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TAHOE PARK A rare ¿nd... 3 bedroom, 3 full bath two story home with over 1900 sq ft and 2-car garage in the heart of Tahoe Park. This unique Àoor plan has 2 master bedrooms with baths, new roof, family room, hardwood Àoors, central HVAC, 2 ¿replaces, freshly painted exterior, covered patio & so much more. $395,000 PAT VOGELI 207-4515

STATELY ENGLISH TUDOR One of a kind with beautiful stone/wood exterior details and exquisite interior ¿nishes, it’s breathtaking! Large dining, living and family rooms with high ceilings. 4 or 5 bedrooms, 2½ baths, oversized master suite, 2 walk-in closets and sitting area. In the heart of the Fab 40’s. $1,395,000 DAVID KIRRENE 531-7495, ROZ LEVY-WEINTRAUB 952-6602

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DESIRABLE RIVER PARK Located on a quiet, tree-lined street, walking distance to Caleb Greenwood Elementary, a wonderful 3 bedroom 1½ bathroom ranch home featuring newly re¿nished hardwood Àoors, dual pane windows, new exterior paint, a gorgeous remodeled bathroom, a private backyard. $525,000 REBECCA JANICKI 212-2825

A CHARMER! This 1930’s charmer has been well cared for and updated with a remodeled kitchen, laundry room, and bathroom. Dining room opens to the back patio for summer parties, overlooking deep, green backyard. Dual pane windows, cute blinds and hardwood Àoors are just a few of the extras. $467,500 DAVID KIRRENE 531-7495

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GREENHAVEN HOME WITH BOAT DOCK Live on the Sacramento River with your own boat dock. Lee Basford built this quality custom home on one of the best streets in Greenhaven. 4 bedrooms 3 baths, wide side yard, 3-car garage, new wood deck off master that looks out to river. New paint inside and out! $715,000 MONA GERGEN 247-9555

EAST PORTAL PARK CLOSE You are going to love this 2 bed home located just one block from the park in this special East Sac neighborhood. Also close to Trader Joe’s and neighborhood bistros, bicycle distance to the university and downtown without getting on a freeway. Updated kitchen, a 2+ car garage and a deep private yard. $429,000 CHRISTINE BALESTERI 996-2244, CHERYL NIGHTINGALE 849-1220

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CLASSIC RIVER PARK Lovely 3 bedroom home in highly desirable River Park features an open Àoor plan, updated kitchen with stainless appliances and granite counters plus a separate counter with butcher block top. Pretty updated bathroom, re¿nished hardwood Àoors, and newly landscaped yard. $449,000 CHARLENE SINGLEY 341-0305

EAST SACRAMENTO COTTAGE Peaceful at home the minute you enter this 2 bedroom home! Updates throughout, living room has a cozy ¿replace; dining room a built-in hutch; kitchen includes new dishwasher and gas range; breakfast nook. Master bedroom with expanded sitting area and French Doors to outside deck. $469,000 TIM COLLOM 247-8048

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TALLAC VILLAGE Just right...Enjoy this 2 bedroom, 1 bath home with over 900 sq. ft. on .19 acre in the heart of Tallac Village. This home features hardwood Àoors, dual pane windows, HVAC, granite counters in kitchen, bonus room and spacious backyard just waiting for your ¿nishing touch. Don’t miss this one! $289,000 PAT VOGELI 207-4515

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EAST SAC TUDOR! Wonderful 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 1174 sq/ft, East Sac Tudor. Features include hardwood Áoors, formal living room with built-ins and Àreplace, formal dining room with built-in buffet, a large kitchen with cozy breakfast nook and built-in seating. Close to shopping, restaurants and coffee shop. $519,950

EXPANSIVE BACKYARD! This attractive 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom, 1419 sq/ft East Sac home sits on a large lot. The updated kitchen has quartz countertops against subway tile. Beautiful wood Áoors in the open dining/living room combo with slate Àreplace. The master suite has plenty of closet space and doors that lead to a deck in the expansive backyard. Nearby shopping, coffee shops and restaurants. $549,950

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OPPORTUNITY TO LIVE IN THE FAB 40’S! This 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 1490 sq/ft cottage is on on the market for the Àrst time since the 60’s. The home has been well cared for and shows in the beautiful, original hardwood Áoors. Classic details of original built-ins and brick Àreplace only add to the charm of this bright, spacious home. Don’t miss this opportunity to live in East Sac.

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Attractive 3,035 sq/ft gem in the heart of East Sac’s Fab 40s. Tudor exterior and a Modern interior with classic features. Inlaid wood Áoors, arched entryways, plantation shutters. Gourmet kitchen with ofÀce nook, high-end appliances & concrete counters that looks onto Great room with built-ins and brick Àreplace. Traditional dining & large living room.

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EAST SAC BUNGALOW! Beautiful bungalow tucked away on a charming street in East Sac offers original touches of oak Áoors. This 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom, 1,392 sq ft home features an open, bright living room with a slate wood burning Àreplace, formal dining room and spotless remodeled kitchen. The covered patio extends into the expansive backyard with pool that’s great for entertaining and outdoor fun.

STYLISH REMODEL! Stylish 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 961 sq/ft, cottage is nestled on a quaint street in East Sac. The home has designer colored walls with beautiful wood Áooring, recessed lighting and premium Anderson windows that give this home light and warmth. The sleek kitchen has been fully remodeled with Quartz counters and details of exposed brick.

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COVER ARTISTS S.V. Williams and Molly Devlin This team is one of the 40 artists participating in the Wide Open Walls mural festival August 10-20. Visit wideopenwalls916.com.

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Concrete Canvas EXPANDED MURAL FESTIVAL WILL LITERALLY PAINT THE TOWN

rt supporters, including me,

paint and other materials provided to

are excited at the direction our

them. Artists arriving from out of the

city is now taking to become a

country will have accommodations

leader in the arts. I’m convinced that

and airfare covered, said Sobon.

we certainly have the talent locally.

Sobon said funding for the event

But what we have lacked is the right

is provided by dozens of public and

apparatus to showcase that talent we

private sponsors.

have here, both to our local residents

Recognizing the ability to draw

and to attract visitors from the region

people to town, Visit Sacramento

and beyond.

signed on as the event’s presenting

Last summer’s inaugural

sponsor and provided a significant

Sacramento Mural Festival was a

contribution to the event.

great success, bringing on 11 artists

Our publications have signed on

to paint mural locations throughout

as a major sponsor, and you’ll see

the Grid’s urban core. The celebration

on the adjoining pages a listing of

captivated the city for eight days last

artists and mural locations, along

August, and visitors flocked to watch

with recognition of the sponsors

the artists in action as they completed

that contributed funds to help make

their large-scale projects. The event

it a success. We are also producing

concluded with a creative-themed

a special festival program, called

street party called Art Jam that raised

“Inside Wide Open Walls,” that

funds for arts education in local

will include artist biographies and

schools.

statements. Pick one up at each of the

This year, the event has taken on

40 mural locations and learn more

a new identity—it’s now called Wide

David Sobon

Open Walls—and has a new organizer in arts fundraiser and auctioneer

about the artistic talent at work. This year’s conclusion event is called The Wall Ball, an outside-the-

David Sobon. The event runs Aug.

than 50 artists and 40 locations, with

of them to showcase for this month’s

lines creative party that will be held

10–20. I know and like David (he’s

spots well beyond the Grid, including

cover art.)

on Saturday, Aug. 19, to benefit local

a fellow Sacramento Metropolitan

Natomas, South Sac, Del Paso

Arts Commissioner) and definitely

Heights and Oak Park.

Sobon is also expanding the festival to include activities for the public

arts education. Tickets are $100 each and available at wow916.com.

consider him a “big thinker.” His

About three dozen of the artists

to engage with the artists, many

energetic approach—fueled by his

are local, including Bryan Valenzuela,

of them modeled after ones that

festival held each summer in Reno.

personal passion for the arts—has

Jose Di Gregorio, Maren Conrad,

formed spontaneously last summer.

It’s been going on since 1996 and now

broadened the festival to include more

Micah Crandall-Bear and Stephanie

This includes walking tours, pop-up

includes more than 500 arts-related

Taylor, all of whom have had their

exhibits, gallery openings, busker

events during the month of July, with

work featured on our covers. The

performances and more. There will

more than 70 percent of the events

remaining artists represent 12

even be a mural-finding phone app.

free to the public. I have friends who

All mural artists will have had

live there and they love attending all

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countries including Australia, China,

In July, I saw an ad for the Artown

France, Germany, New Zealand and

their mural designs approved by

the events. They say a great many

the U.K. (To honor some of the local

owners of the buildings where they’ll

folks visit that month just for the

artists who are participating in the

appear. The artists also receive a

festival.

mural festival, we have chosen five

stipend for participating and have

Scenes from last year's mural fest.

Nothing against Reno, but it

unique opportunity to watch artists

is hardly known as an art town,

as they create these large-scale works

especially compared to Sacramento.

of art. David told me that with this

As I’ve written previously, as a city

much diversity of talent there are

we need to step up our game to

bound to be favorites and not-so-

showcase our local art talent to our

favorites depending on the viewpoint

own residents, and at the same time

of the artist. I can hardly wait …

attract new visitors. This mural

don’t miss it!

festival is a great place for us to start and build on in future years. The festival is planned to celebrate

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the relevancy and diversity of street art and provide the public with the

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Eat Locally CHAMBER SPONSORS EAST SAC DINING WEEK

he East Sacramento Chamber of Commerce will sponsor its second annual dining week, Savor East Sac, Aug. 3–13. The promotion is designed to encourage people to visit local restaurants. Participating restaurants will offer fixed-price three-course meals, appetizer specials, extended happy hours and free offers with purchase. At press time, Roxie Deli, Formoli’s Bistro, Sactown Union Brewery, Clubhouse 56, Chocolate Fish Coffee Roasters and V. Miller Meats had signed up to participate. For an update of participating restaurants, visit eastsacchamber.org.

ICE CREAM IN THE PARK McKinley Library will celebrate the end of its summer reading program with an ice cream social on Tuesday, Aug. 15, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. There will be free ice cream and face painting followed by a magic show. Other programs at McKinley Library this month include Kenn Adams’ Adventure Theater, an interactive journey through space, and Mission Imagination, with handson projects such as fort building, puppet shows and building a giant ball of tape.

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Formoli's Bistro and Chocolate Fish Coffee Roasters (below) are two of the restaurants participating in the annual Savor East Sac week in early August. McKinley Library is at 601 Alhambra Blvd. in McKinley Park. For more information, go to saclibrary.org.

OAK PARK’S LAST FIRST FRIDAY The Oak Park Business Association and Unseen Heroes will present the final First Friday of the summer in Oak Park on Aug. 4 from 5 to 9 p.m. The celebration will feature Oak Park businesses spanning Broadway from Alhambra to 37th Street. Highlights will include a pop-up park, shopping, dining, live music and extended business hours. For more information, follow Unseen Heroes on Facebook and Instagram.

‘LEGO’ MOVIE IN THE PARK Screen on the Green will return to Glenn Hall Park on Friday, Aug. 4, with a free outdoor screening of “The LEGO Batman Movie.”

The movie will begin at sunset at approximately 8:15 p.m. Free popcorn will be provided. Bring lawn chairs or a blanket, a sweatshirt and a flashlight. TO page 16

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Devine Bakery & Gelateria at 3610 McKinley Blvd. recently closed after less than a year in business. Owner Elizabeth McCleary’s Midtown location, Devine Gelateria & Cafe, remains open. It is located at 1221 19th St. For more information, go to devinegelateria.com.

SCANDINAVIAN FUN The 34th annual Sacramento Scandinavian Festival will take place at Scottish Rite Masonic Center on Saturday, Aug. 19, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Food and merchandise will be available for purchase. There will also be Viking re-enactments, live music and door prizes. The event will include Sacramento’s Finnish, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish clubs. Admission is $5 for adults and children over 12. Children 12 and younger get in free. Scottish Rite Masonic Center is at 6151 H St.

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NO MORE LUNCH AT KRU Kru Contemporary Japanese Cuisine recently announced it would stop its lunch service. The East Sac restaurant is now open Monday through Sunday for small bites and cocktails at 4 p.m. Full dinner service begins at 5 p.m. “Here at Kru, we have always prided ourselves on pushing culinary boundaries and offering exceptional food and service,” the Kru team said in a statement. “After 11 years at our previous location, we realized that we had outgrown our beloved little restaurant and that it was time for an upgrade. Through this transition,

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we also found ourselves wandering down divergent paths. On one hand, we wanted to continue to elevate our offerings; on the other hand, we were trying to figure out exactly how best to serve our new neighborhood.” The masterminds behind Kru (owner Billy Ngo and talented chefs Ricky Yap and Tyler Bond) quickly realized upon opening their new space on Folsom Boulevard that the East Sac lunch crowd was “extremely pressed for time” at midday, which prompted a slimmed-down menu to speed up lunch service. When that didn’t work, they composed an entirely new lunch menu that could be executed more quickly, but the internal challenges it presented made it unfeasible for the long haul. “We threw around lots of ideas and one thing became clear,” the statement read. “We need to streamline our systems … and we need to provide our chefs the time and opportunity to cook the food they really want to cook with the passion that landed them at Kru in the first place.”

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Kru is at 3135 Folsom Blvd. For more information, visit krurestaurant.com.

EAST SAC ROTARY MOVES LUNCH LOCALE East Sacramento Rotary Club will begin holding its weekly lunch at Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church on Alhambra Boulevard. The lunches, catered by local restaurants, take place each Wednesday at noon. The church is at 600 Alhambra Blvd. For more information on East Sacramento Rotary, contact Kathy Herrfeldt at (916) 616-4861or kherrfeldt@homecareassistance.com.

ROTARY TO BUILD GARDEN PROJECT East Sacramento Rotary Club will build a greenhouse and planter boxes on the Tahoe Elementary School campus this month.

The project will be used for yearround garden education for the students. For more information or to help sponsor the project, contact Carroll Dudley at (916) 457-3121 or carroll. dudley@edwardjones.com.

NEW RESTAURANT FOR OAK PARK What kind of food can’t restaurateurs Tom and David Schnetz tackle? The talented duo behind Oak Park’s popular Mexican eatery La Venadita recently opened a new—and entirely different—outpost in the

neighborhood: Oakhaus, a Bavarianinspired restaurant. The Schnetz brothers and chef Matthew Ridgeway created a hofbrauthemed menu that includes pastrami and roast beef sandwiches, bratwurst, potato salad, meatloaf and ciderbraised red cabbage. Oakhaus is at 3413 Broadway. For more information, visit oakhaussac. com.

LATTE ART COMPETITION CONTINUES If you love coffee, get thee to the Sacramento Public Latte Art

Tournament on the last Thursday of each month through October. Founded in 2014 with the help of Edie and Andy Baker (co-owners of Chocolate Fish Coffee Roasters), SPLAT is the perfect place for baristas to exercise their latte-making mojo.

The top three competitors in each round will be awarded prizes and money. This year’s tournament will feature up to 48 top baristas per event competing for coffee art domination at local coffeehouses.

The event kicked off on June 29 at Old Soul Co. on Capitol Mall and continues at 7 p.m. on the last Thursday of each month. SPLAT will take place at Naked Coffee (3527 Broadway) on July 27, Identity Coffees (1430 28th St.) on Aug. 31 and Insight Coffee Roasters (1901 8th St.) on Sept. 28. The grand finale—co-sponsored by Temple Coffee & Tea and Chocolate Fish Coffee Roasters—will take place at The Vintage Monkey (400 N. 16th St.) on Saturday, Oct. 21, at the end of Specialty Coffee Week Sacramento. Three professional barista judges will score each round’s latte art on contrast, texture and symmetry. Competitors accumulate points throughout the events to vie for the title of Sacramento’s Top Barista. The top three competitors in each round will be awarded prizes and TO page 18

Kru chefs Ricky Yap, Tyler Bond and Billy Ngo

Sacramento Public Latte Art Tournament is the last Thursday of each month. Photo courtesy of Josh Corrigan.

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B STREET THEATRE GETS MONEY AND A NEW NAME If you’ve driven by the corner of 27th Street and Capitol Avenue in the past several months, you’ve no doubt seen the construction of the new $29 million B Street Theatre complex. After more than a decade of fundraising, a final $3 million contribution from the Tsakopoulos family and Sutter Health Community Benefit will allow B Street to complete the project. To honor the family’s generosity, the 48,000-square-foot complex now boasts a new name: the Sofia Tsakopoulos Center for the Arts (“The Sofia” for short), named for Angelo K. Tsakopoulos’ art-loving wife.

The complex is expected to open in February 2018 and will include a 365-seat children’s theater that will host B Street’s Family and B3 series as well as other events, a 250-seat Mainstage theater, a lobby, fullservice restaurant, open-air courtyard and rooftop deck.

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Formoli’s Bistro 3839 J St. Burger Happy Hour: 2 burgers and 2 glasses of summer red wine for $25 (excludes add-ons) Evan’s Kitchen 855 57th St. 3 Course Prime Rib Dinner $19.99 - Soup or Salad, 8 oz. Prime Rib, sautéed veggies, potato & dessert

Hawks Provisions + Public House 1525 Alhambra Blvd. Buy a pastry and receive a FREE small coffee in Provisions Maine lobster roll, chips and a glass of sparkling rosé $30 (lunch and dinner) in Public House

Tiferet Coffee House 3020 H St. FREE Small Coffee with the purchase of any regular priced pastry

Roxie Deli & BBQ 3340 C St. Half OFF Any Sandwich with purchase of any Sandwich of equal or greater value Clubhouse 56 723 56th St. $2 OFF 56 Nachos (any size) + $3 OFF Specialty Cocktails incl. 56 Margaritas & Jalapeno Lemondrops

12 Rounds Brewing Company 866 57th St. $2 OFF beers on weekdays, and One FREE logo glass with beer purchase; while supplies last. Sactown Union Brewery 1210 66th St. $1.00 OFF Any Beer

Hoppy Brewing Company 6300 Folsom Blvd. A pitcher of beer and a small appetizer for $20

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She Makes House Calls THE DOCTOR WILL SEE YOU NOW—AT YOUR HOME

r. Caron Houston glanced at her watch as she crossed the empty parking lot to her car. It was 8 o’clock. Somehow she’d put in another 12-hour day without realizing it. By the time she got home, it would nearly be her kids’ bedtime. She worried for a moment that the new nanny was going to burn out, but she pushed the thought away as she turned the car radio to a local jazz station. “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” was playing, and the image of bluebirds flying over the rainbow struck a chord with Houston. “When it got to the part about happy little bluebirds, I thought, ‘Wait a minute. I don’t have to be this factory line. I could be a happy little bluebird.’ I really decided at that point that I needed to get back to the soul of what I like to do,” says Houston, who has now been a doctor for more than 20 years. “And that is geriatrics.” That realization came back in 2014. Since then, Houston has created a thriving home health care practice called House Calls of Carmichael. She services elderly patients who have trouble leaving the house for one reason or another and would otherwise struggle to get the medical care they need. This concierge model of health care was inspired by several encounters

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Dr. Caron Houston chats with a family member of a patient. Houston had while still working in a medical office. “Some patients really just are too sick to come into the office,” she says. Two patients immediately come to mind for Houston: a woman who was morbidly

obese and unable to see a doctor for so long that her prescriptions were no longer eligible for refill and an elderly dementia patient who wandered out of the office while his wife was being

seen. He was missing for more than four hours. For these patients and many others Houston sees, receiving regular medical care at home brings them a new quality of life. Houston effectively brings the whole doctor’s office to her patients in two suitcases packed to the brim with everything from an EKG machine to a urine-testing kit. She also maintains relationships with several other mobile medical professionals, such as a phlebotomist who draws blood for labs and a mobile X-ray team. “I had to really find partners who had the same philosophy of care,” she says of her quality-over-quantity approach to geriatric home care. “And I have found them. There are many people out there that have that really heartfelt approach.” While a referral to a specialist like a neurologist or a cardiologist would require the patient to go in for an appointment, not much else does. Prescriptions can often be delivered to the patient’s home or picked up through a pharmacy in the patient’s assisted living community. And while health insurance is a hot-button issue right now, Houston hasn’t experienced too much pushback with her practice. For those who do not have an insurance plan like Medicare that covers house calls, the convenience and Houston’s attentiveness have been well worth the out-of-pocket costs. “I think medicine has soul,” Houston says, explaining why her patients are willing to pay more to be seen by her than go to an office that prioritizes how many patients can be

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there is no less work, the flexibility in scheduling has allowed her to focus more on her personal life and give more to her patients. “I really feel good about life if I’m practicing and doing what I like in terms of work, but now I can do both,” she says. “I do end up staying up really late at night continuing to do my work, but I made a personal choice that I want to take care of my kids after school and actually get to see them.” For more information about House Calls of Carmichael, call (916) 2456464 or go to housecallsofcarmichael. com. n

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Rethinking Homelessness WILL WE LEARN FROM PAST FAILURES?

t’s hard to overstate how bad the homeless problem has become in Sacramento. A newly released survey conducted on Jan. 25 reports a 38 percent increase in the number of homeless people living in Sacramento in the past two years—a total of 3,665 people. But the real shocker was the reported 85 percent increase in the number of homeless people living unsheltered in Sacramento, now up to 2,052 souls. And the consensus among specialists in homelessness is that this latest count, commissioned by Sacramento Steps Forward, the

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lead agency responsible for solving Sacramento’s homeless problem, likely undercounted Sacramento’s population of homeless people. How effective has Sacramento Steps Forward, the local collector and dispenser of federal homeless dollars, been at its mission of reducing homelessness? Apparently not very, despite a 150 percent increase in funding over the past two years. The nonprofit (launched by Kevin Johnson in 2009) will reportedly dispense nearly $20 million in grants this year, an almost 50 percent increase over last year. But compensation paid out to SSF employees in 2015 increased 270 percent over the previous year, according to its most recently available tax filing. SSF’s chief executive officer, Ryan Loofbourrow, has a degree in communications studies from Sacramento State University. Its board is chaired by a land-use lawyer and includes a developer, hospital

representatives, foundation officials, the clergy, a corporate government affairs director and Cassandra Jennings, the CEO of the Greater Sacramento Urban League. She is a former assistant Sacramento city manager and housing/redevelopment official and wife of councilmember Rick Jennings—and the only SSF director with any apparent experience in dealing with homelessness. As a nonprofit, SSF is not subject to state laws mandating public board meetings or public access to its records. Does it make any sense for the lead agency responsible for leading Sacramento’s response to the homelessness crisis—and clearly failing at that mission—to operate in the dark, without public meetings and without public access to its records? And how can the SSF board—fine people all, but with little collective experience in dealing with issues of homelessness—be expected to hold its

management accountable for doing an effective job? Obviously, they can’t and haven’t been. Meanwhile, Sacramento county government has been spending more than $40 million annually to address the needs of homeless people and their impacts on the community, while city government, according to a 2015 study, has been spending about $14 million annually to address homelessness. SSF, county and city governments, collectively, are currently spending about $75 million annually on the homeless. But if Mayor Darrell Steinberg has his way, the real spending has only just begun.

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never reach its potential as a vibrant commercial hub and an attractive residential area so long as large numbers of homeless people occupy Downtown. Acute problems have spread to Cesar Chavez Park, Central Library, City Hall, Gordon D. Schaber County Courthouse and several other Downtown locations. The library spends $25,000 annually to clean its bathrooms of the messes left by homeless people. The public safety committee of the Sacramento Superior Court was finally able to corral the law enforcement support it needed to remove people who were living under the eaves of the courthouse, which required daily cleaning to remove urine and excrement. If you drive down I or J streets at night, you can’t miss the large numbers of homeless people clustered in the doorways of office buildings and other facilities. The problem has spread into Midtown, where unattended garages are frequently taken over by homeless squatters, who’ve been known

to move in household furniture. But the biggest concern has been the increasing number of violent incidents in Midtown involving homeless people as both perpetrators and victims. One homeless man shot another homeless man in late June a block from City Hall. Three hours later, another homeless man fatally stabbed yet another homeless man near 13th and S streets in Midtown. Councilmember Steve Hansen reports receiving almost daily complaints from constituents of harassing and assaultive behavior by homeless people in the central city. Last month, he convened a community meeting on the issue and called on the police to step up law enforcement in Midtown. (Councilmember Jay Schenirer made a similar call for stepped-up police presence in Oak Park following two recent murders.) As bad as the homelessness problem has become in Downtown Sacramento, things could get worse, as LA is experiencing. Of the more than 50,000 homeless people living on the streets of LA, a reported 10,000 are now living in thousands of tents tightly clustered along the 54 blocks of LA’s Skid Row, located in the shadow of downtown office buildings and hotels. LA county and city governments collectively spend an astonishing $1.1 billion annually on the costs of dealing with its growing homeless population. Two years ago, LA joined Seattle, Portland, Tacoma and the state of Hawaii in declaring a state of emergency to address its growing homelessness crisis. LA voters, who have a seemingly unquenchable thirst for higher taxes, last November approved both a $1 billion bond to construct homeless housing and a $355 million annual sales-tax hike for 10 years to fund homeless programs. In the past two years, the homelessness problem in Sacramento has metastasized, with more and more homeless people seeking refuge in Sacramento’s older suburbs: Fair Oaks, Carmichael, Rancho Cordova, Orangevale, Citrus Heights and Folsom. The homelessness issue played a major role in last November’s county supervisorial election in District 4 (Orangevale,

Antelope, Citrus Heights, Folsom), a race won by former Citrus Heights mayor Sue Frost.

THE AMERICAN RIVER PARKWAY The American River Parkway has long been a haven for homeless people, due in large part to its close proximity to regular meals and other services offered by Loaves & Fishes in the Richards Boulevard area. The presence of homeless people in the parkway has brought endless complaints from nearby residents and regular parkway users over mountains of garbage, human waste and hypodermic needles. But in recent years, the number of homeless people and their negative impacts in the parkway have increased dramatically. One bike rider was hospitalized after being attacked by two off-leash dogs. In another incident, three cyclists were injured by rocks thrown by men believed to be homeless. There also has been a major increase in parkway fires believed to be caused by homeless people. Meanwhile, park rangers issued only half the number of camping citations in 2016 as they did the year before, a clear sign that county officials have dialed back enforcement of the camping ban. (Camping citations can be issued as either infractions or misdemeanors. While homeless campers often can and do ignore infraction citations they receive for camping, ignoring misdemeanor citations carries more serious consequences.)

THE “WHACK-A-MOLE” DILEMMA In the first serious effort in years to arrest the deterioration of the parkway, county Supervisor Phil Serna has launched a proposal for the county to spend about $4 million to hire 37 new park rangers, animal control officers and maintenance workers to clean up the parkway, divided into six patrol teams that would include both social service workers and county prosecutors. County Supervisor Susan Peters

is worried that actually enforcing the camping ban in the parkway would push homeless people into nearby neighborhoods, the so-called “whack-a-mole” argument against reasserting public control of the parkway. The board of supervisors has deferred taking action on Serna’s proposal until later this month when firmer budget numbers will be available. In my recent interview with Steinberg, he gave short shrift to the point that a fairly substantial number of homeless people can and do migrate. Human nature tells us that people gravitate away from places where they’re uncomfortable and to areas where they are more comfortable. Surveys fairly consistently show that about one-third of the homeless are from elsewhere. But proponents of massive new homelessness interventions, like the mayor, almost invariably ignore such findings. They resist an inconvenient truth: that if a community provides more extensive and accommodating services to homeless people than other accessible

communities, such communities will attract greater numbers of homeless people.

THE WAY FORWARD? Over the past three years, San Francisco spent an astonishing $840 million on programs for homeless people while having no impact on its worsening homelessness problem. Given the extensive services available to its homeless population, San Francisco is a comparatively appealing place to be homeless, as odd as that sounds. The homelessness problem has become so bad in San Francisco that in late June, the San Francisco Chronicle actually published a human waste map, which plotted the locations of human-waste spotted throughout the city by the public. (You’d be well-advised to steer clear of Mission, Market and Van Ness streets on your next trip to the city.) Is that the direction we want to go in Sacramento? Steinberg’s mobilization of resources and services for homeless people is certainly a

major step in that direction. Given our mayor’s lack of appreciation of the role relative comfort levels can have on the one-third of homeless people who are inclined to move around, I’d suggest it’s the wrong road for us to take (not to mention the fact that the city is already headed for a fiscal ditch in the next few years due to its escalated spending, rising pension costs and expiring tax hikes). Next month, I’ll discuss some fresh ideas on ways Sacramento can address its homelessness problem,

including some innovative approaches taken by churches and other faith communities.

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 (916) 718-3030. n

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Cannabis Czar NEW CITY OFFICIAL CRACKS DOWN ON CRIMINAL ‘GROW HOUSES’

ess politicized than Oakland, better regulated than Los Angeles, Sacramento has built a profitable relationship with legalized cannabis. But a major problem haunts the city’s biggest growth industry. Thirty dispensaries in Sacramento generate millions of dollars in sales taxes. They have provoked no upswing in neighborhood crime since becoming regulated in 2010. About 70 cultivators have applied to City Hall for commercial indoor growing permits. The trouble comes from outlaw growers who ignore regulations and have no interest in legalizing their businesses. In neighborhoods across the city, an estimated 1,000 private homes have been turned into illegal cultivation sites, filled with ramshackle wiring, holes cut through walls and fire hazards everywhere. “If we had capacity to bust three of these houses a day, and no new ones popped up, we would have to work a full year, seven days a week, to eradicate them all,” says Joe Devlin, the city’s new chief of cannabis policy and enforcement. “I could spend all day on this.” Devlin, who served seven years as chief of staff for City Councilmember Jay Schenirer, doesn’t have all day to kick in doors at suspected illegal cultivation houses.

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construction. In April, Sacramento police investigated a double homicide at a suspected grow house in South Sacramento. Authorities believe the murders occurred during a botched home invasion robbery. “They are simply unsafe for a number of reasons,” Devlin says. “Nothing is up to code. There’s lots of electrical work that’s unsafe and unpermitted.”

SMUD helps local authorities catch criminal cannabis cultivators. Sacramento attracts criminal cultivators for three primary reasons, Devlin believes. Homes can be obtained here at relatively cheap prices, at least compared to the Bay Area, San Diego and Los Angeles. Easy freeway access allows cartel growers to quickly get their product Joe Devlin is chief of cannabis policy and enforcement. beyond California, as most illegally grown marijuana is destined for other The city’s cannabis office is busy if only because of the danger they with many chores. There’s the present to Sacramento neighborhoods. states. And there’s SMUD, the publicly alignment of city ordinances with new “These are not mom-and-pop owned utility that provides power state laws on adult-use retail sales, operations with a few plants,” he at economical prices. Every indoor delivery services, distribution and says. “There’s an organized element cannabis farmer—legal and transportation regulations. There’s to this. They go in and they purchase otherwise—requires significant jolts testing and conditional-use permits or lease multiple homes, and they go of electricity to drive the lighting for commercial cultivation and inside and gut them and turn them systems that stimulate the crop’s manufacturing facilities. The rules into what are commercial cannabis growing cycles. are complex. The task list is long. production facilities.” “SMUD is a great utility provider,” But illegal grow houses have Illegal cultivation sites are Devlin says. “A grower can do the become a preoccupation with Devlin, inevitably dangerous, with math on the back of an envelope and hazards that extend beyond sloppy

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say, ‘Wow, I’ll save 30 percent on my power bill in Sacramento.’” SMUD helps local authorities catch criminal cannabis cultivators. The utility works with the city to identify homes and businesses with unusually high power usage. Officials obtain an inspection warrant—easier to get than a criminal warrant—and knock on the door looking for code violations. Code violations typically don’t bring criminal prosecutions, but they can put the illegal grower out of business, at least temporarily. State and local laws are evolving to allow confiscation of illegal plants and dangerous, nonpermitted equipment. The criminal grow house is a sinister presence in a city that has worked hard to establish a positive relationship with regulated cannabis. Sacramento was among the first major California cities to create ordinances for medical cannabis dispensaries. The city is a leader in converting warehouse space to professionally operated indoor farms. (Outdoor grows are illegal in the city.)

Responsible growers and dispensary operators pay permit fees and sales taxes to fund the city’s enforcement activities. The city doesn’t have a cap on commercial grow permits, but the high investment costs for regulated indoor farming should limit the competition. “I hope that money will allow us to eradicate the illegal cultivation,” Devlin says. Regulation and compliance take time. Nineteen years after the Compassionate Use Act was approved by voters in 1996, the State Legislature finally passed laws to oversee medical cannabis. Recreational cannabis was approved last year. Cities and counties are presently working to create regulations that will align with new state rules, which take effect Jan. 1. Sacramento is blazing a leadership trail, helping legitimate cultivators, manufacturers and retailers get their product to market. And telling illegal growers to move somewhere else. R.E. Graswich can be reached at reg@graswich.com. n

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Sharon Gillum GIVING OTHERS A LEG UP

hen Sharon Gillum joined the Assistance League of Sacramento—the allvolunteer organization that funds philanthropic programs in the Sacramento area—she discovered not only a great group of like-minded women, but also 280 future friends. “One of my colleagues at Rio Americano High School joined Assistance League after retiring,” Gillum says. She had also retired from Rio after teaching a variety of subjects and directing the school’s renowned political studies program, Academia Civitas. “June told me it was an organization I would really enjoy. When I joined in 2010, I found out that I already knew a lot of people. There were several members whose children had been my students as well as some of my neighbors. Even with those I’d never met, I found something in common: We all want to serve the community. We come from varied backgrounds, but our lives have overlapped. I’ve had the most rewarding friendships with these women.” Assistance League volunteers like Gillum oversee 10 philanthropic programs that serve approximately 16,000 people each year. Operation School Bell provides school clothing, uniforms, shoes, backpacks, hygiene kits and underwear to elementary

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Assistance League of Sacramento volunteers Sharon Gillum (center) and Ann Billington chat with a customer. schoolchildren. “Children learn better if they feel comfortable,” Gillum explains. “And a lot of that has to do with clothes.” The Governor’s Mansion History program gives local fourth-graders a peek at the past with History in a Trunk, with costumed Assistance League docents bringing 19th-century artifacts to the classroom for a hands-on learning experience about California history. Kids on the Block is a Muppet-style puppet show that presents topical performances on personal safety and

anti-bullying at regional elementary schools. “That’s for those of our members with a dramatic bent,” Gillum says. This September will mark Assistance League of Sacramento’s 50th year of service, a landmark it is celebrating by introducing still more philanthropic programs. One is Fresh Start, which is designed to help people transitioning into their own housing by supplying them with goods like towels and dishes. The second, Reaching Out, is making a difference

for people with a “hurdle” to getting on with life. “Maybe they’ve been through a rehab program through drug court and have a job lined up, but they don’t have steel-toed shoes,” Gillum says. “We can give them those shoes. Maybe someone can get a job but can’t drive legally because of a traffic warrant. We can pay that warrant.” Part of what makes volunteering for Assistance League of Sacramento TO page 31

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Never Give Up THIS ULTRA ATHLETE INSPIRES OTHERS TO REACH THEIR GOALS

osh Mathe’s childhood in Los Angeles revolved around playing baseball. Something about the hustle and bustle of the second most populated city in the country kept him from venturing out of the batting cage and out of his comfort zone. It wasn’t until his family moved to Folsom just in time for Mathe to start attending Folsom High School that he realized his weight was affecting his athletic performance. This realization would spark an interest in fitness and nutrition and catapult him into a career as a personal trainer, ultraendurance athlete, motivational speaker and author. “Through the crucible of sport, you can learn so much about yourself,” says Mathe. “When you’re training for an Ironman or an ultra run, you realize you may not be the best, and all of your insecurities come up. Helping [people] navigate that and realize maybe there’s value in it, even though they’re not the best … that gives me goosebumps.” Mathe has a master’s of science in human nutrition from the University of Bridgeport, along with a handful of certifications as a sports nutritionist, a performance enhancement specialist and a running coach. But he points to personal experience as the best teacher.

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Josh Mathe When he was in his early 20s, two failed attempts at backpacking the John Muir Trail in the Sierra Nevada mountain range taught him one of the biggest lessons of his life. “I failed twice because I had no plan for what happens when it gets hard,” he recalls. “What happens when I’m lonely? Or what happens when it’s really hard and I don’t want to do this anymore? That never even occurred to me.” In the years that followed, Mathe by all accounts became very successful. He and his wife own a Midtown gym where he puts his personal training certifications to use.

He has successfully completed several Ironman Triathlons. But those failed attempts on the John Muir Trail still nagged at him. So, in his mid-30s, he returned and ran the 211-mile trail in six days. “It was hard and there were times that I wanted to quit, but I recognized in training for it what talked me off the trail before was that I had no mental toughness plan,” says Mathe. “So I actually engaged in not only physical training, but also mental training.” Mathe says that’s when he realized he could help others achieve their goals as well.

He was inspired to write his first book, “In the Footsteps of Greatness,” about his experience on the John Muir Trail. Soon after, he accepted his first motivational speaking appearance at the flagship REI store in Seattle. “It was so transformational and so fun,” he says of the writing process, which allowed him to be introspective about his experiences. His objective is simple: help people realize the goals they think are just out of reach. “Helping people find and step into the strongest, truest versions of who they are—I’m really passionate about that,” he says. “Whether I’m writing a book. Whether I’m up there speaking to 1,000 people. Whether I’m meeting one on one with a client and we’re doing bicep curls. It’s about helping them realize that they’re capable of so much more than they think they are.” “I, Athlete” is Mathe’s second book, which was published in February. Unlike “In the Footsteps of Greatness,” it focuses less on Mathe’s personal experience and more on helping readers achieve their own goals. In the book, Mathe again draws on the lessons he learned on the John Muir Trail, focusing his attention first on how to forge an athletic mindset and then an athletic body. “‘I, Athlete’ was also fun [to write], but was more work,” he says. “I had to sit down and think about what I was going to write and craft it. ‘In the Footsteps of Greatness’ was just there, and I had to tell the story.” For more information about Josh Mathe, go to joshmathe.com. n

FROM page 28 so rewarding for people like Gillum is the tangible connection to those in need. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This work changes the community,â&#x20AC;? Gillum says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Not in a grandiose way, but in the intimate ways of helping people feel like theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re part of the community. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s us saying, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;We know youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re ready; let us do this for you.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re committed to making life better in Sacramento for those who need a little leg up.â&#x20AC;?

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and its resale store, Fabulous Finds on Fulton, managed by volunteer Ann Billington. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The resale store is essentially our bank account for the philanthropic programs,â&#x20AC;? Gillum explains. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everything we earn from the store gets reinvested into our local programs, so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s incredibly important. And Ann is amazing at running itâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; she manages 175 volunteers.â&#x20AC;? Thanks to the work of Billington, Gillum and their fellow members, Sacramento residents are getting that â&#x20AC;&#x153;little leg upâ&#x20AC;? they need. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re helping all across the board, not just the neediest,â&#x20AC;? Gillum says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sometimes the middle group gets forgotten, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like teaching high school: You have to invest in the middle kids. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re often the ones who carry it forward.â&#x20AC;? To volunteer with Assistance League of Sacramento, go to assistanceleague.org. Fabulous Finds on Fulton is at 2751 Fulton Ave. n

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‘Geek Things’ A PLACE TO ENJOY A CUP OF COFFEE AND A COMIC BOOK

riends and fellow geeks Neil Estaris and Laura Benson won Downtown Sacramento

Partnership’s 2016 Calling All Dreamers contest for their retail concept, a comic book shop and coffeehouse called Oblivion Comics & Coffee. Estaris fills us in on going from winner to business owner. How did you and Laura first come up with the idea for Oblivion? Laura and I both have geek backgrounds. We met at the Art Institute of Sacramento when I was studying graphic design and Laura was studying web design. So we would always get together to see the new Marvel movies. We’d see the midnight premieres but never had a place to go after the fact. Coffee shops don’t stay open that late and comic book shops aren’t really set up for people— especially over-30-year-olds—to hang out. We kept saying that it would be cool if there was a place for us to go to talk about geek things. And coffee is

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n Sacramento, there are a lot of battleground issues: water, growth, cyclists versus cars, conservatives versus liberals. There’s even some contention over our trees. The most recent controversy was over the replacement of the “City of Trees” slogan on a water tower on Interstate 5. The slogan was taken down and a new one went up: “America’s Farm-to-Fork Capital.” Whether that’s our brand or not, it really doesn’t matter. The simple fact is that we have a lot of trees. And we will remain the City of Trees if most city planners and leaders, environmental nonprofit groups and individual activists have their way.

“I loved the water tower,” says Matt Van Donsel, community engagement manager at the Sacramento Tree Foundation. “It was iconic. But a city can have multiple identities. We see this as an opportunity. It’s very telling that people have been so passionate about the tower.” Tree issues won’t likely go away. In recent years, there’s been controversy over how all the leaves from trees in the city would be picked up. Then there are the regular media reports about someone cutting down trees they shouldn’t or diseased trees that should be removed but aren’t. During the drought, many were concerned that trees would wither away and die. Some did. All agree we have an unbelievable natural resource in our trees and the benefits they provide. On a hot day, people and pets seek out shade. Trees line the city streets in their magnificent glory. Some give fruits. Others give nuts. Some have been around for more than a century. All those trees are part of what experts call an urban forest. The forest includes trees, plants and vegetation on both public and private lands. Sacramento’s urban forest is part of a regional network of urban forests in the county and adjacent counties and cities. In Sacramento, only about 20 percent of trees are considered public trees found in parks, city rights of way and other public spaces. The other 80 percent of trees are privately owned and found in the front and backyards of homes. Some people like to say Sacramento ranks up there with Paris as a city of trees. According to Van Donsel, a better metric to use is the Green View Index, which measures the amount of green someone would see when looking around a city from a street perspective, not just from overhead. That study was done by researchers at MIT, working with the World Economic Forum. They created Treepedia, a website that measures and compares cities’ foliage using Google Street View data. “As it turns out,” says Van Donsel, “Sacramento ranks third in the world, just behind TO page 36

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Studies also show trees reduce stress in people and can reduce anger and aggressiveness. Studies of workers who have office plants and window views often show improved productivity, job satisfaction and attentiveness. Studies also show that patients in hospitals who can see trees recover faster. Streets lined with trees are safer because drivers tend to slow down. Neighborhoods are often safer because people will be outside in shade-covered yards and sidewalks.

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The Summer of 1915 NEW BOOK LOOKS AT SACRAMENTO’S ELIMINATION LEAGUE

ou never know what might turn up when a retired math teacher digs into microfilm and ancestry records and learns about a long-ago summer and a baseball stadium built over a garbage dump at Riverside and Broadway. The math teacher is Tom Crisp. The stadium was called Buffalo Park. The deeper Crisp dug, the more he learned. Eventually, he excavated a fascinating story about a cutthroat professional baseball experiment based at Buffalo Park in 1915. When Crisp unearthed the forgotten tale that links Sacramento to its sports legends and legacies, he did the natural thing. He wrote a book. The book is called “The $1,000 Elimination League: A 1915 Sacramento Valley Baseball Experiment.” Crisp, who taught at Winters High School, admits he’s no genius at marketing his work. “I’m selling it out of my trunk,” he says. Sacramento was a passionate baseball town 103 years ago. But in late 1914, the city suddenly found itself without a professional team. The Sacramento Senators, drowning in the Pacific Coast League basement, decided to move to San Francisco. “That left Sacramento without a professional baseball team,” Crisp says. “The Chamber of Commerce president, Daniel Carmichael, thought

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Math teacher Tom Crisp has written a book about baseball in Sacramento.

it was bad for business to have the ballpark empty for a season. So he and some of the city’s baseball guys came up with the idea of an elimination tournament.”

Led by Carmichael, chamber members put up $1,000—all of which would go to the winner. The second- through fourth-place finishers would receive cash from ticket sales.

Play began with 22 teams, 13 from Sacramento, nine from around the countryside. They had evocative names. There were the Oroville Olives, Orland Oranges and Chico Colts. A team from Lodi was called the Peltier Orientals, with players of Japanese and Chinese ancestry. Sacramento teams included Arata Brothers, the Milton Haneys, the Patterson Hatters and Sacramento Giants, an African-American team. Crisp figured out the youngest player was 16. The eldest was George “Farmer” Waite from Willows, still running bases at 35. “The Elimination League was integrated, with African-American and Asian players who would not have been allowed to play in the major leagues or Pacific Coast League,” Crisp says. The men on the Giants were blacksmiths, hotel porters, mail carriers. Members of the Peltier Orientals mostly worked on farms. Many had degrees from universities in Japan and Hong Kong. After explaining the league structure and introducing the teams, Crisp takes readers on a week-byweek tour through the Sacramento summer of 1915. He starts on April 11 and wanders through July 5, when the clubs reached the championship round. Along the way, Crisp sprinkles newsy tidbits across his narrative, introducing context to the summer and letting readers know he was distracted by nonbaseball headlines while reading century-old copies of The Sacramento Bee, The Sacramento Union and the Bee’s evening rival, The Sacramento Star.

facebook.com/nepheshpilates Among the flashes fresh off the telegraph are accounts of the Lusitania sinking and street signs being stolen in Chico. Intimate portraits emerge, reminding readers that while baseball endures, life was very different in 1915. Consider when the Giants missed their train to Sacramento after an elimination game in Orland: They hopped a train to Woodland but arrived at 2 a.m. Nearby restaurants were padlocked. “They found a bakery just opening and bought $4.90 worth of doughnuts, which they took back to the depot in a barley sack and ate as they waited for the train to Sacramento,” Crisp writes. The book features 44 pages of biographic material on dozens of players and managers—much of which Crisp completed with help from the men’s descendants. “For me, the joy is getting this information out and talking to the families,” he says. Buffalo Park was home to most Elimination League games. Built in 1910, the wooden grandstands

held about 5,000 fans. Riverside and Broadway (then called 11th and Y streets) was a strategic location. Just beyond the city limits, teams could sell beer there without police interference. The name reflected the intent. Buffalo Park was named for Buffalo Brewery in Midtown. The championship game was between two rural teams, the Woodland Oaks and Winters Giants. But the final match exposed a fracture in the Elimination League’s structure. Woodland and Winters went on strike halfway into the first inning. They demanded a bigger share of the ticket sales. League officials bowed to the extortion, then asked for their money back the next day, after Woodland won 4–0. The league’s plans for 1916 collapsed amid the bickering, but the concept of professional “town baseball” continued with a new alignment called the Trolley League. That’s a story for another day. R.E. Graswich can be reached at reg@graswich.com. n

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It’s a Mod, Mod World ASSESSING THE CITY’S STOCK OF MIDCENTURY-MODERN HOMES

his summer, the city of Sacramento and the nonprofit organization Sacramento Modern partnered with volunteers to preserve a part of Sacramento’s not-so-remote architectural and cultural history: midcentury-modern development.

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Characterized by clean, sharp lines and the interplay of interior and exterior, midcentury modern became prominent in American architecture following World War II and dominated development in the late 1940s, ’50s and ’60s. According to Carson Anderson, the city’s senior planner and preservation director, these homes and developments are at risk. “The reason we want to showcase these homes,” says Anderson, “is that most people don’t look at things from the late ’40s, ’50s and ’60s as being possible historic resources, and a lot of demolitions and alterations

can occur without people really understanding what they’re doing.” The hope is that people who want to renovate or modernize these buildings can learn to do so sympathetically. “That’s a conversation we have regularly,” says Anderson. “But before we can even get there, we need to know what’s out there.” And as they’ve discovered, there’s a lot out there. According to Anderson, there are roughly 48,000 properties developed in Sacramento between the late ’40s and the late ’60s. In order to locate and identify these homes, and perhaps

even designate them as historic landmarks, the city and Sacramento Modern created a volunteer program to survey Sacramento neighborhoods for midcentury-modern architecture and development. Sure, many of those 48,000 homes are junk, admits Anderson, “made cheaply and built quickly—maybe 85 percent of it. But it’s the 15 percent that we’re looking at, while focusing on who designed them and what sort of stories they tell about the development of the city in the postwar period.” The value of these homes is recognized by the California Office of

Midcentury-modern buildings can be found all over town and are both private residences and commercial structures. Historic Preservation, which provided a grant to fund the program. Volunteers attended three-hour workshops hosted by the city on April 29 and May 6. They received training on how to identify the hallmarks of midcentury-modern architecture and how to input those findings into a mobile application that would provide the city with live updates. Richmond resident Joann Pavlinec volunteered for the program, driving to Sacramento once a week, and says identifying the homes wasn’t as easy as it might sound. “It’s tricky because it’s not just one style,” says Pavlinec, a former city planner for the city of Berkeley

and a historic preservationist who sits on Richmond’s Historic Preservation Commission. “It’s a simplified style with clean lines, but the different characteristics between substyles is not that easy to detect.” Pavlinec loves midcentury-modern design. “It’s the simplicity of it,” she says. “It definitely exposes the structure of a building, and modernism, especially in housing, is so simple and has very clean lines. But you don’t realize how special that is until you’re on the inside. So it’s deceiving to a lot of people, because it’s the flow of space, the floor plan, the openness and how the inside of the house relates to the

outside. There’s an interaction with its environment.” Pavlinec says there is a bias against midcentury modern. “Look at a Victorian: the detail on the outside, and the articulation of the design elements,” she says. “If you look for that on a midcentury-modern home, you won’t find that much of a distinction.” In other words, she says, midcentury-modern homes aren’t as flashy as Victorians. “But people hated Victorians and used to strip them. Historically, it just takes a lot of time to appreciate newer styles,” she concludes. “So it’s good to get these homes marked so people at least know they’re midcentury

modern and work with somebody who knows how to retain those elements if they want to remodel.” The volunteer program, which wrapped up in July, identified significant midcentury-modern tracts and hot spots in Sacramento, especially in South Land Park and some areas of Land Park. According to Anderson, there is a group of homes along South Land Park Drive that were designed by the famed California architect Joseph Eichler, “and that grouping of buildings likely merits a historic district designation,” he says. TO page 47

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How Much Is Enough? THE RETIREMENT QUESTION EVERYONE SHOULD ASK

n answer to a reader’s question, I paraphrased Mark Twain to say, “The rumor of my retirement has been greatly exaggerated. “I will definitely keep writing my column,” I assured her. “I retired only from two of my three jobs. In 2014, I retired from the Air National Guard, and last month I retired from health care chaplaincy.” But she wasn’t the only one asking questions. Many of my hospice colleagues and friends were surprised I was retiring, just shy of 60 years old. “How can you retire early?” they asked.

How much does one need to possess before one can claim, “I’m good enough” or “I’ve made it”? “Don’t get your financial advice from a chaplain,” I told them. “However, I can help you with two spiritual questions I asked myself about retirement.”

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The first thing I grappled with was: Are you living within your means? While it sounds like a question from your financial adviser, it really gets at the spiritual issue of greed. If greed prevents you from reducing your spending, you’ll have a problem since retirement will often cut one’s income nearly in half. That’s why we began preparing two years ago by cutting our employment to half-time hours. My wife split a prekindergarten teaching position and I took a per-diem chaplain job working only 25 hours a week. We sold our suburban home and moved into a double-wide mobile home at half the cost of the old two-story McMansion.

As the months passed, the numbers proved workable. Any greedy impulses that remained began to subside. Honestly, it wasn’t that hard to do. We were ready. Our kids were out of the nest and finished with their schooling. However, we couldn’t have addressed the first question if we had not answered the bigger spiritual question: How much is enough? Most financial planners will tell you that you can never save too much. You need to save 15 percent of your annual income toward retirement, but since most of us don’t do that, we’re advised to save every dime. Take a second job, they say. Delay taking Social Security and work until you’re

70. And if you have to, rent a room in Norris’ double-wide. Don’t consider any of these options until you first decide how much is enough. I know a rich man who’s saving so he can retire with $11,000 a month in pension income. He’s killing himself over the anxiety that he won’t be able to keep his mansion and his big toys. I’m not like him, and you probably aren’t either. But there are ways in which we bear a resemblance. In retirement, and perhaps long before, we need to ask whether we really need two cars. Do we honestly need the latest cellphone or greatest big-screen TV? Can we find refreshing social connections in libraries, churches and service organizations?

www.seniorcareco.net • 3902 J Street Or does our self-image rely on fashion-store clothing and expensive gyms, restaurants and country clubs. How much does one need to possess before one can claim, “I’m good enough” or “I’ve made it”? Must we collect more and more to feel that we are worthy? Is it all about feeling better than someone else? If it is, then I suggest we’ve likely made the transition from ownership to slavery. At the end of the day, my wife and I decided that our lives are full. We have enough, not just in future finances, but also in terms of happiness now. Next week, we’re ditching the double-wide to travel worldwide. However, as I assured my reader, I will continue to write as long as my editors will allow. The reader seemed happy with my decision to keep writing. Stay tuned, however—sometimes my wife changes her mind. Recently retired chaplain Norris Burkes is a syndicated columnist, national speaker and book author. He can be reached at norris@thechaplain. net. n

FROM page 45 Which is ultimately one of the goals of the program. Developments like this, says Anderson, “are part of the cultural and architectural history of the city.” Furthermore, the program broadens the definition of preservation in Sacramento. “What is historic? What does that even mean? Does it just mean Victorian architecture, which Sacramento obviously has, or does it also mean Craftsman bungalows? Or does it include buildings from the recent past that tell equally compelling stories about the cultural development of the history of the United States and Sacramento in particular?” asks Anderson. Thanks to the work of local volunteers, the city of Sacramento and Sacramento Modern are in a better place to begin answering these questions. Jordan Venema can be reached at jordan.venema@gmail.com. n

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Right Under Your Nose YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU’VE GOT TILL IT’S GONE

n the early 1990s, I worked at a Tower Books store in Sacramento. One day we hosted an author event for Alexandra Stoddard, an interior designer and “lifestyle guru.” Stoddard has authored such books as “Living a Beautiful Life,” “Creating a Beautiful Home” and “Daring To Be Yourself.” Back then, she appeared to be in her mid-40s and was quite lovely and glamorous looking. She arrived at our store in the company of her husband, Peter, who appeared to be in his 70s. He was fit and trim and had ruddy cheeks. He was dressed in what appeared to be the uniform of some upper-crust yacht club: a blue blazer with a gold anchor embroidered on the breast pocket, casual blue slacks, deck shoes. I seem to recall Stoddard referring to him as “The Commodore,” though it is possible I mentally assigned that nickname to him myself because of his attire. When the event was about to begin, Stoddard asked me if I would look after her husband while she engaged with her assembled fans. I told her I’d be happy to. Alas, I was a rather shallow youth at the time and, because of the wide gap in their ages, I assumed that The Commodore was some wealthy sugar daddy that Stoddard had married in order to finance her career as a budding lifestyle guru. (Wikipedia describes her as a “lifestyle

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philosopher.”) While showing him around the store, I made a weak effort to engage The Commodore in conversation, but I likely had a tone of condescension in my voice as I did so. The Commodore was perfectly polite to me, but we didn’t really click, probably because he sensed my condescension. That night, sitting at the dinner table with my wife, I described my encounter with The Commodore as though it had been a comic adventure: the doddering old man, dressed in the kind of outfit rich little boys used to wear in the movies, wandering the bookstore at my side while his muchyounger wife flirted with her fandom. But even as I made a joke of the whole encounter, a voice in my head told me that The Commodore was probably 10 times the man I’d ever be. But this was back before I’d ever heard of the internet and before the advent

of smartphones, so I did no further research into the matter. More than 20 years later, I was watching an episode of “How I Met Your Mother” (a sign of how shallow I remain) when I was jolted by the shock of recognition. The episode was called “Natural History.” It featured Kyle MacLachlan as a 50-something millionaire who dresses like a yachtsman and insists on being called The Captain. The Captain is married to a smoking-hot woman at least 25 years his junior. Watching the episode, I suddenly found myself transported back mentally to my encounter with The Commodore. I took out my smartphone and attempted to find out more about the man I had met all those years ago at the bookstore. Sadly, the first thing I found online was his obituary. His full name was Peter Megargee Brown, and he died on Sept. 25, 2014, at the

age of 92, “with his wife of 40 years at his side.” The obituary described an amazingly accomplished man. He had been the head of litigation and ethics at a major New York City law firm for more than 30 years. In the 1950s, he had served as an assistant U.S. Attorney in New York. He had served in the U.S. Army during World War II. He was the author of numerous books, including several that are considered classic legal texts. He argued dozens of cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. He was a past president of the Episcopal Church Foundation and a trustee of half a dozen other charitable organizations. He had graduated from Yale University and its School of Law. He had been the recipient of the Yale Class of 1944’s Distinguished Service Award, as well as awards from several state bar associations. He was an avid reader who took up painting seascapes in old age, when his eyesight began to fail. Twenty-two years before his death, I could have had an amazing conversation with a man who had led one of the most fascinating lives of the 20th century, but I was too determined to see him as a pathetic figure of fun because I had made snap judgments about him based on the way he dressed and the youthfulness of his wife. In the summer of 1999, I attended the Sewanee Writers Conference in Tennessee. My first night there, I found myself seated across the dining table from a guy who looked to be about 20 years older than I was. His face and hands were rough and raw-looking. He seemed shy and wouldn’t make eye contact with me.

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3.0T MRI | Digital X-Ray | 500 University Ave | 922-6747 | umimri.com After a while, the silence between us grew awkward. I asked him what kind of writing he did. He spoke in a heavy Southern drawl, so heavy I could barely understand him. He told me he wrote stories about his native Tennessee, when he wasn’t hanging drywall or painting houses. I figured he was a local yokel whom the conference had brought in to add to the Southern flavor of the gathering. But I had so much trouble understanding his speech that I eventually let the awkward silence fall between us again, permanently this time. He didn’t seem to mind. He was wearing a name tag, but his name didn’t mean anything to me. I found it kind of amusing that such a redneck had gotten stuck with the last name “Gay.” I wondered if it ever caused trouble for him in dive bars and such. Only after I left the conference did I discover that William Gay was actually quite a big deal. Unpublished until the age of 57, he was on the verge of a meteoric literary rise when our paths crossed. His first novel, “The Long Home,” had just been accepted for publication. Over the

next few years, he would publish several more, along with a story collection. He also nailed down some prestigious awards and fellowships. He died suddenly in 2012 at the age of 70. Reading his obituaries in various national publications, I couldn’t help wishing I’d made more of our one meeting. But I’d been put off by his voice and his rough appearance, and I let the chance slip by to make the acquaintance of an American literary original. In 2003, while notarizing his loan documents at an escrow office, I made the acquaintance of Alan Dankman, the guy who would become my computer guru for the next 13 years. When I found out that he fixed computers, I mentioned a problem I was having with mine. A few days later, he drove up to Placerville and spent several hours troubleshooting my PC. To show my gratitude, I gave him a citrus press he had admired in my kitchen. Our relationship deepened when I moved to Sacramento in 2004. My wife, Julie, and I accompanied him to restaurants all over town as he

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showed us his favorite Sacramento dining places. Although we paid him for his technical assistance, he never seemed to charge us enough for his services, so we found other ways to show our gratitude. Julie once painted oil portraits of his two dogs, River and Ruby. I loved Alan, but he was a volatile guy, and occasionally he’d give me or Julie a tongue-lashing for allowing our computer to languish without a tune-up for far too long. Last summer, he gave me so much grief about my computer’s wretched condition that I swore I was going to find a new tech guru. We usually talked at least once every month or so, but I decided to give him the silent treatment. Months went by, during which I refused to be the one to affect a rapprochement. Meanwhile, my computer grew slow and balky. Finally, in May of this year, I decided to swallow my pride and drive out to Alan’s house. He seemed to prefer unannounced drop-bys to scheduled appointments. I hadn’t been to his house in so long that I had to look up the street number online. When I typed his

name into a search engine, the first thing I saw was his obituary. He had died on the last day of 2016. He’d been dead for months and I, because of my stubbornness, never knew it. Reading his obituary, I learned all kinds of fascinating things about him that he’d been too modest to tell me about himself. Every day we are surrounded by fascinating people, and yet, so often, we take them for granted. Don’t make the mistake that I’ve made far too often in my life. Learn as much as you can from the people who populate your world while they are still around to tell it to you. Don’t wait to learn from their obituaries just how fascinating they were. And if you know of a good tech guru, please send me his name and number. My computer seems to be on its last legs.

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Home Again AFTER MOVING AWAY, A LAND PARK COUPLE RETURNS

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elocating to a larger home is a common enough occurrence for growing families. But how often have you heard about a family moving in and out of the same house several times? Bill Parks and Lorrie Valvo purchased their Land Park home in 1983. After living there for 10 years, the couple moved to Nevada City, opting to keep the house as a rental. In 2001, they returned for a year. They then built a large home with an open floor plan on five acres outside

of Nevada City. That translated into spaciousness inside and out for their two sons, two dogs and a kitty. But as their sons grew, they expressed an interest in attending Jesuit High School in Sacramento. That required a return to Sacramento. The couple realized that their one-story, 1,447-square-foot, threebedroom, one-bath house in Land Park would be a tight fit with two teenage boys, two dogs and a kitty. In 2014, they drove through various neighborhoods searching for a new

home. It didn’t work out. “I really didn’t see anything I liked,” Valvo explains. During one trip to Sacramento, the pair visited a Land Park neighbor who suggested they get in touch with local architect Michael Malinowski of Applied Architecture Inc. It was a perfect match. Malinowski has a 30-year track record of taking a “neighborhood-considerate” approach to his projects. For Malinowski, success is when you can’t tell from the

street whether the second story was always there or added later. “Mike was so simpatico with our goal of trying to keep the original look of the house and make it fit into the neighborhood,” says Parks. By the beginning of 2015, plans were completed; construction began in April. The family moved into the two-story 2,410-square-foot, fivebedroom, two-bath house the day after Thanksgiving. As the boys grew older, Valvo says, she began to understand the privacy

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benefits distinct rooms have over open floor plans. One bedroom is used as an office; another serves as the boys’ TV room. The house’s original footprint changed little except for a 6-foot addition off the back of the house. The kitchen received a major rehab and was enlarged, which facilitated the pleasing placement of the new staircase. The new upstairs master bath is a showstopper, with an oversized shower and travertine floor tile. The charmingly petite window in the

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shower (where the roof lines come together) illustrates Malinowski’s genius for solving the biggest conundrum of the project. According to Malinowski, the exterior appearance of a house is his starting point. To retain the cottagey look of the Park/Valvo home, he worked from the outside in, effectively using what might have been seen as wasted space. “The biggest challenge was to fit the interior design into the exterior shell,” he says. “The shower is a great example of how well that worked out.” Malinowski suggests homeowners consider shifting the way they think about adding a second story to their

home. Instead of an addition, he says, think of it as a conversion. “We don’t want to visually drop something on top of a house,” he explains. “Rather, we want to convert a one-story house into the character, flow and function that would have been there if the house was originally built as a twostory home.” The backyard was once home to a large landmark tree recognized by the Sacramento Tree Foundation. When it had to be removed, the house became much warmer in the summer, and much of the vegetation died off. Recently, the front and back yards were revitalized by The Garden Tutors.

Parks and Valvo had no idea when they attended an open house at Jesuit High School years ago that the family would one day be back living in their first home. They love Land Park and are so pleased with the results of the remodel, which retained the character and charm of the house. “It’s good to be home again,” says Valvo, “this time with our two teenage boys, who will be in ninth and 11th grades at Jesuit. Truly it was providence that everything fell into place.” 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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Farmers Market to Fork YOU SHOP WITH A CHEF, THEN EAT WHAT HE PREPARES

t’s Wednesday on a temperate morning in mid-May. I’m with a group waiting to tour the farmers market at Cesar Chavez Plaza with executive chef Oliver Ridgeway—part of Grange Restaurant’s Follow the Chef event. After a quick introduction, we fall into a haphazard line and follow Ridgeway across J Street to the market. Three waitresses, wearing long aprons and black shirts, accompany us. The air is scented with smoke from food trucks and pop-up vendors. Music comes courtesy of a man with a blaring boom box. The plaza is crowded with professionals wearing skirts and suits, taking a break from their air-conditioned offices. “Let’s have a walkabout,” says Ridgeway. He’s tall, or does he just seem tall? He looks even taller dressed in his white chef’s jacket. He dons a pair of cool sunglasses, and there’s more than a hint of Sussex in his accent (he’s originally from England), which increases his cool factor. But I digress. Vendors are already selling stone fruit, even though it seems early in the season. We stop at a stall to sample peaches. I admit to feeling guilty if I don’t buy produce after I’ve sampled it, but here’s a tip from the chef: Sample before you buy. Here’s another: Don’t buy produce before it’s ripe.

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Grange's executive chef Oliver Ridgeway leads a tour of the farmers market on a recent Wednesday. “The beauty of a farmers market is you can try [the produce],” Ridgeway says. He touched, smelled and sampled nearly everything. At Loving Nature Farm, we tried lovage, which tasted like overly intense celery, and at Gotelli Farms we ate dark, sweet Brooks cherries. We didn’t sample kohlrabi, but Ridgeway picked one up and recommended marinating slices in olive oil, lemon and dill. We didn’t

try the asparagus, either (he called it “Sacramento grass”), but here are two more of chef Ridgeway’s tips: He likes thicker asparagus stalks earlier in the season; he buys thinner ones later, when they get woody. Albion-variety strawberries from V&M Farms were a hit with our group. (Chef tip: Do not wash strawberries until you’re ready to eat them. It clogs their pores. Put them in a sealed container lined with

paper towels until ready to use.) And cheese? We sampled lots of cheese. I worried I wouldn’t be able to eat lunch. Did I mention lunch is part of the Follow the Chef event? There are three courses, inspired by seasonal produce, prepared by Ridgeway and his crew. Ridgeway said he had purchased 30 pounds of blueberries earlier that morning because they were beautiful, tasty and he got a great deal. Those

blueberries might make it into a gin sauce, which would be served with duck, or he might dip them in egg whites, coat them with sugar and allow them to dry for a garnish. I could almost see the chef’s wheels turning inside his head. “Chefs don’t have time,” he explains, to shop at farmers markets every day. It’s a romantic idea but it’s not practical. He shops at the farmers market on Wednesdays; it’s a quick trip with his cart. He also visits a farmers market on Sundays, when he shops for his family. “I go out to farms and visit them,” he says. “I’ve never lived and worked in an environment like [Sacramento].” Ridgeway keeps his menus fluid so he can adapt based on what comes in. He says, “I have a farmer who calls me and says, ‘I’m picking today.’” That’s the level of service and freshness he likes. “Food doesn’t have to be complicated. It has to make sense.” Back at Grange, we sipped refreshing spritzers made with blueberries (oh, yes, those blueberries), rhubarb, lemon and club soda. Our group consisted of Deshon Gyamfi, who lives in Lodi; Jennifer Ware; Jennifer’s husband, Jeremy; and Joelle, the couple’s almost-3-yearold daughter. Deshon and Jennifer are sisters; the Wares were visiting the area from New Mexico. They signed up for Follow the Chef, the first event this year, because they couldn’t get reservations at The French Laundry, a dining destination for food lovers. Everyone at our table was a foodie, even the 3-year-old. Ridgeway came by to introduce dishes. The first course was a salad

made with dark cherries (oh, yes, those cherries), peas, arugula and whipped ricotta. The main course was Skuna Bay salmon served with shaved asparagus and tzatziki made with Straus yogurt. Ridgeway had previously visited Skuna Bay’s fish farms located around Vancouver Island; the veteran chef features the company’s salmon on Grange’s menu. He and Jennifer discussed buying farmed versus wild-caught fish. No matter where you stand on that issue, the salmon was satisfyingly crispy on top and moist inside. He had seared it in a hot cast-iron skillet, skin side down, for about two minutes, popped it in the oven to finish, and sprinkled a bit of sea salt over it at the end—one of the best and least complicated pieces of salmon I’ve had. Dessert was panna cotta, with fresh fruit and pistachio dust, served in a Mason jar. I was almost too full to walk to my car and drive home. Follow the Chef takes place every other Wednesday until October. For information and reservations, go to grangesacramento.com. Angela Knight can be reached at knight@mcn.org. n

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Name That Trail WE HAVE SO MANY GREAT ONES, AND EACH DESERVES A NAME

ight million people visit the American River Parkway a year, mostly to enjoy its magnificent bike trail. That’s great, but it’s also a bit of a problem because almost everyone calls it “the bike trail” as if

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it were the only one around. Its actual name is the Jedediah Smith Memorial Bicycle Trail. That’s a mouthful that few utter, so it’s understandable people use a shorter term. But the formal name provides a connection to our past. Jedediah Smith was a frontiersman who explored the American River in 1827. The name also distinguishes it from other trails. While the Jed Smith trail is gorgeous, remarkably long at 32 miles and very well used, it’s not the only trail in or near Sacramento. Even in the American River Parkway, there’s

a second trail, the Two Rivers Trail, which runs along the river’s south bank. It starts at the confluence of the Sacramento and American rivers. Planned extensions will take it nearly all the way to Rancho Cordova. There are other area trails and structures, with colorful names that offer links to geography and history. Roseville has the Miners Ravine and Secret Ravine trails. Folsom has the Humbug Willow Creek Trail, the Johnny Cash Trail and bike/pedestrian bridge with towers mimicking Folsom Prison. Those are names with panache.

In the city of Sacramento, the Sacramento Northern Bike Trail follows the path of the Sacramento Northern Railway, an interurban line with passenger service from Oakland to Chico until 1941. There’s another 10-mile-long multipurpose trail in the Ueda Parkway. It runs atop a levee paralleling Steelhead Creek and languishes in relative obscurity. The Sacramento River Trail, if all goes well, will one day be much longer than today and fully connect riverbanks both north and south of Downtown. Another rail trail, the Del

Rio, is planned for the southern part of the city. The city will soon officially christen the 3-mile Jackrabbit Trail in Natomas. Valley Vision, a nonprofit civic organization, is promoting the idea of an Epic Trail between El Dorado County and the city of Davis. This trail would include the Jed Smith memorial trail, the old Placerville Branch rail right of way and maybe parts of the Pony Express riders’ route. In my view, every trail should have a name. Ideally, that name should be evocative, vivid and memorable. An intimate connection to local history, flora, fauna or geography is certainly a plus. Sadly, all trails don’t have names, a deficiency that could easily be corrected. A related problem is that virtually no trails, even ones with names, have street signs with their names on it. In a quirk of the rules governing traffic signs, there is no mandate for the intersection of a trail with a street to have signs. Nor is there a requirement for

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the intersection of two trails to be signed. Yet the manual for traffic signs requires street-name signs at all intersections of urban streets. Why the difference? Maybe it’s just an oversight, but it’s easy to see this as an indication of the second-class treatment of bicycling throughout the transportation system. Perhaps the good news is that, mandate or not, a city or county can install name signs at every trail intersection with a street or with another trail. I believe every trail intersection should have the same signs you see at street corners. Kudos to West Sacramento for having done just that for its Clarksburg Trail. Signs not only help people navigate; they help advertise the existence of the trails and promote their use. Trails are real community assets, used for recreation and active transportation. Their existence should be celebrated, not hidden or ignored. A rule of thumb for signs along highways or trails is that wherever there’s a decision point, signs are needed. Signs provide guidance and reassurance. Trail users must make a decision at every intersection of two trails. How can someone unfamiliar with a trail know which fork to take if there are no signs? Users need to make decisions where a trail crosses a road as well. Even in the GPS era, trail users can confirm where they are with street-name signs. Two years ago, I rode my bike to the grand opening of a new segment of the Jackrabbit Trail. Unbeknownst to me, my route took me past the south end of the trail. It was inconspicuous and completely unsigned. I rode right by it, not noticing it. I went considerably out of my way to get to the event site. Why not a sign post with name signs for Jackrabbit Trail and Airport Road? Names have meaning. Let’s use them and post them for the world to see. Walt Seifert is executive director of Sacramento Trailnet, an organization devoted to promoting greenways with paved trails. He can be reached at bikeguy@surewest.net. n

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Green Electricity SACRAMENTO LEADS IN RENEWABLE POWER

he grid is getting greener. If you live in the city or county of Sacramento, your electricity is supplied by SMUD (Sacramento Metropolitan Utility District). SMUD is a public, municipal utility structured as a not-forprofit and is governed by a board of seven directors. Thanks to this arrangement, SMUD customers pay about 30 percent less for electricity than our regional neighbors who are served by investor-owned PG&E. Reflecting the priorities of many local residents, SMUD’s board has a history of emphasizing environmental goals even before

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government regulations make such goals mandatory. SMUD was the first utility in California to reach 20 percent of power produced from clean, renewable sources—and that percentage keeps rising. Today, 40 to 50 percent of SMUD electricity is generated from noncarbon-emitting sources: hydroelectric, solar, wind and biofuel. (The remainder comes almost entirely from natural gas-fired power plants. There is no coal-fired generation in the state of California.) This puts SMUD somewhat ahead of the curve as the state toughens laws regulating how utilities may source their electricity. The California Renewable Portfolio Standard currently mandates that 33 percent of the state’s power must come from solar, wind, biofuel and “small” hydroelectric by 2020, and 50 percent by 2030. (For some reason, clean power from “large” hydroelectric plants is a separate category, so actual renewable generation will be even greater.) In particular, SMUD is growing its solar-generating capacity. In a 1989 referendum, SMUD ratepayers voted

to shutter the utility’s only nuclear power plant, at Rancho Seco. SMUD then built a natural gas plant at the site to take advantage of existing power lines and infrastructure. But there was still plenty of room for a large solar farm. SMUD completed the Rancho Seco Solar Array last year. Solar panels built on rotating turrets follow the sun, generating up to 10.5 MW of clean, renewable power. Some of that power is earmarked for Golden 1 Center, which is 100 percent powered by the sun. Eightyfive percent of the arena’s electricity comes from the Rancho Seco solar project. The rest is generated from rooftop panels on-site. Consumer demand is driving SMUD’s investment in renewable power generation. Golden 1 isn’t SMUD’s only big customer signing up for green electricity. UC Davis Medical Center recently signed an agreement to buy a percentage of its power as solar in order to reduce the center’s carbon emissions. Individual consumers can also green their electricity consumption without having to build a solar system on

their home by buying into SMUD’s renewable power program, called Greenergy. For only a few dollars extra per month, you can have 50 percent or 100 percent of your power generated from renewable resources.

Solving the storage problem would pave the way for renewables to really take over the grid. Solar power and wind power offer advantages. They don’t contribute to carbon dioxide emissions, and they’re virtually free once the infrastructure is in place because you don’t have to buy fuel. But converting the state’s power grid to rely more and more on renewables presents significant technical challenges. The number one problem with renewables is they’re

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variable power sources that we can’t turn on and off. At 3 p.m. on a July day, a large fraction of our electricity needs could be met by solar alone, but a few hours later after the sun sets, that power generation drops to zero. And unlike fossil fuels, which can be stored and used at any time, electricity cannot be stored for later use. Solar power has to be used when it’s produced, not after dark. You might think: What about batteries to store electricity generated while the sun is shining? While batteries are fine to power your mobile phone, the scale of electricity storage needed for the grid is way beyond current battery technology. SMUD (and many others) has an energy research and development team investigating ways to store power using innovations such as compressed air. Solving the storage problem would pave the way for renewables to really take over the grid. As it is now, the timing of peak power production from renewables does not match the time of peak power consumption. Solar generation

is highest between noon and 4 p.m.; wind tends to be strongest at night and early morning. Consumers unhelpfully burn most of their juice between 5 and 8 p.m. So one way to integrate more renewables into the grid is to shift consumption away from those peak evening hours. SMUD is rolling out a plan to use price incentives for this goal and to reflect the actual cost of electricity at different times of day. Starting in 2018-2019, SMUD will transition customers to time-of-day pricing. The rate you pay per kilowatt hour will vary depending on when you use it, with the highest price during the evening peak. If power consumption can be spread more evenly through the day, this will support our state’s shift from natural gas to renewable electricity.

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Portrait of an Artist BRINGING SCULPTOR TONY NATSOULAS TO LIFE ON THE SCREEN

BY RACHEL MATUSKEY ARTIST SPOTLIGHT

hen Benjamin Fargen stopped by Rick’s Dessert Diner one evening in 2016, all he had on his mind was a towering slice of German chocolate cake. But a chance meeting with an old friend would open the door of possibility, propelling the composer and filmmaker (after he finished his cake) into a yearlong journey of professional growth and artistic exploration.

Along the way, Fargen found that he liked everything about the ﬁlmmaking process. Benjamin Fargen Fargen, a Sacramento native who lives in Carmichael, always had an affinity for writing and recording music. He began playing guitar at age 12. After years of playing in bands, he added bass keyboard and vocals to his repertoire and gradually built a career as a serious composer. His music has appeared in numerous television shows, including “Duck Dynasty” and “Leah Remini: It’s All Relative.” Fargen also owns Exclusive Amps, a guitar amplifier company, and in order to generate promotional content for his products he began teaching himself the basics of videography and editing. He spent 15 years casually honing these skills, eventually realizing that he had become,

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in his words, “fairly competent” at editing. Then one day, after watching a documentary that left him unimpressed, he found himself thinking he could do better. The more he thought about it, the more he was intrigued by the artistic challenge of directing a film and scoring it with his own original compositions. The only question that remained, Fargen says, was “who or what would be a worthy or interesting subject?” Enter ceramic sculptor Tony Natsoulas, who just happened to be sitting inside Rick’s that fateful evening. Fargen and Natsoulas first became acquainted when they shared a studio space in Midtown in the

early 1990s—Fargen making music and Natsoulas working with clay, molding it into his now-iconic forms. At times, the two collaborated, with Fargen providing raw materials like old guitar strings and tubes that Natsoulas would then incorporate into his colorful, campy work. “When I ran into him again at Rick’s,” Fargen says, “a light bulb went off. I realized that Tony’s story was the perfect one for me to tell. It’s a pretty uncommon one among local artists in terms of reach and success. He’s very respected in the ceramic art community, and his larger-than-life subjects and characters have been shown around the world.”

The self-funded film weaves interviews, photographs and voiceover narration to give viewers an intimate look at Natsoulas’ unique style and the humor that resonates in his work. “One of my biggest challenges was to find a way to show this underlying humor while also emphasizing the incredible hard work and dedication Tony has put into his craft throughout the years,” Fargen says. The story focuses on Natsoulas’s early childhood, as well as his art education at UC Davis, where he earned a master’s in fine art. Production wound its way across Northern California, capturing TO page 62

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various pivotal moments in Natsoulasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; life and 30-year career.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tonyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s story shows that when passion, dedication and hard work are applied to your craft, anything is possible.â&#x20AC;? Along the way, Fargen found that he liked everything about the filmmaking process. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was surprised at how smooth and enjoyable the one-on-one interviews were,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everyone in the film has their own unique story that pertains to some part of Tonyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history as an artist. I also really loved reconnecting with Tony and learning so much more about the rich history of our local ceramic art and artists.â&#x20AC;? At its heart,

the filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s message is inspirational, says Fargen. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tonyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s story shows that when passion, dedication and hard work are applied to your craft, anything is possible.â&#x20AC;? Fargen titled his film â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Face in the Crowd,â&#x20AC;? referring back to Natsoulasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; focus on sculptures depicting large-scale human forms and exaggerated personalities. Examples of his work can be seen locally at Bing Maloney Golf Course, Tahoe Tallac Little League Park and Granite Regional Park. One large, gravity-defying sculpture of a teetering man struggling to hold too many objectsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a metaphor for modern life, entitled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Balancing Actâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D; stands on Freeport Boulevard near Sacramento City College.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;I realized that Tonyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s story was the perfect one for me to tell. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a pretty uncommon one among local artists in terms of reach and success.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I thought the filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s title was also appropriate in terms of Tonyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work as a whole,â&#x20AC;? Fargen says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I visualized his work lined up alongside other artistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; work and thought that it would always stand out as a unique â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;face in the crowd,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; literally and metaphorically.â&#x20AC;? Fargen says he will continue making documentaries. With Natsoulas as collaborator, he plans to focus his next film on artist and UC Davis professor Robert Arneson, who was Natsoulasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; mentor and one of the catalysts behind the California Funk art movement of the 1970s. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Face in the Crowdâ&#x20AC;? premiered Feb. 25 at UC Davisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Shrem Museum of Art. It is will be screened this fall at Crocker Art Museum. To view the trailer, go to vimeo.com/201584718. For updates on Benjamin Fargenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s future film projects, go to everymanproductions.us. n

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grew up on an Ohio farm, where my exposure to herbs, other than a sprig of parsley garnishing a plate, was nonexistent. They weren’t in my mother’s kitchen, and they were certainly not in the garden. I remember when I was in college being given a spice rack and opening the bottles cautiously as I sniffed and sampled them. Which things were spices and which were herbs? How should I use them? It was a mystery. Shortly after coming to California 40 years ago, I planted herbs in my garden. Chives, rosemary, oregano, tarragon and mint are attractive and drought-tolerant, and they reliably survive year after year. These, along

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with an annual planting of sweet basil, are the extent of my herbal adventures. A recent talk by Daisy Mah at the Sacramento Perennial Plant Club inspired me and other seasoned gardeners to think of planting more types of herbs and using them more boldly. One of the mysteries that Daisy cleared up was why we Americans don’t pronounce the “h” in “herb.” It’s a French word, and that’s how it’s said there. English speakers elsewhere scorn such Franco-frippery and defiantly pronounce the “h.” Some of us weren’t exactly sure what Daisy meant by “herbs,” because instead of using just a pinch or teaspoon at a time, she likes to make a meal of them. Herbs don’t just go into salad dressing—they are the salad. She grows and eats so many herbs that she’s begun calling her home garden “Daisy’s Herb Farm.” To a botanist, an herbaceous plant is any seed-bearing plant that doesn’t

have a woody stem and that dies back after flowering. Daisy limits herbs, however, to the usual definition of edible leaves, flowers and stems from plants that are used for medicinal, aromatic or savory qualities. She uses them generously in every meal.

One of the mysteries that Daisy cleared up was why we Americans don’t pronounce the “h” in “herb.” In order to make herbs a regular ingredient, they need to be accessible, she advises. “Don’t put them out in the back 40,” she says. One of the nice things about growing herbs is that

you can harvest them when they are in optimal condition, not dried out and flavorless in a bottle. She keeps a colander in the garden, cuts herbs into it and rinses them off whenever she prepares a meal. Many of us have had the experience of mint spreading uncontrollably through a planting bed. If you cut it often enough, Daisy says, that won’t be a problem. Frequent cutting also keeps basil compact and producing tender new leaves. Parsley and coriander bolt, sending up seed heads, when they feel stressed by hot weather. Trimming them often, and growing them in partial shade, may prolong their life. You don’t have to limit yourself to a few familiar herbs. If you can’t find what you want in a local nursery, order seed and grow your own. Lemon basil, winter savory, unusual oreganos and bronze fennel are but a few decorative and delicious herbs that she recommends. Daisy has been

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This delicious stone fruit is a relative of the peach, nectarine and (surprise) almond. When dried, it’s a prune. To eat: Eat out of hand, or slice and bake for a cobbler, pie or upside-down cake.

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experimenting with growing her own microgreens. She sows seeds in a flat, keeps them moist and cuts the baby herbs above the first leaves that emerge (called the cotyledon) so that they generate new growth. The little seedlings are delicious sprinkled onto foods, but you have to be vigilant against slugs and snails, which also love the tender, tasty sprouts. Larger herbs can be cut into strips to scatter across food using a preparation called “chiffonade.” Stack the leaves, roll them like a cigar and slice across the bundles to create long, thin strips. “It’s an easy way to impress your guests,” Daisy says. While it’s fun to nibble in the garden, not every plant is edible or to your taste, Daisy warns. Anything in the mint family, identifiable by their square stems and strong scents, can be eaten. Herb flowers are often delicious, she has found. Herb blossoms attract bees and butterflies to the garden. They especially like fennel’s flat clusters of flowers. African blue basil is a sterile hybrid that will bloom throughout the season without setting seed.

Herb seeds are sometimes used as spices. Cilantro seeds are called coriander. Fennel seeds pack a potent punch of anise flavor and are used to season Italian sausages and Indian and Middle Eastern cuisine. Herbs can flavor water or lemonade or be brewed as tea. Great bunches of them can be chopped up for pesto sauce, to make salads or tossed into soups. Once you begin to explore all of the ways that herbs can be used, there’s almost no limit to their uses. “Food is boring sometimes,” Daisy says. “Herbs bring life and flavor.” Anita Clevenger is a lifetime platinum UC Sacramento County Master Gardener. On Saturday, Aug.5, join her and many other Master Gardeners at Fair Oaks Horticulture Center from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. for Harvest Day, featuring demonstration gardens, lectures and educational tables. Be sure to check out the herb garden while you are there. For information about Harvest Day, and answers to gardening questions, call 876-5338 or go to sacmg.ucanr.edu. n

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CANTALOUPE This melon has antioxidant and antiinflammatory properties. It belongs to the cucurbit family of plants, which includes cucumbers, pumpkins and squashes. To eat: Using cantaloupe, Food Network’s Giada De Laurentiis makes an unusual and tasty dish called Spaghetti al Melone.

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Capital Dance Project will perform "Behind the Barre: Made In Sacramento " in August.

“Behind the Barre: Made in Sacramento” Capital Dance Project Aug. 25–27 Crest Theatre, 1013 K St. capitaldanceproject.org Capital Dance Project, a local professional dance collective, presents its summer dance series. On Aug. 25 at 6 p.m., CDP will partner with the Sacramento Kings and Kings Foundation for a sensory-friendly dance performance, with fewer loud sounds and flashing lights for the benefit of individuals with autism and other sensory disabilities. On Aug. 26 and 27, CDP will present nine world premieres of works by its resident choreographers, who collaborated with visual artists and musicians on multidisciplinary works.

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Don't miss the Fire Spectacular this month. Photo courtesy of Cedric Sims Photography.

10th Annual Fire Spectacular Obsidian Butterﬂy and Sacred Fire Dance Company Saturday, Aug. 12, 11 a.m. Land Park Amphitheater, 3901 Land Park Drive sacredﬁredance.com Celebrate a decade of stunning fire performance from the founder of the Sacramento “fire scene,” Obsidian Butterfly. The event promises eye-catching dance, music and, of course, fire and LED light entertainment.

"Come Back to the Five & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean." Photo courtesy of Jeremy Meehan with Day Forty-One Photography.

“Come Back to the Five & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean” Errant Phoenix Productions Aug. 4–20 Mesa Verde Performing Arts Center, 7501 Carriage Dr., Citrus Heights errantphoenix.com The year is 1976. The place is Marfa, Texas, where James Dean’s famous movie “Giant” was filmed in the 1950s. This dramatic comedy drops the audience into the 20th reunion of the Disciples of James Dean in West Texas, where the arrival of a stranger ignites conflict, controversy and more than a little soul searching.

Enjoy food and drink while supporting Fairytale Town at the annual Tales & Ales Brewfest.

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Jazz Night at the Crocker: Ray Obiedo Crocker Art Museum Thursday, Aug. 17, 6:30 p.m. 216 O St. crockerart.org Cool down and chill out to the smooth Latin sounds of Ray Obiedo, Capital Public Radio’s jazz music director Gary Vercelli’s pick for this installment of Sacramento’s longest-running summer jazz series. The Bay Area-based contemporary jazz composer and guitarist Obiedo will offer an eclectic evening of multiethnic rhythms.

“Love’s Labour’s Lost” Theatre in the Heights Through August 6 8215 Auburn Blvd., Citrus Heights theatreintheheights.com In one of Shakespeare’s classic comedic masterpieces, King Ferdinand imposes a ban on women in court to focus on his studies but forgets that he’s due to receive the princess of France. Insulted by the ban, the princess sets up camp in front of the court to exact revenge, while the court fool Costard gets involved in a merry mix-up of love letters, punishments and mistaken identities.

Ray Obiedo will perform at the Crocker jazz night.

Tales & Ales Brewfest Fairytale Town Saturday, Aug. 26, 5–9 p.m. 3901 Land Park Drive fairytaletown.org Happy 58th birthday, Fairytale Town! To celebrate the play park’s special day, check out this family-friendly fundraiser featuring beer tastings from local craft breweries, food trucks and live music by AKAlive on the Mother Goose Stage. Proceeds will support Fairytale Town’s education programs and park improvements.

“Miss Saigon” Young Actors Stage July 28–Aug. 6 24th Street Theatre, 2791 24th St. youngactorsstage.com Local talents Alexi Ishida and Alex Greenlee star in the school edition of the smash Broadway musical “Miss Saigon.” Ishida, who studies drama at UC Irvine, portrays Kim, a 17-year-old barmaid who, in the waning days of the Vietnam War, falls in love with an American GI named Chris, played by Greenlee. Both earned raves for their work last summer in a local production of “Les Miserables.”

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Classical duo Stephanie and Saar will perform at the Crocker on Aug. 13.

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In this powerful Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, Elliot, an Iraq War veteran and aspiring actor, struggles to acclimate to civilian life while he cares for the ailing aunt who raised him. Meanwhile, a tragic figure from his past moderates an online chatroom for a small group of recovering addicts. When their paths cross, real-world tribulations collide with the search for courage and redemption in the virtual world, as newfound connections awaken a sense of purpose and question descriptions of family in the Information Age.

BLOOMSDAY by Steven Dietz B Street Theatre-Mainstage Thru September 10 2711 B St, Sac 916-443-5300 Bstreettheatre.org

In Bloomsday, Robert returns to Dublin to reunite with Cait, the woman who captured his heart during a James Joyce literary tour 35 years ago. Dancing backwards through time, the older couple retrace their steps to discover their younger selves and relive the unlikely, inevitable events. With warmth and humor, Dietz examines the nature of love at first sight and the one that got away.

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Music Circus-Wells Fargo Pavillion August 8 – August 13 1419 H St, Sac 916-557-1999 Californiamusicaltheatre.com A devilishly clever multi Tony Award®winning Best Musical that any baseball fan will appreciate. Mega-fan Joe Boyd trades his soul to lead his beloved Washington Senators to victory over the New York Yankees, only to realize the true worth of the life he left behind. This musical is sponsored by Hefner Law.

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Presented by Resurrection Theatre At Wilkerson Theatre August 11 – September 2 1723 25th St, Sac 916-491-0940 Resurrectiontheatre.com

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In this play, written by Johnna Adams, directed by Steve Buri and starring Eliza Webb and Margaret Morneau, a parent/ teacher conference is the backdrop for which a grieving mother and an emotionally overwhelmed primary school teacher have a fraught conversation about the tragic suicide of the mother’s son. Gideon may have been severely bullied or he may have been the abuser. As his story is slowly uncovered, the women try to reconstruct a satisfying explanation for Gidion’s act and come to terms with excruciating feelings of culpability.

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There will be plenty of cold treats at Sacramento Zoo's annual Ice Cream Safari on Aug. 19.

33rd Annual Ice Cream Safari Sacramento Zoo Saturday, Aug. 19, 4–8 p.m. Alex Greenlee and Alexi Ishida, who play the roles of Chris and Kim in the Young Actors Stage production of "Miss Saigon."

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SacTown Nachos Festival

Bring your appetite and your sweet tooth for the zoo’s coolest event of the year. All-you-can-eat ice cream stations throughout the 14-acre zoo will offer cones, sundaes, floats and unlimited Coca-Cola drinks. Enjoy a scoop while you scope out the wildlife!

Saturday, Aug. 26 Cesar Chavez Plaza, 910 I St. sactownnachos.com The first nachos festival in Sacramento will take the city by storm. The festival will feature 40 varieties of nachos¬, from traditional to Oreochos (yes, Oreo cookie nachos), by local chefs. There will also be a beer garden, performances by the Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera and a personal appearance by Kings point guard Ty Lawson, who’s sponsoring the event. A large portion of the proceeds will be donated to the local nonprofit Project Optimism, which benefits children, the homeless and individuals diagnosed with cancer.

“Stephanie and Saar: one piano, four hands” Crocker Art Museum Sunday, Aug. 13, 3 p.m. 216 O St. crockerart.org Pianists Stephanie Ho and Saar Ahuvia will perform Bach’s intriguing composition “The Art of Fugue”—the very last fugue Bach ever wrote, and one that he mysteriously left unfinished. Of further intrigue? The pair will play the composition together on a single piano.

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“Fields of Grain: The Art Collection of the California Rice Commission” will be on display at the Robert T. Matsui Gallery in Sacramento City Hall. Shown right: “Summer Rice Fields, Colusa County” by Phil Gross. The show runs through Nov. 14. 915 I St.

Archival Gallery presents the collage paintings of Maureen Hood and the collage sculpture of Sean Royal through Sept. 4. Shown right: “Dead Valley” by Royal. 3223 Folsom Blvd.; archivalgallery.com

Tim Collom Gallery welcomes Richard Stein for a solo exhibition titled “New Fields” through Sept. 1. Shown above: “Garden Farms.” 915 20th St.; timcollomgallery.com

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Sacramento Fine Arts Center presents “Celebrating the Figure,” featuring drawings, paintings and sculpture by the Friday Morning Figure Drawing Group. The show runs through Aug. 15. Shown above: “Time Vectors” by Steve Memering. 5330 Gibbons Drive; sacﬁnearts.org

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Bright New Light SELLAND’S OPENS ON THE EMERGING BROADWAY DISTRICT

roadway used to be more of a “Broadway” than it is today. It used to be the highfalutin, strutting thoroughfare of town. The movie house, the bars, the restaurants, even the ballpark used to be on Broadway. Riding one of the many streetcars rolling up and down its length, the Sacramentans of the early 20th century could get their shopping done, see a show or ballgame and take a stroll in the elegant cemetery (a popular distraction at the time), all without leaving the Broadway stretch.

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That Broadway is no more, of course. The ballpark burned down, and in its place is now a Target. The restaurants and clubs slipped down a rung in their grandeur. The cemetery fell into a bit of disrepair. One of Sacramento’s greatest brands, Tower Records, came and went. Now, however, as large and midsized cities all around the country start to rediscover their neglected urban cores, Broadway emerges as a great boulevard of opportunity. Some of the old bones are still there. The Tower Theatre still stands, its beautifully garish neon prominence jutting out into the sky. The Old City Cemetery remains a beautiful city landmark, well maintained by a cadre of dedicated volunteers. Smart and dedicated restaurateurs like Jim Seyman, owner of Tower Cafe, and recently passed and sorely missed Jamie Bunnell of Jamie’s Broadway Grill kept the flame

alive with some of the most popular restaurants in town.

Well, it appears that Broadway is the place to be once again. A host of top-notch international restaurants moved in over the decades as well. While some less familiar with the neighborhood might drive right on by, the locals (I include myself in that description, having lived just a few blocks from Broadway for many years) knew that they could find some of the city’s best Indian cuisine (Kathmandu Kitchen), Ethiopian food (Queen Sheba) and Vietnamese fare (Viet Ha Noodles & Grill) all on the same street.

Well, it appears that Broadway is the place to be once again. Drive along its length and you’ll see construction, upgrades and redevelopment on nearly every block. One of the first to get in on the revitalization is Randall Selland with his new Selland’s Market-Cafe. While most Sacramento residents might know the Selland group by the fine-dining standouts Ella and The Kitchen, it’s probably Selland’s Market-Cafe that actually turns the most tickets. It’s affordable, convenient, quick and, for the most part, delicious. What makes Selland’s work is its casual, order-at-the-counter system and seemingly endless list of special events, deals and offers. The menu, a combo of soups, sandwiches, pizza and prepared hot dishes, hasn’t changed much in the 17 years since the first Selland’s Market-Cafe opened in East Sacramento. But seasonal specials and weekly offers keep curious

diners coming through the front door without nudging out the favorite dishes that keep the neighbors coming in week after week.

The hot and cold cases overﬂow with offerings not unfamiliar to the frequenter of Randall Selland’s other fastcasual spots. This new Broadway outlet is a large, spacious hall with a high, noisebouncing roof and a flood of light coming through the floor-to-ceiling windows. Like each of the other locations, the kitchen is wide-open and on full display. Where the original East Sac location is cozy and the El Dorado Hills outlet is quaint, this new Broadway space is modern and industrial. The hot and cold cases overflow with offerings not unfamiliar to the frequenter of Randall Selland’s other fast-casual spots. The menu is synonymous with those of the restaurant’s other locations. Of the classics, it’s hard to choose a favorite. Selland’s busy kitchen has figured out a range of simple, hearty dishes that hit the spot every time. The chicken breasts smothered in mushroom gravy ($8.75) rarely

disappoint, offering a slightly more muscled-up American version of the classic chicken marsala. Paired with a side of hand-mashed potatoes ($3.25) or potatoes au gratin ($3.75), it’s a hearty way to go. Meatloaf, teriyaki chicken thighs and salmon fillets also hit the spot with rigid dependability. Standout sandwiches include the crab cake po’ boy ($13.75) and the citruscurry turkey dip ($10.75). The pizza oven turns out sturdily delicious pies of high quality and upfront flavor. The simple Margherita ($15) and the very American combo ($17.25) are both totally solid and without flaw.

The dessert case is a thing of beauty. Don’t miss what might be the best carrot cake in town or the delightfully light and playful seasonal strawberry cupcake. Well-made cookies and perfect lemon squares are also available. Selland’s weekly and rotating special of two entrees and a bottle of wine for $25 is well worth the trip in itself. Make sure to check the website

to see the offerings each week. Odds are, even if you’re not a local, you’ll become one pretty soon. Selland’s Market-Cafe is at 915 Broadway; (916) 732-3390; sellands. com. Greg Sabin can be reached at gregsabin@hotmail.com. n

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Jamie’s Bar and Grill

Café Vinoteca

427 Broadway 442-4044

3535 Fair Oaks Blvd. 487-1331

L D $ Full Bar Featured on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. Dine in or take out since 1986

L D $$ Full Bar Italian bistro in a casual setting • Cafevinoteca.com

Riverside Clubhouse 2633 Riverside Drive 448-9988 L D $$ Full Bar Upscale American cuisine served in a contemporary setting • Riversideclubhouse.com

Taylor’s Kitchen 2924 Freeport Boulevard 443-5154 D $$$ Wine/Beer Dinner served Wed. through Saturday. Reservations suggested but walk-ins welcome.

Willie’s Burgers 2415 16th St. 444-2006

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 D $$$ Wine/Beer Five-course gourmet demonstration dinner by reservation only • Thekitchenrestaurant.com

La Rosa Blanca Taqueria

L D $ Great burgers and more. Open until 3 on Friday and Saturday • williesburgers.com

2813 Fulton Ave. 484-6104

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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

L D Full Bar $$-$$ Fresh Mexican food served in a colorful family-friendly setting

5026 Fair Oaks Blvd. 485-2883 B L D $-$$ Full neighborhood bar serving dinner nightly. Open at 11am daily. Weekend breakfast. • bellabrucafe.com

Matteo’s Pizza 5132 Fair Oaks. Blvd. 779-0727

Cafe Bernardo Pavilions Shopping Center B L D $$ Full Bar Outdoor Patio Seasonal, European-inﬂuenced comfort food • Paragarys.com

L D Beer/Wine $$ Neighborhood gathering place for pizza, pasta and grill dishes

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 •

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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