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big motivation behind the book we released last year, “Inside Sacramento: The Most Interesting Neighborhood Places in America’s Farm-to-Fork Capital,” was helping the efforts to better market our city through our yearround growing, ranching and culinary heritage, combined with our vibrant neighborhood experiences. When the city adopted the farmto-fork moniker a few years ago, it wasn’t the result of a carefully developed marketing and branding
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campaign. It grew organically from local chefs and growers, spearheaded by my friend, Josh Nelson, CEO of Selland Family Restaurants. At the time, Nelson told me that the mayor and the city’s visitors bureau weren’t especially easy to convince. Experts say that the best slogans are usually grown from within the community, rather than forced from the top down as the result of careful study. One of my favorite cities is Austin, Texas, whose homegrown slogan is “Keep Austin Weird,” a theme that encompasses the vast collection of unique, small, locally owned retail shops and restaurants. Thankfully, there has been little resistance to the farm-to-fork theme, especially as its reach has grown and events during the month of September have become more plentiful, accessible and diverse.
But last month, when the visitors bureau had the words “America’s Farm-to-Fork Capital” painted on the huge I-5 water tower, protests began. The logo replaced the City of Trees sign that had been there since 2005. I think those protesting the change are misguided. First of all, “City of Trees” is used by dozens of other U.S. cities. And while I have no problem with the sentiment, it is not a destination driver for tourists or those considering moving here. While much of our tree canopy disappears five months of the year, our farmto-fork culture is alive, growing and accessible year-round. The first protest was lodged on social media by Ray Tretheway, leader of the Sacramento Tree Foundation. Then, sadly, came a barrage of anger at the change. Some even claimed the
farm-to-fork slogan was being “forced down our throats.” Geez! On a side note, our urban forest has been seriously degraded with the recent multiple-year drought. Up to 1,000 trees have been lost in city parks alone. I wrote about this crisis a couple of years ago, asking citizens to step up and help with deep watering. The response from the community was silence. City parks’ management at the time was unable to figure out a watering plan using volunteers. Ultimately, park watering increased, which helped somewhat. But the damage was done and hundreds of park trees had to be removed. And there is still no plan or funding for tree replacement on the horizon. The Friends of East Sacramento nonprofit (founded by my friend Lisa Schmidt and me in 2011) planted PUBLISHER page 13
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PUBLISHER FROM page 11 more than a dozen trees in McKinley Park in 2015, after the city said that existing sprinklers were adequate to get their roots started. That turned out to not be true, and we had to organize volunteers to deep-water them through the following two summers. As for citizens who claim to love our trees above all else, we found few were interested in helping. I recently went for a week to a fitness resort where there were folks from all over the country. I learned a lot about the perception of our city after people asked where I was from. Those from the East Coast or Midwest who hadn’t ever visited asked what Sacramento is all about, other than being the state capital. I explained our farm-to-fork development and the bountiful collection of farms, ranches and rivers within a 100-mile radius. This was always received with fascination and interest. People from California who had visited our city many years ago recalled it as being “kind of bland.� They, too, showed interest in visiting when I told them about our culinary and neighborhood virtues. I also met a lovely cookbook author and chef who lives in LA. She drives through our city to visit her mom and dad in Lake County every couple of months. She has even catered events in Sacramento. She told me she loves the city, specifically our new Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op. (I agree!) She learned about our city from her culinary-community pals who live here. Her folks now travel here specifically for the dining and exploring. She was thrilled when I sent them our book, and she told me
she had totally underestimated our city before reading it! Thinking back on this experience, if I had made the civic conversation about being a “City of Trees,� I don’t think I would have been able to engage any interest. About a year ago, when I was working with a Vancouver company on printing color photo proofs for our book, the owner called to say he’d had no idea Sacramento was such a compelling destination. He said he and his family travel to the States every year and were moving Sacramento to the top of their list of places to visit. Last year when we created Inside the Grid, an all-new magazine for the central city, it took us no time to decide to sub-headline every cover with “The Most Interesting People, Places and Culture in America’s Farm-to-Fork Capital.� I’m now a member of the Civic Amenities Committee at the Sacramento Metro Chamber of Commerce. We’re looking at inventorying the amenities our region has to offer and trying to formulate a path forward to enhance our region’s image in some manner. At a recent meeting, I suggested we focus our efforts on creating a simple, overarching regional theme that would help describe what we already have. Others had their own ideas—and we are still in the formative stage—but I am excited about the possibilities. There is also Mayor Darrell Steinberg’s initiative to establish Sacramento as a hub for art, food and tech. I recently met Mora Rowe, director of Placer County Visitors Bureau, which also focuses on
its terrific farm-to-fork amenities as a draw. Recently, longtime civic leader Sandy Smoley has been leading the efforts to upgrade the golden-hued Tower Bridge lighting with energyefficient colored LEDs using private funds. Lighting color changes would be reserved for special occasions. I love Sacramento. We are blessed with many great civic-minded folks who call it home. When it comes to change, there are always a few, but loud, naysayers. Social media
amplifies their voices and local media eagerly picks up the negativity. The Bee recently opined that city slogans are meaningless. I totally disagree. Cities all over the country—and the world—are moving forward with change and improvement. When I revisit a major city, I am often struck with how much more it has to offer than on my last visit. We must keep making our city better. Cecily Hastings can be reached at publisher@insidepublications.com. n
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LIBRARY EVENTS FOR KIDS AND TEENS On Tuesday, April 4, McKinley Library will hold its Read to a Dog program. It’s a fun and proven
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Maldo the Magician and a marionette puppet boy he brings to life. All programs run from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. McKinley Library is at 601 Alhambra Blvd.
MCKINLEY VILLAGE UNDERPASS DEDICATION On Feb. 13, Mayor Darrell Steinberg and Councilmembers Jeff Harris and Steve Hansen attended a ceremony to dedicate the new underpass connecting McKinley Village with the historic
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EAST SAC LIFE FROM page 14 undercarriage of the pass, creating a sensory and safe experience for pedestrians, cyclists and autos. The lights can be programmed to create different effects for holidays and special occasions. The underpass is also the starting point for the McKinley Village Art Walk, a collection of 10 art installments by local artists within the new housing development.
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GROWING AND COOKING WITH HERBS WORKSHOP East Sac Hardware will hold a free one-hour herb workshop on Saturday, April 8, at 10 a.m. Participants will learn about culinary herb cultivation, pest control and herb use. Seats are limited. To reserve a space, call 4577558. East Sac Hardware is at 4800 Folsom Blvd. For more information, go to eastsachardware.com.
RIVER PARK SOFTBALL TEAM NEEDS PLAYERS River Park resident George Shahan has organized a co-ed slow-pitch softball team and is looking for players—particularly female players. “Men have been calling, but not enough women,” Shahan says.
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supplemental programs including Science Alive!, Arts Alive!, Garden Alive!, Kindness Alive! and Music Alive! For tickets, go to theodorejudahpta. org. For more information, contact Sarah Wallace at sarahtjpta@gmail. com or 215-1474. Sacramento Turn Verein is at 3349 J St.
FOOD FILM FESTIVAL RETURNS Sacramento Food Film Festival returns this month with a menu of mouthwatering events. At the premiere event on Saturday, April 1, chefs will pair bites with short food films. General admission is $50; VIP tickets are $75. The event, from 6 to 10 p.m., will be at Sacramento Turn Verein, 3349 J St. For tickets and more information on the festival, go to foodliteracycenter.org.
Theodore Judah Elementary School will hold its annual fundraising gala on April 29.
KNITTING CIRCLE McKinley Library holds a knitting circle for adults on Wednesdays from 10 a.m. to noon. Participants can learn to knit or get help on current projects and advice from expert
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Lessons From Preschool THE QUIET WISDOM OF MISS BETSY
BY JUSTIN PANSON
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eg and I ran into Miss Betsy down at Peet’s coffee this past weekend. Betsy
Lahann was the preschool teacher for all three of our children. But to say that she was just a preschool teacher misses the whole point. This short, diminutive, cheerful woman with the bright eyes is connected to the deepest and most powerful things in life. Every time I see her, I ask her when she is going to write her book. And every time, she laughs warmly as if to say what a silly notion. That’s Miss Betsy.
It was the way she regarded those kids, the specific way she cared for her charges. She is enjoying her retirement now, after some 30-plus years running Central Preschool on H Street in East Sacramento. Her preschool was so popular that you had to get your kid on the list the moment you knew you were pregnant, if not before. The mechanics of the school really weren’t that different than other schools. She and her staff offered great activities in a warm, happy, nurturing place designed to allow the kids to prosper. The thing that made her different is more subtle, something that you might overlook if you weren’t paying
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Betsy Lahann surrounded by three former students, Sarah, Evan and Audrey Panson. attention. It was the way she regarded those kids, the specific way she cared for her charges. There were only a few occasions when she would address the group of parents, like at the end-of-year celebration or the annual pageant. When she did, she always made sure to say that we should try to let the kids be who they are. Seems simple, right? Until you start to think about that statement, unpack it, and notice how much of what she did was based on it. Parents today, especially affluent parents, go to great lengths to shape their kids, to set up the perfect sequence of experiences that will
result in a successful person. This is all well meaning and good. Except that in recent years, it has become excessive. The helicopter parent, the tiger mom, and the intense sports dad are now common in our culture. These uber-parents cross the line— their parenting becomes excessive, controlling and potentially stifling. With our kids currently in high school, I have seen this phenomenon firsthand on a daily basis for many years. Often it’s subtle, and sometimes not so much. In thinking about Miss Betsy, I’ve managed to bump into bigger things that lie just below the surface of
parenting: hubris and triumphalism, the Western bias toward active solutions—crushing the rock instead of going around it and the nature/ nurture dynamic. Without realizing it, Miss Betsy was intimately involved in this classic academic paradox. It’s one of the hardest balances as a parent, knowing when to intervene and when to stand down and let life take its course. With my teenagers, I am confronted by this dilemma on a daily basis. More and more, I am trying to learn the difficult task of standing down, of letting them make their own decisions, their own arguments, and their own mistakes. As we were finishing our chat at the coffee shop, I told Miss Betsy about my corporate design gig and mentioned how we could use some of her wisdom at work. Who doesn’t need a little circle time, right? She agreed, gracefully weathering my latest attempt to connect her with larger philosophical points. But it really is true that we grown-ups can all learn something from Miss Betsy: how to keep our aspirations in check in a society that prizes aspiration; how to temper the instinct to control things, lest things end up controlling us. Lessons come from lots of places, and in all shapes and sizes, including from this little woman. By way of a true heart, she has managed to strike this difficult balance, maybe the true measure of the success that we’re all chasing after so madly. Read more by Panson at confluencestudio.com/stories. Justin Panson is a graphic designer and father of three. n
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A Talk With the Mayor ON TRANSPORTATION, TAXES, HOUSING AND MORE
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had a chance recently to sit down with Mayor Darrell Steinberg for a wide-ranging discussion on his approach to city issues. This month’s column covers part one of our discussion; look for part two next month. In the interview, the mayor’s body language was telling. When discussing launching and funding new programs, he was highly engaged, dynamic, even animated. He’s deeply steeped in the minute details of his proposed programs. However, whenever the conversation turned to fiscal constraints, eliminating inefficiencies and the like, he became reticent, reluctant to delve into specifics. This is a politician who clearly relishes launching new programs more than he does reining in spending or economizing. How well this attitude serves Sacramento in the years to come is a very big question. He comes to the job with unprecedented political support from his mayoral colleagues, most having endorsed his candidacy. Even his erstwhile election opponent, North Natomas Councilmember Angelique Ashby, is doing her best to work collaboratively with him while politely disagreeing with him on issues from time to time. Steinberg also seems to have an almost preternatural ability to tap
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Mayor Darrell Steinberg is featured in this portrait by Marcy Friedman titled “Considering All the Options,” oil on canvas, 40” x 30.” The painting is part of New Figurative Work by Marcy Friedman through April 15 at John Natsoulas Gallery in Davis. state government funding for city projects, drawing on contacts and calling in favors built up over his long tenure in the Legislature. But his de facto declaration of war against the new Trump administration over immigration
issues and Sacramento’s status as a “sanctuary city” threatens to imperil major federal funding for Sacramento on a number of fronts: transportation funding, housing vouchers, public safety, community block grants, etc. While publicly declaring his
willingness to “lead the fight” against Trump on immigration and his defiant (if legally shaky) stance that “civil rights are more important than money,” Steinberg is at the same time making lobbying trips to D.C. seeking financial favors for the city from Trump administration officials. The phrase “don’t bite the hand that feeds you” comes immediately to mind. Is stalwartly standing up for Sacramento’s status as a sanctuary city—a largely symbolic stance since real immigration law enforcement seeks the cooperation of local jails, which are a county, not a city, responsibility—and repeatedly poking a finger in the eye of the notoriously sensitive Donald Trump worth the very real risk of losing potentially hundreds of millions of federal funding for Sacramento that it might otherwise receive? City voters might have a very different opinion on this issue from the mayor. To this observer, he appears to be burnishing his political brand with California’s anti-Trump voters while possibly putting the city at risk. Sacramento is facing huge fiscal challenges in the future. Labor costs, and particularly pension costs, continue to escalate, with the city’s annual pension bill projected to increase by $29.4 million by 2022, according to city finance director Leyne Milstein. Rising city revenues from the economic recovery are being quickly spent, with only modest additions to the city’s emergency reserves, which are a third of the level they were when the last recession struck. Even with rapidly rising annual payments to CalPERS, the city CITY HALL page 24
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CITY HALL FROM page 22 continues to accrue large unfunded costs for both pension and retiree health care benefits, bills that will slam the city in the not-too-distant future. One-time general fund budget surpluses are now being spent to kick-start new programs, such as the mayor’s homeless initiative, instead of being socked away in emergency reserves or used to fund long-term investments as they once were. The city’s total debt was nearly $2.5 billion as of June 30, 2016. Total city debt has more than doubled in the past five years, increasing by more than $1.3 billion. The increase is due to bond sales to fund a variety projects, including Golden 1 Center, water meter installations and other utilities infrastructure, as well as ballooning retiree obligations, which are now nearly $1 billion. Meanwhile, the city is facing the challenge of dealing with its increasing homeless population, a knotty problem that was widely studied but not aggressively dealt
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with during Kevin Johnson’s eight-year mayoralty. High youth unemployment, stagnant family incomes and a fairly weak local job market are perhaps our city’s biggest challenges, exacerbated by a less-than-stellar performance by city schools, gangs and unsafe neighborhoods. Rising housing costs are making it harder for folks to buy or rent and play a role both in increasing homelessness and in driving the poor and working families out of California. Transportation issues are also a big concern, with local traffic congestion and a beleaguered, high-cost transit system, Regional Transit, trying to regain its mojo under the direction of its new general manager, Henry Li. We started our conversation talking about ways to improve local governance. The interview has been edited for length and clarity. Craig Powell: County Supervisor Patrick Kennedy recently told me that he concurrently serves
on 31 different boards and commissions. City councilmembers serve on a dozen to 20 such boards, making it virtually impossible for even the most diligent officeholder to provide responsible oversight over them all. Would you be supportive of an effort to rein back the number of boards councilmembers serve on and replacing them with qualified private citizens experienced in overseeing large, complex organizations? Mayor Steinberg: I’d actually think we should move to a combination of both elected officials and private citizens. Regional Transit is a good example. Up until 1992, RT board was populated by private-citizen stakeholders and it did pretty well. Now, we’ve swung 180 degrees the other way. We need to move the pendulum back to the middle. RT could benefit from people with business acumen, representatives of the disabled and the like. It’s unfair to both elected officials and the public to have officeholders serve on so many boards that they don’t have the time to provide good oversight. I look forward to diversifying my appointments to these various boards in the future to include private citizens. We also need a greater and more effective means of communication between such boards and their “bodies of origin,” which are local cities and county government. Last November, voters in Sacramento County narrowly defeated Measure B, a proposal to double the county’s transportation sales tax. There is some discussion of putting it on the ballot again in 2018 or 2020. Is it smart to launch a major infrastructure push in transportation right now, when we’re in the middle of major technological transformations like the advent of autonomous, self-driving cars and the widespread adoption of ridesharing services? There are many transportation infrastructure needs currently, both on the road and the transit
side. The key is to draft a measure that anticipates rapid technological change. It should contemplate autonomous vehicles and other innovative changes in transportation. I’d love to see Sacramento become the center of research and development in autonomous vehicles, electric vehicles and alternative fuels technology. There is no reason why the next ballot measure can’t have some funding set aside for supporting the local growth in such industries. According to the U.S. Census, real family incomes fell 12 percent in Sacramento County between 2000 and 2014. While local incomes have picked up some since, they are still below what they were in 2000. Is it fair to impose the burden of a regressive transportation sales tax hike on people who are still suffering from a significant loss of income in recent years? It’s always a balance. Raising taxes isn’t a positive in itself. While the sales tax has its faults, local governments don’t have a lot of flexibility in the types of taxes they can levy or can even ask voters to consider. The question for voters is: Will they benefit from the tax? Will they have safer roadways, reduced car maintenance, easier access to quality public transportation? That’s how you make your case. Then you let the voters decide. There’s been some discussion of breaking a transportation tax measure into two separate proposals: one for the city, which would be more focused on transit funding, and one for the county, more focused on road maintenance and freeway improvements. City voters seem to be more supportive of transit funding, while county voters seem to be more supportive of roadway funding. Would you support such a bifurcated proposal? I start with the presumption that it’s better to approach things regionally because our challenges CITY HALL page 26
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CITY HALL FROM page 24 know no artificial boundaries. I’m trying to start a new era of city/ county cooperation. A recent article in The Bee reported on the large number of poor people and working families who have left California for other states. Are we doing something to stop it? Or are we doing things that make it more likely that they flee? Are we driving the poor out of California? It’s a multifaceted question. I want to focus on one crisis that plays a disproportionate role in this problem, and that’s the affordable housing crisis. Now, I’m not a rent-control proponent because I think that inhibits the potential to produce more housing. I do think that incentivizing production is a big part of it, but it’s not the only part of it. There are really three ways to reduce housing costs: reduce the tax and fee burden, reduce the burden of land-use restrictions and provide subsidies for development of
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affordable housing. We need to pursue all three. I do think making it easier to build is part of the answer, but I also think that subsidies are part of the answer. Affordable housing projects often need a subsidy to make the numbers work. You know Gov. Brown came to the conclusion that subsidies really weren’t the solution because of the extremely high cost of building a typical subsidized affordable housing unit and available funds would produce such a small number of units that they would be a drop in the bucket in terms of the overall housing market. I don’t completely agree. Look at Nikky Mohanna’s project at 19th and J streets. She’s creating, at last report, $950-per-month apartments by building smaller units. But that’s a project that’s being privately built. SHRA’s average cost of renovating an apartment unit is about $300,000 per apartment, which
is an astonishingly high cost. So the question is: Do subsidy deals, since they do involve the government as an intermediary in developing these deals, produce an overpriced product that doesn’t generate the number of units we all want in the way of affordable housing? Isn’t it better to simply lower private-sector costs and let the private sector, which is more cost conscious than government, do the job? Isn’t that a better, more effective use of a finite amount of money? I’m all for unleashing the private sector. But sometimes, it’s the private sector asking for help. But they always ask for help. Everybody wants free money from the government. That’s not surprising. In researching an article I wrote last year on housing costs, I was astonished to find out that California is an outlier in terms of charging very substantial impact fees on housing construction, a practice
which is almost unheard of east of Rockies. But other states don’t have Prop. 13, which limits the ways local governments can raise money. That’s true. Mello-Roos taxes are another way to raise money for infrastructure. I want to point out that we did pass a major ordinance several weeks ago that allows development fees to be paid at the end of the development process instead of at the beginning, which sends a positive signal to the business community. Secondly, we’ve asked city planners to expedite the delivery of the Downtown Specific Plan. Under legislation I drafted in the State Senate, cities that approve specific plans can “tier” off development based on that plan, allowing developers to build projects consistent with the plan without having to conduct any further environmental reviews. We hope that developers take full advantage of this new opportunity, sooner rather than later.
Next month, the mayor and I discuss his aggressive strategy for dealing with homelessness, city budget issues, possible reforms in the Fire Department and his evolving plans for what to do with the convention center. Craig Powell is a retired attorney, businessman, community activist and president of Eye on Sacramento, a civic watchdog and policy group. He can be reached at craig@ eyeonsacramento.org or 718-3030. n
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Slow Down NEW MAYOR TAKES A CAUTIOUS APPROACH TO DOWNTOWN EXPANSION
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Then the council turned to the
arrell Steinberg has done Sacramento a big
convention center, which sits next
favor simply by pressing
door to the theater along 13th Street.
down on the brakes. Behind the
Driving the discussion was the
scenes, without headlines or public
Sacramento Convention & Visitors
proclamations, Steinberg quietly
Bureau, a nonprofit organization
slowed a runaway white elephant that
supported by taxpayers, but run as a
was threatening to consume about
marketing tool for the local hotel and
$170 million in taxpayer funds.
tourism industry. The convention bureau wants
I’m talking about the Sacramento Convention Center, where a gold-
to expand the convention center,
plated expansion scheme was on track
hoping to draw more hotel guests
to win city funding before Steinberg
and compete with cities like San
became mayor in December. Thanks
Jose, Long Beach and Reno. Knowing
to Steinberg, the $170 million
Sacramento had to remodel its
expansion is now on hold.
theater, the convention bureau wrapped two projects into one. It
Struck dumb by comparisons to San Jose and Long Beach and
sold the city council on linking the
pressured by the city’s tourist
new theater with a newly enlarged
industry, the Sacramento City Council
convention center. The price tag is staggering—
was hurtling forward with a massive convention center investment.
about $270 million, including $16
Alarmingly, the council lacked a fact-
million for an upgrade to Memorial
based answer to the question “why?”
Auditorium—and would wipe out
Steinberg used his popularity and
the city’s borrowing capacity for a
persuasiveness to convince the council
generation. No matter, the council
to slow down, calm its impulses, and
unanimously supported the tourism
think things over.
bureau’s scheme. Into this done deal stepped
The story behind the scenes demonstrates the wisdom of city
Steinberg. Fearing the city council
voters in their decision to make
was blundering toward a 30-year
Steinberg mayor. On the campaign
commitment without sufficient study,
trail, he presented himself as a leader
Mike McKeever is Mayor Steinberg's chief of staff.
a strong voice for neighborhood interests and homeless people.
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it rushed to end the lengthy standoff
beyond the numbers supplied by the
value lies behind the curtain, where
on the aging convention center and
convention bureau.
his decades in politics and experience
Community Center Theater.
Fair enough, but Steinberg’s real
as an Assemblymember and State
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Faced with a court order to bring
“We want to get this right,” says Mike McKeever, Steinberg’s chief of staff. “It’s a lot of money.”
Senate leader are put to use gently
the theater up to federal disability
coaching his naive, misguided or
standards, the council voted to
overeager city council colleagues.
prepare for an $83.4 million theater
Steinberg understands the allure
rehab. There’s no way around it: The
of a new convention center. He
theater has to be fixed or closed.
understands the pressure placed
The convention center expansion By R.E. Graswich City Beat
the mayor convinced his colleagues to slow down and gather facts—data
for the common good. He promised
is a textbook case. Back in October, the city council tripped over itself as
Here’s where things get tricky.
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electrical outlets are limited. Ceilings
convention bureau and tourism
are low. Meeting space is insufficient.
industry. He’s not like his
Those are facts.
predecessor, Kevin Johnson, who
“There’s no disagreement that it’s
would have kicked over chairs telling
inadequate,” McKeever says. “We
city council members to do things his
need to zero in on what’s our best
way or else.
path forward.”
Steinberg is deploying a measured
The path might lead to a new
and patient strategy, raising
convention center. Or not. It all
questions about the wisdom of a
depends on real answers.
convention center arms race against other cities. He noted how the financial commitment will end the city’s hopes of funding other cultural
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projects, notably along the waterfront. “We need to be asking the right questions,” McKeever says. “We’re in a fact-finding mode right now.” The big questions are simple. If Sacramento expands its convention center, will it really attract more conventions? Are there enough hotel rooms for bigger conventions? Should the city wait until more hotel rooms are built? Can the city draw more regional conventions that don’t require large blocks of hotel rooms? How is the city marketing itself? Does the marketing plan work? “The question of hotel rooms and
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Volunteer Wildlife Caring KATE VANDERSLICE
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ate Vanderslice is the recently-appointed volunteer coordinator for Wildlife Care Association, a nonprofit, volunteerbased association that rescues and rehabilitates wild animals. Here, Vanderslice describes her daily duties.
Volunteers are responsible for intake and the everyday cleaning and upkeep of our facility. We couldn’t do it without them.
Volunteers provide 98 percent of our wildlife care, support and maintenance.
What drew you to working with Wildlife Care Association? My parents are very active people, so I went hiking and camping as much as we could get away with when I was a kid. But I didn’t fall in love with being outside until doing field work after earning my bachelor’s degree in biology at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. I did field work with plants, rattlesnake research, worked a little bit with birds and collected data on the behavior of small mammals. Having background knowledge about what’s going on in the environment around you brings out the wonder and joy of it all. It sounds like the WCA is the perfect place for you. It is! I had just moved back to Sacramento after completing a job in Indiana and started volunteering for the WCA and sort of got lucky. I had an email bounce back from the volunteer coordinator address because the position was open, so I applied and started the job in late October last year.
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Kate Vanderslice with one of the Wildlife Care Association's animal ambassadors. What do volunteers do at the WCA? Volunteers provide 98 percent of our wildlife care, support and
maintenance. Last season, we took in more than 5,000 critters from more than 140 species to be cared for and released back into the environment.
When an animal is brought to the WCA, how does it make it back into the wild? If you notice that a wild animal is sick or injured, you can call our hotline and get information about how to safely catch it and bring it in— but only if it’s actually a wild animal and not someone’s pet that wandered or flew away. (If someone brings us a domestic animal, we encourage the rescuer to take it to the local SPCA.) After intake, the animal is taken to triage to get a moment of peace and calm down after being manhandled. The triage staff then examines them. Depending on how old animal is and what it needs, the staff will determine next steps and develop a long-term care plan. We provide the animal food, water and medical treatment to the best of our ability and give it enrichment once it’s well enough to keep its mind and body active. But the best part is when we get to release the animal back into the wild, which is our main goal. To put so much love and care into an animal and then
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Natural and Organic LOCAL DOCTOR CREATES A SKIN CARE LINE INSPIRED BY HIS FAMILY
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magine for a moment that you’re a member of Steven Marcum’s family. If you’re his wife, Charlene, you’ve been married for 16 years to a respected anesthesiologist at Mercy General Hospital whose background in medicine is impressive. (A former medical technologist and toxicologist, he trained at New York Medical College, did his residency at UC Davis Medical Center and now administers anesthesia to patients in every department from cardiac to obstetrics, neurology to pediatrics.) He also happens to have made you your very own natural skin care products that are now available to the public as ML SkinCare. And if you’re his daughter, when you mentioned to your dad that he really should have a cleanser in the new line, he created one for you. From scratch. “A few years ago at a conference in Las Vegas, my wife was approached about buying a skin care product,” recalls Marcum, a Sacramento native and East Sac resident who now works at the hospital where he was born. “It sounded great, but I looked at all the ingredients and I could see that there were lots of chemicals and junk in it and it was really expensive. I told Charlene, ‘Let me see if I can make you something better.’” Marcum’s background in toxicology put him in the perfect position to figure out what ingredients to
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and natural and don’t have harsh chemicals. You could eat the products if you wanted to—though I wouldn’t recommend it. If it goes on your skin, it should be good enough for your whole body.”
“Everybody’s skin is different and everyone has different preferences.”
Steve Marcum is the creator of ML SkinCare, a line of natural skin care products. comingle to make the best possible skin care he could. And with his anesthesia background, he knows that the more chemicals you add, the less information you have about how they interact and how they’re metabolized. This led him to the philosophy behind ML SkinCare: the simpler the better. “I did tons of research,” says Marcum, whose four-product line
recently launched online. “I looked through the products currently out there and looked at what people were saying. I wanted to create something organic and natural but I wasn’t happy with what was being offered commercially. I’ve tried to create products that work together to give the best results but are also simple
Marcum started his experimentation with a serum (the No. 2 Hydrating Serum) for his wife. It contains just six ingredients: aqua, hyaluronic acid, Optiphen Plus (a paraben- and formaldehyde-free preservative), organic white tea powder, green coffee bean powder and ferulic acid. After Charlene gave him the thumbs-up and a batch went to friends and co-workers (who also gave him rave reviews), Marcum set to expanding the line to include a cleanser, a moisturizing oil and a smoothing cream. “Everybody’s skin is different and everyone has different preferences, so I’ve done a ton of work over the last year and a half to do the best job I can,” Marcum says. “I’m really a perfectionist.” The products are packaged in airless containers to ensure freshness. From a medical point of view, Marcum explains, that means the products are essentially never opened, NEIGHBOR page 34
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Brilliant Bridge LOCAL GROUP WANTS TO BATHE TOWER BRIDGE IN BRIGHT COLORED LIGHTS
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ny new idea around changing an iconic civic amenity in Sacramento is bound to stir lots of thoughts, ideas and even some controversy. So why would changing the lighting on the notable Tower Bridge connecting Sacramento to West Sacramento be any different? The project is the brainstorm of longtime community leader Sandy Smoley and other local leaders who thought a change would bring a welcome new look and some excitement to a bridge with an everchanging history. Smoley got the idea when attending the annual Tower Bridge Dinner, one of the region’s most popular events and a finale to the community’s Farmto-Fork Celebration. She banded together with Daniel Ramos, vice president of Ramco Enterprises, Inc., and other community leaders known for raising money and moving projects to completion. They include Jeanne Reaves, Philip MacDougall, Starr Hurley and others. The project, called RePower the Tower, has received support from Caltrans, the cities of Sacramento and West Sacramento, and community organizations like Downtown Sacramento Partnership. The group has a fundraising goal of $700,000 to $900,000, which could be lowered through donated products and
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services. Smoley thinks the actual cost may be as low as $550,000. The project started gaining momentum in February with news and media reports. The organizing group kicked into gear. “Our goal is to keep this totally funded with private
dollars,” said Smoley. “We don’t plan to use government funds.” However, the group does have to work with government agencies. Tower Bridge is owned by Caltrans, which handles operations, maintenance and repairs.
“Sandy Smoley came and pitched us the idea of the lighting on the bridge,” said Andrew Brandt, a Caltrans deputy district director for maintenance and traffic operations. “We thought it was good idea and wanted to work with her.” LED lighting is not new to Caltrans. The agency uses energyefficient LEDs on the San Francisco Bay Bridge and in traffic lights. LED lighting transforms bland, gray infrastructures into works of art. Sacramento has done four similar LED lighting projects, from the parking garage near City Hall to the tunnel connecting DOCO to Old Sacramento. The new underpass built for the entrance into the McKinley Village neighborhood in East Sacramento also has a colorful and creative LED lighting display that was designed by Michael Sestak. There have been discussions about eventually transferring ownership of Tower Bridge to the cities of Sacramento and West Sacramento. Smoley doesn’t think those negotiations will have any impact on efforts to add LED lighting to the bridge. She thinks community interest and support will grow as more people learn about the lighting enhancement, which could be done as early as this year. “I love imaginative and bold ideas for our city,” said Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg. “This is another example of the type of creativity we should engender and promote. Having more lights throughout our city, whether on the Tower Bridge, throughout our business corridors or
across the skyline, would help with our city’s vibrancy.” “Great idea,” said Mark Johannessen, mayor pro tem of West Sacramento. “We have worked on having an ‘alive’ riverfront, and lighting the bridge will help. Just imagine what the riverfront will be in five years. It’s going to be hopping.” Smoley is the driver for community support for the project. At 80, she is still going strong on a variety of projects to improve the community. A former Sacramento County supervisor, she also served under Gov. Pete Wilson as the state’s health and human services secretary. She’s run her own consulting company. As a volunteer, she’s been instrumental in the arts, working with the philharmonic, opera, ballet and theater, and she has supported UC Davis Medical Center. Her interest in Tower Bridge didn’t start a few months ago. Smoley led the charge to add display lighting to the bridge in 1989. “Back then, I had walked out of a fashion show near the Capitol and looked down the Capitol Mall and the bridge, and all I saw was a black hole,” she remembered. “I thought lighting would make for a dramatic addition and could be done as part of the sesquicentennial in Sacramento.” She felt lights would add personality to the city and provide an important connection between Sacramento and West Sac. “Where there are lights, there’s action,” she said. “If you have no lights on, you’re just giving the impression that no one is home. That’s not the impression we want to give to visitors coming to Sacramento.” Tower Bridge has a history of change and evolution. The original M Street Bridge, constructed in 1911, was a through-truss bridge able to swing open for passing boats. As the city grew, it was clear an update was needed to handle heavy traffic and provide a better river crossing. In 1935, Tower Bridge opened with pedestrian traffic on its outer edges, two lanes of vehicle traffic and a railroad line running down the middle. The first vertical lift bridge
in the California Highway System, it won national design and construction awards. The railroad tracks were removed in 1963, and the bridge became a fourlane connection between Sacramento and West Sac. For many years, the bridge was painted silver, but in 1976 it was painted yellow-ochre to match the Capitol’s gold-leafed cupola. In 2002, the bridge was repainted gold, but there was controversy and debate over the color. Some people wanted a more brilliant gilded gold and felt that the new color didn’t live up to promises. Tower Bridge is an iconic landmark in Sacramento. It’s often the main image in print materials that represent the city. When TV anchor Lester Holt came to Sacramento recently to broadcast “NBC Nightly News,” video and imagery of Tower Bridge opened and closed his reports. Networks coming to Sacramento to cover sporting events often capture images of the bridge and river. “It’s simply iconic,” said Smoley. “I know there are people in the community who think lighting and color will make the bridge look like something out of Disneyland. But that’s not our intent at all.” The committee’s plan is to light the bridge in only one color at a time. The special lighting may happen only a dozen times or so a year to honor holidays and special events. “It might be colored purple for the Kings’ opening game, but not for every game,” said Smoley. “Or we could color it red for Valentine’s Day, green on St. Patrick’s Day. It won’t be multicolored. We’d plan just one color during those special times. When it’s not colored, it would be white lights on gold as it looks now.” Smoley is excited about what the lighting project could do for the bridge and city. “I’m 80 years old, worked a lot of community projects, and this might be my last hurrah,” she said.
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every Saturday morning on 20th Street between J and K. Case in point: The pasta dinner kit from The Pasta Queen. Fork over a twenty and a few dollar bills and you’ll have the fixings to feed four hungry people in a hurry. About 20 minutes is all it takes to whip up a decadent meal of traditional bucatini, beef and pork meatballs, and Alfredo sauce. Add another 10 minutes if you serve it with tender Brussels sprouts—freshly picked in Half Moon Bay the previous morning—and sliced oranges from J&J Ramos Farms. Hide the Pasta Queen containers and your friends will think you’re the next Chopped Champion.
There’s something for everybody and every generation at the market, including treats with a local twist. The line forms early in front of Sweet Dozen for good reason. Does a lemon poppy seed doughnut sound delicious? You bet! VolksWaffle serves waffles out of an impossibly cute Volkswagen van, and you can satisfy your taco cravings at Crazy Gringo Taco Wagon. The soothing smell of lavender from El Dorado Lavender Farm wafts through the market while the women at Contreras Farm whip together bouquets. Little people can burn off weekend energy (or that doughnut high) at the mini park set up in the middle of the market, with its green AstroTurf and
red bouncy toys (the toys have cowshaped heads), while their parents supervise from the comfort of plastic Adirondack-style chairs. Bring your kitchen knives and Mike Reno at Proscopics will get them ready for chopping, dicing and slicing; at $5 per item, it’s a steal. Got a dog? Your pedigreed and nonpedigreed mutt will beg for a sample from VibraPet, along with the other neighborhood pooches that visit the market on a regular basis. But the main idea behind this yearround market was to give shoppers the opportunity to buy enough healthy food to make meals at home, explains Maritza Davis. She’s one of FARM page 41
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cauliflower turned green around the gills. It’s seriously cool and intimidating. The knowledgeable people at Capay Organic patiently demystified this weird vegetable and created a romanesco convert. Aren’t farmers markets for people who have a lot of money to spend? That’s where volunteer Marieflor Bauzon comes in. Every Saturday, you’ll find her at a quiet booth at the front of the market, waiting to help folks fill out applications for CalFresh’s Connecting Families to Farmers program. Depending on their gross income, families may qualify for vouchers (formerly called food stamps) that they can use at the market. It’s another way to encourage people to eat fruits and vegetables instead of fast food, Bauzon says. The market is open from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. every Saturday. For more information, visit exploremidtown.org.
VolksWaffle serves up sweet treats to shoppers. FARM FROM page 38 the co-founders of Unseen Heroes, the local marketing agency that manages this bustling market. “You can go there and (then) prepare dinner,” Davis says. A healthy case in point: the meal-in-a-Kerr-jar from Kimberly’s Kitchen. Add kale, chicken broth and sautéed apple-chicken sausage
to Kimberly’s Very English French Lentil Stew (one of many choices) and you’ll have a filling lunch or dinner for four in less than an hour. Made without the meat or broth, it’s a vegetarian delight of lentils, onions, sweet potatoes, carrots, celery and spices. Cost? $13. Return the jar and you’ll get a buck off your next purchase.
This year, the popular Midtown market celebrates its third anniversary and will expand another half block. You’ll find even more vendors (there’s a waiting list, according to Davis), and a rotating selection of handmade goods for sale, such as large bath towels from Tunisia and modern brass jewelry made by Noelle Walsh.
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Swim, Bike, Run HE TRAINS THE TOUGHEST OF THE TOUGH TO BE TRIATHLETES
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hen people reach a certain age, many of them decide to take up a sport. Some will follow the advice of friends and join a cycling group. Very quickly, they spend $2,000 on a bicycle, plus a few hundred more on helmet, lights, shoes, shirts with pockets in the back and pants with padded seats. They meet for weekend rides and pedal 50 miles without a second thought. Other people join a gym with a pool. They buy a cap and goggles and the briefest of swimsuits and start swimming. Soon they are doing flip turns and swimming hundreds of yards with machinelike ease. And some people keep it simple. They buy shoes and go running, first short distances—three or four miles— then twice that far and finally half or even full marathons. At some point, a few of these athletes decide they want new challenges. Swimmers decide to try cycling. Runners seek a soothing counterweight to the pounding of road work in a lap pool. Cyclists, weary of the responsibilities that come with hauling a bike around, go for a run. That’s when they call Bill Driskill. A fitness trainer, coach and race organizer, Driskill runs Total Body Fitness. He is the Sacramento region’s ambassador to the
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sports. And there’s enormous pride when a triathlete describes his or her training regimen to more sedentary friends and colleagues. Often, when a colleague hears the word “triathlon,” they assume it means the world’s most famous triathlon: the Ironman competition in Hawaii.
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Bill Driskill of Total Body Fitness triathlon, a three-headed hydra that encompasses an open-water swim, a long bike ride, and an exhausting run, in that precise order, all in a matter of hours. “We get every kind of person attracted to triathlons,” he says. “But many have fallen into sedentary lifestyles and basically decide they wanted to make a change. Tri-
training and competition is a great way do it.” Driskill has been involved with triathlons for 22 years. He has trained hundreds of competitors in all three disciplines. Each year he organizes 17 or so triathlons at Rancho Seco Park, Granite Bay, and Discovery Park. There’s a special pride that goes with being able to compete in three
That’s one good thing about triathlons. All races are not created equal. Most triathlons are not Ironman competitions. They cover a much shorter territory. Two popular triathlon distances are Sprint and Olympic. In Sprint, competitors swim a half mile, bike 12.4 miles and run 3.1 miles. In Olympic, they swim just under one mile, bike 25 miles and run 6.2 miles. Ironman distances are from another world: 2.4-mile swim, 112mile bike ride, 26.2-mile run. “The fact is, there are tri distances for everybody,” Driskill says. “And when you say you’re training for a tri, a lot of people are going to assume you mean Ironman. That’s the beauty of it.” Driskill trains people for Ironman, but the intensity they bring rarely produces his happiest coaching
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Big Hand for a Little Hero PRETEEN CAMERON DAX’S FOOD DRIVES BRING ACCOLADES
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he Carmichael Chamber of Commerce has added a 12-yearold community leader to its hall of fame. Humanitarian activist Cameron Dax was named Junior Hero of the Year, joining past VIP honorees such as basketball star Vlade Divac, broadcaster Kitty O’Neal, Sheriff John McGinness, and D.A. Jan Scully. Carmichaelite Tina Macuha of “Good Day Sacramento” fame received the overall Person of the Year at the March 24 event. “Wow!” was Dax’s reaction to the accolade. “I don’t do food drives because I want to be recognized. I just want to help people.” Indeed, a formal gala is a big leap from cap-in-hand fundraising and hitting supermarkets to feed the hungry. Not yet in his teens, Dax has done enough grocery shopping for several lifetimes. Since starting Cameron’s Canned Food Drive at the age of 6, he’s been pushing a cart like a pro. Last year alone, he gave 7,000 nonperishable items to food closets for low-income families and the homeless. That gift translates to feeding two families for a year. The homeschooled kid’s annual food collection supports programs run by the San Juan School District and Carmichael Presbyterian and Seventhday Adventist churches. The benefactor might inspire pennypinchers to economy. If he can’t find a bargain, he’ll haggle for one. Two cans
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Humanitarian activist Cameron Dax will be named Junior Hero of the Year. for a dollar, for example, is top bid for tomatoes. “When I first learned some people didn’t have enough food, I wanted to give them all peanut butter and jelly sandwiches,” he recalls. “I found out food must be nonperishable to be helpful, so I began my annual canned food drives. “I start collecting in October. I leave bins at the offices of friends, at the gym, at our doctor’s office, and chiropractor’s clinic. Mom and Dad’s financial adviser also collects for me. A car club in Grass Valley donated groceries last year.” His 2016 collection at Emigh Hardware yielded a palette of food, and 50 crews from Alpha One Ambulance
gathered goods for the junior philanthropist. Many others donate cash to fund Dax’s December deliveries. Planning his year-end shop-a-thon, he locates stores with good discounts. At The Grocery Outlet on Greenback Lane, owner Sarah Wheeler last year obliged the young shopper with a generous break. “He’s the youngest ‘big shopper’ we’ve had here,” Wheeler says. “He is doing great things; he’s an example to everyone.” A GoFundMe account on social media is a useful conduit for out-oftown support. “People know I’m helping others,” Dax explains. “It makes me feel good
inside. If other kids did something like this, perhaps hunger wouldn’t be such a problem.” His mission is not just donationfunded. Throughout the year, he saves his own allowance for December largesse. “I’ve also sold some of my art projects to raise funds,” he says. His father, building contractor Jeff Dax, is ecstatic to have a preteenager with such a monumental heart. “It’s inspiring when a 12-yearold thinks like Cameron,” says Jeff. “The project has helped him grow. He’s learned to be businesslike and resourceful. He recruits friends to help; he’s confident talking to adults. He tells everyone he meets about
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any thanks for R.E. Graswich’s piece on the lower American River Parkway (“The Pity of the Parkway,” March). The overwhelming presence of homeless camps indeed makes this part of our “crown jewel” a no-go zone for law-abiding folks, but portraying the situation as athletes versus bums which can be solved by more law enforcement is a bit too simple. Would-be runners and nature lovers are not even the biggest losers in this saga; that distinction belongs to the environment. But no amount of law enforcement presence alone can change this
situation, certainly not with the current rules of engagement, which require rangers to post a 48-hour notice before removing a camp. (If the campers move 100 feet down the trail, the clock starts again.) Regional programs to provide housing would probably cost less, be more effective and be more humane. Thankfully, the county and the city are now working together on this. But even that will not be enough. Clearing unwanted people out of the parkway without adding sanctioned users has failed for 35 years. We need new groups of law-abiding folks who are willing venture in.
For 15 years, off-road cycling groups have been trying to implement a mountain bike program in this area. Every year we inch closer, but we have been impeded every step of the way by entrenched stakeholder groups who obsess about every fat tire track. We have been working with the county to implement an off-road bicycle pilot program allowed in the 2009 Parkway Plan. Unfortunately, the Parkway Plan was commandeered by the same entrenched groups and is loaded with so many poison pills that the bike program is nearly unworkable,
which was exactly what they intended. The downtown zone cannot be managed as if it were a remote wildlife sanctuary. If cycling groups were allowed to build the types of trails that people want to ride, we can slowly make this area a little less scary. Once that happens, we can actually start rebuilding the shattered environment. Similar programs have worked in places like Boston, Minneapolis and even Manhattan. Bob Horowitz
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Art as Connector CITY WANTS PUBLIC INPUT ON RIVER CROSSING PROJECT
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ost rivers require a bridge to traverse them, but the cities of Sacramento and West Sacramento have begun to view the river between them as a bridge itself—one built by the arts. Thanks to a $250,000 federal grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, the cities in conjunction with Crocker Art Museum have begun hosting a series of town hall meetings that will explore how public art can better connect the neighboring cities as laid out in the Sacramento River Crossing project. The so-called River Crossing project is a plan to connect Downtown Sacramento with West Sac’s Washington District by creating pedestrian-friendly pathways linked by art, entertainment and recreation. Since the project specifically lays out plans for public art, city officials are looking for public input. On Feb. 8, Crocker Art Museum hosted a town hall meeting that included talks by Sacramento planning director Kate Gillespie, Crocker director Lial Jones and city consultant Neal Payton, an architect from Torti Gallas + Partners. The purpose of the meeting was both simple and straightforward: to identify areas where the city should develop art. As Gillespie said to the 40
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a public park in the empty lot across the street from the museum, a city block that had been leveled in the late ’50s and early ’60s and purchased by the museum in 1973. According to Jones, the Crocker would like the park to incorporate art, entertainment, food and a playground—something “awe inspiring and meditative,” she said.
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Capitol Mall or so people in attendance, “We are looking for your inspiration.” By a show of hands, only about half the audience previously had attended a town hall meeting, so the first half of the 90-minute schedule was dedicated to defining the River Crossing project and potential locations for new art. The city would like to focus art around a proposed 3.3-mile circular
streetcar route that will extend from City Hall in West Sacramento past Raley Field, across the river and by the Sacramento Valley Station, loop around the Convention Center and include stops between L and H streets. The design for the 21-station route should be finalized by April 2018. At the meeting, Jones said the Crocker would like to begin designing
Once city officials delineated the locations being considered for public art, Payton introduced himself. “Now the fun starts,” he said, adding that the rest of the agenda “is mostly going to be you helping identify areas where you think public art will be appropriate.” Payton described the purpose of public art: to generate tourism, create civic pride and identity and provide publicity. And, he said, “I’m just going to throw this out there: It could also unify two cities that are on either side of a river.” Payton offered examples of types of public art: ground and aerial structures, lighting, infrastructure, wall surface, temporary and ephemeral art, performance and literary pieces, play structures and
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The Will to Live THE FINAL ANSWER AND THE ONE AFTER THAT
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once had a conversation with a hospital patient that reminded me of that moment on the TV game show “Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?” when the host asks the guest, “Is that your final answer?” The man was nearly 60 years old with a fixable heart problem. He hadn’t made many friends in life; no one was visiting him. He’d worked odd jobs, but said he’d derived little purpose from work. The man’s only surviving brother had invited him to live in another state with him, but the patient didn’t believe the invitation was sincere. Eventually, I broached the subject of an advance health care directive. Commonly known as a living will, the document tells the 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 those life-saving measures only delay your death. “No,” he said, “but I guess I should get one. I don’t want to live on a machine.” With this assurance that he had given his “final answer,” I prayerfully concluded our visit and requested that a social worker bring him a directive. Twenty minutes later, I was visiting another patient when I heard it.
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respiratory therapist shouted, “We have a rhythm!” With that, the man rejoined the living. The incident gave me pause. Had our staff given him back a life he didn’t want? In hopes of getting some answers, I returned the next day and discovered the incident had given him a new perspective. It was a perspective few of us get.
“Code Blue, 4 East! Code Blue, 4 East!” The code means someone’s heart has stopped. What were the odds it was him? I asked myself. Surely not. He wasn’t anywhere near death. It had to be a coincidence. Nevertheless, I quickly finished my visit and rushed to his wing. I found the nursing supervisor standing in the same 60 year old patient’s doorway. She and I stood watching staff perform CPR, a procedure that often involves a respiratory therapist straddling the patient with palms flat on the patient’s chest, compressing the chest cavity until a rhythmic pulse shows up. Ribs can crack. The body often expels waste. From the doorway, I heard questions that hinted at ending CPR. “How long?” a doctor asked.
“We’ve been at it 20 minutes,” came the reply. “Does he have a directive?” called another. “No,” said the nursing supervisor. As they slowed their fervent pace, I told the nursing supervisor of my earlier conversation with the man. “I don’t think he wanted all of this,” I said, voicing my final answer. The supervisor shot back to the staff, “The chaplain says the man wouldn’t want this.” I shuddered at the sound of my assessment being repeated with such finality. I didn’t know the patient very well—I’d only had one conversation with him. Yet I was the person in the room with the best information. There definitely was something wrong with this picture. The attending staff gave a few understanding nods, and the doctor seemed ready to end CPR when a
He’d decided that he was the best one to make his future life (and death) decisions, not the chaplain or the hospital staff. He had peered over the edge of life and decided he didn’t like the alternative. More importantly, perhaps, he’d decided that he was the best one to make his future life (and death) decisions, not the chaplain or the hospital staff. Three days later, he went home with a pacemaker and medication. I don’t know if he found a new will to live, but I know he left with a living will that truly gave his final answers. Norris Burkes is a chaplain, syndicated columnist, national speaker and book author. He can be reached at norris@thechaplain.net. n
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Everything & the Kitchen Sink NEW AND VINTAGE HOME-GOODS GOODIES FOR EVERY TASTE
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heck out our chit-chat with Summer Porch owner Cheri Malkasian, who was inspired by a childhood spent on her grandparents’ front porch to bring a variety of happy home goods to all.
service where I’ll come in and look at a room and suggest how you can put it together to make it function better. I show you how to group items and how to weed out the items that don’t belong, but I always keep in mind that these are things that people love. I don’t want to completely change what they have; I want to bring what they already have and love to fruition.
Summer Porch has been open for 10 years. What inspired you to open the business in the first place? I’m from Nevada City, and my grandparents’ Victorian home had this beautiful front porch where we spent a lot of time as kids. We lived out on that porch, so it was a big deal for us. When I started my business, I actually rented out space on the back porch of the shop where I was working at the time, so it seemed appropriate! But I always tell people that you don’t need a porch, you just need a magical place that makes you feel good. And if you buy things you love, you’ll find a place for them. What kinds of things will people fall in love with at Summer Porch? I started out with primarily vintage and antique items, but I’ve evolved to include new items as well. I bring in new merchandise daily, so the inventory is always changing. Barware and cocktail shakers were very popular around the holidays and that’s somewhat spilled over into the
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"I offer free consultations in the store but also offer an in-home redesign service where I’ll come in and look at a room."
Cheri Malkasian is the owner of Summer Porch on J Street. new year. I have everything from garden furniture and accessories to vintage linens, glassware and table service (including vintage Pyrex), handmade pillows, collectibles, French soaps, candles, costume jewelry, vintage books, handmade cards, ribbon, lamps, gifts, chandeliers, and more. I keep a dabbling of things all year round, so if you’re looking for something specific I probably have it.
I have lots of things I’ve picked up over the years, but I don’t know how to incorporate them into my house. Is that a complaint you hear a lot? People who have acquired a lot of great décor items often come in paralyzed. They don’t know what to do with it all. I offer free consultations in the store but also offer an in-home redesign
Do you tackle one room at a time? I focus on a one-room start so it’s not as overwhelming. It’s like cleaning: if you focus on one space, it kind of snowballs and you want to do more. It’s all about giving people confidence. A little bit of a tutorial can really be motivating. You mentioned that you’re very locally focused. How does that translate in-store? I carry Old Town Paints’ Chalk Style Finish Paint, which is made and manufactured up in the town of Jackson. I try to stay true to locally made goods and lines made in the U.S.A. when I can. This means when
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Second Chance
ONE COUPLE GETS TO BUY AND FIX THE HOUSE OF THEIR DREAMS
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with a Sale Pending sign posted, the couple indulged their curiosity. “We looked through the front door and the windows,” Krystin says. “We knew this was our house.” They loved the numerous built-ins, the breakfast nook and the leaded glass doors. Six months later, during their first day with a real estate agent and after looking at four houses that didn’t suit them, they drove by the Curtis Park Craftsman and noticed it
was still for sale. They made an offer on the spot. In 2000, when the couple moved in, they had plenty of room. By 2015, with two children, they needed more space. “Basically all of 2015 was devoted to planning and construction,” says Krystin. “It was all we thought about. We didn’t remodel with resale in mind. It was for our family.”
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Jeff, a commercial architect, drafted numerous plans. After contemplating construction costs and the equity they had in the house, the couple decided adding a second story was their best bet. “From the first pen to paper, our final construction took just over 10 months,” he explains. This included design work, planning submittal, construction documentation, permit review and construction. “In hindsight, many small miracles took place, one after the other, to
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make it happen,” he says. “Tenacity and cunningness are great, but a little luck never hurts, either.” They took the house down to the studs. About the only thing unchanged was the cozy breakfast nook off what was a very small galley kitchen. They moved the laundry room to the second floor for more kitchen space. Removing a large builtin breakfront, which neither liked too much, created a line of sight from the back of the house to the front door. Installing brass V-shaped gaskets on
the original windows made them more airtight. “It helps a little bit. and we wanted to keep the original windows for the character of the house,” Jeff explains. It was possible to keep the coved ceiling in the dining room, but the addition of the stairway for the new second floor necessitated eliminating the coved ceiling in the living room. The brick fireplace in the living room was painted white. Sandblasting off the paint revealed both smooth and rusticated bricks in a stylish
pattern. The wood floors, once a honey color, were refinished in a darker tone. They rebuilt the cabinets adjacent to the fireplace and added leaded glass doors. Adding a second story to an older home is complex. The process involved reinforcing the first-floor exterior walls and adding a new roof even over the first-floor areas that did not change. “There was almost no portion of the existing house that didn’t get touched or impacted in one way
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or another,” Jeff explains. “It was almost like the entire house had to be rebuilt to add a second floor.” Upstairs, the stylish new master bedroom has a vaulted ceiling and a balcony facing the park. Natural light from a window filters into the large walk-in closet. The master bath has a supersized Roman shower. The heated floor is a welcome cold-weather treat. Jeff particularly loves the shower. “It is the first time in years I did not have to take a shower in the tub,” he
says. “Now, I can get myself under the shower, outstretch my arms, do a full circle and not touch anything.” The couple wanted to honor the original character of the house by matching the new roof slopes to the existing ones. The second-story windows, though not wood, resemble the original windows. “We didn’t want it to look like a McMansion,” says Jeff. “We didn’t want to put a 2015 house in a 1926 neighborhood. “
Outside, the new picket fence adds another level of detail while creating a safe space for the couple’s son and the dogs. “The fence was a game changer,” Jeff says. Living across the street from the park is awesome, according to Jeff. He appreciates how the green space creates the opportunity for random interactions. “You start to see people, get to know them and then become friends,” he says. “It really enriches your life.
The Leonhardt home will be featured on the 31st annual Curtis Park Home & Garden Tour, which takes place Saturday, April 29, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For information about tickets, go to sierra2.org or call 452-3005. If you know of a home you think should be featured in Inside Publications, contact Julie Foster at foster.julie91@yahoo.com. n
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A New Discovery MUSEUM AIMS TO GET KIDS INTERESTED IN SCIENCE
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’ve been a member of Sacramento’s Discovery Museum, a hands-on science center on Auburn Boulevard, since the early 2000s when my kids were young. While reading the museum’s email newsletter recently, I was struck by the exciting changes taking place and decided it was time to check in with the latest news from this local gem. First, I needed to get my terminology up to date. What used to be called Discovery Museum Science
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and Space Center is now Powerhouse Science Center-Discovery Campus, or just Powerhouse Science Center until the Powerhouse Campus gets built. If you search for it online with the old name, you’ll be redirected to the new website, powerhousesc.org. A rebranded name isn’t the only thing new. According to Melanie Jensen, marketing and community relations manager, over the past two and a half years Powerhouse has experienced some changes in leadership with the new people bringing fresh direction. While the Discovery always had a science emphasis, Jensen says at Powerhouse, “We’re trying to transition into a more STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) focus curriculum to set ourselves apart from your typical museum experience.”
They’re doing this in a myriad of ways. Powerhouse’s bread and butter is its hands-on, interactive exhibits primarily targeting elementary and middle school children. “Our goal is to get kids engaged in science and have an approachable connection with science, to spark their interest in perhaps pursuing STEM fields later on. Or at least make science less scary than in school,” Jensen says. “Textbooks are a lot less fun than getting hands-on.” The museum typically hosts two interactive exhibits per year. In the past, exhibits were often recycled, but now Powerhouse is trying to consistently bring in new material. “We don’t want families to feel like, ‘Hey, I’ve already seen these dinosaurs,’” says Jensen. Running until August is Eat Well, Play
Well, Live Well, a traveling exhibit that Powerhouse rented from the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry thanks to sponsorship by Raley’s, Blue Diamond Growers, and Sacramento Republic FC. According to Jensen, “Eat Well is a snapshot for families on how making smarter food choices and incorporating physical activity can help them live overall better lives.” Activities in the exhibit relate this theme to everyday life. For example, visitors can pedal a bike with their arms. A display shows how long it would take to burn off the calories in a bowl of strawberries, or in a chocolate bar. “The screen says you still have an hour left,” Jensen says. “It’s a great visual on how making smarter food choices is healthier.” Another interactive station allows
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kids to go grocery shopping. They put their food items on a sensor. The sensor rings it up and tells them how much fiber, calcium, vitamin A, fat, calories, etc. are in their choices. In addition to the ongoing exhibit, Powerhouse hosts special activities for families every Saturday and Sunday afternoon. These are included with admission. In February, kids learned about the structure and function of the heart using actual animal hearts brought in from a local butcher. During an engineering-themed weekend, kids were given tools, tape and a bunch of cardboard boxes to construct a cardboard city. “If you give a kid a box,” says Jensen, “they’ll think of things no adult would.” As it has done for many years, Powerhouse features planetarium shows on weekends. The Challenger Learning Center, one of my personal favorites, continues to give a participatory experience in the many aspects of a mission to space. The Challenger missions are open to middle school and other groups and also the public on community mission
nights. What’s new: Micronauts, a scaled-back version of the main Challenger program, for kids 4 to 8 years old. Check the website for dates. More than ever, Powerhouse is emphasizing community education. For homeschool families, it offers new classes in robotics and biotechnology. Summer camps have been expanded to include children 7 to 12 for all weeks and, for the first time this year, extended care will be available. This summer’s camp themes include Maker Madness, CSI, outer space, and the great outdoors. There’s more to come. Powerhouse is close to reaching its funding goal for groundbreaking on Powerhouse Science Center on Sacramento’s riverfront. “We’re at about $35 million. When we hit $41 million, we can get a date on the books,” Jensen says. Sacramento’s new mayor, Darrell Steinberg, is a powerful advocate for the project. “He mentioned it in his State of Downtown address and made a personal appearance at an event we
had and said, ‘Let’s get this thing built.’” The riverfront facility will “take the heart of what we have on Auburn and grow it to four times its size,” Jensen says. Powerhouse wants to help develop the future workforce of Sacramento to serve the growing tech and health industries. “We don’t want people to have to drive to the Bay Area to experience science.” Amy Rogers can be reached at amy@amyrogers.com. n
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Happy Anniversary TWENTY YEARS AFTER TRAFFIC CALMING, MIDTOWN IS A BETTER PLACE
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t’s been 20 years since construction started on the Neighborhood Preservation Traffic Plan in Midtown. At the time, the plan was called the largest trafficcalming project in the United States. Traffic calming aims to reduce the volume and speed of vehicular traffic. The plan was in the works nearly another two decades prior to its approval by the city council and start of construction. It was hugely controversial, pitting at various times city residents against city officials, neighbor against neighbor, and neighborhood against neighborhood. In his memoir, former Councilmember Steve Cohn wrote, “A novel could be written about the Midtown Traffic Plan.” He said that during his 20-year tenure on the council, “More than any other issue I ever worked on, this one engendered passion on both sides.” Many Midtown residents were fed up with traffic. They viewed the one-way G and H streets as freeway on- and off-ramps, with themselves caught in the middle. The streets were busy, noisy and unsafe. Fast, cut-through traffic bedeviled other streets, though some parallel streets had very little traffic. Cohn described Midtown as “what was once a very walkable neighborhood … sacrificed
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to automobile traffic and economic opportunism.” The centerpiece of the plan was conversion of G and H streets from three-lane, one-way streets to twolane, two-way streets with bike lanes. But the plan also included traffic circles to slow traffic and pedestrian islands and curb extensions to ease crossings. Among all the features, the most vilified were half-street closures that prevented through traffic. Opposition to the plan came from East Sacramento and River Park residents and freeway commuters who complained about the “maze” and inconvenience created by the halfstreet closures. Some vowed never to drive into Midtown again. Other
opponents were Midtown residents who worried about the impacts of changing traffic patterns. They didn’t want to get more traffic than they already had. After two decades of experience and with a bit more perspective, what’s been the outcome? Steve Brown was the city’s director of transportation planning at the time. He’s now a senior principal with Fehr & Peers, a transportation engineering firm in Orange County, and co-author of a book on traffic calming. He believes the plan did what it was supposed to: preserve the character and values of Midtown. He still visits Sacramento and notes that the new “liveliness and energy
along J, K and L streets has happened without adversely affecting the neighborhood to the north.” Margaret Buss, a Midtown activist intensely involved in the plan, believes the plan has been a success overall—that it was worth the years of effort and lingering emotional toll it took on people. Before the plan, “crossing G and H streets meant taking your life into your hands,” she said. “The plan was meant to redistribute and slow traffic.” It did that. Now, families with small children can make homes in a more livable Midtown. She also believes that plan served as a model. Addressing neighborhood traffic
concerns “became the norm for the city.” Besides opinions, there are objective data. There are online measures for walkability and bikeability. Walk and Bike Scores range from zero to 100 points. Midtown scores are 91 for walking and 100 for biking, making them “paradise” for walkers and bikers. Walk Scores are “based on the distance to nearby places and pedestrian friendliness,” not on sidewalk quality, ease of street crossing or general safety. So it may be an imperfect measure. Bike Scores are “based on bike lanes and trails, hills, road connectivity and destinations.” (In comparison, Walk and Bike Scores for the city as a whole are 46 (“car dependent”) and 69 (“bikeable”).
It made neighborhoods more walkable, bikeable and, ultimately, more livable and desirable. Data from the city of Sacramento show that traffic counts were about 5,000 vehicles per day on G Street and nearly 8,000 on H Street before the plan. Ten years later, counts were dramatically down to 3,000 on G and 1,400 on H. Collisions at seven traffic circle locations dropped from a total of 16
in the three years before the plan to a total of 10 over a 9.5-year period after the plan. That’s a decrease of 80 percent on an annual basis. I don’t think there’s any question that Midtown experienced a renaissance after the traffic plan was implemented. What some once considered a less desirable area has become an “in” place to live. Midtown is far different today than when one of its chief claims to fame was providing a hideout for Patty Hearst. The original traffic plan, and a subsequent south Midtown plan, weren’t the only factors in Midtown’s transformation, but I think the traffic changes were fundamental to the success of other efforts. Second Saturdays, hip new developments, a firm commitment to the R Street Corridor Plan, and the farm-tofork movement with high-quality new restaurants have all played a role. But the Midtown traffic plans changed the feel of Midtown. It made neighborhoods more walkable, bikeable and, ultimately, more livable and desirable. Current property values and rents reflect that. Steve Cohn, neighborhood activists and business owners deserve a lot of credit and praise for the changes. Since the Midtown plan, other streets in the city have undergone traffic calming or gone on “road diets” (lane reductions). In addition to south Midtown efforts, there have been road diets on J Street and Folsom Boulevard in East Sacramento, 19th and 21st streets in Midtown, and 21st Street and Freeport Boulevard south of Broadway. Broadway itself is on the cusp of major changes. The city also
instituted a neighborhood trafficcalming program. There will probably always be quibbles, if not outrage, about aspects of the Midtown plan, as with almost any change that affects daily lives. Buss feels some of the compromises made during the formulation of the plan and then later, when more tweaks were made, hurt the overall effect. Others still rail against the difficulty of navigating the area and being surprised by half-street closures. Some millennial D Street
residents I know believe the halfstreet closures on that street are stupid, frustrating their desire for convenient access. Cohn felt early on, and still feels, that the half-street closures were “a step too far,” but that it might be better to accede to activists’ desires and perhaps to do too much rather than too little. Happy Anniversary, Midtown. Walt Seifert is a bicyclist, driver and transportation writer. He can be reached at bikeguy@surewest.net. n
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Fraternal Filmmakers THESE SIBLINGS CREATE MOVIE MAGIC FOR THE YOUTUBE GENERATION
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rville and Wilbur Wright. The Marx brothers. Camille and Paul Claudel. Donny and Marie Osmond. The Andrews Sisters. All of these famous names ring a bell for most of us because they’re, well, famous. But what else do they all have in common? They’re siblings. Ask Sarah and Paul Kreutz, the duo behind Saul Films (a clever amalgamation of their names), what it’s like to work with your sibling and you get a couple of wry smiles followed by an immediate outpouring of respect for the other’s strengths. “Sarah is excellent at cutting the dross,” Paul says, referring to his sister’s editing skills as a writer and director. “Paul can build anything,” Sarah says, complimenting her brother’s ability to construct everything from homes (he’s a former contractor) to theatrical sets. It’s clear from spending just a few minutes with the Land Parkbased artists that they feed off each other’s energy and admire each other deeply—an amazing feat for most siblings, especially when you consider that they grew up two of six kids and 14 years apart in age. But lucky for them, that seems to work to their advantage. “We’re able to compare notes because we see things from different perspectives,” Sarah explains.
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gave the former model and wardrobe specialist a taste for more. “I’ve always loved film,” she says. “Paul and I would study Hitchcock films together and discuss every detail. ‘Gardner & Wells’ has tapped into our roots in pure cinema. It’s all about mood, style, architecture, color. Every drawing tells a story.”
“We’re able to compare notes because we see things from different perspectives.”
Sarah and Paul Kreutz, the duo behind Saul Films They share an affinity for the spooky and the supernatural, as evidenced by their visually stunning web series “Gardner & Wells,” an animated gothic ghost story that launched on YouTube in 2015. It’s the product of years of work. After Sarah completed a full-length screenplay in 2003, they launched a Kickstarter campaign to make a live-action film. When that stalled out, the resourceful pair ended up creating an animated web series. “Gardner & Wells” manages to thrill without resorting to blood and gore. “I was very influenced by Disney’s Haunted Mansion,” says Paul, who has worked as an art director for films in the area as well
as a contractor, architect and finish carpenter. “Starting in junior high, I would build mechanical displays for Halloween outside our parents’ house in El Dorado Hills. The kids would come up to the house and say they didn’t want to be grabbed or scared, so I found a way to create things that were spooky, like a floating teapot that poured its own tea, instead of guts and gore. I like to create things that go bump in the night.” Paul’s knack for bringing beautiful if eerie ideas to fruition jibes well with his sister’s love of storytelling. In 2002, Sarah wrote, produced and directed the independent local film “Elsa Letterseed,” an experience that
When their attempts to raise money for a live-action feature-film version of “Gardner & Wells” didn’t pan out, the team decided to make a short animated series, putting the emphasis on drawn visuals instead of a spoken script. “We were watching a behindthe-scenes video about the Disney movie ‘Tangled,’” Paul recalls. “And we realized, instead of making a movie with people, why not make an animatic (animated storyboard)? I got the software and started experimenting with the images, figuring out how it should look and feel. The more I got into it, the more we realized there should be no talking.” Without any dialogue, the Kreutzes had to make sure that the story would come through—and that it wouldn’t be, in Sarah’s words, “a snoozefest.”
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ultimate goal is to create the liveaction film they initially envisioned, the Kreutzes couldn’t be happier with how the project has turned out. “Now that we have the parameters of what we want to do, we’re starting to really hone in and know ourselves,” Paul says. “It never ceases to amaze me what we can do.” Check out “Gardner & Wells” on YouTube. For more information, visit gardnerandwells.com. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com. n
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One Determined Artist
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never entirely know what I’m doing, but that’s a good thing,” says artist Cherie Hacker. This refreshing honesty is pure Hacker, a Chicago native who’s been in Sacramento since 1983 and who specializes in vibrant abstract paintings that express her love of the environment and the energy of the outdoors.
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“I’ve made it a point to focus on abstraction for the last few years,” says Hacker, who works out of E Street Gallery and Studios with 11 other visual artists in a building that houses 12 studios and an exhibition space. “It expresses a raw, inner energy part of me. It was the way I wanted to paint early on but didn’t know how to accomplish that well. Now, after many years of painting and experience, I think I do it better. The most expressive part of me is always putting something down with paint.” Hacker has had this raw, inner artistic energy ever since she was a kid, when she would save up her allowance to buy herself art supplies and her first easel. Though she came
from a musical family, her strengths were visual, starting with drawing at the age of 5 and eventually showing her artwork at 19. “I’ve had jobs to keep everything going. I’ve worked at frame shops and learned a lot from different jobs. But no matter what I did, nothing was going to stop me from making art,” Hacker says. “Period.” She has an impressive resume that includes studies with Wayne Thiebaud and Roy De Forest when she was an undergraduate at UC Davis, an internship at the Smithsonian American Art Museum while earning her MFA at Maryland Institute College of Art, and group gallery exhibitions and solo shows all over the country, including one at
Ardgillan Castle outside of Dublin, Ireland. “I spent two months in Ireland last summer with my boyfriend, Jeffrey DeVore, who’s also an artist,” Hacker says. “We love to do projects together. We actually met when we were both featured in a show at the Sacramento Temporary Contemporary on Del Paso Boulevard. We saw that different castles were having art shows. We approached Ardgillan Castle, which is 20 minutes north of Dublin on the Irish Sea, and even though we weren’t from there, we were given a show. The small villages are very supportive of community art.” Hacker has a knack for becoming part of the community fabric ARTIST page 66
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ARTIST FROM page 64 wherever she lives. Upon returning to Sacramento after grad school in Maryland, she founded Asylum Gallery with fellow artist Ann Tracy at the R25 Arts Complex at 25th and R streets. She served as Asylumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gallery director for four years, and while she loved sharing space with the Sacramento Poetry Center, California Stage and Alliance Française, she says she longed â&#x20AC;&#x153;to have dialogue with visual artists.â&#x20AC;? So when a spot opened up at E Street Gallery and Studios, Hacker leapt at the chance. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We meet once a year to pick which month we want to have something in the exhibition space,â&#x20AC;? Hacker says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve worked on student shows, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve curated shows and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had my own shows there. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re very fortunate to have the space available to us.â&#x20AC;? While Hacker loves her indoor studio, her love of the outdoors has kept her working on more environmental projects as well. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The environment is very important to me,â&#x20AC;? Hacker says.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s part of where my heart is. The imagery in my abstract paintings often comes from natureâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;organic versus geometric shapes. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve internalized all my experience working out-of-doors, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s saturated and entered into my work.â&#x20AC;? One example of Hackerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s enduring love for the outdoors is her ongoing Lamp and Endtable Environmental Art Project, which she started in 2003 after hearing a report on National Public Radio that sparked her imagination. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was listening to a scientist talking about his 20-year research project and I thought, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I need something like that,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? she recalls. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve used photography, printmaking, painting and sculpture to document the same two objects all this time, and I plan on continuing until I physically canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do it anymore.â&#x20AC;? For more information about Cherie Hacker, go to hackerartpub.com. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com. n
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f you love to garden, it’s tempting to cram too many plants into too little room. Maybe you only need two eggplants, but the price of a sixpack is only slightly higher and seems like such a bargain. It’s hard to resist trying new tomato varieties, attracted by their array of colors and even more colorful names and descriptions. Seed packets usually have far more seeds than you need. It’s hard to sow just the right amount of seeds, and harder yet to thin them out when they’ve sprouted. If you love ornamental plants, any open spot is an invitation to tuck in yet another plant, no matter how big it may grow. When you’re installing new landscaping, properly spaced plants look mighty lonely. In the interest of curb appeal, you plant more. When I was learning about plants many years ago, we were taught that they need air, water, light and nutrients. Today’s schoolchildren learn that they also need space to grow. Plants compete with one another for precious resources. Overcrowded plants may be stunted and develop diseases from lack of air circulation. Information about how big plants will get and how far apart to plant them is often marked on their containers or seed packets. You can learn more from books or online, but make sure that advice applies to our
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region. Plants often get considerably larger in Sacramento with our mild winters and sunny summer days. I take a yardstick along into the garden to make sure that I am planting my veggies at least the minimum recommended space apart. I also consider the direction of the sun and how high plants will get. Taller plants may shade out shorter ones. If you are growing vegetables from seeds, the instructions will usually tell you to plant more closely together and then to thin out seedlings. That always seems like an unnecessary extra step to me. Why not just plant at the desired mature spacing? Planting more densely ensures that enough seeds germinate and allows you to select the more vigorous seedlings. I’ve had problems dislodging the roots of plants that I want to keep during the thinning
process. Alternatively, you can just cut unwanted seedlings to the ground after their first one or two sets of leaves emerge. That seems much easier than painstakingly plucking them out. Baby greens are delicious in salads, so the plants that you are thinning out don’t need to go to waste. If you decide to put excess plants into containers, make sure that the pots are sufficiently wide and deep. Some vegetables have shallow roots and will do just fine in smaller containers or a half wine barrel. Tomato roots penetrate deeply. I find that 15-gallon nursery pots are a good shape and size, although they get very hot in the sun. I put mulch on the surface of the soil, check the soil moisture every day and water deeply when needed, and wrap them in shade cloth to keep them cooler. It is
possible to paint them white to reflect the light, too. Plant hybridizers have developed smaller plants to accommodate containers and little gardens. It’s possible to get patio-sized tomatoes and dwarf ornamentals such as pomegranates, grasses, butterfly bushes and an almost baffling array of miniature, mini-flora and patio roses. Often, so-called dwarf plants grow bigger than expected. Many gardeners scoff at planting small. They love to wield their loppers and show a plant who’s the boss. To me, that wastes time and energy, produces unneeded green waste and can make a plant weaker or misshapen. It’s far better to plant the right-sized plant in the right-sized space. While waiting for plants in your landscape to grow to their mature size, you can add annuals or perennials for the first few seasons. At some point, you will need to reevaluate spacing no matter how well you’ve planned and planted. Plants can spread over time and overwhelm less aggressive plants. You may need to remove nearby plants or rescue plants that are lost in the crowd. Tempting as it is to squeeze yet another plant into your garden, your motto should be, “All the plants that fit, we plant.” And no more! Anita Clevenger is a Lifetime Sacramento County UC D Master Gardener. For answers to gardening questions, call the Master Gardeners office at 876-5338, visit their website at sacmg.ucanr.edu or come to their next open garden at Fair Oaks Horticulture Center on Wednesday, April 12, from 9 a.m. to noon. The center is at 11579 Fair Oaks Blvd. n
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Sacramento Ballet is presenting Snap Shots II in April. Photo courtesy of Keith Sutter.
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“Snap Shots II” presented by the Sacramento Ballet April 28 through May 14 Fry-Paoletti Stage at CLARA (E. Claire Raley Studios for the Performing Arts), 2420 N St. sacballet.org Last season’s production of “Snap Shots” stunned audiences with powerful passages from Sacramento Ballet co-artistic director Ron Cunningham’s storehouse of masterful choreography. “Snap Shots II” delves even deeper into the archives of his works and choreographer Darrell Grand Moultrie returns to create another selection of mesmerizing, intimate dance portraits of the troupe’s all-star dancers.
Food and Film Sacramento Food Film Festival April 1-8 Various locations foodliteracycenter.org The Sacramento Food Film Festival is back, offering a unique series of events for food and film lovers! Created in 2012 by the Food Literacy Center, the Sacramento Food Film Festival was born from the desire to educate the public about our food system and work collaboratively to create positive change. The eight-day festival will showcase award-winning short films and documentaries, food by the area’s best chefs from Nixtaco, Lucca, Localis, and more, drinks by the area’s best bartenders (beer and bourbon and wine, oh, my!), “VIPea” experiences, and more.
Bonsai Bonanza! Bonsai Sekiyu Kai 40th Annual Bonsai Show and Demonstration April 1 and 2 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Buddhist Church of Sacramento, 2401 Riverside Blvd. bonsaisekiyukai@gmail.com If you’re a budding fan of bonsai or you’re already an avid tree trimmer, this event is sure to delight. Enjoy demonstrations at 2 p.m. each day by Yuzo Maruyama as well as a benefit raffle, grub from food vendor Haole Pig BBQ, and plenty of trees and bonsai materials for sale. Admission and parking are free.
Shaun Burner is on display at Beatnik Studios.
Courage and Valor “Courage and Valor” Concert Saluting Law Enforcement and Firefighters presented by the Sacramento Youth Symphony Premier Orchestra and Community Chorus Sunday, April 2, at 3 p.m.
Bonzai fans won't want to miss the Bonsai Sekiyu Kai Bonsai Show and Demonstration.
Sacramento Memorial Auditorium, 1515 J St. 808-5181, sacramentoyouthsymphony.org The Premier Orchestra of the Sacramento Youth Symphony performs this highly anticipated concert saluting the work of men and women in law enforcement and firefighting under the direction of Artistic Director Michael Neumann. The program will feature guest performers Liz Tubbs of the Sacramento Pipe Band and tenor Jaeho Lee. Guest conductors Ralph Hughes and Daniel Paulson will conduct patriotic favorites by John Philip Souza, Giuseppe Verdi, Leonard Bernstein, John Williams, and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Kitty O’Neal from KFBK will emcee the event and Mayor Darrell Steinberg will address the crowd. Tickets are $20 for general admission, $15 for students and seniors, and $10 for law enforcement and fire department personnel.
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In Good Faythe Crocker Classical Concert featuring Faythe Vollrath on harpsichord Sunday, April 9, at 3 p.m. Crocker Art Museum, 216 O St. 808-1182, crockerart.org In celebration of the Crocker Art Museum exhibitions “JapanAmerica: Points of Contact, 1876-1970” and “Into the Fold: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics from the Horvitz Collection,” harpsichordist Faythe Vollrath has created a program of contemporary compositions by Japanese and Japanese American composers that honors and challenges the distinctive sounds of the harpsichord, a traditionally Baroque instrument. Included in the program will be works by Japanese American composer Asako Hirabayashi, who brings a blend of East and West tonalities to her music. Space is limited and advance registration is recommended.
Tomato, To-Mah-To National tour of comedy “You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up!” Through April 9
Crockett-Deane Ballet is presenting “The Magic Flute.”
Veronica’s Room “Veronica’s Room,” a play presented by Errant Phoenix Productions April 6-15
24th Street Theater at the Sierra 2 Center, 2791 24th St. 855-HIT-SHOW, tomatoplay.com After 15 years of marriage, writers, actors and real-life married couple Annabelle Gurwitch and Emmy Award-winner Jeff Kahn have adapted their hilarious and often moving memoir “You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up!” for the stage. Another real-life married couple, Michael and Mara Greer, star in the Sacramento production. The play takes a hilarious look at a relationship that seems challenged from the start by two powerful, opposing personalities. After trials and tribulations, Jeff and Annabelle learn to navigate the conflicts that come with romance, money, and children by embracing each other’s differences.
William J. Geery Theater, 2130 L St. facebook.com/errantphoenix, errantphoenix-veronicasroom.bpt.me (tickets) Errant Phoenix Productions (formerly The Alternative Arts Collective) presents this psychological thriller written by Ira Levin, author of “Rosemary’s Baby,” “Deathtrap” and “The Stepford Wives.” A middle-aged Irish couple, John and Maureen Mackey, approach young couple Susan and Larry at a local restaurant due to Susan’s uncanny resemblance to a dead woman, Veronica. The Mackeys explain that Veronica's elderly, senile sister, Cissie, is now in their charge, and convince Susan to come to their suburban Boston home and to dress up as Veronica in an effort to bring Cissie a sense of closure. But once dressed in Veronica’s clothes, Susan finds herself in trouble.
The Magic Flute Don Schwennesen’s “The Magic Flute” presented by Crockett-Deane Ballet Saturday, April 8, at 7 p.m.; and Sunday, April 9, at 2 p.m. The Center at Twenty-Three Hundred, 2300 Sierra Blvd. 453-0226, deanedancecenter.com This new ballet, loosely based on the plot of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s beloved opera “The Magic Flute,” will receive its world premiere thanks to Crockett-Deane Ballet. That is quite fitting, considering it was created by the company’s director, Don Schwennesen! The ballet tells the tale of a young prince who encounters a magical land and falls in love with a beautiful princess held captive in a mysterious temple. Can the prince obtain the virtue to free her and wed her? Perhaps he’ll succeed with the help of the Magic Flute. This production features dancers Gabriela Smith as the Princess and Quinn Francis as the Queen of the Night.
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Michelle Champoux plays the Woman in "Veronica's Room."
“Courage and Valor,” a concert saluting law enforcement and firefighters, takes place on April 2. Harpsichordist Faythe Vollrath will perform at Crocker Art Museum on Sunday, April 9.
Forms in Flux
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“Forms in Flux,” artwork by Shaun Burner April 4-27 (opening reception on Friday, April 7 from 6-9 p.m.)
“Voices of Hope: A Choral Collaboration” Sunday, April 23 at 5 p.m.
Beatnik Studios, 723 S St. 400-4281, beatnik-studios.com Beatnik Studios presents new works from Sacramento-based artist Shaun Burner, whose passion lies in all forms of art, including music, carpentry and murals. A master of various media and styles, Burner’s work can be described as abstract realism that exudes esoteric connection. Also at Beatnik continuing through April 20 is “Repose,” Marc Foster and Micah Crandall-Bear’s collaborative installation exploring “abstract simplicity.”
Beatnik Studios, 723 S St. voxmusica.net Local all-women’s choral group Vox Musica, under Music Director Daniel Paulson, will be collaborating with the acclaimed San Jose-based choral ensemble The Choral Project in this not-to-be-missed collaboration. The project will bring these two talented choral ensembles together in a rare concert performance of literature that seeks to find light in the dark and hope in times of despair. The centerpiece of the program will be a world premiere by The Choral Project conductor Daniel Hughes.
The Donner Party “The Donner Party: A New American Musical” presented by the Sacramento Theatre Company April 19 through May 14 Sacramento Theatre Company, 1419 H St. 443-6722, sactheatre.org Specially commissioned and developed by the Sacramento Theatre Company, this dramatic new musical chronicles the true story of the harrowing travels of pioneers who faced unspeakable trials when trapped in the high Sierra Nevada in the winter of 1846. Written by Eric Rockwell and Margaret Rose (California natives and authors of STC’s 2013 production of “A Little Princess”), this world premiere is sure to delight musical theater fans and history buffs alike.
Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com. n National tour of comedy “You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up!” will play through April 9.
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THEATRE GUIDE GALAXY EXPRESS
COCK by Mike Bartlett
For the Kids in all of us... a unique addition to this theater’s family of fine Original Theatre producers and from The Mad Creature Lab of Peter Bond’s Mischievous World of Puppetry will perform “Galaxy Express” two days, April 8 & 9. Tickets are $12 and this includes a delicious dessert!!!
When John takes a break from his boyfriend, he accidentally meets the girl of his dreams. Filled with guilt and indecision, he decides there is only one way to straighten this out…Mike Bartlett’s punchy new story takes a playful, candid look at one man’s sexuality and the difficulties that arise when you realize you have a choice. This cheekily titled play about an unconventional love triangle earned rave reviews in London and New York, picking up an Olivier Award in the process. It premieres in Sacramento filled with young talent and produced by an award-winning production team founded in New York City.
April 8 & 9 The Thistle Dew Dessert Theatre 1901 P St, Sac Reservations: tddtheatre@aol.com
THE GLASS MENAGERIE
Thru April 30 Sacramento Theatre Company 1419 H St, Sac 443-6722 When it premiered in 1944, The Glass Menagerie was a triumph for the American playwright Tennessee Williams, as his first major work to appear on Broadway. The play has strong autobiographical elements, featuring characters based on Williams himself, his dramatic mother, and his fragile sister, Laura. As the audience travels through Williams’ “memory play”, we learn that the Wingfield family’s lives are much like Laura’s glass menagerie—fanciful and delicate illusions.
GUARDS OF THE TAJ Capital Stage Thru April 16 2215 J St, Sac 995-5464 Capstage.org
In 1648 India, two Imperial Guards watch from their post as the sun rises for the first time on the newly completed Taj Mahal – an event that shakes their respective worlds. When they are ordered to perform an unthinkable task, the aftermath forces them to question the concepts of friendship, beauty, and duty, and changes them forever.
YOU SAY TOMATO, I SAY SHUT UP!
24TH Street Theatre, Sierra 2 Center Thru April 9 2791 24th St, Sac 672-8717 Playhouseinfo.com A real life love story - zany, hectic and uproariously funny! Whether you have been married forever, thinking about marriage, or still looking for the “perfect” relationship, you will laugh at the hilarious, romantic rollercoaster ride towards Happily Ever After, which proves there is Hope & Happiness for even the most incompatible of Lovers, Husbands & Wives.
Intreped Theater Lab April 27 – May 6 2837 36th St, Sac Intrepedtheatrelab.org
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Big Idea April 7 – May 6 1616 Del Paso Blvd, Sac 960-3036 BigIdeaTheatre.org In the aftermath of a civil war over the throne of Thebes, two belligerent brothers are dead, and the newly anointed ruler, Creon, has decreed one of them a traitor whose body shall remain unburied. Antigone, sister to the slain brothers, openly defies Creon’s orders, setting the stage for a battle of wills that pits national allegiance against family loyalty. In this adaptation of the Sophocles play, classic authoritarian and civilly disobedient figures take on modern sociopolitical resonance, as pride and ideological obstinacy preclude compromise and beget a cycle of destruction.
THE DONNER PARTY
Sacramento Theatre Company April 19 – May 14 1419 H St, Sac 443-6722 SacTheatre.org Specially commissioned and developed by Sacramento Theatre Company (STC), this dramatic new musical chronicles the true story of the harrowing travels of pioneers who faced unspeakable trials when trapped in the high Sierra Nevada in the winter of 1846 to 1847. Written by Eric Rockwell and Margaret Rose, California natives and authors of STC’s 2013 production of A Little Princess, this world premiere musical continues STC’s commitment to produce new, locally-relevant works each season.
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Art Preview GALLERY ART SHOWS IN APRIL
Through April, Tim Collom Gallery will show works by several landscape painters, including Sue Chapman. Shown above: Chapman’s “Sierra Vineyards.” 915 20th St.; timcollomgallery.com
At SMUD Art Gallery, an exhibition featuring works by 19 SMUD employees, retirees and their family members runs through May 10. Shown above: a work by Philip Roina. 6301 S St.; smud.org
Recent figurative work by Patricia Altschul will be on display at Archival Gallery in April. Shown above: a painting by Altschul. 3223 Folsom Blvd.; archivalframe.com
Viewpoint Photographic Art Center presents “Italia Bella,” featuring the work of Donald Satterlee and Michael Dunlavey, through May 6. Shown: “Symbols” by Dunlavey. 2015 J St.; viewpointgallery.org .
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This month, ARTHOUSE on R partners with Habitat for Humanity for The Habitat Door Project, for which local artists created art on recycled doors to bring attention to the need for affordable housing. Shown above: a work by Kerri Warner. 1021 R St.; arthouseonr.com
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it as a regional food-centered destination. Inspired by nearby successes like San Francisco’s Ferry Building and Oxbow Market in Napa, they wanted to turn this sluggish area of Carmichael into a food center befitting our region’s farm-to-table-tofork-to-mouth reputation.
The food is carefully prepared and beautifully presented. The new Milagro Centre is an ambitious project that combines restaurants, markets, coffee counters, outdoor dining, indoor dining, whiskey, beer, produce, and everything in between. It is definitely a work in progress. The two largest tenants, River City Brewing Company and Mesa Mercado, have been open since late last
summer. Several smaller outlets, like Insight Coffee Roasters and Ghiotto Artisan Gelato, recently opened. This is the fifth location of the popular Insight Coffee, and the first outlet for Ghiotto. Also newly opened is Fish Face Poke Bar, the second outlet of the successful R Street poke shop coowned by Kru’s Billy Ngo. This new Fish Face features a full bar, hot dishes like loco moco and a sliced-toorder fish counter. Set to open in the next few months is a restaurant called Patriot, which I’m told will feature steaks and whiskey. Mesa Mercado is the second local restaurant of Ernesto Delgado, the owner of Tequila Museo Mayahuel on K Street. To this new establishment, Delgado brings a more casual approach and more familiar dishes while serving up bold, unrestrained flavors and Oaxacan-inspired cooking. Though casual, Mesa is a step above a neighborhood taqueria. The food is carefully prepared and beautifully presented. Small touches
let you know that things are just a little special at Mesa Mercado. Instead of chips and salsa at your table, you get a small dish of salted mango chunks.
Service is quick and friendly. The traditional soups and stews are handled with care. Pozole rojo, the classic neon-red chile broth laden with pork and hominy, is treated with reverence. Garnishes are served with a flourish; the flavors are on point. A trio of enchiladas, each one sporting a different richly colored sauce, hits the spot. The rich, brown mole steals the show, its complex, earthy flavors outshining the more common green and red enchilada toppings we’ve come to know so well.
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Your chile en nogada is served! The bar menu includes a host of mescal-spiked drinks, as well as more traditional margaritas and tequila drinks. Unlike Museo on K Street, the selection is reserved and not quite so gaudy. Everyone from the tequila connoisseur to the novice, though, can find something to their liking. Service is quick and friendly, and the open floor plan means that noise levels are a little on the high side. Currently, Mesa Mercado serves lunch and dinner, but there are plans to have a separate taco bar and Mexican market attached to the
restaurant running throughout the day. River City Brewing Company is an old favorite of mine. Open since 1993 in Downtown Plaza and forced to relocate with the building of Golden 1 Center, River City was brewing beer before brewing beer was cool. Its flagship brew, Woodenhead Ale, is one of the best beers this town ever produced. River City recently started brewing again at its new Carmichael location, and I can’t wait to sample the fare as it starts to flow from the tap.
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River City offers a decent pub menu with burgers, fries, pizzas, sandwiches, and other staples you’d expect to find at an old-school brewpub. The food isn’t the main
reason you go, but it hits the spot when you’re throwing back a few. Whether you’re looking for fresh produce or fresh fish, expertly crafted Mexican fare, or a bowl of Hawaiian poke, Milagro Centre might be the place for you. Milagro Centre is at 6241 Fair Oaks Blvd.; 692-0642; milagrocentre. com. Greg Sabin can be reached at gregorysabin@yahoo.com. n
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DOWNTOWN Cafeteria 15L 116 15th Street 551-1559 L D $$ Classic American lunch counter with a millennial vibe • cafeteria15l.com
DeVere’s Pub 1521 L Street L D Full Bar $$ Family-run authentic Irish pub with a classic menu to match • deverespub.com
Downtown & Vine 1200 K Street #8 228-4518 Educational tasting experience of wines by the taste, flight or glass • downtownandvine.com
Ella Dining Room & Bar
Grange 926 J Street • 492-4450 B L D Full Bar $$$ Simple, seasonal, soulful • grangerestaurant.com
Hock Farm Craft & Provision 1415 L St. 440-8888 L D $$-$$ Full Bar Celebration of the region’s rich history and bountiful terrain • Paragarys.com
South 2005 11th Street 382-9722 L D $-$$ Beer/Wine Timeless traditional Southern cuisine, counter service • weheartfriedchicken.com
OLD SAC
1131 K St. 443-3772
Fat City Bar & Cafe
L D $$$ Full Bar Modern American cuisine served family-style in a chic, upscale space Elladiningroomandbar.com
1001 Front St. 446-6768 D $$-$$$ Full Bar American cuisine served in a casual historic Old Sac location • Fatsrestaurants.com
Esquire Grill
Rio City Cafe
1213 K St. 448-8900
1110 Front Street 442-8226
L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Outdoor Dining Upscale American fare served in an elegant setting • Paragarys.com
L D Wine/Beer $$ Bistro favorites with a distinctively Sacramento feeling in a riverfront setting • riocitycafe.com
Firestone Public House
The Firehouse Restaurant
1132 16th Street
1112 Second St. 442-4772
L D $$ Full Bar Sports bar with a classical american menu• firestonepublichouse.com
L D $$$ Full Bar Global and California cuisine in an upscale historic Old Sac setting • Firehouseoldsac.com
Frank Fat’s 806 L St. 442-7092 L D Full Bar $$-$$$ Chinese favorites in an elegant setting • Fatsrestaurants.com
Ma Jong’s
Ten 22 1022 Second St. 441-2211 L D Wine/Beer $$ American bistro favorites with a modern twist in a casual, Old Sac setting • ten22oldsac.com
1431 L Street L D $-$$ Beer/Wine Cuisine from Japan, Thailand, China ad Vietnam. • majongs.com
Willie’s Burgers 110 K Street L D $ Great burgers and more. • williesburgers.com
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This Month @ the Market
A LOOK AT WHATâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S IN SEASON AT LOCAL FARMERS MARKETS IN APRIL
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STRAWBERRIES
ENGLISH PEAS
MUSTARD GREENS
This popular fruit, with its fresh aroma, bright red color and sweetness, is a sure sign that spring has arrived in Sacramento. To eat: Eat right out of the basket, or serve with whipped cream or ice cream for dessert.
The pods are not edible, so you must shuck the sweet, tender peas before eating them either raw or cooked. To eat: Steam, boil, blanch or sautĂŠ them. They are delicious in pasta with a light, lemony mascarpone sauce.
The leaves of the mustard plant are highly nutritious and have a peppery flavor. To eat: Add a small amount of raw greens to a salad.
MORELS
FAVA GREENS
LEEKS
This mushroom has a strong, nutty, earthy flavor. Its harvest season is short, but you can find dried morels year-round. To eat: Saute gently in butter with chopped shallots, then add cream for a lovely, light sauce.
This vegetable, which is related to onions and garlic, is sweet and delicately flavored. Trim the tough green leaves and use the white stalk. To eat: Use to add flavor to stocks, soups or stews.
Commonly found in Asian dishes, these greens are mildly sweet and buttery. Early in the season, they are tender enough to eat raw. To eat: Use to wrap fish or seafood before cooking.
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Café Bernardo
Biba Ristorante
1431 R St. 930-9191
2801 Capitol Ave. 455-2422 L D $$$ Full Bar Upscale Northern Italian cuisine
B L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Casual California cuisine with counter service
Fish Face Poke Bar 1104 R Street Suite 100 L D $$ Humble Hawaiian poke breaks free • fishfacepokebar.com
Iron Horse Tavern 1116 15th Street L D $-$$ Full Bar Gastro-pub cuisine in a stylish industrial setting • ironhorsetavern.net
Old Soul & Pullman Bar 12th & R Streets B L D $ Full-service cafe with artisan coffee roasts, bakery goods and sandwiches • oldsoulco.com
Magpie Cafe 1601 16th Street L D $$-$$$ Wine/Beer Seasonal menu using the best local ingredients • magpiecafe.com
Nido Bakery
1409 R Street Suite 102 L D $ Bakery treats and seasonal specialities. hellonido.com
served a la carte • Biba-restaurant.com
Café Bernardo 2726 Capitol Ave. 443-1180 B L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Casual California cuisine with counter service
Centro Cocina Mexicana 2730 J St. 442-2552 L D $$ Full Bar Patio Regional Mexican cooking served in a casual atmosphere • Paragarys.com
Federalist Public House 2009 N Street L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Wood-fired pizzas in an inventive urban alley setting • federalistpublichouse.com
Hot Italian 1627 16th Street 444-3000 L D Full Bar $$ Authentic hand-crafted pizzas with inventive ingredients, Gelato• hotitalian.net
Mulvaney’s Building & Loan 1215 19th St. 441-6022 L D Full Bar $$$ Modern American cuisine in an upscale historic setting
Shoki Ramen House 1201 R Street L D $$ Japanese fine dining using the best local ingredients • sshokiramenhouse.com
Red Rabbit 2718 J Street L D $$ Full Bar All things local contribute to a sophisticated urban menu • theredrabbit.net
THE HANDLE The Rind 1801 L Street #40 441-7463 L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Cheese-centric menu paired with select wine and beer • therindsacramento.com
Paragary’s Bar & Oven 1401 28th St. 457-5737 L D $$ Full Bar Fabulous Outdoor Patio, California cuisine with a French touch • Paragarys.com
1801 Capitol Ave. 441-0303 L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Patio Regional Mexican cuisine served in an authentic artistic setting • zocolosacramento.com
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2831 S Street L D $-$$ Beer/Wine Urban winery and tasting room with a creative menu using local sources • rwwinery. com
Skool 2315 K Street D $$ Inventive Japansese-inspired seafood dishes • skoolonkstreet.com
Suzie Burger 29th and P. Sts. 455-3300 L D $ Classic burgers, cheesesteaks, shakes, chili dogs, and other tasty treats • suzieburger.com
Tapa The World 2115 J St. 442-4353 L D $-$$ Wine/Beer/Sangria Spanish/world cuisine in a casual authentic atmosphere, live flamenco music - tapathewworld.com
Thai Basil Café 2431 J St. 442-7690 L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Patio Housemade curries among their authentic Thai specialties Thaibasilrestaurant.com
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The Waterboy
Kru
2000 Capitol Ave. 498-9891
3145 Folsom Blvd. 551-1559
L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Patio Fine South of France and northern Italian cuisine in a chic neighborhood setting • waterboyrestaurant.com
L D $$-$$$ Beer/Wine Raw and refined, traditional Japanese cuisine and sushi • krurestaurant.com
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La Trattoria Bohemia 3649 J St. 455-7803
33rd Street Bistro
L D Wine/Beer $-$$ Italian and Czech specialties in a neighborhood bistro setting
B L D $$ Full Bar Patio Pacific Northwest cuisine in a casual bistro setting • 33rdstreetbistro.com
Opa! Opa!
3301 Folsom Blvd. 455-2233
Burr’s Fountain
4920 Folsom Blvd. 452-5516 B L D $ Fountain-style diner serving burgers, sandwiches, soup and ice cream specialties
5610 Elvas 476-5492 LD $$ Wine tasting and paired entrees. Sunday Brunch 10 - 2. • cabanawine.com
Casa Garden Restaurant 2760 Sutterville Road 452-2809 L D $$ • D with minimum diners call to inquire Wine/Beer. Operated by volunteers to benefit Sacramento Children’s Home. • casagardenrestaurant.org
Freeport Bakery 5644 J St. 451-4000 L D Wine/Beer $ Fresh Greek cuisine in a chic, casual setting, counter service
2966 Freeport Blvd. 442-4256 B L $ Award-winning baked goods and cakes for eat in or take out • Freeportbakery.com
Nopalitos 5530 H St. 452-8226
Roxie Deli & Barbeque 3340 C St. 443-5402
Café Vinoteca 3535 Fair Oaks Blvd. 487-1331 L D $$ Full Bar Italian bistro in a casual setting • Cafevinoteca.com
Ettore’s 2376 Fair Oaks Blvd. 482-0708 B L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Patio European-style gourmet café with salads, soup, spit-roasted chicken, and desserts in a bistro setting • Ettores.com
The Kitchen 2225 Hurley Way 568-7171
Iron Grill B L $ Wine/Beer Southwestern fare in a casual diner setting
Cabana Winery & Bistro
LAND PARK
13th Street and Broadway 737-5115 L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Upscale neighborhood steakhouse • Ironsteaks.com
D $$$ Wine/Beer Five-course gourmet demonstration dinner by reservation only • Thekitchenrestaurant.com
La Rosa Blanca Taqueria 2813 Fulton Ave. 484-6104
Jamie’s Bar and Grill 427 Broadway 442-4044
L D Full Bar $$-$$ Fresh Mexican food served in a colorful family-friendly setting
B L D $ Deli sandwiches, salads & BBQ made fresh. Large selection of craft Beer • roxiedeli.com
L D $ Full Bar Featured on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. Dine in or take out since 1986
Luna Lounge
723 56th. St. 454-5656
Selland’s Market Cafe
Riverside Clubhouse
BLD Full Bar $$ American. HD sports, kid's menu, breakfast weekends, Late night dining
5340 H St. 736-3333
2633 Riverside Drive 448-9988
B L D $-$$ Full neighborhood bar serving dinner nightly. Open at 11am daily. Weekend breakfast. • bellabrucafe.com
B L D $$ Wine/Beer High quality handcrafted food to eat in or take out, bakery, wine bar • sellands.com
L D $$ Full Bar Upscale American cuisine served in a contemporary setting • Riversideclubhouse.com
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OBO Italian L D Full Bar $$ The rustic, seasonal, and nourishing flavors of Italy. Counter service • oboitalian.com
La Venadita
Español
3501 Thurd Ave. 4000-4676
5723 Folsom Blvd. 457-3679 L D Full Bar $$ Classic Italian cuisine served in a traditional family-style atmosphere
Evan’s Kitchen 855 57th St. 452-3896 B L D Wine/Beer $$ Eclectic California cuisine served in a family-friendly atmosphere • Chefevan.com
Formoli’s Bistro 3839 J St. 448-5699 B L D Wine/Beer $$-$$$ Mediterranean influenced cuisine in a stylish neighborhood setting • formolisbistro.com
Hawks Public House 1525 Alhambra Blvd. 558-4440 L D $$-$$$ Familiar classics combined with specialty ingredients by chefs Molly Hawks and Mike Fagnoni • hawkspublichouse.com
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L D $$ Full Bar Authentic Mexican cuisine with simple tasty menu in a colorful historic setting • lavenaditasac.com
Oak Park Brewing Company
Vibe Health Bar 3515 Broadway B L D $-$$ Clean, lean & healthy snacks. Acai bowls are speciality. Kombucha on tap • vibehealthbar.com
L D Beer/Wine $$ Neighborhood gathering place for pizza, pasta and grill dishes
2924 Freeport Boulevard 443-5154 D $$$ Wine/Beer Dinner served Wed. through Saturday. Reservations suggested but walk-ins welcome.
Willie’s Burgers 2415 16th St. 444-2006 L D $ Great burgers and more. Open until 3 on Friday and Saturday • williesburgers.com
The Mandarin Restaurant 4321 Arden Way 488-47794 D $$-$$$ Full Bar Gourmet Chineses food for 32 years • Dine in and take out
Roxy 2381 Fair Oaks Blvd. 489-2000 B L D $$-$$$ Full Bar American cuisine with a Western touch in a creative upscale atmosphere •
3514 Broadway L D $$ Full Bar Award-winning beers and a creative pub-style menu in an historic setting • opbrewco.com
Matteo’s Pizza 5132 Fair Oaks. Blvd. 779-0727
Taylor’s Kitchen
3145 Folsom Blvd.
5026 Fair Oaks Blvd. 485-2883
ARDEN AREA Bella Bru Café 5038 Fair Oaks Blvd. 485-2883 B L D $-$$ Full bar, casual, locally owned European style café with table service from 5 pm and patio dining • bellabrucafe.com
Cafe Bernardo Pavilions Shopping Center B L D $$ Full Bar Outdoor Patio Seasonal, European-influenced comfort food • Paragarys.com
Sam’s Hof Brau 2500 Watt 482-2175 L D $$ Wine/Beer Fresh quality meats roasted daily • thehofbrau.com
Thai House 427 Munroe in Loehmann’s 485-3888 L D $$ Wine/Beer Featuring the great taste of Thai traditional specialties • sacthaihouse.com
Willie’s Burgers 5050 Fair Oaks Blvd. 488-5050 L D $ Great burgers and more • williesburgers.com n
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