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CLASSIC CURTIS PARK Cozy alcoves, leaded glass built-ins and a whimsical staircase showcase this 3 or 4 bedroom home steeped in character and charm! 3 bedrooms plus bonus den/study, renovated bathroom and kitchen with stainless steel appliances and DCS gas range. Walking distance to park $475,000 STEPHANIE GALLAGHER 342-2288

SOUTH LAND PARK TERRACE Conveniently located on a corner lot in a wonderful South Land Park neighborhood. 3 bedrooms 2 baths, 1453 square feet with open Àoor plan, living room ¿replace and dual pane windows. 2-car garage, bonus room and RV access. $449,000 CHRIS BRIGGS 834-6483

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UP AND COMING! Just south of Curtis Park and the all new Crocker Village! 3 bedroom 2 bath remodeled in 2009 with open Àoor plan, a great updated kitchen and large master bath. Deep backyard and a nearly 400 sf ¿nished bonus room behind the garage. Walk to Track 7, Cross¿t, and new shopping. $329,000 CHRIS BRIGGS 834-6483

FABULOUS LAND PARK Lovely updated 4 bedroom, 3½ bath home boasts a great room Àoorplan. Remodeled kitchen features Miele cooktop, double ovens, warming drawer and breakfast bar. Lovely family room with ¿replace opening onto gorgeous treed and shady backyard with slate patio and pool. $995,000 CHARLENE SINGLEY 341-0305

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CLASSIC HOMELAND Conveniently located close to Tower Theater and Broadway This 3 bedroom 1 bath home was originally built in 1931. Features include updated kitchen and bath, and a bonus “in-law quarters” in the back. Detached garage. $335,000 SUE LEE 833-5122

COZY FREEPORT MANOR Lovely re¿nished hardwood Àoors throughout this cute 3 bedroom 1 bath home. Welcoming entry into living room with ¿replace and dining area. Central heat and air conditioning and clean 1-car attached garage. Very cute! $229,500 SHEILA VAN NOY 505-5395

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SPACIOUS HOLLYWOOD PARK It’s rare to ¿nd such a large home in Hollywood Park. 4 bedrooms 3 baths, over 2100 square feet with separate family room. Lovely hardwood Àoors, central heat and air, 2-car garage with workshop and storage galore! Close to William Land Park and shopping. $385,000 JAMIE RICH 612-4000

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SOUTH LAND PARK HILLS Cute 3 bedroom 2 bath home that is move-in-ready! Wonderful South Land Park neighborhood. The work is done, re¿nished hardwood Àoors, new tile, new paint and carpet. Sweet, spacious and private backyard, central heat and air, 2-car garage. A delightful home! $349,900 JAMIE RICH 612-4000

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CURB APPEAL PLUS This original-owner home is just waiting for your personal touches. 3 bedrooms 2 baths, hardwood Àoor under carpeting in original footprint of the home. Loads of storage! Master bedroom has been altered to allow for a master bath to be added. $184,500 PAULA SWAYNE 425-9715

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COVER ARTIST Bryan Valenzuela Valenzuela’s creations—whether mixed-media visual art or songs for his rock ’n’ roll band, Exquisite Corps — reflect his love of the written word. “A Bittersweet Sanctuary” won Best in Show at this year’s California State Fair. For this creation, he layered several elements on two pieces of canvas sewn together vertically: a collage of words, two fish, splashes of blue, two feet and legs and gold squares.

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A Perfect Day NEIGHBORS START THEIR YEAR EXPERIENCING THE JOY OF VOLUNTEERISM

BY CECILY HASTINGS

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or the past several years, early January has been the time of year when our nonprofit Friends of East Sacramento is tasked with marshaling volunteers to winter prune the 1,200 rosebushes in McKinley Rose Garden. Our very small nonprofit organization signed a five-year lease in 2012 for the public garden. We manage rental events in the garden and use revenues and donations to maintain the garden all year long. Volunteers play a vital role in the garden because the maintenance crew we hire does not care for the roses— just the lawn, shrubs and perennial beds. We recruit, train and oversee dozens of volunteers during the growing season from April through November to deadhead roses, fertilize and weed. As the garden has matured, we have more rose blossoms than ever, so the volunteer need keeps growing. But the winter pruning process is a bit different. Ideally, it needs to happen in early January. And we have found (as did the Sacramento Rose Society, which managed the project for many years before us) that it is best accomplished in a

single morning with a large group. This allows new volunteers to learn from more experienced hands, and everyone stays motivated while working together. After the busy Christmas season is over, some folks are eager to get their hands on an interesting and meaningful volunteer job that helps the community. Peace on earth and goodwill toward men is still on their minds! We always plan the day knowing that rain is a distinct possibility. Light drizzle discourages some but, thankfully, not all. So unless there is a major storm, we try not to cancel or reschedule. In recent drought years, we’ve had clear days. But this year, with El Nino in force, we closely watched the weather forecast right up to the day of the winter pruning: Saturday, Jan. 9. I used to worry the week before about two things: the weather and whether we’d have enough volunteers to complete the job in a morning. To help ease our fears about a storm, we

The number of volunteers seems to grow larger with each passing year. We make it a pleasant experience by providing hot coffee, pastries from Freeport Bakery and a hot soup lunch made by Evan’s Kitchen. We offer free sharpening for the volunteers’ pruners, courtesy of Sheree Johnston of East Sac Hardware, who generously underwrites the cost of this service. This year, perhaps 100 folks showed up. We managed to finish by about 11 a.m.—very impressive. (Last year, we worked until 1 p.m.) About half of those who showed up were experienced volunteers who either worked at a previous prune day or regularly deadhead the rose lined up a very experienced pruner blossoms. We sent those volunteers a we could pay to complete the job short video link the day before with if necessary. This year, all of our pruning basics. These folks were leaders, including our wonderful terrific! event chairs, Bill and Mary Kuyper, The other half were first-timers, were planning to be out of town the either neighborhood folks or high following weekend, so postponement school students needing community was not possible. service hours. It’s great to see young people pitching in, and it’s helpful to have people to haul and empty the tarps that collect the rose canes into the trash trailers. Everybody played a vital role in the day’s success. What struck me this year was how many folks either thanked us for giving them the opportunity to be a part of the community or emailed me later that day expressing their appreciation. One person sent a lovely little poem about how much she enjoyed being part of such a meaningful experience. I go to church each week in good As it turned out, it not only didn’t part to be surrounded by fellow rain, but the sun shined for about half Christians in worship, even if just the day.

What struck me this year was how many folks thanked us for giving them the opportunity to be a part of the community.

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Cool Cat SUMATRAN TIGER JOINS THE LOCAL MENAGERIE; IS LOVE IN THE AIR?

BY JESSICA LASKEY

LIFE IN THE CITY

f you’ve stopped by the Sumatran tiger exhibit at the Sacramento Zoo lately, you might have noticed a new furry face: Mohan, an 11-yearold male Sumatran tiger, has joined Baha, the zoo’s resident female, in what we’re hoping will be a match made in heaven. The dynamic duo won’t be on display together until they’ve undergone an extensive “meet and greet” process, so if you want to get a gander at Mohan, stop by the exhibit until 3 p.m. each day and then say hello to Baha after 3 p.m. until closing. Once they’re comfortable with the sight and smell of one another, the purrfect pair will begin to share space, so check back often to see if they’ve started their “paw” de deux! The weather is warming up, which means so is the zoo’s outdoor programming. Catch the wild and woolly Wildlife Stage Shows at 11 a.m. on Friday, Saturdays and Sundays from Feb. 12 through March 20 at the amphitheater and meet some of the Interpretive Center’s most entertaining denizens. If you’re interested in one animal in particular, hear what its keeper has to say about its care at Keeper Chats

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Mohan, a male Sumatran tiger, has joined the tiger exhibit at the Sacramento Zoo

at 2:15, 2:30 and 2:45 p.m. on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from Feb. 12 through March 20 in front of your favorite animal’s exhibit. Do you “heart” the Sacramento Zoo? Show it some love from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 14, during the I Heart Sacramento Zoo event featuring valentine-themed animal enrichments, informative talks and

activity tables organized by teen volunteers. The event is included with general admission. If you or someone you know, or made, is excited about exploring the wonders of the natural world, don’t miss the zoo’s newest program, Nature’s Explorers, held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. the last Saturday of the month (that’s Feb. 27 this

month). Thanks to a grant from the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, young explorers and their adults will investigate a new topic each month and read stories, play and explore the zoo, all free with paid general admission. Did you contribute to Quarters for Conservation last year? Well, good news: the winning project that received the most tokens in 2015 is the Snow Leopard Conservation program, which earned 200,158 votes! Second and third place went to the Giant Armadillo and Giant Anteater Conservation programs, but they didn’t miss out just because they didn’t take the cake: the $50,000 raised through the Quarters for Conservation fund will be divided based on the number of votes received for each project, so everyone wins! Gearing up for this year’s conservation conversation? The local and global conservation projects up for funding this year are the Borneo Small Wild Cat, the Greater Sandhill Crane and the Southern African Vulture Conservation funds. Each of these species is facing trouble in its natural habitat, so start considering how you want your 25 cents to be spent to help animals in need. For more information on all zoo events, call 808-5888 or go saczoo.org. The Sacramento Zoo is at 3930 W. Land Park Drive.

EAT AND GREET Where you can enjoy Dungeness crab and treat your ears to a feast? The second annual Sierra Curtis Neighborhood Association Sing ’n’ Serve Crab Feed, of course, from 6 to

HERE’S TO THOSE WHO DARE TO DREAM Congratulations to Heather Wong, owner of allspicery and grand prize winner of the 2015 Calling All Dreamers competition. callingalldreamers.org

8 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 5, at Sierra 2 Center for the Arts and Community. Tuck into a decadent dinner of mixed green salad, pasta with marinara sauce, beer bread, Dungeness crab and a soft drink while taking in the dulcet tones of the Sacramento Gay Men’s Chorus. (Save room for something sweet when the talented singing troupe hosts the Dessert Dash!) The event sold out last year, so make sure you snap up your tickets soon. Proceeds benefit the Sierra 2 Center and the evening’s entertainment, the Sacramento Gay Men’s Chorus. For tickets and more information, call 452-32005 or go to sierra2.org. Sierra 2 Center for the Arts and Community is at 2791 24th St.

A SENSE OF PLACE Watercolor is a notoriously difficult medium, so to see two talented artists tackle it so beautifully and with such distinct styles is a sight to behold. LIFE page 10

PUBLISHER FROM page 7 for an hour. Volunteers seem to appreciate working alongside others who make the time and exert the energy to volunteer.

Volunteers seem to appreciate working alongside others. In reality, volunteers make up a very tiny portion of our neighborhood population. Most folks are busy, between working, raising children, enjoying hobbies or caring for elderly relatives. But the world might be a better place if more neighbors took the time to experience the joys of volunteerism. Please send me an email if you want to be placed on our McKinley Rose Garden volunteer list for future events. The garden is in hibernation until about mid-March. But then the fun begins again as thousands and thousands of beautiful rose blossoms

reveal themselves in all their loveliness.

BOOK UPDATE Last October, my column detailed our plans for an upcoming book on the most interesting places in Sacramento—America’s Farm-to-Fork Capital. Based upon a similar book about Oakland, ours will be a photodriven, paperbound book profiling 90 of the most interesting places to visit in our city—from cafes to boutiques— and the entrepreneurs who own them. The places are organized by seven neighborhoods: Downtown, R Street, Midtown, Old Sac, Land and Curtis Parks, Oak Park and East Sac. We also include some fun destinations to visit. We’ve been busy photographing, writing and designing the book and hope to complete production in late April or early May. We’re releasing the book in September, just in time for Farm-to-Fork month. The process of contacting business owners we’ve selected to participate has been the biggest challenge. As of now, we have 80 of the 90 businesses

signed up, with a list of 20 more places to be considered for the last 10 positions. It is frustrating that some owners just do not respond to our requests to meet. We started out with more of a general small business consideration, but it has developed into more places either associated with food or more well-designed boutiques once we started shooting photos. A number of beloved Sacramento businesses just do not photograph well enough to be included in a visually-oriented book. A few of my own favorites didn’t make it and I do worry about hurt feelings. And a couple of popular places just said no. But all in all, the group we’ve assembled so far is most impressive and collectively will definitely change the perception of our city in a very positive way. If you’d like to follow our progress on the book through photo posts, please like us on our Facebook page or follow us on Instragram using #insidesacbook. Cecily Hastings can be reached at publisher@insidepublications.com n

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LIFE FROM page 9 Take it all in at “A Sense of Place: Watercolors by Debra Williams and David Peterson,” the first art show of the year at Ella K. McClatchy Library’s newly revamped exhibition space, from Feb. 20 through April 1. Elk Grove artist Williams has created a series of watercolors that features the sunsets she observes from her window and as she walks her neighborhood. Her work has been included in many juried and group shows throughout California. She received her bachelor’s degree from CSU Fullerton and a teaching credential (though she’s now retired and loving it) from UC Davis. Nationally recognized watercolor artist Peterson portrays scenes that are familiar—Yosemite or Manzanar, for example—in his characteristic clever style. His work has been included in the California State Fair Fine Arts Exhibit for the past three years, and he’s been a Yosemite Art Center Visiting Artist since 2012. A past president of WASH Inc., Sacramento’s watercolor club, Peterson has also been awarded Northern California Artist Master Painter Signature status. Meet both artists at the special reception from 2 to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 20. For more information, go to saclibrary.org. Ella K. McClatchy Library is at 2112 22nd St.

MUSEUMS FOR ALL Grab your walking shoes and your best “ooh” and “aah” and head out into the city for the 18th year of Sacramento Museum Day from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 6. Featuring half-price or free admission to nearly 25 area museums, including the Sacramento Zoo (3930 Land Park Drive) and Fairytale Town (3901 Land Park Drive), Museum Day is designed to encourage all members of the community to experience the region’s incredible wealth of art, history, science and wildlife at little to no cost. Thanks to the support of the Sacramento Association of Museums and all of the participating institutions, admission is only $2.75

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noshing for the whole family at the corner of Freeport Boulevard and Sutterville Road. For more information, go to sactomofo.com. William Land Park is at 4000 S. Land Park Drive.

BE AN OPEN BOOK

Artwork by David Peterson will be featured at the Ella K. McClatchy Library

per person, and kids ages one and under are free at most locations. Check the event’s website at sacmuseums.org for more information, as well as a detailed map of participating museums. Now go get your art on!

a giant inflatable colon (yes, really) and more. Register now using the discount code CALENDAR to save $5 at undyrunwalk.org. William Land Park is at 4000 S. Land Park Drive.

GET YOUR PANTIES IN A TWIST

TRUCKIN’ ALONG

Yes, you read that right: It’s time for the Sacramento Undy Run/Walk from 9 to 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 27, at William Land Park. Wearing your panties in public might sound brave, but the goal of the fun fitness event is even better: The family- and pet-friendly underwear-themed 5K raises funds and awareness for colon cancer. The event also includes a 1-Mile Fun Run,

Food Truck Mania is back at William Land Park, so get yourself to the food truck lineup and get some delicious grub from 4 to 8 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 21. This monthly event sponsored by the Land Park Community Association and presented by SactoMofo (or Sacramento Mobile Food) is an evening that’s not to be missed: gourmet food trucks, live entertainment and neighborly

Enjoy food and music at the Sierra Curtis Neighborhood Association Sing ’n’ Serve Crab Feed

Sure, libraries give a place to dive into our imagination through the pages of beautiful books, but they also offer our brains a space to play and grow through classes and fun events designed to bring the community together. After all, the family that plays together stays together!

This one-hour class will teach budding engineers how to build their own computer games with MIT’s Scratch software. This month, help youngsters ages 6 through 12 hone their computer skills (there’s more to life than Instagram!) with the Belle Cooledge Library’s class “Level Up Your Coding Skills with Google CS” at 4 p.m. on Thursdays, Feb. 4, 11, 18 and 25 (and into March). This one-hour class will teach budding engineers how to build their own computer games with MIT’s Scratch software. The course runs for eight weeks and registration is required via saclibrary.org Celebrate Black History Month with a special Belle Cooledge event at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 6. Magician Forest Barnes will take audience members on a magical voyage with tricks and illusions featuring inventions created by brilliant African American inventors and scientists, all while sharing fascinating historical facts about these important people. The program is designed for all ages, so bring the whole family. Belle

Cooledge Library is at 5600 S. Land Park Drive. The Ella K. McClatchy Library is getting lovey-dovey with its Valentine’s Cards and Cookies event at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 6. Children ages 6 through 12 can create a heart-shaped card or cookie, or both, for a special someone just in time for Valentine’s Day. All materials, cookies and decorating items will be provided. Listen to the beautiful beat of the Fenix Drum and Dance Company at McClatchy’s African Princess (and Superhero) Party at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 13. The renowned performance group will entertain with African stories, songs, dances and drumming to celebrate Black History Month. Snacks will be provided. Does Mr. Darcy make you swoon? Share your passion with others who share your, well, passion, at the library’s monthly Jane Austen Reading Group, which meets at 2:30 p.m. the third Saturday of each month (Feb. 20). All Austen fans are welcome; period attire is not required. The Ella K. McClatchy Library is at 2112 22nd St. Did you miss the Fenix Drum and Dance Company at the Ella K. McClatchy? The troupe is performing at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 23, at the Martin Luther King Jr. Library, so be sure to swing by for its performance of “From Africa to the Americas,” an energetic and interactive dance show featuring live drumming and storytelling. The MLK Jr. Library is at 7340 24th Street Bypass. Are you itching to be artistic? The Robbie Waters Pocket-Greenhaven Library has just what you need: “In Creative Company,” an art class series for adults, feature the joy of painting with acrylics at 10 a.m. on Fridays, Feb. 5, 12, 19 and 26. Learn painting and blending techniques, color theory and how to incorporate it all to create vibrant paintings. All supplies will be provided through a bequest from Robbie Waters. Registration is required, so go to saclibrary.org Are you worried about taking a spill? Minimize the risk of falls and improve your balance at a special class series, “Balance Training 101,” at 9 a.m. on Saturdays, Feb. 13,

20 and 27. Using physical therapybased balance training techniques, FallProof™ balance and mobility specialist Kelly Ward will train the sensory systems and muscles involved in balance with the goal of educating participants about fall prevention, demonstrating effective balance training exercises and facilitating ongoing compliance. Registration is required and some physical eligibility requirements apply, so ask at the front desk if you have any concerns. Register at saclibrary.org Entertain your tykes with Saturday Storytime and tackle a Valentine’s Day craft at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 13. Preschoolers and their families are invited to sit back and enjoy guest reader Joe Olson as well as a craft activity that’s sure to put smiles on everyone’s faces. Stick around that day until 2 p.m. to celebrate the Chinese New Year with the Food Literacy Center. Kids will learn about lucky ingredients and make a traditional Singaporean dish to bring happiness and fortune, as well as read “The Runaway Rice Cake” by Ying Chang Compestine. The Food Literacy Center was established in July 2011 to inspire kids to eat their vegetables and empower students to explore new foods; learn to cook healthful, sustainable snacks; and make smart choices. Make the new year especially happy when your kid masters some simple cooking! This delicious program is sponsored by the PocketGreenhaven Friends of the Library. Ready for some more celebrating? Salute Black History Month with a performance of “Zomo the Trickster Rabbit Puppet Show” at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 25. This West African folktale tells the tale of an ambitious rabbit named Zomo who, with the help of Crocodile, Wild Cow and Leopard, gains some much-needed wisdom through storytelling and musical magic. The Robbie Waters Pocket-Greenhaven Library is at 7335 Gloria Drive. For more information on all library-related events, go to saclibrary.org.

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Circling the Wagons CITY HALL STUMBLES INTO THE NEW YEAR

BY CRAIG POWELL

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ehavior at city hall last month followed the general trajectory of the stock market: both pretty much tanked. At the top of the list of the city’s down market moves was its stunning decision to keep the public in the dark about the results of an investigation by two outside law firms hired by the city into claims of quid pro quo sexual harassment and misuse of public office for private gain brought against councilmember Allen Warren by a former female employee in his council office. The city won’t even release the highlights or conclusions of the report, let alone its full contents. Warren is up for re-

election in June, if he decides to run again. Let’s compare the city’s handling of the Warren case to its recent handling of the investigation of a sexual harassment claim against Kevin Johnson, filed just a few months earlier. The city used the same primary outside law firm to conduct both investigations. While the city chose to disclose the results of the Johnson investigation when it found that the allegations were “unsubstantiated,” it is choosing to keep the results of the Warren investigation secret. The city isn’t interested in revealing the truth to the public but in circling the wagons and protecting an incumbent councilmember. I think we can fairly surmise that if the Warren investigation had found the allegations against him were unsubstantiated, the city would be broadcasting its findings to every media outlet in Sacramento, just as it did in the Johnson investigation. Is Allen Warren a sexual harasser of city staff? We don’t know. Did

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he illegally misuse city assets and resources to conduct his private business as alleged? We don’t know. Senior city staff know, and I’m sure the city council knows (subject to, I’m sure, a gag order imposed on them by the city attorney). If Warren is guilty of one or more of the allegations, as the city’s refusal to disclose the report certainly tends to signal, there is no current city mechanism for holding him accountable. Even the option of a city council censure would seem to be off the table. How can his council colleagues publicly censure him for something they can’t even talk about in public? The gutless ethics commission the city is proposing (with an annual operating cost of $450,000) won’t even have the jurisdiction to consider sexual harassment claims against councilmembers or claims of misuse of public office for private gain. If the June primary weren’t so near, the voters in his district could conceivably recall him. But how can citizens initiate a recall against an officeholder for something that is, at this point, merely allegations and strong suspicion? Worst of all is that the city’s coverup will cheat the voters in Warren’s district of vital information in the upcoming June election, should he stand for re-election. The city’s hiding of the report will mean that voters will be left with nothing but suspicion, rumor and innuendo by which to judge the claims against Warren. Frankly, that’s a perversion of the democratic process. The city has a moral, ethical and democratic duty to tell District 2

voters the truth about the legal and ethical culpability of their councilmember. Is our city council so ethically bereft that they don’t get that? The facts are quite clear on one point. Our current city leadership is devoted to one goal: protecting incumbent politicians from accountability for claims against them for illegal and unethical misconduct, no matter how much it undermines trust in city government. The city attorney will probably assert that the city needs to hide the report from the public to minimize the city’s liability exposure to Warren’s former city staffer in a likely future suit against the city. I look at this issue much differently than the city attorney, with a view that I suspect is shared by the great majority of Sacramentans: It is far more important to cleanse city government of the stain of illegal conduct and sexual harassment by senior city officials, and restore some measure of public trust in city government, than it is for the city to hide the truth from the public in an effort to evade financial responsibility to the victim of a councilmember’s misconduct. The city should not be covering up the culpability of its senior officials. It comes down to this: Do we want to be known as the city that sweeps its dirty laundry under the rug, protects its politicians at all costs and deprives victims of misconduct by senior city officials of a just settlement of their legitimate claims? I don’t think so. And what kind of message would CITY HALL page 15

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CITY HALL FROM page 12 that send to city councilmembers, current and future? That they can engage in egregious and injurious misconduct and the city will virtually immunize them from official accountability and responsibility for their misconduct? That’s not the Sacramento I grew up in, and I don’t think that’s the Sacramento we want to be. Circling the wagons to fend off a legal claim by a former employee may be fine strategy for a private business, but not for a government whose leaders are elected by, and accountable to, the people. It’s not government’s role to cheat victims out of just compensation for wrongful acts committed by the senior officials of that government. How are city officials getting away with deep-sixing the Warren report? They are standing behind various exemptions from the disclosure requirements of the California Public Records Act. They’re claiming exemptions for personnel matters, attorney/client privileged communications, threatened litigation and, my personal favorite, that the anticipated benefits of disclosure are “outweighed” by the likely harm of disclosure. But all of these exemptions from disclosure are entirely discretionary in nature. In other words, the city could, if it wished to do so, disclose the report by simply choosing not to invoke any CPRA exemption. This past fall, the city council had a choice between adopting a robust set of ethics and transparency reforms that were the final product of 10 public forums sponsored by Eye on Sacramento and 23 other community organizations (the community proposals) or a tepid set of reforms approved by the city’s closed-door ad hoc committee on good governance (the ad hoc proposals). The council approved, in principle, the ad hoc proposals and rejected the community proposals. Formal council adoption of the ad hoc proposals is expected later this year. How would this matter be handled under the ad hoc proposals as compared to current city rules? Well, the ethics commission contemplated

by the ad hoc proposals would have no authority to consider sexual harassment claims against councilmembers, nor a claim that a public official misused public resources for private gain. Nor would the transparency rules compel the public release of the Warren report. In short, there would be absolutely no difference in the handling of the claims or the report under the ad hoc proposals as compared to current city rules. Under the community proposals, however, the ethics commission would have the jurisdiction to adjudicate both the sexual harassment claim against Warren as well as the claim that he misused public resources for his private gain. The ethics commission, with independently appointed commissioners, would initiate the investigation and its investigative report would be released to the public, rather than hidden behind the attorney/client privilege. The transparency rules of the community proposals would abolish or limit the exemptions from the CPRA that the city is currently asserting to avoid public disclosure of the Warren report. In short, the community proposals would produce an independent investigation of the claims and a fair and open adjudication of them by independent, impartial commissioners, and would fully disclose its investigative findings to the public. Given the continuing lack of dedication to serious ethics reform at city hall, it’s more and more likely that the community proposals will be the subject of one or more citizendriven ballot measures in 2018.

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numbers for last year, to see if there are tangible signs of “depolicing” in Sacramento. Look for my report in my column next month.

MORE STUMBLES The city is having a very difficult time dealing with a large group of homeless advocates who are regularly camping out just outside city hall. The campers are calling on the city council to repeal the city’s anti-camping ordinance, an idea that’s gained zero traction with the council. At 5 a.m. on a recent cold January morning, 50 police officers raided the encampment, rousting sleeping campers. They cited some, arrested some and escorted others to local service providers. But the campers were soon back in full force, followed again by police who repeatedly arrested and cited several campers. The cycle appears to be repeating itself. On a recent Tuesday night, 40 homeless advocates testified at a city council meeting, an increasingly common occurrence. Meanwhile, the hacker group Anonymous posted several YouTube videos warning the city that if it did not place a moratorium on enforcement of its anti-camping ordinance, Anonymous would deploy its resources, presumably to disrupt the city’s website as it recently did in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Finally, the city issued an advisory to residents of the Pocket area on Jan. 10 that, due to the presence of elevated levels of coliform bacteria discovered in local wells, they should boil their tap water before drinking or cooking with it. According to city staff, it was the first time in city history such an advisory was issued. According to our city sources, the highly localized contamination was likely the result of a pipe break caused by city contractors working on the city’s water meter project. The advisory was lifted two days later. Craig Powell is a local attorney, businessman, community activist and president of Eye on Sacramento, a civic watchdog and policy group. He can be reached at craig@ eyeonsacramento.org or 718-3030. n

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life—I’ve raised my family here. But I’d never lived in a city without a philharmonic or an opera. I figured that now was a good time in my life to get involved.”

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A Hotel for Midtown RANDY PARAGARY LOOKS TO EXPAND HIS EMPIRE

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t began with the settling of Sutter’s Fort but by no means was settled with the construction of Sutter Medical Center. The eastern edge of Sacramento’s grid continues to make its case as the new hub of Midtown, if not all Sacramento, as plans go forward to build Midtown’s first upscale hotel on the corner of 28th Street and Capitol Avenue by 2018. Seasoned Sacramento restaurateur Randy Paragary, owner of the 28th and Capitol property and resident Cafe Bernardo, will raze the building to construct a six-story, 107-bedroom boutique hotel. Architect Ron Vrilakas already has drafted plans for the new hotel. Paragary admits they mostly entail “the exterior architectural skin.” Still, he says, the hotel “is going to have a certain swagger to it.” Paragary plans to partner with an existing hotel operator. (He’s already interviewed Hilton and Marriott.) “Just because it has their name on it doesn’t mean I’m not going to try and make it my own,” he says. Considering the hotel is a $20 million-plus project, one would expect Paragary to be as involved as possible while retaining creative license. That should prove no difficulty for the entrepreneur, whose track record of building restaurants goes back to 1974. While attending McGeorge School of Law, Paragary opened The Arbor in 1974 and Lord Beaverbrooks in 1975. Paragary has since opened five Cafe Bernardos, Centro Cocina

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Rendering of the new Midtown boutique hotel restaurateur Randy Paragary hopes to build

Mexicana, Hock Farm, Esquire Grill and Paragary’s, and he has partnered with other entrepreneurs on restaurants and nightclubs such as The Red Rabbit, Barwest, Vanguard and Social. “I’m not a cookie-cutter restaurant operator,” says Paragary. “Other than the five Bernardos, they are all different.” Paragary’s decision to partner with an existing hotelier comes down to marketing. “Those brands are powerful because they have reservation systems and loyalty programs and marketing departments that, six months prior to us opening, they’d be able to get the word out so

you can hit the ground running,” he explains. But, he continues, “there’s a lot of latitude that goes with the architecture and the style that we’re allowed to do.” Which is where Paragary’s experience as a restaurateur comes into play. “When I talk to brands, they tell me I already know how to do the hardest part of the hotel business: food and beverage.” With more than 40 years of experience in the dining and hospitality industry, Paragary had considered resting on the laurels of his previous business accomplishments. “Well, I was until the hotel popped up,” he says with

a laugh. “I never even dreamed of having a hotel. It just happens that I’m in the right place at the right time.” Paragary has owned the 28th and Capitol property for 20 years. But only after purchasing the adjacent property in 2015 was he able to pave the way for the new hotel. “Twenty years ago, Sutter Medical Center did not exist,” says Paragary, partly explaining why he didn’t build sooner. Now that the medical center has been built, “there is much more demand for family members to be able to stay when somebody’s in the hospital.” Unlike downtown hotels that rely heavily upon the cycle of seasons and

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We like to do things that make people happy, and I guess an extension of that would be the complete 24hour experience.” Paragary’s hotel complements the revival along the eastern end of Capitol Avenue, which will also include the new B Street Theatre, located at 27th and Capitol, which is expected to open in the summer of 2017.

The brick-and-concrete hotel will be as tall as the neighboring seven-story parking garage. The new plans include “great big warehouse windows” and a new Cafe Bernardo on the ground floor. “We’re putting Cafe Bernardo back in there,” says Paragary, explaining the restaurant will be a separate entity. The restaurateur envisions the new Monkey Bar spilling into the lobby, which he expects will have a “living room look,” using modular sofas and ottomans. Though this is Paragary’s first foray into the hotel business, Sacramentans can expect a quality product from the proven restaurateur. He does it because he enjoys it. “We become restaurateurs because it is a hospitality business, and we get into it because we enjoy being hosts,” says Paragary. “We like to do things that make people happy, and I guess an extension of that would be the complete 24-hour experience.” Jordan Venema can be reached at jordan.venema@gmail.com. n

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acramento has long been in the shadow of San Francisco and the Silicon Valley when it comes to business and technology. But one local entrepreneur has an idea to shine a new light on entrepreneurship and innovation in the capital city region. Jack Crawford, managing partner of Velocity Venture Capital, is doing what he can to reposition Sacramento and put technology entrepreneurship in the penthouse suite—literally. Velocity is an investment and advisory firm with a seed and early-stage tech fund and a corporate venture capital advisory practice. Crawford has leased the penthouse floor of Renaissance Tower at 801K St., commonly known as the Darth Vader building. He also has options and plans for three other floors at the top of the building. Velocity has moved its headquarters to the building. The rest of the space will be coworking space for technology companies, offices for service providers who support startup companies, a video studio and other amenities to attract and support Sacramento’s best tech startups. Crawford will split his time between his new downtown space and Velocity’s Entrepreneurs Campus,

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The team at Velocity Venture Capital

which is housed in a former school in Folsom. The campus runs programs focused on innovation, including the Entrepreneurs Showcase Accelerator, a 10-week program that educates and mentors top startup founders and graduate students. Once through the course, students connect with other entrepreneurs, Fortune 500 corporations, policymakers and investors. They share knowledge, experience, ideas and resources. The program concludes with Demo Day, a chance for entrepreneurs to take the stage to pitch to more than 100 potential investors, customers and advisers. The program has had more than 50 participants. These

participants, and similar companies, might eventually take their ideas to the next level and work out of Velocity’s coworking space downtown. Crawford’s vision for entrepreneurship isn’t just about a downtown location. He sees an equal connection between Silicon Valley, San Francisco and Sacramento, which form what he calls the Tech Triangle. “I think Sacramento is changing,” says Crawford. “It’s not just the arena. It’s the whole downtown experience. In many ways, we have a blank canvas. We can tap into the tailwinds of downtown’s growth.” Crawford created the vision for the Tech Triangle because of the synergy

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want to live, work and enjoy the urban core. Sacramento State University and UC Davis are also leading innovation efforts through academics and programs like UC Davis World Food Center. “We are seeing thousands of people leaving the Bay Area and Silicon Valley for Sacramento,” says Crawford. “That’s giving us a lot of tech talent.” This migration continues every day as people discover a vibrant quality of life and prospects for career growth in Sacramento without the skyrocketing cost of living in the Bay Area. Not only are people discovering a changing Sacramento, but corporate investors are, too. Instead of trying to get the attention of venture capital investors in Silicon Valley, Crawford has focused on corporate investors. Many have been to his Folsom campus and will be invited to Velocity’s new downtown site. These investors include Intel, Dell, Oracle, Adobe, Walmart, USAA and others. Venture capitalists like to be close to their portfolio companies and will often have them move to Santa Clara after funding. Corporate investors don’t have that concern. They have money to invest as they look to fund innovation that might improve their operations, products and services. “Our region is already known to these corporations and their corporate investors,” Crawford says. “Now, they are experiencing it firsthand by coming to the entrepreneur and innovation events and activities we host. It’s pretty cool to have this premier downtown location and operation to show them.” One business has already moved into Velocity’s coworking space. Averro Solutions, while technically a startup, is funded and moving rapidly toward customer acquisition. It was founded by two leaders in the data center industry, Yatish Mishra and Denoid Tucker. While the coworking space is for early-stage startups, Crawford expects most companies joining Velocity’s coworking environment will be more established and have a marketable

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Talking of TED THE GLOBAL CONFERENCE OF BIG IDEAS HAS A HOME IN SACRAMENTO

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et’s begin by making it clear what TEDx Sacramento is not. TEDx Sacramento is not a speaker series. This news may challenge first impressions, given that TEDx fulfills its mission each year by clipping wireless microphones to various people and thrusting them onto a theatrically lit and gloriously intimidating stage at Community Center Theater, where an audience of 3,000 or so awaits to be enlightened for the next 18 minutes and cameras record every bead of sweat. People speak at TEDx Sacramento. But it’s not a speaker series, because the speakers themselves really aren’t the point. The point is what they have to say. Celebrities are rarely invited to talk at TEDx. Big-name personalities have appeared on occasion, but the law of diminishing returns often prevails in their wake. The bigger the name, the louder the potential thud. “Most of our speakers are not polished, professional speakers,” says Brandon Weber, the organizer of TEDx Sacramento. “We love the various speaker series that

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Brandon Weber is the organizer of TEDx Sacramento

come through town with scripted, professional speeches, but we’re something very different. Our speakers are experts, but they’re experts you probably never heard of.” The next opportunity for surprise and enlightenment from someone you would probably ignore at the grocery store is coming soon. TEDx Sacramento makes its annual visit to the downtown theater Feb. 12. For information, go to tedxsacramento. com. Be warned, TEDx tickets tend not to linger. TEDx Sacramento is a licensed cousin of the wildly successful global nonprofit phenomenon TED—short for Technology, Entertainment and Design. It began with the simple mandate to help spread big ideas.

The original TED started in 1984. There are still fuzzy videos lurking on the Internet to prove why people talking about ideas had such compelling, continuing appeal. The Sacramento TED offshoot sprouted in 2009 as one of the first independent auxiliaries licensed by the mother ship. The local show has become a monster, quickly outgrowing the compact auditorium at Crocker Art Museum for a space 10 times larger. “We had eight friends to start with, and we weren’t sure what was going to happen,” Weber says. “We didn’t know what was going on or whether anyone would even care. We just let the community run with it.”

The community sprinted, embracing the opportunity to hear diverse, brief, humble thoughts about business, technology, money, education, kids, life. Over the decades, there have been thousands of TED talks recorded for free Web viewing. Some have been viewed more than 20 million times. Talks on body language, the ability of schools to stifle creativity, secrets of leadership and beauty are among the most popular. Speakers have become famous thanks to TED. But the diversity of ideas is the key, whether the event is held in Scotland, Africa or Sacramento, whether the speaker is a provincial college professor or a plutocrat.

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pitch. His idea sounded interesting. In person, his story was astonishing. Orphaned at age 7 in Uganda, he became an engineering student at UC Berkeley, achieving doctoratelevel success. And he figured out how to turn ruined old bicycles into wheelchairs for disabled Ugandan villagers—people who had previously been carried on the backs of loved ones. His 2012 talk is grainy and barely eight minutes long. Viewership clicks have settled below 6,000. But no person in the room that day can forget Chris Ategeka. “It was our first standing ovation,” Weber says. “People were crying. We learn in advance with TEDx to be surprised, but nothing prepared us for the power of what he said.” Ategeka focused on how one average person can solve world problems. He did it with old bicycles. That’s the serendipitous magic of TEDx Sacramento.

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Lots of Heart SHE REACHES OUT TO KIDS WITH CARDIAC PROBLEMS

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efore Liam O’Brien was born, his parents knew he would be special. Liam’s dad, Mike, had a heart with a bicuspid valve—two flaps rather than three—and there was a

good chance that Liam would also have an anomaly. Liam entered the world in February 2011 with several heart defects, including a large hole in

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his heart. At six months, he had his first open-heart surgery. During his short life, Liam has had one blood transfusion, two catheterizations, two open-heart surgeries, and surgery to install a pacemaker. “This is six hospital stays, surgeries and procedures in his four years of life and is common for heart kids,” says his mom, Suzanne. She describes the blood transfusion Liam had at five months: “It took a hundred tries to get the IV in.” Today, Liam plays soccer and does the things that other kids do. “After we’ve been through something, we try to get everything back to normal,” says his mom. “We want to let him do things until he

Even more, they have been embraced and supported by Angels for Hearts, a local nonprofit whose mission is to help the families of pediatric heart patients. “We learned about Angels for Hearts from the child life specialist at the hospital,” says Suzanne O’Brien. “They’re a great asset for families of heart kids.” The organization assists the entire family, including siblings. When the O’Briens’ eighth wedding anniversary coincided with Liam’s second open-heart surgery, Angels for Hearts delivered dinner to the couple at the hospital. The principal archangel of Angels for Hearts is Kimberly Kaufman.

businesswoman living on her own to a cardiac patient. “I was housesitting for my parents and didn’t feel good,” Kaufman recalls. “I called my parents and said I thought I was dying. My mom said it was probably heartburn. I was 29 years old, so I just went with it.” It wasn’t until she went to Stanford for surgery in 2004 that the puzzle came together. “No one caught that I had had a heart attack on their charts, but they did one more CAT scan,” she says. “I was at Arden Fair mall and got a call from the hospital telling me that I had an echocardiogram at 6:45 the next morning. It was heart failure. My

can’t do them.” Through it all, the O’Briens have benefited from the expertise of the cardiologists and child life specialists at UC Davis Children’s Hospital.

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raised $5,000 so that the kids could experience the pure joy of getting gifts from Santa. We filled four SUVs with toys, and we also brought gift cards to the child life specialists.â&#x20AC;? Angels became a nonprofit in 2008 and has raised $175,000 to date for patients and their families at Stanford, UC Davis and Sutter hospitals. In partnership with First Tee, it sponsors I (Heart) Golf camp, where heart kids can enjoy a heartfriendly sport year-round. In alternate years, Heart Kids Rock and When I Grow Up programs are held. This year, Angels was chosen as the Open Your Heart chairs for the American Heart Associationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Heart Ball. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think I would still be here if it werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t for this work,â&#x20AC;? says Kaufman with stark candor. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help me, but I can help someone else. I get to create my legacy and see it while Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m still here.â&#x20AC;? To learn more about Angels for Hearts, go to angelsforhearts.org. Terry Kaufman can be reached at terry@1greatstory.com. n

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acramento may have the hot weather, but Latin America has the spice and sensuality. Short

of hopping on a plane and traveling to a different hemisphere, how does one find that authentic Latin vibe? Look no farther than the corner of 11th and R streets in Midtown. The new home of Casa de Espanol is the brainchild and passion of Maria Harrington, whose mission is to bring the language and culture of her native land to the Sacramento community. She, along with her husband and her mother, established Casa de Espanol four years ago on J Street near Tapa the World, quickly growing the school from 1,725 square feet to more than 3,000, and from 25 students to more than 400. It was time to find a new home. “I wanted a place where people could hang out,” says Harrington. The Casa de Espanol team: Leo Lopez, Alejandro Gomez, Dominique Cordero, Chelsea Ramazzini, Maria Harrington and husband Johnny Walker with Maria's mom Esperanza Harrington seated in front

“My goal was to create a cultural center as well as a language school.” Harrington was born in Mexico but

student body and Latinos Unidos. She

an opportunity for many to make

classes, conversation labs, tutorials,

grew up in Oak Park. Her father was

earned her master’s degree in Latin

themselves more marketable. The

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American, her mother Mexican, and

American studies at UC Berkeley and

students today are a mix of retirees,

to Spanish-speaking countries. The

she was raised bilingual. When she

taught at schools in the Bay Area.

working folks who like to travel and

classes meet once a week for nine-

reached the sixth grade, she stopped

She received the Educator of the Year

people reconnecting with their Latin

week sessions, with both day and

speaking Spanish completely for

award at St. Mary’s High School in

heritage. Students come not just from

evening offerings. Conversation

seven years. “I was ashamed of my

the East Bay.

Sacramento but from as far away as

groups, which are open to everyone,

South America and South Africa.

take place on the first and third

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Harrington moved back to

she visited Mexico during high school

Sacramento in 2011 after getting

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and college. “I came back feeling

married, and Casa de Espanol was

course evolved over time into a world

guilty about not speaking Spanish

born. It was a bad time to start a

of linguistic and cultural immersion.

well enough,” she says.

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Today’s Casa de Espanol offers a

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She attended Holy Names

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start a Spanish language school.

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provides scholarships to those who

University in Oakland on scholarship,

“During the recession, students were

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Closer In A COUPLE ABANDONS THE SUBURBS FOR A NEW LIFE

BY JULIE FOSTER HOME INSIGHT

hen looking to move from their El Dorado Hills home, Stacey and David Friedman were driven by two goals. “We were looking to move closer to my son’s school, Sacramento County Day,” Stacey explains, adding that they were also “looking for a more urban experience than we had been living.” In 2013, the couple purchased a 3,700-square-foot Arden Oaks ranch-style home built in 1962. The structure’s interior was dark. It

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Though the house required extensive modernization, the couple wanted to retain the feel of the original ranch house. sported popcorn ceilings and funky multilevel spaces that had been added by a previous owner. In 2007, the kitchen had undergone a remodel that needed updating. There was water damage from the existing swimming

pool, and the 40-year-old landscaping was out of control. “Pretty much the whole house was gutted,” Friedman says. “It was a makeover in and out.”

The project took four months to complete. The Friedmans worked with John Packowski’s architectural firm, Concept Studio. The construction work, including the addition of a master suite and studio, was performed by contractor Ken Dyer. “We really enjoyed working with Ken and consider him a true friend,” says Friedman. Numerous unexpected framing issues arose due to previous remodeling projects. Though the house required extensive

“This is the first time I have ever had this in my life,” she says. “I don’t have to put summer or winter things away, and I can still keep everything super organized.” The couple’s new bath contains a claw-foot slipper tub, two sinks and an oversized shower with a stationary shower head and a separate hand-held shower head. The couple’s El Dorado Hills home featured lots of dark furniture and a color palette of greens and browns. Friedman, who loves the beach, chose a different color scheme for the Arden Oaks house, opting for soothing blues and plenty of white. She re-covered many pieces of her furniture to complement the house’s new, fresh look. Pinterest provided her with inspiration.

While using a pry bar and reciprocating saw to remove a built-in desk and wall unit, she discovered buried treasure.

modernization, the couple wanted to retain the feel of the original ranch house rather than create a grandiose structure. While Dyer took charge of remodeling, Friedman pitched in. She picked out all the lighting and plumbing fixtures as well as the carpet, doors, cabinet and door hardware and kitchen and outdoor appliances.

“I did all the sourcing and running around and paid for the materials. Then, Ken would pick up the materials,” she says. “I was doing a lot of running around during the remodel.” Throughout the house, excluding the bedrooms, the hardwood flooring is 10-inch-wide wire-brushed planks. An indoor brick rotisserie/ barbecue in the family room became a gas

fireplace. A wet bar was transformed into a home theater with space for the family’s collection of DVDs and a flat screen mounted on a wood panel. A whole-house fan cools the home during the summer, and a tankless water heater helps conserve energy. The new master suite has two super-sized walk-in closets, one for Friedman and one for her husband.

Friedman likes having a creative project going all the time, a characteristic she inherited from her grandmother. The guest room is adorned with a collection of her grandmother’s quilts, which the family uses. “She was always doing something with her hands,” Friedman says. Friedman puts her hands to use as well. While using a pry bar and reciprocating saw to remove a built-in desk and wall unit, she discovered buried treasure. “I found gold bullion coins and silver mint sets totaling nearly $24,000 underneath the floorboards of the built-in desk,” she says. Friedman contacted the previous homeowner’s daughter, who was thrilled to have the coins returned to her family. HOME page 32

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HOME FROM page 31 “Apparently they belonged to her brother and he had forgotten where they had been hidden,” she says.

“We love our Arden Oaks neighborhood and our lovely neighbors, many of whom have been here 40 years.” Friedman’s new studio is a light-filled delight. It’s the perfect spot for creating and photographing her stunning jewelry pieces. Friedman buys antique and vintage jewelry at auction and repurposes it for contemporary use. Her lavish pieces are especially favored by brides. She got the idea for the business while reconfiguring her grandmother’s costume jewelry. “I started messing with her costume jewelry, wondering how I could take this stuff and actually wear it,” she explains. JWA Landscaping & Concrete Construction of Folsom began reinvigorating the landscape in 2014. A 60-foot tall cypress tree was cut down. Overgrown vegetation was removed. The pool and the surrounding area were resurfaced. Lemon, lime and peach trees were added to the existing pear, grapefruit and orange trees. According to Friedman, the entire project was a labor of love.

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A Mighty Noise SOUND ON OR SOUND OFF DURING GAMES? RANDY PARAGARY EXPLAINS

everybody watches together. Sadly, I doubt I can find a bar with the courage to show the Super Bowl with the sound turned off, old-school style. (Amazingly, it’s hard to find a bar that keeps the sound off when the Kings are playing. There should be a city ordinance to prohibit Kings TV audio in bars, but that’s another story.) All of which begs some questions: Why do people in bars today want to hear sports commentators? Don’t we trust ourselves to watch a game and understand what’s going on? When did we grow dumb as sports fans? Since I don’t hang around bars much anymore, I talked to someone who makes his living around them: Randy Paragary, who has owned dozens of bars in Sacramento over the past half-century, more than anyone else. Paragary is known as a restaurant guy, but he still owns bars in Midtown, downtown and on R Street.

BY R.E. GRASWICH SPORTS AUTHORITY

y history with sports bars goes back a ways, back to the time before sports bars were invented. In those days, there were bars owned by sportsmen—typically retired ballplayers—and sports fans gathered there to drink, smoke, argue, whine and brag. But nobody would have said they were sports bars. The term didn’t exist, not the way it exists today, when a sports bar is a place where people sit around in replica NFL jerseys.

The old bars for sports fans were cocktail lounges with one or maybe two TV sets.The old bars for sports fans were cocktail lounges with one or maybe two TV sets. If the TV worked, it would be tuned to a boxing match or a baseball or football game. And

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Randy Paragary

bars had strict rules when it came to television. The TV was reserved for sports: no soap operas, comedies, talk shows or news, unless the news was big, globalcrisis stuff, the kind of news that’s introduced by an announcer who says, “We now take you to the Oval Office ...”

And there was another rule. The sound was always off. No exceptions. In Sacramento, San Francisco or Boston, TV silence was the rule in bars. I bring this up because it’s Super Bowl time, which prevails in our contemporary fractured media world as the only scheduled TV event that

“It creates a crowd noise that works well as ambience. It’s basically white noise.” “You’re right. Back then, no bar had the sound on during a sports event,” he says. “People didn’t want to hear commentary. And we still tend to lean in that direction today, though we’ve made some adjustments.”

At Paragary’s bars today, places such as R15 at 15th and R streets, the sound comes up only for the big events: the Super Bowl, World Series, NBA Finals. Interest in those championship matches is so supreme and pervasive, with people riveted on every nuance, that it would be almost cruel to keep the sound down.

bars like Paragary’s Esquire Grill at 13th and K streets, which is essentially a big restaurant with a small bar up front and one lonely, orphan TV. At restaurants like Esquire, Paragary doesn’t bother to buy the special license required to show full packages of NFL games. Licenses are based on room capacity, not the number of TV sets in the room.

The question of who watches what on which TV can be a problem, especially in bars with numerous screens and competing loyalties.

Esquire is a big restaurant and would cost about $6,000 to license. So the bar’s lone TV muddles along with basic cable sports, minus the sound. At all Paragary bars, customers ask for the sound to be turned up for routine sports events. When that happens, staff members politely explain the policy, noting that other customers prefer listening to soft music while they eat and drink. Sports fans tend to be understanding folks, so it’s not a big problem.

But there’s another exception, an

what on which TV can be a problem,

would have anticipated.

especially in bars with numerous screens and competing loyalties. This

NFL games running simultaneously,

dilemma can be acute during the

his staff will intentionally turn up

NFL season. It’s not unusual for a

the volume to generate the sound

Sacramento bar to be inundated with

of excitement—the ambience of a

Buffalo Bills fans, for reasons nobody

football stadium luxury suite.

understands.

“We’ll have them all going at once,

The solution: The staff checks

so nobody can even hear what’s being

the broadcast schedule and prints

said on any of the TVs,” Paragary

little signs to hang below each TV,

says. “It creates a crowd noise that

displaying where individual games

works well as ambience. It’s basically

will be shown. End of argument.

white noise.”

Another round, anyone?

He only deploys this trick with football—and only when multiple NFL games are overlapping on

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One-Stop Pop-Up OAK PARK STORE HOSTS A SUCCESSION OF DIFFERENT VENDORS

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he point of everything we do is the collaboration that happens when we work together,” says Roshaun Davis. This sentiment is true whether Davis is talking about Unseen Heroes, the events marketing agency he co-founded in 2008 with his wife, Maritza, or DISPLAY: California, the 850-square-foot retail space they own that plays host to revolving pop-up shops every four to eight weeks in Oak Park’s up-and-coming Triangle District. “We were noticing a lot of empty retail spaces (in the area) and at the same time meeting all of these amazing designers through our GOOD Street Food and Design Market who didn’t have storefronts,” Davis says. “We wanted to figure out a solution that would revitalize the storefronts and give local designers a place to show their work.” The Davises were inspired by the storied pop-up shops of New York City and San Francisco, only with one crucial difference: Instead of setting up shop in a temporary space that would disappear along with the goods at the end of the pop-up’s life, the creative pair wanted to create a permanent space to host an ever-changing concept—the blink-and-you-miss-it appeal without the actual frustration. “With traditional pop-up shops, if you didn’t know about it, you miss it,” Davis says. “With DISPLAY, we’re sticking with the concept of coming and going but within a permanent space that people know to come to. If you miss one pop-up, you can go to

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Maritza and Roshaun Davis of DISPLAY: California

the next one. It won’t be the same theme, but it will have the same quality of products.” Now that the shop is celebrating its first successful year of operation (it opened on Nov. 28, 2014), the

Davises are eager to figure out enticing seasonal themes that will have the Sacramento community buzzing—and buying. Their wintertime shop set-up, cleverly called “Holladay,” featured

unique holiday options from top California designers and included apparel, toys, jewelry, beauty and body care products, home accessories and décor, as well as a gift concierge service and custom gift wrapping. Having the backing of the team at parent company Unseen Heroes means that DISPLAY can offer not only products, but experiences (or, in the words of its website, “happenings”), with special events tied to the theme held during every pop-up period. “DISPLAY is a platform for the community to connect,” Davis explains. “It’s for designers and makers and consumers to come together. “That’s the fun part. Each time we do a pop-up, I love seeing consumers come in and buy locally and give feedback, and on the other end, when we shut down the installation and send out checks to the designers, we’re helping support local creators, some who live right down the street. “We can say to people, ‘When you shop here, you’re literally supporting local companies.’ It doesn’t get any more local than this.” Check out DISPLAY: California’s current pop-up, Bodega, featuring artisanal food, kitchen goodies and household items in a quaint general store atmosphere. For more information, go to displaycalifornia. com. For more information on Unseen Heroes, go to unseen-heroes. com. DISPLAY: California is at 3433 Broadway. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com. n

Good Things in Store MAKE/DO REVELS IN FINDING AND OFFERING LOCAL PRODUCTS

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hen Tennessee native Lori Easterwood named her Oak Park shop Make/Do Sacramento when it opened in May of last year, she knew just what she was doing. “Being from the South, we have a ‘mend and make-do’ mindset,” Easterwood explains with just a hint of a charming drawl. “You don’t just go out and buy something new, you make it work. And the word ‘Sacramento’ had to be in the name because everything that’s handmade in the shop is made right here in Sacramento.” Easterwood takes pride in finding one-of-a-kind items at local craft fairs and she also scours social media sites such as Instagram and online shops such as Etsy to find area artisans she might want to carry in the store, as well as relying on good old word of mouth. “People come to me with names of people I should carry all the time,” the East Sacramento resident says. “I love it. Since I moved to Sacramento eight or nine years ago, I’ve seen such a big change in how people see our city and how proud they are of living here. I don’t think we’ll be identified by how near or far we are from ‘cooler’ places (like Tahoe or San Francisco) for much longer.” Easterwood was quickly won over by Sacramento’s real appeal (as opposed to its perpetually promised “up-and-coming” vibe) when she relocated here from Portland to take a job running the programming and partnerships for the Sacramento

Make/Do Sacramento owner Lori Easterwood

Public Library. Though she holds a master’s degree in library science and calls her former gig “a very exciting job,” Easterwood leapt at the chance

to break onto the small-business scene. “I’ve wanted to own my own shop my whole life,” explains Easterwood, who comes from a long

line of entrepreneurs. “Everyone in the family has owned their own business—a restaurant, a garage—it’s family tradition. We have a big history of small-business ownership.” The avid antiques collector has filled her shop with everything from the aforementioned handmade local goods (including candles, soaps and handbags designed by her sister) as well as vintage fabrics and antiques that she discovers at estate sales. “Having the shop allows me to keep buying things even though my house is full,” she says with an easy laugh. “I like to arrange everything so you can envision it in your own home.” If you’re a neighbor of the store, that home would be in Oak Park, an area that Easterwood falls more and more in love with every day. “There’s a real sense of community in the neighborhood,” Easterwood says. “I saw when I was working at the library and would bring programs to the residents here how connected people are to their community. And it’s wonderfully walkable. The foot traffic in the neighborhood was pretty quiet when I first opened, but now that places like Oak Park Men’s Supply, the Plant Foundry and DISPLAY: California are open, there’s an amazing vibrancy.” Sounds like Easterwood has done more than just “make do.” She has made a business she can be proud of in a city she loves. Make/Do Sacramento is expanding its hours next month. For now, check the website at makedosac.com to know exactly when you can drop in to shop. Make/Do Sacramento is located at 2907 35th St. n

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Annual Adventure THE BEST VEGGIES TO PLANT IN YOUR GARDEN

containers or small gardens, especially a variety called ‘Super Bush.’ She also likes ‘Husky Gold’ and ‘Fresh Salsa.’ Vierra and many other tomato growers select ‘Early Girl’ for an early and large crop, but I’m not a fan. To me, its firm fruit and mild flavor is more reminiscent of an adequate grocery store tomato than a succulent

BY ANITA CLEVENGER

homegrown one.

GARDEN JABBER

Eggplants and peppers are attractive, compact plants with

f you want the very best taste and

decorative flowers and fruit. I usually

highest yield from your garden

just grow ‘Black Beauty’ eggplant,

this summer, what should you

one of Vierra’s picks, but this year

plant? According to Master Gardener

I want to try a long, thin Japanese

Dan Vierra, don’t limit yourself to the

variety such as ‘Ichiban’ or ‘Fair

same kinds of vegetables year after

Bianca,’ which produces showy

year. “Make it an annual adventure,”

lavender-streaked 6- to 8-inch fruit

he advises. “Plant one or two new

reputed to have no bitterness at all.

varieties each summer. Discovering

It’s fun to have some hot peppers in

a tasty new veggie is winning the

the garden, ready to toss into salsa

gardening lottery.”

or whatever else you are cooking.

Dan Vierra and Gail Pothour are

Pothour prefers ‘Purple Jalapeno’

Master Gardeners who have grown

and ‘Mariachi.’ Sweet peppers can be

edibles for many years in their

more problematic. Mine often scorch

home gardens and at Fair Oaks

in the sun. Pothour says that you

Horticulture Center. I asked them

can plant them in containers at least

to recommend the best of the best,

8 to 10 inches deep, placed in a spot

focusing on those that can be grown

with afternoon shade. She and Vierra

in smaller gardens or containers.

both mentioned ‘Gypsy,’ a sweet red

When talking about vegetables

variety.

in Sacramento, you start with tomatoes. Vierra says that they are the “king and queen” of our vegetable gardens. He recommended a few of my favorites, including ‘Sun Gold,’ a sweet, intensely flavored yellow cherry tomato that often wins awards for best-tasting tomato; ‘Cherokee Purple,’ an heirloom tomato that bears many great-tasting large fruit; and ‘Kellogg’s Breakfast,’ an orangeyellow heirloom tomato that produces

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If you salivate for winter squash a heavy crop of sweet beefsteak

Tomatoes grow as vines

but are reluctant to devote enough

tomatoes. While heirloom tomatoes

(indeterminate) or bushes

space for their sprawling vines,

are the darlings of farm-to-fork

(determinate). Indeterminate

Pothour has some suggestions.

menus, they often have lower yields

tomatoes grow and bear fruit

One of her new favorites is ‘Honey

and softer fruit. Delicious, easier-

throughout the season. They can

Nut’ baby butternut squash. “It is

to-grow modern hybrids include

be confined to a limited space by

a relatively small vining plant, so I

‘Super Fantastic’ and ‘Brandy Boy.’

staking or caging them. Determinate

grow it on a trellis about 6 feet tall,”

Vierra and Pothour both like cherry

tomatoes grow several feet high

she says. “The fruits are personal

tomatoes ‘Green Doctors’ and ‘Juliet.’

and then produce their fruit all at

size, so they are perfect for those who

once. Pothour recommends them for

do not want a lot of leftover squash.”

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Another smaller winter squash is

and-come-again type, it continued to

‘Black Futsu.’ Pothour says it is

re-sprout even when cut back nearly

very ornamental and is reported to

to the ground, giving Pothour “baby

taste a bit like hazelnuts. “I cannot

kale for many months.”

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I cannot bear to cut into this little

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Oil Baroness OLIVE EXPERT SHARES HER CULINARY SKILL AT LIBRARY TASTING

PHOTOS AND STORY BY SUSAN MAXWELL SKINNER

orn in Argentina and raised in California, Maria Farr has good reason to bless an age-old staple that oils the wheels of Latino kitchens. “Most Argentinians are of Italian origin,” says the Carmichael resident. “My mami had a huge can of Italian olive oil under her sink. She used it in everything she cooked. As a teenager in California, I wanted our food to taste more American. But Mami even cooked our French fries in olive oil. Our mashed potatoes tasted of oil and garlic.”

“What skill I have was developed by many years of tasting and training.” No surprise: Maria grew up with good health, hair and skin. “Mami gave my hair oil treatments,” she recalls. “Olives produce an excellent, healthy oil if I get it on my hands when cooking, I don’t wash it off, I rub it in. It’s too good to waste. She taught me that.” Mami also bequeathed her only child a second career. After 20 years of teaching Spanish at Sacramento Waldorf School (Fair Oaks), Farr is now exploring more inherited skills. Her rapport with olive oil has made

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Olive oil aficionado Maria Farr (and pooch Cassius) with tools of the taster’s expertise. Farr will share olive oil knowledge in a tasting event at Pocket-Greenhaven Library on Feb. 10.

her one of a very few sensory experts recognized by the international olive oil industry. Farr will share her knowledge at a free tasting event in PocketGreenhaven Library on Feb. 10. Her program introduces participants to the good, the great and the ugly of oil production. “Certain qualities can only be detected by human taste,” she explains. “Whether it’s virgin, extra virgin or not fit for human consumption. “What skill I have was developed by many years of tasting and training.” Honed by UC Davis studies, her sensory talent led to a seat on a panel that helps oil producers. The panelist

has since sniffed, sipped, swirled (and occasionally spat) hundreds of oils. Samples are submitted from olive farms all over the world. Panel protocol requires that sensors are isolated with small cups of oil, water and sliced apples (for cleansing palates). “Every taster has their own style,” Farr observes. “Some swallow, some spit. Our observations are tallied. We also give descriptors, like buttery, nutty or peppery, that producers can use on labels.” These tests also identify problems with harvesting, milling, storage and indicate if improvements are needed. UC Davis has since discontinued this service, but the experts’ mission continues. Farr and panelist friends

now work for Applied Sensory, a Fairfield consulting company that tests wines, olive oils and beer. “The law requires growers and millers’ products to be tested by a lab and a sensory panel,” she explains. “We’re one of only seven panels recognized by the American Oil Chemists’ Society. “We’re paid a stipend but it’s fun; we feel that we’re also benefitting consumers. People should eat what’s good for them.” Some professional tasters cosset palates by avoiding alcohol. “I don’t eat the morning of a tasting,” Farr says. “I have tea, nothing else. I love the smell and taste and smell of olive oil. I don’t want to overwhelm it.” Love for the humble olive extends to cookery. Farr has established a blog to share recipes and knowledge. “My mother cooked from scratch; that’s what I do, too,” she says. “I can’t just open a box and call it dinner. Like Mami, I use olive oil in everything—cakes, breads—I even give it to my dog for his coat. I love exploring new recipes. Friends are my guinea pigs. “When they ask for a recipe, I know I’ve succeeded.” Farr’s Pocket-Greenhaven Library program begins at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 10. Registration is required via saclib.org The library is at 7335 Gloria Drive, Sacramento. Access Farr’s culinary blog at therenaissancekitchen.com Susan Maxwell Skinner can be reached at sknrband@aol.com n

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All Geared Up JOHN ELLIS & SON GARAGE IS A WELL-OILED MACHINE

sense because the previous owners

BY JESSICA LASKEY

were older and from a different time.

SHOPTALK

But now, things have to be organized.

“I want to clean up the image

or someone who’s wanted his

and make us more productive. You

own auto repair shop since fifth

shouldn’t have to scout the shop for a

grade, things have worked out

mop or a piece of equipment. A clean

pretty well for Miguel Frias.

and productive shop is a profitable

The owner of John Ellis & Son

shop, so what John Ellis really needs

Garage in midtown, the oldest

is management.”

independent auto repair shop

Luckily, management is Frias’s

in Sacramento, as well as Smog

strong suit, which he made sure of by

Diagnostic Specialists in Natomas has

putting himself through a doctorate

clearly made the most of his childhood

in automotive business management

dream.

in Southern California.

“I got introduced to the automotive

“That’s how I’m able to run this

industry at age 10 by my uncle,”

shop and my other one,” he says.

Frias says. “I started doing odds

“I don’t have to put in the hours

and ends for him in his home garage

at Smog Diagnostic that I do here.

and I became very passionate about

It’s taken me years to get that crew

learning the theory of how the

together there, so they took charge

automobile operated.

and are taking really good care of the

“I was very blessed as a kid, I knew

business.

I wanted to have my own shop by the

“Here, my goal is to create a good

age of 26—it happened by 27, which

running team where everybody knows

isn’t bad—and I’ve achieved almost

what they’re doing. I felt like I was at

every goal I’ve ever set in my life,

a plateau for the past couple of years

large or small.”

and I needed to set new a goal, so this

Frias put himself through six years of the automotive technician training

John Ellis owner Miguel Frias

program at Cosumnes River College and went to work at several local auto

selling it, who had been a technician

century presented a unique challenge

shops and car dealerships to hone his

there before he took it over, wouldn’t

for Frias, but, if you can’t already tell,

skills before opening Smog Diagnostic

have anybody else. He wanted to

that was music to his ears.

Specialists in 2003. But the drive to

make sure the right person was there

succeed still plagued Frias, so in June

to take care of their customers. I’m

so I don’t set any limitations,” Frias

of this year he decided to test his

only the fourth owner of John Ellis

says (He’s answering questions

skills further and take over John Ellis

since it opened in 1927.”

and finding parts as we speak on

& Son.

Taking the reins at a shop with so

“I was looking to expand and the

“I don’t want to have any regrets,

the phone, never wavering in his

much history—88 years in business

concentration but still managing to do

opportunity to buy John Ellis came

at a location built to founder Ellis’

three things at once.)

about through one of the reps that

specifications in 1950—and still

sells us parts,” Frias says. “The guy

managing to bring it into the 21st

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“When I took over, the shop looked like a shop used to look, which makes

is it. I want to turn it around and take care of everybody in the shop with a very high level of work. “It’s not easy to implement something and continue tweaking it. Now I truly understand the meaning of burning the candle at both ends.” Somehow, we don’t think Frias minds. Car need a tune-up? Contact Frias at John Ellis & Son Garage at 910 19th St. by calling 447-2891 or visiting johnellisgarage.com n

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Waffle or Pancake? IT DEPENDS ON WHICH SIDE YOUR BREAD IS BUTTERED

BY KEVIN MIMS

WRITING LIFE

t’s a question that has perplexed great thinkers for centuries: Which is better, the pancake or the waffle? For years, I was firmly in the pancake camp. But then I began to, well, waffle. This happened a couple of years ago, when my wife bought me a state-of-the-art waffle maker for my birthday. It’s one of those waffle irons that flip over to allow the user to make two waffles at once. Until then, I had eaten waffles only on rare occasions, usually at restaurants. I owned an old waffle maker, but it was a cheap piece of kitchenware that we bought for $9 shortly after we were

married. It was very temperamental that tended to overheat, and the little beeper that told you when your waffle was cooked nearly always lied. Throughout most of my adult life, I probably ate 200 pancakes for every waffle that I consumed. Now, all that has changed. My $190 Waring Pro WMK600 Double Belgian-Waffle Maker has turned me into a wizard of waffles. Since I acquired it, hardly a week has passed during which I did not fix my wife and myself at least one waffle. During that time, I have made nary a pancake. But the age-old question persists: Is the waffle really better than the pancake? I like to think of myself as an ordinary man of relatively humble origins. As such, I have a sort of natural prejudice in favor of the pancake. You can debate whether the pancake or the waffle is tastier, but there’s no disputing that the waffle is the fancier, the more highfalutin of the two foods. A pancake requires no specialized equipment. You can cook it on a griddle or in a cast-iron pan. At noon on a Sacramento summer day,

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you could probably cook a pancake on the hood of your car (though I don’t recommend this method, unless you like the taste of Turtle Wax). A pancake is usually made from approximately the same ingredients as a waffle: milk, eggs, flour, sugar, melted butter, perhaps a little baking powder. And after you’ve mixed these ingredients, you’ve done 90 percent of the work involved in making a pancake. Once your batter is ready, you simply have to pour it out into little round puddles onto a hot griddle or pan, preferably one treated with a no-stick cooking spray. A pancake conveniently announces when it is ready to be flipped. All you have to do is keep an eye on the edge of the batter. When that edge develops a row of bubbles all around it, the pancake is ready to be turned over. The second side will be done in another minute or two when you can slide the spatula under it without creating a mess. The waffle is a bit more of a prima donna. It cannot be made without a device specifically made for producing waffles. There are, to be sure, fairly humble waffle irons available for purchase. At flea markets and antique stores, I frequently encounter old cast-iron waffle makers that are little more than two pieces of metal hinged together and dimpled with a pattern that looks like the sole of a hiking boot. Alas, while these ancient castiron waffle makers make attractive pieces of retro kitchen decor, only a masochist would ever want to cook with one. To make a decent waffle, you need to buy a dedicated waffle maker. And a good, reliable waffle maker is likely to set you back at

least $50. Thus, where simplicity and modesty are concerned, the pancake is definitely the better of the two foods. But let’s face it, both waffles and pancakes are basically just delivery devices for maple syrup. No one eats a stack of pancakes without first slathering it with syrup. Likewise, a waffle without syrup is nothing more than a thick, dimpled pancake. It’s not until the syrup is poured over them that the real difference between the pancake and the waffle becomes apparent. The pancake is like a man who, lacking pockets and seeing a truckload of gold coins spill its bounty across the roadway, merely shrugs and says, “How beautiful the street looks covered by all that gold.” The waffle, on the other hand, is a miser who sports a 20-pocket tailor-made coat. When he sees those gold coins spill across the roadway, he gathers them up and tries to stuff as many as possible into his custom-designed coat. In real life, I tend to favor antimaterialists over misers. But at the breakfast table, there is something to be said for the miserliness of the waffle. It holds the syrup in its myriad little pockets. The pancake foolishly lets the syrup run off his back like water from a duck. Thus, as a device for delivering maple syrup, the waffle is definitely superior to the pancake. As a writer and a word freak, I cannot referee a battle between the pancake and the waffle without taking into account the origins of each word. The word pancake comes from the Latin word placenta, which means “cake” but now also refers to a particular piece of afterbirth. Waffle, on the other hand, is a

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corruption of the word wafer and is related linguistically to the wafer that Catholics take at Communion. Perhaps my Catholic upbringing has prejudiced me here, but I—and, I believe, most other people on Earth—would rather eat a wafer than a placenta. Thus, the waffle wins the linguistic battle hands-down. I tend to be a traditionalist in most aspects of life. Most of my favorite authors, artists and movie actors are long dead. I have been an antiques enthusiast throughout my entire adult life. Thus, as a lover of nearly all old things, I am forced to favor the pancake over its much younger offspring the waffle. According to Wikipedia, “Archeological evidence suggests that pancakes are probably the earliest and most widespread cereal food eaten in prehistoric societies.” The waffle, on the other hand, is a bit of a Johnny-come-lately at the breakfast table. The first known waffle recipe dates from the 14th century. When we eat a pancake, we are sharing in a tradition that goes back to the earliest chapters in human history. When we eat a waffle, we are going back only a few pages in that history. So while the word freak in me prefers the waffle to the pancake, the antiquarian in me prefers the pancake. And so I remain on the horns of a dilemma, unable to make up my mind about that eternal question. The pancake, I believe, is the preferred syrup-delivery device of the common man. The waffle—in particular the Belgian waffle—is the preferred syrup-delivery device of the elitist food snob. Although I am now the

possessor of a Waring Pro WMK600 Double Belgian-Waffle Maker, I remain in my heart committed to a vision of myself as a simple man, one who eschews fancy cars, fancy clothes and fancy kitchenware. My heart longs to declare its allegiance to the plain old pancake. But my palate, these days, prefers the fancier waffle. And don’t even get me started on the subject of French toast. Kevin Mims can be reached at kevinmims@sbcglobal.net n

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DOING GOOD

t’s cold out there, and many of us are feeling—and looking—like crabs on ice, with cracked winter skin and red noses. But there is a delicious way to turn the tables on nature: Eat crab! During the month of February, you’ll find a number of opportunities to devour the crustaceans while helping our community.

JUNIOR LEAGUE Mardi Gras is coming to Sacramento on Friday, Feb. 5, when Junior League of Sacramento invites everyone to don feather masks, beads and all things purple, gold and green for the 2016 crab feed, featuring live music by City of Trees Brass Band. The party, which will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. at the California Automobile Museum, benefits the Junior League’s community programs, including the Read & Feed teaching and demonstration gardens and Kids in the Kitchen, as well as a host of other programs and agencies. The California Automobile Museum is at 2200 Front St. Tickets are $65

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If you didn’t get your fill of crab at Mardi Gras, return to the California Automobile Museum on Saturday, Feb. 6, to support Sacramento’s Boy Scout Troop 1, which celebrates its 100-year anniversary in June. It is reportedly the oldest continuous Boy Scout unit west of the Mississippi. The troop’s second annual crab feed will take place from 5:30 to10 p.m. The evening will feature music, auctions, raffles and lots of fresh (not frozen) hot Dungeness crab cooked on-site. Attendees can stroll around the museum and view its expansive collection of more than 150 vehicles. Tickets are $53. To purchase tickets, go to troop-1.eventbrite.com or call 718-9104.

SACRAMENTO CHILDREN’S HOME Crab will top the menu on Saturday, Feb. 20, when Sacramento Children’s Home Guild holds its 18th annual crab feed and auction at Folsom Community Center. Tickets for the event, which benefits Sacramento Children’s Home, are $60. For almost 150 years, Sacramento Children’s Home has taken care of the community’s most vulnerable children and families, working to stop the generational cycle of child abuse and neglect by educating parents of infants and toddlers, teaching independent living skills to young adults and providing an array of

prevention and crisis intervention services. Folsom Community Center is at 52 Natoma St. in Folsom. For more information, go to kidshome.org.

NO INSIGNIFICANT NUMBER Sacramento will honor Rabbi Reuven Taff on Saturday, Feb. 20, with a celebration marking his 20 years of leadership and service to Mosaic Law Congregation and the greater Sacramento community. The gala, which begins with cocktails at 6:30 p.m. followed by dinner at 7:30, will be held at The Center at 2300. Rabbi Taff, a former president of the Sacramento Board of Rabbis, has been a keynote speaker for the Annual Conference on the California Interfaith Coalition. In 1999, he gave the homily at the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, the first time a rabbi has preached at a Catholic Mass in Sacramento. The Center at 2300 is at 2300 Sierra Blvd. To reserve tickets for the gala, go to mosaiclaw.org.

HUMAN TRAFFICKING CONFERENCE On Wednesday, Feb. 24, My Sister’s House will host its annual conference on labor and sex trafficking in the Greater Sacramento area. Intersections of Human Trafficking, held at Sacramento State University, is designed to raise awareness about this issue in the community. It is targeted at law enforcement,

attorneys, victim advocates, service providers, educators, students, community leaders and concerned citizens. The event will feature prominent local and national trafficking experts, survivors and community organizations. CEU credits are available for attendees, and breakfast and lunch are provided. For more information, go to humantraffickingMSH. org or contact Brittany Bray at brittanybmsh@gmail.com or 9300626.

WALKING FOR GETTY When Mark Storm and Kate Mathany were told in 2010 that their daughter Getty suffered from spinal muscular atrophy, a degenerative condition that is often fatal by the age of 2, they established a nonprofit to support SMA families. They also started the annual Getty Owl Run/ Walk to raise awareness and funds. The fifth anniversary Getty Owl Run/Walk will begin at 8 a.m. on Sunday, Feb. 28, in Crocker Park, next to Crocker Art Museum. To register for the 5k/10k run/walk, go to gettyowl.org. SMA is the leading genetic killer of young children, impacting one in 6,000 births. A portion of funds raised at the event will be earmarked for research into treatments that could one day successfully replace the missing gene responsible for the condition. Terry Kaufman can be reached at terry@1greatstory.com. n

A Moving Update FINDING THE UPSIDE IN DOWNSIZING

BY NORRIS BURKES SPIRIT MATTERS

ast month, I was speaking in Elmira, N.Y., when a reader posed the question I’ve been continually asked since July when I wrote about downsizing my life. “Tell us how life in your mobile home is going.” As the TV news anchors say, if you’re just now joining this developing story, you should know that my wife and I sold our fivebedroom McMansion and moved into a 40-year-old double-wide mobile home in South Sacramento. Some of my readers thought our modest move was admirable, but most questioned why we’d trade a manicured subdivision for a manufactured home surrounded by industrial parks. However, one reader in particular—let’s call her “Mrs. Chaplain”—thought my columns overstated the downside of our downsizing. Normally, Becky is my best editing voice, so I listened to her insistence that I write a retraction for exaggerating the negatives and understating the positives.

I told her it was hard to see those positive attributes during my morning fitness routine that has me crossing a dangerously busy street to join a running path along the southern side of an electronics plant. As I round the backside of the compound, I turn north along the railroad track where homeless folks rise from their camps in overgrown fields and from beneath creek bridges. Nevertheless, Becky thinks that I should emphasize the upside of our downsize. For instance, the security in our gated park makes it quiet enough to be a golf course. The only noise comes from the Shar-Peis and poodles yapping through open porch doors as retired residents bid them to stop. Flags wave and wind chimes sing while bird feeders sway above cleanly swept porches. She particularly likes the wildlife in the park, where some days she sees a gaggle of geese crossing the road. She’s fond of watching the covey of quail that scurry below the shrubs and the nest of rabbits that scamper for their holes. When I admit to her how I sometimes miss our cavernous twostory house, she pushes back. “You don’t miss our house. You miss our neighbors.” She’s right. We miss our old cul-de-sac. We miss the fix-it advice we got from Melvin and the good food we got from Thomas and Lupe. I even miss sharing Neighborhood Watch stories with Michelle, the nurse across the street. I don’t really miss Mike’s practical jokes, but I could use more of Les’ golf tips.

Gratefully, we’re staying in touch with old friends, but we’re also making new ones. My young neighbor, Taylor, built a gate for me to keep my yapper dog inside our patio. My other neighbor, Joe, attends church with me and also watches our home when I’m on speaking engagements. So, you ask, how are you are doing with your downsize?

More important than furniture and mementos, we brought a sense of ourselves into our new home. I think we’re doing well. That’s because we took with us those things that make our house into Norris and Becky’s home. We brought our beds, our art, our favorite chairs, our family photos, golf clubs and holiday decorations. But, more important than furniture and mementos, we brought a sense of ourselves into our new home. We brought our adventurous spirit, our consciousness of togetherness and an understanding of what is essential in life. We brought our faith. Maybe that’s what Proverbs 24:3-4 means: “By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established; by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches.”

Hopefully that answers the question. And hopefully Mrs. Chaplain won’t think I downplayed the downside of downsizing. Couldn’t resist that one. Norris Burkes is a chaplain, syndicated columnist, national speaker and author of the book “Hero’s Highway,” about his experiences as a hospital chaplain in Iraq. He can be reached at ask@ TheChaplain.net n

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95608 CARMICHAEL 1626 ARDEN BLUFFS LN 6228 WILDOMAR WAY 3431 SUE PAM DR 5129 MARTIN WAY 4644 HIXON CIR 5460 EARNELL ST 2513 EL VITA WAY 5307 LEQUEL WAY 4828 CRESTVIEW DR 4726 ELI CT 5509 WHITFIELD WAY 4419 NORTHAMPTON DR 5722 CHAFFEY LN 5006 ROBANDER ST 5316 ROBERTSON AVE 6037 ELLERSLEE DR 4735 SALEM WAY 5954 BEAUMERE WAY 5040 WESTMONT WAY 2384 VIA CAMINO AVE 4430 BELA WAY 5037 BRANDON OAKS LN 2550 LAURENCE AVE 4552 GARFIELD AVE 6207 BRANDON WAY 4945 ROBERTSON AVE 6263 HEATHCLIFF DR 6028 WINDING WAY 1621 MISSION AVE 6125 STANLEY AVE 5954 ELLERSLEE DR 3525 VERLA ST 2513 WINSFORD LN 2804 ROOT AVE 3153 PETTY LN 2116 HOMEWOOD WAY 2612 MISSION AVE 7016 TRABERT CT 4325 PARADISE DR 7110 STELLA LN #12 5921 VIA CASITAS 1254 GARY WAY 3112 TERRY WAY 5200 MARCONI AVE 2233 MISSION AVE 7122 WILLEY WAY 4816 COURTLAND LN 4818 NILE CT 6132 HILLTOP DR 5611 WHITNEY AVE

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95815 WOODLAKE 691 BLACKWOOD ST

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95816 E SAC, MCKINLEY PARK 3560 P ST 218 25TH ST 1309 36TH ST 324 32ND ST 2621 P ST 1009 DOLORES WAY 817 26TH ST

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$329,000 $340,000 $765,000 $400,000 $985,000 $399,000 $565,000

2704 T ST 3500 D ST 2608 P ST 2819 SOLONS ALLEY 3749 MCKINLEY BLVD 2209 D

95817 TAHOE PARK, ELMHURST 3459 38TH ST 5212 V ST 3775 BIGLER WAY 3415 4TH AVE 3315 38TH ST 3347 SAN JOSE WAY 6234 4TH AVE 4330 3RD AVE 4125 12TH AVE 2750 KROY WAY 3011 4TH AVE 3327 38TH ST 3433 43RD ST 5322 2ND AVE 3749 BIGLER 3401 40TH ST 2537 37TH ST

$252,500 $435,000 $607,500 $584,000 $669,000 $345,000

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95818 LAND PK, CURTIS PK 618 4TH AVE 2002 2ND AVE 2816 FREEPORT BLVD 2016 SLOAT WAY 2156 PERKINS WAY 2308 U ST 3757 COLLEGE AVE 3731 17TH ST 3681 E CURTIS DR 3604 24TH STREET 3506 24TH STREET 2181 6TH AVE 2517 9TH AVE 2004 20TH ST 1733 BURNETT WAY 2210 4TH ST 862 VALLEJO WAY 2775 17TH ST 2601 27TH ST 2525 PORTOLA WAY 2776 MARTY WAY 2414 19TH ST 1932 1ST AVE 2746 17TH ST

$379,000 $369,950 $379,000 $409,000 $415,000 $420,000 $685,000 $1,440,000 $556,000 $469,815 $541,610 $354,000 $448,000 $451,000 $425,000 $300,000 $405,000 $425,000 $301,500 $427,000 $540,000 $245,000 $346,400 $415,000

95819 E SAC, RIVER PARK 54 46TH ST 1728 BERKELEY WAY 4700 H ST 4213 A ST 450 45TH ST 1048 44TH ST 4624 BUCKINGHAM WAY 101 40TH ST 105 52ND ST 4701 D ST 221 SANDBURG DR 3974 MCKINLEY BLVD

$425,000 $395,000 $530,000 $640,000 $815,000 $1,040,000 $375,000 $480,000 $525,000 $625,000 $447,000 $600,000

5897 SHEPARD AVE 1357 52ND ST 54 PRIMROSE WAY 5101 C ST 96 COLOMA WAY 1864 52ND ST 809 47TH STREET 5315 H ST

95821 ARDEN-ARCADE 3028 HOWE AVE 3621 ARDMORE RD 2840 ECHO WAY 4424 BRIARWOOD DR 2524 MORSE AVE 2551 MARYAL DR 3625 EASTERN AVE 3411 POTTER LN 3540 LARCHMONT SQ LN 3000 SANDHURST CT 2113 RED ROBIN LN 3209 BROOKWOOD RD 2540 BELPORT LN 2733 LERWICK RD 3648 CHADSWORTH WAY 3409 CHENU 3408 MORSE AVE 3420 LERWICK RD 2608 BUTANO DR 3149 DELWOOD WAY 2660 PARK HILLS DR 4100 HILLCREST WAY 2422 TOWN CIR 3321 SIERRA VIEW LANE 3000 FAIRWAYS CT 3632 WOODCREST RD 2108 JULIESSE 3150 YELLOWSTONE LN 3601 WICKLOW ST 3030 MOUNTAIN VIEW AVE 2581 FULTON SQ LN #72 2069 SILVER CT 4221 ANNETTE ST 2865 CALLE VISTA WAY 4525 WYMAN DR 3601 FRENCH AVE 3636 MULHOLLAND WAY 3608 BAUSELL ST 3592 LARCHMONT SQ LN 3820 EDISON AVE 4517 WYMAN DR 3824 WOODCREST RD 3013 MONTCLAIRE ST 4221 ELVA WAY

$520,000 $415,000 $534,900 $320,000 $469,000 $332,000 $515,000 $575,000

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95822 SOUTH LAND PARK 2337 ANITA AVE 4308 GRIFFITH DR 7043 DEMARET DR 2980 MELINDA WAY 4910 ALTA DR 2429 YREKA AVE 3021 66TH AVE 4985 HELEN WAY 7512 HITHER WAY 6022 MACHADO WAY

$237,500 $435,000 $231,300 $160,000 $370,000 $145,000 $170,000 $395,000 $225,000 $315,000

2154 54TH AVE 4521 CRESTWOOD WAY 2091 MANGRUM AVE 4909 CRESTWOOD WAY 1243 RIDGEWAY DR 5632 EL ARADO WAY 2475 28TH AVE 4231 MOSS DR 2041 ARLISS WAY 6085 ANNRUD WAY 1133 DERICK WAY 2729 WOOD VIOLET WAY 4221 CUSTIS AVE 2225 62ND AVE 2120 18TH AVE 2640 TOY AVE 5617 23RD ST 2201 19TH AVE 2250 IRVIN WAY 7533 COLLINGWOOD ST 5668 JOHNS DR 1437 SHIRLEY DR 2596 FERNANDEZ DR 7355 WILLOWWICK WAY 5672 NOLDER WAY

95825 ARDEN

2345 FIELLEN CT 2290 UNIVERSITY 2317 NATIVE OAK LN 413 RIO DEL ORO LN 2328 SWARTHMORE DR 2912 EMERALD CT 1019 DORNAJO WAY #206 2492 LARKSPUR LN #202 201 E RANCH RD 408 ELMHURST CIR 745 COMMONS DR 1113 BELL ST #16 2020 WOODSTOCK WAY 2300 MORSE AVE 506 HARTNELL PL 2072 UNIVERSITY PARK DR 1845 MORSE AVE #202 1970 UNIVERSITY PARK DR 877 WOODSIDE LANE E #7 2247 SWARTHMORE DR 2105 BOWLING GREEN DR 704 BLACKMER CIR 2430 SANDRINGHAM RD 424 RIO DEL ORO LN 851 COMMONS DR 2100 MADERA RD 2841 COTTAGE WAY 3114 ELLINGTON CIR 1019 DORNAJO WAY #158 1113 BELL ST #13

95831 GREENHAVEN, SOUTH LAND PARK 22 STARGLOW CIRCLE 7329 RUSH RIVER 7133 ROB RIVER WAY 856 KLEIN WAY 6416 S LAND PARK DR 6980 WATERVIEW WAY

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Steps. That was the catalyst for the Slow Food movement, and it was life changing for me.” Slow Food is an international organization that strives to preserve the flavors and heritage of traditional foods and regional cooking. Slow down and savor is the group’s mantra. At first, Boyer thought he might offer a restaurant delivery service. He scrutinized Midtown’s restaurants and focused on those that specialize in farm-to-fork fare.

BY GWEN SCHOEN FARM TO FORK

onfession: I drove to the supermarket, bought a frozen pizza and didn’t take my own grocery bag. I was OK with that until I met John Boyer. Now I’m filled with guilt. Boyer is a preacher of sorts. Not the evangelical kind, however. His doctrine is eat wholesome food, live well and leave as small a carbon footprint as possible on Earth. It’s a challenge, but one he is proud to take on. In the big picture of the farmto-fork movement, Boyer is a middleman. He’s the founder of Edible Pedal, a bicycle delivery service that specializes in delivering freshfrom-the-farm produce and restaurant to-go orders to offices and homes within riding distance of central Midtown. Headquarters is his bicycle shop at 1712 Liestal Row, an alley near the corner of L and 17th streets. Recently he opened a new shop in West Sacramento. Sacramento is such a bicyclefriendly town that a courier service seemed like a natural fit to Boyer. He began experimenting with the idea in

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For restaurant delivery, customers call one of the restaurants on Edible Pedal’s list, place their order and request bicycle delivery.

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2009 and launched the service a year later. “I just decided to combine my love of bicycle riding with my belief that it’s important to eat healthful food. And if it’s possible to get it delivered

without causing a carbon footprint, even better,” says Boyer. “I’ve loved bicycling since I was a kid,” he explains. “Plus, I’ve always been a fan of the Slow Food movement. I was in Rome when McDonald’s opened at the Spanish

The list includes Thai Basil, Capitol Garage, Ambrosia Cafe and Ginger Elizabeth. He contacted the restaurants, and Edible Pedal was on its way. For restaurant delivery, customers call one of the restaurants on Edible Pedal’s list, place their order and request bicycle delivery. The restaurant calls Edible Pedal, which dispatches a bicycle rider to pick up and deliver the food to the customer. It’s fairly inexpensive for delivery, usually about $5 per order.

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THE REALISTIC JONESES Thru Feb 6th B Street Theatre 2711 B St, Sac 916 443-5300

Two couples, both named Jones, become neighbors in a small town. As their lives begin to intertwine, they discover they share more in common than just a name. In this exceedingly funny and clever show, playwright Will Eno examines mortality, marriage, and the way people deal with the unexpected randomness of life.

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“We can pack about 40 lunches and beverages into one cargo bicycle,” says Boyer. The next step for Edible Pedal was delivering CSA boxes for two local farms, Good Humus and Say Hay Farms. The farm delivery is a subscriptionbased service. Customers sign up with the farm for a weekly delivery of whatever is in season at the time. Boxes—called CSAs, which stands for Community Supported Agriculture—are delivered to Edible Pedal’s headquarters on Wednesday mornings. Boyer and his team load them into cargo bicycles and head into the neighborhoods to make their deliveries. Twelve CSA boxes will fit in the basket of one cargo bike. A delivery cyclist can haul up to 300 pounds at a time. Edible Pedal also delivers pet products from Western Feed & Pet Supply. “We have one regular customer in East Sacramento who uses our service for pet food because she can’t manage

the heavy bags by herself,” says Boyer. “It’s really helpful for her.” Edible Pedal’s delivery radius is limited by how far a delivery person can go on a bicycle. Boyer says Midtown to Oak Park is about the maximum. The company averages about 10 to 12 deliveries a day. What’s next? “We’re working on a way to collect compost material and drop it off at community gardens,” says Boyer. “It’s a full cycle, which is important because maintaining and nurturing our soil should be our No. 1 priority.” Boyer admits that he’s not going to get rich, but he is quick to add that he loves his work. He is completely dedicated to helping people eat wholesome food and taking care of the earth, and he has found a way to combine those concerns with his love for bicycle riding. And that is his definition of rich. For more information about Edible Pedal, go to ediblepedal.com. Gwen Schoen can be reached at gwen.schoen@aol.com. n

Thru Feb 14 Sacramento Theatre Company 916 443-6722 1419 H St. Sac sactheatre.org This heart-warming, Pulitzer Prize-winning play deals with the relationship of a Southern Jewish woman, Miss Daisy, and her black chauffeur, Hoke, from 1948 to 1973. While Daisy initially views Hoke’s presence as an imposition, the two unlikely foes eventually find ways to care for each other in this touching story about the meaning of friendship and, ultimately, family.

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GET YOUR TICKETS IN ADVANCE ……SOLD OUT PERFORMANCES !!!!!Jackie, a paroled former drug dealer, is finally clean and sober, freshly employed, and madly in love with his childhood sweetheart. But when he discovers a strange hat in the apartment, the new life he has struggled to build threatens to come crashing down, prompting him to seek the assistance of his slick sponsor and loyal cousin. As tensions boil over, Jackie must face painful truths about his road to recovery. This profane and poignant comic tragedy, tackles love and other addictions, with raw immediacy, piercing honesty and savage humor.

A classic from the 1950’s is where the term “angry young man” came from, a movement of writers and artists lead by John Osborne speaking out against the political and economic system of their time. A love triangle involving an intelligent but disaffected young man, who marries the woman he thinks he loves, and her haughty best friend, Helena Charles.

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Feb 19 – Feb 28 California Stage Theatre 916 451-5822 2509 R St, Sac CalStage.org Elly Award-winning playwright and director Aram Kouyoumdjian returns for the Sacramento premiere. A funny, imaginative, and poignant rumination on love, war, and the burdens of history. Happy Armenians upends the world order of today by casting Armenia as a modern empire in its parallel version of history.

LOVE AND INFORMATION Thru Feb 28 Capital Stage 476-3116 2215 J St. Sac CapStage.org Sacramento Premiere

Someone sneezes. Someone can’t get a signal. Someone won’t answer the door. Someone put an elephant on the stairs. Someone’s not ready to talk. Someone is her brother’s mother. Someone hates irrational numbers. Someone told the police. Someone got a message from the traffic light. Someone’s never felt like this before. In this fast moving kaleidoscope, more than a hundred characters try to make sense of what they know.

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Thru Feb 28 B Street Theatre 2711 B St, Sac 916 443-5300 Bindle Rindell is a disgruntled English professor, failed novelist and reluctant “could be” father to a surprise 15 year old daughter. But things are looking up. He’s getting married in a few days. That is, if he can placate her former boyfriend, a part-time bookie that goes by the ominous name “Bluetooth.” Love, acceptance and family are examined with hilarious results.

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Feb 4th Sacramento State 6000 J St, Sac - Union Ballroom 916 278-6997 Darryl Van Leer’s signature, high-energy tour-de-force performance dramatizes events in the lives of eight prominent AfricanAmericans of the 19th & 20th centuries. Led by the angelic narrator Gabriel, the audience is taken on a tour and comes face to face with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Thurgood Marshall, Marcus Garvey, Frederick Douglass, Nat Turner, and blues greats Muddy Waters and Robert Johnson.

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and motorists. Police can’t detect other illegal activity, such as drug use or drunk driving. But it can prevent speeding from occurring in the first place.

Driving at speeds over the posted limit is probably the most frequently broken law in the United States.

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peeding is a factor in some 30 percent of crashes. Acceptance of speeding and the damage it does goes hand in hand with an American tolerance of high levels of traffic carnage. Speeding has not only been tolerated; it’s been glamorized in movies, TV shows and car commercials. Macho driving is too common. Some drivers, often young and male, think taking risks and speeding enhance their coolness quotient. Other drivers are just in a hurry. Getting from point A to point B quickly seems to be more important than getting there in one piece. Driving at speeds over the posted limit is probably the most frequently broken law in the United States. You’re certainly in the minority if you are driving at or under the speed limit on a freeway. On neighborhood streets, where children once used to play, drivers regularly exceed the already-too-high 25 mph limit. Yet it’s a fact of physics that higher-speed crashes result in more severe injuries. Someone struck by a car traveling 20 mph has less than a 10 percent chance of dying. Someone hit by a car traveling 40 mph has an 80 percent chance of dying.

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enforcement officers can. It’s fairer and more consistent. All violations over the threshold enforcement limit are recorded. It’s safer for motorists and officers. There’s no stopping by the side of the road in vulnerable locations, no high-speed chases and

no traffic tie-ups caused by gawkers looking at pulled-over vehicles. Automated enforcement doesn’t stop the dangerous behavior as it is occurring. That’s a drawback. There is a delay between violation and the ticket arriving in the mail. It also limits direct contact between police

Speed cameras are not legal in California. Under Vision Zero SF, a program designed to eliminate traffic fatalities, San Francisco is attempting to have state law authorize speedcamera use. The city’s research suggests that fixed-location and mobile cameras, administered by the transportation department, could combat speeding. Surveys show public support for speed cameras, though support is even higher for red-light cameras. Still, some people object to speed cameras. They believe the goal of the cameras is to increase government revenue, not improve safety. They worry about loss of privacy, even though driving on a public road is not private behavior. Perhaps the biggest concern and thorniest issue of all is that so many people simply think speeding is socially acceptable. A November 2015 San Francisco controller’s report says concerns that revenue generation is the goal

of automated speed enforcement can be addressed by “directing revenues to safety improvements, deploying cameras using a data-driven strategy to areas where speeding is a concern, and keeping fines lower than a traditional speeding ticket.” Not linking speed camera vendor payments to the number of citations issued may dispel the notion of a system incentivized by contractor greed.

Traffic fatalities and serious injuries are preventable. Why not do more to prevent them? A privacy policy covering data security and mandating the

photographing of license plates only, not drivers or other occupants, could alleviate concerns about privacy. Citations would go to the vehicle owner, not the driver. Early public engagement, education about enforcement benefits, partnering with groups promoting safety, and publicizing camera locations can all be used by communities to counter the perception that speeding is OK. The San Francisco report concludes that automated speed enforcement programs “are not meant to be the only effective tool, but they are reported as being one of the most effective tools that cities can use to keep all road users safe.” Traffic fatalities and serious injuries are preventable. Why not do more to prevent them?

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A Gory Past SACRAMENTO MUSEUM OF MEDICAL HISTORY TELLS STORIES OF LONG AGO

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magine going to the doctor and having leeches applied to your skin, or being given a medicine containing arsenic, strychnine and mercury. Such practices were standard in Sacramento from the time of the Gold Rush into the 20th century. The Sierra Sacramento Valley Medical Society tells the story of those days at its Museum of Medical History, located on Elvas Avenue in East Sacramento. Dr. Bob LaPerriere, its curator, recently gave me a tour of the museum, which displays part of the Medical Society’s eclectic collection of health care-related objects from Sacramento’s past. From macabre to artistic, the museum is a treasure house of interesting stuff. When you first enter the door, you encounter one of only a handful of fully functional iron lungs on public display in the United States. This personsized metal tube looks like a prop in a sci-fi space travel movie. In fact, it’s a relic of a terrible time when polio left children paralyzed and fated to spend the rest of their lives immobile inside this clunky breathing machine. Exhibits in the museum are brightly lit and organized by theme. LaPerriere told me stories as we

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The iron lung on display at the Museum of Medical History was used to treat polio victims with paralysis. It acted as a diaphragm and patients could stay in it for weeks or even years. It's one of fewer than 20 on display in the United States.

went. At a collection of bottles from early Sacramento pharmacies, embossed with names like AC Tufts, Druggist, Peters and Ray and Southern Pacific Co. Hospital Department, LaPerriere said, “Before the 1906 Federal Food and Drug Act, these so-called patent medicines were often labeled cures. After 1906, they had to call them remedies.” For those who relish gore, the museum offers an assortment of bloodletting devices designed to bleed a patient; Sadie, a human skeleton; plenty of primitive surgical instruments; and even a preserved jar of Ascaris lumbricoides, a gigantic parasitic intestinal worm that was once common in this country. A

certain beauty can be found in other artifacts. LaPerriere pointed out a plywood leg splint hanging on the wall. “Someone from the Crocker was here and identified that as an Eames splint,” he said. (Charles and Ray Eames are famed American designers best known for their chairs.) Sacramento medical history wouldn’t be complete without traditional Chinese medicine. Chinese herbal pharmacies have been in our area since the Gold Rush. The Yee family, a local clan with deep roots in Sacramento health care, has loaned an assortment of Chinese herbs and related items to display at the museum. You’ll also see artifacts from noted Sacramento physicians of the

19th century, including a top hat and cane belonging to Alexander Butler Nixon, president of the California Medical Society, who came to town in 1849. The march toward modern, evidence-based medicine is evident in the collection. There’s the city’s first X-ray tube, from 1897, as well as early blood pressure measuring devices and ophthalmoscopes for visualizing the retina. I was fascinated by a series of artificial heart valve prototypes, developed locally in the 1960s by Dr. Edward Smeloff of Sutter Research Institute and engineers at Sac State.

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Words of Art THIS CREATIVE FINDS LANGUAGE IN EVERYTHING HE DOES

BY SENA CHRISTIAN ARTIST SPOTLIGHT

ryan Valenzuela, his girlfriend and their dog, Angus, live on T Street in the upstairs flat of a Victorian house built in 1910. An old piano and wood table furnish the dining room, along with a large bookcase that covers a whole wall top to bottom. The shelves are lined with some historical classics—Shakespeare among them—and many modern ones, like David Foster Wallace’s “Infinite Jest.” Presently, Valenzuela finds himself consumed with the novel “Cloud Atlas” by David Mitchell, an author he describes as brilliant. “I’m kind of a big reader,” Valenzuela explains a little sheepishly. But on this day, the 36-year-old doesn’t have much time for hunkering down with a good book. He’s in another type of hibernation mode: creating original artwork worthy of display at the two gallery shows he already has lined up, one at Blue Line Arts in Roseville, the other at Beatnik Studios in Sacramento. Valenzuela’s creations—whether mixed-media visual art or songs for his rock ’n’ roll band, Exquisite Corps — reflect his love of the written word. Often on canvas, he’ll apply a gel transfer of blown-up text as the background beneath layers of acrylic paint and pen and ink. “I think my initial inspiration for why I do work with words is I feel like I’ve been trying to represent the idea that there is language in everything,” he says. “It’s what makes up the world.” Born in Orange County, Valenzuela moved with his parents to the Sierra Nevada foothills in eighth grade.

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Painter and musician Bryan Valenzuela

He attended Sacramento State University to pursue a music degree but floundered in the department, which he didn’t find unorthodox enough to suit his interests. Then he took a class that explored how color theory translates to music and felt pulled to the art department. “I started messing around and trying to find my way through painting and drawing,” he says. His post-college years involved working at restaurants and hotels until 2010, when he landed a job as an art preparator at Crocker Art Museum. Nowadays he earns a living from a combination of the museum job, selling his original artwork and touring with Exquisite Corps. He has done four solo exhibitions in Sacramento and appeared in a couple dozen group shows, including one at Shimo Center for the Arts in 2013. He was invited to participate by prominent ceramic sculptor Tony Natsoulas. “Bryan is a very creative and gentle soul,” Natsoulas says. “His work is beautiful and obsessive, two of the traits I respond to. It is amazing the effort he goes through to make a work of art and is so successful at it.” Valenzuela was one of 20 local artists commissioned to participate in a public art project by CADA and the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission to create a series of designs on vinyl to wrap around utility boxes downtown. His designs, “Meta Mirror I” and “Meta Mirror II,” can be seen on the corners of 8th and O streets and 7th Street and Capitol Avenue. The scenes show people walking, their eyes cast down as they look at cell phones in their

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mates has been buddies since high school.) “He’s one of the smartest people I know,” says Exquisite Corps drummer and harmony singer Robby Dean. “The way he’s able to produce art and music so effortlessly is truly unique. He’s a handful sometimes, and like any true artist, he can be egocentric. But it’s that quality that makes him great. We have been in a band together since we were 15. I remember when he couldn’t even draw, and now he’s a masterful painter.” Just like his music, Valenzuela’s visual art continually evolves. He considers his paintings less “heavy” than before, possibly, he says, because he’s let go of youthful angst and has figured some big stuff out in life. “Maybe I just feel happier,” he says. “I just feel I’m where I’m supposed to be and doing what I’m supposed to do.” To see Bryan Valenzuela’s work, go to bryanvalenzuela.com n

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Sales | Service | Install | 32 yrs experience | Lic #764789 SCIENCE FROM page 54 From the labels, I noticed a number of items in the museum were donated by Dr. LaPerriere himself. For LaPerriere, a retired dermatologist, the museum unites his two passions, medicine and history. “I hated history in school,” he said. “It wasn’t taught in a very interesting manner, with memorizing dates and all.” Medical history stoked his interest, and he’s chaired the Medical Society’s historical committee for 40 years. A visit to Sacramento City Cemetery at 10th and Broadway 28 years ago drew him to the County Historical Society. The cemetery was in a state of neglect, and that bothered LaPerriere. “I knew what people went through to get here,” he said. To honor them, LaPerriere got involved in the effort to restore the cemetery. The Medical Society had “a lot of stuff sitting in boxes,” LaPerriere said. To share it with the public, in 1990 he put together a major exhibition for the Sacramento History Museum, called Out of the Doctor’s Bag. The exhibit was a success, and it formed the basis for the current

medical museum, which opened when the Medical Society closed its library and space became available. (The museum still has a large number of historic medical texts. LaPerriere’s favorites are the old journals with advertisements. Who knew there were TB sanatoriums all around California, advertising for clients?) Today, the museum is still growing, and LaPerriere is still digging through boxes. He’s been invited to sift through old medical stuff in people’s attics and garages and occasionally finds treasures. The museum is free and open to the public. School groups, from fourth grade on up, are especially welcome. Grants are available to pay for transportation. The museum hosts a lecture series on topics of interest to the general public, such as California plagues and battlefield medicine. For more information or a virtual tour, go to ssvms.org. Amy Rogers is a novelist, scientist, and educator. To invite her to speak at your book club or public event, contact her at : Amy@AmyRogers.com n

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am I tubby? (2) Since I never drink diet sodas, why am I tubby? “When I’m not snarking about things like the above, I also write profiles of movers and shakers in California’s capital, and also of people who neither move nor shake but are worth meeting anyway (and are less likely to cause dizziness).” Goldman started writing these occasionally pointed, often poignant columns in August 2011. “God only knows when I’ll knock it off and get a real job—one with a health plan, retirement benefits and office parties featuring Midge From Accounting’s famous rum balls,” he writes. “In the meantime, pour yourself a bowl of Cheerios and enjoy.” “And Now, With Further Ado…” is available on amazon.com. For more information or to follow Goldman’s column, go to bizjournals.com/ sacramento.

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f you’re in need of a good laugh and a great read, look no further than Sacramento Business Journal columnist Ed Goldman’s second book of humorous essays and profiles of prominent Sacramentans, “And Now, With Further Ado: More GravitasDefying Profiles and Punditry from the Sacramento Business Journal,” which hit shelves on Dec. 25 and is now available on Amazon. Now, I’ve gotta come clean: This is partly a shameless plug for the book because I happen to be Goldman’s daughter (if you’re a longtime reader of this paper, you might remember when my byline shared his surname before I got married in 2011), but this is also a true recommendation for a collection of sensational stories that I’ll let Goldman describe himself. “In these pages you’ll learn that … most government studies are funded by the little-known Department of Obvious Outcomes (itself, a division of the Agency of Foregone Conclusions); The main goal of weathercasters during storm season is to scare the living hell out of us; and it’s now perfectly acceptable to enjoy a bowl of Cheerios for dinner. “Ever the investigative journalist, I also warn of an impending tax on

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yoga classes; that eight hours or more of sleep per night may be bad for us (unless they aren’t); and that there are just too many guys named Dave to distinguish one from another. “I also attempt to convince you that there’s a demon in my smartphone

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Fans and aficionados of watercolor, unit The 148th unite! exh exhibition of the cele celebrated American Wa Watercolor Society will be on display at the Sa Sacramento Fine Arts C Center in Carmichael f from Feb. 20 through A April 9. The AWS was founded in 1905 by 11 New York painters who initiated a traveling exhibit that quickly

became world-renowned. Today, the tour is considered one of the premiere watercolor shows in the world, with more than 1,200 artists from the United States and 12 foreign countries submitting their art to a panel of jurors for the chance to tour museums and galleries across the country. This year’s selection will include 40 pieces by internationally acclaimed artists Mike Kowalski, Cheryl Fausel and John Salminen, as well as four of California’s own: Frank Eber, Mike Bailey, Qian Gao and Myrna Wacknov. Don’t miss your chance to see the best and the brightest the watercolor world has to offer right here in your own hometown. Want to get in on the act at the get-go? Don your finery for the Art and Music Gala from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 20, to celebrate the opening of the exhibition. For tickets, call 971-3713 or go to sacfinearts.org. The Sacramento Fine Arts Center is at 5330-B Gibbons Drive in Carmichael.

mini-talks and a community bazaar featuring artistic creations inspired by the African diaspora. The Free Family Festival is presented in collaboration with the Sojourner Truth Multicultural Art Museum and Sacramento Juneteenth. For tickets and more information for all Crocker events, call 808-1182 or go to crockerartmuseum.org. The Crocker Art Museum is at 216 O St.

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AS LUCK WOULD HAVE IT Did you know that this month marks the Chinese New Year? Celebrate the Year of the Monkey with the Crocker Art Museum at Art Mix “Zodiac” from 5 to 9 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 11, and then stick around for fun events all month long. For the first time ever on Feb. 11, the Crocker is presenting a lunar/ Chinese New Year celebration, inspired by the blockbuster installation of Ai Weiwei’s “Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads” exhibition. Go wild for Chinese lion dancing, rock out to performances by the Sacramento Mandarins Drum & Bugle Corps, be mesmerized by illusionist Jade, feast your eyes on an East-meets-West fashion show, and boogie down as DJ-in-residence Larry Rodriguez spins hits from every Year of the Monkey from 1956 to 2016. And don’t forget to dress in the auspicious color red—it just might be your lucky day! Art Mix is free for museum members and free with general admission for nonmembers. Enjoy

Celebrate Black History Month at Crocker's Free Family Festival on Feb. 21. Photo courtesy of Suzanne Hambleton.

food and drink discounts during happy hour from 5 to 6 p.m. and $5 drink specials all night. Love is in the air for up-andcoming musicians at the Crocker’s Classical Concert at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 14, when the Saturday Club presents its scholarship winners. Each year, Sacramento’s oldest musical organization selects five student musicians from area colleges who are well-versed in piano, vocal, string, woodwind and brass

to perform a classical repertoire designed to showcase their talent, technique and artistry. Black History Month is upon us, and what better way to celebrate than with a Free Family Festival from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 21? This year’s annual Black History Month Celebration will honor the mavericks, the innovators and the nightingales with a host of live performances, hands-on activities,

Rabid for Rachmaninoff? Serious about cirque? Don’t miss this month’s offerings from the Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera, “Ravishing Rachmaninoff” on Saturday, Feb. 20, and “Cirque de la Symphonie” on Saturday, Feb. 27 at the Community Center Theater. The program on Feb. 20 will include “Four Sea Interludes” by Benjamin Britten, Symphony in C by Igor Stravinsky and Piano Concerto No. 2 by Sergei Rachmaninoff. The concert will be performed under the able baton of conductor Case Scaglione, and Behzod Abduraimov will perform on piano. Ready to see aerial acrobats drop into the Community Center Theater? Each gravity-defying feat of “Cirque de la Symphonie” will be accompanied by the dulcet tones of the Sacramento Philharmonic under conductor Michelle Merrill. The program will feature acrobats, the aforementioned aerialists, contortionists, strongmen and jugglers executing their high-flying acts alongside the Philharmonic’s dazzling musicianship. For tickets and more information, call 808-2000 or go to sacphilopera. org. The Community Center Theater is at 1301 L St.

DO IT If cool, conceptual art is your thing, check out “do it,” the world’s longestrunning exhibition (by design) at the

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PREVIEWS FROM page 59 Verge Center for the Arts through March 20. The conceptual exhibition, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, is based on written or drawn instructions from various artists, resulting in a new version of itself with each location it’s shown. The project began in Paris in 1993 as a conversation among Obrist and collaborators Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier, who were curious to see what would happen if they started an exhibition that would never need to stop. To test the idea, Obrist invited 12 artists to propose artworks based on written “scores” or instructions that could be openly interpreted every time they were presented. The instructions were then translated into nine languages and circulated internationally as a book. In the 20 years since Obrist, Boltanski and Lavier created the original written instructions, “do it” transformed into an exhibition format that could be more flexible and open-ended. Each time it was presented, it was re-interpreted and new versions of the exhibition were formed, including “do it (museum),” “do it (home),” “do it (TV),” “do it (seminar)” and an online “do it” in collaboration with e-flux, among others. Twenty years on, “do it” has taken place in more than 60 venues worldwide and includes nearly 400 artists from across the globe. For the exhibition here, Verge has chosen 20 instructions from a compendium of 250, and will present them in the form of realized objects, performances and public engagement. Participating artists will include Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Amalia Pica, Stephen Kaltenbach, Yoko Ono and Rirkrit Tiravanija. For more information, go to vergeart.com. The Verge Center for the Arts is at 625 S St.

THE PLAY’S THE THING Bindle Rindell is a disgruntled English professor, failed novelist

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(The artist thanks his long career in advertising and teaching for his technical expertise and talent for composition.) The exhibit includes some of Satterlee’s most iconic black-and-white images that include Northern California landmarks as well as the San Juan Islands and Venice, Italy. Meet Satterlee in person at the Second Saturday reception from 6 to 9 p.m. on Feb. 13. For more information, call 212-4988 or go to arthouseonr.com. ARTHOUSE on R is at 1021 R St.

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“Art Times Five” will run at the ARTHOUSE on R gallery from Jan. 8 through Feb. 12 and feature resident artists in the Gang of Five: Beverly Austin, Sue Chapman, Varya McMillan, Judith Perry and Lucia Rothgeb (whose painting is pictured)

Don't miss the R. Donald Satterlee photo exhibit at ARTHOUSE on R

and reluctant “could be” father to a surprise 15 year-old daughter. But things are looking up. He’s getting married to his beloved Emmy in a few days—that is, if he can placate her former boyfriend, a part-time bookie who goes by the ominous name “Bluetooth.” Thank goodness we’re only talking about a play! Carter Lewis’s hilarious and poignant play “Echo Location” is receiving its world premiere at B Street Theatre through Feb. 28. The show is a wild ride full of fun, family and, ultimately, love. It’s also being considered by the National New Play Network to be a Rolling World Premiere, meaning B Street would be the first of at least three theaters nationally committed to a full production. What a boon that would be to award-winning playwright Lewis, who teaches Introduction to

Playwriting, Advanced Playwriting and Dramaturgy at Washington University in St. Louis. Prior to that, he was the resident dramaturg and playwright-in-residence for the Geva Theatre Center in New York. For tickets and more information, call 443-5300 or go to bstreettheatre. org. B Street Theatre is at 2711 B St.

PHOTO (SUR)REALISM “Atmospheric” is a very apt title for the current show at ARTHOUSE on R. Donald Satterlee’s photographs are ethereal, haunting, evocative and downright beautiful. Come see for yourself at the exhibition, which runs through March 8. Drizzly streetscapes and soothing fogscapes are Satterlee’s favorite subjects, images that leave the viewer both peaceful and intrigued.

Tired of being cooped up in the house while the weather warms? Grab the kids and a pair of sturdy boots for a plethora of free weekend activities at the Effie Yeaw Nature Center in Ancil Hoffman County Park. At 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 6, take a guided river stroll hike along the American River and enjoy the sights and sounds of this special ecosystem. At 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 7, “Story Time with a Naturalist” will feature some tantalizing tales of creatures, people and nature the whole family will enjoy. At 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 13, the “OH, Deer!” program will have you hitting the trails to see what our local deer population is up to as winter approaches an end. At 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 14, Critter Corner will be transformed for Valentine’s Day. Get eye to eye with the nature center’s slimy, scaly or feathered residents and show some love as you construct handmade valentines to be displayed on the animals’ enclosures. ($1 suggested donation for each valentine displayed.) At 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 20, “Birding for Families” will bring the clan together for a birding and nature walk led by a naturalist and special guest guides from the Sacramento Audubon Society. (Birdwatchers of all levels welcomed. Make sure to bring your binoculars, or borrow a pair from the center.)

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NEW BEGINNINGS Age is only a number, and that’s never more true than it is for the members of the California State University, Sacramento, Renaissance Society, which will showcase its photographic work in the exhibit “Around the World, Around the Corner” at the CSUS Library Gallery during the month of February.

If you are taking care of a loved one who is suffering from dementia, get the support you need at a free support group meeting for caregivers offered by the city of Sacramento in partnership with the Alzheimer’s Association from 3 to 4 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 12, in the Cypress Room at the Hart Senior Center in midtown.

The Photography Exhibit Group, led by Tom Monahan, is made up of 14 senior citizens who participate in the CSUS Renaissance Society, a lifelong learning program that offers more than 80 seminars to its more than 2000 senior members. Rub elbows with these sensational seniors at the gala opening at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 4, in the CSUS Library Gallery. For information, contact Laurene Fitzpatrick at 832-4780 or go to csus.

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At 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 21, “Whooo, What, Where, How!” will help you uncover the mysteries of owls: what they eat, where they sleep, how they find food and more. You can even get a close-up look at a live owl! At 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 27, “Critters of the American River” will help you learn to tell the differences among reptiles, mammals and birds. Learn all about local wildlife by examining skulls, furs, feathers and even live animals up close. At 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 28, take in the oddly beautiful California native plant that plays host to the Pipevine Swallowtail butterfly and join a naturalist on a hike to see if any “Dutchman’s Pipe” is blooming in the nature study area. For more information on all programs, call 489-4918 or go to sacnaturecenter.net.

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an. 1 is a day of reflection, a day to look back at the 300plus days that came before and try to find the peaks and valleys that stick out among the flatlands. For a food writer, standout meals are the mile markers that we remember the previous year by. We recall the flavors, the servers and the company. We think back to the culinary innovations and the classic presentations. We recognize trends, those preparations, themes and ingredients trending up and, invariably, down. For me, a dinner at newcomer Localis stands out. The food was art. The service was casually interactive yet professionally attentive. The flavors were on point. A lunch at Flaming Grill stands out. The little shack on El Camino still prepares the most generous piece of ahi you can find in town, served on a bun, with a craft beer to wash it down. The rough cinderblock-andasphalt surroundings have become comically homey by now. A breakfast at Taqueria Maya’s stands out. The ridiculous proportions of the old-fashioned A-frame building on Broadway, the tortillas made fresh in the sunny doorway, the mariachis roving from table to table, an apparent 60 years between their oldest and youngest member. A dessert at Devine Gelateria & Café stands out: made-from-scratch gelato eaten under the summer stars on a back patio rich with bougainvillea. But as I write this during the reflective month of January, there

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is one meal that stands out as the best, without reservation and without equal: dinner on the last Tuesday of the year at the newish restaurant Cask & Barrel. Sure, it may have been the company. I did, after all, have the pleasure of sharing the evening with

my amazing wife and two dear friends from high school, one a local attorney, the other a successful filmmaker from Los Angeles. Even if the restaurant had been a complete failure, the evening still would have been a joy and filled with laughter.

Company aside, however, this evening was made spectacular by the inventive recipes, the brilliant service and the convivial atmosphere that are par for the course at Cask & Barrel. Open less than a year, Cask & Barrel is making a go of it in the restaurant space formerly held down by Enotria. It’s a difficult location (the corner of Del Paso Boulevard and Arden Way) to get folks on the grid to come out to, and an even harder destination for south-of-town residents to approach. It’s a fairly easy drive for those in Arden Arcade, and within walking distance for my friends in Woodlake. The heralded revitalization of Del Paso Boulevard has been “coming soon” for most of my 40 years on this planet, and while there hasn’t been a strong reason to think that “this is the year,” the opening of Cask & Barrel at least gives anyone from any part of town a reason to frequent the area. The food can most easily be described as upscale barbecue, but the words are too simple to sum up what C&B is offering. Sure, there are smoked meats, but there’s also foie gras. Sure there are hush puppies, but they’re served with a paprika emulsion. Sure, there’s brisket and ribs, but there’s also smoked duck and house-made sausage. Inspiration is undoubtedly found in the American South, but also the state fair midway and the finest white-tablecloth joints in San Francisco, LA and New York. Take, for example, C&B’s corn dogs. This is not mere battered tube meat on a stick. It’s mildly outrageous and subtly highfalutin decadence. The kitchen starts by making foie gras sausage. (Yes, you read that

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Jack’s Urban Eats

1800 L St. 447-9440

L D $ Full Bar Made-to-order comfort food in a casual setting • Jacksurbaneats.com

1230 20th St. 444-0307

Aioli Bodega Espanola L D $$ Full Bar Patio Andalusian cuisine served in a casual European atmosphere

2115 J St. 442-4388

Biba Ristorante 2801 Capitol Ave. 455-2422 L D $$$ Full Bar Upscale Northern Italian cuisine served a la carte • Biba-restaurant.com

1801 L St. 446-3757 L D $$ Wine/Beer A counter service restaurant with high-quality chicken, char-roasted beef, salmon, and entrée salads

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Centro Cocina Mexicana

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

2730 J St. 442-2552

1215 19th St. 441-6022

L D $$ Full Bar Patio Regional Mexican cooking served in a casual atmosphere • Paragarys.com

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B L D $ No table service at this coffee roaster and bakery, also serving creative artisanal sandwiches

2416 J St. 443-0440

D $$ Full Bar Chicago-style pizza, salads wings served in a family-friendly atmosphere • Chicagofirerestaurant.com

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2726 Capitol Ave. 443-1180 1431 R St. 930-9191

The whiskey selection is topnotch. The desserts, from maple bacon cheesecake to chocolate fried pie, are so ridiculous as to make my cholesterol go up just thinking about them. The meal, from beginning to end, simply leaves nothing to be desired. Which is why, after 300-plus days of eating and 1,000-plus meals, my favorite meal of 2015 was eaten on the last Tuesday of the year, with good friends and good humor, at Cask & Barrel, a restaurant that was as close to perfect for one night as a restaurant can be.

Lucca Restaurant & Bar

2028 H St. 443-7585

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right.) Then they throw that sausage on a stick and coat it with a rustic cornmeal batter. Then, some seasonal dipping treats are concocted to finish off the dish. (In December, the treats were fuyu persimmon mustard and date-and-bacon jam.) If that’s how they treat corn dogs, just imagine what they do to the burger. (Hint: They make only 10 per night.) This isn’t fussy dining. This isn’t a place where you’re afraid to laugh heartily and moan deeply while chewing. Presentation is artful if not beautiful. Wood planks and castiron skillets are the service items of choice, and nearly every dish is served family style. Yet the service is whitetablecloth all the way. Never once are you asked to keep your fork.

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Buckhorn Grill

The dining room at Cask & Barrel on Del Paso Boulevard

Kasbah Lounge

1716 L St. 443-7685

Paesano’s Pizzeria 1806 Capitol Ave. 447-8646 L D $$ Gourmet pizza, pasta, salads in casual setting • Paesanos.biz

Crepeville 1730 L St. 444-1100

B L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Outdoor Dining Crepes, omelets, salads, soups and sandwiches served in a casual setting

Ernesto’s Mexican Food 1901 16th St. 441-5850

B L D $-$$ Full Bar Outdoor Dining Fresh Mexican food served in an upscale, yet familyfriendly setting • Ernestosmexicanfood.com

58 Degrees & Holding Co.

Paragary’s Bar & Oven 1401 28th St. 457-5737

L D $$ Full Bar Outdoor Patio California cuisine with a French touch • Paragarys.com

Suzie Burger 29th and P Sts. 455-3300 L D $ Classic burgers, cheesesteaks, shakes, chili dogs, and other tasty treats • suzieburger.com

The Streets of London Pub

1217 18th St. 442-5858 L D $$$ Wine/Beer California cuisine served in a chic, upscale setting • 58degrees.com

Fox & Goose Public House

1804 J St. 498-1388 L D $ Wine/Beer English Pub fare in an authentic casual atmosphere, 17 beers on tap

Tapa The World

1001 R St. 443-8825 B L D $-$$ Wine/Beer English Pub favorites in an historic setting • Foxandgoose.com

Harlow’s Restaurant 2708 J Street 441-4693 L D $$ Full Bar Modern Italian/California cuisine with Asian inspirations • Harlows.com

Italian Importing Company

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

Thai Basil Café 2431 J St. 442-7690 L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Patio Housemade curries among their authentic Thai specialties Thaibasilrestaurant.com

1827 J Street 442-6678 B L $ Italian food in a casual grocery setting

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Evan’s Kitchen

2000 Capitol Ave. 498-9891 L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Patio Fine South of France and northern Italian cuisine in a chic neighborhood setting • waterboyrestaurant.com

Zocolo 1801 Capitol Ave. 441-0303 L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Patio Regional Mexican cuisine served in an authentic artistic setting • zocolosacramento.com

855 57th St. 452-3896 B L D Wine/Beer $$ Eclectic California cuisine served in a family-friendly atmosphere, Kid’s menu, winemaker dinners • Chefevan.com

Español 5723 Folsom Blvd. 457-3679 L D Full Bar $-$$ Classic Italian cuisine served in a traditional family-style atmosphere

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Cabana Winery & Bistro

3839 J St. 448-5699 B L D Wine/Beer Patio $$ Mediterranean influenced cuisine in a neighborhood setting

La Trattoria Bohemia 3649 J St. 455-7803 L D Wine/Beer $-$$ Italian and Czech specialties in a neighborhood bistro setting

Les Baux 5090 Folsom Blvd. 739-1348 BLD $ Wine/Beer Unique boulangerie, café & bistro serving affordable delicious food/drinks all day long • lesbauxbakery.com

5610 Elvas 476-5492

Opa! Opa!

LD $$ Wine tasting and paired entrees. Sunday Brunch 10 - 2. • cabanawine.com

5644 J St. 451-4000 L D Wine/Beer $ Fresh Greek cuisine in a chic, casual setting, counter service

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

Frank Fat’s 806 L St. 442-7092

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

Nopalitos 5530 H St. 452-8226 B L $ Wine/Beer Southwestern fare in a casual diner setting

Selland's Market Cafe 5340 H St. 473-3333 B L D $$ Wine/Beer High quality handcrafted food to eat in or take out, wine bar

Star Ginger 3101 Folsom Blvd. 231-8888 Asian Grill and Noodle Bar • starginger.com

Thai Palace Restaurant 3262 J St. 446-5353 L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Authentic Thai cuisine in a casual setting

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Il Fornaio 400 Capitol Mall 446-4100 L D Full Bar $$$ Fine Northern Italian cuisine in a chic, upscale atmosphere • Ilfornaio.com

Grange 926 J Street • 492-4450 B L D Full Bar $$$ Simple, seasonal, soulful • grangerestaurant.com

Hock Farm Craft & Provision 1415 L St. 440-8888

L D $$-$$ Full Bar Celebration of the region's rich history and bountiful terrain • Paragarys.com

Mikuni Japanese Restaurant and Sushi Bar 1530 J St. 447-2112

DOWNTOWN Foundation

400 L St. 321-9522 L D $$ Full Bar American cooking in an historic atmosphere • foundationsacramento.com

Chops Steak Seafood & Bar 1117 11th St. 447-8900 L D $$$ Full Bar Steakhouse serving dry-aged prime beef and fresh seafood in an upscale club atmosphere • Chopssacramento.com

Claim Jumper 1111 J St. 442-8200 L D $$ Full Bar Upscale American in a clubby atmosphere

Downtown & Vine 1200 K Street #8 228-4518

Educational tasting experience of wines by the taste, flight or glass • downtownandvine.com

Ella Dining Room & Bar 1131 K St. 443-3772

L D $$$ Full Bar Modern American cuisine served family-style in a chic, upscale space • Elladiningroomandbar.com

Esquire Grill 1213 K St. 448-8900 L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Outdoor Dining Upscale American fare served in an elegant setting • Paragarys.com

Estelle's Patisserie

901 K St. 916-551-1500 L D $$-$$$ French-inspired Bakery serving fresh pastry & desserts, artisan breads and handcrafted sandwiches. EstellesPatisserie.com

Fat City Bar & Cafe 1001 Front St. 446-6768 D $$-$$$ Full Bar American cuisine served in a casual historic Old Sac location • Fatsrestaurants. com

L D Full Bar $$-$$$ Japanese cuisine served in an upscale setting • Mikunisushi.com

Morton’s Steakhouse 621 Capitol Mall #100 442-50 D $$$ Full Bar Upscale American steakhouse • Mortons.com

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10th & J Sts. 448-8960 D $$ Full Bar Relax with drinks and dinner in this stylish downtown space

Rio City Café

1110 Front St. Old Sac 442-8226

L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Seasonal menu of favorites in a setting overlooking river • Riocitycafe.com

Ten 22 1022 Second St. 441-2211 L D Wine/Beer $$ American bistro favorites with a modern twist in a casual, Old Sac setting ten22oldsac.com

LAND PARK Casa Garden Restaurant 2760 Sutterville Road 452-2809 L D $$ • D with minimum diners call to inquire $$ Wine/Beer. Elegantly presented American cuisine. Operated by volunteers to benefit Sacramento Children's Home. Small and large groups. Reservations recommended • casagardenrestaurant.org

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Freeport Bakery 2966 Freeport Blvd. 442-4256 B L $ Award-winning baked goods and cakes for eat in or take out • Freeportbakery.com

Iron Grill 13th Street and Broadway 737-5115

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

Jamie's Bar and Grill 427 Broadway 442-4044 L D $ Full Bar Featured on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. Dine in or take out since 1986

Riverside Clubhouse

2633 Riverside Drive 448-9988

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

Taylor's Kitchen 2924 Freeport Boulevard 443-5154 D $$S Wine/Beer Dinner served Wed. through Saturday. Reservations suggested.

Tower Café 1518 Broadway 441-0222 B L D $$ Wine/Beer International cuisine with dessert specialties in a casual setting

Willie's Burgers 2415 16th St.444-2006 L D $ Great burgers and more. Open until 3 am weekends

The Kitchen 2225 Hurley Way 568-7171 D $$$ Wine/Beer Five-course gourmet demonstration dinner by reservation only • Thekitchenrestaurant.com

La Rosa Blanca Taqueria 3032 Auburn Blvd. 484-0139 2813 Fulton Ave. 484-6104 L D Full Bar $$-$$ Fresh Mexican food served in a colorful family-friendly setting

Leatherby’s Family Creamery 2333 Arden Way 920-8382

L D $ House-made ice cream and specialties, soups and sandwiches

Lemon Grass Restaurant 601 Munroe St. 486-4891

L D $$ Full Bar Patio Vietnamese and Thai cuisine in a casual yet elegant setting

Matteo's Pizza 5132 Fair Oaks. Blvd. 779-0727 L D Beer/Wine $$ Neighborhood gathering place for pizza, pasta and grill dishes

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5038 Fair Oaks Blvd. 485-2883 B L D $-$$ Full Bar Espresso, omelettes, salads, table service from 5 -9 p.m. • bellabrucafe.com

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The Mandarin Restaurant 4321 Arden Way 488-47794 D $$-$$$ Full Bar Gourmet Chineses food for 32 years • Dine in and take out

Roma's Pizzeria & Pasta 6530 Fair Oaks Blvd. 488-9800 L D $$ Traditional Italian pizza & pasta Family Friendly Catering + Team Parties • romas-pizzaand-pasta.com

Roxy 2381 Fair Oaks Blvd. 489-2000 B L D $$-$$$ Full Bar American cuisine with a Western touch in a creative upscale atmosphere

3535 Fair Oaks Blvd. 487-1331

Ristorante Piatti

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

571 Pavilions Lane 649-8885

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L D $$ Full Bar Contemporary Italian cuisine in a casually elegant setting

3535 Fair Oaks Blvd. 485-8690

Sam's Hof Brau

L D $$ Full Bar Asian-influenced cuisine in a casual setting • Chinoiscitycafe.com

2500 Watt 482-2175

Ettore’s 2376 Fair Oaks Blvd. 482-0708 B L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Patio European-style gourmet café with salads, soup, spit-roasted chicken, desserts in a bistro setting • Ettores.com

Jack’s Urban Eats 2535 Fair Oaks Blvd. 481-5225 L D $ Full Bar Made-to-order comfort food in a casual setting • Jacksurbaneats.com

L D $$ Wine/Beer Fresh quality meats roasted daily • thehofbrau.com

Thai House 427 Munroe in Loehmann's 485-3888 L D $$ Wine/Beer Featuring the great taste of Thai traditional specialties • sacthaihouse.com

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This Month at the Market

A LOOK AT WHAT’S IN SEASON AT LOCAL FARMERS MARKETS IN FEBRUARY

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CABBAGE

MEYER LEMON

This healthful cruciferous vegetable is available much of the year, from September through June. It’s a member of the cabbage family. To eat: Steam or roast at high heat in the oven with olive oil and salt.

This leafy green-, purple or white-colored plant is low in calories and can be pickled, fermented, steamed, stewed, braised or eaten raw. To eat: For a fresh slaw, slice thinly and toss with poppy seed dressing.

This citrus fruit is yellower and rounder than a regular lemon, and its flavor is much sweeter. To eat: Use the juice to make a sweet curd or a nicely flavored vinaigrette.

RADISH

SWEET POTATO

These are grown locally year-round, but they are particularly crisp, juicy and mild in flavor when grown in cool weather. They come in multiple varieties, including daikon, watermelon and white icicle. To eat: Serve with butter and salt for a French-inspired hors d’oeuvre.

This large, starchy, sweet-tasting root vegetable is a great source of beta-carotene. To eat: Roast the flesh and use instead of pumpkin for a delicious Southern pie.

BLOOD ORANGE

This lovely orange has beautiful crimson flesh and a pitted skin. It makes a spectacular juice for drinking plain or adding to cocktails. To eat: Segment and use in a salad.

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