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HOLLYWOOD PARK This spacious 2 bedroom home has many great features. Entertain in the large living and dining rooms. Separate entryway. Recently ¿nished kitchen with quartz counters, and breakfast nook with built-in leaded glass cabinet. Dual pane windows and whole house fan. $259,000 DAVID KIRRENE 531-7495

FRANCIS COURT 4 BEDROOM Hidden away in a neighborhood where dreams live and memories are made! Spacious living room brimming with light, huge kitchen with lots of storage, one quarter acre lot plus 4 bedrooms, 2 baths and an of¿ce. Homes with character line this fantastic tree lined street. $625,000 SHEILA VAN NOY 505-5395

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HEART OF HOLLYWOOD PARK What a great opportunity to own a home on a great street! An originalowner 3 bedroom 1½ bath home, it features a wonderful spacious family room and a large backyard. Hardwood throughout with the exception of carpet in the family room. A rare, over-sized 2-car garage! $369,000 PAULA SWAYNE 425-9715

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FABULOUS REMODELED SLP Amazing quality 4 bedroom 2½ home featuring new electrical, plumbing, heat and air. Remodeled kitchen with quartz, fabulous white cabinets, stainless steel appliances, and glass back splash. New dual pane windows, Àoors, landscaping, doors. Huge enclosed sunroom, big yard and RV access. $485,000 MONA GERGEN 247-9555

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SOUTH LAND PARK HILLS This home has been wonderfully updated and is move-in ready! 4 bedrooms 2½ baths, beautiful hardwood Àoors in the family room and bedrooms. Stacked slate stone ¿replace. Kitchen features 5-burner gas range, stainless steel sink and appliances. Large covered patio! $449,000 BETH SHERMAN 800-4343

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UPDATED SARATOGA TOWNHOME Wonderfully updated 3 bedroom 2½ bath townhome with amazing kitchen opened to the living room, quartz counters, Bosch appliances, soft close cabinets, wood Àoors, new carpet, dual pane windows and new paint. Enlarged master suite, your own patio and attached garage. $439,000 NATHAN SHERMAN 969-7379

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ADORABLE LAND PARK Move-in ready, 2 bedroom home is great for a ¿rst time home buyer or investor. Formal dining room, dishwasher, and indoor laundry room. Home features hardwood Àoors, a ¿replace full of character and a deep lot with fruit trees and lots of shade. Newer HVAC. $399,000 JAMIE RICH 612-4000

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Trusting the Media SINKING AMERICAN CONFIDENCE IN NEWSPAPERS

he surprising election results last November proved that our country’s media seriously misjudged the political mood of the country. While this is hardly the first time that Americans were subject to inaccurate or misleading reporting and polling, it certainly seemed to be the most stunning example. Almost all the major newspapers, regardless of their political slant, endorsed the losing presidential candidate and confidentially predicted her win. The media is a huge basket that holds television, radio, print and social media, but my business interests tend to focus specifically on print and newspapers. Actor Denzel Washington recently slammed the media and repeated this quote from Mark Twain: “If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.” A June 2016 study showed that only 20 percent of Americans are confident in newspapers as a U.S. institution. This is an all-time low, marking the 10th consecutive year that more Americans express little or no, rather than high, confidence in the institution. The percentage of Americans expressing “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in newspapers has been dwindling since 2000, and the percentage expressing “very little” or “none” finally eclipsed it in 2007.

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One in five adults now says they have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in newspapers—the all-time low for newspapers in Gallup’s polling dating back to 1973. An additional 42 percent of adults say they have “some” confidence, meaning that the institution still sparks at least a measure of confidence in a majority of Americans.

Confidence in newspapers among both left- and right-leaning groups has also fallen over the past 16 years. Historically, Gallup found that Democrats are more likely than Republicans to have a significantly better view of newspapers. I would conclude that this is most likely because the majority of major newspapers slant left editorially.

This is the first year, however, that Democrats’ confidence is no longer net positive: 27 percent have little or no confidence in newspapers, slightly exceeding the 25 percent saying they have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence. By contrast, Republicans’ views toward the institution have been tilting negative since 2004. Surprisingly, young adults aged 18 to 34 have consistently been the most positive of all age groups about newspapers as an institution. My guess is that the younger folks who have grown up with the internet as a news source may see the benefit from a serious, even if traditional, news filter to the exploding amount of information available on the internet. But to be fair, the decline in public confidence in newspapers since 2000 is also part of a larger pattern of decline in Americans’ confidence in all U.S. institutions. The public tends to place the most confidence in the military, small business, the police and organized religion, which rank in the top 4. Of the 15 institutions Gallup tracks, television news ranks 13th, while newspapers are 14th. The only ones that rank worse are big business and Congress. However, since 2000, confidence in newspapers has fallen more steeply than the average of 15 institutions Gallup has tracked annually since 1993. While average confidence across all 15 institutions fell from 40 percent in 2000 to 32 percent the past two years, confidence in newspapers fell from 37 percent to 20 percent over the same period. The public’s mood over the past 16 years has been something of a whirlpool, pulling newspapers down

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Motley Crew KIDS IN RUGBY PROGRAM HAVE A BLAST BONDING OVER A OBLONG BALL

id you know that Land Park youngsters can play rugby all year ’round at their very own local park? Land Park Motley, one of Northern California’s most established youth rugby programs, fields U-8, U-10, U-12 and middle school teams that practice on the baseball fields just north of the Sacramento Zoo and, beginning mid-January (and for the rest of the season), next to the golf pro shop in William Land Park. As a founding member of the Northern California Youth Rugby Association, Land Park Motley is committed to preserving the history and tradition of a sport that creates friendships for life. Those friendships continue to grow as Motley players proudly go on to C.K. McClatchy, Jesuit, Christian Brothers, Rio Americano, El Camino, Kennedy and other area high schools. “Matt Eason, Whit Poindexter and I started Land Park Motley rugby club in 2007 with just 15 kids,” says team co-founder Rich Boyer. “We’ve grown to over 130 kids now and we really preach giving back. Many of our players go on to hugely successful rugby careers in high school, college and beyond. “In fact, seven Motley alumni have represented their country as All Americans and beyond. Once a Motley, always a Motley!”

Land Park Motley is open to youngsters from ages 7 to 13. The team practices on Tuesday afternoons.

Land Park Motley primarily plays teams from within the Sacramento Valley and occasionally from the San Francisco Bay Area. All

are welcome from ages 7-13 (grades 2-8) in four divisions according to age and weight. Beginning the first Tuesday after Thanksgiving, practices are from 3:45 to 5:15 p.m. on Tuesday and

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Thursday. Beginning this month (and as daylight permits), the group will start practices later in the afternoon. If you missed registration last month, interested kids are still welcome to come out—there’s usually still room to participate. The more the merrier! Bring your cleats, a pair of shorts, a T-shirt and a (mandatory) mouthpiece to the next practice and prepare to huddle up. For more information, call Matt Eason at 612-1819, email him at coachmatt@landparkrugby.com or go to landparkrugby.com.

WARM AND FUZZY

1,987 coats were collected from agents, staffers and the community by the Lyon Real Estate's Land Park office

This festive time of year is often comfy-cozy, but for many area residents who don’t have access to creature comforts, the winter months can be cold and miserable. Enter the LIFE page 10

“I must have Áowers, always and always.” - Claude Monet

I am constantly reminded, reading about the same issue in these three different newspapers, how differently the reporting of stories is slanted politically. So with trust in the media at an all-time low, is it any wonder we retreat to news sources that reflect our values?

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rellesﬂorist.com 2400 J St. 441-1478 PUBLISHER FROM page 7 across the country at alarming rates. The rise of digital media could be a factor in the declining trust we place in a traditional print medium such as newspapers. But perhaps more importantly, newspapers are suffering from the broader decline Gallup sees in Americans’ trust in the mass media in general. With the ever increasingly rapid news cycle, there seems to be the need to be first over the need for accuracy or truth. When a terrible situation occurs, I make myself say a prayer for those involved, then wait some time before reading what is usually more accurate reporting about it. I gave up a long time ago on television as a serious news source. Given my love of the printed word, I get most of my news from reading newspapers, either online with The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, or in print with The Sacramento Bee. (My husband’s daily crossword ensures we never stop our print subscription.)

With our own focus on community news, featuring the most interesting people, places and events in our neighborhood, we strive to offer a local news source that is positive and fair. Only a few of our columnists are tasked to analyze controversial topics each month. And we are always open to alternative views voicing other opinions. I do hear occasional grumbling, mostly from elected officials, and we always ask them to respond in writing. But they rarely follow through. Will the media in our country ever recover its status? I’m sad to say I don’t hold out a great deal of hope. All we can do is something my mother used to tell me about gossip: Consider the source.

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Lyon Cares Foundation, a charitable arm of Lyon Real Estate, which provides time, talent and donated goods to local nonprofits that make their communities a better place. This October, Lyon turned its Land Park office into a collection center for new and slightly used coats to donate to the Sacramento Food Bank for the sixth consecutive year. A total of 1,987 coats were collected from agents, staffers and the community, making the Land Park office the top collector for the month. “We are incredibly proud of the Lyon Land Park team’s determination in giving back to their community,” says office manager Pamela Petterle. “Through their efforts, many locals will be able to experience the gift of warm coats this winter.” All 14 Lyon Real Estate offices participated in the coat drive this year and collected a record 10,065 coats for local charities in the greater Sacramento area. For more information on Lyon’s Annual Coat Drive, contact Petterle at 453-3349 or go to golyon.com. The Land Park office is at 2620 21st St.

THAT’S THE SPIRIT! Get your bibs ready: Holy Spirit Parish School’s annual crab feed fundraiser returns on Saturday, Jan. 21, and you won’t want to miss this exciting yearly shindig to celebrate the start of crab season and support the school’s myriad programs. No-host cocktails start the evening, followed by a fabulous dinner of crab (of course), shrimp, pasta and salad prepared by dedicated HSPS parents. Next comes dancing to live music and the ever-popular basket raffle. Enter to win a basket stuffed with goodies donated by the school’s K-8 classes. What are you waiting for? Get your tickets now at hs-ps.com/development/ fundraising/crab-feed. Holy Spirit Parish School is at 3920 W. Land Park Drive.

BELLE OF THE BALL

MEETING OF THE MINDS If you’ve been curious about the Land Park Community Association and all it does for locals like you, join in! The LPCA’s next monthly meeting will be from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 18, at the Eskaton Munroe Lodge at 3225 Freeport Blvd. As long as you’re jumping into the fray, why not get further involved and join the Land Use Committee, which is involved in issues of land use, commercial revitalization and transportation? The LUC meets from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 4 (the location will be revealed once you email the committee chair) and welcomes current LPCA members who’d like to get more involved. Committee tasks include performing timely and consistent review of all applications for major land use applications (including, but not limited to, use permits and zoning changes within the LPCA boundaries) and making recommendations to the

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Nature Explorers take place the last Saturday of the month. Participants read stories, play games and explore the wonders of the natural world.

LPCA board on initiatives to improve the health and vitality of commercial corridors.

The LUC usually meets on the first Wednesday of the month and is open to current LPCA members. The LUC is also responsible for addressing all traffic and transportation issues, including recommending traffic control

measures to the board, monitoring traffic, bike and pedestrian safety, responding to the traffic aspects of major land use applications and coordinating with the city’s Department of Transportation, Regional Transit and related public entities and private advocates. The LUC also serves as the primary forum for the membership to be informed of, and to express their views on, proposed and/or pending land use proposals, projects or regulations. Is your interest piqued? The LUC usually meets on the first Wednesday of the month and is open to current LPCA members. Members may join by contacting the chair at landuse@ landpark.org.

Belle Cooledge Library is hosting all kinds of fun events this month, so stop by and see what’s in store. First up is the Pop-Up Book Sale from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 3. Every first Tuesday of the month, the library will offer gently books for all ages for sale. Pick up some great reads and support your local library at the same time. (All proceeds from the sale benefit library programs.) At 10 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 10, Belle Cooledge will have the honor of hosting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services for a special oath ceremony as they bestow the gift of citizenship upon individuals. The oath ceremony is the final step in the naturalization process, where immigrants take the Oath of Allegiance before becoming American citizens. The ceremony promises to be an unforgettable moment for all in attendance. Ever wondered where, and who, exactly you come from? The Genealogical Association of Sacramento can offer some important tips and tricks for those hoping to explore their family tree. Join the GAS from 12:30 to 2:45 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 18, for its monthly

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law office of brian d.wyatt ,PC meeting (the third Wednesday of every month except July, August and December) and find out what family secrets await. The GAS was founded in 1976 with a nucleus of 13 dedicated members to encourage the research, publication and preservation of genealogical and historical material, as well as to instruct and lend assistance to the membership and the public in modern methods of research. For more information on the GAS, go to gensac. org. For more information on all Belle Cooledge events, go to saclibrary.org. Belle Cooledge Library is at 5600 S. Land Park Drive.

RING(TAIL) IN THE NEW YEAR So, you partied hearty last night, but now you’re wondering what to do for the whole of New Year’s Day. Why not visit the exotic denizens of the Sacramento Zoo? That’s right: The zoo is open on Jan. 1 for its normal winter hours from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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Saturday of the month. Participants will read stories, play games and explore the wonders of the natural world with a new topic each month. (Activities are included with zoo admission.) For more information, call 808-5888 or go to saczoo.org. The Sacramento Zoo is at 3930 W. Land Park Drive.

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Fairytale Town will be open on Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Or, if you didn’t party hearty because you started to panic about how to fix the mare’s nest that is your financial situation, let local attorney and estate planning specialist Mark S. Drobny ease your mind during his Estate Planning Safari from 10 to 11:30 a.m. on Friday, Jan. 27. Drobny will help you navigate a “jungle” of topics in this free, informative

seminar, and hopefully help you enjoy the start of 2017 with a fresh perspective. Do you have little ones who are climbing the walls waiting for school to start again? Give them something exciting to do from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 30, at Nature Explorers, the zoo and the Sacramento Public Library’s open play day that takes place the last

Worried that your favorite play park will be closed on Martin Luther King Jr. Day? Not to worry! Fairytale Town will be open on Monday, Jan. 16, for its normal winter hours: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., weather permitting. Holiday admission is $5.75 per person and children ages 1 and under are free, so come play! For more information, call 8087462 or go to fairytaletown.org. Fairytale Town is at 3901 Land Park Drive. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com n

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Police Shootings REACTIVE WINDOW DRESSING OR EFFECTIVE REFORMS?

n July, Sacramento police killed a mentally ill, knife-wielding man on the streets of North Sacramento in a hail of gunfire, striking him 14 times, in an episode recorded by police dash cams and other video. Calls to police dispatchers had reported that a mentally ill man (he had soiled himself and was seen typing on an imaginary keyboard) armed with both a gun and a knife was observed loose on the streets, which, of course, triggered the highest degree of police vigilance. The shooting was preceded by an unsuccessful effort by police officers to run the man down with their squad car. The Sacramento police department’s response to the shooting was ham-handed, at best. It refused media requests to obtain multiple dash cam and other video of the episode, despite growing public pressure to release it. But once The Bee released a video of the incident weeks later that had been recorded by a private party, the SPD ended its stonewalling and released all of its videos of the episode within a matter of hours. What ensued was a growing chorus of calls, particularly, but not exclusively, from groups and individuals in the black community, for the city to adopt major reforms

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in how it handles police misconduct complaints.

CITY’S RAPID RESPONSE TO THE PROBLEM On Sept. 20, Mayor Kevin Johnson appointed a council committee to research ways the city could upgrade police accountability and transparency. Three days later, the committee, headed by Councilmember Larry Carr, visited Berkeley to discuss its police review commission. (Berkeley, home of my alma mater, wouldn’t have been my first choice as a place to look for sound local government policy.)

Our new interim city manager, Howard Chan, in office for just a few days and facing his first major crisis, hired a new assistant city manager, Arturo Sanchez, from the city of Long Beach to oversee the police and fire departments and to implement new police oversight procedures. One of the reasons Sanchez was hired was for his experience in overseeing police review commissions in Long Beach and, previously, in Oakland. Indicative of the rush the city was in to respond to growing community outrage, the city conducted four public forums on police accountability, transparency and use-of-force policy over just three days in mid-November, a new land speed record.

At a crowded council meeting on Nov. 29, the city council adopted a broad set of reforms designed to address community concerns with police behavior. First, the council did a major upgrade of the city’s Office of Public Safety Accountability, which until now has been a quiet backwater of city government. The council assigned three new staffers to OPSA and increased its annual budget to $600,000. It expanded OPSA’s authority to monitor the police. It also removed OPSA from the control of the city manager and placed it under the city council’s direct control. OPSA’s job is to monitor how well the police department’s internal

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PUBLIC REACTION TO THE REFORMS: TOO WEAK Every witness testifying at the Nov. 29 council meeting, save two, thought the reforms were weak and didn’t go far enough, including representatives from Area Congregations Together, the ACLU, the Law Enforcement Accountability Directive, and Black Lives Matter. Their objections were that the revised police commission won’t be independent (the mayor and council will appoint its members), it will lack subpoena power to conduct its own investigations into misconduct cases and it will have no power to impose discipline on officers it finds acted improperly. Those testifying thought the reforms offered by the council were, at best, a weak first step toward real reform. Most councilmembers were sympathetic with such concerns but felt that their hands were tied by legal constraints. City attorney James Sanchez explained that under the city charter, only the city council and its committees have subpoena power and that a charter amendment would have to be approved by the voters to grant the police commission the power to issue investigative subpoenas. To place a charter measure on the ballot would require citizens to gather signatures from well over 40,000 registered city voters, an expensive and time-consuming proposition. Or the city council could simply direct that a charter change measure be placed on a future ballot, much as it did with Measure L, the charter measure to create an independent redistricting commission, which

was approved by city voters in the November election. But it was clear that the council has no appetite to take such action, at least for now. Otherwise, it would have approved placing such a measure on the 2018 ballot at its Nov. 29 meeting. Sanchez also explained that state law would likely prevent the council from granting the police commission the power to discipline cops. State law strictly limits who can have access to police personnel and disciplinary records, a restriction broadened

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by the California Supreme Court’s Copley Press decision in 2006. A 2007 bill by then-Sen. Gloria Romero was designed to allow any charter city (like Sacramento) to release such records as they did before Copley. But when it came up for a hearing before the Senate’s Public Safety Committee, its chair—Sen. Mark Leno, who supported increased police oversight—was abruptly removed from the committee and the committee room was flooded with CITY HALL page 14

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Ticket Purchase: www.hs-ps.com CITY HALL FROM page 13 police officers who opposed any efforts to water down their privacy rights. The bill died on the spot. Such is the political juice that police groups have in the State Capitol. It was clear to this observer that, while it wouldn’t say so, the council wants to keep to itself the power to conduct investigations into the handling of misconduct cases by the police’s internal affairs division and had no intention of sharing it with a citizens’ police commission anytime soon. I could also sense that the council has some trepidation about handing disciplinary authority over city police to a citizen commission. Historically, the Sacramento city council has, as a general rule, been quite resistant to sharing city power with others. What was quite surprising about the council meeting was the complete absence of police officers, its union, the Sacramento Police Officers Association, or any command personnel from SPD. I imagine police shied away from dealing with the police-unfriendly crowd. Councilmember Angelique Ashby did note that the SPOA opposed the reforms. (Note: Sacramento police department veteran Brian Louie takes over from police chief Sam Somers this month. Louie will serve as interim chief while the city searches for a new permanent chief, whom the city manager says should be appointed by April or May.)

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RELEASING VIDEO OF POLICE SHOOTINGS The reforms would also mandate that any video of an officer-involved shooting be publicly released within 30 days of the shooting unless the city council decides to withhold it under certain narrowly defined circumstances. The police chief, for example, could ask the council to withhold release of video if he believes it would compromise a pending investigation. Frankly, I’m not sure such a provision is legal, as it arguably impinges on the exclusive executive powers and authority of the city manager under the city charter. And it certainly doesn’t seem politically smart for the city council to put itself in the unpopular position of telling the community that they can’t see a video of a police officer shooting somebody whenever the council must, for legitimate legal reasons, decide to withhold such videos from the public.

THE NATIONAL NARRATIVE AND SOME RECENT RESEARCH FINDINGS There is no issue in municipal government today more highly charged or more divisive than the matter of citizen deaths at the hands of police. Police feel under siege, both nationally and locally, by a powerful national narrative that the police are too quick to resort to deadly force in dealing with black citizens in high-risk, high-conflict

settings. Meanwhile, a large number of African-Americans have lost trust in the police. They’re angry by what they view as increasing numbers of racially biased, unjustified shootings of black citizens by police who are too often trigger happy. A study by a Harvard professor released in July found no evidence of racial bias in police shootings even though officers were more likely to interact physically with nonwhites than whites, The Washington Times reported last summer. The study, by the National Bureau of Economic Research, examined thousands of incidents at 10 large police departments in California, Florida and Texas and concluded that police were no more likely to shoot nonwhites than whites after factoring in extenuating circumstances. “On the most extreme use of force—officer-involved shootings—we find no racial differences in either the raw data or when contextual factors are taken into account,” said Harvard economics professor Roland G. Fryer Jr. in the abstract of the paper. Fryer, who is black, told The New York Times that the finding of no racial discrimination in police shootings was “the most surprising result of my career.”

FUTURE FLASH POINTS So what are the potential future flash points over the city’s handling of police misconduct complaints? Well, without subpoena power or disciplinary authority of their own,

OPSA and the police commission will have a hard time challenging the findings of internal affairs or the disciplinary decisions of police brass. Unless OPSA can persuade the council to issue subpoenas, the most it can really do is try to embarrass the police department by issuing reports to the police commission and the council condemning an internal affairs investigation or a disciplinary action by police department brass. The police department will remain firmly under the control of the city manager. A police department decision exonerating an accused officer could trigger so much community furor that it leads to political brinksmanship in city government: Would a city manager stand up and defend a decision by his police department and its internal affairs division not to fire an accused officer in the face of pressures from OPSA, the police commission and a politically sensitive city council to oust the officer? Or would a cautious city manager cave under such pressures to protect his own job, overrule the decision of his police department and fire the officer, even though it would likely damage the morale of police brass and line officers alike? It’s not clear. One day we may just find out. 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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Talent Rink NEW SPACE WILL HOST ‘THE VOICE’-STYLE COMPETITION

In a roundabout way, then, aspiring

n 1954, championship roller skater Dorothy “Dotti” Lane purchased

Sacramento musicians can thank

Senator Roller Drome at 1031 Del

Kennedy’s wife for inspiring him to

Paso Blvd. in North Sacramento. Its

start the hunt for the building that

doors would close in 1974, but during

would become The Rink Studios.

those 20 years, Dotti trained many

The Rink Studios will rent out

state and national champions, and

15 rehearsal, recording, teaching

Senator Roller Drome became one of

and “all-purpose” studio spaces.

the largest competitive roller-skating

“Even though this isn’t really

clubs in California.

being advertised except by word of

Long vacant, the 90-year-old

mouth, people are already in line,”

building has lost some of its luster,

says Kennedy. The venue will also

but Elk Grove resident and developer

offer opportunities to educate those

Greg Kennedy has been renovating

interested in nonperforming aspects

the roller drome into a studio and

of music, such as sound engineering,

performance space for musicians that

performance and recording

will open in early 2017.

production. “We started thinking about

The new venture will bring back the old spirit of competition that

things like recording,” he explains.

existed during the Roller Drome’s

“Hopefully we will be able to generate

heyday, but with a new name and

some decent performance groups from

twist. The Rink Studios is more than

the rehearsal studios by giving them

a studio space; Kennedy envisions

input on how to set up a PA system,

it as a music incubator for local

or how to work together as a group.” While studio spaces will draw local

musicians that will offer a potentially international audience through

musicians looking for a place to jam,

livestreaming online.

record or store their instruments, The

Kennedy admits the idea behind

Rink Studios will also invite music

The Rink Studios has broadened in

lovers to attend live performances

scope since he first began searching

held on the rink’s original floor, which

for a rehearsal space for his band,

was built in 1926. Kennedy says the

The Refurbs, which performs covers

venue will accommodate up to 500

of “everything from Billie Holiday to

standing and 300 seated people. The stage will be open for Tuesday-

Billy Idol,” he says.

night performances for local bands,

“When I was in high school and

and Mondays will be a free movie

college, I played in garage bands here or there. When I started getting

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Developer Greg Kennedy plans on turning Roller Drome into the Rink Studios. Photos courtesy of Jenn Bartell Photography.

back into music a few years ago, I

“when my band started playing in my

decided that I’m too fussy to play in

living room, it was annoying to my

a garage or somebody’s living room,”

wife.”

he explains. Also, Kennedy chuckles,

night open to the community. But the biggest draw at The Rink Studios is a live-performance competition that operates on a similar model to popular reality shows like “American Idol” and “The Voice.”

The plan is to have 50 winners a

Remodeling of the building is nearly

year who will be invited to perform

complete, and Kennedy says the

live at The Rink Studios. Using

tentative opening date is Jan. 18. He

professional audio and video, the

is not prepared to announce what the

performance will be streamed live

opening night will look like, but it will

on The Rink Studio’s website and

include live performances. “Oh yeah,

Facebook page, directly connecting

it’s going to be a part. We’ll have some

musicians with a national or even

performers with draw,” he says.

international audience while also

Kennedy knows that whatever shot

bridging the gap between the music

he had at becoming a famous musician

industry and talent.

is behind him, but he wants The Rink

Submissions will be accepted

Studios to be an avenue to give young

through The Rink Studio’s website,

musical artists a shot. “The focus

and winners will be decided by which

really is on the younger musicians,”

songs receive the most clicks by an

he says. “Groups like mine, old-fart

Internet audience. Competitors’

musicians, we’re beyond the stage

songs will be placed on more than 150

where we’re going to make it big.

global digital music platforms.

But there are a lot of good musicians

The competition will not be

around Sacramento. Maybe we can

limited to Sacramento bands. But

find somebody who has some real

the winning performance will take

talent.”

place at The Rink Studios, with plans underway to build other Rink Studios in Denver, Seattle and potentially

For more information, go to therinkstudios.com

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Young Greg Kennedy on the drums

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End of an Era MEGAMI’S CLOSURE A SIGN OF A CHANGING DOWNTOWN

ith exciting restaurants popping up all over Sacramento’s grid, it’s easy to miss when a small restaurant closes its doors. So you may not have heard the news that Megami Bento-Ya on 10th Street is set to close sometime soon. By some estimates, more than 30 new restaurants will open in the downtown area over the next year. That’s on top of recently opened restaurants in Midtown, East Sac, along R Street and throughout the city. These restaurants have unique concepts, cuisines and styles. They often bank on Sacramento’s farm-tofork movement but definitely strive for the sort of sophistication seen in major cities. They want to serve a growing residential crowd and lure suburbanites back to the city core. Until the last decade or so, Sacramento was pretty much a government town. Some downtown restaurants served the political elite who dined and drank while making deals in smoky backrooms. Other restaurants, like Megami, served mostly government workers who had only an hour for lunch and wanted good food, good prices and fast service. Alan Honda opened Megami BentoMa in 1983. (His parents opened the original Megami on Florin Road in

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Alan Honda opened Megami Bento-Ma in 1983

1976.) Honda’s mom and his wife, Judy, are integral to the restaurant’s operations and success. Megami is a family affair. Its customers have always been treated as family, too. The small restaurant serves Japanese food buffet style. Honda learned his craft from his parents and from working at House of Genji in San Jose and later at a hofbrau.

Judy comes in to help, although she has a full-time job with the post office. Honda’s 87-year-old mother also helps out. “Mom is a tough woman and comes in to whip us into shape,” Honda says. “And Judy is a hard worker, often working a full shift at the restaurant and another eight hours at the post office.”

“We’ve had a lot of good customers who became good friends over the years,” says the 61-year-old Honda. “But I think it’s time for something new. I work almost 70 hours a week.” Honday is a modest man who jokingly says he is a lousy businessperson. But he’s been on the cutting edge, whether he knows it or not. He developed his own sauces for comfort foods like sesame chicken and teriyaki. He offers ramen bowls at extremely affordable prices. Tucked on the corner of a serving area are bottles of booze for those who want a cocktail. His loyal customers come in droves for lunch and dinner. Honda works behind the counter every day, serving sushi and other Japanese food. While most restaurants thrive on the weekends, Megami is closed, an acknowledgement that its customer base is made up of government workers from City Hall and the State Capitol. Honda has endured some difficult times. He kept the restaurant going in a construction zone when The Citizen Hotel was being built next door. Then came the Great Recession, which resulted in furloughed employees and a significant drop in business. “It’s been tough at times,” he says. “We manage to make it, but times are changing. I’d need to make a big investment to remodel the place and keep it going. I’d need to hire more people and be open seven days a week, too.” Honda says customers keep coming in to ask when he’ll close. No date has been set as he works through some issues with his landlord, but he expects to be closed before the end of

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2016. His location will likely be taken over by Melissa and Tyler Williams, who own and operate Tank House restaurant and The Jungle Bird tiki bar, both on J Street. The easygoing Honda seems a bit sad at having to close Megami. He recognizes the opportunities for downtown businesses with the arrival of Golden 1 Arena and other developments. But he’s excited about his future. Laughingly, Honda says he’s tired and needs to slow down. For him, that means a manageable eight-hour day. While he says he might retire, that seems doubtful. “Maybe I’ll drive for Uber,” he says. “I could do that.” Honda has other, more serious ideas. “I’ve been thinking about a food truck and taking my food on the road,” he says. “I’ve also had some people approach me about bottling and marketing my sauces. That sounds interesting.” Scot Crocker can be reached at scot@crockercrocker.com n

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Filling the Seats NEW WAY OF SELLING TICKETS COULD SOLVE THE EMPTY-THEATER PROBLEM

he guardians of Sacramento’s cultural universe are ready to speak loudly with your tax dollars. City officials will soon begin to shovel $83.4 million toward a remodeled Community Center Theater. Another $16.4 million will go toward upgrades at Memorial Auditorium. To help pay for it all, the city hopes to clear $20 million in a naming rights deal that has yet to materialize. The plan will turn a public cultural center into a billboard. If history predicts outcome, Sacramento’s grand theatrical ambitions around 14th and J streets may fall short. The city will spend massive amounts of money on an expanded convention center and improved theater and auditorium but nothing much will change. The problem is the execution. For years, scarce bookings have been a way of life for Memorial Auditorium and the Community Center Theater. The buildings are dark far too many evenings. People in the local arts community have various opinions on why the city’s performance centers perform so poorly. Some note lousy acoustics in both the auditorium and theater— uneven sound qualities that make promoters and artists avoid booking the stages. Others cite the city’s strict labor mandates: Services such

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Memorial Auditorium

as staging and janitorial must be filled by unionized help, raising a promoter’s costs. But there’s another explanation for the city’s inability to book heavy

calendars at downtown stages. It involves the city’s passive approach to chasing after theatrical attractions and coaxing them to Sacramento.

Basically, Sacramento doesn’t chase anyone. We make our presence known and wait for promoters to call and inquire about stage availability. When promoters call, the city offers them a price sheet for rent, security, janitorial, stagehands and other services. And when promoters don’t call, oh well. The stages stay dark. The alternative to the city’s passive strategy is something called the “presenter” model. This is where a promoter obtains booking rights for the city’s theatrical inventory. The presenter becomes a booking agent, signing acts, marketing shows and selling tickets. If audiences respond and fill seats, the presenter makes money. If not, the presenter has only the mirror to blame. Given that an empty theater means zero income for a presenter, people in the industry tend to devote significant energies toward making sure theaters get filled. There are many examples of the presenter model at work around Sacramento. At Golden 1 Center, the Kings serve as presenters with Live Nation, a global promoter with connections to hundreds of performers, including many of the biggest names in show business. They keep the arena busy. A smaller example is Ace of Spades entertainment hall on R Street. Live Nation fills the place with acts not mainstream enough for an arena. Sacramento authorities are finally ready to explore the presenter model, but only at Memorial Auditorium. After years of watching promoters take shows to regional halls such as CITY page 22

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UC Davis’ Mondavi Center or the smaller Harris Center at Folsom Lake College, the city will ask presenters to bid on promotional rights at the circa-1926 auditorium, which will be upgraded for the 2019 season. The city hopes the presenter model will help cover the $16.2 million rehab at Memorial. Even then, Sacramento will need the $20 million naming rights deal to make the entire convention center and Community Center Theater project pencil out. While nothing has happened yet, city officials say the presenter model could include the rehabbed theater at 13th and L streets. A naming rights partner may insist on it. “We haven’t proposed any changes for operation of the CCT and there haven’t been any discussions to date. That doesn’t preclude future consideration of that idea,” says Fran Halbakken, project chief for the city. The presenter model might seem like an obvious fix for Sacramento’s problem of dark nights at Memorial Auditorium and the Community

Center Theater. But it’s not obvious to everyone. Richard Lewis, CEO of California Musical Theatre, which presents the Music Circus and Broadway Sacramento series, is OK with testing the presenter model at the auditorium, but he doesn’t believe it’s good for the theater. Lewis spends about $800,000 each year renting the theater for his six-show Broadway series. He likes things as they are. “It introduces a profit motive into the process, and that’s something the city has to be very careful about getting involved with in a publicly owned building,” Lewis says. “City staff is great to work with, and they’ve done an excellent job operating the theater.” To pay for a new arts and convention center, the city will enter a new world—a racket filled with showbiz promoters. It won’t fly without a naming rights deal and a strategy to fill those seats. R.E. Graswich can be reached at reg@graswich.com n

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Ed Goldman and William Ishmael BRINGING THE ARTS COMMUNITY TOGETHER

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its board president. (You

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recognizing local leadership in

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writer’s dad.) “The gallery is not

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arts/business partnerships. Though

artists from all over the world.”

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board of Arts & Business Busine Council and Sacramento Theatre Company and as a member of the board of Capital Stage, Discovery Museum, the Sacramento Philharmonic and WEAVE, among others. “That’s always been the

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that’s thanks to the work of William

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Ishmael. William has been the most

a truly regional organization, but

instrumental in expanding the base

we’re very sensitive to and aware

of nominees and adding new, more

of our deep and wide support in

relevant categories for awards and

Placer County,” says Ishmael.

organizing and meeting with the

“It truly does take a village. Ed

selection panel. He’s been pretty

Goldman and Tony Natsoulas have

tireless.”

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“The nice thing about Interlude this year is that we’ve actively invited nominations from the six-county region.” Ishmael, a longtime member of the Blue Line board, is an artist best known for his watercolor landscapes

the Arts & Business Council and served as president for the last two transitional and newly formative years. Tony used his wide network to bring in artists from not only the region but throughout the nation to exhibit. And Dani Whitmore, our new executive director, is the person for our time. Blue Line’s time is now!” Interlude ART takes place on Wednesday, Jan. 25, at Sacramento State University. For tickets and more information, visit bluelinearts. org n

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Nod to the Past AN EAST SAC HOME GETS A HISTORICALLY SENSITIVE MAKEOVER

hris and Amy Cookson spent five years looking for a new house. With a growing family, they knew they would need more space than their home on 47th Street provided. While looking at a house on 44th Street, Chris noticed a For Sale sign on another home down the street, a stately blue Colonial Revival. Cookson knew right away it was the perfect home for his family. Chris

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and Amy both harbor an affection for older homes and loved their East Sacramento neighborhood. “I really wanted that house,” he says. The couple purchased the house in April 2014, the day Amy found out she was pregnant. “We loved the house right away,” Amy says. “We even kept the blue color. Everyone in the neighborhood knew it as the Blue House.” The 3,700-square-foot house originally had four bedrooms and one bath. The building permit, issued in 1922, estimated the house’s cost at $8,750. According to California Resources Agency records, it was built by William J. Rooney, office manager

for Wright & Kimbrough Company, a notable real estate firm. Because Chris had grown up doing construction, he understood what would be necessary to modernize the house. Though structurally sound, it had never had a complete makeover. Following 14 months of construction, the family moved in in July 2015. During the process, the entire house was taken down to the studs. Major changes included adding a first-floor bathroom and mudroom next to the kitchen. The couple retained the original wood flooring upstairs but replaced worn flooring downstairs. They reconfigured the bedrooms and added three full bathrooms and a laundry room. They replaced the broken panes in the fan-shaped

window over the front door and repainted the exterior shutters. They finished off the basement into a play room for their children and are now working on creating a wine cellar. By taking down the sunroom on the first floor and building up the foundation, they were able to add a bedroom on the second floor. Their backyard was given new life with a design by local landscape architect David Gibson. The kidfriendly yard now sports a saltwater pool with a wall fountain, blue-slate patio and lots of grass for the kids to run on barefoot. When the couple submitted their plans to the city during the permitting process, they got a surprise. The city suggested they submit their home for

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inclusion on the Sacramento Register of Historic and Cultural Resources. Working with the city was positive experience. The resources provided by the city staff ensured the couple was not overwhelmed during the process. “The city was really good,” Chris says. “They wanted to keep it as a historic structure, but they also realized that a family would be living here.” One reason the couple loved the house so much was the amount of light provided by floor-to-ceiling windows in most of the rooms. The couple kept all the old windows and had them refurbished so they functioned properly. When they approached craftsmen in town, all declined, saying the job required too much work and time. They ended up getting much-needed help from a family member: Chris’ father, Larry Riggs, who is retired from the construction business. “My dad, I can’t leave him out of this,” Chris explains. “He drove down every couple of weeks, took out the windows and redid all the weights and roping. He found old, wavy glass to replace broken panes. It was very time consuming. We couldn’t have done it without him.” The Cooksons expressed nothing but praise for their construction and design team: Martha Lewis of Lewis Custom Classics and designer Chris Merenda-Axtell. Amy stressed the importance of research and planning when considering the remodel of an older home. “We spent a lot of time planning out what we wanted and made sure it fit the historic style of the house,” she explains. “ It’s best to go into a project loving the house before the construction begins. By picking a style of home you like, there will be fewer changes required.” If you know of a home that you think should be featured in Inside Publications, contact Julie Foster at foster.julie91@yahoo.com n

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The Wheelman HE CYCLES LIKE HIS LIFE DEPENDS ON IT

f you plan to live a long, vibrant life and survive to 91, it’s important to find the right sport. Fortunately, a group called the Sacramento Wheelmen makes the sports part easy. The Wheelmen are a bicycle club, among the biggest and most enthusiastic in California. There are around 400 members. They cover a wide spectrum of age and two-wheel core competency. Some Wheelmen ride hundreds of miles each week around the Sacramento region. Some travel to places like France, Italy and Spain, where they ride more miles. Other Wheelmen meet at Discovery Park, ride to a nice place for breakfast, pedal home and call it a day. Tom Goodwin represents the infinite possibilities of membership with the Wheelmen. He has cycled across Europe. And he’s cycled across town for breakfast. He happens to be 91, making him the club’s senior member, which he doesn’t consider a praiseworthy accomplishment. “I’m only 91,” he says. He emphasizes the word “only.” While cycling at 91 is impressive despite Goodwin’s modesty, our elder Wheelman is more interested in other numbers. For example, there’s the number 100, which represents the mileage he tries to cover each

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Tom Goodwin rode more than 6,000 miles last year

week on his bike. And there’s 6,000, the annual mileage goal he sets for himself. “I try to ride three or four days a week, 45 or 50 miles,” he says. “I

went 66 miles yesterday, and that put me over 6,000 miles for 2016.” Apart from his longevity, Goodwin is a fairly average representative of the Wheelmen.

About half the roster is filled with retired women and men, a status that affords such Wheelmen the flexibility to enjoy rides during the week. Other members, still toiling away at day jobs, must wait for the weekend before clipping their bike shoes into their pedals and heading off on adventurous group rides. Wheelmen journeys tend to fall into two categories: breakfast rides and exercise rides. Goodwin enjoys both types. As amateur athletes, some cyclists summon a competitive spirit that rivals the world’s top pros. The Wheelmen have riders who push themselves to earthly limits and thrive in an exhilarating environment of speed and utter exhaustion. Other Wheelmen prefer a more modest pace. They prioritize conviviality and social experience over the thrill of arriving first. That would be Goodwin, taking his time. “Oh, we enjoy the competitive riders,” he says. “They just ride a little faster.” Fast or slow, every cyclist knows the hazards associated with the sport. Cars can present serious problems. So can potholes and gravel and even other riders. Given enough time on a bicycle, every rider eventually tumbles. Goodwin, who takes a philosophical approach to cycling’s dangers, believes the rewards outweigh the risks. “People have been killed while cycling,” he says. “That’s an unfortunate fact. But it hasn’t happened to me yet. I fall off every once in a while, but I’m still alive.”

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Wheelmen membership has allowed Goodwin to make new friends and ride to breakfast locations around the world. He’s joined Wheelmen sojourns to Europe eight or nine times. And he’s made numerous overnight trips to locations around California, places such as San Francisco and Santa Cruz. He packs his bicycle into a vehicle and drives to the starting point. In Guerneville not long ago, his bike was stolen. He says, “It was inside my car in the parking lot, and they took it right out of the car. That’s the way the ball bounces sometimes.” Goodwin replaced the stolen bike with a high-end, carbon-fiber-frame Giant. But bicycle pedigree doesn’t matter to the Wheelmen. “We encourage anyone who can ride to come out and join us,” Goodwin says. “We like anyone who rides a bicycle.” R.E. Graswich can be reached at reg@graswich.com n

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Eying the Watchdog A CHALLENGE TO CITY HALL CHALLENGERS

n open secret at Sacramento City Hall—or any room where elected officials gather to cast votes—is how little weight is given to public comments. From a policy standpoint, those heartfelt remarks made by common citizens each Tuesday night at city council meetings mean nothing. The board listens politely, then ratifies decisions that were predetermined hours if not weeks prior. Councilmembers view public commentary as a necessary evil, required by law and tradition but secondary to the serious business of orchestrating the city’s course. Prominent within the category of public commentators is a group called Eye on Sacramento. For years, the Eye and its members—a group of people who could comfortably fit around a dinner table—have been showing up at City Hall, demanding their two minutes and weighing in on substantive issues under consideration by the council. The Eye’s sweet spot is tax money and the squandering of same. The Eye has discovered significant waste. When I began working at City Hall as special assistant to Mayor Kevin Johnson in 2009, nobody took the Eye seriously. Part of my job was to attend council meetings and text the mayor about what was going on in the gallery. I got to know City Hall regulars, folks who showed up every

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week. Among them was Craig Powell, the Eye’s indefatigable leader. I enjoyed listening as Powell and his friends respectfully challenged the council on wasteful practices in public works and other departments. Powell was trained as an attorney, and while he doesn’t practice law, he has perfected a soothing, logical delivery worthy of courtroom summations. He’s persuasive and fun to watch. Later, working with the crew at Inside Publications, where Powell writes a column, I got to know him better. While I don’t always agree with Powell and Eye on Sacramento, I admire the group’s tenacity and purpose. They are a public asset.

The Eye rummages through City Hall budgets and staff reports, prepares dissenting arguments and posts conclusions on the web. Whistleblowers are treasured. The Eye sends out press releases to draw attention to itself and keep city staff and councilmembers accountable. In recent years, local TV stations and The Bee began to quote directly from the Eye’s reports. This would not have happened a decade ago, when news organizations had larger and more robust staffs. Back then, the Eye was a tip sheet at best. These days, it’s easier for shortstaffed media to pick up the Eye’s reports and turn them around as completed stories, using sentences

that say, “According to a report from the watchdog group Eye on Sacramento ...” This is bad news for City Hall. Suddenly, city government has a few presumptive, determined citizens who transcend the open-mic atmosphere at Tuesday-night council meetings and vault ahead with credibility certified by traditional media. The Eye became a real watchdog once local media realized they could beg rides on the group’s legwork and conclusions. Which brings us to City Councilmember Jay Schenirer. This holiday season, Schenirer catapulted the Eye into the major leagues of credibility by threatening to pry open

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Silly as it seems, it pays to listen to the little guy. Schenirer thus certified Powell and friends as worthy adversaries of City Hall. With his heavy-handedness, Schenirer encouraged residents across the community to presume the opposite of the councilman’s intent: If a city councilmember is trying to bully these guys, they must be onto something. The Eye ran with Schenirer’s gift. Paul Boylan, a lawyer representing

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Cutting Back NOW IS THE TIME TO PRUNE

hen the new year begins, Sacramento gardeners sharpen their shears, bundle up in layers and head out into the garden to prune. Some advocate getting this task done before Christmas. To me, that’s the talk of an overachiever. December is for parties and sitting by the fire with a lap cat and good book. January is time to get to work on many fruiting and flowering shrubs, trees and vines. Why prune? Most plants require little or no pruning, but others need to feel the steel to look and perform their best. You prune to control plant size and shape, to encourage new growth and to improve flowering and fruit set. Much of gardening is about trying to impose your will on your plants. Pruning is the ultimate expression of person over perennial. Actually, January is a little early to cut back most perennials. Even if they are frost damaged, it’s better to leave last year’s stems in place until the risk of freezing is past in March. Wait to prune ornamental grasses until February, and delay pruning spring-flowering plants such as camellias, azaleas and forsythia until after they bloom. Apricot trees are better pruned mid- to late summer to discourage the transmission of diseases into fresh wounds. Prune roses and other woody ornamentals, fruit and nut trees, berries and grapes now during winter

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dormancy, when they slow down growth and lose many or all of their leaves. When a plant goes dormant, it is resting until it is time to push new buds and leaves. Before you start, gather your tools and make sure that they are clean and sharp. A sharpening steel or stone will help restore a tool’s edge. Sharpen the beveled side of your tool, maintaining the correct angle (often 23 degrees). Lubricate the mechanism and blade with penetrating oil when you are done. There are good videos on YouTube that demonstrate the technique. What tools do you need? Hand shears and a pruning saw and lopper for bigger branches are in order. Don protective gear, including gloves, longsleeved shirts and safety glasses when pruning. Flowering and fruiting habits of plants vary. You need to adjust your pruning treatment accordingly. Some fruits and nuts bear only on spurs that grow off the main branch, while others bear on long shoots. Repeatblooming roses bloom on new growth produced on new and old canes alike. Once-blooming varieties bloom only on growth at least 1 year old. There are some basic pruning techniques. Thinning cuts remove

an entire branch to a main branch, the trunk or the ground, and are used to guide growth and open up a plant to air and sunlight. Heading cuts shorten branches and stimulate new growth. When heading back, it’s important to cut to just above a growing point, such as a promising bud or side branch. Try not to leave a stub longer than a quarter of an inch because it will just die back. Before you make any cuts, examine the plant. Determine the size and shape that you want. Start by taking out the obvious: dead, diseased, weak, damaged or crossing and crowded growth. Make sure that you retain strong, newer growth to establish the future framework of the plant. Wild whacking is not wise. When I first began to prune, I lugged books and diagrams to the garden and struggled to match what they said to the plants in front of me. Pruning workshops helped me understand what to do, as did years of experience. I’m still tentative with fruit trees, but roses and perennials are now less intimidating. Still, I proceed with caution and stop to evaluate as I work. The words of my gardening mentors echo in my head. “Clear out the clutter.” “Stubs don’t grow.” “If it’s not beautiful, cut it off.”

Sacramento rose growers aim to complete pruning before Valentine’s Day, but often that’s too late. Stop as soon as leaves start to emerge. Don’t despair if you run out of time. Enjoy your first flush of bloom and shape roses as you deadhead spent flowers. There are many places where you can learn about pruning this month. You can join master rosarians at the McKinley Park “prune-a-thon” from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Jan 7. Master Gardeners will demonstrate winter pruning of deciduous fruit trees, blueberries, cane berries, grave vines and landscape tree at Fair Oaks Horticulture Center from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Jan. 14. On this same date, world-renowned rose expert, author and raconteur Stephen Scanniello will return to the Sacramento Historic Rose Garden and teach pruning techniques for climbing roses at 9 a.m. and mature shrub roses at 1 p.m. Even if you’ve pruned perfectly, your plants may not grow as you’ve expected. You can attempt to impose your will on your plants, but Mother Nature still has the last say. Anita Clevenger is a Sacramento County Master Gardener. For answers to gardening questions, call the Master Gardeners at 876-5338 or go to sacmg.ucanr.edu n

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‘When Boys Became Men’ SAMUEL E. CLOWER RECALLS THE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR 75 YEARS AGO

omb smoke over Pearl harbor

Field, 188 planes were wiped out. U.S.

cleared three-quarters of a

casualties included 2,400 dead and

century ago. But for World

1,000 wounded.

War II veteran Samuel E. Clower,

At Wheeler, Clower helped bring

memories are focused sharp by last

local families to safety.

month’s commemorations.

“We waited for news from Schofield

“When I read names of the dead,

Barracks,” he recalls. “All radio

I still see their faces,” he says. “I

communication was gone. I’d have

remember them as kids who never

given a million bucks and 10 years

had a chance to grow old.”

for a cellphone. After two hours, our

The Sacramento nonagenarian is

relief arrived in taxi cabs; all other

among dwindling witnesses to the

transportation was knocked out. “We learned what happened at

surprise attack that precipitated the United States’ entry into the world

Pearl Harbor and tried to figure

war. He was 21. Now 97, he considers

what to do. For seven days, we lived

Dec. 7, 1941, the day “when boys

on our nerves, guarding the coast

became men.”

in fear of another attack. Our ships, our airfields and heavy guns were

As war in the Pacific continued,

gone—the Japanese could have landed

he took part in the New Guinea invasion and earned a Purple heart

Rosemont resident Col. Sam Clower, 97, is among the few remaining witnesses of the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. The Army/Air Force veteran holds plaques from the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association. Photo courtesy of Susan Maxwell Skinner.

medal for injuries. He later endured hungry months as a prisoner of the Japanese. He would serve in Korean

in rowboats and taken over. We were desperate for the U.S. Navy to get aircraft carriers over to protect us.

and Vietnam conflicts before retiring as an Air Force colonel in 1974. Raised on a Texas cattle ranch, Clower had a creamery job when he decided to enlist. “I’d read what was happening in

patrolling the Mexican border on horseback. “In our barracks, I saw an Army

At sunrise on Dec. 7, he surveyed the sky. “I saw aircraft coming from the north,” he recalls. “They were

poster promoting Hawaii as a place

miles away; I thought they were our

to serve,” he says. “I thought: ‘That’s

guys coming in to play golf.”

Europe,” he explains. “I wanted to

for me.’ Six weeks later, I was at

be prepared for what might come. I

Schofield Barracks (Oahu) learning

visible. One wing of the massive

figured after a few years in the Army,

weapons and administration with

attack headed toward Honolulu.

I could return to my creamery job and

the infantry. The weather was

The other wing bombed Wheeler

get promoted.”

great; duties were easy; people were

Field, 600 yards from where Clower

friendly. On $21 a month, Hawaii was

watched.

After training at Fort Bliss, Texas, the 19-year-old spent months

paradise.” By December 1941 he was due for

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Soon Japanese emblems were

“Hawaii really was paradise for a young man. Until Dec. 7, 1941. Then, overnight, we all quit being youngsters.”

The sergeant witnessed the air strip’s destruction as 233 U.S. aircraft

“Of course, all leave was cancelled. No question, we were at war.”

mainland leave. Intelligence indicated

went up in flames. “How helpless

a Japanese attack, somewhere in the

can you feel?” he asks. “We couldn’t

Within months, Clower was

Pacific, was imminent. Sgt. Clower

know the magnitude of the attack or

dispatched to Perth, Australia,

volunteered to lead a Dec. 6 detail

what to expect next.” In distant Pearl

to train for an allied invasion of

guarding a dam near Wheeler Air

Harbor, dozens of U.S. Navy vessels

Japanese-occupied New Guinea. After

Field.

were sunk or damaged. At Hickam

that action, duty took him to the Solomon Islands.

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him through 73 years of Army, then

feted, especially on sponsored trips to

Air Force, service. Based all over

Oahu. “I enjoy telling

atoll,” says

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the world, the

Clower. “We

Francisco.

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guess we were

remainder

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overnight, we

as well-treated

of his war

Association

all quit being

as any POWs

years. But

until, in

youngsters.”

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mainland

2014, only a few

went from 150

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commanding

to 128 pounds. We ate rodents; seaweed; bark

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off trees. We had faith—it helped

to meet and marry

that our captors were almost worse

Pauline Wiopious from Capay. His

off than us.”

bride is now 96 and has supported

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Pulp Fiction HOW TO READ DISREPUTABLY

hen I was a lad, I reveled in reading disreputable literary genres: crime fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, western, film novelizations, true crime, etc. These days there are no more disreputable genres. Grown women unashamedly sit in the bleachers and read semiliterate soft-core porn (“Fifty Shades of Grey”) inspired by silly juvenile fantasy fiction (the “Twilight” books) while waiting for their daughters’ soccer practice to end. Grown men avidly read books that recast Abraham Lincoln as a zombie hunter. In the 1960s and ’70s, only nerds could be seen carrying around tattered paperback copies of J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy novels. Now, respectable businessmen and women eagerly devour the latest installment of multivolume fantasy cycles by the likes of George R.R. Martin and Diana Gabaldon, in an effort to stay one step ahead of the prestigious big-budget television miniseries based on those tomes. Many of these pillars of the community are reading their “Fifty Shades” books and vampires-versuszombies books on e-readers that make it impossible for the person sitting across from them at the cafe to determine if they are reading Stephane Mallarme or Stephenie Meyer. You might conclude that

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the e-reader has made it possible to read disreputable literature in public without fear of being caught. But I don’t think this fact is important to most of those who use an e-reader. The truth is that few people these days are ashamed to be caught reading trashy books. In the old days, reading pulp fiction was a way of letting your freak flag fly. It allowed you to announce to the world that you didn’t give a damn about what the cultural snobs thought. Ironically, much of what passed as pop detritus back in the ’60s and ’70s is now actually recognized as a truly valuable contribution to Western culture. Tolkien’s fantasies are now taken seriously as literature. Genre writers such as Patricia

Highsmith, Elmore Leonard and Jim Thompson, who were mainstays of the pulp-fiction mass-market paperback racks in the ’60s and ’70s, are now regarded as masters of the American idiom. Fortunately for those of us who like to stand out in a crowd, there is still a way to read disreputably. A lot of the books I buy are purchased at garage sales, thrift stores and librarydiscard sales. Those are about the only places you can still find plenty of old paperback books published during the 1960s and 1970s. My house is full of yellowing paperback books by the likes of John D. MacDonald, Fredric Brown, Ernest Haycox and other popfictioneers of the mid-20th century.

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When she was in high school, I used to escort a granddaughter of mine to various volleyball tournaments when her parents were otherwise occupied. The parents and grandparents who accompanied the athletes at these daylong (and sometimes weekendlong) events almost always brought with them a book or two to read during the long, empty stretches between matches. Most of these adults were reasonably well-off suburbanites, and they tended to prefer e-readers to actual books. I usually brought along old paperbacks. I recall a time when I was amid a bunch of volleyball parents who were reading for pleasure during a break between matches. One of the parents, looking around at all the others, began asking us what we were reading. All of the other parents seemed to be reading current bestsellers by the likes of Dr. Phil or Deepak Chopra or James Patterson. Everyone listened politely while each person described the book she was reading on her e-reader. When my turn came, however, I held up an old, yellow-paged Avon paperback edition of Margaret Millar’s

“The Fiend.” The cover painting was a lurid montage containing an unsmiling woman in a bridal veil, a sad-looking little girl holding a glowering cat, and a shadowy man in a long coat, standing in a public park and eyeing the little girl with evil intent. Everything about the book screamed “cheap, sensationalist trash involving pedophilia!” But Millar’s novel, like almost all her work, is a well-written story of suspense far more interested in psychological portraiture than in cheap thrills. I was eager to sing the book’s praises to my fellow readers, but before I could even open my mouth, I was interrupted by someone who said, “Wow, that looks like a golden oldie.” Someone else observed, “My grandmother used to have a whole shelf full of old paperback mysteries like that.” Pretty soon, everyone was talking about the boxes of old paperbacks their parents used to keep out in the garage, or their neighbor lady who was always buying bagfuls of old paperbacks at thrift stores and yard sales. Although it was almost certainly

like a mousetrap that one is setting. Occasionally, the reader has to squint at the places where some previous owner’s sweaty thumb had washed away some of the printer’s ink. Not only do these imperfections not bother me, they transport me back to my youth and bring me a satisfying sense of nostalgia for a bygone era. Some literary snobs argue that the greatest flaw of the e-book is that it can never replace the tactile pleasure of holding in one’s hand a really well-made physical book, a book bound with cloth covers, dressed in a beautiful glossy dust jacket and printed on acid-free paper upon which the words have been set in an elegant typeface ideally suited to the subject matter. But my complaint is that the e-book cannot replicate the thrill of reading a disreputable genre novel in a disreputable format—i.e., a spavined, old pocket paperback whose pages are yellowed, whose print is annoyingly small and whose cheap cardboard is so fragile that dog-earing the corner a few times is likely to cause it to snap off like a piece of phyllo dough.

the best-written and most intelligent of the books under discussion in that little circle of volleyball parents, no one wanted to hear about “The Fiend.” It was relegated to the status of nostalgic curiosity simply because of the format in which I was reading it. No one in that circle of parents was ever likely to read “The Fiend” because, even to this day, no e-book version of the novel is available. If you want to read “The Fiend,” you pretty much have no choice but to seek out a yellowing old paperback at a thrift store. Although I was frustrated by the fact that I wasn’t given an opportunity to sing the praises of a great but sadly neglected master of the American suspense novel, I was gratified by the reappearance of a feeling I hadn’t experienced much of since high school: the thrill of reading a disreputable book in a very public place, the thrill of letting my freak flag fly proudly. I recommend it highly. Kevin Mims lives in Land Park. He can be reached at kevinmims@ sbcglobal.net n

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Gold in a Glass MAKING CIDER WITH LOCAL PEARS AND APPLES IS THIS DUO’S PASSION

pass slow-rolling tractors and

previous day, they were up doing the

says. They assure me the long hours

website contains a riff (“orchard to

lots of dusty grapevines on my

same until 1 a.m., probably listening

are worth it because they know

bottle”) on the familiar farm-to-fork

way to Lockeford, a tiny town

to Journey or Toto—Thomson’s

they’re making cider the right way.

theme, but there’s time and work

in San Joaquin County. Behind the

choice in music. Fifteen-hour days are

old Tuscan Wine Village, business

the norm in late fall when the fruit

between Sarah Hemly, Thomson and

partners Sarah Hemly and Chris

is ripe. They’ll barrel through tons of

Greene & Hemly, a sixth-generation

Matt Hemly traveled to various

Thomson are pressing the freshly

the stuff before they’re finished with

organic pear and apple farm. The fruit

places, tasting cider along the way.

picked pears and apples that will go

the harvest.

in Hemly Cider comes from the farm’s

She wanted to find the best beverage

into their next batch of cider. The

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Sarah Hemly’s hands and hair

Hemly Cider is a partnership

packed into that phrase. About 10 years ago, Sarah and

trees, some more than a century old,

to showcase the family’s pears. They

are sticky. Juice from the fruit dries

located in Courtland. Matt Hemly,

settled on more of a traditional

as hard as hairspray. She’s wearing

Sarah’s husband, manages the

English-style cider, which is drier

a pair of no-nonsense rubber boots.

orchard operations.

than ciders made in the United States

Thomson is sporting a shirt that says,

Before it becomes cider, the fruit

and has a slightly higher alcohol

“Pears well with everything.” They

has to be ground down, pressed and

look exhausted but seem excited. “We

fermented in large stainless steel

make cider not for the craft of cider

containers. Just about everything

in late 2015, the partners thought

but for the enjoyment of it,” Thomson

is done by hand. The Hemly Cider

they had enough cider to last until the

content. When Hemly Cider first launched

next harvest, but the phone started

about the sport, he’s had a few too

ringing a few months ago. They’d

many injuries as well and recently

run out of product and people wanted

switched to playing Australian

more, which is a good problem to have. emly If you ask Sarah, Hemly out the Cider really began about red time gold was discovered ne in California, when one of Matt’s ancestors purchased land in the Delta and planted pearr trees in the rich soil.

football. In the fall, Thomson th long journey from makes the his home in Hobart, Tasmania (often re referred to as “Tassie,” but he p pronounces it “Tazzi “Tazzie”), which he shares with h his wife and young son, to the United States. Bac Back home in Hobart,

Fast-forward many

he is the head distiller

years later. She

at Lark Distillery and

and Thomson met

Fo Forty Spotted Gin.

through one of her

H Here, he spends many

dad’s friends. They

ho hours helping Sarah

connected via Skype

pr process tons of pears

and bonded over

an and apples.

rugby and a shared appreciation for cider. Sarah grew up in

As you might im imagine, Hemly Cider ta tastes like pears.

Fair Oaks and went

Ap Apples are tossed in

to school in Berkeley,

for balance. The result

where she played

is a light, effervescent

rugby before injuries

an oaky (but not too and

sidelined her. While Thomson is still crazy

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Honor and Regrets AN OLD SOLDIER FACES LIFE’S END

first met Ernie Head in hospice care last summer. The 96-year-old was a proud World War II veteran who lived life by a personal motto: No matter how you feel, get up, dress up, show up, never give up. We began each of my home visits with a salute that often prompted war stories about his service in the 43rd Infantry Division. Unfortunately, the war had left Ernie nearly deaf, so I often needed to yell into his right ear. Eventually, we worked out a system using a dry-erase board for short questions or comments. One day, he took me back when he said, “Teach me to pray.” “Just talk to God like you’re talking to me,” I wrote. He then recounted the prayers he made to God during the war in the Pacific Theater of Operations. The stubbornness of the Japanese Imperial Force during the liberation of the Philippines required Allied soldiers to be ruthless in ways no one thought possible. “I made some promises to God back then,” he said. “I told God that if he’d get me out of this situation, I’d do anything. He got me out, but I’m not sure I lived up to my end of the bargain.” At this point, I could’ve reminded him that bargaining with God is a

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normal reaction to a mortal situation. But suffice it to say, I don’t think God keeps contractual lawyers on his staff. God doesn’t run a gotcha game, suing the “prayee” for breach of contract. My personal experience with God is that he stays with me, even when I stray. “Maybe you didn’t come home to serve on the deacon board,” I said, “but you served in other ways.” The plaques on his wall told me that.

He’d served in the VFW, Rotary and Chamber of Commerce and was named Veteran of the Year for Yolo County. He’d been blessed with a loving wife who gave him four children and then blessed, again, with a second loving wife after his first one died. He’d done a lot of good, and I have no doubt that he’d done some bad. Maybe it was the bad that filled his eyes with moisture.

“I want you to baptize me,” he said. “Do you believe in God?” I wrote. He nodded. “Do you want to follow God with all the breath you have left?” He did. “The Bible promises us that if we call on God, he will save us.” “Save me from what?” is the question folks often ask. I tell them that it largely depends on what’s troubling them. In this case, Ernie sought salvation from his haunting memories. “Can you do it now?” he asked. “You don’t want to wait for friends and family?” I replied. “Now. I need it now.” With his confirmation, I dipped my fingers into a small water bowl and moved them, dripping, over his forehead. In the language that rang from the centuries, I said, “Upon your profession of faith, I baptize you in the name of the Father, Son and the Holy Ghost.” “Thank you,” he said, his words cascading into multiple thank-yous. Ernie died a few weeks ago much like a lot of old soldiers die these days. They die with honor, they die with pride and, like most people, they die with a few regrets. It was my honor to help Ernie lessen those regrets. To him and to all our WWII vets approaching their final battle, I offer you my most heartfelt salute and my profound thank-you. Norris Burkes is a chaplain, syndicated columnist, national speaker and author. He can be reached at norris@thechaplain.net n

FARM TO FORK FROM page 43 oaky) cider, which looks like gold in

delivery. Then there’s the banter.

my glass. Even better? It has half

She fondly refers to Thomson as the

the calories of a glass of wine and

“crazy Tasmanian,” while Thomson

contains about 5 percent alcohol.

teases her about the chocolate bunny cereal she offered him for breakfast. They are both looking forward to

If you ask Sarah, Hemly Cider really began about the time gold was discovered in California.

taking time off tomorrow night when they’ll attend a Kings game. Thomson became a fan a few months ago. After the cider ferments, after Thomson travels back home to Hobart, after driving to the facilities in Lockeford to test the cider every day, after bottling, Sarah Hemly plans to borrow a neighboring business’s labeling machine, and the next batch of Hemly Cider will roll off the line.

I could spend the rest of the afternoon al fresco, sipping cider, listening to Thomson’s Australian accent, a frog making a ruckus

For more information, visit hemlycider.com Angela Knight can be reached at knight@mcn.org n

Sarah Hemly and Chris Thomson

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5258 ACORN WAY 4549 FOSTER WAY 4747 WILMER 4501 CHARLESTON DR 4840 THOR WAY 4337 GLEN VISTA ST 4040 ALEX LN 5525 WYNDHAM HILL CT 5429 NORTH AVE 5837 SHARPS CIR 2901 EASY WAY 5020 SUDBURY WAY 4841 LOCH LOMOND DR 4028 KNOLL TOP CT 5307 WHITNEY AVE 3516 CALIFORNIA AVE 4805 CYPRESS AVE 6461 MILES LN 4929 CLEAR CIR 4242 MARSHALL AVE 2709 GARFIELD AVE 4844 SAMIA CT 6459 SAINT JAMES DR 5978 MARLIN CIR 6111 RUTLAND DR 3889 MAUDRAY WAY 5057 OLIVE OAK WAY 4537 BARRETT RD 6124 ORSI CIR 2376 VIA CAMINO AVE 2540 GABRIEL CT 2551 LILLIAN LN 4937 WESTERBERG WAY 2163 GLANCY CT 5308 LOCUST AVE 6222 GLADEMONT CT 3652 HOLLISTER AVE 5225 MARIONE DR 6321 EASTMONT CT 5533 KIVA DR 1610 MCCLAREN DR 2819 PANAY CT 3221 MAX CT 4038 GROVER CT 4412 BARRETT RD 6342 MARKLEY WAY 3126 BIRCH ST 5107 BELLWOOD WAY 5400 ALDER GLEN CT 5049 BOWMAN OAKS WAY 2821 SCANDIA WAY 4525 ONYX WAY 6625 MORAGA DR 5099 PATTI JO DR 3110 JOELLEN CT 4931 SILVER RANCH WAY 3831 OLIVE LN 3329 WALNUT AVE 5708 RAVENSWOOD LN 2432 WALNUT 4946 THOR WAY

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256 SAN ANTONIO WAY 512 MEISTER WAY 4830 B ST 1116 58TH ST 1107 56TH ST 56 TAYLOR WAY 4803 A ST 5305 SHEPARD AVE 1369 61ST ST 4107 MCKINLEY BLVD 1122 42ND ST

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3526 LARCHMONT SQUARE LN 3631 MIAMI ST 4120 LEVENDI LN 3612 LARCHMONT SQUARE LN 2912 EDISON AVE 3756 N. EDGE DR. 2584 BUTANO DR 4405 HAZELWOOD 2825 KERRIA WAY 3507 WOODFORD WAY 3724 GRATIA AVE 4454 WOODSON AVE 3828 DURAN CIR 3239 LIBBY WAY 2800 HERBERT WAY 2730 BELL ST 3635 SEAN DR 3613 WHITNEY AVE 2913 KERRIA WAY 4524 EDISON AVE 3220 EASTWOOD RD 2871 HERON WAY 2830 KERRIA WAY 2636 BALL WAY 2228 BURNEY WAY 4012 HANCOCK DR 2620 CARSON WAY 3550 E COUNTRY CLUB LN 2710 ECHO WAY 2501 DARWIN ST 3604 ROBERTSON AVE 3009 SAND DOLLAR WAY 4504 WYMAN DR 3438 MONTCLAIRE ST 2848 LIENO LN 3309 HUNNICUTT LN

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$748,388 $580,000 $515,000 $375,000 $341,000 $403,868 $545,000 $420,000 $390,000 $505,000 $1,130,000 $143,000 $382,000 $500,000 $144,000 $285,000 $326,000 $369,000 $499,000 $297,500 $350,000 $220,000 $424,000 $285,000 $455,000 $195,000 $223,850 $228,500 $241,150 $270,000 $300,000 $350,000 $230,000 $290,000 $192,000 $275,000 $339,000 $260,000 $410,000 $535,000 $192,000 $262,000 $350,000 $291,875 $389,000 $595,000 $349,900 $210,000 $210,000 $219,000 $235,000 $230,000 $385,000 $254,000 $150,000 $230,000 $279,000 $395,000 $235,000 $235,000 $169,000 $210,000 $215,000 $263,000 $529,900 $159,500 $199,500 $214,000 $216,000 $255,000 $310,000 $205,872 $225,000

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432 BLUE DOLPHIN WAY 6800 S LAND PARK DR 665 CORIANDER WAY 7589 POCKET 6621 LONGRIDGE WAY 76 NORTHLITE CIR 709 BELL RUSSELL WAY 386 RIVERTREE WAY 1308 SAN AUGUSTINE WAY 17 LOS GATOS CIR 2 RIDGEMARK CT 34 PRINCEVILLE CIR 599 DE MAR DR 1006 FOXHALL WAY 7485 MAPLE TREE WAY 677 CUTTING WAY 7405 CASTANO WAY 7403 FARM DALE WAY 7415 RIO MONDEGO DR 7677 BLACKWATER WAY 7706 WINDBRIDGE DR 1000 GLOW CT 63 SUNLIT CIR 991 SHELLWOOD WAY 7480 RIO MONDEGO DR 1190 56TH AVE 1128 ROSE TREE WAY 809 PARKLIN AVE 6640 RIVERSIDE BLVD 1316 SAN AUGUSTINE WAY 355 RIVERTREE WAY 1369 LAS LOMITAS CIR 1030 SILVER LAKE DR 68 MOONLIT CIR 6870 CLAIBORNE WAY 856 SENIOR WAY 6379 NORTH POINT WAY 1168 SPRUCE TREE CIRCLE 7334 CAMINO DEL REY ST 53 HERITAGE WOOD CIR

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Real-Life Lessons NATURE BOWL GETS SACRAMENTO KIDS OUTSIDE

how a picture of an African animal like a zebra or giraffe to a child in Sacramento and likely they’ll be able to tell you what it’s called. But show them a photo of a local sandhill crane or coyote and few will know its name. Time that kids used to spend exploring nature outdoors is now more likely to be spent inside or on a sports field. Ironically, care for the environment as a value has been rising at the same time that actual understanding of local ecosystems has been falling. Children may feel a responsibility to protect endangered species of the rain forest even though they can’t identify animals, birds or plants that live right here. For more than 30 years, Bruce Forman of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife has been working to change that. In 1986, he launched Nature Bowl, a program exclusively for third- to sixth-grade students in the Sacramento River valley that, according to Forman, “serves to increase science and conservation literacy with a focus on local environments.” Most Nature Bowl teams are coached by school science teachers who integrate the Nature Bowl curriculum into their regular classes. Parents, scout leaders and others can organize teams, too. Ninety to

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95 percent of teams are from public schools. Some Sacramento schools have participated for decades. In Nature Bowl, students learn about local habitats—riparian, grassland/ prairie, vernal pools, oak woodland, wetland, etc.—and the species that live within them. Field trips to local wilderness areas such as Effie Yeaw Nature Center and Cosumnes River Preserve can greatly enhance student interest and learning. Classroom study includes an impressive list of vocabulary words (do you know what “endemic” means?) and study of the

principles of ecology such as food webs and energy pyramids. Nature Bowl isn’t just about learning information. It’s also about engaging with real life. In one Nature Bowl event, students create a oneminute “enviro-mercial,” which is a persuasive speech describing an environmental problem or issue specific to the Sacramento area. Forman strongly encourages students to not only make their presentation but to take some action on the topic— for example, to write a letter to the newspaper or a county supervisor, to

go out and clean up trash, or to set up a compost bin at home. Preparation culminates in team semifinal events held in March and April at a variety of outdoor settings in the region from Auburn to Davis. Kids love the outdoor Nature Investigations event, when they act as detectives searching for unnatural items, signs of wildlife and living specimens. During the Bell Ringers event, students amaze the parents with their answers to questions that sometimes stump the audience. SCIENCE page 49

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ew car sales have recovered since the Great Recession. Dealers are selling at a brisk pace, nearly 18 million vehicles a year. Yet the average age of the U.S. automotive fleet, according to analytics company IHS Markit, reached a record high of 11.6 years last year. That means many people are going to be considering replacing their old wheels with something brighter, shinier and, if they are careful, considerably safer. Cars are safer than they were years ago. The focus in car safety in the past generally was on protecting car occupants when crashes occurred. Seat belts, air bags, collapsible steering columns and other innovations made crashes more survivable. Now, new technology enables cars and drivers to prevent crashes from happening in the first place. That’s the best possible protection. Car buyers are faced with a choice of safety features that vary quite a bit by manufacturer and from model to model by the same maker. Some features are standard on high-end models only. Individual features may be optional or come in a technology package at additional cost. Here’s a rundown on some safety features to consider if you’re thinking about buying a new or used car. The features you select may depend on when and where you drive, driver

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skills and age, and whether your insurer offers a discount for them. Forward collision warning and braking. Collision systems can come with a driver warning only or with added automated emergency braking. The braking may operate only at city speeds or at city and highway speeds. Twenty car manufacturers have agreed to make front collision safety systems standard by September 2022. In the meantime, this is an option that can save your life and the lives of your loved ones. Experts highly recommend it. Backup cameras. Backup cameras will be required on all light-duty vehicles starting in 2018. A camera can prevent property damage from backing collisions. Related systems alert drivers of rear cross traffic when

backing. More importantly, some years ago the federal government estimated there were 292 fatalities and 18,000 injuries annually from “backovers.” Many victims were small children or the elderly. Adaptive cruise control. This maintains consistent spacing from the car in front of you when you are using cruise control on freeways or highways. Blind-spot monitoring. Warns a driver with a visual or audible (or both) signal when another vehicle enters a car’s blind spot. This might be especially useful for new or older drivers. Lane monitoring. As with forward collision systems, this feature can either simply provide a warning when

the car drifts to the edge of a lane or can actively keep the car in the lane. Adaptive headlights. They can help illuminate dark curves, turns and hills by adjusting headlight direction and intensity. If you do a lot of night driving, especially on rural roads, this might be your ticket. If you are in the market for a used car instead of a new one, you should look for some other important safety options that aren’t on all older cars. Electronic stability control became standard on 2012 models and was available on some cars before then. It prevents loss of steering control. AAA and other safety experts rate the benefits of ESC very highly and recommend choosing a car with it. While all cars after 1998 came with front driver and passenger air bags, side and side curtain air bags came later. They are an optional way of providing side impact protection. Some cars have side bags for both front and back seats. The side air bags cushion the torso, and the side curtain bags cushion the head. According to Cars. com editor Joe Wiesenfelder, side air bags are “undeniably one of the most important passive-safety technologies of all time, second only to the seat belt.” On its website, Consumer Reports lists all auto manufacturers’ models along with what advanced safety features are standard and optional. You’ll probably need to do your own research on whether a used car has ESC or side air bags. Your insurer can advise on discounts for safety features. Choose wisely. Walt Seifert is a bicyclist, driver and transportation writer. He can be reached at bikeguy@surewest.net n

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ike Teel has a vision—and it’s not about Raley’s, the grocery chain that his family name has been tied to since 1935. Teel plans to open a new grocerystore concept called Market 5-ONE-5 in Sacramento’s R Street District by spring 2017. Market 5-ONE-5 grew out of Teel’s frustration at his inability to find nutritious products in one grocery setting. “My inspiration was my frustration,” explains Teel, the president and CEO of Raley’s. The new market falls in line with health-focused decisions that Raley’s has made in the past year. In 2015, Raley’s stopped selling tobacco products, and in June, the company announced plans to remove all

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private-label artificially flavored sodas from its shelves. This new grocery concept has been in the planning stage for several years. At last year’s State of Food and Agriculture conference hosted by Sacramento Metro Chamber, Teel called the local food system “broken.” He spoke of a grocery business reliant on “slotting fees,” the practice of brand-name products paying a fee for placement on grocery store shelves. These fees are significant in overall grocery revenues yet don’t always align with Raley’s values of prioritizing customers’ health and well-being. Little by little, Raley’s intends to make healthier changes to its stores. But changing such a large, established business will take time. With the launch of Market 5-ONE-5, Teel can jump straight ahead to the store model he idealizes. “The idea was to create a company that would not be held back by its current brand image, current customer base or internal paradigm of how we do business,” Teel says. The

new model “sets the company free to move fully forward as fast as it can toward finding solutions to balance health and wellness for those who are really interested in the food that they eat and the impact on their bodies.” According to company spokesperson Chelsea Minor, Market 5-ONE-5 will embrace the notion that food affects health. The 11,000-square-foot store will carry products that embrace the store’s core values: organic, nutrition and education. Minor is enthusiastic about a model that combines these core values under one roof. “These concepts individually exist in other formats,” she says. “It’s the holistic view that is the differentiator.” The new store will develop standards for its products as a way to keep customers informed. For example, the market may decide that all its meat will be humanely and organically raised without hormones. This standard will be published, allowing the customer peace of mind that this minimum standard will

be applied to all Market 5-ONE-5 products. A “wellness evangelist” with a nutrition background will be on staff at the new market to help the store manager set wellness standards for the products available. Teel also hopes the store will positively affect local food production. By purchasing locally curated products, the market can help create a larger platform for small businesses to become more sustainable. Creating big rifts with a small idea is core to Teel’s approach. “We often don’t tackle big projects because we feel like we can’t really change the world with it. I don’t believe that’s correct,” says Teel. “I believe that even smaller companies can have a broad impact in changing the world around them, because when we make one change in our stores— an example I like to use is candy or soda at the registers—our competitors have to react to that. They can choose to do the same because we’re taking business away if they don’t follow suit.”

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40 Years of Singable Songs Raffi in Concert Saturday, Jan. 28, at 1 p.m. Crest Theatre, 1013 K St. 877-987-6487, ticketﬂy.com If you sang along to “Baby Beluga” (or sang it to your own little one), you probably have a special spot in your heart for beloved singer/songwriter Raffi. This exciting tour marks the 40th anniversary of the release of Raffi’s first (and still best-selling) album, “Singable Songs for the Very Young.” “It’s great fun singing for children and families,” Raffi says. “As well as singing many of my fans’ favorites, I look forward to sharing a song or two from my ‘Love Bug’ album and my new one, ‘Owl Singalong’—and to the sounds of all of us singing old favorites from my very first album!” In 2010, Raffi founded The Centre for Child Honouring on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia. With the motto “Respecting Earth & Child,” the center is at the heart of a global movement that views honoring children as the best way to create sustainable, peacemaking societies. Proceeds from the Jan. 28 concert will benefit the center. For more information, go to childhonouring.org.

jL By Jessica Laskey Raffi will perform at Crest Theatre on Saturday, Jan. 28

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All Hail Horvitz “Into the Fold: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics from the Horvitz Collection” Jan. 22 through May 7 Crocker Art Museum, 216 O St. 808-1182, crockerart.org Early this year, the Crocker Art Museum will unveil three beautiful exhibitions focusing on Japanese and Japanese American art and culture. The first of these, “Into the Fold: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics from the Horvitz Collection,” highlights the diversity, creativity and technical virtuosity of 20th- and 21st-century ceramic artists working in Japan. Forty artists, including many of Japan’s greatest living ceramicists, will be represented by 75 works that range from tea vessels, biomorphic shapes, geometric design and sculptural forms that explore juxtaposed themes such as form and functionality, traditional and modern, national and international.

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This piece by Ogata Kamio is part of the exhibition of Japanese ceramics at Crocker. Photo courtesy of Randy Batista.

“Silk & Steel,” new works by Shirley Hazlett and William Ishmael Jan. 6 through Feb. 16 Opening reception on Friday, Jan. 6, from 6 to 9 p.m. Beatnik Studios, 723 S St. 400-4281, beatnik-studios.com Sacramento artists Shirley Hazlett and William Ishmael have cooked up something special for Beatnik Studios this month. Inspired by a recent collaboration this past fall for “William Ishmael and Friends” at Archival Gallery, Hazlett and Ishmael are building a new installation entitled “Silk & Steel,” which will feature Hazlett’s luxurious acrylic-on-silk paintings and Ishmael’s luminous steel panels.

If It Ain’t Baroque … Classical concert featuring Christina Mok and Miles Graber Sunday, Jan. 8 at 3 p.m. Crocker Art Museum, 216 O St. 808-1182, crockerart.org Listen as the history of the European Baroque period comes to life through virtuoso violinist Christina Mok and pianist Miles Graber. The dynamic duo will present a program of complex and beautiful works by French, Italian and German composers who worked from 1600-1750. Known for her elegant phrasing and careful study of historic periods, Mok joins sought-after accompanist Graber for an afternoon of musical delights with works by JeanMarie Leclair, Arcangelo Corelli, and Johann Sebastian Bach. Space is limited and advance registration is recommended.

Bowie and Vivaldi Pop and classical concerts presented by the Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera “The Music of David Bowie: A Rock Symphony” Saturday, Jan. 14, at 8 p.m. Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons” Saturday, Jan. 21, at 8 p.m. Community Center Theater, 1301 L St. 808-2000, sacphilopera.org Though David Bowie and Antonio Vivaldi might not exactly seem like two peas in a pod, the Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera is bringing these two music masters from different centuries to local audiences for two very fun, and very different, concerts. “The Music of David Bowie: A Rock Symphony” on Jan. 14 will be conducted by Brent Havens and will feature some of the late legend’s masterpieces. On Jan. 21, Andrés Cárdenes will both conduct and play violin for a program that includes Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons” as well as Gioachino Rossini’s “Italiana in Algeri Overture” and Franz Joseph Haydn’s Symphony No. 101, “The Clock.”

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Enjoy the sounds of Sacramento Youth Symphony in concert this month

Baby, It’s Cold Outside “Artist Time Machine,” a Winter Camp for kids ages 6-9 Jan. 3-6, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Crocker Art Museum, 216 O St. crockerart.org It might be wintertime, but that doesn’t mean the fun has to stop until the warm weather returns. The Crocker’s Winter Camp will have kids time traveling through the galleries on a mission to investigate how artists have used shapes, colors and styles throughout history. Campers will learn new skills, create experimental works and imagine new art for the future with tons of tactile experience and games galore. The camp is $200 for members and $240 for nonmembers. Space is limited, so register now!

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Young and Talented Winter concerto concert presented by the Premier Orchestra of the Sacramento Youth Symphony Saturday, Jan. 28 at 7:30 p.m. Sacramento City College Performing Arts Center, 3835 Freeport Blvd. sacramentoyouthsymphony.org Curious what the future of music sounds like? Lend an ear when the winners of the Sacramento Youth Symphony’s annual concerto competition perform with the SYS Premier Orchestra under the direction of Michael Neumann. Winning violinist Rena Wang and winning clarinetist Omar Wahby will present works including Carl Maria von Weber’s “Concertino for Clarinet” and “Jubilee Overture,” Pablo de Sarasate’s “Zigeunerweisen,” Franz von Suppe’s “Light Cavalry Overture” and the finale from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s “Fourth Symphony.” The Sacramento Youth Symphony is proud to be celebrating 61 years of musical excellence by young musicians from the Sacramento region.

The Doctor Is In “Becoming Dr. Ruth,” a play by Mark St. Germain presented by the B Street Theatre Jan. 14 through Feb. 26 B Street Theatre, 2711 B St. 443-5300, bstreettheatre.org Everyone knows Dr. Ruth Westheimer from her career as a pioneering radio and television sex therapist. Few, however, know the incredible journey that preceded it. From fleeing the Nazis in the Kindertransport and joining the Haganah in Jerusalem as a sniper to her struggle to succeed as a single mother newly arrived in America, playwright St. Germain deftly illuminates this remarkable woman’s untold story. “Becoming Dr. Ruth” is filled with the humor, honesty and life-affirming spirit of Karola Ruth Siegel, the girl who became “Dr. Ruth,” America’s most famous sex therapist.

Shirley Hazlett is one of the artists featured at Beatnik Studios

An Affair to Remember “Betrayal,” a play by Harold Pinter presented by Capital Stage Jan. 25 through Feb. 26 Capital Stage Company, 2215 J St. 995-5464, capstage.org Emma and Jerry, former lovers, meet at a cafe in the present. Emma’s marriage to Jerry’s best friend, Robert, is falling apart and she seeks out Jerry’s consolation. From there, the play (which won playwright Pinter a Laurence Olivier Award) travels backward through time—from the end of Emma and Jerry’s affair to its beginning—and unearths the little lies and oblique remarks that reveal more than direct statements or overt actions ever could. Sacramento favorite Janis Stevens directs this fraught and intriguing drama. Jessica Laskey can be reached at jessrlaskey@gmail.com n Christina Mok will play at Crocker classical concert

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Another River Calls JIAN WANG TURNS NOW TO THE MIGHTY HUDSON

two-day art sale recently filled painter Jian Wang’s Carmichael home with eager buyers. More than 50 of his canvases quickly sold. While not a fire sale—dealer Mike Solomon was on the checkout, and gallery prices prevailed—the Jian Wang sale of the century was incendiary at root. The Chinese American’s Beijing Studio burned to the ground last February. When a heating stove caught fire, five years’ toil went up in flames. Hundreds of oil paintings, limited edition books, bronze statues and Wang’s personal collection of art and antiquities were destroyed. “Eleven fire engines took half the night to put it out,” reports Wang. “The building contained two studios and an exhibition gallery. I can’t talk about how much I lost. But no one was hurt. “When I started making plans to rebuild, I thought maybe the fire was meant as a signal for me to go home. I missed the U.S.A. terribly. I was contracted to teach at Laguna College (in Southern California) in the summer of 2016, anyway. So, I decided to just come back for good.” More decisions followed. Wang’s sprawling Carmichael home and contents were soon on the market. He and his family will relocate before

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Tale of two rivers. Painter Jian Wang made an international name with his American River portraits. After some years based in China, the artist recently returned to the USA to pack up his Carmichael home. He will relocate to New York.

Christmas to Cold Spring, an art haven in New York state. The front line of the art world being the Big Apple, such a move makes professional sense. Proximity to his 32-year-old daughter, Annie, is another compelling reason. “Annie works for Sotheby’s art dealers in Manhattan now,” brags her dad. “I call her my big shot.” At 58, the internationally-famed artist nevertheless finds relocation daunting. “I came to the United States from China in 1986 with $200 in my pocket,” he recalls. “I wasn’t a

bit scared, then. Now I’m old enough to think about retirement. Instead, I’m going somewhere new to restart my career. But I feel young. And an artist never retires.” Like the local waterways whose vibrant portraits made his name, another artery is destined to burst on Wang canvases. “Years ago, I rented a car and drove along the Hudson,” he recalls. “I fell in love with it. I took hundreds of photos and hoped someday to paint from them.” At the recent Carmichael sale, a Sacramento collector grabbed Wang’s

gigantic 1994 study of Manhattan. More fans took the opportunity to invest in local waterscapes before the Hudson became Wang’s river of choice. “So many friends came to support me,” marvels the host. “I feel I owe the whole Sacramento community a dinner. “And I’ll never stop being grateful to the American River. I’ve painted it no less than a thousand times; I’ve exhibited it all over the country and

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come and gone on the banks of the Sacramento and the American, and few have left a mark on the sandy shores of our city’s aquatic arteries. Sure, there’s the riverside party patio that is Swabbies on the River. It’s known for good bands and decent fish tacos. There’s the seasonal, floating berth-of-fun, Crawdads. They’ve good bloody marys and tasty fried dishes. There were old riverside haunts like The Rusty Duck and Hungry Hunter, beloved more for their hulking presence than the quality of cuisine.

The revelation, however, was the clam chowder. I’d forgotten how much I liked clam chowder. A quiet player in the riverside dining arena, though, is Rio City Cafe. A bit dwarfed by its brash next-door neighbor, Joe’s Crab Shack, Rio City has been a fixture on the Old Sacramento riverbank for more than 20 years. A recent lunch there was cozy and memorable. Tucked away next to a flickering fireplace, with a view of the slowly running winter river, I was enchanted. The food was solid and enjoyable, a better-than-average offering being the brisket tacos, which had southwest flair and smoky punch. The revelation, however, was the clam chowder. I’d forgotten how much I liked clam chowder. It took Rio City’s near-perfect rendition of

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From page 56 in China. The river’s fed my family for 30 years and nourished my heart.” Wang claims to have reinterpreted one Ancil Hoffman Park vista at least 100 times. “Nature never repeats itself and neither do I,” he says. “I move trees around; I lower and raise the cliffs and the water. Sometimes the clouds catch purples and golds of sunrise. Then my heart pounds. It’s as if God is promising me a picture. … “The Hudson doesn’t have the same feeling of nature as the American River,” considers the artist. “It’s been an industrial highway for

so long. But the imprint of human design—bridges and skyscrapers— they appeal to a painter, too. “I chose to settle in Cold Spring because the town is 50 miles from New York and real estate there is half the price as in the city. A few art sellers already know my name. I’ll just have to settle in and get painting.” Learn about Jian Wang’s art at archivalframe.com Susan Maxwell Skinner can be reached at sknrband@aol.com n

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fresh, chewy clams and potatoes, this bowl of chowder is as standard

A 2007 exhibition at Sacramento State University celebrated Jian Wang’s 20th year of painting in the United States

as it gets. Fins is also one of the few restaurants in the area to offer Manhattan-style clam chowder,

Blackbird Kitchen + Beer

which is neither a chowder nor from

Gallery: Blackbird’s “Captain’s

Manhattan. But that’s an argument

Chowder” wanders a bit off the well-

to be had another day. Fins Market & Grill is at 2610 Fair Oaks Blvd.; 488-5200; finsmarket.com (other locations in Roseville and Fair Oaks)

trodden chowder path, but it’s still a thing of beauty. Start with smoked cream, salmon and a host of shellfish and you’ve got an interesting, addictively flavorful bowl. The $15 price tag is a bit high, but the $7 happy hour special is right on the

Greg Sabin can be reached at gregsabin@hotmail.com n

money.

Painted from a vantage near West Point, the Hudson River is a new passion for Jian Wang.

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DOWNTOWN Cafeteria 15L 116 15th Street 551-1559 L D $$ Classic American lunch counter with a millennial vibe • cafeteria15l.com

DeVere’s Pub

1110 Front Street 442-8226 L D Wine/Beer $$ Bistro favorites with a distinctively Sacramento feeling in a riverfront setting • riocitycafe.com

The Firehouse Restaurant

1521 L Street

1112 Second St. 442-4772

L D Full Bar $$ Family-run authentic Irish pub with a classic menu to match • deverespub.com

L D $$$ Full Bar Global and California cuisine in an upscale historic Old Sac setting • Firehouseoldsac.com

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

806 L Street Sacramento • Convenient to the Golden 1 Center frankfats.com

Rio City Cafe

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

Willie’s Burgers 110 K Street L D $ Great burgers and more. • williesburgers.com

Esquire Grill

R STREET

1213 K St. 448-8900

Café Bernardo

L D $$-$$$ Full Bar Outdoor Dining Upscale American fare served in an elegant setting • Paragarys.com

Firestone Public House 1132 16th Street L D $$ Full Bar Sports bar with a classical american menu• ﬁrestonepublichouse.com

1431 R St. 930-9191 B L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Casual California cuisine with counter service

Fish Face Poke Bar 1104 R Street Suite 100 L D $$ Humble Hawaiian poke breaks free • ﬁshfacepokebar.com

Frank Fat’s 806 L St. 442-7092 L D Full Bar $$-$$$ Chinese favorites in an elegant setting • Fatsrestaurants.com

Ma Jong’s 1431 L Street L D $-$$ Beer/Wine Cuisine from Japan, Thailand, China ad Vietnam. • majongs.com

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

The whole gang is waiting for you.

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

South

Iron Horse Tavern 1116 15th Street L D $-$$ Full Bar Gastro-pub cuisine in a stylish industrial setting • ironhorsetavern.net

Old Soul & Pullman Bar 12th & R Streets B L D $ Full-service cafe with artisan coffee roasts, bakery goods and sandwiches • oldsoulco.com

Magpie Cafe 1601 16th Street L D $$-$$$ Wine/Beer Seasonal menu using the best local ingredients • magpiecafe.com

Nido Bakery

1409 R Street Suite 102 L D $ Bakery treats and seasonal specialities • hellonido.com

2005 11th Street 382-9722 L D $-$$ Beer/Wine Timeless traditional Southern cuisine, counter service • weheartfriedchicken.com

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

Shoki Ramen House 1201 R Street L D $$ Japanese ﬁne dining using the best local ingredients • sshokiramenhouse.com

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1131 K STREET DOWNTOWN SACRAMENTO 916.443.3772 WWW.ELLA DINING ROOM AND BAR.COM

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

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

Hot Italian

Tapa The World

1627 16th Street 444-3000

2115 J St. 442-4353

L D Full Bar $$ Authentic hand-crafted pizzas with inventive ingredients, Gelato• hotitalian.net

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

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

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

Biba Ristorante 2801 Capitol Ave. 455-2422 L D $$$ Full Bar Upscale Northern Italian cuisine

Paragary’s Bar & Oven

served a la carte • Biba-restaurant.com

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

Café Bernardo

1401 28th St. 457-5737

2726 Capitol Ave. 443-1180

Revolution Wines

B L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Casual California cuisine with counter service

2831 S Street

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

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

Skool 2315 K Street D $$ Inventive Japansese-inspired seafood dishes • skoolonkstreet.com

Federalist Public House 2009 N Street L D $-$$ Wine/Beer Wood-ﬁred pizzas in an inventive urban alley setting • federalistpublichouse.com

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

Sacramento

Red Rabbit 2718 J Street

MIDTOWN

Thai Basil Café

Distinctively

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

The Waterboy 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

EAST SAC 33rd Street Bistro

3301 Folsom Blvd. 455-2233 B L D $$ Full Bar Patio Paciﬁc Northwest cuisine in a casual bistro setting • 33rdstreetbistro.com

Burr’s Fountain

4920 Folsom Blvd. 452-5516 B L D $ Fountain-style diner serving burgers, sandwiches, soup and ice cream specialties

Cabana Winery & Bistro 5610 Elvas 476-5492 LD $$ Wine tasting and paired entrees. Sunday Brunch 10 - 2. • cabanawine.com

1110 Front Street

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Art Preview GALLERY ART SHOWS IN JANUARY

Patris Studio and Art Gallery will feature a group show through end of January. Shown below: “Donuts.” an oil by Patris. 3460 2nd Ave. patris-studio.com

ARTHOUSE on R presents “Sacriﬁce Zones”, featuring the work of Leisel Whitlock.. Shown above is a painting by Whitlock. 1021 R Street; arthouseonr.com

Artistic Edge will feature works by Don Tackett, Phyllis Eymann and William Miller. Shown above: “Magic in the Air,” a watercolor by Phyllis Eymann. 1880 Fulton Ave. artisticedgeframing.com

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The KVIE Gallery features the work of Gary Dinnen with ”Wall Dogs and Rabbits” through Jan. 18. KVIE Gallery is at 2030 West El Camino Ave.

Sparrow Gallery presents the work of Mary Kercher and Sara Post through end of January. Shown above: “Small Gem 2,” a mixed media by Sara Post. 2418 K St., sparrowgallerysacramento.com

Clubhouse 56

Oak Park Brewing Company

The Kitchen

BLD Full Bar $$ American. HD sports, kid's menu, breakfast weekends, Late night dining

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

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

OBO Italian

Vibe Health Bar

L D Full Bar $$ The rustic, seasonal, and nourishing ﬂavors of Italy. Counter service and patio • oboitalian. com

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

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LAND PARK

3145 Folsom Blvd.

5723 Folsom Blvd. 457-3679

L D Full Bar $-$$ Classic Italian cuisine served in a traditional family-style atmosphere

Evan’s Kitchen

855 57th St. 452-3896

3515 Broadway

Casa Garden Restaurant 2760 Sutterville Road 452-2809

L D $$ • D with minimum diners call to inquire Wine/Beer. Operated by volunteers to beneﬁt Sacramento Children’s Home. • casagardenrestaurant.org

B L D Wine/Beer $$ Eclectic California cuisine served in a family-friendly atmosphere, community table for single diners • Chefevan.com

Freeport Bakery

Formoli’s Bistro

B L $ Award-winning baked goods and cakes for eat in or take out • Freeportbakery.com

3839 J St. 448-5699

B L D Wine/Beer $$-$$$ Mediterranean inﬂuenced cuisine in a stylish neighborhood setting • formolisbistro.com

Hawks Public House

Kru

3145 Folsom Blvd. 551-1559

L D $-$$ Beer/Wine Raw and reﬁned, traditional Japanese cuisine and sushi • krurestaurant.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

L D Wine/Beer $-$$ Italian and Czech specialties in a neighborhood bistro setting

Taylor’s Kitchen

Opa! Opa!

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

L D Wine/Beer $ Fresh Greek cuisine in a chic, casual setting, counter service

Nopalitos

5530 H St. 452-8226

B L $ Wine/Beer Southwestern fare in a casual diner setting

Roxie Deli & Barbeque 3340 C St. 443-5402

B L D $ Deli sandwiches, salads & BBQ made fresh. Large selection of craft Beer • roxiedeli.com

Selland’s Market Cafe 5340 H St. 736-3333

B L D $$ Wine/Beer High quality handcrafted food to eat in or take out, bakery, wine bar • sellands.com

5026 Fair Oaks Blvd. 485-2883

B L D $-$$ Full neighborhood bar serving dinner nightly. Open at 11am daily. Weekend breakfast. • bellabrucafe.com

The Mandarin Restaurant 4321 Arden Way 488-47794

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

Roxy

2381 Fair Oaks Blvd. 489-2000

B L D $$-$$$ Full Bar American cuisine with a Western touch in a creative upscale atmosphere •

Sam’s Hof Brau

2500 Watt 482-2175 L D $$ Wine/Beer Fresh quality meats roasted daily • thehofbrau.com

Willie’s Burgers

5050 Fair Oaks Blvd. 488-5050 L D $ Great burgers and more • williesburgers.com n

Willie’s Burgers

2415 16th St. 444-2006 L D $ Great burgers and more. Open until 3 on Friday and Saturday • williesburgers.com

ARDEN AREA Bella Bru Café

5038 Fair Oaks Blvd. 485-2883

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

Cafe Bernardo

Pavilions Shopping Center

B L D $$ Full Bar Outdoor Patio Seasonal, European-inﬂuenced comfort food • Paragarys.com

OAK PARK La Venadita

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

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

Luna Lounge

2924 Freeport Boulevard 443-5154

Café Vinoteca

3501 Thurd Ave. 4000-4676

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

2633 Riverside Drive 448-9988

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

5644 J St. 451-4000

2813 Fulton Ave. 484-6104

Riverside Clubhouse

La Trattoria Bohemia 3649 J St. 455-7803

La Rosa Blanca Taqueria

2966 Freeport Blvd. 442-4256

1525 Alhambra Blvd. 558-4440

L D $$-$$$ Familiar classics combined with specialty ingredients by chefs Molly Hawks and Mike Fagnoni • hawkspublichouse.com

2225 Hurley Way 568-7171

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3535 Fair Oaks Blvd. 487-1331

Ettore’s

2376 Fair Oaks Blvd. 482-0708

B L D $-$$ Wine/Beer European-style gourmet café with salads, soup, and desserts in a bistro setting • Ettores.com

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