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EAST SACRAMENTO CHARMER East Sacramento charm at it’s best! Relax on the front porch chatting with the neighbors, walking to restaurants, coffee shops and the park nearby! Vintage Craftsman style inside with wood Àoors, pocket doors, high ceilings and handsome wood moldings. The large remodeled kitchen and dining room perfect for entertaining. Barbecue on the back deck. $699,000 DAVID KIRRENE 916-531-7495

WALK TO THE PARK Updated home with remodeled kitchen featuring Wolf oven, Miele dishwasher and soft close drawers. Downstairs master suite, of¿ce with outside access and 3 bedrooms upstairs. Fireplace in living room and double French doors in family/dining room make this home an entertainers delight. 1/4 basement and 2 car-garage and outdoor spaces. $975,000 NATHAN SHERMAN 916-969-7379

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NEW IN McKINLEY PARK New construction in McKinley Park is waiting for you to call home! 4 bedroom 3½ bath with amazing Àoorplan offering open concept kitchen and family room, as well as a huge dining and formal living area. Upstairs Master suite has a fabulous bath and closet space. Located on a great street...walk to restaurants, shops and McKinley Park! $1,290,000 JAMIE RICH 916-612-4000

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BEAUTIFUL REMODEL IN FAB FORTIES The main house has new plumbing and electrical throughout. New roof. New kitchen and baths. Floors and walls are re¿nished. Added inside laundry hookups in basement. For energy ef¿ciency - added attic insulation and ceiling fans. Guest/pool house is an additional 570sf - fully remodeled with new plumbing, electrical and AC. New landscaping $1,195,000 TIM COLLOM 916-247-8048

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NEAR McKINLEY PARK Freshly painted inside and out; new presidential comp roof; newly remodeled bath; new LED recessed lighting throughout home; sun room with Jalousie windows (great for ventilation and backyard view). Above the 2-car garage is a freshly carpeted and painted of¿ce/hobby room. Half basement. $649,000 TIM COLLOM 916-247-8048, KIM SQUAGLIA 916-205-2681

L STREET LOFTS Located at 18th and L Streets, and surrounded by top restaurants, galleries, wine shops, coffee houses and more. Unit 413 is a corner Crest loft model that provides ample living space, high ceilings, wall to wall windows, a gourmet kitchen full of light, and tons of storage. Plus an extra half bath and remote bedroom area with walk-in closet. $699,000 JOHN BYERS 916-607-0313

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CLASSIC TUDOR IN ALHAMBRA TRIANGLE This 2 bedroom home sits on a tree lined street with a private alley and offers a brand new kitchen with white cabinetry and quartz countertops. A classic 1928 built-in adorns the dining room which Àows through to the living room with crown molding and recessed ceilings. Hardwood Àoors throughout. The large backyard offers space to entertain! $410,000 TINA SUTER 916-247-9262

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HIGH-WATER CRAFTSMAN Oh sooo cute! This 2 bedroom 2 bath has a commanding view from the front porch and living room. The well lit interior has 9 foot coved ceilings with recessed lighting, polished wood Àoors with over-sized base boards and beautiful wood details. The sunny kitchen and entertaining area is lit by skylight and ornamental pendants, and opens to the back patio. $549,000 DAVID KIRRENE 916-531-7495

EAST SACRAMENTO CLASSIC Enjoy this 3 bedroom, East Sacramento home with 1284 sq ft and a detached 1-car garage with tandem workshop. The hardwood Àoors sparkle throughout the house which includes a recently updated kitchen with cabinetry and granite, ¿replace, vintage tile in bath which includes a full tub and stall, spacious master bedroom, generous backyard! $572,000 PATICK VOGELI 916-207-4515

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am especially grateful that libraries still have a special place in our communities. As a publisher, I admit a fairly large bias toward the written word. Reading for both learning and enjoyment has always played a huge role in my life.

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Our beloved Sacramento Central Library is 100 years old this year. My husband and I attended the celebration in April, and I was honored to play a small part in the event. My dear friend, local businesswoman and philanthropist Rita Gibson, recently purchased an original typed screenplay of Greta Gerwig’s film “Lady Bird.” Gibson decided to donate it to the Sacramento Room, located on the second floor of the 100-year-old Central Library and home to the library’s special collections.

The screenplay was signed by Gerwig, who wrote and directed the film, and actress Saoirse Ronan, who played Christine “Lady Bird” McPherson in the movie, which is set in Sacramento. At the 2018 Golden Globe Awards, the film won the Best Motion Picture award for a musical or comedy, while Ronan won Best Performance by an Actress in the same category. The movie also captured five Oscar nominations. Gibson made the donation in my honor because, as she said at the centennial event, “My friend, Cecily, has been telling us the interesting

and compelling stories of hundreds of Sacramentans—and doing it for more than two decades now.” I was both delighted and humbled by the gesture. Gibson purchased the script at an auction to benefit Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals, one of many charitable causes she supports. Gibson, who grew up in Sacramento, loved the movie and saw it numerous times. It reminded her of her own path to young adulthood. “When it came up at auction, my first thought was the bidding would go through the roof and well beyond my budget,” she said. “But gratefully, not many in

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attendance understood the value. So my modest bid won, but I really had no idea what to do with it at the time. “Once I had it home, I thought its place is where, hopefully, some young Sacramento women with big dreams might go and find inspiration to do some great thing of their own.” She contacted library director Rivkah Sass, who was over the moon about the gift. “We are so excited and grateful for Rita’s gift and love that is in honor of a local woman publisher,” said Sass. So special is the “Lady Bird” connection to Sacramento that we included a whole page of photographs of “Lady Bird” movie locations in the second edition of our “Inside Sacramento” book, out later this summer. Sass herself was recently bestowed a local honor. She was named one of the 2018 Women Who Mean Business award winners by Sacramento Business Journal. She’s a powerhouse librarian and an exceptional leader. She has headed the library since 2009, when she inherited an organization that had been weakened by corruption and poor management. I was on the Women Who Mean Business judging panel this year. As CEO of California’s fourth largest library system, overseeing operations in 28 branches, Sass stood out among more than 100 nominees. Her strong community connections—along with her focus on lifelong learning and literacy efforts—have made her a standout leader far beyond Sacramento. At the centennial celebration, Amanda DeWilde, archivist of the

Sacramento Room, talked a bit about the library’s history. Sacramento’s first library opened in 1879 with a collection of around 6,000 volumes. It was built with money donated by Scottish businessman and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. By the 1910s, the library had grown to more than 120,000 volumes. “It became clear that the library deserved a grander home,” DeWilde said. In 1912, the city applied to the Carnegie Corporation for money to construct a new library. The city wanted its public library to join the new City Hall in forming a civic center around a park, now known as Cesar Chavez Plaza. A $100,000 grant was approved in 1914. The city held a competition to design the new library, and Loring P. Rixford of San Francisco was awarded the contract. The new three-story Italian Renaissance building would be built on I Street between 8th and 9th streets. When the terra-cotta plant assigned to create the building’s exterior burned down, Gladding McBean stepped in to complete the façade, which was made of pressed brick. Inside, the walls were white plaster; cork carpets were laid on the floor to deaden sound. A winding staircase connecting the three floors was constructed of marblelike Magnolith flooring, and a fountain at the base of the stairs was built of marble from the bed of the Tiber River in Italy. From the library’s Romanesque windows, one could see trees in the park and the top of City Hall. The building opened to the public in 1918. “That’s just as the Spanish

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flu is taking off and less than a month before the armistice ending World War I,” DeWilde pointed out. In the late 1980s, Sacramento’s main city library had once again outgrown its space, and a new Central Library was built around the original Carnegie structure, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. Shortly thereafter, DeWilde said, the second floor of the old Carnegie library was transformed into the Sacramento Room. The newly formed Sacramento Public Library Foundation raised private money to renovate the room, which opened

in 1995. The room’s mission is to preserve and share Sacramento history. The historic library building serves as a very fitting home for Sacramento’s special collections. At the presentation of the “Lady Bird” screenplay, Sass said there was no more fitting gift for a room that holds so much of our city’s history. “The movie shared with the world the aspects of Sacramento that we all love,” Sass concluded.

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McKinley Village Park Dedicated URBAN POCKET PARK WAS NAMED IN MEMORY OF PIONEERING ART GALLERY FOUNDER

n April, Mayor Darrell Steinberg and City Councilmembers Steve Hansen and Jeff Harris joined with community leaders and neighbors to dedicate a new urban pocket park in memory of Sacramento arts leader and pioneer Michael Himovitz. The dedication kicked off a weekend-long

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public celebration of McKinley Village Art Walk, a unique collection of public art created by local artists and located in the parks and public spaces of the McKinley Village neighborhood. “Michael Himovitz was an extraordinary civic leader who made pioneering and lasting contributions to the Sacramento arts scene,” said Steinberg. Himovitz founded the pathbreaking Himovitz Solomon Gallery and Himovitz Gallery; helped create Second Saturday, one of Sacramento’s signature art events; and sponsored a series of exchange exhibits that brought international artists to Sacramento and allowed local

artists to show their work abroad. “He strengthened the local arts community in many ways, including guiding and promoting the careers of local artists,” said McKinley Village developer Phil Angelides. Michael Himovitz Park is one of five intimate urban pocket parks located within McKinley Village. These pocket parks were designed as gathering places where residents can come together to relax, mingle and enjoy art. Located within the park is the newly completed publicart installation “Wildlife on a Ferris Wheel” by James Piskoti, emeritus professor of fine art at Stanislaus State University.

ROSE GARDEN PHOTO CONTEST Friends of East Sacramento is sponsoring the fifth annual McKinley Rose Garden photography contest. The contest is open to both amateur and professional photographers. The only rule is that photos must be taken by the end of June. “Our goal is to ask neighborhood talent to help us put together a portfolio of photographs to help market the rose garden on our nonprofit’s website used to book wedding rentals,” says Cecily Hastings, the group’s co-founder. “We will also be featuring the winning photographs on our Facebook page.

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“We are looking for some general overall shots of the garden showing the variety of beds,” she explains. “But we also are looking for close-up portraits of individual roses. Shots featuring people are not appropriate for this contest.” Email your high-resolution photo entries to cecily@insidepublications. com no later than June 30. Winners will be featured in this magazine and displayed in the lobby of Clunie Community Center.

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The nonprofit Friends of East Sacramento continues to offer its Adopt-A-Garden fundraising program for people who donate a year’s worth of maintenance for a flower bed. No physical work in the garden is required. Plans cost $195 a year and include a custom garden marker. Discounted multiyear plans are also available. Donors can make donations in honor or memory of loved ones or to celebrate an event such as a wedding or anniversary. For more information, go to friendsofeastsac. org, email friendsofeastsac@aol.com or call 452-8011.

WE ALL SCREAM FOR ICE CREAM If you see a familiar face serving ice cream at Pops in the Park this summer, say hello to Jim Burr, the

Mayor Darrell Steinberg (top right photo) and other community members gather for park dedication at McKinley Village.

Burr’s Fountain and Kiwanis. Bogle Vineyards and Hoppy Brewing will sponsor a beer and wine garden. Outside alcohol is prohibited. Blankets or lawn chairs are recommended, but canopies are not allowed. Walking, biking and carpooling are encouraged. Sacramento Area Bicycle Advocates will provide free valet bike parking at all events. Major sponsors of this year’s Pops series are Dignity Health, Rich Cazneaux, Elise Brown and Polly Sanders, Farmers Insurance, East Sacramento Chamber of Commerce, PG&E, East Sac Hardware, North Lake Tahoe Chamber, Sutter Health, Home Care Assistance and Inside Publications. For more information, go to eastsacpopsinthepark.com.

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Jim Burr, owner and founder Burr’s Fountain, will be scooping ice cream at Pops in the Park. owner and founder of the iconic East Sac ice cream parlor, Burr’s Fountain. Burr has been bringing his delectable ice cream to Pops since the concert series’ inception in 1991, back when the talent, he recalls, was “a junior high school orchestra.” Pops in the Park has changed over the years: It now features ensembles, rockers, singer-songwriters and more over four Saturdays in June. But for Burr, it’s still about the community coming together, much like at his restaurant. “We’re built on neighborhood people,” says Burr, who opened Burr’s Fountain in 1989 after working at Vic’s Ice Cream in Land Park. During his 29 years in business, he’s seen generations of families gathered around tables and booths, enjoying much the same menu as on opening day: classic sandwiches like grilled cheese, egg salad and braunschweiger on rye, served with chips and pickle slices, along with fountain drinks and ice cream delicacies such as milkshakes, malteds, scoops and splits. While Burr is rumored to be thinking about selling Burr’s Fountain, he hopes to continue its legacy even if it’s under new ownership.

“I’d like to keep it as is,” he says. “That’s what we’re known for.” Burr is also known for his immense philanthropy in East Sac, donating thousands of dollars to improve neighborhood parks. So when you grab your ice cream cone at Pops in the Park this summer, thank the man behind Sacramento’s sweetest memories. Burr’s Fountain is at 4920 Folsom Blvd.

POPS IN THE PARK RETURNS FOR 2018 June is Pops in the Park month in East Sacramento. On June 2, Ideateam will open the summer concert series with groove fusion and funk at East Portal Park. On June 9, AKA Live will perform classic rock, funk, soul and country cover hits at Bertha Henschel Park. On June 16, Jessica Malone will perform folk/Americana-inspired tunes at McKinley Park. On June 23, the series will end at Glenn Hall Park with The Count playing music of The Allman Brothers Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd and more. All concerts take place on Saturdays from 6 to 9 p.m. Food will be available for purchase courtesy of Roxie Deli,

Sacramento is now hiring up to 150 lifeguards for 17 city pools. Applicants must be at least 15 years old. The city offers lifeguard training in four summer sessions: June 11–15, June 18–22, July 9–13 and July 23–27. For more information, go to cityofsacramento.org.

EVERYONE IN THE POOL Clunie Pool in McKinley Park is open now for the summer preseason. The pool will open for regular recreational swim hours on June 16 and will remain open through Sept. 2. Glenn Hall Pool and Bertha Henschel Play Pool will also open for the season on June 16. Both pools will remain open through Aug. 19. The YMCA will operate Tahoe Park Pool again this year. For a list of area pools, a schedule of recreational swim hours and admission fees, visit cityofsacramento.org.

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annual Taste of East Sacramento on Saturday, July 14, from 6 to 9 p.m. at Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church. The event features wine, beer and food tastings courtesy of East Sacramento establishments, as well as a raffle and live music. Tickets are $50 before July 1, $60 on and after July 1, $70 at the door. Tickets can be purchased in advance at Selland’s Market-Cafe and online at tasteofeastsac.com. Proceeds support Pops in the Park and other chamber-sponsored events. The church is at 600 Alhambra Blvd.

A FUCHSIA SHOW COMES TO EAST SAC Shepard Garden and Arts Center will host the annual fuchsia show on Saturday, June 2, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Shepard Garden and Arts Center is at 3330 McKinley Blvd.

SUMMER THEATER ARTS PROGRAMS OnStage Sacramento will offer two programs this summer for children and young people interested in theater arts. Morning and afternoon classes will be offered all summer long at Coloma Community Center. Visit onstagesac.com for more information. Coloma Community Center is at 4623 T St.

LIBRARY OFFERS SUMMER READING PROGRAM Help your kids retain their reading skills, curiosity and imagination this summer with Sacramento Public Library’s Summer Reading program. Kids will earn points by reading, completing challenges and attending events. Points earned can be cashed in for prizes. For details and to sign up, go to saclibrary.org/summerreading. Serena Marzion and Lauren Hastings can be reached at insideeastsaclife@gmail.com. n

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and my vision in building a company for Sacramento was to bring this same aesthetic to our dancers and to the public. We felt strongly about giving our dancers the same opportunity of artistic fulfillment I was fortunate to have experienced as a dancer.” For tickets and more information, visit sacballet.org.

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ancers all over the world want to dance Balanchine,” says Carinne Binda, whose Sacramento Ballet will present “The Genius of Balanchine” at The Sofia Tsakopoulos Center for the Arts June 14–17. For the past 30 years, Balanchine’s works have been a trademark of

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Sacramento Ballet under the artistic direction of Binda and her husband, Ron Cunningham. There’s a reason they’ve always been so faithful to the choreographer, whose iconic works include “Prodigal Son,” “Firebird,” “La Sonnambula” and the American holiday phenomenon “The Nutcracker.” “The musical and technical demands of Balanchine ballets simply make a dancer a better dancer,” says Binda, who danced at least one work by Balanchine every season at Boston Ballet for 13 years. “There is extraordinary nuanced musicality in his work, along with his use of refined pointe work, energy and speed, that developed a new breed of dance artist.” Sacramento Ballet has presented 18 of his masterpieces over the years. His

inclusion in the repertoire has been “a powerful draw to dancers wanting to be members of our company,” Binda says. Unlike traditional classical ballet, she explains, “everyone in a Balanchine work dances. The corps de ballet in his work is equally as complex as the soloist and principal roles.” “The Genius of Balanchine” will include excerpts from the choreographer’s immense catalog, which has influenced generations of dancers and dancemakers. “It has been said that ballet was born in Russia, raised in France and redefined in America by Balanchine,” Binda says. “Personally, as a dancer, I never felt more freedom—nor experienced such exhilaration— than when dancing Balanchine’s choreography. A great part of Ron’s

In April, Mayor Darrell Steinberg and City Councilmembers Steve Hansen and Jeff Harris joined with community leaders and neighbors to dedicate a new urban pocket park in memory of Sacramento arts leader and pioneer Michael Himovitz. The dedication kicked off a weekend-long public celebration of McKinley Village Art Walk, a unique collection of public art created by local artists and located in the parks and public spaces of the McKinley Village neighborhood in East Sacramento. “Michael Himovitz was an extraordinary civic leader who made pioneering and lasting contributions to the Sacramento arts scene,” says Steinberg. Himovitz founded the pathbreaking Himovitz Solomon Gallery and Himovitz Gallery; helped create Second Saturday, one of Sacramento’s signature art events; and sponsored a series of exchange exhibits that brought international artists to Sacramento and allowed local artists to show their work abroad. “He strengthened the local arts community in many ways, including

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Splendor in the Suburbs BARBARA SAFFORD LOVES HER CARMICHAEL COMMUNITY—AND IT LOVES HER BACK

arbara Safford is a breeze at conversation. The Carmichael resident and volunteer can talk to anyone about anything, which has made her an amazing asset to countless organizations over the years. “I’m a people person,” she admits while we lounge in her beautiful backyard. She and her husband, Tom, have lived in this house on Stanley Avenue for 45 years, ever since they moved to Sacramento from their

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native Chicago so Tom could take a job. “He was offered jobs in both Sacramento and Southern California, where I actually have family,” Safford recalls. “He picked the one in Sacramento, and when we drove down Stanley Avenue for the first time and I saw how agricultural it was with all the chickens and sheep, I didn’t know what to think. It felt like we were near a zoo!” Safford now says she wouldn’t live anywhere else. One key reason is the abundance of activities she threw herself into when they relocated so she could make the community her own. Volunteerism has always been a part of Safford’s life. As a high school student in Chicago, she volunteered at a preschool to read to kids and was an active Girl Scout. As an adult in Carmichael, she’s served as a Camp

Fire and Cub Scout leader and a PTA member and officer at Mary Deterding Elementary School. She’s volunteered with the Assistance League of Sacramento, Our Lady of Assumption Parish Council, the Administrative Fire Services Section of the California Fire Chiefs Association and, for the past year, as a member of the board of Carmichael Friends of the Library. In March, the Carmichael Chamber of Commerce honored her as volunteer of the year. “I’ve never thought of myself as a volunteer,” says Safford, who worked as the senior staff administrative coordinator at the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District until she retired. “I just like to do things to help others. It’s always been a part of me. It’s my way of learning.” As a board member of the Carmichael Chamber for the past six years, Safford has represented

Carmichael Friends of the Library, spreading the word about the library’s merits. “I think of the library as an indoor park,” says Safford. “People can do all kinds of activities at the library, and there’s always some kind of event going on. The role of the Friends is to help fund those extra programs through our twice-yearly book sales in May and November and through membership. My goal is to tell people all about it.” For more information about Carmichael Library, visit saclibrary. org. For more information about the Carmichael Chamber of Commerce, visit carmichaelchamber.com. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com. n

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A Stranger in a Strange Land MY TRIP TO D.C. WITH METRO’S CAP-TO-CAP

Publisher’s Note: In the May 2018 edition of Inside Publications, the article that ran in this column space had substantial editorial changes made that were not approved by the writer. We regret the oversight. The full unedited article, which focused on the tragic death of Stephon Clark and the aftermath in our city, will appear in a special online-only edition. This edition will also feature an update from Craig Powell on the conflicting autopsies and their political impact, and an article that details the viewpoint of a police officer in the shooting. Please visit insidepublications.com.

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made the decision to be part of Sacramento Metro Chamber’s annual Cap-to-Cap lobbying trip to Washington, D.C. (aka “the swamp”), with a great deal of hesitation and not a small amount of trepidation. This year, 365 attendees descended on Washington to lobby the federal government to—let’s be frank about it—fork over more federal taxpayer largesse to our region. It’s a wellorganized, highly choreographed, long-standing five-day beg-a-thon, now in its 48th year. Who attends? A lot of local elected officials and senior bureaucrats, trade association executives, reps from large health care systems and nonprofits, government contractors and professional lobbyists, as well as a small contingent of local media people (Jeff vonKaenel, publisher of Sacramento News & Review, a TV crew from Fox 40 and me). Why my hesitation and trepidation, you might ask? Because I wasn’t going on Cap-to-Cap just to cover it for you, my dear readers (although

that was certainly an added benefit). I was going primarily to advocate for policy positions that aren’t exactly aligned with those of the Metro Chamber and the Cap-to-Cap delegation as a whole. You see, Metro Chamber has fallen into, in my view, the habit of supporting almost every proposal that involves Washington sending ever larger sums of federal taxpayer money into our region.

POLICY DIFFERENCES The problem, as I see it, is that that’s not always a good thing, and the dollars that Metro Chamber wants the federal government to send us could, in many cases, be better spent on more deserving projects and programs or in more intelligent, less costly ways. But the powers that be in the Metro Chamber and the Cap-toCap delegation are motivated, by and large, by short-term considerations: to land this new grant or to secure funding for that new project. It’s a beg-a-thon, after all. (Although in

fairness, the Metro Chamber had another important initiative it was pursuing with gusto on Cap-to-Cap this year: to streamline the federal approval process for projects of all kinds.) No one with Metro Chamber, to my knowledge, is suggesting the one solution that would save mountains of taxpayer money while giving state and local governments total control over how such dollars are spent: simply roll up the budgets of dozens of federal departments and agencies and “block grant” the entire pile to the states whence the money came. Eliminate the federal haircut that Washington always extracts when it serves as the middleman between federal taxpayers and local projects and programs. Eliminate the ways in which the federal government’s grant and project guidelines coerce local and state governments into spending their own money (in the form of required local matches) in ways they might not otherwise.

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D.C. FUNDING MISFIRES Here’s an example. When Sacramento was designing its proposed Downtown recirculating streetcar project, it wanted to secure funding from the federal government’s Small Starts program, which at the time allowed for federal grants of up to $75 million and required local governments to match the federal investment. So Sacramento, in partnership with West Sacramento and Regional Transit, designed a $150 million streetcar project, half to be funded by the Small Starts program and the remainder to be funded from various state and local sources. But in the closing days of the Obama administration, the U.S. Department of Transportation decided to increase the maximum grant allowable under the program to $100 million. The enticement of federal money is so strong that city officials dumped its $150 million streetcar plan and quickly expanded it to a $200 million plan, adding a mile of track along undeveloped river frontage in West

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Sacramento south of Tower Bridge (at a cost of $20 million) and adopting a plan to move the light rail line currently on K Street north three blocks to H Street, so that the new streetcar could travel down K Street (another $20 million addition). As Sacramento City Councilmember Steve Hansen candidly put it, “We didn’t want to leave money on the table. If we want to ask [the federal government] for more, we have to show a bigger project. We’re trying to show them what we would do if they chose to invest more.” Local taxpayers are throwing more money at the project solely because the federal government signaled its willingness to throw more money at it, not because it makes any sense from a transportation policy or efficiency point of view. Under the 50 percent local-match requirement, local governments would have to pony up a further $25 million, increasing the local share of the project’s costs from $75 million to $100 million. How do streetcar backers plan to raise the extra dough? Well, last year Regional Transit was

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in line to receive $25 million from high-speed-rail project bonds for “local rail connections” to high-speed rail (assuming high-speed rail ever comes to Sacramento). RT should use this $25 million to initiate a program of replacing its fleet of obsolete and increasingly dilapidated light rail cars—a looming $200 million liability that RT has no reserves set aside to cover. Instead, in a power play, Mayor Darrell Steinberg pressured the RT board into diverting the high-speed-rail money to the streetcar project, with a promise that he would help RT impose a new tax on Sacramento residents and businesses to make up the difference—a de facto streetcar tax. What is Sacramento getting for the extra $25 million in federal funding? Moving the light rail tracks from K Street to H Street will inconvenience legions of state workers, most of whom work in state buildings south of K Street. The 1-mile extension of the proposed streetcar line along the West Sac riverfront, south of Tower Bridge, principally benefits only one person: developer Mark Friedman, whose

company, Fulcrum, owns a large tract of undeveloped land along the proposed new route, near his existing West Sac housing properties. So I went to Washington with the hope of derailing federal funding of the streetcar project. At Eye on Sacramento (the civic watchdog group that I founded and lead), our research showed that streetcars do nothing to enhance mobility or get people out of cars. Our transit expert, Professor Emeritus Gregory Thompson of Florida State University, a nationally recognized specialist in rail transportation, has characterized the proposed streetcar project as “little more than an amusement ride for tourists.” Further, academic studies have shown that streetcars contribute little to nothing to economic development, notwithstanding the rosy claims of streetcar boosters. Most troubling of all is that the $200 million spent on building a streetcar project is $200 million that can’t be spent on RT’s fleet of light rail cars, which are badly in need of replacement. All in all, it’s a lousy deal for Sacramentans—unless you’re

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TO WASHINGTON So with this backdrop, I signed up for Cap-to-Cap and traveled to Washington on April 13 for a five-day experience unlike any I’ve ever had. Our 365-strong delegation was divided into 12 policy teams. I chose to be on the transportation team, made up of about 30 members. But when I arrived at our conference hotel (the venerable Mayflower Hotel), I was told that my registration for the transportation team, for some reason, couldn’t be found. I was also told that I’d missed our first team meeting that morning because I hadn’t been informed of it. Further, my plans to participate in meetings with administration officials at the Department of Transportation were being blocked because I hadn’t submitted security forms. (I had registered weeks before the deadline for submitting such forms but was not advised of the requirement.)

When I pleaded with our conference managers for help in fixing the security forms problem, a new obstacle arose. I was informed by a senior Metro Chamber official that it was “too late to add folks to agency [administration] meetings. We have been planning this program for the last six months and the attendees for agency meetings have been set.” As a consolation prize, I suppose, I was offered a chance to attend a meeting with Congresswoman Doris Matsui, a major sponsor of the streetcar project. I respectfully declined. I began to feel increasing unwelcome in the cozy fraternity of Cap-to-Cap attendees, made up mostly of folks who were longtime attendees. When I arrived at the conference check-in table, I ran into a Sacramento city councilmember (who shall remain nameless), who looked at me like they’d seen a ghost. A few

minutes later, I ran into the director of the city’s Department of Utilities, Bill Busath, on the sidewalk in front of the Mayflower. (Recurring scandals in that department are a regular target of EOS reports and press releases.) I again got the startled ghost-sighting reaction. I was starting to feel like a party crasher. That evening, I attended a lavish reception for the Cap-to-Cap delegation held at the architecturally stunning Organization of American States headquarters, built on a premier location directly across the street from the South Lawn of the White House. I was grateful to chat with a half-dozen or so friendly associates. I was able to fully participate in meetings on Capitol Hill with senior staffers of the various congressional committees that appropriate transportation dollars (there are a number of them), as well as attend small meetings with staffers in the Capitol offices of our local congressional representatives.

‘STICK WITH THE SCRIPT’ On the morning of our first day of congressional meetings, we were all advised by Metro Chamber officials to “maintain unity” and “stick with the script” of the chamber’s policy positions as published in various handouts. The only problem with that is I’d never agreed to act in lockstep with 100 percent of the Metro Chamber’s policy prescriptions when I signed up for Cap-to-Cap. I knew at that point my task was going to be tricky. In our congressional meetings, typically four to eight of us from the transportation team would meet with the most senior staffer of each party on each of the committees we visited. These were “professional” staff (it even said so on their cards), meaning permanent policy staffers who turn over infrequently. I was startled to find that there was almost

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no discernable difference in the policy preferences expressed by GOP and Democratic senior staffers. If you weren’t told who was who, it was virtually impossible (at least for me) to tell the difference between the two. They all seemed perfectly happy to send taxpayer money out the door. One member of each group was designated as group leader, responsible for guiding our discussions. The leaders were immensely knowledgeable. For example, Jim Corless, the CEO of SACOG, the regional government body in Sacramento that plays a huge role in deciding which local transportation projects get funded, was the leader of one of my groups. We met with staffers of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, which ultimately oversees all appropriations for transportation projects on behalf of the Senate. I have found that local advocates of transportation funding typically adopt a public posture that “we should fix our infrastructure first,” meaning before we start blowing taxpayer money on new projects. But that’s almost always empty posturing, not intended to get in the way of their efforts to land federal dollars for new projects, like the streetcar project. So whenever someone in one of my groups touted support for a “fix it first” policy, I would always promptly and strongly echo their sentiment. I would then say that the replacement of RT’s ancient fleet of light rail cars should be funded before the federal government blows $100 million in federal tax dollars on an unneeded streetcar system. Well, that didn’t win me any friends among the members of my groups. In fact, I was twice admonished (albeit politely) by group leaders to “stick to the script” and “never show anything but a united front.” I thanked them for their advice. They had their agendas and I had mine. Craig Powell is a retired attorney, businessman, community activist and president of Eye on Sacramento, a civic watchdog and policy group. He can be reached at craig@ eyeonsacramento.org or (916) 7183030. n

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A Tough Job

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f Daniel Hahn didn’t already have the toughest job in Sacramento, he has it now. As police chief, Hahn has faced unprecedented community unrest over the March shooting death of Stephon Clark, the 22-year-old killed when two of Hahn’s officers mistook Clark’s cellphone for a gun.

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At the same time, Hahn has worked to resolve a potential crisis in his ranks. Cops worry they have become political targets for trying to do their inherently hazardous jobs in a messy environment that demands perfection. Still, police feel support from the chief’s office. There has been no real griping in station houses about Hahn’s leadership. And despite community frustration over accountability in police shootings of African-American men, Hahn remains popular in both economically distressed and affluent neighborhoods. If the chief’s job can be described as walking a razor’s edge, Hahn has kept his balance. “Our officers have responded well,” says city manager Howard Chan, who hires and supervises Sacramento’s police chief. “The protesters have really been letting them have it. People have been in their faces, saying they are racists. But they have shown judgment and restraint. Things could be burning. I couldn’t ask for a better partner than Daniel.” Hahn’s presence as the right person in the right job at the right time has been a blessing, not just for Chan but for the City Council and the community at large. But his presence begs a larger question: How long will the chief stick around? To be clear, Hahn has said nothing to suggest he might be thinking of bailing out. He became Sacramento’s 45th police chief only last August, and he made it clear at his swearing-in ceremony that it was his dream job. If Hahn was looking for a retirement gig, he already had it—he was Roseville’s police chief when Chan hired him for Sacramento. Moreover, Roseville authorities didn’t want to lose Hahn. They would have matched any offer made by Sacramento. But Hahn wanted to come to Sacramento. The city is his home: He grew up in Oak Park, went to Sacramento High School, Sacramento City College and Sacramento State University, and he served his entire career with the Sacramento Police Department until Roseville hired him away as chief in 2011. Though he loves his hometown and has a plate filled with goals yet to be fulfilled, there’s another factor that must be considered. Hahn recently turned 50, and that’s a golden age for any city worker classified as a safety officer. When he celebrated his birthday, Hahn automatically became eligible for retirement. The city’s retirement system will pay the chief 3 percent of his salary, multiplied by the number of years he worked in the state retirement system. The Sacramento chief’s annual salary at top range is about $254,000. Three percent of that salary, multiplied by 30, is an annual pension of approximately $229,000. Hahn began as a community service officer at 19 and became a police officer at 21. Being eligible for retirement means Hahn shows up for work for an extra $25,000 per year. “Chief Hahn would not have come here if he wanted to retire,” says Tim Davis, president of the Sacramento Police Officers

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Marc Prescott and his sons work on tiny doors together.

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arents these days have to answer tough questions from their children, even young ones, about why there are people living on the streets, in parks, under overpasses or on sidewalks. Answers aren’t easy when it comes to the homelessness problem, which seems to be growing in all Sacramento neighborhoods.

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Most families have the means for food and roof. But some don’t. Kids ask why. Parents have to explain about mental health issues, drug and alcohol abuse, poverty and despair. But that still doesn’t answer the question about why they have to live on the street. Marc Prescott, an assistant pastor at Restoration Life Church in Tahoe Park, has had to answer these questions from his own children, Benjamin, 3, and Joshua, 5. His church is building 20 tiny homes for homeless people at Compassion Village, a program that brings together civic, business, nonprofit and church leaders to work on solutions to social issues. Six tiny

homes have already been built on the grounds of St. Paul Church of God in Christ in North Sacramento; 14 more will be completed by the end of summer. Young Benjamin knew about the tiny homes and wondered why they couldn’t build more houses for the homeless people he saw. Prescott told him that people are trying, explaining that they need more money, volunteers and support to solve such a large problem. The city of Sacramento is looking at the small-dwelling concept as an important piece of the puzzle. Prescott and his wife, Tina, had an idea for raising money and engaging

the community. It would be a life lesson for Benjamin and Joshua. The family’s solution: Make little doors with wood, paint and inspiration. Walk around their East Sac neighborhood, talk about homeless issues and sell the doors for a $20 donation. The money would go in a jar to contribute to build more tiny shelters. “The boys saw homeless people near our neighborhood or on the river,” said Prescott. “They asked questions. This was a chance for the family to do something and have the boys take a positive step in community service and caring for other people. They are very aware that something’s wrong.”

The little multicolored wood doors can be found on East Sac porches, leaning up against trees and in yards. The Prescott family would love to have other families participate in the tiny-door project. “It’s good,” said Benjamin. “Tiny people selling tiny doors for tiny homes.” Compassion Village in North Sac is moving along nicely, according to organizers. E49, the nonprofit organization that oversees Compassion Village, is planning another homeless village at Genesis Church in South Sacramento. It will have 20 tiny homes, primarily for homeless mothers and their children. The little homes are built on wheels and are considered trailers for zoning purposes. They provide housing that can be permanent or temporary. Volunteers build the structures using supplies provided by The Home Depot, Lowe’s and other suppliers. Each partner church agrees to build the tiny homes and provide $7,500 for construction. In addition, they provide $5,000 per year in support and services for residents of each unit. Eventually, some residents will pay a small rent. “We would love to have 15 to 20 different villages following the same model of 20 units per location,” said Tammy Vallejo, founder and president of E49. Vallejo, a real estate broker, is committed to collaboration with

ministries, professionals and others to help make Compassion Village a success. Her board includes Restoration Life’s pastor, Dan Axtell, and other community leaders. “We all have to work together to find solutions,” she added. “It’s going very well and we’re excited. I look at these issues from a business perspective. I’ve witnessed the pain when people have lost their house during the recession. But there are other issues ranging from homelessness and youth at risk to racial tensions and sex trafficking.” “We have to keep going,” said Prescott. “People are dying on the street. We have to assign worth to the worthless. If we all pull together, we can do this.” Benjamin and Joshua may not totally understand the significance of their little doors, but as they grow older, they will take satisfaction that they tried to help others.

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he debate over tackle football and whether children should be allowed to play it builds around several points. There’s the safety argument: Tackle football is just too dangerous for kids younger than 12. And there’s the nanny-government argument: Politicians already interfere enough in our lives. But there’s no debate about one fundamental feature of youth tackle football. No matter what happens to those young brains and bones and spinal columns on the gridiron,

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parents and guardians can’t say they weren’t warned. Sacramento Youth Football, which operates tackle leagues for 10,000 children ages 5 and older, posts on its website 17 separate documents related to injuries. Fourteen of them talk about concussions. They cover everything from symptoms to diet to whether and when a child who has suffered a football concussion should return to school. This helpful library of information comes in addition to the gruesomely detailed waiver parents and guardians must sign before their young athletes

strap on football helmets. The waiver indemnifies the league from lawsuits involving an array of potential injuries, all spelled out and punctuated by the ultimate tragedy, “even sudden death.” Despite the dangers, thousands of parents each year in Sacramento examine the documents, sign the waivers and suit up their children for a season of tackle football. The game stirs deep passions in these parents. They were not pleased to see an effort by their representative in the California State Assembly, Kevin

McCarty, to ban tackle football for kids younger than 12. “As you might expect, we do not agree with the legislation,” says Jay Erhart, commissioner of Sacramento Youth Football. “We believe the research they cite is flawed, and we believe other sports are every bit as dangerous. This is governmental overreach and an attack on youth sports. If they succeed with banning football, they will move onto other sports.” Earlier this year, McCarty introduced Assembly Bill 2108, the Safe Youth Football Act, which is

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children are long past the age of youth sports. Erhart, a retired law enforcement officer with 34 years in youth football, praises the game for its ability to teach mentorship, discipline, commitment and resilience, especially among African-American and Latino youngsters in South Sacramento. He says other sports leagues often abandon inner-city kids. And he says parents know better than politicians what’s best for their kids. “I call BS on that,” McCarty says. “There are plenty of other youth sports that provide those values, including soccer, baseball, volleyball, flag football and others. Even a contact sport like ice hockey has taken steps to reduce the type of contact injuries that cause concussions.” The assemblymember dismisses the claim that state government should keep its nose out of youth football. “I’ve heard the nanny-government argument, but I don’t buy it,” McCarty says. “We have a duty to pass laws that protect people. It’s why

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we have seat belts and child car seats and why kids can’t buy cigarettes.” Youth football has grass-roots support from across the country. The proposed ban activated football fans and helped with parental awareness, Erhart says. Meantime, McCarty has several legendary NFL players and coaches who have lent their names on behalf of AB 2108 and similar bills in other states. Among them are Phil Villapiano, Nick Buoniconti, Chris Borland and Harry Carson.

Last year, five of the 10,000 kids in Sacramento Youth Football suffered concussions. That’s five more than anyone would like to see, but no sport is 100 percent safe. “Safety is our first priority,” Erhart says. The bill is on hold for now, but the battle over youth football will continue. R.E. Graswich can be reached at reg@graswich.com. n

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Dr. Kellie Whited

Lab Findings THIS SCIENCE TEACHER PUTS THE FUN IN FUNDAMENTALS

r. Kellie Whited is the kind of cool teacher you always wanted as a kid. She’s trained exotic animals and appeared on “The Tonight Show.” She’s worked on a language project with chimpanzees. She loves “Star Wars,” and she created a summer-school class called The Science of “Star Wars.” Her classroom at Sacramento Country Day School is the unofficial student union, where students hang out at all hours of the day. Whited couldn’t be happier in her role as teacher, mentor and “Science Lady,” as her lower-

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school students affectionately refer to her. “I’ve had many weird jobs,” Whited says. “They’ve all prepared me to do what I do now. I feel like taking many different paths leads you to where you’re meant to be.” A native of San Diego, Whited came to UC Davis to study veterinary medicine and worked at Marine World during the summers. After earning her bachelor’s degree, she worked at the San Diego Wild Animal Park with pretty much any animal they could throw at her: cats, birds, snakes, you name it. (“The birds are the most unpredictable,” Whited says. “Happy one minute, biting you the next.”) This work experience led her to “stalk” Joan Embery, the longtime international ambassador for the San Diego Zoo who appeared with exotic animals on “The Tonight Show” with both Johnny Carson and Jay Leno. Whited contacted Embery and convinced her to allow her to

intern, which led to Whited’s own appearances on the show. Despite fulfilling a childhood goal, Whited found she missed Davis, so she returned to the university to work for a lab and earn her Ph.D. studying the digestion of fats in the body. She began to teach at UC Davis as well as Cosumnes River College. During these lecturing stints, a friend who worked at Sacramento Country Day approached her about teaching a nutrition class at the K–12 school. She accepted the job and was soon teaching one high school class a day while also pregnant with her first son, writing her dissertation and lecturing. “I never thought I would be a high school teacher,” Whited admits, though she says the fact that her students “don’t bite me or pee on me” like her former animal charges has its benefits. But she found herself falling in love with “the big kids” and

the ways she could open their eyes to the wide world of science. “Kids often think that if they like science, they have to be a doctor,” says Whited, who lives within walking distance of Country Day. “Science isn’t all lab coats and chemicals. It’s silly and messy and fun. There are so many other options.” Fun is a key component in Whited’s classroom. As a teacher of biology, anatomy, physiology and nutrition for the high school and the coordinator of all things science for the lower school, she’s all about hands-on activities (she starts kids on dissections as early as kindergarten) and experimentation. “The most important thing for kids to know is that failure is OK,” Whited says. “Go ahead. Take a wild stab and make a fool of yourself. You’re failing in a safe environment. But you have to keep asking questions.” Last November, Sacramento Country Day participated in PhUn Week!, a partnership with

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would regularly see its signs along the street where he lives in Land Park. When Otto and Zimmerman heard that D&J founder Darius Baker was planning to retire, the two entrepreneurs decided they wanted to continue the legacy that Baker started. Here, Otto discusses the ownership transition and his plans for the future. You and Jeff both have extensive experience in construction. (Otto worked with family-run Otto Construction, which his grandfather founded

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was only six months into my first pastor’s job in Hopland, Calif., when I contemplated quitting. As I considered my pastoral responsibilities, I had to admit I had an uncomplicated life. I was a fulltime graduate student driving 90 miles every weekend to preach two sermons in a country church. Not a bad gig, as they say. But on April 12, 1981, I began to feel a dissonance between my academic world and the rural working life of Hopland. I remember the date precisely because I’d anticipated the day’s events for months. That was the Sunday Navy test pilot Bob Crippen flew the Space Shuttle Columbia into orbit from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Astronaut John Young, who’d walked on the moon in 1972, commanded the mission. I stepped to the podium that day overflowing with optimism. Nothing

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would extinguish my unbridled enthusiasm except, as it turned out, Bob, my volunteer music director. I asked if he’d seen the launch. “Oh, that’s NASA nonsense produced in a Hollywood studio.” Too stunned to reply, I turned to greet the arriving congregation. I tried to pump up their passion for America’s return to space, but no one seemed moved. After church, I tried to reignite discussion at the potluck by telling my congregants how the shuttle was the first reusable spacecraft. The orbiter would launch like a rocket and land like a plane, but still no one had any energy for it. As Becky and I drove home to our little student apartment, I turned our commute into a pity party. I railed about the ignorance and high illiteracy rate of my church members. I couldn’t even get them to follow my Scripture readings, much less have them sing from a hymnal. We had only one member with a full-time job. Since most were unemployed, our offerings looked more like God’s tip jar than a collection plate. I nitpicked more, telling Becky that these Hoplanders weren’t even good Baptists. As a Baylor graduate, I knew a good Baptist did not smoke, drink

or chew—or date girls who did. These folks did all those things. The shame of it all! I was racing a fast high horse called Pretty Petty Preacher. Over the next several months, I began believing my slanderous slime. Finally, 13 months after I’d accepted the job, I gave my two-week notice. Sometime before graduation, a therapist helped me come to grips with my failure to launch. My seminary life overlooking San Francisco’s exclusive North Bay was an alien universe next to the practical lives of Hopland folks. While my congregants were trying to make ends meet, I was inflating my self-importance in philosophical student discussions of neo-Kierkegaardian existentialism. (I don’t know what this is.) Hopland was being overrun by the inflationary 1980s, but I was busy debating urgent issues like transubstantiation and consubstantiation. I had little time to sit with parishioners who were losing their lumber-industry jobs. The academia of theological graduate school placed me into a useless orbit, lost in space, circling the moon of elitism and irrelevance. God has a funny way of discomfiting the proud. Two years

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hen empty nesters Phil and Julie Angelides downsized to their new residence in McKinley Village, they were not sure how much of an emotional toll the move would have on them. “I expected when I drove by our old home that my heart would sink,” says Julie of the 1933 pink stucco house in Land Park where the couple lived for 30 years. Phil and Julie, who have three adult daughters, both grew up in Sacramento. Julie fell in love with the older home while walking past it in high school; she and Phil purchased the classic when it came up for sale years later. “I thought they were going to have to drag me out on a stretcher,” she jests. “The home had a lot of memories,” adds Phil, former state treasurer and Democratic candidate for governor in 2006. “For example, Bill Clinton was in our home three times,” including in 1996 when he was president of the United States. But when Julie saw the new East Sacramento homes at McKinley Village, which Phil co-developed with The New Home Company, “I just fell in love,” she says. “This gives us a chance, at our age, to set our roots down, to make new friends, to have a different lifestyle.” “Julie took care of our old home by herself— she did the yard, she did the house,” notes Phil. “This downsizing has been wonderful.” Julie agrees. “I had worked so hard in that house,” she adds. “Now I feel free. It is a very good feeling. It’s liberating.” Another adjustment was necessary when moving from their 4,000-square-foot home on a half an acre of land to a 2,224-square-foot flat with no backyard. “We sold all our furniture,” says Julie. “We just started discarding.” Basically, dishes, cookware, artwork and family mementos were among the few items that made the transition. “We had our moments,” remarks Phil. “When you go through all the belongings you have accumulated over four or five decades, there was emotion in the move. But we ended up saving all the stuff we cared deeply about.” In addition to his treasured tennis trophies, he brought along all his books. “Books are like gold to me. My concern was if there would be enough room for them.” McKinley Village, a new 50-acre urban housing development situated between Capital City Freeway and an elevated railroad line in East Sacramento, opened to the public in 2016. “The idea was to create a community that was in harmony with East Sacramento and had a range of housing opportunities for people who

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want to live near restaurants and shops, who work Downtown,” says Phil. Phil, a longtime developer, is quick to give credit to nationally known urban architects Peter Calthorpe, who created the initial design concepts, and Mike Woodley, who was the lead on the final land plan and home designs. Sacramento-based architect David Mogavero designed the central clubhouse. When completed, there will be 10 parks and common areas throughout the “urban village” that will feature art installations by local artists. The Angelideses’ model, called the Alder, offers single-story living in a two-story flat. The first floor features a half bath, coat closet, access to the two-car garage, a staircase and elevator. “The elevator is great when we have suitcases from traveling, when my 95-year-old dad comes to visit, when we come back from the store,” comments Phil. The second level is the living space, complete with a master bedroom suite with a bathroom and two walk-in closets; guest bedroom and bathroom; laundry room; and library for all those books. “Even though our old home was beautiful, it had 1933 closets,” says Phil. “With this home, everything is all spankin’ fresh and new.” The couple elected to go with a modern look in the kitchen with quartz countertops, a Carrera marble tile backsplash and high-end stainlesssteel appliances. Eighteen-feet-high ceilings add drama to the open living area with a fireplace. Scratch-resistant tile flooring was important to the couple, who have active grandchildren, a goldendoodle dog and a calico cat. “I wanted it to be easy to take care of,” notes Julie. “I can clean this whole place in less than two hours.” From the second-level outdoor patio, they can enjoy a view of Downtown Sacramento’s skyline. “We have the most glorious sunsets,” says Julie. Phil adds, “At night, this place feels particularly urban and exciting.” The home was pre-wired with a 240-volt electric vehicle charger—perfect for Phil, who just purchased a plug-in hybrid that will go 53 miles on pure electric. “I come home at night, plug it in, and within two hours it’s completely charged,” he says. With more than half of the homes already sold, the neighborhood is starting to come alive. “It’s a good mix of young families, couples with no children, empty nesters,” comments Phil. “We’re getting to know everyone and it’s exciting. Everyone feels like they are part of an adventure.” Even though the couple, now in their mid-60s, own vacation houses in Oregon and Los Angeles, they call Sacramento home. Their new flat in

McKinley Village represents the next phase of their lives. “Hopefully, this will be a home for a lifetime,” says Julie. “And we will have 30 more years of memories here, too,” adds Phil. Cathryn Rakich can be reached at crakich@surewest.net. n

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hen Vincent Sterne opened Two Rivers Cider Co. in 1996, it was one of the first craft cider companies in California to make its product from fresh fruit instead of concentrate. A David fighting many Goliaths, Two Rivers needed to stand out to compete with the industrial ciders imported from England and Canada. Following the lead of the always-innovating craft beer industry, Sterne decided to buck convention by adding pressed juice from locally sourced fruit into his dry apple ciders. “Pomegranate cider was a first for Two Rivers and, as far as I know, the whole cider market,” says Sterne. “I think the pomegranate cider put Two Rivers on the map.” Fast-forward two decades and the tap list at Two Rivers’ tasting room bursts with fruit flavors. The group of “core ciders” includes the pioneering pomegranate as well as flavors like blackberry, strawberry jam, blood orange and huckleberry, while the “rotating” group of seasonal ciders includes raspberry and boysenberry. However, the innovation doesn’t stop with sweet fruits. You can find unconventional ciders ranging from walnut to habanero to ginger, all of them shockingly well-balanced. There is also a hopped cider for beer fans, likely another first in the world of cider. “The hopped cider has become quite popular throughout the region,” says Sterne. “We always have a hopped cider on tap in our tasting room now.” Sterne’s ability to experiment increased exponentially when Two Rivers opened its Hollywood Park tasting room in 2016. “The tasting room is an excellent platform for exploring new ciders and for gauging the consumer’s reaction,” he says. That spirit of

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experimentation even extends to the customers. “A lot of people like to mix ciders. They’ll take a ginger cider and mix that with a habanero cider,” he says. When it comes to sourcing the fresh fruits, vegetables and nuts for his ciders, Sterne takes a variety of approaches. A lot of the citrus fruit comes directly from the tangerine, tangelo, orange, blood orange, lemon and grapefruit trees of customers in nearby neighborhoods like Curtis Park and Land Park. Sometimes a simple trip to the Sunday farmers market will spark an idea for a new cider. Two Rivers also works directly with Northern California farmers to source the freshest seasonal produce. This summer, for example, Sterne is sourcing cherries from a farmer in Wilton. He might ferment some fresh-pressed cherry juice in with the apple juice, or he might add it into an already-made base cider. Sterne also plans to create a cherry-flavored cyser, a blend of cider and honey,

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using honey sourced from the same farmer supplying the cherries. In another potentially pioneering move, Sterne has started research and development on making sake with locally grown rice. “Sake is the most fascinating and challenging of all the fermentation industries,” he says. “It’s a more labor- and timeconsuming process than beer or wine or cider because there are multiple parallel fermentations.” Sterne recently returned from a trip to Japan, where he studied the centuries-old art of sake making, and where he also became enamored with the flavor of yuzu. “It’s a citrus fruit that’s like a cross between a lemon and an orange,” he says. “I was fascinated with the flavor, and I think that it would make a delicious cider.” More seasonal produce will make its way into Sterne’s ciders over the course of the summer, including a popular kiwi cider. “It’s a very laborious process of peeling and pressing the kiwifruit,” he says. “We basically use a potato peeler to get the skin off, and it’s a long day.”

If there’s a concern moving forward, it’s that there won’t be enough apples for all the ciders that Sterne wants to make. While Sterne sources as many cider apples as he can from places like Barsotti Ranch in Camino and Five Mile Orchard in Watsonville, he also sources off-season apples from out of state. “California doesn’t grow enough apples to supply all us thirsty cider makers,” he says. “There’s a real financial challenge to keep the apple trees in the ground.” However, Sterne holds out hope that with the increasing popularity of craft cider that trend will start to change. “A lot of growers are realizing that there is a new market for cider fruit as opposed to table fruit,” says Sterne. “The advantage is that they’re not growing fruit that has to be cosmetically perfect, which also means less pesticide.” Two Rivers’ tasting room is at 4311 Attawa Ave. For more information, go to tworiverscider.com. Daniel Barnes can be reached at danielebarnes@hotmail.com. n

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My Trip to Costco A RIVER FLOWS THROUGH IT

ost people shop at Costco like they’re survivalists stocking up for Armageddon’s aftermath. They purchase massive quantities and trundle the goods to their cars via ginormous carts and wheeled pallets. Recently, I needed only a single item that I knew Costco carried. I was unsure about finding it anywhere else. I thought, “Why not bike to Costco, get a little ride in and enjoy the trip?” I found out why not.

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As the crow flies, the Expo Parkway Costco is just over 2 miles from my East Sacramento home. That’s a distance that can be easily biked in 10 minutes. However, crows don’t have to worry about crossing the American River. For those of us using earthbound transportation, a bridge is required. For me, the bridge that would be most convenient, the one carrying the Capital City Freeway, allows neither pedestrians nor bikes. It’s for motor vehicles only. To cross the river by bike, my choices are either the former Sacramento Northern Railway bridge, now converted to bicycle and pedestrian use (behind the Blue Diamond Growers almond factory), or the H Street Bridge. I headed out toward the Sacramento Northern bikeway. The ride through East Sacramento and Midtown was fine. The trailhead for the Sacramento Northern is near

20th and C streets. The scenery there changes dramatically. There are no historic homes and no shade. Instead, there’s rampant graffiti alongside the Union Pacific tracks. There are also many conspicuous homeless campsites along the trail edge, with attendant piles of trash nearby. A female cyclist I talked to this weekend said such conditions creeped her out. Once you’re on the American River Parkway trail, the surroundings are more scenic and less impacted. A steep ramp took me to the levee top, and an access trail connected nicely to Expo Parkway. Even better would have been a parkway access direct to the REI and Costco parking lots, but no connection was added when the stores were built. (Maybe Costco didn’t want passing cyclists to horn in on the churros, pizza slices and hot dogs on offer.) By the time I got to Costco, 30 minutes had passed. The ride was 5.7 miles, almost tripling

the distance and time needed for a theoretical direct route. Once at Costco, I had to figure out what to do with my bike. Ideally, bike racks for retail stores and other commercial uses are located near a main entrance. That’s where they are easy to find and most convenient. Also, it’s where they are well-observed by passersby, which helps prevent theft of bikes and components. At Costco, not only could I not find a bike rack near the entrance—I couldn’t spot a rack anywhere. That’s not a welcoming sign, but it’s not an unusual situation for bicyclists. Improvising seems to come with the territory. I locked my bike to a pole in the parking lot. Costco has parking for more than 500 cars. Cars are clearly welcomed there. Without a doubt, most customers need a car to haul away the goods to stock their bunkers. Yet shouldn’t any busy destination have

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but more convenient. Midtown is a very good place to ride a bike with its shaded streets, short blocks offering a variety of routes, bike lanes and numerous destinations, many with new bike racks. Those conditions don’t exist in every, or even most, neighborhoods. They should. Two of California’s premier rivers flow through Sacramento. Sacramento is fundamentally a river city. An inability to quickly and conveniently get across the Sacramento or American rivers severely limits travel choices. Inevitably, because of that, more people choose to drive and, in so doing, generate vehicle traffic that we don’t need. I don’t expect it, but I’d love to see more bikes at Costco (maybe with heavy-duty trailers to haul all that stuff). Walt Seifert is executive director of Sacramento Trailnet, an organization devoted to promoting greenways with paved trails. He can be reached at bikeguy@surewest.net. n

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An Arts Blueprint THE CITY’S CULTURAL PLAN MOVES FORWARD

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n April 23, hundreds of people gathered at Sacramento Memorial Auditorium to see the final draft of the city’s proposed cultural plan. It was the final step in a process called Creative Edge: six months of town hall meetings, community forums, and city and countywide surveys to shape the city’s arts, culture and creative economy in the years ahead. Sacramentans’ participation and enthusiasm proved residents are hopeful the cultural plan will yield more than just words on paper. Mayor Darrell Steinberg admitted some still may have doubts. “I know there may have been experiences with the city over the years where there were promises made and promises not kept,” he said. Sacramento artist Jeff Musser, who participated in four meetings throughout Creative Edge’s planning process, responded to the draft with cautious optimism. “Bureaucracy is a very slowmoving train, but if there is enough momentum, things will happen,” he said. “However, as Steinberg hinted,

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I have heard this speech for years. So when it actually happens and thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a concrete plan and application, then Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll believe him.â&#x20AC;? Musser hopes the cultural plan will provide opportunities for artists to receive grants, perhaps even mentorship programs to equip artists with skills beyond their creative talent. The city, said Musser, could â&#x20AC;&#x153;create opportunities for artists who live in Sacramento to work with mentors and artists.â&#x20AC;? As an example, he cited New York artist Jeff Koons, who created the controversial sculpture on the plaza outside Golden 1 Center. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As much as I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t care for the Koons sculpture,â&#x20AC;? he said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;what if we had an initiative here where Jeff Koons could come and mentor somebody and say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;This is how my practice works, and these are the things I do. Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a project you want to do but canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t?â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? Art is an economic motivator for Sacramento to adopt a new cultural plan. Filmmaker Greta Gerwig and a cadre of local artists have proven through the success of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lady Birdâ&#x20AC;? and the Wide Open Walls mural

festival that art is essential both to Sacramentoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s identity and economy. Musser, and artists like him, hope the city finalizes a plan that enables artists to make a living. As a marching band paraded through the auditorium, Musser gestured to the band. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I hope they got paid,â&#x20AC;? he said. In fact, most Sacramentans want to see artists get paid. According to the surveys conducted during the planning process, more than 90 percent of residents cited the importance of art, and 73 percent said they support a citywide tax to benefit the arts. Likely inspired by those numbers, Steinberg announced at the meeting the possibility of renewing Measure U, a temporary half-cent sales tax approved by voters in November 2012. The draft plan explores other sources of funding: creating a cultural trust fund, restoring transient occupancy taxes and seeking funds through outside sources like the National Endowment for the Arts and the California Arts Council.

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Pasadena, if he could compare those processes to Sacramentoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You may be surprised, but Sacramento has seemed more eager, more optimistic, more enthusiastic and ready for a step forward,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was cautioned that there could be some cynicism with the plan â&#x20AC;Ś but I think it has been really amazing to see the community step up.â&#x20AC;? Sacramentoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s skepticism may be giving way to expectations, but arguably Creative Edge has already found its target. Sacramento is seeing an arts and cultural renaissance that is proven by the process itself: the participation and persistence of Sacramentans whose job now is to hold the city accountable by creating an arts and cultural plan that represents every Sacramentan. To read the draft of Sacramentoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cultural plan, go to creativeedge. cityofsacramento.org. Jordan Venema can be reached at jordan.venema@gmail.com. n

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s a sports performance chef, Brett Eisen has fed plenty of athletes, including the Sacramento Kings, Oregon Ducks, Denver Broncos and 2016 U.S. women’s Olympic soccer team. But working in PyeongChang, South Korea, as a chef for the U.S. ski and snowboard team was a special thrill. “Easily, to date, the highlight of my career,” says the 28-year-old East Sac resident. The Olympic Committee contacted him five months before the 2018 Winter Games to be a member of the culinary team. (The team, which competes year-round, already had a full-time chef.) His mission? “Merely show up and cook food,” he says. Eisen set up shop in an old snowboard store across from the bobsled course and went to work. “Cooking for finely tuned skiers and snowboarders is fun and fairly easy,” he says. “There is no nutrition counseling. These world-class athletes already know what they need and want. My job was to inject variety, flavor and fun into their daily menus.” For breakfast, he made quinoa oatmeal sprinkled with orange zest, banana maple cinnamon muffins and lots of eggs: egg sandwiches, egg burritos, quiches, frittatas and French toast casseroles. Eisen fermented his own kimchi, which he added to pancakes and dumplings. “Nothing too spicy, but fun, flavorful and tasty,” he

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Prepare to have your face melted by the likes of Shreddy Eddy, Golden Thunder and the reigning champ, D Vicious. In this joyful comedy, which premiered at the prestigious Humana Festival, professional Air Guitar competitions provide the backdrop for a marvelous cast of characters. When Nina, a real guitar player, wanders into a bar to compete, she soon discovers that she has a lot to learn.

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

BOY

BLUE DOOR

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

Lewis is a tenured professor of mathematics at a well-regarded university. Underneath his veneer of success lies a soul troubled by questions of personal and cultural identity. A night of disorienting insomnia conjures his ancestors, three generations of men from slavery through Black Power. They challenge Lewis to embark on a night journey combining past and present.

THINK PINK

SHOWER THOUGHTS: IMPROV COMEDY

B Street Theater Thru June 10 The Sofia, Home of B Street 2700 Capitol Ave, Sac 916-443-5300 Bstreettheatre.org

Celebration Arts June 15, 16, 23 & 30 2727 B St, Sac 916-455-2787 Celebrationarts.net

Big Idea Theatre June 15 – July 14 1616 Del Paso Blvd, Sac 916-960-3036 BigIdeaTheatre.org

explains. To combat the cold, he made huge pots of bone broth for the athletes. In the snowboard storeturned kitchen, he provided grab ’n’ go sandwiches along with simple pasta dishes and homemade gnocchi. Dinners were robust affairs: chimichurri flank steak, Japanese sweet potatoes, roasted root vegetables, chicken piccata, pesto chicken, chicken and pasta, hearty soups. “I stressed home-style cooking,” he says. “The athletes yearned for great carbs—not basting stuff in butter, but lean and clean.” He stayed in the same condo as the athletes, and he kept their lounge stocked with dried fruits, granola and healthy snacks. “It was inspiring to see the good nature and warm camaraderie among our skiers and snowboarders,” says Eisen. “Their gratitude for my home cooking induced me to perform at max.” Eisen was euphoric to be at the games. “I’d walk around thinking, ‘Holy crap, I am at the Olympics!’” His friend and mentor, Adam Sacks, accompanied Eisen to PyeongChang to help him cook. The

two share an intense passion for health, nutrition and sports. Which brings us to Eisen’s next venture: Fuel Good, a Sacramentobased business that caters to retired athletes. Eisen shows them how to incorporate real food and performance-level nutrition into their lifestyles. “I have found,” says Eisen, “that retired athletes might not immediately possess the necessary awareness to maintain healthy physical conditioning after they transition to their new way of life. Northern California is a highly desired locale for former athletic stars, and while I hope to stay in Sacramento for the immediate duration, it’s a close commute to reach out and serve those athletes who still need a sense of direction when it comes to wellness, clean living and healthy nutrition.” For more information about Fuel Good, email Brett Eisen at chefbretteisen@gmail.com. Peter Anderson can be reached at 49peteranderson@gmail.com. n

Celebration Arts June 21, 22, 28 and 29 thru July 27 2727 B St, Sac 916-455-2787 Celebrationarts.net

Sacramento Gay Men’s Chorus June 15-16 McClatchy High School 3066 Freeport Blvd, Sac 877-283-1567 jason@sacgaymenschorus.org The Sacramento Gay Men’s Chorus will take to the concert stage to harmonize with the mission and goals of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. The two strong hearts of SGMC and the Susan G. Komen Foundation will embark on a musical journey wrapping a harmonious voice around the tenacious human spirit as it converges with seemingly insurmountable odds; offering hope, compassion and greater awareness to the real-life experiences one faces in the midst of battling cancer. It is their intention to offer support for those undergoing treatment, to uplift the lives of those who have succumbed to the disease and to joyfully celebrate the victories of those who are now cancer free.

CszSacramento Thru June 23 2230 Arden Way, Sac 916-243-8541

This is hilarious, long-form improv comedy presented by a supergroup of top area performers. Each show features two innovative formats and plenty of laughs.

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Crazy for Color

THE GARDEN IS NO PLACE TO BE BASHFUL

here are few entries in my baby book. My mother was a hardworking farm wife with two children, much too busy to be documenting my every tooth and step. One of the few things she wrote was “Anita loves flowers—22 months.” Decades later, I still do. I first encountered the term “flower floozy” at Annie’s Annuals & Perennials, a wonderful nursery in Richmond, and recognized kindred spirits among the staff and customers. This nursery began by specializing in annual plants, which pump out flowers, set seed and die in a single season. Annie’s now offers other types of plants, but flowers still rule. What is it about flowers? While I love their fragrance and form, their color makes me weak in the knees. I appreciate the restfulness of a mostly green garden and the purity of a white garden, but I want pink, red, orange, yellow, purple and blue, and lots of it.

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These colors don’t necessarily blend well. Tastes vary, but I prefer gardens where colors have been chosen carefully rather than mixed together randomly. Many books and articles have been written about the use of color in the garden, often referring to the color wheel to explain how colors interact. The color wheel contains the full range of colors. You can choose colors in a triad, equally spaced around the wheel. Complementary colors are opposite, while analogous colors are next to one another. Monochromatic schemes are the same hue, often in different shades. Pastels give an English-garden look. Bright colors can look tropical. Colors ranging from red through chartreuse are considered hot. They seem to advance and make a space seem smaller. Blues, violets and greens are cool and seem to recede. At my house, I have relegated hot colors to a narrow border along the driveway where they can throw a loud party without upsetting the more genteel pastel and cooler tones of my main garden. Big purple canna leaves contrast with their orange flowers and with the brilliant yellow and orange blossoms on ‘Joseph’s Coat’ rose and Mexican lobelia. It’s hot, hot, hot out there. Walk through the garden gate and you find a still-colorful but more

subdued garden. I grow many roses from the 19th century, which by definition do not come in the bright yellow or orange tones that were first introduced in the 1920s and 1930s. Deep-red roses punctuate the garden. Some old roses have peachy tones, and they grow in one section of the garden offset by the purple and blue flowers on varieties of salvia, veronica, teucrium and plumbago. It’s helpful to look at gardening books and pay attention to what you like when you walk through the neighborhood or visit gardens near and far. If you like a combination, consider what appeals to you. While I don’t care for an all-white garden under our blazing Sacramento sun, white or light-colored flowers interspersed with other plantings can cool things off and stay visible as the sun goes down. Darker colors disappear at dusk. What are some of my other favorite flowering plants? I love bearded iris, with extravagant ruffled flowers that came in many hues. (Iris was the Greek goddess of the rainbow.) Some iris varieties repeat bloom in the fall, an added bonus. I like spring bulbs such as tulips and narcissus, which pop with color at a time of the year when very little else is blooming. Drought-tolerant gardens can be drab if you pick mostly grasses

and plants that go dormant in the summer. You can have nearly yearround color by carefully selecting what you grow. In the spring, small trees and shrubs such as ceanothus, flannel bush and redbud bloom blue, gold and magenta. California poppies will repeat bloom if you cut them back after their first flowering. In the summer, Bidens and other members of the daisy family bear brightyellow flowers. Red buckwheat gives a nice contrast and holds its color for months. Autumn sage comes in almost every color. Spanish lavender blooms heavily and is fairly long-lived, unlike many other lavender varieties. California fuchsias bear fluorescent orange and red flowers for a long, beebusy season. A photographer once visited the Sacramento Historic Rose Garden where I volunteer. As he bounded excitedly from rose to rose, he stopped at an intensely purple-violet flower and shouted, “I live for this color!” I do, too, and all of the others in the flower rainbow. Anita Clevenger is a Lifetime Sacramento County UC Master Gardener. For answers to gardening questions, call the UC Master Gardeners at (916) 876-5338 or go to sacmg.ucanr.edu. n

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2440 LARKSPUR LN #302 $145,000 628 WOODSIDE SIERRA #6 $165,000 803 DUNBARTON CIR $380,000 818 ELMHURST CIR $444,000 2235 UNIVERSITY $855,000 2507 EXETER SQUARE LN $345,000 290 HARTNELL PL $375,000 134 HARTNELL PL $399,900 1539 UNIVERSITY AVE $471,000 2040 ROBERT WAY $219,950 2413 MORSE AVE $300,000 2120 UNIVERSITY PARK DR $405,500 239 PALISADES SIERRA OAKS LN $786,000 2202 WOODSIDE LN #6 $157,000 2294 SIERRA BLVD #C $229,000 13 ADELPHI CT $385,000 3116 PENNLAND DR $324,000 1405 GANNON DR $359,000 2036 DELMA WAY $253,000 2320 AMERICAN RIVER DR $359,000 1840 MORSE AVE $307,500 1928 TERRACE DR $350,000 2204 PENN CT $425,000 1218 VANDERBILT WAY $435,000

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Genre Bender Jeff Myers

THIS ARTIST USES TECHNOLOGY TO CREATE UNIQUE WORKS OF

Art

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ecause Jeff Myers believes that artists need to keep learning or get stale, the painter and photographer has made it his mission to come up with ever more inventive and innovative techniques. The son of legendary local stock photographers Sally Myers and the late Tom Myers created a sculpture for the McKinley Village development in East Sacramento that is a genre unto

itself. Myers purchased a 1950s Ford tractor and covered the outside with a fresh “skin” of aluminum plating to which he applied his art. “The project for McKinley Village is a direct extension of what I’ve been doing on a two-dimensional surface in my studio,” says Myers, who lives in Midtown and works out of a studio in Land Park. For the tractor sculpture, he painted a series of detailed

paintings based on aerial photographs looking down on human patterns, such as agricultural fields and freeway networks. Then he sent the paintings to Los Angeles to be photographed and heat-imbedded into aluminum, a process called dye sublimation. “Aluminum is a beautiful screen to print or project onto,” he says. “It gives a piece an almost stained-glass feeling.” Myers then welded and

Art Preview GALLERY ART SHOWS IN JUNE

Artistic Edge Gallery presents work by Cynthia Hayes, Tenley Willock, Bill Reed and Paul Sanchez through June 30. Shown above right: “Tiger Under Water,” an oil by Paul Sanchez 1880 Fulton Ave.; artisticedgeframing.com The American Watercolor Society Traveling Exhibition from New York runs through June 30 at Sacramento Fine Arts Center. Shown above left: “Notre Dame” a watercolor by Sandy Delehanty. 5330 Gibbons Drive; sacﬁnearts.org The ARTHOUSE presents their Alumni Show, a gathering of artists that have come through the gallery while on their artistic path. Many disciplines and mediums represented at this show that runs through July 6. Shown above: “French Bull Dog,” a ceramic by Paula Wenzl Bellacera. ARTHOUSE Gallery, 1021 R St., Second Floor; arthouseonr.com Patris Studio and Gallery presents “The Broadway Rain Series,” a solo exhibition by Oak Park artist Patris through June 30. Show left bottom : “Broadway Rain” by Patris. Patris Studio and Gallery, 3460 2nd Ave.

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riveted the thin sheets of aluminum onto the tractor—“almost like recreating flesh,” he explains. The project—called “Tractor Levitation,” since it’s suspended above its base on three steel beams—stands sentinel at one of the entrances to the home development in the very area where Myers grew up. (In fact, he remembers when the land was covered with peach trees instead of new homes.) In a way, the artwork acts as a merging of all of Myers’ passions: photography, painting, technology and history. “I’ve become more and more interested in the historical wave of technology versus the wave of human consciousness,” Myers says. “I love exploring consciousness. What are the boundaries of it? How does it relate to the curve of technology? I like to bring an ambiguity to my forms: Are those brushstrokes something alive and organic or something digital? I like that in-between ground.” Myers grew up traveling all over the country with his dad to photography gigs. In school, he struggled with dyslexia, which made visual art a more natural mode of expression than reading or writing. He doodled constantly—still does— and studied art at Sacramento City College, UC Davis and Sacramento

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State with the likes of Wayne Thiebaud, Roland Petersen, Fred Dalkey, Laureen Landau and Oliver Jackson. He moved to New York in 1995 and stayed for five years, making friends and connections that he still maintains. “I wanted to view the major exhibitions and collections located in New York in person as part of my education,” says Myers, who still goes back east to visit at least once a year and periodically places pieces with a private art dealer there. “I moved to New York to establish a network of friends and collectors so that now, a big chunk of my work comes from commission. As a freelance artist, you have to balance commission with exhibition.” Myers is due to show his latest work at Elliott Fouts Gallery this fall. His current focus is a collection of photos he took while in Paris to create a temporary art installation with a friend. (Myers ripped up photos he’d taken of giant redwoods and tacked them to edifices throughout the city.) He’s manipulating the photos with different types of printing processes. For example, he’ll print out a photo and transfer it to a canvas through a painstaking sponging process, then he’ll paint over the ghost image just

enough that you can see both the new strokes and the original image. “I love playing with the time trajectory of past, present and future,” he explains. “I think one of the roles of visual art as the world changes faster and faster is to provide that anchor point, that stillness. And when traditional materials and

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CORN

There’s nothing that says summer like an ear of fresh corn. It has high concentrations of antioxidant carotenoids and is a good source of fiber—not to mention it’s delicious! To eat: Remove the husk and silks, then char the corn over a hot barbecue grill before dousing with seasoned butter.

CHERRIES Cherries have a lower glycemic index than many fruits, making them a great choice for a fruit snack, especially for diabetics. To eat: Remove the pits and toss into the blender for a smoothie.

APRICOTS

This beautiful golden-orange-colored stone fruit is of beta-carotene, fiber and vitamins A and C. full o eat: Perfect for making jam, a tart or ice cream. To ea

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FIGS

Figs supply potassium, which controls blood pressure, and dietary fiber, which can help you lose weight. To eat: Add quartered figs to an arugula salad, or poach in wine for dessert.

EGGPLANT

Eggplant provides dietary fiber, plenty of vitamins and minerals and phytonutrients such as nasunin and chlorogenic acid. Many of its nutritional benefits come from the vegetable’s skin. To eat: Cut into thick slices, brush with olive oil and grill.

OKRA This very low-calorie vegetable has lots of vitamin A and antioxidants such as beta-carotene and lutein, and it’s a good source of folates. To eat: Use in a Southern gumbo or Caribbean stew.

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THIS MONTH'S CULTURE & ENTERTAINMENT HIGHLIGHTS Sacramento Ballet will perform "The Genius of Balanchine."

“The Genius of Balanchine” Sacramento Ballet June 14–17

jL By Jessica Laskey

The Soﬁa Tsakopoulos Center for the Arts, 2700 Capitol Ave. • sacballet.org Sacramento Ballet will perform excerpts from 18 of choreographer George Balanchine’s most iconic works as part of its commitment to continuing his artistic legacy.

“Testament of the Spirit: Paintings by Eduardo Carrillo” (“Testamento del espíritu: Pinturas de Eduardo Carrillo”) Crocker Art Museum June 24–Oct. 7 216 O St. • crockerart.org This bilingual exhibition features more than 60 paintings and watercolors spanning nearly four decades of the artist’s production, from the late 1950s through the late 1990s.

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The third episode of the Convergence II series will feature ﬂutist Maquette Kuper, clarinetist Deborah Pittman and baritone Omari Tau.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream & Crystal Ice Cream Fantasy Fairytale Town Saturday, June 23, 5–9 p.m. 3901 Land Park Drive • fairytaletown.org This magical midsummer evening features multiple ice cream tasting stations, live entertainment, hands-on activities and more. Costumes for the whole family are encouraged.

Crocker Art Auction Crocker Art Museum Saturday, June 2, 5:30–11 p.m. 216 O St. • crockerart.org The 40th year of Sacramento’s premier art auction will feature nearly 120 works from established and emerging artists from California and beyond. Proceeds support the museum’s educational programs and community outreach.

Leslie Hackard's artwork will be on display at Tim Collom Gallery.

Carmichael Park Community Band Festival Sacramento Valley Symphonic Band Association Saturday, June 2, and Sunday, June 3 Carmichael Park Amphitheater, 5750 Grant Ave. • svsba.net With 14 concert bands, this has been one of the largest community band festivals in California for more than 20 years. Bring a picnic and the whole family for two days of music.

Sacramento Black Book Fair The Historic Center of Oak Park Friday, June 1, and Saturday, June 2 3555 3rd Ave. • sacramentoblackbookfair.com This annual book fair will include book signings, talks by featured writers, cultural vendors, food trucks, a kids’ zone, a community parade, poetry readings, writers’ circles and art displays.

Art Where Wild Things Are Gala American River Natural History Association and Sacramento Fine Arts Center Saturday, June 9, 5–8 p.m. Effie Yeaw Nature Center, 2850 San Lorenzo Way, Carmichael • sacnaturecenter.net This elegant outdoor fundraiser benefiting the center’s youth education programs will feature a catered meal, local wines, music and silent and live auctions of juried artwork.

Work by Eduardo Carrillo will be on exhibit at Crocker Art Museum.

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Take in some artwork by Kellie Raines at Archival Gallery.

H@ck the Park Fest

“20/20 Show”

Square Root Academy Saturday, June 23

Kennedy Gallery Through June 4

North Laguna Creek Park, 6400 Jacinto Ave. • htpfest.com This festival turns the park into a tech wonderland for all ages. In partnership with the city of Sacramento, Square Root Academy has curated a STEM experience for the whole family celebrating culture, innovation and community.

1931 L St. • kennedygallery.net This group exhibit includes 20 8-by-8-inch works in various media from each of the 20 juried artists featured.

“Birds of a Feather” and “New Works”

Fair Oaks Horticulture Center Saturday, June 16, 9 a.m.–noon

Archival Gallery June 6–30 3223 Folsom Blvd. • archivalgallery.com Delightful paintings of birds from artists Kellie Raines and Don Yost will share wall space with new work from Miles Hermann. The Second Saturday reception will be held on June 9 from 6–9 p.m.

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Open Garden 11549 Fair Oaks Blvd., Fair Oaks • sacmg.ucanr.edu Bring your gardening questions and enjoy demonstrations on soil solarization, growing sunflowers, harvesting fruit-tree crops, vegetable garden-pest management, harvesting blueberries and more.

Kim Hayden in Conversation Genealogical Association of Sacramento Wednesday, June 20, 12:15 p.m. Belle Cooledge Library, 5600 South Land Park Drive • gensac.org Gen Sac’s monthly meeting will feature Kim Hayden from the Center for Sacramento History sharing information on how to conduct historical research at the center.

Patricia Tool McHugh’s “Still Life Variations” and Leslie Hackard’s “Juicy” Tim Collom Gallery June 5–July 5 915 20th St. • timcollomgallery.com Tool McHugh is known for her lush landscapes and sumptuous still-life work in watercolor. Hackard’s art reflects a joyous, nostalgic spirit through her use of vibrant colors and everyday items.

Sacramento Taco Festival Vida de Oro Saturday, June 2, 10:30 a.m.–6:30 p.m. The Boulevard, 1600 Del Paso Blvd. • sactacofest.com The main event of Sacramento Taco Week, this festival will feature tacoeating contests, live music, professional wrestling, kids’ activities, arts and crafts, a Chihuahua beauty contest and the largest selection of tacos in one location.

Art show will feature 20 works by 20 artists.

Convergence/Hello MôD Artists Sunday, June 3, 3–5 p.m. Guild Theater, 2828 35th St. • sthope.org The third episode of the Convergence II series—an event-based project that reveals the history of Oak Park through original music, art, dance, oral histories and film—will feature flutist Maquette Kuper, baritone Omari Tau and clarinetist Deborah Pittman. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com. n

Spring gala will beneﬁt Effie Yeaw Nature Center.

Enjoy two days of music at Carmichael Park Community Band Festival.

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Allora Is Outstanding NEW FINE-DINING RESTAURANT IN EAST SACRAMENTO SHINES

new restaurant called Allora has sprung up at the corner of 53rd Street and Folsom

GS By Greg Sabin Restaurant Insider

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Boulevard in East Sacramento. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s housed in a small but elegant brick building that until 2016 was the home of Rust Florist. With the retirement of Greg Rust, the building underwent an impressive transformation inside yet retains its lovely, modest exterior. Elizabeth-Rose Mandalou, who owns Allora with her husband, chef Deneb Williams, had loved the building from afar for many years and jumped at the chance to open

a restaurant there. The fact that the former owners left the building to retire also lent an air of positive energy to the space. In just a few short months, Mandalou and Williams have done great things with the former florist shop. Unlike the host of farm-totable, let-the-ingredients-shine, simple-preparation, rustic-kitchen restaurants that have opened in the past decade, Allora has a definite

fine-dining bent. The tablecloths arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t white (in fact, there are no tablecloths at all), but the Italian-inspired dishes are artistic and architectural in their beauty, sophisticated in their flavors and jewel-like in their proportions. The deceptively complex Insalata di Mare jumbles together cold shrimp, calamari, crab and mussels, all perfectly cooked and seasoned and served with a stunningly

beautiful salad of shaved asparagus and pea tendrils. The plate is prettier than a spring garden, with a few strategically placed dots of forestgreen dressing and a fluttering yellow pansy. (Almost every dish is finished with flowers to pay tribute to the original florist who built the space.) The textures are on point and made more interesting by the addition of a smattering of pillowy-soft cannellini beans. Much like the quickly vanishing spring, the plate is gone in a few forkfuls—just enough time to luxuriate in the experience and then regret it was over so soon. A small but diverse selection of pastas, all house-made, highlights the kitchen’s impressive skills without showboating. The bucatini, layered with crab, sea urchin and garlic cream, is about as rich and indulgent a pasta dish as you’ll see. The cream sauce holds the dish together in a velvety embrace, not letting any one ingredient skip any one bite. It’s an impressive feat of cohesiveness. For the cavatelli with sausage, chili, tomato and broccoli raab, the kitchen takes a rustic seasonal pasta and elevates it to a small, condensed dish with flavors so overlapping and layered as to be nearly overwhelming. It’s the kind of dish that makes you want to put the fork down in between each bite and quietly reflect. Honestly, what kind of wine list could stand up to this onslaught of elegance and sensation? Mandalou, an advanced sommelier, opts for a stunning selection of Italian varietals from California, Italy and beyond. She smartly divides her wine list into three sections: “New World expressions of Italian varietals,” “Classic Italian wines” and “For the adventurous palate.” On one visit, I let our server choose wines for us, and his aim was unnervingly on-target. Through each course, he brought glasses that were lovely complements to the dishes we were eating. The highlight was a dessert wine from Sardinia, a passito, so named because the late-harvest grapes are left out to dry and the wind “passes” through them. It tasted of dried apricots and sweet earth and paired delightfully with my olive oil cake and zabaglione.

Speaking of dessert, the offerings at Allora are as refined as the rest of the menu. The olive oil cake came dressed with dollops of mascarpone and gently dusted with flowers. Bomboloni— Italian doughnuts—were filled with huckleberries. The service, especially at a restaurant open only a few months, is near-perfect. Friendly, professional, attentive without being cloying, the servers, bussers, bartenders and owners all make their presence known. It’s no surprise that this is Williams and Mandalou’s third restaurant. Allora shows a steady hand and wealth of experience. What is surprising is that the duo have opened all three of their restaurants— Woodlake Tavern, Uptown Pizza and now Allora—within the past 18 months. If that last year and a half is any indication, this impressive couple will help keep Sacramento in the national culinary conversation for years to come. Allora is at 5215 Folsom Blvd., (916) 538-6434; allorasacramento. com. Greg Sabin can be reached at gregsabin@hotmail.com. n

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

Hawks Public House 1525 Alhambra Blvd. • (916) 558-4440 L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Familiar classics combined with specialty ingredients by chefs Molly Hawks and Mike Fagnoni • hawkspublichouse.com

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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110 K St. • (916) 573-3897

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L D $ Great burgers and more • williesburgers.com

Ma Jong’s Asian Diner

Café Bernardo

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

1431 R St. • (916) 930-9191

Grange Restaurant & Bar

Fish Face Poke Bar

B L D $$$ Full Bar Simple, seasonal, soulful • grangesacramento.com

1104 R St. Suite 100 • (916) 706-6605 L D $$ Beer/Sake Humble Hawaiian poke breaks free • ﬁshfacepokebar.com

2005 11th St. • (916) 382-9722

Iron Horse Tavern

L D $-$$ Beer/Wine Timeless traditional Southern cuisine, counter service • weheartfriedchicken.com

1800 15th St. • (916) 448-4488

OLD SAC Fat City Bar & Cafe 1001 Front St. • (916) 446-6768 L D $$-$$$ Full Bar American cuisine served in a casual historic Old Sac location • fatsrestaurants.com

Rio City Cafe 1110 Front St. • (916) 442-8226 L D $$ Full Bar Bistro favorites with a distinctively Sacramento feeling in a riverfront setting • riocitycafe.com

The Firehouse Restaurant 1112 Second St. • (916) 442-4772 L D $$$ Full Bar Global and California cuisine in an upscale historic Old Sac setting • ﬁrehouseoldsac.com

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

926 J St. • (916) 492-4450

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1431 L St. • (916) 442-7555

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

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

Shoki Ramen House 1201 R St. • (916) 441-0011 L D $$ Beer/Wine Japanese ﬁne dining using the best local ingredients • shokiramenhouse.com

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

Zocolo

Revolution Wines

1801 Capitol Ave. • (916) 441-0303

2831 S St. • (916) 444-7711

L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Patio Regional Mexican cuisine served in an authentic artistic setting • zocolosacramento.com

L D $-$$ Beer/Wine Urban winery and tasting room with a creative menu using local sources • revolution-wines.com

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Biba Ristorante

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

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

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

Centro Cocina Mexicana 2730 J St. • (916) 442-2552 L D $$ Full Bar Patio Regional Mexican cooking served in a casual atmosphere • paragarys.com • centrococina.com

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

Tapa The World 2115 J St. • (916) 442-4353 L D $-$$ Wine/Beer/Sangria Spanish/world cuisine in a casual authentic atmosphere, live ﬂamenco music • tapathewworld.com

Thai Basil 2431 J St. • (916) 442-7690

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

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

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1725 I St. • (916) 469-9574

2009 N St. • (916) 661-6134

2000 Capitol Ave. • (916) 498-9891

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

La Venadita L D $$ Full Bar Authentic Mexican cuisine with simple tasty menu in a colorful historic setting • lavenaditasac.com

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Riverside Clubhouse 2633 Riverside Blvd. • (916) 448-9988 L D $$ Full Bar Upscale American cuisine served in a contemporary setting • riversideclubhouse.com

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The Red Rabbit 2718 J St. • (916) 706-2275 L D $$ Full Bar All things local contribute to a sophisticated urban menu • theredrabbit.net

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D $$$ Wine/Beer Dinner served Wed. through Saturday. Reservations suggested but walk-ins welcome • taylorskitchen.com

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Paragary’s 1401 28th St. • (916) 457-5737 L D $$ Full Bar Fabulous Outdoor Patio, California cuisine with a French touch • paragarys.com

B L D $-$$ Clean, lean & healthy snacks. Acai bowls are speciality. Kombucha on tap • vibehealthbar.com

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Casa Garden Restaurant 2760 Sutterville Rd. • (916) 452-2809 L $$ Wine/Beer • Lunch menu varies weekly. Operated by volunteers to beneﬁt Sacramento Children’s Home. • casagarden.org

CURTIS PARK Café Dantorele 2700 24th St. • (916) 451-2200

2966 Freeport Blvd. • (916) 442-4256

B L D $$ Beer/Wine Outdoor Patio Seasonal menu features crepes and more in a colorful setting • cafedantorels.com

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Iron Grill 13th St. and Broadway • (916) 737-5115 L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Upscale neighborhood steakhouse • irongrillsacramento.com

Jamie’s Broadway Grille

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2530 21st St. • (916) 454-2411

427 Broadway • (916) 442-4044

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

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

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515 Pavilions Lane • (916) 922-2870

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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DESIRABLE COURT IN EAST SAC! Lovely 3 bedrooms, 2 bath home with 1562 square feet. $589,950 RICH CAZNEAUX 916.212.4444 CalRE#: 01447558

CHARMING RIVER PARK! 4bd/2ba, hdwd krs, DP windows, whole house fan, & kitch w/stnless steel. $519,000 ELISE BROWN & POLLY SANDERS 916.715.0213 CalRE#: 01781942/ 01158787

QUINTESSENTIAL EAST SAC CHARM! Updated with extended living space in backyard, adjacent to Ladybird’s Fabulous Forties. $969,900 ELISE BROWN & POLLY SANDERS 916.715.0213 CalRE#: 01781942/01158787 TAHOE TALLAC TREASURE! 3Bd/2Ba, 2 Car Garage on a Desirable street. CH&A, Frplce, Hrdwd Flrs, Frml Dining area & Updtd Kitch. Family Rm leads to a Covered Patio & Lovely Bckyrd. $419,000 PATTI MCNULTY-LANGDON 916.761.8498 CalRE#: 01346985

MIDTOWN VICTORIAN! Gorgeous 4 bedrooms, 2.5 bath with 2766 square feet. $879,950 Rich Cazneaux 916.212.4444 CalRE#: 01447558

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CLASSIC HIGHWATER BUNGALOW! Located in the heart of Midtown wiht2-3BD, 2 bath, 1029sqft w/inviting front porch, frml dining w/blt-ins, new carpets, and full basement. $519,000 CHRISTINA HINDS 916.341.7806 CalRE#: 01902832 THE BEST OF EAST SACRAMENTO! 1930's classic, 3BD/2.5BA, 1936 SQFT. Completely restored from top to bottom. A+ Location, Incredible layout, Designer jnishes, Luxurious style. $799,950 TOM LEONARD 916.834.1681 CalRE#: 01714895

PRIME MCKINLEY PARK LOCATION! 1920's Cottage! Wonderfully restored w/many original features intact. 3bd/2ba, open kitch, bsmnt & lrg bkyd. $599,000 TOM LEONARD 916.834.1681 CalRE#: 01714895

NEW CONSTRUCTION IN EAST SAC! Custom built 3bed, 3 bath, almost 1700sqft plus rare basement. Master suite, lrg yrd on majestic street. $799,950 TOM LEONARD 916.834.1681 CalRE#: 01714895

COVETED EAST SAC BUNGALOW! 3BD, 1BA home w/frml LR, updtd kitch, frml DR, & access to strge & lndry area. $499,900 THE WOOLFORD GROUP 916.502.2120 CalRE#: 00679593/01778361/00680069

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TAHOE PARK BEAUTY! Original owners. 3bd, 1ba hm w/blt-in dining rm cabinets, rejnished wd krs, N & lighting. I newGpaint Daccess Master offers sliding door to the deck & 2 PEN walk-in closets. 1 car gar. $379,900 STEPH BAKER 916.775.3447 CalRE#: 01402254

MODERN SOPHISTICATION IN RIVER PARK! Lrg (2300+) has 3bds, 2.5ba, custom chef's kitch, Master suite, & wood koors. $749,950 TOM LEONARD 916.834.1681 CalRE#: 01714895

UPDATED & CONVENIENT! Lovely 3bd, 2ba w/2 car garage+bonus rm+bsemnt. Steps to Co-op, Temple and so much more! STEPH BAKER 916.775.3447 CalRE#: 01402254

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L STREET LOFTS! Premium majestic 2-stry penthouse loft w/balcony, great living space, 18’ ceilings, granite & stainless kitch. $969,800 MICHAEL ONSTEAD 916.601.5699 CalRE#: 01222608 CUTE EAST SAC BUNGALOW! 2bd/1ba, hrdwd krs, Living rm offers views to the lrg bkyd. Close to Corti Brothers & UCD Med Center. $424,800 MICHAEL ONSTEAD 916.601.5699 CalRE#: 01222608

CUTE COLONIAL HEIGHTS! Located on a corner lot w/3bd, 2 ba w/RV access. Almost New: New paint in/out, updated bathrooms, newer roof & Close UCD Med Center. SANDI BURDEN 916.207.6736 CalRE#: 01004625

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MCKINLEY MANOR! Lovingly updtd, chef's kitch, & gorgeous wood detailing. Great master ste. 4-5bd/3ba, & bsemnt. THE WOOLFORD GROUP 916.502.2120 CalRE#: 00679593/01778361/00680069

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