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WELCOME HOME! Welcome home... Enjoy this 3 bedroom, 1½ bath (over 1200 sq ft) home with rare family room in the Tallac Village section of Tahoe Park Area. Long time owners have remodeled several times, and made some recent improvements, re¿nished hardwood Àoors, carpeting, kitchen counters, Àooring and appliances, freshly painted inside and out! $349,000 PATRICK VOGELI 916-207-4515
CHARMING 41st STREET TUDOR Classic home on 41st Street. Two story with 4 bedrooms 3 baths, over 2500 sq ft. Beautifully remodeled top to bottom with spacious bedrooms, high ceilings, open kitchen overlooking the family/dining rooms and lush back yard. Lots of 1930’s charm throughout with builtins, multi lite windows, wood detail and gorgeous hardwood Àoors $1,100,000 DAVID KIRRENE 916-531-7495
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WONDERFUL BRICK HOME Live in the heart of East Sacramento, walk to everything from this wonderful home. Spacious living with large rooms, lots of light, built-ins and ¿replace. New roof, re¿nished wood Àoors, fresh paint, 6 stained glass windows and most of the rest upgraded to Marvin In¿nity dual pane. The massive back yard oasis has a covered patio, outdoor ¿replace. $599,000 NATHAN SHERMAN 916-969-7379
URBAN LIVING IN MIDTOWN LOFT This gorgeous unit, one of only a very few with wraparound balconies is available and being sold fully furnished. Step in and feel the cool urban vibe while taking in sweeping views. Walk to some of Sacramento’s best restaurants and entertainment. Includes underground parking, secure entry with doorman. $995,000 SUSAN BALDO 916-541-3706
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RIVER PARK Here is the energy ef¿cient home you’ve been looking for. This 3 bedroom 1½ bath in the popular River Park neighborhood has a tankless water heater, ceiling fan, skylight, dual pane windows, new electrical, new dishwasher, new front landscaping. Open Àoor plan with hardwood Àoors and ¿replace in the living room. Large indoor laundry room. $514,000 TIM COLLOM 916-247-8048
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REMODELED RIVER PARK Beautiful 2 bedroom 2 bath featuring energy ef¿cient dual pane windows, skylights, ceiling fans; kitchen has a wonderful Wedgewood 6-burner gas stove; dining bar and formal dining area. Family room overlooks backyard with built-in pool and mature camellia and fruit trees. Audio speakers in & out and so much more! $525,000 KENDRA KNAUER 916-529-2491
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CLASSSIC EAST SACRAMENTO HOME Classic Tudor chock full of vintage charm and stylish architectural details. Featuring 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms in a single story with small basement for expanded storage. Barrel ceilings, stunning ¿replace and leaded-glass windows. Kitchen and baths maintain much of their original character. New exterior paint. Come see $660,000 STEPHANIE GALLAGHER 916-342-2288
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HEART OF TAHOE PARK Enjoy this 2 bedroom, 2 bath, 1007 sqft home with one-car garage. Long term owner has carefully maintained the home with dual pane windows, security screens and Corian sills, central HVAC, re-stuccoed exterior, mudroom/enclosed porch. Private serene backyard with covered patios, distinctive stamped concrete, Àagstone. $349,000 PATRICK VOGELI 916-207-4515
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Gorgeous 4 bedroom, 3 bathroom, 2616 sq/ft, 1920’s Spanish home on one of the most desirable streets in the FAB 40’s. This elegant home boasts oak hardwood floors, a living room with fireplace and 12 ft barrel ceilings, dining room with arched french doors that lead to the front courtyard, kitchen with Wolf range and a Subzero fridge with glass front door. The master suite was added in 2014 and features a fireplace, french doors to a covered balcony that overlooks the pool and a master bathroom with a freestanding tub and travertine tiled shower. The private backyard with sparkling pool and built-in kitchen is perfect for entertaining. Separate 639 sq/ft guest house with kitchen and bathroom for those overnight guests. $1,395,000
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FROM page 11 active in the Renaissance Society at Sacramento State University for 15 years. “But over time, folks usually discover that these activities alone aren’t enough to keep their minds engaged.” Thirty-two years ago, a handful of seniors approached Sac State’s thenpresident, Don Gerth, about creating an organization to keep retired folks learning and growing. “He was well aware that there was a growing thirst for meaningful existence in retirement,” said Doris Keller, the group’s current president. The organization was based upon an annual membership model. It has developed tremendously over the three decades. It started with a dozen members in 1986 and grew to more than 2,100 this year. The program has two basic aspects. The first is Friday seminars that run on the traditional 12-week fall- and spring-semester schedules. The other provides partnerships with some university departments and programs, which includes volunteering opportunities for members. Each member pays dues of $80 annually, along with $20 for a parking pass. Each semester, members select from dozens of seminar options. The subject matter is diverse, including history, reading, sports, travel, crafts, music, current events and more. The Friday schedule includes a morning session, lunch on campus and an afternoon seminar. Later in the afternoon, the classes convene in a forum setting to hear from a guest speaker.
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Seminars range from as few as 12 students to more than 50. A few classes are offered on Saturdays, and there are single-session symposiums held off-campus in residential and community centers. “Classes are held in unused classrooms on campus, and most take advantage of the school’s ‘smart’ classrooms, utilizing the latest in
the Big History course, which explores the nearly 14 billion years of human evolution. “Our primary goal has been to provide a lively educational environment for our members,” says John Walker, the group’s former president. “But our commitment to Sac State is also to offer support and expand the number of partnerships
THIRTY-TWO YEARS AGO, A HANDFUL OF SENIORS APPROACHED SAC STATE’S THENPRESIDENT, DON GERTH, ABOSUT CREATING AN ORGANIZATION TO KEEP RETIRED FOLKS LEARNING AND GROWING.
audiovisual technology,” says Keller. Most seminar leaders are volunteers from within the organization. “We have members who have an interest in a subject, do their research and then present a course syllabus to the group’s seminar committee for approval,” Keller says. “Once a year, we have a leadership course for our members to learn how to put together and present a seminar.” “We were also the first learning-inretirement program to adopt the Bill Gates-inspired Big History education project,” says Taylor. Over the past two years, 800 members have taken
we’ve established with the university’s education units.” “Each year, several thousand volunteer hours are provided to the university by the group’s members,” says Taylor. In the past year, 123 members provided nearly 900 volunteer hours of service to the Department of Gerontology. Volunteers helped students in their elder mentor, assessment, chronic disease and physical therapy evaluation programs. Classical-music seminar participants also help provide support to the university’s School of Music.
Over the past nine years, members have contributed more than $10,000 in scholarships to university music programs. “We also provided 184 usher volunteer hours for six university theater and dance department productions,” Keller says. “Over the past two years, our members have supplied more than 700 hours of volunteer time to these programs.” “In the past year, we also expanded our priority scholarship program to outstanding Sac State students,” says Taylor. “Since 1993, our organization has provided $143,000 to 76 deserving students, including six new $3,000 scholarships awarded last May.” Taylor says members of the Renaissance Society used to consider themselves “guests” on the campus. “But recently, Sac State president Robert Nelsen told us we are no longer guests. Instead, we have proven to be a vital and active part of campus life. “The desire to keep learning is key for our members,” Taylor continues. “We want to find out what is happening both here and around the world. People are thirsty to find a meaningful existence in retirement, and we have found a great way to help them find it.” To join the Renaissance Society, go to csus.edu/org/rensoc, email rensoc@ csus.edu or call (916) 278-7834. An orientation session for the spring semester will be held Friday, Jan. 26, at 9 a.m. Seminar listings are available on the website. Cecily Hastings can be reached at publisher@insidepublications.com. n
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Compton’s Market was awarded the Cecily Hastings Business of the Year award by the East Sacramento Chamber of Commerce. Last year, the market added Willy's Cafe.
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he East Sacramento Chamber of Commerce announced the winners of its annual Commerce Business Awards at its holiday party last month. The Cecily Hastings Business of the Year award went to Compton’s Market. While presenting the award, chamber president Ted Kappel
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praised owner Sunil Hans and his family for their dedication to the community. Compton’s new annex, called Willy’s Cafe and dedicated to the founder of Compton’s, has become a neighborhood gathering place. The New Business of the Year award went to Urijah Faber’s Ultimate Fitness. Located at 6700 Folsom Blvd., the 20,000-square-foot gym has helped to add new life to the area. The Special Place award, which recognizes businesses and places that distinguish East Sacramento, went to Hellenic Community Center at Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church. After more than two decades of fundraising, the church recently completed the $12.5 million construction project. The center
features a 43,000-square-foot, indoor/ outdoor event space, expanded parking and a large courtyard. The new center also creates a permanent home for the Sacramento Greek Festival, which returned to the church grounds in 2017 after nearly 30 years at Sacramento Convention Center. The Lisa Schmidt Volunteer of the Year award went to Sacred Heart Holiday Home Tour’s parent volunteers. The home tour, which attracts 5,000 patrons annually, showcases renovation projects, custom interior design and creative holiday decor. The Member of the Year award went to Melea Martinez of Inside Publications for playing a key role in organizing chamber events, including
Taste of East Sacramento, Savor East Sac and the holiday gala. Martinez attends every chamber meeting, mixer and luncheon and is a top recruiter of new members. For more information, go to eastsacchamber.org.
YOGA IN THE PARK Yoga Moves Us offers a free yoga class at 9 a.m. every Saturday in McKinley Park. More than 100 people attend the volunteer-taught class. From October through March, classes are held indoors at Clunie Community Center. Clunie Community Center is at 601 Alhambra Blvd. For more information, go to yogamovesus.org.
Because the majority of the roses are newer cultivars with patent protection, rose cuttings will not be available. Rose petal collection is allowed. The rose garden is at the corner of H and 33rd streets. RSVPs are requested, though drop-in help will also be appreciated. For more information about the prune-a-thon or to become a regular volunteer in the garden, call (916) 452-8011 or email friendsofeastsac@ aol.com.
‘SLEEPOVER’ FOR STUFFED ANIMALS What do toys really do at night? On Thursday, Jan. 25, children are
invited to send their favorite stuffed animal friend to McKinley Library’s stuffed-animal sleepover. The stuffed animals may be dropped off during the library’s open hours on Jan. 25 and picked up on Saturday, Jan. 27, along with complimentary photos of their exciting sleepover adventures. The library is at 601 Alhambra Blvd.
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Join the Sacramento Walking Sticks on a city walk on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. Photo courtesy of sacramentowalkingsticks.org.
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On New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day, the Sacramento Walking Sticks will host a walking tour of Midtown’s new murals. The 5K and 10K walks begin and end at Pioneer Congregational United Church of Christ at 2700 L St. For more information, go to sacramentowalkingsticks.org.
On Saturday, Jan. 6, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., McKinley Park Volunteer Corps will join with Sacramento Rose Society for the annual “prune-a-thon” of McKinley Rose Garden. More than 600 rosebushes will be pruned. Everyone, from novice to expert, is welcome. Experienced rosarians will teach volunteers how to prune. Volunteers are also needed to pull tarps full of clippings and empty them into dumpsters. While some equipment and garden supplies will be provided, volunteers are asked to bring a pair of garden gloves and bypass pruning shears if they have them. At 8:45 a.m., courtesy of East Sacramento Hardware, professional knife sharpener Stanley Spencer of Stanley’s Perfect Edge will be at the garden to sharpen volunteers’ clippers on a first-come, first-served basis. Coffee and water will be available and a hot soup lunch from Evan’s Kitchen will be provided to volunteers.
DANCE CLASSES FOR BEGINNERS The Ballroom of Sacramento is offering a dance camp for beginning dancers on Sunday, Jan. 7. The 45-minute sessions include merengue at 1 p.m., waltz at 2 p.m. and East Coast swing at 3 p.m. The cost is only $1 for all three classes. The Ballroom is at 6009 Folsom Blvd. For more information, call (916) 456-2616 or go to theballroomofsacramento.com
Stuffed animals are invited to a sleepover at McKinley Library this month. Photo courtesy of sunflowerstorytime.com.
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PHOEBE HEARST OFFERS SCHOOL TOURS Campus tours for prospective Phoebe Hearst Elementary School students will be held on four consecutive Wednesdays in January. Beginning on Jan. 10, interested families can drop in at the main office to tour the campus and learn about admission criteria, kindergarten enrollment and the open-enrollment process. Additional tour dates are Jan. 17, 24 and 31. All tours begin at 9 a.m. No registration is required. Phoebe Hearst is at 1410 60th St. For more information, go to phoebehearst.org.
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LEARN ABOUT JUNIOR LEAGUE On Thursday, Jan. 4, Junior League of Sacramento will host a meet-and-greet for prospective members from 6 to 8 p.m. Junior League is an organization of women committed to promoting volunteerism. Junior League is located at 778 University Ave. For more information, go to jlsac.org.
PLAY TIME FOR ADULTS Playing is second nature for children. Psychologists say that adults need play in their lives to stay healthy and happy. On Wednesday, Jan. 17, McKinley Library will host an evening of play activities for adults, including Hot Wheels, LEGOs, crafts, board games and more. The event will be held from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Adults can bring children, but language and materials at the event may not be appropriate for kids. McKinley Library is at 601 Alhambra Blvd.
salad, bread, and beer, wine, soda and coffee. Scottish Rite is at 6151 H St. To purchase tickets, go to sacwomens2030.org
LIBRARY PLANS KNITTING CHRISTMAS TREE PICKUP EXCHANGE East Sac Cub Scout Pack 128 Do you have knitting supplies you’re not using? McKinley Library will hold its annual Knitting Exchange on Saturday, Jan. 27, from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. Bring what you have and take what you like. McKinley Library is at 601 Alhambra Blvd.
ACTIVE 20-30 CLUB ANNUAL CRAB FEED The Active 20-30 Club of Greater Sacramento will hold its 25th Annual Crab Feed at Scottish Rite Masonic Center on Saturday, Jan. 20 from 5 to 10 p.m. Tickets are $65 and include all-youcan-eat crab, clam chowder, pasta,
will hold a Christmas tree recycling fundraiser. On Sunday, Dec. 31, and Sunday, Jan. 7, Scouts will pick up Christmas trees from East Sacramento and River Park homes and transport them to a recycling center. Trees must be at the curb by 8 a.m. A $10 donation per tree is requested. For payment information and to request a pickup, call (916) 838-5842 or email meredith@mharvan.com. Serena Marzion and Lauren Hastings can be reached at insideeastsaclife@gmail.com. n
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every school family contributes to the Annual Fund. “If we reach 100-percent parent participation in the Annual Fund, I’m scheduling a snow day on Feb. 16, complete with pajamas, a schoolwide pancake breakfast, snow cones and an early dismissal to get a jump on the midwinter break,” says Lee Thomsen, the head of school. The school’s annual fundraising campaign ends on Jan. 23. For more information, go to saccds. org.
New Skool JJAPANESE A PA N E S E RESTAURANT RE S TAURA N T IN IN MIDTOWN MI DTOWN REBRANDS RE B RA ND N DS ITSELF ITSELF
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s Skool Restaurant in Midtown approached its twoyear anniversary, its owners decided it was time for a
change. Rebranded in December as Skool Japanese Gastropub, the popular eatery features a new kitschy, colorful interior and an updated menu. “The menu is clearly Japanese now—no fusion confusion,” says coowner Andy Mirabell. The restaurant also features an expanded cocktail menu with trendy chuhi cocktails, made with fruity soda water and shochu, a spirit similar to vodka. Skool has also bulked up its sake program. “Overall, we want a casual dining spot for locals and visitors where they can eat amazing, affordable, sharable Japanese dishes and have great drinks to match,” says Mirabell. “Our goal was to create the best version of Skool we can for Sacramento.” Skool serves Sacramento’s only Japanese-inspired weekend brunch from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Happy hour is all night Tuesdays from 3 to 9 p.m. and Wednesday through Sunday from 3 to 6 p.m. Dinner is served nightly from 5 p.m.
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Skool is at 2319 K St. For more information, go to skoolonkstreet. com.
LEARNING THROUGH PLAY You can touch the art at Crocker Art Museum’s new kid-friendly Art Spot installation, “Wingding,” open through March 4. The Crocker’s Art Spot program features immersive installations designed for children 5 and younger and their caregivers. Each Art Spot is created by a different artist or team of artists, who spend up to a year participating in the Crocker’s earlychildhood program. On Nov. 6, local artist and teacher Sonja White took up residence in the Crocker’s Weborg Gallery to construct “Wingding” in time for its public opening on Nov. 19. The installation is composed of hundreds of wooden shapes—ranging from 1 foot to 8 feet across—that children can build, stack and spin to create their own 3-D patterns on the walls. White even placed mirrors on the ceiling to let kids experience their art from another angle.
“Children have many different types of learning styles,” White explains. “Some are true creators, some are builders and some are kinetic learners who need to move through something to understand it. While ‘Wingding’ is designed to appeal to individual types of learners, it also brings them together as they communicate using the universal language of geometry.” Crocker Art Museum is at 216 O St. For more information, go to crockerart.org.
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PETAL IT FORWARD On Oct. 11, Relles Florist filled Sacramento streets with thousands of flowers as part of Petal It Forward, a program designed to boost happiness with the sharing of blooms. In partnership with the Society of American Florists, Relles Florist gave away more than 5,000 stems of flowers (approximately 1,500 bouquets) to 750 people. Each person received two bouquets: one to keep and one to “petal it forward” by giving it to a stranger, co-worker, neighbor or friend. Why the shower of flowers? According to a survey conducted by the Society of American Florists, 88 percent of Americans report that giving flowers makes them feel happy, and 80 percent report that receiving flowers makes them feel happy. In fact, even being around flowers improves your mood: 76 percent of Americans agree that having flowers in their home or office makes them happier.
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Relles Florist participates in "Petal It Forward."
Relles Florist is at 2400 J St. For more information, go to rellesflorist. com.
FRESH MEALS TO GO At Courtyard School in Midtown, chef Matt Kramer is offering healthful, tasty meals to go. Kramer, formerly of Magpie Cafe, sells the fresh, restaurant-style meals from Cafe Courtyard on Wednesdays and Thursdays from 3 to 6 p.m. (The schedule is expected to expand this year.) The weekly rotating menu features convenient meals, including vegetarian options and a children’s menu. Courtyard is at 205 24th St. For more information, go to courtyard. org.
CAREER TRAINING AFTER HIGH SCHOOL C.K. McClatchy High School will hold an informational session on career training and technical education programs on Monday, Jan. 22, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the school’s library. Hear from potential employers and get information on apprenticeship programs in construction, government and other fields.
For information, email Consuelo Hernandez at hdezconsuelo@ sbcglobal.net. McClatchy High School is at 3066 Freeport Blvd.
WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE This month, Sacramento Zoo welcomes a new director and CEO, Jason Jacobs. Chosen from a competitive pool of 38 prospects and five finalists, Jacobs impressed the board with his proven track record as the director of Reid Park Zoo in Tucson, Ariz. In grade school, Jacobs interned, volunteered and ran education programs at Florida’s Zoo Miami. He went on to earn dual bachelor’s degrees in environmental science and English from Florida International University, and he worked at Disney’s Animal Kingdom Theme Park, Potawatomi Zoo in South Bend, Ind., Los Angeles Zoo and, for the past four and a half years, Reid Park Zoo. “Jason clearly shares our vision for reimagining the future Sacramento Zoo,” says Jeff Raimundo, president of the Sacramento Zoological Society’s board of trustees, “providing the best possible environment for the animals in our care, a focus on animal conservation in the wild and creating
new and exciting experiences for our half-million visitors a year.” For more information, go to saczoo. org.
ZOOM ZOOM Like fast cars? Then the California Automobile Museum’s newest exhibit, “NorCal’s Fastest: From Grassroots to the Professional” is sure to get your motor running. The exhibit, which opened Dec. 2, profiles a series of influential people who have been involved in the Northern California racing scene, including drivers, builders and more. A few highlights include Angelique Bell, a biracial woman currently
racing sprint cars; Bill McAnally, a former NASCAR driver who owns and manages a successful West Coast NASCAR team; and Don Racine, a pillar in the unique world of MINI Cooper racing. The exhibit also features stunning race cars. “NorCal’s Fastest” will remain on display through March 12. The museum is at 2200 Front St. For more information, go to calautomuseum.org. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com. n
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Yoga for All SHE FINDS PEACE TEACHING YOGA AT SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND
Samantha Adams teaches yoga at Society for the Blind.
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amantha Adams doesn’t give up. The Gold River resident was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa—a genetic disorder that causes loss of vision—at age 12, was declared legally blind at 19, and from age 40 on has been “mostly a total,” as she puts it, which means she can only perceive light. “I instinctively knew all along tthat my vision was off,” Adams ssays. “The condition starts with n no night vision—I’d never seen sstars. I was always tripping o over the vacuum and the dog. I couldn’t catch a ball in the o outfield. At 14, I stopped riding m my bike because I was hitting p parked cars.” But that didn’t stop her ffrom moving from Canada to C California, working as a defense llawyer and prosecutor, or ccompleting 200 hours of training tto become a volunteer yoga iinstructor. For most of her youth, Adams cconsidered herself “someone who jjust couldn’t see very well.” She g got through high school using llarge-print books that she would h hide from her classmates. When h her vision was reassessed after a year as an exchange student iin Brazil, she could see less than 1 10 degrees peripherally—“like llooking though an empty pen ccanister,” she says. She was cclassified as legally blind. As an a attorney, she adapted as she w went, reading with magnifiers o or memorizing text that her ccomputer read aloud to repeat in ccourt. But after meeting her husband a at guide school in San Rafael in 2 2003 and moving to Sacramento, A Adams suddenly found herself in h her toughest situation yet. “We had a blended family, which is nothing like the Brady Bunch,” Adams says with a laugh. “Nobody told me what to expect. It was chaos.” Luckily for Adams, she walked into her local gym on a whim one day in 2005 and “fumbled my way” through a yoga class. As difficult as it was to keep
pace with a teacher doing moves she’d never heard of, much less seen demonstrated, Adams felt something shift within her. “Yoga is what grounded me and got me through,” she says. “It brought me much-needed peace.” The manager of Adams’ club gave her three hours of private lessons so she could learn the technique. In one-on-one sessions with an instructor, Adams “got hooked” on yoga. When she found out three years ago that the same instructor was offering teacher training, Adams decided to take another leap of faith and joined the teaching program in fall 2015. After completing her training, Adams decided she should do something with her newly earned skills and called Society for the Blind to see if they were in need of some yoga. Adams has volunteered her time to teach hours of classes to staff members and clients who find the practice as freeing as Adams. “Half of the society is instructional,” says Adams, which includes classes in Braille, technology, life skills and mobility to help clients re-enter the workforce. “The other half is the Senior Impact Program. There’s ever-increasing blindness in the senior population, and the society helps them adapt to that loss of vision instead of isolating themselves.” Adams’ oldest student is a 101-year-old woman she met at a senior retreat. Clients in their 80s and 90s benefit from her chair yoga classes, a scaled-back version of the practice that anyone can do at home. “The hardest part of teaching as a blind person is you don’t know if your students will know how to listen,” says Adams, who hopes to teach at fitness facilities in the future. “But knowing how much I want to share my practice with others keeps me going.” For more information on the Society for the Blind, go to societyfortheblind.org. n
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n Dec. 6, officials with the Sacramento Transportation Authority, the agency that divvies up $120 million each year in Measure A transportation sales taxes, dropped a bombshell at an STA board meeting. For the past decade and a half, the board has been spending Measure A tax revenues on local transportation projects based not on actual tax revenues but on tax-revenue projections, which overestimated revenues by more than
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$1 billion. Yes, that’s billion with a B. During much of that time, the board’s spending decisions also failed to take into account potentially hundreds of millions of dollars of STA debt-service payments on bonds the authority has been issuing to accelerate the construction of local transportation projects. In other words, the board has been spending Measure A taxes blindly, oblivious to the fact that tax revenues were falling far short of projections and that debt-service payments were eating into its cash flow. The revenue projections that are at the heart of the fiscal nightmare were apparently prepared by STA consultants before the onset of the Great Recession and were never updated. For 15 long years, staffers
$1 BILLION OF MEASURE A REVENUES ARE ‘MISSING’
never bothered to compare actual revenues to projected revenues. Consequently, what started out as relatively small differences between actual and presumed revenues in the early years telescoped into a huge gap over the 35-year duration of the Measure A tax. This wouldn’t have mattered much if the board had been making spending and borrowing decisions based on STA’s actual revenues. But the board has been spending and borrowing based almost entirely on increasingly bogus revenue projections, which has led to massive overspending. That fundamental error, coupled with STA’s longstanding practice of accelerating the construction of transportation projects by borrowing heavily against future Measure A revenues, has
put STA into a fiscal vice that will likely choke off funding for most future transportation projects in Sacramento County while starving local governments of the Measure A monies they’ve been counting on for road maintenance. If that weren’t bad enough, the financing vehicle that the board has been using to accelerate transportation projects—nonamortizing, interest-only bonds—has been substantially increasing its interest costs, further slamming STA’s cash flows. STA collects two types of Measure A taxes: the one-half-percent sales tax (its primary source) and a transportation “mitigation” fee that it collects from builders and developers. TO page 24
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facebook.com/nepheshpilates FROM page 22 At STA’s December board meeting, interim executive director Norm Hom explained that revenue projections have been assuming that Measure A sales-tax revenues would grow at an average annual rate of 5 percent over its 35-year existence. But according to Hom, Measure A’s actual sales-tax revenues have averaged 3.3 percent growth. Mitigation-fee revenue was projected to grow at an annual rate of 8.59 percent but actually grew at an average rate of 3 percent. This wouldn’t have been a problem had STA periodically compared its projected results to its actual results and adjusted accordingly, as any business enterprise or government agency would do. According to STA officials, it will take them “most of next year” to unravel the mess and get a full handle on the extent of the authority’s overspending and the planned projects that likely will be ditched because of it.
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EYE ON SACRAMENTO’S WARNINGS In 2016, Sacramento County voters narrowly rejected Measure B, which would have doubled the one-halfpercent Measure A sales tax. I chaired the Don’t Double the Tax, No on Measure B campaign committee. In the run-up to the November 2016 vote, Eye on Sacramento (the civic watchdog group I head) issued a report on Measure A spending and its implications for Measure B. While we had no idea at the time that the STA board and staff were relying on false, badly out-of-date revenue projections in their spending and borrowing decisions, we did know about and reported on STA’s overspending and wasteful borrowing practices. In our summary of findings, we warned that “STA is engaged in an alarmingly rapid escalation of credit-fueled spending on capital projects, with its outstanding bond debt increasing from $180 million in 2009 to an expected level of over $450 million in 2017—a 243 percent anticipated increase in debt.”
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We also commented on the likely fallout from STA’s borrowing spree: “This rapid escalation in STA’s bond service payments is also increasingly diverting Measure A funds away from surface road maintenance programs and Regional Transit’s operations and maintenance … The diversion of Measure A funds to pay interest on STA bond debt is projected to divert over $350 million of Measure A taxes from spending on surface road maintenance, RT’s transit operations and capital expenditures on both roads and transit over the next 23 years.” We were alarmed that STA’s use of interest-only bonds was an indicator of deeper problems, writing, “The use of interest-only bonds is a ‘red flag’ that the issuing entity is borrowing more money than it is capable of paying back on standard commercial terms (i.e., through fully amortizing standard muni bonds). Otherwise, the issuing entity would use standard bonds to avoid the higher interest costs that interest-only bonds entail.” The cumulative effect of these STA practices led us to implore
Sacramento County leaders to take action. “We urge Sacramento County to retain an independent financial adviser to assess the sustainability of the current pace of STA’s capital spending, its portfolio of outstanding bonds, and its borrowing practices, and to recommend prudent changes in STA’s borrowing practices and in the pace of its future capital spending,” we wrote. Local government leaders ignored the report’s recommendations. A longtime STA board member, Folsom City Councilmember Kerri Howell, dismissed the report and was quoted as saying it was “full of errors.”
UNACCOUNTABILITY OF JOINT POWERS AUTHORITIES STA is one of hundreds of special districts in Sacramento County. It is organized as a joint powers authority, which is the government equivalent of a joint venture between private parties. The constituent members TO page 27
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FROM page 24 that make up a JPA are the local governments that agree to act jointly with one another on some project or function. Each participating government appoints representatives to the JPA’s government board, usually elected officials of the constituent members. The problem is that our local elected officials serve on way too many JPAs, boards, commissions, etc., to be able to provide effective fiduciary oversight over any of them. Sacramento City councilmembers typically serve on close to 20 of them. County supervisors can serve on as many as 30. With elected officials spread so thin, the staffers who run a JPA on a daily basis end up operating with zero effective oversight. If we’re lucky, the JPA managers will be excellent. But too often, unsupervised JPA managers turn out to be outof-control JPA managers. STA is a textbook case of the problem. Additionally, very few elected officials are experts in municipal finance, municipal bonds or complex construction projects. What they’re good at is getting elected (and reelected) and setting broad policy goals. The solution is fairly obvious: Elected officials need to clear off of JPA boards like STA and Regional Transit, and appoint in their place proven business leaders and agency administrators who have extensive hands-on experience in running and overseeing large, complex organizations, as well as the time to serve as true fiduciary overseers.
WHAT CAN BE DONE? It’s clear that STA staffers cannot and should not be entrusted with the job of unraveling their own mess. It’s imperative that a forensic audit be conducted as soon as possible by an independent party. Given the gravity of the problem and the stakes each constituent member of STA has in the outcome of the review, no member government of STA should be put in charge of auditing its books. For example, we’ve uncovered a problem with STA’s handling of its
development mitigation fees revenue. Under Measure A, STA is supposed to hand over such fees ($32 million since 2009) to the local jurisdiction in which such development takes place. But because STA doesn’t bother to track where its mitigation fees come from, it hasn’t been complying with the law. The city of Sacramento appears to be the local government most prejudiced by STA’s failure to obey the law. To eliminate any potential conflicts of interest, the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors should submit a request to the state controller that his office audit STA and issue a public report, including recommendations for changes in STA governance and policies. EOS is filing a complaint this month with the Sacramento County Grand Jury asking it to investigate the matter. At the end of the day, the most prudent action may be to dissolve STA and for Sacramento County to assume STA’s role of distributing Measure A revenues. That way an elected body— the Board of Supervisors—would be directly accountable for the functions performed by STA. That would also get STA out of the business of issuing bonds, which has been the source of much of its troubles. Local governments can decide for themselves whether they want to spend their allotment of Measure A taxes on a pay-as-you-go basis or borrow against their future allotment of Measure A cash, risking a repeat of STA’s disastrous experience. Until these problems are fully resolved, Sacramento voters would have to be crazy to approve any hike in the countywide transportation sales tax that ends up in the hands of STA.
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Instant Hotels WITH AIRBNBS POPPING UP, WHAT’S A NEIGHBORHOOD TO DO?
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he East Sacramento home was lovely. When the longtime owners decided to sell, multiple offers stacked up. In the end, the biggest consideration wasn’t money. The winner stood out thanks to a heartfelt letter. The letter described a young family moving to Sacramento from the Pacific Northwest, eager to join a welcoming community, a place with friendly neighbors, where kids played on sidewalks and folks carved pumpkins every Halloween. But once escrow closed and the keys changed hands, a different reality emerged. The new owners made brief appearances but never really moved in. Instead, the place went up on Airbnb.
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Overnight, the owners introduced the cozy neighborhood to the shortterm-rental commerce that flourishes with loose sanctions and minimal oversight. “The sellers had been a big part of the fabric of the neighborhood for years, and they chose these buyers because they thought they would be the best fit for the block,” says Sharon Huntsman, whose family has lived on the street for 17 years. “Now they feel sick about what happened.” What happened is something worse than the broken trust represented by a manipulative letter sent to a trusting seller. By taking over singlefamily homes in quiet neighborhoods and transforming them into shortstay hotels and party houses, Airbnb entrepreneurs wreck community bonds. They erase housing stock from the market and exploit weaknesses in our zoning laws. In Sacramento, mini hotels have sprouted across the city. The owners are supposed to get a short-term rental permit. They are supposed to limit guests to six per night. And if they live elsewhere, they must limit
rentals to 90 days per year. After 90 days, they must secure a conditional use permit—a big obligation. The permits are used to collect taxes. But many owners ignore the requirements. A recent search through Airbnb showed about 150 houses available for daily rentals in Sacramento. City officials believe the total number is around 400. There’s no easy way to track how many reach the 90-day limit and leave the market. Cynthia Smith of the city’s Revenue Division would not release data without a public records request, but officials told me only about 70 shortterm permits have been issued. “I know the city has bigger fish to fry,” Huntsman says. “But everyone knows Sacramento has a big problem when it comes to housing inventory, and prices keep going up. These hotels remove inventory from residential neighborhoods where families could live. And they erode the togetherness of the community. That’s the last thing we should want to do.” In Huntsman’s case, the problems caused by the neighborhood’s instant hotel have been more annoying than cataclysmic. Every two or three days, new guests arrive. The adventure begins again. Sometimes the blow-ins are quiet. Others are too obvious, like the 13 Berkeley students who partied
and frolicked in the pool until nearly dawn. Or the bachelorette contingent: women eager for a blast of indiscretion before celebrating the vows of domesticity. One weekend, some guests were undetectable until their cannabis smoke wafted into nearby homes. “I’m sure most people who rent from Airbnb are nice,” Huntsman says. “But when they travel, they get a little carried away. People on vacation don’t stop to think about the impact on neighbors.” Like any reasonable homeowner faced with a disruptive neighbor, Huntsman tried to bring her concerns to the hotel owner. He shows up about once a month for a day or two. He lives 800 miles away and operates several Airbnb homes. “At first there was all this talk about why can’t we all just get along,” she says. “Then he got nasty, threatening to sue us. He’s just running a business, and there’s a lot of money in it.” A few months ago, Huntsman brought her complaints to City Hall. She testified before the City Council and was respectfully received. Several councilmembers told their own Airbnb horror stories. Deeper solutions have been elusive. Councilmember Jeff Harris represents East Sacramento. Harris is
pushing for tighter rules—especially on absentee landlords. “Despite our best intentions, we have rules that are extremely hard to enforce,” he says. “And we have transferred the enforcement action over to neighbors like Sharon Huntsman. That’s not good policy.” Harris has decided to explore options for prohibiting Airbnb-type operations where the owner doesn’t live in the house full time. “With off-site operators, do we even want to support that kind of business?” Harris asks. For Huntsman, one long-term solution to short-term rentals is something she hates to consider. It would mean selling the home she loves and moving away. R.E. Graswich can be reached at reg@graswich.com. n
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One Smart Cat THIS ADOPTED FELINE IS CATNIP FOR HER ADORING OWNER
can’t impose myself by picking her up and cradling her like I have other cats in my life. That’s not going to happen.” By day, Mastrodonato is senior government relations manager for The Trust for Public Land, a nonprofit that creates parks and protects land. By night, he is a guitarist in Mad Music Love, a Sacramento-based ’70s funk band. He opened his heart to Ella not long after his cat, Curtis, died at almost 20 years old. “There have been very few windows in my life when I did not have a pet,” he says.
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lla balances on the top tier of her carpeted cat tree, fixated on an iridescent hummingbird hovering only inches away from the feline’s face. But the tiny bird is safe. Ella’s perch is inside the house, strategically situated in the corner of the living room between two windows directly in front of a bird feeder. Rico Mastrodonato, Ella’s dad, has placed feeders all around the outside of their home in Arden-Arcade for
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her entertainment. “The house is surrounded with bird feeders,” he says. “She is five inches away from that thing. And hummingbirds are not bashful. They get right up to the window and get in her face, and they stare at each other.” Out the kitchen window, he says, is “a smorgasbord—a peanut butter feeder, two hummingbird feeders and a bird bath.” Ella is a 6-year-old black-and-white cat with a smudge under her nose that looks like an untamed mustache. She was trapped in a feral colony in Sacramento. However, after she was spayed, it became evident that this frisky girl was indeed friendly. “But affection is on her terms,” says Mastrodonato, who adopted Ella from a local rescue group two years ago. “I
Mastrodonato understands and appreciates Ella’s quirky, crazy, unpredictable personality. “Once in a great while she will nip me, but only when she gets overstimulated. I think it’s some weird form of affection from her perspective. But that’s not the way I take it,” he says with a laugh. “I think a lot of people would not adopt a cat like that. They would bring her back because they want her to be like a stuffed animal right out of the box.”
manipulative. She gets me to play with her any time she wants me to.”
WILDLIFE INFLUENCE When Mastrodonato was in fourth grade, his family moved to a rural region in upstate New York. “I grew up in a town with less than 200 people. So I spent a lot of time by myself in an area that was surrounded by wildlife. I have worked for an environmental organization from the minute I stepped into California, which was 27 years ago. What I do for a living impacts wildlife habitat, wildlife corridors. At this point, pretty much every single animal in existence depends on people to survive, even if they are wild.”
MUSICIAN BY NIGHT Mastrodonato majored in music in college and has been seriously playing guitar for 37 years. “I’ve seen a lot of Europe and most of this country because of music. Ella seems to like when I play the guitar. If I’m playing through an amplifier, she will stop and listen.”
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Mastrodonato is quick to note that Ella is among the smartest cats he has encountered. “And I have been around at least 30 cats throughout my life,” he adds. “She responds to commands. She comes when I call her. She knows to get off the counter when I tell her to. And she is obviously
Ella was named after the famous jazz singer. “I tend to name my pets after musicians I’m fond of, and I consider Ella Fitzgerald to be perhaps the most talented female vocalist that ever was recorded. It had been a while since I had a female pet. It was in my back pocket for a long time.”
WHY RESCUE? Mastrodonato does not shy away from emphasizing the importance of adopting a homeless pet. “Whatever you have in mind for a pet you can find at a rescue. So why buy one? Puppy mills have earned the reputation they deserve. The animal is the last consideration.”
LOYAL COMPANION Ella has brought Mastrodonato “love, companionship, affection,
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A Winning Wager HARNESS RACING IS A GOOD BET AT CAL EXPO
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arl is a middle-aged man wearing sweats, Converse high-tops and a baby-blue por porkpie hat. He’s watching a TV mo monitor, and he’s not happy. Wi With a low, gravelly voice, he sta starts to beg. “Please don’t, please don’t, pl please don’t,” he says. He repeats the words again an and again, maybe a dozen ti times before he goes silent. E Earl is pleading with Battle o of Midway, a 3-year-old colt, a and Flavien Prat, a French jo jockey. Horse and rider pay no a attention from their parallel u universe. While Earl begs, Battle o of Midway and Prat gallop jjust north of San Diego at a racetrack called Del Mar. Earl is seated along the windows at the Cal Expo satellite wag wagering center, a two-story betting parlor with more than 100 TV screens connected to racetracks around the world: Del Mar, Golden Gate Fields, Churchill Downs, tracks in Korea and Australia and beyond. For people who enjoy horses and gambling, there’s no better place to spend an afternoon or evening than the Cal Expo wagering center. The facility is bright and clean and lively. It draws a special kind of audience, people who like the action and atmosphere of the racetrack. The crowd is several hundred strong and overwhelmingly male. It’s a gambling crowd that doesn’t mind working hard for success.
Horseplayers are the hardestworking gamblers on the planet. They are patient. They don’t idly predict the future; they discern it from objective facts. Horseplayers interpret track conditions, speed ratings, jockey changes, bloodlines, distances and a dozen other components— chunks of evidence reduced to tiny print in the Daily Racing Form, a $10 newspaper as complex and indecipherable as Vedic Sanskrit. Compared to the intricacies of horse betting, some mindless, passive types of gambling—say, slot machines—have no place at Cal Expo. But that’s a problem. Many racetracks beyond California have found that a terrific way to boost attendance and revenue is to deploy slots that attract people dumber or lazier than horseplayers. Unfortunately, slot machines are illegal at California tracks, thanks to an agreement among the governor, Legislature and tribal casinos. The tribes pay the state for slot-machine monopolies. “The inability to have slot machines has a huge negative impact on racing in California, whether you’re talking about quarter horses at Los Alamitos, harness at Cal Expo or even the Thoroughbreds at Golden Gate Fields and the Southern California tracks,” says Chris Schick, who runs the harness program at Cal Expo. Harness racing, which has been a Sacramento tradition for nearly 50 years, brings another
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“RUNNING TWO DAYS A WEEK, WE STILL RANK FIFTH IN WAGERING OUT OF 55 HARNESS TRACKS."
that fans take the money they save on parking and entry fees and use it to gamble. “We have a strong market in Sacramento,” Schick says. “Running two days a week, we still rank fifth in wagering out of 55 harness tracks. But in terms of purses paid to the horsemen, we’re 45th. That’s because they have slots at tracks east of the Mississippi, which generate purse money.” California tracks are blocked from slot-machine revenue, but they still have hopes for other forms of gambling, like sports betting and internet poker. New wagering options would require legislation. Tribal casinos would complain, but Cal Expo would thrive. “That’s been our dream,” Schick says. “If a little something would happen, it would be a game changer.” Without other forms of wagering, the satellite center and racetrack are the preserve of that rarest of sports fan: the horseplayer. People like Earl, who stands up, tosses down his Daily Racing Form and heads for the exit after Battle of Midway steals the $1 million Las Vegas Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile at Del Mar. Battle of Midway pays $30.40 to win on a $2 bet. “I thought he was too cheap to win,” Earl says. And there’s always another race. R.E. Graswich can be reached at reg@graswich.com. n
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Stepping Into the Future THREE FOOD PROJECTS TO WATCH IN 2018
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and wine sommelier, respectively, they have teamed up to express this passion in their new restaurant, Allora, set to open this winter in the former Rust Florist building at 5215 Folsom Blvd. in East Sacramento. During their travels in Italy, Williams and Mandalou kept hearing the word “allora,” which translates to “then” in English. In daily Italian use, A FOOD INCUBATOR the term is a richer expression that one might use, for instance, when Andrea Lepore, the owner of handing someone a gift. the Hot Italian pizza restaurant in Williams, the former executive Midtown, believes the most important chef at The Firehouse Restaurant, thing missing in America’s Farmdescribes Allora as a modern Italian to-Fork Capital is small-business seafood restaurant. But he points out incubation. Incubators are popping that the food won’t drive the menu. up all across the country. According Mandalou is the sole female Level 3 to an industry report, the number of advanced sommelier in Sacramento. such facilities has increased by more than 50 percent nationally in the past (Only two others hold that title four years. Lepore wants to bring the locally—and they’re men.) At Allora, the couple plans to build every meal concept to Sacramento. She’s calling around the wine—a concept that her incubator The Food Factory. turns typical food-forward dining on According to Lepore, it’s “a food its head. incubator for small food businesses “The sommelier will direct us in focused on healthy and functional the kitchen, and then we’ll create foods.” The project will help culinary food that will go with that wine,” says entrepreneurs get access to space (she has already secured a warehouse Williams, adding that Mandalou, not the chefs, will be the star of the show at 1425 C St.), equipment, investors at Allora. and assistance with marketing and Customers will find a 22-foot-tall distribution. Lepore wants to see more healthful, custom wine cellar as they enter the space. Herbs and vegetables for the affordable food produced locally. She restaurant will be grown on the patio. is partnering with SMUD to create what she claims will be the country’s most sustainable facility, and she’s A FARM IN THE meeting with investors to get the BACKYARD project off the ground. In November, the city awarded Randy Stannard and Sarah The Food Factory a $25,000 grant McCamman want to be farmers, and to produce a series of design they want to do it in the city. charrettes (professionally facilitated This past fall, the couple purchased brainstorming sessions) that will a home in Oak Park. They quickly culminate in a project concept ready planted 30 fruit trees on the 1-acre for launch. The meetings will begin property, and they plan to install a with local food-industry experts, greenhouse and produce-washing and the draft project model will be stall. presented to the public for input on Stannard served on the Sacramento Feb. 10 at The Food Factory. For Urban Agriculture Coalition, which more information or to get involved, helped pass a city ordinance in 2015 follow The Food Factory on Facebook. to allow expanded farming on urban
A WINE-DRIVEN RESTAURANT Deneb Williams and Elizabeth-Rose Mandalou love Italian culture—the cuisine, wine and language. As a chef
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Beer Booster
HE CREATED INNOVATIVE PASSPORT PROGRAM FOR LOCAL BREWERIES
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s Aaron O’Callaghan returns to the table with a glass of hazy IPA in hand, he pauses to smile and survey the room. It’s one of those this-is-why-I-do-it moments. The noisy and bustling scene at the Track 7 taproom in Curtis Park includes two bawling babies, several breeds of dogs and a cacophonous children’s birthday party. It’s a microcosm of the allinclusive, family-friendly craft beer scene that inspired O’Callaghan to create Sacramento Beer Frontier, a local “brewery passport” program. “I have a 2- and a 4-year-old, and I don’t know that this project would have happened without them,” says O’Callaghan. “I wanted to make a small contribution to the landscape.” A collaborative project with the Sacramento Area Brewers Guild, the brewery passport is a 28-page, pocket-sized passion project with a foldout map and a list of every local craft brewery. After purchasing the passport, customers must visit area breweries to get their books stamped, collecting various prizes along the way. “It speaks to that excitement you get when you stamp your passport in a foreign country,” says O’Callaghan. “There’s a little bit of a game to it.” The project was fully funded through Kickstarter, and the finished product debuted in early 2017. O’Callaghan originally expected to sell 500 or 600 passports by midyear but instead sold nearly 2,000. He planned to update the passport twice a year, but given the current rate of brewery churn, Callaghan will make quarterly
updates for the foreseeable future. He also included blank pages so that customers don’t have to buy a new edition every time a brewery opens or closes. It all started with a simple map. Back in 2014, O’Callaghan was drinking beers with his friend Trent Yackzan, the co-owner of Sudwerk Brewing Co. Zackzan was a member of the Sacramento Brewers Guild, which had been discussing the idea of creating a brewery map for Beer Week 2015. “The idea behind the map was to turn Sacramento into a global beer destination, to get people out and about and remembering that beer is social,” says Yackzan. “It’s hard to drink beer over the internet.” A longtime cartography enthusiast, O’Callaghan volunteered to create the map, figuring it would be a fun little project for Beer Week. “I think I printed a stack of 200 posters and posted them around town, and they were getting stolen off walls,” says O’Callaghan. “Everyone was excited about this map, and that resulted in doing a Kickstarter campaign, which
ultimately resulted in developing this passport program.” For Daniel Moffatt, brewer and co-owner at Hollywood Park-based Fountainhead Brewing Co., their spot on the 2015 map was a sign that they had arrived. “At the time, we were a couple months old, so it was super exciting,” says Moffatt. “It made us feel like we were on the scene, that we had been recognized and validated.” The brewery passport also helped boost recognition for the fledgling brewery. “Every weekend we get people who have never been here, getting their stamp for the first time,” says Moffatt. Before O’Callaghan could kickstart his Kickstarter, though, he needed to get all 50-plus local breweries on board. “Getting in touch with all the breweries was hands down the most difficult part of the project, and ultimately came down to me going to every single one, just showing up in the taproom,” says O’Callaghan. Industry support proved invaluable and helped O’Callaghan end his 30day campaign in three weeks, with
several local breweries taking to social media to nudge it over the finish line. Perhaps the most impressive thing about Sacramento Beer Frontier is that it’s a brewery booster created by a customer, rather than someone with a monetary horse in the race. According to Yackzan, that speaks to O’Callaghan’s legitimate passion for craft beer and community. “The guy is so naturally enthusiastic and authentically fired up, not just about beer but about his town,” says Yackzan. The success of Sacramento Beer Frontier has led to offers for O’Callaghan to host events, create an app, write a blog and more, but for now he’s content to keep churning out passports. “It exists, people are enjoying it, and I’ve been printing passports way faster than I ever imagined,” he says. Many people claim that the Sacramento brewery market is already oversaturated, but O’Callaghan points out that there are still blank areas on the map. “Sacramento can probably support more, if breweries are smart about what they do,” he says. “I don’t
think it works if you just hang your shingle.” To that end, the most recent edition of the brewery passport is already out of date, not reflecting several recent surprise closures. “In some ways, the passport serves as a guide book, but it also serves as a reference book,” says O’Callaghan. “It marks a place in time. Daniel Barnes can be reached at danielebarnes@hotmail.com. n
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A Win for the Arts O
WITH GRANTS, THE CITY PUTS ITS MONEY WHERE ITS MOUTH IS
Local artist Eben Burgoon received a Creative Economy microgrant.
n Nov. 6, the city of Sacramento announced the recipients of its Creative Economy Pilot Project, awarding grants worth between $5,000 and $25,000 to 57 art, food and tech-related projects, an investment the city hopes will generate economic development in Sacramento neighborhoods. Speaking outside Oak Park’s Brickhouse Gallery to an audience of mostly artists and grantees, Mayor Darrell Steinberg conceded that “the arts have been traditionally underfunded.” He then gave a number that shed some light on how important an economic driver the arts can be. “Art and culture in Sacramento led to $167 million of economic activity in 2015,” he said. Steinberg called the grantees “the present and future of this city.” Steinberg’s comments were well received by an audience that reflected Sacramento’s diversity. That diversity was also reflected in the panelists who awarded the grants. “We felt it was necessary that our panelists represent the
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With his grant, Eben Burgoon will host comic-book workshops at local schools. depth and breadth and diversity of the community and the nature of the applications,” said Maya Wallace, one of the nine volunteer panelists—six mayoral appointees and three city employees. Each panelist spent between 60 and 80 hours poring over more than 500 grant proposals. Then they broke into groups of three, rating each proposal on a 1-to-5 scale. They were looking for projects with “community placemaking potential and the potential of economic development,” said Wallace. “Also, doing things that had never been done before was important, and opportunities for economic development in underserved areas.” The Creative Economy Pilot Project was designed for the city to continue a relationship with grantees. “It’s more like a contract,” Wallace said, “so that we could keep investing in something to grow. It enables [the city] to continue to have dialogue with the grantees and make stipulations in the contracts about what the projects will be and where they will be.” The project exhibits the city’s commitment to the arts. But reading
between the lines of its funding reveals an even more significant shift on the city’s behalf. The City Council unanimously approved $500,000 for the Creative Economy Pilot Project in January 2017, only weeks into Steinberg’s term. The money came from the city’s $10 million Innovation and Growth Fund, which was approved by the council in 2016 under Mayor Kevin Johnson, with the explicit intent to lure tech companies to Sacramento. While the word “tech” was mentioned in the description of the Creative Economy Pilot Project, the parameters were widened to include experimental arts and food initiatives. So while $500,000 might seem like a drop in the city’s overall budget, it represents a subtle shift to funding the arts—a shift that means the difference between what is possible and impossible for many artists. “It’s really big deal,” said Herine Thoroughly, 21, a promoter of allages concerts through Peach House Presents. For Thoroughly, the $5,000 microgrant she received more than doubled Peach House’s 2016 budget.
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The city’s gesture “shows that artists are important,” said Thoroughly, adding that the grant money will go back into the community, “and in places where it’s not always put.” What was Thoroughly’s first reaction to the news that Peach House had received $5,000? “Honestly, that I’m going to make my rent and be able to pay people what they deserve.” It’s obvious how even a $5,000 grant can make a difference for small nonprofits like Peach House Presents. But it is also true for larger, long-established nonprofits like Sacramento’s Fairytale Town. These grants will make it possible to expand projects like Sacramento Adventure Playground, a free-form outdoor play space built by Fairytale Town at Maple Neighborhood Center in South Sacramento. Steve Caudle, the play manager at Adventure Playground, described it as “kids playing in a junkyard—true free play.” Recipient of a $25,000 grant, the relatively unknown Sacramento Adventure Playground will now bring
pop-up events to local libraries, “so kids can play unencumbered,” said Caudle. Without the grant, he added, “this would not have happened. We’re working hard to keep Adventure Playground up and running, but the $25,000, although wonderful, is not continuous.” Not yet anyway, but the city has verbally committed to continuing the Creative Economy grant program, especially since only 12 percent of applicants received funding this round. “I hope the city continues it,” said Wallace. “Mayor Steinberg says he wants to do it again, but he will need the council’s approval, and I think we need to demonstrate the value to the council in order to do it again. I think we could see a year where we don’t see a bump in funding, but we’ll see what we learn.” For a list of grantees, go to cityofsac.forms.fm/creative-economy. Jordan Venema can be reached at jordan.venema@gmail.com. n
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Not Too Shabby Chalk Paint Classes Home Accessories Sale
The Most Anticipated Show of the Year
Not Too Shabby has been the go-to store in Historic Folsom for painted furniture, home decor and gifts since 2005. Now attendees of the Home & Landscape Expo will enjoy attending one of their free workshops held during the Expo to learn some fun and creative ways to work with the popular Annie Sloan Chalk Paint® Line. New this year will be a retail boutique area of beautiful home accessories at incredible savings.
KOHLER® Bold Experience Tour The Plumbery Luxury Kitchen and Bath Showroom will host the Kohler Bold Experience Tour at this year’s Home & Landscape Expo! This interactive trailer, located just inside the main gates of Cal Expo, offers a one-of-a-kind, hands-on experience with a selection of Kohler showering and toilet products.
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Gary Brown Enterprises, producers of the Northern California Home & Landscape Expo, has developed a reputation for not only having the best 'home show' but also the most landscaping for gardening enthusiasts to enjoy! This year’s Landscape Design Competition will feature current trends in the landscape. Area designers have submitted designs and only a select few are invited to participate (featured above). Be sure to spend some time admiring the elaborate displays and see who the 2018 winner is! Landscape Competition Sponsored by:
Outdoor Living Workshops from top speakers include: EDUCATIONAL • INFORMATIVE • ENTERTAINING Creating Low Maintenance & Sustainable Landscapes with Roberta Walker • New Design Trends with Michael Glassman • Designing Your Outdoor Living Space, Katherine Kawaguchi, NKBA • Edible Landscaping, Japanese Maple Care, Outdoor Lighting Design and much more!
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Attendees to the Northern California Home & Landscape Expo can visit the largest gathering of NARI members and view the "Wall of Possibilities" featuring pictures of award winning projects. Not only will the 2017 Contractor of the Year Award winners be showcased, but there will be additional before and after photos of stunning projects available for viewing.
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Teachable Moment A PASTOR LEARNS WHAT TO PRAY FOR
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ome years ago, I was sitting in my chaplain’s office at the VA hospital in Sacramento when a local pastor stopped by to introduce himself. “I’m Brother So-and-So,” he said, giving me a hand-pumping shake. “I’m spirit-filled.” If you are unfamiliar with church language, “spirit-filled” is a term broadly used by charismatic Christians. Loosely speaking, this adjective describes a higher step beyond “born-again.” Truthfully, I have lots of wonderful charismatic friends. And most of them will tell you that if a person demonstrates the traits of “spiritfilled,” there’s no need to self-identify.
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Suffice it to say, I wished Mr. Brother-Pastor had kept walking down the hall. But instead, the tall, broad and aging man sat down and proceeded to recite his resume. He talked about the prison ministry he ran and boasted of the meals he delivered to the homeless. He buzzed about the radio preaching he did in Fresno and the television ministry he ran in Bakersfield. In between each story, he paused to wait for my “amen,” but alas, I offered only a polite nod. He talked so long and so fast, I was having trouble hearing the spirit. He added endless details about the many years he served as a pastor and the hospital visits he did. He confessed that he pitied me because “we both know government chaplains can’t talk about God as freely as a pastor.” And somewhere in the midst of his pontification, he told me he was praying that God would make him “teachable.” If he noticed my smirk when he spoke the word “teachable,”
he didn’t say. Instead, he abruptly assumed a kneeling position and told me he was going to pray for me. That’s when I decided to answer his prayer and offer him a teachable moment. “Wait just a minute,” I said, motioning him off his knees. “How do you know what to pray for?” “Huh?” he responded. I asked him this because he seemed to be offering his prayer not so much as a gift but as a way to establish his authority. Pastor Pray4U seemed ready to thank God for blessing me by his visit. I continued. “Well, a few minutes ago you mentioned you were praying God would make you teachable, so let me share something with you.” He gave me a glassy stare, as clueless as a calf lookin’ at a new gate. “When I visit patients, I always ask them how I can pray for them. I ask them what they want me to pray for. Would you like to know what you can pray for me?”
With that, he leaned back in his chair and spread his hands open on his lap. “You’re right, chaplain,” he said. “What should I pray?” I asked him to pray for my new supervisor, and then asked that he pray for God to comfort the families of the two hospital employees who’d unexpectedly died the previous week. He shook his head, unsure what to say. However, he eventually prayed, just not in the tone I’d expected. In the face of real needs, his prayer became much less pretentious, his tone much more humble and contrite. But most of all, his personal prayer was also answered. This “spiritfilled” pastor had become much more “teachable.” Recently retired chaplain Norris Burkes is a syndicated columnist, national speaker and book author. He can be reached at comment@ thechaplain.net. n
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The Backyard Restaurant LOCAL CHEF BRINGS ‘POP-UP’ DINING TO PEOPLE’S HOMES
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offers “pop-up” dining experiences at people’s homes. The dinners are multicourse affairs served family-style at communal tables outdoors. Nomad brings everything: tables and chairs, lighting, cooking equipment, food and wine. The host supplies a backyard with space for at least 14 diners, who pay $55 to $85 per person. The diners can be friends of the host or strangers; would-be diners can sign up on Nomad’s website for upcoming dinners. Hosts dine free as a way to thank them for the use of their yard. The menus are seasonally driven. A typical winter menu might include
smoked duck breast on toast; farro salad with Tuscan kale and goat cheese; roast leg of lamb; panroasted trout with prosciutto and pickled cauliflower; truffle risotto cakes; grilled mixed vegetables; and lavender poached pears with blackberry port sauce and toasted macadamia nuts. According to Williams, Nomad is not a traditional catering service. “The primary difference is that we do not take orders from clients or even modify the menus,” he says. “We emphasize and feature what is best in peak seasonality. Plus, by highlighting paired wine offerings
served by stewards and sommeliers, we emulate the essence of five-star dining while maintaining backyard coziness.” Feedback from diners, says Williams, “has been off-the-chart positive. I think it’s because people don’t know what to expect. Once the transformation is complete on their own property, they witness how magical it can become with the string lights and torch lamps, our reclaimedwood tables, and the unique attention, focus and presentation given to both the food and the wine.” Since he began offering the backyard dinners this past fall,
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high-pressure crowd feeding and concentrate on low-key, intimate dining.” Williams partnered with Tim Stagle, a Sacramento auto mechanic and wood craftsman who makes the reclaimed-wood tables that are used at the dinners. “Working and dining in a beautiful natural setting like one’s own backyard, with small groups of intimate friends and family members, is such a fun, relaxed way to focus on each other while dining and drinking all the best that culinary California has to offer,” says Williams. “The whole experience is so therapeutic for client and chef alike.” Williams credits his wife, Kate, for supporting him. “She is the person I trust more than anyone,” he says. “She has been there taking care of me through my worst times. She helps me fulfill my lifelong goal: to live by the saying ‘Do what you love and you never have to work another day in your life.’” The couple loves to host dinner parties at home. Their three children often help out. “Kate makes our guests feel welcome and well cared for,” says Williams. “She is the very model of what I hope to accomplish at Nomad, and she plays a big part in making my dreams a reality.”
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Staying Put INSTEAD OF MOVING, THIS COUPLE REMODELED
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hen Jeff and Deanna Johnston purchased their East Sacramento home five years ago, they thought it was perfect. Built in 1914, it’s an eclectic, stylish mix of Craftsman, American Foursquare and Prairie style. But over time and with daily use, they began contemplating making a few changes. The kitchen felt isolated from the rest of the 2,150-square-foot house. The laundry room was on the first floor; they preferred one on the second floor. Getting to the basement
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required navigating a clunky external featured in the book “Images of outdoor staircase. America: East Sacramento.” While They vacillated, thinking it might the house was being built, the Mellors be prudent to move rather than lived in a shack in the backyard. remodel. “It was going to be a lot There, Rose Mellor was born. She of money to sink into a house that lived in the family home for 91 years, is over 100 years old,” says Jeff. from 1911 to 2002. The shack still But after weighing their stands, now serving as options, they decided to Deanna’s home office. stay, recognizing that it Once they decided to would be difficult to find stay, the Johnstons began another house with the poring over magazines same look and feel. and attending open By Julie Foster Built by the Mellor houses for remodeling Home Insight family, the house is ideas. Their first project
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was revamping the living room fireplace. “It was one big wall of unattractive used brick that had been added sometime over the years,” Jeff says. The insert was old, and there wasn’t a mantel. They sanded down the bricks and applied drywall, tile and a granite hearth. Jeff designed the new mantel and surround. “The goal was to make it look authentic but also make it somewhat modern looking,” he explains. Later, with a recommendation from Deanna’s parents, they enlisted the help of William E. Carter Company,
THE COUPLE ENTERTAINS FREQUENTLY, AND THE NEW KITCHEN REFLECTS THEIR PASSION.
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BUILT BY THE MELLOR FAMILY IN 1914, THE HOUSE IS FEATURED IN THE BOOK “IMAGES OF AMERICA: EAST SACRAMENTO.”
a local design/build firm. Jeff and Deanna planned on staying in the house during construction but soon changed their minds. “Once they started tearing into the plaster, it was so dusty,” says Deanna. “We had a 2-year-old. It was just too much.” Construction took nine months and involved adding 300 square feet to the back of the house. Though the kitchen was the main focus of the project,
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numerous upgrades were added as the project progressed. The couple eliminated the outdoor staircase to the basement and installed a trap door in the kitchen floor. They added a water filtration system, replaced the upstairs flooring and put the laundry room on the second floor, using repurposed cabinets from the kitchen. They also added a spacious walkin closet in the master bedroom and
gave the master bathroom a partial makeover. “Our big thing was we wanted double sinks in here,” says Jeff. The couple entertains frequently, and the new kitchen reflects their passion. A large pantry keeps staples stashed out of sight. Two sinks and under-counter lighting make meal prep a snap. A microwave is tucked discreetly under the counter in its own cabinet. The stellar lineup of appliances includes a Wolf range, a Sub-Zero refrigerator and a nifty Miele steam/ convection oven that produces magazine-perfect meals. “I am still figuring out how to use all the settings,” Jeff says. A creative at heart, Jeff had plenty of input on the remodel. “I have a technical job and love to implement creative ideas,” he says.
The backyard also received a major facelift. The patio was enlarged, and there’s an outdoor kitchen with a barbecue, refrigerator and sink. A new metal arbor defines the space and offers a respite from Sacramento’s summer heat. “It looks natural and is shady all summer long,” says Jeff. Guests now easily navigate between the house and backyard for food, drinks and conversation. “You just open the doors and it turns into one great big outdoor space,” he explains. Jeff and Deanna are happy with their decision to stay put. “We love the neighbors and the neighborhood,” says Jeff. “There is not one thing I would change.” If you know of a home you think should be featured in Inside Publications, contact Cathryn Rakich at crakich@surewest.net. n
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Eating Lessons EDIBLE SAC HIGH TEACHES STUDENTS WHERE THEIR FOOD COMES FROM
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oom E29 at Sacramento High School is lively and slightly messy. Alumna Alicia Alves is presiding over a fragrant pot of pizza sauce simmering on a hot plate. There are dishes in the sink, colorful displays on the walls, and
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the floor could use a scrub. Steps to make macaroni and cheese, with a potato chip topping, are printed on a whiteboard. Three former students— the entrepreneurs behind Sangre del Dragon—carry in boxes filled with hot sauce and sit down to a meal from Carl’s Jr. Over the PA system, someone announces free pizza in the library. A student wanders in from another classroom in search of warm water. Other students come and go. This is Karen Henderson’s classroom, and she takes the messiness in stride. She’s the director of Edible Sac High, a successful
businesswoman and winner of Food Network’s “Cupcake Wars.” Henderson teases the fast-food-eating entrepreneurs (“You brought Carl’s Jr. into my classroom?”), jokes about competing with pepperoni pizza and chili cheese fries, and encourages me to talk to Alves. (“She has a great voice.”) Henderson warmly greets everyone who comes through her door. When she started with the program in 2016, she was “the crazy lady on the bike, with the hat,” she says. Now, students call her Miss Karen and
treat her like a beloved teacher and mentor. She’s an honorary Sac High Dragon, even though she graduated from rival McClatchy High School. Sacramento High School graduate and former mayor Kevin Johnson, along with Alice Waters, owner of Chez Panisse in Berkeley, started Edible Sac High in 2012. It provides “students with a transformational experience,” according to the program’s website, and gives them “skills, tools and confidence to make intelligent choices about the food TO page 52
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Karen Henderson serves food to students in the Edible Sac High program.
FROM page 50 they choose to fuel their bodies, while simultaneously providing the opportunity for teens to develop realworld business skills and acumen.” Sixty students scratched Edible Sac High’s garden out of hardpan soil about six years ago. The garden is located a few steps from Henderson’s classroom, next to the school’s old auditorium. At almost half an acre, the plot holds 20 beds bursting with artichokes, okra, eggplant and lavender, a wood-fired pizza oven, greenhouse, orchard trees and an ever-growing compost pile. “The program doesn’t fit into a tidy box,” Henderson explains. “Sometimes it takes a mess to make something beautiful.” Beauty, it turns out, can be found in that compost pile and a bottle of hot sauce. Sangre del Dragon started as a regular class assignment for former seniors Leo Lopez, Benny
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Peréz and Angel Roque. Under Henderson’s tutelage, theoretical met transformational when the students turned the assignment into hot (very hot) sauce. She hasn’t curbed their fondness for Carl’s Jr., but she doesn’t judge. Beauty also comes in the form of Alves, who is the program’s garden leader. She recalls that when she attended Sac High, “Seeing progress [in the garden] made the school seem bigger.” Alves plans to make eating healthy food “a lifestyle choice.” The program is not integrated into the school’s curriculum and is not an elective. That’s one of Henderson’s goals—one of 62 she came up with when she took over. She had to whittle her list a bit, but she remains optimistic. “I hope that down the road, we can get two or three classes per day,” she says. For now, Edible Sac High primarily functions as an after-school program and drop-in spot for students. There’s garden club on
Tuesday and Thursday, and cooking club on Wednesday. Henderson creates samples—like lemon-grass tea—for students in the classroom’s kitchen, which is less a kitchen and more a culinary challenge. Henderson thrives in challenging circumstances. She attended Sacramento State University on a full scholarship and played NCAA volleyball as a setter for the Hornets while earning a degree in environmental studies. Henderson founded Lila & Sage, a cake and catering company, in 2005, and later opened Cupcake Shop in downtown Murphys. She estimates she made 1,000 wedding cakes over the 10 years she was in business and once made a cake in less than two hours. At 47, she looks like, and has the energy of, an athlete. One student recently told her, “If Mother Nature needed a break, she’d call you.” Henderson won “Cupcake Wars” in 2012 based on recipes she keeps
in her head. This “born baker” knows her way around a commercial kitchen. So why did she give up a successful business and move back to Sacramento? “I want to wake up and feel like I don’t have an elephant on my chest,” she says. Stress and health issues prompted the change. She also wanted to come home. “I can enjoy what I do without the pressure,” she says. “I can sleep at night.” Edible Sac High is funded through donations, grants and fundraising. The annual Seeds of HOPE Harvest Dinner takes place in August and raises about $45,000 to $60,000. Still, Henderson is on a tight budget. On the last Saturday in January, the program will host SacTown VegFest, with food vendors, a petting zoo and likely a sweet treat handmade by Miss Karen. For more information about Edible Sac High, go to ediblesachigh.org.
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Yielding to Reality IT’S TIME TO REFORM A TRAFFIC LAW THAT DOESN’T MAKE SENSE
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t shouldn’t be illegal to do something that causes no harm. But it’s against the law for bicyclists to do something that is safe and sensible: slowing and yielding rather than coming to a complete stop at stop signs. For more than 35 years, everyone riding a bike in Idaho has been allowed to treat stop signs as yields. After determining it is safe, bicyclists in Boise can coast through stops without losing momentum or their balance. Idaho was the only state that
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permitted this commonsense behavior until last year, when Delaware legalized it. (Some cities in Colorado also allow it.) Is California next to change the law? An unusual bipartisan bike bill (AB 1103) would permit the “Idaho stop” here. Idaho and Delaware are fine states, but California is the nation’s most populous and arguably most influential. A change in California would create a powerful precedent for reform across the country. Other states have tried but failed to enact similar legislation. Oregon, Arizona, Colorado, Minnesota, Arkansas, Utah, Oklahoma and Montana all have made attempts. That’s an indication that rolling through stops is not confined to a few places. It’s certainly not rare behavior. A DePaul University
study done in Chicago found that 96 percent of bike riders didn’t come to a total stop at stop signs. Millions of times a day across the United States, riders treat stops as yields without catastrophic results. In Idaho, injury collisions actually decreased after the law was changed and have remained at low levels since. The California bill’s proponents cite a litany of benefits. They suggest existing law is less safe for bike riders since it increases riders’ exposure time to cross traffic. It impedes traffic flow by making everyone wait. Coming to a complete stop makes trips by bike more arduous (it requires expending 25 percent more energy than rolling through) and more time consuming. That makes bike trips less likely. Current stop-sign law turns bike riders into scofflaws. While
the law is rarely enforced, it is subject to arbitrary or unreasonable enforcement, including the possibility of racial profiling. Fines for riders on 20-pound bikes are the same as for motorists in 2-ton SUVs, though the danger created is far less. The bill faces serious opposition. Despite the decades of positive experience in Idaho, the League of California Cities, California Police Chiefs Association, AAA, the Teamsters and members of the disability community all worry about a different outcome in California. They argue that interactions at intersections need to be predictable, not based on subjective decisions by bicyclists. Blind pedestrians recount close calls with bicyclists and worry about getting hit by a rider ignoring TO page 57
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What’s in a Name? AMERICAN RIVER EAGLETS ARE NAMED AND FAMED
SM S By Susan Maxwell Skinner
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he names chosen by Orangevale children for a pair of local bald-eagle babies are on the lips of raptor fans all over the
world. In the space of 12 weeks this past summer, siblings Peekaboo and Poppy fed, flapped and eventually flew before the kindergartners’ eyes. Thanks to photos and social media, thousands of followers around the world experienced the growth of eaglets hatched closest to Sacramento in recorded history. “We walk the American River trail every week,” says teacher Tavia Pagan. “One day in fall (2016), an adult bald eagle flew right over the children. We all knew the national bird. It was extra special to see it right in front of us.”
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With their teachers Becky Page and Tavia Pagan, Orangevale kindergarten pupils display photos of the rare bald eaglets they named Peekaboo and Poppy.
Weeks later, the junior naturalists beheld a huge nest. “It was exciting,” recalls teacher Becky Page. “We decided to keep an eye on things. All through winter, the children looked forward to visiting what we called ‘our eagles.’ One day in spring, we heard a new little sound from the nest. We realized it was a hungry baby.” The snowy-crowned parents began supplying the nest with fish from the river. Eventually, bystanders saw a fluffy head rise to welcome deliveries. “One of the children named him Peekaboo,” says Pagan. “We all started calling him that.” When a second baby crested, the kindergarten teachers asked their classes to volunteer another name. Poppy was the final choice, evoking flower-lined river trails and the magic of a wee head popping above the nest.
Delighted by Facebook reports, raptor lovers around the world soon adopted the names. By pure serendipity, the kindergartners also nailed the eaglets’ genders. Peekaboo, they decided, was a boy and Poppy his little sister. Beak shape—a textbook sex identifier— eventually proved them right. Federal law protects bald eagles. As the chicks grew, the schoolchildren and other trail users were warned against lingering near the raptors’ nesting tree. Cordons went up and park rangers cautioned visitors. “We were still able to do our walks,” says Page. “The children were reverent. They used their whisper voices near the nest. They knew to respect the eagle family’s space. We could see Peekaboo and Poppy when they began to flap their wings. Then we saw one of them on a branch. One day, we saw there was only one baby left.”
Peekaboo fledged first. A week later, his sister flew the coop. For weeks, their dutiful parents continued food deliveries in and near the nesting tree. In summer, the juveniles began hunting on their own. By fall, they had found territory downriver. “The children were concerned about where Peek and Poppy were,” says Pagan. “We encouraged them to use their imagination.” The teachers think the 5- and 6-year-olds’ eagle encounter blessed them with extra appreciation for wildlife. “We hope this experience helps them grow into people who protect nature,” says Pagan. “We protect what we love. And we only love what we experience.” Susan Maxwell Skinner can be reached at sknrband@aol.com. n
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1. Soon after hatching, eaglet Peekaboo gets a fish delivery from Mama Bald. 2. This family portrait shows Mama Bald (right) and her mate proudly surveying their offspring. 3. First to fly, 12-week-old Peekaboo stretches his adult-size wings to their 6-foot span. 4. One of his first flights takes eaglet Peekaboo to a stump near the nesting tree. 5. Newly fledged Peekaboo and Poppy indulge in a sibling spat. 6. Flying the coop, the 16-week-olds head for hunting grounds downriver.
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1110 SHERBURN AVE 5609 JOHNS DR 30 MIRANDA CT 7346 CRANSTON WAY 2797 65TH AVE 1640 60TH AVE 4989 VIRGINIA WAY 1624 65TH AVE 2368 IRVIN WAY 1536 38TH AVE 2824 51ST AVE 2517 S 69TH AVE 1404 WACKER WAY 1421 MOON 2253 68TH AVE 2031 STOVER WAY 7421 CANDLEWOOD WAY 5936 MCLAREN AVENUE 2125 47TH AVE 1133 GLENN HOLLY WAY 2108 MURIETA WAY 2201 63RD AVE 2129 STACIA WAY 5221 DEL RIO RD 2331 WORSHAM AVE 5689 NORMAN WAY 4936 23RD STREET 4758 NORM CIR 5330 25TH ST 1448 65TH AVE 7451 WINKLEY WAY 1429 32ND AVE 1901 OREGON DR 1451 OAKHURST WAY 7572 COSGROVE WAY 3020 LOMA VERDE WAY 4680 LARSON WAY 5895 13TH ST 4941 HELEN WAY
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10 MARK RIVER CT 7665 WINDBRIDGE DR 664 CASTLE RIVER WAY 6573 S. LAND PARK DR 1212 58TH AVE 929 GLIDE FERRY WAY 894 LAKE FRONT DR 1 WINDUBEY CIR 7737 POCKET RD 1208 56TH AVENUE 827 FLORIN RD 7471 SUMMERWIND WAY 7015 RIVERBOAT WAY 1 JENNEY CT 6414 14TH ST 6500 CHETWOOD WAY 6 MARK RIVER CT 91 LAS POSITAS CIR 548 RIVERGATE WAY 1300 LYNETTE WAY 10 LAGUNA SECA CT 22 LAKE VISTA CT 1369 LAS LOMITAS CIR 6716 BREAKWATER WAY 6793 FRATES WAY 6510 13TH ST 1008 ROUNDTREE CT 6747 FREEHAVEN DR 7489 DELTAWIND DR 1182 SILVER RIDGE WAY 6930 GLORIA DR 6685 FORDHAM WAY 778 SKYLAKE WAY
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Take Control HOW TO OVERCOME OVERGROWTH IN YOUR GARDEN
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hen is a plant or garden overgrown? Before we throw ourselves into a January frenzy of pruning and winter cleanup, we should think about what that term really means. Is there an objective definition that says that a plant has grown too big for its own good? Certainly, if you can’t walk down a path, things have gotten out of hand. But how big and densely should plants be allowed to grow?
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Stephen Scanniello, a renowned pruning expert who is curator of the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden in the New York Botanical Garden, deals with this question constantly in the public and private gardens he manages. “Overgrown is in the eye of the beholder,” he says. “It really is a personal choice.” What is your aesthetic? Do you prefer a romantic garden, with large plants overlapping, or bare ground between each plant? It’s up to you. Only occasionally is a plant too big for its own health. Generally, the problem is that it doesn’t perform as you like. Plants need to fit into the space allotted for them, bloom or bear fruit as you wish, and look the way that you want. Scanniello, like most plant experts, is a proponent of putting the right plant into the right place, where it “can do its thing.” You need to learn about the mature size
that a plant will achieve and consider that Sacramento’s mild climate may make it grow bigger than the label indicates. Plan ahead when you plant. Sometimes, however, despite your best efforts, a plant is too big for its spot. Try to find a better location or take control and give it “tough love.” Says Scanniello, “Sometimes you need to be firm with the pruner.” While rose pruning is his specialty, he uses pruning techniques that every gardener should know: thinning out growth to encourage air circulation and to allow sunlight to reach a plant’s interior, and heading back branches to encourage branching. When Scanniello begins work on a rose, the first thing that he does is “clear out the congestion.” A plant that is densely growing in the center looks bulky. “A plant that is thinned out looks better,” he says. He advocates leaving enough space
between branches so that you can put your hand through easily. He also thins any climbing rose that grows on a structure. “It should decorate the fence or trellis, not overwhelm it.” He cuts back cane tips to encourage flowering growth all over the plant. Many people believe that all roses should be annually pruned knee-high or lower, despite guidance by “The New Sunset Western Garden Book” to prune conservatively, removing no more than one fourth to one third of the previous year’s growth. Scanniello specializes in heritage roses, which often grow to majestic sizes. For maximum display and a rose’s health, you should not prune too hard. Scanniello has found that “too much pruning can shorten a plant’s life. Sometimes it’s best to be left alone.”
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Fog Season SOME YEARS WE GET IT; OTHERS YEARS WE DON’T
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hether you think of it as a blanket, a shroud or, in Carl Sandburg’s words, something that comes on little cat feet, fog season is here. The Central Valley is famous for its thick fog known as tule (too-lee) fog. Named after a reed found in local marshes, tule fog can be incredibly dense and can reduce visibility to dangerously short distances. Such fogs have been responsible for horrendous accidents on California freeways, such as a 108-car pileup near Fresno in 2007. Tule fogs can last for days, turning the world gray and dim. If you’re a longtime resident of Sacramento, you may have the feeling that our fogs aren’t quite what they used to be. You may be right. According to research published in 2014, the number of winter “fog events” declined by 46 percent over the previous 32 winters. There is also
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tremendous variation in the amount of fog we get from year to year. Why? The answers are drought, development and climate change. Formation of fog, especially dense tule fog, requires particular conditions. The three main ingredients are wet ground, calm air and cold, clear nights. In Sacramento, we typically experience these three from November to March. Fog is basically a cloud that forms at ground level. It can begin to form any time after the sun goes down. It often thickens during the night and can linger long into the next day. According to meteorologist Bill Rasch of the National Weather Service, most of our local fog is a type called radiation fog. Radiation fog comes after rain, and it depends on a temperature difference between the ground and the air. After sunset, the ground cools by giving off—or radiating—heat (hence the name “radiation fog”). The air immediately above also becomes cooler through its contact with the ground. If the air cools enough, its water vapor will condense into tiny airborne droplets. Collectively, those drops of water are what make fog. This is physically the same phenomenon as when water condenses on the outside of a glass of ice water. (Air near the glass is cooled
to its dew point, and water vapor turns to liquid.) Colder air is denser than warmer air, so the cool air formed at night near the ground tends to form a layer at the bottom (called an inversion). The thickness of the cold-air layer determines how thick the fog is. This in turn depends on how much the air layers are mixing. Fog won’t form when it’s windy because the cool ground air gets stirred with warmer air above and the cold layer is lost. If the air is perfectly calm, the fog layer will be relatively thin and tight against the ground. In a slight breeze, the fog layer will get thicker as the cold air at the ground moves around a little and chills a thicker layer of air. Fog was particularly scarce during the drought years because the ground was so dry. Moisture evaporating from the soil provides the humidity needed for fog to form. The best winters for fog have periodic storms followed by long periods of high pressure (dry days). In very wet years, a lack of clear, cold nights can diminish the number of foggy days even though moisture is abundant. Radiation fog can be very patchy. It’s affected by ground cover, local temperature differences and soil saturation. For example, fog is more
likely to form over a rice paddy than a parking lot. The Central Valley is also subject to another kind of fog. Rather than forming locally, it blows in from the ocean through the Vacaville area and spills into the valley. This tule fog can fill the entire Central Valley from Redding to Bakersfield and is clearly visible from space. The fog can last for days. We say that fog “lifts.” What really happens is daytime sun warms the earth, which heats the lower air and evaporates the lower part of the fog first. Ultimately, fog “burns off” when the lower air has become warm enough to destroy the inversion (separate layers of cool and warm air), and the fog turns back into invisible water vapor. Or a change in the weather that brings wind can mix the inversion layers. Why can Sacramento residents sometimes escape the fog by driving a few miles up highways 80 or 50? Meteorologist Rasch says it’s because cold air sinks and warm air rises. “Fog forms where the coldest air falls down into the valley,” he explains. “In winter, the air actually gets warmer as you go up into the foothills—until you go up a lot.” Amy Rogers also writes pageturning novels. Visit amyrogers.com for details. n
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FROM page 64 Although constant whacking may not be good, sometimes you can rejuvenate a plant by cutting out selected old, unproductive branches to encourage new, vigorous ones to grow. With roses and many other woody plants, it’s best to do that in stages over several years. You can take a more drastic approach on plants such as spirea, hydrangea, hypericum and lilac, cutting them to the ground so that they totally regenerate with new growth. Since some plants have already set their spring flowering buds, or only bloom on last year’s wood, you may need to wait until after they bloom unless you are willing to sacrifice this year’s display. Gardens themselves can become overgrown. Every year, I find that some plants in my garden are being crowded out by overly exuberant neighbors. I clear out space for them or move them to a better spot, making hollow promises to keep better track of them next season. If you aren’t sure what to do with your plants, arm yourself first with
knowledge and think about what you want to achieve. There are great resources online about pruning, and Sunset magazine’s pruning books are clear and specific. You can also attend pruning workshops. On Saturday, Jan. 13, at 9 a.m. and 1 p.m., Scanniello will teach rose pruning in the Historic Rose Garden in the Sacramento Historic City Cemetery at 1000 Broadway. The morning session focuses on climbing roses, and the afternoon on other types of heritage roses. On Saturday, Jan. 20, from 9 a.m. to noon, Sacramento County Master Gardeners will teach how to prune “just about anything,” including fruit and landscape trees, berries and grapes. Then, arm yourself with pruners and take control. Anita Clevenger is a lifetime Sacramento County UC Master Gardener and curator of the Historic Rose Garden. For answers to gardening questions, call the Master Gardeners at (916) 876-5338 or go to sacmg.ucanr.edu. Details about Stephen Scanniello’s workshops are at cemeteryrose.org. n
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Heavy Metal Man SCULPTOR TACKLES A PROJECT CLOSE TO HOME BY DANIEL BARNES ARTIST SPOTLIGHT
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or a man famed for his work with heavy metal, Joe Scarpa doesn’t much look or act like a rock star. Out of his home workshop and driveway in Land Park, the thoughtful, soft-spoken Scarpa has produced some of the most recognizable, beloved and ostentatiously enormous public sculptures in and near the Sacramento area, including the alien spaceship in Southside Park, the giant dog collars at BarkleyVille Dog Park at Feather River Park in Stockton and the “Authors of Our Own Destiny” triptych at North Natomas Library. Scarpa works with all types of materials, but he is best known for his metal sculptures, the product of an early interest in armor and blacksmithing. “Armor making was the height of art and technology in the pre-Renaissance,” says Scarpa from his workshop, a covered area teeming with tools, including some
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of his own design. “The way they manipulated metal was beyond what anyone else was doing.” A giant hunk of repurposed metal sits at the heart of Scarpa’s most famous work, the Airstream trailer turned alien spacecraft placed next to the playground in Southside Park, a piece known as “Port of Call: Earth.” “I think that’s a pretty good window into who I am, combining a little bit of found object, a little bit of humor,” says Scarpa, who considers it his signature work. “Port of Call: Earth” is filled with Easter egg details, from the neon lights that simulate the rocket engines to the miniature aliens crawling all over the craft. There were moving pieces before vandals defaced the sculpture, but it remains a masterwork of oversized whimsy. “It’s just so big and outrageous,” says Scarpa’s friend and mentor, artist Tony Natsoulas. “He could have done a halfway job, and he went all the
way. It’s pretty fabulous, especially before it got vandalized.” Intentional “vandalization” is the central concept behind another notable Scarpa installation, the “Authors of Our Own Destiny” triptych at North Natomas Library. The two key pieces of the triptych sit on Del Paso Boulevard: an enormous open book and a detached metal eye scanning the pages from above. Scarpa conceived a dynamic interactive element for the piece, permitting anyone to repaint the pages at any time. “If you’re driving by that every day, if it was something static, you would see it once and never look at it again,” says Scarpa. “But making it a public graffiti wall, now you see something different.” It took a while for the public to catch on, and two weeks after installation, the pages remained blank. Scarpa brought in a friend to spray-paint some designs, and panicked library officials called
him with the “bad” news. “I told them, ‘That’s exactly what it’s for. Everybody should be tagging it.’” While Scarpa customarily works for competitive commissions, his latest work is a labor of love. Leonardo da Vinci Middle School in Hollywood Park, the alma mater for both of his children, needed a new security fence, and the school was familiar to Scarpa from his volunteer work. “I love the school, so I really wanted to do something nice for them,” says Scarpa. “They gave me free rein to do whatever I wanted.” Scarpa designed the security fence to reflect the school’s model of integrated thematic instruction, dividing it into three themed panels (science and technology; the tree of life; and art and architecture) attached to a giant gate filled with da Vinci’s drawings. “There are so many pieces in that fence, so many designs, you won’t see everything the first time,” says Scarpa.
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during the Superfund boom of the 1980s, but the industry had dried up by the late 1990s. By then, Scarpa had made enough connections to quit his day job, and the rest is art history. Although Scarpa doesn’t have any major pieces under construction at the moment, he is always working on something, either assisting another
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“It’s hard to be a successful artist without the support of someone else,” says Scarpa, who raised the kids and pursued his art while his wife worked during the day. “You need the support of friends and family, no matter what level you’re at.” To see examples of Joe Scarpa’s work, go to jscarpa.com. n
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These are grown locally year-round, but they are particularly crisp, juicy and mild in flavor when grown in cool weather. They come in multiple varieties, including daikon, watermelon and white icicle. inc To e eat: Serve with butter and salt for a French-inspired hors d’oeuvre. hor
SWEET POTATO This large, starchy, sweettasting root vegetable is a great source of betacarotene. To eat: Roast the flesh and use instead of pumpkin for a delicious Southern pie.
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This small citrus fruit has few seeds and a loose, puffy orange skin that peel, making it a popular addition to children’s lunchboxes. is easy to p Eat it: Peel and enjoy.
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This leafy green-, purple or white-colored plant is low in calories and can be pickled, fermented, steamed, stewed, braised or eaten raw. To eat: For a fresh slaw, slice thinly and toss with poppy seed dressing.
BROCCOLI MEYER LEMON This citrus fruit is yellower and rounder than a regular lemon, and its flavor is much sweeter. To eat: Use the juice to make a sweet curd or a nicely flavored vinaigrette.
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This healthful cruciferous vegetable is available much of the year, from September through June. It’s a member of the cabbage family. To eat: Steam or roast at high heat in the oven with olive oil and salt.
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“Drag Dinner: A Night of Drag and Comedy” LoLGBT Sunday, Jan. 28, 7 p.m. Punch Line Sacramento, 2100 Arden Way • punchlinesac.com Get ready for some outrageous laughs as LoLGBT presents a night of comedy and drag hosted by local drag comedian Suzette Veneti. Local comics John Ross and Jason Bargert will share the stage with East Bay comedian Chelsea Bearce and celebrated drag queens Apple Adams, Mercury Rising, Mae Heffiman and more. Come in drag for a chance to win a prize, enjoy a themed menu and stay afterward for priceless photo-ops.
Mercury Rising willl perform at Punch Line on Jan. 28.
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“E. Charlton Fortune: The Colorful Spirit” Crocker Art Museum Jan. 28–April 22 216 O St. • crockerart.org This new exhibition features plein-air landscapes from California artist E. Charlton Fortune (1885–1969), who came of age during a time when women began to redefine their roles in society.
“Little Stones” National Council of Jewish Women Sacramento Sunday, Jan. 7, 1 p.m. Kashenberg Ostrow Hayward Library and Cultural Center 2300 Sierra Blvd. • ncjwsac.org The award-winning documentary film “Little Stones”— directed and produced by Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Sophia Kruz—follows Brazilian graffiti artist Panmela Castro, Senegalese rap singer Sister Fa, Indian dance therapist Sohini Chakraborty and fashion designer Anna Taylor as they use their art to combat violence against women.
Author Mark Noce will be at The Avid Reader this month.
Author Mark Noce in Conversation The Avid Reader Saturday, Jan. 13, 5 p.m. 1945 Broadway • avidreaderonbroadway.com The author of historical fiction novel “Between Two Fires” returns to Sacramento to discuss his recently released sequel, “Dark Winds Rising.”
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The documentary "Little Stones" will play at the Kashenberg Ostrow Hayward Library and Cultural Center. Photo courtesy of Sophia Kru.
VAPA Gala
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C.K. McClatchy High School Saturday, Jan. 20, 6 p.m.
Crocker Art Museum Sunday, Jan. 14, 3 p.m.
3066 Freeport Blvd. • ckmvapa.org Celebrate the opening of C.K. McClatchy High School’s new 800-seat, state-of-the-art theater and Visual and Performing Arts (VAPA) wing at this black-tie event featuring food and drink (no alcohol), performances, art shows, a silent auction and commemorative swag.
216 O St. • crockerart.org Clarinetist Sandra McPherson, cellist Susan Lamb Cook and pianist John Cozza will perform classical music from the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries, featuring works by Mozart, Brahms and Russian-born Swiss composer Paul Juon.
James Baker on Autosomal DNA Genealogical Association of Sacramento Wednesday, Jan. 17, 12:15 p.m. Belle Cooledge Library, 5600 South Land Park Drive • gensac.org The GAS monthly meeting will feature speaker James Baker, who will explain autosomal DNA. It is, as he describes it, “so good, you can hardly believe it.” The meeting is free and open to the public.
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“The Nether” Capital Stage Jan. 24–Feb. 25 2215 J St. • capstage.org This award-winning new play by American playwright Jennifer Haley is a sci-fi crime drama set in the near future.
THEATRE GUIDE SOMETHING ROTTEN
Community Center Theater Jan 3 – Jan 7 1301 L St, Sac 808-5181 SCCBOTtickets@cityofsacramento.org With 10 Tony® nominations including Best Musical, Something Rotten! is “Broadway’s big, fat hit!” (NY Post). Set in 1595, this hilarious smash tells the story of two brothers who set out to write the world’s very first musical! With its heart on its ruffled sleeve and sequins in its soul, it’s “The Producers + Spamalot + The Book of Mormon. Squared!” (New York Magazine).
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Organ & Harpsichord Recital St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Sunday, Jan. 28, 2 p.m. 1430 J St. • stpaulssacramento.org Listen in as Nancy Metzger, St. Paul’s music director, plays a handmade copy of a historic Flemish instrument. The pipe organ at St. Paul’s is one of the oldest on the West Coast. A donation of $10 is suggested. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com. n
Harris Center for the Arts Jan 5 – Jan 7 10 College Pkwy, Folsom 608-6888 HarrisCenter.net It began as one man’s story…became everyone’s music…and is now Broadway’s musical. Motown the Musical is the true American dream story of Motown founder Berry Gordy’s journey from featherweight boxer to the heavyweight music mogul who launched the careers of Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Smokey Robinson and many more. Motown shattered barriers; shaped our lives and made us all move to the same beat. Featuring classic songs such as “My Girl” and “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough,” experience the story behind the music in the record-breaking hit, Motown the Musical!
WALKIN’ AFTER MIDNIGHT: BROADWAY LOVES COUNTRY Sacramento Theatre Company Jan 18 – Jan 21 1419 H St, Sac 443-6722 SacTheatre.org
THE WHITE ROSE
Pamela Trokanski Performing Arts Theatre Jan 4 – Jan 21 2720 Del Rio Place, Davis (484) 735-2494 AcmeTheatre.net It’s 1942. In Germany, dissent is forbidden and the Gestapo stands ready to execute those who resist the Nazis. And yet, a handful of college students calling themselves the White Rose are circulating pamphlets that criticize the Führer. When 21-year-old Sophie Scholl is arrested in Munich with her brother Hans, a local policeman investigating the case of the White Rose has to determine if they are confused children, dangerous rebels, or idealistic patriots.
CIRCA: CANIVAL OF THE ANIMALS Mondavi Center – Jackson Hall Jan 28 501 Alumni Ln, Davis (530) 754-2787 MondaviArts.org
Feathers, fur and fins—oh my! Circa’s fanciful production features creatures of both land and sea, who tumble, fly, leap and spin their way through the many wondrous worlds of the animal kingdom. Inspired by Camille Saint-Saëns’ beloved musical suite, Carnival of the Animals whisks audiences away on a thrilling circus escapade through the talents of seven acrobats, two singers, four musicians and delightful animations that bring to life juggling zebras, street-smart elephants and somersaulting kangaroos.
Broadway takes inspiration from many popular genres, and country music is no exception. In STC’s first tribute to this unique musical sound, enjoy showtunes influenced by honky-tonk, bluegrass, Americana, gospel, and contemporary rock from musicals like Big River, 9 to 5, Bright Star, Million Dollar Quartet, and many more. The atmosphere is intimate and relaxing. Beer and wine is available, as are light appetizers of fruit, cheese, and desserts. Parental Guidance: Appropriate for Middle School & Up
California artist E. Charlton Fortune will be on exhibit at Crocker Art Museum.
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he term “family restaurant” does not come with many positive connotations. When I hear the term, I think of national chains that do more reheating than cooking. I think of places that serve conspicuously inexpensive steaks, consider chopped iceberg lettuce a salad and have a signature sauce that is invariably one ingredient away from Thousand Island dressing. I don’t disparage these places, mind you. They have their place on the dining scene. They’re cheap, accessible and nearly always open. They’re safe bets for the pickiest eater in your family, and they’ll usually serve you more food than you can eat at one sitting. But when I hear a restaurant with a long and considerable reputation referred to as a family restaurant, it gives me pause. Am I being too judgmental? Should I widen my expectations of what a family restaurant can be? Or is the description just not applicable? When it comes to Evan’s Kitchen and Catering, the answer might be “yes” to all three questions. The restaurant, opened in 2004 by local chef Evan Elsberry, sets new standards for what a family restaurant can be. Located in a nondescript storefront in East Sacramento’s 57th Street Antique Mall, it looks simple from the outside, but the food is delivered with skill, care and a touch of panache. The most popular items on the menu are familiar American dishes without pretension. They’re served on plain white dishes alongside sturdy, simple flatware. The napkins are cloth. Let’s start with breakfast. If you like anything smothered in gravy, get it. The gravy is made from scratch and undeniably bad for your health. Unlike most short-order places that
“craft” their gravy from a powdered mix, Evan’s Kitchen serves layered, fennel-rich sausage gravy that you’ll remember. Or grab a stack of pancakes with real maple syrup. No fake stuff here. Want something a little different? Try Lauren’s Southwestern Benny, a pumped-up eggs Benedict featuring corncakes, roasted pasilla chile and chipotle hollandaise. Each house-made component is a spot-on execution. There’s no doubt that the folks in the kitchen know what they’re doing and care enough to do it. For lunch, there are no surprises. Sandwiches, burgers and salads dominate the menu. But each offering is, again, much better than you expect. A grilled seafood salad with prawns, scallops and salmon for $14.75 is not only a good value but a lovely lunch. A burger topped with a bucket-load of fried onion strings is probably big enough for two. The steak sandwich and prime rib sandwich both belong in the pantheon of local steak sandos. Evan’s offerings stand toe to toe with those of local favorites Jamie’s Broadway Grille and Club Pheasant. In fact, these restaurants share more than just a good sandwich; they feel like they’re cut from the same cloth.
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hit the mark. As with all the entrees, portions are hearty and won’t leave you wanting. If you somehow have room, desserts are also simple and excellent. Evan’s Kitchen puts out some of the best apple pie this side of Apple Hill. And lastly, if you happen to be at Evan’s on Friday, the weekly clam chowder is one of the best in town and shouldn’t be missed. Whether you call it a family restaurant or not, whether you’re looking for something upscale or down-home, Evan’s will hit you in the right spot: the stomach. Evan’s Kitchen and Catering is at 855 57th St.; (916) 452-3896; chefevan.com. Greg Sabin can be reached at gregsabin@hotmail.com. n
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Chocolate Fish Coffee Roasters 400 P St. • (916) 400-4204 Small-batch coffees brewed from beans harvested within the past 12 months • chocolatefishcoffee.com
de Vere’s Irish Pub 1521 L St. • (916) 231-9947 L D $$ Full Bar Family-run authentic Irish pub with a classic menu to match • deverespub.com
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L D $-$$ Beer/Wine Cuisine from Japan, Thailand, China ad Vietnam. • majongs.com
1022 Second St. • (916) 441-2211
Grange Restaurant & Bar 926 J St. • (916) 492-4450 B L D $$$ Full Bar Simple, seasonal, soulful • grangesacramento.com
L D $$ Full Bar American bistro favorites with a modern twist in a casual Old Sac setting • ten22oldsac.com
Willie’s Burgers 110 K St. • (916) 573-3897 L D $ Great burgers and more • williesburgers.com
Hock Farm Craft & Provision 1415 L St. • (916) 440-8888 L D $$-$$ Full Bar Celebration of the region’s rich history and bountiful terrain • hockfarm.com
R STREET Café Bernardo 1431 R St. • (916) 930-9191
South 2005 11th St. • (916) 382-9722 L D $-$$ Beer/Wine Timeless traditional Southern cuisine, counter service • weheartfriedchicken.com
B L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Casual California cuisine with counter service • cafebernardo.com
Fish Face Poke Bar 1104 R St. Suite 100 • (916) 706-6605
OLD SAC Fat City Bar & Cafe
Express Lunch served Monday - Friday 11am - 3pm | Daily Specials Happy Hour: Mon - Fri 3 - 6pm
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L D $$ Beer/Sake Humble Hawaiian poke breaks free • fishfacepokebar.com
1001 Front St. • (916) 446-6768
Iron Horse Tavern
L D $$-$$$ Full Bar American cuisine served in a casual historic Old Sac location • fatsrestaurants.com
1800 15th St. • (916) 448-4488
Rio City Cafe
L D $-$$ Full Bar Gastro-pub cuisine in a stylish industrial setting • ironhorsetavern.net
1110 Front St. • (916) 442-8226
Magpie Cafe
L D $$ Full Bar Bistro favorites with a distinctively Sacramento feeling in a riverfront setting • riocitycafe.com
1601 16th St. • (916) 452-7594 L D $$-$$$ Wine/Beer Seasonal menu using the best local ingredients • magpiecafe.com
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Shoki Ramen House
The Red Rabbit
1201 R St. • (916) 441-0011
2718 J St. • (916) 706-2275
L D $$ Beer/Wine Japanese fine dining using the best local ingredients • shokiramenhouse.com
L D $$ Full Bar All things local contribute to a sophisticated urban menu • theredrabbit.net
THE HANDLE
Paragary’s
The Rind
L D $$ Full Bar Fabulous Outdoor Patio.,California cuisine with a French touch • paragarys.com
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HAPPY HOUR SPECIALS AND TRADITIONAL CAVIAR SERVICE
1801 L St. #40 • (916) 441-7463 L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Cheese-centric menu paired with select wine and beer • therindsacramento.com
Zocolo 1801 Capitol Ave. • (916) 441-0303 L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Patio Regional Mexican cuisine served in an authentic artistic setting • zocolosacramento.com
1401 28th St. • (916) 457-5737
LUNCH,DINNER,
2831 S St. • (916) 444-7711 L D $-$$ Beer/Wine Urban winery and tasting room with a creative menu using local sources • revolution-wines.com
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F E AT U R I N G L O C A L C AV I A R 1131 K STREET DOWNTOWN SACRAMENTO 916.443.3772
2319 K St. • (916) 737-5767
MIDTOWN 2801 Capitol Ave. • (916) 455-2422 L D $$$ Full Bar Upscale Northern Italian cuisine served a la carte • biba-restaurant.com
Café Bernardo
WWW.ELLA DINING ROOM AND BAR.COM
L D $$ Beer/Sake Inventive Japansese-inspired seafood dishes • skoolonkstreet.com
Biba Ristorante Suzie Burger 2820 P St. • (916) 455-3500 L D $ Beer/Wine Classic burgers, cheesesteaks, shakes, chili dogs, and other tasty treats • suzieburger. com
2726 Capitol Ave. • (916) 443-1180
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Vibe Health Bar
Willie’s Burgers
3515 Broadway • (916) 382-9723
2415 16th St. • (916) 444-2006
B L D $-$$ Clean, lean & healthy snacks. Acai bowls are speciality. Kombucha on tap • vibehealthbar.com
L D $ Great burgers and more. Open until 2:30 am on Friday and Saturday • williesburgers.com
LAND PARK
CURTIS PARK
Casa Garden Restaurant
Café Dantorele
2760 Sutterville Rd. • (916) 452-2809
2700 24th St. • (916) 451-2200
B L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Casual California cuisine with counter service • cafebernardo.com
Tapa The World
Centro Cocina Mexicana
L D $-$$ Wine/Beer/Sangria Spanish/world cuisine in a casual authentic atmosphere, live flamenco music • tapathewworld.com
L $$ Wine/Beer • Lunch menu varies weekly. Operated by volunteers to benefit Sacramento Children’s Home. • casagarden.org
B L D $$ Beer/Wine Outdoor Patio Seasonal menu features crepes and more in a colorful setting • cafedantorels.com
Thai Basil
Freeport Bakery
Pangaea Bier Café
2730 J St. • (916) 442-2552 L D $$ Full Bar Patio Regional Mexican cooking served in a casual atmosphere • paragarys.com • centrococina.com
2115 J St. • (916) 442-4353
2431 J St. • (916) 442-7690
1725 I St. • (916) 469-9574
L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Patio Housemade curries among their authentic Thai specialties • thaibasilrestaurant.com
L D $-$$ Full Bar American eats, including BBQ, local brews & weekend brunch • easyoni.com
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Federalist Public House 2009 N St. • (916) 661-6134 L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Wood-fired pizzas in an inventive urban alley setting • federalistpublichouse.com
Hot Italian 1627 16th St. • (916) 444-3000 L D $$ Full Bar Authentic hand-crafted pizzas with inventive ingredients, gelato • hotitalian.net
Mulvaney’s Building & Loan 1215 19th St. • (916) 441-6022 L D $$$ Full Bar Modern American cuisine in an upscale historic setting
2000 Capitol Ave. • (916) 498-9891 L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Patio Fine South of France and Northern Italian cuisine in a chic neighborhood setting • waterboyrestaurant.com
2966 Freeport Blvd. • (916) 442-4256 $ Award-winning baked goods and cakes for eat in or take out • freeportbakery.com
2743 Franklin Blvd. • (916) 454-4942 L D Sunday Brunch $$ Beer/Wine Outdoor Patio A curated tap list dedicated to only the finest of brews • pangaeabiercafe.com
Iron Grill 13th St. and Broadway • (916) 737-5115 L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Upscale neighborhood steakhouse • irongrillsacramento.com
Jamie’s Broadway Grille 427 Broadway • (916) 442-4044
OAK PARK La Venadita
L D $$ Full Bar Featured on Diners, DriveIns and Dives. Dine in or take out since 1986 • jamiesbroadwaygrille.com
3501 Third Ave. • (916) 400-4676 L D $$ Full Bar Authentic Mexican cuisine with simple tasty menu in a colorful historic setting • lavenaditasac.com
Riverside Clubhouse 2633 Riverside Blvd. • (916) 448-9988 L D $$ Full Bar Upscale American cuisine served in a contemporary setting • riversideclubhouse.com
Oak Park Brewing Company 3514 Broadway • (916) 660-2723 L D $$ Full Bar Award-winning beers and a creative pub-style menu in an historic setting • opbrewco.com
Taylor’s Kitchen 2924 Freeport Blvd. • (916) 443-5154 D $$$ Wine/Beer Dinner served Wed. through Saturday. Reservations suggested but walk-ins welcome • taylorskitchen.com
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Legendary Chinese Cuisine. Unparalleled Service.
Lunch M-F
4920 Folsom Blvd. 10am–9pm 452-5516
Dinner Served Nightly Martini Hour 3pm-6pm
Shoki Ramen House 2530 21st St. • (916) 454-2411 L D $$ Beer/Wine Japanese fine dining using the best local ingredients • shokiramenhouse.com
A Sacramento tradition since 1939
806 L Street | Downtown Sacramento | 916-442-7092 | frankfats.com
Photo credit: Rachel Valley
Gunther’s Ice Cream
L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Gourmet Chineses food for 32 years • Dine in and take out • themandarinrestaurant. com
Pita Kitchen
L D $ Long-standing landmark with retro decor supplying homemade ice cream in a variety of flavors plus soup and sandwiches • gunthersicecream.com
2989 Arden Way • (916) 480-0560
ARDEN AREA
Roxy Restaurant & Bar
Bella Bru Café
B L D $$-$$$ Full Bar American cuisine with a Western touch in a creative upscale atmosphere • roxyrestaurantandbar.com
5038 Fair Oaks Blvd. • (916) 485-2883 B L D $-$$ Full bar Casual, locally owned European style café with table service from 5 pm and patio dining • bellabrucafe.com
Cafe Bernardo B L D $$ Full Bar Outdoor Patio Seasonal, European-influenced comfort food • paragarys.com
Café Vinoteca 3535 Fair Oaks Blvd. • (916) 487-1331 L D $$ Full Bar Italian bistro in a casual setting • cafevinoteca.com
Ettore’s Bakery & Cafe 2376 Fair Oaks Blvd. • (916) 482-0708 B L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Patio European-style gourmet café with salads, soup, spit-roasted chicken, and desserts in a bistro setting • ettores.com
The Kitchen 2225 Hurley Wy. • (916) 568-7171 D $$$ Wine/Beer Five-course gourmet demonstration dinner by reservation only • thekitchenrestaurant.com
La Rosa Blanca 2813 Fulton Ave. • (916) 484-6104 L D $$ Full Bar Fresh Mexican food served in a colorful family-friendly setting • larosablancarestaurant.com
Luna Lounge 5026 Fair Oaks Blvd. • (916) 485-2883 B L D $-$$ Full neighborhood bar serving dinner nightly. Open at 11 am daily. Weekend breakfast • lunaloungeandbar.com
Matteo’s Pizza & Bistro 5132 Fair Oaks Blvd. • (916) 779-0727 L D $$ Full Bar Neighborhood gathering place for pizza, pasta and grill dishes • pizzamatteo.com
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4321 Arden Way • (916) 488-4794
2801 Franklin Blvd. • (916) 457-6646
515 Pavilions Lane • (916) 922-2870
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The Mandarin Restaurant
L D $$ Authentic Mediterranean cuisine made from scratch on site • pitakitchenplus.com
2381 Fair Oaks Blvd. • (916) 489-2000
Ristorante Piatti 571 Pavilions Lane • (916) 649-8885 L D $$ Full Bar Contemporary Italian cuisine in a casually elegant setting • piatti.com
Sam’s Hof Brau 2500 Watt Ave. • (916) 482-2175 L D $$ Wine/Beer Fresh quality meats roasted daily • originalsamshofbrau.com
Thai House 527 Munroe in Loehmann’s • (916) 485-3888 L D $$ Wine/Beer Featuring the great taste of Thai traditional specialties • sacthaihouse.com
Willie’s Burgers 5050 Fair Oaks Blvd. • (916) 488-5050 L D $ Great burgers and more • williesburgers.com n
Art Preview GALLERY ART SHOWS IN JANUARY
“(WAL)PAPER” is a solo show of paintings by Tyson Anthony Roberts. It runs Jan. 5 to 31 at WAL Public Market Gallery. 1104 R St.
Sparrow Gallery presents “Moments in Time,” featuring works of mixed-media artist Kerri Warner, from Jan. 10 to Feb. 2. Shown above: “Tea Time,” a mixedmedia collage. 1021 R St.; sparrowgallerysacramento.com
The 13th edition of “Animal House,” an exhibit of animal-themed art, runs Jan. 3 to 28 at Sacramento Fine Arts Center. The show includes paintings, drawings, photography and sculpture selected from hundreds of works submitted from across the country. Shown above: “Hollywood Star” by Sandy Lindblad. 5330 Gibbons Drive; sacfinearts.org
ARTHOUSE on R presents “Invocation,” featuring the works of interdisciplinary artist Steph Rue, from Jan.12 to Feb. 6. The show is a series of drawings and books exploring contemplative prayer practices in the Christian tradition. Shown above: “Invocations 9.” 1021 R St.; arthouseonr.com
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