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WELCOME HOME! Welcome home... Enjoy this 3 bedroom, 1½ bath (over 1200 sq ft) home with rare family room in the Tallac Village section of Tahoe Park Area. Long time owners have remodeled several times, and made some recent improvements, re¿nished hardwood Àoors, carpeting, kitchen counters, Àooring and appliances, freshly painted inside and out! $349,000 PATRICK VOGELI 916-207-4515

URBAN LIVING IN MIDTOWN LOFT This gorgeous unit, one of only a very few with wraparound balconies is available and being sold fully furnished. Step in and feel the cool urban vibe while taking in sweeping views. Walk to some of Sacramento’s best restaurants and entertainment. Includes underground parking, secure entry with doorman. $995,000 SUSAN BALDO 916-541-3706

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NEWLY REMODELED East Sacramento Tudor featuring large picture window in living room with leaded glass windows and cozy ¿replace. Coved ceiling, chandeliers, arched doorways and baseboards Chefs kitchen, stainless steel appliances, plenty of storage, dining bar plus dining area. Studio in backyard with half bath. $561,000 TIM COLLOM 916-247-8048

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CHARMING 41st STREET TUDOR Classic home on 41st Street. Two story with 4 bedrooms 3 baths, over 2500 sq ft. Beautifully remodeled top to bottom with spacious bedrooms, high ceilings, open kitchen overlooking the family/dining rooms and lush back yard. Lots of 1930’s charm throughout with builtins, multi lite windows, wood detail and gorgeous hardwood Àoors $1,100,000 DAVID KIRRENE 916-531-7495

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WONDERFUL CAMPUS COMMONS Welcome to this Classic Campus Commons condominium! 3 bedrooms 2½ baths with 1744 sf of living space. New carpets throughout, fresh interior paint and many new light ¿xtures. Windows add loads of light. living room ¿replace, breakfast nook, private patio, and 2-car garage. Conveniently located in a well established popular development! $350,000 PAULA SWAYNE 916-425-9715

GREAT CAMPUS COMMONS LOCATION Attractively upgraded 2 bedroom 2½ bath home with dual pane windows, recessed lighting, electric ¿replace insert, and whole house fan. HVAC system new in 2012. All bathrooms are stylishly updated. Kitchen features re-faced cabinets, ceramic tile counters. Lovely private patio is complete with fountain, travertine pavers. 2 car garage. $399,950 JAY FEAGLES 916-204-7756

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CLASSSIC EAST SACRAMENTO HOME Classic Tudor chock full of vintage charm and stylish architectural details. Featuring 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms in a single story with small basement for expanded storage. Barrel ceilings, stunning ¿replace and leaded-glass windows. Kitchen and baths maintain much of their original character. New exterior paint. Come see $660,000 STEPHANIE GALLAGHER 916-342-2288

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RIVER PARK Here is the energy ef¿cient home you’ve been looking for. This 3 bedroom 1½ bath in the popular River Park neighborhood has a tankless water heater, ceiling fan, skylight, dual pane windows, new electrical, new dishwasher, new front landscaping. Open Àoor plan with hardwood Àoors and ¿replace in the living room. Large indoor laundry room. $514,000 TIM COLLOM 916-247-8048

REMODELED RIVER PARK Beautiful 2 bedroom 2 bath featuring energy ef¿cient dual pane windows, skylights, ceiling fans; kitchen has a wonderful Wedgewood 6-burner gas stove; dining bar and formal dining area. Family room overlooks backyard with built-in pool and mature camellia and fruit trees. Audio speakers in & out and so much more! $535,000 KENDRA KNAUER 916-529-2491

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Gorgeous two-story, 3 bedroom,1 1/2 bathroom, 2368 sq/ft, Tudor in desirable Fab 40â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. This home features a formal dining room with built-ins, large living room with french doors that lead to a bricked patio overlooking the backyard. The kitchen has plenty of windows that make it bright and a breakfast nook to the side with leaded bay windows. - $995,000

CONDO IN BOULEVARD PARK

Beautiful 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom, over 1300 sq/ ft, condo in a Victorian four-plex located in the heart of Midtown. This bright upstairs unit has a remodeled kitchen with marble countertops, stainless steel appliances and breakfast counter. Features include a large master suite with granite tile in the bathroom, very large living room with wood burning stove, high ceilings and bamboo floors throughout. Close to restaurants, art galleries, cafes and shopping. - $449,950

CHARMING BUNGALOW

Located on a beautiful tree lined street in East Sacramento, this 2 bedroom, 2 bath, plus den, is on almost 1/4 acre. Features include hardwood floors throughout, as well as a 2 car tandem garage with an attached shop. Great location near restaurants and shops. - $995,000

THE HEART OF RIVER PARK

This 3 - 4 bedroom, 1.5 bathroom River Park home is on the market for the first time. Features include hardwood floors throughout, formal dining room, breakfast nook, dual pane windows throughout and plantation shutters. Covered brick patio out back is perfect for entertaining. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t miss this opportunity to live in the heart of River Park! $585,000

STYLISH HOME ON SANTA YNEZ

Charming 4 bedroom, 3 bathrooms, 2650 sq/ft, home on the desirable street of Santa Ynez in East Sac. The open and spacious family room and second floor were added in the past year, which includes a master suite and a master bath with designer finishes of re purposed wood cabinets and mirrors, glass shower enclosure and a large walk-in closet, along with two additional upstairs bedrooms. The remodeled kitchen has granite counters, Wolf range, and a cozy breakfast nook. $1,075,000

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A Hand Up LOCAL ORGANIZATION HELPS PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES

local organization called Crossroads has developed an innovative way to give people with disabilities and other challenges a chance at a better life. Crossroads consists of a forprofit landscaping, janitorial and hospitality business that invests its profits into nonprofit services. The business provides janitorial and landscaping services to state and federal government buildings in Downtown Sacramento. It also has major contracts throughout California and Texas, including a $5.5 million contract with the San Mateo County Transit District. Since the organization was founded 40 years ago, Crossroads has helped more than 6,000 people in the Sacramento region. While Sacramento’s PRIDE Industries has been a leader in services and programs for the physically disabled, Crossroads works TO page 12

ecily Hastings is taking the month off from writing her publisher’s column. It will return next month. Correction: In a photo caption last month, we incorrectly referred to Bob Stanley as Sacramento’s first poet laureate. Viola Weinberg and Dennis Schmitz shared that honor from 2000 to 2002. Stanley served as poet laureate from 2009 to 2012. We regret the error.

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FROM page 11 with those who struggle with mental disabilities and other challenges. “We are a strong partner in the community, although there are still many in the community who don’t know we are here,” says Andrea Rogozinski, Crossroads’ chief strategy officer. “We have a unique model that’s participant centered. We take a unique approach to every individual needing help, but they have to engage in the process. We don’t do it all for them.” People with mental disabilities can face challenges at school, in the workplace and with life in general. Often, these people retreat from a normal life and find themselves on financial assistance. Crossroads offers ways to help. For some, it’s help with a resume and how to dress for a job interview. Others need more extensive support and guidance to find the right job, continue education or seek other opportunities to help them live a better life. With an office in Rancho Cordova and a job center in Citrus Heights, Crossroads is in the community working with employers and partners. “Our clients drive their own success,” says Rogozinski. “We are there to help, provide value and give them access to resources that wouldn’t otherwise be available. We are good at what we do. But it’s a 50/50 relationship where we meet our clients halfway, but they have to bring the same. The results are extraordinary to see.” Demand for the organization’s services peaked during the recession when unemployment was high, but it

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has tapered off as the job market has rebounded. “Like many nonprofits, we’d love to be put out of business because the need for our services no longer exists,” Rogozinski says. “That’s not the case right now, and we need the community to know we’re here and what help we can provide. We are trying to communicate that even more.” More than 1,500 people were served at the Crossroads Job Center last year, and the organization hosted more than 45 events for local employers and job seekers. In addition to employment and education services, Crossroads has a team of peer-support specialists who work with Sacramento County’s Suicide Prevention Project. Many staff members at Crossroads have suffered from mental disability and have a deeper understanding of what it’s like. “It’s very powerful to have those on staff who understand what our clients are going through,” says Rogozinski. “They’ve been there and they did it. They found a path toward recovery and better life.” A key ingredient in the equation is to find employers willing to hire people with disabilities or other challenges. Crossroads seeks out these employers, provides training and offers financial incentives. Many bigger corporations and companies have inclusionary hiring programs. They see the value. “We are not just looking for any match between a potential employee and employer,” Rogozinski says. “We seek a good match and something that works for both with long-term benefits.”

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Many people with disabilities are motivated to get back to work and succeed. Maybe they’ve been receiving government benefits or assistance. Maybe they want a more complete life. Consequently, they are often more dedicated, appreciative and loyal because of the opportunity. The organization also partners with numerous federal, state and local agencies for services that contribute to its revenues. Crossroads may consider expanding opportunities for individual and corporate donations from those who want to assist Crossroads’ mission. While the commercial company operates throughout California and Texas, social services are provided only in the Sacramento region. Crossroads may consider expanding social services to other areas in the future. In addition to employment and education-related services, the organization provides many programs, including those specifically for youth. “It comes down to our core mission that’s embodied in our slogan,

Passion at Work,” says Rogozinski. “We all need to remember that regardless of labels, it’s our humanity that connects us.” For more information about Crossroads, go to cdsdiv.com.

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A KEY INGREDIENT IN THE EQUATION IS TO FIND EMPLOYERS WILLING TO HIRE PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES OR OTHER CHALLENGES.

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Congratulations 2017 Chamber Award Winners!

Member of the Year: Melea Martinez Business of the Year: Compton’s Market Sunil Hans

Volunteer of the Year: Sacred Heart Home Tour Parent Volunteers Charlotte Lazio, Brooke Mathios, Ashley Andrews, Michelle Shaw and Kris Quigley

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Special Place Award: Annunciation Hellenic Center George Koufasimis accepted the award New Business of the Year: Urijah Faber’s Ultimate Fitness Gym Adam Corrigan accepted the award

Ribbon Cutting Saturday, Feb 10th

Sac Yard Tap House

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Got Junk? THE CITY WILL PICK IT UP FOR FREE

eginning this month, residents can use the city’s 311 service to schedule free pickup of bulky household items or yard waste. The junk pickup program continues through October. Each residential customer can schedule two appointments per year. Customers can make two additional appointments for the pickup of appliances or e-waste. This collection service is available year-round. To request an appointment, call 311, go to sac311.org or download the Sac311 smartphone app. For guidelines, and to learn more about which household junk items are eligible for pickup, go to sacrecycle. org.

DRUM AND DANCE FOR JOY On Friday, Feb. 9, celebrate Black History Month at McKinley Library with Fenix Drum and Dance Company. The troop will tell stories and teach traditional African dances around a drum circle. Audience members are encouraged to join the drum circle, use the provided percussion instruments and

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Fenix Drum and Dance Company will tell stories and teach traditional African dances at McKinley Library on Feb. 9. participate in the dancing. The fun begins at 3:30 p.m. McKinley Library is at 601 Alhambra Blvd.

VALENTINE’S FUN AT THE LIBRARY Join the McKinley Library staff on Friday, Feb. 2, at 3:30 p.m. for a

hands-on afternoon of Valentine’s Day-themed art. Make cards and crafts to give to your special valentine using a variety of fun and decorative materials. Afterward, decorate and

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CELESTINâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S TO OPEN IN EAST SAC Celestinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Restaurant, which will occupy the space most recently held by Devine Bakery & Gelateria at 3610 McKinley Blvd., is set to open in mid-February. It will offer a deli counter and dine-in/takeout options. The restaurant will be open for lunch and dinner.

UPCYCLE POP-UP MARKET TO OPEN FOR ONE DAY UPcyclePOP, a pop-up market for creatively upcycled art, furniture, fashion, home design and inventions, will be open on Sunday, Feb. 11, at 7300 Folsom Blvd. Artists will be on hand to create works of art from discarded items. The market will be open from noon to 6 p.m. Admission and parking are free. For more information, go to upcyclepop.com.

WEAVERS AND SPINNERS TO HOLD OPEN HOUSE The Sacramento Weaversâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; & Spinnersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Guild will host its annual open house at Shepard Garden and Arts Center on Saturday, Feb. 10, and Sunday, Feb. 11, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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All are welcome to attend and see examples of felting, basketry, Navajo weaving and demonstrations by fiber artists. Shepard Garden and Arts Center is at 3330 McKinley Blvd. For more information, go to sacweavespin.org.

CHAMBER ANNOUNCES NEW BOARD MEMBERS The East Sacramento Chamber of Commerce recently welcomed its officers for 2018-19: Alex Amaro, Amaro Real Estate (president); Melea Martinez, Inside Publications (vice president); Daniel Nardinelli, Inside Publications (treasurer); and Elise Brown, Coldwell Banker (secretary). The new board members are Ronica Anderson, Pine Cove Tavern; Romelia Pease, Senior Care Coordinators; and Ralph Barnett, #Panache. Returning board members include Brad McDowell, Smith, McDowell & Powell; Cecily Hastings, Inside Publications; Ted Kappel, Kappel Mortgage Group; Kevin Guinn, Farmers Insurance; Janet Mason, Ideas By Design; Steve Swindel, Swindel & Associates; and Mike Smith, Olsen & Fielding Moving Services. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My goal is that each member has at least one takeaway from our East Sac Chamber events,â&#x20AC;? Amaro said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That takeaway can be a personal connection, a volunteer opportunity, a referral or something they learned that can immediately benefit their business.â&#x20AC;?

Learn more about Buffalo Bill at the Sacramento County Historical Society February meeting. Photo courtesy of Buffalo Bill Center of the West.

LEARN ABOUT BUFFALO BILL The Sacramento County Historical Society hosts monthly meetings throughout the year focusing on Sacramento history. Join presenter Gregory Hinton this month to learn about Buffalo Bill and the Wild West on Tuesday, Feb. 27, at 7 p.m. This

event is free for members and $5 for nonmembers. All meetings are held at Sierra Sacramento Valley Medical Society, 5380 Elvas Ave. For more information, go to sachistoricalsociety.org

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Fill up on crabs at Sacred Heart Parish School's annual Crab Feed.

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SACRED HEART TO HOLD CRAB FEED Sacred Heart Parish School will hold its ninth annual Crab Feed on Saturday, Feb. 24, from 5:30 to 11 p.m. Feast on crab, Caesar salad, bread, crab cakes and pasta. You can bring your own wine for a $10 corkage fee. Dance away those calories after dinner with a live DJ, The Amazing Johnny B.

Tickets are $50. To purchase tickets and for more information, go to sacredheartschool. net.

YOUTH JAZZ BAND FESTIVAL SCHEDULED AT SAC STATE The Traditional Jazz Youth Band Festival will be held Saturday,

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Feb. 10, in Capistrano Hall on the Sacramento State campus. Student bands from grade schools, private clubs and colleges will bring their instruments for a full schedule of jazz clinics, mentored jam sessions and noncompetitive performances. The day will conclude with a concert featuring New York trumpeter JonErik Kellso. Tickets are $10 in advance, $12 at the door. For more information, go to sacjazzfoundation.org.

NEW AREA CODE 279 GOES INTO EFFECT Last February, the California Public Utilities Commission approved adding the area code 279 to the Sacramento region. As of Feb. 10, all calls made from the 916 area code will have to include 1 + area code + the seven-digit phone number. The calls will still be considered local, not long-

distance or toll calls. New telephone lines and services using the 279 area code may be assigned as early as March 10. Current 916 customers will keep their numbers. For more information, go to cpuc. ca.gov/916areacode.

GOODBYE, HOT CITY Hot City Pizza in East Sacramento closed on Jan. 27 after 10 years in business. The announcement was made on Facebook on Dec. 29 with this message: “We have enjoyed serving you and would like to thank you for your support over the last 10+ years. Although this is a bittersweet moment, it is time to raise our glasses to the next chapter. Cheers to all for your loyalty and friendship.” Serena Marzion and Lauren Hastings can be reached at insideeastsaclife@gmail.com. n

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New Tenant for B Street Theatre CELEBRATION ARTS LOST ONE LEASE BUT GAINED ANOTHER

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Celebration Arts has a new home in B Street Theatre's old space on 27th and B streets.

elebration Arts, a local theater company, has signed a five-year lease for B Street Theatre’s recently vacated space at 27th and B streets. Celebration Arts lost the lease on its East Sac location when “the building owner needed to expand his own business,” according to Celebration Arts executive director James Wheatley. The company has taken over B Street Theatre’s 110-seat venue at 2711 B St. The first production in the new space will be Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun,” starting Feb. 23.

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“The new location presents a grand and exciting opportunity,” Wheatley wrote on his company’s website. “It will allow flexibility in staging productions, make expansion of training programs possible and will seat twice as many patrons. These changes also mean we will grow production and training support capabilities and make the facility accepting and comfortable for students and patrons.” Celebration Arts is the only regional arts organization dedicated to the African-American experience in theater, dance and music. To pay for the relocation and continuing operations, the company has launched a $100,000 fundraising campaign, Celebrating the Legacy. To contribute, send a check payable to Celebration Arts to 1809 S St., Suite 101188, Sacramento 95811. For more information about Celebration Arts, go to celebrationarts.net.

RUN IN YOUR UNDERWEAR On Saturday, Feb. 24, the Colorectal Cancer Alliance will hold the Sacramento Undy Run/Walk in William Land Park to help raise awareness of colorectal cancer. People are encouraged to wear “family-friendly” underwear for the event, which begins at 9 a.m. Each participant will receive a commemorative pair of boxer shorts. More than 600 people in Sacramento County develop colorectal cancer every year, and more than 200 people die from the disease. Registration fees are $35 in advance, $40 on the day of the race for adults, $30 in advance and $35 on the day of the race for youth 6 to 13 years old. Colorectal survivors can register for free. For more information or to register, go to fundraise.ccalliance. org/sacramento.

Fitness Rangers, an East Sacramento workout facility, has added cycling classes to its schedule. In a specially designed and dedicated room, the new cycling program features two classes, PureRide and RhythmRide. Both classes are 50 minutes long with a focus on cardio. “With the addition of our cycling program, we’re thrilled to offer every type of workout you could want, under one roof, for one membership,” says owner Adam Attia. Cycling classes are available seven days a week and are included with a Fitness Rangers membership. The full schedule is available online. The state-of-the-art facility also offers boot-camp classes, personal training, barre, kickboxing, yoga and child care. Fitness Rangers is at 1717 34th Street. For more information, visit fitnessrangers.net.

FREE ADMISSION ON SACRAMENTO MUSEUM DAY On Saturday, Feb. 3, more than 26 local museums will offer free or halfprice admission as part of Sacramento Museum Day. The annual event is a great way for members of the community to experience the city’s wealth of art, history, science and wildlife at little or no cost. Event coordinators recommend that people plan to visit no more than two or three museums to allow

adequate time to enjoy the experience and travel between sites. (Many are within walking distance of each other and easily accessible via public transportation.) Special activities during Museum Day will include Story Time at California Automobile Museum with a celebrity reader at 11 a.m. and noon; a haiku and Japanese art exhibit at California State Library, which boasts the largest haiku collection outside of Japan; trail tours at the Maidu Museum & Historic Site in Roseville; hands-on engineering design activities and live critters at Powerhouse Science Center’s Discovery Campus; and gold panning at the Sacramento History Museum. For more information, go to sacmuseums.org.

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Front Street Animal Shelter recently received a $132,500 grant from Petco Foundation to support

community outreach and adoption events in the Sacramento area. Front Street receives approximately 10,000 stray, lost and unwanted animals annually. Thanks to manager Gina Knepp and her staff, the shelter has become increasingly successful in decreasing the euthanasia rate over the past three years by showcasing the animals in places other than the shelter. In 2014, for example, Front Street animals participated in more than 120 community events at traditional pet stores, wineries, festivals, parades and Sacramento Ballet performances of “The Nutcracker.” The Petco Foundation money will go toward transportation, staff, supplies and associated costs of preparing more than 500 animals for adoption, including surgeries, microchips, vaccinations and ID tags. For more information, go to cityofsacramento.org. Front Street Animal Shelter is at 2127 Front Street. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com. n

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ynn Eder loves Ella K. McClatchy Library. As she shows me around the storied space built in 1910, her eyes light up when she explains which room was used for what when it was home to the McClatchy publishing family. In 1940, Eleanor and Charlotte McClatchy gave the house to the city of Sacramento, which converted it into a youth library and named it after their mother. Ede Eder’s enthusiasm for tthe place is evid evident in her det determination to kee keep the library’s art exhibition pro program (which she helped found) goi going strong. “The ex exhibition pr program idea st started being di discussed in 19 1995, when th the Friends o of the Ella K. M McClatchy L Library first cconceived of rrenovating a and bringing the library’s second floor up to code,” says Eder, who mov moved from Ohio to Sacramento 30 years ago and discovered the library on a stroll after exercising at the YMCA with her husband. “We talked about using the large space as a meeting and activities room for different groups and programs, but also as a salon of sorts where art, music, poetry and cultural discussions could take place.” When the second floor was finished and opened in fall 2012, Eder and two like-minded members of the Friends group— arts enthusiast Alice Levine and artist Nancy Gotthart—realized

that the space would be perfect to host art exhibitions. “It even already had a picture rail installed,” Eder says, gesturing to the bright, windowlined space. After winning a matching grant to host a year of art shows, the three women set up a series of four art shows in 2014. Word spread fast, and soon the opening receptions were packed and the participating artists were selling enough work that they donated back to the library in appreciation. The Friends of the McClatchy Library agreed to continue to fund the shows due to their popularity. Eder now has the entire 2018 exhibition cycle already planned. “The three of us love art and what it does for our community,” says Eder, who’s been an arts administrator, art curator, assistant gallery director, committee member of the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission’s Art in Public Places and a working artist. “We’ve shown outstanding artwork in many mediums, including Maggie Jimenez’s whimsical clay sculptures, Laura Hohlwein’s small abstracts, Katherine Venturelli’s paper sculptures and several contemporary photography group shows. The three of us look at a lot of art, so we select artists we feel offer a high degree of professionalism. We endeavor to present a variety of mediums and approaches—all of which are appropriate for display in a public library.” “Expression of Chinese Art” will be on display Feb. 10 through March 23. A reception will be held on Saturday, Feb. 10, from 2 to 4 p.m. Ella K. McClatchy Library is at 2112 22nd St. For more information, go to saclibrary.org. n

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Capping Rents

A FIGHT IS LOOMING OVER RENT CONTROL

n my December column, I addressed Sacramento’s twinned crises of escalating housing costs and a rapid increase in our homeless population. I suggested a solution to alleviate both crises: the adoption of a “Marshall Plan” that would tear down cost and regulatory barriers that impede the construction of new homes and apartments by private-sector builders, developers, investors and banks. The idea is to bring California in line with the more liberal and facilitating housing policies embraced by the rest of the country, where housing costs are half what they are today in California and homeless counts aren’t exploding as they

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are in every major West Coast city, despite huge increases in spending on homeless services. It’s time to admit to the errors of our ways. But the political progressives who dominate in the California Legislature can’t seem to shake their preoccupation with failed or failing governmentcentric “solutions” to these largely government-created crises. In its most recent legislative session, the Legislature passed bills to place a $4 billion public housing bond on the November ballot, raise taxes on real estate transactions to fund housing programs and impose costly “prevailing wage” requirements on a large share of new housing projects. It did virtually nothing to ease the heavy cost and regulatory barriers that hamper private-sector housing construction in California. Now there is a campaign to dramatically expand rent control in California. Today, 15 California cities have some form of rent control. In the

November 2016 election, rent-control measures were the subject of pitched fights in four Bay Area cities. (It was a split card, with measures passing in two cities and losing in two.) Rent control was narrowly defeated in Santa Rosa, where real estate interests spent $1 million to defeat it. Who is behind the rent-control push in our state? The Democratic Socialists of America is a major sponsor. Another is the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, or ACCE.

THE PUSH TO REPEAL In 1995, the Legislature approved the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, which restricted local rentcontrol ordinances to apartments built before 1995. Apartments built after 1995, including all apartments built in the future, as well as all condos and single-family homes, are statutorily exempt from rent control. The Costa-Hawkins law is a very

big deal because it insulates newly constructed apartments from rent control. Without such protection, a housing developer, investor or bank would have to be a little loony to build new rental housing in any California city that either has or is considering rent control. The groups pushing rent control have never been happy with the limits imposed by Costa-Hawkins and have been actively seeking its repeal in the Legislature. In a contentious hearing last month that drew nearly 1,000 people (split between proponents and opponents of rent control), the Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee narrowly rejected a bill to repeal CostaHawkins, effectively killing the bill for this year. But late last year, rent-control proponents filed a statewide ballot measure with the California Secretary of State that seeks to put the issue of TO page 24

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THE COMING FIGHT With mixed success in imposing rent control in liberal Bay Area cities, rent-control backers are now seeking to expand rent control into the more conservative Central Valley. Their principal target is the Valley city with the highest concentration of progressive voters: Sacramento. But they won’t find much support for rent control on the Sacramento City Council, each member of whom has gone on record opposing rent control. As Councilmember Jay Schenirer put it at a recent Curtis Park/Land Park forum on homelessness, “Rent control

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doesn’t work. It would discourage new-housing construction.” The City Council’s opposition to rent control hasn’t discouraged its proponents. For the past few months, they’ve been canvassing low-income Sacramento neighborhoods as a precursor to filing a ballot measure that would impose what will almost certainly be a strict form of rent control in Sacramento. How strict? If their ballot measure follows the one recently adopted in Richmond, it would roll back rents 18 months and force owners to refund rent increases given since then; limit future rent hikes to annual increases in the consumer price index; restrict owners’ rights to evict tenants except when they can prove “just cause”; impose significant annual fees on rental units to fund a new city bureaucracy to administer the rentcontrol ordinance and handle appeals; and require owners to pay tenants’ relocation expenses under certain circumstances.

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HIT TO PROPERTY VALUES, TAX REVENUES Studies have shown that rent control chops about 20 percent off the value of a residential rental property. Those who’ve purchased rental property with 80 percent financing would likely see their entire equity wiped out. Small rental properties are popular investments for retirees, providing both retirement income and security. Should they be penalized to provide below-market rents to their tenants? Economic studies have shown that the drop in rental property values caused by rent control lowers assessed values and tax revenues to local governments and school districts. With Sacramento facing a fiscal cliff in the next couple of years, cutting its property-tax revenues for the sake of rent control would be pretty mindless.

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HARMFUL IMPACTS The least expensive, most efficient way for government to subsidize low-income and homeless housing is through the federal governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

Section 8 housing voucher program. Voucher holders are able to choose the private rental unit they want to live in and the federal government picks up a major share of the rent. The cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s administrative costs of running the voucher program are relatively low. By contrast, the most expensive way for government to provide housing to low-income or homeless people is for government to build it. The poster child for out-of-control costs is Sacramentoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pending project to build a 480-unit, five-story â&#x20AC;&#x153;mixed incomeâ&#x20AC;? housing project to replace its existing low-density Twin Rivers public housing project on Richards Boulevard. The total cost for each new apartment: more than $600,000â&#x20AC;&#x201D;nearly six times the typical market value of existing apartments in Sacramento. Consequently, government-built public housing will never be a workable means of subsidizing housing costs for either the poor or the homeless. The costs are simply too astronomical. So the Section 8 housing voucher program (or some local iteration of it) is fated to remain the backbone of local governmentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; efforts to subsidize housing for the poor and homeless. But hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the rub: Owners of rental properties must be willing to accept Section 8 tenants. Most owners donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t accept Section 8 vouchers, primarily because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not worth it to subject themselves to the onerous regulations that the program imposes, but also because many owners prefer to rent to self-supporting residents. Last year, Mayor Darrell Steinberg persuaded both the City Council and the Sacramento County Board of

Supervisors to scrap the long-standing first-come, first-served distribution of housing vouchers in favor of a policy that moves homeless people to the front of the line. Now imagine that rent control is imposed in Sacramento. Economic studies have shown that rent control in San Francisco has led to a 15 percent withdrawal of units from its rental housing market. What happened to these disappearing rental units? They were converted to condos or to commercial use, used as personal residences for their owners or, in the case of deteriorated housing, demolished or simply abandoned. With the housing shortages that rent control always ushers in, rental property owners prohibited from charging market rents will naturally become choosier in selecting new residents. They will start selecting only those with the highest incomes, the best credit scores and the best housing references and track records. The minority of owners who currently accept Section 8 vouchers will increasingly abandon the program, leaving both low-income and homeless people effectively without housing optionsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;except for the tiny number of housing units that local governments (and local taxpayers) can afford to build for them. Craig Powell is a retired attorney, general partner of a residential real estate firm, community activist and president of Eye on Sacramento, a civic watchdog and policy group. He can be reached at craig@ eyeonsacramento.org or (916) 7183030. n

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The Heart of the Matter MINI PACEMAKER IS A GREAT IMPROVEMENT

here is no easy way for a doctor to tell a patient that the recommended procedure has, uh, never actually been done before by these hands in this hospital. But for Dr. Mark Bowers, a cardiologist at Mercy General, that discussion went surprisingly well last summer. Bowers has more than a decade of experience in helping fix and maintain patients’ hearts. Among his specialties is electrophysiology, the electrical phenomenon that regulates the heartbeat. He’s an expert in pacemakers. If the lights went out while he was inserting a standard pacemaker, Bowers and his patient would be fine.

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But this was something new: a miniature pacemaker, one-tenth the size of the standard model, deployed in a different way, recently approved for use after years of clinical trials. Somebody had to go first at Mercy. “That’s pretty much how the conversation went,” Bowers says. “I said I’d been through all the training and practice sessions arranged by the manufacturer, and I’m confident I can do this and I think you’d be a good candidate. The patient said, ‘I’ll be your guinea pig.’” Since then, Bowers has successfully inserted about 20 miniature pacemakers, formally called the Micra Transcatheter Pacing System. The doctor’s operational speed has improved from about 45 minutes to 10 or 15 minutes—not that quickness is the goal. Says Bowers, “I try not to rush through it, but obviously as you do more procedures, you tend to get faster.” The benefits of a mini pacemaker can be significant. Standard

pacemakers are battery packs pressed into a surgical pocket created in the upper chest, below the collarbone. They have wire leads that are threaded through a vein into the heart’s chambers. The wires deliver electrical pacing therapy as needed to keep the heart beating in proper rhythm. The miniature pacemaker works on a similar principle, but its size changes everything. A patient’s chest is not cut open. No surgical pocket is created. Instead, the cardiologist makes a small hole in the groin, opens a vein, inserts a catheter and threads the tiny pacemaker all the way to the heart. The implantation process is similar to something called cardiac catheterization, which is used for diagnostic purposes to see how a heart is performing. Dye can be injected through the catheter, and X-ray photos track the dye to find blockages. Pressure flows can be measured. Biopsy samples can be taken.

But pushing a mini pacemaker into the heart is a different sort of job. “We will use the groin like a cardiac cath, but it’s a whole new skill set,” Bowers says. “There’s a learning curve, like with anything else. It’s like learning a whole new procedure.” Once secure in the heart, the little pacemaker does its work without wires or fuss. It becomes part of the body. There is less chance for complication—such as bleeding or infection—and no scar. The tiny size means the battery might last about twice as long as standard pacemakers, which work for around seven to 10 years, depending on how they are programmed. The miniature system is not for everyone. If a patient needs pacing therapy in more than one heart chamber (a situation that requires multiple wire leads from a standard pacemaker), the Micra system won’t help. It only works in one chamber. “Only a minority of patients qualify,” Bowers says.

IF THE LIGHTS WENT OUT WHILE HE WAS INSERTING A STANDARD PACEMAKER, BOWERS AND HIS PATIENT WOULD BE FINE.

Selling Real Estate Is Our Passion. Making Our Clients Happy is Our Promise. Dr. Mark Bowers has successfully inserted about 20 mini pacemakers. Miniaturization would seem an obvious advancement, given that traditional pacemakers have been helping human hearts keep time for 60 years. But the path to success in the world of tiny battery packs has been slow and difficult. The Micra system took years and many millions of research dollars to develop, test and certify for human service. Meantime, a rival company’s miniature pacemaker was halted near the starting gate with battery problems. “It takes money and resources to make a medical advancement,” Bowers says. “In this case, one company got it right and another company spent millions and millions and was back to square one after choosing the wrong battery technology.”

If there are downsides to the tiny pacemaker, they concern permanence and price. The device costs a bit more than the standard unit, which goes for between $6,000 and $10,000. And it is almost impossible to remove. But Bowers says the little pacemaker can safely stay in the body even after the battery runs out. A new model can be housed alongside the old one. Eugene Gini, 80, was among Bowers’ first few guinea pigs. Six months later, the patient feels great. “I probably should have done more research, but I had faith in Dr. Bowers,” he says. “I haven’t felt this good in years.” R.E. Graswich can be reached at reg@graswich.com. n

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he Girl Scouts of America are about more than cookies and campfires, as Linda Farley, the CEO of Girl Scouts Heart of Central California, will tell you. Girl Scouts are go-getters, innovators, risk takers and leadersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;or G.I.R.L.s, an acronym coined by the national organization to describe its membership. Farley is a perfect example of how the century-old organization inspires success. A Sacramento troop member during her childhood, Farley

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No Fix in Sight IT’S BEEN A TOUGH SEASON FOR KINGS FANS

ebruary is a pivotal month in the NBA. The long season reaches its halfway point. The trading deadline arrives and forces teams to nail down their rosters for the playoff drive. The All-Star weekend celebration provides a break in the tedium of practice sessions, home games and road trips. That’s how things work in most NBA cities. But Sacramento, as

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anyone who’s been paying attention for the past 33 years knows, is different. None of the traditional February rituals applies to the Kings. Their season basically ended around Thanksgiving, about the time the Kings were pummeled by the Atlanta Hawks 126-80. The Hawks are a terrible basketball team, but they were 46 points better than the Kings. For every step the Kings make to improve themselves during the offseason, for every marketing strategy they roll out to make ticket buyers think next year will be different, the team stumbles backward. This season, they brought in new, young players to energize the roster and provide enthusiasm. The youthful-energy trick has been tried

before, with no luck. The young guys lack leadership. They lack killer instincts. They don’t know how to process devastating defeats. They are shell-shocked by the perpetual-loser environment. Quickly, they spiral downward. To fill out the roster, the Kings bring in veterans to supply confidence and patience. But the old guys, many of whom were intentionally dumped in Sacramento by their former teams, arrive with baggage. Many don’t want to play here. They assume the attitude of gilded prison inmates. They do their time, keep their heads down and cross off each day until the season ends. And they pray to someday sign with the Golden State Warriors.

Every few years, the Kings change coaches. They duplicate the pattern of alternating young and old. They replace a worn-out veteran with an eager young assistant. It makes no difference. The Kings could let the players coach themselves and the outcome would be no better or worse. Even changes in ownership—four different partnerships have operated the Kings since 1985—have minimal impact on the team’s success. The first three ownership groups—Joe Benvenuti and Gregg Lukenbill, Jim Thomas and finally the Maloof family—encountered financial problems. They couldn’t keep pace with the hyper-inflationary reality of NBA salaries and found it impossible to attract serious talent to Sacramento.

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weren’t cohesive and lacked structure and style. The grind of an 82-game season quickly overwhelmed the young players. One month into the season, the Kings had trouble scoring more than 85 points. Lacking the talent to score, they also lacked the will to rebound and defend. “Losing is one thing, but we have to do a much better job of competing,” the coach, Dave Joerger, said after one lopsided defeat. Joerger didn’t help himself. He was unable to settle on a lineup. He tried eight different starting rotations in the first six weeks. If his young players were confused and unsettled as the season began, Joerger’s dartthrow lineup strategy guaranteed the confusion and insecurity would extend well past Christmas. A negative irony developed around the concept of youthful energy. The Kings made a point of embracing the future by giving their young players extended minutes. The youth movement was supposed to exude energy, if not expertise. But the kids dragged like pensioners. Frustrated,

Joerger complained his troops weren’t tough enough. And they became accustomed to losing. “We’ve got a lot of nice guys,” he said. “I love them, but ...” The players didn’t disagree. Lack of energy became a tired excuse. Said guard Garrett Temple, “We’ve just got to figure out how to start competing, start being men.” The Kings will almost certainly have a lottery pick in this summer’s draft—a chance for another young player. They have to make it count. They will get nothing in 2019, having traded away their first-round pick that year. Forgotten as always are the paying customers, who still have three months to endure at Golden 1 Center. “We owe Sacramento, our fans, better than what we’re showing them,” guard George Hill said. His salary is $20 million this season, payable whether the Kings win or lose. R.E. Graswich can be reached at reg@graswich.com. n

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ime has a way of burying family secrets so that in a generation or two no one will even remember to ask about them. But with online genealogy resources, family secrets that have been hidden away are now available at the touch of a button. Curtis Park resident Anne Da Vigo used her family’s history as inspiration for her debut novel. “You can’t negate your past,” Da Vigo says. “It’s so important and it’s so much a part of you. You just don’t escape those things. You don’t let them go. You need to grab onto them and realize that those things are all a part of you.” In her novel, “Thread of Gold,” Cora Brooks is a San Francisco crime reporter who is quite content to keep 3,000 miles between her and the Finger Lakes region of New York, where generations of her family lived before her mother fled to the West Coast, later abandoning 6-year-old Cora. When Cora’s editor assigns her an investigative story on the mysterious circumstances surrounding a friend’s death, she finds herself in the midst of events that hit all too close to her ancestral home for comfort. And as she is met with hostility from the locals back in New York, she is forced to delve into her own family history to find answers to the case and to the mysteries of her family’s past. The idea for the novel began to form in 1994, when Da Vigo’s mother sent her a clipping from The New York Times that discussed the unexplained deaths of two men and three cows near where Da Vigo’s mother grew up and her family had lived since the 1850s. Da Vigo held

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invited to discuss the book with several local book clubs. Seeing her readers respond to the book reminds Da Vigo that everyone has a story to tell. “Everybody has something really interesting about them. When you start talking to them about it, they [dismiss] it,” Da Vigo says. “I think that’s one of the great things about writing.” Da Vigo’s next novel is based on a case she covered while working as a crime reporter in Bakersfield. Titled “Bakersfield Boys’ Club,” the manuscript was recognized at the University of the Pacific’s creative writing conference and is currently being considered for publication by an independent press. For more information about Anne Da Vigo, go to annedavigo.com. n

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Center for Change THIS ORGANIZATION PROVIDES HOPE AND MORE FOR LGBTQ PEOPLE

he LGBT Community Center has served Sacramento for 40 years, but despite its advocacy on behalf of the LGBTQ community, many know the center as “that building across from Merc,” says David Heitstuman, its executive director. Even he was mostly unaware of the center before attending a focus group there in 2011. Six weeks later, he was chairman of the board of directors. Those familiar with the center won’t be surprised why Heitstuman was inspired to volunteer. The center offers HIV testing and prevention programs, legal assistance, monthly potlucks, and support groups for people coming out of the closet. It plugs people into faith communities and assists with housing and employment, but mostly it provides a place to be. For many, the LGBT Community Center is family. Founded as the Lambda Community Fund in 1978, the center focuses its services on

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health and wellness, advocacy and community building, but perhaps its most significant service to LGBTQ youth is its Q-Spot, which opened in 2011. Between noon and 6 p.m. daily, the drop-in facility at 1927 L St. provides young people access to a shower, food, computer, washer and dryer, and supplies like new socks, clothing, sleeping bags, tarps, toiletries and even pet food. And access is easy. “They just need to come into the center and talk to somebody at the front desk,” says Heitstuman. The Q-Spot helps some 200 youth a week go from “just getting by to where they are self-reliant and self-empowered,” Heitstuman says, thanks to resources, referrals and counseling. The center provides “a break from the stress of the streets and an opportunity to restore dignity into their day.” Undoubtedly public attitude toward the LGBTQ community is improving, and 20 percent of millennials now identify as LGBTQ. But statistics also show that the LGBT Community Center and Q-Spot are more necessary than ever. Almost 90 percent of LGBTQ youth experience bullying, and 90 percent of transgender people experience work discrimination and twice the unemployment rates of the general population. Last year, 27 transgender Americans were murdered, making 2017 the deadliest year on record for transgender people. One of those women, Chyna Gibson, 31, was from Sacramento. While 20 percent of millennials identify as LGBTQ, that percentage doubles for homeless youth. “For the last 20 years, we’ve been saying, ‘You’re safe, come out, be who you are,’” says Heitstuman. “And young people have. They’re seeing more of themselves on television, in popular culture, in leadership roles, and they’re feeling more comfortable coming out and being who they are. But even though we’ve told them it’s safe to come out, it’s not.” Marriage equality wasn’t a magic pill to end prejudice and discrimination, and these statistics suggest that many LGBTQ youth

still experience prejudice and discrimination within their own families. According to the Trevor Project, one out of six high school students contemplates suicide, but the rate of attempted suicide is five times higher among LGBTQ youth than hetero youth. More shocking, LGBTQ youth rejected by their families are 8.4 times more likely to attempt suicide than LGBTQ youth who are accepted by their families. Summer camps and softball teams, both offered through the center, are more than recreational; they provide space “where people can be surrounded by people who care about them and value them,” Heitstuman says. “Listen, I know you see Laverne Cox on ‘Orange Is the New Black.’ There’s an out secretary of the Army [Eric Fanning], and ‘Will and Grace’ is back on TV for round two. But over here at Rocklin Academy, there’s a kid who’s being tortured,” says Heitstuman, referring to the Rocklin Academy kindergarten student who began transitioning in 2017. “And here in Sacramento,” he continues, “I can walk down a street in Midtown and people will still scream, ‘Hey, faggot,’ and throw a beer bottle—even in the most affirming place in the city.” Prejudice is shocking wherever it rears its head, but perhaps even more when it occurs in Lavender Heights, an LGBTQ neighborhood in the capital of the most progressive state in America. But despite existing prejudice, Sacramento is still somehow ahead of the game. According to Heitstuman, the Los Angeles LGBT Center is the first and largest in the world, but preceded the Lambda Community Fund by only nine years. By comparison, The Source LGBT+ Center in Visalia opened in 2016. Heitstuman admits Sacramento’s center nearly failed. When he first joined the board in 2011, he says, “we didn’t know how deep the crisis was … and didn’t believe necessarily that the organization was going to have enough funding to continue within a few weeks even.”

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Except it did. Since 2011, the center has increased its budget from $250,000 to $1.4 million. Just this year, the center secured a two-year grant from the California Office of Emergency Services that allows the center to provide emergency housing to victims of violence. Emergency housing won’t solve the homeless problem, admits Heitstuman. But in a system that already underserves LGBTQ youth, it’s a start. The growth of the LGBT Community Center has drawn attention from other LGBTQ centers in the nation. Says Heitstuman, “The Bradbury-Sullivan Center in Allentown, Penn., has conducted a study of emerging centers in the country, and we were included as the best model to emulate. They are sending a delegation at the end of February to spend a couple days with us to learn what we’ve done and how we did it.” How did they do it?

Heitstuman pauses, responding after a deep breath. “A lot of sleepless nights,” he says. He might not have known it in 2011, but those sleepless nights have translated to more peaceful nights within the LGBTQ community. Ultimately, it’s impossible to measure the center’s impact, because even if we could count the suicides prevented, the youth now off the streets, the jobs secured or rights restored, how do we quantify dignity? Practically, Heitstuman is excited to offer a safe night’s sleep to those who need it. But more than a bed, a meal or clothes, the LGBT Community Center offers hope. And Heitstuman hopes others will see the center as a beacon, not just as that building across from Merc. For more information or to attend a tour of the LGBT Community Center, go to saccenter.org. Jordan Venema can be reached at jordan.venema@gmail.com. n

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ou’ll never hear someone get so excited about windows and doors as Gaby Sizemore, coowner of The Window and Door Shop. And no one is more surprised than Sizemore herself.

Sizemore and her husband, Warren, have made it their business to get excited about windows and doors. Sizemore’s brothers, Fred and Chico Ochoa, were the original owners of The Window and Door Shop in San Francisco. In 1998, they hired Warren as a sales rep. After Warren and Gaby married in 2000, Warren took a job in Fort Collins, Colo. The move enabled Gaby to spend plenty of time with the couple’s four children, but the cold and snow proved to be too much. The Sizemores moved to Sacramento for better weather and, in 2009, opened The Window and Door Shop on Bell Street. “Now that we’re going on our ninth year in business, it’s amazing to know how long it takes to really build it up,” Sizemore says. “We’re now finally starting to really enjoy “You just don’t know where life’s it. We have seven employees, and the going to take you,” she says. “Is this highlight of this year was being able something I thought I’d be doing to offer benefits. We’ve wanted to do when I grew up? Not at all. Windows that since we started—we want to and doors are so common, so ordinary. give back as much as we can to our But at the end of the day, there’s employees—and now we finally can.” actually nothing ordinary about it.”

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utter Hospice chaplain Dale Swan had always been clear with his wife, Jill, about how he wanted to die. “If I get sick and can’t feed myself or make my own decisions, please don’t let them put in a breathing or feeding tube,” he told her. “Let me go peacefully.” Jill, a CPA who is used to calculating the options, responded the way many people do: “I don’t want you to starve to death.” Dale reassured his wife of 34 years that his hospice colleagues would be there for her and wouldn’t let him suffer. Dale was a 58-year-old avid cyclist who showed no signs of impending problems until one evening this past summer. He was watching TV from his recliner, eating a veggie burger and sipping a beer, when he was hit with troubling stomach pains. He took some antacid and told his wife he was going to lie down. When Jill checked on him an hour later, she found his pain intensifying. She suggested a doctor, but Dale declined, instead making a bathroom visit that brought only mild improvement. An hour later, Jill heard Dale moaning with extreme pain. She

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insisted on taking him to the ER, but Dale countered by asking her to call 911. When paramedics arrived, they began assessing his pain even as they were speculating it was a heart attack. Within a few minutes, EMTs

to alarming levels with no apparent diagnosis. Nurses admitted Dale to a room, ordered that he have no food for four days and administered Dilaudid. Once he was in the room, the pain medication slowed his respiration

Dale and Jill Swan placed him on a gurney and loaded him in the ambulance. Beside him, they hung an IV drip of fentanyl, a strong opiate for pain control. The ER doctor ordered blood tests, a CT scan and a sonogram. Dale was suffering from pancreatitis, but the medical staff could find no cause. They ruled out stomach blockage, gallbladder problems and alcohol abuse. Dale’s pain level was rising

to six breaths per minute. Dale was rapidly losing consciousness. Hospital staff suspected an overdose and instructed Jill to keep her husband awake or they’d have to give him Narcan, a drug that reverses opioid effects. If that doesn’t work, they grimly warned her, we’ll have to insert a breathing tube down his throat.

Jill remembered Dale’s instructions and shocked the staff by saying, “Oh, no, he doesn’t want that! He’s always said to let him die peacefully.” Jill felt prepared. She and Dale had discussed many of the crucial questions involving the end of life and placed those answers into an advance health care directive (often called a living will). Everyone should have an advance health care directive. It instructs doctors what you want done if you become incapacitated. Without the directive, doctors are obligated to do everything possible to save your life—even if “everything” means a painful delay of your inevitable death. Fortunately, the medical staff knew this wasn’t a moment to give up on a healthful and strong patient. They helped Jill understand that Dale’s document didn’t apply to situations where a full recovery could be logically anticipated. While Dale has fully recovered and returned to work, the happy couple is taking no more chances. Dale’s given Jill more detailed instructions. And Jill, ever the logical numbers cruncher, is reviewing their life insurance policies—just in case. For more information on advance health care directives, go to caringinfo. org. Recently retired chaplain Norris Burkes is a syndicated columnist, national speaker and book author. He can be reached at comment@ thechaplain.net. n

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his friends have things figured out, but he’s still an aspiring writer stuck running a motel on 16th Street. It’s a classic coming-of-age story with a twist. “Thirty seems like it’s a little too late to be growing up,” Gephart says. “But the character is finally ready.” This is also the first novel that Gephart set locally. “The settings for my first two books were fictional places,” Gephart says. “But I think it’s easier to get richer in detail if you set it in a place you’ve been. I loved reading Tom Clancy novels when I lived near Washington, D.C. When he’d write about Annapolis, I’d be able to say, ‘Hey! I know that place!’ I think people in this town will get a kick out of seeing places they know in a novel.” For more information about Jeff Gephart, go to jeffgephartwriting.com. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com. n

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had the potential to be a perfect fit “We really wanted to keep the for their growing family, the couple integrity of the house,” explains initiated phase one of a three-part Leslie, emphasizing that they remodeling project, adding 1,000 refurbished the original light square feet to the footprint. fixtures and ensured all added crown The remodel, which took one moldings, baseboards, and window year to complete, included adding and door moldings matched the two bedrooms and bathrooms to the original woodwork. Even the new second level; expanding the tight flooring seamlessly coordinates with entryway; turning a ground-floor the original white-oak hardwoods. bedroom into a mudroom “The entryway was the and laundry room; and most dramatic change,” creating a spacious family adds Leslie. It included room that opens up to increasing the landing a new backyard patio. space at the top of the Heating, air conditioning, stairs and pushing back By Cathryn Rakich plumbing and electrical walls on the second Home Insight were all replaced. level to create a more

open feeling. They kept the original wrought-iron staircase railing but moved the antique hanging light fixture to above the dining-room table, replacing it with a larger iron chandelier in the foyer. Equally important to the couple and their two children, Jackson, 23, and Anna, 20, was the addition of an outside living space, complete with a large flat-screen TV. “One of the best things we did was the covered back porch,” says Leslie. “We live out there eight months out of the year,” taking advantage of Sacramento’s mild weather. Even though the Donalds ran into a few setbacks, such as uncovering

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extensive dry rot downstairs, the remodel turned out to be a rewarding experience. “We had a very good contractor,” states Leslie, who credits contractor Ken Dyer and draftsman John Packowski for making the entire endeavor stress free. “I loved picking out the finishing touches. It is my taste, my home,” Leslie says. One exceptionally nice touch is a repurposed antique crystal chandelier that hangs over a free-standing soaking tub in the master bathroom. Despite some skepticism on the part of friends, Leslie insisted on keeping the original awning that shades the front door. She replaced the tan canvas with a new rust-colored fabric and had the poles lengthened to make the awning taller. “People were shorter back then,” she says with a smile. To make the front porch even more inviting, a friend painted a faux woodgrain over the original coral-colored entry door. Now that phase one is behind them, Leslie and Scott are looking forward to phase two, the kitchen, and phase three, the backyard landscape. For anyone considering a remodel, Leslie recommends making sure the bid is as comprehensive as possible. “Every doorknob, every light fixture,” she says. “If you are quoted for tile, check out what you are going to get for that bid. “We were not going to remodel to the extent that we did,” Leslie adds. “We had a budget. We doubled that budget. For example, the bid was for 12 windows and doors, but we ended up doing 36. That’s kind of how it all went.”

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Once the remodel was done, Leslie realized how much she enjoyed design. With encouragement from her husband and a close friend (herself an interior designer), she decided to start her own business, Leslie Donald Design. In the end, remodeling their home was worth the effort and expense. “We

love it,” says Leslie. “It’s our home that we will stay in forever. It is the perfect size for us to grow old in.” If you know of a home you think should be featured in Inside Publications, contact Cathryn Rakich at crakich@surewest.net. n

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The Sweet Life MAKING CHOCOLATE BARS BY HAND IS A LABOR OF LOVE

essica Osterday, the owner of Gracias Chocolate, has a great laugh. It’s the kind of laugh you’d expect from someone who has spent a lot of time making, tasting and learning about chocolate. I spoke with Osterday by phone, after meeting her at the Midtown Farmers Market, where she sets up a stall during the cooler months. Osterday’s chocolate bars are different, light-years from the mass-

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produced candy bars I grew up with. Her chocolate has a sophisticated, grown-up taste that might make some people uncomfortable if they are expecting to bite into something along the lines of a Hershey bar or a KIT KAT. “You have to be willing to be adventurous,” Osterday tells potential customers. In a shared commercial kitchen in Auburn, Osterday makes each gourmet bar by hand from ingredients found around the world: Ecuadorian cacao, maca from the Andes, macadamia nuts from Hawaii, Vietnamese cinnamon and Himalayan pink salt. Her chocolate bars are non-GMO, vegan, soy and gluten free, organic and fair trade. Coconut sugar (from Bali), rather than refined sugar, lends the bars warmth and promotes

the image of a somewhat guilt-free dessert that might be good for you. “Every single one [of the bars] touches my hands,” says Osterday, followed by that big laugh. She thinks her company, which she started in 2014, is successful because she offers a unique product. A candy maker has to pair unique with good taste to enjoy success in the chocolate world. Osterday begins with premium cacao. She uses Ecuadorian cacao, which makes the chocolate light and fruity and gives it a slight stoneground texture. It has a clean finish with no aftertaste. For comparison, the taste is similar to Mexican chocolate. Osterday pairs the cacao with interesting ingredients, including fig balsamic vinegar with black salt, lavender

honey with almonds, sour cherries with pistachios, and coffee, maca and macadamia nuts. “I love that people are excited about [the product],” she says. In all, there are seven bars listed on her company’s website. She’s had a few disasters in the kitchen, but that hasn’t stopped her from satisfying her curiosity and chocolate craving by trying different flavors and ingredients. A vegan marshmallow bar developed the texture of Silly Putty. And, it turns out, garlic oil and cilantro do not marry well with chocolate. How did this former art major start experimenting with cacao? While vacationing on Kauai, Osterday and a group of friends learned how TO page 52

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to make chocolate. That chocolatemaking session led to brainstorming. Brainstorming led to research about ingredients and techniques. Out of that group, only Osterday put her burgeoning chocolate-making skills into forming her own company. “I’m the person who is really good at getting stuff done,” she explains. She’s also developed a pretty good palate, and she says she can often detect the country of origin (meaning the source of the cacao) based on tasting a piece of chocolate. And she’s tasted a lot of chocolate. Chocolate from Ecuador is high on her list, but she also enjoys chocolate from northern Peru and southern Colombia. After finishing college, she worked as a healthful-food advocate for the farmers market in Del Paso Heights, “sharing recipes, making food samples and distributing info about

healthy eating and recipes,” she wrote in an email, after a marathon day in the kitchen. She also helped teach food classes in an after-school program as part of an internship with the Health Education Council in West Sacramento. Those experiences, she says, shaped her view of food and its availability. The council offered her a permanent position, but she declined in order to travel to Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile and Argentina. “I have been fortunate enough to travel back to South America several times since [that original trip], and every time I feel honored to know it more.” While she has help during busy times, Osterday is still the chief chocolatier in her time-intensive business. It requires about 10 hours of her own time to prepare and temper enough chocolate, and add flavors, for a batch of 350 bars; another six hours of labor from a part-time employee goes into those same bars. Osterday packages the bars in see-through packets, so customers can view what they’re buying, which takes another eight hours. A 1.4-ounce bar sells for $5. She doesn’t use fancy machines or elaborate equipment. A spatula is the tool of choice to layer lavender honey onto that lavender honey bar. And, yes, her hands do the work of placing the right number of almonds. “Gracias” is one of her favorite words. Paired with chocolate, it seems like the perfect name for a company that was created in Hawaii by a woman who uses ingredients from around the world, who has traveled a great deal and speaks Spanish. When we spoke, Osterday had just returned from another trip to Peru. Although Gracias Chocolate is a small company, and Osterday doesn’t know what her next business steps will be, some day she hopes to have a hand in making life better for cacao farmers in countries like Peru and Ecuador. How sweet that will be. For more information, go to graciaschocolate.com. Angela Knight can be reached at knight@mcn.org. n

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it completely. Federal, state and local dollars all play a role. Despite a common belief, gas taxes don’t pay for all road costs. Motorists currently pay a lower percentage of the total costs than they have for a long time. Increasingly, local jurisdictions have tapped other sources, such as sales taxes, to make up for the shortfalls. Sales taxes violate the “user pays” principle by making everyone pay for transportation costs, no matter how much or in what way they use the transportation system. Sacramento County voters recognized the dire straits we were in by passing a 30-year renewal of the Measure A transportation sales tax in 2004, but they rejected a second salestax increase just a dozen years later. Even then, most voters recognized the need, but there were disagreements about how the money should be used. It would be profoundly unwise to repeal the state gas-tax increase. There simply hasn’t been enough money to go around. If anything, federal gas taxes, or other funding sources, need to be boosted as well. Like the state tax, the federal gas tax has not been increased for decades and is not indexed to inflation. While it hurts to pay even a modest gas-tax increase (about $100 a year under SB 1), and all those gas station signs constantly remind us of the price, without enough money our road system, and our economy, will suffer. Walt Seifert is executive director of Sacramento Trailnet, an organization devoted to promoting greenways with paved trails. He can be reached at bikeguy@surewest.net. n

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Jewel of the City AT 100, WILLIAM LAND PARK IS SHOWING ITS AGE

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n Jan. 8, 1918, City Commissioners, as the City Council was then termed, adopted Resolution No. 1266, which allocated almost $150,000 worth of World War I Liberty bonds from a bequest by William Land to purchase 238 acres of land pieced together by George Swanston and F. B. McKevitt. Land came to Sacramento as a poor teenager during the Gold Rush and became a wealthy hotel owner and, in 1898, the mayor of Sacramento. He died in 1911, leaving money for a park open to the public free of charge. For a century, his name has lived on in that park and the surrounding Land Park neighborhood. Sacramento’s first parks were single-block parks or plazas. Private parks that charged admission, such as Richmond Grove (at 20th and O streets) and what is now McKinley Park, were also popular. Early Sacramento maps also show

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Agricultural Park, which was built in 1859 and served as the state fair’s horse-racing track in the area now known as Boulevard Park. The Swanston-McKevitt site was not without controversy. Various groups wanted to place Land’s park in other areas, but in 1922 the city proceeded to develop the present park site. Four wells provided water for the park and are still the primary source of irrigation, enabling the park to stay green through drought times. Initially, 4,000 trees were planted. The park became home to Sacramento’s first golf course in 1923, and the zoo was established in 1927. Three baseball diamonds were added that same year. Three bodies of water—Duck Lake, Lily Pond and Boat Lake (which originally had boats to rent)—and two stream systems that are no longer operational were created. Further amenities came to include

the WPA Rock Garden, Funderland Amusement Park, pony rides, an amphitheater, Fairytale Town, Camellia Grove and memorials to William Land, World War I and the Spanish-American War. Ponds were stocked and fishing encouraged to interest children in the sport. A major amenity, now gone, was a series of bridle paths for use by horses stabled across Freeport Boulevard from the park. Sacramento City College held equestrian and archery classes in the park. In 1937, city voters voted against a bond proposal to make the southeast area of the park the new site of Crocker Art Gallery and create a cultural center in conjunction with the large art department at Sacramento Junior College (now City College). In recent years, drastic cuts in park staffing levels have caused William Land Park to deteriorate. Residents

created Land Park Volunteer Corps, now in its ninth year, to carry out many park maintenance functions. Now, the group is raising funds to restore the 1926 Swanston statue, created by noted sculptor Ralph Stackpole. The list of pressing park needs includes restroom replacement, renovation of Duck Lake and restoration of original traffic patterns “temporarily” blocked decades ago to discourage problems now long gone. Additional refinements have been proposed, including a multimilliondollar renovation of the amphitheater. William Land Park is the city’s most visited park. Years of chronic underfunding have created problems that volunteers alone cannot remedy. The best manner in which to respect William Land’s generosity and love for Sacramento is for the city to devote the resources required to restore the park to its former glory. n

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Open the Tap HOW SCIENTISTS KEEP OUR WATER SUPPLY SAFE TO DRINK

igh-quality drinking water, flowing from the tap, is a luxury we Americans often take for granted. According to the World Health Organization, at least 2 billion people worldwide don’t drink clean water. So where does our tap water come from, and how is it kept clean and safe? In the Sacramento region, there are many different answers. Unlike wastewater treatment, which was centralized under Regional San in 1973, clean water is delivered to Sacramento County homes by a patchwork of 24 local water districts. These districts originated from early property developers drilling wells and expanded naturally into public water agencies. Some have consolidated over time. For example, Sacramento Suburban Water District, one of the largest local providers that serves much of Arden-Arcade and areas north of I-80, was formed by the union of the Arcade and Northridge districts in 2002. Mergers must be approved by elected officials and are not always successful; an effort to unite SSWD

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and Placer County’s San Juan Water District failed a few years ago. Each water district has its own legal structure, manages its own system of pipes and has its own water sources. Water sources can be either surface water (water from local rivers and reservoirs) or groundwater (water pumped up from underground basins). For example, some districts rely exclusively on surface water from Folsom Lake, which puts them at risk during a severe drought. SSWD has access to both surface and groundwater. SSWD operates 75 active wells and also has contract rights with the city of Sacramento and the Placer County Water Agency to receive surface water from the American River and Folsom Lake. How does SSWD decide whether to provide groundwater or surface water to its customers? According to general manager Dan York, groundwater is cheaper, but SSWD turns off its groundwater wells and delivers surface water whenever possible. Why? Groundwater is a limited resource that gets depleted if overused. In fact, the groundwater table in SSWD’s service area had been dropping at the astonishing rate of about one and a half feet per year. Switching to surface water during wet times “banks” groundwater and even allows the underground basin to recharge. Because of this policy, York says they’ve actually seen some

recovery in the depth of the local groundwater table. SSWD’s wells are located on small lots owned by the district. York took me to visit a typical example. These nondescript, fenced sites are located all over the area. I was surprised to discover near my home several wells I’d seen but never recognized next to commercial buildings, or on property behind a residence. Wells are drilled from 300 to 1,000 feet deep. To comply with state law, SSWD monitors water quality by collecting more than 2,500 samples per year for chemical testing, as well as 30 bacteriological samples every week from the distribution system. Soil contains many naturally occurring contaminants, so sometimes water from a well will show an excess of a regulated level of a contaminant. Because each well is independent of the others, SSWD normally will turn off the contaminated well and rely on other sources until the water is treated or the contaminant is no longer detected. Ground water is raised to the surface by vertical turbine pumps with capacities from 300 gallons per minute to 3,500 gallons per minute. The pumps are powered by electricity. I asked York why my home has water even during a power outage. Apparently that wasn’t always the case. During California blackouts in 1996, Sacramento residents lost water along with power. Because

of this hard lesson, SSWD invested in emergency diesel- and natural gas-powered backup generators throughout the district. With power from these generators, they can pump enough water to provide for health and safety even during a widespread power outage. (Not all water districts have this capacity.) From its headquarters on Marconi Avenue, SSWD can remotely monitor all its wells and adjust settings without having to go to the well. The main issue is water pressure. SSWD tries to maintain a water pressure of 30 to 60 psi in the system. At each active well, if the psi drops to 30, the pump turns on. At 60 psi, the pump shuts off. As water is pumped from each well, SSWD adds chlorine as a disinfectant. In part of the district (the south service area), fluoride is also added. Other than that, the groundwater delivered to your home is virtually unchanged from the water that came out of the earth. This makes groundwater cheaper for the district to supply than surface water. Water from the American and Sacramento rivers requires more costly treatment to make it safe to drink. Next month, I’ll tell you how that’s done. Amy Rogers is a scientist, educator and novelist. Learn more at amyrogers.com. n

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The Doctor Is In DIAGNOSING YOUR PLANT PROBLEMS

t a recent party, I answered a lot of gardening questions. That’s what we Sacramento County UC Master Gardeners love to do. Many of us have UC Master Gardener license plate holders on our cars, inviting random strangers to quiz us in parking lots. However, it makes me a little sad when I encounter people who have a lot of pent-up plant problems. You don’t need to wait to bump into a Master

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Gardener to get advice. Sacramento County Master Gardeners answer telephones and assist visitors to our office at 4145 Branch Center Road from Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 p.m. You can also email us at mgsacramento@ucanr.edu. We love getting close, sharp digital photos to help diagnose what is wrong, and we may call you to find out more. You are encouraged to bring plant samples or insects to our office for our examination. Before you make a trip, call (916) 876-5338 to make sure that the office is staffed and to discuss what kind of sample is needed. If the Master Gardener on duty can’t answer a question immediately, he or she will usually refer you to

the UC Davis website, sacmg.ucanr. edu. It’s easy to use and offers a tremendous amount of information. A home gardener can often find answers there without assistance. I usually recommend that people read what is online and then talk with us if they have further questions. We will mail you many of the UC publications for free. Master Gardeners may also consult with the Sacramento County agricultural commissioner next door. If necessary, we will submit a sample through that office for analysis by the California Department of Food and Agriculture’s Plant Pest Diagnostics Center at 3294 Meadowview Road. The agricultural commissioner, Juli Jensen, says, “We are really fortunate

to have the lab here in our county.” While her office’s primary mission is regulatory, it will also assist walk-in visitors. Her preference is that people first go to the Master Gardeners, but “if someone has driven out here, and a Master Gardener is not available, we will try to provide the best customer service that we can,” she says. Although homeowners can bring samples directly to the state lab for analysis free of charge, it’s good to start and finish with the Master Gardeners, who can help interpret the findings and figure out what to do. According to Jensen, there is another reason for requests to go through the county office. “If something unusual is found, then we are sure to get notified.” Occasionally, a new pest is

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What about soil and water? The Master Gardeners office can provide a list of private companies that test soil and advise what amendments and fertilizers are needed to bring it to optimal growing conditions. Sacramento’s water tends to be good, but water in Davis and from some wells can be too high in boron or other elements. The pH of soil and water is important, too. Nutrients are usually best absorbed at a pH of about 6.5, although some plants such as blueberries or azaleas need even more acidity. You can buy inexpensive sampling kits and test pH and basic soil nutrients yourself. At the party, we discussed problems with raised vegetable beds. My hostess said that last season’s crop was stunted and infested with whiteflies. We talked about whitefly control, and I asked if she had examined the roots of her plants. She had not, and she agreed that she would look at roots of all plants that she is removing in the future. Dr. Cheryl Blomquist of the Plant Pest Diagnostics Center once told me

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ake a nature preserve resonant with birdsong, throw in an expert docent, garnish with breakfast fit for a kingfisher, and you have Effie Yeaw Nature Center’s popular spring fundraiser. The event, called Bird and Breakfast Weekend, will be held on successive Saturdays, March 17 and March 24, at Ancil Hoffman Park. Reservations are required; the fundraiser sells out every year. On both dates, the event starts with a guided bird walk. Participants will likely see 40 or more species, and no bird gets left behind: Sacramento Audubon Society guides get as excited about tiny finches as they do about herons, snowy egrets and—yes, it’s possible—a bald eagle flyby. Because Audubon scouts locate nests in advance, visitors usually see wren, hawk, woodpecker and titmouse abodes. Nest watching is enhanced by on-site viewing scopes. On March 17, the guided walk will be followed by a gourmet breakfast and a silent auction. Tickets are $40 for the general public, $35 for American River Natural History Association and Audubon Society members. The March 24 event is family friendly. Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for children 6 and older. The Carmichael Kiwanis Club will serve a pancake breakfast. Participants should wear walking shoes and bring binoculars. The walk begins at 8 a.m. on both dates. For reservations and more information, go to sacnaturecenter.net.

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THEATRE GUIDE THE MUSICALS OF MUSICALS: THE MUSICAL

BECKY SHAW by Gina Gionfriddo

A fanciful parody, the show pays homage to classic musical theatre troupes from across the ages, with a cast of four in those fated recurring melodrama roles of villain, hero, ingénue, and matron. You, too, will be taken to fantastic, but somehow familiar, musical lands and are destined to leave the theatre in stitches. (Group rates and special student performances available)

In Gina Gionfriddo’s BECKY SHAW, a newlywed couple fixes up two romantically challenged friends: wife’s best friend, meet husband’s sexy and strange new co-worker. When an evening calculated to bring happiness takes a dark turn, crisis and comedy ensue in this wickedly funny play that asks what we owe the people we love and the strangers who land on our doorstep.

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California Stage at Wilkerson Theater Thru Feb 18 1725 25th St, Sac 451-5822 CalStage.org

ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS

Set in the 1970s New York City, two strangers embark on a cat and mouse game after one invites the other into his apartment. As they toy with one another, they explore what it means to live and die. Playwright Richard Broadhurst has been both an actor and writer for almost 50 years. Director Janis Stevens has worked as both an actress and director in theatres nationally and internationally. Tory Scroggins has starred in independent films and stage plays in Los Angeles, Sacramento and the Bay. He was awarded Outstanding Regional Actor at the 2017 Sacramento International Film Festival, the 2017 Outstanding Achievement in a Supporting Role from the Sacramento Area Regional Theatre Alliance.

This wild adaptation of Servant of Two Masters took the world by storm in 2011. Winning multiple awards in England and America, this gut busting play tells the story of out-of-work skiffle player Francis Henshall, who becomes separately employed by two men. As Francis desperately tries to keep the men from meeting and learning the truth about his double employment, he spins various plates in the air to hilarious results.

Brandon Hughes’ THE ABSENT FATHER, THE WAYARD SON

The Guild Theater Feb 3 – Feb 25 2828 35TH St (Broadway & 35th) Brandonhughes.net A powerful, funny, must-see show! David “DayDay” Williams has never seen his father in person, but discovers photos of his father under his mother’s bed affirming their resemblance. This leads David questioning his worth, resulting in an angry, confused, and wayward life. At seventeen, his mother reveals a secret, driving David to express his feelings about the father he’s never met, and how different his life would’ve been if he had. It is a story about love, repentance, redemption, and forgiveness. (Ages 13+)

A MODERN RETELLING OF A TIMELESS M Y T H.

B Street Theatre Main Stage Thru Mar 4 2711 B St, Sac 443-5300 BStreetTheatre.org

OUR TOWN

Compañía Nacional de Danza Carmen SAT–SUN, MAR 3–4 Johan Inger’s Carmen is a visionary retelling of mythic and universal elements of passion and violence. This contemporary Carmen tells the tale through the eyes of a child, with its heroine a courageous and modern woman, the mountains of Ronda reimagined as poor suburbs, the military now senior executives and the bullfighter recast as a movie star.

Sacramento Theatre Company Feb 28 – Mar 4 1419 H St, Sac 443-6722 SacTheatre.org

Janet Mock Redefining Realness MON, FEB 5

Our Town tells the story of the fictional American small town of Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire between 1901 and 1913 through the everyday lives of its citizens, particularly Emily Webb and George Gibbs, and is performed by STC School of the Arts Young Professionals Conservatory students. The Young Professionals Conservatory is a ten-month program for students ages 12 to 18 that prepares students for careers in theatre through master classes and performance opportunities with professional actors, directors and designers.

Transgender rights activist, TV host, and New York Times bestselling author discusses her work in the keystone event of this year’s Campus Community Book Project.

Cirque Éloize Saloon SUN, FEB 11 Theater, circus and live music rambunctiously collide in a story of a piano tuner who has set his sights on the beautiful Belle. Hold on to your 10-gallon hats—this action-packed Western is fun for the entire family! Youth tickets start at $12.50

GANDHI

B Street Theatre Feb 19 – Mar 11 2711 B St, Sac 443-5300 BstreetTheatre.org A middle school boy in detention learns deeper values in life when forced to read the life of Mahatma Gandhi. A delightful tale of awakening set to Hip Hop and Indian Classical music.

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Music Woman THIS SINGER AND CELLIST TEACHES STUDENTS THE MECHANICS OF MUSIC

oAnn Ross could not see herself as retired. The singer, cellist and music teacher has performed in choirs, orchestras, chamber music groups, jazz bands, opera and musical theater for more than 50 years, so when it came time to retire from her career as a podiatrist, she knew exactly what she wanted to do with her newfound time. “Teaching was always something I thought I would do,” says Ross, who teaches cello and singing lessons out of a studio in her Carmichael home. “My parents were college professors. My daughter’s a teacher. My sister’s a teacher. But I knew I didn’t want to stand up and control a large room. I

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prefer one on one.” Ross teaches singing to a wide range of students, from 9 to 85-plus years old, in a variety of singing styles that includes classical, musical theater, jazz and pop. Her own musical background is equally varied. She started playing cello out of necessity when she was in fourth grade: She wanted to play the flute but wasn’t allowed to until fifth grade, so her parents suggested she try the half-sized cello. Ross fell in love with the instrument and became versed not only in cello but also string bass and sousaphone. That allowed her to play in her school’s traditional band as well as a dance band that

played at proms and other social events in her hometown of Whittier. “In high school, I played with seven different organizations,” Ross recalls. “I would take academic classes during the summer so I could do more music during the school year.” In college, Ross decided to major in her other musical love, singing. But after graduating, she realized that making a living in music would be challenging. So she became a podiatrist instead.

“Podiatry allowed me to have a practice during the day instead of being called out at night,” says Ross, who raised her children while studying at California College of Podiatric Medicine. She practiced for 15 years in the Los Angeles area until music came calling once again— only this time, Ross was even better equipped. “As a podiatrist, you study biomechanics—how your muscles and nerves make things happen in your

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TICKETS CCT BOX OFFICE | 916.808.5181 or TICKETS.COM SACRAMENTOCHORAL.COM body,” Ross says. “I use that anatomy and physiology background in singing. Your instrument is a wind source, and you contort the spaces in your vocal folds to change the amplification of your voice.” Ross’ medical knowledge and the state-of-the-art technology she employs in her studio help her students get the most out of their voices. “I have software that maps the acoustics and frequencies of the voice so students can see what they’re doing,” Ross says. “Then we can manipulate the sound with the tongue and the larynx and change the color of what comes out.” This high-tech approach has made Ross a sought-after instructor for all kinds of students: those just starting to sing, people who perform in local musical theater and choirs, people preparing for college or already studying music who want to improve their skills. Despite Ross’ demanding six-daya-week teaching schedule, she takes cello lessons herself from one of Northern California’s premier cello

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teachers and performs in groups like Beethoven & Friends Chamber Music Ensemble, which returned Ross to her very first instrument. “I didn’t play cello for 30 years, then took it up again 10 years ago,” she says. “I loved playing in local orchestras, but the evening rehearsal schedule made it hard to do lessons. So now I love getting to perform every so often with a dedicated group. Each experience feeds the other—it’s an overlap of ideas.” Sounds like a pretty great retirement plan. For more information, go to like2sing.com and celloantics.com. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com. n

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Chinese brush painting will be the focus of the “Expression of Chinese Art” exhibit at Ella K. McClatchy Library. This artwork was painted by Sylvia Hsieh.

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“Expression of Chinese Art” Ella K. McClatchy Library Feb. 10–March 23 (reception Feb. 10, 2–4 p.m.) 2112 22nd St. • saclibrary.org This exhibition will highlight Chinese brush painting (ink and watercolor on absorbent xuan paper) by master painter Lillian Seto and her students. Seto will give a Chinese brush-painting workshop on Saturday, Feb. 24, from 2 to 4 p.m., limited to 15 participants. Sign up at the library circulation desk.

Sacramento Ballet will perform "Giselle” Feb. 16-18 at the Community Center Theater.

“Giselle” Sacramento Ballet Feb. 16–18 Community Center Theater, 1301 L St. • sacballet.org With its surreal beauty, “Giselle” has mesmerized audiences since its premiere in Paris in 1841. Co-artistic directors Ron Cunningham and Carinne Binda chose the production—which hasn’t been done in more than 15 years—in celebration of their 30th year at the helm of the Sacramento Ballet.

Classical Concert: Michelle Xiao You Crocker Art Museum Sunday, Feb. 11, 3 p.m. 216 O St. • crockerart.org Michelle Xiao You, violinist with the Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera, will present a program featuring European composers of the late 19th century.

Black History Month Free Family Festival Crocker Art Museum Sunday, Feb. 18, noon–4 p.m. 216 O St. • crockerart.org. This annual festival features live performances, hands-on activities and the community’s only Black and Beautiful Community Marketplace. Stop by Crocker Art Museum and check out the Faith Ringgold exhibit.

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“Art of the Airport Tower” Aerospace Museum of California Feb. 10–July 6 3200 Freedom Park Drive, McClellan• aerospaceca.org This compelling exhibit premiered at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in 2015. It takes guests on a photographic journey to airports around the world through 50 striking photographs by Smithsonian photographer Carolyn Russo.

Go on a photographic journey to airports around the world with “Art of the Airport Tower” exhibit at Aerospace Museum of California. The photos were taken by Smithsonian photographer Carolyn Russo.

Elena Smith in Conversation Genealogical Association of Sacramento Wednesday, Feb. 21, 12:15 p.m. Belle Cooledge Library, 5600 South Land Park Drive • gensac.org Speaker Elena Smith, librarian at the California State Library, will explain the resources available in the library’s large collection for those looking to do genealogical research.

“Family Cabins”

“Terry Moore’s Poetic Justice 2018” Laughs Unlimited Thursday, Feb. 8, 8:30 p.m. 1207 Front St. • terrymoorelive.eventbrite.com Catch a rare, full-show performance by eight-time “Best Poet” award winner Terry Moore—who’s opened for Maya Angelou, Kirk Franklin, Raphael Saadiq and Dr. Cornel West. Also appearing: host Selena Spencer, a live band and special guests.

“Faith Ringgold: An American Artist”

Asymptotic Productions Feb. 23–March 10

Crocker Art Museum Feb. 18–May 13

Howe Avenue Theater, 2201 Cottage Way • familycabinsplay.com In writer Irwin Rosenblum’s first full-length play, Jane arrives at her family’s cabin in the Sierras in time for “Gotcha Day,” an annual celebration of her adoption. Over the course of the weekend, events trigger Jane into a manic state of her bipolar disorder, and her family desperately tries to help her cope. Warning: “Family Cabins” contains strong language and mature content.

216 O St. • crockerart.org This exhibition brings together more than 40 examples of works by Faith Ringgold. It will include her story quilts, tanka poems, prints, oil paintings, drawings, masks, soft sculptures and original illustrations from her awardwinning book, “Tar Beach.”

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7th Annual Sacramento Bacon Fest Chef’s Challenge Sacramento Bacon Fest Sunday, Feb. 11, 2–6 p.m. Mulvaney’s B&L, 1215 19th St. • facebook.com/sacramentobaconfest This popular pig-centric food feast is back as chefs compete to see who’s got the best bacon, bites and more. Your $60 ticket includes bites from all of the participating chefs, food from Mulvaney’s, three beer/wine tickets and service charge.

The Purple Carpet Fundraising Gala The Purple Dove Saturday, Feb. 10, 6:30 p.m. Tsakopoulos Library Galleria, 828 I St. • thepurpledove.com The Purple Dove, a local organization providing holistic treatment for those combating opioid addiction, will host a gala in honor of the late singer Prince in an effort to raise awareness of opioid dependency and the need for rehabilitation facilities. Tickets are $25–$75. Proceeds will go toward startup costs for The Purple Dove Opioid Treatment Center in Carmichael. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com. n

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“Hopes Springing High: Gifts of African American Art” Crocker Art Museum Feb. 18–July 15 216 O St. • crockerart.org In recognition of Black History Month and the opening of “Faith Ringgold: An American Artist,” the museum will install a concurrent exhibition of recent acquisitions and promised gifts of art by African-American artists.

“The Absorption of Light” Beatnik Studios Feb. 2–March 22 (reception Feb. 2, 6–9 p.m.) 723 S St. • beatnik-studios.com Large-scale works by Frank Brooks and Jaya King will share space in this dramatic exhibition featuring abstracts, figures and portraitures in King’s signature encaustic and Brooks’ sculptural layered oils in varying shades of black and gray.

Artwork by Jaya King will be on exhibit at Beatnik.

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Japanese on the Grid ASIAN GASTROPUBS BRING DIVERSITY OF CUISINE

he sushi craze hit the West Coast more than a decade ago. Growing up in Sacramento during the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s, I knew of only one place that served raw fish, Hana Tsubaki on J Street. (Still going strong, by the way.) In the years that followed, sushi joints popped up in every part of town. There are now upscale, casual, experimental and grab-and-go sushi spots in nearly every neighborhood.

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Then, in the past five to 10 years, ramen became the Japanese import du jour. Now, there are literally ramen shops across the street from other ramen shops. In the wake of these two Japanese food trends, there hasn’t been much room for the true panoply of Japanese cuisine to shine. However, two newer restaurants on the Grid are filling in the gaps, bringing another style of Japanese cooking to town. Skool Gastropub Shochu & Sake Bar draws from Japanese pub grub and elevates it in its hip K Street digs. The menu is inspired by the food of an izakaya, a casual pub or bar and grill that you’d find in most Japanese cities. Small bites are fried or grilled; fish and other meats hold equal spots on the menu; and everything tastes better washed down with a beer or sake. This is a bit of a rebranding for Skool. When it first opened two

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years ago, as a Sacramento outpost o of a successful San Francisco enterprise, the focus was on refined cooking and a higher price point. Now, prices are lower, and the menu focuses on accessible Japaneseinspired comfort foods. Here are just a few of the n beautiful small bites you can snack on: fried oysters with house-made tartar sauce; panko-breaded and fried sardine or salmon; karaage aded fried chicken; cornmeal-breaded baby mushrooms with miso aioli. Those dishes, and equally om the excellent items that come from grill, are elevated by precise execution use-made and the care put into the house-made sauces and sides. Each dish comes from humble roots but is enhanced by thoughtful preparation. On a recent visit, I was blown away by the grilled escolar. It was a

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simple-looking dish, but the cooking of the buttery fish stood out. The meat was pillowy soft, and the skin had a perfectly grilled char. The lightly sauced dish sang with a simple accompaniment of braised bok choy. At $15, it was a truly gorgeous dish. Some of these dishes might sound a little more Japanese-inspired than technically Japanese. But other items on the menu fit that bill nicely. For an indulgent Japanese bar snack, try the takoyaki, fried balls of batter stuffed with octopus and other fillings, topped with mayo and bonito flakes. This street-food dish, originating from Osaka, is an unsophisticated fried treat. Binchoyaki Izakaya Dining, a small, newish restaurant on 10th Street in Southside Park, also offers Sacramento diners a glimpse into casual yet beautifully executed Japanese fare. Binchoyaki’s cuisine is based on a style of Japanese cooking called sumiyaki (“sumi” or “bincho” is Japanese charcoal and “yaki” is grill) or better known as yakitori (“yaki” is grill and “tori” is chicken). More than half of the menu is delivered from the charcoal grill, typically skewered and sauced, and quickly devoured without pretension. Grilled morsels range from the highly familiar—chicken thigh, beef strip, shrimp and oyster—to the more unfamiliar: chicken heart, beef tongue, mackerel and bacon-wrapped enoki mushroom.

The other half of the menu highlights a kitchen with heart and skill. What sound like simple fish dishes—salmon with shishito peppers, grilled cod with mushrooms—come to the table as gorgeous plates with facefirst flavors and strong seasoning. A small but efficient lineup of ramen is flat-out excellent. Highly creative desserts stand out. During the holidays, a mochi ice cream treat that resembled a particular red-clad gift bringer was delightful. Year-round, the crème caramel is indulgently fantastic. The simple glass storefront shows off the sizable charcoal grill and the hungry diners seated before it, as well as a glass-fronted cold box stuffed with the widest array of Japanese beers I’ve seen in the area. If sushi and ramen are as far as you’ve gone into Japanese food culture, I encourage you to try out these two spots to broaden your horizons and learn some new culinary vocabulary. Skool Gastropub Shochu & Sake Bar is at 2319 K St.; (916) 737-5767; skoolonkstreet.com. Binchoyaki Izakaya Dining is at 2226 10th St.; (916) 469-9448; binchoyaki.com. Greg Sabin can be reached at gregsabin@hotmail.com. n

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INSIDE’S H STREET EAST SAC 33rd Street Bistro 3301 Folsom Blvd. • (916) 455-2233 B L D $$ Full Bar Patio Paciﬁc Northwest cuisine in a casual bistro setting • 33rdst.bistro.com

Burr’s Fountain 4920 Folsom Blvd. • (916) 452-5516 B L D $ Fountain-style diner serving burgers, sandwiches, soup and ice cream specialties

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L D $$ Wine/Beer Wine tasting and paired entrees. Sunday Brunch 10 - 2 • cabanawinery.com

Chocolate Fish Coffee Roasters 48th St. & Folsom Blvd. • (916) 451-5181

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Clubhouse 56 723 56th St. • (916) 454-5656 B L D $$ Full Bar American. HD sports, kid’s menu, breakfast weekends, late night dining • ch56sports. com

OBO Italian Table & Bar 3145 Folsom Blvd. • (916) 822-8720 L D $$ Full Bar The rustic, seasonal and nourishing ﬂavors of Italy. Counter service • oboitalian.com

Español Italian Restaurant 5723 Folsom Blvd. • (916) 457-1936 L D $$ Full Bar Classic Italian cuisine served in a traditional family-style atmosphere • espanol-italian. com

Evan’s Kitchen and Catering 855 57th St. • (916) 452-3896 B L D $$ Wine/Beer Eclectic California cuisine served in a family-friendly atmosphere • chefevan. com

Formoli’s Bistro 3839 J St. • (916) 448-5699 L D $$-$$$ Wine/Beer Mediterranean inﬂuenced cuisine in a stylish neighborhood setting • formolisbistro.com

Hawks Public House 1525 Alhambra Blvd. • (916) 558-4440

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Small-batch coffees brewed from beans harvested within the past 12 months • chocolateﬁshcoffee.com

L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Familiar classics combined with specialty ingredients by chefs Molly Hawks and Mike Fagnoni • hawkspublichouse.com

Kru 3135 Folsom Blvd. • (916) 551-1559

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Nopalitos Southwestern Café 5530 H St. • (916) 452-8226 B L $ Wine/Beer Southwestern fare in a casual diner setting • nopalitoscafe.com

OneSpeed 4818 Folsom Blvd. • (916) 706-1748 L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Patio, Private Room. Artisan pizzas & seasonally inspired menu in a casual, neighborhood setting • onespeedpizza.com

Opa! Opa! 5644 J St. • (916) 451-4000 L D $ Wine/Beer Fresh Greek cuisine in a chic, casual setting, counter service • eatatopa.com

Roxie Deli & Barbeque 3340 C St. • (916) 443-5402 B L D $ Deli sandwiches, salads & BBQ made fresh. Large selection of craft Beer • roxiedeli.com

Selland’s Market Cafe 5340 H St. • (916) 736-3333 B L D $$ Wine/Beer High-quality hand-crafted food to eat in or take out, bakery, wine bar, Sunday brunch• sellands.com

DOWNTOWN Cafeteria 15L 1116 15th St. • (916) 492-1960 L D $$ Full Bar Classic American lunch counter with a millennial vibe • cafeteria15l.com

Chocolate Fish Coffee Roasters 400 P St. • (916) 400-4204 Small-batch coffees brewed from beans harvested within the past 12 months • chocolateﬁshcoffee.com

de Vere’s Irish Pub 1521 L St. • (916) 231-9947 L D $$ Full Bar Family-run authentic Irish pub with a classic menu to match • deverespub.com

Downtown & Vine 1200 K St. #8 • (916) 228-4518 L D $$ Educational tasting experience of wines by the taste, ﬂight or glass with tapas and small plates • downtownandvine.com

Ella Dining Room & Bar 1131 K St. • (916) 443-3772 L D $$$ Full Bar Modern American cuisine served family-style in a chic, upscale space • elladiningroomandbar.com

Esquire Grill 1213 K St. • (916) 448-8900

L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Raw and reﬁned, traditional Japanese cuisine and sushi • krurestaurant.com

L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Outdoor Dining Upscale American fare served in an elegant setting • paragarys.com • esquiregrill.com

La Trattoria Bohemia

Firestone Public House

3649 J St. • (916) 455-7803 L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Italian and Czech specialties in a neighborhood bistro setting latrattoriabohemia.com

1132 16th St. • (916) 446-0888 L D $$ Full Bar Sports bar with a classical American menu • ﬁrestonepublichouse.com

Art Preview GALLERY ART SHOWS IN FEBRUARY

Tim Collom Gallery presents a solo exhibition, “Round Two,” by Whitney Lofrano, from Feb. 6 to March 1. Shown above: “Float Sweet Peaches,” watercolor on paper. 915 20th St.; timcollomgallery.com

Jaya King’s encaustic work will be featured in a duo show with Frank Brooks at Beatnik Studios through March 22. Shown above: “Reﬂection,” encaustic by King. 723 S St.; beatnik-studios.com

B. Sakato Garo presents the work of Ryan M. Reynolds from Feb. 6 to Mar. 3. Shown: “Freeway #4”, oil on panel by Reynolds is shown above. 923 20th St.; bsakatagaro.com

Artistic Edge Gallery presents work by Ron Hall, Diana Ormanzhi, Gary Harris and Carol Brown through Feb. 28. Shown above: “Golden Gate,” oil on canvas by Harris. 1880 Fulton Ave.; artisticedgeframing.com

Archival Gallery presents selected works by Gerald Barnes and Mariellen Layne through March. 2. Shown right: “Stele,” a mosaic by Layne. 3223 Folsom Blvd.; archivalgallery.com NCA Aspiring Artist Debut 2018 is an exhibit open to new artists who have never shown in a juried exhibition. The show runs through Feb. 18 at Sacramento Fine Arts Center and includes drawing, mixed media, oil, acrylic, watercolor, pastel, photography and sculpture. Shown above right: “Images,” by Angela Cleavenger. 5330 Gibbons Drive; sacﬁnearts.org

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Frank Fat’s

The Firehouse Restaurant

806 L St. • (916) 442-7092

1112 Second St. • (916) 442-4772

L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Chinese favorites in an elegant setting • fatsrestaurants.com

L D $$$ Full Bar Global and California cuisine in an upscale historic Old Sac setting • ﬁrehouseoldsac.com

Ma Jong’s Asian Diner 1431 L St. • (916) 442-7555

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L D $-$$ Beer/Wine Cuisine from Japan, Thailand, China ad Vietnam. • majongs.com

1022 Second St. • (916) 441-2211

Grange Restaurant & Bar 926 J St. • (916) 492-4450 B L D $$$ Full Bar Simple, seasonal, soulful • grangesacramento.com

L D $$ Full Bar American bistro favorites with a modern twist in a casual Old Sac setting • ten22oldsac.com

Willie’s Burgers 110 K St. • (916) 573-3897 L D $ Great burgers and more • williesburgers.com

Hock Farm Craft & Provision 1415 L St. • (916) 440-8888 L D $$-$$ Full Bar Celebration of the region’s rich history and bountiful terrain • hockfarm.com

R STREET Café Bernardo 1431 R St. • (916) 930-9191

South 2005 11th St. • (916) 382-9722 L D $-$$ Beer/Wine Timeless traditional Southern cuisine, counter service • weheartfriedchicken.com

B L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Casual California cuisine with counter service • cafebernardo.com

Fish Face Poke Bar 1104 R St. Suite 100 • (916) 706-6605

OLD SAC Fat City Bar & Cafe 1001 Front St. • (916) 446-6768

Iron Horse Tavern

L D $$-$$$ Full Bar American cuisine served in a casual historic Old Sac location • fatsrestaurants.com

1800 15th St. • (916) 448-4488

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L D $$ Beer/Sake Humble Hawaiian poke breaks free • ﬁshfacepokebar.com

L D $-$$ Full Bar Gastro-pub cuisine in a stylish industrial setting • ironhorsetavern.net

1110 Front St. • (916) 442-8226

Magpie Cafe

L D $$ Full Bar Bistro favorites with a distinctively Sacramento feeling in a riverfront setting • riocitycafe.com

1601 16th St. • (916) 452-7594 L D $$-$$$ Wine/Beer Seasonal menu using the best local ingredients • magpiecafe.com

Shoki Ramen House

The Red Rabbit

1201 R St. • (916) 441-0011

2718 J St. • (916) 706-2275

L D $$ Beer/Wine Japanese ﬁne dining using the best local ingredients • shokiramenhouse.com

L D $$ Full Bar All things local contribute to a sophisticated urban menu • theredrabbit.net

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Paragary’s

The Rind

L D $$ Full Bar Fabulous Outdoor Patio.,California cuisine with a French touch • paragarys.com

1801 L St. #40 • (916) 441-7463 L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Cheese-centric menu paired with select wine and beer • therindsacramento.com

Zocolo 1801 Capitol Ave. • (916) 441-0303 L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Patio Regional Mexican cuisine served in an authentic artistic setting • zocolosacramento.com

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Revolution Wines 2831 S St. • (916) 444-7711 L D $-$$ Beer/Wine Urban winery and tasting room with a creative menu using local sources • revolution-wines.com

Skool 2319 K St. • (916) 737-5767

MIDTOWN

L D $$ Beer/Sake Inventive Japansese-inspired seafood dishes • skoolonkstreet.com

Biba Ristorante 2801 Capitol Ave. • (916) 455-2422 L D $$$ Full Bar Upscale Northern Italian cuisine served a la carte • biba-restaurant.com

Café Bernardo

Suzie Burger 2820 P St. • (916) 455-3500 L D $ Beer/Wine Classic burgers, cheesesteaks, shakes, chili dogs, and other tasty treats • suzieburger. com

2726 Capitol Ave. • (916) 443-1180 B L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Casual California cuisine with counter service • cafebernardo.com

Tapa The World

Centro Cocina Mexicana

L D $-$$ Wine/Beer/Sangria Spanish/world cuisine in a casual authentic atmosphere, live ﬂamenco music • tapathewworld.com

2730 J St. • (916) 442-2552

2115 J St. • (916) 442-4353

L D $$ Full Bar Patio Regional Mexican cooking served in a casual atmosphere • paragarys.com • centrococina.com

Thai Basil

Easy on I 1725 I St. • (916) 469-9574

L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Patio Housemade curries among their authentic Thai specialties • thaibasilrestaurant.com

L D $-$$ Full Bar American eats, including BBQ, local brews & weekend brunch • easyoni.com

The Waterboy

Federalist Public House 2009 N St. • (916) 661-6134 L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Wood-ﬁred pizzas in an inventive urban alley setting • federalistpublichouse.com

Hot Italian 1627 16th St. • (916) 444-3000 L D $$ Full Bar Authentic hand-crafted pizzas with inventive ingredients, gelato • hotitalian.net

Mulvaney’s Building & Loan 1215 19th St. • (916) 441-6022 L D $$$ Full Bar Modern American cuisine in an upscale historic setting

2431 J St. • (916) 442-7690

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2000 Capitol Ave. • (916) 498-9891

Iron Grill

L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Patio Fine South of France and Northern Italian cuisine in a chic neighborhood setting • waterboyrestaurant.com

13th St. and Broadway • (916) 737-5115

OAK PARK

Jamie’s Broadway Grille

La Venadita

L D $$ Full Bar Featured on Diners, DriveIns and Dives. Dine in or take out since 1986 • jamiesbroadwaygrille.com

3501 Third Ave. • (916) 400-4676 L D $$ Full Bar Authentic Mexican cuisine with simple tasty menu in a colorful historic setting • lavenaditasac.com

Oak Park Brewing Company 3514 Broadway • (916) 660-2723 L D $$ Full Bar Award-winning beers and a creative pub-style menu in an historic setting • opbrewco.com

Vibe Health Bar 3515 Broadway • (916) 382-9723 B L D $-$$ Clean, lean & healthy snacks. Acai bowls are speciality. Kombucha on tap • vibehealthbar.com

L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Upscale neighborhood steakhouse • irongrillsacramento.com

427 Broadway • (916) 442-4044

Riverside Clubhouse

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Freeport Bakery 2966 Freeport Blvd. • (916) 442-4256 $ Award-winning baked goods and cakes for eat in or take out • freeportbakery.com

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“SKOOL NIGHT”

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2415 16th St. • (916) 444-2006 L D $ Great burgers and more. Open until 2:30 am on Friday and Saturday • williesburgers.com

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Shoki Ramen House 2530 21st St. • (916) 454-2411 L D $$ Beer/Wine Japanese ﬁne dining using the best local ingredients • shokiramenhouse.com

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806 L Street Downtown Sacramento 916-442-7092 www.FrankFats.com

L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Gourmet Chineses food for 32 years • Dine in and take out • themandarinrestaurant. com

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L D $ Long-standing landmark with retro decor supplying homemade ice cream in a variety of ﬂavors plus soup and sandwiches • gunthersicecream.com

2989 Arden Way • (916) 480-0560

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B L D $$-$$$ Full Bar American cuisine with a Western touch in a creative upscale atmosphere • roxyrestaurantandbar.com

5038 Fair Oaks Blvd. • (916) 485-2883 B L D $-$$ Full bar Casual, locally owned European style café with table service from 5 pm and patio dining • bellabrucafe.com

515 Pavilions Lane • (916) 922-2870 B L D $$ Full Bar Outdoor Patio Seasonal, European-inﬂuenced comfort food • paragarys.com

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

Ettore’s Bakery & Cafe 2376 Fair Oaks Blvd. • (916) 482-0708 B L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Patio European-style gourmet café with salads, soup, spit-roasted chicken, and desserts in a bistro setting • ettores.com

The Kitchen 2225 Hurley Wy. • (916) 568-7171 D $$$ Wine/Beer Five-course gourmet demonstration dinner by reservation only • thekitchenrestaurant.com

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 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

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Cafe Bernardo

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L D $$ Authentic Mediterranean cuisine made from scratch on site • pitakitchenplus.com

2381 Fair Oaks Blvd. • (916) 489-2000

Ristorante Piatti 571 Pavilions Lane • (916) 649-8885 L D $$ Full Bar Contemporary Italian cuisine in a casually elegant setting • piatti.com

Sam’s Hof Brau 2500 Watt Ave. • (916) 482-2175 L D $$ Wine/Beer Fresh quality meats roasted daily • originalsamshofbrau.com

Thai House 527 Munroe in Loehmann’s • (916) 485-3888 L D $$ Wine/Beer Featuring the great taste of Thai traditional specialties • sacthaihouse.com

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