faithful, fun and fearless pastor.

Fearless, that is, until I wasn’t.

Our clapboard church building was wedged between an interstate highway and a railroad track, a highway for drifters. Late at night, the building moaned with unexplained noises. The empty building proved

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to be an unsettling place for a young couple when the lights were off.

There were summer nights when the wide temperature swings caused the floors to mysteriously squeak. Sometimes the winter wind harmonized with a thundering train, and we’d jerk from our sleep in fear that God’s wrath was coming through the walls.

One Sunday afternoon, I raised my “security questions” to the deacons.

“Who do I call if there’s a problem at night?” I asked. “Especially in the absence of a police force.”

“Well,” suggested one older man, “If you’re a-scared, how’s about I loan you my .22 rifle?”

I thought a minute about the NRA youth course where I’d qualified as a marksman first class. I accepted his offer, reassuring Becky I could revive my skills.

I put my borrowed rifle under our bed and pulled it out at night. That’s when I’d walk the inside perimeter of the sanctuary looking for nonexistent intruders, swinging that rifle like some sort of third leg.

One dark and stormy night, a man came pounding on our church door.

At first, we played possum and tried to ignore him.

However, his knocking grew too intense. He seemed determined to break the door rather than retreat.

We imagined a stowaway who’d jumped from a train in search of someone to harm.

Becky egged me out of bed, and I ventured down the darkened church aisle with my flashlight. I stopped inside the vestibule, rifle at the ready, and loudly demanded to know the man’s intentions. From the other side of the locked door, he said only that he needed food and money.

I tightened my grip on the rifle. I had a new wife to protect. I wasn’t inclined to entertain a stranger, even if it might be an angel, as suggested

by Scripture.

I recommended he go elsewhere but made no mention of my Remington argument. He heeded my prompting.

In the years that have followed, I’ve done some serious soul-searching about rearming myself. I’ve had to ask myself, “What am I really afraid of? Who am I ‘a-scared’ of? Can a pastor really practice a gun-toting faith?”

Hopland taught me that my desire to carry a gun only fanned the fears that I’d conjured up myself. That kind of fear can suck the meaning

completely out of life. When we succumb to those anxieties, we become the little boy afraid of the dark, imagining all kinds of no-good things.

At the end of the day, I don’t like where those fears put me. So I lock my doors, keep reasonable vigilance and take comfort in Paul’s words of 2 Timothy 1:17: “For God has not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.”

By the way, several weeks after our late-night disturbance, someone broke into our unoccupied church. They tore through our locked bedroom door and stole my trumpet, our pillows and the deacon’s rifle. Apparently, guns don’t protect themselves.

Thus marked the end of my guntoting days.

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Place of Refuge IN OAK PARK, EXPLOITED WOMEN FIND A TEMPORARY HOME

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achelle Ditmore has spent much of the past 18 years encouraging women to quit the sex trade and stop using harmful, illegal drugs. When women listen and accept help, Ditmore often gives them shelter.

She finds places for the women and their children to stay and sleep, temporarily and

transitionally, even if that means they have stayed and slept in Ditmore’s house.

But ask her what she thinks about men who exploit young women in Sacramento—ask her what she thinks about pimps—and you’ll hear a surprising answer.

“The pimps in this neighborhood have my phone number, too, just like the women do,” she says. “They know they can call me for help. Pimps are not the enemy. They are broken people, just like the women.”

Ditmore and her husband, Loren, run an organization called City of Refuge Sacramento in Oak Park. The couple started it when they were newlyweds almost two decades ago. Their goal was to help young women escape street life, drugs and sexual exploitation.

Ditmore can’t remember how many women she has helped, but a conservative estimate would be between 150 and 200.

City of Refuge operates from a handsome old brick building with black shade awnings on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, just up the road from City Fire Station No. 6. Ditmore can sit at a small table near the front door and watch the fire engine and ambulance come and go, which they do constantly. She can look out the window and recognize most of the people who walk, ride, run, roll, stagger or skate along the sidewalk past City of Refuge’s door.

When she sees someone she knows, she stops her conversation, leaves the table, runs to the door and yells a greeting. Since she knows just about everybody in Oak Park, her conversations are a tapestry of breaks and non sequiturs, woven across interruptions and introductions, always returning to her mission of helping people in need.

“We believe in nurture over nature,” she says. “When you help someone, when you nurture them, it’s never in vain.”

Next door to City of Refuge headquarters is a big, empty lot, wide and deep enough for two houses at least. The land has been scraped flat, down to the weeds. Nothing is there except dirt and a fence to keep intruders and trouble out. But the empty lot is special. Its terrible past holds the future for City of Refuge.

“We worked with the city and we now own that property.

It’s ours,” Ditmore says. “We don’t have a dime right now to do anything with it, but we have big plans.”

When the lot is developed, a new mission will rise from an awful memory. Three decades ago, a house on the property was

frequented by Morris Solomon Jr., a handyman who rebuilt old homes. He was also an ex-convict with a history of violence toward women.

And Solomon was a serial killer. Around 1986, he began murdering women in Oak Park, prostitutes and drug addicts, ghostly sisters to the women Ditmore would give shelter to years later.

Solomon murdered at least six women, ages 16 to 29, before being captured by police in 1987. He hid a body on the lot that now belongs to City of Refuge. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The fact that something so terrible could be associated with that property, but that we could turn it into something that provides hope to people, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an amazing opportunity,â&#x20AC;? Ditmore says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It means life comes full circle.â&#x20AC;?

Solomon received the maximum penalty for six murders and is now waiting out his days on death row in San Quentin. In Oak Park, life moves ahead.

Gentrification pushes south from Broadway. City of Refuge helps people left behind.

The organization runs programs for young people. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Young people are an incredible resource. They grow up,â&#x20AC;? Ditmore says. The organization provides two residences to house sexually exploited women and their children.

City of Refuge also has access to a room or two at the Oak Park childhood home of Police Chief Daniel Hahn. The rooms provide temporary and transitional shelter for women escaping the streets.

Years ago, Hahnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mother, Mary Jean Hahn, who died in February, gave the house away rather than sell it. She expected the owners to treat the home as a community resource, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what they have done. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mary was the most amazing woman,â&#x20AC;? said the homeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s owner, RosaLee Hagstrom. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There was no contract or anything with us. She just trusted us to do the right thing. With the example she set, how could we not?â&#x20AC;?

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t’s hard not to notice the stylish, brand-new, bright-red JUMP bikes around town. Their color and design jump out at you. The bikes have a basket, bell, chain and skirt guards, an integrated lock, and head and tail lights. The seat height is adjustable. A small electric motor zips you along at speeds up to 15 mph. With a full charge, the bikes have a range of 30-plus miles.

It costs $1 to rent the bike for the first 15 minutes, then 7 cents a minute afterward. When you’re done, simply lock up the bike wherever you are and leave. (A hefty $25 charge applies if you leave a bike out of the designated service area.)

Sacramento is no longer a laggard in the bike-share world. By the end of the summer, we could have the largest fleet of electric-

assist bikes in the country. There are 300 on the streets with 600 more to come.

Bike-share systems are evolving. They’ve gone from free bikes to “dockless” bikes with GPS trackers that can be left almost anywhere.

First-generation dockless bikes were relatively inexpensive bikes that some service providers simply dumped by the thousands in cities around the world.

Because of their electric assist, JUMP bikes are the latest generation of dockless bikes. I haven’t been a fan of electric bikes. One of my main motivations for cycling has been the health benefits from using my own power.

Deep down, I felt bikes with motors were for the lazy or weak. But e-bikes open up bicycling to new riders and should build momentum for adding more bike lanes and racks. They are fast and fun. You pedal, but the electric assist (though it takes some getting used to) makes the ride easy. Biking in business attire or on a scorching Sacramento summer day is more feasible.

I actually read the multipage terms of use when I signed up for the JUMP mobile app, something most users probably don’t do. The terms contain some nuggets. To ride, you have to be 18 years of age and weigh 210 pounds or less. You can’t carry more than 20 pounds in the bike basket or use the bike for commercial

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My experience trying out a JUMP bike indicated there are some kinks in the process. Signing up for the app, getting a Personal Identification Number and finding a bike nearby were fairly simple, though the app crashed multiple times. Bikes are shown as red dots (a lot fewer than 300 when I looked) on a map or on a list of the nearest bikes. The closest bike to me was at Selland’s MarketCafe in East Sac, about 2 minutes from my home by foot. The next closest were at Sac State and on M Street, both 15 minutes away and not worth the walk. The app indicated the Selland’s bike had a “low” battery while the other two were 85 and 39 percent charged.

The low battery turned out to be a problem. I rode only about a block when the electric assist seemed to quit. It was still OK to pedal, but starting up the 70-pound bike from a dead stop was an effort.

When I ended my short trip at 48th and J, I saw three college-age males riding JUMPs on the sidewalk in front of El Dorado Savings Bank.

They were going fast. As a pedestrian, I would not enjoy being rammed by anyone on a bike that is so heavy.

Jim Brown, executive director of Sacramento Area Bicycle Advocates, believes the JUMP program has started well. Rides per day is a common bike-share metric. JUMP is not yet disclosing those numbers but says it’s “very encouraged by usage at this stage from riders in Sacramento, Davis and West Sacramento.” A problem that JUMP is trying to address is that customers are locking bike to poles and other fixtures instead of bike racks.

To be viable, a bike-share system has to be convenient and inexpensive to use and operate. No doubt the JUMP service, and bike sharing in general, will continue to evolve.

In April, JUMP was purchased by ride-hail giant Uber for an estimated $200 million, so JUMP will have the resources to grow quickly and refine its practices.

In Sacramento, bike batteries are currently charged when the bikes are transported to West Sacramento during “rebalancing”—that is, repositioned to prime locations by a driver who picks them up and transports them in a truck. That methodology seems like a costly, inefficient business model. In the future, some bikes may be recharged at special hubs, perhaps with a customer credit for returning the bike to a powered hub.

E-bikes like JUMP are especially suited for shorter central-city trips of 1 to 3 miles. They can be faster and cheaper than Uber, Lyft or public transit. I’ve got my own four unpowered bikes (one for every purpose), but I’d certainly be interested in using a system like JUMP if I didn’t own a bike or for getting around when I travel to other cities.

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rab your virtual marshmallow on a stick and gather around my metaphoric campfire. It’s time for a story.

Once there was a dad who loved the outdoors. He took his young family to Yosemite on a camping trip to share this love with his 3-year-old son and 6-month-old daughter. His daughter, to this day, thinks both her parents were crazy to take a 6-monthold on a camping trip, and her mother confirms it was a miserable experience.

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But I digress.

The family kept camping, upgrading from a tent to a pop-up trailer. With groggy-eyed anticipation and excitement, they would leave at 4 a.m. to journey to lakeside campgrounds in the Sierra Nevada mountains so that when the kids woke up, they would already be at the campsite ready for a full day of camping fun. Sometimes they would grab cousins on the way. Sometimes the old Volvo couldn’t pull the trailer up a steep incline and everyone would have to get out and help offload gear before reloading it at the top.

Sometimes it would be so hot with four kids crammed into the back seat of a car with no air conditioning that they would stop at a convenience store, and everyone would run to put their heads in the outdoor ice machine to cool off. Sometimes Cousin Joe would complain, “Only Uncle Ron would bring whole-wheat

Coke on a camping trip” when the only soda available was Hansen’s cola.

But every time they took one of their many weekend camping trips, the whole family thought it was the best time of their lives. This happened for many, many summers.

It was amazing to grow up in a camping family. The smell of pine trees and campfire smoke. Hot dogs and split pea soup for dinner. Cereal with just-picked blackberries for breakfast. Floating on a cool alpine lake for hours or trying to dunk your sibling or cousin before they dunked you. Picnics on the lakeshore with watermelon. Being a free-range kid, exploring the forest while pretending you’re an Indian. Being in your bathing suit with dirty bare feet from dawn to dusk. Charades before bed.

The stars so bright in the jet-black sky that you felt like you could touch them. Fun and laughter. So much fun and laughter.

The daughter knew that one day she would create the same summer magic for her own family.

And she did.

First, they practiced in their backyard with all four of them (plus the dog) camping in a two-man tent.

Next, when the kids were deemed old enough for it to be more fun than a chore (ages 4 and 5), they took the kids to a campground a half-hour from Grandpa’s Nevada City cabin.

Just in case it didn’t go well, they could abort the effort and stay at Grandpa’s.

The kids took to camping like s’mores to a campfire. Maybe even a little too much. “He’s either going to be a pyromaniac or a fireman,” Logan’s mother predicted in response to her son’s fascination with the campfire.

Soon, the young family realized their friends loved camping, too. They decided to all camp together. So they

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did. For many, many summers, there were adults and kids laughing around the campfire, Logan throwing things in it, Melinda insisting on nothing carcinogenic, the kids singing the Banana Slug Song and making funny paper-plate awards, Bob popping his kern, Chris insisting Carson stay out of the dirt, Quinn catching frogs, Mike winning the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hotel Acuraâ&#x20AC;? paper-plate award for moving his air mattress to the car, Jen eating everyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s burned marshmallows, Kim making five-course breakfasts, Katie creating a Poop Tent, Brianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s laugh booming through the campground, Jason trying to beat everyone in Rummikub, Molly losing her retainer in the lake, the bear ambling through our campground and Logan saying, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a big raccoon,â&#x20AC;? and the magical night the storyteller led the entire group down to the lake to lie on their backs, oohing and aahing over the Perseid meteor shower.

This may be the last summer for those amazing and memorable group camping trips with all the kids in tow.

Nearly a half-dozen are heading off

to college this fall. Maybe as the kids flit away one by one, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be just the adults. And then maybe the kids will continue the camping tradition with their own families.

The moral of the story? If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never taken your family camping, you should be loading up the car right now. Priceless memories await.

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Corner Comfort NOTHING IS THE SAME FOR THIS RANCH-STYLE HOME

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t is not unusual for people to stop in front of Carla Serra and Gary Ackerman’s home in Wilhaggin just to admire the corner lot’s lush landscape. Elegant Japanese maples dot a curving berm edged with decorative rock. Showy, colorful annuals and perennials, in

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varying heights and textures, take turns blossoming with each season.

Grapevines twist up a white arbor that frames a stately row of windows, bedecking a comfortably appointed porch.

As captivating as the front yard is now, it was not always so. Mulberry trees, liquidambars, oleander bushes, a magnolia tree and a massive amount of ivy dominated the landscape. The roots were so overwhelming that the couple had to hire a logging company from Auburn to remove the trees, as well as a bulldozer to dig out the ivy. “We had a hard time because the roots had gone under the foundation,”

Serra points out. “We were pulling up roots that were huge.”

Serra, recently retired as an orthopedic surgical nurse at Kaiser Medical Center in South Sacramento, and Ackerman, a dentist whose office is in Carmichael, purchased the 2,300-square-foot home in 2014 after looking for a neighborhood that would be convenient for both their commutes. “We were trying to find a middle ground and a nice area. This worked best for us,” says Serra.

In addition to completely transforming the front and back yards, the new homeowners gutted the interior right down to the studs and renovated the entire house before

taking up residence in May 2015.

“Other than the basic footprint, nothing is the same,” notes Serra, who also has a degree in interior and exterior design.

The three-car garage, which was “basically falling apart,” says Serra, was the first to be overhauled so the couple could use it for storage while they revamped the rest of the house.

Structural changes throughout the home included adding cathedral ceilings, removing walls, widening the hallway and installing additional windows. “The house was very dark,” comments Serra. A sliding glass door to the backyard was replaced with three sets of French doors. “We

wanted an open floor plan that also led to the backyard. So if the French doors are open, it adds to the space in the house.”

The master bathroom was split in half to create a pantry in the kitchen and a laundry room near the bedrooms. Carpeting was ripped out and hardwood floors were installed. The original two fireplaces, one with dated lava rock, were redone with Italian porcelain tile. A sliding decorative barn door conceals a new wine bar off the living room.

The kitchen was remodeled with white cabinets and black granite countertops, with a reverse color scheme on the island. “I designed the island to be like a furniture piece,” says Serra. “Storage, microwave and dishwasher are all incorporated.”

The only things that were not removed in the overgrown backyard were the patio and “gargantuan” pool, which was green with black mold, according to Serra. The original owners “let each of their sons design a portion of the pool, so no angle matches anywhere.

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The couple also made maximum use of the side yard, where they added a seating area with an outside fireplace made of flat rocks from Montana. The side of the house can be important, “especially on a corner lot,” notes Serra. “You can recapture space. A lot of times you lose acreage to the front yard, but most people don’t sit in the front yard.”

The side of the house also is where the couple gardens. Four large water troughs hold an array of vegetable plants. Multiple fruit trees line up along the fence. There are plans for a shed that will be designed like a barn. “I’m very eclectic. I like what I like, and I just put it together, and it works for me,” says Serra, who has added decorative elements throughout the landscape. “I like a touch of Asian flair. But because it’s a ranch house, I mixed country in with it, too, so you see a little bit of everything.”

Remaining on the list of future projects is finishing the master bedroom, which will include adding back a master bathroom. Serra, who has relaunched her business, Designs by Serra, since renovating her Wilhaggin home, has tips for people considering a remodel. “A lot of people don’t get professional advice,” she says. “They start a project and end up wishing they would have—or having to do things twice because they didn’t think of things. And if you really want something bad enough, get what you want. A lot of people want something and a contractor will talk them out of it, and they usually regret it.”

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Block Party Celebration on R Street CONTRIBUTED BY ANIKO KIEZEL The completion of the R Street Streetscape Improvement Project was celebrated June 16 with a day-long block party that included vendors, music and more.

The improvements enhanced the streets and sidewalks along the R Street corridor between 13th to 16th streets and uniďŹ ed the two previous streetscape projects between 10th and 13th and 16th and 18th Streets. The overall enhancements included wider sidewalks, improved pedestrian crossings, tree canopies, street lighting, and upgraded storm drainage system.

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ZUCCHINI

These fast-growing squash are low in calories, con contain no saturated fats or A and other vitamins. cholesterol, and are a good source of protein, vitamin vita sprinkle with salt and pepper and To eat: Slice horizontally, brush with olive oil, sprink grill over a hot fire.

PEARS

Pears are packed with dietary fiber, antioxidants, minerals and vitamins. They are low in calories, too!

To eat: Slice, top with a dollop of blue cheese and wrap with prosciutto for an elegant hors d’oeuvre.

WATERMELON

Low in calories, calorie watermelon contains dietary potassium, and vitamins C and A. Drink fiber, potassiu watermelon jjuice after a grueling workout.

To eat: For a refreshing salad, serve with arugula and feta. f

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Related to peaches, these delicious stone fruits are full of antioxidants and provide some B-complex vitamins and minerals.

To eat: Combine with raspberries to make a summery crumble or cobbler.

CUCUMBERS

This low-calorie vegetable has a surprisingly high amount of vitamin K. The peel is a great source of dietary fiber.

To eat: Peel and seed, then chop coarsely and combine with yogurt, garlic and lemon juice to make the zingy Greek dip known as tzatziki.

This summer treat—practically synonymous with Sacramento!—contains massive amounts of lycopene. According to a study from The University of Montreal, a diet rich in tomatoes may help reduce the risk of pancreatic cancer.

To eat: Slice, drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with sea salt and pepper for the perfect summer salad.

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Better Than Golf THE HUMBLE GAME OF DARTS HAS MANY CHARMS

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ome of us who have been around Sacramento for a long time are thrilled when we learn the city is home to the world’s greatest something or other.

It doesn’t matter what. Just learning that Sacramento claims ownership to something coveted in Tennessee and Chicago and Japan and Brazil gets us excited like children on Christmas morning.

And when that world’s greatest something involves sports, our joy soars. Which is why I haven’t stopped talking about Magic Darts once I realized what it was: the world’s greatest emporium for darts and dartboards, sitting proudly on Auburn Boulevard north of Madison Avenue.

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John and Kelly Baxter I may be guilty of slight exaggeration here. Allen Louderback, who works as the retail manager for Magic Darts, says, “If you exclude Europe, we are probably the best in the world. We ship product everywhere. We’ve had people come to the store from China, Japan, Mexico, Brazil, New Zealand and other places, just to see it. This diplomat came by—I think he was the ambassador of Tanzania—to do some shopping.”

What Louderback means is that there might—just possibly—be a dart shop equal to Magic Darts in England or Australia, places where darts are religiously observed. But in the United States and Asia, nothing comes close.

Magic Darts is more than just a darts store (as if that wasn’t enough).

It also stocks hundreds of pool cues and thousands of dice and cards. It

even sells mahjong tiles and neon beer signs. But darts are the main attraction. John Baxter, who owns Magic Darts with his wife, Kelly, was a professional darts player. He toured the world and made a fortune in tournaments before retiring to the relative calm of life as a Sacramento shopkeeper.

One great thing about visiting Magic Darts, aside from the sheer volume of inventory that overwhelms the first-time visitor, is the customer service. Before they sell a darts set to a novice, they will teach you everything you need to know to be successful at darts.

The knowledge won’t create an extraordinary darts player; that takes years of practice. But the Magic Darts customer will walk away from

the store looking good and talking a great game.

Louderback ran me through his school. It took about 30 minutes.

Right-handed or left? Lefties prefer darts with forward weight. Are your hands large or small, rough or smooth? Women throw slightly lighter darts. Face the dartboard more or less sideways. Weight on front heel. Head lined up over front foot. Arm straight out, horizontal. Bring dart back until the flight (the stabilizer behind the barrel) almost brushes your face.

Throw. Body frozen except forearm, wrist and hand. Wrist does all the work. Be sure to follow through.

“Pros will use just two muscles when they throw,” Louderback tells me. “You’re using about seven. If you keep that up, you’ll get tendinitis

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and you’ll have to give up darts. That would be terrible.”

Next to the practice board at Magic Darts is a photo of Phil Taylor, the greatest player in history with 16 world titles. In the photo, Taylor’s arm is following through. It looks like Michelangelo could have painted it.

Taylor worked in a factory that made toilet parts in Stoke, England. He was discovered in a pub, playing darts.

Great players are often discovered in pubs.

The pub connection is intriguing.

Some players believe drinking beer actually improves their ability to place darts precisely where they need to go to score the various point combinations to win. The experts at Magic Darts don’t swallow that theory.

“I don’t drink at all,” Louderback says. “Maybe one or two pints help people warm up, but that would be it.”

Women make excellent darts players. They tend to listen and learn better than men, so their form is often superior. They are patient. They tend to like the economy of the game—a

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set of three excellent darts can sell for anywhere from $50 to $200, and good bristle boards cost around $70—and the fact that the game is domestic.

“When women see their husband spending $100 on darts and practicing at home, rather than spending $300 on a single golf club and spending all day on the golf course, they like darts,” Louderback says.

Basic competency can arrive quickly with darts, making the game fun and fast. The downside is something called “dartitis,” a mysterious psychological condition that turns excellent players suddenly hopeless.

And there’s the darts themselves. A few days before I visited, Louderback accidentally shoved a dart tip into his palm. Darts are weapons. They keep us humble.

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From left, WWII veteran Pearl Wallace with a 1944 portrait of her friend, Odessa Taylor; Lisa Daniels with a photo of her father, Milton Daniels; David Jones with a photo of Buffalo Soldier Benjamin Brown.

Sacramento Kings executive Joelle Terry presents Lisa Daniels with a Dream All-Star Award at Golden 1 Center.

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‘WE ALL HAVE A STORY,’ SAYS FOUNDER OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN ORAL-HISTORY PROJECT

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isa Daniels thought she knew the grandmother who raised her in Fresno. But in college, when she had to write a biography of a loved one, she learned that Rita Hernandez—“Gram”—had been part of a civilian force that helped build the aircraft carrier USS Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II. “Gram always had great stories,” says Daniels, now a Sacramento resident.

“But I never knew she’d served in WWII.” Looking for more information about African-American contributions to the war effort, Daniels set out to gather as many firsthand accounts as she could. She discovered that many

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thousands of black veterans were unsung heroes. “Most mainstream wartime stories don’t include the African-American experience,” she says. “I’m trying to get that on record.

My work provides a platform for those who were not given a voice.”

In 2000, Daniels founded Unsung Heroes Living History Project. She has collected oral histories and images from the Civil War, the SpanishAmerican War and every 20th and 21st century conflict. Last year, she partnered with Indiana University Southeast to use students to collect veteran narratives.

In February, for African-American History Month, the Sacramento Kings honored Daniels for her work with a Dream All-Star Award during a game at Golden 1 Center. “Afterward, so many people reached out to shake my hand,” she says. “Their appreciation was a testament: We all have a story.

As time goes on, we’ll all grow to appreciate each other.”

During the day, Daniels works as the after-school director at Aspire Capitol Heights Academy, a public charter school. After hours, she photographs veterans and gathers

memorabilia. Many gems come from the families of African-American veterans. “I’m humbled as a total stranger to be welcomed into homes and have families share with me,”

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she says. “I now see the military as extended family. I’ve adopted every person I’ve interviewed. I check up on them constantly.”

Sacramento resident Odessa Taylor was assigned to the US Army’s 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion—a group of African-American women who managed the military’s mail—in 1944. First lady Eleanor Roosevelt lobbied for black women to have meaningful wartime roles, so Taylor’s battalion was dispatched to Europe.

They worked around the clock in harsh conditions to clear years of backlogged troop mail. Treated as heroines in England and France, they shook hands with Queen Elizabeth and marched triumphantly through Paris. But when they returned to the United States, no medals awaited them. Official recognition of their impact on troop morale didn’t come until 2009.

“Odessa Taylor has since passed on,” says Daniels. “Telling her story

pays homage to her and others who served. In earlier times, many of these people fought on two fronts. They were honored overseas for what they did fighting for us. Then they came home to mistreatment.”

Daniels’ own family has been influenced by her work. Her father, Milton, served in Vietnam and has been encouraged by the stories she’s collected. “He’s finally finding the strength to open up about his experiences,” she says.

According to Daniels, Unsung Heroes Living History Project provides a vehicle to shine a light on the impact of African-Americans in the military. “It’s great when people … see the pictures and tell stories that give them pride and identity,” she says. “It’s also an opportunity for conversation about us as a collective people. We’re all part of the American fabric.”

The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion—composed entirely of AfricanAmerican women—marching in Paris.

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The Try Guy

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f there’s one thing you need to know about William Ishmael’s home and studio tucked off Fair Oaks Boulevard near Watt Avenue, it’s this: He has artwork in the shower.

If this sounds odd, allow me to explain why it seems natural in the stunning abode Ishmael shares (and designed) with his husband, landscape architect David Gibson.

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Art is simply part of life for Ishmael, which you can tell from the wide range of artworks hung everywhere you look. Some are by friends, some

by Ishmael. Others are collectibles from Gibson’s trips abroad. (The doors throughout their home, for example, are from 17th-century France). So why not have a painting hanging in the shower in the guest bathroom downstairs?

“We like looking at it,” the Kentucky native says with a shrug.

“We thought our guests would, too.”

Ishmael’s natural ease regarding the life artistic comes from more than 25 years as an artist, as well as 40 years as an engineer. (He worked on the Sacramento railyards from 1989 to 2007, an experience he references in a commission for the new Kaiser medical facility at 5th and J streets).

When painting quick watercolor landscapes on his breaks from work, he discovered the joys of large-scale painting and started to experiment with the unusual materials and techniques that now characterize his work.

Ishmael is always trying new things. In the light-filled studio upstairs at his home, Ishmael’s current projects are laid out flat

on tables that take up most of the room. He’s experimenting with latex and sand over here, rust created with vinegar over there. His trials of India ink on Plexiglas hang together as a visual reminder of a solo show he did for Tim Collom Gallery. And the shower in the bathroom? You guessed it: It’s filled with paintings.

“Once all the table space is taken, that means I can take a break,” Ishmael says. As relaxed as he is about his work environment, Ishmael takes his work very seriously. He spends the morning in his studio, then takes a midday break to attend meetings for his community

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commitments. He was appointed to the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission in 2017 and chairs its Art in Public Places committee.

He’s also on the board of Kingsley Art Club, which sponsors the prestigious Crocker-Kingsley art competition.

“This flow works great for my life,” Ishmael says, pausing to ruffle his Labradoodle, Jasper. “I like alone time for a while, but then I get lonesome and like to be out in my community. Plus, I often need to leave a piece alone for a while to see what’s going to happen before moving on.”

Ishmael is inspired by various concepts in his work, including the Buddhist maxim “form is emptiness.” He will explore the idea of wholeness and fragmentation in an upcoming exhibit at the Morris Graves Museum of Art in Eureka.

But what is his foremost thought

when he’s creating works of art that tease the brain as well as please the eye?

“Experiment,” he says. “And don’t be precious with the materials.”

That would explain the paintings in the shower.

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10 Great Things About America

BY DINESH D’SOUZA

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America provides an amazingly good life for the ordinary guy.

Rich people live well everywhere. But what distinguishes America is that it provides an incomparably high standard of living for the “common man.” We now live in a country where construction workers regularly pay $6 for a latte, where maids drive nice cars and where plumbers take their families on vacation to Europe.

Indeed, newcomers to the United States are struck by the amenities enjoyed by “poor” people in the United States.

America offers more opportunity and social mobility than any other country, including the countries of Europe.

America is the only country that has created a population of “self-made tycoons.” Only in America could Pierre Omidyar—whose parents are Iranian and who grew up in Paris— have started a company like eBay. Only in America could Vinod Khosla, the son of an Indian army officer, become a leading venture capitalist, the shaper of the technology industry and a billionaire to boot.

Admittedly, tycoons are not typical, but no country has created a better ladder than America for people to ascend from modest circumstances to success.

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Work and trade are respectable in America, which is not true elsewhere.

Historically, most cultures have despised the merchant and the laborer, regarding the former as vile and corrupt and the latter as degraded and vulgar. Some cultures, such as that of ancient Greece and medieval Islam, even held that it is better to acquire things through plunder than through trade or contract labor.

But the American founders altered this moral hierarchy. They established a society in which the life of the businessman, and of the people who work for him, would be a noble calling. In the American view, there is nothing vile or degraded about serving your customers either as a CEO or as a waiter.

The ordinary life of production and supporting a family is more highly valued in the United States than in any other country.

America has achieved greater social equality than any other society.

True, there are large inequalities of income and wealth in America. In purely economic terms, Europe is more egalitarian. But Americans are socially more equal than any other people, and this is unaffected by economic disparities.

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isn’t in any fundamental sense better than anyone else.

People live longer, fuller lives in America.

Although protesters rail against the American version of technological capitalism at trade meetings around the world, in reality the American system has given citizens many more years of life, and the means to live more intensely and actively.

In 1900, the life expectancy in America was around 50 years; today, it is more than 75 years. Advances in medicine and agriculture are mainly responsible for the change.

This extension of the life span means more years to enjoy life, more free time to devote to a good cause and more occasions to do things with the grandchildren.

In many countries, people who are old seem to have nothing to do; they just wait to die. In America, the old are incredibly vigorous, and many people in their 70s continue to pursue the pleasures of life.

In America, the destiny of the young is not given to them but is created by them.

In most countries in the world, your fate and your identity are handed to you; in America, you determine them for yourself. America is a country where you get to write the script of your own life. Your life is like a blank sheet of paper, and you are the artist.

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This notion of being the architect of your own destiny is the incredibly powerful idea that is behind the worldwide appeal of America. Young people especially find irresistible the prospect of authoring the narrative of their own lives.

America has gone further than any other society in establishing equality of rights.

There is nothing distinctively American about slavery or bigotry. Slavery has existed in virtually every culture, and xenophobia, prejudice and discrimination are worldwide phenomena. Western civilization is the only civilization to mount a principled campaign against slavery; no country expended more treasure and blood to get rid of slavery than the United States.

While racism remains a problem in America, this country has made strenuous efforts to eradicate discrimination, even to the extent of enacting policies that give legal preference in university admissions, jobs and government contracts to members of minority groups. Such policies remain controversial, but the point is that it is extremely unlikely that a racist society would have permitted such policies in the first place.

America has found a solution to the problem of religious and ethnic conflict that continues to divide and terrorize much of

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the world.

Visitors to places like New York are amazed to see the way in which Serbs and Croatians, Sikhs and Hindus, Irish Catholics and Irish Protestants, Jews and Palestinians all seem to work and live together in harmony.

How is this possible when these same groups are spearing each other and burning each other’s homes in so many places in the world?

The American answer is twofold.

First, separate the spheres of religion and government so that no religion is given official preference but all are free to practice their faith as they wish.

Second, do not extend rights to racial or ethnic groups but only to individuals; in this way, all are equal in the eyes of the law, opportunity is open to anyone who can take advantage of it, and everybody who embraces the American way of life can “become American.”

America has the kindest, gentlest foreign policy of any great power in world history.

Critics of the United States are likely to react to this truth with sputtering outrage. They will point to longstanding American support for a Latin or Middle Eastern despot, or the unjust internment of the Japanese during World War II, or America’s reluctance to impose sanctions on South Africa’s apartheid regime.

However one feels about these particular cases, let us concede to the critics the point that America is not always in the right.

What the critics leave out is the other side of the ledger. Twice in the 20th century, the United States saved the world: first from the Nazi threat, then from Soviet totalitarianism.

What would have been the world’s fate if America had not existed? After destroying Germany and Japan in World War II, the United States proceeded to rebuild both countries, and today they are American allies.

Now, we are doing the same thing with Afghanistan.

Consider, too, how magnanimous the United States has been to the former Soviet Union after the U.S. victory in the Cold War. For the most part, America is an abstaining superpower: It shows no real interest

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in conquering and subjugating the rest of the world. (Imagine how the Soviets would have acted if they had won the Cold War.) On occasion, America intervenes to overthrow a tyrannical regime or to halt massive human-rights abuses in another country, but it never stays to rule that country. In Grenada, Haiti and Bosnia, the United States got in and then got out.

Moreover, when America does get into a war, it is supremely careful to avoid targeting civilians and to minimize collateral damage. Even as America bombed the Taliban infrastructure and hideouts, its planes dropped rations of food to avert hardship and starvation of Afghan civilians. What other country does these things?

America, the freest nation on Earth, is also the most virtuous nation on Earth.

This point seems counterintuitive, given the amount of conspicuous vulgarity, vice and immorality in America. Indeed, some Islamic fundamentalists argue that their regimes are morally superior to the United States because they seek to foster virtue among the citizens.

Virtue, these fundamentalists argue, is a higher principle than liberty.

Indeed it is. And let us admit that in a free society, freedom will frequently be used badly. Freedom, by definition, includes the freedom to do good or evil, to act nobly or basely.

But if freedom brings out the worst in people, it also brings out the best.

The millions of Americans who live decent, praiseworthy lives desire our highest admiration because they have opted for the good when the good is not the only available option. Even amid the temptations of a rich and free society, they have remained on the straight path. Their virtue has special luster because it is freely chosen.

By contrast, the societies that many Islamic fundamentalists seek would eliminate the possibility of virtue. If the supply of virtue is insufficient in a free society like America, it is almost nonexistent in an unfree society like Iran.

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The reason is that coerced virtues are not virtues at all. Consider the woman who is required to wear a veil.

There is no modesty in this, because she is being compelled. Compulsion cannot produce virtue; it can only produce the outward semblance of virtue.

Thus, a free society like America is not merely more prosperous, more varied, more peaceful and more tolerant; it is also morally superior to the theocratic and authoritarian regimes that America’s enemies advocate.

America is far from perfect, and there is lots of room for improvement.

In spite of its flaws, however, the American life as it is lived today is the best life that our world has to offer.

Ultimately, America is worthy of our love and sacrifice because, more than any other society, it makes possible the good life, and the life that is good.

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THIS MONTH'S CULTURE & ENTERTAINMENT HIGHLIGHTS

2018 California State Fair July 13–29

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1600 Exposition Blvd. • castatefair.org Ready for your corn dog and annual trip on the Giant Ferris Wheel? The California State Fair is back with all the rides, exhibitions, concerts, horse racing and weird and wonderful food you can handle.

Movies Off the Wall: “Idiocracy” Crocker Art Museum Film Series Thursday, July 5, 8:15 p.m.

216 O St. • crockerart.org “Idiocracy” is a cult classic that riffs on pop culture and our doomed future as a society based on stupidity. The courtyard opens at 7 p.m.—bring your own chair or rent a premier-seating cabana.

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Broadway at Music Circus California Musical Theatre “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” through July 1 “Disney’s Newsies” July 10–15 “Gypsy” July 24–29 1419 H St. • broadwaysacramento.com Catch the latest offerings from Sacramento’s summer tradition of Broadway-caliber theater-in-the-round featuring new musicals and cult classics.

Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers “Idiocracy” will show at Crocker Art Museum on July 5.

Active Chair Yoga With Alicia Patrice Sacramento Yoga Center Tuesdays and Thursdays, July 10–Aug. 30, 1:30–2:30 p.m.

Jazz Night at the Crocker Thursday, July 19, 6:30 p.m.

216 O St. • crockerart.org Lavay Smith and her band have lit up stages around the world with sparks of swing and traditional jazz with sounds reminiscent of Ella Fitzgerald and Dinah Washington.

2791 24th St. • (916) 548-7221 Using a chair to support the body when needed, explore the unlimited realm of possibilities for yoga off the floor. This class is accessible for anyone with knee, hip, vertigo or other challenge that makes getting up and down unpleasant.

RSVP Cabaret Night RSVP Choir Sunday, July 8, 5:30 p.m.

124 Vernon St., Roseville • rsvpchoir.org RSVP presents its first-ever cabaret-style variety show and dinner.

Admission includes a catered buffet dinner, cabaret show, no-host bar and silent auction.

Drag and Comedy Extravaganza LoLGBTQ Sunday, July 15, 7 p.m.

2100 Arden Way • punchlinesac.com The fourth installment of the wildly popular comedy and drag show hosted by drag princess Suzette Veneti.

North Star Piano Trio Crocker Art Museum Classical Concerts Sunday, July 8, 3 p.m.

RSVP presents its first-ever cabaret-style variety show and dinner.

216 O St. • crockerart.org Violinist Kristen Autry, cellist Alexandra Roedder and pianist Lynn Schugren make up this dynamic new chamber group that specializes in works by female composers.

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Enjoy food and drinks at the annual Let Them Eat Cake fundraiser.

Don't miss a comedy show hosted by drag princess Suzette Veneti.

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Sacramento African Market Place

Sacramento Self-Help Housing Thursday, July 12, 5:30–8:30 p.m.

July 7 and July 21, noon–6 p.m.

723 S St. • sacselfhelp.org This annual fundraiser benefits the Sacramento Self-Help Housing organization, a leader in the “housing first” model of homelessness response that provides shared housing for nearly 200 homeless people at more than 45 sites. Guests will enjoy appetizers, beverage tastings and cake viewing, judging and sampling.

Bingo A-Go-Go CGNIE Sunday, July 8, 3–6 p.m.

1500 K St. • cgnie.org The most fun you’ll ever have playing bingo. This event will be hosted

by Mr. and Miss Gay Sacramento as part of the Court of the Great Northwest Imperial Empire (CGNIE), which raises money for fellow nonprofits to promote human understanding.

2251 Florin Road • facebook.com/sacramentoamp Enjoy this indoor shopping bazaar featuring affordable handmade natural soaps and other skin products, perfume oils, African-American memorabilia, books, local music, African fashion and jewelry, food vendors, handmade dolls, handbags and more every first and third Saturday of the month.

DCI Capital Classic Sacramento Mandarins Drum & Bugle Corps Friday, July 6, 7 p.m.

8661 Power Inn Road, Elk Grove • mandarins.org Enjoy an evening of delicious food and drum corps entertainment all in one location. More than 1,000 musicians will perform their highly intricate precision marching and maneuvers, choreography and colorful pageantry. Food will be available for purchase.

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1. Young members of Roseville Community Concert Band performed at Carmichael Park Band Festival.

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Ten Ten Room DOWNTOWN COCKTAIL SPOT DOES ADULTING RIGHT

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he word “adulting” has crept into the national vocabulary over the past couple of years.

This unwieldy gerund is a catchall for 20-somethings and even some 30-somethings when they’re referring to activities that a responsible, grown adult should be doing. For instance, you might see a social-media post of a stack of paid bills, a tower of folded laundry and a bowl of salad with this caption: “Totally nailed adulting today!”

What I think is missed in some of these ideas of adulthood is the simple pleasure of slowing down and luxuriating in a fine meal, a wellcrafted cocktail and the conversation of friends. It might feel a little oldfashioned to savor such simple things, but I’m pretty sure it’s the upside of adulthood—that is, being able to stop and appreciate the things you took for granted in your youth.

Speaking of old-fashioned, Ten Ten Room, a dignified new Downtown cocktail lounge and restaurant, makes a lovely version of the classic cocktail by the same name. It also makes splendid versions of many drinks with familiar names to even the most casual bar patron: Harvey Wallbanger, Grasshopper, Manhattan.

In fact, Ten Ten Room draws from postwar America for inspiration in much of its menu, aesthetic and confident swagger.

Located at 1010 10th St., the small bar and restaurant took over the space formerly occupied by Megami Bento-Ya. That longtime outpost of simple, nontrendy Japanese fare shut its doors in 2016, and after an extensive remodel, Ten Ten Room opened last fall.

The feel is dark and clubby. Not dance-club clubby, but old social-club clubby, with dark, polished woods, plush fabrics and burnished metals.

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light there is. When you’re sitting at the comfortable bar, chatting with a friend or a stranger, you definitely feel like an adult.

The menu bristles with options pulled straight out of Sunset magazine circa 1957: meatballs with grape jelly, deviled eggs, shrimp cocktail. Each item is touched up with a highend preparation or added ingredient that elevates the dish and brings it into the now. A simple plate of potato chips and onion dip is far beyond the simple party food it emulates, with thickcut, house-made chips and indulgent, retro-fantastic dip.

The deviled eggs get a punch from some “scotching.” A Scotch egg is a hard-boiled egg wrapped in sausage, then breaded and fried. Ten Ten goes a step further, deviling the egg before frying, so you end up with a nosh that stands up to the high-octane cocktails coming from the bar.

In addition to traditional cocktails, the bar serves a few original creations that span the spectrum from tiki to cheeky. A drink called Forty Thieves is made with rum, coconut, pineapple and a float of sesame oil— an unexpected yet savory note that balances the drink beautifully. The Garden Party tastes of summer: vodka, strawberry, hibiscus and prosecco. It’s a warmweather treat.

If you’re in the mood for more than a snack or looking for a preevent dinner spot a few blocks from Golden 1 Center, the limited but well-curated dinner menu offers some real standouts. First, let’s all applaud Ten Ten Room for serving reasonably priced, reasonably sized entrees. You won’t need a doggy bag, but you won’t leave hungry, either.

Steak frites is $18, is a wonderful preparation and would be the pride of any steakhouse. The house-made

horseradish aioli punches the dish up, and the hand-cut fries are just right.

Shrimp and grits ($16) show a sophisticated blending of cultures, taking the Southern staple and dressing it up with Spanish chorizo and romesco sauce. The resulting dish is complex yet comforting. There’s definitely no mention of this recipe in a 1950s homemaker’s guide.

The casual sandwich menu is perfect for a Downtown lunch or a happy-hour bite. The garlic steak sandwich is reliable, and the shrimp po’ boy is a fair re-creation of the New Orleans standard.

Ten Ten Room is a welcome addition to Downtown. It’s a cocktail lounge and restaurant for folks who wish to savor the finer things as well as the simpler things. It straddles the line between hip bar and sophisticated haunt better than most that attempt it. It’s the rare place that feels as comfortable at noon as it does at midnight.

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ARDEN AREA Bella Bru Café

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B L D $-$$ Full bar Casual, locally owned European style café with table service from 5 pm and patio dining • bellabrucafe.com

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L D $$ Wine/Beer Fresh quality meats roasted daily • originalsamshofbrau.com

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3535 Fair Oaks Blvd. • (916) 487-1331 L D $$ Full Bar Italian bistro in a casual setting • cafevinoteca.com

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La Rosa Blanca 2813 Fulton Ave. • (916) 484-6104 L D $$ Full Bar Fresh Mexican food served in a colorful family-friendly setting • larosablancarestaurant.com

Luna Lounge 5026 Fair Oaks Blvd. • (916) 485-2883

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527 Munroe in Loehmann’s • (916) 485-3888

Willie’s Burgers 5050 Fair Oaks Blvd. • (916) 488-5050 L D $ Great burgers and more • williesburgers.com

DOWNTOWN Cafeteria 15L Classic American dishes with millennial flavor 1116 15th Street • 916.492.1960 cafeteria15l.com

Chocolate Fish Coffee Roasters Award-winning roasters 3rd and Q Sts. • chocolatefishcoffee.com

2225 Hurley Wy. • (916) 568-7171

Always Fresh - Always Organic Always Delicious

Kabobs - Shwarma - FalaÀl Tabouleh - Hummus - Baklava

2500 Watt Ave. • (916) 482-2175

B L D $$ Full Bar Outdoor Patio Seasonal, European-influenced comfort food • paragarys.com

2530 Arden Way • (916) 551-1500 estellebakery.com

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Estelle Bakery & Pâtisserie

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Ristorante Piatti

B L D $-$$ Full neighborhood bar serving dinner nightly. Open at 11 am daily. Weekend breakfast • lunaloungeandbar.com

Matteo’s Pizza & Bistro 5132 Fair Oaks Blvd. • (916) 779-0727 L D $$ Full Bar Neighborhood gathering place for pizza, pasta and grill dishes • pizzamatteo.com

The Mandarin Restaurant 4321 Arden Way • (916) 488-4794 L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Gourmet Chinese food for 32 years • Dine in and take out • themandarinrestaurant.com

Pita Kitchen 2989 Arden Way • (916) 480-0560 L D $$ Authentic Mediterranean cuisine made from scratch on site • pitakitchenplus.com

Roxy Restaurant & Bar 2381 Fair Oaks Blvd. • (916) 489-2000 B L D $$-$$$ Full Bar American cuisine with a Western touch in a creative upscale atmosphere • roxyrestaurantandbar.com

de Vere’s Irish Pub A lively and authentic Irish family pub 1521 L Street • 916.231.9947 deverespub.com

Downtown & Vine Taste and compare the region’s best wines 1200 K Street, #8 • 916.228.4518 downtownandvine.com

Ella Dining Room & Bar New American farm-to-fork cuisine 1131 K Street • 916.443.3772 elladiningroomandbar.com

Esquire Grill Classic dishes in a sleek urban design setting 1213 K Street • 916.448.8900 paragarys.com

Firestone Public House Hip and happy sports bar with great food 1132 16th Street • 916.446.0888 firestonepublichouse.com

Frank Fat’s Fine Chinese dining in an elegant interior 806 L Street • 916.442.7092 frankfats.com

Grange Restaurant & Bar The city’s quintessential dining destination 926 J St. • 916.492.4450 grangesacramento.com

Art Preview GALLERY ART SHOWS IN JULY

TOP RIGHT CLOCKWISE This month, Tim Collom Gallery presents “Go Figure,” featuring figurative works by Melinda Cootsona and Margarita Chaplinska. Shown: “Tea Garden” by Cootsona. 915 20th St.; timcollomgallery.com Archival Gallery presents an exhibition of new sculptures by Stephanie Taylor and photography by Jesse Vasquez July 10–31. Shown: a photograph by Vasquez. 3223 Folsom Blvd.; archivalgallery.com John Natsoulas Gallery presents Bud Gordon’s richly textured abstract paintings inspired by urban landscape, from July 5–Aug. 11. Shown: a landscape by Gordon. 521 First St., Davis; natsoulas.com Sparrow Gallery presents a mixed-media invitational group show July 14–Aug. 6. Shown: “Flow,” detail of a photo encaustic by Dianne Poinski. 1021 R St., first floor; sparrowgallery.com ARTHOUSE Gallery presents “At the Beach,” featuring the art of Tj Lev and LaLa, July 14–Aug. 6.

Shown: “Dog Pile” by Lev. 1021 R St., second floor; arthouseonr.com

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B Street Theater Thru July 22 The Sofia, Home of B Street 2700 Capitol Ave, Sac 916 443-5300 Bstreettheatre.org

Celebration Arts July 12, 13, 19, 20 and 28 2727 B St, Sac 916 455-2787 Celebrationarts.net

One of your B Street favorites returns to Capitol Avenue! The Ladies Foursome follows four women as they navigate the ups and downs of life on the links. During this outrageous round of golf, the women tackle life, love, men, sex, and careers.

BOY

Big Idea Theatre Thru July 14 1616 Del Paso Blvd, Sac 916 960-3036 BigIdeaTheatre.org

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Hot Italian Remarkable pizza in modern Italian setting 1627 16th Street • 916.492.4450 hotitalian.net

La Consecha by Mayahuel Casual Mexican in a lovely park setting 917 9th Street • 916.970.5354 lacosechasacramento.com

Ma Jong Asian Diner A colorful & casual spot for all food Asian 1431 L Street • 916.442.7555 majongs.com

Mayahuel Mexican cuisine with a wide-ranging tequila menu 1200 K Street • 916.441.7200 experiencemayahuel.com

Old Soul Artisan pastries and roasted coffee 555 Capitol Mall • oldsoulco.com

Preservation & Company Preserving delicious produce from local farms 1717 19th Street #B • 916.706.1044 preservationandco.com

South Timeless traditions of Southern cooking 2005 11th Street • 916.382.9722 weheartfriedchicken.com

Solomon’s Delicatessen Opening summer of 2018 730 K Street • Solomonsdelicatessen.com

OLD SAC The Firehouse Restaurant The premiere dining destination in historic setting 1112 2nd Street • 916.442.4772 firehouseoldsac.com

Rio City Café California-inspired menu on the riverfront 1110 Front Street • 916.442.8226 riocitycafe.com

Willie’s Burgers A quirky burger joint 110 K Street • 916.444.2006 williesburgers.com

R STREET Café Bernardo European inspired casual café 1431 R Street • 916.930.9191 paragarys.com

Fish Face Poke Bar Humble Hawaiian poke breaks free 1104 R St. #100 • 916.706.0605 fishfacepokebar.com

Iron Horse Tavern Gastropub menu in an industrial setting 1800 15th Street • 916.448.4488 ironhorsetavern.net

Alberta “Pearl” Johnson has inherited from her African-American ancestors a soulful collection of rare folk songs. It’s 1933 and she is imprisoned in Texas for murder. Music is her lifeline to family and future. Enter Susannah, a white woman who is an ambitious collector of songs for the Library of Congress. To advance her career, Susannah wants to record Pearl singing her extraordinary repertoire. Pearl sees Susannah as a possible escort to freedom.

DISNEY’S NEWSIES

Inspired by a true story, BOY explores the tricky terrain of finding love amidst the confusion of sexual identity, and the inextricable bond between a doctor and patient. In the 1960s, a well-intentioned doctor convinces the parents of a male infant to raise their son as a girl after a terrible accident. Two decades later, the repercussions of that choice continue to unfold.

THE THANKSGIVING PLAY Capital Stage Thru July 22 2215 J St, Sac 916 995-5464 Capstage.org

Four mismatched artists attempt to devise an ethnically sensitive play for the local schools to celebrate both Thanksgiving and Native American Heritage Month – with no Native American actors. In this wickedly funny satire, political correctness, ego and just plain ignorance collide as these well-meaning self-proclaimed artists try to perform a Thanksgiving miracle (without killing any turkeys).

BLUE DOOR

Celebration Arts July 8, 15, 22 and 28 2727 B St, Sac 916 455-2787 Celebrationarts.net Lewis is a tenured professor of mathematics at a well-regarded university. Underneath his veneer of success lies a soul troubled by questions of personal and cultural identity.

A night of disorienting insomnia conjures his ancestors, three generations of men from slavery through Black Power. They challenge Lewis to embark on a night journey combining past and present.

Broadway At Music Circus July 10 – 15 Wells Fargo Pavilion 1419 H St, Sac 916 557-1999 BroadwaySacramento.com They sold the newspapers, until they made the headlines. Based on the hit Disney film, this Tony-winning, crowd-pleasing smash-hit features a band of spirited New York City newsboys, facing insurmountable odds and standing up to the powerful publishers. With stirring music by Alan Menken (Disney’s Beauty and the Beast) and breathtaking dance numbers, it’s a new classic with the power to inspire.

GYPSY

Broadway At Music Circus July 24 – 29 Wells Fargo Pavilion 1419 H St, Sac 916 557-1999 BroadwaySacramento.com This landmark show, with a celebrated score

by Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim, is based on the life of burlesque queen Gypsy Rose Lee. A singularly-focused mother takes her daughters on a cross-country adventure in pursuit of fame and fortune on the dying Vaudeville circuit. Classic songs include, “You Gotta Get A Gimmick,” “Let Me Entertain You” and the show-stopping “Everything’s Coming Up Roses.”

Hook & Ladder Co. Hearty food and drink in an old firehouse setting 1630 S Street • 916. 442.4885 hookandladder916.com

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French inspired bistro in chic new environment 1401 28th Street • 916.457.5737 • paragarys.com

Magpie Café Seasonal menus, locally sourced ingredients 1601 16th Street • 916.452.7594 magpiecafe.com

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Shoki Ramen House Ramen becomes a culinary art form 1201 R Street • 916.441.0011 shokiramenhouse.com

THE HANDLE Ginger Elizabeth Chocolates

The Rind A cheese-centric food and wine bar 1801 L Street # 40 • 916.441.7463 therindsacramento.com

Mulvaney’s Building & Loan Farm-fresh New American cuisine 1215 19th Street • 916.441.6022 mulvaneysbl.com

Zocolo Tastes inspired by the town square of Mexico City 1801 Capitol Avenue • 916.441.0303 zocalosacramento.com

Old Soul Artisan pastries and roasted coffee 1716 L Street (rear alley) • oldsoulco.com

MIDTOWN Mexican cuisine in a festive, colorful setting 2730 J Street • 916.442.2552 paragarys.com

Lowbrau Bierhalle Modern-rustic German beer hall 1050 20th Street • 916.452.7594 lowbrausacramento.com

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Suzie Burger Burgers, cheesesteaks and other delights 2820 P Street • 916.455.3500 • suzieburger.com

Sun & Soil Juice Company

The Waterboy Classic European with locally sourced ingredients 2000 Capitol Ave. • 916.498.9891 waterboyrestaurant.com

Biba Ristorante Italiano Legendary chef, cookbook author Biba Caggiano 2801 Capitol Avenue • 916.455.2422 biba-restaurant.com

Federalist Public House Signature woodfired pizzas and local craft beers 2009 Matsui Alley • 916.661.6134 federalistpublichouse.com

The Red Rabbit Kitchen & Bar A focus on all things local 2718 J Street • 916.706.2275 • theredrabbit.net

Skool Japanese Gastropub Inventive, Japanese-nuanced seafood 2319 K Street • 916.737.5767 skoolonkstreet.com

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Traditional Spanish & world cuisine 2115 J Street • 916.442.4353 tapatheworld.com

Revolution Wines Urban winery and kitchen 2831 S Street • 916.444.7711 • rev.wine

Temple Coffee Roasters 2200 K Street • 2829 S Street 1010 9th Street • templecoffee.com

Old Soul at The Weatherstone Artisan pastries and roasted coffee 812 21st Street • oldsoulco.com

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EAST SAC 33Rd Street Bistro Food inspired by the Pacific Northwest 3301 Folsom Blvd. • 916.455.2233 33rdstreetbistro.com

Chocolate Fish Coffee Roasters Award-winning roasters 4749 Folsom Blvd. • 916.451.5181 chocolatefishcoffee.com

Canon East Sacramento A creative menu in a re-imagined warehouse 1719 34th Street • 916.469.2433 canoneastsac.com

Corti Brothers The legendary food source by Darrell Corti 5810 Folsom Blvd. • 916.736.3800 cortibrothers.com

Opa! Opa! Classic Mediterranean dishes 5644 J Street • 916.451.4000 eatatopa.com

OneSpeed Bike-themed neighborhood pizza cafe 4818 Folsom Blvd. • 916.706.1748 onespeedpizza.com

The Kitchen Restaurant 5-course prix fixe seasonal dinner menu 2225 Hurley Way • 916.568.7171 thekitchenrestaurant.com

Selland’s Market-Café Family-friendly neighborhood café 5340 H Street • 916.736.3333 sellands.com

OBO’ Italian Table & Bar The simple, nourishing flavors of Italy 3145 Folsom Blvd. • 916.822-8720 oboitalian.com

Kru Contemporary Japanese A unique and imaginative culinary experience 3145 Folsom Boulevard • 916.551.1559 krurestaurant.com

Nopalitos Southwestern Café Southwestern cooking for lunch & dinner 5530 H Street • 916.452.8226 nopalitoscafe.com

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