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SOUTH LAND PARK TERRACE One of a kind 4 bedroom 2½ bath home with soaring ceilings in the living room and master bedroom. Master looks out to the treetops! Two ¿replaces, renovated kitchen, big game room, plus a remote of¿ce off the garage. Deep backyard too! Just minutes to William Land Park, Midtown, shopping and the bike trail. Your treasured memories start here! $650,000 SHEILA VAN NOY 916-505-5395

POPULAR FLOORPLAN AT THE MILL Popular, sold-out Àoorplan in The Mill at Broadway is available! You will love the kitchen with quartz counters, stainless appliances, built-in wine fridge and bar area, high-end laminate Àooring, stylish light ¿xtures, downstairs den/3rd bedroom, upstairs loft, both bedrooms with en suite bathrooms. Newer construction with energy saving features! $467,000 ERIN STUMPF 916-342-1372

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LAKE GREENHAVEN Beautiful brick exterior just hints of things to come. Step in and immediately enjoy the beautiful view of Lake Greenhaven thru the wall of windows in the living room. The spacious kitchen adjoins the pretty family room with contemporary ¿replace. The master suite features a wonderful desk area overlooking the lake. Pool! $895,000 PAULA SWAYNE 916-425-9715

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MARINA COVE AT RIVERLAKE Elegant and sophisticated best describes this home located in the prestigious gated Riverlake Community. Bountiful and beautiful moldings throughout, thermostat controlled ¿replaces, spacious downstairs master suite and upstairs media room are just a few of the wonderful features of this home. Pretty kitchen and soaring ceilings! $875,000 PAULA SWAYNE 916-425-9715

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CHURCHILL DOWNS HOME Charming Tri-level home is nestled near the end of a cul-de-sac. Fantastic kitchen overlooking a cozy family room. One bedroom and full bath downstairs. Spacious master bedroom retreat with walk-in closet and a great sitting room. Beautiful laminate Àooring throughout. Low maintenance backyard with built-in pool and solar panels! $464,000 SYLVIA MORENO 916-996-4760

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LAGUNA NORTH ELK GROVE Wonderful single story 4 bedroom, 2 bath, 3-car garage. Formal dining room and formal living room. Great room concept for kitchen and family room with a ¿replace and bar. Great layout for families and entertaining. New carpet and new paint. Master shower is huge with two shower heads and a bench. Front yard courtyard area as well. $370,000 LISA McCAULEY 916-601-5474

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FANTASTIC CURTIS PARK Curtis Park area bungalow is ready to call home. Lots of storage and plenty of room to stretch your legs. Oversized laundry room provides a great opportunity to add a second bath. Oversized 2-car garage with alley access. Updated electrical and plumbing, tankless water heater, new gutters and three year old HVAC. $425,000 CHRIS BRIGGS 916-834-6483

RENOVATED SLP TERRACE You’re going to Love, LOve, LOVE this handsome mid-century ranch home in South Land Park Terrace. 3 or 4 bedrooms 2 baths, beautifully renovated with style and quality. Bright, Light Cheery! New Kitchen, New Bathrooms, New Windows - and the list goes on! Walk to the zoo, library and Land Park. Minutes to sensational downtown! $579,000 SHEILA VAN NOY 916-505-5395

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LAND PARK GEM! This home has been in the family for decades. Original Land Park Spanish charm featuring a living room with ¿replace, large dining room, breakfast nook, galley kitchen, and central hall Àoor plan. You’ll love the beautiful hardwood Àoors with inlay and large backyard just waiting for your touches. Plenty of storage throughout. Great location! $425,000 KELLIE SWAYNE 9166-206-1458

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pportunities for photography are as close as our smartphone for most of us. But as digital photography has exploded the volume of photos taken, quality is at an all-time low. I have a fairly close relationship with photography, as we feature thousands of photos in our publications each year. Most are the work of our wonderful professional photographers, Linda Smolek and Aniko Kiezel. “Inside Sacramento,” the book we published in 2016, features more than 1,000 photos, and I learned to expertly edit them while creating the book. Both of these publishing experiences have taught me one thing: Photography may look easy, but being a professional requires a great deal of knowledge, creativity and experience. More than a year ago, Roberta McClellan approached me about sponsoring Sacramento’s firstever photography festival, to be held this month. I offered our help with whatever was needed. The four-week event will feature exhibitions and educational opportunities throughout the region to encourage people to interact with the art form in a way they never have before. Photography Month Sacramento is led by McClellan through Viewpoint Photographic Art Center—a Midtown nonprofit—in collaboration with many partners. With approximately 30 events, activities and exhibits scheduled, the month will celebrate the visual arts while creating an accessible and visually exciting collective experience. Photography Month Sacramento offers new opportunities for galleries, museums, educational institutions, libraries, retail establishments,

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photographers and patrons to share, celebrate and elevate the art of photography. There will be exhibits, lectures, receptions, workshops, demonstrations, temporary public-art displays, art walks and other special events. This month, for the first time ever, we are featuring the work of Sacramento photographers on our covers in place of our usual paintings, drawings, collages and sculptural images. McClellan curated a dozen images for me to select from. Inside Publications will host its own photography event, “Inside Photography: Food, Interiors and Portraits,” on Saturday, April 14. I will be joined by photographers Aniko Kiezel and Rachel Valley to talk about the food, interior and portrait photography featured in our book, “Inside Sacramento,” and our monthly publications. We’ll also discuss our experience self-publishing a book. Signed books will be available at a special reduced rate. Join us at 3 p.m. at Clunie Community Center, located at 601 Alhambra Blvd. RSVP to publisher@insidepublications.com. Please enjoy the following profile of McClellan written by Jessica Laskey. Cecily Hastings can be reached at publisher@insidepublications.com.

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come to mind is “What doesn’t this woman do?” The answer is, “Not much,” and McClellan wouldn’t have it any other way. “I like to be able to work on a couple things at a time and learn new skills,” says McClellan, who has run marketing firm McClellan Marketing Group for more than 30 years. “The big key for having an interesting career is to keep evolving.” McClellan has done just that. When she first came to Sacramento as a student at Sacramento State University, she studied broadcast journalism and went to work for KFBK as a talk-show producer. After leaving radio, she figured her producing skills would translate well to marketing and approached legendary local PR guru Jean Runyon about how to break into the business. With Runyon’s mentorship, McClellan founded MMG. But McClellan also wanted to help the arts. “Art has always kept me sane,” she says. “It meant so much to me growing up. I came from a family of four girls, and our mother let us do anything we wanted: sing, dance, draw, paint, play the harp.” Because so many nonprofit arts groups have very limited budgets, McClellan offers her services as an independent contractor. The organization pays her on a project-byproject basis instead of a salary, which most arts groups can’t afford. McClellan ended up working as a consultant for Camellia Symphony

Orchestra and for the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission. She then moved on to Stages-Folsom Dance Arts—a small nonprofit specializing in semiprofessional training for young dancers— and Music in the Mountains, a summertime concert series in Nevada City. In 2014, McClellan was recommended for the executive directorship at Viewpoint Photographic Art Center, a gallery that’s been around since the early 1980s. “The first time I went in, the entire board interviewed me,” McClellan says. “I thought, ‘Bring it on!’” She clearly impressed them; she’s the first executive director the group has had in seven years and one of only two in its history. “I love the whole vibe down here,” says McClellan, who regularly takes in the sights and sounds of Midtown after the gallery has closed before returning home to Auburn. “We have an amazing group of volunteers. We rotate exhibits monthly in two gallery spaces. We provide free field trips, lectures and workshops and we bring a lot of artists to the community.” In order to attract more visitors to Viewpoint, McClellan worked for more than a year organizing the launch of Photography Month Sacramento. “Cities like Denver, LA, Portland and even Belfast are doing photo month events,” McClellan says. “It’s really gaining momentum, which has

been exciting to see. We’re coming up with new ways to engage people in the art of photography with various facets so everyone can enjoy it, whether you take selfies or professional prints in a studio.” The plan is to make the event biannual and partner with local colleges and other arts groups, including Verge Center for the Arts, California Museum, Crocker Art Museum, Beatnik Studios and SMAC, for workshops, a Second Saturday reception, lectures, public-art displays and art walks. “Sacramento likes visual art and loves to take photos, so I think this is really going to work here,” McClellan says. Here’s a sampling of events for Photography Month Sacramento: Sacramento After Dark, an exhibit starting on Tuesday, April 10, at Viewpoint Photographic Art Center and featuring 80 Instagram images; Mammoth Wet-Plate Photo Lecture by Luther Gerlach on Thursday, April 12 and Friday, April 20, at American River College; Darkroom Bus and Camera Demo by Gerlach on Saturday, April 14, also at American River College; and Photo Fête, a celebratory evening event on Thursday, April 26, at Crocker Art Museum. For more information, go to photomonthsac.org. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com. n

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. Claire Raley Studios for the Performing Arts—better known as CLARA—recently announced its new artist-inresidence program. CLARA will provide local choreographers Inertia DeWitt and Dr. Ayo Walker with 16 hours each of free rehearsal space. In exchange,

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they will create two original dance pieces and provide 10 hours of dance instruction to students at Will C. Wood Middle School. “The concept of CLARA comes from the idea that if we can provide artists with space to work and youth with early education in performing arts, the arts economy grows stronger at every level,” says Megan Wygant, executive director of CLARA. “In this project, we are lucky to have found two immensely talented young artists who are passionate about their craft and about sharing it with the next generation.” Walker is a lecturer in the AfricanAmerican and African studies departments at UC Davis and a performance-studies practitioner specializing in the black dance

aesthetic. At CLARA, she’ll work with dancer Brianna James on a piece called “Do Hashtags Make Black Lives Matter?” DeWitt is a performance artist, dance and yoga instructor, and marriage and family therapist trainee.

During her residency at CLARA, she’ll work on a new piece entitled “Courage To Be Seen,” an exploration of confidence and vulnerability. CLARA is at 2420 N St. For more information, go to claramidtown.org.

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AFTER-HOURS HAPPY HOUR AT HAWKS On April 27, Hawks Public House will continue to make good on its New Year’s resolution that on the fourth Friday of every month, the restaurant will welcome guest chefs from around the region for a special late-night happy hour menu from 10 p.m. to midnight. Chef-owner Mike Fagnoni teams up with visiting chefs—including Patricio Wise of Nixtaco and Brad Cecchi of Canon East Sacramento—to create a special bite-and-beverage pairing designed to showcase the unique flavors and talents of the culinary community. Upcoming guests will include Matt Masera and Mike Thiemann of Mother and Empress Tavern. Hawks Public House is at 1525 Alhambra Blvd. For more information, sign up for the Hawks newsletter at hawkspublichouse.com.

FOREST PRESCHOOL SET TO OPEN Camellia Waldorf School in the Pocket will launch Wildflower, Sacramento’s first “forest preschool,” in fall 2018. The forest preschool model— popularized recently in Europe— focuses on child-led learning in an outdoor environment and establishes a healthy balance of time spent outdoors exploring while fostering a love of learning. According to the California Department of Education,

Hop on an excursion train for a ride along waterfront. environment-based education that employs natural ecosystems as a context for learning leads to increased confidence and imagination, improved social skills and greater resilience. Wildflower will be led by teacher Jennifer Mason—rain or shine—in the riparian woodlands behind the school and in nearby Garcia Bend Park. Applications are now being accepted for fall 2018. Camellia Waldorf is at 7450 Pocket Road. For more information, go to camelliawaldorf.org.

EXCURSION TRAIN RIDES RETURN This month kicks off the 35th season of weekend excursion train rides presented by California State Parks and California State Railroad Museum. Starting April 7 and running through September, the 6-mile, 45-minute round trip takes riders along the Sacramento River and waterfront. The trains are pulled by either a vintage steam locomotive or a historic diesel locomotive. Want the VIP experience? Book passage on one of three first-class cars (availability changes each weekend): the El Dorado lounge observation car, the Audubon dining car or the French Quarter lounge car from the 1950s that served the famed Southern Pacific “Sunset Limited” service. The museum is at 125 I St. For tickets and more information, go to californiarailroad.museum.

WALKING HISTORY TOURS COME BACK TO OLD SAC The weekend of April 7 and 8 officially marks the season opening of two guided historical tours by Sacramento History Museum. The Gold Fever! tour invites guests to experience what it was like to catch gold fever during interactive guided excursions through Old Sacramento. Take on a persona of a historical character and find out if you survived fires, disease, floods and the occasional steamboat explosion to keep your gold dust—or lose it all at the gambling tables. Now in its ninth season, the Old Sacramento Underground tours give guests the unique opportunity to explore what’s been hidden beneath the city for more than 150 years. Explore excavated foundations, enclosed pathways and archaeology exhibits while hearing sounds of 1860 street life. Entertaining tour guides lead the way while recounting tales of

the devastation and determination that led to California’s only successful street-raising project. Underground tours depart from Sacramento History Museum (101 I St.). Gold Fever! tours depart from Sacramento Visitors Center (1002 Second St.). For tickets and more information, visit sachistorymuseum.org. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com. n

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KEEPING OUR LOCAL GOVERNMENT SERVANTS ACCOUNTABLE

n indispensable concept on which our system of limited constitutional government depends is that public officials, from the lowliest to the highest, are properly understood to be, and shall always remain, our servants. They serve us and our interests; we do not serve them and their interests. But keeping the public in the driver’s seat of an ever-expanding government requires more effective means of keeping public servants accountable. Traditional monitors of government are fading fast: Newspapers and most other print media are in a death spiral, taken

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down by an internet that has shredded their business model. With fewer beat reporters assigned to local city halls, the job of monitoring local government officials is falling increasingly on nonprofit watchdogs like Eye on Sacramento (which I founded and head) and on “citizen journalists,” activists who use internet tools to uncover and disseminate information, principally through social media. To highlight the challenge, the American Society of News Editors last month sponsored Sunshine Week, as they have each year since 2005. It’s a nationwide recognition and celebration of the importance of free access to government information. As U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Louis Brandeis once put it, “Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.” Public access to local government involves two elements: the public’s ability to obtain government

records and other information, and the public’s ability to effectively participate in the decision making of local governments.

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That’s the theory, anyway. In practice, things often work out quite differently. Some of our local governments are Johnny-on-the-spot responders to records requests, while others can seem like black holes: Once a request goes in, you may never see it again. Why aren’t the mandates of the records act uniformly obeyed by all local governments? It’s because the act lacks an effective enforcement mechanism. If a government flatout refuses to cough up requested documents without citing any legitimate justification, there is no consequence unless the requester goes to the considerable expense of hiring a lawyer to bring suit to compel release of the records. The prohibitive costs of such suits scare off just about every potential litigant. If a requester does file suit and wins, the court can award attorney’s fees. But it costs local government

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Our second records-act suit was more successful and impactful. When the Sacramento city clerk announced plans in 2015 to delete 55 million Eye on Sacramento has brought city emails dating back 15 years, we two records-act lawsuits against the sought and won a court order halting city of Sacramento to date. the deletion of 20 million of the emails Our first suit, in 2012, sought in what may be the largest single to obtain emails circulating among records-act “save” ever. When the city members of the City Council and their clerk complained about the cost to staffers in the lead-up to the 2011 the city of storing so many emails, we redrawing of council district lines, the bought and delivered to her a singleproduct of what struck us as a fairly terabyte hard drive (cost: $200) that obvious backroom deal. The plan could easily store all of the emails at split the voting power of Hispanic issue. voters but protected the political futures of the council incumbents who MY SEARCH FOR CITY supported the plan. The contentious redistricting plan led to weeks of CRIME DATA protests at City Hall. I had a recent personal experience We lost most of the case as Judge in trying to track down basic crime Lloyd Connelly (himself a former stats in Sacramento that illustrates councilmember) granted us access to how difficult it can be to access only one of several emails we sought, public records. Three years ago, I ruling that the remainder of the was able to easily obtain from the emails were protected by a judicially Sacramento Police Department’s created “deliberative process” webpage information I needed on privilege, which, in our admittedly the number of reported crimes in biased view, can be used to cover all each of the standard major-crime manner of political sins.

categories for the previous three years. The information was displayed in easy-to-understand charts. It took me less than three minutes on the department’s webpage to find the information I needed. But last year it was a very different—and extraordinarily frustrating—story. Since my previous effort to dig up city crime stats, the city had launched its Open Data Portal. All efforts to obtain crime stats would have to go through the portal. No more looking at the police webpage to get the crime stats I wanted. I found the portal to be the most unwieldy, unfriendly interface I’ve encountered in memory. Finding the correct data set to download was like being in a foreign land where the inhabitants spoke only advanced bureaucratese. And once I managed to open a data set, it was immediately apparent that only someone with training in database management stood a prayer of navigating the mass of undifferentiated data that came spewing forth.

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In frustration, I called one of the three public information officers assigned to the Sacramento Police Department and identified myself as a member of the media. I explained that I was completely stumped by the city’s portal and asked for his help in securing the simple crime stats I wanted. The friendly PIO commiserated with me over how awful the portal was and how everyone missed the old webpage that had made finding crime stats a breeze. He promised to personally track down the crime stats for me and call me back. I never heard from him again. My follow-up phone calls to him went unanswered. A few weeks later, I received a system-generated email from the city saying that the records I sought with my public-records request could be obtained on the city’s Open Data Portal. I gave up. I ended up passing my request over to Debra Desrosiers, Eye on Sacramento’s vice president of government oversight and our public-records-request coordinator. Desrosiers is one of the most active

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filers of public-records requests in Sacramento County. She is computer savvy, very detail oriented (nearly 20 years as a title officer tends to instill that in a person) and persistent in following up on our records requests to local government. Now I’m a reasonably intelligent person. I’ve filed numerous records requests myself. I lead the organization that has as a core part of its mission acting as a watchdog of local government. I’ve led efforts to reform city laws to make city government more transparent and accessible (most of which were rejected). If I can’t navigate my way through the city’s portal, what chance does the typical citizen have of doing so? Plus, the typical citizen doesn’t have Desrosiers in their corner. Clearly, the city clerk needs to revamp and simplify navigation of the city’s Open Data Portal. Her office should offer training to the public on how to make robust use of the data sets the city is posting.

HOW DO LOCAL CITIES STACK UP? I asked Desrosiers to summarize her experience with how cities in Sacramento County are responding to our records requests. Here’s her report: “The best-performing local jurisdictions are the cities of Citrus Heights, Elk Grove and Rancho Cordova. Their websites have specific contact and email information to submit requests. They rarely require extensions to provide information. They are super helpful and will pick up the phone and call you if they have questions. The city of Sacramento, by contrast, sends you notice on their website and says if you don’t reply within five days, you have to resubmit your request. “The county of Sacramento has a generic email address for submitting requests, which, if you send a request there, you may or may not get a response. It’s sporadically monitored and you have to wait 10 days to see if you’re lucky enough to get a response. Usually you don’t. They have a new online system which we haven’t used yet.” According to her logs, Eye on Sacramento has submitted 17 records requests to the city in the past 15 months. The average number of days from the date of our request to the date of the city’s fulfillment of our request is a shameful 54 days. Sacramento’s average response time is 30 days longer than the maximum time allowable under the California Public Records Act. Particularly galling was Sacramento’s response to our Feb. 22 request for a copy of the proposal that Sacramento submitted to Amazon in its unsuccessful bid to land Amazon’s second national headquarters, a proposal that received intense media attention. Sacramento’s farcical response was that it did not possess a copy of its own proposal. Last month, Desrosiers conducted a quick, unscientific test of how local cities respond to a common records request. On Friday, March 9, between 1:20 and 1:30 p.m., she transmitted identical records requests to the five major cities in Sacramento County:

Sacramento, Folsom, Elk Grove, Citrus Heights and Rancho Cordova. Astonishingly, Folsom, Elk Grove and Citrus Heights provided all of the requested records to us that very afternoon, less than four hours after our request. Rancho Cordova acknowledged our request that afternoon and promised to deliver the documents on a timely basis. As of the deadline for this column, we’ve received no response from Sacramento.

MOVING FORWARD Eye on Sacramento wants to help enable neighborhood associations, community groups and citizens to monitor and report on the actions of local government, including local school districts and special districts. We want to help everyday folks become citizen reporters, auditors and journalists to help fill the vacuum left by the fading print media. In the next few months, we’ll post to Eye on Sacramento’s website templates for records requests, an instructional brochure and a more detailed legal guide to the nuances of the California Public Records Act. (You can sign up to receive regular updates at eyeonsacramento.org.) Eye on Sacramento representatives will also be available to speak to neighborhood, community and other groups to help demystify local government and to lay out the tools available to everyday folks to assert themselves as the legitimate supervisors of our public servants. We’ll invite local government officials to join us at these meetings. Our efforts will be led by Lisa Garcia, vice president for community outreach, and Nancy Kitz, who chairs the opengovernment committee, as well as the indefatigable Desrosiers. 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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Taking Risks ‘UPSTAIRS AT THE B’ OFFERS ROOM FOR EXPERIMENTING

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t’s been only two short months since B Street Theatre moved into The Sofia Tsakopoulos Center for the Arts at 2700 Capitol Ave., but a string of sold-out shows suggests the theater company already feels right at home. On Feb. 4, The Sofia officially opened with a performance of “One Man, Two Guvnors,” which sold out every performance including a two-week extension. Follow-up shows, “Gandhi!” and “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe,” both sold out before their opening nights. According to Lyndsay Burch, B Street’s artistic producer, ticket sales like those just didn’t happen at the old location. “It’s amazing, and really a credit to the community’s support of this

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project and interest in the arts,” says Burch, who managed the theater’s move to The Sofia from its old location at B and 28th streets. “Not only were we not completely selling out before, but now we’re selling more seats.” (The old location had an approximate capacity of 8,800, while The Sofia can seat more than 10,000.) While B Street’s boost in sales probably has something to do with interest in the new Sofia, Burch says similar-sized companies that relocated to larger spaces have maintained their success, suggesting the trend for B Street will continue. “We expect to maintain at least a certain percent of that increase for the foreseeable future,” she says. The new $30 million, 40,000-square-foot complex has two separate performing spaces: the 250-seat Mainstage and the 365seat Sutter Theatre for Children. The Sofia also allows B Street to diversify its productions to include both music and speakers. The center signed a yearlong contract with SBL Entertainment, the agency that

books shows for Harlow’s and Crest Theatre. The Sofia’s management expects to book at least 80 shows this year alone. The center had about a dozen concerts in March, including performances by Jon Cleary, Karla Bonoff and Grammy winner Kalani Pe’a. In May, The Sofia will host a range of performers, from indierock band The Weepies to Camellia Symphony Orchestra. Oddly enough, says Burch, “people are coming in and they don’t even know that we do theater.” While theatergoers may not realize B Street hosts music, and concertgoers are discovering it also produces theater, The Sofia has a third element that could be news to both groups: Upstairs at the B, the brainchild of artistic director Buck Busfield, artistic producer Dave Pierini and Burch. “We are all artists, and we were just brainstorming and thinking about what we would love to see,” Burch explains. “What do we think would be fun and interesting for the

community? So we started calling it our ‘kitchen sink space,’” she says. That kitchen sink space, officially called Upstairs at the B, began debuting a hodgepodge of shows in March but has yet really to promote itself. Regularly used as a rehearsal space, it doubles as a 75-seat, blackbox-type theater for experimental shows, readings, improv and stand-up comedy, as well as live podcasts and role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons. “It’s more of coffee shop type of venue for taking risks and trying new things,” explains Burch. “We want to say yes to as many things as we can up there and see what works.” That approach cuts to the heart of theater, which never needs more than an actor and audience anyway. Upstairs at the B creates a link between The Sofia’s large-scale productions and the original, more intimate B Street Theatre. Though B Street hasn’t yet promoted Upstairs at the B, Burch expects it to really kick off in June with its New Play Festival. The

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She’s All In KELLIE RANDLE PUTS HER TIME WHERE HER HEART IS

or Kellie Randle, community service isn’t just a concept—it’s a way of life. In addition to serving on several local nonprofit boards (representing Randle Communications, the PR company she runs with her husband) and parent boards, the Sierra Oaks resident is also the president of the Sacramento chapter of National Charity League, which she’s been involved with for nearly nine years.

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“I think everyone should be involved,” Randle says of her passion for volunteerism. Randle lends her high energy and organizational skills to boards like California Musical Theatre (she’s chairing its 2018 Broadway Gala on May 5) and Shriners Hospitals for Children. She’s also on the parent boards at Jesuit and Saint Francis high schools and the parent advisory council at Vanderbilt University, where her eldest daughter goes to school. “I’ve been chairing school auctions since the kids were in preschool,” Randle says proudly. In all of her charitable work, Randle makes it her mission to get others as fired up about helping as she is.

When she became president of NCL’s Sacramento chapter, she amped up the monthly meetings with speakers, hands-on activities and other enrichments to make members excited to attend. “I thought if I’m going to do this, I need to be all in,” says Randle, who has been active with the nation’s first mother-daughter charity since her eldest daughter was in sixth grade. (NCL is a six-year program—from sixth grade to senior year of high school—in which young women volunteer for local organizations alongside their mothers.) “It’s like Junior League with your mom,” Randle says with a laugh. The Sacramento chapter is made up of 250 mother-and-daughter members who serve 18 local philanthropies, including Foster Youth Education Fund, River City Food Bank, Food Literacy Center and Sacramento Children’s Home. On May 16, Sacramento Children’s Museum will honor Randle at its Inspire! event, which recognizes an inspirational woman each spring for the work she’s done to make a positive impact on the lives of young children. “I’m so blown away by the award,” Randle says. “My focus has always been to work really hard and inspire and empower others.” During her year at the helm of National Charity League, Randle instituted the All-Star Awards, which she presents each month to thank members for their service. “I want people to want to be part of this,” Randle says. “If you’re going to make the effort to leave your house and come to the meetings, I don’t want to waste your time. I want you to have fun.” May will be a busy month for Randle. In addition to the Broadway Gala on May 5 and the Inspire! award ceremony on May 16, she’ll attend NCL’s year-end event on May 6 at Haggin Oaks to send off the senior girls. Hectic though it may sound, Randle wouldn’t have it any other way. For more information about National Charity League, go to sacramento.nationalcharityleague.org.

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ennis Newhall has a hidden treasure and wants everyone to see it. He needs anywhere from 800 to 1,000 square feet with nice, clean walls. He doesn’t want windows. In fact, the less light, the better. But foot traffic is essential. Lots of people will stop by and see what he has to share. Newhall owns one of the most unique and appealing collections of cultural art in Sacramento. His masterpieces encompass the city’s history of rock ’n’ roll and include

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posters and original artwork from 50 years of local performances by such diverse luminaries as Fats Domino, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors and Donovan, all the way to Jackie Greene. There are handbills from forgotten groups headlining at Shire Road Pub in Fair Oaks. There’s a rare poster advertising a March 11, 1968, event at Memorial Auditorium, when the Grateful Dead opened for Cream. It was the only time those two bands ever performed on the same bill. Newhall has five pallets of rock artwork stashed away at a secret location. He’s eager to display the goods. All he needs is a few clean, safe, accessible walls. “I have lots of ideas, and some of them are crazy,” he says. “I don’t want to display it in a restaurant with big windows or an insurance office where

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there’s no public access. We really can’t have sunshine, because it will damage the artwork. A basement or an inner space without windows would be great. But we need activity, in an area where lots of people are walking around, so people can wander in, pay their dollar and see the collection.” If Newhall could choose any site in town to house the collection, he would choose a museum that’s already up and running. Museums have staffers who know how to handle and display art. And they have systems to collect the entry fee, which Newhall insists will remain rock bottom, just a dollar or two. Not long ago, Newhall discussed his collection with one local museum. He thought the rock-art material would be a good fit, but he couldn’t reach agreement with management. There are about 20 museums in Sacramento. He’s working his way through a list of potential candidates, so far without luck. “It’s tricky. It’s got to be the right space,” Newhall says. “For example, the State Military Museum would probably not be the best fit.” Many people in Sacramento have already seen portions of the collection. For 17 years, some of the collection’s greatest hits were on display at 20th and I streets, site of the old Crabshaw Corner and Oasis Ballroom music halls. The building had been taken over by a commercial audio studio, Nakamoto Productions. Newhall worked at the studio as a sound engineer. One day, owner Ray Nakamoto had a brilliant idea: Let’s find old rock posters to jazz up the surroundings. “I had some stuff that I’d carried around for 30 years in a flattened old water-heater box,” Newhall says. “There were 40 or 50 pieces, some of which were really collectible. We had them framed, which was expensive.

Then I learned to make frames and do the matting myself. From there, the collection just grew. I found stuff on eBay; people gave me stuff. It just grew and took on a life of its own.” After a few years, Newhall moved the collection into a building next door to the studios. The Midtown location was perfect for drawing crowds, especially when Second Saturday art walks brought thousands of people into the neighborhood. “On some of those busy Second Saturday nights around 2010, we would have 300 people an hour coming through,” he says. “We had over 1,200 people one night.” The collection was never a big moneymaker, and profit was never the motive. Newhall would ask visitors for a $1 donation on Second Saturdays, hoping to cover the cost of buying frames and materials. Even now, Newhall doesn’t expect to make a living with the posters. “But because I have to make a living, I can’t sit there and collect the money and watch over everything,” he says. With the right location, the collection will sell itself. Beyond the sheer creativity, historical significance and beauty of the posters, they transcend generations. “It’s not just a bunch of hippie posters from the ’60s,” Newhall says. “There’s a lot of vibrant art. The collection covers 50 years of rock. It’s what happened in Sacramento, Davis, the foothills. It’s the story of our music.” Let us know if you have a home for Newhall’s collection. It deserves to be seen. To see some of Dennis Newhall’s music posters, go to sacrockmuseum. org. R.E. Graswich can be reached at reg@graswich.com. n

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Success by the Numbers SQUARE ROOT ACADEMY BRINGS STEM EDUCATION TO UNDERREPRESENTED YOUTH

hen Curtis Park resident Nicholas Haystings was a kid, he wanted to become an inventor. He didn’t know at the time that the career he envisioned was actually called engineering—and he’s made it his life’s work to make sure other kids like him know exactly what they’re pursuing.

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“No one surrounding me at the time knew to correct me,” says Haystings, who grew up in South Sacramento. “It’s hard to find a support system that knows what you’re trying to do. How do you support this intangible thing?” So Haystings and fellow engineers D. Theodore Mponte and Christina Carter-Brown launched Square Root Academy in 2016. The nonprofit organization is dedicated to educating underrepresented youth on the fundamentals of STEM—science, technology, engineering and math— while emphasizing collaborative learning, innovation and academic excellence.

“There’s a large inequality in access to that level of education in certain populations,” says Haystings, who met Mponte, an electrical engineer, while studying mechanical engineering at Sacramento State University. “In creating Square Root Academy, we wanted to level the playing field. The jobs of the future will be derived from STEM, so we want to make sure everyone is equipped.” Square Root Academy’s “bread and butter,” as Haystings puts it, is hands-on education. Students (called “scholars”) are selected through an in-depth application process and then attend classes at no cost after school

and on Saturdays to learn STEM concepts from industry professionals. “The majority of our team is made up of degreed STEM professionals,” Haystings says. “It’s so important for students to see what STEM looks like in the real world.” During the group’s “Innovation Expeditions,” scholars take field trips to Sac State, Intel and local engineering firms to see how the knowledge they’re gaining will actually be used when they enter the working world. They also gain hands-on experience with coding, laser cutting and 3D printing. But it’s training in how to think like scientists that Haystings sees as most important.

Introducing johnnie-o Refreshing new sport shirts with modern interpretations of classic patterns that can be worn comfortably untucked. “Science is often taught wrong,” Haystings says. “It’s not taught with intention. There’s a disconnect between math and engineering. Math is a tool; engineering is the application of the tool. But most teachers really only know STEM from a theoretical standpoint. They don’t have a firm understanding, and they pass that uncertainty along to their students. We help make sure scholars understand the entire process to be successful.” Square Root’s founders have seen high demand for this kind of education. For their most recent cohort of 30 scholars, they had 100 applicants. The organization fills a gap not only in the curriculum but in the community. “There’s a large disparity in diversity in STEM,” Haystings says. “STEM is only 22 percent women, 7 percent Latin-American and 6 percent African-American. That makes you scratch your head. America is supposed to be this great melting pot, but school districts don’t have programming for at-risk youth.

That means that when they reach the collegiate level, they can barely do geometry. It’s an issue of preparation and access to education.” Square Root Academy has hosted programs for more than 300 scholars at four area schools, including Valley High School and John Bidwell Elementary School, as well as weekly classes at its makerspace in South Sacramento. The founders are hoping to expand into Oak Park, Twin Rivers School District and beyond to reach as many students as possible. “We’re open to collaboration,” Haystings says. “In order to inspire and empower the next generation, it will take more than just the academy alone. We’re sending an open invitation to anyone who wants to work on improving access to STEM education. You have an ally in Square Root Academy.”

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Modern Meets Bohemian GET A GLIMPSE OF THIS CURTIS PARK HOME ON ANNUAL TOUR

hat happens when the clean lines of midcentury modern meet the unconventional style of bohemian chic? Step into Reuben Edelson and Kat Haro’s home in Curtis Park and

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find out. The corner house, built in 1936, will be one of five homes featured on this year’s Curtis Park Home & Garden Tour on April 28. “I tease Reuben that he would love anything that is wood and metal,” says Haro. “That sort of pseudoindustrial look. I’m a little quirky, but ultimately it ends up balancing out.” Decorative touches subtly scattered throughout the home include ethnic masks and ceramics, wood and metal shelving, framed photos and original artwork. Edelson and Haro also have timeless treasures from various

family members, including Haro’s grandparents, who used to have a booth at a local antique mall. “I grew up going to garage sales and flea markets,” she notes. “I tend to find things here and there—anywhere from HomeGoods to the Antique Faire. When it all came together, his stuff and my stuff, I think it actually worked out pretty well.” Edelson purchased the 2,032-square-foot-home home in 2017. At the time, he was renting in Curtis Park, not far from where he grew up. Haro, whose family is from Land Park, owns another house in the area.

“We lived about 10 blocks away from each other when we met,” she points out. Edelson, who works in finance at Intel in Folsom, began his homebuying quest while working toward his MBA at UC Davis. “He wanted to buy a house as soon as he graduated,” says Haro, who works in advertising at MeringCarson in Midtown. “But every house he looked at, he found something wrong. He was really picky.” Then Edelson came across the three-bedroom, two-bath Craftsman home, remodeled in 2012, and he

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knew it was the one. The house was owned by Patrick and Kate Van Buren, who purchased it for Patrick’s mother to live in as she grew older. (The couple live two houses down from Edelson and Haro.) “His mother was very particular and had a certain standard of what she wanted,” comments Haro. “So he poured his heart and soul into this house and did everything up to his mother’s standards.” The kitchen upgrades include soapstone countertops, a farm sink, stainless steel appliances and a variation of white subway tiles for a backsplash. Original to the

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Sacramento’s senior homes. “I’ve told many friends that I will always have an older, smaller house than anyone else I know because I am paying for the area and the charm of the older

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home, and that’s 100 percent worth it to me.” The Curtis Park Home & Garden Tour will take place on Saturday,

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home are the hardwood floors in the living room and two bedrooms, as well as the china hutch in the breakfast nook. Light fixtures from the 1920s and ’30s were installed to maintain the charm of the older home. The spacious master bedroom, which was added prior to Edelson and Haro, also received a full upgrade. Patrick Van Buren built scaffolding so he could hand-chip the paint off the ceiling’s exposed beams to reveal the true wood. A marble countertop and tiled shower modernize the master bathroom. A freestanding soaking tub is a nice addition to the remodeled guest bath. Haro, who sits on the board of Sierra Curtis Neighborhood Association, loves the charm of

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THE OLDER HOME, AND THAT’S 100 PERCENT WORTH IT TO ME.

April 28, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. It will feature five Tudor- and Craftsmanstyle homes and gardens in a two-mile loop. There will be live music, food and informational displays at Curtis Park. The event, presented by Sierra Curtis Neighborhood Association, benefits Sierra 2 Community Center and neighborhood activities. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit sierra2.org or Sierra 2 Community Center at 2791 24th St. Advance tickets are $25 ($20 for SCNA members). Day-of-tour tickets are $30 ($25 for SCNA members). If you know of a home you think should be featured in Inside Publications, contact Cathryn Rakich at crakich@surewest.net. n

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Glory Days

A LOCAL KINGS FAN CAN’T FORGET BOB DAVIES

Barry Martin

arry Martin is not the loudest or oldest Kings fan. He’s probably not even the most

loyal. But it’s a good bet Martin is the only Kings fan living in Sacramento who can describe what it was like to watch the team play at Edgerton Park Sports Arena. “It was nothing like Golden 1 Center,” he says with a laugh. Most Kings fans would have a hard time placing Edgerton Park. Such ignorance carries no shame. Only the most diehard NBA devotee, or someone of a certain age

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raised around the snowy streets of Rochester, N.Y., would know about Edgerton. The Kings were big winners when they called Edgerton and Rochester home. In those days, the team savored a level of success unimaginable for the Sacramento losers. The Kings were called the Royals. They won two championships at Edgerton: the 1946 National Basketball League title and their first and only victory in an NBA final in 1951. Despite a new name and evictions from Rochester, Cincinnati, Kansas City and Omaha before settling in Sacramento, they have been shooting blanks ever since. Martin was a youngster living in Webster, a farm community 10 miles east of Rochester. His father disliked basketball, but his mother enjoyed the game and occasionally bought tickets for herself and her son.

“Edgerton was very dark inside,” he says. “The slope of the seats was slight, not like today, where they go straight up. The court was smaller than regulation size, and there was probably 5 feet from the end line of the court to the back wall. Players would be unable to stop, and they would go through the doors and bump into somebody in the concession area drinking a Coke. At the other end, they’d crash through the doors and be standing outside in the snow.” Today, Martin is 80 and retired from his career as an attorney. He lives in Arden Park. Two years ago, he channeled his boyhood recollections and love of research into a book about one of the greatest players in Kings franchise history: Bob Davies. The book, which carries the straightforward title “Bob Davies: A Basketball Legend,” is an exhaustively reported homage to a

humble and heroic athlete forgotten in the modern menagerie of sports celebrities. “I ended up a lawyer, but my real interest was American history,” Martin says. In college at Seton Hall University in New Jersey, Davies was the most popular basketball player of his era. He invented the behind-the-back dribble, but he never hired an agent or made TV appearances, unlike Bob Cousy, who did all those things and won credit for the move created by Davies. Research on the book began decades ago, shortly after the Kings moved to Sacramento in 1985. Martin wangled an assignment to write about Davies for Hoop magazine. Davies, who died in 1990 at age 70, was unable to meet Martin for an interview, but he sent the author a friendly postcard.

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Martin tracked down members of Davies’ family, old players and coaches and people who knew the great athlete. He studied scrapbooks. His work is revelatory: By focusing on one man who helped create the game before television, Martin captures the evolution of basketball. “He was a role model, to use a term that’s almost irrelevant now,” Martin says. “He played on integrated teams and he served in World War II on a minesweeper.” Davies scored the winning points for the Royals in their 1951 Game 7 championship victory over the New York Knicks. Fouled by Dick McGuire with 44 seconds left, Davies sank both free throws to break a 75-75 tie. A layup by Jack Coleman made the Royals 79-75 winners. The game was the pinnacle not just for the franchise but for Edgerton Park. The 4,200-seat arena at Dewey Avenue and Backus Street in Rochester was pulled down after the Royals moved to Cincinnati in 1957.

Like Sacramento’s abandoned arena in North Natomas, nobody missed Edgerton. The place had an awful past—it had been a drill hall when the site was a children’s prison—and was never designed for basketball. But as long as the Kings continue their failure and futility, measured now in generations, Edgerton will live on as the only place where the franchise won a championship. And Barry Martin, who can still remember watching games on frigid winter nights in Rochester, finds a special connection to the past when he visits Golden 1 Center. He glances toward the player numbers retired by the team and moves quickly past greats such as Mitch Richmond and Oscar Robertson. He settles on No. 11. That was Bob Davies.

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Getting It Off DR. IAN JOHNSON’S WEIGHT-LOSS CLINIC HELPS PATIENTS SHED POUNDS FOR GOOD

Dr. Ian Johnson

eight management is much more dynamic than calories in, calories out,” Dr. Ian Johnson explains. “Obesity is not about willpower. It’s not about not being able to push yourself away from the dinner table. It’s a disease.” As a family medicine and addiction medicine specialist, Johnson helps overweight patients change their lifestyle and address underlying genetic factors that predispose them to hang onto weight. “Working in the field of addiction medicine as long as I have, I find a similarity in the way we treat obesity and addiction,” says Johnson, whose career has seen him through Boston University, SUNY Upstate Medical University, and the U.S. Army, Air Force and Army Reserve. “We blame them for their illness when really they have a genetic predisposition that requires an overlay of one or more environmental factors to develop the disease. We need to stop blaming, marginalizing and stigmatizing innocent victims of disease.” Johnson founded Let’s Get It Off, a weight-loss clinic in the Rosemont area that’s due to open on May 1.

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It addresses obesity with a 12-week program that combines medical assistance and education. “The emphasis is education, education, education,” says the Trinidad native, who immigrated with his family just before high school. “It’s not just a clinic; it’s a program. We teach patients how to shop for food, how to prepare meals, how to eat properly, how to exercise—lifestyle modifications they can take with them forward.” As medical director of the Health and Life Organization (also known as Sacramento Community Clinic), Johnson supervises four area clinics that serve the underserved population—those whose health “has been neglected by themselves and society,” as Johnson puts it. He began to notice that when obese patients asked for medically supervised weight loss, the clinics couldn’t handle their request. “I felt like my hands were tied in the clinic setting—very frustrating,” Johnson says. “In private practice, there’s time to counsel a patient and follow them more closely, which really requires a specialist.” He started Let’s Get It Off to help overweight patients lose excess pounds, then go back to their regular doctor for follow-up care. “Studies show that you don’t have to lose a ton of weight to get the cardiovascular benefits,” Johnson says. “If we can achieve a 5 to 10 percent loss of your base weight, then we would be medically doing very, very well to

reduce several cardiovascular risk factors that are attributable to obesity like diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, sleep apnea and even certain types of cancers.” Johnson says that patients can expect counseling in lifestyle modification alongside medication assistance to reach their goals. “Medication is not very sexy,” he says. “The cornerstones of weight loss are still diet to get the weight off and exercise to maintain. But there will almost invariably be a rebound. Your brain tries to bring you back to a set point, and that’s where one of

the four FDA-approved weight loss medications come in. The medications fool the brain into thinking there’s food in the gut—that you’re full—so it turns off the hunger signal. Now you can only fool the brain for so long before it sends all its horses and all its men to put you back together again, so you have to be extremely vigilant. That’s why we follow our patients so closely: to monitor their overall health and to keep them motivated.” Let’s Get It Off is at 8950 Cal Center Drive, Suite 112. For more information, visit letsgetitoffca.com. n

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Longing for AC By Anita Clevenger Garden Jabber

here have recently been photos of enticing peaches in grocery store ads. They are my favorite fruit. Just looking at them makes my mouth water and my heart yearn. In the stores, reality sets in. The peaches may look good, but they feel hard and have no discernible fragrance. These aren’t the luscious peaches that I am longing for. At one time, you could only purchase produce that was in season or would survive long-term cold storage. About 30 years ago, I could not find a single fresh strawberry in Sacramento in my quest to make my family’s traditional Easter strawberry shortcake. Strawberries were out of season, and that was that. Now, you can get virtually any produce you want at any time, grown in other climates and countries and frequently shipped thousands of miles. Gardeners have known all along what proponents of the farm-tofork movement have more recently discovered: Produce is tastiest and most nutritious when picked at its peak and eaten as soon after harvesting as possible. We say regretful goodbyes to some favorites but greet others with ecstatic hellos. I can no longer buy kabocha squash or satsuma mandarins at the farmers

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Peaches HOW TO PLANT SO YOU CAN EAT WELL ALL SEASON market, but now is the time for the best asparagus. Locally grown peaches are not far behind. When you are gardening, there are ways of extending the seasons that don’t require long-term storage and long-distance trucking. The secret is what you plant and how you grow it. The days between planting and harvesting are often marked on packages of vegetable seeds and plants. Some varieties ripen earlier than others. Corn, for example, can mature in as little as 58 days or as long as 92. Easter Egg eggplants bear little, egglike white fruit in 52 days. Long Asian eggplants are ready about 70 days from planting, while large, oval eggplants range from 60 to more than 80 days. The Early Girl tomato earns its name by ripening in 54 days, while main-crop varieties take at least 70 days, and some extra-large and heirloom varieties make you wait up to 90 days. Fruit trees may have early, midseason or late varieties. The early peaches that you find in the farmers market are often cling peaches with fruit that grips its stone (pit) tightly. If you prefer freestone, be sure to ask the vendor or look for a label. Peaches ripen between May and mid-September. Evocative names

such as Earlitreat, May (or June or August) Pride, Summerset and one of the latest of all, Fairtime, indicate when their fruit will be ready. Home gardeners can select varieties to harvest all summer long or graft different varieties onto the same tree. Apples can take from 100 to 200 days between flowering and harvest. Southern highbush blueberries can grow successfully in our area, although you must ensure that your soil is acidic and rich in organic matter, and it’s best to provide some afternoon shade. By planting several different varieties, you can harvest from very early to midseason and enjoy these attractive bushes throughout the year. Planting times also affect when you harvest. Generally, summer vegetables are best planted when the soil warms up. However, tomato growers are especially aggressive about planting early, devising techniques for warming the soil with protective red or black plastic mulches, protecting their plants and bragging about first harvest. Many of you may already be coddling tomato plants in your garden, but others wait until the soil warms up later this month or even in May. Indeterminate types of tomatoes, which continue

to grow and flower throughout the season, will bear fruit through the fall, but determinate ones grow to a limited size and bear fruit all at once. Some vegetables, such as snap beans, are routinely planted successively to extend their harvest time. Continually harvesting your vegetables will encourage them to keep on bearing. At the peak of summer, go out into the garden every morning to examine your plants and pick whatever is ready. We’ve all experienced the shock of finding a giant zucchini or overripe tomato in the middle of a plant, somehow hiding in plain sight until it is too late to enjoy. To everything, there is a season. We often forget that in our modern lives, but gardens and farmers markets remind us to enjoy harvest at its peak and to celebrate each season. There is a time for peaches, and it’s coming soon. 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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The Backyard Restaurant LOCAL CHEF BRINGS ‘POP-UP’ DINING TO PEOPLE’S HOMES

local chef wants to bring fine dining to Sacramento backyards. James Williams, who works at South restaurant in Southside Park, started a company called Nomad

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Roaming Kitchen, which offers pop-up dining experiences at people’s homes. The dinners are multicourse affairs served family-style at communal tables outdoors. Nomad brings everything: tables and chairs, lighting, cooking equipment, food and wine. The host supplies a backyard with space for at least 14 diners, who pay $55 to $85 per person. The diners can be friends of the host or strangers; would-be diners can sign up on Nomad’s website for upcoming dinners. Hosts dine free as a way to thank them for the use of their yard. The menus are seasonally driven. A typical menu might include smoked

duck breast on toast; farro salad with Tuscan kale and goat cheese; roast leg of lamb; pan-roasted trout with prosciutto and pickled cauliflower; truffle risotto cakes; grilled mixed vegetables; and lavender poached pears with blackberry port sauce and toasted macadamia nuts. According to Williams, Nomad is not a traditional catering service. “The primary difference is that we do not take orders from clients or even modify the menus,” he says. “We emphasize and feature what is best in peak seasonality. Plus, by highlighting paired wine offerings served by stewards and sommeliers,

we emulate the essence of five-star dining while maintaining backyard coziness.” Feedback from diners, says Williams, “has been off-the-chart positive. I think it’s because people don’t know what to expect. Once the transformation is complete on their own property, they witness how magical it can become with the string lights and torch lamps, our reclaimedwood tables, and the unique attention, focus and presentation given to both the food and the wine.” Since he began offering the service last fall, Williams has done backyard dinners in Land Park, South Land

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concentrate on low-key, intimate dining.” Williams partnered with Tim Stagle, a Sacramento auto mechanic and wood craftsman who makes the reclaimed-wood tables that are used at the dinners. “Working and dining in a beautiful natural setting like one’s own backyard, with small groups of intimate friends and family members, is such a fun, relaxed way to focus on each other while dining and drinking all the best that culinary California has to offer,” says Williams. “The whole experience is so therapeutic for client and chef alike.” Williams credits his wife Kate for supporting him. “She is the person I trust more than anyone,” he says. “She has been there taking care of me through my worst times. She helps me fulfill my lifelong goal: to live by the saying ‘Do what you love and you never have to work another day in your life.’” The couple loves to host dinner parties at home. Their three children often help out. “Kate makes our guests feel welcome and well cared for,” says Williams. “She is the very model of what I hope to accomplish at Nomad, and she plays a big part in making my dreams a reality.”

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Bill Drotar

hen I first catch sight of Bill Drotar, a volunteer at the Aerospace Museum of California, he is expertly piloting a forklift across the exhibit floor. The crew has been hard at work all week dismantling the museumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s latest traveling exhibit. Drotar is making it look easy as he maneuvers the heavy black storage containers onto the moving truck.

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WEIGHT LOSS PROGRAM “This is my playground,” says Drotar, sporting blue jeans, a plaid shirt and an impressive collection of keys for every lock in the place. “That’s why I like it here. This is what keeps me young.” Playground indeed. The aerospace museum, located at McClellan Business Park in Sacramento, is 37,500 square feet of every kid’s happy place, plus a 4-acre airpark where anyone’s creativity and curiosity can take wing. But Drotar is not a kid. His gray beard and deep tan give him away. At 75, he is one of the museum’s veteran volunteers, logging in almost 12,000 hours since he began donating his time and energy 16 years ago. “Bill does aircraft restoration—he’s a master at it—and maintenance on equipment. He even replaces the lights in the parking lot,” says Roxanne Yonn, the museum’s former executive director and curator. “All I have to do is ask and it is done. When someone backed into our chain-link fence overnight a few months ago, I called him that Saturday morning and he was here in 20 minutes.” Drotar is on hand at the aerospace museum four to five days a week, six to seven hours a day. While his primary and “favorite” volunteer duties include maintenance and repair on the aircraft, he will step in as a docent when needed. “I can tell a good story, too,” says Drotar with a smile. A favorite anecdote involves the museum’s A-10 Thunderbolt II, also known as the Warthog, one of more than 50 aircraft on display. Drotar points to the bullet holes that the plane suffered

during Operation Desert Storm. Too damaged to go back into service, the plane was retired to the museum in 1991. Drotar’s knowledge of aviation dates back to his four-year stint in the U.S. Air Force, where his training in aircraft maintenance began. After he left the Air Force in 1964, Drotar took a job as a mechanic with United Airlines in San Francisco. A couple of moves within the company took him to Connecticut and then back to San Francisco. He retired in 2001, then relocated to Sacramento. “Sacramento seemed like a nice, quiet place to retire,” says Drotar, who found his next mission when he saw an advertisement in The Sacramento Bee calling for museum volunteers. One of his first projects was restoring a Fairchild PT 19-B (a primary trainer aircraft from World War II), which “came to the museum in pieces,” says Drotar. “It took six or seven guys almost seven years to restore it.” In addition to restoring aircraft, maintaining the museum, and assembling and dismantling the traveling exhibits, Drotar’s other duties include hanging planes for display from the high open ceiling, taking road trips to pick up new aircraft and keeping an eye on the permanent exhibits. For example, he often has to recalibrate the motion simulator, a high-tech, podlike machine that allows visitors to experience flight from the perspective of the Wright brothers, an astronaut or a combat pilot. “If something needs to be done, Bill is there,” says Yonn. “He is

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the doors open. “We run a lean operation,” says Yonn, with 12 full- and part-time staff and 150 volunteers. “We could not do it without our volunteers.” The museum also welcomes traveling shows two or three times a year. Until July 6, the museum will host a Smithsonian exhibit titled “Art of the Airport Tower,” featuring 50 large-format black-and-white photographs of air traffic control towers in the United States and around the world. In addition, the museum holds “Open Cockpit” days when many of the aircraft are open for visitors to climb aboard (weather permitting). I recommend putting it on your calendar—and be sure to chat with Drotar or one of the other dedicated volunteers. For more information on the Aerospace Museum of California, go to aerospaceca.org. Cathryn Rakich can be reached at crakich@surewest.net. n

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Taking Aim at Gun Crime PROGRAM LEADS YOUNG MEN TO NONVIOLENT LIFESTYLE

an Sacramento change the equation for solving gun violence? That’s the thinking behind Advance Peace, a controversial program approved by the Sacramento City Council in December that offers a unique transformational opportunity to suspected gang members prone to gun violence. Under Advance Peace, as many as 50 young men will become “fellows,” a term often associated with advanced or college-level programs. These fellows will go through an 18-month program to break the cycle of gun violence by providing them with activities that could lead to a nonviolent lifestyle. The concept, originally called the Peacemaker Fellowship, started in Richmond, Calif. The organization’s founders say their efforts resulted in a 60 percent reduction in firearm assaults causing injury or death between 2010 and 2016. (They acknowledge that improved policing practices and other anti-violence programs also contributed to the drop.) Eighty-four fellows were enrolled in the program from 2010 to 2015. Of those, 94 percent are still alive, 83 percent have had no gun-related injuries and 77 percent have not been

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Artistic Edge Gallery features works by Diana Ormanzhi, Jonathan Lowe, Carolyn Junge and Cynthia Hayes through April 30. Shown above: “Angels & Dreams” by Jonathan Lowe. 1880 Fulton Ave.; artisticedgeframing.com

Tim Collom Gallery presents a group exhibition titled “Land, Sea, Sky: The Scapes Show” from April 10 to May 3. Shown above: “Backlighted Oaks Float” by Chester Smith. 915 20th St.; timcollomgallery.com

Watercolor artist Elaine Bowers is shown at Elliott Fouts Gallery through April 30. Shown above: “Rice Ribbon.” 1831 P St.; efgallery.com

Watercolor Artists of Sacramento Horizons presents its annual membership watercolor exhibition. The show, which includes more than 100 original works of art, runs through April 22 at Sacramento Fine Arts Center. Shown left: “Hand Picked” by Maura Madden Donovan. 5330 Gibbons Drive; sacﬁnearts.org

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suspected in any firearms activity, according to the program founders. Sacramento is the second city to experiment with the concept. Mayor Darrell Steinberg and City Councilmember Rick Jennings advocated for it, and the City Council unanimously voted for the program and authorized $1.5 million. (Advance Peace will match that money.) Stockton has also signed on to Advance Peace. “Our strategy is to engage the most potentially lethal gang members most likely to be using firearms,” says Khaalid Muttaqi, director of Sacramento’s Gang Prevention and Intervention Task Force. “Through collaboration with law enforcement and other agencies, we conclude that most of the gun and lethal violence is being carried out by a small number of gang members.” The problem, according to Muttaqi, is that many people involved in shootings and homicides aren’t caught and convicted. Since they think they can get away with it, they are likely to do it again. The Advance Peace program focuses on young men who have been identified likely to be involved in gun violence but who have never been caught or prosecuted. “In Sacramento, we think that more than half of the homicides have characteristics of gang involvement, but we aren’t always sure,” Muttaqi explains. “Gangs have evolved. The younger-generation gangs are small cliques and not necessarily associated with the big, traditional gangs of the past. They may not even outwardly look like gangs, but they are committing a variety of crimes and using firearms.” Sacramento’s 50 fellows must follow the program’s protocols to stay in. That includes mentorled intervention to stabilize their lives, along with incentives to stop shooting and move toward productive citizenship. Interventions occur multiple times each day. Fellows also need to develop a life plan to work toward educational, professional and other personal goals. The fellows will have opportunities for domestic and international travel to show them a life beyond the gang.

The hope is that travel will reduce tensions by connecting young men who may have considered themselves enemies on the street. Probably the most controversial and misunderstood part of the program is the opportunity for fellows to receive a stipend of up to $9,000. This payment is made available after a fellow has spent six months in the program. To get the money, a fellow must have participated in 60 percent of the activities offered and have achieved no fewer than three goals associated with the individualized plan. The more work a fellow does, the more he can earn. Those who don’t perform don’t earn anything. Opponents, including people in law enforcement, feel this is simply paying likely criminals for not committing crimes. In a statement, Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert said she has serious concerns about the program. “I support the gang prevention task force and the many evidence-based youth mentoring and intervention programs already in existence in the city of Sacramento,” she says. “I have serious concerns with a program that is apparently based upon the payment of money to high-risk individuals in exchange for a promise not to engage in violent criminal conduct. There is insufficient evidence-based data to show this approach is effective in preventing gun violence.” Muttaqi disagrees. “How many families provide some sort of incentive or reward to their children to get good grades?” he asks. “There are a variety of times in regular life that incentives are used for good behavior. But at the end of the day, we know this is an experimental program. It’s a pilot.” The travel program has also been questioned. Muttaqi says he has seen positive results. “Many of these young men have not been exposed to anything outside their neighborhoods,” he says. “We can open up a whole new world to them. It’s transformational.” Travel may include excursions to Atlanta, Washington, D.C., or Disneyland. A gang member who

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together,” he notes. “Advance Peace won’t stop all gun violence in Sacramento. That’s not its intent. We don’t want to set this up for failure. It’s going to play a role.” According to Muttaqi, one homicide can cost as much as $1.5 million when considering its impacts on people, law enforcement, first responders, hospitals and the DA’s office. “If we can save one life, it would be worth it,” he says. But Muttaqi knows that Sacramento is different from Richmond. What worked there might not work here. “Yes, I’m cautiously optimistic,” he says. “But I also think we’ll give these young men a chance for a better life and a belief they can have a future.” For more information about Advance Peace, go to advancepeace. org. Scot Crocker can be reached at scot@crockercrocker.com. n

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Drawing a Line IT WORKS FOR WEIGHT, MONEY AND BASEBALL

he Mendoza Line is a baseball term named after a journeyman shortstop, Mario Mendoza, who spent nine years in the major leagues playing for three different teams. Mendoza was a good fielder but a mediocre hitter. For much of his career, he struggled to keep his batting average above .200. That is not a very high batting average, but if you are an excellent fielder, you can probably remain employed so long as you don’t allow your average to dip any lower. Mario Mendoza’s teammates used to tease him whenever his batting average dropped below .200. “Be careful, Mario,” they’d say. “Your fielding isn’t so great that you can afford to hit so poorly.” Soon, they were teasing other players on the team: “Watch out, your average is

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dropping down close to the Mendoza Line.” Eventually, the sportscasters at ESPN overheard the phrase and began using it in their broadcasts. Now, it is part of every American baseball fan’s lexicon. It is also used in other realms—the worlds of finance, political polling, box-office receipts—as the line that separates mediocrity from outright awfulness. I’ve noticed that I employ variations of the Mendoza Line in a variety of aspects of life. I used to jump rope for at least a half hour a day every single day of the year. But old age and decrepitude at last caused me to give up that streak after 18 consecutive years without missing a day of exercise. Nowadays, my exercise Mendoza Line is four days a week. If I get at least an hour of vigorous exercise four days a week or more, I feel good about myself. If I do it only three days a week, I am disappointed in myself. The members of my Tuesdaynight trivia team all know that if we get 22 or more correct answers (out of 32 total questions), we have

a better-than-average chance of winning the pub quiz competition. Any less than that and our chances of victory are not good. At the most recent competition, we answered 20 questions correctly and finished in second place. We fell below our personal Mendoza Line, and thus we knew, even before the results were announced, that we weren’t likely to win. I have rarely ever earned the same amount of money from one month to the next. For much of the past two decades I have worked as a freelance writer, freelance notary public, selfemployed antiques dealer and parttime clerk at a bookstore. During that time, I have also frequently taken other odd jobs: baby sitter, house sitter, dog sitter, etc. From month to month, my income would go up and down like an elevator in a crowded office building. But I always had a personal Mendoza Line in my head, a monetary figure that I tried to attain every month. Some months I would stay above the Mendoza Line, some months I would fall below.

When my wife and I go to the monthly Sacramento Antique Fair, we always take stock of our current financial situation and then decide in advance how much we can afford to spend. If we stay below the Mendoza Line, we are happy. If we go above the Mendoza Line, it had better be because we found a once-in-a-lifetime treasure that we’ve been coveting for years. Otherwise, we’ll probably bemoan our financial extravagance for weeks. Likewise, whenever I go to the semiannual Sacramento Antiquarian Book Fair, my wife asks me how much money I’m taking with me. Usually, I’ll say something like, “Well, I’ve got $300 in my wallet, but I’m going to try to spend no more than half of it.” Bingo! I’ve just set a personal Mendoza Line. If I come home with no money in my wallet, I’ll feel sheepish. If I come home having spent only $45, I’ll feel pretty smug. When I gave up jumping rope a few years ago, my weight started to climb rapidly. By last June, I weighed 225 pounds—way too heavy for a

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5-foot-10-inch man. By sticking to a very strict low-calorie diet for the next four months, I managed to drop my weight down to 163 pounds. That’s just about an ideal weight for me, but I knew that I didn’t have the kind of self-control necessary to remain permanently at 163. So I decided to set my personal Mendoza Line at 170 pounds. If my morning weigh-in showed me 170 pounds or above, I would fast that day, eating nothing but perhaps a few carrots or an apple for dinner. If my morning weigh-in came in below 170, I could eat normally that day: a smoothie for breakfast, perhaps a salad for lunch, a sandwich for dinner. At first, this struck me as a fairly easy regimen to maintain. I figured I would cross the 170 line only once every couple of months, and then I’d fast for a day or two. Instead, I have spent months teeter-tottering upon that fulcrum of 170. Every morning’s weigh-in is fraught with peril. A bad weigh-in means I can’t eat for a whole day. A good weigh-in means I can

have a nice, ordinary day, complete with sensible meals. I suppose I could give myself a more generous Mendoza Line—say, 175 pounds. The problem with that, however, is that I am constitutionally designed to take whatever slack I am given. If I were to set my Mendoza Line at 175, I am certain that I would be constantly seesawing back and forth across that line. It’s not where I set the line that matters; it’s the fact that the line exists at all. All of us, whether consciously or subconsciously, have a number of personal Mendoza Lines. We feel guilty if we don’t call our parents at least twice a week. We feel guilty if we eat out more than once a week. We feel guilty if we spend more than two hours a day in front of the TV. We feel good if we compete in at least one 10k run per month. We feel good if we maintain an 8-minutes-per-mile pace or better in that run. We feel good if we spend at least one hour a night practicing on the guitar. We feel good if we read at least one book a week. My wife likes to spend at least

two hours per day knitting. Any less than that and she gets cranky. I like to spend at least three or four hours a day working on my writing projects. Any less than that and I get cranky. Setting personal Mendoza Lines is fine, but we shouldn’t let them rule our lives. The modern world is a busy, fast-paced and often unpredictable place. We can’t always control exactly how many hours we will have free at the end of the day in which to practice the guitar or take up Chinese lessons. We should probably all take our cue from Mario Mendoza himself. He has said that, despite the teasing, he never really worried all that much about the Mendoza Line. And, in fact, his lifetime batting average ended up well above the Mendoza Line at .215. Don’t obsess too much over your personal Mendoza Lines and you may end up, like Mario Mendoza, exceeding everyone’s expectations. Kevin Mims lives in Land Park. He can be reached at kevinmims@ sbcglobal.net. n

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Mission Statement JESUS SAVES, BUT EDUCATION HELPS, TOO

s your daughter’s nonprofit Christcentered?” asks an American missionary here in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa. The man is among hundreds of missionaries headquartered within the comforting amenities of a big city. They represent various faiths but most, like the one asking the question, are evangelical. Most do great work. They bring clean water into villages, build schools, care for orphans and staff clinics with surgeons and dentists. Most understand that while Jesus saves, education and medical care add much to their cause. This missionary’s question is likely innocent, but my Southern Baptist roots hear judgment. My daughter’s nonprofit is called Chispa Project. It creates small libraries

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in underserved schools, but it’s not about evangelizing at the schools. It feels like my inquisitor wants me to say, “You bet it is! We stock our libraries with boatloads of Bibles, Jesus stories and salvation pamphlets.” I strive to formulate an answer for my examiner but draw a blank. My mind drifts to the school we visited the day before. Prior to my daughter Sara’s arrival, the school library consisted of a dozen books from the teachers’ personal collections. Few books were in Spanish, and most weren’t suitable for the children’s reading levels. The school principal escorted us to each classroom. Most bulged with 42 students seated three to a desk at desks designed only for two. A student was excused to go to the restroom, and I watched him head for the wooden outhouse, where there was no running water. Despite the bleak design, the school walls sprouted spirit posters boasting of the school’s dedication to reading. The principal led a student cheer with snapping fingers to illustrate

the name Chispa, which means spark in Spanish. During the cheer, the principal told the children that Chispa Project books will spark their education. Later in the morning, children poured onto the playground. They had no sports equipment, but they squealed delightfully as they played their imaginary games. Kids climbed on and dangled from the small soccer goal posts on each side of the playground, while a few stared down the tall, white chaplain watching them from a bench. Returning to the missionary’s question, I repeat it to myself. Is our work here Christ-centered? I think I must say “yes” because this is the place Jesus would be. This is the mission Christ put in our hearts. An educational organization doesn’t become Christ-centered just because it incorporates theology into its written mission statement. After all, reading is reading whether you’re reading the Bible or a science textbook. Math is math because 2+2 has the same result when added by a Christian, Jew or atheist.

The Christian part, or the “Christcenteredness,” comes not from the organization but from the heart of the one serving. A nonprofit needn’t be parochial to be Christ centered. Jesus taught that whenever we help “someone overlooked or ignored, that was me—you did it to me.” “Yes, sir,” I say, regaining my confidence. “Chispa Project is definitely Christ-centered.” I make that declaration because I’ve been here for 12 weeks and can testify that the mission of Chispa Project beats with the heart of Jesus, who said, “Let the little children come to me … for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.” The missionary returns a reserved smile, so I dare ask for a donation. He chuckles at my chutzpah, but so far, no cash. Maybe he’s waiting to read our mission statement. To read Chispa Project’s mission statement or make a donation, go to chispaproject.org. Norris Burkes can be reached at comment@thechaplain. net. n

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Walking With My Baby IT SHOULD BE SAFE TO CROSS THE STREET

aking a walk in the neighborhood is a pleasure. It can be a walk with your romantic baby, your infant baby or just yourself. Granted, some neighborhoods are nicer for a stroll than others. Leafy East Sacramento, Curtis Park and Land Park are special because of their mature trees, attractive homes and scarcity of wide streets with fast traffic. It’s bliss to be outside on a beautiful spring day. It’s stimulating to be outside even on a nasty winter day. Walking is great exercise and totally free. Sadly, except for Midtown and Downtown and some disadvantaged neighborhoods where people may walk out of economic necessity, it’s hard to spot a pedestrian. Typically, there is only a handful of regular dog walkers and a few other souls walking in more affluent areas. National statistics indicate that walking to work may be increasing very slightly, but still it’s rare to see someone going to a store

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or making another purposeful trip by foot in many places. Even though people recognize the desirability of living in walkable neighborhoods, we seem to have lost the knack for creating them (or the desire for using them where they do exist). My view is that the essential ingredients for making trips by foot are safety, convenience and nearby destinations. In the suburbs and most new developments, street designs and how land is used often discourage walking by making it less safe and convenient. There are big roads with bigger intersections—built to move cars rapidly, not to create idyllic neighborhoods. Sacramento County in particular has intersections on the scale of the pyramids, such as at Greenback and Sunrise, where pedestrians are forced to cross eight or more intimidating lanes of traffic. There are big stores concentrated in malls surrounded by enormous moats of parking instead of small shops just down the street. There are big schools that serve an area too large to reach by foot instead of small schools nestled close by. Some county areas lack sidewalks entirely. Whether you are age 8 or 80 or anywhere in between, hiking across a giant intersection is no piece of cake. Who can blame a parent for not wanting to have their child walk to school if the poor, bewildered kid

has to cross a wide and dangerous street? Who wants to walk on a street with fast traffic and no sidewalks? As I write this, The Sacramento Bee reports that a woman walking with her boyfriend in a bike lane on Garden Highway, which is mostly devoid of sidewalks, was killed by a hit-and-run driver. Walking with your baby should be joyful, never a cause for grief. Pedestrians seem to be an endangered species. The Governors Highway Safety Association recently examined pedestrian fatality data. The numbers are grim. Pedestrian fatalities have been rising for years— up 27 percent between 2007 and 2016. It’s estimated that there were about 6,000 pedestrian fatalities in the United States in 2017, the same as in 2016. Pedestrians now account for 16 percent of traffic fatalities, up from 11 percent in 2007, representing their largest proportion of traffic deaths in 33 years. While car safety has improved for occupants, fleshand-blood pedestrians remain as vulnerable as ever. The Governors study authors suggest, without claiming a causal link, that the increase in pedestrian fatalities may be tied to increased smartphone use and the legalization of recreational marijuana. The use of smartphones increased 236 percent between 2010 and 2016, and

the number of messages more than tripled. In the seven states (Alaska, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada, Oregon and Washington) that legalized recreational marijuana before 2017, pedestrian fatalities increased 16.4 percent in the first six months of 2017 versus the first half of 2016. In other states, pedestrian fatalities decreased 5.8 percent. (It should be noted that Maine and Massachusetts, while permitting marijuana cultivation and possession in 2017, still don’t allow marijuana sales, and Nevada didn’t allow sales until July 2017, after the period of increased deaths.) California leads the nation in pedestrian deaths with 352 in the first six months of 2017. That sad leadership position is not unanticipated since California has the largest state population. But California also ranks high in the rate of pedestrian fatalities, 10th among states. That’s something that must change. Cities and states are focusing more attention on making streets safer for pedestrians. “Complete streets” policies, designed to make streets safer and more accessible for all users, have been adopted by California and other jurisdictions. Sacramento, additional California cities and cities across the country have begun Vision Zero programs aimed at eliminating

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fundamentally human and natural and should be a pleasure. But a little gap in the pedestrian network or a single dangerous street crossing is enough to deter people from stepping out. I’ve always enjoyed walking (and hiking) with my baby, holding hands, talking about the trivial and profound. Everybody, in every neighborhood, should be able to walk with their baby everywhere and anytime, in comfort and without fear. 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

Boston Pops on Tour Lights, Camera, Music! Six Decades of John Williams THU, APR 19 The orchestra makes its Mondavi Center debut with this tour devoted to the music of John Williams. Williams served as the ensemble’s conductor from 1980 to 1993 and is now its conductor laureate. Led by music director Keith Lockhart, the Pops will honor Williams’ body of work which includes the music scores for Jaws, Superman, E.T., Schindler’s List, Jurassic Park, some of the Harry Potter films and more.

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t was a colorless, crisp day at the Sacramento Central Farmers Market. Yet the most dedicated farmers and shoppers were going about their usual Sunday-morning business of buying and selling California-grown products. By noon, Farmelot was down to its last three heads of lettuce. Capay Organic’s tables were scattered with a few remaining conehead cabbages. Farmer Jason Cuff had only a handful of carrots left. “I’ve sold everything I harvested!” Cuff said as he stacked empty wooden boxes. This was a good day for the owner of Hearty Fork Farm. A sellout day means his labor was worth it. While most farmers report working more than 10 hours per day, Cuff puts in an average of 12 to 16 hours on his land. He has no days off. He’s the owner and sole employee of two leased acres in Davis. Cuff didn’t set out to be a farmer. Five years ago, he was making his living as a special-education teacher, which he enjoyed. But he was itching to grow more than a home garden. He wanted to get back to the land—and back to his roots. Cuff grew up in Oregon. When he was 6, he had his first job picking marionberries and loganberries. He loved it. He continued working on farms until college, where he heeded his parents’ advice to earn a living doing something more stable. “Every parent wants something better for their kids,” said Cuff. So he earned a degree in psychology and went on to become a teacher. While he was teaching in Sacramento, Cuff began to learn about small farms like Full Belly, and as the farm-to-fork movement was gaining momentum, Cuff applied to Center for Land-Based Learning’s California Farm Academy, a training program for aspiring farmers. He had loved working on farms as a youth and had continued gardening as an adult. He wanted to get his hands in the soil again.

It was 2013. Cuff started his farm training while still maintaining his teaching job. Then summer came. “I had summer break from school and never went back,” he said. Cuff began farming before finishing at Farm Academy. The program offers trainees the opportunity to work on land owned by the nonprofit, and Cuff took advantage of it. He worked with a fellow classmate to start Hearty Fork Farm on a 1-acre incubation plot at the nonprofit’s headquarters in Winters. A year later, Cuff expanded the farm to lease a 2-acre plot at Collins Farm in Davis. For the next two years, he split his time between the two farms. By now, Cuff’s business partner had left to build his own farm business. Today, it’s just Cuff. It’s a difficult life, but he’s passionate about it. He can’t afford to hire staff, and when he does, it’s only for a few months, which makes it difficult to find good help. “It’s difficult but not impossible,” said Cuff. He’s driven to do the hard work because he’s inspired by the end product. In fact, when he talks about vegetables, he lights up. “I love experimenting and playing,” he said. Cuff’s top pick among the foods he’s growing right now is kale. He adores it. He and his wife eat it with every other meal. Lately, they’ve been adding it to lots of soups and stews. Cuff’s recipe of choice: kale and broccoli together as a side dish—a brassica blowout. “Cook the broccoli first, and put kale in it at the end,” he said. “I don’t understand why people don’t eat more kale.” Cuff shook his head in genuine sadness for those missing out on the brassica’s benefits. He also believes that a great farmer eats everything he grows. He prides himself on being able to describe each flavor in his winter crop: carrots, greens, arugula, chard and cilantro, which Cuff pointed out is a coldweather crop, not a summer one.

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Cuff wishes more people shopped at the farmers market, because he believes the vegetables there taste better. He wants people to fall in love with them the way he has. He also wishes people understood how artificially low the price of food is. “Food should be at least twice as much as it is now,” he said. “In that sense, we would appreciate it more. Taste would become more important to us, not volume.”

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April is Photography Month Sacramento. Don't miss all the great shows

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Various locations • photomonthsac.org The region’s first-ever Photography Month Sacramento will feature more than 30 events, activities and exhibits at area galleries, museums, educational institutions, libraries, retail establishments, bars and restaurants to celebrate and elevate the art of photography.

“Julius Caesar & Macbeth” Theater Galatea April 5–7 William J. Geery Theater, 2130 L St. • theatergalatea.com Four actresses. Two tragedies. One show. Theater Galatea’s groundbreaking new production of William Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” and “Macbeth” will be performed in only two 45-minute acts with an all-female cast. Use code “INSIDE” for $5 off your ticket.

“Real Abstracts: Photography by Diana Coleman and Anne Miller” Ella K. McClatchy Public Library April 7–May 18 Reception Saturday, April 7, 2–4 p.m. Artists’ Talk Saturday, April 14, 3–4:30 p.m. 2112 22nd St. • saclibrary.org This show presents two distinct but related approaches to our interpretation of what we regard as “real” through photographs of commonplace, decayed or disintegrating objects. This exhibit is part of Photography Month Sacramento.

“Dinner With Queens” Suzette Veneti’s LoLGBT Sunday, April 22, 7 p.m. Punch Line Sacramento, 2100 Arden Way • punchlinesac.com Following a sold-out first show, host Suzette Veneti is back for a night of comedy and drag.

Theatre in The Heights will present "Belles."

“Lifted” Sacramento Contemporary Dance Theatre Sunday, April 22, 4:30 p.m. Cordova High Performing Arts Center, 2239 Chase Drive • scdtheatre.org Led by founding artistic director Jacob Gutierrez-Montoya, this groundbreaking dance company will present a performance to benefit nonprofits Agape International Missions, 3Strands Global and Saint John’s Program for Real Change to combat human trafficking locally and globally.

Spring Eggstravaganza Fairytale Town March 31–April 1, 11 a.m.–4 p.m. 3901 Land Park Drive • fairytaletown.org This fun-filled family weekend features egg hunts, prizes, hands-on activities and visits with Peter Cottontail.

“European Masterworks” Sacramento Choral Society & Orchestra Saturday, April 7, 8 p.m. Sacramento Community Center Theater, 1301 L St. • sacramentochoral.com This talented group led by Donald Kendrick will present Mozart’s “Exsultate, jubilate,” “Requiem” and more.

Sacramento Beer & Chili Festival Saturday, April 21, 1–5 p.m. Roosevelt Park, 1615 9th St. • facebook.com/SacBeerandChiliFestival This annual event features chili cook-off competitions in categories like industry, individual, vegetarian and people’s choice; and beer tastings from local breweries. It’s a fundraiser for 4 R Friends, which finds homeless pets forever homes.

38th Annual ZooZoom Sacramento Zoo Sunday, April 15, 6:45 a.m. (registration begins)

Suzette Veneti will host "Dinner With Queens."

3930 W. Land Park Drive • sacramentozoozoom.com Run like a zebra at this family-friendly annual event with course options for everyone—from a 5k run/walk to a 10k run—through beautiful Land Park. Proceeds will go to animal care and enrichment for the zoo’s more than 450 inhabitants.

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Artwork by Kathy Dana and Donald Satterlee will be on display at Tim Collom Gallery.

Sacramento Civic Ballet brings back "Giselle."

“Belles” Theatre in the Heights Through April 8 8215 Auburn Blvd. • theatreintheheights.com This play by Mark Dunn tells the tale of six Southern sisters as they seek to bridge physical and emotional distance via telephone.

41st Annual Bonsai Show American Bonsai Association Sacramento March 31–April 1, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Buddhist Church of Sacramento, 2401 Riverside Blvd. • abasbonsai.org This annual show will feature demonstrations, a benefit raffle, trees and bonsai materials for sale and the food vendor Haole Pig BBQ. Admission and parking are free.

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19th Annual Sacramento Jewish Film Festival Jewish Federation of the Sacramento Region and Jewish Community Relations Council April 19, 21 and 22 Crest Theatre, 1013 K St. • jewishsac.org/sjff Coinciding with the 70th anniversary of Yom HaAtzmaut (Israel’s Independence Day), the festival will showcase six feature films and special events including a hummus-and-pita reception with The KlezMeerkats and a post-film discussion with filmmaker Alexandra Dean.

Easter Egg Hunt Faith Legacy Church Sunday, April 1 Sierra Oaks Elementary School, 171 Mills Road • faithlegacychurch.com Enjoy an Easter Sunday service at Faith Legacy’s brand-new Sierra Oaks campus with Pastor Brennan McCurdy at 10 a.m., followed by a giant egg hunt at 11:30 a.m. featuring costumed characters (including Disney princesses), coffee and a full children’s program.

Sacramento Youth Symphony Sunday, April 22, 3 p.m.

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C.K. McClatchy Performing Arts Center, 3066 Freeport Blvd. • sacramentoyouthsymphony.org Under the direction of Michael Neumann, the Premier Orchestra will perform classical selections from Symphony No. 9 by Dvorak, Waltz from “Eugene Onegin” by Tchaikovsky and Mambo from “West Side Story” by Bernstein.

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Hiram Johnson High School Theater, 6879 14th Ave. • deanedancecenter.com Sacramento Civic Ballet (formerly Crockett-Deane Ballet Company) is reviving its 2006 production of love and redemption. Gabriela Smith and Katherine Wolfenden share the role of Giselle in this production, with additional choreography by Don Schwennesen.

Paintings by Guy Rose will be on exhibit at Crocker Art Museum.

“Nature’s Gifts: Early California Paintings From the Wendy Willrich Collection” Crocker Art Museum Opens April 22 216 O St. • crockerart.org Bay Area art collector Wendy Willrich recently gifted the Crocker her collection of 41 early California paintings from the 1870s through the 1940s. The collection will be on view through 2020.

4th Annual Sacramento Flute Club’s Flute Festival Sacramento Flute Club April 6–7 American River College, College of Fine Arts, 4700 College Oak Drive • sacramentoﬂuteclub.org On Friday, April 6, flutist and Sacramento native Gary Woodward returns to town for a recital with Bay Area pianist Miles Graber. Woodward has been principal flutist of the LA Opera Orchestra for 25 years and records for motion pictures and television.

"Real Abstracts" will feature photography by Diana Coleman.

“The Library at Night” All Saints Episcopal Church Sunday, April 29, 4 p.m. 2076 Sutterville Road • allsaintssacramento.org “The Library at Night: A Musical, Literary and Historical Journey Through Time and Place” features acclaimed solo classical guitarist Colin McAllister in an evocative program that explores the intersection of music and history, classics and theology.

“Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning”

“Land, Sea, Sky: The Scapes Show”

Crocker Art Museum Thursday, April 5, 6:30 p.m.

Tim Collom Gallery April 10–May 3

216 O St. • crockerart.org Presented in honor of Photography Month Sacramento, the film “Grab a Hunk of Lightning” tells the story of the passion, vision and drive that made Dorothea Lange one of the most important photographers of the 20th century.

915 20th St. • timcollomgallery.com This third annual group landscape exhibition features work by more than 20 Sacramento artists, including Leslie Toms, Jill Estroff, Kathy Dana, Donald Satterlee and Tim Collom.

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Art by Instinct MULTITALENTED KELLIE RAINES LOVES THE ART OF THE CHALLENGE

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ellie Raines likes a challenge. In fact, she prefers tackling projects she doesn’t know how to do. “Half of the process—the fun of the process—is learning,” the Arden-area resident says. “The joy is the work.” Raines has always been artistic. Ever since she took dance class at age 5, she knew she wanted to tell stories. And she does just that as an actress, director, writer and visual artist. Raines first got involved in theater in high school, directing and acting in school projects as well as performing at the Lenaea High School Theatre Festival hosted by Sacramento State University. In a full-circle moment that tickles Raines to no end, she now finds herself involved with Lenaea again, only this time on the other side of the table as a respondent (the festival’s term for judge). “It’s amazing revisiting my training through the students’ eyes,” says Raines, who went back to school midcareer to earn her bachelor’s degree in dramatic art from UC Davis after a change of heart. “I woke up at age 32 and I was miserable,” recalls Raines, who was living in San Francisco and working as a communications consultant for Franklin Templeton Investments. “I hadn’t done theater in seven years and I decided, ‘That’s it. I’m going back to school.’” For the past 16 years, Raines has served as the executive assistant to the general manager for KVIE Public Television (our local PBS station), doing everything from voiceovers and online interviews to on-air hosting for the KVIE Art Auction and pledge drives. “I feel so lucky that I have a job that uses my training,” Raines says. She also puts those skills to good use outside of work in local productions for Big Idea Theatre, KOLT Run Creations, Resurrection

Theatre and Theater Galatea. (She’s currently performing in Theater Galatea’s production of “Julius Caesar & Macbeth,” in which all of Shakespeare’s iconic roles are played by the same four women. Raines plays five characters, including one of her “bucket-list” roles, Lady Macbeth.) When she’s not performing, directing or writing plays, Raines expresses herself in visual forms as well. “I took a watercolor class 24 years ago and loved it, even though I had no idea what I was doing,” Raines says. She turned to visual art two years ago when she took a break from theater to deal with family issues.

“I started by saying, ‘Let’s see if I can draw that,’” Raines says. “I’m self-taught, so I find that I get more creative by not knowing how certain things are going to work together and just trying it.” Raines’ experimentation with pastels, pencil, watercolor, ink and 3D objects has led to some stunning pieces that explore themes like gender, body positivity and creation versus destruction. Raines’s arresting pastel “The Arch of Triumph” was the first piece of hers accepted into the juried KVIE Art Auction in 2016. The next year, her psychedelically colored portrait of a snow leopard sparked an on-air

bidding war. Impressed by Raines’ talent, KVIE art curator D. Oldham Neath offered her an exhibition at Neath’s Archival Gallery in June. “I somehow started painting fat birds,” says Raines, whose show “Birds of a Feather” will feature avianinspired work by her and sculptor Don Yost. “I decided I wanted to try to paint an owl. I had no idea how to paint one, so I just started doing it. Figuring it out is the best part of the process.”

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A selection of dishes from LowBrau. Photos courtesy of Rachel Valley.

Meat Lovers’ Paradise LOWBRAU AND BLOCK BUTCHER BAR CONTINUE TO PUT MEATS ON A PEDESTAL

t the intersection of 20th and K streets in Midtown, there are more bars than there are corners. You can’t walk, or in some cases stumble, in any direction and not run smack into a convivial watering hole. In some ways, this boisterous corner is the hub of the new

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Midtown. It’s the site of the weekly Saturday Midtown Farmers Market, of Second Saturday dance parties all summer long and of the biggest gay clubs in the city. There’s standup, sketch and improv comedy at Sacramento Comedy Spot and live cabaret at Mango’s. Every weekend, you can watch a mass of humanity party like there’s no tomorrow. All that partying, drinking, dancing and cavorting doesn’t happen on an empty stomach. Which is why LowBrau and Block Butcher Bar, two of the city’s finest meateries, continue to thrive years after moving in. LowBrau opened its doors more than five years ago and still manages

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to be a popular Midtown spot. Its bright interior, friendly staff and simple menu make anyone feel welcome at any time of day. The vibe is updated-German-pub with long wooden tables, large beer steins and cuckoo clocks on the reclaimed-woodpaneled walls. It’s old-world village meets industrial. The menu has expanded over the years. At first opening, LowBrau served mostly sausages supplied by Morant’s Old Fashioned Sausage Kitchen on Franklin Boulevard. That was about it, other than a few salads. Now, the menu is filled with sandwiches, clever appetizers and house-made sausages that do not disappoint. The hot fried chicken sandwich is a nice example: buttermilk fried chicken thigh, hot sauce, slaw and pickles on a sweet bun. For an appetizer, deviled egg

toast is a scrumptious, indulgent treat. But it’s the sausages that bring you here—bratwurst, Polish, spicy andouille—and the sausages that keep you coming back. There are a few special sausages, like the Action Bronson, made with chicken, feta and herbs, and the merguez, a lamb/ harissa/cumin offering that packs a punch. Of course, what’s sausage without beer? LowBrau has a fine collection of taps and bottles spanning the globe and especially focused on California brews. At Block Butcher Bar, LowBrau’s next-door neighbor and sister restaurant, the food is simple yet feels complex and sophisticated. When friends come to visit from Los Angeles, the Bay Area or New York, I take them to Block because the

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don’t do any dismembering while you’re dining, but the glass room allows you to see, literally, where the sausage is made. If the party scene isn’t your scene, check out LowBrau for brunch on the weekend or lunch any day of the week. Similarly, a quiet dinner at Block on a Tuesday or Wednesday night will make you feel like you’ve found a special little hall of culinary delights designed for you alone. If, however, you want to join the party, bring a meaty appetite. LowBrau and Block Butcher Bar are at 1050 20th St.; lowbrausacramento.com; blockbutcherbar.com. Greg Sabin can be reached at gregsabin@hotmail.com. n

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

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

Pangaea Bier Café 2743 Franklin Blvd. • (916) 454-4942 L D Sunday Brunch $$ Beer/Wine Outdoor Patio A curated tap list dedicated to only the ﬁnest of brews • pangaeabiercafe.com

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

Gunther’s Ice Cream 2801 Franklin Blvd. • (916) 457-6646 L D $ Long-standing landmark with retro decor supplying homemade ice cream in a variety of ﬂavors plus soup and sandwiches • gunthersicecream.com

OAK PARK La Venadita 3501 Third Ave. • (916) 400-4676

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

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

Oak Park Brewing Company 3514 Broadway • (916) 660-2723

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

LAND PARK

Café Bernardo

2760 Sutterville Rd. • (916) 452-2809

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

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2115 J St. • (916) 442-4353

L D $$$ Full Bar Upscale Northern Italian cuisine served a la carte • biba-restaurant.com

2726 Capitol Ave. • (916) 443-1180

Tapa The World

2000 Capitol Ave. • (916) 498-9891

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

L D $ Beer/Wine Classic burgers, cheesesteaks, shakes, chili dogs, and other tasty treats • suzieburger. com

2431 J St. • (916) 442-7690

926 J St. • (916) 492-4450

2924 Freeport Blvd. • (916) 443-5154

1401 28th St. • (916) 457-5737

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

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

Taylor’s Kitchen

Paragary’s

Suzie Burger

Magpie Cafe

L D $$ Full Bar Upscale American cuisine served in a contemporary setting • riversideclubhouse.com

L D $ Great burgers and more. Open until 2:30 am on Friday and Saturday • williesburgers.com

1104 R St. Suite 100 • (916) 706-6605

1431 L St. • (916) 442-7555

2633 Riverside Blvd. • (916) 448-9988

2415 16th St. • (916) 444-2006

L D $$ Full Bar Sports bar with a classical American menu • ﬁrestonepublichouse.com

Ma Jong’s Asian Diner

Riverside Clubhouse

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

Fish Face Poke Bar

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

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

Willie’s Burgers

2319 K St. • (916) 737-5767

1800 15th St. • (916) 448-4488

427 Broadway • (916) 442-4044

2718 J St. • (916) 706-2275

Skool

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

Jamie’s Broadway Grille

The Red Rabbit

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

Iron Horse Tavern

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

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

1431 R St. • (916) 930-9191

806 L St. • (916) 442-7092

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

L D $$$ Full Bar Modern American cuisine in an upscale historic setting

1132 16th St. • (916) 446-0888

Frank Fat’s

Iron Grill

Casa Garden Restaurant L $$ Wine/Beer • Lunch menu varies weekly. Operated by volunteers to beneﬁt Sacramento Children’s Home. • casagarden.org

L D $$ Full Bar Award-winning beers and a creative pub-style menu in an historic setting • opbrewco.com

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

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COLDWELL BANKER APPEALING LAND PARK DRIVE Spacious 2BD plus den with hrdwd krs, dual pane windows and a great backyard. WENDY KAY 916.717.1017 CalRE#: 01335180 DESIRABLE POCKET LOCATION! Lovely 4bd/3ba in cul-de-sac w/access to the Sac River levee. LR & FM w/frplc, dining area, spacious kitch & lndscpd bckyrd. $735,000 SUE OLSON 916.601.8834 CalRE#: 00784986

WONDERFUL S. LAND PARK TERRACE! Owned by same family since 1958. 3BR/1.5BA/2 car gar. Style & grace of yesteryear, w/tons of potential. $499,900 MARK PETERS 916.600.2039 CalRE#: 01424396

CHARMING 1920’S LAND PARK COTTAGE! Located on a tree-lined street this hm offers 3 bedrooms, formal dining, huge living room & hrd wd krs, & indoor laundry rm w/sink. Massive backyard w/patio. Over-sized garage. TOM LEONARD 916.834.1681 CalRE#: 01714895

CURTIS PARK! Large & beautiful 4bd, 2.5bath built in 1983 w/soaring Vaulted ceilings, engineered hardwood koors and blt-in bookcases. STEFFAN BROWN 916.717.7217 CalRE#: 01882787

CLASSIC SPANISH STYLE HOME! Located in the heat of College Plaza Tract in Land Park. Prime area with 2bd/1ba/1145sqft, great bkyrd and 2 car garage. $575,000 TOM LEONARD 916.834.1681 CalRE#: 01714895 UNIQUE LAND PARK COTTAGE! Custom built 2BD/1BA home with Art Deco touches. First time on the market and one of the best values in Land Park. $415,000 DAVID MURAOKA 916.640.5140 CalRE#: 01710798 L STREET LOFTS! Premium majestic 2-story penthouse loft w/ balcony, great living space, high ceilings, granite & stainless kitch. $977,000 MICHAEL ONSTEAD 916.601.5699 CalRE#: 01222608

STUNNING SOUTH LAND PARK HILLS! Featuring 3bd/3 full ba, rmdld & open kitch w/a great rm concept & views of the lush yard. Fam rm w/frplce, 2 car det’ gar & a casita w/kitchnette & bath is perfect for guests. $649,000 WENDI REINL 916.206.8709 CalRE#: 01314052

BEAUTIFUL LITTLE POCKET! On the Sac River. Stunning hm w/3bds, 1.5ba, living rm frplc, spacious kitchen & lrg outdoor workshop. $799,000 WENDI REINL 916.206.8709 CalRE#: 01314052

BOULEVARD PARK Lovely 2bd/2ba, 1920’s Victorian offers convenience & opportunity w/high ceilings, orig. features, lush patio & full bsmnt. $419,900 STEPH BAKER 916.775.3447 CalRE#: 01402254

BEAUTIFUL 1938 WOODLAKE TUDOR! Main house offers 3bd/1.5 updtd baths, 1770sqft. Guest house is 2-story w/kitchen, bath & lndry. $639,900 PALOMA BEGIN 916.628.8561 CalRE#: 01254423

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WONDERFUL TREE-LINED STREET IN LAND PARK! 3 lrg bdrms, 3 full baths, an ofjce adjacent the master suite & charming yard w/brick patio. SUE OLSON 916.601.8834 CalRE#: 00784986

DESIRABLE GREENHAVEN! Sophisticated living adjacent to the Sacramento River. One year old Tri-level hm w/4bd/3ba. Low mainteance yards. Miles of biking trails only minutes to downtown. $489,000 DEE SCHWINDT 916.704.0718 CalRE#: 00498850

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